Hi Made. Bemorratic faces Bellefonte, Pa., June 29, 1900. KEP’ IN. Bhucks! got kep’ in jes’ ’cause I missed one sam ! *Twuz out th’ back th’ book. Look’t thet ol’ bee Out ther’. ’'N ol’ white headed bumble bee can’t sting— Ain’t got no stinger. Bet ’is nest is in that tree! Shucks ! wusht ther’ wuz no scheol! Hear them ol’ locusts sawin’ ,crost them fields? They’s in them buttonwoods along th’ erick. Wusht I wuz fishin’! Caught a bull frog onet— With flannel. Wusht ’at teacher ’ud git sick! Shucks ! wusht ther’ wuz no school! Gee ! ain’t thet corn out ther’ a-growin’ fast! Did y’ever smoke corn silk? Hear thet rain- crow A’cluckin? Sign o’ rain. Anuther sign’s When cats scratch wood an’ swallers all flies low. Shueks! wusht ther’ wuz no school ! Wusht I wuz out—wausht ’at ol’ teacher's dead ! Ther’ goes a hawk! Gee! here th’ teacher comes! (Twice five is ten 'n’ one to carry up—) I wusht ther’ wuzn, tno sich things uz sums! Shucks! wusht ther’ wuz no school! —John L. Sexton in Philadelphia Record. HE WISHED SHE HAD. A TALE OF DISAPPOINTED LOVE. They both had letters to the captain and the captain introduced them. Her name was Farrar, and the elderly gentleman, who was her father, called her Winifred. Then they all went in search of their re- spective staterooms and did not meet again until dinner. It was only the first dinner. The purser, who is undoubtedly heaven’s vicar on earth in the matchmaking business, had not had time to observe and distribute fittingly, so they had to, which for Brooke was across the table and not even opposite to her. He bowed as he took his seat, and he bowed when he whirled around and got up, and for the rest they both conversed with each other via the captain. That evening Brooke went into the purser’s cabin to lock at some pearls tied up in the corner of a grimy handkerchief. He did not understand that pursers see everything and do not need to be taught their business. Brooke was one of those pleasaut people to have about who go on the supposition that you are a fool until you prove yourself otherwise, whichis a rule of conduct having the properties of a hoomerang. So he brought the conver- sation round in this wise: He asked if they were likely to have a pleasant trip. The purser said that they usually did at that time of year. Brooke hoped the pas- sengers would be agreeable too. The purser thought the Farrars looked promising. Brooke thought so, too, and added, “I say, you’re going to put me be- side Miss Farrar, are you not?’ He said that he was, and Brooke immediately lost all interest in the little nicked nubbins of pearls and went back on deck, where it was cool, and the purser smiled as he lock- ed his treasures in the safe again. Brooke came in to breakfast a little late the next morning. Miss Farrar was al- ready seated, looking particularly nice, too, in what is known to men as ‘‘some soft, white material,”” with a gaudy silk Panama shawl around her shoulders. The intelligent waiter showed Brooke to the next chair. Miss Farrar asked him to ex- plain why it is that the sun rises on the wrong side of the world in Panama bay. which gave him the requisite feeling of superiority at once. He did not happen to know that it did, because he had not been up to see, but he explained it, anyway. After breakfast he bought her aguacats from the trampboats alongside and told her he would show her at luncheon how to eat them. She knew, but she pretended she did not, and Brooke's opinion of her at- tractions waxed. After that the course of things in general was as smooth as that of the vessel as it cut its way statesward through the pale summer sea. By day they sat under the awnings and talked, and by night they sat up in the bow, way up in the very peak, where, if you had the least possible good opinion of yourself—and a girl of excellent taste to help you along—you could fancy you rather suggested Tristan, which— thrown in a good cigar, whose red point of fire gives just enough light in darkness to enable you to see a pair of admiring gray eyes turned up to you—is as pleasant a way of passing an evening as a fellow could wish. They sometimes watched the South- ern Cross shining all alone on its field of blue black, sweeping across the heavens, and they were silent. Silence and the Southern Cross have accomplished many things. They went ashore together at Manza- nillo, also at Acapulco, and, they two bhe- ing alone in the hoat, the elderly gentle- man having gone ashore ahead and the beautiful Mexican youth who rowed not counting, he sang softly that ‘‘the waves were the highways, so deep, so deep; the waters her byways, asleep, asleep,” and ended with the sentiment that ‘‘thus true lovers tasted life, Stali, Stali.”” Hehad a very nice voice. Miss Farrar told him so and wondered how much longer, at the average calculation, it would be before it would come down from generalities to per- sonalities; not that she was in any haste. On the contrary, she liked it as it was. What could be more charming than to drift on over the smooth water, faintest blue in the early morning, deep blue, dark as lapis lazuli at noon; steely gray at sunset, afire with phosphorescence at night, and to have ever beside you a youth, handsome, agree- able and devoted with that devotion most flattering to a woman’s soul—the proprie- tary, everybody else keep off sort? A youth always perfectly willing to let you talk about hin: or to do it himself. Miss Farrar knew all about Brooke, not only what he had told her, but what she had observed, which latter Broke did not take into consideration, though it was im- portant. She knew who he was and that he had been down in Quito for the past two years and that. 2 was now going up to San Francisco to be hest man for his chum, who was about to be married. ‘It’s an old promise,” he explained, ‘‘dating from our college days. We agreed then that whichever should marry first the oth- er should come from the ends of the earth, if necessary, to see him through. Tom sent for me, and here I am.’”” Miss Farrar asked what Tom’s other name might be. It was Bolton. Brooke forgot about him- self just long enough to ask if she happen- ed to know Bolton, but he did not listen when she answered. He interrupted to wonder if he would have a good time in San Francisco. Whatsort of a town was it for a fellow who didn’t know many peo- ple? Miss Farrar explained amiably. Now, every one knows that the pleas- | | antest and most fitting occupation a wom- an can have is to talk to a man about him- self, hecause that makes him like her, which is, of course, her one object in life. But even a harming girl, who understands her place in the scheme of creation, has an underlying human taste for just a pinch of variety. Miss Farrar would have liked to have him show some interest in herself as disconnected from him for just five short minutes. Brooke did not think of that. He went on to tell her something that had happened between Tom and himself at col- lege, something in which he figured rather more creditably than Tom did. And she listened as she watched the delicate yellow coast of Lower California, forsaken of God and man, of all but the sweeping winds and the whipping waves of the sea. She listened, for she never failed of a seemly interest in what a fellow was saying, but she was thinking of other things; of how he had brought upon himself any consequences that might now ensue and of how it would serve him good and right anyway. From which it may be seen that appearances are deceptive and that the most lovely woman may have a streak of meanness in her you would never suspect. Poor Brooke, who had given her his whole heart-—he was sure of it now and meant to tall her so some time soon—never so much as guessed at it. She knew he did not. He did not guess anything at all about her and did not try to. A woman is a vain creature at bottom. She likes to be made to think that some few of her thoughts and actions have a minor sort of importance. There are men who understand this, and they get good wives. The other sort ends like as I’bomme incompris. But he begins it by being understood. Brooke felt that he was understood, better than ever before. The woman of so much per- spicacity was the one for him. However, there was no hurry about telling her so. He was going to call on her in San Fran- cisco. Besides her name and that she was returning from New York, he knew this much about her—that she lived on Pacific avenue. He believed she had said some- thing about the view of the bay from there, but he had not paid much attention. So they stood side by side up among the anchor cables all that last morning, specu- lating on the points along the coast, betting on the number of the pilot boat, descrying the Cliff House, watching the city spread- ing out and over its hills. Brooke said, ‘‘By Jove, it isa big place; a lot bigger than I had supposed.” It was cold in the bay to those who had come up from the south. So, after the white tug with the gilt eagle on the pilot house, which had brought out the doctors or customs people or something shot off again, they went and sat on the crimson plush seat in the social hall. Miss Farrar was a little absent- minded. Even Brooke saw it. He laid it down to a very natural agitation at hav- ing to leave him. However, he would fix that in a day or two. They came alongside the dock at last. A fellow standing there foremost among the little crowd lifted his hat. ‘‘By Jove, it was Tom !”” How could he have guessed that he (Brooke) would be on this boat ? They were up among the cables again now. ‘‘Have a good trip?’ Tom called. Brooke started to answer, but Miss Farrar was in ahead of him. He was surprised, not to say a trifle annoyed. Then he re- called that she had said something about knowing Bolton. While they waited for the gang-plank to be put down Brooke decided that he might as well give Miss Farrar the solace of a hint of his intentions. ‘‘May I call to- night?’ he asked. He did a little proprie- tary pantomime for Tom’s benefit. Miss Farrar blushed and hesitated. He in- terpreted it as consent and was so pleased that he went a little further. “I want to see you quite alone—dear.”’ “I'm awfully’’—she started, but at that moment the gang-plank was lowered, aud the rush began. Brooke followed the Farrars down,carry- ing his own suit case and her bag. ‘‘So you two come on the same boat ?’’ Tom was saying, and he was holding her hand all the time too. ‘‘I thought perhaps you might. Of course you know,” he beamed upon them both, ‘‘that Brooke is to he our best man, Winifred ?”’ ‘“Yes,”” Winifred said, she know. “It's funny you struck the same boat,” Tom insisted. “I wish I had thought to cable you, old fellow, that Miss Farrar would be abroad.”’ ‘‘Yes,”” said Brooke, *‘I wish you had.” —By Gwendolen Overton, in Argonaut The Boxers. Rev. I. T. Headland, professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy and Astronomy in Pekin university, who is in New York at the present time, being asked the meaning of the ‘‘Boxers,’’ the name of the society that has set all China by the ears, said that the name in Chinese is “‘I- Ho-Tuon.”” The *‘I’”” means righteous- ness, ‘‘Ho’’ means peace and ‘‘Tuon’’ means fist-a clinched hand. Prof. Head- land says the entire title means that the Boxers will fight for righteouspess and peace, reports the New York Sun. The professor said : ‘‘The Boxers appear to have sprung up in opposition to foreigners because of the irritations largely growing out of the French Catholics. The French minister had secured the French Catholic mission- aries appointments as Chinese officials in order to facilitate their operations in the settlement of litigation hetween the native Christians and outside Chinese. As the Catholic missionaries were officials of China, they generally outrank the sitting magistrates. Accordingly they usually set- tled the case in court themselves. When their rank proved to be lower than that of the magistrate, it amounted to nearly the same thing, as the influence of their official relations generally controlled the action of the court. The Chinese declare that a great deal of litigation, in consequence, went by favor, being thus duly influenced by the Catholic-Chinese officials, and was not decided upon the merits. The irrita- tion growing out of this has been very great, and extends over a large section of the middle kingdom. ”’ Trouble in the Caravan. It was a hot day and the elephant was thirsty. “I havn’t had anything to drink to- day, turning to the camel. “I am told you carry a supply for three or four days. Could you place a few of your concealed water pouches at my disposal without too much inconvenience?’’ “I don’t have to carry water for the elephant,’’ irritably answered the camel, humping itself along still faster. “Iam a part of the show. A Last Resort. When a room is too dark to be used for a nursery, or to put plants in, the woman furnishes it with any old thing and calls it her husband’s ‘‘den.”’ To Ride on a Flash. Railroad Speed of a Hundred Miles an Hour in Sight—What is Said of it by Scientific Men. The New York Herald editorially says: What a forward mount in railway travel- ing it would be if one could breakfast in Chicago and reach New York in time for a six o’clock dinner on the same day! This could be done if a way were found to overcome or greatly reduce the resist- ance which the air offers to a fast moving ‘train, and practical experiments now being made indicate that it may he accomplished in the near future. The resistance of water toa moving ship is so obvious that since the days when Homer’s hero Ulyssess fashioned his raft the ingenuity of man has been devoted to discovering the forms which will most easily glide through the sea and to so sheathing them as to cause the least pos- sible friction. While the air is not so dense as water, everyone who has ridden in an open trol- ly car knows something of the resistance it offers to a swiftly moving body. Aeccord- ing to Mr. Frederick U. Adams this resist- ance and friction increase as the square of the velocity, and are consequently the main ohstacles in the way of vastly increas- ing the speed of railway trains. In the current issue of the Scientific American we find an account of a test he recently made with a specially constructed train of six cars on a forty miles run over the Baltimore and Ohio railroad from the Monumental City to the capital, and the speeds obtained exceed any heretofore an- thentically recorded. Although the road- bed on this piece of land is in excellent condition the curves and grades are not favorable to the attainment of high speed. Between Annapolis Junction and Trinidad the first seven miles, up a steep grade, was covered in six minutes, while the last five miles, on a down grade, was at the 1ate of 108.8 miles an hour. : The theory on which these experiments are based is hest exemplified in the fact that while a fast bicyclist, unpaced, will cover a mile in two minutes, a wheelman behind the shield of a locomotive and car has made the mile in less than fifty-eight seconds. Mr. Adams contends that when the locomotive has broken a way through the air the train behind it, like the cyclist, should be, as it were, in shelter, and so contrived as to offer the least possible friction to the atmosphere. Hence he sheathes his train fore and aft, like a ship, to a line below the trucks, and, being ves- tibuled throughout, ‘‘it presents the ap- pearance of one long, sinuous and flexible car.”” Developments along these lines, and also perhaps in the direction of shap- ing the engine like a vessels prow to more readily pierce a way, hold forth the hope of practical travel at the rate of a hundred miles an hour. With so much attention being devoted to the atmosphere in connection with rail- way travel, the public is entitled to expect that some way will be devised to convey a little fresh air to the interior of the cars without its present concomitant of dust and cinders, not to speak of the smoke with which passengers arestiffled on such a road as the New Haven, which atrociously burns soft coal. Even drawing room cars that are models of luxury in their appointments are lamentably defective in the matter of ventilation. They must have fine big windows, but they must be kept closed or opened but a few inches to let a feeble current of air filter in through a narrow screen. The need of ventilation in sleep- ing cars is still more imperative. When two score of persons remove their garments and retire to spend a summer night behind drawn curtains in the confines of one ill- ventilated car they not only suffer ex- treme discomfort but endanger their health. Those in the lower berths can get some air by the dangerous expedient of leaving the windows open with a few inches of where they lie, but the other half of the occupants of the car, who must rest in the upper berths, are simply stifled. Great strid s have been made in the fittings of our r_ilway cars, but in respect to this vi- tal matter of ventilation there has virtual- ly no progress since the first of them was drawn over the rails. American inventive ingenuity can certainly solve the problem of supplying pure air to travellers, who in this country of magnificent distances must often spend four or five days and nights cooped up in a railway car. ——The fa:nous Johnstown flood of May 31st, 1889, will possibly soon he recalled to the public by an attempt to reforest a large portion of the Conemaugh watershed to prevent further damage from freshets. ‘The Johnstown Water company, which controls 5000 acres of mountain land, asked the Division of Forestry to devise a plan by which the area can be re-covered with timber, and the too rapid run-off of the rainfall prevented. The region is peculiarly liable to freshets, owing to its topographical character and the removal of its timber. The now historic catastrophe, which swept away $10,000,- 000 in property and half. as many lives as the battle of Gettysburg, was but an ex- aggerated instance of many similar floods. This tendency has heen increased by logging off the timber and clearing numerous farms, so that the rainfall flows quickly from the surface, causing high water at one time, and the drying up of springs later. The tract is in a sandstone region, much broken with valleys averaging 350 feet in depth. The timber consists of hemlock, oak, locust and ash, with some beech and poplar. The openings are from 20 to 50 acres. The Superintendent of Tree Planting, and another working-plan expert of the Division of Forestry, examined the region and will decide on a plan of reforestation. In the clearings, tree planting will be re- quired. An attempt will probably be made to increase the stand over the whole area by skillfully assisting natural reproduction. Protection from fire and cattle will be re- quired. The expense will be shared by the government and water company, the former furnishing expert work and, pos- sibly, some material for planting.— Forest Leaves. His Only Alternative. Little Dot was very fond of Bible stories, and one day after her mother had read the story of Lot’s wife she asked, ‘‘Mamma, what did Mr. Lot do when his wife was turned into a pillar of salt ?’ *‘What do you think he did ?”’ asked mamma. ‘‘Why,’’ replied the practical little miss, “I s’pose he went out and hunted up a fresh one.”’ Ancther Victim for Toy Pistol. J. J. Maloy, the 12-year-old son of James Maloy, of Pottsville, died at the Pottsville hospital Saturday morning from the effects of an accident with a toy pistol. The cart- ridge failed to explode, and he was ram- ming it out with a piece of umbrella wire when it exploded, the shell penetrating his bowels. | 1 The Republican Platform for 1900. | markets, their constantly increasing knowl- | civilization upon all the rescued peoples. Adopted at the Convention In Philadelphia Last | edge and skill have enabled them finally | Teh largest measure of self-government Week. in national convention, looking back upon | an unsurpassed record of achievement and looking forward into a great field of duty and opportunity and appealing to the judg- ment of their countrymen, make these dec- larations : ‘The expectation in which the Ameri- can people. turning from the Democratic party, entrusted power four years ago to a Republican chief magistrate and a Repub- lican Congress, has heen met and satisfied. When the people then assembled at the polls, after a term of Democratic legisla- tion and administration, business was dead, industry paralyzed and the national credit disastrously impaired. The country’s capital was hidden away and its labor dis- tressed and unemployed. The Democrats had no other plan with which to improve the ruinous conditions which they had themselves produced than to coin silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. The Republican party, denouncing this plan as sure to produze conditions even worse than those from which relief was songht, promised to re- store prosperity by means of two legisla- tive measures—a protective tariff and a law making gold the standard of valne. ‘The people, by great majorities, issued to the Republican party a commission to enact these laws. This commission has been executed and the Republican promise is redeemed. Prosperity, more general and abundant that we have ever known. has followed these enactments. There is no longer controversy as to the value of any government obligation. Every American dollar is a gold dollar or its assured equiv- alent, and American credit stands higher than that of any nation. Capital is fully employed and labor everywhere is profitably occupied. No single fact can more strik- ingly tell the story of what Republican government meant to the country than this—that while during the whole period of 107 years, from 1790 to 1897, there was an excess of exports over imports of only $383,028,497, there has been in the short three years of the present Republican ad- ministration an excess o. exports over im- ports in the enormous sum of ¢1,483,537,- 094. **While the American people, sustained by this Republican legislation, have been achieving these splendid triumphs in their business and commerce, they have con- ducted, and in victory concluded, a war for liberty and human rights. No thought of national aggiandizement tarnished the high purpose with which American stand- ards were unfurled. It was a war un- sought and patiently resisted, but when it came the American goverument was ready. Its fleets were cleared for action. Its armies were in the field, and the quick and signal triumph of its forces on land and sea hore tribute to the courage of Amer- ican soldiers and sailors and to the skill and foresight of Republican statesmanship. To 10,000,000 of the human race there was given a ‘new birth of freedom,’ and to the American people of avew and a noble re- sponsibility. ‘We indorse the administration of Wm. McKinley. Its acts have been established in wisdom and in patriotism, and at home and abroad it has distinctly elevated and extended the influence of the American nation. Walking untried paths and facing unforeseen responsibilities, President Me- Kinley has been, in every sitnation, the true American patriot and the upright statesman, clear in vision, strong in judg- ment, firm in action, always inspiring and deserving the confidence of his country- men. $ ‘In asking the American people to in- dorse this Republican record and to renew their commission to the Republican party, we remind them of the fact that a menace to their prosperity has always resided in Democratic principles, and no less in the general incapacity of the Democratic party to conduct public affairs. The prime es- sential of business prosperity is public confidence in the good sense of the govern- ment and in its ability to deal intelligent- ly with each new problem of administra- tion and legislation. That confidence the Democratic party has never earned. It is hopelessly inadequate, and the country’s prosperity, when Democratic success at the polls is announced, halts and ceases in mere anticipation of Democratic blunders and failures. ‘‘We renew our allegiance to the prin- ciple of the gold standard and declare our confidence in the wisdom of the legislation of the Fifty-sixth Congress by which the parity of all our money and the stability of our currency on a gold basis has been secured. “We recognize that interest rates are a potent factor in production and business activity, and for the purpose of further equalizing and of further lowering the races of interest, we favor such monetary legis- lation as will enable the varying needs of the season and of all seetions to be prompt- ly met in order that trade may be evenly sustained, labor steadily employed and commerce enlarged. ‘“The volume of money in circulation was never 80 great per capita as it is to- day. We declare our steadfast opposition to the free and unlimited coinage of silver- No measure to that end could be consider- ed which was without the support of the leading commercial countries of the world. However firmly Republican legislation may seem to have secured the country against the peril of base and discredited currency, the election of a Democratic President could not fail to impair the country’s credit and to bring once more into question the intention of the American people to main- tain upon the gold standard the parity of their money circulation. The Democratic party must be convinced that the Amer- ican people will never tolerate the Chicago platform. ‘We recognize the necessity and pro- priety of the honest co-operation of capital to meet new business conditions, and es- pecially to extend our rapidly increasing foreign trade, hut we condemn all con- spiracies and combinations intended to re- strict business and to create monopolies, to limit productions or to control prices, and favor such legislation as will effectively re- strain and prevent all such abuses, protect and promote competition and secure the rights of producers, laborers and all who are engaged in industry and commerce. ‘We renew our faith in the policy of protection to American labor. In that policy our industries have been established, diversified and maintained. By protecting the home markets, competition has been stimulated and production cheapened. Opportunity to the inventive genius of our people has been secured and wages in every department of labor maintained at high rates, higher now than ever before, and al- ways distinguishing our working people in theirebetter conditions of life from those of any competing country. Enjoying the blessings of the American common school, secure in the right of self-government and protected in the occupancy of their own to enter the markets of the world. | consistent with their welfare and our duties i ‘“We favor the associated policy of rec- | shall he secured to them hy laws. To ‘The Republicans of the United States, | iproeity, so directed as to open our mar- | Cuba, independence and self-government through their chosen representatives, met | kets on favorable terms for what we do not | were assured in the same voice by which ourselves produce, in return for free foreign | war was declared, and to the letter this markets. “In the further interests of American workmen we favor a more effective restric- tion of the immigration of cheap labor from foreign lands, the extension of opportuni- ties of education for working children, the raising of the age limit for child labor the protection of free labor as against contract, convict labor, and an effective system of labor insurance. “‘Our present dependence upon foreign shipping for nine-tenths of our foreign carrying is a great loss to the industry of this country. It is also a serious danger to our trade, for its sudden withdrawal in the event of European war would seriously cripple our expanding foreign commerce. The national defense and naval efficiency of this country, moreover, supply a com- pelling reason for legislation which will enable us to recover our former place among the trade-carrying fleets of the world. ‘‘The nation owes a debt of profound gratitude to the soldiers and sailors who have fought its battles, and it is the gov- ernment’s duty to provide for the surviv- ors and. for the widows and orphans of those who have fallen in the country’s wars. The pension laws, founded in this just sentiment, should be liberally admin- istered avd preserved, and preference should be given, wherever practicable, with respect to employment in the public ser- vice to the soldiers and sailors and to their widows and orphans. *‘We command the policy of the Repub- lican party in maintaining the efficiency of the civil service. The administration has acted wisely in its efforts to secure for public service in Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippine Islands only those whose fitness has been determined by train- ed experience. We believe that employ- ment in the public service in these terri- tories should be confined as far as practica- ble to their inhabitants. **It was the main purpose of the fifteenth amendment to the constitution to prevent discriminations on account of race or color in regulating the elective franchise. De- vices of state governments, whether by statutory or constitutional enactment, to avoid the purpose of this amendment, are revolutionary, and should he condemned. ‘Public movement looking to a perma- nent improvement of the roads aud high- ways of the country meet with our cordial approval, and we recommend this subject to the earnest consideration of the people and of the legislatures of several States. “We favor the extension of the rural free delivery service wherever its extension may be justified. ‘In further pursnance of the constant policy of the Republican party to provide free homes on the public domain, we rec- ommend adequate national legislation to reclaim the arid lands of the United States, leserving the control of the distribution of water for irrigation to the respective State and Territories. ‘The Dingley act, amended to provide sufficient revenue for the conduct of the war, has so well performed its work that it has been possible to reduce the war debt in the sum of $40,000,000. So ample are the government’s revenues and so great is the public confidence in the integrity of its obligations, that its newly funded. 2 per cent. bonds will sell at a premium. The country is now justified in expecting, and it will be the policy of the Republican party to bring about a reduction of the war taxes. *‘We favor the construction, ownership, control and protection of the isthmian canal by the government of the United States. ‘‘New markets are necessary for the in- creasing surplus of our farm products. Every effort should be made to open and obtain new markets, especially in the orient, and the administration is warmly to be commended for its effort to secure the open door in China. In the interest of our expanding commerce, we recommend that Congress create a department of commerce and industries, in the charge of a secretary, with a seat in the cabinet. The United States consular system should be reorgan- ized under the supervision of this new de- partment upon such a basis of appointment and tenure as it will render is still more serviceable to the nation’s increasing trade. ‘‘The American government must pro- tect the person and property of every citi- zen wherever they are wrongfully violated or placed in peril. We congratulate the women of America upon their splendid record of public service in the volunteer aid association and as nurses in camp and hospital daring the recent campaigns of our armies in the eastern and western Indies, and we appreciate their faithful co-opera- tion in all works of education and indus- try. ‘‘President McKinley has conducted the foreign affairs of the United States with distinguished credit to the American peo- ple. In releasing us from the vexatious conditions of an European alliance for the government of Samoa, his course is espec- ially to be commended. By securing to our undivided control the most important island of the Samoan group and the best harbor in the southern Pacific, every Amer- ican interest bas been safeguarded. ‘*We approve the annexation of the Ha- waiian islands by the United States. *‘We commend the part taken by our government in the peace conference at The Hague. We assert our steadfast adhe- rence to the policy announced in the Mon- roe doctrine. The provisions of The Hague convention were wisely regarded when President McKinley tendered his friendly offices in the interest of peace between Great Britain and the South African re- publics. While the American government must continue the policy perscribed by ‘Washington, affirmed by every succeeding President and imposed upon us by The Hague treaty, of non-intervention in Eu- ropean controversies, the American people earnestly hope that a way may soon be found, honorable alike to both contenling parties to terminate the strife between them. “In accepting by the treaty of Paris the just responsibility of our victories in the Spanish war, the President and the Senate won the undoubted approval of the Ameri- can people. No other course was possible than to destroy Spain’s sovereignty through out the \\ estern Indies and the Philippine islands. That course created our responsi- bility before the world and with the unor- ganized population whom our intervention had freed from Spain, to provide for the maintenance of law and order and for the establishment of good government and for the ' performance of international obliga- tions. Our "authority could not be less our responsibility and whatever sovereign- ty rights were extended it became the high duty of the government to maintain its authority, to put down armed insurrection | | | { | | | | | and to confer the blessings of liberty and | pledge shall be performed. ‘“The Republican party, upon its history and upon this declaration of its principles and policies, confidently invokes the con- siderate and approving judgment of the American people.”’ Senator Fairbanks concluded the reading of the platform at 2.50. He moved that the platform be adopted and the motion ! was unanimously adopted. Fortune From Her Patient. A Milwaukee Dcmestic inherits 12,000,000 Marks from the Man She Nursed. Miss Erna Ihde left Milwaukee, Wis, oa Sanday for Berlin, Germany. where she will claim a fortune of 12,000,000 marks, which was left her by a wealthy clothing merchant. Six years ago Miss Ihde was a nurse 1m a Berlin hospital, where she nursed the merchant in the early stages of consumption. When he recovered the merchant offered her his hand in marriage, but the parents of the girl refused to con- sent because of the condition of his health. The girl obeyed the wishes of her parents and declined to marty him. A year and a half ago she came to Milwaukee and be- cae a domestic in the family of Robert H. Johuson, the cracker manufacturer. Several weeks ago she was notified of the death of her former patient, and was in- formed by Berlin attorneys that the mer- chant had left her the whole estate on con- dition that she care for his younger broth- er, a somewhat wayward lad. Miss Ihde retained an attorney, and was advised to go on to Berlin. Found A Cave. While the employes were working the limestone quarries at Salona last Friday, they put off a blast. After the broken stone and earth were removed they discovered the opening of a cave in the side of the hill, which opening is about ten feet from the level of the quarry- James Caldwell and Clair Kessinger made an exploration. After entering the open- ing they proceeded a short distance, when their path suddenly dropped about forty feet. Afterwards they made their way to the lower level and found an ordinary sized cave, which ran back in one direction ahout 300 feet. The men also saw several clear- ed spaces, but did not explore them all. In many places of the interior huge stalac- tites hang from the ceiling. A spring of good water was also found. Theair is de- lightfully cool and in some places the cave is very damp. After the two men made their explora- tions several other men went through the cave. People Own the Sidewalks. Dauphin County Court says Telephone Company has No Right to Stick Poles on Sidewalks. Four employes of the Pennsylvania tele- phone company were convicted of assault and battery at Harrisburg, for maltreating Mr. and Mrs. Jacob F. Kochenour, who resisted an attempt to plant a pole in front of their home. Each defendant was fined $50 by Judge Simonton, who said: ‘‘Tak- ing into consideration that the company sent you there, we will not send you to prison, but impose a fine, which, if not paid, will be equivalent to imprison- ment. Judge Simonton in his charge said: ‘‘As for the evidence submitted, these people have no business there, or no right to plant poles at that place, and, not having any right there, they were obliged to get away when notified by the owner. It was no excuse for them to say, they were sent there. The pavement belongs to the own- er of the property and the company has no right to erect poles.’’ The Chinese Rebellion Spreading. Six Thousand Boxers Attack the Convent of Pao Ting Fu. While the news from China is meagre, it is by no means so reassuring as it might be. From many points come Consular re- ports that the Boxer movement is spread- ing and that missionary stations and con- vents, as well as Consulates, are threatened by the foreigner-haters. From Tien-Tsin comes an alarming re- port that six thousand Boxers have attack- ed the Catholic convent at Pao Ting Fu. More British troops have been landed or have been sent to Pekin, and only the difficulty of landing has prevented large numbers of Russian troops from being sent there, too. But, as was pointed out yes- terday, this is no obstacle, as the Russians have command of the railroad from Port Arthur. The government has notified Admiral Kempff that another detachment of marines has been sent to him from Manila and has reiterated its instructions not to act ag- gressively, except in the matter of pro- tecting lives and property of American citizens. Boers Have About 10,000 Men. Reitz, Kruger and $10,000,000 8t:/l in the Mobile Capitol. LORENZO MARQUES, June Captain Loss- berg. an American who was engaged with the Boer artillery, has arrived here. He says the Boer ammunition factory has been removed to Lydenberg, and adds that Gen. Dewet has 6,000 men in the Free State, Gen. Botha 2,500 in the Transvaal and that there are 1,300 burghers in smaller parties. Secretary of State Reitz and President Kruger are still in railroad carriages be- tween Machadodorp and Nelspruit. It is reported they have $10,000,000 in gold with them. GLORIOUS NEWS.—Comes from Dr. D. B. Cargile, of Washita,I. T. He writes: ‘‘Elec- tric Bitters hascured Mrs. Brewer of scrof- ula, which has caused her great suffering for many years. Terrible sores would break out on her head and face, and the best doc- tors could give uo help; but now her health is excellent. Electric Bitters is the best blood purifier known. It’s the supreme remedy for eczema, tetter, salt rheum, ulcers, boils and running sores. It stimulates liver, kid- neys and bowels, expels poisons, helps di- gestion, builds un the «+ cength. Only 50cts. Sold by F. P. Gieen Druggist. Guaranteed. ——1Is the cashier out ? he asked, as he looked around. No, replied the president, as he glanced up from an examination of the books, the cashier is not out; it’s the bank that’s out. ——Customer : Give me ten cents’ worth of paregoric, please. Druggist : Yes, sir. Customer (absent-mindedly) : How much is it? Druggist: A quarter. ~ Er,
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