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THE POPULAR DRIFT
In undertaking to nmkc an estimate
Df the political situation throughout
he country this year it must not be for
got ton that despite the raising of false
issues by the Republicans and the
enormous expenditure of money on
iheir behalf by the millionaire trusts
and monopolies the Democratic candi
date for the presidency William J Bry
an polled over six and a half million
rotes and that McKinley had only
about 200000 more ballots than his op
ponents combined an exceedingly
small margin indeed
With the Republican tariff fiasco and
the bunco sound money game it is
safe to say that at least one out of ten
sf those who voted outright for Mc
kinley are thoroughly disgusted to day
Were a vote to be taken in the Union
to morrow the Democratic party would
le found with very good majorities
even in the States which were most
thoroughly deceived last year
New York Slate itself cannot be re
ied on for the Republicans this year
although McKinley did it over
Bryan by 2S00 last yea tliey are
decidedly nervous about kevping con
trol of the Assembly essential as that
is to their legislative dominance during
the development of the greater city gov
ernment Not only is there the likeli
hood of the Democrats going to the
polls with their old time enthusiasm
but there is every reason for expecting
i very large percentage of their regular
political opponents to go fishing on
next election day There has not in
fact been a more marked revulsion in
popular political feeling in recent
American experience than there has
been right here during the past twelve
months New York News
Silver Sentiment
The decline of the silver sentiment
tvhich the advocates of gold apparently
take so much pleasure in talking about
is truly a very peculiar phenomenon
A glance at the history of the mone
tary reform movement will show just
how rapid and extensive this decline
has been
In 1875 the question was made a po
litical issue and Peter Cooper who rep
resented the cause received 81740
votes That was a small beginning but
the seed germinated
Four years later in 1SS0 the contest
Wits renewed at the polls and monetary
reform received a vote of 307305 The
sentiment had died out to the extent
of quadrupling the number of its
In 1S92 there was another battle of
the ballots in the cause of reform in the
currency and the friends of the move
ment made a record of 10J102S votes
Another decline increasing four times
that of 1SS0
But in 18ti came the tidal wave The
Democratic party nominated William
J Bryan for President on a strong bi
metallic platform and the silver senti
ment declined again and registered
he fact of its fallen condition by cast
ing a vote of r0StSl Judging by the
riast the Republicans can easily figure
out a continued decline in the silver
sentiment that will place a Democrat
fe President a friend of the people and
an advocate of bimetallism in the chair
in 1000
Injunction Then Murder
The more light there is thrown on the
shooting of the coal strikers at Hazle
ton Pa the blacker this deed of cow
ardice and cruelty appears
Only two of rhe murdered men were
shot with their faces toward the rifle
men all the rest of those poor fellows
were shot in the back Nothing but a
frenzy of uncontrollable fear or a deep
seated malice to deal death among the
miners could have resulted in such a
showing The refusal of the command
ing officer of the militia now maintain
ing martial law at Hazleton to allow
warrants to be served on Martin and
his deputies will tend to increase the
feeling of bitterness and to deepen the
impression that there is no justice to be
found anywhere for the poor man
That government by injunction has
resulted in wholesale murder is nothing
more than might have been expected
A radical reform in the matter of arbi
trary rule on the part of Federal judges
must be inaugurated if serious trouble
in the near future is to be avoided Con
stitutional rights cannot be trampled
on with impunity and there can be no
doubt that the results as manifested at
Hazleton have set the people of the
United States to thinking seriouslv
All Goes to the Trust
Dingleyism lays its heavy hand on
very breakfast table in the land The
protectionists tell us that the sugar
duty is a duty for revenue but as a
matter of fact not a single cent of the
increased price the people are paying
for sugar under the new tariff goes
into the hands of the Government as
revenue Every cent of it goes as ex
tra profit to the sugar trust The peo
ple are taxed not to support the Gov
ernment but to further enrich an al
ready bloated monopoly Minneapolis
Times
Too Much Prosperity Cry
The truth is that the prosperity root
er is getting to be almost as much of a
bore as the calamity howler In some
respects he can make an even bigger
nuisance of himself We do not be
lievewe do not think there is any
sensible man in the country who be
lievesthat the change is anywhere
near so great as some of the metropoli
tan papers are trying to make out that
it is We believe that they are
ing the cause of prosperity by putting
up claims that are so ridiculous that
anyone can see there is nothing in
them Peoria Herald
ClevelandH Honesty
Rockefeller is not the only rich man
who is having trouble with the asses
sors
G rover Cleveland who was such a
stickler for the honor of the nation
that he bonded this country for 200
000000 to buy gold to keep up the fic
tion that coin means gold has re
turned a schedule to the authorities
placing the value of all his holdings at
the modest figure of 130000
It is but justice to the champion of
honor and honesty to state that he did
not make oath to this statement but
this omission on his part makes him
subject to a fine of 200 Some statis
tistically inclined person has made
the following estimate of what Grover
Cleveland is actually worth
Saved in twelve years r
Present value of Gray Gables
Horses and carriages
Boats yachts etc
Furnil ure
Present value of Woodley 130000
President value Princeton N
Furniture
300000
250000
15000
3000
5000
40000
5000
Personal property and other
real estate 428000
Stocks and bonds 000000
The Cleveland fortune 1790000
Admitting that this may be some
what in excess of his property there
is a marked discrepancy between
130000 and 1790000 which the as
sessor of Mercer township New Jer
sey has a perfect right to investigate
With the examples of Rockefeller and
Cleveland before them is it any won
der that the plain people are begin
ning to believe that there is more or
less justice in the talk about the
classes and the masses Chicago
Dispatch
ITnnnas Fiarht in Ohio
He wants to be elected Senator and
he will leave no stone unturned that
has a vote under it which he can con
trol If he is defeated this year it will
be because the Foraker men stayed at
home as the Hanna and Sherman
men did when Senator Foraker was a
candidate for Governor against Camp
bell This is the condition of things
plain and distinct If Marcus A Han
na whips the Foraker men into line it
will be one of the most masterly dis
plays of political power ever made
manifest in the United States Cleve
laud riaindealer
rost Uninviting of Gold
Yes there are tons of gold in Alaska
and here and there one in a thousand
or so may win fortune but the great
mass of those who are tempted by the
stories of tons of gold to be found in
the Klondike fields will be fortunate
if they ever get back to their homes
even with utterly shattered health
The gold is there as it is in many oth
er States of the Union but of all the
gold fields of the world the most unin
viting for the adventurer is the Klon
dike region Philadelphia Times
Ring Kidden Pennsylvania
The appointment of the notorious
Dave Martin to the position of Secre
tary of State in Pennsylvania made
vacant by the enforced resignation of
his predecessor looks like another ex
ample of the sort of politics that flour
ishes in that ringridden commonwealth
They seem to have become callous to
this sort of thing there so they will
probably be able to put up even with
Dave Martin Secretary of State Bos
ton Herald
Political Pith
The people are handling more money
now than they did a while ago be
cause the new tariff law compels them
to pay more for the necessaries of life
Manchester N H Union
There is a gradually but steadily
growing impressing that as a Presi
dent Mr McKinley is to borrow an ex
pression from the vernacular of the
street a four flusher Wheeling
Register
The Ohio gold Democrats will have
no trouble in securing enough names
to their petition to get the ticket on
the official ballot Mr Hannas ma
chinery is in perfect working order
and can execute commissions of that
sort with neatness and dispatch
Washington Post
It is a mistake to suppose that Hie
salary of a Senator 5000 a year
wili not support him and his family in
comfort In fact since tariff bills
have been at the front it is said some
Senators by strict attention to busi
ness manage to save four or five times
tis much as their salary Louisville
Post
There seems to be no good reason
why Secretary John Sherman shouUl
speak in this years campaign He
has already said more than he can
atone for or explain in the rest of his
natural life Anything he might say
now would probably be an extension
of his iniquities rather than apology
or reparation for the past Ciuein
nati Enquirer
So far from increasing the revenue
the Diugley monstrosity seems to have
dried up the sources of revenue So
that although we have had half a
year of Republicanism although the
Republican Congress has met and ad
journed the country is still face to
face with the dangerous condition
which the advocates of McKinley and
high protection pledged themselves to
remedy Atlanta Constitution
BRIGHT YOUNG EDUCATOR
William EMofFatt Associate J instructor
in Classics at Bradley Institute
The election of William E Moffatt of
Chicago as associate instructor in the
classic languages at Bradley Institute
Peoria is an honor and distinction that
few have had conferred upon them at
so 3ouug an age He will be one of the
youngest instructors in the classics in
the country and his friends believe it
will not be long before he takes rank
among the best of those of an advanc
ed age
Mr Moffatt is now in his twenty
third year and his new distinction
comes as a result of studious applica
tion from the first day he entered the
school He was born in Chicago in 1875
and entered the Lincoln school in 1S82
He spent five years in that institution
and graduated with honors In fact
he was one of the first scholars in all
of his classes during his stay there
WILLIAM K MOFFATT
Completing his primary course there
he entered the Nprth Division High
School Avhere he finished among the
first in 1S91 The classics were his fav
orite studies and in these he excelled
When he completed the course at the
high school he had read most of the
Greek and Latin authors and was more
thoroughly grounded in grammar and
roots than many of more advanced
years ne devoured with avidity ev
ery history of the ancient and modern
classic languages from the Pelasgians
to the present time
He spent a year preparing for the Chi
cago University and in October 1S92
when that institution opened its doors
he was one of the first to matriculate
Since that time he has been identified
with the university taking a high lank
in his classes While other students
were out playing baseball and other
athletic games and amusements he Avas
hard at work on his studies He found
more pleasure in his books than he
would have found in outdoor sport 5 lie
spent five years at the university In
1S90 he graduated with high honors and
then entered the graduate school He
held a scholarship in comparative phil
ology last year and taught Latin in the
South Side Academy He also held a
senior scholarship the last year of his
undergraduate course
School Influences
It is necessary unless the public
school is to fail desperately iu its good
purpose that it should be a school of
character says the New York Church
man To a certain extent it is that
easily and inevitably It teaches
promptness and punctuality and neat
ness it brings children under a whole
some and salutary discipline But it
must do more if it is to fulfill the pur
pose for which the community sus
tains it It must not only compel them
to do right leaving the policeman to
continue the compulsion but it must
so train them that they will desire to
do right And by what means There
has been a long debate iu this country
concerning the reading of the Bible in
the schools There is at present arifi
ing a debate in England as to the com
pulsory recitation of the Apostles
Creed in the schools Neither will
avail of itself Character is formed
neither by reading nor by recitation
Words will not make it Character de
pends on character It is communi
cated from one personality to another
It is formed in children by the good
examples of their elders and associ
ates The Bible and the ereed to be
brought effectively into the school
must come breathing and alive in the
person of the teacher Thus the school
waits upon the teacher And the
teacher the trainer of the new and bet
ter citizenship who shall shape the
school to the accomplishment of its
high purpose waits upon the gracious
personal influences of the Christian re
ligion
Opened to Women
The trustees of Beloit College Wis
consin have decided to open the insti
ution to women on the same terms as
3 re now enjoyed by young men They
will be received at the beginning of the
fall term Although this step does not
meet with the hearty approval of all
members of the faculty they will all
work together to make the experiment
a success The step has been under
consideration some time and will un
doubtedly finally win the approval of
all the friends of the college
Want No Politics
In Cleveland O women have organ
zed a party to keep politics out of
school questions It is to be hoped oth
er communities may seethe importance
of keeping educational matters free
from party prejudices and that at least
women will not permit themselves to
be blinded to the best interests of
schools by any party feeling Woman
kind
Applied to Him Too
Willie Slimson I put a pin in the
teachers chair this morninjr and he
was wild
Bobbie Smitem Well he wont sit
down in such a hurry again
Willie Slimson No ueith r will I
Pittsburg Bulletin
CHILDRENS COLUMN
DEPARTMENT FOR LITTLE
BOYS AND GIRLS
Something that Will Interest the Ju
venile Members of Kvcry Household
Quaint Actions and Bright Sayings
of Many Cute and Cunning Children
Do All that You Can
I can not do much said a little star
To make this dark world bright
My silvery beams cannot pierce far
Into the gloom of night
Yet 1 am a part of Gods great plan
And so I will do the best that I can
What can be the use said a fleecy
cloud
Of these few drops that I hold
They will hardly bend the lily proud
If caught in her chalice of gold
But I am part of Gods great plan
So my treasures Ill give as well as I
can
A child went merrily forth to play
Bat thought like a silver thread
Kept winding in and out all day
Through the happy golden head
Mother said Darling do all that you
can
For you are a part of Gods great plnn
Mrs M E Sangster in Farm and
Ranch
Quite Enough to iLangh About
First Little Boy What are you
laughin at
Second Little Boy Fathers scoldin
everybody in the house cause he says
he cant lay a thing down a minute
without some one pickin it up an losin
it he he he
Whats he lost
His pencil
Where is it
Behind his ear all the time
Not a Coward
While a number of white boys were
skating in Kentucky a negro boy came
to the creek and commenced putting on
his skates The skaters -tried to drive
him away but he would not go This
aroused their anger and one of them
challenged him to fight and called him
a coward when he refused
A little while later the pugilistic boy
broke through the ice The white boys
ran frantically about too excited and
frightened to try to rescue him from
his peril but the negro threw off his
coat dived into the icy water and
happily succeeded in saving the life of
the youngster who had called him a
coward
The rescued boy cannot be destitute
of the sense of shame and in this he
has no doubt been sufficiently punished
without having his name printed The
name of the colored boy is Wilbur
Travis
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A wicked old Woo
Goes about in the dark crying BooT
And I tremble o nights when the light is
put out
For fear that this L reature in roaming
about
May chance upon me- and then wickedly
shout
His v eird and uncanny cry BooP
That this wandering Woo
May be harmless Ill grant may he
true
But his shadowy form and his great glar
ing eyes
And the swish of his inky black wings as
he flics
WU1 alarm me Im stue as he passes ail
cries
In the night by my bedside his Bool
This wicked old Woo
I have never yet seen nor hare yon
But I have a iieer feeling that roamo
about
There is just such a creature wtHront any
doubt
And some night hell scare me Im sure
with his shout
His startling and trrrible Bool
Who Stole the Iccs
Sometimes a monkey is quite as
smart at mischief making as a boy
A French writer who has studied mon
keys for many years tens this little
story
At the Saintes an island dependent
upon Guadaloupe a small detachment
of was quartered in a house
in which it messed and in which there
was consequently a supply of provis
ions distributed all about The supply
of eggs was placed upon a shelf over a
door so as to put it out of reach of rats
and other marauders
One day the cook upon going to get
some eggs came near falling to the
floor with the entire stock upon observ
ing that five or six eggs placed at the
top of the basket consisted of nothing
but empty shells Upon examining
them he saw that the thief after mak
ing a very small hole at the point had
sucked out the contents an had then
carefully placed the egg in the same
spQt whence he had taken it
There was a negro in the employ of
the post and as negroes are gourmands
there was no one else to suspect So
he was accused and threatened with a
flogging He protested his innocence
and swore that if he were snared he
would do his best to discover the guilty
pefson
Iji addition to the negro there was a
monkey at tho post and the former
knowing bettei than the Europeans the
malice of the monkey said to himself
atjonce It was that monkey that
sucked those eggs
He therefore set himself to watch
and after two or three days that the
thief had allowed to elapse doubtless
in order that his crime might be forgot
ten he saw the monkey climb up the
door frame put his hand up to the shelf
and seat himself thereon Thus master
of the place the animal delicately pick
ed up an egg made a hole in it with the
nail of his fore finger and then sucked
out the contents
Then with all sorts of precautions
he replaced the egg when the negrc al
lowing himself to be seen closed the
door and siezed the thief as he was
about to jump to the floor
The monkey was dragged before the
captain acting very much ashamed
and the negro thus proved his inno
ceuce
A Sparrow that Bode a Wheel
Birds have all sorts of queer adven
tures and one of the oddest of recent
days is that which befell a sparrow at
Anderson Ind It flew Into a knife
and bar manufactory and getting too
near a small wheel was sucked in
The workmen noticed it go into the
wheel but knowing that the cylinder
was revolving at a speed of 130 revolu
tions a minute took it for granted thai
the bird had been killed When the
factory shut down at noon the men
were astonished to hear a gentle chirp
from the wheel and lo there was tho
sparrow as Avell as ever They found
that the bird had clung to the strength
ening rod on the inside of the wheel
and was in a semi dazed condition
They picked it up and put it on a table
and thence after collecting its wits the
little bird flew to freedom The wheel
in which the bird rode made 31000 rev
olutions while he was in it and so the
tiny feathered creature traveled seventy-three
and eight tenths miles in thr
embrace of a fly wheel
A Battle in the Air
A gallantly contested battle between
a small sparrowhawk and a flock of
black martins was seen the other day
among the hills near Duarte reports
an Arizona paper The hawk had cap
tured a half grown dove and was flying
low and heavily when he was vigorous
ly attacked by a flock of black martin
He dropped his prey and dashed up
ward then swooped down upon one of
the martins With the little bird in his
claws the hawk dropped toward the
earth tearing at his unfortunate little
antagonist as he came A trail of black
feathers followed the pair until they
were about fifty feet rrom the ground
when the martin fell like a stone and
the hawk snot upward again The
flock of martins instantly closed around
him and within another moment or
two a second bird was torn to pieces
and dropped This maneuver was re
peated three or four times each time
ending in the death of a bird before the
flock of martins gave up the pursuit
and allowed the hawk to escape Upon
examination each one of the birds was
found to be disemboweled and terribly
mutilated
Queensland Beef in London
The low prices in Loudon for Queens
land Australia meat have adversely
affected the meat trade writes the
Itockhampton Bulletin A very active
discussion is going on at present as to
the causes of these low prices and it
is evident from the various contribu
tions to the controversy that the old ex
planation of the all powerful and ra
pacious middleman is falling into dis
repute In Britain capital is ever scour
ing this country for investments which
will yield even modest returns and it
is impossible to suppose that if there
were such enormous profits in retailing
Queensland beef as some people would
have us believe there would not have
been a rush into that business which
would quickly have brought profits to
the level of those returned by other re
tail concerns It is a very comforting
thing to put down all our troubles in
the meat industry to the rascally mid
dleman The middleman has no friends
and everyone is free to hit him But
the middleman is not the criminal he
is made out to be The criminal there
is some reason to believe will have to
be sought in Queensland The facts
appear to be that our beef is not so
good as that of our rivals and our
methods of putting it on the market
are far from satisfactory There are
too many complaints heard of meat
being landed in a wretched state for
them all to be false or exaggerated
The difficulties in the way of a perfect
preparation and handling of the meat
are no doubt serious but they will not
be removed by ignoring them and plac
ing the blame for the unsatisfactory
results on the wrong shoulders
Texan Fondness lor Oratory
As Judge Lurton of Tennessee was
once going through Texas he met an
old Texan who described at length the
people who had settled in his neighbor
hood a large number of them having
come from Kentucky And theres
them Kaintuckians said he Theyre
the speakinest people I ever see in my
life fer a fact Why whenever we hev
a shootin match a campmeetin a
weddin or a funral you can jest bet
that them Kaintuckians will be thar
and afore you knows k theyll be offer
in resolutions and a makln speeches
tell you caint rest To tell the truth
jedge they cant cut a watermelon
without a speech
Thomas Jefferson
The story that Thomas Jefferson was
a descendant of Pocahontas though
often repeated is not credited by his
most reliable biographers It probably
arose from the fact that the Randolph
Boiling Fleming and other influential
families of Virginia with some of
whom the Jefferson family was allied
by marriage were descended from
Thomas Rolfe the son of Pocahontas
Senator Mills Long Service
Of the twenty six Senators who serv
ed terms in the lower hous before com
ing to tus Senate Senator Mills of
Texas served longest Ms term being
from 1873 to 1802
REVOLUTIONARY WfDOWS
11st of Survivine Wives and Douche
tera of Patriots
n Clay Evans commissioner of pen
sions has prepared for his annual re
port the following list of the nams of
surviving widows and daughters of
revolutionary soldiers on the pension
rolls from June 30 1S97 Avith their
ages and places of residence at that
date and the name of the soldier and
place of service
Lovey Aldrich of Los Angeles CaL
aged 97 years widow of Caleb Aldrich
who served in New Hampshire and
Rhode Island
Hannah Newell Barrett aged 97
years daughter of Noah Ha nod who
lives in Boston Her father fought for
the colonies in Massachusetts
Juliette Betts aged 91 years of Nor
walk Conn daughter of Hezekial
Betts whose service was in Connecti
cut
Susannah Chad wick S2 years of
Emporium Pa daughter of Elihu
Chadwick of New Jersey
Nancy Cloud of Clum Va widow of
William Cloud avIio fought in his na
tive State
Esther S Damon S3 years of Ply
mouth Union Mass widow of Noah
Damon of the same State
Sarah C Hurlburt 79 years of Little
Marsh Pa daughter of Elijah Weeks
of Massachusetts
Nancy Jones S3 yeavxr of Jonesboro
Tenn widow of James Darling of
North Carolina
Hannah Lyons of Marblehead
Mass laughter of John Russell of- the
same State
Rebecca Maj o 84 years of New
born Ya widow of Stephen Mayo ot
Virginia
Eliza Sandford of Bloomfieldr N J
daughter of William Sandford of the
United States
Ann M Slaughter 87 years of Ther
Plains Ya daughter of Philip Slaugb
ter of Virginia
Mary Snead SI years of Parksley
Va widow of Bowdoin Snead of Vir
ginia
Rhoda Augusta Thompson 7G years
of Woodbury Conn daughter of ThauV
deus Thompson of New York State
Augusta Tuller of Bridgeport Conn
daughter of E Isaac Way of Connec
ticut
Nancy A Weatherman aged 87
years of Elk Mills Tenn widow of
Robert Glasscock of Virginia
The widows of surviving revolution
ary soldiers receive 12 a month under
a general act while the daughters re
ceive a sum stipulated by an individual
act passed by Congress for each one
Unleavened Bread
Leaven is ferment Fermentation is
decay It destroys the sugar in the
grain and if allowed to go on rots and
destroys the whole lump
One kind of bread every Israelite
knew how to make unleavened bread
for they were obliged by the law oi
Moses to eat only that bread one week
in each year Trobably when they
found how good it was they continued
to make it much of the time
How can it be made Take water ot
milk or milk and water and mix with
flour and bake in small or thin cakes
iu a quick oven and see how sweet It
tastes It may be kneaded and baked
in little biscuits it may be poured as
batter into shallow tins or it may b
rolled or spread out into thin cakes
and when baked in a hot oven it will be
delicious Use no saleratus baking
powder eggs sour milk yeast salt
sugar or any other thing except flour
or meal and pure water or milk
Perhaps the best bread may be made
in this way Set a French roll pan or
a set of little cake pans on the stove ic
heat Take a pint of cold milk or cold
milk and water and shake or sift fine
flour or entire wheat meal or flour andf
corn meal into the milk stirring It
briskly until the battc is just stiff
enough to tun smooth when it is turned
out into the dishes Then butter yomr
dishes and fill each about two thirds
full Let it stand on the hot stove tHI
bubbles begin to rise to the surface
Then shove the pan into a hot oven and
let it stand fifteen minutes- without
looking at It Twenty minutes baking
brings it out brown and beautiful light
and sweet the best bread you ever
saw healthy whether hot or cold only
you will like it so well you will want
to eat too much of it
Will it be light Of course it will
The batter is full of air The heat of
quick oven seals up the top of tha
bread and then the air expands witb
heat and raises the bread
If you want to know how good suck
bread tastes do not daub ifc over writb
salt butter till you cannot taste- thr
bread at alh but take a piece when hun
gry or when traveling and chew it
slowly and enjoy it If yoa cannot de
this lay a piece of it side by side with a
slice of ordinary raised and soured
bread bef oi e a cat or dog and see hov
quick they will tell the difference
Put nothing whatever ta your bread
but flour aud milk and water and you
will say Evermore give- xts this
bcea d
Ioadkbs Populous Cities
India has- 2035 towns Tsriih an aggre
gate population of 27251270 about
the total population Of
these towns 28 have aver 100000 inhab
itants 48 more over 50000 and 55
more over 10000 The largest are Bony
bay 821704 Calcutta 771144 Madras
45251S Hyderabad 415039 Lucknow
273028 Benares 219407 Delhi 192
579 Mandalay 188815 Cawnpore
188712 Bangalore 18G3GG Rangoon
183324 Lahore 170854 Allahabad
27524G New York Sun
An Amendment
Sanders quoting Well never miss
the water till the well runs dry
Col Lexington Bosh suh WeD
nevah need the watah till ihe
prohibitionlrss triumir PhUadel
phU North American