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ii nu ww. uiiiiiiwwiJWijMiii ' 'i unw H The Commoner. JUNE 19, 1903; II $ t -wr-71 wtgiJwrwwfwTiiKmp'iwi miwup nlim'Wfi"lwijP! ITEMS OF INTEREST. It lg one of the peculiarities of trav el by balloon that jou do not feel any thing; all is still with you, no matte if you are in the teeth of tne hurri cane. In the test of the Mcuiean guns at Cleveland the one-pounder machine gun showed a speed of more than 300 shots per minute. The test of the in fantry machine gun showed a speed of 800 shots per minute. The cocoa palm, from which choc olate comes, bears its pods, which con tain 15 to 25 beans each, at 10 to 12 feet from the ground. Four hundred trees are planted on an acre and each yieids about $1 worth of beans. ft There is one liquor shop for every seventy persons in the province of Eure, France. Taking account ot children and abstinent women and men it may be said that every 23 per sons support one liquor dealer. The oil wells of Peru yield an aver age of 60 barrels a day of a quality corresponding to that of the Russiuu petroleum from Batoum, being 84 pex cent carbon. The oil of the United States averages 60 per cent carbon. The Duke of Abruzzi has prepared suite, for use in his next polar ex cursion, Which are heated by electric ity through a network of asbestos covered wire in their linings. Bed ding will be warmed in like manner. The opinion of Sir John Hershel that the southern portion of the Milky Way, under the Southern Cross, i? nearer to us than the northern is quoted against the assertion of Pro fessor Wallace that we are In the cen ter of the universe. During the Spanish-American war it was estimated that only 3 per cent of the shots fired by American gun ners hit the enemy's ships. In the recent quarterly target practice of the North Atlantic squadron 521-2 per cent of the shots hit The Ottoman government has bought the English concession for a lino of railroad from Haifa to Da mascus. It is intended to build a rail way through Galilee to Mzerlb, by way of Beisan, connecting at Mzerib with the Damascus-Mecca line. Timber and lumber costing $2,000, 000 have been used In the preparatory woru in the New "York rapid transic tunnel. After it has been taken out of the tunnel It is of np further use ex cept lor firewood, the dampness ana mud spoiling it for anything else. Pneumonia continues to lead the "Men of Death" in cities. Of the to tal 58G deaths recorded in Chicago last week, excluding 46 from sulci u and violence, nearly one-tnird were victims f this, "the moBt murderous modern scourge of civilized peoples. ' Such common substances as sugar, glucose and chalk having been found to absorb sunlight all day and to give it off in rays during the night, the uiscovery of some means for render ing those rays useful In illuminating houses at night with little expense seems a possibility of the near fu ture. . The floral world has been finall"" shown to owe its beauty and magnifi cence to cross fertilization; the anl mal world might likewise be shown to be indebted for its vigor and va riety to intercrossing. So might it be proved that most great advancea in civilization have been originated by the blending of two stocks, the immi gration of individuals from one so ciety to another. Lake Superior iron ore is taken from the mines, all of which are on the surface, by steam shovels, and is han dled exclusively, in masses of a ton or more, by cranes until it reaches the cupola of the American furnace or the hold of a ship in the foreign trade. Some of the steel tow barges on the lakes carry 8,000 tons of ore. and cargoes of 250,000 bushels of wheat have ceased to attract notice. Pittsburg Dispatch. man once repudiated by his party and who has twice repudiated it? Un questionably such a conclusion com prehends tho idea that Mr. Cleveland Is much bigger than his party. It further comprehends the idea that democrats aro willing to surrender conviction for hope of party buccchb. The six million and more democrat4 Who voted for Mr. Brvnn will nor j take kindly to any of the propositions embraced in tho fMovnlnml nnmlilnn. tlal boom. We want peace, but we want it upon an honorable basis. Tifliu (O.) News: Tlie Brooklyn Eagle, an independent democratic newspaper, most vigorously advocates tho nomination of Grover Cleveland for president by tho democracy next year. The Eagle may voice the opin ions of democrats In tho east, but it certainly unows nothing oC the bit ter feelings entertained for Mr. Cleve land In the west. Three times did the democracy nominate him for tho highest office, and twice elected him, and then simply because the demo cratic platform did not suit him in one or two particulars, he turned hia back on the party that honored him, and assisted In electing a republican, who represented everything to which Mr. Cleveland, as well as tho demo cratic party had been opposed. Whil3 I he democrats of tho west recognize Mr. Cleveland's broad ability, and his unswerving Integrity, they will nov3' forgive his treachery to the party In 1896 and 1900, and even if his.nomi ration were possible, he could not roll one vote out of onj hundred dem ocrats west of tho Ohio river. The talk of nominating Cleveland Is sim ply nonsense, and Hill is also out of tho question. Waynesburg (Pa.) Democrat: We have read of "Mounmental cheek." but we never fully comprehended tbo term until wo heard from the. bolters or 1896 who only carried one voting precinct in the United States and their vLrle vote was less than 1 per cent. Yet now after sulking for eight yean they come to the surface with an I told j ou so" and say blandly to the democratic party "come back to as and w v ill take you into our republi can annex and tell the world we are the democratic party. We will word our platform a - little different, of course, from the republican, but it will mean about the same thing in the end." omith County (Kas.) Journal: At torney General Knox is In a quandary. Ho is like a fellow who was driin.c and was hugging a lamp-post. If he let go he would fall, and if he held in he would freeze. Mr. Knox has shown Your Nerves Furnish the motive power of the en tire body. Dr. Miles' Nervine will keep the nerves strong and healthy or restore their strength if weakened. Bold on guarantee. Writs for free book on Mrrous diseases. ' Dr. Miles Mxdioaij Co., Elkhart, Ind. that a successful prosecution of thj trusts can be conducted, and he does not want to injure the trusts. They are creatures of the republican party, and the party is their creator. If the party is going to turn against it3 friends there is going to be trouble. If Mr. Knox does not go on the people will make life a burden for him, and if he does go on the trusts will smash him. and that's what's the matter with Knox. Tiffin (O.) News: Some shrewd po litical wire pulling Is being done, m order to manufacture a boom for Gro ver Cleveland for the democratic nomination for president in 1904, and John R. McLean, of the Cincinnati Enquirer, who has been denouncing Grover for years, clhnbs into Cleve land's band wagon, and hopes to swing Ohio in the line. But it won't go. The democrats of Ohio have no more love for McLean than they have for Cleveland, and will refuse to be led ot the dictation of Wall street. The nominee of the democratic con vent ii n next year will be a democrat, which means a man who' supported th t'eket in 1896. Linn (Mo.) Democrat: But upon what hypothesis do Mr. Cleveland's admirers conclude that the democrats of the country will unite upon the The President on the Tariff. During his tour President Roosevelt has only touched upon the tariff ques tion to admit it Is not perfect, while declaring it must not be tampered with lest the American workingman fall from that sublime height to which he has risen only by tho help of th3 republican party. Thus he makes two propositions, one of which so depends upon the other that both must fall if one support bo snatched away the tariff is bad in degree, but its contin uance is justified because it helps the workingman. Now, the building trades unions havo been striking all over the east' era and middle states, so that the conditions have grown acute in the great cities of Now York, Boston and Philadelphia, with rioting from work Ihgmen in Massachusetts and Connec ticut. The carpenters have struck in Philadelphia, and the Ledger, an oil and influential republican Journal, discusses the differences calmly and Judicially, concluding: "The employes in no single branch of the building trades are protected by the tariff, but the makers of the i-ingley act declared their chief ob ject In making was to protect our domestic labor iom the cheap labor of the old world. How thoroughly sincere was this statement Is shown bythe difference in the wages re spectively received by our non-protected workmen and our protected op eratives. The tariff-protected em ployes are obliged to work GO hours p. week for $12 ,and the non-protected, ones work but 48 hours a week for from two to four times the wage paid to the so-called beneficiaries of the Dingley act In the textile trade." Here is the charge from a most re spectable republican source that the protected workingmen are paid less and have less consideration than then brethren outside the protected lines that such is the fact we all know, and the government census proves. We are driven then to tho conclusion that the president makes an untruthful statement Ignorantly, even as he said coal was not protected by the tariff heumatism Cured fiy a (tew Reraody. 50,000 BOXES FREE. Mill Mm wmwvk wtmM Ip For rheumtlsm, that horrible plarjuo, i dis covered & harmless re medy, and in order thai every Buffering render may learn about it, I will gladly mail him a BOX Froo. 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Not many moons ago he Journey to a country town on business. That night he rqtired early in order to get a nickel's worth of sleep, because he had to catch an early morning train. It was 4 a. m. when he was called. He Jumped out of bed, lit a match and proceeded to light the lamp. Now that's where the fun came in. He Is used to lighting Incandescent gas lamps. This was a coal oil lamp. Tho absent minded traveler held the match at tho top of the chimney and swore like a trooper because It wouldn't light. After he had burned his fingers three times he came to. And what he said won't do. Min neapolis News. Somewhat Singular. It seems a little singular that when a colored female postmaster In the south is disturbed in her work the whole power of the postofllce depart ment is Instantly enlisted in her be half, and yet a gang of thieves can loot the building where the postmas ter general sits and he does not hear of it. A single negro mail carrier on a rural delivery route in Alabama has stones thrown at him, and forthwith the postmaster general reads the riot act to every southern constituency; ye when a reputable citizen of Washing ton makes affidavit that the depart ment officials are In "cahoots" with a business house to swindle the gov ernment, Mr. Payne refuses to believe aijd tajfgs no steps to put a stop to it. The. Northwestern believes that re publican frauds are not a whit better than those of democratic origin, and that a republican thief deserves pun ishment Just as much as a democratic thief. There is ample reason to be lieve that there is rottenness In the postofllce department and that it is the duty of the postmaster general and the president to stop the frauds an1 punish the delinquents. Oshkosh Northwestern. I i H j.r.r. t. .,!.