Evening Star Newspaper, September 30, 1896, Page 12

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We are compelled to make a speedy Closing Sale of our stock of Dry Goods, Silks, Velvets, Curtains, Portieres, Up- holstery Fixings, Window Shades, Cur- tain Poles and House Linens, all of which have been divided into lots and marked at prices that wiil astonish you. CALL AND CONVINGE YOURSELF. Colored Silks, sold at 25c. Now.......- I2K“C.gy COS680 ee Colored § ks, plain and fancy. Now...... 15c.@) Plain and Colored Silks, sold at 40c. Now.. 25¢. Silks sold at 65c. and 75c. Now...........- 35¢c. B Silks sold at 75c. and $1. Now..........55 50C. 25 Silks, the finest grades. Now...........+- 68c.4 Dress Goods, ‘double widths. Now......... roc. 2 5c. Dress Goods, “Assorted Wash Goods. Now. 30.2 © Cotton Dress Goo s, all sorts. Now ‘able No. re. Dress Goods, Satteens and others. Now.... 8c. able a1. Dress Goods, all wool and wool mixed...... 15¢.© 12. Dress Goods, French, German, all wool.... 25¢.~) 13. Dress 14. Curtains and Portieres at Half Price. Table Covers, Cushions, Flower Pots, > Screens, Couch Coverings and Roman Blankets AT HALF PRICE! We are now showing in our Millinery Department the largest and choicest collection of U ntrimmed, Trimmed Alpines, Walking and Bicycle Hats to be found in the city. Our Cloak Department stock is now complete with all the fall styles of Jackets, Capes and Suits for ladies and children. We sell the best goods for the least money. 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Horse Blankets and Lap Robes in large variety and at lowest prices. 0e28-208 OPIUM HABIT AND Gras Switches, 4.50, formerly . First-class attendants in Hairdressing, Shampoo- te. Te our “Curlette” for retaining curl. S. HELLER’S, 720 7th Street N. W. om teling aboot DRUNKENNESS. T. WALKER SONS, 204 10TH ST. N.W.. CAR- | the diseases and how cured SENT FREE. t Lining, Felts, Fire Brick and Clay, Asbestos, | at home it r . Mi. uM Ge. Paints, xuiben, Lie. Cement.) twe end (gee ee == D., Atlanta, FOR SOUND MONEY A Business Men's Club to Be Formed in Cincinnati. REPUBLICAN LIKELY 70 SUCCEED SORG What Governor Bushnell Says of the Claims for McKinley. WORK IN THE STATE Oorrespondence of The Evening Star. CINCINNATI, Ohio, September 28, 1896. The business men of this city have in- augurated a most important move, and which they conceive will result in much good in the campaign in the way of stirring up the sound money people and securing an overwhelming victory. The movement grew out of the recent pilgrimage of the commercial travelers to Canton. It is the intention to arouse more activity and en- thusiasm in this section and to emulate the city of New York in this respect. A call was issued some days ago, addressed “to the merchants, manufacturers and business men of Cincinnati.” As a result of this there was a wei!-attended meeting Saturday afternoon, at which an organiza- tion was effected, and further meetings will be held for a more detailed arrange- ment of the work to be done. Some Ppara- graphs from the call, which more clearly Set forth the purpose of the organization than any other statement could do, follow: “Behind the Chicago platform stand the Tillmans of South Carolina, the Waites of Colorado, the Pennoyers of Oregon—men who pitchfork presidents, threaten to ride horses bridle deep in blood and insult the constituted authorities of the nation. On this platform stand thousands who, led astray by false financial doctrines, are in a mood to listen to the advice of violence. Their leader is a young man, full of enthu- slasm and half knowledge, a lawyer, a Congressman, an editor, who believes him- self a Moses raised up to lead the people into a promised land. Without business ex- perience, without the learning of the stu- dent or the knowledge of a statesman, he has the eloquence of a Robesplerre and the enthusiasm of a Desmoulins. Is it any wonder that in his letter of acceptance Mr. McKinley characterized the whole move- ment as a reactionary one, or that Presi- cent Harrison in the mest notable speech yet delivered in this campaign warned the country against the threatening danger! “It is not free silver alone that threatens. It is not alone the attack on the Supreme Court. It is not the defense of Chic: lawlessness, alone. It is all combined, which makes party, platform and candidate a danger to established order, to the in- stitutions of the country, even more serious than that with which the country was con- fronted in the civil war. “The party, at the head of which stands Mr. Bryan, claims Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky. We believe he is’ reckon- ing without knowledge. We believe vanity or a disordered imagination conjures up v-sions of success, impossible of realiza- tion. But if the cla!m is based on any reason, souzd or unsound, does it not be- hoove the business men of Cincinnati to ist in this struggle as they have not yet enlisted? A generation ago the business interests of this city one man to the defense of the na sailed. ‘There was a time when all were for country and none for party. What the difference what the differences are between republicans and democrats when all that has been held dear and sacred by both is threatened? “It is a time for every business man in this city to whom the opportunities of the republic ure the most cherished of possessions to bear his part in the strug- gle. It is t enough that the conscious end uncc ious enemies of the govern- ment should be overthrown; not enough that those who blindly follow those who vieicusly lead should be defeated. Busi- ness men of Cincinnati, organize, not as politicians, but as business men, for sound morey, for law and order, for McKinley and Hobsrt.”” An Agreement Prepared. At the meeting Saturday the following agrecment was prepared for signatures: “The undervigned agree to unite in form- irg a Merchants and Manufacturers’ Mc- Kinley Club of Cincinnati, to embrace merchents, manufacturers, professional and business men and citizens of all grades, without regard to previous politics, who stand for an honest dollar and sound gov- eri ment. “We agree to devote our energies from this time until the election to secure an overwhelming expression of popular sen- timent in favor of the policy of the club.” Arrangements will be made for a mass meeting to further the objects of the meet- ing. Republican Gain Expected. There ts every reason to belteve that the republicans of the third congressional dis- trict are sincere in making the claim, as they do, that Congressman Paul Sorg will be succeeded by a republican, Col. Robert Nevin. The demccratic nominee is Mr Brenner, the wealthy Dayton tobacco man. Mr. Sorg could not be persuaded to stand for re-election, and that is how Mr. Bren- her came to get the democratic nomination. Then Mr. Sorg went to Europe, and, it is said, he will not return until after electicn. Ex-Gov. Campbell is not taking an active part in the campaign, and Mr. Brenner seems to have been left to his own re- sources. For some reason there is not dem- ceratic harmony in the third district and therein lies much of the hope of he repub- leans. Then, it is said, there is much dem- ocratic disaffection because of the money iseue, and that in a sound money McKinley club of 3,000 members there are crats, who joined without solicita:ion. Col. Nevin’s friends are figuring that he will carry this democratic district by a thousand votes. They claim 3,)00 majority in Montgomery, Col. Nevin’s county, and 400 in Preble. Then they say that Butler will not give Brenner more than 2,500, which will elect Nevin by 000. The Claims for McKinley. The republican claim that McKinley will carry Ohio by 100,000 is based on a tre- mendous gold democratic vote for him. It must be or he cainot hope for such an overwhelming plurality. Governor Bush- nell had but 16,000 majority over all, and it is a majority that must be figured on. Last fall the populists polled 75,000 votes and the prohibitionists about 25,000, This year the populists are nearly all for Bryan, end he will get the votes of the silver wing of the prohibition party. McKinley will not get the gold prohibition vote. It will go to Levering. So, unless he gets a big lift from the gold democrats, he is likely to fall far below the 100,000 figure set for him by his statisticlans. Governor Bushnell ts one of the enthusiasts who talk of 100,000. He says he has been over the state a great deal, and had been mingling with the peo- ple, and believes he knows what he is talk- ing about. He says it is the rankest folly to claes the farmers as for Bryan. He says he has been close to the farmers for years and he knéws they are not for Bryan now as much as they have been for other democrats in the past; that the republican farmers will vote for McKinley, and that in every locality that he has visited he has found democrats who would also vote for him, some on the sound money issue, others on the tariff or rather reciprocity issue. Work for the Sound Money Cause. Ohio is very wide awake, and no better work is being done anywhere for the sound money cause. In the campaign so far pro- vision has been made for four hundred and eighteen meetings. There has been nothing of fireworks in the cémpaign, and there will not be. Only four big meetings have been arranged for, but in almost every township, in every school district; meetings have been held, addressed largely by local 5) ers, who have taken advantage o¥ the neighborhood gatherings to make them sort of experience meetings, where any man who wishes could ask for information and get it on any point at issue. It is felt that such meetings. will do more real good than the “hu " affaires that draw to- gether thousangs of people to a sort of plo- nic, and which have the effect of big holl- Gays and outings, rather than meetings where doubting ones can be reached with Senator-elect Fora! September 30. He some extraordinar! irge ‘meetings since his return from Eu That at Jackson Saturday is spoken of as the largest and most encouraging republican meeting ever held in that famous ‘mining section. There is good feeling there. At no time since the beginning of the hard times have the miners been out drk an hour. and there is consequent prosperity among them and in ‘the section fF ‘country tributary. The Senator on his'teturn to Cincinnati said he had never Attended a political gathering from which ‘he drew so much of comfort and encourdgéiment. ‘His tour will cover aout two weeks. His first meeting will bé‘at Mantoon, Ill. He will speak two or thtee ‘times in that state and then go into faska, Kansas and Missouri, probably r drning through Ken- tucky. saree To Recei}é"Bryan. Within a few days diryan will be in Ohio and will visit Cincimmati. The silver men are taking great pleasure in this and are expecting great things to follow. ‘They are plannirg to give him enthusisastic re- ceptions everywhere, and it cannot for a Jnoment be doubted that the meetings will be large. He will have thousands of re- publicans to see him, for every gold man you meet says he will take advantage of any opportunity afforded to see him. He may not convince them of the error of their ways as he sees it, but he will have them to look at him and to talk to. One of the features of the campaign 1s the presence in Ohio of a number of sil- ver campaigners. Some of them are stump- ing, while others are circulating among the people in a quiet way, putting in a word here and there as private citizens. Some of them pretend to be republicans at heart, but to have become convinced that the salvation of the country lies in the triumph of free silver. They are good talkers and have evidently been selected for their par- ticular fitness for the quiet work in which they are ergaged. tarts on a big tour already addressed — THE BIOYCLE FRIGHT. A Medical Explanation of a Singular Nervous Perturbation. From the Medical Record. The extended use of the bicycle has brought to light numerous physical phe- nomena which have proved profitable sub- Jects for speculation and study. Human ingenuity has been taxed to perfect the mechanism of the machine in almost every direction in which improvement is possible. Its weight has been reduced to the lowest standard consistent with strength and safe- ty, the jolt is counteracted by cushioned wheels, the saddle has been constructed on anatomical principles, the friction has been lowered to the conservative maximum of effective power, while the entire apparatus has been 80 nicely balanced to the cente> of gravity of the rider that the propelling power is rs,little embarrassed as is possi- ble under the circumstances of ease and surety of progression. It is not so much the question of adaptability of the machine to the individual as of the individual to the machine. There is no doubt that a large number of the accidents for which the bi- cycle is so cften blamed is more or less chargeable to the want of care and the lack of skill on the part of the rider. Particu- larly is this the case with many of the nu- merous collisions of which we hear so much. There is one peculiar cause of acci- dent which appears to be particularly as- sociated with the bicycle, in that the latter is In itself a special means to the end of producing a distinct and_ well-recognized form of nervous perturbation, which may, for convenience of ‘description, be desig. nated the bicycle fright. Although it oc curs most frequently with Inexperien riders, it often attacks others who have under ordinary circumstances reasonable control of their wh¢ Under certain con- ditions the passive machine becomes, by a mental perversity of the rider, an uncon- trollable and active agcht of an apparently unavoidable accident, The vehicle is thus forced to run into the very danger that the rider would otherwise avoid, and a direct coll'sion is inevitable, in spite of the fran- tic efforts to prevent it. So far from hav- ing any proper will force in the matter, the rider appears to ald the perverge and’ ca- lamitous tendency. “Ihé pheromena are to be explained, however, on well-established psychological principles, and these differ in degree frcm similar onés In that they are more distinctly indiyidval than under other and more usual methods of travel. It is purely and simply a .pérversion of deter- mination on the part,of the rfder entirely uncontrolled by any other cownteracting agency. The ane élement of .safety for a frightened horsetnan is the possibility of there being some little remaining sense in the horse some instinctivé power on the part of the latter to avert collisions, inde- pendently of the demoralized occupant of the sadd On the other hand,'the run- away bicycle becomes an intensified: exem- Plification of the rider's loss of individual control. It would appear to resemble stage fright in many essential particulars. The interse and overwhelming desire to do well in the face of danger temporarily paral the necessary will force and makes such a result impossible. The untrained bicyclist who wishes to avoid the vehicle approach- ing from an opposite direction {inds him- self helplessly steering toward the object instead of away from it. Under the hyp- notic influence of concentrated attention his _mcvercents become inco-ordinate, and in the striggle to regain his lost grip he becomes the hopeless victim of the pervert- ed reflexes of purposeless effort and the ab- Ject subject of sn optical illusion. When once attacked with this nervous malady it is almost useless to attempt to prevent its injurious tendencies. The victim can no more help himself than can the gnat resist the attraction of the flame. All attempts to collect the scattering wits usually add to the original difficulty and intensify the hysterical desperation of a lost cause. The only hope is in immediate dismounting and the gaining of an opportunity for the nat- ural recovery of nervous equilibrium. For obvious reasons associated with the well-known tendency to nervous disabill- ties in females, such phenomena are more frequent in that sex than in the other, but they occur often enough in both to demand serious attention in connection with the necessity for lessening the number of many avoidable accidents. So widely is this form of fright acknowledged that teachers of bi- cycle ridir.g lay special stress upon the dan- ger of fixing the gaze upon any object nec- essary to be avoided, and in proof of their point frequently demonstrate to beginners the strange tendency, even in roomy halls, to collide with obstacles purposely placed in prominent positions. One of the reme- dies suggested {s to look away from rather than toward the object to be avoided, fix- ing the geze ahead and only in the direc- tion in which the machine should be steer- ed. On the same principle, {t {s uniformly advised that the rider should never look at the revolving wheel or the moving pedals. eS es. A LUMINOUS POWDER. No Lantern Now Needed by a Wheel- woman at Night. From Modern Society. & startling revolution in fashiomable dressmaking has been made possible by the recent discovery if, France of a highly luminous powder, by the use of which the most elaborate toilets ofthe past will be eclipsed. This new “discovery, applied to dressmaking, makes pp'stble a perfectly bewildering variety.,.of ,effects. The dis- covery was made:day & French scientist. The principal ingrédient*=of this magical powder ts sulphate of ‘zinc, which, it is generally known, Reese the power of absorbing light and giving it back in the dark. The ENE yhas succeeded in manufacturing, at triflitig expense, a pow- der which can repr¢ducf, almost any color of the rainbow. It Js itpervious to mois- ture, is not affect carbolic acid or any weak acid, and is, therefore, absolute- ly permanent and er . ‘The importance such a pigment to dressmakers can har be overestimated. A woman cycilst, hi m dusted all over with this powder, Wo! be transformed into a moving, shimm figure of light on the darkest night. The refulgent light could not be extinguished by the hardest rain, It would be visible not only for a considerable distance, but would shed a soft glow over everything around. A wheel- woman equipped in this way would never be in danger of being arrested for riding without a lighted lamp, though she might get herself “run in" for frightening horses. The most attractive use of the new pow- der yet discovered is in making lace worn on black dresses luminous. A 5; der which produces a soft pear! been recently used for pul in Paris. The effect of bands and festoons of this soft light upon a black dress is said to be itching. ———— Insure your ite with Yellott & (08 iath street northwest, "Washington, De lal pow- light has the instruction they néed. = THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1896—-SIXTEEN PaGis. Both Parties Have Been Revising Their Figures on the Outcome, DEMOCRATS CLAIM 38,000 PLURALITY Republicans Assert That McKinley Will Win by 77,000. AN IMPARTIAL VIEW ea Correspondence of The Evening Star. INDIANAPOLIS, September 28, 1896. Both parties have been engaged in the work of revising therr figures as to what will be the result of the election, and there is a difference between them of something 1ore than 100,000. Both purties agree that the total vote this year will reach 575,000, or about 12,000 in excess of that of 1804. Both parties are beating the bushes and scraping the sand piles in search of voters, and using every known effort to get them so enthusiastically worked up as to assure their being out on election day. At dem- ocratic headquarters they have gone into the per cent business in their figuring, and with paper and pencil can figure out a glo- rious victory. In 1894 the democrats and populists combined cast about 48 per cent of the vote and the republicans a little more than 50 per cent. Tak- ing that as a basis, and presuming the total vote this year will be 575,000, the democrats figure that they will have with their vote and that of the populists com- bined, 276,000. They claim they will gain from free silver republicans, 30,000; free silver prohibitionists, 1,000, and will g-t back 12,00) democrats wno strayed away in 1894, thus giving them a total of 319,000, They admit they will lose a total of 22,000 to Palmer and McKinley,being the strength of the sound money feeling among the demccrats. This will reduce them to 297,000. On the fifty per cent basis they give the republicans 29,000, with a gain of 12,000 from the sound money democrats, making a total of 301,000, from which must be de- ducted the loss they will sustain of 30,00 free silver men of their own party, and 12.000 demcerats returned to the fold, mak- ing a tctal loss of 42.000, leaving’ then with a final vote of 259,000. Taking from the 207,000 they ‘claim they } plurality of 38,000. The Republicans’ Claim. To this proposition the republican agers will not agree. man- They take a much more rosy view of the situation, and figure for themselves a victory that would do for Ohio or Pennsylvania in a good republican year. They do agree, however, in the dem- ocratic estimate of the sound money feel- ins: in that party, and place it at for Palmer, but they claim that McKinley will get a much larger democratic vote than that accerded him. They say the will get 80 per cent, or 9,600, of the new vote, while the democrats will get but 2% per cent, or 2,400. They also claim that Bryan cannot get all of the populist vote, even if a fusion is agreed upon. It ought to be said that the above calculation of the democrats is based upon a fusion with the populists. The republicans also claim they will get_as many from the prohibitionis: as will Bryan. Their figures are: Vote of 1894, 283,500; gain from new vot 5: from democrats, 30,000; from prohibition- ists, 1,000, making a total of 324,000, from which they wiil lose of free silver repub- ns, 10,000, leaving them with a vote of 314,000, The give to the democrats: Vote of 1804 238,752; gata from new vote, 2,400; “from free silver republicans, 10.40; from free silver prohibitionis 10; from populists, 100, making a to’ 7,000, From this y deduct a loss to the republicans of 30,090 and to Palmer, 10,000, or 40,009 in all, leaving them with a vote of 237,000, or actually less than they had in 1 Sub- tracting 237,000 from the vote they claim for themselves, 314,000, they have left a ry handsome and attractive plurality of It will be seen that the republicans claim exactly the same number of gains from the democrats that the democrats claim they will make from free silver republicans. Scmebody is at fault. The republicans, making their figures, put the pambde free siiver republicans at 10,000), but say there are not more than one-third of that number in the state. They also say that while they have counted 25,00 populists for Bryan, he will not get more than 15,000, With such an array of figures, cne would naturally expect a happy state of feeling at both headquarters, but such is far from being the case. There is a very decided feeling of unrest and insecurity at both places. This, however, is much more no- ticeable at the democratic rooms. An Impartial Estimate. For more than twenty years The Star correspondent has been taking observations during political campaigns in Indiana, and casting horoscopes, and his observations this year convince him that at tlie present Mr. McKinley has much the best of the sit- uation. From all he can gather, the repub- licans will make a net gain this year over their vote of two years ago, of an average of three to the precinct, or a total of 9,000. They will also have the best of the new vote. My figures are: Republicans—Vote of 1894, 283,000; gain Srom democrats, 9,000; from new vote, 7,000, or a total of 299,000. The democrats will have—Vote of 1894, 238,000; gain from the populisis, 25,000: frcm the prohibitionists, 1,000; from new vote, 5,000, or a total of 269,000, from which must be deducted 2,000 lost to the republi- cans and 10,000 to Palmer, a total loss of 19,000, leaving them 250,000, making a re- publican plurality of 49,000. Unless a revolution ‘urs, which now Icoks improbable, the result in November will not vary 5,000 from these figures. If any change at all is made, it will be in favor of McKinley, and may push his plu- rality up toward 60,00). ——— LONDON CEASING TO GROW Steady Decline in the Rate of In- crease in Her Population. From the St. James Gazette. The result of the recent census shows that during the last five years the popula- tion has increased somewhat less rapidly than it did in the previous ten—i8si-1891. The number of people turned out to be some 15,000 below the estimate formed on the basis of 1891. The difference !s small, but important, as it-shows that the pre- vious fall in the rate of increase is main- tained. The population 1s growing at a less and less rapid pace. At the beginning of the century it used to increase by more than 20 per cent In the ten years between successive censuses; in 1881-1891 that rate had fallen to 10.4 per cent, the lowest on record, and now it js still less. This move- ment is not part of a general decline; ft is peculiar to London, and seems to indicate that the huge overgrowth of the metropolis has begun to cure itself. No town can go on growing indefinitely, and even London— monstrous as it is—has not fulfilled the ex- pectations of earlier statisticians. Two hundred years ago it appeared to be grow- ing 80 fast that Sir William Petty, one of the earliest pioneers in demograp4ical re- search, reckoned that by 1840 the popula- tion would reach 10,000,000, supposing it to continue at the same rate. He thought, however, that a natural limit would be reached before then, and placed it in the year 1800, by which time he calculated London would contain something over 5,000,000 inhabitants, and the rest of Eng- land only 4,500,000. He was very nearly right about the total, which actually was about 9,000,000, but London only accounted for one of them. Since then it has nearly reached maximum, which, curiously enough, seems likely to prove a real nat- ural limit. For the four years 1871-74 the average birth rate was 8.2; for the four years 1891-94 it was only 30.9. There has been a gradual and almost continuous fall from year to year, which has not been counterbalanced by the simultaneous but slighter fall in the death rate from 22.7 to 19.9. Fewer people die in preportion to the population, but still fewer are born. This is ined by the increasing disinclina- tion to marry. The marriage rates for the two periods contrasted are 19.6 and 17.8, respectively. CLARK & CO., 811 Market Space. BEGAN TODAY! The W. D. Clark & Co.’s stock must go. After having been closed the past week to take stock, wd shall reopen this morning and begin its sacrifice. We do not believe in sensational or extravagant statements, yet we unhesitatingly assert that you cari now obtain the greatest bargains of your life, for in: many cases the stock has been marked at one-half, one-third, and even one-fourth the former prices. For instance: Women’s Coats and Capes (from last sea- son) are offered at 25c. on the dollar, which means $5 - Coats for $1.25, the $10 Coats for $2.50, the $20 Coats for $5, and so on. Women’s Merino Underwear is also offered at 25c. on the dollar in many cases. Many Silks, Velvets and Colored Dress Goods are offered at half price and less. We were fortunate enough to secure a quantity of entirely new Black, Colored «and vovelt Dress’ Goods at a sacrifice, and will also offer these con- siderably below prevailing p: Detailed list of attractions later. visit the store today es. Don’t fail to, (Successors to W. D. Clark & Co.,) 811 Market Space. etontondondeetontostongondoageeteesossongensoeseesentondonionseesoesorgor Seesecententesetecendetenntecontetendeatecntectneteatectnteteefecte CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS Nominations That Have Been Made in the State of Michigan. Candidates Questi ed as to Their Soundness on the Financial Ques- tion. md Money Campaign. Correspondence of The Evening Star. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., September A. M. Todd of Kalamazoo has been nom nated for Congress from the third district by a coalition just a little more extensive 2nd varied than has fallen to the fortune ef any other anti-republican candidates in the state. He has the democratic, populists’ and free silver indorsements, and, in addi- nomination of the nationalists, or , broad-gauge prohibitionists. The ements went into joint convention and the nomination was harmoniousiy ar- ranged. Mr. Todd was the nominee of the nents in the spring of 1895, when a special clection was held to fill the vacaney caused by the electicn of Julius Cacsar Burrows to the Senate. The district went republican two years ago by a plurality of majority of about 6,000 over ail, but in the spring election Congressman Mil a stccessful by only a majority of 1,000, with a very light vote cas Todd was chairman of the prohibit state central committee and was nominat originally by the prohibitionists, and th was indorsed by the other parties, and this universal indorsement led to the enactment of the law forbidding the name of one can- d'date appearing in more than one place on the ticket. candidate, and with but two tickets in the field expects to give Mr. Milnes a hot chase for the election. In his canvass for the sj tion, Mr. Milnes stood as the frie and sought to win the silver vote by advocating as advanced views as those entertained by Todd. This year, after dling the financial question | for weeks, Mr. Milnes has come squar for the sound money doctrine, and sound or soft money will be the Issue. Pat Through an Examination. In the eighth district, where Ferdinand A. Brucker of Saginaw was nominated for Congress by the democrats without first conferring with the populists, another c vention has been held, in which the three fusion elements were represented, and Mr. Brucke tha Jegation from % ed and bolted ing the nomination Mr. Bracke ir. McBride, the latter the populist candidate, were called before the joint con- vention and put through a long and close -xamination to test the soundness of views on the financial question. Ben Colvin, an old-time greenbacker, acted as interrogator, and he made the examination very rching, and then Brucker w: named. The sound money democrats ha organized a club of 20) members in Saginaw and will put up a candidate of their own for Congress, with ex-Mayor Merchon as the probable nominee. Corliss Has Trouble. The nomination of John B. Corliss in the first district by the republicans early in the season has been declared invalid on account of the insufficiency of the con- vention notice and another convention has been called. Mr. Corliss was put up two years ago as Mayor Pingree’s choice and as such was elected. He was renominated on the same grounds, but since his renom- ination a row has broken out and the myor is disposed to sit down upon the ye ig man. The row started through the street railroad fight. Mr. Pingree tas for five years been contending for a cent fare on the street railroad, and a rival company was started on the 3-cent Albert Pack was at the head of the new company, and he was also manager of Pingree’s preliminary canvass for the gub- ernatorial nomination. Pingree was nom- inated and then, probabiy presuming upon the pull he had acquired, Pack ccnsoli- dated his new 3-cent company with t old concern, and Corliss, as an attorney, was mixed up in the deal. But Pack and his friends presumed too much and too far, and Pingress is fighting him now just as he ever fought McMillan and other cor- poration managers. The relations be- tween Pingree and Corliss have become such that it has become necessary for prominent republicans from other paris of the state to intercede, and National Com- mitteeman Durbin has also responded to a call for his services as a peacemaker. It is probable that Corliss will be renom- inated, the mayor withdrawing his oppo- sition. Mr. Pingree is proving a con- stant thorn in the republican side, :nd the party managers are in constant dread of what he will say on the stump, espe- cially in discussing the financial question, as he occasionally does. Some’ Orators Obiained. The tripocracy has at last secured a few speakers from the national committee. Sen- ator Blackburn of Kentucky will visit De- eroit October 1,and will also make speeches at Port Huron and at one or two ather places. Ex-Gov. Overmyer and John H. Atwood of Kansas have been secured for meetings here and at ®ther western Michi gan towns, confined chiefly to the fifth dis- trict. Chas, R. Sligh, the combination candidate for governor, made a funny break in a re- cent speech. He was, up to a few weeks ago, a stanch republican, and last spring was an ardent admirer of McKinley on the tariff issue. At a recent speech his tongue slipped and he urged the voters to cast their ballots for William J. McKinley. He tried to correct himself, but the audience yelled too long and loud and he was com- pelled to sit down. In the seventh district, where the demo- crats, populists and free silverites recently made separate nominations through the failure of negotiations for a combine, the three elements at last got together and O’Brien J. Atkinson of Port Huron has been nominated. He was the choice of the democratic. wing and received the demo- cratic nomination in the first convention. He was prominent in the greenback move- ment of a few years ago and came into the democratic camp through that channel. Sound Money Campaign. ‘The sound money democratic campaign This year he is tne combination | , exe | | | x) over the democratic vote, and a clean | i | Breakfast | and the Norn will open early in October, State Chairman W. R. Shelby went to Chicago last weck to secure speakers and received assurances that Michigan would be well taken care of by the national commi Gen. Palme will be sent into the state during the month, and other prominent speakers will be furnished. The campaigns will tings at 1 and Leen organized, s that clubs have jozen or mo! m the and Queries Some time ago inquiry was made in ON & Q.” as to the hours at which ow cestors togk their -neals he follow abst of a lectare deivered } IyvArey I the London om will give Power three meals a befor at the little and supped at 5, but the me took their me The chief meals, taken in the hall. come into us until quite 1s Oxford Dictionary, of the earliest q occurred. The nized until nteen tury, for Ps habitually took lis ar of haif a pint of Rhenish wine or of strong waters in place of meal. Din was always the of and from the ; Henry IV to the death of Qu the dinners wer travagant as any Carving wa: brought his own k as of sump: icus those 1 small fork was not until Thoma: his ‘Crudit z took with him the mayor's feast in 168%. Th forks led to much stress br the act of washing the han left hand alone sh« common dish, the pied with the ku at the best time of sisted of t itself, and device, the whole Ypocras, after into another room, sweetmeats and fru. choicest e Er tially meat eaters, and the ume of the commonwe ding attained its e: Indeed, the fir: us of the * at Si. Barth. ital did not occur until and in 1712 is an item of five shillings ice.” +e-- : COMPLIMENT. It Wax Appreciated by the Lady and On ed an Envied Reward. From Baltimore i She was a very dainty and lovely maiden, gowned in a fetching creatio: litte of grass cloth over dark heliotre silk, At her throa., wrists and belt were broad folds of violet satin ribbon. On her pr head was an affair in straw, lace, aigretie and a bewlldering array of pink which she called a hat. She was stopped by a ragged little news- boy on Charles street, who said pleadingly : “Wontcher buy a paper, lady The little urchin stood and stared at her and forgot to take the penny she smiling!y held cut to him. “What are you looking at, 1 roses, tle boy?” she said as ene tried to call his attention to the money without touching his dirty little sleeve. “Nothin’—only was jus’ thinkin’ you is the beautifulest lady I ever seed.” She smied and gave him a flower from a large bunch she carried in her hand, Many a member of the gay set might have in vain for the favor she be= asked on this child of the blushed and hurried away, that the affair had been notic well-known men standing near. One of them called the boy to him a’ said: “I say, little chap, I'll give you 50 «1 for that flower.” The little fellow opened his eyes in won- der. He looked at nis treasure and thought be- of the triumph it would be to wear fore his associates and tell them t “sho’ nufi fine leay gived it to him:” he pictured the delights that the would bring. How grandly he would enter- tain his friends. “I'll make it _ dollar,” said bent on trying him. “You will do nothing of the kind,” said his friend. “It is a shame to prove him disloyal. I have a fancy that the kid shall keep his flower. That will be to tell at the club in this de the = gave the astonished little urchin a dol- jar. The boy looked at it a moment, his ha closed tightly over it. Yes, it was Then he ran us hard as he could stopping even to say “Thank you.” He was afraid his fairy godmother, who scem- ed about today, would desert him and the gentleman might change his mind. ——oeo—-____ Not a Rescuer, From the New York Press, The beautiful young woman was flounder- ing sbout in six inches of water. “Save me!” she cried. “Alas! I cannot,” shouted back the } some young man on the shore. ready married.” Shuddering, he averted his face that he might not see her as she crawled out of the Water and looked around for another vie- a al. er vi- “lam al-