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ANDREW CARNEGIE.

of that year voluntary increase
of ten per cent was granted by the
company. This scale, with the bonus,
was paid during the remainder of the
year and throughout 1896. in the face
of unfavorable trade conditions The
present state of the market is anything
but f1attering, and consequently the
continuance of the present wages is re-
ceived with favor by the men
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a BOUNDARY DISPUTE.
Missouri May Re Called Upon to Give Thor
sands of Acres to kansas.

sands of Acres to Kansas
CHICAGO, Dec. GA special from
Fort Scott, Kan, says the report of
William Scott, county surveyor of Bour-
bon county, has just been presented to
the board of commissioners and it con-
tains some startling figures as to the
boundary line between Kansas and
Missouri. If it is correct Missouri may
be called on to give up mauy thousand
acres of it's best lands to Kansas. The
commissioners have referred the report
to Congressman R w. Blue for investi-
cation at Washington, and the federal
authorities are expected to take action
on it
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WILL MAINTAIN WAGES

Carnegie Steel Company Promises That No
Cut VIII BE Made
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec 26-Notices
were posted in all the mills of the Car
negie Steel Co, limited, yesterday, mo-
tifying the workmen that the same
wage scale that was paid last yeal
would be continued during 1897. The
scale affects from 1000 to 5000 ton
mage men, day men and turn men.
The scale now in effect was
made in 1895. and ON May II
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LEXINGTON, Ky, Dec 90 -Kentucky's
vote of IL electors for Mckinley and
one for Bryan is final. The time has ex-
PRED in which the Bryan men were per-
mitted to file a notice of contest. and
Chairman Roberts, of the repu blican
committee, announces that notice of
contest served ON Bryan Elector Smith
was simply a strategic move and that
it will not be pushed
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Postmaster Nominations Held Up.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-Postmaster.
General Wilson is working on list of
4S post offices which will become
presidential January l, the appoint
ments of postmasters for which
will be sent to the senate when
it reconvenes- Two or three
of the offices are in Missouri and one in
Kansas. The senate has now list of
i6O post Office nominees whose confirm
atoms are held up.
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TIRED OF LECTURING.

Bryan Not Charmed at the Pros pect of
Keeping All His Dates
CINCINNATI, Dec. 26-William j.
Bryan stopped here an hour on his
way through yesterday. While saying
that his lecture was a success, it is un-
derstood that he does not look with
favor on his lecture engagement and
may ask to be relieved. He remarked
to a close friend that he had made a
mistake in undertaking to deliver .
series of bipartisan lectures
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she LOAFs ELSEWHERE."
Topeka Attorney In Trouble for Writing
This Envelope.

TOPEKA, Kan, Dec 26.-John C.
Waters, son of Capt. j. G. Waters, is in
trouble with the United States authori-
ties over an inscription said to have
been placed by him upon a letter adj
dressed to another person A letter
was received at the Waters law Office
addressed to a former habitue, who
had been ordered to move on 1t was
Endorsed: He 1oafs elsewhere" and
returned to the post Office. For this,
Mr.. Waters is being investigated by
posi- Office inspectors
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NOVEL PLEA FOR PARDON.
Kentucky Convicts Wanted to Go and Fight
Cuba.

KENTUCKY COnV1cts Wanted to Go and Fight
for Cuba.
FRANKFORT, KY. Dec 26.-One hun
dred convicts in the Frankfort peni-
Tertiary filed a petition with the gov
ernor for pardon. They stated in their
petition that if pardoned they would
all go to Cuba and fight to free the
island. The governor could not see it
that way and was inclined to think
they might work for freedom inside
the walls. and their expected Christ
mas gift has gone g1immering.
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SIX Miner. Killed.

PRINCETON, Ind, Dec. 2s--The explo-
sion of gas in the Princeton shaft Sat
urday night was not SO serious as be-
lieved- Six miners were killed, while
one is missing and is believed to be
dead Eight men were rescued almost
lifeless, but it is thought they will re-
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ohio Indu.tr,.l St .,i.tlc..

COLUMBUS, o.. Dec a9.-Statistics
just compiled by State Labor Commits
sioner Rueherwein from 1, ass industrial
establishments in 40 states and terrific
ries show that So, AS less hands Were
employed in these Establishments in
July. 1896, than in July, 1892. and that
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Rodies OF Five of q Pound.

HEWITT, Mimi. Dec 2S-The decom-
posed bodies of Charles Bectler. his
wife and five children have been found
by hunters in their house near here.
1t is not yet known whether it is
case of foul play or not, but murder is
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Great strike 10 Declared ON.

BosToN. Dec '26-The great strike
on the West End street railway has
been officially declared of. This ac-
ton came like a bonn bshell at 1899 this
morning. But it remains to be seen if
this second action of the supreme coun-
ell will be needed.
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Costly Fir. I'm yyuke.barre, Pa.

WHKEsBARRE, Pa Dec. 26--Fire to-
tally destroyed St Stephens Episcopal
church, one of the largest edifices in
this city. early yesterday morning.
The Westmoreland CLUB, adjoining,
was Quilted. The cause CT the fire 10
unknown. Loss. $500. Goa
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Footpad. I'm Kan,a, CITY.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Dec IS Several
highwaymen held high carnival in this
city Saturday night and last night
Nearly dozen people We're held up
and robbed. and one man was danger
ously assaulted by the robbers. Three
suspects ire under arrest
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A Biz Car COMPANY In.nlxent.

TACOMA, N H, Dec 29.-The La CO..
mia Car Co. was petitioned into an in
voluntary insolvency to-day. The total
liabilities are placed at S6l7, 900 and
assets at S4o7, 900
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LINCOLN, Nehl, Dec 2S.-W- j. Bryan
admitted that he had arranged with b.
Briggs & Co, of Greenville, S C, to
deliver five more lectures. He declined
to go into details of the severing of his
relations with Y. E McBee-
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There was no working fiscal system, and
the machinery of raising money broke
down at the slightest strain. Business
between the c~onfederated colonies was
made stagnant by the fact that contracts
were not mutually valid. Army opera
tions were hampered by utter weakness
at the heart of power, and Washington
was assailed by never ending intrigues,
which threatened his power and rank
and embroiled the officers whose loyalty
to his plans was of the utmost impor-
tance. So great were the embarrassments
growing out of that creaking and ram
shackle engine of administration known
as 'the continental congress- that the
wonder of our victory over Great Britain
is greatly enhanced. One is inclined to
suspect that had not u mother country
who had essayed to play stepmother-
been greatly hampered ON her side by
foreign hostile interests, the American
chanticleer would not have had occasion
to crow so Justify in 1888.
Washington had begun to agitate in
favor of a reconstruction of federal ties
before the war was half ended. His
correspondence with Mason, Madison,
Randolph and Jefferson of Virginia,
with Hancock and the two Adamses of
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piety, his indomitable energy and his
unselfsh patriotism certainly can never
be exceeded. We aave greatly loved
Lincoln, heartily trusted Grant, but
surely our souls cleave in reverent affec-
ton. above all, to Washington.
Rev. DR.. Joseph Parker of London
Others will speak of George Washington
from a military and historical point of
view. II ! add a word, it must be to
express my reverence for the great mans
personal character, which l hold to be
n Of the purest, simplest and strongest
in the annals Of the world. While / do
not begrudge America the inheritance
of his fame, / cannot allow America a
monopoly of his enown. George Wash
ington belongs 10 patriotism, to civiliza-
ton and to heroism all the world over.
He vas a child of the larger history,
not a mere unit in the development of
a single nation. I can never forget the
summer day when I went over his quar-
tiers on the banks of the Hudson and
touched, as it were, the very spirit and
genius Of the man. Any honor done to
Washington is done to the 'destiny that
shapes our ends.
Phineas T. Barnum.-The true great
ness Of George Washington is best ex-
emplified in the greatness of this
country, which, as compared with all
other nations, is the greatest show on
earth. We celebrate Washington's birth
day, but in the centennial of his inau-
guration we celebrate the real birthday
of the nation. Old sayings now take Oh
new meanings. Hereafter the FIRST il
war, first in peace and first in the hearts
Of his countrymen" will be more par
ticularly impressed upon us as first pres
ident of the United States. This means
much more than the mere fact that he
was the great general who successfully
carried the country through the Revolu-
tionary struggle. Another trite saying
nov has new significance. We justly
call Washington the Father Of His
Office as president, New York city had
less than 35. 900 inhabitants, and our
entire population has multiplied from
800. 900 to 60, 600, 900. Surely Washing
ton, as the Father of His Country, is
the patriotic progenitor of more people
than were promised to Father Abraham.
Cardinal Gibbons. 1t is in accordance
with the economy of divine Providence
that whenever the Almighty has any
great work to accomplish in the civil or
moral order he employs the agency of
suitable men to effect it's execution.
When he designed to found a great and
model empire in this western world, he
raised up men who laid the foundation
of u republic so deep, SO strong and sc
broad that it might continue for sue
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a national government firmly establish
ed, m~enacing controversies with foreign
nations settled, the wal debts funded,
credit restored, commerce and agricul-
ture Furnishing, and the of the
country beginning to be exploited and
made available.
Elected a second time to the presi-
dency. he followed strictly the lines
which his speculative wisdom had sug-
gested during the first incumbency.
In the autumn of 1895 he published
his famous farewell address, that
most remarkable of state papers, and in
the following spring retired to private
life. On the Sd of March, 1897. the
president and Mrs. Washington gave a
farewell dinner. at which much hilarity
prevailed at first, but On the removal of
the cloth, when Washington filled his
glass and said, with a smile. Ladies
and gentlemen, this is the last time l
shall drink your health as apublio man;
l do it with sincerity and wishing you
all possible happiness" there was an
instant cessation Of mirth.
Retiring to Mount Vernon, as before.
Washington gave his personal attention
to the management of his farms. follow
ing the serene existence be go much en-
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ON HIS WAY TO BE I~NAUGURATED.
place and refused to pass an ordinance
recommending a constitutional conven-
ton. A minority of wise men was pow.
erless against a majority consisting of
merely parochial Legislators, each eaten
up by a sense of provincial Importance
and loath to surrender one title of colo.
NAL dignity. It was here that the tran
scendent influence of Washington to the
remotest corner of the 10 common
wealths had an effect which no other
public man could exert. OF that galaxy
of thinkers who argued and toiled for
the important end in view none shone
so potently in illuminating and trans
forming sentiment as the successful cap
tain who had led the armies Of the
inchoate nation to victory.
When the efforts of Washington and
the Federalist statesmen at last brought
about the convention which in 1887 con-
summated the work of the war, he was
made it's president. AS such he took a
minor part in its public discussions and
deliberations. His name scarcely APP
pears in the debates, which covered a
period Of about ten weeks and probably
involved as stormy a clash of theories,
convictions and p~rejudices, presented on
both sides with mastery skill of dialec.
tics, as ever shook a great public body.
Evidence has been accommodating for the
last 100 years-for even the important
facts of history are frequently ~unreveal-
ed till long after the actual events--that
fhn nroSi6ont nf that convention xuoo Tho
power behind the throne that he guided
and nodded its results in q fashion vastly
more vital than his formal duties as
chairman. When discussion came to a
deadlock in more than one instance, it
was Washington's influence and logic in
private that effected either compromise
or submission. 1t was his magic voice
that placated state jealousies, his sug-
gestive forethought that frequently Of
public by the great mouthpieces of the
convention to the final quenching of all
opposition. i
What that convention achieved need
not be discussed. What fruit it ripened
Is known Of all, peerless and priceless
like the golden apples of the garden of
the Hesperides, the western paradise of
Hellenic fable in the remote seas of the
sunset. The part played by Washington
was for the most part hidden from the
world at the time. He never asserted
any claims; probably, indeed, he looked
on himself as the most insignificant fac
tor in the convention. OF all the worlds
greatest men he was the most modest.
But the conviction has enforced itself
more and more that of all the makers of
the American constitution no one con.
tributed more ably to its results than
Washington the statesman, who thus
supplemented the work of Washington
the soldier.
THE END. 2
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CHAPTER XXI.
WASHINGTON THE STATESMAN.

WASHINGTON THE
The fame of Washington, aside from
that greatness of character which be-
slows such luster on his memory, be-
speaks the great soldier, the wise execu-
tive, the man of glorifed common sense.
But few who have not been students of
history have justly measured his rank as
statesman. We are so easily allured to
identify genius in public affairs with
those gifts of tongue or pen which make
it shine as to be loath to separate them.
Yet not a few of the great masters of
civic matters who have nodded the fate
of empires have been among the dumb"
statesmen, those who could only speak
or write in simple Doric. Such English
men as Walpole, Peel and Palmerston
are good examples of this mental genius,
and our own Washington and Grant are
still more interesting studies.
Washington had but little facility Of
expression as speaker or writer unless
when swung to the top by bigness of
occasion. His farewell address ranks
among the greatest of American state
papers, but its eloquence is that of deep
sincerity and earnestness, the passion of
homespun sagacity fused to incandes.
cence. 1t is not even in the wisdom of
his two administrations as president,
though he had then to grapple with so
many untried problems with but little
light from experience to guide him, that
we must seek the test. 1t is to the great
part he played in making the constitu-.
tion of the United States, a part SO big
that scarcely any ones role could match
its value, that we must look for his true
gauge as statesman.
Perhaps no one in the country had
such experimental knowledge of the old
system under which we fought Great
Britain to a standstill. The ties of con-
federation expressed in the powers given
to the continental congress were mere
ropes Of. sand. Congress had no power
of enforcing its own laws. Every move
ment was suspiciously watched by all
the little commonwealth, which were
Jealous Of each others and still more
jealor" { the so called central power.
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by the peoples suffrages to the highest
Office within their gift to become the
first president of the republic he had
been instrumental in creating, Washing
ton could not refuse his evident destiny.
From his diary we quote:
about 10 O'Clock / babe adieu to
Mount Vernon, to private life and to do.
mestic felicity, and, with a mind OPP
pressed with more anxious and painful
sensations than / have words to express,
set out for New York, with the best dis
position to render service to my country
in obedience to its call, but with less
hope Of answering it's expectations"
The long journey from Mount Vernon
to New York, which he made in his
private carriage, attended by two
friends and body servants, was one con-
tinued ovation. The battlefields en- route
where he had won victory or had met
defeat were transformed into scenes of
pleasure, where, as at Trenton, bright
young faces met his gaze, instead Of
stern and powder b~lackened visages,
and sweet voices welcomed him in songs
of praise. The soldiers and the common
people, and particularly the rising gen.
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Hopelessly Handicapped.

"You see," he said with great conf
dence, Il am the original Mckinley
man."
"Are you sure of that?" inquired the
politician, who is anxious to relieve the
office seeking pressure.
positive"
SWELL, I'm sorry for you, There's no
use in trying to break down tradition. "
"But doesn't that help my chances?"
"You don't expect to break down a
rule that has lasted for centuries, do
you? You know as well as l do that the
true genius-the really original man
always has to wait and be recognized
by posterity. If you were merely n of
the numerous limitations of the original
Mckinley man, you'd stand some chance,
but as it is l don't see what we can be
expected to do except to say it's hard
luck, and we're sorry for ou."-Wash-
linton Star.
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Continued from last issue.

joyed. In July, 1899, he drew up his
will with minute directions for the
management Of his estates, but it was
completed only four days before he died.
His health was good up to the last week
Of his life, and he regularly attended
church at Alexandria, nine miles dis
tant.
On the 18th Of December he was tax
en- with a cold, as the result of a long
ride owe his farms in a sleety storm.
That night he was attacked with acute
laryngitis. His physicians came and
weakened him by copious blood lettings
until it was absolutely impossible for
him to rally, and he expired at near
midnight, Dec. IA, 1899. His last words
WERE, at is WELL" His wife, who was
nearly his own age, followed him to the
grave az years later. A nation mourn
ed him.
Major Henry Lee pronounced the fu-
neral grafton, in which occur the words,
First in peace, first in war, first in the
hearts of his countrymen," and con-
gress decreed a marble monument at
the nations capital.
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TIE HouDoN BUST OF WASHINGTON.

II HOUDON UST OF WASHINGTON.
ceeding generations to be the sanctuary
of freedom and the home of the Cypress
ed. He gave to the country a Washing
ton, whose valor and military genius
were equaled only by his wisdom ard
craftsmanship in the government of the
nation; hence l regard George Washing
ton as not only one of the great men of
history, but in a conspicuous sense as
an instrument in the hands of Provi-
dence in effecting the civil and political
emancipation of this nation, as Moses
was the instrument of God in the deliv-
GRANGE of the Hebrew people from reli-
gious bondage.
Frank r. Stockton. Carlyle we'll ar
CUES that ''times" do not make great
men. "Alas," he says, 1--WE have known
times call loudly enough for their great
man, but not find him when they called.
He was not there. :" The times in which
our country struggled to appear before
the world as a nation may not have
made George Washington. But when
they called for their great man he was
there.
Hon. S. S. Cox.-It is permitted in
this world, even to the humblest mortal,
to survey a star in the heavens. 1t is a
favorite symbol with men who are rhe-
~torically inclined TO liken our elevated
characters to something belonging to
stellar glory. All l can say in brief, js
that George Washington wa7 a star of
the first magnitude, with an orbit which
Ia not circumscribed according to human
intelligence. Whether as soldier o. ci-
william. he is ''pinnacled dim i'll the in
tense inane" and has no companion in
glory.
Hjalmer Hjorth Boyesen.-I know
no historic character concerning whom
the verdict of humanity is SO unan
imous as it is concerning George
Washington. With the exception of
Thomas Carlyle, / cannot recall the name
of any writer Of consequence who has
dissented from this verdict. As far as l
am able to Judge, W~ashington's great
ness did not consist in AL abnormal de-
velopment of one great faculty at the
expense of others equally essential, but
in an even and equable development Of
all faculties required for leadership both
in peace and in war. 1t was the admira-
BILE poiseg and balance of his character,
it's happy equilibrium, which gave him
his predominanca in his own day and
has secured for him an equally domi-
nant position in the worlds history. He
seems at this distance the ideal Ameri.
can. possessing in all eminent degree all
the qualities which constitute the
strength and greatness of this great na-
tion.
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A Little Too Smart.

An Irishman's idea of what consti-
tutes a successful stratagem is some
times most amusing.
"And how is your wife afther the
weddin and all?' inquired Mr.. Murphy
of his friend Mr.. Doolan, whose daugh-
ter had been married two days before.
"She's we'll enough, exceptin that
she's grievin over a pair of illigant new
kid gloves that got lost on her that even
in, " responded MI. Doolan. "She's feel
in bad about thin, but I've advertised
in the paper, and I'm thinkin she'll get
thin back again befoor long. They cost
Mrs. Doolan two dollars and forty five
cints!"
"Ain't you afraid whoiver got thin
will be slow to answer the advertise
ment?'' inquired Mr.. Murphy.
cts mesilf that knew how to fix
that" returned Mr.. Doolan. 81 adver-
tised thin illigant gloves as an ovid
cotton pair, burrstin away at the seams
and wurrth nobody's keepin!' -
Youths Companion.
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"aoElNOl ON Dl
Grafton, were with him. But who could
have imagined that a few short years
in office, unremunerative and vexatious
as it was to him, would have evoked a
host Of snarling, envious, sycophantic
Office seekers? p
He was inaugurated at New York
the 30th of April, 1889, and before he
had hardly warmed the presidential
chair the Philistines were upon him.
They first criticised his receptions,
which were denounced as aping royalty,
and Of which he said:
Before this custom was established,
which now accommodates foreign char
acters, strangers and others who, from
motives of curiosity, respect to the chief
magistrate, or any other cause, are in
duced to call on me, l was unable to at
tend to any business whatever. To
please everybody was impossible. 1
therefore adopted that line Of conduct
which combined public advantage with
public convenience, and which, in my
Judgment, was unexceptionable in it
SELF"
Under his auspices Washington saw