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The advocate., 1894-04-25
THEY ARE FOR THE MOB.

DENVER, COL, April 16.-The supreme
court to-day granted che writ Of custer in
the FIRE and police board controversy and
ordered the old board to turn over the
offices at noon tomorrow. This is q COM
plete victory for Governor Wsite.-PresG
Dispatch.
All through this difficulty the re-
publican and democratic press Of the
whole country has taken sides against
Governor Waite and in behalf of the
lswless mob with which he was con-
tending. The same thing is true in
relation to the difficulties of Gov
ernor Tillmsu Of South Carolina with
the buns and thugs of that state.
And these are the fellows who are
talking about "redeeming Kansas"
Such redemption means the turning
over Of the state to a party that de-
fies law and defends law breakers.
The advocate., 1894-04-25
TOPEKA CAPITAL, HELLO!
correct.

Two or three weeks ago, we called
your attention to q couple Of para
graphs in q Capital editorial of
March Is, and asked a little light on
the subject to which they relate. Not
having received any reply to our in
quiry, we repeat it. The paragraphs
IN the following parallel were both in
the same editorial:
Now, the Capital The Boston mob
yields nothing to the was composed Of for
ADVOCATE in deeiringIeigners not long
prosperity and work landed in this Ooun-
for all Glasses, and try; the reports agree
particularly OF the as to that. They do
wag O. earnerSs We not understand Amer
have shown this by lean institutions any
supporting Q tariff better than the ADvo.
that protects the GATE. They insisted
wage Garner from thethab the MassaChus-
free competition OF etts legislature give
the wEetohed laborers them work.
Of Europe.
Now, will you tell us, if the tariff
you advocate projects the wage
Garner from the free competition of
the wretChed laborers of Europe"
how those wretched laborers of Eu-
rope came to be in the city of Boston
competing with Boston workingmen
for Q chance to work? Don't dodge
now; answer like q man.
The advocate., 1894-04-25
THE REPUBLICAN, PLAN OF 1894 WILL
NOT WORK.

AS one after another Of the repub-
liCan county and district conventions
comes and goes, it becomes more and
more apparent that a predetermined
and prearranged policy is being
everywhere carried out. There will
be no plain unequivoCal platform
declaration anywhere upon the
finance question. The financial plank
in all the platforms will be amblgu-
GUS and susceptible of any kind of
construction. 1t is constructed for
purposes of deception and to avoid
an open conflict between the Cleve-
land republicans, and those who were
they free men, would like to see an
American system of finance adopted
and pursued. 1t is our Judgment
that there are too many independent
republicans in the rank and file of
the party to have this cut and dried
British financial policy succeed. We
shall not cease to call upon repupli-
can editors aud politicians for a plain,
clear statement of their exact mean
ing in this ambiguous stereotyp cd
money plank, but we predict in ad-
vance that no such statement will be
made. Watch and see if we are not
correct.
The advocate., 1894-04-25

remedy as the Topeka Capitals The
Capital says "this remedy business is
overdone," and the only remedy il
knows is to 'look the facts in the
face, keep a stiff upper lip and win
out by waiting for nature to take her
course" Is this the Champlon's
remedy alsos If not, what is it's
remedy, and what assurance can il
afford that the republican party, if it
has the opportunity, will apply any
remedy at all? The Champion thinks
that "the wild vsgaries of social,
moral and political dresmers are
merely incidents Of the crisis-not
the saviors of those suffering from
its cruel forces" We should be
much pleased to see q fair, candid
discussion by Gov. Felt of the causes
and remedies for existing conditions
as he sees them.
The advocate., 1894-04-25

FRw non. scientific readers are aware that
mot only do the jaw hinges Of the boa tribe
become dislocated in the act of swallowing
large animal, subsequently, resuming their
proper position by means Of the elastic con.
neCting tendons, but that the skull bones
separate centrally, so that the whole con-
Stitutes q sort Of quadrsngulaP orifOe with
apparently indefinite powers of expansion.
Detroit Free Press.
1t must require a somewhat similar
displacement of the jaw hinges and
crsneal particles to enable western
democrats and republicans to swallow
the Cleveland. Sherman Wall street,
gold-bug, bond issuing, demo-repub.
llcan financial policy now in force,
and it is somewhat doubtful If the
elastic connecting tendons will ever
be able in this case to restore the or
gsns of deglutition to their normal
condition.
The advocate., 1894-04-25

SAYS the "COlored American:" "The
only just system of taxation is that which
taxes what man has, not what he needs. 1"
No, il is not. While it is better to tsx q
man on what he has than on what be con-
sumes, it is not just to tax him on what be
has. The only just system is that which
taxes monopoly-Whioh takes from each in
proportion to the special advantage he de-
rives from the exclusive possession Of mat
ural opportunities, and nothing more.-Jus-
tiOe, April IA.
Under a just social and economic
system there would be no monopo-
lies to tax. What then would become
Of the only just system ''of taxationp
The advocate., 1894-04-25

DOES anyone remember to have
seen anything in republican papers
lately concerning the default in the
Office of commissioner of insurance
under the late lsmented republican
administration? 1t will be remem-
bered that this default was known for
months by republican state house
officials and it would never have come
to light but for the election of a Pop
ulist administration. Everybody
must see the necessity of "redeemlng
Kansas"
The advocate., 1894-04-25
YOU'RE NOT A SUBSCRIBER.

Well, what Of it, That's no reason
you should not read this paper and
then give it to your neighbor. Some
one has paid for it or else it Is sent
to you as a sample. By reading it
you may catch onto something you
did not think Of before.
The advocate., 1894-04-25

WHAT Kansas needs 10 reform with q
big B, an r that stands for republioanism.
Capital.
If there is anything In Kansas that
needs reform with a big r no one will
question that il is republicaniSm.
The advocate., 1894-04-25
WHAT REMEDY DO REPUBLICANS PRO
POSE?

WHAT hEMED1 UO kEP PUBulCANS RRO-
POSE?
The Atchison Champion of April
Is seems to catch a faint glimpse OF
the situation, though it's party blind
ness prevents it from perCeiving that
the causes of our condition sntedste
the present democratic admlnistra-
tion. The Champion says:
Within Che short space of two years, the
most marvellous prosperity recorded in the
annals Of time has disappeared, and in it4
stead stands chronic discomfort, ragged
women, crying children, and hungry men.
1t seems strange that men who
can see this Chronic discomfort" the
ragged women, crying children and
hungry men," with which the coun-
try is filed, can forget that these are
not the product of so short a period.
Have we had no strikes or other evil
denCes of discomfort prior to the past
two yesrs7 We're there no ragged
women, no crying children, and was
no one hungry previous to that time
And where was the marvellous pros
perity the Champion talks about? It
is siokening to see psrtisanship SO
blind or so corrupt as to put such
silly pretenses before an intelligent
public. These conditions are the re-
suit Of more than g quarter of CEN
tury of plutocratiC rule under repub-
lican and democratic administration
alike. We are still living under the
laws framed by republicans. But
one change has been made-the re-
peal of the purchasing clause of the
so-cslled Sherman act-Rnd that was
effected by republican votes, and
could not have been effected without
them. We were told by democrats
and republicans alike that prosperity
was sure to follow this repeal; but
instead of this, the conditions are
constantly growing worse. The
Champion says:
There are tens Of thousands Of men who,
only q few years ago, owned comfortable
homes and were we'll to do in the world
who are now in unmarked graves, or are
idle, hungry, dirty, ragged tramps. Most
people feel like throwing down the cards
when for year after year they play the
game Of life the best they know and never
take trick.
This is all true, but the Champion
fails to tell its readers how these
things all came about, or how the re-
publican party proposes to remedy
them. Does il propose the same
The advocate., 1894-04-25
THE CHURCH.

sss, correspondent protesting against
abuse Of the church by Populist
speakers and writer's. There is a
great deal of Justice and good sense
in the criticisms of this writer which
it will be wise to heed. It may be
safely affirmed that no opponent of
any cause was ever induced TO change
his opposition to approval by abuse.
One Of the mistakes of ofrepublicsn and
democratic editors and politicians has
been in the abuse and insult Of honest
men who have forsaken those parties
and become Populists. No self-respect-
ing person who has been subject to
the misrepresentation and abuse that
have been hesped upon all Populists
will ever, under any circumstances,
think Of rejoining the parties from
which that abuse proceeds. Men
must be won to the support Of any
party or any measure by such an sp-
peal to their reason and judgment as
will satisfy them of the correctness
Of the principles involved. This is
true in the church as well as out
Of 1t.
Our correspondent calls attention
to the fact that in country precincts
church members as well as others, as
a rule, are poor, and that their SYM
pathies are naturally with the class
to which they belong. 1t is absurd
to assume that there are no church
members among the thousands Of
Populists in Kansas or in other states
and it is equally absurd to assume
that such people are not hurt by the
indisCriminate denuncistion of the
church that is sometimes indulged in.
The relation Of the church TO the
reform movement is a legitimate SUBJ
ject of discussion provided that dis
cussion is conducted in a proper
spirit and with proper discrimlna-
tion. There is no ground to ques-
tion the fact that among the members
Of the aristocratic churches of our
large cities there is little sympathy
either for the poor or for any reform
that proposes to afford the "lower
classes" better opportunities in life,
but this is owing to the fact that they
are sristocrsts rather than to the fact
that they are church members. Much
of the apathy upon this subject is
also owing to the most benlghted ig.
norance both of ministers and parish
toner's.
In conversation with one of the
leading ministers of this city only
short time ago, concerning the exist
ing widespread depression of all in
dustries in this country, the unequal
distribution of wealth, the enforced
idlenesS and widespread suffering
and want, he told the writer that it
was all caused by the extravaganza
of the people; and he was apparently
perfectly honest in this opinion. He
had neglected the study of our social
and economic conditions, and he act
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-22

inches above the ground, but frequently
grow long enough to reach the earth,
and at such times are useful not only as
braces to the plant, but probably act
as true roots in absorbing water from
the soil.
To attempt to name and describe all of
the varieties of corn in a magazine arti-
Gle would be to attempt the impossible.
Every part Of the plant, stem, leaves
and fruit, is subject to great variation.
There are some varieties of corn which
seldom exceed two feet in height; there
ARE other varieties which frequently at
tain height of fifteen or SIXTEEN, or in
some cases twenty feet.
A variety of Brazilian corn has ker-
nelS but little larger than mustard
seeds. while in Peru a variety is
grown with kernels almost an inch
long. Between these extreme sizes
all intermediate sizes may be found.
There is also great variation in the
color and shape of the kernels, as we'll
as in the time Of ripening. The color
may be white, yellow, red, pink, blue,
purple, black or variegated. The kerr
nels may be long, short, sharp-pointed,
round, fat dented, cone-sha ped, like
horses tooth or wrinkled. The time of
ripening varies from six weeks to
are readily modified by planting seed
in a different climate, or by subjecting
the plant to changed conditions for a
few generations. No grain is more
prolific than corn, and, next to wheat,
it is the most nutritious.
Unfortunately for the farmer, corn
has a tendency to vary towards an
infertile form. In a careful examina-
ton of even a small field of corn, one
viii find many barren stalks, stalks
which have produced the Iassel but
no ears. Experience shows that seed
fortified from the pollen coming from
such stalks has a decided tendency to
reproduce barren stalks, hence it is
wise for the farmer to select his seed
from part of his field where few such
stalks are found, or to cut off the tas-
sells of all barren stalks before the pol
| len is shed.
AS might be inferred from the por-
ton of this article devoted to the his
tory of corn, it is now very widely
cultivated. 1t is raised in Southern
Europe. both Northern and Southern
Africa, Southern and Eastern Asia,
the islands of the Malay Archipelago,
South America, Mexico, and the
| United States The best corn district
in the world is said to be elliptical in
form. with a major diameter of six
hundred miles, and a minor diameter
of four hundred miles, crossing each
other near the city of Springfield, Ills.
c. A. WHITING.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-22
STATEHOOD DAY"
A GRAND CELEBRATION ARRANGED
FOR AUGUST FIRST.
1t VIII he Participated In BY the
People Regardless of Parties or
Creeds-A Proclamation.

The first official act which will set the
machinery of statehood in motion will
be performed by the governor of Utah
on Wednesday, August 1.
That date will be celebrated at Salt
air as statehood Day." by the people
of the city and territory, regardless of
parties or creeds, in manner fitting
the Importance of the occasion.
The act of the governor referred to
will by the issuance of a proclamation,
calling the election for members of the
constitutional convention. The adj
mission act just passed by Congress
makes it mandatory on the governor
to make the call August 1. If Cover
nor West is here as he is expected to
be- he will issue the call. If he is not,
it will be made by Acting Governor
Richards.
One of the interesting features Of
the celebration at Saitair will be the
first reading of the proclamation. 1t
may also be signed there with the
identical pen with which President
Cleveland signed the enabfg act, but
this can not as yet be announced with
certainty.
The speeches of the day will be by
prominent Democrats and Republicans
from Salt Lake, Ogden and Provo. The
music will be furnished by Democrat
IL anu INGpuOllCctAl SlCC OAuO0s III ~ al
ternating, and lastly in combination.
It is designed to make the exercises
altogether non-partisan in character,
and the most prominent men on both
sides of the political fence will be in
vited to make addresses.
The Rio Grande Western, which con-
meets with the Saltair line. has made
rates for the day as low as any ever
yet accorded, and will run a special
from Ogden to the beach and return
for SIPS; Provo to the beach and re-
turn for $1.5O. These rates are way
below half fares and ought to insure
an immense turn out from the country
towns. Sanpete points have been ac-
corded rates equally low.
| The names of the speakers of the
! day. with the programme of music,
will be announced later. The grand
ball in the evening, with which the
days exercises will conclude, is expec-
ted to be the biggest society event the
! beach has ever seen.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-22
THE LADY,s MAID.
EDemorest,s Magazine !

) AldRdZl16.
To think that fifty years ago a lady's
maid was a rare bird in New York,
where nowadays the life's happiness of
many women depend on whether they
are well 'maided'' or not! 1t is rather
interesting to learn that in one of the
Vanderbilt houses at Newport, where
every summer smart house parties in
regular succession are entertained, a
whole corridor in one wing is set aside
for the accommodation of visiting
ladies' maids. There is q suite of
charming little bedrooms all daintily
furnished in maple and dimity, a
room, all set aside for the maids en-
joyment and comfort. A general i'm
preston, under which the women of
simple manners labor, is that the po-
sition of maid to a rich leader of fash
ion is good deal of a sinecure In
some respects it is, for beyond doing
the very choicest laces occasionally
the maid of a rich woman is forbidden
to do anything that will redden or
coarsen her hands or disarrange her
dress; but on the whole, her life is not
easy. Sometimes she assists at a
half-dozen changes of costume day,
and she is responsible for the condi-
ton and whereabouts of every article
and ornament of the toilet. When she
sends her mistress down to the car
riage, bound for a ball. dinner shop
ping or calls, every smallest detil must
be perfect, every button solid, fresh
handkerchiefs in pockets, and cards in
their cases. Sometimes she sits up I'M
til after midnight for three and four
evenings in succession and must be at
in OaTfPPt
next morning, however soon caprice
may have prompted madame's call
She often has to nurse indolent, fret
full mistresses through imaginary and
tedious illnesses; and one poor creature
whose employer was a victim of nerves
slept every night in room adjoining
the hypochondriac, with a rope round
her waist and one end resting on g
chair at her employers bedside. Al
any hour of the night rude jerking
literally dragged her from her slum
bers to some need of the fanciful lady
who paid the maid well, however, fol
the life of real torture.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-22
aUEBEc's oRUMBLING WALLS.
The Costly Fortifcations of the Old
City Are Falling Down

NAAS -AEG DONH.
Alarmist reports have for some time
been current here that the fortifca-
lions Of Quebec's citadel were being
permitted to fall into decay, and that
as a matter of fact some of the secret
underground passages connecting the for
tress with the city and with the Martel-
10 towers on the old plains Of Abraham
had fallen in and become filed up and
absolutely useless
Before the withdrawal of British
troops from Canada some twenty years
ago companies of the Royal Engineers
were engaged in keeping the citadel in
perfect repair. That the recent alarm
created by the recent neglect into which
the fortress has fallen is not eXagera-
ted is shown by the annual report Of
the Department of Militia and Defense,
recently submitted 20 parliament, in
which Colonel Panet, the deputy min
lister, called official attention to the
present dtlapidated and even danger
Gus state of some of the city walls and
Qualifications.
He recommends an increase in the
present strength of the battery at the
citadel, to include a small body OF
artifcerS, or a small engineer company,
under the control of a competent Off
Ger, by which means a systematic and
intelligent management of necessary re-
pairs would be always available I'm
less this is done. Quebec's elaborate sys-
tenn Of Notifications, that has for so
many years past proved one of the prin-
cipal attractions for tourists, will
speedily crumble into a mass of ruins
The money spent upon these works
in the past is simply incredible.
Wooden Notifications were erected
here by the French coIonists, and so
heavy was the expenditure, together
with what was bodied by Bigot, the
intendant and his associates, that
Louis XIV. is reported to have asked
whether the Notifications of Quebec
were built of gold.
The present walls, which replace
those first erected by the Royal Engin-
GERS, date back to 1928, and were car
ried out according to plans submitted
to and approved by the Duke Of
! Wellington at cost of some SIS, DOC, OOO
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-22
AN ARNLEss NIMROD.
PHILADELPHIA Record.1


An armless nimrod is the wonder of
the people and the envy of all the
sportsmen of Bucks county. He is
John Simon of Zion Hill, and his PROV
ess is something marvellous. Simon's
arms were ground off above the ell
bows in machinery a few years ago,
but his love of hunting spurred his IN
genuity, and he overcame his seeming
isurmountable obstacle. He straps his
single-b barrel breech-loading hammer
less gun to his right arm, and when he
sights game, he swings the piece over
the stump of his left arm and, takes
quick aim and fires, generally with tell
ing effect. His mode of loading is
as unique as his shooting. He car
ries the shells in his hat, and when he
wants one bows low, drops his hat on
the ground, pulls out the empty shell
with his teeth,and in similar man
ner loads, then pushing his head into
his hat to recover his head Despite
his affliction, Simon has done some of
the best shooting in Bucks county the
past year, his record standing: Six
teen opossums, five pheasants, five doz-
en- blackbirds, thirty-seven rabbits and
twenty-one quail.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-22
BON MoTs OF DIR. HOLMES.
Clever Sayings BY the Youngest of
Our Literary Wits.
Hone Journal.]

A distinguished 'Frenchman said of
DR.. Holmes that he had taught the
Yankees how to laugh properly, and
it was a new experience for these chill
dren of the Puritans. who had been
bowling at Artemus Ward and John
Phoenix Undoubtedly DR.. Holmes is a
wit, and his is that kind of wit which
brightens the dinner table and puts
everybody in the best of humor. In
early life he had a weakness for pun
ming, and reminds one of Tom Hood,
but later this is suppressed or mod
flied, and he reminds US in his extern
poraneous repartee more of Douglas
JerroId. What can be more American
than, when dining with Lord Coler-
the poverty of the American lawyer
and the wealth of his client was his
glory.
being discussed. Some one said that
the statesman Fox had been smitten
by the great actress. Holmes said that
from all he had heard of her he could
not understand a man falling in love
with her. She was too grand-it was
like falling in love with the pyramids.
Perhaps the Worshipful Company of
Clothmakers or Board Of Aldermen
might have loved her-but one man
never.
1t was Holmes who remarked that,
though woman tempted man to eat,
he had an idea that Eve had nothing
to do with his drinking. He took to
that on his own account. On another
occasion al a dinner party, he remarked,
with affected gravity: Il really
must not smoke so persistently. I
must turn over new leaf-a tobacco
leaf-and have cigar only after each"
here he paused, as if to say meal, 5"
but he continued-"a after each cigar"
When the smile ran round the table
he leaned back in his chair and said :;
"a foreigner is an alien, a foreigner
who drinks too much is a bacchanal-
ian, and may not foreigner who
smokes too much be called a, tobacco
nalian?'
Once, when he had been heavily
lionized and mobbed by deputation
of rough men from the far west, and
someone asked him if he did not en-
joy it, ENJOY it." he exclaimed. 81
felt like the small elephant at the Zoo,
with a cheap excursion party on its
back
He said Prof Agassiz was the Lie
bigs' extract of the wisdom, of ages.
ages to remote islands, said Holmes,
can't help thinking what a feast the
cannibals would have if they boiled
down such an extract"
Speaking of a certain extremely thin
aesthetic Boston lady lie said she
reminded him of bag of bones, and
if shaken she certainly would have
ratified. Her scratch-up tousled hair
suggested the idea that birds had pre-
pared it for a nest, and her strange,
rich, hectic-looking gown resembled
nothing SO much as a faded fresco Of
the middle ages.