Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1895 — Page 5

FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.

To Moot -in Short Session JMondajr, -December 3. Seme Trilereitln c Facta Abowt the "Work to Be Performed Between Now and Uatreh 4—Queer Way* of Cesne•ceaefal Candidate*. ' [Special Washington Letter,’] The congress is about to convene and * number of the' representatives- of the ■ people are already here making preparations for the winter. The Fifty-third congress’will expire by constitutional limitation on the 4th day of next March; and therefore the ■ ensuing session,' which will last but three months, will -be called the short session. Al-' i though-the first session of the Fiftyworth- congress will not convene until ' the first Monday of December, 1895, un--1 less especially convened by presidential proclamation, the life Of that congress will'begin on the 4th day of next March, at noon, when the life of the present congress will expire. That is ’to say,- although the next congress will 'uOt’constitutionally convene until December, 1895, the terms of all the members elected to that congress’ in the recent elections will • commence on the 4th day of next March, and their sala- ■ vies will begin on that date. During the nine months intervening between the 4th day of next March and the first Monday of the following ! December each member of congress will be entitled to the sum of $416 every month, which he will draw from the sergeant-at-artns of the house of representatives. During that period of inactivity, so far as legislation is concerned, each member of congress will draw the sum total of $3,744. : There are 356 members of the house of representatives,and the total sum to be ■drawn in salaries by the members of the house during the nine months of legislative inaction will be $1,232,864. There are eighty-eight senators, each of whom will be entitled to the sum of $3,744, so that the total amount to be paid in salaries to the members of the senate the nine months of legislative inaction will be $329,372. Consequent- ■ ly, the sum total to be paid to the members of the senate and house of representatives in salaries during the nine months of legislative inaction will be $1,562,236.

The reader will be astounded at .first with the figures, which show than one and a half millions of .Jailors will be paid to members of the,senate and house during a period If nine months when they are not in session, and are therefore apparently Ifeeiving compensation from the government for doing nothing. As a matter Jof fact, although the senators and representatives will not be in Washington, except as a few of them may come individually to look after departmental affairs, each and every one of them will be diligently engaged in rendering the best possible services to his state and congressional district. Although they may .remain at their homes, every mail will bring to them letters from some of their constituents relating to public business, and it will be the duty of the senators and representatives to attend to the wants and desires of their constituents as expressed in their letters. Although the senators are entitled to annual clerks £o look after the routine part of their business, each and every one of them will be-kept busy during that period of seeming inactivity in attending to the wants of their people. The representatives are not entitled to clerks, except when the house is in session, and therefore there will fall upon each of them an abundance of work of a routine nature which may be presumed to be a great deal more exacting than the labor required of the senators; but inasmuch as each state comprises several congressional districts, the burden of public duty will be about evenly divided. Fortunately, under our system of government the senators and representatives are the servants of a somewhat exacting people, and if they desire to remain in public life they cannot and will not be slucgards and lacgards in tnelr work, Tnererc-c, although it is true that a large sum of money will be thus drawn from the treasury for the payment of the salaries Of the senators and representa-tives,-when we remember the magnitude of the country and the important interests which require the attention of these public servants, we may naturally conclude that the money thus disbursed is properly placed. It is fair to anticipate that during the short session of the congress which is about to, convene a number of our public servants may be indifferent tc national legislation and local interests. Only where a man’s treasure is may it be said that there is his heart also. The many men in public life to-day who failed of renomination last summer, or who recently failed of i reelection at the polls, feeling that their race is run politically, may prove - indifferent to the wants and wishes of their people, and therefore recreant to the trusts which have been committed to • them. This is always the .case diiriv-’ the short sessions of con--fress, and it is fair to presume that indifference and lassitude will mark the ■iourse of at least a few of the unfortu- : late statesmen during the coming wfacn It is not an uncommon thing for nen who have thus politically Gillen ay the wayside.to pack up their traps, CBVC Washington ostensibly for the Uristmas holidays and devote their irtire time, attention and energies to fie preparation of plans for the future, i. is -probable, 'however, that the solilled "docking ’law," which deprives aembers of congress of their salaries (fates* they are actually on duty, may, luring the coming short session, preI rent a great <deal<qf that absenteeism which has been so prevalent upon rimlar occasions’in the past. There are thousands of bills upon the -alcndar of the house, or in the custody jf the regular -eommittees, the miority of them representing claim; igainst the government—and probably a large- percentage of them arc fast claims. They have been introfaced by members of congress in compliance with the wishes of their comitjtuents, and there is great anxiety jonccrning them in every congressional llstrict fa every state of the union. Very few of them will become laws. li night almost be said that none of them yvxll ever run the gauntlet of both jonses of congress and receive the approval of the president. During the short session of congress the committees on appropriations consume the greater portion of the time of. both jonse*. to the almost total exclusion of rtber business. It is primarily neo**wy for the present congress to *onildar and peas bills making *g grip* to tiMO for t l ™ l expooditawef A* ffVRWMk

meat rrom miy V Jcrt * 1896. If this were not done, there would be no money available for the I purposes of government expenditure liter the 30th of next June; andcon<rees’will'not be in session to make ap- ‘ oropriations 'until the following December. Therefore, persons interested fa private bills may as well dismiss ail hope-of their passage during the THftythird -congress. Except in rare fastancesJnothing’bf this can be done. The short session of congress‘will occupy* only 91 days. ‘Under a provision of the- constitution, on the first Monday of December the vice president and the speakffr’wili assume tne gavdl in the senate and fa ’the house, the chaplains will offer prayer in each place and the session will begin. There will be 2f days'of the session fa December, 31 davsifa January. 28 days in February and 4 days in Marcn, making a total ol 91. But congress always adjourns foi 10 ' days in order that the Christmai holidays may be uninterruptedly enjoyed, and -thus there will be but 81 days of -actual legislative work, including Sundays. In that brief spac« of time the -committees on appropriation must consider and place before the senate and the house for discussion and final passage bills appropriating fa tiro aggregate aoout 5500,000,000. mu enormous amount of money must nol be carelessly granted. It must be dis tribute.!’ wisely, so that each bureau o> each executive department shall hav« sufficient, but no more than sufficient, for’■ the actual expenditures required by an economical administration. 11 is a great-trust, a wonderful responsibility which the people commit 'tc their public servants. Naturally, therefore, the subject of appropi iations wAI occupy nearly all of the time oi the statesmen during the coming short .-jjssion. Private bills, the matters fa which single individuals are vitally interested, must be laid aside for the general welfare. By the way, •that isone of the principal state ments set forth by the original constitutional convention over which George, Washington presided. The declaration was made that “we, the people of the United States, in order to form & more perfect union (et cetera), promote the general welfare (et cetera), do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America.” Consequently, it may be said that under “the general welfare” clause of the constitution congress acts wisely in attending to the enormous and important appropriation bills, to the exclusion di the just claims of private individuals Smith D. Fby.

A BADGERED WITNESS.

She Was Troubled at First, But Finally Told Her Story. “Your honor, .1 have a witness in the next room, who is able and ready to prove an alibi for this man,” said the attorney for the defence eagerly. “Very well, bring him in,” conjmanded the judge. “ It's a woman, your honor.” “Well, well, bring her in.’ ’ “But, your honor, I cannot have the counsel for the prosecution badger my witness. She is a very respectable person, and has never been in a court of justice before.” “ Bring her in.” The woman was brought in, and duly sworn, and told to relate what she knew, and to remember that she was under oath. She was short and red faced, and begun volubly;— “ You see, jedge, it was this way, I sez to my darter, sez I ” “ Stop, stop. You are only to make a plain statement. Where was the prisoner when you first saw him?” “That’s what I was getting at. I sez to my darter, sez I ” “Never mind what you said to your daughter. What day of the month was it that you last saw the man now on trial.” “ I guess I ought ter know. It was the day our folks went to country meetin’.” “Butwhat day of the month, and what day of the week was that?” “ Same day I made Almy’s new sage-green gown." ’ “ Woman,” exclaimed the counsel for the prosecution, “you evidently don’t know anythingabout this case. You are excused.” “ I dunno as I've done anything to be excused for. I only wanted to 1 tell you ” “Why don’t you answer a plain question? You are trifling with the Court.” “No I ain’t nuther. What question Lev you got? ” “Cun you tell the day of the month upon which you last saw tho prisoner? ” “ Yes; it is;the 15th, sartin, sure.” “Fifteenth of what?” “This month. “Why that is to-day.” “Ain’t I seein’ him now ?” “Look here.” said the wrathy attorney, rising and pointing a long lean finger at the witness, “you ought to be able to answer a simple question, a woman of your age.” “Jedge,” said witness, facing , round upon the judicial chair. “ I : ask the purtection of this court. I ■ did’nt come here to be insulted. First he called me a woman, thsn •he talks about my,age. 'Tnin’t fair. Jedge. and I ain’t goin’ to tell all I know while he’s in the room.” There was a laugh at the expense of the attorney, and by dint of much soothing the good woman was at last induced to tell all she knew—[Detroit Free Press. TUe wonderful natural soap mines at Owens Lake, Cal., are accounted foi by the following theory, which has been advanced by a well-known* western scientist: The water of the lake contains a strong solution of both borax and soda. In the water a curious speeics of grub breed by mil lions. These grubs go through theii various transformations and finally emerge as short-winged, heavv-bodied flies, very fat and oily. They‘live bul a few days, dying and falling into the lake in such numbers as to be frequently washed ashore in layers more the n a foot thick. The oily substance oi the dead flics blends with the alkali of the borax and soda, and the result is a layer of pure soap, corresponding in thickness to the drift strata of the dead flies, a foot deep of flies making a laver of soap nearly an inch thick. These strata, repeated year after year, have formed the celebrated “soap banks of Owen’s lake,” where a large force of men have been constantly employed for a number of rears. In Germany the forest land owned by the State is thirty-eight per cenK of all forest lands.

SAMPLE LOT OF GHOSTS.

Howard Ft elding Solicits Orders irom Psychical Researchers. Oe Alw*y* Carries a Fall Stock of Ghoeta. Dreams, Vision* and Warning*. AU ■Fully Equal In Quality to Those Here Given. I COPYRIGHT. 18M-] 'Fhave always been deeply interested fa supernatural phenomena. Even when quite young, I could never walk ky a cemetery after dsrk without being disappointed. No ghost ever ventured out of his cage when I was look- • fag. In the matter of visions, warning fa dreams, etc.. I have been equally unfortunate. I once dreamed that I < was lying on a pile of stones when the sacred white elephant came along and stepped on the third button of my waistcoat This happened fa Worcester, where I was working on a newspaper from nine o’clock in the forenoon to three o’clock the next morning, seven days in a week, with an allowance of five minutes for meals, including a piece of mince pio at one a. m. I knew that this dream contained a warning, and at first I thought it referred to the pie. But on second thought I decided to throw up my job. I did it. and have never dreamed the same thing since, which makes it look like a plain case to me. When I think of my existence there, it seems natural that I should never have been warned again. A man cannot reasonably expect Providence to do too much for him. ’ A favor of that size should content-him for life. However, it has been hard for me to listen to so many nice ghost stories and reflect that I have never enjoyed anything of the sort myself. It has been some consolation to investigate, by my own scientific method, the experience of others. Here is a case which I vouch for. I became acquainted while in Boston with an aged victim of the game of policy. It is a game in which a man can bet one cent if he has no more, and tho person to whom I refer had even lost his self-respect. He was a great believer in dreams, and his stories of what they had done for others were worth much more than the small sums which I bestowed upon him from time to time. As he always went to bod hungry, he never lacked dreams. The only trouble, as he explained to me, was in the interpretation. For instance, he would dream of a death, and then play the dead “gig,” 9-19-29, “when,” as he would inform me, after the drawing, “any cussed fool ought to have known that the coffin gig was the right one for that dream.” One day I found him in luck; and also somewhat in liquor. “I hit it this time,” he said. “Dreamed about Ben Butler for three nights running. What did it mean? It took me a long time to study it out. Finally it came to me like a flash. I asked a fellow how old the general was, and he said he was sixty-two. So I played sixty-two dayed, to lead, and In the cap. It was the first number out fa both drawings. I’ve got money to burn.” He had, fa fact, won nearly a hundred dollars. “And the curious thing about it was this,” he continued, thoughtfully, “the fellow that told me Butler’s age lied; the general was really sixty-four!” Some persons might think that this militated against the dream theory* udt, to my mind, it is the best part bl the story. This trifling inaccuracy reminds me of the difficulty experienced by a ghost which appeared in my father's house a good many years ago. ft awakened us all in the dead of night by playing on the piano. I listened to the supernatural music in horror, as the others did, too, no doubt. My musical ear is good, and it is exceptionally accurate in the matter of absolute pitch. Such being the case, I was soon able to make out that the ghost's tune consisted of only two notes, high C and A way down in the bass.

“This means something,” said I, in an awed whisper. “C. A. must be the initials of the ghost.” Then I rose and followed my father down to the parlor, where we found our cat (previously supposed to have wandered away and died) standing on the keys of the piano. She had her left hindfoot on C, her right forefoot on A, and was reaching out after T. Nothing but the system of musical notation prevented her from revealing her Identity completely. My father drove her away, and she never came back, which is good ground for believing that it was not the cat at all. but her ghost. Anotner case even more remarßaoie than this occurred on the banks of the St. Lawrence this summer. A lady whom we will call Mrs. A., because that will make it easier for the Society for Psychical Research to enter this story on its records, had gone to this region with her husband who had i great passion for outdoor sports, and, fa fact, sports of any kind. Mrs. A. retired to rest on the night'of August 13, believing that her husband was then returning down the river, from a fishing trip on which he had started early that morning. And she dreamed a dream. She beheld her husband and old Abe Grover, the i r pilot, coming down through the rapid* fa Abe's boat. The waters whirled around them madly, and Abe grew white around the gills. He caught a crab with his starboard oar. and the boat turned a-dozen flip-flops in the hurrying tide. Mrs. A. beheld her husbaqd struggling with the current. She was conscious of making frantic efforts to reach and save him, probably remembering that be had money in his clothes, although she does not tell the story that way. tn the midst of these struggles she aw.,’j:e. The drcam still ran riot in her mini. It was certainly a warning. Her husband was fa peril. Mrs. A. was So deeply moved by these reflections that she arose, dressed herself hastily, eurled her front hair and sped through the darkness to the cabin of Abe Grover, which stood on the river bank not.far from the cottage in which Mrs. A. had dreamed her dream. Nobody knows what she intended to do there. Probably she wished to weep with Mrs. G., and to ask her how she thought that she (Mrs. A.) would look in black. There was a bright light in one end of Grover's cabin, while the other was dark. Mrs. A. precipitated herself (as they say fa French novels) against the door of the lighted room. She landed almost fa the middle of the floor. Her eye* took fa the scene st a glance Four sien sat around a table. There were card* and chip* and “bait” fa large, blaek bottles Ma A. Mt tebtad an aee-fua. and be

had Just tooted old Abe, that guileless countryman, to the extent of the limit. Mrs. A. seized her husband by the upper flapper of his right ear, and led him gently homeward. And when they were gone. Uncle Abe laid down four five-spots with a sigh that drew tears of sympathy from every face-card in the deck. In the category of remarkable rescues attributed to dream warnings, I think this adventure stands at the very head. One more remarkable case was recently brought to my attention. Mr. 8., a man of the most unimpeachable veracity, was awakened one night bv tnree loud raps on the head board ot his bed. These raps, he tells me, were unquestionably due tc spiritual agencies. The fact that the back of his head was sore all the rest of that week is a mere coincidence. Just as Mr. B. struggled out of sleep into consciousness, he heard a voice say: “Charley is dead.” Now, this happened in New England,where Charley is so common a name that many parents prefer to christen their sons Zimri. Therefore, Mr. B. was not much wiser after the spirit voice had spoken than before. He rapidly ran over the list of persons named Charles who were memoers ot his own family; and, having decided that none of them was likely to have left him any money, he went to sleep. In the morning, however, the remembrance of the dream troubled him. He made inquiries, and learned—to his Satisfaction or the reverse, as it happened fa each individual case—that all the Charleys were alive and well. Nothing had happened to any of them during the night. And yet the dream “came out,” as the fatalists say, for almost a week later he discovered that on the night fa question, and perhaps at that very hour, old man Bowden, who lived nine miles out of town, had suffered the'loss (by death) of a horse named Charley, aged twenty-three years, four months and nine days. I believe that this is the first case of the kind on record. Telepathy between a man and a horse, if it can be established, is likely to become a fad, especially with men who play the races. As for me, I should be inclined to believe that what Mr. B. heard was simply the voice of a nightmare, if the animal had been named Julia. In conclusion, and by way of verification, I will say that my method of investigation is strictly in accord with that employed by the Society for Psychical Research. I always endeavor to learn which one of all the persons cognizant of any unusual happening has the most powerful imagination and the most comprehensive grasp of the elements of successful fiction. Then I get him to tell the story. Howard Fieldijtg.

Walrus Hunting in the North.

Arnold Pike tells of a walrus hunt in Bird Bay, to the north of Spitzbergen. The bay was full of fast ice, but eastward the sea was fairly open, and the hunter was rowing slowly back to the sloop, when the harpooner suddenly laid aside his glass and headed the boat for a black mass which the mirage magnified into the size of a small house, but which was really a walrus. “The walrus raises his head and we are motionless,” says Mr. Pike. “It is intensely still, and the scraping of a piece of ice along the boat seems like the roar of a railway train passingoverhead on some bridge. Down goes the head and we glide forward again. The walrus is uneasy; again and again he raises his head and looks around with a quick motion, but we have the sun right at our back and lie never notices us. At last we are within a few feet, and with a shout of ‘Voek op, gamling!’ meaning ‘Wakeup, old boy,’which breaks the stillness like a shot, the harpooner is on his feet, his weapon clasped in both hands above his head. As the walrus plunges into the sea the iron is hurled in his sic®> and with a quick twist to prevent the head from slipping out of the same slit that it has cut in the thick hide, the handle is withdrawn and thrown into tho boat. No. 2, who with a turn round the forward thwart has lieen paying out the line, now checks it, as stroke and the ‘hammelmand,’ facing forward, hang back on their cars to cheek the rush. Bumping and scraping the ice, we are towed along for about five minutes and then stop, as the walrus comes to the surface to breathe. In the old days the lance would finish the business, but now it is the rifle. He is facing the boat. I sight for one of his eyes and lot him have both barrels, without n«uch effect, apparently, for away we r ish for two or three minutes more, when he is up again, still facing the boat. He seems to care no more for tne solid express bullets than if they were peas, but he is low this time, and as he turns to dive exposes the fatal spot at the back of the head, and dies.”—[Milwaukee Wisconsin.

The Horned Toad.

“One of the strangest species ot animal life I ever came in contact with,” said Professor E. C. Sawyer, o» Philadelphia, “is the horned toad, which is qnite common in Arizona aid New Mexico. These animals are somewhat larger than the common toads which infest our lawns and gardens, and are found in large numbers on the sandy plains of the southwest. They are strange-looking little creatures, and their name is derived from the fact that three projections like horns stick right out from the top of their heads. The most curious feature about these toads is tlm habit they have of apparently spirting blood from their eyes when disturbed. An old hunter who had livsd in that locality all his life, told me that it was not really blodd that theja creatures spurted forth, but a liquid resembling it, and that it came fro,a little orifices just above and behind the eyes. He also told me that this liquid had a stupefying effect upon an animal covered with it.”—[St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

New Slot Scheme.

The city railway company of Berlin has adopted the nickel-in-the-slot plan for selling ticket* during the busy hours. The improved machines are sc constructed that the coin drops out again if a wrong one has been put b ar k there are no more tickets.

CAUSE OF THE SLUMP.

HARD TIMES AND DEMOCRATIC STAY-AT-HOMES DID IT. What the Analysis of Election Returns Showa-All Talk of Repealing the Income Tax Is Pure Vaporing— Cleveland and the Bond Issue. Vote Will Return in *O6. The vote in the recent State elections has been sufficiently canvassed so that it is possible to make comparisons and arrive at somewhat definite conclusions in regard to the causes of the country’s apparent backslide into protectionism. The greatest changes occurred in tlie Northern and Eastern States, and it is in these States that we cau see most clearly the general causes of the changes. In many of the Southern and Western States one or the other of the two great parties was to win votes by borrowing planks from tills party's platform. Hence the changes in theresults are more irregular and uncertain than in the North or East Comparing the results in 1894 and 1892 in the more important of the Northern and Eastern States, and including Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and West Virginia, we have: Dem. Btay-at-Dem. Rep. home Loss. Pet. Gains. Pct. vote. New York .. .100,064 15 04,162.. 85,002 New Jersey. . 55,6'17 .32 7,755 5 47,042 Connecticut.. 16,063 16% 6,062 0 0,181 Maas 52.883 30 718,507 6 52,883 New Hamp.. 8,057 10 048 2 7,100 Penn'a 118,800 27 58,700 11 00,070 Ohio 127,133 84 8,801 2 118,332 Indiana 24,085 10 17,170 7 6,015 Illinois 103,801 25 58,508 15 45,208 Wisconsin . . 35,503 20 25,474 15 10,020 Minnesota .. 47,000 50 25,208 20 21,702 Maryland ... 0,611 0 3,082 5% 5,620 Delaware .. *6B .. 1,803 10 Virginia ....50,625 30 724,070 21 50,625 W. Virginia.. 8,201 10 5,515 7 2,780 •Guin. VLosa. The Democratic loss in these fifteen States averages 22 per gent., and the Republican gain 8 per cent. It is the almost unanimous opinion of those who have studied the history that “hard times” always causes a loss of votes to the party lu power no matter which party was responsible for the “hard times.” Though the Democratic party may have been partly responsible (because of a few black sheep) for their duration, no sane person whose opinion is worth anything will deny that the “hard times” was a result of Republican legislation or lack of legislation. The Republicans had been in power for thirty years. Not only did the panic begin before a single Republican law had been changed, but the financial stringency was felt so much before the close of Harrison’s administration that his Secretary of the Treasury had made preparations to issue bonds. Five per cent, is a low estimate for the Democratic loss and Republican gain because of hard times. There is then left a Democratic loss of 17 and a Republican gain of 3 per cent to be explained by other causes.

Aside from State and local causes, which cut no small figure in the general result, it is probable that after “hard times” the four most important causes were Democratic delay in Congress, the sugar scandal, conservatism of Democratic Senators and Congressmen on the tariff question, and changes of belief as to the benefits of protection. The first three of these causes operated In keeping Democrats at home, and the last in changing Democratic (formerly) into Republican votes. Hadjt not been for the Democratic voters who staid at home, the result in most States would have been very close. Add to these non-voting Democrats those who in New York, Ohio New Jersey and Maryland voted the Republican ticket, in. order to “turn down” some of the Democratic traitors who blocked tariff legislation, and It becomes evident that there are to-day enough Democrats left to carry a majority of the Northern States on the tariff issue. The result, then, is neither a Republican nor a protectionist victory, but merely a Democratic slump. Comparatively few of the voters have actually become afraid of tariff reform and voted the Republican ticket because they wished to return to McKinleyisin. Some of these, and most of the five per cent, who changed sides blindly because of hard times, will return to the Democratic party by 189(1, if this party rids itself of those who have betrayed and disgraced it. Let the Democratic party stand by tariff reform and tariff reformers and the people will stand by the party.—Byron W. Holt.

A Tax to Stay. The talk about repealing the income tax or preventing its collection by withholding the appropriation necessary to its collection is pure vaporing. The income tax is here to stay. The Treasury Is in need of the revenue it will yield. Its principle is just It will oppress none and relieve many. No Republican leader of prominence ventured to denounce it during the late canvass. As for the voice of the people, what was the verdict in the States whose Democratic Senatoiu and Representatives declaimed and voted against the income tax. Senator Hill was the most bitter and persistent opponent of this just tax. Senator Murphy joined with him and insisted furthermore upon MeKinleyizlng the Wilson bill for the benefit of his own home and pocket If the people of New York approved of this course of their Senators they took a queer way of showing it in burying Mr. Hill under more than 150,000 majority. Senator Smith, of New Jersey, himself a member of the plutocratic class that believes in taxing everybody rather than itself, was likewise very hostile to the income tax. New Jersey repudiated him by more than 40,000 majority. Senator Brice, of Ohio, was a leading spirit in the combine of false Democrats who held up the Wilson bill and tried to defeat the income tax. Ohio served notice to quit on Brice by a majority so big that the Democrats were glad to stop counting it. There were other causec ut work, of course, but no warrant can be drawn from the election in any State that the • people are dissatisfied with the income tax. It may hereafter be graded and , otherwise Improved, but it will not be repealed.—New York World. A Collcae Opinion. And here comes President Seth-Low of Columbia College, who says be is and has always been a Republican, but that he has voted twice for Mr. Cleveland on ttM tariff issue. Interpreting

the late election, he remarks that It would not be candid to pretend that there has been no reaction against tariff reform. There has been such a reaction, and President Low seems to agree with Chairman Wilson that it reflects an unreasoning consideration of the question rather than deliberation by the people. He is a pretty good tariff reformer yet, and he is confident that there will be no step backward.—New York Times. Cleveland on Bond Issues. The President’s statement in regard to the issue of bonds is not all In the nature of an apology. It is simply to the. effect that the gold reserve was so much reduced and its further reduction in the near future seemed so certain that Its replenishment became necessary in order to maintain the public credit. It would have been well If Congress had made provision for such an emergency by authorising the Issue of low-rate, short-time bonds. But Congress had not done this, and nothing was left but to sell bonds again under the resumption act. Tills was done on terms which reduced the rate of interest on the money actually borrowed below 3 per cent. That is the whole story. But the President proceeds to show how, under existing laws, the same greenbacks can be used again and again to clean out the reserve. “We have an endless chain in operation.” ns he aptly puts it, “constantly depleting the treasury’s gold and never near a final rest.” And in addition to the obligation to redeem greenbacks in gold as often as they may be presented we have the obligation to maintain the silver circulation at par with gold, and this subjects the reserve to another drain. There is no other way to maintain the reserve than by the sale of bonds; "and yet Congress has not only thus far declined to authoring the issue of bonds best suited to such a purpose but there seems a disposition in some quarters to deny botli the necessity and the power for the issue of bonds at all." And yet the President does not repeat his request for authority to issue suitable bonds or to retire legal tenders when they are redeemed. Instead of that he simply says that so long as no better way js provided the authority conferred by the act of 1875 “will be utilized whenever and as often as it becomes necessary to maintain a sufficient reserve, and in abundant time to save the credit of our country and make good the financial declarations of our government.” He has called the attention of Congress to the subject with all due respect heretofore, and it has done nothing. It has left him under a very disagreeable necessity, and he may be excused if he does not mince matters In stating the situation and his duty in circumstances for which Congress and not he is responsible.—Chicago Herald.

Free Fuel a Necessity I It should go without saying that every bushel of coal which Americans directly or Indirectly use Is now taxed. "Protectionists” intimate that because there Is no duty on anthracite coal It is not affected by the tariff. But It is certain that if the present tax was taken off bituminous coals the prices of anthracite would come down. The tariff on imported soft coals tends to exclude them from many markets, and thus to give anthracite a virtual monopoly. The tax on all coals Is, moreover, complex. It is repeated every time we buy any article in making which coal Is used. Ami this oft-multiplied tax greatly Increases the cost of living to every one In America. Free coal is a pressing necessity to our manufacturers—to enable them to produce their fabrics cheaply enough to compete witli foreign goods in both the home and foreign markets. It is necessary to lighten the cost of transporting farm products to market,which cost is deducted from the very slim profits now realized by our farmers. It is a necessity for our steam-shipping. Free coal would also be an inestimable boon to all householders, especially to the poor. The Senate should pass the free coal bill next week, before winter's blizzards begin to blow. Hard Times and Parties. Not even McKinley proposes to act the McKinley tariff. There is no talk of renewing the silver-purchase act. If a new force bill is to be passed, the Republican leaders are keeping their intentions from the public. What, then, was the cause of the Democratic overturn? Will not the “hard times,” for which the parties in power are always held responsible, sufficiently account for the remarkable voting of 1894? The hard times were felt in every part of the country, and in every part of the country there was the name story of Democratic disaster. This is nothing new. No matter what party in power, nor what causes at the root of trade depression, it is as natural for the voters to seek for a remedy in a change of administration as it is for a drowning man to grasp at straws.— Philadelphia Record. Tariff Reform Stands. It is hard to understand how Republicans can have the nerve to declare that they will not bother with the tariff, after their calamity howls to the workingmen in the last campaign. But they have; and as abandonment of McKinleyism is a good thing in any party, all we can say is: Push it along. William L. Wilson has been defeated. Grover Cleveland has been abused and caricatured. They can smile, for the mighty deed of tariff reform stands. Republicans know that tariff reform will not now go backward. They are cunning enough to see that after the new tariff is tried business and industry will forbid a reversal to trammeled trade. It Is a glorious victory and the temporary defeat of Democratic candidates is nothing In comparison. From a Republican Authority. The Chicago Tribune predicts th.it “when the Republican National convention meets in June of 1896, |o tell the voters what the Republican party xvlll gio If successful in the fall, neither Senator Cullom nor any other man will demand that the McKinley bill be made the Issue of the campaign, and that the people be asked tQ vote, not against the Wilson-Gorman bill, but for the McKinley bill. Not one of them will dare to do it He will remember 1890 and 1892, and will refuse to blunder a third ttax M

FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS.

THE OLD MAX. 1 An old man came to our door iMt night, I wonder if he sailed at yours toe-; He wore a gray coat and his hair wa* white. And he sneezed all the time “chew chew.” He hasn’t been this way in week* before. We shall look for him now every night; He didn’t stay long, but just peeped in the door, And he covered the grass with white. Ah! now I think you can guess hi* name, •. * Tho’ nearly six months he’s been lost, An old man, cold and feeble and lame— Some call him Mr. John Frost. —[Youth’s Temperance Banner. MALFORMED TREES. Trees sometimes have a deformed and very grotesque appearance from the effects of storms and of lightning. Curious examples may be seen in any village neighborhood; frequently too, our trees are sure indicators of “the way of the wind,” for it is very easy in some situations to detect tho drift of the prevailing winds by the aspect of trees in winter. How often yOu will notice an orchard, in some exposed situation, in which every tree is leaning in one direction, notbecause they were planted aslant in the first place, but because the wind, blowing mainly from a certain point of the compass, inclines them during their young growth in a line with itssweep. You may see, also, at times,, isolated trees standing in upland pasture, with a groat development of branches on the side away from the wind than on that side which habitually gets its full blast. And, again, when oiijce in tho forest, the Indian will track his way through by th<P* appearance of the tree trunks, that side facing the north producing a. mossy or lichen growth on the bark, which is not found on its southern side. For this reason the woodman does not easily got lost, oven in cloudy weather, when the sun is obscured. —[Detroit Free Press. GYPSY PANCAKES. As homeless wanderers the gypsie* drift from town to town and from State to State, traveling by night with their covered wagons and ponies, pitching their tents beside a small stream at the edge of the woods if possible. In the evening they light their camp fires and cook over thecoals, and then dunce and sing and plav their games about the fire. They travel about in small tribes as the Indians used to do, but they have a queen instead of a chief, whom they love and obey as themother of the tribe. They dress in bright, rich colors and are fine riders. Not long ago I heard a dear grandfather telling some little folks of his. visit to a gypsy camp when, he- was a little boy, and of a queer lunch heate with them. It was In July, when the elder biishes were in bloom, with their broad, snowy blossoms. One of the gypsy mothers went round tho bush with a dish of thinbutter, and bending down the branches dipped the beautiful flowersin it, while another woman came after her with a pun of hot grease and held the flower in it till thebatter was baked and then let thobrunch fly buck. When all the blossoms were baked the- children danced round the bush, singing nrut'. shouting, and then sut down on thegruss and ate these wonderful pancakes. The next day lie-aixi'some-of the other village hoys went back, but the gypsies hud gone in the night, and the elder bush wus bare.—[Chlldl Garden, CURIOUS WAYS OF NAMING i A BABY. A Hindu baby !s< named when twelve days old, and usually, by the mother. the father wishes for another name tJian> that selected by the mother; in that casetwo lamps are placed over the two* names, and the name over which the [amp burns the brightest is the one given to the child. In the Egyptian family the parents choose a name for their baby by lighting three wax candles; to each of these they give a name; one of the three always belonging to somedeified personage. The candle that burns the longest bestows the name upon the baby. The Mohammedans sometimeswrlte desirable names on five slips of paper, and these they place la the Koran. The name upon the first, slip drawn out is given to the child. The children of the Ainos, a peopleliving in Northern Japan, do not receive their names until they are five years old. It is the father who then chooses the name by which the child is afterward to be called. The Chinese give their boy babies a name in addition to their surnames, and they must call themselves by these names until thej' are twenty years old. At that age the father gives his son a new name. Tho Chinese care so little for their girl babies that they do not give them a baby name, but just cal! them No. 1, No. 2, No. B, No. 4, and so on, according to their birth. Boys are thought so much more of in China than girls are that if you ask a Chinese father who has botli a. boy and a girl how many children he has he will always reply, “Onlyone child.” German parents sometimes changethe name of their baby if it is ill, and the Japanese are said to changethe names of their children four times. —[St. Louis Star-Sayings.

How Many Children Are Blinded

It was a surprise to me to> learn that very few children were- borne blind, but that it was usually brought about by carelessness and ignorance. I Children’s eyes are exposed to theI bright light all too soon. Everybody has got to see the baby, and it i» , usually held up in the glare of a sunny window or a light and admired at length. Measles have time and again been the death of eyesight, and also neglected inflammations. I was surSrised to find how many simple lings had resulted in loss of sight. I —{Boston Advertiser.