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endeavor to make every dollar received go further by reducing administrative ex- penses. The machinery of mission work will receive in New York careful consider ation.
 Let Bankhead succeed Pettus, says the Tuscaloosa Sun, and Brandon will succeed Bankhead. This is a very pretty pro- gramme, and the only obstacle it encoun- ters is the fact that General Pettus will be his own successor, and don't you forget it.
 John w. Gates will have to manufacture his own vindication, and yet he probably told the truth when he said his company could not market it's productions at ab- normal prices.
 MT Quay's lack of a vote was as con elusive and damaging as the lack of a dozen would have been. He is now up against the Pennsylvania voters them selves.
 The Chicago Tribune thinks there will be less bumptious confidence in the next attempt to pull the senatorial chair out from under the Hon. John T. Morgan. Sunday elections in Cuba have been abol- ished. The island has been promised in- dependence, but in the meanwhile it must do as Anglo-Saxons do. 
 Datf, ;. day. He has taken up golf and recrea- tion, and is becoming skillful in the game that statesmen affect
 Queen Lil is about to leave the main land with a fixed resolve never to return to it. It is feared this resolution will yet slip a cog or two
 A blue pencil did excellent work when it cut down Senator Hoars recent Philip pine speech from eleven hours to about three.
 Cuba is to hold municipal elections on Saturday, June 16, and they will be the first real elections ever held on. the isl- and
 Kentucky has elected two sets of dele gates to the Philadelphia convention. She sees double and acts up to what she sees.
  In order to get good seats at the May festival it is necessary to buy season tick cts, the sooner the better the seats. Senator Hanna may be as well as he says he is, but he is not a bit weller than MT. Bryan, who is camping on his trail. Senator Tom Platt has been delegated to select a New York running mate, and he is trying to draft Teddy.
 Season tickets for the May festival are the liveliest commodity in the Birming- ham market at present.
 The midways of the Paris exposition eX- cell even those of Chicago or the state fair. MT. Bailey of Texas is also a proselyte to the primary or direct voting system. MT. Gates of Chicago is nearly as popu lar as MT. Alger once was.
 The British generals are having a Samp- son-Schley sort of time.
 The hinese minister has, of course, yellow automobile. The power of woman is behind the Dewey movement.
 Mafcking has held out beyond all anti cpatons.
 No babies or cigars are named Petit grew"
 The Turk is as slow as he is unspeak- able.
 Gatacre at least lives to fight another day.
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Gatacre at least lives to fight another day.
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Season tickets for the May festival are the liveliest commodity in the Birming- ham market at present
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Mafcking has held out beyond all anti cipations.
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The Turk is as slow as he is unspeak- al
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The midways of the Paris exposition ex- cell even those of Chicago or the state fair.
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The hinese minister has, of course, a yellow automobile.
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MT. Gates of Chicago is nearly as popu- lar as MT. Alger once was.
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The British generals are having a Samp son-Schley sort of a time.
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Mr. Bailey of Texas is also a proselyte to the primary or direct voting system.
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The power of woman is behind tn Dewey movement.
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THE TRUST MENACE.
Frnm Ihc View YORK JanrnsI.

But am not willing merely o" stop rNt"r
liou 70 my mind the greatest objection to
the Trust is not thar /, raises prices That l.
bad. hut Their. Is something worse. Ny great
est objection tu the Trust Is that the Trust is
closing the door Of opportunity against "ur
Young men and condemniug The hnNS uf this
country 10 perpetual clrrsship. To-day We
are approaching "a period OF industrial dc,I,at-
i,a, when "a few men Nlii ynirnlr acu great
branch 1T industry. when every person who
bays finished products viii buy ~ lur Trust
prIc,.. when every person whn furnishes raw
material maternal will furnish It al the Trust
puc,, aud when every man who works Tar
wages will work for thc wages fixed toy the
Trusts: and when that condition Is complete
sad the Republican, party not only does not
Not stop 20. but encourages u-Uheu that
condition Is complete, then hundreds thons-
Aui- ~ tailoring m-j,. instead at addressing
their ,rl.-al Co She Almighty. sal have To
pray % The Trust ma4unirS. GIVE rs thus DAY
oar ,lail, Lr,.l Wbru IS man who has
worked wears u making himself proficient al
>.l.ur. work has buJ enc employer at. Whru he
losses -mplu,msut under that enc man, he
mast ~ ,ut audi commence lite over, with up
advantage FROM ail his experience he be-.
comes th. sert 90 the uau Who employs hun,
and IT he ,howi hsppru la get employment
Nth suaa "a l.kuaan syndicate, that syudt-
.-,. ,,4gl threaten fa close down II h. refuses
g. vote. IA, lhr .,ttdlsg,s dictates tn him.
WILLIAM !. BRYAN.
Madison Square GaTieu.
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January. February and March the lake
level Ma just about what it Wa IN DE
c,lnber uf 1899. altbv,uh each dly re
r.rl shows variation ui several inches.
Ga January there Sas a variation Ia
the lake level If one t,-ot From Febru-
ary II 10 February ; in 1894 the lake
level at the iaut ct Randolph street ryse a
httlr over tNo feet
Th,-,. daily huctuatiou, Of from ,lx inch
e. t. two feet are accounted for. eugI-
uecr- believe, by wind, and By bapmetrle
pressure 4 strong east Wind will easily
rli>r ,be suriuc,. OF the lake here two feet.
Again, it The atmospheric pressure all over
the surface Of Lake Huron l. suddenly re
iuced the water will rush through the
straits from Lake Michigan, and Huron
will rise, my,teriau>ly, perhaps On a per
fectly calm day
Engineers 90 the office Of the Drainage
Board estimate that # 40 rainfall were to
reach Lake Michigan. aud the maximum
flow Il 300. 00O cubic feet of water were
drawn Of through the drainage canal, 1t
would take little over eight years TO
reduce the level ot Lake Michigan one
iout A. a matter of fact, the annual ram
fall always produces waste overflow past
Niagara which greatly exceeds that drawn
Of by the drainage canal If the water
were not taken through the canal 1t would
20 over Niagara during spring ireshets.
In general engineers agree that the physics
of Lake Michigan and of all the great
4 lakes has never been studied accurately,
and that the mysterious movements OF the
immense inland seas offer Il comparatively
unworked field for useful and scientific re
. saart.l
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Some Republicans are opposing Mr.. Bryan
because he is honest aud therefore dangerous.
This is something new Ia politics. man
should not be elected TO office because he is
honest. Do the Republicans who oppose
Mr. Bryan because he is honest mean To i'm
ply that Mr. Mckinley is not2 That would
seem to be the inference
And why should an honest man be danger
Gus? Every man whose opinion is worth at
tention comedies that Mr.. Bryan is able, AMI
being both able and honest, it is difficult TO un
derstandwhy honest people should oppose him
Mr.. Bryan, we concede will be danger
Gus to the further encroachments of the
Trusts He will be dangerous to the de
sigas of the ImperiaIisls aud commercialsts.
He will be dangerous to that class of states
men, like Thurston, who cast aside the Con
stitulion as being written by the candle Ugh
of the eighteenth century, and TO Speaker
/ Henderson, who lavors Mckinley, because
Mckinley iavors the Hamilton idea of stron!
government.
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Level of the Great Lakes.
From the cnieaso la,erooau.


Day in and day ont the lake level
changes. aside from those caused by the
winds No man knows why and No man
can reckon the times aud the places OF
these lake tides 80 CONSTANT are the
fluctuations that a general fall of three
inche. a year .yer the entire surface "t
Lake Michigan aud Lake llurun would
not he appreciate in the ordinary SCI OF
GAUGE readings The automatic gauge
shows an oscillation If the lake every
twenty minutes. amounting sometimes To
between two aud three feet. In lso6,
after the water had run down suddenly SIX
feet in Chicago harbor, an attempt was
made to account for these oscillations on a
scientific basis Seven gauges were set
about the lake and read at five minute
intervals The upshot of 1t was that some
OF the observers decided that the phenom
eDon was due to the swing Of the lake M
its bed from shore to shore. Others did
not think this reasonable but had no bet
ter theory to advance. More remarkable
still. it was found that one day ohServa-
ton showed a general lowering over the
whole Of Lake Michigan Of several inches,
As early as 1868 Father Marquette took
note IF changes in the lake levels. lie
asked the indians about it, and they said
that Lake Michigan swung from high to
low and back again in fourteen years, OF
that every seven years the water run the
eamut. Baron La Hontan, in 1859, made
some tolerably extensive notes on the va
riaiions in lake levels He wrote that in
twenty four hours once at the northern
extremity Of Lake Michigan he saw the
lake rise three feet aud fall three feet in
the day. He was the first to observe the
flow Of water from Lake Huron to Lake
Michigan, or from Michigan to Huron,
which is now acknowledged.
eve cast our fishing nets in the straits,
says the doughty old explorer, and fol
three DAYS the current sucked them to the
eastward so strongly that we could with
difficulty haul them from the water. Then
for two days the current set steadily to-
ward the west and carried our nets in that
direction
Stories of mysterious foundations by the
lake, of times when the beach widened
and a great fringe was added to the sane
along the shore, have always been curren
among Indian tribes. From Marquette
down to engineers and seamen of toda.
observation has confirmed the legends. A
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Mr.. Blakeney as a Reformer.
Fma she T,us,a l--us.ur

fa-sA sue AAHfFs'a5 -4'i4rt- tAH
In the campaign Of | $50 Mr. Albert \
Blakensy. the Cotton Trust Caudi,la,. for
[ Congress irun thu. district, va, a caudilat-
IN County Commissioner lie wa, swept
into uiicc by the Republican ,idal saveui
that year. Daring that campaign Nc
Blakeuey earned ia hl, inside poekrl a
pamphlet entitled the voters y.iIechi>m
which wa distributed throughout the oouu
&, a, a campaign document Ia lt vas a
severe arrai-ument IT the prmocralic party
Tor a debt ii about $50 0u0 which vas
oecasloned b. terrible flood several year,
before, when the county lost number Of
bridges, the Democratic Buart ct CuntuiS
,inner, believing It 90 be their duty tu create
this debt aud rebuild the bridgrs rather
than subject the tax payers "a the Incun-
yenience Of DONG without thrm until the
next annual levy
Mr. Blakeney At every Republican mass
meeting In the county severely criticised
aud condemned the Democratic Board for
this debt, aud at every meeting wound up
has speech by saying As a peruration
The Republican ship Of State that will
start for Annapolis after the election, with
Governor Lowndes ON board, will unload
part Of her crew at Towson | will he
among them and | will show the people
what becomes Of their money
IL Is unfortunately a fact for Baltimore
county that a part Of the crew did stop at
Towson and that Mr. Blakeney was one OF
them He was elected chairman OF the
County Commissioners Board, aud duml-
mated it, which was composed Of two Re
pubEcaus and one hold-oyer Democrat
| One of the first things done by the Re
publican Board was TO select an expert ac-
cUuntaut to 20 over the books of the county
aud report the exact debt. Thi, VA, done,
and after lengthy examination AT eon>id-
cradle cost to the county, the report showed
a debt of S92, 567.67.
Mr. Blakeney then had full swing to
show how As a Retormer he could get rid
| of this debt and run the county during lis
| term on the economical lines promised in
his speech. Without going into particu
| lars, an examination of facts and figures in
| the Commissioners Office shows his term TO
have been charactzed by the most reck
less, useless and extravagant expenditure of
the taxpayers money; aud when the cleo
tons of 1899 came along the taxpayers
were astonished aud shocked at the start
ling disclosures made from an examination
of the four years of Republican rule.
Instead of paying the comparatively small
debt which they found when coming into
office, they had created the enormous and
Unprecedented debt of 1922, 500 81 and it
was not necessary to secure an expert to
discover the amount for S2S5, 900 of it
was il notes outstanding and payable at the
Towson National Bank, and S37 500. 81
was in bills accepted by the Board and
which they did not have the money to pay :.
This gigantic debt has never been ex-
planned by Mr.. Blakeney. 1t is needless
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Sault Ste Mare General Dearborn no,e~i
an rbb aud ios 1T one and ouc half feet
81 in tuu aud "a half hour,
Lake Erie has been known 90 rise FROM
seven Ia twenty feet Ia a fcg hour \
few wears ago At Cleveland the lake sud
denly r,~e tise feet Ia lsSs Lake Niehl-
.an rushed up To- "a height Of seven iesI
above the ordinary level Of Milwaukee.
Ia that same year the water fell ~iS feet
in Chicago hlrhor and somewhat less IA
the lake within few minutes High
ma>trd schuoners careened Ia upr side aud
the biz poles Knocked together confu,cily
Il Looked as it the Chicago river would be
, drained dry in half AN hour, and the eX-
perience has never been forgotten among
the Chicago sealnen la lSlS, it Is SAID
the same thing occurred
Ia addition to these sudden aud lneXpll
cable changes in the lake level there Is a
tolerably well defined periodical movement
of the surface extendin. over . number Of
/ wears. Sometimes il l. claimed thar this
movement required seven years, sometimes
ten years. Os,ian Guthrie and other, de
/ clare that the movement Is not periodic
| but that it usually extends over from two
\ Ia ten years. Then there l. an annual
rise Of the lake from January to June,
caused by the ordinary spring rainfall,
which runs the level Of the lake up about
I one foot higher IL June than in January
/ For thirty years cunsecutively the spring
rise was found to be fourteen and one hall
inches \ series of heavy spring rain
/ falls will raise the level of the lake three
OF four feet above datum for number Of
years. and series Of droughts viii reduce
it correspondingly,
Beginning with 1917, OSsian Guthrie
has kept a record of the fluctuations of the
level of Lake Michigan. In lS47, as ha,
been stated, Lake Michigan went very low.
From 1917 to 1859, with occasional
lapses, it crept up nearly three feet above
datum. From $50 to SOB it fell theu
it swung back two and one half feet above
datum in 1876, ran down in 1879, going
up abruptly in the spring of 1880. From
1850 to 1856 the lake level rose tire,
feet. 1856 to 1892 it fell about four feet
In the spring of 1898 it rose fifteen in
ches in a few days time Since lS9;
the lake has been going down, and durins
most Of the last fall and this spring it ha'
been below the 947 mark Today, OWNS
to the usual rise from rainfalls the lake il
higher than it was before the opening 0
the drainage canal. Figures at the United
States engineer Office show that durin.
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VOL. XXXVI.--NO. 1.

they never were before by the trusts He
talks about national honor when he has
rcPudiated the proclamation of General
Miles to Porto Rico and has deliberately
tricked the unhappy people of that island
into colonial servitude. He talks about
liberty when he refuses to utter a word of
sympathy for the noble Beers lie talks
about good faith when he secured Senator
Wellington vote to confirm the treaty
with Spain by solemn official promise
which he violated in cold blood. Senator
Wellington has told the shameful story in
public again and again Mr. Mckinley
talks about opportunity for workingmen
when he is doing everything in his power
in return for cash contributions to his
own campaign fund-to protect the trusts
which are converting thousands of small
business men and manufacturers into hired
agents and clerks; making it impossible
for working man to hope for an indie
pendent proprietorship, and keeping wages
down while the price of living is forced up.
~" C''u Il SoOu INepuDlciin WHO De-
hcyes in Lincoln and in the humane poll
cies which once made his party glorious,
vote for Mr. Mckinley, the weak and
sordid servant of organized greed and cor
ruption? DO manhood and patriotism and
sincerity and courage count for nothing?
Think these facts over They are facts.
They are facts Of record Any citizen can
verify them for himself
What has the Republican party to hope
for if Mr. Mckinley is re elected What
has the country to hope for?
The defeat of Mr.. McKiHley means the
return of the Republican party to its old
leaders and its Old policies 1t means that
men like Thomas Il. Reed, benjamin Har-
rison. Senator Edmunds, Ex-Governor
Boutwell, and others, who despise and
loathe the corrupt and un-American rule
Of the Mckinley Hanna gang, will once
mere take an active part in the responsible
management of the party.
Mr. Hanna idea of Republicans this
year may prove to be grave mistake
They don think; they just vote.
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WHY SHOULD REPUBLICANS
SUPPORT MCKINLEY?

Destiny Is he snLtcrt@gc q hc nrcr-
teJraic, ,cho, tdcLing the courage to oppose
e,3or, seeks some plausible eccnse to, sup
portiag Il. Ma BRYAN.
Why should any really serious Republi-
can vote for Mr.. Mckinley?
After all. it is the supreme duty of a
citizen to be an American first and a par
tisln second Parties are merely the in
strumcnis through which the individuals
composing the nation work ont their collec-
tive will The man who consents to a
national policy against which his conscience
reyoIts because he is not morally brave
enough to step across party lines, does not
deserve good government.
Why should Republican vote for Mr..
Mckinley?
Is it not fact that This weak agent Of
stronger and more brutality dangerous men
has forfeited the confidence and respect
even of the members of his own party?
There have been more scandals in the
administration of MIR. Mckinley than any
other President. He has made the White
Ho-sc the headquarters of the corrupt
trus, lobby He has made the White
House the stronghold of tariff jobbery.
Ii j. notorious that he has mortgased and
sold the highest offices in his rift lie
has protected the men who robbed the War
Department during our war with Spain
lie has grossly deceived the public about
the mismanaged war in the Philippines
and ha, closed al channels of investigation
into the wholesale army frauds He has
even allowed his own brother to be the go
between for army contractors and the Gov
ernmeut-a service rendered for cash His
whole administration is tainted by fraud
and incapdeity
Are these statements not true Are
they not confirmed by plain aud unmistak
able evidence? \ man does not have to
be Democrat in order to understand the
utter unftuess of Mr. Mckinley for the
office he holds
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Mr. Mckinley has been openly and con
tnuously under the control of Mr. Hanna,
who secured his seat in the United States
Senate by notorious bribery, His example
has done more to discourage honesty and
courage in American politics than that OF
any man of his time in either party.
Why should any patriotic Republican
vote to keep Mr. Mckinley in the high
office he has perverted and dishonored ? It
is reasonable question and deserves a
reasonable answer.
Mr.. Mckinley is at heart a free silver
man. There was no more passionate adj
yocate of free silver than he until the
movement to nominate him for President
bcuau. Even in 1892 he wrote a
letter 10 the Farmers Alliance OF Stark
county, Ohio, saying that he favored the
coinage Of all the silver product Of the
United States into money He penned
that letter when he was a candidate Tor
Congress. He denounced Grover tleye-
land for opposing free silver. But when
he saw his chance for Presidential nom
ination he changed his convictions almost
as swiftly as he ate his own words about
our plain duty in Porto Rico and for
chile annexation being criminal aggres-
sion in the Philippines.
How is the measure of a mans 5 worth
or unworth to be determined if not by his
acts ? Can man descend to the level OF
cheat, can he betray every confidence
reposed in him, can he mortgage his office
and surrender his very soul to mere bucks
tiers, and still impose himself upon the
people ?
Mr.. Mckinley utters high sounding
speeches about the flag and at the same
time violates every principle that the flag
represents. He coins glittering phrases
about prosperity when he knows that the
masses of the people are being squeezed as
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Solicitor.
CHAs. y. FINK. Soiiei
EXECUTORS SALE
IL OF A
VALUABLE FARM,
Near Pleasant Valley, Carroll county, Nj.

Near Pleasant Valley, Carroll county, Nd
By virtue of the authority contained IN the
last will and testament of l.. Jerome Myers,
and an order Of the Orphans Court OF Carroil
county, the undersigned viii offer at Public
Sale. on the premises, on
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20ih. 1900,
al ! o. clock, p. M, ali that farm containing
1856 ACRES, More or Less,
situated II miles from Pleasant Valley. in
Carroll county. Nd, adjoining the lands OF
Jacob Study, Theo. Myers, Theo. King, and
Others The improvements con
sist of 2-story Frame Dwell a az
ing House, good Bank Barn, 1ssFhISA
two diaries, two tenant Houses, zs5rL1aE1sssElEzz
Hog House, sheds, carriage house, : large
corn cribs, blacksmith shop and other out
buildings. Nearly every field has water Tor
cattle There is a fine new orchard Of apple
peach, cherry aud ounce trees, raspberues,
black berries, currants, gooseberries aud grapes,
which we're planted under contract which Will
be explained at the sale. Timber prepared
for a new dwelling house will be sold with The
farm. About 5 acres of good timber on the
arm.
This is one of the finest dairy farms ia Car.
roll county.
abogt 4 miles from the farm. near the Stone
road, and adjoining the lands Of August Sitlig
and others.
Terms of Sale:-One-i cash on the day
of sale, or upon the ratification thereof, aud the
residue in two equal payments, the one pay
able in six months and the other IN twelve
months from the day of sale, the credit pay
ments to be secured by the bonds or single
bills Of the purchaser, with sufficient security
bearing interest from the day OF sale; or al
cash. at the option Of the purchaser.
SUSANNA C. WILSON. ExecutriX.
At the same time and place will offer lo'
sale a lot of Farming Implements aud olhel
Personal Property.
sep-22.5 SUSANNA G. WILSON.