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The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-05-28
THE ELECTION OF PALMER.
1t Interferes with tho High TariY Major.
ity In the Senate.

ity In the Senate.
The election of Gen. Palmer deter
mines the political division of the SEN
ate in the Fifty-second congress. The
Legislatures in Florida and California
have still to elect, but there is no doubt
as to the result in each casa demo-
crat in . Florida and a republican in
California. This will give the republic-
ans forty-seven members and the oppo-
sition forty-one, the latter including
the two alliance mem. from Kansas and
South Dakota. This would be a repub-
ican majority of six If all of the forty.
seven could be depended upon. But
they cannot Three of them-Paddock,
of Nebraska, Pettigrew, of South Da-
kota, and Plumb, of Kansas-voted
against the Mckinley bill last October,
and Hansbrough, the new senator from
North Dakota, is committed against
all high tariff measures. 1t is there
fore obvious that the senate no longer
contains high tariff majority, and
there is every reason to suppose that it
may pass bills reducing the tariff on
particular articles If tho house sends
over such measures Despite the ad-
mission of half a dozen new states,
the sure republican majority in the
senate for ten years." which was count
ed upon only year ago, has already
vnnished.--N Y. Post.
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Ex1RAvA1ANT REPUBLICANS.
The ProdigaI Appropriations of the Fifty
First Congress.

The ProdigaI Appropriations of the Fifty
First Congress.
The full extravaganza of the congress
which has just expired cannot be accu-
rately determined until many years
have elapsed. Bills have been passed
that will call eventually for the expen-
diture of millions of money, but the
extent of the burden with which the
treasury has been loaded cannot yet
be determined. Nevertheless we know
that the Worlds prediction of de-
ficiency at the end of the present fiscal
year has been justified, and that the
further prediction that the government
would be bankrupted by the expiration
of the fiscal year, June 80, 1892, is amply
borne out
On the face of the annual appropria-
tions the Fifty-frst congress has pro
vided for an expenditure of more than
81, 900, 100000 for the two years ending
year from next July. The receipts
of the government for these two years
cannot reach $00O,000,000. There will
be a deficiency at the end of the cur
rent fiscal year of at least $S5, 000, 900
which must be met by the embezzle-
ment of trust fund belonging to the
national banks, by the neglect to pay
over the annual contributions to the
sinking fund, and by the appropriation
of eyery@dollar, thereby leaving the
treasury without working balance.
This year the. government. in obe-
dience to the Legislation Of the repub-
lican party, will have exhausted all its
available funds and will begin the new
year with the certainty that its ex-.
penditures will exceed its receipts. In
these early days since adjournment it
is possible, from the amounts known
to have been appropriated, to figure out
a deficiency of $70,O00,oo and when
the accounts have been finally stated
the excess of expenditures over receipts
will undoubtedly be found to be more
than 500, 600, 600.
The result of it all is that in two
years of absolute power the republican
party has brought the government face
to face with the necessity of creating
new bonded debt or of pinching itself
to the point of starvation to meet its
obligations, while at the same time ex-
travagancest have been mace part of
the current annual budget, SD thatsthe
emergency must be felt for years to
come.-N. Y. World.
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THE TATTooED dot.

Marks That Cannot Be Covered BY His
New Mantle.
An Ohio Blaine organ bursts forth in.
to adulation of the tattooed idol of ita
party as follows: .sBlaine is so great
that the mind instinctively refuses to
class him with the average run of cab
met ministers. He is more than a mere
minister-he is statesman, and the
greatest living one in this country He
stands in class by himself" 1t does
not seem to realize that Blaine is great
by comparison only. Standing among
the pigmies of the republican party as
he does he certainly towers; but placed
by the side of the men whoinade the re-
publican party great, to what insignifi-
cant proportions he shrinks. Mr.. Blaine
is man of craft, a man of political re-
sources, an astute leader, but he is not
statesman. In all his political life his
name is linked with nothing that is not
a political device or a personal scheme.
To every lip his connection with
schemes of public robbery arise when
the demand for the recital of his public
services is made. He is the man with a
gun behind the breastworks of the Pa
cific railroad ring that Mr.. Edmnnds de-
scribed him;> he is the man who was
sunstruck when in danger OF investiga-
ton by congressional committee; he
is the man who would have taken ad-
vantage of the necessities of wretched
Peru to secure to himself and his
friends the guano deposits of that re-
public; he is the Mulligan letter-writer.
the caster of anchors, statesman
whose statescraft is Burn this" Dis
credited and defeated by the votes Of
his fellow-citizens he has been rehab-
Hated by his party, but the new gar
ments are too scant to conceal the tat
too marks that disfigure him. Chicago
Times
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NOTES FROM THE PRESS.

Reciprocity and McKinleyism
don't trot together worth a cent.
Blaine is the republican inan-afraid-of-
his-horses. Utica Observer.
The republican senate was decent
enough to leave the nomination of the
Harrison postmaster for Vicksburg I'M
confirmed. The postmaster in question
is a nonresident, nominated solely be-
cause he is a negro, and with the sole
view of exasperating the people of
Vicksburg. All of which is very like
B. Harrison. st. Louis Republic
Speaker Reed was at last per-
suaded that praise by ourselves would
be in vain" He told his partisans this
in his farewell speech. Said he. s.If
our deeds do not praise US our. words
cannot" Poor ex-speaker, the proba-
bilities are that the Fifty-fir with it's
broken Reed, will die unwept, union
ored and unsung forever and forever
At last the car of the house has uttered
a simple, unvarnished truth. Win his
partisans remember it in the next cam
paign?-A Toledo Bee.
One more such congress as the
Fifty-first, the New York Tribune can
didly admits, would bankrupt the gov
eminent. 1t says; s'But if it (the next
congress) appropriates as large an
amount as the recent congress it will
be compelled to increase taxation in
order to prevent national bankruptcy
The recent congress began It's work
with large surplus to be distributed.
and that exists no longer Albany
Argus
v-Saysy Tom Reed: political 40
ton can never be justly viewed from a
near standpoint" Let the politically
dead car understand that there are
two matters Of recent political action
on which the people have pass d final
Judgment. The first is directed to his
retirement along with poor old Feifer
to the obloquy earned by dishonor.l
The second is the Mckinley abominn-
tions which il saved from being the
uneansst thing only BY the lower depths
n Reeds chsraotor. Chioago TlnsG.
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ENGLISH CLUBS.

Something About the UTisocial Character
of These Institutions.
: The English club is place to live in.
In one OF these clubs a member lives
for $500 year about as well MS he could
live for $4,000 year in his own house.
He, of course, wishes to make the club
his own house as far as may be. This
fact explains the solitariness of these in
situations. The member wishes to find
in them the independence, the privacy,
and, in sense, the solitude of his own
house. The great clubs are therefore
designedly unsocial Many of the feat
ures of the clubs accord with this inten-
ton. This is perhaps the reason of the
plain decoration and the absence Of
pictures from the walls. 1t is thought
that club should be prevented from
looking like adrawing-room; the notion
Is, that rather than look like drawing
room 1t should look like hotel, the
suggestion being perhaps that the MEM
bers are strangers to one another as
people who meet in an hotel are. But.
of course, it should look like neither.
There is no treating, the feeling of the
members, perhaps, being that this lib
erty would be interfered with by being
expected to DIR nix or even by being
asked to drink Those pleasant weekly
or monthly suppers usual in American
clubs are unknown.
Comfortable solitude rather than So
ciety being the object of these great
London clubs, it is obvious that society
is not to be sought for in them Social
enjoyment and social position are to be :
sought elsewhere Men do not acquire
position by belonging to the clubs. The
intention, of course, is that only men of
a certain position shall be let into these
clubs IT, as sometimes happens, aman
OF different position gets in, the adj
vantage he receives is slight.
1t is also true that the fact of belong.
ing to good club is of little advantage
in general society. Membership of
good club-whatever may have been
formerly the case-nowadays confers
no social position -Scribner's Magazine.
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KISSED THE POET.
How Dom Pedro Made whittier Blush
Like q Bashful Maiden.


The poet Whittier, who even in his
old age is as bashful as girl, was
once embraced and kissed by a man in
crowded Boston parlor. The incident
is told by Rev. Carries Martyr in his life
of Wendell Phillips. Dom Pedro, of
Brazil, on his visit to Boston in 1876,
expressed wish to meet Mr.. Whittier,
with whom he had correspondent for
many years concerning poetry and
slavery. A notable Bostonian gave a
reception to the emperor at which the
poet promised to be present.
The emperor was conversing with
Wendell Phillips when the venerable
poet entered, but he immediately rose,
threw his arms about the blushing
Quaker, and kissed him on both cheeks.
Then seating him on sofa he placed
himself at the poets side and chatted
with him for half an hour.
When the conversation became gem
eral the emperor told of his driving
over to Charlestown to see Bunker Hill
monument. Itwas six o'clock in the
morning, and the keeper was in bed.
When aroused he refused to let the EN-.
peror in until he paid the entrance fee,
half dollar.
Dom Pedro, having left his purse at
home, was obliged to borrow the coin
from the hackman. The company
laughed and Mr.. Phillips said:
9'The story does not end with the pay
ment of the entrance fee. Twill tell
your majesty the rest of II. Two hours
later a well-known leader of Boston
society entered the visitors 'reom at the
base of the monument. CHANGING over
the book in which every visitor regis
ters he saw your majesty's signature. :
".Why,' said he to the keeper. you
have had the emperor of Brazil here
this morning. How did he look?
= ..fhe keeper, putting on his glasses,
examined the handwriting and scorn-
fully muttered;
Emperor? That's dodge; that fel-
low was scapegrace without cent in
his pocket IN. Y. Journal.
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IN HARD LUCK.
Bnt He Was Making Blur For FIFTY Do,-.
lars More. 8

But He Was Making Blur For Fffty Do,-
lars More.
At about noon, as l was journeying
/, on horseback through North Dakota, /
came along to farm house which
looked very dilapidated, but which
might furnish comfortable dinner.
nevertheless. 1t seemed at first to be
deserted, but after awhile a bare-head-
ed, coatless man answered my knocks
and asked what was wanted When |
told him he replied:
stranger, I'm sorry, but / can't ac-
commodate you. My wife is down with
the chills.
TOO bad"
"And my oldest gal has got the juno
ing toothache. just jumped her clean
over chair"
.That's hard lines"
"And the other gal has been in bed
three weeks with thorn in her foot. 2
Pm sorry"
"And I've got my every-other-day
ager shake on, or l would cook some
thing for You myself"
Things seem to be going hard with
You, j suggested.
you've hit it, stranger he said, rs
he sat down on the doorstep and In
obliged in long shiver This land
amt what thought it was"
'.No?"
'And I've had three crops fail on me. !"
sssYes?"
Sand some of us have been sick every
day since we came into the state. Barn
burned up last month";
ibid, eh?"
"And some one run of my horses and.
wagon last week"
Il declarew
''And I'm dead broke, and nothing in
the house 10 eat except corn NEAL
well, well! Wern't you discour-
aged?,
..Teetotally."
And why don't you pull up stakes
and leaye?"
That's 1t, stranger, why don't II i
know orter, and the old woman SAYS
orter, but I'm hangin' on for blur, II
flows thata'
Eastern man got q mortgage for
$500 on this outfit, which hain't worth
$500, and I'm hangin' on to bluff him
into giving me $50 more TO vacate and
travel. I've writ him II he won't do II
wen all die a the house and haunt the
ranch forevermore, but he's slow In
making up his mind. Ever see TELLER
shake worse than dosstranger? It's
seven miles TO the next house, and the
old woman Is hollering for water, and
that jumping gal Is jumping with an
OTHER spell Of toothacheG Excuse haste.
stranger and keep straight on, and
you'll fsteh up = BFown's Y IN. =. Sun
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ne might bask and rest, and 70 get hi,
Iraud-yes, even his bloodguiit:tic,s.
he tnrns the handle OF Tho dor
quietly, gradually, and enters A
delicate scent, as from the folds OF
sllken garments, strikes his senses. But
he does not hear a single rustic from
his uncle's bed. The old man sleeps
soundly indeed. =
Then he draws up the slide OF His
lantern.
so violently, with such trembling
agitation does he close 1t again. the
instant after, that the whole thing falls
clattering to the ground and Paul turns
and PUSHES through the room
What has he seen to overcome him
SO?
a woman. tall and supple as Greek,
stern eyed as Clytemnestria and TWEEN
ty times as fair, with black hair and
marble arms, eyes of fringed violet,
bosom OF ivory-how often had he
dotted on themtHow often had he felt
his heart swell with pity, with admire
ton, with unspeakable love, as the soft
voice tremulously demonstrated with
him:
We must be patient, Paul.
And now this saint of his life, this
virgin flower of woman, this one who
was to be the salt and salveto his sad,
wounded, outraged and rebellious heart
there she stands, her right hand under
the pillow Of the unconscious sleeper,
her left arm to strike him down if he
awake!
Paul passed stealthily into the garden
again. He went with bounds across
the parterre, fiercely trampling the
flowers and borders, cursing mean
while, in his heart, with bitter rage and
execration, the angel, forsooth, who
was thief and murderess.
Then he laughed wild, trembling
laugh, such as only grief that borders
on frenzy finds utterance.
That night, as he sat till dawn under
the moaning poplars and over and over
again repeated to his mind the hideous
incident that he half believed to be a
dream, love turned to hate, as fuel to
ashes, as flower to the blood-red poi
son.
ut was for love Of me,r he murmured,
for love of me-ah that is the blow
that cuts deepest; for why? That love
of hers is loathsome to me-"
That was forty years ago" said Miss
Perry, land 1t seems only yesterday"
She looked from the gray area of the
casino at Narragansett out over the
blue, dimpling sea, where yacht was
just coming to anchor.
The wrinkled old general, who direct
ed the taste Of the wealthy New York
spinster in the fitting of her large art
gallery, wiped tear from her glass
eye. 1t was a telling gesture, though
the tear was not tear of sensibihty.
But how did you find out that twas
hep" he inquired, softly.
"Hand me that fan and will tell you.
had come downstairs hearing noise
and thinking of burglars. was brave
in those days, and seized heavy pair Of
scissors, which carried dagger-wise. i
went to my uncls's room, felt under his
pillow, and was relieved to find his bag
of diamonds safe. Then there was a
momentary flash of light, the chatter of
lantern dropped in darkness, and the
sound of receding footsteps.
Il never saw Paul again to this day.
The lantern was identified as his. l felt
relieved at his flight at the moment.
But, general, you and are old people,
and for my part l can love only once,
and you must not speak to me again as
you have done to-day. Epoch.
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HIS PRoFEssloN.

nv boy and rode In the train
One morning bright and clear.
pWhen I'm grow i-up man." said be,
TN be an engineer
But soon the dust few In hts e.-es
And heavy grew his head.
wouldn't be an engineer
For all the world, he said.
NY boy was at o seaport town
And saw. the rolling sea.
Mamma he said, one evening,
"A sailor shall be!''
~eteek him TO o yacht race
Te had to go 10 bedi
4 wouldn't be sailor, now,
Fer,all the world r. he said.
Weread him stirring stories
OF soldiers and their famc.
I'm go and fight, cried Freddie,
-~v=iaA And put them all TO shamcin
Ne told him OF soldiers life;
He shook his little head
= wouldn't be soldier, now,
For all the world'' he said
And thus to each profession
- Hc first said Eyes, then INC. -
"To make choice is hard, he said,
"Atleast I find 1t sor
eB1t what then, will you bef'sI asked,
When you are grown-up, fredg''
81 really think I'll only be
A gentleman" he said.
DR. Malcolm Mcleod, in st. Nicholas.
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than . show Of protest But even Il
the northeast there Is not more than
one such democrat in every ten thou
sand In the west q democrat who
talked abanda nment Of the tariff issue
for any other issue whatever would
speedily talk himself out of the party.
Western democrats are opposed & re-
publican methods of controlling tse
currency and they are determined r.
correct them, but in the republican
abuse OF the taxing power they recog-
nizc the greatest evil Of federal gov
eminent as it now exists as govern
ment against all except . limited class
in few favored states
In the coming congress, as in the
democratic platform, the issue of re-
forming the abuse Of the taxing power
will be kept at the front, in precedence
Of all other issues whatever. Tho
speaker chosen will represent that
issue. No one who has been doubtful
on it in the past will be chosen as the
chief representative Of the democratic
party in the house. A mistake In that
respect would be an iIreparable blum
der, and it will not be made. The next
speaker and the next chairman of the
ways and means committee of the
house will be men fully representing
the democratic issue against the Nc
Kinley bill as it represents an abuse Of
the taxing power to prevent compe-
tition and restrict trade.
The democratic party will abandon
none of its principles, whether they ap-
ply against monopoly control of the
necessaries of life, monopoly control Of
money or Of the public land. 1t will
attack republicanism at all points, but
its strongest attack will be made on
the central abuse-the abuse of the
taxing power for purposes Of, direct and
incidental larceny. st Louis Republic.
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The largest Reservoir.


The Indian Engineer says that omit
ting lakes, which are in many cases
natural reservoirs, the largest reservoir
or artificial lake in the world is the great
tank OF Dhebar, twenty miles southeast
OF udalpur, Rajputana, which covers an
area OF twenty-one square miles. The
masonry dam Is ], 1000 feet long by % feet
high; so feetwide at the base andlb at the
top. In southern India, also, there are
some reservoirs. That of Cumbum is
formed by damming the Gundlakamana
river by dam fifty-seven feet high,
thrown between two hills. This reser-
voir has an area of fifteen square miles.
The Sulekere reservoir, in Mysore, is
very little smaller. and next to Cumbum
y the finest In southern India Chicago
News.
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THE COMING CONGRESS.
what tho Fight VIII he In the Fifty.
Second Congress.

The democratic issue in 1892 is the re-
form of the tariff. Other issues Of inn
portance to the country VIII be coz
sidered and treated in the democratic
national platform in the measure of
Their Importance, when compared with
the tariff issue. We do not see how
thee is any room to doubt that this
will be so, or 20 question frona demo-
cratic standpos.t that it ought to be so.
1t is true that there is a democrat
here and there in the northeastwho be-
lieves that the Conservatism the dem
ocratic congress is expected 4, show In
contrast 70 the radicalism cf the Reed
congress Il "A mean the acceptance Of
~ MsKinlsy bIll With nothing mere
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"a LITTLE NONSENSE.

Talk Is cheap, when you can send
II through telephone at the rate 81
ten cents an hour.-Texas Siftings.
-Teacher-"Willie. spell felt willie
-s.F-e-l-t" Teacher-"Right Jimmie.
what Il felt?o Jimmie--..A lickin'. ~
Epoch.
Torn Riohae--...r a.v rrrson ,vh.t
would YOU do II Won had q miilion?.
Upson Downes = s.Nothino.n N. Y.
Ledger.
4 pin. puni,-..Jobrnv crs.r
no,nt ont Attic. n a. man3 Iohn
..plesss ma,am q s,n,t roi;ts =, ,,o,,,t -
--ysnrse R,ads
GU ~.ss.sh,.. -. Ia. ..-. j.
~. $500. :" "yvha. = tha s .ssh =
th;ri,s g. 4. .a,,as III NJ !, az
M sn /, uo :. $3.50 n MN ~ 'l'o
-. 49, ~.
. .noo as ny .eao ony'
- wns' ra ~, no 1ne peopis s y ms coun-
ay Deionsr immy WIN I'M proalslous
eno.. q 'n0 mcmofyj 'ne csur
cuss,n race. nm am
"A moral Lad.-Auntie-im sure
tommy, tnat you are not 80 wicked IS
70 call Your motner ola woman.
Iommy-"No' ma'am, | call her old
lazy. fankee Blade.
1T Ought To Be.-Ransom docking
at his wife's new tea gown I'll suppose
that Is what you call fast color2s
Mrs Ransom-"Well, it's the same col
or you use In painting the town. Inter
Ocean
-Sympathetic Cousin-"Yes, 1t must
have been terrible disappointment
when Miss Golding refused you. Jack
Van Rroken--'It was q crusher. felt
exactly as though had been sentenced
TO hard labor for life. Life.
--Millicent-- -.sWhy have you been
looking 80 intently at the clock2''
Geowge (gallantly) lyon don't sup
pose eelLboahed, do you?r Millicent
mo; wondered II you had pawned
your watch. Fliegende Batter.
-Cumso- sit seems queer TO adver-
tise methods Of suicide" Mrs. Cumso
whist In the world do You mean2p
cumso-- Here Is an advertisement
which says: Try pair Of our shoes,
and you will never wear another shoe.
--IIarper's Bazaar
Husband, Just married want
to know what like best2 OF ali thincs.
l like liver dumplinQs. sour-ltfaut ana
blood sausages." Wiferss.O, Tor shame,
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Born Gamblers.

The love for games of chance seems to
be a part of the nature of the hundreds
Of soiled and tattered newsboys, boot
blacks and what-nots that adoin the
city streets. The youngster who is
scarcely hip-high to the ordinary man
owns his dice cup and is instituted deep
into the mysteries of pitching pennies.
You may see them even on winter days
stalking their few coppers against those
of a companion in vagabondism, while
their stomachs are as empty as a new
jar They seem to forget hunger and
suffering in the excitement of the game
Of chance small though it be--and the
loss Of their coin is borne as easily as
can be. Some OF the lads are rough;
but they can hardly be blamed for that;
they live and breathe and struggle
with the rough characters of life. But
there is scarcely one of the youngsters
who is not a philosopher and who will
not take his knocks and bad luck with
out perceptible sigh or murmur. Al
bany Argus.
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The Problem Solved. -Cadby -"lf
these. commissioners really want to
bring about rapid transit they had bet
ter cali in old man Simpson" Fergn.
son--sWhy, what does he know about
it?p Cadby .sYou7call on his daugh'
ter Belinda and see. He helped me
make the quickest time on record last
evening. : BOSTON Post