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The Yale Expositor. J. A. Ma.vziE?, Publisher. TALE, MICH Cyclones liave been coining so tlilck that we have lost their number. It may soon be wings ngalust wheels. Then we'll fly Instead of scorch. The farmers are now gunning for chinch bugs; and some of them for gold bugs. Boston's fifty divorces lu six hours would indicate a vast domestic hubbub at the Hub. The girl Queen of Holland rises at 7 In the morning. Are we to suppose that in winter she also builds the fires? The watermelon, it 13 cald, grows wild all over Africa. The African, it is well known, grows wild over the water melon. We must commend Lieutenant Teary as the most successful pole-chaser be cause he says he is never going to bunt the pole again. The new kind cf Millerite calls the Brooklyn bridge to judgment. He says It will die of corrosion and rust in about five hundred years. This lets out the moth. It Is well that Yamagata end LI Hung Chang do not meet in thl3 country. Probably there would be no war; but tho Chinaman, though good at running, is not a champion. "You can't leap acros3 a puddle in two Jumps," eays the Elmira Gazette. Here Is one of those cases In which nature didn't do the square thing by us. We have loug so regarded It. Following the plan to check bicycles at the church comes the scheme of Rev. Dr. Crane of Chicago to offer a free lunch of lemonade and glngersnaps as an Inducement to people to come out and listen to the sermon. It ia thought the lemonade echeme will not work, because there's nothing in it. A mad dog passed through Mt. Ver non, Ind., biting many cattle. State Veterinary Bolster and several doctors of the state live stock commission made an investigation and found several gen uine cases of hydrophobia. A. Breiner was compelled to kill and burn thirteen fine Jersey cows and several calves. The barbarous custom still exists among the Brahmins' in India, of mar rying young girls to old men that wander about the country in order that no family sh"ll suffer the disgrace of having unmarried daughters. While he lives the girls can marry no one else, and when he dies they are his widows. An authority says that they think in Spain that the Cuban rebellion must be crushed if every drop of Spanish blood is spilled in the effort. But men who talk that way do not Join the Spanish army. They are doubtless brave enough, but the convicts and the poor and tho very young men who compose the army are the ones selected to lose the necessary gore. They talk to be noticed, but they fight by substitute. The last drcp and the last ditch are old buncombe Mayor Schott is struggling to deter mine whether or not a firecracker Is a musical instrument. This problem arises from the giving of an open air concert In the park. The musicians con cluded their evening's performance with the national hymn, "America," and In order to give the selection according to the score, detailed two of their number to shoot off firecrackers. Their is a city ordinance authorizing band concerts to . be given in the park, and also one for bidding the exploding of firecrackers. The firecrackers exploded, and a bold policeman arrested the musicians. They have pleaded not guilty, and will have a Jury trial. The Imports of rice Into the United States for the eight months ending March 1 were 48,043 short tons, as against 64,037 tons during the Earoo time the previous year. Included in this were 22.235 tons of clean rice, against 38,792 tons during the same time the year before. There were 24, 000 tons of rice flour, rice meal and broken rice Imported, as against 23,141 tons the year before. The notable fea ture of these imports is the falling off in the imports of cleaned rice from 2S, 792 tons in 1894-95 to 22,255 tons during the same period In 1895-96. The low prices at which home-grown rice has been selling seem to have had the effect of diminishing the imports of compet ing rice to the extent of some 16,000 tons. Our annual consumtlon of rice, domestic and foreign, is estimated at about 100,000 to 110,000 tons. These reduced imports would seem to Indi cate a comparatively bare rice market this summer and better prices than last year when the new crop shall begin to come in. Ex-Mayor Cobb of Goshen, Ind., is Ktatcd to have found a live snake In a soft-boiled egg he was about to eat for his breakfast. This remarkable snake story would be hard to believe were it not for tho fact that the ex-mayor called In the neighbors to verify the phenome nal discovery. Miss Russell contracts with her man agers to pay a fine of fifty thousand dollars If ehe marries within a year. Genius has Its hardships. It is very pa thetic to think of this lady weeping her eyeg out every twenty minutes. WALL ST11EET BOMB. rHEY AT LAST SEE VICTORY FOR FREE SILVER. Banker St. John Cornea Forward with m Genuine free Coinage 11111 and All the Other Hankers Will Support It Ills Four Demands. William P. St. John 13 president of ihe Mercantile Bank of New York. Three years ago he began to study the Inancial question from an unselfish standpoint. Now ho is crazy, as the Chicago Tribune (owned in England) would say. He has drawn up a plat form for free coinage, which is as fol lows: Leaving the domestic affairs of the several states to those party organiza tions already occupied therewith, and believing that the senate of the United States ia quick to respond to the clearly expressed will of the people, we confine our present attempt to the election of the president, vice-president, and rep resentatives In congress on the follow ing demands: Firsf(a) That the mints of 'the"Uhlt cd States shall be reopened to equally unrestricted coinage for gold and silver into the unlimited legal tender money of the United States; the gold to Issue in the present standard gold coins, and the silver to issue in the present stand ard silver dollars, (b) Depositors of the gold or silver at the mint to receive in lieu of coin, if they prefer, at the coin ing value thereof, coin certificates which shall be redeemed on demand in gold or silver at the mint to receive in according to the convenience of the United States, (c) And as a safeguard against panic and money stringency the secretary of the treasury shall be em powered to issue such coin certificates additionally against deposits of interest-bearing bonds of the United States, the interest accruing on the bond3 to Inure to the United States pending their re-exchange for the coin certificates, which coin certificates when returned shall be cancelled; pro vided that such additional issues of coin certificates shall not reduce the per centage of coin and bullion reserved for coin certificates and silver certificates below sixty per cent of the aggregate sum of coin certificates and silver certi ficate's outstanding. The now outstand ing silver certificates, gold certificates and treasury notes of 1890 to be retired as they come into the treasury. This (a) is free coinage at 1G to 1, the convenient coin certificate (b) to take the place of gold certificates, silver cer tificates and treasury notes of 1890. The safeguard (c) would provide for a tem porary increase of $300,000,000 of paper money against the silver on hand In the treasury April 1st. Second. The threatened competition with cur southern cotton mills of thoce cf China and Japan, the increasing im portations of long stapled Egyptian in competition with our Sea Island cot ton, and the ill effects of the abrogation of the tariff on woolen manufactures, combine to evidence the fact that ihe time has not arrived to abandon an adequate protective tariff system in vain pursuit of the phantom of free tra-Je. Tho effect of the wool schedule of the Wilson bill has been to enrich the European manufacturer at the expense of our domestic manufacturer, and en large the European market for foreign wools while lessening our home market for our domestic wools, occasioning an advance of two cents a pound for Port Phillip (Australian) wool in London, while unwashed Ohio wool has declined 11 cents a pound in Boston and New York; and producing such a depression of our home manufacturers as has caused a reduction in wages of opera tives and threatens to throw thisbranch of domestic labor out of all employ ment. We are, therefore, opposed to opening our home markets of seventy millions of consumers to the foreigner on any pretense of procuring thereby a foreign market for the productions of the Unit ed States. But we shall exact of our manufacturers that they accord to lab or a liberal and more continuously cer tain share of tho protection accorded them; and that the tariff devised shall afford also a protection to the farmer and the planter, and provide sufficient revenues for the necessary expendi tures of government. This second demand meets the re quirement of the great mas3 of Ameri can labor, to whom McKinley threatens become the embodiment of the protec tive tariff. While my reports from all sections, including the new south, are overwhelmingly In favor of protection, comparatively few manufacturers favor the restoration of the McKinley tariff. Third. We demand the application of the principle defined as the initiative and referendum, to all national legisla tion which Involves any radical change In public policy. A test of this principle, thus restrict ed to any radical change In public policy, seems warranted by the practice of Switzerland. The test may commend a broadening of the restriction, If found practicable. "Should the great trunk lines of railway become a possession of the government?" would seem to be such a radical change in public policy as might wisely be referred to the peo ple. Fourth. We condemn Clevelandlsm utterly; that debauching of legislators with patronage to achieve legislation oppose to the will of the people ia a vicious prostitution of executive In fluence, which we shall denounce as bit terly if It be the practice of an executive elected as a republican as when, the practice of one elected as a democrat. If all who have become distrustful of old parties and tired of boss rule will unite In these demands and nominate, on this platform, some man of such achievements as commend him to the conservative element of the country, and who Is not a seeker after the pre- rcrment, lie can be elected in the ap proaching campaign to the presidency of th Uaited States. If the democratic platform demands the reopening of the mints to silver, as now seems likely, all the powers of the democratic (?) administraton will be used to compass the defeat of the dem ocratic candidate. The prosperity to accrue to the people under the adoption of that policy would put In shameful contrast the current results of the ad ministration's policy. If the republican platform demands, unequivocally, the re-opening of the mints to silver the democratic platform will necessarily demand the same, and the contest will be narrowed thereby to a protective tariff against free trade. WILLIAM P. ST.JOHN. Trnd Conditions. Still no revival and more excuses. Dun's Review of Trade of the 16th says: "It Is now the middle of May, too late for business to change materially until the prospects of coming crops are as sumed, and definite shape has been given to the presidential contest by the con ventions. Until the future is more clear, there will be prudent disinclina tion to produce much beyond orders, or to order beyond immediate and cer tain needs. If this waiting spirit pre vails two months longer, it wiil crowd Into the last half of the year an enor mous business if the outlook is good. For the present there is less business, on the whole, than a year ago, though in some branches more, and the delay fol lowing months of depression is to many trying and the cause of -numerous fail ures." Ever since the repeal of the "Sherman law" the gold men have had prosperity loomlrig up ahead; but there was al ways some little thing in the way. First, we must have a bond Issue to re plenish the gold reserve and "restore confidence." Then It was found that the bond Isrue had Itself created some stringency which, however, would soon pass away Just as soon as the gold could be drawn out of tin treasury again. Then another bond Issue was required to give more "confidence." Then more stringency and then more bonds. Sometimes the weather wa3 bid; sometimes it was too fine. For the last month or two the trouble h?s been "under consumption" and "lack of de mand for goods." Now the lack of de mand continues, the season is too far advanced, and no material improve ment can to looked for until after the conventions have, been field and crop conditions assured. It will be more than two months before all of the con ventions shall have been held, and vc can safely rely upon the ingenuity of the trade experts to find a small volume of excuses by that time. Less business upon the whole than there was a year ago, with "good times coming" con stantly ringing in our oars, la a condi ticn that should open people's eyc3. Coy, Altcrld at the Auditorium. The Chicago Tribune speaking of the assemblage that greeted Governor Alt geld at the Auditorium last Saturday evening says: "The audience for the most part was not of the sort usually seen at the Auditorium." That 13 true. There were no low-necked dresses and costly opera robes In sight. The boxes were not filled with bankers, and the auditorium proper with rich merchants posing as "workingmen" and repre sentatives of labor. But, as predicted last week, the gathering was as respect able as any ever seen within the wall? of that splendid building, which was packed to the very dome. There may possibly have been a vacant seat here and there, but there were hundreds standing in the foyer, and in numbers It surpassed the Carlisle meeting. An even more significant fact is that the audience was heartily In accord with the speaker, while the most strenuous efforts of the gold men to fill the house with their friends utterly failed to give Mr. Carlisle a sympathetic audience. If any man thought for a moment that the free silver issue was dead In Chi cago, the Altgeld meeting should cause him to revise hU Judgment. National Bimetallism How Little. To show you, dear reader, how little financial reform can come of free silvei coinage! alone, let us make a state ment: In round numbers our population may bo called 70,000,000 people. It will take about all the American product of silver (after the arts are supplied) to give each man, woman and child $1 per year. That is, the coinage of $70,000,000 per year would Increase the amount ot money $1 per capita, per annum. But the Increase of population from births and from foreign immigration will be about 1,000,000 people per year, and it will take f 25,000,000 of new sil ver to bring the newcomers up to the present per capita of, say $25 per head. To simplify the argument, let us ad mit that foreign silver will be dumped on us sufficient for evening up $25, 000,000 per year, we'll say. What would be the result? Why, it would take 25 years, at the rate of coinage we have mentioned, to reach the $50 per capita limit that pop ulists ask for. And in 25 years hence, If the busi ness of the country be doubled by that time, as Is probable, we shall be no better off under free silver coinage than we are at present not a bit. Free silver coinage, from the very necessities of the situation can be but the beginning of financial and econo mic reform. FIguro it out for yourself. Nevada Director. Lowest Profession. The stage Is, In China, the lowest of professions. Actors share with barbers, the pain of exclusion from competition at literary examinations. Every other man In the empire can eompete, and every successful candidate is a prob able mandarin. Actors and barbers alone can ever attain to tha privilege. ( TAKE THEIHS STRAIGHT. National I'rohlhltlonlsts for Prohibition A Now l'urtj lit the Flt'ld. Tho M!vcnth national convention of the Prohibition party was held at Pittsburg. A fl;jht was precipitated at tho start. Samuel Dickie, of Michi gan, chairman of the national central committee, after replying to an ml dress of welcome, introduced A. A. Stevens, of Pennsylvania, as temporary chair man. The name of E. J. Wheeler wus presented iu opposition. Chairman Dickie refused to listen and insisted that Stevens talco the chair. The hall became u sjeno of wild turmoil and it was not until the police were culled that order was restored. Vheeler then withdrew for harmony's sake. A. 11. Wilson was made temporary uecre tary. The next struggle came on the platform, when the minority of the resolutions committee reported in favor of free silver, equal suffrage, govern ment control of railroads, English language only in schools, popular vote on president anil vice president, liberal pensions, strict immigration laws, nat uralized citizens to be naturalized one year before voting, and against pub lie funds for sectarian institutions. The silver plank was downed by the faction which stood for a prohibition platform only and then a substitute was adopted which excluded everything but prohibition, even woman, suifrage, and was tho narrowest kind of a nar row gauge tleelaration. Mrs. Helen M. Gougar attempted to save the woman suffrage plank, but in vain John P. Levering, of Maryland, was nominated for President of the United States. Mr. Levering is a prominent coffee merchant of Ualtirucre. He is .. years of age, reputed to be very wealthy, and is president of the Y. M. ('. A. lie was formerly a Democrat, but has been connected with the. Pro hibition party since 1SS4. He ran on the Prohibition ticket last fall for gov ernor, receiving the highest vole ever east in the state for the party. Hale Johnson, of Illinois, was nomi nated for viae president. Mr. .Johnson wu:i born in Indiana 4'. years ago and served through the war. He is a past commander in the; (J. A. II. and a col onel in the veteran legion. A resolution was ollered and passed that in tho opinion of the convention the right of (mffrage should not be abridged by sex. A New I'arty Or;fii!cl. The broad gauge rs then organized a rump" convention. Twenty-four states were represented. Among the prominent bolters are Helen M. (!on 7ar, of Indiana; ex-Gov. Jo'm P. St. John, of Kansas; It. S. Thompson, of )liio. editor of the New Era; John Lloyd Thomas, of New York, a.id L. 11. Logan, of Ohio. A new p'irty was cr zanized and namjdthe National party, md its motto is "Home Protection. ' Cloudburst KM Two cloudbusts occurred in Newton county, Mo. One life was lost at Neo sho and 27 at Seneca. The condition of Seneea i:i pitiable. It is a town of 1,200 inhabitants and is situated in a valley. The water extended from bluff to bluff and was from four to six feet deep in every business house. Many buildings were washed nwu-. Two were swept away at Neosho, but the loss is slight. The damage to crops and frrniture is great, as many houses were flooded. The damage to Smcca property will reach $1'0.000. A FrrryhoMt Sink 13 Dr.nvnrd. A hurricane and cloudburst struck Cairo, 111., five miles of telegraph poles were blown down on the Mobile t'c Ohio railway. The opera house and union depot was unroofed, numbers of trees destroyed. The ferryboat Katharine was capsized at the mouth of the Ohio, drowning 13 people, all on board but the captain, engineer and clerk. At Bird's Point, Mo., opposite Cairo, a church and ten other buildings were moved from their foundations, and oilier damage done. Andrew Fisher's barn and two others were burned by tramps at Battle Creek. A heavy wind storm accompanied by high wind and hail visited the vicinity of Denton Harbor doing much damage to fruit and shade trees and unroofing many small buildings. 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