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A PRAYER.
fietett , Lord, from these thy stints,
the saactliuouioui few;
0 save m from their clutches when mj
mortgage cme due.
0 TO not 1' ,he bands of these, the
'men of woe,
Wfcft.raU, the esrth a "vale of tears," and
J strive to make it w.
0 guard me from tbe blue-nosed good who
lend at cent per rent.
And take a thousand dollar lien for ninety
dollar lent.
Make me, instead, the debtor of ome
man with human taiuta;
At any rate, protect me. Lord, from these,
thy modern saints.
Their thought are fur from mortal life
they never, never s'.u;
They strive to bring to righteousness the
very men they tktu.
They never go a step astray; they never
deign to smile;
They sin not, and they only aim to casti
gate the Tile.
But, oh! why should they count it b-t
with cold and holy art
,To rivet sheet-iron shield around tlioir
hurd and atony hearts?
Their ears are denf enough, God wot, to
pleading and complaints,
And ao, I pray, protect me, Lord, from
these thy modem aainta!
O save me from the tiiinctilied, the too an-
common good,
Who tell u what we shouldn't do, and
preach tia what we should;
Tbeae saints who squeeze a dollar twice
and wear cheap aureoles;
Will take our children's bread and then
attempt to aave our souls!
Give me instead a worldly man with some
healthy (tains
That abow he baa the common blood of
mankind in hi veins.
And heart that swells enough sometimes
to overthrow constraint;
Bat in my need, protect me, Iord, from
self-appointed saints!
-Ellis Parker Butler, in Puck.
McKlnley' Financial Record.
It Is difficult to account for the pres
ent position of Mr. McKlnley on the
inaoclal question when we review hi
past record on the subject. January
20, 187, Mr. McKlnley voted for a reso
lution offered by Senator Stanley Math
ews, of Ohio, declaring that all ltonds
of the United State are payable, prln
dpal and Interest, at the option of tbe
Government, In sliver dollar contain
ing 4126 grains each of standard silver,
and that to restore to legal tender In
payment of said bonds, principal and
Interest, la not In violation of tbe pub
lic faith nor In derogation of tbe
right of the public creditor.
This resolution pawed the Senate by
vote of 4.1 to 22, and the House by
a vole ef 143 to 70. McKlnley voted yea
Veto. 6, 1887, McKlnley voted for the
Kb) ml 10 to 1 free coinage of silver act.
Nov. 5, 1877, McKlnley voted for lay
lag tbe Bland bill and Senate amend
ment on tbe table. April 8, lHMtl, he
voted against g bill to suspend the
coinage of silver under tbe Bland act.
In 1S8S, at tbe Republican National
Couventlon, Mr. McKlnley reported the
platform which declared that "Tbe Re
publican party la In favor of the use of
both silver aud gold as money, and con
demn tbe policy of tbe Democratic
administration In Its efforts to demone
tise silver.
In 18SW, Mr, McKlnley, as Chairman
of the House Ways and Mean Com
mittee, and leader of the Fifty-first
Ooturress, earnestly advocated tbe
passage of tbe bullion purchasing act
as the next best thing to free coinage.
In May, l!00, he said In the House:
"Men are poorest when everything Is
lowest and cheapest measured by gold,
for everything Is highest aud dearest
when measured by labor."
June 14, 181)0, McKlnley, In a speech
In the House of Representative, said:
"I am In favor of rhe biggest use of
silver In the currency of the country.
1 would not dishonor It; I would give
It credit and honor with gold."
It will be especially noticed that
Major McKinley voted for the free and
unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio
of lrt to 1 precisely such a measure as
be now stands ready to veto.
Tbla record abould be literally "pant
ed In the bat" for ready reference by
everyone Interested In public affairs.
Monetary Commission's XIII,
The plutocratic Monetary Commls
ilon' bill Is In effect a proposition to
further enslave the musnes of the peo
ple of the United States to tbe pluto
crat. Tbe bill provides for tbe re
demption In gold of greeubacks and
the 18IKI Treasury note, and for their
cancellation when redeemed; It pro
Tldes also for tbe redemption of silver
dollar In gold. To get the gold the
tiecretary of the Treasury Is authorized
to Issue gold bonds. The total amount
ef greenbacks, treasury notes and sil
ver to be redeemed In gold on demand
a provided In tbe bill la 008 millions
f dollar. The bill turn the w hole
power over the volume of money, tx
eept as It may be affected by tbe coin
age of gold, to the bankers. Tbe banks
are to have money without charge up
to 00 per cent of their capital stock;
sod additional sum by paying Inter
tat thereon. A provision Is made by
Which the bank notes would he good If
tbe bank burt. But that Is a small
matter compared to the loss the people
will suffer by tbe bunks manipulating
the money volume. If the bank money
Should prove worthless by reason of
panic, the possessors of the bunk mon
ey would lose half billion, or In that
neighborhood, whereas by contracting
the money volume one fourth, which
tbey could easily do, the people would
lose billion and billions of dollar. The
bill k sn Infamous thing. It provide
for bonding tbe people; for destroying
toeir money; ami for placing full and
complete power over their property and
labor In I he band of tin we whose f.ro
fewrion It Is to gather to themselves the
fruit of tk toll of otbers.-Mlasourt
World.
' Not the Moaeir Oaeetlon.
Tin 4jwoDtlstlon of silver wat a
trim BasrlMt American Indis-.ry and a
thraai tt one of oti great . 'houh,
but there I no use to go ; uulde of tb
domaln of truth In presenting silver!
argument. Tbe silver circulation ha
been immensely Increased since 1873.
For every silver dollar coined prior to
that date, fifty have been coined since,
fo the argument that the allver quee
llon Is one of increasing tbe money cir
culation Isn't good argument. Before
1873 other nations nbsorbed our silver
production at $1.32 au ounce. It wa
worth i.2i for coinage purposes. V
ourselves put the price down and now
other nations are buying our silver to
the amount of thirty tons a week at the
late of about nr. cents an ounce. This
argument that the increased circulation
to result from bimetallism is the vital
point of the sliver question must be
an aparent fraud when the facts are
presented. Hurln eighty-five years
prior to 1S77 there had only been coin
ed, of silver dollars $H.0:i1,2.".8, and yet
there were prosperous periods during
those years. From 1R77 to ISM there
were coined of silver dollars $42!i. ',!.!,
f'lii, and yet during those years the
country was on a toboggan slide down
hill. The silver question Is not the
money question. Chicago Express.
Partisan Census Figures.
The taking of the next census will
shortly necessitate the appointment by
the President of a force of experts to
make arrangements for the work. It
will cost fully $10,000,000 to take the
census, which will proceed, moreover,
contemporaneously with a presidential
campaign. It Is greatly to be feared
that the work will be very partisan. If
we ever get a genuine census the re
sult will amaze the country. Hereto
fore the complalut has been that tbe
very subjects upon which Information
has been most desired have been neg
lected. For example, the distribution
of wealth In this country has lwen a
matter of much speculation, hut all
who look Into thl-t subject agree that
the census Is Uken In such a way that
no particulars of value can be obtained
through the medium of the reports. The
Republicans always take a census from
the point of view of the tariff. The ex
perts on census subject have dlscov
i red that we get figures of no moment,
and President McKlnley has placed the
patronage of the preliminary commit
tee entirely at the disposal of C.cn.
Grosvenor of Ohio. This man la quite
destitute of the qualities that go to
make the statistician, for all he bns
ever done In the way of figuring Is to
calculate the size of Republican ma
jorities. The Populists In Congress
ought to take hold of this subject.
Atop Fiichtloa
To those who have spent tbe best
year of their lives working for the
cause of humanity, and that without
reward In tbe past or even hope of re
ward In the future, the present fight
going on In the Populist ranks on the
question of fusion and antl-fuslon la
simply disgusting; yes, It is nauseating.
The trouble with some people Is that
tbey cannot accord honesty of purpose
to any one who happens to disagree
with them. They are always ready to
charge mercenary motives to all who
do not act exactly In accord with their
peculiar views. Personally, the editor
of this paper Is opiosed to the principle
of fusion; but there are times when
there are distinctly two aide to the
question, and one of these times was
last fall. Just what to do was n great
question, and men equally honest look
ed upon the matter from very different
standpoints. Stop your fighting. Turn
your eyes to the future. What Is past
cannot now be helped. Instead of quar
reling over what has been done, Inquire
what can be done to prevent mistakes
In the future. The question of getting
Populists into olliee at this time Is of
little Importance compared to the great
work of educating the people so that
they can see their needs. Living Issues
(Denver).
due Year of Prosperity.
"Prosperity does not mean simply
employment. Employment may mean
disaster If the employed are receiving
starvation wages and paying monop
oly prices for necessities. After one
year of Republican party prosperity the
poor are crying for bread and the rich
are socking entertainment. In Cook
County alone there have been more
mortgage foreclosed, more homes
swept away, than ever before In the
history of tbe county. Three hundred
mortgage a week Is the pitiful record
of foreclosures during till prosperous
year.
"Hut the monoollsta have prospered.
The pawnbrokers and money sharks
have prospered. The x)or pay 10 per
cent, a uioalii when they must; they
sell property at half value If necessary
to procure cash with which to buy food
and clothing If tbey have to, and then
sonielsidy Is the gainer." Ex-CJovernor
Allgeld.
Not Unliaual.
There Is nothing surprising about
Editor Arkell'i audacious claim of own
ership of tbe frozen Eldorado because
be traveled over tbe Klondike gold re
gion some years ago. This Is In accord
with tbe principle of private ownership
of land generally. A Hutch farmer hap
pened to use a piece of land on Manhat
tan Island for the purpose of raising
hay. As opulatlon spread this land
became necessary for dwelling. The
descendants of this farmer or those to
whom be sold the land are now enabled
to exact more gold from ix-ople residing
upon this ground than can ever be ex
tracted from 'be gold fields, and the
ground can never Iks worked out either.
The Garment Worker.
Wright la Wrona.
Carroll I. Wright' figure, proving
IhjIq rich and poof are getting richer,
pass n.wtter with the Providence
Journal. ' Eerybodjr, however, la not
so gullible. Observant people thought
the Colonel was a liar. One of these
fellow Is In evidence In the New Time
for November. He dig up some of
the Colonel own opinions about these
particular figure voiced some year be-
fore powperlty weeded an Inventor.' If
observant people would tudy this spe
cial article on the Colonel their thought
would become an unmodified belief.
Beacon (Boston, Mass.).
Concentration of Wealth.
The rich class constitute 9 per cent,
of the population. The middle class
constitute 39 per cent, of the popula
tion. The pi:r constitute T,i per cent,
of the population. The rlcb class own
71 per cent, of the wealth. The middle
class own 'M per cent, of the wealth of
the country, and the poor class own but
3 per cent, of the weiiltb. These facts
are gathered from the United States
census, and as the last few years have
materially Intensified the mlspropor
tlon between the prosperity of the pro
ducers and non-producer, the condi
tions are alarm, ug.
The rapid Increase of the wealth of
the 9 per cent., with the aid of trusts,
syndicates, monopolies of transporta
tion and necessaries, and unjust taxa
tion of (lie smaller holder, will wipe out
the mldlle class and put the poorer
working class In still deeper pauper
Ism, unless the people change the pre
vailing system of monoKlIstlc distribu
tion and unjust taxation which is up
held by the Republican party. San
Diego Vldelte.
He Win an Agitator.
We boast of having liberated 4.000,
000 of slaves. True, we have stricken
the shackles from the former bonds
mSTi and brought all laborers to a com
mon level, but not so much by olevatlng
the former slaves as by practically re
ducing the whole working population
to a state of serfdom. While boasting
of our noble deeds we are careful to
coiiccaI the ugly fact that by our Inqttl
tous monetary system we have nation
alised a system of oppression more re
fined, but none the less cruel, than the
old sytem of chattel slavery Horace
Gteeley.
The Orlsrlnol Land Grabber.
The first man who, having Inclosed a
plot of ground, took upon hluwelf to
say, "This Is mine," and found people
silly enough to believe him, was the
real founder of civil society. How many
crimes, how many wars, how many
nrmlers, bow much misery and hor
ror, would have been apared the human
ra?e If some one, tearing up the fence
and filling In the ditch, had cried out to
his fellows: "(live no heed to this Im
postor; you are lost If you forget that
the produce belongs to all, the land to
none." Rousseau.
Olve It Up.
The Republican party advocates two
measures; A high protective tariff to
keep European products out of the
country; a gold standard so that we
will have money good In Europe. Now,
will some brainy Republican please
harmonize these two propositions of
Republicanism? For what purpose do
we need a money that Is good In Eu
rope If we Intend to have a policy that
will not let the Europeans ship their
goods Into this country ? Mound City
(Ken.) Standard.
Slaves of the Thread Factory.
There arc women In the (lax mills ot
Peterson, N'. J., who work ten hours a
day, ankle deep In dirty water, and
breathe an atmosphere like that of a
Turkish bath. They receive J5.70 a
week. Tin re are other women in these
for the homeless, the aged and the
same mills who work ten hours a day,
and at every breath take Into their
lunfs a fine dust that breeds early
death as surely as do germs. They re
ceive f l.oO a week. Coming Nation.
Who Owns New York?
According to the New York Herald,
which has recently Investigated the
matter, Manhattan Island is owned by
an astonishingly small number of per
sons. One-half of the land Is owned by
170 families, with, says the Herald, "a
very few ov. nlng the other half." Out
of 2,000,000 residents 1,800,000 have no
Interest whatever In the iblaud except
as renters.
Justice.
The Supreme Court of the State ot
California, in an opinion recently de
livered by Justice Van Fleet, reduced
the damage awarded by the lower
court to the father of a small boy who
had been run over by an electric car,
on the ground that since the boy's fath
er was a laborer the amount awarded
was too large.
They See in to Like It.
How tenderly modern society cares
for tbe hoiueleins, the aged and the
worn-out worker. Have you noticed
that the bomelt can go to prison, the
aged to the poorhouse, and the sick can
go to the devil? And that Is about all
that Is cared about them. Rights of
Man.
Incident or Illusion?
A lady, whom we know to be a woman
of unimpeachable veracity, waa near t
death. Apparently she did die, and her
friend were convinced that life had
left tbe body. After some hour she re
vived. Her story that her spirit had
left the body ind seemed to jwvade
all sjMice. Hhe was perfectly happy,
with not a thought for anything left
Itthlnd. She felt that she was expand
ing and filling apace, and what she
saw and heard fllled her with suprem
est Joy. Striving to go out further, she
looked back and saw a gulden thread
connecting her with earth. At that In
stant It began to contract and draw her
to her body, which she plainly saw,
surrounded by weeping friends. She
resisted, but the more slie struggled
the more she was drawn back, and.
finally, with awful pain, she re-entered
the body. To this day she sigh with
regret that she waa restored. Hacra
men to (Oal.) Record Union,
In It Txnils there Is enough vacant
and unused land to make a strip 12T.
feet wide and nearly BOO miles long.
GOWNS AND GOWNING
WOMEN GIVE MUCH ATTENTION
TO WHAT THEY WEAR.
Brief Glances at Fancies Feminine,
Frivolous, Mayhap, and Yet Uflered
in the Hope that tbe Reading- Prove
Beatfnl to Wearied Womankind
Oasaip from Gay Gothaau
New York correspondence;
N contrast to the
plainness that now
dominates uiot out
door rigs, Is much
of elegance in fin
ish, which, If cot
actually on tbe In
side in the shape of
linings, has the ef
fect of being part
of a concealed gar
ment or accessory.
Fifteen years ago
mothers used to
pay: "It's vulvar to
make a show of
elegit nee outside, at
the expense of the liul.sh Inside." Moth
ers now need give no such advice, for
the tendency Is all to suggest elegance,
delicacy and beauty of linings, petti
coats," etc.. In piquant contrast to a
rather plain severity of exterior. Con-
GIVING HINT OF MUCH
aider the street gowns of the present,
gowns to be worn with unelaborate
headwear; they will be, four Mines out
of five, of cloth. The skirt will be
plain, and the bodice almost severe, ex
cept at such portion as seems to Iw a
display of the lining. In other words.
all the elaboration of the bodice will be
expended Uxn the revers that turn
away from the throat, purporting to
dlsplny lining, and upon tho under
blouse or chemise that shows at the
oiening of the outside ImxIIcp, In the
same way the lining of the skirt will
be of dainty silk or satin, and the least
lifting of It will disclose not only Its
NEW JACKETS OF
Hnlng, but the edge of a dainty petti
coat.
Tbla treatment was given to the
dress at the right In the drst large pic
ture, a rig that wan Intended for cull
ing;. It wa of dark emerald smootli
cloth, the skirt perfectly plain but
lined with marigold yellow satin. The
Won Jacket wa belted by a wblto
fcaud jwcd VUi great uncut
jSr J.
!
emeralds set In doQ stlvar. fTwcn th
waist line tbe blouse spread la wkb
revere, which showed the white satli
liming of the bloune. The portion o
the satin thus exposed was Jeweled t
match the belt with all size of brll
Hunt atones, In green, turquoise anl
cut jot. Tbe Inside bkus showing ay
the orning waa delicate tissue In graj
over marigold, a sort bow was DuncDe
at the throat, and the cuffs were faced
back to match tbe rever. This dresi
Is not considered an elaborate one, yet
even where revera do not turn back s
far and when only a small portion ol
the blouse Is opened, the facing of thi
revers may with propriety be wtdti
satin, though the cloth is a demnn
brown or mouse color. Tbe latta
shade was employed for the compan
ion govn to the one Just described
Sleeves are rarely left plain at th
wrist, but the funnel cuff Is not ai
oft.cn seen as In the earlier gowns ol
the neason. Cuffs usually turn baci
and lu ornamentation follow the suff
gestlon of throtit or rever finish. II
there in no cuff, then there Is more oi
less elaborate braiding, and often a bit
of the material with which the gowt
la lined. Sleeves are all long, settlnj
well down on the hand, and hldlnj
even the first button of the glove.
It Is hard to understand why, whei
the Russian blouse was offered t
women a few years ago, they would
have none of It, yet now that there li
another chance at it, they wonder ho
HIDDEN ELABORATENESS.
ever In the world they were comfor
able without It. Terhaps tbla 1 be
cause when offered last time It came as
a sudden and violent change from the
tight-fitting rigs women had been put
ting themselves Into, and fashion will
not allow Itself to be whirled Into sud
den contrasts, but for the pant four
years women have been getting used
to loose fronts and the like. The blouse
Just now is much less baggy and U
much better shaped than when first
offered. There Is not so much contrast
between full blouse and flat skirts, and
the skirts are In some cases really
fluted, though almost always they are
THE BLAZER TYPE.
entirely serrate from tire blouse, that
all tlilckm ss at the wnlst may bo avoiJ
ed. Almost all blouse apisxtr to open
over what seem to be an under veet or
chemisette, but of these a large propor
tion milly does oKn over a cempMe
underwalnt, which Is finished to "show"
when ibe blouse Is taken off.
Copyright, iwts.
Envelope were Aret need la 1839.
mm
Only one person in fifteen has perfect
eyes, the larger portion of defectlve-
netiS prevailing among fair-haired peo-
pie.
An even cubic foot of average soil
was weighed and analyzed at Cornell
University. It was found that the soil
in one acre one foot deep weighed
2,082' tons.
The difference between the tallest
and shortest rices in the world is one
foot four and a half Inches, and the
average height is five feet five and a
half Inches.
Wheat can be grown In the Alps at
an elevation of 3,000 feet, lu Brazil at
five thousand, in the Caucasus at
eight thousand, In Abyssinia at ten
thousand, and In Peru and Bolivia at
eleven thousand.
The bison, or buffalo, Is now prac
tically extinct In the United States, be
ing only preserved In small numbers In
the Yellowstone and other parks, pub
lic and private. In Canada, however,
a variety, known as the wood bison,
still survives In an almost Inaccessibly
region near Fort CWppeway, south ef.
Great Slave Lake. (
Esqulmalt, In British North America,
Is the only place In the BrltiBh Empire,
according to a recent cllmatologlcal re
port, that exceeds London In cloudi
ness. Esquimau Is also the dampest
place In the empire, while Adelaide, In
Australia, is the driest. Ceylon Is the
hottest, and Northwest Canada the
coldest possession that the flag of Eng
land floats over. j
In a recent description of the astron
omical observatory on Mount Etna, at
tentloa Is called to the fact that thunder-storms
are very rare phenomena
there. The observatory Is more than
9,000 feet above sea-level, and near tbe'
summit of the volcano, yet It has i-et
been found necessary to protect It with
lightning-rods. The absence of thun-,
der-stonns has been accounted for on
the supposition that the smoke and hot
vapor constantly rising from the great
crater of Etna act as a lightning con
ductor on a grand scale. ?
Among Uie mineral productions of
the earth which are chiefly valuable
because of the part they play In the
manufacture of metals for use In tbe
arts Is manganese, which la employed
In making a steel alloy. There are
mine of manganese around the Black
Sea, and some In South America, but
according to recent consular reports,
a good supply of this indispensable ma
terial lies nearer our doors. In the
southern part of Cuba. The Insurrec
tion lu that Island has, for the present.
prevented the development of the
mines.
Among the scientific applications of
photography, the value of which baa
recently been pointed out, Is the study
of the natural attitudes of birds and
other animals, through Instantaneous
photographs of them. It Is averred
that very erroneous Impressions are
often conveyed, even In scientific trea
tises, through the Incorrect and some
times Impossible attitudes In .which
animals are represented. Not only
could such errors le avoided, but Im
portant characteristics of animals
might be made evident by applying
photography to the study. The case Is
analogous to that of the galloping of
horses, formerly so Incorrectly repre
sented by artists.
Assisting the Memory.
A new system of mnemonics Is de
scribed by the Sau Francisco Post. Like
all other systems, it fails of absolute
perfection.
John Beckwlth, the warehouse man,
received a letter the other day address
ed In a round business hand, and bear
ing the Oakland postmark. He glanced
at It, rubbed his forehead reflectively a
moment, and then, without opening the
envelope, tore It Into bits.
"Why did you do that?" asked hla
partner. "That might have contained
something of Importance."
"No, It didn't. I wrote It myself."
"Are you In the habit of writing let
ters to yourself 7"
"Yes, I have to. Now If I hadn't writ
ten that yesterday and mailed It, I
should have forgotten that bunch of
braid, two dozen pearl buttons and Ave
yards of haircloth that I've got to go
up-town and buy right now. Once,
though, I wrote a letter to myself about
something I wanted to remember, and
forgot to mall it for two weeks." ,
An Eel that Whistle.
A remarkable eel ha been discov
ered In the FIJI island. It ha a pe
culiar formation In Its throat which
causes It to whltvtle when In an excited
state. The evl 1 fifteen feet long and
several inches In girth.
Wheat In olden Time.
From the time of Alexander the
Croat down to the time of Columbus,
the average price of wht was ft.Tf
a ton; from 1751 to 1S00 the price aver
aged four times as much.
Antiquity of Mtocalnga.
Stockings were first worn In the elev
entb century. Before that, etoth band
ages were used on the feet
A boy who goes to a private
baa great contempt foe a bar wg
oe to "the public"
r. i -i- i. J rcfirT'