Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1896 — Page 3

POLITICS OF THE DAY

THE M'KINLEY CAMPAIGN. The leading features of McKinley’s plan of campaign have now been quite clearly disclosed. When his managers appealed a few weeks ago to prominent protected manufacturers in Pensylvania for generous contributions of money —to be used, it should be borne in mind, not for the promofion of party success, but for McKinley himself in the canvass of convention delegates—the Ohio man’s agents forgot to reckon with Mr. Quay, who exercised some influence In that State and is also a candidate for the nomination. This explains the somewhat embarrassing exposure of the fact that McKinley’s agents asked these manufacturers for money to be used in holding Southern delegates who were inclined to repudiate early bargains and accept the latest bid. At that time, however, it was supposed by those who were thus approached that McKinley’s agents really intended to use the money in the. South. A few days later it was ascertained, partly through the published complaint of Senator Cullom, that McKinley funds had been used freely and effectively in Illinois, and now the friends of other candidates are beginning to perceive that McKinley money is doing its work in almost every Northern State where a “favorite son’s” prestige can be broken down by drawing men out of his “solid delegation.” McKinley and his barrel have even in-

Public business suspended to enable the advance agents to boom the leading candidates.—Chicago Chronicle.

vaded this State to prevent Gov. Morton from having at St. Louis the solid support of the powerful delegation from New York. A “favorite son” who cannot enter the convention with every one of his State’s delegates at his back is handicaped from the start. McKinley’s agents have already broken more than one delegation upon which a candidate relied, and in some instances where they have not prevented a solid vote on the first ballot they have arranged for a diversion on the second. A considerable part of the money to be used In paying the expenses of an attack upon Gov. Morton’s forces appears to have been procured from the iron and steel manufacturers of the Mahoning and Shenango Valleys, which are situated partly in Northeastern Ohio and partly in Northwestern Pensylvania. One of our contemporaries Says that Mahlon Chance, connected with both the New York Tribune and the American Protective Tariff League (an organization whose central office is in this city), has, with headquarters at Youngstown, Ohio, since Feb. 27, been collecting the funds which are to be, or already have been, used for the promotion of McKinley’s interests in this State. The individual contributions have ranged between SIOO and SSOO, the understanding having been that the money was to be spent in New York for McKinley against Morton. One manufacturer, it is related, when asked to give $l5O, declined to do so. He was a supporter of McKinley, but, he said, he “did not believe in fighting the candidate of New York in New York with Ohio money.” The manufacturers Were told, It is stated by one of them, that the New York Tribune would “warmly support McKinley to beat Gov. Morton.” AH Who read the Tribune have found that out, although it should be said that our neighbor has the excuse of its quarrel with Platt. The Tribune’s columns every day show plainly that it is hard at _ work for McKinley. We should like to know what the rank and file of the Republican party think of this use of money in the interest of McKinley, at this stage of the proceedings, three months before the assembling of the nominating convention—the commercial organizing or Southern delegations in his support, the Invasion of States. where “favorite sons” believe they are fairly entitled to solid delegations, the appeals to protected manufacturers for large contributions, the collection of funds in the Ohio iron and steel district to be used in New York, and all the other indications of a desire and purpose to profit by the purchase of votes. As a rule, the rank and file know nothing about these things; they are simply required to thrown up their hats for “protection.” But there are many, nevertheless, to whose knowledge these things do come. What do they think about them? So far as our observation goes, there has never been a more scandalous canvass for delegates’ votes made by a man seeking the nomination of his party for the Presidency. Honest and wellinformed Republicans should ask themselves not only what must be the uses for which so much money is required by a candidate three months before the convention, but also from what sources It comes to him, to what extent he places himself under obligations to those who give it, in what way the givers expect to be repaid, and whether an aspirant who pursues such a course While delegatee are being chosen is fit

to hold any high office or deserves the votes of honest men. Better Business at Tacoma. The export business done at the port of Tacoma in February was the largest of any preceding month since business has been done there. Central America, South Africa, Japan and China take the bulk of the exported products. A Japanese Consulate has been established at Tacoma, with a view to the enlargement of trade between Japan and the United States and the eventual establishment of regular lines of steamers. We observe by the recent report of the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce that Mr. Mikl Gaito, the Japanese Consul, upon application, has been unanimously elceted to membership in that body. Despite the anxieties of the Protectionists, the Japanese, who have been dubbed the Yankees of the Orient, and the Yankees who have built up the pushing cities on Puget Sound will establish a mutually profitable trade. The Japanese will send us silk, teas and camphor, and we will send them back flour, lumber, cotton and, as trade shall Increase, an increasing quantity of our manufactured products as well as of our raw materials. The future prosperity of the Peeiflc States depends upon the development of trade with the countries to the southward and westward upon the shores of the Pacific ocean. This growing trade is now mainly carried in vessels of other nations, our people having found it

impossible to do business under the restrictions imposed by our Navigation laws. But this condition cannot always continue. Our own Pacific trade, at least, ought to be carried by our own ships. As the Pacific States shall besome fully imbued and informed as to the magnitude of their maritime interests and opportunities they will cease to be the supporters of a national policy which tends to cripple and circumscribe commercial enterprise. Philadelphia Record. Consistent McKinleyites. A bill has been introduced in the New York State Legislature to prohibit the use of foreign wood, asphalt, or other materials in making pavements In that State. The purpose of the proposed law is to shut out Trinidad asphalt, and a species of Australian wood which has recently been used in New York City, and thus give the owners of American asphalt mines and wood suitable for paving blocks a complete monopoly. The friends of this measure are more consistent than the protectionists in Congress, who want to shut out foreign goods by high tariff taxes. If the competition of imported asphalt or wood is an injury to the American people, it is only a half way remedy to impose heavy duties on those articles. Absolute prohibition is the simplest and surest way of protecting the home producer. Of course the home consumers might kick and say that they did not want to be compelled to pay the high prices which would be charged by the men who controlled the domestic product. But the people who buy things are never considered when tariffs are being raised, so their complaints need not be listened to. If the State of New York decided to prohibit the use of foreign asphalt and paving blocks, it will set a grand example for the McKinleyites of the whole country. Why McKinley Is Strong;. The Chicago Tribune, which insists upon tariff reductions at odd times when it does not urge a prohibitive tariff, complains because McKinley has the suport of all Republicans “who believe it Is impossible to get too much of a good thing.” “These McKinley Republicans,” says the Tribune, “include all those members of the Republican party who believe that a tariff which creates and fosters trusts is a good thing.” If all these Republicans are conceded to McKinley, the favorite sons would as well withdraw. The radical protectionists who foster trusts under the name of infant industries comprise nine-tenths of the Republican politicians. They may believe Reed or Allison is for trust-building protection, but they know beyond all disputing how McKinley stands. And this is not a year to try experiments.—St. Louis Republic. Do High Taxes Make Low Prices? “There is not an article that we make to-day, made possible by a protective tariff, that has not been cheapened by protection to the American consumer.”—Hon. Wm. McKinley. If this Is true, why does Major McKinley and the high tariff press denounce the Wilson tariff because they say it has lowered prices? Protectionists claim that our wool growing industry was made possible by the tariff. WiU the Ohio Major dare to tell the farmers of his State that their wool has been cheapened by protection?

SPIRIT OP THE PRESS.

REV. DR. TALMAGE FINDS TWO UNIQUE TEXTS. And Preaches a Broad Sermon on the Divine Mlsaiou of Newspapers He Says They Are the Most Potent Vehicles of Knowledge of the Age. Capital City Sermon. Newspaper row, as it is called in Washington, the long row of oflices connected with prominent journals throughout the land, pays so much attention to Dr. Talmage they may be glad to hear what he thinks of them while he discusses a subject in which the whole country is interested. His texts Sunday were, “And the wheels were full of eyes” (Ezekiel x., 12), “For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new things” (Acts xvii., 21). What is a preacher to do when he finds two texts equally good and suggestive? In that perplexity I take both. Wheels full of eyes? What but the wheels of a newspaper printing press? Other wheels are blind. They roll on, pulling or crushing. The manufacturer’s wheel —how it grinds the operator with fatigues and rolls over nerve and muscle and bone and heart, not knowing what it does. The sewing machine wheel sees not the aches and pains fastened to it—tighter than the band that moves it, sharper than the needle which it plies. Every moment of every hour of every day of every month of every year there are hundreds of thousands of wheels of mechanism, wheels of enterprise, wheels of hard work, in motion, but they are eyeless. Not so the wheels of the printing press. Their entire business is to look and report. They are full of optic nerves, from axle to periphery. They are like those spoken of by Ezekiel as full of eyes. Sharp eyes, nearsighted, farsighted. They look up. They look down. They look far away. They take in the next street and the next hemisphere. Eyes of criticism, eyes of investigation, eyes that twinkle with mirth, eyes glowering with indignation, eyes tender with love, eyes of suspicion, eyes of hope, blue eyes, black eyes, green eyes, holy eyes, evil eyes, sore eyes, religious eyes, eyes that see everything. “And the wheels were full of eyes.” But in my second text is the world’s cry for the newspaper. Paul describes a class of people in Athens who spent their time either in gathering the news or telling it. Why especially, in Athens? Because the more Intelligent people become the more inquisitive they are—not about small things, but great things. What Is the News? The question then most frequently is the question now- most frequently asked, What is the news? To answer that cry in the text for the newspaper the centuries have pqt to work. China first succeeded andmas at Peking a newspaper that has been printed every week for 1,000 years, printed on silk. Rome succeeded by publishing the Acta Diurna, in the same column putting fires, murders, marriages and tempests. France succeeded by a physician writing out the news of the day for his patients. England succeeded under Queen Elizabeth in first publishing the news of the Spanish armada and going on until she had enough enterprise, when the battle of* Waterloo was fought, deciding the destiny of Europe, to give it one-third of a column in the London Morning Chronicle, about as much as the nswpaper of our day gives to a small fire. America succeeded by Benjamin Harris’ first weekly paper, called Public Occurrences, published in Boston in 1690, and by the first daily, the American Advertiser, published in Philadelphia in 1784. The newspaper did not suddenly spring upon the world, but came gradually. The genealogical line of the newspaper is this: The Adam of the race was a circular or news letter created by divine impulse in human nature, and the circular begat the pamphlet, and the pamphlet begat the quarterly, and the quarterly begat the weekly, and the weekly begat the semiweekly, and the semi-weekly begat the daily. But, alas, by what a struggle it came to its present development! No sooner had its power been demonstrated than tyranny and superstition shackled it. There is nothing that despotism so fears and hates as a printing press. It has too many eyes in its wheel. A great writer declared that the king of Naples made it unsafe for him to write of anything but natural history. Austria could not endure Kossuth’s journalistic pen pleading for the redemption of Hungary. Napoleon 1., trying to keep his iron heel on the necks of nations, said, “Editors are the regents of sovereigns and the tutors of nations and are only fit for prison.” But the battle for the freedom of the press was fought In the courtrooms of England and America and decided before this century began by Hamilton’s eloquent plea for J. Peter Zenger’s Gazette in America and Erskine’s advocacy of the freedom of publication in England. These were the Marathon and Thermopylae in which the freedom of the press was established in the United States and Great Britain, and all the powers of earth and hell will never again be able to put on the handcuffs and hopples of literary and political despotism. It is notable that Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of American Independence, wrote also, “If I had to choose between a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should prefer the latter.” Stung by some base fabrication coming to us in print, we come to write or speak of the unbridled printing press, or, our new book ground up by an unjust critic, we come to write or speak of the unfairness of the printing press, or perhaps through our own indistinctness of utterance we are reported as saying just the opposite of what we did say, and there is a small riot iof semicolons, hyphens and commas, and we come to speak or write of the blundering printing press, or, seeing a paper filled with divorce cases or social scandal, we speak and write of the filthy printing press, or, seeing a journal through bribery wheel round from one political side to the other in one night, we speak of the corrupt printing press, and many talk about the lampoonery, and the empiricism, and the sans culottism of the printing press. A Good Newspaper. But I discourse now on a subject you have never heard—the immeasurable and everlasting blessing of a good newspaper. Thank God for the wheel full of eyes! Thank God that we do not have, like the Athenians, to go about to gather up and relate the tidings of the day, since the omnivorous newspaper does both for us. The grandest temporal blessing that God has given to the nineteenth century is the newspaper. We would have better appreciation of this blessing if we knew the money, the brain, the losses, the exasperations, the anxieties, the wear and tear of heartstrings involved in the production of a good newspaper. Under the impression that almost anybody can make a newspaper, scores of inexperienced capitalists'every year enter the lists, and consequently during the last few years a newspaper has died almost every day. The disease is epidemic. The larger papers swallow the smaller ones, the whale taking down fifty minnows at one swallow. With more than 7,000 dailies and weeklies in the United States and Canada, there are but thirtysix a half centnry old. Newspapers do

not sTerage more than five years’ existence. The most of them,die of cholera infantum. It is high time that the people found out that the most successful way to sink money and keep it sunk is to start a newspaper. There comes a time when almost every one U smitten with the newspaper mania and starts one, or have stock in one be must or die. The course of procedure is about this: A literary man has an agricultural or scientific or political or religious idea which he wants to ventilate. He has no money of his own—literary men seldom have—but he talks of his ideas among confidential friends until they become inflamed with the idea, and forthwith they buy type and press and rent composing room and gather a corps of editors, and with a prospectus that proposes to cure everything the first copy is flung on the attention of an admiring world. After awhile one of the plain stockholders finds that no great revolution has been effected by this daily or weekly publication; that neither sun nor moon stand still; that the world goes on lying and cheating and stealing just as it did before the first issue. The aforesaid matter-of-fact stockholder wants to sell out his stock, but nobody wants to buy, and other stockholders get infected and sick of newspaperdom, and an enormous bill at the paper factory rolls into an avalanche, and the printers refuse to work until back wages are paid up, and the compositor bows to the managing editor, and the managing editor bows to the editor in chief, and the editor in chief bows to the directors, and the directors bow to the world at large, and all the subscribers wonder why their paper doesn’t come. The world will have to learn that a newspaper is as much of an institution as the Bank of England or Yale College and is not an enterprise. If you have the aforesaid agricultural or scientific or religious or political idea to ventilate, you had better charge upon the world through the columns already established. It is folly for any one who cannot succeed at anything else to try newspaperdom. If you cannot climb the hill back of your house, it is folly to try the sides of the Matterhorn.

Near to tho People. To publish a newspaper requires the skill, the precision, the boldness, the vigilance, the strategy of a commander in chief. To edit a newspaper requires that one be a statesman, an essayist, a geographer, a statistician aud, iu acquisition, encyclopediac. To man, to govern, to propel a newspaper until it shall be a fixed institution, a national fact, demands more qualities than any business on earth. If you feel like starting any newspaper, sec-ular-or religious, understand that you are being threatened with softening of the brain or lunacy, and throwing your pocketbook into your wife’s lap start for some insane asylum before you do something desperate. ' Meanwhile as the dead newspapers week after week are carried out to burial all the living newspapers give respectful obituary, telling when they were born and when they died. The best printers’ ink should give at least one stickful of epitaph. If it was a good paper, say, “reace to its ashes.” If it was a bad paper, I suggest the epitaph written for Francis Chartreuse: “Here continueth to rot the body of Francis Chartreuse, who, with an inflexible constancy and uniformity of life, persisted in the practice of every human vice excepting prodigality and hypocrisy. His insatiable avarice exempted him from the first, his matchless impudence from the second." I say this because I want you to know that a good, healthy, long lived, entertaining newspaper is not an easy blessing, but one that comes to us through the fire. First of all, newspapers make knowledge democratic and for the multitude. The public library is a haymow so high up that few can reach It, While the newspaper throws down the forage to our feet. Public libraries are the reservoirs where the great floods are stored high up and away off. The newspaper is the tunnel that brings them down to the pitchers of all the people. The chief use of great libraries is to make newspapers out of. Great libraries make a few men and women very wise. Newspapers lift whole nations into the sunlight. Better have 50,000,000 people moderately Intelligent than 100,000 solons. A false impression is abroad that newspaper knowledge is ephemeral because periodicals are thrown aside, and not one out of 10,000 people files them for future reference. Such knowledge, so far from being ephemeral, goes into the very structure of the destiny of churches and nations. Knowledge on the shelf is of little worth. It is knowledge afoot, knowledge harnessed, knowledge in revolution, knowledge winged, knowledge projected, knowledge thunderbolted. So far from being ephemeral, nearly all the best minds and hearts have their hands on the printing press to-day and have had since it got emancipated. Adams and Hancock and Otis used to go to the Boston Gazette and compose articles on the rights of the people. Benjamin Franklin, De Witt Clinton, Hamilton, Jefferson, Quincy, were strong in newspaperdom. Many of the immortal things that have been published in book form first appeared in what you may call the ephemeral periodical. All Macauley’s essays first appeared in a review. All CaNyle’s, all Ruskin’s, all Mclntosh’s, all Sydney Smith’s, all Hazlitt’s, all Thackeray’s, all the elevated works of fiction in our day, are reprints from periodicals in which they appeared as serials. Tennyson’s poems, Burns' poems, Longfellow’s poems, Emerson’s poems, Lowell’s poems, Whittier’s poems, were once fugitive pieces. You cannot find ten literary men in Christendom with strong minds and great hearts but are or have been somehow connected with the newspaper printing press. While the book will always have its place, the newspaper is more potent. Because the latter is multitudinous do not conclude it is necessarily superficial. If a man should from childhood to old age see only his Bible, Webster’s Dictionary and his newspa-. per, he could be prepared for all the duties of this life and all the happiness of the next. A Useful Mirror of Life, Again, In a good newspaper is a useful mirror of life as it is. It is sometimes complained that newspapers .report the evil when they ought only to report the good. They must report the evil as well as the good, or how shall we know what is to be reformed, what, guarded against, what fought down? A newspaper that pictures only the honesty and virtue of society is a misrepresentation. That family is best prepared for the duties of Ilfs which, knowing the evil, is taught to select the good. Keep children under the impression that all is fair and right in the world, and when they go out into St they will be as poorly prepared to struggle with it as a child who is thrown into the middle of the Atlantic and toll to learn how to swim. Our only complaint is when sin is made attractive and morality dull, when vice is painted with great headings, and good deeds are put in obscure corners, iniquity set up in great primer and righteousness in nonpareil. Sin is loathsome; make it loathsome. Virtue is beautiful; make it beautiful. It would work a vast improvement if all our papers—religious, political, literary —should for the most part drop their impersonality. This would do better justice to newspaper writers. Many of the strongest and best writers of the country live and die unknown and are denied their just fame. The vast public never learns who they are. Most of then) are an comparatively small incomes, and after awhile their hand forgets its cunning.

and they are without reaonrcea, left te die. Why net at least hare his initial attached tp his most important work? It always gave additional force to an article when you occasionally saw added to some significant article in the old New York Courier and Enquirer J. W. W., or in the Tribune H; G., or in the Herald J. G. 8., or in the Times H. J. R., or in the Evening Post W. C. 8., or in the Evening Express E. B. While this arrangement would be a fai* and just thing for newspaper writers it would be a defense for the public. It is sometimes true that things damaging to private character are said. Who is responsible? It is the “we” of the editorial or reportorial columns. Every man in every profession or occupation ought to be responsible for what he does. No honorable man will ever write that which he would be afraid to sign. But thousands of persons have suffered from the impersonality of newspapers. What can one private citisen wronged in his reputation do in a contest with misrepresentation multiplied into 20,000 or 50,000 copies? An injustice done in print is inimitably worse than an injustice done in private life. During loss of temper a man may say that for which he will be sorry in ten minutes, but n newspaper injustice has first to be written, set up in type, the» the proof taken off and read and corrects ed, and then for six or ten hours the presses are busy running off the issue. Plenty of time to correct; plenty of time to cbol off; plenty of time to repent. But all that is hidden in the impersonality of a news: paper. It will be a long step forward when all is changed and newspaper writers get credit for the good and aro held responsible for the evil. Kdltorial Professors. Another step forward for newspaperdom will be when in our colleges and universities we open opportunities for preparing candidates for the editorial chair. We have in such institutions medical departments, law departments. Why not editorial departments? Do the legal and healing professions demand more culture and careful training than the editorial or fjsportoriol professions? I know men may umble by what seems accident into a newspaper office as they may tumble intd other occupations, but it would be an In: calculable advantage if those proposing a newspaper life had an institution to which they might go to learn the qualifications, the responsibilities, the trials, the temptations, the dangers, the magnificent opportunities, of newspaper life. Let there ba a lectureship in which thcro shall appear the leading editors of the United States telling the story of their struggles, their victories, their mistakes, how they worked and what they found out to be the best way of working. There will bo strong men who will climb up without such aid into editorial power and efficiency. So do men climb up to success in other braneher by sheer grit. But if we want learned institutions to make lawyers nnd artists and doctors and ministers we much mors need learned institutions to make editors, who occuply a position of Influence a hundredfold greater. Ido not put the truth too strongly when I Bay the most potenf influence for good on earth is a good editor, and the most potent influence for evil is a bad one. The best way to reenforce and improve the newspaper is to endow editorial professorates. When will Princeton or Harvard or Yale or Rochester lend the way? A Christian Press. Once more I remark that a good newspaper is a blessing as an evangelistic influence. You know there is a great change in our day taking place. All the secular newspapers of tho day—for lam not spenking now of the religious newspapers—all the secular newspapers of tho day discuss all the questions of God, eternity and tho dead, nnd all the questions of the past, present and future. There is not a single doctrine of theology but has been discussed in the last ton years by the secular newspapers of the country. They gather up all the news of all the earth bearing on religious subjects, and then they scatter the news abroad again. The Christian newspaper will be the right wing of the apocalyptic angel. The cylinder of the Christianized printing press will be the front wheel of the Lord’s chariot

On the “Ground Floor.”

Thousands of men who fancy that they may grow quickly and easily rich through speculation have been deluded with the assurance, from older and warier speculators than they, that they were “going In on the ground floor” in some financial scheme. This means that a man belongs, or supposes that he belongs, to the small circle of operators who are In the inner management of the “enterprise,” and who' may be expected to get the cream of the profit. How this admission to the “ground flotfr” often works—how, Indeed, It may be expected to work—is Illustrated by a story told on the exchanges. A., who was Inclined to speculate, met 8., a solid business man, In the street one day, and said to him: “If you will lend me five hundred dollars, I can pay It back in thirty days, with Interest, and make five hundred out of It for myself." “How can you do that?” “Oh, there’s a great scheme on the street—a perfectly sure thing—and I have a chance to go In on the ground floor.” “Are you positive?” “Perfectly positive." The business man, on this assurance, lent him the money. More titan . % month afterward the two met again, and B, asked A- bow his Investment was coming on. "Oh, that's all gone up the spout,” answered A. ' 4 “You mean the money’s lost?" “Every cent of It!” “#hy, I thought you were going In on the ground floor.” “I did go in on the grohfld floor.” “What was the matter, then?” “There was a miserable scamp In the cellar I” This will no doubt be found to be tbs case in the majority of tempting Investments. Wealth is seldom honestly gained without time, effort and the exercise of prudence and sagacity; and where it is made in sudden and questionable ways, there is a “mean scamp in the cellar” to absorb the Investments of the deluded people who think they are influential in the enterprise.

A Great Change.

A French paper vouches for this dialogue, which took place In a French assize court, as being literally true: “Why,” asked the Judge of a man who had been caught stealing provisions, “did you attempt to rob this poor baker?” “It was hunger that forced me to it,” answered the man. “When the forest wolf Is hunted from the woods by starvation, ho takes his prey where he can seize it ” “Hush!” thundered the court, rapping on the desk. “He does nothing of the sort. > He endures hts ills, repents, and bec&nes an honest manl”

MARY LORD DIMMICK.

FACTS ABOUT THE WOMAN MR. HARRISON WILL WED. Not a New 1 Wonsan by Any Means— Neither Rowe. Nor Skates, Nor Hides a Bicycle or a Horse—Well Read and Charming. Not Exactly Beautiful. If ex-President Harrison's opinions can be inferred from his choice of a bride, he can have little sympathy for the so-called new woman, for Mrs. Mary Lord Dimmick is her very antithesis. The fact that she never wore, and steadfastly refuses to wear, shirt waists is a good key to her character. She dislikes anything stiff or mannish or severe, and, though she dresses plainly and generally in dark colors. she always chooses soft things that cling to her in an affectionate way, a* If

MRS. DIMMICK.

they were a part of herself, and had not been merely put on. She does not caro much, either, about their being in the height of fushion, as long as they are becoming. All, or at least most, of her tastes and accomplishments are feminine. Shs is passionately fond of music, embroiders beautifully and is an excellent nurse. During the season she goes constantly to the opera. She knows every one of Wagner's operas, from beginning to end, nnd can tell the instant she bears a musical selection just what It is and who wrote It. Embroidery seems to rank next to music In her favor and many of her friends possess elegant specimens of her work. Mrs. Dimmick has not the smullest Interest In athletics of any kind. She was never on a bicycle, and does not approve of tho machine, aud she does not ride, drive or skate. Iler time 1h pretty evenly divided between books and embroidery and the opera. She is a great reader, and keeps up with all tho current literature, though sho enres little for anything clussical. She has a fad for collecting uutogruphs, and possesses the signatures of many wellknown people, among them being those of Jean do Hoszke and Uichnrd Mansfield. Mansfield is her personal friend, and she is his devoted admirer. lie is her favorite actor, and she considers him one of the greatest lights of the modern stage. Allison, by the way, hns the honor of being approved by her us a candidate for the presidency. Mrs. Dimmick does not. however, confine her interests entirely to these favorite subjects. She is a thoroughly well-in-formed woman, and lias decided opinions on all the questions of tho dny. Sho can talk about politics ns intelligently as about embroidery, but at the same time, If one of her learned remarks were to be Interrupted by the entrance of a mouse, ■he would be the firßt to jump on a chair, and it seems to have been just this combination of qualities that fascinated tho ex-Prosident. He finds his fiancee always ready to listen sympathetically to anything he may choose to say, and yet atho has enough feminine weakness to give hlin the pleasure of posing as a protector. In appearnneo Mrs. Dimmick is not exactly beautiful, but sho is so bright and vivacious, and so uristocrntic in her bearing, that she gives one tho impression of being so. As a young girl, she was noted for her perspnal charms, and In Princeton, the home of her childhood, they still talk of her beauty. Tho wedding Is to take place at noon on April 0, in St. Thomas’ Church, New York, and will be extremely quiet. It is understood that there will bo only twelve guests, relatives, and some Intimate friends of the ex-President, nnd that there will be no wedding breakfast. Lieut. Parker will give the bride away. After the ceremony the newly wedded pair will go to the general’s home in Indianapolis, where a public reception will be given in their honor. A boudoir for the bride has been planned by herself, and sh? has personally selected the hangings and other furnishings for it. In August they will go to tho Adirondaeks, where a simple little cottage is now being built for them.

INDIANA DISTRICT DELEGATES.

Thirteen Conventions Held In the State on Thursday. The Republicans of Indiana, through their representatives in thirteen district conventions, Thursday selected the following delegates to represent them in the St Louis convention: First—James H. McNeeley, Evansville; James B. Gamble, Princeton. Second—Not U. Hill, Bloomington; Benjamin F. Polk, Vincennes. Third—H. C. Hobbs, Salem; J. T. Stout, Paoli. Fourth—O. 11. Montgomery, Seymour; A. E. Nowlin, Lawrenceburg. Fifth—Taylor Reagan, Plainfield; Jesse W. TVeik, Greencastle. ' rt Sixth—J. W. Ross, Connersville; B. E. Stoner, Greenfield. Seventh—Harry S. New, Indianapolis; Joseph B. Healing, Indianapolis. Eighth—W. T. Durbin, Andersott; J. H. Johnson, Portland. Ninth—D. A. Coulter, Frankfort; C. N. Williams, Crawfordsville. Tenth—Garret S. Van Duren, Michigan City; Claude Laughry, Monticello. Eleventh—Lon Signs, North Manchester; A. L. Lawshe, Converse. Twelfth—Frank S. Robey, Angola; 0. D. Law, Fort Wayne. Thirteenth—J. H. Heatwole, Goshen; A. L. Brick, South Bend. Five districts instructed their delegates to vote for McKinley. Several districts indorsed the candidacy of the Ohio man, but left their delegates free to vote as may seem best after they get into the convention.

News of Minor Note.

Horace S. Clark, one of the prominent candidates for the Republican nomination for Governor of Illinois, has issued a card withdrawing from the race. The fast express from Knoxville for Cincinnati was wrecked near Livingston, Ky., by the engine striking a rock and turning over. John King, the engineer, was killed. ; Earl Rickard, residing a few miles west of Toronto, has become a raving maniac from attending religious revival services. He believes the Lord commanded him to kill his wife and child, and he came voi£ near doing it

BALLINGTON NAMES HIS ARMY.

Salvation Seceaaioniata to Be Known aa “God's American Volunteer*. ” “God’s American Volunteers” Is the title by which Ballington Booth's new Salvation army will be known. Commander Ballington Booth says that all official negotiations between Gen. Booth and himself are now closed. Ballington Booth said that the standard of the new army 1 would be distinctly American. It will

NEW SALVATION ARMY FLAG.

consist of a white flag, emblematical of purity. In the center will be a large blue star, typical of hope; in the middle of this star a white cross, emblematical of sacrifice for others. In the corner of the standnrd or flag, nearest the top of the staff, will be forty-five white stars In a field of blue, representing the States of the Union. Over the central large star will read tho matto, “The Lord my banner,” and underneath the words designating the number of tho post to which the standard ia presented. It is to be carried by a color sergeant at the head of the parade along with tho national flag. Following this description the commander said: “God Almighty grant that the principles and truth represented by 1 this standard may be preserved by the American people for all time." The uniform to be worn by “God’s American Volunteers” has been decided upon. The drestts of the women will be made of seal-brown cashmere. The skirt will be perfectly plain, of such a length

ARMY HEADQUARTERS IN NEW YORK.

tliaf It will just clear the ground. The waist of the uniform will bo a tight-fitting Norfolk jucket with three box plaits down tho front and three down the back. The headgear of the women will be a poke! bounot. The men's uniforms will bo almost exactly like that of the United States army.

A TWO-MILE PETITION.

The German-Amerlcan Document Shipped to Albany. A Now York paper Buys: Tho petition of the German-American Citizens’ Union for a liberal Sunduy law was presented to the Legislature on Thursday. It is probably tho most formidable document which has ever been presented to that or auy other legislative body. The petition itself Is brief enongli, but tho signatures attached to it give it Its formidable character. Appended to it are about 200,000 names, and the slips pasted together make a roll of about two miles—lo,soo feet—long. To put this in shape for presentation to the Legislature baffled tho ingenuity of tho managers of the union, and outside talent was then called In. A. B. Smith, of tho Trow Directory Company, was appealed to, and he designed tho reel, which is shown by tho accompanying illustration. Tho reel is twenty-six inches in diameter, set In a tripod frame, mounted on two whocls. The reel and frame are made of black walnut, highly polished, while the wheels and trimmings are of hickeh Tho reel was made by a concern engaged in

A MONSTROUS PETITION.

the manufacture of fire apparatus. Tho strip more than fills the reel by two inches, and encroaches to that extent upon the space between the handles.

The Political Pot.

Gov. Clarke of Arkansas has announced Jiis withdrawal from the senatorial race. The North Carolina Republican State convention will be held at Raleigh May 14. C. G. Brewster (Rep.) has been nominated to succeed the late Congressman Crain of Texas. The sixth congressional district of South Carolina delegates to St. Louis are instructed for McKinley. South Dakota Republicans named delegates to the St Louis convention, who are said to almost unanimously favor McKinley. Maryland Republicans will meet in Baltimore April 22 for the selection of two presidential electors and fonr delegatesatdsrge to the St Louis convention, j