Bloomington Courier, Volume 7, Number 15, Bloomington, Monroe County, 5 February 1881 — Page 3
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TOO SHORT? A LOVJS.
This
day. in ttiis i same ; place, we w& last
. - year, : Autl Absence, the omnipotent severer. Since then on thee and. me hath worked his will; 1 would , my last year taverns thou stand's t here. " My last year's iave I would I loved thee sum - Does not this place seem strange to. thee and - me - - " This fresh cool wash and whisper of the sea, We knew so Well together? Oh! how strange! All's out of tune itow-jars dissordantly. This old-known. placefI would ittoo,wfonld change. ' How miserably the same those cliffs of gray ! And see a boat again, too. in the bay! And yon lone sc-a-girtgniy rock sunset-lit With tao6e same tints wo two admired that day! 1 My last year's love hast thou forgotted it? And then ah! wherefore art thou still .so fair? -; Why are thy smiles still just so what they were, -; ' Save that for mo they speafe not any love? Why hast thou sttll that samtf bright golden hair, ' Now,l have npTKhare in the praise thereof? I may not call Thee now what I did then;. . Thy lips and srail es are cold an d alien. Those times ?and these how like; , how wide apart! . I have lest what I shll never learn again; I have forgotten the byways of thy heart
GREAT BKITAUff.
. Queen's Wages the and Work- j
mgman's.
Address to t he Prime Minister of England. Tne habit of the English Nation, of calling the attention of other Nations to whatever may seem to the enlightened Briton to be either singulai, disagreeable, unjust or outrageous, makes it quite proper for me to call your attention to some stri&ing peculiarities
of the English wages-system, . . As we Americans are prone to imitate you. the foremost people of Europe, and its it seems to many of us that your-wases-system is either singular, disagreeable, unjust or outrageous possibly all of them I am impehed to ask you to make plain to us the reasons why you think it of divine origin, ami why you continue it; for if
we are to o likewise, ws we um,vt?j wculi like to know the reason why. Our distinguished Secretary of State has supplied-us with many valuable' "Consular Reports" as to wages, cost ! of living, &cij from which I will pre-1, sent you a few facts which may navel escaped your notice. v ;
Our Secretary nas presenceu mese facts, with some comments of his own, which he thinks of much value, a few of ffhieh I may quote, as otherwise ihey too may escape your notice. . J"h! wages of the Queen of England is set down in the "blue books and in "Whttaker" at about $3,075,000. The pay of the Queen is thus about $10,000 a day i or in round numbers is seven dollars a minute, counting, in nights, wet days and Sundays. In addition to this it is understood that Hhe gets her house-rent free, and among these free houses we hear at this distant point of the following: St. James Patace,Buckingham Palace, Hampton Court Palace, Windsor Castle. Osborne House, Balmoral Castle and there may be others. The yearly charges paid upon the Royal palaces is put in the budget at; 35.540, $177,700. 1 . ; Notwithstanding what seems to us in this new country very libera! wages and very free rent,"there is an impression in England that the Queen is pinched for money. Daring the peried when she had many children, there was an incessant and constant demand on Parliament for an allowance for Messrs. Robmson's Prepared Food," &c, the moment a hew baby came, and sums of thirty to rifty thousand pounds were quickly voted to keep the new-somer alive. Thus, they were all saved to theNatiop.J It is a current report all over England that one of the Queen's children is heavily in debt, and some thintc hopelessly, unless Parliament shall irenerously vote to pay Lhese debts with the public money, for it is pretty well known that the Queen - will not pay them. Just where the Queen's wages come from and where they go to is -an in teresting matter of inquiry. You. as Prime Minister, know how Political Economy states that all wealth (including wages) comes out of the earth and sea, and is produced by man's work.
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... You know, then, where the Queen's wages come, from, and you are pretty sure that neither she nor her sons and daughters do the work necessary to produce these seven dollars per minute out of the earth or the sea. But she is a valuable person to the working millions1 Of Great Britain. She must be, or they would not so willingly pay this wages of seven dollars per minute. Just what Work the Queen does do as an equivalent for this three millions of wages, she may know, or you may, or it may be known to God in Heaven ; but so far it is hid from mortal ken on this side of the water. Just what valuable work her son may do, except the shooting of pigeons and ministering to the affection a of "lovely women,' has not been revealed to us; but it is understood chat his wage is at least half a million of money A- about one thousand three hundred dollars per day and that he
5?5.54 per week, and he allows for clothes and shoes for all (live or six persons) forty-eight cents per week, or
cor tne year "SLm. We may suppose
me iamiiy to consist of two parents and four or five children, and then we
may wonder what those clothes will bring when sold to the frugal Jew at
the end of the year !
Mr. Consul Cani ins says : "The general food of the class of people here . .... , ... ii
reierceu to eonsis' s or oreau, cueese, sa.it, butter or lard, potatoes, tea and sugar, all of the cheapest sort. Asa rule the laborers eat meat but twice a week, and that consists of the very cheapest kinds." - Mr. Consul Dockery says of his workmen at Leeds: ? Although labor is expensive ($5 34 to $7.71 per week) it can not now be made cheaper because the very essence of existence, meat and bread, is so costly." It would seem then that wages in England under the divine laws of com
petition and free trade are about down to starvation point ; where they m ust inevitably, go in our "financial civiliz
ation."
iNot only must men work sixty hours
a week to keep up to starvation point,
but so must women and euudren . Mr.
Consul Webster says of Sheffield, one of .-the -great industrial cities of the
world: "For there is in this town a
far greater proportion of women employed in the heavier kinds of labor
than will be found in the large towns
of the United States, excepting it may
be the great cotton manufacturing
centers,"
We.know, too. that while there are
laws enough against the employment
of y oung children in factory work m England, it is impossible to prevent it. They must : work or starve. Men work, and women and children work, and they earn from ninety-six cents to seven dollars and seventy-one ents a week. Young Arthur, one of the Queen's boy?, works too, and he earns say SI .500 a week, and he does not work
sixty hours. ." Mr. Consul Webster calls at teution to another small fact that 'machinery now is cutting into 'man's worfe. He says of Sheffield ; "But although the rates have advanced. t the amounts actually earned are much diminished, from the fact that there is much less work to be done ; " he says, however, that "some men who work with the machines make more wages . with them than they t could do without them." . ; 'V Of course, fewer men can work. DISSATISFACTION. We now come to & singular but universal factr-itis that thefwhole body of workmen in England are dissatisfied. They are not content with the wages, are not satisfied to live on them , want more wages, bu u seem to despair of it, and rigntly. Mr. Con3ul Dockery says; "Latterly most of the 'strikes' have been made not for higher
wages, but against a contemplated reduction, and have often accomplished their purpose." Under the English social system however (and ours is the same) that can not continue, wages must go down, down to the starvation point, perhaps below it. Mr. Consul Shepard says about those workmen : "No doubt there is fault both sides, but I am bound to say, from all I can learn, that the calamity must be laid more to the greed and exactions of the employed than to the selfishness of the employers." : In this statement our distinguished Secretary rally coincides. One wonders, at this point, whether the Consul or the Secretary has tried to support a family on .55 a week, having worked sixty hours, or has tried bread and butter of the "very coorest quality" as a steady diet. If so they may see perhaps why the workmen's gifted comes to the fore. And here, Mr. Minister, I can not do better than to ask attention to the serene wisdom of Mr. Secretary Evarts. He comments upon these workmen in this way : "It is eviden fc to those who have marked the recent course of manufacturing and labor events in that countrythe decline of manufactures and the uncompromising spirit of . labor, a
decline caused oy foreign competition
Secretary's Consuls indulge in such singular moral reflections as this : 'I have not unfrequently met the statement that this education is an injury rather than a blessing to all
L concerned : to the laborers because it
makes them discontented with their lot, and leads them to geek easier and genteel occupations : such as writing and shop tending: to the employers, because "it. makes the in the target of the workingman's jealousy and envy, the workman looking upon the capi
talist as a natural enemjr, and upon
and in consequence thereof less demand for manufacturers producing a con traction to which the employer and employe' might have gradually accommodated themselves by a sensible spirit of concession on the part of the latter, had the workmen been capable of appreciating the fact that his employer was forced to reduce his wages in order to sell at a profit," &c. I have underscored some word3 because before you reach the end of the sentence you may have forgotten the beginning. He says again in his wise and serene way : "That some cf the happiest working people in Europe m ay be &aid to be those whose wages are least, while some of the unhappiest may be classed among those whose wages are the highest," &c. ' What induced our distinguished See' retary to write this? Who can say?
It is not likely, though possible, that
he had your eminent Queen in view. or can he have had bis own case in mind with his wages of $50,000 or $60,000, because he limited his wisdom toEurope but, Mr. Minister, you may, if it seems best, present the case to the Queen, and ask her to change places for a few months with one of those working Wumen of Sheffield, or even with tfie wife of an agricultural
'southern counties $2;75 oer week."
their wives to drink; men who get rich by doing it; men like Guinness, of Dublin, are madelleers of the realm by yourQuijeu because they have made sucn in finite drink and 'money, and so are en tilled to be made into Lords? Let me direct your atten tion 1 o anotLer point which in your multifarious labors, including the site of Troy and the Irish landlordism, may have escaped your attention. ihe national revenue of Great Britain for the years 1878-79 is put down at 88,115,972; 27,400,000. of this was derived from the excise tax; most of it from beer and spirits. Nearly. one-third of the vast revenue of Great Britain is clearly drawn from drink, and it goes largely to pay the Queen's wages, the army, navy, church, &c. . It becomes a curious, rather puzzling question, if those workmen should stop drinking, what would become of the" Queen, you, the army, navy,
church, &c?
Is it not true that yorjr last Adminis
tration was put out of power by the votes of your "Parliament of" rich
men, because you proposed to pass a
bill to cioat the. gin-palaces and beer-
shops at H o'clock instead of mid
night?
Should you make a report upon this
matter, please enlighten our distin
guished Secretary upon these points.
Another point is worthy of atten
tion, roverty, misery auu drudgery
do have an effect upon the creaiure called man.
Sixty hours of work a week, with a
wage of five dollars, seems to result in
a great amount of thosejthree grades. It will not surprise you, I believe, though it seems to aston ish our Secretary, that a working populace of that sort should rush to the grog shops in herds. Why should they stay at home? Home! fancy it. One or two vooms, not an eaey chair, not a book or a newspaper, not a musical instrument, not a game-board, with a small or no fire, with an over-workec1 wife, halffed and half-clothed children ! 1 that a place to stay in? Who wonders that men and women too go to the gin palaces, where are to be
found light, warmth, gossip and liquid solace? This i inevitable. If you in England mean to have and continue a plutocracy, you must and will have a pauperocfacy. ... " . ' If you must and will have Queen 's palaces, you must and will have gin palaces. If you must and will have Queen's wages, you must and will have starvation wages. About the education of workmen, which lately has rippled the placid surface of English society, may I say a word? . I happened to be in England when
your new school system was inaugurated, and I noticed that the strong argument urged iri its favor was that'
in that wav onlv could the British
workman be made fit to compete with the workmen of other countries . ...... , That was all v He was to be made by it into a better money-getting animal.
Now, some of our distinguished
quite a large sum of money, and, without making any statements of his accounts, ran away but was followed by detectives, arrested in Southwestern Missouri and returned to Wellington. Mr. A. J. Lowe of this city, went down to Wellington for the plow company, and upon searching Chapman's trunk, papers were discovered of a startling aud highly sensational character. It was ascertained that Chapman, under the name of G. M. Wise had, before going to Wellington, married a young lady at Newton,, and ..upon arriving in the first named city, married a second lady under tne name of Chapman. A telegraph operator saw the name G. M. Wise and recognized it as that of a man wanted in Illinois for a murder committed six years ago. The sherifi of the county where the crime occurred was notified arid telegraphed to hold Wise as he... was wanted. Wise, alias Chapman, had a brother who passed by the name of Joe Mason, also a resident of Wellington, aud when he discoveredthat his brothet was wanted in Illinois for the murder above mentioned, ha committed suicide, as he as well as his brother had beeu connected in a
scheme to defraud bis creditors. A third brother was formerly recorder of deeds in Sumpter county, by threatening to expose his brother Frank, secured a large amount of hush-money. This last brother returned to Illinois in 1378, but last spring went back to Kansas and made Frank hand over
$2,000 more or be given in the hands
of the officers. He stated that he wan ted this money to lift a mortgage on the old homestead, and at last secured the cash. It has been the custom for these bovs to return to Tennessee every year, claiming that State as their home, and when "Joe Mason, n alias Wise, killed himself, a Mr. Flanders telegraphed , to, what was supposed to be his home as follows: "Joe Mason is dead'; what shall I do with the body?" an answer came the same day, u Will guarantee charges; ship here." This was done by Mr. Flanders last week, but when the coffin was opened by Dr. Mason, of Tennessee, instead of "finding the body of his son he discovered a stranger, and in this connection is another startling fact in connection with the tragedy in real life.
About five years ago a young man named Joe Mason did come west from Tennessee and settled near Wellington; and the last time heard from by his famiiy he was herding cattle near that point. It is thought that Wise, alias Mason, murdered the real Mason and then assumed his name,. and from letters was able to carry out the deception unti1 the father of Mason discov
ered that his son had not been killed as he was led to suppose. The body was buried in the potter's field, and investigations are now on foot to discover the whereabouts of the real Joe Mason, if yet alive. In the meantime Frank Chapman is in jail at Wellington awaiting the arrival of the Illinois officials, while the people of that town are all agog over the developments made in their midst.
THE MONROE DOCTRINE.
Its History in Connontion With
Affairs in North and South America,
the employers', his by right." -
profit as more largely -Shepard of Bradford.
"Where ignorance is bliss 'tis folJy
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owns many oi me iiueens neges goon - If this per week d6es cordmg
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But Ijondon newspapers of a' recent
date spoke in laudatory terms of the devoted labors of one of the sons, who had recently laid a corner stone or presided at something, where he made a little speech, in which he encouraged the young people. ; And here is a samI pie of his' work: ! 7 . "Prince Leopold's brother, Prince Arthur, is unceasing in bis performance of public duties. One of the latest of these duties was a speech to thfc srudents of King's College, Lon
don, whom Arthur told that education jdnnobled the mind and soul. It taught
them, ne aauea.- to appreciate ana ad
mire the great and wonderful works of their Maker, and it showed them what they bed to be thankful for in this world "As, indeed, there are many things in this world they ought to be thankful for.?' This extract is not from "Punch." It is hardly worth while to go into particulars now as to the wages of the Prime Minister or other great personages of England, because theicases I have here cited will be enough to call your atteaticn and that of your fellowworkmen in England and 'America to the curious contrasts which: exist, Let us torn our eyes upon the ' WAOES OF WORiarEN IN ENGLAND. The average wages of eight different sorts of workmengiven by Mr. Consul Shepard of Bradford, England, in 1878,isieh$6. per?week; of boys,ift to 13 years' old, 16 cents per day; of girls, ,1ft to J3 years' old,, 18 centsper hvy. .. ; ... : ' Mr. Consul Canisins,' of Bristol, gi ves the average wages of town workmen as $4.10 rer week of agricultural workmen as $2 6i per week. Mr. Consul Dockery, of Leeds, gives Qie wages of ten kinds of skilled woj-k-
mehas 7.71 per week:
workmen, 5;34 per week.l
We may bear in naind that the?je men work from fifty-six to sixty hours per week to earn these wages; it may
ae Known aido tuuc tney nrnst work. iNo dawdling is permitted. i5 r 7 It may also be home in mind that these wagaare not constantcan not be aSHured to any man in England, for a year, or anveek even. ' '
m&T JHEt IT COST THESE WOKKAIEN I TO LIVE? Mr. Donsid Dockery nuts it down in bis disk let for an ordinary family at
of - ordinary
of happiness,one stands appalled at the possible misery of the .. venerable Queen, with her wages of seventy thousand dollars per week or seven
.dollars per minute!.
I can not forbear a3kmg you to suggest to her that she might diminish her own happiness, even at soma risk of increasing that of her subjects, by distributing her wages-for a few years, now before she dies, to some povertystricken women of her realm. Hhould she give one pound to each woman she would supply over 700,000 heads of families with warm clothes for the baby through a winter. Her own happiness would then be much increased, according to our Secretary ( her wages would be smaller ) , and those 700,000 mothers and babies might not he ;made painfully miserable. , ; - Should the experiment be tried under your administration, Mr. Minister, we shall be grateful for. your report as to. results. There are several ponderous fortunes in this country wondering and waiting for a useful purpose to turn up. , Our Consuls frequently call attention to the wholesale misery of strong drink in England, and state that men and women rush to the grog shops and beer palaces, in herds. Mr. Consul Webster believes the loss of time alone Irom this cause in Sheffield is not less, at$l per day than $2,180,000 for the year. " He states that of the $700,000,0(i0 of drink consumed in England Sheffield's share would amount to more than $5,000,000,-" which I, for one, am disposed to doubt. So, we may put down the loss by drink at $5,000,000: days not worked in Sheffield. $2,180,000; totab$7,180,000.
jLet U3 ask, Mr. Minister, who ifc is that establish, supply and maintain these grog-shops and beer palaces In
'every corner of Engiand ? :
is ir, not tne rich, educated and civilized upper classes? Is it not true that there are a hundred, perhaDs more, members Of Parliament elected wholly
and distinctly wun beer and spirit
money, ana wnony ana ciiHtmctly to
defend ana protect thehee! and spirit
m teres csr . . .
Do we not see on your list of M. p.'s
th ree Basses two Alsops, an d man y more who make beer in infinite quantifier for the workmen of England and
to be wise.'7 fuat quotation you are doubtless familiar with. And is not Mr. Consul Shepard a shrewder man than his principal thinks he is? .... If the res?tof men lived in hovels, wore the dirtjr skins of beasts, had no rocking-chairs, or bath-rooms, or billiard-rooms , or champagne wires, perhaps this Bradford working animal would enjoy what he has, be content and Serene, would chew the cud of sweet and bitter fancy as the cow does. But, if you will educate" him, teach him to read, put journals in his hands, where he learns what delicious dinners you and the Prince of Wales eat, what fine horses you ride, what lovely gowns, made by the divine Worth, your women wear then, after you tell him, force him to know about these things, why grumble because he grumbles? Why make a fuss becaus he steals? Why be surprised because he now and then kills a mau to get some of those charming goods of a lu'gh and "educated" society? None know better than you, Mr. Minister, that all we want is the best there is; and the workman wants it and his wife, too, just as much as the Queen and her children want it. The only way you can have Queens with wages of three millions a year is to keep your people so ignorant and brutal that they can aud will pay the wages. So you, Mr. Minister, a wise man now propose to make your ignorant workmen educated and intelligent, and then intend they shall work sixty hours a week, eat food of the poorest quality, live on $5 a week in one small and dirty room, not go to grog shops, and be so hanpy and content! It will
take a very great man to do that piece
of work !
It is possible you may say as manv
do. ' 'There are to many people in England. Why don't the workmen
stop having children?'
Well, he emulates his Queen r-the
head of his State and Courch, the symbol of all he has been taught to
believe as high and holy. She has ten children (?. Why not the wife of his bosom, the partner of his bed, the sharer of his toils? He must mai-ry; (so he, thinks); he can't afford to keep a mistress. Only the rich and educated can indulge in those fancilul delights.
You, and all educated men of
age, can
your
lememuei uily vears aoo.
when England was rushina: into her
headlong career to make chean troods
for all the world, that she wanted.
clamored for, cheap labor; that she raked her farms and village for it: that she paid Ijigher wages to married men, so that cheap working animals her factories needed might be produced and swiftly. They were produced and now you have got them too many ! Not twenty years ago, I was told, that a poor-house guardian of a town near Liverpool refused to le, some immigration woman take the pauper woman away to Canada. "No, "be said, "we may want them here for business may revive.l Well, we have them, over one million paupers, who earnjand cannot earn wages at all; you pay your Queen three injllion a year, and . you don't nnd it to work well! If I were nermittad to give you some sound advice, as I am not, I should first say "You had better do something about tliis wages question, and quickly.' I have the honor to be your very obedient servant. Eltchi,
iionmnce of Crime. , The Kansas City Time?, of the ioth , relates the following sensai lonal story
of crime:
"The Moline Plow Company, of this city does a J&rgo business id the agricultural implement bunines throughout Kansas.anU up to iu late day had as agen t at Wellington, on the line of the Kansas City, Fort Scott, and Gulf railroad, a man known as Frank Chapman. A snort time since Chapman failed owing the Moline Company
Spoiling Famous Diamonds. The Antiquary. The "Star of the South, was found in Brazil, in the mines of Bogapren, by a poor negrcss, in July, 1853. It originally weighed 254 carats, but was reduced, by being cut as a "brilliant,' to 124 carats, or less than half its size. Considering the enormous price set upon diamonds of the largest size, it is strange to find that several of iheni should have been deliberately cut down to much smaller dimensions simply to give them an ai tificial shape, little increasing their original beauty, but immensely decreasing their value. It is estimated that the Russian "Orloff" l03t four-fifths of its value by being cut down to one-half its original size. The most striking instance of such in judicious cut ting is to be found in our famous Koh-i-uoor." As before mentioned, this stone, once going by the name of the "Great Mogul," was originally of the weight of 787 carats, buty "polished down"" by an unhappy and unskillful Venetian lapidary 162S0 carats, aud as such came into the possession of the Crown of England, ft was then a"rose,'but Prince Albert, not liking the appearance of the crysr tal flower, conceived the idea of having it re-cut. After consulting Sir David Brewster and other scientiiic men, it was determined by the Prince Consort, with the consent, of course, of the Government, to polish the "Mountain of .Light" For this purpose one of the largest of Dutch diamond merchants7 Mynheer Coster, of Amsterdam, was engaged, and be sent over to London his most experienced artisan, oue Herr Vbc? sanger, with assistants, to "im prove" the "Koh-i-noor." The improvement was carried on with the help of a four-horse power engine, which began working on the 6th of July, 1362, the Duke of Wellington placing with his own hands the "Mountain of Light;1 on the cutting machine. For thirty-eight days the unlucky diamond was swung round on it unti Lit had been reduced from two hundred and eighty to one hundred and two carats, at a cost to the Government, or rather the Nation, f,S,000. It was, as truly remarked by Mr. C. W. King, one of the best writers on and judges of gems in this country, "a most ill-advised proceeding, which deprived the stone of all its historical and mineralogical value," reducing the once famous stoue, "unrivaled in Europe," to "a bad shaped, shallow briliian t of but inferior water." Sic transit
gloria mundi, even for such "everiast in g" thiugs as diamonds. . -- -- ' ., The Wives of Ex-Office-Holders. In her last letter from Washington to the Independent, Mary Clemmer says in regard to the wives . of ex -political men, when the time comes to leave Washington : "They give up dear, darling Washington! its revels, its pleasures, its privileges, its powers for the old Sun
day-school, the Sowing Circle, the Home Missionary Society, or even the village Literary Lyceum ; for the humdrum visits of Mrs. Smith give up the multitudinous ring of the dear ten thousand, bearing with clue humility "the first card," the social seal and stamp in Washington of social inferiority ! Mudtown, with such sacrifices, never. The result is, Washington is full of gray-haired men who have stepped down from office, more or Jess lofty, to go into inconspicuous places, to earn a stipend and to stay in Washington. The man is often cynical, discontented, one of the great army of men who go to the grave hugging a grievance. But madam'! She does not abate an air. Her fetich is not a grievance dropped lrom the unmindful hand of Providence, but the ghost of her departed prestige. Is she not still the Honorable Mrs. ,? There is no earthly reason, outside of her vanity, why her acquaintances should pay her the first call, but all the same she demands every tenet o( the code of oflieial etiquette with the tenacity of a martinet. The life that might have been sweet and true sinks to a round of surface performances, in whicfi" there is no heart and but the make-believe of sincerity which, measured by anv standard tender and noble, is simply idleness and emptiness, if it is nothing worse. Washi nston is full of such people. Every Department is full of them. If a public man loses his election, the question is mooted at once among those still retaining power: "What is to be done for Blank?" What done with him? Soon you see the man him
self on the street or hovering aimlessly about tne Capitol. You read in the evening Star that he expects a "foreign mission," possibly "a seat in the Cabinet" or the Senate. Thus begin the great expectations which end very often in lifelong disappointments. The man wanders back aimlessly to the old life, now bereft of its early incentive or charm ; or he turns his back forever on tne high endeavor of independent manhood behind the salaried desk of Government Department. $1
Uor. Oinclumiti Gazette.
The revival of the discussion of the
Trnrof doctrine in connection... with
the Panama canal scheme, suggests
the history of that doctrine us not ill timfid. We have, fortunately, on ree
ord,not only ihe outside events which
gave rise to it,.. but -something: or its in side history, as given by Mr. Cal
houn some twentv-five vears after its
promulgation.
Tt is well known that it was uttered
bv President Monroe, in his annual
message to Congress, in the year 3823.
Rome eitrht vears earlier, and short
ly after the fall of Napoleon, the
ttollv Alliance was fowned. The
nnrties to it were. Bussia, Austria,
Prussia anil France. Their objects
were very religiously, but somewhat
vaguely stated to be the assistance ol
each other in ease of need, and the treatment of their subjects jvs members
of a Christian iamiiy. Tne worm in general, however, understood it to be a
league of absolutism against tne rignts and freedom of the nations, a bond to perpetuate monarchies and repress the. spirit of sell-government in the people.
Three years later the five great powers of Europe assembled in Congress at Aix-la-Chapelle,iand formed an alliance for the exertySfe :of a genera i supervisory power over European affairs, an u the suppression of dangerous revolutions, limiting themselves, however, to the strictest observance of international law. Not long after a spirit of revolution broke out in Spain, Naples, and 8ardina, aud the constitution of Cadiz was proclaimed in all three kingdoms at once This aalrining state of affairs provoked the convocation of a Congress at Troppan in Silesia, in October 1820, which was removed near the end ol the same year to Laybach in Sfcyria. Here not only the five great powers were represented, but the King of Naples .and some smaller, powers. Great Britain protested against the proposed intervention in the affairs . of Italy, hut was overruled, and absolutism ..was restored in all its vigor on the
peninsula.
lu 1S21 a royalists insurrection oc
curred in modern Spain, to which
France crave comfort, if not aid. A
Congress had been arlanged to meet at
Verona, when that of ..ijaynacn oroKe
up. The principal measure bore agitated was armed interference in the affairs of Spain. Again Great Britain protested against hhe proposed action, and the Duke of Wellington, who was the British Envoy, not only declared the refusal of his government to participate ia any such proceeding, but also that England would not even attempt to persuade Spain to conform to the views of the congress. The French Envoys, Montmorency .and. Chateaubiiant, against express instructions of their court, urged forward the interr yen tion, and were supported by the other powers, notably Russia. The consequence was that a French army invaded Spain, penetrated as far as Cadiz, overthrew the Cadiz Constitution, to which the King had given his consent, and left him free, but the country enslaved. No stretch o;f interference had ever gone a3 far as this. These events, culminating with the proceedings at Verona, gave rise to what has been called the Monroe doetrine. At Verona the subject was agitated of attempting, in conformity with the known wishes of the absolutists of Spain, to bring back ihe- Spanish colonies , of , America in subject!ou;to the mother country. This alarmed England. In a speech delivered in tne -House... of Commons in February, 1823, Brougham said that .'the war of the allies ishot against freedom on theEbro or freejfom ou the Muncio, but against freedom -against freedom wherever found, freedom by whomsoever enjoyed; freedom by whatever means achieved, by whatever institutions secured." Mr. Chanuing, then Foreign Secretary, caused the scheme concerning the colonies to be communicated to our government, with an intimation that England would join us in resisting the pioject The notification was received wiih joy at Washington, where the all iance was already causing uneasiness, and the popular cry of ihe people was embodied in ihe President's message, issued a short time after. It was a blow which eflecually put a stop to the then designs of the alliance". The message declared, first, that the United states would regard any attempt on the part of the allied powers to extend their system to this country as dangerous tu ouir peace aud safety ; secoud, that we would regard the interposition of any European power to oppress the governments of this eontinen t, which we had recently recognized as independent, or to con trol their destiny in any manner whatever, as manifesting in unfriendly disposition toward the United States. There was another declaration having reference to a controversy with Russia and England concert ing northwestern boundaries, to-wi t : That the continents of America, by the free aud independent condition .which they have assumed and maintained, are not thenceforth to. be considered as subjects of colonization by any foreign power. These declarations havs been prominently discussed once or twice since. The government of Yucatan, . in 1843, oifered the United States the sovereignty of that country if we would undertake to suppress a rebellion ol the Indians against the whites. If we declined Great Britain and Spain were each in turn to be offered dominion upon the same conditions. President Polk strongly recommended the acceptance of the offer and the occupation of the country, least Home foreign power should get it in contravention of the Monroe doctrine. . which, the President thought, should by all means be sustained. A. hill was introduced for the : purpose, in the discussion of which Mr. Calhoun analyzed the doctrine in his plain, logical style, reviewing its origin, defining its terms and maintaining that it did not apply at all to the case before the Senate. Mr. Monroe had in contemplation oppression and interference on the part of the allied powers. The declaration with reference to colonization, Mr Calhoun asserts, was never submitted to Mr. Mon roe'sCabin et (of wh ich h e was a member), but inserted in the message by Mr. Adams, then Secretary of State, on his own responsibi lity, and thereby 'caused a coolness on the part of England. The question more nearly arose at the time of the Maximilian fiasco in Mexico. That was at a time when we hed all we could attend to v,t home, but Secretary Seward protested with France agai ust her part in the matter until our war closed, and then the
French troops were withdra wn,leaving Maximilian to his fate. ..... The doctrine, indeed, has never been anything more than a declaration. It has not acquired tho force of a policy, and has never bten maintained by
firms or indorsed bv Congress. The
House oi llepreseutatives once, by resolution, repudiated the second and
third divisions of it. To coulorm to the Dooular interpretation of it would
ever cot so weak that we do, the
ownership of the Panama Canal wil not save us. One thing more. It is said (thougt
I can not now lav mv hand on the
authority) that the United States o
Columbia, in its grant of privileges to the proposed company, provides for a f. Ii i- ? e
iorienure m cue evenc oi auy Toreign government obtaining control of the
franchises. A great power may over
ride those provisions, of course, and
when that occurs will be the time, if
ever, to interfere. Meanwhile we need
not tremble. . C. W. D. Dayton, January 12. Cold snaps. Brooklyn Eagle.
"We're bavin' some pretty wintrish
weather'" said old Daddy Wother-
spoon to Unci a Sammy Hun ni well, as the two gentlemen met near the City Hall, yesterday. " Right forward
weather lor the season. ,. "Jist so, jist so," concluded Uncle
Sammy. "'Reminds me of the fall of
1831. It commence I "long the fore part of November, and froze till March. Good, smart weather, too. I remember that it was so cold in Brooklyn that November that bilin? water froze over a hot fire." Daddy Wothersnoon looked at him
and braced himself. . "Yes. yes," said
he, "I mind it well. That's the fall the milk froze in the cows. But the
cold season was in 1S27. It com
menced in the middle of October, and
ran through to April. All the oil froze in fithe lamns. and we didn't have a
light until spring set in."
"Ay, Ay," responded Uncle Sammy,
growing rigid. "It's just like, Tester
day to me. I walked a hundred and forty miles due east from Sandy Hook, on the iee. and slid back, owing to the
convexity of the earth, you know. It
was down mil couuiv mis way. . m that wasn't as cold as the, winter of
1821. That season commenced in September, and the mercury didn't rise a
degree til I May. Don ' t you remem bcr how we used to breathe hard, let it
freeze, cut a hole iniit and crawl in for
shelter? You haven't forgot ten that.
"Not L" said Daddy Wothersnoon,
after a short pause "That's the winter we used to give the horses melted lead to drink, and keep a hot fire under 'em
so i :; wouldn't harden till they got it,
down. But that was nothing to the year. of 1817. We began to feel it in
the latter part of August, aud sue V.rtrvifl cHHHv till tltA MOr.h nf.TiinA T
got through the whole spell by living
in au :ice-house. it was too com to so out; doors, and I jist chmped in au
ice-house. You remember that sesaon
of 1817. That's the winter we wore
printing press and issued a paper, per haps the first . ever 'issued '. in Texas, thouch one was issued at about the
.
undershirts of sandpaper to keep up a friction." "Well, I should say I. did," retorted Uncle Bammy. "what! remember 1817? 'Deed I do. That was the spell when it took a steam grind-stone four da.vs t o light a match. Ay, ay ! But do you know I was uncomfortably warmthat winter?" - "How so?" demanded Daddy Woth erspoon, breathing hard. "Runnin around your ic-house to .find out where you got in. It was an awful spell, though. How long did it last? From August till the 30th of Juue? I guess you are right. But you mind the snap of 1813, don't you? It commenced on the first of July and went around aud lapped over a week. That year the smoke froze in the chimneys and we had to blast it out with dynamite. I think that was the worst we ever had. All the clocks froze up so we didn't k: ow the time for a year,
and when men used to set lire to their
build in's so's to raise the indeed. I cot $3,000 a
rent. Y es, month for
burniln' buildin's. There was a heap
because we
of stiflerin' that winter.
lsved on alcohol aud phosphorous, till the alcohol frozu, and then . we eat the brimstone ends of matches and jumped around till they caught fire. Say you " But Daddy Wotherspcon had fled. The statistics were too much for him. Married Women. Attorney-General Baldwin yesterday delivered the following important opinion rela ive to the rights of married women to mortgage property : Indianapolis, January 21. Auditor Spencer County : Dear Sir You inquire: "Can a County Auditor loan school funds on mortgage executed by a married woman and her husband uuder sec. 10 of the act of March 25, 1879?" Tne section you refer to reads thus: "A married woman shah not mortgage or in any manner encumber her separate property, acquired by descent, devise or gift, as security for the debt or liability of her husband on any. other person." You observe that I italicise the words J "descent, devise or gift," for the limitation is confined to these
three cases. If a married woman acquires title by purchase to the land nftwed to the school fund as a mort
gage security for her husband or another's debt or liability, you can accept it. Your duty would be to examine the abshnrthfihe furnishes, and in case of any
doubt to give the schools the benefit of
the doubt and decline tne loan, me abstract will always, show whether the property was acquired by the wife
through devise or aeseeuc, uu& senium whether it was acauired bv Rift. . I ad
vise you in all such oases to require an affidavit of the. wife's grantor that the
title so conveyed (specifying the date
of i. he convey ance and description . of
the land) was a bona nde purchase.
and specify the amount of the consideration, and when and howit?was njfld. With these precautions observed,
if you are satisfied that it is a boua tide
tllie Oy pilXUU&W. IU 1 ouie lu..uvvvMt a, married woman's mortgage upon her
separate property 4 'as security for the
dent or naomi-y oi nur uuguunu ui other person." If a married woman desires to borrow money upon her own account, and the husband is merely a formal party to the loan, you can safely loan to her any sum the law permits you to loau . The law limits her power to encumber the separate property acquired by descent devise or gilt to cases where she gives the mortgage as security for the debt or liability of another." In a word: A married woman's separate property acquired by purchase can be mortgaged her husband joining in the mortgage for any purpose; her separate property acquired by devise, descent or gift cannot be mortgaged in any case whatever, since March 25, 1879, as a security for the debt or liability of her husband or any other person. IX P. Baldwin.
A TEXAS HEROINE.
Death of Mrs. Long, of the Lone Star
a Pioneer State.
Galveston News. . The announcement of the death of Mrs. Jane H. Long, at her home, near Richmond, Fort Bend county, on the 80th of December, 1880, revives some reminiscences of her life that arc as full of romance as most tales of fiction. She was, and had beeu for sixty . years, the widow of Colonel James Long, a pioneer of the days when Texas was a part of Mexico, struggling tor independence of Spain. A meeting of the citizens of Natcneja, Miss., was held in January, 1S19, and a company of voU unteors raised to assist, the patriots in
Texas in their efforts to throw off the
Rnanish voke; Tho command was
nvnlvft iiR in nil the otirrels of the re- eiven to Dr. James Lontr, of Tenues-
1 IS C ( 1 J ...... O .. 1. A .! n I 1a.1 1 m ntln
miliHes of Central and South America.
provided they formed or threatened to form alliances with any foreign power. Tho suggestion that we should prevent by any means the fore ign corporation of a compauy for ihe construction of a ship canal from the Caribbean Hea to the Pacific Oceau, is. a most eiureme ami unwarranted interpertafeion "of the Monroe doctrine, even viewed in its; most patriotic light. We fear no foreign power, and if we
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see, who nau been a surgeon m uie army of General Jackson at aud before'fche battle of New Orleans. This
little force of seven tv-live men did
not reach Nacogdoches uutil early in
ihe following November, when tho
numbers had swelled to some 3G0.
On his arival at Nareodoches. Colonel
Long united with the patriots there in establishing a nro visional government.
and declared Texas a free and inde
pendent republic. They established a
same time on uaiveston isianci ty ini Mina expedition, an enterprise similar to that under the command oi : Long. David Long, a nrother of the commander, was sen t on an expedition among the friendly f Dedans on tho Trinity. Major Smith, who had come by way of Galveston from New leans, also proceeded to the Trinity, and Captain Johnson, with a small force, went to the Brazos, near the site of the old town of Washington, Colonel Long, the comraauder, came to Oalveston to secure the co-operation of Lafitte and his followers who- then had possession of the island, but. Latit U tried to dissuade bin on account of the desperate character of the enterprise, and declined to join in an enterprise toward the Kio Glraude. Before autumn th& Spanish forces hiid. driven the, whole of Long's parties bevoi d the Sabine. In , 1821 Long, with the fam ous h ero Milam , and , a s m all body of men, returned to the Maud jast as Lafitte nnd his followers were taking their , final departure under the persuasive influcouc! or an Amric m nmn-
of-waj sent to break up their piratical
renaezvous. actoruy alter the departure of Latitte and his followers, Colonel Long, with his force, sailed down the coast to the mouth of the San Antonio rivfj. and then marched lor La Bahia (Goliad), where they took pos
session without opposition, though in a short time ihov- wrvp. pnvirii"P hv m
force of 800 Mexicans, who were, also, at war with Spain. The Americans were detained as nrisonfira and thfi t
commander sent to the Chy o ftlexio. He never returned, and i t' was a long time before his fate became known. It
appeal that he was liberated at the in
stance of the American Minister, and
Long had left his young wile, the lad v
whose decease is now announced. i
Point Bolivar, the Peninsula lust ea3t
of Galveston, to await his return.
where she remained with the small
force left to lb old the place. Hearing nothing from, their commander, the
little force dwindled away. 'and linally
abandoned the post: but the heroic
young wife of Long, with herinfa.it
emia ana father and negro slave, refused to leave, and remained until her friends came from Louisiana and carried her away. She kept the. Indians at bay by firing cannon at intervals and creating the impression that troops were still there. In 1822 she learned that her husband had been murdered. She settled on the Brazos with Austin's colony in 1822 or 1823, and has remained in Texas ever since. Her daughter, who was the infant at Bolivar, was afterward the first wife of Judge J. Si Sullivan, now a citizen of Galveston, . y- : Cold Winters." The winters of 1779-80 began as the present one did, and before the slight moderation, in the atmosphere, Souday, many of the older ) residents, whose fathers and mothers had tola them many tales of that teriibje winter, were speculating as to w bather the piesentono would resemble it in other respects. In 1779-80' the cold weatber set in about the middle or Noyembtf, and continued until the middle of February. .During that long, period there was not enough warmth in the sun's rays to melt the snow on the ground, nor to affect in she least the fetters of ice that bound the creeks, ponds and rivers. One snow-storm followed another until finally the ground was so covered that it was difficult to go from, place to place, and the ice upon the rivers at all convenient points was used by men end teams and animals in place of roads. The cold winds were so piercing that wild turkeys were f o i n d frozen to death in the forests. The deer a nd bufialo sought shelter from the blasts around the cabins of the settlers, and all kinds o f wild animals peris hed in the forests for want of foody which was buried beneath the suow. The fierce wolf and panther, which usually skulked about the boundaries' of the settlements only by night, now came near in broad daylight,' in. search of the bones and oflal thrown from tne cabin of the settlers. No rain fell, and the pioneers were compelled to obtain water for .'drinking, cooking, etc., by mel tincr ice aud snow. The Northern
and Western rivers were tightly bound
by frost, ana even as lar soutn as Nashville the Cumberland was frozen over with ice thick enough for the safe
passage of emigrant trains. ..The-Dela
ware, at VhUadelptua. nau ice tnree
feet i n .thickness, the Chesapeake Bay and Long Island Sound were frozen over.
Another similarity between the pres
ent winter and that of 1779-80 was the
mild autumn weather that preceded it; When the cold began, in November,
1779, the leaves had hardly fallen from the forest trees, and many of the trees
aud shrubs were putting forth new
growth. The same condition of things
were witnessed last fall. The winters
of 17S3, 1784, 1775, 1788, 1792, 1796, and 1799 are all reported as having been very severe. .
It is stated in nuarein's noueer History" .that ou December 26, 1788,
the Delaware and Ohio rivers were
both frozen over, and navigation was
suspended upon mem until tne iszn,oi
the following March.
In 1792, when soldiers were senc to
the disastrous battle-field of General
St. Clair, to bury the dead, they en
camped where Cincinnati now stands,
January s. The snow vas reporceu
two feet deep upon,, the ground, and
the Ohio was so strongly rrozen cnai the soldiers rode their horses across from Kentucky on the ice. . t The 7th of February, 1807, wab
known for years as Cold Friday, and
was tne grounawors . ior ... iiinuy .
grandfather's tale. On we evening oi the 6th the weather was mild and rain began, to fall as night set in. In a few hours the rain changed to snow, which fell to the depth of sx. inches, after
whicn a hurricane oegau to sweep . -r . .... t . 4 -I
over tne lanu. ii grew.;.wHuw colder as tho night progressed,, and
the next morning the trees m tne
forest were cracking like the reports nf urn and evervtbintr was bound in
fait ftrs o f io3 . There was no t her m on- J
eter to register the cold, hut the day
comes down in history ana traoauon as Cold Friday.
. H.... , .. The Population of Cities. Washington Special. The population of the first ten cities
in the United States' is as follows:
v fllHpH. Population
First. New York...,. 1,806 592; - itun. j.... .... Linnoi
BeCOBO , x Hllili.lv i 'it n .?w,tfn Th I'd Brook ly n 555,0S9
Fourth ....;Chicao , -503,300
Fifth.... Boston io,o Sixth St. Louis ai0,52l 0ur.ni h RivHimorft i SM"2.1Sft
Eighth.. .Oiaeiuimtl.;.. 2?5,708 Ninth.... .w'San Frauctsco , 2W,6
Tentll... ..........new unewu,.... iio,iw
The towns and cities in Indiana Tex-
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ceediug ten inousana are as iohows:
FARM AHD GABI
Cream should be churned attut 60 degrees to have good success. ' ; Large numbers of ilneJ4MA;? have been taken to Texas l&UM for breeding purposes. 7 . .t a ynir fioi f inir whpat will
not be hurt much by letting the cows feed on it y?hen the sround is cot- too SOft... . .- ' X , ; j Farmers often make a gi eat misiake; in working brood mares in heavy draft? when heavy in foal.. Moderate exec-, , else is well, but beyond this ocJy damace can result. Mr. Moore, of DaKalb c.nntyi Ind ,f saps that he finds thafeqiud parte of s ahr-slacked lime and salfewiH -enicifcdf-f rot in sheep, one or fcwoj pplitions4 being sufficient. . :" : What is needed in every -Iwelliog is dryness, pure ajr, light, and warmth. The sunny light has a?obemical aciaonf upon plan ts anc animals, of sucJi a character as to greatly rqrnot life . and growth. ' On a table in the olllce dv the fleer- ! ! tary of tho State Board of Agricnltiire there is a collection Cf Bf ecimeiis of;
vfirinns kinds1 of nWOOcl found in?
Ohio. There are. about eighty -eight; ' diiferent varieties1, a.-? many as s there ? !
are counties m the tate. i Milking should1 bexlne iifras nearly; regular intervals as possible, and the! 1 inore rapidly and quietly i is done the; greater will be the yield. Care should be taken to milk the cows clean each
time, as a careless melhc,ent -milker
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J, V t i T,.
t j -as
will soon dry a cow. -
It is just as easy to have eggs to self 1 1 j
deal more profitable. Don't tela me; that "it aint-natnraV' for hensito. lay in winter. It is just as nafuiiil fote? hpTis to lav in winter as ifc is for cowsi
to give milk in winter;1 Give y oui Ji fowls comfortable hoasei and j with J) M j ! f -.,. proper food and care they will lay be- jij J j - Uav niiot; hrtlrthf m selves. :i f, . 1 '.
A New York sheep : bret der writing :; 1j
IAJ .WHS tUUUUJ ... as far as his experience gd he - finds'hoof returns from the DeW breed and i
their crosses. He thinks that; they
nri noir iV.O. hOQT nPT" .fIl I.. . WMrfi DBUlf
ton ana wool rogemer are m ruuu ucmonri pftrhims wfisrs wc ol alone is
the object, and large flocks are jto ;be kept, the fine wools may bests There are three essentiaiii reui?ities
for keeping ice, to-wit: 1. A elo.ly 1. nacked non-conductina: suljstanco sur
rounding tne ice. a, rnu-. fMiuio of Wtnm without admitJinK 3;- j
A free circulation of air oyer the top of
To eureka running sore r fistula v3h$ cer, lake five ounces of nitric acid, anil . rimn niH nnnnpr teiits or ' anv picce ot.
Copper, into it.: Then mix one-ounce. ;j nrifVi Alio I'm TIP. A of nure cider vinegar, . u
and inject into theholes to the hot torn;, w. o,, KiiiAii nnill. Tf the "mtxturo i i.
is too weak, put" less vinegar -into it, A f
until vou sret it strong er ougnacoiue-
Stroy the walls of the abcess, ,; : f
he farmers of Austria are. organiz
a tariff to protect theni against the, lariTA and increasing importations of
grain and cattle trom the United I j States and Bussia that are being;; made; at prices with which it would be rma- i f ous to trv to compete Eie, fmaaT ; ; Unions "also seek a redu.Jtion of the rate of interest on the par? ; of the Winks fl to 4 percent, i It is kintS off Granger .; movement. . - u: y s At this season of the yeir. when the; f J . natural supply of grass other green; : food is cut off, fowls need a daily meal i of some sort of green foac. What W$$y f! does not appear to be of so much mo ,. ment provided they gei; something. i; We tried mangolds, turnips 'nnd cab I lifto-ps.. all with eood results but ot the 1
three, cabbages decidedly are the most valuable. We cut them np in m pretty fine pieces at about the tcir acabhftoe to fifteen fowttet an? in a shoit
time not a scrap is lef Sens thus ed : nay bv an increased supply of tggs m ii much more than the extra cost of food, The Galloway cattle a?e a hornless ; breed, native of Scotland. They were j " some vears ?aco introduced into this 4
country by scotch farmei sin wnyj ri Intel v a fev have been
brought to she New England States. They are a medium siztrf compactly ? built beef cattle, matiud eary . andf flesh good. In color inostiy black. They have not been estee med specially as dairy cattle. The first" Galloways r in this section of the West arrived a ? few days at Chicago. There were thirty-six of them, and their average: weight was 1,425 pounds; nnd they i soldfat per 100 pounds. f The cattie were bred in Victorif, Eimsas, by an Englishman who a few years ago,,started a colony there, bat for the past fourteen mmths they have hnfen ieed 1 j n.. ,,...,11 rtw.i --xi M?aoiisVll '- ' f
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jriings not GeneraiLy; Qu.Qteii-i 4 New YOTkSun. ,. '' ' ; "Snails? Twentyfiyc cents adozen, I ma'am." .-.. ' ; : t them for 15 down, town,"
said the young woman, and the aquari-! 1
Jc i.iiatnmor WATlf, CilllL V ' ! t Cirri
"Singular people, thejie acjuana eoi-? lectors," smd the dealer. 'Unless ic r the cost oi the medicih-r that you get at the drug store; you would thinks i there was nothing people would m i i little know how to get s asthe value. of our stools. But it isnrtso. . Ourcufc tomers get the iigures down line, E teU j you. You don't have our daily quo i tations in the Sun's market reports but we have our regular printed, nnce lists, that vary with the eel' crop, the tadpole market, and the abundanco . or scarcity of other standaptnrtioles:
Here is our latest list.
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Gold fi$h etichs...........v' Sticklebacks, eacb. r...... ,S Crawfish, each w Sllverlish; tach.......w.;...i..f4 Tadpoles, ejich...........-....... Eols. eachy.. ..... Shiners, eatsh 4 Suallft, di.z.r........
Dace, each ...r??-vx,x' Sunfish , each -jf Lizards or newts, each... ..r ..r....4....r,......O.io Cat flsh, eacUi.MMiwM.v;ttt,v,j! X
!V4.ccoP ............ ...... .v....
w&wiiawv T-, ........
Pebbles, Qua......
.J... .5020 ...0.35 .0.10
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"Are tboBit wholesale pneearKr: 1 "No; retail. I don't gell iin5lh
..ift.10 v -a .
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wholesale. 1 raise mi w fuy:ww stock ir my owu 'pondf' in Kew Jersey Sometimes I buy of fish irmen atid4om but not oiteu. Someoftlie men in the trade buy all their stnfl of owners of ponds oil Long Island and' elsewhere, : and others g:o oue into the country to catch their stock whenever hey can . find it. The past season has been bad for our business on account of W : ing up of ponds and streams. JSow, there's that water plant for Ash globes:; That little bunch is 25 cents. Do you" know why it costs so1 much? J, J-fecauso ,; -the dry weather killed neaplwxbit ;f " of it in these parts.5 ; "7 ... ; u ' "f
A Cortv anient
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A "liliflA anoaraUis vhich may well
Rank. Cities. Fopobiuon, be termed a detective camera, has rc-
First.... indianapoiis. w nt.lv h?en invented. To all anpear-
ocona YuiihYuie. i lro uw.
pora way ne
Whtiul
l?fMitHi ..Twrfl Hnutd. 2(1.010
Fifth NeT Albany .10,422 Sixth . i .Lafiiyette. .W.8-30 Seventh Scuth Bend il8,a7fl Eighth RlshmonO , .......12,7 Niuth '.LoganspOTb .11,198 Tenth .Jenersouvine...y............10,4iS
Fanny Davenport and Anna Dickinson have had their fir al falling out. The actress insited on making alterations in Miss Dickinsoi s's play, "An American Girl," claming iht they were calculated to., improve it while Miss Dickinson held that thy damaged it. But the place did not draw, and in New Orleans the receipts Jell one night to $30, of wnich $50 went to the author as royalty. M las Davenport then telegraphed as follows to Miss Dickinson; "The party of the.; second part decides, as per contract, your play 1h n, npomiiai-v failure, and acoordinfflv
I ceases to perform the same.11
U: looks like a hoeblack'o box;"
which may be sinner o ver 'the shoulder 1 with a strap, or rested upon the paiveinent i f need be. In fact, when want- . h ed for woik, it is put4 down on the ground. It carries gelatine plates already in position , witli n lensjtbat is iid ways in focus ior any distance- fronx twenty to thirty feet The camera- -, may lie used without the least fear of discovery. It may b dropped xhx the 1 street in the middle of the pavement. before a shop, upon a bridgt.v any .1 time the owner sees a group he fanta ; . a picture of. As the box touches tho ground a bulb 1$ squeezed and tiae Sr - ' posui'o is made. The inventnr shows an iuscantaneons sketch Wtom &?rboard a steamer, of two men by the : paidle-bnx, one? of them rubbing; head in the most innoc-snt a?ld nn conscious manner, w hHe tuetliejr if relates some story or iiictdenfe. j . J 'i
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