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Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-09-19
Philanthropy at Small Cost.

Friend-Say. old boy. how in the
world did you. with your small income.
get such reputation as a great philan-
thropist?
Sharpp-I announced far and wide
that I would pay the railroad fares of
all the unemployed who wished to go
to work on farms.
"Well?'
well. total expense. SO far. 10 cents" :"
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-09-19
A Bargain in q Farm.

An improved 1G0, 81 miles
northwest of town is offered at
$22.5O per acre. 1t has a 130-acre
water right. OF the $50 acres in
cultivation, GO are in alfalfa. Call
at ENTERPRISE Office, 1917
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-09-19
X. p, Netice.

All members OF Knights of Pythias
lodge are requested to meet at Odd Eel
lows hall, Rocky Ford, Monday even
ing, Sept. %, for the purpose of organ
izinp n lodDe
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-09-19

Alta meeting Of the directors held
last Friday, the Rocky Ford Ditch Co.
levied an assessment OF 81 per share to
meet tho expenses of repairs.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-09-19
Last Annnst wh.

Last August, while working in the
harvest field, became overheated, was
suddenly attacked with cramps and was
nearly dead. Mr.. Cummings, the drug
gist. gave mo a dose OF Chamberlain s
Collie, Cholera, and Diarrh9a Remedy
which completely relieved me. now
keep a bottle of the remedy handy. A.
NJ. Bunnell, Centerville, Wash. For
sale by DR.. E. W. Kearby, druggist.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-09-19

Ono Of Rocky Ford's staple Injuries
gets its name from being originally pro
duced at Cantaloup, the garden Of the
Pope, near Rome.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-09-19
DON'T READ THIS.

Unless you wish to know that Beggs'
.Diarrhea Balsam is the best medicine on
earth for Summer Complaint. Never
fails. Cures every time. Equally good
for children. Sold and warranted by
DR.. Kearby.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-09-19

Thanks to j. @. Kahn for basket of
mixed fruits in which was six varieties of
fine grapes and some very toothsome
Dltrna
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-09-19

Another business change: d. H.
Nealy has purchased the W. P. Noe iv-
cry stable and is now in charge. We
wish him success in his new line Of bust
ness activity,
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-09-19

On Watermelon Day Mayor Graceys
house was entered and his watch stolen.
The thief evidently knew just what he
wanted as nothing else was taken.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-09-19
FOWLER.

FOWLER CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Preaching Services every Sunday at IL u. III.
Sunday School at 10 a. m.
Prayer Meeting and Song Sc rvice Thursdays
7:30p IL.
Rev F. N. MOBLEY. Pastor.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-09-19

-Musser's Price List makes q
reduction on Flour this week.
Read entire list,
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-09-19

w. p. Noe is now farmer, having
purchased the J. H. Nealy place west OF
town. But being Of trading disposi.
tion he is not expected to stick to rural
work very long,
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-09-19
Muls's Remarkable Memory.

mule was driven. from Columbus,
KY. to Texas two years ago. The other
day he was taken back to his old home.
He was SO overjoyed at his reeurn that
he visited all his old haunts and his
merry songs kept the people awake all
night. The folks want to know when
the mule Is going to Texas again.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-09-19
ORDWAY.
oRDwAY CHURCH DIRECTORY.

Preaching 10 30 q. m.
Sunday School II 80 a. m.
Epworth League 1880 p. m.
Preaching 500 p. IN.
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening 500.
III. KEArOR, Pastor.
Ordway FREQ Reading Room, in Lecture
Room OF NJ. E. Church, is open every evening
from to O'Clock and on Sundays from 2:a
to $3.50 p. m. Daily and weekly papers and
leading magazines on file. Everybody vel
come.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-09-19
Beggs' German Salve.
Beggs' German Salve.
BeQps' German Salye.

The greatest pile ointment in the
world. 1t cures where all others fail A
positive guarantee with every boz. Call
for sample box. Sold by your popular
druggist, DIR. Kearby.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-09-19
mon next Sunday morning will be "Christ
Crowned"

The ladies will give a social in the
church at Nepesta Friday evening, Sept.
20. Ice cream and peach es will be served
in abundance. All are cordially invited.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-09-19

The Rocky Ford Mercantile Co. on
Tuesday received a car load Of wagons
and buggies.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-09-19

Look at the north window of
the Golden Rule.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-09-19
LEGAL
BLANKS "
for sale at
Enterprise Office:

The following Legal Blanks are kept
tor sale nt the ESTERPRIsR office, and will,
be sent per mail prepaid on receipt Of
price named:
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-09-19

Lamar pumps excellent artesian wa
ter which seems to be in abundant sup
ply, but rises only to within 80 foot Of
the surface. 1t is proposed to pump the
water into the city's mains.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-09-19

The topic for Rev. F. M. Mobley's ser
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-09-19

oLNEY CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Sunday School in the school house every
Sunday at 2 o'clock p. m.
Preaching Immediately after Sunday School
every weeks, by Rev. W. z. Perry OF, Catlin
at 3, p. m.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-09-19

Brown, the Tailor, is of jury dut
and ready for business.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-02-22
The Governments Revenues.
Lltrom The New York Sun

The treasury figures furnished to the
Senate by Secretary Carlisle show the rev.
enues Of the government, during the year
1894, to have been S131 100000 from Gus
toms and S15G,000,0 600 from internal rev.
enue taxation. The United States, in
other words, is now, and has been durin g
a portion of the year 1898 and all the year
1894, paying its running expenses, and
meeting its obligations more largely from
the proceeds of internal revenue taxation
than from the proceeds of customs levied
on foreign importations
Alexander Hamilton, the first secretary
Of the treasury, was appointed on Sept. II, q,
l7S9 From that time until the year 1913,
when Robert J. Walker was in office, the
chief source of revenue to the governmen
of the United States was customs duties.
From 1S4S until 1862 there was no govern
ment revenue from what jefferson once
described as an internal tax. The extraordi-
nary and necessarily unforeseen burdens
imposed upon the Federal government for
the prosecution of the Civil war, led natu-
rally to an extension of internal revenue
taxes, at time when the volume of foreign
imports was steadily diminishing, and the
gross proceeds from this source could be
kept up only by an increase in the tariff
rates as established by the Morrill, bill. In
the year 1864, for the first time in the his
tory of the United States as a nation, the
revenues from the internal taxes exceeded
the proceeds of customs. These were the
figures: Customs, $50, 100000; internal
revenue, S2O9, O,OOO This disparity con-
tinued without variance until 1869, when
the requirements of the treasury for war,
naval, and interest payments being no
longer unusual, the internal revenue taxes
were reduced and customs again became
the chief item of revenue and so continued
until March !, 1898. In 1890 1929, ,000,-
600 was collected from customs and S142,-
0OO,00 from internal revenue.
The Democratic national convention of
1884 adopted this declaration of unvarying
party faith as a part of its platform:
From the foundation of this govern
ment taxes collected at the custom house
have been the chief source of Federal rev
enue. Such they must continue to be-"
Such, it appears from the report of a
Democratic secretary of the treasury, they
have now ceased to be, and for two reasons !:
Because a Democratic Congress has reduced
the customs duties below the internal rev.
enue taxes in a time of peace; and because
a Democratic Congress, with scant regard
for Democratic principles, policies and ira
ditions and pledges, has not only retained
all the existing internal revenue taxes, but
has added to them the odious and :ndefen-
Sible income TAX further to increase the
disparity.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-02-22
Then and Now.

The London Engineer, leading journal
in its class, talks 'plain English about
the situation in which the prospect of
American competition places the Welsh
tin-plate industry. In recent issue it
says:
"a noteworthy policy is now being advo-
Gated in Wales. Nothing less, in short,
than a short life and a merry one for the
tin-plate trade. Certain manufacturers,
and very many of the men, have ar
rived at the conclusion that the United
States is going to make in the near future
for itself all the tin.plate it needs; that
is to say, 70 per cent of the total out
put of the 53l mills in the Principally.
That as a result the Welsh tin-pate trade
will become extinct, and that under the
circumstances the best course to pursue is
to raise the price of tin-plate Is. or Is. a
box to make in this way great profit
and carry away legacy left by the dying
industry"
The idea of thus giving up this industry
the Engineer regards as absurd, "yet the
surprising character of the proposition
startles us into the doubt that there is
something behind it, and that those who
put it forward are in no sense towards, but
men wise in their generation and resolved
to make the best of a bad case" What
the Engineer considers should be done is
to take drastic measures to hold the fort
and give the American manufacturers
death-bow. In the first place the market
should be steaded by agreeing on a uni
form scale of prices to be charged, and
then
"The whole position should be recon-
sidered-not on a small scale or in a mar
row-minded way, but very broadly; and a
definite figure should be arrived at as rep
resenting the price at which plates can be
made, leaving a fair but not excessive
profit, and that price should be such as to
Kill American competition if possible, even
if it did net represent any profit at all
The representatives of the men should
meet the masters, and by discussion arrive
at definite conclusion. The question for
consideration is terribly simple. Is the
manufacture of tin-plate in Wales to be
abandoned OF continued? To answer this
it is essential that the true nature of the
United States competition should be known
by master and men alike. If it is deter
mined that it is to be abandoned by the eX-
isting owners, we may rest assured that
others, younger and more enterprising, will
take it up and continue it-prObably on a
smaller scale, and under different conditions
as to wages and machinery; or great union
of the more powerful mills may be formed
to beat the American manufacturer
This publication is chiefly of interest
when one remembers as he reads it the
columns of derision which the Democratic
papers were pouring out, for the first two
years after the Mckinley law was passed,
over the idea that tin plates could ever be
made in this country. And in less than five
years the Welshmen, who then had
monopoly of the whole industry, are on
thp RIM
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-02-22
The Women Have Thelr Day.

The great convention of White Ribbon
ers began in convention hall, Washington,
D. c., last Friday, when these devoted
women were greeted by an assemblage of
1900 people, and the hall was decorated
with the monster 'polyglot petition"
which was drawn up by Miss Frances E.
Willard over ten years ago. The petition
calls upon the government of every land to
'strip away the sanctions of the state from
the drink traffic and opium trade, and to
bring about the total prohibition of these
brain pOisons.' 1t has been subscribed to
by 1,121, 200 persons, representing about
80 natonalities. 1t bears, also, the attest
ations, or official endorsements, of various
societies, such as the Christian EndeavOr
and the Salvation Army, which practically
swells its signatory list to over 1000, 900
names. This petition has been mounted
on white muslin rolls, one-half yard wide,
one edge bound with red and the other
with blue tape. 1t is estimated that when
completed it will be over five miles long
The names are signed in so different Ian
guages. Having thus been first presented
| to our own government at Washington, the
monster petition will be taken next to
| England and thence onward in its journey
around the world.
! On Tuesday began in Washington what is
accounted the greatest gathering of repre-
sentative women ever held in the United
States, or, for the matter of that, in the
world. This is the second triennial of the
Women's National council, which includes
all the national organizations of peculiarly
feminine character, and represents every
sphere of woman's effort. The meeting OF
the council will last IA days, and papers on
a multitude of subjects will be read and ac-
tion taken on questions of national inter
est in which women are concerned.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-02-22

lication of the fact, Jan. 81, that the gov
ernment was negotiating loan, the with
drawals dropped to s., $50, ,92S, and on the
next day to 81 ,454,S6j. On the premature
announcement in the papers that the nego-
tiations had been successful, the withdraw
ais ceased, and about 81 $4,000 was re-
turned to the treasury. So grave was the
situation that on the evening of Wednes-
day, the 30th of January, the assistant
treasurer at New York telegraphed the de-
partment that he thought he could hold out
until Saturday, but that the next day
might decide the situation.
"The inaction of Congress, the depressed
price of the bonds sold to the November
syndicate, and the public uneasiness exhib-
tied in the boarding of gold," says the Bos-
ton Journal in commenting on these facts,
"made it extremely difficult to make any
dealings at all. The treasury had tried to
secure the needed gold on better terms. but
there was no time to be lost and the con-
tract was concluded. The treasury was in
an extremely tight place. 1t extricated it.
SUI at ulHu price, DuJ IL seems 10 us
that ordinary honesty requires that the act
of the administration should be judged in
the light of the circumstances which then
existed"
No single act of the Cleveland admins
tratiOn has been so severely criticised as
has this bond agreement and sale. That
the President and his secretary of the
treasury took what seemed to them the
wsest and the only course, when the criti-
cal hour arrived, to avert an impending ca
lamity, need not he questioned; but it is
also true that incompetent management of
the treasury department and the proposed
state banking and currency reform scheme
were leading factors in bringing on this
crisis. John Sherman pointed out in the
Senate that at the price commanded by our
other bonds the new per cents ought to be
worth 20 while they were placed at 1044
There is no doubt that the syndicate drove
a hard bargain with the government and,
at the lowest figures, their profits are placed
at S5,000,000 to SG,OOO,OOO. l.. +. Chit.
tenden, the well-known Vermonter. who
was the register of the treasury during the
war time, says their profits in the end will
amount TO 100000.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-02-22
senator Proctor on the Indian Question

senator Proctor on the Indian Question.
We publish below an extract from let
ter recently received from Senator Proctor.
We commend his statements to the thought
full consideration Of such men, calling
themselves civilized and Christian, as still
affirm there is no good Indian but a dead
Indian. Senator Proctor is man of cool
judgment and a warm heart, and has been
brought into practical contact with this
question, so that his words should certain
" carry great weight with them. The COM
mencement Of the letter referred to the
starving Navaios whose crops have failed
for three seasons, and to ;he measures
designed for their relief. The senator con-
tinues:
II am pretty much discouraged about
Justice being done to the Indians. When
coming into the war department | found
to my surprise that the army officers were
as a rule the strongest friends of the lndl-
an | have ever known, and had the most
earnest sense of the injustice with which
they have continually been treated. Though
they have often been obliged to fight them,
yet they have had opportunity to see the
provocations and wrongs which have driv-
en- the Indians to the war path. More
over, they have always been honest with
them, and the Indians have, | believe,
more confidence in them and dependence
upon them generally than upon civilian
officials. 1t is not to our credit that We
| have not been able to civlize and assimil-
/ ate a quarter of a million of native Amer
/ lean red men, a race of strong mental char
| acteIistics, great physical courage and en-
/ durance, and many elements of high NOR
/ al character, while We have received mil
| lions of foreign born, many of them un-
| educated and not in sympathy with our in
| stitutions, into the full rights of citizen
ship. | am heartily in sympathy with any
measure of justice for the Indian
Senator Proctor's view of the feeling of
the army officers toward the Indians is EN-
phasized by the statement, made by Gen.
! McCook in an address recently delivered at
a meeting of the Indian Rights association
at Denver, that in his 40 years experience
with the Indians he had always found a
white man at the bottom of every Difficult
ty and to this he added that his decision:
in cases of trouble between whites and In
dians had always been in favor of the In
| 1ianS
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-02-22
monorIng Georgs Peabody.s Memory.


The Tooth anniversary of the birth of
George Peabody, the philanthropist, was
celebrated on Monday at Peabody, Mass,
his birthplace, with the ringing of bells,
public exercises, and a banquet. Lieut..
GOV. Roger Walcott delivered the oration.
Queeu Victoria sent her recognition of the
event in a cablegram. The house where
Mr. Peabody was born is one of the land
marks of Peabody, and is annually visited
by thousands.
Mr.. Peabody begun life as grocer's
clerk, and in lis early manhood became a
dry goods merchant in Baltimore, with
branch houses in New York and Philadel-
phia. In 1897 he established the London
banking house of George Peabody e Co.,
and fourteen years later had acquired a
large fortune. His patriotism and sagacity
in investing in United States bonds during
the war added greatly to his wealth. His
benefactons during his lifetime aggregated
SIP. 100000. Prominent among them were
over $1,000 600 to the Southern Educa-
tional fund.- S2,3OO,OOO for establishing
homes for the deserving poor in London,
100000 to Peabody Institute in his native
town, and to the Peabody Institute in Bal
timore 81 100000 Many thousands of dol,
| lars were given to different educational in
stitutions. He provided the means for fit
ting out the Advance, DR.. Kane's ship, fol-
:he Arctic voyage in search Of Sir Johr
Franklin. No place possessing persona
interest to him was forgotten. For tim,
in his boyhood he was a clerk in a store il
! Thetford, this state, and to that town h,
gave public library. Mr.. Peabody neve
married. He died November 4, 1869, an,
his body lies in Harmony Grove cemetery
Salem, Mass.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-02-22
MINOR NOTES.

The California Midwnter Fair shows a
surplus of $4,000 after paying all ex-
penses.
The University of Pennsylvania at
Philadelphia ranks third in size among
American universities, Harvard standing
first in number of students and the Uni
versity of Michigan second.
Ii Hung Chang is on top once more in
China. The Emperor has given him back
his yellow coat and peacock feather and
sent him to Japan to negotiate terms of
peace.
The free silvertes confessed defeat for
this session by the action of Mr.. Jones in
the Senate Wednesday, when he stated
that his unlimited coinage bill would not
be further pressed
The House refused, last Thursday TO
pass the joint resolution authorizing the
issue of , per cent bonds to take the place
of the per cents negotiated with the for
eign syndicate.
The funeral in New York city Tuesday
of American Horse, or Speaking Grass, as
some called him, calls to notice the fact
that there is a tenement in Broome street in
that city peopled wholly by Indians. Amer
lean Horse, who was a well-known figure
in Broome street, served in the Union army
as scout, and drew a pension of S12
month. He was buried in the Grand
Army plot in Evergreen cemetery.
In an article contributed to the current
number of the Century r. Dorsey Mohun,
United States agent to the Congo Free
State, tells the true story of the death of
Emin Pasha, disclosing the fact that Emin's
death was due solely to the pride of pet
ty African chieftain, who wished to show
his more powerful neighbOrs that he was
not afraid to take the life of white man.
Mr. Mohun's sergeant, who was a member
of Stanley's Emin relief expedition, discov-
cred two of the assassins. Mr.. Mohun arrest
ed them and very ingeniOuslY extracted a
full confession of them, which he has given
in their own graphic language, describing
how Emin was seized and thrown fiat on
his back, while four men held his arms
and legs, a fifth held his head, and a sixth
cut his throat, nearly severing the head
from the body, Afterward the head was
packed in box and sent to the native
chief as proof that his orders had been
obeyed. The two assassns were hung
Just year after Emin was killed.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-02-22
sale of the ..New Yankees"

Subscription books for that portion of
the issue of S62, 600 of new per cent
bonds, set apart for sale in this country,
were opened in New York at 10 o'clock
Wednesday morning, and just % minutes
later the books were closed. The bonds
were subscribed for at least ten times over.
The bonds appOrtioned for sale abroad
were put on sale in London at the same
time, and the same experience was repeat
ed there, the subscriptions aggregating 10
to 20 times the amount of bonds available.
In London the bonds are known as the
"New Yankees"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-02-22
Cloak
and Fur Cape
Department.

have about 125 choice new gar
ments in stock, every one to be
closed regardless of cost l shall
also offer to close, about IS gar
ments, carried over from past sea-
sons at the following ridiculously low
prices, viz. 81, 50, $3, 81 and So
for garments that cost from $Io to
SIS. In this lot are many good
comfortable staple styles that are
actually worth four times the prices
asked for them. Will be shown in
rear cloak room, second floor.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-02-22
Up the Jungfrauby Rail.

The construction of a railway to the top
of Mt. Washington in 1869 was the first
successful attempt to climb the mountains
by steam. Since then the same sort of
railway has been repeated for the ascent of
a great many of the Alpine peaks, and at
last the boldest of these enterprises has
been undertaken, and is already well on the
way to completion. 1t is a railway to the
top of the Jungfrau, which is next to Mont
Blanc in height, and from which better
view can be had 1t will begin at almost
the limit of vegetation, and will traverse
bare precipice nearly its whole length. 1t
will be twice the height of any mountain
railway yet built in Switzerland, and it
will reach the peak by an elevator that will
operate through tunnel.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-02-22
Real Estate.

ENARM NO. -Four miles from Main street
Il Brattleboro; $50 acres good strong, rich soil;
cuts 60 tons of hay, abundance of fruit, good
buildings, and running water at house and barn.
Price $1,000. GRIGGS & PERRY.
1NARM NO. 2-Three miles from railroad, two
il miles from vage over 200 acres, nice stock
farm; good new buildings; lots of fruit Price
$500 GRIGGS & PERRY.
NTANTED-Secon hand saw mill.
w GRIGGS & PERRY.
TOR SALE-One good work horse, cheap.
IL GRIGGS & PERRY.