Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1896 — Page 6

BIG BATTLE BEGINS

Democratic National Convention ' in Session. FIGHT ON CHAIRMAN. Gold and Silver Forces Try , Their Strength. •Great Democratic Gathering at Chicago Called to Order—Silver Force* Fire the First Gan Amid Much Enthusiasm—David B. Hill Versus Daniel Former Announced as Temporary Chairman and Latter Put Forward by the White Metallists—Wild Throng in the Hall. At noon Tuesday there assembled in the Chicago Coliseum a political convenition which p-omised to rank with the I most notable events of the kind iu the i history of this country. For days the ‘.leaders of the rival factions of one of the tgreat political organizations of the L nit>d States had been hurling at one another infective" and threats, 'luesday They nTet to begin the actual struggle for the control of that party. The convention hall doors were opened at 10 o'clock, and those entitled to admission permitted tOjCnter. At 11 o'clock jthe Seventh Regiment band took its stilt, ition in the balcony over the chairman's desk, and discoursed sweet harmony till he arrived to call the convention to order. There were the gold men from the iEast. silent and thoughtful; the silver j •men from the South and West, jubilant, j Aggressive, and uoisy; the Tammany i ibraves, for once in their lives "with.” of '‘a’gin,” the government; the ISouthqni gentlemen, salt, in light sumtaiery suits and broad-brimmed slouch 'hats; the Western silver men; the adherents of this or that candidate, with the 'names of the idol sticking out all over —all these were features of the crowds ;that loaded every vehicle of transportation southward bound during the early ' forenoon. After a week of the hardest kind of ihustling. not only among the supporters ■of the score or so of candidates for the nomination, but also among the men who • were straining every energy to have their way in tbq framing of the party policy, the first day of the convention dawned with but One fixed certainty in view—namely, the adoption of a free-silver platTornj. favoring the unlimited coinage of “silver a: the ratio of 10 to 1. The silver tmen went down to the convention hall •in a triumphant mood over the assured | fact that in a convention of a little over ' 900 delegates they had a little over 000 ! rotes pledged tr the white metal. Ba re- ; ly a two-third:, vote it was, too. and this j they claimed would, when ultimately united hpou one'man, insure the nomination !

«f a silver caifdidate upon a silver platform. -The gold'men,- though iu a miBorityptvent, tfibr6llgbly united and with a fixed 'puriiiSe* itf'wiew. That Was do place rfi the chair as'fcemparary chairman and maifitaiir tli’j.fiut'jtdsition David Benaett Hit) of New YoVk. Next to secure ••• ,

WILLIAM F. HARRITY. Chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

through him atefflttidS" b#ritrol of the per-manent-drganizattGn-tyf the convention as l*oßsible| ? next to force, through, the Advantage'’thus gained, some sort" of corupromisE bn the coinage question. The copventiou gathered in the hand•omest perfectly appointed bnildinjfiever in Chicago f oi a nations! ’asseniblage of representatives of any pot&caVllarty, .aqd it. is doubtfifl if anything as complete in all details as is the Coljgeum ever has been-offered for convention purposes in’ any other city. A* the delegates passed the doorkeepers they found themselves In a gigantic foyer the entire width of the building and fully a« longSs IC. iaVitfidb',? the north end of wtych was draped with mammoth flags.’ Half a^'dozen entrances, conspicuously letteredobffp«ie<h>n -deans of access by which tedders of tickets for, seats in the different sec&dtfb/obuld -find their proper location without trouble or confusion. A ainphitheir&P ‘ Tvonna the level square in.which the delegates were seated. A peculiarity of the arrangement by which seats had peen prepared for the ■debates was the utter impossibility of -«ccess to this square by any one lacking the proper privilege of being there. There : were tMJO seats for delegates, thirty more ■than were j'equired. Fifteen thousand chairs were given up to spectators. The speaker's platform was on the east side of the hall in exactly the middle of that portion q£ the .building which vfas

used for convention purposes. On this platform there were 700 chairs, occupied by “distinguished guests.” At the immediate right and left of the presiding officer's platform, but on a lower level, there wore ninety-six seats for reporters, making 10” on the east side of the hall. At the north and south ends there were provisions for 240 more workers. These

THE GREAT CHICAGO COLISEUM.

tables* were covered with white cotton cloth'nml draped alternately in the colors of the Union. Red, white and blue bunting prevailed nenrly everywhere. The tight board fence separating the delegates from the alternates was covered with it, every Iron beam and girder was draped with it, while from the ceiling, at frequent and regular intervals, depended immense flags, some of them silk, others of bunting. Everything around the speaker’s platform was festooned with evergreen. Three aisles divided the delegates’ scats into four sections. The delegations were seated alphabetically, beginning at the extreme right of the chairman, or at the northeast corner of the square. Thus the States began with Alabama and ended with Wyoming. Telegraphic and telephonic facilities were believed to be ample for any possible emergency. Sixteen private telephone wires ran from the reporters’ tables to eight newspaper offices. The Western Union Telegraph Company had sixty wires in service, with facilities for an hicreasejAoiM they be njgMgt lhe nfftlonaT vfhg passed on contests, this is the way the gold and silver forces lined up in tile temporary organization: State or Dele- 811- Sound Territory. gates. Gold., ver. money. Alabama ........ 22 ... 22 Arkansas 16 10 California ....... 18 ... 18 Colorado 4:' 8 ... 8 .., Connecticut ..... 12 12 Delaware .. *6 ... ... 6 Florida '8 4 4 Georgia 26 ... 26 Idaho 6 ...’ 6 Illinois 48 3'.’.. 48

SERGEANT-AT-ARMS MARTIN.

Indiana bo ... 30 lowa og 0,5 .Kansas 20 ... 20 Kentucky 26 ... 26 Louisiana 10 i« Maine 12 7 5 Maryland!-,- .... K Massachusetts ... SO 30

LEADING DELEGATES FROM THE CENTRAL STATES.

Michigan 28 28 ... ... Minnesota IS 12 « ... Mississippi 18 ... 1.8 ... Missouri 34 ... 34 ... Montana t> ... 0 ... Nebraska 13 It? ... ... Nevada it ... 0 ... New Hampshire.. 8 ... ... 8 New Jersey 20 go ... ... New York 72 72 ... ... North Carolina... 22 ... 22 ... North Dakota.... 3 ... tl ...

Ohio 43 ... 40 Oregon 8 ... 8 Pennsylvania.... 64 64 ... ... Rhode Island 8 8 ... ... South Carolina... 18 ... 18 ... South Dakota.... 8 4 4 ... Tennessee 24 ... 24 ... Texas 30 30 ... Utah 0 ... H Vermont 8 8 ... ... Virginia 24 24 ...

CONFERENCE OF SUBCOMMITTEES OF THE BIMETALLIC LEAGUE AND NATION COMMITTEE.

Washington ...... 8. , . ... 8 ... West Virginia. ... 12 ... 12 Wisconsin 24 24 ... ... Wyoming, 0 ... 6 Alaska'. 2 ... 2 ... Arizona '.l'. 2 ... 2 . ... Dlst. of Columbia* 2 1 1 ... Indian Territory. 2 ... 2 New Mexico 2 ... 2 Oklahoma 2 ~. 2 ... Totals 000 310 566 30 Chairman Harrity performed the duty of calling the convention to order with n which has a, history dating back to the time of the Pharaobs. This unique gavel was the gift, of Ossiau Guthrie, of Chicago, who presented a similar gift for 'Use at the Republican convention. The head of the gavel is carved from a piece of oak w hieh formed a part of old Fort Dearborn. The handle is also of oak, but from a tree which was growing on the present site of Chicago 7,000 years ago. This tree was one of a primeval forest, covered br the debris of centuries and.hidden until a few months ago, when excavations at Sheffield aveque brought the great trunk to light. Thus the oaks of two periods centuries apart were levied upoiv for the ghvel. The gavel when received by SergeantqtvArms Marlin,’uvas accompanied by a letter from Ossian Guthrie describing its history and a statement from Prof. Up-

ham of the Minnesota Historical Society giving the age of the tree from which the handle is made, as computed by eminent geologists. Chairman Harrity was also tendered the use of a gavei made from the platform upon which George Washington stood when inaugurated President of the United Stntes for his second term in the Senate chnmber of Congress Hall. Sixth and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia, on March 4, 1793. The gavel was made by William Jones, who has been the janitor of Independence Hall for a quarter of a century. The genuineness of the material is certified to by Andrew Jackson Reilly, who has been for many years an officer of the District Court of Philadelphia. . At 12:30 o'clock Chairman Harrity, of the National Democratic Committee, with the convention gavel in hand, rapped loudly for order and introduced Rev. 10. M. Stires, who raised his hands to heaven iu an invocation for wisdom, peace and good-will among the assembled Democracy of the nation. The vast assemblage, numbering over twelve thousand people, rose and remained standing during the devotions. At the conclusion of the prayer the chairman announced that the National Committee liud reported Hon. David B. Hill of New York for temporary presiding officer of the convention. Then he was interrupted and the stiver men hnd their chance. Chairman Harrity recognized National Committeeman Clayton of Alabama. As he rose the silver men sent a mighty roar of applause. Before he had opened his mouth the crowd knew what w;as coming, and for two minutes kept up a hubbub that drowned out his voice. . It was well known Mr. Clayton intended to oppose the national committee by a minority repo-t favoring Senator Daniel for temporary chairman. Senator. Daniel’s name was wildly cheered, silver delegates rising from their seats and tossing their lints in the air. A hasty review of the lloor covered by the excited

delegates speedily showed that in point of numbers the minority report was the favorite; it was really the first slogan of the silver forces. When order had been restored Allan McDermott of New Jersey made an impassioned plea for Senator Hill. Mr. McDermott said that it would not be proper to overturn the traditions of the Democratic party in a thoughtless manner. He argued against turning down a man who for years had been prominent in the Democratic party, and whose words, “I am a Democrat,” are known the length and breadth of the land. He declared that free silver was a sufficient novelty in the' enmpaign without striking out at the beginning at the very foundation principles of the party. Mr. McDermott was given generous applause. Then ex-Governor Waller of Connecticut stepped upon the platform and lent his oratory to what the delegates thought was a conciliatory speech. He declared that both Hill and Daniel wore great names should be spoken together, cheered together and voted together. He then threw out the olive branch, which the delegates were quick to see, by advocating that Hill be made temporary chairman and Daniel permanent chairman Watercress is a remedy for scurvy.

CHAIRMAN DANIEL'S SPEECH

Virginia Senator States Hia Poaition , to the Convention. Temporary > ha ft Daniel, upon takins the chair. K|>oke in euioxiatie terms of Senator Hill, of New York, and expressed satisfaction that the majorityin the convention was.gglpicetieaaL l'pan points at issue he said: x Do not forget, gtotlemsa. -that for thirty years we of the foeth Kire supported the oieu that you have ualaed for I‘resldent. Ho not forget at the layt National ( (invention of the Democratic party In ISU2 you proclaimed youraiHves to’tx- In favor of the use of both gold nod silver as a standard mocer of the country. Do not forget that just four years'ago. In a Democratic convention ip this city, the New York delegation stood here solidly and immovably for a candidate committed to thj free and unlimited coinage of silver.and gold at a ratio of 16 to 1. Ail'd if we i*re still for it, let It not forgotten that we otvc it in some measure fo"thelr teachings. 1 That we owe yo« much, of the East, is readily acknowledged tn»d trill be ever most gratefully .remembered. Ilut If you gentlemen have helped to save the South, it also has helped to save you in the East. The majority of Democrats is not sectional. neither does It stand for any privileged or class legislation. The active business men of this country, its manufacturers, its merchants, its farmers, its sous of toil, know that a contraction of currency sweeps away the anuual profit* of their enterprises. They know. too. that the gold standard means contraction. Do lint the people know that It was legislation dictated by the advocates of the gold standard that hag caused and how continues the financial depression? I)o they not know that when their demands upon Democracy were complied with lu 19U8 and the Sherman law repealed without a substitute, that the very States of the East that demanded it turned against the Democracy who granted It and swept away their majorities In a torrent of ballots? Had the silver men lmd their way then Instead of the gold monometallists what storms of abuse would here to-day be emptied upon their heads. Democracy in 189* inherited from its Republican predecessor the tax system nnd the currency system, of which the McKinley law ami the Sherman law Wefe the culminating atrocities. It came to-power amid a panic which fitly followed upon their enactment with strikes, lockouts, riots and civic commotions, while the scenes of peacerm iudnstry in Pennsylvania had become military camps. Resides manifold oppressive «rjwivwL.!,k , ‘ McKinley law had throwu away it i, 000. is Si of revenue derived from sugar undar .the spectral plea of a free breakfast table. <apd had substituted bounties to sugar planters, thus decreasing revenue and increasing expenditure. From the joint operation of the MeKlnlev lnu aim Suprnian law an adverse balance of trade was forced against us in 1893. a surplus of ¥100.000.01100 in tiic treasury was converted Into a deficit of $70,000,000 lu 1804, and engraved bonds prepared tiy a Republican secretary to borrow money to support the Government were the HI omens of the preorganised min that awaited the incoming Democracy, and a depleted treasury. Moresignificant still, the very authors of the Illstarred Sherman law makeshift wereatreadv at confessional upon the stool of penitence and were begging Democrats to help theni to put out the conflagration of disaster that they themselves had kindled. So far as revenue to support the Government is eoncerned the Democratic party, with but a slender majority in the Senate, was not long provid,am* * la< * not the Supreme Court of the 1 nited States reversed its settled doctrines of 100 years, the income tax Incorporated In the tariff hill would long since have abundantly supplied It. Respecting finance, the Republicans. Pop“Jlsta and Democrats, while differing upon almost all other subjects, had united in 1802 In declaring for the restoration of our American system of bimetallism. The Republican party has now renounced the creed of its platform and of onr national pledges and presented to the country the issue of higher taxes, more bonds, and less money It has proclaimed at last, throwing away the UisKloses, the Rritish gold standard. Then consider, gentlemen: The Federal State and municipal taxes in this country are assessed and paid by the standard of the whole mass of money In circulation The specie resumption of ] 87.7 gave the surplus revenue in the treasury.yn>t gold only the money of redemption. Some $350,000,000 of Standard silver money, or paper based upon L ,E USt n lnod . at . P " rit)r " lrh K»1<1 I'.v nothing but the Silver in it and the legal-tender functions imparted to It by law. We have no outstanding obligations in the United States except the small sum of $44,000,01X1 of gold certificates, which are specifically payable in gold and they, of course, shonid he so paid, riicro is more silver, and paper based upon Silver, in circulation to-day than there is of gold or paper based on gold, and that the gold dollar is not the unit of value is demonstrated by the fact that no gold dollar pieces can now. under our laws, lie minted. If we should go upon the gold standard, we must change the existing bimetallic standard of payment of all debts, taxes and appropriations, saving alone those specifically payable in gold We pray you. no more makeshifts and straddles. Vex not the country with the prophecies of smooth tilings to come from the British-Republican propaganda. The fact that the European nations arc going to the gold standard renders it all the more impractical that we should do so. for the limited stock of gold in the world would have longer division and a smaller share for each nation. Previous predictions have been punctually refuted when prosperity was prophesied to come upon the unconditional repeal of the Sherman law. Instead of prnteeling the treasury reserve, as was prophesied it would do. an unprecedented raid was promptly made niton it. and $262,000,000 of borrowetl gold have been in sufficient to guarantee its security. The public revenues have fallen, wages of labor have fallen, and everything on the face of the earth has fallen but taxes and debts, which have grown In burden, while, on the other hand, the means of their liquidation has been diminished. In the meantime, gentlemen, commercial failures have progressed with devastating effect North, South, East and West In this nation. The dividends on bank stocks have shrunken. Three-fourths of the railway mileage of the Failed States is now in the hands of receivers, and the country has received a shock from which it will take many years to recover. Yet, in this distressed and contracted condition, the new-fledged monometnllists ask ns to declare for a gold standard and to wait for relief upon some ghostly dream of international agreement. liut the people do now well know that the conspiracy of European monarehs, led by Great Britain, has purposes of aggrandizement to subserve in tlte war upon American silver money, and stands in the way of such agreement. With their credit they seek to enhance the purchasing power of thousands of millions which is owed to them all over the world, and which you owe to them. They draw upon the Fnlted States of America for their food supplies and raw material, wheat, corn, oil. Cotton, iron, lead and the other like staples, and they seek to get it for the least money. No nation calls itself free and independent that is not great enough to establish and maintain a financial policy of its own. To pretend tljat this, the foremost, richest and most powerful nation of the world, cannot coin its own money Without suing for an international agreement at the courts of European autocrats, who have none but primary interests to subserve, has for many years been held out at every Presidential election. They have made useof such an agreement and have foiled it afterward, and we have never in all our history had an international agreement upon a money system, and none of the founders of this republic ever dreamed that such an agreement was essential. The npijority of this convention maintains that this great American nution with a natural base of fixed empire is fully capable of restoring this constitutional money system of gold apd sliver at equality with each other.

Notes of Current Events.

An unknown tramp attempted to murder Conductor Felker of the Burlington road at Pacific Junction, Neb, He had been put off the train and tired several shots at the conductor, none of which took effect. John Poucher. .aged 10 years, while using a piece of gas pipe ns a cannon at Sedalia, Mo., was fatally injured. The toy weapon exploded, a portion of thp pipe penetrating Foucher’s right lung. He ouly lived twenty minutes. Burt Hillman, the man who assaulted and robbed the 11-year-old son of Sheriff Jens void at Granite Falls, Minn., was brought to St. Paul to prevent a lynching. He narrowly escaped being killed, his life being saved only by the prompt action of the sheriff. It is now thought the boy will die. John Moser, an amateur marksman known throughout the centra! States, committed suicide at Cincinnati by blowing his head off with a shotgun. He was about 50 years of age and without known relatives. He made his will just before taking his life, leaving considerable estate to his friends. Hu was despondent because of ill health. amlvi •

SCANDINAVIANS AS CITIZENS.

Readily Adapt Themselves to Condi* tiona in Which They Are Placed. The great adaptability of the Scandinavians to the circumstances and customs of their adopted country is acknowledged on all sides. \t hettever and wherever they have transplanted themselves, whether In England In the ninth century, in Normandy In the tenth, in Sicily In the eleventh, or in America In the nlneteaulh, the same process of transformation has taken place. No other people in all its history has such a record. In the United States they have eagerly learned English, and have quickly done so because of its similarity to their own language In structure and vocabulary. Of course men who have come hither as adults always prefer the old speech, and in so districts in the country and in Scandinavian quarters of the cities if will bo heard almost exclusively, because of the large numbers of the foreign bom. But the second generation quite invariably choose English, and many of them have forgotten the language of their fathers. At a town convention which I attended in 1894 In Illinois in a large Swedish community, the proceedings ' wftit on smoothly In English for some time, until an iwltrly Swede became somewhat puzzled and asked the chairman, a young Swede, to explain the matter in Swedish. From that point all motions were given in Swedish. Remarks were addressed to the chair In both languages. p In matters of religion Scandinavians have shown a peculiar faculty in conforming to the bad American custom of multiplying denominations. In the home countries, though there is now practically complete toleration, the existence of a state church and an Episcopal organization have maintained a good degree of uniformity. Neither of these restraining influences has ever operated in this country. There have been no bishops to check the tendency of diversity. Liberty to adopt any creed and to change church relations at will is freely used. The zeal of the Norwegian In controversy has found even a better field in the church than in politics. Before 1890, when three divisions united, there were five bodies of Norwegian Lutherans, while the Danes were comfortable with two, and the Swedes lagged behind with only one. What the Swedes lack in Lutheranism they make up In “dissenting sects,” though none of them have been converted in this country. The statistics of intemperance and illegitimacy, which are sometimes so alarming in parts of the Scandinavian countries, do not appear to find a parallel among Scandinavians in America. But all such statistics are unsatisfactory, and frequently untrustworthy. Generalization is, therefore, unsafe. There are drunkenness and illegitimacy among them here, but I have not observed that it is more difficult to maintain order and decency in a city like Minneapolis with its Norwegians and Swedes than in St. Paul with its Irish and Germans. Of the pauper and criminal classes the Scandinavians have a smaller proportion than any other alien element except the British, while of the Insane, Judging from Minnesota, they seem to have a larger percentage than the Germans or British. Unfortunately in ordinary statistics of this nature the second generation Is usually put down as native born with no hint as to parentage beyond some peculiarity of name.—Atlantic Monthly.

REV. E. S. NICHOLSON.

Father of the Indiana Liquor Law Which Is Sustained by the Court. Rev. E. S. Nicholson, the father of the Indiana liquor law, which has been pronounced constitutional by the Supreme Court of the State, has an interesting personality apart from being the originator of the law. Mr. Nicholson first «jime Into prominence in 1894, when he President of the Good Citizens’League, which has its headquarters at Kokomo. At that time he was the editor and proprietor of the Kokomo Times, a daily paper founded by him about three years ago. He had recently removed to Kokomo from Russiaville, where he was editor of the Observer. Only 30 years old, his ability

REV. E. S. NICHOLSON.

was recognized by his older companions, who made him president of the league and leader of the law and order movement. He ran for the Legislature and was elected, and at once set about the work of the law which was to regulate Jhe saloons, Mr. Nicholson was born thirty-four years ago at Elizabethtown, Ind., of Quaker parents. He studied at Earlham College and was graduated In 1885 with the degree of B. A. He likewise was prepared for the ministry, but never preached. After teaching school four years he took up Journalism and has since remained an editor.

A Curious Camp Stove.

An Aroostook, Maine, woodsman, B. B. White, has a curious and unique arrangement for cooking food over an open fire, which he calls a camp range. It consists of a three-fourths-lnch Iron gas pipe, eighteen inches long, hammered to a point at one end and plugged with metal, through which there are' three small holes, each of a size fit to hold the end of a wire, say, three-six-teenths of an inch In diameter. Loops are made of wire, into which skillets, palls, pans or other tapering cooking utensils are fitted snugly. A washer of 6heet Iron fits over the end of the gas pipe and is prevented from slipping clear down by a snug metal wristband. The washer serves to brace the wires. The gas pipe Is driven Into the ground

and red embers and coals placed abqpt it. The food is cooked easily and quickly. A coffee pot hanger is also used, it being bent up so that the long coffee pot will swing clear of the fire. Had White cared to do so, he might have made a snug sum of money by patenting and selling bis bandy contrivance.—Lewiston (Maine) JonrnaL

MAKES THIEVES CONFESS.

Frightened by a Sknll Worked by Electrical Contrivances. A hideous grinning, illuminated human sknll is one of the accessories of the eleventh precinct police station in Chicago, and it is said to hold a better record as a criminal “spotter” than any detective on the Windy City force. The

THE SKULL.

superstitious negroes who are deathly afraid of anything apparently supernatural. It was as a means of dealing with this class of citizens that the Lieutenant hit upon the scheme of Illuminating the skull. He had blood-red pains of glass fitted in the eye sockets, gnd an electrical connection makes them flash fire, while at the same time the Jaws open and shut with a snapping sound. The effect of the “death's head” is marvelous. It Is claimed that it has never failed to make a criminal give a correct account of his doings when brought before it. Eighty stolen tylcyeles have beenf-he-covered since December, Jjy means of tlie skull’s flashing eyes and g'rinn'fiig, snapping Jaws, ; »o$ a jaipt^aAnttty of clothing, of which been lost, was also fonnd3sd|tts S 'confession brought forth by rheskull.' The most notable confession caused by the “death’s head” was that of John H. Farver, alias “Viper.” He confessed to having stolen, thirty-five bicycles, and told where they could all be found.— New York World.

WON A FINE PIANO.

Miss Ewing Captured the Prize in a Vocal Contest at Mexico, Mo, Seldom it is that a budding young girl whose reputation as a singer id confined almost wholly to her own society, and who has not l>een advertised by a Grau or a Locke, teceives the equivalent of SI,OOO for the rendition of three sougs before a single audience. That was the good fortune, how-

MISS ANNIE EWING.

ever, of Miss Annie Ewing, of Jefferson City, Mo., and her friends throughout the State are pouring congratula tions upon her, not simply because she won a splendid prize, hut l'or the further reason that competent judges decided that she deserved it for possessing a superb voice, trained to a nicety. Miss Ewing and five other vocalists entered a contest at Hardin College,' Mexico, Mo., and the prize, a Mano valued at SI,OOO, was awarded to the Jefferson City candidate. Her first selection was, “Oh, Patrla, Tu cha Aceen.il,” and she beautifully interpreted Rossini’s great composition, her rich,contralto voice being in perfect The theme carried her away, m the audience of music-loving people, representing several States, paid her a great ovation. She also sang Yiedllnger’a “Serenade” and Jensen's “Lohti Delne Wang’ an Meine Wang, 't with equally good effect. Miss Ewing Is a handsome blonde, with .the fairest bf complexions, auburn hair and nzime blue eyes. She Is a great social favorite, not only at her home in Jefferson, but Is popular at Hardin, and the decision in her favor meets,.with ljeqrty approval among a large circle of Miss Ewing’s admirers.

New Means of Light.

An entirely new form of lighting was used at a dinner party a few weeks ago In Rue de Longclinmps, Paris. Neither gas, oil lamps, electricity nor candles were used, but every object wa&jjea,. dered phosphorescent;'''“The, said one of the guests, “sparkled wira diamonds; pictures, flowers, carpets emitted luminous rays; the ladle?’ light, while their hands gleamed lilts so many well-o’-the-wlsps.”' * The, phosphorescent face powder used oh this occasion was Invented by a French chemist, M. Charles Henry. It Is described as “lending a moonlight radl. ance, very becoming to some.

Ben Franklin.

Statue of Benjamin Franklin In Lincoln Park, Chicago—a gift to the printers by Joseph Medill.

skull, which is that of a male negro, was found on top of a shed in 4Sth street last October. Lieut. Samuel C. Rank is a frugal ahd an Inman. Maiiy of the more troublesome residents of the precinct, especially around 50th and State streets,' art