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Show A - VISITS HIS OWN CRAVE. KanaM Poitmiater Who kFUyd 'PMian.11 g On July 16 the assistant postmaster general appointed A. W. Hall postmas-te- r at the village of Trading Post, this county, says a La Cygne (Kas.) correspondent in St. Louis The only remarkable thing about this transaction is that, according to the war department records. Mr. Hall is dead and the government h discharged its obligation toward him by placing a tombstone over the place where he is supposed to be burled. The town of Trading Post is within three miles of the Missouri state line. During the war Mr. Hall, then a young man, enlisted in the union army and saw considerable irregular service fighting the bushwhackers, who swarmed over the country and terrorized the inhabitants. One day a company of ten soldiers, of whom Hall was one, and an officer were detailed from a company of scouts to cross the state line and forage for provisions, the Kansas settlers having been pillaged until nothing was left Hardly had they crossed the line before 100 bushwhackers swooped down upon anS captured them. Without a moments hesitation the captain of the guerrillas ordered their execution. .They were taken to the Bummit of a large mound about a mile west of the line and shot down like dogs. Hall fell with the rest; shot through the head, but did not lose consciousness, and heard his executioners discuss the advisability of wasting another round of ammunition. Large numbers of union men were in the vicinity and the marauders mads haste to recross the line and seek safePost-Dispat- ch. ty farther east Hall was found by friends, was taken care of and recovered, but was reported as killed to uie war department. To this day he is known over the country as " Possum Hall. His dead comrades were burled about two miles from Trading Post, and a few years ago the government erected a slab to mark the graves, bearing Mr. Halls name, in au.ou to those of the dead soldiers. Thus it happens that if the postmasdesires he can ride out and visit his own grave and read the record of his death. ter so THE NEXT WORLDS FAIR. Although the Paris exposition, which will mark the close of the nineteenth century, is still three years in the future, the French capital has its preparations for the great event well under way. The remarkable extent and beauty of the worlds fair at Chicago Lave stimulated the civic pride cf Paris, and no pains will be spared to make this exposition of 1900 surpass even that of 1893. In anticipation of the approaching event several grand public works, which will add greatly to the beauty of the city, have already been begun! A noble avenue is to be opened from the Champs Elysees to the Hotel des Invalides, crossing the Seine by the great bridge of Alexander III., the corner-ston- e of which was laid by the ua during his visit to Paris last year. At the upper end of this avenue two beautiful art palaces, which are to be permanent additions to the publlo museums of the city, as well as features of the exhibition, are being built. And finally, the Seine in the neighborhood of the exhibition grounds la to be transformed into a sort of Venetian eanal, lined with palaces, terraces and Italian gardens, and furnished with broad embankments for use as promenades. All of these undertakings are now fairly begun, and upon the most mag- nificent scale. The Pont Alexander III. will be nearly two hundred feet In width, and its single arch crowned by monuments of heroic Bize will occupy three years in building. The exhibition itself Is planned upon lines of equal grandeur, and there is every reason to expect that it will prove the most extensive and varied display of the products of civilization, useful and beautiful, which the world has ever seen. Our own country has not yet officially accepted the invitation to take part, but will soon do so. It is to be hoped that the American nation will be represented by a display in all respects worthy of Itself and of the occasion, and that Americans who visit the great fair will have no reason to blush at seeing the republic outdone in the friendly rivalry. A Norwegian Hnnarrh's bni Reign. Norway can boost one of the longest reigns known in European history. the Ilarald Falrhalr, the founder and of dyof the all Norway kingdom nasty which reigned 490 years, became king at the age of ten, 8C0, and died 133. If he had not resigned, owing to his advanced age, in 930, he might of Europe, have held the record which now belongs to Louis XIV. of . France. , POPULIST MEETING. "Safe Citizenship, a compilation published in book form by J. L. Nichols, gives, The Populists will hold their first public WARREN FOSTER'S PAPER. among other things, a long list of names of meeting of the municipal campaign at the ADVOCATE. SneceMor to THE foreigners who own immense tracts of lands Lyceum Theatre, on West Second South, in America. The figures are startling tomorrow (Saturday) evening. Warren Foster will be the speaker. His enough, surely, and certainly call for a rem- subject will be "Government and Municipal THE LAUGH OF A CHILD. So the writer of the article furnishes Ownership of Public Utilities. No day can be so sacred but that the laugh edy. The public generally invited. The ladies of a child will make the holiest day more sa- the following: are especially invited. Speaking will begin . cred still. Strike with a hand of lire, O weird "Congress should pass a law compelling at 8 oclock sharp. musician, thy harp strung with Apollos gold- every foreigner who owns land in America to S. H. B. Smith, Chairman. en hair; fill the vast cathedral aisles with sym- reside within its boundaries. No August Stein, Secretary. phonies sweet and dim, deft toucher of the should be permitted to own our valuable silsoil" organ keys; blow, bugler, blow, until thy It would be a terrible thing for the govver notes do touch the skies with moonlit The spirit of the remedy may be all right, ernment the people to own the monopowaves and charm the lovers wandering on it can be reached by a much shorter lies, but it is all jut but sweetest the vine-claknow, hills; your right for the monopolies to strains are discords all, compared with child- route. Our way of doing it would be to tax own the government. What do you think hoods happy laugh, the laugh that fills the vacant land so high that it would be undesir- about it? Grander Age. eyes with light and every heart with joy; O able to own it. Put it so high that these forthou the blessed of art river life, rippling k If the eigners would be compelled to come and live boundary line between the beasts and man, else rid it. of it it or and movement succeeds, remembe: please, that get improve and every wayward wave of thine doth drown upon into law some fiend of care; O laughter, divine daugh- The Single Tax proposition put you read it in Living Issues that among the ter of joy, make dimples enough in the cheeks would do this. Under that system of taxa- first things attempted in the way of reform (?) of the world to catch and hold and glorify all tion you could not run fast enough to give a will be to sell the city waterworks to some the tears of grief. Robert G. Ingersoll. oreigner or any one else an acre cf land if private corporation. they did not intend to use it. If they want POSTAL TELEGRAPH. We wonder if it would be possible for the land bad enough to pay all of its rental The telegraph is naturally a part of the His Satanic Majesty, the Devil, to come to value into the public coffers, all well and postoffice as much a part of it as the sewing Salt Lake City and get away without being machine is a part of a dressmaking establish- good; that would do no one any harm. But, ment. Suppose the government were in the y the way, what difference does it make to banqueted by the Alta Club? We think not. clothing business (as it might have been to the people whether they are robbed by a for- An organization of Western men that banadvantage during the war), and continued to eign landlord or an American landlord? We quets Jim Eckels would banquet anything. sew the garments entirely by hand, leaving the sewing machine to private enteiprise; it ail to see it Just think of it! The great city of Boston would be a charming situation for private ennomdoes its own printing and saves large sums Jhe Democrats of Colorado have terprise, but not very delightful for the gov- inated J. A. Gordon for justice of the Suannually. It pays the men the highest wages, ernment. With such advantages, private enis Gordon that too. If this was in a Western city it would same terprise would be apt to deprive the govern- preme Court. This the ment of the best part of its business, in spite in 92 bolted the Democratic State conven- be Anarchy, Populism or Socialism. In the of its willingness to work for people at cost tion because it refused to endorse Cleveland, learned city of the East its very proper. The same thing has happened to some extent and who headed a convention of his own Ind. Nonconformist, Indianapolis, with the telegraph and telephone, and will make-u- p resolution in the which following alif happen to a far greater extent they are The real issue of the city campaign this lowed to continue in private control. Prof. was adopted: fall is that ol public ownership of all public Frank Parsons, in The Arena. "That they recognize in Grover Cleveland "citian able statesman and a pure patriot, whose utilities. Every man in the CAUSE AND EFFECT. administration of affairs of the country re- zens' movement belongs to the franchiseoutfit. Its name is Show me a bit of land which men are not flected glory on the American people and on granting, monopoly-rul- e Democratic party. a direct lie. It isnt a citizens' movement at permitted to occupy, and I will show you a the e and a potter field, tenanted by This shows that even the Democracy in all, and any citizen who votes for it or with men who were sober and women who were Colorado is fast going back to worship at the it ought to be bored for the simples. virtuous. Show me a real estate agents sign shrine of the Stuffed Prophet of Buffalo. The on a vacant lot, "This lot for safe, and I The demand for postal savings banks has will find you within a stones throw of it a Silver Republicans of Colorado have also become so general that even the mossback woman breaking her back over a sewing ma- shown their true inwardness by nominating Mark-Hannif a chine to get thirty cents a day; and you Judge Hoyt, a rantankerous Republicans have heard the cry and are will sit down with me patiently I will make goldbug. A hint to the wise ought to be actually favoring it There arc thousands of you admit that if vacant land were not held sufficient. men who have gone down to their graves out of use women would not be worked too branded as lunatics by Republicans for demuch and paid too little; that is, I will make Did it ever occur to you, Mr. Farmer, manding a safe place to deposit money. you admit that there is a relation of prece- that the State of Colorado ought to own and about are dence and succession between the monopo- control Republicans twenty years behind within inch of irrigation water every woman lized land and the sewing its borders? Then, instead of paying an the times. such a relation as is commonly called cause annual tribute to the rich water barons who There, is an old story to the effect that an and effect. Hugh Pentecost in Twentieth have corralled what God intended should be Century. free as air, you would pay a small yearly tax old darkey Sunday school superintendent to the State just enough to keep the ditches whipped one of his scholars, not so much for WHAT "HUMANITY SAYS. State ownership of "chawin ter backer in de house ob de Lawd and reservoirs in Warren Fosters paper is Living Issues, natural necessities repair. must come. Think about as he did for "bein so shameless ez not to published at Salt Lake City, Utah. Warren this. It is Populism. Representative, Bouleben try to lie out ob it. The most disgustis a kicker on general principles, but he der, Colo. doesnt waste any kicks on the air. He ing thing connected with the citizens (?) The above isnt bad reading for the people movement is that it is machine d stool is the who on knows always politics of the and when its the right time to kick. He of Utah. Brother Vincent calls it Populism. most flagrant type, and the manipulators do says "you cant build up a new thing until Some may call it Socialism. We dont care not seem to have decency enough about Warren is a true what you kick down the old call it; it is common sense and them you to tell a lie about it. ' philosopher and while his heels are destroy- justice, are his hands the 'the old, building up ing new. Humanity, Kansas City, Mo. If you have any lingering idea left in your The following sensible article is clipped mind that the fools are all dead, read the fol- from The Richfield Censor: FREE LANCERS NOTICE. The government ownership of railroads is lowing from the York, Pa., Dispatch: condemned by many because the government A meeting of the Free Lance Society will "There are no better proofs of improving be held in the Commercial Block, Sunday of railroads in Germany doesnt times than the strikes of today, and the fact operation them. m. o'clock Counties didnt have to run freight suit a. 11 at morning, September 19, that more men are employed to strike than The committee appointed to outline the there freight wagons or stage coaches because they, have beep for several years past. We owned All members is the dirt roads nor will the government to work ready report years have been so gradually building up that the need run the trains because it owns the and others interested in free thought are earto improvement has not been noticed; yet the railroad tracks. The nestly requested to be present. government ownership facts remain that many of these men who are and the James Erskine, Secretary. government operation of railroads striking today could not have struck in 1893 are two questions. separate and 1894, because they were not at work. If the Democrats of Ohio sprang from No amount of sophistry or misrepresentation Read over the names of the miners killed the same breed of cats that the Colorado can this fact, and it is plain to see over get brand did, we do not blame the Populists for by the Pennsylvania deputy sheriffs and see any one who wants to see. refusing to associate with them. Represent- by how many of them were free born American ative, Boulder, Colo. The Missouri World publishes the fol- citizens. Half their names end in "ski and Close examination will reveal the fact that lowing under the caption of "The Best Bank- the other half were names that ir you can they are all tarred with the same stick. The ing System the World Has Ever Seen: is nor It safe to reason spell pronounce. facts are that a man who is not sufficiently Receiver W. A. that those not killed were the same kind of Sedalia, Mo., Sept. 1. advanced to get out of the old hulk, is not Latimer, of the defunct First National Bank, people. We would like to have you look sufficiently advanced to merit the support o today sold a miscellaneous assortment of over the list and figure out how .much the assets of the bank at public auction. They tariff on coal is any reformer. protecting American workconsisted of notes, overdrafts, and judgments men? If list of names does not prove to that A Kansas clergyman sweetly remarks: "I amounting to $150,000, and the total receipts of the sale amounted to $385. The sale was you that Republican protection is a farce silly, mimicking, foolish, a held at the government building and was at- and a humbug, then you are a "goner, sleek, well groomed dancing man shoulc tended by less than fifty bidders, and they intellectually. wife I with waltz around a ballrodm my wanted the pick of the paper offered. only am him the next would hunt morning up The Methodists are raising sheol because, kick him around the public square; which all all aim be to has caused a sacrilegious cuss to suggest that Democrats to The so they claim, that in certain Mormon disthings the clergyman knows how it is men. A few days ago one was heard to tell tricts none but Mormon teachers are Erobably employa Socialist that the place for Socialists is in ed. We wonder if they dont know, or are The goldbugs make the laws, the straddle-bug- s the Democratic party. A Socialist in the sufficiently ignorant as to believe that others make the platforms, the humbugs make Democratic camp would be about as much in do not know, that if it were Methodists inthe speeches, and the boodlebugs endorse with the eternal fitness of things as stead of Mormons that they would do the keeping the whole thing. Sun. Tacoma, Wash. would be a powder mill in hell Democracy same thing? Is there any one so foolish . as The stinkbugs do the dirty work, the do the voting, the slickbugs get the opposes everything for which Socialists con- to suppose that a Methodist school board and the moneybugs get the game. offices tend. would choose any bnt a Methodist to teach? Sentinel Chicago If there be any such, he or she (as the We would like to see the Imperative may be) is not up on Methodism. This is not Your political education is being sadly Mandate applied to Sheriff Lewis case. The an endorsement of Mormon methods, for we neglected if you have not read President Imperative Mandate is intended to give the John Smith. It is an illustrated book of 290 people a chance to recall an officer when he are opposed alike to Mormons and Methpages, but it will cost vou only ten cents, becomes direlict or obstreperous. If the odists. because the publishers have fixed this price disDont forget the meeting at the Lyceum in order to sell a million copies. Address voice of the people ruled he would be Theatre of inside week. of a Saturday evening. this office. posed LIVING ISSUES INTEU-MOUNTAI-N non-reside- nt d Dooley-McCornic- non-partis- an a so-calle- d poor-hous- half-starve- d one-legge- nei-the- hare-braine- d, turn-blebu- gs . |