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Dewey as Independent Would Help Bryan. Qeoorml Neva and Political OoMtp In Wasbtogtoo. Wssbisgtoo, April 9?If those reepoeible for Admiral Dewey'e nn ooeaoemeot of bio oendidecy for tbe prssidsotial nomination have tbe rs-*| motest idea that be oan get tbe democratic nomination away from Ool Bryan, they have another gu?ss oomiog to them. There is 001. a .democrat io either braoeh of cou groao. io oympetby wbith the Chicago Cform. who doeo not regard Col en's nomtoatioa aa already made, aod too Keneae City oooveaiioo an a aotiooal mooting that will be held to ratify thai nomination Admiral Poppy aayo bo to a demoorat aod bee always been one, bot that be baa oever coat o vote If bs bad msde toot statement when be Bret returned frrm Manila wbeo hie friend, Senator Proctor, of Vermont, wee repeatedly declaring toot bo woo o republican, It woold bovo carried more weight. Bot, toywey, democrats who do not vote oeo oot tbe tbe tort of democrats woo bolp tbe party to win eleotic-os Off woo deserve ofloe from tbe party If Admiral Dewey becomes an inHe poodeot oaodidate for president, be milt reader material aid towards the smotioB of Ool Bryan, as bs would probably get votoe which woold oth srwiss go to MoKioley. If every demooratio member of tbe bosjoo will oooopy bie eeat aod vote Sgsiast the Porto Rico bill. tb*>t ieiqaitooo meseore can be defeated wboo it Is taken op tbie week. Tbe repabiioao oaooue hae declared in ?vor of poosiog tbs bill just as it is tut from tbe seooto. bot there are qoito o number of republicans who toy they wil'i not vote for the bill sod * few woo will eotuslly vpte agaioat it, ood it la practically certain that owing to absentees, a vote Sgsisst tbo bill eqssl to tbe foil democratic membership of tbe bouee. will dofeot it Both sidee ore work log hard to get their absentees in Waehingtoo In timf to vole Bad aa tbo tariff olsose te in principle, the section of tbo bill providing a oivi) government for Porto Rico ia eveo worse Under it. the real govern most of tbo Islsnd oao bo pot into tbo b?nde of ear pet baggere, and that soob a government woold be pro dootive of eooodala was folly shown by tbo oiporieooo during tbe reoon Sirootloo period io southern statee Tbo distinguished eudieooe wbiob beard Boo Webster Davie' 6 at lootoro on tbo war in South Africa lodmaaos tbst those who claim that a sjojortty of our people eympatbtse with tbo Boers ore right Tbe Iro tore, which abound* with arguments showing why we eboold sympathiie with tbe two repoblice which are struggling for their lives against on* of tbe word'e grestest empires, was applauded from otart to finish. Mr Davie ia receiving invitations to speak io behalf of the Boera from ? ovary eeotiou of tbe coontry Heerloge of the Clerk case have beau closed aod the oenete commit toe oo flection* ia considering the evidence ood tbe argumenta of coun? sel An adverse report ia looked for from tbe committee, bot it ie generally eipacted that the vote of too senate will bo io fsvor of Henatoi Clark. It would require o two thirds vote to uoeoot him. It m regarded aa significant ofi oomiog eboogo io tbo edministration'e Philippine polioy that tbe official ssmsosssmsot ie mode that Oan Otis will stsrt for toe ?? ited Mates at aboat tbo time tbe oew Philippine oomsaieoioo arrivee at Manila It ie well known tbet there wee much clashing between Otis and the old commission although be was a member of tbot body, aa was Dewey Tbe sdmioistrstion doee not intend tbot o deeieioo from the supreme eoort ebsll be bad on tbe question of tbo constitot ion foliowiog tbe fljg before tbe preeideotial election if it oan poeeibly preveot it Thie has been shown by the notion of Secre? tary Osge in ordering that a oontraot laborer brought from Porto Rico to Now York, for the express purpose of making a test caae, be allowed to I aod Repieeeutative Modellen, of New York, hae offered a reeolo tloo io tbo hoose, celling upon Seo rotary Oege for the corre?pondeuc io thie ceee end Senator Jones, of Arkansas, offered e similar reeolo tioo In the eenate, which waa at ooce adopted How thie action on the part of Secretary Gage strikes tbe democrats and populists in coo greaa may be jadged from the fol lowing expressions of opinion : Sen ator Ttllman?"1 don't blame the repobl.iana for trying to dodge the ioooe, for they moet reeliz* that the decision of tbe courle will be againet them If I had my may I would force tbe administrativ, to ta?e cognizance of the question, by going to Porto Rico and securing a ship load ol contract laborers aod bringing them to tbe United Metre A tremendous howl would go up from orgsnized labor, wbioh would compel the ad ministration to submit to a lest of the low." Senator Taliaferro?"The sd ministration seems eniiou* that the Porto Rioao question shbuld remaio suspended in midair until after tl?3 presidential eleerioe " Senstor But? ler, obsirmsB of tbo populist natiousi committee?"There ie no doubt io my mind that the republican party to efreid to have the matter tested in the courte prior to the presidential eleotlon " Representative Sulzer, of New York ?"They are afraid to make the issue " There is to be a Wioter Cam? paign in Soutb Africa London, April 10 5am ?Britons are now beginning through reluctant ry, to realise that Lord Roberta is in for a winter osmpsign Issting seversl months This is the end, in a few words, of the high hopes based upon Lord Roberts' brilliant dssh to Kim berly and Bloemfontein Prepsrstions sre being msde to hold Bloemfontein sgsinst surprises Lord Kitchener bss been given an important doty, being responsible for tbe protection of tbe railway, while Lord Roberte is waiting for re mounts snd winter clothing for the troops, whore tbio ootton knaki uniforms and boots ere worn out Oen Brabant and Oen Oatscre are both at o etandstill Lord Roberts will probably for soms time confine bie oporstiooo to clearing tbe Free State bebind bim of raidere and to relieving Mafeking, for whioh pur pose appsrently the eighth division, now arriving at Oape Town, baa been ordered to Kimberley Lady Borah Wileou sod other Mafe king correapondente send diariee of the doings tbsre, showing thst tbe Boers bsve tried, by abandoning their trenohes, to lore tbe beeieged out into a mined ambush Forluoately the British engineers discovered tbe mine out the wire communication and unearthed 260 poonde of war gelatine i What the obancee sre for an ad vauoe to Pretoria may be judged from the faot that only from eiz to ten thooeond borees sre oo their way to the Cape and from tbe further faot that the military tailoring department only withio tbe last three weeke be gan making woolen khaki uniforme It ie eaitT it will take at .least two months to provide 200,000 uniforms. Tbe Fisober Wolmaraos deputation h** foil power to negotiete for pesos, subject to the rasd's sanction. Lady Roberto will remain at Gape t .wn. The Duke of Westminster, the Duke of Mar thorough and Lord Henry Cavendish Bsntiniok bsve gone to the front A COMPLEX SITUATION London. April 9 ?Tbe amazing activity of tbe Boers soutbeaat and southwest of Bloemfontein oon tinues, the Boer oommands seemingly coming and going throughout a wide region as they pleese, but tsking good osre not to throw themselves against atrong bodieo of the British The retirement of tbe Irish Rifles from Roozville and Aliwal leaves Gen Brabant with communication with the other British officers He has 2,000 or 3 000 colonials holding a fine defensive country, but be is apparently jnvealed so far aa London knowa Telegrsphed and railroad c ?romunication who Bloemfontein sre kept up ss usua , but nothing comes tbrongb for public conaump tioo Lord Roberts' laat messsge as dated April 6th, and tbe laat unofficial message bore date of April 7th Tbe absence of newe oe usual disheartens tbe people and produces t?n altogether discouraging effect The laat unofficial message notee thst good spirits at Bloemfontein are continuing aod tells of tbe sr rival of animals and two fresh regimente Lord Roberte bss now 16,000 mounted men altogether In the Orange Free State tbe eitua tion ie complex, with eoaoty material for forming a oorrect esttmste of tbe situation CHINA AND THE POWERS __ London, April 7 ?A apeoial dis? patch from Shanghai announces thst the American, British, German and French Ministera have sent s joint note to tbe Chinese foreign office, de? msnding the total suppression of the society of ? Boxers,'' within two months snd snnooncing tbst other wiso the powere nsmed will Isnd troopa and march into the interior of the northern provinces, Shan Tung and Chi Li, in order to secure ssfety of foreignere According to the same dispstch the American Italian and French legations sre now provided with naval gnards from the large gather Inge of warships at Taku Rural Free Delivery. Washington, April 8 ?The rural 'ree delivery Byftt'tn of I lie post cffico deps'tment hae grown to such proper 'ions that it has b<?en found neornssry in create tan new divisions to properly handi* it Ao order, eff"rtive May 1, signed by the postmaster general today, '?>f*hhshc4 foar divisions, tbe eisiern Hi vision with hesHqiarters at New V rk ; middle divo-ioo, headquarters Indianapolis comprising Ohio and all ?'a'es ?c-t to ihn Missouri and south s-n stetes down to aod including Louisiana, otth K M. Dioe io charge ; the wsstsro division, headquarters, Denver, aod the southern division, ineluding eleven southern atstse, head* qrteriers st Wssbiogtoo, with H. Coo qssst Clsrks is ebarge. NEAL MUSI BE TRIED IN COLUMBIA. Judge Benet Does Not Allow a Change of Venue Columbia April 10 ?Three prelim inary motions were yesterday present ed io the case of Col W A Neal. charged witb fraudulent intent, but Judge Beuet overruled each, and the former superintendent ot the peniten tiary now goes on trial represented by Messrs Julius Boggs snd Oole L Blesse, and Col P H Nelson, the latter having beeu brought ioto the case yesterday afternoon Every joror has been put on bis voir dire,, aod 11 members of the jury? all good men?have been secured so far When the case was 6rst called up yesterday the motion for a cbaoge of venue was made and argued el; leDgth.Judge Beoet finally overruling; it In the afternoon Col Neal mado an effort to quash the venire of jurorn for this term ; the matter was strong ly preseoted, but Judge Benet failed to aee the foroe of the argument and this motion was also refused The counsel for the defense theo pleaded for further delay io that their wit? nesses were not here Judge Benet ?aid that a week's notice bad been given This led up to still aootber preliminary motion?a motion to quash the indictment because it wss defeotive This, too, was overruled, and the trial was entered upon Col Neal was placed in the dock aod entered a plea of "not gailty ,r The jurors were then pot oo their voir dire as called up and when 11 had been accepted, it was found that the panel bad been exhausted, and an extra venire of seven wss ordered drawo, the seven reporting at 10 o'clock this morning. The first of the cases against Col Neal, former superintendent of the penitentiary, that for breaoh of trust with fraudulent intent and grand larceny in the Fowler draft matter, was tried yeaterday, and just before 6 o'olook the jury took the case aod retired to deliberate All day the coort loom was filled witb a mixed audience, all listening attentively to the evidence and to the arguments. The trial consumed much less time than waa expeoted The defense after the State had reated its rase concloded that the testimony pre sented by the State's witnessess wae of such a cbaraoter that it waa use less to put up aoy witnesses though tbey were present, and the argument began without a single witness be? ing put on the stand by Col Neal's counsel The verdict was an acquittal. ?ibbb>???s?*s?? saw B aster Novelties. A rush basket, the handles tied witb Dresden ribbon, has a tiny duckling peeping out from the nest on top of the covers. These little chicks and duck* lings once walked the earth, though they did not tarry long on it, and are not the manufactured Imitations of In? fantile grace In the fowl line which so largely answer the demand at this season. Nothing more cunning can be Imagined than two of these little balls of yellow fiufilness snuggled up in a nest. The knowledge, too, that under It Is a satin lined box full of candy helps to make it the more convincing. All these things are imitated, and most successfully, in candy and Ices, so that the whole set out?hen, nest, chicks and nil?can be eaten. One of the prettiest desserts to order I'or an Easter dinner or luucheon would be a broken sugar egg. decorated with sugar butterflies and filled with cither Ice cream chicks or Ice cream eggs?Just as you please and In as many differ? ent colors as you like; or a nest of spun sugar, filled with Ice cream eggs, upon which a sugar hen sits, or with some of the eggs broken and a chick ready to step out and a sugar rooster standing by to give sweet encourage? ment Little novelties in the way of sorbet cups, a broken egg mounted on wheels and drawn by a rooster, silver eggs on a leaf or llttlo stands would make pretty bonbon nie res and luuch? eon favors.?Releetod. Ituaklu'a Collnrn. A prophet indeed has no honor in his own country. An English gentleman who had gone to It rant wood on an out? ing tour, finding himself in need of books in order to beguile a heavy hour or two, stepped into a bookstore of Uuskin's village and asked the lady at? tendant if she had any of the thinker's books, "Yon," she replied. "There wrrr some, but they were not often ?aked for." llavlng obtained the book be desired, he asked her what she thought of the great critic and teacher. Her ideas of Hoakln's personality were very vague, however, ami she excused her igno? rance on the ground that the people about there did not seem to trouble much about him. As for herself, she only kuew him n? 'the old gentleman who only had a clean collar once a week." i (I u H D 1) i imu lillLI Suggests That the Repub? licans Read the Bible. MIGHT HAVE GOOD EFFECT. Calm the Troubled Spirits of Warring Factions. GRAVE CHARGE BY PARTY ORGAN Bays That Giving Free Trade to Por? to Rico Would Deprive the G. O. P. of a Larve Contribution to the Campaign Fand ? Democrats Pre? paring; For the Fray?Colonel Hep barn In a Sad Stn te of Mind. [Special Washington Letter.] My readers know that I have fre? quently disclaimed the dubious honor of being either the legal or spiritual adviser of the Republicans, but they are now so badly torn up the back and down the front, their minds are so dis? tracted, their hearts so lacerated and their animosities toward each other so bitter that as a sort of amicus eurioe 1 make bold to suggest to them an ex? cerpt from a very old book whose very existence they appear to have forgot? ten. The book is the Bible. The writ? er of the passage which I commend to them was King David. If our Re? publican friends cannot get together on the Porto Rica a matter, perhaps they can rally round the One Hun? dred and Thirty-third Psalm, which runs in this wise: "Behold how good it Is for brethren to dwell together in uni? ty!" Senators Gallinger and PenrorSL when ther next give each other the Irfc and have a notion to punch each oth? er's head, should think of thai and cool off; likewise General Grant and Mr. Ray of New York when tbe former lets his angry passions rise because he is. accused on the floor of the house by the New Yorker of engineering a steal. But the psalmist continues, "It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard; that went down to the skirts of his garments." I know that the Republicans are very slow iu turning their minds to religious matters, but they may console them? selves with the history of the laborer who got to work in the vineyard at tbe eleventh hour, provided they know where to find that parable. There is a chance that they may be forgiven if they will let up In their devilment even now. Pride goes before a fall. In January they were so arrogant that they bra? zened out everything, however shame? ful, even the Gage-Hepburn corre? spondence, which is a disgrace to ev? erybody concerned. To every charge they answered by quoting in effect Boss Tweed's famous query, "What are you going to do about it?" Now they are wrangling, the air is full of criminations and recriminations, innu? merable conferences are held, senators threaten representatives, representa? tives retaliate on senators, and they all appear to be going to what Mr. Manta llni euphemistically denominated "the demnition bowwows," quarreling, curs? ing, caterwauling. Sets Them HowIIub. The latest thing to set them howling is an article in the Washington Star, a great Republican newspaper, which runs in this fashion: "The action of the Iowa legislature cannot af? fect the situation in congress. The deal has been made. It is a matter of money for the campaign, and the tariff measure will be carried through." This statement was made by a Republican mem? ber of tbe house who supported the bill in the house by his vote. "You may aa well set it down that the deal will be carried out." he added. "The carrying out of the recommendation of the president for free trade with Porto Rico would have deprived the party of a very considerable contribution. The adoption of the reverse policy insures a very large contribution. The possible unpopularity o! the Porto Rican tariff was balanced against the certainty of money to use in the campaign, and the decision was in favor of the campaign con? tribution. It was not expected that the storm of protest would be as strong as it is, but it is now too late for a change." * The Washington Post, independent, goldbugglsh. high tariff, pronounces the above quoted article to be "remark? able, not to say astounding." Porto Rico Sacrificed. Then The Post quotes the article itself and adds this commentary, which 1 advise all my readers to lay away for future use and reference: It is quite unnecessary to say to our local read? ers that The Kvening Star is not a yellow jour? nal or a setr .'.ion monger or an irresponsible purveyor of scandal and excitement. If The Star declares?as it docs in this instance?thst a mem* ber of congress has made the statement above quoted, it is perfectly safe to assume that it speaks the truth. The Star has everything to lose and nothing to gain by disseminating falsehood? and we may add, upon our own motion, that The Star does not bear the reputation ot reckless or unsupported statement. We feel that we are warranted, therefore, in assuming that our es? teemed contemporary speaks with knowledge and conviction when it quotes?if anonymously?a member of the house as declaring that the Porto Rico tariff bill has been inspired by the detest? able and base purpose? el a campaign fund. To say that is to say that the Republican party is using the administration and the congress as the footpad exploits the defenseless wayfarer?for mere plunder in the form of cash! We nave frequently wondered, and as frequently asked, what there is behind all this astonishing determination if. congress to afflict Porto Rico with a tariff, t'nable to understand it ourselves, we ha\e appealed to the country at large for en* llgntcnment?-for cvea a Miggeation. Kvery con? sideration of honor and good faith und justice de? mands that we should treat Porto giro as the president eloquently indicated in his message last December. Almost S'ithout exception the press, ?specially the Republican and the independent press, has supported this demand. And now conies The Evening Stir, us if to answer the al? most passionate anxiety of tbe country, explain? ing in deliberate terms that the tariff against Porto Itico hSS been devised, not for any purpose of Btattemi nahip, not even in mistaken loyalty to national honor, not eves to establish n precedent in the public interest, but simply and solely to placate certain corporations which will contribute handsomely to a party campaign treasury! If this be the case, if P irto Rico is to be sac? rificed to tue sordid uses of a political contest; if these innoient and trustful people who welcomed **ith opfn arms an?) a confided their destinip to our r .. - ?. ... ... ..y r.! *?0 *5! 'luwTiolated on the n.ur of a detestable and mean party emcr- j gency ; if it be true tliat the Republican congress, backed bjr the Republican administration, delib- ' eratcly intends to trade upon the misery and the help.essntSi of a people who have thrown them ?elves upon our mercy, then we say?and we be- : Ueva?that til* country will make hr.ste to de- i Bounce and io condemn and to rebuke an infamy ?o monstrous and so indefensible. Urem WaKKiiiK of ToiiRnes. The foregoing paragraph from The Star, together with the comment of The Post, caused a great ruction j among Republicans, a great laying to? gether of heads and a vast wagging of tongues?in whispers. Their curses were deep if uot loud. "Ah, then ami there was hurrying to and fro," and consultations held in hot haste in se? cret corners; much talk of an investi? gation, which has not materialized and which will never materialize. Mark Hanna took the bull by the horns and swore roundly that the whole tale was several different sorts of a lie. Where? upon The Star reaffirmed the truth of the Interview and boldly stated that the reporter who wrote It was a repu? table gentleman who stood ready to make affidavit to the correctness of the same. Mark In his interview said all the gabble about the Porto Rican tariff was nonsense, Idiocy, rot, etc. He said something offensive about the Indianapolis Journal, Republican or? gan of Indiana, whereupon Hon. John C. New, Its proprietor, who was a statesman of International reputation before the Cleveland boss impinged upon the public view, without any cir? cumlocution whatever, said, "Mark Hanna is an infernal old liar." That is sad, awful, hair raising, stupefying, In? explicable?sad to hear one Republican cursing another openly and above board; awful because It Is probably true; hair raising by reason of the audacity displayed; Inexplicable be? cause he put in the adjective "old." Whether that time honored word has any peculiar significance in that con? nection I do not know. Another straw which shows which way the wind is blowing is the splen? did reception tendered Judge Crum packer of ludiana recently at his Hoosier home by his fellow citizens without regard to political affiliations for his vote against the Porto Rican 1 tariff bill. The judge was the hero of the hour, and they are talking of elect? ing him governor to show their feel? ings and as a rebuke to the rest of the Indiana delegation. Hon. James Taw ney, Republican whip on the Republic? an side of the house, has been missing for some days from his usual haunts. It is whispered around that Jeems Is at home In Minnesota endeavoring to whip his recalcitrant constituents into line. Whether he will succeed as well with them as he did in whipping In Republican representatives to stultify themselves remains to be seen. The news from Minnesota Is that Governor Lind has consented to run for governor again and that the fusion forces have high hopes of sweeping the state this fall as Old Harper of Kentucky used to run his horses? "from eend to eend." Democrats Get to Work. Democrats are waking up and gird? ing up their loins everywhere. Even in Rhode island they are making n brave hand to hand fight. They may not win. for all the powers of boodle, corruption and coercion are combined against them, but even the fact that they have hope enough to fight In "Little Rhody" should give Democrats everywhere hearts of oak. If they should wiu out, the jig would be up with William McKinley. Indeed, a great Republican newspaper in Phila? delphia is advocating the sidetracking of McKinley and the nomination of Thomas Bracken Reed as the only possible way of saving the party from defeat and disaster. No wonder that all these things make the Republicans Irritable?so Irritable that Republican members who hitherto have prided thojnselves on their Chesterfieldian manners are now as cross as two sticks or as a sore headed bear. One Illinois Republican of high degree not of the house?confided to a friend not many days ago that he would not be surprised to see Illinois go Demo? cratic by 100,000 majority by reason of the Cullom-Tanner fight and other things too tedious to mention. Here is a nice campaign document: SONG OF THE TRUSTS. Mark Hanna, 'tis in thee, Stranftlor of liberty, In theo wo trust! Help us to 6well our chests, Not our unmanly breasts. Till in our coffers rests The nation's "dust." Oh, jJark. to thee we fly. Viceroy uf the most high Mammon, our king! Help us to win with wrong; Oh, thou, our sins prolong. And thou abslt hear our song In triumph ring: Our bonded country, thee. Sold into slavery. Thy wealth we love. We love thy "rocks" and tills, We take thy coin and bills. And then to cure thy ills The queer we shove. We make thy people toil, Slave to enrich our spoil, With hunger faint. Long may thy land be blight lty Breed's unholy fight? Protect us by thy might, Great Mark, our taint 1 ?Dante Barton. To show still further in what a heav? enly frame of mind Republicans are toward each other 1 quote the follow? ing poem from the Portland Oregoninn, a thick and thin Republican organ: MR. FACING EVERYWI1ICBWAY. We've been hustin you, McKinley, but we don't know where you air; When we dap cur fingers on you, why, wo find you're nevi r t here. Utien we hunted through the tariff, in the place you'd ought to be, Why, you wasn't round there nowhere, least a? f:ir as we could see. In this PortO Rico thingumbob we thought we'd find you pore; When we not there you'd been trckkin, like the smooth and wily Hoer; So we asked the gold supporters if they thought we'd Bad ) on there, And tiny said they guessed so, some place, but they didn't just know where. Alger said he hadn't aren you. and he shod ? bitter tear When he said you'd gone and left him. lik?* a ?inkin ship last year. When' Grs vTTT?*r'J^TT Tlanna, cbo was "busy courtin pclf. Why, ho said he couldn't tell us, fer he didn't know liisscif. So we've ?-ist ki-p' on a-hnntin tili BVre nearly petered out. And, although we thought wc had you, now w? find we're still in doubt. If those lines should ever reach you. and you'd write us win re you be, You'd confer a good sized favor on your Meaatj the G. O. Colonel Hepburn's Dilemma. The Hay-Pauueefote treaty bangs over house Republicans as a pall and is Interfering with the passage of Colo? nel Hepburn's Nicaragua canal bill, which is the apple of Ufte colonel's eye, for if he can get his bill through and have the caual dug he thinks, perhaps not incorrectly, that he will not only be doing his country a vast service, but will be laying hold of imperishable re? nown for Colouel William Peters Hep? burn. This is a laudable ambition if it can be realized, but there Is the rub, and the colonel knows it full wel\ He can see as far into a grindstone as the next one, and he knows that, the Hay Pauncefote treaty, unless witi^rawn or defeated, will lose. bJni, many votes for his canal bill, perchance enough to beat it. Consequently till colonel is not in a beatific frame qf. mind and is likely to heat the chilly spring atmos? phere to a high degree if be is balked in his ambition. Repnb'jcans are ac? quainted with the coloners powers and endurance as a tighter an*) would be glad to placate him, but the chances are that the administration is so en? tangled with Mr. Bo!/, that it cannot recede and will endeavor Ho force the ratification of the treaty, ft it does, there will be music in the Stir and lots of fur and bits of cuticle, "On with the dance! Let joy be nneonfined!" while Republicans wool, each other. They can render the country more service that way than at anything they have undertaken lately. I am somewhat in the dumps myself; not by reason of any political mishap, for things political are going on swim? mingly, but because the mournful news comes that Andrew Carnegie and Hen? ry Clay Frick have fallen on each oth? er's neck and made it up. 1 was antic? ipating much undiluted pleasure by reason of the disclosures which they would have made in their great law? suit had it not been smothered a-born in. They have not only made up, but have formed a new corporation capi? talized at $300,000.000. Now, if they made $42,000,000 annual profit off of $25,000,000 capital, as Carnegie estimat? ed It, it makes one dizzy to contemplate the profits of the new concern. They are enacting before our eyes and under our very noses a scene which double discounts the wildest dreams of the al? chemists. LonUlana Pnrehsse Centennial. The best nonpolitlcal thing bruited in congress now is the world's exposi? tion at St Louis In 1303 to celebrate the centennial of the Louisiana pur? chase, the greatest achievement of finance and statesmanship ever per? formed by any one man. My friend Professor T. Berry Smith of Central college, Missouri, has set forth his views of the great exposition in the following verses: Di DE CITY OB ST. LOUIS IN 1903. Ole 'oman, listen to rue?now de cbillun's all in bed Jess listen whiles 1 tells yo' what I heah de parson said, What he tole us at de mcetin ob tie 'flcial board tonight. For dc parson reads de papers while he ten's de gospel light. Dar's gwine to be ? t ir< ;;s? dat egne'ly ain't de eaase What de parson tole de fcredrcn, but it means about the same? Dor s gwine to be a circus, an lie say it's gwine to be In de ?.ity ob St. I/ouis in 1903. 'Twill be de bigges' circus dat de worl' has eher had, An it's gwine to be a circus vvhar dar won't he uothin bad: De pasture an his people widoot breakin ob de rules Kin go to ate de circus as welt as the animules. All sexes cb religion?dc gentile an de Jew, De Bap tu', an de Metbodis', an de 'Piscopaliasa. too All sexes ob religion, he say, was gwine to see De circus in St. l.ou.s in 1903. Dar's gwine to be perccsfions, an de ban's ams gwine to play, An de tents will cubber acres?dat's what dt parson say? An when yo* gits yo' ticket?'twill cos' yo' fifty cents? Dey'Il let yo' in for nothin to go through all dem tents. Dar'll be jess leads of goobers an de pinkes' liro onade, * Dar'll be fried pies an do'nuts, de bestes' ever made. An dey'U let yo' in at mornrn to stay all day an pec Dat ein us in St. Louis in 1903. * t Oh- 'oman. yo' ought to bin dar to heard biia 'epaetate About his country's glory, on pro7>dence ga fate; lie BSV de Lord was in it whin Jeff'eon took de chance To purchase Ix>otzannie from Bo.:ypart oh Krance. An dat do I.rf>rd intended from far creation's birth To manifest his glory to all de tribes oh yearth In do ftUsa*asippi valley?de time an p^ace to be In de city ob St. Louis in 1903. To help do Lord to show us de glory dat awaits Do pars.on say do raagVCBS ob these United States Would gib live million dol'ahs to help dc cause along. An den. de whiles de choir was sirgin ob a song. De states an corpyratious would march up to d? table An plank do'se money down as much S3 de' ta able; No doubt at all about it?dat circus gwine to be In de city ob St. Louis in 1903. Ole 'oman, we RttSB* Fee it, we tho'ly can't afford To mies <!is chance ob sooin de glory ob de Lord; Although we's bin good Mcthodis', we might backslide and fall An not git into heaven to see de Lord at all. So we asas* take do chances dis side de p>ai!v gates? De parson say do railroads will gib excur/iou rates? An yo' an me, o'e 'oman, mus' sho'Iy go to see Dat ein us in Sc. Ixniis in 1903. HhWy Burn*, Bruises, RhetimtV P tisX and Sores. Price. 25 CtSJ, ^oM hi H'lprtaon t ? r r I mum ? ? ? ? ? F'*nk L ? ie> Popn ei MnMblv et'opo litsn Mxfgi e, Man<e Jaoiora fo April at H O Oftten 4 Co