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A Bamboo Mainsprinp.

A gentleman travelling in Japan broke
the handspring of his watch, which he
took to native village jeweler. The
watch was returned apparently in as
good going order as ever, and kept
good time until the rainy season set in,
when it stopped. Being in the city of
Toxic at that time, the traveller took tho
watch to an English workman, who was
astonished to find that the cunning Jap
had putin spring made out of bamboo,
which, 80 long as it kept dry, remSined
elastic, but during wet weather had
gathered dampness and lost Its power.
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Comments md Illustrations.

Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.l:
The Michigan Democrats are for
Cleveland and victory" But where is
the Democrat outside of New York who
doesn't favor that combination? 1t is
getting the two to flock together that
makes the difficulty.
Indianapolis Sentinel (Dem.): The
people want n tariff reform campaign,
and they propose to have it. Cleveland
means tariff reform to the exclusion of
all other issues. His nomination means
square fight on that issue, with no
lodging, no triT ming, no evasion. Ev-
erybody understands that.
In 1891, during the three months end
ing March 81, the exports of tin plates
from Great Britain to the United States
amounted to $500 tons, valued at
81 $50, 1903.
In 1892, under our Republican pro-
lection, during the corresponding pc
Rod, the exports OF tin plates from
Great Britain to this country amounted
to "a, 81 tons, valued at GSS7 Sol.
This decrease of 81 ,29S tons, valued
at G734, 242, or S3,602, 1862, was caused
by our Republican protection, which is
rapidly building up great tin plate in
dustrv in the United States.
We had no tin plate industry when
the Mckinley bill became law on Oc-
tober /, 1890. In the preceding twenty
years we had sent 1907 900, 900
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Mississippi averages over ono inch. The
present high stage Of the Missouri at
Kansas City-21.7 feet, fall of foot
since Monday-will be maintained for
some time, and may even increase in the
next three days. The Upper Mississippi at
Dubuque, with stage Of 1919, has risen
two feet in the last five days. At st.
Louis the very high stage OF 35.3 feet
prevails, there being rise OF five feet
in the last five days. The rate Of the
rise has slackened. The prospects are
that the rise will continue one foot more
and high stage will be maintained for
some time. The Ohio has begun to rise,
the stage at Cincinnati being 22.5. The
present Ohio rise will not be of much
Importance. The Cumberland is at a
low stage. At Cairo the river is at
stage of Ais feet, having risen
5.3 feet in the past seven days. The
rate OF rise at Cairo has fallen OFF in the
past day. 1t Is not expected fhe stage
will go above 43 feet in the next two
days. 1t will continue stationary, how
ever, at the high stage, and it remains
to be seen yet what will occur with the
Missouri flood.
Breach In the Levee Widening.
Wednesday morning the Gypsy Gre
vase, near New Orleans, had widened
out to such an extent that all hope Of
closing twas abandoned. The water is
sweeping over the plantations to within
few miles OF Kenner. About eight
miles of the Mississippi Valley Railroad
track has been covered and traffic over
the submerged portion is abandoned.
The location of the break is about
twenty-five miles above New Orleans
and two miles above where the great
Bonnet Care crevasse occurred in 1874.
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.stranriing" Made Graphic.

A short time ago Theodore Roosevelt,
of New York, greatly amused his audi
ence at a meeting of the Republican
Club of Massachusetts, by exhibiting
the volumes of the Record of the Fifty
first Congress in refutation of the DEM
ocratic claim that Speaker Reeds rul-
ings "strangled debate" AS matter
of fact, said he:
This Congressional Record shows
that there was more debate in this
strangled Fifty-irst Congress than in
any preceding Congress Of any kind,
and 10 per cent. more debate than in
any Congress presided over by Speaker
Carlisle. Hall of that debate was in
dulgedL n by Democrats. These vol
umes contain more matter than the En-
cyclopedia Americana. They contain
many times as much matter as Bancroft's
voluminous history of the United States.
They contain many times as much mat
ter as all the reputable books and PAM
phlets published on economic subjects
in the United States during the entire
time that the Fiity-frst Congress was
sitting. They contain more matter than
is to be found in all the printed speech
es and public writings of Washington,
Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, Webster
and Calhoun. They contain more
printed matter than is to be found in
all the works of all the real masters of
American literature put together, ora
tors, historians, political economists,
poets, novelists, essayists and scientists
combined. The man who can look at
these volumes of the Congressional
Record and solemnly continue to assert
that in the Fifty-tirst Congress debate
was strangled, must possess reasoning
ia ,ulties which, however interesting
from the scientific, are purely valueless
from the practical, standpoint"
Laughter.
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Breach In the Leveo Widening.
FARMERS AT THE FAIR.
Tho Agricultural Exhibit VIII Far Exceed
All Previous Displays.

The agricultural exhibit at the World 8
Fair, 1t is believed, will be studied with
greater interest and by more people than
will almost any other division OF the
great Exposition. Millions are engaged
in raising or dealing in agricultural
products, and every one is n consumer Of
them. Recognizing this, the Exposition
management has provided aceommoda-
lions and facilities for this exhibit which
dwarf such provision made as any pre-
vious worlds fair.
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IT. Ia No Joke.

The joke about pigeons milk has a
foundation in fact. After the incuba-
baton of the young has been complet-
ed the crops of the parent birds become
thicker and secrete sort Of curd with
which the young are fed. This descrip-
ton of nourishment is necessary for
them, for If the young pigeons are de-
prived of it during the first week or two
after Matching they are sure to die.
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MICHIGAN STATE NEWS
OCCURRENCES DURING THE,
PAST WEEK.

Michigan's Crop In an Encouraging Con-
dition-Four Men Killed by Boiler
Explosion at Midiand-New Scheme to
Swindle the Farmers.
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AT the end Of July last there were
GO, 800 electric lamps-incandescent and
arc-in use in Paris. At the end OF
March, 1891, the number was 105, 900, SO
that during a period of sixteen months
the number of lamps in use increased by
Al 5O0
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-05-25

PARIS Is now the best lighted city in
the world, and model for all cities that
are bent on introducing electric lighting
on a grand scale.
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he eastern approach
to the big Union
Pacific bridge over
the Mis- souri at
Omaha has been
washed out, an d
there are fears that
the entire structure
will go. The river
rs rising rapidly, and
all the lower por-
tons OF the city are
under water, while
many small build
ings situated on the
river front have al
already fioated away.
The washing away
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"
The $47 100000 river and harbor bill,
recently passed by the House of Repre-
sentatives, is the biggest bill of the kind
ever passed or ever reported in Con-
gress. 1t was passed bv vote of lS6 to
60. This bill is big bonanza for the
Southern states and the Southern MEM
bers, strong for the old flag and an APP
preparation, really forced the commit
tee into reporting this tremendous and
unprecedented measure. But this is
only small part of the large total of
appropriations made by this economical
Democratic House, which adopted the
Holman economy resolution.
1t has been affirmed by Democrats
that the Republicans were extravagant
beyond the power of ordinary speech
to describe. The "Billion-dollar" Con-
gress was a promising campaign cry for
the Democrats. Yet it is fact that the
irst session of this Democratic House
has provided for larger appropriations
than the first session of the Billion
dollar" Congress. The Democratic
House has appropriated SO far, in this
first session, more than half a billion
dollars, and the same rate for the sec
ond session will make the total far in
excess of the total appropriated by the
ing statement shows the totals appro-
priated at the first session of the last
Republican Congress and the totals APP
propriated by the first session of the
present Democratic Congress:
ny THE "B1LLLoN DOLLAR" CONGRESS-
Regular annual approprations........ss 1851, 77005s
Permanent annual appropriations. lOl, 62s, 45S
Total.... ...s46S, s9s,b1l
BY THE ECONOMY" CONGRESS.
Regular annual 940 800
Permanent annual appropriations. -. III, s6S $50
Extra river and harbors...,........... 26C00, 600
TOTAL Solz oO%OoO
Up to date the Democratic Econ
omy" Congress has appropriated
nearly $50,000,000 more than the
"Billion-dollar" Congress appro-
prlated at its first session. And that
is not all. There is still to be added
$4,000, 900 to the pension and sundry
civil appropriations.
The country need not look to Repub-
lican papers for adverse criticism of this
extravagant bill. The better class of
Democratic journals have done the sub
ject justice. Two samples will serve as
fair illustration of honest Democratic
criticism:
The New York Sun: THAT there
should be Democrats in this majority
who are doing their level best to equal
and surpass the billion record of the
Billion Congress is almost beyond be-
lief They are fools and traitors"
The World: Are the Democrats of the
House of Representatives mad2 Or
have they submitted themselves to the
control of political imbecilesP Upon no
theory of sanity and sense can their re-
cent course be explained. For days in
succession, with a majority of 100, they
permitted their quorum to be broken
by horse race. AS though the faith
nessness of inattention to duty were not
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the bridge has put a stop to all traffic,
and 1t may be weeks before trains will
again run from Council Bluffs to
Omaha. II the river continues to rise
the main portion Of the big bridge will
likely be carried away, as it has been
greatly weakened by the washing out Of
the eastern approach.
People are becoming greatly alarmed
by the prospect Of still higher waters,
and residents Of towns along the river
are fastening to the higher ground. 1t
has been raining furiously, with the re-
suit that the sewers and small streams
have poured flood of water into the
Missouri. The channel has lately
switched to the western bank, and as
that portion Of the approach Is formed
by trestling filled in with earth and
loose rock the current soon began to
eat 1t away. All day long the gnawing
at the filling had kept up, and in the
evening it was noticed that the ap-
proaches were beginning to totter. AS
a result all trains were held in Omaha.
At 1880 the bridge began to sway and
crack, and a few minutes later with
roar and crash one span went whirling
down the river, carrying with 1t the fix
lures and equipments on that side Of the
bridge. A large force OF men was hurried
to the break. and carload after carload
of rock is being emptied in, in hopes Of
turning the current and saving the rest
Of the approach. The river surrounds
the embankment Of the Union Pacific
for nearlya mile on either side, and it Is
feared that the swift current may break
through this bank and utterly ruin the
bridge and roadway.
In the city the flood has played havoc
with the lowlands. All the squatters on
the bottoms have been forced TO flee for
their lives. Most of their homes have
been washed away and many more will
60. The rainfall has been unprece-
denied and much damage is expected on
all sides.
No Prospect for Relief.
A Washington dispatch says: The
threatening aspect OF the outlook for
the Lower Mississippi Valley has deep
ened in the last forty eight hours. AS
regards the prospect for intensity and
duration of the impending flood with the
water now in sight, matters stand about
as follows: There has been a rainfall Of
% inches along the Missouri River from
Kansas City to Pierre, and % inches
along the Arkansas from Fort Smith to
Little Rock. The rainfall in Iowa, Mis-
souri, and Illinois and along the Upper
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-05-25
BIG BRIDGE GOING.
UNION PACIFIC STRUCTURE AT
OMAHA WASHING AWAY.

The Eastern Approaches Already Gone
and the Rest I'm Danger of Falling
The Missouri Rising Rapidly and Great
Alarm Felt by the People.
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NEVER leave the highway for by.
way, In religion, politics, or morals.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-05-25

across the ocean to buy tin plate. The
tin plate mills already built or projected
under the new tariff have a capacity Of
243, 000, 900 pounds year, which, at the
present average import value, means
about 81 100000 annually, or in twenty
years $4,000, 90
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-05-25

bad enough, they reassembled in force
only to enter upon a carnival Of extrav-
agance."
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How the National Field Looks.
Asa rule political representations are
worth hut little, but the following from
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ia country and nav

Which VIII stay IN THIS country and pay
American wages, develop American
mines, and turn the wheels of Ameri-
can mills.
The price of cotton ties before the
passage of the Mckinley bill was $l.20
per bundle, and the duty imposed by the
bill was 103 per cent. In the year 1890
foreign manufacturers had monopoly
about seven-eighths Of the ties we use
are made in this country, and they sell
for a lower price than those England
used to furnish. An attempt is to be
made to reduce the tariff on this class
of manufactures and give the foreign
makers better chance. Anyone can
see that this is anything but good poll
CIV for home prosperity.
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DEMOCRATIC.
REPUBLICAN.



Under the Michigan law providing for
the choice of electors by districts it is
very generally conceded that the Re-
publicans will get 10 of the electors
and the Democrats 4. 1t will require
223 electoral votes to elect, and the foot
ings of these tables of practically sure
Republican and Democratic states show
that the Republicans will have to get at
least 8 electoral votes or the Democrats
will have to get 6S out of the following
states:
Connecticut ...... ... 6 West Virginia. ........
INDIANA. ..lo
new lork,........ 100 lothi'..''''.. . 30
virginia.. ......lZ
If the Democrats lose any one Of
these states except Connecticut or West
Virginia they cannot win; if they lose
both the small states named they would
fail in the election.
On the other hand the vote of Indi-
ana alone would give the Republicans a
majority of in the electoral college.
Harrison carried Indiana four years
ago, and nothing has been offered to
show that he cannot carry it again. In
fact, Indiana Democrats practically con-
cede that he will again receive the vote
of that state il he be renominated.
Connecticut cannot be depended upon
by the Democrats, and West Virginia is
even less reliable, having given Cleve-
land only about 600 majority in 1888. 1t
will be great surprise if it does not
60 Republican this year. Virginia is
fairly entitled to go in the doubtful
column, since on national issues il gave
but 800 Democratic majority four years
ago.
1t will thus be seen that the Republi-
cans have several chances of electing
their presidential candidate without
New York. while the Democrats have
none. If the Democrats lost New FORK
and carried every other doubtful state.
with Massachusetts and Iowa-which
they are absurdly hoping for-thrown
in, they would only succeed in producing
tie in the electoral college. The vote of
Indiana alone added to the substantial
ly sure Republican states will assure
Republican success.
But with all its complications, much
more threatening on the Democratic
side than on Republican, New York is
far more likely TO give its electoral vote
to President Harrison than to any Dem
ocrat now in sight. We believe that
state will be contended for in November
by united Republican party, but it is
not just TO the chances of Republican
success, so promising without it, that its
importance should be magnified for the
single purpose of influencing a nomina-
ton by the national convention.
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SOME TALK ON TARIFF.
THE M'klNLEY LAW GAINING
GROUND.

Our Relations With the CelcstiaIs "A
Quotation from the Congressional Rec
ord-Bourbon Economy-A Birds Eye
View.
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e46y,s9s,51I

BY THE ECONOMY" CONGRESS.
Regular annual 940 800
Permanent annual appropriations. l2l, s6S $50
Extra river and harbOrs............... 26,C0O00 600
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Cut OF by Floods.

HE eastern approach
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-12-07

SEE the fine display of Feather and Lace
Fans In 1. g. Dillon s Co.'s window to-day.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-12-07
Ls.GOODsells dry goods tho choapo
NorEs on NAvIGArIoN.
Stage of Water and Movements of Boats
Tho River Interests.


stare of Water ana Movements of Boats.
Tho River Interests.
The marks on the wharf show A feet
10 inches in the channel, and falling.
The reports from headw0teFs were as
follows:
BrownsviIlo-5 feet inches and sta.
tionary; cloudy and cool.
Warren-l foot and 3-l0thsi raining.
Morgantown-4 feet and stationaryi
cloudy and cool.
Yesterdays arrivals and departures
were: The II. X. Bedford, for Pitts
burgh, at S n. m, !; the Keystone State,
for Cincinnati, at 8 a. IN. the Sunshine,
for Parkersburg, at nooni the hudson,
for Pittsburgh, at s p. m.
To-day the Lizzie Bay, Tor Charles
ton, ut 6 a. M; the c. w. Bachelor, for
Pittsburgh, at a. m. the Andes. for
Cincinnati, Mt "a. IN, and the Ben Hur,
for Parkersburg, at 1870 a. M, will be
the departures.
Tho Andes in getting away from
Pittsburgh Yesterday, was unable to
carry the immense amount OF freight to
be shipped south on this trip. on ac-
count Of tho low stage OF water, and the
C. W. Bachelor brought good portion
of 1t to THIS city, whore it was reship-
ped on the Andes.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-12-07

SEE the novelties in Fans in 1. G. Dillon
s. Co.'s window to-day.
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board on such short notice and without
a tull knowledge Of the issues.
Finally Mr.. Cruise ordered the count
to go on.
give mo no assurance Of an opportunity
to take the action l have indicator,
Chairman Gruse-''No assurance"
Messrs Hubbard and Smith withdrew
and the count Of precinct was begun
PECULIAR PROCEEDINGS.
In this precinct every Republican
candidate lost one but Moaat. There
was no other change.
Just as the count was finished Mr..
Hubbard appeared in the room.
DIR. Bates moved that as soon as the
ballots were sealed up and signed tho
board take recess till $3.50 n. IN. to-day;
Mr.. Hubbard said: Before the board
does adjourn, have here bill oil ex:
captions, which | tender formally. and
ask the members of this board to sign"
Mr.. Gruse-"The board is about to
adjourn"
adjourned, and call attention to that
fact"
Mr.. CAUSE.-THE board is adjourned
under Mr.. Bates's motion"
Mr.. Hubbard-"The board has not
actually adjourned, and again tender
this bill OF exceptions and ask that IL
be signed"
Mr.. Cause.-The board stands ad-
journed."
Mr.. Hubbard-"And the bill OF cxcep-
tons will not be receivedr
Nobody said word.
1t is certainly peculiar parliamentary
law that enables body to adjourn bya
previous motion to adjourn at certain
stage of the proceedings to n set time.
As an actual fact, under parliamentary
law, that board is still in continued
session.
A THIRD MANDAMUs.
Mr.. Hubbard had prepared writ OF
certiorari to DO sworn to in the circuit
court and served on the board, but when
the board acted as it did the proceeding
was changed, and anafiidavit was drawn
IN fer a mandamus. The facts in the
case wers recited, and a mandamus was
issued, and about seven o'clock last eve
ming it was served on President Cruise.
Tho writ commands the board to sign
the bill of exceptions. and to refrain
from entering any result on the records
or declaring any result until the matter
is released by the circuit court.
One precinct remains to be counted,
and all the ballots in dispute passed
upon, before any final action can be
taken. 1t looks as if it might be some
time in January before the matter is
settled.
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DIED.

DIED.
sCHULTZE-on Tuesday. December G. 1902.
HENRY SCHULTZ, aged 70 years, months aud
IS days
Funeral from the residence Of HIS son, A. ].
schultzC, 1913 Jacob street, Thursday after.
noon at o'clock. Friends and surviving
members OF Company C, Second West vlr,
glnia Volunteer Invantry respectfully in
yited to attend. InteFment at Mt Zion Gem
etery.
CooK-on Tuesday morning, December O. 1902.
at $50 O'Clock. CHARLES W. Cook, in the 5lst
ycarOt his age.
Funeral from his latc residence, No. 70 Twenty.
fourth street, Thursday afternoon ut o'clock.
Friends OF the family arc invited. Inter
ment at Greenwood Cemetery.
WAGNER-on Monday. December s. 1872. ut s
O'Clock u IN, MARTlS WAGNER, aged IS
years
Funeral from his late residence in Triadclphla,
Wednesday, December :, at O'Clock D. m.
Intermeut at Stone Church Cemetery.
Friends Of the family invited.