Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 August 1888 — Page 4

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ALVIN P. IIOVKY, of Posey. I,IKUT.-(i(lVKItNOIt IRA .1. CHASE, of Hendricks.

JiriKIES OF SL'I'KEME COURT

lsl District-SILAS L. COFKKY. of Clay. 2l District—.lOIIN' (». BERKSHIRE, of Jennings. -It11 District-WALTER OLDS, of Whitley.

SKCKKTAKY OK STATE

CHARLES F. (iRIFKIN, of Lake. AUDITOR OF STATE BRl'CE CARR. of Orange.

TltEASUItEH OF ST AT

.II'LIUS A. LEMCKE, or Vantlerburg. ATI'OIINEV-OENEUAT,, LEWIS T. MICIIENER, or Shelby. Sl'1'l'EltINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTIit'OTION,

HARVEY M. LA FOLLETTE, of Boone. UEHHtTEIt OF Sl'I'HEME COUKT, JOHN L. GRIFFITHS, ot Marlon.

CONGRESSMAN,

.1 AMES T. JOHNSTON, or Parke. JOINT ltKl'KKSKNTATlVK, WILLIAM F. WELLS, or Vermillion.

Who lias seen our Dennis Berkshire?

We are sorry for "Gene" Debs. It was an instance of assassination in the house of his friends.

Our correspondent, "C," this morning very neatly exposes the trickiness in the claim the scared Democrats are now putting forth that the Mills bill causes a reduction of but 7 per cant.— or have they t,rot it down to .'5 per cent.?

(leneral Sheridan left a paid up policy of life insurance for £2r,0(0 which shows that lie was a man of excellent caution an well as a dashing lighter. Every man with a family and little or nothing to hnvo them is in duty bound to make provision as (Jenaral Sheridan did.

The Debs interview caused an explosion indeed. It also made it convenient to thoroughly explode the lie that the Democrats could not muttar a respectable membership in a railroad men's club, because the men wero afraid they would be discharged. We don't think that lie will be of any further service in this campnign.

The president wasn't brave enough to veto the 62:2,000,000 river and harbor bill which contains about $10,000,000 waste of public money but he can be very indignant over an attempt to take 812 a month out of the treasury for a soldier's widow. He refused to veto the river and harbor bill but permitted it to become a law without his signature. lie gave out that he could not sign it because parts of it were not as he thought they should be. How different with pension bills! lie does not let them become laws without his signature. He veloas them.

Senator Voorhees Is said to be In shockingly bail temper since his return from Indiana. The story coes In Washington that the other day his secretary handed him a letter which contained an Inquiry as to the prospects In Indiana. "Tell lilni." blurted out the gre it Dan vehemently, "that Indiana has gone to h—I. She'll give Harrison 15,0 X1 majority.—|Stray Item.

Senator Voorhees must be very much disturbed in iniud. lie is scolding like a drab and stooping to such personal attacks on General Harrison as no other public man has indulged in. The better clnss of Democratic newspapers, such as the Now Vork World. Boston Herald and Chicago Xows took occasion at the time of his Torre Haute speech to object to the nature of the attack he made on ieneral Harrison. Indeed we have seen in no respectable newspaper any such indorsement of this style of warfare as the (ia/ette of Terre Haute gave to it in commenting on that speech. Everywhere the Democratic newspapers, referring to the 1ST" strike, say that General Harrison's conduct then was such as retleets credit on him, and the railroad men who know .ill the facts are General Harrison's best friends now.

THE ONLY COURSE TO PURSUE.

Mr. Frank Hurd, who "makes no bones" of his belief in absolute free trade aud hailed Mr. Cleveland's message as a step in the right direction, has been engaged by the national committee to go to Minnesota to talk free trade. He appeared at Washington with a let

ter from Brice and had a Brice check cashed. It is to be hoped that the party managers have adopted the policy of advocating free trade or at least "tariff reform" in the extreme way they did last fall and winter. Of late the leaders have been quarreling over the policy to be pursued, the big bosses objecting to the free-trade leaning of the Cleve-land-Mills novices in national politics.

But it seems that the^prefeident is to have bis own way though the heavens fall. And why not? It is too late to turn back. .The people can not be made to believe that the party is headed in any direction other than where a freetrade Utopia is supposed to be. All that long debate in the house was squarely on the issue whether or not there ought to be protection in the tarifF laws. Mr. Mills said: "I desire free-trade and I will not help to perfect any law that stands in the way of free trade." Mr. Watterson said the Democratic party was "essentially a free trade party or it was nothing." Senator Vest said the president has "callenged the protected industries of the country to a fight of extermination."

Mr. Cleveland is right. There is nothing to gain by taking a back track but the ridicule and contempt of the people who can not be duped in 1888 as they were by him in 1884 on this tariff issue.

HARIKARI.

Mr. Debs tells the Gazette that Mr. Lamb said that Mr. McKeen is "willing to sanction a policy that puts a brass collar around the necks of his employes," etc. Mr. Gibbons, of the Vandalia road, and president of the Democratic llailroad Men's club, when asked by an Express reporter if the charge was true, said it was a lie. Thereupon the Gazette interviews Mr. Gibbons, and quotes him as having said to the Express: "If Mr Lamb said so, why then he lies. That's all there is to it." This the Gazette considers to be a complete repudiation of the Express interview with Mr. Gibbons. "It will be seen how Mr. Gibbons' reply has been distorted so as to imply that he believed Mr. Lamb used the 'organ-grinding' language attributed to him."

Let us see about this. The Gazette published what it said was an interview with Mr. Debs, whom it quoted as telling it that Mr. Lamb, in that famous conversation, used this language:

Personally, Riley McKeen Is my friend and your friend [this was directed to me| and there Is no man living In Terre Haute who has a larger heart and Is more ready to help a poo"r man, but politically he advocates the methods and policy of his party, and he Is willing to sanction a policy that puts the brass collar around the necks or his employes because their jobs area little more secure wearing these collars.

Does the Gazette mean to put the "lie" on Debs by implying that Mr. Gibbons and itself do not believe that Mr. Lamb used this language which if he did use Mr. Gibbon's says, according to the Gazette, was a lie?

That's all there is of it. Mr. Debs says in the Gazette Mr. Lamb used certain language. Mr. Gibbons says in the Gazette that if he did he lied. It's the Gazette's columns and authority on which all this question of veracity rests.

Tt looks to us as if the Gazette is playing harikari.

THAT CHEAP COAT.

.Mr. Harrison says "a cheap coat makes a cheap man." He tried that sort or argument during his tight with Hlue Jeans Williams in 1870. according to the Alta California, and the plain people ol Indiana. who have to wear as cheap coats as they can get, put the kibosh oil Benjamin. In this land there Is many a noble heart under a cheap coat. 1 Argo.

This sort of misrepresentation of what General Harrison said is getting to be a very common thing. It was not thought it would be indulged in so generally, but it seoms the opposition is hard pushed for material with which to attack the Republican candidate for president.

What General Harrison said was: "Whenever see a cheap coat I think it involves a cheap man under the coat.'-' A more concise statement could not be made of the effect of "cheaper things" for which our friend, the enemy, seems to sit up 'o nights howling and crying in great misery. The use made of it, however, is to distort the meaning as one of contempt for or a lack of|sympathy with those whose clothing is not of the high priced order. (ieneral Harrison meant that the man wearing a cheap coat must necessarily be working at cheap wages. The man who makes the cheap coat must of necessity work for cheap wages, and equally as true must buy cheap shoes. The shoemaker selling his shoes cheap mutt buy whatever he uses cheap, and so we are all scaled down.

The trouble with these free trade people is that they want all things but those they themselves are interested in cheapened and blandly make their arguments from that standpoint, just as Mr. Sargent, the hardware manufacturer. frankly remarks that the destruction of the iron industry in this country would be of benefit to him. We must all stand together in this country else we will be down to cheap shoes as well as cheap coats.

A man whose salary is 82,(XXI a year was arguing that he was for free trade, so that he could get his suit of clothing far $20.00 instead of $40.1X1. When some ono suggested that in the general process of cheapening his salary would be cut in two his face showed that something had hit him very hard.

YOH'F. OF THK PKOl'LF..

A Question of Per Cents.

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We are constantly lielne told by the authors and the friends ot the Mills bill -and even Republicans otten concede the claim-that the reduction made by the act—If It should become a law-will be 7 :er cent, on a present average or 47 per cent, and that there will, consequently, remain an average rate or protection amounting to 40 per cent. But let us see: The amount ol duty collected last year aggregated (212,002,424. The

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actual reduction to be made by the Mills bill Is estimated by Its authors at $53,720,447.20. They may be mistaken about the 20 cents, but we put It In. Now, this sum Is a little more than 25 per cent of the whole amount collected, and yet our tariff reformers would have us believe that duties are- being reduced by only 7 per cent. Is there, therefore, not a monRtrous fallacy involved here? The truth Is that|wben per cents, of reduction are calculated by tue Mills' method, juggling with figures Is easy, and they may he made to lie, outrageously, by the help of nothing more mysterious thiin "primary arithmetic." If any one doubts this, he will be shown that the rate of duty can le raised to more than 100 per cent, by reducing the aggregate of customs receipts by 70 per cent-

To make the test a rair one, let us take four articles or common consumption, rice, spirits, cigars and sugar, and see what the effect on our revenue would be ir all our other duties were entirely abolished. These products, ror the year ending June 30.1887. were taxed as follows, and paul duties In the following amounts:

Amount Rate per of duty. cent.

Rice ,*758.058 113 Snlrlts 1.201,747 Clears .... 3.5ffl.lBG 107 s'wir....... 56,507,195 82

Total *02,120,5JG 700 Average, 175 uer cent. It will be seen, then, that tf all duties except those on ttiese four articles were remitted, other conditions remaining as now, the receiptsi from customs would be reduced by $150,000,000, or slightly In excess of 70 per cent., while the rate would be raised to 175 per cent by the Mills method, to 112 per cent by the method In use by experts, and lowered to 9 per cent by the true method. It will be understood then, that while customs' receipts could be reduced by $la(),000,000, the apparent rate of duty could be raised by 128 per cent. It Is by such juggling with figures that tariff fallacies are made so effectnal In all arguments for reduction.

England poses as a free trade country, thogh she actually raises as much revenue per capita from tariff is we do and almost all of that on six articles. Her population Is about half of ours andlit receipts Irom customs' duties about $100,000,000 or half of ours. Her imports are twice as great as ours, making her average rate of duty 7 or 8 per cent. Yet, If these same duties are calculated by the Mills method, that is on the articles actually tiLxed, only, the rate ot duty will jump to O9.o per cent, or to a rate considerably higher than the Democrats claim ours to le. Is It then true that in our country 47 per cent. Is a "robber tariff, while In England 09.5 per cent, stands for free trade? ..

Will some gentleman who Is an expert in the calculus of Infinites, and able to make plain to the average mind what Is meant by the fourth dimension or space, grapple with the luroblem anil give us a satisfactory solution 0.

Terre Haute, August 18.

Woman Suffragists and Politics. To the Editor of the Kxiress: Sin: A short time ago there appealed In the Express an Item stating that a Sirs. Evans was in attendance at the meetings of the political clubs selling woman suffrage tracts and claiming to represent the Indiana Woman Suffrage association. Later appeared another Item stating that a meeting would shortly be called of members of the American and National Woman Suffrage Associations to organize a Harrison and Morton campaign club. This was followed by an announcement "by order of the committee" that there would be a meeting or the association at the Opera house at 3 p. in., Saturday. My curiosity being at length aroused I went to the Opera house and found the doors locked and no Indications or a meeting. Being very much Interested In tills cause and anxious that It shall not be misunderstood or rldilculed 1 beg leave to make the following state-

Klrst—No one In Terre Haute Is authorized to attend the meetings or political clubs as a representative of the Indiana National Woman Suffrage association, or to sell tracts, which are gladly given away to those who will read tlieni.

Second—The constitution of the Indiana "Homan Suffrage association expressly forbids any participation In politics, as an organization. Members are, of course, at liberty to take such part is they may see proper in political affairs, but only as Individuals, md not as members of the association. The latter does, however, most earnestly recommend that women of every political faith read the newspapers, attend the public speakings, study the science and the history of government, and prepare themselves to think and act Intelligently when the authority which the ballot conlers is placed In their hands. Ida A. Haki'KK.

State sec'y I ml. W. S. A.

PRESS COMJIKNT.

ItKinTKIHTS HKTItlHL'TION.

Portland OregonliiH. Jay (lould Is an Incurable victim to insomnia. He ought to be. He has spent his lire making honest men sleepless lest he swindle them out or their property If they slept and he has made many an honest man sleepless who could not f.«rget that he had lost his all because .lay (iould had touched the railroad in which his property was invested with Ills leper linger and blasted its value.

THE JUDICIAL KHMINK UKDHAIKil.HD. St. Louis (ilobe-Democrat. Missouri Is the only state In the union In which the supreme court judges actively participate In politics. Judge Sherwoo I, with rour years on the supreme bench yet ahead ol lilni, was an active member or the Springfield convention yesterday, and was made its chairman.

TIIK DKCKIT1VK BUI.I.KTIN.S.

Utlca Herald. We move that when the next man loved or the nation rails sick the doctors let the bulletin business alone. From (iarlleld to Sheridan they have covered the ground of misinformation amply. It is best to (jtilt.

ART CRITICISM.

Boston Herald. One or the Illustrated papers prints a portrait (r a lady at Saratoga who lias 300 dresses. A careful study or the portrait suggests the Inquiry ns to why she didn't put one on when she sat lor her picture.

MAJOR GKNKRA1, WII.I. 1)0.

Boston (ilobe. We hope congress will not revive either the rank or lieutenant general or that of general or the new commander of the army. Tliey are honors that ought not to be bestowed extravagantly.

THE CHURCHES.

Central Prf.shyti'.uian Ciht.ch.— Divine service at 11 a. m. and 7:1 p. m. Sunday school at '.•:•!5 a. m. Uev. G. lv. Pierce, pastor.

Ckjjtrnary M. E. Ciiuitcn.—Quarterly meeting to-day. Preaching at 10:U0 a. m., by the Uev. A. A. (!ee, D. 1). Preaching at 7:45 p. m. by the pastor.

Tiiiud Baptist Ciu/kcii.—Services at 11 a. m. and S p. m. Sunday school at 0:30 a.m. Subject of morning sermon: "The Ministry of the King and ot the evening service: "Washing of the Desiples' Feet." Pastor, Benjamin llines.

Asuuky Ciiukoii.—Preaching by the pastor at 11a. m., and 7:15. Morning subject will be a continuation of the the subject of last Sunday: "Dangers Threatening Our Homes." Evening subject: "Sunday Traflic." An appeal to the business men to close their places of business on Sunday. All are cordially invited. not r.s.

The Rev. B. L. Smith, of the Christiau church, will not return home till the first of next week.

The pulpit of the Christian church will not be occupied to morrow, as the Rev. B. TJ. Smith has not returned from Bethany Assembly.

Throe Great Friends.

What a wonderful trio they were— the three generals whose names are as inseparably associated in our thoughts as they will be for all the time to come on the page of history! Unlike in many ways, each of a distinct,'strongly marked individuality, how they yet supplemented one another, and how loyal they were in their friendship for one another! It is pleasant now to think of that—that our great soldiers were so free from selfish jealousy and rejoiced so heartily in one another's successes and rewards. There is only one of them left now, the oldest of the three. The day when Sherman follows Grant and Sheridan—may it be still far distant, and may the intervening years be as full of peace and happiness as of honor—will mark the close of a splendid and heroic chapter of the nation's story.—[Hartford Courant.

WHAT SHALL THE HARVEST BE?

Pulton Caldwell, a prominent citizen and Democrat, of Caldwell, O., has announced that he will vote for Harrison and Morton.

Samuel Mitchell, a well-known mill man, and John Dersam, a young batter of McKeesport, Pa., have flopped to the Republican side.

In its issue of last Saturday the Lewiston (Me.) Journal printed the names of twenty-five Democratic farmers who are Democrats no longer.

The workingmen of Kearney, N J., have organized a Republican club of 200 members, forty of whom have hitherto voted the Democratic ticket.

E. J. Currie, president of an Irish Home Rule cluo in New York, who has always voted the straight Democratic ticket, will this year take hiB Republicanism straight.

Jackson Murphy, a member of the grocery firm of Murphy Brothers, Connersville, Ind., who has always been a Democrat, announces that he will vote for Harrison and Morton.

Henry Benedict, the well-known clothing manufacturer of Milwaukee, who for the last sixteen years has been an ardent Democrat, announces that he will vote the Republican ticket this fall.

H. S. Marcy, traffic manager of the Delaware & Hudson railroad and a member of the historical Marcy family of New York, voted for Cleveland the last time. This year he will vote for Harrison.

George W. Hall, the largest sheepowner in Grafton, N. H„ and a prominent Democrat, writes: "You may proclaim from the housetop that I shall not vote for Grover Cleveland. I would as soon vote for Jeff Davis!"

James Campbell, of Pittsburg, president of the Window-Glass Workers' association of America, says that he was born and brought up a Democrat and rocked in a hickory cradle, but he can't go the Democratic ticket this time.

Robert M. Olyphant, president of the Delaware & Hjidson Canal company, is one of the most conservative business men in New York City. He voted for Cleveland in 1884, but this year he will lend his vote and support to the Republican candidates.

James O'Brien, Democratic ex-con-gressman and ex-state senator of New York, says the Democratic party has outlived its usefulness, and does not deserve the support of those who believe in protecting American industries, American institutions, American principles, or the workingmen's homes and their interests. He will vote for Harrison and Morton.

Mr. Bernard Campbell, foreman in Ay re's iron foundry, in New York, says: "You know politics heretofore has not entered much into our shop. Our men were about evenly divided, but they are not now. Of course many of them were born Democrats, and they find it hard to change, but in a quiet way it is easy to see that they are going to do it, only they don't want to talk about it."

E. C. Robbins, a life long Democrat ot Buffalo, a prominent lawyer and former warm friend of Cleveland, has come out for Harrison, on the tariff issue. Asked if he anticipated a big Democratic vote for Harrison in New York, Mr. Robbins said: "Yes, I do and you will find that it will be a regular stampede in this state long before election day. The days of Grover Cleveland's luck are about over."

The Rev. T. L. Paulson, D. D., of Virginia, who is one of the principal speakers to the temperance camps in New York, is out for Harrison and Morton and will vo^e for their election. He has been a strong Prohibitionist, but can't go the third party nnd its candidate for vice president. Chaplain McCabe, Ellen J. Foster, J. N. Stearns, and other well-known Prohibitionists are also out for Harrison and Morton for the same reason.

Mr. Hartford, representing the Pennsylvania Manufacturing, Mining and Supply company, of Pittsburg, in an interview stated that there are live or six members of his firm, every one of whom formerly upheld the Democratic ticket, but the Mills bill, come out boldly for Harrison and Morton. Mr. Hartford has visited the tile and fire-brick districts of of Scotland, where he found women working for '10 cents a day, for which his firm pays S1.!0, while skilled labor there commands only (50 cents a day.

Ex-Mayor William E. Thorn, of Troy, N. Y., (Dem.): "If every Democratic congressman and Grover Cleveland with his '27f pounds averdupois could be cast into gold and distributed among the American workingmen it would not compensate the latter for the damage already done to them by his talk about tinkering the tariff. Any administration that attempts to upset the policy under which a nation has been blessed with prosperity—all its industries and people flourishing—out to be kicked out and stood on his head in the mud."

A correspondent at Oneida writes to the Utica Herald: -The proprietors of our knitting mill, Mr. Michael Farrel and his son George, who have heretofore been associated with the Democratic party closely, are outspoken in their determination to vote for Harrison and MortoD, and are entirely willing to have it published, as they are clear in their purpose. I also had an interview with George II. Potter, of Bernhard's Bay, one of the proprietors of the American Glass works there. He has been closely identified with the Democratic party all his life, but is cow emphatic for Harrison and Morton."

Itrlglit Sparks for Women.

A present made to a bridegroom at a recent swell wedding in the East was a wig that fit his head loosely.

There is a colony of women on a secluded Alabama island which man has never invaded. They are very primitive in their customs, and are excellent hunters, fishers, and rowerp.

It is said that Belva Lockwood has propitiated the female politicians, who object to the candidate's manager, by promising each recalcitrant a cabinet position after March 4, 1S89.

The latest human prodigy is a "professional female joker." She perfected her art by directing her fun toward her husband for ten years and now, in his absence, she is knocking for recognition by the general public.

The London "match" girls, who were recently on a strike, scored a victory over their employers. A day before the firm gave in they were notified that a committee of the fair ones was preparing to give them a call.

The reason an English heiress gave for eloping with her father's groom was: "I have always been considered an ugly woman among my acquaintances, and I wish to give the English newspapers an opportunity to extol my beauty."

Recently three men died unexpectedly in New York City. On their bodies were no indications of violence, and the doctors found traces of no disease. Shortly after the triple demise, a detec

tive discovered the wife of each man talking to herself, and the three women were immediately arrested on suspicion of having caused the fatalities.

DETECTIVES AMONG WHITE CAPS.

New lcvclopmeiits Promised From tlie Disffrareil Distriot, Sieclal to tlie Indianapolis News.

Evansvii.i.e, Ind., August 18.—There is an undercurrent of considerable excitement here to-day at the rumor that one of the "White Caps" had turned state's evidence and revealed the whole secret of this lawless organization. The source of the rumor was hard to find, and the newspaper offices were besieged with inquiries as to the truth of the report. The origin of the rumor was finally fastened upon detective, who is reputed to have been employed either by the state or the citizens of Crawford and Hamilton counties, to adopt whatever ruse he might choose to gather such facts as would lead to the conviction of some of the "White Caps." He says that to accomplish his purpose he went into that section and, after making intimates of several gentlemen, finally got into thn organization. To do this, he submitted to some frightful ordeals, which tested, to the fullest extent, both his moral and physical courage. He was also required to deposit a considerable sum of money as a forfeit for keeping the secrets inviolate. He then became identified with several proposed outrages, managing, in most cases, to put the intended victims upon their guard. In this way a number of parties escaped their chastisement, though their benefactor was unknown to them. He says further that the White Caps do not as many suppose, meditate murder, but discountenance any greater violence than a flogging, but which must be done by whoever is nominated to do it, whether or not they may so desire. Nearly every person is first given a warning. The membership of the White Caps is said to include various classes, even county officials are said to be numbered in its members. The Whip Caps regard themselves as regulators enforcing the law, which the courts and juries refuse to do. In reality, though, they cloak their real designs with great professions of morality, the chief purpose of the order being the harassment of those who have given offense to the White Caps. Scarcely a single outrage was committed during the two months' connection of the detective which did not have its origin in the personal spite of one or more of the White Caps.

The number of White Caps have been vastly over-estimated, as there is not thought to be over 200. They mostly reside in Crawford and Harrison counties with a few others scattered over adjoining counties. The detective was unwilling to go into detail or to mention the name of any White Cap, lest it would defeat the principal object of his work in bringing them to justice. He is on his way to some unknown point, where it is understood, he is to meet his principals and lay all of the facts before them. He came to this city from Cannelton, and in view of the fact that Attorney General Michener is now in that section, it is supposed that they have something in common. The White Caps are said to be greatly alarmed at the action of Governor Gray and have issued a threatening circular, in which the state authorities are delied. The people of that section generally are very uneasy, lest serious difficulties may break out through the interference of the state, and the revelations of this detective will only serve to intensify matters. The whole story, in all its details, will doubtless come out in a few days.

(i EN Ell AI. SHERMAN'S NEW HOME.

He T?uys a Ilonse ill New York City for $:sr,o»o.

NRW YORK, August 18.—General William TecumBeh Sherman has just purchased the house and lot, No. 7.r West Seventy-first street, from John T. Farley. The deed conveying the premises was recorded in the register's office yesterday. The consideration named therein was $.']•"),(KMj. The general was late last night at the Fifth Avenue hotel. At first he refused to give his reason for making this purchase, and intimated that his private affairs did not concern the public. "Can't a man buy'a house without everyone wanting to know what he intends to do with it?" exclaimed the general. "Why, thousands of houses are bought and sold here every day. This is not a speculation on my part, however. You may say that the house is for some of the Sherman family there are a good many of them."

One Way.

"I understand that Colonel Blear is very wealthy." "Well, he's worth about one hundred thousand dollars." "How did he make it?" "He made it out of coal oil." "Indeed!" "Yes, his wife lit the lire with kerosene, and he got all her money."—| Lincoln Journal.

What the Old Mini Wiis (Joint For,

Daughter—Why, pa, you are not thinking of going out at this late hour? Father (resolutely)—Yes, I am.

Daughter—You ain't going after a doctor? Father—No I'm going after a gun.

Young man (rising hurriedly)—Well, I think I will have to say good night. Father (glaring at him)—Good morning! -[Texas Siftings.

Generally Cured by J)e»tli.

At the Police court. The judge questioning a witness: "Your name?" "Josephus Ilortner." "Vour age?" "Forty-three." "Your profession?" "Dramatic author." "That is not a profession—it is a disease."—| Truth.

Must Get Her Money Itack.

Customer (to seller of fruit)—How much for the plums, aunty? Aunty—Penny apiece, sah.

Customer—That's very high for plums aunty can't you let me have four for cents?

Aunty—No, sah de plums cost mo'n dat.—(Epoch.

Not His Fault.

Lieutenant (waking up)—Donnerwetter! Already 10 o'clock! John, why did you not waken me when I ordered?

John—I have already wakened you several times, but perhaps you have not heard me.—[Fliegende Blatter.

Not list Kiglit.

"I am so glad your sister enjoyed her visit to us, Mr. Smith." "Oh, well, you know, she is the sort of girl who can enjoy herself anywhere, you know."—[Life.

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'TIs the dally shout In the nation's forum: "We are now without

A (iiiorum."

Many congressmen Are, 'tis odd to say. Most Important when

They're away.

Judge Gresham is reported at Ilomburg. Girls are employed as Bhingle packers in the mills at Bay City, Mich.

Mme. Carnot, wife of the French president, parts her hair on one side. If Yellow Jack intends to make you a victim he will let you know within four days.

The working force in the principal new "gold mine" discovered at Ishpeming, Mich., is said to consist of two men.

A hungry coyote that had wandered in from the mountains was killed in one of the main streets of Denver a few days ago.

The cyclone in Kansas was not altogether an ill wind. Thousands of English sparrows were killed by lightning or beaten down and drowned.

The Chicago lecturer who chose "Fudging" as a subject for his address, must have been led by a desire to find something new under the sun.

The first unmarried colored woman sent out by the American Board of Foreign Missions is about to start for southeastern Africa. She is a graduate of Fisk university.

A philosopher writes that the first five years of marriage are dangerous the second lustrum is still more dangerouB. Yet there seem to be people not unwilling to meet danger.

Three hundred thousand dollars were left to the Scotch Baptist church, at Plainfield, N. J., by Frizee Lee, recently deceased. Relatives who got only $72,500, will contest the will.

The commissioner of patents has decided that a patent cannot be granted to an applicant who signs her name N. Kate Gentry. Persons who part their names in the middle will take due notice and put on no airs with this government.

The English court of appeals has decided that relatives of a dead person have no right to place flowers or other tokens on the grave except with the permission of the cemetery authorities.

At the meeting of the American Bar association at Saratoga, N. Y., Friday, David Dudley Field was elected president and General Harrison one of the vice presidents. The association will probably meet in the West next year. "Uncle" Zach Hash, the eldest settler of Chundlerville, III., remembered the time he saw Abraham Lincoln piloting an odd-looking flat-boat loaded with bogs, whisky and corn down the Sangamon river.

The report of extravagance and show at our watering places are not so loud nor so numerous as usual. Even Newport ie said to be not so formal or ceremonious this season in dinner parties and other entertainments.

English railroads have increased their speed this summer, until an average speed of forty-nine miles an hour is announced by the Great Northern and Eastern lines. As this includes stoppages, the actual running speed must be greater.

A Louisville colored woman recently paid a local doctor $10 for a dead man's finger, which she wished to use as a charm. The woman claimed to be a voudoo doctor, and said the finger would be a sure mascot for any one wishing to bet on the races.

Laura Dennis, a colored girl, aged 18, of Orange, N. J., seeing a funeral pass the house Thursday, became possessed of a desire to die, and tried to throw herself from a high trestle in front of an approaching train below, but was followed and saved.

Reports from New York state that Thursday night the moon seemed to be .covered with a snowy coating, and that the atmosphere about her appeared to be filled with a fiercely falling snow storm, notwithstanding the unusual clearness of the sky.

The friends of Chauncey M. Depew and his fellow members in the Union League club, of New York, of which he is the president are arranging to give him a reception on his return from Europe September 2. He sails from England on Saturday next.

John Brooks, the champion fisherman of Brooks's Station, Ga., went fishing and caught a turtle that weighed seventy pounds and measured four feet from tip to tip. After sending his neighbors a mess he had enough to do his family several days.

Ebenezer Peck, a colored man living on the Harrison place, near Crawfordsville, Va., recently dug up a large number of old silver pieces in his cotton patch. Many of the coins were of (Spanish mintage, dating back to the beginning of the last century.

Mr. O'Donnell, of Michigan, one of the members of the house committee on accounts, has just completed the auditing of accounts for the distribution of the speeches delivered by members during the present session, and he finds that the number of copies of speeches sent broadcast throughout the country during the present session was one-third larger than were distributed in any previous congress. Exactly 11,(XX),000 copies of speeches have up to date been folded at the folding-room during this session, and the government has been at an expense of $21,000 for envelops to cover them. The largest number of copies of speeches circulated in any previous congress was for the session ending in 187(5, when 7,000,000 copies were circulated. These figures do not include any of the work of the senate, being those for the house of representatives alone. The members and senators pay for the printing of the speeches, but the government bears the expense of folding and covering.

fii'i'sluim Tells Kli Perkins a Story. "One day," said the general, in a recent interview with Eli Perkins, "I met an old soldier who had been wounded in his face, and when I asked him in what battle he had been injured he said: 'I got it the first day atShiloh, sir,' 'But how could you get hit in the face at Shiloh?' asked. "'Well sir,' said he, half apologeticaly, 'after I had run a mile or two I got careless and looked back.' "This story reminds me of how one of Ellsworth's fire zouaves killed the first Confederate. He said that he marched out to the battle of Bull Run, and when about half-way there he met a Johnny Reb in ambush. "'What did you do then?' I asked. '"Well, sir,'he answered,'I drew out my revolver and he drew out his bowieknife, and then I took the lead from the start and kept it clear into Washington city, and 'But how did you kill the man?" 'Run him to death, sir,' was the reply."

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