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with strong probability of Nebraska
unless State pride is extremely strong
| joining them. 1t is hoped to make up thi.
loss by carrying Illinois, Indiana ant
Ohio. Any one who knows Illinois poll
tics realizes that it is naturally Repub
lican State, and has gone Democratic
only once in forty years, and that when
the business elements were favorable to
the Democratic candidates.
The same is to be said of Ohio, with
the added statement that it has never
given it's electoral vote to a Democratic
candidate for the Presidency since the
war. Indiana is the only close State, and
those who know it best believe that the
Democrats will not win there. In both
Illinois and Indiana, exceptionally strong
men have been named as Democratic can
didates for Governor, and to an extent
they will aid Mr.. Bryan, but not enough
to overcome the sentiment held every
where against him by conservative and
thoughtful people. All this apparent
prospect of success over Mr.. Bryan ought
not to cause lessening of the struggle
against him. 1t will not do i'll this contest
to simply prevent his having a majority
in the Electoral College by giving Presi-
dent Mckinley barely enough to win.
DECISIVE DEFEAT FOR BRYAN.
What ought to be accomplished is the
decisive defeat of Organism as disturb
ing factor in the politics of this country.
The country cannot afford with each re-
curing four years to be upset from one
end to the other by the danger of a man
of such vagaries as he entertains obtain
ing control of the nations affairs. The
plea that is put forth by some men of
ability that he can be rendered harmless
before election by the enactment of new
laws is hardly craftsmanship. Why place
a man in the Presidency whom you must
virtually put under bonds to keep the
peace?
Mr.. Bryan has so grievously wronged
the Democratic party that no Democrat
who really wishes to see the party get
back into public confidence ought to aid
and abet him at this time. He would de-
stroy the country's currency system if he
could by substituting the silver standard
Why give him Endorsement in that deter
mination? He would abrogate the right
of private contract, overturn the tradi-
tions, practices, and high position of the
Supreme Court, and make impossible the
quick and effective maintenance of public
order in times OF excitement and stress.
Why make it possible for him to even
undertake so much that is revolutionary,
even though he fail in it all?
No Time for Experiments.
| hardly think the thoughtful Judgment
of any citizen will say that the possibili-
ty that Mr.. Bryan may do better in the
Philippines than President Mckinley is
doing justifies an experiment fraught
with so much danger to the stability OF
things at home. The question may be
very properly raised whether a man w, )
is wrong on every important problem
which affects the citizens of the United
States at home can adjust and administer
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*Import prce include
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victory and valor.

TAir, Marching Through Georeia.l
Keep the fruits of victory stainless ever
more.
Keep our banners flying on Manila's dis
tant shore;
Keep our noble President within the
White House door.
Bringing prosperity and glory!
CHORUS.
Hurrah! Hurrah In honor we are
bound.
Hurrah! Hurrah! Our money all is
sound;
Honest golden dollars ringing all the
world around.
Bringing prosperity and glory!
Cherish deeds of valor wreathed in meme
ories sublime.
Cherish grand achievements wrought in
Oriental cline;
Cherish honest duty calling; now's the
golden time,
Bringing prosperity and glory!
CHORUS.
C. p r.
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: BRYAAISM IN WEST,
CROKERISM IN EAST. F."
Reasons Why James H. Eckels
Will Vote for Mckinley.
Cleveland's Comptroller OF the Currency
Urges All to Unite and Give Bryan
Ism Its Deathblow as a Dis
turbing Factor.

The political outlook in the West Is, I
believe, generally satisfactory to those
who are opposed to Mr.. Bryan and the
things for which he stands in public life.
In the extreme West his most ardent
friends are ready to concede that he has
lost much ground since the campaign of
1896, and unless he can recoup himself in
the Middle West and East, his defeat will
become matter of certainty. The Pacific
States, the Dakotas, Wyoming, and Kan
sas will all be found to be against him,
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and which has been widely discussed in
the study Of national economic questions
of late years. Why not measure by this! !!
A glance at the table which shows the
relative prices of articles in 1896 and
1900 will answer this. question. 1t hap
pens that the percentage of increase in
the price of wheat is less than that of
any other article of farm production,
since wheat is more directly affected by
the production in other parts of the world
where crops have been generally good
during the last two seasons.
Wheat has only advanced 80 per cent
from 1896 to 1900. while corn advanced
4S per cent, mess pork 60 per cent, lard
GS per cent and wool 6S per cent. Now
it is easy to see Why the Democrats
happened" to select this particular item
"wheat" by which to measure everything
else, simply because it shows a smaller
increase IN price than almost any other
article in the list.
Yet they are gravely marching through
the agricultural regions of this country
stating to the farmer that "a bushel of
wheat in 1900 will buy less of the articles
which you consume than bushel of
wheat would buy of those same articles
in 1896" Let us accept the challenge.
Mr.. Bryan's first nomination occurred
ON July 10, 1896, and his second nomina-
tion on July 5, 1000. The records of the
bureau of statistics show that the high
est price of mo. 2 red winter wheat"
standard grade by which all others may
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1t will be seen by an examination of
he tables that in every article of farm
PRODUCTION named there has been an in
crease in price ranging with single ex-
aeption) from 35 per cent TO 6S per cent,
Or an average increase in the entire se-
Tties Of articles of 45.S per cent.
In the list of the articles of farm con-
sumption there is reduction in price
I'm two Of the articles named. while the
increase in the other articles ranges much
Riower than that of the farm products,
Pthe average increase for the entire series
|Df articles of farm consumption being
40 per cent.
Thus we see that in ten representative
articles of farm consumption, the aver
age increase has been 10 per cent, while
in the ten equally representative articles
of farm production, the increase has been
45.S per cent.
Now to take the single item of farm
Iproduction upon which the fault-fnders
Foase their arguments and by which they
Hmeasure all articles of farm consump-
(tion, namely, wheat. How do you sup
|pose it happened that they have selected
this particular article wheat" by which
ITO measure everything else? There is
corn it's acreage in the United States
an 1899 was practically double that of
wheat, its production four times as many
1ad so1
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DEMOCRATS KICK AT
FARMERS PROSPERITY.
Farm Products Advance More than the
Goods that Farmers Have to Buy
at the Stores.
EVIDENT CAUSE OF MORTGAGE cANcEL1NG
Since Mckinley Has Been at the Helm Farm Products Have
Advanced As Per Cent, While Articles Bought by
Farmers Increased Only 10 Per Cent.

The Democratic fault-finders base their
efforts to create discomfort among the
farmers in 1900 upon different plane
from that of 1896. Then their complaint
was that the prices Of farm products
were too low Now they complain that
the farmers are too prosperous and the
prices of their products are too high.
Mr.. Bryan was nominated in Chicago
on July 10, 1896, and again at Kansas
City on July 5, 1900. Let us take the
quotations OF the first week in July,
1896, and July, 1900, the respective dates
are brought as nearly as practicable to
the dates of his respective nominations.
Nobody will question the fairness of
selecting wheat, corn, oats, lard, pork,
beef, cotton, wool, hay and butter as
ten representative articles of farm pro-
.duction, nor will anybody question the
fairness Of selecting sugar, tea, coffee,
rice, petroleum, leather. cotton cloth, tin
plate, sisal from which binder twine is
Tade) and Bessemer pig iron (the basis
of all agricultural requirements in iron
and steel MS ten representative articles
Of farm consumption.
The tables which follow show the
prices Of the ten articles of farm produc
tion and of an equal number OF articles
Of farm consumption at the dates named
and the percentage of increase in each
article, also the average increase, at the
81ate Of Mr.. Bryan's second nomination
Jas compared with the prices at the date
kof his first nomination:
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III we are defeated in this
campaign, there Is nothing be-
fore the people but four years
more of hard times and greater
agitation.
Do you think we have drained
the cup of sorrow to it's dregs?
No, my friends, you cannot set
limit to the present hard
times.
business men complain that
business conditions are bad. L
warn them that these condf-
tions cannot be improved by
following up the policies of
the Republican party.
The Republican party pro-
duces a policy that makes hard
times. All those who love hard
times ought to vote for the
Republican ticket, and all
those who are tired of hard
times have got to vote the
Democratic ticket, IL they
would expect any relief.
These are hard times. There
Will be harder times IL the gold
standard continues.
III you ask how the gold STAN
dard affects the farmer, we
tell you'that the gold standard
lowers the price of products of
him who sells without lower
Ing his taxes or debts. If you
ask how the gold standard af-
fects the laboring men, we re-
ply that 1t destroys the oppor-
tunity for labor, multiplles the
number of idle men, and fills
our streets with those anxious
for work, who cannot find the
opportunity. The gold STAN
dard, by increasing idIeness,
brings poverty to those who
ought to have enough and to
spare.
The gold standard means a
dearer dollar and falling
prices, and falling prices mean
hard times.
If we have a gold standard,
prices are as certain to tall as
a stone which is thrown into
the air.
An American dollar will buy
two Mexican dollars and also
about two bushels of wheat at
the same time. There was a
time when an American dollar
would buy only one Mexican
dollar, and then an American
dollar would buy only one
busbel of wheat. II the time
ever comes when an American
dollar Will buy three Mexican
dollars, then 1t will buy three
bushels of wheat.
You know that with the
slightest prospect of foreign
war we would suspend gold
payments, and go either to a
silver or to a paper basis at
once.
Until you have bimetaIIism
milihands will stand on the
corner and wonder when the
gold standard will bring them
good times.
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CHORUS.
CHORUS.
On Foreign Trade.

We must know just what other people
want before we can supply their wants.
We must understand exactly how to
reach them with least expense if we
would enter into the most advantageous
business relations with them.-William
MckinleY.
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be measured, was, on July 8, 1885, in
the New York market 64Ac per bushel,
and on July 8, 1900, was SSc per bushel.
Now let us follow the same general
plan adopted in the other comparisons
and by selecting ten principal articles of
farm consumption, obtain their relative
prices in the New York market in 1896
and 1900, at the dates nearest Mr.. Bry-
ans nomination, and thus find out what
quantity of each bushel Of wheat, at the
prices named at these two dates, would
have bought. The articles of farm con-
sumption selected for this comparison are
equally representative with those OF farm
production above named, namely, sugar,
coffee, petroleum, rice, salt, leather, cot
ton cloths, starch, mackerel and cut nails.
The authority for the prices is the same
as that already utilized-the bureau of
statistics.
In every case the quantity of these
representative articles of farm con-
sumption which a busheI of wheat
would buy in 1900 is greater than a
bushel of wheat could have bought
in 1906.
Purchasing power of one bushel of
| wheat at the date of Mr.. Bryan's first
| and second nominations, respectively, in
ten different articles of ordinary farm
consumption, basing the price of each
article upon that quoted in the New York
i market at the respective dates:
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These statements are all official and
may be verified from the public records
of the bureau of statistics available in
any standard library. The figures and
prices in every case are given, and every
man can determine whether the asser-
tions of the Democratic fault-finders and
prophets of evil" in 1900 are any more
reliable than they were in 1906.
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bushels and its actual value, as estimated
by the Department of Agriculture, nearly
Hiouble that of wheat. Why did they
pot adopt corn as standard of measure
4nent?
Again, there is the item of provisions,
NJ which we are the worlds greatest pro-
nucer. Why not measure by that?
III Then there is wool, in the production
m which the farmer is greatly interested
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7rh of
andse shew
of increas i'm Ooxer1s
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INSTEAD,
VIZ HAVE
HAD -FOUR
YEARS OF
UHPRECE-
DENTED
PROSPERITY.
THERE
HAVF RyFN
NO DRECS
IN THE
CUP.
GOLD
STANDARD,
GOOD
TIMES
AND ALL f:
THAT F.:
MR.. BRYAN T;
ThUNllOLu !
THAT WE /;
SHOULD :
NOT HAVE,
WE HAvE.
ENJOYED.
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Proof of the Pudding
In the Eating Thereof.
Is99:
7,65s,4i4

: THESE
: ASSERTIONS
: WERE
: MADE
( -FOUR
: YEARS
: AGO
: BY
: MR.. BRYAN,
: WHO
! NOW
: ASKS
: The
: AMERICAN
: PEOPLE
. INTRUST
: THEIR
! GOVERNMENT
! To
: HIS
: DIRECTION
( FOR
. -FOUR
! YEARS.
"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-01-17
Dialect in ENGLAND.

"Lonnon," or rather 'Lunnon," was
The usual pronunciation in Oxfordshire
aud Buckinghamshire when | was a
boy there. fifty years ago. 1t was only
In reading from book or paper that the
d" obtained recognition. Among elder
ly people many other words, when they
came to be read, had a different pronun-
ciation from that which prevailed in
ordinary conversation. For example.
in reading, have" became ''hayve."
are" was air" said" was turned
INTO "sayd." and the ed of a parti-
ciple was sounded as separate sylla-
BILE. Colloquially a man might say,
I'VE have err'd and stray'd "
ike lost ship" but at church he would
swell out the phrase to I'VE hayve
erred and strayed like lost
sheep" So, also, the common remark.
Il sed. How ar you?" became in read.
ing aloud. Il say'd, How air you?" No
1oubt these peculiarities have been
noted before; If so, l have not been
fortunate enough to meet with the rec
ord.-Notes and Queries.
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Where Eeuds Generate.

THE typographical situation to which
Kentucky and Tennessee were relega-
ted in the first half of the century Is
the situation that still encircles and en-
thrones them. Being neither hot nor
cold of temperature, they became the
scenes of impact between the North
and the South, the battle e-grounds of the
,ivil war. They still nurture the abnor-
NAL to some extent in the feuds be-
:ween the Bakers and the Howards, the
Griffins and the Phillpots, because they
are not inviting to the iron makers, the
wood workers and tie general factors
Of the North, nor entirely habitable to
the people who lave in the suns of the
South. Their characteristics extend
over into Arkansas, which, too. 10
rugged, and has been more rugged in
some Of its people. Yet Kentucky
makes the gallants of American his
tory, because 1t Is on the border; and
Tennessee affords rural homes, which
have been exemplars for the romancer
and passions for the dramatist, while it
lnstalls in the gubernatorial chair men
who write verse for their own inaugural
odes Tennessee lies picturesQuely be-
tween the moonshinsr and tie sugar
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-01-17
Eject of Altitude.

Perhaps in no State Of the Union has
climate so much to do with the charac.
ter of the people as in Colorado. is the
contention of writer in Ainslee's. He
says in part:
Go into Colorado; climb the long as.
cent from the level Of the Missouri, and
then as you emerge from the train into
the handsomely improved streets. and
among the unsurpassed brick and stone
residences of Denver, feel your head
swim with the lofty altitude and the
rarefied air; then realize that the
miners went on a mile further into the
air. that they are working and taking
out millions of dollars of gold to the
present day mile higher in the air, at
Cripple Creek, at Leadvflle and a
dozen other places; it will make YOU
pause to think what exaltation there is
in dwelling there always, what staying
powers the pioneers must have had.
Wait day or SO, until the vertigo has
passed away, and the exhilaratiou
comes to you that always comes when
you have climbed a mountain and stood
upon Its top and gaZed out over a wide
world that expands below you; then
you win begin to feel that electric, that
nervous surcharge, that indomitable
undiscourageable, almost towering
spirit Of elevation and still further ele.
walton that makes Colorado almost the
hveliest, the most irrepressible, the
most determined element in the Amer.
lean body. social and polite"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-01-17
BATTLE WITH A BURGLAR.

Girl Tackles q Midnight Intruder and
Forces Him to Take Flight.
Chester can boast of another heroine
one whose brave conduct in fighting q
burglar prevented the house of sick
friend from being robbed. Her name
is Miss Helen Louderback, aged IS
years, daughter Of Prof. Louderback.
Of Chester. Miss Louderback was
nursing her sick friend, Miss Alice Pier,
son, of Ninth and Main streets. Chester,
Pa. The latter has been sick for
months and her friend has been living
with her in her Chester home for more
than two months. Miss Louderback
retired at 10 o'clock on Wednesday
night. She sleeps in the same room
with the invalid. She had been in bed
only an hour when she heard suspi-
cious noise in an outer shed.
The young woman made her way
down stairs to investigate. She went
to the kitchen, put the lamp on the
table, and proceeded to the outer shed
in the dark. She opened the door and
in the dim light Of the moon she saw
the form Of q man. Almost at the same
instant she was seized by both arms in
q grip that would have made any other
woman scream at the top Of her voice.
On the contrary, she pluckily resisted
and during the desperate struggle that
ensued managed to free herself. Then
with all the force she possessed she
struck the intruder full in the face.
This unexpected attack from the young
and fragile girl shattered the would-be
burglars nerve. The next instant he
took a header through the shed win
dow. Just as he turned from her the
young girl sprang after him and sue
ceeded in landing another blow on his
cheek. AS soon as the man was out of
the window he disappeared.
Miss Louderback proved herself dif-
ferent from other women again. In
stead of spreading an alarm she fur
ther displayed her GOODNESS by re-enter
ing the house. locking up the premises,
and retiring again for the night. Re
Gently she related her thrilling expert
ence in her own quiet way, and ex-
planned her reason for saying nothing
about it before retiring, saying she did
not want to alarm her invalid friend.
whose physical condition she thought
might not have survived such a shock.
The modest little heroine shows indis-
marks and bruises. Her arms are Sc
verely swollen and scratched from the
burglars clutches.
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She DitA,t RecoRntze Him.

A parson who occasionally breaches
In South London arrived to take the
place Of the vicar. who had been called
away on account of some family be-
reavement and found an old and rather
asthmatic lady struggling up the steps
which led to the front door. He cour-
teously gave her his arm to assist her.
and when they reached the top the
dame asked him if he knew who was
going to preach. "Mr. So-and-So," re-
piled the parson, giving his own name
"Oh. dear me" exclaimed the old lady.
help me down again, if you please.
I'd rather listen to the groaning and
creaking Of a windmill than sit under
him." and she prepared to descend. The
parson gently assisted her down stairs,
and sighfully remarked, as he bade her
good-by, Il wouldn't go in either il
weren't the prea eacher."-London Tele.
graph
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-01-17
DIFFICULT CHINESE LANGUAGE,
Lack of Alpha bet and Mum Der of Char
acters Distinguishing Features.

Lack of Alpha bet and Mum Der of Char
acters Distinguishing Features.
The oldest spoken language now ex-
lstent upon the earth is the Chinese.
1t has an enormous list of words-the
estimate Of the number Of characters
ranges from 25,OOO to 10000. The Ian
guage has no alphabet. Each character
represents a complete idea, and cOrre
spends, practically, to the English
word. 1t is written in columns from
top to bottom of the page, and from
right to left. A Chinese book ends
where an English book begins. Writing
Is done with a fine camel's hair brush
and india ink.
The lack of an alphabet and the num-
ber of characters make the labor Of
learning to read Chinese burdensome.
Each character must be learned by it.
self. When the student has mastered
5000 characters the succeeding thou
sands must be learned in the same way.
Those which he has mastered furnish
no assistance to learning the others,
save as practice may have given him a
certain quickness in perceiving the Pc
culiar form which distinguishes each
character from its fellows.
The grammar of the language is so
simple as to he almost non-existent.
The same word serves indifferently as
a noun, verb. adverb or adjective.
Moods, lenses, persons, gender and
number are lacking; there are neither
conjugations, nor declensions, nor aux
iliary verbs. The few Chinese who
have attempted to master the English
tongue regard its grammatical con-
struction as clumsy and full of pitfalls.
The Chinese characters give no clew
to the pronunciation, and no amount of
book study will enable a foreigner to
speak the language. That ability must
be acquired from the lips Of a living
teacher. assisted by months Of drill, q
quick ear, and great fiexibility of the
vocal organs. Even the most faithful
EFFORT fails to enable many foreigners
to speak Chinese correctly.