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Der Nordstern. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1874-1931, 1898-09-08

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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-12
DRIFT OF OPINION.

uyMr. Bryan is undoubtedly one of
the men who are ahead of their times.
The only date to which he pays atten-
ton is 10O0.-Washington Star.
uyIf the investigation" could only
have been held before the election
IIanna's majority would have been
much larger.-Cleveland Leader.
EyThe Bryan and Alleged democ-
racy" presumably has warned all per-
sons of the name of Buck Hinrichsen
to keep off the grass.-Chicago Record
Qnd.).
UThe tightening grip of Dingley bill
results on the windpipe of the calam-
ity bowler has reduced that organ to
the vocaiization of piping treble
Philadelphia Press.
UBryan's satirical telegram to the
Maine cotton mill strikers is in keep
ing with his calamity record. When
he sees a sign of prosperity he keeps
quiet.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
D"The Curse of Gold" is described
as free silver melodrama. 1t will be
remembered that THE Cross of Gold,"
which had a short run in '96, was a
roaring farce.-Chicago Times-Herald.
UThe promptness and vigor with
which the republican house killed the
Teller silver bond resolution shows the
scrupulous faith with which the re-
publican party keeps its pledges.-St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
DNever was a robber or assassin
caught in the commission of his crime
condemned to swifter execution by
public indignation, or more promptly
gibbeted and buried out of sight and
smell than the Teller resolution, with
all its infamies on its head, was sent to
its just doom by the house of repre-
sentatives.-St. Paul Pioneer Press.
UBryan says: "The democrats OF
the United States have put their hands
to the sixteen to one pillow, and will not
look back" We'll, perhaps they won't
There is nothing very pleasant "to look
back" at. Bryan firing off speeches
with hair on end at the rear of Pull
man car, and defeated when the vote
was counted, doesn't make a historic
picture for any democrat to enthust
over.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-12
Death OF a Noted Character.

Lewis Knapp, known all over the
country as the builder of the strangest
tombstone ever heard of, died of heart
disease recently, aged IS years. de
was one of the earliest pioneers of
Kenosha, and as a merchant OF the
early days took active part in the COM
mercial rivalry of the time when 1t was
believed Kenosha was destined to out
strip Chicago. He retired from active
life Is years ago, and since that time
had been active in erecting the monu-
ments which have been the source of
his notoriety, and to see which thou
sands Of people have come to kenosha
from all parts of the country. The
features of the monuments, modest ap-
pearing in themselves, which have at
tracted such wide interest are the in
scriptions. On one tombstone erected
for himself he has for years advertised
that HE Died as He Had Lived for
Forty Years, Thoroughly Infidel to All
Ancient and Modern Theological Hum
bug Myths" There are five of the monu-
ments, all erected in the city cemetery,
on the most prominent elevation. The
inscriptions on them would fill proba-
bly, two columns of an ordinary news
paper, and are all most pronounced in
sentiment against the Christian re-
ligion.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-12
SOMETHING HE OVERLOOKED.
Bryan's Hit and Miss Description of
Mexican Finances.

In the article praising Mexico, her
alleged marvellous prosperity and her
silver monetary standard, Mr.. William
Jennings Bryan neglected, as he usual
ly does, to bring out the vital and mate
rial points of the questions which he
discussed.
MIR. Bryan spent two or three weeks
in Mexico, bought sombrero trimmed
with silver, and then came back fully
equipped to tell us all about the affairs
of our neighboring republic and ready
to prove, to his own satisfaction at
least, that this country ought to adopt
the financial system from which Mex
leo has been for some time trying to
escape.
Mr.. Bryan is political comet which
has passed its perihelion, and is disap-
pearing in the depths of obscurity,
whence it emerged some IS months
ago. 1t occasionally still emits case
GUS explosion, however, which calls for
comment on the part of the astrono-
mers who have watched it with interest
as it careened madly across the politi-
cal armament. The letter on Mexico
is the latest of these Bryanite ex-
plosions, and, following the usual Gus
tom, a few observations on the phenom-
enon are presumably in order.
Ever since Mr.. Bryan picked up the
silver question as supposedly con-
venient method of landing himself in
the white house he has argued that
the free and unlimited coinage of silver
would give to this country greater
volume of money; that is, larger per
capita circulation. Now, if the free
coinage of silver is conducive to a
greater per capita circulation than the
United States possesses, we would nat
urally suppose that Mexico, which con-
forms to Mr.. Bryan's Hottest ideals of
a proper financial policy, would have a
larger per capita circulation than this
country. Let us see. Consulting the
facts and figures in relation to the
amount of money in each country, we
discover the per capita of each nation
to be as follows:
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-12
A Memorable Wedding Day.

A Boston belle just married has good
cause to remember her wedding day.
When a blizzard and wedding come
simultaneously no one present on
the occasion is likely to forget it. The
Chatterer of the Boston Herald says:
"One of the handsomest girls in Boston
society will always remember her we'd
ding day with the severest storm expe-
rienced here for many a year. 1t is
true the worst of it was over and the
sun shone gayly, but the effects of Mon
days blizzard had not passed away by
any menas. AS one spectator in Trinity
church remarked, the bride in her white
satin gown looked as il she had Just
emerged from some snowbank. For
once snowy bridal robes blended with
that dazzling scene without the church,
while within it was bit of the tropics,
all warm and green and fragrant with
flowers. 1t is in such picturesque con-
trasts as this that the world revels,
though half of it does not give it more
than passing thought"
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-12

The kissing epidemic has met with a
peculiar backset in Georgia. A young
lady school teacher from Chattanooga
has been conducting a very prosperous
institute of late, admitting mixed
classes of scholars. For some of these
she evinced preference by kissing
them each morning. The parents of the
unkissed rebelled at this discrimination
and the young lady was notified that
unless she ceased her partial OSCILLATION
or made it general her services would be
dispensed with. She chose the former
course, and peace reigns once more
among her patrons.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-12

A leading Chicago packing firm has
just built private telegraph and tele-
phone line between Chicago and st.
Louis, to have direct connection with
its branch at the latter place. A small
switch connects the telegraph or tele-
phone instruments. AS the circuit is
metallic and the wires are in a cable,
there is no induction that can be no.
ticed, and the long distance phone
works better than the city ones. This
is the first private line of over 200
miles in the west. 1t practically costs
nothing to operate it, and it saves the
packing company thousands of dollars
year in telegraph and telephone tolls.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-12
On the Defensive.

The Tippecanoe club, one Of the
largest permanent republican clubs in
the country, has been sued to prevent
its board of directors from ex-
polling four members who took part in
the effort to prevent the election of M.
A. Hanna to the United States senate
by the Ohio legislature. These four
members, who figure as plaintiffs in the
case, are Mayor McKisson, the sena-
torial candidate, put up in opposition
to Senator Hanna; Speaker Mason and
Representative Bradley, of the Ohio
house of representatives, and Senator
Burke, of the Ohio senate. The rules
Of the club stipulate that every mem
Der shall stand by the nominees of the
republican party. The four plaintiffs
claim first that Senator Hanna was not
the nominee of the party in the sense
intended by the rules, and that as the
club is a stock company and the plain
tiffs are owners of stock, they cannot
be deprived of their shares. Upon
proper application, Judge Ong, of the
common pleas court, granted an order
temporarily restraining the club from
proceeding with the trial of Mayor Nc
Kisson and his colleagues, now in prog
ress. The case will be heard on its
merits later.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-12

Maj Josiah Harris, leading West
Kentucky lawyer, told the following
story to Paducah Sun reporter: II
had client not so very long ago who
had three names in one day, and ven
ture to say that there are few people
who can boast of three different names
in a single day. 1t was simply the re-
suit of divorce judgment. Her name
in the morning was Eva Stone. In the
afternoon she was granted divorce
and restored to her maiden name, Eva
Goodnight, and that night married a
man named Farris, and her name was
tAen Eva Farris."
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-12

Hypnotism, the latest craze, has a
great deal to answer for. Gossiping of
the late extraordinary occurrence in
the Chemical bank, New York CORE
spondent writes: Now it's the 'hyp-
motto touch The news that the cash
Ter of staid old metropolitan bank al
lowed himself to be hypnotized into
lending nearly 100000 upon lot of
waste paper has caused some deep
thinking among the mesmerists who
toll not while living on the fat of the
land, and grubbers with cash in their
clothes are correspondingly nervous.
A boom in hypnotism will surely follow
this real easy hypnotic touch,' and
prudent men who are impressed by this
new peril will dodge sharp eyes and
waving hands,"
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-12

Truth is certainly stranger than fic-
ton, as has been exemplified at New
Haven, a small mining town in West
Virginia. About eight months ago
young man named Rudy Roush, coal
miner, was seriously injured by fall
of slate while at work in the mines.
All the physicians who saw him said his
back was broken and it would only be
question of time until he would die.
For weeks he lay in bed, not able to
move finger or toe; he could not
turn over and at times could hardly
speak. The upper part of his body was,
to all purposes, dead and void of feel
ing. One evening he claimed queer
sensation came over him, and uncon-
sciously he began to move his feet and
work his toes and fingers. Some
thing" he said, Seemed to raise me
up" and before any of his family knew
what was being done, young Roush had
gotten up out of bed and walked across
the floor. Since then he claims new
life has taken hold of him, and it is
claimed it is only question of time
when he will be able to go about the
street without the use of cane or crutch.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-12

George w. Arberry, motorman of
Montgomery, Ala, fell i'll of the yellow
fever, and, it was thought, died. The
body was put into a box which two
negroes undertook to cart away and
bury on hill. The mule team ran away
and the box was overturned and broken.
When the negroes tried to fix things up
Arberry came back to consciousness
and yelled to know what was being
done with him, which caused the ne
groes to flee as fast as their legs would
carry them Arberry managed to crawl
to the nearest house, and, although
nearly dead from exposure, he re-
covered eventually.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-12
"GoId Despoism.o

Something must be said about the
phrase tyranny of gold," implying
that gold is cruel despot and an in
jury to mankind. 1t is strange that we
never heard of this tyrant until silver
fell below par. If the despotism of gold
is so cruel to the human race it is
strange that all other nations one by
one are rushing to its embraces. Since
the controversy became hot in the
United States, Italy, Austria, Eoumania,
Chill, Japan, Russia, and even San Do
mingo have welcomed the tyrant, and
now India is taking steps to the same
end. The tyranny of gold is of the
same nature as the tyranny of railroads
in comparison with lumber wagons, of
telegraphs and telephones in compare
son with postboys, of gas and electric
lights in comparison with tallow dips,
of the United States in comparison
with Mexico and China, of coined
money as against wampum, of civiliza-
ton in general as against savagery.-
N. Y. Post (Gold-Dem.),
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-12

There is an old farmer in Habersham
county, Ga, reports the Atlanta Con-
stitution, who hasn't missed weather
prediction in ten years. He can fore
cast the weather so accurately that the
people are said ito farm by him." The
government has tried to get him in the
weather bureau department, but he
says that "fggers" confuse him. II gifts
my weather knowledge from the Lord
he is reported to have said. 1T comes
free an it goes free. l wouldn't sell
it ter no man."
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-12

There used to be hymn, based on
story, the gist of which was: "There's
light in the window for thee, broth
er!" A newspaper paragraph recently
told of the death at West Springfield
at the age of 90, of Miss Lucinda Day.
Seventy years ago she had lover who
went to sea and was never after heard
from. She had promised to place every
night candle in the window to greet
him when he returned, and the story is
that she never gave him up, but that the
candle burned nightly for all those 70
years. There must be many middle
aged persons who remember the HYMN.
and will wonder whether Miss DAYS
candle was the basis of it. 1t is re-
corded that the faithful lady's sister is
the widow of Israel Bliss, for 40 wears a
missionary in Turkey, and that seems
to make the connection between the
candle and the hymn more probable.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-12

ETA MICHAELsoN, a pretty and we'll
educated girl living at Cleveland, O.,
says she has discovered the secret of
perpetual life. when announce this"
she said, "lrealize that the whole world
will laugh at me. l cannot help that
j cannot disclose my secret unless ten
men meet to hear what have to say.
i want them to thoroughly investigate
what l tell them" The girls mental
condition is said to be all right and
her request to meet ten men to whom
she will reveal her secret will I'M
doubtedly be granted.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-12

A woman suing her divorced husband
for breach of promise of marriage was
the peculiar spectacle presented the
other day in Toledo court. Several
years ago Julia Hayes was married to
Charles Darling, of Toledo, but after
living with him some time, left him on
account of cruelty and secured di-
vorce. She now says that after the
separation Darling frequently met her
and led her to think that the mistakes
of the past might be remedled. After
being thus led to believe that second
marriage would take place, Darling de-
serted her, and now she sues for $1O,-
coo damages for breach of promise.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-12
He Needed n chanernn..

Just before recent dinner given in honor
of some magnate, a young swell, whose chief
claim to distinction seemed to be the height
of his collar and an eyeglass, addressing
stranger, said:
'Beastly nuisance, isn't it? Spoke to that
fellah over there-took him for gentleman
and found he had ribbon on his coat !;
some blooming head waiter, SUPPOSE"
"0h, no, replied the other; that's Blank,
the guest of the evening"
'Dash it all, now, is ~ said the aston.
ished swell. Look here, old fellow, as you
know everybody, would you mind sitting
next me at dinner and telling me who every.
one isy"
"Should like to very much" replied the
other man, "but you see cannot, I'm the
blooming head water!"-San Francisco
Arponaut
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-12

A recent report says that James Nc
Indoo, of Madelia, Mimi, is is years
old, is six feet ten inches tall and
weighs 303 pounds. He wears "a shoe,
No. hat and drinks gallon of water
at time to quench his thirst. He is
well proportioned, and is very power
full. He is still growing very fast. We
would admonish James to be on the
lookout for the museum man. 1.-THE
gobbleuns II git him if he don't watch
out"
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-12

1t was long, dark voyage for such
a small thing as the sixteenth-inch of
the sharp end of pin to take from a
boys foot to the tip of his tongue; but
it was done in Newark, and the journey
was ended a couple of days ago. Ken
meth Morehead, six years old, ran part
of pin into his instep last summer.
1t was discovered in his leg by X-rays,
and then lost, and was not heard of
again until his tongue tingled, and the
pin came out.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-12

The reckless and improvident system
of dealing with our forests is being
realized by the American people, and if
Legislators could be brought to under
stand the ruin that is being wrought
by greed and carelessness they would
bend all their energies to the estab-
lishment of system which, if it did not
bring immediate returns, would in the
end bestow benefits upon the whole
country greater than those which
might come from the discovery of the
richest gold fields.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-12

A MOVEMENT has been set afoot to
erect a monument to Gen. Lafayette.
President Mckinley and Assistant Sec
rotary Day have shown much interest
in the matter, which has been brought
officially to the attention of congress
through resolutions offered in both
houses, which make provision for a
commission to supervise the collection
of a fund among all the schools of the
United States for the purpose of erect
ing monument to Gen. Lafayette in
Paris-the same to be presented to the
government of France and unveiled
and dedicated on the Fourth of July,
1900.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-12

GEN. WILLIAM BooTH, the head of the
Salvation army, said recently at Gin
cinnati: "The Cuban butchery should
stop 1t should stop, if need be, by
the intervention of the United States.
England is not jealous of America.
The individual Englishman would see
young America prosper in peace. / do
not think that the fur of the British
lion would rise should Uncle Sam fight
the dons. The Cuban war should stop
at any cost-.and that is admitting a
great deal for as conservative an Eng
lishman as am."
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-12

THE government has been collecting
information as to the strength of the
militia in the United States and also
the number of men who would be
available for service in case of an emer-
gency. The returns from the states
are interesting in view of the pros
pect of trouble with Spain. The total
militia force of the United States and
the territories, as shown by the re-
turns, is ia, 1862, and the total numbe
of men available for military service
is 10,3Oi, $780,
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-12

Just before the rising of the law courts
case involving the playing of golf was heard,
and queens counsel engaged in it thus
described for the instruction of the Judge
the ancient and royal game: Il believe, my
lord, that the game of golf is played in If
regular fields or waste grounds with small
ball which the player tries to hit with
stick. If he succeeds in hitting the ball he
spends the remainder of the day in looking
for it. That, as | am informed, my lord, is
the game of olf."-London Telegraph.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-12

The greatest single event in Ameri-
can history between the establishment
of the government and the overflow of
slavery, the st. Louis Globe-Democrat
says, was the purchase of Louisiana,
and the centennial in 1908 of its acquis-
ition ought to be COMMUNICATED by a
great international exposition, held in
st. Louis, the largest city of the Lou
isiana region and the most central for
the United States of all the country's
important cities.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-12

C. C. HALL, chemist for the Union
Steel company at Alexandria, Ind, has
just applied for patents upon pro-
cess whereby he is enabled to make
the softest, whitest wool, from the
flintiest. toughest, limestone, which is
used in skyscrapers in all large cities,
in fact, in all lines where there is a
demand for stone. A firm in Boston,
one of the best-known wool weavers
in the country, is making experiments
in converting the wool he manufac-
lures into clothing.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-12

THOUGH the whooping cough bacillus
has hitherto eluded the grasp of the
bacteriologist, it has finally been cap
tured by DR.. Henry Koplik, of New
York, whose discovery has just been
confirmed by DIR. Ozapelewski, Ger
man expert. This microscopic bug has
done as much to worry mothers as any
other bacilli.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-12

THE total loss to the United States
government by the disaster to the bat
tleship Maine at Havana is officially
pronounced to be $4,6S9,261 This en-
braces the cost of hull, machinery,
equipment, armor, gun protection and
armament and it includes the cost of
ammunition, skill, current supplies,
coal, in short the entire outfit.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-12

Few persons have an idea of the
enormous quantities of cigars and
cigarettes made in New York city.
During the month of January just
passed the internal revenue returns
show that there were manufactured
46, $50, $40 cigars, 1S,O5O,530 all-tobacco
cigarettes and s5,94s $50 paper covered
cigarettes. This is outside of the
smoking and chewing tobacco prepared
for market in New York.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-12

UFrom 1884 until the present mo-
ment gold has been the standard of all
values, and if it is tyranny" it is not
the work of the men of the present day.
The statesmen who established it have
long since passed to their account, and
their names are honored wherever
American history is read. 1t was an act
of benefcence and not of tyranny when
they reformed our coinage laws and
established the standard Of gold.-Chi-
cago Times-Herald.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-12

Nail driving contests are girlish
amusement in some of the New York
towns. Seven young women entered
the lists for charitable purposes at Mat
teawan, with five minutes time limit.
The victor drove 20 wire nails in the
specified time. There was a committee
on arnica and other refreshments.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-12

Ladies are requested to remove their
hats as far as possible" was inscribed
on the cards of admission to recent en-
tertainment in the suburbs of Boston.
This would lead one to believe that it
is difficult thing for lady to get her
hat off.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-03-12

ACCORDING to the director of the
United States mint the worlds gold
product in 1897 was $40, 100000 In
this country, which continues to lead,
the amount of fresh gold mined is
placed at $61, 500, 200, against $59, 100, 600
in 1Sg6