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VICTORY IN 1900
United efforts on the part of all those
opposed to the gold clique will result in
a victory for bimetallism There is but
one question of paramount importance
before the people of the United States
There are many questions of second
ary importance but the money ques
tion is of the first importance and up
on that common matter of agreement
all factions of all parties opposed to the
single gold standard can unite In dis
cussing the proposed union of all the
gold clique opponents the famous Solon
Chase of Maine leader of the New En
gland greenbackers says
The gold Democrats can no more
dictate the policy of the Democratic
party than the pro slavery Whigs could
the Republican party Although the
Democratic party is not free from sin
it has redeemed itself by casting out
devils and therein lies its strength
After twenty live years agitation on
the money question it lias now readied
that point where the people demand a
settlement of the problem Silver must
be recognized as a competitor of gold
on the basis of 10 to 1 The issue can
not be dodged or side tracked any more
than the slavery question could The
Republicans did not elect Fremont but
without changing their platform they
elected Abraham Lincoln We did not
elect Bryan in 1S0G but we will in MOO
on the platform of 1SDG A union of all
parties opposed to the gold standard
should be effective
There is wisdom in this backed by
the evidence of history Fremonts de
feat paved the way for Lincolns suc
cess and in like manner the Demo
cralic defeat of 1S9G has paved the way
for 1 emocratic victory in MOO Every
thing points to Democratic success The
House can hardly fail to be anti-Republican
after next falls elections The
Senate is now safely on the side of bi
metallism The fight is going to be
conducted in the open Republican hy
pocrisy and duplicity have been ex
posed and the battle will be for gold
monometallism or for bimetallism and
in such a fight the majority will be Avith
Hie bimetallists Chicago Dispatch
Republican Reform
When the Republican party went into
power it was moved by a great and
good desire to replace the wicked Wil
son tariff by a simon pure protective
tariff according to the plans and speci
fications of great and good Republi
cans
In order to accomplish this benevo
lent purpose of reform President Mc
Iviuley called a special session of Con
gress and that body after a protract
ed discussion passed the Dingley bill
which was to work most marvelous
changes for the better
In preparing this bill the managers
of the trusts cheerfully came to the as
sistance of Dingley and the schedules
were made to fit the ideas of the mill
ionaires who expected to be benefited
by the operations of the law The trust
managers made no mistake They
were benefited they are benefited and
they will be benefited by the Dingley
tariff
Rut the people have not been bene
fited The treasury of the United States
lias not been supplied with sufficient
revenue to pay the current expenses of
the Covernment and a deficit of 50
000000 has resulted from the passage
of the Dingley bill the one monument
of Republican commercial sagacity
erected during the lirst year of McKin
leys administration
It is a significant fact that during the
time the Dingley tariff has been in
force the revenue has fallen in round
numbers one million dollars short of
the revenue produced by the Wilson
tariff for the corresponding eight
mouths of its existence In order to
make any show at all favorable to the
Dingley tariff Republican newspapers
are forced to add to the revenue from
tariff the internal revenue receipts the
amounts received from land sales and
the money paid to the Government by
the reorganisation committee of the
Union Pacific Railroad Republican
tariff legislation for revenue has prov
ed a failure but as a producer of de
ficits and a promoter of trusts it is a
great success
Acquittal of Martin
Sheriff Martin and his deputies have
been acquitted of the charge of mur
dering the coal miners at Hazleton
This verdict has been expected by all
those who were informed of the im
mense inliuence brought to bear in
favor of the accused It would appear
from this decision that laborers have
no right to march on the public high
way and if they dare to so no they may
be shot down in cold blood by hired
assassins with the entire approval of
law Such verdicts will tend to make
the relations between capital and labor
more hostile than ever before There
can be little doubt that Sheriff Martin
was guilty of a crime when he ordered
his men to shoot There can be no
doubt that the whole thing was prompt
ed by revenge and cruelty and the
ing out some fruit as the trichina was
for preventing the importation of out
bacon We may justly find fault with
these methods of the German protec
tionists who mask their commercial
hostility behind sanitary precaution
but we cannot consistently complain of
the motive The German tariffs are
moderate as compared with our own
Thar they do not meet us rate for rate
bespeaks for them a less bristling be
lief in the theory that nations may lay
the foundation for prosperity by dis
criminative lax rates Philadelphia
Record
Democrats Winning in Iowa
In the Cedar Rapids city election
the Democrats carried the city by 500
majority and upward The Democrats
won a decided victory Cedar Rapids
is normally one of the strongest Re
publican cities in the State The vic
tory for the Democrats cannot but have
a bad effect on the Republican vote in
tiie congressional and State elections
which will be held next fall Such vic
tories for the opposition make Republi
can organization of no effect Des
Moines Register
Deficit Instead of Surplus
The deficit of the eight months of the
fiscal year that have passed being in
effect the time that the Dingley act has
been in force is now about 51000000
For a tariff that was going to yield a
surplus for the first year and bring in
untold revenues in the future this is
quite an achievement It is no wonder
that Mr Dingley should think it need
ful to run a literary bureau in its be
half even if he has to sit up nights to
do it San Francisco Examiner
The Sincerest of Flattery
The introduction of the Republican
national platform of 1800 will make
strange reading for posterity if the
present administration continues in the
way it lias begun A comparison of the
work of the present administration
with that of the last will show In a
general way that the present has be
stowed on the preceding that sincerest
form of flattery or rather compliment
imitation Louisville Courier Journal
Wilsons Diabolical Plan
Because he has been silent for a loim
time is no sign that Secretary Wilt on is
idle Mr Wilson is experimenting with
a new breed of cucumbers that will
double the Spaniards into knots and
place thorn hors du combat without the
firing of a gun Omaha World Herald
Readied Its Destination
It is significant that a postal card ad
dressed To the Congress of United
States Washington D C was deliv
ered at once to Speaker Reed The
Washington postoffice people know a
thing or two Boston Globe
Seven 31 o lths cf ritislcy
The mosit prosperous thing that has
happened in the United States is the
Dingley law deficit which amounts to
51 D01S2 for seven months or at the
rate of over S000 a year Indianap
olis Sentinel
The Country Guides Itself
One year of McKinley lias proven
that this country can hang together
and enjoy a fair degree of prosperity
without a great man In the Presidential
chair Kansas Ciity Star
3Iakes 200 a Month Begiii
John Wadleigh better known as the
King of Beggars has returned to the
city after an absence of over a year
He arrived a fcAV days ago with his
wife and family to seek pastures new
among the charitably inclined but as
his true character is well known lie
may not reap the amount he did on his
last visit
Wadleigh and his wife have been in
the habit of traveling from place to
place and by their plausible tales of
want and suffering have succeeded in
gaining a living without much exer
tion
The title of king was given him by
his class owing to his great ability as
a beggar It is said by those who know
that his earnings on his last visit
amounted io nearly 200 a month
The King is in the habit of occu
pying nicely furnished fiats and enjoy
ing the comforts of home life At his
leisure he follows the races with vary
ing success and is also addicted to the
use of intoxicating liquors
His wife Irene is a little woman with
a sweet face and has an air of worldly
ignorance about her which leads people
to listen to her story and often moves
them to assist her It is her scheme to
obtain donations of furniture bedding
provisions etc from as many people
i as she can then dispose of the same at
the highest price she can receive for
cash
The last time these unworthy alms
seekers were here they played on the
sympathies of the various charitable
organizations with great success until
they were shown to be impostors San
Francisco Call
A Unique Mushroom Farm
An abandoned railroad tunnel run-
The number of men is about equal to
the number of women The aA erage of
life is about thirty three years Of
1000 persons only one reaches 100
years of life of every 100 six reach the
age of Go and not more than one in 600
lives to SO years
ONE TORPEDO DID
Knocked a Great Hole in Steel Bditom
of the Rebel Brazilian Aquidaban
Before the rebel Brazilian fleet in the
harbor of Rio Janeiro under Admiral
De Gama surrendered in 1S94 Rebel
Admiral Mello had sailed out of the
harbor in the Aquidaban The torpedo
boats sent by the Brazilian government
to find the ship came upon her in the
harbor of Desterro down the coast
The Gustavo Sampio which did the
torpedoing is a toipedo gunboat hav
ing a bow tube and two broadside
launching tubes two twenty pounder
rapid firing guns and four three inch
rifles She in company with a torpedo
boat something after the style of the
dishing entered the Desterro harbor
where the Aquidaban was at anchor
shortly after midnight April 10 The
SfcT WaJ
ENOUGH TO SCAKE TIIE FISH
of the mechanism by Avhich he is sup
plied with air and to the strength of
the life line Avhich loAvers and pulls
him up
The diving suit which is the one gen
erally used is made of India rub
ber Avith a helmet and breastplate of
copper Outside of the rubber to
rendered Avill be considered by all ning for a mile under the streets of tect it from hard usage an extra suit of
unprejudiced men as a miscarriage of Edinburgh has been used for some canvas overalls is worn and after a
justice and as the establishment of a years as a mushroom farm It turns
dangerous and Aicious precedent
Dispatch
German Protectionist 3lethods
The Frankfurter Zeitung comment
ing on Hie recent decrees for the exclu
sion of Ajuericau fruit from German
markets candidly admits its conviction
that American tree louse is now play
ing the same role that the American
trichina played for so long a time
She louse Is not only a pretext for keep-
rough piece of work this canvas is
out nearly 5000 pounds of mushrooms quently torn to shreds Around his
a month and has put an end to the im
portation of foreign mushrooms to Ed
inburgh
waist the diver Avears a belt made of
bars of lead fastened crosswise on a
leather band His shoes are of metal
heavily -weighted so that he can main-
tain an erect position easily and the en
tire suit with which he enters the water
weighs about 175 pounds This is nec
J essary to enable him to sink to the
j required depth The helmet is supplied
j with windows of thick glass one in
front and two others at each side of it
so that by turning his head slightly in
side the helmet the diver can see for
some distance around him
The air tubing is of strong flexible
rubber through -which the fresh air
from above is driven down by means
of a pump This tube before reaching
the opening in the helmet through
which the air is supplied to the diver is
carried through a ring on the breast
plate at the divers left shoulder This
is so that lie may be able to grasp it
quickly without having to grope for it
in case he needs to signal to those at
the pump above One pull on the tube
means that he wants more air and two
pulls warn the pumpers that he is get
ting too much If the air were sup
plied in excess the suit would become
so buoyant that it would tend to rise
After being passed through the
t der ring the tube goes around and en-
torpedo boat advanced and at 100 me- j ters tiie helmet at the back From here
ters nreu her how torpedo At 1 me
ters she launched her broadside Both
missed The Sampio then advanced
and at 75 meters fired her box torpedo
which missed and at 50 meters her
port broadside The last torpedo
struck the Aquidaban about ten feet
below the water lino and twenty live
feet abaft the bow making a hole
twelve feet square on the port side and
a round hole three feet in diameter on
the starboard side The plates for sev
eral 1oet around the hole on the port
side were crushed in
The Aquidaban sank in shallow wa
ter and was afterward raised and re
paired The cut published herewith is
from a photograph taken of the Aqui
daban when she had been placed in
dry dock for repairs and gives an ex
cellent idea of what kind of hole is
made in the bottom of a steel ship
when a Whitehead torpedo strikes her
In the civil war m Chili in 1801 the
government cruiser Blanco Encalada
was sunk by a torpedo in the harbor of
Valparaiso It was at night and she
was lying at anchor with no search
lights going and no torpedo nets down
An insurgent ship came steaming in
the air passes through a flat rubber
tube to the top of the helmet where the
single tube divides into three branches
one of which goes down to the nostrils
and the other to the ears
After the air has lii breathed it
passes on down inside the suit inflating
this sufficiently to overcome a certain
degree the hydrostatic pressure With
out air inside it the rubber would be
pressed against the divers body and
limbs by the Aveight of the water and
Avould drive the blood up into his head
There is another opening in the back
of the helmet through which the foul
air fiids its escape This may be seen
coining up to the top of the water in
the form of bubbles The life rope by
Avhich the diver is loAvered and raised is
about as thick as an ordinary clothes
line It is Avound securely about hia
Avaist and fastened under his arms
Three pulls upon it signify to those
above that the diver wishes to come up
Temperature of Pood
The temperature of the things Ave eat
and drink is hardly ever noticed still
it is of considerable importance that
food or drink should be of the right
WHAT A TORPEDO DID TO THE AQUIDABAN
and fired three torpedos at her in rapid
succession One of them hit and the
Blanco Encalada sank rapidly She
Avent doAvn in deep Avater and could
not be raised
The first torpedo of which there is
an j record in Avarfare Avas one Avhich
bleAv up a British armed schooner off
New London in 1777 It Avas a floating
torpedo Avhich Avas sent against the
British ship by the tide
DIVERS WORKING SUIT
It Is Made of India Rubber and Is
Jiuough to r care the Pish
The Avork of a diver is attended by
many risks but dangers become famil
iar through long custom so his task us
ually has feAV terrors for him He de
scends trusting to the proper Avorking
temperature For liealthy people hoi
articles of food should be served at a
temperature about that of the blood
but for infants it is imperative that
milk should be given at blood heat
Drinks intended to quench thirst are
about right at a temperature of from
50 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit Drink or
food at extremely high or extremely
Ioav temperatures may do great dam
age and are most harmful Avhen SAval
loAved rapidly Drinking Avater is best
taken at 55 degrees seltzers and soda
water should be slightly warmer and
beer should not be cooled to more than
00 degrees red AAine is best at Go de
grees Avhite Avine at 50 champagne is
the one liquor Avhich is best at the low
est temperature allowed but should not
be taken colder than 45 degrees Coffee
and tea should not be taken hotter than
from 105 to 120 degrees milk is con
sidered cold at GO degrees Avhen it Avill
be found to have the best aroma
There Were No Postage Stamps
In these days postage stamps are a
familiar necessity Their loss would
occasion almost as much confusion and
difficulty as the loss of our money sys
tem and yet fifty years ago the world
never had seen a postage stamp nor
eAen an em elope
Before the days of postage stamps it
was customary to pay in cash at the
postoffice the charges for transporting
the letter and the postmaster stamped
the word paid above the address
Our first stamps Avere of two denomina
tions 5 and 10 cents The first bore
the likeness of Franklin in rose color
and the second that of Washington
Envelopes Avere not in use in those
days but a sheet of paper Avas care
fully folded and sealed Avith a red
Avafer For a letter of one sheet of
paper for a distance less than 300
miles the 5 cent stamp sufficed When
envelopes including the stamped en-
lniA r o - -
uiuije i uuiu m in tool a revision oi
postal practices Avas necessary and
Aveight instead of the number of sheet
of paper became the standard of meas
ure Postage was in that year verj
much reduced and the 3 cent price foi
the half ounce letter was adopted
Peaches Once Poison
The peach Avas originally a poison
almond Its fruity parts were rsed t
poison arrows and for that purposi
Avere introduced into Persia Trans
plantation and cultiA ation have no
only removed its posonous qualities
but turned it into the delicious fnii
we now enjoy
IRKSOME DAILY TASKS
Xutics Pleasant or Urptcaunnt from
the Way They Are Performed
In the program of daily tasks there
are some very naturally for AAiiich
OAen the enthusiastic home maker hai
no taste Avrites Constance Conrad in
the Womans Home Companion
Perhaps she even shrinks from the
performance of these tasks and would
like to shirk them altogether if her
pride In her OAA n housekeeping would
permit her to do so and yet she knoAVS
that tfhey are just as important and
essential as the more pleasant duties
In making up the sum of her daily
Avork The unloved duties are the try
ing points of each days Avork and are
often left to the tired end of the day
when they are doubly annoying Taken
one at a time while we are fresh and
absolutely conquered they no longer
serve as the bitter drop to our labors
The tasks Ave call unpleasant often
show us the weak points in our char
acters they are the duties that call
for special patience or caretaking or
a marked concentration of thought and
skill for a certain time and perhaps
a perseverance Ave are umvillins to
give before perfection is reached
A group of young housekeepers
talking of their home making are al
most certain to intersperse their con
versation with the things they hate to
do Harry likes pie but I almost
never make them for I cant bear to
make the crust says one How I do
hate to clean the lamps adds i sec
ond Ts there anything more tiresome
than dusting continues a third Yet
all these young AAomen have avou
prizes in school perhaps have stood
high in scholarship in college and not
one half the conquering force Avould
be required to learn to make good pie
crust not a third of the patience Avould
be called for in dusting beautifully pol
ished neAV furniture or the immaculate
shining of lamps that they have ap
plied for years to tasks of a different
nature Every unloved task raised
from its bumble position to that of suc
cessful accomplishment and the pleas
ure that always accompanies such re
sults adds just so much to the com
plete rounding of our characters
Achievement after honest effort is one
method of drawing up the dropped
stitches of life
Respect for the Law
The old colored man Avas on his Avay
to the District government buildings
Avhen he met one of the employes in
Avhose family he had done work uoav
and then
Where are you bound for uncle V
AAas the inquiry
I hab business Avif de gument
Avas the dignified reply I orter of
tended to it long ago Twant nutlin
but luck dat kep me film gittin rest
ed fob violationin de IaAA I knoAvs a
good deal bout de law I Avouldnt
run no resks ob gibbin a pahlor social
ner a intertainment ob no soht wifout
er license But I purty nigh done got
cotch dls time
What do you want a permit for
Ter run a hossless carriage fro de
streets ob Washntn
What on earth do you use a horse
less carriage for
Sometimes ter kyrry freight an
sometimes ter kyrry passengers
Uncle Im afraid your mind is going
wrong Id keep aAvay from the Dis
trict officials if I were you
Ivaint do it sun Is gotter hab dat
license I cant git erlong wifout my
hossless carriage
You say you take freight some
times
Yassuh So I does
What did you carry on the last trip
A AA atahmillion Its a heap handier
dan a totin it by ban It comes in
mighty convenient ter cany de Avashin
home fum de Avhite folks ter de ol
lady I reckons Ill hafter gib up run
nin ernds almost intiahly ef I has ter
do wifout it
Uncle AAiiere did you get this horse
less carriage
You alls ma gin it to me
Nonsense
Doesnt yoh member de time I was
to you house an tol you bout de tAvins
an yoh ma said she reckon she hafter
gimme sumpin
Yes
Does you member AAhut she gim
me
Perfectly It was a baby carriage
Dats Avhut Is talkin bout I
sticks righ clus ter de letter o de law
no matter llOW nfton it clmiKroc An
I doesnt see how yous gwineter pint
out any kin o carriage dats hossless
er dan a baby carriage Washington
Star
Catching Walrus
For dinner a polar bear likes nothing
hotter than a good fat young Avalrns
But a Avalrus is not the easiest thing
to catch especially if its mother or
fattier bappens to be lingering around
in the neighborhood An old walrus
Is more than twice the size of a bear
and a very hard fighter when -pressed
So Mi Bear calls AAhen the old walrus
es are out of sight and catches the
young walrus as best he can Some
times he crawls up on a high cliff and
lies for a long time peeping over the
edges Presently the yonrjg -walrus
comes up out of the Avater to bask on
a rock or a cake of ice This is Mr
Bears chance He rolls a heavy stone
to the edge of the cliff and tumbles it
over If it strikes its mark the bear
has his dinner ready Avhenever lie
wants to eat it Fw animals have
found a shrewder way of killing their
prey Chicago Record
Fragrant Fog
On the western coast of France there
s noted occasionally a strange phe
tomenon which is described by the
Tame given to it fragrant fog
When a woman finds that her friends
mow that she has holes in Iier stock
ngs she explains them by saying that
Jdatns hurt her feet
W VV a
Vacation
Vacation days will joon he here j
And wont Ave have the fun I
No more ivill school books bother us
Our study will be done
Well romp and play the whole day long
And frolic as we please
Well tan our faces in the sun
And climb the apple trees
Well never take a pencil up I
To write upon a slate
Well not look at a spelling book
For that is what we hate
And do you think geography
Will Avorry us at all
Or sums in old arithmetic
No matter big or small
K
And do you think well break our hearth
If lessons Ave have none
Or cry our eyes away with grief
Because our studys done
Undergraduate as ProfcsHor
Though still an undergraduate Miss
Aurella S Henry of the University of
California at Berkeley has been ap
pointed to a professorship in English
and elocution in the University of Idaho
at Moscow The appointment is an al
most unexpected honor for an under
graduate student Prof J II Forney
of the Board of Regents of the Idaho
universitj sent to California for a neAVi
KjjppF
MISS AITCIIA S HEXry
professor in English and elocution and
Miss Henry Avas recommended to fill
the position The University of Idaho
has GOO students and a Avell equipped
libra iy
Miss Henry is a member of the senior
eiass at Berkeley and is enrolled in the
college of social sciences She entered
the uniAorsity in ISO i from the San
Francisco high school and although
her term Avill not expire until May she
has completed more than the required
amount of Avork and aaHI receiAe a Ph
D degree Miss Henry has considera
ble dramatic ability m aiumi
thorough education in belles lettres
HotKooms zA1 Catchinir Cold
We are so accustomed to the formula
that American houses are always
and it has become so much the
fashion among medical men to attrib
ute catarrhal troubles to this cause that
it is interesting to learn of an English
-writer who thinks it is better to bet
Avarm than cold in winter Dr Will
iam II Pearse writing in the Scalpel
says that he ventures to differ with the
popular belief that there is danger in
going from a hot room into the open air
holding on the contrary that the heat
of the room or house is a great preserA
ative from chill or catching cold on
going out into the open air In Russia
in Central Europe Canada and the
Northern United States houses are
made very Avarm Avith a dry heat in
the Avinter yet men Avomen and chil
dren go out into a temperature beloAV
zero The stimulation and heightened
condition of the circulation and nerves
and ultimate molecules of protoplasm
give a great poAver of resistance to the
outer intense cold preAenting chill
in the first exposure until exercise Avith
its infinite motions as it were takes up
and maintains the conditions of resist
ance Dr Pearse says that he has
walked at midnight from a highly heat
ed mansion across Boston Common in
his dress coat only on a calm starry
night the temperature about zero He
suffered no inconvenience and felt sure
that the stimulus of the heat of the
house gaA e him poAAer of resistance to
the cold
Dr Pearse is undoubtedly correct in
his obsen ation that one can come from
a hot room Into the cold outer air and
run but little chance of catching cold
The danger is rather in entering a hot
room from without and especially in
entering an overheated and unventi
lated apartment filled with excrementf
tious products from the lungs and skin
of its inmates
The National Summer School Associa
tion which has been holding yearly
meetings at Glens Falls N Y has
been dissolved by action of the stock
holders on account of the unsatisfac
tory financial condition of the associa
tion
Dr D K Pearsons makes a condi
tional gift of 25000 each to Olivet and
Marietta colleges and he stipulates
that these colleges shall meet the con
ditions of his gift in surrounding terri
tory and not forage in New England
Beloit College has recently received
a gift of 25000 from a man in the
East who stipulates that his name
shall not be given to the public The
money is to be applied as an endow
ment for the chair of chemistry
The faculty of rrinceton have recent
ly passed measures forbidding the
members of any of the athletic teams
taking part in any game as members
of the various athletic club teams io
the country
