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Morris tribune., 1898-02-09
PATENTS, PATENTS.
Tetter. salt.Rheum and Eczema.

The intense itching and smarting, incl
dent to these diseases, isinstantly allayed
by applying Chamberlain s Eye and
Skin Ointment. Many very bad cases
have been permanently cured by it. It
is equally efficient for itching piles and
favorite remedy for sore nipples,
chapped hands, chilblains, frost bites
and chronic sore eyes. % cts. per box.
Morris tribune., 1898-02-09

DIR. Cady's Condition Powders, are
just what horse needs when in bad
condition. Tonic, blood purifier and
vermifuge. They are not food but
medicine and the best in use to put a
horse in prime condition. Price 25
cents per package.
Morris tribune., 1898-02-09
STATE OF MINNESOTA,

County of SWIFT IS
Before me, the undersigned, a notary
public of the state and county aforesaid,
resident within the county aforesaid, this
appeared w. A. Poland, to me personally
known to be the person whose signature is
affixed to the foregoing articles of incor-
poration, and he acknowledged his sigma
ture thereto and Acknowledged the execu-
ton thereof to be his free and voluntary
act. CHAS. SIMENSTAD,
Notary Public,
SEAL. Swift county, Mimi.
Morris tribune., 1898-02-09

aforesaid, this 9Th day of November, A. d.
personally known to be the person whose
signature Is affixed to the foregoing arti-
cles of incorporation, and he acknowledged
his signature thereto and acknowledged
the execution thereof to be his free and
voluntary act.
EDWARD MERRICK,
SEAL. A Notary in and for the
County of Washington, ILL.,
Morris tribune., 1898-02-09
[SEAL.l

STATE OF ILLINOIS,
County of Sangamon, s.
Before me, the undersigned notary
public of the state of Illinois and county
of Washington resident within the county
Natchitoches populist., 1898-09-30
Bishop Potter. Mental labOrs.

Bishop Potter is trying hard to I'M
derstand the labor question, and to gel
at the minds of the workingmen. we
do not want to discourage him, but
he has still long road to travel.
With the sweetest of intentions ne
says: H
Neither labor nor capital can be on
top; they must walk hand In hand?
Any man-eyen bishop-who
thinks that labor and capital are two
different things, is an infant, and I'M
derstands this world and it's problems
about as we'll as a Maltese kitten would
understand the Sphinx. Capital is lcrys-
tallized labor. A dollar is a bushel
Of wheat or pair Of boots, and a bush
Ell OF wheat or pair Of boots is a
days work of one man. a dollar is
only valuable because 1t is q days
work or can procure a days work-a
million dollars are nothing. Capital
and labor are the same as Ice and
water. The capitalist is simply the
gentleman who cuts the Ice and stores
it away. He will gradually vanish as
men get intelligent and labor keeps FOL
itself what it produces.
What Bishop Potter is trying to say
is that the man who works and tn
capitalist who lives on the labor o
others are on par, and ought to g
hand in hand. That is rubbish. De
cause the man who produces is abov'
the man who merely consumes. Tn
capitalist per Sc is nothing. The maj
| with money-aecumulated human ef
| fort--who uses that to encourage am
SUNNY further effort, deyisinig new our
lets for human energy and new field
for labor, is very important person
| atty. and well deserves as. good
place as can be given to him. But 10
mere capitalist investor is simply tn
Fat. green wcrrn on the tomato WINS
sleek and happy, but not important Q
useful.-New York Journal.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-09-30
Silver Is Dead"

The main cause Of the present pros
perity is doubtless to be found IN the
disappearance of what was the main
cause of the panic in 1893 and of the
stagnation of subsequent years-the
free silver" specter It's disappear
ance, or decline from the position OF a
dominant issue. menacing every inter-
est, is the cardinal factor Of the re-
yived confidence of which we see so
many signs. 1t is felt now on every
hand that "silver is dead" and enter
prise in consequence now lifts its head.
Baltimore Sun.
That the panic of 1893 was caused by
the silver specter is quite true. But
the specter did not annoy the FIVE mil
lion yeomen who believed that they
voted for the free coinage of the white
metal when they chose Grover Cleve-
land president of the United States
Neither did it annoy the freemen who
voted for the republican presidential
candidate,
+ Both national platforms promised to
restore silver to it's constitutional
rights. This is history. Had Presi-
dent Cleveland called an extra session
OF congress In March, 1893. and at once
enacted a free coinage law there would
have been no panic. But no sooner had
he been elected than he set about to
basely betray the platform on which
he had been elected. This he did at the
behest of the bondholding class, who
alone of all our population were afraid
of the silver specter. 1t meant ruin to
them and they knew 1t. So as to make
| plausible excuse for striking the fatal
blow at the white metal they began to
call in loans with view OF creating
stripgency. AS soon as this was be-
gun the panic set in. In the uproal
that followed they set up the anti
silver cry. So they were not only en-
abled to stop further silver legislation
but succeeded in wiping out the las
vestige of bimetallism from 'oul
statute books. Times have not i'm
proved since then-except for the bond
holders. Nor will times grow bette
until silver is restored to its consti
tutional functions. Such paragraph
as the above from the plutocratic Bal
timore Sun will not convince any sen
sible wage-earner that he is better OF
now than he was in 1893.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-09-30
: P0PULlsT POINTS !
: :.

simple and one that is compound, ana
that in every case the terms OF the COM
parison are the same in denomination.
No matter how complex the act Of ex-
change may become these same prln-
eiples will hold The value Of all kinds
of money will conform to the principles
laid down.
Money Is nothing mere than An ex-
preston of relation or ratio existing
between national government, viewed
from the standpoint Of solidarity and
power to supply, and individual gov
eminent, viewed from the standpoint
of personality and of necessity grow
ing out OF existence wants and cul-
ture wants. In this comparison the
second term Is an organic part OF the
first term, hence in the theory Of mon
ely the organic idea Is superadded to
that Of tatib. These two relations in
volve mathematical and ethical Ideas.
The supply of money should be pro-
portiened to the degree of natlonai
solidarity. Really, at the bottom,
money is nothing but hxea and tan
gible expression of the relation pc
tween national integrity and personal
integrity. The value of money rests
upon broader foundation than that
fiat or decree, or supply and demand
or labor Cattle, furs, wampum, cow
RE shells, iron, copper, salt, tobacco
silver and gold have each marked some
stage through which mankind have
passed, or are now passing, in the evo
luton OF scientific currency. Finally
what determines the degree OF value
Manifestly the importance and utilit!
between nation and an individual Il
vastly more important than the reia
lion of an ounce Of gold to an ounce 0
silver. From the foregoing it is clea
that parity cannot exist between mon
ey and men. Such a view would b
contrary to logic, philosophy an
mathematics.
i Holm FRANKLIN ENGLE.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-09-30
JOHN FRANKLIN ENGLE.
Intrinsic Value.

William Stanley Jevons, M. A., F. r.
S., Professor Of Logic and POLITICAL
Economy in the Owens College, Man
chester, England, is certainly a higher
authority than any or ali of the col
lege professors Of the United States at
the present day, and 1t would be well
for Cleveland, Harrison, and other IN
trinsic value lunatics to read what ne
SAYS on that subject. We quote short
chapter from Professor Jeyons, as fol-
lows:
I'VE must now fix Our attention upon
the fact that, in every act of exchange,
a definite quantity Of one substance is
exchanged for definite quantity OF
another. The things bartered may be
most various in character, and may
be variously measured. We may give
a weight of silver for length OF rope
or a superficial extent OF carpet, or
number of gallons of wine, or GER
tain horsepower of force, or convey
ance over certain distance. The quan-
titles to be measured may be ex-
pressed in terms OF space, time, mass,
force, energy, heat, or any other phys
ical units. Yet each exchange will con-
sist in giving so many units of one
thing for so many units Of another,
each measured in its appropriate way.
Every act Of exchange thus pre-
sents itself to us in the form OF ra-
ito between two numbers. The word
value is commonly used, and IL, at cur
rent rates, one ton Of copper exchanges
for ten tons of bar iron, 1t is usual to
say that the value of copper is ten
times that of iron, weight for weight.
For our purpose, at least, this use OF
the word value is only an indirect
mode of expressing ratio. When We
say that gold is more valuable than sill
yer we mean that, as commonly ex'
changed, the weight of silver exceeds
that of the gold given for it. II tht
value Of gold rises compared with tina
of silver, then still more silver is Civ
en- for the same quantity of gold. Blu
value, like utility, is no intrinsic quail
ity of thing; it is an extrinsic acct
dent or relation. We should neve
speak of the value of a thing at al
without having In our minds the othe
thing in regard to which it Is valued
The very same substance may rise an
fall In value at the same time. II !
, exchange for given weight of gold
can get more silver, but less coppe
than used to do, the value of gold ha
risen with respect to silver, but falle
with respect to copper. 1t is evider
. that an intrinsic property Of thin
. cannot both increase and decrease ;
the same time; therefore value mu
be a mere relation or accident Of
thing as regards other things and tx
persons needing them"
Natchitoches populist., 1898-09-30
HOW He Married Them,

A newly appointed justice Of the
peace in a western town was greatly
embarrassed the first time he was CALI
ed upon to marry couple. He made
many halts and mistakes before the
proceeding was over; but at last he
closed his book with sigh of relief
and delivered his final sentence in a
sonorous and impressive tone. And
now" he said, 'by virtue of the author
ity of the state of Michigan, in me
vested, / hereby pronounce you man
and Woman,"
Natchitoches populist., 1898-09-30
NATCHlTOCKEs, La, SEPTEMBER 80. 1898.

have realized at the average rate of
prices for the years from 1870 to 1874.
This enormous sum would, as Mr.. Ali
son points out, have paid off the entire
public debt and also all the mortgage
Indebtedness OF the premier Australian
colony. 1t is true that what New
South Wales lost England, the cred
itor has gained, but there Is little sat
isfaction to the ruined Australian
mortgagor in the transfeFehce Of his
sheep station to the English mortga-
gee.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-09-30
NATCHlTOCHES DIRECTORY.
CHURCH SERVICES.

Services at tue Methodist church
every First and Third Sundays at IL
a. m. and 7:3O p. M, by the pastor,
Rev. Fl. Armstrong. Prayer meeting
every Wednesday night at7:3o o'clock.
BAPTISM. E. Weaver, pastor.
Regular services, Second and Fourth
Sundays at IL a. m. and 8 p. m; sun.
day school, 10 q. M; prayer meeting.
Wednesday, 8 p. m. All invited.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-09-30
LODGES.

Phoenix Lodge No. SO, A. +. 4 A.
M.--Simcoe Walmsley, W. NJ; J. @.
Trichel Jr., SEQ. Meets First and
Third Wednesdays at p. m.
Castle Hall No. 80, Knights of Pyth-
ias.-U. P. Breazeale, @. G.; Adolph
L'Herisson, K. of r. & S. Meets
Second and Fourth Thursdays at {
p. m.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-09-30

Some people would rather be slaves
Of the devil than servants of God.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-09-30
THE FALL OF PRICES.
WHAT THE DEBTOR LOSES THE
CREDITOR GAINS.

The Fall of Prices Adds Enormously
Not Only to the Burden Of All Fixed
Debt but Also to the Burden Of
Taxation.
Natchitoches populist., 1898-09-30
Democrats All.

end about three-fOurths Of inc sdII-
ors and soldiers
Hanpy are all free peoples,
Too strong to be dispossessed,
But blessed are those among nations
VINO dare to be strong for the rest.
Mrs. Browning.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-12-16
THE C0NvICTs' TREADMILL.
Punishment Inflicted Upon the Pris-
Oners In the RangOOn Jail.

In the Central Jail OF Rangoon the Brit
ish officials have introduced a method of
making the convicts work which is very
effective mode of punishment. 1t is
tread mill on large scale. Big wooden
cylinders about seven feet in diameter
are provided with keen-edged plank steps
all around. Above the cylinders at con-
venient height there is heavy iron pole.
stretching across the entire room, upon
which the chains of the convicts working
in the treadmill are fastened. When
they are all in their places the bolt hold
ing the cylinders in one position is remov-
ed and convicts must tread without stop
for two hours and half. If one of them
stops treading he slips down as far as
the chain permits, but the plank steps
beat against his shinbones so vigorously
that the skin is bruised and scraped.
This is exceedingly painful, and the
convict hurriedly catches up the next step
and trise to tread along with the others.
This barbarous punishment is a necessity
however, for the natives are extremely
fanatical, and death has no terrors for
them. Imprisonment would be for them a
favorite method of living life of seclusion
and meditation, with no care for food or
lodging, were it not for the compulsory
work. The large shed containing the six
tread-mill cylinders is situated next to
shops where the power is used in wood
working machinery. About 70 convicts are
at work there at one time.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-12-16
A HINT FOR COLD WEATHER.
A Few Suggestions In Regard to
Winter Clothing.

"Now that cold weather Is beginning"
Harper's Bazaar says, "it is well to re-
member that if the wrists and the ankles
are warm, the rest of the body is not likely
to suffer. Worsted wristlets have gone
out of fashion, but the muff and the long
sleeved coat serve quite as good a purpose
Few things, however, have been found to
take the place of leggings, which, if they
are of worsted, are apt to be awkward
and if they are buttoned are sure to tear
the skirts. The long-knitted tights were
found trouble to put on when one was
in a hurry to 60 out. Yet to have some
thing which can be easily slipped on and
off has become necessity. Women in the
overheated houses of the present day have
discovered that it is impossible to dress.
as their grandmothers did, in warm. un.
wieldy fannels, or even in the same warm
clothes in which they must dress for the
streets. They claim, too, that if one
dresses in light clothes for the house and
in something warmer for the street the
dangers of taking cold are minimized
The ingenious young woman of the present
day buys golf stockings without feet and
these she slips on over her cotton stock
ings when she goes out of doors They
are snug enough not to slip and slide, ant
having no hooks or catchable places about
them, answer a purpose in cold weather
which nothing else has DONE"
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-12-16
FOLK SONG.

This is the lore the old wife knows
Who sees the storm draw nigh.
And wind and cloud together close
The windows of the sky;
The north wind is mans wind,
Entangled with his fate;
In that he joyed, in that he sinned,
1t chants his love and hate.
THE west wind is the angels wind,
He sweeps their Tyre strings;
And where the gray storm clouds are
thinned
We see their rushing wings.
'"The east wind is the devils wind,
And stings with fire and ice;
But the south wind is Gods wind,
And blows from paradise.
And whence they 60 none mortal knows
Who hears them riding by;
We can but watch them as they, close
The windows Of the sky"
Westminster Gazette.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-12-16

dependent line on into Chicago without
regard to the Panhandle connection. 1t
will run southeasterly to Monon sta
ton on the Monon Railway.
The change in this swamp region
wrought by the system Of canals is al
most beyond belief. Within year and
a half lands which would mire COW
or a horse-in fact, lands where an ami
NAL would 60 out of sight, where the
muck was from three to six feet deep
have been made to produce corn eight
feet high; and region which was a
wilderness without population has
been settled by over 100 families, bring
ing into this county an increase in pop
ulation of 400 to 900 people. Mr.. Gift
ford Is reputed, at the present time, to
be worth from $1,000,00 to $4,000, 900,
and has no family except wife.-Chi-
cago Chronicle.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-12-16
RATTLERs AND THE WEATHER.
California Theory They VIII Not
Bite when There Is Drought.

Seldom has 1t happened that rattle
snake bite has been sufficient to destroy
the reputation of weather prophet. Rat
tlesnake Jack Mogan is known from one
end Of Mojave desert to the other. An
eccentric sort of man, he likes to visit
the haunts Of snakes, and often pitches
camp for the night in places which gila
monsters and rattlers have long pie-empt-
ed. Just before the recent election he
rounded himself up in MERGED and began
talking of his adventures. 1t takes two
drinks to get Mogan's eloquence started
The number Of drinks that will bring him
to a full stop has never been ascertained
although the health and fortunes of the
entire San Joaquin valley would willingly
be gambled away to find out.
'There is going to be dry winter"
he began. There won't be enough rain
this season to give the wheat any sort of
start; twill be worse nor it was last
year, which was a proper corker. How
do knowf Why, found that out by
the rattlesnakes. They know, you bet.
When there is dry winter coming the
rattlers, leastwise in Californy, cannot be
coaxed to bite I've watched 'em 25 years
now, and know what I am talking
about. The snakes will not bite, and that
means we will have winter as dry as
| q bone"
None of his circle OF listeners betrayed
| any desire either to test the accuracy Of
his observations in natural history or to
question his meteorological deductions
from the facts observed He occupied an
impregnable position, and for variety Of
reasons, for some time; and the matter
was considered Of sufficient interest to
cause the publication in San Joaquin val.
ley papers Of the statement that snakes
will not bite this year, and also the inter
probation put upon the sign by the snake
hunters.
Since then the barometer and the local
weat her forecasts have been watched with
a degree OF attention calculated to awaken
the approval of the United States weather
bureau. No one has been bitten by q
snake in the valley since the prediction
was first made, and this has brought into
contempt the doubters who have regularly
been saturating their systems with alcoho
in the fear that they might be bitten anC
be taken unawares.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-12-16
Father Mathew.

Father Mathews face was gentle,
but lighted UP with an animated ex-
preston, in which 1T was impossible
not to trace the spirit Of dislnterested
benevolence which actuated him. His
voice was soft and his accents winning,
and suggestion of sympathy and for
bearance pervaded his whole person;
those he addressed seemed at once to
recognize his authority, perhaps be-
cause there was no assumption of It,
His height was sufficient to be to q
certain extent commanding, but the
chief source of his power above others
was In the suavity and self-command
of his manner, and none, Of whatever
religion, who knew how simple and
self-denying were his habits, could
help respecting and esteeming him.
Father Mathew, like most Irishmen,
was open-hearted and open-handed,
and far too generous for his means; he
gave away everything he had at his
disposal, and as another outcome Of
his Hibernian character, some things
which were not at his disposal; the
consequence was that one day in Dub
lin, while zealously administering the
pledge, the bailiffs suddenly came upon
him, but instead Of tapping him on the
shoulder and informing him in their
pleasant little way that he was want
ed" they knelt at his feet. and, after
asking his blessing, showed him the
writ obtained against him by a metal
o. haIo 80
and respectfully arrested him.-From
Mrs. Pitt Byrne's Social Hours with
Celebrities"
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-12-16
Takinx Down the Capt.in,

A former commodore-captain of a ia
nous trans Atlantic line, whilst friend
ly and polite to his passengers when be-
low, was very much the reverse IL APP
preached when on duty. AS he hap
pened to be on deck one fine afternoon,
a lady, quite unaware Of this peculiar
ity, accosting him with some trifiing
query as to the probable duration of the
favorable weather. was both surprised
and indignant to get CURLY answered:
Don't know, ma'am-don't know.
Better go and ask the cook"
The lady, though taken somewhat
aback, was quite equal to the occasion,
and rejoined:
"Oh! I beg a thousand pardons. Elk.
cuse me, pray. l thought was ad'
dressing the cook"
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-12-16
olEFoRp. THE SWAMP KING.
He IL Now Building n seventeen- Mile
Railway through HE Land.

He IL Now Building seventeen- Mile
Railway Through His Land.
Thirty years ago. Benjamin J. Clifford
laid the foundation Of his large fortune
by a scheme for retaining swamp
lands In the counties Of Kankakee,
Champaign and Livingston, in Illinois.
These lands had the best of soil, yet,
on account OF their wet character, were
useless for farming purposes. BY yir-
tue Of large canals and dredge bitches
these lands were all brought into mar.
ket, and from them Mr.. Clifford deriv-
ed large profits. Before selling out the
major portion of his land In Illinois he
planned and built railway running
from West Lebanon, Ind, to Rantoul,
Ill, distance Of about seventy miles,
which was afterward sold to the I'LL
nois Central Railroad Company, and is
now part of that system. In this
transaction Mr.. Clifford made $3.50, 900.
In 1892 he went to Jasper County, In
diana and began the purchase of lands.
! This county has been noted for Its
swamp. After thorough examination
of the character Of the soil OF these
swamp lands, and running levels to as
certain whether there was any outlet
for the water, Mr.. Clifford began to
purchase land In this county, paying
| from IS to $25 per acre. He has contin
ued to purchase until he Is now the
owner of approximately $4,000 acres Of
land in Jasper County, extending from
northwest to southeast distance OF
twenty miles. Nelson Morris, of Chi
cago, owns 10000 acres adjoining Mr.
Gifford's land upon the north and run
ming to the Kankakee River.
Mr.. Clifford first excavated a system
of canals or dredge bitches Of at leas
100 miles In length at an immense cost
He has constructed 120 houses an(
barns at an average cost of 5000 each
He has, within the last two years
taken off his land railway ties enough
to complete twenty-five to thirty mile
of railway. He has now commence,
the construction of a railway beginning
about two and one-half miles east o
De Motto station, on the Indiana, Ill
nois and Iowa Railway, running theme
southeasterly a distance of twent
miles. This line, with the exception Q
probably two miles, is wholly upon hi
own land. 1t crosses the Chicago an
Indiana coal branch of the Chicago an
Eastern Illinois Railway at Knima
station. The presumption Is that even
ually the road will be constructed o
north across the Kankakee River
Hebron station on the Panhandle Raj
|, way, and possibly there may be an II