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&t)e JBemocrat. BBOVSOV ft CASK, Publishers. 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 110 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* & -n 1 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 I 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. I