Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 18 July 1895 — Page 6

Democratic Press. DECATUR* IND. Pres* <<*.. • Puhl’*her*. — =====| Shoot the cheerful imbecile who rocks th? boat. Don’t wait for him to drown you. Helen Gould is studying law; so the divorce expenses may be kept in the family, after all. Oscar Wilde’s peniteatiaiy sentence has raised England In the estimation of the world materially. What sense is there in planting a flag at the north pole, anyway! It is too cold np there for anything to grow. The more the world sees of "Napoleons of nuance" the more it longs for the appearance of some financial Wellingtons. Carl Browne’s desire to get married only goes to show that some persons never know when they have enough of trouble. The bicycle relay record between Chicago and New York has been cut down to sixty-four hours. But what practical side is there in all this! Compared with a pit full of Chicago brokers when wheat jumps high the deportment characteristic of a monkey cage becomes almost severe in its dignity. Our own private opinion is that President Havemeyer is the same sort of philanthropist that George M. Pullman is. Both love the workingman for revenue only. A Pennsylvania Judge has refused to grant liquor licenses to women. What is the new woman going to do about it • This looks like an attempt to protect her against herself. Os course a woman can be mannish on a bicycle if she likes. So she can without getting on a bicycle. On or off the bicycle it all depends on the kind of a woman she is. A New York man with a dislocated hip was treated for alcoholism by the hospital surgeons who diagnosed his case. Perhaps they thought he was suffering from a hip. hip, hurrah! The first time capital unlawfully interferes with labor, labor can go into court and get Uncle Sam to unsheath the injunction with the other edge out. It is a poor legal device that won’t work both ways. Harold Frederic, who surely ought to know, says the correct pronunciation of the w‘>rd golf, as practiced by the best people of England, is as spelled, j and is not goff; and New York society is all torn up again. Two Indianapolis girls have eloped with detectives, but we don't see that this justified an Indianapolis paper in claiming that at last the detectives of that town have caught something. Probably they were caught. The Connecticut milkman who diluted uis milk with water from a well containing typhoid fever germs has very properly been indicted. Conscientious dairymen will use only the purest water in diluting their miU. If England were to attempt to absorb the whole of Venezuela, in other , words, to destroy its government, it would be the duty of the United States to interfere. To refuse to do so would be to abandon the Monroe doctrine. The story of terrible butcheries in Armenia comes to the world through an Armenian agent in London, with a bint that the only remedy is British occupation of the country. Some more j of our dear cousin’s benevolent intentions, perhaps. The story that Nazrullah Khan, a dusky young prince of Afghanistan, refused to take a London society woman in to dinner because of her decollete dress is presumably to be taken as an evidence of the abject lack of enlightenment in the effete orient Nazrullah had not been civilized down to the society woman’s point of view. The pat it egg business has met a in Ohio. The Stat authorities lately ~ z. ,1 a lot of such "eggs’' sent from New York to a dealer in Cincinnati. The State chemist says the albumen in the desiccated egg is obtained from the eggs of fish-eating sea-birds, which can be secured by the million on the low. uninhabitable islands along the Atlantic coast. They are not fit for food, and the albumen alone is taken from them in making desiccated eggs. The loss of the Spanish cruiser Reina Regente “with ail her crew complete" has startled naval scientists. These architects of huge floating forts are more interested in the discovery of the cause of the cruiser s loss than in the recovery of the bodies of the lost, which is said to be the aim of the ex pedition to the scene of the wreck. Naval officers and seamen are also deeply interested u. the problem of stability in war ships. It is far from pleasant to be sent to sea in a floating steel coffin. The way to stop war is to make its destruction so certain that no one wi!l wish to engage in it and so awful that humanity will recoil from it. At present the greatest, though not the grimmest, humor of the world’s vast ex-

' penditnre in armaments is that they I are so costly that to use them in war would bankrupt the richest nation, and .that with their use it costs more to kill the ordinary, common, everyday sol- I dier than it would to subsist him and | i bis family in comfort for rears. — Dr. M. L. Hi'ibrook has been making t a microscopic study of the color of hu , man blood from many sources, and re-! I ports to Science that he has reason to I believe the color can be increased by I enlarging the chest and developing I lung power and action. He found the! | richest color in the blood of a era du-1 ate of Vassar College, who had the greatest lung capacity in a class of five hundred girls. She ate considerable meat; but his next best specimen, as to color, was the blood of a woman 70 years old. with unusual ehest meas- i . urement and in fine health who ate noj meat at all. Evidently it is oxygen cr lung food that enriches the color. It is a rather narrow view of the j proposition that electric railways should | be granted the privilege of carrying ; freights as well as passengers to In- ' sist that it should be opposed in the I : interest of steam railways. The electric railways are destined .in time to i ' become very important feeders for the ' ’ trunk line railways. Electric lines ! will, no doubt, be built and owned by I I the great railway companies with the I ; special view of bringing business to j their lines. In localities where eiec- ’ trie power may be economically gener-> ated short branch lines of railway al- ; ready constructed and in active opera-1 I lion would save money by substituting I electric motors for locomotives. The • long-headed managers of railway cor-l potations will think twice before se- ; riously opposing the use of electric I i*ower for freighting purposes. The opening of the Baltic ship canal i j is an event of unusual commercial im-1 1-ortance. Its construction was a dimeuit and expensive piece o f eng:- ’ neering work. By means of it vessels i will effect a great saving by being able I 1 to go direct from the Baltic to the North Sea without the tortuous journey ■ around the peninsula projectin * out I to meet the Scandinavian countries. I • This and other attempts at ship canals make it plain that European countries ■ i are not behind our own in such enter-1 prises. They show, moreover, the I great stress laid on Improved facilities for waterway transportation. In what may properly be styled the age of rail- . roads there are more waterway pro- I jects under consideration or recently I 1 completed than ever before. The Man- | Chester ship canal, which makes that city a seaport town, was completed at 1 a cost of about J7.1.<••/(«;•). Greece I not long ago celebrated the completion | of a canal across the Isthmus of Corj inth at a cost of over SI2X«>J.OOO. which was a tremendous outlay for that little I country. Projects are under consider- I ation for making Brussels and Paris I seaport towns, as was done with Man- ■ Chester. Brussels already has a channel. used for ordinary canalboats. ! which it is proposed to turn into a ! waterway for ocean-going ships. With - the help of the River Seine it is now ‘ considered feasible, from both the engineering and financial points of view. I to connect Paris with Havre, and in the I early future it is believed such a work ! will be attempted. Another French I project is for a canal from Bordeaux I to Narbonne. 325 miles long, connect- j ing the Atlantic and Mediterranean. I Besides its commercial Importance such a eanal would be of military value, as it would enable France to enter the Mediterranean without passing the British stronghold. Gibraltar. A part of the money wasted in Panama would have buiit this canal. Italy is also considering projects for canals connecting its opposite shore*. One w-.uld pass through the leg of the geographical boot, near Rome. The other would pass around Sicily or through the difficult Straits of Messina. Chicago’s ambition for a waterway to the sea appears to be no more chimerical and probably would not be so very mueh more expensive than projects that are being considered and carried out in Europe. Unpleasantly Surprised. “The fact of painting a fly or bee sc true to nature that the observer at tempts to brush it away is not so diffi cult a> is generally supposed," remark ed a painter of still life. "The art lies in making the insect stand out from the I , background. N<>r long ago a patrol 1 brought me six saucers and a card up | • on which was pinned a house cent! pede, or "thousand legs," requestinj me to copy it exactly upon each of tie saucers, so that the base of the enj would corer it. I did so. Afterwart he told me that he had given a little tea party, and without the knowledgt of his wife had substituted the paintec saucers for the plain ones. His amuse i tem consisted in observing the borri i fled expression on the faces of tht guests when they raised their cups and rue quickness with which they pui them down again to keep the monstet j imprisoned. It was only when the hostess noticed that none of the guests drank their tea that the deception was discovered." Stevenson’s Pity lor Beggars. Stevenson’s pity was a very marked , quality, and it extended to beggars, which is. I think, to go too far. His j optimism, however, suffered a rude shock in South Audley street one summer afternoon. We met a stalwart beggar, whom I refused to aid. Louis, however, wavered, and finally handed j him sixpence. The man pocketed the j coin, forebore to thank his benefactor, but. fixing his eye on me. said in a loud | voice. “And what is the other little genI tieman going to give me?’ "In future." I said Louis, as we strode coldly on. “I ! shall be the other ‘little gentleman.’ ’’ It is not fair to tax marriage with a license and let bachelors go free.

LIVES DASHED OUT. NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY SWEPT BY A CYCLONE. More than a Dozen Little Villages Suffer by the Sweep of the Destroyei— | Cherry Hill Annihilated—Financial Lo*n Is Enormous—Nine Are Hurt. Nine Killed and Many Hurt. New York and New Jersey were swept ’ t»y a death-dealing cydone Saturday ar- i r. »n- Nineptr> as are known i • bex-n killed and scores were hurt. One i of the dead. Mrs. Louisa Ketrequia. wa» killed in East New York. All of the nth- ; er victims lived in and about the little * villages of Cherry HilL N. J., and Wood- • haven. I- I. The cyclone descended upon j the upper part of East New York, known as the Cypress Hills, at 4:30 o’clock, con- j tinned on its way to the lower plains district, and from there traveled to Wood i haven. The cloud was first seen g ing ' over Cypress Hi As. It was funnei-shap- ■ ed. and hung very low to the ground. At | the upper end was a red spot tha T ap- j peared like an incandescent light ' than anything else. The cyclone swept over the cemetery, wrecking handsome and costly monuments. It tore down | trees for about 2C«O feet and then turned j into Jamaica avenue at Crescent street, and went up Jamaica avenue for about • half a mile. Trees were torn down and i t-lvpbone and trolley wires demolished, j Right in the middle of the wreckage six l ars w-r- eauui :. They belonged t the | B m Railroad and were struck when in front of the Stew- | art home. The cars were filled with passingers and then* was great excitement. ! Half a dozen persons were slightly in- : jnred. The ey 1 -ne wrecked thirty h --•< j at WotMiliaven and a very large schtw l | house there. There were twenty residents of Woodhaven hit by the rari - s objects which were carried through th* air. Chimneys sailed through the air as though they were nd heavier than feathers. Between -D>.’**) and 50.000 persons visited the scene of the rain and devastation ;.t » iierrji ii. . Sviut- 01 "L” Uti- j fortunate* whose homes were wrecked sat about during the day rendering what was in store for them, Hat-kensack and the other towns have responded promptly to the call for aid made by the people of Cherry HilL Viewed in the light of day the ruin appeared more complete. Everywhere in the path of the storm were -urns. The tangled heap of timbers by the railroad track told where the depot went t> pieces. That pile of wre- kage showed where a house had been thrown down and that one where a barn had leer, razed by the winds. The leafless trees that withstood the strain of the whirlwind gave the appearance of midwinter. On two sides, as viewed from the center of the town, there were banks of green, but where the str-rm -wept everything was black and bare. NOT roR PUBLICATION. United States Ambassador Eustis Taken in by a Clever Frenchman, The Paris Figaro publishes a statement from the Hon. James B Eustis, the United States Ambassador to France, in which the latter says: “The fact is now recalled t > my memory that Secretary Vignaud introduced M. Rentier to me on May 13 not as a journalist, but as a writer. According to my custom. I had a conversation with him. but I certainly did not authorize M. Routier to publish it. ’jv L -*■ K- ' e * ' 'jlF’ S t k ~ ■ fflF 7 ' JAMES B. EVSTIS. He did not tell me he had such an intention. and if he had I should have taken the neu'vssa.ry precautions. Indeed I should have forbidden him, as would have been my duty. t«j divulge anything of our conversation. I did not use the M. Routier attributes to me and I do not understand why M. Routier thought he had the right to invite me t discuss delicate questions of international polities.** The Estafette discussing the affair remarks: “It would not require many such incidents, especially in view of the effect which it in Spain, to lead to serious complications with the United States.” ELECTIONS IN THIRTEEN STATES Although an Off Year. There Will Be I’lenty of Politico Though this is supposed to be an “ ft year” politically, there will be elections in thirteen States, namely: Connecticut. Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania. New Jersey. New York. Ohio. Kentucky. Kansas. lowa. Nebraska, Mississippi and Massachusetts. The, Connecticut election for town officers and to pass up«?n the question of redistricting the State Senate will be held Oct. 7. and regular S:»*te ele- i: ns will be held four weeks later —Nov. s—in the twelve other States named. In Maryland a Governor and an attorney general will be elected to serve four i years, a --mptroiier to serve two years, i all the members of the lower house of the ! ieneral Assembly, and fourteen Sena- | ors. A State’s attorney and sheriff will i ; n each county. A Fnited State- Senator to succeed Senator <; hson will he chosen in Maryland next winter. In Virginia all the members of the House of Delegates and twenty (or onehalf > - f the State Senate will be eh-< t*~i. The Senators chosen this year wifi participate in the election of a success r to Senator DauieL Pennsylvania will ch -ose a State treasurer for a Term of three years and seven judges of the Supreme Court for ten fears. I New Jersey will elect a Governor for a t'-rin -.f th.-»••• years, s'-ven S Senators _ . . • bly of sixty members. ‘ New York's State ticket wiil contain a

secretary of State, comptr lier. treasurer, attorney general and a State erpneer f t terms of three years each, a judge of the Court of Appeals for a term of fourteen years, twelve judges of the > ; n-me Court for terms of fourteen years and fifty Senators to serve three years at. a 150 Assemblymen to serve one year each. The Senators chosen in November « participate in electing a successc r tu Senator Hill. In Ohio there will be elected a g r ernor. lieutenant govern--r. treasurer • attorney general to serve two years an auditor to serve four years, a judge of g Legislature that will elect a success r to Senat - r Brice. A full State ticket to seffe : ■ • 7 years will be voted for in Kentucky, as well as a Legislature that will eh • t a successor to Senator B The Kansas people will vr.te for a chief justice of the Supreme Court to >• rve one year. The voters of lowa will sele t a full State ticket to serve two y. : -- n -a Legislature that will elect Senator A- - success r. A justice of the Supreme Court to six years and two recents o* ine Suite University will be chosen in Nebraska. B aii the officers in the vari< < «': a legislature that will ele t the - ' r sen in Mis»>ippi. x will be voted for in Massachusetts. NORTHERN MICHIGAN FIRES. Great Precautions Taken to Prevent the Destruction of Villages. According to press dispatches the Northern Michigan forest fires an- numerous and formidable. The forests are mostly hardwood, gnd while the fires may run rapidlv when fanned by a strong Aiud. jet they can be controlled by judicious and timely back firing. All the small towns in the danger district and many farms have been carefully encircled with back fires. The situation is being carefully watched, however, and there is not much to fear. At Wallin, the town burned Thursday, these precautions were not taken in time. The Sullivan Lumber Company loses about SoIUW on mill, lumber and buildings, with a total of $3.2»K» insurance. The charcoal kilns will be repaired immediately to use the damage*! timtnr before it g<»es to ruin, but the mill will not be rebuilt until next seas on. A large tent has already been erected for postoffice. store and hotel, and as soon as buildings can be put up many f the workm®g u.ll return with thuir families, who are now stopping at Thompsonville. The villages of Clary. Copemish. Interlochen. Grawn. Bensonia and others have been threatened, but by back firing the danger has been averted. Comparatively few farmers have been burned out. Considerable damage has been done to standing timber and much hemlock bark has been destroyed. No lives have been lost, and even at Wallin the live stock was the cattle taking to the thick woods, where the fire did not reach them. NEW MONEY ORDER BLANKS OUT Are in the Form of a Bank Draft and of a Sea Green Color, Requisitions for money order blanks received at the Postoffice Department will be filled from this time on with the new blanks designed s>-me months ago. It wili not be many weeks before the public will become well acquainted with the new design, and it is safe to say that it will in all probability prove a popular change. The new blanks are in the form of a bank draft The text is lithographed and the ink used is a sea-green shade. The effect is artistic and pleasing, and altogether the form and general appearance of the new blank is such as to make the recipient feel more than ever as if he had a good thine. The old scheme of notched numerals at the left end of the blank is retained, as it has proved a great convenience in business and a safeguard agains* fraud. The dollars and cents are also printed on the reverse side, so that with a nice register in the press work both sides of the bit of paper will show the precise amount of the order. ON FIRE IN MID-OCEAN. Flames Break Out in the Lower Hold of La Normandie. The French line steamship Normandie, bound from Havre, moved up the bay to her dock at the foot of Manin street. New York. Saturday m -ruing with flags flying in the sunlight and nothing but the rash of water from her powerful pumps to gi-. ea clew to the terrible dangers of the voyage. Yet in midocean throughout Tuesday night, in the thick fog and storm, the starb ard freight compartment of the good ship, packed with valuable merchandise, was a roaring mass of fire, while the seventy-five first and second cabin passengers and 205 occupants of the steerage waited for the seemingly inevitable order to “take to the boats.” For fifteen hours the battle raged between the crew and the flames, a- 1 it was not until well along toward noon of Wednesday that the vessel’s safety was assured. Boston Prepares for Endeavorers, wa wj Maj. Fowler, who shot nn.l killed a man during a political qnarn I at St. L>uis many years ago, has returned to this country, believing that prosecution of his erune will not be pressed He has been one of the editors of the Loudon Limos for sixteen years. Senipr A Sons of Cincinnati hare ; ::r- --< hased a controlling interest in the celebrated Chicken Cork distillery of p ; , ri9 V Th ," P arehas * price is >aid to be in the neighborhood of JKIO.tMiO. The death of Waite? ’\DD.. IU H. a Cah.ornia 49er and once a member of the California legislature, is -enortpd from Glens Falla. N. Y. sported Yew York p.lice are musing war on Sidewalk stores and street stood*.

TEOUBLEINTHEUAMP republicans expet losses in northern s-ates. Attempt to Keep Up Tkc.r Courage by Claiming Improbable Coming Prosperity Kelmitantly Admitted by Champions of PrOt.ction. Republican Lo».e» and C-ains. It is evident that the Republicans ex- ( . r i -cue at least, of (he great I hand k- me majorities in They .iv'r.- n'nc'i -ibout these States, i U h r I mak'u- vociferous claims h 1 wiSrtt- Kentuekv. Mary- ! that they will carry ivruiuu . • land and Tennessee. If they i expect serious losses, they would not attempt to keep 11 1- tbeir courage bj claiming improbable gains. There is abundant cause for the R«“ publicans to apprehend the loss of States at the North wl.n a th-'.'’ carried last year by overwhelming odds. In nearly every one of these states they are rent by factions, and each faction is declaring that it would be better for the Democrats to win than for the other faction to win. Warner Miller, in an open letter, said that be had rather see a Democrat elected than the leading Republican candidate for the nomination elected in one of the Senate districts of New York. Throughout that State the I‘latt and anti-Flatt factions are fighting each other with greater vigor and determination than either faction is fighting the Democrats. In Pennsylvania the war between the Cameron and Quay faction and the faction led by Governor Hastings is -.. 1 t_ •U „ .-.w. •■Tk. >tl‘*

embittered in the extreme. "Don cameron’s Senatorial term expires March 4. 1897. and the Quay poli'S ian* are in such straits that they have attempted to unload by announcing that he will not be a candidate for election to another term, in Ohio tlie condition of the Republican factions is as bad as in New York and Pennsylvania. In the States carried by the Republicans last year the grossest scandals hare occurred In the administrative department and in the legislatures. The yet incomplete history of the Illinois General Assembly is a specimen of the condition of affairs in other States. Popular indignation has been excited by the enactment of bad laws and by failure to enact good laws, and by general inaction, incompetence and corruption. In every “landslide ” State, without exception, this is the record that the victorious Republicans hare made. The Republicans hare deserred to lose the great Northern States that they carried orerwhelmingly in 1594. and such is the present probability. But their expectation of making gains at the South to offset, in whole or in part, their losses at the North is absurd. What gains they made at the South last year probably will disappear, Instead of increasing, in laud 1896.—Chicago Chronicle.

How Dare Prosperity Come? Where is McKinley? Where are ail and singular the Republican editors, the Republican orators, the Republican j statesmen who with one direful voice ! proclaimed in season and out of season I that Democratic policy for the reduction of taxation and the elimination of ; the fraudulent pretense of protection | to workingmen would reduce American I laborers to the condition of paupers and i destroy the industries of the United i States? Day after day the announcement i comes of voluntary increase of wages I by industrial concerns from one end of I the land to the other, especially from I those giant industries specially the ob- | ject of Republican protection—fuma- | ces, forges and rolling mills. The iron > industry is the greatest precursor of i improved conditions. Throughout the ' I mted States the iron industry i« no- - tively at work. The fact that the Dem- ( erratic tariff law reduced the so-called \ element of protection cuts no figure at ; ali. \\ ages are increased, activities at Iron mines are renewed, lines of trans- i portation are more widely emploved. ' business conditions are everywhere i more favorable. Where is that apostle of calamity and ! disaster, that fraudulent preacher of i the false doctrine that the United States must put heavy taxes upon the whole body of the people in order to render themselves prosperous; that hired ad- ' vocate of the few who wish themselves ! to be the special objects of government j regard? McKinley is miming up and ; down the land. I,Hiking for a notnina- ! tion to the presidency at the bands of I the Republican party, still preaching ] calamity and distress as the necessary | outcome of Democratic tariff laws, and I holding his peace profoundly on the sil- I ver question. And if nominated in 1896 thereafter nothing will again be heard in this country of either McKinley or McKinleyism. The Eva-ive Allison. General J. s. Clarkson, erstwhile of lowa, now very much at large, is in New York loudly urging the ••claims” of Allison to the presidency. In the very heart of the enemy's country, in the bailiwick of Mayor Strong, a militant McKlnleyite. and Tom Platt, who has views of his own hostile to the lowan, the faithful Clarkson raises the standard of Allison and calls iustiiy upon all to rally about it Conservatism is the virtue which Clarkson thinks makes his chief the fittest 1< ader for the Republicans in the impending . mflict. If the issue turn on the tariff question, why, there is Alllison. vlw doesn't think a tariff should be to., tigh or t<«* low. who insists that the .- pie shall lie taxed neither too mv. a nor too little. And if it be the rrreney which shall mark the dividing between the hostile eamps m Novem- ■ ' who-hall dub Allison a "gold >.r a “silver crank." who can just-

’ly charge him with “striking down" or with seeking to debase th, nation's standard of value Hau, 1 none. Upon these vexed question national polity the lowa sage Ims maj. tained so nicely Impartial an aia . 1 tude that cither side may count bim j, j 1 one of them. In the biology of j he stands like <>ne of those lower hem, I of invertebrates, too insensate to t, ! classed as animals, but endowed with such powers of independent no .uou j, ito make biologists hesitate > i them as vegetables. It may be creditable to Mr. Alliso,', l ! sagacity that at the end of a long - I tic life no man can define with exact ness his position on any vital pnblie question. It is not at all creditable t» American i-olitical methods that -bi, i I consistent policy of trimming and era. sion should be held to peculiarly .pjajj, fy him for the presidency. Admitted Prosperity. The Chicago Inter Ocean, that with veiled lids has been seeking M Kinley > in the dust, mourning, as one that could not l>e consoled, the fearful ealatnitie, which it said must fall upon thi< nation as the result of the reduction of tax*tion at the custom houses, not only lift, its eyes to see pros[»erity upon every j hand under a Democratic tariff, but lifts also its voice to exclaim in joyful j note: ALL SAY ITS A BOOM ' f : KV I - Cl AIM AS ERA OF i-l.( .. I . ITT HAS BEGUX. HARK DAYS LEFT BEHIND. DRV GOODS MEX SPEAK OF A v \.f | X . I‘BOVEMF.ST IX TBAI-L Clothing and Boot and Shoe Ma :a<tw-

ers All Tell of Increasi .• ' : Orders. Do we sleep? Do we drain! Is , civilization a failure! Is the Caurasiae played out? Here is a journal that has 1 never failed to assert that if Dene- ‘ erats, voted into legislative and eiecu tive authority by the people of the United States, should make the sligh-- ; ■ est reduction of taxation from the ’ schedules set up by Republicans. chouM make a single step in the direction -f free trade, the land would lie prostrate f under a blow delivered by the land • itself! If. was the dire pred. tion of 1 the Inter Ocean and all its ela<». thDemocratic party should reduce taxation at the custom houses an average ’ I of 50 per cent, the prosperity of the i country would disappear, its indtistriei f would be delivered into the bauds of the Philistines, its workingmen would ’ lie reduct'd to a condition of paupers f and peaee and prosperity would forever fly therefrom. We have not yet had a year ■/ -be ’ Wilson law. The result shows all .wet 3 the United States. Out of tli»- ■ lut.-l.es I of McKinleyism the countrv io p resume that prosperity that M< K.nlt-y and Sherman lietween them h:. ii.-arly 1 destroyed. The Wilson bill. I - - ■ that it ought to be. yet furnishing-n

average some 50 per cent redu*- n j taxation, assists the people of tl ■ I'n; ' ed States to regain their fe* • ■ •-* rapidly after the panic of 1-*: ,*e after the panic of 187 R. wlc Grsu’ was President and the Republi* n j«.rty was in full control of ever.' branch of the Government. When Will Democracy Pic ' W ben the lion eats grass like \ And the fishwomi swallow- ■ i W hen the robins knit woolen And the hare is outrun by th* - When serjients walk upright likAnd doodle-bugs travel like fr* -- i W hen gra—bop|>ers feed like i j And feathers are found on '*■ ' M hen Thomas cats swim in th* And elephants roost -n tn— When insects in summer are rar* And snuff never makes ,«■*>* *•**! ’ When fish creep over dry land. And mules on velo ipedes ridWhen foxes lay eggs in the san*: And women in dress take u-1- 1 When Dutchmen no longer drink leer. And girls get to preaching on ’ , When billy goats butt from "he r* ar. And treason no longer is rim i When humming birds bray like ; | And limburger smells like eol i When plowshares are made out of- - the hearts of true Texans When ideas grow in Populists' And the wool on the hydr.tuli* * m - Then the Democratic party will be *i»a And the country won't be worth t d-a A Tin Plate Nail in McKinley*- '.ofti Q - The increased number aud pn -erity j of the tin-plate mills drive anot- ~ — i in the coffin of McKinleyism new tariff made tin ore free, as it before the MeKinley bill claimed on . the preposterous and oppress! * ; four cents a pound. It also reduce! * the duty on tin-plate from 2 2 *■■ cent,a pound to 1 1-5 cents. Yet th* r> art thirty-five tin works rolling their ow® black plates and seven in c- ” erection. In addition there are thirty tin-plate dipping works prospering because of untaxed metal. The amount of finished plates will be increa- ■ tnib year. according to the Metal W'rk*from 4.110.000 boxes of finish*'*! piM*‘ to 5.500,000 boxes, or nearly foui-fi*”” the consumption. The logic of events is making short work with the tteerfe* of high-tariff men.—New York V'e - Hint to a Good Friend. If Governor McKinley has any gu®P" tion he will have Captain Foraker removed from charge of the steerage 4F Paratus. The Times doe* not wr.m make any hard feeling in the Repubu can camp, but cannot help a ft- ,;,i ' word of caution to the best friend fDemocratic party ever bad.--D Times. I Eact and Fiction in Each Issue. __ I The Republican papers are pres- ui.tthe ridiculous spectacle of carry’® 1 ; , prosperity in tueir news column- a® , calamity on their editorial pag» . Richmond Time*. The Industrial FarometerI I As wages go up McKinley goes *>•*■ - j —lndianapolis News.