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noise possible, to claim everything in
sight, and to offer all kinds of money

noise possible, to claim everything il
sight, and to offer all kinds of money
on the results of the election, but wheI
they are pinned down,to wiggle out Of
it if possible, and in no case to bet q
cent if it can be avoided.
1T has been amazing to me to find
that this cheap and and absolutely
pointless performance has actually
caused some of our fellows to feel
downhearted and discouraged. These
offers to bet republican slush funds
have only one meaning. They mean
that ninety-nine millionaires and
trusts out of every hundred are in the
republican party. that consequently a
part OF the money which they by
means of the republican administra-
tion are fleeing the people out of,
they have contributed, to the colossal
campaign -slush fand which Mark
Hanna has raised to bluff, bet and
Doodle With. LEI no man lbe surprised
that they are able to fash more of the
'long green" than we can. II money
is to decide the election, we are beaten
before we started. But thank God.
on Nov. occurs not . gambling con-
test but voting contest and that's
where the common people win. Vot-
ing, not betting. is their long suit. 1
want to emphasize and insist that tho
fusion forces must make no eff ort
whatever to cover the republican
slush fund bets offered. I know a
game worth two of that. Don't let
them distract our attenti on and keep
us from making our aggressive, cease
less and irresistible fight for princi-
Piles from now until Bryan is safely
elected.
..When they boast OF Mckinley,
money in the bank waiting for takers.
use that money for a text and hold
them up TO the scorn of decent men.
Tell them that the very money they
boast of is the sign and seal, of their
degradation. It is the price of the
prostitution of a once glorious party:
1t is the scarlet letter which reveals to
the world their" shame. To what
depths has a party fallen when, losing
its principles and selling itself to the
highest bidder, it 10 forced to confess
that its sole reliance FOR success is in
the power OF unlimited Doodle.
women rarely resort to rouge un-
til the bloom of natures roses has
faded from ber cheeks. A man who
can only work when full of whisky
and morphine is in the last stages of
disease and decay. Likewise a party
which barely keeps up a polluted ex-
istence by means of bluffing. boodling
aud intimidation, is not only unfit to
receive the support of any honest
man, but is trembling and tottering in
the last stages Of degeneration and
decomposition. Success won at such
price is short lived. We have seen
four years of it, we are about to wit
ness it's collapse.
"When- a republican offers to bet,
let every fusionists at once challenge
him to joint debate. We are as rich
in principles as they are in Doodle.
Let US force the fight in our own way
with our own weapons and the battle
il Ours0 -
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Mr.. John Woods was in town Satur-
day. His friends all, feel that he is
making fine campaign for cOmmiss.
ioner, and will make Atrustworthy off
fcer if elected. ..
Mr.. M. A. Merton is busy in the
school room-duringy the week making
living. and busy campaigning for
the fusion ticket every Saturday.
The old soldiers are standing by F..
G. Blanchard for probate Judge. He
honorably discharged, and deserves
the vote of every G. A. r. man in the
county.
L. Il. Clark has done a wonderful
work for the schools of Edwards Co.
He is efficient and energetic, and il is
to be hoped our schools may have the
benefit of his excellent plans for many
years more.
B. F.. Tatum is making campaign
that his friends are proud of for rep
resentative from Edwards county. He
is capable of deciding for himself the
right and wrong of any proposition
that comes before hilr. His friends
have always found him on the side of
right. He is man whose moral lie no
man can question. We need man
for representative who Is sure to be
ON the side of right, Not n man who
will let the political wire pulIers OF
his party make up HIS mind for him
A. C. Dyer hasgiveni Edwards Co.
the best administrations of the office of
prosecuting attorney we have ever
had. A vote for HIM means vote to
continue the capable, economic man
agement of affairs We have had.
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Webb McNail neetinp.

A large crowd gathered at the oper,
house Thursday afternoon to hear
Webb McNall, the fusion candidate
for insurance cOmmissi Oner
No man comes closer to the hearts
OF the people here than Mr.. McNall
because he has stood between then
and the rapacity of the big insurance
companies. Every man knows that ii
he Is entitled to money for fire loss
and McNall is elected insurance com.
missioner, he will get it or the compa.
ny Will quit business in the state. A nd
If there is any litigation over loss
the Insurance companies will pay the
loss. In the speech Thursday he made
his arguments IA .ong lines that touched
the interests of the farmers, showing
how vicious republican legislation
had increased the average cost of liv-
Ing In Kansas - per cent all around.
The fallacy of the Dingley law as q
prOtectioR eo the American laboring
man was made plain. Its only pro-
lection 1s to trusts and wealthy manu-
facturers.
AS to the prosperity campaign ar
gument he compared few prices with
years ago. Sugar now Ia pounds
for Sl.OO against 20 to % in 1896.
Barbed wire 81. 50 to $500 against s.. 40
in 1896.
He then called upon the men on
the section here to tell him their wages
per diem. They answered 81 25. He
asked them if general prosperity had
been to see them and were they getting
increased wages over 1896? They re-
piled that they were getting the same
old stOry-$l.25 per day. They will
readily see that while their wages have
not increased the rise of % per cent in
the cost of living told heavily upon
them.
He made an appeal to the old sold
iers present to vote against the party
that nad crippled the purchasing pow
er OF their pension dollars by trust
prices on the necessaries of life.
The picture of the GesOlation in
starving Cuba at the close of the war,
and then the shame of the plundering
of the ADMINISTRATORS appointees
falrly nronght tears to the eyes of
many present.
TIC thoroughly punctured the argu-
ment OF commercial expansion in the
Philippines by showing how little their
trade really amounted to, if we had it
all under peaceful conditions.
The fearful burden of the war tax
upon our people was shown by Mr..
McNan to be the result of the admin
policy.
Ia regard to state issues the speaker
showed more plainly than has been
done here in this campaign the reck-
less expenditure of the peoples money
by the little governor, in getting pop
nlists out of Office. Stanley Went after
McNall because the big Insurance
companies demanded it. And the in
surance companies made big contribu-
tiOns to the slush fund for the cleo
tiOns.
Mr.. McNall made it plain that the
accusation Of the republicans that he
had gone back of settlements to make
the insurance companies pay losses
was true; that he had done so because
the insurance people had gone back
of the law. It was q speech that made
votes for the fusion ticket, and
speech that held the crowd closely
ly from the beginning to the end.
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Banker Routs a RObber.

j. r. Garrison, cashier of the bank
of Thornville, Ohio, had been robbed
of his health by serious lung trou-
bic until he tried DR.. Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption. Then he
wrote: cit is the best medicine / ever
used for a severe cold or bad case
of lung trouble. 1 always keep bot
tie on hand" Don't suffer with coughs
colds, or any throat or lung trouble
when you can be cured 90 easily. On
ly soc and ST O0. Trial bottles free at
MOsher's Drug store.
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Bryan plcfures.

We have few fine spictuses of Bry-
an suitable for framing for sale at the
Graphic Office. Price % cents. The
pictures belong to the state commit
tee. and the money will help them
out.
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We would be pleased to have you
inspect our new line of perfumes
they are Lorenz's goods and are per-
fl CT -Mosher & Co., druggists.
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What pity the Prosperity orators
couldat haye kept she price of wheat
up attttle longer.
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BY JOHN E. WARD.

craft, and the effect of the late victory
was apparent in his altered bearing.
He stated that some doubt was enter
tanned respecting the peaceful profess
sions of the Americans, as our move
ments at Taku gave force to some hostile
expressions used the year before in one
of Mr.. Reeds dispatches, IN which he
spoke of being forced to join the allies.
The remark furnished an opportunity
to state precisely what was done by
Flag officer Tatnau on that day, why
the tender was there and that, though
the Toey-wan had toWed boats in and
out. she had not landed a man nor
fired a gun. The impression had got
abroad among the people that the men
in the boats she had towed into action
were Americans derived from the re-
port of one of the English prisoners,
who declared himself an American and
asserted that he had landed from those
boats
The next day after this visit I, at
tended by three of my suit, repaired on
horseback to the Kiahingsz, near the
Hwang- ching, or imperial citadel,
which surrounds the walled Enclosure
called the Forbidden City, in which the
imperial family lives. I was there met
by the commissioners, attended by
about a hundred officials of every de-
gree of button, all dressed in their easy
summer costume, but none of them in
full embroidery. The contrast between
this meeting in the capital of China,
where not a soldier nor an implement
of war was seen, nor even a musician
to the military parade which is COM
mon in European capitals and courts on
such occasions, illustrated the different
usages in these particulars in the gov
ernments in the east and west of this
vast continent.
Quillian opened the conversation by
a full expression of his feelings at the
recent occurrences at Taku and at
having been refused an interview at
Shanghai by the English and French
ministers, feeling, no doubt, that some
vindication of his own policy was re-
quired under the circumstances He
was now in the presence of his fellow
courtiers, many of whom were opposed
to his policy and watching for his fall.
some of them il was inferred that they
were of the imperial household, an in
ference which was afterward confirmed.
1t was some time before the commits
sioners were ready to enter upon the
principal object of the interview. They
said that the emperor wished to do
honor to me, now that had reached
his capital, not alone to exhibit his
friendly feeling to me personally, but to
prove the respect he felt for the presi-
dent, and therefore they had now only
to discuss the mode and time for an
audience. In speaking of the president
they used the terms Ia Whang-ti, or au-
gust emperor, and Kiunchu, or princely
ruler. They had also learned the word
president but it is an awkward COM
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for the emperor which would not be ex-
pected of me in approaching the presi-
dent of my own country. I assured
them of the great respect felt for his
majesty, in which I knew 1 likewise ex-
pressed the sentiments of the president,
who had also made them known in the
letter of which 1 was the bearer. I
had come to the capital to deliver that
1 would regard an audience with the
emperor as a mark of high favor to
myself and respect to my country. But
important at this juncture as a recep-
ton at court would be to China herself,
/ could not kneeI when / came before
the throne, for never saluted my own
ruler in that manner, nor did the rep
resentatives of the United States knee1
when they came into the presence of
any sovereign on the earth. To kneel
was, in my, view, entirely a religious
act, and I did so only in the presence
of God The treaty itself made no
mention of an audience; / had not ask
ed it; and, now that they had spoken
of it, wished to state what my views
on the point were, remarking that in
other particulars I was ready to con-
form to the etiquette of the Chinese
court when it was made known to me. =
The Chinese were asked if they would
willingly degrade their country abroad
by doing anything derogatory to it's
honor or in violation of their con-
science; but as their conscience did
not oppose these prostrations and there
was no immediate prospect of their go
ing abroad, they unhesitatingly an
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HHE intense interest in the condi-
ton of the foreign ambassadors
throughout the term of their
practical Imprisonment in Pc
king must excite some curiosity as to
what transpired with the foreign min
listers in that city more than 40 years
ago.
After four days tracking against the
current of the Pei-Ho. in making dis
lance of about 40 miles. we arrived at
Tung Chou, the head of navigation and
distant about II miles from Picking
Here we were again obliged to resume
the mode of travelling in carts or on
horseback.
The road from Tung Chou to Picking
must have been magnificent in its early
day. More than 200 years have elapsed
since it was built, and it has subse-
quently received no improvements or
repairs The earth had been thrown
up to such a perfect level that it was
Impossible to detect the least elevation
or depression in it's general line from
Tung Chou to Peking- A floor does not
exhibit a more perfect level The width
of the road is about Is feet. the stones
OF which it is constructed from II to 16
feet long and hewed with such preci-
sion as to make work of solid mason
~. They were brought from the noun
tains, and, being of unequal solidity,
some We're more easily decomposedu
than others by atmospheric agency and
worn away by the rolling of the wheels
which passed over them. Thus, in
some cases. they We're separated from
top to bottom by frost, which is here in
tense in the winter; or the wheels had
worn out just their own width between
two. stones, where a little space
had been created by the accidental
starting of one or both of the stones in
a horizontal direction. When a wheel
struck ana sank into such holes, the
conclusion was as fearful to the rider
as to the carriage; but when both
wheels dropped. as was often the case,
it seemed as if the whole body was
broken asunder by the shock.
After about. eight hours of this tor
ture we arrived at the eastern gate of
the old city of Picking. which is called
the Morning Sun gate. The wall of the
city near this gate is in good order and
is about so feet high. A five story
guardhouse rises above it nearly so feet
more, presenting altogether an impos-
ing appearance Passing through the
gate, we entered on an avenue over 100
feet wide and unpaved. Crowds of
men, women and children lined the
sides of the carriageway in an unbro-
ken line. so many as to be apparently
numberless.
The private grounds of the emperor
were the only ones in Picking which re-
ceived care and attention. They We're
still preserved as in the days of pros
perity. In one of my visits to the prime
minister I passed by the gates of
Earths Repose, through which could
be seen the walls of the Forbidden City
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brought with him and takes her away
to his own habitation.
Demane. returning home with q
swarm of bees he has found, discovers
his wife's absence. Forthwith he
tracks the canniba1 to his lair. The
latter has left Demanza tied up in the
sack while he goes to fetch some rela-
tfons to share in the feast that is to fol-
low So Demane releases his wife ana
substitutes in the sack the swarm Of
bees, and the husband and wife at once
make themselves scarce The would be
feasters arrive, and the cannibai tells
one of them to get something good out
of the sack
He attempts this, but is stung for his
pains. So mine host himself, to dis
prove the charge of practical joking
that has been unanimously preferred.
goes to the sack, ON opening which all
the bees swarm out and sting him so
numerically that he rushes from the
cave and jumps into pond head first
and sticks in the mud at the bottom.
Thus he dies, and Demane and Deman-
"a appropriate all his wealth and live
happy ever after.
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pleased at my nonreception, and Sieh
suggested that if I would express a
wish for QuflIian to receive the letter;
it would be granted, or If would say
where, out of Peking, / preferred the
treaty to be exchanged. my proposal
would be considered. Neither of these
propositions was attended to, but there
was no objection to add to the reply
then ready to be sent, a disclaimer of
want of respect to his majesty and the
expression of sincere regret that had
found myself unable to comply with the
ceremonies of an audience at his court,
for If 4 should fail of rendering him ev-
cry mark of respect not wholly incon-
sistent with the laws and usages of my
own country I would be rebuked by the
president As the American treaty con-
tanned no stipulation that it should be
exchanged in Peking, was ready to
exchange it at any point agreed upon.
But the letter of the president of the
United States to the emperor must be
first delivered in Picking, or the treaty
would not be exchanged. This filed the
record to their satisfaction. The next
day a copy of the imperial rescript en-
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power. Washana remarked to me,
You are a plenipotentiary, you have
full powers and can certainly do such
an act to which I replied, Il am not
invested with powers sufficient to ena-
bic me to change the laws and usages
of my country, and can do nothing to
degrade it,
The first interview on this momentous
subject concluded with a sumptuous re-
past. got UP partly in foreign style,
with tablecloth, knives. silver forks and
napkins, which was quite unexpected.
as an incidental evidence of the prepa-
rations which had been made to enter
tain the foreigners at Picking. While at
table I requested that horses might be
sent to the legation for members of my
suit to take exercise, but Quillian re-
piled that as soon as the audience had
taken place everything In the city and
suburbs would be shown to us with the
utmost pleasure
My visit was returned on the I'd OF
August at the housesof the legation by
the commissioners who came In the
same sort of carriages that had been
furnished the embassy on it's journey.
There was no military escort, and no
parade in the dress or number of at
tendants upon the prime minister; it
was a plain visit, characteristic of the
little display usually seen among high
Chinese officers, and, so far as is
known, was the first one made by the
western ambassador
The subject of the audience was i'm
mediately brought. forward. and. after
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bodying the final decision of the gov
eminent was furnished.
1t gave summary of the proceedings
at Taku at the time of the battle. 1t
then proceeded: ssAt this juncture the
American envoy, John E.. Ward. in
compliance with his engagements with
Quillian, came to Pehtang in his ship,
requesting that he might go to Picking,
as he was the bearer OF a letter from
the president of the United States. Our
permission was accordingly given for
him to bring the letter up to the cap
ital, where he arrived with fl. This
day the ministers Quillfan and Wa
shana have handed up the various dis
patches received from him for our ex-
animation, and from them it is clearly
to be seen that his sentiments are ex-
ceedingly respectful and indicative of
the utmost sincerity and truthfulness.
Let the letter which the American
envoy has brought be taken, and let
Quillian and Washana be specially APP
pointed to receive it for transmission to
ourself. In regard to the exchange of
the treaty, it would be proper indeed to
return to Shanghai to do it; but when
we reflect that the envoy has already
come over the seas for this purpose we
now specially direct that the great seal
be affixed to the treaty. and it be deliv-
cred to Hangfuh, the governor general.
and let him exchange the Publications
with the American minister at Pehtang.
After this has been done let lasting
friendship and commerce continue be-
tween the two nations. This will show
forth our great regard and kindness to
people from afar and clearly exhibit the
deep respect we entertain for truth and
justice. This from the emperor
Thus ended all further negotiations in
Picking.
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and the grounds which are the ia
vorite walks of the emperor.
The house prepared for the embassy
was situated in the old, or Mantchoo,
portion of the city, about half a league
from the gate, in Thirteenth street and
the neighborhood of Lau-kiun- tang
These quarters formerly belonged to
the prime minister Saishanga and
were confiscated on his disgrace in 1852.
They contained altogether IS rooms
with intervening courtyards: the build
ings were of one story and the apart
ments plainly furnished. 1t was re-
ported that the quarters fitted up for
the French and English legations We're
other palaces which had also belonged
TO this grandee-
The next day the imperial commits
sioners, who had reached the city on
the goth OF July, 1859, were informed
that had arrived and was ready to
confer with them. It was deemed by
me to be only a suitable mark Of re-
spect to the Chinese government that
until had seen the commissioners the
members of my suit should not go
abroad.
Sieh, the provincial judge of Kiangsu,
whom we had met before as the ztaotai
of Shanghai and who had been ap-
pointed secretary to the commissioners,
Quillian and Washana, on account of
his experience in treating with foreign
ers, now came to confer with me re-
sPecting my presentation to the en-
peror. He was. a man Of talent and
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quence of the arrival of an embassy at
Picking. that its chief should see the
emperor and deliver his letter of Gre
dence, but that the chief had in the
present instance firmly maintained his
own opinion when consulted upon the
ceremonies to be observed at an audi
ence," and, jumping to his Inference
he then said, I'VE are quite at a loss
therefore, to understand for what pur-
pose your excellency has come to Pc
king, and concluded with the dilemma
that as the treaty of Tien-tsin must be
exchanged somewhere, where is it to
be-" was at the capital, and nothing
could be done officially until I had seen
his majesty, which I declined to do.
and yet the treaty must be exchanged.
The answer recapitufated the circum-
stances under which I had accepted the
invitation of the commissioners at
Shanghai to come to the capital and
quoted the imperial rescript made
known to me by Hangfuh confirming
that invitation. I then proposed to de-
liver the presidents letter to them and
afterward to exchange the treaty. In
their rejoinder the same difficulty was
involved in their minds as in the pre-
vious letter, and, this premise being
granted, it would consequently be still
more unsuitable for the treaty to be
exchanged in the city itself. These diff
f1culties, singular as they may appear
to us, naturally grew out of the edu-
cation and notions of these officers re-
specting national etiquette and the dig
nifty of their sovereign. It is quite as
well, perhaps, that this whole discus
sion took place with me, as in my visit
was left free on one important point,
for, not being ordered by my govern
ment to see the emperor, was not
anxious about doing so.
A delay of SO hours took place before
answering this communication, and the
reply was ready when Judge Sieh
came in to learn the cause of the 81
lence. The Chinese were now appre-
hensive that the president would be dis