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Of course the Christianizing of China
vill be accomplished by the nation with
the biggest guns
A bird in the bush is worth ten in the
lat is the new motto suggested to the
Audubon Society
Some innocent contemporary suggests
H sonna thrashing for pugilists
Pugilists are used to thrashing sound
Young Loiter has made several for
tunes out of the late wheat deal He
flidnt hide his light under millions of
bushels
A fashion journal says The old
fashioned bustle is coming forward
igain Thats no way for a bustle to
behavo
A press dispatch says that Van
Wyck was inaugurated Mayor of New
York without pomp Where was
Pomp
What shall we do with our ex-Presidents
asks a Western paper How
would it do to offer more liberal prizes
at the baby shows
The CourierJournal notes that a lead
ing merchant of Louisville has gone
flown under the bitter pill of advers
ity Where is he now
More testimony on the once debated
point of there being a Chinese wall
may be that country one of these days
reading the handwriting on it
A special dispatch from Louisville
says that Kentuckys greatest prod
net is in danger Well Isnt whisky
-always in danger in that State
The Columbus Dispatch comments
on an offense which in Puritan times
woJ4 have been f ollowed by a punish
ment not less than death And per
haps more
In looking over 100 bills to deter
mine whether or not they are of this
new and dangerous issue of counter
feits the first and most important step
is to secure some 100 bills
Suppose says the Florida Times
Union that the new year had come on
Friday to make the nervous shudder
Or suppose horror of horrors that it
had come on the thirteenth
The Philadelphia Inquirer gravely
observes Only 20 per cent of the
murders committed yearly in America
and Europe are ever found out How
does the Inquirer know then
The Virginia Legislature proposes to
tax bachelors Cruelty to animals
Any man who remains unmarried in
Virginia does so from necessity not
from choice Why tax a mans misfor
tune
The question is being agitated as to
what earthly use the letter q is in
our language so long as we have the
letter k But then men are apt to
stick to many a thing after it has be
come a dead letter merely from fore
of habit
The women who are booming the new
university project at Washington
would aeomplislt more for educationa
cause if they devoted their energies to
ward broadening the sphere of useful
ness of some of our established institu
tions for higher learning
The relief expeditions that have
usually been sent after north pole ex
plorers may hereafter be sent aftei
men who went to the Klondike countrj
with thin clothes and nothing to eat
It seams necessary to constantly en
courage men who make themselves ob
jects of charity
An English prophet announces ioi
1S9S the discovery of the north pol
the opening of communication with
Mars wars in Europe a revolution ir
South America riots in London and
the kidnaping of the young King oi
Spain That South American evenl
is reasonably certain to happen
The man who told the teachers that
the public school system should be ad
justed to the needs of the masses rath
er than to fitting individuals for highei
institutions of learning deserves credll
for announcing his discovery He
should not copyright his discovery
since it would be a great thing for the
state if it could be adopted
Pupils are conducted through manj
ologies and introduced to manj
isms but they are not well groundec
in the three or four primary matters a
an English education A boy or gir
who has learned to read and write anr
spell with a knowledge of arithmetic
and geography is better prepared fo
a university education than a boy oi
girl who has been dragged through ai
endless array of the so called highe
studies in the common schools
A coast defense gun now in proces
of construction by the United State
Government is to be a wonder in ord
nance An expert estimates that th
striking energy of a projectile froi
this gun will be equal to the blow of
six-thousand-ton steamer ramming n
sixteen knots speed To complete tl
comparison the expert adds that whi
a vessel in collision strikes all alon
her cutwater the damaging power
the gun is concentrated on a circ
having a diameter of sixteen inche
Should the gun ever be used against a
ypr
enemy the fate of a vessel receiving
the blow could not be doubtful Such
a terrible engine of war is a peace
agent of a persuasive sort
There are various methods of ex
pressing affection from the nose rub
bings of the Hottentots to the thrash
ings wnich the American boy receives
for his own good A Kansas man has
developed a new method however
This gentleman strolling along the
street met another mans wife and
fired two loads of buckshot Into her
after which he discreetly took to the
woods He has mailed a letter to the
woman who still survives explaining
that bis action was the result of the
great lore he bore for her Singularly
enough this explanation does not satis
fy the people of the town who yearn
for his return so that they may lynch
him It is the fate of great minds to be
unappreciated
Germans are adopting American ma
chinery for their manufactories and
American ideas as well The English
manufacturer proclaims boldly prob
ably for the effect it may have upon
his workmen that if he cannot adopt
American machinery and methods in
Great Britain he will have to shut up
shop The Germans and English may
he able to compete with each other
with the aid of American machiney
and they may be able to excel all the
world save this great country from
which they are drawing new inspira
tions But they cannot go the Ameri
can pace Having caught up with
them we will pass them distance
them perhaps for in all the world
there is no such combination of excel
lence as in these United States of
America
There seems to be a good deal of
doubt as to what an American is The
native Indian does not exactly fill the
bill even when he hi improved In fact
when he is much improved he disap
pears It wa thought by some at one
time that to be an American one had
to be born in New England or to have
come there at a very early day with
the serious intention of having every
body who was lust right born there
after the date of 1G21 But the Dutch
of New York and the Germans of
Pennsylvania and the French of Lou
isiana seem to have had different ideas
about it As sometimes it sMms fn
be an easy Avay to settle the question
by declaring that no one not born in
Ireland is an American but this would
justly offend the Gennans and irritate
a considerable portion of our rural pop
ulation who do not enjoy city govern
ment Ability to read the Constitu
tion of the United Slates coupled with
a short residence seemed to answer
until we discovered that ability to un
derstand it did not go with the accom
plishment of reading and still less of
baying or accepting its spirit With
an Increasing number of people Amer
ica is a sort of go-as-you-please place
where every man is a law unto him
self and every woman also and it is
a very un American thing to interfere
with the indulgence of any sort of
vagary In short it is a left over region
that belongs to everybody and he is
the most American who exercises ut
most license in speech and conduct
Consequently it is a surprise to many
who arrive that they find they have
brought with them some rights that
they had run away from namely the
right to be imprisoned or to be hung for
disobeying the laws It may not be
possible to define exactly what an
American is still less to describe the
American spirit about which we hear
so much and which is so variously con
ceived But it is time that one thing
were very clearly understood by all the
newcomers who purpose to favor us
with their society and that is that the
country is already made and is not
waiting for them to make it That it
is just as much a nation with as well
defined and as distinct a political life
and purpose as Germany or England
or France This fact clearly under
stood will save the newcomers a great
deal of trouble In our Federal system
and our local self government we find
the American idea and it is just as dif
ferent from the license and the social
ism which some conceive to be the
American idea as can be It is useless
for foreign newcomers to lutt their
heads against this idea it will injure
their heads
WAPOLEONS CHAIR OF STATE
Was Once an Elaborate AfFair but Is
Paded and Tarnished Now
In one of the Paris museums interest
ing for its personal relics of great
Frenchmen are some mementos of Na
poleon There are carpets he trod upon
tapestries on which his eyes rested
FADED AXD TARXISUKD XOW
chairs in which he took his ease and
some in which it must have been ex
tremely difficult for him to find ease
Hereis one of those a chair of state
tt was of violet velvet once but it has
grown greenish with years It was
embroidered with silver but the sil
ver is tarnished and blackened with
age
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OLDIEKS AT KOME
THEY TELL SOME INTERESTING
ANECDOTES OF THE WAR
How the Boys of Both Armies Whiled
Away Life in Camp Foraging Ex
periences Tiresome Marches Thril
ling Scenes on the Battlefield
The Old Bngler
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HE old fellow
Iseemed anxious to
get away from the
rest of the veterans
who spent a few
hours betareen
trains in Lincoln
Park and finally
wandered down
one of the sheltered
paths that led to
the lake and
emerged at a spot
out of the way of the usual visitor
Once there he looked up and down a
little anxiously and then draw from
the breast of his shabbly blue coat a
battered old bugle
The instrument was tarnished and
bruised and the once scarlet tassels
were faded but the old man held it in
his hands lovingly and turned it from
side to side lingering over it as one
might over an object of peculiar beau
ty
I wonder if I dast he said at last
aloud smiling the shamed pleased
diffident smile of unusual daring
I aint tried it fur thirty year but I
uster make it sing an I bleeve I
could now
He raised the instrument to his lips
but they twitched nervously and he
could not make a sound Twice and
three times and then high clear but
tremulous rose the first sharp notes of
the reveille
The old man laughed to himself and
hugged the tasseled bugle to his breast
Thats good comrade try again
A carriage had stopped near him and
an old gentleman was leaning forward
with a strange new look of eagerness
thats good comrade
on his pale stern face
I suppose Ive heard that old call
but I havent noticed it for a good many
years Play it again wont you
The old soldier hesitated Ive pret
ty nigh forgot how he said then re
peated the stirring strains more confi
dently
The gentleman left his carriage and
went over to stand beside the trum
peter as one after another of the fa
miliar signals fell from the tarnished
brown lips of the army bugle and by
and by a flush crept into his cheeks and
a light touched his eyes and he sang
Blow out your lights you lazy bummers
Blow out your lights and go to bed
The soldiers well known accompani
ment
Both old men were laughing now in
fooling old soldiers way Then they
shook hands and began over again
Come down to the stable
All ye who are able
And give your poor horses
Some hay and some corn
For if you dont do it
The colonel will know it
And youll go to the guardhouse
As sure as youre born
The music died in a dismal discord
Comrade said the old man with a
droll wink I dont recollect that it
was the guardhouse where the boys
said thej d go when they uster sing it
It wasnt you old rascal it wasnt
roared the singer slapping the bugler
on his thin shoulder Lets have it
again and well sing it right And
they did
What regiment comrade he ask
ed as with bugle replaced in the shab
by coat the trumpeter locked his arm
within his Nineteenth Michigan
Why man I was with the Thirty third
Indiana Weve been in some pretty
hard fights together in our day Those
two regiments were like brothers
He paused and looked at his com
panion closely noting the worn gar
ments the weary careworn face and
silver hair and then said gently and a
little hesitatingly
Is the world using you pretty well
old friend
Oh yes a flush dyeing the wrin
kled face I I cant complain The
boys of my post are sendin me to this
reunion in Buffalo an when 1 git back
I guess they can git me into the sol
diers home I never did exactly like
the idea of that Id ruther work till
Im mustered out but the voice
trembled bravely resumed aad then
failed utterly and the old man turned
his face toward the lake to elide his
tears The other man had bc en look
ing at him intently
In 03 he said I had my life
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saved by a young bugler It was in a
little skirmish and I was the mark for
a cavalrymans saber I saw it com
ing but was hemmed in so I couldnt
help myself In a second I would have
been struck down when a boy from
the ranks sprang between us It must
have cut through his shoulder
It did Capn
The other stripped off his coat and
turned back his rough flannel shirt
leaving the right shoulder bare A deep
white scar disfigured it
I ought to have known you before
John he said simply But never
mind that now When you come back
from Buffalo you are not going into
any soldiers home but mine And
when taps are sounded from above
youll rest on as good a pillow as
youve ever had along the march
Good by Ill meet you next week
when you come back and well go
home
He Rode with Sheridan
Of the five United States cavalry
men who finished the famous ride with
Sheridan from Winchester to Cedar
Creek in the Shenandoah valley in
1804 two are living in Reading says
the Reading Ta correspondent of the
New York Sun Barton Ream is one
and Srtmuel Lewis is the other Ream
was a sergeant when the special es
cort was formed He is now a tele
phone lineman Lewis is employed at
Bards spoke works Both are in ex
cellent health
Sergt Ream says that 200 cavalry
men of 17th Pennsylvania regi
ment escorted Sheridan from Martins
burg to Winchester on Oct IS 1SG4
The next day twenty troopers were se
lected as a special escort to ride with
Sheridan from Winchester to the front
where Longstreets army had put to
rout the Northern army in the Shen
andoah valley
We were picked out to ride with
Sheridan because we had good horses
said Ream in telling of the ride The
trip was long We had to jump fences
ditches and barricades owing to the
crowded condition of the public road
filled as it was by the retreating army
By the time we got to the front I dont
think more than five of the escort had
held out On the way we met United
States soldiers in full retreat who were
clad only in their undershirts and
drawers Mind you it was a sharp
cool October day Sheridan wore a
cap that day and kept waving it and
cheering to the retreating soldiers to
face about History has recorded it
properly that it was Sheridans great
personality that re rallied that broken
army I believe the private soldiers
in that memorable ride all agree with
the version given to the world by the
oliicers who wrote the historical ac
counts When Sheridan arrived at Ce
dar Creek I rode along the battle lines
with him when our army was ready to
charge on the Confederates about 4
oclock I was not in the thick of the
fight being too tired We were ex
cused and saw the fight from high
ground near where Sheridan and his
staff stood After that battle I was
with Gen Kilpatricks raid toward
Richmond and did other service
Grants Shyness
Gen Grant neither overestimated nor
distrusted himself He was modest
and inclined to claim less than his due
but he was also self reliant and per
sistent An anecdote related by Mrs
Sherwood in her Epistle to Posterity
sets forth his disposition to accord to
others their due and to claim little for
himself save the virtue of gettin
there
Mrs Sherwood told him on one occa
sion that an English officer who nad
been present at the dinner given him
by the Duke of Wellington in the
Waterloo chamber had told her in Lon
don that he thought him a very learned
soldier
Well I am not said Grant I had
neither the genius of Sherman nor the
learning of Lee or McPherson I oniv
meant to get there
In 1S05 just after the close of the
war Gen Grant visited West Point
his old alma mater accompanied by
Mrs Grant
We were in the library writes
Mrs Sherwood the examination was
going on and Prof Bartlett left the
room coming back with Grant on his
arm The professors rose to receive
him I think poor Gen Grant nearly
sank through the floor he winced as
he never had done in the face of the
enemy
Those dreaded professors rising to
do me honor Why I felt the cadet
terror all over me he afterward said
He was more comfortable when he
got outside and began shaking hands
with all mankind and womankind but
no one who saw that notable scene can
forget his modesty
Passed
Any pretty or amusing incident of
the civil war is especially welcome as
a shaip contrast to the many sad and
painful stories told of that time One
such pretty incident was recounted not
long ago by an officer who witnessed it
Generals Sill and Dumont with their
forces defeated and drove from Shel
byville Kentucky the Confederate
armies of Generals Smith and Claiborn
Just afterward the two Union gen
erals with their staffs were riding
along through the main street of the
town when suddenly they heard the
cry Halt in would be martial tones
issue from the mouth of a sturdy little
boy apparently about six years old
The two officers in a mood to be
pleased with anything halted prompt
ly
Who are you cried the small chal
lenger looking fearlessly up at the
soldier riders who had obeyed his or
der Are you Feds or Rebs
We are Union men returned the
generals gravely
All right said the boy removing
his diminutive person a little to one
side to leave the way clear you may
pass on
PROTECTION AND PROSPERITY
New England rallied to the support
of the Republican party at the Presi
dential election of 1S90 and cast its
electoral votes for the advance agent
of prosperity
New England is now getting a sam
ple of the kind of prosperity heralded
by the advance agent No doubt a
large majority of the 125000 opera
tives of the cotton mills who are now
suffering a cut in wages of from 10 to
12 per cent voted for McKinley Per
haps they should not be blamed for
this as they were coerced by the mill
managers and promised good times and
increased pay if the Republican ticket
should win
How truthful these promises Avere is
now being demonstrated and the cause
of this disaster is the very measure
which the Republicans asserted would
bring about prosperity In discussing
this phase of the question the New
York Journal says
Whatever explanation may be given
of the present situation of the cotton
industry of New England it is certain
that increased protection is doing it
no good What is called protection re
stricts its market tends to over-production
and lower prices by hothouse com
petition at home and the more it gets
of this kind of fostering the worse
off are those employed in it
There can be no doubt that this view
of the situation is correct but will the
operatives of the New England cotton
mills recognize that fact Will they
realize that they have been made the
victims of a gigantic confidence game
and will thej with a spirit of self-preservation
turn away from the Republi
can party and espouse the cause of
Democracy
This is the important question which
is pressing upon the minds of the wage
workers all over the United State5
Upon its correct answer rests the fu
ture of the masses in this country
Labor has a true friend in Democ
racy and a bitter enemy in the Repub
lican party The latter is the servant
of the trusts and the trusts grow rich
and flourish at the expense of the peo
ple There is only one party great
enough to hope for victory in a strug
gle against the trusts and that party
is Democratic Every vote cast for anv
other party organized to befriend lalwr
is a vote thrown away and every vote
cast for the Republican party is a vote
to impoverish and enslave the masses
Cannot the wage earners see this It
is as simple and clear as it is true
Conciliation with an Ax
It is alleged that the administration
has iriven Mark Ilanna a gentle hint
to curb his tongue in the matter of
threats against Ohio Republicans op
posed to his election as Senator Mc
Kinley is not at all anxious that the
split in the Republican party of the
Buckeye State should be made any
wider than it is now Kurtz has ex
hibited such a show of strength that
alarm is felt by the occupant of the
Presidential chair and Hannas curses
it is feared may work mischief to the
Presidents plans for a renomination
It would never do for Ohio Republi
cans to refuse a united support to Mc
Kinley in 1000 and therefore Hanna is
cautioned to modify his expressions of
rage This will be a severe dose for
Hanna to swallow and in the long run
he will manage to get even with his
enemies with a result which will
anything but pleasing to the adminis
tration Hanna believes in concillia
tion with an ax He has no idea of
what the word diplomacy means and if
the fight in Ohio does not wax fierce
and dangerous all the portents of the
present will have proved misleading
Knives are sharpening for the con
flict Charges and counter charges of
bribery and bad faith are made Bush-
nell is threatened with an investiga
tion Foraker is abused and the merry
war is merrilly progressing Good
luck to the man with the longest knife
and a plague on both their houses
say the people Chicago Dispatch
rIark Hannas Victory
Hanna won He has won a glorious
victory He is re elected United States
Senator from Ohio by the magnificent
majority of one He was entitled to
eight but even the Ohio Republicans
are growing ashamed of Hanna He is
a great catch for the Republican party
It shows what principle will do when
backed up by enough boodle It also
shows how dignified a President we
have when he stood at the receiver of
a Jong distance telephone keeping the
wire hot in Marks interest
This is indeed a free irnvprnmnnt
when heaven and earth and the pow
ers of darkness are turned loose to
compass his election and then some
of our Republican friends are pleased
to call it a great triumph of manhood
The President and his entire official pie
counter were moved to help Mark No
stone was left unturned to win this
victory of manhood j
O yes that was a glorious victory I
It was so stupendous that it will turn
Ohio Democratic at next falls Con
gressional elections It will bring the
Republican party into worse dishonor
It will brand every man who voted for
mm against ms wishes a hireling It
will make the next President Demo
cratic No Democrat has any reason
to feel discouraged The political skies
never looked brighter than at this
moment
Mark Hannas election is a great
vindication for the Republican admin
istration but it cost Mark Hanna a
barrel of money to make er vindicate
Only his transcendent his overpower
ing abilities pulled Mark Hanna
through Mark comes high but he Is
cheap at any price His election makes
Democratic success so much surer next
fall A glorious victory like that Is
worth more than 100000 votes Give
us more glorious Mark Hanna victories
Washington Iowa Democrat
Bitter Lesson to New England
Whatever explanation may be given
of the present situation of the cotton
industry of New England it is certain
that increased protection is doing it
no good What is called protection re
stricts its markets tends to overpro
duction and lower prices by hothouse
competition at home and the more it
gets of this kind of fostering the
worse oft are those employed in it
This lesson the operatives of Fall
River New Bedford Lowell and Law
rence are just now having pressed
home and if the chiim of the mill own
ers that they are forced by the condi
tions of business to reduce wages is
justiiied they ought to lay to heart tha
same lesson New York Journal
McKcunaH Bad Break
Attorney General McKennas nause
ating dispatch af congratulation to
Ilanna was well calculated to please
Ilanna and the President who has
nominated him to be a Supreme Court
Justice of the United States but it is
said to have had a bad effect upon the
Democratic side of the Senate chamber
In the end it may prove to have im
periled his confirmation Democratic
Senators cannot be much blamed for
being sickened MeKenna may think
that Ilanna is virtue incarnate but
that only shows what sort of a man
MeKenna is Springfield Mass Re
publican
All in the Interest of Protection
The pension expansion is necessary
because the soldier vote is necessary
to protection River and harbor and
public buildings jobs are necessary to
keep doubtful Congressional Iistricts
in line for protection And all the other
jobbery of the Nicaragua canal Ha
waiian annexation and the like are nec
essary to keep the influential promo
ters friendly to the party Z protection
Truly we are a famous country Whii
the mrrit of all mentions must ii su
bordinated to the necessity of burden
ing ourselves with the protective tar
iff Utica Observer
McKinleys Humiliating Position
The speech of Senator Wolcott leavas
the President in an uncertain audiJt
complimentary position It represents
him as being opposed to the financial
policy of Secretary Gage and opposed
consequently to the whole currency re
form movement He is simply being
used by Messrs Wolcott and Chandler
as a club publicly to maul Mr Gage in
particular and the whole currency re
form movement in general and amid
the laughter and applause of the gal
leries Mr Gage can stand it but can
the President Springfield Mass Re
publican
Sowing the Wind
The crowning idiocy of the tariff is
that we are laying up trouble for our
selves When the United States be
comes the foremost manufacturing na
tion other nations are going to retaliate
by restricting the importation of our
manufactures as they now restrict our-
grain and meats Already South Amer
ica is striking at our growing manu
factures Europe will not long delay
In keeping with the infernal policy of
protecting the trusts we are sowing
the wind It is inevitable that we shall
have to reap the whirlwind Kansas
City Times
Itfodesty Taking Fecond Place
In his thrilling telegram God reigns
and the Republican party still lives
Mark nanna paid the Almighty a neat
compliment in allowing the fact of
divine existence to take the precedence
over the second proposition Kansas
City Times
Brief Comment
The tidal of
wave McKinley
prosper
ity in New England is the largest and
thickest and saltiest and wpttf Mw
known in that section Atlanta Con-
MllUUOIl
Mark Hanna gives the lie to those
who term him a plutocrat There is
after all a line of demarcation be
tween a plutocrat and a corruptionist
Atlanta Constitution
The MeKenna victory in the Judici
ary Committee and the Hanna victory
in the Ohio Legislature will rejoice all
the trusts and all the organized grab
bers of the country St Louis Post
Dispatch
Mark Hanna has returned to Wash
ington to resume the work of running
the administration which was intei
rupted for a season by circumstances
over which by the judicious use or
flooence he finally
secured the nnr ps
sary control Lafayette Ind Journal
Oklahoma has unanimously declared
in favor of Statehood and as she has
the requisite population her petition Vs
a reasonable one But her politics ic
inclined toward Democracy and the
powers that be are Republican
so Ok
lahoma will undoubtedly be obliged
to wait Manchester N H Union
Doubtless the spirit of warfare is
still hot in the breasts of the Ohio Re
publicans but we would advise
the
suc
cessful side to beware of carrying on
the struggle by measures based on the
conviction that the Republican vote in
that State is so large that it needs jh
uuciug ittsDurg Dispatch
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