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Smyrna times., 1894-02-21
For the Smyrna Times.
Why is Farm Produce No Lower
In Price.
Mr.. EDITOR =

0Ahs 1OllOh -
The above question is easier asked
than answered, nevertheless, we think
an answer may be found, and when
found wethink that gambling in futures
will be found to be the main cause,
otherwise why is there difference of
about 20 cents between the price of
wheat in 1882 and 1892; the two crops
being about the same. In 1882 the
crop was stated to be $4,000, 900
bushels, of which 100000 were ex-
ported, the average price being SS cts.
The crop of 1892 was 515, 900, 900 (leav-
ing off the fraction in each case.) or
this crop there was exported 191. .OOO..
600, being about A, 100000 more than
In 1882. In addition to this there must
have been several millions more con-
sumed in 1892 than there was in 1882.
And yet with this advantage, and a. a
time when all other crops were flourish
ing, Wheat went down to an average
OF 81 cents. Could there be any other
cause assigned than dealing in futures
arbitrarily fixing the price months in
advanceP The price might have been
q dollar, and would have been had it
been left for demand and supply to fix.
The crop of 1882 was all consumed
at SS cts, at least we have never heard
of any being dumped into lakes or
rivers. There is therefore no good
reason why the copy of 1899 should not
have been Q dollar instead of 90 cents.
and no doubt would haye been, had
there been no dealing in futures. But
while that Is permitted, there is but
little hope for the farmer. The bears
seem to be stronger than the bulls and
Smyrna times., 1894-02-21
State School Funds.

We have received, through the
courtesy of State Treasurer Burnite q
copy OF the State auditors report for
1893 To those who are interested in
the finances of the State the report
will be found of value.
A particularly interesting feature of
the report is that which shows the col.
lectlons by the several counties for H.
cenSe fees and the proportion of such
collections which is returned to tho
several counties under the distribution
OF the school fund. During last wear
the State treasurer received from tho
clerks of the peace ofthe three counties
an aggregate of 500, ,235 SO, paid TO them
IN the shape of license fees. divided "a
follows: New Castle, $50 7O8 O6. Kent
S9'63l.l7; Sussex, $4,496.76. OF these
the collections from liquor tavern Ii.
censes were New Castle, S69. .251. .86.
Kent, 81, 4,l83O8; Sussex, $2,7O947. In
the distribution of the school fund to
the counties each of the several CONN
ties received the following amounts;
New Castle, $50, 900. 10; Kent
S24 ,2O9 73; Sussex, $36,144.43; total
500, ,274.85, or $lO,O38.35 more than
was paid in by the clerks of the peoca
in the shape of license fees, all of which
60 to the credit of the school fund
1t will be seen that New Castle con.
tributed $8O,7O8O to the school fnnd
and received back only $39, ,92O19. or
SAC, O,7S7.87 less than it paid in. Kent
county, which paid in S5.681.OC re.
ceived $24 ,2O9.73, or S1S,578.44 more
than it contributed, while Sussex
countrywide paid into the school fund
81 4496.76, got back $86,144.43, or $3l,-
64767 more than it contributed.
Smyrna times., 1894-02-21
DR.. Roche.

The Peninsula Methodist in referring
to tke effective labors of DR.. Roche,
made an error as to the time he left
Smyrna, where he spent several years
in learning trade, before going into
the ministry. In correcting it he says
"As in the past, you have asked nv
age and birthplace, 1 now say: I, John
Alexander Roche, was born in Still
Pond, Kent county, Md, August SOth,
1918. l entered the Philadelphia Con-
terence, held in Philadelphia, April
Sth, 1925. OF the class of twenty. all
are dead, except one or two beside
myself,-Rev. Joseph Carlisle, now in
Media, Pa, and B. F. Reed, of n. J.
My present relation, since last confer
ence, IS supernumerary.
"Of course, GOD will soon call me
home; and l trust will joyfully obey,
as did when he called me to the min
istry. In haste,
yours in Christ,
John A, ROCHE,
1916 N, goth st., N. Y, Feb. 5, 1894"
Smyrna times., 1894-02-21
1t is DeplOrable.

One of our most influential and oh
servant citizens, who recently returned
from a visit to Washington, says the
intensity of sectional feeling which pre-
walls is really surprising. The South
is against the North, the East against
the West, and he ventures the assert.
ion that the bitterness of feeling is
nearly as it was before the war. AS a
consequence the business of the
country is sinking into what the Presi-
dent might call innocuous desuetude,
and is likened unto football pressed
between two antagonistic football
teams.
Smyrna times., 1894-02-21
SAILED THE SEAS SS YEARS.
One of His Experiences.

For thirty-eight years Capt. Loud followed
the sea, most of that time as master Of a ves-
sci, and upon retiring from the water was ap-
pointed by the Secretary Of the United States
Treasury TO superintend the seal fisheries in
Alaska, which position he held five years. He
relates one experience as follows:
For several years had been troubled with
general nervousness and pain i'm the region
OF my heart. My greatest ahiictiOn was
sleeple>sness; 1t was almost impossible at any
time to obtain rest and sleep. Having seen
Or. Miles remedies advertised began using
Nervine. After taking a small quantity the
benefit received was so great that l was posi-
lively alarmed, thinking the remedy con-
tained opiateS which would finally be iniuri-
Gus TO me; but on being assured by the drug
sist that 1t was perfectly harmless, l cOntin-
ued IL together with the Heart Cure Today
can cOnscientiOuSly say that DIR. Miles Re
'tOrative NeFvine and New Heart Cure did
more for me than anything had ever taken.
had been treated by eminent physicians
in New York and San Francisco without BEN
eht l owe my present good health to the
iudiciOus use OF these most valuable remedies
and heartily recommend thOm to all afflicted
aS as."-Capt. A. p, Loud, Hampden, Me.
Dr. Miles Restorative Nervine and New Cure
are sold by all druggists on positive guaran-
tee, or by DIR. Miles Medical Co, Elkhart,
Ind, on receipt Of price. 81 per bottle, or six
bottles for g. express prepaid. They are
free from all opiates and dangerous drugs.
Smyrna times., 1894-02-21
The Story of Life.

Say; what is life? 'Tis to be born;
hapless babe, to greet the light
With sharp wall, as if the morn
ForetOld a cloudy noon and night;
To weep, TO sleep and weep again,
With sunny smiles between; and then?
And then apace the infant grows
To be Laughing, sprightly boy,
Happy despite his little woes,
Were he but conscious of his Joy;
To be, in short, from two to ten,
A merry, moody child; and then?
And then, in coat and trousers clad,
To learn to say the Decalogue,
And break it, an unthinking lad,
And mirth and mischief all agog;
A truant Oft by fields and fen
To capture butterflies; and then?
And then, increased in strength and size,
To be, anon, . youth full grown;
A hero in his mothers eyes.
young Apollo in his own:
To initiate the ways ofmen
In fashionable sins; and then?
And then, at last, to be a man,
To fall in love- to WOO and wed,
With soothing brain to scheme and plan,
To gather gold, or toll for bread;
To sue for fame with tongue or pen,
70 gain or lose the prize; and then?
And then in gray and wrinklsd old.
To mourn the speed of life's decline;
To praise the scenes his youth beheld.
And dwell in memory of Lang-Syne.
To dream a while with darkened ken,
Then drop into his gave; and then?
JOHN G. SAKE.
Smyrna times., 1894-02-21
Miss Ollie Torbett,

Miss Ollie TOrbett is a grand daugh.
ter of Gen. James p. Drake, of Mexican
war fame. She is young and very
lovely girl, thorough musician and
gifted artist. She occupies the very
front rank in her profession and at
once captivates her audience by her
wonderful playing and her childish.
beautiful face. So she appeared at
the Opera House here on Wednesday
evening.
Smyrna times., 1894-02-21

Joseph V. Dory, of Warsaw, ILL.,, was
troubled with rheumatism and tried a
number OF different remedies, but saws
none OF them seemed to do him any
good but finally he got hold of one
that speedily cured him. He was much
pleased with it, and felt sure that
Others similarly afflicted would like to
know what the remedy was that cured
him: He states for the benefit of the
public that it is called CharOberlain's
Pain Balm. For sale by ]. w. Clifton,
Smyrna, aud 7. l.. Mason, Clayton.
Smyrna times., 1894-02-21
His Cattle Taxed in Both States.

With his farm on the State line,
Thomas Seal, of Mill Creek Hundred,
is sorely perplexed. His house is in
Delaware his barn in Chester County.
Pa. His cattle wandered across the
line and were assessed in Delaware as
well as Pennsylvania. He has ap-
pealed to Court against the assessment
in two States.
Smyrna times., 1894-02-21

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Smyrna times., 1894-02-21

Mr.. Q, =. Davis, editor of the Bloom
held, Iowa, FaTmeT, says II can re-
commend Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy to all sufferers with colds aud
Group. have used it in my family for
the past two years and have found it
the best | have ever used for the pur-
poses for which It Is attended. 90 cent
bottles far sale by I.W. Clifton, Smyrna,
and 7. L, Mason, Clayton.
Smyrna times., 1894-02-21
Excellent SUITS
THESE ATTRACTIVE PRICES.

Mems Mixed CheViOt and Cashmere
Suits, $40 and $12. Fine WOrSted
Suits, $t6. Large Boys Suits, $3.50
and $1,000. Smaller Boys Suits,
$3.50, $500.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-08-31
MAJOR MORRILL,.

The Republican party, through its
papers, are claiming that Major Morrill,
is the friend of the soldier and should
receive his support In all the speeches
and editorials, written in his praise,
there has never been mention of his
war record. Why is it thus? Because
that record would not stand the shock
of a patriotic investigation. Major
Morrill, never fired a gun or struck a
blow in the defense of his country, and
about the only good he did to aid the
SUPPRESSION of the rebellion was dealing
out to the boys in blue his celebrated
brand of fighting fre-water. In other
words, Major Morrill, was in the COM
misary department. of the government
during the dark and bloody days. You
old boys who carried the musket, know
how much of friend these commisari-
at gentry were to you, and how much
of a friend to the government, and
how much of a friend to themselves
On this splendid" war record he is
trying to get your votes.
AS to his pension record, it is mat
ter of common notoriety, that he is of
all other men to blame for the non-ex-
istence of a service pension bill. He
was the person who had control of that
bill and suffered it to die, because the
eastern money bags ordered it killed.
More than one Grand Army of the Re
public post in Kansas passed resolu-
tions denouncing him for his conduct
on that occasion.
That his record while in congress
was in favor of corporations and Wall
street you all know and is common his
tory, which is shown by the records of
congress. He voted against silver every
time, he voted against the peoples in
terests every time, he voted with the
money power every time. And why
shouldn't he? He belongs to that class,
is a banker, loan agent and MILL
ODaira
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-08-31

whip? Is it not time that the pro-
ducers should be entitled to fair divi-
sion of the profits of their products?
Is it not time that the courts of the
land should learn that all men are
created equal with a few rights superior
to those of riches?
We see, on every hand, infant in
dustries" protected and cared for by
the government, leveling the wages of
American labor to European standards
and at the same time paying dividends
of millions to their stockholders. Yet
when these workmen organize to pre-
vent further decrease in earnings they
are termed anarchists and treated as
such. "A Scab" says:
Who should be considered the most honorable
the sscab, who believes that the government and
courts are bigger than the labor unions, the
labor union man. who bows his manhood to the
dictation of faction that is Matched in the nest
of anarchy and injured growth in the lap Of re-
belIion7 No right minded person, after the candid
review of the agitations, rioting train wrecking,
murder, incendarism and deviItry of every dis
cription that have become the object lesson of
knowledge that such actions are a putrid sore in
body polite, and scab"-though it may be
unsightly, without covering of union badge-is
far preferable, and is sign of healing.
"a Scab'' glibly pirates about murder,
riots and incendarism, when he knows
that before the federal investigating
committee not a witness testified that
the damage done TO cars and other
property was committed by union la
Dor men, but was done by outsiders,
toughs and heelers for the railroad
managers, to create false impression
in the minds of the people. ga Scab''
knows that in all that number of men
who were shot down by the troops at
Chicago, not one was a union labor
man. And yet in the face of these
facts, in. this article published in the
Dark Horse, throws the blame of these
crimes upon the shoulders Of union Ia
Dor, when he knows that it is false.
IT'S such men as ga Scab,'' working
for the interests of shylocks, that
menace the peace of our country, for
has not history taught US in lessons of
blood that when the great mass of the
people are trodden underfoot by the
iron heel of oppression, they at last re-
volt and the result is a government
overthrow, and rivers of blood.
Whenever the toiler aspires after
fairer, sweeter life, men with calloused
hands and backs unthnely bent with
the weight of toll, realize that nom
entus battle is being fought in which
they have mighty stake therein, which
might be full justice or mayhap heavier
chains.
These great strikes are pivotal points
upon which civilization changes front
they may at first be defeat, but that
defeat only serves to summon the wait
ing millions to the more important
battlefield. and to final victory.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-08-31
THE CAMPAIGN.
onaire.

They that are already corrupt are ma
turally suspicious. So it is with the
Republican party of the state of Kan
sas, its suspiciousness is the accouch-
ment of its corruptness. From the
criterion of Republican past every
move made by the Peoples party is
looked upon (by Republicans as steal
or job. Added to this natural SUSPECT
BUSINESS is its Billingsgate style of cam
paign. No issues, no promises, no prai-
ses are made by its speakers in defense
of the party, but, from the filthy cess
pool of corruption into which it has
fallen, it reaches out the withered
hands of libel and scandal and strives
to bring the Peoples party down to its
own disgraceful level.
For 30 years the Republican party
had full control of the administration
of the state, and IN that time gathered
around its putrid, maggot-inyested
hulk, all the fIthiness and decay that
the drag nets of patronage and Doodle
could bring forth.
These same heelers. boosters and
boodlers are now making the fight for
the Republican party, urged on by the
memories of their past gIuttonies and
gorgeous feasts at the table Of public
patronage, they adopt the only means
of campaigning known to them-the
stink pots Of falsehood and unproyen
charges. These understand methods
they have adopted show to what des-
perate straits they have been reduced,
it Is the last rally before certain defeat
Let every citizen Of this great state,
go to the polls on election day and, BY
the use of a Peoples party ballot, help
to bury bisunsig ltIIg pIltrifi cation
Republican party IA the deepest
depths Of oblivion.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-08-31
THE VArenARn

Kansas has always been found IN the
vanguard of reform since the time
John Brown struck the first blow for
the freedom of Africa's enslaved sons
Today sees Kansas the leader in the
movement to emancipate the whole hu-
man race, without regard to color or
class, from a slavery worse than the
ante bellum form of chatteI serfdom
Financial serfdom is the most pitiless,
the most heartless that can exist,
using the torture whip of interest and
mortgaged homes, weapons that would
better become the hand of Mephisto-
pheles than that of mortal man.
The old Mosaic law, that has stood
the strains and shocks of centuries,
made it a serious crime to charge inter
est on money loaned, and every 80
years a jubilee was proclaimed at
which time all debts were cancelled, all
lands aienated reverted to their former
owners and all slaves received their
freedom.
We boast of our 18th century civili-
cation, our marvellous advancement,
our modern facilities, our wonderful
inventions, but when compared to the
conditions under which the patriarchs
Of Israel existed they become as Dead
sea fruit. Everything now tends to
make man a machine, a slave to the
dictates of custom, fashion and wealth
In this unrelenting war for existence
everything is sacrificed to self advance
ment, our conscience blunted by re-
peAted collisions with heartless compe-
tition, our hearts so hardened, that
looking on the sufferings of others, we
like the Levite and Priest of old, pass
! by on the other side.
Mans inhumanity to man increases
with our fallacious civilization and will
continue to do so until our social con
ditions are so changed that wealth will
no. be the only prize for which the
human family strive.
In the conception and birth of the
| Peoples party, that advocates meas
ures that tend to tighten the burdens
of our toiling, heavy laden masses
Kansas stands in the same light as Be
thelem, that gave to the world Savior
'Tis beginning of an era that will only
end when the whole world is kin, wheI
humanity will be placed upon such {
| footing, which all the pressure thai
avarice and ambition can bring will be
powerIess to overthrow, when wars vii
cease, and man live. as his Creator in
tended, in peace and with good vii
! toward all.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-08-31
BIRD ADD. TO eooDLAND.
LEGAL NOTICE.

Office of the County Treasurer of Sherman
county, Kansas, August I, 1884,: Notice is hereby
given that the following is list of lands and lots for
situated in the county of Sherman and state of
Kansas, sold the 10th day of October, 1891, for
the taxes of 1890, and unredeemed the above
mentioned date containing the name of the per
to whom the same was assessed, whenever
such name appeared the assessment and tax
roll and the amount of tax due each parcel of all
lands lots and interest thereon calculated to and
including the 10th day of January, 1895, and that
unless snch lands and lots are redeemed on or be-
fore the 10th day of January, 1896 that being the
last day of redemption allowed by law, they will be
conveyed to the purchaser. B. F. BROWN,
County Treasurer
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-08-31
IRRIGATION.

Irrigation in Sherman county has
come to stay. That it is practicable
and feasible no one denies, and yet
some depreciate this means of facilitat-
ing agriculture owing to prejudice and
the aversion to new methods. But
twas ever thus The great depth to
water is the main objection and the
stumbling block to the majority who
overlook the fact that there never was
a want that invention genius failed to
fill. When the vast prairies of the west
began to produce cereals in such quani-
ties that the sickle, cradle and fail
proved inadequate, the binder, header,
and steam thresher came from the
workshop of genius and filed the want.
So it will be with the deep well diff
Guilty. When it is seen that western
Kansas must have pump and power
that will lift sufficient water from the
great depths of the earth with which to
irrigate, that pump ard power will be
invented.
No man who has seen what can be
done on these prairies with irrigation,
doubts that it will be a success in the
fullest sence of the word. Already
Sherman county is being dotted with
these miniature lakes, that will not only
be useful, but ornamental as well.
These brown, sun-scorched plains
will soon be thing of the past and in
their stead we will see the green alfalfa
fields, the orchards, the gardens, the
lawns for which we have so often
sighed. When the Maker of all things
commanded that these plains should
be, he certainly did not intend them
only as the home of the coyote and
prairie dog. He endowed them with an
ocean of water, clear and sparkling, be-
meath, and left to man the solving of
the problem of securing necessary
moisture and in Irrigation man has
solved it.
Look into the future decade. See
land emboWe-ed in the shade of
countless fruit, forest and ornamental
trees, seq the vines and vegetables free
ly bestowed by nature in her bounty,
see the meadows dotted with the graz
ing klnes look upon the cottages nest
ling among the trees, painted in colors
of every shade. look upon the granaries
bursting with plenty, see the evidences
of prosperity on every hand.
This is the picture Of Sherman coun-
ty in 1904 What are you going to do
to help make this Imaginary picture a
reality? What are you going to do to
help make these prairEes, bleak and
bare, the ideal country above described?
1t only takes what all an freely give
labor.
In the above time, ali this, and more
is possible, and the once great Ameri-
can desert viii be blooming as desert
never before bloomed., under the infiu-
ence of water and thss master hand of
man.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-08-31

THE Republicans are making howl
about the Populists not running the
lottery fakirs out of the state. There
is not a law on the statute book under
which they could do so. For so years
the Republicans had complete control
of the state administration and in that
time never passed or framed law
looking to the suppression of these
ills. And yet these would-be reformers
are cursing the Populists for this def
cheney. Oh. consistency, thou art in
deed jewel
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-08-31

WE are in the beginning of revolu-
ton that viii strain all existing religi-
ons and political institutions, and test
the wisdom and heroism of earth's
purest and bravest souls. 1t will not
do to say that the revolution is not
coming, or pronounce it of the devil
Revolutions, even in their widest
forms, are the impulses of God moving
in tides of fire through the life of man.
-Rey. George D. Heron.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-08-31

RosEwATER of the Omaha Bee, has
resigned the craftsmanship of the Re
publican national central committee,
and has bolted the Nebraska state Re
publican ticket, owing to the rape of
the Republican party by gang of
boodlers and railroad corruptionists.
He is out in a letter denouncing the
methods employed by the convention
and may support the Populist ticket.