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millions of dollars of gold funds were to be withdrawn by them from the Bank of France. Having no invest ment for this enormous sum, the Frenehmen were anxious to place it in the United States treasury to sustain the gold reserve for any period at a low rate of interest. Secretary Car lisle was duly made aware of this, but after lengthy investigation of the treasury books the offer was declined One man worked over the calculations necessary to arrive at this result for thirty-six hours steadily and showed no bad effects of the long ordeal. The event in itself was q very hattering evi- dence of foreign faith in our credit, and very few governments would have been in a position to refuse it. Were we to issue more bonds tomorrow, there can be no doubt that they would be very rapidly taken up at a low rate of inter- est abroad, assuming that our own fnanciers did not take them upon their own account.
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q -s meal usually consists of steak. or. chops, fried potatoes, bread, butter and
 coffee. ;s:s
 After breakfast the little colony re- pairs to the jail corridor. They are
 allowed every possible liberty as they
 have proved most docile and tractable
 prisoners. The corridor IS called the
 btudy. Here tie men read until twelve fifteen. Their intellectual activity isl along the line of economics, sociology
 and history The library at the com mand of these men consists of some. two hundred volumes of very good
 works including Shakespeare, Hugo,
 Henry George, Carlyle, Garland Kidd s
 '.social Evolution, Elys Political Economy, !, Fabian essays and others of a like nature. Debs conducts theclass regularly, and lectures on stated sub jeets. They, usually relate to the labor
 question. Debs has very effective way Of.presenting his ideas and his pu- pils not infrequently include employees of the jail and now and then the sheriff himself. .A sa0 < At quarter past twelve the men stop this work. Exercise in the jail yard is nosv in order. They run, walk and use the dunb-bells and chest weights. .Debs is the best athlete of them all, and has made some very astonishing records with ithe athletic paraphe erpaliai dts his command in the jail At 'one o'clock sharp dinner is served. This meal consists, as rule, of asroast, some vegetables, pastry or pudding and coffee. The men are not s'star49d by any. means i9 Woodstock
 After dinner ereading and studying are resumed and kept, up until five o'clock, after which Col Hogan begins the drilling, of. his squad, Supper is always ready by half-pastlsix, and that frugal meal consists of cold meat, milk and bread. 5f#afa
 The intellectual life of Woodstock
 jail is further yaried, by literary ex- ercises.a These begin at eightao'elock in the morning and last for two hours. "A debate usually begins the feast of reason. .~Debs takes some current labor question and it is argued from every point of view. One of the debates was on this theme: Resolved, That the state has. stronger claim on the child than it's parents" Rogers took the affirmative and Kellilrer the negative. The arguments were listened to for an | hour and the result was draw, F
 The conyicts have established code Of rules .f5f tKemselves, which every ann is sol3ligcd to live up to. Thus for
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caused to be printed in' hiS..paper., Among other thipgs'he said:.as @ i:s s. $,
 do not doubt the response the mothers of America will give to this appeal, I would as so@n doubt the abounding love or Christ, who listened to the cry Of the distrcsseat 'Noi no. : the mothers of America will iein with'the sop-,. rowing, art-broken mother in Topeka in spe. titioning the president of the United States to stay the 66ecutioner's hand Hesis'a father, nor do l doubt that his wife, who has been blessed with children, will add her prayer for mercy. s -s5 ,
 At any rate, it is the last iesort If the press responds ingiving heabpeal of tho dis-a .consolate mother wide publiUity., and petitions are circulated in tho homes of America, { d9 not.dogbs that the president, touched by the appeal for nercy; will intorbose Tis authority save the lif6of an orring boy and:thrill 'she heart of anagonized mother with;unspealSable. ioys- EUGENE Y. REFs "a
 Ever since Debs has maintained his active interest in the fate of the lad, add thrcueA his. indaenee the slabof unions of tha- ,siaintry faves taken Up. |estle n1atter.ss,s. A E. ''''' The comfort of the men is weili looked after. The jail is almost new and its-sanitation is nearly pefreHt. 1t is kept scrupulously clean, af'dl,, as 'af' ready noted; the sheriff allows the prisoners every possible liberty consist; ent with; the sentenee@ @of the acotfrS. Not one violation. of the rules liave the men been guilty of 50 far. The. insti-, tuition IS about fifty-one. miles from Chicago and the visitors t6nti1iue to be very sptaIaerous.
 The American Railway union does not seem to have lo& aiiy ntrneifca1' strength fass a result of the iinprisofi- ment of ;ts leading officers seh corps of very competent orgahizerrs@ are liaaih.. tained and recruits are reported plenti- fnls 'A plan of secfet work in thisseon-' nection has. been formed, and as yet the utfiost Silence has beesi main ysaipedas to the methods efnployedate make the union a more eff fcetive aidsto- I the men than it has provedsheretofore Debs continually asserts that tsre day lsof the strike has past. He qualities this, however, by saying that strike fund of some sort should always be maintained, as fear of a lockout shas often most salutary effect tAupon efa.' | ployers, 4IF8zg sa38If ess
 Debs and his associates have very doh- nite plans for the future. They will all be. out by winter, and propose to continue in the labor moverneElt.a As. will De remembered, there is I moves
 ment in the ranks of tllepopIaafsts. tol nominate Debs for the presidensg next year, but Debs hirnself says nothing on that sllbieet.
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pulp will make good print paper has made It possible topublish a very large paper for aminimurn of cost
 On some of the American papers since the war the professional funny man has been prominent member of the staff.
 George D. Prentice, of the Louisville Journal, had for many years before the war been @ witty writer and had stood almost alone as the inventor and pris- clpal producer of the newspaper squib Which has become so common in vari- ous degrees of excellence in these days.
 MT. Prentice's squibs were all or nearly all of political nature. It has
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before the country - that of disap- pointed office seeker of the highest honor within the gift of the American people. He has been heard to speak openly and bitterly of those whose chief charge against him is that he wants to be president. He declared privately to various prominent politi- clans that he would be very much astonished If his name were even put in nomination before the next national convention. Another noteworthy fact about Senator Hill is his conviction, freely expressed, that Mir. Cleveland does not want third term and would not accept it if he were offered it. In deed, the kindly expressions ot the sen ator towards the president have rather astQnished political leaders in New York.
 Hill is now leading a very quiet life. He is seen on the beaches of the sum mer resorts now and then, but most of the time he remains quietly at home, devoting himself to his law practice. One of the dangers of deserting ones office for any length of time was well illustrated in his case recently when his colored boy tackled to his door the sign:
 ''I ain't l1umming back this P. M."
 Senator Hiil's name was written be- low this in full and when the senator himself returned and found itan hour or two later, he resolved to do his own writing as much as possible.
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have started an academy in Woodstock jail. They run debating club. They edit paper. They have formed a li- brary.
 Debs would no longer be recognized by his old associates. He has grown a beard and that transforms his entire appearance. The eoterie of prisoners serving their six months in the Me- Henry county jail at Woodstock, H., call themselves the Cooperative Col ony of Liberty jail. They are be- sieged by hoards of visitors from morn- ing until night, but only few can pass the portal Debs maintains his leadership. He is at the head of all the undertaking. His right hand man is his fellow convict, Sylvester Kelliher. All lead very studious lives. They have elected officers for their little community. They are an inspector, a colonel, and professor. Elliott is in- spector, Hogan colonel, Rogers pro- lessor and Debs has been appointed teacher.
 At six o'clock every morning h. spector Elliott calls the colony and each man must rise at the word of command. After. washing they have an hour in which to exercise. Then Col. Hogan goes through the drill. They are allowed one gun by the prison authorities and the men take turns in handling it. At seven thirty all sit down to breakfast, the table be- ing set in the sheriff dining room. This
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Alfred Townsend. They all became famous at the front and have since dis tinguished themselves in the field of letters.
 From time to time have been some what of an autograph collector, believ- ing with certain authorities on that subject that great deal of character is conveyed in the handwriting and by the style of stationery employed The autographs of the three great war cor respondents mentioned above written ten years ago cannot fail to be. e.of inter- est to the student of chirography.
 After the war Mr. Swinton was a yoluminous and very successful writer of school books, He is the author of :. series of readers, geographies and his- tories. =zz-=.z
 Whitelaw Reid, the successor of Mr. Greeley as editor of the New York Tribune, is so well known that it is nn- necessary to make any special comment upon his autograph. Suffice it to say it Is very original and strikingly peculiar.
 George Alfred Townsend, who has for many years written over the nom de plume of Gath, "has continued to be principally known to the American people as Q correspondent. although he has found time tQ. write some very .ex- eellent poetry aqd has published sew eral interesting novels. s.e
 There are many great editors who have Contributed in marked way to- wards the developmentof the American newspaper of to-day. Of these, perhaps, the venerable editor of the New York Sun stands at the head. His hand writing is clear and distinct, and has the characteristics that would be expected in the editor of Americas greatest cyelopedia and the master of many languages. y# ~
 The autograph of Horace White, of the New York Evening Post, strongly
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iantic cable than anyone that happened to be in the party. The wager was taken up and for an hour men and women were plunging wildly toward tbe bottom of the sea. Then it turned out that to be nearest the cable you had to remain on the surface of the water, owing to the peculiar geograph- ical position of Newport.
 Mrs. Astor, the younger, is very good diver, and so Is Mrs. Oelrichs The'sport isa copy of the English bath ing fad in which Mrs. Curzon, formerly Miss Letter of Chicago, excels. It is a most unhealthy sport if persisted in, as it causes arush of blood to the head and wealsens the heartgand the lsid- neys. However, it is fashionable. Mrs. 'A1ya Vanderbilt alone holds out against the. craze and will not permit her daughter to join any of the bathing parties in which diving is among the alnllsernents H
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seeking g the pres ideney become current. These assertions are in- variably traced t O a sour c c friendly to the senator himself. The great dem- ocrat is intense ly annoyed by
 the attitude he has been put ID
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influence now so- journing at the
 diff c re Il t Il O t weather resorts, that serious dan ger has ensrted to more than one nationally prom | il c Il t society c Il a ra c { Q r. Y 0 Il Il g 'sCal' Brice, son of the Ohio s c n q t 0 r, had q bet with a Vanderbilt boy that he could pet nearpr the Af-
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DEBS' STRANGE JAIL LIFE
He Has Organized a School and a
 Cooperative Colony.
Orders Men Locked in Cells-He Teaches Political Economy and Started a Debating Club-Stiu Edit
 ing His Paper.
COPYRIGHT. 1895.

I Is a wonderful life that Eugene
 V. Debs and his fellow prison CTS are leading in jail. It is not likely that any set of crim- inals undertook to pass away a term of impris- onment as they are doing. They
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Of the asplrants for the nomiha- ; tion, but the general assnmp- t.i o n that he wants the honor is not very we31 founded. M r.
 Morton is quite " c l l satisfied with his present
 nosition. and he
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tiattii i9el tAtit3il tlAtt their origin in an incident that h q p pen c q in Wall s tre c :, which is very 1attering to our national credit. A b o Il t three weeks ago the Bourse fl n q Il - eiers efA r ari S
 wrote to lending bankers here te say that some two hundr
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 resembles thatso Mir Greeley as does his Handwriting except that it is not so illegible.. MT White, although born in New England, is really western man, his father, physician, havingre- moved, when Horace was young, to Beloit, Wis, where the latter was edu- cated. After graduation, be engaged in newspaper work in Chicago, and was with Lincoln during the famous Lincoln4, Douglas debates, writing them,up for the Chicago Tribune. He was after. wards, for several years, ana editorf of that paper. He is a strong, vigorous and scholarly writer. 7.-
 Joseph Medill, at present, as =forH many years.p past, the editor insehief of the Chicago Tribune, has been one of the great hloldingafor not only in journalism, but in politics as we'll. To him as editor Of thesold' FoEest City newspaper, in Cleveldnds is due the credit of having proposed and sue ceeded in getting adopted the name republican, flor the ateparty that now bears that title. He became one of the editors of the Tribune in 1855, and fully appreciated the importahteof. obtaining and publishing the news. which :has made that paper the power, that it is in the country. Mir. Medill's handwriting is that of the editor who learned to work rapidly and hard in the days before stenog- aa 1.- a g ; H
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| renamed Tor the writers that have 1 grown up since the war and with the demand for enlarging the scope of the newspaper to occupy the field of the professional funny man.
 The pioneer in this sort of writing undoubtedly was the Danbury News man. The Danbury News was a weekly paper published in the town in Connec- ticut by that name. The town had a population of between six and seven thousand and a single newspaper Mr. J. M. Bailey began to write up little imaginary incidents about short tenn pered men putting up stoves and pa tient women assisting them, incidents of COW milking, calf chasing, mule kicking and thousand and one other common little affairs that many people are supposed to have experienced. The editor awoke one morning to find him self famous His paper was in demands; his little town was leralded from one end of the country to the other. The circulation of the News, which had been purely local, became general, and from few hundred climbed rapidly to many thousands. It was on all the news stands and sold on all the trains. Fame and fortune had come to the Danbury News man.
 Other publishers in all parts of the country seeing the great success of the Danbury News, and being desirous of emulating it, sought to obtain funny men to contribute to their columns There were innumerable attempts made to initiate. The Detroit Free Press, in the person of Mr. c. B. Lewis, who wrote under the pen name of M Quad , made lasting success, Mir. Lewis has shown that he is nearly exhaustless as a writer of newspaper humor He wrote on almost all conceivable sub.
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 jects, from fiction of some length down to the squib, and almost invariably he wrote well.
 H. T. White, of the Chicago Tribune, invented the quarter column and half column romance which had such wide run a few yearssago It was original in literature and took like wild fire 1. The hifalutin style and grandiloquent remarks of the characters were an al- most exact reproduction of the popular or trashy novel of the day. The de- velopment and climax were reached very rapidly, but it. really amounted to as much as that contained in the six hundred page novel that it was intended to carieatures Mir. Whites autograph Is that of the busy newspaper man,
 A good Illustration of how the talent of one man will make a newspaper known the country over isifurnisKed in the case of Robert J. Burdette and the Burlington Hawkeye. The town of Burlington, Ia., was greatly adver- .tised by the .faet that this young man began to publishlin' the paper before mentioned the cleterest and most orig inal newspaper humor that the country had ever seen. @ It was copied widely and the writer of it found himself fla nous. The following gives an exeel-. lent idea of his penmanship and of his signature: @s5TS E. 's q
 Before closing this article [ wish to mention the signature of that modest, butstruly great editor, Mr. II. M. Alden, sa ,..s ..@ I.;s as.8ssfs
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Doubling the Yacht.

Much quiet alarm has existed in yachting circles over stories to the ef-
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spending money to get news at the ear Hest possible moment. Then it was that millions of people who had been con- tented with the weekly paper and with little or no news began to demand dailies containing the very latest that could be obtained from the armies in the field.
 The war developed the special cor respondent, who has been such factor in the American newspapers since that time. Of these war correspondents none were more prominent than White law Reid, William Swinton and George
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The Bon.i fssne sccret.

It now turns out the reports of an- other issue of gold bonds by the ads
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The Diving sweIls.

Diving has become so fashionable a craze among the New Workers of social
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 contest tg;;i lts'. n he i.r EfS.lE q. boat has good points, as all admit, but compi;airatiiYt;asiiY few. of her qualities have been revealed. The prince of Wales is said to have assured. Mr. Goelet that tKere can be no possible doubt of a British yrihIdph this year. lItwould be vefy humilfating. to MT, Iselin to have | the cup go back to England, for he has been most confident of all the syndi-. cate. The betting at the fashionable clubs lias favoreass the British. The UIffon club membership is positively alatded, for its bright particular stars hatespostetf. over aahundred thousand OO1idTS b1IdU AiicflchfWti III WILL.
 fAt' the same time it must be admitted I that the ttostbters, can allege nothing very defiaitein supporto of their lack of faithsg. @Fhere is only idle runor to in dorsetheirs gloom. Curiously enough however, .violent reaction has set ist, againsts the cheerful confidence in our F boat which prevailed for the past few E weeks Y ':.aa .as a#a 2 F.. Thesswomen of the fashionable set, Jed by Mrs: Iselin, have been very diff +.ferentsfrom their. husbands and brcth- eassin this respeet, Mrs.Iselin herself is pe16eatlys sure@khat America will re- .tain that,famous.eap. This ultra fash ionable..lsay is. such 'devotee of the sea that she .disdains the sse.ofi an Aairlz, ]. brella. Ihrained during one of the in- spections ,ef. the yacht the other week and she. eornpellea. her maid to take tfg ,u,nbrella while she anr her husband ]; wenta bout .in the rain. .a ..sz.&sM ssai ]. We're it not for the enthusiasm of the w9,nan, tue. fashionable men. would be rather cautious in betting on our boat. t.'..., ]. s. @ .. - lie < ssslai War, g5sSa
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lnITIRNALISTS AS PENMEN
o,onatures of Promine1 [ American
 Newspaper Mon.
.oh Rurdett's Autograph and Quaint Hit .le Verse Three Great War Cor respondents How C. A. Dana
 Writes His Name.
COPYRIGHT, 1895.

- All 1%L about the first year of our civil war that news paper publish CTS began fully to awake to the fact that it was impor tant for n e W s papers to publish Il e w s and that it was worth while
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is reasonably. certain of renomination by his party, He keeps himself very
 puehs in .seelusion at his beautiful country seat. The feeling between him aid. platt is now far from cordial, not withstanding the latter's indorsement ofx him oass New Yorls's favorite son. sMorton is saidsto have objected to his political intiuencei to further his own business, ends. That is, Platt is al- yyays shartering companies in which she is asteel5holder and sthen he exerts ofieial pressure to have them granted
 cdrtain Franchises. This trait in Platt Ted to one. ssyious disagreement be- tween tbe pairs zesss fs
 Morton is. s.siiot a good presidential
 possibility from the point of view of
 the. baby5 An.infant's crying reduces
 hsr1 2, to ,a very nervohs condition. l. When he was zretufnipg from the mili- fary encanp baby in the seat back of, him leaned over and bawled right in tlae governors ear, to his in-
 finite distraction. The mother sat by suneoncernedly the nerves of the goYernor of a great state were shat tered. .gs DAVID WEcHsLER. . *se8 ea4#s A 8#k8
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THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
Society Fears We Win Lose That
 Great Yacht Race.
Hfn's Wonder of Boy - The War of the Havemeyers Upon the Brices - The Secret of the
 Bond Issue.
coPYRIGHT. 1895

Again do the intimAtions made on be- half of Senator Hill that he is not
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Proper Mode of Firing 9 Pistol.

It is a peculiar fact that very few men, even accomplished shots, know how a revolver ought tp be. Randleds,
 Nearly all are taught to handle a re volver as if it were 8 rihe-that is, by bringing the object aimed at and the fore and hind Sight into. line. This is Sll wenr enough for shooting gallery. practice, but should never. be followed sin,the field aaWhen training troops to. use the@revolver. sthey are taught, in aiming, ,neverto look at the weapon at all, but to keep their eyespn the, object to be struck In quick firing, and es. pecially .-in shooting from horseback, much better results are obtaiEable in
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4 -- 777 ' ' r 2 E I. Her Terms.

. a..Aas wili you climb, sweet maid.' he said, ! ssssSg. Il me, this lofty monntains'
 Hercilecks by turns grew pale, then red She Slowly raised her dropping head
 Is there on top.E the. question spec, k.An ice crearstscd fcuntatas sssx. IT Truth
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: .Morton..g and the Baby.

.Gevs Morton will certainly be named in the.next national convention as ono