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THE ISSUES
While the Presidential campaign is
about two years off it is not a difficult
matter to tell in advance the Issues up
on which it will be fought In 1S9U the
Republicans carried the country on a
platform virtualy of high tariff and the
gold standard The people were told
that a grave peril confronted the
eminent and that the Republican party
waslheontydeliverer standing between
prosperity and ruin They were told
that if the Republicans were placed in
power the mills would be opened the
-wages of labor -would be raised confi
dence would be restored and an era of
unprecedented prosperity would set in
Well the Republicans have had prac
tically a free field and what has been
the result In spite of profuse prom
ises five cent cotton is the rule in the
South -wages have been reduced
throughout the mills of New England
and thousands of workingiuen in that
section are out on a strike Now these
things indicate the utter failure of the
Republican program of gold
allism and high tariff Nor are the peo
ple blind to this failure The elections
everywhere show th t they have dis
covered the Republican game and are
convinced of the insincerity of that
party and the hollowness of its prom
ises The shouting and the tumult
of the Presidential election hardly died
out before Garter Harrison a staunch
advocate of free silver -was elected
Mayor of Chicago by one of the largest
pluralities ever given in that city
Nearly all tlie municipal elections in
the Western States showed a like
change of sentiment Tammany Hall
odorous as it is has beeu restored to
power in Now York City and New
York State lias gone Democratic re-
cently by about GO000 majority There
are no indications of faltering allegi
ance on the part of the South and West
to free silver In Kentucky which
was carried by the Rpwicans in 1S9G
y Jzii their teeth there has
Jei1irevulsion of sentiment the gold
standard Democrats have been blotted
out and the Democracy lias again ob
tained control of the State Every
where the drift of opinion is toward
free silver and a revenue tariff and
Democrats may as well prepare to line
up for these two issues The Republi
can party will be committed to gold
monometallism and high protection
and the Democracy will be found fight
ing valiantly for free silver and a rev
enue tariff On this platform the Dem
ocratic party would to day without any
preparation canvassing or speech
making sweep the country Memphis
Commercial Appeal
Fraud on the Farmers
The McKinley administration poses
ns the particular friend first of the
protected industries and secondly as
the champion and knight errant of agri
culture It treats the farmers of the
United States as ignorant mendicants
whom the Government should supply
with essays on the tape worm in poul
try grape cuttings strawberry plants
pamphlets on the diseases of domestic
kine hog cholera serum primers on
the art of packing eggs for market
bovine tuberculin garden seeds and
dissertations upon the contents of
crows stomachs
The Department of Agriculture is be
ing used as a stalking horse behind
which wily and unscrupulous politi
cians hide themselves while they fling
their nets and snares to catch bucolic
balots The extravagance of the po
litical sports who thus hunt for votes
Is seemingly without limitation Walk
ing delegates who are put on the pay
roll of a department merely to give
employment to partisan bummers and
heelers and sent abroad neither reflect
credit upon the Government that sends
them nor confer benefit upon the tax
payers who are bled to sustain them
There are special agents and special
agents now promenading the globe
from this Department of Agriculture
at Government expense Their per
Hems and salaries are liberal in the
extreme Their daily expenses are
generous if not extravagant And
Uncle Sam pays all Some of these
utilitarians are looking for leguminous
plants adapted to American soils and
climate Just as though the enterprise
of the seedsmen of the United States
had not already ransacked the earth for
these things at their own expense
Other perambulating patriots under
this paternal system are looking for
new varieties of apples berries and
pears All of these special agents are
a fraud upon the people and the Gov
ernment If they are not why is not it
published to the world when they are
sent out and the pay which they are to
receive and the expense which they
are allowed frankly stated to the citi
zenship Avhich pays them all
Is it not true that the expenditures
of the Department of Agriculture are
constantly increasing and that de
jnands for more appropriations for it
and the weather bureau are constantly
being made without any commensu
rate benefits becoming visible to the
public eye
Republicans Held Responsible
The Republican organs had a lot to
about the little surplus the Ding
ley bill scraped up in December but
their silence on the January deficit of
-7000000 is most profound This
would indicate that they dont even
find the outlook encouraging for an
occasional shortage is not a thing to be
discouraged over Touching on the
prospect the Albany Argus says It
is still regarded as improbable that the
Dingley tariff can in a full normal
year produce enough revenue from
customs to make up the amount re
quired for the expenditures of the Gov
ernment The Treasury statements
show that for the first seven months
under that law the deficit was 43
Sr4791 so that a gain of more than
10000000 a month will be required
for the next five months to overcome
the deficit The Republican party will
be held responsible for this failure and
its political effect will be apparent in
the Congressional elections It is
noted however that the Republicans
have already begun to bring their phil
osophy to bear on their expected defeat
in the Congressional elections
They Would Save the Party
To vindicate American honor to
avenge murdered American seamen to
deal swiftly spiritedly and justly with
the Spanish power that does not as
sure safety that gives to destruction
an American war vessel riding at
anchor in a Spanish harbor open to the
world has beeu roundly denounced
by organs of the administration as jin
goism
AVhoso in his fervid indignation pre
maturely offered his personal service
to the military arm was held up by
these organs to laughter fleers and
jeers It was ridiculous to wave the
American flag It was presumptuous
in a free American citizen to speak his
sentiments with force and directness
until a supine administration at Wash
ington gave him permission Let the
trumpets and the drums of American
war spirt remain silent The baton of
the great national leader would not per
mit patriotism to become vocal Wait
Be calm Be cool Be patient
But the organs discover of a sudden
that war is patriotism Not a war in
vindication of American honor not a
war of vengeance upon the murderers
of Americans that would be jingoTsm
but a war to save the Republican
UyG elect Iajor McKinley and
keep in office the administration of the
mediocrities The war whose pretext
is to be Cuban misgoverument and
whose alleged object Cuban indepen
dence since our business interests
are to suffer as long as there is Spauish
attempt to establish Spanish rule in the
island is to be fought not by the pa
triotism and intelligence of the country
but by the cankers of a calm wor d
and a long peace the host of unem
ployed who if not given work may in
their discontent plump their ballots
this fall against the Republican party
and so sweep the country
We must have war not for the de
struction of an enemy but for the sal
vation of McKinleyism We must no
longer wait no longer remain cool or
patient War with a respectable pur
pose is condemned as the device of the
unspeakable jingo But war to save
McKinley and Wall street and a so
called sound currency must at once be
entered upon as a holy crusade But
straggle as McKinleyism may Repub
licanism is doomed War or no war
Democracy will sweep the country this
fall Chicago Chronicle
One Year of McKinley
At the close of the first year of Presi
dent McKinleys term it may be said
with absolute truth that only those are
blessed who expected nothing for they
have not been disappointed The rec
ord is almost a blank in so far as good
deeds are concerned The promised
era of prosperity has not yet arrived for
the working masses the burning
tions of the time have not been acted
on and the treasury deficit has not
come to an end although the Dingley
tariff whs passed specially for that
i pose
The country is no more prosperous to
day than it was a year ago when Mc
Kinley took the oath of office the finan
ces of the nation are not in better
shape and the outlook for the future
has not improved On the other hand
the trusts and monopolies which con
tributed so liberally to the Republican
campaign fund which had so much to
do to put the present administration in
power have been duly rewarded and
Mark Hanua is a greater man than he
was on the 4th of March of last year
He has been placed in the United States
Senate by one of the most contemptible
tricks known to our history the crowd
ing out of poor John Sherman and forc
ing him into a position in which he is
a mere cipher and he is of so much
consequence that special accommoda
tions have to be provided for him in
the White House
To Republicans avIio sincerely believ
ed that the McKinley administration
would rise to the high level of its oppor
tunities the performances of its first
year must appear particularly mortify
ing As for the Democrats they anti
cipated nothing else than the flat stale
and unprofitable showing that has been
made New York News
This Legislature Named Hauna
Whispers -which may develop into
open charges of corruption and bribery
are now heard in Columbus It is in
timated that the legislation f the
House is controlled by certain mem
bers who are willing to pass or defeat
pending bills for a consideration
Cleveland Leader
One of the Forgotten Planks
Just as an evidence of good faith
wouldnt it be well for Congress to read
that little section in the last Republican
platform about Guba before announc
ing that everything that stands in the
way of adjournment has been attended
to Louisville Times
CARRYING MAIL IN CANADA
Dogs Drag Sledges Two Thousand
Miles Over Snow and Ice
One of the most romantic and pictur
esque mail services in the Universal
Postal Union is that of Northern Can
ada Of the several long mail routes
penetrating the great wilderness lying
between Canadas northern frontier
and the Arctic ocean there Is one that
runs almost due north a distance of
2012 miles beyond the railroad termi
nus It is the route from Edmonton
Alberta to Fort McPherson on Peel
river near the Arctic coast The win
ter mail for Fort McPherson is known
as the Mackenzie River packet With
the exception of 170 miles by horse
sleigh it is hauled the entire distance
on sledges drawn by dogs On that
route as on most others there are only
two mails a year The summer pack
et is taken down the Athabasca Slave
and Mackenzie rivers on steamers own
ed by the Hudson Bay company The
route next in length is that from Sel
kirk a few miles north of Winnipeg
to York Factory on Hudson bay be
ing G80 miles The winter packet is
hauled by dog train In summer it goes
about 300 miles by steamer and the re
mainder of the distance by canoe The
Peace river packet is carried in a sim
ilar manner over a distance of G20
miles from Edmonton to McLeods
Fort in the Rocky Mountains The
Moose Fort packet runs- between the
nudsou Bay companys post on Lake
Temiscamingue and Moose Fort on
James bay covering 420 miles In sum
mer the mail goes by canoe in winter
it is hauled on a toboggan drawn by
men
The mail matter to and from points
north of the Government postoffices in
Canada is placed in charge of the Hud
son Bay company and delivered along
with the companys mail Their packet
arrangements are such that every post
in the northern department is period
ically communicated with
The mail is usually contained in a box
2y feet long by 1 feet high the width
where she painted a miniature ol the
Prince of Wrfes in the costume that he
wore at the famous ball given by the
Duchess of Devonshire The privillege
of painting tfos would have been in It
self honor enough for most artists but
in addition the Prince sent the artist a
diamond heart pin which represented
Persimmon the Princes horse in dia
monds with the jockeys colors done in
enamel After the fact of the presenta
tion became public the price of her
minatures went up to 1000 and per
sons are wondering if the influence of
the Prince oi Wales patronage wilf be
strong enough to have the same effect
in New York New York Sun
MADE HIM FAMOUS
Bright Wife of the Doctor Had Some
Schemes of Mer Own
Know him asked one of the two
men talking at the corner as he nodded
toward a handsome old gentleman just
passing by No Well sir thats Dr
Blank the noted surgeon I have
known him ever since we used to fre
quent the same swimming hole Just
how long that was before the war Im
not going to say He beat me in the
race for the girl that he married and
if he hadnt the chances are that the
doctor would still be driving night and
day over a little back country attend
ing to a practice that couldnt pay if it
wanted to
When they were back there in the
woods and he was performing opera
tions that no other member of the pro
fession had thought of undertaking she
gathered from the talk of friendly doc
tors in the same section that he was
original daring and successful Sho
begged him to advertise his abilities
but he sternly rebuked her for asking
him to transgress the ethics of the pro
fession
But you know how it is wlien a
bright woman sets her head The doc
tors office was a shabby little den
without carpet window shades pic
tures or anything else but the plainest
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MAIL SERVICE OF NORTHERN CANADA
of the sledge Into this a surprising
amount of postal matter is pressed The
box is lashed to the tail of the sledge
the fore part being packed with blan
kets flour tea and pork for the trip
pers and white fish for the dogs It
is the custom of the Hudson Bay com
pany never to send less than two men
with the mail One of them the
tracker goes a considerable distance
in advance to break a triil which the
train of four dogs follow while the
driver brings up the rear The trip
pers average 30 miles a day At night
they bivouac on the snow with nothing
but a blanket between them and the
aurora borealis while the thermometer
may fall to GO degrees below zero At
each Hudson Bay company post the
mail is transferred to a fresh relay of
men and dogs
In former years so jealously was all
excess in mail matter guarded against
that the carriage of newspapers was
disallowed with the exception of an
annual file of the Montreal Gazette
which was forwarded to the companys
headquarters at Fort Garry for general
perusal Now however newspapers
and magazines comprise the bulk of the
Inward bound packets In 1833 the col
onists organized a monthly mail service
between Fort Garry now Winnipeg
and Fort Ripley Minn then the most
advanced of the United States post
offices The building of the Canadian
Pacific railroad has put an end to the
greater part of the old packet in North
western Canada
In the illustration the numbers refer
to the following subjects 1 the Moose
Fort packet nearing Abitti ti House 2
York Factory packet descending the
latitude for form great scope for vari
ety of gear harness and trappings
They are generally rather of the swan
outline the sleighers sitting in the
layes river 3 interior of postoffice at
Hudson Eay post 4 an ox express
nound for Manitoba House and 5 the
Mackenzie river packet traveling due
jorth 2012 miles beyond the railway
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An American Artist
Most of New Yorks noted society
beauties have been painted by a wo
man whose miniatures long ago be
came famous and she was noted as the
most successful and fashionable artist
in that line that New York possessed
Now this fortunate artist is in London
furniture He resisted all her efforts to
change this
One evening he came home from a
thirty-six-hours stay with a patient to
find that office so transformed in velvet
carpet tapestries and pictures tftiat he
flatly declined to enter it His wife was
away on a visit Men had been there
done the work and disappeared There
were no bills the home merchants
j knew nothing and the doctor was so
mad that he advertised everything for
sale
The thing was told in the local pa
pers as a huge joke and incidental-
there were related some of the stories
of how he took people apart and put
them together again City papers
copied and city doctors ridiculed This
riled Blank he proved that he had
worked greater wonders than were
credited to him and he was famous
The means and the end were the work
of the little woman who had figured
them out before giving a secret com
mission to furnish that office Detroit
Free Press
A Curious Island
One of the most curious islands in
the world is Merken in the Zuyder
Zee Horses arid trees are unknown to
the natives as also is drunkenness The
island produces one crop a year viz
hay and the women manage the grow
ing and harvesting of this
Honors of War
Honors of war is the privilege al
lowed to the enemy on capitulation of
being permitted to retain their arms
This is the highest honor a victor can
pay a vanquished foe
Home of the Cigarette
Nearly every man woman and child
in Egypt is a smoker of cigarettes and a
pipe is hardly ever seen in the mouth
of a native
We have noticed that since the wom
en wear silk petticoats it takes loss
provocation than formerly to make
them kick
So far the doctors have persuaded
people to have everything else cut out
but their tongues
The men who used to start newspa
pers are now starting lodges
It is seldom difficult to appear nat
oral if you have no object in view
WIDELY KNOWN PREACHER
Dr Palmer of New Orleans Kcccntly
Celebrated His 80th Birthday
Rev Dr Benjamin Morgan Palmer
of New Orleans who recently celebra
ted the SOth anniversary of his birth Is
one of the most widely known and
deeply beloved clergymen in the South
He is pastor of the First Presby
terian Church of New Orleans one of
the most beautiful of the churches in
the Crescent City For years he has
stood at the head of Presbyterianism
in the South Dr Palmer in his prime
was one of the most gifted of the pulpit
orators of this country He won in
ternational fame as a preacher and by
many was considered the superior of
even Beecher Just before the war Dr
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Palmer was in the full tide of his
power as an orator and it was said
that it was his words that set the South
on fire The story of his life is told in
a pretty little book which was pub
lished a few years ago and which is
called The Broken Home Year by
year he has seen all his loved ones de
part and he is now alone in his old
age
Dr Palmer is considered as part of
New Orleans The celebration of his
birthday anniversary recently was an
affair in wJich the whole city was in
terested
ABOVE HER GRAVE
This Acd Husband Erected a Home
Over His Wifes Tomb
Col Elisha De Board one of the old
est and most prominent citizens of Gil
mer Couuty Ga lias recently hada
Binall but beautiful eight sided resi
lience erected above his wifes grave
The old man has passed the four score
year mark and during the past five
years his only solace has been in al
most constant visits to the grave of her
who for fifty years of life was a de
voted wife and companion From the
early hours of morning on till the last
beam of daj had faded he would sit and
fancy the inanimate form moldering
away beneath the grass and flowers
was once more quick with life and
sharing again the facilities of home
When the weather would permit he
COL DE nOAKD AXD XIS EW nOJIE
would often spend the evening hours
it her graveside never quitting the
place until the shades and dampness
of night had come on But this was
aot satisfying and so the structure
shown in the illustration here was
built that the old man might more con
veniently assuage the sorrows of his
closing days
It is only a short distance from her
rave to the old well furnished man
sion where they dwelt for half a cen
ury together But when she was gone
the place had lost its charm The halls
vere lonely and the fireside desolate
Nothing could satisfy the old mans
longing In the new structure small
md circumscribed though it may be
here is at hand that which alone to
nim in life is dear Here he can read
ir sit alone and think or tend the flow
ers that adorn her tomb At night he
5nds repose and rest within touch of
the grave he loves so well
The Fetich Diamond
The South African native it seems
Is not always decorated with the mere
trumpery of the traders wallet or of
nis own purveyance It has become an
attested fact that excellent diamonds
and diamonds better than that are
possessed by chiefs and hoarded by
them not so much in intelligence of
their value as in a firm fetichism The
stones have come to their hands by the
good old fashioned method of stealing
them from the Kimberley mines years
ago before the present minute watch
against gem thieving was systema
tized Diamond stealing at present is
practically impossible under the pecu
liar methods of its prevention Before
the rigid examinations of workmen and
visitors began to be enforced native
laborers often were under a secret
compact with their tribal rulers not to
come back from the mines without a
good sized stolen diamond for thoj
chiefs use hence a great many su j
perb gems are in the dark unfatlrymcdi
caves of a Kafiir headmans establish-
ment Within a few years
ing traders have made special
tions and palavers for diamonds so
hidden with the result of successful
bartering for them Liquor and guns
have been found useful In some in
stances the superstition of the chiefs
stood in the way of traders recoverlngr
valuable stones but on the other
hand a small company working on this
line of acquisition is credited with hav
ing obtained within four months not
less than two hundred thousand dol
lars worth of diamonds One ngent
succeeded in buying of a chief six
stones of more than two hundred
karats each
WITH THREADS OF METAL
Tinsel Fabrica and the More Costly
Brocades of Gold and Silver
Tinsel fabrics are the lower priced oC
the cloths into which gold or silver
threads have been woven In tinsel
fabrics the gold threads are of brass or
copper gilded and the silver threads
are of white metal These threads of
metal originally line wire are rolled
flat and burnished and they glisten In
the fabric wherever the pattern brings
them to the surface Tinsel fabrics arc
made about three fourths of a yard im
width and they sell at 75 cents to 250
a yard They come in various colors
and many of them are beautiful and
artistic in design Some are copies of
old Venetian tapestries Tinsel fabrics
are used for church and for theatrical
purposes and sometimes for gowns and
for decorative purposes
The costlier fabrics with Interwoveni
metal threads are called gold and sil
ver brocades In these the gold threads
are of silver gold plated and the silver
threads are of pure silver the body of
the fabric is of silk The brocades aroj
all beautiful and many of them are er j
ceedlngly so These fabrics are made
about five eighths of a yard In width
and they sell at various prices up toi
25 and sometimes as high as 50 aj
yard The costliest of these fabrics arei
very rarely imported into this country 1
brocades at 10 and 12 a yard being
about the highest priced used here Ifj
more elaborate fabrics are required
they are usually imported to order The
finer fabrics with metal threads aret
made in France the commoner kinds in
Germany
Gold and silver brocades are here
used almost exclusively for church
poses and chiefly for vestments They
are imported in red violet and greeni
and also in black with silver threads
the black and silver being for mourn t
ing Gold and silver brocades are also
used to a limited extent for decorative
purposes
Such fabrics and gold embroidery
often of the costliest description are
far more commonly used in Europo
than here both for church and for mill-
tary purposes New York Sun
Nelsons Wonderful Feat
Writers of historical reminiscences1
have to be masters of a certain amount
of accurate information about their
heroes if thej wish to avoid mistakes
if they are not they are sure to get
things mixed
Not long since a reviewer in the Lon
don Times writing of a book named
Roving Commissions related on his
own account r wimi mnr episode of
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Nelson the great admiral
While in chase of Villeneuves
French fleet he was informed of the
enemy heaving in sight at which in-
formation Nelson evinced the highest
satisfaction and gleefully rubbed his
hands
As a correspondent of the Times
points out this incident occurred in
1S05 Nelson lost his right arm in the i
attack on Santa Cruz Teneriffe in
1707 eight years prior to his pursuit of
Villeneuves fleet It would have been
therefore a difficult matter for him to
rub his hands in 1S05
Cogitation
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The gentlemen of the bar who not in
frequently have to take rebukes from
the bench greatly enjoy a charge to
make a legitimate retort against the
court The story is told that a certainj
judge who during the plea of a raiher
prosy lawyer could not refrain from
gently nodding his head in sleep- was
caught at this by the lawyer who-
looked significantly at him
Perhaps said the judge testily and
prevarieatingly the counsel thinks the
court was asleep but he may he as-
sureutnatxne court was merely cogita
ting
The lawyer talked on Presently the
judge again overcome by his
lence nodded off and aroused himself
with a little sudden snorting snore
If it please your honor said the
lawyer I will suspend my plea until
the court shall have ceased to cogitate
audibly
You may go on said the judge andi
he did not fall asleep again
Remarkable Telegraph liine
Among the most remarkable works
in Australia is the overland telegraph
from Port Darwin to the south of the
continent which was completed im
1872 Almost the whole 2000 miles of
its length was through uninhabited
country much of it a waterless desert
The wooden poles were prepared at the
nearest available places but some had
to be carried 350 miles while the iron
poles were taken an average distance
of 400 miles by land Over 2000 tons--of
material had to be carried into the
interior and the total cost was 1S50
000
The Remains of Babylon
Two wealthy Hebrews of Bagdadj
now own all that remains of the an
cient town of Bajiiylon
The Bible says it is more blessed to
give than to receive All righfy you
give well receive
