SCHURZ ANSWERS GAGE.The Ex-Cabinet Olllelnl Invokes the

Deadly Parallel In an

Effective Way.

Carl Schurz has witten, under date ofSept. 10, a second open letter to Sec-retary of the Treasury Guge in rejoin-der to the latter's reply to Mr. Schurz'sfirst letter. In it Mr. Schurz remarksthat the Gage letter "only shows bo

what lengths partisan zeal will go inthe attempt to frighten the people intothe belief that only Mr. McKinley's re-election can save them from generalruin."

To Mr. Gage's remark that the Re-publican congress and administrationwould "probably" find it difficult, owingto possible obstructive tactics of theminority, to use its power before theinauguration of Bryan to make it im-.possible for him to put the finances ona silver basis, Mr. Schurz answers:

"There will be no trouble about thisif the Republican majority is willing

to do it. * * * The Republican major-ity in congress not only can, but, ifonly for its own moral salvation, willdo this thing in case of necessity, andyou, Mr. Secretary, then relieved ofyour partisan campaign service, will, asa good citizen, be one of the first tourge it to be done, if you sincerelythink the currency law to be as defec-tive as in your recent threat of disas-ter you represent itto be."

Mr.j Schurz also quotes Mr. Gage'sdeclaration in an interview on July 15

an answer to the apprehension ex-pressed by him six week's later. "I be-lieve," said Mr. Gage on July 15, "thatsilver will never drop below par Ingold. The crux of the proposition isthat adequate measures have beentaken by the new law to prevent sucha contingency. * * \u2666 In the- eventof Mr. Bryan's election I think the goldstandard would be resolutely main-tained so long aB the law remained onthe statute book."

Mr. Schurz declares that the secre-tary of the treasury's letter of Aug. 25"is an attempt to terrorize the Amer-ican people with a threat of businessdisaster, that they may be deterredfrom considering any other questionand from casting a vote which wouldamount to a condemnation of Mr. Mc-Kinley's imperialistic policy. I, forone, refuse to be terrorized. * * * Iam convinced that the battle for soundmoney Is substantially won, and thatwhatever apparent danger to the goldstandard may still arise it must andcan be overcome without the peoplesubjecting themselves to a moral thral-dom keeping them from independentand conscientious action upon publicquestions of equal ana even superiorimportance."

A United Democracy.

More than ever before In the historyof the Democratic party all factionshave been merged under the peerlessleadership of William Jennings Bryan

for a vigorous and righteous campaign

against the un-American and viciouspolicies of imperialism, militarism, pro-tection of the trusts and the other cry-

ing evils which the Republican partyis pledged to maintain and extend.Four years ago the party was dividedupon the issue of a financial policy,and today the Democracy is once morefirmly united and is standing shoulderto shoulder In the support of an issueof higher and more immediate import-ance, because it involves the very foun-dation principles upon which this coun-try is established.

Everywhere throughout the countrycome assurances that many prominentmen who left their party ranks in 1896will this year march under Bryan'sbanner for the maintenance of thosefundamental policies of government

which have fostered our growth intoa nation, which can rightfully boastof her prominent position among thepeoples of the world. The Republicanparty has criminally committed itselfto the policy of land grabbing, whichhas ever been foreign to the principlesof a republic such as this, and it hasbecome the duty of the Democraticparty to protect the nation against thefoes within, ever the most insidiousand powerful.

The Republican party cannot withany degree of truth assert that only

a portion of the Democratic party isholding up the hands of its standardbearer in this campaign. It is not onesection of the country aione or onesection of the country more than an-other that is represented in the Demo-cratic party for this campaign. Inevery state of the Union, includingeven the recognized Republican states,there is a marked and ever increasingabhorrence of the evils which go tomake up McKinleyism, which willdrawthousands of Republican votes to theparty which pledges itself to halt thegovernment of the United States anddrag it back from the perilous courseon which the preseut administrationhas launched It.

In view of the expose which even theRepublican newspapers have made ofthe starvation wages paid the coalminers of this state the campaign cry

of "full dinner pail" seems somethingworse than a hollow mockery and asham.

With all their sneering at thephrase, "the consent of the governed,"the Republican party managers willfind that It is as firmly embeddedin the issues of this campaign as it is

in the constitution of the United States,

THE FLEXICON MOVEMENT.

NeiT rrrm-li Way of Mart-bin* l>Old to the Amerlcnu Ilcd Men.

Anybody wlio knowß anything at allabout modern fighting knows that theNorth American Indian Is' the manwho sets the pace. First the Americanfrontiersmen studied his ways andndopted his tactics, and the soldierytook It up. Baden-Powell, so theplucky little South Aflcan general con-fesses, first read about Americanscouts and then took lessons from theirteachers, the Indians themselves. Butnow there Is n slip in the chain andFranco Is studying the Indian withoutgoing to the trouble of first ascertain-ing what the best scout iu the world,the American soldier, thinks about It.

France Is trying the "fiexlcon march.""Never get the leg straight," are the

French instructions. "Keep the backstraight, but bent forward. Do notthrow the shoulders either back or up."

That Is about the way au Indianwalks, so Captain Ullne of the Twen-tieth infantry confesses, but, he goeson, he never heard of the trick beingtried by military.

"I cannot discuss the merits of the'fiexlcon,'" the captain said, "becauseI am not familiar with it. From thedescription It is just about the way anIndian walks. Ills knee Is never?locked' or thrust back, so as to havethe leg quite straight. The Indiannever uses the heel to the exclusion ofthe ball of the foot, but puts the soledown all at once. Not all Indians arefootmen. I could name half a dozentribes which, to my personal knowl-edge, go mounted always and almosteverywhere, even about their camp.

"The flexicon movement the Frefiehexperimentalists are said to be tinker-ing with and copying from our Indiansis about the movement a soldier gets

when he is fatigued. I am not pre-pared to criticise it."

An English army officer, a subaltern,here with the horse buyers, said con-cerning the new movement:

"The French are the greatest bun-glers in the world. They get the wildestnotions, 'fads' I ought to call them, Intheir pates. I remember once they de-cided to dress every man iu Madagas-car iured flannel underclothing. Everyman iu the place got skin disease.Then they went iu for natural wool,and the men got worse. They admit-ted red irritated the skin and thenfound that natural wool, being alreadycharged with oil, could take tip 110more, so was worthless for absorbingperspiration. Now they are fiddlingwith the fiexlcon movement, evidentlytrying to step nhead of the UnitedStates in overlooking the Indian, and,overlooking the work the Indian docswhen lie goes on what we call his 'dogtrot' scouting, they propose to imitatehis walk.

"It is my observation that a soldierrequires this fiexlcon movement afterhe has gone about four miles loadeddown with his equipment. The Frenchmay teach him to always walk tiredto death, but I do not think we shallever see the British or these Americansoldiers at It.

"Coming home to oneself, onewould not like to start to his work Inthe morning with the tired out look andmovement that he goes home witli Ifhe has earned his salt. It Is a matterof pride to pull oneself together forthe day."?Kansas City Journal.

An Others See In.The vagaries of American journalism

Is a favorite theme with the transat-lantic editor. It Is possible that nowand then we on this side of the waterdo allow Imagination to trespass upon

the domain of fact, but never surelyhave we eclipsed the performance ofour contemporary. In a representationof the scene of the Itohokcn fire pub-lished in one of the leading English il-lustrated weeklies the Hudson rivet-Is shown to be spanned by two colossalbridges, one at Twenty-third street andthe other at Fifty-ninth street. Wherethe Imagination of the artist receivedits stimulus we cannot tell, though wemight hazard a guess, but certainlythis view was not drawn "upon thespot" or even "front a photograph."

The two structures referred to existonly upon paper. That at Twenty-thirdstreet was designed some dozen yearsago by tiustav Lillentlial. The Fifty-ninth street bridge bears a slight re-semblance to the design drawn up byan army board of engineers for a 3,000foot cnntalever with a view to estimat-ing Its cost Incomparison withthe costof a 3.0(H) foot suspension bridge. Bad-ly as these two bridges are needed, thecost is prohibitive, for not even themost sanguine promoter dares to assertthat their revenues would cover the in-terest 011 the initial outlay of from$110,000,000 to $140,000,000 for bridges,real estate and terminals.?ScientificAmerican.

Chrnp Puiiers 111 I.onilott.Halfpenny Journalism In London is

not the good thing it looks. ArthurPearson, whose Daily Express is LOll-- latest halfpenny journal, has re-cently Informed the public Hint he islosing $1,250 a day 011 his paper, tliatthe cost of the plant and preliminarywork made the first issue worth $500,-000, that to establish The Express willcost $1,250,000 and two years' veryhard work and that the next personwho wants to establish a dully paperIn London must spend s2,soo,ooo.?Ar-gonaut.

MfiKnetinm In Option.

It has tfecu discovered that the crys-talline lens of the human eye 1H slightlydiamagnctlc, or subject to magnetic re-pulsion. As astigmatism, the com.x-on-est cause of defective vision and themost frequent excuse for spectacles, Ismerely a slight distortion of thisIt has been suggested that treatmentwith a powerful magnet properly ap-

plied may result in forcing the lens In-to proper shape or at least in greatlyremedying the distortion.?New YorkBun.

OPERATORSARE DIVIDED

Continued from First Page.

At the present time the miners aremasters of the situation and there is not

tho slightest probability that theygo back to work until they got the wordfrom a convention of the Unitod MineWorkers.

YESTERDAY'S CONFERENCE.

The individual operators have sent acommittee to New York to seek a reduc-tion in freight charges, as they say thatotherwise they cannot meet the proposedwage advance.

The New York Times this morning isauthority for the statement that at

yesterday's conference John Markle anda number of the independent coal opera-tors asked the railroads not to makeany more concessions to the strikers.

Vice President Sayre, of the LehighValley Company, said that he met JohnMarkle and talked with him briefly.

"We are now waiting for the men,"said Mr. Sayre. "It will take themsome time to understand our oiTer, butthey willho all right in a few days."Mr. Sayre added that lie had not con-sidered what should be done if the menrefused to accept the offer.

A number of the railroad officials whoare directly interested in the negotia-tions for a settlement of the strike talk-ed over the situation and one of theofficials described the situation as "criti-cal in the extreme."

PARADE AT WILKESIIARRK.

The parade and mass meeting of theminers at Wilkosbarro yesterday wasthe greatest labor demonstration overheld in northeastern Pennsylvania.The parade, led by President Mitchelland the officers of the national execu-tive board, started a little after 2 o'clock,and it required an hour and twentyminutes to pass a given point. It isestimated that there were fully 15,000men and broakor hoys in line. Musicwas furnished by about forty hands anddrum corps.

Many banners and transparencieswere carried. The men from Pittstonhad a iloat with four men representing"Coal Harons." They were drinkingwhat purported to bo champagne.Directly following was a float withminers dining on bread and water. Astretcher was carried containing adummy representing a miner who hadjust lost his life in a mine.

President Mitchell reviewed the greatarmy of marchers on the river common.He was loudly applauded by the march-ers.

It was after 4 o'clock when the last ofthe marchers swept past President Mit-chell. Then he and his colleagues weredriven to West Sldo park, whore thebig mass meeting was held. For severalhours a crowd had hoen gathering there,and it was estimated that nearly 20,000

persons were massed in front of thestand when the union president beganto speak.

The national president was followedby Fred Dilcher, Benjamin James and"Mother" Jones.

President Mitchell's address did not

outline any future movo on the part ofthe labor leaders.

I.OOAB STRIKE NOTES.

There Is no particular change in thecondition of affairs here. The numberof cars hoisted where work isbeingdonois daily decreasing, showing that thestrikers aro gaining recruits.

Upwards of 100 young men of Free-land and Vicinity marched to Wilkes-harre yesterday. They left here about

2 a. m. and inarched hack again aftertaking part In the Mine Workers'parade.

Frank Hess, who hails from Blooms-hurg, a deputy stationed at Shaft 40, ofthe Lehigh Valley Coal Company, went

to sleep to his sorrow Monday night.When ho awakened next morning hediscovered he was minus his revolverand a fine gold watch and chain.?Sen-tinel.

John McElwee, whose discharge fromthe omploy of the Drffton companios bySuperintendent Kudllch was noted onMonday, has boon reinstated.

With both opera houses open lastevening?a political rally at the Grandand a Slavonian ball at Yannes'?thetown gave but little indication of beingthe centre of a great strike.

"Admiral Dewey" Slicml* III*Toetli.

Admiral Dewey, the little Java mon-key that was on the flagship Olympiaduring the battle of Manila with theadmiral, after whom he was named, isan inmate of the hospital at Lincolupark, Chicago.

lie no longer eats philopenas withthe children visitors, as peanuts arenow barred from his regular diet.Head Animal Keeper McCurren Is nowfeeding Idm gruel with a spoon on ac-count of the loss of the little fellow'steeth.

As the admiral Is now < years old,and as at this age monkeys shed theirteeth, he is "gumming" it, awaiting thegrowth of his new molars. AdmiralIs an Intelligent little fellow, and waspresented to the park by Major Thomp-son, who was the Olympla's surgeon,lie has been a resident of the parksince October, 181)0, and Is a great

favorite of the visiting public.

ZPIRIHSTT XJSTGrPromptly Done ut the Tribune Office.

ROUND THE REGION.

11. B. Howells, charged with forgingthe trade mark and labels of the PerunaMedicine Company, of Ohio, and sellinga substitute medicine of his own for thegenuine, pleaded guilty at Wllkesbarre.lie was lined SSOO.

This Is the season when mothers arealarmed on account of croup. It isquickly cured by One Minute CoughCure, which children like to take.Grover's City drug store.

Peter McAndrews, of Rappahanock,was run over by a Philadelphia andReading passenger train near Girard-villeon Monday and was instantly killed.It is thought that he sat down on thetrack while on his way home late at

night and went to sleep.Torturing skin eruptions, burns and

sores are soothed at once and promptlyhealed by applying DoYVitt's WitchHazel Salve, the best known cure forpiles. Beware of worthless counter-feits. Grover's City drug store.

While Mrs. Patrick Gallagher wasgathering coal from an abandoned strip-ping of the Lehigh Valloy Coal Com-pany, in the southern part of Ilazleton,Monday afternoon, a huge piece of rockbecame loosened and fell upon her head,killing her.

Feelings of safety pervade the house-hold that uses One Minute Cough Cure,the only harmless remedy that producesimmediate results. It is infallible forcoughs, colds, croup and all throat andlung troubles. It willprevent consump-tion. Grover's City drug store.

The following have announced theirIntention of becoming independent can-didates in Lackawanna county and arecirculating nomination papers for sig-natures: Congress, Frank M. Spencer;judge, Cornelius Smith; sheriff, GeorgeLothier.

It is well to know thatDoWitt's WitchHazel Salve willheal a burn and stopthe pain at once. It will cure eczemaand skin diseases and ugly wounds andsores. It is a certain cure for piles.Counterfeits may bo offered you. Seethat you get theoriginal DoWitt's WitchHazel Salve. Grover's City drug store.

The 700 employes of the Reading IronCompany at Danvillo have decided to

accept the 25 per cent reduction in theirwages, which went into effect on Sep-tember 10, and against which theystruck.

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The following priests were the guests

of Rev. Father Phillips at dinner yester-day: Fathers Burgr&af, White Haven;Brchony, Eckley; Malloy, McAdoo;Mack and Fallihee, Freeland; Dover,Beaver Meadow; Bunco, Mauch Chunk;and Peruzzie and Marcella, Ilazleton. ?

Plain Speaker.

Dr. W. 11. Lewis, Lawroncevillo, Va.,writes, "1 am using Kodol DyspepsiaCure in my practice among severe casesof indigestion and find it an admirableremedy." Many hundreds of physiciansdepend upon the use of Kodol DyspepsiaCure in stomach troubles. It digestswhat you eat, and allows you to eat allthe good food you need, providing youdo not overload your stomach. Givesinstant relief and a permanent cure.Grover's City drug store.

John Lapp, street commissioner of

Ilazleton, died this morning at the agoof 57 years.

A. 11. Stroll has been appointed post-master at Christopher, and R. A. Floydat Plains, both in this county.

The Shamokin MillingCompany's mil)

and storehouses were destroyed yester-

day morning. Loss, $50,000.

Shickshinny's new national bankopened for business on Monday.

The Woodpecker.

There was once an old woman wholived in a little house. She wore arend cap on her head, a black dress anda white dress and a white apron withthe strings tied behind.

One day St. Peter called on the oldwoman and he was very hungry. The

old woman was baking cakes on agriddle. The good saint asked her fora cake. She looked at the cake shewas baking and thought it was toolarge to give him. so she baked anotherone. She thought this one was also

too large, and kept on baking cakeswhich kept getting smaller.

St. Peter became angry and told herto fly up the chimney and peck forher living.?Josephine Yosburg In Phil-adelphia Press. ?

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