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a-he -31 RES I DENT'S LETTER ACCEPTANCE. ie Issues Ave Defined—Policy tlic Hc publicans—Tlio Contest llos Between Protection unit Fron Trade—Fair Kloo ttons and Reciprocity Touched Upon. Tho President's tetter. President.Harrison's.letter accepting •*tho Bepubliean Presidential nomination "yras made public Monday night. It con- I tains over 10,(100 words, is dated atj ^Washington, and tlie substanoo is as (.follows: The Hon. W. McKinley, Jr., and Others, Com- 1 mittee, etc: Gentlemen—I now avail myself of the first period of relief from public duties to respond r, to tno notification which you brought to me on June $20 of my nomination tor the office of Pres -.'ident of the United States by the Republican j^National Convention recently held at Minne ftpollB. v'Lj- acc°P^the nomination, and am grateful for .• tho approval expressed by the convention of f/the acts of the administration. Tho great work of the Fiftv-flrst Congress las been subjected to the revision of a Demo ©ratio House of Representatives and tho acts 'Of the executive department to its scrutiny ftnd investigation. There has seldom been a time, I tl^ink, when a change from tho declared policies of the Hepublican to the declared poli cies of the Democratic party involved such eerious results to the business interests of the 'country. A brief review of what has been dono and of what the Democratic party proposes to nndo will justify this opinion. 'I The President then at some length &$comparcs the present system of banking 'and the issuance of money with that j/which prevailed before the withdrawal ,Of State bank issues, and declares that Sthe present plan is the safest over yot •^devised. He touches upon the commerce upon iSythe seas and recognizes the fact that S'jlour exports are carried in vessels sail j-flng under foreign flags. He says: The merchandise balance of trade, tho treas \\iry books show, is largely reduced by the an- .v'nual tribute which we pay for freight and vpassago money. The great ships—the fastest on tho sea—which are now in peace profiting i/by our trade, are, in a secondary sense, war ^tflnipsof their respective governments, and in time of war would, under existing contracts £owith those governments, speedily take on the guns for which their decks are already pre spared and enter with terrible efficiency upon i: the work of destroying our commerce. '. The undisputed fact is that the great steam- i7,: ship lines of Europe were built up and are now in part sustained by direct or indirect govern ment aid, the latter taking the form of liberal pay for carrying the mails or of an annual bonus given in consideration of agreements to construct ships so as to adapt them for carjy rtng an armament and to turn them over to the Government on demand, upon specified terms. "'.It was plain to every intelligent Amerl ,can that if tlic United States would rfihave such lines a similar policy must be entered upon. The Fifty-first Congress V.venacted such a law, and under its benefi t-cent influence sixteen American stcam ships of an aggregate tonnage of f7,400 tons ana costing $7,400,0 iu have been built or con s' tracted to be built in the American ship-yards. In addition to this,lit is now practically cer Ptain that we shall soon have under the Ameri can flag ono of the finest steamship lines sall ing out of New York for any European port. This contract will result in the construction in American fillip-yards of four new passenger «tftaniBh1p* in A'» tons panh- onst.iiK* about, $8,000,000. and will add to our naval reserve six steamships the lastest upon the sea. Mr. Harrison favors the development of our South Atlantic and Gulf ports, and the increased application of tho policy ol reciprocity 111 boutli American trade. Tor this latter, ho ascribes all credit to Mr. Blaine, and 111 summing up results and prospects, says: At a meeting held March last of tho asso ciated chambers of commerce of Great Britain the President reported that tho exports from fGreat Britain to the Latin American countries |:dnring the last year had decreased $2rt,7&O,0l)0, "and that this was not due to temporary causes, tout directly to the reciprocity policy of tho United States. Germany and France have also hown their startled appreciation of the fact hat a new and vigorous contestant has ap cared in the battle of the markets and has al ~ady secured important advantages. Tho. most convincing evidenco of the trc endous commercial strength of our position is found in the fact that Great Britain and 'Bpain have found it liecessarv to mako recip ocal trade agreements with us for their West ndia colonics, and that Germany and Austria 'have given us important concessions in ex change for the continued freo importation of their boet-sugar product. A few details oily as to tho increase in our uj&trado can be given here, laking all the coun 4£tries with which arrangements have been made, our trade to .Tuno JO. I8v)2, had increased 23.78 per cent. with Cuba during tho first ten months our exports increased $6,702,11)3 or o4.8 per cent. and with Porto lltco or 34 per cent. The liberal participation of our farmers in tho benefits of this policy is shown by the following report from our Consul Gen eral at Havana under date of July -26 last. During the first half year of lb:)l, Havana re ceived 140,050 bags of Hour from Spain and other ports of the island about an equal amount, or approximately 280,112 bags, dur ing the Bam© period Havana received l.J,076 bags of American flour and other ports approx imately an equal amount, making about -8,000 bags. But for the first half of this year Spain has sent less than 1,000 bags to the whole island and the United StatCB has sent to Havana alone 10S-487 bags and about an equal amount to other ports of the island, making approxi mately 837,000 for the first half of iho-2. Partly by reason of the reciprocal trade a§rreement but more largely by reason of the removal of the sanitary restrictions against American pork, our export of poik products to Germany increased during the ten mouths ending June 30 last i-2.U2j.074, or about 32 xjcr cent. Tho British Trade Journal of London, a recent issue, speaking of the increase of Ameri can coal exports and ot the falling off of tho English coal exports to Cuba says. It is an other case of American competition, ihe United States now supply Cuba with about 160,000 tons of coal annually, and there is overy prospect of this trade increasing as the forests of the island become exhausted and the use of steam machinery on the estates is dc\eloped. Alabama coal especially is securing a reputa tion in tho Spanish West Indies, and the river and rail improvements of the Southern States will undoubteply create an important Gulf trade- The new reciprocity policy by which tho United States arc enabled to import Cuban sugar will of courso assist tho American coal exporters even more ellectively than the new lines of railway. The President fears the loss of pres- The declaration "That when Again, Itt The majority report of the Committee on a^hi^tt custom-house this majority OK. ALL THE On^KS par industries depend upon protective duties people by fair apportionments and free elcc m-4 \J ij lo, for their successful continuance" and a decla- tions. I believe It would be possible to con ration that tariff changcs should be resardful stitute a commission, non-partisan in its mein pf the workmen in such Industries and of the O invested capital. 'i'lio overwliehninR rejection of these propo sitions which had before received the sanction of Democratic National Conventions was not more indicative of the new and more courage- ous leadersliip to which the party has now committed itself than the substitute which was adopted. This substituto declares that protective duties are unconstitutional—high protection, low protection—all unconstitu tional. A Democratic Congress holding this view cannot enact nor a Democratic President approve any taritf schedule the purpose or effect of which is to limit importations or to give any advantage to an Americ.m workman or producer. A bounty might, I judge, be given to the importer under this view of the Constitution in order to Increase iriiportant importation, and so the revenue, for "revenue only," is the limitation. Reciprocity of courso falls under this denunciation, for its object and effect are not revenue, but uie promotion of commercial exchanges, the profits of which go wholly to our producers. of Jefferson or Jackson, and character izes tho present doctrine as "destructive and un-American." He says: There is not a thoughtful business man in the country who does not know that the en actment into law of the declaration of tho Chi cago convention on the subject of tho tariff would at once plunge the country into a busi ness convulsion such as it has never seen and tliere is not a thoughtful workingmnn who cou^/i mittee, lias been given to tho public. No such wide and careful inquiry has ever been before made. These facts appear from the report: 1. The cost of articles entering into the use of those earning less than $1,000 per annum has decreased up to May, 180*2, 3.4 percent., while in farm products there has been an increase in prices, owing in part to an increased foreign demand and the opening of new markets. In England during the same period the cost of living increased l.l) per cent. Tested by tholr power to purchase articles of necessity the earnings of our working people have never been as great as they are now. 2. There has been an average advance in the rate of wages of .75 of 1 per cent. 23. There lias been an advance in tho price of all farm products of 18.07 per cent, and of all cereals 33.9!) per cent. The ninth annual report of tho chief of the bureau of labor statistics of the State of New York, a Democratic officer, very recently issued, strongly corroborates, as to that State, the facts found by the Senate committee. In view of this showing it is plain that this tariff law has not imposed burdens but con ferred benefits on the farmer and the working man. Some special effects of the act should be no ticed. It was a courageous attempt to rid our people ol' a long maintained foreign monopoly on the pioduction of tin plate, pearl buttons, silk plush, linens, lace, etc. Once or twico in our history the production of tin plato had boen attempted, and the prices obtained b? the Welsh makers would have enabled our makers toproduco it at a profit. But tho Welsh milk ers at once cut prices to a point that dtovo the American beginners out of the business, and when this was accomplished again made their own prices. A correspondent of the Industrial World, the oftlcinl organ ot tho "Welsh tin-plate I workers, published at Swansea, in the issue of June 10, la»2, advises a new trial of those meth ods. lie says: "It is clearlv the interest of both (employer and workmen) to produce tin-plates, tariff or lio tariff, at a price that will drive all competi tors irom tho field. But spite of the doubts raised by the elec tions of lasio. and of tho machinations of foreign producers to maintain their monopoly, the tin-plate industry has been established in tlieLnited States, and the alliance between the Welsh producers and the Democratic party for its destruction will not succeed. Tho 1'rcsident then shows that in this Another industrv that has been practically created bv tho Mckinley law is tho making of pearl buttons. Few articles coming to us from abroad were so distinctly the product of star vation wages. But. without unduly extending this letter. I cannot follow in detail tiie influences of the tariff law of 18H0. This tariff law has given employment to many thousands of American men and women, and will each year give em ployment to increasing thousands. Its repeal would throw thousands out of employment and give work to others only at reduced wages. In considering the motivos of Dem ocracy's leaders, the President says: •'Thoappoals of tho free-trader to the workmginan are largely addressed to lus prejudices or to his passions, and not infrequently are pronouncedly com munistic." But of the outcome, ho says: "They will settle the tanft contest in the calm light of their November fire sides, and with sole reference to the prosperity of the country of which they are citizens and ot the homes they have founded for their wives and children." No intelligent advocate of a protective tariff claims that it is able of itself to maintain a uniform rate of wages without regard to fluc tuations in the supply of and demand for tho products of labor, but it is confidently claimed that protective duties strongly tend to hold up wages, and are tho only barrier against a reduction to the European scale. The Southern States have had a liberal par ticipation in tho benefits of the tariff law, ar- though their representativea have gener ally opposed the protection policy, I rejoice that their sugar, rice, coal, ores. iron, fruits, eilt and endansenriK of future trade, fiscal year.•MM,uoo,772 worth ot raeroLandlae, or „,.„ ,nlrr,f,cqfnl for he I 53.35 per cent, of our total Importations camo if the Democrats aie successrui, lor no fre0 upon dia not adopt a schedule but a principle that is to control all the tarlll (schedules. I hero may be differences of opinion among protectionists as to tho rate upon particular articles neces l&ry to effect an ciiu&li^«itlon between wjyes abroad and at home. In some not remote national campaigns the Issue has been—or, more correctly, lifts_Dceii made to appear to be—between a high and low protective tariff, both parties expressing some solicitous regard for tho wages of our working people and for tho prosperity of our domestic Industries. But under a more courageous leadership the Democratic party has now practically declared that, If gi\Ln pou er, it will enact a tariff law without anj rcirard t° its effect upon wages or upon tho capital in vested in our great industrice. tlio of tho platform in favor free list has saved to the consumer In ot dnt fljteen au( ixatiou is levied labor here and abroad, when such a difference exists, fully measures any possible benefits to labor, and the enormous additional imposi tions of the existing tariff fall with crushing force upon our fanners and workingmen. Here we have a distinct admission of the Re publican contention that American workmen are advantaged by a tanft rate equal to the difference between home and foreign jiwes, and a declaration only against the alleged ad ditional impositions of the existing tariff law.. report months, after paying the, "the American doctrine or protection meets j)0uneg tieSpnr0vj(iedfor.$87,000,000. This relief has business, even that of the importer, 1b now ad my most hearty approval, llie co:i\Teiiuon ,mTffiit everv household justed tho reciprocity policy, the new mer- upon every Saturday's purchase of tho work intrman. Ono of the favorite arguments asainst a pro tective tariff is that it shuts ua out from a par ticipation in what Is called, with swelling em phasis, "the markets of tho world." If this view is not a false oue, how does lt happen that our commercial competitors are not able to bear with more serenity our supposed surren der to them of tho "markets of the world," and how doos it happen that the partial loss of our market closes foreign tin-plate mills and plush factories that] still havo all other markets? Our natural advantages, our protective tarilf and the reciprocity policy make it possible for to have alarge participation In the "markets of tho world" without opening our own to a fj,he reHOiUfci0n upon articles of any kiud produced in tiiis bimetallism declares, I think, the true and country tho difference beUveen the oost ot further declared. "But in making a reduction in taxes It is not proposed to injure any domestic industries, but rather to promote their healthy Moreover, many industries t8HMe3 ha\ bership, and composed of patriotic, wise, and impartial men, to whom a consideration of tho questions of evils connected with our election systems and methods might bo committed with a good prospect of securing unanimity in some plan for removing or mitigating those evils. The constitu tion would permit tho selection of the commission to be vested in the Supremo Court if that method would give the best guaranty of impartiality. This commission should be charged with tho duty of inquiring into tho whole subject of the law of elections as re lated to the choice of officers of tho National Government, with a view to securing to every elector a lree and unmolested exercise of the suffrage and as near an approach to an equality of value In each ballot cast as is attainable. The demand that the limitations of suffrage shall bo found in the ballot, and only there, is a just demand and no just man should resent or resist it. It seemed to me that an appeal to our people to consider the question of readjusting our legislation upon absolutely fair non-partisan Mr. Harrison denies that the policy lines might find some effective response. Many of the Democrats to-day was tho policy t'mos 1 have!iad V/ the increase of importations to the choice of federal officers. that would follow and necessitato a reduction of his wugos to the European standard. If any one suggests that this radical policy will not markets __ own to a compeiiuuii vvuiuu uvei/iu competition that would destroy tho comfort independence of our people. 01 bimetallism ho says: of the convention ln favor of nece88ary conditions of a movement that has, upon these lines, my oordial adherence and support, I am thoroughly convinced that the free coinage of silver at such a ratio to gold as will maintain the equality ln their commercial uses of the two coined dollars, would conduco to the prosperity of all the great producing and commercial nations of the world. The one es sential condition is that these dollars shall havo and retain an equal acceptability and value in all commercial transactions. His further remarks upon this head are but illustrative. Concerning regulations of elections: come to rely upon legislation for successful con tinuance, so that auy change of law roust he at overv step regardful of the labor and the c.ipi- we" have an admi»Bion that many of I11 my last annual message to Congress, I said- "I must yet entertain the hope that lt is possible to secure a calm, patriotic considera tion of such constitutional or statutory chances as may bo necessary to secure tho choice of the officers of the Government to the occasion to say that laws and election methods, designed to give unfair ad vantages to tho party making them, would some time be used to perpetuate in power a faction of a party against a will of the majority of the people. Of this wo seem to have an il lustration in the recent State election in Ala bama, The situation in Alabama is rovowied at length, and the President says: I shall again urge upon Congress that pro vision be made for tho appointment of a non- ~n 7 V131UU UI5 UlUUt2 ilU 1UU UIJlJUlULUlCUlr Ul Ui uuu* partisan commission to consider the subject of the amount of Mork to be done in apportionments and elections in their relation Mr. Harrison expresses himself as thoroughly satisfied with the civil service system. Upon tho education question he fcays: 1 be executed if the Democratic party attains power what shall bo thought of a party that is capable of thus trifling with great interests? Tho threat of such legislation would be only The approval so heartily given by the con- less hurtful than the fact. vcntionTo all those agencies°which contribute And now a few words in regard to the exist- tol he education of the children of the land ing tariff law. are fortunately able to was worthily bestowed and meets my hearty judge of its influence upon production and approval, as does also the declaration as to prices by the market reports. he day of tho liberty of thought and conscience and the sep prophetof calamity has been succeedec by that aration of church and state. The safety of a of the trade reporter. An examination into republic is an intelligent citizenship and the the effect of the law upon the prices of pro- increased interest manifested in tho States in tection products and of tho cost of such arti- education. The publio-school system, how cles as enter into the living of people of small I ever, was not intended to restrain the natural means has been made by a committee com-j right of the parent, after contributing to the posed of leading Senators of both parties, with public-school fund, to choose other educa the aid of the best statisticians, and the re- tional agencies for his children. I favored aid port, signed by all tho members of the com- by tho general government to the publio lias been given to the public. No such schools, with a special view to the necessities of some of the Southern States. But it is gratifying to notice that many of these States are, with commendable liberality, developing their school systems and increasing their school revenues to the great advantage of the children of both races. Tho considerate attention of the farmers of the whole country is invited to the work done through the State and Agricultural Depart ments in the interest of agriculture. Then is shown how, by inspection of our meats, the markets of several Euro pean countries were opened to our prod ucts. Tho President strongly advocates the Nicaragua Canal. Of the foreign policy, he says: It has been the purpose of the administra tion to make its foreign policy not a matter of partisan politics but of patriotism and na tional honor and I have very great gratifica tion in being able to state that the Democratic members of the Committee on Foreign Affairs responded in a true American spirit, and I frankly confess my obligation for needed co operation. They did not regard a patient but firm insistanco upon American rights and upon immunity from insult and injury for our citi zens and sailors in foreign ports as a policy of "irritation and bluster." They did not believe, as somo others seem to believe, that to be a Democrat one must take the foreign side of every internation question if a llepublican. I do not believo that a tame submission to insult and outrage by any nation at tho hands of any other can ever form the basis of a last ing friendship—the necessary element of mu tual respect will be wanting. The Chilian incident, now so happily and honorably adjusted, will, I do not doubt, place our relations with that brave people upon a more friendly basis than ever before. In our relations with the groat Europcn powers, the rights of the United btates and our citizens have been insisted upon with firmness. Never before. I think, in a like period have so many lmporant treaties and commercial agreements been concluded, and never before, I am sure, have tho honor and iufinenco, national ana commerlal. of the United States been held in hiuher estimation in both hemispheres. The Union soldiers and sailors are now vet erans of time as well as of war. The parallels of age have app^oachcd close to the citadels of country the past year there was pro- life, and the ena, for each, of a brave and hon duced over 13,000,000 pounds of tin and terne plates. In continuance: orable struggle Is not remote. Increasing in firmity and years give the minor tones of sad ness and pathos to the mighty appeals of ser vice and suffering. The ear tnat does not lis ten with sympathy and the heart that does not respond with generosity are the ear and heart of an alien and not of an American. Now, soon again tho surviving veterans are to parade upon the great avenues of tho national capital, and every tribute of honor and love should attend the march. A comrade in the column of tho victors' parade in 1865,1 am not less a comrade now. The necessitv for a careful discrimination among tho immigrants seeking our shores be comes evcrv day more apparent. We don't want and should not roceive those who by rcuson of bad character or habit arc not wanted at li ome. The industrious and self-respecting, tho lovers of law and liberty, should be dis criminated from the pauper, the criminal, and the anarchist, who come only to burden and disturb our communities. Every effort has been made to enforce tho laws and some con victions have been secured under the contract labor law. The general condition of our country is ono of groat prosperity. The blessing of God has rested upon our fields and upon our people. The annual value of our foreign commorce flas increased more than $100,000,000 over the aver ago for the preceding ten years, and more than $-210,000,000 over 1810, tho last year unaffected by tho now tariff. Our exports in 1892 exceed ed those of 18i:0 by more than $172,000,000 and the annual average for ten years by $205, 000,000. Our exports of breadstuffs in creased over those of 1800 more than $144,000,000. of provisions over $4,000,000. and of manufactures over $8,000,000. The mercnandiso balance of trade in our favor in 1802 was $202, 044,842. No other nation can match the com mercial progress which those figures disclose. Our compassion may well go out to these whoso party necessities and habits still com pel them to declare that our people are op- otton cloths and other products havo not pressed and our trade restrictedly a protective been left to the fate which the votos of their I tariff, llepresentatives would havo brought upon them- In the construction of the ^Nicaragua canal, in the new trade with South and Cen tral America, in tho estalilishment of Ameri can steamship lines, these States have also special interests, and all these interests will not always consent to be without representa tion at Washington. Shrewdly, but not quite fairly, our adver saries speak onlv of the increased duties im posed upon tin. pearl buttons and other arti cles by tho McKinley bill, and omit altogether any reference to tho great and beneficial en largement of the free list. During tho last (the largest percentage in our history). declares they lavor repeal of tuo reei- 1 liilo in 188U the per cent, of freo importations orocltv provision. He turther says: was only w.12 per cent. Tlio placing of sugar piuuy [uuvioiuu In closing, tho President decries the policy of chance advocated by the Dem ocrats. He says: A chanKO in the personnel of a national ad ministration is of comparatively little mo ment. If those exorcising publio funotlons are able, honest, diligent, and faithful, others possessing all these qualities may be round to tako their places. But changes in the laws and in administrative policies are of great moment. When public affairs have been given a direction and business has ad justed itself to those lines any sudden change Involves a stoppage and new business adjust ments. If tho change ot direction is ss radical as to bring the commercial turn-table into use tho business changes involved are not read justments, but reconstructions. The Demo cratic party offers a programme of demoli tion. The protective policy, to whloh all v- justed tho reciprocity policy, the new mer chant marine, aro all to be demolished—not gradually, not taken down, but blown up. To this programme of destruction lt lias added one constructive feature, the re-eotabllshment of State banks of issue. The policy of tho Republican party is dis tinctively a policy of safe progression and de velopment—or new factories, new markets and new ships. It will subject business to no perilous changes, but offers attractive oppor* tunities for expansion upon familiar lines. IT IS a curious fact that Americans have never attempted anything ln the way of street decorations for fes tive or mourning occasion beyond slight variations upon the crudest, most commonplace and monotonous use of red, white and blue stuff, or black cotton, as the case might be. In order to secure better results, Perry Belmont, chairman of the art committee for the Columbus celebra tion on October 12th, has called to his aid as advisers the leading paint ers, sculptors, designers and archi tects of the city of New York. This is a welcome step in the right direc tion and one that will give an im pulse to similar efforts in other cities. The tastelessness of our public dis plays has become a weariness even to the flesh. MOURNING FOR WHITTIER. America's Lovod Bard X« Called to BU Fatlior's Home. John Or. Whittier, tho Quaker poet, died at 4:30 o'clock Wednesday morn ing, at Hampton lralls, N. Ii. The cnel was like his life, peaceful, and he passed away like one falling asleep. His near est relatives and Dr. Douglass were afc his bedside when death came, and ho Boomed to be conscious of his surround ings at the last moment. The funeral,) at Amesbury, according to the Quakerj custom, will be simple, with no sermon John G. Wliittier's latter years had been a beautiful ideal of old age. Long ago he laid aside the heavy cares of lifo to reap the reward of his labors for man kind, aad beloved of a nation and tho entire English-speaking race he awaited! patiently the summons to his final home,! Lt had been his custom of late years to' Bpend his summers at Oak Knoll and his| winters at his home in Amesbury, always among tho books he so dearly loved. His birthplace, near Haverhill, Mass., still stands, only a little altered from what it was in 1807. A farmer's son, born at a time when New England farm life was moro frugal lhan it is nowadays, he had none of tho opportunities for culture which Holmes and Lowell enjoyed in their youth. His parents were intelligent and upright people of limited means, who lived in the simplicity of the Quaker faith, and there was but little in his early sur roundings to encourage and develop a literary taste. Whittier1? only school instruction was at a district school and afterward at the Haverhill Academy, JOHN a. WHITTIER. Where he paid for his tuition by work done out of study hours. But he began to rhyme almost as soon as he was able to read. Hig father frowned upon his efforts, which lor a long time were kept secret, but his Bister had faith in his work and encour aged it. Ono of his earliest poems, Kilie Exile's Departure," she sent'with out his knowledge to tho New bury port Free Press, signing it with hi3 initial, "W., Haverhill, .June 1, 18'2(!." The publication of this poem led to the ac quaintance and friendship of William Lloyd Garrison, then the editor of the paper, a friendship which lasted and in creased until death ended it. Alter this it was not long before Whittier's household lyrics gave him such a hold on the popular heart, as later, in the struggle for emancipation, made him a power in the land. It is unnecessary to quote Irom works so familiar to almost evory render, but fullicient to mention such legends as "Skipper Ireson's Ride," "Hie Witch's Daughter.' "Jiary Garvin," Merrones," "J.he Pliiymate,' and Maud Muller." Probably the most popular quotation in poetry is tho couplet from "ilaud SIuL e:-:" i-or of ail snd words of tongue or pen. The saddest aro these, "It might have 1)0011. Despite lus advanced years—he was two years older than Tennyson and tweive years the senior of TPalt Whit Man—he was until recently sturdy iri'l active, artd the most charming per sonality in tho world of letters. His mental powers were keen and acute to the last. He gavo but little time ot late to literary effort, his eye being dimmed and his hand unsteady. His latest lit erary production was a poem in the At lantic to Dr. Holmes, and the last verse lie wrote w.is on the occasion of Dr. Holmes' recent birthday. Mr. Wluttier never married. Between his sister Elizabeth and himself there existed the rarest and most delicate love mid friendship, whu-h, doubtless, had no l.itle to do with the poet's inspirations. His homo .was broken up at her death and his heart suffered in tho same mis lortune its greatest shock. His niece I a to 111m at tho death of his sister mid alw lys strove to make that great •oss as little telt as possible. Mr. Wluttier was not a rich man, nor I/as he poor. Alo it titty or sixty thou I iiid copies 01 lus woriis aro sold every (ear, onil 011 the revenues thus derived lie was able to pass his declining years in ease and comloi't. the news ol tho death of John O. Wluttier was received at Haverhill With universal teel ngs ol sadness and 1 egret. The city luill bell was struck 1 iglity lour tunes at o'clcc-c as indi cating tho »gc of the dec-eased, and. I ags on the public buildings and school louses were displayed at halt mast a3 lokens ol respect lor the dead poet. Throughout tho literary world the (vent, though not unexpected, evokes Lhe profoundest regret. .... How I niiiuiis Killers Ijcl. PhtEjII' of Miicodon was assassinated liv his own gunrds when about to start 011 the coni|iiest, of (miccc. Fekguk III. of Scotland was stabbed by lus loalous queen, who immediately altenvard committed suicide. Constantixi MI., the last Emperor of iho Eiist, was killed in the storming ol Constantinople bv tho lurks. 1 A.\ "VI. was imprisoned for eighteen years and imally murdered. Mary Queen ol bcoti was beheaded. Leo I. reigned seven months and kvas poisoned by MaroFia, an infamous Woman ot great power 111 lioino. In forty-nine years, from A. D. 2G0-to A. 1). 30D, sixteen Koman Emperors were assassinated by their successors. Galba was murdered by men who were 111 ev.ery way trusted by lnm and whom he had signally befriended. Commodt'S, the (iladiator Emperor, was murdered by tho Prietonan guards who had placed him 011 tho throne Claudius was poisoned by his in famous wife, Agrippina. to mako room for her equally lntamous son Nero. Maoka Ciiauta John died of mortifi cation at the loss of his baggago and treasure wlu'.o cross ug a dangeroua ford. ALL EYES ON BABY, And Ho "Was Cooing "tVhilo Deatli fffts Very Close. For nearly ten minutes yesterday afternoon, suys the Chicajio Is'ews Keeord, a wee bit of a ch ild arrested trallic on Clark street and blanched many a face with horror. A crowd numbering thousands appeared to be paralyzed for the moment. High above their heads, on a nar row cornice that runs around the fourth lioor of the County building, stood a li-vear-old boy. The breeze that came up from the lake tossed his yellow curls about his laughing face as he playfully swung his arms about and looked at the ever-increas ing mass of people that watched him from below. Ilis little dress was wafted about by the wind, while the spectators expected every minute to see the daring explorer pitch head long from the dizzy perch. No one dared to cry out, for fear of frighten ing the child, who calmly looked about, up and down the street, leaned over to get abetter view of the side walk, ana gazed at the towering Ash land block on the opposite cornor. Below was a scene of intense ex citement. A hackman rushed to his hack and snatched a heavy blankot from the seat. Several men grasped the edges and stood close up to the building, directly below where the child was standing. Officer Frank C. Snyder, of the Central Station, stood on the corner in front of the Sherman House. A small boy ran up and called his attention to the child, and he made a wild rush for the elevator of the county building. Officer Timmons also witnessed the scene at the same time. About a score of men had now recovered their senses, and through every en trance of the building they raced for the elevators. Officer Timmons made a mistake, and was carried up to the top floor. Officer Snyder, however, made a better calculation. Running down the hall and into Judge Adams' court-room, he saw the innocent cause of all the commotion out on the lodge in front of the open win dow. The court-room was deserted, and the child was alone. "Da. da, da," he was saying softly to himself, utterly oblivious of the presence of the officer. Cold drops of perspiration stood on the officer's forehead as he softly tiptoed toward the child, for he realized that his sud den appearance before the startled child meant instant death, Still the child prattled away, giving itself up to the enjoyment of the nevel posi tion. The officer reached out to grasp its dress, when a wild, hysterical shriek came from the hall behind him. The cluid turned and began to totter, and a horrified cry arose Irom the street. Officer Snyder's hand shot out ana he held the boy in his arms. Only for a moment, however, lor a woman 111 whose face there was not a bit of color snatched the cnild from the officer's arms, and then dropped limo and fainting to the lloor. The big-eyed boy looked about him curi ously, while the ro:mi began to 1111 up with people. The mother of the child, for so she proved, clung tena ciously to him. AVhen she became calmer she said she had been in the Probate Court-room, and her boy was plaving and romping in the hall. She had not been aware that he was else where until she heard the people rushing down the hall. lie had pushed open the door of the vacant room and climbed up on a chair to tho open window. The offi cer eluded the woman for her careless ness, but she was so happy at the es cape of her bov that she paid little attention to his words, but showered passionate kisses on the child's lace, bhe was a comely-looking and youth ful German, and spoke English with difficulty. She would not give her name, and left, clasping the child to her breast. A sigh of relief went, up from the crowd, which had blocked the side walks and extended across the street, when the child was taken inside, Tea, Especially Green. shot are picked out one bj one, the best for the first or finest chop. Then it is packed. Tho "Cnn-Houses" of Arizona* There are several of these canons of ,®': the "Clilf-builders" near the town of Flagstaff, Arizona—gigantic gashes in the level upland, to whose very I'link,'* one comes without the remotests suspicion that such an abyss is in front. One of these canons is over twenty miles long, and six hundred .!x feet deep in places. It contains the ruins of about a thousand of these re markable cliff-houses, some ol winch are very well preserved. The canon de Tsayee, with its mummies, was another abode of the "Cliff-builders" is and there are many more scattered over parts of Arizona, Hew Mexico, and Colorado. In mo^t of the-e houses there is little left. Furniture ,• they never had, and most of the im plements have been carried away bv the departing inhabitants or by othei Indians. The floors are one and two feet deep with the dust ot ages, mingled with thorns and nutshells brought in by the chipmunks which are now-their only tenants. By dig ging to the bedrock floorl have lound fine stone axes, beautiful arrow-heads, the puzzling quoit-like stones, and even, baskets of yucca-fiber exactlj like the strange "plaques" made 11: Moqui to-day—but these crumbled tc dust soon after they were exposed tf the air.—St. Nicholas. How It Worked. A well-known borrower, whose credit had daily grown nearer the, ground and worn out in forty places, met an acquaintance the other day. "I say, Tom," he said, -'lend me $0 for a minute or two. I'll give it right back to you." After some hesitation the money was handed over and handed back promptly. Then the same perform-,:1 ance was gone through with on one dollar, two, ten and twenty. "That'sall, thank you," said the: borrower, starting off. "Hold on!" exclaimed the lender "tell me what you mean by thatmon key business." a "Oh, nothing much," was the re-s ply, "only it's been so long since Lv have been able to borrow anything,* under any circumstances that I was afraid I had lost my grip entirely.'• Thank Heaven I have some little credit left." Will you lend me a quar« ter until to-morrow?" I His scheme was a success Convenient Koots. A visitor to Brazil records a fact which seems to show that 111 South America, as elsewhere, one use of the law is to increase the sum of human ingenuity. The climate is very wet, and a sloping tile root is in universal use. It is easily put on, easily repaired, allords excellent shelter Irom the tropical rains, and what is deemed a capital advantage, it is readily taken oft. A law of the country lorbids the eviction of tenants for the non-pay ment of rent. When a landlord's patience is exhausted1, therefore, in stead of warning the delinquent cut of the house, he takes off the rooi for repairs, and tlie first heavy shower does the rest. .v^,v,™*. Oil ISutlis tor tlie Baby "lt is well known that the skin is a great absorbent, and nutrition even can be conveyed through its asrency," says a trained nurse. "A physician once ordered a beef tea bath for a baby that I was nursintr, who was apparently dying of some exhausting bowel trouble, and with admirable effect. And I myself have found that rubbing delicate persons with warm olive oil is an excellent tonic. If 1 had the charge of a puny, sickly baby, I should feel inclined to give it oil baths instead of water baths, and try the effect. The oil is quite as'cleans ing, and it stands to reason that such, tiny beings, particularly if thev are badly nourished, should not have the natural oil of the body continually washed away." necessitated the stoppage of vehicles and street cars, for 111 the suspense of a Possible Kio*»iiig in iiaguixo. the awful sight not a spectator 1 The average Londoner is fairly moved, while a wondrous silence case-hardened in the matter of logs was caused by the 11 nwonted specta-1 and accepts them as a matter of cle. The passengers on the cable trams craned their necks out of the cars to get a sight ot the child, and liianv women turned away with frightened laces, as if to avoid wit nessing the anticipated lull. course. They are, in fact, regarded as a necessary evil. It is now as serted, however, and by no less an authority than the President of the Institute ot Civil Engineers, that fog is the chiet cause ot the low death rate in London. He says that the log is caused by sulphur emanating from combustion of soft coal that in London about 350 tons are thrown into the air on one winter's day, and that it is this large quantity of sul- Tea is a plant that grows in China, Japan, and other parts of the world. There are two varieties, then nigra and thea viridis—black ana green tea. The same plant produces both 1 phur which counteracts the eltects of kinds. Green tea ii made by 0110 I the deadly germs discharged from re kind of treatment, black tea by an-! fuse heaps and sewers, by its deo(lori/.' other. The shrub is raised from seed like hazel nuts, planted in nurseries: it is set out when about a foot high lives lor fifteen or twenty years and grows sometimes as tall as six leet. It is picked tour times a year. The lirst nicking is the best when the leaves are covered with a whitish down. This is 111 April, tho next 111 May, the next in July, the last 111 August. One Chinaman can pick about thirteen pounds of leaves per day, tor which be receives sixty cash or six cents. The green leaves are spread out on bamboo frames to dry a little, the yellow and old di-iVitr leaves are picked out, then they cake up a.handful of leaves, cast them in a hei.ted pan, get them warmed up and squeeze out the superfluous juice this juice contains an acid oil, so acid as to irritate the hands of the work men. Then they dry them slightly in the sun then every separate leaf is rolled up into a little ball like shot then they throw these crreen tea shot into a pan slightly heated, stirring them up so as to warm every part ul!ks then the cool the tea, and the ing and antiseptic properties. Ho Hail Wasted It. Tommie's mother had left him to entertain Johnnie, his younger brother, while she went out to do an hour's shopping. "When she returned Thomas was on hand with an im portant question. "Does little boys about Johnnie's size, mamma, havo hair on the inside ot them?" "Of course they don't," she ex claimed. "Why do you ask that?." "Oh, nothin'," he said, "starting off, "only I guess I've wasted a bot tie ofhair oil in Johnnie. Oysters. Oyster-spawn when thrown off bv the mother soon seek some clean t'v: shell or gravel on which to fasten or "set." This is why new ground for oysters needs to be covered with clean vi. shells or stones. Oyster-spawn will not "set" on muddy, dirty or greasy matter, even if on shells. Hence shells are much 111 demand foi 4,: preparing new ground. & 1 Jf 1 I A', X''.. 4