Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 41, Number 38, Jasper, Dubois County, 26 May 1899 — Page 7

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guntmilHi warm her loving hresst 'j i i hi grant im our rasuset : 'I . :i Iter 'tin (lie month f May H , t.'i vt our Memorial day. j- u . r STO auk for soldiers brave pOW4 n to atrew on cvciy iirave; - , your cfeeloeet itrllMi i ml, Oif! to father, brother, flMll4 j i ., i ,,i .. sun ami lover nil v marched forth at Freedom's Mft j k and bbmi . pf rot and tear, e ( and soars, from ywr ta year.

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their nu mory w ill ba brought.

T. ling r their battles nuKui. 1 Inf laut rarnl reveille ikal their ibOUta Of victory! . tri Mark Dub. In MltBand Monthly.

.1. ..I fttff Mb Mi ' ought to be very I sin b:n st into t h icc-p'

irm rui'iii

! )( i morning. (apt.

alter; 1 thought

I'd come 0 tt inn! see von," nml Dora t li y I a in a dancing up the path to tlM narrow

b shorn UM Old suld u Mt "I've ,,cd into the big house across t he . . , , I, ami somebody tokl me you need t ;.. ;i soidicr, so 1 thought li Ml am Mk y on bow you enjoyed the i . ( captain looked "Kunewhat taken I. " elL l don't knou as I can ea-

j. i as 1 enjoyed it. Miss Miss " nitby Dorothy Beaton," Inter p . ins alter. Dorothy; but I stood it as well Id until I got a bullet in my leg, a captain chuckled at bis Inno- "' . how dreadful !M Dorothy cried; ' . . tbt beulet hurt ?" "Well, bullets mostly do hurt," ad n tted thai captain. Juat then a figure i red in tne open doorway behind, nd l torot by looked up "How do you do, Mrs. Paker," she mid, politely: "I thought I'd come over l rail on the captain this morning." Mr, Baker laughed. "Why, ha ain't a captain1 h',e cried, in surprised urn linemen t, Hut Dmotbya eqaanituity was nn i sturbed. "l know lie isn't," aha enw -red. oelmlyi "bat I was ashing mamma what people ware called that - a . , . i ... .

in to v i sue sa hi gcucrau aim t ivntes ninl colonels ami captains. I iiought captain a as the pi etUeel name, M.I I didn't believe Mr. Uuker woakl Mi l called him t in' " n.i. I gueaa ha don I Mind," his wife ii. grimly, "'lb' was telling me Mime stories atXMll the 'v ir and the bullet be got in bis Ic; m have burt bin awfally." No don't you go to tellin' that child t! iiiries about all t lie dreadful tkiagl t ever happened to yon." Mra. Baker nly turned upon tin: lately titled lo n. who murmured, hastily "1 11 proin' to," for the captain's pride ' bSTS Kept Iii tu silent SOOUt bin .'Lr. even bad be not with his own ihetic nsture understood a child'i rhe captain's leg must have hurt cry much, hut it's nice lie didn't ' killed in the war," Dorothy anggen ed, desiring to aay something pro ii tu the form ids bis Mrs. linker. ' It (hi was evidently not exactly the JViit thing, iVell.il be'4 died somebody might 'a r that pension money he didn't seem 1 'ii bow to get," and Mrs. l'.aker d over Dorothy! head at her husbu ml, ".Now, Miranda, that wa'n't my fault." iptaln protested; but this, instead f quieting Miranda, only started her, ' Dorothy's preat dismay, with new ' 1 meaca oa this must dlstrrsslng and nnfusing subject. It was not until the n said, with pentle but impressive tyi "There, there, Miranda, that'll ! ire mr Daighbors,1 that his wife led rind went into the bou.-e. I ii.i,y breathed a little more freely "lie was pone, nml tried to think W Bttlag and comforting remark. "It's ton bad you haven't got a little I ' iptmn," she Raid, after a healing '1 ii. .. since Mrs. linker's retirement. 1 did bae one once; I'll show you her 1 ' lOrs,1 mid UM captain drew from bis orti vest poeket a little black easennd 'played to Dorothy a picture. Um eirl represented was not exactly I'1' "y in llorotby's estimation, and her 1 "a done in a most wonderful manner. " 'hi she grown up now'.'" Dorothy taJked, ' 11 W eaptala sighed nml slipped the r,s' back into his pocket, "No," he "lie died while 1 was off at tfie 1 n r." rs, Baker nunt have Ml iliwdfal V bd, Um," I)rcitby ventured, rather ' "I'tftil ns to the elTecx of grief on one thai lady's temperament. "' She wasn't Susie's mother." In response to Dorothy's snr- : I look he went quickly on I "Her ' 11 W died right after the war and I ; "I agala." Why did the enptain "The present Mrs. linker," he -H. loyally, "is a very fine woman m "nrd worker. Bhe does a great

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"th, j cs, of course," Ponuthy reapouded, in quick aysnpathy. 1 think hlic heeins M I luiid oi"- bbc be.situt. d "of talking. w A luddeo twinkle csmm into tha aap tain's gentle eyes, bttt lie heard a step in the hallitay and hnatily ahangtrl the topie of aonveraatiun, "1 hope you'll come ami ace me real often; 1 git kinder lonesome aoiuetimes," be said, ami Dorothy, who had also beard the step, rose hastily to go. "Yet, I'll come and see you," shu said, nodding brightly at him. "Mainma said you couldn't walk very far, so I'll try and conic most every day." A prompt Beceptunee of till invitations was one of Dorothy's marked ebaraeti I i lies. Mrs. Uaksr stood In the doorway and Dorothy turned upon the lowest step tu say in bar sweet sofcMi "flood-by, Present Mrs. Baker, then lightly went doWB the walk, leaving to the captain the demanded explanation of his wife's now title, "I've got u new friend," Dorothy nnnounced at luncheon, fur at luncheon Dorothy had won is roe Ilona I right of way; at dinner UttM M IHM different, "lie's mi old soldier and he's j'ut rhcumatlsm in one lag and a bullet in tinother, but he's very pleasant mni inwants BM to come and see bin every day. Once he had a little girl he loved very much, and he says she looked like me. Bet pteture isn't rery pretty and bar hair's done up in funny little braids, but hi' says she was a very nice little girl, so of course I'm glad I look like ln r. He's i.'ot a w He, too, the Present Mrs. Baker," wjtli great cmpressenient, "and she's rather rather exhaust in' when she talks, am! she doesn't like it 'causa the captain doesn't gel any pen pencil MOttOy, What is pencil money?" After receiving a simple ex plnnation of the pension system Dor Othy went on. "She says it WSS bis fault ha diiin't get the pension money, and they need it dreadfully to make both side meet, nml she has to work

and t

Rung h i II on her tuothtr witb wild

sol.s. "(Ih, amnUSS," she cried. "Kelul for tie iluiior, piick, quick! The aap Iain's leg was crucked in the war and I've broken it lijiht oll; I believe, his w ifi 'w glad, 'oaUbe she'd get the pt inion BOM) it he should die. Oh, iny dear, i ar captain, don't b t me kill him! Oh, lend for the doctor! do send for the doctor!" And Dorothy's word ended in u long crescendo wuil. It was some time before xplanations could be given, and Dorothy ot nasi her cries und understood that the captain had lost bis own teg in the war and now bad a coik leg, which was stropped on every morning and taken off every night, and that perhaps the strap was Old and broken and Dorothy's sudden tug had loosened or broken it. It was auppoaed she would MM run smiling over to call on l be captain, but for some time Dorothy neither visited nor spake "f him. When she went by his limine and saw him in the garden or On the porch she would nod und miif grav. lv, but she no longer socially tripped up the path and seated herself familiarly on the steps. Dut na the soldiers' day drew near, Dorothy felt as though there must be a reconciliation between herself find her captain friend. Decoration day, as u rule, was not made much of in this small town. But this year was to be mure Impressive, A dignitary from ashing ton, w bo chanced to be v taiUng bear, was to make an opeu-uir speech by the soidiers' monument, and since he was afterward to ba entertained at Dorothy's home there was much said about the coining celebration. Of late Dorothy had not had her usual conversational opportunity at luncheon, so that it was rather lillieult for her to accompUsh her desire to carry the BoWera she had picked to the town ball, wb. re they might lie taken in ( barge by the Committee. Put on Decoration day, at the last moment before the procession started for the cemetery, her mother sent Dorothy with a

message to her lather at the hail, and

her lingers to the bone --really she1 Dorothy seised this opportunity to take

looks (j uitc fat 'cause " but here DorOthy was silenced and told that if she gossiped about her captain neighbor she COOld not go to see him any more. The acquaintance that Dorothy had begun grew more delightful and intimate u.s time w cut on. Dorothy became

her great bunch of apple blossoms and garden jajioiiica in the Carriage with her. There was much bustle when she

reached the hull; bo s were i lining

hither and thither and men WtofC look

ing businesslike and hurried. Doro

thv was not intending; to intrust Ik r

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THE CAPTAIN'S Li:a BEEMEC COMTKCl TOWARD JIKR.

very fond of her captain fur a num- i

hat of reasons; lirst, beeause he told inch wonderful stories; then because hia wife was not innre polite, because he had B bullet in his Vc and could not get a pension, and last, but not h ast, because he always called her Miss Dorothy, which seemed Battering from a man of hia age and war experience Mr. Baker's luve fur Puroth.v was founded on quite as good reasons. In the Brat place, everybody loved Dorothy, mid I tender-hearted old man could prove BO exception to this rule; then she reminded bun of his lost little girl, was a solace to him after the stormy ways of Present Mrs. Baker, and, finally, it was undeniably delightful to an humble private to he addressed us captain. Put there nam a sudden interruption to this friendship one fair spring day. The raptain had taken his usual constitutional within the limit of his small garden und was removing bis rulilK-rs on the front porch- for he was a careful man, nnd always wore Inith galoshes dt spite his cork foot, partly fur appear mice's sake, partly beeause he feared b st Home dampness traveling up his cork leg might surreptitiously enter his rheumatic system. Now the raptain being nlso u stout man WM finding great dlflMUlty in removing his footgear and w as pulling and laboring when Dorothy appeared walking up the path. "Oh.t'npt.Pakcr." BM cried, "how red your face is! Let BM help you!" and before the breathless enptain SOU Id remonstrate she wns sitting on the step below tugging bravely at the obstinate rubber. Put for some strange reason It wns hard to remove nnd Dorothy exerted her strength, which was by no means small, for n final effort. Ehe heard something snap, the enptain called. "Tnke care!" and horror of horrors! Dorothy found herself pulling off not merely the rubber but the boot, and indeed the captain's very leg M i med coniing toward her. With nn nwful shriek Dorothy sprang to her feet nnd fb-d down the garden pnth; she henril Present Mrs. linker come to the ioOf nnd w hat seemed like n mnlicloua burst of laughter was borne ifter her as ahe sped up the drive to her own homo.

commission to any boy; she walked straight up to the most distinguished person to be seen, gi eat man in brass buttons, gilt COld and gold lace, and smiling la R weal consciousness offered him the llovvers. "If you please, I should like to have these llovvers put on Capt. Paker's grave," she said. The man smiled hack late the wide, brown eyes below the flowered hat brim. "And who was ( apt, Paker, my little lady .'" he asked, grai musly. Dorothy did not aotlee Um change of tense, "lie's a great friend of mine," she said, in happy pride, "and he lives right near my house." The gentleman stared at her In amazement. "Why. I thought you wanted to put these flowers on his grave'."' he exclaimed. "Oh, yes," Dorothy hastened to explain, "but not on the grave of the Whole of him; I I.v losl part of him in the war. I thought if you remembered the people that wire all killed you ought to remember the others that were some killed. 1 wanted you to put these flowers on hiR leg's grave." The gentleman was smelling the flowers and did not answer nt once. "You see," Dorothy eagerly went on, "he's ijuite nn old man, and he couldn't lc a farmer after he had a cork" a bitter memory returned "a cork leg, und they didn't even give him a pension, und they ought to. for lie's a very nice man, nnd needs it more than lota of folks that get if, papa says." The gentleman lifted his face from the flowers now. "Put where is his leg buried '."' he asked. Dorothy looked disappointed. "I don't know," she answered sadly. "I nsked mamma once, nnd she said she didn't know, but I thought some of you would be able to find it." "Why. Dorothy," said her father's voice behind, "where did yon MM from?" Then Dorothy gave him her mother's message, and when the gentleman said he w as coming to her house nfter the celebration and would talk about the captain nml his pension, Dorothy mde home In a very contented frame of mind.

Phc gathered another gnat bunc'i. f

white, urkle apple blossom and bnguv

M irlel flow i. und started for u rlatl to

the Mgleeted saptaia. He sat by ib? u -. th i Decora tioa day in st-ioat

despondent mood. It win quite true.

is Mrs. Pak. r tab!, that if be I. ad bad

inure push at.dii-.-i.rai.cc In might ioi.g

since have ubtamed los w ell -deserved

j i i s. nn, and now iiimie nuii ii more im-

pn al in on the army men of this town ; but the captain was always a retiring man, ami liehMM und age had BM made him more self-confident. What with hia physical pain from his rheumatism mid hi heart's sorrow st his lack of ab. lit v, he was beginning o feel

like a verv old soldier now. and be an-

s. i sd with unusual impatience to Mrs. Paker's twentieth twitting letuark: "1

wish to gracious 1 was dead with the

rest of the soldiers."

Then be went out on the porch, und

there was Dorothy coming ncros the road adth her beautiful bunch of flowers. She came straight for 1. is gate and

up his gardt n path, und the face of the old captain brightened like the face of

ore tliatiktui iura nu.g ami nappy n:e.

"How dO y ou do. ( apt. Paker," Dorothy's sweet raise said. "I thought I'd acme over and joyful you up, 'cause it's Decoration day ," and the little lady held

out her hand as a sign of forgetful OSST

and reconciliation. The captain shook it warmly. "It'r real good Of yOU to r. BMmbCT a i. o!d soldier. Miss Dorothy," ba iaid. heartily. "That's nion 'n anybody else does," Mrs. Baker marmnred sourly from the

door.

Dorothy turned toward her with a bright smile. She had learned to appn slate thai preaenl Mr. paker's est

eelleat qualities despite her fononeas for talking. "It's a very pleasant dM isn't it?" she questioned, cheerfully, Mrs. Paker nodded and Smiled faintly. "Tin re's a man that lives in vTash ingtou coming to our house to-night, Present Mr. Baken, and I'm going to talk to him about the captain's money pension." "1 think this gentleman will seeabout it, I really d," Dorothy added in eager it ten it, "and papa thanks you ought to have it. t ap:. Paker." Capt Paker flushed. "Well, I don't know," he said. "W ouldn't y ou really like to have it ?" Dorothy questioned "1 think it would make Present Mrs. Paker feel real pleasant." The enptain nodded thoughtfully. "So it would Miss Dorothy," he admitted, "so it would." "I was sorry you couldn't go to the cemetery and see them decorate the graves," Jiorothy said, in abrupt change of subject. "Some folks think it's very interesting." "Why didn't you go?" the captain asked, suddenly. Dorothy flushed. "I 1 thought pr'ape you might be lonesome." The captain coughed spasmodically. "Pl. ss my soul!" he cried, huskily, "bless my soul!" and then he got up and limped to the end of the little porch. "( th, captain." cried Dorothy, "see the procession! They're marching right down this way. Oh. do come and see!" Tha captain came to Dorothy's side to look at the advancing eolamn, Dorothy dashed into the house to call Mrs. Paker, and together the three stood, Dorothy waving her flowers, Mrs. Paker her apron and the captain his stick as the soldier boys came down the road. They man bed on for a little distance, then suddenly lined up on either side of the street with a salute. "Oh!" cried Dorothy, "they're stooping right in front of your house, t apt. Baker. Isn't it lovely v" Then dots n bei w ecu t he ranks of tuen MUM the carriage bearing Dorothy's father and the chief man of the day, and Stopped directly la front of the captain's little house. Mrs. Paker hid in the doorway, und the eaptala himself WOttM have run away, but fur his game leg ami Dorothy holding- him fast. Then the great man from Washington stood up in the carriage and poke about Soldier Paker's bravery la the war, and huvv it wuuld be inure materially rewarded. ("That means the pension." Mrs. Paker whispered from the doorway), and huvv he had lost a leg in the service uf his country (Dorothy was afraid that Blight hurt the captain's feelings) and the speech ended with the xvords: "Though today be a meBKtrial el the dead, let it also be a time of honor fur the living." And then eoUM boy in bright uniform came to take from the carriage a Ikjijuet, and walking up the path, presented it to t apt. Paker with a military salute, which the captain returned in excellent fashion, "oh." cried Dorothy, when she reoognleed the bouquet she bad taken to the hall. "1 B afraid they

didn't find the grave;" but nobody heard the remark, for a deafening shout arose us the troops gave hree times three for brave Soldier Paker. Thcrenpuu the gnat man rose again, and it was the captain's turn to prevent Dorothy from running away, for they cheered for little Miss Seaton with a hearty will. Then the carriage moved on nnd the soldiers formed into line and marched away, saluting as they passed, and leaving three flushed nnd smiling people on the captain's little porch. The en ptnin drew u great breath nnd sank dow n into his piazn chair. "They didn't forget an old soldier," he said, holding his bouquet tight ly. Dorothy laughed happily. "I must go home now, Capt. Paker," she said, 'T haven't been to see you very much lately, but I'm coming oftener now. I brought you these other flowers because because you lost your little girl when J NM w ere in the w nr, and they will ramembef yoe of her." "Pless my soul!" ejaculated the captain, "bless my soul!" Then na Dorothy went down the path he muttered, nodding between his tWO great bouquets: "I dei hire if I nln't glnd I'm a live seddier, after all." Frances Pent Dillingham, In Springfield (Mass.) Republican.

EDWARD ATKINSON'S CRIME

i!i tbr AUin lulu rnllnn lln lent-,' (I lln- I ' rl v, Ii He He .niliiirun Phlleesphso,

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l'or many y ars ihe Aim rican public lias been familiar witn the name of Pdrard Atkinson. Edward km been, from early childhood, u stanch republican. In his early manhood ho established a reputation as a statistician. What Mulhall has been to Pi gl.iml Atkinson has be n to America, in u slightly different sense. kfulkaU is a Uatistician who gathers statistics and compiles figures b.r the i ntire world. He covers every land snd clime and publishes them tOT what tiny are worth. Atkinson is a fatalist ician, too, who has compiled columns upon columns of figures to show that the republican party WM the greatoi political party that ever existed in UM tide of times. That under its beneficent rule'men did not need money, Slothing, food nor any of the etceteras of civilization. The average man could not understand, according to Mr. Atkinson, when be was well off, and was an uncivilized iM if M could not live luxuriously on n pint of kerosene, ti tin stove and M

cents a week. Mu.hall was a vulgar

mathematical historian who compiled figures to illust rate existent facts. Mr. Atkinson was a mathematical philoso

pher who would bad the world pan! the

antiquated systems of Aristotle and Pacuu, to the fields of Elyshvn economy

that would enable the poor to become

rich and the rich to place nn honest penny ha a rainy day stocking.

Mr. Atkinson was hailed as the solver

of a great national problem and the de

liverer of a nation. Pis prais. s vu.

rounded from east to west, from north to south. On the highway, from Dan

i to Peersheba, trnv. b rs told of his phi

losophv. The dwellers in Jerusalem

heated the city with kerosene lamps

cud the makers of the old-fashioned I

pcr-ce.nt.-of-vvastc cast iron ranges went

into bnkriq i 1 it henna At kin

BWsgMgei "I know no men whose names w ill go dow n among rie mot In i a of the laud, even in the m ar f uture.subject to greater execration than the

names of the men who have brought

this act of criminal sggreaaion upouthe

nation. Kaunas City limes.

MILITARISM RAMPANT.

lliUItln- Ni Munt lluu IH

Caunilt-t of Adindilairullunlaturril Amiloride.

Wheu the facts of the military ecu-

sorship or Iiewj uis-puiciica iroiu uia

Philip oi i come to aght M taey wut, following t hw lose of the war the peo

ple of the I int. d .States will receive e

startling object lesson or the military dt ipOtkM ii.-cparabie from a policy of

foreign conquest.

The Pepuolie has already been privately BO tilled by stall correspondents on the mM Ol m tioa of the arbitrary workings of the system of press censorship inaugurated by (Jeu. Otis, it is not a pleasant story for Americans to read the sound, popular doctrine of the frei dOM of the press is not favored by Brmy nutOCrnta who have their own ends and their own friends to 6erve. Otis' s.vstem, it is stated, "is exactly the one Weyler enforced in Cuba, against which Americans made such an outcry." It is an everyday occurrence, the Bepahlk learns, for correspondents to he compelled to strike out the names of men or regiments who deserve mention, and to be compelled to send the uamee of those who have done nothing. "We don't pro iose to have the newspapers BSahe any heroes here," the army presa censor tells correspondents. "If any heroes an to be made, this department makes them." Therefore the censor "kills all praise and almost nil mention of certain regiments and officers not liked at headquarters, and insists on flattery of those officers and troops that are in favor, the general trend being

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OUR EXPENSIVE AND EXPANSIVE MILITARISM.

son was exaited. His name was heard throughout the land. "Mr. Chairniau," said the n publican orator of 180B, "we are not having hard times. The poor are not growing poorer and the rich richer, n. I shall prove from recent statistics compiled by one of the most eminent authorities in the world Hon. Ed ward Atkinson, of Iloston. 1 pity the man. Mr. Chairman, who would iuistioti the honesty, independence nnd fairness of Mr. Atkinson." Mr. Atkinson is no longer an idol. He baa come into disgrace, along with T( i Seed, Eddy Hale, Georgia Hoar and other numerous members of the r publican pantheon. He has been charged, as was the most sublime philosopher of the ages, with the com mission of a political crime. He is corrupting the youth of the nation, and must be made to drink the Socratic by -sop. His tracts, pamphlets and miscellaneous pieces, heretofore held in the highi -t regard and Nceiving the earn inendat ion of the profound .McKinley, the literary Hanna nnd the N v Jem y trusts, are now barred the mails, and. like Mahomet's coflin, suspended in transit. "To be honest as the world goes," said the prince of Denmark, "is to be one man picked out of lo.oon." Edward Atkinson, even though often mistaken, is alwayi honest. This is the head and front of his offending. He has committed the crime of lese majeste. You don't believe, being an American, that one can commit treason by being honest and telling the truth. nii are not familiar with recent developments and are unacquaint d with the Dreyfus case. You are not aware that a mau may le thrust into outer darkness for criticising the reputed head of the nation, as in Germany he may he arrested and imprisoned for questioning the divine nnd godlike characteristics of the kaiser. Mr. Atkinson may corrupt the y outh of the country and the soldiers in the Philippines With the facts and figures of tie last congressional nnd senatorial history ns culled from the tolumns of that wide-awake nnd truthfully sensational sheet, the Congressional llrcord, but no word must Ih uttered against the immaculate gentleman who rules the empire and the illustrious coterie of Atkinsonian economists who surround him if he would snveldmsel from everlasting infamy and disgrace. Listen! This is the real reason, found In his pamphlet, why "the government" hes undertaken to attend I he erstwhile republican philosopher and Mgei "Is it not our misfortune M have in the chair of the president of tbt United BtllOM a man of w eak and um i tain pi.rvose, without conviction nml tinaqaal to the emergency, who, having di . hired that nn act of nggresfion would be a national crime, hns trifled vith the' question?" He disposes of tfu president und his cabinet in this

to discriminate against volunteers and for regulars." In many other ways t he correspondents' legitimate freedom Of expression is hampered and the Philippine newa service interfered with. The development is new in American history it MMM to be a consistent phase of imperialism and militarism, of wars of aggression nnd conquest wared in distant lands. The iron hand of the professional soldier is felt in a way that is full of menace to the best interests of a great and peace-loving republic. "I want you to understand," said the American censor In the Philippines, "that this is m military despotism. We do not recognize that nnyone except the army haa any rights." Whea the people of the United statea learn the full facts of army autocracy in the Philippines the sentiment against imperialism w ill crystallize into suddCM and most material sub-tam e. The peril of military dominance has been swift to show itself in the far cast. It will he promptly recognized by the people. They will see to it thai the necessary correction is administered. I nder a republican form of government there

j are many other interests nesiues uia

army" which have rights that must be respected. The public press, alwnys the safeguard nnd the informant of the people, is one of these interests -St. Louia Kepublie. PRESS COMMENTS. Alger in the senate! Well, thert are places where be -light do more harm, and one of them he holds nt present. Plica Observer. With portentous gravity the McKinley cuckoo organs announce that the executive will say "cutting things" about the war critics. HoW Very BTMat ful! Chicago Democrat. Quay's friends jubilantly announce thnt Mark Banna will vote to seat Qiny in the I'nited States senate. It will be recalled that Hannn himself was annoyed by some slight technicalities affecting his negotiations form sent. Albany Argus. A great moral party could nol at ford to shoulder responsibility for Hnnna and Hnnnaism. but the republican party has cased to be represent live of nnythin except a distorted I' terpretation of Americanism ami IBs refuge of tr.ists, syndicates and multlmlllioneirea. It is, in short, organized c v il.-Pafayette (Intl.) Journal. There are two elements In the republican party, ns there are in tho country nt large. One r. ) I'tMBtfl Hiinna, Alger, Pagan. Carter snd cur-iou mcnt nnd the ot BCf represen t s the partisans w bo are fur expansion, the honor of the flag nnd the punishUMnt ef the poisoners of soldiers, l bs latter clasa is rather out of place in the republican party, but it cxists.-Waahlnglon Times