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MANCHESTER, IOWA.
Washington city Is opposed to insec
tivorous osculation.
A man may call Ills wife dear and
the statement may bear two construc
tions.
They say it takes a smart man to be
a rogue, but only fools try to get along
that way.
The kissing bug appears to be a com
bination of mosquito, a copperhead
snake anil an epidemic.
Inventor Edison was unable to invent
away to keep his son from marrying a
girl tliat the family didn't like. A
Planks In political platforms are gen
erally measured with a view to their
adaptability to the official posts.
Every woman thinks her doctor Is the
.best until she catches him making a
fuss over some other woman's baby.
In putting his foot down on Porto
Rico Uncle Sam seems to have exposed
his leg. Haytl wants to pull It for a
loan.
Whether or not girl bathers use cloth
gloves at the sliore, undressed kid is a
common fashion at the local swimming
holes.
If Uncle Sam's new explosive, tho
rite, Is all that It is claimed to be, lie
has no further use for a disarmament
conference.
The Sfax was one of the sfa'ctbrs in
restoring Dreyfus to the liberty of
which he was deprived by sfalsehood
and sforgery.
The minister who declared In the pul
pit that stiff collars and religion do not
go together landed rather heavily on
the neck of his congregation.
If Bishop Potter has never been In a
theater, as he says, he has never seen
•'Uncle Tom's Cabin" or "Pinafore."
And yet he thinks that he has lived.
"As soon as the ink trust Is ready for
business," remarked the professor, "it
w.111 proceed, I suppose, to make the
•"foulest blot on the page of history."
Modeling her In gold may please one
girl, but Just think of the number that
might be made happy if. all that mate
rial was worked up Into wedding rings.
A woman writer asserts that a pretty
hat can be made for sixty cents and a
neat dress for $8. It Is also true that
man can live on mush and molasses ab
sorbed regularly thrice a day.
That professor who wants to change
the name of the United States of North
America to Usona may as well give it
up. Usona doesn't rhyme with enough
other words to make the proposition go.
That story of the New York woman
killing her husband because lie snored
too loud awakens the suspicion that
the real cause of Othello'B dreadful
dfeed with the pillows may never have
been brought to light.
Since the success of his son as a pugi
list the eider Jeffries is reported to be
In great demand as a preacher. And it
is understood that the eider Jeffries Is
making
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efforts tb disturb the Inflow
of gate receipts. Ifa addition to its
brawn and its piety the Jeffries family
seems to be processed of considerable
thrift.
•i- Little surprise was expressed at the
wording in English, Instead of French,
of the invitations issned by the British
ambassador at Paris to his banquet In
jcoinmemoration of the queen's eigh
tieth birthday anniversary. Yet there
rwas a time when fetich a proceeding
would have been tantamount to a rup
ture of diplomatic relations. In these
flays there is no longer any one court
!or diplomatic language, while the Eng
lish language is steadily and swiftly
imovlng forward toward universal
usage.
In a summary appended to a recent
Meteorological chart of the great lakes
'(United States weather bureau) Mr.
Henry states that these bodies of water
do not have a marked influence on the
precipitation of rain over the adjacent
land areas. There are eiglit Inches more
rainfall on the south shore of Lake
Superior than on the north shore, and
three Inches more In the cases of Erie
and Ontario. There is also a greater
.precipitation on the eastern shores of
Lakes Huron and Michigan than on
the western.
The Increase in postoflice receipts
will this year be sensationally large,
according to the present estimates of
the department in Washington. In
feome branches of the service receipts
are 25 per cent greater than they were
a year ago. In the last fifteen years
the.postoflice^business of the country
has doubled in volume. This Indicates
not only our direct growth In popula
tion, but the increase In the number
and size of our newspapers and other
publications, as well as a great growth
In the habit of letter writing.
Motives of humanity cannot be given
too large a place In the expressed de
termination of the Czar to abolish the
Siberian exile system. The Trans-Slbe
rlan Railroad Is not being built for mil
itary purposes only. The Russian Gov
ernment could not afford to maintain
such a vast system for that purpose
alone. Siberia is a vast region which
only needs to be tickled with the hoe
to laugh with a harvest. Its develop
ment In agriculture and mining will
add almost a new world to the globe.
But It cannot flourish so long as it is a
penal colony. History has proven that
fact. In this new departure of the
Czar the student of current affairs will
discover motives of policy as well as of
humanity.
In an article In the x'ear Book of the
Department of Agriculture Mr. Barnes,
of the Division of Statistics, advocates
the keeping of goats in many parts of
the States. He states that whenever
foul land is regularly pastured by goate
It becomes cleared of weeds and bush
es, and being evenly fertilized runs into
nutritious native grass. "Practically all
the goatskins entering into the com
merce and manufactures of the United
States are imported. With the excep
tion of that portion of the population
upon territory derived from Spain and
•^Mexico, the people of this country have
"not usually evinced any Interest In
goat-herding for profit, either of skins
or other products." He shows that
Angorfe fcoats have done well on farms
In MatsSchitsetts, Connecticut and Illi
nois. Therl are WJO.&OO goats In the
United States,, 368,000 in the Weft In-,
dies (where goat mutton Is extensively
used), 15,000 In England, and 4,500,000
In Spain.
Experience has demonstrated that
one of the best ways to advertise a
book Is to question Its morality. Con
tinuing the crusade started by the re
jection of Macmonnles' famous Bac
chante, the Boston school committee
has rejected an Illustrated edition of
Ovid which It was pMjMsed to intro
duce as a text book Into the schools,
because certain Illustrations.- In the
book of mythological characters were
pictured In a state of partial nudity.
Their action has roused a tornado ot
talk, and If experience repeats Itself,
there will probably be a brisk run oh
the Illustrated copies of Ovid. People
who never heard of the Roman poet,
and certainly many who never read
him, will want to con him now. provid
ed, of course, they can be furnished
with the much-talkcd-about edition.
When the hue and cry was raised
against "Les Mlserables" having &
place In the library of the
Girls' High School of Philadel
phia, several years ago, almost
every girl proceeded to scour the public
libraries or muster up money sufficient
to buy the tabooed novel. Curiosity is
one of tlie most potent of human at
tributes. The records of the very first
family In Eden prove that.
It may be that the twentieth century
will give us both a flying machine and
a never-falling cure for senility—tho
two things for which humanity has
struggled for centuries. In fact, we are
already assured that some professors
have solved the problem of circum
venting old age, although the discovery
upon which their experiments were
based was made by a country physician
who has been searching for the "secret
of youth" for thirty years. The phy
sician has at last found the secret—not
in the mysterious laboratory of the
alchemist or in the cryptic writings of
an Indian squaw—but in the common,'
everyday barnyard billy-goat, the
street cleaner that eats tin cans and
.wire fences. The return to youth is
produced by the doctor through hypo
dermic injections of the lymphatic
fluid of young goats Into the body. By
this process it is claimed that the min
eral deposits which accumulate in the
bones, and which br.ng on the senility'
and decay of old age, are replaced with
the life cells contained In the lymphatic
glands _of the goats' and general de
terioration of the body is prevented and
the elasticity of youth preserved. The
theory seems plausible enough even to
the unscientific mind, for nothing would
seem to be so admirably calculated to
make a man feel frisky and frolicsome
as an infusion of goat "cells." It
would seem, however, that great cau
tion ought to be exercised In the use of
these "cells." If a man got loaded with
an overdose of these goat "cells" there
is danger that lie might want to butt
over everything in the town. Indeed,
a man whose bones were charged with
three or four more goat "cells" than
he needed might do great damage to
life and property. There Is no doubt
that the goat "cells" area good thing
nnd should be pushed along, but their
nntural propensity for head-end col
lisions would suggest the exercise of
great caution In adapting them to the
needs of those who are anxious to feel
young at eighty or ninety.
Every young man who has a civil war
veteran for a father will appreciate the
revenge which Lieut. Callahan, of the
Twentieth Kansas, Is looking forward
to. Writing to his venerable paternal
ancestor at Junction City, the lieuten
ant says: "I will have grand army
tales that will make you turn green
with envy. I have lots to tell you and
you will have to listen to my tales of
war as I have listened to yours In years
gone by."
Of the several hundred Hobson,
Sampson, Dewey, Schley and other
war hero Bouvenlrs that nave been
sent to the president only three have
been retained In the president's room.
Every manufacturer of a toy novelty
that Is based on one of the famous
men of the late war sends a sample of
his product to the president, with the
result that during the past few months
enough pictures, pencils, knives, stat
ues, badges, InkBtands and other tri
fles turned out In commemoration of
incidents of the Spanish war have been
delivered at the white house to stock a
small store. The great bulk of these Is
carted up to the spacious garret, which
is the Btoreroom of many a gift Intend
ed for the personal use of the president.
In the cabinet room, however, threo
Dewey rel!cs have found resting places.
One Is a good photograph of the Dewey
bust, being about thirty Inches square.
According to Inspector General
Breckinridge, who has recently return
ed from Cuba and Porto Rico, the
sense of moral responsibility of the av
erage Cuban Is extremely limited. This
was strongly Impressed upon him one
day at a military station near Santiago.
A gang of bandits had been rounded up
by the troops, and with them a dozen
horses stolen from a plantation In the
vicinity. The general took a look at
the prisoners and noticed among them
a man who appeared to belong to a bet
ter class than his companions. He was
called forward and through an in
terpreter the general questioned him.
"How did you get mixed up In this?"
asked the Inspector general.
"1 had nothing to do with the affair,"
was the reply. "I am the school teach
er In the district where these men live
and I give them advice. I give every
one advice who comes for It."
"But," suggested the officer who ac
companied Gen. Breckinridge, "that fel
low told the robbers to cut off the hand
of the owner of the horses."
"Ask him why he made such a malig
nant suggestion," said the general to
the Interpreter.
The question was put and the school
teacher Bhrugged his shoulders. "The
'cacique' does not understand," he
said. "It was I who saved the proprie
tor's life. These men came to me with
him and said: 'He will not pay us
what we demand. Shall we kill him?"
Then, as they asked me for advice, I
said: 'No, do not kill him. Cut off one
hand he will pay you then.' They did
as I advised, the money was paid and
I saved the man's life. There Is surely
nothing malignant about that. I am
his friend."—Washington Star.
Never tvylt your wife because of her
foolish actions. But for them the
chances are she wouldn't have married
you.
Flat-Stemmed BlnegraH.
A correspondent writes to the Ohio
Parmer inquiring the name for an en
elosed sample of grass. The Parmer
replies that the grass included with
this letter Is flat-stemmed blue grass,
Poa coinpressa L. It grows in dense
tufts, forming a thick but usually .inter
mittent sward. It spreads by under
ground stems shown In figure, and
hence often, In light soils, ropidly In
vades the meadows. It Is a good grass
In many respects, but Is so much less
productive than Kentucky bluegrass,
Poa pratensis L., that many persons
entertain a rather low opinion of its
merits. The specific name, "com
pressa," refers to Its flattened stems or
culms, In contrast with the commonly
cylindrical ones. This character, with
its short blades and wiry stiffness, per
mits a ready recognition of flat-stem-
FLAT-8TBMMED BI.I7EORABB.
med bluegrass A, In the cut, 1b across
section of a stem, and b, of an ordinary
round stem grass.
Cultivation and Apple Trees.
At the Nebraska station a study was
made of the effect of cultivation on the
growth of apple trees, the size of fruit
and the •water contents of the soil. A
small orchard was divided into three
parts, one of which was cultivated reg
ularly and the other two left in grass
and weeds, one of the latter being
mowed and the other pastured by hogs.
The report says: "Trees In cultivated
ground suffered noticeably less from
the drought and hot winds of summer
than those In sod ground. The foliage
was darker and more vigorous in ap
pearance, and there was no yellowing
and dropping of the leaves, nor wilting
during hot, windy days, both of which
occurred with uncultivated trees. Ap
ples from cultivated land averaged
nearly 14 per cent larger in weight
than those from pasture land and over
17 per cent larger than those from
mowed land."—Grange Homes.
How Salt Helps Fertility. v.
While the soda and chlorine of salt
have no manural properties, there is
often a decided effect from using salt
as topdreBsIng for land that has organ
ic matter. Only very small amounts
are used per acre, and thus used the
salt hastens decomposition, and this
sets free whatever carbonic acid gas or
ammonia the organic matter contains.
Salt Is usually thought of as a preserva
tive. It is so when in amounts large
enough to pickle what it Is applied to.
When carbonic acid gas Is liberated,
that acts as a solvent on the inert pot
ash and phosphate that the
Boil
dry. The soli can hardly be too rich,
for the quicker the growth the better
It Is, whatever the variety. Celery that
Is any way stunted becomes stringy,
and If It is checked by drought It will
have comparatively little of the char
acteristic celery flavor.
Pruning
Vinrs
con­
tains, thus often serving in place
A Brake Block.
This Is used by teamsters In moun
tainous regions. A three-cornered
block, a, of wood is fastened by chains
or wired to the brake beam of a wagon
so that it will drag on the ground about
2 Inches behind one of the rear wheels
of the wagon. The driver stops to rest
his team, and Instead of applying the
brake the team is allowed to slacken
its traces so the weight of the load will
rest on the self-acting chock block.
EFFECTIVE BRAKE BLOCK.
When the team starts again the team
merely has to start the load instead of
having to pull against the brake until
it can be loosened.—American Agricul
turist
Gapes.
Since so many lose their chickens
with this dreadful disease, If It may be
called such, I will give what I consider
a preventive, says a writer In Practical
Poultryman. At from three to four
weeks old I give a lltle whey to drink
that Is very sour. Recently I did not
have any, and at four weeks of age I
found one chicken with gapes. I placed
a basin on the stove with a little
Feeding Clover to Fowls,
The very common advice to feed clo
ver to hens as an aid to egg production
needs to have a caution attached to It.
If bens have grain with the clover
they will not probably eat too much of
the lighter food for their good. But
exclusive reliance on cut clover as win
ter feed for a day or two may so clog
the gizzard with light Indigestible food
that when grain Is given it only makes
the matter worse by furnishing more
heating material to ferment in the crop.
Wherever much grain Is given to fowls
they become too fat to lay, and it is
such hens that are moBt likely to be
crop bound.
Cultivation of Crops.
There are no certain periods for work
on a farm so far as the cultivation of
crops is concerned. Each crop demands
cultivation according to its stage of
growth and the conditions of the land.
The harrow and cultivator cannot be
used too often. The difficulty Is that
some farmers limit the number of
times a crop should be cultivated with
out regard to conditions and circum
stances. No field can be said to have
been well cultivated as long as a single
weed can be seen standing.
Small Celery Beat.
There is a great difference in the
quality of celery, and this makes the
size a matter of comparatively little ac
count. The giant varieties of celery
are now superseded in favor of dwarf
kinds that are crisp and nutty In flavor.
Something, however, depends on the
•oil and method of growing. A moist
soil makes the celery grow muoh fuller
«f its native juices than one which 1*
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umnier.
The chief art In gardening consists
in not allowing our plants to have their
own willful way, but to make them
behave as we want them to. Vines
generally make desperate attempts to
get to the top of a bush or tree that
they twine around, nnd the lower por
tion is nothing but a series of naked
stems. When we set them to trellises
we want this proceeding reversed. We
desire as many branches close to the
ground as at the extreme upper portion
of Ike pole or frame on which they are
supported. The educated gardener un
derstands how to do this. The grower
of grapes under glass has to know how
to do it, as otherwise he would haye
grapes In the apex of the roof and no
where else. He applies the same prin
ciple to the growth of flowering vines
out of doors as to his grapes under
glasB, or to the grapes In the outdoor
garden, for that matter, with equal re
sults.
The art Is very simple. It is simply
to pinch out the apex of the strong
growing shoots that want to get up
still higher, and leave the struggling
shoots at the base alone. The growth
force, suddenly checked by the topping
of the upper shoots, has to be expended
somewhere, just as the sudden stop
page of water being forced through
a
pipe may burst that pipe. It is diverted
to the lower and weaker shoots, which
become, before the season Is over, as
strong as the upper ones.
In the hands of a good gardener a
grapevine trellis will have fruit over
every part of Us surface—and have as
fine fruits at the apex as at the base.
But how rarely do we see these mas
ters of the art and how simple the art
Is, after all.—Meehan's Monthly.
Ventilation of Horses' Ptables.
Good ventilation of stables with plen
ty of light should be provided for
horses in summer. Many horses are
kept in underground stables. This is
very bad, especially In summer, when
excrement rots very quickly, filling the
stables with ammonia. This is very
Injurious to horses' eyes, especially if
the stable be rather dark. This causes
enlargement of the pupil of the eye,
and the change to bright sunlight when
the horse Is brought out of the stable
often results In making htm blind. It Is
worse if there are one or two small
windows where sunlight can come in.
The underground stable should in sum
mer be unusued it is tolerable only In
cold weather.
Welsh Heifer.
The Welsh heifer shown In the pic
ture is the property of Ool. H. Piatt,
WELSH HEIFER.
Gorddlnog, Llanfairfechan, Wales. She
is the winner of first prize at the show
of the Royal Agricultural Society of
England in Birmingham.
Bidding X*and of Bnahes.
Most farmers are Infested to a great
er px
lesB
of
those minerals at much less cost than
if
they were bought and applied.
extent with bushes, which
are exhaustive of fertility and patience,
and are unsightly. They are cut regu
larly each spring, but continue to come
up and multiply. It is a fact not gener
ally known that If they be grubbed up
during "dog days," or at the time when
they have about attained their growth
for the year, 99 per cent, of them will
be effectually killed and the rest so
enfeebled that they will do but little
harm the next season, and can be eas
ily killed at the second grubbing.
Growing Potatoes Under Straw.
Plow the ground deep and pulverize
fine. When the weather becomes warm,
mark out shallow rows 2H feet wide,
drop your potatoes and cover lightly
with dirt. Then cover with old hay or
clean threshed straw eight or ten
inches deep. If straw has wheat left
in It, the wheat will come up and dam
age the potatoes. The yield In raising,
potatoes under much Is double that un
der the best cultivation, and Is espe
cially recommended for localities hav
ing drouthy Beasons.
Fertilizing Growing Corn.
Top dressing with well-composted
manure is fast coming to the front:
with our farmers for a growing corn
crop. Try spreading when the corn In
two feet high and you will find It
works wonders. If droppings from
the hen house are available, keep them
dry add some dry ashes if convenient,
scatter along the row tightly and you
will find It beats any brand of special
commercial fertilizer.
Cultivating Beans.
All cultivation of beans should stop
when the plant blossoms, as getting
moist soli on the blossom is the chief
cause of the fungus diseases which
fasten themselves on the grain. Neither
should beans ever.be cultivated when
the leaveB are wet with rains or dew.
For this reason the bean field should
be left as clean of weeds at the time
the beans are in blossom as it can be
made.
Kerosene for Killing Moaqulto Larvae
Bour
milk In, and after the curd bad separ
ated I let It sour a day or so and gave
to my chickens, and have seen no more
gapeB since. Always have plenty of
water by chickens so they will not
drink too much.
To be very effective the kerosene
must cover the surface of the water
where these pests develop to a percep
tible depth. A mere film will not an
stfer. The cost of this method will be
prohibitive, except In thickly settled
communities and on small bodies of
water.
Black Marsh ni!»
Marsh soils are usually considered so
rich that fertilizers are not necessary.
Experiments show that they respond
very well to applications of farmyard
manure and often to coarse litter, if
well worked in, but commercial fertiliz
ers other than an application of potash
have but little Influence.
To Destroy Chicken Mites.
Use common coal tar apply with a
whitewash brush. If too thick to spread
easily, thin wdth coal oil. Cover the
walls of your chicken house and the
perches, nests and every place that a
mite can hide. Two applications, spring
and fall, will be sufficient.
Ducks don't need water to thrive.
There are many duck-raising plants In
this country where thousands of the
fowl are bred each year for market,
and where there Is not even a puddle
for them to flounder In. One of these
farms is credited with an output of 20,
000 ducks a year.
When a woman's children have all
had the whooping cough and she bears
that her neighbors are down with it,
she goes around all day thanking heav
•a for its blessings,—New York Presa
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POLITICS AND PROMISES.
When the Republican National Con
vention at St. Louis constructed its
platform on which to make the Presi
dential fight in 1898, it was engaged
In making promises. Among other
things It promised that McICinley
would protect and expand the civil
service law, and McKinley solemnly
asserted that he would keep the prom
ise made for him.
But after the Republican candidate
tor President was elected the reign of
promises ended and the rule of politics
began. With due regard for timeliness,
the attack on civil service was left un
til tills year, when a hoard of new of
ficials would do the most good, nnd
then civil service was joyously ripped
up the back by McKinley. That was
politics and Senator Quay of Pennsyl
vania Is now renplng his share of the
benefit. The Pittsburg Post, In refer
ring to Quay's actions In regard to this
mutter, says:
"It Is an established fact that Quay
Is now using ofllces put at his disposal
by McKlnley's spoils order to further
his re-election to the Senate, and if nuy
man lu the country knows better how
to do this than Matthew Stanley Quay
he Is not visible to the naked eye.
"It Is publicly advertised that the
twenty-odd census supervisors just
aprecd on were handed over to Penrose
and Quay to promote the latter's re
election. Several thousand enumer
ators are held in a position of promise
The people were fooled by the politi
cians through the'old Republican trick
of promises mndc to be broken. They
were fooled as to civil service and they
were fooled as to the alleged sympathy,
of the Republicans for oppressed Cuba.
These facts are well known, nnd they
are mentioned here to point a warning
which should be heeded In the next
Presidential campaign. The Republi
cans will make promises to control the
trusts. If they succeed In electing
their candidate they will break those
promises with as little honor as they
have shown In the cases cited. Will
the people allow themselves to be
fooled once more?
McKlnley's Dlemnn,
If- Otis is not recalled by the Presi
dent the inference will be that the' gen
eral has acted under Instructions from
McKinley in the matter of the press
censorship. But if Otis is recalled that
fact will be a confession of judgment
on the part of McKinley, who has kept
Otis in power nnd removes him simply
becnuse the truth has been told by the
newspaper correspondents. It mnkes
little difference what the administra
tion does concerning the correspon
dents' round robin. The dilemma is
there Just the same and either horn
will gore to the quick. Press censor
ship, when enforced to kee'p the knowl
edge of military movements from the
enemy, Is allowable, but there has been
no sort of excuse for the censorship ex
ercised by Gen. Otis at Manila.
Even the Boston Herald, which Is not
especially hostile to McKinley and Is
generally very conservative in Its .re
marks, can find no excuse for the cen
sorship. Commenting on this matter
before the revelations were made by
the correspondents, tlie Herald said:
"The whole Philippine nrcblpelago,
with the realm of China added, would
be a dear purchase at the price of tame
submission to this kind of domestic op
pression, this exercise of Imperial pre
rogative by the President of a free na
tion."
Never before lu the history of the
United States has such a tyrannous as
sumption of authority been assumed as
that which has characterized the cen
sorship of the news from the Philip
pines. No free government should be
guilty of such an act. It is character
istic of an absolute monarchy and has
no element of freedom In it.
Rebates Go On.
The Iron Age calls attention to the
great temptation to freight rate rebat
ing which the trusts put upon the rail
road managers. There Is nothing new
In this. In fact the Interstate commerce
law was principally intended to correct
this evil, which It made a misdemeanor,
but it Is alleged that It still takes place
In various disguises, and the truBts will
soon become expert at It, as they have
been In various other ways of crushing
out competition, which arc barely with
in the bound of legality, If not of moral
ity.—Pittsburg Post.
Free Trade,^
It is difficult to tell just what Senator
Depew of New York means when he
talks for publication. The Senator has
acquired a reputation as a Joker, and
one is not always sure that he is not
springing one of his peculiar witticisms
when he appears to be the most serious.
Recently the able and humorous
Chauncey announced that he believed
the time had come when this country
needed no longer the protective tariff,
^phe Senator alleges that the tendency
is now In the direction of free trade.
But surely Senator Depcw, who hgs
had wide experience as a trust man
ager, knows that the trusts will never
consent to the adoption of free trade,
as that would kill many of the largest
of the existing combines. Knowing this
and being aware that the Republican
party Is bound by the trusts, Depew's
talk about free trade is farcical.
As long as the Republican party Is In
power the protective tnrlff will be
maintained. For the sake of making
political capital the Republicans will
talk about curbing and controlling the
trusts. Resolutions will be placed in
the Republican platform against trusts,
but nothing will be done that can In
any way Injuriously affect the truBts.-
Chlcago Democrat.
Alger the capegoat.
With the removal of Alger—a re
moval just the same, although cloaked
under tlie guise of a resignatlon-rRe
publlean politicians, with McKinley In
the lend, hope to disarm criticism of
tlie administration.
Alger has been made the scapegoat
nnd has been burdened with all the
sins, mistakes and political blundering
of McKinley, Mnrk Hanna & Co. But
the hope to escape criticism Is vain.
Measures, not men, are the Issues before
the people, and ?1 bad policy cannot be
bolstered up by securing a new man to
conduct it.
That McKinley and his aids are
scheming to secure a second term as
Uncle Sam—There's anew bug in the Philippines.—Bluepencilotis—St. Paul
Pioneer Press (Republican).
or 'come and get' for the same laudable
purpose. Quay and Penrose will use
these ofllces to buy up the weak and
disaffected."
President for the present occupant of
the White House Is a patent fact. Al
ger was ejected from the cabinet to
forward this ambition, but a change Of
policy must be made if success Is to be
secured. Either the Filipinos must be
conquered quickly or they must be pac
ified promptly if McKlnley's hope to
succeed himself as President is to have
the slightest excuse for being enter
tained. Neither contingency seems im
minent and the conclusion is not favor
able to the Republican scheme. Doubt
less the results flowing from the remov
al of Alger will disappoint the schem
ers. For a time the people will restrain
criticism and give the new Secretary
of War a fair chance, but as the policy
of the administration is not popular the
end will be more criticism and more
trouble for the President.—Chicago
Democrat.
Mask of Censorship Removed*
This manifesto of "round robin" from
the newspaper correspondents at Ma
nila Is Incalculably the most important
development In our new and unauthor
ized war up to date It sheds a flood of
light upon the muddled, the misman
aged and the dreadful situation there.
It tears away the mask of censorship,
and reveals the long existing and stu
diously and Intentionally misleading
portraiture which General Otis has in
sisted upon presenting to the American
people, a depletion not of facts as they
existed, but of things .as he and the
Government wished us to sec them.—
Springfield Republican.
Let tlie Truth' Be Known.
The suggestion of ex-Senator George
Edmunds that more light be thrown on
our relations with Agulnald'o before
the surrender of Manila Is well taken.
What promises did our representatives
make to hlth, and did they keep them?
Has Agulnaldo had any more cause to
be suspicious of Americans, and to
doubt that they would live up to what
they say? says the Indianapolis Sen
tinel. Let the country know the truth
and the wtiole truth.
Terae and Correct.
The Idea of Mark Hanna talking
against trusts 1b as fully absurd as that
of his satanlc majesty quoting Scrip
ture. Marl: Hanna and the Republican
party will be against trusts just as soon
a8 there Is a frost In hades.—Buffalo
Times. .-.
Worae than War.
War Is one thing and chasing Fili
pinos through the jungle is another.
The latter pastime does not seem to ap
peal to tne American volunteer, and
the country Itself is becoming rather
sick of it, too.—Detroit Tribune.
He Win Fired Just the 8amcw
"I will never retire under lira."—Re
cent utterance of R. A. Alger-—Oblc*
go Chronicle.
AMERICAN WOMAN HONORED.
Ml* tie wall* ^President of tha Inter*
national Council of Women.
Mrs. May Wright Sewall, who has
been elected president of the Interna
tional council of Women, which met
In London, is well fitted by education,
tastes and wide experience as a leader
of women along higher educational
lines for the Important public position
with which she has been honored. For
several years Mrs. Sewall has been
president of the National Council of
Women, and for a great many years
her public work has been devoted al
most exclusively to the furtherance of
organization among women.
Mrs. Sewall was born In Wisconsin
and Is a graduate of Northwestern Uni
versity in the class of 1886. It was,
however, one of her greatest griefs tbat
she could not enter Vale University as
her father had done, and it was said
that it was largely her sense of Injus
tice in this matter that led her to Identi
fy herself with the woman suffrage
movement After her graduation she
occupied Important positions as a
teacher until her marriage with Theo
dore Sewall in 1880, when she and her
huBband opened
a
classical school for
girls In Indianapolis, and she Is still
head of that school. Mrs. Sewall has
been abroad several times and has de
voted considerable of her attention to
getting acquainted with toe leading
women of the Old world. As president
of the National Council she visited
Hamburg, by appointment with the
Bmpress Frederick, who gave her an
hour's interview and was deeply inter
ested in the work she outlined. In
Brussels Mrs. Sewall addressed the
Woman's League ,pf Belgium, and in
Paris she spoke In the Marie St Sul
plce before a large audience of leading
f.
SlltS. SKWAl.L.
men and women. This address at
tracted great attention and was widely
noticed In the press of France, Russia,
Italy and England. Another great tri
umph was In 1889, when as a delegate
she addressed the Woman's Congress
of Paris In the
pureBt
French and
also
contributor
lecturer of
a newspaper
and magazine
writer
and a
some
renowu.
LAST FOR FUMIGATING SHOES.
Device for Keeping the Interior of
Footwear In Good Minpe.
A shoe tree which fumigates the In
terior of the shoe while it also holds it
in sbape is a sanitary novelty for which
John S. Busky, of New York, is respon-
SHAPES SHOE AND FUMIIIATKS IT.
sible. The last Is made of wood In
three sections, to permit of Its Insertion
into the shoe easily. The forward and
lower part of the last Is hollowed out.
the opening extending to the sole, so as
to allow the bottom of the shoe to be
acted on by the fumigating liquid. The
Interior of the shoe form is looBely filled
with cotton, In the center of which Is
a reservoir "to contain the fumigating
material, and this is filled by means of
a tube leading to the toe of the last,
the tube being capped to secure the con
tents. A bulb is embedded in the top,
by means of which the fumigating ma
terial is forced through the cotton.
Holes through the top part of the last
permit of the fumigation of the uppers
of the shoe as well as the sole.
BISHOP JOHN P. NEWMAN.
Distinguished and Powerful Meth
odiat Leader Who Recently Died.
The Methodist church lost one of Its
most distinguished leaders by the death
of Bishop John Phillip Newman, who
died in Saratoga not long ago.
Bishop Newman was born In New
York City, Sept. 1, 1826, graduated
from Cazenovla Seminary nnd entered
the Methodist ministry in 184!). His
first pastorate was at Hamilton, N. Y„
from which place he went to Albany
and subsequently to New York. In the
metropolis his work attracted national
attention and he was sent at the close
of the war to reorganize the Methodist
nunor
nkwman.
churches of the south. In 1809 be or
ganized and became pnstor of the Met
ropolitan Memorial Church, Washing
ton, D. C., where he formed an inti
mate friendship with Gen. Grant.
From 1869 to 1S7-1 lie was cliuplaln of
the Senate, nnd In 1864 was sent on
consulnr commission to Asia by the
State Department. Returning a few
years later he remained In Washington
a short time and then went to New
York, where for three years lie was pas
tor of the Central Methodist Church
and later of the Madison Avenue Con
gregational Church. Subsequently he
preached In Cnllfornln and Washington
and In 188S was made a bishop of the
M. E. Church.
Bishop Newman had done much liter
ary work. He was a powerful thinker,
a forceful speaker and wiiter and a
man who dominated the circles In
which lie moved.
A little authority of a few dried apples
will puff a small man up astonishingly.
5J|
Gage on Gold.
There Is one member of the Presi
dent's cabinet who has the courage of
his convictions. Secretary of the Treas
ury Gage believes In the gold standard
and he asserts that the fight next year
should be made upon a "bold, straight
forward, unequivocal declaration for
the single gold standard." Most of tbe
Repubilcan leaders are also in favor of
the single gold standard, but few of
them are brave enough to say so. They
are better politicians than Is Secre
tary Gage, but they are not so honest,.,
nor are they so courageous.
It Is safe to say that the Republican
politicians will evade the currency Is
sue In 1900 much after the fashion in
which they evaded It In 1890. They^
fear the people, who are at heart large
ly In favor of bimetallism, and the 0,--:
500,000 votes for Bryan and silver re--'
corded at the last presidential election
gives them pause. If they can fool the
people by false promises they1 will ac-.
compllsh that which they desire, but
they will hardly venture to go directly
after the single gold standard, because
they fear a revolt on the part of the?
voters and a loss of the power which
they won through trickery and evasion.
From a politician's point of view Sec
retary Gage Is all wrong In. his bold
declaration In favor of the single gold
standard. The secretary Is certainly
wrong from the economical point of
view, but he Is honest in his expres
sions, which is more than can be said
of the majority of Republicans, Includ
ing William McKinley, President.
Unjust, However Hone.
It Is boldly assumed that silver was
demonetized because it was "super
abundant and cheap," when, in fact, it
was then the dearer metal. The de
monetization has made it cheap—that
Is, compared with gold. In relation to
other things silver is not cheap, as will*
be shown further on. Nor was It sup
erabundant, for in the year 1872 the
production of gold was $34,000,000
greater than that of silver. The gold-'
standardlsts have created the condl-'
tlons adverse to silver, and now they
have the hardihood to urge those condi
tions as a reason why It should not be
restored. Figuratively they have.:
knocked Bilver down, and now kick It,
for falling. However, silver was de
monetized, whether openly or surrep-.
tltlously, honestly or dishonestly. Its
consequences were full of injustice to
the American people and injury to the.
country.—Steubenvllle, Ohio, Gazette.
The 8llver Basis Succeeds.
Mexico continues to thrive on that
horrid silver basis. The Mexican capi
tal is going to have a $3,000,000 depart
ment store property an American ar
chitect has furnished the plans.. Amer-^
lean superintendents will control it,
and an American electric light plant'..'
and machinery will be put tn. Commer-^
Hal America will make more money
out of independent friends than out of
dependent foes.—Grand Rapids Demo--:
crats.
re­
ceived commendation from M. Jules Si
mon and other noted French writers.
As a presiding officer Mrs. Sewall is
said to be uniformly successful, being
dignified, clear-beaded and quick to
see
the point. She is
Not Knough for All.
Before the demand for gold to pnt
India, Japan and Russia on a gold
standard is supplied, that metal Willi,
be worth double what it Is at the pres
ent time, and the general level of prices
throughout the world will decline more
than one-balf. The gold standard will
enrich creditors and rob debtors.—Na
tional Watchman.
Facta Aboat the Month or July.
The month of July was named after*:
Julius Caesar, who is Its parent' on ita•
father's side. In the days of Romulus,
Tuly was the fifth month and was nam
ed Qulntllis. It then had thirty-six
days, but caught cold In them one day
bathing In the River Tiber. Peritonitis
set in and the last five were amputated.
Julius Caesar changed the month to
the seventh, and In honor of the event
it was rebaptized and named after Ju
lius. CaeSar was born 100 years B. C.,
and when he grew to manhood he was
a great fighter, and Jabbed Roman civ--.
illzatlon into the people of all the sur
rounding provinces. He stuffed the
Gauls so full of it tbat they looked like
they had been upholstered. He used-'
to rush back to Rome after a victory.
and yell, "Weenee, Weedee, Weekie!"
which means In English, I have came,
I have saw, I have conquered. He di
vided all Gaul into three parts and
wrote a book about bis military
achievements. He wrote the book In
the Latin language and the language
soon after died. It has been dead ever
since. Teachers and college professors
Insist upon Including this dead lan
guage In the course of study, although
there are scores of live languages sit
ting around on the fence watting to be
studied. Many a college graduate, who
has spent six years gnawing the bone*
of the dead languages, doesn't know
what "swle bier" means.—Hlllsboro
News.
All Porta.
Real holiness is wholly unassumed.
When a legislator's bill Is tabled he.
considers himself floored.
If a man does you an ill turn he wiufe
never forgive you for It
Truth makes the face of that |ieiv
son shine who speaks and ownii It
South.
A queen bee lays about 1,500,000
eggs during her short life of four or
five years.
In Chicago is made 46 per cent of
the vinegar manufactured in the TJnl-
ted States.
Waste of time is the most extrava
gant and costly of all expenses.—The
ophrastus.
If a goad face is a letter of recom
mendation, a good heart is a letter of
credit—Bulwer.
Lands mortgaged may return, but
honeBty once pawned Is ne'er redeem
ed.—Mlddleton.
No matter where a man's work Is
located, he bas to lose the Job to ap
preciate the situation.
Nebraska in 1893 added $8,000,000 to
Its land mortgage debt. In 1898 that
debt wns reduced by $6,000,000.
Ten years ago a kilogramme of alu
minium cost about $7 in Germany. To
day it costs less than one-tenth of that
sum.
The nails of two fingers never grow
with the same rapidity. That on the
middle finger grows fastest that on
the thumb the slowest
The number of children and youth
in the United States Is 21,082,472. Of
these 9,718,482 are enrolled In Sunday
schools.
The Texas Legislature has been con
sidering a bill making proof that a
man has been maligned in this way
Justification for assault and battery.
Russell Sage is said to be the coolest
beaded man in Wall street never for
a moment, whatever the crisis, losing
his keen Insight into tfet Onanel^
nation.
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