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rylCirculation
Totals

Population Of the United States May l.
1900, estimated at 1885, 600; circulation per
capita, $26.5S
For redemption of outstanding certi-
Gates an exact equivalent in amount of
the appropriate kinds of money is held
in the treasury, and is not included in the
account of money held as assets of the
government.
From the foregoing statement, it
will be noted that not only has pop
ulism permeated both old political
parties and forced recognition of
its principles, but the protests of mop
ulist writer's has caused the treasury
department to change the form of its
circulation statement, SO as to avoid
the misleading and incorrect duplica-
ton of certificates in circulation and
gold and silver coin held for their
redemption.
But even ROW this statement is
incorrect and untruthful, in that it
shows $22O,oOO,OOO in gold as being in
circulation, which has not, in fact,
any existence and cannot be located,
or accounted for, in the United States.
An Associated press report dated at
Providence, r. l., on May 8, said:
'Secretary Gage and the treasury eX-
perts are trying to account for the
disappearance of $4OO,OOO,OO0 in gold
coin of the $1,0OO,OOO,0OO of gold they
supposed to be in circulation. They
have called to their assistance all the
United States consuls and the manu-
featuring jewelers. of Providence and
the Attleboros and the jewelry CEN
ters of the country, to discover
whether the missing coin has gone
abroad or been swallowed up in the
arts at home. Each jeweler has re-
ceived blanks from the trade and has
been asked to describe minutely the
quantity, kind and value of the gold
used last year and to return the blank
to Secretary Gage as soon as posi-
ble.''
The above statement, however, was
considerably exaggerated, as there is
no such amount of gold unaccounted
for. The national banks, according to
the February statements. held $780,
100000, the national treasury con-
tanned $414,000,000 and other banks
possessed about s1OO,O0O,OOO, making
$500, 100000 accountable for out of
the $1,023 100000 millions which, ac-
cording to the treasury statistics, is
the country's supply of gold money
This leaves but $22O,oOo,Ooo to be ac-
counted for.
Thus, as time passes, the populists
are vindicated in their several con-
tentions and the assertions they have
made are proved to be true. And
thus, also, does our vaunted bank
gold basis" dwindle from $616, 900, 900
to $396,0oo.0OO, and the principal ar
guments used to further the passage
of the new currency law are shown
to have been false and misleading.
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youth stoutly. Eight we will so long as
powder and shot hold out, Quaker or no
Quaker. We be scant OF the first, though
! would to Heaven a sudden darkness like
that which fell on Calvary would settle on
las now! We might then take to the dingy
astern and sneak for the Long Island shore"
He had hardly spoken when the mainsail
tapped, and the wind, which had been rap
idly growing lighter, almost went out.
cast my eye on the following schooner, and
saw with some satisfaction that she, too,
had lost the~breeze she had been carrying
with her, for no longer did she heel to its
pressure, and, thought, no longer were her
sails bellying, but, like ours, hung in folds,
only occasionally rounded by the dying
puffs. BY this she had drawn to within a
couple of miles of us and was still coming
on. Under our stern there was barely a
wake ESQ slowly we moved, the froth from
cur bends and rudder having given place to
an oily hatness filled with tiny eddies,
through which the boat we still towed slow
iy dragged its way. Now there was yellow
haze on all the horizon, that told of the
waning day, but the suns broad light still
lay over the ocean, and it would be hours
ere darkness could furnish us shelter. By
then our fate would be known.
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YOUNG SLOAN FORGIVEN.
Millionaire's Son Who Eloped with the In
tended Bride of Another Man Obtains
Parental blessing.

Chicago, May 2O.-After seven
months of waiting, parental forgive
ness has been extended to young Will
liam w. Sloan, Jr., of Buffalo, who
was married, while at Harvard, to
Miss Edwards, of Cambridge, the f.
ancee of young Mr.. Boeck. of st.
Louis, on the day after the wedding
of the latter two was to have taken
place in Cambridge church. News
that William w. Sloan. Sr., had re-
Tented and would take the Young
couple into his good graces was
brought to them by John Sloan, of
Buffalo, uncle of the young man, who
found them in apartments at 113
Cass street. in this city. No time
was lost in accepting the parental
offer of the olive branch and last
night the young man, his bride of
% and his uncle left for Buffalo.
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relief myself, but knew, despite the fact that
we were so far safe, the repulse would prove
but a respite. The lump that had risen TO.
my throat when l saw that the enemy was
beaten off still held me speechless, but it
passed presently, as did also the wildness
OF the youth, and ere long we were speculat-
ing as to the next probable move of the dis
comfited redcoats. 1t was true that | had
realized the first part of my secret hope of
overcoming the boat, but, on scanning the
horizon, there was no sign of a rescuing
wind, though | thought the south held some
promise of later breeze. There was naught
to do but stand at bay and await the issue
Nor did we await it for long The sun was
sliding rapidly to the edge of the sea, being
but an hour high, its path lying in line
with the now thoroughly becalmed schooner
off our quarter; its glare throwing dazzling
pathway betwixt the two vessels. 1t is
E:ore than likely they scented the ad-
vantage given them by their present posi-
tion, for not long after the return of the
first expedition against us | saw three boats
leave their side and proceed along the track
OF binding glitter.
To aim into this eye-watering brilliancy
with any but a mere chance of hitting a.
mark was an impossibility, but, with the old
determination to face the worst, Ames and
| repaired to our posts, though the girl still
fingered forward.
As saw the uselessness of protracted de-
tense, let her bide away, knowing that at
the bow she would be clear of flying bullets
when the boats should come near enough to
return our fire. How the attack was planned
was at once apparent, for to cover the onset
of the boarders the schooner again opened
on us with its forward piece In evident
faar 0f triE thaIr ho,
doned their former manner of ricochetting
the bali across the water, and instead drove
point blank at US. Although VIZ lay plain
target, and their schooner, like the Phaf-
tom, was at rest, the first shot flew wide of
us; the second passed somewhere aloft, yet
SO near that l heard the horrible humming
OF the ball, and the third To this day
they know not all they did, nor, for the
matter of that, did / at the time
We had let the boats come near, that we
might shoot with effect, and had fired and
was about to pass the rife to Gertrude, who
in my excitement fancied had by this time
returned to the companion, when to my
establishment / saw she was not behind me.
There was no time for protracted search,
for, as / sprang from the cabin, where had
gone to look for her, l heard her brother
discharge two pistols in quick succession and
saw boat sweep under our counter. In an
instant it had hooked on to our starboard
channels. With a round oath Ames seized
the two remaining pistols and poured their
contents into it with scarce a chance of
missing, while rushed to his side, and
lifting the heavy hatch cover from the cabin.
against which it had been leaning, hurled it
on to the heads of the packed mass below.
Beyond the fact that no man boarded the
schooner at this point, what execution was
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made by the broad and bulky timber never
knew, for at that moment the third shot
from the schooner struck the foretopmast
lust above the hounds. IN a laundering
crash down came the spar with the square
sail, the outer canvas. topmast, fore and
back stays, blocks and upper running, gear
in general, the broken mast shifting the
deck with the sound of an explosion.
The din of the shot and the tumbliug
wreck slowed me around as though had
been on pivot, but it was only to see that
ali was lost. From beneath the foresail
Doom | saw that the other boats had board
ed us on the larboard bow, and already hall
score of men were swarming over the side.
Even then my thoughts went to the girl,
but she was nowhere in sight. Body and
brain work quickly in times of excitement,
and thinking that possibly she had fallen
through the gaping hatch and into the hold,
though time was scant, l sprang for the
opening and looked down, calling her by
name. There came no answer, neither was
her body in sight, the dull gray of the lead
alone meeting my eye. Springing again to
ny feet, / drew my cutlass and retreated to
the quarter deck where stood Ames with
drawn steel, his back braced against the
wheel and his breath coming and going as
though from violent exertion.
'Tis the final stand, my lad!'' l ex-
claimed, as / ranged myself by his side and
turned to face (for the last time, / thought
the enemy, who were now pouring aft
Gertrude is gone. | could find her no.
where!"
Il know it'' he painted "The games up
l marked her when She"
| lost the rest, for at that instant an Off
Ger whom l at once recognized came run.
| ming up, followed by half a dozen marines
As he caught sight of me he halted, and,
eyeing me with profound astonishment, sud
denly broke out
Good God! tits Thorndyke! Touch not
that man, on your lives!" he shouted
Here's game worth a whole watch. Sur
render, We rebel! Throw down your arms
and surrender! Can't you see you are
beaten? You doubly damned spy, the rope
viii have its own! By Saint George, but
this is luck!'
vociferated in turn. by the Lord, no!
Come and take me if We can, but twill not be
alive. Your rope is not for me, nor will the
oolors aloft be struck while | stand on this
| oeck! l have given over this world, and
fear neither We nor the pink shrimps at your
back! Come, now, and clutch your luck ="
If | was strong as two men before, | felt
the strength of ten within me as / spoke.
'he swath l would have moved through
that press would have brought the bullet |
invited, but there WAS no advance. True
the crowd showed tendency to rush in as
] thus defied them, and several muskets
were leveled at us. but Beden nipped the
act by waving his sword and threatening
punishment to the first man who fired a gun
OF advanced without orders.
1t was plain that to him the prize was a
tremendous one, nor would he have the
glory of defeating me dimmed by my death
and to this ambition to take me alive and
see me hanged was doubtless due my final
safety.
ITO BE CONTINUED
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KNEW THE MEANING.
What Emancipation Meant to the
DOwn-TrOdden Peasants on
Russian Estates.

One evening ouy village priest found
a middle-aged peasant, Anton Save
lief, reading a book of psalms. He
as reading a psalm of which each verse
began with the word Rejoice"
What are you reading?" he was
asked.
We'll, father, 1 will tell YOU" was
the reply. Fourteen years ago the
cid prince came here. 1t was in the
winter. l had just returned home al
most frozen. \ snowstorm was raging.
L had just begun undressing when we
heard knock at the window; it was
the elder, who was shouting: Go to
the prince; he wants YOU
I'VE all-my wife and our children
were thunderstruck. I signed myself
with the cross and went; the snow
storm was binding me as crossed the
bridge.
We'll, it ended all right. The old
prince was taking his afternoon sleep,
and when he woke up he asked me if |
knew plastering work, and only told
me: Come tomorrow TO repair the
plaster in that ROOM So I went home,
quite happy, and when came to that
bridge found my wife standing there.
She had stood there all the time. with
the baby in her arms in the snowstorm.
waiting for me. That was, father, un-
der the old prince.
And now the young prince came
here the other day. I went to see him,
and found him in the garden, at the
tea table, in the shadow of the house;
you, father, sat with him, and the elder
OF the canton, with his mayors chain
upon his breast will YOU have tea.
Savelieff?' he asks me; take a chair
Peter Grigorieff'- he says that to the
old one-'giVe us one more chair
And Peter Grigorieff-you know
what a terror for US he was when he
was the manager of the old prince
brought the chair, and we all sat round
the tea table, talking, and he poured
out tea for all of us.
We'll, now, father, the evening is so
beautiful, the balm comes from the
prairies, and 1 sit and read .Reioice,
Rejoice!'''
This is what the abolition of serfdom
meant for the peasants.-Prince Kra-
potkin, in Atlantic
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VOL. XIX.
THE SADDEST THING.

They asked me once, when life was young
it's tale untold, it's songs unsung-
And Hope still near. l laughed and said:
ITO know my cheeks must lose their red,
And ev'ry shimmering, golden thread
In this fair coronal, its glory shed.
Be coiled and folded, snowy white
A sign of sorrow, loss and blight
This is the saddest thing!
They asked me again when partings came,
And Death, triumphant. breathed the name
OF one held dear. l wept and said:
ITO sit alone. here, with ones dead
And list in vain their footsteps. This
To wait their coming, ard forever miss
Their voices. Surely life's sad tale when
told
No other grief so deep can hold.
This is the saddest thing"
But now-I sit Gry-eyed and cold,
And wonder that living form can hold
A heart so dead. And if you ask:
What is 1t now? What new, hard task
Has left you hopeless?" Thus, tonight,
l answer, with a clearer sight:
THE saddest thing-to sit alone
And face, all fearless, Love outgrown-
This is the saddest thingv'
Katherine B. Huston, in Dramatic Maga-
zine
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York. with municipal fire insurance,

York, with municipal fire insurance.
could save 100000 each year as a
net profit with the same rates she
now has. In New York there ara
thousands of fire insurance men with
costly rents in thousands of Offices.
with huge wastes on advertising and
other foolish expenses. New York
requires only one Office and one set
of officials to collect the taxes; and
if she had municipal fire insurance
she would save in rents alone an inn
mense sum.
Chicago pays on an average of S4,-
100000 year and losses over s., 2,OO0.-
600 simply because she has private
fire insurance.
The 100000 population of London
pay profit to the private insurance
companies of $1O.00o,o0O annually, or
at the rate of 50 per inhabitant. From
careful investigation l estimate the
cost per inhabitant in this country,
in our Industrious centers, at fully as
much as that of London. In city of
100000 population this would save to
the town 100000 per year. Boston
pays over $1,0OO,OOO annually that she
might save. Paris pays over S., ,OOO, 900
and Paris has already taken steps
for municipal fire insurance.
With municipal fire insurance there
would be only one Office, no adver-
tising bills, no agents commission,
only one set of bookkeepers. Do a
little investigating for yourself and
you will vote to socialiZe the fire in
surance business.
Leeds and Bradford, two great cities
of England, will do their own fire in
surance.
Berlin, Germany, conducts splen-
did municipal fire insurance at great
saving to the people and at a profit
to the city. She has the most rigid
building inspection laws and as re-
suit fire losses are comparatively
small.
In the German cities of Hamburg,
Breslau Koenigsberg, Setettin and Lu-
beck there is semi-municipal fire
insurance, the cities cooperating
with the association.
Glasgow takes 20 per cent. of it's
own risks.
London and many of the English
cities are about to establish munic-
lpal MISUNDERSTANDING
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IN A WILD TUMUII Of Joy.
Whole British Empire Carried OF
Its Feet by the News Of Mafe-
kings Relief.
WHO LED THE RELIEVING COLUMN
One Theory Is That Gen. Kitchener Was In
Command, Another That Baden.Pow-
ellis Brother Headed the Victorious
Britfsh-An Agree That Roberts Has
Redeemed His Promise to the Gar rison.

London, May 2O.-The whole Brit
ish empire has been carried off its
feet by the news of the relief of Mafe-
king. Even the demonstrations on
Ladysmith day pale before the spon-
taneous trasports of delirium recorded
in cablegrams from all parts of the
world where floats the union jack.
Overstrained feelings have found vent
in an expression of heartfelt enthusi-
asm' which, starting from various
news centers, spread like prairie
fire through the united kingdom and
the colonies and converted every COM
munity into aggregations of shouting,
cheering. singing, half-frantic, but
for the mcst part, orderly humanity.
The commanding officer of the col
umn that reached the Mafeking goal
has not been mentioned. One theory
is that Gen. Kitcheners was in COM
mand, and was bent on relieving the
prime minister's son; another is that
Maj. Baden-Powell volunteered for the
work and was put in charge of colo
nial column. If one brother has re-
lieved another. Gen. Roberts has pro-
vided a most dramatic surprise. Gen.
Roberts has clearly redeemed his
promise made to the garrison. He
named May IS as the date, and Lon
don received the news i'm the nick of
time
Great depression was caused in Pre-
toria at the complete collapse of the
campaign on the western border. The
defense of Mafeking began with the
outbreak of the war and, as an ex-
plot of arms, ranks with Delhi.
Lucknow and the most glorious
| achievements of British history. A
| colonial force, not over 1000 strong.
with a man of genius-a true national
| scout-at its head, has held it's
| ground against superior force. led
| at first by Cronje and subsequently
| by Snyman. A relieving force was
nowhere in sight and the garrison
was holding an open town incapable
of scientific defense: but, by display
| ing the finest qualities of British grit
| and endurance. Baden-Powell's men
have persevered in keeping the flag
above Mafeking.
Turning Against French and Germans.
Cape Town, May 2O.-The Cape Ar
gus says that so of Eloff's patrol were
| killed and that the Irish-American
brigade were greatly cut up at
Kroonstad. The Beers are turning
against the French and Germans.
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MUNICIPAL FIRE INSURANCE.
Why Should People Pay Taxes to Protect
Fire Insurance Companies from
Suffering Loss?

1t is remarkable that municipal
ity will exact tax from it's citizens
to maintain splendid municipal de-
partments for the protection of in
surance companies.
The buildings, furniture and stocks
in all industrial centers are generally
insured for their full value. If de-
stroyed by fire the loss falls upon the
insurance company-at least largely
so-and not on the owner of the ouild-
ings, furniture or stock. Hence the
citizen is taxed to protect the wealthy,
profit-making insurance companies. If
it is wise and proper to own and oper-
ate a fire department it is equally wise
and proper to own and operate a mu-
nicipal fire insurance department
Municipal fire insurance would not
pay the entire cost of maintaining a
fire department but would pay hand
some profit, and rates might be re-
duced 25 per cent.
Individual ownership of fire insur-
ance is huge waste.
Just think of the number of fire in
surance Offices in a city of 100000 pop
ulatiOn, and the number of agents
and sub-agents, each Office with
set of Eookkeepers, costly Office fur
nitIre, etc. And then the immense
uost of advertising. Each Office
spends from 500 to $500 for calen-
liars. Each pays other large sums
for newspaper and circular advertis-
ing. And besides this the general
office does all the bookkeeping over
again and pays huge sums to adver-
ti~e in the nation at large the res
pective merits q the company.
The people of this nation pay in
premiums to the fire insurance COM
panies annually Qs99) about $225, ,O00,-
go, only 81 per cent. of which is
ever paid back to the people for
losses. Forty-six per cent is the
gross profit.
The cheapest insurance in any city
in America is 81 cents per capita in
Washington, ID. c., and the highest in
Providence, r. L, costing 1925 per
capita.
In Greater New York the cost to the
citizens is nearly S.. 100000. New
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just soap Bubbles.

1t is interesting just now to watch
the trade and financial papers in their
struggle with the Mckinley .spros-
perity" problem. When the bottom
dropped out ofSsteel it burst all their
pretty soap bubbles. If prices hadn't
been cut they could have charged
Gates with arbitrarily making ducks
and brakes of investors, consumers,
workingmen and all, and called him
"a real wicked man." But the price
of steel did drop. 1t had to. Gates
had not created bad situation, he
had taken advantage of one. So the
truth is beginning to come out. We
have not had any genuine firmly based
prosperity. 1t has been all soap bub-
bles-pretty to look upon but dread
fully sensitive to the touch. Public.
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is HE THE MuRpsRER7
Samuel Moser. Whose Wife and Four Chill
dren Were Killed at fremont. III, Tried
Suicide at Salt Lake CITY.

Salt Lake City, May 2o.-The Des-
eret News says man who attempted
to commit suicide by drowning in the
Jordan river has been rescued by the
police and is believed to be Samuel
Moser, whose wife and four children
were murdered at their hoI :. three
miles from fremont, Ill, last Sunday
evening. Moser is alleged to have
made a full confession of the crime
and is now in the custody of the po.
lice
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M'KINLEY, HANNA & co.
The United States Has Drifted from De.
mocracy In the Hands of This
Administration.

Mcklnley's administration is des-
tined to form an important epoch in
American history. During that short
period of four years will have been
added to the country one vassal state,
the island of Porto Rico; the Sulu
archipelago. governed by a Mahom-
medan sultan with harems and
slavery; the nominal purchase from
Spain of her sovereignty of the Thil-
ippine archipelago of a thousand
isles and 100000 inhabitants, and
the ruin of an army of $4,000 Young
Americans in efforts to bring the ma
tlves of this purchased tropical prov
lnce into subjection; the rise of 600
trusts aggregating $2,oOO,OOO,OO NOM
lnal capital, some of them the most
gigantic corporations in the worlds
history; the transfer of the finan-
cial sy-tem which by the constitution
is placed under the government, over
to an international gold trust. These
are some of the mostsprominent fea-
lures of McKinley's administration of
four years. There are minor anti
American and foreign innovations,
before unknown to our government.
and which cause the nations of the
old world to view with astonishment.
the monarchical and titled classes to
rejoice as signs of the collapse of
popular government, and the hearts
and hopes of the down-trodden masses
to sink and die within them.
This is but glimpse of the dark
shadow McKinley's administration
will cast on the pages of American
history to serve as a warming to fu-
ture generations aginst trusting their
government in the hands of weak
politician under the influence of the
money power.-Midland Journal.
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Claim of L.ne-s,andlne A,low.a.

Washington, May 20.-The house
has passed a bill appropriating So 900
to William Wolfe, of Shelbina, Mo-,
on account of the impressment of a
vessel by the union forces in 1865.
which was afterward wrecked and
completely destroyed while in the
possession of the government. Wolfe
has been pressing his claim ever since
the war closed.