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The Winslow mail., 1899-10-12
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Twelve o'clock found Mr.. Whitnell
pacing restlessly up and down the par
lor of his lonely mansion. He could not
sleep, and his own room contained so
many reminders of his departed wife
that he could better endure the parlor,
where he had last seen her radiant with
health and happiness.
The stroke of one echoed drearily
through the house, and still the grief
stricken man paced up and down. For
another hour he wrestled with the mem
cries of his welded life, and then eX-
hausted nature warned him that he
must seek repose. He turned sorrow
fully to leave the room, when, quick,
clear and distinct, above the roaring of
the storm, he heard the summons of the
doorbell.
Mr.. Whitnell was not man to be op-
pressed by superstitious fears. He de-
spised such weakness in others, yet now
a nameless dread swept over him. He
went to the window and peered into
the night. Despite his self-command,
he almost cried out aloud, for in the fam
tastic glare of the electric light he be-
held a hostly,white-robed figure stand
ing at his door. For a moment the
firmly grounded beliefs of a lifetime
were swept away, and Mr. Whitnell was
thrilled with the superstitious fancies
he despised. Then a shrek echoing
through the house recalled him to his
senses. A servant had opened the door
and seen the ghostlike figure and then
fed, crying that the spirit of his mis-
tress was standing at the door. Mr..
Whitnell's quick brain grasping at
suggestion of the truth, he ran down
and caught in his arms the cold, wet,
trembling, yet living, form of his res
urrected wife.
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the unspeakable terrors of his task
sweet over him again. With chok.~ 6
breath he stood up and peered over the
edge of the grave he had desecrated,
his tortured fancy hating between the
terrors of the churchyard and the aw-
full proximity of the thing beneath his
feet.
"The first time; the first time,' he
muttered, striving to regain his COM
posure. "And l wouldn't do it now,
only it kinder seems as if / owed it TO
Mary. And she'-he glanced shudder-
ingly down at the box beneath his feet.
"She doesn't need them any more, and
it was wicked to bury them with her."
Controlling himself with great eff
fort, he completed his grewsome work.
Standing close against one side Of the
grave, he lifted the cover of the box
from beneath his feet and threw it out
upon the pile of earth. Then, kneeling
upon the lower part of the casket, he
quickly removed the screws from the
upper lid and threw it, too, outside OF
the grave. The sexton had reached the
CllludA VI HIS ldSh DclOIC HIl1 III thS
dim light of his lantern lay the uncov-
cred face of the dead woman, white and
cold in the repose of death. In the mo-
ment of the greatest tension the sexton
grew a little calmer. He lifted the
dainty hand and sought to pull the pre-
cious jewel from the finger. 1t would
not yield to his effort, and he lifted the
woman's head and removed a costly
locket and a string of pearls. Then he
returned to the sparkling ring upon her
finger.
1t would not yield. He tried again
and again, and as he worked all the
wild fancies of the night rushed over
him again until he was on the point of
fleeing from the grave without the
jewel. Then with sudden resolution he
took a knife from his pocket, intend
ing to amputate the finger. He pressed
the keen blade upon her finger, and
then
Throughout the city of the dead there
echoed one awful, frenzied scream,
then another and another. From the
desecrated grave out leaped the sexton,
like a fend escaped from torment, and,
dashing down his lantern, he rushed
away from that fearful place as though
all the wild fancies of his guilty brain
had taken form and were rushing in
pursuit.
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OUR FOREIGN GOLD DEBT.
The Difficulty About Paying Out Gold
on Our Present Gold Stand
ard Basis.

We often hear it said by way of oh
lection to free coinage that if gold
should go to a premium, and retire
from circulation, while we could use
silver or paper for lycal trade, our for
eign creditors would take nothing but
gold, and we would have no gold to
give them The answer to that objec-
ton is very simple. Even if gold
should go to premium and retire
from circulation it does not follow
that we could not get gold. ANY ma
ton can get gold if it has anything
to buy it with. Russia has been
silver standard country nominally, bu
with paper currency. Nevertheless
Russia has succeeded in storing away
in her war chest something like $780,
100000 in gold. India is a silver
using country and she is supposed to
have from $500 0O0,o0 to $1,000, ,0oo,-
600 in gold boarded away. So with
other silver countries. If we were
on a silver basis tomorrow it would
not make our command over gold any
the less, but on the contrary greater.
In the first place every dollar that
was expelled from the United States
would add just SO much to the stock
of Europe, where our surplus commOd-
tiles must be largely sold. This
would raise prices there, and give us
more gold for our wheat, cotton, petro-
leum and breadstuffs. Our mines
would go on producing gold just the
same and if we were to sfOD usi1o
that metal for money at home, every
ounce that we could get from any
source would be available for the pay
ment of our foreign debt. Under ex-
isting conditions we have 10 pro-
vide gold both for home use and to
satisfy the foreign demand as we'll.
When the foreign demand becomes
unusually strong and a heavy export
of gold follows, the cry of danger"
is raised, and the whole country is
nearly or quite thrown into a panic.
That is because we are attempting to
maintain gold standard with an in,
sufficient supply of gold. If we were
upon silver basis or a paper basis
either, it would make no difference
to US whether there was much gold
or little gold in New York.-ulinois
State Register.
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AS TO PROSPERITY.
Republicans Claim All Credit for LIE.
gitimate Results of World
Wide COnditiOnS.

With their usual disregard of truth
the republican politicians are claiming
that the business prosperity of the
United States is owing to the election
of Mckinley.
Doubtless the business prosperity Of
the European nations is also owing to
the election of Mckinley.
When wheat went up to dollar or
more a bushel the republican shouters
claimed that Mckinley did it,
But men of sense know that the fam
inc in India and the short crop in Ar
gentina did it.
Now, what was the direct result of
McKinley's election? Let William j.
Bryan tell you. He says:
"More banks failed the first six
months after the election than ever in.
the history of the country. If I had
been elected it would have been laid at
my door. More business houses failed
the first six months after the election
than ever in the same period of time be-
fore. If I had been elected all this
would have been my fault.
"Times got so bad that some people
thought that I had been elected, and one
man from Texas wrote and congratu-
lated me. But have not been drawing
a salary nor have been appointing new
cabinet officers to fill the places of those
who have resigned.
"Times got better, and the goldbug
came out and said See; didn't tell
you what would happen if the gold
ticket was elected? Didn't I tell you
that gold would be discovered in Brit
ish Columbian and did not every man
who discovered gold in the Klondike ad-
nit that he had been mistaken? The
people who said in 1896 that we had
enough gold were the ones to do the
most rejoicing when that was discov-
ered?"
How plainly a frank statement OF
facts exposes the hypocrisy of these
falsifers who claim credit for acts of
Providence and seek to fool the people
by preposterous assertions.
If there is prosperity, the people
should give thanks to worldwide con-
ditions which make it possible, and not
to McKinley-Chicago Democrat
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PLANNING A DEPARTURE.
An Author Who Would Get Out of the
Beaten Track and Give
the Real Thing.

What we want" said the publisher, sis
a good, realistic story of army life. Some
tnlng that will show just how events move
among the soldiers"
l see" said the author; 'I was in the
army myself. | know exactly how things
are conducted"
Something that will thrill the reader to
the marrow and make his hair stand on
II thought you said you wanted some.
thing out of the ordinary"
That's what | am after"
wen, IN that case, we won't have any
thrill in it. Of course, it's there, but it
comes so suddenly and is so soon over that
you hardly have time to know what thrilled
you, If you want to get right down to
hard;,pan realism and sound the keynote
OF the soldiers general experience, you
want to leave out most of this description
of hero rushing headlong through strug.
Cling men and over fallen horses, waving a
gun with one hand and the star spang1ed
banner with the other, while singing NV
Country, 'Tis of Thee at the top of his
voice. Well get out Of the beaten track Of
fiction and relate how many hours day he
spend currying his horse and polishing his
weapons, and how many miles day he
travelled, and how often he wanted to talk
back and didn't dare, and how he would
have been willing to give four dollars a
square. inch for beefsteak, and all the
rest of the little details which play so i'm
portant part and which writers of fiction
have, hitherto SO strangely neglected.
Washington Star.
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A BREEDER OF TRUSTS.
MfschieyOus Influence of DinCIeyIxu
in Several Important In
dustries.

Within the past few days we have
had a practical and an oratorical dem
onstration of the truth that the Ding
ley tariff law is no deadhead in the
trust-creating enterprises. That it was
bound to become pernicious factor in
stimulating and strengthening oppres-
siye combinations was forcibly urged
by the more conservative and far-sight-
ed republican congressman and news
papers while the tariff bill was before
congress in the special session of 1897;
but moderate and thoughtful counsels
were feeble and ineffective when op-
posed by the persistent and lusty clam
ors of the favored interests for large
share of the tariff plunder.
The impressive object lesson referred
to was the complaint of the American
florists against the tariff-created glass
trust-a pernicious combination which
is protected by the glorious protective
doctrine in its systematic plundering
of the consumer. The delegates to the
convention did not hesitate to register
their hostility to tariff policy that
places the American people at the mer-
cy of eXtortioners. But this sort of
injustice is an old story in the annals of
republican tariff legislation.
The favorite testimony of the mis-
chievous influence of Dingleyism in the
direction of oppressive combinations
was furnished by State Tax Commits
sioner Campbell at farmers festival
at Hillsdale. Mr.. Campbell went after
the trusts with the ferocity that recent.
ly characterized his pursuit of fraudu
lent insurance companies, and he fur
nished fresh evidence of his temerity
when he declared that the protection
on trust articles should be slashed down
to the lowest revenue point. A state,
ment like this sounds very much like
heresy when uttered in a section of the
state where the sheep raisers have been
taught that a republican tariff bill is
more sacred than the parable of the
Good Shepherd.
But it was sound talk, nevertheless
and the fact that it proceeded from {
stanch republican and an officeholdel
suggests growing hostility to Ding
| leyism that will make it exceedingly
difficult for the administration to prove
the consistency and sincerity of its anti
trust declarations next year.-Detroi1
Free Press.
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".
In the evening papers of that day the

In the evening papers of that day the
coloring of Imagination to make it more
sensational. They told how Mrs. Whit
nell had been awakened from a cata-
leptic trance by the pressure of a knife
upon her finger; how she had sat up
with every sense awakened to feel the
cold, damp walls of the grave about
her; how, with those awful screams
ringing in her ears, she awoke to a
realization of the truth, filing her with
a terror scarcely less great than the sex
toms; and how, with returning reason,
she had climbed out of her grave and
made her way through the storm to
her own home. Graphically they de-
scribed the appearance of the grave.
which hundreds visited-the heap OF
earth, with the spade and lantern ly.
ing upon it, and the casket lid and cover
of the box, They pictured the joy OF
the reunited family, but in it all there
was no definite mention of the shat
tered, half-crazed sexton, whose mind
would never recover from the terrors
of that nights work. Powerful infu.
ences from a grateful, reunited family
had been at work, and the papers con.
tanned only the statement that, while
the wouldbe grave robber was known,
the happy ending Of his ghoulish at.
tempt had not only saved him from
prosecution, but had brought him sub
stantial reward.
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sky, while driving mist would break
at intervals into a sudden dash of rain
as a great storm cloud was swept
along. In the grewsome churchyard,
where marble shafts cleaned weirdly
through the rain and darkness, the
light of a lantern played fantastically
about a new-made grave. Bending over
the soggy clay was the figure of a man.
With desperate energy he piled the
spade, and as he threw aside the little
heaps of rain-soaked earth his eyes
shot fearful glances into the weird and
ominous night. To his guilty senses
the howling of the wind seemed like
the voices Of offended spirits OF the
dead, and from out the rain and dark
ness he could see in fancy the accusing g
menace of ghostly hands. Great drops
of perspiration fell from his face and
mingled with the rain tricl<ling in rivu-
lets down his rubber coat
"Curse the rain," he muttered,
Strengthening up and resting for a
moment. But it's lucky touch. No
danger of interference on such night
as this. Mary'n get her curtains all
right enough"
For an hour he tossed aside the sticky
CLAW, and then his task grew easier.
The grave sheltered him somewhat
from the wind, and the earth became
less rain-soaked and heavy. Another
hour and his spade scraped upon the
cover of the box inclosing the casket.
He carefully scraped away the remain
ing clods and threw them out, and then
IS he prepared to remove the cover
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pARAGRAPHIC POINTERS.

With the north pole, 1T is just as
it is with republican virtue; something
always happening just as you think it is
Going to be discovered. = Albany Ar
gus.
There is no excuse whatever for
Otis living awake any longer. Mctin-
lev has assumed the entire responsible
itv for the Philippine campaign.-St.
Louis Republic.
1t is to be noticed that very few
Mckinley organs are condemning John
Bull for trying to steal the Dutch re-
public. The boss is in the same busi-
ness.-Kansas City Times.
If the democrats will maintain
logical stand and one consistent with
the traditions of the party, they viii
have every advantage in the trust argu-
ment next year.-Minneapolis Times.
Those men who see in the plat
form of the Iowa democracy a disposi-
tion to sidetrack silver are warned that
it is time for them to consult some
skilled oculist.-Omaha World-Herald.
We observe that none of the i'm.
perialist organs has courage enough to
put its own tag on the Philippine i'm
broglio, although all protest against
calling it McKinley's war.-Columbus
Press-Post.
Having acquired the old home
with the historic veranda, at Canton,
President Mckinley begs leave to an
nounce his readiness for the 1900 series
of heart-to-heart talks with excursion
izing voters.-Albany Argus.
Mr. Mckinley is slow in recogniz-
ing that in his Philippine war he has in
yoked a trouble that cannot be over
come byaan Ohio stump speech or by
Dious platitudes. He was directly an
tagonized by Gov. Stone, who declared
in his presence that 1--WE much prefer
to see these countries govern them
selves" and said that 1--WE desire
neither their revenue nor their terri
tory."-N. Y. World.
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REPUBLICAN MISRULE,
Public Money Wasted and Human
Lives Sacrificed to Greed
for Gold.

With the advent of Mr.. Mckinley to
power the republican orgies began,
with she enactment of tariff framed
in the interest of the monopolies and
trusts, designed for the payment of
campaign debts and to lay the favored
sections, classes and interests under
fresh obligations to the present ad-
ministration as the dispenser of wealth.
This was followed by the declaration
of war against Spain, under the false
pretense of assisting the people of
Cuba to achieve their independence,
without any Interior thought OF ter
ritorial greed or aggression on our own
part. When the enormous outflow of
patronage and favoritism caused by
the Spanish war was checked by the
premature termination of hostilities
with Spain, Mr.. Mckinley paid $20.000,-
600 for the privilege of starting another
war in another quarter of the globe
against an unoffending people, whose
only crime was that they, too, like the
Cubans, desired to be free.
And the republican Saturanila goes
on. The public money continues to be
wasted like water and the blood of
Americans and Filipinos is mingled in
one stream to be coined into dollars
by the favored few who have influence
or pull, and can be expected to work
for Mr.. McKinley's reelection.-Balti-
more Sun,
The Winslow mail., 1899-10-12
Reflections of n bachelor

Every woman has an idea that she
"holds her age we'll"
Life's thorns were created to keep
people from acting hoggish with the
roses.
Love is a dream Whether it is a
nightmare or not depends a lot on what
you had for dinner.
There was never but one really brave
man. He told q woman he didn't think
her baby was unusually bright for its
age.
Religion may say what it will; but
there comes a time to every human soul
when it knows that there can be no
Heaven for it where some one other
human soul is not-N. Y. Press.
The Winslow mail., 1899-10-12

ReRGY for n1ttIe A9nin.

These who claim that the battle for
free coinage of silver has been fought
AID lost, and that it will never be the
leading issue again, do not realize what
must yet be done, and how slowly in
accomplishment in order to establish
the gold standard. The next step to be
taken by the gold standard powers will
be to treat all silver and silver certifi-
Gates as credit money, redeemable in
gold. The secretary of the treasury has
already announced that he will direct
~ redeem the silver in gold when, in
his judgment, there is any necessity for
SO doing. After that policy is firmly
established the gold standard nations
will attempt to absolutely destroy all
silver as money. They will claim with
irresistible logic that if silver money
is redeemable in gold it is nothing
more than promise to pay gold; that
a promise to pay can be printed on
paper at small fraction of the eX-
pense required to buy silver bullion
and coin it into money. The gold ad-
vocates of this country will claim that
it is foolish for the United States to
have nearly S5OO,OOO,OCO invested in
silver coins when they are merely
promises to pay gold.-Illinois State
Register.
The Winslow mail., 1899-10-12
A NarroM Escnne.

The man with the court plaster on his
nose was talking about a cyclone and what
narrow escape he had when one of the group
Where were you when the cyclone hit
your house?"
Down cellar" was the reply.
You knew it was coming and had fled for
safety?"
",Oh, no! had a jaw with my wife and she
had locked me up in the cellar half day
previous"
"And when the house went a-fying frag-
ment hit you on the nose?"
We'll, no. My wife hit me on the nose the
day before she locked me up"
Then what about your narrow escape
from the cyclone" persisted the questioner.
why. suppose my wife had just come
down cellar, and hit me again just as the
ing!" answered the man with the nose
Chicago Evening News.
The Winslow mail., 1899-10-12
Tha LITTLE ThinNs

She-It's strange that the little things
in life offer the greatest difficulties!
He-That's so! Last night, for in
stance, l could find the house all right.
but for the life of me I couldn't find
the keYhole!-Heitere Welt.
The Winslow mail., 1899-10-12
An Iowa wonan's Convincing Statement.

81 tried three doctors, and the last
one said nothing but an operation
would help me. My trouble was pro-
fuse flowing; sometimes would think
I would flow to death. I was so weak
that the least work would tire me.
Reading of SO many being cured by
your medicine, made up my mind to
write to you for advice, and I am so
glad that did. I took Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound and Liver
Pills and followed your directions, and
am now well and strong. shall recon-
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nv life. Miss A. P, Box 21 ABBOTT,
Iowa.
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Mrs. Barnard Thanks
MRS. PlNKHAM FOR HEALTH.
LETTER TO MRS. p1NKHAM NO. IS,oQal

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Eloctr,city in GLASS Making.

Electricity has been applied to the
manufacture of glass. A pot of batch"
can be thus melted in Is minutes that
formerly required so hours,
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II,

1t was night well suited to the
work of ghouls. The wind came in
great waves, shrieking at the height
of its fury like soul in torment, then
dying away in signing breeze. Great
billowy clouds were swept across the
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Mistakes.

The average man is usually too busy
making mistakes of his own to proht
by the mistakes Of others Chicago
Daily News.
The Winslow mail., 1899-10-12

There are many hopeful signs Of
democratic unity and harmony in the
coming presidential election. The pol
icy and conduct of the Mckinley admin
istration will naturally compel all we'll
meaning men to act together for its
overthrow in 1900.-Seneca Falls Re
yeille.
The Winslow mail., 1899-10-12
NIade by Mckinley.

The Philippine situation has been sim
plified for the democrats. They have
been contending that if the administra-
ton would promise the Filipinos the
same sort of government that was
pledged to the Cubans there would be
no necessity for the long, costly and
bloody war that has ensued. They in
sist that if such promise were made
now that the war would come to a
speedy close. The Filipinos would
throw down their arms and diplomacy
would accomplish what war has failed
to do. Mckinley has made this impos-
sible and must take the full conse-
quences of the terrible struggle that
must yet ensue before the liberty-loy-
ing Tagals are crushed by superior
force. From political standpoint the
democrats have reason to rejoice at the
issue he has made.-Chattanooga News.
The Winslow mail., 1899-10-12
The republican party has been

committed to a course in the Philip
pines that is daily growing more unpop-
ular. The administration can neither
advance nor Withdraw without inf1lct-
ing a fatal wound on the party. The
mistake it has made has been in insist
ing on a course which has left the Fill
pinos no choice between a continuation
OF the war which they unfortunately be-
gan and surrender of all their rights.
They have no other ground to stand on.
Atlanta Constitution.
The Winslow mail., 1899-10-12
Polly in Paradise.

Their parrot had died, and young Master
Tommy, with his little sister Jennie, had
just concluded the funeral services over the
grave of their feathered pet II s'pose
Polly is in Heaven now," remarked Jennie,
tearfully. eyes" returned Master Tommy;
81 s'pose he is" ''He-he's got wings, but
he wouldn't be an angel up there, would
his present status "Ohl" cried Tommy;
che wouldn't be an angel only people is
that" "Then what do you s'pose he is
now" persisted his sister Tommy thought
for a moment. Then the light of nspira-
ton dawned on his beaming countenance.
he announced ioyfully.-Troy Times.
The Winslow mail., 1899-10-12

A girl of 16 should remember how soon 26
Is reached, and be more considerate.-Atch-
ison Globe.