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VALENTINE
NEBRASKA
Kentuckys popular upnmng nas ceas
ed Probably they ran out of lynching
material
A dangerous counterfeit 20 silver
certificate has been discovered but the
average citizen doesnt know how It
was done
Sam Jones says there are 200000 sin
ners in Boston If that statement Is
correct Boston doesnt deserve to rank
as a city of the first grade
In Solomon Mo a solid silver pitcher
is to be voted to the best husband by
popular ballot We cannot guess who
will get It of course but It is very cer
tain that the gentleman is dead
An Ohio woman is In St Louis look
ing for a man who described himself to
her in a letter as ten feet tall He prob
ably Is some fellow who thinks he has
a cinch on a federal appointment
A hot headed Virginian who sent a
challenge to an adversary to meet himi
In mortal combat was dragged before
a justice of the peace and fined 250
There isnt enough of the code left to
frighten anyone
Probably the St Louis Star was en
tirely justified in denominating the re
cent drowning of four school children
while skating as sad Even at this
distance there appears to be nothing
hilariously jolly in it
When a Ness County Kan farmer
runs out of meat the Kansas City Star
says he steps to his door just before
he goes to bed and lets go both barrels
of his shotgun The next morning he
picks up enough jackrabbits to keep
the pot boiling for a week
Mr W S Witham of Atlanta Ga
enjoys the plutocratic distinction of be-
lng president of more banks than any
other man in the world probably He
Is at the head of no less than twenty
seven banks all in the State of Geor
gia and he says every one of them is
making money
Chicle an exudation of the sapota
tree of Mexico is the basis of all the
chewing gum manufactured in the Uni
ted States Over 4000000 pounds of
this gum is Imported into this coun
try annually the product being valued
at 1500000 One factory made over
100000000 pieces of gum last year
Queen Victoria has begun to prepare
the program of the ceremonies which
will celebrate the sixtieth anniversary
of her accession to the throne and al
though these will not occur until next
year rents in London are said to have
risen already in anticipation of the
great number of strangers who will
visit the city
Americans are fond of guessing bui
that often they are wild guessers has
been shown again in Portland Ore A
grocer put a demijohn of cranberries in
his window and promised a big fat
goose to the person who guessed near
est to the number of them Nearly 2000
persons guessed some saying as high
as 1O0000 Careful count showed there
were 19SS5
Considerable interest is being taken
in the reported discovery of a vein of
good domestic bituminous coal between
Cheyenne Wyo and Grover Colo The
coal is being mined at a depth of 125
feet and is said to be of good quality
If found in quantities to justify ex
tensive mining the product will supply
a large area in Eastern Colorado and
Western Nebraska with cheap fuel
Mr Marion Crawford can look upon
his efforts as a novelist with a vast
deal of complacency More than half
a million copies of them have been sold
in the United States and the demand
for them shows no sign of cessation
while they have an enormous circula
tin in England and the colonies be
sides being translated into French Ger
man Italian and a aiumber of other
languages
Delaware is threatened with the loss
of one of its picturesque features the
whipping post For more than a cen
tury this inspiring instrument of tor
ture has been in use for the punishment
of petty criminals Now the constitu
tional convention proposes to abolish it
forever Delaware will be a sad little
nonentity without its distinguishing
whipping post For years the State has
been kept before the public chiefly be
cause of this relic of barbarism
The law proposed by a Kansas wom
an making it an offense to wear cor
sets in that Slate may be made to work
so far as women resident in Kansas are
concerned but how about those who
pass through it on trains Now when
trains approach Kansas and Iowa wait
ers from the dining cars go among the
passengers taking orders fo r liqrcors
which may be served but aict ordered
in those States Will they under the
new law come down the aisles with the
request to women Remove jour cor
sets please-
The Queen of Roumania has given
her royal approval of cremation as a
method of disposing of the dead which
she thinks is not only hygienic but rea
sonable but she is pained to declare
that the methffd is very unpoetlc anel
somewhat conflicts with the senti
ment conveyed in certain verses
written by her Majesty upon one of the
the muge In these Terses she express
ed the belief of the future life of the
body as well as of the soul and she can
see no cheer In ashes which she de
clares are dead in truth and in deed
An average man who should under
take to live on strawberries alone
would have to consume eight eight
pounds of them In a day in order to ob
tain a sufficient quantity of one of the
most Important elements of food pro
tein But while he was getting the
proper amount of protein from the
strawberries they would give him sev
en times too much of another necessary
compound namely carbohydrates
Forty four pounds of tomatoes a day
would supply nearly the right quantity
and proportion of protein carbohy
drates and fat the three most essen
tial constituents of food The chief
value of fruit consists in its acids
which are important to health
It seems to be the general opinion
that Bismarcks secret understanding
with Hussia was known to the Emperoi
of Austria and Count Kalnoky before
1890 and that the information in the
first place came from Russia It is
pointed out that when Prince Bismarck
was dismissed no secret was made in
Vienna of the general relief and even
the acknowledged organs of the foreign
office openly said that with Count Ca
prlvi an era of frankness sincerity
and plain dealing had begun in the re
lations of the two allied powers Less
than a year ago according to the New
York Evening Post the Austrian Em
peror is said to have declined to re
ceive a member of the Bismarck fam
ily in the folio wings words I am not
only an Emperor but a man of honor
and I associate only with men of hon
or
Wyomings game warden is credited
with the statement that the number
of elk wintering in the Jacksons Hole
country is greater than for many pre
vious years A conservative estimate
fixes the number at 30000 They are
on every hill and in every valley and
the nights sounds are most piteous
from the crying of the calves lost from
their mothers Every morning thou
sands are seen traveling from the great
swamps along the Snake River to the
Gros Ventre hills The game warden
says I recently gazed upon a sight
which far surpassed anything that I
had ever seen and it utterly astonished
and amazed me For a distance of six
miles a herd of elk was stretched out
The animals had made a trail through
the snow which was packed as hard
as fiinted ice I know there were 15000
head of elk in that band
In telling of the children of Ciiua the
Rev S G Miner a missionary in Foo
chow speaks first of the boys One
fourth of the children of the world are
born to Chinese parents and the god
dess Mother is the most diligently wor
shiped so that they all may be boys
But this is a hard thing for even so
great a goddess to control and many
girls are born When the news of a
birth is announced everybody asks
just as they do in America Is it a
boy or a girl If it is a boy all the
friends of the parents call at once to
offer congratulations and presents but
if the baby is a girl they extend sym
pathy The kindest remark that the
disappointed mother ever hears under
such circumstances is Well a girl is
worth something Every city has a
baby tower built on its outskirts which
is the burying place of infants Not in
frequently a newly born girl is drown
ed left on a missionarys door step
thrown into the street or before she
stops breathing is tossed into this
death house
The usefulness of the Senate of Color
ado as a legislative body has been se
riously menaced it appears by the
presence of young and beautiful wom
en and the Senators have been forced
to take drastic measures of self-protection
This action has been precipitated
by the hopeless imbecility of some of
the more susceptible members and has
taken the form of absolute banishment
of all women from the Senate chamber
When the inexorable purpose of the
solons became apparent an effort was
made to effect a compromise on a prom
ise by the women that they would never
enter the Senate unless heavily veiled
But the Senators who were banded to
gether to defend their impressionable
associates would not yield to these
tempting blandishments The decree
was made to include even the women
stenographers who have been wont to
preserve for posterity and others the
oratorical graces of the Senators It
looks as if there were some sinister
purpose back of all this that is not yet
revealed What is the Senate going to
do of which it is ashamed
Matthias Splitlog the aged chief of
he Wyandotte Indians who recently
died at Washington was a noted man
in his day a man of enterprise and lib
erality with shrewd business qualifica
tions and died the wealthiest Indian in
the United States He belonged to a
Canada tribe but came to Ohio early
married a Wyandotte and was adopted
iirto the tribe Splitlog was a great
stickler for promptness in his business
transactions and never failed to meet
an appointment at the exact minute
Some years ago he sold a valuable tract
of land in Kansas City Kan to a syn
dicate for 150000 and arranged to
meet fee purchasers at a certain bank
at 10 oclock the next morning to close
the deal The Indian was oi lime to
the second but for some reason two or
three of the syndicate were a few min
utes late Owing to this lack of punc
tuality Splitlog refused to make the
sale at the price agreed upon but de
manded several thousand dollars more
and got it He declined to accept a
check for the purchase money and in-
slsted that every doUar should btt paid
In gold which was done
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There is a rumor that Lillian Russell is
not engaged to be married again Cincin
nati Tribune
It is a capital offense to wreck a ship
and it should be the same to wreck a
bank Florida Times Union
Beware of the grip It has come to
town and is as dangerous as an unmuz
zled dog Baltimore American
Only those whom the gods love die
young The others live to a ripe old age
and hold all the offices Detroit Tribune
The Cuban liar and the Spanish liar are
so incessantly active that its mighty hard
to tell just what is going on down there
Baltimore Life
It is said to have cost less than 5 to in
augurate the new Governor of Colorado
He may prove to have come high at that
New York Press
The one general purpose of the whole
trust system is to stifle enterprise and the
inventor and the consumer suffer alike
by it New York Journal
The time is drawing near when the ab
sorbing interest of the country will be
concentrated on the kind of bicycles which
will bloom in the spring Baltimore
American
Now that the cabinet is agreed upon
and it has been decided what kind of a
gown the wife of the President elect is to
wear the country can breathe more free
ly Detroit Free Press
Why not take some of those warlike
Senators who want to fight Spain and are
opposed to the arbitration treaty and turn
them loose among the rabbits that are
devastating Missouri Cleveland Leader
According to a new ordinance every
Chicago woman who wears a big hat to
the theater will be fined 3 But its not
bifc hats that Chicago women are noted
for Atlanta Journal
It is hereby respectfully suggested to
Mr Cleveland that it would be a good
time when he and McKinley ride down
the avenue together to unfold a few of his
best fish stories for the edification of the
major Washington Times
Aftermath of the Storm
Ifs too short a time between cold
waves Buffalo Express
Future cold waves will please play this
town as a one night stand Cincinnati
Tribune
The plumber is listening to more pipe
stories than he has heard for many
months St Loujs Post Dispatch
For a week or more nature has been
running a stiff competition with art in the
business of manufacturing ice Chicago
Tribune
Coming so late in January the cold sea
son will be shorter and the sufferers will
soon be able to care for themselves Chi
cago Inter Ocean
Fuel is often more needed than food in
ameliorating the sufferings of the poor in
winter asthey soon found out in Chicago
Boston Globe
Of course there is suffering in Chicago
Any person who is compelled by circum
stances to live in Chicago is bound to
suffer New York Press - - -
Seasonable Charity
When the cold wave wraps us in its
icy folds the wolf forsakes povertys door
and snarls from the hearthstone Bal
timore Life
The Salvation Army is housing some
thing like 1500 homeless men every night
Are all the denominational churches in
Chicago doing as much No Chicago
Dispatch
If you have a poor neighbor with a big
family and no work this is just the right
time to send him around a ton of coal Its
a good deal better charity than sending
money to the heathen Boston Globe
Its a strange sort of cold snap that
doesnt blow somebody good Men out of
employment in all parts of the country
now have a few days work cutting and
packing ice New York Evening Journal
The man who sends bread and coal to
the station houses and strews ashes on the
ice before his door is the man whose name
Abou Ben Adhems angel will write in his
book as one who loves his fellow men
Baltimore American
Brave Fire Fihters
With numb hands and clothes covered
with ice the firemen worked steadily
against the progress of the fire New
York Journal
The heroic efforts of the firemen and the
great stores employes to fight back the
flames and confine them to the tower were
frequently cheered by the shivering spec
tators Washington Star
It is when the temperature is hovering
around the zero mark making fire fight
ing exceptionally hard and dangerous
that our firemen show the stuff they are
made of New York Herald
Had the flames enveloped Wanamak
ers nothing could possibly have prevent
ed the destruction of scores of big build
ings on Chestnut street which is narrowly
and closely built Baltimore American
The Naval Review
The trouble with the navy is that the
ships are allowed to go too near the water
We cannot risk having a pierless navy
Chicago Tribune
It looks as though some of those battle
ship architects had gone on the theory
that the fatal gift of beauty alone might
sink the enemy Chicago Record
With nearly every vessel in the navy in
a weakened and dangerous condition as
official reports say it is perhaps well that
we should seek arbitration St Louis
Post Dispatch
It is probable that the river Delaware
will suffer more than the cruiser Brooklyn
from the recent collision between the bot
toms of the two The cruiser can be
patched New York Press
The Prize Fight
Now Nevada should pass another law
insisting that prize fighters should fight
and not talk New York Press
The Governor of Nevada had an oppor
tunity the other day to prove himself a de
cent sort of man but he wasnt equal to
it Chicago Tribune
Dan Stuart is acting with rare discre
tion m keeping the location of the big fight
a profound secret By so doing he hopes
ito be abje to entice both Corbett and Fitz
simmons into the same State simultane
ously Chtesgd Tiroes Herald i
WILL FIGHT IN NEVADA
The Corbett - Fitzsnimons Contest
Very Probahtc Now
When the Nevada Legislature passed
an act last winter permitting the licensing
of boxing exhibitions in that State and
the Governor had promptly signed it Dan
Stuart immediately announced that the
great encounter between Corbett and
Fitzsimmons would come off there on
March 17 Dan Stuart has since an
nounced that the fight will positivelycome
off on that date
There is general rejoicing among the
California sporting men over the news
that the Nevada Legislature has passed
the bill licensing glove contests It is gen
erally understood there that Dan Stuart
and other promoters of prize fights will
make their headquarters there and devote
their attention to pulling off big mills
The first will be the Corbett Fitzsimmons
affair Hall Maher Choynski and other
big men will also be in demand The wel
terweight championship will at least have
a chance to be settled
Both Corbett and Fitzsimmons are ex
pressing themselves as well pleased over
the prospect of meeting in Nevada They
will soon depart for that State and finish
training Leading sporting men of the
country are confident that the fight will be
pulled off and that it will be the greatest
pugilistic contest the world has even seen
Three Nevada towns are mentioned as
likely to be selected for the battle ground
Reno Virginia City and Carson City
But those who are known to be close to
Dan Stuart agree that Carson City will
be the place
Carson City the capital of Nevada is
at the extreme western part of the State
It has a population of about 5000 is
twenty one miles south of Virginia City
and thirty one miles south of Reno It is
more than 3000 miles from New York
and an unlimited excursion ticket for the
railroad trip alone will cost the boxing
enthusiasts who journey from the East
more than 1000 Two special trains will
leave Chicago carrying more than 500
men who desire to see the fight
Al Smith who is aiding Stuart in ar
ranging this big fistic encounter said
Dan Stuarts expenses will be probably
40000815000 for the purse 10000
for erecting the arena and 15000 for out
side matters He will unquestionably
erect a building capable of seating 20000
persons Supposing that half of that num
ber attend which seems a certainty his
gate receipts alone besides what he will
receive from the railroads will amount
to 150000 at an average admission fee
of 15 This will leave him a profit of
more than 100000 not counting his
profits from the kinetoscope Peter
Maher will be matched to fight either
Choynski or Tom Sharkey
SALVATION ARMYS NOBLE WORK
Thousands of New Yorks Homeless
Find Shelter in Its Buildings
The number of men in New York City
tvho are without a home and the
I sary means to purchase food for them
selves on account ot lacK ot employ
ment a New York correspondent says is
something appalling With all its boasted
public and private charities there are
thousands of human beings in the metrop
olis who are to day suffering the cruel
pangs of hunger The Salvation Army
has been doing a noble Christian work
among these homeless penniless creatures
for the past two wveks and it is no exag
geration to say that were it not for th
grand work of Commander Booth Tucker
and his corps of assistants the number oi
deaths from hunger and cold would be
large
Commander Booth Tucker was in Chi
cago and there saw the great suffering
of the homeless because of the cold weath
er He offered all the buildings in thf
control of the Salvation Army to the
Mayor of Chicago and his offer was ac
cepted with thanks Realizing that the
suffering anion the poor of New York
must be infinitely prcater he telegraphed
to Mayor Strong the use of all the army
buildings and meeting places as a shelter
for those who needed it Hundreds of the
citys homeless have flocked to the differ
ent shelters every night since and after
spending a night there are each given a
piece of bread and a cup of coffee or a
dish of soup In six nights no fewer than
10000 men found accommodations the
number running above 2000 on nights
when the cold was more severe The army
officers extend a hearty welcome to all
irrespective of creed color or nationality
and their only regret is that fhey have not
larger and better accommodations
The President has approved the act to
withdraw from the Supreme Court juris
diction over criminal cases not capital and
confer the same on the Circuit Court of
Appeals
Gen William Price Craighill chief of
engineers after a most brilliant military
and scientific record will be retired on his
own application under the forty years
service law
It is the intention of the House Com
mittee on Coinage Weights and Measures
to authorize a favorable report on a bill
providing for the use of the metric system
in the United States
The House Committee on Elections
which has charge of the Georgia contest
brought by Thomas E Watson against
Judge J C C Black decided to postpone
its decision for a week
Senator Perkins of California intro
duced a bill which is intended to pave the
way to the establishment of a bureau or
a department of the Government to be de
voted to the mining industry
The House Committee on Public Lands
ordered a favorable report on a bill to au
thorize the entry and patenting of lands
containing petroleum and other mineral
oils under the placer mining laws
The House Committee on Military Af
fairs ordered a favorable report on the
Senate bill to place the four survivors of
the Lady Franklin Bay expedition on the
retired list of enlisted men of the navy
Senator Chandler introduced a bill per
manently consolidating the labor and cen
sus bureaus and creating a department to
be known as the labor and census depart
ment with a commissioner at its head
POWER IS WITH THE PFOPLE
With every temporary Republican
party ascendency that happens in this
country we have a revival of old and
oft rejected political theories dug up
for personal vanity or class advautage
and paraded as being as good as new
before the nation Just now Senator
Proctor brings forward a proposal to
amend the Constitution of the United
States by making the Presidential term
six instead of four years and the Con
gressional term three instead of two
He would also forbid Presidents to be
re elected
This is all nonsense In a free coun
try short terms of oflice bring the men
in power back face to face with their
constituents and compel them to be on
their good behavior against the day of
reckoning The nearer the public offi
cer is to the time when he must ac
count to his constituents the safer the
constituents are that he will obey their
will Four years is long enough for a
good President to do a large share of
good and long enough for a bad one to
do a vast deal of harm As to the re
elections the people will take care of
that and it will not be necessary to
tinker the Constitution to regulate
them And the Representatives in Con
gress ought to be removed no further
than they now are from frequent ac
countability to their constituents
Then comes Senator Sewall of New
Jersey with a proposal to amend the
Constitution of his State so as to hold
biennial instead of annual sessions of
its Legislature This is another at
tempt to remove power further away
from the masses of the people Under
plea of economy it would postpone the
correction of abuses and undrjr the
pretence of diminishing the bulk of
legislation it would crowd it into con
fusiou to the advantage of the lobby
There are so many hungry corpora
tions in New Jersey that the people
cannot well afford to leave them un
watched by the law making authority
It begins to look as though every Re
publican statesman thought it his duty
to advocate some method of taking
power from the people New York
News
Acan for a Democratic Movement
The plan frequently advocated in
these columns that United States Sena
tors be chosen by the people direct in
stead of by the Legislatures has gained
strength in consequence of the selec
tions made in various parts of the coun
try during the past week and if the
question of adopting it could be decided
by the voters next month the chances
are that there would be a substantial
majority in the affirmative
In New York State the wishes of the
Republican voters were undoubtedly
carried out by the legislators but it
would have been much more satisfac
tory if Piatt could have been a candi
date openly last November The result
would have been the same but we
would have had the satisfaction of
knowing earlier that there was no
chance for Choate
In Illinois on the other hand the
Legislature gave the public a genuine
surprise by choosing a story telling pol
itician known as Billy Mason He
might have been elected by the voters
in November last had he been nom
inated by his party but the chances are
that if he had been confronted with the
ordeal of a campaign he would not
have been selected
The worst feature of the present sys
tem is found in the States in which con-
tests are still going on In several of
the far Western States that are either
factional differences or the member
ship of the Legislatures is split up
among three parties Republicans
Democrats and Populists so that
neither has a majority The outcome
of a contest under these circumstances
is generally the election of some non
entity who has either money or cor
poration backing and the interests of
all the people are made to suffer in
consequence
Were the Senators elected by popu
lar vote such demoralizing dead locks
would be avoided a better class of men
would be secured as a rule and there
would be no danger of a betrayal of the
trust of the people by venal legislators
as is so often the case in States in
which the Republicans are in a major
ity while the real choice of a party
would always be sure of getting what
he deserves It would take considera
ble time however to alter the Consti
tution so that such a result could be
achieved New York News
America and i ta tloney
It is given out upon the authority of
Senator Walcott that President elect
McKinley while not desiring to pose as
a silver man is in favor of internation
al action upon the silver question
This statement seems like offering
husks to a nation which is in financial
starvation owing to the extreme scarci
ty of money That the money powers
rale the old world is evident Their
influence is felt in the hovel and upon
the throne No relief from that quar
ter can be expected not at least for a
long time And yet the demand for
more American money is immediate
and pressing
The United States is in a position
where it need not consult the powers of
Europe in taking any step to add to its
own influence or prosperity The Mon
roe doctrine is antagonistic to the
whole of Europe and yet it is acknowl
edged as an American policy which
must be respected All the leading na
tions of Europe cry out against the
American tariff system and yet we
heed them not in framing revenue leg
islation The proposed restriction of
immigration will likewise prove an of
fense to the residents of many Euro
pean sections and yet America neither
consults their wishes nor heeds their
opposition
In its financial policy the United
States should exercise the same free
dom that it displays with its revenue
laws Let us first meet the conditions
of this country before giving thought
to the desires of other nations A
change in our financial system one1
which will put more money In circula
tion is an imperative necessity The
question of politics should not be al-
lowed to figure in the matter
What the leaders of one side or the
other want should have no influence in
deciding this question It should be
viewed only in the broadest the most
fair minded manner Let us place
American interests above those of any
fr reign clime or section and unravel
the financial tangle as speedily as pos
sible Phi lad elphia Item
A Bad Selection V
The selection of John Sherman roff
Secretary of State means that a halt is1
to be called in diplomatic aggressive-
ness Sherman is notoriously
vative in matters affecting our
tions with other countries He may be
a patriot in a way but the acute sense
of national honor and the prond senti
ment of national pride is lacking in
him He is cold blooded to clammi
ness and there is no reason to believe
that he would show either an aggres
sive or an unyielding spirit in his deal
ings with other powers The Dispatch
only yesterday called attention to his
physical condition a good reason why
he should not be called to so important
a trust To day we say that he lacks
the mental essentials and that he will
prove a failure In his life he is or has
been a great statesman though one
with an eye single to his own interests
but he has not been trained to diplo
macy His bent is in another direction
altogether
The indications now are that unless
the Cuban war is brought to a close be
fore March 4 nothing will be done for
the insurgents after that date Mr
McKinleys attitude toward them is un
known and the section of his platform
anent Cuba can be easily evaded Sher
man has never been enthusiastic in his
advocacy of the Monroe doctrine and
he is known to oppose territorial ex
tension
Mark Hanna will probably go to the
Senate where he will become the td
minlstrations mouthpiece Two worse
things for America short of war or pes
tilence could not happen than the
vation of the ancient Sherman to he
prime minister and the Cleveland labor
crusher to be Senator How would
Mark Hanna look rattling around in
old man Thurmans shoes Chicago
Dispatch
About the Next Conjzreas
There appears to be a tolerable cer
tainty after the choosing of United
States Senators last week that the Re
publicans will be able to pass a new
tariff bill in both branches of the next
Congress without making concessions
to the advocates of the free coinage of
silver This probably also means an
extra session immediately after the in
auguration of McKinley and some ex
citing political debates at Washington
during the spring and summer
The Republicans will be able to mus
ter one half the membership of the
Senate on the side of fresh tariff-tinkering
but it is doubtful whether they can
do likewise on any purely financial
measure The chances are that they
win not try to meuuie with the cur
rency for some time to corne What the
country has to contemplate therefore
just now is the McKinleyizing of the
customs duties once more and a do
nothing policy as to the money ques
tion with all sorts of possibilities in the
way of talk about foreign affairs arbi
tration with Great Britain and other
powers the recognition of the Cubans
etc
The prospect is not a very cheerful
one but it would undoubtedly be
worse if the Republican majority in the
Senate were a working one on financial
issues Then we would undoubtedly
have to witness a serious effort to re
tire the greenbacks and turn over the
entire paper currency of the country to
the national bankers without considera
tion for the masses and their interests
The trusts and monopolies in the
manufacturing field will promptly get
their reward for aiding in the securing
of the Presidency for McKinley The
bankers will not be so fortunate They
will have to wait until the party bosses
satisfy themselves as to how much the
people will stand in the way of class
legislation
Queer Kesult of an Injury
The case of Howell Witherspoon of
Eckerty Ind whose skull was frac
tured in October last during a melee
has assumed a queer phase Although
his death was predicted at the time of
the injury he has recovered sufficiently
to go about and take care of himself
However he has forgotten everything
he ever knew save to read and write
He did not even recognize his wife and
family for some time and he does not
recognize an old acquaintance until
days have passed Another peculiarity
is that he delights in reading children
school hooks and literature suitable f ot
young people of tender age
Betray no trust divulge no secret
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