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The advocate., 1896-01-01

The electric belt has come 81 bs standard
remedy. Our readers have used L. Mon.
bers Of our own StaR have been bensated.
To be sure there may bo diGeronoSS OF merit
In the different manufactures, but thO
principle % substantially the same We
have ourselves been familiar with the Dr..
Horne Electric Belt and Truss fora number
Of years. Old soldiers use the truss with
benefit. Thousands troubled with FheumS.
tIsm, lumbsgo, kidney complaints and dys-
pepslS Of various forms and symptoms have
been cured by thA belt. Electricity Is q
comparatively modern thing ~ applied -
healing Of diseases; 30 are AneSthotlcs and
Rerm killing inventions Of Paatear It II
one OF the modern improvements which
every thoughtful person must aOknOwledEe
Is q blessing 70 humanity. We d. MT heal.
tate % advise our friends who have these
diseases and disabilities 10 which the cleo.
trio treatment 70 peculiarly adapted. tD sp-
ply the belt We have never knowH PER
son 90 DO I1jured by Il We hivI k1swa
many % b cured. .--FarRA, Field and Rlge-
nldO' ChlGAGos
The advocate., 1896-01-01

trouble from sickness and overeating.
In this test not q sign Of sickness could
be discovered from beginning to ending.
This is especially remarkable when one
considers that the cattle were put on full
feed immediately, and that the ration
contained at least three times as much
ground linseed cake al the most daring
feeder had thus far ventured TO use,
This experiment. was made at time
when cattle and all kinds Of feed we're at
their highest price for several years.
The ground linseed meal cost about one
third more per ton than corn per ton. It
made meat on the cattle almost three
times as rapidly az corn alone would
have done, when fed pound for pound.
To have made the same amount Of meat
from corn, bran, chop or other feeds,
would have taken 100 to l75 days, and
would have cost at least one half to two
thirds more than this feed cost. In
figuring the cost Of feeding, the feeder
must take into account the actual cost
of his feed, the interest on the time his
money is invested in feed and cattle, the
increased danger from sickness ON long
feed, and the comparative healthfulnesS
Of each feed. When he does this, no will
surely use large quantities Of ground lin
seed meal.
In this test, some young pigs were put
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-06-12

rious rags and crusts. This money
power, this insatiate, remorseless, alb
normal development of a barbarous
civilization, has polluted every foun-
tain and stream designed to bless the
world.
Senator Tillman seems to believe that
the money power can be dislodged, and
that the vices, crimes and iniquities
which it has spawned can be remedied
by change in our monetary system.
In this do not agree with him. His
remedy is, in my opinion, totally in
adequate. 1t is a vastly larger question,
and involves infinitely more than a
change in our system Of finance, radi-
cal and sweeping as they may be. 1t is
a question Of industrial revolution and
social regeneration. The whole capt.
talistic system, which has its founda-
tion in wage-slavery, must be destroyed,
root and branch. The competitive prin-
ciple as applied to production and dis
tribution must give way to the Coop
erative principle. The one fosters
greed, avarice, cunning, cupidity, sell
fishness, brutality and the whole brood
Of vices that make men monsters and
fill the world with agony and woe. The
other engenders love, kindness, SYM
pathy, mutual help: in a word, the
brotherhood Of man, with which earth
is transformed into paradise, and the
sons of God may again shout for joy.
The basic political reform is, in my
opinion, embodied in direct legislation.
proportional representation and the
imperative mandate, and social indus
trial regeneration will come through
the inauguration Of the cooperative
commonwealth.
The evolutionary processes are in
operation, and the change will come on
certain as the stars shine, either on
peace lines or through the fiercest reyo-
luton that ever shocked the world.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-06-12

banker, why, any five men can take
advantage of the National Banking Act.
It's no special privilege"
"Of course they can," replied the edl-
tor; "and l wonder that there are so
many tramps doing nothing, when they
could have such an easy job, II, in
blocks Of five,' they should associate
themselves and organize a bank. All
they need is $4,000 or 100000 capital.
Certainly every American citizen has
the chance to run a bank. 1t Is good
business. For instance: The Chemical
National Bank of New York, capital
100000. Surplus, seven million. Par
value of stock, 800; market value,
forty-three hundred-forty-th times
as much as its par. No note circula-
ton. Deposits thirty million, and its
profit is from the credit based on about
one-quarter this sum. In addition to
the seven million profit represented by
the surplus, it's dividends have been
one hundred and fifty per cent per an
mum and in addition to that one hum
bred per cent is carried to surplus. Our
business comes from confidence said
the president in his testimony"
Dear me-" said the minister, II have
listened to all this about national
bank and the money power and the sys-
tenn doesn't appear to be just right. 1t
is a debt based on a debt; and we are
doing business on the basis of our
debts. To have money we must keep
in debt, and pay interest on the debt
forever, that we may have the evidence
of debt with which to exchange
wealth. 1t is interest on dollar, and
another interest on something not
earned, which is based on that dollar
and called national bank credit. Why
dollar printed on every fifty cents
worth of silver, seems to me, is better
dollar than promise to pay dollar
which has only twenty cents guaranty
in its possession that we shall finally
promise, If we get anything. More
promises to pay than there is money to
redeem the promises! Dear me! The
president of our national bank has do
mated the chapel in which try to lead
men to fear God; but fear that the
money-changers have so burdened them
with supporting themselves and the
banking system, that they do not come
to church so often as they might If they
were emancipated from this bondage.
Mans body is Gods temple, and the
money-changers must be DRIVEN out.
must have a sermon on this"
you'll get fired if you do" whispered
a rude voice in the rear of the room; but
the minister did not hear it.
These figures are from the testimony
of the president of the bank to con-
gressional committee, 1894.
e. GERRY BROWN.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-06-12
The VanderbIlt Castle.

The work on George w. Vanderbilt's
estate near Asheville, N. c., on which
he has erected mansion that breaks
all records for residence in this coun-
try, is reported to be nearly finished
1t will be known as Biltmore castle.
The estate consists of thirty thousand
acres of land; which might be made
into thirty-four pieces Of land as large
as Central Park. New York. Each
member of Mr.. Vanderbilts family
might, therefore, have all to himself a
private playground several times as
large as all the breathing spots set
aside for a million and half Of New
Workers.
The mansion stands on a spot once
occupied by mountain peak. Mr..
Vanderbilt had the peak cut off and
carted away. In order to expedite
the construction of his castle a plant
was put up that turned out 10000
bricks and 1000 flowerpots a day, the
latter to be used in a seventy-five-acre
plot set aside for greenhouses and flow
er garden.
A railroad was built between Bilt-
more station and the castle for the
transfer of materials, and this line will
be torn UP when the work is done.
There is deer park of 5000 acres,
and extensive trout ponds.
The entire enterprise, it is estimat-
ed, will cost Vanderbilt about $5,000,-
000.-Chicago Express.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-06-12
THE PARTING OF THE WAYS.
Positively the Last Appearance in the
United States.

Positively the Last Appearance In the
| United States.
The parting Of the ways" seems to
have been reached by good many pub
lie men. Senator German says, Il have
done all the dirty work for the Cleve-
land crowd that propose to do and
| won't go to Chicago" Senator Vest de-
clares that If the administration forces
capture the Chicago convention in the
interests of the gold bugs" he will bolt
the convention. Congressman Cockrell,
of Texas, writes his constituents that he
will not accept denomination; he says he
is tired of parading under demo-
cratic banner which has been SO foully
besmirched by men claiming to be dem
ocrats." He declares he will never
vote for gold standard man for presi-
dent" Senator Teller of Colorado has
written a letter to be read at the repub-
lican convntion of his state, declin-
ing to go to the st. Louis convention,
unless the Colorado convention agrees
with his views on silver. He says: Il
do not intend to support candidate on
IL
form of doubtful construction" He says
he recognizes where this declaration
places him, and he accepts the situation
with all its logical results, but to do
otherwise would be to stultify his rec
ord. There are many others who are
doing likewise. The time has come
when men of honor will no longer hold
their principles in allegiance and stultify
their convictions for the sake Of belong
ing to a party. 1t is not the question
whether these men hold convictions
which other men indorse, or do not in
dorse. 1t is enough that they believe
they are right. All right-minded peo-
pie must respect honest conviction and
the man who dares sever lifelong party
ties rather than play traitor to his soul.
Too long have the masses of the re-
publican and democratic parties sub
ordinated their sense of right to party
success, in the vain hope that the time
would soon come, when their parties
would abandon a time-serving policy
and take their stand on the higher plane
of honest conviction. We are happy to
know that the true American has con-
tributed its full share to the political re,
generation of this country. We have no
cause for disbursement; our labors
have borne frrits which sJffs In Chi.
go hospitals Terms reasonable - s-|s.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-06-12

Every man who labors is entitled tx
enjoy the fruits thereof, and if he does
not, there is something wrong in oul
economic system. A man who labors
earns an abundance of good things, and
If he does not enjoy them. some other
person does. Under proper conditions
every laboring man should have:
Corn in the corn crib,
Chickens in the yard,
Meat in the smoke house,
And a tub full of lard.
milk in the dairy,
Butter by the load,
Coffee in the box
And sugar in the gourd.
Cream in the pitcher,
Honey in the mug,
Cider in the demijohn,
And liquor in the Jug"
The only road that leads to this con-
dition of plenty is through a change
in the conditions, and a change can
only come by a change of national pol
icy. Vote for a change!-Southern
Mercury.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-06-12
come when this whole matter will be In
vestigated, and the bonds declared to
be illegal and repudiated as such.
TWENTY WHY'S.


Which Republicans and Democrats VIII
DO Well tn Think About.
Why does 1t take lawyers to explain
the great principles of the democratic
and republican parties, while farmers
explain the principles of the peoples
party?
Why is 1t that members Of the peo-
pies party can tell why they are Popu-
lists, and republicans and democrats
cannot tell why they are republicans
and democrats?
Why can Populists understand the
financial situation, but democrats and
republicans cannot understand it?
Why do Populist papers and speak,
ers tell the people that they can I'M
derstand the finance question, but the
republican and democrat papers and
speakers tell them that they can not?
Why do democrat and republican
leaders ask the people to take po-
sition upon a question that they can
not understand?
Why do Populist leaders urge every
man to study politics, and the old party
leaders ridicule the idea of farmers and
laborers understanding politics?
Why do Populists try to learn the
people politics, and the two old parties
try to make them believe that they are
too ignorant to learn?
Why do Populists invite democrats
and republicans to come and join the
icc1I with bar hot IL
ings. but the two old parties refuse
Populists the same right at their pub
lie speakings?
Why should men vote upon issues
they do not understand?
Why is it that the democrats never
quote Lincoln on finance?
Why is it that the republicans never
quote Lincoln on finance?
Why not drop the legal tender clause
Of gold by our law If it is the money
of the world Independent Of law?
Why object to the full legal tender
clause and free and unlimited coinage
Of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, if law
does not make money?
Why should man want a gold
standard that he never owns, to travel
in foreign countries where he never
goes, and objects to silver and green
backs for fear he will get too much,
while he and his family is double
worked, half clothed, rough fed, and
cannot pay his debts?
Why should farmers want high
salaried officials, high taxes, high in
terest on the money, and low priced
products to foot the bill with?
Why should the farmer be in favor
of the government loaning money to
national banks at one per cent. per
annum and not loan to the farmer at
any price?
Why do not religious democrats and
republicans take Gods advice on usury
if they cannot understand the finance
question?
Why do preachers not take such texts
as "The Love Of Money is the Root Of
all Evil" 1T is easier for a camel to
go through the eye Of needle, than
for rich man to enter the kingdom
of heaven" HE upset the tables of
the money changers" Restore, pray
we, to them even this day, their lands,
their vineyards, their olive yards, and
their houses, also the hundredth part
of the money and of the corn, the wine
and the oil that we exacted of them"
Why does a preacher serve God left
handed, but serve mammon with his
right hand?
Why did Christ favor the tramp and
tramp himself, and oppose the rich and
our preachers take the reverse?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-06-12

Willey-"I tell you it's better in the
end to be honest. Did you ever know
a rogue who wasn't unhappy" Shalley
mo; but then one would hardly ex-
pect rogue to be happy when he is
known. It's the rogues who are not
known who are happy."-Woonsocket
(R. ~ Reporter.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-06-12

Cheap money" is the proper name for
an honest money, but Sound money" is
a misnomer for what the gold bugs
want.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-06-12
HAS NO AUTHORITY.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND'S RE-
CENT BOND ISSUES.

Neither the Funding Act of 1870, Nor
the Resumption Act of 1878 Au-
thorizes the Issue of Bonds with
Which to Buy Gold - Ruined the
Party.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-06-12
BANKER AND FARMER
e. GERRY BROWN MAKES A
SPLENDID ILLUSTRATION.

How Rustic Old Hsyscod Put Ma
tional banker In . Hole-Farmers All
Undsrstand the Great Money Question,
and VIII Vote Accordingly.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-08-21
Tho Ideal Academy Votes.

The Journal of Education has been
collecting votes for the constitution OF
the ideal academy of 40 Englishmen
of letters. The results are somewhat
surprising and can only be accounted
for on the theory that plebiscites in gen
eral arc mighty uncertain in their oper-
atiCn. AT the head of the list as made
up by the majority of the votes stands
Mr.. Ruskin, who is already considered
here as being something more than a
declining influence. But it is more sur
prising still to find Mr.. Lecky and Mr..
Swinburne bracketed as equal seconds.
Herbert Spencer appears to be nearly
as popular as Mr.. Meredith and little
more so than Mr.. Morley, while Mr..
Arthur Balfour, on the strength of his
metaphysical output, finds himself on
the same level as his newly appointed
poet laureate, Alfred Austin Mr. Bryce,
whose great book on America one would
have thought might have secured him Il
better fate, is on a par with Sir John
Lubbock, and the Duke of Argyll fol-
lows close upon their heels. Anthony
Hope and Dean Farrar are tied up to-
gether, while at the bottom of the list
there straggle in curious assortment,
including Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Mr..
Pinero, the dramatist and Lord KEEL
vim, of all men in the world. 1t is in
teresting to note that ~ years ago the
same journal pursued the same course,
and that half of the 40 of 1888 are al
ready dead, including nearly all the
great ones, such as Tennyson, Matthew
Arnold, Browning, Froude, Freeman
and Cardinal Newman, while George
Meredith, who today occupies the fourth
place upon the list, was then only sixth
from the bottom of it.-New York Mail
and Express.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-08-21
PEN PUNCTURES.
La the swim--tlc marine cycle.

In the swim--tlc marine cycle
The motor cycle has not made bi.
cycles unstable as yet.
a gracefully curved handle bar goes
far toward making wheel popular.
Least wise-the rider who coasts an
unknown hill with brakeless machine.
Gratitude is good thing. A man
should feel some every day he rides
wheel.
The rider who recklessly scorches
through crowded streets is but forecast
ing his hereafter.
The story of the pneumatic tire is
the most romantic one on the pages of
commercial history.
An examination of this years models
of women's wheels shows that they are
wearing pulled tires.
When discussing cycling's sphere, re-
member the ball bearing is something
very much of that nature.
The fad of cycle shoemaker should
have whole souled ring and make a
lasting impression to boot.
Looks as though church and cycle in
tended to shake hands and both work
for the common good of mankind.
What doth it profit man if the
wheel he rides be the best in the world
and the tire thereon be poor one?
Neither age nor sex nor previous
condition of servitude is exempt from
the desire to own and ride n bicycle.
Balaam's steed was the humble ass,
and if that abused jackass could preach
to BALKAN why can't bicycle preach
to the Balaams of today?
1t is truly wonderful how even the
nest taciturn man will discover unlim-
tied resource of vocabulary when his
tire goes wrong. Wheel.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-08-21
When Wheeling Is Universal.

1t is not Impossible that before the
end of the century every one will ride Il
wheel, and ride it under all circum-
stances. If this happens, will the very
ability to walk disappear after time!
Will the human leg be adapted to the
wheel and nothing else? Think what a
stupendous revolution in our social hab-
its this would IMPLY
There would be no more dances for
one thing, and at present the whole So
cial structure revolves, SO to speak,
about the dance-in fact, the vista OF
change opened by the advent of the
wheel is infinite. The human eye re-
fuses to take it all in Meanwhile
every one is living, dwelling, in grand
and awful time, and every one ought
to realize it. -EXchange.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-08-21
A Poisonous Orchid.

A comparatively common orchid, the
Cypripedium Specialize, one of the old
est of cultivated species, has been dis
covered by Mr.. d. Z. MacDougal to
possess decided poisonous properties.
These properties are localized in the
leaves and stems. They manifest them
selves by special cutaneous irritation
i'll those who are so imprudent as to
handle the orchid in question. This IT.
ritation recalls that which appears in
persons who have handled rhus (poison
ivy). The substance that causes the eff
fects consists of an oily matter secreted
by the glandular hairs. This matter is
found, as in the Chinese primrose, de-
posted between the cellular wall and
the cuticle of the terminal cellule of the
hair. 1t is set free by the rupture OF the
cuticle. This poisonous substance seems
to perform the function of projecting
the reproductive portion OF the plant,
for the virulence of the poison and the
quantity secreted increase as the plant
develops and attain maximum during
the formation of the seeds. Revue Sci
entifiuue.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-08-21
The Bicycle Button.

All the coat lapels of the country are
showing eruptions of buttons There are
bicycle buttons enough in evidence on
citizens breasts to cover every cannibal
and ex-cannibal in Africa with coster
singers costume.
Many man who sneers at personal
decoration and has lofty contempt for
the usual articles de vertu grabs at Il BIZ
cycle button the moment Il wheel agent
offers it to him and Immediately sets it,
like blazing electric light, on the front
elevation of his raiment and sails down
the street with Il just tell them that you
saw me air that is positively ravishing
He is prouder of the button than girl
is. of 81 diamond ring and wears ii
with Asiatic assertiveness. He woulo
scornfully refuse to carry tin sign on
his chest setting forth whose machine
he rode, but give him button, gorgeous
as Coney Island sunset and magni-
tudinous as full moon, and he isn't Il
bit ashamed of ton the contrary, he S
stuck up over it as a boy is of his first
pair of boots.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-08-21
Eeer by the Pound.

"What do You think of getting IA
pounds Of been for nickel?" said man
the other day. well, out III the south
ern part of the city they sell beer in this
way altogether, especially at the little
German groceries with saloon annex.
When people come into the place for a
pitcher Of beer, the vessel is set on
scales and weighed. Then the customer
is asked if he wants lager or common
beer. If he wants cents worth of the
first, he gets d pounds, but if he wants
common beer he gets q pounds. The
dealer saw did not know how the GUS
tom of weighing beer originated. The
stand has been handed down for several
generations, and beer was never meas
ured otherwise than by weighing. -
Louisville Courier journal.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-08-21
A Rare Stamp.

An interesting and valuable addition
has been made to the splendid collection
Of stamps in the Philosophical museum.
1t is half crown stamp, lettered
America, " and is the sole survivor of
those attempted to be forced upon our
colonists at Boston who threw the chests
Of tea into their harbor, for the colonists
destroyed all the stamps as well, except
this which Mr.. Philbrick, O. c., is
fortunate enough to be the possessor of.
Another valuable addition is a series of
fine specimen copies of Australian
stamps sent by Major E. II. Watts Of
Newport Boston Traveller
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-08-21
ODD SPOkES.

Where there is a wheel there is not
always IA way.
Fancy dress cycle parades are the
rage i'll England.
Ice cold milk should be avoided by
cyclists oppressed by heat.
The bicycle is the evangelist Of the
most progressive era ever known.
Ex-Governor Hogg of Texas calls a
bicycle "dromedary for dudes. -
Darlington Booth says it is better to
work the pedals than the trainmen on
Sunday.
1t is unlawful III New Orleans for
any one one to ride a bicycle the handles
of which are lower than the saddle.
America exported to Great Britain
S42S, 635 worth of cycles and sundries
during the first three months Of this
year.
A new star appears to have risen in
the English racing armament i'll the
person of a Russian named Michael
Diakoff.
Where does the urchin get the fear
fully and wonderfully constructed bone
shaker that he trundles out on the paths
and boulevards?
The foreign racing men use very high
gears. Michael rides with a "a inch
gear; Lenton, 90 inch; Huret, 81 inch
Stocks, 81 inch; Chase, 90 inch; Bar
den, So inch.