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protection exposed, let them get Re-
publicans to make their speeches or
go back to the wallow of protection
robbery. 1t is time to talk politics.
We have been temperance society
long enough. The Populist party is
five years old and five times as strong
as we are, simply because they SYM
pathize with the robbed and wrong
ed. We have been coddling the
churches because they gave us nice
sounding resolutions on the liquor
traffic: at cannot be legalized
without sin - and not church Or
ganization in the United States, nor
a Christian Endeavor society, Ep-
worth league or Baptist union votes
the Prohibition ticket with the OK
ception of two Prohibition churches,
the Free Methodists and the Saliva
tion Army. We have been beguied
by pretty resolutions. We have been
fooled in prayers against the saloon
keeper. The saloon.keeper is no
worse than the saloon voter. Let us
have politics next, and plenty of it.
If we don't, we had better be hung
up and dried, for we are too green to
burn. We must do something, and
do it politically. Everybody knows
we are in favor of suppressing the
saloon, but nobody knows we are
against the robber tariff, the gold
barons, the monopoiists, combines,
and in favor of full legal tender mon
ey, whatever made of; of taxation
upon what one has, not on what he
has to get. Let us next be political
for the whole platform. What do
you say d? Nj. V. B. BENNETT.
Columbus, Kas.
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THE HOOSIER BLADE

After running six months and at.
tanning a circulation of 10, 900 copies.
has Just moved South with the Co.
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and will soon appear as
THE GRANDER AGE.
1t has bought fine steam outfit
and will be printed four pages, sew
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one of the most aggressive reform
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ner w. Rose, its editor, has been in
the fight for better conditions for
more than IL years. He knows
how to throw hot shot into the
ranks of the enemy, and will do il
in every issue of Tie Grander Age
The paper will advocate Justice to
Labor and Agriculture and the Rule
of the People through the Initiative
Referendum and Imperative Man.
date, and will strongly advocate
union of all reform forces for the
battle of 1896. Readers of this pa.
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Should Let Bankers FIX 1t.

ST. PAUL, MINI, Dec. 25.-"There
is not word of truth in it," said
President j. j. Hill, this morning,
in reply to statement made in
Washington dispatch that there
would be a conference this week
between President Cleveland and
j. j. Hill and other financiers OF the
country to consider the new substi-
tute currency bill.
III was not interviewed in New
York" continued Mr.. Hill, "neither
was l in Washington, and was not
in the conference of June, 1898,
when it was decided to call the ex.
ira session. As far as the effect on
the country is concerned, l think
the administration has done all the
harm it is capable of doing. The
public must look for relief from an
other quarter.
"The present want of harmony in
the majority in congress makes it
impossible for any good legislation
to come from this congress. The
best relief they can give the coun-
try is to adjourn and go home.
There has not been day in six
wears that can remember but that
the greatest fear has been of some
stupid action on the part of con-
gress.
"They should appoint commits
sion of some twenty.one members
from among the bankers of the
country, the political economists
and the business men, to investl-
gate the whole situation and prepare
some financial system, and when
that has been done, let congresa go
to work and pass the bill.
"Not one of those men now at
the head of affairs could go out and
make a good living not one could
command a salary of $4,000 a year
from any large commercial house,
and these are the men that are try.
ing to adjust our financial affairs"
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Lone Elm Items.

Saturday was busy day with
the merchants in Lone Elm. S. e.
Babcock did rushing business all
day.
R. R. Anterior and wife, of Yer
mont, Ills, are visiting with their
daughter, Mrs. G. H. Nichols.
d, T. Smith has had his house
raised, and o. B. Gordon is plaster
ing it.
Miss Emma Clark, who taught
the Lone Elm school last winter, is
at present training the young ideas
OF Oxford school.
There was an educational enter
tainment at the school house in Lone
Elm Saturday night.
Grandpa Hester is visiting in
Franklin County.
Miss Bessie Jones, of Colony,
came over, Saturday, for her sister
Carrie. ~.
Mrs. S. G. Lowman, of Equity,
spent last Friday with Mrs. @. ".
Nichols.
Miss Ollie Jones, of Colony, came
over to spend Christmas with Lone
Elm friends.
The Xmas entertainment at the
Presbyterian Church passed off very
pleasantly. The exercises consisted
of singing and Rotations, and a
tree was loaded with presents.
The M. E. church, south of town
also had a Xmas tree and entertain
ment.>
Some parties stole whip, Lantern
and lap robe during services at thu
Presbyterian church, Sunday night
Six persons were brought before thu
justice, Christmas morning. Three
were discharged for want of evidence
against them. The others-twt
brothers by the name of Jones, ant
the third by the name of johnson
and were fined S. each and sent t,
Garnet.
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What You Don't Know About
California

Is told in a beautifully illustrated
and entertaining book entitled ITO
California and Back" Ask G. 7.
Nicholson, G.. p. A, Topeka, Kas.,
tor a copy. 1t is free.
The San Francisco Midwinter
Exposition will attract tourists to
the Pacific coast this winter. Write
to above address for pamphlet de-
scribing the Worlds Fair, Jr. The
unexcelled climate, cheap lands and
sunshiny skies of all California are
attractive every day in the year.
Low rates via the Santa Fe route.
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what Of the Future!

,.,,,,,,;o, Advocate, Baltimore, MD.
What do you think OF the future
Of the Prohibition party movement
and what next is to be done! MY
answer is that if the Prohibition par
tv does not geta move on itself pref
tv soon by getting out OF the DID,
worn ruts of temperance, Its move
mont will not be visible to the naked
owe The truth, Mr.. Editor, is that
we have played the fool long enough.
while n nation has been robbed OF
,,,;r,v.two billions of dollars in the
last thirty years by the most damn
able protection tariff system anu a
moro damnable money system, both
:, the interests of set of free'boot-
ers upon the product of labor ana
bv a studied sytem of grabbing 'no
result Of the toll of millions by mon
opolistic greed, by extravagan' rates
Of transportation, by gigantic COM
h;res and trusts erected by laws IN
the interests of capital, the Prohibl'
ton party has been standing on r., ,''
,;n.toes. and every voice, from The
Voice down to the smallest weekly
has been yelling, down with 'he
saloons ro "Drive out the saloon
keeper p "Despise and down the
liquor seller ~ until people have
come to think we know nothing but
to sign the pledge and put ON blue
ribbon.
Now, want to except the new
Era. and The Lever part OF the t''hc'
the New Republic, the Michigan pa
ner the Baltimore Advocate and
some others of sound sense. Ihey
have nobly fought for our platform
"What next ?" Why, let us have
little political sense. If our nation
al platform is right, and we were
honest when we adopted IT, let
ns talk it. am opposed to
nrotectiye tariff; so is our party
am in favor of restoring the
coinage of silver to what IL
was before the Republican party de-
monetized it. | am opposed to com
limos and trusts. | am in favor oI
each dollu. whether OF gold, siiVei
or paper, being a full legal tender
and issued by the government III
sufficient quantities to do tue DUST
ness of the country, as stated IN onl
nlatform. | am in favor of equal sui
frage, of preserving the American
school system-of everything IN ou'
nlatform am in favor of making
the rich pay their share OF taxes
and have no qualms of conscience
about it.
am in favor of keeping out the
criminal and pauper classes IRON
abroad that have heretofore been
dumped on our shores 50 IS ou'
platform, and it is time to say SO 10
our papers.
The whole platform should be dis
cussed everywhere--m the state oil
Pennsylvania as well as in Kansas
and if the papers of Pennsylvania
and the Prohibitionists don't want
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-12-28
IfGrown i'm Texas. It's Good.

The Texas coast country vies
with California in raising pears,
grapes and Strawberries. The 1898
record of ii. M. Stringfellow, Hitch
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worth of pears from l3 acre., can
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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-12-28
A FEEL IN THE CHRISTMAS AIR.

They,s kind O. FEEL in the air, to me,
When the Christmas time sets in,
That's about as much of mystery
AS ever I've ag'in =
Fer instunce now, whilsc gain in weight
And gineral health swear
Tbey's a coNENEss somers can't quite state
kind o. FEEL in the air
Tnev,s a feel in the Christmas dir goes right
To the spot where man LIVES at!-
It gives Teller a. appetite
They amt no doubt about THAT! !
And Wit they's soMEpIN-I don't know what
That follers me- here and there,
And ha'nts and worries and spares me not
kind o. feel in the air!
They's FEEL, as say, in the air that's jest
As blamedon sad as sweet J.
In the same ra sho as feel the best
And am spryest on my feet,
Tbev's allus kind o. sort of a ACHE
That can't locate nowhere :
But it comes with Christmas, and no mistake !
kind o. feel in the air.
Is it the racket the children raise
WV. NO God bless 'em NO!
Ia if the ewes and the cheeks abaze-
Like my own wuz, long ago ?
10 Il the bleat O. the whistle and beat
O, the little toy-drum and bare
q, the horn mo NO 1T is jest the sweet
The sad.sweet feel in the air.
JAMES WHIrcoMB RILE
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-12-28

old Mother Earth is the herb
doctor. Roots, barks and herbs
are whatsT2ur Native herbs" are
comp s1of and we positively
guara "a cure for diseases aris-
ing frol impure blood, or money re-
funded. j. e. HIATT, Garnett, Kas.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-12-28

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THE WHITE HoUsE.-The Populists wi
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Seek ye the roots, barks and
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preserving. Study nature in field
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CToCKwKLL's BAD BOY. Twenty-thres side
. splitting dialogues Laugh and grow fat.
Money, land and transportation In broken doses.
Warranted TO make more Populists 70 the square
inch than anything In print Points for Thinkers
knocks the q. o. p. silly. Government Ownership
OF Railroads paralyHes iem. 10 cents each; the
D-usd, postpaid, for Is cents from this once.
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LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

calleu w eunesuay.
Mrs. Matte Vines Thurston ar
rived from Chicago, Monday, on a
visit to her parents, Geo. Vines and
wife, and her brother Will, and her
sister, Mrs. Sadie Stiles.
Try Blum and Hogue's 15.cent
Lunch. North of the square.
II. G. Hudson, of Washington
township, went to Chase county the
first of the week, to visit his father.
Capt. Mitchell and wife, OF
Greeley, ate Christmas dinner with
their daughters, Mrs. Walter Lati.
mer and Miss Kate Mitchell.
Bring your Knives, Forks and
Spoons to the Garnet Laundry, and
get them plated. A new platter
just put in. o. S.REYNoLDs, Prop'r.
Capt. Geo. A. Smith and his
brother, E. II. Smith, of Ozark
township, paid US pleasant visit,
Saturday, accompanied by Howard
Hester, of Lone Elm township.
Our thanks are due Capt. Geo.
A. Smith and wife, of Ozark town
ship, for fat Christmas turkey.
Under the new management the
Garnett Laundry is prepared to do
more and better work than was ever
done in Garrett. Dye works in
connection.
w. P. Myers moved his family
up from Welda last week.
I'VE wish our readers all a hap.
Ply New Year.
Pretty quiet since the Christ
mas festivities are over.
"A brother of Rev. Vollmar is
up from Columbus, assisting In the
meetings.
The matrimonial market took
quite boom just before the cold
snap set in.
The Garnet Laundry, one door
west of Boyle's Hardware, is doing
as good work as can be obtained in
the state. Call and see us. Salts
faction guaranteed.
o. S. REYNOLDS, PROP.
Rev. VIM, Coleman has been
over from Missouri for several days,
visiting his daughter, Mrs. John
Slonaker.
Miss Emma Swallow arrived
fIem Denver the latter part of last
week, on a visit to her mother.
Colonel Bouck and Jesse Scog-
gins, of Greeley, paid us visit,
Saturday.
Mrs. D. M. Moore was called
to Kansas City the first of the week
by the serious illness of her sister.
-Rolla Wagstaff, Luther Voll-
mar, Chauncy Barber, Frank Stew
art and Paul Kirk are home from
Lexington, Mo-, for the vacation.
"A very distressing accident
happened to a son of Fl. T. Hill, OF
Welda, on the evening of the 2lst.
From what we learn, the lad was
riding horse somewhat rapidly
when the horse stumbled and fell,
either falling on the lad or pitching
him with such violence as to pro-
duce consciousness. The injury
is supposed to be conclusion OF the
brain. We extend sympathy and
hope for speedy recovery.
John Falls, one of Putnam
townships most enthusiastic Popu-
lists, called on us, Saturday.
Oxford school gave an enter
tainment on the evening of the 2lst
which was very creditable to both
teacher and pupils. The teacher,
Miss Emma Clark, possesses, in a
large degree, the faculty of devel'
oping all that is good in her pupils,
as her success fully demonstrates.
A small admittance was charged for
the purpose of procuring an ency-
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EStey, Camp g. Co. Pianos
and Organs.

EsTEY ORGANS are made upon honor and
sold upon merit, known the world over, I'M
equalled in tone. At my residence, east
Fourth avenue.
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No. paying store rent, give my customers the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-12-22

he is like you, too, Molly-like you
locked when Tom end drew straws to see
wtiA of us should speak first" She looked
up quickly. Didn't he ever tell you? Well
you see, / made him promise he wouldn't
when 1 found he was ne lucky one; but,
have"
He bent forward over the child again,
kissed the sleepy little mouth, then laying
him i'm his mothers arms, said quietly:
Molly, 1 will be a father to them all IL
you will let ME, and rave loved you all
your life"
Miss Molly, Nanny says can't yer
come thar jest a mint, please; she wants
yer in the dining room Jest mint"
Take him, Dick won't your she said.
as she rose, giving the child tc The Cap
tain.
For my own sonT'
Don't urge me now; let me think"
He sat with the child on his lap for a
while. Then, as Molly did not return, and
burst of laughter from the ball room re-
minded him of his duties, he rose. laid the
boy on the bed and went out to his guests
again.
They were beginning to leave. Molly
was saying farewell to some Of them at
the door as he Joined her. BY the time the
last one had gone the streak Of gray over
the mountains had broadened almost to
the zenith; the Captain turned to her and
said, as they watched the growing lightI
We'll, Molly. my party wasn't so bad
after ALL was it?''
ut was great success and think you
were right to do Il. find we need mirth
sometimes, almost as much as We need
prayer"
was II a success for me? See the New
Year is breaking on the world with the
new day. Shall new and happier day
dawn for me, too?"
Miss Molly, little Toms awake, and he's
a crying for you"
AS she caugh. up the child he folded
both of them in his arms. "a happy New
Year to you, my DEAR" he said.
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WHY THE GIRLS LAUGHED.
At q Wedding the Bridegroom Sets
His Trousers on Fire.

Al u w euuIhS DHAuee AoO'~~ 49,"
His Trousers ON Fire.
From the New York Herald.
All the girls in Jacksonville, Mich, have
been trying to catch Adrian Van der Slouis
for long time. Today they are all laugh
ing at him.
A fair maid of Jamestown, ottawa coun-
ty, won him, and they were married last
night. After the blushing bride had re-
ceived the congratulations of her friends
she, leaning on the bridegroom's arm, led
the way to supper. The bridal cake was
a beautiful thing covered with a thick
layer Of soft sugar and chocolate.
The cake had been too tempting for the
brides little sister, She had helped her
self to a quarter section Of it, but, being
unable to eat 1t before the wedding COM
pany went into supper. had hidden it I'M
der the table on a chair. That was the
chair on which Adrian Van der Slouis sat,
and Adrian Van der Slouis wore fine laven-
der trousers. He did not know that the
cake lurked there.
When he arose from the wedding feast
ard led the way out of the room the
guests began to laugh. The bride, a
woman of nerve and quick perception,
hurried Adrian and his lavender trousers
into another room. Then with a sponge
5he applied gasoline where 1t would do
the most good and soon all evidences Of
the chocolate were removed.
Then the happy couple returned to their
guests. But Adrian was Ill at ease Bash
full at best he was damp with perspira-
ton and gasoline. He felt he must do
something to distract attention from him
self. So he passed around a box of fine
cigars. All the men took one and lighted
them.
Then Adrian Van der Slouis took one
bit off the end and put the cigar between
his lips. Then he took a redheaded sui
phur match and scratched it on his Law
ender trousers There was a puff, blaze,
a yell of agony.
I'm afire!' cried Adrian, clutching his
coat tails.
By way of rendering the prcmptest as
sistance all the young women shrieked.
One man seized the water pitcher, an
other ran to the well. Only the bride
kept her wits about her. She grabbed up
a hairy mat and put out the incipient con-
Migration.
Adrian's trousers are ruined and he ate
his breakfast today from the mantel. But
worst of all, the girls who tried to win
him are laughing at him.