Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 30, Decatur, Adams County, 13 October 1893 — Page 2

©he democrat DBCATUR, IND. H BLACKBURN, - ■ - PoM-ira—. The value of a force pump on a farm can hardly be overestimated. It is useless to argue with a confirmed bicyclist. He Is bent on a fast life. * «I wish, "said Ruth, “that baby ala Had found soma other mother) What Pa and I both wanted was t A Utile baby brother." Mun who can knock a crisis endways arc very multitudinous now, but they have the crank stamp on their Iridescent brows. The statement that has been going the rounds that the green walnuts are almost immediately fatal to cockroaches is incomplete. The roaches must be made to swallow the walnuts whole.

In addition to all the other clus tering woes which weigh upon thi haple-e dweller in St. Louis the Maflt society has recently sprung into of fenslve activity there. We’d pity St Louis the more if she accepted sympathetic commiseration in a more be coming spirit i English society is opposed t< Home Rule. The low-necked ladies of the drawing-room plane of existence do not like Mr. Gladstone. Il is hoped that the statesman, fortified with the dignity of years, and accustomed to the hoots of the rabble, will be able to stand even this latest and severest blow. The country has shed few tears over the turning down of Theodore Thomas from the head of the Musical Department of the World's Fair. The refusal of Thomas to play American music in this celebration of the greatest of American centennials has impressed the public that he is the wrong man for the place. Uncle Joe Abdlk is an aged African who, until the Chaileston earthquake of 1886, lived in a cabin on the bmks of the Savannah river. The earthquake scared him and he built a sort of nest in a b'g oak tree, where he lived contentedly until the recent cyclone came along and blew him out. Joseph is now figuring upon some other scheme to defeat the elements. THBlateDukeErnest of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha had an itch for writing, and, although he didn't write at all yveli, publisher were anxious to print hla book because of the glory in it, and because the Duke, owing to his exalted position, refused to accept any shareof the receipts arising from the sale of his works. The publishers of his memoi's respected his wishes in this particular so religiously that they not only paid him nothing bnt made him pay the full retail price for a few copies that he wanted to present to his friends.

It is painful to note that the Canadian papers, and especially those of the Northwe-tern provinces, do not display any wild enthusiasm over the knighting of young C. H. Tupper by-1 Queen Victoria the other day. A British Columbia journal speaks of the new knight as “a babbling ass," and another advises him to remain i in London, as be has shown himself utterly useless in advancing Canadian j interests on this side of the Atlantic. Charles Hibbert is probably too much pleased with his new spurs, however, I to care much for this sort of thing. i They had a real nice osculatory! time at the Austrian military maneuvers, where a lot of kings recently ; gathered. When the King of Saxony arrived, the Emperor of Austria .hugged him like a grizzly bear and kissed him on both cheeks. The Re-' gent of Bavaria cdme next, and he got kissed too. Then came the young man from Berlin, and all the kings, 1 princes, and grand dukes fell over' one another in their eagerness to get i at him. He was kissed on the ear, [ on the nose, and under the chin, and his brother emperor, Francis Joseph, ; topped off by giving him a smack like a policeman kissing a hired girl. Then they all went out and played spldier. ; ' .■■■■• 1 Hurrah for the armored cruiser New York—fastest war ship afloat*. It can fight. It can run away. It: steamed 21.09 knots, and that isj,the best time ever mad? by an armored cruiser. It has - ail the qualities for a first-class scientific row. It can stand up and give and fake with any of them, and it can show as clean and pretty a pair of heels as ever

bulking man-of-war fired futile shells at. That is the kind of fighting boat we want. We neel shifty cruisers that can whack the enemy at Portland t'>-day and whack him at Pensacola tomorrow. The New York seems to fill the bill exactly. I It is as light on its feet as a ballet-! girl aid as strong in its good right arm as we used to think Mr. Sullivan was. The several deaths x>f recent date from the eating of toadstools sup- ’ posed to I* mushrooms belong to a class of incidents which are too often reported. It Is not easy for Inexperienced people to discriminate between the edible mushroom and the poisonous toadstool, and when such people go -ent to gather wild mushrooms they must be very sure that they get the eeoulent fun K us before them consume it. There is no general rul*

1 for distinguishing the wholesome from the harmful. The best way is that of the expert who Is able to observe the peculiarities o.f structure, color, smell, and taste. The cultivated mushrooms sold in the market or by responsible dealers may, of course, be trusted, and people need not be afraid to eat them because they look something like toadstools. Now the surgeons have cut out a man’s spleen, and yet he lives and has red blood, and will, it is said, recover. No one has ever known absolutely what is the ofiice of tho spleen. The organ is not a vital one, but is often much diseased and very painful. The operation to remove it is technically called sp enectomy. Many years ago a writer in Chambers’ Miscellany contended that the sp'een was the manufactory of the white b ood corpuscles. If that were to, the red corpuscles in the veins and arteries would have soon faded in vividness in the pat.ent, Athlete Short, of Yonkers. Are the . spleen and the vermiform appendix, which are declared to be useless, left as bints of the evolutionary, process? Was man differently constituted when they were useful to him, instead of being as now unnecessary? Who can say?

Lurid literature of the class that deals with gangs of counterfeiters, lynx-eyed detectives, secret panels, and hairbreadth escapes has long been dear to the heart of the American .small boy, and it was supposed that he alone took pleasure in its perusal. The case of Henry S. Cochran, the Philadelphia mint employe who stole a quantity of bullion, shows, however, that even old men fall under the spell of the dime novel. A search of Cochran’s house by the police showed that he had adopted all the methods laid down In “Mysterious Mike, the Montana Detective," and similar works of fiction, A tunnel of considerable length, leading from the cellar to a neighboring street, concealed cupboards, secret passages, smelting furnaces, heaps of usele-s finery of one sort or another —all these showed the influence of the “nickel library,” and a collection of juveni e books a id stories of crime and adventure betrayed the old man's source of inspiration. He was simply driven crazy by reading trashy I novels, and his madness took the - form of fitting up a robber’s cave rather than starting West to tight , Indians, as he would have done had he been half a century younger.

Three years ago a young girl on Long Island, of respectable and wellto do parents, married a good, steady, decent man by the name of Hallock and set up housekeeping at Moriches, L. 1., where her husband bad a prosperous business. In a year she had a child, a girt Some months ago Mrs. Hallock began visiting New York. Her borne bad become a little monotonous and she wanted a change. She was a regular attendant at Saturday matinees. At one of these, at the Academy of Music, she was shown to her seat by an usher named Popper. He was an ideal usher, dapper, with his hair plastered over his eyes, a waxed mustache and a diamond in hissbirL Mrs. Hallock was, in the parlance of the day, “mashed.” An intimacy commenced which resulted, a few days ago, in Mrs. Hallock abandoning her husband and her child, taking with her some $2,000 of money which she had and committed bigamy by marrying Popper. The end was not long in coming. Popper took her to Chicago where, after securing her money and jewels, he coolly abandoned her. In her de spair the woman shot herself, leaving a card addressed to her faithless lover, on which she had written, “The wages of sin is death. With variations as to the close of tbe tragedy this story is enacted a hundred times every day in this country, Sometimes it is the wife, sometimes the husband who, in the search for the unsatisfied something, starts on a road tbat ends in moral as well as physical death. It is hard for men to conceive how such a man as Popper, who It appears is an utterly worthless scoundrel, with at least one wife already,, could exercise such a fascination over a respectable and sensible woman, whose busband was young, well-favored and, of tbe most amiable disposition. It is no doubt equally hard for women who are attractive personally and doing their full duty in their houses, to understand how their husbands can be fascinated by women who are vulgar, painted, and often not even wellformed or well-featured. But it is so. Such is life, and. whatever the philosophy, the moral is that “the wage* of sin is death.”

Wanted to Know How. Mr. Oswald has the reputation of being the “hardest fighter" at the London bar, says Truth. He was once arguing a ca-e In the court of appeals at great length. A ready the court had intimated pretty clearly that it had beard enough; but Mr. Oswald had treated these intima tioas in his usual manner, and went on raising point after point. “Really,” at last one of the lord justices remonstrate!—“really, Mr. Oswald, If you intended to rely on these points, you should have raised them in the court belt w.” “So I did, rfiy lord," replied Mr. Oswald, “but their lordships stopped me.” “They stopped you, did they?” inquired Lord Escher, eagerly; “how did they do if?” Agents of Death. 4 Breech-loading rifles were invented in 1811, but did not come into general use for many years. It is estimated that over 12,000,000 are now in actual service in the European armies, while 3,000.0Q0 are reserved . In the arsenals for emeigenciee.

ffl THOM DIE. Frightful Loss of Life on the Wind’S wept Gulf Coast. DAMAGE IS $5,000,000 Villages Swept Away and Half the Population Perish. Harrowing Reports of the Disaster Received from Survivors, Who Are Forced to Bury the Dead In Trenches Without Ceremony—Drendful Force of the Wind and Waves that Took Everything ' Opposing Them—Whole Families of Unfortunates Meet Death In Each Other’s Arms. A Chapter of Horrors. Over 2,000 killed and nearly $5,000,000 of property annihilated is the record of the great Gulf storm in Louisiana. There has never been anything approximating it since the country was settled. More than half the population in the region over which the hurricane swept is dead. Everything is wrecked and not a house in ten Is left standing, while the surviving inhabitants arc left in the meet destitute condition ‘without food or even clothing, for most of them were in their beds when their houses were crushed by the wind or the waves. There have been several similar disasters on the coast. At Lost Island, where 286 people loet their lives, and at Johnston's Bayou the lost numbered 220 six years ago, but Monday's disaster far’ surpassed these in horror. The weak and ill were all killed, and in the settlements where the storm was worst not a child survived and very few women. The survivors are the young men in the vigor of manhood. Not one of them but has a terrible story to tell; not one but is badly bruised and injured. They escaped mainly on rafts or logs, floating for twenty to ninety hours in the water, with the wind at 115 mi'ei an hour.

The deaths, so far as reported, and which are confirmed, aggregate more than 2,000, as follows: Cheniere Caminada 820 Fishermen at sea 240 Bay< u Clealton 40 Oys er Bayou 28 Baron Cook 87 Fishing settlements at Bayou Cook 43 Bird Island 47 Simon Island .16 Rosario Island 20 Razor Island h St. Malo 25 Adams Bay 200 Fishing camps at Daisy Postoffice 20 Grand Bayou 26 Grand Prairie 6 Tropical Bend 10 Passal’Outre 40 Point a laHache 4 Baitbeiy 6 Fort St. Phillip 6 Hospital bay 8 Shell b ach 212 Grand b'-nk 8 Grand isle. 100 Buras point 6 P.easant point... ...... 10 Sixty-Mlle point 8 Devil's flat 1 Bolivar point..... 3 Happy Jack 2 Nichol’s postoffice 3 Faitulings ... 3 Fort Crosses 6 Stock Fleths a.. 1 Qua antlne .).. 2 Eads Point ~ /.. 1 Pearl River 1 Near Point Pleasant 2 Bay St. Louis 2 Back Bay 1 Lost on Weber 20 Lost on the bogs 46 Rayou La Fond 110 Bayou Andre 40 Bayou Dufon 10 Cabinagze 20 On Lugger Gen. Vlxle 4 Mississippi's Swollen Torrent. The Mississippi rose nine feet, being forced up by the wind, while the water from the Gulf was driven over the land to a depth of from two to five feet. In this water the people stood for hours, their houses being destroyed, until boats or skiffs could come to their relief. For a distance of forty miles below Pointe a la Hache, on both sides of the Mississippi, there is not a single house which does not show signs of the storm, and most of them are wholly destroyed or rendered uninhabitable. The crops are a complete loss. The country is devoted mainly to the raising of rice, oranges, and early vegetables. The rice had been harvested and packed in stacks ready to be milled. These were swept away by the storm and the flood, and the loss Is complete. The oranges are stripped from the trees and have rolled in the water, in which they have laid for two days. The garden truck is almost completely destroyed. The damage by the storm in New Orleans will amount to $376,609, divided as follows: West End, $30,060; other lakeside resorts, $20,000; vesselmens’ levee, $20,000; clubhouses and yachts, $15,000; coal barges sunk on river, $lB,C 00; damage to shipping, $75,000; damage to fences, trees, yards, etc., $54,000; market and other buildings and railroads, $100,000; miscellaneous, $30,000. The storm left Mobile, Ala., almost a perfect wreck. At this time the damage can only be conjectured, but it is safe to estimate it at nearly $1,000,000. Several deaths are reported. In the district aeross the river dwelt twentythree families. Only One of these homes can be seen standing. In the i ame region it is certain that 300 or 400 head of cattle have been lost. Terrible Futility tn the Marshes. The damage to the Louisville and Nashville Railroad is beyond computation at this time. There are 400 trees across the track between Bay Minette and Dyas Creek, a distance of ab ut ten miles. No trains can get any farther south than Bay Minette. A rowb ;at trip of the marshes made by an Associated Press reporter reveals a Mate of des laticn and death that will alm st equal that of a* month ago at Savannah and the Sea Islands.

At every point touched houses were complete y gone, while the upjer east- , ern shore was swept as if by a western cyclone. From Blakely as far southeast as reports could be had the natives report only death and destruction. Buried the Dead In T-enches. When the water receded at Cheniere lhere were scores of bodies lying about and already beginning to show signs of decomposition. Under the circumstances, for the safety of the rest of the colony, it b came necessary to take prempt steps to bury those who had lost their lives. There were still many people who wore alive and able-I>< died, and they were immediately organized for a week of duty and charity. There was no time to build coffins. If there had been, there were no tools with which 10 construct them, no boards that could be nailed together as receptacles for the bodies lying everywhere; so the living merely hunted up spades and commenced the task of digging ditches into which to deposit the remains. Vut Territory Stormawept. ' These towns and settlements extend

along the Mississippi from Pointe a la Haohe, forty-five miles below New Orleans, to the Gulf on Bayou Barataria and the oyster reefs between there and the mouth of the Mississippi, and on the islands stretching from the Mississippi to the main land at Cheniere Caminada, Bay St. Louis and Pearl River, are in Mississippi. The groat majority of tho peapie are whites, and not over 100 are colored. At Cheniee Caminada was a large Chinese colony engaged in preparing and exporting shrimp to China. St. Malo was settled oy the Malays, all fishermen. A majoi ity of the ]>opulation in the fishing towns were creoles, Italians, Spaniards, and so-called Austrians or Dalmatians. A large proportion of them were engaged in fishing and owned boate. At the time tho storm visited Cheniere Caminada, 120 fishing vessels were in tho Gulf fishing. Not a word has since been heard fr< m them or their occupants. The news has come in slowly. The first day following tho calamity it was known that the storm had been very destructive in Plaquemine Parish ana the loss of life was estimated as high as thirty-five. The next day tho nows came of the destruction of Bayou Cook settlementand the deaths were thought to be as many as 250. Afterwards came in quick succession the news of the di-asters at Cheniere Cam nada, the largest fishing settlement on the Gulf, coast, at Grand Isle and other prints. Those returns swelled the mortality estimate to between I,BCO and 2,c00. The facts will probably exceed -the latter figure when the full record is made up. "The deaths-arc confined to two parishes, Plaquemine and Jefferson, and .are more than one-fourth the total Vhita population. Awful to Behold.

When the wind died out the waves began to decrease in size and the water that had swept over the land rolled back again into the Gulf. When daylight broke the picture s of desolation was awful to behold. Only here and there stood a house. Everywhere there were only brick foundations to mark where homes had been. Trees lay prostrate upon tho ground. Timber was lodged in piles in indiscriminate profusion; where it had been thrust by the mighty rush of the waters. Ruined chimneys suggested stories of stricken hearths. Furniture, bedding, clothes, stoves, kitchen utensils and other household goods were scattered in promi-cuous confusion wherever the vision was able to reach. Here, there and everywhere were the ghastly faces of corpses turned upward to the peaceful skies, now bright and beautiful with the mild autumn sun, and bearing no traces of the fury of the night. On manv of the countenances there were still evidences of the terrible agony suffered before death came to relieve the horrJr. Some had lost their lives in the wreck of their homos; some had been drowned after escaping from the shells which could not shelter t'em from the blasts of that frightful gale; some bad probably given up their lives in a vain effort to save. those whom they loved and were dependent upon them for protection. MID-WINTER FAIR. Contract* for the Two Principal Building* Awarded. The contract has been awarded for the construction of the two principal buildings for the California mid-winter fair, manufactures and liberal arts and

1 t TO Lr r jywWa. rMANVVACTtAKS BUILDZMO OV PROJKCTID CALIFORNIA CXPOBITIOH. mechanical arts buildings. The contract price of the two structures is $172,000. The cash contributions to the fair now amount to $112,000, with subscriptions of almost $300,000 more. An illustration of the projected manufactures building is here presented. Notes of Carrent Events. Mrs. Mary Pietred was beheaded by a train at Dayton, Ohio. Illinois coal miners demand an increase in pay of 5 cents a ton. Gladstone arrived at Edinburgh and was greeted by an immense throng. Three Chinamen were riddled with bullets by robbers at Butte City, Mont. Many houses were demolished and several persons killed by a storm at Jalapa, Mexico. The Starr gang headed a mutiny in the Fort Smith, Ark., prison. One convict was fatally wounded. John Towns, supposed to have been murdered near Kingston, Ont., has been heard from in Oregon. Emperor William has been taking a little recreation in Sweden by going deer stalking with the king. NOT a freight train on the Ohio Valley Read is moving, the brakemen and switchmen being on a strike. Leander Burdick, of Toledo, Ohio, has commenced suit against Mayor Guy E. Major for SICO.OOO slander. Herman Banners, a wealthy resident of Denver, was murdered on the Cherokee Strip by claim jumpers. Brooklyn is shocked over a butterfly dance as given before that stiid organization, the Union League Club. Dr. Foglesong has been sentenced to solitary confinement for life, at Hillsdale, Mich., for ] qisor ing his wife. Siam and France have settled their difficulty and the French Minister will leave after the agreement is signed. Anarchist Pallas, who threw the bembs at Baioel na, Spain, has been sentenced to death by the court-mar-tial. Railway lines in the Indic n Territory and Northern Texas are suffering greatly from the badly swollen watercourses. Canada decides it can take no action cn Chinese immigration, as it might bo regarded as infringing on treaty rights. Joe Clinsman and wife, an aged couple qf Cincinnati, were robbed oi $3,000 in cash which was concealed in their dwelling. Oscar Walgren, of Des Moines, lowa, while trying to steel a ride, wai run down and killed by the cars. Ho was 10 years old. Mrs. Robinson swam the Embarrass Rjver, near Oakland, Hl., to get help for her wounded husband and died frem the exposure. Depositors of the defunct Capital Bank at Lincoln, Neb., think affairs are being mismanaged and will appeal to the comptroller. Mrs. McCafferty, a relative at Washington, Ind., has offered SI,OOO for the arrest and conviction of the “Written murdererr /

M’KINLEY’S ANSWERS. WHAT THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN IN 1880. How Ho Would Have Been Compelled to Reply If Certain Intvrrogatorlee Had Been Put to Him—Ho Now Ila* a Big Job on Hla Hands. Qnentlona for McKinley. During his speech at Akron, Ohio, on Sept. 11, Governor McKinley, in one of his flights of sarcastic eloquence, called upon his “distinguished and able" op|x>nont, “the very author of the tariff plank of tho last Democratic national platform it: elf, to advise the country exactly what tho party now in power will do with the tariff.’’ Ho wants everything “in detail and with particularity." And then he began with schedule A, and went through each schedule, asking “what will he do” with this or that article. His astonished audience will probably be surpi Led to loam that Mr. Neal was not rendered speechless from the stunning effects of these categorical questions. Undoubtedly Mr. Neal can defend himself, but suppose he plays “turn about” with McKinley and asks a few similar questions of the great tariff expert—the very author not merely of a tariff plank but of a whole bill, and the far-famed McKinley bill at that 'Mr. McKinley, in tho spring and summer of 1890 you were engaged in making your great bill. If I had then asked you, ‘What will you do with tin plate!” what could you have told me? Only this: ‘Mr.Cronemeyer is fixing up paragraph 143 to suit himself. I really can t tell you what he will do.’ “How ab iut cutlery? What will you do with it?" “I can’t tell you. Mr. W. Rockwell’s wishes must be respected. You know he is a big manufacturer of pocketknives." “Surely, Major, you can tell me what will be done with table cutlery?" “Sorry, but Mr. Charles S. Landers, who represents the makers of table cutlery, has not yet handed in his corrections and amendments. We shall undoubtedly print his memorandum word for word."

“Can you tell me what will be done with firearms?* "Not just yet—that is, unless the manufacturers want us to adopt the duties proposed when they appeared before this committee." “Would you kindly inform me what we may expect on woolen goods?” “I would gladly do so if I could. I must refer you to Mr. Isaac N. He'delberger, who will adjust duties in behalf of ,the wholesale cl 'thing manufactuiers, who will frame the two clauses prescribing the taxes on women’s and children's dress goods.” “That seems strange. Certainly you can give the farmers s mo idea of what you intend to do with wcol." “My intention will not develop until Judge Lawrence and his National Wool Growers’ Association make known their demands.* “Just one more question, Major. You are of course able to say what will be done with steel rails, structural steel, and other artie’es in the great metal schedule'?” “I’m glad you're going to let up on these annoying questions. How can I tel what conclusion Mr. James M. Swank, Mr. Henry W. Oliver, and other members of the American Iron and Steel As.ociation will come to? Undoubtedly wo will give them ust what they want You see, as Mr. Jingley says, we want to make a bill which shall be ‘consistent, comprehensive, and complete, with all the different parts properly and justly related.’ To make certain that all will be perfect, we have decided to let the manufacturers who are to be protected fill in their own clauses. This is enentirely proper, as they have been the financial backbone of the Republican party in the past, and we hope they will be in the future. Their wishes are entitled to the greatest consideration. You see how it is. I would like to oblige you, but under the circumstances I can t answer your questions.” —Byron W. Holt.

Opera-Boaffe McKinley. Everybody will remember with what impressive solemnity McKinley pointed out in 1892, on stump after stump, the fact that owing to the McKinley tariff our exports for the fiscal year had grown so large as to force the importation of $200,000,000 of foreign gold. Some annoying critics brought to the Governor's attention the statistics of the Treasury Department, wherein it appeared that the balance of that year’s gold movement was actually on the export side. This made no difference to McKinley. He answered that if the balance of trade had not been settled in gold, it had been settled in something else, and that was the same thing, and he continued thenceforward to announce to admiring audiences, exactly as before, that we had imported $200,000,000 in gold. We have no doubt he still believes that the gold really came here, by some subtle and sec et process, and _we are quite as sure that he will believe, long after business has comfortably settled down to its old routine, that the wildest kind of panic’is still prevailing because the McKinley tariff has been threatened. Fortunately for the national common sense, few people except McKinley himself take McKinley seriously any longer. It has, moreover, done no small service to the cause of public enlightenment that the willful blunders of the Shermans and Culloms are invariably reproduced, in the broad lines of caricature, by such operabouffed perfoimors as McKinley and Clarkson. A few years since, people used to suspect that McKinley’s tariff arguments might after all be sound, becau e their conclusions were the same as Sherman’s. N< wadays things are reversed, and the fallacies of serious protectionists are turned into general laughter by McKinley’s reductio ad absurdum. —New York Evening Post. Short, Sharp Work Best. The Ways and Means Committee would do well to abridge its 1 a iff. hearings. Most of them are merely threshing over old straw. Tne sooner the country knows exactly what will be the detail ■< of tariff -Changes the sooner will business matters become adjusted to the new conditions. To the extent of the uncertainty as to what the changes will be the tariff question tends to make people cautious; and this i« natural, for the merchant does not wish to buy now a large stock of what may soon be cheaper it the tax 1b removed. Such a condition of affairs was inevitable. It must be experienced in order that the benefits of correcting the wrongs of McKinloyism may be secured. But Congress should do all it can to shorten the perlcd of preparation of a new tariff bill and to let the people know as soon as practicable just what they can expect. The necessities of a depleted treasury are such that a layman caimot divine what may find It necessary to change and what to leave as it is. All he wishes is to know upon what basis to buy and tell. Until he decs know, of course, he will' not make extensive tramactions. That is the extent of the effect of tariff •citation upon gene, al business. It is not

that tariff reform it feared, for our people are not so fickle as to turn about in a few short months and become frightened at just what they, such little while ago, voted overwhelmingly in favor of.—Rome Sentinel. Th* Protection Bird tn Dl.treu. Are we. tho people of this United I States, all foola or children without I reasoning faculties? Evidently the protectionists think wo arc, or they would not tell us such fairy stories abcut the tariff. Just listen to McKinley while he is talking tariff tax theory to tne Ohio children: “They say a protective tariff is a tax and a burden upon the people. It is a tax upon the foreign producer, and his welfare is not our first concern. * And the youngsters clap their bonds and shout. They arc out for a holiday and want him to tell them more about his wonderful tariff and about Santa Claus and “Jack the Giant Killer." Down in Washington some of McKinley’s compatriots are working the practical or business end of protection. They talk in a more serious vein than the Governor and would feel hurt if the members of the Ways and Means Committee should clap their hands and laugh after each lamentation. Do these manufacturers talk In Washington as McKinley does in Ohio about this tariff tax business? Listen! Mr. Leopold Moritz, of Philadelphia, is speaking earnestly in behalf of the retention of tho duty on buttons made of bone, hdrn, etc. He says that in 1889 before the duty was raised foreign manufacturers and importers brought in foreign goods and cut prides so that the American industry was oh. the verge of ruin and extinction. Would he talk this way if tho foreigner was paying the tax promptly? Then comes Mr. William Wilkins, of Baltimore, a manufacturer of curled hair and bristles. He says any further reduction of the duty on curled hair and bristles would drive his business to the wall. But what is the difference if the foreigner is punctually paying the tax? Mr. R. W. Lesley, of the American Cement Company, now rises and pleads against any reduction of tho duty of 8 cents per pound on imported cement. He is chock-full of statistics —as are nearly all of the manufacturers—to prove that day wages are higher here than in Germany—just as if the committee were ready to quarrel with him on this point He is wasting his time and breath, acocording to McKinley, who ought to know. The price of imported cement must be just the same under either a low or a high duty, because the duty always comes out of the foreigner. Here comes Joseph Wharton, Vice President of the American Iron and Stoel Association, and a whole flock of well-fed iron and steel manufacturers of Pennsylvania, Illinois, Alabama, and Tennessee. Nearly all are millionaires and very important personages. Time is precious with them—worth anywhere from SSO to SSOO a day apiece. They are sacrificing it, however, in behalf of their dearly beloved workingmen, and the committee looks grave while each one tells how anxious he is to pay high wages to his employes, and how sorry he will be to reduce wages or close up his mills, as he will be compelled to do if the duty be reduced. Why is the wherefore of this, Gov. McKinley? Are tho foreign manufacturers not philanthropic enough to pay all charges against them, if levied in your name? Wo know it must be a great strain on their generosity to have to pay slls duty when they sell us SIOO worth of window glass; or $146 for every SIOO worth of pearl buttons they sell us; or $162 when they sell us only SIOO worth of worsted cloth, worth less than 30 cents per pound. But we did not think they would betray your confidence. If they have not done so, your manufacturing friends are grossly misrepresenting you at Washington. Or is it only a misunderstanding between the theoretical, or Ohio wing, and the business, or Washington wing, of the great protection bird? Its wings are not flopping together. Is the bird in distress? B. W. H.

Republican Brigandage. There is one Republican newspaper that is sufficiently besotted with partisanship to urge the Senators of its Sarty to make the preservation of the IcKinley tariff and the Federal elections law “the price” of aiding in the repeal of the Sherman act Putting aside the morality of this form of blackmail for ransom, the suggestion is that the Country, in order to get ro- ‘ lief from one bad Republican law which it has condemned, shall be comE oiled to enduro two other bad Repubcan laws which the voters have also condemned. Fortunately this sort of brigandage does not commend itself to men having the responsibilities of public office upon them.—New York World. ■/ William’. Big Job. The Hon. William McKinley opened his canvass for re-election as Governor of Ohio in an elaborate set speech, mainly devoted to the herculean task of showing that the financial depression through which the country is passing is not due to the monetary legislation of the Republican party, but to a fear of the repeal of the McKinley bilL In this opinion Mr. McKinley stands opposed to all the Boards of Trade and commercial bodies in the United States, except, possibly, that of Denver, and to the practically unanimous conviction of the who.e world of finance. Possibly he is right and all the rest wrong,"but ho has a hard task before him if he expects to convince them of their error.—New Age. Sagar, Corn and Cabbage Bounties. x Nearly $17,000,000 has been paid in bounties to sugar-growers under the outrageous McKinley law up to Sept 1. This is direct robbery of the people, as the bounties collected by tariffprotected manufacturers are indirect robbery. Tnere is absolutely no more right or justice in taxing the people Io pay bounties to the growers of sugar than the.e would be iu pryirg bounties to the growers of pot ate es, corn or cabbages. This is <no big leak in the revenues which the Democrats will atop as soon as they can get at it • Three Stages. The protected darlings of the Republican party stand hats in band beging alms of the Democratic Ways and Means Ccmmitttee of Congress. Give us just a year or two longer, begs one, as if the warning that protection must go had not been fairly and clearly and repeatedly given by the people mere than a year or two ago. Whether as a squalling infant industry, an insolent, full-grown monopoly or a senile beggar for yet a little longer time to plunder, the protected industry displays a gieed that defies satisfaction.—New Age. Here You Bare It. In the N< rth Ecu lived a a hale, McKinley .aw him spout. He put high tariff upon dll And shut the duffer out Those monopolists who import cheap foreign labor are again becoming very anxious lest a reduction of tariff duties should prove Injurious to "American industry." _ The protected manufacturers have much advice to offer the Ways and Maans Committee. The people registered their testimony on the Bth of Jut November

LIKE A PAINTED SHIP.! SENATORIAL TORPOR THAT IS IDYLLIC. Kxpaaaa of Maintaining tho Senatorial Aggregation— What It Coita to Food tho Senate Animals and Clean Out the Sonata Cagno—Congreoalonal Proceedings. > $ May Now Do Something. Washington oorreopondenoe;

"IHE United States Senate has done nothing up to the time this letter is written, and that ' august body has been doing this nothing in its customary grave and f owlish fashion. The ' Senate is a blight, Eja mildew, a moth Rato feed on the warp s7and woof of men's hopes; a qui.'ksand to engulf a nation’s [Kdostlny, a bacillus. Na paralysis. It » tolls not, neither does it spin.

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A» idle as a painted (hip Upon a painted ocean. What a toothless humbug the Senate is. Ono has to chop'up its-meat for it. Do you know how much money the Senate has wasted while “deliberating" and chasing the stock board up and down the stairs of value? Do you know how much it costs to feed the Senate animals and clean out the Senate cages? There should be eightyeight Senators. There are only eightyfivo—three shy. Senator* Come High. Well, It costs Uncle Sam $5,000 a year to have a Senator. In most Instances he isn’t worth it, but he gets It just the same. That’s $440,000. Now for doorkeepers, flunkies, pages, roustabouts, deckhands, and all that long list of tax-eaters that make up the train of greatness, Uncle Sam pays just about $440,000 more—about $380,000 a year. It falls out, then, that thia last two months of idleness have cost the country almost $150,000. Pretty steep price to pay for such a case of typhus fever as the Senate. But it seems to be really on the brink of something. The Senate as a disaster will take a new form. For ten days Senators and all sorts of philosophers in statecraft have besieged Cleveland. They have been telling him that the White House has been cleaned out, that on the proposition of unconditional repeal it was a whipped and “ busted * community. They told Cleveland that he had better realize this, doff his hat to fate, limber up his artillery, order his bugles to blow the retreat, and leave the field. They pointed out that Washington retreated through seven rev luti nary years and now owned a white marble monument 550 sky-piercing feet high. Senate and How. Tbe repeal bill was taken up tn the Senate on Monday, and Senator Dubois complained of a remark by Senator Gorman criticising the resolution to postpone lo.’l»lation on tbe tariff and finance. Senator Dubois denied tbat the te-olutlob In-, traduced to obstruct the repeal bill Senator Washburn announced that be bad been informed by Senator Squire* Ibat he would vote for unconditional repeat ’I his. it is understood. Is a vote gained for the repeal side. Senator Kyle then spoke aealnst repeat Mr. Johnson. Democrat, of Ohio, introduced a bill In tbe House appropriating $50,000 for the pur hase of a site and an addition to the public building at Cloveland. The Federal elections repeal bill was taken up. and Mr. Dinsmore, Democrat, of Arkansas, argued in it* favor. The Vice President on Tuesday laid before tbe Senate a communication from the Secretary of the Treasury giving a detailed statement of tbe export* of sliver for the month* of July and August. Mr. Dubois, of Idaho, Introduced a bill enabling the States of California, (olorado, Montana, and Idaho to support State schools of mines. Mr. Morzsn, of Alabama, offered nn amendment to tbe Wilson reveal bill, declaring the act of Jan. 18. 1837. to be in force. Mr. Dolph, of Oregon, then took the floor and continued his speech, begun Monday, in support of the silver repeal bill. In the Senate Wednesday tho first open suggestion of a compromise on the repeal bill attracted tho closest at enttfm on both side* of the chamber. Senator Butler of South Carolina in an impassioned speech against the passage of the bill made compromise tho salient feature. “Cotnrrorniee, compromise.” be said, “is the solution of t bo struggle here." Senator Call addressed the Senate in ot position to the bill. Without concluding his remarks. Mr. Cali yielded to a motion for an executive session. Some routine business was transacted before the House resumed the election debate. An Interesting debate took place on tho propriety of recognizing war claims of a class ot which a portion had been paid by the Confederate Government. A Joint resolution was passed extending the tbnnks ot the Congress and the people of the United States to the foreign governments who had generously and effectively participated in tbe Chicago Exposition. When the Senate met Thursdny*nornlng the repeal bill was taken up Mr. Call of Florida technically resumed tbe floor, and on motion of Mr. Voorhees the Senate proceeded to tbe consideration of executive business Iho f emits remained in executive session until 8:15 p m. a d then adjourned until Friday. No business of Importance was transacted in tbe House. The House without transacting any morning business resumed tbe consideration of the Federal election repeal bill and was addressed by Mr. Northway (Rep), of Ohio, in opposition to tbe tneasure. In the Senate Friday Senator Blackburn submitted an amendment to the bill repealing the sliver purchasing clause* of the actol 1890. It strikes out the Voorhees substitute, leaving the bill as It passed the House, and provides for the free colna-o of sliver of American production. The debate on the resolution for u committee to inquire into the banking Astern wa* continued by Senator Peffer. Its author. Seven hours of Interrupted debate on the election* bill occupied the time of the House, the speech of Mr. Cummings of Nee York being the feature. Culling* from the Capital. Gen. Black, of Illinois, and Col. East, of South Dakota, had a narrow escape in a runaway. President Cleveland has made a new rule and will hereafter devote less time to applicants for office. The monthly statement of circulation shows $25.29 per capita for an estimated population of 67,306,009. The question of reducing duties and Increasing revenue at the tame time perplexes tbe House Committee on Ways and Means. Mr. Davis defended fractional currency before the House Banking Commottee, saying it was better than gold. A bill has been introduced in Congress to make contractors on publlo tuildlngs liable to the mechanics' lien law. A resolution calling for information on suspended pension casss, prelented by Mr. Lacey, of lowa, has been favorably reported to the House. The Board of Managers of the National Soldiers' Home ccmpleed its labors, and ib a body called at the White House to pay its respects to the Presi- , font.