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The Winslow mail., 1900-01-25
WHERE IS He AT7
The Administration Wizard Is Not At
tending Strictly to His
Business.

It behooves the big medicine man in
the white house to begin hammering
his gong and THUS scare away the evil
spirits who are playing the dickens with
stocks and grain. a prosperity maker
can't afford to take even a day off.
He must keep the wheels whiZzing with
oHt a moments respite or he is likely
to share the fate of Papuan idol, which
is worshiped and admired during pros
porous times, but which is incontinent-
ly pulled from it's pedestal and kicked
out of doors the moment misfortunes
begin to arrive. A joss must keep UP
his reputation or get into trouble. The
Canton wonder worker must get down
to business.
Since the 4th day of March, 1897, we
have been assured that good crops IN
Dakota and poor crops in India, rain IN
the United States and drought in Rus
sia were solely attributable to the
thaumaturgic powers of the inspired
one in the white house. Look at the
harvests!" we were told. ''Did you ever
see anything like them under demo-
cratic administration? Look at the
prosperity that is fairly breaking out
like rash over all this broad land!
Do you doubt any lcnger that William
is indeed the legitimate successor of
Moses-that he will lead you into land
flowing with milk and honey?"
And if anyone ventured to intimate
that large proportion of the popula-
ton was not enjoying milk and honey
three times a day the answer always
came: why, you ungrateful scoun-
drel, look at Wall street. Look at the
price of stocks Can't you get along
without milk and honey so long as you
see that stocks are booming? Dom t
talk about your pitiful necessities when
you can take. look at the stock list
and see that sugar trust advanced five
points yesterday. Go to. Wall street
is the nerve center of the country. If
it is prospering you must be prosper
ing. If you say you aren't you're liar.
AT any rate, you are democrat, which
is worse!"
But here we see Wall street itself
The Winslow mail., 1900-01-25
FOUR LIVES,
By Edgar temple Field.
tito DANCE ewav a nigbt like this

o DANCE away a night like this
in glaring ballroom in the
company of a lot of retired butchers
and bakers and candlestick-makers
would be as stupid as to play golf OF
the plains of paradise" said Marie.
Harrington recognized her tone with
some alarm. Much of the time Marie
was as reasonable as most girls, but
when such a mood was upon her he
lived in hourly fear of being swept
away in the tide of her revolt against
her life, herself and the people by
Whom she was surrounded.
AT such times, indeed, his only com
fort lay in the belief that he had ceased
to be a merely ornamental appendage
to her existence and had become in a
measure a necessity to her. For Har-
rington, being an observer first and p
lover afterward, had noticed that the
bric-a-brac generally goes before the
furniture in the fits of emotional over
throw to which the iconoclastic tenn
perament is subject.
This being a case of incipiency, he
tried that ounce of prevention which
tradition has declared will outweigh
in utility IL ounces of cure.
''We will go down to the Indian
camp" he suggested.
"They will talk Anglo-Saxon slang
to us and show us baskets made in imi-
tation of Pompeiian jugs and colored
with diamond dyes in horribly sophis-
ticated greens and yellows," said
Marie.
ELIZA Antoine has promised to sing
for u.s. he urged. The case threatened
to be worse than he had feared.
"Ah, she will probably sing the jewel
song from Faust or perhaps give US
the latest enormity in rag-time," re-
piled Marie. But she turned into the
path that led to the water, moving
proudly like some slender young god
dess through the dappled shadows,
while Harrington followed, wondering
if there ever had been a woman like
her. She was so beautiful and he loved
her so.
Eliza Antoine stood at the entrance
of the little tent, her poor, blind eyes
turned toward the shining bay she
could not see. where the moon was writ
ing strange characters in cleaning gold
on the crest of every dancing wave.
Behind her in the tent two half
grown children slept upon the bare
ground, their heads pillowed on heap
The Winslow mail., 1900-01-25
THE ICE CREAM VOLCANO.

1.-THE jingling rhythm and delightful fan.
cies of Albert w. Smiths Funnyland poems
call TO mind the famous nonsense verse.
of the author of Alice in Wonderland y
The resemblance is so marked that Mr.
Smith has been referred to as "the Lewis
Carroll of America-"]
A wonderful Funnyland sight
Is mountain Of marvellous height;
But you never could guess
What happens unless
You were there upon Saturday night.
When the sun in the west Is aglow,
The Whole mountain rumbles, and 10!
1t pours out stream
Of assorted ice cream,
BY the banks where the macaroons grow.
Then from city and country and town.
The children Of king and of clown
All run with their spoons,
End they pick macaroons,
And they eat till they have to lie down.
But the thing that the children adore
Is a mountain that stands by the shore,
With cratery pot
Where molasses keeps hot,
With triclles Of taffy galore.
Sometimes it rains popcorn at night,
And all Of the gernels that light
On the mountain top, pop,
And they hop, and they drop,
TIL the top of the mountain is white,
And corn balls roll down
To the edge Of the town,
While the children dance round with de-
light
ALBERT W. Smith, in Ladies' Home Jour-
nal
The Winslow mail., 1900-01-25
Presidentl

in trouble. Stocks tumble and in SYM
pathy Herewith grain tumbles like
wise. In the house of representatives
Hon. Jonathan Dolliver burns incense
before the Canton joss-calls upon the
whole world to fall down and worship
him as the most marvellous wonder
worker that ever came up the pike-and
at that very moment the holy of holies
is in a panic-Wall street is eaten up
by bears as were the bad little boys
who jeered at the baldheaded prophet.
Stocks go off five, ten, twenty-five
points and wheat comes tumbling after.
Wild-eyed men run from bank to bank,
only to be cast into outer darkness
when they ask for loans on gilt-edged
securities. London calls for gold and
there is no gold. The devil is to pay and
there is not even any pitch hot. Where
is the joss and what is he doing at this
time of stress and trial? Why is he not
making medicine, beating his gong and
pronouncing eXorcisms against the evil
genii who are puncturing prosperitys
tire? Where is William the Wizard ?
Where is he at?
These are momentous questions.
They require immediate answer. For
we repeat that a joss who sleeps on
duty is in imminent peril. He may be
mighty in all other respects, but if he
can't be relied upon to keep things
booming in Wall street his tribe is ac-
cursed and his name is Mud. Let some
one kick the soothsayer in the ribs and
give him tip that there is blood on
the moon.-Chicago Chronicle.
The Winslow mail., 1900-01-25

of rags. a group of Indians of both
sexes sat huddled on a log, gazing va
cantly into the night. All the glory
of moon and wave was shining there
before their eyes, but their stolid, stu
pid faces bore not the faintest trace
of the rapt joy with which the blind
woman turned her own toward the
forever closed.
Eliza Antoine had not always been
blind. Once, long ago, when she had
been trim and straight and graceful
instead of bowed and shapeless and
laundering as she was now, she had
looked forth at the world with keen,
dark eyes and saw and noted all its
beauty.
A lover had come to her then, white
man, rough and uncouth, but good
looking and gay, with touch of Irish
brogue at the tip of his tongue and a
merry wit that had taught the daugh-
ter of a savage race the one saving grace
of this awful thing we call life-the
blessed trick of laughter.
He had wooed and won her in a care
less, easy fashion, and then one day
when a baby lay at her breast and an
other trotted beside her, tugging al
her skirts. he had gone away and left
her, never to come back.
She thought she would die after that
but she didn't. It's not so easy to die
after all. And there came a day wher
she stood, with broken, aching heart
locking across the glittering waste oi
waters rpr him who would never re,
The Winslow mail., 1900-01-25
1t is treason for the people to ask

It is treason for the people to ask
their own government to come to
their relief, but, as we have said, the
Coxey yell becomes the rallying cry OF
patriotism when it is uttered in the
sacred domain of Wall street. And the
government always responds. Recent
ly it issued gold certificates; still more
recently it announced its readiness to
redeem $25, 600, 900 worth of bonds, pay
ing 1925 for bonds that Cleveland sold
for 103 and 1O4; and when expanding
busines conditions in the interior drain
Wall street again. shall hear the same
Coxey yell, and see the same demoEstra-
tions of politeness and consideration on
the part of the government.-Atlanta
Constitution.
The Winslow mail., 1900-01-25
Increased Gold Production.

The discovery that cyanide of potash
is solvent of gold made it possible
to work at a profit thousands of low
grade gold mines that were worthless
before that discovery was made. 1t
also made it profitable to work over
the many old dumps and the waste from
stamp mills. In this way it has con-
tributed wonderfully to increase the
annual gold product of the world The
increase in money supply because of the
increased product Of gold has already
arrested the fall in the worlds price
level, and prices have now an upward
tendency. If both metals were coined
on equal terms the money supply from
both gold and silver would give the
world an era of prosperity, and would
tend to check the formation of trusts
and to distribute the benefit of pro.
duction more uniformly among the
people.-National Watchman.
The Winslow mail., 1900-01-25
THE FUNCTION OF MONEY.
why the Medium of Exchange Should
BE Issued Only by the Gov
ernment.

A somewhat lively discussion is go
ing on as to whether an excess of ex-
ports over imports enriches or impov-
erishes a country. The question can be
| decided by determining what is wealth.
Since 1878 our excess of exports in mer
chandise and silver has amounted to
| So, ,140, ,416,638. If this excess was used
in paying interest to foreign creditors,
we are just that much poorer; but if we
/ received back in exchange for it an
equal or greater amount of merchan-
disc and valuables, we are that much
richer.
1t is interesting to note that during
this same period our excess of gold i'm
ports amounted to only $10,283,354.
This comparison very forcibly demon
strates the absurdity of the claim that
gold standard, or any single standard
of exchange, is necessary in handling
foreign commerce. With a commercial
balance in our favor of more than $4,
600, 100000, we have only $10,000,000
of gold to show for it. All COM
merce is barter, and the only
function of money is to measure the
value of the articles exchanged and
facilitate the transfer. In other words,
money is not value, but a certificate of
value. the same as a deed to a piece of
real estate; and the material on which
the certificate is stamped or printed has
nothing to do with its value. Money
is a creature of law, representative of
the sovereignty of all the people, estab-
fishing legal measure for the eX-
change of property among themselves
and other people. This medium of ex-
change should therefore, be issued
only by the government-the people
and it should be issued in sufficient vol
ume to meet the convenient require
ments of trade and commerce, and no
part of it should ever be "redeemed' or
taken out of circulation, except in the
| impossible case of a decrease in popu-
| lation. Instead of redeeming money,
the quantity should always be in
creased in exact proportion to the
! growth Of population.
The Winslow mail., 1900-01-25
AS TO CHEAP MONEY.
The CoXey ell in Wall Street and Its
Effect on the Adminis-
tratiOn

A republican exchange, in dealing
with future events, says that it is in
cumbent on gold democrats to vote
the republican ticket, so as to make
more crushing the defeat of the cheap
money forces"
The cheap money forces! Really,
these republican editors seem to be
blind to the conditions all around
them. They close their eyes to all
the information contained in their
daily market reports. They put their
fingers in their ears and refuse to lis
ten to facts. Compared with the most
important of the worlds commodities.
money was never cheaper in this coun-
try than it is to-day. The deprecated
greenback dollars would buy in 1870
more iron than the gold dollar COM
mands to-day. Thus, as compared with
1894, we have 50-cent dollar with re-
spect to cotton and with respect to cot
ton products, and 30-cent dollar with
respect to iron.
In the face of conditions plain to
all, the republican editors go on de-
nouncing 'cheap money" in one breath
and applauding its results in the next.
Cheap money is delusion!' they cry,
and then add: Behold the prosperity
of the country"
Wall street recently took up what has
been called ''the Coxey yell'' and de-
manded more money because they
didn't want to see the stock market col
lapse under the influence of low prices.
'The Coxey yell," it seems, is a
horrible, an alarming affair, when
heard in the south and west, or among
the common people, but when the spec
ulators, the gamblers and the traders
! take it up it becomes patriotic and fash
| ionable. Not only so, the editors take
it up and remark that the situation is
critical, and the conservative financial
writer's who make it a point to denounce
the demand for more money when it is
uttered by the people, begin to make
gloomy comments on the monetary
stringency," and say that they conf
IDENTIFY expect the government to come
| to the relief of the market
The Winslow mail., 1900-01-25
Looked Splendid

Entering music-shop the other de
a Welsh miner who had lately con.
into a considerable sum of none i,
asked the price OF grand piano. He
was told it was ESQ. He bought it.
A fortnight after he returned for a
music-book, and the shopman asked
him if the instrument gave satisfg
ton.
''Man," he said, "but you would
know it now. 1t just looks splend.
My old 'ooman has painted it yeller
match the chest of drawers. Spar,
Moments
The Winslow mail., 1900-01-25
The Price For a Fool.

An Englishman is always fond ot~sc
calling incidents of his earlier dav.
''at home" and episodes ON the crick
crease or the hunting field seldom
cape his memory. One of these gentl
men who was once prominent in the
sports on the other side now resides
Detroit, and he tells some good stori.
of the olden days. He brought
mind famous cricketer, Lord Fitz
hardinge, who played the great Pc
tor 80 years, and who for the la,
teen of them had never been boz
out. Finally, whether by accident
not is not known, he met his Wat
loo, and the wicket was knocked O,
back of the great players hat. Ma
urally enough the bowler felt prot
of his achievement, but there was pc
haps no call for the extreme display
exuberance that he made. He thre,
himself down on the ground, roll,
about, stood up, yelled, threw
hands about as if he had gone crazy
and capered up and down for fully fy.
minutes Lord Fitzhardinge locke
at him until he had quieted down, an
then he said: Come here, youn
man, I'd like to speak to you."
The proud bowler approached.
You are the only man that eve
bowled me out" he said Here's iv,
pounds for you, and if you hadn'
made such blank fool of yourself. Is
have given you 5O."-Detroit Fres
Press.
The Winslow mail., 1900-01-25
For bonnie Annie Laurie
Id lay me doom and dee.

Poor Eliza" said the injured man
again, and then was still.
a few moments later Harrington and
Marie took leave of the Indian woman
and walked along the shining shore,
their hearts too full for words.
At the entrance to the woods they
were suddenly confronted by a lighted
window through which was distinctly
visible the figure of a man kneeling at
the side of an already stiffening corpse.
Marie shranlz back with sob of ter
ror and Harrington, shutting out the
dreadful picture from her sight with
protecting gesture, hurried her on to
the shelter of the wood beyond.
But once within the shadowed path
the girl whose own life had wearied
and disgusted her from the very full
ness and richness of its gifts covered
her face with her hands and burst into
tears.
'sOh. this is such a dreadful, dreadful
world" she sobbed. And her lover
his heart ached with the knowledge that
all his love could not shield her from the
worlds misery.
But on the dead face over which the
minister was reverently drawing the
sheet there was a smile Of unutterable
peace. And Eliza Antoine, left alone in
the door of the little tent with her face
turned toward the shining waters that
she could not see, was saying softly to
herself:
THANK the good God for this beauti.
full world we live Chicago Herald
The Winslow mail., 1900-01-25
OPINIONS AND POINTERS.

Congress has opened and bleed
ing will be resorted to, to relieve burst
ing treasury Pittsburgh Post.
William J. Bryan notices that his
political enemies regret that he is not
"copper" He did not learn states.
manship in Canton, O.-Chicago Dem
ocrat.
Why should the republican party
work against the trusts in congress
when it proposes to knock the stuffing
out of them with platform plank IN
19O0?-St Louis Republic.
While urging congress to take ac'
ton against unhealthful combinations
against trade, President Mckinley con-
tinues to hold to the fallacy of high
tariff. which is the foundation OF every
trust in the country.-Kansas City Star.
We shall see whether or not the
republicans will have the courage or the
sense to put on the free list articles that
are monopolized by the trusts with the
aid of the high tariff rates. ThatWould
be a practical answer to the question OF
whether they want to regulate the
trusts or not.-Peoria Herald.
The western justice Of the peace
who objected to having Blackstone read
to him in court because the court knew
more about the case than Blackstone
ever cid was disarmed by the counsels
reply that he "only wanted to show the
court what a fool old Blackstone was
On the same principle somebody might
be permitted to read to Mr.. Mckinley
few extracts from the writings Of
George Washington, just to show the
executive what fool Washington was.
N. Y. World.
Hanna says that labor has found
it advantageous to treat with trusts
and organization" Always the virtue
and holiness of trusts. Always the up
lifting of labor by monopoly and greed.
These are the perennial texts of Hanna.
Does not the money-coddling senator
know that when labor trembles capital
turns pale, fearing a fall-tiat labor is
the turtle of Atlas upholding the world
that labor must be contented before
those standing on his back can feel Sc
EN-. Y. Journal,
The Winslow mail., 1900-01-25
different Suins.

Father Ito son)-See that spider, m
boy, spinning his web. Is it not
wonderful? Do you reflect that, try as
he may, no man could spin that web?
Johnnie--What of it? See me spin
this top. Do you reflect that, try as
he may, no spider could spin this top!
San Francisco Newsletter.
The Winslow mail., 1900-01-25
His Intentions.

Mrs Hashley-You have been flirting
with my daughter, and last night you
even went so far as to kiss her. Now,
want to know what your intentions are
Boarder-My intentions, madam, are
never to do SO again.-ohiQ State Jour
nal.
The Winslow mail., 1900-01-25
How to Avoid Cold. During winter

Es
This idea that many people have.
that winter is an unhealthful. season
is all wrong. Winter is just Is health
full as summer, if people will = care
OF themselves. If you wan. 20 go
through the winter without cold, OBJ
serve these few simple rules:
Don't overhead your house, and
don't stop all ventilation. Sleep in.
cool room, but keep warmly covere
Always take off your outdoor wrs
when you come in the house, an
ways put them on when you go
And, lastly, just as long as the
snowon the ground, don't go ou
out your rubbers. This last rule is J..
most important of all, for two
out of three come from wet fee,
The Independent.
The Winslow mail., 1900-01-25
WhN NOtS

\ goldite contemporary says ''such
is activity Of business in the country
that there is a scarcity of actual mon
ey with which to settle the daily bal
ances." Why not remonetize silver
then and set the mints to work coin
ing more money?-Illinois State Reg
iSter.
The Winslow mail., 1900-01-25
The Theory indicated.

The quantitative theory of money and
prices is being vindicated by the in
crease in the gold supply. Gold is now
perceptibly cheaper than it was two
years ago and rything else is dearer
in the same proportion - National
Watchman.
The Winslow mail., 1900-01-25
shakespeare's Lambs.

Shakespeare, among his many allu-
sions to the sweetness, the innocence
and the helplessness Of the lamb, only
once cites it as an article of food
Cincinnati Emo uirer
The Winslow mail., 1900-01-25
Any Way to Succeed.

Aleader always excites envy, jealousy
and protest Mark Hanna has been and
is a leader. The methods employed by
him are of questionable character and
have been so denounced by some of the
most conspicuous amen corner breth-
ren of his political church. By them,
however, he has accomplished success
when the methods of his critics would
have brought defeat-two very differ
ent results in this prosaic age, where
the end to be attained justifies the pre-
liminaries, in the sphere of politics and
in almost every other sphere. That is
to say, in these times men are. much
measured by their successes without
any extraordinary amount of conscien-
tious scruples being bestowed upon the
routes travelled to reach goals. As Josh
Billings quantity said: There's no use
arguin' ergin er success" The philos-
ophy of the Billings declaration is quick
ly manifest whenever the job is under
taken.-Houston (Tex.) Post.
The Winslow mail., 1900-01-25
For bonnie Annie Laurie
I'd lay me doom and dee.

On the other side of the bay, in rude
board hut, lay an Irish lumberman who
had been injured that day in an acci.
dent on great lumber barge. He had
been brought ashore to die, and the ru-
raj minister was praying at his bedside
praying for the welfare of the dying
mans immortal soul with the fervent
but conscientiously guarded diction of
one who felt that he was of those whose
prayers, if not granted at once, were
sure to be recorded for future refer.
ence.
The dying man stirred as the far-off
strains of the song were waited in
through the open window and a smile
twisted his white lips.
Sure an that's a good tune to die
by" he said, family, and then his face
changed. ELIZA used to sing that" he
muttered. Eliza Antoine. She was
only an Injun, but she was good girl
Poor Eliza, / didn't treat her square,
"Oh, Lord, deal with the poor peni.
tent soul as Thou seest fit" the prudent
minister was saying to his Maker.
And once more the refrain thrilled
softly on the moonlit air:
The Winslow mail., 1900-01-25
If this congress appropriates

If this congress appropriates
money up to the demands of the various
departments of government it will be
not merely billion-dollar, but nearly
billion-and da-half-dollar congress.
This is the work of Imperialism. 1t has
made the most extravagant of recent
congresses models of moderation and
economy in the comparison,-Spring-
;leld (Mass.) Republican,
Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-01-05
SpOkanea " On.

Tacoma, Wash, Jan. 3.-The Spokane
high school football team are champions
Of Washington. After defeating every
team in eastern Washington that would
play them, the, came 70 Tacoma and de-
ieaie-i, by score of 10 U, the Tacoma
high school eleven, the Nictors OF western
Washington in their class. fine team
work characterized the playing OF the >Po-
kane boys and won their victory. With
the state championship in the balance,
both teams played fair, hard game, and
both are eminently satisfied with the re-
suit. spoksne's thorough practice work
for three months past, under Coach Hol-
zell, had put the team in splendid shape,
and though the local team played deeper-
a,ely, they were slowly but surely beaten
down. No one Was injured on either side
>poksne's victorious eleven will return
home with colors flying higa.