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SOUANTON, OCTOU13H 11, 1M'
"republican NOMINATIONS.
National.
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State.
Conirrcsmirti.nl-Lnmc - OAtX'SHA A, (SHOW,
IIOUIiltT II. rOKilllKHKil.
Auditor Ccncrnl-i:. n. llAHUI'.Snl.nGtl.
County.
rongrcss-WII.MAM CONSBMi.
,iud!,'c-ui:onnK m. watso.n.
binriiT joiin ii. -nxi-ows.
Ticuuicr-.l. A. SRHAXTOS. ..,,,
District Atoriif)-WII.MAM R. U.WIH.
1'ttitliuiiot.irj .lOttN" rOPKLAND.
Clerk o( Courts-TIIOMAS P. DANIEL,
llfccnler of needs-Mil, ItOXN.
HcglMer of Wllls-W. K, IllXK. ,.
.lur.v Comiulssloner-KDWAIIU II. STUBOKS.
Legislature.
Kirst l)ltiict-TIIOMAS .1. I1KYNOMM.
S.rond OistrlitIOIIK frrilKUKR. JR.
Third IJIstrti'i-KliWslll) JAMI'.S, JK.
Fourth nistrict I. A. Pllll.UIX.
"If there is any one who believes
the gold standard is a good thing,
or that it must be maintained, I
vain him not to cast his vote for
ine, because I promise him it will
not be maintained in this country
longer than I am able to get rid of
it." Wiliara Jennings Bryan in a
Speech nt Xnoxvllle, Tenn., Deliv
ered Sept. 16, 1896.
"The party stands where it did in
1896 on the money question." Will
iam Jennings Brya:", Zanesville, 0.,
September 4, 1900.
For Register of Wills.
YTJAUR OF unremitting ac
tivity in Republican affaits,
put forward unselfishly and
with scant reward, consti
tute thq paramount claim of William
K. Heck to the support ol the Repub
lican voters of thin county in his
candidacy for the office of legister of
wlllf. I!oprosentinn the stalwart sec
tion lying east of the mountain, n sec
tion which has been the scene of in
numerable buttles in which Mr. Beck
ha invariably occupied the forefront
nf the stalwart ranks, he has on dlf
lerervtv occasions sought party nomin
ations without success.
But with loyalty unshaken he has
accepted these reverses with good
humored philosophy, and buckled on
the armor of parly activity with un
diminished energy. This year amidst
a considerable number of candidates
from varlrus section i throughout the
county, Mr. J'ik asphvd successfully
for a place on thp county ticket, and
it is due him as a recognition of forma-
services no less than as on obliga
tion of present party reguluilty that
he should receive the unanimous vote
of his fellow partisans, to which will
undoubtedly be added many votes
cast by othets hi compliment to his
stuidy qualities as a citizen and as
a man.
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It doesn't require c vast amount of
strain on the mental orsans to recall
the fact that the Demociats in con
srebs voted to continue imperialism in
Hawaii.
Parade of the Miners.
NONK WHO watched the Im
mense parade of miners in
Scranton yesterday in which
thousands of men and boys
marched in solid platoons, could fall
to be Impressed anew by the evi
dences of the magnitude of the great
Industry upon which Iho eyes of the
win Id have been directed iIurltiK the
past weeks of suspense that havo fol
lowed the hitiUKuratlou of the anthra
cite coal strike. When gazing upon
the legions of labor that went to make
up the groat pioees-sion, one can form
rnme idea of the importance of a move
that enforces idlenens upon such nn
army of bread winners. The demon
stration, representing the- most Im
portant of the various occupations fol
lowed by the Pennsylvania working
man, was In every way worthy of high
compliment. The military precision,
with which many of the organizations
In lino kept in touch wilh the music,
evoked admiration, and tho ubsence of
anything appioachlng disorder during
the oxcerclsus, made n most favorable
Impression upon the citizens, who wel
comed the visitors. Tho gathering
was orderly and well-conducted
throughout, and accomplished much
JlVM" waj" pr c'-eutlng genera) good
.jfccillr.g and Increasing tho admiration
"jof tho, public for tho bravo sons of
toJl who delvo In black veins beneath
,ys ,in the woik of developing one of
nPpnnsylYanIa's greatest resources,
When the interrogation point is used
In connection with North Carolina Mr.
Bryan exercises tho privilege of the
prizefighter and sldo steps.
, Vindication of Protection.
TUB BENEFITS of McKlllloy
Isni and a Republican tariff
are made more and mora
c 4 . ' apparent at each report of
the Treasury bureau of statistics. The
last statement which covers operations
for tho eight months ending with Aug
ust, gives Interesting figures upon the
growth of American manufactures.
For that period the Imports of crude
materials to be worked up Into finished
I products lu American manufactoiles
and by American labor wero $200,000,
000, very nearly dduble the value of
Blmllur imports for tho same period in
1898. Tho exports of manufactured
goods Increased In almost the same
ratio. They were $304,000,000 fpr tho
eight months of 1900, against 9103.007,000
for the' eight months of 1S96.
There Is a double lesson,- says the
Tnv Times In this showing. In the first
place It Is a telling rejoinder to the
Free Tmdo and lovv tariff contention
that by maintaining Ptotectlon we shut
out ull foreign trade nml favor mo
nopoly, extortion and discrimination tit
home. A Republican lailif that per
mits our manufacturers to Import $200,
000,000 In crude materials, or almost
twice itR much n they bought under
the Democratic Wilson act, can hardly
be condemned on that ground. Again,
the same antl-Protecttnn opposition
nigtie.s that with Protection excluding
foreign products competing with our
own we cannot expect other countries
to buy of us. Hut a btitllcient nnswer
Is that they do, and they aic buying
more under our high Republican tariff
than they ever did before. They pur
chased In eight months of MOO, under
Dlngley Protection, almost double the
value of manufactures all highly pro
tected artleles-that they did with tho
Democratic low tariff in operation. Our
exiioi tH of all kinds show a larger
total than ever bcfoic.
Protection Is vindicating Itself more
completely every day it is maintained.
The Scranton Times last evening
celebrnted Its fifth anniversary under
tho present management by tho Is
sue of a sixteen-page edition, and tho
addition of several special features.
The growth of the Times during tho
few years that have elapsed since the
paper became the property of Editor
Lynett, has been phenomenal. It Is an
encouraging recognition of editorial
ability and business enterprise. Our
evening contemporary Is to be con
gratulated upon the pleasing uppear
anco of Its birthday cake.
The Weakness of France.
ACCORDING TO the military
correspondent of the London
Times, who has been follow
ing the French, army ma
nouovres recently, France seems to bo
about the only country that has not
profited by the recent military exper
ience wherein the superiority of the
American methods of warfare should
have been a lesson to the foreign pow
ers. He states that tho French have
learned nothing by observation of re
cent events and would suffer need
less slaughter and defeat, especially
in a war outside of their own coun
try, like that of tho early battles In
South Africa. He was a guest at
headquarters and his criticism Is mild,
but the meaning of his continual ex
pressions of amazement in describing
tactical manoeuvres is apparent. With
out trying to follow technicalities of
description, his general conclusion
from watching the manoeuvres is that
the French army clings to the old sys
tem of hurling masses of Infantry on
the critical point, making artillery and
cavalry subordinate to tho main pur
pose. The correspondent was astound
ed to see troops marching shoulder to
shoulder and both infantry and cav
alry manoeuvring less than 2,000 yards
from masses of the enemy with the
magazine rifle. When asked what
would save them from destruction,
they questioned the efficiency or gun
tire at that distance ' and dwelt
on the superiority of their artil
lery, which would disconcert ,-the
enemy's fire. This was not British ex
perience In South Africa.
The explanations of headquarters
oflleers to the correspondent's critical
suggestions were so very French.
When he pointed out that the los
would be terrific the carnage so appalling-
that no troops in the world
would have the morale to pick their
way over the bodies of their com
radesthey allowed that here would
be losses. "But they will not be as
heavy as you anticipate; the fact that
tho enemy will see our line advancing,
will be dazzled with tho glitter of our
bayonets, and will hear the music of
our trumpets, will so confuse them
that they will fire over the heads of
the advancing lino!" There seemed to
be no taking cover or lying down. On
that point, headquarters said: "Once
the men He down wo should never be
abls to get them up again. The onlv
chance of auccehs is to keep the men
on their feet and for tho oflicor to
maintain complete control of his unit!"
Thorn was no .scoutins, of course, the
country being familiar to all. What
Is more strunge, theie seemed to be no
signal hervlce .orders being carried on
bicycles. What would this army do in
a loadlcss country? It Is a queer thing
that in China only tho Japanese and
Americans seem to have had signal
service.
Indications are favorable to an end
ing of the anthracite, coal strike
within u few days at tho furtlu-st.
President Mitchell's call for a conven
tion of mlnei.s to hj held in this city
tomorrow has been regarded by nearly
nil as a hopeful sign that existing
differences will soon bo adjusted and
that tho light upon Kuslern Penn
sylvania's gi cutest Industry may he
removed before winter sets In. A de
cision on part ot the miners to accept
tho offer of a ton per cent, increase
III wages It Is believed v.'IU open tho
way to an amicable adjustment of all
misunderstandings. Tho opportunity
Is nt hand for batisfactory settlement.
There FPt-ms little doubt that It will
be embraced.
The critical class that would be will
ing to obsorvo the administration in the
act of rushing Into almost any kind of
a war, are now finding fault because
several millions are not spent In send
ing a Heat over to collect tho few
thousand dollars duo this country from
tho Sultan of Turkey. The Domocratiu
war cry that atslsted In driving the
government Into making war upon
Spain, however, has lost Its power to
forco tho administration from lines of
diplomacy am) good sense In dealing
with question of national Impoit,
'"-
Tho hopeful individual who usually
about this time of year begins the
work of piomotlng next season's buse
ball games for Scranton has evidently
neglected to rptuin from his summer
vacation.
It Is announced that Lord Roberts
will leavo Oeneral Kitchener In charge
of affairs In Africa and that President
Krugor will place the same trust In
tho bonds of Oeneral Do Wet. It will
probably be necessary for densrals
De Wet and Kitchener to havo another
Interview to fully decide which Is tho
rump appointment.
An Ohio Democrat named Tlllmnn
Wheeler, vowed In 1898 that he would
never shave or havo his hair cut un
til Bryan Is elected president and hns
kept his vow up to date. Unless all
Indications arc false, Tlllmnn Is In a
fair wuy to look like a Boer patriarch
tlurlnor Hio rest of his natural life.
Tho New York police commission
ban reremptorlly icftmcd to oven dis
cipline the oflleers who clubbed tho
negroes during the rare riots In that
city. Yet theso Democratic gentlemen
are much Interested In the cause of
Agulnaldo.
The guns recently captured from
the Filipinos bearing figures showing
that they were manufactured In tho
United Slates In 1899, Indicate that the
nntl's may not have been confining
their mischievous efforts to talk after
all.
When a former gold Democrat con
cludes to support Bryan tho first thing
he does Is to prepate a written apology
for so doing,
Tho Philadelphia Times as a Bryan
organ, exhibits a marked preference
for the soft pedal thus far In the cam
paign. The Chinese court seems to bo a
circuit affair.
Outline Studies
of fltiman NaUir?
Would Not Assimilate.
A WEt.L-KXOW.V western represcntathc in con
giios, pleading .in I'liungcment, left a small
Kioup of talkers in an uptown hotel lobby, and
an elderly nun, whom lie hsu Introduced to flic
p. nly, made hold tn tell a stoiy about the de
parted, w;s the Washington Star. "I liavf
known lilni." lie said, "ever sinie lie was a
boy, and 1k.ii he time out nt college lie was
undecided whether to become a lawyer and poli
tician or ro to a theological seminary and be
come n clerxwiuu. He was fond of polities,
and thought that with a little law and more
icllgiun on the sldn lie might become a great
moi nl reformer. You know that's the v.iy most
all very jounsr men feet when they undertake
politics for the fiist time. IIoneer, before he
Inul time to determine finally what he would do
bis frietuls ejme after him to run for he leg
islature, as he hid the availability and a pretty
tuir amount of tah. This brought him face
to face with the question he had been much
disturbed ov;r, and he went to Judge Dlank, a
etui.m in politics nnd a man of the highest
character, for assistance in solving the problem,
lie stated his case In full to the judge, and the
giand old man put his hand on the young man's
shoulder.
" 'My boy,' ho said, as only he could say it,
'it can't be politics and religion; it must be or
or the ntliri. You can't fit jourself for heaven
and for the legislature nt the same time, and
there's no me tiying. That is all I can say,
and you will have to mike your own choice.' "
Following the Scriptures.
J DON'T Know what to make of thu boy nt
mine," said the fond father, who is alwa.is
talkiiig about his son, getting his friend in a
corner wheic he couldn't escape. "When I
went home last night my wife told ine that he
hid been fighting with one of the neighbor's
boja and needed u talking to, so 1 summoned
him and said sternly:
" 'What have jou been doing, my son!'
" 'righting,' he answered, bhortly, looking me
straight in the i.e.
" 'So I see,' said I, looking him over.
" 'He's biggir than 1!" he flashed, with a
ring in Ills ol,
" 'Who?'
" 'Jimmy Jones,'
" 'So jou Ime been fighting nhli Jimmy
Jones:'
" 'Yes,' he said.
" 'N"n,' fiaid I, stonily, 'hao you foigotten
what I said about fighting:-'
" 'Ho hit me on the cheil;!' shouted my boy
with kindling cje.
" 'Oh, son, son,' said I, 'don't you know what
the Bible sajs about turning the other checks'
" 'I lemembeied it. pop-lionet, I did and
turned the otliei iheek, but instead of hitting
ire there he smashed me on tho no! Say,
pop. wasn't tint a foul?'
" 'It looks like it, my son,' said I, to lug
bard not to laugh.
" 'That's what I thought,' he exclaimed as
quick as a wink, 'ro I palled in and licked the
stuflln' out of him! 'Taln't no use, pop,' in
terposed tho hoy quickly, foiestalling my le
marks, 'he's been to Sunday school just as
much as I hae and knows the proper thing
to do as well as I dot'
"Now, ttlnt could I say to thai," evclalmed
the fond father, beaming with sitisfacllon.
Kindness That Reacted.
DOB PIIYOU is ii nice, obliging jonng man,
hut hereafter he positively refuses to brush
bugs off anylioil), even himself. 1 he cause
ot ft ill wis a little Mirprise party given to
lloliert by a ceitatn bug, name and parentage
unknown. Pryui had Just dined at a Vine
streit cafe nnd stood nonchalantly before its
doors, chewing a toothpick and gazing bencvo.
leiitly on the madding crowd as It surged by.
The milk of human kindness was in Hob up to
the cars just then, and he could even have
complimented his iiiotlier-in-Uw, Bob noticed
that the electric light near him drew lot? of
bug that were bent on going to bug heaven by
tin Incineration loute. A well-dicscd joung
fellow came along and tteod under the insect
crematory, with the result that one of them
came hustling ilnuu and selected his collar foi
a ici-iln;' place. Mr. I'rjor noticed the insect
and, feeling very cod, lie generously volunteered
to remove it.
"f beg jour pardon," said he to the young
man. "There's a bug on your collar. Wait
till 1 get him."
Unbelt leached foi the hug, and the next
iii'tiint lot out a howl that lolled down Vine
idreet, eross."'! the river and flattened Itsilf
against the Kiulucky hills. At the eime tlms
he ilid a Don Ml il.nue on in the middle of
the street, wheie he lilt a cai and bourn ed hack,
frantically slapping onu hand against (lie other,
The "bug" thai llobcit so gracefully removed
wus nn innocint, harmless little hornet that
had got lost on Vine street, and had clung to
his rescuer with all (ho cllngincss of which he
was capable. Hence tho hencencss of why Mr,
1'r.ior removes no bugs from any one, Cincinnati
EnQuIrer,
Wouldn't Throw Up a Good Job.
nOOaUVi;i.T vva no tenderfoot, not even
when he Sent came out lieic," said Billy
Hofer, the must famous guide in tlu Yellow.
Mono pirk, the mm wio had chaw ot the
huntei's cabin on the woodul island at tho
World's fair, ami whose chief business Is to
rttcli liva animals for the Smithsonian Insti
tution, "and he's got all the grit any one
nerds. I was hunting big game with him down
in tho Ills Horn lato one fall," continued Hilly,
"when ue vveio overtaken by a snowstorm. Han
ami boy I havo ben out in I lis weather all my
life and am about as tough on they nuke 'cm,
hut that was about the worst storm that ever
caught me on an open range and no shelter (or
eighty miles. We weie tiavellng light, too.
We didn't havo nothing but our blankets and
soma told pork and biscuits in our grub tugs,
and didn't have no (bunco to. make coffee. I
thought lloosevelt would he pretty much uoed
up, I could havo cried like a girl myself, but
he never lit on that he w.n hungry or cold.
t but what ho was as comfortahlo as if hv
had been in the rapltol at Albany; and what
undo it worse his horse got to bucking. He
was .'n ugly beast, an) how, and the weather
gave him the tantiurn. You see It In horses
that wpy .sometimes. They soit of blame you
for what they suffer from tho utonn and cold
and act contrary,
"Ono morning while we were starting out
Itoojevelt's horso took a notion to buck a little
and threw Itoosevclt three times. The lost time
tin governor etmck on till hand ind throwed
his thumb out ot Joint.
"'You better change horses nltli me, Mr.
Roosevelt,' saj.i t,
" 'So, Billy, b.v the great horn spoon,' My
lie, pulllrnr his thumb tat 1c Into Joint and show,
ing his tcrtli as big as graveilones 'I've atirtcil
out to leach this ct tiler who is master,' says
he, 'and I'm hot a man to Ihrow Up a, good
Job,' sajs he." W, K, Curtis In Chicago itcconl.
EDITORIAL DARTS.
A Rare Bird, Indeed.
From the Syracuse Post-Standard.
Among the curiosities of the year Is the sta
tistician who figures on Pennsylvania as a Brjan
state.
Banking in Kansas,
Fiom the Albany Kvenlng Journal.
Out In Kanms a hank has suspended because
It could no longer find borrowers of money with
in Us territory. The farmers have paid their
debts and arc accumulating money. The west
ern money lenders' occupation Is, If not actually
gone, materially diminished.
When Richard Tries to Be Good.
From the Utlca, Press.
That is an Interesting, not to say startling
spectacle presented when Itlchard t'roker de
clares himself as the outspoken adversary ot
vice and the earnest advocate of virtue.
Mr. Davis Has a Grievance.
From the Washington Post.
An Ohio mn imagined himself to be the Hon.
Webster Davis and the court adjudged him In
sine. It occurs to us that this particular Judge
owes Mr. Davis some sort ol an explanation.
In Yankee Fashion.
From the Hartford Times.
"Where Is jour boasted prosperity?" asks
Candidate Bryan, and the New York Kvenlng
Post answers the question very neatly, in BVyan
fashion, with another: "Where is your boasted
adversity?"
A Dangerous Experiment.
From the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
It Is already apparent that tho Democrats are
mortally afraid that their imported Filipino
statesman will prove a hoodoo.
Latest Paramount Issue.
From the Wilkcs-Bnrrc Record.
Mr. Bryan's latest paramount issue Is the
army. He sajs it is a menace to the working
man. Mr. Br.van does not appear to recognie
the fact that ninety-nine per cent, of every vol
unteer army this country has ever known were
vv orklngmcn in the true sense ot the term,
The Usual Habit.
From the Elmlra Advertiser.
Brjan's sudden devotion to the negro voter In
the north, while indifferent to his treatment
in the south, is merely the usual habit of the
demagogue.
OCTOBER SKIES.
The planets which show so brightly In the
evening skies aic passing out of sight toward
the sun, and the shoitcnlng days and the chilly
air are no clearer signs of the arrival of au
(umn than is the appearance above the eastern
horizon of the advance guard of the familiar
winter constellations.
At 9 p. m. on Oct. 13 Tain us is well above
the eastern horizon, to be known unmistakably
by tho Pleiades lying near the brilliant star.
Almost tho whole of the southeastern sky is
rilled with the huge shapeless mass of Cctus,
the head of the monster marked by an irregu
lar pentagon of stars. The only conspicuous
object of the southern sky, sajs the Scientific
American, is Fomalhaut, a bright lonely star,
low down near the meridian, belonging to the
constellation of the Southern Fish. West of
the zenith are C.vgnus, L.vra, and Aquila; and
In the north the Dipper is swinging low, with
the pointers almost under the pole.
Ot the planets Mercury is evening star
throughout the month. On the 29th he i caches
his greatest eastern elongation, but is not fa.
vorably placed for obseivatlon, being very far
south and settling less than an hour after the
sun. Venus is morning star, rising about three
hours and a half before sunrUe throughout the
month. She U still much brighter than any
thing In the morning sky, though her light is
not much more than half what it was in August.
Mars is also morning' star, rising before 1
a. m , und gradually but surely increasing in
brightness as the earth overtakes him. Jupiter
is evening star, but by the middle ot the
month he hfts at 6 o'clock, and before its close
he can only be peon in the twilight. Kranus,
too, is evening star, and on the 10th he is in
conjunction with Jupiter, and could be easily
identified with a Held glass were it not that
both planets aic vciy low in the twilight.
PERSONAL DRIFT.
The court physician to the Ameer of Afglianis
tan is a woman, Miss Mllias Hamilton.
Dr. Conan Doyle has nearly completed his his
tory of the war in South Africa. It may be ex
pected to appear shortly after the formal con
clusion of peace.
Senator Hanna's speeches are never written
before they are delivered. The senator carefully
thinlu on his subject, but never makes so much
as a note for use on the platform.
John Burroughs, the critic and naturalist, does
much of his writing in the open air, in a re
claimed woodland swamp on his estate, ltlverly,
on the western shores of the Hudson.
Ambassador Choatc's mornings arc always given
up to a regular routine. After breakfasting at
8 he reads the papers for an hour, then goes
over his mall until 10, and dictates his letters
until 11.
Dr. Johannes Brcsler in Freiburg, Silesia, Is
about to open a museum of a novel kind. It will
be devoted to tho study of psjehiatry and will
contain models ot various lunatic asylums and
samples ol every apupllancc in nso in Mich in
fctitutlons. The Bible presented by the Harvard Republi
can dub to Governor Roosevelt, for use by him
hi tiling the oath of oftice In case ho Is elected
vle-presldent, bears on i fly-leaf the inscription:
"From Harvard men to a Harvard man ot whom
all Harvard men arc sjiroud,"
The railway car which was for some time
President Krugcr's headquarters near Machado
dorp was a splendidly decorated affair. Two
guard) weio continually at the doors, but Mr,
Kruger seldom went out except for his morning
bath in the sulphur springs close by,
Ccncral ond Mrs. Lew Wallace have picscnted
to the Wabash College library the original manu
script copy of "The Prince o India," The pages
are in the fine handwriting of General Wallace,
and show corrections and suggestions in the
handwriting of Mm. Wallace. "The Prince of
Ir.dia" was begun In 1BK0, on the Kankakee
river, nnd was finished in 1602.
IN SYMPATHY.
Written tor The Tribune.
My soul was sick and my heait wis sou-
For the days and the jojs that wero mine no
moro;
Oh, could 1 dream Just one Inlet day
Where the flowers bloom and the waters play!
Away from the world and its gold,
And I bald I will wander back to the streams,
To the woods and the birds and the flow'rs and
the dreams
That were mine In the class ot old.
And I've come but the brooklets have long
been dry,
The birds that sang have a mournful cryi
The flowers aio dead tho their ghosts come
back
K'en as I, In December's desolate track;
And the ICast wind shrieks them a dirge as they
move
'Mong the graves ol those that I have loved.
Ihe woods moan drearily filled with care
As tho broken heart lays Its secrets bare;
The pines reach out their long arms to nic
As they lovingly did when our souls were free;
But they idgh, for they know that never more
Can I come to them aa fn days of jore.
And the birds and the flow'rs and the wood
lands grieve,
For they know that no moro will the dream-loom
weavo
Those beautiful dreamt for me.
llojo VanU. Bpeece.
Dald Mount, Pa,, Oct. 10, 1W0.
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS
GAINED BY THE FARMER
Mr. Bryan and his followers are having a hard time in convincing
the farmers that they are worse off under protection and sound money in
1900 than they were under free trade and the shadow of free silver in
1888, The statements upon which they attempt to prove this are that
the prices of articles of farm consumption have advanced more rapidly
than those of articles of farm production.
A general comparison of prices-of articles of farm consumption and
farm production at the two dates of 1890 and 1000, however, complete
ly disproves this theory.
The little table printed below, showing the value of farm animals
on January 1, 1808, 1808, and 1000, Is an illustration of this fact. It
is worth studying. Horses, cattle, sheep, and all farm animals de
creased enormously in value in 1808 as compared with 1802, and in
creased enormously in 1000 bb compared with 1808. The value of
horses and mules, for Instance, fell from a little over one billion dol
lars in 1802 to 603 million dollars In 1806, and despite the tremendous
displacement of horses by the use of electricity in cities since that date,
have again returned to 715 million dollars In 1000 a gain to tho
farmers of 112 million dollars in this item alone.
In cattle the Increase is much greater, the value in 1806 being 872
million dollars and in 1000 one billion two hundred and four million
dollars, an Increase of 332 million dollars over 1806.
In sheep the reduction of value by low tariff and advance in value
under protection 1b even more strongly marked. The value of sheep on
farms fell from 116 million dollars in 1802 to 65 millions in 1806, but
again increased under protection to 122 millions in 1000, thus practi
cally doubling In value in the brief period since Mr. Bryan was preach
ing free trade and free silver to the country four years ago.
Taking the entire list of farm animals reported to the department of
Agriculture, the value fell between the protection year 1802 and the
free trade year 1808 from 82,461,000,000 to $1,727,000,000, and in
creased again to 82,212,000,000 on January 1, 1900. Here is a gain
of nearly 8500,000,000 in this single item of farm property. No won
der very few farmers are found who want to go back to the free trade
experiment of 1893-97:
VALUE OP ANIMALS ON PARMS JANUARY 1, 1892, 1808 AND 1000
Total
Horses and Mules
Date. Dollars.
1892 .... 1,182,475,706
1896 .... 803,344,643
1900 .... 715,686,534
Cattle (all). Sheep.
Dollars. Dollars.
022,127,287 116,121,200
872,833,061 65,167,735
1,204,208,366 122,665,913
CONDENSED CLIPPINGS.
Chicago public school children contributed
$4,030 to the relief ot the Oalvcston sufferers.
The only building at Spitzbcigcn It a tour
ists' hut about five hundred miles from civiliza
tion. Dr. Braubacher has made a series of inves
tigations which showed that 72.5 per cent, of
djspeptics examined had unsound teeth.
A Pasteur institute has Just been opened at
Ka-auli, a hill station in the Punjab district,
aiiout thirty miles from Simla, India.
The department of agriculture and commerce
of Japan predicts a splendid rice crop this year,
the average crop being 10J,831,2!0 bushels.
The one hundred and ninety-first birthday of
Dr. Samuel Johnson was celebrated at Lichfield,
England, by the dedication of his birthplace as
a public memorial to him.
According to the views of a British sea cup
tain, who was in the flulf of Xfexico during
the Clalvcston tempest, the disturbance was
partly volcanic.
Manufacturers of biicli beer have been detect
ed cutting down birch trees In an Cortlandt
park, New York, to get the baric to flavor the
liquor with.
A brisk trade in for skins is springing up
between i ranee and Italy. The latter last jeai
exported 4,000, mostly from round Rome. Foxes
arc plentiful in Italy.
The ants in one nest arc not all of the same
size. A Swiss professor has found them as
different as so many human beings, with dwaifs,
giants, cripples, etc.
An Ioiu (Mich.) woman has rcvcised the usual
order of things by inserting nn advertisement
in the local papers warning people against trust
ing her husband, as the will not be responsible
for the payment of any debts of his contracting.
A Frenchman who recently traveled in the
United States has written an aitidc on the
tooth-filling Dranch of dentistry, and after study
ing statistics he estimates that upward of $300,
000 worth ot gold Is packed in the teeth of
Americans every year.
It is looked upon as perhaps significant of
coming events that certain insurance companies
are just now writing policies on the lives of
numerous German army oflleers. To some persons
this circumstance might indicate a gathering
of war clouds in the not distant future.
Ther' Is a big field for missionary woik In
Wyoming. Out of a population of about seventy
five thousand in n large district It is estimated
t..at less than 3,000 are evangelical Christians,
and they are widely scattered over the 97,000
miles of country, in which the centers of popu
lation arc from 50 to 75 miles apait.
Ingeniously diabolical was. the advertising
method adopted by an English tradesman. While
at a seaside resoit he noticed how eagerly visit
ors from .own picked up shells. At a small
expense he bought a wagonload of mussel shells,
stamped an advertisement on each and scattered
the lot along the shore.
McKINLEYISMS.
"He liberated a race a race which he once
said ought to be fiee because there might come
n time when these black men could help keep
the Jewel of liberty within the family of free
dom. If any vindication of that act or of that
prophecy were needed, it was found when these
hravo black men ascended the hill of San Juan
In Cuba and charged the enemy nt V. Caney."
"Could we, after freeing the Filipinos from
the domination ot Spain, have left them with
out power to protect life or property or to per
form the international obligations essential to
an Independent state? Could we have left them
In a state ot anarchy and Justified ourselves in
...... .. .-.na..la,t.wia r lmfor,, till- tl lblllUl Of
UUI Unit ..iwvimvin v. ..... ...-
mnnVlmlf Could v'e have done that "I the
tight of Cod or man?" I
"To the youth of the country trained In lliu
schools, which happily are opened to all, must (
, . ,n....n..i l.A fil.-tn nr mrin
we looh lu can imnaii, ,itc v-"--- n
ment."
"The pcrsenil Intcie.-l mid piitlclpatlcin of our
ritbcnshlp In the conduct ol Hie government
mako Its condition alwava absorbing and Intel-
estlng."
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REPUBLICAN
OBJECT LESSONS.
Texas.
Depokltcn,
Pauki.
National
Houston ,,,,,,,,,
State and I'rhatc
ISO!.
Ifi'O.
3J,b.Vi
1.EM
OOfl
.11,7.17
3,312
1,073
S7,firH
2?,VH
Total 33,
Increase in No, of depositors,
Banks.
Amount of Deposits.
1S9. liW.
National 10,071,tJo3 $21,273,350
Houston National 1,227,67.1 2.37I.KW
fetalo and I'riutc l,22ii.l6i 2,JSt,i22
Total 13,120,100 ? SS.U'i.'.TOI
Increase in deposits ,, J2,b0.,MW
Tennessee.
Banks.
Pcpositoii,
1691.
J89').
2,flWJ
VI73
2,nsa
i.fr)')
National ....,,,,
State und I'rivate
Loan and Trust,,
Savings ,
11,773
3.17
1,231
2,101
Total 17,007 -Ufiid
Increase In No. of depositor... 111,010
Hanks. Amount of Dtpoitts.
13'Jl, lfiW.
National k 3,031,10.1 $ ll.302.CU
State and I'rivate Oin.S-tj I.SST.OfJ
Loan and Trust., 319,4 II &02,n97
Savings WO.Vi 1.110.321
Total .,.,...). .WWjt 15.2.1W
Increase in deposits oVt),22
Farm Animals.
Dollars.
2,461,755,698
1,727,926,084
2,212,756,878
ALWAYS BUSY,
Ladies know, all admit they know, how muili
they save when they can buy Edwin C. Burt's
Shoes at JS 30 per pair, in turns and welts,
patent leather and kid tip, button and lace.
Styles they all admire.
LewisRenlIy
established 1688.
Shoes for all the walks of life.
flercereaiin
& ComiinieM
Temporarily at
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139 PENN AVE
CONTINUED
Fare Sale
Jewelry, Silvcrwcar, Etc
Mi iamagefl
. Our full force of workmen at work
again, as usual.
Watch Repairing: and all kinds of
Jewelry Repairing and Engraving done
promptly.
"Although I am young, and have always been healthy, and
blessed with a good appetite, yet, during the past six months, I have
been affected after I would eat a hearty meal with a severe pain in
the stomach, lasting for from one to three hours, causing me great
distress, Then again I would become suddenly dizzy, and almost full,
cometimes. This would happen on the street, and cause me a good
deal of annoyance, The only relief I could get was the constant use
of cathartics. About two months ago a friend gave me a small vial
of Ripans Tabules, asking me to try them, as they had done him good.
I did, and was so pleased with the result that I afterwards bought
, a supply, and up to the present time have had no further trouble,
When I notice an indication of the old trouble, I take a Tabule, and
that ends it."
FINLEY
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Underwear
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Our lines are com
plete in all the stand
ard and celebrated
makes usually car
ried by us, and which
have stood the test
of years, as to fit,
quality and general
excellence.
Recent advances
in this class of goods
put the prices up
but our purchases
were made in antici
pation of this so that
our prices will Com
pare favorably with
prices when goods
were at their lowesc.
Early buying will
mean a saving of 25
per cent, and it will
pay you to anticipate
your wants in any
thing you are likely
to need in the line of
Underwear.
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If you haven't the proper office sup
plies. Come In and givo us a trial.
We have the largest and most com
plete line of office supplies in North
eastern Pennsylvania.
If It's a good thing, wo have It. We
make a specialty of visiting cards and
monogram stationery.
Reynolds Bros
Stationers and Engravers,
Mote! Jeimyn Building.
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