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intermittent; but when the in

all intermittent; but when the IN
strumcnt is turned slowly, you will
notice that the period of eclipse is
much longer than the period of illu-
mination. The photographs on the
llinetograph strip were taken in some
such way as this An ordinary ZOO
tropc added to the lantern shows the
principle Of the photograph. In this
instrument disc having radial slit
is revofvcd rapidly in front of disc
bearing series Of images in different
positions, which are arranged radial-
| IL. The relative speeds of these discs
are such that when they are rcvolved
in the lantern tho radial slit causes
the manages to be seen in regular
succession, SO that they replace each
ether and appear to really be in mo-
ton: but this Instrument as com
pared with the l;inctograph, is q very
crude affair.
After projecting upon the screen a
few sections Of the kinetograph strip,
ihc audience was allowed to pass the
instrument, each person taking a
view Of the moving picture, which
averaged for each person about half
minute. The picture represented a
I blacksmith with two elpcrs forging
piccc Of iron. Before beginning
the lob bottle was passed from one
to the other, each imbibing his por-
ton. The blacksmith then removed
his whitc-hot iron from the forge
With a pair Of tongs, and gave d.
rcctionS to his hcl pers with his small
hand hammer, when they immcdi-
atclv began to pound the hot iron,
willie tie sparks flew in all directions,
the blacksmith at the same time
making intermediate strokes with
his hanl-hammer. At u signal from
the smith, the helpers put down
tleiy c,igc-hammcrs, when the iron
was returned to the forge and anoth
@. piece substituted for it, and the OPP
Grafton was repeated.
In the picture as exhibited in the
photograph, it is said, every move
rent appeared perfectly smooth and
natural, without any Of the jerkiness
seen in Instruments of the zootropc
type which have heretofore been cX-
hib;tcd.
The machine in this case WAS not
accompanied by the photograph, but
nevertheless, the exhibition was said
to be one of great interest.
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UNCLE SANS ASSETS.

Receipts and Disbursements for
Fiscal Year Ending juno 3O-The
Cash Balance Available Is 1922
100000; Surplus, 100000
The Formal Treasury State
mont Issued on Saturday.
Secretary Carlislc's clerks have
been busy preparing the annual
statement of the condition of the
Treasury, showing the receipts and
disbursements during the past fiscal
wear and the total amount of avaia-
bic assets at the close Of the fiscal
voay. Exclusive of the postal SER
vice the total revenues for the past
yeaY have been 1885, 100000, an in
crease Of %2,O00,00 over the cs-
tialated revenues. Secretary Foster
predicted that the revenues from
customs for the fiscal year 1893
would amount to $19S, 100000, but
Secretary Carlisle's figures show the
total receipts to be $204, 100000.
Secretary Fosters estimates of in
ternal revenue receipts was S165. 00O,-
coo. while the actual receipts from
that source have been but $l6O, 600,
O00. From miscellaneous sources
Secretary Foster predicted that $2O,-
600 geo would be received, while the
actual figures show the amount to be
about $21, 100000.
The expenditures in the past year
have been 1888, 100000, exclusive
of the maintenance Of the postal ser
vice, thus leaving a net surplus Of
-, 100000. This surplus is exactly
the sum predicted by Secretary Eos
ter, but in view Of the fact that both
the revenues and expenditures have
exceeded his estimates little credit
can be claimed for the prediction re-
garding this narrow margin.
Secretary Fosters estimated ex-
penditure for the maintenance of the
civil establishment was $10S,0O0,-
600, but Secretary Carlisle's figures
put the amount thus disbursed at
$104, 500, 600, decrease of $780,
GOO. Fer the military establish
mcnt Secretary Foster predicted an
expenditure of $40, 100000, but the
official statement shows that sum
to have been 100000 under the
mark. For the naval establishment
the estimate was $31, 100000, but
Secretary Carlisle's figures will show
about $31, 100000. For the main
tenance of the Indian service Secre-
tary Foster estimated $9, 900,
but he failed to take in account the
Choctaw claim, amounting to $3,-
- a
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We should conceive OF pc=.E

We Should conceive OF pc~:r3
worthily and more highly than has
been the custom to conceive Of il. We
should conceive OF it as capable OF
higher uses and called to higher dcsti-
MES than those which in general men
have assigned to it hitherto. More and
more mankind will discover that we
have to turn to poetry TO interpret lifo
for US. to console us, to sustain Us
Matthew Arnold.
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100000. The total expenditure for
Indian service will be about : L., $780,
600, or 50. 100000 more than the cs-
innate.
For pensions the estimate was
$15S, 900, 600 and Congress appro-
priatcd S146, 100000 in the regular
appropriation and. afterwards added
$14, 900, 900 more in the Deficiency
bill. Secretary Carlisle's statement
will show the amount expended to be
about $159,000,O00, or $1,000, goo
more than the estimate.
Secretary Fosters prediction az to
the interest on the public debt was
$26, 100000 but the aggregate in
the present statement reaches nearly
$27, 100000.
Secretary Fosters statement
showing the probable condition Of
the Treasury at the close of tic
present fiscal year estimated the sur
plus for the year at So, 100000 and
the deposits for the redemption Of
national bank notes at s., 800, 900,
making with the cash in the Treas
ury July l, 1892, including t'ac gold
reserve, $131, 10000. Froln this
sum Secretary Foster deducted as
probable expenditures for the re-
demption Of national bank notes dur
lug the year $1,000, 000,'and for the
redemption Of bonds. interest notes
and fractional currency during the
year 500, 00G, leaving an estimated
cash balance available June 80, 1893
of 1920, 992, eco. Secretary Car
isles statement shows cash bal
ancc Of about 1922 100000
Following is summary oi the
statement in round numbers:
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has seen it. Here ii is
TO a LITTLE BLcE-F:Asn N.lpGH.


Maiden with tic eyes 81 hiuo,
Whose soulful depths "a fcin expire,
Wondering the while If those eyes
were true,
Without thee, could never do. w;tb thee
I'd 20 to the azores.
Maiden, those sparkling eyes of .hinc,
Eyes they say that are iruc-ot the
purcst blue
Mcthinks, were intended 20 look III no
other eyes but mine,
Then, truly, can know whether they
arc true.
The witchery Of thy eyes inaidcn,
Together with thy sweet WHY'S and wo-
manly grace,
Has played mad havoc with 10 hcar!,
maiden,
AS always is the case. when Cupid sots
the mace.
Things have been awfnl duh here
for some time. Money is vory scarce
and it is almost impossible r. boz
row any, even, at before uaNaown,
high rates Of interest. with gii'-edg-
ed collateral as security, bat Cleve-
lands proclamation Tor The extra
session Of Congress IN August has
had beneficial effect
EDWIN DnwIrr AcKEGNAN.
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TINES are always hard with those
who think that times are hard,
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Very Sincerely.
MARY II. THAcKER.

ACCORDING to a report by the
French Minister Of Finance l4S,SoS
families in France have claimed ex-
enlption from certain taxes recently
voted by the Parliament. on account
of having seven or more children.
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100000. The total expenditure for
Indian service will be about ;S12 ,500,-
900, or IS. 100000 more than the cs-
| tilnatn
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Receipts and Disbursements for
Fiscal Year Ending juno SO-The
Cash Balance Available Is $i22.-
100000; Surplus, So, 100000
The Formal Treasury State
mont Issued on Saturday.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-07-27
The Cause of the Trouble.

Ex-President Harrison thinks
that the Sherman act is not alone
responsible for the present business
depression, but that fear of tariff
changes is the chief factor in the
trouble. This opinion does not ex-
plain how it was that, when Cleve-
land was elected in 1884, similar
blight did not descend upon indus
try. Neither does it explain why
in advance of any action concern
Ing the tariff and before Congress
has even met. there should be such
collapse of credit. Uncertainty
as to the tariff would be a sufficient
reason for reluctance to engage in
new enterprises, but existing bust
ness would move on.
The feature of the present stu
alton is not fear of future condi-
tons, but distrust of the present
situation. The distinction of real
money and government money has
been forced upon the minds of the
people by the great difference be-
tween the real value of silver coin
age and Its nominal value. Whether
the greenbacks and bank notes.
whichcoustitue the circulating me-
dium Of trade, are rs good as gold
or will be worth 40 per cent. less, is
very much in doubt and that doubt
paralyzes industry. Until that
point is settled, loans are withheld.
investments are suspended, enter
prise languishes, consumption is
demand declines, mark
cts fail. and manufactures lessen or
stop
The record of failures do not
show any peculiar sufferings on the
part of protected Industries. They
are uneasy but stand remarkably
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-07-27
August Forecast. 1898.

The indications are the month
will open fair in central and east
ern parts, attended by a rising tenn
perature, eliminating in storms on
the I'd, Sd and 4th, and then u
short respite from the excessive
leat will intervene up to the next
period. A very warm wave will
start in the west about the 5th or
9th and spread over all middle and
eastern parts later. The heat will
become very oppressive about the
9TH or 9th and then bring on storms
central on the 9th. The period
running from the 9th to the 18th,
the time inclusive from starting to
dissipation in the east. will be a
marked one for excessive heat, hur-
rlcanes and syclones in the storm
belts, and also locally excessive rain
fall confined to narrow areas of
territory, while large districts will
remain untouched. Another foa-
ture of the August disturbances
this year is there will be much
more electricity attending the DIS
turbances than usual.
The flashes and zigzag chains of
electricity will form link of much
grandeur. In many localities
striking indications for abundance
of rain will be denoted by the mar
shaling of threatening clouds; but
they will pass off mostly 10 bluster.
About the 18th very cool wave
will follow the path Of disturbance
reaching over the couiitry in its
progress east. W
A return of heat and then of local
storms will prevail on the 18th and
18th and become cooler. About
the 18th the heat will advance GEN
orally in the sense of II hot wave.
progressively from west to east
bringing on a storm period which
centers on the Goth, when danger
Gus storms in the storm belts are
most likely to occur, and rain To-
cally covering narrow areas only.
The disturbance will be followed
by Il cool wave about the 22nd.
a return of heat and then II storms
IN the storm belts is most likely to
prevail about the 25tn an Roth.
The season will undergo change
either at this or thc.next disturbed
period, when decline of the in
tense heat will begin.
The last period of storms OF the
month centers on the 3lst running
to Sept. I'd. Earthquake shocks
may be felt both in August and
September, September will have
no excessive rainfall.
PR. SMITH.
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said that the profit divides, half 60
ing to each country. If so in do
mestic trade that profit all stays at
home. Adam Smith ought to be
good authority for Free-traders, but
they are blind to his conclusion in
this matter, for the good reason
that their weak case would be made
weaker by it.
They prefer to assume and assert,
contrary to fact, that "a Tariff is
tax" on the consumer of goods, for
eign or domestic. On this false
hood Free L rade with us is based
Economist.
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What The Billion Means.

A billion dollars is a sum SO enor-
nous that it is almost impossible
for the mind to comprehend its
vastness. 1t would give one tbous-
and men fortunes of million dol
lars each. 1t would proYldc twenty
thousand men with competence of
fifty thousand dollars. Itls nearly
twice as much as the entire il terest-
bearing debt of the United States.
1t would pay all the expenses of the
National Government for two years
and half. If divided equally it
would give about eighty dollars to
every man who voted for President
and Vice President in 1892. 1t is
three-fourths as much as ell the
currency in the United States
gold, silver and paper.
Enormous as thstsups &, ~ Does
not equal the loss to the American
people that has been caused by
Democratic rule. The country
would have been more than a bill.
lion dollars richer to-day if Cleve-
land had been defeated and Harri-
son elected last Novem DER. The
triumph of the party of Free Trade
and dishonest money has reversed
tie current Of business and indus
try. The shrinkage in values.
which began on March 4 and has
been intensified by Democratic i'm
becility at Washington, has pre-
vailed throughout the whole coun-
try. and has cost the people, as the
Press has shown by incontroverti-
BILE figures, over 81, 200, 900, 900.
1t is at once foolish and cowardly
for Democrats to try to evade re-
sponslbility for this unprecedented
depreciation of the peoples prop
erty. The facts are self-evident.
The nation was splendidly prosper
GUS under Republican government.
1t has gone from prosperity to panic
in four months under the govern
ment of the party that is pledged
to PROSTATE American securities and
debase American currency. The
Free-Trade Democracy and its
President have robbed the people of
more than a billion dollars since
Democracy returned to power at
Washington. New York Press.
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BRITISH consular reports just
now are interesting reading. The
London Economist quotes from
Consul Segrave, at Baltimore, as
follows:
"One of the most frequently re-
peated and successful arguments
in favor of the high Tariff was the
claim of it's supporters that the i'm
port duties would be paid, not by
the consumer, but by the producer.
A years experience has somewhat
modified that assertion, and it is
now more generally allowed that
any duty on non competing articles,
the incidence of the tax, whether
on consumer or producer, would
entirely depend on the capacity or
strength of the home market to
compete with the foreign market. "
The Consul unconsciously fur
nshed a strong argument against
a Tariff for revenue only, the idea
Of which is to lew duties on "non-
competing products, paid directly
by the consumer that is, by the
people who buy.
Who pays the duty on competing
products depends, he says, on our
strength to compete. The more we
manufacture, or produce, the less
of it we pay, and the more the for
eigner or importer pays, in every
kind of large home manufacture,
built. up under Protection, our
share is small. or nothing, and the
whole profit of trade ard manufac-
ture being at home over balances
any addition in price.
In foreign trade Adam Smith
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Democratic Reforms.

In four months the people have
a right to expect some evidence of
the reforms in government promised
by the democratic party. Should
any Democrat be asked to instance
few reforms accomplished by the
present administration he would
probably find himselfin an unpleas-
ant quandary. But careful OBJ
server of the performances of this
administration will he able to dis
Germ q few reforms, of which the
following are CONSPICUOUS illustra-
tons:
We have United States Minis
ter to Denmark, who was author
lied to buy arms for an organiza-
ton formed in the North to assist
the reasonable purposes of the
South.
We have United States Minis
to Turkey who euloglzed John
Wilkes Booth for assassinating
President Lincoln, whom he de-
scribed as ga merciless Nero"
We have postmaster in New
York city, who, on the Fourth of
July, took pride in recalling his
sympathy with the rioters opposing
the draft III July, 1868.
We have broker in New York
city, who enjoys a monopoly of
Cabinet secrets and governs his
speculations on Change by this in
formation, and places at Mr.. Cleve-
lands service a yacht maintained
by the proceeds of these specula-
tions.
We lave evidences of democratic
reform in the current use of the fol-
lowing epithets applied to ex-Unlon
soldiers: "beggars IN blue" "a sor-
did list OF grabbers at the Govern
menrs money uags.' 'as.-s--.ss.
We have another infallible evI-'
dence of Democratic reform in fail
ing banks, business depression, re-
duced prices, lower wages, closing
factories and "a general condition of
apprehension in business circles.
The evidences of Democratic re-
form are not difficult to discover.
They are all about us; they fill the
air; they are the subject of univer-
sal comment, and are best known
under the now familiar title of
"hart times"
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enemy, but that they had actually
cheated you out of money promised
you by the State to enlist. You
did so in preference to voting for
George L. Wellington, who in &C
cepting his nomination for congress,
SAID:
"For the payment of its debt of
gratitude to the old soldiers of the
Union, which finds expression In
pensions, if it costs a half billion
dollars year, will vote for such
appropriations
No dlsinterested advice would
swerve you from voting according
to your prejudice and passion con-
trary to principle. reason and your
own interests. Now face the con-
sequences of your own acts. Your
pensions are to be stopped sixty
days. The Democrats don't go on
the principle that an old soldier is
innocent until tried and found
guilty. 1t is too slow process for
them to investigate a pension claim
and if the pensiouer is found to be
drawing it illegally then stop it.
They stop your pension first and
try you afterward, and let me tell
you, my old comrades, once Demo-
cratic administration gets YOU off
the pension roll, you will never get
on again until your friends, the Re-
publican party controles the des-
TIMES of this great country. Here
is the true sentiment of the Demo-
Gratis as expressed in the North
Carolina Globe previous to the last
election:
Decentralization andCleveland
first. last and all the time, / am for
the brave Buffalo man, who slapped
the dirty pensioners, who, for the
most part, are beggars. in the face.
Let the Yankees howl. | am for
the South first, last and all the
time. propose to see to it, that
Grover Cleveland sits in the saddle
the next four years, then pensions
must 60. Go. and they should 60 to
the depts of he'll, and Harrison and
his hirelings should 60 with them. -
My comrades, the Johnnies are
after you. They have you on the
jump. Get up and skedaddle, and
never stop until you get into the
Republican camn. There are enough
of you in the State of Maryland to
make it Repu blcan State at the
next election, and remember, there
are 5000 due each one of you, which
yon can only obtain by putting Re-
publicans in power, as the Demo
Gratis have kept you out of that 5000
for twenty-eIght years, and never
intend to give 1t to you.
VETERAN,
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Congress and Its Work.

1t has been thirty-two years since
the Democracy, the party of free
trade, of dishonest money, of sub
servlence to foreign interests, of
hostility to American ideas, had
control of every branch of the Fed
eral Government.
To day the President, the SEN
ate and the House of Representa-
tives are Democratic, and it is not
improbable that before the Cleve-
land Administration ends the SUI
preme Court, the citadel of Amer
lean principles and human rights.
may become Democratic.
1t has taken a third of a century
to repair the ruin that Democratic
incompetence and treason brought
upon the country when Democracy
was last in power. The Democracy
returns to authority still protesting
the economic doctrines of John G.
Calhoun and Jefferson Davis 1t
has been compelled to abandon the
idea that the q Mon was Il rope of
sand that could be destroyed at any
instant by the caprice of a "Sover-
eign" State But though secession
and slavery died at Appomattox,
free-trade survives. Democratic
hatred of National authority and of
the men who upheld that authority
against Democratic traitors is as
vindict!ve as 1t WIS thirty years ago.
Democratic adherence to the doc
trine that what is needed is not
honest dollars but "chcap" dollars
and plenty Of them is unshaken by
lessons of experience.
The Nation has already mad
foretaste of what Democratic rule
means. 1t has seen an imbecie and
unpatriotic Administration delber-
ately refusing TO protect vast Ma
tional interests from disaster. 1t
has seen credit palsied. money
driven into hiding and Industries
suddenly checked by the Demo
cratic threat of free trade. 1t has
seen the ruin of business men by
thousands, the increasing scarcity
of employment fpr labor. and de-
preclation in t@e value of securities
Of more than oHr billion dollars
since Grocer Cleveland was inaugu-
rated. The nniv defence Of Ameri-
can interests and sound one is the
Republican p@ry. The business
mem ana jhr w4rr workers of the
United Stats hook to the Republi-
can mrojitS ld Congress 10 resist
to the las! the assault Of the allies
of European nonopoilsrS and the
advocafes o. g., degraded dollar.
Every il .pubii au should be at his
post ready 70 d his duty on August
9TH.
The minority #0ly aud courage
ously led, may avert irreparable DIS
aster from American interests. If
it cannot block al! vicious legisla-
ton it can acC as = brake To prevent
the coach from going over the prec-
ipice.-New York Press.
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10y -vo~s.-~~~a~sAsr TIN and
Terne. writing from California, tells
why the tin of the Temescal mine,
in spite of it's excellent quality, is
cutting no figure IN the market.
Shipments from this mine to Eng
land and Germany attracted atten.
ton and the mine owners of Wales
and England lost no time in hatch
ing a scheme to control what prom
ised to be dangerous American
rival. While they were about it
they took in the Temescal and Har-
ney Peak properties and stopped
production almost entirely. If we
are determined to make tin plate
the foreigners are determined that
we shall make 1t out of foreign tin.
When they get tired of this policy
the American mines will be re-
opened.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-07-27

1T WAS stated at the Pension Of
flee on Friday that 3, 500 pensioners
had been suspended up to that date
under Secretary Hoke Smiths re-
cent ruling requiring beneficlaries
Of the act of June n, 1890, to
prove total disabilities where they
are drawing pensions of $12 per
month,
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firm in the present crisis. The
finan cial uncertainty is the cause of
the present distrust. Lasstt the in
cubus of silver coinage from trade
and it will speedily pick itself up
from its present prostration. Pitts
burg Chronicle Telegraph.
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REMITTANCES:
THURSDAY. JULY, ~, 1898.
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.

The following rates tor announcements will
be charged and must be paid prior to the first
insertion Of the same:
Clerk Of the Circuit Court. S.; Treasurer. SIS:
Senate. 81; Sheriff. IS; House of Delegates, 81;
County Commissioners. 50 30: County Sur
veyor, Sl.5D.