Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1884 — Page 3

EVERY CUNNING FELLOW.

■tone Climbed Out of a Window to ■ Avoid Meeting Gen. Butler. ■ip the following from the New York ■laine managers are promising every■t/t 111 ng—protection to dynamiters, en■nent and hek> to Cuban filibusters, ■appropriations to contractors and job■“high old time" to speculators, and in ■of decent voters they whisper: "It’s all ■aine really means to make the quietest ■anest administration we ever had. ■erfectly safe to vote for him." ■KM has won a fame of his own in ■ton as the most liberal promiser in his ■e has never hesitated to promise every■at was asked, and he is probably before ■ over his head in engagements. That ■he is thought to be such a magnetic Ken. Bntler tells a good story about the ■g character or Mr. Blaine. Blaine ■fuller's assistance to be made Speaker ■bain occasion. He promised Butler the ■whip of the Appropriations Committee, ■be General supported him in the caucus, ■tier is not a distrustful man: the under- ■ was clear. Blaine’s promise positive, ■waited without uneasiness for the an■nent of the oommittees. This was de■ome days aftef the Speaker’s election, ■is usual, and on the day when it was to ft, a friend of Gen. Butler whispered to ■t Mr. Speaker Blaine intended to give ■manship to another man. ■formation was so positive that the GenKame uneasy and determined to see ■ Blaine before the House should meet to ■e committees announced. After some ■e discovered that Mr. Blaine was in a ■tee-room. He went to the door, but was ■ by the doorkeeper, who told him that ■ was positively forbidden, as Speaker ■was very busy. Gen. Butler, however, ■bed not to be outwitted by Blaine. He ■k through the door and saw Blaine ■ sitting at the table, and he determined ■t the door and seize him, as he must ftily come out to open the session of the ■t noon. ■uarter before 12 Mr. Speaker Blaine had ■appeared: but Gen. Butler waited at the ■re of his man. At five minutes before 12 ■nehad not yet appeared, but as the ■ad only one door and Gen. Butler stood ■he case seemed to him safe. ■y, at 12:16 p. m., the Geneaal demanded ■re leave to enter the room. The door- ■ Said, “Certainly,” and flung open the ■on. Butler walked in and found the room Bre’s Speaker Blaine?" he demanded, ■ ‘‘He’s in the House, I suppose,” was the ■The General hurried to the Houee, and ■just in time to hear another man’s name ft for the chairmanship which Speaker ■ad promised him. ■res ligation he discovered that the prom■eaker Blaine, knowing that Butler was ■ for him at the door, had climbed out of low of the committee-room, clambered ■ledge of stonework to the window of an■om, and out of that had sneaked into the ■nd into the Speaker’s chair. ■ot long since Gen. Butler told this story ■ friends. He admitted that “Blaine is a ■inning fellow” and a first-class promiser ■st, a very magnetic man; but he thought ■ot always safe to trust him. ■e people want for President of the United ■ man who climbs out of the window to ■y from Gen. Bntler?

THE GERMANS SOLID.

■tant Action of the Connecticut Fort- ■ schritts Bund. ■ [Hew York special.] ■gates representing the various ■es of the Connecticut Fortschritts ■>r German Progressive union in the ■let in convention at New Haven, on ■fc, The meeting was a special one ■for the purpose of discussing the ■ntial tickets in the field and decid■ch of them should receive the sup- ■ the organization. About 100 dele■ttended the day’s convention. Presi■Yilliam Griesinger, of Bridgeport, ■he address of welcome. He said: ■not assemble for any mercenary moll tools of a political machine, but as ■mtatives of German citizens of Const, who only have in view the honor ■ifare of their country. The proceed■sulted in the drawing up of a state■f the voters, and especially the Ger■ters of the State, which was unani- ■ adopted. The address, by way of ■ction, institutes a comparison beBthe principles and tendencies of the ■at parties, which is practically an ar■ent of the Republican organization, ■ng to Blafne, the address declares ■is the personification of all that is ■t in the Republican party. His whole I as a public man is tainted with ■ and associated with measures hos■he general good of the country. As ■ Democratic party, the address states ■rile it does not come up io the high■al of the Fortschritts Bund, it stands ■form of abuses in the public service, ■gress, for the largest individual lib■nd for regard for the welfare of the ■gmen. Therefore, all voters are ■o cast their ballots and exert their ■to elect Cleveland and Hendricks, ■ddress will be submitted to each lof the organization throughout the ■or approval.

BLAINE AND PROHIBITION.

as a Friend to the Cause of Tem- ■ perance by That Party. I? [lndianapolis Journal.] ■ committee appointed by the late Bition convention held in this city a Bys ago has issued an address in ■let form entitled “To the Temperance Bof America. ” In this address the Banco people are advised to stand to- ■ and support the "Republican nomi- ■ On page 6 of the address, speaking Bes G. Blaine, it says: . “For the past B years all the tracts of the American prance Society, which have discussed Bue and success of prohibition legis- ■ have contained letters of testimony Barnes G. Blaine in favor of the proBn in Maine, and for more than B years Mr. Blaine has supported that ■tion in his own State.” Signed: Bjumback, Greensburg, Ind.; C. G. Blemew, Warsaw, Ind.; E. B. Rey- ■ Hagerstown, Ind.; Isham Sedge- ■ Richmond, Ind.; W. M. Land, Bton, Ind.; J. D. Mitchell, Terre ■ Ind.; J. B. Wade, LaGrange, Ind.; ■ Houser, Indianapolis; W. R. Har- ■ Martinsville, Ind.; J. H. Hodapp, Bur, Ind.; John B. Conner, IndianapBtr. Blaine and the Fanners. ■ Blaine makes the strongest argument Botection we have ever seen, and yet B how plain a tale shall put him down. ■s: ■farmers see that in the Increasing com■n from the grain fields of Russia and ■e distant plains of India, the growth of ■ne market becomes daily of greater con■o them, and that its impairment would ■late the value of every acre of tillable ■ the Union. ■ farmers of this country raise, in ■ numbers, 500,000,000 bushels of I annually. It requires on an average ■labels a head per year to sustain our ■,OOO of people. That eats up 250,000,■shels. It takes 50,000,000 more for ■ Thus we have 200,000,000 bushels ■teat to sell. What are we going to do ■his surplus without a foreign demand? ■rice of wheat in Liverpool determines ■arket quotations here; therefore, our ■ market” can neither appreciate nor ■date the value of the product. ■ther thing. Mr. Blaine expresses ■ concern for the welfare of the Amer■griculturist; yet he protects everybody ■ his expense. The farmer has to sell ■rplus wheat in the open markets of ■e in direct competition with the I fellah labor of Egypt, the next to ■bor of Russia, and the coolie labor of 1 ♦

the “distant plains of India. 1 * The American farmer—owing to a protective tariff—has to pay extravagant prices for everything he uses on his farm, and his “hired help” costs him all the way from $1 to $2 a day, while the cheap labor of Europe and Asia, engaged in wheat tillage, may be had for less than a tenth part of even $1 a day! Mr. Blaine is ingenious, but sophistry will hardly do duty for argument in this age and country.— Rochester Union and American. ’

THE MULLIGAN EPISTLES.

Blaine’s Important Elocutionary Omissions. [Washington special] There is much comment here on the developments made to-day by the New York Times. which shows conclusively from records of the House of Representatives that four of the letters taken from Mulligan by Blaine were not read by the latter on the memorable June 5, 1876. After he had concluded his reading on that day Blaine solemnly declared to the House that he read every one of the fifteen letters he had obtained from Mulligan. He also affirmed, in the presence of the House, that the letters he had read were dated, and corresponded precisely with Mulligan’s memorandum which he held in his hand, and which he said he kept as protection to himself, as it showed the identity of the letters in every respect. The record shows that four letters, noted specifically and by date in Mulligan’s memorandum, were not read, but in their stead Blaine substituted four letters of a different date which had not been in Mulligan’s possession. This corroborates Mulligan, who has declared that Blaine did not read all the letters, and that some of Them Blaine never would make public. At the time Blaine read the letters on the floor of the House he refused to let them pass into the hands of the official reporter, or to be copied by agents of the Associated Press. He furnished copies himself, and he denied all newspaper men access to the letters. In reading them to the House he did not observe the chronological order as they were arranged in the Mulligan memorandum, but studiously mixed up and disconnected the dates and subjects, and they were in this manner furnished by him to the Associated Press.

The Difference.

Grover Cleveland is a poor man, comparatively speaking. Although he has jseld several offices of high public trusj he has never abused them to personal advantage. In his present capacity as Governor of New York, the opportunities for money making are practically unbounded, but no man has yet dared to whisper a suspicion that he has been a victim to temptation. Grover Cleveland’s integrity is nowhere questioned. James G. Blaine was also once a poor man, and comparatively poor when he became Speaker of the House of Representatives. He had also held several offices of public trust, and while opportunities for money making were never so favorable as they are to a Governor of the great State of New York, clothed with the supreme power of tfie veto, he has managed to accumulate several million dollars within a marvelously short time, and with apparently no expenditure of Gabor. In his explanation of this remarkable difference, Mr. Blaine himself has given documentary evidence. Here is one of the selections: Augusta, Oct. 4, 1869. Mv Dear Mr. Fisher : Find inclosed contracts of parties named in my letter of yesterday. The remaining contracts will be completed as rapidly as possible as circumstances will permit. I inclose yon part of the Congressional Globe of April 9, containing the point to which I referred at some length in my previous letter of to-day. You will find it of Interest to read it over and see what a narrow escape your bill made on that last night of the session. Of course it was my plain duty to make the ruling when the point was once raised. If the Arkansas men had not, however, happened to come to me at their wits’ end and in despair, the bill would undoubtedly have been lost, or at least postSoned for a year. I thought the point wonld iterest both yon and Caidwell, though oocuring before either of you engaged in the enterprise. I beg you to understand that I thoroughly appreciate the courtesy with which you have treated me in this railroad matter, but your conduct toward me in business matters has always been marked by an unbounded liberality in past years, and, of course. I have naturally come to expect the same of you now. You urge me to make as much as 1 fairly can out of the arrangements into which we have entered. It is natural that I should do the utmost to this end. I am bothered by only one thing, and that is the indefinite arrangement with Mr. Caldwell. I am anxious to acquire the interest he has promised me, but I do not get a definite understanding with him as I have with you. I shall be in Boston in a few days, and I shall then have an opportunity to talk over matters fully with you. I am disposed to think that whatever I do with Mr. Caldwell must really be done through you. Kind regards to Mrs. Fisher. Sincerely, J. G. Blaine. W. Fisher, Jr. If Mr. Cleveland has written any such letter as the above the world is ignorant of the fact. The truth is that he is incapable of such a thing. Grover Cleveland is honest. James G. Blaine is a jobber. That is the difference.

Letter from Gov. Cleveland.

The Rev. Dr. Kinsley Turning, in a letter to the New York Independent, says: I take the.liberty to publish (and I know it will be a surprise to Mr. Cleveland and all his relatives) a private letter written by him to his brother, Rev. William N. Cleveland, on the day that he was elected Governor of New York, and which passed into the hands of a friend who has for many years taken almost a parental interest in his family, by whom it was given tome: Mayor’s Office, ) Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 7,1882. j My Dear Brother: I have just voted. I sit here in the Mayor's office alone, with the exception of an artist from Prank Leslie’s newspaper, who is sketching the office. If mother was here I should be writing to her, and I feel as if it were time for me to write to some one who will believe what I write. 1 have been for some time in the atmosphere of certain success, so that I have been sure that I should assume the duties.of the high office to which I have been named. I have tried hard, in the light of this fact, to properly appreciate the responsibilities that will rest upon me. and they Ore much, too much, underestimated. But the thought that has troubled me is, can I well perform my duties, and in such a manner as to do some good to the people of the State? I know there is room for it, and I know that I am honest and sincere in my desire to do well; but the question is whether I know enough to accomplish what I desire. The social lifewhi-jh awaits me has also been a subject of much anxious thought. I have a notion that I can regulate that very much as I desire, and if I can, I shall spend very little time in the purely ornamental part of the office. In point of fact, I will tell you first of all other the policy I intend to adopt, and that is to make the matter a business engagement between the people of the State and myself, in which the obligation on my side is to perform the duties assigned me with an eye single to the interest of my employers. 1 shall h ve no idea of re-election, or of any higher political preferment in my head, but be very thankful and happy if I can well serve one term as the people’s Governor. Do you know that if mother were alive I should feel so much safer? I have always thought that her prayers had much to do with my success. I shall expect you all to helpme in that way. Give my love to and to ,if she is with you, and believe me, your affectionate brother, Grover Cleveland. The startling exposure of Speaker Blaihe’s venality in connection with the Union Pacific Road, Eastern Division, entirely destroys, of course, whatever credit some people may have given his evasive denial of the Oakes Ames bribery, and puts the whole case of the Credit Mohilier upon a different basis. • * » Now His shown

that Speaker Blaine never deserved his good reputation. He had taken bribes in another case.— New York Tribune, Sept. 30, 1872.

Two Cents Tax on Every Pound of Sugar.

“Subscriber" writes to the Herald to inquire “what the tariff on sugar amount to per pound, and how much the people of the United States are taxed on this article each year for protection. During 1883 the United States imported from the Hawaiian Islands free of duty 114,000,000 pounds of sugar and the Louisiana planters produced about 200,000,000 pounds. To meet the demand of the people it became necessary to import in exact figures that year 1,927,685,706 pounds, and on this duty was paid to the extent of $44,517,851, or about 2J cents per pound. As the consumption of this sugar was thirty-seven and two-thirds pounds per capita the tax on every man, woman, and child in America for the sugar used in their food was 82 1-5 cents. In order to demonstrate the iniquity of this tax the Herald will state that it is levied for the purpose of protecting a few planters in Louisiana who are carrying on under Government bounty some very interesting experiments in the growth of sugar cane. There are a few more experiments in two or three other Southern States, but Louisiana contains almost all of them. These estimable gentlemen produced last year a little less than 200,006,000 pounds of sugar, not one-tenth of the amount consumed in the country. In order to enable them to continue their fancy gardening and employ a few thousand men and women who, on the same land, might as well raise some other crop better adapted to the soil, the United States Government taxed every living human being in this broad domain 82 cents, the sum amounting in the aggregate to $44,517,851. This money was not needed by the Government, for .it lies now in the Treasury vaults, stimulating extravagance and encouraging thievery. If our correspondent should take it into his head that he ought to raise tea in Cook County he would have just as much right to ask the Government to tax the people a dollar apiece to pay for his experiments as the handful of Louisiana cane planters have. The tariff iniquity is not the outgrowth of any spontaneous demand for such a system. It is the product of log-rolling, by which the lobbyists and Congressional representatives of one interest help every other interest to the public purse. Iron stands by sugar, lumber by salt, and so on. It will be difficult to overthrow one without overthrowing all. The tax on sugar for purposes of protection is one which reaches everybody, and may be easily explained and understood. It cannot be denounced in terms too vigorous or sweeping, for it is absolutely without justification. Briefly put, the consumption of refined sugar in this country in 1883 was 2,300,000,000 pounds. Of this amount 100,000,000 pounds from the Hawaiian Islands and 200,000,000 pounds from Louisiana were untaxed, while 2,000,000,000 pounds imported from Cuba and elsewhere were taxed at the custom houses 2J cents per pound. As the Louisiana and Hawaiian product was sold at the same price as the taxed imported article, it will be seen that Government assisted these two interests to about $8,000,000 of the people’s money, besides putting $44,000,000 more in the public treasury.— Chicago Herald.

John Kelly Defines His Position.

[Eufaula (Ala.) dispatch.] A controversy having arisen among local politicians as to whether John Kelly voted for Tilden and Hendricks in 1876, and the charge being made and denied that Tammany Hall would not support Cleveland and Hendricks, Mr. Kelly was written to concerning his action in 1876 and asked pointedly whether he and his partisans of Tammany Hall intended to give their support and influence to the Democratic nominees in 1884. The following is his reply, published in the local paper this morning: Saratoga Springs, N. Y.. Aug. 6,1884. Dear Bnt: Yours of the 2d lust, at hand. In reply, I desire to inform you that I have read your letter carefully and noted the points which you have made and the question which ven propound, and which you and those in the’State in which you reside are anxious should be answered. First, that I voted against Tilden and Hendricks in 1876. Thisjs untrue. Myself and those associated with me did our very best to elect Messrs. Tilden and Hendricks, and what occurred afterward could not be laid to us. The position of our party in the county and State at present stands in this way: The laboring class, on whom we relied mainly for support, are now pronounced against Gov. Cleveland, and it win be difficult for us to convince them that their condition would not be improved by the election of the opponent of this gentleman. We will do what can be done to convince these people, and hope and expect to be comparatively successful. Let me add that these accusations that are made against myself and the organization to which I belong have originated with and are the emanations of the brains of those whose prejudice and dislike of our organization are such that they are at all these times misrepresenting us, in order to create false impressions in other parts of the country. Tammany Hall has been as faithful to the Democratic party as the needle to the north pole, although these vilifications which have taken place from time to time have given, no doubt, a different impression. I am, yours, very respectfully, John Kelly.

A Changed World.

The Irish World supports Blaine. Two years ago the Irish World did not support Blaine. On the contrary, it said of Blaine: Kx-Secretary Blaine is announced to speak in St. Louis at a banquet given by the Knights of St. Patrick on the evening of March 17. A more unfit selection could hardly be made, as it is an insult to the intelligence of self-respecting Irish-Americans to ask them to listen on Bt. Patrick’s day to a man who refused to Btir a finger to release from British dungeons American citizens of Irish descent illegally arrested, although at the time it was his duty to see that these citizens were either accorded a trial by jury or released from prison. Mr. Blaine is reported as having Presidential aspirations. He sees no chance of getting a nomination from the Republican party, and it is said that he is determined to run on an independent ticket. As Mr. Blaine is a thorough demagogue he thinks, perhaps, that he may succeed in winning some Irish-American votes by figuring as one of the orators at a St. Patrick’s night banquet. He forgets that his presence at such a meeting after what he has done is an insult to ev.ery intelligent Irishman present. Does he for a moment suppose that American citizens with Irish blood in their veins will ever forget that when he was Secretary of State he allowed American citizens residing in Ireland to be arrested and imprisoned on mere suspicion, without his calling the British Government tb account for this violation of international law, as he was in duty bound to do? We can understand how this conduct wonld entitle him to a hearty reception at a gathering of Anglo-Americans-as, for instance, at a meeting of the Society of St. George —but what claims it has upon the admiration of the Knights of St. Patrick passes our understanding. ■

J(ay) G(ould) Blaine.

Mr. Jay Gould had every reason in the jvorld to approve of Mr. Blaine’s nomination and to say that he would make a capable President. Mr. Gould has found Blaine a “capable” Senator, because his services have been put at Mr. Gould's disposal. In 1878 Mr. Blaine steadily fought the Edmunds-Thurman bill requiring the Pacific Railroads to establish sinking funds for the payment of their debts to the United States. He offered amendments which would endanger its passage and ridiculed Senator Edmunds for his alarm lest the Ptrcific Railroad Company should fail to pay what it owed. But it had already defaulted its interest, and was making no preparations

for the payment of the debt which falls due after 1890. Mr. Edmunds' and Mr. Thurman’s prudence was sagacious, and entitled to the respect of every one who, unlike Mr. Blaine, believes that brilliant statesmanship “largely consists in spending other people’s money." The Pacific Railroad bill passed the Senate by a vote of 40 to 20. Among those who voted against it were Mr. Dorsey, Mr. Spencer, and Mr. Blaine. What Mr. Edmunds thought of Blaine, is evident from a letter written to some, friends in Vermont just before the meeting of the Republican National Convention in 1880, when Mr. Blaine was a candidate. “It is my deliberate opinion, ” wrote Mr. Edmunds, “that Mr. Blaine acta as the attorney of Jay Gould. Whenever Mr. Thurman and I have settled upon legislation to bring the Pacific Railroads to terms of equity with the Government, up has jumped James G. Blaine, musket in hand, from behind the breastworks of Gould’s lobby, to fire in our back." Of course Mr. Gould believes in the ability of his own attorney. — Detroit Free Press.

Logan’s Lucky Relatives.

Logan’s high-sounding phrases about civil-service reform are iHustrated by the number of relatives he has fixed in snug Government places. The Government records show the following list of Logans and Logans-in-law and Logan family dependents who are feeding at the public crib: Cornelius A. Logan, a cousin of John Alexander, Minister to Chili. W. F. Tucker, Jr., a son-in-law, Paymaster in the United States army. John A. Logan, Jr., son, cadet at West Point. John M. Cunningham, brother-in-law, Second Lieutenant Nineteenth Infantry. Samuel S. Errett, brother-in-law, Assistant Superintendent Yellowstone National Park. Cyrus Thomas, brother-in-law, ethnologist, Smithsonian Institute. Viola Thomas, niece, daughter of Cyrus, clerk, Smithsonian Institution. Susie Cunningham, sister-in-law, cleik in Treasury Department. Enoch Blanchard, nephew, clerk in the railway postal service. Mollie E. Jenkins, niece, clerk in the marine hospital service. James Cunningham, brother-in-law,Post-master at Birmingham, Ala. Samuel K. Cunningham, brother-in-law, inspector, Chicago Custom House. James V. Logan, brother, Postmaster, Murphysboro, 111. Eaward Hill, nephew, Deputy United States Marshal, Southern District of Illinois. Mary H. Brady, former servant, clerk in Treasury Department. Louis Norris, former servant, messenger in Interior Department, Washington. Daniel Shephad, Private Secretary, Assistant Postmaster at Chicago. Ereach Taylor, Private Secretary, clerk in the United States Senate. As a civil-service reformer Logan is a fraud.— Albany Argus.

Wonderful Defection in the Republican Ranks.

Of all the workers in the Democratic host perhaps the most confident of Democratic success this fall is Gen. Herman Lieb. Yesterday he sat in the office of the Demokrat opening his exchanges. Nearly all the latter were German papers from all parts of the State, and from lowa, Kansas, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. As wrapper after wrapper came off and he hastily scanned the pages the General’s eyes sparkled. “They’re all coming out for Cleveland—look!” and he handed over several German papers with the Cleveland vignette on the editorial page. “And here's one from Des Moines. Listen to this;" and the General translated the head lines: “ ‘Organization of a Cleveland Club —Over Four Hundred German Republicans Sign the Roll.’ That’s the way they come in,” exclaimed Gen. Lieb. “From everywhere we get the game reports. I don’t recall now the name of a single German paper in Illinois that is supporting Blaine or Oglesby. I believe we will capture ninetenths of the German vote in Illinois for Harrison.” Gen. Lieb said that on his exchange list he had no less than forty-three German papers from the Northwest which had renounced the Republican party and come out for Cleveland— Chicago Herald.

Can These Things Be?

We have known for many years a story which would prove very harrowing- to the Blaine family, but which would have no proper bearing on Mr. Blaine ; s fitness for the Presidency of the United States, and which has never before been alluded to in these columns. Whether it is true or not we have never sought to discover, and never shall. Gen. Garfield’s opponents in 1880 acted with entire propriety in abstaining from making this side of his character an issue.— Springfield (Mass.) Republican.

Campaign Notes.

The Republicans are congratulating themselves that the defection of the “dudes”’ and “pharisees” will be more than offset by accessions from the hoodlum element. The latter certainly seem to have a fellow-feel-ing for Blaine. A Blaine meeting that was called in behalf of the workingmen in Jersey City got more than it bargained for when a horse car conductor arose and said he was for Cleveland, not in spite of, but because of, his vetoes. His veto of the 5-cent bill, he said, would have driven every surface railroad in the city out of business and thrown all the men employed on them out of work. He didn’t think that would help the workingmen much. As to the veto of the twelvehour law for car conductors and drivers, he said he, like all conductors arrd drivers, worked by the trip, and if the bill had become a law it would have reduced his earnings. The bill, he said, was in the interest of some of the railroad companies who now paid by the day and wanted the bill as an excuse for changing to the trip system, and not paying for unoccupied time as they have to when they pay by the day. The present decline in wheat alone of our agricultural products is over 20 per cent. Estimating the entire crop in round numbers at five hundred million bushels, the loss on it to the agricultural interest would not be far short of $100,000,000. JJut this is not all. There has also been an enormous decline in corn and cotton, and a considerable one in provisions. So that the farmers as a class must, during the next twelve months, be placed in generally straitened circumstances, while the only relief they can expect is a general and corresponding decline in manufactured goods of all descriptions and in the rates of transportation. , But it is against this decline that the manufacturers and transporters are now straining every nerve. The former are shutting down their mills and discharging their hands. The latter are formmg pools to put up rates of transportation. But in the end the decline '- which is now being experienced in agricultural products must become general, otherwise the farmer interest will make itself heard and felt.— Chicago Daily News.

He Learned Mind-Reading.

The editor eat in his easy-chair. Editors always sit in easy-chairs. He leaned back and drew a long whiff from his fragrant pipe, and blew it far out upon the sultry summer air. Away down in the recesses of the editor’s soul a solemn stillness reigned. It made the editor sad to realize the presence of that solemn stillness; because what the editor was looking for an idea—a great big booming idea that would fill a column of brevier single leaded. Suddenly there was a slow tramp of feet upon the stairs. The editor listened. No, it was not the sighing of the wind; it was a pair of N 0.9 extra double heavy-soled shoes. The owner, perchance, was the bearer of a bill, a long-due bill. Would the editor flee? Upon this particular occasion he would not. He made up his mind to stand his ground and bluff the man. In another minute the stranger stood in the doorway. When he caught sight of the editor he paused, and the thunderer had time to contemplate his appearance. A massive forehead he had, surrounded by dark clusters of raven ringlets that reeked with the essence of the defunct opossum. His hat had seen better days—before the flood. His coat was enriched with the stains of many a winter. His trousers were full of polish, and his shoes were innocent of the same. The stranger advanced and took off his hat. “Have I the honor,” he inquired, “of beholding the editor-in-chief?” “My friend,” replied the editor, “you have. If your soul has been hungering in the dark chasms of a beclouded {>ast for one shaft of that heavenly ight that falls from the editorial chair, now is your time. Get in your little gaze, and don’t be bashful. I* am the person who works the thunder machine of this establishment. If there is anything I can do for you, name it and I won’t do it." “I know of nothing that you can do for me,” replied the stranger. “Then what is your secret ?” “I have come to do something for you!" “Great Scott I” exclaimed the editor, as he reseated himself. “I am Julius Benedict Mun khazy, the mind-reader,” said the strangerr “Don’t say so?” said the editor. “But I do. And what I want to do is to teach you the great art. Now, Stuart Cumberland and Irving Bishop are working the advertising dodge across the water beautifully. Cumberland has himself interviewed by Labouchere. Know Lab? No? He’s n. g., and says Bishop is a swindler. Then Bish sues Lab for libel, and the whole gang gets a big boom out of it. It’s a great scheme. But those fellows are mere tyros in the business. I know more about it in five minutes than they do in five years. And I can teach you to do it in one lesson.” “You can?" “I can every time.” The editor looked thoughtful. Hfe was sorely tempted to learn this art. How he could astonish his wife by going home and looking into her nutbrown eyes and saying: “Yes, dear, you shall have a seal-skin ulster in the spring!” And how astonished his mother-in-law would be if he said to her: “No, mother-in-law, you are wrong; it was not beer I drank, as you are thinking, but ginger-ale!” “How much does this cost?” he in-

quired. “Sir” replied the stranger; “I’m laboring for the love of psychological science.” “Proceed with the obsequies, then.” The stranger immediately borrowed the editor’s handkerchief and blindfolded him with it. “That,” he said; “is to prevent'you from thinking of anything else. Now, you take my hands; I think of something, and you endeavor to lead me to it. You will find yourself drawn forward by a sort of irresistible impulse. Now, then, I’ve thought of something. Are you ready?" “les,” replied the editor. Then he reached out for the stranger’s hand, and found it seizing his own in a vise-like grip. The editor started forward, and the stranger’s hand urged him gently toward the door. He recognized the impulse and went. Down the stairs they went, and out into the street. The pace increased every moment. Down the street they ran at a rattling pace, and flew around the corner at a 220-yards dash gait. The next moment they wheeled sharp around and dashed through a doorway. They turned and twisted into the room, and then the editor felt his hand placed on something cold. “You’ve got it, by George!” exclaimed the stranger. “Got what?” inquired the editor, faintly, the perspiration dripping from every pore. “What I was thinking of!” “What is it?” “Here let me take off the bandage.” The stranger pulled the handkerchief off the editor’s eyes. The editor stared around and a light broke in upon his brain. He was in a bar-room. He was grasping an ice-cold bottle of Aged Thomas Gin. He did not kill the stranger. He set ’em up for all present.— JK. J. Henderson, in Pack.

It Was Legitimate.

A traveler just from the South reports the following: On one of the Southern railroads there is a station called “Sawyer.” Lately a newly married couple boarded the train and ,were very loving, indeed. The brakeman noticed the gushing groom kiss t ,e bride about two hundred times, but maintained a serene quiet. Finally the station in question was reached, and just after the whistle sounded the groom gave the bride a rousing smack on the lips, and the brakeman opened the door and’ shouted: “Sawyer! Sawyer?” “What’s that?” responded the groom, looking over his shoulder at the brakeman. “Sawyer! Sawyer!” “Well, I don’t care if you did; she’s my wife!”—Merchant Traveler. \ Don’t try to please everybody. Do f hat you know to be right regardless of popularity, then you can depend on a clear conscience, and at least a few true friends.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Anna Mclntyre, a woman of bad re-| pute, is in jail at Winchester for horsd stealing. —Ward F. B. Yarnelle, a demented preacher, committed suicide at by throwing himself in front of a passenger train. —August Nelp, a local sport, engaged in a wrestling bout with a stranger on thd fair grounds at Peru, and came out second best, and also with a broken leg. —Moses Fowler, of Lafayette, thq largest farmer in Indiana, who owns 30,000 acres under cultivation in Bentoq County, will have 400,000 bushels of corn this year and 5,000 tons of hay. —Tramps chloroformed George W. Brockway, five miles northwest of Lafayette, and robbed him of over S2OO in money and notes. Mrs. Brockway saw them, but was kept quiet by threats. —At Switz City, James Rankin was fatally wounded by his brother George, while being taught how to handle a self-cocking revolver. The latter, overwhelmed with grief at the accident, sent a bullet into his own head. —Crawford County has a citizen named John Brock, 92 years old, who claims to have fought under Gen. Jackson at the battle of New Orleans. The other day he walked a mile and a half to witness the raising of a Democratic pole, and then walked back again. —A well-known, eccentric character at Richmond, named Dick Hudson, whose favorite resort was the river, where he has saved more drowning persons than a few, either unconsciously or with suicidal intent walked into deep water, adjacent to the city, and was drowned. —At a ball at Milan a few nights since, a German couple from Pmttsburg, Charles Sherman and Miss Statlander, wagered that they could waltz longer than the fiddlers could play. The contest lasted for an hour and twenty-eight minutes, when the giddy couple fell to the floor from exhaustion. —Henry Dieck, aged 12 years, went to the woods, west of Seymour, to gather elderberries. Some three hours Inter Dr. W. M. Casey was returning from a visit to the country and found Dieck in a ditch along the Ohio and Mississippi Road, suffering from severe convulsions. The Doctor procured help and removed him to a neighbor’s house near by. He is of the opinion that it is the result of eating poisonous berries. The boy’s condition is considered critical.

—There is the prospect of a lively war nt Hammond, over a right of way between the Michigan Central and Chicago and Alton Roads on one side and the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago on the other. The latter road intends to cross the two former roads, and has its new track Inid up to the resisting roads on either side. The Michigan Central track is held down by two engines and the Chicago and Alton is loaded down with freight cars. All three roads have a force of men on hand and watch is kept up night and day. —The discovery has been made that Treasurer Gobin, of Montgomery County, is short about $12,000 in the funds of the county. The cause of the shortage is not yet known, but the amount of the deficit has been replaced in full by Mr. Gobin, and he now demands of the Board of Commissioners that a competent man be appointed to make a thorough investigation of the Treasurer's and Auditor’s offices, and ascertain the cause of the shortage. If it is caused by error it will be rectified, and if by dishonesty on the part of a clerk, he will have to suffer the consequences. —On Monday night Philip P. Sherb, of this city, went out into his yard and chanced to glance up at the sky. He was surprised, he says, to see the whole southern heavens filled with two armies, apparently engaged in fighting. He could descry their banners, artillery, and horses, and note distinctly the forms of the men. Occasionally he saw the flash of the big guns, and stood gazing, wondering, and appalled at the spectacle. He says the armies were fighting and moving slowly northward. The legions had not the appearance of clouds. He is an educated man, and not given to superstition.—-RicTtmond Palladium.

—Cnpt. J. R. Clayton, of Shelbyville tells a remarkable story of a bible found near Atlanta during the war. He says: “One morning, while on the march from Atlanta, Ga., to Savannah, in passing across a field, one of the horses, a few yards in front of me, struck an object which, on nearing, I saw was a book. Swinging down in my saddle I picked it up and found it to be a well-worn and well-read family Bible. On the fly-leaf was the following inscription: ‘Phila E. Whitehead; from her mother; Bath, 1852.’ I brought this Bible home with me and at once began to search for the owner by advertising and corresponding with Postmasters. A notice through the Louisville Courier-Journal brought a letter from a correspondent who proved to be Mrs. Phila Edgeworth Neeley, now of Brooklyn, N. Y. Her maiden name was Miss Phila E. Whitehead, and her home was Bath, Richmond County, Ga. Her son Robert C. Neeley,writes: ‘When the Federal troops advanced, passing right through our place, we left for Southwest Georgia, and the Bible was lost in our flight.’ The Bible has been sent to her and will.no doubt rerive many memories of that bitter conflict.”

—At Valparaiso as a large stone was being raised to the third story of the new courthouse, it fell and struck Edward Hewes, a workman, and instantly killed him. Hewes was a resident of Warsaw and unmarried. •’ —Randolph Heiser, who recently made the remarkable run of 461 points in a balkline game of billiards at Long Branch, was once a resident of Kokomo. —David H. Conrad, an old resident of Cass County, died recently, aged 84.