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Jr, 6 OU should see Mrs. $ O’Grady,” said my wife to me shortiy af¬ ter my arrival at the summer hotel where she was spending the season and I was _ spending every other Bunuuy and ail my spare cash “Be jailers,” I responded, giving the best imitation I could of the Hi¬ bernian accent, “an’ phwat have yez been doing wid Mrs. O’Grady?” “My dear,” said my wife, reprov¬ ingly, “I perceive that your opinion of Mrs. O'Gradv ie as poor as your imita¬ tion of the dialect you associate with her name.” “1 don’t know her at all,”I replied, on the defensive. “It was not necessary for you to stiv so in so many words, my dear,” said my wife, in a tone of voice it is not worth while to explain to married men. “When you have seen Mrs. O’Grady you may hold to different views concerning her.” As usual, my wife was right iu her eooolupions, for when I saw the lady I was more than surprised—I was de¬ lighted. She was of that type of Spanish women we see in pictures, aud her name boro no relation to her what- ever As she and my wife were on such excellent terms, my probation as a stranger was short, aud in a few minutes we were chatting away like old friends. “Really,” I said to her, “you must pardon me, but may I ask about your name? As far as I can recall, I do not remember liavi ng heard of the O’Grady s of Cordov a or Seville, or even of the Alhambra.” “And still I am Dolores O’Grady,” she smiled. “Which being interpreted,” said I. with a dawning consciousness, “meaus that yon were once Dolores Somebody else, ana some Irish hidalgo or don came your way and gave his name for youre. ” “Yon have guessed it,” she said. Then i recalled an old in end and college mate of mine. Tom O’Grady, a dare-devil-Dick sort of a chap, who had no sooner received his diploma than be converted what little property he had into cash and went off" on some adventure to one of the South Ameri¬ can Republics. “I don’t know, madam,” said I, « i which of the O’Gradys has been so fortunate, but there is one I used to know who was worthy ot even such good fortune as to be your husband. His name was Tom, and we were brothers for five years.” She took a tiny little locket from some place about her where women usually carry such things and handed it to me. “Book at that,” she said, and I u ia. “By Jove—I bag your pardon,” I exclaimed and apologized in the same breath; “It’s Tom.” Thai evening Tom arrived, and our ised respective and respected wives prom¬ to let us have au hour to our¬ selves if we would give the first two hours after dinner to them. This we readily agreed to, because we kuew that no other course was left to us, and we adjourned to the apartments of the O’Gradys. “Well, well, old Tom,” I said, when we had disposed of ourselves comfort¬ ably, “how did it ever happen?” and l smiled over at Mrs. O’Grady. “That what I wanted to tell you when vp. have our hour together,” he laughed. “Wh&v selfish creatures men are,” said my wife. “Why not let us know now? I have never had the pleasure of meeting Mr. O’Grady until this evening, but I’ve known ‘old Tom’ ever since I’ve been married.” “How long has that been?” in¬ quired Tom of me. “Fifteen years.” “Three to the good of me. Dolores and I have been struggling along with each other for a dozen long and weary years. ’* Mrs. O’Gradv threw him a kiss from the tips of her pretty fingers in re spouse. “That’s one experience, plus three years," said my wife, and I threw her a handful ot kisses. “Let us have the story of your life, old fellow, ’ I said coaxingiy, which was entirely unnecessary, for Tom was as anxious to tell it as I was to hear “Once upon a time,” he said, bow¬ ing to all of us, “there was one Thomas O’Grady, au American citizen of Irish vlescent, better known as Tom or ‘old Tom,’ and he- went to South America aud mingled in a revolution, one of the things which is always on tap in a South American Republic for spy body to mingle in whenever he is disposed to do so. This O'Grady—” “Drop the didactic and general,” I interrupted, “and get down to ihi personal and particular. ” “As I was saying,” Tom continued, “I went to South Am erica and investee whai mcnev I had in mines and a cof- fee plantation, and kept out of poli¬ tics—" “An Irishman and kept out of poli¬ tics?” I asked. Tom smiled. “I kept out of politics until I thought I had some show and then I want in like—” “An Irishman,” I suggested. “Just so, ray boy,” he admitted, “and we had it lively. I still retained my American citizenship in case of an emergency, but that did not interfere with my duties as a ‘boss,’ and a ‘boss’ I was, though I could not vote. At the end of live years £ had a tremendous influence, a coffee plantation, a pay¬ ing mine and a good bank account in New York City, where it was safe. I was twenty-seven years old, and a ris- ing young man at that age has a heart, if he is auy good at all, and I was somo good, if I do say it myself. I was not much cn society, as that term goes, but I knew some of the best families in the place and visited them. Then there were some other families I did not visit, notably that of the man who field was politics. my opponent always in the of He was a rich old fellow,with two sons and a daughter — Dolores, there, remembers her quite well”—and Mrs. O’Grady nodded pleasantly, as if she had no fears now of any pretty girl anywhere—“and ho was a fighter from Wayback. As I say I never visited the general's house, but I did meet his daughter at the houses of my friends, aud of course she, of all the girls I meet must be the one I should fall in love with. I don’t know why Cupid sends his victims such luck, but I notice tbat he often does. I had known the general’s daughter about a year when the forty-seventh revolution—or was it the hundred and forty-seventh ?” he asked of his wife with a smile— occurred, and 1 was in it up to my neck. The others I had managed to keep out of, but this one caught me before I knew it, and I found myself the head and front of the party against the Government. The only thing 1 did not like in the affair was that the general was at the head ot the Govern¬ ment party, and the general’s daugh¬ ter was the sweetest woman in the world, and we were in love, general or no general. Well, the scrap came off in due course, and after shooting the town full of holes for a week or so, hdj scaring the women aud chil¬ dren into fits, my side went to pieces aud ten of its leading spirits went to jail. From that point the transition was easy to the sunnyaide of a wall on the outskirts of town, and early one line morning we found ourselves grouped there with fifty Govern¬ ment soldiers drawn up in line pointing loaded guns at us. In plain English, it was au execution bee, and we were the guests of honor. I had fixed up my business affairs in the few days allowed me, and as there was no one I thought as much of as I did of the general’s daughter, I willed all my property to her, thus proposing to heap coals of fire on the old gentle¬ man’s head while he was after mine. You might think I was frightened as I stood there before those guns, but I wasn’t. True, I was a bit nervous, but I wasn’t scared at all, and I insist¬ ed on facing the shooting party and giving the command to fire. They wouldn’t let me do that, though, and I had to face the wall with mv back to the foe. I stood at the head of the line, about three feet from the man next to me, and waited calmly for the cud of things. At the first command I braced myself, and when the com¬ mand ‘Fire* came I tried to steady my¬ self, but iu spite of all I could do when the guns went off I went up into the air as if I bad been bounced on a spring board and came down in «a heap?” “You weren’t killed then?” ex¬ claimed my wife, in the pre-eminently rational manner of all women. “Yes, madam,” smiled O’Grady. “Why, Mr. O’Grady,” she began, but I laughed, aud she realised that Mr. O’Grady was not as dead as his statement might lead one to suppose. “Just the same, Tom,” I said, “I should think the nervous strain and your imagination combined would have snapped the vital cord when those guns went off. You know there are any number of such cases well au¬ thenticated. You must have had strong nerves to have withstood the shock.” O’Grady “Suppose, Dolores,” said Mr. to his wife, “you take up the story aud finish it.” “It is very simple,” she said, with an accent so charming that any at¬ tempt to put it into written words would be sacrilege. “You know it was the daughter of the general who saved Mr. O’Grady’s life. Of course, if he had known, he would have died with the others when the guns were fired at him, but the Government party did not want to shoot Mr. O’Grady, because he was an American citizen, and that might cause the Government great difficulties. So it was arranged that the shooting party was not to k’ll him, as it did the oth- era, but to let him escape the bullets. It was a great secret and thev thought they much would frighten Mr. O’Grady %o that never any more would he be in trouble of that kind. And no donbt they would have frightened him to death, and ho would not have been iu any more trouble—” “On earth,” interrupted Mr. O’Grady. “lor,” continued his wife, smiling, “the shock might have killed him. But it was not to be that wav. The general’s daughter learned the secret and sent him word by a faithful ser¬ vant, and when the others were led out to their death, Mr. O’Grady kn ew that some other fate was reserved for him. Even as it was, the strain was so ranch that he fainted away, and those who saw the shooting thought he was dead also—” “So did I,” again interrupted Mr. O’Grady. “And they were abont to put him in the ddeh with the others,” contin¬ ued his wife, “when one of the officers requested to send the tody to Mr. O’Grady house. There he was re¬ vived, and in a few days he had es¬ caped from the city and was safe out of the country.” “And the general’s daughter, what became of her?” asked my wife. “She waited until times were easier for the O’Gradys”’ replied Tom, tak¬ ing up the story again, “and then ha came back under an amnesty act. In the meantime the general had died—” “Oh, how glad I. am,” exclaimed my wife, in quite a rapture of interest. Mrs. O’Grady looked at her with great seriousness. “You shouldn’t speak so of the father in the daughter’s presence,’’she said, and O’Grady actually laughed at my wife’s utter discomfiture.—Wash¬ ington Star. The Domestic Cat. The cab was a solitary roamer, whose companions were the trees of itt native forests. It found a home in the hollow trunks and safety among the branches. How do we know that the cat’s ancestors were dwellers m the forest? Because every kitten takes to a tree as readily as a duck to water. Also, because nearly all forest dwellers are mottled in color, so that they may not be conspicuous among the lights and shadows beneath the trees. While I was considering what was the probable view held by cats about human beings, it was suggested by one ingenious friend that probably they regard a man as a kind of loco¬ motive tree, pleasant to rub against, the lower limbs of which afford a com¬ fortable seat, and from whose upper branches occasionally drop tid-bits ot“ mutton aud other luscious fruits. We may laugh at the theory, but it has quite a respectable string of facts be¬ hind it to back it up. If the Kanakas argued from the pig to the horse, why should the cat not pass from the familiar tree to the unfamiliar organ¬ ism called man? The cat, in spite of the domestic character it has acquired, is iu reality the least tame of our animal servants. As far as its duties are concerned, man has taught it practically nothing. Its methods of pursuing rats, mica and birds are all entirely its own. It is indeed rather a wild animal which has taken up ita residence in our houses for its own purposes than a servant or a slave.—North American Review. Roads anil Road-.Uakiug The Irish mile is 2240 yards. Portugal has 2000 miles of road. Sweden has 36,200 miles of highway. Frauce has 320,000 miles of highway. The modern Roman mile is 1628 yards. Hollapd has 7600 miles of public roads. Iu Germany there are 265,000 miles of road. Norway has bat 14,800 miles of pub¬ lic highway. The Austrian Empire has 81,000 miles of road. Canada has 6000 raiies of roads and highways. The English statute mile is 1760 standard yards. Austria is building roads at the rate of 100,000 miles per year. The comparatively small kingdom of Italy has 51,000 miles of highway. In many parts of Europe river and canal routes are legally regarded as highways. Little Denmark is admirably pro¬ vided with roads, having 2000 miles of public highway. According to Mulhail, there are iu the United States 260,100 miles of public highway. Until the beginning of the nine¬ teenth century all traveling in Ireland was done cn horseback. The Roman roads, according to their importance, were from eight to thirty feet iu width. His Sweetheart Knew Him. A Maryland man got into trouble with his employers aud fled. When in a safe place he grew a beard and al¬ tered bis personal appearance in ether particulars. Then he returned to his employers and said he was a brother of the defaulter and wanted to settle the case for him. They were about to comply, when his old sweetheart, who was employed in the place, came in and recognized him. His arrest fol¬ lowed. A Swallow’s swift Flight. An untamed swallow, which had its nest on a farm near Chetwynd, in Shropshire, was caught and taken in a cage to London, where it was released. It returned to its nest in eighty min¬ utes, haying accomplished a distance of 145 miles at the rate of nearly two miles a minute. RECIPROCITY A HUMBUG. PACTS AND FIGURES OF A DECID¬ EDLY CONTINUING NATURE. Human Necessities and Human De¬ mands tlie Only True Trade Reg¬ ulator — Labor’s Opportunities Greatly Improved by Wilson Bill. The United States Treasury Depart¬ ment recently prepared a statement showing the importations uml expor¬ tations of this country with all foreign countries with which it had entered in¬ to reciprocity agreements during period of seven years, commencing with 1888 and ending with 1895, and it does not require a person well versed in mathematics to tell whore reciprocity commenced and where it slopped. These figures are authentic, taken, as they have been, from the monthly statements of the Treasury Department,and are the first statistic's which have ever been compiled an- thenticallv on the subject. With these figures before him Secretary Morton spoke as follows on the ques¬ tion of reciprocity: “The reciprocity agreements nu- thorized by the tariff act of 1890 de¬ monstrate in their operation the fal¬ lacy of reciprocal agreements. In dis¬ cussing this question it is necessary to remember that the events of to-day are not necessarily the results cf leg¬ islation of yesterday. Therefore, an extension of trade during the exist¬ ence of reciprocal agreements may have been merely the continuation of an important trade that had been in progress for years before the recipro¬ cal agreements were instituted. Ifis fair also to say that a sudden falling off in trade after reciprocity agree- rnents lapsed may have been duo to obvious conditions that would have diminished trade had reciprocity con- tinned. But the truth is that in nearly every case there was neither anv of’trade considerable increase or decrease while the reciprocal agree- ments were iu force, nor immediately after they had lapsed. “Except in the single case of Cuba no one could conclude from iookin<* at export and import statistics when re- ciprocity began and when it ended. “The entire commerce of the United States with the Central American coun- tries, Guatemala, Honduras,Nicaragua and Salvador, and with San Domingo the British West Indies and British Guiana, with all of which countries we entered into reciprocal agreements, is severally so small that the statistics have been consolidated. For these colonies and petty sovereignties the statistics are as follows: Year. Imports from. Exports to, 1888 ..............$22,817,113 $13,328,377 1889 ............... 28,937,658 14,607,153 .............. 27,518,739 15,515.656 1891.............. 30,052,567 18,143,898 1892 .. 27,239,826 16,051,029 1893 .. 27,449.673 13.500,171 1894. .. 27,923,665 16,925,270 1895. .. 22,098,893 16,476,160 “The reciprocity agreements with thU countries in the above group went into effect at various dates in the year 1892, except that with San Domingo, which took effect September 1, 1891. The last had little effect on the figures for 1892. Our imports increased in a marked degree from 1888 to 1891. The increase during the three years was over 36 per cent. In the year in which the reciprocity agreements were made toere was a decided decrease iu our exports, and a further decrease the next year, followed by a gain iu 1894, which was still a good deal be¬ low 1891, however. Jn 1S95 there was a slight falling off in our exports, but they were still considerably "from greater than in 1893. Onr imports the countries named reached their highest figure in 1891; since then they rapidly declined. “With Brazil tho United States made the earliest of the reciprocity agreements. From that country we buy immense quantities of coffee. Our exports io Brazil, however, are rela¬ tively very small. It was claimed that under the reciprocal agreement we should pay for all of our coffee by the exports ot our own products. Prior to reciprocity, which took effect April 1, 1891, our exports to Brazil increased at the rate of $2,000,000 a year. Dur¬ ing 1892, the first year after the recip¬ rocal agreement, there was a very nsignifioant increase. “During the next two years there was a decline in our exports to Brazil. But our exports to Brazil in 1895, a part of which were made subsequent to the abrogation of the reciprocity agreement, were larger than in any previous year. Estimating the ex¬ ports from the United States to Brazil lor 1895 on the basis of the exports for the first half of that year and the exports for 1896 on the same basis will be even larger than tbo 3 e for 1895. ” At this point the Secretary turned to a large voluminous collection of tabu¬ lated figures, which he had juet re¬ ceived from the Treasury Depart* ment, and in a significant tone said: “For the purpose of comparison let us turn now to Venezuela and the Ar¬ gentine Republic, These two couu- tries did not enter into reciprocity agreements with the United States". Because they did not many peop'e presumed our trade with them would be diverted. “But the commerce oi the United States with ^ enezuela for the series of years named was as foilows : Year. lmported from. Exported to. 1-338. ..$ 10.051,250 $ 3 , 038,515 .839. . 10.392,560 3.733,961 1890. .. 10,966,765 4 , 023.533 1391 .. 12.078.541 4.784.956 ’ 892 .. 10,325,333 4, 49,155 13 >3 .. 3,625,118 4.207,66 i 894 .. 3.464.481 4.137,163 139 .. 10,073,951 3,740,644 “Tiie eject of oar having a reel procity a^rt-enit-nt with Brazil and • ooft Venezuela was that the Jat- u-i .- iY-e went to Europe >«ud our ;tiP m Ytue/.ueia led off preoa- *>ly two-thircts; yet our exports to Venezuela underwent very little change, and in the current year they *vill probably be one-third greater than they were in 1888. Although we ceased buying coffee of Venezuela, our exports to that country did not fall so ! ow as they were in 1890 until 1895, after the reciprocity era was over. The presumption is that the Venezuelans bought of us what they could buy here to greater advantage than they could in Europe, and they did not sacrifice such advantages sim¬ ply because we ceased to buy their coffee. “The exports of the United States to the Argentine Republic were ia- ere asm g until the iaiiure of the Bar- mgs. From that date commerce be¬ tween the two countries shrunk rapid¬ ly until 1892 : since the latter year our exports have been increasing rapidly, and in 1895 they were much in excess of 1891 and 1892, and they promise exceedingly well for this current year. “The foregoing statements and comparisons indicate that the expan¬ sion of the foreign trade of the United States will be brought about by the ordinary trade methods rather than by a system of special concessions. “Cuba cannot be forced to buy food in Spain instead of iu the United States. Brazil, very naturally and logically, will trade with the Argen¬ tine Republic for wheat and flour, re¬ gardless of reciprocal agreements. South America generally will buy pro¬ visions and lumber of the United States, whether there are reciprocal agreements or not. Central America will do likewise, and get the larger part of its manufactured goods iu Eu¬ rope until the price of the same goods is lower in the United States than it . . _ Europe. W ith the reuuced ls ia cost °1‘Production . in all lines of manufac- ^urect goods tae diiereuoa in prices, which haR been against Americans, is now rapidly diminishing and disap- P ear ^ u S* Human necessities an i human do- raanc1lS bring the trade of tho couutrieB with whom entered into reciprocal agreements to us, or take that trade to other Nations. The laws of eonim erce are as inexorable aud in- GVifcab]o m tboir operations as the laws of nature * No legislation nor diplomacy can subject human wants to arbltral T control. American ex- Forts are paid for by imports or by traaHf ers of commerco held by the inl¬ porting country. All legitimate com- merce is irrestrainable. “Every exchange of commodities, legitimately made, is of small advan¬ tage to the parties making it. Legis¬ lation cannot declare artificial restora¬ tion or circulation of blood with so much force as to reanimate a dead or¬ ganism. And legislation and diplo¬ macy are equally powerless iu their attempts fco create artificial restoration or circulation of blood with so much force as to reanimate a dead orgauism. And legislation and diplomacy are equally powerless in their attempts to create artificial reciprocity, or to es¬ tablish trade between countries which naturally do not trade with each other, because there is no apparent profit in the undertaking. “We have been told that daring the past year our country has been prac¬ tically inundated with manufactured goods of foreign production, in this way taking work from American wage earners, when, as a matter of fact, there has been on an average a notable increase in the importation of crude commodities that have to be fashioned by the labor of American wage earn¬ ers, an increase accomplished by the fight which these wage earners made for us in the year 1892. “The percentage of manufactured goo is imported into this country in 1893, 1894 and 1895 was over 22 per cent, of the entire importations of these years, and yet that time covered a period during which the tariff pre¬ pared under tho protectionist tariff commission was iu force. The fact is, that in the last year our importations of manufactured goods were, on tho whole, exceedingly small, when one takes into account that we had to make up for the scarcities of 1894, during which year there was a smaller relative importation of manufactured goods tbau in any other year for which a classification has been given b} r our Government. “The results of the year 1896 are expected to show that while crude commodities will be imported in in¬ creasing amounts to be manufactured in this country the percentage of manufactured goods coming in this year will be probably less than it was during the years 1891, 1892 aud 1893. It will be shown by these irrefutable results that the American mtraufactur- ers are supplying a larger amount cl goods and commodities for export than ever before, and in addition to that they are supplying the home market to a greater extent than ever before.” What It Stands For. McKinley says: “No one need be in doubt about what the Republican party stands for.” To which the Topeka (Kan.) Co- Operator makes reply: “No, if there ever was a doubt it has been dis¬ pelled. “It 3tands to-day for all that the American people do not want. “It stands for what benefits the bond gamblers of Wall street. “It stands for ‘protection Io Ameri¬ can laborers’ one day in the year, and then legislates against them the other 364 days. “It stands for the wealth consumers and against the wealth producers.” Sovereign to Kalce Answer. Terrenoo V. Powderly is to speak at Chicago in favor of MoKinley. Aa an offset to Mr. Powderly, Grand Mas¬ ter Workman Sovereign, of the Knights of Labor, proposes to reply if a hall can be secured, otherwise he will speak in the city later. Mr. Hobart and the Trnsls. “The coal trust conspiracy,” a locarl anti-Bryan newspaper informs itH readers, “is criminal at common law even if there were no statutes against it,” And in a high vein of righteous wrath it inquires, *“Wbat is the’At ~ torney-General’s occasion for sparing lawbreakers wnose lawlessness cripples industry and impoverishes the people? What is ho afraid of? What is the occult reason for his inactivity?” Perhaps the Attorney-General is aware that one of the chief parties to the criminal conspiracy known as the coal trust is the New Yorx, Susque¬ hanna and Western Railroad Com¬ pany, and 'that Garret A. Hobart, the Republican nominee for Vice- President of the United States, is a director of that company, and, there¬ fore, one of the responsible organizers of the trust, Moro tbau that, a*? general counsel for the corporation he took an active part, in formulating the agreement which now enables a few men to rob consumers of coal on the one hand and its minors on the other. Attorney-General Hancock, being a well-informed man, is doubtless cog¬ nizant of these facts. Being a partisan Republican, he is supporting McKin¬ ley and Hobart. Finally, being pos¬ sessed of average common sense, he doubtless understands that it would be ridiculous for him to urge Mr. Hobart’s election to the second place in the people’s gift and at the same time bring civil or criminal action against him and his associates as law¬ breakers. Whoever aids the election of Mc¬ Kinley and Hobart helps not onlyouo trust, but scores of them, Mere de- nunciation of trusts without attack on their great political representatives won’t do.—New York Journal. Another Example for McKinley. Mr. McKinley in his letter of ac¬ ceptance declared the Wlsou law to bo « failure, among other reasons, because its duties do not cover the difference in the labor cost between this country and Europe. We have already shown that iathe great indus¬ tries of pig iron, steel rails and cotton cloth the existing duties are more than the entire labor cost. Here is an¬ other example: The fifty-eight stockholders of the Window Glass Trust have been pro¬ tected by a duty on foreign imports: In I860, revenue tariff.......... 15 per cent. In 1881, war tariff.............. 80 per cent. In 1884. Republican Commission tariff.................. .. 120 per cent. In 1880. McKinley tariff.. 132 per cent. .. In 1806, Wilson tariff..... ..101 par cent. The price per half box (18x21) iu this country was $3.CO in 1HC0 aud $3.13 in 1890. The trust kept the price steady. The foreign price of our imports was in 1890 per half box $1.80, and we o 5- So: si 19,097.057 pounds, for wl o *3 The foreign cost......... ..$343,55') The Customs House duty -- 452.605 So that to the original coat of the half box of $1.80 there should be added a fine of $2.35, ranking a cost to land of $1.15, so that the trust could market all it made at $3.13. It would have sold it all at $4.12 but for a trust quarrel. A duty of J O per cent, raoro than covers the labor cost on a melting: United States. Relgiarn. Raw material.847 53 Raw material.*48 44 Labor cost. .. 1!) 96 Labor cost.... 1463 - Add 10 per cent 6 2D Total $67 49 Total......$G9 26 The additional $76.82 was the “fat” of the trust ander the McKinley bill. This “fat” ha3 been reduced to $60.74 by the Wilson bill. Does Mr. McKin¬ ley really think that this bounty shottld be increased? Ho had the people’s opinion of it in 1890 and again in 1802. selling Cheaper Abroad. Of course Mr. McKinley could not refrain from telling the pilgrims who journeyed to see him last Friday of his prayerful solicitude that American labor should buy under the very best advantages as well as produce under them. Yet Mr. McKinley was well aware all the time that hi:-’ contribu¬ tion to this result was the framing of a law which made his own wife pay from $45 to $65 for a sewing-machine which was sold to the wives and daughters of free trade Englander-r for $20 and $25.—Boston Globe. WASHBURN TALKS OF WATSON. Brands as False Any Suggestion of Latter’s Withdrawal. George F. Washburn, chairman of the Chicago branch of the people’s party national executive committee, was asked by a press representative what he had to say in regard to the report from Atlanta to the effect that Mr. Watson is to withdnw as a candi¬ date for the vice presidency. He said: I can brand it as another campaign lie. It is a newspaper sensation sprung in the absence of encouraging news to influence the Georgia election next week. I received a telegram and a letter from Mr. Watson this morning which made no reference to this press report, but on the contrary, referred io his tonr through the west, which he will make at the close of the Georgia campaign. He will remain our candi- lata to the end. MILLIONS IN GOLD Have Been Imported Since the Tide T urned a Few Weeks Ago. A New York dispatch states that the gold movement is about over. Count¬ ing the several hundred thousands of dollars gold received from Canada, the total amount of gold by which the country will have been enriched, when the tag-end consignments are received in the next few days, is over $45,000,- 000. One firm, Lazard Freres, has imported more than one-third of M this vast sum.