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where PeddIers and Hackmen, Are to Apply
Now for Their Permits.

NWW THbH IN
In accordance with an ordinance passed re-
Gently by the Municipal Assembly. the Mayor
established a License Bureau in connection with
his office yesterday. DavldJ. Roche. the Mayors
First Marshal. was made chief of the bureau.
His salary is ~. SO0a year. Col. Joseph Keller
was appointed cashier at q salary of II, 700.
Tho new Bureau of Licenses will supersede tho
same rooms. and from It will DO issued an
NoenseS 70 hucksters. peddlers, So
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-12
Yell from Msr.e Car ana yraelursa Hls Sun.

Christopher Schick. a property clerk In the
Department of Street Cleaning. fell from a Dry
Dock and Avenue ID horse car ut Sixteenth
street last evening and fractured his skull. He
condition. He lives at 2t0 East Nineteenth
street,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-12
ARIOy BALL CROWDED.
"Aa'sen square Garden Filled with the Gus
i"mary Conflicting Eiementa.

me Arion ball. with its underlying stratum
= u leu'ohics olemnity and tsfrotho of extraneous
EaSety' took place last night at the Madison
square Garden. The hall was filed with tho
Customary n conflicting elements. The decora-
, wsno whIeh appealed to every fashion or taste.
W mese orilliant. The solid element was the first
had gone. '"' '''"'ne h'eiier aiteri
regulations did little to mitieate
hail. IN sr ba crowd which oyerwhelms ali Arion
sjasr. out ne crowd grew less as the night grew
sN'i ana those who stay ed late had u GOOD time.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-12
FRED d. ROBBINS OUT OF POLITICS.
To Leave AiIegany County and Form . Law
Partnership In HorneIisvillo.

BOLIVAR, n. V, Fob. 11.-One of tho closest
friends of tho Hon. Fred A. Robbins, the anti
Platt leader OF Allcgany county, to-day an
nounced that Mr.. Robbins will on March / form
a law partnership with the Hon. Charles A. Dol.
son OF Hornellsville and remove from Angelica
10 that city. This move leaves the anti-Platt
men OF Aliegany county without a loader. and
goes u long way toward clearing the political
atmosphere. Mr.. Robbins. 1t Is said. has become
talents to the practice of his profession. Dolson
is a Democratic State Committeeman and an
influential politician.
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"a DAFs IN AN ICE FLOE.

'aA voyage or the british Schooner TeIe-
pnoAe from Exeter 10 81. Johns.
81. JOINS. n. F.. Feb. 1.-THE British
s.nr Telephone. Capt Connolly, afty.two
oa.s from Exeter for st. Johns, with a general
baitfts..oaT arrived to-day. Her bulwarks were badly
Imasbsd Snu her stanchions. rails and deck gear
was snm oy me rough weather she met. She
days n u In an ice fioe for twenty-seyen
- ohe OF the crew suffers from a broken ie1.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-08-05
Spanish Ignorance.

Since the war broke out we have had
some very amusing illustrations Of the
depths of popular ignorance in Spain.
The Spaniards have been left in such
an illiterate and uneducated condition
by their rulers that they have ne idea
whatever Of the strength and resources
Of the United States. Thus there is a
general belief among the Spariards
that our whole fighting strength is 25,-
600 men. There is also an impression
among them that all the states of the
American union are simply so many
parishes or districts. In a word. to
quote the expressive phrase Of Flight
ing Bob" Evans, they do not know
what they are up against" These
facts regarding Spain's ignorance show
the peril the exploiters of the masses
expose themselves to In times OF crises.
They must keep the masses in fgno-
rance in order to exploit them, but this
very ignorance proves The ruin Of the
expIoiters when the country enters a
grave crisis like that which now con-
fronts Spain Ex.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-08-05
Loss 70 Tabor.

Speaking of private enterprise brings
US to the subject Of the gunpowder. All
civilized governments of the earth
have discarded the old red and black
gunpowder and adopted the new smoke
less kind-all except our own govern
ment, which does not make It's gun
powder, but leaves the manufacture
thereof to private enterprise. But as 1t
costs money to equip a plant for the
manufacture of smokeless powder, our
private enterprises refused to be at the
expense and our government, always
alive to the blessings of private enter
prise, kindly consented to make use OF
the old kind. The result Is that such
modern guns as we have and which re-
quire the smokeless powder cannot be
supplied except from abroad There
are nc facilities In this country fof the
manufacture of smokeless gunpowder,
and we could not make a pound of it
without first equipping plant, and
that would take time AS the corpora
tons engaged in the manufacture OF
gunpowder--including the Dupont
works have 'pull," we have no mod
ern gunpowder. Twentieth Century.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-08-05
Lessons Of the War,

The real lesson of the war Is still
carefully concealed from the masses Of
the people. That lesson Is that we de-
pend too much upon private enterprise.
That is why the whole country is
dawdling about, doing nothing, while a
decrepit and contemplate power like
Spain defies US in our own waters with
perfect impunity. II the government
owned its own powder works, clothing
mills and supply shops, 1t could long
ago have uniformed the half naked and
wholly unarmed men now idling their
time away down South But the gov
ernment does not own these things and
the contractors coolly tell us that we
must wait until autumn before our
armies can move. This is the true ex-
planation Of all the delay, and it can
not be concealed from the people very
much longer. As the British army Of
ficer said the other day, it is lucky for
rs that we are fighting an inferior and
bankrupt nation. If we were now fac
ing Germany or France, with their
government supply shops and powder
and bullet plants, our population would
be dying off like sheep.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-08-05
Carnival Of Contract.

There Is not the least propect that
the present carnival of contract In con-
nection with the war will come to an
end. Consider the single item of army
uniforms, The contracts were distrib-
dted among the firms that had pull
with the administration, and the charge
is freely made that o bribery fund of
$4,000 did its work in connection with
one large order of uniforms. A single
firm In this city noted for its sweat
shops and for it's dubious methods in
buying seconds at the cloth mills. has
captured a large uniform contract af-
ter having spent a large sum in WASH
ington. Indeed, some of the stories re-
garding these clothing contracts fairly
surpass belief. Nor is this the worst
feature OF this business. Nearly all the
firms that have captured contracts are
noted for their tyranny to their work
people. Union labor received very lit
tie recognition and we do not think 1t
any exaggeration to say that sca4b Ia
bor will be employed upon three
fourths of the uniforms to be made for
our troops. Perhaps the proportion
will be even greater than this. s.--Ex.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-08-05
V. NATCHTTOCHEs La, AUGUST 5. 1885,

slowly, studied hard and thought
much. But it is superfuous to dwell
upon these details of well-known and
universally respected character.
In his personal traits Mr.. Bellamy
was one Of the most charming of men.
Disease had for years been pressing
him hard, but no did not bend his back
under the burden. Pain was his con-
stant companion during the latter part
Of his life, but so we'll did he endure
1t that the world had no suspicion OF
his condition until the end had come.
Now that the end has come, the whole
world seems to perceive that Edward
Bellamy was, after all, one of the
worlds great men. He ceased TO oe
an accident" He will always be
placed among the immortals. His rank
will be that of the first. Generations
hence, when the ideas for which he
battled have prevailed, posterity may
crown him the prince of seers--the one
reader Of the future.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-08-05
Death Of Edward Rellam,.

Mr.. Bellamy was one of those men
concerning whom there are necessarily
two opinions. We are all sufficiently
familiar with the voice OF detraction,
30 far as it made itself heard with ref
erence 20 his work. He was called an
accident" His masterpiece was de-
ciared to have been written simply as
pot boiler" and with no intention
whatever Of contributing anything 10
the sum Of human knowledge. No one,
We are told, was more surprised than
himself at the vogue attained by his
book, and be at once set about carrying
out it's leading principles, although
himself destitute Of any training that
would fit him for such task. Final
", there is the fact that influential So
eialists have begun to find fault with
works OF a character known as Utopian.
Utopian works, they say. ere calculated
to inspire false hope and propagate
grotgsQue ideas, thereby discrediting
the whole socialist movement.
It was, perhaps, the greatest Of Ed
+ ward BeIlamy's attributes that de-
traction Of this sort had no effect
whatever upon him. He did not look
uport himself as the heaven-sent saw
ioH 1T mankind. He did not think that
his yBtem was the last stage Of per-
fection. He did not put his work To-
acthsr Ia q violent hurry He worked
Natchitoches populist., 1898-08-05
wasted Prof,ts.

BY Bolton Hall: Lucius Delmonico,
the great restaurant keeper, used TO
say that the profits Of restaurant
go into the swiIl barrel" The profits
Of labor papers 90 into the scrap bas-
ket. and It Is reformers who put them
there. / am not less busy than most
men either in money grubbing or in
real work, but never let piece OF
literature which could make anyone
discontented or show anyone the real
remedy OF discomfort be wasted. II
possible, I mark an appropriate or
striking paragraph and send or give it
to someone. II not, leave it in a bar
Der shop, restaurant, car or letter box.
So anarchist, single-tax, socialist
or PCpulist papers ind their way into
hands that would never get them other
wise,
Ii all reformers would adopt this sim
pie plan we would double the useful
ness and shortly the circulation and
advertisements Of the agItating press.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-08-05
VOL. ~.
LABOR AND INDUSTRY
BONE ITEMS OF INTEREST TO
UNION WoRKMEN.
Some Lessons from the War--Private
Contracts Embarrassing the War De-
partment-The Late Edward Bellamy
His Attractions.
Doris: A Pastoral.

written by Arthur Joseph Munby. an
English lawyer who has published sew
sral volumes Of poems. Mr.. Munby was
born sixty-nine years ago. We publish
Doris by request)
sat with Doris, the shepherd maiden;
Her crook was laden with wreathed
flowers;
I sat and wooed her, through sunlight
wheeling
And shadows stealing, for hours and
hours.
And she. my Doris, whose lap encloses
Wild summer roses of sweet perfume,
The while / sued her kept hushed and
ehearkened,
Till shades had darkened from gloss to
gloom.
She touched my shoulder with fearful fin
She said: I'VE linger; we must not
stay;
Ny iocks in danger. my sheep will wan
der;
Behold them yOnder. how far they
stray"
answered bolder, Nay, let me hear
you,
And still be near you, and still adorei
NO wolf nor stranger will touch one year
ling,
An! stay, my darling, moment morew
She whispered, sighins,, There viii be
sorrow
Beyond tomorrow, II I lose to-day;
Ny fold unguarded. my flock unfolded.
shall be scolded and sent away
Said !. denying, IF they do miss you.
They ought to kiss you when you get
home;
And well rewarded my friend and neigh
Dor
Should be the labor from which you
come"
"They might remember" she answered
meekly,
THAT lambs are weakly, and sheep are
wild;
But If they love me. it's none so fervent:
am the servant, and not child"
Then each hot ember glowed quick with
In me,
And love did win me to swift reply;
"Ah! do but prove me; and none shall
bind you,
Nor fray nor find you, until diel''
She blushed and started: I stood await
ing,
AS If debating in dreams divine:
But did brave them: told her plainly
She doubted vainly-she must be mine.
So we, twin-hearted, from all the valley
Did rouse and rally her nibbling ewes:
And honeward draye them. we two to-
gether,
Through blooming heather and gleam-
ing dews.
THAI simple duty fresh grace did lend
her.
My Doris tender, my Doris true;
Thai !, her warder, did always bless her,
And often press her to take her due.
And now in beauty she fills my dwelling,
With love excelling and undefiIed;
And love doth guard her, both fast and
3ervent,
NO more a servant, nor yet child.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-08-05
MoNoMETALLIsM.
By George Fred Williams.

By George Fred Williams.
1t needs little argument to show that
expansions and contractions In the sup
ply Of precious metals caused by nature
are In no wise different in their effects
from those caused by the will of man.
But the natural fluctuations have
been only periodical; and always meas
ured by the utmost capacity OF man to
bring these precious instruments OF
prosperity out from the bowels of the
earth. These fluctuations must be en-
dured so long as nature f1xes the limit,
but no economist denies that regular,
increasing annual supply correspond
ing to the increase Of population and
production is for the best interests of
man, and secures that one principle in
monetary science which all admit as
vital, viz, stability.
In recorded history no instance ap-
pears in which a nation has suffered
from an EXCESSIVE supply Of metallic
money.
But we came at last upon wonder
full innovation which set at naught the
universal experience and practice Of
mankind. Since history began, man
has searched eagerly the wilderness
Natchitoches populist., 1898-08-05
sixteen to One or Bust.


The surrender of the demand for fres
coinage would be surrender to the
London syndicate, not of that one
point only, but Of everything.
If the Rothschilds must underwrite
our treasury as they did with President
Cleveland's assistance; IL they can die
tate our policies at home and abroad as
they are attempting to do now through
President Mckinley, then the new
epoch for America Of which we hear
SO much from Mr.. Hanna's friends has
come indeed
But before Mr. RotbschiId can do this,
he will have to invest in Krupp guns
and bayonets much larger portion OF
the proceeds OF his usury than he is
likely to be willing to part with
Journal of Agriculture.
s---------------4---- --------------
The less hair q woman has the mors
time 1t takes her to arrange 1t.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-08-05
NATCHlTOCHES DIRECTORY.
CHURCH SERVICES.

Services at the Methodist church
every First and Third Sundays at IL
a. m. and 7:30 p. NJ, by the pastor,
Rev. H. Armstrong. Prayer meeting
every Wednesday night at 7:S0 O. clock.
BApr1sr--M. f. Weaver, pastor.
Regular services. Second and Fourth
Sundays at II q. IN. and 8 p. m. sun
day school, 10 q. m; prayer meeting,
Wednesday, s p. m. All invited.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-08-05
DEAR DOLLARS.
BY Charles A. Towne.

oy SnIAiC IA IO"hS,
According to Mr.. Mulhall the total
volume Of the two metals in existence
as coin and as bullion available for
coinage early in the century was in
the ratio Of 1872 parts of silver to OF
gold, while the latest statistics show
the ratio today to be almost exactly
16 to !.
Shall we say that France maintained
the parity at 15h to l when the bulk
relation was 32.2 to 1, and that the
United States will not be able to main.
tain 1t at Is to / when the bulk ratio
is almost exactly is to 1? During the
last year the production of gold and oi
silver was practically the same, at coin.
age value.
Since 1893 there has been $500, ,00O,.
600 worth more of gold produced than
Of silver, and since 1892 there has been
over s400,000,000 worth more Of gold
produced in the world than of silver
From 1892 to 184S, flfty-six years, there
was produced twice as much silver as
gold; from 1S49 to 1862 three times as
much gold as silver; from 1863 to 1873
twice as much gold as silver, and dur
ing the last twenty-four years only 1q
per cent more Of silver than of gold.
During time when for fifty years
there was produced three times as much
OF one of the metals as of the other the
ratio was almost exactly the French
mint ratio of 151s to /.
So tremendous a disproportionats
production was unequal to changing
the relation at which they were rated
because the law clothed them with that
relation to each other and gave them
employment SO. That is all there was
| to it.
And, now, during the last twenty.
four years, when there have been pro.
duced more nearly equal outputs of golt
and silver than at any other time In 40(
years, the market disproportion has
been twice as great as ever before il
human history, even reaching 34 to /.
And we are asked to believe the IN
thinkable and impossible conclusion
that whereas during fifty-six years 1O'
per cent difference In production wa
unable to change the market ratio O
gold and silver to any extent whatever
yet 10 per cent difference in twenty
four years has changed 1t over 100 pc
cent! The position is absolutely un
tenable.
There Is no other possible explana
tion but that 1t was the stoppage of tn
mints which caused the demand for sill
yer to lessen, the value OF gold to rise
and that of silver and all other thing
to fall; that 1t was scarcening of tn
money supply that led silver and com
Natchitoches populist., 1898-08-05

and braved It's dangers that he might
find the treasures of gold and silver,
the one as we'll as the other, until at
the end of thousands Of years men have
arisen who declare. that one Is precious
and the other is base.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-08-05

Within the lifetime of those pre-
sur1ptuous man has discarded the
teachings OF history, of craftsmanship.
of philosophy, by his attempt to adjust
the mighty mechanism of human trans
actions to one metal instead of two
Surely we are not mad who appeal to
an experience so universal and invari-
able that 1t seems almost certain to
have divine sanction!
Natchitoches populist., 1898-08-05
LODGES.

Phoenix Lodge No. SO. A. F. Il A.
M.-Simcoe Walmsley. W. NJ; ]. G.
Trichel Jr., Sec. Meets FIRST and
Third Wednesdays at p. m.
Castle Hall No. SO, Knights of Pyth-
ias.-U. P. Breazeale, G. G.; Adolph
L'Herisson. K. of r. & s. Meets
Second and Fourth Thursdays at s
p. m.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-08-05
COURTS.

DISTRICT COURT.
Criminal Term.-First Mondays in
June and December.
CIVIL TERM.
First Mondays in March and Octo.
Der.
CIRCUIT COUNT.
First Mondays in April and Novem
ber.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-08-05

There Is no other possible explana.
tion but that 1t was the stoppage Of the
mints which caused the demand for sill.
yer to lessen, the value OF gold to rise,
and that of silver and all other things
to fall; that 1t was scarcening of the
money supply that led silver and COM
modities to fall and gold to rise.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-08-05

The less hair woman has the mors
time 1t takes her to arrange it,
Natchitoches populist., 1898-08-05

What shall we say of a physician
who studies the red drops In our veins,
and, finding white cells floating with
the red, declares these latter harmful
and applies process to remove them?
The patient weakens and sinks. In
our Industrial system, mayhap, some
wise men have tried a like experiment.
The body polite languishes and sufIers.
oh, the wise man, the blood OF in
dustry Is money. Give back the white
corpuscle But what shall be said fur
ther Of this physician who answers our
protest impatiently. then abusively,
and at last with curses? What do you
know of medicine? You must have con-
fdence." Alarmed and ashamed. you
continue the doses, and the pangs in
crease But what can his motive be?
Poor patient! 1t Is his fee. Show him
the door and live.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-08-05

And, now, during the last twenty
four years, when there have been pro-
duced more nearly equal outputs of gold
and silver than at any other time In 400
years, the market disproportion has
been twice as great as ever before in
human history, even reaching "a to /.
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WEST ELLSWORTH.

Mrs. Lorenzo Wilbur is spending a few
days with her daughter, Mrs. George NJ.
Barron.
Mrs. Ellen Franklin, of Green Lake,
spent Tuesday night with her sister, Mrs.
Grace Barron.
At the Wednesday night c. +. meeting
and the Thursday night missionary con-
cert special collections were taken for
the Cuban sufferers.
Nineteen OF the young people OF Dol
lardtown joined with friends at West
Ellsworth and gave surprise party to
Byron T.. Trewortby and wife. Seventy
were present, and report good time.
Benjamin Davis met with a serious
accident Thursday. While starting out
log wood, a stick rolled from the
load, one end stuck in the snow and the
other end hit him on the back OF the
head and neck. Mr.. Davis granddaugh-
tiers, Ethel and Myrtle Whitaker, OF
Lamone, are spending the week here.
Feb, IA. b.
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South Surry

South Surry.
Mrs. Lydia Treworgy, an elderly lady,
who has been quite i'll, is improving.
Mrs. Rose A. Coggins was in Ellsworth
few days last week, visiting relatives
and friends.
Rodney Emerton lost his horse a short
time ago. 1t was fine family horse, and
is great loss to the owner.
Mrs. Flora Herrick, OF Bluehill, and
Mrs. Otis Conary, of Surry, visited their
brother, Joseph Carter, recently.
Miss Mabel Morgan, of East Surry, and
Miss Grace Grigson, of Morgan's Bay
were guests of Mrs. A. o. Treworgy one
day last week.
Miss Nellie Young, who has been in
Ellsworth several months for medica
treatment, is now at home. She is much
improved in health.
The entertainment held at the school
house on he evening of Feb. 5, was wei
patronized. About fifty persons partool
of the excellent supper. Music, recita
tions and tableaux followed, making thu
evening one of enjoy ment. The proceeds
swell the fund for the cemetery fence.
Feb 10
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West Brooksyille.
The c. f. society has candy social on
Tuesday evening of this week.
Active preparations are being made for
the celebration Of Wsshington's birthday
by a festival and entertainment.
Singing school at the church prospers.
1t meets Monday and Friday evenings of
each week. This beats the New Jersey
rectors dancing class.
Good shedding. The firewood is coming
into dooryards with a rush. From all
quarters he people are landing their do
mated loads at the church and at The par
sonage.
The regular prayer meeting meets on
Wednesday evening, the ladies' circle on
Thursday afternoon and evening. Thus,
with the singing school, the evenings are
about all taken.
Services at the church last Sunday were
in the interest of the American mission
airy association, morning and evening
collectio being taken. In the evening
there was a concert service under the d.
rection OF the c. E. society.
Feb. IA. S.
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Mrs. 'Hoolihan-Faix, Dennis, and
phat are yez aither dom now? O'Hooli-
han-Begob, Rosy, lis mesef as has
bought music-stool for Katie, an I've
been woindin' the bastely thing up for
over ali hour, an not a dhrop OF music
can Oh get out ov it at ali at all.
1t is a vain thought to fee from the
work that God appoints Us for the sake OF
finding greater blessing to our own
souls, as il we could choose for ourselves
where we shall find the fullness OF the
divine presence, instead of seeking IL
where alone it is to be found, in loving
obedience.-G George Eliot.