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CHAPTER III.—(Continued.)
"•"Oh, dear,, yea!" assented Falkland
readily, "it was the talk of London.
Well, what have they discovered?"
"Why, that, a man who answers to
th® description of a suspicious-looking
person who disappeared from England
in rather peculiar circumstances at the
time of all those forgeries is supposed
,• to have left New York on the steamer
P'ty of Chicago on the 12th of this
.~Df10n^*1* an*. should this really be so,
fie ought to have arrived in Liverpool
at the beginning of the week. Just as
you were speaking of this Brown of
London it Btruck me
"That, he might be the forger him
self? Ah, perhaps he is," exclaimed
Evelyn, with a gleam of amusement
In her eyes. "Let us all keep a careful
watch upon him, and do our best to
gain the reward which somebody has
offered for him."
', "Very well, Miss Eve you may de
fend upon me to help you in your in
vestigations. My services are at your
disposal whenever you may require
them," was Falkland's reply but,
though the words were uttered lightly,
there was a sort of resolution lying
latent beneath his apparent careless
ness. "Only do not forget to take care
«f jrour own cheque-books, or in the
jneanwhile -you may find he has been
dipping pretty heavily into your ex
chequers as well. But goodby for the
present. 'I shall be coming again to
see for which night you will like tick
ets for the theater, and then I will
telephone down."
As the door closed behind the tall,
ratter gaunt, but at the same time
prepossessing form of Gilbert Falk
land, Lady Howard sank back in her
chair with a sign of supreme satisfac
tion.
"Dear me. what should we do wlth
out that roan? FTP is rpallv tno eood
Consequently Gilbert Falkland,
'"jlrhom they had chanced to meet upon
the continent for the first time only
»month before, but who had intro
duced himself as one of the late Sir
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s^rif
"OH, YES—IT—IT—IS MINE
in troubling himself so much about us
and our concerns."
Lady Howard spoke feelingly. No
body could have ever taken the reins
of government more unwillingly into
ber own hands than her ladyship had
done upon the death of her husband
three years before, when she .had been
left a. rich but somewhat helpless
widow, with a large estate and three
growing children. In the years of her
married life everything had devolved
upon Sir Wilfred and, though, as time
Wore on, she became more
accustomed
to her sense of perfect independence,
and bad actually consented to an addi
tional care in the shape of the guard
:. ianshlp of her niece, her brother's
child, she was still only too thankful
if any one would relieve her a little of
tb weight of the responsibilities which
bung so heavily upon her shoulders.
Wilfred's oldest friends, had found his
ftttentiona thoroughly acceptable to the
wido.w 1'*nd,
as
it happened that he
bad' been going by the same route as
.*? Lady Howard and her niece, he had
constituted himself courier and guide,
and had taken upon his own shoulders
all the troubles and worries insepa
.. rahle from continental traveling.
At home, in England once more, for
tune had thrown Mr. Falkland across
& thfelr path again, and Lady Howard
W was only too pleased if he would still
.do anything for her, even if it were
merely to arrange a drive or decide
.which of the pieces at the theaters was
really worth seeing.
But Evelyn scarcely heard the sigh
.of contentment which had followed
Mr. Falkland's departure. Her thoughts
were running in quite another direc
tion for, in spite of the nonchalance
With which she had laughed away Gil
bert Falkland's observations upon the
encounter with the man in the hall,
bis- words had carried more weight
'than, he had had the satisfaction of
Imagining.
,At the time it had never struck her
as ..peculiar that a man who was an
absolute stranger to her should have
been .able tqjsingle out from the num
ber .of letters one in particular for her,
thus showing that he knew her address
perfectly. It puzzled her though, con
siderably': ^ow,-"especially as the idea
flashed through-her mind, as it had
done I before even as she stood in the
ball {that that letter was not lying
ers when shc'JiaiUlrst
But now, since he had told her what
really villainous characters were con
stantly to be found at such quiet sea
side hotels as the "Royal George," she
began to realize that, if this Mr.
Brown were one of the number, ho
would be capable ot anything,
a handkerchief in the dining room last
evening?"
It was a trifling question, certainly,
still it sent the color flaming into the
girl's cheeks.
"A handkerchief?" she repeated.
"No I am sure I did not"—with a de
cided shake of her head.
"Are you quite sure, though, because
I feel certain it is yours—at least it
has your initials on it?" he returned,
producing the article In question and
holding up the corner where the cre3t
of the Luttrells was embroidered over
the initials "E. C. L." "This is it. Is
it not yours?"
Evelyn looked at it astonished. It
was Impossible to deny the ownership.
"Oh, yes—it—it is mine!"
The admission was made with such
reluctance that Major Brown was con
scious of a feeling that in delivering
up the handkerchief to its rightful
owner he was rather under an obliga
tion to her for deigning to accept it
than that she owed anything to him.
He was therefore quite astonished at
the polite but distant "thank you"
which rewarded his efforts, and stood
for some minutes lost in- contempla
tion of the slight graceful figure as it
retreated down a long corridor.
"It is no go, I am afraid, this time,"
he muttered half aloud. "Sambo's
mistress baa
.scented mischief already."
Yes, undoubtedly his scheme had
failed. She had not been so blind as to
believe that In both cases his effort to
speak to her was merely change and
the major realized with a sens'. of the
keenest disappointment that,! 8 mat
ters stood, It was practically" useless
hoping to make the slightest progress
toward a more intimate acquaintance.
There was nothing for It therefore
but to let things take their own
course for a day or two, In the mean
while preserving such a strict silence,
when chancing to encounter Miss Lut
trell, as to disarm her of all suspic
ions, and then to trust to fate to
throw her in some way across his
path. At any rate, he was prepared
to remain an occupant of No. 40, on
the second floor of the "Royal George."
even If he had to remain until dooms
day for that auspicious moment to ar
rive.
Until doomsday! Yet, when only
one hot sultry afternoon, one cool
dewey evening, and one sunshiny
morning had passed, Major Brown was
thoroughly impatient.
It was the" afternoon of the second
day after his decision, and he was
standing.,at the open window of the
smoking room with a most dejected
ipiy his face. It .seemed
h"
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ETHEL A. SOUTDAM
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would never have troubled to think
anything more about it if Mr. Falkland
had not declared that this man must
have known something of her name
and had taken the earliest opportunity
of trying to make her acquaintance.
and,
seeing her coming, had probably hid
den her letter in order to obtain the
necessary excuse for addressing her.
"Well, at any rate, he shall not
speak to me again!" mentally resolved
Miss Luttrell, as she stirred her coffee
and buttered a piece of toast. "Mr.
Brown of London is mistaken if he
imagines that Aunt Lydia and I are
two helpless individuals whom he can
take in and impose upon as he likes.
He had better try—that is all!"
CHAPTER IV.
Evelyn, however, had reckoned with
out her host. Later in the morning
she was hurrying upstairs with a mes
sage to her aunt's maid, when, as she
was somewhat breathlessly mounting
the last flight, a tall figure, which she
recognized at a glance as Major
Brown's, suddenly appeared at the top
of the. staircase, which he was just
about to descend.
Summoning all her dignity to her
aid and with her head set proudly
back, Miss Luttrell had prepared to
pass on quickly without deigning him
more than a coldly regal bow, when
to her amazement, as his eyes met hers,
he immediately paused before her.
"I beg your pardon, Miss Luttrell,
but I believe I have found some lost
property of yours. Did you not drop
by keeping aloof from her in this way
he was making the slightest progress
towards the stage of friendship at
which he was resolved sooner or later
to arrive. What should he do with
himself? Go for a stroll In the town?
Yes anything would be better than
dawdling away his time as he had
been doing all the morning. He was
on the point of withdrawing when foot
steps beneath the window and voices
In slight but decided altercation ar
rested his attention.
"No it is of no use—you are not
to come! I want to have a quiet af
ternoon under the trees, so that I can
read my book without any chance of
an interruption. I have just reached
a most exciting point, and I am dying
to see how it all ends."
"But how can my presence affect
your peace and comfort if I promise not
to speak? Surely, If I bring plenty
of literature of my own In which I
am equally Interested, you cannot ob
ject
"Yes but I do. I know so we'll
what would happen. Just at the most
pathetic part, when the hero and he
roine were plunged in the depths of
despair, you would look calmly up
from one of Router's most matter-of
fact telegrams, to discover me with
tears streaming down my cheeks. No,
Mr. Falkland—go into Saltcliffe, as
you had arranged, buy a new flower
for your coat and
But at that point the voices and
footsteps passed out of hearing.
The Major shrugged his shoulders
and knocked the ashes somewhat im
patiently off his cigar as he suddenly
found himself lost in a vague mental
speculation as to how far those en
treaties would fail or succeed. All the
same, there was a slight frown upon
his forehead as he turned away from
the window and, apparently forget
ting his resolution to take a walk
round the town, he threw himself into
a low chair, to puff away at his cigar
with renewed energy.
The hour of three had struck In
loud measured tones before he roused
himself again and then, as though by
instinct, he returned to his post at
the window just in time to catch a
glimpse of Miss Luttrell and a large
white parasol disappearing across the
lawn in the direction of an inviting
clump of trees.
So the fellow had failed, after all!
Involuntarily a smile rose to the Ma
jor's face, a particularly unsympathet
ic smile.
"Poor beggar!" he ejaculated.
(To be continued.)
Chagrin*
Men who expect to fail, instead of
expecting to succeed, are very seldom
the victims of chagrin. It is the men
of great capacities who are the worst
victims to- chagrin, which Is,. indeed,
one of the most serious set-offs against
the advantage of early distinction. It
is, perhaps, a greater misfortune to
have learned to expect that obstacle
after obstacle will go down before you
than to have learned to expect that
you will break your shins over them,
and have reason to rejoice when you do
not break them fatally or too often.
The root of almost all chagrin is vex
ation with yourself—often a vexation
quite as ill-founded se is the vexation
of a man who has never been out in
a whirlwind, when he finds that he
cannot make way against iit, though
he had always previously made way
against the wind. There is nothing
of which the strong have less experi
ence than of the forces which may be
brought against them in this world
and nothing Is more natural nor more
unreasonable than to resent your own
weakness when you ought only to be
acknowledging the magnitude of your
difficulties. The true remedy for cha
grin is to realize how full the universe
is of forces against which you have
never yet measured yourself, and of
the complexity of the causes by which
they are constituted. It is quite as
unjust to yourself to be able to sur
mount a cataract, as it is perfectly
just to anticipate making way against
an ordinary current or a strong tide.
Great success under difficulties of one
kind prepares a man to overestimate
unduly his power against difficulties of
a very different kind, and to waste
himself in chagrin If he does not find
them turn to wax in his hands.—Lon
don Spectator.
Ancient Wedlinj? Houses.
In olden times certain towns and vil
lages in England used to possess a
wedding house, where poor couples, af
ter they had been wedded at church,
could entertain their friends at small
cost, the only outlay being the pur
chase of such provisions for their
guests as they brought with them, the
house for the day being given free of
payment. At Braughing (or Brach
inges), in Hertfordshire, there was a
wedding house of this kind, which had
a Myge kitchen with a cauldron, large
spits and dripping pan a large room
for merriment, and a lodging-room,
with good linen. At Great Yeldham, in
Essex, there was another such bouse,
which was used by the poorer folk for
dining in after they returned from the
church. As the practice became obso
lete the wedding house was turned into
a school. In 1456 Roger Thornton
granted to the mayor and community
of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the use of the
hall and kitchen belonging to Thorn
ton's hospital, for the use of young
couples, when they were married to
make their wedding dinner in, and re
ceive the offerings and gifts of their
friends.
Wliy Purple Became the Imperial Color
Purple became the imperial color be
cause of its enormous cost and rarity.
The only purple known to the ancients
was the Tyrian purple, which was ob
tained in minute quantities only from
a Mediteranneah species of shell fish,
called the murex. In the time of Cice
ro, wool, double dyed with this color,
was so excessively dear that a single
pound weight cost a thousand denarii,
or about thirty-five pounds sterling. A
single murex only yielded a little drop
of the secretion, consequently very
large numbers had to be taken in order
to obtain enough to dye even a very
small amount of wool. Amongc* moi
than one of the nations of antiquity it
was death for any person but the.^bv
ereign or supreme judges to wear gar
ments dyed
.with Tyrian purple. Upon
the accession of Julius Caesar a law
was passed tothidnng, any private pen
THE LEON REPORTER, THURSDAY. DECEMBEK 14, 18!)!).
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CHICAGO PLATFORM.
NEVER CAN BE SEPARATED
FROM DEMOCRACY.
It Came from the People afli a Protest
Against Clevrlaiidiain, CarllHleism,
Wliltneylsm and Wall StreetUm—With
It ItuifllrmiHl the Parly W.U Win.
In 1896 a large number of people
had become restless under, and dissat
isfied with, the management of these
commercial politicians who had con
trolled party organizations, and con
cluded to take matters into their own
hands. The Chicago convention, rep
resenting a great party, took that par
ty out of the gambling arena of the
stock markets, and put it o.iee more
on the high plane of public welfare.
With their eyes on the future, with the
voices of their ancestors and the pa
triots of '76 in their ears, and with the
weight of the heritage they slipuld
leave to their children resting on their
hearts, they presented as issues funda
mental truths. As champion they se
lected a statesman from the west, with
clear brain and honest heart and de
voted to the interests of the people.
Since that time these professional is
sue makers have had a dull market for
their productions. Lately they have
l« en trying to persuade the allied
forces of reform that a new set of prin
ciples is needed. We have re-examineil
the construction of the Chicago pro
duction and the material of which it is
made. It does not show evidence of
wear or indication of decay. It has in
it life, power and purpose. Its cham
pion has been tried and has been
found to be true in purpose and intent.
We are not much impressed by any
reason advanced for laying aside the
platform of the standard-bearer. These
commercial agents have abandoned
the idea of a new construction and set
up a repair shop. They have been to
see Mr. Bryan to persuade him to give
his consent to their employment to
make a few trifling changes. In their
ignorance of the principles upon which
the structure was builded, in utter mis
conception of the character and ability
of Jts architect, th jy advise the changes
that would destroy the structure. It
is time to rememier that intellectual
fcrce, that motive^ that moral respon
sibilities, are individual. There is no
intellectual power in a corporation.
The motives of evsry such organiza
tion are the motives of individuals.
The moral responsibility must be paid
upon the individuals. Make what legal
restrictions and lim. tations you can,
what good are the restrictions and lim
itations if the individuals that fur
nish the intellect and the motives are
able to escape observation, retain what
they extort from their victims by the
aid of these monsters., and preserve
their standing amoni their fellow
men?—A. J. Van Vorh'.a.
NO DEAD ISSUES.
The American people have always
been confronted with political issues of
vital importance to a government
based upon popular sovereignty. Since
the beginning of the natic to the pres
ent day, not a single ymstion con
cerning the people, or bearing upon
their welfare and prope.1 manner of
government, may be said ~:a have been
abandoned or cast out into any fancied
Gehenna of dead, extinct issues. An
issue can only die, becomes extinct,
when a radical change in our form of
government makes it treason to broach
it, or impossible to maintaia it.
The principles of human freedom,
equal rights and political liberty rest
upon so slender a foothold, so delicate
ly are they balanced in the ucale of hu
man ambition and greed, that it be
hooves a free people to beware of be
ing caught napping when the bogie
man of imperialism comes prowling
about with the intent to subvert or un
dermine their liberties.
Because a certain issue is not coa
ntantly reiterated is not a reason why
that issue has been abandoned, or even
Bubstituted by other issues. National
autonomy, and the integrity of our na
tional existence upon the lints estab
lished in the constitution, whirh was
r.nd Is but the fulfillment of the princi
ples given to the world in the declara
tion of independence, are issues not to
be frowned down by clowniyh com
icalities and covert sneers of division.
They are living issues and draw with
them all other Issues In any man
ner pertaining to them.
The people know where the Demo
cratic party stands on the silver ques
tion they know that the Chicago plat
form enunciated a financial dontrine
incapable of being argued out of ex
istence because of its vital importance
to the welfare of the whole people,
and the fact that it is not a dead issue
is patent from the continued efforts of
the Republican party to keep alive the
issue of the gold standard, with its
most radical and pernicious results.
Having established that financial tru
ism, it is assumed that the Democratic
party should become blind to all iher
issues, and forsake those which are
also of the greatest moment, and of the
most vital Importance, Inasmuch as
they are pressing upon the people with
all the power of an administration
which assumes upon itself all of the
prerogatives of government, to the ex
clusion of its other co-ordinate
branches.
Whatever issues are of material in
terest to the welfare of the people are
within the province and policy of the
party of Jefferson, of Washington and
Lincoln, and it purposes to include
those issues as living issues whether
sounded through a trumpet or implied
in its opposition to any and all meas
ures foisted upon the people under tb.a
guise loyalty to President McKin
ley or the Empress of India. Let ali
men know and be advised, once for ali,
that the Democratic party does not in
tend to abandon any issue of import
ance to the national and Individual
welfare. ~W
SHOCKINGTHE GOLD STANDARD
Every adverse wind that blows upon
the gold standard gives it a chill that no difference what
endangers its vitality. To mention
silver^-to-throw it into spasms call
Irw for a ruah of all sorts of physi
rlflM, even je&trrB, to iflstore it to life
it from an unexpected adversary who
dogs not mention the bugbear of sil
ver, but makes it feel the same cold
chills.
Count von Posadowsky-Wehner, the
German minister of the interior be
came an open heretic in the presence
of Andrew D. White, U. S. Ambassador
at Berlin, and of other dignitaries of
the German empire, all of whom
agreed with him, at least, nobody dis
puted him.
"If this unterbilanz (meaning "bal
ance of trade") against Germany con
tinues, says he, "We shall have to drop
the gold standard." Here is a nice ad
mission. The gold standard then, is
not the creator of a balance of trade
in favor of the nation adopting it. It
certainly is not, in fact it is and al
ways has been the direct opposite. The
fact that the balance of trade has been
so enormously in favor of the United
States during the past two years, is
wholly due to our enormous produc
tions aird not to the gold standard.
That it is not die to the gold standard
is evident from the remarks of the
German count whose grievance arises
out of the fact vhat the gold standard
gives a balance of trade against Ger
many, and if it l.:eeps on he will drop
it. The count's declaration was di
rected at the United States, and he de
sired some advar tageous commercial
treaty which wouid equalize this bal
ance of trade, that is, give Germany
an advantage by reducing the balance
in our favor.
European financiers, as well as some
of our own, regard the enormous sum
of about six hundred millions of dol
lars, the annual balance of trade in
our favor, a very gc.od thing Jor the
country, too much, :n fact, for if it
be continued several years longer, it
will absorb all the money in the
world. But when we investigate, it is
discovered that our balance of trade
is as fictitious as the quantity of our
circulating medium, in 1S0S-9, the
balance of trade in our favor was in
excess of six hund
-ed
and sixteen mil­
lions of dollars in gold. As a matter
of fact, deducting iiom the amount of
gold actually re-lived, the total
amount of our expo/ts, there was only
about eighty millions balance, and that
was not all coined a.i the mint reports
show. It goes, some say, towards pay
ing interest on c.v.r indebtedness
abroad, expenses of ivmericans in Eu
rope, steamship passages, etc., etc. It
certainly never gets nto circulation,
for our money stock, instead of in
creasing, is being onstantly con
tracted, and our debts ate increasing
faster than our output i-f gold and bal
ance of trade combine 1. The impe
rial minister of the Gt»rn an interior
is undoubtedly correct
:n
NATIONAL GRANCE
TRUSTS.
"NS
his evident
belief that the dropping nf the gold
standard would restore tho balance of
trade in favor of Germ i.iy, a result
that would be experien-.ed in every
producing nation in the vorld.
AND THE
Springfield, ^.»io, Letter: The Na
tional Grange, which has leen in ses
sion in this city during the past week,
will adjourn sine die tomo-row after
noon. Important in todays proceed
ings were the reports of tLo commit
tees on trusts and the menhant ma
rine, both of which were adopted. The
trust committee's report says:
"We are not opposed to associations
of interests, which merely 1 ?ssen the
cost of production, but we art* decided
ly opposed to the misuse of the power
which large combinations ol capital
give for the purpose of destroying
competition, controlling pioduction
and arbitrarily dictating pi ices of
commodities.
"We are opposed to all corporations
or trusts which control the source of
supply and, like the Standard Ciil Com
pany, reach out their arms and em
brace all competition. Special favors
are granted them by railroads, thus
enabling them to undersell and force
to the wall the smaller dealeis, who
might otherwise compete with them.
"The greed and selfishnesr which too
often actuate men has become in ele
ment of danger and must bn con
trolled. It must be made impossible
for so-called trusts to accumulate mil
lions by selling watered stock with
out adding to the wealth of the coun
try."
PRESIDENTIAL ROYALTY.
From the Journal of Agriculture: A
peculiar circumstance has occurred In
connection with the investigation of
the Standard Oil Company, by the in
dustrial commission. The commission
has refused to receive and record the
testimony of Mr. George Rice of Ma
rietta, Ohio, because some portion 3 of
it "reflect severely upon President Mc
Kinley, former Presidents Cleveland
and Harrison, Attorney General
Griggs and former Attorneys Genoral
Olney and Miller, and upon the Inser
state commerce commission." And so
it seems that we are beginning to
hedge our presidents around with that
mysterious odor of royal sanctity tl-at
forbids the near approach of the vulgar
masses. In our crude Democratic wjy
of looking at things we had supposed
that the people were the sovereigns,
and the president their hired man, wt.o
might be called on to give an account
ing whenever it suited their pleasure.
It was Mr. Rice who instituted the suit
against the Standard Oil Company
which resulted in the retirement oC
that corporation from Ohio. He ha:
been an independent oil producer anc
refiner, and through the extraordinar
"business methods" employed by the
oil octopus he has been forced out of
business a number of times. He is
thoroughly familiar with the peculiar
methods of the Standard Oil Compan
and his testimony, it Is said, containei
statements which the commission di.l
not e:are to have recorded in the pub
lished testimony.
We do not know whether Mr. Ric&
is a Democrat or a Republican, or
whether, like Mark Hanna, he believes
there are good trusts and bad trusts
but in any event he should be permit
ted_ to tell what he knows. It makes
ants
from adverse criticism.
ugly business has been done by the
Standard Oil Company. They know
that a large part of its business con
sists in making desert wastes of com
peting fi-ms, and then laying heavy
burdens of tribute on the public and
they feel that they have a right to
know how and why these things are
done, regdrdless of what happens to the
president and the ex-presidents. They
are no better than other citizens, and
if their corns are trod upon let them
keep them on the safe side of public
opinion. It is stated that Mr. Rice
lias printed his testimony in a pamph
let and had it copyrighted. If the
commission -persists in its refusal to
admit his evidence, he should furnish
copies of his pamphlet to the unmuz
zled and uncensored press.
AGUINALDO'S PROPOSITION.
New York, Nov. 23.—A letter to the
World from its Hongkong correspond
ent, under date of Oct. 19, gives a re
markable interview with Aguinaldo.
The interview, according to the corre
spondent, conies from an American
who has lived for years in the Philip
pines and has known Aguinaldo for a
long time. He has been through the
lines and has been two weeks with the
insurgent commander-in-chief.
This American is a business man
with several correspondents on the
New York Produce Exchange and
agent of one of the firms running a
line of steamers to Manila. For years
he was a Philippine agent of Russell
& Co.. of Hongkong, San Francisco,
New York and Boston.
According to the interview Agui
naldo wants peace, and to get it he is
willing to repay the $20,000,000 which
the United States paid to Spain for the
Philippines, and will consent to Amer
ican soldiers remaining in Manila till
the debt is canceled. He wants a re
public to consist of a president, con
gress and judiciary, the president to be
elected by the votes of the people, the
congress to be chosen in the same
manner from all the Philippine isl
ands a judiciary to be appointed by
the president or by the senate local
governments in ali districts and cities
to be elected by the legal voters there
of the American soldiery to be with
drawn (with some exceptions) from
the country to satisfy the American
people a subsidy on the receipts from
the customs and exports to pay the
American government $20,000,000, the
amount paid Spain also the taxes of
real estate and personal estates to be
dedicated to the same, and all to be
repaid in five years American sol
diers (the number to be agreed upon)
to remain at Manila until this debt is
paid, then to be withdrawn from the
island.
WHITHER ARE WE DRIFTING?
From the Buffalo Express: For the
first two months of the new fiscal year
our government has expended $102,
9C9,090.33, of which $21,0S6,4G9.81 has
gone for the support of the civil and
miscellaneous establishment, and all
the rest for military expenses of one
kind or another* The army got $34,
202,080.0G the navy, and interest on
the war debt, $9,153,845.38, a total of
the military side of the ledger of $79,
153,845.64, at the rate of $174,595,073.81
a year for warlike outgoes, while the
total cost of the civil establishment
was at the annual rate of $126,398,
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the commission
thinks about it, they too, are servants
of the people, and they have no right
to att«mpt to shield their fellow serv-
The peo
of very
At the present time not quite eighty
per ccnt of the expenses of carrying on
this peaceful country are on account of
wars, past, present and anticipated,
but the ratio is nearer to eighty per
cent than to any other round figure.
Is there any country, free or despotic,
which spends a larger proportion of
its income on war? I do not know, be
cause I have not the opportunity to
lock up the statistics, but I should bs
surprised, indeed, to find that any
country of high civilization, spends
four times as much on war and war
like preparations as on all its civil ex
penses put together. It is difficult to
comprehend that, with hardly a real
ization of it by the people, we are be
coming the most warlike of nations,
so far at least, as outlay on military
matters goes.
Moreover, the taxes are taking on a
new form. They are coming home to
men's business and bosoms more close
ly than heretofore. The indirect taxes
of the tariff which have from the be
ginning of the republic been the main
stay of the federal government, are so
no longer. For the first two months
of the fiscal year the receipts from the
tariff were $37,518,151.53, while the re
ceipts from the indirect taxes of the
internal revenue were $52,449,613.96
Corporate Anarchism*
From the New York News: see
today the amazing and revolting spec
tacle of industrial corporations defying
law, violating order and practicing
anarchism. In playing ducks and
drake with law and order corporations
are playing the game and into the
hands of their worst enemy. When
Chenter wrote, with mordant pen, of
the men to whom every law is burden
some, every restraint insupportable
and all government odious men for
whom honesty means the most trying
of all yokes,' he had in mind not so
much the sansculotte mob of the slums
as the 'men of light and learning,'
suchas Danton,Desmoulins and Robes
pierre, upon whom the just judgment
of time has set the seal of exparation.
In like manner the worst enemy of
social order today is not the beery
brawler, but the law-breaking or law
evading corporation, in its insolence of
wealth and influence. Corporate an
archism—that is the enemy."
The "(Hodon-* Climate."
Many glowing eulogies have been
written on the "glorious climato o' Cal
Iforny," but the following rhapsody,
from the San Diego Videito, seeraa to
be entitled to the cake: "The Savior
of the world might have be^r. born in
a San Diego stable and cradled in a
San Diego manger and not be entitled
to sympathy ou the part of the pam
pered children of wealth and plenty.
If he could have chosen his own blrth
Irtac^ie would doubtless have pro-
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Nobody!
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OUE BUDGET OF FUN
SOME COOD JOKES ORIGINAL
AND SELECTED.
A Variety of Jokes, Olbes and Ironlet,
Original and Selected—Flottsiu and
Jetsam from the Tldo of Humor—'
Witty Sayings.
The li.ichelor's Complaint.
Returning home at close o£ day,
Who gently chides my long delay.
And by my side delights to stay?
Who sets for me the easy chair,
Spreads out the papers with such care.
And lays my slippers ready there?
Nobody!
When plunged in deep and dire dis
tress.
When anxious cares my heart op
press,
Who whispers hopes of happiness?
Nobody!
When sickness comes and sorrow
twain,
And grief distracts my fevered brain.
Who sympathizes with my pain?
Nobody!
But I'm resolved, so help me fate,
To change at once my single state,
^.t Hymen's altar I will mate
Somebody!
—Thomasville (Ga.) Enterprise.
His First Caso.
'l
Doctor—My first case was a child
who had been eating candle ends.
Assistant—What did you do?
Doctor—Recommended a change of
diet.
A Merrlless Judge.
Chicago Evening Post: "Horrible!
Horrible!" he exclaimed.
"What's horrible?" she asked.
"Here's a story of a man with five
wives," he explained.
"I should say it was horrible," sh»
asserted.
"And when he was arraigned In
court all five were there," he went on.
"And what did the judge do to him?"
she asked.
"Abandoned him to his fate," he an
swered. "He discharged him. Oh,
isn't it horrible?"
Ways of the World.
Sandy Pikes—T'ings ain't fair In dla
ivurld, Billy.
Billy Coalgate—What's de matter,
now,Sandy?
Sandy Pikes—Why, I'se jest bin doin*
a little t'inkin'. Here's dese high
fiuted fellows dat git a good dinner fer
jest tellin' a funny story after de3»
t'ro' eatin'. We has to fill a woodshed
before we kin git a little cold lunch. It
ain't right.—Chicago News.
Aftcr-Dlrmer Chat.
Indianapolis Journal—"Well," said
Hungry Higgins, "here is the first
good thing I ever read about them col
lege dudes."
"Wot is it?" asked Weary Watkins,'
with little interest.
"Wy it says a lot of 'em had a can
rush—no, it ain't either. It's a cans
rush. Ihey was a bit of gravy coverin"
up the 'e.'
Then She Culled the Dog.
Baltimore American—Miss Sourfac*
(to tramp)—Did you ever have a ro
mance in your life?
Tramp—Yes, mum I had a sweet
heart oncet dat looked like you.
Miss Sourface (setting out another
piece of pie)—And did she die?
Tramp—No, mum. Me fadder want
ed me to marry her, so I run away
from home.
The Savace Bachelor.
Indianapolis Journal: "How women
do love to stare at a hero!" said tha
Cynical Youth.
"Yep," assented the Savage Bache
lor. "That is one reason why they al*
waj's flock to weddings."
A Man of Metal.
Philadelphia Bulletin: "The orator ii
what you'd call a man of metal?"
"Why?"
"They call him "silver tongues,' ht
has gold in his teeth, and he certainly
has plenty of brass."
Chip of the Old Block.
"Ah, your son's a smart fellow—got
his father's head, eh?—chip of the oltf
block!"
Mu«t Stand Together.
Chicago Tribune: Katie—Don"t you
hink the white goose is ever so much
prettier than the others?
Bessie—No. And if I did think sa
wouldn't say so. He's the gander*
Bli CharxcterlRtlc.
"Dewey believes in short engage
nents," remarked Mrs. Snaggs.
"Yes, the Spaniards who were at
Manila last yearjaj^jy^to that,"-—
burg CI
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