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-CAMPAIGN OF INTIMIDATION
In a political struggle so unmistak
ably between the masses and the
classes as the present one it is not
surprising that every influence that can
be exerted by means of wage paying
appealing to ignorance offering re
wards and threatening resentment is
used by those upon whom fortune has
conferred large means which they hope
to make larger Especially by corpora
tions where individual responsibility is
such exertions
so conveniently hidden are
tions put forth Everywhere we have
the rich endeavoring to deceive the
poor and the well worn fraud of the
silver dollar worth fifty cents
though exposed ten thousand times
does perpetual duty shamelessly and
figures in every newspaper as an argu
ment Compulsion is on every hand
and in every shape
One day the railroads refuse to make
reduced rates for Democratic gather
ings The next life insurance companies
issue to their policyholders campaign
literature urging on the latter the
falsehood that the value of policies will
be diminished one half by Democratic
success and thereby proclaiming them
selves insolvent to accomplish a par
tisan object The day after comes a
meeting of the clerks and employes of
-some banking house who unanimously
upon penalty of discharge if dissent
ang indorse McKinley and Hobart
Then follows the eviction of a working
man for non conformity with his em
ployer on the silver question Next the
shutting up of an iron mine and the
throwing of thousands out of employ
-under false pretense of apprehension
of diminishing profits Clergymen are
compelled to preach partisan sermons
under threat of reduction of salary and
cooks and housemaids wages are re
trenched because we are all coming
to a silver basis A railroad mens
sound money club is to be organized
among those who receive wages from
every transportation company and the
prediction is made that the compulsory
votes of these clubbites will in some
States carry counties
This is a tremendous power for the
Democracy to encounter It coritrols
the timid and those incapable of rea
soning and it should correspondingly
arouse the patriotic and energetic It
is clear that a campaign of lies is to be
anticipated and that every perversion
of truth will be welcomed by our adver
saries and inflicted by them upon their
dupes A bold front must be taken as
to this intimidation policy of the Mc
Kinley managers without further de
lay New York News
The Joss Gets Loose
In the absence of Li Hung Hamia
grand vizier and high priest the Joss of
Canton has escaped from his shrine and
is wandering up and down 1he State of
Ohio uttering strange and unfamiliar
phrases and carrying alarm and con
sternation among the laithful Tro
fane and vulgar persons are permitted
to gaze upon the unveiled countenance
of the oracle No priest is at hand to
turn aside the gaping multitude The
sacred hat is set awry upon the anoint
ed head and from it issue blasphemous
and heretical deliverances calculated
to disturb and unsettle even the very
elect Away from the complicated and
curiously contrived mechanism of the
joss house the miniature windmills
the delicate clockwork the tanks of
natural gas the Joss moves feebly and
uncertainly His eyes no longer glow
ing witn the fire of inspiration are fixed
in a stony and fishlike stare His
lreastplate lacks luster the very
dragons and butterflies on his mantle
of yellow silk seem to doze Worst of
all the phonographic apparatus in the
Hat is hopelessly deranged and there
is no one at hand to set it right It
runs on emitting the most heterodox
and revolutionary sentiments and caus
ing dismay and doubt among the wor
shipers
At Alliance for instance whither the
Joss had been hauled in triumph by a
shouting multitude of his disciples the
Hat was expected to set forth in the
-usual terms the saving grace of a high
protective tariff Deep silence reigned
-during the preliminary croakings and
wheezings of the hallowed headpiece
and the devotees settled down to listen
to the familiar words Judge of their
dismay when instead of the traditional
Ttariff creed uttered in ponderous and
solemn tones and accompanied by the
familiar sweep of the right arm the
-Joss hesitated wavered for a moment
and then in a dull monotone gave forth
ibis sentiment
After all my fellow citizens the
hope of the republic its safety and
the hope of strength and perpet
uity of popular government must rest
-upon the great public school system
now happily and firmly established
throughout the United States
Here was sacrilege from the Joss hini
self the oracle desecrating his own
shrine Contrary to all his teachings
that the safety of the republic lay sole
ly in the highest tariff that could be de
vised the tutelary deity declared that
salvation was to be found to another
direction The idol was smashing it
self Protection and prosperity were
blasphemed The result was panic
-confusion utter rout The devotees
stared wildly and then fled to the neigh
boring forests uttering cries of alarm
They have not since emerged As for
the Joss ne stood for a while deserted
in his temporary shrine a vacant smile
upon bis face and his lips feebly mov
ing Then he gathered up the skirts of
his garments and started across coun
try for Canton Li Hung Hanna has
been telegraphed for Chicago Chron
icle
Drivel in Polticn
a contemporary in noting the fact
that William J Bryan the Democratic
candidate for President travels in good
style puts up at first class hotels aud
has a score of assistants back of his
candidacy asks where he is getting the
money to meet these expenses Then
it proceeds to answer its own question
by intimating that Senator Thurston
is right in averring that Candidate
Bryan is in the pay of a wealthy syndi
cate of silver mine owners
It is time to eliminate drivel of this
sort from politics Any sensible person
knows that as the candidate of his par
ty Mr Bryan has back of him the re
sources of the national Democratic
committee Naturally that organiza
tion will have a fair sum of money at
its command and it is both common
sense and custom for it to pay the ex
penses of the head of the ticket espe
cially while traveling
While it is true that the free silver
would by no means prove that it was
right The best interests of ninety nine
oue hundredths of the American people
are on the side of low tariff taxes and
enlarged commerce Sooner or later
they will find this out and demand that
every vestige of protection be de
stroyed
The Democratic tariff principle is en
tirely right and just and is therefore
bound to prevail throughout all the
world at no distant time A Republi
can victory gained by a campaign of
falsehood appeals to ignorance and pre
judice and corruption funds contrib
uted by the protected trusts may de
lay the good work of breaking down
high tariff walls which divide nations
but the movement for a sound economic
system of taxation will not stop In
spite of all discouragements it will con
tinue until the people everywhere rec
ognize and accept the great truth that
liberty is the law of commerce as well
as of political institutions
Looking Forward
O Billy McKinley will have a black eye
After election
The people will know that the Bryan
booms high
The St Louis convention they chained
up a bear
But the Republicans surely will swear
By the great guns they never were there
After election
Therell be no more talking of 16 to 1
After election
For then the good deed will really be
done
After election
The free silver law will really be so
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Ventriloquist Haoa You will observe ladies and gentlemen that the little
figures speak exactly as I direct
candidate is not so well fixed financial
ly as is the head of the single gold
standard ticket the recollection as to
where Major McKinleys wealth came
from is not greatly to his credit After
McKinleys disastrous failure when it
was found that he had upon a fortune
of less than 30000 endorsed paper to
the extent of 110000 it will be remem
bered that representatives of the indus
tries protected by the McKinley bill
came forward and saved the Ohio
statesman from ruin It is foolish for
any person or newspaper to attempt
to make campaign material of the fact
that Mr Bryan is a poor man Had
not the protected industries come to
McKinleys relief not only would he be
still poorer than is Mr Bryan but he
would also be weighed down with
debts whichwould have kept him from
ever again being in a position to pose
in either business or politics Phila
delphia Item
Democratic Tariff Principle Ts Right
The McKinleyites defend their threat
to unsettle business with another pe
riod of congressional dickering with
protected interests by saying Vote
this year for higher duties and settle
the tariff question for once and all
Restore the McKinley law and then we
shall have no more of this agitation for
free trade
The idea that going back to protec
tion will take the tariff question out of
politics is a grave mistake There can
not and will not be a truce on the is
sue between high taxes and low taxes
between cheap goods and dear goods
between restricted trade and free com
merce with all the world So long as
the system of raising public revenues
operates to benefit a small number of
persons at the expense of the whole
people so long as customs taxes foster
monopoUes by shutting out foreign
competition so long as heavy duties
increase the cost of the peoples neces
sities there will be a tariff question on
which parties will be divided
There can be no compromise between
the men who believe that protection is
favoritism paternalism and robbery
under the form of law and the men
who claim that it is a sound public
policy One view or the other is right
The Democrats are convinced that
taxes should be so levied as to yield
the largest revenue with the least in
jury to trade and industry The Re
publicans profess to believe that for
eign commerce is an evil which should
be restricted if not altogether prohib
ited Even if the latter theory should
be endorsed by the people this year it
For rhis is a fact as you very well know
The Republicans all will be under the
snow
After election
The free silver man fills the Presidents
chair
After election
For McKinley you know will never be
there
After election
And gold bugs will hide their heads in
disgust
Their glittering flag will be trailed in the
dust
And their golden balloon it will certainly
bust
After election
The people will get what they really need
After election
Down will go corporate power and greed
After election
Financial distress will have gone by
The good of the people will be all the cry
For twenty years coming but now it ia
nigh
Just after election
Said by a Republican
One thing is certain silver converts
are being made very fast and free coin
age is more popular now than six
months ago The common people all
want it bankers merchants manufac
turers and professional men are begin
ning to think that its horrors may
have been exaggerated while all unite
in declaring that things could be little
worse from a business standpoint than
the last few years And the truth is
the people may vote in November to
try it Alleghenian
Bousht Snpport
In every city and town of the coun
try the newspapers which are con
trolled by corporate capital are on the
side of McKinley No Democratic
papers free from such influences have
hesitated to espouse the cause of
Bryan and stand by the unmistakable
will of the masses of the party as rep
resented in the Chicago convention-
Brooklyn Citizen
Goldites Puzzled
One of Mr Bryans questions wlncn
puzzle the goldbugs is this Tf the gold
standard is a good thing why seek to
do away with it by international agree
ment if it is a bad thing why hang on
to it until somebody else will help us
to turn loose Augusta Chronicle
Must Be Both
The Constitution of the United States
says No State shall make anything
but gold and silver a legal tender
Not gold or silver but gold and sil
ver They are put on an equality-
Springfield Register
NOTES ON EDUCATION
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO PU
PIL AND TEACHER
School Government Must Parallel
Family Government Mistake of
Modern Pedauocy One Teachers
Plan to Prevent Whisperinc
School Government
In the Journal of Education Col F
W Parkor is represented as saying
A school should be anideal democ
racy in the fullest sense of the word
until our common schools are founded
firmly upon this ideal pur republican
institutions are constantly endangered
One cannot be governed tyrannnically
until 21 j ears of age and then become
a self acLmg self determining member
of the body politic
It would perhaps be going a little
too far to say that when Colonel Parker
opens his mouth he puts his foot in it
but he certainly does say things very
often whose leading recommendation
is sound end not sense It is evidently
a case where Colonel Parkers preach
and practice or belicl cannot be in har
mony An ideal democracy is a com
munity made up of self governing indi
viduals who agree to abide by the de
cision of a majority These individuals
are capable orshould be of considering
a question of government and deciding
concerning it in accordance with cer
tain fixed principles or established rules
or customs that all have agreed or are
obliged to be guided by Childhood is
a period of immaturity a period of
growth ard development in character
and preparation for the responsibilities
of citizenship We know the imperfec
tions of maturity Does Col Parker or
any one believe for a moment that the
responsibilities of self government in a
democracy so ill borne by the mature
citizen can or should be placed upon
the child Of course the idea is absurd
School government must parallel fam
ily government In the family the will
of the wise parent must be law and
constitution of tlie family government
In a wisely regulated family there is
a well understood code of rules a fam
ily etiquette in short with which all
must conform and in order that family
life may run smoothly and happily
must acquire a habit of conforming
In the very nature of things school
government must carry out the same
line of work as the family government
I works with the same material for
the same ends Tht rules of conduct
in family and school are determined by
the relation a of individual to individ
ual b oL individual to the entire fam
ily or seiool and c of the family or
school to the individual So the proper
lj conducted school must and will have
p wisely arranged order of tilings and
ot doing It must emanate from the
teacher and must be recognized by all
A violation of the established system
by any individual should be considered
a WTong cot against the teacher per
sonally but against the school as a
whole and its well being The individ
ual must acquire habits of system of
orderliness of systematic application
of regard for the rights of others and
cf the community in childhood and in
school And the teacher who does not
realize and grasp his responsibilities
in this particular sins against his pro
fession aud the children in his care His
profession might foigive him the chil
dren never can
Enthusiastic advocates of individual
Ism occasionally break out in the teach
ers ranks and attempt to carry on a
school oM the democratic go-as-you-please
system or lack of system Such
work meiPly develops lawlessness cul
tivates a habit of acting from impulse
and a disregard for the rights of oth
ers It produces weak characters not
strong ones The development of the in
dividual should not be construed to
mean the development of his selfish
propensities Northwest Journal of
EducatiDn
Mistake of Modern Pedagogy
One of the serious mistakes of mod
ern pedagogy is the- effort to make
learning easy The mistake rests on
the mistaken belief that knowledge is
education and that tne prime work of
the teach r is to pour in Devices are
the ordei of the day Short methods
and easy roads are demanded Every
thing must be so simplified that the
child absorbs as a sort of intellectual
sponge rather than masticates digests
and beomes strong from the assimil
ated food
The great value of educating proc
esses is eliminated when the work of
thinking is not done by the child
While it is well that the work of edu
cation should be made interesting to
the pupil in order that he lay hold of it
with some zeal it is altogether a mis
take to make it so easy that but little
if any mental effort is required on its
part It is indeed this very mental
effort fo overcomQ difficulties that
makes the child itcllectually strong
There is a similarity between the physi
cal culture needed to make the strong
man and the mental culture needed to
add to the childs mental strength
Imagine j ourself for a moment in the
act of giving a lesson on physical cul
ture by simply showing the learner how
the weights are lifted the bars vaulted
and the like How much better do we
do when we make the mental work of
the child equally easy by simplifying
the steps and the processes so greatly
that but little intense effort is required
on the part of the child
The truth is the mental training
which child gets only from his own
efforts properly guided and directed by
the teacher and the parents Is the most
valuable i art of his Without
this mental training there can be no in
tellectual strength no real education
Knowledge is necessarily incidental
however valuable may be it is the
training that makes the man
Learning should not be made easy
sny more than physical exercise should
be made easy Easy culture of either
kind will make weaklings Let us see
that the children under our care are
interested in their work and that learn
ing is made attractive to them that is
necessary but let us see at the same
time that they have work to do and
work of such a character as will compel
them to think for themselves
Getting an Education Cheaply
In comparison with the cost of a col
lege education in thi3 generation the
following will be read with interest A
fortunate accident the discovery of an
undergraduates account book for th
year 16S2 8 enables us to trace In com
paratively minute detail the expenses
and in some measure the life of an Ox
ford student of no great means at the
close of the seventeenth century The
undergraduate in question one James
Wilding seems to have been a servitor
of St Marys hall and afterward be-
came a member of Morton College The
total cost of his degree or rather his
expenses up to the end of the term in
which he took his degree was some
thing less than 57 a sum which might
represent in modern values about three
times as much But even such an ex
penditure was large compared with
such cases as that of Whltefield whose
popularity as a servitor gained by his
previous experience as a tapster en
abled him to take his degree in 1735
at a cost to his friends of less than
24 and Bishop Wadsworth has re
corded instances where the entire out
lay was even less taan that Board
and lodging as we have said were ex
tremely cheap Though James Wild
ing seems to have lived in Oxford the
whole year round his total expenses
for chamber rent and food were no
more than 10 for nearly five years
His terminal payments were on a sim
ilarly modest scale Ten shillings a
term was his tutors fee half a crown
to the barber 4 or 5 shillings to his
bedmaker and laundress an occasional
largess of sixpence to the buttery boy
and the cook seem to have included all
of what we may termihis fixed charges
Hi3 matriculation cost him 7 shillings
and sixpence his entrance to Merton
when he migrated to that college 5
shillings and the fees upon taking his
degree something over 3 McMillans
Magazine
Some Famous Colleges
Harvard was founded in 1636 the
fir t step for higher education in Ainer
ica says an exchange
Alfred the Great established Oxford
niversity in 879
William and Mary the second col
lege in America was in 1776 the richest
college in the country
Heidelberg is the oldest university
in Germany It was established in
1385
Lawrence Sheriff founded the famous
Rugby school in 1567
Columbia College was established in
New York city in 1755 It was then
called Kings College
Eton College was founded by Henry
YI about 1443
Princeton was established for the
education of Christian ministers in
1746
Yale College named in honor of Elihu
Yale was founded In 1700
Benjamin Franklin established the
University of Pennsylvania in 1740 at
Philadelphia
The first normal school was opened in
Paris in 1795
Dartmouth College was founded at
Hanover N H in 1769 to providr
Christian education for the Indians
The followers of Roger Williams
founded Brown University at Provi
dence in 1754
Rutgers College at Brunswick was
established in 1770
Matthew Vassar founded the Vassar
College in 1861
To Prevent Whispering
1 am a school teacher and want to
give my plan for the crusade against
whispering I divide the day into four
periods from 9 oclock until recess
from recess until noon etc Those who
pass a period without whispering I
mark 1 When a pupil has four of
these marks his name is put upon the
roll of honor which is tied with ribbons
and hangs near my desk When the
pupil gets four more a gilt star is
placed beside his name They all seem
interested in it and are crying to see
who can get the most stars I have
had no trouble about whispering since
I commenced this plan I know of a
number of teachers who say whisper
ing cannot be stopped Perhaps it can
not be entirely but surely it can be
held under some control so it need not
interfere with the order of the school
One Thing Lacking
T can make round Os and crooked Ss
Most as good as grown up Bessies
I can make my Ps and my curly Qs
And as many big As as ever I choose
I can count my numbers ever so far
And say Twinkle twinkle little star
Oh I can do everything in this world
Cept only stand still when my hair i
curled
Youths Companion
A Royal Christening
The ceremony of a Royal christening
in Russia is a most trying one for tin
child mercifully the parents are not
obliged to be present and the infant
daughter of the Czar and Czarina is
happily through the ordeal The pro
cession of much splendor and display
in which numerous court officials join
is a tiring preparation for the actual
baptism performed by the officiating
priest The child is not merely gently
touched with holy water but immers
ed completely and face downwards a
skillful manipulation of the priest
hand preventing the water from suffo
cating the babe After this the child
Is administered the sacramenfc deco
rated with the collar of the Order of
St Catherlttl and anointed frith c U
Hu yW -
Almond Charlotte
To make almond charlotte soak half
a package of gelatine in half a cup
of cold water two hours Blanch one
cup of almond -meats and chop them
fine Put three large spoonfuls of gran
ulated sugar in a saucepan over the fire
and -when it Is melted put in the nut
meat3 and stir until they become slight
ly browned remove from the fire and
when the meats are cold roll them fine
Put in a double boiler one and one half
cups of milk and the rolled meats and
place over the fire Beat light the yolks
of two eggs and add to them three
quarters of a cup of sugar Draw the
boiling milk to one side of the fire and
gradually stir in the egg mixture Put
iu the soaked gelatine and stir a few
moments remove quickly from the
range and stand the dish in a pan of
ice water Flavor with one teaspoouful
of bitter almond and beat the mixture
until it begins to thicken then add two
quarts of whipped cream and stir until
it is so thick that it cannot settle Turn
into prepared moulds and set in away
in a cool place to become firm
Cold Drinks
Cold tea should be made from tea
boiled then poured off and allowed to
stand until cold and diluted with cold
water to suit the taste The addition
of lemon juice to tea greatly improves
it Cold tea with lemon juice is known
as Russian tea
Drinking water no matter where
found should be filtered and boiled be
fore using for it is apt to contain dis
ease germs wasiied from watersheds
Pure fruit juices form most delicious
and nutritious drinks they can be
made at home or found already manu
faciured in the drug or grocery stores
Lemonade limeade orangeade are
drinks too well known to need more
than a mention Lime and orangeade
may be found bottled Raspberry vin
egar is also a valuable drink and may
be round already prepared The root
beers if not fermented are also valu
able Unfermented grape juice is now
extensivelj manufactured and diluted
with water forms a most acceptable
beverage Life and Health
Lobster Bourdelaiss
Select a coral lobster of about three
pounds plunge it into boiling water and
then cool for twenty minutes When
cold remove the meat from the shell
and cut in small bits also add a dozen
mushrooms cut in bits Put in a frying
pan three tablespooufuls of olive oil
When hot add three small onions cut
very fine Let the onions fry until a
light brown then stir in a tnblespoouful
of flour mix well then add slowly
stirring all the while half a pint of soup
stock Let the sauce cool well for five
minutes then remove from the fire and
stir in the juice of half a lemon and a
claret glass full of white wine Return
to the fire and add the lobster meat Let
all cook until thoroughly hot but do not
allow it to boil Serve on a hot dish
garnished with parsley
Fish Balls
Fish balls moistened with an egg
make a delightful and nutritious sum
mer breakfast By using shredded cod
fish all unnecessary work is avoided
there is no odor and the family break
fast can be prepared in ten minutes at
the cost of 10 cents This fish keeps
for any length of time and is always
available Mix with one half cup of
shredded codfish just as it comes from
the box a cup of unseasoned hot mash
ed potatoes add one small egg and a
speck of pepper beating all till creamy
shape roll in dried bread crumbs dip
in beaten egg and a teaspoonful of milk
then in crumbs again Fry in a wire
basket in deep hot fat just below the
smoking point till a rich brown drain
on brown paper
Hints
To remove the smell of onions on tne
hands ground mustard slightly damp
ened ruobed thoroughly on hands af
ter which wash witli sand soap
Instead of keeping ice in a dish where
it wilL quickly melt tie flannel loosely
on the dish so that it drops into the
bowl and keep the ice in a flannel bag
The rubber rings of fruit cans will
recover their elasticity if soaked for a
while in weak ammonia water This is
quite an item when canning is being
done ana the rubber rings tire found to
be stretched out of shape w
Wash willow furniture with warm
water and castile soap wiping very dry
with a soft cloth then dry in the sun or
near a fire To bleach it after washing
in warm suds set in a box without dry
small dish -of sulphur
ing put a burning
phur inside and cover the box for half
an hour
A dressmaker is the authority for a
hint on caring for the big sleeves still
a part of the fashionable bodice In
hanging the bodice in the wardrobe
turn the fullness of the sleeve up above
the shouider as whon it is wornr and
fold its width smoothly and lightly un
der the sleeve at each side This care
will preserve its shape and grace
In practice 100 pounds of flour will
make 133 to 137 pounds of bread the
average being about 136 pounds In the
making the yeast causes the sugar to
ferment yielding alcohol and carbonic
acid in the form of gas which makes
the dough porous In the baking the al
cohol is changed to vapor and the car
bonic acid is expended The addition
of shortening and sats brings up the
fat and minerals in the bread so that
the proportion are larger than in the
flour
r