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~7I'A3LJSHD __ NEWBERRiY,_S. C., F RIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1900. TWICE A WEEK, 15)AYA1 THE WAR REVENUES WILL BE REDUCED, WAYS AND 51MANN COiMiTIMCE. UON 81MJICHING THIRTY PIC CENT CU11, To stamp Taxes May ,mna Otf As Woll is Thoso oil Alodichlial aid Preprietnry Articles, But No Ieelion, Yet Itenlehad. Washington, Nov. 20.-The Ro. publican members of the ways and means committee mot today to con aider a measure for the reduction of the war revenue tax. The most im portant action taken was a decision not to remove the tax of 10 cents a pound on toa. The committoo will not tako up or disturb the tariff on imports, as (lie members claim it would open up the whole subject of tariff revision. The committee will not grant any hearings while framing the bill, as full hearings were given during the last sossioI of Congress, and sinice then briefs and statements of various intorests have boon received. Parties who are interested, however, can file briefs or statements with the com mittee. Secretary Gage and Commissioner Wilson of the internal revenue bu reau were before the committee for some time during the afternoon. The secretary told the committee that in r his opinion there might be a reduc tion in revenues of $30,000,000. The war revenue act now raises about $100,000,000. Commissioner Wilson went over the schedules with the members of the committee and both he and Secretary Gage were ques tioned as to where reductions could be made to the best advsntage from the treasury view point. A considerable part of the discus sion was confined to the schedule which taxes medicinal and proprie tary articles and perfumery, cosmot ics, chewing gum, wines, etc. There was also a discup9ion of stamp taxes. The discussi4 n indicated that the committee favored quite a change in this feature of the law and reduc tions wherover possible. The com mittee also desires to eliminate the taxes on conveyance, of whieh there has been a great deal of complaint. It can be stated that in a general way it will be the aim of the com. mittee to abolish the mos; burden some taxes and to grant relief from stamp taxes as far as possible. The committee late in the day called on the President to obtain his views on the proposed reduction. The committee will meet again to morrow. After there has been a general in terchange of opinion on the proposed reduction it is quite likely that a sub-committee will be appointed to draft a measure. It is not believed the bill can be prepared and ready for the full committee until thie session begins. The measure, after it is agreed upon by the Republicans, will be submi,tted to the Democrats of the committee. Suggestion has been made that the olemargarinc bill now on the house calendar and made a Spe cial order for December 6thb, might , be made a part of the'war revenue bill. * Representative Tawney, the father of the oleomargarine bill, when asked about this, said that the eleomargarine bill would be passed by the house early in the session so that an opportunity will be given to .ascertain if there was a disposition to defeat the measure in the senate by any unusual delay. Ini such a case he intimtated that the oleomar garine bill might he made a part of of the revenue reduction bill in the senate. The committee later held a cons feonce with the President agreed on the desirability of the reduction or abolition of the wvar taxes where they proved annoying and irritating to the interests involved and yet have not produced very much revenue. The,President believes the surplus .in 'the treasury is accumulating too rapidly and that conservative .edu( tion may be made safely or the taxerentirely removed in some in stances. The Republican members believe they will be able to agree ini a very few days on the general line of changes to be made. * ' .' THIE. CENSUs ANn TIlE OUsE. Talk About Congrensionnl leopportion ilent--An Incramo of Some Twowty Membera Plropoited-- 4row I ng EtatcawillU onn, 0hers wYi11 Loso Itepre hentatIVC19. Washington, November 20.-Rep. resentative Hopkins, of Illinois, chair. man of the House committee on con sus, which committeo w '11 have charge of the legislation affocting tho appor tionmOnt of the House, oxprosss the opinion there will be no decided effort during the next session of Congress'to docroaso the Congros sional representation of the Southern States because of the disfranchiso. mont of negroes. Ie says that in all probabilty the subject will be dis cussed, but he thought that upon the whole the committee would favor the plan of basing representation upon the numbor of inhabitants. Discussing the general subject of a roapportionment, Mr Hopkins said: "The committee on consus will meet during the first week of the i session and will go tor work at once framing the bill providing for reap portionmnent. I think that a pro- I position will be a lopted which will I increase the present membership of I the House. It has been suggested i that we authorize one member for i evory W6000 inhabitants. That. I seems to be the ratio that is in gen oral favor among mnembers of the committee. This will c oiso a do crease in membership in some States, while the representation from other i States will be increased. On the proposition would entail an increased membership of from fifteen to twenty i members. "According to the calculations I I have made the reapportionment would add members to the House 1 from New York and Illinois, and i perhaps other States, States like i Nebraska and Maine might lose members by the proposed law. That, however, would depend entirely upon the exact number of inhabitants designated for each membership. Some of the Southern States, aside from the general proposition to decrease their vote in the House on account of the disfranchisement of certain classes of citilens, might also suffer from the proportion agreed t upon, although to what extent can- t not now ho ascertained. The general idea of the committee, t however, is to cause as little decrease in the membership of the House as possible, while adding as many more members as seems just and equitable,t so as to ultimately increase, of course, will go to the States wvhich have shown a growth of population, while those States which have not kept the pace in enlarging their population will be obliged to stand t the consequences,'' t Boars the ,.l1O0Mifd YUHivaAlways Boughd RIURAL FREE~ DELIVERy. It Will Gradualily be Medeoceeral, Taking~ The Place of Antiquated P'ostal Mnt hods. WVashington, November 20.-An enthusiastic plea for a wide exi.ansion of rural free delivery is made in t.he annual report of WV. M. Johnson, first e assistant Postmaster General. He says a that the extraordinary development v of this sysitim during the past twelve I months, under the stimulus of appro priations of $440,000 for the fiscal e year 1900 1001, is conclusive as show ing that hereafter it must be a per- r mnanent and expanding feature of the y ~ostal administration. The service ean now be extended as swiuftly as L Congress may direct or as the means o permiit, until it covers all those per Lions of the Unoited States now reach- s ad in whole or in part by the more i 'mitive methodai of the postal ser vices which have come down to us al- g most without change from colonial L times, This chang-, Mr. Johnson be lieves, can be effected without ex- E c0ssive cost to the Goverment. L Bears the la iiYou Havo AIwa a Bought Sgaof THE VOTE WAS LARGER THAN WAS EXPECTED, ItUr IWA% NOT Il114,FWh1.il'-()U0iIT 10 lA Vit1 t1il,F.N. oV-ir Feifty 1 holupait 'ollf---I ttI, Co [IMtI - inliiisl Aone,mwilin Carrlii by a 41cmd NuIj ,rtty am l n0 lI)en,,. crat le e,ngre, emtn (The State, 1)th.) The State board of caivassors is to meet in this city Thursday to do lare the result of the general elee Lion mi this Stato oin November 6th. This board consists of the SOcr0tary of State, Stato Troasirer, At.torney "oneral, Adjutant Gon.-ial, Comp. ,roller General and the chairmni1M of ,he committee on privileges and Aections in tho Senato arid in tie Iouso. Ex Senator L. N. Itgin, ormerly clerk to the Secretary of itato has finished the work of tabn ating the figures as returned by the ieveral counties. From these figures it appears that he smallest Voto was cast in Rich and County ind (tbo fargest in Or mngeburg. In I.ampton County hero was but, Olin voto against the )omocratic electors. The total vote or Democratic electors was -17,2133; md for the Ropublicans 3,57. Tlhis nakes the total vote 50,81 1, wihtn ,wo years ago it was but 28,2c8. Tho constitutional amei1dmeits vero carried. That relating Io the mblic indebtedness oL Columbia and >ther cities received 22,5310 to 8,1081 n opposition. That relating to Irainage wias carried by a vto of .l,339 to 9,917. The only counitie vhich voted against the firbt were 3arnwell, Kershaw, at-d in Ocojee hero was just. two votes difference. 3arnwell, Fairfield, 0coneo akid Jnion opposed the drainage amend I tont. No voto on either amend- ] tent, is recorded from Williamsburg. eJohnm Wanaaiiker' N(w Magazine. .'he latest development in maga ines is the entrance of the firm of ohn Wanamaker into the publisher's eld. They will take over and publish, eginning with tho December issue, Pvorybody's 'Magazine. "Wo have ot ourselves the task of building up a character and circulation an illus rated magazine of our own and of he best type" says, the announce ient. So radical a departure seems ocall for soen explanation; the tatements mrade that the Vanamak r Stores have becomte the largest ollors of books at retail in the coun ry and that they deal wvith more enders directly than any ether firm the aggregate sales equailling or urpassing the sales of even the larg. I r publishing houses) they think that I poular magazine belong naturally a this organization. *A highly at.. . ractive Christmas number is prom. shed with contributions from James Vhitcomb Riley, Miss SIary E. Wil. ins, Charles Major, an'thor of "When ~nighthood was in Flowor," Edwin ~ sa Dix of "Deacon Bradbuiry" fame ad a novel sorial by a new Southern i roman wvritor of whom much is ox aected. Rteflection Of a liachelor. (New York Press.) When one fat woman passes anoth- t r on the street, eacliof them turnst round and says to the man she is ] rith, 'Now I'm not so big as that, am e A really sweet woman has too much< arnse to have a sense of humor. Man teaches a woman what mar iage is and marriage teaches a mani rhat woman is. t The woman who doesn't br-ag about i or husbaind has either not got one 1 r else she has a babg. Every wvoman knows a time when a he thinks a man would beivo said Sif they hadn't been interrupted. Lots of men would get married nicker if it wasn't for having to Ike a wedding trip.j Some men would drop dead of I eart disease if you shot them in the m ack with a poached egg. Whben you are calling on a girl I nd kiss her, she always protonds I hat it was pride that made her make ny disturbance ni11 I.,AR P. SaI 'ropperl"y tall Ont r iti ('1aT01nia. The scriptilres tell us to rojoico with those wIto rejoice lund weep With thoso Who weep. I amill t rying to do it, hut it. is an awful strain. Whenl 1 meet. a M'McKinley man I try to smile, but it, is only it sicIl g (rin'li Anld is only skil dleep. h'lley are pretty thiek around liero now Silvo the election Iid so hot.wen 1ur0111.11 i1g with the t Byan 1 uen ald rijoic. ing with tho repiblivanls lily collito nace hasli lost its noriial mtl 111a1tual Ioidition m1itl1 it. is ird to tell whether I am crying or !iiliiig. \'o did not knoilow (hat thore e Iliore than a do"n'I' re.ipoct alb1o McKini\le. ites inl tho communl1llity, buit it tulrnis mt that t hero woro sc,rvs of them. Nearly all of the plutocrats voted Atit way Oil the sound m11onley, plat. form. They lnd money and wiat t paid back inl g-ld. A good nziny fariers Who iavo t-omo cotto (iOl iland were lod it believo that ,vold go ltp igain to 10 or 12 e'. f McKinley was elicted, Lut it Iropped l) poilltf It (ay after tho Alection. Put it is all over nlow and .h0 wools k--ep rolling on. Let, tiem roll. The milliolairfs utand plhtocits :an't eat their menvy or wear it out. [t is obliged to go back to the toil. 'Irs, thO peopl Iml '01iome iWaLy. Thet tamidard Oil C>mpanlly doclared at lividoied yesterday of .10 por ceit, lt Rockfellor don't boanLrd it. Ile -iVo awIay a big b icf SO to 0dUCatio:I md utilizes the rest.. Wha it a blesed hing it is, that a 11111 cal't, take his uoney with him when ho dies. If iV could I recon wo .oor i olks would >Mrisli out in a generat ion. A fter all t is not mnoneoy that brings happi ess. A good hving, a competoey loiestly earned, brings far m1ioro iappiness than richos. This kind of alk is 4,000 years old, but, peoplo lont believe it yet; everybody wants noncy, a big pilo of money; I would iko it myself. I want somo for a 'aitiy day and como to give away, >ut we are not in distress, and never ave been, though for som years of le war and just after we were oil he ragged edge. Talk about prosperity, I sav it last veek over in South Carolina. There 9 a nice little town over thero called ?rosporit.y, but I didn't soo it I went o the old town of Darlington. I vas their eighteen years ago. It vas a good old town then, but it has enowed its youth and taken on now ife and I hardly know the place. jotton mills and oil mills and good arming hav'e done it. Tim ctin rep of that county' is 30,000) bales *nd the tobacco crop was 0,000,000 onmnds andl it brought half as much coney as the cotton crop. Fifteen 'ears ago there was not a p)oflnd for ale raisoed in the county. They lidn't know it would grow there. Iow there are three large warehous. s, whore it is auctioned off every 1lay. I attended tiht auctions and it vas a revelation to me. The farm srs' wagons woero unloading all round and their tobacco was p)iled tp neatly in long rowsa and their Lames anti the number of pou2ds vritten on a card and stuck in the p)lit end of a little white pline stick ,nd tihat wais stuck in the center of he pile. For an hour or two before hie auction begins thme buyers from richmond and Winston aind Durham ,nd( Lii erpool and other markets oent all around uanid examinod the uality of every 1p11 arnd took notes. he auctioneer talked so fast I could ot understand him0., but the buyers id. I reckon there wvere twvo or biree hunidrod piles in each ware ouse and the auctioneer and the uyers wonit from pile to pile and old each one where it was. I heard ome knocked down as low as 9 cents and some as high as 57 cents. There a one curious rule about tobacco uctions that (10 not apply to any ther auction. The farmers can re oct the highest bid and keep his to. acco. If lie and his boy's have re olved that their crop shall bring 20 eats a pound and it blrings only 19 le turns tie card down and takes 115 tobacco home, or maybe hauls it round to another warehouse, where lhe same buvers find1 it next day an,d maybo bid over 20 cits for it. This is o of the tricks of the tado. Tiho difformnce betw il tho greidvs was not pt'rceptiblo to my evyes, buit the buyers know. It wais all a bright yel low, but Smomo vasq brittol anld woriietonl, and sonmo was soft. andi pliant Ias at kid glovo. This wits bought for Wrappers. This vvoluI tion has comlo within ten yvelrs, and it is increasing uvery year, for- an JerIo of go.l toleco vill bring" '100 an11d it co.ts only (a to cultivito it. ,My friend, Air. Williansoi, thle banker, told me lie had tirty five aCres plantod this yvar and it Ivtted himli p-# r 1) ero1CY. Thoro is anlotheri OoOlttlOll ilk i)IIliigtOn cOIun1t'. 'Te yearfs aIgo no wheat wis grown there. Now every fiiiei sowvs wieat. and a lar1go II'mr m Iil hasIIt recenI tly, been built. It, was the Sallm way ill Imid. die Georgia. U11i about livo yollr-S r> 1111 that region wis under the bll, antId the farmers did not pro h-end to grow whitiit . Now they malke nore 0 wheat to tile Iter, ill IIroIun)d SrAlin ald BarlIesville, than we cln) IIko in iortly (Georgia. And so ovolttion and revoli(ionl is going on, buit. tIe' doni't givo McKinIIley credit ftr it, in Soultih C11r0ilil. It. is 11u11sing to ival them tell aboulf, ho prospvrous nlegrovs overI there. It-twoveei cottoni aid tobacco they pocket, at pil of moIlniy', nlld tipond nvaarly very dollar before they Iave towni. Ono Imal 50o1l them 37 Hock liill buggies il onle weeik, anId Mr. \Villifumsonl toldI mll of n (likey VIo drow i nll Spent S3 of it, that (lLy for it fin guin anlld at poilter dog 1to will 1.o begging his landlord for an dll1lvalneo before Christmas. I hadl. at delight ful- timo at Darlington and 1 ennettsvillo ailnmd Bis!'opvillo and last, lat lock Hill. Bishopvillo ought, to bo nalmled "Sweet. Auburn, the loveliest village of the plail." I found old friends and11( acquailtanlecks it over pIlaco anild was honored far beyond ily dvserv in1g. My wifo hasn't got mDo back lin tho tracesi yet. Near Bishopvillo I found an old timo friond, Mrs. id, the sister of m1) sch1oolIllltes, Nod (loulding and John an( of Frank G(oulding, wvlho wroto the "Youig Marooners." Sho is now 89 years old id camio nimbly (ovn the stops to mcet mIIe. Ifor husband prelchod in Mt. Zion chureb, noar by for .1-1 years, andl(1 is buri'd in the Mt. Zion gravoyard, whero that eminent mtis. sionairl divinep, Loighton \Vilson iis% burrie(t. The tears glistonod in the dear old lady's vyes a1s wo talckod of her honored fat(her, Drk. Gioulding, anid the old people of Columbus who C had passed over the river. An R11 ock I bill wasL anIothier roCve of 5,000 people and four largo cotton ills and( thie largest buggy fact.ory in thie south. 1t turnies out 10,000t a yeartI, nil kinds1 and1( prices, from a (darkey 's choapi ve'hiclo foi' $i0, to ia C runbber tire for $1 a0. Aknd thin thie college girls. Oh, C my countriy. Four hun idred full C growvn girls in unIiform, and ,thiey looked(s n0eitppy, and1( hea'lthly, and1 loving, thait I founid myself hum ming, "Oh, wLldl( I were ia boy . again." It malide 1m1 feel sad to re flect that al1 thoese girls wore b)orn to be malhted as well as5 married, buIt Rome would be nieit.her, aknd alais,L somo1 would( be mairried but not mattch.-R! 1 Arp in At lanta Conait . t. tutIion God Put It in a Hollow Placo. A mot0her in New York waIs qieticly enlgaged ini lir dlomesItic wvorkc, wvhen thle dlreaefl news camne : "Come to the pol ice st aiion ; your child has1 b)eenl run over by an express wagon."'a She haistenled to t he statiloln house, ' anud found1( her chiild surrounded biy ~ strangers. TheIi surgeon had not. yet arrived. She waks told that 11 tIhe wheels patssed over his foot, but oni exaikUnat(ion she found no real inijury. She said to tlic little darling: ''Wh y, WVillie, how could thie wagon hakve paissed over yourt foot I and1( not have crushled it?''. The child looked tup in his mother's face and1( said : "Mamma,in I guess C-od Put it in at hollow c place." ient-.EIrt-Nit an Ordii,ry ;%atn by Any Mtnms. (Mrs. Thaddes Hlort), in At inta Daily News.) Iheodoro ioosevolt, IIthe inewly elet Vico Presid<m1t of the Uiltted States, is not onily on or (ith( imost anitqno and intoresting" charactorsH inl thm 16pu1blicanl parly, bilut(e iq cu illy. onm of tho mos0ft remarkadifblo .kimericanls of th dity. And, leavmg ls political opintiois entirev out. uf ht( que'stion, ho is evven moro inlter. 'sting as it m:11 thlm its it potician. M, Iost. 11mn Wilit 11m1plo inhelrited ortunes, gentl birth 11n1d collegit ducaltionl contmnt. thvimstlvom wvilh he( plonsuro of <"lioiU live(S and pur-, 310 whatovor fad or favicy maiy inter sit thoi in tlie socioty of their euiii. I'liy soldom toi broiw i t solve( into ho curreit of stronoius lifo fnld pol tiecs. Coverni1or Roosevti1, howivoer, ar Iws tailt. no l1a lihas a right to livo nI a freo coiitry who i nliwilling to tidy tho ieostion of governenit at il. arise from day to diy. Ilo allso lolds that no imil who is unwilling o fight for his rights is tntitled to 11JOyN U1hem. (1oVerOr-11 HOOSONvel1 is miio in tho fact, that. hto roprv.sends d111 cumproieds the feings of tii ;olutl, th North anid tho West. I]lis mot her was at Sontherni woman, liss Billoch of 811vannalh anid ictr arr1ingo of thie Govvrlor's falher ceurred it ialf cent(lury 01' so atgo in pictirescluo old colonial homl)(1t n'44r ioswoll, GAl., which wlis tho f1ununerm AM11 of tho bridto's famlily. Archi 1ad Milloch of Savat1na, Iho great rand fithler of the vice president. lvet, wits presideint of tih council of oorgi ind wits tht first imil to eNd th It Doelatrat ion of I 1dloptndenceo i the peoplo of that State. ()to of Gov. Roosevelt's mo1s bears Ito name of Archibald lBulloch, and 1o is inl at childish waly aL greait ftil eit of Goorgit matters. .During bto DOwoy IaIrIad0o last, October tho ioosovelt children, 'vit 1. ,ir mtiothter, matched tle procession froin uo of lie windows of the Fifth Avenue otel. After the govornor pasised rith tht State troops the party lost beir vital inter(fst, ill tho allairs, all xcept Archibald Bullocb Roosevelt. Il hung out the window Watching Dr the (oorgia troops, inl which lie ILt a1deep porsoail interest and thich ho lchored lustily its thoy Assed. One of Tteotore Roosevelt's un los built the Aliabamaii antd aniother f them fired I th last gun1 abhoardl eri. l 1118 as always felt at deop in-. i'rtst inl Southen afflairs ; anrd in ict, considers t hat lho inhort'i s 11s mehi from his Southern ats from his ortiten anlcestors4. lie is likewise studtlt. of Sou thern history and1( is great ittdinire r of thIt gon ius andit harattr of Robert E. Leo uando ini is history of Thiloma.st Hairt Bon[i.on, ontcerniing wich so 1much1 hits ro 3untly bo(oni said( in t.ho neowspatpors, ivos8 it ats his opinlion t hat Robert Leo( wias thei very gretest of atll 1o groat captains tii htgnghlh speak Mrs. Roosovelt, too, hais some1 outhern aflil iations1. Site is the iece of Capitaiin Etdwitrd Leighton 'yler, who lived inl Atlanta for somie lilt iindt is no0w residinug in Ann iston, ad of Mr. Augustus Tyler of Wash igton, .D. C. Sheti'is a refined, cult.nretd woman, ill y'oung atnd lovely ini apponierano, Ithough she is ihIo mnot her of five bildtroni. hbe hi .F pinik and1( whiito kini, soft browvn hatir, and1( beautiful earl-like ttooth. She has1 thbe repu ition of being (extremeley practical ndl sincero. Thecre are six iHoosovelt bildlren. Tihe oldest1, Ethtol Rooso. ('it, a child b.y his first marriage, I a tail, lovely girl of sixtceci. She kept closoly att home, howvever, and ratS not llowed to bie prosent at atny f tile formal funictions1 at th mn. on1 dluring liar father's itdiniistra ion. At ii society reception the .irst year of his governorship (the airgest reception of the winter, by he way), site ,'at Onl the stops for an Lour or so waittching tihe shifting rowdl bolow, in company with Tod dy." Jr., and Archibl1 nooia both in violot. k kit jtorbockers. Tho scene wis liko a glimpso of tho (Ileei's drawing room. The Troy Guirns iin their crinison jackots i nd Hilvor blihoi4, lined tho hllIs 11H sell tiIels anid divided Ithe oCiming aind going Crowds 111 and dmow the great Sh ilvirio. 1he1otdoro Ioosovolt is a mnan of IIIquestioned Courage, great enthusi ItsmI and ildonitable energy. Since he left collego ho his written fifteen published works, represented his dio t riet at. four sessions of the legisla ture, sient. eight, years ill tho West, whvere h ts several ranches, ind where, in the courso of his life there, lIh becamo familiar with the cowboy character. lie served as police, com. niissioier of Now York, during which ho mado his first impression on the general publiv; iteted its assistant sec - rotary of the navy; commanded the Uoigh Ridors it San Juan, and ser*Ved two years as governor of Now York StIate. 'lis isis a full reCordA of usefulness for a mtian of .12 years old. Ito is allso in enthilsiastic sports ain ain Id i hunter of big game. Henry Loomis Nelson once said of Iloosevelt: 'I to is threo men in one, and o of them is a boy." This is true, and the "boy" is tih0 miot at tractivo thing about the man11. His minniers are delightful an( sincere. lie gives you his full attention, what ever lie subject may be, aind lis a keen sense of humor. lIo 's, more over, as hospitablo as a Southerner. No more interosting figuro ovor occu pied the vice prosident's cliair; inl faet no man in modern politics com bines inl bis charactor and opinions so many uniquo and interosting quall iI ivs. Dlo is a politician by profos sioni, bemuso ho loves to fight, to be inl the front ranks of all movements, becauso bho 1 it hunter of "big game" by natture, and becauso be holds the opinion that overy American should be a student of political life and a part.icipant inl it, olso lie is unworthy of his citizonship. Moreover, lhe holds the opinion that if a mtn be lieves himself fitted to hold iny par. ticulafr oflico lie should at Once seek it; lie should io every manly ro solirco to obtaink it, for it is his du1ty am ai American to do so. But Theodoro Roosovelt is no time. server and nto boot-lick. They say ho could not have boon re-elected governor of Now York. Perhaps not, for Io had itantagonized con plotoly the machino by absolutely re fesing to allow the progross of its nefarious schemes. lI had antagon ized capital and1( corpIorations by re fusing to itllow them to; impose upon liabor and the piublic. And in all of this it is t rue, from the standpoint of p)olit ical life, lie was its "'unwise its a child.'' I lowever, he is the p)olitical hero of the hour. Eveni those who are not. ini sympa)ithy withI his opinions atre for the most p)art. under the spell of his umarvelous vitality of courage and versatility. lie is, indeed, the d'Artagnan of American politics, ats fearless, as inatorest i g, as successful and ats picturesque as that great hero who for forty years has delighted andi( enthralled the world of readers. It is his p)ictulresquleness, by the way, thiat hit; enemies cannot forgive. And, yet, arny m who canl be origi. inal andil successful at the same time becomes also at on1cC picturesque. But few 1)eop)1 are originally msue cossful. Most of our politicians, on hothi sides, are (dull, tame, uninterest ing and1( ordinary in every particular. None of these adjectives are, how ever, descriptivoeof the vice president elect of the United States. From a Bsuhel of Corn. llecre is sec analysis given by a Kentucky newspaper: F'rom a bushel of corn the (distiller gets four gallons of whliskey, wvhich re tails at.................$68 The farmenr gcts... ..........25 The U. S. Government gets 4.41) T'he railroad company gets. 1.00 The muanufacturer gets. .....co The dIrayman gets .......... .15 Thle retailer gets.... ... ....oo Tbce customer gets ........runk The wife gets...... ......Hnger The children get . .........ags TLhe politician gets. ...... .Ome,