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The Penn's Grove record., 1896-04-03
PENIS GROVE. N. j.. FRIDAY. APRIL 3. 1885,

told: "If you go in there, you will nsver
come opt. We never allow any one to some
out, for he would bring the c~ontagion,"
Then they made their wills and went In, first
to help the sick and then to die. Which was
the h~appier-Colonel Gardiner or the Nora
Wan missionaries dying for others1 Was II
all sacrifice when the missionaries wantedto
bring the gospel to the negroes at the Bar
bados, and, being denied the privilege. sold
themselves into slavery, standing side by
side and lying side by side down in the very
ditch Of suffering. in order that they might
bring those men up to life and God aud
heaven2 Oh, there Is q thrill In the 10y Of
doing goodl II Is the most magnificent re-
creation to which a man ever puts his hand
or his head or his heart,
Blu before closing I want to impress upon
you that mere secular entertainments are not
y fit foundation for your soul to build on. I
was reading OF q woman who had gone all
same to die. She said, az will die Tonight
at Q O'clock" "Ob," they said, "T guess
not; you don't seem to be sick" II shall
die at 6 O'Clock, and my soul will be lost. I
know 1t will be lost. I have sinned away
my day Of grace" This noon came. They
desired her 20 seek religious counsel. '0h,"
she said, .'It Is Of no use. My day 10 gone.
I AVE Been all the rounds Of worldly pleas
ure, and 1t is too late. I shall die tonight
at 8 o'clock" The day wore away, and II
came TO 4 o'clock and to s o'clock, and she
cried out at 5 o'clock; Destroying spirits,
We shall not have me yet; 1t is not 6, 1t is not
81" The moments went by. and the shadows
began to gather, and the clock struck 6, and
while 1t was striking her soul went. What
hour God will call for US I do not know
whether 9 O'Clock tonight, or 8 o'clock this
afternoon, or at 1 O'Clock, or al this moment.
Sitting whore you are, falling forward, or
dropping down, where will you go to?
The last hour OF our life will soon be here,
and from that hour We will review this days
proceedings. 1t will be a solemn hour. II
from our death pillow we have TO look back
and see a life spent In sinful amusement,
there will be q dart that will strike through
our soul sharper than the dagger with which
virginius slew his child. The memory Of
the past will make us quake Hike Macbeth.
The iniquities and rioting through which we
have passed will come upon us, weird and
skeleton As Meg Merrilies. Death, the old
5hylock, will demand and take the remain
Ing pound OF flesh and the remaining drop OF
blood, and upon our last opportunity for re-
.pentanoe and our last chance for heaven the
surtain will forever drop.
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Pennsylvania
Items

Fright at the upsetting Of a lamp by
a pet dog resulted In the sudden death
of James Price. Of Pottsville.
Joseph Whythes fell $50 feet down a
chute at Burnside Coiliery. a Sha-
mokin, and escaped with few bruises.
While attending the funeral of Mrs.
Barbara Stoneroad, at Lancaster,
Joseph NewgArd dropped dead of heart
disease.
Rumors of a proposed reduction IN
the working hours at the Altoona shops
were denied by Pennsylvania Railroad
officials.
A fall into an old manway at Silver
ton Colliery, near Minersville, injured
Luis Leinheiser fatally and Nathan
Flanagan seriously.
w. +. Davidheiser, of Pottstown,
was awarded S16f1 for injuries TO
his leg by a fail of snow and Ice at
! Softer Brothers foundry.
A Pittsburg trolley conductor refused
to accept u Columbian half-dollar and
elected the passenger, who got a ver-
dict for 500 against the company.
While walking on the Pennsylvania
Railroad near Stewards Station. Alle-
gheny County, John Davis, of Sum-
init, near Scranton, was killed by q
train
Owning to the sickness Of two i'm
portant witnesses the Anna Dickinson
suit, at Scranton was postponed until
the September term of the United
States Circuit Court.
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FATAL SPANISH MISTAKE.
gain the Government Troops Fire Upon
Jheir Own Men.

Again the Government Troops Fire Upon
Their Own Men.
Another accidental encounter between two
ipanlsh forces, near Esperanzs, Santa Clara
province, Cuba, has occurred, with diAre-
rous results similar 70 those at Ell Cano as
,sntly. Colonel Ho,guin had prepared an
3eneral Godoy approached.
Mistaking It for q rebel force Hoiguin's
rderilias opened fire, and a spirited combat
snsued, during which the troops lost 100
Oiled and wounded. Seventeen were killed
outright.
Among the dead Is Lieutenant Colonel
Fuenmayor. Five other Officers were
wounded, Two wounded privates died the
aext day. The encounter occurred on the
santa Rosa estate. The firing lasted only
on minutes. The guerilla forces were
oaeked by infantry.
When the mistake was discovered parties
oegan to bury the dead. One Of Hoiguin'a
men SO engaged found among the dead Of
1odoy's column the body Of his own brother
with two bullets through his head.
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NUMBER 81.

Bishop Hoban will continue to re-
side at Ashley.
| A train at Lancaster struck and
killed William ]. Martin.
A fall of coal 10 a Shenandoah mine
crushed 10 death David McCutcheon.
Hugh Lynch, a local politician, has
disappeared from his home at Ply
mouth.
A company was organized at Belle.
fonte to manufacture hammers and
tools.
Illness induced George Lyle, of
Sunbury, TO commit suicide by cutting
bis throat.
Little Michael Lecko, of Mahanoy
City, ate powdered caustic and will
probably die.
Falling with a hod Of mortar at
Williamsport, George H. Strong was
almost instantly killed.
Joseph FaIver had his neck broken
in the Pennsylvania Steel Works at
steelton by q falling bloom.
Charles v. Stains, who runs an AL
toona detective agency, was arrested
on a serious charge made by Clara
Hurley, a colored girl. 4
The $50, 900 addition to the State
Insane Asylum at WerDersville is
nearly complete.
While running a circular saw at
Chambersburg, c. M. Ditslear had his
left hand clipped off.
Michael Mahalko wa attacked and
fatally beaten at Mahanoy City. Stephen
Kalo and William Hoodock, are under
arrest charged with the assault.
A Pennsylvania Railroad train, at
Walls Station, Allegheny, ran over and
killed Ernest E. Eaton and Charles
Warner. 5
Patrick Hughes. a former peddIer
at Arlington Heights, Allegheny, gave
$50. 600 to the Holy Cross Church.
For winning a suit for Lancaster
County, involving $176, 600. two law
yers received a fee of 81, 900 each.
w. HI. Faulette is in Allentown
Jail, accused of swinding George Seek
endorf by telegraphing in the %latter's
uhiue loE iuouey.
Two bethlehem men fought about a
newspaper worth one cent, and it cost
them nearly IS before they got out of
the Justices Office. l
There are 1874, 600 tons of coal at
Honesdale ready for canal shipment to
seaboard.
Electricity may be substituted for
steam in the Carnegie steel works, at
Braddock.
Aged Mrs. Janet James was found
dead in her chair at Towanda, having
been asphyxiated by coal gas.
Without any known reason Daniel
Dun, a Lock Haven lumberman,
drowned himself in Bald Eagle Creek.
Grip drove George Nusbaum, a Lee
highton insurance agent, insane, and
be shot himself to death.
Coal gas from the stove nearly suffo-
Gated Edward Bonsall, his wife and
child at Brandamore, Chester County.
The protraoted fight in the Howard
Disciple Church, Centre County, will
again be carried to tn" Supreme Court.
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MuTILATso COIN AND ITS VALUE.
What It Has Cost tho Treasury to Have
Recoined.

Hecotned.
All the old and worn Subsidiary silver
yoin of the United States will soon be re-
placed by the new design adopted in 1892.
The progress being made In that direction
ny the United States mints 10 most encour-
gipg 20 the Treasury officials.
For some years efforts have been made by
he Treasury Department to keep the subsi-
iiary silver coin in good condition. With
his view, appropriations have been OBJ
aimed from time to time, to reimburse the
Of the United States for the DIFF
erence between the face value of worn sub
idiary silver coin and what they would pro-
luce when transferred to the mihts for
coinage. Since 1890 the amount Of such
worn and uncurrent subsidiary coin trans
erred by the Treasury to the mints for re-
coinage has been e29, $40, 1874. The value OF
he same In new subsidiary silver coin Ia
b28. $50, 745, showing a loss by wear Of s1,-
LOG, 838, which was reimbursed to the Treas
irer of the United States from ~appropriar
ions made by Congress for that PURPOSE.
The amount transferred from the Treas
Try to the minis from July l, 1898, to De-
ember 81, 1895, wa larger than for any
other period, amounting IN the aggregate to
s2D, 964, 962, face value. and producing in
,ew coin, $2O, ti5, $40, showing q loss on re-
coinage Of 4848, 84S.
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ORGAN WOULDN'T PLAY.
No Wonder, Either, for n Cat and -Four
Kittens Were In 1t.

No Wonder, Either, for n Cat and Four
Kittens Were In 1t.
Mrs. Clarence Brewster, OF Wolcott, N. T.,
aad q number of guests at Der home a few
lights ago, and at their request started 70
play for them on her parior organ. when she
was nearly startled out Of her wits by the
queer antics Of the instrument. II s~queakod,
yroaned, wheezed and pipcd, but absolutely
refused to play q single note.
As the organ had been In perfect order the
aight before, she was dunbfounded, and
,alled her husband. With the awestruck
yuests grouped about him he took q screw
iriver and began taking the instrument
apart. When he reached the bellows the OUT
,ry WA discovered to come from them. SO
they were cut open, when out popped his
,ather's tabby cal, Whose home was an eighth
Of a mile distant, on East Main street, and
behind her were seen four tiny kittens.
The cat had been last seen in the harness
hop where the father and son work. She
had crawied into the bellows back OF the
pedals and had then been unable to get out.
lat and kittens were uniniured. but hot 20
he organ,
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at all domestic. She likes driving and
out Of door life generally. but has not
much opportunity for indulgence in
these tastes. She likes Germany and
the Germans and Is q warm friend Of
william and his wife. In Rome she
takes an intense interest In the court
social life; In her country place at
Monza abe 10 q country woman; In the
Alps she 10 a. hardly . climber as the
Tyrolese. going over glaciers, along
narrow paths or to the edge of a preci-
piee with charming indifference. She
- q great lover Of flowers, nns old lace
AsA HASs DesElA
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Rritains Arc bicycle Mad.

The bicycle boom ia increasing In volume
,taily in England. The leading Britioh firms
krs completely blocked win orders. Tw.
firms recently started doing BUSH
ness in London with large stocks OF wheels,
md they are reaping a harvest.
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retiring tho Paper Currency.

At Winterville. Penn, while Frank Seihert
vas feeding his COWS, no dropped his pocket
l,ook con aiming @47 in bi Is. Upon missing
the wallet he returned to the stable TO find
ne of tbs COWS just finishing its meal Of
sreenbaeks. INT money had disappeared
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Johanna, Barnum's chimpanzee, haA
beep~taught to smoke cigarettes. But
that isn't very remarkable; many Of
the lower animals do 1t.
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the deed being q woman named Blair
to whose presence 10 the house Wilson
had objected.
A series of horse races near the For
Sill Indian agency, In Oklahoma, a
which ove SIS. 600 in money changed
hands. eliminated in . fight Two
Apache Ipdians were killed and
Federal soldier and two spectators were
wounded. The Indians had just re
ceived a large payment of annuitie'
from the Government.
In San Francisco, Philip Raner, q
negro cook, cut the throat Of Il four
! teen-year-old girl named Myers, and
: then cut his own throat, dying instant
ly. Raner, some time ago, robbed q
saloon owned by the girls father. and
was sentenced 70 three months inn
! rrisonment for the crime.
Henry Watson, living near Nash.
vile, Tenn, shot and killed Jim
Little, whom he had suspected of In.
timacy with his wife. Officers went in
pursuit OF Watson, and when they
were about 70 capture him he placed q
pistol to his head and killed himself.
While miners were fighting at Elk
morn, W. Va, ssm D ANU
oiAuy "o'o A
Conrad Becker WIS shot and killed
from ambush BY an unknown enemy al
Anpszyiile. Va.
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80. "a - di.n.ns.d v;,h N
49, 800 10 n..hines h.r0ad ,hs
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DIR. X. Q. Flower, OF Boston, Mass,
n@o;o.. su Mncs.G. w s%;aaso
III tor .iiogsd -consn;rao,
uoverno, o'one, OF missouri, mas
appointed Mrs. II. hayser'
d OF. LOUIS Sap.aia gehefai Oh the
Nalionai ouaros OF Inc STATE l
A pier belonging to the Erie Rail
road in Jersey City was burned, to-
ge.ner WIN seVe1ai oaiges' refer no
gsn, IT, ageu "a Oh 'ne barge Mui-
lisau, luinpeo Ih.o 1ne I,ver 10 escape
aa.n ny n,e' anu was ulowneu' ms
ia.nef' refer nogah captain OF the
The loss ia about x51 OOO.
Daring nre In n batuo House,
10 mobile, oonstantine Law,
crate, a guest, Ieh from q WINDOW n
-
belle haray wen.
sound during q th;ck loo and heavy
Southeast Gale The crew were taken
off
An ice gorge was formed in the Mia.
souri river al Bismarck North DAKOTA
and serious DAMAGE il threatened
IN. u..,,. -, p~..~Ir...
politician, was shot and fatally wounded
by his wife in the corridor Of the San
Francisco City Hall. The cause Of the
shooting was "reyenge for desertion
n ABUSE.
Near Rogers, Arkansas, Pulaski
Duckworth, while temporarily insane,
killed his wife. fatally wounded his
o.year-oid daughtes and then killed
himseii.
Matte Overton was arrested 10 ST.
Louis, and held without bail for the
murder OF her 2-weeks-old child. The
infant BODY had been pierced ~
umes win a long needle.
Patrick Ssnbury, of Louisville. died
of hydrophobia.
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Barnum's chimpanzee has learned to
smoke cigarettes. And yet she has
been supposed to be a fairly intelligent
monkey.
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,ge are forced to admit that COMPEL.
ing that st. Paul man to pay $500 fos
2,OOQ kisses smucks Of extortion.
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1t has been discovered that disease
germs are killed by the blue and vio-
ct rays of sunl light in a few hours.
-Pennsylvania engine No. 2106 Is
said TO have run $50, 900 miles with
out once being taken to the shcps for
repairs.
dissertations and calculations have
led A. MalIack to conclude that insects
do not See well, especially at a DIS
lance.
Chicago business men have organ
lied a committee of 100 to stop the
''raplne robbery OF the aldermanic
bandits."
Britain brags that the guns o
used by her army will send IA bullet
through four ranks Of men at a dis
lance of $50 yards.
Last year nifty n,ne physicians in
the United States took their own lives
against forty five in 1894.
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Foreign Briefs.

The Bank of Italy will issue q Gov
eminent loan of $50, 900, 900 for the
purpose Of carrying on the Abyssinian
campaign.
The conversion of Prince Henry of
France to the principles of Republican
ism is q subject OF special interest in
Partisan clubs.
British Ambassador P~auncefote will
soon start from Washington, ID. c., for
London to discuss the Venezuelan ques-
ton with Lord Salisbury.
The examination of DR.. Jameson and
his T~ransvaal raiders was resumed IN
London in the presence Of a crowded
Court room of notable persons.
The body of Author Thomas Hughes
has been inferred at Brighton, Eng
land. 8
London's Chambers of Commerce
are urging a system of penny postage
throughout the Empire.
The Gar and CEarina will visit EN-
peror William, at Berlin, after the
coronation ceremonies at ST. Peters
burg.
Red Cross workers are limited IN
their administration of aims to the
Armenian cities where the rural pop
ulstion will have to apply.
W. G. Mcdonald, a wealthy tobacco
dealer of Montreal, has donated $780,
600 10 the McGill University, making
his total gifts o., 000, 900. 4
Lord Salisbury has gone to Beaulieu,
in the south of France.
Il has been arranged that the Gar
and Csarina will make a round of visits
10 the various European capitals after
the coronation ceremonies at Moscow
IN May. s
A despatch from Buluwayo, the
principal town of Matabeleland, says
that thus far 20 whites have been
killed by the natives /
II was estimated in the House Of
Commons that there was no truth in the
report that England was negotiating
for the purchase of Delagoa Bay from
Portugal.
A number of prisoners and sick per-
SOM who have fallen into the hands of
the Abyssinisns are to be massacred.
NJ. Sarrien, a member of the French
House of Deputies, has accepted the
post Of Minister of the Interior. 2
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-02-06
Daily except Monday tDaily ex-

Daily except Monday tDaily ex-
cept Sunday.
Train on the Scotland Branch Road
leaves Weldon 3:55 p. NJ, Halifax Alb
p. NJ, arriving Scotland Neck at sos
p M, Greenville 6:47 p M, Kinston ...45
p. m. Returning leaves Kinston 7.20
a. M, Greenville 8.22 q m, arriving
Halifax at 100 a m, Weldon 11.20 a m,
daily except Sunday.
Trains on Washington Branch leave
Washington 100 a M, arrives Parmlee
$40 a N, Tarboro 100 a m, returning
leaves Tarboro 4. 80 p m, Parmlee $50
p m, arrives Washington 7.45 p m, daily
kept Sunday. Connects with trains
on Scotland Neck Branch.
Train leaves Tarboro, N. c., via
Albemarle and Raleigh Railway daily
except Sunday, at 4.50 p m, Sunday
800 p m, arrives Plymouth 900 p m,
and 5.25 p. m.
Returning leaves Plymouth daily, ex.
cept Sunday, 600 a n, Sunday $50 a m,
arrive TarborO 1925 q. m, and 11.45
p. m.
Train on Midland N G Branch leaves
Goldsboro daily, except Sunday, sos
a. N, arriving Smithfeld 7 80 a m. Re-
turning leaves Smithfeld 500 q m, ar
rive at G%oldsboro $50 a M.
Train on Nashville Branch leaye
nOcky MOUNT ab 4.5U p. NJ, arr1t.
Nashville sos p m, Spring Hope Sd.
p. N. Returning leaves Spring Hop
500 q. M. Nashville 8.35 a m, arrives
at Rocky Mount 9.05 a M, daily except
Sunday.
Train on Latta Branch Flo nc.
Railroad, leaves Latta $40 > m
arrive Dunbar. Z. 5U r N Retl, uinf
leaves Dunbar, $50 q m: arrive Latta
7.5O a M. Daily except Sunday.
Train on Clinton Branch lea Oh
Warsaw for Clinton daily, except SUI
day at lilo p III. Returning lon es
Clinton at 7.00 q. M. and 500 b m.
Train No P makes close c~onnecLlon
at Weldon for all points North dali.
Also at Rocky Mount with Norfolk and
Carol ma Railroad for Norfolk daily
and all points North via Norfolk daily
JOHN F. DININE, Gen'l Supi.
J.R- KENLY. Gent Manager.
T. NJ. EMERSON, TraflcMan'grl
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-02-06
THE SILVER SCHEME.

Walter Wellnan, one of the
best informed political writer's in
the country, in a letter from
Washington to the Chicago
1'imes-Herald, which is repro
duced on the first page of this
issue, outlines what he terms
1.-The great silver conspiracy" It
is nothing more nor less than an
effort to place this government
on a silver-paper basis.
The first step in the conspiracy
is being taken by the silver men
in the Senate now. It is a gen
eral blockade policy, to prevent
the enactment of any laws that
will enable the President to main
tain the gold reserve except by
the issuance of bonds.
This move has progressed sat-
isfactoriIy SO far.
The next step will thus be the
forcing Of repeated bond issues,
to prejudice the people against
the issuance Of bonds in time of
peace, and to secure, if possible,
a declaration by both the old
parties against increasing the
national debt, and if not by both
parties, by one. Then the silver
strength will be thrown to the
party that goes furthest in carry
ing out this programme.
Both the old parties failing to
respond, a silver candidate will
be nominated. The ultimate eff
fort is'directed to getting a man
in the White House who will re-
fuse to issue bonds. thereby forcs
ing the country to a silver-paper
basis.
The ''conspiracy,"as MI. Well
man properly terms it, is being
engineered by Jones, of Nevada,
and Teller, of Colorado. It is a
silver miners scheme, pure and
simple. The successful consum-
nation of it would mean millions
to the silver mine owners, but
woe to the balance of the coun-
try. Yet many sensible and hon~
est Senators and Congressman
are being hoodwinked into pro-
noting it in the belief that it is a
measure of financial relief.
Slick as this scheme may be,
THE ARGUS has little fear of its
contamination. Neither of the
old parties is very apt to place a
man in the White House who
would fail to sustain the credit OF
the government, Such a man
couldn't be elected.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-02-06
M. E. Robinson & Bro
West Centre ST.


From several of ~ R=publi-
can exchanges we learn that Mr.,
Reed and Mr.. Allison are indig-
nant at the methods which Mr..
Mckinley and his lieutenants are
pursuing to secure delegates to
the National Republican con-
yention.
The contest for the Republic
can nomination will be sharp and
will hardly end without engen-
dering a considerable degree OF
bitterness. There is probably
much truth in the plant Of other
candidates that money is being
used to buy delegates for Mc~
Kinley, but who that is familiar
with the methods Of Republican
politicians doubts that the friends
of the other candidates would dc
exactly what they accuse Me-
Kinley's hackers of doing if the
opportunity offered and they had
the means to meet its require
ments?
We have said before that Nc
Kinley would probablp have al
his command more Of the fiat
that comes from interests that
expect to be favored by legisla
ton than will be offered to any
other candidate. Indeed, the
leading Republican paper of the
West has already charged thai
McKinley's large Southern fol
lowing is due to a big supply anc
lavish use Of this species of fat,
II is said that the recent Re
publican convention in Louisiana
witnessed the most disgracefu.
exhibition of "hoodling" evel
seen in that State where the Re.
publican party has been noto-
riously corrupt since its organs
zation. It is evident already thai
we are to haye a model Republi-
can campaign from first to last
It is incumbent upon the friends
of Reed and Allison to put money
in their purses. This is decidedly
more in accordance with the av
erage morality of their party
than to stand by and whine be
cause the other fellows friend:
are buying up the votes.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-02-06
MIR. HARRIsoN's LETTER.

Mr.. Harrison's letter to the
chairman of the Republican com
mittee of Indiana, Withdrawing
himself from the contest for the
Presidential nomination, appears
elsewhere in this issue, and like
most that he has written, is clear,
dignifed and unassuming, and
evidently means nothing more
nor less than it expresses. While
it will be accepted as sincere, it
will strengthen the conviction in
very many minds that of all the
apparently possible candidates
of his party Mr.. Harrison is the
most fit.
A man who has held the Office
of President owes something to
the Office and to himself. He
cannot descend to a scramble
with small ambitions. The coun-
try and his party know him, and
if they want him, they must call.
It is not for him to seek the nom
ination or to let his friends be
bound to his interests. Mr..
Harrison has in the fullest way
released his friends from all
personal obligation to support
his candidacy, and his manly at
titude will not fail Of apprecia-
ton.
It cannot be said that his letter
makes any very great or imme-
diate difference in the situation.
since Mr. Harrison has not been
recognized among the active can>
didates, and the chance of his
nomination is probably as great
now as it was before. It is merely
the chance that no other candi-
date can be agreed upon who
would be SO generally acceptable
to the party and the country as
he would be. But that proba-
bility will not develop till near
the time of the convention, and
in the meantime the Reeds and
McKinleys and Allisons and the
rest will take ex-President at his
word.