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VOLUME 1. ATCHISON, KANSAS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1884. NUMBER 7. 1 1 i 1 THE ADVANCE -18 PUBLISHED BY FRAME HALL. H.

B. HORN. HALL HORN, Every Saturday Morning, at 109 1 1 1 North Fourth Street. Entered at the Postoffloe at Atchison as second olaaa mutter. may be numbed with the overexertion required of them, but their hearts must ever remain quick and warm with the just estimate of Jay Gould's character.

Senator Edmonds has a postal telegraph bill hung up somewhere in congress. Is it merely a scarecrow to protect the pickings of the monopoly AN OPEN LETTER very practical and always beautiful seed catalogues, Vicks' Floral Guide. The 1885 number of thin valuable book has just come to hand, with Its bright flower frontispiece, elegant lithographed cover, and 1,000 or more illustrations. It is certainly handsome enough to make it worthy a place on the sitting room table, and is worth many times the ten cents asked for it; indeed, even that may be deducted from the first order for seeds. STATE NEWS.

Fifty bushels per acre is considered an average for corn in Norton county this season. Sam Wood has commenced a suit to perpetually enjoin the commissioners of Shawnee county from the collection of the court house site tax. The Osage City Free Press has been investigating the Texas fever in that county, and finds that forty-four cattle have died from that cause. Freight rates to Chicago were reduced five cents per bushel this week, and if Kansas corn were graded No. 2, as it should be, buyers could pay eighteen or nineteen cents, instead of fifteen.

Fred Squires, of Scottsvllle. has, we hear, lost thirteen head of cattle lately. Mr. Mott, living near the same place, lost eight head, but claims he has saved many by bleeding them in the Beloit Gazette. Three inches of snow fell Wednesday night, making, with two inches that fell last week, about five inches of hiiow, and the ground being frozen hard, it is excellent sleighting, he best we have had for ten years.

Burlington Patriot. The following named gentlemen of this county left for Oklahoma on the 19th: Drs. J. 11. Bradford and J.

R. Mcllvain, John Sims, Ell Sewell, Geo. Lt. King, Hugh Burton, J. 1.

Mathers. John and E. T. Mcllvain. Council Grove Guard.

We learn Mr. Lock has lost forty or fifty head of hogs from a recent shipment from West Plains, Mo. One or two others near where his hogs were yarded, along the river, have lost quite a number. True policy dictates that not a single hog should be shipped in here outside the county. Whenever this rule has been violated farmers have been the sufferers.

Burlington Patriot. Some one carelessly laid a cigar on a bed in one of the rooms at the Burr Oak house Tuesday, and Mr. Faidley now feels the loss of a bed and a small bill of lumber for patching a hole in the floor, it was luckily discovered in time to prevent further damage, but had the tire got under headway with the wind that was blowing, there would probably be few houses on Main street to-day. Burr Oak Herald. THE REMEDY.

Labor is very unequally divided. There are a few who are not obliged to work, but live on the earnings of others. Their incomes are from rent, interest or the exorbitant profits of a monopoly. That these may live in ease and luxury many more are condemned to unremitting toil, to hardship and danger to secure to themselves and families the necessary comforts of life. Others more unfortunate and rapidly increasing, are denied the privilege ot earning their bread by the sweat of their brow.

They are the victims of the numerous strikes, lockouts and shut downs which are daily reported. They have simply thechoice between slavery and starvation. When wages are reduced below a living rate; when a faithful and skilled workman can not maintain himself and family by decent economy and save a little, he is in a bondage to his employer worse than African slavery. The master owed some duties to his slave, but, by the laws of to-day, the employe can demand nothing from his employer. To this complexion we must come at last.

Unless there is a radical change in the policy of the government, the American people will be resolved ito these three classes in the course of time. The middle classes will disappear. The prosperous mechanic and the struggling merchant who works as many hours and for as small remuneration as one skilled in a trade will sink together. With bread and water wages one can not buy meat and coffee. The more fortunate of the intermediate class may become wealthy and in their turn live on the toil of oohers, but the majority will settle down to drudges or tramps.

Why is this? Because of legislation for the rich. The money of the country is made for the lender, the high priced gold, while the silver and greenback of the people are contracted daily. The franchises and privileges of the government are granted to monopolies and corporations. The tariffs of the government are in certain lines only, and its protection is given the manufacturer, not the operative. Silk, wool or iron must pay a heavv duty, but the capitalist may import Chinamen, Hungarians or Swedes to compete in their production with American labor.

There is but one remedy; a party which shall make good the words of Lincoln, "a government of the people, by the people and for the people." Weed out from its ranks the corruption-ists, monopolists, politicians and demagogues, and take for its motto, "The greatest good of the greatest number," and "That is the best government where an injury to one is the concern of all." Work patiently and zealously for such a party and such principles and when its aims are accomplished the hard times caused by knaves and fools will fade away forever, and the prosperity which heaven designs for the bold, the wise and the honest, will dawn upon the "land of the free and the home of the brave." NEWS NOTES. Several philanthropists have died this week. They all left large fortunes. London Justice. We are under the three-fold dominion of the bayonet, the bondholder and the spy.

London Justice. The capitalist is the only slave driver who ever persuaded his slave that he was free. London Justice. "Who makes your laws?" Most of the men who made them are those whose income depends upon their being broken. London Justice.

We publish to-day a short article in relation to taxes in Atchison county. It affirms 'what the Times said a few days ago. It is a disgraceful state of affairs. Leavenworth Times. While the number of horses in Kansas has increased 100 per cent, in the last ten years, in the same time the number of cattle has increased 250 per cent, and mules 300 per cent.

Detroit Free Press: Kansas grasshoppers have come to life after being boiled for two hours, and we don't see how they can hurt St. John much by calling him names and clubbing his dog. James F. Legate will now pocket his commission and retire to the mountains for a short season. He sold out St.

John and prohibition, not for a paltry few months, but for a sinecure for the future. Savings banks have become contrivances for robbing the poor, and orphan asylums traps for murdering children. The latest horror of the latter kind occurred in Brooklyn last week. The Catholic orphan asylum was burned, and a large number of children perished. Trov Chief.

The Indianapolis Journal's Lapoit special of the 26th says: The Laport savings bank closed its doors to-day, and was placed in the hands of a receiver, Seth Easton. Assets, about liabilities, $15,000. John Sutherland, the president, says the depositors will be paid in full. It is charged that Jacob Vining, the cashier, caused the suspension by reporting to the auditor of the state some transactions wherein the bank had not strictly complied with the state law. Warmer.

Have you noticed N. W. Arthur's display in his windows? Everybody should witness them. C. II.

Young sells musical instruments cheaper than any other house in town. Call and see him. For choice fruits, nuts, confections and bakery, always go to Poehler Bros, if you want first class goods. Seybold, corner Kansas avenue and Fifth, keeps the choicest candy and cakes, manufactured by himself. N.

W. Arthur will have the best selected stock and lowest prices in the west for holiday trade this season. Two dollars will buy The Advance and Prairie Farmer for one year. Read the advertisement in another column. We hope the clothing dealers who were wishing for cold weather have sold their overcoats and will allow us to warm up.

There is a good deal of democratic scheming just now in the state for the position of secretary of the interior. Shall it be Blair or Glick? Levin Downs raffle off that fine toilet set New Years morning. They also have thirty-two fine pictures to be carried home by the lucky ones. Levin Downs' store will be headquarters New Years day. The toilet set raflle and the distribution of half a hundred splendid pictures will be a great event.

If you see any dark object moving on the side of the house these mornings do not be alarmed. It is merely the mercury pulling the thermometer down off the nail. Mr. J. F.

Tufts is considerably elated over an embryo lawyer who arrived at his residence on the morning of the 23d, and the juuiorof The Advance shines with reflected luster as an uncle. When business men learn the value of advertising in a good local paper, that soon will they begin to do a business worth their time and attention. An advertisement this week or to-day, and then a graveyard silence for two or three months, isn't the way to attract trade. The advertising should be attended to as regularly as the week rolls around, and then people will soon come to understand that you mean business. The extension of national domain is accomplished by treaty and purchase, by war of conquest and by highway robbery.

The Christian nations are acquiring territory in Africa by highway robbery ana murder. -They are at peace with each other, as Christians should be, and are united in the great work of removing the native obstacles to the occupation of the Congo. When this is settled they will then turn upon each other just like any other band of thieves that have made a successful raid for booty. To the Commissioners and People of Atchison and Atchison County. It is well known that there is a slight depression in the finance and commerce of our country, a3 well as high taxes.

In view of this fact, we will sell for the next thirty days five thousand dollars' worth of sample boots and shoes, from the well known house of Noyes, Norman at precisely manufacturers' cost. These goods are mostly handmade, and made from the cleanest and best stock, in the very best manner possible, rendering them worth one-third more than the eastern made goods of the same style, and you buy them for one-third less than you can buy the eastern made goods of an inferior quality. It will pay you to buy them to keep for future use. Remember, this stock is very large, and contains everything in the line of foot wear found in our extensive boot and shoe stores. Ponder well this letter, and come to us and save one-third of your money a very sensible thing to do in these hard times.

Elwood 514 Commercial street. Atchison, December 26. The New Englanders. The fifth annual banquet of the New Englanders, at Odd Fellows' ball Tuesday evening, was attended by nearly 200 people, and proved one of the most enjoyable entertainments ever given by the society. Covers were laid for 125 persons, but that was not enough to accommodate all, and many had to wait until the tables were cleared for a second spread.

The collation was one of the most elegant ever laid before a hungry man. lieans were of course the prominent feature, flanked by pumpkin pie, brown bread, doughnuts, and other Yankee dishes. Then there were all kinds of cold meats, principally turkey, chicken, ham, etc. Delicious ccffee and tea were also served. After the banquet Moderator Haskell called the society to order and invited C.

N. Hersey to respond to the sentiment, "Slavery in New Hampshire." This was the only set speech of tlio evening. It was short, bright and full of happy ideas, and was well received. The Rev. F.

T. Ingalls and N.L. Prentis also spoke briefly. The nominating committee reported officers for the coming year as follows: Moderator, JohnM.Crowell; selectmen, J. T.

Hersey, D. C. Newcomb, W. It. Peabody; town clerk, D.

T. Bradford; town treasurer, J. II. Kirkman. These were unanimously agreed upon, and with a vote of thanks to the retiring officers.

The evening closed with a regular New England dance, in which a large number participated. Taffy. The Atchison Advance is the name of a spicy six-column folio that now visits this office weekly. We welcome The Advance, and hope it may live long and die happy. Stockton News.

We are in receipt of Tim Atchison Advance, a new paper published by Hall Horn, at Atchison. It is a six-column folio, and presents a beautiful typographical appearance. We wish the proprietors of the new enterpiise unlimited success. Pleasanton Herald. The Atchison Advance found its way to our office last week, Messrs.

Hall and Horn at the laboring ours. It is a Saturday paper, and may fill a long felt want. It has merit, and has as clean a face as any paper that comes to our office. Lyndon Journal. The present low prices of farm products will at least have the effect of attracting public attention to the unreasonable charges of railroads for hauling those products to market, and in that it may be to the producer ablessing in disguise.

The transportation companies have for years charged a great deal more than their service is worth, until to-day they get the greater part of the selling price of the produce, while the producer and the seller must get the price of their Investment and their profits out of what they leuve. Eureka Messenger. Over production is given in this country as the cause of hard times in order to divert attention from the true cause. In England, Malthus lias broached a theory that, in substance, amounts to underproduction, which the aristocratic classes accept as the cause of depression in business there. American goose sauce does not always satisfy the cravings of the British gander's stomach.

TERMS: loopy, 1 1 6 months 75 1 8 40 In club of 1.U5 10 1.00 By carrier, per month 15 Advertising rates made known on application. An American who went into business in Paris and advertised on the fences was fined $.50 by the courts "for annoying the vision of the public." The opposition to Cameron can not, according to the Philadelphia Times, prevent his re-election. The effort to that end has been begun alt ogether too late. The Oklahoma tract contains acres, and lies in a triangular tract in the central part of Indian territory. It is watered by the Canadirn and Cim-orron rivers.

It has been surveyed and sectionized, and will probably be opened for settlement soon. The Bradstreet commercial agency estimates the total number of idle employes now in the country to be 350,000. This, of course, includes those thrown out by the shutting down of mills, and also those who have struck against a reduction of wages. Howgate wants the government to pay him a large amount of money, so that he can return to the government the $133,000 he stole from it. The assurance of this man, properly manipulated, would make an everlasting pedestal for the Bartholdi statute.

The symptoms of a disease are often mistaken for its causes. Too many reformers confuse the incidentals with the essentials of our modern robber industrial system. The protective tariff is an iniquitous thing; it robs labor and denies liberty; but after all it is only an incidental scheme of plunder. Gold and silver are becoming more scarce every year. Yet we have men who want to base our paper money on these two articles that are getting scarcer all the time.

Base your money on the faith of the United States, and you will then have a solid basis and something sensible. Senator Ingalls declares that it would be more economical for the government to buy the entire crop of Louisiana sugar and either give it away or throw it into the gulf of Mexico, than to maintain the present tariff on sugar. The senator is not the only man who has made this discovery. It would be economy to buy out the sugar plantations, board the proprietors at first class hotels, and send them annually to the watering places or the continent, if sugar, by so doing, could be admitted free of duty. There are but three ways to get money.

One is to earn it, the other is to inherit it or have it given to you, and the third is to steal it. Tljere are senators and congressmen in Washington that are worth millions, that went there poor men twenty years ago. They have not earned what they have, because their salaries would not amount to a hundredth part of a million, even if they had not been to any expense; there is no record of them having inherited such sums; and we are forced to the conclusion that they either stole what they have or sold out and betrayed their people, which is just as bad. The democrats of Iowa have suggested the name of the Hon. II.

II. Trimble, of that state, as a suitable person for a place in President Cleveland's cabinet. We have no suggestion to make, and if we had, and should make them, it is not at all probable that Mr. Cleveland would ever hear of them or give them the least thought if he should. But having been personally acqaainted with Judge Trimble formore than thirty years, we can bear testimony to his fidelity to the democratic party during all these years.

He is eminently qualified to fill a cabinet position, and in addition to his having been a life long democrat, he was a brave soldier during the war of rebellion, and had a bullet' pass through his head at the battle of Pea Ridge. It entered the cheek just below the eye and came out just behind the ear. And notwithstanding it slightly disfigured that part of his anatomy so indispensable to the western politician, we are pleased to know that lie still has cheek and brains sufficient to fill any place in the gjft of the president or people. Moreover, we believe any trust committed to his charge will be faithfully and honestly attended to. Dramatic Drifts.

Kate Forsythe will visit Italy this winter. Mrs. D. P. Bowers refuses to play on Sundays.

Hazel Kirke closed its season December 6 at Aurora, 111. "Storm Beaten" is carrying Cincinnati audiences by storm. The new drop curtain at Ilaverly's theater, Chicago, is said to be a beauty. Belle Moore's "Mountain Pink" company is playing to crowded houses in Ohio. Couldock, the veteran actor, has gone south on a visit to Mr.

Jefferson, at New Iberia, La. Laura E. Dainty, in "A Mountain Pink." is playing to fair business iu the Michigan towns. In London the "Passion Plav" was lately attempted, but its production was suppressed by the authorities. Miss Ulmer, the clever soubrette, is taking the leading character in "Dad's Girl," now playing in St.

Lonis. J. K. Emmett is traveling through New York state with his new play, "The Strange Marriage of Fritz." Miss Agnes Stanley, a charming little soubrette, has been engaged by Miss Claire Scott for her comedy company. 'Rags and Hones" is the title of Oliver Doud Byron's play.

The company which starts on the road with it will probably be rags and bones before they get back. The career of the reformer, especially the industrial reformer, is certainly beset by the most perplexing labyrinth of circumstances. To be consistent, he is forced to alienate himself from the dominant factions against whose methods he is at war. Now when he attempts to arraign one of these factions more than the other, however much more it may deserve it on certain given points, the machine followers of that party will at once see in it a true indication of his working in the special interest of the opposite faction; andH should he arraign both alike, then they will see that he is doing that merely to cover the animus of his base intentions. So there is no way yet invented by which the industrial reformer can prove his honesty and sincerity to either the leaders or followers of the machine.

This is one reason, we presume, why so many good men never try it, and why so many others, after trying it, give it up in despair Hartford, Examiner. "On the plains of South America the wild jackasses roam, and in case of danger they get closer together in the form of a circle with their heels outward, and protect themselves and theirs from their enemies. Surely the producer of wealth ought to have as much sense as these wild jackasses of South America. Lansing Sentinel. They ought to have, it it true, but they haven't.

Instead of forming a circle they arrange themselves in two lines, heels towards each other one line calling itself republican and the other democraticand then instead of kicking the enemy they just eternally kick the stuffing out of each other. Ah no, the great North American wealth-producing jackass can't hold a candle to his South American prototype in point of good sense. Chicago Sentinel. The hog cholera prevails in Doniphan county. Moulton Yates are stacking up ice in higher piles than usual.

Each scholar in the Central school brought three potatoes one day this week, and the result was fifteen bushels for each of the three floors. Prof. Meade will distribute the collection among the poor of the city. St. Joseph News: Down in Atchison the habitues of the theater and opera are compelled to carry lanterns to read their programmes.

The sleepy old town has a dark opera house and a sleepy proprietor, hence the necessity of artificial light. The front steps are deserted now. The season has passed when she stoops to conquer. A father who has put his son in a law office speaks of him as his son in law. A friend thinks the winds must be great mathematicians, because they sigh forover.

To what geological formation does rock the cradle belong? A shoe manufacturing company is not a soleless corporation. The grandest verse ever composed the universe. The easiest way to take a joke good naturedly is to do it with the scissors. Pickings in Kansas. There are eighty-seven what are known as presidential postotlices in Kansas.

The salaries range from $1,000 to $3 000. There are ten registers of land offices and ten receivers ol land offices, wtiose ollicial terms are four years, and who receive fees in addition to $500 for salary can not exceed in all $3,000 per annum. Four registers and receivers of land ollicesin territories are appointed from this state. There are nine Kansas appointments as inspectors and special agents in the general land ollices. with salaries ranging from $1 ,000 to $2,000.

The following is a list of Kansas appointments as Indian agents, term of tour years: D. B. Dyer, agent of Cheyennes and Arapahops. appointed February 20, 1884. salary $2,200.

I. W. Scott, agent of I'onca, Pawnees and Otoes, appointed December 18, 1883, salary $1,500. I. A.

Taylor, agent of Sac and Fox, appointed January 23. 1881, salary $1,200 1. W. Patrick, agent of Pottawatomie and Nemehas, appointed September 26, 1884. salary $1,000.

H. J. Armstrong, agent of rows, appointed March o9, 1082, salary $2,000. N. A.

Adams, Topeka, is pension agent, appointed December 20, 1881, salary $4,000. Term of four years. John C. Carpenter is collector of internal revenue with a salary of $2,700. lie is allowed nine collectors whose combined salaries aggregate He is also allowed two storekeepers at $3.00 each per day, and one gauer who receives fees.

Collectors of internal revenue are not limited to term of office, but appointed during the pleasure of the president. The following is the list of United States district attorneys and marshals of Kansas with patronage: J. It. Hollowell, district attorney, reappointed May 28, 1883, $2,000 salary with fees; estimated value of office per annum, $4,000. Assistant district attorneys: T.

J. Humes, salary C. B. Smith, salary $1,000. It.

F. Simp son, United States marshal, re-appointed April 28, 1882; average annual value of office, $4,500, with patronage of appointment of deputies. District attorneys and marshals are appointed for the term of four years. In addition to these ollicers there are quite a number of persons who are in the diplomatic service, or in the departments accredited to Kansas. Mark Twain visited Rochester, N.

recently and delivered one of his humorous lectures to a large audience. Indeed, the inhabitants of the Flower city are reported to have laughed till the tears rolled down their cheeks. of the Flower City reminds us of a curious coincidence. Many years ago Rochester was one of the largest milling centers in New York Btate, and because of its extensive business and widespread reputation received the cognomen of the "Flour City." James Vick, known as the veteran seedsman of America, selected Rochester as his home, arid there established the mammoth business which has made his name familiar in almost every household in this country. Others, encouraged by his success, also made Rochester the base of their operations, until now the city enjoys the reputation of being the largest flower producing center in America.

Perhaps the greatest secret of James Vlck's success was his honest dealing and the excellent quality of his seeds; and still another explanation of it lay in the popularity enjoyed by his i 1 The New Orleans Picayune, in a double leaded leader, speaking of the American policy and the Nicaraguan treaty, says: The country is ripe for an entirely new departure, one worthy of our great nation, and one that will stamp itself upon the whole history of North America. We must adopt the policy of acquisition and territorial aggrandizement to the southward. It will not be accompanied by armed invasion or inaugurated in blood. The Nicaraguan treaty is the opening wedge. Let us drive that home, and by investing a hundred million dollars in a ship canal there secure the country.

American enterprise will soon annex the whole of Central America. Sectional discoi has happily ceased. The south is primarily and deeply interested in turning the tendency of enterprise and march of empire southward, and her statesmen, by atronce championing a bold and brilliant policy in that direction, will open up a new era for the entire country, and map out a safe and short road to prosperity and continued national growth, Insure tranquility at home and add to the glory of the great republic. The Oberlin Herald tells of a young man in that town, who sat down on a barrel that was standing on end, and the barrel having no head in it, the young man dropped through to the ground. Of course he was doubled together like a jack-knife, and would soon have perished if help had not been at hand.

The hoops were knocked off the barrel to release him. With all its forty millions of "water," the Western Union Telegraph company is able to pay dividends of 6 per cent, on eighty millions of capital, and to still have $1,1.57 ,000 of surplus. Thus many millions of money have been taken by the remorseless law of might from thu pockets of the operators. Their hand. 8 11 5 IT.