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The advocate., 1895-06-19
THE SHOE Is NOW ON THE OTHER
FOOT.


When, under Populist administrs-
tiOn, q patient happened to escape
from the insane asylum, 0, what 8
howl was there, my countrymen, by
the republican press about the in
competency Of attendants! Now
escapes are frequent and the same
papers seldom mention them at all.
Il takes something out Of the ordi.
nary IN connection with these escapes
to assure them even a passing no
tice. Only few days ago three pa
tients escaped from the Topeka asy-
lum at the same time, one Of whom
hung himself without leaving the
grounds. This suicide was the
means Of getting a brief news para
graph containing a bare statement
of the fact into the daily papers, but
there were no columns of editorial
denunclation Of incompetent attend
ants. More than that, DR.. Eastman,
the present superintendent, in an
interview relative to these escapes,
said that il is to the credit OF the
management that so many patients
make their escape. The exact inter
pretetion which Mr.. Eastman would
have us put upon this statement is
not clear. We leave each reader to
it for hlmself, but it is hor.
rible to think what an awful thing it
would have been had a Populist
made q statement Of that kind. II
Is q great thing to have Kansas re-
deemed.
The advocate., 1895-06-19
A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.

The Kansas City plan of providing
for the city's poor beats the potato
patch plan all hollow. By an extern
sive system of public improvements
of streets, bouleVards and parks, a
large amount of labor will be given
employment, and to that extent char
ity will be rendered unnecessary.
The city at the same time will be
beautifed, as the whole country
might be by similar means So long
as this competitive struggle for ex-
istence must continue everyone ought
to see the good sense in enabling the
unemployed to become in some meas
ure independent by affording them
the opportunity to earn bread.
We often hear it observed that
there are thousands of men depend
ing upon charity who would : not
work if they had the chance. So
long as they have not the chance this
charge is unjust, When a fair Op.
The advocate., 1895-06-19

They were too drunk to fight. The rs.
cent fight in the Indiana Legislature.
during which the governors secretary
was nearly killed, is fresh In the memory
Of the reader.
Secretary Carlisle, the head cuckoo o.
the treasury department, Heigned ,indiq-
nation the other day when asked iE hs
would meat W. ]. Bryan in debate On
the money question. "No, sir" hs Ok.
claimed, "Bryan IL a Populist, and I win
not dignity him by debating with him"
That's pretty good coming from q man
whom many OF his own party would like
to SEQ hanged for treason. Il sounds
very much the same as IL a Kansas rs-
publican had said it.
The advocate., 1895-06-19
NOTES AND COMMENT.

There are twsnty-six contsstsifor seats
in che lower house Of the present con-
greSs. Fifty.twO statesmen for half the
number OF places illustrates the self-saC-
rihCing nature Of the American patriot.
The patriotic and enthusiastic Popu-
lists Of Texas want to make Judge
Nugsnt, their last years candidate for
governor, q nominee for president.
That's rather taking advantage Of KAN
sas.
A poser by the Kansas Commoner: "IG
greenbackV, silver, and the national
bank notes rest upon q gold basis, and
the gold is purchased with Atty-yNAr.5.
percent. gold bonds, on what, for hes-
ven's sake, do the bonds EsstP"
On being told by a cuckoo sdmirer
that no might be called upon to accept o
third term Rs president, Mr.. Cleveland
said: "But 1 Rm not seeking that" lsSv-
ing the impression that he hoped the
"knightly crown" would be forced upon
him.
The inevitable gold discovery fake has
been having itS annual run during the
last two weeks in Oklahoma, and thou.
sands of people have been attracted In
that direction BY reports Of rich finds in
the Washita mountains. Ssltod claims
have been sold ct good figures, while
peculiar cOpper-Stained rock which is q
natural formation there is enough to
fool the ordinary tender foot with. The
boom has about collapsed.
Our modern Legislatures are getting to
be quite "bum," il the use Of that word
is permitted. The Illinois house Of rep.
resentStives engaged in drunken row
last Saturday night, and kept IL up until
their final adjournment Sunday mora
ing. A similar and equally disgrRoeful
jRmborss was INDUCED In By both
branches OF the republican Legislature Of
PSnnsylVanls OA June 8, only In this
Gaze there WAs Hot % much fighting,
The advocate., 1895-06-19
Against British MOnometalllsm.

THE following is clipped from the sdi-
toriRl columns of the Buffalo Evening
News Of June 8.
The Philadelphia Manufactures has
striking article on "Abolitloniam and
BImetsllism," claiming that in aremaEk-
able manner the conditions attending
the Rnti.RlSveEy movement Of 40 years.
ago "ars reproduced in Philadslphia
and throughout the country now thas
an active campaign has begun against
the domination OF the nation by British
gold monometallism." The Manufac.
tureF declares that the agitation Rcr Che
abolition Of slavery never had Q particle
ofsympathy from what may be called
the mass Of the prosperous people, The
public journals were nearly unanimous
in declaring slavery should bs left alons
and they invented and constantly Rp-
piled terms which we're intended to
bring reproRoh upon the AboLitionists.
Then, as now, columns Of rhetoric were
produced day after day in the effort %
10 demonstrate that no reform could bs
accomplished without inflioting irrspaE-
able damage upon the country. The
Manufactures states the case very
plainly. 1t says:
"No great wisdom, no intense respect
ability, but only common sense, can bO
required 10 permit a man TO understand
that It is folly to suffer our greatest
to tlx our money standard; that
we are now upholding the British gold
system only, by borrowing money; that
the wealth-produosrs are being robbed
by the NON producer who has iraudu-
lently enlarged the buying power Of the
dollar; that the nation ia in shame be-
cause its treasury Is buying, at heavy
cost, protection from foreigners; that
everything has been made to rest upon
gold, which has then been cornsred; thst
the land and the control Of the money
supply are passing from the hands Of the
people, and that the domestic and FOG.
Oign debts cf the nation are growing
larger the more desperate the effort
made to discharge them. No bland talk
from very respectable citizens, no sophis.
try and figure jockeying from ststiati-
CLANS, no ingenuity OF mendsoity from
public journals, no rhetorical efforts
from secretaries Of the treasury, will op-
crate to hide these facts. Every just man
percsivsd that slavery was infamous and
Il was overthroWn. Every man who will
open his eyes may see, IL he will, that
this nation is In bondage to its British
creditors who have made it the victim
of the most colossal scheme OF brigsnd-
lge ever devised by the rapsoious greed
Of man"
The advocate., 1895-06-19

The present mission Of the Capital
seems to be to discourage contribu-
tions in aid Of Scranton miners and
those who are reported destitute in
Oklahoma. If the editor of that
gold-bug sheet is susceptible Of a
humane impulse he has not shown
any symptoms Of it lately.
The advocate., 1895-06-19
WHAT 1DIOCY!

What absolute idiocy is all this
talk about 5O.cent dollarsl There is
no such thing in existence in this
country. A silver dollar or a green
back will buy as much of any COM
modify and pay as much debt or
taxes as a gold dollar. Dollars are
not made to eat, drink or wear. They
are absolutely worthless, except for
their use in the payment Of debts
and taxes and the purchase of things
that people need. Reader, what do
you care what q dollar is made OF so
long as il will buy what you WsntG
Have you any other use for dollars?
IL is true there is a difference in
the commercial price Of the commod-
tiles of which money is now made.
Upon this fact, the sordid money sd-
vocates base the sophistry by which
they seek to lead the people through
deception to their ruin. Do you not
know that when a commodity is CON
Verted into money, it ceases to be q
commodity, and that so long as 1t
remains money it has no other value
than that given it by the fiat Of the
government? Commodity value dis
appears, and only money value re-
mains. When it is again converted
into a commodity it, ceases to be
money and cannot perform any Of
the functions OF money.
The one central idea relative to
money is its creation for a specific
purpose. It is q legal tender in pay
ment of debt (which gold is not)
and it serves as a certificate to the
holder that he has contributed some
service or furnished to society some
thing OF value which entities him to |
an equivalent in return of anything |
he may desire. What matters it,
then, what material is used in this
certificate? Only while it preserves
the impress of the government Fat
can it perform the function for which
il is designed, and anything which
bears this impress will perform that
function, no matter Of what material
it is composed. Out upon this ar
rant nonsense of intrinsic value in
money. Money has mo intrinsic
value and can hsVe none. While
anything remains money, it can have
none except its money value, and in
order to have any other value its
money function must be destroyed.
The advocate., 1895-06-19

later by freight A political COnven-
tiOn that will elect q woman as It's
chairman and then applaud such
sentiments as she uttered, can hardly
be expected to be entitled to very
much notice by the press.
The advocate., 1895-06-19
A Big Drop in Sugar.
OF man

Sears, Roebuck & Co., better known as the
Cheapest Supply House on Earth, at 17t, i7S
and 175 West Adams street, Chicago, Ill, are
selling 40 pounds of the very best granuleted
sugar for 81, and other groceries at proportions
ately low prices; they ship their goods TO any
one anywhere. they will supply you II anywhere
within 1000 miles OF Chicago, selling granu-
lated sugar 40 pounds for 81, and everything
accordingly. Send no money, but cut this
notice out and send TO Sears, Roebuek & Coz
Chicago, for full particulars.
The advocate., 1895-06-19

Wien VritIag adYWtIlqV usptIQaAdTOoA'a
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-07

let the humblest of your adorers taste
the fragrance of the lotos on thy roseate
lips"
20 king of men! O Protector of the
Poor. 0, Avater of Krishna, wouldst thou
sully the sacred lips by such earthly con-
tact as that of thy servant"
But she said 1t so temptingly that her ad-
mirer, trembling with passion. clasped
her closely to his side and imprinted a
long, lingering kiss upon her coral lips.
The lady drew back. and. placing her
hands on the Englishman's shoulder, gaz-
ed into his eyes with a look of intense sad
ness. He turned pale, trembled violently
and fell prone upon the deck-dead.
The officer of the deck rushed forward,
raised the fallen man, but as he stopped to
do so the girl stopped also and breathed
in his face. Instantly he felt as if he were
breathing the miasma of some deadly
swamp. His head reeled, his breath came
short and quick and a horrid sense of nau-
sea came over him and he staggered
against the mizzenmast, clutching at
cleats for support. The woman squatted
down on the deck in eastern fashion, and
taking the dead mans hand upon her lap
began to sing low, weird, mournful lay
that sounded like some wild death song
The singing lasted about three minutes
and when she had finished with a long
drawn, sorrowful cry, she gently laid the
-
of the compGnionway.
As soon as the officer recovered his
senses, he gave the alarm. The watch on
deck came to his aid, and, lifting the
body, they bore it into his stateroom, and
laid it on the berth.
The Serang, or Lascar boatswain looked
At the dead man earnestly and long He
then turned to the officer and said, in
low mufied tone, as if overcome VITA
awe:
"Sahib! this man was slain by the kiss
Of a poison maiden. See herer' and he
pointed to the lips of the corpse, which
haG already taken blush tinge.
The lips Of deathr'
What the dew! do you mean?' cried
the officer.
Il mean. protector of the poor and hon
orablo sahib. that this dead Engl!shmdn
has been kissed by one Of the poison
maidens dedicated TO the service OF Kali,
the Goddess OF Death, and wife Of silva,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-07
PRICES FROM 81 UP.

priestess of Kali was dead. A native
priest had been permitted to attend her
in her Imprisonment on the grounds of
administering religious consolation and
instruction. He was one of the devotees
in the neighboTing temple of silva, and he
claimed his right to exercise his priestly
office for the benefit of the unfortunate
girl who, it appeared, had been one of the
temple Nautch girls from her earliest
days
He was searched for everywhere. but
neither in the temple nor in any of the
villages of the surrounding country could
he be found. He had been sipited away
by the occult and mysterious system ex-
1sting among the native tribes of India. by
which. as was proved at the time of the
mutiny, information was carried to the ex-
IRENE bounds of India with more velocity
and certainty than the railroad system and
telegraph of the white rulers of the coun-
try. The rajah, too, died suddenly under
circumstances that caused a strict in
curry to be made and a medical inquest
to be held on his body. The same discolor-
ations appeared on his lips as the Serang
had pointed out on those of the dead Eng
lishman, and in time the investigation
though conducted with all the force of the
government aided by the sagacfty of the
natives, led to nothing. The inquiry is
still going on and the priest is still being
SeebIcueu Ior, out MISUNDERSTANDING, the
Vaunted occidental civilization and the
higher education of the natives so arnest-
ly advocated and strenuously insisted upon
by Exeter Hall, and the missionary socie-
ties, the Goddess Kali, the patroness of
thugs and the wife of the destroyer still
holds her own and the newspapers of
India are still putting forth theories I'm
English, Hindustani, Arabic and all the
other dialects of that multi-lingual land
bq Fa+ Do.
Calcutta expressed 1T. pithily:
They were and are not"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-07
LIVELY TIME AT SEA.
A Tragedy in Which a Chinese Cook
Was the Victim.
New York Correspondence Philadelphia
Press.


New York Correspondence Philadelphia
Press.
The British steamship Pathan left Sing
apore Feb. for this port with wild
0aboon the pet of the cook, Sam Juck
While passing through the Red sea Skin
per Wright, who is an amateur photog-
rapher, took a picture of five little mon
keys that belonged to members of the
crew. Sam Juck said that he wanted
Jacko's, the baboon's, picture taken also
and the captain agreed if he would get \
rope around its neck.
Juck opened the cage, when Jaoko
sprang at the Chinaman and fastened his
teeth in his wrist, the teeth meeting and
making terrible wound. Then the ba-
boon retreated to his corner still scream
ing. Sam Juck's wound was cauterized
and the sailors put extra bars on the mon
keys cage and gave him a beating with
bamboo rods. Two hours afterward tba
haboon tore out the back of the cage and
Jumping on the deck challenged the crew
to fight.
Capt. Wright brought out his revo1var
upon seeing which the baboon, running I'M
the back of sailor, jumped on a ratIin
ana got to the truck of the mainmast
The skipper began to blaze away. When
the firing ceased the baboon. who had
been much interested and amused. iunped
down to the deck to see the fun at shorter
range. The crew sprang upon him and
were about to beat him to death when he
jumped overheard and began to swim TO
shore fifteen miles away.
The cook threw a sugar barrel ovar-
board, and the balloon jumped astride n
When last seen he was padding the bar
rel toward the land But that ended the
humor of the situation for blood-polsonjny
set in from Jacks wound and he died Of
sangrene on March II.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-07
"TOOIN THE WRONG MEDICINE"
Mankind seems 10 Have "a weakness
for Encouraging This Headline.

FROM the New York Herald.
IT is an old trait in human nature that
a man who has been ordered by his ply
stefan to take paregoric will never take it
if there is any carbolic acid in the house
that he can absorb in preference.
Statisticians who have studied the thing
declare that an individual will search the
whole house for a poisonous drug and
drink it rather than the medicine ordered
by the doctor. The death notices in the
newspapers in1cases of that kind are gen
orally headed; %Took the Wrong Medi-
cine"
A man arrived at his home the other
evening, and glancing on the bureau saw
bottle of liquid that he had been ordered
| by the doctor to take
That looks like the stuff" said he. but
| I'm not sure. AS l was locking up the
cellar ] saw behind an old shelf a blue
/ bottle that looked like il had not been
| touched in years. 1t is said on it. Sui
| phuric acid. Now that bottle on the
| table looks exactly like the one l drank
out of last night, but still l have an idea
! that the stuff down in the cellar is what
/ the doctor means for me. l don't know
! how the dickens it got down there when
| it's meant for me to take, or this bottle
! that isn't meant for me to take got on
! this bureau. But I'm not going TO take
any chances I'll just so down into the
4 cellar and make sure and I'll throw this
| stuff out of the window"
Then he cautiously went downstairs and
/ took the sulphuric acid and he was buried
| in due form after an ambulance surgeon
had done his best and the coroner's ply
stefan had made complete investigation
! and autopsey.
| II isn't only children who make these
1 blunders. Doctors will tell you that they
] have only TO label a bottle Lotion; for ex-
| ternal application only" to make sure of
! its being drunk. II patient gets a bot
! tie of corrosive subIimate to put on a felon
| on his great toe and doesn't use it all
] he viii carefully save it, Ten years after
/ ward a doctor gives cough mixture TO him
and then he goes and hunts up the corro-
/ siVe sublimate bottle. plays three card
monte with It and the cough mixture.
! gets them thoroughly mixed up so that he
| can't tell one from the other. and then
when he feels that tightness across the
chest that the doctors told him about he
swallows a part OF the corrosive subn-
mate and leaves his widow TO collect the
| life insurance BY no accident is the
I cough mixture ever taken-it Is always
the corrosive sublimatc
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-07
In Place of the Hour Marks.


From the Courier Journal.
''The finest watch owned in Louisville
belongs to a prominent young society
man." said jeweler yesterday. He gave
us his order last November, and we were
to fill it by the middle of February. which
we did even EARLIER, as we cabled the
order direct to the Geneva manufacturers
The cost of the watch was $500. The young
man ordered it in honor of his twenty
first birthday. On one side of the case IS
his monogram in diamonds. The other
side is flying bird, studded with dia-
monds, with eyes of rubies. Its weight
is sixty-nine pennyweights of 1S-carat
gold. The works are of first quality and
minute repeater. Instead of the numer-
ais being used on the dial to indicate the
time the letters of the young mans name
are used"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-07
ANOTHER VICTORY

Savannah Ga, March l. 1885
DR.. ]. BroadfoOt, Specialist:
l wish to add my mite to the thousands OF
testimonials which you have received from as
many grateful patients. have Just completed
my months work, which you know is very hard
on man wiz; an engineer on the S., r W.
Rv). and have not lost a trip on account Of nv
misfortune, In fact, since the first two weeks
you treated me [ have been continuously at
work: Hoping you much success in the future
and that those who are in distress from disease
may become your patients and be cured is the
wish OF your most grateful patient
LSignedl j. G.. DELL
The history Of the above case is that he met
with an accident about one year ago and after
being under different doctors treatment WITH.
out any avail he tried DR.. Broadfoot, with the
above results.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-07
Aprominent Minister writes.

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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-07

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The Anaconda standard., 1895-11-21
BURNS IS HIS NAME
BE Is Charged With All Kinds Of
Deviltry and Cussedness.
HOW HE TREATS HIS WIFE
The Judge Gives Him Four Months
He Gets Drunk and Shame
fully Abuses His
Family.

Great Falls, Nov. 20.-James Burns
Is the name Of a heartless brute ar
raigned before Judge Race this morn
ing, charged with almost everything
possible. and 1t appears after all that
there is nothing in the codes by which
he can be sufficiently punished. In
substance the wretch was charged
with wife beating. cruelty to his own
children. drunkenness and great devil
try. His wife, a thinly-clad. heart
broken woman. told a sorrowful story
on the witness stand. She said her
husband had failed TO provide for the
family in any way for years and that
when she earned a pittance by wash
ing to support the children and her
self the brute would force 1t from her
to buy whiskey with. Later he would
come home drunk. abuse her and the
children, beat them. drive the family
out Of the house. and make them sleep
In a hen-coop. while he continued his
debauch. His little 12-year-old daugh-
ter, who attends school. corroborated
her mothers testimony.
The little girl came all the way up
from Little Chicago at a late hour last
night to get the officers to go down
and prevent her father from anihiliat-
ing the whole family. Several years
ago this Same brute was arrested for
picking UP one of his small children by
the feet and hurting 1t through the
house, which nearly resulted in its
death. Judge Race listened to the tes-
timony and finally gave Burns. four
months in the county Jail and Sheriff
Dwyer will see to 1t that he expends
his money in a useful way.
The Anaconda standard., 1895-11-21

Ids above the falls. which Is confined
IN q marrow gorge. and where the wa
ter runs with a fearful current.
With the force OF the current and
the full head OF steam. the steamer
shot ahead with the speed of an arrow.
and as the brow of the falls was reach
ed, the captain pulled the wire to shut
on steam. the steamer shot out OF the
water full length. exposing the whole
boat bottom. keel. wheel and rudder.
and then dropped into the boiling.
swirling water below the falls. Then
came work for the captain. The mad.
tumultuous waters were. Of course, un-
known to him. Hidden rocks were
ready TO deal destruction to the boat.
tuous. but, luckily. he guided her safe
ly into Quieter waters. when steam
was applied and she was soon run to
the landing. below the falls.
The Anaconda standard., 1895-11-21
CHICAGO MARKETS
Live stock.

Chicago, Nov. 20.-Native dressed beef
and steers were active at s3.159I7o; fewer
feeding cattle have been shipped East
this year than in recent years. owing to
the drought. but shipments from this city
TO western points this year have been
about 10000 head larger than for the cor
responding period last year. Western
rangers and Texans were firm and act
i've.
Hogs-Common to choice droves sold at
s335G3.70. Pigs sold at s3Q360
Sheep-Common to choice native sheep
were wanted at s1.75G240; western sheep
were saleahie at s2.40d3.15 for fair to
prime. and lambs were in demand at $50
Al