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Ghainloss bicycles are to be the next
fad but the chainless scorcher must
So1
There is too much hair trigger in the
whole labor and capital situation
Neither guus nor mouths should go off
so easily
If as some scientist has recently
claimed kissiug is a cure for dyspep
sia the disease may be expected to be
come epidemic
The people of Klondike are discov
ering that though gold may be good for
ihc drinking habit it wont do much
for the eating habit
A Colorado steer threw a kodak lienrl
ver the fence before the picture was
taken The kodak man says it w a
very bad exposure
A Kentucky man taking down Ins
jhotgun blew holes through the fellow
Appointed to succeed him thereby dis
counting the injunction process
A St Louis schoolmaam is very
angry because the Board of Education
insisted that flowers on the teachers
flesk were the only kind of bloomers
to be allowed there
Rev Alfred W Wishart of Trenton
N J is a man of sense He says that
the trouble with the better element
n politics is that the better element is
too lazy to go to the polls
The reported ignorance of the Klondike-crazy
people of England is no
more dense than that of many
Americans who arc rushing
into the gold country with neither sup
plies nor knowledge in regard to min
ing
Many a young man has come to grief
ind ruin through fear of being thought
stingy and mean many a young mar
fled couple have wrecked their peace of
mind on the same rock While we can
pot absolve them for their weakness
tve certainly cannot hold those blame
less who have put stumbling blocks in
the way of honorable economy
In the play written by the German
Emperor to be performed in honor of
the King of Italy the rising sun ap
peared in one of the tableaux of Rome
but it was found that the orb came up
over St Peters leaving the royal pal
Jtce in the shadow The Emperor
therefore as a matter of international
courtesy has ordered the sun to be left
ftilt
Londoners cultivate what is called
week end holidays They comprise
starting away with a grip on Friday
to some congenial spot on the coast
end remaining until the following Mon
day or Tuesday Every Englishman
takes in addition a three weeks vaca
tion every year It must be confessed
chat the Briton is better versed than
the American In the art of resting
It is the unguarded word which of
tenest proves a root of bitterness in
married life the want of a proper dis
cipline of speech which thrusts thorns
and needles into family happiness
Young married people cannot be too
careful in the exercise of a wholesome
restraint over their tongues and inter
course with each other if they would
preserve mutual respect and lay a solid
basis for domestic tranquillity
Cultivation implies something to cul
tivate We plant the seed in favor
able soil if we would reap a harvest
We train the muscle that already has
Bomestrength if we would make an
tthlete We foster an aptitude for using
lools if we would make a good mechan
ic In like manner If we would culti
vate the moral nature we must seek
for the best instincts that are already
Ictive and nourish and develop them
A Parasian who suspects that the
Tood or drink -which he has purchased
Js adulterated can have the article
Analyzed free of cost at the municipal
laboratory If impurities are found the
pity undertakes the prosecution of the
tradesman and after conviction the of
fender is not only liable to fine and im
brisonment but may be obliged to dis
play in his window a sign reading
Convicted of Adulteration There is
room for a similar law in this country
Students of labor strikes of whon
the most assiduous should be the la-
jorers themselves should not fail to
lote the following important facts
namely That most strikes are fol
lowed by an influx of workmen eager
lo take the places of the strikers that
the determination of the strikers to
keep the newcomers from working re
sults frequently in disorder and that
fcvery infraction of the law puts the
strikers at a disadvantage and decreas
es their chances of winning The plain
truth is that the supply of labor in most
f the industries is in excess of the de
jnand Under normal conditions this
would give employers opportunity to
discriminate in favor of fidelity and
Efficiency a right which every em
ploye if he employed workmen would
feel that he could consistently claim a
rlghttoo as advantageous and import
ant to workmen as a class as to employ
ers because its tendency would be tc
keep up a high and proportionately
remunerative standard of workman
ship
The Chinese have subjugated Thibet
and the subjugation beyond question
constitutes the most momentous errcat
hm3w sass -
In oriental history since the operations
of Lord Clive in India Thibet is the
home of the occult the cradle of eso
teric Buddhism the nursery of theoso
phy China is the birthplace and great
ancestral stronghod of the laundry
j or centuries China and Thibet have
stood opposed to each other the central
fact in the civilization of the one ap
parently at eternal and irreconcilable
variance with the basic idea of the Cill
er There stood Thibet deriding the
material declaring that only the things
unseen were real and there lay China
affirming the verity and importance of
the body offering to wash its shirts at
40 cents a dozen bundles left Saturday
to be ready the next Tuesday Exalt
the body said Thibet warning and
you cloud the spirit Carry this nir
vana business to its logical conclusion
China retorted and you destroy my
laundry industry The hTugerle be
tween China and Thibet therefore was
not a mere corporeal conflict between
brute forces It was a clash of ideas
a war for supremacy between Karma
and clean shirts The first effect of
Chinas victory will be a new law de
creeing that whoso pretends to having
an astral body must also confess to
having astral shirts and pay double
prices at the laundry
Among the traditions likely never to
be proved or disproved is one that yel
low fever originated in the holds of
slave ships where hundreds of poor
wretches stolen from their homes
were fastened down for weeks without
a breath of fresh air or the priviege of
seeing the light When the slaver dis
charged her terrible cargo of misery
aud filth an effort was made to cleanse
her and in this way tropical ports
caught an infection that has lasted
ever since In a similar maimer
though with more certainty cholera is
traced to the unspeakably unclean pI
grimages to Asia Botli cholera and
yellow fever seem to have originated
In conditions so unwholesome as to be
appalling Once generated and set in
motion their distinctive poisons are in
some way conveyed from person to per
son with different degrees of virulence
modified or averted by good sanitation
and at length driven out by a freezing
cemperature It is but lately that the
microbe of yellow fever has been found
and identified Its discoverer an Ital
ian physician named Sanarelli now one
of the faculty in a South American
college gives an account of his inves
tigations in the Loudon Lancet It was
while searching for the germ at Monte
video that he caught the disease in a
severe form On recovering he pursued
his germ studies in the yellow fever
hospitals of Rio Janeiro and Flores It
was at the latter place that he first dis
tinguished the yellow fever microbe
but not as he expected in the alimen
tary canal He found it in the blood
and tissues It is a rod shaped micro
scopic creature wih rounded extremi
ties generally combining in pairs or
groups After experimenting with it
on 2000 animals Dr Sanarelli believes
that it affected the most of them
though birds less than others It was
fatal in a few days to mice and rab
bits The doctor believes that it is a
blood poison and transmitted bythe air
as well as by water With the fact of
contagion established the proper way
to deal with the disease is to keep it
out
LORD BERESFORD
To Be Raised to the Rank of Rear Ad
miral in Britains Navy
Lord Charles Beresford who is to be
raised to the rank of rear admiral in
the British navy has been associated
with the British blue jacket since he
was 11 years of age That was in 1S59
The young nobleman was advanced
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rapidly He became a lieutenant in
186S and a commander in 1875 He
served In a dozen or so of the big war
ships of the Queen It is not too much
to say Lord Beresford is the most pop
plar man in the navy His personal
bravery has challenged admiration
from all hands He has the gold medal
of the Royal Humane Society for hav
ing on three occasions jumped into the
sea to save the lives of others at the
risk of his own At the bombardment
of Alexandria Beresford distinguished
himself by the most gallant conduct
This engagement required the taking
of tremendous odds but the com
mander never hesitated to plunge into
the danger and his splendid com
mandership carried him safely and
honorably through His work in the
Egyptian expedition as naval aid to
Wolseley was of the first order For
some years in the past Lord Bererford
has devoted his spare time to a cam
paign in favor of the navy His work
here lay in the reformation of the red
tape system of the admiralty which
had gone so far as to seriously cripple
the service
A woman is almost as proud of her
mourning clothes as she is of her wed
ding clothes
P
SHALL SILVER BE DESTROYED
Advocates of gold have pinned their
faith to wheat and all their argumonts
against silver are now based on the
famine price of that cereal
Because many of the nations of the
world have been visited by the calam
ity of bad crops and because the Uni
ted States has been blessed with
abundance these Republican logicians
draw the conclusion that the silver
cause is dead But suppose that in
1S98 Argentina and Russia and the
wheat producing countries of the world
Including the United States produce
large crops of wheat The price per
bushel will go down Where then will
the advocates of gold stand on the
wheat question
The discussion concerning silver is
not losing interest among the nations
It can never be cast out of the way un
iil silver as money is utterly destroyed
or triumphantly remonetized The
world possesses over 3500000000 of
legal tender silver Can the people af
ford to ignore a matter of such tremen
dous importance
Mulileman in his Monetary Systems
of the World gives the following sta
tistics as to the supply of silver money
now in circulation excluding from his
estimate all subsidiary coin
Coined value
United States 350000000
Mexico 40000000
South America 10200000
Prance O3000000
Spain 141000000
Germany 101000000
Austria 81000000
Other Europe 180000000
Asia 1800000000
The greed folly and crime of gold
monometallists in proposing to destroy
over three billion six hundred million
of money need no stronger arraignment
than the plain statement contained in
these figures If the plots of the gold
clique shall at last prevail the world
will be reduced to a position of abject
slavery Gold will be appreciated to
the extent of untold millions silver will
cease to be money the United States
will lose 530000000 of value at one
stroke and the climax of misery pover
ty and distress will have been reached
Disinterested Friendship
It is remarkable how disinterestedly
the Republican press is laboring these
days to bring about harmony between
the national and the gold Democrats
Seldom in the history of political war
fare has such a spectacle of unadulter
ted friendship been displayed on the
part of an enemy Hardly a day passes
that does not bring forth some kindly
suggestion developing a magnificent
plan upon which amity and union may
be secured between the Democrats
who cast G300000 votes for bimetal
lism last year and the Democrats who
cast 1H5000 ballots for gold monomet
allism
Recently these generous efforts have
been redoubled and Chairman lones
has been reported by his kind friends
of the Republican newspapers as not
almost but altogether persuaded to be
a goldbug It is a little bit curious that
all these peace pacts proposed by the
Republicans contemplate the absorp
tion of the body of Democracy by its
tail which is not according to natural
phenomena for the tadpole never be
comes all tail on the contrary the tail
becomes all tadpole
Is it the desire of these Republican
strategists to so consolidate the Demo
cratic party as to make it invincible
That does not seem good generalship
and yet there is no explanation offered
for this generosity other than an appar
ently altruistic desire to be real good
It is barely possible that the Republi
cans wish to destroy the bimetallic
sentiment which they know is the
deadly menace to their own supremacy
but of this there is no hint in all their
arsruineuls
Towa Democrats United
In spite of all the claims to the con
trary that are being made by the oppo
sition the Democrats of Iowa are uni
ted in support of Fred AVhite There
has been no vigor in the third party
movement The Democrats who voted
for McKinley last year did not join the
Republican party national or Slate
They owe no allegiance to it and they
will not forsake their own organization
lo follow such a tinsel idol as Shaw of
Denjson
The Republicans are leaning upon a
broken reed if they hope to poll any
portion of the Democratic vote for their
ticket Whatever may have been the
divisions among Democrats upon na
tional issues whatever they may be
now there is no difference of opiniou
among Iowa Democrats as to the dan
ger of putting another Republican ad
ministration in power at Des Moines
Democratic votes aided McKinley in
carrying Iowa last fall but Democratic
votes will not help Shaw to carry it this
fall There are no national issues in
volved There is no possible ground for
affiliation of Democrats and Republi
cans The one dominant question is
that of decency and honest government
against a repetition of the malodorous
Drake administration White repre
sents the former Shaw stands for the
latter and on such anissue the Democ
racy of Iowa never divides If Shaws
election depends upon his receiving any
part of the Democratic vote no matter
how it may be labeled his defeat is al
ready assured Chicago Chronicle
The Example of Disorder
Out in Colorado yesterday two rail
roads got into a difference oyer a
puted right of way They orgauized
cousiderable forces of employes and
each one tried to gain possession of the
right of way of main strength The
consequence was a riot Yet the rail
road officials who order their employes
to resort to these methods of disorder
over the possession of property or priv
ileges worth a few thousand dollars are
aghast when the same men apply the
lesson taught them by appealing to
force in disputes over wages which
may involve the earning of a fair living
for their families Pittsburg Dispatch
Campaign Lies
The Cincinnati Enquirer has lost pa
tience with the Republican campaign
liars and reads them a lesson which
they are not likely to forget very soon
The first lie nailed by our esteemed
contemporary is the assertion of the
Republican press to the effect that sil
ver sentiment is dying out The at
tention of these campaign liars is call
ed to the manner in which silver senti
ment died in the late Presidential
election In spite of intimidation
fraud bribeiy and falsehood of thir
teen and a half million votes cast the
silver sentiment polled over six million
and a half A few of the lies now in
circulation are quoted verbatim by the
Enquirer as follows
The real fact is that the Democrat
ic party in Ohio is on the point of
abandoning free silver as an issue in
the campaign altogether It is said
that John R McLean lias come to the
conclusion that under the circum
stances free silver as campaign capi
tal would be a losing investment The
statement is -made that the abandon
ment of the cause of free silver by the
Democratic managers in Ohio will
bring about a very big split in the par
ty in the Buckeye State It is
known that the bimetallic lead
ers are exceedingly indignant at the
proposed intention of the Democratic
managers in Ohio Avith respect to the
free silver plank
It goes without saying that every
one of these statements is absolutely
and unqualifiedly false Most of them
have been exposed and denounced but
the industry of the campaign liar is
only equaled by his lack of honesty
and therefore his crop of falsehoods is
always flourishing The Enquirer does
not waste many words in dealing with
the matter but settles the question in
the vigorous words which follow It
would be difficult to conceive of any
baser work than the invention of these
lies except the work of employing the
creature who does the lying and the
publication of his lies
Mexican Prosperity
Mexico seems to be doing business at
the old stand just the same as if there
were no such things in the world as
MO cent dollars
This fact lias had the effect of caus
ing the gold clique in the United States
to cease filling the editorial and news
columns of the subsidized press with
hypocritical wails over the fate of
poor Mexico The farmers of our
sister republic have discovered that
they can ship flour to the United States
at a profit and the manufacturers
have been quick to learn that they have
a good market for their products in this
country
Under these conditions it is not to be
wondered at that President Diaz will
decline to commend to the Mexican
Congress any radical changes in finan
cial policy Why should he Money
from Europe and the United States is
flowing into Mexico every day because
it finds there profitable fields for invest
ment
In the face of facts such as these
how can the members of the gold clique
have the effrontery to talk about the
horrors which would follow the adoption
of bimetallism by the United States
These gold advocates care nothing for
national prosperity They are working
in their own individual interest and
are straining every nerve to keep up
the appreciation of gold in order that
they may fill their pockets at the ex
pense of the people
Dangerous Phase of Prosperity
The bankers of Wall street are mak
ing a great cry over the present gold
imports from Europe They want the
people to believe that this is unmistak
able evidence that the prosperity wave
promised by the McKinleyites is com
ing at last They claim that the foreign
money lenders are satisfied with the
way the Republicans havOirun things
in Washington and that they are con
sequently ready to do business again
with this country at so much per cept
of course
If this explanation of the gold ship
ments from the other side is the true
one what does it prove Merely that
our Government is run in the interest
of European financiers and not for the
benefit of the people that the monop
olies are being favored so as to induce
foreign capitalists to send over more
money and create more trusts to suck
on the life blood of the masses
If the explanation is the correct one
we may as well prepare ourselves for
a rapid increase of the evils against
which we are fighting the monopoliz
ing of the necessaries of life by the
money sharks who aim to make every
Government and every nation tribu
tary to their greed New York News
Another Job to Be Slipped In
According to Senator Lodge Hawaii
is to be annexed by trick and device
The Constitution provides that the
treaty of annexation must be ratified
by two thirds of the Senate before it
can become effective But Senator
Lodge suggests that if serious oppo
sition arises the job can be accom
plished by passing a joint resolution
already pending which requires only
a majority vote That is to say the
jobbers and speculators who want to
annex leprosy ignorance and deprav
ity purpose to set aside the Constitu
tion itself in order to do it New Yorlr
World
Money and Freedom
Cant you realize that under this I1015
monetary S3stem of ours the industries
of the land are being swallowed up by
this yellow god whose temple is in
Lombard street London England
Cant you see that every fresh invest
ment of English gold in America gives
them greater control over us Cant you
see that by reason of this gold stand
ard and its inevitable companion fall
ing prices we are sending to England
250000000 worth of products annual
ly for which we get absolutely noth
ing Cant you understand that inter
est on money is premium for money
and that before there can be a premium
on any article the demand for its use
must be greater than the supply or in
other words be scarce
Dont you know that labor must pay
the premium caused by such scarcity
Dont you know that steel iron sugar
oil whisky and all other trusts are
formed for the purpose of raising the
price of those articles by regulating
production Dont you know that the
men who deal in money are just as
shrewd just as patriotic but just as
eager for profit as are the men who
deal in iron steel etc Dont you
know that it is to the interest and profit
of those who deal in iron and steel to
increase the price by limiting produc
tion so to have greater command over
all other commodities Chicago Dis
patch
State Aid to Corporate Greed
Trouble is brewing at the coal mines
in Edwardsville 111 The mine own
ers there refuse to pay the wages
which operators generally throughout
the country have agreed to and the
State is called to their aid The plain
proposition is this The Edwardsville
miners refuse to pay decent wages
They propose to depress the standard
of living of American citizens to the
level of the brute and ask the taxpay
ers to aid them Evansville Ind Cou
rier
Bragging on Small Capital
When President McKinley in the ex
piring hours of the extra session sent
in an insincere message suggesting
that the Republican Congress had bet
ter do something to redeem this prom
ise the Senate contemptuously thrust
the message aside and refused to con
sider it And now the Republican party
of Massachusetts brags of what has
been done by the Republican Govern
ment for the currency Boston Post
Workmen Asking Their Share
The woolen spinners of Philadelphia
have commenced striking for higher
wages and it is to be hoped they will
persevere The operators lobbied
through Congress an extortionate tar
iff under which they are robbing con
sumers of Avoolen goods They have
also had the advantage of anticipatory
importations of a two years supply of
free wool Let them increase wages
Thev are well able to do it
On the Side of the Masses
A Republican sheriff and seventy lce
publican deputies murder twenty one
miners with Winchesters and wound
forty others and a Republican Gover
nor orders out 2500 State troops to pro
tect this murderous sheriff and his
murderous deputies against the un
armed friends of their victims The
Republican party national State and
county is always on the side of the
downtrodden masses
Republican Condemnation of Shaw
Mr Shaw Republican candidate for
Governor of Iowa declares that as a
choice between the election of Bryan
to the Presidency and the disruption
of the government he would unhesi
tatingly prefer the latter Mr Shaw is
wrong There may be few worse
things that the election of Bryan to the
Presidency but disruption of the gov
ernment is one of them Kansas City
Journal
Hani u j Love for Workingmen
The love of Jonathan and David was
a weak and sickly affair compared to
the affection Mark Hanna now feels for
the laboring men of Ohio Nothing but
death can chill this disease of the heart
unless it is the November election Co
lumbus Ohio Press
Real Civil Service Reform
It may be well to have it understood
that civil service reform provides for
the removal of Government employes
who do not attend to business just as
much as it provides for the retention
of the painstaking and valuable Pitts
burg Dispatch
Prosperity for the Trusts
As another evidence of the prosper
ity inducing powers of the Dingley law
it may be noted that since its passage
twenty five trusts have increased their
capital stock by 147il9825 Lafay
ette Indj Journal
Among the Romans for a few hun
dred years people were temperate wine
was scarce and poor and was reserved
exelusivety for the men over 30 years
of age Women were forbidden to use
it under pain of death for the alleged
reason that it was an incentive to high
living Women were obliged to greet
all their male relatives with a kiss on
the mouth so that it could be told if
they had been to the wine cellar Pliny
quotes the case of one who cudgeled his
wife to death for having sampled his
wine and was pardoned by Romulus
Four hundred years later a Roman
dame was starved to death by her rela
tives for a similar offense
SEEING WITHOUT EYES
A German Says These Organs Are Not
Actually Necessary to Virion
Eyes are popularly considered to be
quite necessary to sight but this is an
error if we are to believe Dr Nagel
a recent German experimenter Many
creatures without eyes can see at least
they can distinguish between light an
darkness and even between different
degrees of light This Is the lowest
degree of seeing to be sure but still
it is really sight and differs scarcely
more from the vision of some insects
that possess eyes than this does from
our owr clear sight
Creatures that see without eyes see
by means of their skins All skins
sajs Dr Nagel are potential eyes
that is they are sensitive to light In
animals that have eyes the sensitive
ness has been highly localized and
greatly increased so that man for in
stance has a retina very sensitive to
light and an expanse of ordinary skin
which possesses a sensitiveness to light
so slight that it is hardly conscious of
it Yet his skin is sensitive in some de
grees as is proved by the fact that it
sunburns that is light may cause a
disturbance in the pigment of the skin
just as it does in that of the eye In
the eye the disturbance is accompanied
by a nervous change which sends a
telegraphic message along the optic
nerve to the brain In the skin too
there are nerves and there are mes
sages also but their tidings imprint no
image on the mind they simply ex
press discomfort cry out sunburn
But in many eyeless creatures the
lack of eyes is in part made up by in
creased sensitiveness of the skin
surface to light Darwin long ago no
ticed that earth worms although they
have no eyes will suddenly withdraw
into their holes at the approach of a
lighted candle Some creatures seem
more sensitive to sudden increase of
light others to sudden diminution If
a number of oysters kept in a vessel
together are found to be open they
will shut all at once if a dark object
comes between them and the light An
other bivalve called psammodia has
long whitish transparent tubes which
protrude from the sand in which it lies
buried If these are suddenly illumin
ated they contract and the brighter
the light the greater the contraction
If a number of them be carried into
direct sunlight they hasten to bury
themselves in the sand or if there is
no sand they move restlessly to and
fro in the water until they are ex
hausted Boston Journal
The Queens Wealth
Queen Victoria is the wealthiest sov
ereign that has ever ruled over Great
Britain All of her predecessors upon
the throne bequeathed to their success
ors nothing but debts which Parlia
ment was called upon to pay While
the Queen permitted the nation thus to
settle the liabilities of her uncles King
George IV and King William IV she
made it a point immediately after her
succession to pay off the large debts
contracted by her father the Duke of
Kent This the portioning of her
daughters as well as some of her
granddaughters who have in each case
received from her a dowry of 500000
on marrying and the settlement on one
occasion of some very pressing liabili
ties of the Prince of Wales may be said
to have constituted the only very heavy
expenses which the Queen has been
called upon to meet since she ascended
the throne in 1837
From that time forth until the pres
ent day she has been in receipt of a
civil list amounting to close upon 3
00000 a year Of this the major por
tion is assigned to definite heads of
royal expenditure But 300000 per an-
num is devoted to what is called the
Queens privy purse and constitutes
her pocket money of which no account
is ever asked Besides this she has at
her disposal the net revenues of the
Duchy of Lancaster which have
amounted on an average to 300000 a
year more From this it will be seen
that after having all the expenses of
every conceivable character down to
her very charities and servants wages
defrayed out of the civil list she has
a sum of at least 600000 each year to
dispose of as she lists and which she
is known to have set aside It is no
exaggeration to estimate the present
fortunate of Her Mjijesty from Jhese
sources alone as in the neighborhood of
100000000
On Jan 1 1377 Her Majesty was
proclaimed Empress of India by the
Governor General at the durbar of Del
hi before an Imperial assemblage of
all the Governors Lieutenant-Governors
heads of government princes
chiefs and nobles of India Ten vears
later another auspicious event delight
ed the whole of the English race The
jubilee of her accession to the throne
was celebrated with great splendor in
June 18S7 New York Ledger
Why People Forget Names
Many persons are especially forgetful
with regard to names They are em
barrassed to find that they cannot on
the spur of the moment recall the
name of an acquaintance or that of
some familiar object although in other
respects their memory is not treacher
ous Dr Bastian in discussing such
defects recently quoted with approval
this explanation The more concrete
the idea the more readily is the word
used to designate it forgotten when the
memory falls We easily represent
persons and things to ourselves with- f
out their names More abstract con-
ceptions on the contrary are attained
only with the aid of words which
alone give them their exact shape in
our minds Hence verbs adjectives
pronouns adverbs prepositions and
conjunctions are more intimately re
lated to thought than nouns are and
can be remembered wnen nouns or
names slip from the mind
There are more good places tisaa
there are good men to fill them
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