Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 26 July 1895 — Page 3

1895 JULY. 1895 Su. Mo. Tu. We. Th. Fri. Sat. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 23 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

A COOL RETREAT.

Has Every Desirable Facility for ail Enjoyable Summer Sojourn.

Persons desiring to combine recreation, entertainment, instruction and devotion with their summer outing will And Eagle Lake, on the Pensylvania Lines, near Warsaw Ind., the ideal spot. Tbis pretty resort is site of Wii.ona Assembly and Summer school, the youngest of the Chautauqua Assembly!?. The grounds have been well and favorabley known as Spring Fountain Park. They constitue about two hundred acres of romantic woodland st etching nearly two miles alog the eastern shore of Eagle Lake, a beautiful sheet of water. The grounds have been platted and pretty cottagos constitute the summer homes of persons who here And rest anl liealthgi7iag recreation in invigorating air, amid attractive surroundings. Some desirable cottage sites are ytt obtainable. In addition to the portion laid out for building purposes, a fine park has been made. There is also a race track with overlooking amphitheatre furnishing splendid facilities for outdoor athletic sports. The large auditorium has a seating capacity of 3,000, and the several college halls are used fo Assembly purposes. A good hotel, lestaurants and supply stores furnish means of living at reasonable rates. A large fleet of row boats with two steamers will permit indulgence in boating, and persons fond of fishing may enjoy that pastime to satisfactory extent, as the lake teems with fish. The low tourist rates over the Pennsylvania Lines place these pleasures within easy reach. The rate will be in effeet all season from ticket stations en these lines. In addition to the season tourist tickets, a low rate will also be in effect for round trip tickets good fifteen days. Ticket agents of the Pennsylvania Lines will furnish them, and they may be obtained from agents of connecting lines. The Assenbly Department opens July 1st and continues four weeks during which time prominent speakers will discuss live topics. During August there will be educationel work under Prest. John M. Coulter.'of Lake Forest University,in connection with the Assembly. For details regarding rates of fare, time of trains, etc., apply to nearest Pennsylvania L'ne Ticket Agent, or address F. Van Dusen, Chief Assistant General Passenger Agent, Pittsburgh, Pa. Applications for information concerning the resort should be addressed to Secretary E. S. Scott, Eagle Lake, Ind.

July 3 —D&Wlmo.

PLEASURE TRIPS.

Numerous Excursion tlie Coming Summer at Reasonable Rates.

Whether the tourist's fancy directs him to the New England States or the Atlai.tic seaboard to the South or to the lake region of the North or to the Rocky Mountains and the wonderland beyond the Mississippi, he will be given opportunity to indulge his tastes at a small cost for railroad fare this year. In Aug excursion tickets will be on sale over the Pennsylvania Lines to Boston, account the Knights Templar Conclave. The sale of low rate tickets will not be restricted to .members of the organizations mentioned, but the public generally may take advantage of them.

The Asbary Park excursion will doubtless attract many to that delightful ocean resort. Atlantic City, Cape May, Long Branch and all the famous watering places along the New Jersey coast are located on the Pennsylvania Lines, hence this will be a desirable opportunity to visit the seashore. The Denver excursion will be just the thing for a sight-seeing jaunt thro' the far West, as tickets will be honored going one way and returning a different route through the most romantic scenery beyond the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Variable route privileges will also be accorded Boston excur sionists, enabling them to visit Niagara Falls, Montreal, Thousand Islands and St. Lawrence Rapids, the White Mountains, the Hudson River territory, and to return by steamer on Long Island Sound, after sight-seeing at Newport. Narraganeett Pier, Nantucket and the Cape Cod resorts to New York fend thence through the agricultuaal paradise of the Keystone State, along the Susquehanna and Juniata rivers, over the Alleghenies, around famous Horse Shoe Curve, through historic Johnstown and the coke and iron regions of.'Western Pennsylvania. Ibis also expected that Boston excursionists over the Pennsylvania Lines will be privileged to return via Baltimore and Washington if they so desire.

In addition to the above, there will be plenty of other cheap excursions over the Pennsylvania Lines to various points. As the season is some weeks away, arrangements in detail have not been consummated, but it is certain that no railway will offer better inducements than the liberal concessions in rates and privilege* that may be enjoyed by travelers over the Pennsylvania Lines. This fact may readily be ascertained upon application to any passenger or ticket agent of these lines, or by addressing F. VAN DUSEN, Chief Assistant Gen. Pass. Agt., Pittsburg, Pa. apr6wd-t-s-tf

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MICHIGAN RESORTS.

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Special attention to Childrens, Women**' fetid Chronic Diseases. Late resident physician St. Louis Childrens Hosp(*«1. .. «tly

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Charlevoix, Petoskey, Bay Yiew, Roaring Brook, Wequetonsing, Harbor Springs,

Harbor Point, Oden-Oden, Mackinac Island UpperPeninsula Points.

Tourist Tickets are on sale June 1st to Sepfc 30th, return limit Oct. 31st.

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HARVEY-HtRR [TALK.

The Debate Again Resumed at the Illinois Club.

COINAGE WAS FIRST DISCUSSED.

Then Follows a Discussion on the Expense of Mining Both Gold and Silver—Prices of Gold on a Grain Basis—Need of National

Banks—Adjournment

Taken Until

Saturday. CHICAGO, July 26.—The Horr-Harvey

silver dispute was continued yesterday afternoon in the Illinois club under about the usual conditions.

Mr. Horr opened the discussion by saying that the 4f2 1-2 grain silver dollars coined between the years 1855 and 1S73 'were all coined at the Philadelphia mint and from foreign silver coins which had accumulated in the treasury under an act of congress which made them receivable, but did not permit them to be paid out again.

Mr. Harvey in reply denied the statement and declared that he could prove it. Mr. Harvey then resumed the discussion of the question of primary and credit monev. Tlie amount of gold in the United" States was estimated at from $400,000,000 to $600,000,000, and of credit money about $1,000,000,000. This was too much credit money he said and accounted for tlie country's financial derangement.

Mr. Harvey, referring back to the silver coinage between lS,3o and STo, said that the silver coined at Philadelphia was coined into subsidiary money, not dollars. He added that the premium 011 silver was a premium at London, and that transportation charges would more than eat that up so the bullion owners in this country would take it to the mints for coinage.

Taking into consideration bank credits and checks, and the amount of money in circulation, the normal amount of money necessary for the transaction of the business of the country, continued Mr. Harvey, was $4,SOO,000.000. Of this one-third only was in money and tlie rest was borrowed. The inference was plain: The normal amount of money which we should have was $4,800,000,000. As matters now stand, he said that the banks were 'ending and getting interest 011 two dollars for every dollar in circu: lation.

Mr. Horr said that the question whether the banks were a curse to the country would be discussed in its proper place, and Mr. Harvey would probably be disgusted with himself when it was done, for having brought the matter up. Returning to his discussion, Mr. Horr said that statistics showed that 122 manufactured articles had depreciated in value since 1879, an average of 7 per cent silver had depreciated 50 per ceiit. Some other articles had depreciated as much, owing to special conditions. Taking up the statement in Mr. Harvey's book, that it had cost $2 per ounce to produce the silver in the United States, Mr. Horr characterized it as nonsenso. He produced statistics of different mines collected by M. L. Sudder, showing that one mine had produced at 13 cents per ounce another at 24 cents. The silver miners would not have continued to mine silver at a cost of $2 per ounce when the product was worth only 60 cents.

Mr. Harvey, in turn, said that what Mr. Horr had said about the cost of producing silver he could have said with much more force with regard to gold. Silver was only produced from quartz, most of the gold was produced from placer mines. It cost less, dollar for dollar, to produce gold than silver. He read from a book by Alexander Del Mar, an opinion that, pound for pound, it cost more to produce silver than gold, or dollar for dollar, 16 to 1. Why did men continue to mine silver at a loss Why did men gamble 011 the board of trade where a large majority lost It was the gambling instinct implanted in tiie human breast.

Another thing: Much of the silver produced was produced in conjunction with gold mining, and a large proportion of the silver production was the result of attempts to develop mines which proved failures in the end, and losers were disposing of their output to try to save something from the wreck. There were, he declared, only three or four silver mines in operation in the country aud they were having a precarious existence, liable to close any week.

Mr. Harvey then denounced Mr. Scudder as the tool of the banking'nterests, sent out to the silver country to defame his nation.

Mr. Horr declared that the statement that it cost more to produce a pound of silver than a pound of gold was not true and had not been true for a great many thousand years. It was true, he. said, as measured in human toil, both gold and silver had depreciated in Value but silver had depreciated much faster than gold. Mr. Horr thett,pri$~ seated statistics for insubscantiatiou of tlw of gold, showing thi* pete«# fdr agricultural product# and' tfaie wages of labor.

Mr. Harvey took up the subject andproceeded to argue that advances in they, price of grain-under a-.gold basis in tht' .years quoted had resulted eithervfroii short crops or in the increased demjpul brought about by finding no Ubes .ro ltv Mr. Harvey said the banks should go out of the government business instead of the government going out of the banking business. "Let the banks be banks of deposit and discount, and not makers of money. They are making it now with bank oredit and you are paying them interest for it. The argument that confidence and not money is all that is wanted if made by a greenbacker would be ridiculed by those same men. Confidence won't buy anything, it will get a man in debt to a banker, that is all. You might as well talk about doing without air and water as talk about doing without money. There is no condition of civilization that you can imagine by which you can be apart of that civilization and yet do without money. And by legislatibn in 1873 it has been enhanced in exchangeable value with your property. That is the crucial point in this financial discussion. "A man loaning money in 1872 that 1,000 bushels of wheat would have paid, you must now give him 2,000 bushels of wheat to pay that debt. Tlie men who own bonds payable in money and securities, payable in money aggregating more than all the assessed valuation of the property iu the United States, have

legislated so as to enhance the value of their property until you have got to give up twice as much to them when they come to buy your property as they give up to you when you go with your hard earnings, with the product of your term and your field, to buy their property."

Mr. Horr—ZSfow, I want to call the attention of my friend to the fact that he can not get at how farmers are doing simply by selecting one article which happens to be cheap.

Sir. Harvey—I want to ask you right here, before these people, to answer my argument made just before I sat down.

Mr. Horr—I am going to do it if you will wait and keep still, that is what I am up here for now. The very last thing he said was in reference to the fact that a farmer had to give twice as much wheat to pay his debt as he did before the demonetization of silver. What ails you That is the very thing I am speaking about. Now, I was stating that he can not possibly find out the facts in reference to the farmer simply by taking one article, and that the lowest one you can find. Now, I will call j'our attention to a confirmation of the figures, which I have heretofore given. "Those figures show that prices for farm products all taken together, you know have not declined. Here in the Unitei States, comparing the present values to those of 20 years ago, I find my confirmation in an analysis of national wealth by the great statistical authority, Mr. Mulhall, so often quoted by Mr. Harvey. In the June North American Review, Mr. Mulhall says that the average yearly accumulation of the agricultural workers, per capita, of tlie United States, was for the decade 1861 to 1870, $17.90 each."

Mr. Harvej1"—Will you pardon me Mr. Horr—Don't bother me. For the decade 1870 and 1880, $47.10 per capita, and for the ciecade 1881 to 1890, $47.50 per capita. Here is an ability 011 the part of the farmers of this country to save the last census decade nearly three times as great as in the decade before the silver legislation, 1873.

Mr. Harvey—Did not you have that written before you left New York He says that we have increased in wealth. Nobody disputes that. The United States has not only been a workshop producing wealth, but it has been a sweatshop. It has been producing wealth, but have the men who produced that wealth got wealth The rich men are controlling the legislation of America and the old world, and there is 110 plau by which European civilization can rise from under it and when we have passed four or eight years further along there will be 110 way for us to rise from under it. We are making in the United States today the last stand of freedom in the civilization of the world.

The Answering of questions occupied much of the remainder of the day, the debate finally being adjourned at Mr. Horr's request till Saturday at 1 p. m.

STATEMENT OF A MURDERESS.

She Acknowledge* Her Crime aud Implicates Three Others. BARBJUKVILLE, Ky.. July 26.—Rosa Gordon, who murdered the two women I near Corbin, Ky., in a confession iinplicates three men who, she claims, were at her house at the time of the crime and held Mary Southerland and

Melissa B.o-vii, her victims, while she disemboweled them. Warrants have been issued for the arrest of the alleged accomplices and the three will likely be brought here. Much excitement prevails over the affair. I The Times representative secured a short interview with tlie prisoner, in which she spoke of the necessary self defense. She is a small, bright appearing girl of about 19, with keen brown eyes and short, curly brown hair, thickly clustered about her head. When asked concerning the crime, she very composedly told the whole story aud how it originated over some callers at the house where the girls lived. Miss

Gordon expressed herself as very sorry for the occurrence, but seemed not to fear in the least the result of a trial, The grand jury will at once consider her cas!, and a final trial will follow as soon as the court can reach an indict1 inent.

Letter Carriers "Spotted."

WASHINGTON, July 2(5.—The work of the postoffice inspectors who have been ''spotting the letter carriers in the free delivery offices throughout the country continues to bear fruit. First Assistant Postmaster General Jones has sent orders to the postmasters at Indianapolis, Toledo and Syracuse to suspend or discharge a number of their carriers on charges of loafing and intemperance.

Tw«ln Pol* Biver Overflown. HUNTINGTO^ W. Va., July 26.—Reports from tji&tjpper Twelve Pole valley are to

vlnie

effect that the Twelve

Pole river was the highest last midnight ever known at .head waters. There was a continual rain for 80 hours and the banks were all overflown. An 1 enormous loss will be suffered by farmers, as entire fields of growing crops Were swept away. ,,

Jockijr Club s*r« Robbed/

KANSAS CITY, July 26.—The safe of the Kansas City Jockey club, at Exposition park, was robbed of $2,000. Secretary Cunningham had left the office for a short while. When he oarne back the safe was open and the money, $3,* 000, was gone. It is thought some thief slipped in during his absence and got the money. The police are investigating.

Negro Lynched.

LEXINGTON, Tex., July 26.—S. Loftin. a negro, who was arrested yesterday charged with assaulting a white woman, was taken from the officers last night aud lynched by a mob

More Alen Join the Strikers NKGAUNEE, Mich., July 26.—The men employeid at the Champion mine, 300 in number, joined the strikers yesterday. Another large massin^eting was held at Union park.

Know Where Lewis Is,

COLUMBUS, O., July 26.—The police here believe they know where Z. T. Lewis, the bond forger, is, and it is said he is hiding near the capital city.

Grover's Coachman Stricken.

WASHINGTON. July 26.—William Willis, the president's coachman, was stricken with paralysis and is not expected to live.

i, Buildings Burned.

OTTUMWA, la., July 26.—Fire Thursday destroyed 10 buildings, inoluding the bank, at Melrose.

SKETCHES OF LINCOLN.

Parting With His Old Associates Jx\ Spiingfield.

EISE TO NATIONAL PEOMHTENCE.

How He Fiepared His Inaugural Address. The Firm of Lincoln & Herndon—Miserably Uncomfortable In Strange Habiliments—Douglas Holds His Hat.

[From "The Life of Lincoln" by William EL. Herndon and Jesse W. Weik. Copyright, 1888, by Jesse W. Weik. Copyright, 1892, by D. Appleton & Co.J

XXI.

Before departing for Washington sis president Mr. Lincoln went to Chicago for a few days' stay, and there by previous arrangement met his old friend, JoshuasF. Speed. Both were accompanied by their wives, and while the latter were out shopping the two husbands repaired to Speed's room at the hoteL "For an hour or more," relates Speed, "we lived over again the scenes of other days. Finally Lincoln threw himself on the bed, and fixing his eyes on a spot in the ceiling asked me this question: 'Speed, what is your pecuniary condition—are you rich or poor?' I answered, addressing him by his new title: 'Mr. President, I think I can anticipate what you are going to say. I'll speak candidly to you 011 the subject. My pecuniary condition is satisfactory to me now. You would perhaps call it good. I do not think you have within your gift any office I could afford to take.' Mr. Lincoln then proposed to make Guthrie of Kentucky secretary of war, but he did not want to write to him—asked me to feel of him. I did as requested, but the Kentucky statesman declined on the ground of his advanced age and consequent physical inability to fill the position. He gave substantial assurance of his loyal sentiments, however, and insisted that the Union should be preserved at all hazards."

Writing His Inaugural.

Late in January Mr. Lincoln informed me that he was ready to begin the preparation of his inaugural address. He had, aside from his lawbooks and the few gilded volumes that ornamented the center table in his parlor at home, comparatively no library. He never seemed to care to own or collect books. On the other hand, I had very respectable collection and was adding to it every day. To my library Lincoln Yery frequently had access. When, therefore, he began on his inaugural speech, he told me what works he intended to consult. I looked for a long list, but when he went over it I was greatly surprised. Ho asked me to furnish him with Henry Clay's great speech delivered in 1850, Andrew Jackson's proclamation against nullification and a copy of the constitution. He afterward called for Webster's reply to Hayne, a speech which he read when he lived at New Salem, and which he always regarded as the grandest specimen of American oratory. With these few "volumes" and no further sources of reference he locked himself up in a room up stairs over a store across the street from the statehouse, and there, cut off from all communication and intrusion, he prepared the address.

After Mr. Lincoln's rise to national prominence, and especially since his death, I have often been asked if I did not write this or that paper for him, if I did not prepare or help prepare some of his speeches. I know that other and abler friends of Lincoln have been asked the same question. To people who made such inquiries I always responded: "You don't understand Mr. Lincoln. No man ever asked less aid than he. His confidence in his own ability to meet the requirements of every hour was so marked that his friends never thought of tendering their aid, and therefore no one could share his responsibilities. I never wrote a line for him. He never asked me to. I was never conscious of having exerted any influence over him. He often called out my views on some philosophical question, simply because I was a fond student of philosophy and conceding that I had given the subject more attention than he. He often asked as to the use of a word or the turn of a sentence, but if I volunteered to reoommend or even suggest a change of language which involved a change of sentiment I found him the most inflexible man I have ever seen."

The Old Signboard.

Early in February the last item of preparation for the journey toW ashington had been made. Mr. Liucoln had disposed of his household goods and furniture to a neighbor, had rented his house, and as these constituted all the property he owned in Illinois there was no further occasion for concern on that score. In the afternoon of his last day in Springfield he came down to our office to examine some papers and confer with me about certain legal matters in Which he still felt some interest. On several previous occasions he had told me he was coming over to the office "to have a long talk with me, "as he expressed it We ran over the books and arranged for the completion of all unsettled and unfinished matters. In some cases he had certain requests to make, certain lines of procedure he wished me to observe.

After these things were all disposed of he crossed to the opposite side of the room and threw himself down on the old office sofa, which, after many years of service, had been moved against the wall for suppoKL He lay for some moments, his fao^toward the ceiling, without either of us speaking. Presently he inquired, "Billy"—he always called me by that name—"how long have we been together?" "Over 16 years," an-' swered. "We've never had across word during all that time, have we?" to whioh I returned a vehement, "No, indeed we have not." He then recalled some incidents of his early practice and took great pleasure in delineating the

ludicrous features of many a lawsuit onj the circuit. It was at this last interview) in Springfield that he told me of the ef-i forts that had been made by other law-] yers to supplant mo in the partnership, with him. He insisted that such men! were weak creatures, who, to use his own language, "hoped to secure a laWi practice by hanging to his coattail." I| never saw him in a more cheerful mood.) He gathered a bundle of books and pa-, pers he wished to take with him and started to go, but before leaving he made the strange request that the signboard which swung on its rusty hinges at the foot of the stairway should remain." "Let it hang there undisturbed," he said, with a significant lowering of his voice. "Give our clients to understand that the election of a president-makes no change in the firm of Lincoln & Herndon. If I live, I'm coming back some time, and then we'll go right on prac-| ticing law as if nothing had ever happened." He lingered for a moment as if to take a last look at the old quarters, and then passed through the door into the narrow hallway. I accompanied him down stairs. On the way he spoke of the unpleasant features surroundiag the presidential office. "I am sick of officeholding already," he complained, "and 1 shudder when I think of the tasks that are still ahead."

He said the sorrow of parting from his old associations was deeper than most persons would imagine, but it was more marked in his case because of the feeling which had become irrepressible that he would never return alive. I argued against the thought, characterizing it as an illusory notion not in harmony or keeping with tTie popular ideal of a president. "But it is in keeping with my philosophy, was his quick retort. Our conversation was frequently broken in upon by the interruptions of passersby, who, each in succession, seemed desirous of claiming his attention. At length he broke away from them all. Grasping my hand warmly and with a fervent Good by," he disappeared down the street and never came back to the office again.

A Metamorphosis.

One who witnessed the impressive scene left the following graphic description of the inauguration and its principal incidents: "Near noon I found myself a member of the motley crowd gathered about the side entrance to Willard's hotel. Soon an open barouche drove up, and the only occupant stepped out. A large, heavy, awkward moving man, far advanced in years, short and thin gray hair, full face, plentifully seamed and wrinkled, head curiously inclined to the left shoulder, a low crowned, broad brimmed silk hat, an immense white cravat like a poultice, thrusting the old fashioned standing collar up to the ears, dressed in black throughout, with swallowtail coat not of the newest style. It was President Buchanan, calling to take his successor to the capitol. In a few minutes he reappeared, with Mr. Lincoln on his arm. The two took seats side by side, and the carriage rolled away, followed by a rather disorderly and certainly not very imposing procession. I nad ample time to walk to the capitol and no difficulty in securing a place where everything could be seen and heard to the best advantage. The attendance at the inauguration was, they told me, unusually small, many being kept away by anticipated disturbance, as it had been rumored—truly, too—that General Scott himself was fearful of an outbreak and had made all possible military preparations to meet the emergency. A square platform had been built out from the steps to the eastern portico, with, benches for distinguished spectators on three sides. "Douglas, the only one I recognized, sat at the extreme end of the seat on the right of the narrow passage leading from the steps. There was no delay, and the gaunt form of the president elect was soon visible, slowly making his way to the front. To me at least he was completely metamorphosed, partly by his own fault and partly through the efforts of injudicious friends and ambitious tailors. He was raising—to gratify a very young lady, it is said—a crop of whiskers of the blacking brush variety, coarse, stiff and ungraceful, and in so doing spoiled, or at least seriously impaired, a face which, though never handsome, had in its original state a peculiar power and pathos. Oa the present occasion the whiskers were re-enforced by brand new clothes from top to toe, black dress coat, instead of the usual frock, black cloth or satin vest, black pantaloons and a glossy hatevidently just out of the box. To cap the 61imax of novelty, he carried a huge ebony cane with a gold head the size of an egg. In these, to him, Strange habiliments he looked so miserably uncomfortable that I could not help pitying him.

Douglas Holds Hli Hat.

"Reaching the platform, his discomfort was visibly increased by not knowing what to do with hat and cane, and so he stood there, thd'target "for 10,000 eyes, holding cane in one hand and hat iu the other, the very picture of helpless' embarrassment After some hesitation he pushed the oane into a oorner of the railing, but tiould not find a place for the hat except on the floor, where I could see he did not like to risk it. Douglas, who fully took in the situation, came to the rescue of his old friend and rival and held the precious hat until the ownor needed it again, a service which, if predicted two years before, would probably have astonished him. /,'*'• "The oath of office was administered by Chief Justice Taney, whose black robes, attenuated figure and cadaverous countenance reminded me of a galvanized cqrpse. Then the president came forward and read his inaugural address in a clear and distinct voice. It was attentively listened to by all, but the closest listener was Douglas, who leaned, forward as if to catch every word, nod* ding his head emphatically at thosff passages which most pleased him. There was some applause, not very much aor very enthusiastic." .'".O'