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The advocate., 1894-03-28
LeayenwOrth County Alliance.

The next regular meeting Of Lsaven-
worth County Alliance, will be held in
Tongsnoxis, Saturday, April Z, begin
ming at 10 o'clock q. m.
At this meeting business Of great inn
portance to the Alliance Of this county
will be transacted, and each Sub-Alli-
ance is requested to have delegates
present. T. Fl. GALLAGHER,
County Secretary.
The advocate., 1894-03-28

It is simply paying what is due to US,
and whoever dreams Of prsising anyone
for paying his honest debts. II on the
other hand we are not justly entitled to
pension, then it must be intended az a
bribs, IL 80, then give the bribers all the
credit they are entitled to. Which side
will you take? But the worst indict-
ment Of all is that they have systematic
ally and WichedlY deprived the nations
defender Of his home, and rendered it
practically impossible for him ever to
secure one. Deep down in the heart of
every good citizen, man or woman, is
implanted the love Of home. The object
Of all our efforts in life is to obtain q
home, where we may pass the declining
years of life peRCeably, comfortably and
without fear Of the poor house. And
any government that does not make it
possible and reasonably practical for all
OF its citizens to have and retain homes
is unworthy the name and should be
changed as speedily Rs possible. Now
we charge, and the official records of the
government RS prepared by the republi-
can census takers prove, that q large pro-
portion OF the people OF these United
States are practically homeless; and we
make the charge without fear Of success
Eul contradiction that not one soldier in
five in the state Of Kansas, aye in the
United States, owns his own home.
Think Of It'll With thirty years earnest
effort, the best Of their lives gone, and no
home. If they had failed the past thirty
years with ell their strength and health
and ambition to win and retain home,
how 10 it possible for them to succeed in
the future years when they are on the
downward path Of life, with failing
strength, enfeebled health and shattered
hopes? This is a terrible Indictment to
make against any party, and if true
should condemn it in the eyes of sll good
citizens, and particularly Of all old SOL
diers who fought to save their homes. l
claim that the party which they have so
long been loyal to has systematically de-
priVed them Of their homes.
Now don't misunderstand me when 1
say that not one soldier in five owns his
own home. Some there may be who live
in q home that would be theirs if the
mortgage was paid, but man who lives
in q mortgaged home does not live in a
home Of his own. He is simply tenant
at will, paying the taxes, insurance, in
tSrest, repairs, rent, and when the day
comes, as come it will, that it is more
profitable for the other fellow to take
possession, he will be turned ruthlessly
into the street, for it is impossible for
the people under the present financial
system to ever pay their debts. Hence
none own their homes except those who
have them clear Of encumbrRnce. Think
it over, comrades Run over the list Of
all the old soldiers you know and see
how many you know who live in homes
Of their own. Shame on the party and
shame on the government that will thus
neglect and dePrsud their country's gal
liant defenders, and then attempt to bind
their haLds and gag their tongues by
threat OF depriving them Of q pension
that is justly theirs, to keep them in line
while the robbing process is going on.
The knowledge Of these things makes
The advocate., 1894-03-28
TREACHERY TO ExSOLDIERs.
Why ALI Members Of the G.. A. r. Should be
POpnllsts.

AVPNAA0SOS
EDITOR ADvooATE:- How any old soldier
can still adhere to the republican party
after the insults, injuries and spolia-
tions they have suffered at it's hands for
the past thirty years passes my COmpre-
hension. Let US glance briefly at its
broken promises and its infamous treat
ment.
First-It promised to give all old SOL
diers o homestead on the free lands Of
the west, il they wished to settle there,
making a merit of the so-called priVi'
legs Of deducting their term Of service
in the army from the five years. settle
ment required by law Of all other citi-
zens. What was the result? IL q SOL
der had served four years and took ad.
vantage Of the time, he simply had the
privilege Of paying taxes four years
longer than q non-soldier neighbOr; yes
and Of mortgsging and losing his land
four years earlier. Great privilege,
Great party
Second-He was promised that if he
went west and established q home he
would be protected by grateful govern
ment. How was he protected? First
the government chartered railroad CON-
paniss to build lines of road near his
home, instead OF doing it itself as the
constitution clearly requires it should
when it says, Congress shall have
power to regulate commerce between
states and with foreign nations" }" which
right clearly carries with it the duty Of
doing so. But instead of fulfilling its
duties in this respect, which would have
protected the soldier in his new home, it
turned the commerce of the country over
to the corporations with the privilege Of
charging whatever the traffic would bear,
which they promptly set about doing.
Result: The loss Of Is to 20 cents
bushel on every bushel Of wheat
marketed abroad, as a difference be-
tween what railroads charge and what
the government could have carried it for
il done at cost. As RD illustration:
Barton county, Kansas, raised in 1892
four and q quarter million bushels Of
wheat, shipping much of it eastward via
New York to Liverpool and paying the
Santa Fe railroad SO cents per bushel
freight, where the government, il it had
done its duty would have constructed q
road, ssy to Galveston 600 miles, along
the natural avenues of commerce, and
could have carried it for 5, 6 or 8 cents
per bushel at the outside.
Secondly-The same party that loves
the soldier so, or claims to, Rs coon az
they were established upon their homes,
commenced Systematically and willfully
contracting the currency Of the country,
thus reducing the price, as they knew
and admitted it would, Of all the prod
ucts raised, 80 that which, instead Of
bringing $3.50 or $500 per bushel, the
price it was worth at the close Of the
war, and the price they had reason to
believe it would be maintained at, and Q
price that would have rendered them
independent financially, it shrunk with
the shrinksge in the volume Of the cur
rsncy steadily, until to-day the soldier
farmer in central Kansas is selling his
wheat at 36 cents bushel-one-afth Of
the price he received thirty years ago.
Nh z. -, lo,,n -, A. - ...-A- Iii.
The advocate., 1894-03-28

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The advocate., 1894-03-28

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The St. Johns herald., 1894-11-22
BRITISH "DRUMMERS."
Some Minor Differences from the Ameri
 can Commercial Traveller.

Some Minor Differences from the Ameri-
 can Commercial Traveller.
 The commercial traveller in England is little different from his American brother, pursuing the same line of pol icy in getting there" so far as secur- ing trade is concerned, says Hardware. His invariable rule, however, is that his first price given to a local mer chant is his last and. only one. There is no going in the morning with an offer, and then in the afternoon with an ex- tra inducement to make the trade. This being the invariable rule, it saves much labor and apprehension in the mind of the buyer that he has not done so we'll as he could have done with more diplomacy.
 Everything is done for the comfort of the traveller, and at the hotels a special department called the com mercial room is set apart for his ex- elusive use. In this room smoking is prohibited until nine p. m., place be- ing devoted to that purpose at other times. The traveller takes his meals in the commercial room, the dinner be- | ing set affair in which all travellers in the house generally participate. The oldest man is at the head of the table, and is called the president; while at the foot is the youngest man, and he is termed vice president.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-11-22
Genius Rewarded.

Congressman sometimes adopt queer expedients to gain the good will of their constituents. Years ago, mem Der from a western state was afraid that his first term would be his last, as he had not managed to make himself a power in congress. While he was de- batting what he should do, a friend said: "You live near the center of the United States, don't you?" "Yes." i" ''Then, why don't you introduce bill to have the capital moved to the prin- cipal town in your district?" The congressman introduced the bill, and the people of his district at once con- cluded he was great man and sent him back for another term. He rein troduced the bill in the next congress, and, although it was promptly pigeon holed in committee, his constituents gave him third term, as reward for his genius.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-11-22
TOOK A MEAN ADVANTAGE.
The Engaged Man Insisted on Kissing Hts
 Ffancee In a Street Car.

The Engaged Man Insisted on Kissing Hts
 Fiancee In a Street Car.
 A young man and young woman changed from a Belt line to Four teenth street car at the avenue, Wash ington, and sat in one of the seats in the first car. He was carrying an over coat and satchel and was evidently going away. She wore a shirt waist and dark skirt, as if starting out on shopping expedition. Just before they reached Sixth street he leaned over her and said, quietly, SC quietly that only the Post reporter back of them could hear: T am going to kiss you good-by when I leave the car."
 "Oh! please don't" she said, appeal ingly; mot before all these people,"
 But he was decided and said, persist ently: "Yes I shall so raise your veil. If you try to resist people will see it and wonder about it, and they will look at you all the way uptown after get off"
 She glanced up shyly and then slow ly raised her veil. He bent over her and kissed her and no one in the car looked up. A few people wondered why she was so anxious to show the diamond ring on her left hand, but no body but the reporter appreciated the fact that she was trying to justify the kissing by means of an engagement rinO
The St. Johns herald., 1894-11-22
FLAX CULTURE IN EUROPE.
Russia Grows More of This Crop Than
 Any Country in the World.

Our principal supply of the raw ma terial, says Chambers Journal, is inn ported from Russia, where the plant has long been, and still is, cultivated more extensively than in any other country in the world; but there the culture of the crop and preparation of the fiber receive less care and atten- tion than in any other fax-producing country. This neglect may be ac- counted for by the immense tracts under crop and also by much thinner sowing than is practiced in other coun- tries in order to give the plant greater strength and more numerous branches, to prevent it being laid during the vio- lent thunderstorms that prevail about the time it is in flower. The result of this treatment, however, is a coarse fiber, and also very much inferior yield to that grown thicker and under more favorable circumstances of soil and attention in its early stages. Ger many, Austria and France will follow Russia as flaX-producing countries, and in each of these an average area of over two hundred thousand acres is kept under this crop. In Holland flax is grown principally for the seed, and the planting and growth of the crop, as well as the time for pulling, is regu- lated for this purpose. By properly maturing the seed the quality of the fiber is injured and renders the subse- quent process more difficult; but the Dutch farmers are amply remunerated by the high price obtained for the seed, which has for agricultural pur- poses a worldwide fame, and is chiefly sown in Britain, although Riga seed is also used and preferred by someugrow- CTS as being more hardy. It is Bel gium, however, to which we must turn to see fax in the highest state of culti- vation, where nothing is neglected that can in any measure improve the quan- tity, and more especially of the quality of the crop. Here proper rotation of the crops, superior tillage and liberal manuring of the land are attended to in manner not seen elsewhere, and
 to this the careful, plodding Belgian farmers owe their success in raising other crops as well as flax, and which
 has earned for them the reputation they enjoy of being the most successful agriculturists in the world.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-11-22
THRlvIN~ oN PERSECUTION.

The Gypsies of Hungary Still Maintain
 Their Ancient Customs Unchanged.
 In Hungary there are, according to a rough estimate, about one hundred and fifty thousand gypsies, vagabonds who wander about the country with their carts and horses, accompanied by their women and children; and though at one time persecuted as unbelievers and hunted to death as sorcerers and poi soners, the cruel edicts which enjoined such treatment were never sympathlzed in by the Hungarian people. The re- suit is, as we learn from ''The Peoples of the World" that the gypsies have increased, and, in their own thriftless, squalid fashion, prospered, despite the hard usage they have received at the hands of their rulers. Indeed, the Hun garian kings have more than once pro- tected them as ''poor wandering peo- ple without country, and whom all the world rejected" and granted them safe conducts to go wherever seemed good to them, with their troops of donkeys and horses. Joseph II. of Austria tried to settle them as agricul- turists, and had huts built for them. But instead of occupying the comfort able dwellings themselves, they stabbed their cattle in them and pitched their tents outside. Then, to prevent their corn from sprouting, they boiled it be- fore sowing; and though their children were taken from them and trained up into habits of work under Magyar and German peasants, these wildlings soon escaped and joined their parents. with out having learned anything from their foreible apprenticeship to civilization. It is affirmed that gypsy who had actually risen to the rank of an officer in the Austrian army disappeared one day and was found six months after ward with band of Zingari encamped on the heath. Ayoung Slovack peasant fell in love with and married gypsy girl, but in his absence she escaped to the woods, and, when discovered, was sleeping under the skies and feeding on hedgehogs, after the fashion of the race from whom she had been taken. Abbe Liszt, charmed with the talent for music displayed by gypsy boy, took him to Paris and tried to train the | little lad. But all in vain. The mo- ment he saw his own people in Vienna his delight was indescribable; there was no longer any hope of keeping him under the restraint of polite life.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-11-22
IN OFFICE SIxTY-FOUR YEARS.
The>Record of an Octogenarian POstmas-
 ter In the Buckeye State.

The~Record of an Octogenarian POstmas-
 ter In the Buckeye State.
 Postmaster General Bissell has found a man in the postal service whose ex- perience has interested him so greatly that he contemplates making use of a recent letter written by this man in preparing his annual report, says a writer in the New York Times. w. H. Wallace, Sr., postmaster at Hammonds- vile, O., now eighty-two years of age, wrote two fair pages of letter paper recently without noticeable error of composition and in good, firm hand, to give the secretary his experience in brief He has been sixty-four years in the postal service, having held office under thirty postmaster generals. He began when he was still boy, and has been the postmaster at Hammondsville many years. When he was first post master, and the charge for letters was twenty-five cents for four hundred miles or over, he had taken two bush els of oats, or two bushels of potatoes, or five dozen of eggs, or four pounds of butter, or two-thirds of bushel of wheat, or one and 'one-third pounds of common wool as fair compensation in kind fer the postage. The postage on thirty-twe such letters, he says, would be about equivalent to the price of good milch cow. The post masters were expected to look out that letters were written on one sheet of pa- per; if they were on two sheets the postage was to be double. MT. Wal lace gives some entertaining accounts of his many long trips over the noun tains before the railroads were con- structed, indicating that he was a travelled man many years before there was much travelling between the east and the west. That he is a pretty capable citizen at his age is plain from the fact that, besides being postmaster, he is the station agent for the Penn sylvania railroad at Hammondsville.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-11-22
LARGEST ROSE BUSH.

Mobile Has the Honor of Having This
 Beautiful Mountain of Flowers.
 ''The largest rose bush in the United States is in Mobile, Ala.," said a citizen of New Orleans to a reporter for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat "It belongs to the species which, in common par lance, is known as the cluster musk rose, and blossoms so luxuriOusly that during the season from three to four bushels of roses have been gathered in one week, and when shedding it's petals the ground beneath is complete ly covered with it's fragrant blossoms.
 Its trunk for five feet from the ground, is nearly foot in circumfer- ence, and it has been estimated that if its branches grew on one continuous vine it would exceed mile in length. These branches have entirely covered the side of the house near which the bush grows, and have extended to the neighboring trees surrounding it, so that when it is in bloom it forms per feet bower of roses"
The St. Johns herald., 1894-11-22
sHARPS ON THE DEEP.
Poker Players Who Swindle Ocean Trav-
 eIers.


 elers.
 The Atlantic steamers are a fruitful field for the crooked poker players.
 Here is a specimen of the way this game is worked: 4 well-knOwn New Yorker told the story, but stipulated that the name of the victim was to be suppressed.
 "A certain New York millionaire, he said, 'who is known to be more or less susceptible to the blandishments of women, was crossing the Atlantic alone on Cunarder. A lovely woman made his acquaintance, which, you know, is the easiest thing in the world on ship board. They became very friendly and she introduced him to her husband. l don't know whether he was really her husband, but he passed as such for that trip, at all events.
 "This husband was one of the com placent sort. He offered no objection when the millionaire firted desperately with his wife
 'The millionaire, thinking it would pay him to stand in with the husband, willingly acquiesced when a game of poker was suggested. Of course, the husband had few friends, who were also in the game.
 "Well, they used to play every night on that trip and large part of the day. The susceptible millionaire dropped a rile of money-how much don't know but he paid very dearly for his sus- ceptibility that trip"
The St. Johns herald., 1894-11-22
coNFEpERATEs IN CONGRESS.
Only Twelve Men to Be Found in Both
 Branches-Passing Away.


 Branches-Passing Away.
 The men who enjoyed prominence in the military and civil service of the confederacy are rapidly passing from the arena of national politics, says the Augusta Chronicle. Below is a record of such as are still in active life at Washington: The senior United States senator from Alabama, John T. Nor gan, was a brigadier general in the confederate army; and her other sena- tor, James l.. Pugh, was member of the confederate congress. Joseph Wheeler, who attained the rank of lieutenant general in the confederate service, has for twelve years been the representative in congress from the Eighth Alabama district. The senior senator from Georgia, John B. Gordon, was likewise lieutenant general in the army of the confc1eracy. Edward c. Walthall, of Mississippi, major general in the confederate service, and of late the junior United States senator from his native state, while not now in active politics, having resigned for the balance of his present term in the up per house, has been elected for and IS confidently expected to take his seat in that honorable body in March, 1895. The senior United States senator from Missouri, Francis NJ. Cockrell, was a brigadier general in the confederate army; and the other senator from that commonwealth, George G. Vest, held positions in both houses of the cOnfed- crate congress. The present senior United States senators from both North and South Carolina, Matt W. Ransom and M. c. Butler, were major generals in the confederate service. The repre- sentatives from Tennessee in the upper house of congress are Isham G. Harris, the senior, and William B. Bate, who is the junior senator from that com monwea1th. The first mentioned was a war governor of his native state and the last named was major general in the confederate army. And lastly, Eppa Hunton, who saw service as brig adler general in the confederate army, at present occupies the position of junior senator from Virginia in the congress of the United States. Thus do we perceive that of the multitude of those who distinguished themselves in the military and civil annals of the confederacy only twelve remain in na- tional halls.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-11-22
BROWN GOT THE MONUMENT.
And as He Had Been 0 Good Fellow, the Boys Said He Deserved It.

Boys Said He Deserved It.
 At little settlement on the Indian river, Florida, before the railroad was built, lived penniless, good hearted fellow of the name of John Brown. When Brown got any money he would divide it to the last cent with his friends among the boys, and of course the boys liked him. One day the boys found Brown dead in the woods. They dug him grave, rolled him in horse blanket and let him down in it and then drank several bottles of east coast bitters to his health and expressed the hope that whatever new climate he was in he would be healthy
 Some time later than that stranger came among them. He died and, as the weather was too warm to ship his body off, he was buried next to Brown. A week or two passed and the relatives of the deceased stranger sent down money to erect monument over the grave of the stranger.
 The boys took the thing in hand and discussed it pro and con. They came to the conclusion that Brown was a ''durned" sight better fellow in every way than the stranger and more en- titled to monument, so one night they went out and swapped the men from one grave to the other. As re- suit Brown, the ne'er-do-wen Bohe- milan and all around good fellow, sleeps beneath handsome marble monument and the rich stranger lies in an un' marked grave.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-11-22
ExTRAVAGANT MILL GIRLS.
They Receive Fairly Good Wages. But Are
 Avsrse to Saving.


 Avsrse to Saving.
 In the great carpet mills of Philadel- phia, where, it is claimed, more carpet is made in a single ward than in the whole of England, the actual competi- tion of women with men is a marked feature; in many cases, says Lippin- eott's Magazine, they earn equal pay for the same work. In these mills the burlers earn from S6 to SlO a week. They work from in the morning till at night, with half an hour off for din- ner. Those who do not live at home can get good board for g week, leav- ing quite Q large margin for dress or for savings. It would be of great ben eft to them if they could acquire the habit of systematic saving, but to this they are generally averse. Some of them do save, however, and it is no un- common thing for a mill girl to save $500 or S400 before marriage. The first few years of married life are safely tided over by the united savings of the couple, and it is unusual for the chil- dren not to begin work by the time they are If. They can earn S2.50 and upwards, and this sum, as a rule, goes into the family treasury. Thus there will often be five or six bread-winners in family, and, if thrifty, neat lit tie sum may be laid away. Thrift and economy are, however, rather ex- ceptional virtues among the mill work CTS. They eat, twice a day, the most expensive meat (16 and IS cents per pound), and pay extravagant sums fer early vegetables.