Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 43, Number 33, Jasper, Dubois County, 19 April 1901 — Page 3

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JA KP Kit. A GLINT OF GOLD. t'nmbulful of thf wlntiy cold. The sasndrops neap above tho mould. And nhow an Inner Klint of kM To eyes thai . .in- k , Tha violets ah j. till winds i.f Marc h Have swept thf . 1iiuJh from heuv b's blue arch: Tlio thrush will t-ltiK SOOn the larch Hefnr th y smile at mmHut these fair children nf tin -r.nW A lender, swaying, sMatenlng With all th. lr silv. r I I; a hi, row, Swlny. lightly r tin- i ). Hush' though Hi. oorM look I iark and Ir.ar, If onlv in ede a listening car To catch the music-faint, yet i liar Of their prophetic chlrne: Which nays, "Thousjtl pU,m the earth enhron1 Ami three win. Is drive tho hravv clouds. And eiurnii;- landward Ry In crowd On ken peat-beaten winsr. Thr sky will n. t l.. always ray: I nf von. fli nse Cd' shall wake some day T" foil tho viin again, and ay. With li.uKhltir Nim, "Tbl Spring.'" -E Math. -. n. In "hamber Journal. With the Mathematics ManJ i $ BY KATMAkIM M .BROWN. .2't I" :- i i? . -Vt r-4 ?.... 'From tho Woman's tfoflM Companion. Reariated by special pcrmiseion.) A of tb way up College hill the f orchards and fields hlncd jtn foidenrod ud trtaaned with daii.-s . a it hn raineo OVrtagtM morninp, and Ihr loa o-rafc still lay ITeiffated down niul im.1Iv o-reon; tho sun shone Ihrotiph rei of balmy haze; ovrr t iVa . , l - 1 . . int- wm, nunc me rior mists purpled the distant hills, lay .l.irkentof iaiii--l. .mis. huddled together like the t-lieep mi the slopes below, I'ho whoh i aiioy lay smiling in its windless Rleep, It aeemed to breatho forth aim from erery field and hollow. Marpnret Morns, hurrv inp- U Colieg mn at her nana tevetideague stride, felt fat serene iew OOOUt her only as an added Irritation. She carried her note-hooks and umbrella lightly on one arm. anil (ripped hi inu-lin skirls with the other hand if helping them along. Reed lern as of the warm air and the sln p hill, she raced on. her lips prt ed tightly to gether, her eyes ot rigidly ahead and irenclieil in tears. She did not hear the plaintive shout from behind: "Miss Morris Oh, M iss Morris! Wait n moment!" l.enohmjr the top of the hill she turned, and looking In hind her she saw the Mathematics Man half way up the i lope. He motioned feebly for her to stop, then toiled on up the hill fanning Bimaeif with his straw hat. .Margaret winked the tears out of her eyes and wrenched her features into a weptHanoVgarnlahed snM(., inward ly lonoinjr for Something to throw at his handsome gfoy head. "Why this indecent haste?" h paspod. as he eame within apeakfog distance. "I saw you pass m v studvwindow and Rtarted in pursuit. called ami railed, but you steamed on and I puffed fter von like a Idas phcmoni af cam-tug, i nse of con wie nee 7" . i was runn up awav from a i rieaiiaiiie ami trie linos. ii, eonfessed. It was not jnolitabh to attempt deceit on the Mathematics M;m. "You'll line to fight another day," he nodded; "that is, unless you brought the Lines BWU;.'. hot's see." Ho reached a paternal hand for the not. -books. Rod op. m il one. "Hiolopy. Three hours a day that tin ans. nicht wahr? Only three hours! What takes tho real of the time?" Margaret colored, "History and Herman I'm reviewing sumo eollega wirk ju-t for the fun of the thinp." His eyes challenged her. "And well. If you must know. I'm leen- " "Pitter, by nnothei pad fly?" "Gadfly! It's a mnn-eatinp hark this time ami I'm not bitten. I'm engnlfed, that's all. I'm trying to write short stories." The Mathematics Man sat down under an tpplc tree, and motioned her to follow him. " nd you'ra adding mnpaine work to history and German and biology- in .Inly'.'" he asked " es. it's hard, but 1 Ittd it a rest when I find some spare time. Hut, at the Kiime time He looked at her. and pulled, hia hat farther orer his ejea. "You mean you're writing boomeranps?" he said, pently. Margaret drew a stealthy breath. "HOW did you know?" she answered. "Yes, they're all prodipnls. who come I nek by the first mail. It's because they come back to me so repularly thnt I" "That you have the blues to-day?" "That I keep on writinp." I be Mathematics Man bepan to eoaat on bis tinkers. "Four years lW known you," said he. very slowly, "and by four several gadflies have you been tormented, poor child. The first yar you had the Hull-House fever." Marparct nodded. "You went around shedding statistics, and looking up undesirable people, and tried to do full college work and study kindergartening at the mine time, and plastered your hair a la St. (atberinc." "You are very observing." she said, aa he paused. "I might have worried about yon If I hadn't seen the counter-irritant looming up In the distance." "And that wan " "The Oreek-letter society yon Joined. Precisely. You dropped your 1 'locks and your weaving-needie. and Kk your pen in hnnd to write home

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. i i . . im uii Kern, uiaaiuiiiiLr min k end fudged .hi. i.h el.it r..,. " i - . swaaaj luiii. ..,, 5 ,. '''"''i Mvptraf gathered an h.-i ,i,,t. ( I, .up PrW Margaret, -Voab..ok.a,i . led to her feet. fcn:;v, " i i bei! no. r . Uf eoiirme not Neither wcniM m changed my Maes for mm advice, mm you kept )t p. ,,. mni lkin9t 8(, l(..,lv M jhn i ( lm(J liiitv;iin.. Utt m mi von csbm bock f. your topW said. "And Die Adams od I are to.

a it an . SINUC, von mean." eorreclew Mar gnu t. hastily. "rt in a s,.,,-,.. hi.es kind. Yon pills um OOmpnd of martyr stuir, urely. Nothing else would have ennui., four boms' dnilv niaan prac a tice heapad upon your regular lessona. And the concerts and recitals ao$i symphonies, and the musical litem iure you deroured: Von nee mad to think there as no limit to your on pacitj for work dnring that peria4tM "Well!" "I'm coming to the next. They nre all easily remembered. AOOUl the lime your teachers were bcgiiining 10 rounael sending you home for a emester's rest you shifted your ton t b to the raarinei rina building and hewatw v w - kt ' r sketching impottaiblc piecea of nan enlnery In Ineredibls positions. you went around with a measuriMl cairnlatioa in your very tread. From that it was only a step to Holland canal seem s, and piles of lemons done on water color paper. And you took to those mcal-sacky clothes BbOUt then, too." he went on, relentlessly. "You must haw obser, me as if I were a bug under a mieTOSCOpe about then," snid Marparct, casting about tor some pebble to put in her sling, "I did," said he, unconscious of her Intended missile. "Most interesting specimen i ever got under my glaan. And the Inst year what hasn't it been the last year? Socialism, thcoeophüA amateur theatricals did I say four gadflies? I must have nnant 4'.'." "What's the use of living if you're mm as pood aa dead'.'" interrupted Marparct, with n show of anger, The Mathematics Man looked off into the blua distance ami smiled. "I. a vie est vuine," he began. "Say that agnia and I'll tell the executive board what pessimistic ideas vou're putting before our susceptible minds." cri.d Margaret, menacing him gaily with a stalk of goldenrod. Then a sudden shadow croeaed her face. "Hut this is not Joking. There's some wretched moral lurking behind your resurrection of my past. I know I've had fads and follies- more than the other girls and I know that I was so tired they WOUMU t let me finish my work by graduation-time, so I'm finishing it ttOW. That js all clearly before me; now your moral, if you will." The Mathematics Man took her bat ami began sticking daisies around the crown. He pushed them into the ribbon band with the utmost pare, using a hat-pin to prod them into place. "Well?" qnssrlad Margaret, after a pause. "That suns.t makes me think of one I saw when I was in Lucerne last fcummer," said he, softly. "The Mawf musses of violet cloud piled against the horion till they Weighed it down 'beyond its utmost purple rim," the same golden light " "Another time; make your moral first, and tell your story afterward." supgested Margaret, sweetly. "It"really less work in the end.' "First toll me about the story you've written." said he. laying down the hat narnfltod. "Maybe I can deduce moral from that." "Which one?" "Which one? Have vnu then such a collection?" "I've just scribbled them off." mid Marparct. hastily. "Yes- I've written Uifht in the last ihree weeks. Tin y weren't problematical, nor ethical, nor any thinp; just hits out of my own experience." "Ieja?" queried the Mathematics Man. Marparct drew anprily away from him, the blood flaminp to the tips of her ears and tlnpeing the ivory of her neck as she grasped b's meaning. He looked at her in silei.ee, a great un derstanding kindness in his eyes. You can't escape my moral.' he said at last. "Dear child, why will you in sist upon crowding so many lives into one? Why must you do so many kinds of work poorly instead of doing one kind well?" I'm going to do this kind well, even if they do send it hack." blaed Mar garet. "I have it in me to write and to succeed. I know it!" And you have It In voti to paint. and to play, and to run a salon, and I soup kitchen - but not all on the same clock-stroke." he returned. "We are put here to gain as much as we may on our one or on our ten talents, as the case may be. not to" "Not to imagine talents which Wfl do not possess, she supplied '.lust give me one minute. Not to attempt to develop all of them at once, so that they will be a distorted mass of possibilities when we have finished, (live yourself time, Margaret. Try the stories, if you will, n vear. or two years, or longer, perhaps. Then If your courage gives out, of if you find that it no longer appeals to you, take up the music of the mission. Put do not crowd and hamper your life. We are given, all of us alike. space and time for what it is written we shall do. Why should we presume to narrow our limits and to crowd our work into less than its appointed years ?" Is that Omar Khayyam or Marcus Aurelius sticking out of your coat pocket?" said Margaret, saucily. But ahe kept her eyes away from him. "And then?" And then, if you give that time, and treat your work fairly end honorably, you will not be racing up Col lege hill to lose a headache and the sight of the returning prodigals," he said, very gently. "But I'll narrow down so if I devote myself to just one thing," aha hazarded.

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ing driving at live, so i niut hurry. "You'll not forget ?" said tin- Mathematics Man. "Nor forgive," she laughed. Then she bud her hand in his an instant "I'm going to do it: just ah wti think lu st," she s; nl. tense sincerity darkening her eves. "It shall be only MM gadfly for year, anyway. I'll work just as hard, and not do a particle of settlement visiting nor painting, uml I'll make evcrythinp as perfect ds I know how before I put it aside; and then oh, there's Dick Adams now! I suppose they sent him up to find mo." Up the road came a plistening phaeton drawn by a QJUick-nteppinfl horse, and driven by young man in B white flannel suit. As the Mathe matics Man turned his eyes toward the driver a faint shadow crossed his faoe; but it was gone the next moment. "And I am cm n saved the trouble of walking back to the house," said Margaret, as the young man drove up. The Mathematics Man, with a suppressed tenderness In his manner. helped her into the phaeton, und smiled at her suddenly beaming face. "You'll not forget?" be sai again, as they started off. "Xor forgive, I promise von." she smiled back. Waring her hand. And the phaeton whirled avshj down the road. The Mathematics Man murmured, "Das ew ipweibliehe," as he walked back to the apple tree and Rung himself on the mound beneath, l'.ut perhaps his thought vvass not as the thought of Goethe, "One SOW et fa and the other teapeth. and Whether that seed has fallen on stony ground or thistly ground or among thieves, I don't know. Who does? Perhaps !,,. win remember- awhile. Und ich? Mochte ich nur vergeeuen!" lip watched the phaeton until it was lost to view, and then turned bis gUMS toward the sunset, where the flaming colors of a few moments ago were turning to purple and gray. A woodpecker drummed n lively tattoo on the tree above his head. A robin BOUnded his mellow notes as he bopped acros the green. Hut the htuthemat ios Man neither saw nor heard. Hin eves were fixed with the vacant stare of deep meditation. Presently he dragged a thin, brown note-book from his pocket, with "Theory of Differential Equations -Notes" scrawled across the back, and settled himself to read. Could Marparct have read it through his cms she would have seen her own face glinting through every diagram; -he would have heard her ow n oice laughs ing back at him between the lines. Mlved Company. A writer in Temple liar of some interesting memories of Frank Buck land, the naturalist, relates ihat Rt , -land's house was the "rendezvous" for many and various personalities. V neighbor returning home one day found an enormous crowd in front f the house, making the tootwaj Impassable and extending some distance across the street. Seeing a police constable he inquired the reason for such crowd and requested to he conducted to his front door. The officer replied that there was a dinner party at Mr. Muck land's, adding' "Not that there' anything extraordinary in a dinner party, sir. but it's the company; for Tom Thumb, the Circassian giantess and the Siamese twins have already arrived, and some more of them aio CS pcotcd." How I nil. (Mr! I eil n m..... The bishop of Norwich tells a pleats, ant story against Mmacff Re was one day walking in the auburba, when, a little girl of about eieht or nine naked; "Oh, please, sir, will Mu open this gate for me?" The bishop, smiling on the demure little maiden, held back the pate for her to p;i-s through, and xv hen she thanked him with a smile he asked If she n; not big enough to open the pardon irate herself. "Oh. yes. sir." she replied, sweetly, "but you see the paint i- Wet and 1 should have dirtied my hands. ' San Francisco Argonaut. PeWMS WOS Poor shut. Prince Henry nf Prusaia was so bad a shot in his boyhood that his friends were almost afraid to trust hint on their preserves with a pun: but now, aa beeonSea a naval othcer, he is mi excellent naanksmin. Some years ago he and his brother, the Herman emperor, had nn exciting content with enrbines nt ?00 yard-. Thli rnf during a visit to Cow. - I'he emperor won by seven points. Detroit Free Press. IovHerert wllh riinnnn. When Bdward VII. eras horn, "r November h In the second year nf the queen's marriage, every one at Buckingham palace went wild with leligl t. Bells rang and puns boomed the fftud tidings all over the kingdom. Douglas .Tcrold, amidst the roarinp of the ordnance, aaid: "Dear me. how they do powder these royal babies!" , Y. 8un. Im (he llnnllnit Season. Lady (in poulterer's shop) Toil cna put aside half a docn of your plumpest partridges. Poulterer Yea, ma'am. BhaH I send them at onee? "No; my husband it out shooting partridges to-day. and he xvill call for them this evening." N. Y. World. Still I Memory. Lady Do you cling .o the rocolleetlona of your boyhood. Tramp Well. yesnuSsj I tili have a certain oinout t of apnthy for ds WOOdsbed. Chicago Daily Mewn

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1 doctor says t hi it's oae eeaslaint he can't cure " "What" that?" "The one hi- patients make about their bills." Philadelphia bulletin. Saicsstic lira. Hubble "Oh, Mr. Csdktiga told me he thinks 1 sing beautifully ! " M.ss Diggl "Isn't he too sarcastic for anything?" Ohio State Journal. Mr. Park Slope "Can you pive me good references from your last employer?" O'Bnolahaa "The very liest, sor' Sure, Oi hove been workin fer BSC Self, lately." I'.rooklvu Fagle. "Were you ever a prie-nphter, pa 7" "No. Willie; why do you ask that?" "Why, I beard Mr Smidgins say you used to be the toughest man in the court hniise ring." Indianapolis News. How land l'antt "You are a new member of our company. May I a-k, sir, your role'.'" The Other "I am the advance agent" How land Kuntt "Indeed! Well, could you or advance me a fiver.'" Philadelphia Record. Bohbs "Old Titewadn is about dead from insomnia. Says he is afraid to go to sleep." DohbS "DOM be fear burglars?" Boobs "No; but the last time he slept he dreamed of giving away his money." -Halt imOW American, A Difference. Mrs. Canlcr "Hridget O'hyan, who has applied for the pOsitiOB of cook in my house, referd me to you. She says tdie used to work here." Mrs. Housekeep "Not exactly. She was employed by me on. one occasion." -Philadelphia Press. Mafeking Hero "Yes. they were rough times, 1 can tell you. what with horse sausages and rat stews. Phew! it makes me feel quite hot now when 1 think of the cat-pie ration." Our Jokisl "Puts yon into a pusa-pic-ratioa in fact.'" Ally Sloper ALL ARE ANXIOUS TO LIVE. II a l ife Beeomes More lntereatT Iii aa Time I'asaea and Ah Increase. There are some of US who at times Beoome weary, despondent, blase or tired by reason of the treadmill the disappointments, the pleasures or the routine of existence, and who. in the petulance of the moment, express a distaste for livinp nnv longer, but as a rule mo.-t of the vast majority of humans, including the dissatisfied ones, if confronted ith a chance to shufile ofT without pain or without crime would say "Hold on; there are a few more things in this continuous -how we Would like to see before making our exit," observes Ihe Kansus ( it y Times. The poverty t i n ken one would like to see the part of the play that shows him how to get rich, the sick how to get Well, the lean how to become corpulent, the ugly how to become good-looking and the bald-headed how to grow hair. It is a case of 'man never is but always tobe blest." The old among us. even the onee we rend sbout as "having experienced life in three cent urics." a re in in hurry to quit the game. They may have sounded the depths of pleasure and pain, seen friends and kindred carted off to the silent city; they may le almost in the state Jacques describes In ihe seven agea, "sans eyes, -ans teeth sane smell, sans ver thing." but they are not yet sans curiosity. They want to ride in an airship to aome far-away count rj and back; they want to get a message by wireless telegraphy from across the Atlantic; they want to wait and find out who w ill be the next presil. tit. There is so much doing these dovsihat most of us are averse to letting g0 our hold. This is 1()t ao much be cause life is worth living, perhaps, as because we are Afraid something nan StmngC and start ling Will happen and ws won't be on deck to experience tlw thrill of a novel sensation, a w. nlcr'ul invention, e phenomenal disc,, very When there was nothing doing, like there "used ter wn." people didn't ftel near as much reluctance about d,iiig as they do in these busy times that keep all hands gttCSSing what will I turn up next. How Lithuanians Piny PlQQ. A peculiar dice gUUM is indulged in by the pambling element of Lithuanians in i'.altiinore. I lathering about the dice tables in the saloons kept by their fellow countrymen, they qukshly lose all internal in everything outside of that which is transpiring upon the clot! before them. As they sit or stand alout the tables the careworn features of old men noatrasl stmnply with the ruddy faces of the youths. The cape incus with Which the players seek the nunibera upon the falling pieces is wolfish in all its intensity. Comparativey small sums are placed upon the .ime, ami side bets run from five cents to a dollar. Although resern1 ling In the manner in which it is operated the high dice panic, as played by the Anplo-Saxon races, the die of the Lithuanians, instead of numberhsg from one to six. run from otie to ten, the numbering of the six sides being 1. 2, a. 4, s, in. The panic is played with four pieces, and a possible 40 Is the point striven for instead of ?4, which is hlph mark n the similar American game. Haitimore Sun. The liest Preaervee. Customer I want to get something that will preserve wood. New ( lerk -Yea. sir. hcre'a just the hing yon want. "Nonsense: That's a padlock." "Ye. sir. Put that on your woodshed door and no thief will ever get la." Philadi Iphia lress. To lllaael Glaaäi. To dispel mental gloom make light of your troubles. Chicago Dally Vswa.

TBE RULE OF BOSS PLATT. Saea KaUlao of tba Mew Yark R. Cmm tu I au.

For mo long a time had Thomas Collier Piatt ruled without influential opposition in the counsels of the republican party in New York city and state that for many years past he has t)een accepted by all save a few thousand independents, with ropulhena affiliations or leaninga or longings, as the autocratic ruler of the party during the remainder of bis nstural life. The independents have once or twice started a revolt against his dominance, out without other results than to draw upon themselves still larger measures of his acorn and hatred. They have been aooatant in bitter censure of him and have held him up to ridicule as one of small intellect and narrow intellipence, performing political antics before the country and high heaven. Hut all this censure and this ridicule has been unifortnlv until now drowned in the louder chorus of adulation by the faithful. The truth ia that Thomas Collier Piatt's intellect is not small and his intelligence is not nnrrow. The most detractive thing that can be said of him in his presumptuous role of 1 statesman is that he has a mercantile ' mind, with a fondness for and grasp of details, topether with nn ignorance of or contempt for greet principles of state. Ill health defrauded him of the higher education and while I still a youth he took up xvith a mercantile life. He succeeded, and had soon money enough to enter the hatikinp business. AI the same time he conducted lumber interests of his own in Michigan, but not to the neglect of his political interests. As a budding politician it was in his favor that hin home was in Oswego In that part of New York state where Koscoe Conkling needed a trusty fr'nnil and ally. He was elected in 1871 and reelected in 174 to congress. Mr. Conkling xvas then serving his first term in the senate. In Washington the two men formed an alliance, offensive and defensive, according to the secret terma of which they were to endeavor to control the federal patronage for New York, and also the state patronage. All things went smoothly with them till about 1STB, when their enemies mnde an attempt to take control of the republican state convention and set up n new order of proceeding. Mr. Piatt was a delegate in that convention, in which it wa for a day undecided on which side the majority was. lint so skillful was his manapej meat that he brought the majority over to him and was himself made the chairman of the convention. j Conkling was indorsed, the organization perpetuated in his and Piatt's j hands, and the next winter the legislature reelected Conkling to the senste. Tn 1RS1 Piatt's election to the senate was dictated by his friend and partner in politics. Hut then arose the ojiiarrcl between them and President Oarfleld over ihe patronage, and, lieinp wo-sted in that quarrel, they both resigned from the senate. . The partnership between the two men ended when they failed in their endeavors at Albany to be returned 1 to the seats they had haughtily va- ' sated. Mr. Conkling thenceforward eschewed polities, but Mr. Piatt continued to pla the panic. His talent for details enabled him s(,f,n to get control of the organisation of his i party, and. exercising that control. he managed to bring to his support many of the great corporations of the state and all the corrupt influences of his own party and many of the corrupt influences of the oppos'tiL' party in New York city. Thon he became the acknowledged "boss" of the New York republicans and one nf less thnn half a doen bosses of the republican party of the entire country. In 1 v.7 he had himself effected to the United states senate. Since that time he has Wen n terror and a burden to Mr. McKinley and his ndminist rat ion. nd now the supposed Impoaaibhi 1 ha suddenly come to pas, Mr. Platf is defied at both Washington and Albany, and the whole country 1 resounds with the announcement that the rule of "Bona" Piatt is ended. Put "the boss is dead; long live the ' boss" some other politician of nearly the same stamp will arise to fill th place from which lu- has been so suddenly hurled, (lue cannot conceive of the republican party without Its boss in the Fmpire state! Chicago Chronicle. Lawyer for the Trnati. In the appointment of Philander C. Knox, of Pit t s burgh, as nttorm y pin eral. Mr. McKlnlej secures a Is w i r of marked ability, according to the testimony of all who knew him. It must always be accounted something of a drawback, however, xxhen the president picks out as his law adviser a man who has no public reputation, in preference to one xxhoin the people have come to know and respect. It s.-cnis also rather unfortunate that, when there are laws on the statute hooks against trusts, the attorney generalship should be piven to a lawyer Svhn has been the adviser of great promoters of trusts. This is not to sny thst Mr. Knox may not prove impartial as well as able; only that, human nature being what it Is, a man with his record has to overcome a mensure of distrust and suspicion. From this point of view the nppointmerl of the Pittsburgher does not maintain Mr. McKinley "s well earned reputation for political shrewdness. N. Y. Post. It touches Mark llsnna In a lenJer spot to be told thnt he spent $100,000 to defeat a candidate who was not defeuted. N. Y. World.

TAXING OURSELVES. (aar If I air real I the Protect loi la tar Poor Kurelaaer Is Soaa Ihluai WaaOrfaL.

A most philanthropic policy is this of ours this' taxing ourselves for the benefit of the foreigner. A tune was once when the philanthropic eharaoter of this policy could not be demonstrated, hut that time is long since past. Example after example can now be marshaled to prove our unselfish interest in the poor foreigner who will consent to use our goods. To illustrate tins, we will take the iron industry. We take this only because there ia a movement on foot among the more liberal republicans to open it up to foreign competition because it is in a trust. A well-known con tractor of New York, Charles i bullen by name, obtained a contract from the Russian government to furnish si. el rails for a portion of the great Trans-Siberian railroad. He sought prices from the Federal Steel company, xx hu h gave him gtl per ton, with freight charges to be added. This pric e, so far as Mr. Thnllen was concerned, was prohibitive. He went to the Carnegie Steel company, bot could not get the price shaved. Ia despair he went to Fnpland and soblet his contract to an English Arm. Thnt firm sent to the Fnited Statea for prices and obtained the phenomenal figures of $24 jer ton delivered in Russia. The deal was closed and the rails sold by the English firm to Mr. Thullen at $3.1 per ton delivered In Russia. Mr. Thullen was thus 'enabled to go on with his contract after being compelled to pay a Hritish firm a bonus of $11 per ton because he was so unfortunate as to be an American citizen. The question suggests itself to many ordinary minds, how can these steel companies sell to a foreigner steel rails $11 cheaper than to an American and deliver them in Russia to boot? There must be something "rotten in the state of Denmark," when the home market is taxed to such an extent in order that the foreigner may buy nt his own price. Or, is it philanthropy? We are, however, not alone in Ihis work of relieving the foreigner, Hcrmnuy, which hns adopted the American idea nf tariff, is enpaped to a preat extent in the same charitable business. Herr Krupp and Haron von Stumm have, under the (ii rman tariff laws, a monopoly of the armor plate industry. They hold up thnt government for $.'i'0 per ton. which is $100 more than the steel compnnies of the United States are able to get out of I'ncle Samuel. And to make the hold-up more apparent it appears that Herr Krupp and Mr. Harvy receive a royalty of $35.30 per ton on the American manufactured plate. This juicy monopoly allows the (ierman armor plate trust to "compete in the markets of the world." Not Jones, in this case, but the ("ierman nation pays the freight. On account of this extortion the (ierman reichstag proposes either to remove the tariff or construct government works, as the difference would amount to the enormous sum of $1.'.000,000 in the construction of the proposed new navy of the empire. In ihe face of many such demonstrations of the workinps of a tariff law that Is out of date, the great majority of the republican "statesmen" nre dead apainsf the Babcock bill to remove the tariff from iion and steel products. Wonderful, indeed, nre the workings of the human mind oi. Paul Globe. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. - Picrpont Morgan's pi eat railw a trust w ill doubtless do its best to clear the track for republican victory in 1001. St. Louis Republic. Benjamin Harrison died fearing the abandonment of American principles by Americans. It is ominous that an American president's last days should be thus darkened. St. Louie R public. Senator Banna says the Ohio elections were nothing but local affairs. Very true, anil it is unfort unnte indeed that Mr. Raima's part v was so unifortnlv 08 the side that did not suit the people who did thi voting. Minneapolis Titln s. In nnn constructed editor wantd to know if President McKinley did not once say that forcible ant. ex.it ion would be criminal aggression, (lueen he did. but our contemporary takes too seHoUS n view of thl matter That was intended to "go" only a a piece of phrase-making. Notice the rhetorical awing, ami tin tori is two thirds of the battle with the present administration. Cincinnati Enquirer. It is quite In keeping with the policy of the noble nod imperial major that plans should now be in contemplation for the corruption of Aguinnldo. ft is. of course, impossible for a trite McKinlevite to realize that there is such a thing as honor and patriotism except for bargaia counter use. Mr. McKinley himself has not hesitated to change bis mind, to almndon plain duty, to forget sacred obligations and to undertake lines of procedure which he hlnumM had described aa criminal. .lohnst own Democrat. -What a transformation scene three short years have brought about I Three years ago how we did execrate the cruel Spaniards for their tyranny and oppression, and especially with what consuming wrath did we denounce the rcconcrntrado policy of "Butcher Weyler" for the suhjugntion of the Cubans the policy of which President McKinley aaid: "It is not civilized warfare; it ia extermination." And now, 0 irony of ironies! what do we see? Why, we see this same reeoncentrado system applied in one of the Philippine islands by the government which denounced it Portland (Me.) Aswan,