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Show SILYEE. .MUST U common tainly entitlingthehim to nowhich he so SOME NEW KNIGHTS. f gratitude from country well served. Mr. Walter Besants claims are not LITERATURE FAMOUS MEN IN exclusively literary. He Is a novelist SWORDED. DRAMA JUST AND with, a considerable public,1 a, voluminous and successful writer, but cerof livtainly not the most conspicuous Sir Henry Irving, Walter Besant and ing English novelists. The Monks of ! Edward Atkinson can Offer against Buch a.'crlme is ridicule, and serves it up to voters in the columns of the Record. cause It shows the strength of the gold conas a I in grand style, and like it Because barter In fession of weakness. destructible property by barbarians has been- - supplanted by a metallic money system n civilized fnations to effect such exchanges, therefore restoration of silvery to money .functions That, in would be a barbarian act. Bosand from his argument short, is ton! Abont forty .years since I visited J a town in Massachusetts, and in looking wrr the official records I found that the parish minister was paid his salary by municipal law in all sorts pf articles, one of which was "flip. ""Flip, and not cows, was legal tender in iMr. Atkinson's own state long .after the cow was demonetized in India., ..Which is the most civilized and civilizing curLet his erudition answer. rency? That minister vpry likely got drunk on flip; surely that was a more evanesL cent and unstable money than cows, and that was in Massachusetts (and not In India. NEW WOMAN AND OLD "MAN. since 1873 can by nL official or; other necromancy be divorced from, legal of silver as the main POLITICS AND THE NATIONAL cause making a double demand for sil' gold by destroying the demand for CURRENCY. 'lf' and its presver, except for the arts ent uSe' as token money does not alter r foh,niT rarwell. Replying to Cotnptrel-le- the general principle involved In that Eckel! Point Out the Need of In- -i creation of new money and property temational bimetallism to Restore conditions, by a law which abrogated Value of Property. the natural law of labor cost, both for of mQney and property. The testimony Lewis Wolowski (whoever he. may be) tJ. V. Fa :well, in Chicago Record.) The comptroller ,of the currency before the French money commission Joins the secretary of the treasury in of inquiry of 1865 which he quotes corthe, campaign of educating the people only intensifies the Justice of the bis tot tlje nex;t election. Evidently, polit- relation of all values through (by ical fences (need mending to control the formula) "a measure of values which masses for the gold interest andj the Ehall be stable during the periods Which embrace the transactions of men. Democratic party. Do they see the handwriting on the That is, which shall not give gold an a decline as wall of history Weighed in the bal- - advance and property to be found wanting?" Does not legislation has done if he means formula. the wisdom of the centuries weigh squarely honest in hisout another "old Mr. Eckels brings tacts andj make their arguments short chestnut, "overproduction of silver. weight? Time will tell. of the overproduction of It is Indicative of imperfect "hind- Why not talk and property? These must sight" that this discovery has not been population made In tbe present discussion by1 gold go on increasing or the law of progmen of 'its relation to money standard ress will be reversed. Should not legal money increase relmen The ultra-gol- d And prosperity. atively to property, arid should it not are 'just , as, wrong as the ultra-silvtwenty Difficult Problem Resulting from Ambimen, as both are practical monometal-list- s, be allowed to doasso in the tolast be same tions of the Modern Wife. the just to before, years, making half equal to the whole, other read with deep interest, a labor,? We have created values by and, therefore, radically wrong.1 This J cannot be. honestly fiewspaper article on "What Will the This question discussion before it is closed willtfind New Woman Do With the Old Man? the people, whose votes both factions solved by the continued' rise ofa gold look revealed must which be The writer is a new woman and preby are seeking, on the side of Interna- Only, "hindhonest an the future through sumably has an old man. But he is tional bimetallism, and both th great at; has Mr. Eckels ele$cope, such as everywhere, is useful in fashion, has parties will be compelled to 4piake that sight. - us of &ivenMulhall in his quotation sincere f purposes, and means well. His chief the plank in their platforms.' or is fate progress. ought to be a matter of conComptroller Eckel3 did make one prac- Arqerican Mr. remember should to Eckels , cern Again, every one. Tbe description tical suggestion, jviz.: We'must take statement as his' final the answer to does not necessarily imply one who has practically things as we find them' to dictate cannot as. debtors become gray and decrepit. He may be thatwe is and not Sentimentally. Nothing are honest anbimetallists, in the purple bloom of life. - It applies England more certain tham that, and I will w.hat Engour of finly congress not to bis years, but to the order of his asking swer this statement with another: What was practical and beneficent for lands business interests tore now ask- ideas, says Pittsburg Dispatch. We centuries can be made practical on the ing of her parliament and .that the learn that "the new woman .wants as Bank of England directors are now either brother or husband a man who ame lines by the same means now not add,1 that if both met- heading the list of a 100,000 campaign can comprehend her aspirations, can .and may als were peeded to keep values at par fund to pqt practical bimetallists at the sympathize with her and be a helpmeet head of her government in the next to her in their attainment. But what before our country became so marvelously weajthy In property through her election in order to give to the world are her aspirations? Those hinted at by the writer in no essential particulars fostering pf domestic industries by a international bimetallism. ' I statement: his therefore raw quote thus her again differ from those of the old woman. tariff, making into tangible and exchange- "Let us deal with all facts as they are. Give the old man a chance. Tell him To make money facts and property able vauep pfitskfa of gold, nnd. silver precisely what those aspirations are would hotj both metals as money now facts what they should be and not con- with which he ought to sympathize. tinue a world-wid- e wrong because ig- Many & time' his' he been lectured for Increase her power to develop and crease her marvelous natural re- - norance or fraud or a combination of not understanding what has never been both have made these present facts sources? explained to hid. He is confessedly a states are a what they should not be. Tbus present trifle stupid. AH the more reason why 'Our small faqtbr.ln this problem; out prpp-ert- y facts are now commanding tbe prac- his duty should be made plain to him. Interests combined constitute the tical attention of industrial and money As a rule he "would Sympathize with larger factjor in it; our annual hay crop intrestS here and abroad in a warm anything his better half names and exceeds the product of silver nany canvass :for votes to be, given for or think that purchasing peace in the times, and the annual additions of sil- against their continuance. family cheaply.1 Will the new tfoman ver to the accumulation of all times are j ' Cheadles vigorous please state her aspirations fully and perhaps a3 1 to 100 of the accumulated argument in the Record that the United Clearly? But, to come to the question: And annual additions to values in States alone can restore the commerThere is left the new woman cial value of silver by free coinage at to do but nothing property, to renovate and repair the That silver Is still used and held up 16 to 1 for the reason that all , other man convert him, if possible, into to gold value. by France and the United countries before demonetization kept old man. There are many ways the States is only an argument strong as its value stable by its free coinage is and new sorts of conversion. Reason, percan be made of the need of more' legal tantamount! to baying that a' fraction compulsion. money anjl of the folly of not giving is, equal to the whole in financial arith- suasion; strategy or, even of these Three methods of bringing the ' diver everywhere full money functions. metic, It is only two and. two that old man to terms been have long used co that Its commercial yalue can again makes, folir, here and elsewhere in silsuccess. with marked The fourth is be relied on as its coinage value. ver legislation. One lfig Is hot equal to Its coinage now having been stopped two In the law of locomotion. It only doubtful. It is said that he inclines to pull back, like a mule. He does, entirely by all governments which had remains for him and Comptroller indeed, at times and then compulsion Any power over the question before Eckels' to join the genuine internation- is worst of all ways of dealing with, the 1873 the money demand for- - it has been al bimetallic party to make their the new woman will not legally destroyed, and what Internaof speech square with the geom- him. We hope is to be done with the that. What tional bimetallists demand is that this etry and arithmetic of scientific mone- try man the' event old of the failure of in mammoth .wrong shall be righted, Mr'. tary .figures. They will be welcome to all these methods is left to the imaginEckels, reference to our coinage in the tjtis cosmopolitan party of progress and ation. What dfoes .the old, manr think past, in its bearings on prices inTcon-nectio- n reform. wth Mulhalls statements of That party only can win. If either of it, anyhow? our marvelous increase in wealth for or silver alone wins they will lose, over twenty years after pur industries gold MAYBE (THIS IS TRUE. while If international bimetallism wins were put bn their feet by an enforced .we .all .win and. .we will all be I. happy Oklahoma Furnishes an Ice Cream Story - tariff, and his - query as to why when what was warmoney for centuries That Beats 'the Becord. , prices have, shown. the Same .tendency and is money with tis again will be yyhen the recent storm wa3over in In Europe as here down down in money ounce for ounce Tina, Ok., the late householders, vieweverywhere order to jrove a rise in the intrinsic and pound for pound. Then the abnoring the remains, were greatly survalue of gold, entirely .independent; of. mal production! an as either metal, pf prised at finding upon the supposed demonetisation of silver isihost in- dnnual additionto the existing volume, site of the grocery a .large and solid genious, jaut equally erroneous. This Will scare no one, and whoever raises mass of excellent1 in bulk, Argumentative query is fully answered such a ghost hereafter. with, such hisunder the sun, melting rapidly away by the fact that the' cost ofTgold in the last twepty years j have but still good at heart. The explanalabor sinbe 1873 has .been reduced fully tory aswill beconsidered only as an- tion, after all, wa3 simple. The lightmade, as much, if not more, by improved other argumentative thief trying to ning stroke which destroyed the roof methods and machinery in mining aiid. our hindsight after, instead of of the building and shattered every reducing! ores and cheaper transporta- spoil barrel and bottle in the place fused tion of fires, ..than .that of other prpp-ort- before, such an experience. seen be It able that the will! easlly and melted a dozen milk cans, releasana? the attempt to hide this fact j3 g of the in Calvert argument Mr, Record, df an enlarge "all, feline in prices of .iisili ing their precious contents. Directly on of' all the writers that fact, and,ln over the cans on the shelves were a ver and other property to like causes inof side are discussion, tie money number of bags of sugar, a Sack of Is not honest argument. This opinion to convince voters that more flour, and seven bottles of vanilla extended be some! may jhonest with With practract,- whose released contents fell into tical stpdents ,of ability it cannot .be legal money is not needed that legissilcannot lation for ai demand create the mass, says New York Recorder. honest. ver that will restore iheilost relations Before the milk had time to flow It claims all' things for itself and i.de- - of. gold and' silver to all other property away it "wasj buried up in such nounceS others quite well, but1 it 4e- a measure of it, and it did that it hailstones as even Oklahoma n6ver saw pouncek mostjwrpngfuliy the '.conten- as . - would vbe repudiation of debtV?iience tion' of "1 property'-ownerincluding gold must continue as the arbiter of alb .before, a .fallof two; feet occurring I Ip. silver fiwners, that legislation in favor (almost an Instant. The Ice .balls mingother its provalues, notwithstanding pf gold is chargeable with the decline duction is ling 'with' the contents 'of a "dozen barthat-owhile proplimited, In all prices,, nd hatgoldfehould be rels of salt, which had been erty is lfmltlesi, pnlthat cos I of pro- about the milk1 cans, produced standing made to jshare inJtas an p both has been and will be intense cold that the mingledsuch duction for erty, instead of grabbing a 100-pmilk, cent advance as a virtuous and innocent in- - constantly reduced. It is also easily vanilla, sugar, and flour werer instantf conwith.T seen -' that such'condition . - ly solidified on the surface, and in half which they claim the it . . .. .. ..w an hour became a solid masst to the ' brought (o' their coffers; Instead of its In property that must only be meas- : in ured code of their ,A Humbug Rainmaker. financial ' Jhavink been done by their own, by it, legal Frank Melbourne, the erstwhile west-ter- n tools In the parliaments of .the world. morals will also? continue until the to1 corner ail, property-witrain king, whose services were a Mr. Eckelsj fpfergnee thes.paH ability corner fee such will in in urgent demand in the west two measured gold only played by bank credits as a substitute br three years ago, is located in Clevetor mpney is as old as demonetization. by the disppsition of human ayarice to land, Ohio. In speaking of bis experiAnd his own experience with banks ai do it. we Shall Increase' eucha coud Ivhat to power over; ence as a rainmaker Melbourne addo In the line' of they ' us benefit of or "shall mitted that th 6,;. Whole thing was a the all; for taaking' depositsofy money credits (and fq, we he .never., possessed .compel, all values in the future to be kumbug find, not money) pla the part of real ffioney: when iheS people lost confidence in ideal gdyerked.inUheir, 'exchangeability rel- any more power in that- rtespect 'than money in 1893, should' have made "his atively to - the .changed conditIons.f any one else!" tie says "the American cost of production and extent of con- people like to . be humbugged, and the hindsight more reliable as an of methods jnvented as ameces-it- y sumption for the whole dist, of hutnan greater fake the easier it, is .to work it. to serve tlie' uses of money in pros- merchandise, or human luxuries created Melbourne madea fortune in the business and spent jit perous times, but which in a panic,1 as by the ingenuity of man? v has Swift knkws to to Mayor the light he brought quite well, proved be only -Just Like a Woman. straw bail for the huqgold criminal. an object lesson In our municipal afwoman fil, A young and ha5 stolen;; these values" in 1873 fairs; which reveals why and how lawdid not improve his backward makers make bad laws for the benefit tered Charing Cross telegraph office tile he kindly quotes Mulhajil to show of the few. The very magnitude of our other day and wrote out A dispatch to Las created these stupen- be sent to Manchester. ,She read it an'intriasicjandmota legal advakee in municipality dous corruptions, and the colossal pro- over, reflected for' a 'moment,, and then sold since 1873. old portions of the wealth of nations accu- dropped it on tne floor and wrote a sec! Commercial value is another This shqj also threw 'away, htit chestnut raked out of the fire of the mulated' in the present century has ond. was silver the satisfied of v(ith thte third, and sent 1873, legislation discussion by a government official to tempted off. it exThe has doubled then since which the three telegrams read; . First give it a gold burnish. "It is not' gen"Never me let .of value for hear from you again! it property uine, and even his official plating of it j changeable; f, without any relative Second No one expects you to re will not make it a genuine article in the over turn! Third- - Come home dearest voting market. The change in the bul- - change in the labor cost of each. The all is forgiven! lion c t intrinsic value of silver or gold only argument that so great a man as COME. -- - i i Lewis Morris and Others of Lesser Note Lord Rosebery Acted as Ad visor to tlie Queen. , (Special Correspondence.) VERTBODT remarks .at once i , that the recent list of what are called i n England birth- -- , day honors 'contains an unusual proportion of names connected with literature and art. People feay, This 'is Lord Rose-'- r beryls doing, .and they are right. It is the Prime advises who Minister ultimately the Queen, and his interest , In literature and art is well known. He'Js a great reader, a student a writer, and ever since he entered public life has cultivated social relations with men of letters , and art. It was noticed when he gave his dinner to the Shah of Persia that Mr. Browning was. One of his guests, rand last year at the" dinner in honor of the Queens birthday Captain Mahan and other distinguished writers were present, an innovation without precedent. This year Sir John Millais, the eminent artist, and Sir William were Broadbent; the eminent physician, among- - the Prime Ministers -- guests. These are; if you choose,- trivial incidents. In London they are not thought trivial. It requires perhaps more courage to take a newsocial departure than t j er j . - i silver-produci- ng SIR WALTER BESANT. any other. Lord Rosebery has taken so many that no one . was surprised when it became known that he bad Induced the Queen to offer knighthoods to Mr. Walter' Besant, Mr. William , . . M. Conway, j , -- i fig-tir- es j -- J t - v--- - f ice-crea- y; t m - 5 J -- si ; Dr, Morris, - fli in-dor- sei r , -- one-hal- 1 ( ed yen . ' Unoccupied Public Lauds. The governor of Wisconsin was ti!11 New York on A visit, ' undertakenrecpnH. wi-Object of promoting the settlement of unoccupied parts of , Isconsln. He Tr,Se Z h the statement .thenthat , there are unimproved and suitable to the requirempr. of settlers having some knowledge of These hgures may seem lars-- , culture.; New Yorkers who read of the sale of estate by, square feet, but, when comnnVi. with the acreage of some other states in used land Wisconsins figures are almost k significant. t is a, fact that no one knows hr, floors' much unoccupied land there Is inexactly buckl0 the Unit. States. AUi the figures on the subject coi fure are In the United a...' moment There conjectural. acres of surveyed public 1,000,000,000 and about 1,000,000,000, acres of unsuryeypS8 is to th undeveloped and Indian Lands and resm heac .tions. The greater part of the mountainous of 0 minds Rockies never has of the been aem region recent and figures frotn th. here, surveyed, rately of Nevada show the .vosarveyed nor state excess In of the suf veyed Dart h, fles of tlon to be acres. In California too frame over 6,000,000 there is a very large amount of unsumvl 'straw I land, and In, all the territories minions pink ve. gores of the same' kind. New Xork gua. either s N fti: S . , ( 1 ' 1. , Whether bn. pleasure, bent, or business tkke oh every trip a bottle-of gyrm! of T?gs,"as It, acts most pleasantly and effectually On the kidneys, liver end bowels, preventing ;fqvers, beadajhei and other' forms of sickness. For sale In 60c and $1 bottles by all the leading druggists. Manufactured by the 'Fig. Syrup Co., oqly. Call-forni- A Close1 ImStitirm. f Police Justice "Whats th6 charge A GOOD The ci , f materia wardrot least on iome ( m j thickly a folded b In I I against thi man? Policeman "Impersonating an officer. What did he do? 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The Queen is a stickler for precedent, and there was, no precedent -- She lias very rigid notions upon all matters relating to her Court. She has received Mr. Irving privately at Windsor, when he and his company have acted before her, but he has never been jpublicly presented. Now he niust.be. In .the1, mind of Her Majesty it is a great step; so also in the mind of the English public, which sets such store by these privileges and distinctions the. minds .of, ptherApeopIe may find .lt difficult to comprehend. To knight the leading actor of the English stage isto elevate the whole profession In the social scale. , T f "U' . It Is no secret that dn effort , to this end has long been made, and that Mr. Irving, values his new. title most of all because it; takes off a kind of social stigma which exclusion from Court is supposed to leave upon all the mefi and women of the profession. Yetfbr years past factors, rknd to some extent actresses. have fouiid their way into some of the best. society In England. The Prince of Wales goes ta sapper with Mr, Irving, and MrJ Irving and Mr. Toole dine With the Prince of Wales at Marlborough House. Mr. Irving has been one of the guests at Mentfhore, whten-Lor- d Rosebery had a Saturday to Monday party there for the Prince of Wales. Scores of other Instances could .be cited. Many of the- - best bouses in London have long been .open ,to the best actors.' Mr Wyndham was to' be met only the other night at the Duchess of Devonshires reception irl Devonshire House, and 'Mr, Geotge Alexander was at the Marchioness of Londonderry's. It Is useless to multlpiynames.- The fact Is known. And yet the doors of Buckingham Palace and St. James remained closed. They will now fly open to, Mr. ; Irving. G. W SMALLEY. f . like-a-princ- 1A versity. 0 ' m -- Dame rr ft JOHN CARLE & SONS. New York. . .However, his, great .fame bad . been er -- than are offered at Notre i 3Fn,3D invalids! f as-pro- tt ts fifty-secon- ,The y, f i-el- f Mr-Besan- d tly to-da- 1 Lewis ' 1 ; William Howard Russell, and Mr. Henry Irving. The word "induced is, I think, thte right one to use.' The Queen is a woman of much liberality of mind, her position considered, but her liberality has seldom led her toward literature, a word which Itself is hardly broad enough to Include the "Journal of Our Life in the Highlands. But Lord Rosebery, as you see1 from the above list, has gone a step farther. He has sought to honor not only literature but journalism. It is not necessary nor expedient to draw a broad line between those two departments of Intellectual effort. There are points at which they meet, and if they are not always .Identical they are of kin to each other. Dr. W. H. Russell is a journalist who has many of the graces Of literature, but he is, and always has been,' a journalist. We in America know him as such, and as such have done him some injustice, or, to say the least, misunderstood him. It was his misfortune to be present at the Battle of Bull Run, and to describe It. We did not like his description, and we dubbed him Bull Run Russell, and set him down as an enemy of America. But only the other day I met a very distinguished and patriotic American, who told me that he was at this battle, saw as much of it as one man could see, read Dr. Russells account of It, and thought it a perfectly fair and accurate narrative. Any one who will read, now that the fervent heats of it those early days of the civil war have cooled, will see that it is Inspired by no spirit of animosity to the North. But what Dr. Russell had to describe was a defeat, a rout, a panic, such as often besets raw troops. No nation likes to have the lime light turned on1 at such a. moment as that. We beheaded Dr. Russell, or, at. least, banished him and drove him home, Mr. Stanton making-himselnot very long after the instrument of popular vengeance, .put then and now the man whom we detested fpr telling .too much truth, .at. a too critical time was .a friend to this c6un-tr- y. pre-eminen- m - Mr. Thelema" may be, as his admirers say, his masterpiece, but is it a masterpiece? When we come to All Sorts and Conditions of Men we approach the social side of Mr. Besanfs literary work. Like Dickens, the seamy side of life has interested him; the problems of poverty and of that inequality in the distribution of wealth which has existed since the earliest times. This is the book which Is supposed to b&ve laid the foundations of the Peoples Palace in White' chapel, in the East End of.Londori. When the palace was opened with much state and ceremony by the Quen,' and when, toward the close of the exercises, Mr. Besant was summoned to the royal platform and presence, we , all thought that he was to be knlghted'then and there. But the heavy sword of Sir Patrick Grant, hurriedly, borrowed Jor the occasion by her Majesty, fell instead .upon , the t shoulder; of some w.orthy Philistine' whose name the world, if not his parish, has unhappily forgotten. The Peoples Palace, however, is one of the great charitable foundations In which Lord ifosObery has shown his interest to the, extent of some $20,000, and It may well be that he did not forget contribution.. A? idea sometimes returns better interest than 'money, and sometimes brings money " also. T do not know whether Mr. W. M. Conway's Is a name of renown In Ameri- e ca. He. has1 in England a, very'Consid-erablfame, as a mountaineer and as a writer pon mountaineering; some also as' an" art critic, though' Mr. Ruskin seems long since to f have monopolized nearly all the celebrity to be won in that field. "His book on' "Climbing, in the Himalayas was widely read ftm6ng ana people who, like the English, have insatiable appetite for stories of adventure. He has a book now. in the, press .on Alpine climbing, in which he will have the difficult task of surpassing, if he can, Mr. Whymper. fle is, Mr. Besants successor In the council of the' Society of Authors a position which does not so much imply supremacy in literature as good business abilities and en- ergy. And he is a liberal politician trying to win his spurs .in public life, by capturing a conservative constituency. This last qualification for a knighthood .. avails much. , ..J Mr. Lewis Morris is' on the, list. That Is not a name, I Imagine, whiph signifies much in America The author of "The Epic of Hades has a certain reputation in England, little elsewhere. From first to last, says the Saturday Review, "he has been popular, because from the fist he has been constant tc his oym mediocrity a mediocrity more complete, complacent aiid convincing than that of any other contemporary Versifier. I always thought that Mr. Lewis Morris owed his popularity in great measure to an obiter dictum of Mr. Bright, who incidentallyvpraised one of his early poems in a speech. AdarelesS word or two from Mr. Bright in those, days went for much. Because he was a great Fd a rational. Attention of the reader is called the announcement of Notre Dame r 7 versity in another column of this r. This-noteinstitution of learnfr'" d ters upon its year with ej. .next session, commencing Sept. 3 J,? Parents and guardians contempt sending their boys and youngr? away from home to school woul da well to write for particulars to the u versity of Notre Dame, Indiana, bef j making arrangements for their tlon elsewhere. Nowhere in this bro! land are there to be found better fa n ities for cultivating the mind and hea plxDeluhii 67 P- - sssi 'sdrdr fMhe wiTdfle. and term a. Dixie Novelty Co , JUd.t Now OrleanV1 PATENTS JRADEMARK Examination and Advice as Patentability toofj long and eminent as they have ,tbeem vention. Send for Inventors to or How Quids, n6 measure PATRICK QPARJtr.T Washington, of his claims to pubgive lic recognition and reward, lit says of his services as special correspondent of .m; that Journal In the Crimean war: illOjULU-BesALL . I i t The faults and defects (n our or;iu Tastes Good. U Cough fcyrup. inIn time. Sold bv droevteta. 1 ganization, which he was mainly, strumental In bringing before the pubili. lic notice, would have passed unknown and uaremedled but for the fight which A London clergyman wifi have a docV oa. Xli. No.6H-,he threw upon them. It was ah invidtor occupy his pulpit Sunday to urge b, N, U. Denver. ious duty, entailing on its author no the claims of the hospitals on pUblie .When writing to advertisers, pleas p that you saw ths advertisement In this common obloquy and abuse, but cer- - sympathy and support. .T D-- h - , V i ; ? 'tty |