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and the world that in any single con-
test we are ever liable to encounter.
The battle is now on and must be
fought to finish: The victory will
be either for the carron of society,
those who, with well-flled purses and
eyes bulging out with fatness, pros
per by spreading desolation, or for
mankind in general
The peoples party put the railroad
question second in its platform, it be-
ing the next to the money question, the
most burdensOme and menacing mon
opoly, and declared that these great
public tnnctiOnaries must be placed in
sympathetic rather than an antag-
onistic relation to the interests and
needs OF the people that call them into
being. The first demand in the peo-
pies party platform for monetary rt
form has asserted its right of way, and
thus has proven to the world that in
the first instance our party correctly
interpreted the demand of the people,
4 1890
success of the first plank in the plat
form has established the credit of the
party, and millions of our people,
shocked and alarmed at the conduct
of the railway corporations in the late
campaign, already recognize that the
second plank in their platform must
monopolize the field as soon az the
money question is settled.
The whole power of the railroad
corporations was exerted on the side
of the gold candidate in the late cam
paign. They made liberal donations
to the campaign fund, distributed gold
literature on their trains, and turned
every railway office, workshop, and
roundhouse into recruiting station
for Mckinley and the gold standard
They realized that the breaking of
party lines meant the retirement of
the monopoly captains in politics, and
that their case would be the next to
receive attention.
Only the blind, therefore, can con-
| sidcr possible the spread of such poll
tical and economic atheism as would
be an attempt to tamper with the order
of progress as represented on our poll
tical chart. The proximity and pres
sure of the railroad question make i'm
possible any danger to our organization
from other parties that haye been
forced onto our ground on the money
question.
Brave men are never made timid by
success. Caution and a wise discre-
ton are always commendable, but
cowardice and vacillation are criminal
| characteristics.
The true populists welcome converts
in an individual capacity or as organ
lied bodies, and will reject no ally that
will aid them in the emancipation of
the American people from the tyranny
and despotism of greed, represented by
the money power and the confederated
monopolies.-J. M. Devine, in the
National Bimetallist.
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business Discora over poIitic..

NEW YORK, April 2a-Politics has
led to serious discord among the di-
rectors of the United States Casualty
company. Former Secretary of the
Treasury Charles S. Fairchild and for
mer Mayer William r. Grace have re-
signed because of the election of Prof
James W. Hinkley, chairman of the
Democratic State committee. Messrs.
G~ace and Fairchild are gold men, and
hinkley had charge of Bryan's cam
paign in this city.
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war ships to BE Held In Reserve

WASHINGTON. April @o.--The navy
department has just perfected plans
for the creation of reserve list of war
vessels. The first vessel to be made
the nucleus of the reserve fleet will
be the Columbia. 1t will not be taken
out of commission, but will be laid up
in reserve at League island as soon as
it shall return from the New York cell
ebration next week OF the crew of
400 men only seventy-seven will be re-
tanned The others will go to the
TnUa
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w. j. Deboe Nominated.

FRANKFORT, KY, April 2e.-The ad-
journed Republican caucus for the
purpose of nominating a Senatorial
candidate met at o'clock last night,
and after several hours of balloting
chose DR.. w. j. Deboe as the nominee.
There is every prospect that DIR. Deboe
will be elected Senator today to sue
ceed Blackburn
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news of Turkish defeat in Greece has
just reached that city.
THE NEW TURKISH COMMANDER.

WAsHINGToN. April 2i.-Secretary
Sherman has received a brief cable
gram from Minister Terrell at Con-
stantinople stating that Osman Pasha,
the old hero of the Turkish defense at
Plevna, left Constantinople last night
to assume command of the Turkish
army in the field. The cablegram is
regarded here as significant of some
change of plans ON the part of the
Turks. The new Turkish commander
held Plevna in the Russo Turkish war
of 1877 against General Skobeloff
and a vastly superior Russian force
for two months, and only surrendered
after repeated sorties had failed. He
is regarded as the greatest general in
Turkey to-day.
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Slew Her AIother-in-LaM.

LANSING, Mich, April 26.-At Will
iamston, Mich, fourteen miles east of
here, Mrs Albert Hovey, aged 80
years, murdered her aged mother-in-
law with an AK sometime between 8
o'clock and noon yesterday. She sew
cred the head entirely from the body
and then poured oil on the iifeless
body and set it on fire. The murdered
woman was so years old and lived with
her SON S family in the southeast part
of the village.
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ser;ou, Fire at calIatin. Mo.

GALLATIS, Mo-, April e6.-Fire at 1
o'clock a. IN. destroyed the northwest
corner of Gallatin's business square,
including Western hotel, Dening's
photograph gallery, express Offices,
Miller's implement warehouse and
Myers barber shop, and damaged the
old /. o. o. +. building and Browns
livery stable. The loss is about 80, 900.
with about "a 500 insurance.
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No Three Cent Fares.

1NDIANAPoLIs, Ind, April e4.-Judge
Showaiter of the United States circuit
court has granted the injunction asked
by the Citizens street railway against
the en-: orcement of the three-cent fare
law. The effect will be a return to
five-cent fares
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Two Women Held I'm.

SEDALIA, Mo-, April 26t-Mrs. NJ. B.
Nelly of Warrensburg, who has been
attending the meeting of the Woman's
Foreign Missionary society, and Mrs
NJ. j. Blondin of this city were held up
and robbed by two colored men, at the
corner of Ohio and Eleventh street, at
| IL o'clock last night.
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A CABINET CHANGE,
Mr. Mckenna Slated for the Supreme
Bench-Judse Day to Succeed Him.


Beneh-Judse Day to Succeed Him.
CHICAGO, April pa special to the
Times-H Herald from Washington, d.
c., says: Although President Nc
kinley has made no disclosures con-
corning the matter so far as is known,
nor any of the other persons directly
interested, there is an understanding
that when the first vacancy occurs
upon the supreme bench Attorney
General McKenna will be appointed to
a place upon the court, and Judge
William r. Day of Canton will be his
successor.
Whether or not Justice Field will
be willing to retire next August, when
his term of service viii exceed that of
Chief Justice Marshall, remains to be
seen. Among his colleagues on the
bench there is a belief that Justice
Field has no intention of retiring and
that he will die in harness"
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AGREEMENT REACHED.
Chickasaw- -Choctaw Treaty Negotiation
Successful.

Chickasaw-C -Choctaw Treaty Negotiations
Successful
AToKA, l. T., April @b.-The Dawes
commission has reached an agreement
with the Choctaw and Chickasaw In
dian commioners for division of their
lands. The agreement makes pro-
vision for townsites, persons owning
substantial improvements to be per-
mitted to purchase lots on which build
ings are already erected at two-thirds
of the actual value; all coal and min
eral interests are reserved for the re-
spective nations; individual royalties
are to cease on the ratification of the
agreement by Congress and the allot-
ment of the lands is to take place i'm
mediately upon its approval.
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Groom 7e, Bride IL

MIDDLEsBoRo. Ky. April "a Pet
Camp, aged 7e years, and Sallie ST.
mons, aged II, were married at Jellico,
Tenn, this morning. They live at Cor
bin, Ky, and eloped to Tennessee.
The girls parents were opposed to the
match, and the father followed the
pair with winchester, but they
eluded him
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BITTINGER WINS OUT.
In Full Control OF Fourth District Mis-
souri, Patronage.

souri, Patronage.
WASHINGTON, April 26.-Mark Hanna
has taken hand in the st. Joseph
postoffice fight, and radical change
in the situation is noted all around.
He has laid the matter before the
president and asked that Messrs. Ker-
ems and Bittinger be recognized, which
means the reappointment of Post
master Atkinson.
Hanna called en- the president Thurs
day evening and recommended that
Atkinson be appointed, and that all
other appointments be referred to
Major Bittinger for his approval, and
this will doubtless be the policy which
will be followed by the administration
in future.
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A High Railroad omo,., KILLED.

CHARLOTTE, N. c., April 24.-S. T.
Pender. general freight and passenger
agent of the North Carolina & North
ern railway, was killed in attempting
TO board moving train on that road
1t Lincolon yesterday afternoon
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would BE AssassIn Insane.

ROME, April 26.-The physicians who
have been examining Petrio Acciarito,
the iron worker. of Artegna, province
of Udine, who tried to stab King Hum
bert with q dagger. while his majesty
was on his way to the races, pronounce
aim insane.
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Maior TOM Br.ckinr,are D.aa.

|. HANsIBAL, Mo-, April 26.-Major
Thomas E. Breckinridge, the Western
pioneer, who crossed the plains with
Fremont, died here at the home of his
daughter last night he lived in Coli
,rado.
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FRIENDLY INTERVENTION.

The Powers Will Act for Peace on the
Request of Either Side.
BRUSSELS, April 94.-Le Nord to-day
announces that all the powers have
given their adhesion to the note of the
Russian minister for foreign affairs,
Count Moravieff, assuring the Greeks
and Turks of the friendly intervention
of the powers in the present struggle
so soon as asked for by either side.
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FLOOD ABOUT THE SAME.
No New Crevasses, but Old Ones Con-
tinue to Do Damage

tinue to Do Damage.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 26.-No new
crevasses appeared in the levee yes
terday, but the current of the river is
still beating against the southern em-
bankments with fury that causes the
gravest apprehension. The break at
Delta has inundated 75, 900 acres of the
finest plantations in Northern Louis
lana, and the water continues to pour
through the opening, and it is rapidly
spreading over greater area.
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VOL. XVI
MEETING LIVE ISSUES.
TO THAT THE PEOPLES PARTY
Owes IT GROWTH.

a Conference can not Make or Disgrace an
Issue. lssu s are Born of Conditions
and Must Have the Right Of way. They
Defy Parties.
Iowa Baptist standard., 1897-05-21

She is taken from the block, hustled
into wagon, the driver mounts his
seat and starts at a brisk trot. The
road winds through the wood, past the
cabin, and as the wagon draws near
tiny White-clad figure appears against
the black square of the low doorway.
Inc babe recognizes the bowed figure
crouching in the wagon, and stretches
out its tiny hands. its shrill treble
reaching her through the clatter OF the
flying hoof-beats: Nanny, Nanny!
oh, mammyw
My baby chile"
Inc wagon clatters on, the cabin
passes from view, receding with every
step OF the horses farther from the life
OF the helpless black woman.
Every one in town knows old Becf.
she is bent, blind, deaf, altogether
hopelessly decrepit She receives tht.
plttances of charity with humble
Dob OF her stiff old body, but no intet-
llgent conversation is expected of he..
though her old lips are always mos.
ihg' repeating over and over a sins1r
sentence that has. together with tn.
picture of little child in a scant gown
stretching its hands to her from a low
CABIN door, burned itself into her brok-
en- heart and crazed brain. Nanny.
Oh' nanny And she mutters be-
tween her shriveled lips, as she plors
along her uncertain way: "Mammy's
chile, mammy's chile."
LOUISE PIKE.
Iowa Baptist standard., 1897-05-21
4 Strange Race.

Ir the archipelago in the Bay of Ben
gal there GXists race of savage dwarfs.
Sailors call them little niggers," be-
cause the average height of them is
! our feet ten inches, the women reach
| ng stature Of four feet seven inches.
The oddest thing about these little peo-
pie is that they look like babies all
| heir lives 1t is only lately that these
dWarfs of the Andaman Islands have
known how to build fires. There is a
volcano Oh one of these islands, and
from this they have procured fresh
supplies IT fire when necessary, but
lhey knOf how to keep slow slumber-
ing embe's sufficiently alive not to
compel Hem often to visit the vol
cano. Ne thing which has excited
their curpsity most of anything in
troduced by the whites is the friction
match. Formerly the dwarfs of the
Andamans were accustomed to murder
all strangers who reached their shores.
Even nst sailors wrecked in the Bay
Of Bengat would probably be massa-
cred. 1t i believed the inveterate hos
tlilty OF little niggers" arose orig
ins....yy-fffs # N me cruel practice of the
Malays, Burmese and Chinese, who
visited the Andamans to get edible
birds nests and sea cucumbers, and
who used TO capture the little natives
and sell them for slaves. There are
several shades of color among them,
ranging from bronze to shiny black.
Their hair is extremely frizzled, grow
ing in spiral tufts. 1t is fine, and sell
dom becomes more than two or three
inches long. Most of the women shave
their heads once week, leaving only
TWO narrow strips of hair from the
crown to the nape Of the neck Many
Of the men do the same, although the
style is different. They leave a patch
like skull cap on the crown of their
heads. The most remarkable custom
lf these little people is the wearing of
necklaces Of human bones. When a
up again. The father carries the body |
o the nearest creek and removes the
lesh from the bones with the greatest
are, carrying them and the skull back |
o his hut The mother, after painting !
he latter with yellow pigment. hangs |
t around her neck. Infant skulls, be- |
ng fragile, are protected by a cover
ng of string, For few days a mother
will spend all her time stringing the
'its of bone into necklaces. to be dis
ributed among her friends as memen-
oeS. These are supposed to ward off
lsease. Teeth are also strung as neck
aces, every native of the Andaman
Stands wearing chain of some sort
t human bones.
Iowa Baptist standard., 1897-05-21
Arctic Exploration.

The Swedish government has made
official announcement of the purpose of
Prof Andree to start from Danes
island near Spitzbergen, about the end
of June with his balloon in search of
the North Pole, and has requested Off
cials in high latitudes to report the
balloon if sighted. The government is
giving Prof. Andree's project hearty
support, and as his balloon house at
Danes Island is already complete and
much of his equipment is there. the
annoying delays of last year which
caused the abandonment of the attemnt
should be avoided. Lieutenant Peary's
plan for attempting to reach the Pole
by succession of sledge journeys. with
bases of supplies for 2 line of retreat
annually renewed by vessels sent out
for that purpose, has been approved by
the council of the American Geographi
cal society and aid promised.
Iowa Baptist standard., 1897-05-21
Old Hickory.

When Old Hickory resided in the ex-
ecutive mansion he invited his friends
with hearty vehemence to wander at
will through its vastness, says the
Washington Post. The blunt hero OF
New Orleans" never affected any airs
of state dignity. Gen. Dale of Missis-
sippi he hailed familiarly as Sam"
and Mr.. Van Buren, he nicknamed
"Matty.' He strolled unostentatious-
ly through the white house grounds
for recreation and played humble
peg with his idolized adopted grand
children in the part where the eques-
trian statue of himself now stands.
Mrs. Jackson had died just prior to
the inauguration. Her niece. Mrs. Dom
elson. was the lady of the mansion. and
all three of her children were born
within its historic walls. When a
deputation waited upon the president to
receive some precious article to Law in
the cornerstone Of the treasury de-
partment jackson gave them a COW
of the constitution and one of
little Mary Donelson's curls. TherA
was always wine upon the presi-
dents table; indeed, his lavish hos
pitality compelled him at times to draw
upon the proceeds of his cotton cron
and even to sell some valuable land in
Tennessee.
He had lis eccentricities. too. The
halls of thu white house rang with
What have been politely termed EN-
pbatic sentences" and he enioved
a corn-cob pipe, which he had
bored and whitfield with his own hands
He had, too. the reputation of possess
ng the largest assortment of pipes out.
side of a tobacco shop. The immense
,heese, weighing several tons and as
arge as a cart body, which was sent
o him as present was sliced and
handed around at innumerable recep-
ions
Iowa Baptist standard., 1897-05-21
Run 1t by Water"

young lumberman of northern
Minnesota, whose habits of drinking
had given the blind staggers'' to his
business. reformed and ran his sawmiIl
with profit. While in the transition
period he met Tom. an old friend
How are you?' asked Tom.
Pretty well, thank you; but | have
just seen doctor to have him examine
my throat"
What's the matter
Well the doctor couldn't give mo
any encouragement. At least he could
not find what | want to find"
What did you expect him to find9,
Il asked him to look down my throat
for the saw mill and farm that had
gone down there in drink
And did he see anything of them ?"
No; but he advised me if ever l got
another mill to run it by water"
Iowa Baptist standard., 1897-05-21
New Friends and Old,

| New friends can never take the same
place in our lives as the old. The for
mer may be better liked for the time
their society may have even more at
traction, but in way they are strang-
ers. If through change of circum-
stances they go out of our lives they
so out Of it altogether These latter
day friendships have no root. as it
were. Their growth is like Jonah's
gourd-overshadowing, perhaps, and
expansive, but all on the surface.
whereas an old friend remains a friend
forever. Although, separated for an
indefinite period and not seen for vears.
if chance happening brings old com
rades together, they resume the old re-
iatlons IN the most natural manner and
take up the former lines as easily as if
there had been no break or interrlption
of the intimate intercourse of auld larp
syne
Such relations are impossible to es-
tablish except in youth, but once made
they are for life AS people grow OLD
er these friends and associates of youth
are apt to be more appreciated and old
relations are oftentimes resumed that
have been suffered to languish for
many years.
These links with the past form q
chain that, next to the tics of blood
makes one of the strongest relations of
social life.
Although pessimists declare that
friendship is myth and what are
called intimates are people who consort
together for amusement or self-interest.
the very fact that there is this feeling
of especial kindness for old time .asso-
ciates proves that there is such a
thing AS sentiment independent of
worldly considerations.-Ne York
Tribune.
Iowa Baptist standard., 1897-05-21

Reports in regard to winter wheat
arc discouraEng. The continuous rains.
followed hr high water in the streams.
have flooded the low lands in MANY
portions Of southern Illinois, so that
what wheat was not winter killed has
been utterly ruined by water. Reports
from nearly half Of the counties in the
state. including almost all of the win
ter-wheat growing counties, are that
two thirds Of the wheat seeded last fall
l 149nn0 acres was winter killed or
destroyed by floods. and the condition
n the remaining third $50 900 acres
Is 80 poor that under the most favora-
hle conditions only onc-third of an ay.
erage crop may be expected. The out
look is that little more than enough
wheat for seed will he harvested In
Illinois this season, and the people Will
have to depend on other states for
wheat for consumption, a condition
that has occurred but once in the agri.
cultural history Of the state.
Iowa Baptist standard., 1897-05-21
A Second Jim RIudxn

An incident realizing John Hays fa-,
nous story of Jim Bludso, engineer o.
the Prairie Belle, who held her nozzle
asin the bank till the last galoot" was
ashore, has occurred on the Chatta
hooche river in the wreck of the steam
er Griggs. The steamer struck snar
and ripped open her bottom. She be-
gan to fill and the pilot headed her to
a sandbar, while the engineer crowded
on all steam, though the water wa, al
ready running over a portion Of her
deck. Reaching the sandbar the YES
sci careened and the water rushing in
caught the brave engineer at his most
IN the engine room. He died there.
Iowa Baptist standard., 1897-05-21
A AustraIasian Federation.

The long discussed project of feder-
alton of England's Australasian colon
les, somewhat after the model furnished
by the Dominion of Canada. has taken
definite form in resolutions adopted bv
a federal convention at Adelaide. in
which the colonies of Victoria, New
South Wales, Tasmania, South Austria
liza and Western Australia were renre-
sented by delegates. Under the plan
proposed, each of the colonies will con-
troll its local affairs as now: but fed
eral parliament, to be composed of n
senate and house of representatives
will have exclusive power over customs
and excise taxes, and over military and
naval affairs. There is to be freedom
of trade between the colonies lust as
there is between our American states
The executive is to consist of cover
nor-general appointed by the queen.
Queensland, which ranks third of the
seven Australasian colonies in point of
area, and fourth in population, has not
thus far participated in the federation
movement