Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1898 — Page 2

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BIG TOBACCO TRUST.

ONE COMPANY TO CONTROL PLUG TOBACCO BUSINESS. Uggett A Myers Concern to Enter Deal t and Ruinous Competition Between * Bir.l Manufacturers to Be Btoppedi —Boston Elevator Wrecked, i | Tobacco Combine at St. Louis. | A gigantic deal has been practically consummated in St. Louis, whereby the Continental Tobacco Company, t*with a capital stock of $50,000,000, is being organized to absorb all of the plug tobacco factories in the United States. It is understood that Harrison I. Drummond, president of the Drummond Tobacco Company of St. Louis, is to be made president Of the new company, J. B. Duke of New York, rice-president; Pierre liorillard of New York, secretary and treasurer. The deal contemplates the amalgamation of the immense plant of the Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company of St. Louis with the Continental company at an early date, although it is said the Liggett & Myers people have not yet signed any formal agreement to join forces with the new organization. From what is considered the very highest authority it is learned that the deal provides for the separation Of the plug tobacco -business from the manufacture of smoking tobacco and cigarettes, and that the long and disastrous fight between the trust on one side and the Liggett & Myers and Drummond companies on the other will be stopped at once. Under the new arrangement the American Tobacco Company will take all the factories making smoking tobacco and cigarettes and return to its original field, and the Continental will assume the exclusive manufacture of plug tobacco. 1 TROOPS FOR ALASKA. Military Form of Government to Be Established in the Yukon. Captain P. H. Ray, Eighth United States infantry, who spent the winter in Alaska, has arrived at Portland, Ore., from the north and went immediately to Vancouver barracks. Cnptain Ray will recommend to the War Department the sending of troops into the interior of Alaska and the establishment of a military form of government in the Yukon. He will also recommend that the Government pack train now at the head of Linn canal be used for the exploring expeditions into the interior, the reindeer having been found impracticable for packing in the summer season. Captain Ray states that he does not believe the spring cleanup of gold will show more than $8,000,000.

LETTER'S WHEAT BURNS. Great Elevator at Boston Destroyed by Fire— People Frightened. The elevator at the Hoosac tunnel docks on the Charlestown water front, Boston, Mass., was destroyed by a fire caused by the explosion of grain dust. The total property loss approximates $500,000. The explosion raised the roof of the big structure high in the nir, depositing it upon a block of tenement houses across the street, crushing them to the second Story. Immediately after the shock flames burst forth, and within a few hours the SIOO,OOO building, its contents of 350,000 bushels of grain and five runs or galleries connecting with the great steamship freight sheds, which cost $40,000 to construct, were in ruins. Butte Miner Attempts Murder. Cyrus A. BellJ a miner of Butte, Mont., has been arrested charged with attempting to burn to death in their house Mrs. Marion Kelly and her two children. The woman find refused to marry him. The man entered her house, bound and chloroformed her and her oldest daughter and then set fire to the house. The flames alarmed the neighbors, who rescued the inmates and put out the flames. ! Death Be for 4 Disgrace. ~ A. R. Reynolds of Paris, Tenn., shot himself through the brain in the Supreme Court room at Jackson, just after Justice McAlister had confirmed the opinion of the lower court sentencing him to six years in the penitentiary. He was roadmaster on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and was convicted of making false entries. He lefts a note saying he was innocent. Race for the Pennant. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National Base ball League: W. L. W. L, Chicago 2 0 Brooklyn 1 1 Baltimore ... 2 0 Boston ...... 1 1 Pittsburg ... 3 1 Cleveland .... 1 2 Cincinnati .. 2 1 Louisville .... 1 3 Philadelphia. 1 1 Washington.. 0 2 New York... 1 1 St. Louis 0 2 Ftadllng Going to Klondike. Prof. Stadling of Stockholm, who has been appointed to conduct the search for Prof. Andree, the balloonist who started last year in an attempt to cross the arctic region in a balloon, lias decided to proceed to the Klondike, owing, it is said, to the fact that geographers give credence to the report that AndrCe has been heafd from in those latitudes.

Mob’s Mad Work. There was a serious disturbance at Malaga, Spain, resulting in an attack upon the United States consulate. Stones were thrown and one of the mob leaders procured a ladder, tore down the shield having upon it the arms of the United States and dragged it along the streets. California Cattle r tarving. Owing to the extreme dryness of the season, thousands of cattle in California are expected to succumb to hunger and thirst during the present season. A repetition of the vast losses of 1877 is expected unless the parks nre opened to the herds. Venezuelan Ex-President Dead. A special cablegram from Caracas, Venezuela, to the New York World says that ex-Ure«klent Joaquin Crespo of Venezuela was killed in battle with Hernandez, the leader of the rebel forces. Street Railway Lines Sold. The Main street inclined plane and Mount Auburn electric line in Cincinnati, pwned by Louisville parties, and over which there has been much litigation, iwere sold at auction by order of the United States Court. The property as a whole was bought in by the Cincinnati Consolidated Street Bailway Company for $278,000. Shaken by an Earthquake. Two shocks of earthquake were experienced at San Francisco. There was a gentle swaying motion, very perceptible in tall buildings. Ten minutes later a much heavier shock occurred, but it was mild in comparison with that of a few weeks ago. The second shock lasted fully ten seconds. No damage was done. Rush to Blackfoot Lands. 1 A portion of the Blackfoot reservation, near Butte, Mont., has been thrown open to settlement, and a thousand or more people, mostly prospectors, rushed in to locate mining claims. A troop of cavalry was present. The reservation is rich in minerals, especially in copper. i Lumber Destroyed by Fire. : Fire at Botkins, Ohio, destroyed a large amount of lumber and Allen’s stave factory, owned by Clark & Son of Erie, Pa fflie jyw i» sg^oo0 t with bp iapwraacej

PORTO RICO IN REBELLION. Rioting Follows tbs Elections, and* Revolution Is Feared. According to advices from Porto Rico, the unrest of the island continues, public order is not preserved, business is at a complete standstill, and an internal revolution is feared. Street fights and serious rioting followed the election. The polls were raided, and the military finally intervened, killing two and wounding twenty. At Caye 200 political arrests were made, including well-known newspaper men. The resignations from the provisional cabinet of three autonomists have not been accepted. There have been demonstrations also at San Jnan, where the police by active measures have restored order, but there is no confidence in autonomy, and election frauds have been freely charged. The activity in improving the fortifications at San Juan continues. The American oil refinery there is under the protection of the Spanish troops. At last accounts the Vizcaya and the Almirante Oquendo were still at San Juan.

MANY ON COPPER RIVER. Bteamer Excelsior Returns from Fort Valdes with News. The steamer Excelsior, with Copper River advices, has reached Seattle. One of her six passengers, Chris Weber, when only a few hours from Port Valdes, committer suicide by jumping kito the sea from the upper stern deck of the ship. Weber was one of the O’Brien party that went to Valdes with a steam snowsled, which proved a failure, and his companions say he took his life on that account. Upward of 3,000 persons had been landed at Port Valdes at the time of the Excelsior’s departure, and all save about 1,200 were on the trail, probably 1,000 having crossed Valdes glacier with their outfits. Returning passengers tell of one unfortunate, whose name they did not learn, having fallen into a deep crevice of the glacier, where he froze to death. His companions lowered a rope, but he was in such a position that he could not place it around his body. FALL TO THEIR DEATH. Two Men Plunge Headlong from a Derrick and Are Killed. A frightful accident occurred in Benwood, W. Va., in which two men met their death and one was fatally injured. The Riverside iron works is building a large coke plant, and George Prince, James Sullivan and Edward Fredericks were employed on a derrick 100 feet high, which was used iu putting the heavy pieces in position. The boom pole of the derrick slipped and the men were plunged headlong to the ground. Prince and Sullivan alighted on a pile of brick and were instantly killed, both being terribly mangled, while Fredericks in his fall was stopped by a guy rope for an instant, then fell again, being caught a short distance below by a bolt in the framework, upon which he hung suspended for a second, then droppgd to the ground. He was unconscious when picked up and his life is despaired of. STRUCK BY A HURRICANE. British Bark Will Scott Towed Into Port Badly Damaged. The steamer Areata, bound in from Coos Bay, sighted the British bark Will Scott, under jury rig, ten miles off Duxbury Reef. The tug Reliance was immediately dispatched to aid the vessel and succeeded in towing her into San Francisco. The Will Scott is seventy-one days out from Hiogo, for Puget Sound, but she was unable to reach her destination. She is about as badly damaged as she could be without being a total wreck. She was struck by a hurricane Feb. 13 and completely dismasted.

Insult to the Flag. It has become known that a few nights before Pulaski F. Hyatt, the United States consul at Santiago de Cuba, left that port under instructions for Port Antonio, Jamaica, a mob of Spaniards made a demonstration before the consulate and threw tomatoes, eggs and stones at the Stars and Stripes floating over the consulate. The crowd which took part in this demonstration had just left the theater, where a performance had taken place for the purpose of raising funds to increase the strength of the Spanish navy. The Spaniards surrounded the consulate, shouting, “Death to Americans,” “Long live Spain,” etc., and pelted the flag as already described. The mob was dispersed by the police. The instructions from Washington, through United States Consul Dent, for the withdrawal of the United States consuls at Cienfuegos and Santiago de Cuba, were translated by the Jamaican authorities into the British Government cipher and were thus sent to the British consuls at Cienfuegos and Santiago de Cuba, who conveyed the meaning of the messages to the United States consuls. Mr. Hyatt, at Santiago de Cuba, doubted the authority of Consul Dent in the matter and held the steamer Brookline for nine hours so as to be able to cable Washington on the subject. In reply hejreceived by cable the word “go,” and Mr. Hyatt obeyed his instructions. Mr. Hyatt left the United States consulate at Santiago de Cuba full of provisions intended for the reeoncentrados, and the British consul at that port, F. W. Ramsden, took charge of the relief work.

End of a Long Enmity. A street duel took place in Cotula, Texas, in which both contestants were killed. The duelists—J. Guy Smith, editor of the La Salle Isonomy, and known because of the vitriolic character of his writings as “Brnnn No. 2,” and Henry May, a young and popular ranchmanmet in front of the Hotel Burke. They had long been enemies, because of bitter attacks made on May by Smith over local politics. May was sitting in front of the hotel when Smith passed on the sidewalk. Springing to his feet, May hailed Smith and fired before his victim could turn fully around, the first ball striking Smith in the back and the second in the side. Smith also fired as he turned, his first and only bullet penetrating May’s left breast in the region of the heart. As the two men sank to the sidewalk guests of the hotel seized them before hostilities could be further prosecuted. The duelists were taken to rooms in the hotel. May died in a few minutes and Smith lingered six hours. Neither expressed regret at what had happened. \ Committee Charges Theft. At Lincoln, Neb., Chairman Otto Mutz and Mr. Moran, of the legislative investigating committee, submitted the report of the committee, which has been at work since the adjournment of the Legislature. The charge is made that by the negligence and cupidity of officials stealings aggregating in round numbers $1,323,000, including the SOOO,OOO taken by Bartley, were committed. Fixes Ownership of Bank, The United States Supreme Court has sustained the decision of the State court in the million dollar First National Bank stock case from Butte, Mont., by which Andrew J. Davis, one of the heirs of the Davis estate, comes into the possession of the First National Bank of Butte, valued at fully $1,600,000. Large Freighter Launched. The steamer Superior City was launched at the yards of the Cleveland Shipbuilding Company at Lorain,"Ohio. The Superior City Is the largest ship on fresh water. The dimensions are 450 feet over all, 430 feet keel, 50 feet beam and 28 feet hold. Barred by Switzerland. The Swiss government has prohibited the importation of American fresh fruits. The action was taken, owing to the alleged presence of the San Jose scale in the fruit imported recently. Hosiery Factory Barns. The plant of the Dresden Hosiery Company at Dresden, Ohio, was entirely destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $30,tioo. Agents of Spain at Work. A bomb was discovered a few days ago. in the coal supplies at the Washington B»vy the same time one

the immense shafts in the gun shop, to which are attached the lathes and drills for finishing the big caliber guns, was disabled. Daring the visit to Washington of the Vesuvius it was fonnd that she suffered damage and there was more than a suspicion that an attempt had been made to tamper with her coal bunkers and machinery. These., three startling incidents Are discussed quietly by the employes at the navy yard, and have resulted in the most rigid exclusion of visitors. The sentry at the main gate lately refused, as he claimed, under orders, even to take in a request for admission. The Government has reason to suspect danger to the works from persons iu the pay of or in sympathy with Spain. The men in the yard say the officers of the Vesuvius had reason to suspect two or three of the crowd of visitors on board that ship. It was impossible to make a definite accusation, because the suspects became aware that they were being watched and disappeared. COAL 18 CONTRABAND. Great Britain 8o Instructs Colonial Authorities at Jamaica. The British colonial authorities at Kingston. Jamaica, have instructions from the home government to declare coal contraband in the event of war. The authorities maintain strict reserve in defining the exact nature of the instructions, because hostilities have not been begun, but they will, it is understood, declare them immediately on news of war. United States Consul Dent brought the subject to the attention of the colonial authorities recently and a correspondence between them and London led to the directions just received. No doubt similar instructions have been or will be sent to all British authorities. Some Kingston dealers, who have been anticipating a possible Spanish demand for coal, have laid in unusual stocks.

Bandits Among Students. Students climbed the flag pole of the University of California at Berkeley the other night and cut the halyards, making it impossible to raise the stars and stripes. This insult to the national colors aroused the indignation of the college authorities, and the expulsion of the offenders may follow. The affair is regarded as of special moment because the University of California is a military institution, being in part supported by the federal government, with an army officer detailed as military instructor and with strict discipline in matters of military training. The faculty is taking steps to identify the vandals. Murdered for $6. At Kingston, N. Y., Siting Roe, colored, 10 years old, has been arrested, charged with murdering David Marr of the same age, a junk dealer. Roe’s desire to wear new clothes prompted the crime. Marr’s body was found in Esopus creek, with the back of the head crushed in. Marr was induced by Roe Saturday night to go with him to the creek, where Roe said he had a quantity of brass to sell. After getting him to a barn about 600 feet from the creek, it is charged, Roe killed Marr and robbed him of $6. Plate Glass Factory iu Ruins. The extensive plant of the Penn Plate Glass Company, in North Irwin, Pa., is in complete ruins. Fke started near the new casting hall, caused by the blowing out of a gas converter. The flames spread with great rapidity from one building to another, and in one hour nothing but smoldering ruins remained of the largest and most successful independent plate glass works of the United States. The loss is estimated at $750,000, with an insurance of about $450,000.

Acts Like an Ingrate. A singular story of ingratitude is developed in the elopement of Mrs. George S. Brown, wife of a captain of a river steamer, and Robert Goss, an ex-convict. When Goss’ sentence expired two months ago, Captain Brown, confident of his innocence, resolved to assist him on his feet again. He took him to Vicksburg, Miss., made him an inmate of his own home, vouched for his respectability in society and became sponsor for him generally. Fusion in South Dakota. The Democratic State central committee met at Mitchell, S. D., and selected Aberdeen as the place to hold the State convention June 22. At the same time the Populists will hold their convention. Resolutions were adopted to co-operate with the Populists if they can secure fair representation on the State ticket. If not, the Democrats will put up a ticket of their own. Army Mobilization Ordered. An order mobilizing practically the entire regular army at Park, Tampa, New Orleans and Mobile has been issued by the war department. The Fourth Regiment of infantry, now stationed at Fort Sheridan, Chicago, is ordered to Tampa. Earthquake on Pacific. Thirty-two distinct earthquake shocks of unusual severity occurred at Point Arena, Cal. No material damage was done there, but at Greenwood houses were twisted, and chimneys fell. Big Coal-Washing Plant Burned. The coal washing plant of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company at Belt, Mont., was burned to the ground. Loss, $250,000; no insurance. Cause of the fire unknown. Miners Return to Work. The 2,000 striking miners of the Massillon, Ohio, district have agreed to return to work, the operators having consented to make the demanded changes in the screens. Bulge in Wheat. May wheat sold at $1.1114 the other day. This is the highest price paid in Chicago for any future since the early part of 1892. Cardinal Tascherean Dead. Cardinal Taschereau died at Quebec.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.09 to $1.11; corn, No. 2,29 cto 30c; oats, No. 2,25 c to 27c; rye, No. 2,52 cto 53c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 8c to 10c; potatoes, common to choice, 45c to 65c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,94 cto 96c; corn, No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 30c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2,99 cto $1.01; corn, No. 2 yellow, 27c to 29c; oats, No. 2,27 cto 28c; rye, No. 2,52 cto 54c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 97c to 99c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 30c; rye, No. 2,52 cto 54c. $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2,96 cto 98c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; rye, 53c to 55c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, sl.Ol to $1.02; corn, No. 2 mixed, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; rye, No. 2,53 cto 54c; clover seed, $2.85 to $2.95. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 99c to $1.01; corn, No. 3,31 cto 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 31c; rye, No. 1,53 cto 54c; barley, No. 2,40 cto 46c; pork, mess, $9.50 to SIO.OO. Buffalo—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 97c to 99c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 32c. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.06 to $1.08; corn, No. 2,36 cto 37c; oats. No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; butter, creamery, 17c eggs. Western, so lie, ...

POLICS OF THE DAY

REPUBLICAN REPUDIATION. They Promise. From the hour of achieving their own Independence the people of the United States have regarded with sympathy the struggles of the other American people to free themselves from European domination. We watch with deep and abiding interest the heroic battle of the Cuban patriots against cruelty and oppression, and our best hopes go out for the full success of their determined contest for liberty. The government of Spain having lost control of Cuba, and being unable to protect the property and lives of resident American citizens, or to comply with Its treaty obligations, we believe that the government of the United States should actively use its influence and good offices to restore peace and give Independence to the Island.—From Republican Platform adopted at St. Louis. They Wabble. Nor on the standpoint of expedience do I think it would be wise or prudent for this government to recognize at the present time the independence of the socalled Cuban republic. Such recognition is not necessary In order to enable the United States to Intervene and pacify the island. To commit this country now to the recognition of any particular government in Cuba might subject us to embarrassing conditions of international obligation toward the organization so recognized. In case of intervention our conduct would be subject to the approval or disapproval of such government; we would be required to submit to its direction and to assume to it the mere relation of a friendly ally.—President’s Message of April 11, 1898.

Gold Bonds. Eastern newspapers devoted to the gold propaganda are busy devising plans to make the war with Spain an excuse for fastening the yoke of gold on the necks of the people. While certain Western monetary reform organs are fearful that silver may be given a chance because of war, Eastern newspapers are urging that quite the converse of this proposition should be 'maintained. In discussing war financial measures the New York Commer-cial-Advertiser blandly says: “We cannot borrow to advantage on our present basis, of payment. We should have to make our bonds payable in gold, or submit to a costly discount or increase of interest. This was illustrated in Cleveland’s last bond sale, when the buyers offered to take 3 per cent. If the bonds were made payable in gold and Congress refused.” It would be impolitic to discredit our present bonds and depreciate them in the markets by discriminating in favor of new issues, so It would be necessary to declare the whole public debt payable in gold. This is a lovely proposition for the bond holders and the bond buyers, but it will not meet with the approval of the people nor of the Senate of the United States. It would not lighten the burden of a new war debt, doubtless comparatively small, to make a present of 25 per cent, of the gold war debt to the bond holders by enacting that it be paid in gold. All the plots of the gold clique will come to naught. Congress refused to grant Grover Cleveland permission to issue gold bonds, and Congress can be counted on to block the little game which the money spinners are now engaged In devising.

Ohio Is Democratic, President McKinley’s own State has given the Republican party the severest blotv it has yet received this year. As recently as November last that party elected its candidate for Governor by a plurality of 28,000, despite the fight between the Foraker and Hanna factions. In the recent local contests, w r hen there was apparent harmony in the ranks, the Republicans were beaten almost everywhere, and it is estimated that the plurality of last year has not only been wdped opt, but that a Democratic one fully as large has been put in its place. Not since 1889 have the Democrats carried the State, although they came very near doing so in the Presidential election of 1892. The organization of the party has become more and more demoralized each year, and In the city of Cincinnati, where it was formerly most powerful, it lost steadily until It polled only half the votes it did formerly, and gave McKinley in 1896 a clear majority of nearly 20,000. In this same city the Republicans have just been beaten by 2,000, and yet their opponents did not half try to achieve victory. The result in this, the most important city of the State, has been practically duplicated in other cities, Mark Hanna’s influence and money scarcely being able to save the Republican ticket in Cleveland, where he has his residence, while in the smaller places Democratic mayors have been elected for the first time in twenty years. Following the in New York and other States this spring, the Ohio result Is most significant.—New York News.

Conspiracy at Washington, There Is something radically wrong in the way state secrets are handled at Washington. Every newspaper in the United States w’as on the alert Wednesday to receive and print the President’s message. Those whose business it is to get news and to get it promptly were led to believe that the message W’as to be presented to Congress about noon, but Wall street opei’ators knew two hours before the information was given to the public that the message was nft to be sent in until the following Monday. ‘ How did Wall street operators get their information? How is it that Stock speculators are given the opportunity to make fortunes on the street through advance notice of what the administration is going to do, and Congress' and the people are kept in ignorance? There is a scandal of the darkest and most disgraceful character in this condition of affairs. There is no use in attempting to avoid the conclnsion. Facts are not to be overthrown by assumptions that the men in the cabinet are too honorable and too careful to permit state secrets to “leak out.” The people were trifled with, deceived, cajoled; Congress vyas fooled and befuddled. Who is responsible for this sort of work? Congress has the right to know. —Chicago Dispatch. Mark Hanna-“ Guilty.” It is not creditable to the administration that its chief adviser should be a naan convicted of felony. Mark Hanna, who claims to have made McKinley, and who attends Cabinet meetings and states tfee President’s pol-

ley, has been fonnd guilty of bribery by the Senate committee of the Ohio Legislature appointed to investigate the charges that money was corruptly used by Hanna to secure his election to the United States Senate. No one who watched the course of the Ohio Senatorial election has ever had any doubt that Hanna resorted to bribery. No well-informed Republican politician can be fonnd who will deny the truth of the charge against Hanna, except in the glittering generalities which are the refuge of those who wish to avoid admitting the truth. Is it not a disgrace to the Senate of the United States that a convicted felon should be recognized as ohe of its members? Is it not a deeper and more bitter disgrace that such a man should be the adviser of the President?—Exchange. Hanna Not Yet Out of the Woods. The bribery charges against Senator Hanna have not been dropped. They will go to Congress iu a contest against his taking his seat for the full terni commencing on the 4th of March belt; He is now serving out the remainder of Secretary Sherman’s term as Senator. The Investigating committee of the Ohio Senate will make a partial report before the adjournment of the Legislature and be authorized to prolong its sittings to get the testimony of Senator Hanna and Charles F. Dick, the Republican State committee chairman, who have so far refused to come before the committee. That does not speak very favorably for Mr. Hanna.—Pittsburg Post. Returning; to the Farms. y One result of the financial depression —one of the good things that often come out of evil—has been the back-to-the-land movement among urban people. The Illusions that drew thousands from the farms to the cities have been shattered by the hard conditions entailed by the panic. The vital, ever present, Inescapable necessities of life are bread and butter, and these the city can give only at second-hand. Whatever storms may strew the industrial sea with wreck, food, shelter and clothing are assured to the man on the farm, while the Idle workman of the city must walk the streets In vain search for work.—St. Paul Globe.

Disgusted Republican Organa. The persistent interference of the proSpanish parties, represented in Washington chiefly by Secretaries Bliss and Gage, is having a disturbing effect In Congress and on the people. American citizenship cannot endure the thought that a question of principle and duty can be determined or considered by the profits or loss of stock speculators or of anybody else.—New York Press. “Some Things Better than Money.” It may not be amiss to remind merchants who have received solicitous peace communications from the East that there Is something higher and nobler In life than the pursuit of wealth. Patriotism and love of country shoukl'come before all else. If the peace party can reconcile Insult, treachery and dishonor with the qualities mentioned, all well and good.— Evansville Courier. >» Th 2 Weak State Department. The State Department seems to be in commission, with Judge Day, Mark Hanna and Grosvenor in charge. Of course, President McKinley must be embarrassed and weakened by such a condition, and the country, although keeping its temper admirably, is profoundly humiliated.—Pittsburg Post. Problem tor Peacemakers. Either Spain must give up Cuba or we must back down from a just, lawful and necessary position. Will the peacemakers tell us which is the more likely to promote our national contentment and well-beiug?— New York Times. Hanna Always Un-American. The American people are very tired of Marcus Alonzo Hanna. They have tolerated him for years. They will not stand him much longer. He has never said or done a thing which was not unAmerican. —Washington Times. Grim and Growing Snspicion. There Is a grim suspicion in the minds of many that the so-called “business Interests” of the country would accept peace at the price of national dishonor.—Peoria Journal.

Oar Governors and Voters.

The period during which a Governor may hold without signing or vetoing a bill passed by the Legislature varies in the several States. In New York, California, Kentucky, Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Texas and Missouri it is ten days; in Mary- ( land it is six; in Alabama, Georgia,l Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska,‘ Nevada, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, New Hampshire, Tennessee, Oregon, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia and New Jersey it is five, and in Kansas, Connecticut, Indiana, lowa, South Carolina, Minnesota and Wisconsin it is three days. In Ohio the Governor has no veto power. With the extension of the system of biennial sessions to thir-ty-nine of the forty-five States, the number of bills passed and requiring the consideration of the executive has been much reduced and the labors of the Governors in these States have been lightened' correspondingly.

Maine Martyr.

Among the seamen who lost their lives on the battleship Maine the death of none is mourned more sincerely than that of “Jack” Hamilton, chief carpenter’s mate. Hamilton was one of the American sailors who were attacked by a Chilean mob in the streets of Valparaiso seven years ago. He received seventeen stab wounds from his cowardly assailants. His life was despaired of for some time, but he eventually pulled through. He received $5,000 from the Chilean Government, which he invested in a home in Brooklyn. He was immensely popular with all the officers and sailors with whom he served.

Auction Sales in Japan.

Japanese auctions are conducted on a plan which gives rise to none of the noise and confusion which attend such sales in the United States. Each bidder writes his name and bid upon a slip of paper, which he places In a box. When the bidding is over the box is opened by the auctioneer and the goods declared the property of the highest bidder. Spain produced the Cid, Christopher Columbus and notable travelers, and during mediaeval times in art, science and learning it bad first rank. Before the Visigoths overran the country was its time of glory—after that its decline set in. *• - r -i.' -.... ... •

HOW TO ENLIST IN THE ARMY.

Net One in Ten Can Come Up to Unde Sam’s Requirements. ifkhy are called, 0* think the* ire called, to serve Unde Sam in the Regular army, but few are chosen. The swaggering tough stands on the walk outside of the city recruiting office, and says, with a leer, “I guess dey’ll take all dey kin git.” Then he goes up stairs and finds that 95 out of 100 are rejected, induding himself. The army varies from the navy in the fact that there is no ban to promotion from the ranks to the highest grade. General Nelson A. Miles, at the head of the United States army, is not a graduate

A RECRUITING OFFICER.

of West Point, and there are many instances of private soldiers and even “outsiders” becoming commissioned officers. The appointments to the war school of instruction at West Point, on the Hudson River, fifty miles above New York City, are made by Congressmen, each representative having the right to detail an eligible youth, between the ages of 18 and 21, from his district when it is not represented at the Military Academy. The President also has been given the authority to appoint ten, “at large,” and usually grants the favor to the son of a former or present officer of either branch of the military (which includes navy and array) service. Entrance examinations and annual reviews of book knowledge are the same as at the naval academy, and during the summer the cadets go Into camp near West Point. The fact is that, aside from drills In seamanship, howitzer and boat practice, the course of instruction at both the academies, West Point and Annapolis, is very similar, for the naval cadets are exercised in Infantry tactics, fencing and broad-t sword exercises, and on their daily evening parade present fully as imposing a presence and exactitude ot martial stride as the military pupils. The special difference between the two schools is in the age and pay of the students. The West-Pointers, as Indicated in the age requirement for admission, are older men, and, while their annual stipend during the scholastic term of four years is about the same as

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that .given at Annapolis, upon graduation they become second lieutenants, and receive a larger salary than that allotted to those completing the course at the naval academy. Promotion with them to the grades of first lieutenant, captain, major, lieutenant colonel, colonel and brigadier general is fully as slow as it is in the naval service, but their compensation is always comparatively larger. For this one reason the army might be considered the more favorite branch of military service, yet there has never been any popular or privately determined feeling that it was so. To those that wish to enlist as privates there are recruiting stations to be found in every large city of the United States, and the applicant may select either the cavalry, infantry or artillery. The applicant must necessarily fill the special requirements of age, stature and chest measure and be in good bodily condition. If so, he is very liable to be imediately enrolled and receive clothes, shelter, board, medicine, surgical attendance when necessary and the exorbitant cash sum of sl3 a month. But, then, the entire allotment is worth $45 or SSO a month, and there are some men who can’t earn this sum. The promotion of the private soldier may be very rapid in time of war. If he Is an educated man and of any especial ability, he may be wearing a colonel’s epaulets before he returns

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from the fields of battle. In the piping times of peace his advancement is to that of corporal and sergeant, technically termed noncommissioned officers, and then if he has influence or his own individuality dominates he may be allowed to attempt the examination for a first lieutenancy. If he succeeds in passing both the physical and mental demands, he is then a commissioned officer in the United States army, and his career is as free before him as if he had all the training and glories of a West Point course. If you desire to enlist, you must be between 21 and 30 years of age, of good character and habits, ablebodied, not less than 5 feet 4 inches in height and weigh between 128 and 190 pounds. If your height is above 5 feet 10 Inches and your weight more than 165 pounds, you may join the artillery or Infantry, but not the cavalry.

The Interior of Patagonia.

Professor J. B, Hatcher, of Princeton University, has newly returned from a femwiwWe trip of

hitherto unknown region of South Africa —namely, the wild Interior of Patagonia. He visited Washington a few days ago for the purpose of depositing with the Bureau of Ethnology a rich collection of objects illustrating the mode of life of the various tribes of aborigines in that part of the world. These natives are among the strangest and most picturesque savages In existehce, some of them being described as representing almost the lowest stage in the scale of human development. Their country, too, is Wore than ordinarily interesting, being associated since the earliest times with rumors of gigantic human inhabitants and an astonishing fauna. Quite recently some skeletons of birds that had heads as big as those of horses have actually been dug up. They stood at least nine feet high, and had short wings, claws like an eagle’s and a beak like a condor’s. It is likely that they attacked with success the largest mammals contemporary with them, being the biggest fowls of prey that ever lived; but they became extinct long ago, and so there was no opportunity for Professor Hatcher to secure a living specimen.

THEY MINED IN ALASKA.

Lost Only Their Labor and $lO Apiece in Six Months’ Operations. Every one who had ever been in Alaska of course began at the opening of the Klondike craze to relate personal experiences which in some way or other had connection with the subject of gold mining. Many of them bad a chance to make a fortune, if they had only known, and others saw millions, more or less, taken out of the ground with a broken shovel, and the man Whose only capital it was come back to the States and live happily ever afterward. But in spite of the ingenuity which has been put into the manufacture of these stories, there is an original flavor to one told by a soldier at present located in the United States army in this city. It was in 1880, when he was in the navy, that he was stationed on a vessel near Sitka. There was considerable gold being taken out near there, and an enterprising speculator got hold of a party of marines on the ship and induced them to buy his mine. There were 100 of them who finally went into the scheme, and they paid $lO each for their new source of wealth. There was always a good deal of spare time on their hands, and they easily secured permission to use this in working their claim. For six months the soldiers dug quartz by day and dreamed of sudden wealth by night. All were confident of being able to retire from the service with comfortable riches, and looked sadly on the poor officers, who would have to keep on soldiering all their lives, not being in the scheme. At the end of six months they had a large pile of quartz, and, loading it into all the old barrels, bags and provision cases they could find, they sent it by ship to the nearest crushing mill. Then followed weeks of waiting till the returns should come, and an air of subdued importance grew in each mar who expected at any time to be informed that he was worth thousands of dollars. At last the ship came which brought the returns from the consignment, and the gallant hundred gathered around the treasurer of the company to hear how much each was now worth. That individual opened the message, and a grim smile froze on his face as he went through a short calculation on the back of the envelope. “Gentlemen,” he said, “you each owe the sum of ten cents to the steamship company that carried the quartz. The gold in it was just $lO short of the freight charges.” And then he passed his hat, while one of their number sought out the ship’s chaplain to lead in a short service.—Springfield Republican.

ANECDOTES OF STANTON.

Hpw the Great War Secretary Helped an Injured Man in Pittsburg. The school children of Steubenville, 0.. have contributed the money for a memorial tablet to be piaeed on the house where the great war secretary was born, says the Boston Evening Transcript. One of the Steubenville people who knew him in his early manhood tells of an incident that occurred while he was practicing law in Pittsburg. His mother lived in Steubenville. Stanton was accustomed to return home frequently by boat on the Ohio. One evening when he came od board he saw a poor fellow lying on the forward deck. He investigated, and learned that the poor fellow had fallen through a liatehway and broken his leg. The fracture remained unset and uncared for. The young lawyer went to the captain and asked what the neglect meant. The eaptain replied that the man lived in Pittsburg, and could be attended to when he got home. Making no comment on the inhumanity, Stanton went to the boat carpenter’s chest and borrowed a saw and ax. He took a stick of wood, cut such a length as he wanted, then he whittled out a sot of splints. Then he went to his stateroom, tooK a sheet from the bed, and tore it into bandages. He ordered three or four of the crew to%asslst. The fracture was reduced, the splints and bandages were applied. Stanton went to the cookroom and ordered prepared a jug of vinegar and water with which to steep the swollen parts. During the ninety miles of the trip from Steubenville he sat by the injured man applying the bath. When the boat reached Pittsburg he hired a hack and took his patient to his home.

Dad's Old Breeches. When dad has worn his trousers out, They pass to brother John. Then mother trims them round about, And "William puts them on. When William’s legs too long have grown, The trousers fail to hide ’em. So Walter claims them for his own And stows himself inside ’em. Next Sam's fat legs they close invest, And, when they won't stretch tighter, They’re turned and shortened, washed and pressed, j|.nd fixed on me—the writer. Ma works them into rugs and caps When I have burst the stitches*. At doomsday we shall see (perhaps) The last of dad’s old breeches. —New York Weekly.

Indian Sharpshooters.

“Ojibway Joe,” the Chippewa chief, who died in Superior, Wis., the other day, is said to have killed more Northerners than any other man In the Confederate armies. He was a sharpshooter, having joined the Confederacy because of a personal grievance against the Federal Government.

Wonderful Loom.

Recent improvements In the Millar loom will, it is claimed, revolutionize tfie weaving Industry, as, with less attention than ordinary, it will turn out from 140 to 200 yards of worsted coatings In ten hours. f The man who tlways pays cash often

THE PEOPLE'S MONEY

Parity. It is now definitely settled that we cannot have International bimetallism, because a few dealers in money, occupying an area not exceeding half an acre in the city of London, will not allow it. In view of this fact, we must adopt independent action, as unanimously recommended by the European delegates to the international monetary conference which convened in Paris in August, 1878. Money is not an end, but a means to an end. It Is not the possession, but the employment of money in productive industries that benefits mankind. If upon opening our mints to the unrestricted coinage of both metals upon our present legal ratio of 1 to 10, silver should predominate in our currency for awhile, our monetary system would be bimetallic, as it was from the formation of the government until 1873; and it would give as great an impulse to our industries as if gold should predominate, and, as predicted by M.-Gernuschi, it would undoubtedly compel similar action by European natious: Our only alternative is to abandon definitely and finally the established policy of maintaining the parity of the metals upon a legnl ratio by making permanent the gold standard, and prolonging indefinitely the evils inaugurated by that fatal measure, and which no reformation of our banking system can in the slightest degree counteract. What the people want is, not nil opportunity to borrow money, which, by increasing in purchasing power, will absorb the property they already have, but an opportunity to buy money with their labor and the products of their industry.

“ Dishonest Money.” The power which declares the silver dollar to be worth 100 cents in debtpaying value is the supreme power of the nation. When the silver dollar which it has created is asserted to be “unsound and dishonest money,” the government of the United States is openly charged with dishonesty, fraud and dishonor— a charge little less than treasonable, that richly deserves punishment by fine and imprisonment, because it is utterly and shamelessly untrue. If the devotees of the gold standard, which is ruining the country and tends to ultimately ruin them, desire to restore the bullion value of our $000,000,000 of silver coinage to a parity with gold, the only course to pursue Is to restore free silver coinage, thus creating an equal monetary demand for silver that there now is for gold at the present ratio of all our gold and silver coinage. Their refusal to do this means that they do not desire such a parity, and that, having demonetized silver bullion, they intend if they ever possess the power to demonetize and in like manner degrade and debase all of our silver coinage to present silver bullion value, ami thereby still further enhance the relative value of gold, and also further depreciate all the other values of productive American industry.

Gold Standard Effects. It Is a fact that nearly three-fourths of the members of both houses of Congress are lawyers, many of whom are the attorneys of trusts and corporations, and of the remainder very few represent the agricultural, commercial or manufacturing, the wealth-produc-ing classes of the country. It has been stated that at one time the banking interests had 189 representatives in Congress, notwithstanding the fact that during the Presidency of Washington in December, 1793, a resolution of Congress prohibited any officer or stockholder of a bank from being a member of the House. At that time there were but three banks, now they are numbered by thousands, and are consolidated into an association to act in concert, which boasts of power even to coerce Congress. Our government is no longer a government of the people, by the people and for the people, but a government by the representatives of the money power to enact laws in their own interests, to relieve themselves from all public burdens, impose them upon the people, and enable them by legalized robbery to absorb the wealth of the nation, in the production of which tney have not participated. Aim of Dimetallists. The aim of the bimetallists is not so much to secure the concurrent circulation of the metals as to restore the bimetallic principle to our monetary system. What great benefit or advantage will result from the re-establishment of this principle in our monetary system? An eminent economist lias said: “Tha office of money is to take property to market.” Under the operation of the bimetallic principle, one of the metals keeps down the charge which the other makes for rendering this service, by itself standing ready to perform it. The operation of the two metals in our .monetary system is analogous to the operation of railway and waterway systems in the transportation of merchandise. No Longer Free. The wealth-producing classes of the United States, and, in fact, of all goldstandard countries, are no longer free. They are in a condition of economic servitude, in which coercion by starvation has succeeded the lash of the slavedriver. The remedy is in the hands of the people; they have the power, but they have been long blinded by ignorance, sophistry and falsehood. The light is now dawning, and apparently the day of emancipation draws near.

After the Boy Prodigies.

Bring to me my large revolver and my keen Damascus blade and the rubber boots I’m used to when In gore I freely wade. Hither bring my trusty sandbag, bring the snickersee, I say, for my day has come for murder and I’m going forth to slay. I shall go forth to the like a bridegroom to his joys, and I’ll fill the nean est graveyard with a string of gifted boys. I shall brain the boy attorney with a spasm of delight, and the boy who preaches Sundays, he shall fall before my might. On the trail of boy physicians gaily, gladly shall I camp; let the boy pianist tremble when they hear my roaring tramp. When I strike the boyish statesman he must say his prayers and die; when the boy reportei meets me mark ye how the far shall fly. For I’m weary and disgusted an 4 my mind has lost its poise, I have read such beastly twaddle treating of the gifted boys.

Living Is Cheap in Japan.

You don’t require a big Income t 0 “get along” In Japan. A man can live there like a gentleman on S3OO a year. Tlfl? sum will*pay the rent of a bouse, the wages of two servants, and suppli pkaty of food. __ .... ---I/