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Two brothers namrfl T'tter, of
Amitz, N. V., lia\r sjtil into a snarl he
cause bees belong
lnli 11 ernli i > I ll
infT to one hau
frateriiiil. , i > „
ruined peaches be
longing' to i lie other while searching
for honey. The beekeeper, reports a
local exchange, claimed that it could
not be proved that his bees were the
offenders, but his brother lias in
geniously overcome this difficulty.
The bees were first caught extracting
juice from the peaches and were
caught in a wire gauze trap. Then
lie let them through a trap door into
a place supplied with a dish of honey.
When the insects had eaten as much
as they wanted they began to look
for an exit, and in doing so crawled
over a liberal sprinkling of flour,
■which stuck to them. When thor
oughly coated they were released and
nil flew straight for Brother I'tter'a
liives, thus establishing a complete
chain of evidence. The beekeeper,
however, declines to give in and will
fight the damage suit.
Seldom has anyone shown such
presence of mind as was exhibited
by William T. McOraeken, who was
fatally injured while repairing a
broken telephone wire in Kansas
City. In some way the line became
crossed and McCraeken fell writhing
to the sidewalk. "Don't touch me,"
be cried to a bystander who hurried
tip, "you'll be killed if you do. (jet
a dry board and stand on it and wrap
your hands in it felt hat, then you
can get the wire oft' without hurting
yourself." The man dashed off in
search of the board, but before lie
came back McCraeken was dead, Ihe
•wire still grasped in his charred
bands.
Karl I.indstmm, a farmer near Wil- I
liamsliekl, .Mich., has doubts as to the
economy of hiring cheap city boys to !
work on a farm. Karl engaged an
inexperienced youth to heip about Ihe
place and one morning told the hid ,
to "salt the calf down in tl>e pas- |
ture." The boy took a quart of salt
end rubbed it into the calf's hair.
Home colts scented the salt and be
fore long had nearly licked off the
creature's hide. Then the farmer
tried to catch and wash the calf, but
it apparently thought he wanted to
lick too and there was quite a time
before it was captured am. Putin a
safe place.
A crowd of American soldiers in the
Philippines attended church service in
their honor and were perhaps more
amused than scandalized to see on a
flaring banner an American eagle
bearing in his beak a streamer on
which was this legend: "L'se only So
and-so's condensed milk." An irrev
erent artist had enlarged a picture
which he saw on a milk can and Ihe
good padre was easily convinced that
the whole uesign was American in the
extreme. Therefore h« had the ban
ner hung over the altar, hoping there
by to greatly gratify the soldiers
among his congregation.
There was rather an odd wedding
in Lansing, Mich., a few days ago,
•when J. A. (ireenough was married
for the second time to the same wom
an. Twenty-five years ago, immedi
ately after his first marriage, he
fctarted for the Black hills to seek
gold. After a time, says a local re
port, he eeuFed to write home and his
_wife, after securing a divorce, mar
ried E. A. Timmerinan, who died '
three years ago. Last spring the
widow learned that her first husband
was still alive, correspondence ensued
and now they have been joined in
wedlock once more.
A fish story comes fl'Oltl Kalistts,
perhaps by way of preliminary to tlie
annual crop of tall Cornstalk yarns.
The irrigation ditches at Garden City
arc said to have become so filled with
catfish that the hired men are com
pelled to spear them with pitchforks
before the water can flow.
A new song now gaining JKXpntarity
in the east is entitled, "A Krss Was
the Cause of It All." Until a copy of
the production comes to hand, jocose
ly remarks the Denver Post, we are
left to guess whether tile ''all" was a
divorce case or a oa«e of transmission
tof disease by lip niiiirobes.
M'KINLEY'S VIEWS.
Abstract of Letter Accepting Nomi
nation for President.
IN FULL ACCORD WITH PLATFORM.
Sara OpponlnK Fnrllea Compel lie -
publican* to h Second llntlle ua
(lie Money luine—Rpßaril
inu Philippine Inland*.
The following in an abstract of the
letter of Hon. William MeKinley ac
cepting the nomination of the repub
lican convention of I'JOO for president
of the United States:
The nomination of the republican nation
al convention of June 10, lsiOU, lor the office
of the president ol' the United Status, which
as the official representative of the con
vention you have conveyed to me, is ac
cepted. 1 have carefully examined the
platform adopted and Rive to it my hearty
approval. Upon the great issue of the
last national election it is clear. It upholds
the gold standard and indorses the legisla
tion of the present congress by which that
fctandard has been effectively strength
ened. The stability of our national cur
rency is therefore secure so long as those
w ho'adhere to this platform are kept in
control of the government. In the first
battle, that of 189G, the friends of the gold
standard and of sound currency were tri
umphant and the country is enjoying the
fruits of that victory. Our antagonists,
however, are not satisfied. They eornpei
us to a second battle upon the same lines
on which the first was fought and won.
"While regretting the reopening of this
question, which can only disturb the pres
ent satisfactory financial condition of the
government and visit uncertainty upon our
great business enterprises, we accept the
issue and again invite the sound money
forces to join in winning another and we
hope a permanent triumph for an honest
financial system, which will continue in
violable the public faith.
As in 18% the three silver parties are
united, under the same leader who, im
mediately after the election of that year,
in an address to the bimetallists, said:
"The friends of bimetallism have not
been vanquished; they have simply been
overcome. They believe that the gold
standard is a conspiracy of the money
changers against the welfare of the hu
man race, and they will continue the war
fare against it."
The policy thus proclaimed has been ac
cepted and conllrmed by these parties.
In all three platforms these parties an
nounce that their efforts shall be unceasfng
until the gold act shall be blotted from the
Statute books and the free and unlimited
coinage of silver at 16 to 1 shall take its
place.
All llie Innnen Important.
The relative importance of the issue 1
do not stop to discuss. All of th« m are im
portant. Whichever party is successful
will be bound in conscience to carry into
administration and legislation its several
declarations and doctrines. One declara
tion will be as obligatory as another, but
all are not immediate. Tt is not possible
that these parties would treat the doctrine
of 10 to 1, the immediate realization of
which is demanded by their several plat
forms, as void and inoperative in the event
that they should be clothed with power.
Otherwise their profession of faith is in
sincere. It is therefore the imperative
business of those opposed to this financial
heresy to prevent the triumph of the par
ties whose union is only assured by ad
herence to the silver issue. "Will the Amer
ican people, through indifference or fancied
security, hazard the overthrow of the wise
financial legislation of the past year and
revive the danger of the silver standard
with all of the inevitable evils of shattered
confidence and general disaster which just
ly alarmed and aroused them iri 189G?
Stiindn by Protection.
The republican party remains faithful to
its principle of a protective tariff which
supplies sufficient revenues for the gov
ernment and adequate protecion to our
enterprises and producers; and of reci
procity which opens foreign markets to
the fruits of American labor, and fur
nishes new channels through which to i
market the surplus of American farms.
The time-honored principles of protection ;
and reciprocity were the first pledges of
republican victory to be written into public
law.
During the past year more than $19,000.-
000 of United States bonds have been |
paid from the surplus revenues of the :
treasury, and in addition $25,000,000 of two ,
per cents, matured, called by the govern- |
ment, are in process of payment. Pacific
railroad bonds issued by the government '
in aid of the roads in the sum of nearly
J41.000.000 have been paid since Decem
ber .11, 1897. The treasury balance is in
satisfactory condition, showing on Sep
tember 1 SI3F». 419.000, in addition to the
$150,000,000 gold reserve held in the treas
ury. The government's relations with
the Pacific railroads have been substan
tially closed, $124,421,000 being received
from these roads, the greater part in
cash and the remainder with ample se
curities for payments deferred.
Volume of Our Currency.
Instead of diminishing, as was predict
ed fotir years ago, the volume of our
currency is greater per capita than it has
ever been. Tt was $21.10 in 1896. it had in
creased to $26.50 on July 1, 1900, and $2G.85
on September 1, 1900. Our total money on
July l, 1896, was $1,506,434,966; on July 1,
1900, it was $2,062,425,496; and $2,096,683,042
on September 1. 1900.
Our industrial and agricultural condi
tions are more nroinisin* than they have
been for many years; probably more so
than they have ever been. Prosperity
abounds everywhere throughout the repub
lic. i rejoice that the southern as well
as the northern states are enjoying a full
share of these improved national conditions
and that all are contributing so largely
to our remarkable industrial development.
The money lender receives lower rewards
for his capital than if it were invested
in active business. The rates e>f interest
are lower than they have ever been in this
country, while those things which are
produced on the farm and in the work
shop, and the labor producing them, have
advanced in value.
Our Foreign Triade.
Our foreign trade shows a satisfactory
and increasing growth. The amount of
our exports for the year 1900 over those
of the exceptionally prosperous year of
1899 was about half a million dollars for
every day of the year, and these sums
have gone into the homes and enter
prised of the people. There has been an
increase of over $50,000,000 in the exports
of agricultural products; $92,692,220 in
manufactures, and in the products of the
mines over $10,000,000. Our trade balances
cannot fail to give satisfaction to the
people of the country. In 1898 we sold
abroad $'115,432,676 of products more than
we bought abroad; in 1899 $529,847,813, and
in 1900 $544,471,701, making during the three
years a total balance in our favor of
11,689,779,190 nearly five times the balance
of trade in our favot* for the whole period
of iu.*» years from 1790 to June 30, 1897, in
clusive.
Four hundred and thirty-six million dol
lars of gold have been added ty the £oid
Stock of the United States sIP* e July 1,
1896. The law of March 11. authorized
the refunding into tv* per cont bonds
of that part of tho public debt represented
Iby the three -per cents . due in 1908, the
| four pey tents, due in 1907, and the five
BfT C&hts. due in 1904, aggregating $840,-
30,000. More than one-third of the sum
of these bonds was refunded in the first
three months after the passage of the
act, and on September 1 the sum had been
increased more than $33,000,000, making
in all $330,578,050, resulting in a net sav
ing of over $8,379,520. The ordinary re
ceipts of the government for the fiscal
year 1900 were $79,527,060 in excess of its
expenditures.
While our receipts both from customs
and internal revenue have been greatly
increased, our expenditures have been
decreasing. Civil and miscellaneous ex
penses for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1900, were nearly $i4.(k10,000 less than
tn 1899, while on the war account there
is a decrease of more than $95,000,000.
There were required $5,000,000 less to sup
port the navy this year than last, and ex
penditures on account ol Indians were
nearly two and three-quarter million dol
lars less than in 1899. The only two items
of increase In the public expenses of
iVOO orer 1899 are 'for pensions and interest
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1900.
on the public d#»bt. Tn 1599 we expended |
for pensions $K'9,394,929, and for the fiscal
year 1900 our payments on this account
amounted to $140,877,316. The net increase ;
of interest on the public debt of 1900 over
1899. required by the war loan, was $263,-
408.25. While congress authorized the gov
ernment to make a war loan of $400,000,-
000 at the beginning of the war with
Spain, only $200,000,000 of bonds were is
sued, bearing three per cent, interest,
which were promptly and patriotically
taken by our citizens.
Unless something unforeseen occurs to
reduce our revenues or increase our ex
penditures, the congress at its next ses
sion should reduce taxation very mate
rially.
Five years ago we were selling govern
ment bonds bearing as high as five per
cent, interest. Now we are redeeming
thrn with a bond at par bearing two per
cent, interest. We are selling our sur
plus products and lending our surplus
money to Europe. One result of our sell
ing to other nations so much more than
we have bought from tiiem during the
past three years is a radical improve
ment of our financial relations. The great
amount of capital which has been bor
rowed of Europe fnr our rapid, mate
rial development have remained a con
stant drain upon our resources for inter
est and dividend and made our money
markets liable to constant disturbances
by calls for payment or heavy sales of
our securities whenever money stringen
cies or panic occurred abroad. We have
now been paying these debts and bring
ing home many of our securities and es
tablishing countervailing credits abroad
by our loans and placing ourselves upon
a sure foundation of financial independ
ence.
RegnrdinK Ihe Hoer \\ nr.
In the unfortunate contest between
Great Britain and the Boer states of
South Africa, the United States has main
tained an attitude of neutrality in ac
cordance with its well-known traditional
policy. Tt did not hesitate, however,
when requested by the governments of
the South African republics, to exercise
its good offices for a cessation of hostil
ities. It is to be observed that while the
South African republics made like re
quest of other powers, the United States
was the only one which complied. The
British government declined to accept
the Intervention of any power.
Ninety-one per cent, of our exports and
imports are now carried -»y foreign ships.
For ocean transportation we pay annual
ly to foreign ship owners over $ 165,000,000.
We ought to own the ships for our car
rying trade with the world, and we ought
to build them in American ship yards and
man them with American sailors. Our
own citizens should receive the transpor
tation charges now paid to foreigners.
The Cnnnl (pn'Ntlon.
A subject of immediate importance to
our country is the completion of a great
waterway of commerce between the At
lantic arid aeific. The construction of a
maritime canal is now more than ever
indispensable to that intimate and ready
communication between our eastern and
western seaports demanded by the annex
ation of the Hawaiian islands and the
expansion of our influence and trade in
the Pacific.
Our national policy more imperatively
than ever calls for its completion and
control by this government; and it is
believed that the next session of congress,
after receiving the full report of the coin
mission appointed under the act approved
March 3, 1899. will make provision for the
sure accomplishment of this great work.
I it l>l till mid Labor.
Combinations of capital which control
the market in commodities necessary to
the general use of the people, by sup
pressing natural and ordinary competi
tion, thus enhancing prices to the gen
eral consumer, are obnoxious to the com
mon law and the public welfare. They
are dangerous conspiracies against the
public good and should be made the sub
ject of prohibitory or penal legislation.
Publicity will be a helpful influence to
check this evil. Uniformity of legislation
in the several states should be secured.
Discrimination between what is injurious
and what i' useful and necessary in busi
ness operations is essential to the vvi<e
and effective treatment of this subject,
llonest cooperation of capital is necessary
to meet new business conditions and ex
tend our rapidly increasing foreign tra<i<\
but conspiracies and combinations in
tended to restrict business, create mo
nopolies and control prices should be
effectively restrained.
The best service which can he rendered
to labor is to afford it an opportunity for
steady and remunerative employment, and
give it every encouragement for advance
ment. The policy which subserves this end
is the true American policy. The past
three years have been more satisfactory ta
American wurkingmen than many pre ced
ing years. Any change of the present in
dustrial or financial policy of the govern
ment would be disastrous to their highest
interests. With prosperity at home and
an increasing foreign market for Amer
ican products, employment should con
tinue to wait upon labor, and with the
present gold standard the workingman is
secured against payments for his labor in
a depredated currency. For labor, a short
day is better than a short dollar; one will
lighten the burdens; the other lessen the
rewards of toil. The one will promote con
tentment and independence; the other pen
ury and want. The wages of labor should
be adequate to keep the home In comfort,
educate the children and, with thrift and
economy, lay something up for the days
of infirmity and old age.
Practical civil service reform has al
ways had the support and encouragement
of the republican party. The future of the
merit system is safe in its hands.
The merit system, as far as practicable,
is made the basis ofr appointments to office
in our new territory.
The Army mid Navy.
The American people are profoundly
grateful to the soldiers, sailors and ma
rines who have in every time of conflict
fought their c ountry's battles and defended
its hone»r. The survivors and the wid
ows and orphans of those who have fallen
are Justly entitled to receive the generous
and considerate care of the nation.
Referring to what has been accomplished
in Cuba, the president says a long step
hcis been taken In the fulfillment of the
sacred guarantees to the people of the is
land.
Notwithstanding the many embarrass
ments incident to a change of national con
ditions. Porto Rico is rapidly showing the
good effects of her new relations to this
nation.
The Philippine Question.
The power of the government has been
used for the liberty, the peace and the
prosperity of the Philippine people, and
force has been employed only against force
which stood In the way of the realization
of these ends.
After reciting the events of importance
leading up to the present situation, to
show what "has been done and is being
done to bring the benefits of liberty and
good government to these wards of the
nation, the letter continues:
Every effort has been directed to their
peace and prosperity, their advancement
and well-being, not for our aggrandize
ment nor for pride of might, not for trade
or commerce, not for exploitation, but for
humanity and civilization; and for the
protection of the vast majority of the
population who welcome our sovereignty
against the designing minority whose first
demand after the surrender of Manila by
the Spanish army was to enter the city
that tney might loot it and destroy those
not in sympathy with their selfish and
treacherous designs.
\\ ould not our adversaries have sent
Dewey's fie** to Manila to capture and
destroy t'} ie Spanish sea power there, or,
dispatching It thf re, would they have with
drawn it after the destruction of the Span
ish fleet; and if the latter, whither v,\,„"„i
they have directed it.to sail? V» lie re could
it have gone? What port In the orient
was open to it? Do our adversaries con
demn the expedition under the command
of Gen. Merritt to strengthen Dewey hi
the distant ocean and assist in our tri
umph over Spain, with which nation we
were at war? Was it not our highest duty
to strike Spain at every vulnerable point,
that the war might be successfully con
cluded at the earliest practicable moment?
And was it not our duty to protect the
lives and property of those who came
within our control by the fortunes of
war? Could we have come away at any
time between May 1, 1898, and the con
clusion of peace without a stain upon
our good name? Could we have come
away without dishonor at any time after
the ratification of the peace treaty by the
senate of the United States?
There has been no time since the de
struction of the enemy's fleet when we
could or should have left the Philippine
archipelago. After the treaty of peace
was ratified no power but congress could
surrender our sovereignty or alienate a
foot of the territory thus acquired. The
congress has not seen fit to do the one
or the other, and the president had no
authority to do either, if he had
so inclined, which he was not. So long
as the sovereignty remains in us it is
the duty of the executive, whoever ho
may be, to uphold that sovereignty, and
if it be attacked to suppress its assail
ants. W uuld our political adversaries do
less ?
We are in agreement with all of thus*
who supporteo the war with bpain, and
also with those who counseled the rati
fication of the treaty of peace. Upon
these two great essential steps there can
be no issue, and out of these come all of
our responsibilities. If others would shirk
the obligations Imposed by the war and
the treaty, we must decline to act fur
ther with them, and here the issue is
made. It is our purpose to establish iu
the Philippines a government suitable
to the wants and conditions of the in
habitants, and to prepare them for self
government when they are ready for it.
That I am aiming to do under my consti
tutional authority, and will continue to
do until congress shall determine the po
litical status of the inhabitants of the
archipelago.
Are our opponents against the treaty?
If so, tney must be reminded that it could
not have been ratified in the senate but
for their assistance. The senate which
ratified the treaty and the; congress which
adoed its sanction by a large appropria
tion comprised senators and representa
tives of the people of all parties.
Would our opponents surrender to the
insurgents, abandon our sovereignty or
cede it to them? It that be not their pur
pose, then it should be promptly dis
claimed, for only evil can result from the
hopes raised by our opponents in the
minds of the Filipinos, that with their
success at the polls in November there
will be a withdrawal of our army and of
American sovereignty over the archipel
ago; the complete# independence of tho
Tagalog people recognized and the pow
ers of government over all the other
parties ot the archipelago conferred upon
the Tagalog leaders.
The effect of a belief in the minds of
the insurgents that this will be done has
alreadv prolonged the rebellion and in
creases the necessity for the continuanco
of a large army. It is now delaying full
peace in the archipelago and the estab
lishment of civil governments, and has
influenced many of the insurgents against
accepting the liberal terms of amnesty
offered by (Jen. Mac Arthur under my di
rection. Hut for these false hopes,
considerable reduction could have been
had in our military establishment in the
Philippines, and the realization of a
stable government would be already at
hand.
The American people are asked by our
opponents to yield the sovereignty of the
United States in the Philippines to a small
fraction of the population, a single tribe
out of 80 or more inhabiting the archi
pelago, a fraction which wantonly at
tacked the American troops in Manila
while In rightful x>ossession under the
protocol with Spain, awaiting the ratifi
cation of the treaty of peace by the sen
ate, and which has since been in active,
open rebellion against the United States.
We are asked to transfer our sovereignty
to a small minority in the islands with
out consulting the majority and to aban
don the largest portion of the population,
which has been loyal to us, to the cruel
ties of the guerrilla insurgent bands. More
than this, we are asked to protect this
minority in establishing a government,
and to this end repress all opposition of
the majority. We are required to set up
a stable government in the interest of
those who have assailed our sovereignty
and fired upon our soldiers, and then
maintain it at any cost or sacrifice
against its enemies within and against
those having ambitious designs from
without.
This would require an army and navy
far larger than is now maintained in the
Philippines and still more in excess of
what will be necessary with the lull rec
ognition of our sovereignty. A military
support of authority not our own, as thus
proposed. Is the very essence of militar
ism, which our opponents in their plat
form oppose, but which bv their policy
would of necessity be established In its
most offensive form.
The American people will not make the
murderers of our soldiers tin- agents of
the? republic to convey the blessings of
liberty and order to the Philippines. They
will not make them the builders of the
new commonwealth. Such a course would
be a betrayal of our sacred obligations
to the peaceful Filipinos, and would place
at the mercy of dangerous adventurers
the lives and property of the natives and
foreigners.
In short, the proposition of those op
posed to us is to continue all the obliga
tions in the Philippines which now rest
upon the government, only changing the
relation from principal, which now ex
ists, to that of surety. Our responsibility
is to remain, but our power is to bo
diminished. Our obligation is to be no
less, but our title is to be surrendered
to another power, which is without ex
perience or training, or the ability to
maintain a stable government at home
and absolutely helpless to perform its
International obligations with the rest
of the world. To this we are opposed.
We should not yield our title while our
obligations last. In the language of our
platform, "Our authority should not be
less than our responsibility," and our
present responsibility is to establish our
authority in every uart of the island.
Our rights in the Philippines are now
free from outside interference and will
continue so in our present relation. They
would not be thus free in any other rela
tion. We will not give up our own to
guarantee another sovereignty.
Those who profess to distrust the liberal
and honorable purposes of the administra
tion in its treatment of the Philippines are
not justified. Imperialism has no place in
its creed or conduct. Freedom is the
rock upon which the republican party
was builded and now rests. Liberty is
the great republican doctrine for which
the people went to war and for which
a million lives were offered and billions of
dollars expended to make it the lawful
legacy of rill without the consent of mas
ter or slave. Thr re «ls a strain of ill-con
cealed hypocrisy in the anxiety to extend
the constitutional guaranties to the people
of the Philippines, while their nullifica
tion is openly advocated at home. Our op
ponents may distrust themselves, but they
have no right to discredit the good faith
and patriotism of the majority of the peo
ple. who are eipposed to them; they may
fear the worst form of Imperialism with
the helpless Filipinos in their hands; but
if they do it is because they have parted
with spirit and faith of the fathers and
have lost the virility of the founders of
the party which they profess to represent.
The Declaration of Independence*
The republican party does not have to
assert its devotion to the declaration of
independence. That immortal instrument
of the fathers remained unexecuted until
the people under the lead of the republican
party in the awful flash of battle turned
its promises into fulfillment. It wrote into
the constitution the amendments guaran
teeing political equality to American citi
zenship and it has never broken them or
counseled others in breaking them. It will
not be guided in its conduct by one set
of principles at home and another set in
the new territory belonging to the United
States.
Kmpire has been expelled from Porto
Rico and the Philippines by American
freemen. The flag of the republic now
lloats over these islands as an emblem
of rightful sovereignty. Will the repub
lic stay and dispense to their Inhabitants
the blessings of liberty, education and free
institutions, or steal away, leaving them
to anarchy or to imperialism?
The American question is between duty
and desertion —the American verdict will
be for duty and against desertion, for the
I republic against both anarchy and im
perialism.
The country has been fully advised of
the- purposes of the United States in China,
and they will be faithfully adhered to aa
already defined.
We are grateful to our own soldiers and
sailors and marines, and to all the brave
men who, though assembled under many
standards representing peoples and races
strangers In country and speech, were yet
united in the sacred mission of carrying
succor to the besieged, with a success that
now the cause ol a world's rejoicing.
Not only have we reason for thanksgiv
ing for our material blessings, but we
should rejoice in the complete unification
of the people of all sections of our coun
try. that has so happily developed in the
hist few years and made for us a more
perfect union. The obliteration of old dif
ferences, the common devotion to the flag,
and the common sacrifices for its honor,
so conspicuous by the men of the north
and south in the Spanish war, have so
strengthened the ties of friendship and
mutual respect that nothing can ever again
divide us. The nation faces the new cen
tury gratefully and hopefully, with in
creasing love of country, with firm faitl?
in its free institutions, and with high re
solve that they "shall not perish fror*
the earth." Very respectfully yours,
WILLIAM M'KINLEY
WAS NOT ASKED AGAIN.
One Orriminn When the Piety of a
Mlcliijiun Politician VV»» Not
Conaptcnuua.
M. E. Chittenden, the Michigan politician
who died recently, dearly loved a juke. 11 id
own initials, "M. E. he alway.- insisted,
stood lor Methodist Episcopal chuich, which
organization, could it have secured him,
would have acquired a very lively member.
"Mart," as Mr. Chittenden was familiarly
called, relates! the Chicago Chronicle, par
tially lost his hearing some years ago and
communication with him thereafter was one
of the fine arts, Being the agent of
the Standard Oil company lor a large terri
tory, he traveled considerably, and on a cer
tain occasion fell in with a couple of friends
at Hillsdale, who invited him togo with them
to dinner at the house of a resident ac
quaintance. One of them quiet'y said to the
host: "Mr. C hittenden is an exceedingly
pious man and likes to have the food blessed
before partaking. You must invite him to
ask the blessing.
Accordingly, when all were seated, silence
fell upon the company, while the host turned
to Mr. < hittenden with "Will jou ask the
blessing?"
Up went Chittenden's l hand to his ear, with
his usual, quick, nervous gesture, as in a
listening attitude he responded in a tone
more decided than unctuous:
"I've grown so all-fired deaf lately that if
you've got anything to say to me you'll have
to say it devilish loud."
A roar from the two friends disclosed to
Chittenden and the astonished' host that
they had been the victims of a practical joke.
Hut "Chit" enjoyed it amazingly when he un
derstood what had happened.
Intelli<ri>nt Stngc Driver*.
A New York visitor returned recently
from Newport full of admiration for the in
telligence of the stage drivers who undertake
to show strangers the sights of the town. He
was driving about in one of the vehicles de
voted to the entertainment of those who un
dertake to see the sights of the town inex
pensively. The driver stopped before one of
the show places of Newport. "This is Mr.
Smith-Jones' villa," said the driver, as he
turned to the passengers, "and the lady in
the red hat by the corner of the piazza is
the younger Miss Smith-Jones, whose en
gagement to Mr Brown was announced yes
terday." The New York visitor had never
before met stage drivers so anxious to have
their patrons enjoy themselves.—N. Y. Sun.
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the cession by Mexico and the Northwest
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The desire for fame has betrayed many
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—Chicago Daily News.
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There is an unfortunate time in a man's
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