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. i, ih place th. ri thw Spaniard and clutched his full cunt' - n r .'agl lan k o'ir ti.'- I liuly v. hUa death drummed loud In at a, - ,1 the draught he would ffiln quaffed to the llpü of the voluni rii '1 ht : "don't think of me, for

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w;iy up the other i ill , where they beLeld a rlit thai at lirst mailt- thrtu imis.i in their choleosl atlc, Wut hii .'i ttt HtMai glance appeared M ridtetdom that it MUld I htBl laofll UM clc .ri ii if mwn lour i i .it u baan two oM Ones .mil tH'ti lialf-riiNN ii culi- ami ttoM bjf wa tin- mure titan hstl tmj ty honey : The old male bear artafliv inj,' into Hie lionty with liuth paw, jiuilinjf mit graal kuaka of the cmi ami aruaahtng it between aii j.i, tlM wbJm aiaking mndrj gruntn of extreme Mtlslattloa ami frlnnlag with Badiafruiaed pleiure, lim tb eubt poor Utile feliowa UmJI IiuM "done tM" u id aad t nten too iiiik ii of the bona ami both were in Hie tin oes of a lien-e case ' i itonacli aciie. 'i'lie oabn vrara rolling ab ml on the ground, tin ;r ga draw i, together and squealing liki

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mother bear was rndenvorli g to m oh her ei'spiMijj-. i'irst tha one and the j the Othef she would take and i üb rtlb w lu re I la Bain MH tin d lici cesi ami i ub as though the Ktoniacbf of the poof little hears would Mir l we. r through Then QMMtlonally Bttc'd loan her pnUenoe with the gluttonoui llHIe beari and tin araj ahnd eÄ thaw looked ah though ibfl Dlighl bava learned it from pecking Into a tiintuiuga towBahlp aohoolrouni - .nu- day when the achoolnta'aBi wasn't In good humor ami when she araa taking her n Lte uiii uii Mime block-head youitg iter. This cuffing, however, wai not much of a eure fur hear htt.inach ache, so while her lord and Dtaater ravenoualj w adeil into t he con tents of Hie tub Ml Hear continued to ruh the itotnacha of her youngatera like aa if thaj had cuke or had in en eating green applea, Chamberlain and Kunta conceived the idea of capturing the cubs. They reckoned that the little oi.is were too sick to he able to run, and they calculated that the old beans w.-.v.ld sk -daddle a suon as the -..ih tht ni. Hut they reckoned arriong. The beara were tint to be frightened. The nun irera without weajiona, sae for pocket knives. They suddenly leaped from their hiding place into the clearing, not mere than ten yard I from thf bears. And just as auddeiily did uld Mr. Bruia leave off eating honey ml

, prepare for deft nsr. The men circlet' about the quartet of beara. The latter huddled together, the sick cubswhi'lil g mi pitifully that even old man ( haiiiberlaln'i heart softened, lie would I have retreated had not yusl then the old male bear made up h; ntlnd to flifht. He made for tin- men on a

I The Monetary Problem.

TAXES AND DEFICIT.

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nutdern methoda. Chamberlain i tirm f that black betirs hold cot -x 01 . for one day in the latter par; ; .- uinnwr. while on a bee tree I -aw w hat he thinks was a ht ar j i-w..w His attention was attracted L a i, ,n r ( hopping or chat trrir.k noise, - raed v Ith a series of low. quick

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IJ or gathering of black otars in hade of a ledge of rocks. Then i ! bears, and all full crown,

i .lUibcrlain had nn excellent ehar.ee fr observation from the top of the eiiffi which nerhut:g the meeting j tea. He says the bears were lying : ,ut in a ery lav fashion, except that MS, which seemed to In" the buss, sa o:. his "hunkers" in the tenier of tlf r oup. This bear was t rv tlemor.stnitie in his inovements, and it was he t. 1 w a making most of the chat tc ring r An occasional grunt or aauea!

ir . the otlit rs seemed to indicate apor disapproval, aa the caae might

rhatnbt-rlain watched the queer r ing for n half hour or nit re. I up slid, '.i nly after eery bear in Wd had shambled Bp backward tt a straight hemlock tree ant!

d his height with a scratch on the hark, Then, when each had taken Iii :. . they wet ! grin. ting awa) in difft ri i t direct ion. ' something that happended to Chi : berlain tbovl two sreeka ago is a d BJ him as positive proof tha; " is nowadays are much sharper ri ihoaeaf M or So yearn ago. Cham-

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' ' ' - In c tret s. for he ht lieves in givla (he been all the time poesible to fill r " b Then. too. if the honey is takt i after cold weather the stuff is not s " nor the beea aa hard to smother. ir v part of November he and a elper named) Kuntz carried tubs and hi:,'ki to a place nearest to all the tri n :,, gather the crop of honey. The tree chopped yielded aplendld Ml ' finest honey that Chamhc rials i r saw. It had evidently hren gathProm buckwheat and w hite clover. J -atelv. too. when the tree fell, it wiped" another tree and landed r' ' groaad ojnlte gently, disturbing he comb little. The men got over I 1 oil of honey Ottl of th" tree They r II to what ihejf considered I ice, under ahelvlag rock, while ,! went a mile or two further on to r fither bee tree. 1 fortunately for Chamberlain und 1 -l of horn y. it wus the next day ' l' (Jot back to where he hud hidhe tub) u SUddea storm havii g ' ed him and his partner to beat Metreni far hami. Meat mornina thev

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The men endeavored to make a detour t ' i get down :n to t he nn ine again, when Suddenly the she bear broke away and ti ok after Kunta full tilt. Kunta - : ped and went apralwiag who tha tub of honey , merging 1 herefrom With tin- sticky stuff all over his lace and Bai da ami it dripping from his long, unkempt lock-. Hut it was no time

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PIBRCE CASE t'K STi'MACH A HE. for ceremony, for Mrs. Brain was close second. Kunta, half blinded by the honey, rushed Into the tUt Ket. the old bear fortunately followed no further than the edge of the cleir i g. Chamberlain succeeded la getting away without aalahap, but the tuen did not venture back for the remainder ni their honey for some ftiine. t. n they tlid go back there was preciou - little of t left, fi r between the ravenous bears and clumsy Kuntz the honey hutl fart"! badly. How the bears succeeded in carrying the tubful of honey from the rock ledge to the oppi "ite side of the ravine is a pttzlc to ( h iinberlain, but that they did t he job and tl id it well was ahowa by lha fact that the tub vas moved ami the trail along wlr.eli tluy had enrried it showed that little had spilled and even this wus probably pulled out by the greedy cubs as their parents tugged along w ith their burden. This honey ex perlenes and the bear comcnt ion which Ch.inibi rlaiu sau I :i -1 summer have convinced him thai Pint Creek bears arc tou smart for him. N. Y. Situ. t in- aaara w i re ntsnstaaT A Parialan swell had a crayon picture of himself made, which In n-fu-cd to accept whan Bnlahad. "it doennat bent tha attghteal resemblance tome," said he, "and I Will not take it." Tha artist protested, but ali to no avail. A few days later the painter added to the portrait of the dandy magnlheeat pair of deakey'n enre aad axhibited it in the Window, thus altered, to the gnat of the curious public. It hadn't bei n long exposed when tin !:.ndy entered the artist':, studio in a towering rage, but. Hading that threata amounted to nothing, he nt last offered to buy it, even at a considerable advance upon t he original price. After he got the ir.onci in his pocket the artist suid, suavely: "It wasn't strange you didn't recognize your resemblance to the picture nt lirst. but 1 knew you would notice the likeness as soon as I added those ears."- -Golden Iav s.

A Pumitl of lH. On i pound nf Indian tea will make 170 strous cuss of tea.

iov. Tyler, of Virginia aha was in wnahlagton the otlu r day, was asked by u reprcaentative of tha i'ost to five

' !ns views on the political prtispt ct. His reply wa. thai so far us the democratic party is coiict rnt d, the outlook ia : most hopeful. The recent war only temporarily obscured the nul i.--ues before the people. In the very nature nf thingi the Rnneeial quaatioa cannot be kept dovv B mi long as producers and pro pert ow nera Bnd thenaaelvea bnndi capped bj u lmormuJly low values. Gov. Tyler says he Baked OUf of the lid. .-t men in Yaahington as to the status of hi- property. The reply of the gentleman wa.- Ihnl if he desired to dlspOB of it it would in- Impoaatble to raaliat lo per cent, of its, real value. Now, if this state of tilings exi ted only in Washington city, ii could be explained by some fact special and not tn neral, but aa the eapt rieoce of the Washington property owner is com' mon to pro,' t rty owners everywhere in Ihe country outside of the great financial ct ntera, it can be explain d onlj Ihe result of some general and Irresistible Intim t:(. Two years ago, prop

erty owners hail hardly begun to pay tin ir tribute to the gold stand :rd. The prices of agricultural and Indue triul products had falien. hut real estate seemed to be holding ita own, if. eonaequenoc, some of tha largest owners of rial estate, if not nil, sympathised with the "sound money arguments made in behalf of the gold Ma ndard. In Atlanta, two or three of the largest owners tif n a! estate, nntl gentle men of unquestioned ability, made tht in-elve., conspicuous us the ehAtttpiona of the gold standard. Thaeffecta tf thai standard bnd ool at thai time Ijeen aerioualy felt on their property, Vt'e tin not know whether their viewa have bun changed or even modified, bat we do knou thai the value of th ii property hna been more than modifh !. It has. been seriously reduced. As it: Washington city, so in Atlanta and na in Atlanta ha evtryotJwrr town and city, especially In towns remote from the financial centers. The situation then is a very rial one. A gentleman ef our acquaintance had IWMMM) three yeari ago which in did not r.ccd in his regular business. Half of tl.ij he tlepositetl in Hank and the other hnlf he Invested in real estate, which, audi r ordinary ei rcumatanees, bade fair to double in value. To-day he can ti ke ! his 110,1 0 from the hank, if lie hasn't 'pent it in taxi -.and buy thvt titm-s much real estate as he bought with the aatae sum n few years ago. He can probably realize $.1.000 on the investment be nande when he divided hia ISO,ooo, Now, in making this illustration, we have intentionally placed the figures fivcu far within the facts. Any property owner who la willing to talk about ' his affairs can glee more powt rful and I summary instances of the awful ahrink i r-ge that has taken place under what one of them recently nailed "the i hanged financial Bit nation." Though o r Illustration has not been made aItTOng ns- it actually is in fact, it con- ; titutes a real tibject h ssnn. Any proptrty owner, as w. say, can give a more : rlgnal instance of dcpfesaion r.r.d. epn Mtpiently, it is folly to say that the financial question has found a scttleI meat. Do the property owners in cities and town, propose to sit down ami fold their handa over the lose of more than I half of their investments, nntl calmly aactibe ti to "lhe changed financial con dit ions?" Or will they join with others WhOM interests have been i acrilic d. and endeavor to remedy the matter by rev - ralng the financial condltiona? It they propose to sit down with folded hands und submit to the loss of half their property , or. Micaw bcr-like. wait for aomethlng to turn np. t course there is nothing more to lie said, so far I as they are concerned - save this, that Mr. Micaw her won no renown us a suc- . ii sfnl business mnn. In any event, there will be ti.any property ownera who win noi real mtietly Bnder the conditions wliich have brought about this spoliation of their investments, ami we may expect that they will Join hands with otlu r sul'd r- , rrs In an fT ort to restore their propI i-ty to 111 normal value. We shall find iimrmg them many sincere antl cm r ' gtj tic recruits to the doctrine of bimrt- , tdlism. Mennwhile, the goltl party continues . to litt theair with promises and pledg s while tha prOCCaa they favor is enrichin" the few at the expense of the many. They have hitherto shirked all opportunities to fulfill their promises nntl plet'ges. hut now they h.m eh-ar majorities la both nousen ol congress, r.ntl nn exceedingly sympathetic man in the while hoti'-e. Tin v must row either Ibt their celebrated reform egg or ret off t he Bent. I bate are, no doubt, many property owners who believe that tbssOTt of currenov reform which the croli! party fa vors will give them relief. wiM restore ' pro-pi r;iv ! A tt leh the Value of their real estate 10 Ita normal. We cannot i blame them for tntertnlning such a hop": but ve nn- unable to see the ! ground of it. v' hare boon hearing a rrcat deal of 1 a 1 is front the goltl party of one BOli it d nn.othrr; for I lontr time din predictions. nnl now n great I mIiiu I ,.lr,l,c

hihi un in j -, . , , r. - HOW the OWtll r- of r"rtl eatntd feel nhout It. we do not knoW. but the constitution hns nn Invincible dlatrust of tha pony which hns dOttroyed more

than half the vulue of the propertr of tin- eouatry to curry out Ihe sclfl U ends of u fi w poaarfol Intaveata, Mcanwhi'o the conditions ure such as to make the linanciul ipu stion more important than ever. Atlanta Constitution. KEEPING UP THE PRICE, aaseemtat Mnimaio Blsol Kniin nt W-o n Inn or Unr l.oldItm laonMBlBtaaor i

An agrssmeat, it anas unfirstood in Wail Mtt it tii-Juy, has virtually been reached stnonc tin aianufactiin rs of steel rails vvli'-ihy tin jirlci- of stiil rails nhail In; n. In t muted at N a ion or more. The ur emi nt has still to be ratlfli il at s meetii. : to be held aeai week. Waatslagtea Tiim' b .t the Oniahu monetary convention the goltl men insist! d that falling price were a great advantag an evidence of advancing civilization. It is, entirely safe to ny ,,,;,t almost without exeep tipn the memhera of the combine ret erred tn In the above excerpt are ra riferoua ihoutera for the gold atand aid. Probably nil of them are. Bat it i.- obv loUB, ri marks the National Bimet nllist. that In their liusint ssafTairs they t.t) not agree with tha eminent gentle men who so ably pleaded the cause of gold nt that convocation, Then is not B bueinei man in the world who looks with favor upon a fall in tha price of the thing that he has for sa'e. There is not a trade journal any where that d es not regard a fall in the price of a particular staple as a bad thing for that line of business, and a general full in prices as o bad thing for ail business. Notwithstanding this fact, it is morally certain that if the members of that steel rail combine had been nt the Omaha convention they would huve applauded to the echo tin- utterances ia favor of the gold standard, baaed uwm the benef.;. which are assiiitu d to result from falling prices. How singular it Is that whenever the monetary question Is the direct aabjeat under consideration the advocates of the gold Standard vvlll fly right ictolhe teeth ol the plainest husi ness pri t.eiples as well ai of good common si list '. '1 In y seem to be Utterly blind to ev ry thing hut the glare and glitter of the gold They It.se .-ight of the fact that money, whether it be made of gold or What, is merely an agency to do business with, and. that the condition of business under the gold ktandard Is the true test of its merits. Instead of acting upon this obvious truth, they start out with the assumption that the gold standard is all right "It must he nil right, hecause well, because it is gold." If business is not prospering under it that is the fault of the busiat an, not of th..gold standard. The cold t ruth is Hint in thi bright and shining era of "prosperity" (?) no business is doing well unless it is in the nature of a monopoly : unless it is in the hands t.f a trust or combine which can limit the output or destroy opposition, and thus keep the price from falling below the eo cf production. Hut it is only the great business establishments and transportation companies that can do this. The farmers and p'anters are helpless and can onlylook for relief toerop failures and famines in other countries. Therefore, according to gold standard philosophy, the farmers must he the true friends RI d promoters of civilization, while tk I "big" business men who are shouting themselves boarne on behalf of the gold standard are clos up m th wheelst.f progress, through their desperate and concert ed efforts t keep prices from falling. A CHANGE IJELDLD. Must Iks CsmatSS Mrlft In VnotliiT runic ui tin- Pcesenl i stände urrrm i BrstSSSt

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A dlatinguiahed western senator of the republican party i 'piottd us saying that the recent elections about settled the tslv. r and cutrency question, that f ree siiv er is dead, farmer: s receive good prices for products, labor is employed, antl populism Is gasping in the throes of dissolution. Af ranstng, for the take of argument, that the .'ood prices for agricultural producta have been the chief cau-e of the present ptonuafious ooaditloM nasi the senator's satisfactory state of mi ad, what orilt re the condition If tha prices of iraln fall tgdfn, our exports and our consequent imports of gold diminish, ai tl we aaraln !: compelled to

export gold to the detriment of our eurreney syateaf The ii winch threatened us from 1009 to 1000 is with, us still -viz.. the un-table currency system. As n very able editcr haa aaldi "Tin rOCh I ar- still tlurc and jn-tos dangcront to the ship of stale; we are now on the high tide, and when ii goes t ut again wc will be in the same dangerous position which so nearly wrecked us n few years age." It i -1 he old story of the A rkansns traveler over again i When it rnlaa thereof can't be repaired, and when the tun ihlncagl is not necesaary. But who will trnp fiy have tamed the blame if the ftont mic dangers n r. in threaten and we arc not pr pared? ta if not the Mary Taplej politician who loolca only to the business of the flay which is w ith as 9 Certainly it la not itati tman sh'p. whatever rtnn it may btnntledi 1 publican policy, if the remarks of some of ti e leaders nre to be seriously regarded as nn indication Ihereftf, . to let th ship t'rii'l with the tide, instead t.f t. crlng it Into a safe burlaw-. After boring rfpentedly acknowledged the danger In our preaeat gyatem of enrpi i y . tin y decline to ri move that dancer fur feSr of losing office. The conntry's ultimate welfare apparently i ottnts frr ifttlt in their calculations Moner

The ntttion plunges voluntarily snd egerly into new financial 1. ahlit.es of unknown extent while laboring under a long-continued and Increusiug revenue deficit. We must go back to the fUcal rear 193 to lind the beginning's of Ileal situation which is without parallel tn the history of the country. The fol h wing table shows the extent of tbc di licit or excess of ordinary expenditures over ordinary receipt, since and lechsdiag that year: Average To'sl .Monthly Deficit. I . tlclt. s?ri f 1.7M.504 I H7.2M K-4 72,S:'j.4 "-.' -.'.' I

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Thus from July 1, is'-'-', to December 1 oi this year, the federal government ha expended over 0004.000000 more than it bus colifctel from taxation, and its present state in thia respect is far vvors.' U'an the first. War aril largely explain the huge deficit of the fiscal year, 1S98; but the still larger deficit now being p:led up, and amounting to above $S3,UOO.ojO for Ihe live months since June 30 last, has beeu contracted after ntw sources of revenue have beeu tapped to an estimated extent cf from $125.cOü.oO0 to $175,000,000 a year, and under condi'ions as to army and navy expenses which now promise to become permanent and which this administration is striving to make permanent. Since hostilities with Spain were suspended end half the volunteer army was disbanded in d the navy was practically put upon a peuce looting, tha monthly deficit ba averaged over $10.000,000. it is nowlikely to rcmoiu indefinitely at nearly that figure under present condition of numtioa and projected policies of imperial domain. Two great revenue measures have been enacted within 18 months for the purpotq of placing the government on s revenue-pay lag boaia,and the government is as far from that position now as it ever has been in the six year of deficit. It is living on borrowed money to as great or a greater extent thai, ttcr. The actual ordinary expenditures Of the government in th? lisal year IsOT tmounted to five dollars per capita tax of estimated population. Tbc ordinär, expenditures now prevailing are at the rate of nine dollars per capita of estimated population. The actual tax revenues co'.lestfti from the people in 15)97 amounted toaboul $4. SO per c ipita. The actual revenues which must be collected from the people under th projected policies of the McKinley administiation will amount to nine dollars per capita yearly. We have been and are MTW paying OUT way partly on borrowed money. Hut this cannot continue without national bankruptcy. The fu 1 measure of th? new financial burdens of the imperial republic is yet to be currently assumed by the people. m When these burdens are fully as iimcd through current taxation, it will ippear that the actual federal lax bur den upon the masses of tbc people has been increased by s7 per cent. that federal taxes have been np.trly doubled within two years. That is the amazing record to br written of -Mr. McKinley' administration as it is now shaping thccunvC of things. These federal taxesare collected chiefly from consumption instead of from Income or property. They consequently fall upou the. people in nearly equal weight or amount per individual, and are collected in unseen way s. If they were collected by fed- ra tax g..therers from door to door, the administration of Mr. McKinley, ander the policies It has voluntarily anil eagerly projected, would be obliged to send forth its min it ns to collect $45 fn.m each average family throughout the natirn where only $24 was being collected when Mr. McKinley came into power. The administration which undertook that collection Would not live a day beyond the time in which the people could get nt it, and the imperial policies it was so complacently promoting would be buried under a furious popular uprising Springfield (Mass.) Republlcea. BANK ROBBERY. 4b i:iiunplr nf It r pulil leti n Mr-tliods or Loodtaej th( Treasury.

OPTIMIST DINGLEY. The Great fur iff Doilur Hees lhla Ahead Hut m IIuIuIbc Surplus.

It is alleged that Whitrlaw Heid or.d Judge Day, of the pC MM cummission, are to receive 1100,000 each for their services. That is aliout $25,000 a month aud expenses, antl is the best job these two eminent incompetents ever captured. So far as the other members of the commission are concerned, they will have to be satisfied with getting the honor, the junket and the single olary which tin y are drawing as members of the United States senate. This proposed pay ment of $100.000 each tolleid antl Day isa fairsampleof tht kind of rOhhary which tha administration stands ready to approve. Held is a millionaire many times over, havii g married a fortune with 1he daughter of I). O. Mills, and thu won an eaay flnam ..' v . t ry in this world of worn and worrj . Day, who was never heard of outside of Canton, O., befOTU he became a member of ihe pre id i n t s cahi net. and who never eanu tl n much as $5,000 n year when practicing ns a country law v er OOddealy loom up as man whose g-rvice are worth $:.VP00 n month. The whole proposition 4 most outfUgeOOa rind the people of the lt Ited fttates will regtrd it as a plain ease nf loofntj thr treasury nr.d of robbing the taxpayers In behalf nf n rich man who doesn't neeitl the money am! of another mrtn who couldn't earn that much In lifetime if tic lived t hundred ytet. ChiCI gO Ih U o. rnt.

Chairman Dlrgtey's views of the natu,; a I finances for ihe f ut ure nre optimistic. While he declares that there will be no reducti .u of the war tajieo before next winter at the earliest, ha confidently predict that "our dependencies, " as he properly calls them, "will be practically self-supporting by 1S?W and that "'empire' will not materially permanently Increase our expense.' lie disposes of Secretary Gage's estimate of s deficit of $130.000.000 for tha current fiscal year and of $3O.o0O.O0O for the year fol. HOil by saying that the fcccretnry. ns a pr a'i nt man. puta

' the lowest posaible estimate on revenue

or income ar.d the highest possible estimate upon the expenditures." To illustrate, he says that the secretary assumes tha! w e w ill have an artsy of 150,O00 for two years ant! that we are going; to spend 140.000,000 forrivr md harbor linproveim nts ir. IMm, whertaa we are not going to have an army of 01 Oft than 100,000 and the river and harbor expenditures will not exceed $25.oi0.ooo. Mr. Ding'ey admits that the national expenditures will be Increased for the time being in consecjuerce of the war. but insists that with S10O.0Ö0.O0C produced under the prov sions of the war w ay s and means bill there will be a surplus in 10DO and lhat our dependencies after that will furnish their own "keep. Hut Mr. Dinghy fails to observe that, while Mr. fi iire n '.tikes got.! allowance for expenditures in some directions, he has to leave out of account a number of important Items w hich are not merely probable, but almost certain to appear in the next budget or as supplements to the one just submitted. For instance, he say nothing about tha $20.000.000 which our Paris commissioners have agreed to pav FpVin for a voracious elephant. He says nothing chout the million that the president wants to spend on an is-thmian canal and on ocean cables, art! that he himself wants to sper.d to eneourace Americans to build and sail ships. Mr. Dingley fails to observe that the reason piven for spending these millions in hot haete i because we have been spreading ourselves territorially. It is for thin reason, we nre assured, that we need th canal and the cah'c and the ship without delay. Mr. Dintrley ndrr.it that we are coin? to need an army of lOO.OOOUBeO. ITa could not very well do otherwise when thi president ur.h esltattl c'y recommend. that the retru'rir army be inereased to that number. It would rot le an excess of pnii'rne to estimate the increase in the standing army at 75.000 men. Since nobody pretends that thrre would be any need of increase if we hatl no deper.t!ereis to lake care of, we must charge all this to the "empire." The ,-ost of this additional force would be $75.000.000 a year, estimating in the usual war at $l.ooo per man. Dut for service In the deadly tropics deadly to men of the Caucasian race the co-st would be much more. A moderate estimate WOW id be $100.000.000 a year. Mr. Dlagley admit that he taken no account of increased expenditure on

j account of the navy. Hut it Is no secret

that it is proposed by the administration to add to the navy ships and armaments costing not less than $50.000.000. This, with the increased cost o' maintenance, would he ro small item, snd It will grow to still larger proportions if Senator Davis triple alliance Is consummated. Does Mr. Dircley supposethat wenre going to mähe our dependencies pay all these costs? If he does he supposee that we are poire to oppressthem mora than Spain ever did. IhoOgi we may be more successful than Spain in applying the Banna plan of getting the money out of them without letting them know whit has breome of it. ITe will learn, if he does tint already know, tint the taxpayers of the t'nited States will have to pay the most of all this. If we make the possessions pay theost of civil administration, or such civil administration as our military governors may al!ow them, including the cost o' schools and public improvements, we will go alvuit to the limit. Most of the increased cost of ormy and navy, of canals, cables ar.d what not willfall upon theshouldersof the American taxpayers. And they may grow weary. ITercethe necessity for nakire the most of the H.mna plan of Oleblogfrom their pockets and leavine them la wonder why It is that the dollar they earn seems so small nn! Inadequate when they come to lay it out for the necessaries and comforts of life. Hence we henr even the optimistic Dingley talk of getting rid of the stamp taxes as soon a possible. It will never do to have people reminded that they are payinp a lug every time tliey lick a stnmp. Chieagu Chr micle.

POINTS AND OPINIONS. There is no Ion ger any doubt that President McKinley bat his heart set on n second term. He is tr.mw irg oratorical bouquets at the southern ladies. St. Louis Republic. IJestricting immigration und annexing the cheapest labor on earth are not consistent with each other. The-ai-e as BBtagOOittie as protective tariff and the "opoq deavr.wPtttabnigh Dispatch. Brother Dintrley is doing a great deal of thinking these days. He is trying to figure out n plan to e.pen hia tariff measures at the Philippine end and still keep it BOttU d up ai the American end. v-c:. (Tex.) Times-Herald. As might have been expected. th. republican administration at Washing ton is neglecting antl evading every pledge made by ihe republican psrty nt the polls in tiff, Not h i g has been done about the currency none of tha many promlee made hnt hect kept, and the admir trntinn generally deeaaM seem to know what to .to about aaj th'iij. -Tammany Times.