Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 22 September 1893 — Page 2

She democrat DECATUR, IND. |L BLACKBURN. - - • Pcni.T»nr.n. Tiik new cork trust should get It ■ where the bottle got it. Uncle Sam mentally declares that the next World's Fair shall have no Board of Lady Managers. The Bermuda onion is all right, but when it comes to the Beimuda storms —well, they’re rather strong. Chicago News: With the cholera in New York and the yellow fever in Florida, Chicago should put up with its attack of lady managers. If there arc lady bank cashiers in Finland it must be an awful scandal I when the cashier elopes with a needy young man and a part of the deposits. One of the carrier pigeons released at the World’s Fair fluttered into a ' South Side chimney and down into an unused cooking-stove. It was perhaps making a wild effort to make a pigeon pie of itself. • Dehorning cattle seems to have become a permanent institution. One man is engaged in breeding the horns off, and now the United States Bureau of Animal Industry promulgates a formula for altogether preventing their growth. 4 -i j American Farmer: It does not need a very keen vision to see that the result of ths present low prices for wheat means that the American farmer will in the future put in more corn and less wheat. We are competing with the round world in producing wheat; not so with com. An exchange publishes the astonishing information that a stupendous group of black spots on the sun is “easily visible to the naked eye when the latter is protected by a dark glass." With such protection the eye would no more be “naked” than if the observer were looking through a magnifying glass. A one-horse craze has taken hold of those of a speculative turn in New York, on the hay exportation question. They got the idea that heavy profits were made in exporting this article, and all sorts of people, doctors, lawyers, preachers, etc., became amateur exporters. Now a few figures and the exercise of a little common sense would have shown them that there could be no great thing in it, but they took a reporter's theory instead of practical figures and facts. ’ The Louisiana Experiment Station has been devoting itself to a careful | trial and analysis of peas. It has long been known that peas were valuable as revivifiers of the soil and would do excellent work where clover was, for some reason, impracticable. The result anived at, however, is likely to cause peas to be raised more generally than ever before. It would be a good plan for each farmer to try a small patch and satisfy himself that peas are suitable for his particular soil. We cannot approve of this Midway Plaisance method of collecting back salaries from a theatrical manager. The story is that a lot of Bedouins, who had received no salaries for three weeks for their highly interesting performances, repaired on horseback to the tent of Manager Hastab Abaled and, fastening a rope about his body, dragged him at a gallop 1 about the Plaisance until he was lacerated and bleeding and badly used up. He pleadei the stringency of money and the general scarcity of currency, but all to no avail. In behalf of theatrical managers we must insist that the Bedouin method shall not be adopted in this country.

i Sioux City Journal: By no possibility can prices of farm produce go so low that the farmers will not this year make profit. The farmers will this year be the most prosperous class in the community, They are so today. The banks are making no profits now. Most of them are actually losing money. The sky is dark .over manufacturers. They are compelled to stop work, throwing multitudes of employed out of wages. .Simply to stop operations for a short period means great loss to many ,manufacturers. The farmers, as a ' .class, are getting the best of it. Even if prices of their staple crops should go a good deal lower than they are now, the fact remains that the prices of most of the wares for which the crops will be exchanged must also go lower. The farmer is the man to be envied.

; ' An Australian communistic society has secured some land in Paraguay, in South America, where the plan of holding all things in common will be tried. This idea is in most cases the result of' Men who get to thinking how easily with very little work they could get all the necessaries of eating and drinking and lodging fail to remember that men and women content merely with these revert quickly to barbarism and savagery. The uplifting of mankind comes from larger rather than restricted wants, a<jd is best gained by each man working with bls fellows mainly for his own advantage. As he becomes more ‘clvillxed he finds his own happiness involved In the advancement of those ■mw.lai.ed with him. Communism tries to reverse this process. It would begin by striking out the self*

Ishness that has given mankind most of its advancement in civilization. To allow Mrs. Rice to be mobbed without interference and to arrest her the next night when she attempted to preach is a fair specimen of police methods in Chicago. Mrs. Rico and her husband probably did more harm than good by their out-door revivals. Their meetings were usually wound up in a row. But if the Rices were to be arrested for disturbing the peace why were not the hoodlums, thugs and toughs who pelted them with decayed fruit taken into custody? Why does an inspector of police laugh at a citizen demanding protection from mob violence? What is he paid for? Have the police of Chicago falllen so low in their own estimation that the idea of applying to them forijrotection strikes them as ridiculous? If this man Lewis, who di-graces the star he wears, would pay some attention to the thug whisky shops, crap games and skin gambling houses within a stone’s throw of the Desplaines street station—all of which institutions are reported to be suitably “protected”— he might change the public belief as to the length of his ears and as to his general worthlessness as a police officer.* 1

While the fireworks displays at the Fair are an attractive feature of the. Exposition there are disquieting rumors that they do not put much money in the treasury. On the contrary, it is said that they have a directly opposite effect The best view of the pyrotechnics is to be had from the lake, and the thrifty owners of excursion boats have taken advantage of the fact to draw crowds to their vessels. Passengers pay for the boat ride, and get the fireworks display free. The boats steam down to a point opposite the Exposition grounds and there anchor, while from their decks the excursionists view pleasant'y and economically the flight of the rockets, the bursting of the bombs and the glories of the set pieces. When the show is over they are carried back to the city comfortably and expeditiously, without having to scramble for seats in the Illinois Central cars or on the elevated road. They have had the whole entertainment free without any of the discomforts attendant upon a visit io the grounds. In view of these facts the Council of Administration might well consider the advisability of discontinuing the fireworks. It is well enough to furnish entertainment for those who pay for it, but the Fair is not a purely philanthropic institution, and the propriety of giving free shows for the benefit of the owners of excursion boats and their patrons is open to discussion.

One of the most discouraging features of modern civilization is the tendency of the vulgar mob to hoot at and deride the efforts of advanced minds in the direction of higher culture. This disposition was manifested at Roby, Ind., recently, where an assemblage had gathered to assist at a discussion between Profs. Creedon and Greggains. “It was,” says a writer describing the gathering, “the most refined audience that has been seen at Roby.” The surroundings were intellectual and aesthetic. We are assured by the writer referred to that “the rough-tough element was conspicuous by its absence,” and, further, that such noted scientists and literati as Evan Lewis the strangler, the redoubtable Parson Davies, Joe Choynski, and Mose Gunst, of San Francisco, each with a party of friends, occupied boxes. It might reasonably have been expected that in the presence of such a gathering the hoodlum element would have shrunk away abashed. But was it so? On the contrary, we read that while preparations for the debate were in progress the natives of the vicinity manifested their disapproval by “a vigorous fusillade of rocks that rattled against the walls," and that during the discussion of the ninth proposition, during which Prof. Creedon was most forcible and convincing, “another gang of interlopers was caught and expelled, creating considerable uproar.” Not satisfied with these disorderly proceedings, the sans culottes on the outside attempted to batter down the doors, to the consternation of the seekers after truth gathered inside, and the debate, which terminated in favor of Prof. Creedon, closed amid a tumult of whoops, howls, and unseemly personal encounters. Such an incident is most discouraging to those who have entertained the belief that the race was steadily advancing and warrants a repetition of the historic query of Truthful James: “is our civilization a failure and is the Caucasian played out?” with a strong presumption in favor of the affirmative.

Telephones in a Storm. A celebrated English oculist warns the public against the use of the telephone during a thunderstorm, and relates an incident that occurred to a friend of his who went to the telephone for the purposeof acquainting the central exchange at a distant city that a storm was approaching and the instrument would" not-be available until it was over. The moment he put his ear to the telephone a flash occurred, and he received a blow of such severity that he was sent across the small chamber against the opposite wall. Otherwise —beyond the temporary but very rude shock, which he described as “a severe box on the ear"—he was unhurt. In this respect he was more fortunate than an artilleryman who, while using the telephone in the field during some recent military maneuvers, was struck dead by a powerful current of electricity which passed over the telephone.—St. Louis GlobeDemocrat. z Women and children should retire when the sun does.

WILD RUSH FOR LAND. CHEROKEE STRIP BESIEGED BY THOUSANDS. « , ", I.- ■ Unrivalled Scene* Before tho Opening— Line* of Applicant* Numbering Thounanda—CharncterUtlc* of Their Future Home—Fair a* tho Garden of the Lord. Any Way to Get There. Talk about “rushes" for free land! Tho scenes just enacted at the opening of tho Cherokee Strip surpassed anything of tho kind over known. For a week a constantly growing crowd surged about tho registration booths; for no one could secure land without having first legistorod. Men, women and children, to the number of 20.000 or 25,000, formed in lines and remained there day and night: many weie overcome by the heat and dust; some died from exhaustion. Anything eatable commanded World’s Fair prices, and water was 10 cents per cup. Still the mass of humanity waited and grew, restrained from premature encroachment by United States marshals and cordons of soldiers. There wore half a dozen places for registration along tho northern boundary of the Strip, and the scene at one was but a duplicate of the others. When the last moment arrived, and the word “Go* was given, with a yell that tore a hole in the heavens the crowd started. Some on horseback, some afoot, somo with wheelbarrows loaded with goods, sbme on bicycles, and thousands in tho picturesque prairie schooners. Flowing: with Milk and Honey. Comparatively' little is known of the Cherokee Strip or “Outlet” by the average American, despite the fact that it .lies almost in the very ihidst of the nation, at tho thresholds of five great States of tho Union—Missouri Kansas, Arkansas,Colorado, and Texas. And yet it is pronounced by experienced judges to be the finest body of land of its size on the whole American continent, with soil of surpassing richness and

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depth, mineral resources of great value and inexhaustible quantity, natural scenery that is unrivaled, and a climate of delicious mildness and salubrity. The temperature there in winter varies from 35 to 48 degrees, and in summer from 77 to 82. All the extravagant things that have been written in rapturous praise of Oklahoma are said to be more than true of the Cherokee Strip, for it is regarded as equal in its entirety to the very choicest portions of Oklahoma, while its best lands are said to be veritable garden spots. The strip is 200 miles long and 56 miles wide. It lies between the 96th and 100th parallels of west longitude, with the southern bordec line of Kansas as its northern boundary and the Creek country and the Territory of Oklahoma as its southern. Topographically it is rolling, broken by hills and uplands and interspersed with valleys and Eden-like bottoms. Its many water courses are skirted with fine timber, oak, walnut, cedar, ash, beech, and hickory. The soil of the bottom lands and prairies is soft and loamy, black as ink, and of marvelous fertility. Upon the ridges and divides the land is not so well adapted to agriculture, but. as the forest growth is slight they furnish splendid grazing pastures for sheep and cattle, being profusely clothea with succulent “bunch grass." Owing to this self-cured “bunch .grass” and to the mildness of the climate and the abundance of water, the hilly regions are claimed by old sheep-growers to afford the best sheep country in the world. Indian Neighbors. Prospective settlers in the strip may now prepare to get acquainted with the Cherokees. Creeks, Choctaws and other tribes or nations of Indians in the Territory, who, with the white homesteaders of Oklahoma, will be their nearest neighbors. They are as tribes exceedingly wealthy, and are now rapidly adopting American manners, customs, usages and garments. The Cherokees number about 20,000, the Choctaws 16,000, the Creeks 15,000 and the Cheyennes and Arapahoes 7,000, and all the other tribes 22,000, making altogether 80,000 Indians resident in the Indian Territory. The price to be paid the Cherokees by the government is $8,595,736. There being 8,144,682 acres of the land, the net price per acre is $1.05. Each settler on the new lands, before receiving a patent, is required to pay, beside fees, the sum of $2.50 per acre between parallels 96 and 974, the sum of $1.50 per acre between 974 and 984, and the sum of $1 per acre between 984 and 100, together with four per cent, from the date of entry until the final payment. Some of the lands between parallels 96 and 974 are worth SSO per I r ' LAND OFFICR. acre in the wild-state: They are splendidly watered and within easy distance of .several thriving towns in Kansas and Arkansas, and every foot of it is capable of cultivation. PITIABLE SCENES. Good Work of the Children’s Aid SocietyHelp It Along. One of the most touching sights on the streets of Chicago is tne too common one ot a poor woman with her little one in her arms, hungry, but unable to buy feed, and without any prospect of work. The office of the Children's Aid Society at room 510,167 Dearborn street, presented a few days ago, a much similar scene. A German woman carrying her little baby, applied for work. She could not speak a word of English, and while she sat waiting for an interpreter to come the tears rolled down her cheeks and fell on the baby's little hands. r No money, no work. It wtSthe same story. During the month just passed there were more than fifty mothers ;* ■

who were willing to go anywhere if they could only find a home for themselves and their children. Many are able to cook excellently; some nave had homos of their own; all are anxious to provide against the winter soon to come and the suffering that otherwiso must be tholr’s at that time. The Society is looking for families in the country needing domestics or second girls, and willing to take a woman with a child. High wages are not asked; only kindness and charity, in view of the needs of the servants, and a homo, with its protection against th? threatening winter. BABY ON THE SCALES. Intere»tlns Ceremony In I he White HouseGrover Make* a Clone Gue**. Baby Ruth’s sister was weighed the other day. Dr. Bryant held tho scales, and lifted the precious weight, but he set it down at a sign from the President. who said: “Wait a minute. Let’s guoss her weight.” “Ten pounds,* said Mrs. Cleveland. “Eleven,” Mrs. Perrine said. Dr. Bryant looked at tho youngster critically, and said: “Nine and a half.” “I should say,” Thurber remarked, k tNith tho air of a connoisseur, “I should say. well, now ” “Oh, guess, Thurbor," the President interrupted. “It’s not a matter of life or death.” “Twenty pounds," Thurbor said, somewhat rattled, and ho blushed like a girl who had just been kjssed and caught at it. Theii the President, whoTiad insisted on having the, last guess, put on his glasses and bent over tho basket. With tho air of a tn an who hasn’t been catching and weighing bass all summer for nothing, he said: “That's a nine-and-a-quarter pounder or there’s something wrong with {"he scales.” Tho Doctor then lifted the basket onco more. The indicator stopped short at tho figure 8. “Good heavens!" tho President exclaimed, in a frightened tone. “Only four pounds. Why, Doctor!* “It's all right, tho Doctor said. “Tho basket got caught on my arm."

He freed it and the indicator shot down to twenty with a thud. •Well, I’ll be ," the President began. Just then he saw that Baby Ruth had hold of tho ba?ket. “Go away from there, Ruth,” he said, gently pushing her off. The basket rose as he did so and settled at thirteen and a half. •Geo whillikens!” Thurber exclaimed, “that’s a bouncer—thirteen and a half. ”

“Hold your horses, my boy,” the President observed, “you must allow for the basket. Let's see, four from thirteen and a half leaves nine and a half."

“Just my guess,” Dr. Bryant observed.

“Yes,” the President replied, “but

you haven’t allowed for her breakfast.

- W, / 'Y fC” # MRS, CLEVELAND AND THE BABY*. That weighs a quarter of a pound, so you see that I take the prize.” And with the proud step of a conqueror he strode from the room and went into his office to resume his work. How the World Wags. Rioting among striking English miners continues. • There is a plague of wasps in many places in Europe. Four new cases of cholera have occurred in Berlin. The Robinson Pressed Glass Works, Zanesville, Ohio, resumed, employing 200 men. Mrs. Jane Wright, an employment agent of Kansas City, Mo., was found murdered in her office. Examination of the personnel of the new French Chamber does not justify £ hope of tranquillity. In a saloon fight at St. Louis Patrick Cummings stabbed Charles Bohn to death and made his escape. Emma Goldman, the notorious anarchist now in jail in New York, is either insane or is feigning. Fire in a dwelling at Cincinnati resulted in the injury of a number of people in their efforts to escape. Officials of the Ward Steamship Line have violated the law in the landing of Chinamen at New Yo’dc. Fifteen hundred Spanish cigar makers in New York struck on accoun', of a reduction of $2 per thousand. The Amalgamated Association at , Pittsburg has agreed to 10 per cent, reduction in wir« rod wage scale. Liberia has asked the assistance of the United States in preventing French encroachment on Liberian territory. After escaping three times, C. O. Kellar, the alleged Chattanooga forger, was finally locked in jail at Sacramento, Cal. It has been discovered that the Indianapolis judge in the Iron Hall case allowed Receiver Failey SIO,OOO for his I services. Armed police and troops continue to parade the English colliery districts. Terrorism and highway robberies are frequent. The Church o' the Assumption at Canton, Minn., is again open. Pilgrimages to see the apparition of the Virgin are expected. Prince Bismarck is suffering from exposure. Ho persists in receiving deputations out of doors and thereby contracted a cold. There will be no strike among the spinners at Fall River, Mass., or at New Bedford, the reduction pt wages having been accepted. Will Sullivan, the son of Freeman Sullivan, of the Woodridge stove works, was shot and killed at Memphis by Dan Doherty, the watchman of the Memphis Brick Company.

WHERE ARE THEY AT? THERE’S MUCH WORRY IN THE REPUBLICAN CAMP. The People Have Berome Thoroughly Convinced that Republican* Have Foolish Idea* — Favorable Time to Revise the Tariff—The Pension lijlght. ~Where Are They At?" For four years the Republicans have been trying to convince the people that they ware fools. Twice the people have become convinced that the Republicans were fools. Tho result of a third experiment is scarcely doubtful. In 1890 the Republicans spent the two months after tho passage of the McKinley bill and before the election, in telling the people that high prices was what were needed because “cheap coats made cheap men.” The people said “nonsense,” and voted accordingly. In 1892 the Republicans had found out to a certainty that protection cheapens goods and lowers prices] besides, of course, raising wages—which is always a part of the regular business of protection. Fearing that the people might bo skeptical so so m after 1890, tho Republicans got Labor Commissioner Peck of New York to make somo brand-new statistics for their especial use. They also accused the foreigner of paying our tariff taxes. Aided by Davenport they supposed they had a “lead-pipe lynch” on New York State. But they didn’t Nor would New York have saved them. Now, in 1893, with a financial panic on hand duo to Republican compromise legislation they have concluded they have just what is needed to save them in 1894. They will call it “the Democratic panic of 1893 due to the fear of free trade.” But now, just as Republicans had come to the unanimous conclusion that this shall be their war cry for 1894, the panic begins to peter out, even jwhile they are practicing up on their war. cry, and substantial prosperity is again at hand. As the Democrats have not changed their position on the tariff question, the fteoplo have nothing else to credit the prosperity to except the practical certainty that the senate will pass the unconditional repeal bill. Consequently there is much worry in the Republican camp. They are wondering if they must return to the “British gold” and “bloody shirt” which did such effective work previous to 1890. They are undecided and, are wondering “where they are at.” Some have already taken to the woods; ot hers are burrowing holes in/he ground. Favorable Time for Tariff Revision. The principal remaining national question affecting business is tariff revision. A right attitude toward this whole subject on the part of manufacturers and all business classes, assumed at the outset of this discussion, would be a great preventive of friction in bringing trade under the new tariff conditions which 1891 will witness. In the first place it should be remembered that no question will remain settled until it is settled right. To aid in determining what a right settlement of this matter is, in the judgment of the American people, it must be kept in mind that the successful party in 1888 was elected upon a pledge of substantial reductions of tariff duties, and that these pledges were disregarded in the pas age of the McKinley bill, the opposition party swept the country upon a platform of a revenue tariff. It is settled, then, that tariff revision must come, and that it must be what we have not seen for more than a generation, to wit, a revision downward. There is no use in resisting this tendency. The most that could be done in that direction would be to obtain somo delay»in the enactment of tho new law. But such delay would be a mistake, for the reason that the country has rarely, if ever before, been in as good shape as it is now for the change that is contemplated. We have just received a check in the matter of national anti individual extravagance and in a movement towards financial unsoundness. As a result of this sudden holding up, manufacturing and importing have been reduced substantially to their lowest terms. Prices of all commodities are so low that further declines are hardly to be looked for under any circumstances. Stocks in hand, whether of domestic or imported goods, are below the norma), and everything is snug and ship-shape, and well prepared for any necessary changes. So far from resisting the change in the tariff, therefore, all interested should join in hastening it as much as is consistent with careful and intelligent legislation. — Day Goods Economist.

A Silly Outburst. Because some producers of perishable Bermuda vegetables testified before the Ways and Means Committee that they had sometimes sold their produce here less the duties, the protection organs break out with the silly old claim that “ the foreigner pays the duty.” This is Gov. McKinley’s favorite bit of demagogic dishonesty when ho is on the backwjjcds stump, out for n newspaper printed within sight of the Custom House to repeat it is a poor tribute to the intelligence of its readers. It is only necessary to repeat the inquiries which we addressed in vain to the Republican speakers and journals last year: Why, if the foreigner pays the duty, did your Fifty-firat Congress stop at a billion dollars in appropriations? Why not spend a billion and a half and fructify the favored land with tho tribute of effete despotism? If the foreigner pays the duty why not abolish the internal revenue taxes, which our own people indisputably pay, and raise all our revenues from the helpless producers of the Old World? The duty on pearl buttons is 146 per cent. Does the foreigner pay tho duty—in other words, give us the buttons and 46 per cent, in addition in cash? The duty on some grades of cheap flannels is 107 per cent.; on cheap wool yarns 133 per cent.; on cheap blankets 104 per cent.; on cheap hats 105. Does the foreigner pay the value of these goods and a bonus besides for the privilege of giving them away hero?. Why do the monopoly-de fenders repeat this rubbish? Do they not know that the tariff fight is over, for three years at least, and that McKinleyism is bound to go?—New York World. The Tariff Hearings Farce. The ways and means commit teo granted a few days’ hearings on the tariff, and the same old chestnut industries are on hand to toll the committee how necessary it is to continue protection, and what direful things would happen if protection should be abolished and their industries lost to the country. Aman up in Connecticut—Mr. W. O Witcomb—became convinced, three years ago, that the increasing demand tor metallic bedsteads would warrant their manufacture here. He formed a company and began- to manufacture them. He tells the committee that ho pays his workmen throe or four times as much as the workmen are paid abroad and asks that McKinley protection be continued—not for -his benefit,

of course, but for the benefit of his workmen and of the people who purchase metallic bedsteads. His case is very plain. We can continue his pro* tection and u’low our poor people tQ sleep on the floor; or wo can drop his protection and pornlit them to sleep on good and cheap beds.' Next comes a New York man, a manufacturer of macaroni. He wants the duty of 2 cents per pound to remain on macaroni so that ho can continue to pay his sixteen mon four times, and his twenty-three girls five and fiveeighths times, as much as they would get in Italy. This all looks plausible and the committee doubtless appreciates the unselfish interest which ho takes in his thirty-nine employee; though it may have some doubt as to the advisability of continuing to tax our poor pooplo 40 j>er cent on all of their macaroni for the benefit of these thirty-nine employes. Next! Th« Pension Blight. “There is one evil about tho pension business that I have often noticed, but for which there is no legal remedy," remarked an old pension examiner. “That is that whole families often depend upon a small pension, received by some one in the family, for their entire support. Now ]<ensions are not given to encourage idleness, and yet such sejms to bo tho fact in many instances I have noticed myself, and in perhaps thousands of cases that I know nothing about Widows receiving pensions struggle to support themselves and sons and daughters upon tho meager income, when the latter ought to have employment. I have often seen a whole family go to draw the quarterly pension, showing the interest they take in the matter. I have often been amazed at the sight of boyS and girls who are growing up in idleness, because .their fathers are dead and their mothers are weak and indulgent and do not have tho proper influence over them. You would bo surprised to know how many families depend upon pensions, and how many members of families only seek work when the pension is withdrawn “I know of a particular case where an old eoiiiier, with several sons and daughters, some time ago got a pension, and also about $2,000 back pension money. Tho family regarded that amount as a small fortune, and began to live at an extravagant rate. Three of the sons and one daughter lost their places on one pretense or another, and depended on their father for support. The two sons and the daughter at work married, and then the family was indeed in bad shajie. The boys had grown to be lazy and trifling, and the daughter at home was not much better. When places were secured for them they would not hold on to them, and the consequence was a family of six persons lived on an income of not much over S2O a month. They lived in four small rooms, and from all accounts were continually quarreling and running in debt. When the boys were asked why' they did not work more, they would remark that ‘the old man drew a pension and kept tho family.’ This is only one instance of many. Now pensions are not given to encourage idleness, and there ought to be a remedy somewhere for such a condition of affairs. The legal remedy, if any, lies with the state, and yet it cannot interfere except in extreme cases. "—Cincinnati Times Star (Rep.) Pearl Button Man Active. The fact that the Democratic party means business on the tariff question is coming home as never before to high protectionists. The “National Associa-, tion of Pearl Button Manufacturers" is giving some strong advice to pearl button manufacturers. It tells them to “Prepare your figures," and adds: { “We have already stated, and we repeat, that a reasonable request for protection, sufficient to cover the difference between tho cost of labor here and in Europe,. will doubtless be listened to by the present Congress, but no excessive duties, the necessity for which is founded on careless and extravagant management of any industry, are likely to have a placeun the new, ' tariff. Any efforts to obtain such protective duties will be energy misdirected and time wasted, and the pearl' button industry is in no condition to, pay for indulgences in such costly mistakes.” We think they are right in regard to excessive duties, though they insult the Democrats by saying that a reasonable request for protection will be listened to, after that party has denounced protection as a fraud and robbery. If the Democrats fulfill their' pledges, as is probable, the pearl button men may also waste time and misdirect their energies in the collection of figures relating to cost of production. The people don’t ask, and don't care, what it costs to produce goods here or abroad. They ask for low prices, that is all. To Increase Our Trade. Senator Sherman says: “We ought to encourage in every possible way the exportation of our products, although Ido not see precisely how it can be done.” Two or three ways of increasing our foreign trade ought to be obvious. It is an old saying that “those who want friends must show themselves friendly.” If we want more trade we must show a disposition to trade on fair terms. No nation in Europe will buy of us if it can get what it wants elsewhere on anything like as favorable terms. This disposition has been created by our hostile tariff laws, which were avowedly framed to keep out foreign products. It takes two to trade. Commerce between countries is based on mutual advantage in the exchange of commodities. How can we expect to “increase the exportation of our products,” except as foreign nations must have food, while we raise high the barriers of our. prohibitory tariffs, based on the-idea that “commerce is war”—that trade must be like a jug handle, “all on one side?” One other way to increase our exports is to untax the raw materials of our manufacturers, placing them on equal terms with their foreign competitors as to the cost of production. Unshackle commerce and- it will take care of itself.—New York World. McKinley’* Neglect. It is quite evident that McKinley has failed to take advantage of experience. He is still prating of the tax-paying foreigner, who ought to be sued, if the McKinley theory is correct, tor permitting our customs revenues to fall off. Can Cnlloin Explain? Senator Cullom says the McKinley law is a prosperity producer, but neglects to state why it is not doing business at the present time. It is still on the statute books, and is sure to bf there for nearly a year to come. A BUSINESS man of Colfax, Wash., proposes to stock that country with Chinese pheasants. A large poultry house has been built at his home and he has hatched out forty young birds on the place. Marty nrnre eggs are now in his incubator. His hens have laid over 300 eggs since last fall, but none of them has yet offered to sit. . Diocletian, after his abdication, spent his leisure in gardening. K you could see the cabbages I raise, he said to a deputation, “you would not ask me i to resume the crown.” ,

STEWART ROUSES ’EM HIS CURIOSITY CAUSES GREAT EXCITEMENT. . Want* to Know How Many Senator* Own National Bank Stock-Say* Ma Doesn’t Own Any Silver Mine*—Crowed Sword* with HllL A Monkey and Parrot Time. Washington correspondence;

gay but balky band of >. patriots, the Senate, has been the center of interest ' for some time now, and occasionally in its silver debate sparks fly os from flint and steel. The other '' day Senator Stewart, of Nevada, il’ 1 started the fun. i With a manner in- “ dicating that he -. - was loaded for ll bear and ready to I" kick, when the Senate chamber was unusually full,

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ho offered a resolution that » committee be appointed to disoovor how many Senators owned stock in national banks. This resolution t was a tremendous success in the line intended by its author. It was about such a success as one might expect in pulling out the insides of a piano with a garden rake. Before the general grasp for breath had subsided, Mr. Stewart proceeded to rub salt on the wound he had caused by saying he was sick and tired of Wall street men and New York papers charging that the silver advocates owned stock in silver mines. Ho himself hadn’t owned any in fifteen years. But he had an awakening suspicion that a good many Senatorial opponents of silver owned, stock in national banks, which would be benefited by repeal, and he thought what was sauce for the goose was just as good a dressing for duck. He had discovered in somo musty old tomo a long-forgotten law that no person who* owned stock in the United State? bank, which Jackson broke up, could hold a seat in Congress. If the principle of this law was good then, It was good now; and he wanted to know just how many Sena-' tors’ interests were hampered by this silver legislation. If tho number whose faces showed astonishment, chagrin, or alarm was any indication, Mr. Stewart’s shot had winged about four-fifths of his colleagues. Senator Hill was the first to line up in battle array. With a flush that crept up over tho bald spot.until it disappeared in the fringe of hair behind his ears, tho New-Yorker, shaking what the Honorable Tim Campbell called his “long, acquitive finger” at Stewart who glared truculently, denounced tho resolution as an outrage, and demanded that tho heel of senatorial disapproval crush and bruise its head. “Whosobusiness is it," Mr. Hill asked, “what Senator or who owns any investment, provided he is lucky enough to have it and come by it honestly." Ho could not believe that Mr. Stewart offered that in good faith. Mr. Stewart beat a tattoo on his desk with his fingers and was visibly disturbed at tho tone and vigor of Hill’s remarks. He was just coming down the main aisle to make a furious reply , when Mr. Hawley, who had been all the while writing a letter, suddenly shouted, “I object!” Stewart turned in his testy way and glared, but Mr. Hawley said he objected to further discussion. “Well, object,” said the man from Nevada, “but I give notice that 1 will have all the time I want tomorrow.” And so the matter drags.

Routine Proceedings. The house Tuesday transacted only routine business. A letter from the post-master-general relative to valueless papers which have accumulated was referred to a special committee. Mr. Hepburn, of lowa, attempted to secure consideration of a resolution calling on the secretary ot the treasury for Information as to the amount of merchandise transported from one United States port to anbther over Canadian territory. Mr. Geary, of California, objected, and the resolution was referred. In the Senate Wednesday the resolution of Mr. Stewart for a committee to ascertain whether Senators were Interested in n atlonal bank was then laid before the Senate and that Senator addressed the Senate In advocacy of it. After a few moments he diverged into a general discussion of tho (silver question. It being apparent that the House would adjourn again without transacting a'hy business, Mr. Talbert, of South Carolina, offered a .resolution that the banking and currency committee be instructed to immediately report tho bill introduced by Mr. McLaurin, ot South Carolina, provld-. Ing for the issue of $125,000,009 in treasury notes for the relief of the people. A chorus of objections went up from all parts of the House. The House then went into the committee of the whole for the consideration of the public printing bill. The Federal election law caused a skirmish in the House Thursday, but no action was taken. Senator Daniel, of West Virginia. occupied tho time of the Senate In a carefully prepared argument against the repeal of the Sherman law; ho spoke to crowded galleries and a good Senatorial audience. During tho course of his speech many members of the House came into tho chamber and took seats in tho rear of Senators’ chairs, or stood against the wall. When the routine morning business was concluded Mr. Stewart, of Nevada, moved to take un his resolution for a committee to investigate whether Senators were Interested in national banka Mr. Voorhees’ counter-mo- ’ tion to proceed to the consideration of the repeal bill was agreed to on a viva-voce vote which was quite unanimous, and Mr. Stewart sat down. Friday in the Senate was occupied by the advocates of the repeal of the Sherman law. Tho speech of Senator Lindsay of Kentucky, which was his maiden effort in the Senate, and his defense of Secretary Carlisle, whose successor in the Senate he is, was received most attentively. The deadlock in the affairs of the House in order to prevent Mr. Tucker from reporting the bill repealing the Federal election laws to the House continues. Wives of Famous Men. Nero kicked bis wife Poppsea, to death. Tea, dyspepsia and a scolding wife made Hazlitt’s life a burden. Lessing married a widow with four children and made them a good stepfather. MOLIERE, at the age of 40, married an actress of 17, and soon separated from her. The married life of the famous Palestrina was long and unsullied by domestic clouds. THE married life of Lord Nelson was made miserable by his infatuation for Lady Hamilton. Horace Vebnet, the French historical painter, was twice married aid both times happily. Verdi married young, winning , a charming Italian girl, who made his home ideally perfect. Dr. Sir Hugh Smithson married a Percy heiress for love and became Duke of Northumberland. Abraham'S married life was rendered miserable by the jealousy his wife, St 'eh, had for H-W.