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VBDXnDAT. JAMUABI 2. IK!.
Nebraska FMm Association, Lincoln.
May 6 and 7.
Thirty-Fourth Annual convention of
the National American Woman Suffrage
association, Washington, D. C, Febru
ary 12-18.
Got. Savage baa appointed Guy C
Reed district judge to succeed Ben
Baker, resigned.
Governor and Mrs. Savaqe returned
Saturday evening from the soatb, where
they had been three weeks.
It ia desired to have the Lincoln Car
negie library bailding completed by the
rat of May at the farthest.
Two persons were killed and seventy
Ire in jared by the explosion of dynamite
Monday, in New York City.
Former United States Senator, Arthur
P. Gorman, has been elected to the
United Statea senate from Maryland,
receiving every democratic vote.
The case of the atate against the
bondsmen of Joseph Bartley ia still
pending before the supreme court and it
is supposed will be called in a few daya.
It ia said that Admiral Prince Henry
of Praasia, while in the United Statea,
will visit Chicago, Milwaukee, Niagara
Fall and Boston. He ia expected to
arrive at New York, Feb. 22.
FntDAT morning, February 14, it ia
thought will be the occasion for a special
program ot music and speeches, on the
formal presentation of the big alumni
organ to the atate university.
Senators Allison and Doluver have
been elected as senators from Iowa, six
and f ve years respectively, the latter to
111 the vacancy caused by the death of
the late Senator John H. Gear.
8rx successive elections to a six-years
term is the unprecedented record just
scored by Senator William B. Allison of
Iowa. Iowa and Allison are mutually
proud of each other. Fremont Tribune.
The Union Pacific has been saed by ah
Ogden man to recover damages, $3,400
for a carload of horses which he claims
he shipped from Ogden to Clarion, Iowa,
and that no trace of them can be found
anywhere.
The bearers of the ransom of
Ellen M. Stone and Mme. Vstlka, having
with them $7200, reached Demir-Hiasu,
Boumeba, January 21, and proceeded to
the mountains on horseback, accom
panied by a strong escort.
William H. Taft, civil governor of
the Philippine islands, passed through
Omaha Saturday night to his home in
Cincinnati. He was accompanied by his
wife and three children, and his physi
cian. He had just been apprised of the
death of his mother, Mrs. John Herron.
His health has steadily improved since
he arrived in this country.
J. B. Dissmore of Sutton was elected
president ot the state board of agricul
ture. The new president has been asso
ciated with the board for nearly thirty
years; the vice president elect is W. E.
Ewing, Franklin; secretary, B. W. Fur
nas, Brownville; treasurer, E. Mclntyre,
Seward. The next fair will open August
29 and continue until September 5,
inclusive.
Agent Fcnc on last Wednesday night
found at Rogers near the railroad depot,
the body of L. H. Garrietta, an indigent
carpenter of that place. The body had
bean literally beheaded, and only frag
ments of the head and cap could be
found. The coroner's jary exonerated
the U. P. company from blame, and it ia
thought to have been a case of premedi
tated self destruction.
The grand jary of Douglas county
have returned an indictment against ex
State Treasurer J. B. Meserve, charging
tha embeazlement of interest of state
faade deposited in a atate depository.
To be specific, it is said that he deposit
ed atate money, a portion of the perma
nent school fund in the Stock Yards
bank at South Omaha, received interest
thereon and retained the same for hie
Soke of the merchanta of the state
propose to organize to fight the pareela
Boat bill, which ia a very proper thing
to do if there is any possible chance of
the bill becoming a law. The mail-order
hoasas and department stores have
little regard for the country merehsint
and unless the Utter ia prepared to pro
tact hia interests it may be expected
that the larger houses will do what they
sea to injure hia bananas. The mail
order houses are now a menace to the
saaall and independent retailer without
giving them farther advantages. Nor
folk News.
John D. Harsh, a young man 23 yeara
eld, whose home ia near Osceola, met
wkh a terrible accideat last Friday while
leading a corn shredder at 8am CUbrd'a
plana, one mDe and a half soathesst of
Stroasabarg, aaya the Headlight. Hia
Isft hand waa caught in the machine aad
i literally torn off about four
w the dbow. He waa brought
to town and Dr. Cuehmaa with assist
aaoa at Dml Makter and Little, ampu
tated tha crashed portion of tha arm,
it off below the elbow. He waa
to hia home Saturday anemoon
i getting along wall coasideriag
astray the nxpenase and needs of the
nlettaastri young nun for the present
ami all aymaaaasM with him in hia mis-
Wa are told that this is the
s who has lost an arm in a corn
this winter within
radius of
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Wait aatil sine karat eomes froat the Tariff,
tasteai of aa!. alessiags, before we think of ehaag
lag it. There is iaager to the people aai the threat
f rata to the Republic party ia erery assault aaoa
the Tariff. Iroa Moaataia (Mich.) Trihaae.
BAR&ErS FINE.
Whan ex-State Treasurer Bartley waa
sentenced to the penitentiary four years
ago for a period of nineteen years for
gnfryiiBff the proceeds of a warrant for
$200000 drawn on the permanent school
fund of tha atate, he had also a heavy
fine impceed on him by Jndge Baker.
Tha fine waa, we believe, double the
amount of the defalcation, and thus
reached a good round aum.
Now that Mr. Bartley has been par
doned from the penitentiary and ia said
to have in hie posaoation a large number
of notes given him for borrowed money
by men well able to repay, it is in order
for the attorney general to bring suit to
collect the fine.
The fine, if collected would be credited
to the school fund and thus the educa
tional moneys of the state which have
bean depleted by Mr. Hartley's crime
condoned by the governor, would be
restored. At any. rate, a suit of that
nature might result in bringing to the
surface some of the men who hare been
psrticepa criminia with Bartley, long
enough to identify them. This would
be of aome service and value to the peo
ple of Nebraska who are in dead earnest
about avoiding aome of the rocks against
which they have been striking, to their
sorrow. Fremont Tribune.
HANDS IT BACIL
The president has set a good example
of honesty to the powers of Europe that
it would be wholesome for them to fol
low. He has signed a check to the
Chinees government for $376,000, the
value of the silver coin captured by
United 8tates marines in the storming of
Tien Tain. If all the loot taken in the
alleged friendly war in China to save the
empire from the boxers is returned, it
will go a good waya toward paying the
indemnity.
It has been further proposed that
when the accounte of our expenditures
in restoring peace and order to the
boxer infested provinces of China are
computed that this government shall
return to China whatever balance may
remain ot the 25,000,000 indemnity, set
aside to the United Statea This would
be in strict conformity to our precedent
in the case of the Japanese indemnity of
forty years ago. The return of the sur
plus after the damage account had been
settled by this government to the gov
ernment of Japan, did more to give us
prestige in the orient than any other
friendly act of Uncle Sam. "Money
talks." Lincoln JonrnsL
AGAINST TARIFF TINKERING.
Speaker Henderson has written a letter
to friends in Iowa giving his views on
this important subject, and as the speak
er has considerable to do with what is
accompliahed in the way of national
legislation, his views are of more than
usual interest. He ssys:
"My judgment is that it is more im
important at this time in the interest of
this country to reduce taxation upon
ourselves and atop to a proper degree
the influx of the people's money into
the public treasury. With the country
in an unparalleled prosperous condition,
I cannot believe it wise to begin a re
duction which inevitably will open up
the whole field ot revision and thus put
a serious check upon the business of the
country. The moment the country un
derstands that there ia to be a revision
of the tariff jobbers will suspend large
purchases, hoping to buy at lower prices.
This will compel the manufacturer to
reduce his business and this will compel
a reduction of the pay rolls, and serious
business calamity might ensue."
Governor Crane of Massachusetts has
asked the legislature to enact a law
prohibiting savings banks from being
made mere tender to national banks
through the occupancy of the same
buildings and through the choice of
common officers. The practice grew to
large proportions all over the country
some time ago, and this connection was
the cause of a great deal of disaster
during the panic period. Now the banks
of the west are more inclined to divorce
their savings and commercial depart
ments entirely, securing separate quar
ters and an independent list of stock
holders and ortcera. In the east the
reform ia making such slow progress
that it evidently needa legislation to
make it general Governor Crane ia
strongly commended by the more con
servative bankers for taking so decided
a stand on the question. Lincoln Jour-
Three fingers and a thumb were
amputated from William Brayton, a
farmer near Cairo, Nebraska. He drove
thirty miles before securing surgical
attention. While attempting to dean
a corn aheller, be dipped and hia hand
caught in the cogs.
Latter fraam Washington.
EujENSRURo, Wasil, Jan. 18, 1902.
Mr. Editor: It may be of interest to
yoar readers, especially those who
never have been esst of the Missouri
river or west of the Rocky mountains, to
hear a few facta ot the great Yakima
valley, in eastern Washington. Kittitas
valley, which ia about in the middle be
tween the head and the outlet of the
Yakima rivsr is about ten to twdve miles
wide, and nearly twenty miles long, with
tha Yakima river running dmost through
the center of it. Ellensburg, the county
seat of Kittitas county, is nearly in the
center of the vdley. It has about 2000
iahabitanta and ia nearly 12 miles to the
timbered foothills of the Cascade moun
taina from the town, and not aa one ot
your townsmen told n friend ot mine who
came oat here from Duncan last spring,
nway out in the backwoods. My friend
waa sarprieed to find the town out on the
prairie instead of in the backwoods.
Your towaasaan must either have seen it
from Noah'e ark or he waa mistaken in
the name of tha town perhaps.
Wa have two creameries ia town and
six more scattered over the valley, but
all are under the name management.
ia an ideal dairy country, aa clover
alfalfa are the bast feed, for milk
amides the pare mountain water
I rune hi ditchas through every section of
J land that lays below tha irrigation ditch
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that furnishes water for part of the
vdley.
Timothy, dover. alfalfa, fruita of dl
kinds, aa well aa dl kinda ot email grain
grow here to perfection, and find n good
market the year ronnd. Hay on care at
present is from $9 to $13 psr ton; wheat
from 54 to COc a bushel; oata 36o a
bushel; barley 48c a bushel; egga 35c
per dozen ; country butter 25c per pound;
creamery 27 to 32c per pound; beef
and mutton on foot $4 to $4.50 per hun
dred; hogs $5.50 per hundred.
Very little grain of any kind ia used
out here for fattening cattle and sheep.
During the winter clover, alfalfa, wheat
and barley hay are fed mostly. A neigh
bor of mine by name of John Clerf, who
lived for eleven years in southeastern
Nebraska, but as he aaya yet, just deven
yeara too long, sold 12 cows last week
that were fed on alfalfa, clover and grain
hay for about two months, and after
driving them eight miles they weighed at
an average 1290 -pounds. He sold some
90 steers dl coming three-year-olds st
$60 per head. They would average from
90 to 100 pounds more than the cows did.
I have seen some good feeders in the
middle states, where corn is king, fed for
five to eight months on hay and corn, and
they would not average more than 1300
to 1450, while it cost them perhaps nearly
$40 to raise and feed one of them. It
did not cost Mr. Clerf out here more
than hdf that to raise his cattle.
If an eastern man comes into a meat
market out here and sees that fine meat
hang there, he wants to knew whether
this waa not cornfed, but when the
butcher tells him that this is simply hay
fed, then he is surprised very much.
Ot course there is one thing that must
be taken into consideration. Most of
our cattle grow and thrive from the day
they are born until they are butchered,
while a good many in the east are raised
on skimmed milk and short pasture, and
for the first year or two just about exist
and that's dL Where you ought to keep
10 head in a pasture yon keep 30 to 40.
SheeD and horses are wintering fine
this far out on the range, aa we have had
no snow yet, and there ia enough green
grass in the hills for sheep to fill up
good, at least where the range ia not
overstocked. This vdley shipped out of
Ellensburg last year over 40,000 tons ot
hay, of which Uncle Sam took 8,000 tons
to the Philippines, and this year the hay
deders cldm there are from 12,000 to
13,000 tons more hay in the vdley than
hut year.
On account of the enormous shipping
business this little town does, the U. P.
R R. Co. had to just double up the office
crew. There are now two day and two
night telegraph operators, and besides
the agent, dx more men in the office,
where dx years ago, when I first came
here, the agent with three men had easy
times to do the business.
Land in this vdley could be bought at
dmost any price at that time for cash,
but today it's all off. Land under an
irrigation ditch is hard to buy at from
$20 to $200 per acre, especially where
there are large orchards on a farm.
People have been swarming into Wash
ington and Oregon the last two yeara as
never before in the history of these two
great states. Railroad people cldm they
handle much more business in Yakima
vdley than any other part along their
line between Portland, Oregon, and St.
Paul, Minnesota. Even the great Red
River vdley in North Dakota does not
produce such crops as this valley does.
The climate, like in all parte of the
northwest between the Rockies and the
Cascades is hedthful, cool nights in
summer and abort, mild winters. The
only thing we don't like is too much
wind in the spring and first part of the
summer. It often blows for several days
at a stretch. But in winter we have very
little wind, and often dter n heavy fdl
of snow, the wet snow will break limbs
off ot young fruit trees unless the snow
is shaken off in time. That's what M.
Weieennuh from Duncan did not like
about this country, when he came out
here last spring. He ssys be left Ne
braska on account of too much wind, and
did not want any more of it, ao he left
for Oregon and bought him a amdl farm
seven miles west or rortiand, in a nice
locdity, where wind seldom blows, but
where rubber boots and coata come
pretty handy for n few months in winter
time.
The right kind of a man can make
more money out here on forty or eighty
acres than in the east on twice and three
times that amount of land, especidly in
fruit and hay. Only thirty-five miles
norm ot Here in wenatcnee valley are
aome ot the largest and finest orchards
and hay ranches I ever saw in any coun
try, where they raise from five to seven
tons of dfalfa hay to the acre, and
dwaya find ready sde at $8 to $10 per
ton on board the car for it. That beats
raking corn in the east at 50c a bushel
any time, aa dfdfa will not have to be
reseeded for from ten to twenty-five
yeara out in this country, while corn has
to be planted every year. Although I
don't know ot a better producing coun
try than this part of Washington is, out
dde ot perhaps the Sdt River vdley in
Arizona, or aome ot the great valleys in
California, which are aa far as I know the
greatest vdleys for growing dfalfa, in
this and perhaps in any other country,
because the growing season there ia dx
weeks longer than here. But for dl tins,
we find some poor farmers out here,
which yon find more or less the world
over. I honestly believe there is no part
of the United Statea that haa such a
bright future before it as the whole
Pacific coast baa, aa this coast baa mil
bonsof seres of the finest timber in the
country and mountaina of coal, besides
dl kinds of metala and minerala. We
get cheap transportation for all parte of,
the globe, which ia a big boon to the
producer. Alaska, China, Japan and our
new posse lions are our beat markets.
I have gathered maple aap on snow
shoes in New York state ia April, 1864;
lived in Kansas; fed sheep for three win
ters near 8t Paul, Minnesota, and
Aurora, Illinois, and three winters in
Platte and Dodge counties, Nebraska;
grated sheep in Idaho, Oragooi Wyo
tning, Montana, and spent one aammef
with 8,600 head of Oregon aheap near
the Bad Lands in North Dakota between
Medoraon the Little Missouri and Dick
enson, where Teddy Roosevelt hpnted
his first buffalo, and busted wild bron
chos. Within .jflve yeara I arosssd the
plaine about twenty-eight times, made
two tripe to Europe, and came in contact
with people from dl 'parte of the world,'
so I ought to pretty'neariy know' whit. I
am talking about. .
With bast regards to all my friends in
Platte, Dodge and Colfax counties, I am
Very respectfully yours, ""
K. O. Konxi
MONETARY POLICE
CURRENCY STRENGTHENED BY RE
PUBLICAN LEGISLATION. r''
ataMUtr rater the Gal Itaiavi.
DealrafclUty of Elasticity la BJaaai
Caeeeaey -Iiaalre Tawara ataUaf of
Borrower af Maaejr.
The change in the treasury portfolio
la likely to call very general attention
to the question of currency legislation.
A Democratic organ in New York aa
soon as it waa known to be Secretary
Gage's intention to retire printed a
story to the effect that hia realgnatioa
was brought about by the preatdeaf a
coldness toward the subject of mon
etary reform as urged by the commer
cial organizationsofthe country; act-,
tag through thelndJaBajfrlfr-mona4aTT
convention and ltat executive-oaaunl-tee,
headed by Hugh H. Hanna. How
much of truth there waa ia thia aug
cestlon is shown by Preddent Roose
velt's selection of a successor -to Mr.
Gage in the person of Governor Shaw
af Iowa, who presided over the second
session of the Indianapolis convention,
held in January, 1808. It was at thia
session that the convention approved
the report of the monetary commission
recommending revision of our mone
tary laws in two important particuiara
(1) the establishment of the gold
standard, and (2; the introduction of
the element of elasticity in our bank
currency through what is known- aa
"asset banking." '
The first and most important step
in this programme has been carried
out in the enactment of the gold stand
ard law of March, 1900. The results
of this law were apparent long before
it waa enacted, for the election of Sic
KInley in 1896, to the minds of farsee
lng business men, settled the monetary
policy of the country on the gold basis.
They understood that a cheap money
craze, like any other fever, dies out in
time and felt sure that the result of
the election would sooner or later be
written into the law of the land. There
was, therefore, no longer serious ap
prehension or hesitation, and the in
vestment of capital in productive in
dustry waa begun on a scale hitherto
unheard of in this or any other coun
try. Manufacturing and commerce
have since gone forward with astound
ing strides until we are now in the
midst of such prosperity as the world
has never known before, with not a
cloud in the sky and scarcely a man in
doubt aa to the future except those .pol
iticians and demagogues who find their
own personal prosperity in the distress
of the people.
The same organization of chambera
of commerce, boards of trade and com
mercial clubs that insisted daily for
two years on the enactment of the
gold standard law until It was finally
accomplished has dnce been present
ing to congress the necessity of com
pleting that law by providing for' the
complete lnterchangeabillty of gold
and silver at the treasury on demand
of the holder. Under the law aa pass
ed this lnterchangeabillty is accom
plished in a roundabout way, but it is
a clumsy arrangement that might be
readily upset by a sllverlte secretary
ot the treasury, and Mr. Overstreet,
who Introduced the original gold stand
ard bill, has this year introduced a
short measure making anch lnter
changeabillty mandatory and provid
ing the means for it
But the main contention of the mon
etary convention now is for an elastic
currency, and to this end it haa before
the bouse a bill Introduced by Repre
sentative Lovering providing for a cau
tious step toward asset banking. This
measure permits national banks to is
sue notes against their general assets
up to 10 per cent of their capital on
the payment of a small tax, up to 20
per cent on the payment of a still lar
ger tax and up to 30 per cent on- the
payment of a tax so onerous that such
notes would come out only in case of
serious emergency and would be driv
en back to the banks of issue aa soon
as the emergency were over The pro
posed asset currency ia fortified by a
guarantee fund provision that would
amply secure the cotes of failed banks.
The general proposition of an elastic
credit currency looks toward the relief
of the borrower of money, the equaliz
ing and steadying of interest rates and
the elimination of any anch possibili
ties as "money corners." Time has
been, and often, when wealth waa
plentiful in the country, but money
waa exceeding scarce. This was the
harvest time for the money lender,
whose victims were of the "property
poor" variety. When the west was
embarrassed with a tremendous crop
of corn, the northwest with a boom
wheat crop or the south with a' tre
mendous output of cotton, these7 sec
tions" have had to" pay tribute' ftf tha
"money centers" measured " by "the
greatness of their necessities for mon
ey to move the crops." Now, while
cheap money ia a form of-credit back
ed by little or nothing of real wealth,
honest money is a form of credit back
ed by full value in real wealth. A crop
is certainly wealth, and the bigger the
crop a section has the more wealth it
haa. It should therefore be able to ob
tain its credit in the form of current
money or currency more cheaply; but
under the operation of our inflexible
currency system, where the money of
the country naturally gravitates to the
large banking centers, the result fs just
the opposite.
A "bumper" crop invariably means an
Increase of interest rates until tha crop
la moved from first hands and well on
its way to market The small banks
of the corn belt the wheat belt and
the cotton belt cannot afford to keep
a large amount of currency afloat all
the year when they can find opportu
dty to use it only a few montha of
the year, and under the boad.baaai
system currency once act aaoat.by, a
bank ia called in only, by a,leatajKl
laborious process instead af aawiagjln
naturally for redemption as cJteckaTata.
The legislation proposed by, the Lav
ering bin la a first step towardf sys
tem that will admit of a mach!BMfv
ready conversion of real .wealth lata
money, thus operating darectiy
relief of the borrower,
the farmer with a big
to send to market, the
a blcstoekof-
FLOODED WITH WATER
fl"HE GOLD SNAP Saturday night froze and bursted the water
V pipes over our store, and the water poured through the ceil
ing and soaked thousands of yards of goods.
We
Before Our Big Spring Stock arrives
We are marking them according to condition; some are only damp, others wet or soiled. Calico
3Jc worth 5 and 6. Percale 5c worth 8 to 10c. LL Muslin 4c. Pine I bleached J at 6c., Dress
Goods according to condition-rat half value. Rugs, Tarns, Furs, Underwear, Hose, Fascinators
and lots of other things you can use, priced so you will take them.
We had just received a shipment of our new Spring Wash Goods fine Organdies, Batiste,
Silk Tissues, eta They are wet and MUST GO WITH THE REST. NOT A YARD OF WET OR
SOILED GOODS WILL BE KEPT. Must clean it all out as quick as possible.
tribute or'the manufacturer who wanta
to keep hia shops going, even though
thia shall mean something of an accu
mulation of manufactured product in
bis hands.
The true function of money la aa a
representative of real wealth for fa
cilitating the exchange of such wealth,
and the nearer we get to an immediate
convertibility of anch wealth, whether
it be in the ahape of corn, wheat, cot
ton, steel, machinery or what not, into
currency without paying too heavy
tribute to the lender of money, while
conserving the safety of our currency,
the nearer wc snail attain to an ideal
currency system.
ALL FOR PROTECTION.
fteflaetlea la ae Schaaales Walek
Will Prave the Prlaelale.
It must be conceded that nothing
could be in the nature of thlnga more
threatening to the continuance of pro
tection than an abuse of it. By an
abuse of it we mean the maintenance
of protection on products that in fact
no longer need protection to insure
American wages to American labor
and a fair return on capital invested.
If there is anything that is elementa
ry, it la that the need for protection
must coexist with protection.
It Is undeniable that in what la call
ed the middle west at the present time
there is prevalent a belief that aa to
aome products the need for protection
no longer exists. No one questions the
beneficence of the protective principle.
The question Involved is simply one of
fact It Is the prevalence of the idea
mentioned that accounts for the ap
pearance in many of the leading pa
pers of that section of editoriala auch
aa the one following that we take en
tire from that rock ribbed Republican
paper, the Chicago Inter Ocean, and
originally printed under the caption
- Why Not Think of the Millions?'
The Hon. Sereno Payne is evidently
Inclined to hearken to prayers for a re
duction of the so. called "war taxes."
T. have no doubt" he remarks, "that
the ways and means committee will
frame a bill reducing revenues on the
general lines of the last reduction."
"There is," comments a Washington
correspondent, "sentiment in favor of
wiping out the entire list of 'war
taxes,' thus leaving the revenue laws
upon the basis that existed prior to
the Spanish war."
Of course it is entirely proper for the
Hon. Sereno Payne to take heed to the
welfare of certain great and legitimate
commercial interests, yet. In view of
certain facts relating to the present in
cidence of our national taxation, it
might be well for him and other con
gressmen to took a little further to
take a day off. aa it were, and devote
it to thought about the welfare of the
millions of American taxpayera.
The protective policy haa conferred
upon thia nation benefits almost Im
measurable. It has built up home in
dustry and given ua economic inde
pendence. No sensible man thinks of
departing from its principles. Yet, like
all other good things, it has its price.
Its tax burden falls nearly aa heavily
upon the poor aa upon the rich. The
so called "war taxes," by putting ad
ditional burdene upon wealth, tended
to equalize the burden of our tariff
taxes. They gave a anbstltnte, rude
and imperfect, yet still useful, for an
income tax.
They relieved the Republican party
to a certain extent from the charge of
regarding too exclusively the Interests
of property. They were. In general, n
charge upon the profits of the prosper
ous, from which the poor escaped;
hence the Republican majority hi con
gress should let them alone and do the
work of reducing revenue along the
lines suggested by William McKlnley
in hia latest speeches.
The Iistfe af Brcata.
It waa not a well considered and hon
est belief in free coinage that Induced
the party to take up the silver issue
and Bryan in 1806. Indeed, practical
ly every man of large prominence in
the party, every man that had been
largely Influential In leading it to suc
cess in 1884, waa opposed to free coin
age when the Chicago convention met
In 1806. Bnt they were pushed aside.
Long training of the party hi following
such will-o'-the-wisps aa the Greeley
movement of 1872 had taught it to run
pellmell after every temporary "craxe,"
and there waa evidence on all bands
that Populism had become for the mo
ment a "craze" of large proportions.
And such waa the strength of Demo
cratic habit that after the convention
fully 00 per cent of the party leadera
that had gone to Chicago emphatically
opposed to free silver or any other
form of cheap money fell Into line and
declared a change of mud and stead
fastness of heart toward "the party of
Jefferson and Jackson."
Time haa 'cured them, and these
same leadera are now declaring that
the logic of events haa relegated the
silver Issue to tha roar. Thia name
logic of eventa haa relegated the Dem
ocratic party to the rear for many
yeara to come.
Asicsla
Thickly planted trees are the best
protection against avalanches. The
snow which haa fallen in the woods
cannot well ablft lta place, and when
the manses of enow from the atopea
above dash against the timber they are
unable to break through so strong a
barrier, sad after overturning some of
the aM trees thetrffoajraa to arrested.
Frett Leaves.
must get these out of the way at once,
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Cfc.- Ketffaailek. .
"Since our t.'-ps have been la fkf
Phlllppines ny friends among the of
ficers stationed aere have at frequent
Intervals been remembered with boxes
of Mauila cigars." remarked a mem
ber of Uncle Sam's fighting force, who
waa severely wounded at El Cauey
and is now ou the retired list, to a
reporter. I have learned to prefei
the tobacco of the far east to the do
mestic brand, aud do not see Ijihv I
could now get along without the fra
grant Manilas.
"Recently I received a shipment of
cigars." he continued, "but they proved
a sad disappointment. In fact, they
seemed to me to be entirely worthless.
1 puffed at one after another, but they
almply could not be smoked. In de
spair I finally consulted a well-known
tobacconist. The situation was no
problem to him. He promptly told me
to lay the cigars aside for a few
weeks, after which 1 would find them
all right. He was correct. When I
sought an explanation the tobacconist
assured me iu all seriousness that the
cigars had been seasick from the voy
age across the Pacific and needed rest.
"1 have since learned." added the offi
cer, "that wines aud liquors are affect
ed in a similar uiauner by ocean ship
ment" New York Times.
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Thoroughbred dogs are less Intelli
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Nearly all the royal personages of
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Quite 30 per cent, of the property
of England Is insured.
Loudca requires 000,000 cows to sup
ply It with dairy produce.
Colored rates never have blue eyes.
Their eyes are always dark brown,
brown, brownish, yellow or black.
Lovers of Japanese carvings are
finding it increasingly difficult to ob
tain the choicest specimens In New
York. Connoisseurs say that the Jap
anese at home, now grown more pros
perous, bave set up a demand for
these carvings for themselves, both on
patriotic and artistic considerations.
Lake Superior is the deepest of the
great lakes, its greatest depth Is
1.003 feet aud the lake is Mil feet
above the level of the sea.
A church in London still possesses
an income originally giv.n to it for
the purpose of' buying faggots for
burning heretics.
A token of American influence in
Manila is the adoption of an ordinance
prohibiting smoking in theaters during
performances.
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