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Show LINDSAY AT THE LYCEUM. WORK FOR THE IDLE. Mr. Jmi ThnuMon about a month ami iiiiMUlied in The people of this city hav had aa oppor rtin Iribuua the following iiii Letter to the HonorMayor and Member of tU City Itaineil." Head it tuaity to see a good play this week, and a able and erilieiiw it goodly number have taken advantage of it. Gentlemen: The .coming winter will be Lindsay as Othello is grand. People have noted for scarcity of work for the laboring - traveled a thousand mi'es and paid big inon ey to see less than they could have seen at the Lyceum for the first three evenings ol this week. The universal verdict of the people is that it would be hard to improve upon. No tragedian of the present day personates the warlike Moor more vigorously, nor with greater accuracy brings out the real character thac Shakespeare had in mind when he wrote Othello" than does Mr. Lindsay. His rage and jealousy in the closing lines of the third act is terrific. Mr. Luke Cosg raves performance of "honest lago is artistic, natural, and free from the stagey affectation and straining for effect which too often is put into this part by more pretentious but less conscientious actors. Miss Edith Lindsay as Desdemona was charming and is entitled to more praise than our space permits; while her sister. Miss Luella Lindsay, delivered the lines of Emelia in forceful, pleasing manner. Mr. Meeks as Cassio was good. "Richelieu last night drew an appreciative audience; as least, one would ttiink so from the 'bunders of applause which followed the strong scenes of the play, especially in the fourth act where the old Cardinal draws the solemn circle and launches the curse of Rome. Julie, Baradas and Du Mauprat were e performed by Miss Edith Lindsay, Luke and George W. Meeks respectively. "Richelieu is the bill for tonight and also tomorrow night. In our judgement, Mr. Lindsay is seen at his best as the Cardinal. The Merchant of Venice will be given for tomorrow matinee; Lindsay as Shy lock. The price for this performance is 2$ cents. Mr. Lindsay is certainly one of the best of living tragedians. Possessing as he does a deep, resonant voice and graceful bearing, if he could but secure proper btcking and management he would, though now advanced in years, yet receive the reward of wealth and fame which his labors and talent deserve. have been 5080 national banks d the passage of the act legalsince organiz izing this plan of robbery of the people. Ol these 352 have filled while 1, 118 have gone into liquidation, leaving 3 610 in existence. On July 23 these banks held $367.000 000, while they owed their depositors $1,830,000-00- 0 or about 7 times as much as they had. They owed their depositors more money than there is in the United Stales, yet this system is pronounced bv the money mongers to be the best financial system the world ever knew. We are inclined to the same opinion and think it would be difficult to improve on the system in the interest of the bankers. Exchange . classes, hence there will be much suffering and distress And believing that it is the duty of the city officers to look after the interest of our worthy laboring classes, 1 make the following suggestions: First: It is a fact that South and Second South streets, leading to Temple our main depots, are in a deplorable condition and in much need of being paved. I have learned that the Ri Grande Western Railroad Company is willing to do its part by paving on Second South between Fifth The city of Boulder, Colorado, three years and Sixth West. I presume the Oregon ago had some terrible washouts by the heavy Short Line will do its part on South Temple rains. The business men and bankers bebetween Third and Fouith West streets. I sieged the commissioners to issue $1000,000 am also told that other property-ownerare bonds on ten and twenty years to repair the also able and willing to put up their share injury. But the commissioners said NO, we for paving, while others cannot afford to at will not bond the Instead, they people. present. Now, gentlemen, suppose your hon- issued labor scrip to the amount of $40,000, orable body should conclude to pave the said repaired all the injury with all home labor, streets on the folio wiag conditions: and today, just three years after, the scrip is (1) To appoint a superintendent over the all taken up redeemed, if you please withwhole work. out paying interest for ten or twenty years. (2) Have the work done by day labor. It is a relief'to see people once in awhile (3) Give the labor to our deserving citi- show a little sense, although it may be in zens only; this paving can be done in this isolated localities Director, Nevada, Mo. way and on the following terms, without Did you ever stop to consider the fact that costing our taxpayers a cent: First: Use the cash that those pay that Christianity and cannon go together- - that are able, to purchase material that you have whtfre Christianity flourishes most the cannon are the biggest and greatest in numbers? to pay cash for. Second: Issue warrants for balance for The questions wh:ch suggest themselves are: labor, etc. Said warrants to be subject to Did Christ teach this kind of doctrine? If so, call and drawing 4 per cent interest per is he a safe exemplar? If he did not teach it, annum until called and received for all dues why do his professed followers practice it? the city at any time. Civilization takes away our land and Then the city, to give those that cannot afiord to pay now for their paving, what gives it to the landlord; takes away our time they want by giving the city, or the city machinery and gives it to the capitalist; takes and . aking it a first lien upon their property and away dancing, football, singing, etc., it takes over hands the thtm to professional; drawing 6 per cent, per annum interest until our conscience and gives it to the priest; away paid. Next year we will have a sinking fund to it takes away our honesty and hands it over to the lawyer. W. Lane. prepare ourselves to pay off our bonded indebtedness; take said fund to redeem the ever made right it does yet. If WHAT WE WANT TO DO. warrants and place the securities to the If to might overpower a nation gave the victors We want to get into the position soon that credit of the sinking fund. a jest title to the lands of that nation, it we can fill six pages of this paper with this By so doing we will have our streets does yet. The idea followed out would lead home-madof e stuff insteid n hot paved, warrants redeemed and a sinking us to the conclusion that if a man is bigger only two pages as we do now. This can be fund, drawing 6 per cent, interest on the man than another he has the right to drive done and done easily if each friend of the best security, instead of placing the sinking him away from his home and take posseshis duty. Won't fund in the banks without interest or cause would do one-ha" sion of it. you show your patriotism to the extent of security. Respectfully submitted, Another strong argument in favor of James Thomson. sending in one new subscriber at once. You postal savings banks has come to l:ght in the can do twice what you are doing for this Money, in its last analysis, is a system last two days. The New York bankers have paper and not hurt yourself at all. We do not of'en make any sort of appeal for help, of bookkeeping. Now as soon as we are all been interviewed upon the question and it. This fact but we mean just what we are saying this convinced that the paper in a merchants they are as a unit opposed to alone to satisfy anybody that postal ought time. This is an appeal not to keep the ledger should be worth as much as the will be ready to savings banks would be a good thing. is paper on its feet and going, for that set- accounts .it contains, we tled, but we want to improve it. Let each believe in the intrinsic value idea of money. The upper ten cl us has never as yet furman do his duty and we promise that every Not before. nished a statesman. It never will. It has dollar will be used to improve the paper. If it be the proper way to settle interna- never yet furnished a man who lived in the tional disputes by the cannon, why should hearts of his countrymen one day after his WHERE DID CAIN GET HIS WIFE? not the rule hold good with individuals? death. It never can. The real men of the Dr. Ravlins lecture last Sunday evening What would you think of a judge who world come from that class who grapple with at the Peoples Church on Love and would direct that the litigants in a civil case' the realities of life. Benedictions was one of the best, if not the setttle the rights of property with pistols? The question has often been asked: What best, of his many talks Those who missed Why not? Eh? Beg pardon, but we did not feast do Freethinkers believe? The best answer it missed a great treat. It was in fact a quite catch your answer. Please repeat your to the question that we have heard was that of reason and a fl w of soul. reply, wont you? Eh? will be given by Mr. Steiner in his lecture here last Next Sunday evening his subject SocialThe human nature objetion to Monday evening, which was that FreethinkWhere Did Cain G t His Wife, and Whom is natural face it that believe everything that can be proven to on ers its ism to is sugsaying equivalent Did He Marry? The subject that the for men to lie, cheat and steal; to plunder be true. gests nothing, but we promise you wili some make hitting points and it and murder each other whenever they get an Doctor NoTHinc is so wonderful as the amount of will be well worth your while to hear him. opportunity to do so. Socialists have more injustice human beings will endure and still faith in mankind than to believe such rot be unless it be the ease with "contented; as this, but even from the standpoint of the which WILL YOU NOT HELP? they can be flittered by cheap glory is deand promises while their rights are being We want 'to double the circulation of this human nature objectors Socialism if each sirable because it will remove most of the stolen from them. L. E. Guide. paper, and it would be so easily done undesirof its friends would do what he ought Get opportunities for the exhibition of Every bluecoat you see parading our one person to subscribe. Or, if you do not able traits. London Clarion. streets is a breathing, walking advertisement feel like soliciting a subscriber go down into life in have to than more Is there nothing of the fact that we are still a gang of uncivdollar and send it your own pocket for one cover- ilized some to to sleep, eat, place enough beings that are so ignorant and stupid in with the name of some one whom you and a the for polo game, perhaps ing body, that we even pride ourselves in the fact that would like to read it. How many New Years blood and thunder melo- we are untamed fools. or a fight prize in. subscribers will we get now? Send them drama to while away the few weary hours Hoke Smith has been heard from again. intervening between drudgery and sleep? PARLOR POP MEETINGS True, even that little would be like a seventh He still shows the contaminating influence of The parlor Populist meetings whjch be- heaven of delight compared to what the aver- Cleveland by advocating the retiring of the came so successful and popular before the but can the greenbacks and the substitution of national even- age workingman now erjoys, holidays,- will be resumed on Friday ambition of the American soveignty rise to bank paper. This was in a speech before the Constitution in building. the 6 ing. January nothing higher teanr hat? What are all the Georgia bankers. Ask the elevator boy for the number of the beauties with which nature has stocked the The man who wears out the knes of his room. Come and bring your friends. earth and that the skill and ingenuity of man breeches praying for what he is too lazy to have reproduced and amplified for, if not for work for, should IT COSTS MONEY try how hard it is to Yet we man? do of the enjoy can enjoyment bunko a simple Hoosier before attempting to go to Klondike; but this week you the wealth of the such who We them? produce stoves, of carpets, furniture, a threadbare game on the Almighty. buy all kinds nation and make possible the grandeur and beds, iron tables, Prison Mirror. chairs, organs, pianos, abundant on every hand, are so magnificence wardrobes, cupboards, sewing machines, Suppose a inan should come to town deourselves content to struggle on in poverty, steel ranges, etc., etc.; two steel safes very sold regardless of live in wrechedness and die in our misery claring that the foxes have holes and the cheap; everything will be without having seen, let alone enjoyed, the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of cost before I go to Klondike. I. X L. Man hath not where to lay his head, and world that was built for us all. Second Hand Store. 48 East Second South beautiful he should crawl into a box car for a nap!!! The Beacon. Street. Telephone 448 P A. Sorensen. well-know- n FARMERS' GIRLS. There Tha s . - - lf -- - -- extremely limited and frequently very ncertaln. Yet her labor in the home "about the place" has done as much toward establishing the family prosperity as the labor of her brother. She Is up ut daybreak to get breakfast ready. She prepares frequently unassisted, three meals a day for SuS days In the year. She does the washing and Ironing, the sewing and mending, and Is still at her work long after her brother Is In bed and asleep or away visiting the neighbors. She, too, has an. additional tac during harvest and at those seasons when the work upon thr farm is especially heavy, buf she rarely receives auy reward for the extra eeivice required cf her. It Is a manifest Injustice. A good many fathers excuse themselves upon the plea that girls have no Judgment iu money matters. Well, they certainly will never acquire wisdom without experience, and they cannot gain experience If the means for so do- lng nr withheld. " oe financial facility In moot women lies dormant for lack of exercise, bul It has been marvelously developed when put to ths test. There are thousands of women In the country, widows, who have as- Burned the management of affaire upon the death of the husband, who have succeeded brilliantly, when the better half failed; the mortgage la paid off, stock Improved, modem f&vmlng Implements have been purchaadd, and the crops cultivated according to modern and Intelligent Ideas. The system should Include girla aa well as boys, and there ia no question but that It will pay. over-caref- ul wide-colum- . They Taka la tba of a Ilaca. the country who are sufficiently liberal to tb boys, but. who think that girls' wants nhould be supplied as they suggest themselves, and with no regard for Individual preference, says the Philadelphia Times. After harvest, the son, who has driven the reaper or helped at threshing, has his share of the profits to control and do with as he pleases. Certain of the stock havs been given him a pig, a calf or a colt, which he will eventually sell and pui the proceeds In his pocket. The farm offers all sorts of opportunities for earnings, great or small, to which his right Is never questioned. By and by he drives his own horse, jo'na a club, buys books and goes to college a right which be has earned, and to which he Is fairly entitled. With the girl It Is usually very different. It never occurs to any one that she, too, would enjoy a small Income which shs could count upon as her very own, and Invest as she saw fit without restraint er objection. The butter and eggs are sometimes her special commodity, and from their sales she hue a limited supply of pocket money. But It is , ls Iarl Sn(uiBl Tern are many farmers throughout Cos-grav- - Ik proflt-shar-I- nn DRINK WAS HIS REOIMEN. Old , Tkkiu Who Hadn't Bans to Bad Sobar Onra In Fifty Yuan. From the San Francisco Argonaut: The late Justice Denman once tried a case In sn agricultural parish which mainly turned upon the recollections of the oldest Inhabitants. One of these was a hale and vigorous yeoman of 85, whose erect figure, keen intelligence and clear testimony created so strong a sensation In the court that the Judge questioned him concerning hla mode of life. The witness explained that he was a vegetarian and a total abstainer. The Judge, in dismissing him, expressed a hope that all who were present might profit by Ms example, and then the next witness was called. This was another yeoman, the elder brother of the preceding, and fully a. match for him In strength, activity and Intelligence. Aa he was about to retire the Judge stopped him with the observation: "I presume that you aleo, Mr. Greenfield, are indebted for the preservation of your strength and faculties to a careful observation of the same sobriety and of the same regimen which has been. so well described to us by your brother?" Haint been to bed sober for fifty years, my lord," was the unblushing and unexpected reply. FOR SALE OR TRADE. Weekly paper with well equipped office, situated in growing Oklahoma town. Will sell cheap for cash, or will trade for small tract of good land Value of plant, $600.00. Reasons for selling given on application. H S. Foster, West. Hutchinson, Kan. 125 Eighth man cheat another he is a knave, if he cheat himself he is a fool, but he if gently submits to the present system of elections and law making after his attention has been called to Ellective Voting and Direct Legislation, he is both. Pittsburg Kansan. If a Lins '.y Lycev x Anger will probably remain at the next week. the last retuge of a detender of is a bad cause . The injury of one should be the concern of all. Nothing consoles or hurts like the truth. |