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The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-10-02
RAILROAD NEWS.

Engineer jim Garrett was down from
the Denver run Monday.
Elmer Bright of Iowa, brother-in-law
Of Brakeman Reed, is here visiting him.
Engineer Morris is back from the
Denver run where he has been for a
month.
Conductor Bill Usher returned from
Iowa Saturday with his mother and
children.
Officials W. I. Allen and W. h. Still
well Of Topeka we're here in ther special
car Tuesday.
Joe Houston, formerly employed as
clerk in the master mechanics Office,
was here this week visiting his brothers.
Engineer DAILY aud Fireman Swear
iBgen we're here from the Denver run
Wednesday having some work done on
their engine.
Engineer Dave Pringle, after having
been laid up for about ten months, has
reported for work and viii run out Of
GOOdiRnd He viii move his family
here from Roswell.
II Troubled With rheumatism Read Thi.,
ANNAPOLIS, Nd, April 16, 1894 have
used Chamberlain's Pain Balm for
rheumatism and found it to be all that
is claimed for it. believe il to be the
best preparation for rheumatism and
deep seated muscular pains on the
market aud cheerfully recommend it
to the public-John G. Brooks, dealer
In boots, shoes, ETC., No. Is MaiE
street.
ALSO READ THIS.
MECHANICsYmLE, st. Mary County
Md sold a bottle of Chamberlain
Pain Balm to Q man who had been sui
! feFiEg with rheumatism for severa
years. I5made him a we'll man. A. J
MCGill. For safe at 90 cents per bottl,
by Ennis i Walker.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-10-02

Now freight train consists, under
the present tonnage system, of 80 or
more cars. Suppose again that there
are to-day 80 cars in the GOodland
yards that must be sent out, what is
the labor cost of carrying those cars
100 miles? Here II is:
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-10-02
STRAIGHT TALKS TO VOTERS.
Two GOldbug Assertions Proven to BE
family Fal-P

Two GOldbug Assertions Proven to Be
T0teGy Fal.e.
A favorite epigram with gold stand
| ard speakers and writer's is this choice
morsel: "Under the % years operation
Of the single standard Of gold wages
have been increased and the cost of
living reduced"
No statement could be more false or
misleading than the above assertion.
To prove it one has but to apply the
allegation to local conditions, and, as
railroad labor is the best paid in the
west, take the Rock Island employees as
an example. The Rock Island came
into Goodland in the summer of 1888,
was thoroughly in operation in 1890.
Az that time the maximum number Of
loaded cars hauled by freight engine
was ID. Now, for example, suppose at
that time there were in the yards at
GoodIand 80 loaded freight cars that
must be sent out, what will be the
labor cost Of carrying those cars 100
miles? The train would have been cut
in two sections of 10 cars each, a full
crew on both, whose wages would have
bann as follows.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-22
EARLY NORsN IMMIGRATION.
A Spree at acknowledgements United
States PrOconsuI.

The sloop "Restaurationen'' plays
pretty much the same part in the his
tory of the Norwegian immigration Of
the nineteenth century as did the
'Mayfower" two centuries earlier in
the English immigration. The Restau-
rationer left Stavanger, Norway, July
4. 1925. with fifty persons on board.
and arrived at New York Oct 8, the
same year, with fifty-three persons on
board, a baby girl having been born
Sept. =. This must now be looked upon
as a well established historical even.
But there is an incident connected
with this voyage which borders on
the mythical, and at least one Nor
wegian-American student of history
is inclined to discredit it in toto.
The story is briefly as follows In
some way which has not yet been ac-
counted for the Restaurationer drift
ed out of its course as far south as
the Madeira island. Before reaching
this island pipe of wine was found
floating in the sea. The fluid was
hoisted on board the sloop, and the
emigrants drank so freely of it's con-
tents that they became unable to
manage the sloop, which drifted into
the harbor of Funchal without colors.
Fearing that the sloop might bring
some contagious disease, the COM
mander of the fortress ordered q cam
non 10 De aimed at II. But lust in
the nick of time one OF the emigrants
hunted up Norwegian flag, which he
ran UP to the top of the mast, thus
averting danger OF having the sloop
shelled. The matter was now eX-
planned, and the Norsemen received
much attention at Funchal. The Amer
lean consul gave them a large auan-
tity of provisions, including grapes
and before leaving the whole party
was invited by the consul to mag
nificent dinner ,rt 50 sr
o. N. Nelson, who has spent several
years of patient work in preparing a
history of the Scandinavians of the
United States, the first volume OF
which work appeared three years ago.
has scrutinized the accounts OF this
story very carefully. and has come
to the conclusion that additional light
on the subject would not be amiss.
Some one having expressed doubt as
to the existence of an American con-
suiate at such small place as
Funchal at the period in question.
Nelson some time ago wrote %to the
secretary of state for information on
that point,
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occupation in which they can engage
and that is one for which they are not
fitted by anything in their past expe-
rience. While the cultivation of the
soil is the primitive and natural occu-
patton of man, 1t does not offer a boun-
ty to him who has grown up from
youth in city surroundings, and is
ignorant of the simplest facts of nature
and of plant growth. The great scheme
of Gen. Booth for redeeming the slums
of London by turning their contents
upon the soil met this difficulty, and he
the men could learn something OF what
they were expected to do.
1t now appears that the cultivation
of these potato patches in various cities
has at the same time stimulated in the
men love of that kind Of work, and
given to them a credential that has
some standing with farmers in
search of laborers. The committees,
especially in the East, having this
work in charge, report that there is
quite a demand from farmers for men
who have engaged during the season
in this work, and quite a willingness
on the part of such men to fix them
selves permanently in agricultural la
Dor, for which, before that, they had
neither appetite nor aptitude. The city
potato patch has proved itself kin
dergarten to prepare men for the farm.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-22
AS OTHERS SEE Us.

If literature bears witness to the
truth, the Anglo-SaXon race is affected
just now by a restless desire to get a
view of it's own conduct from an extra
human and therefore disinterested
standpoint. In the last year three
books have been published in England
which are expressions Of this feeling.
In an anonymous st,ry, 1.-THE Curse of
Intellect" stated on good authority to
have been written by Lord Salisbury's
daughter, the hero devotes years to
the education OF an ape, until it has
acquired degree of intelligence which
enables him to take it into London So
ciety, upon which it pronounces judg-
ment in no measured terms. Mr.. Grant
Allen introduces denizen of the twen-
ty-fifth century into one of his re-
cent novels, and sets him to criticising
our habits and customs with lofty su-
periority. Mr.. H. G. Wells domiciles
in country vicarage an angel, whose
pain and perplexity demonstrate con-
clusively that even rural England is
no paradise.
Though couched in different language,
the verdict of the three critics is the
same; the world is a poor place, and
it's inhabitants are a bad lot at best.
These are facts which were familiar to
us long ago, however, and the reader
wonders idly if their temperance in
fiction may not be due to the temporary
appropriately Of the denunciatory parts
of the Scriptures with both pulpit and
pew. In other words, occasional scourg-
ing is a necessity of human nature
Our fathers went to the Bible for their
spiritual rebukes, which they took man
fully. Our own generation is more
fastidious and more perverse. 1t is no
longer to our taste to be told plainly,
"Ye are of your father the devil, and
the lusts o. your father it is your will
to do" Nevertheless we thirst for the
spiritual instruction and correction
which we would reject if it were Of
fered us outright, and so we take it as
we take history, sociology, economies
and everything else nowadays-in a
mild sugar-coating of fictioni
Later generations may question our
taste in this matter, and they cannot
fail to remark that if our need at any
time was for an Illuminating view of
ourselves from an extra-human stand
point we had but to recall the words
no man hears and forgets: "This is
the condemnation; that light has come
into the world, and we have loved dark
ness rather than light"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-22
THE GOLD OF WITWATERsRAND

When, seventy or more years ago,
good Bishop Heber wrote old Corona
tion," and, more. we suspect, to make
rhyme than to state then a current
fact, sung of the land
''Where Afric's sunny fountains
Roll down their golden sand"
he was not aware that he was dropping
into prophecy and that, before the
century ended, "Afric's golden sand"
would be playing an important, perhaps
revolutionary, part in the politics
and finances of the Christian world
Already the Witwatersrand has played
havoc in the money centers of Europe,
starting into motion e. current of spec
ulation that swelled into a cyclone that
made and scattered fortunes as it
swept over them. But as the storm
subsidized it is found that, while the
wild expectations of the "Kaffirs' can
not be materialized, there is a wealth
of gold in the Rand that is going to
produce a marked effect On markets,
in finances and in politics.
poured into the world such a stream
of gold in as little time as has the
Rand. 1t was only in 1888 that the dis
coveries of gold-bearing ground were
made, or that the development began
to make an impression. The output that
year was 700 ounces. The follow
ing year this was increased to 1888, 544
ounces. By 1890 the attention Of the
mining world was fully awakened, and
the tide of gold-seekers began to pour
into the Transvaal, and the output rose
to 494, 1863 ounces. This swelled the sue
ceeding year to 729, 23S ounces, and in
1892 to 1,210,S67; 1893 saw but a mod
crate increase, 1,478,473 ounces having
been mined, but in 1894 the output
leaped to 2,O24,159 ounces, and 1895 saw
turned out 2,277,6 more. This makes
an aggregate addition to the gold sup
ply Of the world, from this one source,
of S,S29, 4S5 ounces, and a money value
of over $4,000, 900.
Meantime the changes that have
taken place in the output of gold and
silver in this country in recent years,
under the impact of the various forces
Of the markets and of legislation, are
noteworthy. From an output Of 81
550, 900 ounces in 1879, with commercial
value of $35, 430 900, under the stimulus
of the Allison act Of 1878, production in
creased to 54,500,000 ounces in 1890, with
commercial value Of S57, 225, 900, the
value per ounce having declined from
$1.12 to $1046. Then came the Sherman
act in 1890, doubling the amount to be
compulsorily bought by the treasury,
| and the output responded by the pro-
duction of 63.500,00O ounces in 1892 hav-
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THE CRACKERS OF ORTHOGRA.
ply"

Terror as is the photography of our
English language to it's youth strug-
Cling to master it's contradictions and
manifest absurdities, and utter de-
spair as it is to the unhappy foreigner
endeavoring to familiarize himself with
it, it is undergoing, an evolutionary
process, painfully. slow, to be sure, but
one whose snail-likeaprogress can be
measured by comparison with what
it now is and what it was at any period
ser wrote in English uninteIligible to
the modern, down to a time within
the memory of men now living" The
'k" has droppedsto ut Of music and the
''u'' out of honor and color, and the m
from calm, within the memory of such
and the tendency is still at work
dropping useless finals and needless
silents. Taking Chaucer as the initial
and computing the rate of simplifica ton
since, one can carry the process out
into the future and fix with approx
innate accuracy the date when the Ian
guage will be relieved of all it's alb
surdities, loaded onto. it in the inter-
mixture of languages by which it was
formed, until it shall have returned to
the phonetic simplicity of the Teutonic
and Scandinavian branches of it's ORR
gin.
And this evolutionary process has
gone on, strange as 1T may seem, not
with the assistance of the learned, but
in spite of them. To be sure there is
no evidence of this, that amounts to a
demonstration, but there is a reason
ableness in the argument that carries
conviction. Men have gone to the gal
lows on slighter eircumstantial evil
dence than is that which sustains this
view Of our photographic growth 1t is
true that in our lRternyears there have
been formed pathological societies which
have discussed the 6arbarities of our
photography, and have adopted lists
of amended spelling, which have been
ignored with a ngaetiQal unanimity by
all except the members and used by
them only by painful effort But aside
from these reformers the educated
pride themselves on the fact that they
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-22

A correspondent of the New York
SIN criticises the motto on the Alli-
son button, which reads: 81 am Cor
Allison; who are you for?'' He asks the
Sun whether a man is a fl presidential
candidate whose campaigners use the
English grammar thus slightingly. Mr.
Allison's campaign manager is Gen.
James s. Garrison, statesman, politi-
clan and journalist, who knows not
only how to write dramatically, but
who also knows the idiosyncrasies Of
the people he has to deal with. He
knows that nothing would punch hole
in Allison's pneumatic tire so quickly
and surely as to indulge in any of the
ntcetieS of grammar, So Scorned by
the mass, by having the legend on the
button read: 81 am for Allison; for
whom are your" 1t has sort of aris-
tocratic air, an assumption of supe-
riority, putting on of airs, a con-
tempt of the common, everyday. 90
as-you please vernaculaf, that would
lead to political christening of his
candidate as Dennis"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-22
THE CHARTERS COMPARED.

In this mornings G. ] o b appears the
first of series of articles comparing
the present Bell charter with the gen
eral law known as the Howard act
This series is prepared by a gentle
man who is especially qualified, by pub
lie service and familiarity with the
legal aspects of both documents, to
write intelligently and accurately upon
the subject. Inasmuch as it is now as
sured that the Howard charter will
be voted upon at the spring election, it
is of the utmost Importance that our
citizens be thoroughly Informed as to
the issues involved. The opening arti-
Gle gives a general outline Of the diff
ferences in the schemes of government
regarded as wholes. It is written with
solely with intent to let the voters un-
derstand exactly what are the points
of difference between our municipal
scheme of government as it now stands,
and that which is offered for our ac-
ceptance or rejection. The G o b be-
lieves that these articles, the second of
which, taking up the charters in de-
tail, will appear in next Sundays issue
will be of the utmost value to our peo-
pie, who have, in the main, no oppor-
tunity to study these voluminous doc
uments for themselves. Read the char
ter articles, that you may vote with
knowledge and for the best interests
of st. Paul next May
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ing commercial value of 55,563, 900,
the ounce value having declined to
$0.S7 The success of the Democrats,
with their platform promise OF re-
peal of the purchase acts, followed by
their repeal, sent the product down to
value of $O.6S, and a total commercial
value of $S1, 422 900. On the other hand,
the gold product of $51 100000 in 1878
fell to an average of about $33,000,O0O
until the elections of, 1892. which acted
as stimulus to igold mining. The prod
uet of 1893 was $S5,ss5, 900, and in 1894
the latest data attainable. it was $780,
100000. II reS
The commercial effect of this tre-
mendous increase In gold will be to
stop the scramble for gold brought on
by the "bimetallic" agitation in this
and other countries, and in rise, first
in investment Securities and later in
produce, caused by the increased
money supply seeking work. The polit-
ical effect will take shape in the sub
sidence of the silver craze, with it's
source in Industrial depression and it's
panacea in industrial activity. Mean
time there is nothing to indicate that
'Afric's sunny fountains" will either
cease to roll down their golden sand"
or diminish the flow. 1t may not in
crease sufficiently to put solid foun-
dation under the Kaffir bubble, but it is
quite certain that there will be ma
terial increase for several years.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-22
SHOULD BE BETTER PROTECTED.

The decision rendered by our dis
received from contact with an electric
wire suggests the necessity of some
further legislation on this subject by
the state or city, or both. The place Of
beginning is the common council, where
the operations of local concerns may
be regulated. 1t appears, from the
rules of law laid down by the court,
that when electrical companies stretch
their wires over private property their
responsibility for accidents that may
occur is of the slightest. If, for in
stance, they cross the roof of a bust
ness block, persons who may be in
jured by contact with those wires are
required to show that they had bust
ness that called them upon the roof,
and that they could not have been ex-
pected, reasonably, to be familiar with
the nature Of electrical conductors and
the danger of handling them without
proper precautions.
We do not complain of the application
of the announced rules of law in any
all such cases should be covered by
local ordinance or general statute. The
business Of furnishing electric light and
power is private business. What
ever it may be necessary to do in fur
nishing appliances to convey the en-
ergy that it supplies commercially
should be done only under regulations
that completely insure the safety of
the public. A proper arrangement, of
course, would require that all conduct
ing wires used in such business should
be carried under ground. That is the
only rule of absolute safety. Where
this is not enforced, and where per-
sons so engaged carry live wires over
or across public thoroughfares or pri-
vate property, somebody should be held
responsible in case of accident 1t is
not the business of the private citizen
to go about with his life in his hands,
fearing the deadly shock in case of
any careless movement. Wherever such
wires are stretched, either the company
operating them or the person who has
given permission for them to traverse
his property should be accountable for
damages in case of any accident not re-
sulting from the most culpable negli-
gence.
The carelessness Of American cities in
this matter is incomprehensible and
criminal. In order to advance public
convenience and to promote private in
terest, live wires are carried hither and
thither with apparent caution, but act
ually with the utmost recklessness
when we consider their death-dealing
properties. One of the first duties of
the city council is to cover this subject
by proper ordinance which should
either compel electric wires to be placed
where they cannot work injury to any
one, or establish a fixed responsibility
that will enable the injured party to
collect reasonable damages
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-22
KINDERGARTENS FOR THE FAR
MER.

What is commonly known as the
''Pingree potato plan" has furnished no
end of fun to the humorists and para
graphers of the country. 1t has, never
theless, as the reports from all the
cities where it has been put into eff
feet show, been a quite potent practi-
cal influence in alleviating poverty. All
over the country associations have been
formed to secure tracts of vacant land
within city limits for cultivation by
the unemployed In most instances
ground SO procured has been plowed
and seed furnished free. Men out of
work have been allowed to put in crops,
of which potatoes are the staple, and
sell the products for their support dur
ing the following winter. While the
material results are not great in any
individual instance, thousands of fam
lilies have obtained food and shelter
during a season of enforced idleness
by this practical charity.
AS is always the case, the unforeseen
effects of this new idea are more inter-
esting than those which were planned
and expected. In this particular in
stance, it appears that the Pingree
plan has actually operated very gen
orally as a virtual kindergarten to pre-
pare the discouraged city worker for
the actual life of the farmer. Practical
philanthropists and students of hu-
man industry and it's adjustment have
long been urging the need of getting
the unemployed back to the land. For
a series of years, during which cities
were on the boom, and the visions of
great fortunes easily won were con-
stantly present to the rural mind, the
drift of population has been cityward.
All our statistics show it. The sure
result was the destruction of the nat
ural balance between country and CITY
population. The cities were overcrowd-
ed, with the result that there were
two applicants for every position to be
had. The country was drained of it's
young and vigorous population, and
check was put upon. the increase of ag-
ricultural work and production, out Of
which alone cities can grow.
But when it comes to reversing this
movement of population. a great prac-
tical difficulty stands in the way. The
countryman who rushes off to the civ
to seek his fortune is not held back by
the fear of being. unable to obtain en-
p1oyment. There are scores of occu-
pations that he can attempt, and in the
last resort he confides in being able to
at least maintain life by the simplest
form of manual labor. When it comes
to transpIanting the city's unemployed
to the country, there is but a single
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fallen in the popular estimation and is
beginning to chafe under the popular
contempt and suspicion to which it has
been so long insensible.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-22
WEATHER FORECAST.

For Minnesota: Fair; colder in eastern por-
ton; northerly winds.
For Wisconsin: Fair and colder, with
cold wave; northwesterly winds.
For South Dakota: Fair and slightly cold
er; northerly winds.
For North Dakota: Fair; warmer in eX-
treme northwestern portion; northerly, shift
ing TO easterly winds
For Montana: Fair; warmer in northern
and western portions; southeasterly winds.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-22

Republican papers claim that Mr.
Cousins, of Iowa, has leaped to fame
at single bound. His ride down the
toboggan will be at the same gait.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-22
TEMPERATURES.
DAILY MEANS.

Barometer, 29.76; thermometer, SO; relative
humidity. 6S; wind, northwest weather, clear;
maximum thermometer, 46; minimum Their
mOmeter, 90; daily range, 20; amount of rain
fall or melted snow in last twenty-four hours,
o.
Note-Barometer corrected for temperature
and elevation. p. f. Lyons, Observer.
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