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No. 91. The Fatal Marriage. By Miss
M. E. Braddon. This la a thrilling story, in
which a man marries a lovely girl for her
'wealth, and as it should always be, be came
to grief as a reward for his deception.
No. 99. Tbe Idle Thoughts of an Idle
Fellow. By Jerome K. Jerome. Mr. Jerome
is known as the "English Mark Twain." He
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No. 90. On Her Wedding Morn. By
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"A Golden Heart," and other stories. This
fa companion novel to "Her Only Sin,"
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No. 58. Merry Men. By R. L. Stevenson.
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tt. L. Stevenson. ,
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No. 94. A Christmas Carol. By Dickens.
No. 96.
The Haunted Man. By Dickens.
Two Ghost Stories. By Dickens.
The Bat tle of Life. By Dickens.
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Dickens.
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, What do the Nationalists want!
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. What do the eight-hour advocate pro
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How could women be benefited by voting!
What started the financial panic of 1893!
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Whence originated the names of "Brother
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THE WEALTH MAKERS.
rEOPLK'H PIjATFOHM.
Adopted by the Convention at Om
aha Nebraska, July 4, 1803.
Assembled upon the one hundred and
sixteenth anniversary of the Declaration
of Independence, the l'eople's rarty oi
America, in their first national conven
tion, invoking upon their action the
blessings of Almighty God, puts forth in
the name, and on behalf of the people of
the country, the following preamble and
declaration of principles:
The couditious which surround us best
justify our co-operation; we meet in the
midst of a nation brought to the venre
of moral, political and material ruin.
Corruption 'domiuatea the ballot box,
the legislatures, tne uongress, ami
touches even the ermine of the
beach. The people are demoralised;
most of the states have been compelled
to isolate the voters at the polling places
to prevent universal intimidation or
bribery. The newspapers are largely
subsidized or muzzled; public opinion
silenced; business prostrated; our homes
covered with mortgages; labor impover
ished; and the land concentrating in the
hands of the capitalists. The urban
workmen are denied the right of organi
zation for self-protection; imported pau
perized labor beats down their wages; a
hireling army, unrecognized by our law,
is established to shoot them down; and
they are rapidly degenerating into Euro
pean conditions. The fruits of the toil of
millions are boldly stolen to build up
colossal fortunes for a few, unprecedented
in the history of mankind, and the pos
sessors of these in turn despise the re
public and endanger liberty. From the
same prolific womb of governmental in
justice we breed the two great classes
tramps and millionaires.
The national power to create money
is appropriated to enrich bondholders; a
vast public debt, payable in legal tender
currency, has been lunded into gold-bearing
bonds, thereby adding millions to
the burdens of the people.
Silver, which has been accepted as coin
since the dawn of history, has been de
monetized to add to the purchasing pow
er of gold, by decreasing the value of all
forms of property, as well as human la
bor, and the supply of currency is pur
posely abridged to fatten usurers, bank
rupt enterprise, andeuslave industry. A
vast conspiracy against mankind has
been organized on two continents, and
it is rapidly taking possession of the
world. If not met and overthrown at
once it forebodes terrible social convul
sions, the destruction of civilization, or
the establishment of an absolute despot
ism. We have witnessed for more than
a quarter of a century the struggles of
the two great political parties for power
and plunder, while grievous wrongs have
been inflicted upon the suffering people.
We charge that the controlling influence
dominating both these parties have per
mitted the existing dreadful conditions
to develop, without serious effort to
prevent or restrain them.
Neither do they now promise us any
substantial reform. They have agreed
together to ignore, In the coming cam
paign, every issue but one. They pro
pose to drown the outcries of aplundered
people with the uproar of a sham battle
over the tariff; so that capitalists, corpo
rations, national banks, rings, trusts,
watered stock, the demonetization of sil
ver, and the oppressions of tbe usurers
may all be lost sight of. They propose
to sacrifice our homes, lives and children
on the altar of Mammon; to destroy the
multitude in order to secure corruption
funds from the millionaires. Assembled
on the anniversary of the birthday of
the nation, and filled with the spirit of
the grand generation of men, who estab
lished our independence, we seek to re
store the government of the Republic to
the hands of "the plain people," with
whose class it originated. Weassertour
purposes to be identical with the purpose
of the national constitution: "to forma
more perfect union, establish justice, in
sure domestic tranquility, pro vide for the
common defense, promote the general
welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty
ourselves and our posterity."
We declare .that this republic can only
endure as a free government while built
upon the love of the whole people for each
other and for the nation; that it cannot
be pinned together by bayonets, that the
ml war is over and that every passion
and resentment which grew out of it must
die with it; and that we must be in fact,
as we are in name, one united brother
hood. Our country finds itself confront
ed by conditions for which there is no
precedent in the history of tbe world.
Our annual agricultural productions
amount to billions of dollars in value,
which must within a few weeks or months
be exchanged for billions of dollars of
commodities consumed in their produc
tion; the existing currency supply is
wholly inadequate to make this exchange.
The results are falling prices, the forma
tion of combines and rings, and tbe im
poverishment of theproducingclass. We
pledge ourselves that if given power we
will labor to correct these evils by wise
and reasonable legislation, in accordance
with the terms of our platform.
We believe that the powers of govern
mentin other words, of the people
should be expanded (as in the case of the
postal service) as rapidly and as far as
the good sense of an intelligent people,
and the teachings of experience, shall
justify; to the end that oppression, in
justice and poverty shalleventually cease
in the land.
While our sympathies as a party of re
form are naturally upon the sideof every
proposition which will tend to make men
intelligent, virtuous and temperate, we
nevertheless regard these questions im
portant as they are as secondary to tbe
great issues now pressing for solution;
and upon which not only our individual
prosperity, but the very existence of free
institutions depends; and we ask all men
to first help us to determine whether we
are to have a republic to administer, be
fore we differ as to the conditions upon
which it is to be administered; believing
that the forces of reform this day organ
ized will never cease to move forward un
til every wrong is righted and equal pri
vileges established for all the men and
women of this country.
We declare, therefore,
UNION OF THE PEOPLE.
First, That the union of the labor
forces of the United States this day con
summated, shall be permanent and per
petual: may its spiritenter into all hearts
lor the salvation of the republic and the
uplifting of mankind.
Secoud, Wealth belongs to him who
creates it: and every dollar taken from
industry, without an equivalent, is rob
bery. "If any man will not work neither
shall be eat." The interests 01 rural ana
civic labor are tbe same; their enemies
are identical.
Third. We believe that the time has
come when the railroad corporations
immmm' CXssm'
win tMiisnr 011 the pmiple or the people
must own the railroad; and should tbe
government enter upon the work of own
ing and mannglng the railroads, we
should favor an amendment to the con
stitution by which all persons engaged
in tbe government service shall be pro
tected by civil service regulations of the
most rigid character, so as to prevent
tbe increase of the power of tbe national
administration by the use of such addi
tional gonernment employes.
FINANCE.
We damand a national currency, safe,
sound and flexible; issued by the general
government only; a full legal tender for
all debts public and private; and that
without the use of baukingeorporations;
a just equitable ami efficient means of
distribution direct to the people, at a tax
not to exceed 2 per cent per annum, to
be provided as set forth in the sub-treas-nry
plan of the Farmers' Alliance, or
some better system; also by payments in
discharge of its obligations for public
improvements:
We demand free and unlimited coinage
of silver and gold at the present legal
ration of 16 to 1.
We demand that the amount of cir
culating medium be speedily increased to
not less tbau f 50 per capita.
We demand a graduated income tax.
We believe that the money of the
country should be kept, as much as pos
sible, in the hands of the people; and
hence we demand that all state and na
tional revenues shall be limited to the
necessary expenses of the government,
economically and honestly administered.
We demand that postal savings banks
Reestablished by the government for the
safe deposit of the earnings of the people
and the facilitation of exchange.
TRANSPORTATION.
Transportation being a means of ex
change and a public necessity; tbe gov
ernment should own and operate the
railroads in the interest of the people.
The telegraph and telephone, like the
postefnee system, being a necessity, for
thn t,rftnniriisnionnf news, should be owned
and operated by the government in the
interests ot the people.
LANDS.
Tha land InrOndincr all natnral re
sources of wealth, is the heritage of the
people, and should not be monopolized
for speculative purposes; andalienowner
ali in of land should be prohibited. All
land now held by railroads and other
corporations in excess of their actual
needs, and all lands now owned by
aliens, should be reclaimed by the irov
eminent and held for actual settlers
only.
RESOLUTIONS.
Th following resolutions were offered
independent of the platform, and were
adopted, as expressive of tbe sentiments
of the convention:
Resolved, That wedemandafreeballot
and a fair count in all elections, and
pledge ourselves to secure to it every
fpcnl voter without federal intervention,
through the adoption by the states oi
the unperverted Australian secret ballot
system. . , , ,
Resolved, That therevenuederivedfrom
rrrcliiurfirt income tax should be appli
ed to the reduction of the burden of taxa
tion now levied upon the domestic iu
ti.ioa nf thin, emintrv.
Resolved, That we pledge our snppo-t
to fair and liberal pensions o ex-Un.ou
soldiers and sailors.
Resolved, Tha. we condemn the fallacy
of protecting American labor under the
present system, which opens our ports to
the pauper and criminal classes of the
world, and crowds out our wage-earners
and we denounce the present ineffective
law against contract labor, and demand
the further restriction of undesirable
immigration.
Resolved, That we cordially sympa
thize with the efforts of orgauized work
ingmen to shorter the hours of labor and
demand a rigid enforcement of the exist
ing eight-hour law on government work,
and ask that a penalty clause be added to
said law.
Resolved, That we regard the main
tenance of a large standing army of
mercenaries, known as the Pinkerton
system, as a menace to our liberties, and
we demand its abolition, aud wecondemn
the recent invasion of the Territory of
Wyoming by the hired assassins oi
Plutocracy, assisted by Federal officers.
Resolved, That we commend tothe
thoughtful consideration of the people
and the reform press, the legislative sys
tem known as the Initiative and Referen
dum. Resolved, That we favor a constitu
tional provision limiting the office of a
president and vice president to one term,
and providing for the election of the
senators by a direct vote of the people.
Resolved, That we oppose any subsidy
or national aid to any private corpora
tion for any purpose.
H. . Taubeneck, Chairman, Marshall,
Illinois.
J. H. Turner, Secretary, Georgia.
Lawrence McFauland, Secretary, New
York.
M. C. Rankin, Treasurer, Terro Haute,
Indiana.
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No. 7 Tremont Row, Boston, Mass
itwtiim f r Slim.
Kxperirrurnti to determine the value
of various rations for milk production
ha. a been in progress at the
Iowa experiment station, tho results
of which have boon rocorJod In llulle
tin 14. The oxperimentextended over
a period of eighteen month tho cow
being weighed and the milk tested at
intervals while the different rations
were being fed. This experiment in
dicates that corn meal fed With oorn
fodder, or corn ensilage results ia the
more rapid decrease of milk, and its
fat, and solids, than the advance in
the period of lactation justifies. That
corn meal fed with sorghum ensilage
results in very rapid decrease in milk
fat and solids, and that tha combina
tion is not profitable. That corn meal
fed with roots and clover hay is palat
able and gives good results. That
the substitution of bran and oil meal
for half the amount of corn meal re
sulted in a marked increase both
in quantity and quality of milk, in
crease in quality being ' even more
marked than the increase In quantity.
That good pasture can be substituted
for part of grain ration. That farmers
who feed corn exclusively may have
bettor yields, better sustained, by also
using clover hay. oil meal and bran,
or other albuminous feeds. Rural
World.
A Rich Manure,
The old-fashioned notion that ma
nure from pigs or fattening hogs la
richer than that from other animals,
is mainly due to the faot that hogs are
generally fed on graiu or other con
centrated food. Hogs have also the
faculty of putting on more fat from
the same feed than other animals.
Even when they are fed oorn, their
manure is rich, for they put in their
excrement the flesh-forming elements,
richest in plant food, and use chieily
those that go to' make fat, . and which
are of littlo valua as fertilizers.
Mo.ik Note.
A hornless bull is a safeguard to human
Ufa.
The cheapest beef is that made on good
pastures.
Vary the rations occasionally to keep
np the appetite.
allowing tbe catt'e to run down helps
to give the hen a B.art.
Cattle need llht; do not compel them
to live like rat in a bole.
Profitable beef cattle belong to special
regions, breed and treatment.
About two-thirds of the food eaten by
a half grown animal goes to maintenance.
Many western farmers will have to feed
their cattle more with reference to the
manure.
It Is very poor economy to half starve
calves ; keep them growing from birth to
maturity. "
, When the lower grades of cattle will
Hot pay the best plan is to breed and feed
something better.
Bran and oil meal with roughnesi make
chef: er feei in many cases for cattle than
corn ind roughness.
Scattering the feed oat on the ground
may save some work occasionally, but
does not economize feed.
We may make mistakes in feeding and
caring for the cattle too often ; there Is
no necessity for repeating them.
In a majority of cases, as the number
of thoroughbred or good grade cattle de
creases, the age of turning to market In
creases.
At present prices it requires tbe best
of management to feed beef cattle for
market with profit, and it is only through
the best cattle that it is possible.
Houefhold Help.
Sheet-iron pans for cake and bread are
preferable to tin.
To preserve tomato catsup and Improve
its flavor, add a tablespoonful of brandy
to each bottle.
When about to scald milk wet the
saucepan with cold water to prevent the
milk from scorching.
When you buy raisins for cooking pur
poses, seed them, wash and thoroughly
dry them and put in a glass jar with tight
lids. Currants also. ,
In mixing omelets two general rules
should never be forgotten.. One Is never
to use more than eight eggs for any one
omelet; another rule, not to beat the eggs
too much.
A distinguished French physician in
sists upon it that raw oysters are extreme
ly nourishing, and that in all cases of im
paired digestion and nervous troubles they
are an excellent tonic.
To tell a good cod when yon go to the
market examine the fish just above the
taiL In a good healthy cod the body is
round and plump. The lower half of the
fish will be almost cone shaped.
Iron pots should always be boiled out
first with wood ashes and cold water.
Then thoroughly washed and they are
ready for use. Skillets, griddles, iron
gem-pans and waffle- irons should be well
greased and allowed to burn off once or
twice before using.
Reserve the water in which the green
peas have been boiled. Add to it some
well reduced stock, or some of Liebig's
extract, and at once a delicious soup is
produced. The French never throw away
the water in which vegetables are cooked.
With proper seasoning they convert it
Into a palatable, wholesome and econom
ical potage or food.
A handsome laundry bag may be made
of a heavy damask towel with a showy
red border. Cut the towel in two and
sew on pieces of turkey-red three-eighths
of a yard long to each half. Join these
at the sides for a bag and make a hem at
the top wide enough to run in a red rib
bon two inches wide. The fringe ends at
the bottom are fastened together with
herring-bone stitch in red silk, which may
continue all around th- cities.
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'ANTI-CATHOLIC" BILL DEAD.
Thought to Have JUem KfTm-tuaMr m.
poaeMt of bjr tha Ilouaev
Springfield, III., April . Soon after
the house convened this morning Mr.
Jones of Iroquois, from the committee
on revenue, reported Mr. Merriam'B
anti-Catholic" bill. Mr. Thiemann
moved that It be recommitted to the
committee on education. This, it Is
thought, effectually disposes of the bill.
After advancing a large number of bills
to third reading, the house adjourned
to 6 o'clock Monday evening.
In the senate, Mr. Fisher introduced
bill providing for the taxation of din
ing and sleeping cars operated and used
in this state and not owned by the cor
porations operating them. The bill Is
Intended to compel payment of taxes
by corporations outside of this state
which operate on roads In Illinois. A
schedule is provided for, which shall
show the number of sleeping and din
ing cars owned outside the state and
not owned by the railroads operating
them that are used during each month
of the year and the number of miles
each month the cars have been run,
and the total number of miles the cars
have been in and out of the state. The
state board of equalization shall assess
for taxation the average number of cars
coming within the provisions of the bill,
and tho assessed value of the cars shall
bear the same proportion to the entire
value that the annual monthly average
of miles that such cars have been run
or operated within the state shall bear
to the annual monthly average of tha
number of miles that such cars have
been used or operated within and with
out the state. The bill does not apply
to cars operated and owned within the
state. 1
The Crawford bill allowing the or
ganization of pawnbroker societies
eame up as the pending question on sec
ond reading. Senators Wall, - Green,
Humphrey and others ' opposed the
measure, the former moving a post
ponement for one week. Mr. Green said
that as he construed the bill It would
allow pawnbrokers' trusts In large cit
ies, and permit them to organise sub
societies. The motion to postpone car
ried by a vote of 17 yeas to 10 nays.
The bill allowing boards of education
to establish kindergarten schools and
the Bogardus train robbing measure
were advanced to third reading.
Senator Littler asked consent to have
his revenue bill made a special order
for next Thursday. Objections were of
fered by Senators Humphreys and
Campbell of Hamilton, Mr. Littler then
moved a suspension of the rules. No
quorum was manifest on the question,
and the senate adjourned until 5 o'clock
Monday on motion of Senator Craw
ford. WILL PROTECT AMERICANS
United States Ship Bfarblehead Ordered
to Marry to. Bayroot, Syria.
Washington, April 6. The United
States steamship Marblehead, now at
Gibraltar, was cabled yesterday by
Secretary Herbert to proceed with all
dispatch to Beyroot, Syria. The commander-in-chief
of the European sta
tion, who will sail immediately on th
San Francisco, now at Palermo, for
Smyrna, waa Instructed to order tha
vessels of his command to visit also
Alexandretta and Adana to confer with
the United States consuls and resident
American citizens, and if it Is found
that there are good grounds for the ap
prehensions expressed in these quarters
concerning a probable massacre of
Christians, to intimate to the responsi
ble authorities that this government
will afford full protection to American
citizens living peaceably in that part of
the world under its treaty guarantees.
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Freight Wreck on tha Alton.
Alton, III., April 6. A fearful wreck
occurred this morning at Wood Elver
bridge, on the Chicago and Alton cut
off, about half a mile north of East
Alton. A long, heavy, freight train
was coming down the grade when the
middle of the train bulged out and
fifteen cars were piled on top of each
other. Four men were killed outright
and two fatally injured. None of them
are known, but are supposed to be
tramps who were stealing a ride. The
Injured men were brought ,to the hos
pital in this oity. The wreck was caused
by the train being too heavily loaded
behind, and when the brakes were put
on the front cars the weight behind waa
thrown onto a flat car in the middle of
the train, crushing it to atoms and
wrecking the other cars.
PLACES FOR SENATORS.
Morrill Will Continue at tha Head of
the Finance Committee.
Washington, April 6. The report that
Senator Morrill would retire from th
Chairmanship of the senate finance com
mittee on the reorganization, to make
way for Sherman, is without author
ization from either of the senators. Th
latter is at the head of the republican
membership on foreign relations, which
in certain contingencies would be a
more Important committee than even
the committee on finance, and stands
next to Mr. Morrill on the finance com
mittee, so that In the event of Mr. Mor
rill's retirement Mr. Sherman would
then be entitled to his choice between
the two. Financial questions are his
specialty, and it Is altogether probable ..
that if the opportunity to choose be
tween the two were given he would se
lect the committee affording work most
in accordance with his inclinations.
The names most prominently heard in
connection caused by the retirement of
Senator McPherson are those of Sen
ator Cameron of Pennsylvania, Sen
ator Wolcott of Colorado, and Senator
Piatt of Connecticut, the first two being
favorable to sliver and the last opposed
to it Senator Wolcott's name Is also
mentioned in connection with one of the
vacancies in the committee on foreign
relations, and it is considered probabl
that In view of Senator Cameron's long
service in the senate and of his atti
tude in favor of. a protective tariff pol-
I ley as well as of silver, Mr. Wolcott
Peae Will Bring Trade.
Guatemala, April 5. The Mercantile
Community has congratulated th gov
ernment on the peaceful adjustment of
differences with Mexico and says heavy
orders for goods will now be placed ia
the United States and Europe.
For prurigo senilis, that eruptive afflic
tion of old age, Ayer's Sarsaparilla ia
the best specific.
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