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Bisbee daily review., 1908-09-06

old enough to know what 70 DO with my money
You understand"
'Perfectly.' returned his son huskliy. Il
need never expect another penny from you IN
less l give up Lettie-which ! shall never do.
Yes. YOU understand | leave my offer open
for week II within that period you care TO
call upon me for the check. on the condition
named you shall have il; If not shall take the
dietasteful step of informing the g1r that you're
bankrupt and entirely without expectations,
which Is another means to the same end name
~, saving YOU from the tolls OF fortune hunt
ing chorus girl I mean it,
"Oh. I don't doubt Won mean IT, Hemslev
answered bitterly. Bat I'm not penny better
or worse off for your brlbes or threats
Yea you are. young hot head. You're better,
because you know now, while before you could
only have supposed. Which door do / Oh,
this one, Good-bysl A week Hemsley!"
He opened the door leading to the outer ofhce
and went out
Hensley threw himself iuto his chair and sat
inertly. crushed. The last straw had been laid
upon his back He fell into brown study-or.
| rather dull ftful attempt 70 review the sit
uatlon and ind a ghmmer of hope in any cir.
! cumstance He scarcely felt any resentment
against his father, because be understood him
knew that he sincere in his prejudice and
honest in his determination
HemsIev knew all along that his engagement
70 Iettie Somerton would meet his fathers most
planned to marry her, and take her of the
stage. and introduce her TO Montague Wade a.
what she was by nsture-a charming little lady
not as what she had been for a livelihood, IL
which circumstances, being unpreJudced hi
father would accept theoretically, perhaps
skeptically, it might even be, but open TO con
version. But his financial difficulties had pre-
vented the execution Of his plan. And now il
was too late. Now he had to choose between
Iettie and fortune of something ike fSOOO(
POSSIBLY 1t might be great deal more for hi
father had always lived a quiet country life. anc
the way in which he had spoken of check fol
10000 suggested that it would be compare
tively easy matter to arrange without enbarrass
ing him.
Then he wss interrupted in his bewildenni
thoughts-this time by Josephs, who came il
and looked at him with scared eyes, and hel,
| out card.
Hemsley took the card, but his hands trernbIe,
40 b, could not read it.
WHO is it, Josephs" he asked blinking.
"a clerk from Andrews, Hinton 4 Gutlev's
said Josephs compassonately.
HeInsley swung haf-round, and dropped int
= chair. II had come-the petition-Vithin a,
hour Of his fathers visit.
"Show him in, Josephs"
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Inc behind it only the ordinary blsckneSs OF the
night. .L.,.. t-or, o,. ~
~ 80 men posted on the lookout bridge
$3.50 .rboed almost Immediately by the man
y! ~ "crouIs pest" on the fore. l was amid
sLios m the main-deck, and could not see what
81. ~. matter. but there a slight qulyer
~ +bs mighty fabric OF the ship. Looking over
IL T saw the vague bulk Of another vessel
80 ~ into the mist on the starboard beam
IT, the second officer came rushing by me
u ~ dar+ed ont from his cabin as soon as he
ie 1yoT,d better help to keep them quiet in the
...,-sg." he shouted, over his shoulder, as hF
ran aft. Luckily, it WIS late at night, and
= fex Of the male emigrants were on deck
- .,ornen had all been sent below long before
In. g ,,s,IaI xay. But they were already strug
m t"e dense mass, to climb up the two wide
s.- --HsS'a1ion-ladders, port and sarboard.
~ a. ton Of the port-ladder stood tall clean
INC fellow North-country emlgTant
ttL ',rbon had chummed up on the voyage
o. ,.as holding q lighted cigarette IN one hand
- Gently pushing back with the other frantic
~nu Russian girl who first in the rush
sesSo trouble at ALL my dear" he cried out
. a.. the rest below could hear. Everything
10. K" .
His splendid1y easy manner checked the panic
- +b.t nojnt until several stewards and deck
h,,ds cane 10 his help and succeeded IN re
storing order.
had gone meanwhile to the stsrboard com
naniopsway, where two sailors were fighting Will
crowd Of mixed emigrants. girl had TALLER
on the top step of the ladder, and hu4klni
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SAME THING

T,sv had met for the first time since their
..Looidavs. and were telling each other Of their
professional careers.
"And how did you come TO leave the stase'
asked one.
81 40. The little birds told you, Ell"
well, no; not exactly. But they might have
h..n birds bad they been allowed to hatch,
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| M fur markets Of China II is the chief
- city Of Msnchu1a and at one time it
RS was the converging point Of all the
important highways Of the province
Il Is nov the junction Of four important rail
roads Mukdens prominence in the fur trade
is due also to the fact that it provides one of
the best tanning and curing establishments in
the East Raw skins brought there from the
north ar. dressed and cured in the forty tan
neries Of Mukden, and in the local fur shops
are made ready for transshipnent to Tientsin
and Shanghai, as well az prepared for the local
trade.
Throughout the cold ATTITUDES Of China dur
ing tn. winter the Chinese Of all classes wear
fur wool or hair lined garments. Even the
coolies have their sheep or goat skins, and PEG
ME Of the middle and Official classes have many
sets Of garments lined with the richest turs
Their houses are rarely heated to comfortable
.sr,nsrature. snd in consequence they wear then
furs both indoors and out.
The furs sold On the Mukden market come
chiefly from the two northern provinces, Kirir
and Heilungchiang, and are Of more than ter
different kinds From Heilungchiang come tiger
Leonard white fox, wolf and mountain badger
,b1s yellow fox, gray squirrel and other small
ar skins come from Sansing, Heilampo and Mn
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a stranger and r,,rb+ h. =, +-orbI. bert
az Won will r,,o -. ,,,,r ard IN soc " h.
.sid ron.oo,,,ro;+t,r,,
Nv, NIor+.n,,. w.S. L. s..L.r - cid ~.
elderly v,s;tor c.sr.II,.
ON be, ,o,,r ,.rlo-,,,, .,ol,u,,.5 IosaDbs
At orcs bprr,,;r, - ~ io,o- ofsce
EennsIev WsJo c.ro, -. - he nan, hastily
smiling both bard. oxton5.1 70 cree. his
father
WHY Dsd7" h. ,-,,,;,,.s 1o,L;-r .hor.h.
funv INFO No,t,,re Wado,s fsce "Wbst'.
brought Won IN town. Come into nv room, 10
se,bs T'r o,+ - a,.,-,.bodv b,t Nv Nary.Ie
ami Il h. comes ssk b;r, n wait"
old Wade .boot biz .o,,s hand .bs+r.c,.dIv
and allowed himself r. he drawn into the inner
oftire He looked ronn5 the comfortabJe anart.
rrsnt cur,ous,,. a. he advanced towards the IA
blo ,,,S.- 49, Il. ~ E.,,sIe,. sL,+ the
do,r
We'll hon ,,,,, p, ,,,,;-.5 Wade the o.
6er and 60. do,-.
..Ob r.. III -. .LL.,, -o.,,-,ad Hens
, =, ,,,I . 80
o., IoaL,,, - -ar W, a,oro NJ. ,rou ubsn
I T.4 iii L W..
~.
you up
lNo ''lhEs' henl7'eF' salo MI " Sue' 'oh
ing AZ his son hXedIy and crossing his legs.
herr YOU are on the point OF bankruptcy, and
thlt you're practically engaged to most undo
sirIble Young woman"
TIemsIsv finished and his hands clenchsd under
~ ; q 4 ~ u H.. -
-: L-....n-
o'''' w LIE -
Ter as were ms WORDS
ou have no night TO speak IN that way o.
Grri YOU don't know, sir" he said as calmly
possible As 70 nv financial diffcultes-un-
less you've an inclination to relieve them. I
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Il.

Lettie was very white, and her pretty eyes
which were generally so tender and thoughtful
were bright and restless with excitement She
leaned back against the head of the shabby sofa
her fingers dug deeply into its padding
Hemsley watched her eagerly, hungry for her
answer. The pause seemed interminabls,
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HOW HE KNEW

Friend-'cHalloa, Pat l scarcely knew you
With your whskers off ."
Pst-"The same Wild me. me bhoy; I didn't
know meself when l looked into the ElasA, sx'
cept By me voice."
Bisbee daily review., 1908-09-06

was pitch black night, and we had
les. than an hours run to Sandy Hook
4 thick mist of the land kept our
siren going It was pulling, for II
kept blowing across our bows IN dense
II .h.n clcar1n., aEar IeaV-
Bisbee daily review., 1908-09-06

/ WADE Tn'
Josephs, the mildlookins junior
clerk, looked at the big, gray
haired visitor consIderngty. 1t
had been one Of his duties the
last few weeks TO form some idea
whether callers on Hemsley Wade
were clients or duns before ad-
uniting that Hemsley was in. He
decided now that the stranger
scarcely had the appearance OF
bill-ColleCtor or an rate creditor;
at the same time. the visitor was
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-10-22
RAYMoNp,s FORECAST.

Raymond, the Chicago Tribune's po-
litical writer. makes the assertion that
Taft could lose New York and still be
elected by a satisfactory majority in
the electoral college. He arrives at
this conclusion after .iving forecast
in which he says that Taft's election
is inevitable. Raymond does not claim
that his forecast is in any way Off
cial. The tables he prepared, he says
in explanation, come from variety of
sources, partly from personal observa
ton over wide range of territory
partly from personal talks with politi
cal managers of both parties in outly-
ing states, party from what seemed to
be reliable newspaper reports, and
partly, perhaps, from downright po-
litical instinct, which may or may not
be right His interesting forecast
tables and his explanation of them are
as follows:
| think am not unfair in saying that
at the beginning OF the campaign
eighteen states might reasonably be
counted as safe for Taft as follows:
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-10-22

date farmer, the farmer of wisdom,
realizes that it is far more economical
to pay few cents fare. by interur-
bans than wear out his harness, bug
gies and horse. flesh, while he faces
the blistering sun In summer or the
inclemency of winter, and he would
prefer that his loved ones at home
enjoy the cool and comforts of the
interurban in summer, and the com
forts that come with the heated cars
during the winter blasts. than to
force them to drive over the muddy
highways OF the average community.
The farmer who finds himself short
of material in the completion of work
about his premises, or the wife dis
covers she is out of sewing material
or groceries, has only to telephone
their merchant to send the articles
needed and the ,motorman throws it
off into the yard, without the neces-
sity of the farmer laying off his hands
While he drives miles to city.
The farmer that has rural mail
daily papers, telephone and an in
ozone. will have the city man best
8Q Dy Dig OuuS.
The interurban brings all classes of
labor closer together; 1t has develop
ed tastes and wants that people have
never known. 1t educates, and not
only carries people to the marts Of
trade. but makes them frequent buy
ers. No populated section is too re-
mote for the interurban to reach and
bring into close communication with
trade centers; it builds up alike com
munities, villages and cities, and from
no point of view is the electric road
to be despised.
So we might continue to enumerate
the manifold benefits that come to
those who help themselves by encour-
aging the coming of the promoter and
the building Of electric roads; there
fore, it is not a good idea to feel that
the electric road will come anyway
without an effort; so that it behooves
the farmer as well as the merchant
| to offer encouragement to promoters
and investors in traction securities
and reach out their hands to draw in
/ that which rightfully belongs to them
that they may not regret lost oppor
| tunities. Yours truly,
! The London Trust Company,
1874 Monroe St, Chicago.
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borrow money has been lessened. 1t
would mean higher rate of interest
to the man who is borrowing money to
buy home as well as to the man
who is employing him.
When a factory cuts down the num-
Der of its employees (and it never does
until 1t has to because it cannot pay
them) that means a loss to the mer-
chants, because 1t not only lessons
the number of customers from among
the workingmen, but it also lessons
the market for the products of the
farm, thereby reducing the price and
curtailing the buying power of the
farmer. When people are out of work
they cannot buy as much as when they
are employed. when they do not buy
the demand for what is raised on the
farm grows less. crops are not consum-
ed, then the supply exceeds the de-
mand and prices of products go down.
So that when labor is unemployed
the farmer cannot sell his product,
and neither he or the workingman can
buy as much Of the merchant So
they lose the comforts that they would
get from the goods and the merchant
loses the: margin.
A tax of one per cent on the depos-
its of the national eanks would take
forty million dollars out of circula-
ton. To take that sum out of the
money that is daily used, must neces-
sarily put some institutions out of bus
mess In Vermont in thirty years, the
loss from national bank failures has
been less than $4,000, yet if a. tax Of
one per cent had been levied on the
deposits of the national banks of that
state during that time there would
now be tied up over Ss,0o0,000.
There certainly could not be a more
absurd proposition than to take and
keep sS,O00,00O out of circulation to
pay less than $4,000
Mr. Bryan's plan if put into opera
ton woul6 of itself cause panic
1t would make all banks mutually
responsible for each others debts It
would make every bank responsible
for the assets of it's competitor with
out having voice in the selection or
choice of such assets, and would con-
pei the well governed bank to contri-
butte to the support of the poorly man
aged bank. One bank might. by In
creasing the liability of its stock
holders, bonding employees, or in some
other legitimate manner. guarantee its
own deposits, but not the deposits Of
some other bank.
The principle is wrong, anG Mr..
Bryan's advocacy of it is simply more
evidence that he should not be put in
any Office that would give him power
in framing legislation.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-10-22
HIS BAD DREAM.

A Kansas man dropped into a Dem
ocratic political rally the other night.
The show was rather tame and in a
little while he Topped over, slid down
into his coat collar and went to sleep.
He dreamt that he died and was in
Hades. A horrible noise started up all
about him. He could not see anything,
hut the fearful grinding, nerve-wreck-
ing noise became louder and louder.
His soul shiver In terrible fear The
turmoil grew greater and greater. He
tried to run and then tried his new
forked wings. They refused to work.
A terrible blast of hot air struck him,
and he felt himself slipping and slid
ing. Suddenly he awakened Great
beads of sweat rolled down his face.
He pulled himself up in his seat. The
racket was still there. He looked up
toward the platform 1t was only a
Democratic monograph grinding out
a canned Bryan speech. Kansas
City Journal
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of hauling them long distances over
bad roads
BY arrangement. the farmer can
have the metropolitan dailies to read
at his breakfast table; he can visit
seventy-five miles from home and re-
turn within the same day with great
er ease than to drive TO the average
town; he can turn his farm into a
pasture, except few acres. and make
good returns producing milk. garden
truck, and small fruits. which the
electric car each day takes to a ready
market.
The progressive farmer can, in
short, keep in touch with the great
world around him and enjoy the
broadening influences which always
accompany more frequent intercourse
with the people at large.
Interurbans increase the attractive.
ness of the farm When churches, the.
aters. lecture halls, etc, are easily
accessible to the rural people, life on
the farm becomes to many a different
proposition. Isolation, because of poor
roads or poor transportation facilities
general spells in too many instances
"monotony" which results in discon.
tent and finally in the boys and girls
leaving the farm. Healthful home life
in the country can be maintained
and the children will be more recon.
ciled to living on tie farm instead OF
flocking to large centers Of popula.
ton, providing cheap, convenient and
rapid transportation Is furnished.
Distant cities are uniting into one
commercial community and the divid
ing line between city and country is
fast fading away
The quick. convenient and cheap
transportation which is afforded by
linterurbans, is working rapid and
mighty change in the modes of life
and thought, and in the customs and
achievements Of the entire commun
fifty where lnterurbans have been es
l.tablished.
The progressive farmer, the up-to
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A GIGANTIC BLUFF.

The chief objection to Bryan accord
ing to Golfers view is his general in
tellectual unfitness and his reliance on
patent-medicine finance. AS an ex-
ample of this unftness is given his ad-
vocacy of the bank deposit guarantee
plan Golfers quotes Victor Morawetz
on this question as follows:
There. are individual banks in New
York having deposit liabilities in ex-
cess OF one hundred and fifty million
dollars and good many banks
throughout the country with deposit
liabilities exceeding fifty million dol
lars. To draw one hundred million
dollars from the reserves Of the ma
tional banks to pay off at once the de-
positors of one or two of these great
banks, if they should suspend pay
ment would force the suspension of
nearly all the banks in the country
and would precipitate universal panic
and disaster. What would such a
guaranty have been worth during the
recent panic, when all the banks sus-
pended?
when times are good and business
is prosperous, the weaker and specula-
1--WE DdlhS WOulu NC hCipSu W eh)duu
their credits and to increase their
loans, but in times of stringency and
threatened trouble the strong and con-
sentative banks would be forced to
contract their credits and to refuse
accommodation to their customers.
The tendency of the plan, therefore,
| would be to cause expansion Of bank
credits when conservatism is desirable
and to cause contraction of bank
credits in times of srr:ngency when
credit is most needed in order to pre-
vent panic and disaster
| Mr.. Morawetz says the only way in
which this guaranty plan could pos
sibly inspire confidence is by leading
| people to believe that the plan fur
nishes security. which it does not in
| fact furnish--in other words, by de-
ceiving the American people into a
false sense Of security. The plan can
only be successful, Mr. Morawetz as
serts, by operating as gigantic bluff,
| that will never be called. And the
American people, he says, cannot be
| fooled in that way.
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Peoples Pulpit
AN ARGUMENT FOR
THE INTERURBAN

Ottumwa Daily Courier, gOttumwa, Ia.
Gentlemen We noticed an article
in your issue of October Is, 1908, in
regard to What Ottumwa Needs
Most as Told From Different View
points," and we are especially inter-
ested in the remarks made by S. H.
Harper, and we fully agree with Mr..
Harper in all Of his remarks and feel
that the inhabitants in and around OF
tunwa are losing some Of the good
things of life, and with your permits
sion we would like to make few re-
marks through the columns of your
paper, and which we believe will be
read by the majority Of your sub
scribers, especially those who are pro,
gressive and are DESTROYS to see your
city prosper
We have made study of the con-
struction Of steam and interurban
railways and have arrived at the fol
lowing conclusions:
Those in favor of the interurban
are, that the farmer can take his
produce to town any hour Of the day
in good or bad weather, in the busy
season or slack, and choose his mar
ket He can telephone his orders to
town for supplies and receive them
by parcel freight at his door instead
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-10-22
BRYAN's BANK GUARANTY BAD
Eno

AS this paper has before stated, the
prosperity of the people of this coun.
try depends upon the policy of the po-
litical party in power. This may or
may not be the best arrangement, but
1t Is a fact.
There is also another feature of this
government that is apparent, positive
and right and that is that the prosper
ity of one part of it makes prosperity
of another, and when one part pros
pers all parts are benefited and there
by all enjoy a reasonable share. BY
reason of this same connection, one
part of our industrial system cannot
- hampered without hindering all OF
1t. If you take away one wheel of a
wagon you lessen the usefulness of
the other wheels and Of the whole
wagon.
Matters that affect the general well
fare of the country at large that are
brought out in political campaigns,
should be seriously considered by ev-
cry man. In your deliberations as to
their effect on you and your neighbor
political affiliation should cut no fig
ure. Their effect on the business of
tie country that you believe their
etuoptiSh 1hu dpPiiSollOu WOulu HdNS,
should decide whether you do vote for
or against certain policies.
1t is the imperative duty of every
man to seriously study the effect that
the adoption of Mr.. Bryan's plan of
guaranteeing bank deposits would
have on business. The Courier be-
lieves that the adoption of this plan
would be bad for the country
In the first place 1t is against COM
mon sense and common right to make
one man liable for the debts of an
other without his consent.
Bryan's plan would take out Of cir
culation money that is now being used
over and over daily, and when money
is taken out of circulation investments
are handicapped, because almost every
business in this country borrows
money with which to conduct its daily
transactions. To shrink the amount
of money in circulation means that the
businesses that now employ labor
would have to cut down either the
number or wages of employees In just
the proportion that their ability to
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GOLD STANDARD WILL DESTROY AomEs.v
1896, Free coinaae!-1e to /.

1896, Free Coinaae!-16 to I.
Il reply that, if protection has slain
it's thousands. the gold standard has
slain its tens of thousands. William
j. Bryan; speech at Democratic Ma
tional Convention, July. 1896.
The Democratic party has begun
war of determination against the gold
standard. We ask no quarter; we give
no quarter. We shall prosecute our
warfare until there is not an American
citizen who dares to advocate the gold
standard. Yoy ask why? We reply
that the gold standard is a conspiracy
against the human race, and that we
should no more join in it than we
would an army to destroy our homes
and to destroy our families William
J. Bryan; speech at Albany, n. Y,
August 1895
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FOR purposes of ready reference on
election night suppose we summarize:
Taft, eighteen states, 214 electoral
votes.
Bryan, twelve states, 1877 electoral
votes.
Doubtful, sixteen states, 142 cleo
toral votes.
From this it will be seen that Mr.
Taft started Off in the campaign with
an immense advantage, because if the
table Of sure states is anything in the
neighborhood of accurate he lacked
only twenty-eight Of the necessary 242
electoral votes to secure the election.
Since that time I am inclined to put
into the Republican column Delaware,
Indiana, Kansas, Rhode Island, Utah
and West Virginia. This would add 42
votes to the Taft column and give him
a total of 256, or 16 more than a clear
majority At the same time / would
transfer Kentucky and Missouri TO