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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-19

Two of the individual bookkeepers of
the Union National Bank, of New Or
lsans, which suspended on Wednesday,
we're arrested charged with classifying
the books and accounts. One of them
has since committed suicide. Suicide
is confession" said Webster. The Bank
Of Commerce in New Orleans has also
closed its doors. Also the First Nation
al of Helena, Montana.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-19

The anniversary of the battle of
Brandywine was celebrated on Friday at
Ephrata, Pa, where many of the revo-
lutionary soldiers who received fatal in
juries in that battle are buried.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-19

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has broken his
long silence on the political situation.
He telegraphed to the Palmer and Buck
ner notification meeting at Louisville,
via., Hon. w. D. Bynum, the following
declaration: LAS democrat devoted to
the principles and integrity of my party
l should be delighted to be present on
an occasion so significant and to mingle
with those who are determined that the
voice of true democracy shall not be
smothered, and insist that its glorious
standard shall be borne aloft as of old in
faithful hands"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-19

WISCONSIN UNIvERsALIST CONvEN
TION.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-19

THE criminal recklessness with viii ;h
American cities are managed is point
eddy exemplifed in the case of st. Paul,
where the school board has decided to
postpone indefinitely the regular autumn
re-opening of the public schools, the rea-
son being that the board has no money
with which to pay teachers.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-19

SENATOR HILL, of New York, declines
to be delegate to the State Convention
under instructions to vote for the en-
dorsement of the Chicago platform and
candidates. 1t is believed that the Con-
vention will declare for Bryan and Sew
all on the ground of regularity"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-19

lyman arrived in Europe last month
from America, landing at Genoa, August
%. He travelled under the name of
George Gordon, and proceeded from
Genoa to Paris, where he was seen in
company with members of the dynamite
faction of the Irish party. He arrived
in Boulogne from Paris last Friday even
ing. registering at the Hotel Folkestone
under the alias of Gordon. He made no
pretense of concealing his Fenian views
and INDUCED in violent harangues at the
bar of the hotel. The English detec-
tives who have Swallowed him since
he arrived in Europe determined to
place him under arrest, and at four
o'clock Sunday morning, they burst into
his room. revolvers in hand. and he sur
rendered without struggle. The pris-
oner admits his identity.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-19

SENATOR BUTLER, Chairman Of the
Populist Committee, Thursday morning
received letter from Senator Allen stat
ing that he would mail his letter of mott
fication to Mr.. Bryan of his nomination
by the Peoples party for President on
September 10. Chairman Butler has
decided that he will mail to Mr.. Watson
his letter of notification of his nomina
ton as Vice President on the same date.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-19
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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-19

The Populist vote remains practically
the same as in 1892 and the gold Demo
cratic candidate polled comparatively
few votes. All the Rspubl can candi.
dates for Congress are elected by in
creased pluralities, Hon. Thomas B.
Reed, especially running ahead Of his
ticket and getting in Portland, his own
city, the largest plurality ever given to
any candidate. The Republicans have
carried every county. elected all their
Senators, and 140 out of Isl Represen-
tatives.
The city of Bath, Mr.. Sewalls home.
gives plurality of 800 for the Republi-
cans.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-19

PRoF FRANCIS j. CHILD, Of the chair
of English Literature in Harvard Uni
versity, one of the best known scholars
of this country, died on Friday. He was
the editor of the best collection of Eng
lish ballads in the language, and an
authority on ballad text.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-19

To those who have eyes to see. says
dispatch from Constantinople. there is
more and more evident the approach of
crisis in the affairs of the decrepit Otto
man Empire. But the Turk himself
offers no signs of an appreciation of the
fate that is impending over him in the
limit that has apparently been reached
in the patience Of the European powers
with the process of determination of the
Armenians that has been steadily and
relentlessly pursued by the Turks. There
is no diminution in the rancor displayed
by the Mussulmans toward the Armen-
ians, and no sign Of the relinq uishm emit
of the Turks contention that the Ar
menians are persistent and determined
revolutionists and agitators against the
sovereignty of the Sultan, and as such
invite the stringent. repressive measures
that have been used against them.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-19

The gold reserve in the United States
treasury on Friday stood at 1OS,019.70S.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-19

PATRICK 7. j. lyman. the mysterious
"No. l" of the Irish Invincibles, who is
believed to have directed the brutal
murder of Lord Frederick Cavendish
and Under Secretary Burke in Phoenix
Park, D lblin, May 6, 1882, was arrested
ia Boulogne by Scotland Yard detec-
tives, September ID. The fact that Ty-
mans whereabouts have been known in
a general way to the English authorities
for years given rise to the belief that the
government has new and important evi.
dence concerning crime that shocked
the civilized world. The warrant upon
which he was arrested was issued in
1882, and has thus been in the possess
sion of the detectives for fourteen years.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-19

The West Side of this city, says the
Inter Ocean of Monday, will be more at
tractive than ever to heads of families
after Thursday Iext. On the evening OF
that day the Tooth anniversary OF the
delivery of Wsshington's farewell adj
dress will be celebrated fifty by the dedi-
cation of the Lewis Institute. This
magnificent place OF education is the
outcome of bequest of s55000O by the
late Allan G. Lewis, who died in 1877.
Eighteen years Of careful management
by busiuess-like trustees increased the
value of the gift to sl,600.000 and two
years ago the foundation of the majestic
building that extends on Madison street
from Winchester avenue to RObey street
was laid, and on Thursday it will be dedi-
Gated to art, science, and literature.
The institute will be technical school
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-19

THE Republican success in Maine is re-
regarded as prefguring the disappear
ance of Mr.. Sewall as the vice presiden.
tial nominee from the Democratic ticket
and the substitution of Mr.. Watson, the
populist nominee, in his place.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-19

On September 8. writing from his
home in Lincoln, Neb.. William j. Bryan
gave out his formal acceptance of the
nomination rendered him by the Nation
al Democratic Convention. The letter
is not lengthy, but covers the ground of
the platform sufficiently for the purpose.
Mr.. Bryan says that he has carefully
considered the platform and "unquali-
fedly endorses each plank therein"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-19

AT Louisville Mr.. Bryan was seen by
a correspondent Of the Associated Press
tonight and showed the bulletins from
the Maine election and asked for his
views.
Just say" said he, that l decline to
be interviewed"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-19

SPEAKER REED. in an interview on his
readiness to accede to Mr.. Bryan's wish
for the privilege of making the capitol
steps his rostrum, said that it was simply
an act of courtesy. Senator Faulkner
wired him for the desired permission.
and be replied: "Permi sion granted
with the consent of the cePresident."
Mr.. Reed said he took it for granted that
Vice President Stevenson would con-
sent. Mr.. Bryan has declined to speak.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-12-04
CAPITAL CAKES.

" 4 great cake was made by London
firm for the queens jubilee. This plum
my monster stood 10 feet high and its
was $500. The amount of physicians
fees paid by those who ate of it is not
mentioned.
There were two important cakes at
the wedding of the prince of Wales.
The peak OF the principal cake was
formed by the prince of Wales plume
and the rose, shamrock and thistle
formed no unimportant part OF the
decorations. Five feet was the height
Of this pile of sweetness.
At all royal weddings there are al
ways chief cakes md q large number of
lesser cakes. At the queen of England's
wedding there were two of the former.
One of these weighed 300 pounds, was
IA inches thick and IL feet around. The
topmost figure that surmounted this
masterpiece of currants, spices, eggs
and butter represented Britannia bless
ing the bride and groom
If there are monster cakes there arc
also pygmies. The smallest wedding
cake made in London was ordered by
lady for her child. 1t was a dolls we'd.
ding cake, three inches high, and
weighed about four ounces. Every
thing about it was as perfect as could
be. even to the tiny ornamentation, but
it was like eating gold, for the price
charged for this dainty CONNECTION was
GO cents an ounce
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-12-04
ABSURD THEORIES.
The Ancients' E.pfsnation Of the Rising
and Setting Of tho Sum.

The Ancients' Explanation Of the Rising
aad Setting OF the Sun.
The recent death of q man who had
maintained all his life that the earth
was fat recalls the curious theories
entertained by the ancients to explain
the rising and setting Of the sun, says.
the New York journal. They thought
the earth was fiat and were greatly puz-
zled to know how the same sun which
plunged into the ocean at fabulous
distance in the west could reappear tho
lance in the east.
A number of remarkable theories
were advanced and every one Of them
wrong. The old mythology asserted
that after the sun had dipped in the
western ocean ut sunset (the Iberians
and other ancient nations actually inn
agined that they could hear the kissing
OF the waters when the glowing globe
was plunged therein) he was seized by
Vulcan and placed in q golden goblet.
This strange craft, with it's astonish-
ing cargo navigated the ocean by q
northerly course. so as to reach the east
again in time for sunrise the following
morning.
Among the more sober physicists OF
old. us related by Aristotle, it was be-
lieved that in some manner the sun was
conveyed by night across the northern
regions and that darkness was due to
lofty mountains, which screened or
the SunbeamS during the voynue-
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-12-04
Tit for Tat

When Thomas B. Reed was at Wich-
ita, Kan, he prefaced his speech, it is
said, with something like this: 81
will deliver upon this occasion the
same speech l have delivered many
times before, but 1 will address it in
plain, simple language so that you can
eeasily understand it, At the election
the customary big republican majority
was reversed and the populist candi-
dates were given about 1000 ma jority.
One of the fusion managers down there
has sent the Maine statesman a tabu-
lated statement of the returns to
which he appended: The people Of
Wichita voted in a plain, simple man
them"
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-12-04
MISCELLANEOUS.

IN South Boston II. II. Holmes shot
". II. Jordan, proprietor of a fruit
store; three times, and the latter sue
ceeded in cutting a deep cash in
Holmes throat The trouble resulted
from quarrel over an unpaid bill. 1t
was believed both men would die.
WILLIAM STEINwAY, the noted piano
manufacturer, died at his home in
New York of typhoid fever on the
S0th. .
THE register of the treasury, in his
annual report. gives a condensed his
tory of all the loans of the United
States from 1776 to 1895.
SAM HENDERsoN's house and his five
children were burned at Conway, Ark,
on the 30th. When the fire was dis
covered it was too late to effect res
cue.
A TELEGRAM received at the war de-
partmeut stated that the quarters of
the post chaplain at Fort Ringgold,
Tex, were burned on the night of the
Goth and Post Chaplain NJ. c. Blaine
and his daughter were burned to death
The chaplain missed his daughter and
entered the building to rescue her and
persisted with the child.
AT Altus, Greer county. Ok, Claude
Kimb ball and William Dallas, young
business men. quarreled over a small
account Dallas drew knife and kim
ball shot him dead.
R. PRITCHARD WOODWARD left New
York on the 2Sth on a donkey to ride
to San Francisco in payment of an
election bet.
SALES Of No. 2 red wheat for May
delivery were made on the Toledo, O.,
produce exchange on the oSth at 81 per
bushel amid loud cheering.
FRANK ERNE, of Buffalo, n. Y, on
the eth won the title of featherweight
champion of the world by being
awarded the decision in a 2O-round
contest at New York with George Dix
on, the clever colored man, who has
for so long held undisputed claim to
that pugilistic honor.
THE general officers of the Worlds
w. c. T. U. issued an appeal from Chi
cago on the eth to all officers of ma
tional, state, county and local unions,
| asking them to raise funds for the
Armenians by making a house to house
canvass and to give their Christmas
presents, for the most part, to the
starving victims of the Turks, sending
the funds to Mrs. Helen NJ Baker,
treasurer of the National w. c. 7. u,
the Temple, Chicago.
TELEGRAMs from Huron, S D., Den
yer, Col, and Helena, Mont, reported
the 27th to be one of the coolest No
vember days ever experienced. Spe-
Gals from many points in Nebraska
said that a heavy snow and sleet storm
occurred there. The loss of live stock
on the ranges will be heavy.
As the result of the game played on
the Goth by the universities of Mis-
souri,, Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska. the
pennant of the Western intercollegiate
league, embracing the states. named,
goes to Iowa The pennant reverts to
the team. against which the fewest
points have been scored. Iowa's games
this season resulted: With Missouri,
IL to 0;:with Kansas to o; with, Ne
braska to o. Kansas will finish sec.
ond.
The chief of police of Springfield. o.
IS hunting for an old colored man
named James Wesley Dorsey, who has
been left a large fortune by his old
master, planter of MARYLAND
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-12-04
THAT COMMODITY IDEA.

"Six Days Did the Lord BestOw His Com
modify, Labor, and on the Seventh Day
He Gave None Away
DR.. Lyman Abbott has lately pub
lished a book entitled Christianity and
Social Problems" He expresses some
vigorous and well defined opinions on
current labor questions He says that
there is no such commodity as la Dor;
it does not exist When working
man comes to the factory on Monday
morning he has nothing to sell; he is
empty-handed; he has come in order
to produce something by his exertion,
and that something, when it is pro-
duced, is sold, and part of the pro-
ceeds of that sale will of right belong
to him, because he has helped to pro-
duce it. These are correct sentime nts.
After vigorously denying that the
toiler is mere chattel, he gives his
views on the real situation in these
words: 49,.
Most commodities in our time
even agricultural commodities are
gradually coming under these condi-
tions-are produced by. an organized
body of workingmen, carrying on their
work under the SUPPLEMENTARY of a
captain of industry and by the use of
costly tools. This requires the CO.
operation of three classes - the tool
owner or capitalist, the superintendent
or manager and the tool user or Ia
borer. The result is the joint pro-
duction of their industry-for the tool
itself is only reservoired product of
industry.
ut is the business of political econ.
omy to ascertain how values can be
equitably divided between these part
ners in common enterprise This is the
labor question in a sentence. 1t is not
true that the laborer is entitled to the
whole, nor does he demand it, what
ever some of the wild advocates of his
cause may have claimed for him. The
superinten dent is entitled to his share
and a large share. To direct such
an indu stry, to know what products
are needed in the world, to find a pur-
chaser for them at a price which will
give a fair return for the labor of pro-
ducing them, requires itself labor of
high quality. and one which deserves
generous com oensation.
The tool owner is entitled to re-
Enumeration. Presumably he, or some
one from whom he has received his
tool, has saved the money which his
companions spent either in present
comfort or in doubtful pleasure, and
he is entitled to a reward for his econ
omy and thrift, though it may be
question whether our modern indus
trial system does not sometimes give a
reward too great for the virtue of ac.
QUESTION, and so transform virtue into
a vice
The laborer is entitled TO compen-
sation. Since the abolition of slavery,
no one in theory denies this right.
The determination how the division of
the product of this joint industry shall
be made is a difficult one. But it is
certain that it is not to be made by
system which bids the capitalist pay
as little wages as possible for the serv-
ice rendered, and the laborer render as
little service as possible for the wages
received. Whatever may be the right
way, this is the wrong way"
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-12-04

IT is thought that this winter several
states will enact laws fixing the maxi
mum railroad passenger fare at two
cents mile. Some railroad otficia is
state that they have no objection to
such laws, prov ided the minimum rate
as we'll as the maximum rate is fixed
at two cents Il mile and railroads are
prohibited from granting mileage or
special tickets of any kind or making
any other concessions to special classes.
Summer convention rates would be
heard of no more.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-12-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

|
THE secretary of war made pu bile on
the Goth his annual report on the army.
The secretary records his high appre-
citation of the ability of the officers and
| the patriotism of the privates- The
army consists of 25, 426 officers and me- n,
the effective field strength on October
81 being 23,3s2. The aggregate ex
penditures for 1896 were S51, 500, 29s.
The state board of canvassers has
completed the canvass of the vote on
presidential electors in Nebraska. The
| figures are: Bryan, lis. 625; Mckinley,
102, SOS; Palmer, 2,.97; Bentley, 73s: Lev
ering, ,,196. Bryan's plurality, 1860.
TIE general council of the Seine,
France, has adopted a resolution to
ask the government to convene Euro
pean congress to arrange for a gradual
disarmament.
A DISPATCH fir ON Washington stated
that ex-President Harrison may be
ambassador to Great Britain, as Mr..
Mckinley understood about Mr.. Har-
rison feeling disinclined to enter the
cabinet and will hold open the British
mission and gladly bestow it upon the
ex-president if he will accept it.
London Daily News on the eth said
that fresh massacre with 500 victims
was rumored to have occurred near
Diarbekir.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has purchased
residence in Princeton, n. j., and
will make that his permanent home
soon after the expiration of his term
as president.
SECRETARY CARLISLE has dismissed
William r. Morley, engineer of the
public building at Denver, Col, for col
lecting political assessments from gov
eminent employees in violation of the
civil service law.
WILLIAM :. FORMAN, of Illinois, took
the oath of office OF the eth and as
sumed his duties as commissioner of
internal revenue.
The president has appointed John H.
Rogers, of Arkansas, United States dis.
trict judge for the Western district OF
Arkansas.
BoURKE COCHRAN made a speech at
New York at the Cuban exercises to
commemorate the execution of the
eight medical students by the Spanish
in Havana on Novem Der 81. 1871. The
orator took the ground that it was the
duty of this country to stop the mas
sacre of people within sight of our
shores, and said that if necessary the
Cubans should be allowed to purchase
their freedom from Spain and that the
United States could guarantee the pay
ment of the bonds.
THE unofficial announcement comes
from Canton, O., that President-elect
Mckinley has named as his private
secretary Charles G. Dawes, of Evans
ton, Ill.
The annual report of Daniel N. Nor
gan, treasurer of the United States,
shows the net ordinary revenues of the
government during the fiscal year end
ed June 30, 1896, to have been 1926 976.-
200, and the expenditures 1852, l79, 446,
leaving deficiency for the year of
S25, 2O3, 246
REV. M. b HILL, was stricken with
paralysis while delivering a sermon at
the Southern Methodist church at
Bentonville, Ark, on the Goth.
PRESIDENT PATTERSON, of the Prince
ton university, has denied the report
that President Cleveland was to be-
come dean of the Princeton law
school,
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-12-04

THE Baltimore American states: A
lady who has been telling New York
ers about Maryland said that the whip
ping post was never abolished in that
state. In this she was much mistaken.
The whipping post was abolished for n
number of years, but was revived again
to punish wife heaters. 1t is still in
existence, although rarely used. Per-
haps it might be better if it We're used
oftener, but the city magistrates seem
to have forgotten that the law is on
the statute books.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-12-04

REV. ]. NJ. MACDoNALD, chaplain of
Eowgong, India, wrote to the London
Standard concerning the famine in
India and stated that wheat, rice and
corn must be poured into that country
from now until next Septem Der to pre-
serve from death the starving millions.
He also mentioned a report that at
Lagar, 80 miles from Nowgong,
starving Coolie and his wife had eaten
. their child
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-12-04

A RECENT storm did a great deal of
damage at little place on the Massa-
chusetts coast which goes by the name
of Crescent and the people around that
neig borhood have concluded that the
only thing they can do now is to get
up and get. Their scheme is to move
the whole town further inland and the
houses and hotels will be placed on big
fiat cars and transported distance of
a mile, where a new town will be
Dlanted
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-12-04

THE officials in the office of the Sec
rotary of state at Atlanta, Ca, are au-
thOrity for the declaration that the
people of Charlton county could not
have known of the recent election, for
no election was held there and the Of
fetal digest of the election in Georgia
has been made up with Charlton left
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-12-04

THE indications are that the year
1897 will witness an enormous output
of gold. From nearly ever region
where the precious metal is mined re
ports come of increased activity ir
mining operations and preparations te
increase the worlds bullion.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-12-04

IT has been estimated that at least
"a per cent. of the entire population
of the United States make their living
out of the electric light and power in
dustry and the branches of trade
directly dependent upon it.