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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1901-05-25
TRIUMPH OF M,KINLEY.
Policies of the President Have Come
to BE Approved All over the
Country. .

1t has been the good fortune OF
President Mckinley at every stage
of his administration to demonstrate
the essential unity of the country.
He did it when the tariff passed in
the first year of his administration
and won southern support. When, .
year ago, the gold standard came to
be placed by fresh legislation on q
sure and certain foundation the bust
ness sentiment of the south responded
to his policy. Expansion has had
throughout southern support. AT no
time has the solid sense of the south
sympathized with northern democrat
ic opposition to the extension of the
territory and the expansion of the
power of the United States. Lastly,
President Mckinley has discouraged
any prospective action toward the
south when the census demanded q
new apportionment.
All this has been known. II has be-
come visible in the trip the president is
now taking. For a week he has been
passing through the south. He has
spoken daily. AS president, he was GER
tain to be received with respect. His
personal popularity insured cordial
welcome. The prosperity which his
administration has brought prompted
popular enthusiasm and filled men and
cities with a sense of growing wealth,
enlarging trade, increasing manufac-
lures and all the fruits Of sound money,
protection and expansion.
N But more than this has come. Be
ginning with the broad and general ut
rterances of common loyalty and
general and generous pride in our
country and its swelling tide of pros
porous peace, President Mckinley in
his speech at New Orleans sounded the
wider and higher note of the essential
unity of the land at the present time.
All business men are to-day agreed on
the gold standard. All manufacturers
want larger foreign trade. Every
port and every river desires internal
improvements. Neither capital nor la,
Dor, north or south, wishes current
prosperity disturbed by tariff agita'
ton. Any objection which may once
have existed to expansion in certain
quarters is disappearing before the
manifest success of this policy.
Political differences still exist. Par
ty division continues. Nothingis more
desirable for the best interests of the
land than strong, honest, sincere
united democratic opposition. Only
thus can the party in power be kept to
its best work. Nothing can be worse
for our national politics than an oppo
sition split into impotent factious
fragments. But on those issues OF
which rest material prosperity, like the
gold standard, the great and over
whelming majority stands to-day
ready to have an end of controversy
and call the question closed. Presi
dent McKinley's trip has gone farther
to demonstrate this than any event fc,
generation.-Phila Press.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1901-05-25
AMERICAN GOVERNMENT.
Remarkable Progress of the Admin
istratiOn I'm Insulating Civil
Rule I'm the Philippines.

Despite the predictions of the little
band of irreconcilable anti-imperial-
lists, the American government has
made remarkable progress in pacify-
ing the Philippines and instituting
civil rule in the islands. The Louis
Vile Courier-Jo urnal. which certainly
cannot be classed among the admir-
ers of the Mckinley administration,
is nevertheless moved to express
great satisfaction over what has been
achieved there, as well as in the APP
parently near approach of good un-
Outstanding in Cuba. 1t remarks:
"The surrender of Gen. Tinio, Gen.
Alejandrno and divers and numerous 9TH
err Filipino leaders, so soon after Aguin-
aldos proclamation calling for peace, gives
assurance of a speedy end to the troubles
In the Philippines. AS there also seems to
be an impending collapse of the organized
opposition to the Plat amendment In Cuba.
the result may be described as a complete
victory so far for the United States insular
policies. The conduct of this country has
been characterized throughout by kindli-
ness, forbearance and such regard for the
real welfare of the citizens of these de-
tendencies that any other termination
would have been monstrous. We say de-
tendencies, though Cuba, upon which we
lay no ultimate claim, Is included, for Cuba
Is essentially a ward of the United States
and must always continue so. notwith-
standing the islands future Independent
government"
The Courier-Journal attributes this
success to the remarkable faculty
which the Anglo-Saxon has for get
ting on successfully with men of
other races.
The American people have enough
Of the Anglo-Saxon temperament, i'm
proved and modified by certain inner
emit national characteristics, to make
them at least as considerate and eff
ficient administrators as the English.
And they are showing their capacity
in the fresh and novel responsibilities
that have come to them. They have
had but few months in which to
show the metal of which they are
made as guardians of new depend
encies, and the record in that short
space Of time is one of which they
have no reason to be ashamed.-Troy
Times.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1901-05-25

UIn recent issue Of the Commoner
Mr.. Bryan said that .if the production
of gold increases to such an extent as
to furnish volume of money that will
keep pace with population and BUSH
ness the restoration of bimetallism
will not be necessary" This admission
would seem to indicate that Mr.. Bryan
Is trying to soak himself loose from
the principal one OF "the principles to
which I adhere" But II he renounces
his allegiance to silver he falls. 1t is
the one thing that has enabled him to
retain his commanding position in his
party so long. If he drops 10 to he
will become at once like unto lot Of
other ordinary democrats who have
nothing to distinguish them and look
for NO distinction.--Albany Journal
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1901-05-25
HONOR THE HEROES.
II Is Fitting That We should Cher
ish the Memory of Those Who
Died for Their Cause.

If Egypt built pyramids to honor
the memory of her tyrannical kings,
it is fitting that America should keep
green the memory of those who died
in defense of the liberty our ancestors
won by battling against king. What
other nation has such good cause for
honoring its heroes as America?
We would have our children learn
the lesson of patriotism which comes
from the bivouac, the tedious march
and the battlefield. We would have
them emulate the self-sacrifice of
those men who so cheerfully left the
office, the shop, the counting-room or
the plow to show their loyalty by
fighting, if need be, dying, for their
country. Whether they fought be-
meath the stars and stripes or beneath
the southern cross. they fought for
what they conceived to be the
right, and sealed their loyalty with
their blood.
The destinies of nations are shaped
by those who fight and die at their
country's call. History is written in
the blood of the brave and the true.
But the manhood of nation is formed
by the hand that rocks the cradle. So
long as American mothers teach their
sons that the greatest possible priv
ilege and the highest honor is to fight
forcountry, its safety and it's honor, so
long shall we have a nation in which
honor, chivalry, glory and patriotism
shall dominate. Would we check the
greed for wealth and power and stop
the mad career of a mammon worship,
let us encourage the cultivation of
high ideals and lofty ambitions. Let
us cherish the memory of our dead
heroes, and while we minister to the
necessities of the living let us not for
get the dead, but as each recurring
Memorial day rolls round let us scat
ter flowers above the sacred dust and
renew our tributes of admiration and
gratitude.-Gen. Joseph Wheeler, in
Detroit Free Press.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1901-05-25
"Urconp!7!eN ny
* SURR[NDLN
Sfovof heBlue and he6uy

N XEHlA, father, who adored
r VZIZZzW her, was forced to
admit that. Aunt
Frances used to shake her dear, white
head, and sigh mildly. "The child has
stayed abroad too long," she would
say. Her brain is filled with old
world notions. Conditions have
changed, and America has grown too
fast for her."
But when they attempted to re-
monstrate with Clarissa, that i'm
perious young person would get into
a towering rage
"Then there is no such thing as
principle?" she would inquire, with
whitening sarcasm. You didn't lose
most of your property to the ma
rauding northerners! You weren't
forced to come from your own dear
Maryland to this cold, bleak New
England! You didn't bring your
slaves along, after you had freed them
of your own accord! Although most
of them insisted upon remaining with
you--to their credit You're not my
Grandfather Colonel because of your
bravery at Antietam! You didn't sac
rifice your only son, my father, to
the lost cause! His death didn't kill
my grandmother and my mother! Oh,
no! l must have dreamed it ALI"
"My dear! my dear!" grandfather
would demonstrate, sadly. God
knows l acted as I thought best; per-
haps was mistaken. But conditions
are changed, and it is the part of wis
dow to conform to them"
"But the principle remains the
same, grandfather" would be the
proud response; and Clarissa would
weep a few obstinate tears upon the
silky hair of Fifine, the French
poodle which she had brought from
abroad, and which, all told, was a
most detestable little beast. "Fifine,
darling, we belong to the Owings fam.
fly, of Maryland, don't we, pet? And
what do we think of the star-span.
gled banner?" and then Fifine would
snarl and whine viciously, while her
pretty mistress caressed and en-.
couraged her.
Grandfather was distressed, but he
was forced to smile at the absurdity
of it all. ITO be rebel has gone out
of fashion, my dear" he would say
deprecatingly; but Clarissa continued
to regard herself as an alien, to heap
fresh flowers daily before the pic.
ture of her beloved Winnie Davis, as
before a shrine; to quote Father
Ryan's stanzas upon the lost cause
and to defy the Lees and other he.
roes of the confederacy.
She was % now, and she had been
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1901-05-25

Life is lamp fame before WIND.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1901-05-25

glory waves
Where the sunshine robes in Splendor's
garb a multitude Of graves;
To the music of the river as 1t flows I'M
vexed and free,
Bearing outward to the nations Freedoms
latest prophecy.
March a people, Fame's descendants. with
the summers sweetest bloom,
Which the dew shall crown with glory on
the hero's silent tomb.
In the sunburst Of the morning. every
loyal heart to thrill,
Come the echoes of the muskets that were
heard at Bunker Hill;
And the roses and the lilies In the shadow
and the shine
Lie on the breasts OF those who stood one
day at Brandywine;
Meath the hemlocks and the cedars, meath
the vines that greet the sun,
The Continentals sleep beside the Men OF
81;
And the country, reunited by a love that
can't be told,
Sees the modest flower blooming in the
cannon ruts Of old.
Down the street, beloved by thousands,
march the veterans. old and gray
The comrades of the brave who rest this
fair Memorial day,
And they bring Mays sweetest blossoms to
the boys who with them stood!
In the Southern wood;
No more the ringing bugle blast, no more
the lannon's roar,
No more the gloomy picket post along the
ghostly shore;
But side by side this sacred day beneath
the Spreading tree.
With elbows touching, silent stand the
men of Grant and Lee.
Columbia walks the guarded aisles with
Of nd hnI
Where fall the shades of Arlington above
her hero dead;
Not long ago she stood and heard the
dirge's mournful strain
Ger those who came in martial shrouds
from Cuba's sun-kiss'd plain;
And from her hands the brightest bloom
that decks the field and void
Falls gently on the bosoms of the tender
and the bold;
And silent tears are falling from the far
thest northern pine
To where the golden orange hangs above
the oceans line.
Bring the fairest of the blossoms to re-
crown the hero's tomb!
For this kind nature proudly yields the
splendor of her bloom;
The skies are bright above us and the river
sings Its lay,
One Flag one Country and one Love the
Nation knows to-day;
We crown the humolest and the great,
alike the flowers fall
With prayer and love and gratitude upon
the breasts of all;
All me, The drums are beating, for the
flowers have been spread,
And we march to newer grandeur from
the bivouac of our dead.
IT. c. Aarbaugh. in Ledger Monthly.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1901-05-25

across the intervening driveway and
the lawns to the Hale mansion, where
all was sorrow at the mishap which
had followed the glorious beginning
of the day.
Clarissa expected reproaches from
Robert Hale's mother, but instead she
received a tender kiss and caress,
and the two elder women consider
ately remained in the reception hall,
while the penitent girl went half-re-
luctantly into the library, where, in
the subdued light, she discerned the
stricken hero propped up among sofa
pillows on the couch-it must be con-
fessed more prone to be profane,
with all a strong mans impatience of
pain, than to feel complacent over
any hero-worship which might fall
| to his lot
But when he recognized Clarissa-
all, that was another story! And he
was craftily moved to magnify his
hurt, and to work upon her tender
sympathies, until-well, in n lovers
quarrel the angle of reflection is al
ways equal to the angle of incidence.
In an incredibly short time that
wicked Robert had become surpris-
ingly cheerful, especially since Clar-
issa's face was somehow very near
his own, and his. heart was melting
to feel her tears upon his cheek, and
she was softly calling him "dear,"
and whispering out her penitence.
He was amazed to hear her con-
fess, sorrewfully: 81 have been a
And to prove how repentant 1 am,
Robert, l am-just-going- to-make
the supreme sacrifice for you'll"
Sweetheart! What?" he inquired
in wonder.
"I-am-going-to-give = Fifine-
away! That is, when ! can find good
home for her, you know!"
Capt Hale laughed, but only mem
tally.
"Not a bit of it, dearest!" he de-
clared. 'Why, owe that little beast
an unbounded debt of gratitude! She's
brought about victory bigger than
-than-Gettysb burg, Clarissa!"
| This was a mischievous thrust, but
the girl was too much in earnest to
notice or resent it.
"a victory won by force of arms
or rather of an arm" the malicious
fellow continued, doing yeoman serv-
ice with the uninjured member. You
are mine, aren't you, you little
rebel?"
Her tears had suddenly ceased to
| flow now, and she was smiling
though somewhat pathetically, and
unlike the familiar, proud Clarissa.
II suppose must acknowledge my.
self vanquished," she sighed, "as my
ancestors did! And that L must sur
render!" she added, with no par
ticular evidence of resentment or re.
gret.
unconditional surrender" he
questioned, half believing her admis.
sion too good to be true.
Unconditional surrender, Capt
Hale!" she replied, submissively.-
Springfield (Mass) Republican.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1901-05-25

| FORM" the girl meditated with bitter
ness, as she peered through the sash
curtains in jealous inspection of his
every movement. "Horrid thing! 1t
wouldn't hurt him to at least glance
in this direction!"
But Robert was evidently too busy;
and it irritated the watcher as he be-
gan to whistle softly, and then to
sing in an absent minded fashion, as
he bent over knot in the halyards:
There's just one girl in the world for mel"
Oh, was she the girl? Clarissa
asked herself feverishly; but there
was no one to answer the ques-
ton only Fifine, who yawned lazily and
snapped at the lace upon her mistress
| sleeves.
II could be happy forever with just one
girl"
Robert kept on singing with
cruel JUNCTION as he stood back and
watched the folds of Old Glory I'M
furl, as they blew out from the mast
head, catching the soft May breeze.
| Then Clarissa could bear it no longer.
She buried her face in the couch cush-
ions and found refuge in that relief
for all feminine woes-a good cry;
while Fifine, disturbed in her morning
nap, whined dismally.
Such an exasperating day as it
| proved! There were bands and mill
tary companies, and everywhere the
| stars and stripes were flying. Grand
father was in bed, suffering from a
new ache in his wounded shoulder
memory of Antietam; and this fur
nished the girl pretext for keeping
all the shutters closed and making
theirs the only dismal house along the
avenue as the parade went by. With
white face and set lips she hid behind
the blind, and sadly followed with
fearful eyes the erect figure of Capt.
Hale as he rode past at the head of his
company.
"Oh, Fifne!" she murmured, sor.
rowfully. II always knew that he
was proud. But at least he might
have glanced at the house, If not al
mel"
1t was evening when she heard hin,
return. Black Don was proud
though weary after the heat and con.
fusion of the day, and turned slowly
in between the high stone gate posts
of the driveway-andt then, well, Clar.
issa never knew exactly how it hap
pened; but of a sudden there was q
mad rush of little white bundle OF
silky hair from the porch, the de,
faint yaps and snarls of Fifne az
she snapped at the black horses feet
and Capt. Hale, caught off his guard
had been thrown by the shying horse
striking his head against the crue
edge of the big stone post. Thai
was the last of which Clarissa was
conscious. Then, for the first line in
her % healthy years, she tainted.
That fact remains yet her own in
violable secret; for nobody rsnicm
bered her during the excitement
which followed. After a time she
''came to-" and, athletic golf Cir
that she was. felt properly ashamed
4 of her own weakness. Then it was
that she learned the worst. Malicious
Fifine had frightened Black Don, ant
Capt Hale was ingloriously lyirg OF
the library couch, with his right arm
in splints, and an ugly cash upon his
right temple.
HE must not die until he has for
given mel" Clarissa cried Historically
to Aunt Frances, as she unceremo
niously bundled her willing relativs
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1901-05-25

proved such pleasant one. As the
households over the very evident in
terest which the young people took
in each other. They were not aware
of the plans for their future which
Aunt Frances so frequently discussed
with Roberts widowed mother. In
fact, they were not conscious of much
beyond the joy of living, of propin-
guilty, of the sympathy and under
standing which existed between them,
of community of tastes and inter
ests. Together they marveled at the
miracle of life through death, In
opening bud, and leaf, and flower;
but so far no word of love had been
spoken between them. They were
young; there was no need of haste.
1t was the springtide of life, as well
as the springtide of the year. But
Hard If these
Found NOT a way to show their secret each
TO each;
And so they did;
And one hearts fiower-dust into the other
slid.
That Clarissa, imperious and exact
ing with all others, should be sweetly
submissive to him, was, in itself, the
most subtle fattery. When Robert
Hale heard her opinions and comments
upon the causes of a contest which was
fast becoming merely tradition, he
only smiled indulgently, lenient to
them, as he would have been lenient
to any whimsical fancies on the part
of the woman whom he loved.
The first clashing of their wills came
late in the spring, when Robert was
offered and accepted the Office of cap
tain of the newly company
of Sons Of Veterans. He was surprised
and amused at the imperiousness with
which Clarissa drew herself up, proud
as another Juno, and condemned his
act.
"No man could offer me more dead
ly hurt!" she announced, tragically.
my father was wounded at the battle
of Belmont. Those wounds ultimate
ly caused his death! Who knows that
your very father wasn't the northern
er who shot him!"
"And my father was wounded at
Petersburg was the solemn response.
"For the rest of his life he went around
with only one arm. 1t seems like your
father might have fired the shot which
deformed one of the handsomest men
that ever lived"
She knew that he was purposely
mimicking her affected use of the
southern like; but she would not UNI
bend. He leaned his arm over Black
Don's glossy neck, and regarded her
nischievously.
"What an irony of fate, Clarissa!"
he said, teasingly, as he stood gazing
at her with fondness which she
haughtily ignored. ''How ever did II
| happen that you should have the blue
| eyes, while mine should be the gray?"
AS Memorial day approached, how
ever, the breach between them grew
undeniably serious. The older mem
bers of both households smiled, and
shook their heads knowingly, and
moralized on the inevitableness of
lovers quarrels. Aunt Frances rash
ly took 1t upon herself to demonstrate
with her niece, for Robert was her spe-
cial favorite,' and she could not bear
to have him made unhappy by Claris-
sa's caprices. She was unprepared,
however, for the rebuff. which she met.
"rlease don't evert mention Mr..
Ha,e's name to me again, Aunt
Frances. / have found him out-an
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1901-05-25
F,r.t ob.eryed MemorI.I p.y.

Alabama was the first state to inau-
gurate the annual custom of observ-
ing day as sacred to the memory of
their dead heroes.
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fpoWERs
For The BRAVE

HERE are blossoms
n in h e clover.
there Is music In
the pines.
And a wealth of
buds is falling
Ger the brave
blue-coated lines.
And I h e muffied
drum Is beating.
and one flag In
Rl0ry waves
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1901-09-21
THE NEW PRESIDENT.
ROOSEVELT il

IN IIEODORE ROOSEVELT in
succeeding To the Presidency
j Of the United States assume.
the responsibilities Of that high
office with the confidence of the people
rcpoSing in him. His conduct has DO N
such as to increase that confidence. The
new President proclaimed that he would
follow the policy of the Mckinley ad-
miniStration. ana invited tho Mckinley
cabinet to remain through his term. and
there will be no changes for sometime at
least. Elected on the same platform "a
fhc honorcd President Mckinley. Mr..
Roosevelt is pledged to carry out it's
provisions. and no one familiar with his
record doubts that he has any other in
tontion. President Roosevelt has already
demonstrated his executive ability and
honesty Of purpose, and all expect his
administration to prov" successful and
10 the lasting credit of the nation.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1901-09-21
JOHN KERSHAW.

John KcrShuw. of Wilmington. Del
died ut the home of his daughter. Nh
Oakley Barwick. in Chesapeake CITY. %
morning. while th"r" on
visit He was stricken with apppI"N
and died very suddenly. Mr.. krrahn'
was about seventy years of age, ana il
4 number of years had been rmplovr
rs yard foreman ut Jackson * sharp
in Wilmington. Funeral from The =,
%ilcncr Of his >on-in-laW. Oakley HHi
wick. at Chr~apcak" City. thi" tS;t'l:
iayl morning. nj eleven o'clork. Inter
mrnt ut Bethel Cemetery.