SUPPLEMENT.
IX)UU CITY NORTHWESTERN,
Loup City, ... - Nebraska
Friday, September 14. 1900.
THE AMERICAN NAVY
Work of Preparing It for the
War with Spain.
Credit Should He Given to Thote Who
Administer Its Affairs—Difficulty of
Buying and Equipping Auxiliary
Vessels - Doubling the Force of
Bailors.
Under the present administration the
navy has shown itself worthy of its best
traditions. The great victories at Manila
Bay and Santiago were in no sense acci
dents. They were the results of years
of careful training of officers and men
and the thorough preparation of the fleets
for the crucial test of war. For this
preparation, this readiness to meet the
supreme moment for which a navy is
constructed and maintained, those who
administer the affairs of the navy should
have credit. The glory goes to our he
roes who are in command afloat, and to
those officers and men who seixe the op
portunities of war to render conspicuous
service; but In remembering them one
should not forget those who labor with
out ceasing to secure the fleet in u con
dition of high efficiency, and to place at
the disposal of the commanding officers
an abundance of supplies, without which
the fleet is powerless.
As early as Jan. II, 1898, more than
a month before the Maine was destroyed
in the harbor of Havana, the Secretary
of the Navy began to mobilize the ships
of the navy and to take such measures
as would place at the disposal of the
officers in command the full measure of
our naval force.
Immediately upon the passage of the
bill appropriating $50,000,000 for the na
tional defeurfe, a board was organized
for the purchase of auxiliary ships, and
after careful examination 102 ships of
various types were secured at a total
cost of $17,95*1.850. Of these vessels
but two, the New Orleans and the Al
bany, were strictly vessels of war. The
others were merchant shii>«, pleasure
yachts, tugs, etc., which were rapidly
overhauled at the different navy yards
provided with such light armor protec
tion as was practical, and suitably
armed.
Between March 10 and June 30 all
these vessels were purchased and as rap
idly as ovc. milled were placed in com
mission arid put into active service. They
were used not only as auxiliary war ves
sels, but to supply the fleets with coal
and ammunition and with fresh water
and fresh provisions. For the care of
the sick Hiid wounded the Solace was fit
ted out as a complete hospital, and to
make repairs to vessels at sea the Vulcan
was fitted out ns a modern machine shop.
In order to meet tiie increased demands
on the navy yards, it was necessary to
practically double the force between Feb.
15 and the middle of April.
Tn addition to the ships which were
added to the navy by purchase, fifteen
revenue cutters and four lighthouse teu
ders were transferred from the Treasury
Department to the navy, and four of the
great steamers of the international Nav
igation Company and one of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company were charter
ed. There were in all 128 ships added to
the regular naval establishment, and it
became at once necessary to provide offi
cers and men to man them. For this
purpose 225 officers on the retired list
were ordered to active duty, 85ti officers
were appointed for temporary service,
and the enlisted force was increased from
12,500 to over 24,000 men.
It was an enormous undertaking to
make all these additional ships ready for
war service, to secure the necessary guns
for them, and to keep the fleets supplied
with roal. ammunition and provisions.
But this was only a part of the work
wliieh *he Navy Department had in
hand. For the protection of tin* coasts
of the United States an auxiliary naval
force was created, which was officered
and manned by the naval militia of the
United States. A coast signal service
was established, which kept practically
our entire coast line from Maine to Texas
under observation, to give warning of the
approach of an enemy's vessel or of sus
picious craft of any kind.
The operations of the fleets of the Asi
atie and North Atlantic squadrons are so
well known that it is hardly neerssary to
■ peak of them In any detail. Their work
was so well done that the power of Spntu
was swept from the sea. and Cuba, I'orlo
Itleo and the Philippines, which she had
misgoverned for centuries, were taken
from under her dominion
How We Have Grown.
«H'I< FOKKPJN TitADK
Fiscal year. Amount.
1I«*0 . $2,220,190,828
18tMi . I.H02..'Ml.HI2
Increase under Melvin
ley administration. ,. . #V.? HM* 210
WAUK F.AHNKK* KM I'l.t »\ KP
Fiscal year Number
Itaai ... 7..SS'taai
Intel ... .vtisi i»*i
Increase under McKinley
admtnuti silo* 2.2,*ll*ai
W'AliKH PAID
Fiscal year Amount.
Itaat . #112.. Mom
INtMl ..JMMVf&t* HU
Increase under M-Kin
ley administration #." in tag* ntf
Five years ago a ken If Jrausti m gold
left New 1 ok in «e dat fur Kurope it
nearly sta ted a pat... and extraordinary
efforts ka.l to Ire a* t ie to i(t.rl It \»<n,
Keff 1 tk banket* offer Fngtanl #21.
(Hi.ini it t t d loan as I ate prepare!
to tend to Ha<< « and bar i»n.
•nd ike an»< un.. meat causa* only a
smite ef tNMnpteceney.
McKinley Is Our Man.
McKinley’* fame has had a boom
Since ever it began:
No silver crank can win this year—
McKinley la our man.
From north to south his fame resounds,
And every breeze doth fan
From sea to sea this glad refrain,
McKinley is our man,
There’s not a ehanre for Colonel B.
To get his “Aunty" elan
In sight of Washington, because
McKinley i* our man.
So let him hustle after votes
And get them if be can.
But on election day he’ll find
McKinley is our man.
—N. II. R., in Eureka Republican.
DEMOCRATS, PONDER THIS I
Filipino* Auk Providence to Decree
the Flection of Bryan.
Maj. Arlington U. Betts of Toledo,
Ohio, a brave soldier now serving in the
Philippines, writes to friends in his home
city that the Tngal rebels in the islands
are constantly encouraged by men of the
Bryan stripe to continue killing our sol
diers. and that the rebellion there can be
suppressed most effectually by ballots
east in the United State* next November.
When the American troops took the
town of Tobaco, in Luzon, they found
posters everywhere tiearing h proclama
tion, a copy of which Maj. Betts send*
In his letter. Note well the following ex
tract:
Ucre is indisputable proof that the in
surgent Filipinos ure kept well inform
ed of Mr. Bryan’s utterances. They know
his sympathy with them. They are en
couraged to keep on shooting American
soldiers in the hope Bryan will replace
McKinley and usher in “happy hours.”
What do the Democrats of the United
States think of this?
Are they willing to have Bryan, the
Populist put them on record as allies of
the rebellious Filipinos?
Let them ponder these things, as
American citizens, before next Novem
ber.
THE SOUTH EXPANDS
Prosperity the Issue in the
Presidential Campaign.
Col. W, A. Hemphill, of the “Atlanta
Constitution,” Bays Democratic Lead
era Must Fight Against Prosperity,
and All Other Issue* Are Hubor
dinated.
Col. YV. A. Hemphill, president of the
Atlanta Constitution Company, was re
cently in Chicago. He is enthusiastic
over the future of the South, and his ex
perience as a newspaper man gives
weight to his utterances, ill the Chicago
Evening Post he said:
“Democratic lenders will find that the
great battle of the ballots will have to
be fought, so far as the Democracy Is
concerned, against prosperity. All oth
er issues are subordinated to this one of
prosperity, and the prosperity the South
is now enjoying is increasing in volume.
It will lie something marvelous by win
ter, if the present rate is continued. YY’ith
cotton selling at H to 10 cents, the South
is assured great good times, I have iimde
investigation ami I am safe in saying
that the deposits in Southern banka to
day are double what they were a year
ago. Nearly every national hank Tins
taken advantage of the law to issue notes
up to the legal limit.
"If a man were to borrow an expres
sion from the game of poker, the South
lias a great hand—she has four kinds.
These are cotton, coal, iron and lumber.
The world is the market of the South for
these supplies in the crude state. But
the people have awakened to the fact
n.'+nt+’m* n.'+yy'+'n.'+'n.V’
} What People Are Saying, j
Candy ia one of the luxuries. When
times are hard and money scarce, we feel
it, I teli you we do. The last three or
four years show a vast increase in our
business. There has been improvement
each year over the preceding one, and
this year the prospects are that business
will be belter than it has been for six
years. The general trade throughout the
United Htates in the Inst four years has
increased fully fVt» per cent. In some
eases it has doubled, the increase being
specially noticeable in large establish
ments. This business is essentially an in
dicator of the moment. Supply equals
demand. We cannot store our goods
away in barns and warehouses and wait
for the market to rise or the trude to
come to us. Instead we are controlled
by the demands of the hour. Take the
chocolate trade alone. Americans are
only now beginning to awaken to the nit
tritive and delightful qualities of good
chocolate and chocolate candies, Euro
peans have been familiar with this for
years. During the past year or two our
trade in this line has increased by
bounds until to-day half of our custom
ers call for chocolates. I am a Demo
crat, but am free to any that while con
ditions exist as they do at the present
tinip, it would be wisp to let well enough
alone and make no change.—C. F, <Jun
ther of Chicago, ex-Alderman. Democrat,
and candy manufacturer.
Our business lias been more prosperous
in the Inst three years than in the entire
previous history of the company. Tills Is
true not only of Chicago, but elsewhere.
It l» chiefly due to two causes. Not only
hns the telephone established itself ns a
necessity to business and private inter
ests, but it is also owing to the pro
nounced prosperity which has been gen
eral throughout the country. As I said,
the growth of the Chicago company in
these years lias been equal to the entire
growth before that time. Personally I
believe that any material change in thp
present policy of government would uf
feet nil lines of business most disastrous
MCKINLEYS FARM FERTILIZER
A
A DEMOCRAT ON FILIPINOS.
Gen. J. F. Smith Telia of Their Vlr
tnea hii<1 How to Govern Them.
Brig. (Jen. James P. Smith of the vol
unteer army is a Democrat. He was ap
pointed to the colonelcy of the First Cal
ifornia volunteer* by a Democratic Gov
ernor, James H. Budd. After the con
clusion of the treaty w-ith Spain, he was
sent to Neuron island us military gov
ernor. Before the Spanish war he whs
a practicing attorney in Sau Francisco,
and in the army his legal talents have
been employed extensively in the Philip
pines. Here is what he says about the
people of Negros. He was asked:
"And do you believe In the people and
their possibilities?”
"I do with all my heart. The more I
see of them, the better I like them. In
ten year* I think that they will be the
most American Americana in the world.
Atkinson's articles ha\e been circulated
by the disturbing element, printed in
the Visaynn language and have done us
n great deal of harm, unless we want to
keep the rebellion alive."
I Jen. Smith does not give much oppor
tunity for his one-time |>olitical allies to
shout,
The I'laii that I'nlletl.
The Filipino insurgents, some time In
fort* the war broke out ln*twet*n the
I'nlletl Staten mn>I Spain, got up a ached -
ule of their grievanrea againat the rule
of the Spaniards. There were over twen
tjr apecitleations, not one of them would
In* possible under the American Hag
The Filipino* w ho were induced to take
up arms against the I'nlletl States, af
ter the Spanish rule was br*ih**n, were
! tu the enjoyment of liberties unheard of
j in all their elpertence The only thing
thetr complained of was that the I’niied j
State* did not turn them over to the one i
man of their race who claimed tu own
then*, and the whole country alto, with
out a shadow of authority from the In
habitants The Agutnuldn pl*« wa«, af |
I In he had appointed himself, to pr - (aim |
that the people had rallied the appoint I
Mo nt and then become lord of a th-us^nd i
j island* because he had been appointed !
j a ini ratthed a* the successor in despot
■ m of the departesl Mpaniar>t*
The I'alnmet ml tie*la t oppe, timing
Company a' 4’ntwmet, Mult, owaa i<»i
j house*. nht<h It rents to H* employe* at
• t a month for each room in a ham.
In spits of this > ,i.i . o aossher >.f
U <wse*. nearly all reeeatly hm!f, SO prt*w
perots* at* the mmer* al f’*)utwet that
the rtf I* constantly for mot a teases **d
i better awes
that the country rich in natural resources
remain# comparatively poor while it eon
tent# itself with supplying the world mar
ket with the material in the crude stale.
We expect to revolutionize the business
with manufacturing.
"Take the staple of cotton. The out
put is lO.iMhJ.OOM bales, worth, Ht a low
estimate, fk’JOO.OOO.OOO. If manufactured
Into finished products the crop would be
valued into the billion figures, Heorgia
put# out about a million and a quarter
tiale# eHeh year. What a world of money
that product will leave with the State
when it is sold ns a finished product. We
of tlie South have been bobbing up in the
North fur several years, and we have
the Itch for manufactories.
"Atlanta is growing the whole country
is growing. There are contracts await
ing fulfilling in our city to day for $tl,
isni.imsi worth of new buildings. I re
call the time, and it is tint thirty year#
ago, when this sum would represent the
entire value of the structure# in Atlanta.’'
This representative newspaper pub
lisher from Heorgia speak# from the
shoulder, no to speak, and regardless i f
political feeling Senator Morgan’s at
titude on the expansion question, claim
ing, In brief, that the new territory of
tile I nited Stales opens a market for the
staple pri#liiets of the South, f’ol llemp
hlll say#, evidently finds much favor in
the South, for the Senator has been most
effectively indorsed by the people of bis
Slate.
Corn and Candy.
I luring thr feral gear rtoletl Jul. 41,
twill, Ihe eonaiuii|ii|»u of »*..rn fur gin
.Mr aii,I lit t.r |.r.»|>|. l» amount.-.) to
over SlI.IIIIIMI l>ii«heta, w hi. h i» e.|itita
trill l« the whole JO 14 fluM owe Ulill ill
a. tva, liatnl oit an average of «T t>n»hr!a
of et.rn |u Ihe »i tr t’i .1# tun- Ihinl In
■me fmirih of the glm me |,ro,lu. t of it.ia
vame tear went .llre.tl. into the utamt
•
twent w bl.*h U aclr hi one of Ihe leatl
mg laikwttm in lhe gin. n iratt. t hr
|iro«ferily In the raieii lia.te who h l,
■ttieili} te>t—tt*4hir for • u.h a lug i<a.l
of iaa* year * |te«l i "oaum |t t t»r of g’n
i oar. aa,| Ihe ahaw>|it in* at g' m| |n,.ea
of • large |. .fli.n of Ihe l**«t »■*-•»• f >be
far* |l<*a» • of the Meat, a** .tire, itf
4a> It* tht g- neiat |M.o*«tiii M i.*n
I ha ailita ore Ntawl m i Ihe wnhu.aa
ana.ii git h • 4 ....• . i ail with I■ aw
entrtr* rf life, . a*. I * i« a laiaii fug
whoh lhafa ta Itillr 4- ... *til lhai .an
ff >aw n,w he eatan in Ihe fan* . • ,-f
workmen U a* «f iaa Ural •k>4an.ah t
IHtrKiilf that i hara la
ly. Ours would suffer with the rest.—
John M. Clark, President Chicago Tele
phone Company.
I Itching to neither party, I vote in
local and national election* as my inde
pendent judgment dictates. Nebraska is
prosperous. Four years ago the times
were very hard. Our farmers burned
their corn for fuel. Then it was that
Mr. Bryan argued for free silver as the
only remedy for those apparently hope
less conditions. The country did not
take hi* remedy, and yet got well. What
is the inference? Mr. Bryan’s remedy
was not much of a remedy as lie thought
It. Mr. McKinley will lie re-elected lie
catise of the prosperity now existing. A
very large percentage of the citizens will
pay no attention to free silver, imperial
jsui or anything else than our great pros
perity. ,f. A. Smith, Humphrey, Neb.
The whole situation can lie expressed
in n sentence. The country is enjoying
a most wonderful peritsl of prosperity.
The country at large, the Individual cor
|Mirations mid the people themselves have
l*-ctt successful to a degree under the
present administration and the Itepuhli
can party deserves universal support,
uliil what is more to the poiut, I believe
will have it. The country is greater
than any man or any party, slid with
wise men at the helm, as there have
Is-cti 'luring the lust four years, to direct
this country of ours, conditions will eou
tin in- to improve and we shall reap the
IteeVhi C Hutchinson, of the Com
mcrciul F.iehange Bauk of Chicago
"I' trnlwl lb* l(rt>iihlii.*n lit h> i Ural
arbi-n Vt.i uli* 111 l.hi.ilu mi i i-Hn lliUlr.
alul I bar* *i»l»*l II *»i*r alar*- Iii my
•>l>tnti*i It la tb* iiairMlf iluty of *«**y
man who t« in tk* habit uf toting iha
Mi l.ulili. au tit kH lo lux |i Io h;« alia
glanx* " t|o* ll.it. I. ft I'lngra* of
llnblgau liliiwol b) lit i anneal
l.bnl \|.'Kinlay'• alHlnant aariliaa
i .n.iiw ml bun nttal fatoraHt to iba |a>«<
|fi> amt • rbauga for an inatfi* rn h.*m|
im atabugl ai.nbl <r*at* |.aiii an I work
>|. •'•!** T I' l!arl> aa aiiiii.ral laayar
ami Itfvl n*g IhMwIII uf I ti,.|.U l‘raak,
t'alo
On tui'h aiikiriU aa at |<a»a»ua I
iki. ighl a ilk Ik. ai>. lam It man* Ikal
It aaa right ***** t« .«k any ia*tl a*
boita.iaiy bat ai<aay* la gJ4 la ti by
h •*> •' ilk l»« all ili'ii mi. n tiug lb* araa
»f ib* ragabll* Amina li li a
A Story of Country Life.
BY ALMA L. PARKER, GUIDE ROCK, NEB.
CHAPTER II.—(Continued.)
“Well, If that’s you're opinion. I must
ask one favor of you, and that Is that
you do not tell It In Koonsvllle. If you
were a laboring man, you’d be a Popu
list. Wages are low. Hogs In Boons
vllle are only worth a little over 2 cents
per pound, corn 12 cents a bushel, and
everything else to correspond. Now,
one thing sure, something Is wrong, and
we are In favor of a change. A few
years ago I had a Hook of sheep, and
was making money with them, so
thought It would be a good scheme to
buy more. 1 also needed more hogs,
but I didn’t have the money necessary
to buy theuf, so I mortgaged my place
to get It. Well, most of the bogs I
bought died with the cholera. I don’t
supppose that was the government's
fault, hut wool has gone down to al
most nothing, and all I have left Is the
mortgage.”
"Walt a moment,” said Ezra. "You
say that, a few years ago wool was a
good price. What kind of a money ba
sis had we then?”
"Hold, I reckon.”
"Then you admit that prices can be
good, with gold for the standard
money?”
"No, not as good as they ought to be.”
"Oh, yes, Hinton. I remember, you
wrote me the fall of 'U2 that hogs were
H cents. Didn’t that satisfy the farm
er ?’’
*‘I suppose that such as them that liail
hoga was satisfied.”
"Well, If they didn’t have. It wasn't
the government's fault. Cattle were a
fair price, too, I believe, and all other
live stock was valuable property, In
spite of the awful fact that we had gold
for the standard money, and Harrison,
a Republican, was President of the
United States. Of course, prices are
regulated more by supply and demand
than by anything else."
"Well,” said Simon, "supply and de
mand have nothing to do with It, and
will you please explain why we arc
having hard times now, when gold is
still the standard?”
"Simply because there Is now a lack
of contldence, which did not exist In
'W. This Is the principal reason, al
though the low tariff policy of tills
Democratic administration has hurt us
The low tariff laws have closed hun
dreds of factories, shutting men out of
employment, and It lias knocked the
bottom out of many Industries, That's
the trouble with wool. The sheep rais
ers In Australia can raise sheep min k
cheaper than the farmers lu this coun
try can, and now they can bring their
wool over here, and sell It without pay
ing anything for the privilege. They
ran undersell farmers here until they
have to go out of sheep-raising entire
ly, The cause of lack of contldence is
the fear of Hryau's election. The silver
dollar now passes for Its* ceuts, be
cause It Is liaeked up by gold. If we
stopped hneklug it up with gold It
would fall to its market value, which,
at the present time, is only about 50
cents. Of course, when the silver dol
lars fell to 50 cents, everybody would
pay their debts with it, and keep hack
the gold money. It would be all that
would circulate.”
"Iu your opinion,” said Simon. "Now,
I'll tell you how things will be if Mc
Kinley’s elected. It won’t matter how
scarce hogs, cattle, or products are, or
how great the demand, they won’t be
worth raisin' if the Republicans win,
and these goldhugs continue to have
control of the markets, i am living in
hope that no such awful calamity will
befall us, and I do believe McKinley
will is- the worst defeated candidate
that ever run for ottiee, and l hope (lieu
Harrington will be the next worst.
He's the fellow the Hepuhllcuiis In this
county have put up for Superintendent
of Schools to run agin Vltiule. ltutber
singular, too, when lie's her beau. Hut
to return to my subject. Men who
have studied the subject any that con
ditions among farmers w ill Imp about
ten times as bail as they are now.
Money will be so scar<% many will be
oblige*! to live without utiy. Titties
will get lu aoch mi aw ful condition that
with some brave leader like Coley, a
great army will l>e raised. I prophesy
that there will be tbe nwfiillist war
this world has ever semi. It will he
labor against capital.”
“Walt ami see If your prophecy cornea
true, Rlmott. It ts the only thing that
w ill convince you of your mistake You
will tlml that our couulry'a all right,
after all. It has lieeu said that Miner
lea la Just another uame for oppor
I tunity.' That country where a day's
| work will buy mo'I of the nee*'*-aides
j of life la I he country most Masted of
. heaven Melt are afraid to *peud gold
I HoW. for fear of free silver, that 'a the
I reason we do not see any at pr* ** i*t '
V! I. /1 » »!•■«' « I, o 1 to- • < I *
Itvauw king land ts grabldeg It all up
1 Xlir Is glad we have gold f>>r our stand
ard Homey "
i . » i
1 letta you," an d lltf* *bm (here I* no
i truth In It t he He I lit "II*
found II h«ne*Mry in trad a with • »<l*
i other, In have a nutveraal standard of
I nMwy and they *haaa gold, hssitw
| lhay vwhildafed II tha sw no-ial steady
enough for the purpose. It was uot a
conspiracy against the United Slates.
We had at that time more gold mines
than any other country."
“But we haven't enough money;
that’s the trouble,” Interrupted Simon.
"The quality of money Is vastly more
Important than the quantity. If money
were too plentiful It wouldn't be worth
as much. We would have to carry
more In our pockets to buy the same
things we buy now with less, so It Is
unnecessary. What we need Is to have
the money we have to circulate, which
It won't do while there Is fear of free
silver. Times are hard because of the
fear of Its success, but suppose It were
a reality: why! there’d be the worst
panic ever know n lu the history of this
country.”
Simon and Kara Urey now nrrlved at ^
home, and there was no more said on
politics for a while. Political Simon’s
family—Cynthia, Jimmie and Johnny
and the girls were all delighted with
Uncle Kzra.
The day wore away; chore time came,
and tin- family scattered, to do the
work assigned to each one. Kzra Urey
was now left alone with Cynthia and
the little boys, and lie determined to
have a conversation with his sister-in
law.
"What do you get for butter out here,
Cynthia?” Ezra ventured to ask,
"About H cents, or near It. Uettln'
lower every year. Eggs have been so
cheap It don’t pay to keep chickens any
more. The l»rd only knows what will
become of us If McKinley’s elected
President. Simon says we’ll all go to
the poorhouse. but I don’t see how
Warble County’s goln’ to provide a
poorhouse large enough to hold every
ls)dy that would have to go there.”
Ezra Urey could not help hut laugh at
Cynthia’s Idea of Itepuldlean times, and
lie wondered to himself If this was a
fair example of the Populist sentiment.
"Uncle Ezra,” said Jimmie,"you must
he sure to vote for Hryan. Money will
grow on tr<*«**, 1 ’spect, If he’s elected.
My pa’s goln’ to vote for him all right.
Pa’s President of the Farmers’ Alliance
In Warble County, and President of the
Hryan Club In Hootisville; and I ’spect
bis vote will count a whole lot. Before
you arc here very long you’ll hear pa S*"
and Vlnnle quarrel, Vlnnle has a He
puhlicau feller, and he’s runnln’ agin
her for Superintendent, and pa says
political opponents should be enemies,
and that she mustn't even speak to
him. Hut she does speak to him. in a
loving way, too, and goes to church
with him, in spite of pa. My! hut pa
gets mad sometimes. I guess he’d like
Ulen Harrington all right if he was a
Populist, hut he says Republicans are
either scoundrels or they lack sense.”
It's hard to tell how much more Jim
mie would have told his uncle had not
Cynthia liusthsl him out doors In a
hurry.
Uncle Ezra had now In-on at his
brother Simon's for a number of weeks.
Many arguments they had had, and all
were in good humor, which was rather
singular, considering Political Simon's
disposition. Vlnnle had listened with
keen interest to their long discussions,
and had Just acknowledged to Uncle
Ezra that she believed Ills side of |w>U
ties was right, but as she had said be
fore, she intended to let time prove ^
all things to her.
One evening as they were seated at
the supper table Jimmie, the boy ora
tor of the family, blurted out: “Say,
pa, Vlnnle's gone and turned Republi
can. What do you think about that?”
“What— do— l—think — about that?”
Simon repeated slowly, while a look of
horror was depleted on his counten
ance. "I don’t believe It. Vlnnle's too
smart a gal for that.”
“Ab, pa. hut ain’t Uncle Ezra smurt.
nml ain't lie llepublloan?"
"Yen. my non, he'* Kmart; but he haa
llot yet Keen the light."
"Kara," he mild, "I dare any, when
you do ace thing* aa they are you'll he
a bright Htid alibiing alar for the allver v
cauae."
Kara laughed, and ao did Vbitile,
wlib h Political Simon wag quick toole
aerve.
"Kara," be *aid. "I ho|ie you haven't
been atottbig Vlnnle with any of your
|(e|iubllean doi-t rbiea ”
"I dare »ay, Simon, that Vlnnle haa
enough mind of her own not to tie
at lifted. n» you rail If."
"Well, Ylllille," *ald Simon, "I have
till* much to *ay to you If you ever
take iu< li a rldleuloua notion a* to liiru
lte|iubltean. don't you ever mention It.
.tfter all your ralam' and leum traluin';
after all the l‘o|Milt«t baity ba» dmiw
for you If you after all that ha* l»cn
done for your bunrltt. turn and *ny you
are a Ih'bublieait. have your nniue writ*
till With the tlohlhug* VlHHie tlrey'
I'd tm a «ha Him I of your*
"Simon. ' mill Kara "did It ever occur
' to you i! ii you m'ght te iuHiiit>at
| Iticae I'uboll.t bate * and »b* .iker*
lett loll that II • Poioil »' IMity I* IliO
IMtrt.i for the (Hx.i man I toy are ir
! laving • vi' i.il ii mi l.ilwr aud they
[ tell |o»l they are *»t» the *ldr ot tailor
|tih a I,,,.ii ,
; that tli*' might t**' fat*.- fr.t ii.l* that
they are mi ivlttng you th* truths'
iTv h* vuuitamol t