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THE PRESIDKNTS MESSAGE
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So he presents a heaping peck of trou
bles with scarcely a hint as to how they
may be leveled to the rim of the meas
ure Press
His conclusions show beyond a doubtt
that he will leave to his successor thej
honor of taking the first step to assure
Cuban liberty Journal
We should mind our own business re
store domestic prosperity faithfully com
ply with the neutrality laws and letCuba
alone Commercial Advertiser
The message writes the history of an
administration and writes it with dignity
and calmness It is one of the most in
structive I6cients ever prepared for
perusal Brooklyn Eagle
The only political value of the docu
ment is in its incidental disclosures o
Mr Clevelands frame of mind as indi
cating his- probable course during the
brief period of power remaining to him
Suit
The message as a whole is a creditable
document Its style is open to criticism
but it is evidently animated throughout
by a sincere desire to avoid offense with
out a sacrifice of personal dignity Mail
and Express
As to Cuba it is noteworthy that the
hypothetical condition which he sets forth
as one that would justify and compel
American intervention is wholly indis
tinguishable from the conditions now ac
tually existing as described in tiie mes
sage itself World
Chicajro
Hb threat to Spain will present to the
European power a very clear view of this
nations attitude Record
The intimation that the United States
will be compelled to protect American
interests in Cuba and the interests of civ
ilization and peaceis important in its sig
nificance Chronicle
McJt Americans believe that the situa
tion is at hand and they will be incensed
rather than placated by the fatuous nego
tiation which the administration has un
dertaken in lieu of decisive action
Journal
Reduced to its essence he has given
Spain until March 4 immunity from in
tervention by the United -States or any
other power and permission to -continue
its hideous work of murder and ruin
Tribune
Of the prospect of armed inervcntionr
in eae of all other means of pacifying
Cuba fail the President speaks with the
utmost frankness and good sense It is a
contingency that however deplorable it
may be has not been overlooked by IotI
heauod people Times Herald
t London r
Srin had better accept Mr Clevelands
friendly counsel as Mr McKinley is not
likelil to be less exacting than Mr Cleve
landl Altogether it is a dignified and
ableViessage Standard
President Clevelands argument is clear
enough No country possesses the right
to foster a perpetual source of trouble
and Spain must either grant autonomy or
sell Span however will probablyf use
to do anything of the kind Daily Xews
We believe the time has passed when
the Cuban insurgents will accept any so
lution placing Spanish officials over them
even nominally There is no mistake
however about the warning President
Cleveland addresses to Spain Chronicle
The tone and spirit of the message are
worthy of all praise It is a pity that the
moderation -and balance of mind which
Mr Cleveland has just displayed were
not more conspicuous last year when he
startled two continents by a menace of
warTimes
In General
On the whole the message will be re
garded as rather commonplace Indian
apolisTournal
President Cleveland adds to his well
earned reputation as a sound financier in
his attack on our financial methods St
Louis Star
Mr Clevelands last message will add
nothvngto his fame and will be a source
of gratification to his enemies Kansas
City World
It is characterized by the same strong
common sense that has been such a
marked feature of all his state papers
Peoria Herald
President Clevelands message is a for
cible reiteration of views that he has long
held in most of the subjects treated In
dianapolis Sentinel
Thp President gives very little encour
agement for any hope that this Govern
ment under his administration will fa
Tor the annexation of Cuba Minneapo
lis Journal
It maintains tin regard to Cuba a calm
judicial attitude which disregards neither
facts nor obligations founded on them
Sentiment is acknowledged butAiof ad
mitted as a ground of action Milwaukee
Journal
Mr Cleveland is in accord with public
sentiment in the United States when he
declares that this Government should ob
ject to any other nation interfering in
Cuban affairs or acquiring the island
Toledo Blade r
Until the inability of Spain to end the
war is manifest until her sovereignty in
Cuba is extinct or until the situation is
by other incidents imperatively changed
Mr Cleveland wjll do nothing t This is
the true policy Milwaukee Sentinel
In every feature and detail of the mes
sage Mr Cleveland maintains the invin
cible loyalty to the American public
which he has manifested from the first
-moment of his advent into public life
Cincinnati CoLmercial Tribune
President Clevelands last annual de
diverauce to the Congress of the United
States is a sober thoughtful and states
manlike survey of national affairs De
troit Free Press
Especially noteworthy is his statement
that by the course of events we may be
drawn into such an unusual and unprece
dented conflict as will fix a limit to our
patient -waiting for Spain to end the con
gest either alone and in her own way or
with our friendly co operation Spain
cannot fail to understand the warning
conveved in these words Duluth Her
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HANDWRITING IN MINIATURE
A Man Who Can Write 10000 Words
on a Postal Card
There Is a man la Detroit Mich
tt ho is performing the unprecedented
feat of writing 16000 words on a postal
card It sounds like a tale from Baron
Munchausen but Charles S Monnier
is prepared to prove the truth of It by
exhibiting the postal card Moreover
Mr Monnlers work Is plaln even to
the single letter although of course a
magnifying glass Is necessary to detn
tmstrate this truth to the Investigator
Mr Monnier says his ambition is of
comparatively recent inspiration Two
months ago while he was a novice ai
the art of writing having only suc
ceeded in producing on aJpostal card as
many characters as an ordinary writer
would require a quire or so of paper to
portray he read of the performance of
a penman who had placed no less
than 7000 words upon one side of a
postal card
Mr Monnier studied the ictea care
fully and the more he thought the
more he believed he could eclipse the
feat of which he had read So he be
gan and for his text took the first
book at hand which proved to be a
copy of Portia Never were the
chapters of a novel written In such a
condensed form as this On one after
noon he succeeded in writing on the
side of a postal card 1000 words oc
cupying but a small portion of the
space
The effort as may be imagined was
somewhat exhausting to the writer
and he found it necessary to take a
three days rest to recover his steadi
ness of nerve Then he increased the
number of words on the card by an-
other thousand and still there was an
abundant amount of space to be filled
It began to look as If he would get the
whole volume on the postal He con
tinued his efforts writing at inter
vals of three days until the number
of words footed up 8302 and still half
the card was unfilled Twenty four
pages of the book had been written
on the qard
Mr Monnier is still laboring at hi
self appointed task and feels sure that
when the card isSlled Jt -will contain
about fifty pages of the book or be
tween 10500 and 17000 words The
words will be contained in less than
245 lines and the number of letters in
all will be between S0000 andSo0C0
The backof a 2 cent postage stamp
would not seem to present a surface
favorable to record breaking perform
ances of the kind that Mr Monnier de
iights in Yet on the gummy surface
of a stamp the Detroit expert has writ
ten a letter containing 7G3 words suf
ficient characters to require the use of
eight pages of letter paper for the or
dinary writer to produce
Mr Monnier also made a circle the
size of a gold quarter and endeavored
to place the contents of a volume with
in the small ring He succeeded in
writing inside one of the circles the
Lords prayer the Hail Mary and his
signature with the words Champion
small writer of the world added 10G
words in all
On another he has written a poem
containing 100 words and the circle is
only three quarters full On still an
other he has succeeded in placing the
Lords prayer twrice the total number
of words being 114 and in a circle con
siderably smaller than a gold quarter
he has written the Lords prayer once
the number of words being fifty seven
It would be supposed that this pen
expert had eyesight of remarkable
keenness but though only 23 years
old he has been near sighted for fif
teen years His method of holding
the pen is mbst peculiar He writes
with his eyes very near the paper and
peering at it through his glasses he
worts away with the penholder rest
ing on the side of the nose He claims
that by this means he can hold the
pen much -steadier than in the ordinary
way and can wTrite steadily for three
hours at a stretch before tired nature
gives way Mr Monnier writes with
a quill pen Xew York Herald
Evils of Roast Coffee
The coffee eating habit is on the in
crease and doctors say there are few
worse Coffee when eaten roasted is
productive of a train of ills that final
ly result in complete physical and
mental prostration
The trouble is more prevalent among
young girls than any one else They
eat parched coffee without any defin
ite object just as they eat soapstone
slate pencils but with much more dis
astrous results The coffee eater be
comes weak and emaciated the com
plexion is muddy and sallowthe ap
petite poor digestion ruined and
nerves all unstrung
Roast coffee wll give a few minutes
of exhilaration followed with great
weakness The victims nearly die
when deprived of the accustomed stim
ulant
Something Xew
The Chicago Times Herald says that
a Western gentleman lately found his
new cook in the drawing room gazing
with much interest at the aquarium
Well Biddy said the gentleman
in a kindly tone what do you think
of them
Sure sor answered the cook upon
my soul if they aint rale lovely An
begorra perhaps you wouldnt belave
it but this is the first time that I ive
sawT red herrings alive before
Old Throry of ldjht
Among the more sober physicians of
old as told by Aristotle it was be
lieved that in some manner the sun
was conveyed by night across the
northern regions and that darkness
was due to lofty mountains which
screened off the sunbeams during the
voyage
One of the most pitiful sights in the
world is that of a woman moved to
tears when she has left her handker
chief at home
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C0NGEESS IN ACTION
EOTH HOUSES CONVENE WITH
THE GALLERIES PACKED
Diplomatic Representatives of Other
Nations Anions Those Who Attend
the Opening Ceremonies Reading of
Presidents Message
Solons Reassemble
Washington correspondence
The reassembling of Congress for the
closing session of the Fifty fourth Cou
gress was an occasion of unusual bril
liancy and interest The opening day is
always a gala -affair marking as it does
theuoflicial inauguration of the social as
well as the political season in Washington
but Monday it was all the more interest
ing because of the long and hard fought
political battle that had been waged dur
ing the recess
Proceeding of the Senate
The Senate began the second session of
the Fifty fourth Congress with crowded
galleries and with that accompaniment
of activity and of greeting that usually
attends the reassembling of Congress
But the upper branch of Congress never
puts aside its dignity and the meeting
developed no demonstrations of dramatic
incidents
The reading of the Presidents message
was the feature of the proceedings and
beyond this no attempt was made to enter
upon the business of the session
Proceedings of the House
While the scenes attending the opening
of the House were both brilliant and in
teresting in the crowds that thronged the
galleries and the conspicuous personages
present the proceedings themselves were
dull and spiritless being distinctively
routine The House met the chaplain
invoked the divine blessing on the work
of the session the loll was called a com
mittee consisting of Mr Cannon of Illi
nois Mr Payne of Xew York and Mr
Turner of Georgia was appointed to wait
on the President and the latters annual
communication was read
Before the Tuesday session closed the
House had passed three bills and the first
of the regular supply bills that for pen
sions One of the bills provided for the
use of private mailing cards of the same
general size and character as the present
postal cards when 1 cent stamps are
ailixed Another provided for limited in
demnity of 10 for the loss of registered
mail matter and the third provided that
on the application of twenty persons re
ceiving their mail at the same office the
postmaster shall appoint such persons as
are willing to undertake the- collection
and delivery of mails at the charge not
to exceed 1 cent for each letter and that
the charge shall be paid by the bene
ficiaries The pension bill carries 141
2G3SS0 about 75000 less than the law
for the current year The notice of the
opening of a Cuban discussion was about
the only feature of interest developed at
the brief session of the Senate
In the Senate Wednesday the prayer of
Rev Dr Milburn made eloquent refer
ence to the late Charles F Crisp of Geor
gia A man faithful and loyal in all his
relations and faithful servant of the peo
ple may his name be graven on the tablet
of the nations memory Early in the
day three sets of vigorous resolution for
Cuban independence furnished an inter
esting feature The Senate by a of
35 to 21 adopted a motion to take tip the
Dingley tariff silver bill The House
passed a dozen billls of minor importance
The House also agreed to the tSenate
amendment approving certain acts of the
Legislature of New Mexico for the issue
of bonds so as to validate 17500 of
bonds of Santa Fe County
The Senate Thursday took up the im
migration bill and also heard the first
Df the speeches on Cuba those of Mr
Cullom and Mr Call The immigration
kill was not finally passed upon but the
Senate agreed to the Lodge bili as a sub
stitute to the House measure The sub
stitute requires that all immigrants over
the age of 14 years shall be able to read
and write their native language and shall
be required to read and write in the pres
ence of a United States official at least
live lines of the United States Constitu
tion The Senate adjourned to Monday
Pending the preparation of the next ap
propriation bill the nouse again de
voted its time to the consideration of bills
on the calendar but only two were passed
during the four hours session One of
these was a copyright bill urged by prom
inent playwrights and theatrical mana
gers to secure to musical compositions
the same measure of protection under the
copyright law as is now afforded produc
tions of a strictly dramatic character
A bill to prohibit the sale of liquor in the
capitol building was also passed A bill
to modify the law forbidding the alien
ownership of lands in the territories so
as to give aliens the right to acquire un
der mortgage and to hold for ten vears
real property was defeated
In the House Friday Rev Mr Cowden
the blind chaplain referred in his invoca
tion to tire action of the House in pro
hibiting the i ale of liquor in the Capitol
We thank Thee O Lord said he that
the House is no longer responsible for the
liquor traffic within the
halls -of the na
tional Capitol Grant we pray Thee
that the bill passed here yesterday will
go through the regular channels and
speedily become a law never again to be
repealed in the history of our nation At
the conclusion of the prayer half a hun
dred members applauded vigorously but
Speaker Reed promptly suppressed the
outburst On motion of Mr Dingley the
floor leader it was agreed that when the
House adjourn it be o meet Monday
The joint resolution extending until the
close of this session the time in which the
joint commission for the investigation of
the subject of the rebate of the tax on
alcohol used in
manufactures or arts may
report was adopted
News of Minor Note
Gen Blanco has resigned the Governor
Generalship of the Philippines
Frederic Auguste Bartholdi has been
elected president of the Societe Liberte
des Artistes Franca is
While excavating for a cellar under
Trinity Church Newport R I workmen
found several skeletons one of which
was in a cedar coffin and was well pre
served
The burgomaster and sheriffs at Brus
sels have resigned owing to the adoption
by the common council of a proposal fix
ing the minimum wage of communal em
ployes at 3 francs per day
The prefectorial commission at Paris
has reported in favor of the removal of
the Orleans Railroad terminus to the site
of the Cour des Comptes which was
burned during the commune
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GOETHES FORESIGHT
CJnittjd States to Control Nicaragua
Canal and Britain Suez Canal
It is not generally known that Goethe
foresaw not only the construction of
the Suez Canal but of the Nicaragua
Canal as well and foresaw also that
the former would have to become the
possession of England and the latter the
possession of the United States A
writer in the London Spectator trans
lates from Eckermann
the following re
port of Goethes conversation at a din
ner in his house
Humboldt said Goethe has indi
cated with great local knowledge sev
eral points where by making use of
some rivers flowing into the Gulf of
Mexico one might perhaps attain the
object in view even more advantage
ously than at Panama The decision of
all this is reserved to the future and to
a grand spirit of enterprise So much
is certain that if a cutting be possible
of such a character as would allow
ships with any kind of cargo and of
every even the greatest size to pass
through such a canal from the Gulf of
Mexico to the Pacific Ocean there would
result for the whole of the civilized
world also for the not civilized part of
mankind the most Incalculable advan
tages I should however be astonished
if the United States were to let slip the
opportunity of getting such a work Into
their own hands One may foresee that
that youthful country with its pro
nounced tendency toward the West
will have seized upon and peopled
within thirty or forty years even the
wide stretches of land beyond the
Rocky Mountains One may also fore
see that along all this coast of the
Pacific where nature has already cre
ated the most spacious and most secure
harbors there will gradually arise very
important commercial towns which
will become the intermediaries of a
great intercourse between China and
the East Indies on the one side and the
United States on the other But in
that case it will be not only desirable
but almost a matter of necessity that
merchant vessels as well as men-of-war
shall maintain a more rapid communi
cation than has so far been possible by
the wearisome disagreeable and costly
navigation round Cape Horn I repeat
then that it is absolutely imperative
for the United States to effect a cutting
from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific
Ocean And I am certain that they
will achieve that aim I should like to
live to see it But that is not possible
In my case Secondly I should like to
live to see effected a joining of the
Rhine with the Danube But that were
another gigantic undertaking and I
doubt its being carried out more es
pecially when I contemplate the small
nessof the means that Germany can dis
pose of And thirdly I should like the
English to be in possession of a canal
of Suez These three things I should
like to live to see and it would be really
worth while to hold out here for their
sake another fifty years Literary
Digest
She Learns Its lvalue
Two young girls dressed in stylisn
tailor made gowns entered a State
street jewelers shop They asked to
see diamond rings and for a few mo
ments pretended to he very much inter
ested in the gold circlets and their brill
iants All at one of them fished in her
pocket book and produced a ring set
with a most beautiful emerald
Could you duplicate a ring like this
she asked
Yes said the jeweler
For how much The girl hesitated
just the least bit asking that question
The jeweler glanced at a friend wink
ed and smiled He told her the price
and then the girl asked
This is a rather valuable ring isnt
it
Yes quite valuable
Well I shall see mamma first and if
I decide to have the ring duplicated I
will let you know
Shell not be back said the jewele
after the door had closed Happy crea
ture She really never intended dupli
cating the ring but she was mortally
anxious to find out how much her
fiance had paid for it For that was
her engagement ring and you know she
had to know how much the trinket was
really worth His depth of affection ia
largely measured by the value of his
engagement ring Now shes happy
Did you notice the beatific expression
when Itold her my price Happy youth
They are pretty much all alike Chi
cago Chronicle
Lost Opportunity
I wisht Id been here in Ameriky in
the time of the war remarked Mr
Herlihy to his wife I wouldnt be
drivin a coal cart for a livin if I
had
Ah well Michael remarked Mrs
Herlihy in a soothing tone if youd
gone to the wars you might have been
kilt man like as not
And fwhat if I had said her hus
band refusing to be consoled fwhat
if I had Norah Herlihy Thered have
been my pinsion comin regular ivery
month and its ourselves could have
lived on it for the rlst of our lives in
stead of goin out scrubbin and driv
in coal carts
Sure I niver thought of that said
Mrs Herlihy and a melancholy silence J
fell upon the pair
A Tombstone Epitaph
An epitaph as curious in its way J
as any of the quaint and ingenious j
gravestone inscriptions recorded of j
late may be seen on a tombstone in J
Vip eemeterv of a suburb of Paris
The husband died first and beneath
the record of his name was placed at
his request the line I am anxiously
awaiting you July 30clS27 When
his widow died forty years after the
following line completed her inscrip
tion Here I am Sept 0
The gallows is what some peoplo
get by taking life easy
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F0UE TEAES HENCE
FREE SILVER WILL BE THE IS
SUE IN 1900
No Great Reform Has Ever Eeen
Brought About by a SiHjzle
Missing Wave of Pros
peritj Republicans Are on Trial
The iJsne in 1000
To those who believe that the cause
of silver- is Irretrievably lost that in
terestwill die out and that four years
will develop a new issue bringing to
the front new men the Chicago Dis
patch wishes to say no great reform
has ever yet been brought about by a
single campaign It takes years to ed
ucate the people especially on a subject
that they have been in the habit of
considering abstruse
It took many years of patient and
ceaseless agitation to get a measure
through the Commons granting home
rule to Ireland and then it was killed
by the Lords Chattel slavery would
never have been abolished had not the
Garrisons the Phillipses the Lovejoys
and the Browns blazed the way So
with every advance step in the history
of a people There must be a van
guard and this vanguard is invariably
beaten back by the hosts of conserva
tism But it just as invariably rallies
for a second onslaught
There can be no other issue in the
canvass of 1000 than the issue which
divided parties this year By them the
utter hollowness of Republican friend
ship for bimetallism will have been
fully exposed and by them the creation
of prosperity by taxation will be a
proved impossibility Prices will be
lower than they are to day and the
army of the unemployed will be in
creased enormously Trusts combines
and monopolies made arrogant by un
restricted and unrestrained power will
oppress and men and women will suf
fer as they have never suffered before
Naturally we will turn to the in
trepid leader who tried to avert these
evils during the summer and fall of
1S9G and he will again assail the cita
del of organized greed The issue will
be free silver and free silver will tri
umph
The Dins ley Bill
Although there is little probability
that the Dingley bill will become a law
it is pathetic to hear the appeals to the
incoming United States Senate Mr
j McKinley is a single idea man his one
and only love and hobby being protec
tion of the trusts and syndicates and
corporations and manufacturers from
importers no matter how much it robs
consumers and yet he very much de
sires that this bill shall become a law
Mr McKinley believes that the vol
ume of money will be increased by it
His narrow views prevent him from
seeing farther than the revenue re
ceipts The bill provides for a CO per
cent tariff on raw wool and manufac
tured wool and GO per cent on lumber
and manufactured wood and in this
manner provides for an income of 40
000000 annually which it is claimed
will supply the shortage of required
revenue for the expenses of the gov
ernment and therefore will stop the de
pletion of the gold reserve fund That
is as far as the Major sees into this sub
ject
This revenue measure will benefit the
expense fund just that much but it
will not stop the raid upon the treasury
The raid will continue as long as the
endless chain of redemption and reissue
of legal tender notes and the issue and
sale of bonds keeps up The revenues
from the bill will not add a dollar of
gold to the reserve fund neither will it-
prevent its depletion
now then will the Dingley bill help
the people It will not help them It
is not intended that it shall benefit the
people
The tariff provided by this bill will
have to be paid by the people as con
sumers of manufactured wool and lum
ber and manufactured wood The im
porter of these things will have to pay
the tariff that he may compete with our
home production and he adds it to the
price he receives for his goods in order
to keep even wich the tariff law and
then the wholesalers and retailers add
it to their prices and so the consumer
pays it In this manner Mr McKinley
and his gold standard party benefit the
people and it is the way the gold stand
ard will bring prosperity and plenty of
money thereby
There being no necessity for any fur
ther tariff laws the Dingley bill should
be defeated should it be offered for
passage This point is emphasized by
Mr Cleveland when he publicly admits
that the Gorman Wilson tariff law
would have been ample for all the
needs of the government if it were not
for the depression of business which
means that it will be amply sufficient
under the McKinley administrations
business prosperity We are consoled
very much by this thought and recog
nizes Mr Clevelands astuteness and
his unfriendliness to Mr McKinley his
gold standard associaate
But what will Mr McKinley 3t un
der this Cleveland tariffism He de
pended so much upon Grover who h -
knocked the pins from under his one i
idea He might work up another but
ton tariff act and include his campaign
buttons His occupation is gone and
Grover did it and the Dingley bill will
be superfluous The silver Senators
will not vote for any tariff measure un
til they secure free coinage until sil
ver is restored These Senators control
the situation and they should hold it
If they let go the cause of silver will
be dead There should mot be a Ding
ley bill nor any change in the tariff
law no general tariff bill which Mr
McKinley has already mentioned until
the volume of money is doubled by the
roniQnetfcation of silver at the nresent
ratio of 1G to 1 with or without the con
sent of any other natlcu
Senator Teller who is inclined to
favor the Dingley bill cannot take his
silver colleagues with Iilni yS
Prosperity Comes Not
That wave of prosperity which was
to follow immediately on McKInleys
election not having materialized the
Republican prophets are hard at work
trying to Invent explanations Corne
lius N Bliss the treasurer of the presi
dential syndicate says it Is just as he
expected which put in plain English
means that the whole cry of better
times was humbug and that he was
not deceived by it Bliss in his charac
ter of a dry goods merchant confesses
also that he does not expect better
prices for what he has to sell The
only thing ha looks for is more busi
ness and this he does not anticipato
for months to come In fact speaking
as a seller of material for clothing and
not as a high and mighty Republican
politician he is distinctly sad over the
outlook
One of the new reasons given for txitr
failure of the Republican wave of pros
perity to make its appearance is that
the talk of war with Spain has made1
people timid again as to the future
Nobody has been scared by this belli
cose vaporing No one anticipates trou
ble over the Cuban situation and no
body is neglecting an opportunity to
make money on account of it The real
trouble with the Republican ante-election
predictions is that they were made
merely for the purpose of inducing
voters to support McKinley and were j
not supposed to be remembered after- v
the ballots had been counted They
were a part of the campaign of misrep
resentation but like all political false
hoods they return to plague those who
invented them
Two More Pictures
The revival has The people who
been so general and live In the vicinity
spontaneous that it of Hoyne avenue and
will be necessary to Adams street looked
guard against flcti out of their front
tlous excitement The windows yesterday
period of stagnation afternoon aud won
has been protracted dered what all the
so long that business people were going
men ordinarily pru lnto a small brick llat
derft might easily be for
led into undue and 111 1 Men came leading
considered their children and
dence A wholesome accompanied by their
return to prosperity wives and young
must be accomplished men with canes and
slowly so as to avoid c hrys a u thcinuins
any serious reactions came alone
The commercial world It was all on ac-
must retrace Its steps count of the follpw
to former activity I n g advertisement
with care stopping which they had read
frequently to take in the morning pa
breath while on the pers
way Precipitate haste Wanted Young
to clear at a bound men 3 of good ap
the gulf which has poarance o u t s Id e
been widening forwork Call to day 3
months would be to Monday 9 to 12
gerous It Is far bet No W Adams st
ter to take It easy and The men were
be sure of the footing wanted to take or-
Chlcago Tribune tders for a new fad
editorial Nov 23
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the transferrins of
Ipliotographs of ones
inenus to Duttons
tThe possibility of
o b t ainlng employ
ment appealed to a
large number of
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advertisement asked
lookius men old as
well as young an-
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a close division of all the States eve
occurred before
Republicans on Trial
The Republican party is now on trial
as it has never been at any former time
in its history With the entire machin
ery of the Government under its con
trol it must either stand or fall by the
record it makes Four years hence the
people of this country will demand of
the party a full account of its steward
ship Unless its pledges to the people
are redeemed and a season of pros
perity succeeds the present era of de
pression under the single gold standard
the Democratic party will regain its
lost authority in the nation to surren
der it no more at the bidding of the
jjney power By possessing ourselves
wXi patience and remaining true to the
great principles on which the party has
relied for success in the recent cam
paign the -clef eat of our cause on Nov 3
mayyet be converted into a glorious
triumph in 1900 Atlanta Constitution
Work for Watchdocr Holman
Objector Holman the treasury watch
dog is on watch again But theres
nothing left for him to watch unless it
be the Secretary of the Treasury east
ing up the account of the amount of
principal and interest the Government
owes J Pierpout ilorgan and others
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A Close Division of States
It seems to be settled that the elec
toral vote for President will be 272 for
McKinley and 175 for Bryan The elec
tion comes pretty near to being a tie in
one respect that is twenty two States
voted for Bryan and twenty two States
for McKinley and the forty fifth State
Kentucky divides its vote and itsj
Democratic State committee has re-
solved to contest it in its entirety
not to change the grand result but to
expose the frauds by which the elec
tion there was literally bought with
inoney
The large States voted for McKiu JSs
ley the smaller ones for Bryan This-
division of interests was foreseen and
considered at5 the constitutional con
vention of 17S9 which formed our Fed
eral Constitution It was then feared
that the time might arrive when two
or three or the largest States like Vir
ginia or Massachusetts might control
the result To conciliate those who
thus objected it was provided in the
Constitution that if a choice of Presi
dent hy electors should fail by reason
of no one having a clear majority the
States should vote as States in the
House of Representatives the members
of the House from each State large or
small casting hut one single vote Thl
conciliated the small States retained
the federative idea and had much to
do with the acceptance of the Union
by them It is not probable that such
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