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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-05-06

The Bureau of Statistics has supplied
some data which will assist the public
to form an idea of the vastness of the
Mississippi flood and which the New
York Journal of Commerce condenses
as follows: 1.-THE submerged area is
computed to exceed 90, 900 square miles
or nearly half the area of the State OF
New York and a third more than the
area of the three Southern New Eng
land States combined. The population
of the region at the last census ap-
preached half million persons
Among the products of last year were
nearly half million bales of cotton,
twelve and half million bushels of
corn. and nine million pounds of sugar.
The aggregate value of agricultural
property in the submerged region is
computed to be about ninety million
dollars"
..Of course" adds our contemporary,
..the destruction of property amounts
to very small part of that, but in the
aggregate it is very serious item, and
for great part of the farming popu
lation it means the destruction OF all,
or nearly all, the property they have
in the world" The most serious effect
of the floods will be the loss of farm i'm
plements and supplies and buildings
to a population which has very little
capital at best, and the wholesale trade
of st. Louis and New Orleans will fee
the diminished buying capacity OF
population of half a million persons
Dispatch.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-05-06
Reformation as 1t Appears 10 Others,

Reformation as 1t Appears to Others.
Alfred Henry Lewis, Washington
correspondents of the New Y ork Journ-
al, hears the following things said in
Washington by cynics about the Re-
form Club dinner:
They do one thing more, however,
these carping cynics Of ours. They
look over the list of guests, and as
Cleveland denounces as un American
and Anarchistic such as Jones and
Faulkner and Gorman and Cockrell
and Bryan and all others who support
Led Bryan. and names them and their
fellows as either treason bitten or idi
OTIS born; when he does this and With
the next breath halls his auditors as
patriots of purest, oldest blood; wnen.
he does all this, say, our critics here
look over the list of guests and marvel
what Ickelheimer fell witMRuttrick in
Concord fights what Libenthal felleds
trees and fought Indians with Daniel
Boone; what SehWabs and what
tStrauses stood houlder against should
er with Jackson at New Orleans, and
later what Speyers and what Roths-
childs fought with Grant about vicks-
burg. and rode with that woridless
soldier IN the bloody battles of the
wilderness. Of course, we know that
these. with such as Carlisle-who,
born in Kentucky. can't live there
and with Wilson-that lame little man
of the academies, who exists only to
do as Cleveland tells him-and Herb
ert and Tracey and Patterson-late
lunkheads of the House. These three
are, the last bulwarks of Americanism,
the last citadel of refuge of the princi-
Piles of Jefferson, because Cleveland
tells us so, and we know that the six
millions who voted for Bryan-albeit
the blood of nine tenths of them has
been American for two hundred years
without a cross,.are determined men
aces to a free people, because Cleve
land tells us that. also. Yet. as l say,
Notwithstanding all this Cleveland
flung information and light, our cynics
scoff at these truths and insist that
the whole ''Refol M Club dinner was
only one of those amiable little pro
tenn. floats meant to help keep Cleve
land bobbing on the surface of events
until, in 1900, a Mugwump nomination
i might push to his relief. Let them
Elouob. tho sc0rn Oe the sinner ia the
!, praise of the truly good.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-05-06
An rnsnector of woman's Headgear.

The mayor OF Bridgeport, Conn.,,
has appointed Miss Susan Watson mat
matron.n 1t is Miss Watson's duty to
visit all the theatres and spot the wo-
men wearing skyscrapers. 1t re-
quest to remove the offending form OF
dress is ignored the matron will take
woman's name and report the case TO
all the box offices in town. Then the
lady's entire will be refused-tnrt 10
for the seats down front. She may be
accommodated with seat in the rear
row. where her hat will not interfere
with the view of any one, but sne eau
not sit in the chairs near the orches
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-05-06

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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-05-06
Wattersoa ON Cleveland.

Henry Watterson of the Louisville
Courier Journal scores Cleveland ana
his Reform Club speech. He calls the
speech the first gun" for Cleveland
for 1900 He. cannot bo president
again and ought not to be. He elected
Mckinley on a money issue, and then
falls out with him because he called
an extra session to arrange tariff bill,
whilst Cleveland was elected on a tar
if issue, and ignored it for repeal OF
the Sherman law. He scores both him
and Carlisle for the loss of Kentucky.
saws that his removal to New Jersey
was an adroit step toward his political
desires. and ends his Philippe as fol-
lows:
s"To him the Presidency has tecome,
what he indeed made it while he had
it-a personal affair, held regardless OF
party Obligations. Destitute of imag-
ination and OF sympathy. hesubjected
everything and everybody to his un-
bounded and unquenchabss egofism.
This eqotism, indeed, became SO sin
cere that he grew at last to believe
that he did actually know something
of the questions of his time and had
some policy other than the gratifica-
ton of his love of power and display.
1t is just as well that Democrats who
seek the rehabilitation of the party on
sound political lines of action and
thought should know, to begin with,
what lies across their path, and that
they should begin to cast about them
how to shake from their shoulders
this veritable Old Man of the Noun
tains. He is with us only for what it
will bring him. Nothing could have
induced him to appear in public ex-
cept to keep himself before the public,
and there is not a word uttered by him
to deprecate the idea of another can
didacy.
s.All his life an office seeker and an
Office holder, he differs from the riff
raft of his claff only by his high pre-
tensions and profound duplicity. He
hopes in the hurly -burly of affairs to
force himself first upon the party and
then upon the country as the repre-
sentative of clean politics and the pub
lie order. He represents neither. He
represents only his own lust for office
A great and noble principle must moi
be thus desecrated A possible party
| rehabilitation of the greatest moment
must not be obstructed by such {
deaths head at the feast.
"If Mr.. Cleveland has not the wis
dom to see his duty and the grace te
step down and out, he should be com
PEELED by the decent opinions OF decen
people to step down and out, for the
elimination of his ambitions is indis
Ipensable to any progress in the direc
ton of reform, which. while he stoot
as it's official chief. encountered moth
ing but obloquy and defeat
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-05-06
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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-05-06

The annual meeting of the Virginia
Press Association will be held at the
Jefferson Park Hotel, near Charlottes-
Vile, June 22d. Arrangements have
been made for a trip at the conclusion
of the session from Charlottesville to
the Nashville Centennial.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-05-06

We are reminded that another
worlds fair is not far away by the mes
sage of President Mckinley last week,
urging Congress to take immediate &C
ton in regard to participating in the
Universal Exposition to be held at
Paris ini1900 A bill has been intro
duced appropriating $75O,0OO for this
purpose. At the late Paris Exposition
our exhibits were not in keeping with
the Importance of our country's in
dustries and commerce. Such an op-
portunity to bring our products to the
attention of the world as is offered by
this end of the century exposition
should not be neglected.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-05-06

Capt. NJ. D. Tarr. veteran of the
Mexican and civil wars, died IN Mid
dlesex county few days ego.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-05-06
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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-05-06

Mrs. Hester A. Medlicott, mother of
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died in Gloucester county last week,
aged 70 years.
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CHURCH DIRECTORY.

First Presbyterian Church, on Frederick 81
Ii a. m. and D. m. Pastor. Rev. A. M. Fraser
Second Presbyterian church corner Freder
lex and Lewis streets. Services at II q. M
and 8. Pastor, Rev. ]. NJ. Wells.
Emmanuel Episcopal Church. worship on
West Frederick st. Services at II a. M, and
p. m,, Rector, Rev. R. G. Jett.
Trinity Episcopal church, Main street, be-
tween Lewis and Church streets. Services q
IL a.. M, and p. m. Rector, Rev. W. Q. Hull
linen
United Brethren chUrel, Lewis street, be
tween Main and johnson streets. Services at
II a. m and 8 p. m. Pastor, Rev. s. K
Wine.
Methodist church, lewis street, between
Main and Frederick streets. Services at II
m. and 8 p. m. Pastor, Rev. J. H. Boyd, D. D
Christ Evangelical Lutheran church Lew
is street, between Main and Frederick streets
Services at II a. m. and p. m. Pastor. Rev
Fl. F. Shealy.
Baptist church, corner Main and W shing
ton streets. Services at II a. M. and p. m
Pastor. Rev. M. L. Wood.
St. Francis Roman Catholic, North August<
street, Mass at and 1870 a. m. vespers and
benediction Of Most Blessed Sacrament 1t
p. m. Pastor. Rev. Father Mcverrv.
Young Mems Christian Association, corner
Main and Water streets. Services at p. m
Sunday. Geo. A. Overdorf. Secretary.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-05-06
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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-05-06

w- Persons indebted to Us will please call
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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1897-05-06
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The Forrest City times., 1897-07-09
A GOOD SUGGESTION.
And It Was offered n Nervous Notable by His Servant.


 It would be we'll for many of the peo- pie who are given to worrying to pay heed to story of Cromwells time, said to be absolutely true.
 The protector was sending special envoy to Sweden in the person of Bush- rod Whitelock, a most devout man, but one of an extremely nervous, anxioua temperament. As the ambassador was about to embark on his journey, he was detained at Haywich by a storm. He was so troubled with the affairs of the nation that he tossed, turned and groaned in his bed, unable to get to sleep.
 At last his confidential servant, who had won Whitelock's respect and con- fidence through his faithfulness and good sense on many trying occasion. ventured to say: Pray, sir, will you give me leave to ask you question:" ?"
 Certainly" was the answer.
 Do you think that God governed the world very well before you came into it?"
 "Undoubtedly do," said Whitelock.
 And" continued the servant, do you not think He will govern it quite as well when you are gone out of it?"
 ITO be sure He will," answered ths master, promptly.
 "Then, sir, excuse ms. but may yot not trust Him to govern it the little while you live in it?"
 Whiteloek made no reply To this per tinent question, but he turned ossr and was soon asleep; and on his return he repeated the story of his bit of advice with much appreciation. - Youths Companion.
The Forrest City times., 1897-07-09
 POINTS AND OPINIONS.

It cannot be denied that he tariff bill is sugar-coated, but that is not going to make it easier to swallow. Quite the reverse.-Indianapolis News.
 When the high protective tariff bill is passed and the price of favored products is raised we will see how little interest labor has in ''protec- tion." Labor has no sympathy from trusts and tariff-made monopolies, ex- cept just before election.--Columbus (O.) Press.
 The proposed annexation of Ha- waii again raises the question of Sec retary Sherman's retirement. The aged statesman has put up with some gall ing humiliations in his day, but it is hard to see how, in view of the conclud- ing paragraph of his "Recollections," he can retain both his office and his self-respect---Albany Argus.
 --The sugar trust is the federal ad- ministration's Simon" Simon says Cuba must not be recognized, Thumbs up!" and Mir McKinley's thumbs are elevated. The sugar trust wants Ha- waii annexed. Thumbs downi" and, To, Mir. MeKinley's thumbs drop down. The sugar trust is running the republican party and its president.-Illinois State Register.
 In response to a widespread ap- peal for relief, the administration pro- poses to give the people a Sandwich. If this meant the sidetracking of the scheme of tariff robbery. all might be well, but 1t doesn't mean that. Noth- ing can alter the determination of those in power to turn the trust wolves loose on the helpless people.-Binghamton (N. Y.) Leader.
 People may wrangle and experts be deluded, but there is one, class of men in this country who know what the sugar schedule means. They are the Wall street operators. Within four hours after the sugar schedule was agreed upon by the trust aud the re- publican senators sugar stock went up from l1s to 124, and later it was quoted at 126H. Here is an increase of Sc. .l2a share, coincident with the report and action by the senate in adopting the rate agreed on.-PittsDurgh Post.
The Forrest City times., 1897-07-09
TRUSTY FRIENDS.
Republicans Who Help the Monope-
 lies Through

fies GhrOugn.
 The republicans of the senate have given the best possible proof of their insincerity in protesting to be hostile to trusts by rejecting the Pcttigrew amendment putting on the free list for eign articles when the corresponding domestic articles are controlled by com binations.
 The republicans passed the antitrust law of 1890. The author of that law. John Sherman, had declared on the floor of the senate that he would vote to withdraw protection from producers who combined to stifle competition. He held to the republican theory that pro- lection was good thing for consumers in the long run, because it induced com petition among home producers and thereby reduced prices below what they would be in the absence of protec- ton. His attention was called to the fact that producers combined to de- stroy competition among one another, and extort up to the limit fixed by tho duties. It was then that sherman said he would vote to withdraw protection in such cases
 He did not do that, but he introduced his antitrust bill, and his republican associates voted for it. By that act they publicly professed to be hostile to mo- nopoly combinations. That law has been practically of no effect. And now the republicans deliberately refuse to reach the trusts in the only sure way by denying them protection.
 And they emphasized their refusal by tabling the Pettigrew amendment in connection with the sugar schedule, which their steering committee so framed that it sent up the diluted stock of the sugar trust five to ten points, to 126. And they do it in the face of tho plainest possible demonstration that the trust absolutely stiles competition. They have not only the admission of the head of the trust before the Lexow com mittee, but they have also the seven identical bids submitted in response to an advertisement for sugar for the In- evident conspiracy to rob the govern ment, the republicans vote down tho Pettigrew amendment.
 | And, not content with that, they vote down in caucus an amendment offered by one of their own number, Senator 1 Spooner, intended to compel the trust to dispose of the enormous stock of sugar it has been importing in antici- patton of higher duties at prices based on the present tariff. Not content with giving this great monopoly more pro lection, they deliberately assist it in beating the treasury and raking of millions of extra profit.
 | The republicans are exceedingly kind to the trusts, and especially to the sugar trust. And the only excuse they offered was that of Mir. Hoar, who said that the tariff bill was no place for such an amendment as that offered by Mir. Pettigrew, and besides it would enable any three men to put any article on the free list by organizing a bogus combination.
 Obviously the tariff bill was the only proper place for the legislation pro posed by MT. Pettigrew. And not less obviously is it easy enough to distin- guish between a genuine and 6 bogus trust. The Hoar excuse will not serve. l-Chicapo Chronicle
The Forrest City times., 1897-07-09
FORREST CITY, ARK. FRIDAY AFTERNOON JULY g. 1s97
SOME DAY.

Sone; s't With me. love. fin the gieaminr VI me fre-ltghts flicker and flare. together we'll drift in our dreaming. Away from the trouble and care. And the present, with all it's sorrow.
 Forgotten tonight shall lie, AS we talk of the glad tomorrow.
 And the Someday. by and by. ot the day of our hopes belated.
 W hen win from the world a name. And my thought-ship's decks are freighte6 With honor and gold and fame. Ana all that Is brightest and clearest
 In the wealth of the worlds supply. Il bring to your feet my dearest,
 In the Someday. by and by. By blossom and bloom surrounded.
 Our own little nest shall stand. The castle In clouds we founded
 The home that our hearts have plAnned Where never a shade of sadness
 Shall darken our sunset sky, And life shall be joy and gladness
 In the Someday. by and by But If, Of our dear dream stories,
 No tale of them all come true. And the sky of our grandest glories
 The tempest shall hide from view: Then facing it, dear, together,
 With never tear or sigh, We'll wait for the clearing weather
 And the Someday. by and by.
 Joe Lincoln. fin l.. A. W. Bulletin.
The Forrest City times., 1897-07-09
A Republican TariT.

What are the people going to get out of the tariff legislation? Increased cost on all imported articles and an object lesson in republican legislation. What are the republicans going to get out of the tariff legislation? Smirks of satis- faction from the trusts and revolution in public sentiment which will result in the downfall of the party of plutoc- racy and of broken promises. Between the two stools of protection and gold monopoly the republicans are going to fall to the ground. The people recog- nize the fact that they have been be- trayed. that protective tariff Is tax and that gold monopoly is simply con fiscation, It will not be possible for the people to forget to whom they owe falling prices on domestic products, ris- ing prices on imported articles and in- creasing difficulty in paying debts, ow- ing to an appreciated currency. The masses know that the only remedy is to cast the party of trusts and monop. olies down and to put the party of the people in power. They will begin this good work in 1898, and they will com plete 1t triumphantly by sweeping democratic victory in 1eo0.-Chicago Dispatch.
The Forrest City times., 1897-07-09

The republican function of re- storing prosperity is to be exercised only to a limited extent. The repub- lican flag-emblazoned motto of last year should be revised. Instead of Sound money and prosperity" it should read Prosperity to Monopo- lies" To which might appropriately be added the Vanderbilt benediction: ''The people be damned. ."-Grand Rap ids Democrat.
The Forrest City times., 1897-07-09
Strategy.

The point in training children is to get them off to a neighbor's house first in the evening, in order to keep thas neighbor's children at home.-Atchi' son Glcbe.
The Forrest City times., 1897-07-09

When Mark Hanna tsEps patron. age broker he is trafiickinG only in offices which belong to the people, but in the personal honor of his principal, President McKinley.-N. Y. World.