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BEVIEW OF THE YEAE

CHRONOLOGICAL RZCORD OFIMPORTANT EVENTS

3lIonth of May Most Conspicuous byIts List of Appalling Disasters andNatural Catastrophes by Land andSea Hccord of Fires and Crimes

A Backward GlanceFollowing is a chronological record of

the most important events of the pasttwelve months May 1S9G will be re¬

membered as a month of disaster Onthe 3d twelve persons were killed by anexplosion in Cincinnati on the loth 120Ty a cyclone in Texas on the 17th 33 bycyclones in Kentucky and Kansas ouhe lSth 44 by a cyclone in Nebraska

on the 21st 10 by a cyclone in Oklahomaon the 22d 5 by a cyclone in Missourion the 24th 40 by a cyclone in Iowa onthe 23th SG by cyclones in Michigan andOklahoma and 40 by a cloudburst at Mc-

Gregor¬

Iowa and on the 26th 12 by atorm at Cairo and between 75 and 100

hy the fall of a bridge at Victoria B COtherwise the record is not out of the or-

dinary¬

JanuaryI President names Venezuelan commis-

sion¬

British ship Jeannette Cowan wreck ¬

ed on Vancouver Island 12 men perish2 Six members of Hlbbard fumily die by

lire at Columbus Ohio Four killed 32--hurt by exploding lireworks at St Louis Mo

IJritish force under Dr Jameson at¬

tempts seizure of territory In Transvaalfyuth Africa aud Is cut to pieces and cap-tured

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by Boers British Government dls--crvo-

his Invasion Earthquake in Pe-rsia

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destroys village of Jaujabad and killsSou people

4 Cubans invest the city of IlavanaUnited Stares Insists on indemnity fromTurkey for plundeied missions Six killedIn a wreck near Chillicothe Ohio Utah aState

5 Carlisle offers 100000000 popular loanSecond Persian earthquake destroys city

of Gol and kills S00 people0 Report that Havana is fallen not con ¬

firmed Four miners killed in a ShamokinPa shaft Tremendous prairie llres inWestern Kansas

9 War fever high In England Trans ¬

vaal demands independence and Indemnitytor Jamesons raid Report of alliance ofGermany France and Russia against Eng ¬

land to sustain the Boers12 Peter Hougaard of Chicago kills his

--wife Ave children and himself by asphyxia ¬

tion13 Sultan forbids Red Cross Society to en-

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his domains14 Furaker chosen Senator from Ohio

I 15 Government victorious m Mannouaelections Severe iichtint about Ilavana

VlIIsou chosen Senator from Iowa15ond syndicate dissolves popular loan as-

sured¬

15 Chicago gets Chicago National Demo ¬

cratic Convention17 Announcement of narrisou DImmick

engagement Campos relieved of Spanishcommand in Cuba Death of Frank Lnw- -Jer of Chicago

21 Five lircmen killed by falling wallsat St Louis three people killed by gas ex ¬

plosion at New Ilaven Conn two at Redkev Ind Death of Gen Tom Ewing atNew York Red Cross delegation startsfur Turkey

2 American Liner St Paul ashore atLong Branch

20 Cuban filibustering steamer Hawkinssinks o lost

27 Fifty four Welsh miners killed by ex¬

plosion Feud at Palon owa ends in twodeaths

30 Five killed 20 hurt by explodingboiler at Ilollldaybburg Pa us

31 Salisbury concedes justice of Monroedoftriue and declares Englands inability to

p suppress Armenian outrages Murder ofPearl Bryan at Fort Thomas Ky

3 Februarybin l Senate passes silver bond billtp 2 2000000 lire loss In Ilnlnuelpma

Viremeiiuous siiumbiuhu in ununrauT Ttiehard Klatke kills his father mother

wife three children and himself at Chicagodespondent Bond bids aggregate 30S- -WHO00 at a figure exceeding 110

Three killed in Polish Hungarian riotat Whiting Ind Terrific storm sweepAtlantic coast Morristown N J inundatedby bursting dam Bound Brook wiped out bytlbod and file many lives lost immenseproperty destroyed Bridge near BristolConn swept away drowning eleven workjuen

7 Death of W II English at IndianapolisS Publisher Duulop of Chicago Dispatch

sentenced to two years and to pay 2000for circulating obscene matter

U Ten sailors drown off NewburyportMass

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Grant Atterbury lynched at Sullivan

Twenty die in a factory fire at Troy

SIxtf miners killed atRain of mud in Chicago

Newcastle

Bill Nve stricken by paralysis Mercury below zero all day at Chicago tnreedle of exposure Clothing cutters at Chi ¬

cago strike Dynamite at JohannesburgSouth Africa kills scores fire at a maskedball in Lisbou Portugal kills fifty attend-ants

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21 Fitzsimmons whips Mahcr in 1 minute3C seconds Commander and Mrs Balliug- -ton Booth removed from command of Salva-tion

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Army in America22 Death of Bill Nye23 Ballington Bootli revolts against his

retirement in Salvation Army Seven peo-ple

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die in a Baltimore fire27 New York Yacht Club expels Lord

Dunraven2S Senate passes resolution to recognize

Cuba29 1000000 fire in Halifax Riots in

Barcelona Spain upon receipt of news ofaction of Congress American consulate at-tacked

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March1 Great floods In New England3 Rome in a rage because of slaughter of

3000 Italian soldiers In battle in Abyssinia4 Renewed anti American demonstration

In Madrid All Italy In an uproar overAbyssinian defeat 200000 fire at Johns-town

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Pa14 Albert Wallace hanged at Pekin 111

10 Frankfort Ky under martial lawv IS Five killed by powaer explosion atRipton N Y

23 Thirteen miners killed at Dubois Paby explosion Death of Thomas Hughesauthor at London Riot at HollandMich over horsewhipping of a sensationalnewspaper correspondent

2S 400000 fire at Louisville Ky Illi-nois

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Supreme Court confirms imprisonmentsentence of Bankers Meadowcroft

29 Unknown man kills Alvin M Stoneand wife aud wounds three daughters nearAkron Ohio cause unknown Four die byfire in New Vork

3L Storms in the Northwest Report ofexecution by garrote of five Cubans at Ha ¬

vana Opening of lake navigationV April

1 Ten die by fire in a Brooklyn tenementTrains on B O and Frisco roads held

lip Cubans capture Santa ClaraG Wedding of Gen Harrison and Mrs

Dimmick7 Chicago elections retire 21 boodle alder

iiien10 S B Minchell kills W B O Sands

ais own wife and three children and him ¬

self at Pentwater Mich13 Six killed by falling trestle at Bed ¬

ford Ind President Cleveland appointsFitzhugh Lee Consul General to CubaGreater New York bill vetoea Democratsvbserve Jefferson Day

14 J W Lehman of Chicaco kills him-self

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and three children 1000000 fire atNew York 2r0000 fire at Fairburv 111

lo First fatal sunstroke of the year atPhiladelphia Phenomenal hot wave pre-vails

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1G Base ball season opens Tempera-ture

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reaches SS degrees at Chicago breakingall records for April

19 Nine saiiors drown off Long sland- 35 At Rockville Ind Albert Egbert killsfive people without cause and commits sui-cide

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his sick sister dies from shock1000000 Incendiary fire loss at Cripple

Creek Colo Ten killed and twenty hurtIn Kansas and three killed in Virginia bycyclones

27 Fatal storms in South Dakota Boerspass sentence of death upon leaders of the

Transvaal insurrection President Kruegercommutes sentence

29 Second lire at Cripple Crepk Colodoes 51500000 damage aud wipes out thetown

May3 Fearful loss of life by explosion of a

gas generator at Cincinnati nearly fiftyhurt

5 Street car strike in MilwaukeeG Clevelands sweeping civil service order

protects 30000 office holders8 Many poiuts record temperature of 90

degrees9 LAnse Mich has 750000 fire Ash ¬

land Wis loses half a million by fireContinued excessive heat

11 Eleven killed by explosion of boiler ofrafting steamer Harry Brown at VIcksburgMiss

14 Bold bank robbery at Buffalo N YBig windstorm at Chicago Methodists re-

tire¬

Bishops Foster and Bowman15 Eighty killed by cyclone at Sherman

Texas17 Great loss of life and property by cy-

clones¬

In Kansas Five sailors drown offGrosse Point III Blue Island III fireswept 300000 fire at Atlanta Ga

18 Nebraska cyclone kills 442L Oklahoma cyclone kills ten22 Missouri cyclone kills five24 Four of Otto Malms family die by

gasoline fire at Chicago Cyclone in Polkand Jasper Counties Iowa kills a score ofpeople and does tremendous damage Chi-cago

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and suburbs also suffer25 Over 100 killed by cyclone In Michigan

Forty die at McGregor Iowa in a cloud-burst

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20 One hundred killed in street car disas ¬

ter at Victoria B C James Dunham mur ¬

ders six people at San Jose Cal Czar ofRussia crowned Cairo 111 storm killstwelve

27 St Louis East St Louis and severalMissouri towns swept by one of the most de-structive

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cyclones in the worlds history1000 reported dead

30 Two thousand Russians killed in apanic at Moscow Eighteen people die ina cyclone at Seneca Mo

JuneG Anarchist bomb in Barcelona kills 7

and wounds 413 Death of ex Gov Felch of Michigan1G Earthquake In Japan kills thousands

Republican convention in St LouisSteamer Drummond and 240 lives lost offFrance i

18 Ten thousand lives lost by earthquakeand tidal wave In Japan McKiuley nom ¬

inated at St Louis Silver men bolt theconvention Ten killed by exploding yachtboiler at Little Falls N Y j

22 Five killed bv collapsing building atSan Francisco Death of B H Bristowex Secretary of the Treasury at New York

2S One hundred miners burled at Pittston Pa Six drown in Shawano LakeWis

July1 Death of Harriet Beeeher Stowe7 Democratic convention at Chicago

Yale beaten at Henley10 Chicago convention nominates Bryan11 Twenty eight killed in wreck at Lo-

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Iowa 1750 hold up at noon in Chi-cago

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300000 fire at Nashville Tcnn12 Five killed in week at Chicago Foui

drowned at Lawrence Kan13 Half million fire loss at St Louis

Intense heat at Chicago14 Hot wave sweeps the country 91 de¬

grees at Chicago15 Temperature drops 3G degrees at Chi ¬

cago Twenty eight drowned at ClevelandOhio

IS Three lives and half a million in prop ¬

erty lost by fire at Chicago car barnsMalvern Ark razed by incendiary fire

24 Twenty six drowned by cloudburst inColorado Serious Hoods in Ohio andPennsylvania fc

25 Populists at St Louis nominate Bryanand Watson

27 Eleven die in a Pennsylvania cloud-burst

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near Pittsburg2S Indiana gas belt swept by floods three

killed at Anderson30 Fifty killed in railroad wreck at Jer-

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City N JAugust

4 Failure of Moore Bros Chicago Dia ¬

mond Match brokers for 4000000 Phe ¬

nomenal heat in Western Central and Mid-dle

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Northern States5 0 7 Continuance of killing heat

Conference of National Democratic party atIndianapolis

9 Furious heat increases 72 deaths fromsunstroke in New York and Brooklyn 19 atChicago similar reports from all quartersSeven killed by trolley accident at Colum-bia

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Pa10 One hundred and eighty people die of

heat in New York and Brooklyn 00 at Chi-cago

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12 at St Louis12 Cool wave Thirty die in a Pennsyl

vania cloudburst Seven killed by boilerexplosion near Alliance Ohio

10 Undertakers and cemeteries in NewYork overwhelmed with business hundredsof funerals postponed heat the cause

17 Death of Abigail Dodge Gull Hamil-ton

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at Hamilton Mass25 Whitney Vanderbllt wedding On-

tonagon¬

Mich destroyed by fire Nation-al

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Democratic State Convention of Illinoisnominates John C Black for Governor

September1 Twelve killed by powaer house explosion

at San Francisco3 Gold Democrats at Indianapolis nomin-

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Palmer aud Buckuer Slight frost inNorthwest

G Eleven firemen killed at Benton Har-bor

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Mich Two men lynched at GlencoeMinn

8 Six of a coaching party killed nearWarsaw Ind Family of four killed atcrossing at Oshkosh Wis

19 Tremendous storm in the EastBritish troops capture Dongola and routdervishes in Egypt Riot in Leadvillefour killed

27 Mount Holyoke College burns at SouthHadley Mass

29 Many Southern cities wrecked bystorm great life and property loss in Flor-ida

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Georgia and PennsylvaniaOctober

1 S Iowa semi centennial jubilee8 Death of Du Maurler the novelist9 Chicago Day celebration10 Two bank robbers killed at Sher

bourne Minn14 Meeker Col citizens kill three bank

robbers and hold a celebration over It13 Flight of W T Rambusch from Ju-

neau¬

Wis after embezzling over 200000during long term of years

10 First snow in Northern Wisconsin17 First snow in Chicago 150000 fire

at Holland Mich15 Death of Henry E Abbey theatrical

manager at New York25 Eight killed 20 hurt in wreck at St

Louis Six drown while boating at Den ¬

ver26 1200000 elevator fire at Chicago25 29 Mercury at Chicago reaches 78 de¬

grees Cyclones in the South and Okla-homa

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November3 McKInley elected President5 Storm of sleet and snow In Northwest

and Middle States7 Schooner Waukesha and six men lost

off Muskegon Mich10 Mercury registered 70 degrees at Chi-

cago¬

19 Death of Mrs Siddons at Paris23 Death of Campanlui the tenor at

Parma Italy Mabley Co Detroit fail26 Worst November blizzard ever known

in Northwest roads blocked and much stockkilled Apparently authentic report of

eyler s rout in uuoa with loss of 3000men

27 2S 29 30 Continued severe cold inWest and North

December2 3 4 Alarming ice gorge in Chippewa

Valley Wisconsin0 Strong indications that Cuban insur-

gents¬

will be successful Weyler fails in hiscampaign in Piuar del Rio Five killed incollision at Waelder Texas

7 Congress in session Reported deathof Maceo the Cuban insurgent general

9 Loss of North German Lloyd steamerSalier with 275 people off Spain

11 Collapsed building at Teres Spainkills 100 Mine disaster at Hedges Calkills eight

10 Tremendous snowstorm at New YorkCity accompanied by extreme cold threepeople perish Chicago has mild tempera-ture

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no snow and sunnj- - skies Wide¬

spread agitation looking toward aid of Cu¬

ban insurgents17 Eugland shaken by an earthquake

500000 fire at Pittsburg Death of Herr-mann

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the magician21 National Bank of Illinois at Chicago

closes22 Three banks dragged down by Illinois

National Two St Paul banks fail Cashwheat at Chicago reaches S9 after threemonths of almost uninterrupted advanceand market continues strong

SENATE AND HOUSE

WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS

A Weeks Proceedings in the Halls ofCongress Important Measures Dis ¬

cussed and Acted Upon An Impartial Resume of the Business

The National SolonsThe Senate Thursday passed the immi-

gration¬

bill known as the Lodge bill witha new section providing that the exclusionshall not apply to persons arriving fromCuba during the continuance of the pres-ent

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disorders there As passed the billamends the immigration laws so as to ex-

clude¬

from admission to the UnitedStates all persons over 1G years of agewho cannot read and write the languageof their native country or some otherlanguage but an admissable immigrantover the age of 10 may bring in with himor send for his wife or parent or grand-parent

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or minor child or granchild not-withstanding

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the inability to read andwrite The House passed the third ofthe regular appropriation bills that forthe support of the army and entered up-on

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the consideration of the legislativeexecutive and judicial bill The armybill as passed makes no provision for thearmy and navy hospital at Hot SpringsArk The House also passed several billsrelating to the District of Columbia andthree resolutions for the use of flags ofthe war department government reser-vations

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etc on the occasion of Mr McKinleys inauguration

Friday was private bill day in theHouse but most of the session was de-

voted¬

to the passage of the thirty sevenpension and relief bills favorably actedupon by the committee of the whole Fri-day

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The bill to pay Flora A Darlingthe wife of a Confederate general S5GS3 for Tennessee and Louisiana banknotes taken from lrer in 1S04 while undera flag of truce which was attacked byMr Dalzell Friday was laid on the tableOnly five bills were favorably acted uponOne of them a bill to refer a claim ofThomas B Reed a Pennsylvania sol-

dier¬

during the war to an unpaid bal-ance

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of salary to the Court of Claimscreated some merriment owing to thefact that his name was identical withthat of the Speaker of the House Theother bills were to pay the oflicers andcrews of the United States gunboatKineo and Chocura 12474 prize moneyto pay William B Isaacs Co lGyS7the finding of the Court of Claims to payGeorge McAlpin the sutler of the Elev-enth

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Pennsylvania Cavalry 0000 illeg ¬

ally collected from him and to repayMathias Pederson of Spring Valley Wis300 paid by him for a substitute during

the war Pederson not at that time beinga citizen of the United States The Senate did nothing of importance

A report presenting additional views onthe Cuban question was presented to theSenate Monday by Senator Morgan ofAlabama in behalf of himself and Sen ¬

ator Mills It indorses Senator Camer-ons

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views and discusses the action of theCommittee on Foreign Relations in 1S59on the bill to facilitate the acquisition ofthe island of Cuba The report reviewsthe alleged misgovernment of Cuba andmessages by former Presidents on thesubject and then refers to PresidentClevelands attitude whose messageJtaffirms is in corroboration of all formertestimony on the subject Debate wassharp and rancorous Mr Vest offered aresolution to the effect that Congressand not the President is vested withjo aoaopuodapui oziuSoooa 0 toavocIbelligerency of any insurgent people De-

bate¬

was stopped by Mr Hale upon apoint of order Mr Hill introduced aresolution looking toward recognition ofthe Cubans as belligerents and pledgingneutrality of this government No finalaction was taken Nothing of importancewas done by the House

The attention of the Senate was unex ¬

pectedly diverted Tuesday from Cubato the Pacific railroads Soon after thesession opened Mr Pettigrew of SouthDakota called up his resolution appro ¬

priating 10000000 to take up the trustnotes of the Pacific railroad This openedthe entire question and Mr Morgan ofAlabama followed with a bitter arraign-ment of the Pacific roads charging themwith fraud and crime on a gigantic scaleThe speech lasted until shortly before 2

oclock when the morning hour expiredthus sending over the Cuban question un-

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after the holidays Further than thisthe session was uneventful The Housepassed the legislative executive and judicial appropriation bill and then adjourned for the holiday recess This is thefirst time in the history of Congress thatthe legislative bill has passed before theholidays The day was devoted to theannual debate of the civil service lawand as usual the attempt to strike outthe provision for the commission wasoverwhelmingly defeated

Reflections of a BachelorLots of men think they ought to get

their wives affection on creditMen who are at heart most romanti

always pretend to the last not to bePretty teeth are very often at th

foundation of a girls reputation forjollity

Theres such a thing as baring toomuch regard for the feelings of theneighbors

The velvet on the peach may be pret-ty

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to look at but it sets your teeth onedge to touch it

There are some women who neveifind occasion to bewail the passing ofthe days of cbalry

When a man says that nobody careswhether he lives or dies he isnt adver ¬

tising himself very wellWhen a woman tells jou some gossip

about another woman she always be ¬

gins by saying Isnt it awful how shehas got herself talked about

When a woman gets an idea she cjusIbe economical she hunts around andfinds an old skirt to rip up

A man isnt likely to enjoy hearing niswife talk with a woman who remem ¬

bers him when he was a boy

There never was a woman whowasnt awfully conceited about tb6way she could love if she tried

A man hurts himself more in hifiwifes estimation by being brutal toother people than he does by being bratal to her

CHEESE ARE THRIFTY FELLOWS

6trr L in jJusiness on Borrowed Capitaland Always licpay the Loans

In some respects the much abusedChinamen said Hong Sing Long oneof the Interpreters and general agentsof the Chinese Six Companies to a Starreporter are way In advance of theordinary workingman and particularlyso In regard to their Ready Money As¬

sociationHong Sing Long spends most of his

time in New York though he visitsWashington several times each yearHe is an educated Chinaman and hashad the advantage of several years atHarvard and besides has been gradu ¬

ated as a lawyerWith the exception of one all of the

Chinese laundry places in this city arethe result of the Ready Money associa-tions

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that is the money necessary tostart them came from the ReadyMoney The plan is not unlike thebuilding associations which I am toldhave quite a clientele here and whichwere originally started in PhiladelphiaThe Chinese plan is to start ReadyMoneys as often as a party of Chinesefind they have any surplus money onhand the idea being to keep the moneymoving along It is the custom of thelaundry boys for Chinamen alwaysspeak of each other as boys to gatherabout on Monday that being their offday and gossip All who have sparemoney put It in a pool and authorizesome one to keep it personally as adeposit in a bank As soon as the poolgets any size the word goes out and itis sold to the largest bidder if there ismore than one applicant for it

As a general thing there is but oneapplicant and he gets it at a rate ofinterest agreed upon It starts him inbusiness and in a few weeks he beginspaying back Now and then there isno demand for the money It then goesto the cities where it is needed Justnow the Chinamen are starting laun-dries

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in a number of small towns of rheSouth and my errand here now is toget some of the Ready Money funds tobe advanced for that purpose

Safe Perfectly safe The civiliza-tion

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of the Chinese is no new thing Itis 5000 years old They have foundout that honest is the best policy noton account of the moral or religiousquestion involved as you understand itbut on account of the business proposi-tion

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involved Honesty is best becauseit pays as for many other reasons Inbusiness dealings Chinese are verystrict much more strict than any otherpeople

The Chinaman knows that if he bor ¬

rows he must pay back and that theconsequences of not doing so are veryserious much more serious than it iswith Americans or Europeans noknows this before he gets the moneyand does not take it unless he means topay back The man who acts as secre ¬

tary of the Ready Money is also thetreasurer He takes pretty good care togive a good account of his stewardshipfor his happiness lopcnus-npon-K- o

iuctr--jh- tj Ohiuese Ready Moneys fre ¬

quently close up in a week though or-

dinarily¬

they last longer Each trans-action

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is a separate one A man maybe a member of a dozen or have all ofhis money in one

The great advantage of the ReadyMoney is that it gives everyone whowants it money to open up business forhimself whenever he sees the oppor ¬

tunity There is no waiting no secur¬

ity is needed except a promise to payThe payment never fails except forgood reasons such as accident or sick-ness

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In fact it does not pay to fail topay for it will cost more in the longrun When your civilization is 5000years old you will know more than youdo now and will understand things thatnow seem to be wonderful in usWashington Star

Big Cotton TressesOf the many cotton presses which

were in operation in New Orleans sixtyyears ago the two principal ones werethe Levee cotton press and the Orleanscotton press They were large andmassive buildings each occupying likemost of the others a square of groundThe Levee cotton press was built in1S82 by a company bearing the samename at a cost of 000000 and was twostories high It compressed some 200000 bales of cotton a year The Orleanspress also fronting on the river oc-

cupied¬

an area of G32 feet by SOS thebuilding nearly covering the wholespace This press which was begun in1S33 and completed in 1S35 cost over753000 compressed about 150000

bales per annum and could store 25000bales of cotton Its immense lengthgave it a very imposing appearancefrom the river

Alligators Twenty Feet LongAlligators were formerly one of the

chief animal life tenants of Red Riverand the bayous of Louisiana where be-

fore¬

steamboat navigation came to in-

terrupt¬

them they could be seen byhundreds huddled together on the banksor massed on the floating or stationarylogs especially of Red River wakingthe solitudes of the forest with theirbull like bellowing Their length wasgenerally between eight and twelvefeet although they sometimes grewto be twenty feet long Their hideswere once used extensively for themaking of shoes but the leather notproving of sufficiently close texture tokeep water out shoemaking from thismaterial was abandoned

Likes and Dislikes of BirdsIt is said that birds are nearly as sen-

sitive¬

in their likes and dislikes as dogsSome people can never gain the friend-ship

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of a caged bird A bird has tolearn by experience that it is safe witha human being before it will respond tokind treatment

No man ever disappeared that someone did not invent a woman story onthim

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PAYABLE IN COIN

The statement of James S Cowdoncandidate for Congress in Virginia inthe last election that the 1S7S law nowdeclares for the free coinage of silverupon a careful investigation of thelaws bearing on this subject is foundto be correct as the reader may judgefor himself on the following evidence

The law of Feb 2S 1S78 readsThat there shall be coined at the

several mints of the United Statessilver dollars of the weight of fourhundred and twelve and a half grainstroy of standard silver as provided inthe act of Jan IS 1S37 on which shallbe th devices and superscriptions pro ¬

vided by said act which coins to-

gether¬

with all silver dollars hereto-fore

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coined by the United States oflike weight and fineness shall be alegal tender at their nominal valuefor all debts and dues public and pri-

vate¬

except where otherwise express ¬

ly stipulated in the contractThe next sentence of the same act

commences with the words And theSecretary of the Treasury is author-ized

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then follows t description ofthe purchase of from two to fourmillions a month for the describedcoinage Now be it carefully notedthat in the repeal contained in the 1S90law of a part of this 1S7S law not aword in such repeal relates in any wayto the above quoted sentence compos ¬

ing the second paragraph of this ar¬

ticle but relates solely and entirely tothat part of the act contained in thepurchase of the two to four millionsper month as may be seen in the fol-

lowing¬

language quoted from the lawof July 14 1S90

Section G That so much of theact of Feb 2S 1S7S entitled An actto authorize the coinage of the stand ¬

ard silver dollar and to restore its le-

gal¬

tender character as requires themonthly purchase and coinage of thesame into silver dollars of not less thantwo million dollars nor more than fourmillion dollars worth of silver bullionis hereby repealed

This just quoted Section G is the onlyrepeal by Congress of any part of the1S7S laAv and on its face and in goodlaw no other conclusion is possiblethan that the first sentence above quot¬

ed of the 1S7S law yet remains in fullforce and operation As may be notedthe unrepealed part of the 1S7S lawabove quoted is mandatory The wordssay There shall be coined leavingour executive officers no choice in thematter which fact compels them tocoin such dollars when people handin silver bullion for the purpose andk- - Vw--u -

Bimetallic League should consGquentlj-- at once force the executiveoflicers of this country to carry otttthe unrepealed provisions of this 1S7S

law which do in effect and unequiv-ocally

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restore the standard silver dol-

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that was repealed in 1S73 andwhich are as good law in all respectsas this 1S73 repeal act If the 1S73

law was operative until 1S7S then the1S78 law in its unrepealed parts isgood law to day and our executive of-

ficers¬

can be compelled in our courtsto cany out this unrepealed 1S7S lawto its fullest extent and provisions

Among these provisions is another un ¬

repealed part referring to the issuanceof silver certificates to the holders ofstandard silver dollars at their optionin exchange for said silver dollarsThis is the only law that permits theissuance of such silver certificatesAnd the fact that the executive officersof our Government have always actedunder and upon this part of the lawand have ever since 1S7S and 1S90 is¬

sued silver certificates proves at oncethat it is considered good law to nowput into force and operation all the un¬

repealed parts of the 1S7S lawNow as all our bonded and currency

National indebtedness is payable incoin not gold exclusively there canhereafter be no legitimate excuse onthe part of any executive or adminis-trative

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officer to issue bonds to getcoin to pay any of these National debtsso long as siiver bullion can be hadfrom our mines and elsewhere to becoined at 1G to 1 for the purpose theusurers of Wall and Lombard streetsto the contrary notwithstanding Phil-adelphia

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ItemOnr Foreijjn delations

The foreign relations of the UnitedStates will undoubtedly occupy muchattention at Washington during thewinter session Cuba Venezuela andHawaii are the points of interest

Add to these the Armenian and Tur¬

kish troubles the high handed conductof British Colonial officials on ourNorthwestern frontier the unsettledseal fishery claims and the new Ger-man

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port charges complication and itcan easily be seen that there are inter-national questions enough to interestthe diplomatic world Most of themwill probably settle themselves or goover for the consideration of the incom-ing

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administration but some must andseveral may press for earlier action andcome upon the carpet with the newyear

The impression is very general thatMajor McKinley is favprable to the rec¬

ognition perhaps the annexation ofCuba and is also committed to the ac-quisition

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of Hawaii as a Territory ofthe United States Both these propsoals involve questions of race and it isprobably for that reason that the pres-ent

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administration has shrunk fromhandling them

The uniting to the United States ofeither Cuba or Hawaii would bring to

us large non Caucasian contingents ofpopulation upon whom under our Fed¬

eral Constitution the right of suffragemust be conferred equally with Its en ¬

joyment by whites The negroes andmulattoes of Cuba and the KaukasJapanese and Chinese of Hawaii wouldall become full fledged citizens of theUnited States Whether PresidentMcKinley will favor measures to bringabout this parti colored complexion forthe American people remains to beseen It is possible that the sympathywe all feel for the Cubans and theHawailans may not after all be furth- -

rcr invoked than to earn- - out a schemeof protectorate or colonial connection

Flings at FarmersOne of the persistent policies of the

goldite pres3 is to make fun of thefarmers The leading o-called humor ¬

ous publications are published in NewYork and of course furnish their pat-rons

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with cartoons and jests which ap¬

peal to the Eastern ideas aud to East¬

ern prejudicesA broker who could not tell whether

a field is better adapted to wheat orcorn can bet on the price of grain nextMaj- - a speculator who could not im-

prove¬

the breed of cattle is an authorityon the latest style in neckties a clerkin a bucket shop who does not knowwhether pumpkins grow on bushes orin bunches like bananas is far toosmart to bet on a shell game

These men and all the class of whieuthey are types think It Is very funnyto depict farmers as wearing longwisps on their chins and imagine it theheight of humor to call them jaysand clodhoppers c

One and Jill the idlers in the cityfirmly believe that the manufacturerof shoes is a nobler man than the onewho breeds the steer and are firnilyconvinced that the dealer in marginsis a higher order of being than the onewho furnishes food to a nation

If one of the idlers in Gotham willsail out to Hell Gate some day andstick his finger in the water and thenif he will go back next week and lookfor the hole he will have given an aptillustration of the importance of hisclass in the affairs of our national lifoand in a nations prosperity

Meanwhile it would be wastingknown historical truths to tell the kidglove coterie that the farms have brednearly all of the great soldiers states¬

men jurists and men famous in Ameri ¬

can history There is a little red schoolhouse on every hill The dudes whothink the farmer is a fool would havemade fun of a certain rail splitterWhen the nation is in sore need of men

find them on the farms They are notthe product of bucket shops nor madeby dealing in margins Chicago Dis¬

patch

Tariff TaxationIt is perfectly appropriate and ac-

cording¬

to the eternal fitness of thingsthat the return of the Republicans tothe control of the Government of theUnited States should at once involvequestions as to the form shape andamount of increased taxation navingobtained at the polls what they con-

strue¬

as a popular approval of the rob ¬

bery of the people of their silver cur-rency

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they now lose no time in pre¬

paring for the next step the increaseof taxation upon imports and the placiiig of additional duties on trade

That we are to have a higher tariffif the incoming administration can ef-

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it appears to be beyond doubtThe only thing left to conjecture Iswhether it shall be fashioned on themodel of the Dingley bill passed bythe present House of Representativesat its last session and modified in someway this winter so as to make it accept-able

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to certain Western RepublicanSenators or whether an extra sessionwill be called as soon as PresidentMcKinley gets his Cabinet around himand during next spring and summeran elaborate comprehensive andsweeping McKinley bill as near as pos ¬

sible upon the lines of McKinleys lastprevious effort be put through andthe American people be called upon toface once more the experiment so oftentried since 1842 of a purely protectivesjstem

The present outlook seems to favorthe leaving of the tariff alone till afterMcKinley takes office If so there willbe grand times in Washington all summer New York News

Sonnd Advice to RepublicansWe regret that the Republican party

could do nothing which would so milchcommend it to the people as to makean earnest effort to live within the pres-ent

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income We are fresh from a cam ¬

paign in which the fundamental prin-ciples

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not only of our government butof the social order were subjected to asearching investigation and in whichthe charge was openly made that theAmerican government had become sim¬

ply the agent for the distribution offavors to the rich and powerful MrMcKinle3 could have no better guidethan that good old democratic maximEqual rights to all exclusive privi-

leges¬

to none Indianapolis News

Foresijrht of Speaker KeedBy sitting down on the clamorers for

an extra session Speaker Reed is againdemonstrating that he has the bulk ofthe brains in the Republican partyThe Speaker has sense enough to seethat the business interests are tired ofpolitical and legislative turmoil andwant a good rest