Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 44, Number 39, Jasper, Dubois County, 30 May 1902 — Page 3

u ' 1 1 tha d!rgi art- swelling O'er blUi thai are dotted w ltd sruVes, Ai d mufti. 1 trodrum tiiut are l ill! K a N all on is nournlHK Itl I'l ' V' T ,r "m 'lieath 1 1) palmetto sleeping, i', i m- 'i:euth ill'' pine urn! tin- ; A true thronen the yssrs they am ksi ping, . ,r bO) - I It" On) -'I BltU : - in under palm tri are lv In, I '! ill native la I (1 KMii evi i hit . J-1 w .. . i.f ilil or. .in an -il,;i K. ii bri aklr.K In fBBtU OH Hut ihor I . i. rhotilder to shuiiMi r .is broth, rs Tili J dl il tu hum. mil) true, j r i 'ute'l fair children and mother, ( ur bO) ! UM tirny and the lilue. O! Northland and Southland united, r da) w : t h ur Ha at ha If -ii. n tonus of a nation ar righted, Dn hop. and om purpose at ! t; F r these are our i imrai! s who s ! umlx-r . atk blossoms thi' sun list of Ma) . - .! lo. In their rai.K- .:. w . i.uml r i mr hoy of the Hlue ar.d the Cray !: .Hi Raymond, in i 1 llousck' eptng. ff 0ü)BREASTW0R II. TOM. I (In hope fni ber m ont p to law with old Ma j. Loudoa! 1 1 s batd enough a- it it, but thai will make it ever ao much worse. I nu t Kat in the post office yesterday, and she pretended net to sea me," Ton Hartwood rapped the iron fron the plane he was. using, ami begun to a hi t it on tlie oils tone, Tin with you, Dorothy, ha said, " a hat art' you going to do about it ? Father bus settled it in bis mind that the major is wrong, and he's going to 'iv about it down here in Alabama, just thi- same as h' Would liark in n Hampshire. He Ian t bitter aboni, It, sind be can't .ee why the major should be." The bright -haired young gtl 1 sitting 'it the end of th workbench nodded her bead emphatically. "I know." she Mid. "Bui the mn jor I . Litter: he'd be untrue to all hi- tradit ions if he wasn't, doing to law with '.iy body down here is just like a declaration of war. The neighbor- take it up i l: both sides, and there's no end of trouble. .T ii t look at the Peterses and the Leeds ! They're ready t a fly at each itbef like eats and dops all the time." Tom laiiphi d. "If it ronei to that it will be pretty inc-Milcd with us." lie said. "The I oudena ued to own tlie whole valley h fore the war. nnd they set the pare for nearly everybody in it now. And , - between the bl uebl ooded old mnjor and a despised Vankee farmer, who nervlsti in plowinsj deeper than his neighbors, and tnakinjr money when everybody else i- loalnaj it" "Now . Tom. you know that i-n't fair. We couldn't bae been treated lietter anywhere than wa were t wo years ayo, when we lame here with mot her sick, ant father dtaeouraffed, and everyihinp so dreadfully dreary and-and i icky. Ererylwdj waawat as kind and thoughtful as could be. They never ! ked where wa eane from, and they -Jidn't seem to care." Torn'- plane was eurlintr lontr ihaTInfTS from the edpe of the board, nnd he lanphcd again, tfe was n broadshouldered youni fellow, with a resoInte Jam and tinaf raid ej and laiii;hii o eane easy to him. " It ro-ts a pet prejudice or two, but roure right, little atetcr. fbere la ran north nor south any more. Bui lhat H n't help us out of our tanple w ith the major." "No; and it's snob a little thine a foi ; ;i T, 1 1 a half of land 01 one side of an old field!" "A foot nnd eijrht inches." Tom eorrected, "I'.ut it's the principle of the fl inc with father. Ha belierca be is tight, and be is going to insist on that foot and eight inches, if it o-ts us Cterj friend we have in the valley. Dorothy'i gnat went adrift out of ti e workshop window, wandering a in iesaly until it alighted upon the bent iL' ire of a man digging in a distant leid. " h dear old pater!" she nid. soft1. "He is sn ju-t and upright thai be ha jiiite forpotten gOW 10 be peneriia, if this diapnte grows into a neighborhood quarrel, it vviii break Mother's heart." "That'- v,,." said Toin; but bl bad no helpful suggestion lo offer. The young pirl slipped down from her perch on tlie bench und went irto the twee! May Mins.hlne. She was n born peaeanakar, and the threatened trouble made ber heart ache. There Wert two yottltg people at the preat house on the knoll the ma jor's grand children'- ami everything had bees so asan) and nappy until the boundary pnti bad halved the apple of disCOrd between tbe two families. nd now she knew that Kate London Und her brother would have to be II j 1 to tin It grnndfathari and tbere "' nid be ne) more quartette pkmlea ' Iht "pocket." nor carry all dr! re to Mcl -I .Tack cave, nor Sunday evening nynn-atnglnga nrowasl the atd-faeh ioned firand piano in tbe Louden draw -' room, And her mot her would liav e to be tnldj and the aalgbbort would takttldi - igalnat Ihanttti Tom mid; nd 1 lie whole affair was alt ope t her t BO mi i rabla even to en;itctnplate. lo r gaae went nfleid again, and nught and found the ttoopittg lipure ' the dUtanca. she thoagh! it ami hrr father, and went aronnd Ihrongb l trcLard and out into the lana,

"JHe Graves

I IM Kg l' luk hi in ii n,i w., i m and i. . 1 iy oi.rc ruorr n, ,j, j ftmt Mi pnrpeee. Um mbm owl opposite the bent tig on- la a thicket of ok) fteM pines, ami gave u little start of Mir prise win-n she diaaorersd that tin' delvcr in her father's field was Muj Loudon's grizzled old h. ii - V I PI !l Ii I

"Why, Uncle Pate!" she Mid ' Sat ! are y mi doing here -' Ta a doin1 whol of Mar , Londoa am me tar do, Mi.-s Dortky; ami r awiahia' ava'y ninuta iiat disbyer sjia.ie brak off short up to da han'Ie,1 .-ait the old BagfO, rhaa Dorothj lookad over the fence and saw a row of froah!) i ,tholea. The major bad evident I j taken t he law in tu his ( n hands a ml was go inp to make sure of the nine point "f pi Musaaalon, Iocs my father kio.w here V she asked. V Oil are i I "No'm, I s'pect he don't. I'.ut I reckon he gwine find out 'fore long, I ies been watchin for him ter come j tarin out dishver vvav will hi a . .... ... ev c y minute" "You needn't be afraid. My f-.tber loa n't settle bis difficulties with a gun. Ami, anyway, be wouldn't iay any t Ii in; to j 0U." J be old negro leaned on bis spade and gUneod timorou.-iy over one shoulder toward the distant farmhouse, and over the other at the preat boUM M the knoll, MIa gwiae tall yon aonapto, Ifbu Dor'tbv. but you nua'n't never let on (hit I tol'hlt. ll Mar e Loudon ha been be. 1 1 in' dat your pa gm ine do lis an'dat an' t'other, an ha get pow'ful troubled mi bis min'. He ii let on to young Marse Percy like be pw ine to run your pa el'ar offn disbyer place 'fore he get t'rougb wid bi n." "Why, uncle; how could be do thai "" "Deed, I don' knos dat, Miss Dor'thy. 'Pcirs like de white folk-kin do OHM a nj t hing day w ants tor. He say somepin 'at t some ol deed dat ain't been s'rend'eil yit; an' when he 'low dat, young Marse Percy he des upan'r'ar back an' Missy Kate she let on like she gwiae ter cry. lien ol' Marse Bobbul look like he pw ine to brek somepin. on' 8HF KNELT TO READ holler at me ter tek de spade an' go dip I de?n postes-lnde .." Dorothy turned away sick at heart. she remembered something about a flaw- in the title; that there was an um ceo rded ap in the t raus fers of t he farm datinp back to its purchase by some former OWnet ma BJ J ears lief ore. It had been represent ed t bat the deed bad been lost in the regiatmr'a office, ami her father had s far departed from bis cautions custom as to BCCSpt tbe faulty title. And now. out of this trivial contention over a bit of land barely wide

enotiph to carry the boundary fence, ,-ral Army of Invasion." and these three was to prow a monstroua injuaticc slept among the beroca in the natimai which was to turn them out of house cemetery at Chntmnooga but t rue nnd home! DoTOthy'a breath came heroism knows no political creed, an I thick at tbe thought, but she was a the tenrs came piicl.lv when she picbrave cirl. and she hastened home tu lured this little band of sevea men ly-

do what she night before it should jm to late. She found her father in tbe stable putting the barneaa on one of the horses. There wai sterndetermination written la every line of the fine old face, "W here are you poinp. father .'" she ahedi "To town, to swear out a warrant against London for tre-pass." was the curt reply, "lie has sent his man .v er to move that line fence." Ill, f.-ither 1 wish voll Wouldn't! tad on Memorial day, too! Sureh-we . m ., ... i i.w .lov I .III .1 II... '. " -- r, - - of all other-.." "it isn't a question of generosity; I'd phe him the land willingly if be led it. but I won't let Ii i m take it when it doesn't belong to him. !.. f .1 in-t tllillL llOVV kiml they're all been to us since we came ' I sssi ai mm In El rl Il-nisl t ..in, tirf vw 1 ri !1 v. I ' ff 1 I Ik Tfl ( I . I 1 . I V a ' ..T..I. i,.ov Knie used to come over nnd sit up nipht after nipbt with; mot ber in ...... .. f..l ,;.. i ... i- , lll.il OHI HU .'. .. . apo? And bow the major need to come twice n day to ask if there wasn't something he could do for us?" The hard lines in her father's face melted ever so little, but be went on harncsslnp the hor-e. "No. 1 haven't forgotten! nnd I'd do as much for him nnd his ibis minute j I'm not nnprv. child, but it's a mat ter of principle. In justice to you and Totii. and to your mother. I am bound to defend my lep.'l ripht "Please iloti't po today, father. Won't vou wait just a little while.' A it stands now the major Is the sppressor, and I'm Kiirc he'll be Bony i.' voii'll only pive htm a little time to think about it." For a moment BBI though! he had won. lie paused with the bridle on bis arm. grasping the horse's forelock. Then he shook his bead snd slipped the bridle iota place.

141 no Ran, Dorothy, pirl If -get t conic, o.,iur or later, .,,,.1 pj rather have it I in mat over vviib." fsha let him po at i bat. but w ben he climbed t- bis seat in the sulky she gave bim a purtii.p word. "Iteir.eiaber the da., father--we u-.-d to mil it our foi jiv mg day' at home. Tblnk of the good thngs the major has dour for na,aad try to far glra him." wi.en he w.i- gone aha did not know w bat t.. do w nd hi r-i if. With the burden of the 1 1 read f ill sec let Weighing upon her tin- aeen t rbieh ahi bad not bared with tier father for feur she should lamp! him to forbear from unworthy motives -be ilareii not face ber mother, and Totn'l i he,i v w liistle warned barofffrom tba workshop. Bbt vv cut tot hr pa t e mid watched her

father driving down the winding road. II .,.u I. .Hi.... I ........... 1 1. ... ii imi tin i m ,iin, u i.ii un loop ns she could sec him ihe fancied that bis determiiiat ion was wavering. W hen the sulky disappeared over the final bill she opened the pate and walked aimlessly in the opposite fV rect in. Her walk wa a a long one, and it led her far up tbe llopea of the preat mountain which walls iu the sheltered valley on the west. Kear the elf fl line she bad Mumbled upon a dell thickly starred with IWeet -.enteil white nxnleaa; and ren;nbering in the nidst of her troubled moaiaga ber mother's fondness for this particular Wild flower, she bad Idled her arms with tbe fragrant bloomt. She came out of the forest at the foot of the mountain into an jen j -pace w hich appeared to be an old field loiijr uncultivated. It was in the little depression between the knoll am I the mountain, and the Loudon orchard ran dow n to its fart her edge. She could see tbe roof of the preat house above the trees in the orchard, and thinking to save time she c ut a loss tbe old field toward the road. In mid-paaaage sin- came upon a low. curving mound, grass-grown and baU bidden in a thicket of old-Iield pirns. It was the remains of an old breastwork, and between tbe horns of the THE INSCIUITION. curve w ere seven prnves. Only one of them was marked, and she knelt to read the inscription OB the plain white headstone: Sacrf-d to the m- m t- of CAPTAIN I BERT PERCY OORMM, who. with s.x mnitsr- I tili rummar.i!, s-o - u tits life on this spot, s. i did. r st; while mlctlr. the sdvar.ee of the Ki ;.'ral Army of lr.vaton. Dorothy's ejfoa were awhnmiag when she finished. She was alt opet ber of tbe other side; two uncles and her grandfather were of this same "Keilii'p bebiiui ttie rude In east w ork an! yielding up their live- freely in the cause which they believed to lie right, "Poor fellows." she- -aid, -oftly. "Ad the ,e y ears you've been Iv inp here for fotten in this lonely spot, and it hi left for the daughter Of those who foiipbt siiii-; y on to do you honor!" Swiftly and with deft fingers she twined the tarn naleas into seven wreaths and laid them reverently upon the sunken nounde, leaving the la-t for the grave of the captain. When she rose were briiiiininir npam. and her eyelie -aw bat indistinctly tbe martial RgUre of the old major, standinp in an attitude of reverence, with bowed head, the tips of his bug White mustache twitching curiously, snd he seened to be struggl'"- '"r spen h. ami without know- ... art w. ,,. out tohlm Mf WBT VOllfUP laCIV, M btTHl. he bee-j n. but somet b in-choked him and be bad to ,r.v apain. Do vou know who t base men c-o Thej w ere rebels; they die-. I tiphtinp for tlie 'Lost ause.' "I know" she said, simph : "but they thonpht it wa riirht; and they were 5 long as flows a river through

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A reunited Nation, with love that Is divine, w ill come each year with cbaplets to the camps where softly rest

Columbia's younq and pallant souL.

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And on each hero bieast shall Ite May's ever fraersnt bloom, PCr'And wreaths of evergreen shsll crown the soldier's cherished tomb;

Aye, from the Northlsod's ruffged heart to Southland's teptd wave Fair Msy will yield with sweet delight her blossoms for the brave.

brave no n. Aod- iii l to doy It Memorial dejr," 1 he t hjSJ of t lt. fierce w bite m Is ache twitched Bgaba, ami the Major took off bll bro.,d iu id but with the ffiTTl stately c )urtcsy. Tell me, Um Dorothy; did you collie here to J 1,,. ii.ubl Hot tilllkh, and bbe an-wered tbe anapoken quaa t ion. "Not purposely," she said. "1 had been pat bering wild Mowers, ami I came to re qu.te by accident. I didn't know there w as a ny one buried here." The major cleared his throat and came around to stand beside ber. "We buried them just where they fell; it seemed most proper and tittinp. The w . re un the picket line, and the order to fall back never reached them." "Did you did you know any of them 7" she faltered. The ere t fipure of the old soldier unbent at tbe question, and the major choked apain. They were all old neighbors of mine." be repoined; "and this boy this apt. liobert Percy tiordon was my sister's son and my name -child." bhe started back at the word, and the Baisers ble boundary wrangle cane to its own apain. "Then this is your land! these are your fdease forpive me. Ma j. Loudon I didn't know!" The stately- old man put on his hat with a bow that Lord Chesterfield Wight have envied. MItS getting light late. Mi-s Dorothy. Will you permit lue to see you safe to Votir father's bouse? He tucked her arm under his own.

Mn'1 'hey went, not by tbe road, but up tnrougn the orchard and past tbe preat house. At the side door which opened out of the library tbe major excused himself, and when he came out a moment afterward he was buttoning his coat. Five minutes later they were crossIng the road in front of t be farmhou-e. and tbe major's hand was on the pate latch when Dorothy's father drove up in tbe sulky. N'othw it hatanding all that bad befallen she expected an outburst of bitter words on one side or both, and caught her breath nervously, Hut there was no need. "Good eveninp. Neighbor Il.irtwood." said the major, genially. "I just found your little pyerl here, projeetinp aronnd in my old field, and I took t he liberty, lab, efaeelng bei -afe at home." .lohn Hart wooi wan a man of few words, but he climbed down from the sulky and made the proper acknowledgment of thanks. "And while I'm here." tbe major went on. "there's a little matter of justice that I'd like to set ripht. A pood many years apo, when I so!,! (,ff this place to old .TefT Anderson, there wax a deferred payment which was never made, instead of taking n mortgage I merely w ithheld the deed ; and when old Jeff died the matter wa- lost ipht of lost sipht of completely, sah, till the other day when I happened to run BCrOM the deed amonp some old papers. It has just occurred to me, Mb, that you need this deed to make your title pood, and here it U." lohn Hartwood took the deed, and while he was tryinp to find words in which to clothe a tumult of elf-re proaehfnl thoughts the major began apain. "And bout that contemptible little boundary matter, two or three feet, more or le.-s, shouldn't be allowed to come betwixt pood neighbors. Let yonr feme stand ripht where it is, sah." Whereat. John Hartwood found speech at last. "No." be -aid. firmly. was all wrong in that, major all wrong from the bepinninp. and I hi pe you will find it in your heart to forgive me. I examined the survey again today, and it's ju-t tbe other way around; I'm on your land a foot and eight inches snd The Interruption was the upcoming of old I'ncle Peter, spade on shoulder. "Kvenin. MfiSS Dor'thy; evenin. Mar-e Ha t wood; evenin', Marse Bobbut. I done ditr all dem postes-holes " The major broke in with an exploafoft "Why, von white-headed old scoundrel! po bach thnh and fill up those boles before I skin you alive, aabl Appear- to nie you're petting- mighty eh lid is fa in v our old ape it does, for a fact!" Dorothy slipped away in the midst of the explosion, nnd a few minutes later she had stripped her cheri-hed "Ii Xeipe" of its wealth of snow white bloom-, and was Hitting through li e old orchard with her arms laden with the frairrant burden. The t m lllght w as mellowing iato night n hen she reached the pro v - in t be old rifle pit . but t here w i- light enough to serve her purpo-r. When -be bad added her t ha n k - . fferinp of roses to the w reathes aalras she bail put there before, she stood be side tbe grave of tbe young captain. "Good-nigh t,M she -aid. softly. "On that awful September morning long ago vou fought against us. But today you've fought for us. flood-night, brave soldiers!"- Ladies' Home Journal. the Isnd ol rose and pine, her tendcrest and best;

THE SHIP SUBSIDY GAME.

abllraaa He Iter Nlilske of Foreluu Ibr Jub I pun the Reluctaut Country. When the Morgan steamship trust was formed, it w.o. expected that the preat railroad companies carrying freiphts t.i and from the Atlantic scale, aid wer,- behind the arrangement. It is this colossal combination of railroad ami iteamehfaj Usee that win dictate rates of freipht not merely from tb. seaboard, but from the w heat and corn fields of the far west. It was the fear that they would fat cut out of their share of ocean carriape or driven to a disastrous warfare of competition that compelled the HainburpAmerhmn and Bremen steamship companies to sacrifice their independence and enter the combination. It is now announced from London that the railroad and steamship alliance i appronehing eonaumnation. Yet in the midst of these arrangements, says the Philadelphia Itecord, the advocates of steamship subsidyare stil insist inp on the passape of tbe Hanna-Frye bill, and the house committee on merchant marine is holdinp daily session! to consider the propriety of favorably reportinp the bill. The incredulous farmers of the west are still told that subsidy is tie, essary in order to enable American shipowners to compete with Europeans, and thus lessen the cost of freiphts for American exports. This Is sa id w bile American sb ip companies have entered into an alliance with the same Europeans, under the leadership of an American financier, to prevent

AN IMMOVABLE OBSTACLE IN THE WAY.

Does the Big Man Know That He Is ocean competition, l'.v e ry new oceangoing ship launched on tlie Atlantic seaboard would receive Its subsidy as soon as built and he absorbed in the conibinat ionat the cxpensr of the American people. Without whipping the devil a ion ml the .-tump, tbe subsidy mipht a- well be given to tbe railread trunk lines at once. Tbe -eti.ite i- by no meSBS BO quick to respond to public sentiment a- the boose, whOM members must confront their constituencies every two yeara. Put no less than seven republican senatoropposed the sub-idy bill, although it was reeommended by ne eeaalve republican national conventions and pushed by t'hairman Hanna ns a party neuaore entitled to the loyal support of all republicans. In vain Senator Fry e and Senator Depew pleaded with unction that republican principles demanded the protection of nil American Ittdustriea, whether by duties or by subsidies, and that the American shipping- industry should BOl BC excluded from this protection. Tbe party whip could not lash the republican senators of Wisconaia, Iowa and New Hampshire into support of a scheme thai ie dually becoming by f ores of events more repulsive to the peopie. In the hou.e Opposition to subs id Ji hns been provvinir amonp the republicans since the beginning of the session, while the democrat- are nnnniBVOUSly apainst the scheme. This ehanpe among tbe republicans Is due, not to much to a wholesome sentiment apainst such lepislativa favorItlsm a.- to a lively sense of the political eonsecpiences of forc-inp this tubs id job upon a reluctant country. The prospect of tbe republican control of the next house is precarious enouph, tnd it is feared, with ju-t reason, that sult-iily is too heavy a burden to be borne. Hence the subsidy bill will not Ik pa--ed In this session of conütc. and in the march of events the plea- in it- favor will be still weaker before the next session. But theconnIfJ will not readily forpet that the republican leaders have done their tit -rnu-t in behalf of a dattgCroOt scheme to throW millions of public money into tbe lnp of great - t .-unship companies, un ler the pretense of serving the American nerehnnl marine in face if all the evidence of the useless extravapance of the policy. The appar. nt effort to quiet the Philippine OUtmgS question lends to a siogular logical contradiction. AI1 o gfa (len. Smith has been acquitted by the court-martial which, with thf ntecedent avowals of his counsel, can only mean that his order is jus t iged r,en. ( haffee has ordered the ItOppage of the water-curing nnd hns p-.scini'ed ti e order of concentration amp- in Lagnna nnd BBtengaa prvivInees, if it be tree a argued that wa-ter-cMirinp and hilling era baotutely (SSCntial to the process of Ivenevolent nss'-inilat in. then the order to stop neb tblnos must be wrong. If the order is right, then the finding, of the eonrt-martlal must he a defiance,--V V. World.

ROOSEVELT'S MILITARY ST YL8 Uualllira uf Hlelalur Have Hera Do eloped ftt ike Strraaaus I'rrtlSrsI, There is a manifest disposition

among t he republicans at the national capital to rebel upaiunl the leadership of Mr. Roosevelt who, under our political s-tciii, ii ex-oftlcio leader of the party to which be is indebted for ; his election. In the matter of iilmii reciprocity, as to which he was epeially emphatic and peremptory, his party in I the house accepted his leadership only with the preat et relu"ance, and t hen w it h such reservat ions as to make it little better than no leadership at all, says the ( hicago ( hronicle. In the senate, where the republicana are in a preat hurry to get home before more exposures of the necessary effects of the imperial policy make their party prospects more dismal, it appears to be the case that in selecting : the measure- which must be put through in order to save the credit of the party tin Ubaa bill has been left out. ! Thi- i- the more -ig-oincant, because the strenuous leader in the white house has proclaimed his purpose to reconvene congress immediately in es tra se--ioti in case it shall be so contumacious as to adjourn without a satis factory Cohan bill. Whatever the sentiment may be as ' to the merits of uban reciprocity and as to the duty of the i'nited .States in the matter, and whntever may be the influence of the beet sugar trust, it is I evident enough that there is a prevailHindering ths Launching Exercises? : mg dispositioa among the repubiicj ails of both houses to let the president know ii i; thej arenotdi-posed to take or, let - from him as to legislative policy. N i doubt !. . - i 1 1 - - bipot ed pro'.ect i 'Ii ist than tbe mosf of them, and they may be actuated larpclv by a delire to punish him for his more liberal leaning-. Hut there is reason to bcJiovt- they are actuated in a much greater degree by resent no tit aroused by his military style of laying bis commands on the legislative branch of the government and his threat of punishment in case of disobedience of orders. Mr. Boose ve It has developed the qualities of a military dictator rather than thoe of a political leader under a repubileaj gov arnment, nl a pretty itroBg expression ,,f re-entment is no more than natural, and is lfhely to proinee a mther wholaaomeefltect. PRESS COMMENTS. The Hanna presidential boom may be bandied now without any danger of explosion. Chicego Tribuns i Hep.). However, there is a good-ied chunk of President Roosevelt! pnrty that it is a di-t inct honor to nave alienated. Detroit Free Press. Republican papers are bu-ily announcingt bat t be sb ip subsidy bill Is dead. The people will not be deceived by that tri.k. It has been In id over until after the conpressional elections, and that is all. Indianapolis SeBtlnel. Republicanfl nre tryinp to keep in the middle of the road. But they will iad it hard to keep straight and strong in the middle west, where goool republicans are openly declaring t list the tariff is arsponsiblc for the trusts. V. V. Weekly. lhe ci '' "f the war in ths Philippines will ! .- decisive factor In tin- campaign of Iff, unless in ths meantime it - Inhumanity is disproved, or those accountable for nny atrocities have been summarily dealt with. Chicago Reeord-Herald (Kep.). There i s no thing touching in the speetaela of Mr. llanna roosting on the while bOBM steps in the chill gray of the m rning aw it inp an opportunity to importune the president in behau of Ratbbi me, I be cent leted looter of the Cuban postal system. Tlmea change. Mr. Ha una once commanded. Chicago 1 hr nicle. Freer trade is renr;y the cry. And that BS1IB1 come. The cine was put HO clearly nnd convincingly by Mr. McKinley t Boffalo that the lunger the conn try ponderR the subject the stronger the demnfid Is for inch chanpes in the tariff schedules as will bring them In accord with the titnetc. ' the period of exclu.-lve-n-'sa Is past." Free trade, properly so-cnlled, Is neither possible n.r desirable, but freer trade is SjOW c,ne of the most jre-sinp necwsttles of our national well-being. -AVoshingtoei Star (Kep.).