Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1897 — Page 2

SljtJtmocraticSfnlinel i.'.t." '.{■ I, - . 1 . ~~ • —r~ J. W. IIoSWEX, PublUller. RENSSELAER, - - - INDIANA

MISERABLES IS BAD.

HUGO’S WORK DECLARED UNFIT FOR SCHOOL READING. The Philadelphia Board of Education Wants None of It-Lovers of the Book Very Indignant-Two Conferences Favor Lay Representation. Jean Valjean Must Go. Girls in the Philadelphia high schools must not read “Les Misernbles" in hours. At least they may not read it in French. Chairman Thomas G. Morton of a committee of the board of education declared he hud read the book, and considered it improper for the reading of young i lies. Principal William 1). llorcr of t te gn,s‘ high school presented a list of text and supplementary reading books, in which the masterpiece of Victor Hugo was included. The committee listeued to what Chairman Morton had to say, and from that struck the adventures of .lean Yaljean from the list. Mr. Morton pointed out places in the English translations •which were scarcely what lie regarded as family tending, and assured the committee the text in the original French was decidedly more objectionable. He pointed out that Victor Hugo had drawn with a rather free hand the relations of men and women in the book called "Fantine," one of the books which make up that masterpiece. of the great French author which all the world knows as "Les Miserable*.’’ He ran rapidly through tile romance whieli follows the fortunes of Valjean. and assured his confreres that it contained passages which could hardly be approved as an intellectual diversion for young women in school. "I.es Miserable*" has always been regarded as tut essential in any well regulated library collection.

EQUAL REPRESENTATION. Tlie Matter Acted Upon by Two Conferences. Victory for the laymen marked the opening hour of one business session of the Rock Itiver conference at Chicago. Soon after the ministers had been called to order in the Western Avenue Methodist Churcli Rev. P. H. Swift, secretary of the committee of five, made his report. It recommended the adoption of the proposition for a constitutional change granting equal representation in numbers of preachers and laymen at the Methodist general conference held every four years. This proposition was favored by a unanimous vote. In addition tbe conference passed the resolutions favoring the laity, which was abo presented Monday, after the laymen’s association committee had been heard by the clergy. As the action was expected, it did not arouse very much enthusiasm, but tin* church members present. when the report was made and the action was taken, joints! in hearty applause. At Dubuque, lowa, by a vote of 141 to 8 the Upper lowa Methodist Episcopal conference declared for the proposition to increase the lay representation at the quadrennial general conference. PAYS WITH A PISTOL. Kansas Farmer Resorts to Extreme Measures to Lift a Mortgage. Frederick Brown, who owns a 100-acre farm ten miles west of Eldorado, Kan., raised a big wheat crop this year, more than enough to.lift the $1,500 mortgage that he had been forced to put on his place. He stepped into the Fanners and Merchants’ National Bank and told the cashier that he wanted to pay off a $1,500 mortgage on his farm. The cashier finding that it was drawing 9 per cent, interest and was not due until next February told the farmer that it would have to nin to that date. The farmer laid the $1,500 in gold and bank notes on the counter, pulled out a bull-dog revolver, laid it beside the money and said: “I am going to pay that mortgage to-day.” The cashier canceled the mortgage, delivered up the document to Mr. Brown and took the money.

Fatal Battle in Idaho. News just received from Long Valley, Idaho, says that there has been a battle between the settlers and the shepherds, in which three men were, killed and one dangerously wounded. Details are meager, but it seems that fifteen of the settlers warned the sheepmen to leave the valley and when they refused, made an attack upon the sheep camp. Thirty shots were fired by tire settlers, and a man named Barber was wounded. The sheepmen then returned the fire, killing three of the settlers. The rest of the attacking party fled. It is thought that Barber was killed. Train Bobbers Convicted. Georg** Jackson and Charles Williams, who held up an Oregon Railway and Navigation Company passenger train near Portland, have been found guilty of highway robbery. Jackson pleaded guilty and Williams was found guilty by n jury. Miss Clara Barton Returns. Miss Clara Barton, president of the Red Cross, who recently went abroad to attend the sixth annual conference of the order, has arrived in New York from Havre. New Turkish Minister. The State Department at Washington has received word that Ali Feronck Bey has been appointed Turkish Minister to the United States, to succeed Mustapha Bey. Unveils Vanderbilt Statue. Dr. Chuuneey M. Depew delivered the oration at the unveiling of the statue of Commodore Vandeibilt at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenu. Confesses to Eight Murders, k shepherd named Vacher has been nrr. led at Belley, Department of Ain, forty-four miles from Lyons, France, charged with committing a series of socalled Jack-the-Ripper murders. He has confessed to killing three shepherds, three girls and two old women. Big Gold Strike in Colorado. A great strike is reported near the Revenue tunnel on Mount Sueffels, in Ouray County, Colorado. Tests run us high as |200,000 to the ton ami SI,OOO has been taken out of two cubic feet of rock. Minister to Bo Ivin. President McKinley lias appointed George H. Bridgemau of New York minister to Bolivia. Ambrose W. Naulin was appointed collector of internal revenue for the sixth district of Indiana. David W. Henry was appointed collector of internal revenue for the seventh district of Indiana. Artificial Respiration. A girl in the St. Paul Hospital is being kept alive by artificial respiration produced by attendants constantly working her arm*. The pat' cut is suffering from Landry's paralysis, and the physicians think there js a chance for her recovery.

AT LOVES COMMAND

BY CHARLOTTE M. BRAEME.

CHAPTER XXV. —(Continued.) Christmas and the opening of the new year passed. February came in mild and bright, bringing with it an odor of .sweet violets and a gleam of snowdrops; but its beauty was all lost upon Peter Lennox. He must have suffered greatly, for he had grown thin and pale. lie was not like the man who during the year preceding had been the proud head of one of the finest establishments in London. Mrs. Carew had been away during the winter months. She had returned in the spring, for which season she had a peculiar liking. But Mrs. Carew did not seem to enjoy the season ns she usunlly did. There were whole days when she paced up and down the garden paths, thinking deeply, ns one who had a problem to solve. She has lost somewhat of her bright expression. It was plain that there was n struggle going on in her mind. “I used to think,” sLv said to herself one morning, “that human life was a jest. It seems to me that in what has passed of mine I have had the roses, and now must prepare for the thorns.” Her son Beltran came down to spend his Sunday with her. The bright, graceful artist, the changeful, lovable, vivacious woman, the sensitive, gifted genius, loved her sou bettor than the whole world. She was proud of him. She glories in his bright, strong manhood. She gloried in his talents and his goodness. He looked pale and wan. He had the air of one who had worked hard not only during the day, but far into the night, when he should have slept.. His mother taxed him with it, and he told the truth. For some time lie had worked nearly twenty hours out of twenty-four. “Why not pay for assistance, and save yourself?” his mother nsked. “Because I want every shilling, mother, that I can earn,” he replied. "I have not one to spare.” Her bright, changeful face clouded. “Why do you want money so, Beltran?” she asked.

“To marry, mother,” he answered. “J want a pretty home for my darling. She does not hurry me about it—Bhe would be willing to wait foi years; but I am anxious nbont her.” “Why?” she usked again. “Do you doubt her?” “Doubt her, my dearest mother?” he cried. “I would just as soon doubt heaven! There are few so loyal or true as she. It is not that; but Lady Ailsn is not strong, you know, and Beajrix tells me how she suffers at Strathnnrn. I want to fetch them both away, and I cannot until I have a home for them.” “Does that cross, stern old man still hold out, then?” asked Mrs. Carew. “Does he show no signs of relenting?” “No, and never will. We do not speak about him. His money and his lands are forgotten. We never think of him when we make our plans. Only one thing troubles us, mother. Beatrix haß shown such truth and fidelity; for love of me she has declined to be Duchess of Henthland; for love of me she has lost one of the largest fortunes in England. No man living cares less for money than I do; but I wish —how I wish! —that I had a fortune for jer sake. Work as I will, it must be nauy years before my income will be more than moderate. Oh, mother, if I Bad but a reasonable rent roll, I should be the happiest man in the world!” “But you tell me always that Beatrix does not care for wealth,” observed Mrs. Carew. “Nor does she, mother. At the same time I wish with all my heart that I had it to give her. Of course it can never be, but I should have liked to go to her and say: ‘You gave up everything for me, my darling, now it is in my power to re pay you.’ ” “Would that make you very happy?' she asked, musingly. “Yes, very happy,” he replied. “I will think the matter over, Beltran.” “What good will thinking do, mother?” he asked. “Rather forget it and do not mind my troubles.” “You would really be the happiest man in the world if you had wealth, Beltran?” she interrupted. “Yes, I should indeed. But, mother, do not think that I am complaining. The man who makes a fortune is greater than the man who inherits one. I must work hard, study hard, and save my money.” She looked at him wistfully. “You must not work by night and day,” she said, “that will not do. Beltran, if I could give you wealth and did not, you would consider me very cruel, I suppose?” “I should indeed,” he laughed. “But, ns that is not the ease, I consider you very kind.” And Mrs. Carew turned away when she heard the words.

CHAPTER XXVI. Mrs. Carew had many long fits of musing after that conversation. She saw that her soil loved his beautiful fiancee so dearly that he would wear his life away in trying to surround her with luxuries. She thought of it by day and by night. Her work was at a standstill; her whole time was spent in thinking. The result was a note addressed to her son. It ran: “My Dear Beltran— i must go to Strathnarn; and it will save trouble if you will go with me. Make arrangements for the journey, and let me see you this evening.” The astonishment of Beltran Carew when he read his mother’s note was equaled only by his surprise at what he heard when he reached Strathnarn. He went at once to his mother, and his first question was: “Why are you going to Strathnarn, mother? What can you possibly want there?” “My dear Beltran, I have a story to tell; and, as I do not care to tell it twice over, you shall hear it there." Nor could he win one word more from her. They started the next day, and during the whole journey he thought his mother strangely unlike herself. She laughed and cried. She was in the wildest of spirits, and then was filled with sudden gloom. In the same breath she described herself as happy and miserable. They reached Strathnarn in the dull twilight of a dull spring day. Mrs, Carew looked around with sympathizing eyes. “How terribly dull it is-here!” she said. “Is it possible that Miss Lennox has been

shut up in this place? Why, Beltran, it is a ruin, not a house.” Margaret Muepherson opened the door, and looked up in surprise on seeing Mr. Carew and a lady. “Right glad I am to see you. sir,” sab 1 the old servant, “for the ladies are but dull; they do not expect you, though, and Lady Lennox is ailing. I will fetch Miss Lennox, for my lady must not be taken by surprise.” “That will bo best,” remarked Mrs. Carew; and in another moment Beatrix, looking lovelier than ever, stood before them. She utteied no cry, but her face grew deadly pale when she saw Beltran and his mother. He kissed the pale fare until the color returned in a burning flush; and then Mrs. Carew kissed her. Beatrix looked from one to the other. “There is nothing wrong, I know,” she said, "or you would not laugh; but why come to this miserable place, where no one can be properly received ?” “We are here,” replied Mrs. Carew, “because I have a story to tell you.” “A story?” repeated Beatrix, wonderingly. “Yes, a story—one that you do not dream „of or suspect—a story that concerns both you and Beltran, though it is but another record of tbe instability of women and the stupidity of men.” “Beltran is not stupid,” laughed Beatrix; “you may say whut von like about other men, but you must make him the exception.” “Of course,” said Mrs. Carew. “And now, Beatrix, if your mother is weak and unwell, will you prepare her to see us? We shall not remain long; so do not distress yourself by thinking of our entertainment. I have ordered the carriage to return in three hours; then we depart.” There was an air of natural command about Mrs. Carew which no one ever thought of resisting. Beatrix went to prepare her mother to receive their visitors. Lady Aiisa clung to her’ daughter’s Land. "Is there anything wrong. Trixie?” she asked. “It seems so strange, my dear. Can your uncle be ill, do you think?” "I do not think so, mamma. I feel that there is some good fortune in store for us. Mrs. Carew looked as though there was.” Then Mrs. Carew entered the room. She went up briskly to Lady Aiisa and kissed her ns she lay on the couch.

CHAPTER XXVII. “Do not disturb yourself, dear Lady Aiisa,” said Mrs. Carew. “I am come only to recite a short history to you, and when I have done so, I shall go away. Pray do not move. . I will sit here by yonr side. Beltran, my dear, I should feel easier if your hnnd were in mine.” He went at once to his mother’s side and took her hand; then, while all three looked at her in silence, her face changed slightly, the color varied. She looked half shyly, half boldly at them as she began: “I was never quite like other women, dear Lady Aiisa; I lacked their prudence and their calculating wisdom. I have greater failings, but I think, also greater virtues aud greater genius. If you look upon me as you would upon other women —you will never-understuml me, und there will be u terrible misconception. My name —you see I am beginning nt the beginning—was Grace, Curew,” and Beatrix, looking at her lovCr, wondered wiiy his face flushed and his lips quivered with sharpest pain. Lady Aiisa raised her head and listened with a gieat show of attention. Mrs. Carew smiled, aud nodded at her son. “I know whut you' are thinking of, Beltran,” she said. “You must listen patiently. My fnther was not an artist,” she continued, “nor can I tell you whence I have my love of color; my passion for art certainly came not from him. He was a doctor, but a ne’er-do-well. I cannot remember that he ever remained in one town or city more than two years. He was very clever—wonderfully clever—but he was anything but steady. He would write a treatise that would set the faculty at loggerheads, and then foolishly spend the proceeds. You must understand that this erratic life of his did not in the least interfere with my education. I was kept in a fashionable school in New York until I reached my sixteenth year, and then my father sent me a letter asking me if I would like to go to Peru with him. We went to Peru together, and there I met my fate. “I wish for my own sake,” continued Mrs. Carew, “that I had a picturesque love story to tell you. Unfortunately, mine was a most commonplace wooing. We did hot take a home at Lima—the city in Peru where my father hoped to do so well—but we lived nt a large hotel there; and there also lived an Englishman, a young man, stern and cold, but reputed to be rich. At that time I was yery enthusiastic about art. I began to evince a decided talent for sketching faces. My father was delighted about it, and said that if I could have lessons from a good master I should make plenty of money afterward. He had no money to pay the master, but-the stern, silent young Englishman offered it to him as a loanonly as a loan—to be repaid when I had finished m/ course of lessons. “I do not want to trouble you with a lot of details; but my father was pleased that I should be able to earn money. He was grateful to the young Englishman and nsked him to dine with us; and when the first leserve was broken down my father and his young benefactor became great friends. His character had a wonderful charm for the young Englishman. After a time he was quite nt home with us; he liked to spend his evenings in our rooms; he talked a great deal to me, and I was so young, so blithe of spirit, so happy in my art that I talked gayly enough to him. “I never thought seriously about him, but suddenly he asked me to marry him. I was utterly indifferent. My only answer to him was that I had no time to think of getting married. He must have gone to my father at once, for presently he sent for me and said that he had been informed of the offer made to me, and that he thought I should do well to accept it.” Mrs. Carew paused for a few minutes, and an expression of sadness came over the bright, changing face. “I make no excuses for myself,” she

continued. “I was not persuaded or threatened. My father treated the whole matter half at a jest, half as a business agreement of a most satisfactory nature. We settled between us that I should marry the young.;Englishman. I made but one.stipulation, and*hat was that after my marriage I should still be allowed to pursue nay art education. The grave young Englishman f agreed, and then it was supposed that all difficulty was removed. The Englishman took a handsome house in Lima. “Listen, Lady Aiisa— you who feel so tenderly for yonr daughter. I was juat seventeen, without the least notion of what I was’undertaking, when I married. I was ignorant of the sentimental as of the practical side of the matter; aud I never seemed to realize my obligations until I found myself a wife, without knowing what the duties of a wife were. I have never been constant to one set of opinions for many days. With a true, tender, constant love I have never loved but one object; and that is my son Beltran. So, Lady Aiisa, I married; and the name of the Englishman I married was Peter Lennox!” Had a thunderbolt fallen in their midst there could not have been a greater expression of suiprise. Lady Aiisa repeated the name. Beatrix erieil aloud: “Are you ‘the mystery' that has shadowed all my life?” Then Beltran rose suddenly, nt.J with a white, startled face confronted his mother. “Lennox!” he repeated, with an air of incredulity. “Oh, mother, is this a jest?” “My dear Beltran,” she replied, calmly, “all things considered, I wish that it were a jest—perhaps not for your sake, but for my own. 1 do most certainly. Unfortunately, what I have said is true.” “My Uncle Lennox your husbnnd?” cried Beatrix. “Is it possible that the story can be anything but fiction?” “It is no fiction,” replied Mrs. Carew, “thougft for the present I must ask you to call me by the name I have assumed. But you have not heard all my story yet. We were married —I one of the most indifferent, most heedless, most careless of girls, lie one of the grimmest, sternest of men. I must speak truthfully of him. He had a most passionate love for me. It could not have been greater—indeed it would have been much better had it been less. lie loved me with a wonderful love, all the more that I was so profoundly indifferent. I cannot blame myself. He ought to have had more sense than to marry me.” "I cannot believe such a recital,” cried Beatrix- c -“it is too wonderful to be true." (To be continued.)

Overdid the Business.

"With a little more horse sense I might have been Governor of a great State once,” laughed a man who is so thoroughly out of politics that he usually forgets to vote. “I was popular at home, was widely knowu, had held several minor offices and had my eye on the presidency. I was a bachelor, well off and thought mighty highly of myself. “When nominated for the governorship I started right out to help do my own campaigning. We decided to clean op the country districts first and mass our forces on the big cities at the finish. My first date was at Millsdale. I called upon several of the local leaders, not forgetting to dandle the babies aud vow that each was the handsomest little thing I had seen in mauy a day. When I came to speak there was a goodly sprinkling of rural maidens In the audience. I threw all the admiration possible into my features, admitted the solitude of a bachelor’s existence and vowed that the reason I bad never married was because I liud never been to Millside before. There was great hilarity, and it was evident that I had made a bit. I had captured the girls, and each one of them could control at least a single vote. “But It was such a good thing that I decided to push It along. In every village and hamlet where I went I made tlie same assertion and secured the same evidence of approval. But there came the day of judgment. My opponents got hold of wbat I had done. They told the story fro pi the stumpand through the press, charging me with insincerity toward the tender sex, and toward every one else, for that matter. It became notorious that I had said the same thing to all babies and all lasses. Tlie mothers and the girls were against me ‘to a man,’ and I was lost under a landslide, though the remainder of the ticket won. I quit politics and the State.”—Detroit Free Press.

Unnecessary Heroism.

One of those ridiculous situations which at the time bring the cold sweat out on a man’s brow, and ever after remains with him as a source of mirth, occurred to a Shelton merchant a few days ago. He thought be would take a bath, and as his flat is minus one-of the chief requisites for the job—a bath tub—he extemporized oue out of a small washtub and enjoyed a cooling abrution. He bad just concluded and stepped from the tub for the towel when suddenly the top hoop burst with a sharp report, and the man saw to his horror that the whole contents- of the tub would soon be flooding the floor. At the same moment he thought of the store beneath and the amount of damage the water would do if It ran down through the celling. He Is a man of quick thought, aud In a moment he did the only thing possible—threw himself down beside the tub, and, clasping his arms around it, held the already fast swelling staves together. He. was successful in keeping the water la—but what a situation. He dared not yell, for he was hardly iu a condition to receive callers, especially as he knew that all in the block at the time were of the gentler sex, and he realiL-ed at once that the only thing left for him was to stay in that position until the return of his wife, who was out on a shopping expedition. Like the boy who saved Holland, ho manfully remained iu his most uncomfortable position until relief in the shape of hi# wife appeared. Then, to cap the climax, when he asked her to get a rope or any old thing to tie about the tub, she, after a long fit of uncontrollable laughter, asked him why he didn’t carry tub and contents out to the sink room and pour out the water. With a look that froze the smile on her face he did as she said, aud without a Word donned his clothing and wandered out iuto the cold, unfeeling world, a crushed and humiliated man. —Ansonla Sentinel. i A strong solution of potash should be often used In rinsing out the kitchen sink. It is excellent for dispelling tht grease, which has such a mysterious affinity for the waste pipes, and will save many a plumber’s bill If rightly employed.

POLITICS OF THE DAY

SILVER THE VITAL ISSUE The Democracy of Ohio has roused Itself to meet the situation and, taking a look westward toward lowa and Nebraska, has Ix'gun a vigorous campaign on the currency question. The financial issue is not to l»e ignored. and the Democratic candidate for Governor, Horace L. Chapman, has ignored all minor issues and is urging the importance of the unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio of Id to 1. The. purpose of tlie Republican party is not only to destroy silver money, but to put in its place rag money issued by the banks and secured by the assets of those institutions. The Cincinnati Enquirer is outspoken in its advocacy of the silver cause, and discloses the plots of the. gold clique as follows: "The purposes of the Republican leaders, if they shall succeed In all thsy hope to at the eledions this year and next, are not set forth In their platforms, their newspapers or the speeches of their campaigners. All the facts, though, point to the intention to destroy the greenbacks. The presidents message advising the creation of a monetary commission had that end in view, and the present irresponsible monetary commission is organized for the same purpose.” It is not good politics for Democrats to ignore these facts. The Republicans should be forced to place themselves on record before the people in every political contest. They wish to evade the queslion, but when crowded into a corner dare not deny the charge for fear of offending the money power, whose toyls they are. Democratic success in IN! 18 and in 1900 depends on keeping national issues before the people and in compelling the advocates of gold to fight in the open and to show the full enormity of the crime against the masses which they are plotting, bimetallism is gaining ground every day. the success of Democracy is assured if tliffc vital issue is kept constantly in view.

“f'Qj-ty-Cent Dollars.” Special pleaders for tlie gold clique continually harp on one string. They sing the song of a “40-cent dollar,” ami they can Invent uo variations on tlie theme. The bullion value of silver which gives the excuse for talking atwnt 40 eeut dollars is tin* result of special legislation against the metal, just as dollar wheat is the result of special providential conditions. Give silver the protection which it had under the law up to 1873 and the bullion value would rise until It equaled the coinage value. History proves this contention if it proves anything. During all the years when silver was given mint privileges equal with its gold Its bullion value and its coinage value were practically equal. Whenever the mints have been closed to the coinage of silver the bullion has fallen in price. Whenever anything has been done that looked toward an enlarged use of as money, the bullion price has risen. Even the slight concession granted recently by the Bank of England in announcing that it would hold oue-lifth of its reserves in silver has resulted In a rise in the price of bullion to the amount of seven cents on the ounce. For eighty years up to 1874 the bullion value of silver was equal to the coinage value. As soon ns it became apparent that the coinage of silver had been restricted, the bullion price began to drop. In 1890 there was a movement which promised a restoration of coinage rights, and silver bullion rose to $1.20 an ounce, lacking only 9 cents of a parity with gold at the ratio of 10 to 1. It is evident that unlimited coinage of silver would result in a bullion price of $1.29 per ounce, and the 40-cent dollar would cease to exist.

What Hanna Is Fightiiij; For. Mark Hanna is probably not fighting for his political life in Ohio this year, but the result of the election there'is of the most serious importance, not only to himself, but to all his “chums” who are now exercising power and drawing fat salaries from both, the State and the national treasuries. To him defeat means the vacation of the seat in the United States Senate, which he obtained by playing on poor, decrepit John Sherman's vanity. To the others it means loss of income and influence for a long time to come, and to the Republican party of the country ir will also mean the certainty of a grand beating in the Congressional struggle next year, and a worse one in that for the Presidency three years hence. Hamm’s exjerience in polities, measured by years, is limited. He is a manufacturer, end a speculator in other men’s labor, who has gotten very rich by means of the help furnished him by the Government in the shape of favorable tariff laws. He has found it exceedingly profitable to be hand and glove with the legislators at Washington who dispense fortunes under the name of “Protection,” and so long as he felt that he had to make a light for what favors he wanted he was content to keep in the background. His success in the election of McKinley last year has led him to suppose that he can now take his ease and pose as a statesman. If the Democracy should carry Ohio next November Hanna’s dreams, of the immediate future at least, will he sadly disturbed. The Senatorial seat which he obtained by means of what nobody wlio knows the facts will hesitate to call a “dirty trick” will have to l>e given up to another, and “defeat” will be written in large letters all over the Republican slate for a long time to come. —New York News. Cheap Money. *<* The gold organs, says the Atlanta Constitution, are carefully avoiding a discussion that relates to the cheap and depreciated gold dollar which we now have with us. They admit that it is bringing prosperity, but they will not discuss the facts behind it. Well, we are happier over the prospects of prosperity than any of the gold organs, for they have declared that higher prices -that is to say, depreciat-

ed money—would be hurtful to the interests of the workingman, but we are -not too happy to reason about the facts of the case. Here are some of them: With respect to wheat, we have what may be termed a <iO-c*eut dollar—that is to say, while a farmer had to pay a bushel and a half of wheat for a dollar a few weeks ago, he can now buy *.he same dollar In Xew York City with one bushel. With respect to wool, we have a T>o- - dollar—that is to say, tlie farmer who was compelled to give a certain quantity of wool for a dollar can now buy the same dollars in the open market for half the quantity necessary a while ago. But this is not all. We have a depreciated currency with respect to corn, oats and other farm products. We nave “Cheap” and therefore “unsound” money with respect to stocks and other securities. And' behold, this depreciated money, instead of plunging the country in ruin, is actually bringing prosperity! The gold organs not only admit it, but insist on it. And yet this is precisely what tlie Democrats said would happen if we ‘could get higher prices—which is another name for cheaper money. It is an object lesson not likely to be lost on tlie people. Encroachment of the Judiciary, "Resist the beginnings.” Herein lies the only*safeguard against tyrannical rule. Especially Is this true with regard to The usurpation of courts and In point of danger the federal courts lead

The bete noir of the Republican press—Chicago Dispatch.

nll the rest. Their judges hold office for life, or until they choose to retire, and are invulnerable to popular displeasure, however merited. Only Congressional impeachment can drive them from the bench, and in such emergency there would be no lack of zeal and effort by plutocracy for the protection of its servitors.—Grand Rapids Democrat, Mark Hanna’s War Record. When Mark Hanna entered the banquet hall at Buffalo where there was feasting the select coterie of G. A. R. members and at the head of the main table was seated the President of the United States, some guests forgot-their good manners and respect for the proprieties and screamed a welcome to the mighty political boss. The President, infected by the prevailing ent 1 ’siasm, and losing his accustomed placidity, sprang from his sent, rushed toward the advancing hero and embraced the puissant politician, to the amazement of the assembled war veteraus and of the country. The great political manipulator’s war recoi-d is summed up in this brief autobiography of that epoch: “No,” he said to au eager newspaper interviewer, “I did not serve in -the army, but I hired two substitutes and sent them to the front.” What patriotism is here proclaimed! What sacrifice and danger are here avowed for preserving this Union! And how Ilannaesque! The prevailing rate of wages for substitutes in the war was sl3 a month. Some patriots hired only one substitute, but Mr. Hanna hired two. He doesn't say how long he kept them in the field, hut whatever the length of their service might have been we know that it cost him $26 a month. For this noble sacrifice Mr. Hanna is publicly embraced by the country’s chief magistrate, who went into the war as a private, supplied the fighting soldiers at Autietam with hot coffee and came out with the rank of major. Mr. Hanna’s $26 a month is entitled to recognition. Had he not spent it for substitutes the Union army would have beeu short two soldiers. Wherefore. three cheers and a tiger for Hanna. the unsc-arred veteran who poured s2oa month into the overstrained treasury at Washington to keep the furnaces of war ablaze and roaring!

One-Hundrcd-Cent Dollars. Mark Hanna is hedging on the gold question in ids stump speaking tour of Ohio. He is after votes, and he kno\vs that there are thousands of Republicans who believe in bimetallism, and therefore he is careful npt to offend these voters by a bold statement of his views on the money question. He satisfies himself by saying that he wants every dollar to be “worth 100 cents here and all over the world.” But Mark Hanna and the members of the money power do not believe that a silver dollar Is worth 100 cents here or anywhere. How, then, is he going to make these silver dollars worth lOO 1 cents all over the world? He lias no idea of trying to do anything of the kind. He proposes to 'destroy the silver dollars altogether. To wipe out over $500,000,000 of silver money at one blow. And wllat would be put In its place? Nothing.« He aud

hts fellow conspirators desire to contract the currency and thus continue to force the value of gold still higher But that is not all. He would take the greenbacks ont of circulation, and in place of this money, guaranteed by the a&sets of the United States, wishes to substitute wlld-cat rag money, guaranteed by the assets of the banks. Of tice furniture is not good backing for a national currency, but the money power wishes to usurp the power of the Government and to issue bank notes at its own sweet will. If Mark Hanna real Iy wanted to make every dollar “worth ICO cents here and all over the world,’* he would favor the unlimited coinage of silver, for by that means the bullion value would be raised to a par with gold, and that which he pretends to desire would become a beneficent fact.— Chicago Dispatch. Tariff Barons Responsible. I The big tariff-pampered corporations are responsible for the great bulk at the grossly ignorant and semibarbarous immigration from Southern Europe. The coal mining districts of the country are the nests of anarchism - the swarming centers of a population which has no conception of free government, has uo appreciation of free institutions and are the riotous enemies of native labor. Probatly not one iu a hundred can read the language of the country whose laws protect them and whose privileges they enjoy.—Minneapolis Times. Pardons Lead to Lynckings. The pardon by President McKinley of a wealthy bank wmker of Indiana who had the influence and “pull” of politicians and men of business influence; singular as It may appear, is connected with the recent lynching of five white *inen in Ripley County of that State. There are Indiaua people who regard the President's undeserved clemency to Coffin, tl-e bank thief, as one of the causes that led to the

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worst case of lynching tli.it lias ever taken place in a Northern Sj -ate.—Pittsburg Post. Elkins’ Unblushing: Concession. “There was no trick about it at all, I simply worked to succeed. Of course, I was not to tell those apposed to the scheme all about it.” Sc says Senator Elkin:! of section 22 in the tariff bill, which the attorney general interprets in a manner most displeasing to him. He had a “scheme” f;pd was keeping quiet about it. Th-s must have been because he belies-.id those opposed to it were in the Majority. And “there was no trick about it at all!”—Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Political Pointers. If we are to have a statue *5 some Kansan in the national capital why not take Ingalls for the subject and save marble?—Wichita <K:v\) f^igle. Governor Tanner removed a v Oman factory Inspector to make room for a political heeler, and Mayor Hudson has placed a woman in charge qj the street cleaning. Wlie.n it comes to executive heads, the city of Chicago is much better off than the State o* Illinois.—Washington Post. Whenever a Republican discovers that his party has abandoned all the principles of Lincoln. Greeley, Sumner and Trmnbull and is therefore compelled to leave it, have you noticed what au idiot and rascal he become* in the estimation of tiie newspapers belonging to the Hanna bureau?—Columbus (Ohio) Press. The continued find growing deficiency in national revenue will furni*h something for Congress to do at-tie coming regular session. Some legislation supplemental to the Dingley law must be enacted in order to make the government’s income meet its expenses. As a raiser of taxes the Dingley tariff is a great success—Nashville American. As well look for oranges to grow in Sii-eria or snowstorms to prevail at the equator as to expect the Republican administration to bring about general prosperity. Its daily business is the systematic and legalized pillage of the people. Its regular occupation is robbiug Peter, the producer, to pay Paul the plutocrat.—Kansas City Times. ’ Mr. McKinley exhorts the Ohio Sunday school boys to be virtuous and moral. He does not explain to them that it is virtuous and moral to appoint a disreputable New Orleans negro divekeeper to high office as payment for that dissolute person's services in bribing delegates to support the candidacy of an Ohio church member.—New \\«rk World. At the conclusion of his speech at the opening of a Galesburg gymnasium, Senator Mason asked if he might speak for live minutes on Cuba. He then proceeded to free the tortured pearl of the Antilles in the most feverish forefisic form. When curfew rang the horizon was spattered With Spanish blood as far as the eye could reach, —Quincy (Ill.) Herald. All the vehicles belonging to the Vanderbilt family are black, with maroon body, the spokes of the wheels beins shot with red,