Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 18, Petersburg, Pike County, 10 September 1897 — Page 6

.. = B CONVENTION. off the Gathering of Labor atStLoois. ««na, Sept. 1.—The labor coni at Muonic hall debated at a report from the committee on •ad plans of action conthe In tare course of the miners' _^ j set apart Friday, SeptemS, a day on which all labor organaad their friends shall coni to the re tie f of the miners. It _ declared that if the strike be ■amt eaded by September SO a mass coa'»mtios be held at Chicago, September ill, do eoasider the course then to be It tavmghed at length against “govasaiat by federal injunction," and called attention in a threatening manmar to that provision of the federal masmtitation, providing that citizens fcaoa the right to bear arms. Daring the prolonged discussion, in--which Kugeue V. Debs and J. R. Sovcieiga took port, there were evidences of extreme dissatisfacton with the LUee’a report, most of the speaki arguing that it was “all sound and j, aigaifying nothing." A ssmber of the orators talked calmiy of ahotrguus aud violence, bnt these >aot very enthusiastically received, they failed to make it clear who what were to be aimed at. The eeotioa of the report providing Aar a collection to support the miners wan* adapted, its scope cau only be cealiaud when the figures are cousid•rrwL M. IX Ratchford, president of the Vpttcd Mine Workers* union, says there are I,4dO,OJO union laborers iu •the country. Due days pay for these •laborers will amount to $5.000,000, Mr. Match ford thinks, but he says the num- ■ of laborers may be 2,000,000, aud will increase the amouut to oser l—.tMQ Tb« 1*1.t form. me fears of the mare watchful fathers of tbs public have been justified The judiciary has i supreme. We witness a political phei absolutely new in the history of the t; u twpubiio prostrate at the feet of the adpR* appointed to administer th * laws. They •kaewlMtpe no superior. Under the ewaainjr form of injunctions court* nye assumed id enact criminal laws an 1. after i drawing to themse.ves the pjwcr of legislatian. have rep sled the bill of right* and for wbiiaUoa* at these court-made laws have denied thraeuMd the right of a trial by jury. Tbeexcr

jurol tn* amitUtHi'M r.gbts of freemen the ciekiot aw.-abi) th right of free speech. Uie wight ml traveling tin- public highways have dig legislation. under injunctions, been made it grime. sad armed forces dujHrw* as ni >bi poo0ir daring ia room myto ex-rcise these rights. At its bast term the aupretn - court of the United idecideJ that the thirteenth amendment, rbiddiay *iavo.uittary servitude." is not vio- ! b/MttliD; a seaman imprisoned him CfU Mx marl is ready to leave port, had then 0mmbly (Mittux him ou board to serve out the tarauf hi* ooalra.'t. a dc.sion under which Cke old fugitive slave laws may yet be revived, mod striking laborers besieged and returned to rikr acre me of tk tir milter* flaw lag drawn to them-elves all the powers «f the federal goveraat *u« until congresses nnd (•teiiikab may act oaiy by judicial pertuismmml the federal judges have Is gun the wubjwgatMB of sovereign statist, so that aaft-sM m check is so on put upon the of usurpation, in a short tun* no at. but the absolute dispotism of fed - ral judge* will exist anywhere over any porof American s 4. The p--u Ung alrtke of can I mi a era. starved to fe eldon *ss by their •want wages for arduous au l dangerous toil; kfce psadtag strike for the right to be fool es juth to make labor possible, has been proMate of judicial Usurpation, showing the widlarwn of judt ial despots to resOrt to the most ah amnli in deAaa e o! decency as well as of law *mMI humaaitv ia order to enable heartless • avarice Ac drive its hungry serfs back to the •akkrna ta faiat aad die at their drudgery. and to-day not on- guaranteed right riuxt-as the exercise of which an i has not somewhere ui*i- a crime. Startled by taes^asuaversions of ooastituI liberty, we hit - met as American cili- •« to counsel to re .her. and have come to the ring caarJigs.ons, that: Mf siiutiH The present strike of the coal .miners has again demonstrated the fact that . our so-called liberty is not freedom but is a aUtpeaduua sham, under which mill Iona are de- . generating, white h mdrods of thousands men. arvniii aad children are starving m hovels and • mm the public highways. M mkmxx.s. This e >ulitlon has becom** per- • mant iii for a large au-l ever-increasing numb r at our popu.anon, as ion; as we pvrmii.a com.pvrativssly sinaii elas, of ieg *li/.\l exploiters to moaupolisc the tn aa> of production and dis- • irtbuuo* for th irpnvat • ben >tit a fact again ■nbvMMt* ia the cas; of the turners.

Appcai* tocoa,’n-iu and me courts relief are (nutlvH, since the i«„'UUUtc as i^ntittlvs and judicial power* are r Ue ooatroi of, the capitalist class. *o that i coat)' to pass in this "free country" that i cattle aad swiaj have a right to the pubtlr highway Americans, w-euUcd free men. MTatatu Our r* l aliat cU». as is asraln •ahoura in the pre ent strike. Is aria si. and has i aatoalf poll omen marshal*, sheriffs an l d p- j ■twv b«t also a regular army and tmitlia at it j ■ft in order to eator e government b(- I -appro vdn* lawful assemblage, free the rights to the public high* ay»— I -whii oa the other hand the laboring' men of the j • 9»nairj are unarmed and defenscies.-. contrary * Oo the words and the spirit of the conatttution ml two UaUed Stales, therefore be it That we hereby sat apa t Friday, ! X w*!1. n> u "Oood Friday" for t ic i at mtffcna* labor in Amiri a. and con'tribute tbe earni its of that day to the sup ort at amt struggling brothers. the miners, and apItu every friend of labor throughout the •airy la do likewise. Mmafawrf. That if the str ke of the miner > U •out settled by Septem *«r JO, HOT, an 1 announce - • aarut made to tbateff.-vt by the president of t e Onitnl Mine Workers, a general convention at ■ Oh ins gw oa Monday September if, pus. be eld bqr the rapre-eatatires of all unions, section*. , ladies an 1 kin lred organization* of i aad friends of their cause, for the i at considering farther measures in the laf the iadastrut masses and labor in That we consider the nee of the bair tat mm the baat a«d *afea» means for the atnelii at the hardships under which Um lat suffers. That the public ownership of all i aad railroads U one of thti most neeesi reforms af oar body politic. That we moat emphatically protest i government by Injunction, w ich plays i with oraa rich political liberty as worki have saved from the steady encroacht«f eapitadzatloa. and be fine ly. hadNi That no nation In which the j-copie •'■re totally disarmed can long remain a free naChm. aad, therefore we urge upon ail libertyl bavine citizens to remember an l obey article t - «f the constitution of the United States, which »*aaad as follows: The right of the people to keep and bear whaamah Uaot be uuringcd COM turns HAM Kit. .Alter the platform and resolution* of

the committee were oat of the we; mad most of the seats were empty. *■ resolution was adopted authorizing the chairman to name a committee of five to issue a call for the Chicago convention September 37, on the following basis of representation: One dele* gate for each local union, and two for each congressional district. Only wage-workers, farmers and well-known friends of labor will be eligible, as delegates. The chairman j named the following committee to i»> I sue the official call: J. R. Sovereign. Eugene Debs;.O'Connell, of the Machiniuts’ union; Mahon, ot the Street \ Railway union, and Donnelly of the Trades and Labor union. W. Marble, of Burden, 111., said he had returned from » Arkansas with j t>0 contributed from the miners of ■ that state for the Illinois strikers. The chairman announced that all i money collected September » for the ; striking miners should be sent'to \V. C. j Pearce, secretary of the United Mine I Workers, Columbus, O. Mr. Uatchford thanked the oonven- ! tion in a short speech for what it had done in behalf of the striking miners, ! and expressed regret that the president j j had not been asked to convene con- j gress with a view to restricting the ; federal courts from interfering with ■ | the rights of strikers. I Before Mr. ltatchford had time tc j take his seat, W. D. Ryan, of Illinois, j offered such a resolution, and it was in- ! stautly adopted, and the officers of the convention instructed to so notify the j president. The usual complimentary resolutions were adopted, aud a protest against j the Armour Packing Co. at Kansas City, lvas., and then the greatest con- ! ventiou of speech-makers that evei assembled in SL Louis was at au end. It would be difficult at this time to predict the most important business transacted by the convention. Just before adjournment resolutions were adopted calling upou the president of the United States to .convene con- • gress in special session to detins the j ! jurisdiction of, federal courts in the matter of issuing injunctions, »ud calling,upou the coal miners of Missouri, Kentucky, Kansas aud oth-.-i states who are still at work to join ll.e j striking miners in Illinois. Pennsylvania, West Virginia aud other localities. Doubts were freely expressed as to whether Senator Murk Hanna would permit the president to convene cougress for the purpose of limiting the ! jurisdiction of the federal courts in i dealing with strikers, and others freely expressed the opinion that even if eonj gress were convened for sueh a purpose, i no iaws would be enacted interfering with the power now exercised by the

courts. The resolution calling' upon the coal miuers iu Missouri, Kentucky, Kansas, Iowa and other state to join in the •strike may prove of much consequence. Members of the convention, who claimed to speak for these miners, said they would joiu the strike if called upon to do so. In the states named, and also the Iudian territory, pretty much all the miners are at work and lrave been for a loug time. They are better off than the miners any* where east of the Mississippi river, according to accredited reports, and prior to last night no doubts were expressed from any official quarter that they would remain at work. There are about 10,000 coal miners employed iu Missouri. Resolutions adopted by the convention, after eight hours of speeeh-mak-iug, "denounce the interference of courts by injuuction against strikers, set apart a day for contributions to the miners, ^ail a second convention to meet iu Chicago, and contain doctrines palliating almost every element that comprised the remarkable convention save the advocates of single tax. Advocates of the theories of Henry George were on hand early and late, and, headed by Col. II. Martin Williams, of Missouri, their presence was made known at all times, and an hour before the eiose a determined effort was made to inculcate some of their doctrines into the resolutions. but they failed. The socialists were too strong for them. The convention was made up of elements of humanity that are invariably replete with theories which do not harmonize well in such a strangely mixed assembly, aud yet nearly every faction, except the Single Tax league, expressed satisfaction wheu adjournment was reached. The only organization affiliating in the proceedings which did not have a full quota of orators present was the musical uuion It furuished some excellent music, but otherwise was not heard. FARMERS' NATIONAL CONGRESS

Tb* Of*n)u( Smlun to lit* Minnesota Representative Mail. St. Pacu Miuu.. Sept. 1. —The see- j eu tee nth mectiug of the farmers* national congress of the United Slates was called to order at the capitol, in the hail of representatives, by President 11. F. Clayton, of lndiauola, la. The opeuing sessiou was not largely attended, compared with what is expected later,, but Secretary Setbal’s adTices warrant the prediction that the congress wilt be eery well attended wheu the high water mark is reached. The delegates representation in the congress does not, at its maximum, exceed 5iX). The morning session was devoted largely to the matter of a formal welcome, and following an invocation by Archbishop Ireland, the congress was greeted, on behalf of the city of St Paul, by Mayor Doran; in behalf of the agricultural society, by President Wearer, of that organization; on behalf of the state by Uor. Clough, and to these addresses. respectively, responses on behalf of the congress were made by John M. Stahl, of Illinois, secretary of the congress, and Uon. It F. Clayton, of Iowa, pfesidenh biMl at Maaltoa Cat Colorado Springs. Col.. Sept. 1.— William L. Glasgow, president of the St Charles Car Co. of S\ Lotus, hied in Maaitou last night

MRS. LUETGERT’S RINGS. 1t1ur«« ffonm Give Oaawdot Testimony —I’««Uiv»iy Identify the K1»k» ^«*"d **» the Vet mm Thoee Heluufiue w ***** *• •tantly Worn by the 9tiMi»K Woman— Ctrl Voelker’s Testimony. Chicago. Sept. 4.—Three women pare damaging' evidence against the defendant in the Luetgert trial yesterday. They positively identified the rings found in tlie vat as being the property of Mia. Luetgert, and said they had seen them on her hands, and one ot\ them had talked with her about the rings at one time, and so felt sure that the rings found in the vat and those she saw on Mrs. Luetgert's fingers were the same. The defense made a desperate effort to break down the evidence of the three women, but they ail stuck to their stories and swore that the rings were those which the wife of the sausage maker had worn before she disappeared. The session of court was short in the afternoon, as Judge Tuthill said he desired to make a persoual visit to the factory and see for himself where the murder is said to have been committed. He took with him oue attorney from the side of the defense and one from those engaged in the prosecution, and during their visit to the factory, no other person was allowed around the premises. Carl Voelker.a chemist who had been at one time engaged with Luetgert when he manufactured permauganate of potash and was at oue time a shipping clerk in the factory, testified during the afternoon session that he was familiar with ail of Luetgert's pro-' cesses for the making of sausage and that he had never had any occasion to use any caustic potash arouud the place. The defendant could not. he said, have secured it for the purpose of usinfg it in the making of the sausage. During all of the time that Voclker was around the factory, he said that th» vats were never used.

ELEVATOR BURNED. Destruction of the Mtdi«oa (111.) Elevator With It* Valuable Store of drain. St. Louis, Sept. 4.—The Malison elevator, at Madison, III., and not far from the approach to the Merchant*’ bridge, was destroyed by fire Thursday night, entailing a loss of about $00,000. It was a few minutis before uine o'clock when George Wilson, of Madison. saw smoke coming out of the roof of the great structure. He raised a cry of tire, and after some delay the primitive tire apparatus of the town wheeled to the scene. It was fouud, when all available hose had been extended, that the tire could not be reached. An appeal was sent to Veuiee. and the volunteer fire company of that place responded with a hand engine and more hose, lly that time, however. the flames had made such progress that the tire could not be checked. Water was scarce, and the means of fighting the fiames extremely limited. In an hour's time the great buiLdiug was destroyed.. The elevator was full of wheat, and the cereal furnished excellent food for the flames. Bin after bin of the valuable product was licked up by fiery tongues, and occasional explosions oi grain dust sent showers of burning wheat sky ward. A STUBBORN FIGHT. two Famllle* of Children Warring Ovei Their Father’* Estate, Masoovtah, 111.. Sept. 4.—For more than Jo years Col. John Thomas, ol this county, was one of the leading figures in Illinois polities. When he died. December 10, 1S94. he was probably the richest man in southern Illinois. He left an estate valued at over Si.000,000, made up largely of valuable laud in this and adjoining

counties. Col. Thomas was t wice married, and left 13 children, five sons and five daughters by his first wife, and one son and two daughters by his second wife, whom he married in 1875. These two families were completely estranged from each other.aud their disagreement over the division of the estate has fin ally landed in court. Geo. 1). Thomas, of Montana, represents the older children and Col. John E. Thomas, of this county, 'the younger set. The ease will be fought stubbornly by both sides. LOOTED THE BANK. Culilrr Churln A. Norton of the Hank of , Durand. III., a Fugitive Forgt-r. Rockford. 111., Sept 4.—Charles A. Norton, cashier and geueral manager of the Bank of Durand, a private eoncern, and the only financial institution in the town. which is located 15 miles northwest of Rockford, drove up to his bank Wednesday evening at .seven o’clock.. When he came out he wore three overcoats, with bulgiug pockets, ahd carried in his hand a grip. Entering his carriage, he drove away to the north and has not been seen since. Thursday morning the doors of the bank failed to open at the usual hour, aud an angry crowd of people stood about it ail day. waiting for an opportunity to withdraw about 830.000 they had on deposit. Norton is not on.y a fugitive, but a'Torger of 27 notes for ▼arious amounts. Nothing definite can now be stated as to the amount that he will be' found short. Norton’s crookedness became known through bis rediscounting some paper with the Winnebago national of thu city. A BEAUTIFUL VICTIM. Body of a Supposes* Victim of Nihilist Vengeance Found. London, Sept. 4.—A special dispatch from Paris says that the body of a beautiful woman, naked and frightfully mutilated, with the skull smashed in. has been found in the River Seine. On the middle of the woman’s back are tattooed the words: “Long Live Poland,” and ’’Death to Traitors.” The remains are supposed to be those of a nihilist who had incurred the so* niciou of her fellow nihilist*.

CAUSES OF PROSPERITY. The Robber Tariff Is Hot One Am on s Tbeip. There are evidences of renewed prosperity. No one will deny that. No one has the least inclination to deny it. Everyone has reason to rejoice over the indications of better times and to sing j with fervor “hard times come again no j more." The bank clearings show great j gains over last year at this time. The I commercial agencies agree in reporting | greater.activity in both trade and manufacturing, and there seems to be no reason u> doubt that the number of the involuntarily idle has been largely reduced. For al this and for the promise of still better things to come every right-mind- j ed man is glad. At the same time every such man is sorry to see all the organs and attorneys of monopoly aserffoing all the praise to a tariff bill. This is 1 as bad as it was for tfie Jefvst of oJd to give praise to idols for the blessings they enjoyed. The Jews knew better. The American people ought to ; know better than to make thank offerings to the tariff fetich. The fact, that Europe is 1.625.000,000 bushels short of food crops while we have a good crop of small grains and j the prospect of a good crop of corn and | an unprecedented crop of cotton explains it all. The food shortage makes high prices for our food products and a like cause bids fair to give us more than average prices for cotton. Hence high prices for the farmers, greater demand for manufactures and bustling activ

ity in trade. v To ascribe it all to the tariff robbery is most abominable idolatry. Prosperity is returning, for the time being at least, not because of, but in spite of, that robbery. The processes of nature have been favorable to this country, and for that reason the masses of the people can stand the robbery better thau they otherwise could. Because nature has favored them, they can see the stock of the sugar monopoly put up from 10S to 150 by republican legislation and not make any complaint. The attention of those who give all the glory to the monopoly tariff is invited to two facts. One is that the receipts into the national treasury have been $25,400,000 less than the expenditures since the passage oT the Dingley bill, or at the rate of $152,400,000 a year. Nut long ago they were telling us that times were hard because the expenditures of the government exceeded the receipts. Now they are vociferously claiming that the country j is on a high wave of prosperity, though the excess of expenditures is greater I than ever. 1 The other fact is that the commercial agencies attribute the strong market for southern iron to the active export movement. Our worshipers of the protection fetich will hardly venture to attribute the active export tof American iron to their high duty bn foreign inn. These and many other facts prove that they are economic quacks ami humbugs and that their legislation does not cause prosperity any more than it causes the tides or the sun spots.—Chicago Chronicle. PRESS COMMENTS. -If many protected republican bosses had not cut wages the phantom of dear bread would be welcomed instead of dreaded by thousands on this side of the water.—Kansas City Times. -Mr. McKinley has settled it. The crops did it in the west and the tariff in the cast. As between Providence and William McKinley honors are easy— in the estimation of the latter.—Minneapolis Times.

-——Flour is going up; sugar is going up; clothing is going up; crockery is going up; leather is going up; everything is going up but the wages of the employes in protected industries.— Utica (X. Y.) Observer. -So President McKinley will not stump the state for Hanna, after all? Well, it is good to know that there is a limit to the amount of interest the Hanna syndicate intends to exact for that little l^pan.—Tammany Times. -Common everyday household molasses has doubled in price since the passage of the Diugley robber tariff. Let her go. Gallagher! The people voted McKinley in and now they will have toy pay for it.—Illinois State Register. / -The recognition of dollarwheat in f!he republican platforms is aff right for the time being, only the ctjroit ought to be bestowed where it belongs. An Omnipotent Providence has certain rights that even party platform makers are I bound to respect.—Boston Herald. -Matt Quay was once considered the embodiment of all that was evil in republican machine politics. Then Boss Platt went him one better, and now comes Marcus Aurelius Hanna to show to the world a professional debaucher of elections in all his glory—a master hand—a past grand master in the art. —Dayton (O.) Times. -The Dingley law is proving its claim to the title : “A tariff for bounties and a deficit.” Since it went into effect various trusts favored by duties that are nearly, if not altogether, prohibitive upon competing foreign trade have advanced prices. Some of them have concurrently reduced wages. The prices of all necessaries are going up. At the same time the public revenues I are dwindling and the deficit is growing. The deficiency since July 1 is already $25,000.000.—N. Y. World. -As a matter of fact all the era- j dences of reviving prosperity come ( through agricultural channels. Before j the Dingley law was passed the western j farmers paid off mortgagee to the! amount of many millionsof dollars. Re-; newed activity in thf agricultural im- j plement industry is due solely to brighter prospects on the farms. Hence it is impossible to trace reviving commerce In the remotest way to the Dingley law. We believe it is coming in spite of : that compound of thievery, bribery and j Injustice.—Memphis Commercial AppeaL '

MAKES HIGHER PRICES. One of the Direct Effects of the Diagley Law. PUSHES UP PRICES. While the glass men are hesitating ■whether to increase the price of window glass ten or fifteen per cent., the crockery dealers have promptly put their prices up 2D per cent., so that there would be no mistake about It. They have done this to meet the increase In the Dingley bill. At present this chiefly concerns the English imperted ware, but the American manufacturer is preparing to make similar advances. But as we are told that the foreigners pay all this Increase the consumer in this country need not worry.—Chicago Chronicle. This is the protection, that is said to have the power to open the mills. Consumption has been down to low water mark because so many of our people have been unable to do more than provide themselves with the bare necessaries of life, many more being unable to do even as much as that, and it is j expected that the raising of prices will serve to improve conditions by increas- j ing consumption. The raising of prices does not increase consumption as a regular business, but perhaps it will make

an exception once in a way. The manufacturers may put up their prices, but unless their products are bought up and consumed, the advance in prices will have no beneficial influence on labor. It is going to cost a good deal for bread presently, and glassware and .crockery and such things will be compelled to take a back seat, and this seat will necessarily be a little farther back because of the increased prices of those products. If those manufacturers who did not pay the increased duties of the Dingley law would play fair with the consumers of the country, there would be a better prospect of a prosperity ^hat could be called-general. The farmers appear to have some reason to rejoice, but where may the workingmen in general lines reasonably expect to come in? As the Utica Observer says: “Flour Is going up; sugar Is going up: clothing is going up: crockery Is going up: leather is going up; everything ts going up but the wages of the employes in protected industries. And yet these employes were distinctly told by no less a person than Chairman Dingley himself that their ‘purchasing power would be increased.’ On the contrary, it is diminished.*’ The prosperity of the crops we have with us; the prosperity of Dingleyism that was promised us we have still to get. Hurry it up!—Biugbamton (N V.) Leader. VAGARIES OF THE GOLDBUGS. I'nsoundness of the State Dank Xote Proposition. The cry of “sound money” raised by the people who are so, anxious to have the government “go out of the banking business” is hypocritical and insincere. linen the demand for “goid” is disingenuous, for these “reformers" propose to retire the greenbacks and substitute state bank notes “secured by the assets of the banks.” Was there ever submitted to the American people a more unsound proposition than that? Behind the greenbacks stands the United States government, and there is no contention that, a greenback is not now and always worth its face. Could the same be said of state bank notes? If that is the kind of “sound” money the "reformers” wish to force upon the people, the suggestion will be laid scornfully aside, with the comment 4hat it possesses “more sound than sense.”

In arguing in favor of postal savings banks. Senator Mason, who is a good republican, says: “Most of the American people live 25 miles from any bank. They are in this way deprived of all facilities for thrift. Even if banks were convenient they are not absolutely reliable. Since national banks were established 330 of them have failed and paid creditors only 73 per cent. In the meantime 1,234 banks failed and paid only 50 per cent.” While the remarks of Senator Mason were not intended as a reply to those who urge the establishment of a rag money currency, they j apply with great positiveness. The people of this country are not prepared to encourage the issue of wildcat money. Suppose, however, for the sake of j argument, that every wildcat note were j to have a gold dollar back of it. What J would that mean? To retire all of the j government paper would contract the j currency $900,000,000. To issue state ! paper, or national bank paper, secured : by gold, to fill this deficit, would require j the securing of $900,000,000 in gold, j Where will the advocates of “sound” j money get this gold? If these notes are j not to be redeemed in gold they are a j thousand times worse than silver, so far as safety is concerned. If they are to be backed up by gold it is the duty of those patriotic “reformers” who desire this measure to inform the pieople where they are going to get the gold.—Chicago Dispatch. Republicanism ud Deception. This is about the time when the man who voted for McKinley is waking up and asking himself what in the name of consistency a trust tariff has got to do with an honest dollar. Also he wonders how he whs ever presuaded to support a party that gets its man elected on one issue, and then switches to another and opposite plan of action. The currency question was a mighty factor in the last campaign, but it has had nothing to do with the republican party since the election. The monopolyjtariff, which has been foisted upon the people, was only made possible by a long and clever series of deceptions. But then, deception is the very essence of republicanism.—Tammany Times. -Senator Thurston’s term does not expire until 1901, but he told his Nebraska constituents in a public speech the other day that he did not intend tc ask for reelection and that he was tired of Washington life. Now if the senator will tell what he has done since he has been in office to make him tired he will confer a favor upon his vigilant end anxious coujitrymen. He would be sure of his facts if he would say that he has made the country tired.—St. Loots Republic S*§

ABOUT POSTAGE STAMPS. If Hawaii is annexed there will be an increased demand for stamps of that country. In that event the new official stamps issued only a shert time ago will likely come in for a good share of attention, as they have not yet been circulated to any appreciable extent. In Malacca and in Ceylon, large commercial firms are permitted to print their names on the postage stamps to prevent theft of stamps on the part of their employes. In that way, Ceylon stamps are often considered great treasures, when bearing the name of “Cave.” in small black capitals, while this surcharge means nothing but the imprint of a wealthy tea planter. D. O. Blood & Co., of Philadelphia, who, from 3841 to 1858, issued so many different locals and operated a private post so successfully, were, perhaps, the originators of the idea of including the hoar at which the letter was stamped, in the postmark. The postal authorities of the jpvernment did not adopt this nice system of postmarking until long after Blood & Co. had set the pace.

When the government issued the first perforated stamps a few of the good folk living in the rural districts were so bouad by conservatism that they placed the stamps on their letters only after they had clipped off the perforations. They had been using unperforated stamps for many years, and they did not propose thaj any newfangled arrangements should have encouragement from them. Germany is the home of the stamp forgers, the authorities there seeming to consider that it is none of their business so long as the forgers do not meddle with the home stamps. Lately the forging has taken a new turn, a German, firm having shipped to this country thousands of sheets of decalcomania pictures containing; lithographs of United States stamps. The pictures have been held at the custom house, and somebody will lose money on this transaction. A plan for removing medallions on the United States stamps and replacing them with miniature photographs is a new idea which has recently been copyrighted. Permission is said to have been granted by the government for the use of postage stamps in this manner, but- only used specimens must be utilized for the purpose. It is now possible for one to see his own features on the peuny satmp instead of those of the illustrious Benjamin, or on the two-ceut stamp in lieu of those of the imcior*al George. DO YOU KNOW THIS? t In cold weather dry indoors to prevent freezing. A little kerosene oil put in the hot starch will prevent it from sticking. Fold napkins square with the initials on the outside. They should also be ironed perfectly dry, and then put away nicely in the drawer. Have plenty of the best soap, with borax, starch and bluing at hand. Add borax to the water in the proportion ol one tablespoonful to a pail of water. (

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