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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-24
Jmposs;bIe to Hide Silver.

Isn't it absurd for political managers 20
assume that the order in which issues are
inserted in party platform determines their
importance in the eyes of voters. and gov
ems party action in case of success at the
polls?
For an instance: This is the order in
which some democrats propose that the is
sues they favor shall appear in their party s
platform next year:
Anti-imperialism.
Antitrust.
Tariff reform.
Free silver.
Let us suppose such a platform adopted
and the party triumphant at the polls.
What would be the result? The first issue
would live only in the gable of stumpers.
Nobody is proposing Imperialism. and hence
no action would be necessary on that sub
ject That issue therefore would be dead
issue from the day the polls closed.
II is all but the general agreement now
that as trusts are organized under state
laws the states alone have the power to
restrain them. At any rate, the remedy,
whatever it may prove to be. is being
sought in that direction. Congress, which
has tried its hand. has failed and will prob
ably not try again. Issue number two
therefore would yield nothing.
The party would then find itself face to
face with tariff reform. Assuming that the
House of Representatives has gone with
the presidency. what could be proposed on
that subject which would not instantly
alarm the business interests and cause
them. as in 1885, to curtail their invest
mentS and output? Mills would close and
money contraction would be inevitable.
nd no ell nd
why not? Nothing could keep it back. The
party would be committed to it, and the
state of the country, with money boarded
and business at a standstill. would afford
the very argument the silver men have
always used when urging an increase of
the circulating medium.
So that. in the matter of these issues the
first would be last and the last would be
first. In the effort to subordinate the sill
yer issue it is of no moment to say that the
Senate is against silver. The Senate is like
wise against Imperialism, trusts and the
free trade brand of tariff reform.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-24
OSIahoma's Fine Wheat Crop.

From the Kansas City Star.
The territory of Oklahoma will have more
whsa per acre this year than any other
winter wheat section in the country, and
its aggregate yield will be exceeded by only
four, and possibly only two, winter wheat
states east of the Rocky mountains. Ok
lahoma will harvest more wheat than Mis-
souri,, more than Illinois or Michigan or
Kentucky or Tennessee and possibly more
than Indiana All these are important
wheat producing states. Only Ohio and
Kansas will certainly have more winter
wheat than Oklahoma.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-24
The Demand for Better Roads.

From the Philadelphia Record.
Cheap and haphazard methods of road
Improvement, earth loads and the employ
ment of inferior material in order to save
on the first cost-these and other objec-
tionable features Of earlier roadmaking
should be abandoned for good and all by
American roadmakers. AS population ex-
pands, wealth increases and new devices of
road locomotion come into use, the dema nd
for better highways becomes more imper-
ious. 1t is no longer merely the wagon
loaded with produce which is to be consid-
cred, but also the bicycle, the tourists car
riage and the automobile.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-24
will Indicate the state of the Celestial

will indicate the state Of the Celestial
army. He says:
AS the generals, like all authorities in
China, only have nominal salary, they
make large profits or squeeZes during their
command. In order to report an instance,
1 questioned one of those in command
when in Picking. He informed me that he
comma nded 10000 men. 1 ascertained that
all he actually commanded was 800. His
method is common in China. He receives
the money to pay and feed and clothe
1000 men. If his army was to be inspect
ed he hires coolies at 300 cash G511 pence)
day to appear on parade. This is well
known to the inspecting officer. but he re-
ceives a dOuceur to report that he has in
spected the army and has found it in per-
feet order"
Lord Beresford undertook to persuade
the Chinese government, in his official ca
pacity. to seek rehabilitation of the army
by entrusting it's command to English Off
GERS. He pointed out to the officials that
they could expect nothing but constant do
mestic turmoil and foreign threats while
the forces were so demoraiized. He found
them willing to admit the force of his prop
osition. but unwilling to recommend any
thing to the throne for fear of mourning
Russian displeasure. In consequence of
the conditions which were plainly revealed
to this intelligent observer there is today
no guarantee of order. no security for life
or property, no assurance of justice in the
major portion of the Chinese Empire, be-
cause the government is not strong enough
to enforce its laws and DEGREES against the
bandits, the rioters and the INSCRIPTIONS.
The lack of an efficient military force has
unquestionably FASTENED, If it has not
actually caused, the process of disintegra-
ton which is now under way. When Ger
man missionaries were killed in Shan-Tung
the government at Berlin occupied a large
territory indemnity. in default of the
money which it was well known could not
be secured, in view of China's heavy debt
and failing income. The United States will
not capitalize the blood of its missionaries
in this manner. Yet something must in
season be done by the powers to regulate
affairs which seem SO near disastrous
risis The Russian method is to absorb
the great Chinese empire bit by bit. The
British method is to throw open the doors
to trade. reorganize the military forces and
regenerate the government. The great
struggle of the day in the far east is be-
tween these two modes of procedure, and
the civilized world watches with concern.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-24
Poor Finland,
From the London Chronicle.

The tsar, as every one knows refused to
have anything to do with the monster pe-
ttion of the Finanders signed by more
than half million people. But there is a
village on the Finnish side of the Russian
frontier called kyyrola, populated mostly
by Russians, where seven people were per
. suaded to sign address thanking the
tsar for graciously condescending to abro-
gate the Finnish constitution. And on the
margin of this document there is note in
the imperial handwriting to this effect:
THE emperor has read the address with
emotion and gratitude"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-24
A Monopoly in Ghosts.
From the Chicago Journal.

The spiritualists of Indiana have formed
trust to drive the false mediums out of
the business and prevent the public from
obtaining mediumistic interviews too
cheaply. No self-respecting spook should
lend itself to any such monopolistic scheme
The next thing we shall hear of will be the
closing down of the spook works all over
Indiana. and then the population of great,
he handed state win rise up in its wrath
and demand the repeal of the duty on
ghosts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-24
A Lesson for Smokers.
From the New York Herald.

Official figures show that during last year
$40 fires were caused by the careless drop
ping of lighted matches, and 233 by lighted
cigars or cigarettes carelessly thrown into
combustible material. There is a lesson
for smokers in these figures. A little care
on their part would have saved the losses
caused by more than eight hundred fires.
There should be no more fires from this
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-24
Hyphenatel in.
From the Providence Journal

Capt Coghlan of the navy may lack tact
but he seems t, hit the nail on the head
when ne strikes. He is quoted as saying
in the west: IF a man Is an American
citizen, he is an American citizen, pure and
simple. / have no patience with the hy-
phenated citizenship"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-24

gents are getting so demoralizsd as to grow
careless of their brass band they must be
in sad state presaging complete rout. 1t
is to be hoped that this sign is a sure one
and that the next capture reported will be
that of the drum-major himself, gold
whistle and baton and all.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-24

The bounty paid by this country is quite
sufficient to compensate the Cubans for be-
ing obliged to celebrate the Fourth Of July
with the harmless fire-crackers while their
firearms are with the alcaldes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-24

With the referendum figuring in San
Francisco local politics while pugilism is
gravely discussing the solar piexus' it
cannot be denied that popular education
has made marvellous progress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-24

Now" said the teacher. you may tell
me what joint partnership is?
"a joint partnership" answered the New
York boy promptly. lis what you've got
to have with the police before they will let
your joint do business
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-24

Mr. Cleveland might find some friends in
the theatrical profession who would teach
him to so disguise himself that embarrass-
ing tri1es while on fishing expeditions
would not attract attention in print.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-24
Intricacies of Language.

What does that young man propose to
do?' inquired Mrs. Cumrox.
Il think, mamma" answered her daugh-
ter in a tone of slight annoyance, that he
purposes to propose"
"Oh. You think that. do you? Well, what
I desire to know about his purpose is this:
When does he purpose to quit purposing
and propose?"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-24

Chief of Police Deyery has not yet ex-
pressed an opinion as TO whether a trust
has a chance of lasting till the eleventh
round when Tammany gets into the ring
with it
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-24

In the event of future political successes
Mr. Monnett of Ohio will have no need of
testimony from David b Hill to convince
the public that he did not receive help from
the Standard Oil COMPANY
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-24

The sanguine inventors are promising a
liquid air trust which will leave nothing of
the ice trust and the coal trust except a
mass of shattered debris.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-24

rronl the Baltimore American.

Already our manufacturers are shipping
automobiles to France. One day foreign
country hears of an idea, or mentions it,
and the next gets a consignment of the
idea, reduced to practical shape, from the
United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-24

General MERCER seems convinced that If
Dreyfus does not prove his innocence he is
traitor and that If he does prove it. he is
no patriot.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-24
Indiscriminate,

The path of glory ever since
Time first began was rocky.
The public first salutes a prince
And then salutes a jockey.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-24

The district attorneys office is making it
quite impossible for Moiineux to know just
how far in advance it is ever safe for him
TO accept an invitation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-24

Mr.. Debs delivered a few remarks con-
corning the Cleveland strike, but made no
arrangements with view to personally
conducting it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-24
Looking mt the Grand stand.

'Ha ha!' laughed the critical friend
THAT is a great racing picture. All the
people in the crowd have their backs to
the horses
Yes" answered the artist. II am moth
ing if not realist. That is a scene at the
Grand Prix.'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-24
SHOOTING STARS.
His Version.

Haven't you and your friend gotten
through that argument yet?'
ut isn't any argument" answered the
opinionated man resentfully. 81 am merely
telling him the facts in the case and he is
10 obtuse that he can't understand"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-24
A Plausible Suggestion.
From the Indianapolis Journal.

The best way for Canada to get new
port on the Pacific coast Is to become % ri
Of the United States. In that way she can
acquire an interest In lot Of new ports.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-24

Some of MIR. Foraker's friends may find
it needful to warn Mr.. Foraker against
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-24

Boston may as well prepare itself for the
responsibility of a Filipino colony when
Aguinaldo's followers disband and seek new
hauntS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-24

Dom Pauls account at the brewery
should be sufficient to warn England that
he is eonstitutionally opposed to taking
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-24

h0r for the usual 81 Sheepskin Club
Bags. Nickel trimmed. lock and
Key, etc. Best bags Of every description
at proportionately little prices. Basement
floor for them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-24

CT AZ instead of s. for canvas-cov-
cred Trunks, looking like the
much more expensive. Protected with
hardwood Stats. iron hands, steel clamps.
brass lock and safety catches. Inside tray
and hat box.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-24

Or yard for usual I2c Mating 12c in
stead of Use for the Jointless 25c
yard for Carpet Designs. sac for usual
81 Mikado Mating Rugs. SI4S for Car
pet Design Rugs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-24

SOr, for 81 Gas Stoves with two double
flame burners. 96c for the 4-wick
Stoves. Csc for the Ovens,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-24

ST DO for Dress Suit Cases looking
worth S.. They are made by
q patent process. guarspteed water proof
and indestructible. See them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-24

S1 Sm for the installment house 81. 30
Woven Wire Springs. to DIT any
size bed; sS.9s for their $50 Hair Mat
tress; s1.69 instead Of 81 pair for Feather
Pillows weighing six pounds
Smyrna times., 1899-10-25

THE term christian Socialist" is
one most too new to be we'll under
stood.
Rev. DIR. Briggs and his antagonist,
DIR. DeCosta, who retired from the
Episcopal ministry because DR.. Briggs
was admitted to it, were both present
at the reception in honor of Dean
Stubbs, of Ely Cathedral. In his
brief address the Dean said that he
was aware that Socialist had been
defined as one who was "yearning to
share what you are earning" but the
Christian Socialist was something diff
ferent.
81 went to call on deaf old parish
ioner of mine once" he said. ''and the
old main said to me: Sir, hear that
you are Christian Socialists. What
may that be-? Well, 1 shouted in his
ear, there are two kinds of Socialists.
One kind says, "What is yours is
mine," the other kind, the Christian
Socialist, says: "What is mine is
yours" Well, said the old man, I've
seen a great many of the first kind, but
I never saw one of the second kline
before"
Smyrna times., 1899-10-25

On the 10th of December, 1897, Rev.
S. A. Donahoe, pastor M. E. Church,
South, Pt. Pleasant, w. ", contracted
a severe cold which was attended from
the beginning by violent coughing.
He says: CATER resorting to a number
of so-called specifics, unusually kept
in the house, to no purpose, l pur-
chased a bottle of Chamberlain s
Cough Remedy, which acted like a
charm. must cheerfully recommend
it to the public" For sale by Clifton
& Raymond, Smyrna; I. L. Mason,
Clayton, Druggists.
Smyrna times., 1899-10-25

The peculiar campaign in Kentucky
a triangular fght-two Democrats and
a Republican, obviously enough, is at
tracting no little attention. A CO.
temporary in speaking of it-says the
Kentucky campaign is becoming not
only picturesque, but very lurid.
Vituperation of such violent character
is so frequent during political meet
ings that ladies in the audience have
been asked to retire while the char
acter of some opponent is dissected and
reputation destroyed. Liar, thief,
murderer and blackguard are common
epithets and quite gentlemanly by
the side Of some that are used. Col.
w. C. p. Breckinridge is a candidate
for congress and the Madeline Pollard
filthiness Is aired on the stump by
his opyoL... aud Kentucky is th'
State of gallant men and beautiful
women-or at least it has had that rep
utation up to now. At present it i
the State of bill lingsgate, of nastiness
of filth.
Smyrna times., 1899-10-25

POLITICAL inharmonies are usually
classed as inheritance only of the Re-
publicans, but the following from the
Evening Journal shows that their OPP
ponents likewise have their troubles.
1t says:
''The history of the Democratic party
is rich with good works; yet, alas, it is
largely a history of lamentable mis-
takes. 1t is marred by many errors of
party policy. This, because its wise
conservative element too often Welded
dominance in its councils to the empty,
noisy element that browns the voice of
wisdom by deluges of Gathering
tongues and resonant roars without
understanding. The unwise element
seeks to blight with curses whatever
and all that the opposing party does,
regardless of the conditions, circum-
stances or results. Some one has said
of them that if the Republican party
should adopt the Christian faith and
accept the sermon on the mount as the
Republican platform, these Democrats
would fight the faith, ridicule, criticise
and condemn the platform. The sar.
casm of this bit of humOr hurts be-
cause of the trace of truth the idea em.
| bodies.
Smyrna times., 1899-10-25
Linens

Frll-bleached Irish damask table
linen, 68 inches wide, Csc a yard.
We are proud: of it; the price; +;
the variety of pretty floral designs.
And yet it is only one of many in.
teresting items of extreme value tc
all housekeepers, in our household
linen department.
A Scotch damask dinner set one
cloth and a dozen napkins), 81.
The cloth is 68x86 inches, wover
in pretty patterns, with a border al
the way around; the napkins are 2C
inches square.
1t is about on a par with the 6S
inch Irish damask table cloth, at O.
cents a yard-of real value, as al
item of news, to housekeepers.
Smyrna times., 1899-10-25

The news from South Africa is that
the British will be successful in the
end as they were at Glencoe where the
Beers lost 1900 and England 300 troops
and while there is the natural SYM
pathy for the Beers because of their
weakness, like there is for the under
dog in fight as matter of principle
it violates all our American beliefs to
contend, as the Beers do, that twenty
white men should be ruled by six
that religious discrimination should
exist; that men should be taxed with
out representation; that the cOlOred
race should be enslaved, and that the
productive portion of a community
should have no voice whatever in itf
government in order that stolid
land-owning oligarchy might rule
without question.
Smyrna times., 1899-10-25

GOVERNOR General Davis of Porto
Rico, sends the comforting assurance
that while there are still thousands of
Impoverished Portoriquenos in daily
need of food, the applications for relief
are decreasing. In several of the dis
tricts the issue of supplies has been
stopped, and like action will soon be
taken in other parts of the island.
Meantime, however, the question of
furnishing employment to the hordes
of poor and idle people is becoming
more insistent and perplexing. 1t is
evident, of course, that comparatively
few of the natives of the island possess
financial resources, or the means of
earning a meagre subsistence. Even
the planters whose lands were devas-
ated by the great hurricane of the past
summer are still poverty stricken.
The distress of the Portoricans is
widespread, and the coming Congress
shodld take early action looking toward
the establishment of the permanent
territorial government, under which
the natural resources of the island may
be developed by continuous flow oi
capital and the means of earning 6
livelihood be provided for its inhabi
tants
Smyrna times., 1899-10-25

The business men of Wilmington do
not take kindly to the proposition for
a thirty feet channel in the Delaware
River to Philadelphia, because it will
hurt their city, whose shipyards are
thirty miles nearer the coast than
those of Philadelphia, and because the
Congressman of Philadelphia opposed
the bill which Representative Handy
got through, deepening the channel OF
the Christiana to 81 feet. Under the
circumstances they think it an exhibit
ton of gall for the Philadelphians to
ask the aid of our Senator and Repre-
sentative to give them 30-foot chan
mel to Philadelphia, when they opposed
Wilmington having 81 feet. The lat
ter now go a step further and demand
a 26-foot channel in the Christiana il
Philadelphia is to have 80 feet. A
Wilmington paper thus states their re.
lation to the proposition:
eff the Philadelphia people viii
agree to an additional clause in theil
thirty feet proposition whereby it shal
be stipulated that the Christiana chan
mel shall be made twenty-six feet deep
then the people of Wilmington would
agree to Delaware's Representatives
advocating the proposition. Withou
this additional clause the people o
this city as well as of the State will ex
pect Senator Kenney and Congress
man Hoffecker to oppose the Philadel
| Dhians
Smyrna times., 1899-10-25
woman,s Power over wild Beasts.

woman's Power Over wild Beasts.
Philadelphia. Oct. 24.-The popular
fly of Hagenback's Trained Animal
Show as a Midway attraction is ac-
centuated with each days progress of
the National Export exposition. AS
each succeeding day increases by thou
sands the attendance at the exposition
so is the crowd increased that contin-
ually surges around the attractive
quarters on the Esplanade of the Hag-
enback aggregation. Never was the
power in the glance of woman's eve
so we'll illustrated as when Madame
Pianka or Madame Morelli comes upon
the ENGAGED stage with ferocious lions,
panthers and jaguars all around her,
watchful for an opportunity to rend
her in pieces. yet yielding unwilling
obedience to her commands and show
ing the mastery of femininity over fe-
rocity., There is something strangely
fascinating about these wild beasts
trained by human skill and patience
to execute such marvellous and sur
prising feats, scenes that afford the
spectators moments of thrilling ex-
element, in a performance so kaleido-
scopic as to make 1t ever new, It mat
| ters not how often seen, and this In
a measure accounts for the number oil
times the same persons find themselves
| at the Hagenback show. Once seen Il
seems to cast a spell over the specta.
tors, and they are irresistibly drawn
again and again to this arena of mos
exciting interest.
Smyrna times., 1899-10-25

MEN who feel it their duty to make
Presidents in the absence of great
questions to move the masses, thought
they had "catch'' in the hero of Ma
nila.
A correspondent who praises Ad-
miral Dewey for his modest statement
that he has no qualifications for the
Presidency, suggests compromise.
1t is that the Admiral be made Vice
President. That is not a workable
proposition. Dewey considers the
Vice Presidency beneath him. He, a
full Admiral, will not care to be 'yice'
anything. To give admiral Dewey q
gavel with no duty to perform but tc
listen to Senatorial speeches, will bt
put to a poor use.
Smyrna times., 1899-10-25
Trimmed Hats

Velvet hats trimmed with grebe
breasts, SIS and So.
Grebe breasts make an effective
trimming to go with velvets that are
so much used this season in hat
trimming.
Instead of trimming a number of
these five and six dollar hats after
some particular model, our trimmers
vary the idea in every hat; give in
dividuality to each one; and what a
fine collection it gives US to Offer
you! SIS and So.