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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-20

that is; kinder wrote his letters expect on
typewriter, likely"
There Didn't toll her he was lazy! An did
you say she give up koepn' the bOardin' house all
the whe?"
"WoH yes. as I understand 1t. she didn't never
keen the hoardin' house. She begun in the office
an was there year just cOsey as ever you
an Twin with his aunt. an gettin' go 4 week
for il. Thankful, she jest couldn't speak when she
read in the letter. and there all them letters
O. Phubc's she had with $40 a week in EN- all
pitched into the kitchen stove an Ph'rbe feen'
bad cause she didn't know ii an wished Thankful
would write her back. An she wouldn't never have
opened this one, only they out West post
mark on ii an i new kind of wrlun ON the out
side"
''Wcll do declare. an so It's year since
Phphc wrote her. you said What did you say
Thankful said she sad?'
"Shc said they'd been out West a year ever
since they was fust married"
Married Who? hat? What did you say?"
"She says Iatchkins has got him mill of his
out there His fathers died an left II to him.
An so ] should jcdse ii was Mr.. Hatchkins she
married. Although she didn't RELY sesso, in so
many words
my land alivei"
"And Phube has got a baby"
Good Lord, I'd never have believed it, Ef she
hadn't wrote it with her own pen in hand"
"An' shes gOin' 20 call H. Thankful Hdtchkins.
after her. the 18th OF next month. and wants her
to come on 81. Paul believe the place is, in Min
neapolis It's girl"
"We ! do declare to goodness! An it on
mo. Mr. Hatchkins he wrote It himself I be-
leve. Phrbc got him 10. An Thankful never mis-
trusted. An she's goin'."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-20
EXPERIENCE WITH 4 PLJHBER.
From The Chicago Post.

From The Chicago Post
The labor editor Of morning paper had lot %,
down the long arm Of the gas jet and burned The
tobacco. He had been long that sort OF thing for
50 be felt grievel and wounded when the released
OF the metal bounded upward and broke OF
Joint and went downstairs TO the plumber. whose
shop close at hand
tor, displayed his broken joint and picking UP
cost who?" said the plumber
"Cost me-
Thirty cents"
I'm send man to put It up in the morning.
You be shot. | want it now.
at O'Clock. 1t is now s"
But can screw this thing on myself. 1t doesn't
"Well, it does. can't sell that to you at all IL
you are going to put it up. You will have to hire
How much?"
dollar and a half tomorrow"
How much to-niSht?
Good evening"
himself through his regular grind. Next day he
came to big supply house downtown AMI told ne
story Of Lighting the pipe OF letting go ana OF tho
What's your name" said the attendant a lttls
walked away. consulted hook and came back ac-
cusinsy. as II he had caught his visitor In lie.
filters Union"
Il have long suspected that Why"
You can't buy that joint
whats 1t worth
"Qudrter-to plumber
over there ana attach Il? 1t viii occupy him ain6Et
minute when he gets into the room"
Three dollars
when can he go?"
ION. when he gets time Tomorrow. maybe"
near al hand" and paid his 81 ~. The plumber was
peasant about II. II wasn't the boss Of the shop.
to DO any work out u the shop Taken altosether.
1t very Interesting
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-20

WITH MANY THTCHES AT FIRST. BUT 1T
FINALLY CAME OUT ALL RIGHT

From Tho Boston Post.
"Thankful Hopkins has he'd letter from PhTbc"
shes wrote last Thankful terrible mad when
she took off the way she did, and don't feel to
blame her to go over to Rye To try TO begin an
Go fer herself. jest IF they was poor folks or
them lame hands her sickness lef her. an all, an
Thankful all alone. too. PhTbe allus was terrible
uppish an high banded, an. It would a been Jest
like her to of made out Thankful wanted her TO 60
which everybody knows she dldn L. An her win
them lame hands Of hers course she couldn't eX-
poet 10 get place ! suppose sheS wrote TO
it was bcmcanin' both OF EN-, Phu'be goin house
keeper to a boardin' house But told her 1t didn't
require no hands and head TO buy NlctuaiS an SPY
round. an that's about all PhUbe would hcv TO
expect to do LOOkin amt cookln, j says TO
Thankful faint lOwerin yerself, neither. But
Thankful she KEEP on jest as mad as ever. an 50
SELF out sendin letters back. fer she shouldn't
read en-. Now, wasn't that like her? Well |
s'posc Phube's got done hankerin an tryln to get
mcriicd. an so she's coming home Like as not
shell take in pants 10 finish or dressmakin. What
did YOU say she said in the letter? allus thought
that IIatchkns Teller treated her mean to beau her
wen. he was over to Rye 100 as under
stand"
Good land! You don't say"
AN | should jcdgc from what the letter said
he'd been there straight along"
81 want to know! Wen. / should think Phpbe
would nave took shame to herself hangin' round
well she didn't exactly hang round. so 10
speak. | believe. L understand he got her the job
in the fust place"
my gracious, Well she allus was terrible
undcrhand Why, ! talked to her just before she
went away about that same HatchkinS, an give
him right good goin' over. an she's never said a
word. the sly thing. You'd "A thought she'd "a
said all about il right then. Well. spose he got
tired of her an she's comm home"
Il believe she hsI forget the name: some
thing Of an amanuss. believe In the office. what
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-20

various Kansas roads met them and presented the
claims Of railroad lands in various sections These
agents were resourceful feows-loud yirile strong:
and they did great business. Perhaps the best OF
the lot was Sam Wood. OF Garden City. lie used to
stand on a box at the Kansas CITY station and
make speeches to the crowds Of Immigrants and
men harvesting clear across the Kaw River would
hear every word he said.
once when he was most earnest In declalmlng FOR
his particular company a farmer immigrant asked
him: What shall We live for the first year ,
You say can pay down one-tenth put in a CroD
and the first harvest viii yield US money enough
To pay all the rest OF the purchase money But
what shan We I'VE on while that crop Is maturing
and being marke tedr
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-20
THE WOES or THE MARRIED MN.
from Tho london Tit Bits.

From The London Tit Bits.
81 say" said friend. tho other day. 'you are
an old hand at it.. have only just got married
and don't understand much about the business.
Should like 10 know whether "A married man has
any rights LETT when H. takes unto himself a wife -?
';Rignl-' Yes, lots lie has right to pay all
stop ! mean this Let me give you an instance
Every box. every chest Of drawers and pOrtmdn-
tcau. ana. i'm fact. every aVailabi, receptacle Of
every deception. j. stun,d full u my wc's prop
erty. and when want to put away few cuffs and
collar
"HoI hard. know what you mean. Listen
young man. II your bedroom were two hundred
yards long. lined from the door to the ceiling with
shclvts and YOU wanted place To stow away a
coUulc Of shirts. You couldn't find a nook that
wasnt fun Of hair pins scent bottles old gloves.
pieces OF ribbon. ODD feathers and artificial flowers
little bits Of tape and buttons galore, with pins
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-20

"Catch wild horses" replied Sam Wood. Instant
~ and unbiushingly
'''Why are there wild horscsy'
There are on my line. I can tell you for fact,
though That there is not single wild horse on the
whole Of that desert country owned by the other
companies" 90,
And how many can man catch In day.
"a good man can lariat nine or ten. Plenty ~
men on my line doing 1t day after day ia the
dull season"
"A nd how much are they WORTH
"YOu can sell them for 80 a head Just rs fast N
YOU IAN break them TO saddle and drive them into
a cattle car"
No wonder Kansas dreams Of big things when
that was the seed the expOiters planted.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-20
TON WAS THERE.

From Tho Detroit Free Press.
An amusing incident is told by the custodian Of
the public library Of an up the river town. 1t
seems that a young lady patron was very anxious
10 read r. Iiopknsou Smiths Tom Grogan." but
was unfortunate in always finding 1t out" The Ii
brarian finally promised 10 notify her by telephone
next time the book was returned. 1t came one
day and the librarian promptly rang up the young
lady. Tom GrOCan' j. here and you must com"
down right away Just as soon as you can" 1t hap
pened that the young ladys father answered the
telephone, and not being up" in ncton IndS-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-20

tho government! had seven boys that wuz tryin
to earn homes Twin making 'moonshin"' liquor
an the Government sWOOped down on 'em one dark
night an landed the last one o en- in the peni-
teutiary: an now. from the honorable lofty station
of maxim liquor on the sly they've come down to
maxim shoes fer a Government that can't whip
handful of yaller niggers out in the Philippines"
And What you doing for i living" he was
asked
''Oh. I'm a-makln' Of 'moonshine liquor."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-20
SOME SEEDS SOWN N KlNSIS.
From The Chicago Post.

From The Chicago Post.
From 1868 10 1872 the days when Kansas
grew as other State ever has grown. Railroads
from the East exploited the SunhOwer State" ana
thousands OF good people from Indiana and Ohio
hurried to the Missouri River. which the end
of the Eastern ines. There the agents Of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-20
RUINED BY THE GOVERNMENT.

From The Atlanta Constitution
Yes sir" said the old mountaneer. 81 wuz a
man with considerable family connections but I'm
all alone In th. woyI now
well. dclth must come to all Of us-ts only a
question of time
But il vtrn't death. sir. or Providence, that
robbed me OF my own. 1t ~uz the Government. sir
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-20

nanty replied: TON Groganl Who's Tom Gro
gan. And what has he to do with my daughter?
l. any young man wants to see her, let him come
up to the house"
The librarian sent hearty laugh over the wire
and rang of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-20
HUsBAND-YOU ARE.-Gustige Blitter.

and needles thrown in 50 just accept the inevita-
BILE. Wrap your personal property IN an Ola news
paper parcel and hide ii under the bed.
He grinncd Ironically but passed on Il sddder and
wiser
Backbone., 1899-12-01
Public BenefactOrS.

Whether he is aware of it or not,
everyone who does business has many
times been put under obligation to
postmasters. How often has an over
worked official completed a deficient
address, or deciphered one which it's
writer could not guess at the transla-
tion of after it was cold. How often
has he supplied the time, energy-and
saliva necessary to seal an envelope
which the sender would swear he him
self carefully sealed. How his
heart aches to be compelled to
say, Nothing day after day to
the heart-sick love or lover who
inquiries in vain for mail, and who al
most suspects the postmaster of ap-
propriating it. How gladly would he,
if the regulations but allowed it, write
and deliver the longed-for "answer''
to that letter."
The world will never know the ex-
tent of it's obligation to our local rep
resentatives of Uncle Sam, and Back
bone hereby mades it's lowest bow and
renders it's sincerest thanks to the
Minnesota postmasters especially, who,
in thousand instances, have done for
us and for our readers favors not re-
quired by the regulations. If some are
careless, if some even allow their
hatred of our cause or of our party to
interfere with the proper discharge of
their duties, we are under the greatest
obligations to those who have dis
charged their duties as servants of the
public, without regard to their per-
sonal views upon political or other
questions. May the Office of every one
of them be raised to Presidential Of
flee and may the operation of the civil
service rules preserve their job to them
for many a day!
Backbone., 1899-12-01
BACKBONE.

The entire blame of the canteen and
of the saloon ought not to be put upon
the President. He is allowing mate
rial issues to crowd moral issues out
of consideration. In this respect he
represents the millions of voters,
many of them good men and Chris
tians, no doubt, who in the last cam
paign ignored every issue but the al
mighty dollar.
If, in the last national campaign, a
voter who was a free silver man was
induced for any reason to vote for Mr..
Mckinley, he voted for gold. If gold
man was induced to vote for Mr..
Bryan, he voted for free-silver. And
so, no matter how much a voter hates
the saloon, if he voted for either Mr..
Mckinley or Mr.. Bryan he voted for
the perpetuation of the saloon and he
is getting what he voted for.
If each one of our subscribers would
carefully keep his subscription paid
in advance, we could make a larger
paper, or better one, or publish it
oftener or give it much larger cir
culation. We could probably take
more than one of these advance steps,.
"I intended to have renewed before
now" Why, of course you did. Am
I not good for the subscription price?"
Why, of course, but neither of these
facts pays one penny on our big
printing, rent and other bills.
Backbone., 1899-12-01
Big Paw for Prohibition Work.

Do you want a beautiful, serviceable
camera for little work for Backbone?
Listen to this: We will send you, EX-
PRESS CHARGES PREPAID, A CY-
CLONE Camera for the price of the
camera in NEW subscribers to Back
bone. In other words, get us 40 sub
scrlbers and we will send you the $40
camera Get us 30 subscriptions and we
will send you the So camera. We will
send the s6 camera for "a subscrip-
tions or the $3.50 camera for IA sub
scriptions.
There is no string to this wonderful
offer. It's only explanation is that
Backbone lis not published to make
money but to make prohibition SEN
timent and votes and we are bound to
have hearing in this state at any
cost within our power to pay. We
simply ask the difference between the
wholesale and retail prices. The cam
eras are fully warranted and are JUST
WHAT YOU WANT. The Sc and So
cameras print pictures 3Ax4A inches.
The So and $40 cameras 4x5. Con-
struction simple. Cameras include
twelve holders in which dry plates are
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in twelve seconds if desired. Send for
circulars, or better yet, send for SAM
pies and have your camera in few
days. If you fail to complete your
club you may pay us the difference in
cash. a.v
Perhaps YOU already have camera
and yet would greatly like to do some
thing for our cause. If so, will you
kindly put this offer QUICKLY into
the hands of some energetic young per-
son?
Under this offer our readers can,
without the expenditure of any money,
make a beautiful present to their pas
tor or his wife, to the principal or
teacher of their school, to their Sun
day-school superintendent or teacher
or to the president Of their Christian
-Endeavor Society or Epworth League.
Backbone., 1899-12-01
EDITORIAL.

The devil of drink and the devil
ish saloon are still following the
flag"
The Prohibition vote of Nebraska
was about 1900 last year. This year
. it is nearly 5000.
''They say the November number
was "the best yet" and we are not dis
putting the statement.
We would as soon have a boy ruined
at a saloon which violates the law as
at one which observes it.
There are none whom prohibition
will benefit to greater extent than
saloonkeepers and their families.
Prohibition socials, with brief pro-
gram of short speeches or papers, in
terspersed with music. are vote
makers.
Did you say you couldn't-was that
the word?-couldn't get twenty sub
Backbone., 1899-12-01

We continue our offer made last
month, of years subscription to the
New Voice, now published at Chicago
and edited by Samuel Dickie and John
e. Woolley, price $1.OO, and Backbone
price 25 cents, BOTH for ONE DOL
LAR. The Voice subscription must be
Ia new one but the subscription for
Backbone may be either new or a re-
newal
Backbone., 1899-12-01
BRIEF AND BRAINY.

What's the use of talking about mu-
nicipal reform unless we close up those
bloody, open-mouthed, yawning en-
frances to hell?-Rev. D. ]. Burrell,
DID.
Avoid alcohol. This statement may
be accepted literally. The human sys-
tenn requires no alcohol whatsoever.
In this case abstinence is better than
temperance.-Dr Cyrus Edison.
You say that those half breeds at
Manila must be taught respect for
law. How about the rumsellers of our
cities? How about your public Off
cials who spit upon their solemn oaths
of office to enforce the law?-C. N.
Howard.
I have always favored every lawful
means of restraining and preventing
the existence of the liquor saloon; for
I have seen that in whatever county
or town it has been wholly abolished,
crime and misery have almost wholly
ceased.-Judge Noah Davis.
Do the Christian men and women of
Colorado sense the fact that when
a politician or an official or minister
of Christ wriggles around and grows
faint for fear he may be called Pro-
hibitionist, he is not safe leader?
President Colorado w. C T. u.
Backbone., 1899-12-01
lscriptions for Backbone at fifteen

tion toward Christmas present for
hundreds Of thousands of children who
will get none.
There is marked stiffening up of
the tone of the resolutions of religious
bodies. Let us be thankful for this
and continue to pray that they will not
be forgotten next November.
Send Backbone to a few of your
friends whom you want to win to the
support of our cause. See our low
rates at the head of this page and start
in now Most of them will need full
years reading.
Only about one out of nine of the
voters of New York state voted for the
constitutional amendments. Does this
look as though the initiative and ref
erendum was the sole remedy for all
the ills our political flesh is heir to?
The resolutions adopted at the last
our fortunes and our sacred honor
to the success of the prohibition cause.
Do these determined words speak your
mind? Are you carrying out their i'm
port?
"Our flag is there" (Manila) and so
are 42S more saloons than there were
before it arrived. Thus, Oh, my
brethren. are the advantages of Chris
tianty and civilization being extended
to foreign climes and uncivilized
peoples.
We recently heard a minister say
that Mr.. Mckinley "probably had his
reasons" for not abolishing the can
teen. He doubtless has, and any one
who knows anything about politics
and doesn't know what those reasons
are is chump.
You will be in no danger of making
hobby of the liquor question if you
make no more of a speciality of clos
ing the saloon than the devil and his
imps make of keeping it going. But
to do even this, you will have to get
up early in the morning.
The State Committee has it's eye
on two more first-class men whom it
desires to put into the field for hand
to-hand work in the several counties.
This sort of work counts. These men
can be secured for a moderate COM
pensation. Have you sent in your
pledge?
When a prohibition paper has been
read it should be started out to con-
tinue it's mission of good. If it con-
tains an article which you think is
especially convincing, one which en-
forces point which you have recent
ly made with a neighbor, or answers
one of his standby objections, mark
it and hand it to him.
If Mr.. Mckinley is the good man
that many believed him to be when
they voted for him, his cowardice
simply illustrates the truth of the
claim of the Prohibitionists that a
good man cannot be trusted when
nominated and elected by bad party
and looking to that party for renom-
ination and reelection.
Be not only against the canteen,
but against every form of the saloon;
not only against Mckinley, but against
every politician who, for office sur
presses his convictions; not only
Backbone., 1899-12-01
PITH OF THE PRESS.

Leader, Mexico, Mo-: The liquor
business doesn't have to start a new
party. 1t already owns two.
Backbone., 1899-12-01

Resolved, That the association is op-
posed to prohibition laws.-National
Retail Liquor Dealers Association at
Louisville Convention.
Backbone., 1899-12-01

UuSluSoo uOOoA nave W oIe1A q AOV
party. It already owns two.
Rams Horn: The Commercial in
ducements'' for Philippine conquest
are another South Sea Bubble, and it
has burst. It savors strongly of beer.
Prison Mirror: consistency, thou
are a jewel" but what can we say of
the law that sells liquor to man and
then locks him up because the liquor
made him drunk?
Defender: Old party politicians tell
us if we want change in tariff or
finances to vote for it, but when we
ask them what to do for prohibition,
they say, "Pray for it!'
Camden IN. j. Herald: Some of
the non-partisan CD temperance or
CARNATIONS will soon arouse to activ-
ity. Presidential election occurs next
year and-well, you know the rest
The country must be saved again,
as usual.
Backbone., 1899-12-01

The address of w. q. CaIderwoOd, Secretary
of the State Prohibition Committee Is 372 Hem
nepin Ave., Minneapolis.
Backbone., 1899-12-01
TIT FOR TAT.

The saloon must go-but when?
-Corbett's Herald.
When those who want it to go say
so into Uncle Sans only good ear
the ballot box.
Backbone., 1899-12-01

The obvious reason for their oppo-
sition to prohibition is that more
liquor is sold under prohibition than
under license laws"
We follow one flag. It symbOlizes
our purposes and our aspirations. It
represents what we believe and what
we mean to maintain, and wherever
it floats it is the hope of the oppressed.
President Mckinley.
Tell that to the heart-broken moth
ers of the boys who have been ruined
by the damnable canteen, which the
President allows to run in spite of the
law which prohibits it.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-09-29
THE CAPE CHARLES CONVENTION
Tho Primary Nominees Endorsed Go
Tdfusfructed

CAPE CHARLES, VA, Sept. 2S-Spe-
cial-A Joint convention Of delegates from
Accomac and Northampton counties ana
Accomac and Elizabeth City counties was
held here to-day I'm Parsons opera
House for the purpose Of nominating a
noater delegate To- the Legislature from
each Of the above districts.
DR.. j. W. BOwdern, OF Accomac county
was made chairman Of the conventions
As Accomac county has one whole dele
gate I'm addition 10 the two joint delegates
above. as IS their usual custom, they ac.
cepted the nominees of Northampton ana
Elizabeth City counties. northampton
nominated Mr.. John e. Nottingham, VINO
was the choice of the people In the Au-
gust primary. c,.
The delegates from Elizabeth CITY couh-
~ nominated J.. O.. DOnohue ON the Nl-
teenth ballot. defeating Francis i. eau
sew after a hard fight.
The TYLER delegates made n STRONG
effort 10 have both the delegates instruct
ed for United states senator, but they
were defeated bv the Martin men. ana
both delegates will go TO the Legislature
uninstructed -
ponohue IS considered a strone. Martin
man. and had a strong Martin delegation
behind him.
Governor Tyler was endorsed IN me
Northampton primary. but the deiesdie
who also represents Accomac county Is
uninstructcd.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-09-29

ALEXANDRIA. VA, September 2S-
SYeciaI-Six white tramps. who gave their
names as Edward Rowland. James VII
son John Fisher. James Connect. u
Frank Smith. were a~rraigned before
Mayor simpson this morning IN the yo-
lice Court 10 answer the charge of tres
passing on the property OF the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company. With the eN-
c~epiion of Rowland. they were sentenced
TO De put on a bread and water diet for
a period Of two days and then subject TO
the chain gang FOR "a period of thirty days.
Two weI-dressed Baltimore youths
about eighteen years of age. who gave
their names as william Hohlbein and
Brooks Dul,hart, stated that they were
making their way 20 Savannah. Ca They
met the tramps IN this city and were i'm
duced 70 drink. finally they became IN
toxicated and were carried 20 the car In
which they were found and locked up.
Dukehart charged Rowland, n of the
tramps. with improper conduct. Inc
Mayor sentenced Rowland 20 serve six
months i'm the city Jail. There being no
charges against the youths they were dis
missed.