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The Washington times., 1894-04-29
Can 1t Be stopped?
WASHINGTON, D. c., April %, Il

WASHINGTON, ID. C., April % 1893
To THE EDITOR Or The TINES:
The census of 1870 gives the United States total
population of about SS,OOO,0OO; in 1894, about o.
0O0,OOO. According to this We have nearly doubled
our population in twenty-four years The rapid
rate at which we are growing is wonderful and
the number of unemployed seems to be increas-
ing, too. In late years the immi grafton TO our
shores has reached enormous proportions In
the year 1882 about 100000 emigrants landed On
our shores. This is the largest number, accord
ing to statistics, in any one year, and hundreds
OF thousands arrive every year In 1892 about
a terrible condition, and If this flow of immigra-
tion is not checked there is no telling what will
happen. From 1870 to 1893, inclusive, about 16.-
O000O0 people came into the United States from
foreign countries.
While so many unemployed are among US it
would be good idea to check or resist this great
influx, and the sooner this matter is attended to
foreigners from coming here because we are un-
friendly to them. Not at all They good
people But for their own werlfare and our well
iare and the welfare of the whole country we
should forbid any additions TO our already large
army of unemployed. No doubt many of these
people are misinformed. The steamship com
panes make money by bringing them over. In
many Instances, am told, people spend their
little money to get to this country, thinking that
work is plentiful and wages good. When they
GET mere they find they have been misinformed.
The agents for steamship companies only wanted
their passage money. Can no law be enacted to
prevent these outrages on poor foreigners? No
steamship companies is held by the lawmakers
themselSes and it is part of their business TO re-
neve the indigent passengers that come over in
tnelr Vessels or carry them back free G.
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Bankers Association issued on March 12, 1893, to
the presidents Of the national banks, and must
say that i think the squirt-guns OF ridicule or
the search-light of warning, or something else,
should be turned upon the Bankers Associa-
ton.
While Mr. Coxey proposes that Congress shall
authorize the issue OF s500,OO0,OOO of Treasury
notes to be used in improving the roads through
out the country, paying laborers not less than
81. 80 per day Of eight hours the bankers circu-
lar proposes TO force the government to issue
$500, 600 worth of new bonds, as basis OF
circulation and a method of keeping national
banks in existence. According to the banking
law, as understand it, 90 per cent. OF that sum
would be given to the bankers to loan TO the rest
of the people at good rate of interest
1t strikes me that, Of the two plans, the Bank
ers. Association plan is a hundred times the most
chimerical, dangerous, and wildcat In It's pro-
pOsals 1t is also the most unjust, for IL proposes
to put the money into the hands OF the few who
need it least and who want 1t only TO put 1t out
at interest, whereas Coxey proposes to have 1t
paid directly to men SO poor that they are glad
to work for 81 80 e day. One needs not TO be
''Coxeyite" to determine which is the most manly
proposition of the two. In conclusion, wish to
say ! am neither q Coxeyite, Populist, or an
archist T. c. PALMER.
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Coxey's Opportunity.

To the Editor OF lHE TINES:
If Citizen Coxey should march his procession
down Pennsylvania avenue to the Peace monu-
ment and halt long enough for his ideas to
advance towards the Capitol until halted and
then return TO his command for the purpose of
marching, making the same demonstration on
the south, east, and north before returning to
the west side of the Capitol, when he might halt
with his ..army" headed for the west long enough
to declare that henceforth he appealed TO the
people to retire every member of the present
House of Representative and Senate of the
United States who was not recorded in favor of
hearing Coxeys army and doing what the people
wantod done
This would make the plutocrats turn pale
der their gills, for such an unusual prescription
of public traitors not public agents would startle
the country and return a Congress next March
that would impeach and arraign many men who
defy the laws now on the statute books of this
republic.
The return of Coxey to Ohio under such cir
cumstances would cause the people TO hail him
as the friend of peace, plenty, and prosperity.
The idea is out now. What will he do with 1t!
Very respectfully, JAMES SELDOM COwDoN
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BORN
MARRIED.
DIED.

ANGERMANN-On Thursday April &c, 1894, at
5 o'clock n m, DORoTHEA, beloved wife OF John
Angermaun, aged - years.
Funeral from her late residence, Morrison
street northwest, on Sunday, April %, at o'clock
p. IN. Funeral strictly private please omit
fiowers)
BRESLAUER-On Thursday, April &c, 1894, BA-
BETTE BRESLAUEB, aged So years
Funeral this morning at 8 o'clock from late
residence, 32 street northwest. Interment at
Baltimore, Md Baltimore papers please copy.)
BRoOKS-The remains of Mrs JANE BROOKS
mother of Mrs. Francis A. Severson, viii be re-
moved from the receiving vault and buried in
Harmony cemetery at 10 o'clock m, on
Tuesday, May /. 1924.
BURNS-On Tuesday, April &c. 1894, II a. m Mr.
THOMAS j. BURNS died suddenly at Providence
Hospital
COX-In Pittsburg, Pa, on April %, 1884, after
short illness, PATRICK Cox, native of
County Kerry, Ireland, aged 10 years.
Funeral will take place this afternoon at
O'Clock sharp, from the residence of his sister,
Mrs. Mary Connor S02S Seventh street northwest.
Relatives and friends respectfully invited to at
tend.
CRIDDLE-In loving remembrance of MANRryA
W. beloved wife of Fletcher Criddle and be-
loved daughter of NJ W. Tucker died April "a,
1894, at LBS a. M, in the 3ith year of her age.
DOUGLAS-On April q, 1894, at 10 a. m AUGUST
DOUGLAS in the Goth year of his age.
Funeral service this evening, at Gas, at lis
late residence. 1850 Twenty-fifth street. Friends
are invited to attend. Interinent at Baltimore
Monday morning. Friends kindly omit flowers
MORGAN-On April 26, 1894, L. VIRGINIA, wife of
j. I. Morgan, at 1919 Vermont avenue north
west
Funeral at p IN. to-day from Hamline NJ f.
church, corner Ninth and streets northwest
Friends and relatives invited. maryland papers
please copy.)
SwIFT-On Friday, April e. 1894, at 10 o'clock
p. m, of paralysis, Miss f. K SWIFT, of the
Treasury Department
Burial at jamestown, n Y. Brief service this
evening at o'clock, at her late residence, 1923
II street northwest
TWINE-On April q, 1894, at 10 p. m, WILLIAM
\. TwINE, aged 80 years
WAYNE-Departed this life Friday, April ~,
1894, DANIEL T. WAYNE, the husband of Eliza
beth Wayne and son of Mary j. Wayne and the
late Lewis Wayne.
Funeral from 3l5 East Capitol street, Monday,
April 80, at p. III.
WEBER-On Wednesday, April %, 1891, at II
p. m, HENRY G. WEBER, beloved husband of
Louisa 5. Weber, aged q years and 5 months.
Funeral from his late residence, 466 x street
northwest. today, at 9 O'Clock p. III.
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recollection is that but three persons, viz, Col
H. B. Mexican and Messrs W. Z. Stevens and NJ
K Schaffer, refused TO sign It. None OF these
all have been promoted Col Mexican was pro-
NOTED from clerk of class (s1, 200 per annum,
to clerk OF class ($l, 900 per annum) on July y
1898. Mr. Stevens was promoted from a clerk OF
class to principal examiner $1,000 Septem-
ber IL, 1894, and MIR. Schaffer was detailed 70
field work at an increase OF pay OF over *i'Vo
April 25, 1894. j. M. MCCOY.
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When Coxcy's Army Comes.

To the Editor of THE TINES:
Two recent items in the city papers have
attracted my attention.
One states that the government refuses to
think of issuing rations to Coxey's army, and
the other says that the Capitol restaurant has
hung up sign that it will hereafter furnish
food (and cold teaDonly to members Of Congress,
and that it has done SO for fear Coxey's army
want TO eat there.
Now, Mr.. Editor, l wish TO suggest that these
people need not fear, for
When Coxey's army comes
And everybody runs
Then THE TINES and j,
Will feed them on pi,
And kill them with our puns
/ am not Coxeyite; that is to say, / do not
think that the method adopted by Messrs Coxey
and Browne to accomplish what they wish 10
bring about is going TO be a successful one, nor
do think 1t the best method
Coercion, or the semblance of Ii. should not be
tried until after the ballot has failed to accom-
plIsh the desired results think il is the duty
of the government to furnish these men with
provender rather than let the residents of the
District who are not responsible for their COM
ing do it But If the government is too stingy
to feed them, am one OF those who are willing
to do what can be done to keep the poor fellows
from being hungry for two or three days at
least.
Judging from the enthusiastic hundreds who
crowded Kechabite hall Saturday night, and the
disappointed hundreds who could not even get
into the stairway, there must be few thousand
people in this city who feel as sympathetic as l
do II would seem that there is nothing danger
Gus in 1.-THE personnel Of Mr.. Coxeys immediate
followers since he permits no one to Join his
force unless he is naturai-born or naturalized
citizen and carries no weapon.
Some papers have ridiculed Coxeys "good
roads" plan Yesterday had before me and
compared carefully Coxey's GOOD Roads" bill
and the private circular which the National
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Justice for Mr.. Bell.

TO the Eultor OF IHE ZINES:
see it stated in your paper of this date that
prior to the appointment of Mr.. II. c. Bell
as Deputy Commissioner of Pensions, in March,
1893. paper was circulated through the PEN
sion Onice for signatures of clerks recommend
ing Mr. Bells appointment; that some persons
destined to sign it for sundry reasons. and thar
those persons have since been Unfortunate
many Of them having been reduced in salary
Such publication does Mr.. Bell Injustice and
desire TO say that had good deal TO do with
the circulation Of the petition alluded to- and
tHat it was presented TO Democrats only. Ny
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This Settles the Tariff Question.

Sugar free. Free sugar With one dollar s
worth of our famous A. q p. Teas, Coffees Bak-
ing Powder, Spices, Flavoring Extracts, or Con-
densed Milk we give you free two pounds best
Granulated Sugar Special for three days only.
The Grea, Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company,
sol and SOB 1th ST. 1870 18th St, l04 NJ st NV, Sl5
II st ne Stands in all the markets (Telephone
call, s4Sl n. Ii. BOWMAN, Manager for d. c.
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sPIRITUALIsM.

DROGREsSIvE SPIRITUALIST CHURCH.
/ Regular services this evening at g. Mr. J. A.
Collins. formerly editor of the National Econo-
mist will give course Of three lectures upon
1.-The Elements of Danger in our Civilization. !"
Subject tonight: 1.-THE Evolution of Civilizations;
Origin and Development of the Dangerous Fac
tors" Mrs. Whitman and Mrs. ButterwOrth will
give tests of spirit presence after the lecture.
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Marked Down Two Sizes

! 81 don't see why your So ladies' shoes sell
so much faster than mine. They aren't half
80 good" 'Thats true, but marked mine
down two sizes. s."-Harper's Bazar.
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COAL AND WOOD.

Dealer in
Coal and Wood, Lime, Cement, Plaster, Hair
Slate, and General Building Supplies,
Coz. Massachusetts Ave. and ST.. n, E..
Coal Yard: Fourth and Streets, N E
WASHINGTON, d. c. apy7-lm
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Coxcyphobia.

MANCHESTER, England.
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Some Suggestions As to How the Silve
Question Might be Settled.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1894-01-05

A special meeting OF the board o.
trustees was held on tho 23rd of DE,
ccmbcr to investigate the charges re-
Gently brought against Tho manage
ment by mayor Chiles, OF jackson, and
others. After hearing a great deal ol
testimony the board adopted tho fol
lowing resolutions, which were sigued
by every member, including governor
Stone:
Whereas, certain charges have been
preferred against the management oi
the Institute for the Blind, and the
board of trustees having made a full
fair, impartial aud thorough invcsliga-
tion into the same, aud after q patient
hearing of all the evidence, fully cx-
onerated the superintendent aud
matron of the Institution from all
blame, aud
Whereas, L. F. ChiIcs, mayor OF
jackson, persists in gross attacks up
on the superintendent and the instiiu-
ton, which are unjust and unwarrant-
ed. therefore
Resolved, that II Is tho sense Of this
board, after q careful investigation,
that the Institute for the Blind Is prop
erly conducted by DR.. II. Fairly and
those under him, and that the pupils
are provided with proper food, that
they are well taught, properly cared
for and kindly treated; and that The
said attacks OF tho said Chiles are
without foundation In fact.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1894-01-05

The end draws nesr. BY fAtes unseen directed
Our paths diverging tend.
To lives monotonous the unexpected
Comes as a friend.
While for moment Joyous smiles Of meeting
The gathering shades dispel,
.Ave Ell Vale y 10 the ancient greetings
Hail and Farewell
A moment more And sadness follows after,
Iu bursts OF kean regret
That put 10 silence all the happy laughter
Wherewith we met.
The past Is dead, the present Fwiftly fading,
And In the future dwell
Hopes faint aud few, our longing glance eyad
ing.
Hail and Farewell
The time has comeI Mid alien scenes and faces
Our lesseniuE lives must lie,
And pass Observation-Disclosures solitary places
Beneath a stormy sky.
Clasp hands, old friend Against our best en-.
deavOr
The tides Of memory swell
Part we ~ those who part indeed forever,
Hail and Farewell
-AH Me Year Round.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1894-01-05
whittier on Death and immortality.

In a recent article In the New
York Sun, Charlotte Fiske Bates
publishes extracts from some pri-
vate letters OF Whittier, showing
the aged poets attitude in The Tres-
ence OF death. then not many years
distant. We make brief quota
ton
suppose nine out OF ten really
thoughtful people. were they TO ex-
press their real feeling, would speak
much as thee do, Oh the "mlngled
dread and longing" with which they
look forward TO the inevitable sur.
render Of life. OF course, tempera.
ment and present surroundings have
much influence with us. There are
some self-satisfied souls who, as
Charles Lamb says, "can stalk
into futurity on stilts,u but there
are more Fearings and Derponden-
cys than Greathearts in view Of the
Gloss of all we know" .......
have no longer youth and
strength, and / have not much TO
hope for, rs far as this life is con.
cerned. But | enjoy life: sit is a
pleasant thing to behold the sum-"
| love nature in her varied aspects,
and, as | grow older, find much
to love in my fellow-creatures, and
also more TO pity. 1 have the in
stinct of Immortality, but the con-
ditions OF that life are unknown. /
can not conceive what my own iden-
tilY and that OF dear ones gone be-
fore me will be. And then the un-
escapable sense OF sin in thought
and deed, and doubtless some mis-
conception Of the character of God,
makes the boldest Of us towards.
Dues thee remember the epilaph-
prayer of Martin Elginbrod:
sHere lie /, Martin Elginbrod,
Have pity on my sonl, Lord God,
As / wad do. were Lord God,
An ye were Martin Elginbrod."
think there is a volume Of COM
fort in that verse. We Christians
seem less brave and tranquil in view
Of death than the old Stole snges.
Witness Marcus Antoninus. / won
der if the creed Of Christendom is
really the "glad Lidings Of great joy
to all people" which the angels
sang Of. For me, I believe in God
as Justice, Goodness, Tenderness
in one word, Love and yet my
trust in Him is not strong enough
to overcome my natural shrinking
from the law of death. Even our
Master prayed that that cup might
pass from him ''if it were possible.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1894-01-05

II is thought that much valuable
land in the Delta will not be cult
vated next year for lack of means
to buy supplies. Two or three bad
crops in succession have crippled
the planters and merchants so that
many will have to curtail their op.
erations materially. This may not
be an unmixed evil, for there are
thousands of farmers in the hills
who seldom il ever make as much
per acre as the Delta lands pro.
duced this year, and If planters
would offer low rents many of them
might be induced TO come here to
live where their industrious habits
and thrifty methods would soon
make them independent Bolivar
County Democrat.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1894-01-05
COTTON SEED.

Old citizens say that from 1855 to
1872, cotton seed could easily be
bought for ten cents per bushel.
Cotton was selling then from twen-
ty cents TO thirty cents per ponnd,
now cotton is going from 7 to "a
cents per pound, and cotton seed
from % cents TO 80 cents per bush
oil. Will some ofour learned fTnan-
cial theorists explain how cotton
seed has advanced more than 100
per cent since 1878, the alleged pc
riod of the demonstration of silver.
We volunteer however TO give the
cause, io-wit: Increased demand
for cotton seed.-Winston County
Journal.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1894-01-05

The Mississippi Mills are going
to erect a building and put in ma
chinery for The manufacture Of shod-
dy goods. They are also building
a large stable for the accommoda-
tion OF their teams. The prospect
is good for lively future.
Robert Scott, the new superin-
tendent, has arrived, accompanied
by his wife. He is a man of expe-
rience in the manufacture of cotton
and wooleu goods, having been the
superintendent OF the Washington
Mills at Lawrence, Mass, where he
resided for many years.-Wesson
Mirror.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1894-01-05
The Feeble City Boy.

VIM. K. Nye, speaking of sum-
mer visitors from the city, thus de-
scribes the interesting small boy
who usually accompanies them
They bring with them n small
son, who is a pale, emacialed little
cuss, with a quiet way Of catching
my 3.year-oId heifer by the tail and
soaring the life out of her that is far
beyond his years. His mother
thinks he will not live, mayhap, 10
grow up, and hope she may not DO
disappointed. Still he has a good
appetite, and one day last summer,
besides his meals, he ate:
One pocketful green apples (pip-
pins).
One pockeiful green apples (Bcu
Davis).
Three large stems rhubarb.
One hatful green gooseberries.
Two ginger cookies, without holes.
Two ginger cookies, with holes.
One adult cucumber, with salt on
same.
One glass new milk.
Two uncooked hen eggs, on hall
shell.
laid of ali that day from haying
in order TO follow the little rascal
around with a lead pencil and
piece of paper and see how much
he would eat. That evening I
thought what beautiful night he
had selected for his death, the moon
slipping in and out through frothy,
fieece-lined clouds. l had n slow
horse concealed behind the barn,
with which | intended going Tor the
doctor. 1t was horse with which
I had failed 10 get The doctor IN
time on similar occasion, and
felt that he could be relied on now.
Night settled down on the rip
roaring Piscataquis and deepened
the shadows at the base OF Russell
Mountain. The spruce gum tree Of
the Moosehead Lake Region laid
aside lis work for The day and the
common warty toad of the Pine Tree
state began To initiate his person
with the bugs OF evening, now and
then lighting up bis interior with "a
lightning bug. Ii was a glorious
evening that little Henry had Sc
lected and set aside for his death.
But he was really the only one who
slept we'll in our house that night,
and seemed TO wake up thoroughly
refreshed. He Is still alive as /
write, and is coming down here in
July emptier than ever.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1894-01-05

The Commercial Herald has this
to say of a thriving settlement
oil Italians near Friar's Point, Goa
homa county:
"The colony comprises ten or a
dozen families, who are now culti-
vaGing 200 acres of land on Chas.
Sessions plantation and have lately
cleared 200 acres more. The first
members were brought from Mem
phis 40 cotton pickers, thirteen
years ago. They liked the country
and The work, and remained a. la
borers or tenants, gradually induc-
ing their friends to join them. Since
then they have done very we'll and
besides paying their obligations
promptly have accumulated proper.
ty. They are spoken Of as indeiatl-
rabIy industrious, we'll adapted to
the climate and personally agreea-
BILE to those around them. Already
planters are regarding people Of
their nationality A. highly desirable
tenants"
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1894-01-05

Last Saturday evening the gov
ernor dispatched a messenger to
the penitentiary with pardons for
seven convicts. They were Reuben
Leonard, James Robertson, Dodd
Simmons, Martin Moak, Rowan
Noak and Alex Reeves of Lincoln,
and James B. Tison, of Copiah coun
ty, all OF whom were convicted and
sentenced last summer on a charge
of whitecapping.
The governor came to the con-
clusion they had been sufficiently
punished and has permitted them
10 return to the bosom of their fam
lilies Clarion-Ledger, Dec. 27th.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1894-01-05

The following 10 an essay In the
Mayfeld Monitor by one of the
towns precocious youngstersi
"Any girl that will lei one boy
kiss her will let any other one that
wants to. So with a drunkard--
after he takes his first drink he ID
sure to take his second. The other
day there were two people about Ia
or ID years of age; they were what
people call sweeIhearts, and were
having nice time until the boy in
truded on her bliss by asking her In
let him kiss her. She consented,
and to-day any boy that wants to
can kiss her. Girls, don't let any
boy kiss you. fmy girl would lei
me kiss her / would not have heT
any more" A Boy.
Louisville Courier Journal.
The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1894-01-05
Initiated Sam Jones.

A Birmingham dispatch saws that
when Rev. sam Jones was carrying on
revival meetings there last month, he
often addressed bis hearers as @you
dirty yellow hounds,n ayou imps oil
hell" etc, according TO his usual style.
Parson Isaac Davidson, who pre-
sides over a small negro church few
miles from there, was a regular attend
ant at the meetings. lie was n great
admircr of the licv. Mr.. Joncs's style
and decided 10 cultivate IL. Accord
ingly last Sunday he treated his con-
gregation TO q new kind of preaching,
which was in strong contrast to his
former meek aud lowly talk.
@You black deYilsl You Imps OF
hell You oil SOW caisp he began.
"Kfll him 7" shouted q big black
brother, who sat near The front and TO
whom the preacher appeared to adj
dress bis remarks.
9Kili hIm r was echoed through the
congregation.
The good old sisters joined in the
cry, and soon the congregation was
upon him. Finally some charitable
person suggested he was crazy aud the
parsons wife endorsed this assertion.
lie was secured and watched like a
maniac. lIe explained that he was
trying Sam Joncs's tactics on his con-
grcgaliou, but they, not having heard
that exhorter, could not bo convinced
that these methods were customary,
and had the parson arrested for using
acuss words" In the pulpit. lie has
not as yet had his trial.-N. Y. Sun.