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..lilies of the field" neither did she
spin. She was only a dear little
bird. with a robe of spotless gold that
Solomon might have envied.
Early in life little Polly formed a
settled purpose, which nothing would
induce her to abandon, to let well
enough alone and live in single bles-
sedness. She persistently resisted
eyery effort to introduce to her a
feathered songster of her own tribe,
but rejected one sutton after another
with vehemence, even with violence.
Before one had been five minutes in
her cage she would drive him from
top to bottom, up and down and
round, bouncing upon him, scream
ing at him and tearing his hair like a
yeritable vixen, until some one res
cued him from her fury.
What she had seen to so embltter
her against wedlock we never knew.
She had been through many vicissl :
tudes before we ever saw her, and
this popularity was about all we
learned of her early life. She was
born in Illinois. It was in far West
ern Nebraska that she came to us.
The friends who had brought her to
that land of homesteads and timber
claims could not have parted with
her, but they found no place in their
sod house, half dug out, where she
could be safe from the necessary cat.
Though she never changed hands
again her travels were not at an end,
but covered by successive stages the
distance from Western Nebraska to
Eastern Ohio. The journey to Ohio
was followed by an acclimating fever
SO severe that at one time for several
mornings we dreaded to look at her
cage for fear of what might have
happened during the night. She
rallied at last, but her poor little head
and neck became almost entirely
bald. The temptation this afforded
to the frivolous portion of the family
to tease her with straw or pencil point
when her back was turned, just to see
her face about and scold, was SO ire
sistible, that her young mistress
threatened to crochet her cap of
yellow silk 70 protect her from insult
and also from exposure to the cold.
But Polly bore the tricks with good
humor and nature in time restored
her feathers, so that she was more
beautiful than ever.
The seasons passed, and she was SO
bright and joyous that, in spite of her
advancing age, we fondly hoped she
had yet many years of life before her.
Looking back now, however, it is
plain that she had been failing in
strength. Her bath had been daily
delight. Sometimes she would stand
a long while in her bath tub just rest
ing her body on the surface of the
water. But of late, although calling
for it every morning with sweet in
sistence, she neglected it when it was
offered to her. 1t was great pleas
ure to her to be allowed her freedom,
and she used to take long flights
about the rooms.
The desire to be out grew upon
her with her age, and she learned to
push open the door of her cage when
the lace screen was thrown up. But
we now recall the fact that for months
she has conteuted herself, when out,
with hopping around ON the floor.
One morning a few weeks ago she
had had a long run about the house
Coming back into the room where |
sat, she hoped toward me peered up
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APPROPRIATIONS.
!. Behead separately, add leave portion.
2. Behead an oily substance, and leave pre-
position.
8. Behead place Of bliss, and leave a cave.
4. Behead kind of earthen ware and leave
afairy.
5. Behead part of the face. and leave pro-
noun.
6. Behead to jolt, and leave small unit of
weight.
z. Behead to cripple, and leave to endeavor.
8. Behead to turn, and leave the workmen on
a ship.
8. Behead substance of great value, and
leave ancient.
10. Behead to degrade, and leave vile.
II. Behead contracted and leave weapon.
10. Behead to dispatch. and leave to finish.
10. Behead a pretense, and leave an article of
food.
IA. Behead to submit, and leave foreign
ruler.
IT, Behead to elevate, and leave part of the
head.
49, Behead to let. and leave rest,
IL. Behead to shoot, and leave strategy.
IS. Behead mass of partially condensed va
por, and leave word descriptive of much noise.
WICKED WILL.
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4S9.-DOUBLE ACROSTIC.
(Words of four letters.)
1. A place of burial.
2. A person famed for noble action.
3. A masculine name.
4. To injure.
5. A proposition.
6. A plant.
The finals give the name of a city.
The primals give the city's nickname.
EYE EN- Es.
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are not hard 10 keep clean. A little
hot water and little Pearline will
clean any churn or do away with
any bad odor. THE Dairy WorlI
Chicago.
Perhaps you think that some
of the limitations of Pearline.
that you'd be afraid to use in
washing clothes, would do just
as we'll in work like this. They
wouldn' t hurt tinware. certain
ly. But they wouldn't clean
it, either, half as well as Pearl
inc = besides, "don't play
with the fire." 400
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4S7.-ENIGMA.
Composed of is letters.
My 10 IS 1S 8 z IL is to re-establish.
My IL 20 5 is a sot.
My IA is the Authorization Of one of the
United States
My 10 10 4 is counter used In various
games
My 16 z is not any.
My whole is a title given to the one Southern
States. EXC.
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IAN communications relating to this depart
ment should be addressed to Echoes from
Puzzle-land," and mailed to w. II. EASTMAN.
East Sumner, Mel
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LITTLE POLLY.

N old maid was Little
Polly. 1t would not be
correct, as in modern
parlance, to call her a
bachelor girl, for she was
neither a bachelor nor a
girl. Spinster would do
no better, for like the
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ANSWERS.
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ANSWERS.

Answers next month.
The Louisiana populist., 1895-06-14
A FEW QUESTIONS.
Specially Directed to the American
(slave) wage-Earner.

Specially Directed to the American
(slave) wage-Earner
So you think politics has nothing to
do with your wages or chance of get
ting employment, or your debts or
poverty, eh? The banker tells you so.
The politician tells you so. The monop-
slist tells you so. The people who live
well and do nothing tells you so. Isn't
it funny that all of these people are all
OF one mind? All these people live of
of somebody. Do you know who that
somebody is? All these people are very
anxious about the elections. Do you
ever ask yourself why? If politics has
nothing to do with you why are they
so interested? Do you think they are
fools to spend their time and money
on something there is nothing in for
them? And il there is something in it
for them, who pays that something?
Why can't you see little bit under the
surface? Have they trained you like
soldier so you can't think but obey
orders? Why are they so anxious that
you don't vote with the cranks? Why
all this solicitude? Politics has every
thing to do with your wages and en-
ployment. 1t can render millions of
you idle, So you Will have to work
cheap, or it can have all of you busy
getting big wages. They don't want
you to find this out. They want you
for voting machine to help them live
in luxury and power. And you've been
doing it. Don't read up on the money
problem--you might learn something
and not be SO docile as slave.
No. don't endeavor to solve the "mon-
cy problem" for If you do you will
get lost in the maze of fog and cannot
extricate yourself. Just keep on think
ing that the problem" is so difficult of
solution that only profound schoars
can solve it, and leave it to the shy
locks to solve and carry out as they
have been doing. for they know all
about it. you know. and you are only
a poor fool of a voter king anyway.
You cannot act only at the dictation
OF those whD are manipulating the
party machine in their own interests
and whose ;ctions as well as words
say "6tinn the PEI pie, Peoples
Prs =
The Louisiana populist., 1895-06-14

r. Y. l..

Our trinity Of principles is indivsibIe We cannot
repudate the stand we have already taken by maxi
ing Finance the single issue in our national CAM
paign: The Transportation and Land pIanks
must be stuck to and if the Democrats and Re-
pubicans who are now knocking at the door of
the Peoples parywsht to come in theymust accept
all OF our principles. If as they now acknowledge,
we are right on the Silver Question, we are also
right on the questions of transportation and Land
Stand by our Platform and we will win next year
without the shadow of doubt.
w. S. MORGAN.
The Louisiana populist., 1895-06-14
TAKES PHILOSOPHY.
To Spur People on During These Pluto
cratic Times.

cratic Times.
Peoples Press: Yes, we all got dis
couraged at the times, and it takes
philosophizing to spur us on. We have
really everything to feel elated over
when we consider that only a few years
ago there were few men in the nation
who knew anything about the philo-
sophy of money or land or monopoly.
Today there are hundreds of thousands.
The nature Of these things is being
made palmer and simpler each day.
There are thousands of different books
and pamphlets and speakers. The peo-
pie are learning and learning rapidly
Men are putting their soul into this
education as they did in fighting the
British in 1776. Old men who have only
few years to live at most, say they
will die contented if the people can be
brought to see the treachery of the old
parties by next year. Men are solicit
ing subscribers who are virtually on the
ragged edge of starvation. There is no
failure in a movement that enlists this
kind of adherents. No matter il no
Gratis seem on the higher wave OF
power, the education is broadening and
will be irresistible when it gets chrys-
talized. Keep your mind on the future
and keep at work.
For by hard work and only that can
we hope to succeed in educating the
people up to the higher plane of thought
and reasoning, so that they can vote
their intelligence instead of their par
tisanship and prejudice. Keep on in
the good work. Don't give up or get
discouraged because you cannot make
a success at every venture, but Spar
tanlike, nerve yourself for the occasion,
and persevere in we'll doing, and success
will surely come. The times are ripen-
ing our theories, or in other words, are
conducive to success in making con-
verts to the principles we advocate, az
the people are being crushed to earth
by vicious enactments and class legis-
lation and are now endeavoring to as
certain from whence it comes, and are
anxious to apply some remedy. The
principles as enunciated in the Omaha
platform will prove efficient as RENE
dies in this disease of the body polite,
and in order to perpetuate the pros
perity of the people, the referendum
must be had and then all the grand
objects so much desired can be at
tanned.
The Louisiana populist., 1895-06-14

tion is that the discussion OF it is open
ing the peoples eyes and causing trou-
BILE in the ranks of the two old parties.
The goldbugs, unable to hedge any Ion
ger, are compelled to make an open
fight for a single gold standard, and
thousands of voters are becoming dis
gusted and leaving the two old parties
AS the two old parties are the sole de-
pendence of the goldbugs it places
them in peck of trouble. If they don't
fight one or both of the old parties will
pass a free coinage law, and if they do
fight it looks like 1t will break up the
two old parties. Again, the truth of
the old adage is verified, that when
rogues fall out honest men get their
dues"
The president has written another
letter. This time 1t is addressed to
Gov. Stone nf Mississippi and contains
much taffy for the southern people.
He says he don't understand why the
South. that produces so much that is
sold abroad, for gold, should want
cheap silver money. The president
seems to lose sight of the fact that the
people Of the, South rarely ever see a
piece of gold in circulation, and would
not under the system which Mr.. Cleve-
land wants to fasten on this country.
They know that what he is pleased to
term sound currency" is gold for the
bank and treasury vaults, and bank
notes, founded on an interest bearing
debt, every one Of which represents a
double rate of interest, practically ir-
redeemable so far as the people are con-
cerned. The people have studied these
questions much more than Mr.. Cleve-
land and his goldbug masters are
aware Of, and when the time comes for
them to voice their sentiments there
will be such surprise in this country
as was never known before.
w. S. MORGAN.
The Louisiana populist., 1895-06-14
EDITORIAL OPINIONS.

There can be no overprod uction
where there is demand. Washing
ton Watchman.
Wall street seems to think that the
masses viii ever be content with the
bones flung from the banquet table. =
Mckinney Democrat.
III the Democratic state committee
is an indicator. Texas Democracy is
about half and half-half Grover and
half American. Clarendon Industrial
West
The bankers, lawyers and boards
of trade held convention last week
in Memphis and declared themselves
to be the people OF tie south. South
ern Mercury.
Carlisle's speech in 1873, in favor
OF free coinage and the people, is a
sufficient answer 10 any gold stands ard
speech he can now invent
town Sentinel.
II overproduction causes hard times
a great deal of corn, oats, etc., pro-
duced ought to make .'poor'' horses
on the same line OF reasoning. Van
Alstyne News.
Have you a silver dollar bearing
the date OF 1894? II you have keep
it and in few years it will be
curiosity. There were only 75s
coined in that ycar.-Comanche Ex-
ponent
The politicians and statesmen have
got to go to school on the money
question. Glittering generalities and
platitudes will not satisfy the people.
They did it in the tariff humbug.-
Brockton Diamond.
Why don't some OF those sound
money Democrats try to show the
bad effects OF free coinage in Mexico?
Because they know that Mexico is G
very prosperous nation. and they
don't want the people to investigate
--Greenyille Banner.
The Democratic party is between
the devil and the deep sea. II It
should contine to endorse Cleveland's S
financial policy the rank and file of
the party in the south and west will
leave it, and should free silver pol
icy be adopted the followers OF Cleve-
land and the gold standard viii leave
It-Greenville Independent
The Louisiana populist., 1895-06-14

The Peoples party is the only
straight silver party in existence.
1ad IL not been for the devoted. un-
selfish labors, OF its 2OO0 newspapers,
IO,O0O orators, 1000. OO0 voters, the
cause OF silver would have been for
ever lost. During all the tine that
we nave made this fight without q
dollar OF aid from any source, except
the contributions OF the people, we
nave been constantly oppressed, ridi-
'cuied, and viliiied by some of the meu
and organizations claiming TO repre-
sent the very essence of the. silver
cause. While they have squandered
thousands OF dollars in useless efforts,
they have. by adhering to the two old
parties or trying to create a new one,
thus divided the silver forces and
been a constant hindrance to pro-
grcss.
ne mass OF voters are not mine
owners. They represent tho indus
trial classes. and have lost more in
one day by the demonetization OF sill
vcr than the mine owners do in u
year. BY Senator Jones' estimate,
the wheat growers lose 500, 200. 900
year, the cotton planters $3.50, OO0,-
O0J and the wage workers, since 1873.
enough money to build and equip all
the railroads in the United States.
We will continue the battle for FREQ
coinage OF both gold and silver at the
ratio of l6 to /. without the consent
oil any foreign nation on earth, and wo
extend fraternal greeting and the hand
OF fellowship to all who ad vocate the
vital doctrines of the Peoples party
on the money question, and invite
them to join with us in this great
struggle, with the full assurance that
the Peoples party letters the consci-
ence of no human being, that we are
simply moving on educational lines
until we can all meet in 1896 and pre-
pare a line of battle to meet tho
enemy. There is no hope from either
of the old parties. The Peoples party
polled the second highest vote in
twenty-five states. The Democratic
party is dead in the west. 1t is reek-
ing with fraud and odious with ballot
box stufiing, and il We had an honest
election it would not carry southern
state.
Ii deserves TO die, and both it and |
the Republican party. as represented |
by their leaders. are In the grasp OF
the money power, and each wants to |
preserve the clutch of the banks over
the nation. IL 1000 national banks !
were not fighting silver the battle
would soon be won. Their power to |
issue notes must be destroyed, and on
this line that the government shalt |
issue the money, we will wage the |
battle, Inviting all the forces who
Iavor this doctrine to unite with US.
N. Y. Advance Thought.
The Louisiana populist., 1895-06-14

The Democrats of Tennessee not
only know how to count votes with an
eye single to the continuation Of their
party in power, but they know how to
let contracts so that there is money in
it to pet contractors. In the recent re-
port of the commission appointed to
investigate the penitentiary frauds in
that state it was shown that Architect
w. c. Smith testified two years ago
that 1900 cell prison could be built
for $4,000, while the estimate of his
accepted plans was 100000 and the
contract was let for $3.50, 900, and Smith
now states that 5000, 900 more would be
necessary to complete It, The law re-
quired that in no event should the ag-
eregate expenditures exceed 100000.
The letting of the contract, the re-
port states, was as fraudulent and cor.
rupt transaction as ever took place
in the state.
The Louisiana populist., 1895-06-14
PRESS AND PEOPLE.
SOME CURRENT TOPICS OF MA
TIONAL INTEREST.

What the Papers and Masses Are Say
Ing and Doing for the Redemption of
the Country from the Clutches of It's
Enemies.
The Louisiana populist., 1895-06-14

On April IL, in an interview, Proctor
Knott made the following prophecy:
What suspect Carlisle will do is this:
When the goldbug crowd at Louisville
see the utter folly of longer attempting
to keep the discussion of the currency
out of the state campaign, they will ar
range a big hullabaloo in that city for
Carlisle's benefit. He will go there and
make speech already in type before
he leaves Washington. The goldbug
press all over the country and espe-
cially in Kentucky will print the speech
and then NJ. Carlisle will hasten back
to Washington.
"This will set the woods on fire AMI
the blaze and crackle of the confiagra-
tion will be seen and heard from the
Ohio to Jellico and from the Big Sandy
to the Mississippi. Whether that will
be early or late in the campaign, de-
pends on the emergency of the occa-
sion. Mark you. now, l have no in
formation as to Mr.. Carlisle'B inten-
tions, but / know goldbug methods so
well that can surmise with some de-
gree OF accuracy as to what ne will do"
In view of the fact that Carlisle is
The Louisiana populist., 1895-06-14

Corneliys Vanderbilt's fireplace cost
ing as tie question, who pT'd for it'"
The Louisiana populist., 1895-06-14

The Globe-Democrat says: There ia
no lack of currency for all legitimate
purposes. AS matter of fact, there is
big surplus of it, for which ther is no
use, and the banks are offering to loan
1t at remarkably low rate of inter.
est"
For pure, unadulterated, fiat-footed,
square-toed lying, this would make An.
nanias ashamed of himself. The CD.
might with equal propriety contend
that there never was any drouth be-
cause there was always plenty of water
somewhere. We do not quote the above
for the purpose Of refuting it, for it is
one Of those lies that are self-evident.
but to show to what extremities the
goldbug press will go to serve the pur.
pose Of their masters.
The Louisiana populist., 1895-06-14
NO. 43.

expected to make the speech Of his life
at Memphis. May %. and possibly 9TH
ers ia Kentucky, the above may be Con-
sidered almost in the light of prophecy.
The Louisiana populist., 1895-06-14

Murat Halstead. the great Republican
editor in the Chicago News, says:
"The labor unions can easily be taken
care Of by the army and navy, and as
political factors, with their own plat
form and candidates, they are insignia-
can't"
Now you hear 1t, you fellows that
go up to the polls and vote like cattle
for the very men whom Halstead rep
resents. And this talk of Halstead's Is
no vain boast. Hasn't this thing been
done? Haven't men been shot down
like dogs, because they dared to resent
treatment that our forefathers would
have died rather than have submit
ted to? Yet at the very next election
they go to the polls and vote again for
the very men who smite them. Oh.
there's lots Of glory in belonging to
either of the old parties and being sold
out at each election by set of ward
heelers, for mess Of pottage, and then
not get to even smell the pottage.
The Louisiana populist., 1895-06-14
VOL /.
THERE is ONLY ONE.
THE PEOPLES PARTY THE TRUE
SILVER PARTY.

b'th OF the Old Parties Deserve to De.
The Leaders of Both Are in tho Grasn
of the Money Power-The Facts Ara
Stated by High Authority.
The Louisiana populist., 1895-06-14

Tie Republicans don't seem to be in
any h1rry To redeem tae country