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It i* damtfl. uu thus* • ■a* ?h*» K •• a failure and trill am ***--»l* aith ar M a Bunrarct for a ««t, ;*la• urn *ahrt if at* ■.tanult thaw *ho a few tnaatha *** aere the MU Mtfuitw advatmta* mi ii«* law- are it* * kiartaai a* louc*** It i* Ua* *ho hot* wif«*d ohm! fh* *»»«*» »t* laLlurr Tha iWiai nf I th*«. at iaat fall* alartl— that of »a» Urnmcli tha f tutm ia« aad that aiMra the ahataaa Is luta twa uaad at alnuoat M*Tf l«:f» la farther • rtppl* them The* hat* fad **m|I of It “ fiat 11*14 ou a *4 la aUa to ,* the rattou iwh **tfc southern Thr *ra**hl 4a*MMpMM of there. ot a* .-outer of the * •- ; tsrl" hi" * to a great! iM 'i* fn ilities so i i, :i I.:*• in* aov. able - • ■; .h "'i»c;*rj c'ed«| to hta41e i# u' * i r- -at in* pro ve men t !». »>it mil! be ex , * : i ■ i» iiT-f# for ftr*- free sil • -i . ? or an> other dose * - <*' r!ie oottior ratio tew »«t to voarort. I.rf w«l)4lr« ImphiflHttat r • ' it of the dem >*•*• of Meteatfe county. * r - .i • <i hi- posHitm. . r' *.> < ' 4trtn:ui You tic of tin* i.-rt ; :te roicatitt.ee be sa.jr»: ..-"slit t! it Ste uefMKTMtk* le&is *. i*i r I- !.!•«• •. t determined to s- :h*“ out-*-*- for governor and .1. -«\*-rt!o:- in favor of pemom* . ho m not **k*- and that said * * :e >a majority of whom are ra - > o..*- t-.u intention of re .e t • *. e ti>ui law. and .in j.» r id i, made up •» ae i;i. : he : in hIN deni ■■ *. • i *a •<- the said law is •■* i.* 'm . and while CJoe’.iel* ■a - iii t-oniro'r «f the partly. I hereby ■ rt » re n . it *ti *e <1,airman of r..t’ mint;. commit — >»• Me aife . o inti ato. ask that » a ante te* ar* opted at oate." IPii l»e|M**lt»r*. :*> *!"* * it*- * .V» York- atone the •* h it! *.j’. it»R.- I*, ••k deposit.- have *■*] to fl*;'* •*<•: T»;i* since Mr "i ue e are iti the i. vt« *-o . over _• on.* 'Mw depositors. «. tin" < e- <: * $ s\7.4 M* *> *o. 4n e» u >:i 4# rti.p*l« man Joi *— «f the democratic , i <•„>!«• rtitfa one of the . • .’*• t *. i_>4* it '* country, the * !i. « >i» hi t* u»t and has 1men t >• „u.i mi;.»< i holder In the •. * «■<* ton < u.. pauy for years. lot 'Unrated 111 \* w ,<• .» • tu - e h 1 t i Bryan recently * **; u* tli* rtriiber's roost.'* In# e* »r«i 41 ••?«»■ % < t r «- It t :< \ i «*11 - *:• :il> .- uicuient of the romp ■ of toe . v for February '!»« «. - tfe. t *1. total < in ulation of i „ at the dose of L> f >*t il • !>■;. was $1*45* 134.nIK, ’ It. • ful ' \ ea 41 ■ S«t.r>J?,r>] 1. IS, 1 rt * » .i. ■ I *■■ r 1 ra4r t «>uiilr4. " - . ..Til- - to the State • t • . * V i.-n tirton that there a hole n.eiu**r: in Austria i.* >■ o; *• Trusts Some it ouc.it-a*. m- trotett in the report ■ .431 *rc it.- h t nt.iue ~ paper fac • .gar r. im v shoe factories, g.ssi- and 3a.- plants, V A i.- * r * j* . a !r**e tr.< le country. • • the j»r* ’e t • tariff c ould not t. jm -ii. .itj lie the ‘mother of * * - -!.- Tl.e oni t iriff there is in ;■ tia'i :» of an internal revenue on ■ i a»*l#a fen other ar l‘*< la- lit*- National t>**M Te monthly statenieu: of the re • ;>f- aim expenditures of the Fnited . ..or * tha* the total receipts tr the q, <i.tt of February were $4*,. ■ ••• ■ - re* $87,718 ill "io .nr a surplus for the month of f 7 7i*.:. i. ’he ;asi eight Ti!ODtb« the receipts .jo e\ . *ie11 the expenditures by 17 7,. ,H*. i« -presenting i. reduetiou of ■ national «i*:*t !•> about that same amount U hen the demo ratir party was in , octroi the seven*ment failed to iujeo* | although it was a time .1 urofut a«i pear-, it makes a great • ete * w ho i- runninc the machine 4 mrwililr tear* for I'urrl,, Kiri) "he (jeiu<H rats of r,ingress bewailed :? • tin’ that the l ut’ed States was .i.g Puerto Rico b> the terlfT. But * hen tb*- proposition t am* up to de ♦ u I ‘he collections from the tariff at noth eii,ir of the line to the relief <*i ’he |Mi,|>le of Puerto Rico, the demo • :at- vote1 solidly against it. For the a »e 41’ an additions! plank in their platform they were willing to let the UfcitMUfcro starve. The ->stem of evolution obtains in ti e polit)• - of Nebraska. A few years ago the indep4-ndef!t> resoluted against the lawyers tl* ided not to nominate o vot* for them an.i blacklisted them s*1 far a.- the organization was eon < * n«i S.ui e then by a gradual pro ■*-»»*■ th* la wyers have gained full con trol «•* th* whole organization, and i! a* t**;t lawyers are elected to con ■ *— and to other important places. % Siilltiirrn *.I|Mllailllli41. Senator Mclaiuren of South Carolina an out and -out expansionist, and he *<>.- »-.J the sentiments of a large con .*n in the south when he said h ’iie course of a sjieet h a few days us . jii congress ‘ <»ur southern mamifacttirers have a.ready r* a* h**«j out to the markets of Th* Orjenr and »ii: rovered their ad tantages Th* southern farmer needs - L markets for his raw cotton to :: a; # its pi ml u<t ion remunerative. By he a <t’i>:aon of the Philippines we 1 th* key of th* eastern situation, yv*- need not te.> solely upon treaty rig fits to secure the 4>|***n door.* but ;*i. <:• maud equal < on men ial oppor Tui...> with other nations, and if neces sary w ith the vantage ground we have u - rt that demand Will the Failed Stater throw away the golden oppor t t . in-, giving uj* th*- Philippines? 1 i.m i. fa\or of holding them, and 1 !•*..*•*• Ti« southern farmers and man ..fii turcs will sustain me in my posi f.•*!. I m*!*eye further that the pres et. »* of tii* Fnited States and of its t: g. th* emblem of human freedom. l>t«»p -**s- and civilization, w ill carry to ’!,< millions in the Orient unnumbered -sings which in the coming years, w II m for their l*itterm«nt and amel M.-aTitHi and will conduce to the per •- ’• ,*y and glory of our free institu tion* and the (omineriial supremacy oi tfas nation ** A printed by Bradstreef'sshows Thai 2.f»r»3 N>w York bii8in«K houses. hud on their rolls 299.957 em pire t-> ici 1 K9€. have increased the nuaier to $58,271. while the increase m trace* in 1 liiifi# as compared with * '*t. tti over $20.W0o.(MMt. During the first «even months of the .rrent fiscal year the exports of American manufactures show an in crease of $52.<*M».0<»«* over the similar period in the fiscal year 1*99. in spite ot the fact that 1899 beat all previous records. The per capita circulation of the l nited States has increased from $4.99 in IMki. and $13.82 in I860, to $25,098 in lttw. During the past five years the agri *uitural ex porta from this country have amounted to $3,100,000,000. and of this *3 per cent was sold to Euro pama gold standard countries. Tin- iJnltl <Kt»!nlHr<l ill Japan. The "Report on the Adoption of the Gold Standard in Japan." by Count Maysayoehi. minister of finance for J. pan. has been received in a trans lated foi 2! at Washington, and con tains . oiiio interesting information on .! s»;.;je**t which is receiving consider able attention in this country. It discusses in detail the history of the ui-**nry in Japan, and closes with a ■ japter entitled: “Effect of Coinage He c m ccon the Economic Condition ■ : Our Country.” The following is a quotation from the report: ‘ Since the adoption of the gold taudard «in lsaTiour currency has • *ecn free:’, from constant tin- tuations ui its exchange rate, to which it was sobje : before. Owing to this latter ft*' ; moreover, the relations between the claims of the creditor and the lia bilities of the debtor become less sub ject to sudden and unexpected changes: business transactions are ma<c- safe: an improvement in credit no v place in the community at large: p:i<«* lw a me more constant: in a word, tiie way was now opened for the steady and orderly growth of our commerce ana industry.” he minister of finance refers to the great expansion in the commerce and industries, aud especially to the larg* increase in number and amount of cheeks and bills passing through the clearing houses. He says that ■ iirc the adoption of the law capital > - from the gold standard countries hate been investing freely in the country. and there is a growing ten dency toward lower interest rates, the investors being no longer afraid’ of the loss subsequent to the fluctua tions m the price of silver. A great n< reuse in the c ommerce with gold standard countries is also noted. An other quotation from the report is as flllnws ; "SMiice our coinage reform enabled ; - to avoid ail the evil effects of fluc tuations in the price of silver.*, we - - <i now no longer, as was formerly the case under the necessity of mak ing plain for financial matters with ;; •* currency constantly changing in vai ■ . and sometimes suffering unex ,. 1 io se> and evils in times when »!.. evils are unusually violent. All tbo.-* fears of miscalculation and > h: ”e now be< ome a thing of the past Most particularly in the last few veais when national expenditures < : tilings bought abroad, such as war 'l ips. et< .. have greatly increased in arnot;:;;. we have doubtless been able 10 avoid, on account of our coinage reform, great losses on the part of the national treasuiy. Besides, since cur adoption of the gold standard, our government bonds have been sold in ; o small amount in the European market, so that their names appear egularly in the price list of the Lon don Stock Exchange. This fact at oru e converted our bonds into an inter national commodity, and will no doubt loan to a -loser relationship between <mr home and the foreign money mar kets.'* This glow ing report of the improve ment of conditions in Japan will be cold com ort to the silver men of this ■ ountrv who have repeatedly declared that the adoption of the gold standard by any country could bring nothing but distress and disaster. .1 n«rifytntr the I*r. eiOent. Senator Lodge: in the long process of the patient years those who now assail the president with epithet and imputation will shrink down beyond the ken of even the antiquarian s microscope; but the name of the presi -‘ent v.ho took the Philippines and planted our flag at the portals of the east will stand out bright and clear upon the pages of history, where all men may read it. and he will have a monument better than any reared by hands in fair and fertile lands bloom ing after long neglect and in a race i erieemed from tyranny and lifted up to broadening freedom and to larger hopes. I am the only one of my friends that I can rely on.—Apollodorus. Seven shillings a day has been adopt ed by the New South Wales govern ment as a minimum wage to railway laborers. Thomas Darragh. of Granite Moun tain. Texas, claims to he the oldest republican voter living lie is 98 years old. A woman suffrage amendment re ceived '»4 votes, against 48. in the Ohio house, but failed in not receiving a constitutional majority of 6G. Australia raises tarantulas for the sake of their webs, the filaments of which are made into thread for bal loons. Thev are lighter than silk and. when woven, lighter than canvas. Each tarantula yields from twenty to forty yards of filament, of which eight twisted together form a single bread. One of the features of the drawing room at Gen. Baden-Powell’s home in London is the apiary. Two large bee hives with glass sides, stand on orna mental pedestals close to a large organ which occupies on*> wall of the large room overlooking Hyae park. The bees escape through a windpipe which leads out of the window. !n addition to having Ella Ewing, the largest woman in the world. Mis souri has the smallest married counle in the world. They arc Mr. and Mrs. Willie Ray. of Dunkin county, who have l>een with the Sells Bros.’ show last year. They are each three feet tall and weigh ordinarily about thirty eight pounds each. Two New York gentlemen had a dis pute over a pug dog, each claiming to lie its owner. One seized the dog's (ollar and the other its hind legs, and for five minutes they contested in a tug of war. the dog visibly lengthening during the odd contest. A policeman called ’t adraw. released the dog and arrested the quarrelers. There is in north Missouri at least one man who no longer cares to t*e "shown"—if it costs anything. He for warded $1 recently to an eastern sharper who had advertised a willing ness to explain, for the consideration specified, how to prevent a shotgun from scattering. The reply which came back was. “I'se no shot." The Rev. J. M. Jordan, of Raleigh. X. C.. talks rather plainly of the way ward in his following: "Oh. God." he sad. “Thou knowest the majority of v uristians are like wasps—larger at birth than at any other time. And they grow smaller and meaner as time goes on. Thou knowest. also, that a great many members high up in the church drink beer and whiskey and go to dances. Oh Lord, they call them germaus. but that’s just to fool the people. They are regular old dances —nothing in the world but fiddling and dancing. We read the paper this morning and there they had printed the names of all the gals and their partners. Oh. Lord, have mercy on these miserable rascals. " O'FLAHERTY'S MEWS WISE COMMENT ON A QUES TION OF THE HOUR. Hlheniiwn Version of the True Inward ness uf Vs«n WycU'i Affiliation With nn Organization f ormed for llie Kxlcrmiuation of Trusts. * 0i fee be th' papers." remarked O'Flaherty to his friend Doolan. "thot a man he th' name av Hoge 'a.- writ ten a letthei *o th' newspapers in th* name av th' Commershall Thravelers' an’ Hotel Min's Aunty-thrust Imagin', advocatin' th' nominashon av Judge Van Wyck fur prisidint be th' Dimy rats bekase th' judge as no other oc cupashon than thravelin’ aroun' th' counthry in parlor cars teliin* funny yarns to th' commershall thravelers. which, av eoorse, saves th' drummers lots ax money they wud otherwise 'av - spent on th' thevaters fur amusemint. “There's just wan inconsishtancy in th' argymint made in he’s favor ba Mist her Hoge. who cays he's agin th' thrusts, an' thot is. th' judge appears to 'ave a monopoly av th' funny stori?.-, -u' gives thim away gratis. This bein’ th’ case, how do he ex pect the playacthor byes, or th' funny byes av th’ newspapers to make a liv in' be sellin' their wit to th' thevaters or th' noospapers. as th' case may be?” “It’s very onsinsible.” interjected Doolau. and inquired, "do yer Cncle Tim. th' commarshall thraveier, know any av these laddy bucks?” “Me uncle.” rejoined OFiaherty. “knows thim be heart, an' he says th' league exists only benathe th' hats av th' prisidint an" secretary, who start ed out wid a skarne to git th’ 500.0' <> commarshall min av the counthry to jine their league, at an expense av wan dollar a year each. “This wud make a half a million dollars a year to divart towards th' pockets av this git-rich-quick league, do ye moind? “Av eoorse. th' commarshall min. who are havin' all k.nds of silly affers made to thim be people who wad want to buy th' earth wid a discount av two foives aff ar.' sixty days datin', didn't see th- needsisity av payin’ a half a million dollars a year fur daeayed goose eggs, an' declined wid thanks. “Thin th' prisidint gits mad bekase he cudn't make a thrust av th* dhrum mers. fur he's own binifit. ami wrote a 'either to Misther Croker. av th’ Tam many Hall thrust, teliin him he had raysined from th' Republican party, an’ wud throw th' inflooence av th' Commarshall Thravelers' Xashina! league on th' side av th' Tammaany thrust, or any owld thing wid money in it. “As Misther Croker knows more about polyticks, an gittin’ th' biggist O'FLAHERTY AND DOOLAN. share av th' spoils than he do about commarshall min. he bit loike a hun gry fish at dead bate, thinkin' thot th' high-soundin' name av th' Commar shall Thravelers’ Nasninal league wud catch famished gudgeons; an' thin, to make it more takin' loike. he annaxe.l th’ Raines law hotels to it. an' they now call it “th' Commarshall Thravel ers an’ Hotel Min’s Aunty-Thrust league.’ lavin' out th' Raines law part of it bekase av its onsavory eharac ther. “Me uncle towld me there's nary a commarshall nor hotel mon on he's route from Boston to Shaykago thot knows anythin' about th’ concarn, thot th' hotels they name musht be loike McFadden’s father's Irish castle, where ye cud put yer arum down th' chimb lev an' staale everythin' in th' house. “Th' hotel min towld me uncle thot they 'ave no consumin' daysire to com pate wid free soup houses, an’ prefer open mills to thim. and thot clowns, fur commarshall min, are not in as much demand as they appear to be fur Dimycrat prisidinshall candydates." FACTS THAT SHOULD TALK. Difference In Pun-liaslog Power of the Wage-Earner** Dollar. That was a very clever cartoon of Dalrymple's. in the issue of “Puck” of Jan. 10. It was entitled "The Evo lution of the Doilar.” It showed the difference between the purchasing power of the wage earner’s dollar in 1875 and 1900. as well as the difference between the earning pow*er of the capitalist's doilar in 1875 and 1900. In 1875 the wage earner holds up a very small dollar to niateh the capital ist's big dollar. Then the interest on money was from 7 to 10 per cent, while coal cost $9 a ton. flour $12 a barrel. cofTee 50 cents a pound, sugar 16 cents a pound, shoes $5 a pair, kerosene oil 50 cents a gallon, gas $2 a 1.000 feet, cotton cloth 20 cents a yard, clothes $20 a suit, and other things in propor tion. in i»uo the capitalist holds up a very 6mall dollar to match the wage earner’s very big dollar. Now the rate of Interest on money ranges from 2'£ to per cent, •while coal costs 35 a ton. flour 35.25 a barrel, furniture Is 50 per cent cheaper, coffee is 30 cents a pound, sugar is 4Va cents a pound, shoes are $2.50 a pair, kerosene oil is 12 cents a gallon, gas is $1 a 1,000 feet, cotton cloth is 5 cents a yard, clothes are $10 a suit, and so on. What an object lesson this is! How It answers the cry of the demagogue that the poor are getting poorer and the rich richer al! the time! And while making the comparison, let. us not forget that wages are from 10 to 25. and even 30 per cent higher than they were in 1875, while the ten hour day has given way to the nine hour day, and, in some industries, to the eight-hour day. Facts like these talk. At least, they should talk, and they should do some thing to convince us that the world is reall/ progressing, and that the strug gle cf the average man for a living is getting easier and not harder ail the time.—John C. Freund, New York Music Trades. NOW THEY KNOW. People Who Were r roe- Bitten Don't Want to Kepeat tlie Experience. Ex-Congressman Hcgg. of Texa.. : professes to think that “everything , I oks as though this would be a Bryan i yea:." He says that thousands of men who did not vote for Bryan in 1896 will tote for him in 19u0. Bight years ago the voters of the country sacrificed the prosperity which they were enjoying under the McKinley tariff law and elected the “stuffed prophet" of free trade to the presidency. Perhaps it is this fact which leads ex-Governor Iiogg to think that they will go and do likewise in 1900. There certainly is no other sign anywhere which would : lead a man in the possession of his senses to think that there was even a ! remote possibility of this being a j “Bryan year." But, Governor Hogg. ! tlie fact that the people have done a thing once is no sure sign that they | will do it again. In fact it is often the surest sign that they won’t repeat It. i And that is the way it is in this case. | In 1892 the majority of the people of ; the country did not know from actual ! experience what free-trade meant, nor what Democratic tariff reform would mean, either. Now they do. They felt Lnppy and prosperous and were willing *o experiment a little with free-trade— just to see what would happen. But “p burnt child dreads the fire," and th^* people of this country got pretty badly burned by playing with free-trade in 1.VI2- Or. perhaps it would be more appropriate to say that they got badly frozen through it. because of the lack | of having sufficient warmth in their 1 nuses and for want of comfortable clothes to wear. In any case they an not likely to repeat the experiment of ;S92. One period of idleness, poverty and discomfort is enough for a Iifo j time. That is what tree-trade would mean, and the election of Bryan and of a congress in sympathy with him would mean free-trade. The people j want no more of either. Win Not Kin Trusts. j Free-Trade will kill the trusts.— Carmi Democrat. We do not wonder that the editor of the Democrat thinks Free Trade would kill trusts, for he knows it has a very killing effect. In fact, he knows it killed nearly everything when we had it before, but if he will remember the trusts are the only thing it did not phase. He knows, or ought to know, that the Standard Oil trust, sugar trust, anti numerous other trusts lived all through the Free Trade pe riod of Democratic misrule and pros pered on it by the aid of the Demo cratic party. The great depression in i business and stringency in the money market during this Free Trade, soup house era made it impossible for the smaller firms to exist, and the trusts squeezed them out of existence. Dur ing the Free Trade, soup-house ad ministration there were almost as many failures in one year as there ■ are in two now. Many of the trusts the Democratic party are now pre tending to fight were organized during Democratic rule, and others were as sisted in various ways. The most dis graceful of all. perhaps, was the as sistance Havemeyer of the sugar trust, received at the hands of the Demo cratic senators, headed by Senator Vest of Missouri. In Free Trade Eng land trusts are being formed at a rapid rate. No. Brother Charles. Free Trade will not kill trusts, but it will kill everything else, free soup-houses ex cepted.—Benton (111.) Republican. How l< It Now? While millions of dollars are being added to wages distributed generally throughout the country the Boston Herald selects two industries for a special and very interesting compari son: “The two great industries that lead the procession of prosperity are the cotton and the woolen, and in both of these the advances carry the wages of the employes beyond the boom rates of 1893.'’ The boom rates of 1893. it will be j remembered, were slaughtered in cold blood by the wage earners themselves. I under various slogans of infuriated rot aimed at capital. That was done by the campaign of 1892. \v ill the campaign of 1900 see that foi.y repeated? We don't think.— New i ork Sun. _ 1Vh»t Would satisfy Them. The Populist opposition to Secretary : Gag- arises from di. satisfaction be i cause he did not. by refraining from ! giving any aid. allow the adverse eon ! ditions in the money market to resu.t in a wider panic. The Populists aio hard pushed for calamities with whi h to point their arguments.—Providence Journal. Nothing less than a panic thaT will rot) 2.000.000 bread-winners of their jobs and compel 1.000.000 half-starved wage-earners to tramp our streets in vain for work will ever half satisfy the 50-cent dollar Populists and Bryano crats. Way They Struck. The strike of 4u0 laborers in the j emplo- of the American Steel & Wire i tympany is another one of those pros perity strikes that do not involve any reflection upon the conditions existing in the industry affected. These em ployes were granted an increase in wages of T^i per cent, and struck be cause their demand for a 10 per cent increase was not granted—Sioux City (la.) Journal. The Colonel end the Coon. Col. Willie Jenkins Bryan is still gunning for an issue which will stick in the coming campaign. The coon which once remarked to Davy Crock ett. “Don't shoot; I’ll come down.” has not yet put in an appearance.—Phoe nix (Ariz.) Republican. Cold Fact. Dun & Co.’s statement that business is 40 per cent better than it was a year ago is not a campaign lie. but a statement of cold fact.—Indianapolis (Ind.) Journal. DRER- RABBIT Mr. C'amlWhite Itryan He "Ljty Low” on Qu*stio»s of Free-Trade and Tariff. The Philadelphia Record scolds Mr. Bryan because of his discreet sliem-e | or; the subject of protective tariff, and I accuses him of trying to engineer an : amalgamation of "anti-impenaiis: ’ Republicans and free-silver supporters as a set-off for the loss of sound m ey Democrats. The "Record" objects strenuously to the glittering geuereh ties in which Mr. Bryan deals wlrn discussing the trust question, finds fault with his failure to advocate the repeal of the tariff as the swiftest and i surest way of annihilating all capital istic combinations, and bewails bitterly i the fact that "tariff reform, under the banner of which the Democratic party has triumphed in presidential and con gn ssional elections, enters no longer l into Mr. Bryan's program.” Continuing it.- lament over the de sertion of great principles, the Recoiu sa y.: "A great change has come over Mr. Bryan since he was one of the enthu siasts Democrats in congress who carried Representative Wilson of West Virginia around on their shoulders after the latter had concluded a great speech on the tariff bill. The enthu siasm of the free-silcer presidential claimant for tariff reform, like the courage of Bob Acres has oozed out at his finger ends: and the same phenom enon is to be observed of most of hi followers in and out of congress. What is mo-t remarkable about this desertion is the fact that never before in the history of the country was there so much reed of maintaining and en forcing the Democratic tariff policy as there is now, when the land is covered with protected monopolies in every field of industry and enterprise. If the 'Democratic party has been right in its long continued opposition to the pro tective system, how much greater is the justification for relentless warfare upon the iniquities and spoliation of , the Dingiey tariff?” Truth and justice impel a plea of ex tenuation in behalf of Mr. Bryan. He has not deserted the sacred cause o[ tariff reform. He is only suppressing for the time being his undiminished zcal. “Brer* Rabbit he lay low." Mr. Bryan wants to be president mat b more than he wants to wear the man ! tie of William Leftover Wilson. As between a four-years' lien on the ex ecutive chair and a brief precarious ! ride on the shoulders of a few free 1 ttade Democrats, he chooses the chair every time. Let the Philadelphia Re - ord remember these things and be rea sonable. Mr. Bryan is all right on the ! tariff. Le^s than a month ago he pub ! lielv announced, in contradiction of a j current report, that his views on the : subject of removing all duties on im ports of foreign wool had undergone no change. This ought to console and reasssure the Record. Any man who is capable of favoring free wool am ail that that implies to the farmers of the United States is a good enough free-trader. ____ Tariff!*. Trusts and Trice*. j Attention is called to the fact that ; while the American price level is 17 j per cent higher than a year ago. that of England is 12 per cent higher, if The advances in prices is due to trusts. : solely or primarily, it must be that ; they have trusts in England. But if ! England, with no tarifT except for rev • enue. has trusts, what becomes of the plea that the tariff is the mother of 1 trusts? The fact is that free trade Eng land. as well as protected America.has trusts: that America has trusts in ar ticles that are not protected as well as in those that are; that part of the ad , vance in some of the articles controlled ! by trusts is due to their manipulation. and that a few of the trusts which ! have thus abused their power have been enabled, by the existence of a high tariff on those articles to push prices a bit higher than would have been possible if competition with the | old world product had been free. Not 1 the tariff, but the commercial advan tages and the attractions of stock job bing have been the parents of these new corporations, whose real power lor good and for ill. even to the wisest and most careful of observers, is still a problem.—St. Paul Pioneer-Press. Th* South** Opportunities. All that is needed to insure still more rapid progress and bewildering development in the Southern states is the construction of the Nicaragua canal, and the stimulation of trade, not only with Asia, via Nicaragua, but ! also with the South and Central Am erican republics. The building of the j canal seems assured. The stimulation of sea going trade will come in time - if the policy of the present administra tion in reference to the merchant ma rine is put into effect. The South is beginning to realize her opportunities. It is too much, however, to expect her : yet to act upon her own changed pol | itical convictions. But even this action will come when the value of Republi | can policies have been demonstrated | upon every farm and in every hamlet ' and city of the South in spite of South ern politicians and prejudices.—Kansas City (Mo.) Journal. A Coltdenltt Phonograph. The whole system is pernicious and unnatural. When seen in its extreme view it is as irrational as the attempt to force water up hill or to cultivate oranges in Canada.—St. Joseph (Mo.) News. What would you suppose this man was writing about? You wouldn’t for a moment imagine that he alluded to an economic system which has made ours the greatest among the nations of the earth, and made our people the most happy, prosperous and envied among all the peoples of the earth. But you would be wrong. This Cobdenite phonograph w’as actually talking about the protective tariff. For All or None. These attacks on the part of the op ponents of the question are not to be ignored, for there is an element of sound reason in them. If any break occur in the Protective system by means of reciprocity, then there will be danger of the whole system giving way. There should be Protection for all or Protection for none.- San Fran cisco CalL FILIPINO mothers are kind. Tbeir Killing Fallon I, T,„.ir . inr,r Lore for Th'- r blty B*i>Uw. P.ie is like no one < so in -a . .... * !£!lViluJ° write* the Manila correspondent cf the St. Louis Glob^ nemo, rot. Food, tho wh, standpoint she is least mv > „ nf 1,Ke a woman of any feminine creature. She will work for von sell v, • ,_•, MU >o» things, and tirat you poiueiy bm Leyond that the attitude of her t, ■ ...t, it presented rtnnrOU'vIS? ^ ‘1!?'TmaW«‘ «« » bolted nn ♦ -°U- uan m "<'!1 enough ac quainted with her husl*nd t0 dKwt him cordially, bm th« nature of the woman is as hard to tathom as a sheet of Chinese correspondence It is never a common sight to see a mother who believes she is alom>. playing with her baby, a young native woman was making iove to her first man child. The two were in the shack next to mine, but the windows were together She had the little fellow iu a (.oriK... and was kneeling before him in a per fect ecstasy of motherhood. The baby could not have l»eon more than several months old. and the mother was per haps Iti. She would bend her body far back, with hands outstretched; and then gradually sway closer, cioser. while the baby, very noisy and happy in his diminutive way. shrank liack into the corner and showed his hare ted gums. And then the mother swav ed at last very near, she would snub li her naked bundle of brown babyhood cud toss him into the air. Ami there would be great crowings and strangled laughter from the infant and low nuir ruurings of passionate worship from the woman. Then she placed her face close to the head of her son and whis pered wonderful secrets in a voice strangely soft and tender, such as you would not think could come from this smileless creature of the rive: hanks. I watched, and the greatness of the mother heart was laid bare before me. and now better impressions came where false ones had been—and I re* membered she was a woman, apt and ardently interested. I war* he leaning witlessly out of the window. 1’fce v.to man saw me. The sullen, u placable stare came back. She snatch' ! up tho child and disappeared. She athog in the river, unconscious of th passing white man, but he must u* see the woman’s love for her first-b.-rn. HARDY FILIPINO EUFF ALOES. Have Immense Strength. acil Wild Ones Are Constant!* Cnuglit. The wild buffaloes of the Philippines come from the iuterior, vtc.e many natives spend their time iu capturing and taming them, it take 'a long time to tame the wild creatures and break ! Them into service. Some old bulls ab solutely refuse to be tamed, anti they show their resentment for capture up to the time of their death. Most ot those in service are born and bred in j captivity, and the young calves are very easily trained for use. Still j enough of the wild caraboas are caught ! every year to keep the stork from de generating. They take to civilized life much more readily than our American ; bison, resembling in this respect the 1 true water buffalo of India. Tho strength of these animals is marvelous. In respect to size, strength and pon i derousness they resemble the elephant more than any oth'-r creature. They simply haul anything that is hitched j behind them, and it is the shaft or | traces that break if the load cannot be moved. Across all sorts of rough and miry country they pull the load, al though they have uot the sure footing i of the mule in climbing steep and I rough mountains and hills, they are better in the soft, miry lowlands which ! compose so large a part of the Pbilip ! pines. When angered and running 1 away, they dash across the country j with their heavy load, as if it were so much light, flimsy cotton. Not only are they then regardless of what j is behind them, but also of what may ! rear itself in front. Be it a river, a I fence, a ditch or jungle, or another i cart, the maddened animal plunges blindly through or across it. and never halts until disabled or its anger has evaporated. In the latter case it then suddenly becomes as meek and docile as before. If whipped for its misdeeds, its meek eyes seem to ask why it is punished, and they look as innocent as those of a child or a deer.—Scientific American. Chanced the TUce. It is said that Jared Sparks, chosen president of Harvard college iu 1849, yielded promptly and courteously to the opinions and wishes of the faculty where no important interest was at is sue. but wherever the welfare of honor of the college or of its individual mem bers was concerned, be adhered im movably to his oven judgment. A ease in point, says Doctor Peabody, in his “Harvard Graduates Whom I Have Known,” occurred when Kossuth was making his progress through the coun try. Mr. Sparks was one of the few who were disinclined to pay homage. The then usual spring exhibition, nor mally held in the college chapel, was at hand, and it was understood that Kossuth would be present. The faculty voted unanimously, or nearly so, to hold this exhibition where the com mencements were held, in the I irst Parish church. Mr. Sparks declared the vote, but added: "It is for you, gentlemen, to hold the exhibition where you please. I shall go to tht ::bapel in my cap and gown at thfr usual hour.” The vote, of course, was reconsidered. Why We Forget Name#. Many persons are especially forget ful with regard to names—as of ac quaintances or some familiar object. Dr. Bastian, in discussing effects cently, quoted with approval this ex planation: “The more concrete the idea the more readily is the word used to designate it forgotten when the memory fails. We easily represent persons and things to ourselves with out their names. More abstract con ceptions. on the contrary, are attained only with the aid of words, which akme give them their exact shape in our minds.” Hence verbs, adjectives, pro nouns, adverbs, prepositions and con junctions are more intimately related to thought than nouns are, and can be remembered when nouns, or names, slip from the mind.