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For President,

WILLIAM McKINLEY of Ohio. For Vice-President, GARRETT A. HODART of New Jersey.

For Governor,

JAMES A. MOUNT. for Lieutenant Gorernor,

W. S. HAGGARD.

For Secretary of State, W. D. OWEN. For State Auditor,

A. C. DAILY.

For State Treasurer, F. J. SCHOLZ. For Attorney General,

WM. A. KETCHAM. For Reporter Supreme Court, CHARLES F. REMY. J"or Superintendent Public Instruction,

D. M. GEETING, For State Statistician, SIMEON J. THOMPSON.

For Appellate Judges,

First District—W. D. ROBINSON. Second District—WM. J. HENLEY. Third District—JAMES B. BLACK, fourth District—D. W. COMSTOCK*

Fifth District—U. Z. WILEY. For Congress, Fifth District, GEORGE W. FARIS.

For Judge Circuit Court, JAMES E. PIETY.

For Prosecutor Forty-third Judicial District, WILLIAM TICIIENOR. For Senator,

JACOB D. EARLY. For Representative, WILLIAM H. BERRY, CASSIUS II. MORGAN.

For Joint Representative, Sullivan, Vermillion and Vigo, ORA C. DAVIS.

For Coroner,

ALARIC T. PAYNE. \v For Treasurer, WILTON T. SANFORD.

For Sheriff,

JOHN BUTLER. For Surveyor, ,*• WILLIAM II. HARRIS.

For Assessor,

WILLIAM ATIION. For Commissioner,

First District—THOMAS ADAMS. Second District—ANDREW WISEMAN..

A Lincoln citizen writes to say that Lincoln is not on the Platte but on Salt Creek, "The Boy Orator of Salt Creek" it not bo much Platte Is more "pat."

The pickpockets who are following Bryan's circus have more confidence in the prosperity of the people than he has and their toil meets with good returns.

Mr. Bryan does not want to steal Coxey's thunder and will not speak from the Capitol steps. Perhaps it was not the fear of 6otting a precedent, but of being classed with Coxey, that made Mr. Bryan so modest.

If Mr. Bryan had decided to speak from the Capitol steps it is probable that Coxey and Carl Browne would be on hand to perch on either side of him. It is going to be hard for this great leader to shake off these eminent Populists.

An, exchange was about right in putting over the Maine returns "MAINE WENT." (•aSTJd }sjg tcuoj pannnuoo)

The free silver debt shirkers were turned upside down and stood upon their heads.

Tho Railroad Telegrapher, whiqj is the Organ of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers now appears in magazine form and is a well-edited and interesting publication. One small error crept into its last number in the credit of an Express editorial comment upon the meeting of the railroad orders in this city to the Gazette.

An Italian bark loaded with salt was shipwrecked on the Massachusetts coast last Sunday night. The captain and two sailors committed

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was broken up, but part of the crew was saved. It is strange that salt can be shipped from Italy, which has a heavy tax on salt, to this country, which has free salt. It is contrary to the contention of free traders that a tariff stops exportation and contrary to the Wilson idea that taking protection from our products would increase exportation. The Wilson bill was contrary in every way and works badly in all directions, especially as a revenue raiser.

An honest, well-to-do farmer over in Illinois has a large farm and well filled barns. He has corn three years old in his bins, which is a sign at onco of poor prices and his ability to carry the corn or to get money. He Is going to vote for silver because he owes $10,000. "I am told that under free silver," says he, "I can sell all my stuff at gold prices and pay my debt In silver. I have got enough to bring $5,000 and can pay off my debt with it" If this is a good reason to make that farmer vote for free silver, there are equally good reasons why his hands and customers should vote against free silver, to protect their own interests just as he protects his. His bands and tiis customers are expected to pay gold prices for his products, which make flour, meal, hominy, pork, lard, beef, butter and eggs and to take silver for their wages and debts, or to pay 100 cents and take 50, and to assume the half of the debt that he will not pay, for somebody has got to sta^nd that loss.

Edward Atkinson has asked a question of Wm. J. Bryan and the silverites which will trouble them if they try to answer it. It is: "If those who now oppose you will support you in legislation for opening the mints of the United States to the free coinage of silver bullion at the ratio of 16 to 1, coupled with a repeal of the legal tender provision by which these dollars are now given a forced circulation, will you accept that measure?"

If any silverites believed Bryan's theory that free coinage will put silver up to $1.29 an ounce in gold they might be willing to

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dispense with the legal tender provision, as each silver dollar would be worth *ts face as metal, as a gold coin now Is. The legal tender Is a provision which will force an American citizen to accept the dollar as a full dollar,*but cannot make a foreign country receive it as such and its effec will be to make the Americans alone the victims of the silver conspiracy. The own ers of bullion will have the assistance Of congress in forcing their silver dollars In circulation at legal tender value in America but when they go outside of the country they will be forced to accept 50 cents for a dollar, or whatever the silver is worth as the Mexicans do.

CARLISLE ON THE PARITY. Secretary Carlisle's letter explaining the maintenance of the parity between gold and silver by the government, published this week, was of much use to many who have the sense of how it is maintained, but cannot clearly state it. Mr. Carlisle shows in the first place that the government has coined on its own account since 1873, from silver that it bought, about 433,000,000 standard silver dollars, which, as was well known, were not actually worth a dollar apiece, but it has paid them out for its own debts and given the people to understand that they were good for a dollar each. When we recall the fact that the trade dollars, weighing seven and one-half grains more than the standard dollars, would not pass for more than 85 cents, it is evident that there was something behind the standard dollar to make it circulate at par, which was faith in the government's Intention to protect it.

The government having put out a lot of silver coins, of of paper certificates redeemable in the same coins, and made the people take them at their face, assumed amoral obligation. The holders could not take them to another country and sell them at a dollar each, but must rely on the party that issued them.

Mr. Carlisle mentions as the points which insure the maintenance of the standard dollar's parity, the limitation of the coinage, its legal tender quality in 'payment of all debts, except when contracts name another money, its receipt in payment of public dues and demands at an equality with gold, and the government's use of gold and silver without distinction between them. Without limitation of coinage the legal tender quality alone would not keep up the price of the dollar. The force of this limitation of silver and paper is not understood by all. There are many, especially among the Populists, who think that the government can issue as many notes or silver discs as will be called for without depreciating their circulating value, which is contrary to all reason. The richest man in the country could issue some millions in notes and get the money for them at 3 to 5 per cent discount, but if he kept on putting out notes there would come a day when banks would refuse to discount his notes, for there is a limit to the credit of the richest men. There is a limit to the credit of a nation, as a nation has to endure risks of wars and bad times as well as individuals. Last week, when there was a very faint prospect of a fight with Turkey, British consols declined, for. even wealthy Great Britain's credit has a limit among her own loyal citizens, who do not intend to allow her to Increase her debt without raising the cost of interest to pay for the extra risk.

AB Mr. Carlisle says, the limitation of coinage is the greatest factor In ifrestervlfig the parity of the standard silver dollar. Having provided for the limitation of coinage and the circulation of coins another necessary point in sustaining a sensitive credit was the declaration by congress that the government would maintain tho parity. To do so the executive would be justified in resorting to as extreme measures as it would use in defending the honor of the nation against foreign attack. Honor, as well as charity, begins at home. The issue of bonds was a very little thing compared to the injury that would have befallen the people had the silver and paper money been allowed to fall to a silver basis, entailing a loss in that alone of perhaps $400,000,000 upon the people. Mr. Carlisle right in saying: "It is not doubted that whatever can be lawfully done to maintain equality in the exchangeable value of the two metals will done whenever it becomes necessary, and, although silver dollars and silver certificates have not up to the present time been received in exchange for gold, yet if the time shall ever come when the parity cannot be otherwise maintained such exchanges will be made."

It is because there is a limited amount of standard silver dollars, and the people believe the government can and will keep them at a parity with gold that they are good. It is because the people know the government cannot and will not keep an unlimited issue of dollars at gold par under free coinage that the American people will defeat William J. Bryan with his absurd and contradictory free silver theories.

THE FIREMEN'S INSURANCE. The existence and progress of large organizations depend more upon methodical and skillful work by the finance committees and treasurers than many are aware of. If they are not capable men the organizations will get into difllculties and disordered finances will lead to debts, disorder and disgrace, which hustling End enthusiasm in other departments cannot overcome. An organization with a large membership which always pays Its monthly dues soon becomes a figure in financial affairs and its business an important clement in the financial and business life of a city. A body of men which handles through its treasurer half a million dollars a year cannot separate itself from tho moneyed institutions of its city, although its Individual members may be firemen, with grimy faces and hands, or workmen who wear overalls the greater part of their waking hours. In their collective capacity they are a very big trust company and hs such are deeply Interested in the safety of banks, tJie stability of money, the rate of Interest and the business ability and honesty of their financial committees and officers.

A case in point is any benevolent or fra­

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ternal order, such as that of the Locomotive Firemen, one of the half-dozen railroad organizations for mutual protection and assistance. The Peoria Journal, in reviewing the annual report of the firemen, Bhows that in the year ending July 1st the order had disbursed $141,000 for gsniral expenses, including publishing a magazine, and from its beneficial fund tf& order had paid out in about two years $653,000, which was divided among the.widows and heirs of 2,976 members and 145 disabled members. The insurance system of the Locomotive Firemen provides for benefits of $1,500, $1,000 or $500, and 22,327 members in all are now insured and over 20,000 for $1,500 each. The brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen is thus forced by its interests to take its place among the insurance companies of the country and to watch carefully all the influences which will affect the future widows, orphans and disabled members of its order. It now stands bound for no less than $30,114,000, which is the amount .'ts 22,327 insurance certificates promise to pay. The fireman who mounts the cab with his dinner basket in hid band is the man who is going to pay that great amount, but he has not the least doubc that Mb wife or children will get his iusuranco or that his brethren's families will get theirs when it is due.

Will the firemen notice the lesson on the circulating power of money and tho effect of credit on this insurance business of theirs? They have promised to l.ay $30,000,000, although#they never have onehundredth part of it on hand, perhapB not one-thousandth part. It is not monoy but employment, not the cash in bulk but the active turning over of small monthly salaries, every month in the year, which will make certain the payment of that $30,000,000.

It cannot be doubted that every fireman will be perfectly satisfied if he can be sure that those certificates will be paid with $500, or $1,000 or $1,500 of the kind of money he is earning now. He could not be satisfied .after he has paid his assessments for years with full, round#dollars for the benefit of his fellow members' heirs, if there is any doubt that his own widow and children will be paid in as good money.

He is being told that the dollars in the $653,300 paid out in the last two years were too large and that his 145 disabled and helpless brethren, and the widows and children of 2,975 members, got too much money. Does he believe it? Does he want to make these men who offer cheaper doHark the paymasters for his heirs? Will it not be better to stick to the engine that hauled that freight of $653,300?

A NATURAL MOVEMENT OF GOLD The free coiners do not like the flow of gold from Europe. It spoils the force of their hyperbolic figures of speech in which gold is a skulker, owned by Lombard str&t, and so on. Its movement, backwards and forwards, proves it to be the money of the world. It is now coming to America because exports are larger than imports, of which we can find confirmation in thg reports of the treasury department which show a serious and embarrassing decline Jn revenues as the result of diminishing imports. The flow of gold Is the legitimate results of the dull trade which has reduced the prices of the commodities which we export and started Europe to buying and reduced also our ability to buy, checking imports from abroad and turning the balance of trade in our favor. As the country is buying less than it sells the balance is paid in gold. The falling off in revenues on account of reduced Imports Is set forth in the following report of tie treasury's condition, this week: ,j "The treasury showing has been a ve*y bad one thus far since July 1st, and, has already shown an accumulated defifcit 4n two months and a half nearly equal to the entire deficit for the last fiscal yeai». Tlfis Is $10,000,000 worse than the showing for the same period in 1895. The receipt^ for the fiscal year 1896 for the ten week's ending September 12, 1895, were $69,0S5,9i)7, and the expenditures were $83,154,148. The receipts for the same period this ye&r have been $64,602,144, and the expenditures have been $88,602,144. The increase of expenditures has been chiefly due to the°payment of $5,000,000 for the sugar bounty, whose constitutionality was upheld bjr the Supreme Court against the ruling of Comptroller Bowler. "The falling off in receipts have been entirely in customs, which paid $35,699,683 for the first ten weeks of 1896, and have paid only $29,649,113 for the corresponding weeks of the fiscal year 1S97. The internal revenue receipts advanced from $29,707,211 last year to $30,816,088 this year, and they are not likely to fall back."

There is no co-operation between Wall street and Lombard street in this gold movement, as the Bank of England hastried to check it by raising its discount, which is Its usual method of arresting the exportation of gold.

THE MINE OWNER IS SAFE. How popular the silver dollar is as money can be estimated by the fact that the people use about 50,000,000, of which a large part lies in the banks, and r.llow nearly 400,000,000 to remain in Washington. Anybody can get the silver by sending paper in exchange for it to Washlngfon and the government will pay the express charges on amounts of $500 or over.

If It is said that silver dollars are not used to the exent of 75 cents per head because paper Is more convenient it does not disprove silver's want of popularity and convenience.

If the free coinage of silver is to increases the use of silver it will have to be by forcing the large coins upon an unwilling people through the withdrawal of small notes, which would be coercion for the benefit of the owner of bullion, for his benefit only, as the people can get along with the money used now.

The owners of silver bullion are not relying upon the people to use their silver but upon the government buying it. They expect to leave it at'the mint and take government certificates which they can turn into paper money. They will not go back to the mint for the silver dollars. The certificates, however, will represent only the amount of silver and will be worth no more. Whatever the silver at the mint will be worth, per 37114 grains, the dollar certificate will be worth as money..,

If silver does not rise above 63 cents an

ounce the bullion owner will be as well off as he is now, and' be is making money. If it rises a few cents he will make thai much more, but the people in whose hands are the certificates, or paper money, will get only silver price for them, and while the mine owner g&s 65 cents an' ounce the people wil get 50 cents for their dollars, as the result ol taking the coinage out of the hands of the government and placing it at the commandj of'the mine owners.

INSANITY COMFORTS SILVER- •, AfJ- Sg ITES. Hhe cheap silver papers have been making much use of an editorial on silver which appeared in the Courier journal in 1886 and which they credit to Mr. Watterson. The Courier-Journal disposes of the matter by replying that the editorial was written by Colonel Chilton, who was soon after taken to the insane asylum where he died. No silver articles have appeared in the Courier-Journal since that time.

The Courier-Journal shows that had the writer been sane, the editorial would not bear the use the desperate and worried silverites are making of it as the conditions have materially changed in ten years, of which it says:

In 1886 the free coinage of silver was in no sense an issue, as Colonel Chilton complained in his editorial. Even if it had been an issue it would have been a very different issue from what Jt is today. The silver in a dollar was worth nearly 30 cents more than it is now. The experiment of the Bland-Allison act had not been fully tried, and the more radical experiment of the Sherman act had not been tried at all The proposition for the free, unlimited and independent coinage of silver had not forced the people to a Btudy of the question. Other issues engrossed their attention. Nobody was concerning himself about free silver, except Colonel Chilton, whose mind It is now known, though it was not known then, was impaired when he wrote the editorial of August, 1886. Growing steadily worse, it was not long after the publication of that editorial that his unfortunate condition became apparent, and he was relieved of his work and taken to the Lakeland asylum, where he died."

A VERY LIVE INDUSTRY. For an industry that is supposed to bo silver mining keeps up a remarkable degree of activity. When, in 1894, the price in London fell as low as 27 pence per ounce and the value of a fine ounce at the average quotation of the year was about 63% pence, it was supposed that the world's production of silver would show a great falling off. But, in point of fact, the production of 1894 was 1,750,000 ounces over that of 1893, and with an addition of 2 cents per ounce to the average price of 1895, there was an increase of 7,000,000 ounces in the production. That was the increase shown by the estimates of the director of the mint, but later and more accurate returns, covering the calendar year 1895, indicate that production reached the totally unexampled figures of 181,850,731 fine ounces, according to the Boston Herald.

The silver produced from native ores in the United States last year amounted to 46,331,235 ounces, a decrease, as compared with 1894, of 3,515,640 ounces. But the silver Bmelted or refined from imported ores and bullion added to that produced from native ores brings" up the total quantity of metal put into marketable shape in this country last year to 76,437,071 ounces, or 6,247,485 ounces more than the similar total for 1895. These figures certainly Bhow that the silver producers have not been idle, and warrant the presumption that they have not universally been working at a loss. Instead of our native mines being almost or entirely idle, their output for 1895 was only about 7 per cent short of the preceding year, a loss which, it will be perceived, the smelters considerably more than made up. As further evidence that there is Btill some profit in the industry, may be cited the fact that our own larger mines were able to pay dividends. As the Engineering and Mining Journal remarks on this subject: "While it is entirely impossible to fix on every average of the cost of producing silver, it is evident that, for an output of say 45,000,000 ounces in the United States, it is at present below 65 cents an ounce."

The Broken Hill mine of Australia, one of the great silver mines of the world whose approaching exhaustion was one of the stock arguments of the silver men to prove the limted supply of the white metal which was available for future use, is now reported as being about to increase its output. This is to be done by working on a large scale the sulphide ores which have hitherto been neglected. It is not many years ago since ores of this character, both in Colorado and Australia, were considered of little value. But metallurgical processes have made amazing strides of late, and to this fact is largely due the ability to produce silver at a profit, at half Its former price. There is also an important part of the silver output won in connection with copper, lead and other metals, and this, too, is increasing. Add to this the fact that the dry ores of the old lodes of Mexico and South America show no signs of giving out, and the certainty of an Increasing instead of a diminishing yield of silver, at present prices, becomes sufficiently apparent. The bearing of this fact on the proportion for free and unlimited coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1 needs no demonstration.

ABOUT PEOPLE.

Mne. Sarah Grand is staying at the Burford Bridge Hotel, beside Boxhill. It is a wayside Inn which outdoes many a more pretentious hotel in many things, aiid, among others, In its literary associations. There the Keatses stayed and Robert Louis Stevenson there, too, dined the Qmarlans on a great occasion, when Mr. George Meredith, who lives near by, joined the company iu the course of the evening.

Albert Fisher, a 16-year-old boy of Baltimore, committed suicide the other day because he could not marry a 14-year-old girl.

The London Sketch is responsible for the Itatement that the coming marriage of the Princess Helene, of Montenegro, and the prince of Naples is one of sentiment. The gentleman in the case is reported to have secretly adored his future bride for over a year but lacked courage to tell her so.

Ex-Queen Liliuokalani has been baptised and confirmed by Bishop Willis, the Auglican bishop. She has not hitherto been a member of any church, although a regular attendant.

Among the brilliant group of imperial and royal ladles who will make up the large party of the quien at Balmoral during the visit of the ciirftnd czarina In Scotland the duchess of Connaught will be the only one who offers up a moderate but persistent income to Nieotina. Whtle the clever duchess is a most womanly woman in most ways» she Is devoted to her little cigarettes, and when she attended the Russian coronation ceremonies with her husband recently she carricd quite a complete Store of the fragrant trifles with her, and no lady at the court enjoyed more the nerve-soothing smoke.

The Rt. Hon. A. J. Balfour has been at Manchester and also visited Mr. Gladstone at Hawarden. This Is the first time in the last ten years that the grand old man and Mr. Balfour have exchanged private confidences, and it is said that while the two gentlemen found much to say on current events politics was let severely alone. Mr. Balfour was accompanlcd to Hawarden by his sister, fegpf3is?®*!

EXPRESS PACKAGES.

Now to Bryan moving eastward On a hurricane o! language. Swiping all the earth with speeches, Driving

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With Ms whixsing talk tftrnaAo Filling all the air with moutknees, Filling all the earth with chinness, Filling all the sea with Jawnees, f?: Filling all the sky with wordnesa, Loading every vale with language, Piling high the bills with utterance,

The use of hard wood for the surface of roads in London, especially where the traffic is heaviest, has in the last few years rapidly Increased.

Potassiumorthodinltrocrescolate Is the latest acquisition to t*»e German language. It is the name applied to an antiseptic lately discovered.

A governess in London, advertising for a situation as teacher to two or three children, adds that her age is "sweet 17," and she Is fairly good looking, though not fascinating enough to attract young men.

There are some 60,000 costcrmongers who carry on business In the streets of London. Their capital is supposed to be (250,000, while they are said to do a trade during the year of $15,000,000. The profits of this turnover are about $5,000,000.

On account ol the recent agitation of the Cuban question in New York by means of fairs, conventions, etc., the cause has grown so popular that Cuban flags are now on sale at most of the dry goods stores and there Is considerable call for them.

At the' close of 1894 the population of Japan was 42,000,000, to which must be added the 8,000,000 in the island of Formosa. This puts little Japan sixth in the list of countries as regards population, China, India, Russia, the United States and Germany surpassing her.

The largest churches in Europe will contain the following numbers: St. Peter's, Rome, 64,000 Milan Cathedral, 37,000 St. Paul's, London," 25,000 St. Sophia, Constantinople, 23,000 Notre Damo, Paris, 21,000 Pisa Cathedral, 13,000, and St. Mark's Venice, 7,000.

Modern science has Invaded the field of nature and flowers can be made to change not only perfume but color. Lilies of the valley have been made pink, carnations green and florists are now trying to make chrysanthemums blue. The lilac blossom has been made to smell like a rose.

An Arab named Mohammed Ben Aidlel Benzerti was hanged recently in Tunis for killing four other Arabs. After the usual time the body was taken down and given to his relatives, who were preparing to bury him, when he remarked: "Before burying me give something to drink." They took him to a hospital and he is likely to recover.

A horse belonging to an aged farmer of Jefferson county, Indiana, seems to have a hatred for bicycles and expresses his anger whenever one comes near him. As the Rev. Scott Hyde, of North Madison, passed him the other day he became uncontrollable and gave chase at such a rapid pace as to throw the driver from the vehicle and run down the cycler before either of them could take in the situation. The wheel was demolished, but the minister escaped with slight injury.

Enid never falls in her bible lessons to demonstrate that there are quick wits under her crown of golden curls. Her mother explained that Eve's disobedience was a terrible and wicked thing, that Enid and her little brothers needed to try very hard to be good and to oppose the great sin and sorrow that had been in the world ever since Eve yielded to temptation. Enid was sad and dissatisfied. Then she exclaimed, in a tone of Inconsolable regret: "Oh, mamma! If you had only had Eve's chance!"

While running fully forty miles an hour around a curve the Missouri Pacific fast mail train, engine and tender, jumped the track owing to a broken flange, three miles west of Sedalia, Mo., the other day, and at that speed passed over a bridge more than 100 feet in length that spans Muddy creek. The accident occurred on a down grade, and the derailed tender ran three-quarters of a mile over the ties before the train could be stopped. No one was injured, but it was almost a miracle that the entire train was not ditched.

The extent of the work to be done in improving the navigation of the Mississippi river is disclosed in the latest annual report of Major Hanbury, in charge of work on the channel between the Illinois and Ohio. According to this report, 2,979 snags were removed during the year. The work of the snagboats ilever ends. Next year as many or more snags will have to be removed In order to insure safety in navigation. Major Hanbury reports that in the work of destroying the causes of which snags are the effect the snagboat crcws had destroyed within the year 19,648 leaning trees.

The number of fatalities to mountain-climb-ers In the Alps this year has already exceeded the total which used to be considered bad for a space of ten years. Until last year the Predlgstuhl, in tho Tyrol, had been considered inaccessible. Then it was climbed for the first time and this year there have been five ascents, two of which resulted in fatal accidents. As for the Alps proper, lives are thrown away weekly on all sorts of foolhardy ventures by people who, having read Whymper and Conway, decline to take the advice of guides or to conform to any of tha old ruies governing mountain work. "The small size of the screw," says a noted shipbuilder, "Is not duo to the perception of any inventor of its greater effect as compared with a largsr one, but purely to accident. When I first engaged in tho machinery business screws for steamers were made as large as possible. It being tho theory that the greater the diameter the higher the speed. A vessel was sent to sea with a screw so largo that it was deemed best to cast each blade in two parts, and then wtild them together. During a storm all three blades of the propeller broke at the welding, reducing the diameter by more tlian two-thirds. To the surprise of the captain tho vessel shot forward at a speed such as had never been attained before. Engiucua then experimented with small propellers, and discovered that they were much more effective than large ones. Had It not been for that accident we might have gone on using iarge-bladed scrcws to the present day."

The prisoners in the Arizona territory penitentiary, upon the east bank of the Colorado ri'-T rn the outskirts of Yuma, probably suffered more severely from the terrific heat oi tne late hot spell lhau any other people. Tho penitentiary was built where it is, for tho very reason that escape from it In a greater part of the year is practically impossible. Tho awful desert that stretches for over .150 miles in three directions from tho penitentiary, and the vast area of sandy waste, cactus and rattlesnakes across the river, are ever-present obstacles that convicts with a longing for freedom in their hearts dare not attempt to crosi. In fourteen years there has been but one escape from the penitentiary. *nd the sufferings of that poor fellow, a half-breed Mexican and Apache Indian, were so great that he had become a maniac by the time he reached Sonora, Mexico. Records of the temperature show that the mercury sometimes rises to 120 degrees in summer, and that for seventeen successive days last summer tho temperature rose to 114 degrees.

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Giving off his oratory As aa onion drops its peeling, Caulking all the crack* of silence With his eloquental stuffing, Hurling great spellbinding cart loads Of his many worded thlnklets At an unoffending people Scraping down the stars of heaven To be used as punctuation Murks In his magniloquences Never stopping for a moment. Comes he eastward in September,On a hurricane of language, On a roaring tide of language, On a tidal wave of language. On an autumn flood of language In a wild, stampede of language, In a reckless mob of language, Down a cataract of language Rushing, roaring, pounding, cradling, Slashing, smashing, smoothing, sounding. Slapping, slamming, slopping, swiping, Whooping, whopping, whanging, whizzing, Language, language, language, language! —New York Sun.

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INDIANAPOLIS. IND.

Agents for Butterick's patterns

THE-PRmCETO*-YALE SGHO0L,

Sm««1 4UI Stawti OHICAfiO. Affiliated wltb the University of Chicago, Boys thoroughly prepared fortinl»»riattes and scboola of science finely equipped boarding depfcrtraaist new and eleiraJit Ore-proof DuildtufSk »ll modern improrementt faoalty of 14 male toqhsrm, all complete 'laboratory, gymnasium yd_awlltorium,

Sept. Slit, IMS. Addms HIRAM A. GOOCH, Bcm

EXCURSIONS.

$2.25 to Indianapolis and Return.

Selling dates Sept. 14th to 19th inclusive, good until Sept. 20th. Account State Fair.

$9.55 to Detroit Mich, and Return.

Selling dates Sept. 18th to 19th, good until Sept. 25th. Meeting German Catholic Central Society of America.

$7.00 to St. Louis and Return.

Selling dates every Thursday, tickets good five days returning. Account Exposition.

55 CENTS to PARIS and Return.

Sept. 15th. Republican Rally. E. E. SoutTi. General Agent.

J. C. S, GFROERER,

PRINTER

Estimates Cheerfully Furnished.

33 SOUTH 5th.

C. & E. I. R. R.

WILL SELL

Excursion Tickets

Round Trip or One Way to all

SUMMER RESORTS

In the North and Northwest

Good Returning Until October 31st.

For further information »pply J. R. OOIVNET,LY, General Agent, Tenth and Wabash Av*.

R. D. DIGG, Ticket Agent, Union Depot.

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