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red mouth and SO hard and bold her
expression.
She switched her skirts and put her
hands on her hips and her head to one
side, after a fashion l had known but
not loved well in time gone by.
II could weep for very inconsistencies,
she is SO like the ~waiter-girls in the
frontier towns, II she had more bang
and bustle," ! said.
After looking at his watch, nv com.
panion said: ave have yet an hour ia
wait. I'll tell you about Manuela's
e%lopement."
So, while eating calabassas, chile con
carne, and f~rijoles fritos with "Old
Mamma" sitting in the corner, her gilt
tering eyes the only live thing about
her, with Manuela flirting in and out,
bringing the highly-seasoned Mexican
dishes and b~estowing soft, furtive
smiles on my comrade, l heard of the
clopement Of Manuela.
"Branscombe, one Of the men who
used to eat here, fell in love with Manu-
elias red braids and buxom figure. 1t
vas ~reciprocated by her; but Old Nam
ma hated him and never winked her lit.
tie r%attlesnake eyes when he was around.
lie was a rough sort of fellow, and, II
was said, had a wife or so and a lot Of
children up IN the states; but, as that
cuts no ice here in Mexico, he kept right
on making love to Manuela. He was
greatly annoyed by Augustinita, who
was ever to the fore and would not ef-
face herself. So one night he got the
girl to run away with him on q south
bound freight--queer vehicle for an
elopement, a freight train.
"Augustinita reached the station Just
o. the train pulled out. She was almost
frothing with rage, and went stamping
round the platform, calling on ali the
Aztec gods for assistance.
"She Gained down after a time and
ssked the night operators advice; and
be told her that the only way to catch
her daughter was to hire an engine and
follow on that.
"'Oid Mamma took fire at once and
ssnt a message to the superintendent
asking Tor an engine. They wired hack
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-12-05
A SONG oE Ram.

The cuckoo scurries to and fro;
From green to white the naples blow
The longed-for rain Is comingl
Set every tub beneath its spout,
For theren be little stirring out
When all the roofs are drummlngl
Forth creeps the thirsty. wrinkled toad;
The dust goes whirling down the road;
The slender birches SILVER.
Uncertain little fiurries break
The CLASSY surface of the lake,
And scud across the river.
Now darker grows the drifting sky.
And robin, with a startled cry.
Wheels round his roofiess dwelling.
The trees begin to toss and lash:
Far off, there CLEANS a forked flash.
Followed by thunder's swelling.
Hark! tits the rustic OF the drops
Among the tossing maple tops
The first cool dash and patter.
The cir grows wondrous soft and sweet
With smell Of woods and grass and wheat
And marshes all a-spatter!
Now thunders down the mighty flood,
That turns the dusty road to mud,
And sets the caves to spouting.
Hurrahl the silver ranks have come,
With tempest-fife and thunder-drum,
And swollen torrents shouting!
Buckham. in Youths Companion
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Whoever may 60 into the cabinet,
Mark Hanna will undoubtedly be Sec
rotary Of state.-Chicago Dispatch.
Hanna is still managing McKin-
ley. When will the president-elect be
trusted to talk for himself?-St. Louis
Republic.
Mark Hanna will probably sue
coed in getting "forced" to accept a
cabinet position or something more
lucrative.-Kansas City Times.
1t would be IN awful joke on
somebody II Maj. Mckinley should rebel,
now that the election is over, and de-
eide to be president himself. Detroit
News.
The public will not he fully in
formed as to the plans of Maj. McKin-
ley until Pierpont Morgan has added
his views Of what will be done to those
expressed by Hanna and Sherman.-St.
Louis Republic.
The republicans were very CRATE
full and m%agnanimous to the Sound
money" democrats the day after cleo
ton, but they are already realizing how
hard 1t is to be generous with so much
spoils in sight.-Chicago Chronicle.
The business revival is good, but
1t remains to lie seen whether It will be
a business survival; as to which, much
depends on the nations success in
reconciling Mckinley to the abandon
ment Of McKinleyism.-Albany Argus.
The New York Evening Post saws
that New York shared with Masyachu-
sets the credit of being the first state
10 use voting machines in u presidential
election. This is q mistake. The re.
publicans have been using the negro.as
a voting machine ever since the war;
Richmond Dispatch.
III the American congress will
heed the voice Of the American people,
II II will give us q currency based upon
gold and q tariff for revenue only, thesc
two cnactments' will make It difficult
II nat Impossible io4 ils formation Of
trusts TO corner pruducts which the
American citizens are compelled to buy.
-LDuisyills Post
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STRANGE NEWS FROM CANTON.
The Talk of Trusts Between Mckinley
and Plngrce.

Gov.-elect Pingree, of Michigan, mas
been visiting Maj. Mckinley and talking
with him about trusts and corporations
81 found" says Mr.. Pingree, that he
knows as well as anybody that they are
rotten to the core. He recognizes that
they are one of the greatest evils in this
country, and knows that something has
got to be done. He's all right" The fur
Their information is given that it was
Maj. Mckinley who wrote the antitrust
plank of the republican platform in
1902. "They may talk all they want to
about Mark Hanna being president"
adds Mr.. Pingree, "but they'll find that
William Mckinley is going to be presi-
dent himself"
All this would be cheering II Gov.
Pingree could be relied upon 10 read
Maj. McKinley's mind and to estimate
at their worth Maj. Mckinley's words.
The major as a politician has acquired
the habit of agreeing with the adver-
sary while he is in the way with him,
and of seeming to acquiesce in the
views of enthusiastic persons who do
the talking. Gov. Pingree is not noted
for taciturnity, and he is honorably
known as a leicester of rapacious wealth.
Is it not quite thinkable that when
trusts and corporations were being de-
clared rotten to the core it was he and
not the president-elect who spoke?
What though Maj. Mckinley did write
the antitrust plank in 1892? He was
as good a silver man then as Gov. Pin
gree himself, yet he changed his mind.
1t helps to reduce to almost nothing
the value of this surprising retort from
Canton that Gov. Pingree should pref
ace it with the statement which fol-
lows:
III ever a candidate realized that he
yves his election to the people and not
to the gang. the major Is that man."
If the trusts and corporations that
are rotten to the core" are included in
"the gang" what would have become OF
Maj. Mckinley without them? 1t is
true that millions of the people believed
they were doing their patriotic duty
when they voted for the republican can
but it is also so true as to for
bid dispute that every trust and cor
poration in the United States which
takes a corrupting hand in politics
worked with frantic and constituencies
energy for McKinley's election, and that
he could not have been elected without
them.
1t may be that as president the major
will disappoint the natural expectation
Of reward of the trusts and corporations.
Enthroned in the white house and
clothed with power, ambition may come
to him to do what is right ever at the
cost OF consistency and the forgetting
Of service. Maj. Mckinley is not a
stickler for consistency, as his course
On the money question exemplifes, and
he has lived long enough to know that
he trusts and corporations supported
lin for their own nd not for his sake.
7 = possible, therefore, just barely pos
ifDle, that President Mckinley will de-
to be the servant of the money
power, which has made him Cleveland's
successor. But there are not many Pin
yrees about. The governor-elect of
Michigan is a singularly sanguine man.
N. Y. Journal.
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see for yourself she weighs about 81,
pounds, and clumsy at that. Haskins
and the engineer pulled, and the fire
man, who was a Mexican, pushed, and
Augustinita struggled and grunted, and
finally was landed. But when she saw
the yellow caboose, she frisked out like
o kitten. The engineer, who is a spir.
itualist, said that the spirits helped her
Haskins said he would have been much
more grateful to them If they had
helped her In, but he thought the,
showed good sense in taking the EASY
end of the job.
"Haskins was afrai1, p.o,soomhs
would shoot or ah,-.o tha o,d ,uon,on II
Sun va" SO he went with her to the
oose. The two were sitting on a
/ sort of locker; he had his arm about the
girl, and, beyond rising, they made nc
change in their position. Haskins on
the platform lowered near the open
| door.
"Augustinita walked up to them and
asked Manuela, in her p%olitest basso, to
come home. The girl gave an impu-
dent answer, and poor old Mamma
turned to B~ranscombe, who laughed in
her face and gave Manuela a fervent
kiss. Later in the day the thought of
that kiss, and Others, made Brans-
combe's blood turn to ice.
Now Augustinita had followed her
daughter because she loved her and
wished to save her from the fate Brans.
combe had in store for her. Besides,
she Is a thrifty old body, and Manuela's
beauty brings a great many centavos to
the house. Many of the men eat here
merely to get a look in her big gray
eyes.
"At Branscombe's laugh, Augustinita
burst out: Caramba! no more will you
laugh this ~day-look!'
with a surprisingly quick movemen.
she pulled off Manuela's chal and tore
| open her high-necked camisa. Brans-
combe gave one glance, and staggered
heavily against the wall.
keep away!' he screamed, with out
stretched hands. Don't let her come
rear me! I'll hit you if you touch me-
as the girl endeavored to catch at him,
pleading with him in her soft tongue.
"Branscombe, mad with fear, was
deaf. Although he had threatened to
strike her, he did not do it, for it would
bring his flesh in contact with hers.
The terror-stricken man, shaking her
off, raj out Of the car and down the
track.
"Manuela covered her breast and
walked sulkily back with her mother to
the engine.
Hawkins said it was an awful sight
those shining, livid, white blotches on
the brown skin, a sight he could not
forget for many a day"
Irose, sick and trembling. That was
one of the loathsome sights of Mexico
10 which l could never accustom my.
self, and the thrill of horror l had felt
on seeing the first white-patched,
frosty-headed leper returned.
Don't get frightened, madame" said
my friend, eating his salsa with gusto.
"'Old Mamma had just painted
Manuela up in her sleep! If she had
been a leper, B~ranscombe would have
been welcome to her. Do you think
that old lady would spend 5000 recover.
ing damaged goods?"
l looked at "Old Mamma" sitting on
the earth floor comfortably smoking,
and she looked back with her diamond
eyes, and l thought it not likely.-San
Francisco Argonaut.
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Not Used to LuxurIsa.

A tall and heavy-footed colored man
limped painfully into a large shoe store
in phenixvllle one day recently, and
began to complain to the proprietor
that he had been swindled. "Dese hyai
Shoes" he said, "suntinly Is de wu'st
ebah see. Dey jes' natchelly got me all
tied up in knots"
"What seems to be the trouble ?" in.
CURED the proprietor.
The colored man scratched his pate
for a minute, and said: "Fo' de Lawd
doan' know. Hit sho'ly seem lail
somebody done cast a spell on dem
Fust dey feels all right, an den de mex
day dey hu'ts mos drefful."
The dealer took a look at one of the
shoes; then he began laughing. you're
not used to wearing shoes, are your
he asked.
"Well. boss" was the reply, II doan
weah dem much, da's a fack."
"Well, the trouble is, you've got them
on the wrong feet"
mo, sahl No, sahi" cried the negro
"dey ain nofin' wrong wifi nah feet.
The dealer explained the difference
between right and left, and the Gus.
toner went away happy.rPhiladelphis
Record.
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lave no alternative but to accept the
hospitality of old Mamma as the rail
road men call her." And my pleasant
acquaintance of an hour or so led me to
the small entrance of a hut matched
with tules. The little mud structure
was built against the face Of q hill
There were birdcages, filled with a va
riety of beautiful birds, and such other
evidences of civilization as a goat, a
turkey, and iardinieres of flowers; yet
the habitation belonged to the age OF
the cave dwellers, I decided, as
CROPPED my way apparently into the
bowels of the earth.
After a few moments my eyes grew
accustomed to the half-light, and
could see quite well.
"Wow-wow-wow," growled a heavy
bass voice from the inner room. The
words are indistinguishable.
What a deep bass voice that man
has" said, i%nnocently. Mexican men
as a rule have such light voices"
That's not a man, it's Augustinita,"
replied my friend.
l am acquainted with that pleasant
little custom of Mexico which holds
to c%hildhood's tender diminutives long
after old age has fallen on one. Still, |
confess, Augustinita-which would be
"dear little Gussie" in English-was a
slight shock. She was of huge bulk,
and her old face was like a withered,
brown apple for wrinkles, but her eyes
were as bright as stars in a tropic sky,
and she had on that old countenance
a most shrewd expression.
Augustinita delivered our orders to
some one in the further cave--I cannot
call it a room-in her rumbling bass,
put her long brown cheroot back in her
mouth, and waddled behind a mat made
from reeds and hung from the ceiling.
She brought out a clean, whit
which she spread witbsqc oiuth,
put some Ar, @'n .dre' anu U ina
and n caHo~norlcan plates and cups
,-nfruuadalajara water-bottle. / sat
en- a long bench, drawn close to the
table, watching the old woman.
II want you to take a good look at
Manuela when she in; she is
quite a belle with the men who eat
here" said my friend, who had told me
his name was Stacy.
Manuela came In and went out again
Mt that moment. / was almost startled
by her face. "Why, she's u beauty" I
said.
"She has n good figure" said my com
panion, with assumed indifference,
"but you get a straight look at her and
you won't think her such a beauty"
If long, red braids, soft, brown skin,
and limpid, gray eyes can make beauty,
then was Manuela beautiful. On closer
examination, however, her face lost
much of its beauty, so coarse was her
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1896-12-05
"'TIS LOVE THAT TAKES THE
WORLD 90 ROUND"

Some people think money is a greater
power than love. Oh What a mistake
See how the great money kings are cor.
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A woman's most precious possession Ia
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j, BRYAN,
A Noble Champion Of the Cause Of tn,
PeODle,
Men die; principles do not.

Men die; principles do not.
Throughout the whole of the most
wonderful fight ever waged in a politi-
cal field in the interest of the people,
William Jennings Bryan has insisted
that men were nothing-that prin-
ciples were everything.
1t is no less true than yesterday. 1t
Is true tomorrow and forever.
No cause which reposes upon prin-
ciple can possibly be lost; it can only be
postponed.
So long as the fundamental principle
Of government by the people is pre-
served no cause that is right is hope
less.
So long as the right of free speech is
preserved, no cause that is right is de-
fenseless.
So long as William Jennings Bryan
lives, the people have an advocate with
out fear and without reproach.
Looking back on the campaign of the
last three months, every rejecting man
will testify that the young statesman
from Nebraska has fought a good fight
and has kept the faith. What more
could be required of any mortal?
He has thrown himself into the bat
lie with all his force, has not spared
himself. All that he could do has been
done. What could victory add to him?
Nothing.
The responsibilities of victory would
burden, not ennoble.
There have been some men in the
world so great that defeat could sub
tract nothing from their greatness.
No sane man will ever admit that
such men can be furnished by defeat.
His spots cannot shame the sun. The
spots do not belong to the sun. They
pertain to the atmosphere that sur
rounds him.
If defeat is, it is not Bryan that is
defeated. Entirely to the contrary, he
has lightened defeat.
If defeat is, that which is defeated
for the moment only-is government
OF the undying principles of the immor-
tai Jefferson.
That government has been defeated
several times in the course of our single
century Of existence. Such defeats do
but purify, even while they scarify.
They sift out from the democracy its
unworthy professors, and remit them
to the party to which they are by virtue
Of their active motives affiliated. There
fore the democratic party is most re-
splendent in defeat.
Even though defeated, the democracy
is prouder in that defeat than it could
he Of victory-for II has found and APP
proved a leader.
Throughout the length and breadth
Of the land let that leader be acclaimed
IN. o. Times-D Democrat.
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Tur letter quoted below, written March
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Fortune Seeking Emigrants.

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McELREE'S
Wine OF CARDu|

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Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life
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HOW TO CLEAN CARPETS AND
RUGS

Shave four bars of Ivory soap (which
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ticle to be cleaned, being careful to rub
the soiled spots. Then rinse in clear
water. and let dry.
ELIZA r PARKER.
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An Imnortant Difference.

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clan. That means local treatment and
examinations. No wonder they hesitate.
And hesitation gives disease a stronger
foothold.
The truth is that local treatment and
examinations are nearly always UNI
necessary. They should not be sub
United to till everything else fails.
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HIcKs-''The Bible says: whatsoever will
be chief among you, let him be your SER
want" Wicks-''lt is evident from that
that our maid knows her place perfectly
Boston Transcript.
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"YoH KANT set down no fixed rule o.
conduct in disherI life said Uncle Eben.
samson got inter trouble case he done
got lis h'ah cut, an Absalom got inter
trouble case he didn't. "-Washington Star.
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FRS stopped free and permanently cured.
No fits after first days use of DR.. Kline's
Great Nerve Restorer. Free 81 trial bottle Il
treatise. Dr.. KLINE, 933 Arch ST., Phila., Pa.
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CLASSIFICATION WANTED.-"Sir," said the
gentleman with the distinguished air, ~ am
a poet "YesW responded the gentleman
with the chin whiskers. campaign dialect
or agazinefn-Indianap Journal.
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The largest kitchen in the world Is
in the great Partisan shop, the Bon
Asvche. which has 1000 employees.
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JUDGE-''What is the charge against this
prisonerf" Policeman-"He stole a wheel,
your honor" Judge-"What makef'-Phil-
adelphia North American.