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Show ( TRUTH. dope fiend on has got to that pass without a tremor, conjwhere he can, of a vision that suits ure up any kind His latest is that he heard, bis fancy. a wife tell her at the Wilson hotel, By their bold usurpation of the "term American the K. Ks. designed to convey the impression that those outside their ranks were not good citizens. Yet the campaign methods of hese same Americans would be a disgrace to the reddest-hande- d al The politico-editorithe K. K. sheet husband structed that the Teachers had in- her to vote the Republican This is a deliberate falsehood ticket. it. If it were If the man who is paying for the and the Tribune knows K. organ would spread it noise that the Americans are making so, the K. ctear across the first page with the really had at heart the interest of his state and the party that gave him unname and addresses of all parties merited honors, he would be willing to work in the Republican ranks for ten years before asking for another Do the people of today like the policies of Lincoln and McKinley, the public position. working out of which effected the saviThe south has already disfranchised ng of the Union with Mr. Lincoln Now many promand the making it prosperous under the Mr. Roosevelt has run inent Democrats in the north, as well Mr. McKinley? policy as in the south, favor the repeal of the the government along their lines in domestic and foreign affairs. Fifteenth amendment The only signs of dissatisfaction come If the American party really had from the Democrats; and their cries any just cause for coming into exare political capital partisan istence, would not its supporters be able to find some other argument than The Tribune, having been caught In slander and abuse of the opposition? its lie about John C. Cutler paying It is said that the Democratic manhis employes in scrip, now says: Cutler pays hi3 employes only cash, and agers are awaiting with growing anxIt's a cinch that iety a large consignment of muzzles very little of that Mr. Cutlers common workmen re- which have been ordered since the ceive more money per week than do Heflin ebullition. s we of the skilled reporters on Tom The New York Herald chants daily, Kearns newspapers. The people will have to decide. One of the best commentaries on They will; and that is what is making gang feel so the cracker regime in the south is the that its exponents, Williams and Till- sad. man, are treated with courtesy in the Mr. Roosevelt has not yet found it north, while their followers , would shoot anybody who made speeches in necessary to put in his Sundays conthe south as offensive to the audience sulting with party bosses about cam' as the utterances of these orators are paign politics. Afro-America- n. N EVfir POTATO ES A FRAU D. Westerner Said to Make Much Money by Shrewd Trick. The wooden nutmeg of Connecticut was the first Imitation food, said a grocer, and then came the mean Bostonian who dried snow and sold it for salt. This year we have an imitation new potato. A Westerner put the Imitation new potato on the market, and they say he has made about 80 per cent profit out of it I am speaking seriously now, mind. Of course it was In a joking way that I alluded to the nutmeg and the salt. The Westerner, to accomplish his deception, plants on toward the end of the summer a crop of late potatoes of a kind that keep well. These ripen and are dug up. just before the first frost They are sorted, and all the bad ones are thrown out Then the rest are buried in a field. The crop lies buried, preserved from all harm under the soil, till early spring. About two months before the first genuine potatoes have appeared it is dug up. A great bath of a solution of lye is prepared and in this bath the potatoes are dipped. When they emerge from their plunge their skins are pink and curly, and their flesh is hard and firm. In a word, they are to all appearances new potatoes, and they would deceive . Sure to Win. Miss Flashlight llcttio Nlmbletoes made her debut in her new role last evening and it was a dead failure. Miss Redglare Oh, Im so sorry for Ilettie. Miss Flashlight She was actually hissed off tho stage. Miss Redglare Oh, isnt that splendid! Itll give her a jolly good chance to be the success of the season. Began Too Soon. Ernest is a missionary now among tho savage Moros, Isnt Rev. Mr. he? Alas! No. He is not. Why, he started for San Francisco " several months ago to sail Yes, but at a small western town where his train stopped lie approached a native and asked: Friend, are you prepared to die? " i i 1 The Pleasures of Imagination. It is not so much what a thing i3 as what we think it Is thaj; influences us, I insisted earnestly, for I believed in looking on the bright side of things. True, said the unsentimentalisL Nothing adds so much to the bouquet of the wine as the right label on :he bottle. V' ll A Knock. anyone. There are many imitation foods, We have imitathe grocer ended. imitation tion butter, syrup, imitation jellies and jams, imitation coffee, imitation honey and imitation maple sugar. Not one of these frauds, though is as hard to detect as the imitation new potato. Large Rhode Island Hay Crop. The one salvation of Rhode Island farmers this year is the hay crop, Mrs. N. Peck You dont know how which has been almost phenomenal, to appreciate a good wife. the records of the State Board of AgMr. N. Peck Well, I havent bad a riculture showing a very great In- chance yet. Comic Cuts. crease in the size of the crop over has Constructive administration by Mr. preceding years. The after-feeGaining an Emphatic Answer. exas as be well might Roosevelt is away ahead of destruc- not come up I beg, I beseech you to be my cold weathaccount of the on pected Parker. wife, he pleaded. Oh, do not say tive administration by er, but it is on the big hay crop that No. the farmer must get his money this Mr. Nervey, replied tho fair girl, TO IF YOU DONT REGISTER few will be and grangers very year; I had not thought of saying no' to DAY YOU CANT VOTE. able to show a balance on the right you. Im sure you wouldnt take that o side of the ledger with the advantage for an answer, and so permit me to of increased hay money, as the pota- say, Not on your life! RIPPLE8 OF WISDOM. Philadelphia toes and fruit in many sections of the Press. state will be a dead loss. Providence Nobody makes any particular Journal. Found Wanting. by patting himself on the back. I most confess, said Maud, that Upon Her Lips. He I am disappointed in Harold. It is a pity that when people reach Upon her lips a kiss there lies; or a at hit origin'll reparquick One kiss at least; perchance a hundred! isnt the age of discretion they do not stay The tee. secure IIow the questions, there. Should It be begged, or deftly prize? plunderHow do you know? asked Mamie. ed? .mean so much to me, so much! I said I couldnt express my reelThe man who is always hoping for 'Twould While to its owner fair, I wis, It ings, and he didnt tell me to semi the best may never reach it, but he Is neither needful staff nor crutch. filched she might not even miss it If them by freight. has a happy time whistling on the o There lies a kiss upon her lips. way. What else about her mouth should Willing to Help. tempt me? A lazy man said to his wife: Weve Since bees from blooms take nectared Toll Paid to the Sea. sips. nothing left to eat; It seems impossi Should hope Indulged by man prove ble for me to About 2,000 vessels of all kinds dismake the two ends empty? appear in the sea every year, carrying Beneath this one a score may wait meet His wife replied: Its up tc Release be praying now Ill kiss It down 12,000 human beings and InvolU3 to see that we are fed; you hustle in From off thewilltop. Ill chance it, Fate! $100,000,000 about of loss a ving she ever miss it? and make one end meat and Ill make I wonder Roy Farrell Greene. property. the other bread. S . , A''. f an to northern listeners. 'ii i': ' i ' .'.i1 . i'i Vi d A French sailing ship, carrying 3,000 tons of cargo, and making a oyage from France to, say, San Franc- isco and back to Liverpool, will receive from the French government, as a naylgafon ,bounty, more than a policy that has driven American sailing ships entirely out of the trade. $25,-000- "Low cost of construction, low wges and heavy subsidies of foreign governments, together with the lack of protective legislation, to explain, ac-ttffii- ng the1 Republican national Platform, why our deep sea shipping is less by a million and a half tons than it was forty-threyears ago. e Speaker Cannon trouble in this says that the great campaign is the over confidence of the Republicans. The speaker is a man. In order to win all true Republicans must Work and work hard for the ticket level-heade- d The difference between the Republi-an- d Democratic tactics seems to thus far that the Republicans make n568 at ey can Prove aQd the mocrats make charges that they cant. arker is rapidly becoming rldicu s to the voters, and when that hap- -- na to n 1 hole. candidate he needs to hunt y.- V 1;. f.; . ;V j. : if v |