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ness enough to employ the idle money
In the country The limit of produc
tion at least in many lines has been
reached unless we can increase con
sumption by opening new markets
Louisville Courier Journal
- The Dingley Fraud
And that Is the situation In which we
find ourselves to day We have relied
upon Idol Dingley to fill our pockets
We have gone ahead and made exten
sive outlays confident that he would
come to the rescue at the critical mo
ment with the promised benefactions
He has disappointed us Either he
cannot- or he will not fulfill his con
tract We are worse off than we were
before we ever heard of him and yet
he sits in his shrine cross legged self
complacent shining with the palm oil
he obtained from us under false pre
tenses and still insists that we should
fall down and worship him Shall we
continue to do it Shall we keep on lav
ishing homage and gifts upon this bra
zen old idol who has shown himself to
be a pretender an impostor and a
shameless humbug Shall we not
rather knock him off his perch throw
him on the rubbish heap with his fel
lows and worshiping no idols at all
rely upon our own exertions for our
own prosperity May we not in this
case at least profit by the example of
our friends the Papuans Chicago
Chronicle
Encroachments of Monopoly
Pick up a newspaper of any date and
the advancing strength of monopoly
will appear Yesterday it was the
wall paper trust completed and launch
ed with the announcement that prices
would be raised 23 to 50 per cent at
once and that there would be a profit
of G000000 for the company next
year The wall paper trust was yes
terdays contribution to monopoly
What to morrows may be no one can
guess Everything fom beef to coffins
from rubber overshoes to collars is al
ready a trust We pay to monopoly for
individual profit the heavy taxes which
a few decades ago were considered in
tolerable when paid to the nation
New York Journal
Politics and Public Service
Nothing could be more humiliating
to the country than the talk of a Con
gressional investigation of the war de
partment but scandals may be expect
ed wherever politics is permitted to in
fluence the public service When the
President gave the war portfolio to a
man peculiarly unfitted for its manage
ment in payment of a campaign debt
and by way of promoting party inter
ests he prepared the way for the ex
ceedingly unpieasant developments
which have marred the satisfaction at
tending the victories of the army and
which will subject the government to
unwelcome comments by foreign pow
ers Kansas City Star
Democracy and the New Questons
Opportunity coldly and carelessly
enough has cast at our feet the wrecks
and hulks of oppression They are full
of people human beings like ourselves
though they are aliens and strangers
revealing the Republican party in its j Shall we set them adrift or shall we
true attitudo But this belated conces
sion 1o common honesty will not change
history It will nt alter the fact that
the Republican party seeking for votes
held out the hand of fellowship to the
bimetallists and then stabbed them in
the back and that it lied at St Louis
and boasted of its mendacity while the
Imc TTwrstttr wet on its solemn declara
tion
Mr Hanna would no doubt be glad to
have these matters forgotten but they
wil be forgotten by no one least of all
by the swindled and humbugged Re
publicans of the Western States
Republiran Consistency
An esteemed local contemporary esti
mates the cost of the war at 141000
000 Another equally esteemed local
contemporary puts it at 943000000
As both esteemed contemporaries are
Republican in politics and both pre
sumably have access to the official fig
ures the discrepancy is somewhat puz
zling Inaccuracy in the matter of sta
tistics is notoriously a Republican
summon our boasted democracy to a
test That Is the essence of the new
acquisitions We are very sure in
deed that the great party of Jefferson
will not shirk or postpone the issue
It must be met and disposed of now
to the end that other important issues
may- not be obscured Atlanta Consti
tution
He lijjht Command a Lumber Camp
Cannot President McKinley find some
place north or south of the equator to
locate Secretary Alger and renew con
fidence in the capacity and integrity
of the War Department by the selec
tion of some one who has the qualities
Longevity of Orange Trees
An orange tree will bear fruit till 15C
years old and there are recorded in
stances of orange trees -bearing when
500 years old
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THROWS OFF THE MASK
The Iiepublican party at last lias
Abandoned even tlie pretense of main
taining that plank of the St Louis
platform which declared for bimetal
lism Senator Ilanna as Chairman of
the Republican National Committee
liasTegun serving notice upon the local
leaders that nothing -which even
squints toward bimetallism will be per
mitted -in the State platforms And
what Mr Hanna says goes in Repub
lican circles
It is just as well that the Republican
party should take this action though
Its hypocritical professions of solicitude
for bimetallism have deceived nobody
5GBut the new departure in favor of out-and-out
gold monometallism merely
Tarings out iu strong relief the bad
faith and treachery which the Republi
can party has manifested in dealing
with its bimetallist members It shows
that there was at no time an intention
to actrhonestly with them They have
been cheated and deceived from first
to last
The bimetallic plank in the StLouis
platform was a humbug to begin with
It was framed with the hope of avert
ing the bolt of Teller and his followers
It failed of that purpose but it was re
tained in the platform though it was
repudiated on the stump as a bait for
xhe silver Republican vote of the West
The Wolcott commission was another
humbug not as regards the commis
sioners themselves but in the sense
that the administration and the Repub
lican party hoped that it would fail and
meant it to fail From the moment of
the departure of the commissioners for
Europe until the time of their return
their mission was jeered at derldei1
-and discredited by every Republican
newspaper in the country Europe was
notified that the United States did not
want bimetallism that the St Louis
declaration was for campaign purposes
only and that the commissioners had
been sent out on a wild goose chase
merely as a concession to the Republi
cans of the silver States Nor has there
been any change in the attitude of the
party since that time The Republican
press led by the recognized organs of
the administration has kept up a con
tinual and vindictive warfare upon the
very proposition advocated in the St
Louis platform Not alone the 16 to 1
theory but any suggestion of bimetal
lism In any ratio has been howled at as
if it rank treason instead of be
ing an avowed doctrine of the Republi
can party enunciated in its national
platform Never in the politcal history
of the United States has a party dec
laration been so quickly and thoroughly
disavowed by the party leaders and the
party press
Mr Hanna evidently thinks that the
time has come to do away with the last
- shred of affectation and to avow openly
that the Republican party is not a bi
metallist party and that bimetallists
need expect nothing from it He realizes
that the pretense has become ludicrous
- and is doing the party more harm than
good
He is right about it and he is to be
- commended for even tardy action in
discarding humbug and hypocrisy and
MUTILATING DEAD BODIES
Mexicans Wore Good at This and the
Spaniards Can Go One Better
The men we fought then were of the
same stripe as those Uncle Sams sol
diers are lighting now said a veteran
of the Mexican war recently They are
like savages and mutilated the bodies
of our dead soldiers in the isost horri
ble manner imaginable After a battle
with them we would hjry the bodies of
the slain Including tose of our ene
mies but after we were gone those
devils would sneak up to the burying
ground and take up the bodies- of oui
dead soldiers These they mutilated
too horribly to relate and then prop
ped them ua naked along a road which
they knew we would travel Thej
would arrange the bodies in all kinda
of horrible attitudes propping them up
with stones or sticks driven through
the flesh and into the ground so that
they could not fall down Why it was
awful and even now the remembrance
of those terrible scenes makes my blood
ran cold There is one particular occa
sion which I will never forget I was
with the Fifth Company of Louisiana
soldiers which was what is now called
cavalry but was then known as the
mounted men They did all the tough
work and one day we were sent up to
take the National Bridge which is on
the road between Vera Cruz and the
City of Mexico It was guarded by two
forts on high hills and it was necessary
that we should hold it When we ar
rived near the bridge a party of twenty
one men were sent ahead to scout and
they were cut off f ronrus by a company
of the enemy
Several nights later however they
made a bold dash and rejoined us bui
several were killed The next morning
the main body started to take the forte
and I was in the front ranks As w3
reached the bridge we saw the body of
one of the poorellows who had been
killed the night before It was nakel
and mutilated In a manner almost toD
terrible to imagine None of us sail
anything but we registered a silemt
vow that we woidd not take any pris
oners alive if we could help it The
sight of that poor soldiers body had an
effect on our men terrible for the Mexi
cans and we none of us forgot it dur
Lug the fighit that followed Yes we
captured the forts and bridge and held
the town
He Won the Bet
An uncouth old ranger from the San
Joaquin Valley was making his week
ly trip to Stockton the other day and
chanced to be sitting with an imperti
nent drummer in the smoking car Tho
old man helped himself to the matches
from the railroad box and tried to
strike one and then another
You have to scratch them on the box
uncle remarked the drummer
Oh I guess I kin strike a match
replied the rancher as he ripped one
across a varnished panel of the car and
broke off ihe head The drummer
laughed at his failure and gave him
some more iformation
The only way to light those matches
is to strike them on the box said he
Oh I guess I kin scratch em most
anjwheres and the old man tried one
on the sole of his shoe another on the
arm of the seat and still another on the
car floor while the drummer only
laughed
I tell you they are made so that
they wont light unless you scratch
them on the box
Bet you they will
Ill bet you 1 they wont
Bet you 20 they will
Ill take it
The wager was made the old man
took one of the matches stood up and
hitching his trousers up so as to make
a smooth surface over his broad thigh
gave the match a deliberate scratch and
it--blazed up Then he deliberately
lighted his pipe and drew down the
stakes
The smart drummer does not know
that the innoce old rancher
expenico eTc trip On that trick for he
has a side of a matchbox sewed in his
trousers beneath the tail of his long
shiny coat
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class was reading Cicero
at
needed Alger was appointed for autnor wuo Sae the tutor in charge
ty much tne same reasons Mr Lincoln
named Simon Cameron to discharge
obligations and pledges incurred in the
nominating convention Pittsburg
Post
Worth Its Cost
From every standpoint the war is
destined to be a blessinsr to tin nnHnn
weakness but as both our esteemed It will pay in patriotism in industry in
contemporaries have at one time or an
other figured out that the Dingley bill
produces a surplus instead of a deficit
they will no doubt be able to patch up
this little difference of 800000000 A
trifle like that presents no difficulty to
31 good Republican editor Chicago
Chronicle
Another Blow to Dincleyism
It is the great high exponent of
Pennsylvania protection the Phila
delphia Manufacturer which now in
quires whether the Dingley act might
not well be modified in the interests of
larger trade with Canada It can even
contemplate a reduction of the duties
-on lumber wood pulp and the like with
out shivering for the fate of the nation
Imperialist blow is serving pne good
purpose It is revealing to all the utter
absurdity of the Dingley enactment
Springfipld Mass Republican
Need of Markets
What is the use of shutting out im
portations when our producing capacity-
is twice our consumption We are
obliged to do one of two things run
on half time or find new markets The
interest of our producers in this last
plan has grown wonderfully in a few
years but the development of markets
does not keep pace with the need of
them This explains also the reason
labor and in national greatness Its
deeds of valor have shed glory on the
American name and crowned the re
public with luster as the proud posses
sor of such sons Denver News
A Sympathetic Stonnch
The kind of sympathy which some
people have with human suffering a
sympathy which concerns itself with
the effect of the spectacle of that suffer
ing on themselves rather than with the
feelings and relief of the sufferers is
neatly satirized in this story
Mr Coddle returning to his office
after a trip outside drew a long face
Oh dear he said I saw such a
dreadful looking beggar on the street
He was the very picture of the demon
of starvation and the sight of him had
such a curious effect on me
What effect he was asked
It actually made me hungry to look
at him
And what did you do
I went and got my dinner though it
was hardly 12 oclock Youths Com
panion
opportunity to indulge in little homi
lies often drawn from far fetched
texts On this occasion it was just
after a victory at baseball had been
traditionally celebrated the tutor put
on his gravest expression and in sol
emnest tones inquired of the student
who was reciting
Mr Smith which of these twe
words contemnere or despicere
would you apply to young mentso self
ishly oblivious to the proprieties and
the rights of their neighbors as to light
bonfires in dangerous proximity- to
buildings on the college campus
Quick as thought the student replied
I should sir use contemnere to
make light of
Needless to add the clever pun
brought down the house and that tutor
showed that he was human by joining
in the laugh He afterward said that
it was the only occasion in six years of
service in that college where he gave a
student the maximum
mark for per
fection in recitation
The Tallest Volunteer
Private Henry Jackson of Companj
K Second New Jersey Regiment
claims to be and probably is the tallesi
soldier in the volunteer army He is
G feet 6 inches In height but he finds
consolation in the thought that even if
he were sixty feec high the Spanish
marksman couldnt hit him
No Electricity ior the Turk
The Turkish Government is the least
enterprising of any in the matter of
electricity Enormous sums of money
have been offered for electric lighting
and telephone privileges but they have
all been refused
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REV P F JEBJfEGAN
Returns so enormous that it was only
n few days till the reverend gentleman
bad the general public interested and
hot only so but several men of money
thought it worth their while to look
Into the matter In order that if it
should turn out to be a good thing they
would not be too late for a chance to
take stock in the extensive plant it was
proposed to set up
A derrick was built in the bay sev
eral hundred yards from the shore
Leading out to it was a long bridge
Out here the pxrrrc were
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vited and came bringing with them a
supply of quicksilver at the request of
the minister This was placed in a
lead lined box The box was lowered
and an elctric current passed through
the quicksilver the result being that
the precious metal was extracted from
the sea water After a certain time the
box was raised and its contents turned
over to an assayer who reported that
the return of gold was not only pure
but that the deposit was very heavy
The money men were pleased and Mr
Jernegan might have any reasonable
amount to establish a plant He got
several thousand on the strength of
the experiment but the plant came
slowly One excuse after another was
invented and the men of capital grew
suspicious He found out there was
danger so he packed his grip and sailed
for France The scheme was certainly
a unique one What really happened
while the box was under water was
this A diver went down at some point
near by and unknown to the capital
ists put in whatever gold was in the
box when it came up
Worlds Laziest People
The laziest and dirtiest people in the
world have recently been discovered
in the Caucasus- They live in an in
accessible mountain range between the
Black Sea and the Caspian Sea and as
they were 2500 years ago so they are
to day Seen from without there is a
certain picturesqueness about a Svanc
tian village although it merely consists
of miserable stone hovels without any
attempt at form or adornment
Within the houses they are inconceiv
ably dirty They are filled with rags
vermin and dirt of every description
They possess no fireplaces or chimney
All the cooking in fact is done over a
hole scooped out in the middle of the
floor In these houses men women and
children are huddled together During
the long winter months they are shut
in for days at a time the cattle often
sharing their quarters Every aper l
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The torpedo field and fort gun used in the army and navy consists of a cylin
drical tube forming the main body which is separated from the part containing
the breech The gun is supported by a steel framework the rear end of which car
ries the breech portion and the front forms the forward half of the muzzle ball
bearings the other half consisting of a ring shrunk upon the tube near the muzzle
Since the bore is perfectly concentric with the breech cavity the gun can be
loaded without absolutely bringing the main tube to rest In this type of weapon
the gun is rotated by means of gear and sprocket wheels similar to those on a
bicycle for increasing speed and transmitting power The speed is thus so mul
tiplied that the velocity of 1200 revolutions per minute is imparted to the gun In
the larger types used for fortifications and on board ship the side frame which
forms the trunnion of the breech is replaced by cylindrical casing which carries
the trunnions at its forward end The heaviest rocket fired from the Howell gun
will contain 300 pounds of gun cotton or dynamite and will carry about 3000 yards
The dynamite is incased in a thin metal tube
WEALTH NOT IN THE WATER
The Man Goes
Abroad for His Health
Last November there was consider
able newspaper talk about a New Eng
land Baptist clergyman Jernegan by
nanfe who on a voyage for his health
was reported to have discovered a
method of treating sea water chemical
ly thus extratcing the large percent
age of pure gold which the waters of
the great deep were said to contain
This man was supposed to be an ex
pertrcheinist and mineralogist and was
said to have spent months in experi
menting on the theory The process
was a close secret With the gentlemen
whom he had taken into his confidence
Mr Jerneganinstituted a plant on a
small scale onNarragansett Bay The
idea was so unique and the promised
ture has to be closed on account of the
cold
This long imprisonment is perhaps
the cause of the degradation of the peo
ple Horrible diseases result from it
which are aggravated by abnormal
consumption of arrack the strong dis
tilled drink of the Asiatics
Besides this It is an invariable rule
to make four days a week holidays
with saints days as extras Since they
have adopted the holidays of jlery oth
er country with which they ave been
In contact it is not surprising that tho
men find little time for work Farm
ing bee culture and cattle breeding are
the only industries of these people
while throughout their territory there
is not a single manufactured article
New York Ledger
ABDUL HAMID
Simple and Arduous Life of the Reign-
ing Sultan of Turkey
It is said that hardly one of the Sul
tans of Turkey has died a natural
death and it may be added with equal
truth that comparatively few of them
have led a natural life The reigning
Sultan is however one of the excep
tions and the following extract from
The Sultan and His Subjects is a
faithful picture of his simple and ardu
ous life
He rises at G oclock and works with
his secretaries till noon when he break
fasts After this he takes a drive or a
row on the lake within his vast park
When he returns he gives audiences to
the Grand Vizier the
and other officials
At 8 oclock he dines sometimes
alonenot unfrequently in the company
of one of the ambassadors Occasion
ally his Majesty entertains the wives
and daughters of the ambassadors
with other Pera notabilities at dinner
The meal usually a very silent one is
served in gorgeous style a la francaise
on the finest of plate and the most ex
quisite of porcelain
In the evening Abdul Hamid often
plays duets on the piano with his
younger children He is very fond of
light musfc
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gentleman always wearing a rrtfck
coat the breast of which on great
casions is richly embroidered and
blazes with decorations The present
Sultan is the first who has done away
Avith the diamond aigrets formerly at
tached to the imperial turban or fez
The President of the United States is
no more informal than the Sultan in his
manner of receiving guests He places
his visitor beside him on the sofa and
himself lights the cigarette he offers
him He is himself an inveterate smok
er the cigarette is never out of his fin
gers As the Sultan is supposed to speak
no languages but Turkish and Arabic
his Majesty though a good French
scholar carries on conversation through
a dragoman
Quite recently a very great lady had
the honor of dining with his Majesty
the first Turkish sovereign by the way
who has ever admitted a Christian
woman to his table After dinner the
lady noticed a mouse trap which had
been forgotten on one of the chairs
Oh said the Sultan that is an ex
cellent trap It was sent to me from
England and I have caught ten mice
in it to day
Prophet Without Honor
The reputation of a certain well
known prophet in London who but
lately announced positively the end of
the world in 1900 has been seriously
impaired by the fact that a fortnight
ago it was discovered that he had since
paid a high premium to secure the
lease of business premises for fifteen
years
Natural Color ol Sealskins
Sealskins aboriginally of a light
drab color bat as found in the market
are dyed
Linenpants are always too long or
too short no man ever wore a pair just
right fs to length
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iyabout eighteen hours dauj
A Prophecy of tho War
Poor Cuba bad suffered at the verj
threshold of this great and free country
for more than a century before any ac
tive intervention was undertaken -by
the United States Outrage after out
rage had been piled upon American citi
zens who resided there or undertook to
trade at her ports The present war
ought to have been fought fifty years
ago and it is a long sad jommentary
on the too peaceful conservatism of the
past that the first man killed In front
of Santiago in June 1898 was the
grandson and namesake of the Secre
tary of State who held back the hand of
justice in 1870 when the Virglnlus af
fair stirred the American people to in
dignation It seems to prove that
whether the war was- deferred or not
it must come in spite of the conserva
tismin spite of the cost of life and
money
The thought that It would come was
present in the minds of many and in
one instance at least seems to have
been developed Into a basis for action
Many residents of our city have noted
in the street cars among the advertising
signs which are so prominently dis
played a series of cards which refer to
naval and military lines and which
have a double interest at the present
hour Although they were placed In the
cars over a year ago before the Spanish
war was thought of their text in not
a few points seems to foretell with ac
curacy some of the relations of the war
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Is there not a certain prophetic touch
In the suggestion A clean nation has
ever been a strong nation with the
further humorous advice to fortify
with Sapolio backed by a picture of
Uncle Sam marching up and down be
hind a rampart formed of cakes of that
well known article Truly civilization
and soap seem to go together and the
clean well tubbed nicely housed Anglo
Saxon seems to have in that regard a
great advantage over his soap avoiding
enemy from the peninsula of Spain
We realize the dread realities of war
when these cards suggest to us that the
proper ammunition with which to resist
V- THE PROPER
AMMUNITION
with which to resist dirt to
SAPOLIO
tirt is Sapolio The campaign in Cuba
has resulted in a loss of life on the
battle field of about one hundred and
fifty while every evidence points to the
probability that double that number of
deaths will result from the yellow fever
scourge which largely originates from
the Spanish lack of cleanliness No less
a statesman than James G Blaine
stated publicly that one hundred mill
ions would be a cheap price to pay fop
Cuba if by proper sanitary measures
Ave could prevent the annual scare of
yellow fever along our coast
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If as these active advertisers assert
the advance of civilization is marked
by the use of Sapolio there should be
i good market for their useful article
In the Spanish possessions which have
lately fallen under our control Whether
they were prophesying or not theic an
nouncements are brisk and timely and
the advice they give is like the Amerl
can arms Irresistible
Knew He Was German
A German and Frenchman sat oppo
site each other at table dhote in a
certain hotel in Switzerland You are
a Frenchman 1 suppose inquired the
German at the commencement of the
meal Yes was the reply but hov
do you manage to find that out Be
cause you eat so much bread said
the German There was a long pause
When the dinner was over the French
man in turn questioned his
You are a German I presume Tq
be sure but tell me pray how you
made that discovery Because you
eat so much of everything was tha
dry retort London Figaro
A Cordial Invitation
I trust Mr Borum said Miss Cut
ting as the young man was about t
depart that you will spend one inon
evening with us before we moveintc
our new house
Delighted I assure you Miss Cut
ting replied Borum By the way
when do you expect to move
Im not positive as to the exact
date she answered but the workmen
began excavating for the cellar yester
day and papa expects the house to hi
finished in about eighteen
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