Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 43, Number 38, Jasper, Dubois County, 24 May 1901 — Page 3

Weeklu Courier.

v. i mi im: rulillatter. INDIANA. JAKI'KU, THE CHAMBERS OF THE HEART. Tti. n- are i liamti. i s In 1 1 1 hum.-iti heart, Win !" wi' I .(nw our treasures r;m -VYli memories wi l l anil tliouadit! so dear, At hUMSB from the world' rOBS Stare. Al I II" ""' known Mil Wealth Wl' ilWtl, All slewed away ami safely hlil. N,.r hnw wi- feast In ihi'm uloiie, i Qfl Mi lt ur hBBUnQl bid. Ai. Mu ri' lire jtrives within 1 In Ii- irt V -II. til 'II v of tin- iliiid.'' AM sometimes I" Hu- nlli iit Bight, Among those Breese alone wi- tr i II ii ... for cut' 'i I th' not. V , little nuM tin- colJ world mr.' rii.il hrii wo burled hope ami J" Ai '1 hid' we knelt In m' k .lUjmlr. .., n Iii" I" irt anThat (III our lives Ml In . r r i h' '. with I w . . i , Kl lil d roasts, Anl llf' 1 ever more to u Than to th. oiilhlde wurl.l It MMM, JI'ivv empty life would li" without Th" treasures w.i I. .iv.' st'. w i'i away, in m ti to food '"ir memory On cvi'ry dark Mini dreary day' Kita Martin. In Minneapolis Houseaoo pot I A CHOCORUA EPISODE. I lit .ion a i. it I: k. KJKW HAMPSHIRE lias of Into It gained nn unenviable notoriety for its numerous abandoned farm Like inanv supposed misfortunes, ii la turning nut n blessing; three of these m- already apparent. It has offered surprising bargains to city d Wellen in search of summer homes in the mod picturesque region f New En Irland; then It hau benefited tin- Cam iliis who remained on their fauns in ghing them more opportunities to dhv poaa "f their produce rod babor with Josh competition, and -lastly, forea! an- growing up "r these abandoned lends to make food the devastations if tiie 1 mill r companies. There is nothing that gives one such a feeling "f aadtMaa, on ingle l with romantic interest, ns to com upon the tight f on.- of these abandoned bomon. Rouae times the bulldtnga re main, init in ruins; more often they have been removed or turn down, ami tin re is the uncovered cellar, treea growing in it; the remains of the chimney stack, the well, now covered or filled up with stones, But beyond ill other sie-ns of dissolution na abandonment, effecting alike to sentiment I memory, are the forsaken lowers in- cultivated in the yard and still liriag on. hi spite of neglect ami encroschbig ci-s or wild shrubbery, 11.' v bloom perennially, and BOme kit Is even increase. Mi. s,. abandoned farms are sjauatly V Ijf separated; hut along the old V illi Division roa.l." in (hoe. .run. I reetlj under the wonderful peak of Mount Cflmeoeua, there are n farms. not one of whieh in now occupied. few I ' n 1 1. 1 1 ti ir are left ami I he ii in schoolhoiise. in which :;0 chllii used to cipher out of lal.. ill's irithmetk and Webster's speller. Each of these oM farms has its rustic history, pathetic, tinevent f ul or amus-iii--. From them sprang a small, local poet, one college valcdiet orian. and several public nun with short, hisories. The would-he stateemati is not allowed t hecorne great in New Hampsie. When that is imminent he moves to Host n or Ohio. The present historian has busied himself for several past summers in reentering some of the incidents conTin ted with these 14 abandoned farms. I baa far he has succeeded in learn- : ' several worthy of relation; MM oi these he hoard with many details In re omitted, from a very aged man. himself having- acted oartaJi part tn it. la the little red BehoolhOOSS ti - f spoken of. i.m-y Winn, the daughter of a farmer in nn adjoining town, taught BCkaol for several seasons. She was only 1s when she began to teach, a comely, country maiden, rather i'etter nlncattil than was com"."it. hut tteesalvely shy ami modest, The blusk nev. r left her cheeka durthe hoars of school; and WhCU er day of IStiguinf and often iiarasüini la'oor wax over It was mh'.led hy an extreme pa'lor. Ihr pupils were of all np;es, from those learning their letters to young ine.i nd women of her own affa, and two "' ti t. . men older, for it itaed to he 'he .list,,,,, j country distri.ts fm boys and pirls to continue in school Hrtll almost or qalta men ami Winnen. specially in the wintar term, when there was little else to do. Tai. loved her small A, '., c pupils, nnd her older ones were fond of her, ind one f t.,, sv Ivaniis aldion, M '"" (bad. His attentions were Pro and l.ohl. and they often nn- '" 'd her to depeftkMt, as she was " "-us of t he increased flush her für.- ..I l . in ""v i i'Mi'U'i- no nsKid nny oueamm or rented n lesson, and she was s' '" tkat the whoi aehool obaerrad It I'.esides she kd II lover, with Whom she was well pleased, although ' " decisive word hiwl not vet I., en pokea lie was railed Bnaiga (;.it. le waa six feet two in his stin-kinps. a hslwart, frank, sjoblo kaatrta-d rcmng m hn rrlod the hag in t be mill 1 1 "Tp.-my to which he belongi d, -hew he got his title of enaign, by hieh he was always eallcd. and .if vluel, h,, Us I.a1)l).r ,.,, H n), h's hahif to spend every Sundav even. Ith Ltioi . ami he seldom aae her it mj other t inn-. I lanultv uV. h ..i TO i th covered her strcntrth ami nnW 1, Peat of a Saturday afternoon .mil Sabbath. Ihn toward th .,i ..f the -"m 'I ne term this became dimeult ami inrtiUelt, ucr roJafdsjM win, Bhivaajasj

Wahlron were more and more disireaaiNg to her I he permsted ill kls at'entiona in and out of seho.d, walled home with her whenever the ehanes offered and joined her on ,. i . i,, the aehoolbouse in the morning, she was all. ml to have an open i'i.iirel with him or tu demand his dl imil I from aehool, for the trouble it WO dd bring upon herself ami tin- goaatfl of tin- neighborhood. Bhe eonld bring no direct charge Sgainat him save a personal one. it vvas true that he seldom had his knUMMM and took a cowardly advantage f his belief that sin- would not dare to reprove or iwn i-li bint. I. my comforted herself in the thought that she had only a little while longer to endure her situation itiid that she would never Sgala t each t hat school. i he enaign noticed the c hangs in Lucy toward the end of the term. 'What has hecotne of your color?" he inquired one evening. "Are rou

ill'.' Docs snything worry you?" "I can't bear," he said, in a soft tone, "to see you so pale." This brought hack a little pink to bat face, hut she did not answer. MI think," said ihe enaign, after one or in use silences in w men con genial souls seem to com.' nearer than through speech, "1 think yon have taut ht pulilie schools hitiy enough Wng enoiie-li, nnd well, how would you iim a small private one, with just ü single pupil, a dull hoy, hut willing to learn and. faith, he thinks be fs already in love with his teacher.' Did you know it. Lucy?" Lucy liuiitf her head and turned her face, now red as a rose, awav from t he enaign. r .1 . i .. .. . i nun i Know, at i.-iii'tn she mur mured: "I have one BUCh already." What, exclaimed the ensiirn, and etraightening himself up as if about to atrike somebody, "What is it you say? 1 thought the way was .dear Let ween us. Wall, gOOdby, Lucy. I dare say yOU have round a better man; strange, though, I didn t know of it before. Good luck to him ami you. Hut I have loved you well and truly, I. my, nnd it has done me a World of good. Il has made a man of me, and taller hv an inch, mi my friends say. Now I shall (eel small enough. Good-by." He stepped iuiehly Inward t he door, hut Lncy interrupted him. took 1ms hands and hid her face on his shoulder. "There is none better than von. not any so dear," she whispered. "Von mistake no. it is I that have made a mistake. You know Svlvatius W.ddroB, my Mgt oldest scholar: he is in hoe with me; follows nie like a shadow, and his attentions, to which i have never given the slightest response, a boost kill me. My situation i most perplexing. I an helpless in school hours, as I must treat him as 1 do the others. Out of school I have bees as old as I felt ami you eonld Wish toward him. What can I do and not make a world of trouble for myself and the neighborhood, for should I spenk of it. complain of it. folks would only laugh or L'o'-ip nnd put me to shame. No. I would rather boar it in lllence, except with you." 'Hie ensign s;it down nguin with Lucy by his side, ami thought nnd thought how hi' could punish hta Lucy's persecutor. "I don! know much about teach lüg," he said nt length, "nut I believe I could get through a day of it." "What do you mean?" impured Lucj "Why, let nie ti li your school for a day, and you shall stay at home at home, sick yon know. I will take my day to-morrow, Monday, which they say is the hardest of the Week fr teachers; children fore-et over Sunday how to behave themselves and are more full of mischief." "How will you Sanangl it?" Rnid Lucy, in Some doubl ns to the scheme. 0h, I will yive them some longer lessons nnd more useful instruction than you ever did." answered the enabja, laughing, for the idea tickled his fsncv immenselv. lecordlngly plan was tgreed upon between them and some of the details a-- to the order of recitations explained by l.uey. Monday came; Lney remained at her hoarding place, unable t.. lesvs her room that winde dav. and receixed a great deal of attention nnd sympatM from the family, Punctually at nine o'clock the en. sign appeared at the school hoUSC carrying a good, stout stick, ostensibly av n cane. To the infinite :.s toTiishm- nt of the teholars he strode upon the teacher's little platform, where his head almost touched the eel ling, He called the sehoo to order and informed the wondering Scholar. s that he was to he their teacher for thnt dny, ns Miss Winn w.-i not well ami had reipiested him to take her place, which he felt he - - - a -1 a. . t. . . coiiiu um no; yei h is not to tie a holiday," bs added significantly. The younger children looked at each other already awe-stricken; the oMer ones were puzzled. There was intense silence in the toont; the pro VOrbiai pin would have resounded like solid shut. The scholars got out their hooks nnd pretended to study, hut could not, they were so excited hy the iltuat ion. In the bosom of Svlvanus Waldron there w.i a doubt and n BOnph ion. Ih knew the eaabjii waa hft rival, aithottfh the ensign himself had been in ignorance of tin- fact until revealed by Lacy; bat tin- real meaning of hit pp ranee In t hat place product I a i ui.'.. eommot ion in his mind. He could not study and did not try, though he kept his head lowered over his books, occasionally casting a sinister glance toward the ensign. went oi much ai aanal until th.reell r began. Then t ha enaign found, ti t ss be had anticipated and hoped, a general disability to remetnner the lessons. He afUrd the younger classes lift, prompt id and excused

them ol naturedly, msd Bnt Cheat to their aeatH well pleas. l with th. io Helve and their w B t i lo r Thea, came the cider rla-t. of which s-yh v.itriv Waldron u;i a iuciiiImt When it was his turn to re ite he BSgBJI hy telling the enaign in cool, impudent Manner that ho did not know hi i-n-aoii. He bad determined before be left his seat to provoke the enaign if he could, let coin.' what would. lb- was almost his eipial in sie. hUfgS frame and powerful, and he felt himself a miitrh for the ensipn in stn-n!,. "Hut why don't you know the lesson'.'" asked the SfUdgU. "I'm not obliged to explain, I snp-po-e," he replied. "Well, what do you do in such a ease when Miss Winu is hare? Don't you have to give some eXCUSC?" "No." "Then do rou gat psmishodf "No." "Tin ti she is o-wliief yon a lot rf whippings, eh? I am here today to pay up her debts. As you seem to l her largest creditor and ih.- folUft likely to get your just dtn-s I will I.. -ein with i,u. Please come forward." "I guess not." replied Bylvmaua, -'ii-lealy. uMbM Winn and I can s.-tti our ow a a 'Tut - " At this tin- ensign, his wrath now surL'in- through his ;i feet two, took off his coat, sprang up the sisl ami, s.-i.-inu' Bylvanna by the eolhtr, with one mighty lift swung blnj over all the benches into the little arena

Im t ween them and tin- teacher's desk. where he belabored bin. witi, k(. ber birch cane until he e mercy. ricd on, for Bylvanna vTaldroa fraduated the neXt day. taking his book - home with him. together with the diplomas of his last SehoOlday, in the shape of sundry conspicuous welts and ridges upon his back and shoulders. Got iimr n gtbsrewi One the returning troopships from South Africa t lie merry Knglish soldiers are givefl to pranks. None of the men on the ships recently in ha 1 shaved on the voyage till Hearing BoUtha nipt ion. when there was ;i general request for razors, it happened that there was only one to Ix- hail, nil the otbers probably being pocked aw ay with t he heavy luirgage in the noio. i ne owner oi me solitary raaor consented to lend it round, hut on condition that each one should shave half his face only nt one turn, the owner then to have first use. 1J,. carefully shaved one bMb of his face and then passed the raor on. time the raaor came back In due to it I owner, who nt one., trimmed the other side of his face ami tossed the raor into the sea. tfOW they all gfoatud. lad vet they never laughed more than they did after they got over the l ist shock. When they landed every man BeCflttOd to have a had face ache, to Judge from the hand kerchiefs and scarfs which were hehl up. ami there was an i lediute rush j to the nearest harliei Ui- , cago Record Herald. I'mldy. the Vankee unit I lie Turtln. In New- Vurk a man vvas carrying n ive turtle alone the street, when hv came an Irishman, fallowed hy n lare doir. The eountrv man tried hv tie words to get tin- son of the I'm. rald isle to nut his gnsni into the turtle's mouth, hut he was too smart for that. Hut." said Pnt, 'Til put mv dor's tall in. and see what the boate will do." He immediately called up his dor. took his tail in his hand and stuck it in the turtle's mouth. He had scarce. y got it in when Mr. Turtle shut down on the poor doir's tail, and oT the latter started nt railroad Speed, polling the turtle ifter him at a more rapid rate than ever it had traveled fore. The countryman. thinkin-r that his day's work would he thrown nway. if the animal should run nt that rate, turned with a fh v a ire look upon the Irishman and exehaifl "( all hack your dog'" Paddy put his hands into his poeVets. Ilrrew his head to one side, winked, nnd then answered, with a provoking sang froid: "Call hath your tish!" -St. Lostis Kcpnhlic The l.eetnre Ml Opllj I'.mtrit An Oxford professor was giving his pupils a lecture on "Scotland and Scots." "These hardy men." he sah!, "think nothing nhoitt swimming across tho Tay three times every morning befoen hrcakfast ." Suddenly n loud hurst of laughter BUM from the center of the hall, ami the protessor. amaed at the Idea of an v. me daring to interrupt him in the middle of his lecture, atigrilv aaaed the offender what he meant by such unruly conduct. "I was jnt thinking, sir." replie.l thnt individual, "that the mor Scotch chips would tind themselves on 1 he wrong side for t heir clot lies vv hen t lo y landed!" London nsw . i a, UtrrtHdHRhO. When doctors disagree it most ha very trying for them to prepare their bulletins. Oor admiration for the skill of some people often causes us to overlook , their methods. Before yon can know a man by the Company be keeps you must learn his company's opinion of him. The difference between r".r plant snd our accomplishments shows that experience is generally acquired too late t0 make much use of it. Indianspolis N'ews. "See bare!" rnsdalsnni an angry man to horse dealer, "yon said that horse I bonght of "U yesterday hadn't i single faul; Bttd BOO I find he is Idin 1 in one eye." "th," replied the dealer, calmly, "that's not a fault; it's a misfoituue." Chicago Daily Ncwa.

THE HANN A BOOM. Frrr Heal to' Pallas r.STort lu r K no n Ihr Url. Inal Bun.i

Hon. IVrry S. Heath, one t.me first asaifttant poatamaster general, ham besrun early hi preartioiui for the SBUBBBahjB of VAU and has jut launched a little prenidentia. h...,ui It hlid off the wiii into the water off j th.- political aea without making e tremendous plann. The name off. red to the said hoom la Mark H.inn.i J ha hoom w as launched in a eul.;.r manner slid off the ays ideway, as it were, after the fashion off launching boat on the Clyde. Mr. Heath hy way of preliminary declared his belief that Mr. llauna could pet the nomination easier and be elected - r than any otkar man in the I'nited States. Then Mr. Heath says: "Th people have an rrr.eous !ia of Mr BhUSScSi resard him t rcp.y as a campa Ism manager and a rich mar. who has Inherited w. ulth irrth.ns but the slatessnaa pr.lir.t eught tobe." This estimate of the thst Intruisbed Ohioan Mr. Heath deelare to he quite ! erroneous. The jeople at larpe don't know Mr. llauna. he tBtiata, and o he starts out at onee on what is evidently to ! a campaign of introduciion. rr ne years, Mr. tieatii says, I be has enjoyed the c!osest intimacy" I with Mr. Ilanna, and has seen him. i tackle problems that hsve staptrered old staLrTS and srlve them no eai!y I to astonish everylxxlv. This retuU r,f p n T xa 1 1 he oomrx.ert t on the astuteness of oi tolls, the old in - . urn. ii i iii.tner. iriiniK in niiai m -e-n: 1 the "man of science ' eonld do, he exclaimed: "Why. he could make a clock! And that clock BOOld !Ti too. I. or"! how that clock would Hut Mr. Heath must find Mmnrcr asgUBSeBtS than ihis before Mr. Hanna can le elected, or even nominated. It l.a taken five years of "close intimacy" to bring Mr. lhatn to this way of thinking. What chance, then, for the people at large to become convinced that Ilanna is the rit'ht man for president. No. Mr. Haiinv will rot do, nnd thoat who mat ar- the affairs of the repnM can party will not lie foolish enough to consider him seriotis'v in cmrection with the nomination. He would In- one of the ea-iest candidates to defeat that ronhl he selected. A man who has home the nation which Harra h.i. in the public mind, at least, to two administrations, is never the man to i be nominated for the presidency iff 1 Voii want to win. ilanna hime!f real izes thnt he is "not available," and when Mr. Heath made a surcestioB of the possihlity of his heir. nomiBSVted Mr. Ilanna is said to hae remarked: "Don't talk nonsense'" onty he said it a little more so" than that. Tha'' BSlghty good advice. We fear that Mr. Heath will not accomplish much Iw-yond putting himself on reo ord as the original Ha:. na man. I'ticn Ol .-erver. THIRD TERM FOR M'KINLEY. n t nwrlllen Law Sirnln ncs Kvrnt Uhirh Will t lie Oserridtlea. Pome off the newspaperssre drawing-1 the inference from the hospi able and. st times, effusive welcome the president has been receiving s!l alone the route on his present tour that he will construe the character of these demonstrations as an indication that a third term is poss-ihle for him and trim ais electioneering sails accordingly. Thi conclusion might le warranted. If only the surface of thintr wre taken into consideration in f rm ti:r a j Ä . judgment about so important a mat-i . . . ., .v . a i i ter. hut happilv there is opposed to it the past history of the eountrv. the I unwritten law. and Jlr. McKinley is harrlly fatuous enough to attempt to override this law Hoide. he would encounter from the h aders of his own party no lrss difficult an obstacle should he lend himself to n third term idea than the one just stated. There are too many republican politicians now managing the machir.i ry of their party vthoare hungering and thirsting for a first term to allowany one off their number to run i third one. No republican was ever stronger politically than en. Grant. If he could not with his great military prestige and the credit off having saved the union from destruction secure a thirdterm nomination. It is hardly possible that Maj. McKinley would be able to do BO. In this connection, the New Orleans Picayune recalls and reprints a resolution sdopted by congress in December. 1871, more than a year before (, er Grant concluded hit second term. It was intended to forestall any thirdterm movement and read as follows: "Resolved. Thst in the opinion of this house, the precedent established by Washington and other presidents in retiring from the presidential office after their second term has become, by universal concurrence, a part of our republican system of government, and that any departure from this timehonored custom would le unwise, unpatriotic and fraught with peril tooor free fnstit utions. The vote on this resolution stood S34 (o IS. Iff President McKinley should, as w e think unlikely, atetmpt to break the established rule, he will find pub- i lie sentiment as decisively against sny ' such unprecedented infraction as it t was allien (Jen. Crant was president : snd when he was subsequently a can- ! dulate. aod was overwhelmingly defeated at the ( hicago convention that nominated (iarfield Kansas Qty Times. Mark Ilanna is reported as beitug getierallv tickled over hi presidential boom. If Teddy lannast 5t is also tickled he has not yet said 0. Louis Ilcpwiblia

TO REDUCE THE TARP. snsawsen .r mm iae. I leans llmi Ikrrr ..era Tan Hark I'rulr.ii.m

Duscooaing V.ce l're&ident II nns' relt'a reference to the aucceaa of i., tariff, the Hartford Couraat mentions tin piaie aa a "atr.kmg iliuv.rai.oc of the deelopoient that a protective tariff can accomplish. " It recall Uaat free trader greeted the idea of a orotesrtivs tariff or t:n plate with iier..v ",,vi iuimaybeo. Free trau rs do not mot. -p.: f m . -i j are made up of poor, err. up nmrtals, just aa protect ioais is are, but as a general ' proposition we do Bot kn-w that anyI one denied that prote, ,n, if aifti- ' cient, could accmp: -h its purpose, j To use the oft-used illustration, we i may raie bananas in MinBTSUla w.-.U sufticieat protection. Hut has not the I tin plate argument proved too much ? ; It has undoubtedly been a great th. ug foe the tin piste tr- st, and .some In diana citizens have become mul .ni.llionaires because off it; but if the whAe history of the industry were written, and it were possible to a the cost, could it be said that the t.a plate tariff was wise? This is the whole question as to , protection. It is not whether it can i accomplish the thing in view, but : whether it may not, in the words of the proverb, make u pay "too dear for our whistle." and whether an enterprising people would not, in the long run, prosper more greatly hy the ,,eTeiopment tn4t lh,.y uulli natural ,, . make, nut th.-. too. i men y academic, for we have protection; have had it ia the modern sense since the civil war. Iff we get back to the original sense only we may be thankful, and there are signs of premise in that direction. Thus the Courant says: "It would hsv been sreH !f Mr. Roosevelt had carrWd his felicitations a step further and had pointed out thai protective tariffs are a ir..ins t. ar. . td and that, when a proteoses mtarset rsaei i such prosperity and growth as to budd up a trust and control the ir irk-t uf th country, then protection has done its work a:..i r. -u.d r. rn- .v- : trrr. t articular industry. The purpose of pro '.rctlon is to enable an industry to establish itself to mat it can t stor.s without proWhtr. it r-acts that point, tl.-n there is bo further reed of protection. There la no question that establishing a ' trust to control the whole country t evta AnBOS conc!u5pe that the 'infant Industry' 'period has passed. Ar.d Users Is no doubt ! that certain industries still benefited by J heavy protective tariffs are combined la ! trusts, and are using the tariff to mak America pay more thar. the rtl of the J world for goods and to add to their own 1 smp'.e profits This wlil not be tolrratad ; after It la understood." Thus the idea is growing that ia many directions there has been protection too much, and the time has ! come when it must be abated. This : necessarily involves the recognition : of the doctrine of protection, that the republican party originally espoused protection ss a means toward free trade, as a temporary exped.ent, not as a permanent policy. It is already a matter of general observation that the republican party ! will be compelled to abate the tariff. The effort will not be easy nor will ; success crown it at first. The self-interest that has secured the tariff will he strong to maintain it. but w h the opposition at home, and with the ne-ct-ssities ior going abroad, it seems certain thst we are on the eve of a reduction off the tariff in mat y particular. Indianapolis News (Ind.). POINTS AND OPINIONS. Mr. Ilanna is one of those re publicans described by Mr. Ha'acock, men who hold the hi;rh protective tariff aa a "fetich to le worshiped anil - - - w v. ... i 1 ;. A. . , .- i .it uf. s.u. ib u. ah -. .'Mill 1 , ... jii , ...... . u . ..." . . logic that the tariff should U-touched . , ' ' ... . I people must expect to ne t bk;i. i by the tariff. All any Argus. Mr. Ilanna tells hi.s local newsP"' orfn ,hat 'it U ridiculous" to mention his name in connection with the presidency. We compliment the senator uxn the result of his introspective research, his candor and his discretion. "President Mark Hanna!" The shades of Washington and Lincoln need not be disturbed! Cleveland Plain Dealer. The tariff troubles of the republican partv are appealing. The Leaf Tobacco association does not want reciprocity with Cuba. Furthermore. if it comes to that, the association w.ll . not want annexation, and there are ' other interests of the same mind, j What a tangled web we weave when j we begin to practice territorial expanJ sion. Indianapolis News (Ind.). It ia (ar from certain that the repubhean can elect a majority off the next house of representatives under . any circumstances. It is morally cer tain that they will be routed in the effort if they go to the country without having enacted ai.M-irust-tanff legislation on the lines proposed by Kepresentatite Habcock. the sagacious chairman of their congressional committee.-Washington Tost. The republican party of to-day is as far removed in its principles and purposes from the republican party of Lincoln. Sumner and Greelev as sre the antipodes off the earth. They have nothing in common but the name. It is the servant and instrument of the money power, trusts anJcorpora' i- n, and to r i.der s n .ee to monopolies it now lives and moves and hss its being.Nstionsl Watchman. If tariff reform is to be revived it must lie revived by she leaders at d be people must be educated again t its importance. There never waa a time when there was such a need of revising this old democratic doet-ine. Protection is the fostering parent of many of the Isrgest trust. It enahlea the American trust to charge the American consumer -n percent, mors than i: charges the foreign consumer. Ii has become adis'inctly anthAmcrl caa as ateas.' -Memphis Apjnal-

PHENOMENAL RECORD. SBBSB a Uriah! Northern Did. with loilkrm s nial hlea. Ilulll I V Ilia llualneaa. The eleventh annual I'nited ( .mfeOV erate Veteran-' r un on. w hieb w ill cur at Memphis. Tenn.. May j i nnd 3", promises to he one of the moat uuiqi.e gathering in the history of the association. Scores of men of national r. p nation will participate in the eer. ics planned by the various committees, hut among all of them none will lc entitled to more consideration than Mr. I'. I'. N an Viani, president of the Van Vle.-t-Matisiield Drug t o., off Memphis, whose endeavors to bring the reunion to Memphis were hacked hy a cash subscription of $T'.o. and v hose career illustrates must forcibly what a rexolute. ambit ions lwy can a eognplish in this country of ours. Mr. Van Vleet wtis Ik.tii in Kalatna0 Mich., in lr. the lineal descendant of one of foi.r brothers whoemigrated from Amsterdam, Molland, in l . ate! took part in affairs on Manhattan i-Iand SBSSg iH-fore the Kiiglish invaded . w Amsterdam. After gr;ulB itfang from Knlamnoo i'olleefe, y imng Van N leet. with only tt few hundred dollars in his pocket, eaat his lot in the south, with whose political aspirations he and his father had alwaya been in synayathy, landing at Memphn for the first time in May. 1171, Shortly afterward he secured a position w..b.

2 P P VAN VI.KKT the once prominent drug bOMB of f. U Jones A Co., nnd has since boSMI identified closely with the social and business life of Memphis. In W.i he became half owner of t he Tones drug house, ami in 1M established the firm of Van Vleet A Co. In lv.f he purchased the MaasffsM Drag Co.. which L- consolidated with his own business, form i ng the Nan lee t -M a n ti. h I Drug t ". the largest husines of its kind in the SOSrth and the largest jobbers of quinine in the I'nited States. The offices of the company will BB confederate headquarter- during the eoashng reunion, and Mr. Van Vleet is chairman of the e..nnn;rtee on entertain ment of general officers. Mr. Van Vleet is one of the busiest men imaginable, and yet he is always in -ccs.- de t o t hose w ho call, w het lo-r on errands of business, politics, religion or bonawdlsnsce. His courtesy ia unfailing, and is a marked characteristic of an unusual man. The home life of Mr. Van Vleet is ideal. II,- lives in a stately home. "( het.dah.- on the hill OSS 1'ophir boulevard, built in colonial styi.-, M:id ornamented with all the modern sccesories that travel, art and good fa-'.- cm - ipply. His wife is u daughter of Maj. A. N. McKay, known to southerners as one of Jackson's gal lant Indian fighters. Two daughters nnd a son complete a family circle which, in genuine happiness nnd contentment has few equals even in the south, the land of happy homes. i.nuht n artaSSS Mnskrnt. t.eorge Archer Ilrown, wln.se leona is cios- to tan Cawogo marshes. In the town of Fayette. Seneca county. N. V.. has in his possession white inuskrat. Like the white deer, the white robin mi l the white blackbird, thi- is a very rare animal, tradition having it that but once liefore has one be SB seen in central N. w York waters. Mr. Hrown captured the r.it, a full-grown one. during the high-waU-r eriod upon the submerged Monteuma marshes, where it had leen drowned out of its usual haunts by the flood II, succeeded In capturing it alive, and values it highly. It differs from the common mu-krat only in color, having instead of a ruddy or dark brown fur almost a pure wbite. Halo's (naflr l.nnehenn. The little granddaughter of Mr. nnd Mrs. Hrowri, at Hmporia. Kan., swallowed a ?) bill n few day s ago. Mrs. Hrown had received two $.V) bills in a letter, and had laid them on a label hv her while she rend the letter. The little girl came in. picked up one off the hills, and began to chew it, and swallowed nil of it except the corner on which the figure !W was stamped. This was taken to a hanker to see w hat could le done to get a new one for it, but he said nothing could be done, a the government required the number of the bill. Land PI. I a Ion In China. Agricultural land in Chins ts .-ft-tiled into three classes, each claso I paying a riitterent rate. rirf-elas

lands are in fertile valleys, with a g"i d depth of soil and a good water supply, producing annually two crop Bf rice or one crop of Soger r.uir. Second -class lands nre genera 111 situated higher up the slopes of hills and ,ic not such a good wnter supply as the first class. The third-class lauds ere those situated nn still higher an.! are far rennwj from a t, water aupply.