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tljc JDcmacrrtt, BRONSON & CARS, Publishers. MANCHESTER. IOWA. At last accounts Mr. Astor's pedigree continued to refuse to stay inflated. An exchange nslss If there are too many clergymen. Not of the right kind. Many people are carried away by cer tain songs, but for a moving air the hurricane lias the record. The woman with the prettiest hand and most expensive rings' Is the great est devotee of porcli fancy work. At any rate, the big advance In the price of diamonds won't result In the masses being pinched for the necessi ties of life. v-w.., The Kaiser has offered to paint Some pictures for Queen Victoria. The Queen ought to reciprocate by letting Mr. Aus tin write some poetry for the Kaiser. Sarah Bernhardt announces that she never Intends to get old. She neglects, however, to explain whether she is Vising goat lymph or some hewer dis covery. Susan B. Anthony should lose no time in making a campaign In Cuba In the interest of women's rights. Cooking and washing on the island are now monopliized by men. A child died recently of hydrophobia, though It had never,^o far as known, been bitten by any dogi If this case is genuine, it might logically increase the patronage of Pasteur Institutes. A woman has been deelared Insane because she persisted in puncturing her husband's bicycle tire with her hat pin. Women take great' chances when they try to keep their husbands at borne. that Chicago has a famine to ser vants Is a result of the girls seeking other occupations. They think there are better ways of rising In the world than lighting the range with kerosene. Excessive cycling Is making physical wrecks of its devotees. Breaking rec ords Is paid for by broken health, and the honor Is costly at the price. It is one of the unhealthy characteristics of American restlessness to take up a good thing and push it to disastrous extremes. Once in three years there is a nation al convention of/the deaf and dumb. The session of 1880 was held during July in St. Paul. The silent proceed ings moved the Spectators almost to awe. After "a heated contest," the officers were elected by a literal "show of hands." A reporter calls it "one of the oddest things to see a man sitting lit a corner soliloquizing on ills Augers." Young Cornelius Vanderblit has de signed a new kind of locomotive, which upon being tried proves to be quite an improvement over the railroad engines now In use. Mr. Vanderblit \vns disin herited because he married against the wishes of his parents, BO he got a job in the mechanical department of the New York Central Itnlirond and went to work Iqr a Hying. His experience shows .that it might be a good thing If mors rich men would give their unfor tunate boys a chance. In Rugby, England, a few weeks ago, the Archbishop of Canterbury unveiled •statue1 of Thomas HUgbes, the.author of "Tom Brown at Itugby" and "Tom Brown at Oxford," two books which have given a most wholesome delight to many thousands of young people on both sides of the Atlantic, anil which are sure to be rend for a long time to come. The London Spectator says that "he, more than any other man, made the modern schoolboy. He took away from good counsel Its flavor of prigglubness, from piety its taint of sanctimoniousness, from the virtues their color of separateuess and self righteou8nes8. lie convinced school boys that it was possible to be manly and truthful and pure, and even relig ious, and yet remain healthy school boys still." Connecticut has a food adulteration law under the provisions of which the presence of any antiseptic or preserva tive not evident and not known to the purchaser or consumer marks tiie arti cle as adulterated and unlit for sale. The State maintains au experimental station for analyses of suspected food products, whence information of cases of adulteration Is promptly sent to the proper prosecuting officers. This sim ple machinery has proved quite effect ive 111 limiting the vagaries of food sophisticators in Connecticut, since the publicity given to the analyses of the experimental stntlon usually results In driving the depreciated article out of the market. In a recent Instance the State chemists found "pure fruit jelly" to consist solely of "starch paste sweet ened with glucose, artificially flavored, colored with coal tar dye and preserved with salicylic acid." This is excellent public work which should be under taken on an enlarged and liberal scale In every populous State In the Union. In all countries, In modern times at least, It has been the chief .boast of army officers that to be an officer was to be a gentleman and a man of honor. In other high qualities, whether moral or Intellectual, he might be sadly defl clelnt, but his sense of honor must be keen and must be maintained In all circumstances. The standard form of words employed in .the condemnation of military men is that which convicts them of "conduct unbecoming an offi cer and a gentleman." It is pitiful to observe to what a pass the standard of the officer and the gentleman has come in the French army. The prepos terous demands of an Insane milita rism, the absurd claims of a perverted patriotism aud the poisonous luflueuuee ut a degrading superstition which pass es by the name of anti-Semitism, seem to have combined to stifle all the nat ural promptings of honor, as well as of sense and of justice, In a body of lueu from whom It would be natural to expect at least a reasonable share of these qualities. Indeed, It Is so difficult to realize the perverted condition of mind in military circles In France, that It Is only when one is reminded of It by some specific recital that one be comes fully aware of its existence. It is Interesting to cbssrre that an Eastern paper has taken up the work of reviving'the Malt'ausiaa" principle, •and is asserting with muejj-vigor that '-'population iouds to increase faster thaa" the means of subsistence." The -ex&ct value aud signiflcaiica of this rule iiaVo been s6' plainly illustrated lit the since Jftlijbus. eiatoVjiitejf it that tiiey can Ih stated lu a.fow words. Wiiera the,means ot subsijtcnco aro In vxsess of lie oilsUus ponyi&tioo Uie tendency is for population to Increase the faster. Where the means of sub sistence are only adequate to the exist ing population the Increase of popula tion cannot be faster because the ex cess of population will perish for lack of subsistence. Tills has been proved signally in more than one way during the century of which Malthus saw the beginning. America and Australia, having means of subsistence with civ ilized Industry for vast populations, have seen an Immense growth of popu lation. In Europe, when he wrote, pop ulation seemed to be at a standstill be canse the means of subsistence were 110 more than enough for the existing population. But the principle worked out in a different way than its nuthor supposed. For the great inventions and devices of the century multiplied the means of subsistence so as to permit a great Increase of population In Europe as well as in the unsettled portions of the globe. The old adage, "take care of the cents and the dollars will take care of them selves," finds peculiar Illustration in the coinage operations of the United States Government. The cvery-day bronze one-cent piece, made of 95 parts of copper to parts of tin and zinc, costs the government about one-tenth of a cent. Uncle Sam's total profit in the onercent and the tive-cent pieces coined last year was more than a mill ion dollars. The Treasury Department coins just enough one-cent pieces to meet the demands of trade. In the fis cal year which ended June 30 these demands were extraordinary, a condi tion probably due to reviving business, the gradual introduction of "pennies" Into Pacific coast cities,^aud the prev alence of "pDuny-in-the-slot" machines. .These mechanical devices keep a great many one-cent pieces out of circulation, and so Increase the demand upon the Treasury for new ones. Various mi nor coins have from time to time been Issued. The copper half-cent piece was current from 1702 to 1857, although only a small number were coiued. The two-cent piece, authorized in 1804, was coined until 1873, and mny still be seen occasionally in circulation. The coin age of the silver three-cent piece was discontinued In 1873, and the nickel three-cent piece In 1890. Whenever one of these coins finds its way into the Treasury, It Is not reissued. Of the minor coins the government now makes It a policy to keep In circulation only the one-cent and the five-cent piece. WON FIRST PRIZE. Handsome Baby Boy WhoCaptured'ihe lllne Kibbonat a (•nratoua fellow, Richard Stockton .Tannopoulo, aged 2 yearn and 10 mouths, the handsome baby boy of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. .Tanno poulo, residing at the West End Hotel, was declared the prettiest baby at the beauty show held recently in Saratoga, N. Y., where Mrs. Jannopoulo is spend ing the summer. The happy father went into ecstacles upon' receiving the news In a letter from his wife, and she explains that she was completely sur prised herself, as she did not know ltichard Stockton was even entered. It seems that Aunt Nellie, the child's colored nurse, dkl some deep-dyed plot ting:^) cast all other babies and nurses at Saratoga in the shade. Nellie heard about the baby show and listened with envy to the other nurses' accounts of how many pretty babies BABY .1 ANXOl'OUI.O. were to be on exhibition. Fearing Mrs. Jannopoulo would object, Nellie clinch ed the matter by taking her Idol down to the big building on the sly aud set him before the judges. "It was about 4 o'clock when Nellie returned," writes .Mrs. .Tannopoulo, "with little Richard pulling tit a big blue ribbon pinned to his dress. "He's done took de prise," she said, with a happy smile, and then the whole story came out. AMERICAN SAYINGS. "Thought* that Breathe end Words that Burn." Give me liberty, or give me death!— Patrick Henry. We must ail hang together, or as suredly we shall all hang separately.— Benjamlu Franklin. These are the times that try men's souls.—Thomas Paine. My only regret Is that 1 have but one life give for my country.—Nathan Hale. 'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.—George Wash ington. Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.—Charles C. Plnckney. To the memory of the man, first in war, first In peace and first In the hearts of his countrymen.—Henry Lee. Don't give up the ship!—James Law rence. We have met the enemy, and they are ours.—Oliver H. Perry. Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be In the right but our country, right or wrong.—Stephen Decatur. I would rather be right than be Presi dent.—Henry Clay. If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot hlin on the spot.— John A. Dix. Hold the fort! I am coming!—W. T. Sherman. With malice toward none, with char ity for all.—Abraham Lincoln. Let us have pea.ee!—Ulysses S. Grant. Don't swear—shoot.—Leonnrd Wood. Don't cheer! the, poor devils are dy ing. -John W. I'hillp. He Wasted His Breath. I happened into one of the railway stations yesterday morning, aud while I was waiting for a train to come in, I sat down beside a grave aud dignified little girl of perhaps 4 or 5. Presently man in the uniform of the railway, company cnuie In and bawled out a long list of perfectly unintelligible names. The little eirl looked at him •disapprovingly. Then sbs looked up "Ain't that a awful silly way for a great big man to talk?'' she said. Verily, out of the months of babes and sucklings couieth whilom.—Wash ington Post. Teetof Frebli ISsc©.* w- To test tlie freezes* of egg#, drop th'eiu into deep Oi»U of water, and If the small ends come to the top they are frcsj». EVOLUTION OP EXPOSITIONS. How the Great World's Fairs of To-day Have Grown from a Little Display of China In Paris a Century Ago. S early as 1797 the Marquis d'Aveze, having received the ap pointment as commisloner of the Royal Manufactures of the Gobelins, of Sevres, and of the Savounerle, found that the turbulent limes of the revolu tion had so discouraged the industrial arts that the skilled workmen of these places were reduced to starvation, while the store rooms were filled with the choicest productions of their art. This condition gave him the idea of holding an exhibition where tapestries, china and carpets could be gathered together aud a great sale held. The then unused chateau of St. Cloud was taken for this purpose, but on the day of the opening decree of the di rectory banishing the nobility was Is sued, nud lie was compelled to quit France, and return the following year, and, on the failure of his first attempt, originate another exhibition, which proved very successful. This was held at tlie Chateau de Orsa.v, where the house and grounds wire tilled with beautiful and useful stud's aud wares of all varieties. The success of this undertaking caused the government to take up the idea, and the first official exposition was held on the Champ de Mars, where a "Temple of Industry" had been erect ed for the purpose. At this exposition was inaugurated the jury system of awards. So successful did It prove that EXHIBITION, FI.OI1ENCK, 1801. the government resolved to hold an nual exhibitions of like character, but the disturbed condition of tlie country prevented a repetition until the year 1801. The third exposition, held iu 1802, saw the origination of the Societo d'Eucourngement, -which has been a powerful aid to French manufacture. On this occasion there .were 000 prize competitors. It was at this exposition that cotton lace and silk thread were first shown and a prize was awarded for the manufactures of iron by means of coke. No further efforts were successful un til 111 1811), when another exposition was held, after which those of 1823 and 1S27 occurred with vnrylng suc cess. In 1844 the tenth aud last expo sition during the reign of Louis Phil ippe saw 3,DliO exhibitors participating. Another exposition on a grand scale was that of 1849. Nearly 5,000 exhib itors were represented and 3,738 prizes were awarded. The exhibition coutln ued for sixty days, aud jts results were so beneficial that other nations began to realize Its importance to trade. Three other countries had previously given expositions of a more or less local nature. Such were those that hnd been held In Russia, Denmark, and Aus tria, and many of great Importance had been held in Belgium. In the British dominions expositions had been held both iu Manchester and Leeds, and one in Dublin as early as 1827. It remalued for England to pro mote tlie first actual International in dustrial exposition—that of J851. At the first meeting of the commissioners It was decided to rely wnolly upon vol untary contributions, and when an ap peal was made a fund ot $1,500,000 •was soon raised. One single contribu tor headed the list with the large amount of $250,000. Designs for the building were submitted by architects of all nations. A plan suggested by Sir Joseph Paxton was the one chosen, but to Mr. Fox, of the firm of Fox &Hen derson, Is due the credit of having orig inated that new style of architecture which was afterward dubbed the "Fer ro Vitreous" style, he having worked out nud made possible Sir Joseph's suggestion. Thus originated the first bum.ix ltxHinmoy, 1S515. "Crystal Palace." The total cost of the building -was $S50,000. This show proved a success, Before tlie opening $200,000 had already been received,for season tickets, and during the six months It remained open the average number of doily visitors was 43,030. At Its close there remained, a balance of $750,000 above all expeuses. The year 1S5" saw two Crystal Pal ace shows In operation. That of New York was organized by a Tew Influen tial citizens of wealth as a stock com pany, with the end in view of bringing the manufactured goods of the Old World here to be placed 111 comparison with those of tlie New. The other show of-the year was thai liekl in Dub lin. This, too, while very successful as an exhibition, did not attract the Intel-national Interest It merited, uor did it lu a financial way prove a suc cess. The next great exposition was that of Paris, held In 1855. Preparations for this exposition were begun as early as 1853, but up to February, 1854, little progress had been made. So slow did tlie work progress that, the exposi tion, which was to have opened on tlie 1st of Mny, was delayed until the loth of that month. The main building, the the Palais de l'lndustrie, was not built as a temporary structure, as such buildings had previously been, but was intended to remain as a permanent building for exposition purposes. In SOME GREAT EXPOSITION BUILDINQS OF THE PAST. all, the floor space of this great exposi tion reached the total of twenty-nine acres. The exhibitors numbered some 21,000, of which number France con tributed one-half. This exposition which differed from all previous ones in the great variety of Its objects and extent of productions, was closed in person by the Emperor with great pomp and ceremony on Nov. 15, 1855. In 1857 Manchester held her "Fine Art and Manufactures Exhibition." He"'.. In a fireproof building, with a floor space, including galleries of 171,000 square feet, was gathered' one of the most remarkable collections of art works that had ever reposed under one roof. In 1801 United Italy held nu exhibition of some importance at Florence, the displays of -which were classified under the heads Indus trial, line arts, agricultural and horti cultural. The next exposition of universal in terest was that held In Loudon, "The Exhibition of Art Works of Ail Na tions,' of 1802. The total area under roof was OSS,000 square feet, a greater space than that occupied by any pre vious exposition. The total cost WHS $2,li0,000, or about $2.18 per square foot of floor space.. This exposition, while It mny be said "played even," was not a great success financially. The year 1807 saw the "Universal Ex position of Paris." It being the design to make It universal in the scope of the articles displayed, as well as the na tions participating, au invitation was extended to the workers of the world. 5? and formal Invitations were Issued to the foreign governments. The roofed area was thirty-six and three-tenths acres. The exhibits were so arranged that each nation occupied a separate and distinct division. The exposition was formally opened on the 1st of April. 1807, with the most, gorgeous' ceremony. The American exhibit was by far the finest we hnd ever made abroad, the war of the rebellion having Interfered with any pretentious display being made iu I^oudon In 1S02. It Is estimated that the total number of vis itors to this great show exceeded 4, 000,000. Tlie total cost of the buildings was ?2,350,005, or $143 per square foot covered. It closed with a net profit of sr,(i2,(i5l. dividends being declared of $553,200. The remaining amount wns devoted to public works. Expositions were held In Moscow nud Copennageu in 1S72, but were more national ill character, confined as they were to (lie products of the country 173 which they were held. A decree issued by the Austrian Em peror, May 24, 1870, announced that "under the august patronage of his im perial and royal majesty, the Em peror. au international exhibition would be held in Vienna in 1S73." I'o this end an appropriation by the gov ernment of $11,000,000 was made, aud later, as the worlj progressed, an addi tional appropriation of $3,000,000 mote was found necessary. Universal Inter est was shown In this great undertak ing, the foreign governments selecting from among their most eminent men their representative commissioners. An Idea of the magnitude or this great show may be gleaned from the fact that there were lu all 2,1502 awards made, the total number of exhibitors being about 7,000. Tlie total cost of buildings and accessories was $7,850, 000. Receipts from visitors, $1,283, 048.78. This with the additions to rev enue from concessions and snle of buildings, was far from enough to cover the great expense Incurred, the deficit being met by the government. The Centennial International Exposi tion of Philadelphia, in 1870, which gave such an Impetus to art in Amer ica, as well as all succeeding exposi tions at home nud abroad, Is remem bered too well by all to come within tlie scope of this article. Wnlru* Whiskers. "Of all the curious nrtlcdes of com merce that you have ever mentioned In print I have never seen one more strange than a 'line' I regularly send to China, to the Brazils, aud in very lnrge quantities to Russia." The speaker was a "foreign mer chant," and he was addressing a con tributor who has made a- specialty of paragraphs dealing, with out-of-the wa.v occupations. "The article I refer to are toothpicks that are made from walrus whiskers. Vast quantities of the stiff, thick whis kers of the walrus are shipped, from Alaska chiefly, to myself, and to some others In England. Those who send them pull them out one by one with special tweezers, and after the whis kers have been trimmed and stiffened here they are made up into bundles and sent abroad. "The higher class Chinese seem to use no other kind of toothpicks, and the more wealthy of the Russians al ways use them at their clubs and ho tels. I send out some thousands of bundles yearly, and though to the buy er they are much dearer, as well as more ornamental, they leave plenty of profit to the dealer. They have begun to creep into strong favor at West End clubs, and last year I executed some scores of English orders." •:•'yProtected Spiders. At the Royal Observatory nt Green wich the visitor may peer Into a tube of a veteran telescope twenty-five.feet long, much in use some 175 years ago, but nowlnlmbited by several colonies of spiders. These creatures find such irresistible attraction in its roominess, coolness and darkness that, when some years since an assistant endeavored to bring about their removal by the cus tomary methods, they sturdily refused to move. Eviction fnillng, the astron omers made the spiders pay for their lodgings In the form of goods supplied. For years nu'extremely fine fabric had been wanted to stretch ncross the eye pieces of telescopes devoted to lra-nslt reading. One day a scientific eye light ed on the spiders. The day following they were raided, and now they live and weave under official protection. Victorian Autojraph!, The Duchess of St. Aibans owns what is probably the most Interesting collection of Victorian autographs In the world. Besides the royal family and the nobility represented, there are words especially contributed by Tenny son,"Browning, Gladstone, John Bright, and Chamberlain, and verses written exclusively for the duchess by the best known verse makers of the day. A Nice Diitinotion. The other patrons of a fashionable restaurant felt sure the two at the cor ner table were father and son and were from the rural districts. Their table manners were sueli that any polite Jury would have brought lu a verdict of justifiable homicide had the bead wait er fallen upon the two as they sat side by side at the little table, whose snowy cloth they were sadly disfiguring. Vig orously they wielded knife and fork very little fork, but much knife. At last the way in which the son spread his elbows interfered with the free play of the father and brought about aloud rebuke from the old man. "Look a-here, Jefferson," said the fa ther, sternly, "draw In them elbows and eat In a narrer circle. Ain't your mar ever told you it warn't polite to shove others with your elbows when you dine out. It's powerful bad man ners to make your old father cut hi« mouth at the table." Conuroto Wisdom. This is worth more than one reading: He that knows not, and knows not that lie kuows not, is a fool shun him. He that knows not, and knows that he kuows not, Is simple tench him. He that knows, and knows not that he knows, Is asleep wake him. lie that knows, aud kuows that he kuows, is a wise man seek him. 8ou(h African Gold Exports. Consul Macrum (Pretoria, Transvaal republic), writes that the average ex port of gold from the ports of South Africa amount now to about $2,092,595 each week. Cheap Silk. In Madagascar s!lk is the only fabric used in the ^manufacture of clothing. It Is clieiyjeiCthan llncu In Ireland. The only filing as common as good advice, is trouble. X- DEMOCRAT VOTES NOT SCARCE. It Is to the luterest, of course, of the Republicans to keep alive the belief that tlie'Democrats were so badly beat en the last Presidential election that their chances of success next year are very slight. As a matter of fact, how ever, there was not a remarkable differ ence between the two parties In the total popular vote. McKiuley led Bryan by almost an even 000,000, but If the Republicans hnd polled 150,000 votes less than they did they would have been In a minority, for the total opposition cast within 300,000 of theirs throughout the Union. The change of oue vote In twenty from McKlnley to Bryan would have made the latter President, and if the 133,000 ballots that were cast by the disgruntled Democrats for Palmer had remained with the regular party nom inee a change of only about one In thir ty would have been necessary to put him in the lead. It Is not trne, either, as the Republi cans have claimed, that tlie vote for Bryan fell off from what was expected on the strength of the Democratic vote of previous years. Bryan lu 1896 re-, celved nearly hBlf a million more votes than did Cleveland In 1892. The Dem ocracy did not gain as much during the four years' Interval as the Republi cans did, but, all things considered, they held their own pretty well, even among those who grew to manhood be tween these two elections. Tlie Democratic party kept itself iu quite good shape under very adverse circumstances, and It has recuperated wonderfully siuce then. In New York State, where McKlnley three years ago had a plurality of 208,000 over Bryan, the Republicans last year could muster 'only a beggarly 18,000 for their candi date for Governor, who had the advant age of a brilliant Spanish war record and a strong personal attraction for a large portion of the Independent voters. Other States have done almost as well as New York since 189C, and there Is nothing whatever about the political outlook to dishearten any Democrat. On the contrary, the promise of victory Is bright, and is becoming mgre roseate all the time.—New York News. it the Stands For. "The flog," declared President Mc Klnley, In his speech at Ocean Grove, "does not stand for one thing In'the United States aud another thing in Porto Rico and the Philippines." Let us see whether It does or not. The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States pro vides that "neither slavery nor invol untary servitude, except as punish ment for crime, shall exist within the. United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction." The flag on American soil proper symbolizes this spirit of universal lib erty- to a remarkable degree. Only in exceptional cases, where a corporation owned judge issues injunctions against strikers quitting work, is tlitjre such thing among us as Involuntary servi tude. But our brethren the Mora's of the Stilu group, are not so fortunate/ al-' though they live under the same-flag,' and their Sultau, for a consideration, has agreed not to "haul It down." Among thein, a prominent writer who has just visited the Sultanate declares girls of 15 are valued at five bushels of rice. Another magazine contributor, John Foreman, Informs us that "slav ery exists in tlie most ample sense." We should think it does, when, iu ad dition to slavery being hereditary, pris oners of war, iusolvent debtors and captives secured through piratical ex peditions become bondmen. Wlietherthese prisoners of war, book ed for sale to the "Dutch planters of Borneo," will In future be captured un der the flag which "does not menu one thing In the United States and another in Porto Rico and the Pliliipines," the President does not moke quite clear, McLean's Nomination. John It. McLean, editor of the Cincin nati Enquirer, lias been nominated by tlie Ohio State Democratic convention for Governor, and he will doubtless be elected, lu speaking of the prospects Mr. McLean says: "Ohio Is good fighting grouud this year. The people are In revolt against Hanna, for his tyranny aud brutality against McKlnley, for ills subversion of the principle on which American inde pendence was founded, and against the Republican party, for its paudei'lug to the Influences that arc hostile to every luterest of tlie people. I can see my way clear now to predict a victory for Democracy in November. All I ask is the'earnest, loyal, sincere support of all Democrats." This is encouraglug and honest talk, and Is In line with the general trpnd of opinion lu Ohio. McLean stands on a true Dcmoc-rat'c platform, reaffirming the Chicago document from start to fin ish, favoring free silver, denouncing trusts, aud Indoralug William J. Bryan as candidate for President In 1B00. Tlie outlook Iu Ohio is bright for the Dem ocrats. McLean Is a tighter and a shrewd political organizer. He pos sesses ample means, edits a great news paper and goes In to win.—Chicago Democrat. l-'rjran on Trusts. Thus succinctly did Mr. Bryan put the trust question lu ills Chicago ad dress: "On the trust question I sug gest the following propositions for your consideration: First. The trust Is a menace to the welfare of the people of the United States, because it creates a monopoly and gives It to the few lu con trol of the monopoly almost unlimited power, over the lives nud happiness of Ihe consumers, employes nud producers ot raw material. Second. The Presi dent appoints the Attorney General, who will enforce nutl-trust laws. Third. TJie Attorney General can. recommend sulllcleiit laws, If present laws are ill sulllelent. Fourth. The Attorney Gen eral can recommend an amendment to the Constitution, if the present Consti tution makes It impossible to extin guish the trusts. Fifth. The Republi can party Is powerless to extinguish the trusts so long as the trusts furnish money to continue the Republican par ty In power."—Phllllpsburg (N. J.) News. McKiuley on the War. At Pittsburg President McKlnley made a speech to the returned Penn sylvania volunteers and their friends in which he toolj occaslou to say that tho war in the Philippines was entirely just and would jbe continued until the Insurgents capltqfated. Under tbe'clr cumstanco?", it difficult to see how the President could have said anything else, for tliu situation demanded some espresiou of opinion, no matter how nftcli the facts might be made to suf fer. McKiuley asserts that the Philip pines belong to the Uulted States by right of conquest. If that Is the case, what prompted this goverament to pay Spain $2O.O0O,OOO for the Islands? In either eveut, whnt right had the ad ministration to impose a government upon 10,000,000 people who don't want toacceptltand who are fighting against it? But McKlnley,can not be logical in discussing the Philippine question. He wishes to erect an argument that will justify his course of conduct, but the facts are against him. Therefore, his only course Is to Ignore and distort llie facts. There can be no doubt that the Republean administration has blun dered badly In this Imperialistic eain palgu. The people are opposed to it, and President McKiuley is at his wit's end In a vain attempt to bolster up his position by bndly constructed and fallacious arguments. Porter Pnys Purope le Prosperous. Robert P. Porter, whose relations to the McKlnley system of prosperity are substantially those of a phonograph to a business office, snys that Europe Is also very prosperous. This talkiug ma chine is now lu London, and bis opinion ot European commercial and indus trial matters Is thought to be so Im portant that It is transmitted by spe cial cable to the Ainerlcan.press. Mr. Porter says that he has visited all the countries of Europe except Spain and Portugal and that he has met flush times wherever ho has been. Mr, Por ter "was struck witlwthe air of gen eral prosperity." WorR1Is plentiful and there Is nowhere an appearance of want. In the continental cities, In cluding Paris, Berlin, Vienna and Am sterdam, vast numbers of buildings are under construction. The demand for Iron work Is greater than European manufacturers can supply, which Is the reason why contracts are awarded to American manufacturers. Europeans arc buying large quantities of Ameri can machinery, with which they manu facture-articles- that come in compe tition all over the world with similar articles of American -manufacture. They purchase their tools of us and then undersell us on our products.— Exchange. Prices Raised bv Trusts. Trusts apologists must explain away several facts before they can ask con sumers to believe their reiterated claim that trusts are good for the country. To-day the average cost Of tlie necessa ries of life is 15, per cent, higher than It was twelve months ago. Salt, which before the salt trust was formed, sold for 83 cents a barrel, now sells at $1.50. Carpets are 20 per ceut. higher than they were, before the carpet trust was organized. Practically all the mills In England are controlled by a trust. Print cloths of every kind are selling for three-quarters of a cent more per yard than they were a year ago. The aver age Increase in the price of their prod ucts made by the irou, steel and copper trusts is 40 per cent. The anthracite coal region is under trust control. This trust ordered an advance of 25 per cent, about a mouth ago, aud since then It has put ou an addition 5-cents per ton.— St. Louis Republic. Altseld on Hero Worship. Compared with the mighty civil war, the late Cuban war scarcely rises to the dignity of a skirmish, yet the he roes of the late -war seem to be more numerous than all the heroes, Union or Confederates, of the civil war. We are not hero worshipers, uor, on the other liaud, are we devoted to the for tunes of any one man. ,Wo view this whole situation calmly, and even cold ly. Wo rate men not by the clothes they wear, but by the principles they stand for, and by the services they render their country. And viewed from this standpoint, never before in the history of any country or any peo ple, wns the cause of freedom, the cause of a great people, so herolcally and so ably maintained iu all its integ rity as it lias been during the last three years by William .T. Bryan. And when we say this, we are not indulging in hero worship, but are simply recogniz ing a great fact.—John P. Altgeld. fouth'a Military Apathy. There is no disposition In the South to desert the flag when It Is In danger, still when war Is not national but par tisan in 11s character and management, the South feels under uo obligation to assist lu pulling Mr. McKlnley out of the hole. It Is no want of patriotism disclosed by the situation, but the quiet resentment, so long ns the country Is In uo danger, of the former scurvy treat ment or Southern volunteers by the ad mlulstratlon.—Houston Post. No Need of Government-Help. 1 ex-Senator Warner Miller is so con fident the Nicaragua caual can be built for $100,000,005, aud that It will pay dividends on Hint Investment, why does he not borrow the money, ns he says he can do, and build the caual? This would be decidedly more profitable than fighting the transcontinental rail road lobby in Congress, which he af firms Is the only opposition to the plan of getting the government to Invest in the ditch.—Omaha Bee. Almost a Quarrel. 11.—l-lxcu.se me, sir. but that open window is very aunoyiug. *0. (pleasantly)—I'm sorry, sir, but I'm afraid you'll have to put up with It. B.—I wish yon would close It, sir. I should like to accommodate you, but 1 can't. B.—Do you refuse to cjose, the win dow, sir? (.'.—1 certainly do. K.—If you don't close it I will. C.-Vou won't. B.—If 1 come over there 1 will. ('. I'll give you odds you won't. B.—I'll ask you once more, sir will you close that window? C.—No, sir, I will not. B. (getting on his feet)—Then I will, sir. (.'.—1 would like to see you do it. B. (placlug ills hands on the window) —I'll show you whether I will or not, sir. C. las D. tugs away at window)—Why don't you close it? B. {getting red In the face)—It ap pears to be stuck. C.—Of course it is. I tried to close it before you cams In.—Fruitman's Guide. Kneel era. "They say our pitcher wuz hammer, ed to-day, Larry." "Yls, but Tv'ae got avou, tMacy.-" "HvwV" Wao haupmcrcd th* umpire*" The OaldbiiK—A Study in KntomolonT The gold bug's existence seems co eval with man's, and although it has not always been known by Its present name, its methods of operating have re mained unchanged, and are marked with great caution and exceeding cun ning. Wo have evidence of its active presence as remote ns when "pottage" was a medium of exchange and birth rights were extorted from hungry, fam ishing men. Its natural liabltal is In tho commercial centers of the tforld, but Its poisoned effluvium vltales tlie channels of trade to the outermost cir cles of the earth. While Its favorite diet—upon which It "feeds fnt"—is real estato mortgages and government bonds. It readily devours corporation bonds of all kinds, and it may be said to bo omnivorous so far as well-secured interest-bearing gold redemption paper is concerned. In general appearance, it closely resembles the human family, so closely Indeed ns to lend to the opin ion that it Is Idcutlcnl with man but after the most thorough Investigation and' careful research, oven the rays tail to discover the. slightest rudiments of that "Divine compassion" thnt be speak the soul lu common humanity, and hence It Is reasonable and very pcltisant to think it belongs to an eu tlrely different species. One of Its fixed habits is to always demand tlie "pound of flesh" if it be so "nominated in the bond," and another Is tj see to it thnt It nlways be so "nom inated." So wonderful Is Its ability to fix conditions right for its operations by corrupting legislative and judicial departments of state as to lead to tho belief that it is endowed by hypnotic power akin to that of tho traditional serpent who "charms" his prey before devouring It. Of late it has been rav aging the industrial Interests of the United States to a most alarming ex tent and the people are preparing for a general and concerted onslaught upon It on the third of next November, when, by a most thorough administration of the popular free silver 10 to 1 remedy, It Is. believed that the pest will be ex terminated, or at least reduced from Its present "pernicious activity" to a state of "Innocuous desuetude."—An gellne Allison. Minds Are Confused. There Js great confusion in the minds of many people between a bimetallic standard' of value and a bimetallic cir cuIatlL'g medium. Many people think that yon cannot have a bimetallic stan dard of value unless In' each country gold nud silver circulate side by side. It is quite Immaterial and unimportant, ns far as measuring values Is con cerned, whether gold and silver circu late iu each nntion. You can have a bimetallic standard of value without silver circulating in a gold standard country or gold circulating In a silver standard country. If one-half of the nations of the world in commercial importance were to adopt the single gold standard and not permit silver coin to circulate in those countries, nnd if the other one-half of the nations in commercial Importance were to adopt a single silver standard and not permit gold coin to circulate fn. those countries, the wprld nevertheless would be upon a blmctalllc'staudiird of value, because there would be an equal demand created upon au equal quantity of metals, which would produce nil equal price. You cau readily see that, though the silver did not circulate lu the gold countries, it would lie doing service In another part of the world as primary moucy, and consequently would be relieving the strain upon gold, just as much as if It circulated side by side with the gold In that gold stand ard country.—J. F. Shafroth. In General. Don't lie—It is ignoble. Salt in whitewash makes it stick. There are 5,COO bicycle-makers lu Chi cago. looks You cau not tell by a*man's how much he owes. California produces about one-third of the nlmouds consumed In the United States. FIsli lies are Innqceut, but they get people iu the habit of thinking that everything Is "flsh." Butter, If eaten moderately, -vlll not provMiurtful. The system needs oils and pure butter furnishes these. Most of the pianos and organs In tho South African republic are iiought from Germany, but some nre from Eng land and the United States. The five largest Belgian cities nre Brussels, with 551,011 Inhabitants Ant werp, with 271,281 Luttlch, 107,305 Ghent, 101,125 Brughes, "50,900. Our manners and customs go for more in life than our qualities. The price we pay for our civilization ls-tlio fine yet impossible differentiation of these.—Howeli. Mrs. Joubert, wife of the commander of the Transvaal forces, accompanies her- husband In the field, and herself has gained a considerable knowledge of military matters. Captain Slgsbee, late of the Maine, Is the lnveutor of a deep-sea sounding machine, for which he got medals from Prussia and England. He also invent ed mi ingenious parallel ruler for me chanical drawing. The highest price paid for a novel is $200,000, which was handed over to Al phonse Daudet for his "Sappho." Zola's first fourteen books netted him $220,000, nud in tweuty years ho has made nt least $375,000. Postage stamps may be reproduced oucc more In England In stamp albums and catalogues by a recent order of the British Board of Internal Revenue. They must be printed In black nud not be like enough to the originals to cntiso deception. If men wound you with Injuries, meet them with patience hasty words ran kle the wound, soft language dresses It, forgiveness cures it, nnd oblivion takes away the scur. It is more noble by silence to avoid au Injury thun by ar gument to overcome it.—Beaumont. Time wasted ou little duties Is not often considered. A mill-owner not long ago Issued the order that the girls In his employ should not wear laced shoes. The reason he gave was that each one's boot became untied nt least five times a day, nnd took at least five seconds to retle. When these twenty five seconds were multiplied by S00— tfce number cf girls in his employ—the loss of time was, ho said, too serious to submit to. Another mill-owner, talk lug over this case, said that he had for bidden visitors, because each of his "Jiauds" turned her head to look at them. Computing twenty visitors a d^y a ad two seconds for tho head-turn l»gf of each of his (TOO employes, made over 6ix hours daily wasted In that gesture.