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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09

No more outrageous falsehood has been
printed in the Sentinel during the present
campaign than the circumstantial state
ment, a. few days ago, that President
Fisher, of Hanover College, a lifelong Re-
publican, had come out for free silver. DR..
Fisher has denounced the statement as ut
terly untrue and his views as published in
another column show where he, stands on
the silver question.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09
Bryan VS.. Bryan.
Buffalo Courier.

In public speech four years ago Mr.
Bryan explained the cause OF the decline
of prices as follows: You must attribute
it to the inventive genius that has multi
piled ii thousand times in many instances
the strength of single arm, and enabled
US to do to-day with one man what nifty
men could do fifty years ago That is
what brought prices down in this country
and everywhere This declaration of his
own knocks his silver argument higher
than Gilderoy's kite
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09
An Easy Job.

Get out picture of the winner in that
road race this afternoon, said the proud
and naughty editor.
Il haven't any photograph of him.
pleaded the artist.
What if you haven't? Don't you know
how to draw a bicycle face?"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.
Horse and Horse.

First Eorse-The idea l never expected
to see you going about with your hair
beached
Second Horse-Had to come to it. The
woman who drives me has gone in for the
new fashion of having her hair dyed red
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09

not to be judged by any standard that
darkest Arkansas may set up. They are
much more likely to be swayed by the
same influences that prevail in Vermont
and Maine
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09
t buffoonery

Readers, city, A candidate has a plural
ity of votes when he receives more than
any other of several opponents: he has a
majority when he receives more than all
others. In the case you specify, when A
has $500 votes, B $3.50, c $50, A has $50
NH
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09
Reduced Rates to Clubs.
FOIHNAL VI " SFAFER tUbTA nv
IndianapOIis, Ind.

Persons sending the Journal through the mails
in the United States should put on an eight sc
paper ONE-CENT postage stamp on a twelve
or sixteen-page paper a TWO-CENI postage
stamp. Foreign postage is usually double these
rates.
All communications Intended for publication in
this paper must, in order receive attention, be
accompanied by. the name and address Of the
writer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09
Meeting of Editors.

Members of the committee appointed by
the several editorial associations on codi-
fication of law relating TO newspapers are
requested to meet at the Grand Hotel in
Indianapolis, Monday, Sept. IA, at II a. m.
The codifcation has been completed and
Frank A. HoPner. the compiler, will be
present at the meeting.
LOUIS HOFFMAN,
Chairman Committee.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09
A PrOGUcor.

My misguided friend said the fat man
with the puffs under his eyes. Z will adj
nit that l am a capitalist. That part of
your assertion can go unchalenged But
when you say that L am not producer
you are wrong l have been backing a
comic opera company for two months"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09

Mr.. Bryan has repeated many times that
s'money may be too good. so good you
cannot get it," lawyer with paying
practice or capable of establishing one
should be ashamed to preach such doc
trine. Perhaps, however, there should be
cheap money for cheap lawyers
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09

A heavy blow from trip hammer or
even from "a sledge hammer welded by
strong man will convert the standard sill
yer dollar which passes for 100 cents into
q piece of silver bullion worth only 81 cents.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09

bearer in this second mighty battle for
national safety and welfare. Let us go
from his enkindling presence and his glow
ing words with fresh inspiration and re-
newed strength for the campaign of edu-
ca ton.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09
Proved It.
washing.

Washingf Post.
The Texan who objected TO iIeine hanged
along with two negroes, andj insisted on
making his exit in advance IF the dusky
murderers. was gent upj to the very
f,tf Ct
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09
TeNdN's EGea.
IIarper's Youn

Harper's Young People.
Teddy brought a green caterpillar in
from the garden the other day, and
showing it to his mother, exclaimed. I've
got Il big worm. mamma but he amt ripe
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09

1t is obvious that candidate Watson
wants but little here below, but wants that
in the shape of a notification. and wants
it right now.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09

Springfield Republican.
The next time Mr.. Bryan speaks in Mad
ison-square Garden he will be his own
hair-trigger Nc potes. Date, the 2Sth or
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09
Peculiar Crime.
Kansas City Journal.

Kansas City Journal.
The crime of '7S was one of those Pc
culiar vllaines which let the country go
on for twenty years enjoying phenomenal
prosperity and then suddenly pOunce upon
it and give It Old Harry
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09

The Baltimore Sun points out that the
division line in Arkansas at the State
election is the line dividing the races. the
white race standing almost solfdly together
TO keep the State government out of the
hands of the negroes. This is true. no
doubt, but the Sun need not expect many
sonnd-money votes in that State in Novem-
Der. The party which deprives a large
body of poor men of their political, civil
and industrial rights merely because of the
color of their skins belongs naturally with
the candidate who advocates policy that
will cut the poor mans hard-earned dollar
In two.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09

Candidate Watson has spoken. Will can
didate Sewall now stand up and make a
few remarks?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09

Hon. Thomas e. Watson, Mr.. Bryans
''others running mate. made a neat point
against his Maine rival when he said Mr.
Bryan himself had laid down a rule which,
If carried out, would take Mr.. Sewall off
the ticket. Then he quoted from Mr.
Bryan to the effect that candidate run
ming upon a platform should not only in
dorse every plank. but every sentence and
word of 1t. AS Mr.. Sewall is a protection
list and national banker he cannot indorse
those parts of the Chicago platform that
denounce protection and national banks
Under the Bryan rule he would have to GO
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09
No side shows.

Springfield Republican.
The golden rule of this campaign is:
Take your Mckinley straight.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09
Weight Du}Inc-s
Pfiladelr

PEiladelT el slapl-
If that .oaern freight Fate war contin-
1es much hln1,er IL won't make any diff
ference whether we have fold or silvSr--ai,
transportation III be DONE just for love.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09

The two tails of the Bryan tickets do not
wag together in harmony.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09
I.oneIk
mmercial lAslv.srsiser

New york commercial Advertiser
The lonliest person In the country next
to Arthur Sewaii is thf man who wants to
vote for him.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1896-06-26

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The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1896-06-26

SUMMER HOMES AND RESORl x
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The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1896-06-26

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The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1896-06-26

|
encd i'll his resolution 10 bc Il soldier too
by the fathers cleaning sword hung
| high above lis homes broad heart Istunc!
At II Years G AGE he becomes II cadet
at West Point. there e. lcmnia four
years with no ,lcinrr'it upuM lis record.
| graduating second in Il class, ui iortV-SiX
| and holding the cllrt ;uiiutancy ;la post
oi honor Ill ;hc aspirations; ,r r&dci lifc.
Assigned upon graduation To the
| engineer corps "i tho army he finds en-
ploNment Ill various stations. lie cGu-
Structed the frTiiC0t;ui$UpOnl HAMPTON
Roads which - wears afterwards he WAS
striving to Gcmnlsh. ',,yrywncYr
efficient he * upon the o,NIiiEw Cf the
Mexican war appointed ca,'ta;n ur en-
giuCcr upon the PERSONAL staff of General
Scott. Three times lrcyrttru in rauid
succession on this hricl six months cam
paign crowned the NoU!:r captain with
honorS and lifted hin from rh~curity
into the light "i t;;!ur. Genera, Scott
at this time wrote uf him. 'hol,vvt H.
Lee Is tic greatest military grmi,s c,'
America. the beSt soldier ,hat he ever
saw in the field. and HAT il opuitunity
offered itself II" woa!d Show himself the
foremost captain q! his time
Assigned Ia v:iT.O"S Gut:" HEtcr The
Mexican wal the ha, iruinw events g: 1861
found him IL Washington. OF IL" nfty-
four wears Gi his M:r 20 hi, i!!r. ihiltv-
two ilad Rcn $rCn! III huMoinhlc service
| as an GiliCcr n the 'n.t~d States army.
\ master soldier new in tie theories of
war ard ripe iii It's p"3c;i,'" Ec is called
upon to decide io wilj,!. !" service shall
ln given. to his ~..;." o. to tir | Mon.
That the making rt his "lncc caused
him great rcrpcXily. ILL.,. letter, written
ut this tine plainly SHnW. These letters:
as well as his albSrpiyu, actions. 10 lr:,;
plainly show that hr WAS seeking 10 dis
cover only where the p;ih ni duiN lay.
Surrounded by his Wife and family in his
beautiful home Upon III" Virginia hills
opposite " a>hIngton II" is cAl.c Hj,un to
| decide this question. Ills iiluSt!o,,s
| father as Governor OF Virginia. when
summoned I" commission uEdrr The
Federal government. lad voiced his
sentiment, NO consideration on earth
cOnld induce me 10 aSS i part. howcver
gratifying TO me, which cou!l lc con
Strued into disregard or fathlrsS..cSS 10
Virginia WIS then Ii! lust nlry.taucr.
And Robert Lee knew tI.at tll" Dec
larltion of Independence Iad tIrc.ar, Il
free thirteen states. each ur" free. ir,c-
pc;dcnt and $cvvTr;Ih. i;n hnrw ,;..H
certain powers ONLY l:o h"sn ,iv;r43itro
ll these trir:latc 10 thc Federal Coy
crmmCNt. He hu"w t!"H; 80 stat? E"G
done more valiant :,,'!N ir" li,'" N'irg!iil.
And he i>:l,W ihHt N.gui;.: ~ entering
the l,ntun which tad ;,i,vl'i, i,:H. Termed
hN tee EIn" States Ircr:-"i, rn>rrN, al III |
express terms llr right - withdraw il |
lt any tinl nc ,'.LuFrii i,pyyruur,.f !
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1896-06-26
SUMMER HOMES AND REsOI,1 X

To Ike Continued in Our Next Iss ne.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1896-06-26

Continued Oil Eighth Page.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1896-06-26

|. =. Census 1890 --- 1,G7O
Police Census 1895 $3.50
Estimated now ---- 3,5OOE
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-02

ington when he sent for. me-" said Mr..
Miner in giving his contribution to the
Southern Pacific history. HE lived at
that time on the road right alongside oi
the tunnel but ] hear he's built himself q
new house lately.
| well, he wanted me to go with an
other fellow and buy up lot OF land for
| him. He said he thought they'd know
was farmer, and that I'd know about
what land was worth for farming pur-
poses. The man going along with me
| would know what it was worth to the rail-
road. The upshot of it all was, though,
| that Huntington decided to build on the
road he had staked out to fool them, and
| SO didn't have to go. But had visit
at Huntington's, and l haven't been down
to New York since them"
Erastus Baldwin came to California
about twenty-five years ago. lie worked
as a section hand ON the Central Pacific
Railroad, but never relinquishing his
school-day claim to supremacy in wrest-
ling he visited the magnate on social
footing of equality, and he says that he re-
fused to recognize Huntington when he
thought the latter had been drinking.
Young Russ" has not been so successful
in business as Hi Miner, though the two
are rival sawmill owners. He is the
philosopher of Poverty Hollow, however,
and among his native, trees he finds peace
and comfort, and good timber enough to
give him living. At "a years he is hale
and vigorous, and he can wrestle yet.
"Col aud Iwere boys together, and we've
been men together" said Mr.. Baldwin. ~
| Ho1 ha
hasn't anything against me, though I was
the only boy about here that could ever
throw him.
"Oh, yes; we used to have some good
wrestling bouts in those days. The Pow
erty Hollow boys were big, strong lot of
fellows, and Col was the biggest and
toughest of 'em all. I was going to school
in Campville then, and over there we had
teacher who was pretty spry and who
knew good deal about wrestling in sort
of scientific way. This teacher used to
give US lessons, and I got so that there was
nobody in our school that could handle
me, even if / was the smallest of the lot.
"We got challenge from Poverty Hol-
low. and so we came down here one Satur-
day 10 wrestle it out. Several matches
were tried, and Col got the best of every
body he tackled. Finally he tackled me,
and I gave him the prettiest throw you
ever saw in your llfe."
The historian laughed so loud at the
memory of his victory that the hills about
the Hollow laughed with him in their echo,
and loose board fell from the old mill by
way of applause.
"'By jingop said Col, you be good un
if you be small!'"
And again the peaceful hills became
merry over the battle that they remem-
bered.
81 threw him every time he stood up
till he said he was satisfied continued
Mr.. Baldwin, and he paused in contem-
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-02

carding-mill there when his son, Coils,
was born. He ran the mill for years and
he saved money. for when he died, though
everybody thought him penniless. the
relatives found about $4,000 stored away.
The pretty stream flows westward from
the Samuel Baldwin place, with wooded
hills at the left bank and sweet little
valley on the right. Down the valley, five
hundred yards or so, a little white school
house marks,an abrupt turn of the road.
That is the Poverty Hollow School
where Huntington received his early
training. The outer board covering of the
building has been renewed, and there are
new shingles, but no other. changes have
been made. So few are the families about
there now, the sops and daughters of the
older inhabitants having long ago moved
away, that the school is closed.
Just around the corner from the school
house and at the west side of the road re-
poses the farm where Huntington, the
railroad millionaire, was born.
. The house is gone A large stone, one
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-02
Site of the House in Which Mr.. Huntington Born.
From photograph taken fer ..The CaM',l

of the town of Harwinton, Conn, and is
situated among the Litchfield hills as
snugly and securely as Sacramento in the
lap of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
Terryville and Thomaston are adjoining
villages on the south. The first clocks in
America were made at Terryville, but
Thomaston has gained control of the in
dustry, and at the latter place Hunting
ton obtained the timepieces for his early
peddler's outfit.
There is the wealth of beauty in the
scenery at Poverty Hollow, but lacking is
the wealth that pays taxes. ! Six poor
though picturesque farms are still worked
Four rival sawmills are the delight of
amateur photographers, and anything but
the delight of the struggling owners. And,
yes
Still sits the schoolhouse by the road,
ragged beggar summing,
and the beggar-town pauper, at any
rate-is the only surviving schoolmate of
Coils P. Huntington.
Men OF the locality remember Hunting
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-02

house, stands ricketY, dilapidated collec-
ton of boards and shingles and beams.
That is the Huntington barn. and the
present owner is sentimental enough to
preserve it while paying interest on his
$4,000 mortgage. The roof is caved in, the
sides are open, but it is the barn that the
Huntingtons owned. and so it will stand
as long as nature lets.it, or as long, at any
rate, as the present owner can keep the
bank from foreclosing.
Two months ago I roamed again over
the old region of Poverty Hollow, and the
man who accompanied me was Lyman
Mather, the only one remaining OF Hunt
toms school-fellows.
Mather is several years younger than
Huntington, who is 76, but he is broken
down and feeble. He was farmer at the
Hollow, but now he is penniless and alone
and he boards with the William Humiston
family at the expense of the town. Har-
winton has no poorhouse, its plan being TO
"board OUT the paupers.
~ remember Coils Huntington well, !"
slowly said old Mr.. Mather, as he hobbled
along with his cane. 'sHe's got richer
than l have. There amt many on us left
now; he an | are about the only. ones liv-
ing of all that used to go to school down
here.
"Collis is the only one that's ever made
much money. He's made more in month
than the rest on US have IN all our lives.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-02

from San Francisco to San Jose. A man
named Ackerson was foreman-you don't
know him, 1 suppose. Perhaps he amt
there now.
"While 1 was with the railroad went
up to San Francisco and called OF Col.
We were glad to see each other. He Of
fered me job on. another section. but OF
course didn't want to be under any OBJ
legations, so told him guessed I'd quit
railroading.
"After that / met him on railroad
train. but he looked to me as though he
had been out celebrating little too much
and so I didn't recognize him. I pre-
tended not to see him at all.
"When / left the railroad, as I told Col
/ would, didn't know what was going
to do. But they wanted an engineer on a
steamboat and 1 made an application, as
had learned to run an engine at one of the
mills here. had to go before board
of experts and answer a lot of questions
before I could get my license.
"They questioned me pretty closely and
finally they asked what / would do under
certain circumstances if the engine would
not work. told 'em and they said was
right and that could take the job.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-02

body thought he was poor, but when he
was dead they found $4,000 or more. He
died about twenty-five year ago, guess
it was
"CoIlis has got pretty rich, but it fifty or
hundred million dollars won't give a
man a little leisure what's the use of hav-
ing it.
Mr.. Mather, who has nothing but leisure,
went with difficulty about the Hollow and
told of his schoolmate and of the incidents
of his boyhood. Then he turned back
toward the house where the town supports
him, and as he went he said:
Yes, Coils has made a good deal o.
money, but he hain't much soul..''
"These OF folks are kind o. gone" is the
way that one of the natives told, of the
passing away of Mr.. .Mather's generation.
Most OF them have "kind o. gone" in the
way of their ancestors, and the ancient
churchyard on Harwinton Hill has graves
that far outnumber the living inhabitants
of the town, except on cattle-show days.
In all the families, however, there are
Huntington traditions, stored carelessly
away in the minds of the local patriarchs
like the antique, inherited furniture and
old firearms in the garrets. One of these
traditions preserves an incident OF the rail
road mans experience as youthful
Yankee peddler.
. "Willard Weed o. Wolcottville went t.
peddlin' with Huntington" is the way
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-02


"'Now,' says l, you've been asking me
lot of questions-iust let me ask you
one or two.'
''They laughed, but they said to go
ahead. So then says l:
"'Suppose things happened just as you
said and you fixed the engine just as told
you I would, and still it wouldn't work.
What could be done then?'
a. I don't know said one of 'em. what
would you dor
"I'd throw the whole dern thing over
board and quit the job,' says l."
Then the hills made known that they
heard and understood and the aged horse
kicked mp its heels and frisked away.
81 went all over California; and down to
Mexico like a fool; and made voyage
to the Sandwich Islands. But wherever 1
travelled / paid my fare, so that Col
wouldn't think wanted any favors from
him just because we were boys together