” Bellefonte, Pa., Oct. 16, 1896. WHAT IS MONEY? Moneys; my boy, is silver and gold, Or a piece of pictured paper, And they who possess it manifold May cut any kind of a eaper. Money, my boy, is a worshipped god And a dearly treasured idol, Often used as a divining rod At burial, birth and bridal. Money, my boy, does a world of good And more than world’s of evil— tiood when poured from the hand of God, Bad if dealt out by the devil. Money, my boy, does not grow on trees, Is not always had for the asking, Nor gathered in pockets from every breeze Without much deceitand masking. Money, my boy, will buy place and power, Husbands and wives and divorces— Truthful and false in selfsame hour, Marshaling all kinds of forces, Money, my boy it is sad to say, Buys “body, soul and hreeches ;” Ix a curse to those who day by day Live only to hoard up riches. Money, my boy, both rich and poor Fall down on their knees before it. No matter how it came to their door, All are quick to receive and adore it. Money, my boy, “What is it?’ you ask, As itt were something funny, A correct reply is no easy task, Fer money is nothing but money. Money, my hoy, alone by itself Is naught but a name for riches* And whether well or ill-gotten pelf, That hinders and helps and bewitches. But money, my hoy, doesn’t pass it by When skies grow bright and sunny, For it’s ten to one that before you die You'll find it handy to have some money. —Good Housckeeping. MARK HANNA, MCKINLEY LABOR UNIONS. BY ALFRED HENRY LEWIS, IN JOURNAL. Scene— Waldorf. Reporter—Do you expect to elect Me- Kinley, Mr. Hanna ? Hanna—McKinley ident. another. As ruthless in politics as in business ; as careless of public, as of private right, by fair means or foul, by hook or by crook, Mark Hanna wages his war and proposes to land his men. It is well to know these things, and a world honestly, about its destiny is grate- ful to Hanna for the black warning of his words. Nor does a world despair. Wrong does not always win ; right is now and then the victor, and Satan has received a set- back before now. Were a prophet in our midst to day he would tell our red-faced Lochial that McKinley is to pluck defeat ; and in his overthrow Hanna himself is to be crushed for the spider of politics that he is. This is a letter to workingmen. Their foe is in the open ground. Their warmest enemy, Hanna, a man who, for thirty years, has torn at the flanks of labor like a wolf, is in command. The field is strick- en. By the prepense and open-eyed man- oeuverings of money itself, this is a war waged by the rich on the poor ; wealth against perishing flesh and “blood. The issue isn’t so much finance. The questions truly at-bay are: Shall the many moil and toil and sweat for a few ? Shall leech- es suck blood ? Shatl widow’s houses be devoured ? Shall the Pharisees sit in the high places? Shall the money-changers again occupy the temple ? Shall government of the people, by the people, for the peo- ple, perish from the earth? If the work- men of the country - fail at this crisis to successfully conserve their &wn, they de- serve the fetters now forging for them, their feebleness merits its loss. If institutions which a Washington founded and a Grant defended are to become finally the foot- stool of a Hanna, the time has ripely arriv- ed to find it out. McKinley is of no present or future con- sequence. Hanna is casting the shadow in this campaign. The candidate is swallow- ed by the manager. The Canton mute is merely a syndicate’s entry for the White House stakes. McKinley may be success- ful, but he cannot win. The syndicate wins. Hanna wins. McKinley may fin- ish first in the race. But the syndicate which groomed him, which drove him, which put up entrance money and paid stable charges, will pocket the prize. Make the voiceless man of Canton president and he will occupy the White House only as the steward of a ring. He will hold his office as the trustee of a coterie. He will dispute its patronage and perform its func- tions at the will and word of Hanna, and to the sole end that the members of that syn- dicate which invested its millions in the capture of the place may in honor and mon- ey profits gain those rewards for which the whole piracy was planned. In such a contest, having such an original, conducted by such methods, for such black purposes, and all beneath the domineering eye and thuinb of Hanna, the sole inquiry is, Han- na? What is he? Who is he? How has his past gone? Tell us of his deeds. Hanna is the substance of the situation. MeKin- ley is nothing but a name. It is 16 of Hanna to 1 of Canton candidate. The syn- dicate is in the saddle, the candidate is be- neath it, with the syndicate bit in his mouth and the syndicate spur in his quar- ter. NEW YORK will be the next pres- If we can’t win one way we will « II What is the matter with this smile? Why should its accurate excellence be im. punged or its generosity inveighed against? They have bought McKinley—hbought and paid for him like a horse—=this syndicate. They have housed aud fed and financed him for five long years to ride him to the White House in 1:96. They were brought to extraordinary ex- | penditure, to an anticipated outlay and forced to wipe him free of the mud and stains of the Walker failure in 1893, lex’s notes of haud to raven and to rend him. What was a syndicate already afloat with its enterprise to do? [t must pay them ; and it gid. And as this is read let Hanna answer for the whereabouts of those 511.000 worth of | Where are they ¢ Safe in the cluteh | of the syndicate that paid the money and | notes, took them up. Safe in the vaults and the Savings Bank of Cleveland, O., the busi- ness home cf Herrick, the treasurer of the syndicate and incidentially that scheming body’s money headguarters. Were the notes destroyed? No. they given to MeKinley by these sons of craft and thrifey millions who paid them up and took their candidate out of the claws of his creditors? No. The notes were not destroyed ; they were not given to McKinley ; they were preserved and exist to-day that syndicate’s title deeds to the candidate whose fight they furnish and whose fortunes they pre- tend to push while simply fostering their own. Those notes, $118,000, are in force, over- due and unpaid. They could blossom to a judgement in any court in the land. They could to-day inspire a suit and put wings to process against the candidate whom the ring about assumes to love so much. By the power of those notes of hand they now put words in MeKinley’s mouth, or strike him dumb. By their sway they build a platform and he steps upon it. { McKinley is held in thrall and bond. | Free, he was for silver and his record is a record of silver. Bound and bought and owned he is for gold. He is for nothing, for anything ; he is here or there ; he is silent or finds his voice at the orders of the syndicate. Isn’t it a dainty candidatorial dish to set before a king—before the voters and kings of America? And what a proud day would dawn for the country when it inaugurated a president utterly at the mercy of the ring that girt him round. Why don’t they give this man his notes ? Why are these $118,000 of paper slips so put to sleep in the vaults of the syndicate? Is it for McKinley’s good or Hanna's good that this debt of $118,000 is thus maintain- ed a living, breathing, thing of law? Isa country to be better served while a, syndi- cate holds such a gun and a president is such a target ? There has been much to say of Bryan’s youth. It had been better if McKinley AND THE | Out | of the unexpected carte $112,000 of McKin- | Were | were as young. His superiority of years | has only served to put his hand in the i lion’t suvath of Hanna and make him the | chattel of a money muddle, of which Han- | na’s is director. Bryan is at least free. ! And a public might better and more wisely | go with its interests to a free man, however | young, than intrust its destinies to a cap- I tive, however old. | Let us bend to the lesson of Hanna. There is but one Allah and Mohammed is his prophet ; but one syndicate and Han- i na is its dictator. Who, therefore, is Han- na? | Ome glance at him betrays his sort. | There is violence in his coarse, ruddy face. | There is avarice in his weazel eye, a money j fierceness, just as one reads the lust of { blood in the lambent ferocity that glows in | the eye of a ferret. He is a gross man,and i runs to flesh like a draught horse. Standing | 5 feet 9 inches, Hanna weighs 240 pounds. ! From the size of his collar and the size of his hat o»2 might conclude that Hanna was perhaps the man ordinary. This would be a grievous error. He has force, he has brains ; he has a persistency that never falters, nerves that never flinch. Hanna has courage of the sort that goes with eru- elty. He was born for tyranny, for rapacity without ruth and with a money appetite that is bass-iike in its voracity. Hanna is an egotist,and is never to think, never to suffer for others. This shone forth a ray of brilliant selfishness in the war-wrung sixties. Hanna was twenty- three when the war broke out, and without wife or child to win him to his home. Did he go? He never thought of it, and others might march southward and waste their blood and health, and lay their final hones on Southern battlefields. They were the fools of the world to men of the Hanna kind of wisdom. He knew better than battle ; he would stay behind and be rich. While others did his fighting, Hanna, in a safe place, piled up dollars for himself. Yet Hanpa has courage ; he did not fail the war for lack of heart. He preferred peace and an easy plenty because he loves himself much and the public little. It is a notable fact that men capable of being millionaires, whether the millions are got- ten or still to get, go seldom or never to war.. The Vanderbilts, the Astors, the Goulds, the Russel Sages and the Mark Hannas have no military tastes, no battle records live in the annals of their houses. III Above it was said that this was written to workingmen. It is. There are those who labor with their hands and who win their bread with the sweat in their eyes who do not know Hanna. There are others of this back bent, toil bitten description who know him sadly enough. In the starved coal fields of Spring Valley they know him. In the Michigan mines, in every half paid forecastle of the great lakes, in the coal holes of Ohioand Pennsylvania, wherever coal is dug and iron moulded and oil is pumped ; on the street car lines in Cleveland ; in all these places and in many a dark corner besides, where labor is rob. bed, they know Mark Hanna. And the mention of his name is the signal for such a cloud of frowns, such a storm of curses, as publish him what he is—the oppressor without merey of every man on his multi- plied payrolls. Do you know where Gold- smith says : For him no wretches torn to work and weep, Explore the mine or tempt the dangerous deep ; No surly porter stands in guilty state To spurn imploring famine from his gate. Hanna is in the exact opposite of Gold- smith’s person. He is everything the vil-, lage preacher wasn’t. Hanna was born in 1837 ; just a shaving less than sixty years of age is Hanna. He was born in New Lisbin, Columbiana coun- ty, in the State where he now lives. His iron kind,and so in that dark cannon shak- en hour of the nation’s peril Hanna filled his pockets while others emptied their veins. ~ Buch lack of patriotic purpose, such love of self and pelf had their reward. Hanna is worth over $20,000,000. In 1864 Hanna carried to the altar the daughter of Dan. P. Rhoades, himself a coal prince and the founder of the D. P. Rhoads Coal company.” The old man is gone, and the concern to-day is the Mark Hanna Coal company. From groceries to coal, and from coal to every fashion of money trapping went Mark Hanna. One is a hunter, stark and bold, who seeks his profit at noon and by direct approach, winning, when he does win, bydint of personal skill and strength in his employment. Such never grow'rich. There are others, shy, furtive, not lacking co but strong most in a foxy cunning, the trappers of trade. They set mo) traps, and then go about skinning thei game. Such as the lastis Hanna. He wins his wealth by indication. He has the sordid instinct that points the hidden dollar in some covert of trade, as a setter points a bird. Hanna ean take a dollar, make it into a money trap, catch a dime with it. He can set and attend to millions of traps at once. And the decoyed dimes caught by these dollar traps to die for Hanna are as the sands of the sea every year. That's how, in thirty years, Hanna heaps up al- most a8 many millions. Hanna not only succeeded to the Leon- ard-Hanna grocery and the D. P. Rhoads Coal company, but he organized the Buck- eye Oil company, the Union National bank and the Woodland Avenue and the West Side street car lines of Cleveland, Ohio. Hanna owns iron, copper and coal mines in Michigan, coal mines in Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania. He has fleets of vessels on the Great lakes carrying coal up the lakes and iron down. He hasship yards and builds his own boats. He has interests of all kinds scattered from Duluth to New York ; from the Pictured Rocks to the thousand islands, with business offices and headquarters in every city, on either shore of all the lakes. Hanna is the dominant spirit of every en- terprise he is involved in. He controls or or he gets out. Worth twenty millions per- sonally, he decides the policy of ten times as much, and can march two hundred millions of capital upon any battlefield of business to be as absolutely at his beck and order as an army to the baton of its commander-in- chief. This makes a power of Hanna, even without a courage that neverpales and a heart as cold and hard as hail, and as re- morseless, : IV. Hanna in his enterprises employs thous- ands of men. He has fought strikes and lockouts with every one of them. There is not a man at work for Hanna to-day who doesn’t hate him with a heart of fire. Why? Because he feeds on them, devours them at every chance. Those twenty mil- lions of his are 95 per cent the veriest pil- lage of labor. Hanna lives and waxes fat to-day, the best specimen of vhe modern anthropopha- gi. Hanna’s first labor war of worth and weight was with the Seamen’s Union of the great lakes. I’ve told the story Dbe- fore. The battle began in 1882. It lasted four bitter years. Hanna had a thug nam- ed Rumsey, a professional pugilist, and of morals and mentality to match his sort and kind. Hanna had Rumsey placed on the police force of Cleveland. Rumsey had been one of Hanna's sailors. Then Hanna caused the police, force to construct on the Cleveland force a ‘‘River Squad,’” with Rumsey, the thug, as prime spirit. Hanna was now ready and he pulled on his war with the poor sailor folk. They were getting $2.25 a day in summer and $4 in November and December. Hanna cut them ata slash to $1 a day in summer and $2.25 in November and December. For four years the battle between the sailors and Hanna staggered on. Rumsey and his under thugs did the dirty work. They thumped, gouged, mauled, pounded and man-handled every union sailor whom they found alone on the Cleveland docks. They sent them by cart loads to the central police station, where they were promptly released by Updegraff, a judge who had some human instincts. And Hanna paid the Rumsey thugs the wage and hire of their brutality. In four years, Hanna, cohorts, had beaten the sailor's union to death. It has gone now for good. Hanna had his cruel way. To-day, even with those benefits of ‘*protection’’ about which the ring-directed, note-threatened McKin- ley has so much to say, all that Hanna's sailors get is $15 to $35 a month, where be- fore they received from $60 to $70. Hanna boasts that since 1884, when his final triumph over the Seaman’s Union came and the organization lay in blood- dabbled death at his feet, he and his fellow moneyites who were in the cruel conspira- cy with him—the Chamberlains, the Minches and the Alvah Bradleys—have as direct profits of their victory made over $10,000,000. How many women and chil- dren, the wives and little ones of his sail- ors, this should have honestly fed and clothed, are questions which never rap at the Hanna heart for answer. He has nat- ural bars against any such inroad on his with his Rumsey father was a Leonard Hanna and by pro- | fession a doctor. It would seem that Dr. Leonard Hanna was not in the business of balsam and bandages from any love of his fellows or riotous taste for a public health. He dis- tinctly longed for dollars. And whether the sturdy brood of citizens about him were of too rugged a condition to permit pills to pay, or what the reason, Dr. Leonard Han- na at an early day lapsed into keeping a country store. And he kept it well, and | as it flourished his profits swelled. Mark Hanna was not the only son. | There were at least three others. It is said | that they were remarkable as men of re- | | finement and elevaticn ; something these | { who have met the present Hanna will find hard of belief. Mark Hanna was at pnblie school ; then | i briefly at the Western Reserve college. | This latter temple of learning only detained | him ayear. He might have stayed longer, but he was impatient to plunge into husi- | ness. He was thirsty to drink dollars for | himself, - It was in 1852 the elder Hanna invaded | | Cleveland ; a mere village then camped on | the banks of the crooked river which gave | it first existence. The Huannas opened a | wholesale store. As soon as the younger | Hanna was old enough to keep an account | against his fellow man he joined his father | in the grocery. This was in 1857. Hanna | | was twenty and as famished to make a dol- | | u i ene as he has ever proved since. | Hanna was 23 when Fort Sumpter fell. | While others rushed about the torn stand- [ ard of their country to save it, Hanna stay- | ed indomitably at howe. And he thriftily | | took government contracts of the coal and | sensibilities. As a sweet bone to a good dog, Hanna rewarded Rumsey for his thug work by sending that satellite on a vacation trip around the world. In a former article on the crushing of the Seamen’s Union by Hanna I told men to ask the particulars of Peter Lynch, who was at the hour of its defeat the president of that body. It would be useless, as I have learned. To stop his mouth Hanna had Peter Lynch appointed to some small capacity about the Cleveland postoflice, Hutchin, whom Cleveland named post- master, a politician rather than a Demo- crat, inspired by the fisherman of Buzzard’s Bay, is out for McKinley. He is to-day Hanna’s man. And Peter Lynch, once re- putably the leader of the lake sailors of Cleveland, is a Hutchin-Hanna henchman, Lynch must hold his place. He will say nothing now of those bitter years in the eighties, when Hanna ground him and his sailors beneath the millstone of his hard rapacity. But while Lyneh may be made to forget a wrong with the present of a lackey place, there are others with warmer memories. When Hanna went to St. Louis to work out ‘the program of the syndicate and spring a bribe trap on. a nomination, the Central Labor Union of Cleveland sent Tom Carter a list of questions, including the following : “Isit not a fact that Mark Hanna, man- lar at the age hoys asually prefer to spend | ager of William McKinley, candidate for | about. president, employed by the notorious A. R. Rumsey to disrupt and crush the Sea. men’s Union of the lower lakes, and fur- ther, did not Mark Hanna, in acknowledg- ment of Rumsey’s services, send him on trip around the werld ? ‘‘Second—Is it not a fact that Mark Han- na, professional hater of organized labor, disorganized the mine workers of Pennsyl- vania ? “Third—Was it not through Mark Han- na’s efforts that the street car men’s organ- ization of Cleveland was totally annihilat- ed? Andeven to-day does he not deny his employes the right to attach themselves to a labor organization ? These and other queries were put by the Central Labor Union and never answered. Only the other day Hanna, who now seeks to cajolea labor element he was wont to cudgel, until its blood dripped, sent for Peter Witt, the head of the Cleveland Cen- tral Labor Union and business agent of the Iron Moulder’s Union. Hanna said he wanted to explain his past and announce his pure, new and milk white position toward labor. . Witt wouldn’t go near him. A thirty years’ war on labor unionism, during which Hanna imported the pauper labor of Europe \—the Slavs, the Huns, the Polaks—and : rought North the black ex-slave la- bor of the South to take the places of white men and Americans whom his extortions, cuts and lockouts had forced into revolt : a thirty years’ war, during which Hanna hired the Pinkertons, the Mooney-Bolands, and every fashion of hireling banded to- gether to be at the shooting, stabbing beck and nod of every moneyite who might need them to aid him in his wrong-doipng, was rightly held by Witt to sufficiently set forth the blood-stgined labor pose of Han- na. Witt was right. cut after wage cut against labor. He has provoked strike after strike, and by force and money, used without stint or scruple, fought them to a standstill. It is no exag- geration to say that 10,000 men have bled and 1,000 died in the killings and the woundings and the starvings of Mark Han- na’s strikes. To-day go to Cleveland and talk with the men on his street railroads—the Wood- ment ; not one can stay. The first road of Hanna’s by Mulhern, his man, is: “Do you belong to a labor union?’ He gets no work if hedoos. Moreover he is at once shadowed by one of Hanna’s detect- ives, of which he keeps a Lorde as some men keep a pack of hounds, to learn if he has told the truth. No man who belongs to organized labor in any form can work for Hanna, or in any enterprise he fosters ; unless one expects the Pinkertons. Then he may black work for Hanna and be roundly warded therefor. “The ~ Pinkertons, | Mooney-Bolands, are the only labor organ- izations to fatten by the hands of Hanna. VI. Lahor does not hold a meeting at Cleve- iand or near any of Hanna’ interests which his detectives do not attend. They comes. Off goes his head at the moment of their report. When the Vestibule street car act was being agitated in Ohio, a measure meant to force such a construction of srreet ears as might serve to shield to motormen from piercing cold, Hanna opposed it. His men who signed petitions favoring the act were dismissed. When it passed in spite of Hanna, in- stead of vestibuling his cars, he stretched a screen of canvas. It was no protection ; moreover, it was a violation, in the sense of the evasion of the law. Yet if one of his men complained he was discharged. The Hanna slaves could in the biting winter gnaw their tongues over their work and freeze in slow silence. Or they might quit and starve. Such has been the friendship of Mark Hanna to la- bor. Here is some of this red oppressor’s la- bor history in brief. Itis he who holds $118,000 of McKinley’s notes, and aims to put this candidate, who lies thus as help- less in the hollow of Hanna's hand as ever lay one of his laborers, into the White house as president. He bought the Cleveland Herald, turn- ed out the union printers and “ratted’’ the office. He built houses and refused work to every carpenter, bricklayer, plasterer and artisan of any kind who belonged to a labor union. He fought labor unionism off his boats, off his cars, out of his coal holes. He has drowned it in the lakes, bayoneted it about his works, starved it along his railroads, choked it to death in his mines. And now he would ‘‘talk’ with Witt and other labor leaders, to show them the lamb’s wool softness of his sym- pathetic interest for the laboring man. But in vain does the fowler spread a net in sight 'of the bird. The labor element knows Hanna, better than he knows him- self, perhaps. ¢ In Hanna's Globe shipyards the men are paid $1.15 a day. A brave figure, truly ! The other day they struck for $1.25. Park- hurst, the manager, called the strikers together, made them a protection speech, told them that $1.25, while a ruinous price for Hanna to pay for a day’s work—a man who spends a million dollars a year to merely live—would be given to all who would agree to vote for McKinley. was only the other day in Cleveland. ‘‘done” Hanna's life fulsomely, the fact that Hanna never ran for office. Thest blind sycophants and anxious parasites in advance needn’t marvel. Hanna never ran for office because scarce one man i beyond himself in Northern Ohio would | vote the ticket were he named. Hanna is in such torn and tattered disrepute with the people all about him that his only chance to hold an office is to do as he is at- tempting to do with McKinley. Buy a candidate ; buy the candidate an office, and then own te office by owning the man. ) | talent for business. | could get into his mines one day. He | worked them night and day. He stored | and Mississippi rivers. Then he cut wages | to the hone and forced a strike. He ex- | tended the strike until he choked off coal | production in every field between the Miss- | issippi and the seaboard. In two weeks Hanna ran up the price of | coal 32 per ton. He unloaded his barges {at a profit of $4,090,000. Then he called ! off the strike. His aim had been attained. | had lost four weeks’ work, a public had | lost $4,000,000 and Hauna, with his pock- lets full of speil and his heart aglow with | the black glory of it all, was ready for | another swoop at the first game that flew { his way. | Here is another Dusiness venture, one [which the actors and Thespians know all Old John Elisler, as honest, as {as lives, had saved $250,000 by his thea- Hanna has made wage lent him half as much to put with it. Ellsler built the theatre—the Euclid Ave- nue opera house—at a cost of $375,000 and gave a Hanna a mortgage for $125,000. It came due, this mortgage, one day, and Ellsler, lured to the notion that time would be extended to him on his Hanna-held debts, wasn’t ready. Did Hanna extend ? Not a day - not a moment. for a year. It wasa business triumph. He sold poor Ellsler out, stick and stone, root and stalk, and standing grass, and bought in a theatre worth $375,000 for $125,000. Hanna owns the theatfe now, while John Ellsler, wan, old, without a dollar and the other day for admission to the Forrest Actors’ Home. But one need not prolong Hanna. His business history and his “‘love for labor’ are set forth in blood-red letters in eleven states and territories. The best thing about him is that he’s marked for defeat, His man, McKinley, is to go down ; Hanna is to go down ; he may still eat his laborers, but heis not to devour the coun- try at large. : But give him credit. Hanna is one re- markable for his brains, his courage, his cruel heart. All that these and millions of money can do McKinley will have done for him. And if he should succeed, then come. When makes the laws and enforces the laws, when with .one hand on the president and the other on the patronage, Hanna makes his home at the white house, while a Re- publican congress calls each day to learn his will and departs to do it, dark indeed will be labor's outlook. Hanna will be within the law, mind you, if he has to make the law to be within. Hanna only the other day paid Foraker a huge sum, and made him a senator, too, for lobbying land Avenue and the Little Consolidated. ring a law to fit his case. Not a labor union man is given employ- | the right side of the statutes. | | 1 | { | | the | cents by being coined intoa dollar. take | silver miner owns it. the name of every Hanna employe who ! buys farm products or any other commod- | through his fifty-year franchises and mak- Hanna is ever on And yet he ; ques- [is of that tribe of law abiders of whom tion put to an applicant for work on any | Judge Swan spoke from the bench when he said : “To be within the letter of the law is not morally enough. He who takes the law of the land for his sole guide is neither i a good neighbor nor an honest man.’ The Stalwart Liars. The stalwart campaign liars continue to reiterate the ridiculous statement that un- those brotherhoods to shed blood suchas! der a free coinage law fifty-three cents worth do his | of silver bullion owned by a silver miner, re- will be increased in value to one hundred The same intreprid, dazzling and brilliant liars state that the one hundred-cent dol- lars which the silver mine owners will ob- tain for fifty-three cents worth of bullion will only be one hundred cents so long as the The moment he ity with it this great big one-hundred-cent immediately shrinks into a fifty-three-cent coin. Nearly the whole stock in trade of the McKinley campaign consits in ringing the changes on this asinine proposition. The silver dellar which we der free coinage will be precisely the same as the silver.dollar we now have under the limited coinage in 1878 and continued for thirteen years. The bullion in it will be worth—not fifty-three cents—but one hun- dred cents. The able financiers who placed the gold dollar around Major McKinley’s neck, through the agency of Mark Hanna, pay a great deal of money for circulating the lying twaddle about the silver dollar which vibrates in value constantly from fifty-three cents to one hundred cents; ac- cording to the man who happens to hold it in his hands. These financiers do not ex- pect to fool sensible people. They only ex- pect to fool the fools. But they sincerely believe the fools will be in the marjority. They do not believe that a dollar can be worth fifty-three cents one minute and one hundred the next, and then fifty-three cents the following minute. But they say they believe it and they say it is true. They say it will make the mine owner rich to have fifty-three cents worth of bullion coined into a hundred cent dollar, which will be only worth fifty three cents after it is 80 coined. And they say it will make the farmer poor to sell his wheat to a silver mine owner for a dollar, because the dol- lar as soon as itis handed to him by the silver mine owner will become worth but fifty-three cents. The Boston Herald of Sunday went to the expense of illuminat- ing an entire page with a red-fire cartoon, exhibiting the wealthy mine owner emerg- ing from a mint with a valise full of silver dollars, each one of which was given him in exchange for fifty-three cents worth of silver bullion. The silver mine owner is represented as very well dressed. Dressed as well, in fact, as Mark Hanna, and about his build. The dialogue explaining the picture is held between little Rollo and his uncle. Rollo’s uncle explains to him that the reason why this mine owner is so sleek and well-conditioned is that he has received dollars in exchange for. as many times fifty-three cents worth of silver This | only worth fifty-three cents, | are called dollars. Little Bouquet biographers, who of late have | be inquiring of his speak of | rich by swapping his stern love of privacy, and exult over | silver b ox, if he really gets a dollar for fifty-three | water. | | | | i silver. bullion as he had. He says the dollars are although they Rollo will soon are to have un- | | | | | { He had planned the situation | FOR AN D ABOUT WOMEN. Many hats are trimmed solely with rib- bon not a quill or a plume being used. "A New York woman famous for her | beauty at 68, has not used a pillow of any kind since she was a child. She says that pillows are the greatest wrinkle producers in the world ; that they not only wither up the skin, but they destroy the poise of i the head and shoulders. There is absolute truth in this state- ; ment, and that habit of raising the head ‘from a dead level when retiring can be broken of all his Hope, was seen rapping | overcome by a little persistence. Embalming is the remarkable profession chosen by one woman. She is Mrs. J. J. Duby, of Detroit, and she is the only one the city boasts. She has studied her some. what cheerless calling under various em- ' balmers, and finally in a college at Toledo aggressive ferocity and for his hard and | ” | by putting together a half ounce of cloves, devoted to that science. She is only twenty-six years old, and is happily mar- Tied toa shoe salesman, but she intends to enter the ranks of the professional under- takers. Any woman can make her own sachet powder for clothes closets, drawers, etc., { mace, and cinnamon into a mortar and woe to the workingman ; labor’s night has the arch foe of unionism | powdering. Add to this four ounces of orris root, then fill little bags of silk or muslin, and ties strongly. These laid among clothing will also keep out moths, ‘as well as lend an agreeable odor to the i | | | | fabrics. Tobacco brown cloth with old-gold bro- caded satin vest and jockeys, black satin ribbon ceinture and zouaves of mink makes an ideal winter gown for street and visit- ing purposes. In the first place, the high ceintures or corselets of this summer may all be left. Half the dressmakers seem to show high corselets, half diminished ones. You take Your choice, according to which is the more becoming to your figure. Another thing You may be quite sure of is that blouses with separate skirts will be worn again this winter. This is entirely too practical la fashion to be given over easily. The . | newest blouses are naturally made with ' bolero effects, since the bolero dominates | everything. i ing up a last A very pretty way of freshen- season’s blouse would be to (add the faintest suggestion of a little | rounded bolero front of velvet coming out | | 1 | from the under-arm seams, and a velvet collar. The velvet could all be covered with lace and edged with tiny ruchings of ribbon or of silk. Or one sees separate waists made of two or three little boleros, one laid over the other, and each em- broidered © as, for instance, a pretty separate waist was of scarlet cloth, with three holero fronts, each bound with dark blue ribbon, and ‘embroidered with blue in different shades. This was to be worn over a white silk vest or blouse front trim- med with bias bands of black velvet. To keep the skin of the face absolutely from blackheads it is imperative that warm water should be used at least once a day, and soap three timesa week, if not every day, this latter being the very best thing to do, although so many people complain | that using soap every day makes their uncle how a man gets | loss of the hair : fifty-three cents worth of | one ounce of ullion for a 1ifty-three-cent dollar, | tincture of cantharides, four ounces of lime faces feel stiff and uncomfortable ; but this would not be so if they were careful always to use a good superfatted one, and to rub their faces afterward with the palm of their hand for some five or ten minutes, rubbing in at the same time a small quan- tity of preparation of glycerine and cucumber. The chief reason of this uncomfortable feeling after washing is that sufficient care is not taken to insure the water being quite soft. Undoubtedly, rain water is very much the best, but this is a luxury that is hardly obtainable by those whom fate has ordained should live in towns, although those who live in the country may be more fortunate, but even for them itis not always obtainable. But, how- ever, there are, fortunately, many different means by which water can be softened, and many different preparations sold for that purpose ; but whatever is used the softening process can be much more ef- fectually carried out if the water is pre- viously boiled, as this partially softens it. Nothing injures the skin so much as hard water, so all those who really value their personal appearance will be most careful about this. It is no use complaining of the skin being coarse and rough when no care is taken to render it otherwise ; and the constant use of soft water is the first thing to be considered by those who are desirous of preserving the freshness and beauty of their complexions. A judicious mixture of lemon and milk used after washing, in the proportion of a quarter of a pint of milk to the juice of one lemon, will help to keep the skin in good condition. Lemon mustnot be used alone. Constant headaches, ill-health, mental worry, hereditary constitution and other circumstances will all affect the growth of the hair and cause it to fall. Here is a very good hair lotion, which will stop the One: ounce of glycerine, almond oil, one drachm of This must be rubbed into the cents, why it is worth any less than one hun | roots of the hair with a piece of flannel or dred cents the moment he buys with it from another man ? it is not to be wondered at that the able financiers regard the American people as | results are to follow. fools, because they have allowed them- selves to be tricked and twenty yeas on this question wearied of being marched up to the polls to vote for silver candidates, who immedi- : : ; .., ately betrayed them after the election. Here is a specimen of Hanna's swift He put every man he! . “rand corruption have | 2,000,000 tons of coal on barges in the Ohio ! | | From 1877 until 1895 the majority in each House of Congress lias been in favor of the | Craft, crookedness | free coinage of silver. in each successive Congress prevented the restoration of free anything | a tooth brush. | | | | | | 1 | silver coinage. But all this time the tinan- | ciers were mistaken in supp(Ring the people to he fools, Party spiric has caused and submit to wrong in thé hope of right- | ing it at another time. Old questions have been busily hurnished up and preseat- Led to distract public aticntion from the The miner | money question. The {iuanciers have in the past twenty truth of the fis two propositions of one of Mr. Lincoln's famous savings. They have succeeded in fooling sone of the pe - ple all of the ime; and all of the people some of the time ; hut this year the re- maining propesition is to be proved to thei aud to theie discomforture, namely, that they cannot fool all of the people all : | of the time. —Cincinnati Inquirer, | kind, as generous and as innocent a soul | | ters. It was his ambition to build a theatre | | for himself. Hanna knew of Ellsler’s { hope, and for his own ends fostered it. Ellsler’s $250,000 was not enough. Hannza | six years ago. hasn't heen. converted. He has merely heen silenced. - It is not the slightest use damping the hair with lotions, as they should stimulate the hair follicles if good If a debilitated con- dition attends the loss of hair, an iron tonic deceived for | or cod liver oil will probably be necessary. of coinage of | Brush the hair with a soft brush, and it is Never until this year have they | an excellent plan to let it hang down loose for half an hour after lunch, so that the air can permeate freely through the hair. If you can let the sun shine upon your locks, so much the better. Green promised to be the favorite color of this season’s tailor gowns, and the women were so delighted that they straight- away, one and all, took unto themselves a green frock, trimmed in white revers al- 3 / ; . | most without exception. Then the inferior voters to stand by their respective parties, | houses began to turn out these green gowns in hundreds. Now the swell tailors are trying to ab- stain from green, and they suggest, dahlia, | brown or gray, but never green, unless it vears demonstrated the | is combined with blue in some strikingly original way. Nevertheless they are obliged to cater to the popular taste for the green and white. : thre of the prettiest pattern gowns was of a soft shade ol green tweed, trimmed in dark blue velvet. The skirt was rather modest in dimensions, and, though it was gored at the front and sides, the back was straight and warranted not to sag, and the | fullness at the waist line was converted linto three small flat box plaits. Only the | front gore of the skirt boasted a haircloth ——DMcKinley, whe vas for free silver | | with a material So soft that there was not the slightest flare noticeable in the skirt. facing, and the rest of the skirt was faced