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'. lllustrated'Fruit for King,
A cablegram to tho Chicago Intor
Ocoan, under date of Paris, October
1C, says: M. Opolx, chief gardener at
the Luxembourg, Is hoping against
bope that a week of line, sunny wea
ther may precede tho arrival of tho
Italian sovereign in Paris.
It Is his duty to furnish tho dessert
for tho banquet, and, in view of this,
scys tho Figaro, he has covered a
number of apples and pears growing
on tho trees with paper, in which
silhouettes of King Victor Emmanuel.
Queen Helena, and President Loubet
have been cut, tho task of reproduc
ing the portraits on the surface of
the fruit being left to the sun.
The atmospheric conditions, how
ever, are not favorablo to M. Opoix's
ingenious scheme.
Body of John Paul Jones.
A dispatch to tho St. Louis Repub
lic, under date of Washington, Octo
ber 10, says: John Paul Jones, the
lirst commodore of the "American
navy, may be honored in a degree
commensurate" with his services to the
nation if the plans of certain Ameri
can historical and patriotic societies
como to fruition.
A letter three weeks ago stating
that tho known resting place of the
bones of John Paul Jones was un
marked and unhonored caused Secre
tary Moody to inquire into the mat
ter. Ho found that Lieutenant Com
imander William Sims, when naval
attache of tho American embassy in
Paris, investigated and reported it
piobabjy would be impossible to iden
tify the bones of Jones. It is sug
gested that congress at the coming
session be asked to appropriate $150,
000 for the purpose of recovering the
bones of John Paul Jones, who was
turied .in Paris, and bringing them
back to this country.
''Chump Factories"
York (Neb.) Democrat: There are
a variety of chumps in this country.
Some are born chumps, some achieve
chumposity and others have chump
ness stuck into them. The chump who
Totes the republican ticket these days
solely because he has been made to
bfclieve that his prosperity depended
upon the success of that party, is the
most pitiable of them all. He was
tdd to vote the republican ticket and
get 7 cents for his fat cattle. He voted
the ticket and got $2.80 to $3.20 per
hundred for his cattle. He" was told
to vote the republican ticket and get
$7.60 for hogs. "Vote tho republican
-ticket and have 60-cent corn" but
r' corn is 39 cents. "Let well enough
alone with dollar wheat," they sai(j,
hut wheat is 50 cents, by the way, just
precisely the price of an ounce of sil
ver. "Well enough" was let alono
but it was the "well enough" of the
trusts that got the benefit. You got
your 5-gallon can filled with gasoline
for 70 cnti just a short year ago, and
now it takes $1.10. Coal Is raising,
lumber is in the sky, railroad freights
soaring higher, and where does Mr.
Chump get his pay for letting JMr.
Well Enough alone? Lower prices for
what ho ells, higher prices for what
he buys, he has been swindled by tho
confidence department of tho g. ot p.
The chump factories are running full
time on freo ray material.
''PAYING THE FIDDLER."
PRESS COMMENT.
Sullivan (Ind.) Democrat: Secre
tary Shaw is retiring government
bonds due in February, 1904, paying
interest to that date, and allows banks
to deposit municipal and state bonds
as security for government deposits.
The suggestion of cutting off unnec
essary taxation to reduce the surplus
in the treasury so that 'the money can
remain in the pockets of the people is
called rank 'heresy by the adminis
tration. "
bulphur Springs (Tex.) Democrat:
The most fulsome eulogies of Grover
Cleveland come from republican
sources. In proof" of this we cite to
the editorials in the Chicago Chron
icle and to the published opinion of
tho boss of the republican party, Mark
Hanna, who says: "Grdver Cleveland
is a great democrat, greater than his
time or his party, who loolts with al
most disgust upon .many of his fel
lows who have strayed after false
gods and taken up with fallacious doc
trines." Rockvillo (Ind.) Tribune: With
Perry Heath in high party standing,
with Neeley and Rathbono and numer
ous other thieves unwhipped of jus
tice, the attempt of the government
to convict two "country lawyers" at
Cincinnati, last week, was in the na
ture of a farce. The Tribune takes no
stock in such a "bluff." When the
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