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REPUBLICAN REPUDIATION
They Promise
From the hour of achieving their own
independence the people of the United
States have regarded with sympathy
the struggles of the other American
people to free themselves from Euro
pean domination We watch with deep
-and abiding interest the heroic battle of
the Cuban patriots against cruelty and
-oppression and our best hopes go out
for the full success of their determined
contest for liberty
The government of Spain having lost
-control of Cuba and being unable to
protect the property and lives of resi
lient American citizens or to comply
with its treaty obligations we believe
that the government of the United
-States should actively use its influence
and good offices to restore peace and
give independence to the island From
Republican Platform adopted at St
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Tliey Wabble
Nor on the standpoint of expedience
do I think it would be wise or prudent
for this government to recognize at the
present time the independence of the so
called Cuban republic Such recogni
tion is not necessary in order to enable
the United States to intervene and
pacify the island
To commit this country now to the
recognition of any particular govern
ment in Cuba might subject us to em
barrassing conditions of international
obligation toward the organization so
recognized In case of intervention our
conduct would be subject to the ap
proval or disapproval of such govern
ment we would be required to submit
to its direction and to assume to it the
mere relation of a friendly ally
dents Message of April 11 1898
Gold Bonds
Eastern newspapers devoted to the
gold propaganda are busy devising
plans to make the war with Spain an
excuse for fastening the yoke of gold
on the necks of the people While cer
tain Western monetary reform organs
are fearful that silver may be given a
chance because of Avar Eastern news
papers are urging that quite the con
verse of this proposition should be
maintained In discussing war finan
cial measures the New York Commercial-Advertiser
blandly says We can
not borrow to advantage on our present
basis of payment We should have to
make our bonds payable in gold or sub
mit to a costly discount or increase of
interest This was illustrated in Cleve
lands last bond sale when the buyers
offered to take 3 per cent if the bonds
were made paj able in gold and Con
gress refused It -would be impolitic
to discredit our present bonds and de
preciate them in the markets by dis
criminating in favor of new issues so
it would be necessary to declare the
whole public debt payable in gold This
is a lovely proposition for the bond
holders and the bond buyers but it will
not meet with the approval of the peo
ple nor of the Senate of the United
States It would not lighten the bur
don of a new war debt doubtless com
paratively small to make a present of
2 per cent of the gold war debt to tne
bond holders by enacting that it be paid
in gold All the plots of the gold clique
will come to naught Congress re
fused to grant Grover Cleveland per
mission to issue gold bonds and Con
gress can be counted on to block the
little game which the money spinners
are now engaged in devising
Conspiracy at Washington
There is something radically wrong
In the way state secrets are handled at
Washington Every newspaper in the
United States was on the alert Wednes
day to receive and print the Presidents
message Those whose business it is to
get news and to get it promptly were
led to believe that the message was to
be presented to Congress about noon
but Wall street operators knew two
hours before the information was given
to the public that the message was not
to be sent in until the following Mon
day
How did Wall street operators get
their information How is it that scock
speculators are given the opportunity
to make fortunes on the street through
advance notice of what the administra
tion is going to do and Congress and
the people are kept in ignorance
There is a scandal of the darkest and
most disgraceful character in this con
dition of affairs There is no use in at
tempting to avoidthe conclusion Facts
are not to be overthrown by assump
tions that the men in the cabinet are too
honorable and too careful to permit
state secrets to leak out The people
were trifled with deceived cajoled
Congress was fooled and befuddled
Who is responsible for this sort of
work Congress has the right to know
Chicago Dispatch
Ohio Is Democratic
President McKinleys own State has
rgiven the Republican party the sever
est blow it has yet received this year
As recently as November last that par
tv elected its candidate for Governor
Ty a plurality of 28000 despite the
fight between the Foraker and Hanna
factions In the recent local contests
when there was apparent harmony in
the ranks the Republicans were beat
en almost everywhere and it is esti
mated that the plurality of last year
has not only been wiped out but that
a Democratic one fully as large has
Teen put in its place
Not since 1889 have the Democrats
carried the State although they came
Tery near doing so In the Presidential
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election of 1S92 The organization of
the party has become more and more
demoralized each year and in the city
of Cincinnati where it was formerly
most powerful it iost steadily until it
polled only half the votes it did for
merly and gave McKinley In 189G a
clear majority of nearly 20000 In this
same city the Republicans have just
been beaten by 2000 and yet their op
ponents did not half try to achieve vic
tory
The result in this the most import
ant city of the State has been practi
cally duplicated In other cities Mark
Hannas influence and money scarcely
being able to save the Republican tick
et in Cleveland where he has his resi
deuce while in the smaller places
Democratic ma3ors have been elected
for the first time in twenty years Fol
lowing the elections in New York and
other States this spring the Ohio re
sult is most sighmcant New Tors
News
Mark Hanna Guilty
It is not creditable to the administra
tion that its chief adviser should be a
man convicted of felony Mark Han
na who claims to have made McKin
ley and who attends Cabinet meet
ings and dictates the Presidents pol
icy has been found guilty of bribery
by the Senate committee of the Ohio
Legislature appointed to investigate
the charges that money was corruptly
used by Hanna to secure his election
to the United States Senate
No one who watched the course oC
the Ohio Senatorial election has ever
had any doubt that Hanna resorted to
bribery No well informed Republican
politician can be found who will deny
the truth of the charge against Hanna
except in the glittering generalities
which are the refuge of those who
wish to avoid admitting the truth Is
it not a disgrace to the Senate of the
United States that a convicted felon
should be recognized as one of its
members Is it not a deeper and more
bitter disgrace that such a man should
be the adviser of the President Ex
change
Hanna Not Yet Out of the Woods
The bribery charges against Senator
Hanna have not been dropped They
will go to Congress in a contest against
his taking his seat for the full term
commencing on the 4th of March next
He is now serving out the remainder
of Secretary Shermans term as Sena
tor The investigating committee of
the Ohio Senate will make a partial re
port before the adjournment of the
Legislature and be authorized to pro
long its sittings to get the testimony
of Senator Hanna and Charles F
Dick the Republican State committee
chairman who have so far refused to
come before the committee That does
not speak very favorably for Mr
Hanna Pittsburg Tost
RcturuinK to the Farms
One result of the financial depression
one of the good things that often
come out of evil has been the back-to-the-land
movement among urban peo
ple The illusions that drew thousands
from the farms to the cities have been
shattered by the hard conditions en
tailed by the panic The vital ever
present inescapable necessities of life
are bread and butter and these the
city can give only at second hand
Whatever storms may strew the indus
trial sea with wreck food shelter and
clothing are assured to the man on the
farm while the idle workman of the
city must walk the streets In vain
search for work St Paul Globe
Disgusted Republican Organs
The persistent interference of the pro
Spanish parties represented in Wash
ington chiefly by Secretaries Bliss and
Gage is having a disturbing effect in
Congress and on the people American
citizenship cannot endure the thought
that a question of principle and duty
can be determined or considered by the
profits or loss of stock speculators or of
anybody else New York Press
Some Things Better than Moey
It may not be amiss to remind mer
chants who have received solicitous
peace communications from the East
that there is something higher and
nobler in life than the pursuit of
wealth Patriotism and love of coun
try should come before all else If the
peace party can reconcile Insult
treachery and dishonor with the quali
ties mentioned all well and good
Evansville Courier
The Weak State Department
The State Department seems to be
in commission with Judge Day Mark
Hanna and Grosvenor in charge Of
course President McKinley must be
embarrassed and weakened by such
a condition and the country although
keeping its temper admirably is pro
foundly humiliated Pittsburg Post
Problem for Peacemakers
Either Spain must give up Cuba or
we must back down from a just law
ful and necessary position Will the
peacemakers tell us which is the more
likely to promote our national content
ment and well being New York
Times
Banna Always Un American
The American people are very tired of
Marcus Alonzo Hanna They have
erated him for years They will not
stand him much longer He has never
said or done a thing which was not un
American Washington Times
There is a grim suspicion in the
minds of many that the so called busi
ness interests of the country would
accept peace at the price of national
dishonor Peoria Journal
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TIFFANY GRAVITY CLOCK
tmported from Paris and Triumph
of Mechanical AccuraW
The gravity clock is one of Tittcmy
Cos recent importations from Paris
and a veiy Ingenious affair It is made
of brass and gilt The dial and clock
case are entirely of glass showing the
mecahnism in whole of its most inter
esting features
In appearance the clock suggests a
finely finished model of a machine or
hoisting apparatus rather than a time
piece The dial is secured to an up
right brass A structure this latter is
surmounted by a round aneroid barom
eter which suggests the familiar steam
gauge around the dial is a large fly
wheel with sprockets and to the left
there is an endless bucket chain lift
constructed upon the principle of a
grain elevator with a thermometer on
the post of the lift suggesting a steam
valve Forty one little weighted balls
about as large as a good sized pea are
employed to operate the clock They
are drawn up on this bucket chain and
dropped at intervals of a minute into
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TIFFANT GRAVITY CLOCK
a conduit over the fly wheel from
which they roll into the sockets of the
wheel The wheel carries twenty one
of the balls at one time and their
weight revolves the wheel the power
thus produced swings the pendulum
and governs the hands on the dial The
wheel carries the balls about a third of
the way around and then they drop
Into another conduit a triple incline
which finally lands the balls at the foot
of the elevator again where the endless
chain gathers them up for another
swing around the circuit There is
some fine mathematical work on this
clock as everything depends upon ac
curate calculations The balls must
Weigh precisely alike and the momen
tum of each must be the same If one
of the balls were to lose a fraction of a
second in descending the triple incline
tt would miss Its proper pocket on the
lift and stop the clock Each of the
little spheres travels 209 feet 5 inches
avery day and in the course of a year
makes a journey of over fourteen miles
Of course the problem of perpetual
motion has not been solved and so
there must be a hidden mechanism
TOO BIG TO ROLL
German Soldiers Make a SnowballSo
Big They Couldnt Move It
This may be called a military snow
ball for it was begun by a German of
ficer who afterward ordered two sol
diers to go on rolling it As the ball
grew larger and larger the number of
soldiers was increased until at length
a whole company of German infantry
A IlEMAUKABLK SNOWBALL
had been turned out and keenly enjoy
ed the fun At last operations had to
be suspended for the reason that there
was not room on the surface of the ball
for enough hands to push it The
snowball was then six feet high but so
heavy it was immovable
THE SNOW SHOVEL AT SEA
Familiar Implement of Land Use
Found on Waters as Well
The common idea of a snow shovel is
that it is used to clear the sidewalk and
that sort of thing but the snow falls
on the sea as well as on land and if
there is a ship in the way of the storm
the snow of course falls on its decks
just as it would fall on anything ashore
It may be that the snow that falls on
the ship will be washed off by the sea
or It may be necessary to clean it off so
as to give a better and securer foothold
on the decks and to facilitate the work
ing of the ship This is often done
with snow shovels which are carried
by probably nine out of ten of the deep
water ships from one to three each ac
cording to the size of the vessel
The snow shovels used aboard ship
are made especially for that use They
are not iron or steel shod along the
edge as most of the snow shovels used
along the shore are and whatever
metal is used in their construction is
so placed that it cannot come in con
tact witih tne deck No iron shovel Is
ever used on a ships deck
As a matter of fact the snow shovel
s used on shipboard mostly when the
Ship is in port -where she may remain
for a period of weeks discharging and
reloading but when the vessel sails
the snow shovels are stowed away in
the large lazaretto aft or under the
forecastle deck forward On ship
bound for San Francltco the snow-
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ehovela may be needed When she Is
rounding Cape Horn where snow some
times falls in summer Snow that alAs
upon the deck in the waist of the ship
Is likely to be washed away by the
water slie takes aboard the decks more
likely to need shoveling are those high
er above the sea the forecastle deck
and the quarter deck In a time of
snow squalls the captain would per
haps keep a man standing ready with a
shovel to shovel off the snow after ev
ery squall There might be times when
the decks were iced and slippery when
the captain would have ashes strewn
upon them to give a securer foothold
To the Point
A certain Eastern company that
some time ago was anxious to purchase
a silver lead mine found itself in a
state of uncertainty What seemed to
be a really attractive mine was found
to be in the market and negotiations
for its purchase were entered upon
The result of these negotiations is re
ported by the Spokane Miner and Elec
trician
As the ore assayed well and every
thing looked propitious a mining ex
pert was sent to examine the mine His
report was favorable in fact it was too
favorable He certified that the ore
was there in large quantities and that
it was extremely valuable His un
qualified praise aroused the suspicion
of the would be purchasers If the
mine was indeed so valuable why was
the price so low The company deter
mined to investigate more closely
At this point a well known mining
man of Spokane recommended that a
certain rough-and-ready genius a man
who had graduated from no college
should be sent to look at the mine
You can depend on his judgment
said the miningman and he will tell
you nothing but the truth You had
better trust to his report which in all
probability will be short and very
much to the point
The advice was followed and the
event showed the wisdom of the ad
viser As he had predicted the report
was short and full of pith It read sub
stantially as follows
Dear Sirs I have made an examina
tion of the Cliff Dwellers mine and re
port that the ore is there as ripresinted
that it assays high that it is there in
plenty but to get your supplies in and
your fore out you will need a pack thrain
of bald agles
The mine was rejected on the ground
of inaccessibility
Had Several Alibis
Sir Francis Dockwood of England
whose death was announced recently
from London was one of the best story
tellers I ever heard said Attorney
Henry Wollman recently He was at
Saratoga in 1S96 with Baron Russell
lord chief justice of England and won
great prominence and popularity dur
ing his stay there He could tell a
story better than Chauncey Depew
and that is saying a great deal
At a dinner party one evening he
was relating anecdotes of some of hia
early experiences and vp i
fending a man for murder One of the
strong points he made was an alibi
which he thought was a good one Af tei
the case went to the jury in a conver
sation Avitli the judge he asked him
what he thought of the alibi The
judge said he thought it doubtful if the
jury accepted it and then Sir Francis
replied
Thats too bad for I had half a
dozen other alibis just as good that I
could have used
Every one laughed at the remark
and it found its way into the newspa
pers the following morning Baron
Russell intimated to Sir Francis that
he had made an error and if the print
ed story got back to England it might
cause harsh comments as the British
idea of jesting might not catch the
point Kansas City Journal
Horace Greeleys Eccentric Ideas
Even his eccentric ideas were made
plausible by his treatment I heard
him say once that what was then
thought to be the Great American Des
ert ought to be planted with Canada
thistles so as to give nature some sort
of a green start wihen other vegetation
might be made to follow But the trou
ble is Canada thistles like any other
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ining inspireu uy pint t uaocuairao
will only grow and thrive where they
ought not to Find a place where their
presence would do some good and as
in the Humpty Dumpty case all the
kings horses and all the kings men
could not fasten them there This per
verseness suggestsin a certain way
the small boys conception of good and
bad his enchiridion of nature and life
Whats fun he said is always
wicked what we dont want to do is
pious Mr Greeley would cut down
his alders in the spring When I mild
ly suggested to him that our agricultu
ral authorities preferred the autumn
for that work when nature could not
so well aid tlAMr struggle for existence
he thought this reason was a mere ex
cuse for not cutting them at all
New Use for JLawyers
Etievant the anarchist who recently
murdered a Paris policeman and
wounded two others has found out a
use lor lawyers Having refused to
defend himself or employ a lawyer
the court assigned -one to take charge
of the defense Etievant would have
nothing to do with him declaring that
he wished to be condemned to death
till the lawyer explained that no jury
could bring in a verdict involving cap
ital punishment unless a defense was
made whereupon Etievant accepted
nis services
The nature of an oath is usually hu
man nature
Every sale made by the saloon keeper
Is a bargain
Real justice never plays to the grand
stand -
Every strange girl is just as aweet aa
she can be
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HENRIK IBSEN
The Great Norwegian Writer Was 70
Yeartf Old the Other Day
Ibsen clubs and various other literary
and dramatic organizations the world
over recently celebrated the 70th birth
day of Henrik Ibsen the great Nor
wegian writer Few foreign men of
letters have attracted such universal
attention as this retiring and frequently
almost inaccessible Norwegian writer
Of his works much Is known of his
personality little
Ibsen was born in the little town of
Skien in a mountainous region of Nor
way and his early life was passed un
der restrictions that were far from hav
Inga tendency to develop the latent gen
ius of the boy His education was re
ceived in a private school under the
conduct of two theological students
and later in the university of Christi
ana While at college and even before
he had done considerable writing and
his plays were so well received that at
the close of his college career he was
engaged as dramatic manager of the
principal theater of the country He
continued here until the Danes got into
trouble with the Prussians in 18G4
Then he became disgusted at his own
countrymen for not joining the Danes
and began to write caustic epigrams
criticising the spirit of the Norwegian
masses His railings accomplished
nothing but he himself became so dis
gusted that he left the country and
remained in Rome and Dresden about
twenty five years He wrote many
books and for each there was always
a ready sale His writings have been
translated into several languages and
when it becomes known that Ibsen has
a new book coming there is a great stir
among all classes of people and the
wonder is what the book is to be about
This Is a secret that is withheld even
from the members of his own family
In his home life Ibsen is a bundle of
peculiarities He has a wife and son
who is a doctor of philosophy and is
married into one of the most distin
guished families in the country His
home is bright and cheerful His study
is a cosy little corner stored with a
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lection of well selected and well-marked
books affording ample conveniences
and comforts within and looking upon
a panorama of magnificent scenery
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you can catch him in the humor you
can get from him readily one day what
no amount of persuasion could wring
from him the next In the throes of
composition he is absolutely inaccessi
ble He never goes to church and does
not believe in church organizations He
thinks well of Americans and fre
quently talks of making an American
tour
A Comparison of Sea and Land
The triviality of the sea compared
with the land is the theme of a recent
article by John Holt Schooling A
bucket 743 miles deep and 743 miles j
from sides to side would hold every
drop of the ocean This bucket could
rest quite firmly on the British Isles
To fill the bucket one would need to
work 10000 steam pumps each suck
ing up 1000 tons of sea per second for
422 years So if any one wants to be
rid of the sea the way is plain But to
get rid of the earth would be 4555 times
more difficult requiring 2000 great
guns each firing 1000 projectiles a sec
ond each projectile consisting of 100
000 tons of earth At the end of 1000
years this mundane sphere would be all
shot away
Dreams
An English general and his wife resi
dent in Ireland were constantly pes
tered by a woman to whom they had
been very charitable One morning
at the usual hour when the lady was
getting into her carriage the old wom
an aDueared and began
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Yes sir I fougnt
-with StonewsI
And faced the fight
with Lee
But If this here Un
ion goes to war
Make one more gun
for me
I didnt shrink from
Sherman
As he galloped to
the sea
But if this here Un
ion goes to war
Make one more gun
for me
1 was with em at Manassas
The bully boys in gray
I heard the thunderers Toarln
Round Stonewall Jacksons way
And many a time this sword of mln
Has blazed the route for Lee
But if this old nation goes to war
Make one more sword for na
Im not so full o flghtin
Nor half so full o fun
As I was back in the sixties
When I shouldered my old iam
It may be that my hair is wlte -
Sich things you know must be
But if this old Unions in for war
Make one more gun for me
I haint forgot my raisin
Nor how ltt sixty two
Or thereabouts with battle shouts
I charged the boys in blue
And I say I fought with Stonewall
And blazed the way with Lee
But if this old unions in tor war
Make one more gun for me
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Honor this morning of l the dnys lnf
the year for sure didnt I dram last
night that Her Ladyship gave aie a
pound of tay and Yer Honor gave me au
pound of tobacco
But my good woman said the
general do you not know that dreamsJ
always go by the rules of contrary
Do they so plase Yer Honor re
joined the old woman Then it must
be Yer Honor that will give me the tay
and Her Ladyship that will give me
the tobacco Chicago News
EMBRYONIC TORNADO
Singular Phenomenon Witnessed at
and Near New Orleans
A singular phenomenon recently met
the eyes of the good burghers of New
Orleans La Some excitedly called out
that it was a cyclone others called it a
waterspout and still others dubbed It
whirlwind and tornado Whatever It
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THE WONDEItFUL CLOUD
was it was at all events very active
and menacing for a quarter of an hour
and kept a large portion of the com
munity in painful suspense until it dis
appeared The whatever-it-was ap
peared dramatically over Lake Pont
chartrain darting down in a livid sul
phurous haze and hanging down like a
great blue black icicle from a heavy
black pall of cloud Although a great
distance from the center of the city it
could be seen that the cloud cylinder
was revolving at a terrible clip in space
For a while it hung gracefully pen
dant then by force the centrifugal ac
tion began to lift at the bottom until it
had assumed the shape of an enormous
sickle thrust down angrily from
heaven ready to mow away ail be
fore it
The next change was one of gradual
dissolution the tail cm ling up and then
flying off at right angles to the east
ward in thin black vermiculate stream
ers like snakes At one time in the
process of dissolution it looked as if it
were going to reform but of a sudden
gave over tho idea w3
space much as a cloudlet does in the
blue of a summer day
As soon as the cloud had dissolved
or drawn back into the big nimbus
from which it was born heavy showers
of rain fell from opposite ends of the
mother cloud and soon cleared the at-
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Douglass Compliment to JLiinoofn
Fred Douglass with all his long ex
perience never could entirely rid him
self of stage fright During the first
fifteen minutes when I front an audi
ence he said my knees will knock
together But when he got fairly go
ing this not uncommon nervousness
which all speakers have sometimes felt
would pass away He puts his points
well in any argument and Iris elo
quence was of a high order His trib
ute in one sentence to Abraham Lin
coln is an unsurpassed compliment
Mr Lincoln he said is the only
white man into whose presence I was
ever ushered who did not make me feel
that I was a negro Harpers Maga
zine
Railroad Building in China
For more than a year work has been
going on on fourteen miles of railroad
from Shanghai to Woosung and the
grading has not yet been finished Not
a tie or a rail has been laid Only Chi
nese workmen are employed About a
month or two ago the first sod was
turned at Hankow for the Hankow
Peking Railway but its- further prose
cution depends upon the success of the
Belgfan syndicate in floating a pro
posed loan for its construction
Sampler 132 Yeans Old
A Searsport Me man has an old
time linen sampler worked with silk
which Is Inscribed Bluebill Bay July
J 1766 Phebe Parker The sampler It
ih mv lady success to Your La- of eoarse linen such as young ladiest
dyship and success to Your Honors used to work 200 years ago
A Southern Volunteer
TWO VOICES
His Northern Brother
Just make It two old r
fellow I
I want to stand
once more
Beneath the old flag
with you
As In the days of
vore
Our fathers stood Ho
se ther
And fought on land
amd sea
The battles fierce
that made us
A nation of the
free
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1 whipped you down at Vicksburg
You licked me at Bull Hun
On many a field we struggled
When neither victory won
You wore the gray of Southland
I wore the Northern blue
Like men we did our duty
When screaming bullets flew
Four years we fought like devils
But when the war was dom
Your hand met mine in friflftdly clasp
Our two hearts beat as on
And now when danger threans
No North no South we know
Once more we stand together
To fight the common foe
My head like yours Is frosty
Old age is creeping on
Lifes sun is lower sinking
My day will soon be gone
But if onr countrys honor
Needs once again her son
Im ready too old fellow
So eet another gun f n
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