Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 44, Number 9, Jasper, Dubois County, 1 November 1901 — Page 7

Wccklu Courier.

4 io i:. I'Mbllalirr. AsTKl IN IM ANA. COMING OF THE FALL. , , ,v that shorter arows w ' .. ..in. I..i,illi,-ti .1 rlnu! J ,,. i i,v thai HIW WM hl, I t. clouds f wmlwr hue; :. ,,, ... mjjuh, yes. y '' an. um ooednf uf tno Pell. ;, ' .INK m .1 . i- trners mo di . ,i , tubbie on me pi.iiu. ., tit.- nnrvc ..... ...... .f II... trill l"v th "rt Kr"vvtn drear. ,,. ,wrt that droop ami fad, 5? .... v. l . I. a..'., ,, 1 - .-( IM IB IH - J V) l k..ll , . , , .r in run mimi v, not. Um oonlnc of ths .1.- ki.i. Vint Houtti ward fly. IB uie - - py th- brook that hurrtM bj ; v th" t nr, .i uniiip, w ui.-i""" - loundliiB not that bodeth ill, I IHnr ."ill By ();, . ill. IMWWH ' Vf, t tin coming of the Fall. .k. .,M n.rrwl nllirht. Ilfy wir w-"- . . , j .. , h red ii i"i bright: By tti earoiiw wwwwi K, tha IUI lying leWi w the reed I now rank and tali, w . . .M . t i V BOt IBS Coining 1 oie run. Lv fair summer's requiem nunc. rm.- Natures iilamuve ningus; Ipv the sol bin" of the rain. py our heart that Join the strain. Ipy tb are trould r .-ui. V rote tin' coming or tne rail. - . . . I lt I . . II. -Annn D. Wilior, in nrisuan imcuiI u A A A A , A A A A A A AAA A AAe. A A A A A h "ONE TOUCH OF NATURE." t Bv L. J. Benton. TV VVVVVVVVVVTVVVTVYVYVYTV I: Coksell a Maailne. Iif'iirlnted by pemlootOAi 'Tin i r wao orvneortea map; 1 1 bi done li li best to nooloi ml bad failed. He was not a little ! .mil anxious. It in always m tad tu ne old tfrii'f in jrong JTI. t nt Batumi, If I cmilil only muke Ih r cry ! " thought Dr. Koss. It trai not natural, as lie Raid. And fct there "a. another side to the (eetioD. Siu'h an anooyaaoo) u, piiSb.t.L'. r s us, makes children weep: and, though tin rare that writ i elf n our foroheadi is to them unknown, vet the Midden blow at iti ikei man once or twice in hisi hiitorv, Man;v Imn as a tree that n tlta iah of the storm bends and poana and flings out proMttlUgj arms B!u p '.i iii irs with a thousand voices - tin Budden sorrow in a child is an agony Umiatini,' an unwelcome prcsnce into a kinirdoru where it is least to b rlrnired, and from Which t it always sonu dismished. Dr. Koss said to himself, "Perhaps hml better leuve her now, poor, poor little thing!" Be moved towards the door. The ionely inmate of the room did not otice that he was leaving her. She sat before a morsel of tire a quaint Jittle tipuro thut hnd known 12 years FS llTing, thrre without mother, five rtthout father, and the rest with Itei "tall, grown up, " who had Fien mother and father und everyhing ehM that is good and brave. And Bow the sister wan l'oihv ainl child was alone. '! I v." said the doetOT. Ii' was not answered beeattM h M not h-ard. He closed the door lying to himself that he would come to ce her a train on the BttrroW. He deseended the shnbby staircase, to which 'f eheapeat oilcloth still elunj. The a? a Children were playingto . h wood." BcreauBiinsT vodferotial 1' V rushed frntu l.i, ,,);,,. woman's tireil voice uri'cil them t.. he quiet. him u.V. by no me;ins. ma'am.' rang "let Nt the doctor s cheerful oiet them nlnv it , 111 i i "in i 'i s,- nri . "Ah, poor thinrl How is she. doetor?" 1 1 much too ilili t . If is ev vrnon manil a child of her years." Is uythinc settled dm 1n whiit i tf be done?" I f t not. Slie seems quite friend"Yo non say so. sir? Friendless: den!" ' " f Mr. Boa bad left the I Word "friendless" insist- " tnalned with Mm mjmI. rs:,r. Lon nntisi. eatiy " introduced to hin another word ' l I He panaed in his walk, for thai had come to hin was the i, Hart! M no IT!, a:..i "We Which Dr. Ron had just quitted J,erl (.1,1...... . - i usi.inie rom tne 11 '"'in, scholar and rewise It may he ns well to say nt )!!( !'t the doctor intended to 'liif t) Il ls man, whom he knew hn Zf , " ,lis s.Vi.patl.ies on bf j " ' nun s sail heart. Hut what Pn; , r' "!, in u,tt7 Had Qideon J : ' I-he poor and old ami Jo, -oo iieiy is he one mos,. a,n . . . Mllf., . : V wl,n sU,v ,hPir of .,, "ooicn ,iiay, nmi speak ,,,. 'V' " MMtthl nulNo i t tin, I,.. ., '"ioiy oomcs "lev,, head lings. The truth is .um I " 1,,'h hm I n friendJ fi "Ml I, ls youth up, nnd, resti "' I IK ing Rimm. . strong ehnraeter. hnd 1 1 is , . . . " lew he MMM ; n the world with nn n o -i-wiviic ,,,.,1 nDoBilfr, !? with n n ' "l HI WIOIlll T P PtA i"""ion. uhl..!, I. . 2 0 Bulti, Aeit, K"rn to nny '"e. ii, ii,.i.,.,i Kiivfi,,, ; ww"3ri t n n u , 1 '" WWfc a one judgment " . . ... . . ,....i . . in i Wado , 1 " mlent with more j, '" '" rithheld. eD n ankind fate buffeted him

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btce ami put ii nee, fur he uns strong w.i- i, id. on; but the soul within him grew hnrdMsteeJ. He forgot not b i iig. It was n great pity, for ha h4 Mi exccllr-iil li. i I mi ,.; DU I I,,. .k, ,,f n(l. lam will Hot bear shut ting up. An assumption of taciturnity developed into tuciti.rnity. He put fan the pessimist's spectacles, and k.-iw nothing but life's little ironies. Ami then one day it was all shattered, ami Gideon becanio a new man with living lire within him. He oVd I woman. 'Ibis was his great chance. Ho told liiiiis(-lf thai where hoc i Ufa is, after all, a priceless thing. Ami Gideon loved with all the Strength of h, ;!! ami ralad. Ha even darod i hope, la spile f)f his inveteiate sbwiess. It was as if some spirit , . i , troubled him as Het hesda's Pool was troubled in old time. Hut when he would have stepped down someone had been before hint. His ioe returned into his own bosom. It was terrible; but the trength of the man closed over his deapalr. Gideon was no coward to weep or wince, but he turned a deathly eye Heavenwards. Destiny might bn ah, it si i,i never bond, bin. After this, Gideon Beth shut himself up with his books, Fifteen years eased carried him beyond the prime of life, and made of him a tall, spare man with a slight stoop, a drooping white moustache, and a e ar eye. Fifteen years spent with tU thoughts of other men had not changed hin Individuality to any extent. The face vns a little more com posed in its sternness, that was all. When ir. Bom entered Urn room Gideon was buried in a deeji wicker chair, wiih a reading lamp placed behind bis ri'lit shoulder, and hooks everywhere, ffe now tinned to look at his Viator, The doctor was one f the lew men with w hom he cored to Convene, and the former did not hold the privilege lightly. "Sit. down," said (Jideon, eloetng his book over his thumb and pointing it at a chair. The doctor thanked hin genially, though inwardly troubled ns to the best method of openbag the subject upon which he had alle, i. 1 nat fl a fat DOOS you an reading," said he. "Spencer." "Ahl 'Fairy Queen' or Thilos pay "I do not rend poetry." "Then I conclude it's the philosopher, I do read poetry; and very sad some of it is, too." "You waste your time." The doctjr ami led, "There waa a man named Longfellow " "Quite so; we all read him when we are young." " who hns made for himself a ftlace in a thousand hearts. Hut when I read poetry I was not speaking so much of printed Words, He patient with me for live minutes. 1 have been studying the opening chapters of a child's life. She ls a little girl, age 12. Five years ago the lost her father." Gideon's father hnd not been quite worthy of the name. s to this remark he paid small attention. "And two years later," continued Dr. Hobs, "her mother." Gideon Moth's face grw ab'rn, as it always did when he judged l'rovidence. "The child wns left alone with an elder sister. This sister was a plucky girl, and the wolf at the door didn't frighten her." "Ahl" said Gideon, who had fought thai wolf himself. He remembered that in the day he had been more than eoaal to the combat. The wolf lights best Bt B Ig lit. "A week age the sister was taken ill. I did all in my power to save so precious Hf but I failed. The child is now friendless." Gideon Bet h eyes flashed suddenly, and he broughl bis clenched flat heavily down. "Alone in the world.' And this CUM but one of many! Who ares'.' Nobody, no one!" "(i mighty man!" said the doctor beneath hi- breath, lis he heard these exclamations of a bitter spirit. And then he wundere, 1 who WO! the DSOrC friendleaa of the two the child or the man. He concluded that it was not the child. And more than ever he pitied the Solitary man who needed the love of some simple nature to expand and sweeten his own. Gideon's passion paaaed ai quickly as it had risen. "Why do you toll BSC this?" ha demanded. "Is ihis your poetry '.'" "I call it so. Some day we shall better understand Its metre." Iii, loon shrugged bis shoulders as he replied: "You have strange views. Tell me, what iis to he done about this git IV" it was with difficulty that the doe tor concealed his gratification at the question. daring Idea suggested itself to him. "Come am) see h'T," he said. The other thought for a moment. "I don't know Whj I should," he said petulantly, "it is late, After all, it is BOthlng to me." "As y ou will," said Dr. Koss, rising. "Pardon me for suggesting it, only I nui passing that way myself, nnd I thought yoi, mighl care to accom pany me. It s n queer case. llie child's loss seems to have numbed her mental faculties. However, good night." "Wait "That a moment. I will come." is kind," said the doctor

frn n kly . Gideon glanced nt him suspiciously, but said BOthlng. The two men passed ot.t ntO the dark street. They reached their dettitntloni were admitted) nnd together softly ascended the narrow, rickety stairs to the top landing, "This is the room." said the doctor, gently turning the handle of the door, The child did imt near him. Save fr.r the fare's dim glow the room was la dark

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v: nee, but (Jideon l ,,i! u ksnd upon Ins shoulder, my ing, Hush!" The girl was speaking afler the habit Of chiblr, n n one w ho was net there to listen. Fvery evening at tins hour it bad been her cu torn to read from a storj book, while her sister worked With her needle. And now she held the book sideways to the I relight and said in a choked, stilled voice : "We left offal page 141. Minnie. It was the end af. a chapter." She stopped to look up at the vacant el. air to which her words were apparently addressed. As she did bo the book slipped from her lap to the floor. "Minnie isn't there," she whispered to herself. "I thought I Should ace her sitting in her hair. I can't start tbu new chapter if Minnio ian't with me, and the words choke me." she fumbled with a troubling hand at the collar of her black dress. The lOCtor I bought then that the passion of weeping WOUld break out uncontrollably, but he was disappointed. She picked up the fallen book and placed it carefully upon a shelf with a few others. From these she nlBtracted a bible. She stood a moment thinking. "Would it be wicked. I wonder?" she said to herself. "Jennie ( lark Once tried it, and God answered her tiiat way." Deciding in favor of the Khense that had entered her mind, the child tool, a pin from her dress, acrewed Up lu r eve-, and ,iio,- the point between the leaves of the volume. Opening it at the place thus indicated, she stabbed again with the pin point ami so marked a passage. Hutting a linger upon the passage she had chosen, the child carried It to the firelight and read, in the words of Berod, the king: "Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and 1 will give it thee." She jumped to her feet with a gasp of frightened astonishment. Apparently the words had for her more than a superficial significance, for she said, in a low, thrilling voice: "Il is true then; I can ask it. 1 was afraid to, hut- but Tin not frightened now a bit. l win ask God to send the Judg ment day, and to send it now, tii - rery instant It will be awful; Ott I shall see Minnie, and mother. And it must com.-; it is certain, positive! Perhaps I ought to go downstairs and tell Mrs. .leanings. Hut no, though. I won't; she would only laugh. And there are th üisands of other people; I cannot tell them all." "Ii! you hear her.'" vvhisperec Gideon to his companion. "Ah! He careful." Gideon bad taken a step into the room. The child, hearing nothing, wrapped in an assurance at once delicious, comforting . Qjd appalling, now opened the v ir tw. The room being the highest ' ,ve building was nearest to the stars nn advantage happily not considered by landlords. Confused sounds floated upward. The quiet. Heavena were covered with shining points, yellow and blue and gold and blood-red. The fieroe eye of the Dull flamed conspicuously. It attracted the child's attention. She lifted her face and began to speak. She told how lonely she was, BOW she could not live without those who had gone. Innocence is familiar with boil. She wanted to know What was the use of being alive when there was nobody in all the world whom -he could love or be loved by. It seemed to her then that there was but one alternative the end. On the threshold of her mighty re quest she faltered, for the terror of her player had soicl her. An '- traordinary sensation was upon her. She felt that she was not alone in the room. Her face turned white Then she went on steadily. Ihr voice sank to an awed whia per as word by word she unfolded her terrible petition. Her eyes wen fixed above, fearing at any instant to see the levin rend Iii stars. "And O, good Father," said the child, "when 1 :vy 'Now.' then let it Cone, then let me heir the angeht blowing with the trumpets all over the Iky.1 She sank her head into her open hands. A few moments passed. Suddenly she raised her face, the dread ful instant had come: lu r lips parted, "My child" said Gideon, He held her in his arms. Minnie's sister cried as if her heart would break. Why He ! Ten DeVO, At an army fort near New York there la a near-sighted captain who is Very sensitive abOUt his siht. He w,a's ' . i inee nf the very thickest make. in bis company is a prh ate who. es cept for his slovenliness, is one of the best SOkliers in the fort. He is an Irishman, and. like al! his counlr.vnn ii. quick at reply. His many good qualities have saved him from punishment, but his tongue got him into trouble the other day, The company's arais and clothes were being inspected. The captain looked at I lie private's belt ami said, angrily i "Your belts are alwavs dirty. What the deuce do you mean by it?" "I beg your pardon, sir." wS the reply, "but I think it hard thai when I lean my things with the naked eye they should be inspected with a magnifying glass." The private is now in the guard house for ten days, and hia leave to visit the city has been suspended indefinitely. N. Y. Tillies. Certnlnt). BrlggS -There's no use bilking t, man can't drink and play golf at the same time. 'irlggs S you've sworn off golf,

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liL'MOivOUS.

Many a kuiiic isn't worth the can Ih is p ... d us It r ah I trie i.ybu. -ruck. "Do you I binV compi . n of the waist is hurtful'." "It ian'l dangerous if the fallen knows the gin pretty well." tit. bonis Post. "livery man ha- his price," growled the pessimist. "Then Wifties mast ha i worthless." added t he opt im ist. "How's that'.'" "He i.ev, r has a eeut." rittsburg (!hi oiiic!i Tc:t graph. A Hard Problem. First Scientist "This Is a puzzling ease, indeed." Second Scientist "I should say so. Why, this would puzzle an smnteaffe cieuJ tiat." Ha! t i unre American. l ir-t Bummer Girl if you could spend the winter just where v ou ehoae wh- re WOUld you like to go?" Second Summer Girl "1 0 the I- f Man. of course." Somerv ilh- Journal. The Tragedian "I this the hostelry at which I stay, d hist season?" The ! Clerk "It is, good sooth; and hence this year we needs must have payment in advance." Indianapolis News. Hand Off. "What have you got that sign, 'Hands Off,' posted outside your works for?" asked the curious individual. "Because," returned the jocular mil! owner, "my men are oa strike." Philadelphia Record. His Pn ference. "Would you rather have something !e than a piece of pie?" tsked the kind neighbor f little Freddie, who had run an errand for bar, "Yes. meant," said Freddie, promptly; "I w u'd rut h. r hav' two . pieces." Ohio State Journal. BLIND TOM'S MEMORY. RemarLnhlc PtMNBltlOS HisplayeS by tbo I n in in, ( iiliirrd Ptaustst. Atlantic City continues to wonder ocr BHnd loin's wonderful memory. The fame of it has gone abroad in the land, m, that not only at some of in.- concerts, where an opportunity has been given, but in the informal crowds that occasionally gather around his chair there is a manifest tendency to test it penonelly, .Naturally the only subject on which the ca.-ual stranger can verify the accuracy of Tom's memory is that of previous performan ..-. So the questions that are asked ore all on that Subject, and Tom's memory is apparently infallible. He has never yet failed to tell upon Whit date he played at a given town; or, if he had played there several times, he knew it; and he knew when. After a concert career extending over nearly 4(1 years, one which has carried him over sil the continent, such a memory seems ulmost superhuman. When one considers further that this ia an absolutely uneducated man, with an absolutely untrained mcm1 ory without any great natural intelligence, except in his unexplainnb!e musics', instinct, and that one cannot call it heredity rising superior to circumstances, but one circumstance ri-ing superior to heredity, it heap mei still Toore remark- ! able. After one of his recent, concerts, says the Philadelphia Inquirer, Tom sat for some time as a target for question. They came from all over the house and Tom answered them without heeitstion, except for a certain hesitancy which, evidently be. longs to hfa speech rSthOf than to hia memory. He apeak a two or three words ami a pause, two or three more and another pause -rather autonssticslly, and never is known to fail to tack a civil "Sir" ou to every one of his replies. A man from Richmond, Ya.. asked Tom When he had given a concert there. And Ton answered readily enough: "In 1965, sir." But in his n. t qui itlon the man made the mistake of sayitiy: "Now. Tom. I'm goinir to fool you! When did you play" - explaining tn neighbors that he probably thought he played at a theater, whcrea.s he had played in a church. Hut Tom was silent as the grave until his manager said: "Tom. you know where you played at Richmond; tell the gentleman," And Tom promptly answered) "I played in the African If. E. church." "He did, indeed," said the questioner, "and WS were the only two While people there, 1 believe." One of Tom's most exciting recent XperiencM was his first encounter in the North Vmerican reading room with a graph opfaOM and a large musical bos known as a "regina." The latter perttcslsrly reduced him almost to a delirium of ecstasy. He had bis chair rolled up close to it. nnd insisted upon hearing its entire repertoire. am1 astonished his manager ami his audience by giving some selections from that repertoire in his m t concert. Bind Tom rattling olT the latest popular marches, Blind Tom playing "Florodora" wns n novelty. The olnlln. Here's a state of thing.-! Mr a. Greene pails upon Mr-, (.ray, and before they have a chSUCe to say any t hing, in comes Mrs. Hrovvn. Tne problem is as to the separation ot the Indies. If Mrs. Ureene goes, she will h av Mrs. prow n and Mrs. ('ray together to talk aboSt ber. If Mrs. Brown goes, she will be the subject of Mrs. bray's and Mrs. Green's conversation. If her two Tisitors go away together, then Mrs, Gray Will be the subject of conversation between those ladies. There is only one solution: Mrs. Cray puts on her things ami goes out with In r visitor, just for a walk.- -Boston Transcript. rae e n. "Papa, here's an expression I never heard before: 'That's the word with the bark on.' What does it mean'.'" "I suppose It means any word that'a writtea in s ahlp'a log." Chicago, Tribune.

RLVUHLICAN FINANCIERING. rr of the Popp! Ihm thf IXallonal aOltS Will KS4 He title tu urtUr it I'n tile.

'i ha protection! 1 1 and t ha I rusts have a new scheme to pre veal a reduction of the tariff bj wiping out the surplus, und as tli, proposition evidently has the approval a the money combine it umy be forced through the coming congress. Kepneeatative Fowler, the Washington star biforna us, wUI be the chair man of the banking and currency Committee of the next house of representatives, and he will make un effort to use the surplus to retire a large blocks of the greenbacks. The retirement of the yreenbaxJu has always been favored bv the national banks; they want complete command of the money market for their own notes, and they have always bud distinct dislike of the people's money, beenUM they could not extract any profit or advantage from it. The Star further informs us that: "Mr. Fowler, who will be assisted by oi her men of the same opinion as himself, would adopt one of I vvo plans. He would either cancel $",U,000,000 or $iuo,ooo.(i(o outright, without replacing the notes with any other class of money, or he would take from the available cash about 1100)00,000 in gold, which be believes could be snared, place that amount in the renrve fund of the treasury, and then as a Ilka amount of United States notes came in, cnnccl them ami issue gold certificates against the additional gold placed in the reserve fund, ibc reserve fund is now $150.000,000, and the addition of $100.000,000 to the fund would put the figure at 1250,000,000, Mr. Fowler and other advocates of the retirement of greenbacks would follow this policy until the treasury contained nothing hut gold or its representative in the treasury, removing the danger of the burden of demand obligations that confronts the countrv in case of pan les." Beyond retirement of greenbacks nr reduction of taxation there are only two methods of disposing of the surplus. These are the purchase of bonds or the increase of the deposits with national banks. ! The deposits already aggregate 1108,568,503, and this is considered In many circles ns tuiflicient for the hnnks to hold. It is the '.arrest .um of government money ever held by j the hsnks, except from late in 16Ö8 to I Csrly in 1900, when the payments to the government from the sale of three per cent, bonds were placed with banks to prevent a curtailment of money in the basisem world. Not for many years before that or since have the holdings of government money by bauks been nearly o large ns now Applications for deposits are being made right along by banks, but they ' are being Informed that the treasury has no intention of increasing the deposits at this time. Representative Fowler and other adi VoeetCI of the retirement of the greenbacks would like to ee the treasury i surplus accumulate o a still larger i extent than it is now doing, as thy would like opportunity to present their ideas to congress. The amount j of Fulled States notes outstanding : ),'t,,her 1 wns $34G.r,sl,016, and it is from this sum that Mr. Fowler weuld , begin the process of greenback retirencnt. This radical republican programme I :e rather amusing in one thing, and that la their great fear that the United States treasury will not be aide to meet its demands in ease of a panic. The great fear of the people who have : deposits in the. national lwnks j that , they will be the ones who will not he sbl to meet their liabilities. If the treasury was to call f,,r the 108,S08,S0f which has been loaned to the banks without Interest, there would ie a panic la WsB street which would at once extend all over the whole country. It i only a few dnys ago that these same batiks were nil bag on the treasury to retten them by purchasing bonds at the enormous premiums of 40 per cent. If this Is ne- ' essnry in the prosperous times they claim elst. whnt will become M e I CSary to do when hard times com, ngaln? COMMENTS OF THE PRESS. If President Roosevelt wanted to get on the right side of the eottth he evidently went the wrong way round In fraternislag with colored Booker Washington at the w hite house (abb . Wheeling (W. Va.) iö: ;-'er. Those republicans who favor the ship subsidy bill should examine the report of the commissioners of navigation, which says 30.1 veasetS were built in the United States during the three months ended September rto. The eXCUsa for the steal thai we must build up. with a bounty, the m rchsnt marine is thus officially shown tobe nonsense, The N", w York Sun and some of the other plutocratic newspapers are pretty wed done up in t heir fight with the Hearst papers the New York Journal, the Chicago American and the San Francisco Fxnminer for they have shown by the record that the plutocratic and trust-controlled Of an Is responsible for anarchy if newspa per criticism brings it about. As a rule republican journals appear to be much more interested in expedients for reducing the surplus by expending the money in building eansls and in the payment of subsidies than in effecting the ssme object through the repeal of oneroiu taxes. It is to he feared that when congress shall assemble like views may control Its action. Money Is power and pow er is n ttdtg never readily urrendered, ither by Individual! gff mUm Phib sd !ph'B Rseetd

DISAGREEING TARIFF DOCTORS

Msaufi I'ltrcm nS oilier Ski Dk KM geef So Hlndb lwre Heclurvttltjr. The Manufacturers' association ot Philadelphia ...t,, becu so worked up in its feelings about reciprocity and tariff reform that it risnlarn that, while favoring n-v ipmcity, it abaudon none of its protection views. ThlS if it mean anything, favors both aides of the question, for of course Ibers ens be no reciprocal nrrangement made with any foreign country relating to the tariff without both parties muke .some cucces sioo by redeeming their respective tariffs on commodities that they are willing to admit for a lower rate, and to that extent protection views have to be abandoned, it is hardly to Ikj wondered that the mauufucturershave lost their bearing und hardly know while they arc at on this subject. The Protective league and the Home Market club on the one side are ding ing into their ears that to ea&e up by ever o 1'Me on the present turiff would be to abandon thw whole theory ou which the wonderful and scientific tariff has been constructed and would soon bring ruiu oa its lienoflciaries. The ma DU faoturer and tbo trusts evidently Indieve this, for they donate liberally to the league to carry ou the fight for no change. On the other hand, they are told by tbo champions of reciprocity that their markets must ha enlarged or tb.-y will not be a'ols to dispose of their surplus products, which, under the stimulua of protection and the enormous profits they are thus enabled to make in the home market, have rapidly grown beyond what our own people can purchase. If no market is opened for their surplus iu foreign lund.s, production must be reduced to the home market level. As both of tiiese schooU of political economists promise just the id al conditions that the trusts and manufacturers want, tiny naturally favor both factions, not seeing, possibly, What ridiculous position thsy occupy. Thera are, however, some manufacturers and others interested who do not feel so kindly towards reciprocity. For instance, the hosiery and knit gooda people of New England find that their industry has been sacrificed by a reduction of 20 per cent, in the reciprocity treaty with France. The seed growers, with a like reduction, tiie nut growers tbe same and the prunegrowers with ten per cent., all of whom declare will reduce their profits by that proportion without any corresponding advantage or reciprocal arrangement. These ore the main ki.-kers at) reciprocity, outside of tliose who claim that the constitutional limitations restricting the origin of all revenue lays to the house of rjpreect ative is nullified because these reciprocity treaties are originated by the executive. These tariff doctors are certainly considerably mixed, amd withal they do not touch the Iniraing question of the tariff of whether trusts' productions that are sold to foreigners cheaper tehaa they are to our own people shall be placed on the free list. That is the democratic contention, and some few antitrust republicans believ so, too. TRUST INTENTIONS. Overthrow of l.absr Orgis ttoMS nnd the t snrpntlon. ot Bvsrj Kiatt. It is evident that the truata are intent on the overthrew of organized labor. The steel trust ha.; virtually dis orgsnized the Amalgamated association and will doubtless complete the job at the next attempt. It is announced "officially" that the presidents of the coal carrying roads of th eastern states have refused to consider any pi -"posals for a joint conference With the officers of the coal miners' organisation. The great coal p ntori bays decreed the death of union labor as did the steel trust the dnth of the Amalgamated association. However, in doing this the trust oflicia!s are cutting from under them the main support to their "right" to own th coal mines and the slee! factories and the railroads. Having had demands which they consider just turned down having been refused even a conference with their employers, what Is more natural than that th.se nu n should look for some other method of getting a hearing? Afler n careful investigation of the ways and means they will b arn a lesson from the employer that nf eon troilnir the Isw making and law eni forcing bodies of the country. That ! a majority shall rule is a principle I which we admit theoretically as right, the employes are largely in the major- . ity hence they learn, and they are being forced tO lesrn that they have the coveted power in their own hands to turn the machinery of government to their owe ndnntuge; they Will do it. And in doing this there w ill be no Infringement of the rights of t he minority then Will be no privilege or protection granted to one class of citirens which is denied to another, aa in the case to-day. The inevitable result of th imperialistic tendencies of the government is found in the annua! report of the heads of bureaus of the army and navy. They all demand more oiflcers and more men and tell of ths great danger to the country if their demands are not complied with. As the army has been raised to a maximum of 1 00,000 men and the naval force largely increaaed by the last congress, the former nt all evsnts far beyond what is necessary, these desnsmls for a still greater increase are pretty good proof that the rlemocratfe charge f militarism is rapidly being; aeoomptlshedi