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The advocate., 1894-04-25
FROM WASHINGTON
A VOICE APPEALS TO LOYALTY AND
PATRIOTISM.
Will Kansas Lend a Helping Hand :" To
Save the Nations Soul
Alive2"

Washington Correspondence.
It is no longer o question as to
whether or not Mr.. Coxey's Common
wealers will come to Washington. They
are coming; and the question now ia
what sort of reception will they have.
The police force is being increased, and
the militia street riot drill" goes on,
and the police officials persist in their
deter minRtion to treat the commonwesl-
ers as vagrsnts. There will be q mass
meeting of citizens Saturday evening to
make preparations for q friendly rscep-
tion, for despite the hostile tone Of the
two principal daily papers, and nOtwith-
standing the fact that the police officers
have reused the fears Of citizens lest
the "mob following the army" may COM
NIT depredationF, there is much favor
able sentiment, and very general in
sistence that the commonweslerB have q
right to come and should be protected
in that right.
These are solemn times. There is q
tense expectancy, no one knows Of what.
1t may be tragedy and woe unspeskRble,
or it may be safe transit through the
darkest hour which precedes the dawn
Of q far brighter day than the world has
ever known. l incline strongly to the
latter view. So many people are intel
lectuslly and spiritually prepared for
that radical change Of conditions which
would lend hand to the helpless.
Within the past twelve months the
country has had two of the greatest OBJ
ject lessons ever offered for the educs-
ton of q nation. Grover ClevelRnd's
malicious and bRleful lesson came first
and led up to j. s. Coxey's bene6cent
and humane spectacular lesson. Cleve-
land VS.. Coxey. Plutocracy Va. the peo-
pie. The old vs. the new. PRternslism
vs.. frsternslism. Bsyonets vS. ballots.
Millionaireism vs.. psuperism-these are
the forces srrsyed in mortal combat.
The contest is coming to close quarters.
1t is absolutely impossible for the pres
ent abnormal, unholy conditions to con-
tinue. 1t is becoming clearer every day
that nothing adequate can be done to
bring relief without an enlargement and
recssting of old ideas Of the functions of
government. It must be conceded that
governments are made for men and not
men for governments. Old beliefs and
superstitions must give way. They must
not longer bar the way Of rescue to the
pertaining. These fhbusteEing, rule Jug
Cling, acknowledging obstruction
The advocate., 1894-04-25
OFFICIAL STATE PAPER.

said Mr.. Hubbard, sand should they
gain possession Of q train through any
hook or crook, or by the sympathy OF
our trainmen, we will ditch the train, *
it destroys every car and hurts lot Of
men. We win not carry these vsgrants
for love NOR money, or be forced TO by
their capturing our rolling stock. In
the eyes Of the law they are band Of
beggars, who are organized for an un-
lawful purpose, and to prey on the peo-
pie, who are compelled to feed them and
move them on to the next station. Why,
IL we were to carry this crowd over the
Iowa railroads we would be compelled
to carry 10000 more idlers just like
them. They would swamp our roads,
and we could do nothing but q charity
business, and this 10 what we do not in
tend to do. Our roads were not built
for charitable purpOses."
On Thursday the army marched to
Weston, on the Rock Island road, ten
miles east Of Council Bluffs.
GREAT DAY IN OMAHA.
OMAHA, Neb., April 20--General Kelly
is all that the good words hitherto said
of him conveyed to the reader and more.
He displayed the rsrest Of judgment
and fortitude tonight when he declined
10 put his men on board a train stolen at
Council Bluffs by the engineers and fire.
men Of the Union PRcifc. 1t was Un-
ion Pacific engine with Union Pacific
cars, on the Rock Island track. Kelly
declined it because he had not broken
any law and did not intend to start in
here.
There was great excitement here al
day and it was intensified at night fall
by the news that q train had been cap
tured to relieve Kelly. Crowds throngpd
the streets and an immense open air
mass meeting was held. Rumors OF the
calling out Of federal troops, Of state
tr oops, of deaths in Kelly's camp and
Ut every conceivable nature kept the
crowd on q tension hard to understand.
But no disorder resulted, shd, as IL by q
miracle, the clash that seemed inevita-
bic was avoided, and Kelly's army slept
in camp at Weston, waiting for the
break Of day to march to Council Bluffs.
Omaha has never seen such day Of
excitement. Numerous meetings have
been held and committees appointed to
confer with railroad officials with the
view Of averting trouble. Large crowds
Of men and women paraded the streets
all day.
At about 3 o'clock when all hope Of
securing train from the officials had
vanished, the crowd went aimlessly from
Bsyless Park, where is had listened to
the addresses Of the leaders. These
leaders had vanished and the men we're
getting restless in the cold, whom from
the south came marching three hun
dTed women headed by Mrs. Herman.
This gave new life to the men, and whom
Continued on page u
The advocate., 1894-04-25
TOPEKA, KANSAS, APRIL Is, 1894.

lists up here in the capitol must enlarge
their pigmy ideas and change their
picsyune methods, and venture into such
statesman.ike and precedent making
legislation as will put work in the hands
and hope in the hearts Of the millions
of unemployed American sOVereigns. Il
dote on that word sovereign. like to
bring sharp to the sight Of man the alb
sur d distance between the theory and
the actuality of American goverument.)
Every foot.sore, ragged, hsrd-hsnded'
hollow.eyed man who is marching hlth-
erward with Coxey's commonweal is in
theory a sovereign whose ballot the pub
lie sergGnt angles for, but whose petition
he jeers and SCOTS. And under the
pre- sent system Of caucuses, Of congress
sionRl committees, OF rules Of the house,
Of senatorial courtesy, Of presidential
Vetoes, and the devious other ways for
procrastinating, and for shifting blame
from party to party, from house to sem
ate; there is no remedy, and there need
be no hope; for, corporate brigsndsge
has captured all the machinery and
cogged, and belted, and oiled it after
full legal fashion, so that it will turn out
no work save their own.
There is but one remedy and that is
for the people to rscspture the ma
chinery and remodel it on the "direct
legislst ion' plan. Direct legislation
would eliminate psrtyism, would de-
throne hero-worship and deodorize the
foul, pestilentisl pool Of politics. Ihsve
said it before and 1 say it again with an
hundred fold emphasis: The people can
be trusted il you can appeal to them in
dependently Of partisan politics, and OF
glsmoring, irridescent hero-worship.
Even the worst men want the best things
to happen to their fellow men when
their human nature is touched on its
God-ward side.
Looked at from this point Of my high
hope l see in this commonweal march
the largest force which has been set in
motion to bring the msjority to see the
possibility and practically Of direct
legislation. Here at the national CAPT
tol are soon to be focused the three great
factors Of prosperity:
First-Ths work good roads) needing
TO be done.
Second-The wor kers suffering for the
work to do.
Third-The constitutional authorities,
congress and the president, at hand to
issue the money necessary to set the
workers at the work.
Now let the voice Of the people be
heard in demand Of the precipitation Of
these tn rec economic chemicals and the
solution will be prosperity.
We have here the bureau of printing
and engraving already equipped for
issuance, without delay, Of some Of the
same kind Of good money which never
was discounted even when the nations
Continuation pages
The advocate., 1894-04-25
INDIGNATION.
The Great Peace Army Finds Sympathy
in Every Quarter.

Inc 0re8b EeaCo Amy klnuS sympathy
in Every Quarter.
During the week public attention has
been turned from what has been con-
sidered the principal division Of the
Coxey peace army, which was indus
trio usly making it's way through Penn
sylvsnis and Maryland toward Washing.
ton. Other divisions Of the army have
met with more serious opposition, in
consequence Of which public sympathy
has been aroused to Q wonderful degree.
Governor jackson Of Iowa, had or
dered several companies Of MALTA tc
Council Bluffs, ostensibly to protect life
and property, but in reality, as after
ward developed, to prevent the Kelly
contingent, which was OF Omaha, from
crossing the state. No sooner had thu
governor taken this step than publi'
sentiment rapidly took the side of th'
Coxsyites, and indignation against tn,
governor and the railroad companies in
creased RlarmiDgly, while the army un
der Kelly's command also increased
until it numbered over 1000. Or
Wedn esdsy the men were driven from
the Chautsuqua pavilion and compelled
to camp out during the severe rain
storm. The citizens Of Omaha, South
Omaha, and Council Bluffs held an IN
dignstion meeting censuring the COVER
nor for calling out the militia. The
soldiers were then withdrawn, and the
army again took possession Of the build
ings.
During the day the camp was visited
by thousands Of sympathizers. Feed,
money, clothing, medicine, bedding,
pipes and tobacco, needed for the com.
fort Of the army was furnished in album
dance. When night fell, Kelly was in
possession of upwards Of 81, 900 in cash,
and had provisions TO last q week, with
luxuries to last . month.
During the evening meetings were
held in the three cities. In Omaha the
large all provided was inadequate and
an overflow meeting was held on Jefer-
son square. Upward OF 5000 people
gathered at this latter meeting and
were addressed by the leaders Of the
army. During the afternoon $50 Union
Pacific employees, loaded with provisions,
marched ever to the camp. A meeting
was held there attended by 1900. Reso-
lutions indorsing the army and con-
dsmning the railroads were adopted.
During all this time Kelly and bis lieu
tenants were vsinly trying to gel the
railroad officials to furnish trsnsports-
tion across the state, but it was stub
bornly and insultingly refused. Judge
Hubbard, attorney for the Northwestern,
expressed himself in no uncertain Ian
Rusge and his views of the situation
were coincided in by Mr. Baldwin. "Ii
these trsmps and buns try to capture
one Of our trains there viii bo trouble,
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The Colors of Gold.

Most people suppose that all gold is
alike when refined, but this is not the case.
An experienced man can tell at n glance
from what part of the world goldpiece
comes and in some cases from what part
of particular gold district the metal is
obtained Tho Australian gold, for in
stance, is distinctly rcdder than the Cali
fornian, and this difference in color is al
ways perceptible.
Again. the gold obtained from the plac-
ers is more yellow than that which is TAX
en- directly from the quartz. Why this
should be tho case is one of the mysteries
of metallurgy, for the placer gold all comes
from the veins. The Ural gold is the red
dest found anywhere.
Few people know the real color of gold,
rs it is seldom seen unless heavily alleged,
which renders it redder than when pure.
The purest coins ever made were the $50
pieces that used to be common in Califor-
mia.
Their coinage was abandoned for two
reasons-GD because the loss by abrasion
was so great, and (2) because the interior
could be bored out and lead substituted,
the difference in weight being too small
to be readily noticed in SO large piece.
These octagonal coins were the most valu-
able every strUck.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
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TRACK AND STABLE GOSSIP.

Nelson Allen, the PAGER, that in tile face
of cold, strong breeze which made over.
coat and mitsens comfortable, took record
OF 2 20 IA late one afternoon at the Tops
ham fair, is believed to be the first colt by
Nelson ever allowed to get technical record
OF 2.30 or better at three years of age. He
is capable of trotting several seconds faster
than this.
The Seer, owned by II. Wesley Hutchins
of Auburn, has trotted in II races this wear
winning four first moneys, three seconds,
one third, one fourth, one fifth. He trotted
six heat race at Old Orchard with good
field of horses, winning the last three heats.
Time, ZIG "a, 2 II IA, 2 Is. At Rigby
park he reduced his record to 2I534.
Caywood, F. W. Hills fast geldiug by
Van Helmont, arrived at Bangor last week
accompanied by his driver and trainer,
John B. P. Wheelden. Caywood's record
IL now 2.l9 IA. In the fifth heat of a
race at Dover, N. H., he went a quarter in
32 IA seconds, 200 clip, and in the sixth
heat of race at Mystic when he got the
record, he made a quarter in SO IA.
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NEW YORK. Oct. p,
E,oue--Reeeipts. 1853 ufgs; eAports. 3iSs
bbs; .,o,9s5 sacSs: ,aeo zoo pRssi duh''reey
offered, light demand, weak; -- .a,.-o-.-----
low exrrar. 81 % 40, Citl nni!s, 3D. 20 pat
ens'. 3 Co. Is, WINTER wheat low 4o grao e.
e. % sr esosS clear IS IS
straigbts 90,3 25 uatents, 3 Is u 3 50; city
mills patents, 80 5oas3 70; rye mixtnr.s, loa
RS ,n.. aAe Co.. i5n 6nH t5al.9a.
SOUTHERN FLOuk-dull, weak; common &c
fair extra 2a3; good to choice 3.00a3.50.
RYE FLOUR quiet. steady; 81 60as2.9o
BUCKwHEAT FLOUR S2tOa2 10.
BUCKwHsAT-55a60.
CORN MEAL dull, steady; ----yeuow
western, ,. s0a2 80: BRANDY wine. $40.
RYE nominal: Western. 46a5T.
BARLEY quiet; Nc A1lwauaee: o.taozi
western, 63ao7; two rowed state' eSaooi NO.
barley MALT dull; western 7oaa2
two rowed state 7oa75, sikh state soasS; CIT.
WHnAT-Receipts ,S25 bush: exports. 1870;
sales. As Geo. quiet. easl er, with options; -
No REQ. store and elevator al a5's ; 80
f fopa, I'd, 'p 81 Tor new ~ nara. soIaos
No. 2 sprlng 77ia7s; No. northern. 64sa64i
No. 3, northeTn. Ola; no milwaukee 7o.a7ol
No No. % rex e.. No w Whit .S Ssi 'S
Go,.N~ ieoeirt.. 1880, exports. 1885; sales,
q, 600; dull, firm; -
No. 45sa5s sey s, . sia?S a NO. . So
graded mixed. 45al5i; steamer mixed. ASIA
49,; No. white. ga ;oo sv,o,,. ,eo h,s,.
sales, 1872 ooo bushels; easier, fairly active -,
No. 2. 3lla3l1: DO Snlt', Soa35; Nc
AiaSi,: u.1eo Western. 32a3Si do white
25s3e: white s-at., IS i3g.
BkEr-inactive, family l0sl2; extra IS GOA
$50; beef hams, dali; Sl7.ooasl1 90; eercen.
be- T. slow - city extra India mess, Sl6.0C
a&l65o- cut meats. quiet easy
y: picked bellies, IL lbs, at 7sas, as to average;
picked shoulders, 6a6; picked hams. loialoi
nddes. nominal.
LARD quiet, weak; - ------o- - -
Weston ..eaD closed, q aoa'.fo W.; oltl
s6 so 6s,; rehnet. quiet ,-----a}n, ,r"Ct
A.. 75a7 IS; s A. $3.50. compound s5.75as6 90
PORK dull, steafy, safes, bois;
old mess tl4 o0,si5 80; axtrs rrfme, "a ooasl40o
bUTrER- moderate demand, weaS;-----
state dairy new l4a22; DO DID, l2aii 90 creamery
new. l7a23, P-ua. 10, ,7s23; Western dsiry
new ,2al6. do cresnery new, 10 %. do factory,
IIlal45; Elgirs 23a23; roHf. ilal6.
,,ste large. saic; do fancy. white, loalOl; dc
eolored, lol; fancy old, y 81 state small ~
ssall 2" ~, new sAa s,Iorea DID, Ia ps SS
sxims. 4sss; 40 new slSea: ta'i .A,".. sasl
Western small. old, sialoi; Western part skins
new. Sac.
CoFFEE-rio dull steady; No. 2. l4ia15.
suaAR-raw; quiet, s.eaas,- fsnnee' 4ule',
1 a. s.ie: No. s. 5 lsl5a4; Nc. :. ssia3 l5.l6;
No. s. 5-sa3 1896 No. Q, 39-l6a3 "a
No io, ; i-2ss II IS; Ne II. s7-l6 3 s: Ne.
IL SAB 9.i6; No. rs, 10, on, 10 l6ai 81
mould. 45 sa4 1910; standard, !. -i6a4s
crushed, ,s5 Is; powdered, Ito 47s, graz
ulated, 4 7.iea4s; cubes 4 ii-1sat5.
Freights 20 LaseTpooi-- maIke. q lict, firm.
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WHY THE BEARD TURNS GRAY.
4 Barber Says the Cause Is Frequent and
Early Shaving.

4 Barber Says the Cause Is Frequent and
Early Shaving.
Somebody asked the other day" said
the barber, carefully clearing his custom
ers ears of lather, why the beard grows
white more quick as the hair. He say his
beard 30 years younger than his hair and
looks 90 years older. Yes, and every
mans beard is so, Ell. First come the
hair Of the head, eh? So. What you do?
BY and by have your hair cut. How? Just
the ends on the top, close around the
edges and shave in the neck. So, Ell?
'Then the beard come. What you dos
Shave around the face and leave the little
mustache. No boy want beard, SO he
shave him, ehs Sometimes shave the
mustache to make him thick, but not of
ten. But the beard, every day. So. By
and by your doctor tell you cover your
throat, or you have not time for shave, or
your wife think you look too young for
her age, eh? Anyway you let your beard
grow, and it come in gray.
why? / tell you. Because of shaving
To cut off the ends to the hair sometimes
does not hurt its life-perhaps help it, l
have my doubt, but to cut it close or shave
it all the time is to kill it. And why? Be
cause every time you cut the hair close OF
shave the beard you cause it to push. 1t
is irrtated into growing extravagantly,
and what of its life should go into the
coloring matter-the pigment eh?-goes
to this false growth And it come out
white, eh? And see if this is not so, for
where of the hair begins the gray to come!
Here at the temples where it is clipped so
short; here at the back of the neck, whore
it is also cut short, but, above all, in the
neck back of the ears, because it is shaved,
So?
And shall tell you something more,
eh9 To have the whole hair cut so short
and SO often will make the whole head
gray ten years before it should be, Bay
rum, ch? No? Sol Ali Thank you,
sir Come to see me again, eh?''-Ncw
York Sun
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Abyssinian Superstition.

The Abyssinian has a singular super
stition about eating in the open. To him
a fit of indigestion from oyerfcedirg would
mean the evil eye. He would feel assured
that some one had seen him in the act Of
appeasing his appetite. In walking along
q highway in Abyssinia traveller came
across what appeared to be q large bundle
of washing near the road. He investigat-
ed tho matter, and thus describes the re
suit in The Century:
On approaching it a movement going
on within was plainly discerniblc Coy
cred up in their shenias, or cloths, were
three men eating their midday meal. Sc
much in fear of the eviicyo are the people
that they carry amulcts containing pray
ers, and rolls of parchment several yards
long, and pictures illustrative of the tri-
umphs of the good spirit over that ecu
lar absurdity are kept in their houses FOL
protection. If an Abyssinian sells you
anything and is well inclined, he will Gnu
ton you to keep it indoors or covered up,
for If an evil eye should fall upon your
purchase it may spoil or disappear, which
latter contingency is much the more prob
able in Abyssinia.
had some experiences OF the kind Of evil
eye that causes goods and chattels to disap
pear. II cleaned for an instant in the
head of an Ethiopian whom caught walk
ing off with some dollars from pile in
our paymaster's tent. The corner Of the
evil eye smiled innoccntly when detected,
but the smile faded away under the inlu-
ence of the paymaster's boot
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One evening some of the mon ran
down from their camp to tell us that q
York boat was coming down the main
channel. Here the rapids are rs liefco as
those of Niagara, and 10 boat has ever
been known to come down safely. do not
know when have seen anything that so
strongly impressed mo. 1t was % large
black boat. carried off by tho foods above.
with a capacity for perhaps eight tons Of
cargo and dozen men. we could sec her
coming afar off, hurrying down, riding
tho smaller rapids so well that we thought
she might possibly run the larger ones;
But as she struck the great masses OF suti
tbe first blow made large hole in Ter
side. showing the black ribs. AT the sec
ond she plunged and turned over AZ We
third the fragments of the hull foated mp
lilo down en- the water, and then she
swept past us, confused mass of spin
tered timbers. Woman In the Mac
kenzie Delta in Outing,
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PETITION FOR ROAD.
To the County Commissioners of the Count.
Eaonahpe

To the County Commissioners of the County OF
kennebec
Of Chelsea and vicinity, that common convenience
requires the location and construction of road
or highway in said covnty as follows to wit:
Commencing at q point at or near the residen nc
of Fred Thompson in said Chelsea thence running
south or south easterIy course TO connect with the
old G ardiner road 80 called somewhere betwt en-
thesresidence Of Henry VI. Clark and residence OF
Daniel Lawrence said road as prayed for com
mencing in town of Chelsea.
We therefore petition your Ronors to lay out
highway as aforesaid and in duty bound viii ever
pray.
Sigued,
Chas r. whitman and twenty others.
STATE or MAINE.
KENNEBEc S. Board of County Commissioners,
August Session 1924. Holden by adjournms Mt
On the foregoing petition. satisfactory evidence
having been received that the petitioners are re-
sp9n-ible and ought to be h ard touching the
matter set forth in said petition, IL is ordered
that thirty days previous notice be given, thsi
the County Commissioners will meet at the house
of VIM. T. Searls IN Chelsea on Tuesday the 9Th
day of Move nber next. at II O'Clock A. NJ; and
thence proceed to view the route mentioned in
said petition, and Immediately Of erwards hear
the parties and their witnesses, and then take
such further msa sures in the premises as may b,
adjadged proper. Said notice TO be given by serv
ing atested copies OF said petition and this ordr
thereon, upon the respective clerks of the towns
of Chelsea and Pittston and by posting up .uch
copies in three public places in each of laid towns
snd by publishing the same in the kENNEBEC
JOURNAL. public newspaper printed in raid
ested may attend and be heard if they think
proper.
Attest W. S. CHoATE Clerk.
A true copy of the petition and order of coar.
thereon.
Attest: ". s. CHoArE, Clerk.
oct25il.
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Over the State.

Road Commi' sioner Gould of ID -1ter, left
his horse standing alone one day recently.
The horse took fir ght at something and ran
into the Dalton field, where he fell upon a
large rock sustaining internal Injuries, from
viii n e died in about ten minutes.
A bi graphy of the Poet Whittier will be
published within two weeks, simultaneously
in this country and England. This is the
work which Mr.. S. I. Pickard, editor CT
the Portland Transcript, and nephew by
marriage and literary executor of the poet,
has been preparing during the last two
yelrS.
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AMONG THE FLOWERS.

The garden gate swung to and fro.
Then came whisper soft and low,
And said the lily to the rose,
"That is her lover, suppose"
Says rose, lie comes here every day.
/ wonder what they have to say?''
"Thcy don't see Us, - the jasmine signs.
"Each looks into the others eycs.'
"He loves her so.' the rose replied.
"Oh, here they coEel" the violet cried.
"He holds her hand, - TIE pansy said,
Sand, like the rose, she bushes red"
And rose remarked, 1T is not right
For us TO listen, nor polite,
To all their VOWS and tender sishs-
o., dear-he kissed her-shut your eyesl'
-GGdey's Magazine.
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A Terdcrfoot In Butte.

new arrival in Butte occupied a chair
in barber shop one day during snow
storm.
This is funny sort of a country" he
remarked, with snow in summer time. "
Then he looked out of the window and
saw sprinklng cart go by.
why in the world do they run sprin-
klers in a snowstorm?'' he asked.
ITO keep the snow from drifting" re-
piled the barber as he dashed an extra
daub of lather over the mans mouth
Anaconda Standard.