Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 11, Decatur, Adams County, 3 June 1892 — Page 2

®he genwcrat DECATUR, IND. y, BLACKBURN, • - - rrM.'inen. The wall-paper trust Is bound to <o to tho wall. Ruddy Kipling says that New York is a long, narrow pig trough. Yet the food he ate there is about the only thing he praises. Storms, floods, and backward weather are unpleasant reminders that the great crops of last year may not be repeated when the harvests of this season are garnered. Two romantic young persons accompanied by a minister climbed up into the head of the Liberty Statue, on Bedloe’s Island, New York Harbor, and were married. The giddy couple! Integrity is the first moral virtue, benevolence the second, and prudence is the third. Without the first the two latter cannot exist, and without the third the two former would be often rendered useless. Poverty is, except where there is an actual want of food and raiment, a thing much more imaginary than real. The shame of poverty—the shame of being thought poor—is a great and fatal weakness. Some of the older cities of the East are trying to correct early blunders by arranging for parks. The city of Cambridge asks authority of the Legislature to expend $200,000 outalde of the debt limit for such purposes. Parks are a necessity in every well ordered city. William Waldorf Astor is building a theater in New York. The Astor family is in some danger of being better known for its enterprises in the hotel and theater lines than for its aristocratic pretensions, but if William Waldorf will not stage any dramatized forms of his novels the public will not complain. Ward McAllister has visited a terrible punishment upon his son for marrying without the parental sanction and blessing. The erring boy can no longer live at home. He may grace the domestic hearthstone on an occasional visit, but he must reside at the club. Stern and cruel is Father McAllister. • — ■■■ Congress is adding to the area of the Yellowstone Park. With its new boundaries it will be larger than Connecticut. When the people at large do more long distance traveling the value of these incomparable public preserves will become more generally appreciated. It is a credit to us all that Congress continues true to its trust, and is making this wonderland more attractive rather than narrowing its confines. Mrs. Frank Leslie doesn’t believe In running wild, but she believes in running Wilde—at least to the extent of making him behave himself and earn his own living. Before she married him he earned an income of •5,000 per year by writing. Since then she has allowed him $25 a week, and he has exerted himself very little to add to that amount, though he has been sedulously devoted to gadding about, and has shown an indisposition to go to bed at seemly hours. Mrs. Leslie is reported to have giyen him to understand that he must work and earn money or she will have nothing more to do with him. A Dr. Parkhurst club is to be startec in Chicago. Dr. Parkhurst Is the sensational New York divine who played leap-frog and drank beer In Hattie Adams’ establishment, and thereby secured the conviction of the woman and escaped punishment himself. The idea of the society must be for men to attend places of ill-re-pute and to secure indisputable evidence of their character by joining in the orgies. Armed with this testimony, they will institute prosecutions. The name of the society has not been definitely fixed upon. It will not probably be known as the stool-pigeon club. Young men found In houses of ill-repute in Chicago hereafter will have a good excuse ready. They will all be members of the Dr. Parkhurst Club. Rev. J. D. Fulton, more distinguished for bigotry than learning, has attacked Mrs. Palmer, president of the woman’s board, for asking the Pope to facilitate the loan of ‘■relics” to the World’s Fair from conventual institutes in Italy. Rev. Mr. Fulton assumes That “relics” in this case means portions of the bodies of saints supposed to possess miraculous powers. Did Mr. Fulton never hear of “relics” of Gecrtge Washington or of Thomas Jefferson or of Christopher Cblumbus? The relics to which Mrs. Palmer refers are illuminated books, embossed manuscripts, rare carvings in wood and ivory, gems of various kinds, missals, early transcriptions of profane classics and other vestiges of culture and science which were preBerved,in educational institutions in Europe during the middle ages, the libraries of many of these houses being among the finest in the world. It is a curious and not especially pleasing comment upon the journallam of the present day that, as nearly aa can be estimated, the London papers should have expended about •200,000 in getting cable reports of the details of the crimes, the arrest

and the trial of Deeming, the rascal who has recently been condemned to death at Melbourne. Tho sum is said to be larger than was paid by tho ontiro London press for telegraphic ro ports of the Franco-Prussian war, a fact which is of course to bo accounted for to. some extent by the fact that the amounts spent in getting telegraphic reports increases from year to year, but which is on tho whole not an unfair indication of tho comparative esteem in which sensational gossip, especially of a criminal nature, is held by tho public to which tho less wholesome of tho daily papers cater. As a matter of fact the reading public would have been on tho whole rather bettor oft if it had known none of the disgusting details of tho career of Dooming, a vulgar and blood thirsty miscreant whose career has nothing oven of daring to redeem it; who dealt in cunning instead of bravery, who was a disgusting combination of lust, avarice, and cruelty, such that the judge who sentenced the criminal pronounced him the most degraded he had ever had deforc him. To spread all the evidence out day after day in all its hideous particulars is simply to assist in the debauching of public taste—and there arc sufficient reasons to feel that the debauching, process has gone so far already in England that there is no need to expend $200,000 in incouraging it! The Board of Appeals of the National Troting Association, while assembled in Chicago last week, rendered a decision that would have been much more valuable had it come months ago, but which even at this time is of almost incalculable importance to the trotting turf. It was the decision by which the board refused to reinstate Nelson, the famous trotting stallion, and C. H. Nelson, the owner of the animal. Both were expelled two years ago because of a deal at Beacon Park, Boston, in which Frank A. Noble and C. H. Nelson agreed that Nelson, the horse, should beat Alcryon in a SIO,OOO stake race. Nelson admitted that he had made the agreement, giving Noble first monew on condition that Alcryon should nos be driven to win. His reason for so doing was that he cared more for the reputation than he did for the money. The expulsion created great interest and excitement in horse circles, as Nelson, the owner, is a wealthy man and Nelson, the horse, is one of the most noted performers in the world. Had it been otherwise there would have been no interest in the case,; the expulsion would have been accepted as final and nothing more would have been heard of it; but the matter has been hanging tire before the board ever since,until some suspicions have been aroused that the board was hunting for away to restore the standing of both. The application for reinstatement was based on the argument that at the time the race was trotted the track over which it was trotted was not a member of any trotting association, and that therefore the National or the American had no jurisdiction. The track subsequently became a member, and it is claimed that at the time of the race the application for membership had been filed. These, however, are mere technicalities and so far as form goes the turf laws offer very little safety tq any one. It is the enforcement of the spirit of the rules which must be looked to for protection from “ringing,” trades and other frauds on the track, and the board is to be congratulated on enforcing the spirit of the law in this case. Nelson will be a loss to the turf, but not so great a loss as would have resulted from his reinstatement. That would have been a practical admission that a man of wealth and influence owning a really fast horse could tool through the rules at will. It would have destroyed .whatever faith people have in the-honesty of the turf, and would have established a most dangerous precedent. The refusal to reinstate, on the other hand, gains additional weight from the prominence of both the horse and the man. God’s Hose. A lady who was going into a picture gallery on the avenue, dropped a single red rose she held in her hand and it lay on the threshold when a thin-faced ragged child stopped to look at it. “You can have it,” said the lady who was returning to her carriage. But the child did not seem to connect; the richly-dressed lady with the beautiful flower. She looked from it to the bluessky long and earnestly. "Well,” said the lady, amused at the scene, “why don’t you pick up the rose?” “I dassn’t,” answered the child humbly, not offering to touch it. ‘•But I told you to take it, child. It is mine,” said the lady. “Oh,” responded the child, drawa long brftith. “I thought it was God’s rose, and that mebby He dropped it there.” A*You poor child,” said the lady, kinuly, "it is God’s rose, and yours and mine, too,” and she picked it up and handed it to the little girl. But the child put her hand behind her and run off without touching the red rose: She could not comprehend how a rose could drop from Heaven like a star to lie at her feet, and she was afraid of a bounty that was of so unusual a nature. j A Puzziii'g Question* “Mother, don’t angels wear any clothes?” asked a little Texas girl of her mother.” “No, my daughter.” There was a pause and the little girl asked: “Where do the angels puttheir pocket-handkerchiefs?”—Texas Siftings.

M’KIN LEY’S ACCOUNT. IT CONTINUES TO SHOW UP IN THE DEBIT COLUMN. Wage Bednotlona, Strikes, Clnzeil Mill*, and VanUhlnic Induetrle* Are Hie Principal Items—Wo Make Tin Plate, but It I» Used Principally tor Campaign Thunder. > A Very Bad Record. Verily, this “bravo measure," this “trust-killing tariff," as tho New York Tribune calls it, is making a record for Bill McKinley. But what a record? As every ono knows, this act waste “boom" American industries, raise wages, and make everybody prosperous. Ever since its passage we have been hearing of wage reductions, trusts, closed mills, etc. As no Important wage advances were hoard of, wo began, a few weeks ago, to keep a record of tho effects upon labor of this bill. So far wo have found nothing worth reporting to tho credit side, but more than wo could find space for on tho debit side. The situation is | still unchanged. In a few of tho sixtytwo May Day strikes reported, tho I strikers have been promised slight reductions in hours, or slight advances in wages, but none of these appear to be in protected industries. Most of those strikes aro still on, and aro causing I numerous sympathetic strikes. Thou- : sands of stone cutlers and pavers in Now England aro out because owners of quarries will not sign the customary agreement for the scale of wages for the next year. Tho owners wish to postpone the date of this agreement until next January, when work will be slack, and It will bo easv to take advantage of the situation and reduce wages. It is now expected that nearly 100,000 pavers in Eastern cities will soon be on strike. The following are a few of tho items | charged to McKinley. May 9. To the report that the miners of the Wyoming Valley, Pa., are preparing to make an organized effort to prevent reductions caused by tho Reading coal deal. May 9. To the report that the new wall paper trust will have $20,000,000 capital, and that it will save $500,000 a year by throwing out of employment 300 drummers. The old pool which went to pieces in 1887 made profits of 200 per cent, by selling at 40 cents per roll wall paper now sold for seven cents. Wall paper manufacturers have not forgotten those golden days, and will make an effort to get back to them by advancing prices, reducing expenses, etc. May 10. To the report that seven packing companies have combined into the International Packing and Provision Company with a capital of $6,500,000. Offices will be in Chicago and London. May 10. To the report that the safe trust,. as completed, vontains five big firms, and has a capital of $3,300,000. [ May 11. To the report that the naval stores operators of Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and Alaoama have formed the Turpentine Operators’ General Association. The objects-' of this trust are to reduce the price of labor and to regulate the supply and prices of their wares. It controls more than 70 per cent, of tho world’s supplies of naval stores. May-12. To the report from Norristown, Pa., that the puddlers inHoovens’ rolling mill have accepted a reduction from $4 to $3.50 per ton, after a strike of several months, during which time the mill has stood idle. May 12. To the report from Fall River that the Narragansett mule spinners are on strike because of a scarcity of backboys and doffers, resulting in a reduction of wages. May 12. To the report that the Union silk mill at Catasauqua, Pa., has closed because fifty weavers aro on strike; 170 employes are affected. May 12. To the report that Maine has lost her smelting industry. The Katahdin iron works, which suspended in 1890, has now removed to Pictou, Nova Scotia. (day 12. To the report in the Iron Age ; that the manufacturers of the Mahoning and Shenango Valleys have agreed upon a scale of wages which they will present to the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers in June, and that “it is understood that a thorough rearrangement of prices has beeh made, and that quite a material reduction in the price of puddling has been demanded.” May 12. To the report of the Iron Age that the weekly capacity of blast furnaces has been reduced 7,576 tons since April 1. May 12. To the report that the first move of the perfected sugar trust (after getting control of Spreckles’ Philadelphia refinery) was to offer the sugar planters in Cuba, Porto Rico, and other West India islands a rate for raw sugar that will hardly pay expenses of production. The poor planters, now having only one market and one set of buyers, must accept. The consolidation has also had freights out from 14 to 9 cents per hundred pounds from Cuba to Philadelphia. A’he trust is not asking for the removal of the |-cent duty on refined sugar so that it can reduce the price to the consumer. It prefers 30 per cent, profits for itself to cheap refined sugar ior the people. May 12. To an advance of 5 cents per 25 pounds in the price of shot. A previous advance was made July 4, 1891. The shot trust was formed in fB9O, and contains ten of qur leading shot manufactories. May 12. To the report in the Iron Age that the price of binder twine, which recently was 7£ cents, has been advanced to 12 cents per pound. The American Cordage Company has not lost its grip on the market, and does not fear that its friends in the Senate will desert it and pass the free binder twine bill. May 12. To the report in the Iron Age. that New York and Boston importers of French glass have advanced prices, and that “better” prices for American glass are likely to rule. This is what the window glass trust has been aiming at by closing furnaces to decrease production. Degradation of Republican Politics. The hope of the anti-Harrison Republicans'that they will be able to defeat the President’s renomination is grounded upon their belief that James G. Blaine is ready and willing to betray his official chief. The President’s enemies are not, of course, honest enough to state the situation in these exact words, but, no mater how they put it, their case resolves itself into one wheresuccess is only to be accomplished throiigh the blackest and most shameless treachery. It is remarkable, but it is true, that not one of the Republican leaders who are plotting against Harrison expresses any doubt of Blaine’s entire willingness to play the treacherous part which the operation of their scheme makes it necessary to assign to him. The idea of the “plumed knight’s” loyalty to the President is not considered, because it is not supposed to exist. Nothing more forcibly illustrates the degradation of Republican politics than the widespread belief which obtains that the Secretary of State is prepared to show himself as, a traitor to the President who made him’ what he is officially.' ‘ When Blaine published his letter of declination last winter tho Herald predicted that the first persons who would cast doubts upon his and its sincerity would be among his most devoted and enthusiastic admirers. Behold them now, a long line of them, from the babbling Boutelle to the theoriz Ag Thurston, all declaring that Blaim Vill Cftr-

tainly •k’bcpt tho nomination if it U tonTheir only fear is that an unexpected attack of illness, Mr. Blaine being peculiarly subject to sudden "spells" of sickntss, may upset' all' their plans. They believe that if he keeps hia health he will not undertake to interfere with their programme. Hence they pray without ceasing that his digestion may be and remain unimpaired until after the Minneanolis convention. J)n the score of treachery they have no forebodings. —Chicago Herald. Rauin’n Record. It is plain to every one that Commissioner Raum should have long sinuo been summarily removed from the head of the Pension Department, says the Detroit Free Press;' Ho has made a record far worse than that which led to tho retirement of Tanner, whose chief offense wae too groat a liberality toward his old companions in arms. Raum has boen selfishly crooked, violating h:s official trust for the benefit of himself and his personal friends. There has been manifest a widespread and natural desire to know through what influence this offender is retained in charge of the Pension Bureau. Only narrow and unscrupulous partisanship can claim that he has not forfeited all rights to the place. The evidence forcing this conclusion has been known to tho President for months, yet Raum is retained. An exposute has been made that would cause decent men to seek obscurity, yet he boldly and confidently holds on to his remunerative job. What is his "pull?” There are certain well-known facts that may afford at least a partial answer to this conundrum. For many years Raum has been a practical politician of the machine stamp. While he was Commissioner of Internal Revenue he mastered all the projects and political jobs for the furtherance of which revenue collectors and their army of as-

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sistants were made useful. When irre- I sistible circumstances forced him from that office he was given employment by the party leaders to colli ct the assessments forced from government employes. <At this despicable work he was a howling success and met with the | highest approval from the Republican leaders. As Commissioner and Collector he not only schooled himself in meth- I ods but learned agreat many valuable | secrets. | It is apparent that Mr. Raum can make himself a very valuable ally of President Harrison, and your Uncle Benjamin is not the man to overlook the fact. It desirable te retain the services of the pension attorney* and claim agents of whom Raum has made friends. With the associations he has formed and the obligations he has placed through a long and favorable line of opportunities Raum is an invaluable man Friday. He disburses ono hundred and twentyfive million dollars per year, and knows ! how to use that munificent amount as bait for votes. HaVrison has a sure eye I for all details, and has made plans from the execution of which Raum cannot be spared. Yes, We Make Tin Plate. According to the report of Col. Ira Ayers, Special Agent of the Treasury Department, our total output of tin and terne plates is as follows: Pounds. July 1. 1891, to Sept. 30,1891 823,922 Oct. 1,1891, to Dec. 31,1891 1,409.821 Jan. 1, 1892, to March 31, 1892. 3,0 4,087 Total for the nine months ending March 31, 1t92 5,240.830 The same report states our average yearly imports of tin and terne plates as 678,000,009 pounds. Wo can at this rate produce enough of these plates to run us nearly one day—about 1-12 of 1 ! per cent, of our consumption. Considering the fact that we have, j during the last thirty years, taxed our- j selves at least $100,000,000 to start this : industry, the result does not appear to be very great. It is, however, highly satisfactory to the New York Tribune and other high tariff papers which are now daily giving these figures to the American people. C. S. Trench & Co., of 54 Cliff street, New York City, in their tin plate circular for May, give tho result of an investigation made by their firm. It appears that twelve of the nineteen firms reported by the Treasury Department as making tin plates, buy their plates and simply do the dipping, only four firms make their own plates, and that only tour make any bricht plates suitable for the canning industry—all the others making only roofing plates. Whether there has been any bright tin plate made here—that is, made from beginning to end—is doubtful. The price at which the product is offered is for IC 14x20, 61 cents for brights, and $6 per box for roofing. These prices being above the present cost of. imported plates, the reason is clear why “American” tin plate does not yet sell in commercial quantities or play any part in the market. The real question is whether we are not paying too much for our tin plate, and whether the actual damage done to other and more important industries has not already exceeded all the chimerical gains for the next twenty-five years that the most ardent McKinleyito can conceive of. The canning industry is fifty times as large as our tin plate industry, and one hundred times more important to the farmer and laboring man. It consumes the farmers’ surplus product and gives cheap food to the laborer. Tho ; greater cost of tin plate, glass, and sugar in the United States during the , last twenty-five years has not only prevented us from exporting canned goods to all parts of tho world, as we would have done under favorable conditions, but lias -so burdened this industry and increased the cost of canning goods here that England, toss favored by nature, I has not only been supplying the markets [ of the world but has been competing with us in our own markets with many ■ kinds of canned goods. Thue, because i of the lack or canning factories all.pver our land, largefluantities of small fruits, ' vegetables, etc., are left to rot, and millions of hungry laborers are deprived of cheap food. The higher, duty on tin plates under the act of 1890 is still further depressing this and many other important industries. The Tin Plate Consumers’ Association has been invesU-

gating those evils. It has received replies from forty-one firms. These tell of increased cost of raw material, lessened sales, fewer hands employed, a decided check in business, and the substitution of other and inferior- material for tin plate. Those are ogly a few of the evils that should be put on one side of the scales when weighing the good that protectionists say will bo done by tho higher duty on tinplates. Wages nn<l Cost ol Living. We publish In another column a most interesting report from Carroll D. Wright, tho Commissioner of Labor, on wages and the cost of living in certain “industries of tho United States, Great Britain and several other countries. The following table shows tho average wages and cost of living per family in the cotton and woolen industries according to bls statements: United States- Cottons. Woolens. Income *653 fCBS Expenditures , All 304 Net income. *47 *269 Groat Britain— Income *5.‘6 *5lO Expenditures .. 5W 482 Net income *44 *34 Germany - Income ..*302 *275 Expenditure 5...................... 233 £B4 Net income,... <l2 »*7 France— Income *366 *424 Expenditures... 331 884 Net income *3B B*o Switzer landincome.. *3W .... Expenditures 847 .... Net income.. *ll .... •Deficiency. Theie is apparently an error in the cost of living for families engaged in the American woolen industry, as their expenses are doubtless about as great as for those engaged in cotton manufacturing. The net results of the cotton trade are, however, interesting. The surplus

I earnings in the United States aro $47 ’ per year; in Great Britain, $54; in Germany, sl9; in France, $32; and in Switzerland, sll. It is also worthy of note that in this industry the annual amount spent per familv for amuse- : ments is $9.36 in the United States; i $16.02 in France; $19.33 in Germany; and $36.02 in Great Britain; and that the i British cotton operative spends more for intoxicating liquors than any other. So I far as the cotton trade is concerned, the ! net results aro more favorable to operatives in Great Britain than to those of any other country, a fact supported .by the light immigration of that class to this country.—N. Y. Daily Commercial Bulletine, May 12,1893. * When we consider that money will go much farther in Europe than in America; that, according to Secretaey Wia. M. Evarts, “one workman in the United States does as much work as two workmen in most of the countries of Europe;” and that, according to Secretary Blaine, ■ "the inequalities in the wages of EnI glish and American operatives (in the cotton industry) are more than equalized by the greater efficiency of the latter, and their longer hours of labor,” we arc not surprised that English operatives do not emigrate, and that the emigration from Europe to tho United is from protected countries, where tariffs depress industry and enhance the cost of living. To be sure, we the meanest tariff system on the face of the earth, but then, too, we also have more free trade than any other country, except, perhaps, Great Britain. Put a McKinley tariff wall around each of our States (as is done in Europe), and there will be no need of immigration laws to exclude Europeans or anybody else. .For, when, with our boundless and fertile prairies and our sparse population, we could not make as comfortable a liv- | ing here as Europeans would | home, and, with unrivalled opportuniI ties, we would bo the most cursed nation 1 of the earth. What Makes Millionaires? The New York Tribune is publishing a list of the millionaires in the United States to show that “protective tariff is merely one of the causes in operation to prodcue millionaires.” The list is completed for all Statcs from Alabama to and including Ohio, except for New York City. Out of a total of 2,233 millonaires the 'Tribune admits that 667 have made their fortunes in protected industries. No man can earn a pullion dollars in a life time, except by speculative investments in a monopoly or corner of some .kind. Os course there are other monopolies than those growing out of protection, but it will not be easy to find another that- has produced 30 per cent, of our millionaires, though speculation in land would boa close second. The mortgaged farmer and the million of laborer.? out of employment Will watch with interest the completion of this list. Some of them may feel proud to live in a country with 4,000 or 5,000 millionaires? but others, ,and their number is increasing, will contrast their poverty with all of this wealth, and wonder by what alchemy these 4,000 or 5,000 men were enabled to filch their millions out of the pockets—yes, and mouths —of the wealth producers, and what tho final result will be on our democratic institutions and government. Senator Ingalls had a few words to say on this subject before he got "out of a job. ” “We -cannot,” said he, “disguise tho truth that we are on the verge of an impending revolution; the old issues aro ; dead. The people are arraying them--1 selves upon one side or the other of a I , portentous contest. On one side is I capital, formidably intrenched in privilege, arrogant for continual triumph, conservative, tenacious to old theories, -demanding new concessions, enriched by domestic levy and foreign commerce, and struggling to adjust all values to its I own standard. On tlie other is labor,® : asking for employment, striving to develop domestic industries, battling with I the forces of nature and subduing the i wilderness; labor, stalling and sullen in cities, resolutely determined to over- ' throw a system under which the rich are growing richer and the poor poorer —a' system whicli gives to a Vanderbilt the possession of wealth beyfind tile dreams of avarice, and condemns the poor to a poverty which has no refuge from Starvation exeegt the prison or the gnave.” •.

COUNTERFEITING AS A • FINE ’ ART. Queer Instances (fathered In the Treasury Department at Washington. Snys a writer In Kato Field's Washington: It will bo remembered that there has been trouble over $2 bills bearing the Hancock head ever since September of 1800. It was in that month that ono of tho counters in the Redemption Division throw out a note Mr aftor-consldoration. Tho fingers of these women become so sensitive to the feeling of tho government paper that they throw out instinctively every bill which does not fool right. Such rejected notes are afterward cloesly examined, so that tho public may be warned. This was a $2 note with the cheek letter A, Treasurer Jordan’s signature, and a largo seal. Shortly after people were told to look out for all $2 bills of this description which should lack a dot over the “i" in “Register of the Treasury" and the period at tho end The general public is not able to tell tho difference in the paper, and does not carry a microscope about with It to look for minute defects In engraving, therefore It has to be given something distinctive, when possible, which it can see. I say "when possible” advisedly, for as soon as the counterfeiters learned of this official bulletin they proceeded to get’ out another issue with this error corrected. It was still a $2 note with Hancock’s head and Jordan's signature. The seal, too, was large, and of the proper shade to belong with check-letter B. Presumably tho only change was in the check letters. Again deft fingers detected the difference in paper, but this time the most noticeable mechanical defect was microscopical. Each corner of the note, it will be remembered, is embellished with a figure 2. but it is notgenerajjy known that each figure two is in its turn adorned with several printed “two’s” in microscopical letters. In the counterfeit the engraver had some of tho minute words backward, so that they read “owt” The public was warned of this. Again the counterfeiter went patiently to work. His last effort differed from its predecessor in bearing the check-letter C and its accompanying small seal. The microscopical words were fixed by bluring the “t” and the “o” so that only the “w” was plain, and it took a strong glass to show this defect, but it bore the name of Treasurer Jordan. Another warning was followed by another change. This time the name of Treasurer Jordan had to be changed to Hyatt, and the tail of the J could notbewhollyeliminated from the margin without risking the total destruction of the valuable platq, so the counterfeiters left it in, and now we have .a brand-new variety of $2 notes. Os course no one knows how long it takes to make a S2O bill with pen and brush, for none of these wonderful penman have ever been caught, but one would think that so skillful a workman could make more money at an honester trade. One thing seems to be certain—counterfeiting runs in families. In one of the pictured groups, four persons out of sixteen are of one name and five of another, and I am told that the two families were nearly related. One branch of the Smith family, I regret to say, has been a source of special anxiety to the Government. Their work was mainly done in Canada and all the scolds of this branch from the great-grandfather down—male and female—have distinguished themselves in their own peculiar line. Since the passage of a law which makes it a crime to have in one’s possession counterfeits, or even pictures of any coin, currency, or Government stamps, there has been a turning Into the department' of many curios of this kind, which people have had In private collections or which banks have kept for their own pleasure or profit. Such things are at present dangerous to have in the house—almost as dangerous as dynamite if one chances to have an enemy mean enough to take advantage of the law. ’ One of the pen-and-brush bills is a S2O note with Hamilton’s head. There are two specimens of this—one is quite fresh and noteasily detected, the other is worn, and shows plainly that it did not wear so well as a genuine note should. Another method of counterfeiting is the raising of a note from one denomination to a higher. A few months ago there died in the Columbus Penitentiary Peter McCartney. Many years ago he was arrested for counterfeiting and sentenced to this Penitentiary for fifteen years. He served out his term, and as soon as it was over went straight to New Orleans and commenced to raise SLnotes to SIOO. Within four weeks from the time he left the prison he was back in it again for another fifteen years. This time died before his time was over. Thus counterfeiting seems not only Inherited but an ungovernable passion. It is a pity that legitimate use has yet been found for such wonderful talents. E very body knows the taurTn the man who was in the employ of the Government and was a counterfeiter. It was years ago, when the Govern- ■ ment put out part of its work byithe piece to bank note companies. This man had the job of making the plates for printing some United States Ponds. While making the ordered plates he made a duplicate set for himself, printed the bonds, and very nearly got them on the market. When caught he gave us all his plates, dies, etc., valued at thousands of dollars, in exchange for his liberty. Ever j since he has been at large tinder the check of a suspended sentence. Should he ever be caught counterfeiting again the Government has only to clap him into prison without further trial. Foreigners unacquainted with anything but the general outlines of our paper money are frequently taken in by what are called “flash notes.” These are usually made originally for advertising purposes and only become a source of danger when unscrupulous and ignorant persons meet in their vicinity. In an asylum in Indianapolis is a man who seems to have gone crazy on i-ellgion and money. He thinks he can make the latter, and Is allowed to amuse himself by trying.

The results ord sent to tho Treasury. They aro “flash notes." ■ 4 "r'r'i'iT C«>l® in Our Churches. The history of religious worship and of religious buildings in America' is, in this aspect of it, as exceptional us 1J 1 is Inconsistunt. I presume it would be safe to say that there is no otner land in Christendom wore so ninny places of religious worship bear witness to the inflexible supremacy of tho spirit of caste, writes Bishop Potter in the .< Forum. For what Is.the spirit of casto if it bo not tho spirit that in these conditions and relationships which, seeming to exclude distinctions implying superiority or in-r---ferlority of persons, insists upon as- i tinning them? And is there any other institution which, in the face of the plain teachings of thu religion of Jesus Christ—as where in tho ■ epistle of St. James it Is said: “My brethren, have not tho faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of gmry, with respect of persons. For If there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring in goodly, apparel, and there come in also a pour man in vile raiment; and ye have respect to him that wearcth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good , j place; and say to tho poor, Stand thou there or sit here under my footstool. Are ye not then partial in yourselves and are become judges of evil thoughts?” (i. e., discriminate from unworthy motives) —is there, I ask, any other institution which, in the face of the plain teaching of its fo’under, departs so radically and habitually from that teaching as thus given as does the modern pc wed church? Mr. Webster once said that it was an evidence of the divine > origin of Christianity that it had, so long survived its being preached in tub pulpits. It will be a stronger evidence of it if in America it survives the enormous incongruity of the pew system. Street* of Coral. Georgetown, in the West Indies, is a city of some little beauty. It is. well laid out with wide, straight avenues that intersect at right angles. Many of the public buildings and private dwellings ape well constructed and hannsome. One thing that preeminently distinguishes it among tropical seaboard towns is its reddish brown streets. The public highways of all these cities are made from coral sand, mud and powdered shells, from the ocean bottom. The result is white, glaring streets, reflect the sun’s intensely hot rays, and make everybody feel twice as disagreeable as there is any necessity for. In Georgetown this mud, cural and stuff is baked in a large pottery oven, whence it issues dark and grateful to the eyes. It makes a splendid covering for the tops of tho roads, hard, elastic and smooth. In the middle of some of the prominent .streets canals have been cut, fed with water from a reservoir in the back country. Water lilies grow in the canals, the length of the entire main street being given up .to the development of that marvelous plant, the V ictoria Regia. Its great flowers, scarlet and yellow, are as big as a small cabbage, and on its pads, three or four feet in diameter, a child of six could safely stand. One turns from a plant of this kind as from an august Bengal tiger. There is none of its . owh world with whom to compare it A Plan* Growing from a Caterpillar. The curious fungus which is sometimes taken for an insect is a fungus that roots itself in a caterpillar and _ grows from it, feeding on the body of the insect. Os coifrse in time the insect dies and the fungus then perishes as soon as it has exhausted the nutriment in the body of the caterpillar. The plant is of the same nature as a mushroom and when it matures. it produces spores by which new plants are propagated in the same wav, attaching i themselves to any insect that comes in contact with them in the soil. These curious plants are used as medicine by the natives of some parts of Asia where they are found quit* ( abundantly. The plant when dug' ppt of the ground has the exhausted and dried body of the insect attached, to it in the manner of a root, but it is easily distinguished by its shape? The insect is tilled with the substance of the fungus and appears as a part of the plant. A variety of beetle that is found in North America is attacked by the same kind of fungus; others are found in Central America and others in New Zealand. In the last-mentioned country the fungus is very large and has all the appearance of a mushroom which is eaten as food by the natives. Wonciertul I.lchtrf.s Every child is familiar with glancing fireflies, which look so pretty in ' damp, low places, on a dark night, especially before a summer rain, but do you know that similar insects are used as lights in somg parts of thfe world? In India there is a great lantern fly, which furnishes a sufficient light to read the fiftest print by. the Antilles the poorer people Ho not think of purchasing oil, tor nature has given them a cheaper, lamp, to be had tor tho trouble of catching, In Cuba these Insects are enclosed in glass cages, and travelers use them to light their ypy at night, while the native belles also use them for a curious purpose—they imprison Shorn in wire gauze nets, and wear them instead of jewels in their hair and upon their clothing, with dazzling effect. Ella 11. Stratton. Does Hi® I’ltclior Plant. Eat MnatT Notwithstanding the admitted fact that bits of meat, insects and other animal matter are Ihore QUicJcly de- ; composed in the leaves and' other tB trap-likeappendagesofpitcherplants, B sun dews, Venus fly-traps, etc., than B they are in open air, it is question- B able whether they really eat meat or ■ gxerClse any vitality in bapturjng B their insect prey. Many noted B scientists arc skeptics on this point; J| one of the most noted, Dr. Mostcdt, favors the idea that the decomposi- H tion of insects which have been im- W prisoned in these vegetable “traps” g is due to chemical action only. g Weeping will not save you, but if H you are young and pretty it may have -g some ejlect ■