Ligonier Banner., Volume 31, Number 16, Ligonier, Noble County, 23 July 1896 — Page 2

5 . . ' ¢ - The Ligonicr Banner, TIGONERR: 1 50 1. T iNDbrANA. Sun. | Mon. | Tue. | Wed. | Thur.| Fri. | Sat. ¥ i 000 000 ebo l 2 3 4 E -4 51 81 7r 81 921101} 12(13[14[15(16[17[18 19120(21(22|23]24 |25 F T ?‘—\’JE e e e e 5e A A oe 0 12078 A scientist in Minnesota has invented a flying machine that is the most perfect of its kind ever constructed. It has only one defect—it will not fly. Developt;(;;;;_i—n-&l—e-fafi; and Gould cases show pretty conclusively that every millionairé should make a care- ~ ful census of his widows before depariing this life. ‘ ‘ e —————— It appears after carefyl inquiry that of the 50 establishmeirits in the United States which have adopted the system of profit-sharing, only 12 continue it. Five have abandoned the system indefinitely and 33 permanently.

Another prophet has arisen to re‘mark that the judgment day is at hand. This tinie he calls himself Samuel Hendrickson, and he proves his point by voluminous quo;aticfi from. the ‘Bible and the Declaration” of Independence. But lie considerately leaves enough of the tattered edge of time for McKinley’s administration. The trump is booked to sound in 1900.

Forty thousand Japanese have become professed Christians through the efforts of niissionaries. Among these are many high in social rank and of the greatest intellectual power Afnd influence. Independent in all things, the Japanese now desire to direct the affairs of the native churches themselves and are -growing restive under the leadership and control of mission boards.

According to the latest estimates the world contains 1,450,000,000 people, of whom 400,000,000 are Buddhists, 250,000, ‘OOO are Brahmins, 180,000,000 are Mohammedans, 8,000,000 are Jews, 150,000,pooareidolatorsand 62,000,000 are classed as ‘“various.” Of the Christians, 175,000,000 are set down as belonging to the several branches of Romfatho]icism, 110,000,000 are classed a 8 Protestants, 90,000,000 are Greek Catholies and 25,~ 000,000 are “various.” e

According to present prospects the oat crop in the United States this year will be by far the largest ever known. The demand for oats has suflered a remarkable decline since the substitution of electricity for horses on so many street railways, but there is still a ray of hope for the farmers. The consumption of oatmeal and similar prepared food is rapidly increasing, and it is possible that because of this the growers of oails will eventually have their market restored to them. 9

Bishop Turner (colored) is still active in urging the better class of negroes in the south—those who are thrifty,

able-bodied and ambitious—to migrate to Africa. At Selma, the other evening, he held forth on the subject for four hours at a stretch, An agent of the Liberia Emigration: society sat beside him. This agent told a reporter that he had boocked about 400 negroes in that part of Alabama and hoped to get 1,500 on his list before winter. 5

Mexico has some of the features of nur-electoral system, the people voting for eléctors and the electors for president. But the number of her electors 18 16,000, the objeet being to protect the country against revolutionary movements by taking away the chance of corruption or intimidation that

would exist in the case of a small electcral college. President Diaz, recently chosen president for the sixth time, received every electoral vote. =

Enough is already known of the refults of the French census taken last March to render it certain that the population of France during the past five years has remained practically stationary. The country towns are beicg slowly but surely depopulated,while the great cities, with the exception »f Marseilles, are showing less vitality in growth than before or since the Napeleonic wars. Paris has gained sinee 1891 only 63,998 inhabitants, while half a century ago it gained every five years an average of 170,000: :

A French traveier and writer says that in Canada the children of _the French descendants are all learning the English language. They speak the Lnglish language among themselves and to strangers. The French they speak ‘to' their mothers. avho taught iem the language. He says that it is nly b question of time when English

willDe universal in Ameriea. One language is enough for one people, when that language is the English, whie&h I 8 understood the world round. Any 'additional language is a luxury, to be'desired, ipdeed, but we daresay it is not necessary. ... :

In the history of the republican and democratic parties we know of hut one instance where a man, baving been nominated for yiee president afterwars declined to run and refused toallow bis name to go on the ticket. That was the case of Benjamin Fitzpatrick. of Alabawma, who swas nominated in 1860 for vice president on the ticket of wl\ich‘ Stephen A, Douglas was the head. Mr. Fitzpatrick, who was "United States genator from Alabaima at the time, re-] Afused to remain on the ticket, and his place wus filled by the national committee's appointment of Herschel V. Johngon. of Georgia. ; The oldest town in Oregon—Astoriu, Afounded by John Jaco’ Astor in 1811, ar.d from which he was driven out in 1812 by the English-—has become a place of considerable importance. It is th: headquarters of the salmon packing indostry of the northwest, and distributes the entire pack of the Columbia tiver, amounting to almost 500,000 cases yearly, valued at $3,000,000, and consuming 50,000 boxes of tin plate. Efforts are now being made to connect ‘Astoria by rail with Portland, but with ‘the great river and fast steamers a short-line railway will probably be a e e s f’f»%" oty IR e A SRS WP

. ; Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION, _ FROM WASHINGTON. Do Appeals were made at the closing session in Washington of the Christian Endeavor convention for aid for Armenians and thg speakers assailed the governments "of‘ Europe, England and the United States for their indifference toward the Armenian slaughter. The agricultural department has made an appeal for the observance of a “bird day” in the schools throughout the country, to protect them from wanton destruction. ~ In the United States the visible supply of grain on the 13th was: Wheat, 47,220,000 bushels; corn, 9,188,000 bushels; oats, 8,228,000 bushels; rye, 1,455,000 bushels; barley, 768,000 bushels. A report of the navigation bureau shows that during the year ended June 30, 1896, 700 vessels of 204,000 gross tons were built in the United States, ugainst 682 vessels of 133,000 tons for last year. . i THE EAST. 3 A-lamp exploded in the home of Dosty Martin, at Malone, N. Y., and Mrs. Martin and her mother, Mrs. Treadeau, were burned to death. :

The new directory of New York makes the populdtion of that city over 2,000,000. : ; : ;

A train on the Lehigh Valley road was thrown from the track near Hazleton, Pa., by a cow and Engineer Dowder was killed and more than a score of passengers were hurt, several of them fatally. The death of Luther Whiting Mason, who was famous the world over as the ‘teacher of the chart system of teaching music in public schools occurred at Buckfield, Me, s Republicans of Delaware under the leadership of J. Edwartl Addicks, met in convention at Dover and nominated a state ticket headed by John H. ~Hgffeker, of Smyrna, for governor. Jonathan 8. Willis was named for cengressman. The platform indorses Mc+ Kinley and Hobart and the muintenance of the gold standard. : The New Hampshire prohibitionists ‘will hold their state convention in Concord August 5. o Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Driscoll were burned tq,death in a tenement house fire -in Boston and Mrs.. Margaret Ilogan, a widow, received fatal injuries. A cloudburst did great damage throughout Pittsburgh and Allegheny. It is estimated that theloss will reach $1,000,000. ' In New York the executive committee of the state democracy met and repudiated the Chicago platform. At Oswego, N. Y., the 100th anniversary of the’evacuation of Fort Ontario by the British was celebrated. In Delaware the Higgins faction ol the republican party met at Georgetown and nominated John C. Higgins for governor arnid R. C. Houston for congress. : ‘ '

. TWERE AND SCUTH. . Children under 15 years of age who are found cn the streets of Columbus, 0., unaccompanied by parents or guard-. ians after nine o’clock at night will be arrested. : : In the city infirmary in Cincinnati eight persons died from the effects of overindulgence in lemonade and greex fruit. In Baltimore Mrs. Thomas Wooiford, aged 64, and her sister, Mrs, Elizabeth Slemaker, aged 65, were burned to death by the explosion of a lamp. at their hdme. ] . Flames in Lieber’s brewery at Indianapolis wrecked the plant, causing a loss of $135,000. | ; :

. Near Marshall, Minn., a young man named Beltrart in fgn tied a rope around the neck of his two sisters and then fastened one end to a pony. The horse ran away and the girls were choked to death. 5

The court of appeals ik Kansas has declared ineffective the law under which divorces have heen granted in the state for over 25 years. . - At Marengo, la.. N. B. Holbrook. one of the most prominent citizens, tailed for $2OO.

Tn Decatur, 111., the Young Brothers & Maris company, 'wholesale grocers, failed for $112.000. -

The National Business Men’s League of America has issued an address to the business men of the United States pointing out the danger threatened to the national credit by the nomination of William J. Bryan for president by the democratic convention. i

Near Reagan, in the Indian territory, three Texas horse' thieves were found hanging %o the limb of 2 tree. Candidate Bryan said in a speech at Centralia, 111., that the money question was the sole issue in the present campoign. . > ' .

By the sinking of a scow James Barber and his son William, of Marinettd} Wis., and two -unknown men were drowned in Green bay, off/ Peshtigo Point, Wis. 0 :

Florence Mills, aged 17; Birdie Mills, aged 14, m;,d Helen Cheney, aged 13, were drowned while bathing at Lake Minnetonka, a summer resort uear Minneapolis. v lowa republicans met at Des Moines and nominated the following ticket: Secretary of state, George 1.. Dobson, of Des Moines: auditer, C. G. McCarthy, of Nevada; treasuren, John Herriott, of Stewart; attorney general, Milton Remley, lowa City, renominated: supreme judge, Scott M. Ladd. of Sheldon; railroad commissioner, Ed A. Dawzon, of Waverly. The national platform was heartily indorsed, - Gold democratic leaders who have organized in Illinois opered national headquarters in Chicago and say they have been promised sufficient support to make a national convention a certaintyv. .

InChicago Davidson & Sons, manufacturers of marble mosaic and tiles and wholesale dealers in marble and granite, faited for $300.000. ¢

. The firm of J. W. Hewry & Sons, of Saginaw, Mich., extensive lumber man-. ufacturers operating .at Fenelon Falls, Ont.. failed for $500.000, Addie Tillman, the eldest daughter of Senator Tillman, was killed by lightuing on a mountain near Vievard, N

. The democratic nominee for president.. William Jennings Bryan, visited his birthplace, Salem, 111., avd wae given a hearty reception.

; The death of Mrs, Mary Ilarlan, mother of Senstor Harlan, of Towa, occurred ‘at the home of her son-in-law, John Brown, in Parke county, Ind., aged 100 kyenrs and 5 months, | . Chieago and New York have heen se« l< ieeted ns headquarters of the nepublican ’fiational committee, and memhbers of the committee will be in the city all the time during the campaign.,

~ Republicans nominated George Spalding for congress in the Sccond district of Michigan, the democrais named W. T. Zenoxl in the Third Indiana district, and the populists nominated E. E. Lemmon in the . Seventh district of Minnesota.

. South Dakota populists met at Huron and nominated Andrew See for governor and J. E. Kelly and Freeman Knowles for congress. A resolution indorsing Bryan’s candidacy for president was indorsed. ;

In the river at Franklin, Neb., lenry Daniels and wife were drowned.

At Santiago, Minn., mnine children in a family named Allen died frcm the effects of drinking poisoned lemonade.

A rain and winastorm of cyclonic character did much damage to preperty and crops in southern Michigan aggregating $150,000. , ' ' Nearly 1,000 women from Cleveland called'on Maj. McKinley at his home in Canton, O. v

At Little Rock, Ark., the populist convention nominated A. W. Files, of Pulaski county, for governor. : The following congressional nominations were made: Indiana, Third district, Robert J. Fracwell (rep.); Fourth William G. Holman (dem.). Georgia Second ,district, J. M. Griggs (dem.); Fifth, L. F. Livingston (dem.) renominated. Minnesota, Sixth district, Page Morris (rep.). At Coeburn, Va., Mary Snodgrass was ‘hanged for the murder of her child. Washington Smith was killed by D. F. Rodgers in a duel at Knoxville, Tenn. Smith was the father of 14 children, including four sets of twins. Through the ports of Sault Ste. Marie and Port Huron the country is being flooded with low-grade teas. These teas have been rejected at New- York and Boston on account of their inferior grade. ; John Altheit and George Alexander, fishermen, were caught in a gale at Vermillion, 0., and drowned. ' Leonard and'Charles Birrer, brothers, aged about 20 years, were drowned while swimming at Quincy, 111.

‘ At Cleveland, 0., 15 mem were drowned in the old river bed by the capsizing of a skiff in which they were returning from work.

Land sales of the Northern Tacific company during the fiscal year just closed amounted to $1,641,551, an increase of nearly $1,000,000 over the land sales of the previous year. §o : The Baptist Young People’s Union of America opened its sixth international convention in Milwaukee with delegates present from every state in the union, as well as from Canada. The report of the secretary showed a total of not less than 8.000 societies, with a membership of more than 400,000.

Near Manitou, Mich.,, Mrs. Foster, aged 75, and her daughter, Mrs. Thompson, -aged 34, were instantly killed in a runaway accident, and a son of Mrs. Thompson was fatally injured.

‘The First national bank of Hillsbhoro, 0., closed its doors. . .= :

FCREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

In Londcn the sculling race for the championship of the world and a stake of £l,OOO, between Charles R. Harding, of London, and James Stanbury, of Victoria, Australia, was won by the latter. In Mexico Porfirio Diaz was reelected president for four years, rcceiving every vote of the 22,000 electors. A man named Francois fired at President Faure in Paris, but the cariridge was blanlk. % ;

Dispatches from Cuba state that the inerchants of Havana have refused the last issue of paper momney. A decrae has been issued by Gen. Weyler obliging all foreigners to inscribe their nationality on a special register to be reported by .the general government.

- William Eustis Russell, ex-governer of Massachusetts, died suddenly of rleart disease at a fishing camp at St. Adelaide, Pabos, Quebec. Mr. Russell was 39 years of age and leaves a wife and three children.

.With Lieut. Peary’s arctic expedition on board the steamer Hope sailed from Sidney on her northern voyage of exploration. ; : At Elgin, in the Diabeker district of Armenia, a massacre occurred in which 400 persons were killed by the ‘l'urks and the village was pillaged.

LATER NEWS.

‘The' correspondence between Secretary Olney and Lord Salisbury on the question ‘of international arbitration has been made public and shows that, while considerable progress’ has been mgde towards the desired end, and indicating that a satisfactory conclusion will be reached, yet no vital point has been agreed upon.

The Hallet & Davis company, dealers in pianos and organs in Chicago, failed for $140,000. . : At the international convention in Milwaukee of the Baptict Young People’s Union John H. Chapman, of Chicago, was reelected president and Denver was chosen as the place of meeting in 189§8. °

Frank June and his wife and child, of Grand Haven, Mich., were drowned in the lake by the upsetting of a boat.

There were 216 busincss failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 17th, against 219 the week previous and 256 in the corresponding period of 1895. . e

'Che post office safe at Carrollton, 0., was blown open by burg‘lars,an(i} large amount of money, stamps, and a number of registered létters were stolen. John E. Howard, députy town marshal of Tulare, Csl., who killed Martin de Larna two years ago during a politi‘cal quarrel, was hanged at Folsom. William J. Bryan, democratic candidate for president, arrived at his home in Lincoln, N'eb., and was greeted by an immense crowd. = ~ : A stateiment prepared by the commis~ sioner of immigration shows that 343,#67 immigrants arrived in this country during the fiscal year ended June 30, against 258,536 in 1895. , : The nineteenth annual meeting of the American Bar associaticn will be held at Saratoga Springs August 19,20 and 21 next. ] :

In the vieinity of the Brown . company's works at Cleveland, 0., there were several riots and an open conflict between the mob and militia; during which 1,000 men were put to flight at the point of the bayonet. . The New York State Dmmkers’ association in session at Niagara Falls de¢lared strongly for the continuance »f ‘the ‘gold _stn‘%flgfl‘. S ~ The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during {the week ended on the 17th aggregated $954,,742,303, again:t $985.244,072 the previous week. The decrease compared . with t};x_e“"éqrresx{onding'week in 1808 gy . v

BRYAN’S STIRRING SPEECH.

“Boy Orator” of Nebraska Awakes the Greatest Enthusiasm.

Arouses the Multitude by His Eloquent Plea for the Free Coinage of SilE ver—Greatest Speech of the Conventlion. ¥

. & ' Ex-Congressman William J. Bryan, of Nebraska, by his able oratorical efforts, created a scene of the wildest excitement and enthusiasm at the Chicago convention that has ever been witnessed in the history of national political conventions. The immense audience tvent fairly wild over his burning words, and there is good reason to believe that his masterly effort went far towards securing for him the nomination. Mr. Bryan, after the applause Wwhich greeted his appearance on the platform had subsided, said: “Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of This Convention: 1 would be presumptuous indeed to present myself against the distinguished gentleman (Senator David E. Hill) to whom you have listened if this were but a measuring of nbility, but this 1s not a contest among perscns. The humblest citizen in all the land when clad in the armor of a righteous cause is stronger than the whole hosts of error can bring. I come to speak 'to you in defense of a cause holy as the cause of liberty—the cause of humanity. [Loud applause.]

“When this debate is concluded 2 motion will be made to lay upon the table the resolution offered in commendation of the administration, and also the resolution in condemnation of the administration. I shall object to bringing this qucstion down to a level of persons The individual is but an atom; he is born, he acts, he dies, but principles are eternal, and this has been a contest of principles.. Never before in the history of the country has there bheen witnessed such a contest as that through which we have passed. Never before in the history of American politics has a great issue been fought out, as this issue has been, by the voters themselves.

Progress of Silver Movement.

“On the 4th of March, 1895. a few democrats, most of them members of congress, issued an address to the democrats of the nation, asserting that the money question was the paramount issue of the hour; asserting also the right of a majority of the democratic party to control the position of the pa this paramount issue; concluding w request that all believers in free coinage of silver in the demiocratic party should organize and take charge of and control the policy of the democratic party. Three months later, at Memphis, an organization was perfectec, and the silver democrats went forth openly and boldly and courageously proclaiming their belief, and declaring that if successful they would cerystallize in a platform the declaration which they had made; and then began the conflict, with a zeal approaching the zeal which inspired the crusaders who followed Peter the Hermit.

“Our silver democracy went forth from victory unto victory until they are assembled now, not to discuss, not to debate, but to enter up the judgment rendered by the plain people of this country. [Applause.] In this contest brother has been arrayed against brother and father against son. The warmest ties of love and acquaintance and association have been disregarded. Old leaders have been cast aside when ithey refused to give expresgion to the sentiments ot those whoni they would lead and new leaders have sprung up to give direction to this cause of truth. [Cheers.] Thus has the contest been waged, and we have assembled here under as binding and solemn instructions as* were ever fastened upon the representatives of a people.. : Not a Question of Personalities.

“We do not come as individuals. Why, as individuals we might have been glad to compliment the gentleman from New York, Senator Hill, but we knew tha!' the people for whom we speak would neve: Ye willing to put him in a position wherc he could thwart the will of the 'democra ic party [Cheers.] I say it was not a questiun of persons; it was a question of principle; and it iz not with gladness, my friends, that we find ourselves brought into conflict with those who are now arrayed on the other side. The gentleman who just preceded ma spoke of the old state of Massachustts. Let me assure him that not one person in all this conventionentertains the least hostility to the people of the state of Massachusetts. [Applause.] But we stand here representing people who are the equals betore the law of the largest citizens in the. state of Massachusetts. [Applause.]

Business Men Defined.

“When you come before us and tell us that we shall disturb your business interests, we reply that you have disturbed our business interests by your course. [Great applause and cheering.] -t We say to you that you have made too limited in its application ,the definition of business man. The man who is employed for wages is as qruch a business man as his employer. [Continued cheering.] The attorney in a country town is as much a business man as the corporation counsel in a great metropolis. The merchant at the cross roads store is as much a business man as the merchant of New York. The farmer who goes forth in the morning and toils all day, begins in the spring and toils all summer, and by the application of brains and muscle to the natural resourcs of this country creates wealth, is as much a business man &s the man who goes upon the board of trede and bets upon thé price of grain.” The " sentiments of the speaker were cheered again and again, and the galleries seemed to be a mass of whité because of the handkerchiefs waving. It was some minutes before Mr. Bryan could be heard. Hc¢ proceeded as follows: ‘““The miners who go 1,000 feet into the earth or climb 2,206 feet upon the cliffs and bring forth from their hiding places the precious metals to he poured into the chan; nels of trade are as much business men as the few financial magnates whe in a back: room coiner the money market of the world. ‘“We come to speak for this broader cla=s of business men. Ah, my friends, we say not one word against those who live upon the Atlantic coast; but those hardy pioneers who braved all the dangers of the wilderness, who have made the desert to blossom as the rose—those pioneers away out there, rearing their children near to nature's “heart, where they can mingle their voices with the voices of the birds—out there where they have erected schoolhouses for the education of their young, .and churches where they praise their Creator, and cemeteries where sleep the ashes of their dead—are as deserving of the consideration of this party as any people in this country. [Great applause.] It is for these that we speak. We do not come as aggressors. Our war is not a war of conquest. We are fighting in the defense of our homes, our families and posterity. [L.oud applause.] We have petitioned and our petitions have been scarned. YWe have entreated and our entreaties have been disrcgarded. We have begged and they have mocked, and our calamity came. We beg no longer; we entreat no more: we petition no more. We defy them. [Great applause and confusion in. the silver delegations.] " An Andrew Jackson Needed. “The gentieman trom Wisconsin hassald that he fears a Rebesplerre. My friend, in this land of the free you need fear no tyrant who will spring up from among the people. What we reed is an Arndrew Jackson to stand as Jackson stood against the encroachments of aggrandized wea.'h, {Great zpplause,} They tell us that th's platform was made to catch votes. We reply to them that changing conditions make new issues: that the principles upon which rest democracy are as everlasting us the hiils, but that they must be applied ta new conditions as they arise. Conditions have arisen, and we are attempting to meet those conditions. They tell us that the income tax ought not to be brought In here—that it is a new idea. They criticise us for our criticisms of the supreme court of the United States. My friends, we have not criticised. We have simply called attention to what you know: 1f you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinion of the court. That will give: you criticisms. [Applause.] = = o ““Fhey say we passed an unconstitutional law: ¥, den‘z it. The income tax was not unconstitutional when it was passed., It ‘was not urconstitutional when it went be‘foré the supreme court for the first time, It did not become unconstitutional untii one judge changed his mind, and we can- | not be expected to know when a judge J will change his mind. The Income tax 15 & just law. It sinply intends ‘ww“' burdens of goyeriment gmly upon the backs of tie wf lln Tavor of an. Incomeé tax. [Applause.] wwrw4 Riy SN eARR T e RS P G RER D Reß i S

of the burden of the government which protects him 1 find a man who is unworthy to enjoy the blessings of a government like ours., [Applause.] s : ; No Use for National Banks. ‘““He says that we are opposed to the national bank currency. It is true. If you will read what Thomas Benton said you will find that he said in searching history that he could find but one parallel to Andrew Jackson. That was Cicero, who destroyed the conspiracy of Cataline and saved Rome. He did for Rome what Jackson did when he destroyed the. bank conspiracy and saved -America. [Applause.] We say in our platform that we believe the right to coin money and issue money is a function of the government. We believe it. @ We believe it is a part of sovereignty, and can no more with safety be delegated to private individuals than we could afford to delegate to private individuals the power to make penal statutes or levy laws for taxation. [Applause.] © *“Mr. Jefferson, who was once regarded as good democratic authority, seems to have a different opinion from the gentleman who has addressed us on the part of the minority. Those who are opposed tu. this proposition tell us that the issue of paper money is a function of the bank, and that the government ought to go out of the banking business. I stand with Jefferson rather than with them, as he did, that the issue of money is a function of the government, and that the banks ought to go out of the government business. - “They complain about that plank which declares against the life tenure in office. They have tried to strain it to mean that which it does not mean. What we oppose in that plank is the life tenure that is being built up at Washington, which excludes from participation in the benefits the humbler members of our society. I cannot dwell on this longer in my limited time. [Cries of ‘‘Go on.”] Answer to Mr. Hill. ‘“Let me call attention to two or three great things. The gentleman from New York says that he will propose an amendment, providing that this change in our law shall not affect contracts already made. Let me remind him that there is no intention of affecting those contracts, which, according to the present laws, are made payable in gold. But if he means to say that we cannot change our monetary system without protecting those who have loaned money before the change was made I want to ask him where, inlaw or in morals, he can find authority for not protecting the debtors when the act of 1873 was passed, but now insist that we must protect the creditor. He says he also wants to amend this law and provide that if we fail to maintain a parity within a year we will then suspend the coinage of silver! We reply that when we advocate a thing which we believe will be successful we are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our owh sincerity by trying te show what, we will do if we can. I ask him, if he will apply his logic to us, why he does not apply it to himself? He says that,he wants this coun~ try to try secure an international agreement. Why deesn’t he tell us what he is going to do if they fail to secure an international agreement? There is more reason for him to do that than for us to fail to maintain the parity. They have tried for'so years—for 30 years—to secure an interna‘tional agreement, and those are waiting for it most patiently and don’t want it at all. [Cheering, laughter, long continued.j The Paramount lssue. ““Now, my friends, let me come to:the great paramount issue. If they ask us here why it is that we say more on the money question than we say upon the tariff question, I reply that if protection has slain its thousands the gold standard: has slain its tens of thousands. If they ask us why we did not embociy all these thiags in our platform which we believe, w¢ reply to them that. when we have restored the money of the constitution all other necessary reforms will be possible, and that until that is done there is no reform tha: can be accomplished. [Cheering.] Why is it that within three months.such a change has come over the sentiments of this country? Three months ago when it was confidehtly asserted that those who believe in the gold standard would frame our platform and nominate our candidate, even the advocates of the gold standard did not think that we could elect a president, but they had good reason for the suspicion because there is scarcely a state here to-day asking the gold standard that is not within the absolute contrcl of the republican party. [Loud cheering.] But note the change. Mr. McKinley was nominated at St. Louis on a piatform that declared for the maintenance of the gold standard until it should be changed into bimetallism by an internationdl agreement. Mr. McKinley was the most popular man among the republicans, and everybody three moenths ago in the republican party prophesied his election. How is it to-day? Why, that man who used to boast that he looked like Napoleon—[iaughter and cheers]— that man shudders to-day when he thinks that he was nominated on the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo. [Long and loud cheering.] Not only that, but as he listens he can hear with ever-lasting distinctness the sound of the waves as they beat upon the lonely shores ot St. Héelena. [Cheers.] Why this change? Ah, friends, is not the change evident to anyone who will look at: the matter? It is no private character however pure, no personal popularity however great, that can protect from the avenging wrath of an indignant people the man who will either declare that he is in favor of fastening the gold standard upon this people or who is willing to surrender the right of self-government and place legislative control in the hands of foreign polentates and powers.”' [Cheers.] The continued chegering made ilt impossible for the speaker to proceed. It wasrenewed as the chairman vainly and repealedly rapped, for order. Finally, Mr. Bryan, raising his hand, obtained silence long enough to say that he had only ten minuges, and he asked the audience to let him occupy that time. He theu resumed: : Confident of Winning. ‘“We go torth confident that we shall win. Why? DBecause:upon the paramount issue in this campaign there is not a spot of ground upon which the enemy will dare to challenge battle. Why, if they tell us: that the gold standard is a good thing, we point to their platform and tell them that their platform pledges the party to get rid of a gold standard and substitute bimetallism. [Applause.] If the gold standard is a good thing why try to get rid of it? [Laughter and continued applause.) I might call your attention to the fact that some of the very people who are in this convention to-day and who tell you that we ought to declare in favor of international bimetallism and thereby declare that the gold standard is wrorg, and that the principle of bimetallism is better, these very people four months ago were open and avowed advocates of the gold standard and telling us that we could not legislate two metals together, even with all the world [Renewed applause and cheers.] I want to suggest this truth, that if the gold standard is a good thing we ought to declare in favor of its retention and not in favor of abandoning it; and if the gold standard is a bad thing, why should we wait until some other nations are willing to help us to let go” [Applause.] | “Here is the line of battle: We care not' upon which issue they force the fight. Weg are prepared to meet them on either issue or on both. If they tell us that the gold standard is the standard of civilization. we reply to them that this, the most enlightened of all the nations of the earth, has | rever declared for a gold stzadard, and beth the parties this year are declaring against it. [Applause.] If the gold standard is the standard of civilization, whypmy friends, should we not have it? So if they come to meet us on that, we can present the history of our nation. More than that. We can tell them this, that they will search the pages of history in vain to find a single instance in which the common people of any land havelever declared themselves in favor of a gold standard. [Applause.} ‘lfhey can find where the holders of tixed investments have. : ol “Mr. Carlisle said in 1878 that this was a struggle between the idle holders of idls capital and the strugzling masses who produce the wealth and pay the taxes of the country, and, my friends, it is simply a question that we shall decide, upon which side shall the democratic'dpa'rty fight? Upon the side of the idle holders of idle capital, or ‘upon the side of the struggling masses? Tuat is the question that the party must angwer first, and then it must be answered by each individual hereafter. The symputhies of the dwcmflc party, as described by the platform, are on the side of the struggling masses, wio have ever been the foundation of the democratic party. (ApPUAOBBE - it l bl e ' Two fdeas of Government. ~ “There are two Ideas or yovernment. There are those \}h?’bfl?@% _that 1'1";3!.'3{1‘.just legislate to make the Well-to-do pros--perous, thelr prosper gmfirlm through on 3&amow the democratic idea has. Leen that if you **gg‘«%mflliw Nrtxaie pRALSEOLE S vmgmi e RS R T Do e s e e B S AR e e R S e T R e

“You come to us and tell us that the great cities are in favor of the gold standard. I tell you that the great cities rest upon these broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities' and leave our farms and Your cities will spring up again as if by magic. But destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in this country. ' [Applause.} gt

‘““My friends, we shall declare that this ration is able to legislate for its own people on every question, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth [applause], and upon that issue we expect to carry every single state in this union. [Applause.] ‘I shall not slander:the fair state of Massachusetts nor the state of New York by saying that when its citizens are confronted with the proposition: Is this nation able to attend to its own business ?—I will not slander either one by saying that the people of those states will declare our helpless impotency as a nation to attend to our own business. It is the issue of 1776 over again. Our ancestors were the 3,000,000 'who had the courage to declare their political independence of every other nation upon earth. - Shall we, their descendants, when we have grown to 70,000,000, declare that we are less independent than our forefathers? No, my friends, it will never be the judgment ot this people. s : Peroration. : . “Therefore we care not upon what lines the battle is fought. If they say bimettallism is good, but we cannot have it until some nation helps us, we reply that instead of baving a gold standard because England has, we shall restore bimetallism, and then let England have bimetallism because the United States has. [Applause.] If they dare come out, and in the open defend the gold standard as a good thing, we shall fight to the uttermost, having behifid us the producing masses of this nation and the world. Having behind us the commercial interests and the laboring interests, and all the toiling masses, we shall answer their demands for a gold standard' by saying to them you shall not press. down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.” .-

LEARNED TO LIKE SOUP.

How a Determined Lieutenant Colonel Reaped His Reward. 5

Once, when a lieutenant colonel, indignant at the wholesale waste of excellent soup bones, I ordered the master cook to insure, under pain of my displeasure, that large caldronsfilled with the otherwise unutilized materials should be kept simmering for my inspection three times a week. To this he was to add peameal, seasoning, etc., at the cost of a few pence, not charged to the men; and as a guaranty of,o_bedt ence he was to habitually send in to my orderly room, just before the men’s digpers, a specimen of his brew. : Respectful remonstrances came froin cooks and sergeants, to which I Dblandly replied: “Yes, I -understand = your objections; but—the soup shall be made.” "I found it—oh, so good—on a cold day, nearly equal to a hot meal. _ After a week’s trial spokesmen from the messes addressed me further and urged complaints, alwyys with the utmost respect. . “We doa’t like this here soup, sir; nasty, thick, greasy; poor stuff, with nothing to feel between tha teeth; we don’t like to see it.on the iable.” “But you do not pay one farthing for it.” I pointed out to the malcontents.” “You need not consume this gratuitous food if you do not like it, and you are notl deprived of one canee of your ration meat. My instructions must be carried out, and kettles of soup must be placed in the rooms until further orders.” They retired, silenced, but'unconvinced. s

About three weeks later I ascertained the further developments of my innovation. For a few days the soup bad eontinued to be eyed with anger; and, untasted, to be relegated to the gutter. Then by degrees one or two of the men thought they might as well swallow a little of the savory food. Their example was soon followed, and fiffl'al]y‘ it was generally hailed as a delicious addition to their meal. — Blackwood's Maguazine. ' k

sSome Curilos.

~ In the early days of the last century we find in the Tatler of August 26, 1710, & charmingly written paper, by Addison, on the eccentricities of a virtuoso, who had *“laid out a considerable estate in natural rarities and euriosities.” In his will Nicholas Gimerack (the aforesaid virtuoso), bequeathes to his wife one box of buttertlies, one drawer of shells, a female skeleton, and a dried cockatrice; to “his' little daughter Fannie three crocodile eggs, and upon the birth of her first child, if she marries with her mother’s cousent, the nest of a humming bird; to his eldest brother; as *‘an acknowledgmen't for the lands he has vested in my son Charles,” his last year's ¢ollection of grasshoppers; having provided for his nephew lsaac by makirg “‘over to him some years since,” a horned scarabacus, the skin of a rattlesnake, and the mummy of an Egyptian king, he made no further provision for him in his will; “my eldest son John, having spoken disrespetfully’ of his little sister, whomI keep by me in spirits of wine, and.in. many other instances behaved himself undutifully toward me, I do disinuerit and wholly cut off from any part of. this my personal estate, by giving him. a singie cockleshell,” and so on.=-I'ém-ple Bar. = . e

Reason Enfough.

" A party of women ounce had the privilege of inspecting a factory devoted to the manufacture of spool thread. Their cicerone was the proprietor of the factory, one of the lurgest and most complete in the world. What most: Inpressed the visitors, howeyer, was not the size and evident prosperity: of the plant, but the beauty of the place. Not only was. every -hygieni¢ and. commercial comfort attended to, but, so fav as possible, every aesthetic consideration was observed as well. Around each wall of the spacious, well-wihdowed apartments where the work was done ran a broad, exquisitely painted frieze. The figures upon the frieze were a dainty dancing company, beautiful in color as well asin form, and fit to grace the walls of a Jwelling rather than a mill. Finally one of the women, a praetical, plain-spoken _dame, asked the owner why he made beauty such anobjeet. “I don’t see the use of a frieze like that in a factory,” she said® bluntly, *“Why do you have it?”. The mill-own-er smiled. *Well, come to think of i 4, it is a very practical reascn,' he suid. “] find that it makes better thread.’ —N. Y. Sun. e —A Bad Error.—" See here, Lyons; you've ruined me. In this account of the ball I said that Mr. Bunkerton, the famous lecturer on dress, wore nothing that was remarkable. You've vut it: ‘Mrs. B—— wore nothing. That was remarkable!” You ean go to the gashier and get your money." -Harlem Lifv ——ln celebration of the meeting between MeKinley and Hobart the other day the striking quarrymen at West View, 0., a few miles away. engnged in a pitehed battle with a squad of depu'y sheriffs. 'Thus does the grent cuuse of protectior, to \merican industries move stately along —Chicigo Caropieie,” { A N R G R TG e i L S e e R I S TN T

~ THE GIRLS’ FRIEND. = - A girl of 16 might have her bodice cut low in the neck. : : e All invitations, except those to afternoon teas, require acknowledgment. ' - White mohair may be made up pret- - tily, even if a rather severe tailor-made design is copied. - G Black patent leather slippers would not look well when & white gown and, white gloves are to be wornatadance. When two gentlemen are walking with a lady it is quite proper for one to be at her right and the other at her . lefb: oo a : S I do not consider it proper or wise for a very young girl to attend any placeof amusement without'a chaperon. . ~ If your hostess answers your ring at the bell leave a card on one of the tables in the parlor just as you are bidding her “good-by."” i -If a young man is rude chough to bow to you without raising his hat you may, with- propriety, look in another direction when you meet him the next time, —Ruth Ashmore, in Ladies’ Home Journal. % : = >

TOLD OF AUTHORS.

. Henry Norman is said to be preparing a book with the modest title: “How I Became a Prophet.” It is to be composed chiefly of clippings from his earlier articles. 3 : 5

A play by Mounet-Sully’s son-in-law, M. de Lorde, in which the chief part was taken by Mlle. Belot, daughter of the dramatist, was brought out lately with success at the La Bodiniere thea-~ ter,:inh Baris. S ; ‘Christina Rossetti is to have a memorial in Christ chuerh, Woborn square, where she attended for nearly 20 years. It will consist of a series of paintings for the reredos by Sir Edward BurneJomnes.» et : #

Harper’s Weekly relates this story of the late George W. Childs: “He was at one time solicited by a publishing company to write an authoritative history of -Philadelphia. After considerable deliberation he declined, on the ground that as the work would undoubtedly be known as a ‘Childs’ History of Philadelphia’ - 'some unthinking = persons might conclude that it was a juvenile work.” i :

SOME *“HOMELY* ADVICE.

‘\;Eatvs‘lowly and conservatively. 2 - If appetite is inclined to run away with itself, don’t attempt to follow after. h.-oo A .

Let “bad dreams” be buried with the “dead past,” without a recital of the uncanny details. : Don’t eat frdit out of season—that is to say, neither underdone nor overdone —ripe, but neither raw nor rotten. Don’t speak of the aches and pains of “last night,” or of thc disappointments or unfortunate occurrences of yesterday} g ) ; : Think thoughtfully, chat cheerfully, ¢ behave beautifully, and don’t “move back your chair” witha feeling of stomach heaviness., - : _

Faynty 16T fe S ‘ You Will Like Virginia. J uIF 7 and 21, August 4 and 18 tickets will be sold from all points in the northwest over the Big Four Route and Chesapeake and Ohio Ry. to Virginia at one fare El‘us $2.00 for the rountfi trip. Homeseekers should take advanta%e of this cheap rate to visit the rich farm lands. Virginia never had a cyclone. It has-a perfect climate, cheap trans(})ortation and the best markets in the world. Send forrates, free descriptive pamphlet and list of desirable farms forsale. U. L. Truirr, N. W. P. A,, 284 Clark Street, Chicago. y : - —_————————— Tae amateur always has a double pleas. ure in yachting—once when he starts, and once when he gets home again. v No MAX has-any mercy on his own besetting sin when he sees it in another.—Ram’s Horn. - . - FLATTERY is often a trafiic of mutual meanness.—Colton.

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