Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1898 — Page 2

ttl)t>ftnocr(rticsenthiel «r. W. McJDWKUr, RENSSELAER, - INDIAN*

SHOT BY A STRANGER

HOLD-UP IN A MOMENCE, ILL., RAILROAD YARD. A Chicago Mam Fatally Wounded, Robbed and Left Lying Beside the Tracks—Row Over a Partition Fence Ends in a Murder. Bravely Resisted a Hold-Up. .¶ Louis B. La Franchere of Chicago died from a bullet wound received while he was struggling with two men who were attempting to rob him. The robbery took place at Momence, Ill., on the tracks of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad. After the thugs had secured La Franchere’s watch and a considerable sum of money they ran away, leaving him lying at the side of the rails. La Franchere was a railroad engineer, and until recently had been employed by the Chicago and Eastern Illinois. For a month he had been seeking work. While waiting for a freight to move out of the Momence yards he made the acquaintance of two strange men. While the men were waiting the strangers proposed that they walk down the tracks a short distance. La Franchere accompanied his new-found acquaintances to a lonely spot at the outskirts of Momence, and was surprised to feel the arms of one of his companions suddenly lock around his neck. At the same time the robber exclaimed “You remain quiet now or I’ll blow the top of your head off.” La Franchere had the build and strength of an athlete, and he grappled with the man who had his arms around his neck. The other robber stood near, but offered to take no part in the struggle. The man with the drawn revolver was being worsted when the fellow placed the weapon against La Franchere’s abdomen and fired. Both men then fled after robbing La Franchere. An hour later one of the yard switchmen found La Franchere. KILLS TWO CONSTABLES. Bloody Work Done by a Young Man to Obtain Property. .¶ At Garrett, Pa., F. P. Myers took possession of a house left to him by his mother, who died five months ago. The deed was not signed by his father, Christley Myers, who had a life tenure in the property. When Christley Myers arrived he found the house barricaded, his son refusing him entrance. He at once went to Somerset, swore out a warrant for forcible entry and detainer and on his return secured service for the writ. Young Myers fired at the approaching constable, killing Michael Kearney. Then he fled to his boarding house immediately adjoining, where Constable Nelson Lenhart and his brother, John Lenhart, followed him. He fired again, killing John Lenhart instantly. Sheriff Martin Hartzell of Somerset in a short time arrived with a posse. A crowd of infuriated citizens was guarding the boarding house, in the cellar of which young Myers was hiding. After an hour’s waiting a raid was made. A dozen shots were exchanged. Myers was finally overpowered and while being taken down the steps of the house was struck by a gun in the hands of somebody in the crowd. He was knocked unconscious, but later recovered and was removed to Somerset. MURDER OVER A LINE FENCE. Iowa Farmers Near Yale Quarrel —Isaac Fitz Kills James McClellan. .¶ A murder which nearly ended in a lynching occurred near Yale, lowa. Isaac Fitz and James McClellan, prosperous farmers, quarreled over a partition fence. Finally McClellan mounted his horse and started home, when Fitz went into the house, got his shotgun and, returning, fired both barrels point blank at McClellan, riddling him with shot and killing him instantly. Fitz then took a load of hogs to town, drew his pay and leisurely returned home. The body of McClellan was still lying where it had fallen and Fitz loaded it into the wagon and took it to the McClellan home. He dumped the body in the yard and returned to his home, where he was arrested a few hours later. The officers quietly spirited the prisoner away to escape lynching, as the farmers were aroused to a high pitch by the news of Fitz’s brutality. The men were broth-ers-in-law, McClellan’s wife being Fitz’s sister. National League Standing. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Boston 86 44 Philadelphia . >64 62 Baltimore .. .82 46Pittsburg ... .67 66 Cincinnati . .81 53 Louisville .. .56 75 Cleveland ...73 55Brooklyn ....48 75 Chicago 73 60 Washington. 42 87 New Y0rk...70 60St Louis 34 04 The Western League pennant has been won by Kansas City. Final standings warn * w. L. w. L. Kansas City.Bß 51 Columbus ...73 6C Indianapolis. 84 50 Detroit 50 87 Milwaukee ..82 57 Minneapolis. 48 92 St. Paul 81 58 St. Joseph... .42 93 Miner's Strike Ended. The coal miners’ strike in the third pool at Monongahela City, Pa., is over and work has been resumed in all the pits pending a settlement of the differences by arbitration. About 2,000 miners were affected by the strike, which threatened to spread to all points in the Pittsburg district. English Street Car Fatality. An electric street car was derailed while descending a hill at Bradford, England. Fifty persons were seriously injured. Disastrous Fire in Toledo. Ten persons cremated, eight more fatally burned and eight seriously injured is the record of the most disastrous fire that ever occurred in Toledo. The spontaneous combustion of dust in the grain elevator owned by Paddock, Hodge & Co. caused this terrible destruction of life. Woman Sentenced for Manslaughter. .¶ At Zanesville, Ohio, Delia Dickerson, convicted of manslaughter, was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. She had killed her sister’s child because it was a burden to her. Nine Drowned In a Collision. The steamship Gloucester of the Merchants and Miners’ Transportation Company, which arrived at Boston from Baltimore, reports that she collided with the Gloucester schooner Alice Jordan off Marthas Vineyard, and that nine of the Jordan’s crew were drowned. Seven of the crew were saved. May Not Fight with Chili. The probabilities of a peaceful solution of the boundary dispute between Argentina and Chili increase. The Argentine chamber has voted confidence in the government, authorizing the mobilization of 80,000 men if the chamber considers such action opportune. Boat Blown Up by a Torpedo. During a test of Cunningham torpedos in Priest’s cove, near New Bedford, Mass., the experiment schooner Freeman was blown up and sunk by the explosion of a projectile. A dozen men were on board of her at the time, but all escaped serious injpry. Building Falls Down. The New York building, a. three-story brick structure on West Park street, Butte, Mont., collapsed about 10:30 o’clock the other morning, carrying down sixteen persons, burying some, but killing no one. The lower floor was being remodeled.

INDIANS ARE-STARVINC. Comanchaa, Kiowa* and Apichaa In Indian Terrltary Ara Going Hungry. The Indians upon the Comanche, Kiowa and Apache reservations, in the Indian territory, are suffering from hunger. The issue of rations ceased in June and during July and August they managed in one way or another to maintain an existence, but recently they have been making inroads upon the herds of cattle belonging to white men who have leased the grass land. The cattlemen so far have made little objection, as the Indians have no other resources. In some parts of the reservation the destitution has reached an advanced state and the Indians are forced to rely upon game and what cattle may be stolen and killed for subsistence.

PLASTERERS IN A RIOT. Non-Union Man Fatally Wou ided b/ Btrik•r* in Bt. Loui*. Striking plasterers precipitated a riot at De Hodiamont,- at the western limits of St. Louis, in which William Kane, a non-union worker, was fatally wounded and three others seriously hurt. Mounted police responded to a riot call and were met by a fusillade of bullets from the strikers. The police replied with a number of shots and a charge on the crowds, dispersing them and resulting in the arrest of Nat Brown and Joe Lee, who are thought to be the ringleaders. For some time there has been a strike on among the plasterers of that city and vicinity for higher wages, but until this occasion no serious trouble has resulted. MISTAKE CAUSES DEATH. Wealthy New York Contractor I* Killed by Falling Over a Banister. Elijah Brainerd, a contractor, was found dead in the hallway of 402 West Twenty-third street, New York. His neck was broken, apparently by a fall over the banister. Brainerd lived in the house adjoining the one in which he was killed. No one in No. 402 heard a fall or any unusual noise in the house. Mrs. Brainerd says she saw her husband coming up the street, apparently toward his home, at 2 o’clock, and waited for him, but he never reached there. She believes that he entered the wrong house by mistake, and in his confusion stumbled on the stairs.

COOK POISONED THE FOOD. Oonfetalon Made by Member of Oorean King** Household. It is reported at Seoul, Corea, that a high official of the palace named Ko has made a confession that he ordered the cook of the royal household to poison food intended for the king and crown prince, both of whom became seriously ill. The official further confessed that the poisoning plot was instigated by a former interpreter attached to the Russian legation at Seoul, who was once a court favorite, but is now in disgrace. Young Hus bind Has Gone. Arthur Wolf, who for many years was behind the counter of one of the cigar stands in the Midway at Union station, St. Louis, has turned up missing, leaving a bride of but a few months to mourn his absence. Wolf eloped a few months ago with Miss Pauline Williams, a beautiful girl, but 16 years old. Her father has charge of all the newsboys about the Union station, and at one of the news stands Miss Williams presided. It was in this way that she became acquainted with Wolf, and their acquaintance ripened into love. The elopement followed. It is said, however, that his wife’s ideas were too large for the $lO-a-week salary Wolf was making, and that when she had ordered a sl7 hat and expected him to pay for it that did settle it. Arthur applied to Col. Anderson, passenger agent of the Vandalia, for advice. Col. Anderson, however, refused to counsel him, as he did not want to interfere in the couple’s domestic woes. He told Wolf to go home and make up with his wife, as she was still young and would change in time. It appears, however, that Wolf did not do this, for he boarded a Vandalia train for New York, It is said. The next morning his young wife was about the station ih search of her husband, and when she learned that he had gone she was nearly heartbroken. 8 !v*rwar* Men Combine. The Meriden Britannia Company and the Wilcox Silver Plate Company have issued circulars to their stockholders stating that the International Silver Company has been formed under the laws of New Jersey with a capital stock es $15,000,000 preferred and $15,000,000 common stock. Most of the stockholders, it is said, have agreed to accept SSO in cash, SSO in preferred stock and $25 in common stock of the consolidated companies for each share of stock. The Wilcox company directors have voted to accept $37.50 in cash, $35.50 in preferred stock and $18.75 in common stock for each share of the company’s stock. It is understood that most of the stock has been offered on these terms. The Britannia company will receive $4,400,000 for its plant and the Wilcox company about sl,375,000. In addition to these concerns C. Rogers & Bro. of Meriden will get $500,000 and the Meriden Silver Plate Company and the Manning & Bowman company will also be sold. It is said that Samuel Dodd, secretary of the Wilcox company, will be the president.

Just Missed by a Train. Mrs. A. P. Newkirk and Mrs. A. Gardner of Sedalia, Mo., had a miraculous escape from death. They were riding in a buggy when their horse took fright at a Missouri Pacific freight train. They raced alongside of the locomotive for nearly two blocks and then crossed the track in front of the train. The buggy was overturned In a cattle guard and the ladies thrown to one side of the track and severely injured. The horse was ground to pieces under the wheels of the engine. Cyclone’s Damage on 8L Vincent. St. Vincent, 100 miles west of Barbados, has experienced the most violent and destructive cyclone ever known there. Kingston, the capital, is totally destroyed. It is estimated that 300 lives have been lost in that island, and that 20,000 people are homeless. The amount of property destroyed is enormous. Cont nut Riots at Trieste. The anti-Italian demonstrations at Trieste, Austria, were renewed. An attack upon the Italian Club being feared, a detachment of two hundred policemen was sent to guard the building. The police and soldiery arrested 120 rioters. Many of the latter had arms in their possession. Fralght Oars Ran Wild. An accident occurred at Rockland, Cal., to the overMnd train. Three cars from a freight train broke loose and ran down grade, crashing into the overland, which ■is being pulled up the grade by two ennes. No one was killed, but five persons ere seriously injured. Married to Four Women. William Madden of Fort Scott, Kan., is under bond to answer to the charge of bigamy. He left a wife and went to Missouri, where two women went to the altar with him. He then deserted them and went to Kansas, marrying the fourth. Two M sslons Attacksd. The Shanghai correspondent of the London Daily News says reports have been received there of serious rioting at Ho Ohau, fifty miles from Chung Kiang. The American and French missions have been attacked and the latter burned. South Dakota Sena tor Laid Lew James H. Kyle, United States Senator from South Dakota, was suddenly stricken with apoplexy at the Forest City House, Cleveland, Ohio. His condition is considered serious, though it is believed he will recover. Moat Favorable Builneis Outlock Bradstreet’s commercial report says: “Reports of still further enlarged distribution at most Western markets and of slight improvement at Eastern centers,

demand has been slower to materialize; enlarged foreign demand for breadstuffs; increased railway earnings, not entirely due to the swelling movement of grain to market, which, indeed, is still behind last year’s record; bank clearings increased over last week and over all corresponding weeks except one year ago, when speculation was very active; rather better than expected Government crop reports and enlarging exports of American manufactured are all features tending to make the trade situation at present a notable one. Crop impairment in Angust, not unusual nor unexpected, proves to have been less than feared, and average conditions of leading crops—notably wheat, corn, cotton and potatoes—are better than one year ago. Operative in inducing the improved foreign demand for our wheat and flour, perhaps, has been a tendency to shade early estimates of the world’s wheat crop this year, some figures being as low as 2,500,000,000 bushels, Which, while larger than last year, is still below that of 1894. This, with the low state of the world’s wheat supplies and the slower than expected movement from American farmers’ hands to leading markets, has increased the premium on cash wheat, and nervous short sellers of September delivery have covered, with the result of advancing prices. The continued rise in ocean freight rates is taken to confirm reports of recent large export sales.” LEECH LAKE INDIANS EXCITED. Trouble I* LwCcezl For as a Result of the I es S'J* of Prisoner*. Deputy United States Marshal Morrison arrested Pug Onary Keshing and Shabon Dash King, pillagers, at the Leech Lake Indian agency, and while trying to get them on board a steamer to take them to Walker, Minn., they were rescued by their band. The Indians refused to give up the prisoners and are much excited. They have just been paid their annuities and whisky has been smuggled into the agency. In consequence the Indians are insolent and ready for trouble. Indian Agent Sutherland has held a council with Dr. F. Hart, the resident physician, and has decided to rearrest the men if troops have to be called out to do it. There is prospect of trouble of a serious character. WHEAT FAMINE IN RUSSIA. Drop in the Vo'ga District Is Completely Ruined. John W. Bookwaller of Springfield, 0., writing from Russia, tells in a private letter of the immense destruction of wheat in the famous Volga district, which he says was completely burned out. This district is the finest cereal section of Russia. As it contains from 10,000,000 to 12,000,000 of people, he says it will require the importation of great quantities of grain to make up the deficiency and prevent suffering. A Russian official connected with the railway ministry told him that they expected to have to import into the unfortunate provinces not less than 80,000,000 bushels of wheat this year. Sa Isbury fowl to the Czir. The Pekin correspondent of the London Times says: “Despite Lord Salisbury’s declaration that he would brook no interference from any other power in the NiuChwang railway loan contract, he has now yielded to all the conditions Russia imposed. As a result the negotiations with the English syndicate have been broken off and those with the Russo-Chin-ese bank have been resumed.” Fronch Cab nst Offlcsr Rs*lgn*. As a result of the French cabinet’s decision to appoint a special commission tc review the documents in the Dreyfus case, Minister for War Zurlinden and_ Minister of Public Works Tillaye have resigned. Gen. Chanoine was appointed to succeed the former and Senator Godin was given the place vacated ny the latter. Nsgro Shoots a Woman. Miss Effie McKibbon was probably fatally wounded by a pistol shot from a negrtA while riding home from a negro campjmieeting near Birmingham, Ala., with USeorge Noble. The negro was caugW and lynched. Mew Head for Mormon Church. Atlk special meeting of the council of apostles held in Sult Lake Lorenzo Snow was ffihosen president of the Church of JesudfChrist of Latter Day Saints, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of President Woodruff. j: Dawjcn Hat 16,000 Sou s. F. 6. Wade, crown attorney of the Klondike, estimates the gold output this season at $8,000,000. A recent census shows that there are 16,000 people in Dawson and 10,000 rivers and creeks m the district. Daughter cf Con'edsracy Dies. Miss “Winnie” Davis, daughter of the late Jefferson Davis, died at the Hotel Rockingham, Narragansett Pier, R. 1., from sub-acute gastritis, after an illness of nearly two months. Submits It to V ctoria. The Argentine minister at Paris says that the boundary dispute between Chili and Argentine will be submitted to the arbitration of Queen Victoria. Biack-m th a Murderer a-id B'icite Arthur Hoffman, a Pine Hill, N. Y„ blacksmith, murdered his wife and killed himself. Jealousy is believed to have led to the double tragedy. Shspard io fupemi Ccmiuid. Col. Frank L. Shepard of Chicago was chosen commander-in-chief of the Sons of Veterans at their national encampment in Omaha. Boston ex-Mayjr Deai. F. W. Lincoln, who served seven terms as Mayor of Boston, Mass., is dead at his home in Dorchester. Wifj Murderer Hang'd. At Bracebridge, Ont., William James Hammond was hanged for the murder of his wife. Gov. EHerbi Re-e >ct*d. Gov. Ellerbe has been re-elected in South Carolina by a safe majority.

THE MARKETS.

Chicago— Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 65c to 66c; corn, No. 2, 29 cto 30c; oats, No. 2,20 c to 22c; rye, No. 2,47 cto 48c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 13c to 15c; potatoes, choice, 40c to 50c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 63c to 65c; corn, No. 2 white, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $3.50 to $4.00; sheep, $3.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,69 cto 70c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 28c to 29c; oats, No. 2,21 cto 23c; rye, No. 2,45 cto 46c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,66 cto 68c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 2,45 cto 47c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.25 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,66 cto 67c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 26c; rye, 46c to 47c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 67c to 69c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 30c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 22c; rye, No. 2,46 c to 47c; clover seed, $3.50 to $3.60. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 65c to 66c; corn, No. 3,31 cto 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 1,48 cto 49c; barley, No. 2,42 cto 44c; pork, mess, $8.25 to $8.75. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, common to choice, $3.50 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.50 to $5.00; lambs, common to extra, $5.00 to $6.50. New York—Cattle. $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 74c; corn, No. 2,35 cto 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 29c; butter, creamery, 15c to ?Jc; eggs, Western, 16c to 17c,

POLITICS OF THE DAY

SILVER WILL BE THE ISSUE. Republican newspapers are busy telling what the Democratic party ought to do in 1900. These excellent and entirely disinterested journals are firmly convinced that the free silver issue should be dropped, and William J. Bryan, as a matter of course, dropped also. Many of these sapient newspapers go further than the giving of this sort of good advice and assert that the things they so earnestly desire will actually come to pass and that free silver will die for certain and Bryan retire for good. Among these hopeful journals Is the St. Louis Globe-Demo-crat, wliich says it does not believe silver will be the chief issue in 1900. “Silver will probably be mentioned in the platform of 1900. but It will be in a shuffling and shame-faced sort of a way,which will allow the party’s stump speakers to shout for honest money in the honest-money localities and to howl for silver elsewhere.” Up to date there hasn't been much of this “shuffling” on the part of the Democrats, and the indications are that there will be none of it. In discussing this suggestion the Washington Post, a strong gold advocate, says: “Mr. Bryan and his suporters proposed to bridge the gap between the two metals and make them circulate side by side at the ratio of 16 to 1. We think the GlobeDemocrat will cheerfully admit that it would be a great and good thing for this country, with its immense stake in silver, if that proposition could be carried into effect. And the fact that one man, one newspaper, or one party believes it an absurd, impossible scheme Is not good proof that another man, another new spaper, or another party does

SHAIL THIS BE THE NATIONAL MEMORIAL OF SPANISH WAR?

Chicago Tribune.

not believe it altogether sound, practicable, and, in all respects, desirable.” Viewing the question in that light the Democrats will not abandon the money issue this year nor any other year until It is settled and settled right. Why Bryan Is Silent. Small-minded editors of gold advocating newspapers continue to attack William J. Bryan because of his dignified silence on political questions since he became an officer in the army of the United States. Men of sense know that it would be a breach of military ethics for Colonel Bryan to discuss matters of public interest. His position is that of a soldier, and soldiers are expected to give and to receive orders, and do things and not to talk. It is rather out of character that such a paper as the Baltimore American should join the gang of yelping critics, but it has been guilty of saying: “It seems a little strange, but this country has not heard from William Jennings Bryan for some time now.” Of course, the Baltimore American knows why Bryan has remained Silent. It should respect and commend him for that silence instead of making slurring remarks. The animus of these attacks is fear of the man attacked and a desire to break his influence over the people by any and all kinds of means.

But William Jennings Bryan cannot be injured by such witless, causeless, unjust criticism. He is acting strictly in the line of his duty, and he is winning the respect of honest foes and the admiration of the people by his judicious, manly and soldierly conduct. When William Jennings Bryan leaves the army of the United States and lays aside the uniform which he now wears, this “country will hear from him.” His voice will once more be raised in the cause of the people, and the Baltimore American can rest assured that while its" present jeers cannot make him speak, its future attacks will not be able to make him remain silent.—Chicago Democrat. Free Silver in lowa. Silver sentiment, which has been reposed “dead” by the Republican press, came to life again at the lowa state convention of Democrats, Silver Republicans and Populists. For a “dead issue” the question of free coinage of silver has a peculiarly stubborn habit of coming to life in Democratic state conventions, and the funeral ceremonies so frequently announced by the Republicans are thus postponed from time to time. At Marshalltown, lowa, the free silver corpse was able to “sit up and take notice.” and the fusion convention adopted unanimously’ the following leading plank in the platform: The Democracy of lowa in State convention assembled discern in the Democratic national platform of 1896, which we hereby heartily reaffirm, the best expression of Democratic principles enunciated since Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. The utterances of that platform concerning finance explicitly define our faith on the money question. The free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the ratio of 16 to 1 we hold to be indispensable to the financial, industrial and political independence of our people, and recognizing W’. J. Bryan as pre-eminently the representative and exponent of the platform, we earnestly favor his nomination for President of the United States in 1900. Under the circumstances the Republican* will be forced to admit, before

long that the issue which they are so’ anxious to bury is very much alive, and they may find cause to regret that they hare thrown aside the mask of bimetallism under which they won the contest of 1896.—Chicago Democrat That Treasury Surplus. Under the influence of the war takes and because of the sale of bonds sash continues to flow into the United States treasury. But a few days ago th# cash balance was under the $300,(>00,000 mark. Now' it stands as follow’,: The cash balance has risen to $302(053,576 and the gold reserve to $225,538,076. Here is an increase of $7,566.45b in the cash balance and a nearly corresponding addition of $7,633,592 to the gold reserve in the five business days of September. There is still $35,000,000 to come into the treasury from the bond sale, and Secretary Gage is puzzled to know what to do with it. This accumulation of money is not a good thing for the government. It costs a monthly expenditure of $250,000 in loss of Interest and is a dead loss of $3,000,000 a year. If there were any good coming out of this condition of affairs' criticism would not be in order, but there is not good, and on the other hand there lv positive evil. This congested state of the treasury is an expense to the goy eminent and is also responsible for i great and most injurious contraction <f the currency. McKinley’s Narrowness i President McKinley has shown greit anxiety to have the Democrats represented on the peace commission.” I/ut in appointing Justice White the Pnsi-

dent ignored 6,500,000 real Democrats and gave the place to a man who represented 137,000 gold advocates who voted for Palmer and Buckner and thus helped elect McKinley. Now that Justice White has declined to serve, McKinley has hunted up another “Democrat”—Senator Gray—and as Gray hys accepted, the commission is made up of four sialwart administration mon and one assistant Republican, True Democrats will refuse to accept the President’s action as any sort of recognition. The 6,500,000 men who voted for William J. Bryan and who subsequently voted, through their representatives, for the declaration of war, the $50,000,000 appropriation given McKinley, the $200,000,000 worth of bonds, and every other measure to carry on the war, have been ignored by the President and denied a representation on the peace commission. In nothing more than in this appointment has McKinley shown his narrow, prejudiced, partisan spirit. He could not have won a victory over Spain without Democratic soldiers, sailors and votes, and yet he refuses to recognize the existence of the Democratic party.

5 Carrying Out the Policy. Judge Grosscup, of Chicago, with all his top-loftlcal flights of oratory, was consistent in his demand that after swallowing the Philippines our next movement should Ire in the direction of China and secure a slice of that territory. This is but the legitimate outcome of the spread-eagle policy; there is no end to it. In order to round our possessions in the archipelago we must have a part of China; in the language of the grasping .old farmer: “We want everything that jines us!”—Ottumwa, lowa, Democrat. \ h irge that Will Not • tick, Mark Hanna says the surgeons and <h p in- who tell stories of camp horrors re talk ng for political effect. We’, tny are nearly all talking, and they a 1 talk alike. Is it possible that all he su:g ons and chaplains in the volui teer ;,rmy are part san Denaoc ats. Why d d ’he Presdant go to the oth r party for men to fill these posts? DI n’t he give the Republican doctors and pre. chers any show at all?—Ht. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Swelling lhe Pension Roll. The names on the pension roll are now’ over the million mark, the exact number of pensioners being 1,040,356, and the list will keep on growing Irrespective of the war just ended. How many names the latter will add to the roll cannot now be estimated, but the number will be at least 50 per cent larg-

WHAT PUT ALGER IN CABINET AND WHAT KEEPS HIM THERE

er than M/hould be. Spanish bullet* have BadU comparatively few pensioners; Spariah fevers will make more, but Imedcan mismanagement most of all.-Philtdelphia Record. Where Alger and McKinley Differ. /“I care no more for what the newspapers s.ry ab:ut me than I do for the breezes which blow through the I branches of the trees outside,” Is SecI Alger’s reply to the evidence of

liii incompetency published in the daily pn-s of the country. President McKktey is not “built that way.” As beween the press and Alger, there is noitelling what the President will do, becoming events will show the.Presidi regards the press as of more impedance to this future than his war sedetary.—Pittsburg Post. Thievery Among the Cause*. Bip captains and transportation agnts are not fools, the sons of somebodies are of average intelligence as a rue, and the national guard officer is ut aEy successful in business. It is reasonable to think that what these mffl do not know they should learn in tine, and in a short time at that. Any thiughtful observer of current events is >ound to conclude that plain, ordinary theft is playing no small part in tfe d i y record of army horrors.—-New sferk Tines. Making Use of the Soldier. / Having run the gantlet of Mauser gullets, yellow and typhoid fevers, exposure and overwork, the (returning soldier is now to furnish food for the tinhorn politicians who stayed in their holes w’hile the soldiers were suffering most, and are now making political capital out of sudden friendship for the sufferers.—St. Louis Republic. What Tanner's Opposition Means. Governor Tanner of Illinois is opposed to the “peace carnival” projected for Chicago this fall. As most of the people of Illinois are opposed to Tanner, his opposition doesn’t amount to much, beyond indicating that the peace carnival will be popular.—Sioux City Tribune.

Political Notes. Wheat is 63 cents. It has fallen more than a dollar during the present administration.—Salt Lake Herald. There ought to be a free coinage club in every school precinct in the country valley. Organize one in your precinct at once. Democrats who wish to “pair” with Hanna in his war policies will have to get into Hanna’s party to do it. This is reliable. Let Farmer Hobson get on his heaviest sixteen-to-one cowhide boots. There are a number of rascally false pretenders in politics who will have to be kicked out shortly. The army contractors rob the treasury in a scandalous way, but the robbery of locking millions of gold in the treasury while selling bonds to get more gold is still more scandalous. The Spanish war being over, the country will proceed to declare war on the Hanna campaign—contributing thieves who did our army more damage in the rear than the Spaniards did in the front. The war is over, but President McKinley is still holding $200,000,000 in gold in the treasury and the distribution of bonds goes on. Whatever puts up the price of gold puts down the price of wheat. Hon. Champ Clark is talking as if he meant something. Let him keep that up and be will be great. The country is suffering for men who mean something and are not too cowardly to say what they mean. The $200,000,000 in gold held cornered in the treasury would have paid all the expenses of the war without bonds or war taxes. But we have both bonds and war taxes to prevent this hoarded gold from circulating.

Alger and the War Office. Alger is an unanswerable argument for peace.—Memphis Commercial Appeal. The navy has remembered the Maine and the army will not forget Alger.— Pittsburg Post. True, Alger was made by his lumber interes's, but why speak of a wooden head to the war department?—Philadelphia. Times. Alger msy not have been in the push In the early months of 1865, but he is making up for it in the summer days of ’93.—A’•'anta Cons titution. Altho gh Mr. Sherman is an old man the vigor wl h which he is pursuing Al e’s trail hag given that gentleman a nervous attack.—Pittsburg Post. Ofiicals who are expecting the war depar ,ment will be whitewashed are fearfil that John Sherman may secure the li re contract. —Pittsburg Post. If General Miles has any political ambitio »this is h s time to exploit them. Sec.etaiy Alger will give him invaluable tiSj-lstince.—Philadelphia Ledger. Seciptary Alger thinks there is no need of an investigation. It is true that public sentiment is pretty well made up, but we should give the secretary a clrancje.—St Paul Dispatch. Can anybody explain the curious coineldi u e that camps that are plague spots lor soldieis always happen to be g Id mines for certain transportation comp irles?—New York Journal. Secretary Alger thinks so well of the water at Montauk Point that we may expect some enterprising Michigan firm of 1 ott e s will at once proceed to put it on the market.—Cleveland Plain Deal r. A good many of the men of the Eighth Ohio—‘the regiment known as “the President’s Own’’—are likely to vote for somebody else, if they feel as they feel now when 1900 comes.—Boston Glob’. The French colonel, Henri, who committed suicide because of the discovery that he forged the Dreyfus letter, furi'i-hes a hint to the incompetent medical officers of the American army. —Atlanta Constitution. Secretary Alger is not wise to threaten newspapers which publish the facts about him and his department work wth legal proceedings. His record 1* not the k nd to show up well in court —St. Lovis Post-Dispatch.

CAVALRY IN FUTURE WARS.

The Dashing Honeman Will Not Be Dispensed With. It has been said that the days of dashing cavalrymen will soon be over, and that the art of riding will become as purely a pastime as the art of sailing is destined to become by reason of the introduction of steam. This opinion is combated very vigorously by Major Kunz in his “Kriegs-Geschechtliche Beitrage.” He believes that the uses of cavalry have been changed, but that its existence is not yet endangered. On the other hand, he points out that mere mounted men, as against highly trained riders under the very best leaders, are absolutely useless to-day. Commenting upon the many brilliant though unfortunate cavalry attacks executed by the French in 1870, he says: “1. A frontal attack of cavalry against victorious infantry can only be justified when the aim is to save time for the purpose of saving the beaten army. The success of such an attack is practically impossible. “2. Momentary success of an attack against the flank of victorious infantry is possible. But even such an attack must end in the destruction of the force which undertakes it.

“3. If the enemy’s infantry is beaten, cavalry may be used to advantage. But it must be faultless cavalry, led by faultless, courageous riders, men who are also perfect in their knowledge of the history and psychology of war. In such a case no thought must be given to a few hundred horses foundering on the field. The enemy’s infantry must not be given time to assemble. The cavalry must endeavor to head off the fugitives, for the most disheartened of them will lead the stampede. In the rear of a flying army are always the gravest. It matters little whether the enemy loses much in killed and wounded. The question is not how to kill men, but how to discourage them, to rob them of their leaders, to destroy their organization. “An infantry which has suffered many losses, but has advanced victoriously and still has sufficient ammunition, may laugh at a cavalry attack. An infantry that has been beaten, and whose officers are killed, and which has lost courage in consequence, is a ready prey for enterprising cavalry. It will be said that in such a case the cavalry of the beaten army must sacrifice itself for the infantry. Quite true. The task of the attacking cavalry will then be to overthrow the horsemen of the vanquished army. If this succeeds, the stampeded horsemen will only assist in increasing the confusion of the flying Infantry. “At any rate, a few hundred men and horses dying of sheer exhaustion in the pursuit of a beaten enemy will save the trouble of another bloody battle. To train cavalry for such work is the purpose of extensive maneuvers.”—Literary Digest.

The Bulldog a Good Dog.

No member of the canine family has been more persistently mal’gned than the bulldog. Writers who have no intimate knowledge of the dog and his attributes have described him as stupidly ferocious, and illustrators have pictured him as a sort of semi-wild beast, till the general public has come to look upon him as dangerous. “Give a dog a bad name,” is an old saw, and perhaps a true one, but when it is applied to the bulldog it is manifestly unjust. Writers, too, have fallen into grave error in claiming that the bulldog is deficient not only in affection but in Intelligence. No greater proof of the falsity of the latter could be given than was witnessed at the late Westminster Kennel Club’s dog show, when Col. Shults exhibited his trained dogs, with the bulldog Nick performing all sorts of wonderful feats, especially that of walking a tight rope, and when in the center of it, turning around and retracing his tfteps amid the applause of an admiring audience. Stonehenge, who is considered one of the greatest of canine scientists, claims that the bulldog’s brain is relatively larger than that of the spaniel, which dog is generally considered to be the most intelligent of the canine race, while the bulldog’s affection is never to be doubted.—Outing.

The Storehouse of the Mind.

Things near us are seen of the size of life, things at a distance are diminished to the size of the understanding. We measure the universe by ourseves, and even comprehend the texture of our own being only piecemeal. In this way, however, we remember an infinity of things and places. The mind is like a mechanical instrument that plays a great variety of tunes, but it must play them in succession. One idea recalls another, but it at the same time excludes all others. In trying to renew old recollections, we cannot, as it were, unfold the whole web of our existence; we must pick out the single threads. So in coming to a place where we have formerly lived, and with which we have Intimate associations, every one must have found that the feeling grows more vivid the nearer we approach the spot, from the mere anticipation of the actual impression; we remember circumstances, feelings, persons, faces, names that we had not thought of for years; but for the time all the rest of the world is forgotten.—William Hazlett

After the Proposal.

For several minutes the young man did not speak. His heart was too full. It was enough for him to know that this glorious creature loved him; that she had promised to share his fate. With a new and delighted sense of ownership he feasted his eyes once more upon her beauty, and as he realized that henceforth It would be his privilege to provide for her welfare and happiness, he could have almost wept with joy. His good fortune seemed incredible. Finally he whispered, tenderly: “How did it ever happen, darling, that such a bright, shining angel as yourself fell In love with a dull, stupid fellow like me?” “Goodness knows!” she murmured, absently; “I must have a screw loose somewhere.”—Tit-Bits. • -<ag-

The Way Grandma Calculated It.

The distance to Alaska and the length of time it takes to go there and return, was emphasized recently when a proud grandma of a month-old baby started for Alaska to make the acquaintance of her little grandson. He, with his mamma, was to return to the civilized world with the grandparen/t, so she, among the store® she carried, took with her two or three little suits of boy’s clothe®, trousers which the baby of a month will have to grow up to by the time the visit has been made and the party is ready to start homeward.— New York Times.

Siberian Soil Frozen.

The soil of Siberia, at the close of summer, is found, still frozen for fiftysix inches beneath the surface, and the dead who have, lain in their coffins for over a century have been taken up uuthanged In the least.

SAVED BY TWO DREAMS

Castaway's Two Shipmates Dreamed of Him and Went to His Rescue. The life of Arthue Frazier, one of the crew of the Eliza S. Foster, the fisherman just In from the Grand Banks, was saved by a dream, says a Bucksport (Me.) dispatch in the Boston Journal. One day when he was out In a dory there was a strong northwest wind and a heavy fog shut down and hid the ship from view. He was making for the vessel with a heavy load of fish, when a heavy sea boarded his dory, carrying away one of his oars and nearly making his boat unseaworthy. This left him in a helpless condition, and he was at the mercy of the wind and waves. He yelled at the top of his voice. The mem on board heard his cries, but could not see him or understand what he said. They could hear him as his voice grew weaker and fainter till nothing could be heard but the .mournful wind whistling through the rigging; then his voice died away. He did not return that night, and the wind blew almost a gale.

In the morning the wind was strong and the fog hung low. No sign of Frazier could be seen. There was a large fleet of vessels from different parts of the world—France, Portugal, Ireland and America—and when Frazier failed to return members of his crew went among the near-by ones and reported a man lost. Not one had heard of him. At about noon the sun came out and pushed the clouds of fog away, but the wind held to the same point. The Foster hoisted the flag to halfmast to give notice to the fleet of a missing man. The custom is in such cases that should the man be on any other of the fleet an answer of flag at half-mast is given. No answer came all the afternoon, the flag still held that position, and the wind kept up almost a gale. That night passed; no Frazier appeared, and during the night the wind shifted two points to south’ard. Next morning it was back to northwest again. Frazier was given up as lost. It was supposed that the dory was capsized when his calls were heard, so the men resumed work with a feeling of sorrow, for Frazier was the life of the crew, and kept them in constant laughter; At about 4 o’clock in the afternoon, as the cook was scanning the horizon with a glass, he noticed a black speck in the ocean. He told the captain and crew, and asked them to look. They did so. One man said it was a whale, another thought it was a ship, and so on. The cook and John White, who were the close friends of Frazier, believed it must be he, and proposed to lower a boat and go to meet him. Both men had an odd dream the night before. The, cook dreamed that Frazier had lost an oar and that the wind had borne him away, and he said he was called out of a sound sleep by Frazier, who said: “Don’t give me up. I’m beating back.” White said his dream was that Frazier had broken his right arm and could use only one oar; that he was alive and hungry in midocean. Both men, on comparing notes, found that they were awakened on the same instant by Frazier calling them and telling them: “For heaven’s sake, take a dory and come to leeward.” When they saw this speck on the ocean, they lowered a dory, in spite of the jeers of some others of the crew, and put off. They rowed in the direction of the dot, and soon were out of sight themselves, for a heavy fog had shut from view the ship, but not the little tattered sail ahead. At 6 o’clock they reached a boat that was beating against the wind, aud, sure enough, It was Frazier. He was in the stern, using the oar as a tiller. It was just as they head dreamed, he had but one oar agd his arm was disabled from a bldw received in fitting the main boom. He was in a frightful condition. He didn’t appear to notice the boat until they were within a few hundred yards of him; then White yelled to Frazier and the latter fainted away with joy. His boat began drifting and the other oar went over the rail. It was quite a race, but the rescuers soon overtook the dory and took the man to their own boat, and letting the dory go to sea they made for the ship. That night there was intense excitement aboard ship. There were three men missing how. Fog horns were blown and bells rung until a late hour, and then, as if the last hope for their return had been given up, the noise all died away. The trio in the boat, who had neared the ship, now could not make themselves heard against the wind. All night long did they beat their way against the wind, their only hope being to hold the same position till daybreak. As the day dawned they were surprised to find that the fog had lifted, that they had passed the ship, and that they were about three miles to windward, but the fleet was in sight. There was no difficulty in getting back to ship, where they were taken aboard. Frazier was nearly exhausted for want of food and water. Old sailors say that not one man in 10,000 would have had presence of mind enough to beat against the wind in such a ease with no compass aboard.

Words that Trouble the Tongue.

Drlmtaldhvickhllllchattan is the name of a small hainlet in the Isle of Mull containing not more than a dozen Inhabitants. How they pronounce It is a mystery only to be solved by some one acquainted with the Gaelic, but the fact that the Scots are a nation of few words seems easy to explain, If they have many such words as the above in the language. A sample of Welsh nomenclature Is Mynyddywlln, whfi h Is the name of a parish close to Cardiff, while another of the same kind is LlanfairpwllgwnglL Perhaps, however, the Germans may be fairly said to carry off the palm In word coining. How is this for a specimen— Constantinopelischerdudelelsackpfelfer? or this one, Jungfrauenzimmerdurchschwindersuchtoedungs ? The first means a Constantinopolltan bag-pipe player, and the last is the name of a young ladles’ club which adorns the brass plate of the door of a house in Cologne to this day. Rabelais gives the following name to a particular book which was supposed to be In ths library of Pantagruel’s medical student friend erlcatametanaparbeugedanptecrlbratlones Toordicantium,” while Anantachaturdaslvratakatha is an actual Sanscrit word to be found in any Sanscrit dictionary, and the word Cluninstarldysarchedes occurs in the works of Platus, the Latin comedy writer.—Harper’s Round Table.

Boarders.

“Mrs. Corbett, I hear, Is taking In paying guests.” “Yes. But, unfortunately, they don’t pay.”—J udy. A woman’s failure to Interest a man often causes her to hate him. Even a good *•< J* appreciated. ’