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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-05-27
At worthInQton, Mimi, q cyclone de-
nolished 20 buildings, but seriously hurt no


Needs assistance II may DO best to render u
promptly, but one should remember TO use
even the most perfect remedies only when
needed. The best and most simple and gentle
remedy is the Syrup of Figs, manufactured Sy
the California Fig syrup Company.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-05-27

Americans entering Mexico must be reyao-
cinated.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-05-27

There were 20 deaths from cholera in Alex
anderton Monday.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-05-27

Mrs. winslow's Soothing Syrupfor Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces infiamma-
tion, nllnys pain; cures wind collie 25c bottle.
II afiicted with sore eyes use DR.. Issac Thomp-
so ms Eye-water Druggists sell at csc per bottle
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-05-27

Hanged Four Children ana Herself.
At Ripley, Ohio, widow named Fitzpat
rick hanged her iour children and herself.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-05-27
BACKACHE.
A Very Significant Indication of Organic

Derangemcnt.
The back, "the handspring of wo.
mans organism" quickly calls atten.
uon to trouble by aching. 1t tells
with other symptoms, such as nervous
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-05-27

the California Fig syrup Company.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-03
PLAYING WITH FIRE.

When any man is put forward as the
leader and mouthpiece of great ma
tional party he ought to be very careful
of his public utterances. A man who
hates the word anarchy" as sincerely
as William J. Bryan says he does, and
then proceeds to destroy so far as pos
sible what harmony now exists be-
tween the more fortunate and the less
fortunate among the people, is doubly
dangerous The issues that he has
raised, the prejudices that he has Great
ed, the wickedness that he has foStered
will not die out until long after his
defeat. He may be Christian gen.
tleman, but he could not do more to
endanger the social health Of the COM
munity IL he were Johann Most civ
ilized and Americanized-
Some hairIbrainei idiot who owned
a factory down in Worcester, Mass,
and which factory stood near where
Mr.. Bryan was making a speech, dis
played red anarchy flag with Bryan's
picture on it The man and his flag
in an ordinary campaign would have
gone unnoticed. or il noticed reprobat-
ed. But Bryan's classes and masses"
talks had borne fruit The proprietor
Of the factory received an anonymous
letter Immediately afterward contain
ing the words: ID" your soul; you'll
pay for that You wait"
And not half an hour after the fire
started Bryan, at Bath, was reading
this dispatch, said to have been signed
by an ex-chairman Of the Democratic
city committee of Worcester: Thank
God Justice received her just dues
Burns underwear factory is in flames"
When the supporters of presidential
candidate begin TO send messages
thanking God" that property is being
destroyed, the safety of the country
demands that overwhelming defeat OF
the candidate. For less offenses
against the commonweal men have
been banished
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-03
THE LITERARY CRAZE.

There have been "book ages" and
''book ages" but the present is promi-
nent in the production Of books. Es-
pecially is this true OF purely literary
works. Nothing perhaps is so IN
certain, so far as success is concerned,
as literature. 1t is the one venture
where many are called and few chosen
When we say called" we mean seized
with the impulse TO write. That i'm
pulse IL not by any means an assur-
ance OF divine call. Il springs per-
haps from conceit, from the stings OF
poverty, from ambition, from the de-
sire TO escape from obscurity; and it
may be out OF all proportion to the
talent, the invention, the imagination.
which are all necessary TO give it eff
feet.
But when the impulse TO write Is
united with mind-with real capacity,
with power OF thought and power OF
expression-literature from even =
worldly point OF view. is gsinful pur-
suit. The Bookman for October tells
US that Rudyard Kipling has disposed
OF his new work. Captain Courag-
eous.' for $1,000 in serial for.1 and
for handsome royalty in book form.
$4,000 on account OF the latter having
been paid in advance. That Is 70 s2y,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-03
IN PLAIN LANGUAGE.

General Tracy. in his recent speech
in New York. summed up the three
great issues involved in the Chicago
platform concisely and accurately.
The Chicago platform, said he, de
clares for reputation, notification and
revolution. To pronounce so cents
worth Of silver to be dollar and to
make that legal tender for the pay
ment Of the public debt is reputation
To resolve not to enforce the laws of
congress when resisted by violence and
instruction without the consent of the
governor of the state is notification.
To reorganize the supreme court so as
to make it the registrar OF the DEGREES
Of q political caucus Is revolution"
That is plain language which every
one can understand. Keep the issues
before the people. The Democratic
party in this campaign stands for re-
pudia ton, notification and revolution.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-03
WATSON ON THE SITUATION.

Mr.. Tom Watson, the nominee of the
Populist party for vice president
makes some interesting disclosures in
a signed article in the New York
World. "Shrewd Democratic mana
gers" he declares arranged a deal
with certain Populist leaders OF the
west prior to the meeting of our ma
tional convention In general terms,
the Populists were to have the local Of
fees and the Democrats the national
vote This was apparently the con-
tract which at St Louis came so near
to success" But, adds Mr.. Watson,
"the Populists nominated Mr.. Bryan
in the belief that the Democrats would
meet them on halfway ground, with
draw Mr.. Sewal and unite the silver
forces of both parties by naming a
representative of both on the national
ticket" The Populist voters, con-
tinues Mr.. Watson, ''are dissatisfied
and suspicious. They suspect that
Populism has been bought and paid
for and is now being delivered to those
who bought it. Is the full Populist
vote necessary to Mr.. Bryan's cleo
ton? If so, the sooner Mr.. Jones rea-
Lies that it cannot be delivered under
any arrangement which compels the
Populists to make q humiliating sur
render of their principles in voting for
SewaH electors. the better it will be
for our campaign" The Populist vote
is in the neighborhood Of 1000, 900. &C
cording to the claims Of their leaders.
II the masses of the party are not in
clined to support Mr. Bryan unless Mr..
Sewall is withdrawn, and as the lat
ter's retirement from the ticket Is out
OF the question, it looks as though Mr..
Watson were the prophet Of defeat
when he concludes with this palpable
threat: IF Mckinley Is elected the
responsibility will forever rest upon
those managers who had it in their
power to control by fair means 1000
600 votes and WHO lost them by yiolat-
ing the terms OF the contract"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-03

of foreign interference and at the same
time attempt to make it appear that
these two distinguished foreign states
men are in favor of policy which
would bring disaster to the people OF
the United States?
If the United States is big enough
and strong enough to formulate and
carry out financial policy of its own
why bolster up the Bryanite claims
with letters purporting to have been
written by Prince Bismarck and Count
Karolyi?
Foreign suggestions in favor Of the
gold standard. Bryan pretends to be-
lieye are something terrible. Are not
foreign suggestions in favor Of free
silver equally terrible? Is it not pos
sible that Prince Bismarck and Count
Karolyi, il they ever wrote the letters
which Bryan reads. are trying to force
free coinage upon the United States
because they know it would be a good
thing for Germany and Austria-H Hun
gary and a bad thing for the United
States.
Mr.. Bryan, to be consistent, ought to
rebuke those meddlesome foreigners
for trying to dictate the financial policy
Of the United States.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-03

THOSE TWO LETTERS.

One Of Mr.. Bryan's most bitter CON-
plants is thar the countries OF Europe
are trying to run Americas finances
and in the interest of gold. He pre-
tends to believe that the United States
is big and strong enough TO formulate
a financial policy OF its own.
Yet Bryan quotes approsingly a let
ter rurporting to have been written
by Prince Bismarck to the governor OF
Texas, and he has also read a letter
which he claims TO have received from
Count Kareyi, Of the Austro- Hungar-
ian cabinet. indorsing the independent
action OF the United States in favor of
free coinage of silver.
Why does Candidate Bryan complain
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-03
WHO TO GO 10.

If a wise man were going to build
house he would not consult miner
alogist or q botanist; he would consult
a builder.
If a wise man had a broken leg he
would not consult taxidermist or q
student Of comparative anatomy; he
would consult surgeon.
II wise man wished to buy paint
ing he would not consult kalsominer
or a picture Trainer; he would consult
an artist
If wise man wished to buy a piece
Of ground he would not consult land
scape painter; he would consult a real
estate agent.
In each case the wise man would
make this choice because he wanted
not a theoretical, sentimental or
haphazard opinion, but because he
wanted a practical expert opinion.
Therefore,
If wise man wants an opinion as
to a desirable quality In money he does
not go to mine owner or a college
professor; ne goes 10 Danker, q Ous-
mess man, a man who handles quaint
ties Of money, VINO uses it in such
quantities both as a debtor and as q
creditor that he may reasonably be
called an expert
The less money man has the more
he is in need Of the expert opinion,
and the more he has to lose from listen
ing to demagogues. Only demagogues
will claim that money can have two
qualities, each of which will perma-
nenlty benefit class. Such class
benefit would only be seeming, or. at
most, temporary. The rich and the
poor have the same interest in the
same quality Of money, and no quality
that the rich desire money to have can
be so precious to the rich as to the poor.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-03
CHEAP VS.. DEAR MONEY.

While the peripatetic Popocrat can
didate was speaking the other day a
man asked him If it was not q fact that
the banks redeemed with greenbacks
during the war because silver and
gold were unknown at that time.
In reply Mr.. Bryan said he supposed
the banks could have obtained gold If
they had cared to purchase it, but that
they used the cheaper money for re-
demption purposes because the law
gave them the right to do so.
That was a frank answer, and in
making it Mr.. Bryan admitted what
everybody knows to be true-that when
cheap money and dear money are put
in circulation side by side the cheap
money will always be used in prefer
ence to the dear money in the payment
Of debts, wages, and in all other obi
cations
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-03
THAT BISMARCK LETTER.

The free silver men have been trying
to demoralize the German vote by quot
ing Prince Bismar rex as in favor Of
free silver and of Independent action
by this country. 1T was stated that
Governor Culberson of Texas had re-
ceiyed a letter from Bismarck in which
the latter suggested that the cause OF
international bimetallism would be pro-
NOTED if this country were to take in
dependent action" AS that is what
Mr.. Bryan is advising, the silver men
were much elated. An example OF the
letter. however, shows that it was I'M
proprly translated. 1t was written
in German, and the scholars around the
silver headquarters in Austin were not
very we'll posted on that language. A
reorganization Of the letter shows that
the words translated IS independent
action" should have been translated as
ga substantial STEP" That puts q very
different meaning to the letter, for
under that Interpretation Bismarck
saws that the cause of international
bimetallism would be promoted if this
country were to take "a substantial
step" in that direction
We can all admit that and If Mckin-
lev is elected it is not improbable that
congress will take a substantial Sep
looking toward an international none
tary congress and in the interests OF
international bimetallism. When Bis
mack's letter was first given out it
struck many people as very improbable
that the old German statesman would
advise this country to undertake the
free coinage Of silver regardless Of
other nations. The explanation Of the
proper translation Of the letter sets
the matter right. But Bismarck quail
fled his suggestion still more by saying
that the action suggested should be
taken by the American people If "com-
patfble with their interests" He
would not assume to tell them what
was for their best interests. and they
know we'll that Independent free coin
age is not.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-03
TRAINING IN GYMNASTICS.
o, In Chautauquan,

A. 1fosso, In Chautauquan.
By unanimous consent Adolph Spiess
was the inventor Of the methsd and ex.
ercise on which the programmes OF
eynnas.ics are based to-day. Few
schoolmnsters have left such deep
traces In education; few. perhaps, have
done 90 much work IS Spices. He
taught. IN the public schools at Burg
uorf, history, geography, drawing and
gymnastics-au at the same session.
Poor % he was. he would make three
hours walk every week t. the Munhcen-
bschaee gymnasium, and. after two
hours Of hard exercise. he would re.
turn, always on foot. tired but not dis
contented. Burgdorf Is little town In
tho canton Of Bern. Its castle crowns
the summit Of hill. One day visit.
I'd de town, went up to the castle. and.
Passing through 1t to the terrace. rat
Gown under an old linden to admire
the landscape and gaze ON the snow
capped Alps whitening in the distance.
An instructor in the high school Of
Burgdorf who had gone with me on
this walk pointed ont to ne the win
2ows of . room in the castle where
Spices first school had been. IN that
room boys and girls had frst gone
through those exercises which are now
part of the training in all public schools.
All there Is just a. it was in 1899. when
Spiess came from Germany, full Of
hope, happy in being called there A.
Pestalozzi's successr.s Pestaloxxi had
written in that very eartle his book
'How Gertrude Teaches Her Children"
a well a. the Mother Book" no lees
celebrated in the history of popular
pedagogy. Spiess tells III how the
gInnassic exercises were caSried on in
The castle only in winter and when il
paioed. but At other times bow he would
lead his boys out into tie open air to
exercise IN the playground which -
down In the valley, . grassy meadow
projected from the sun on tbs south by
. high clih-
Spices best years were paaeed in that
meadow. The four volumes Of this
work On gymnastics were thought out
end put into practice on that play
ground. Al old horizontal beam On two
rusty supports, which is still there,
b probably the Oldest piece of Rym-
nastic apparatus in Eu>ope-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-03
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES

Callahan Is now referring to II O.
"F1ynn's free homes fake"
In Payne county the Populists are
known as the little band Of pie-hunters."
Answer to Reader" It Is true that
Buchanan vetoed the original homestead
measure.
The custom of running women for coun-
ty superintendents in Oklahoma is spread
ing among all parties
It is said that Judge Tarsney 10 after
the Oklahoma City district which Judge
Keaton now holds. temporarily.
The Sheriff at Oklahoma City amuses
his customers by hanging political car
toons all over the walls OF his ONCE.
John Watts and wife of Yukon have be-
come so old and feeble that a guardian.
outside the family, has been appointed
The poets are all with Dennis Flynn.
Every place he goes he Is greeted with a
new song about Dennis Flynn and Free
Homes"
The Guthrie Leader has taken down the
portrait Of Callahan and the Republicans
viii have to renew their efforts for votes
for Flynn.
The editor Of the Shawnee Quill 10 kept
awake at nights by coyotes but he Is
afraid to shoot for fear he Will hit SUBJ
scribers dog.
A man appeared before the Dawes COM
mission the other day and claimed Chero-
kee citizenship on the grounds that he
was a descendant Of Pocohontas.
In a campaigns Oklahoma papers are
much more good natured than the Kansas
newspapers are. The Oklahoma papers
should keep up the habit. 1t pays.
The Greer County Monitor. published at
Mangum, is booming Flynn hard The
Enid Wave thinks that Its editor will
change back after he has heard Callahan.
The Oklahoma City Oklahoman. merely
for the sake Of stirring UP a quarrel on a
dull day, asks the Perry Enterprise:
what has become of the Perry gold
mines?"
Enid Wave: Charley King placed over
1000 rock bass in his lake about a year
ago and today these fish are over ten
inches hong. In a very short time Mr..
King Will have at least 500 worth OF fish
for which he can get the cash. Recently
he placed 20O more bass and rainbow
trout in the lake. In time that lake will
bring Mr.. King s. 900 a year in fish alone,
not to speak of the benefits and profit
he win derive from irrigation. If every
farmer would rustic and establish lake
like Mr.. Kings there would be few
millions more money reach our precinct
in the course Of a year. Mr.. King Is pre-
pairing to establish another lake in a. diff
ferent part of the farm. larger than the
one h1 has now.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-03

Herr Ahlwardt, whose classic feat
ures recently stopped few antique
eggs in New York. who is an anti
Semitic, has come out for Bryan. But
possibly Bryan is not responsible for
this. Bryan is not wholly bad.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-03

Come out, McCarty," yelled Mrs.
McCarty wrathfully. $50 way wild
We" cried McCarty under the house.
go get your committeeman and make
it a joint debate. Let's have it out
reg'ler. be jabbers."
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-03

Toadville, Kansas.-(Special. An
other Of Mark Hanna's bastard tricks
has come to light. The station agent
at Wnlieburg before he will sell tickets
to people make than sign a contract
promising il the train on which they
travel is polled, to vote for Mckinley.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-03

1t is understood that Wilted Hair, the
for numbering two men, by one Indian
chief has appealed to another chief
and sued the first chief for damages.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-03

Sol Miller OF Troy, Knsas, indorses
the sentiment that Ingalls, and Plumb
were chiefly responsible for the disas-
tiers to the Republican party OF Kan
sas the last six years He ought TO
take trip TO Washington and ask
some of the old senators about "In-
gals and Plumb
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-03

Somebody ought to take day off and
find out what is the matter with the
gold reserve. If the endless chain
greenbacks were the trouble why has
q remedy come without their retire
yr,ap,9
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-03

So far as predictions are concerned
the Republicans are very lenient with
the Populists. Had Mckinley two
vice presidential candidates pegging
after him the Pops wouldn't allow him
the chance Of carrying ST Lawrence
county, New York.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-03
The Tally Eagle Saturday ornug October g. 1896

the author receives $4,000 before a
line OF his work is in type! And yet"
says the Bookman, ''the wonder is fire.
quently expressed that in these days
nearly everyone turns his hand at lit
arafrrops
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-03

I'm tines like these" says Bryan,
money cannot change the result OF an
election" In proof of this, suppose
thpe campaign fund which gives Bryan
an opportunity to tour the land, should
play ont
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-03
THE INFINITE.

Sweet things there are
A summer day Is sSe
An evening STIR.
A tet>a-tete complete
n CONFESS. q dress
A village maid.
A beauty IN distress
A r1.dntxa- supper I'D
Fur two who tove
But To street. SsN or cas
Exceed the sugar bliss
OF girls z-no ki=S
Each CHER and zEspr>
Tia GnsxA2A AAA .
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-03

1t is now only one month until the
great American public win, on hearing
the result of the election, privately
drop the remark that that was he way
he voted too.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-03

Tom Watson now tells a friend that
Mckinley will win. PETER has never
said that Mckinley would be defeated.
The old-line Pops believe that the Pops
will win the country in 1900 and not
hafora
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-03

Gentle reader. reflect how the Pops
would snort about Bryan's poverty IL
1t were Mckinley who was gallivant-
ing about the country and Bryan stay
ing at home.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-03

Politicians always talk wheat, never
corn. The crime Of rs didn't get in
its work on corn. In 1867 corn was
20 cents bushel; in 1873. As; in 1881,
IS, and in 1890, 80.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-03

Let Us hope that Leavenworth will
give some sort Of a carnival soon with
q sham battle between the Salvation
army and Dan Anthony as feature.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-03

When Bryan went to college he wore
q plug hat and otherwise gave evidence
that he was about as shallow as the
young men at present attending Yale.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-03

Along last July Matt Quay was sent
1t for Mckinley. 1t will be noticed
from the awful silence in that direc-
ton that he is doing it. too.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-03

Thomas Bracket Reed announces
that he will speak this fall only in
doubtful states. Texas will receive
Mr.. Reed with acclaim. She has often
heard of him.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-03

1t is plain that Thomas Jefferson was
not well acquainted with life insur-
ance companies or he would have left
our elections entirely in their hands.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-03

Tom Watson Is to be run into the
round house and have his fire put out
If it is done quickly it is thought that
bis boiler may be prevented from bust
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-03

At the Long Simpson debate at Great
Bend one Republican had a rib broken
and hundreds Of Pops their hearts.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-03

The joint debate which Bryan Is hav-
ing with Mckinley would be much
more exciting if Mckinley should hap
pen to drop in while it was in progress.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-03

Bryan denies the rumor that he is
about 30 give up. And Sewall shows
20 signs, either, Of coughing up.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-03

wEaT fs TIE difference between TIE nss
who cuts oS the end os his bose ard q bcq
VINO has ,Hst finished his tzsk, ore les
sens lbs nose, And the other know. his iex
SCr
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-03

sExux- asked The teacher IN ratursl lis
tori. which animal attaches himself C
man tee nos;F' Emile szfser some reeec-
ton The leech, SIR