Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 September 1888 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, SEPTEM.BEB 23, 1888-TVEIiVE PAGKE5.

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Those whose souls were thrilled by Eer eloquence in years gene by rejoice that she is to discuss the is sues of to-day; a younger generation knowing her only by the fame that has descended welcome the opportunity to listen to one so greatly praised. The crowds are augmented, of course, by the idly-curious those who fol- , low after any celebrity those to whom a wornWon tha political stage is still novelty. All these things, her former triumphs, her recognized oratorical ability, the fact that she is a woman, are elements of attraction, but they fail to account entirely for her ''drawing power. Other speakers are eloquent, logical, well po3ted, persuasive, but only in rare instances is the frame influence felt that so greatly moves the public in Miss Dickinson's ease. Other speakers, though high-principled, cf unimpeachable honesty, and firm believers in the just'ee of the cause they preach, may yot be'open to influences from which she ' is free. Misa Dickinson is not a politician in the sense cf participating in party manage-, meat; she is neither an office-holder nor an c face-seeker; she has no ulterior object to promote in taking part in thi3 campaign. She enters it because the is3ues appeal to her, because working people meaning nine-tenths of th9 population with whom ehe has always had dfsep sympathy, need champions, and she is iT?iou3 ct her ability to help. Probably Miss Dickinson could never bring her- " self to work. against the party with which she early identified herself, and to which the world owes so much, but it is equally certain that unless she were absolutely convinced of tha justice and importance of its present mission, she would not have lent her'active aid. She is th oroughly informed upon the labor question, but it is her intense earnestness in advocating the cause of the worker, in setting forth hi3 wrongs and the V remedy therefor, that renders her words so impressive and convincing. Among her leading characteristics, as indicated throughout her public career, are conscientiousness and a love of -truth. The very announcement that'sbe had volunteered her services in support of Republican J principles was sufficient evidence to those who knew her that she believed them right and just, and that there would be nothing perfunctory in her efforts. This conviction cf the singleness of her purpose becomes that of all who listen to her arguments. She stand3 before the people not to advocate the claims of a party because of a partisanship, but to adnata their cause, and to point out the way of safety. Her fiery soul is wrought vpen by the enormity of the industrial calamities threatened, and she hastens to protest ' with all her force. Defore her impassioned earnestness opposition stands silenced; partisans and party followers from principle alike rejoice in such an ally, and petty critics who assume to limit a "woman's sphere" are "abashed. They see a gifted woman doing - what the Loi-d has so plainly set her to do that criticism is hushed. The cause is indeed fortunate which has Miss Dickinson for its friend and active supporter. ZEAL 13 A GOOD CAUSEIt is announced that a young French physician is coming from Paris to Jacksonville to make a scientific study of yellow fever, and to experiment upon some theories which he . V T . h m n A 4 A je I Vk a eavAMamM man will probably lose his life before his experiments fcre ended, but he will die a martyr to science and to his fellow-men, and deserves honor and praise for his willingness to sacrifice himself ineuch a cause. The case is very different with those persons heard of here and there in all parts of the country, who, without training or experience, volunteer to go to the infected region as nurses. They are animated, no doubt, by worthy motives, a desire to relieve the suffering and a willingness to risk their lives, if need be, for the sake of others but they are not animated by common sense, and common sense, in such emergencies, is much more admirable than the religious exaltation or the wish to do noble deeds which leads to needless self-immolation. To nurse any invalid properly requires a certain amount of skill and the possession of qualities not common to alL To care for the victims cf a disease so malignant as yellow fever, and . one ho rapid in 1U course, calls for more than a willingness to serve and a dis regard for personal safety. The volunteer nurses ara usually young women with little fitnes3 for such labor under any clisunstances, and who, if allowed to carry

out their ill-considered purposes, would soon become a burden upon the community they sought to benefit, and would sacrifice themselves without having accomplished the least good. Young women, anxious for a field of useful labor, can usually find it near at home, and, though they may not secure the doubtful glory of needless martyrdom by attending to the work at hand, they will be sure of the approval of their own judgment when they have arrived at years of discretion. At all events, young or old, men or women, unless they are acclimated and have had scientific training, are not wanted in Florida, and would much better "attend to their knitting" and send the proceeds to the sufferers. PR1HCE BISMARCK AND PROTECTION. During the present tariff discussion in the United States reference has been made to Prince'Bisuaarck's advocacy of protection in Germany. The Life of Bismarck, by Charles Lowe, throws some light on the subject.

This work was published in 1SS6. It was in the latter part of 1S73 that Bismarck's scheme of financial reform, embracing protection, was laid before the country. It was called the "Chancellor's Christmas Card." It was an entire new departure from the established pclicy of Germany, and committed Bismarck fully to the policy of protection. Bismarck himself said in the Reichstag, Feb. 21, 1879, "Gentleman, I should be proud if, as is alleged, I had had economic tendencies of this kind in 180:2, the year of his entrance into office, but I must confess, to my shame, that I had none at all." He was proud of his conversion to protection, llis object, eays his biographer, was threefold, viz., to protect and encourage native industry, thereby developing national wealth; second, to improve the condition of the working class and consumers; third, to inaugurate a general plan of financial reform. He had a long and hard struggle with the opponents of protection, lie took the ground that'it was necessary for the prosperity and welfare of Germany. "Our sole aim," savs the motto of the Condon Club, "i3 the just interests of England, regardless of the objects of other nations." Bismarck wrote: "In revising our tariff our own interest is the only thing that can guide us." That is true statesmanship every country for itself. Again be said: "In the field of political economy, the abstract doctrines of science leave me perfectly cold, my only standard of judgment being my experience." His biographer adds: "This experience had taught liim though plenty of Cobden Club writers are prepared to show had falsely taught him that under a system of comparative free trade, and almost isolated free trade, German industry was being well-nigh ruined; and, unlike many of Lis theoretical countrymen, he was not the man to destroy his coun try for a doctrine." In the controversy that ensued, the influence of the Cobden Club was felt ,in favor of free trade. The Germans called the Cobdenites "U1tramaritimes," referring to the Jesuits, who were called "Ultraraontanes." "In the judgment of Bismarck," says his biographer, "the doctrine of the Cobdenites ere as dangerous to the German state as the theories of the Jesuits.' In a German pamphlet entitled "Bismarck; Twelve Yt-ara of German Politics," published in 1SS3, the author says: "From Rome to Manchester is a long leap. Yet it is' only a step from one international society to another from the 'ultramontane' to the 'ultramaritimes from those who are actually at home beyond the mountains to those who dwell on tho other sideof the sea. Aptiost the German conception of the state t hew' two parties wage battle alike from diff rsct positions doiug all they can to combat thU conception tho one on behalf of the church, the other in favor of the economic individual. 2sot quite homogeneous in their organization, the Cobdn Club and the Jesuit order are Mike in their activity and influence. The CoUien Club is the citadel and center of liberal-minded progress that is, of progress by certain means called 'liberal.' But Germany, as the land cf Luther, is not more obnoxious to the ultramontanes than is Germany, the land of Bismarck and of large armament, to the economists of the Manchester school." Daring the seven months of popular discussion that followed Germany was flooded with Cobden Club literature. Polemical pamphlets poured from the press and newspapers were filled with tho tariff discussion. In the end, the protective tariff law, proposed by Bismarck, passed the liaichstag by 217 against 117 votes. It has already brought great benefits to Germany. A PRACTICAL EFFORT. At tL last meeting of the State Teachers' Association it was resolved to set apart one number of the programme for the next annual session for a competitive paper. The subject selected by the committee is announced to be, "The School in Its delations to the Community." The committee says it is desired that this theme shall cover not so mueh an abstract dissertation on the principles involved as a study in the most concrete form of the relations of the school to the civil affairs and social development of the community in which it exists, and should & study of the actual and possible influence of the school on such matters as the local industries, tho local gor-. ernmeat, the building and maintaining of ' roads, the care of the poor, the beautifying of homes, the moral tone of the community, etc The end chiefly sought is not a fine speech but a scientific fetudy of facts, and a setting forth of the truth as to fact and principle ro gardless of its support of any theory. Mindful of the fact that study of educational matters i3 not confined to teachers, the committee has wisely S opened the competition to all citizens of .the State. By this new departure tbey hope to get at the best thought on the subject, regardless of the'personality of the author, and while only one paper may be read before the association an interest will be aroused which will tend tc the benefit of schools and community, and assist the work of the association. Circulars containing full details of the competition can be obtained of Robert Spear, Evansville, Ind., chairman of the executive committee of the State Teachers' Association. MINOR 3ILXT10X. No more striking instance of the forgiving nature of a woman was ever ahown than in tbe trial of William Bobao, the wretch who gouged out his wife s eyes, and some l&tails of whose trial hav been given in tbe dispatches of the week. Two rears aro the man in brutal fory

destroyed one eye of the woman he had sworn

to love and cherish. This treatment did not drive her from him and made no change in their relations. Recently he attacked her aeain without provocation and gouged out the other eye. This time the woman's relatives, rather tardily indignant, took the matter into their own hands and caused his arrest. The wife, caotle and pa tient, was called to the stand, tropin tr her way in Esthetic blindness, and most reluctantly did she testify. "William wanted some money I had and followed me into th next room. It was dark; he put up his hand and I ran against it, bIt," she said to the prosecutor who insisted that she should answer. With sight eone forever, with the prospect of further abuse if her huttand escaped punishment, that forgiving woman insisted upon his innocence and that it was "all an accident" Her dsvotion is the sort of theory that pleases the sentimentalists and In spite of its folly h.is in it an element of pathos, but there is Gratification to the unsentimental in the verdict that gave the brute twenty-seven yeara in the penitentiary for his eruolty. Speaking of drnromers, or as they should be called, "commercial travelers there are about 300,000 of them in the United States. They have an association called the Travelers' Protective Association, cenerally referred to by them as T. P. A- It has some 18,000 metabers, scattered throughout all the States and Territories of the Union. There are subordinate divisions made up of tbe members living or centering in eaeh State or Territory (a commercial traveler is not supposed to lire anywhere, but just hails from a place), bnt the headquarters and general offices of the ordr are la Chicago. The organization Is intended for the protection of traveling men and tbe promotion ef the interests of the craft, in the way of railroad fares, commercial privileges, etc The association also has an accident insurance feature. Every member, at no additional expense, is insured against accident to the extent of &.0C0 in the case of death, and smaller amounts in the event of ether disability, down to $25 a week when incapacitated for work through accident The annual fee is $2, which entitles a man to membership and all the benefits. There are twenty-nine State organizations in t&e T. P. A. People in Chicago who have been induced to try a patent smoke consumer are disgusted with its total failure to do what was claimed for it A smoke eonnmer that does not consume smoke is no good. The Chicago News says it has tried several to the injury of its boilers, to the detriment of its bank account and its great chagrin and disappointment It adds: "Finding the 'smoke consumer' a delusion and a snare the engineer of the establishment was given carte-blancbe in tbe premises; and, after tryinr many ether expedients, he has finally succeeded in making a practical success of tbe use of coke in connection with soft coal as a smokeless fuel. This is not eiaimed as a 'discovery.' Coke and coal, partly coked eoal and coal coked in the process of Ceding to the furnace have all been used for years with mere or less success. " As a matter of geccral information this is interesting, but the days of smoke ia this city are numbered. Natural gas has solved the problem for us without a smoke consumer. Some preachers announce their texts in advance, thus giving people a chance to decide whether they wish to hear any particular discourse. Following are the. subjects on which Judge A. W. Ton rgee, author of UA Fools Errand," will speak during the present eanvass: "What Is tbe Real Issue of the Campaign, and Who Is lUspociible for the Deeisionr The Veteran and the Veteran's Son How Will Tney Voter T "Freedom and Slavery as Training Schools for Patriots and Political Economists." "Democratic Ideajs The Party, Patriots and Economists of theNew Dispensation." "Tbe Perils of tie Future Who Shall Deal with Thenar "Whose Roosters Will Crow in Caee of Democratic Victory "The Democratic Remedy for Trusts, Combines and Tramps." It must be a fastidious tut that cannot suit itself in this lilt TrtE Youcg Women's Christian Association of Boston is about to engaee in awork wbich will lead to tangible results. They propose to establish a school of household art and domestic economy, tbe classes to go through a fall course of technical training. Mrs. Ewiog. known as one of the Chautauqua teachers, is to take charge of the enterprise. It is not established, as most of such iuttitutions are, for the training of servants only, but is open to all classes of society, and as a result four prospective brides who have bad no opportunity for learning the domestic arts have applied, among others, for j.uuission. There is no better field for "Chris tian endeavor" than in tbe training of cooks, and thj Boston association has entered upon a good work. Comparatively few persona on the American continent will give more than a passing thought to tbe announcement that the Ameer of Afghanistan Is dead, and still fewer will be able to mention the name of the deceased dignitary without referring to "Whttaker" or some other authority. Nevertheless, the late Ameer, Abdurrahman, by tha way, was a potentate of some consequence, and ruled over a country containing 278,000 square miles and a population of 2,500,000. It is a tolerably big world, and a considerable number of its people are, by reason of non-residence, deprived of the privilege of voting for Preeident of the United States this fall. It is announced by the publishers that Mr. J. P. Dunn's history cf Indiana, which is to appear in tbe "American Clmmonwelth', series, will be Issued at an early date. The book is entitled, "Indiana; a Redemption from Slavery," and is the only record of the official and political life of William Henry Harrison, while he was Governor of Indiana Territory, and gives for tbe first time the details of tbe struggle over the question of slavery in this State. The corn crop this year is estimated at 2,013,000,000 bushels. These figures are qcite beyond the power of the imagination to conceive. Any person fond of statistics can calcalate for himself bow many times around the world the ears would reach if laid in a row, how many elevators of average capacity it would require to hold it, etc. Such calculations are very amusing for one whose life is long enough to make them. While other legislation is hanging fire Congress cannot better employ a little of its spare time than in passing the bill to pension the widow of General Sheridan. The announce ment that her income is less than $1,000 a year shows the need of speedy action. The family of one of the country's greatest soldiers should not be left to suffer poverty. The magazine "Woman has died, not how ever on account of lack of support or impro per management, bnt because of the failure of its principal stockholders. It wss a magazine which gave promise of filling a want and ills to be hoped that tbe founders will see their way clear to its resurrection and establishment on a a firmer basis. So far as known the turkey crop will be equal to the Thanksgiving demand, but the recent burning of a warehouse in Wisconsin containing two thousand barrels of cranberries suggests a fear that the sauce may fall short The drummers came down like a wolf on the fold, their cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold, or words to that effect o tbe Editor of the IndianacoUs Journal; Will you please inform me in the Sunday Journal why the Battle of Crecy is called one of the decisive battles of the world? h. M. s. CXNTE RVILLE, Ind. It was a very hotly-contested battle, although the French forces so far outnumbered the English that it was at first thought by the commanders of the former that the latter would be

easily overcome. Much depended upon the re

sult of the battle. Tbe Eoelisb won, and soon after obtained a control of France that was only temporary, but had far-reaching effects. Had the outcome been otherwise, and France gained supremacy, the course of later history might have been changed. BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT. Jerusalem Is rapidly growing as a trade center. One hundred thousand dollars' worth of objects of devotion in mother-of-pearl and olive wood, are exported to America and Europe every year. Vine cultlration is being: extended, and the price of land has risen six fold within a few years. Bismarck asked some boys whom he met on his grounds, at Friedrichsrnhe, if they had a holiday, and they replied that all tbe Hamburg schools were shut "on Sedan day." ''Sedan day!" caid Bismarck. "Yes; Sedan day ia a fine holiday, children. Yen can often, happily, celebrate Sedan." An old pypsy, named Rafael, has asked the Emperor of Austria to invest him with the dignity of King of the Gypsies, because he can prove his direct descent from King Pharaoh. He promises to make the gypsies cease their vagrant habits and become orderly people, fit to enter the army. At a german at Mount Desert recently hustles and suspenders were among the favors. The materialistic influences of an imaginative age are affecting the cotillon. Tbe time may be near at hand vhen a popular society man will be able to refurnish bis wardrobe throughout by the fortunes of the dance. The mosaic picture of Abraham Lincoln, which hangs in Statuary Hall, at the Capitol, Washington, fell to the floor Tuesday with a loud crash. The picture is a handsome piece of mosaic work, and is always shown to visitors. The picture itself was uninjured by the fall, but the frame was destroyed. Historian Bancroft visited Mrs. Polk at Nashville, Tenn., not long ago and borrowed the late President's state papers. He returned them to her a few days ago with a note in which he said: "I hope my life will be spared to complete nir hiftory to the close of. your husband's administration. Tbat will Close my life work. 1 am riraeed with a corp of type-writers and clerka and I believe I will be able to accomplish the task." Mr. Jackson, the husband of the late lamented authoress. Helen Hunt Jackson, was married recently, and is cow residing at Colorado Springe, CoL lie married a niece of his first wife, and there is still, therefore, a Ilelan Hunt Jackson. The grave of the first Mrs. Jackson, known to fame ae "II. II.," ia literally covered with visiting cards left by tourists who climb the mountain near Colorado Sprinej to visit the last resting place of this remarkable woman. When Margaret Shea, of West Chester, Penn., died, a little while ago, she left $1,500 by her will to be devoted to tbe care of n pet Newfoundland dog, and providing that on the animal's death he ahould be buried beside her, the $1,500 then to revert to the church of which she was a member. Last week the dog died, and the will's curions provisions about his burial were carried cut fully, the funeral and the opening of hie mistress's grave attracting great local attention. The members of the Chinese legation at 'Washington try very bard to make themselves popular is society. Tbey often make handsome presents rare jewelry, perhaps, or costly silkto casual acquaintances. Tbey are very asiidaous in payiog calls. Tbey start oct together and go from bonse to bouse, leaving their cards and photographs. They seem to think that their names will not be recognized, so tbey lea?e their pictures to establish the'.r respective individualities. Bnt to most Washlngtonians the photographs all look alike. Col. John A. Jovce, who wrote Ella Wheeler Wilcox's poem, "Laugh and the Woild Laughs with You." recently sail; "I have traveled In every country of the globe. I have had dealings with tbe white, tbe black, and the red. I speak several languages. I have seen prosperi ty and enjoyed it I have aeen aJversitr; I know wbat it la now. I have been in the insane asylum and in the penitentiary. I have never yet been in a corner that I didn't get out of it. I have never been broke very long, for just when tbe dav seemed the darkest the dollar turned up somehow. I wonder hy I was born. The costume by Amelia Rives at her mueh-talked-about confirmation was remarkable. When the bishop reaehed the boue he found in the parlor an altar draped in virgin white and decorated with flowers. Soon tho portieres were drawn aside and in came the daughter of geaius, attired in loog, flowing white earments with angel eloeves which fell to the hm of bef gown, and all her Lair let down and fiowinc about her shoulders. She glided forward ut-d fell upon ber knees at the bishop's feet The good nan. who is no! at all theatrical, wns astonished, but ho went through with the ceremony as quietly as be conld. A Vienna correspondent of the Barsen Cour ier relates a pleasant tale of the well-merited discomfiture of a sncb at Innsbruck. A rouehand ready fellow, in a rcounttineeriog dress not a little besmudged with dirt and the worse for wear, entered one of the grand "shaving sa loons" of the eity. He eat down in an esy chair and said he wished to be shared. 4No, nor exolaimel the exquif itelv-dreaeed an li erfumed proprietor, "w don't shave rfjksaots here: this ia a saloon!" "Very well," replied the dismissed customer; "wben my adjutant calls for me ycu will perhaps have tha politeness to tell him that he will find roe at yonr rivals saloon on the other side of the street. I am the Archduke Jobar.n." Tbe Prince lifted his bat and marched out. If tbe Ficjaro of Innsbruck had been more ef w democrat he might have tainted over Ins saloon: "linrber to hi6 Imperal Highness the Grand Duke Johnnn." According to a writer in the Liverpool Post, it is cot the least part of the Prince of Wales's enjoyment of Homburg that it is one of the few places in the civilized world where he is not mobbed. What, in past years, has annoyed tbe Prince has been the slavish imitation of his dress affected by the mashers and dudas, moro especially the latter, who are of Ameriesn birth. Last yer be took effectual means for putting a stop to this folly. Immediately on his arrival the eld order of things prevailed. The cnt of bis coat, the pattern ef bis waistcoat, the abade of his necktie, were sedulously copied. Then a happy idea occurred to the Prince. He ordered from seme unknown source a hideous suit of dirty, blanket-hoed tweed. He put on a red shirt wcih a blue collar; wore a soft felt, lowcrowned, erani-eolorfed hat, with a band of oran;e ribbon, and thrust a bine-silk hankerchief in his breast-pocket This, with tan shoes, completed a costnrae the like of wbich was never seen on land or sea. Hut it effected its purpose. The Prince had it all to himself, and this year has had no'ocrasion to repeat the practical joke. Bob Ingersoll on tho Imagination. Speech to Society of Actors. The imagination is the mother of pity, the mother of generosity, the mother of every possible virtue. It is by tho imaginatioa that you are enabled to put yourself in the place of another. Every dollar that has been paid into your treasury came from an imagination vivid enough to imacine himself of herself lving upon the lonely bed of pain or as ba1ng fallen by the wayside of life, dying alone. It is this imagination that makes the difference in men. Do you believe a man would plunge the dagger into the heart of another if he had imagination enouch to eee . him dead imagination enough to see bis widow throw ber arms about the corpse and cover his face with sacred tears imagination "enouch to see them digging his grave, and to see the funeral, and to hear tho clods fail upon the coCn and the sobs of those vho stood about do you believe he would commit tbe crime! Would any man be false who had imagination enouch to see tbe woman that be once loved, in the darkness of night, when tbe b!ack clouds were floating through the sky. hurried by the blast aa thoughts and memories were hcrryine through her poor brain it he could see the white flutter of her garment as she leaped to the eternal, blessed sleep ef death! Do you believe that he would bo false to ber! I tell you that he would be true." . - They Sit on Cas-IJa-e. Washington Post. The Secretary of War and his private secretary and other high officials of the War Department are in tbe habit of sitting on gas-bags. If you look at the seat of one of their chairs when it is vacant, you will see there a circular rubber rine resembling a life-buoy in appearance. Touch it and you will find it is filled with gas. The India rubber ia soft and plisble, and the slightest touch displaces the gas. Moving abont in a chair fitted with one of these gas-bags is just as easy as rolling off a log. The eas bag has a disposition to make yoa move whether you want to or not. It is mighty pleasant and convenient Yon-have only to wish to move and you are moved. It le the greatest blessing that invention has given to a lazy man.

AT BATTLE OYER AN ENGINE

The Locomotive "General," of the late War, Recently Exhibited at Colnmbus. A Band of Northern Soldiers Stole the 31a-chine-Excitins: Chase by AnotherEnsrme Recaptured, and the Runaways Handed. Atlsnta Letter !u 2few Tork World. The "General," that famous old locomotive that played a prominent part in one of the most thrilling episodes of the war, has been to Columbus to the annual encampment cf the Grand Army of the Republic, and is now on its way to this city, to resumo its regular duties on the Western & Atlantic railroad. With the old engine went Capt W. A. Fuller, whose energy and perseverance, after a long chase, recaptured the machine which the federals had stolen from his train. Both the "General" and Captain Fuller were centers of interest at the big reunion, and many Northern veterans, who were familiar with the story gazed curiously at tbe old-fashlned engine for the first time, and listened to Captain Fullsr's vivid picture of how I it happened. Although' all the federal soldiers who were actually engaged in the capture of the "General" were hanged by direction of the confederate court-martial, there were many fellow-comrades cf tho unfortunate ocss who knew tbe details of the scheme before tbe seizure tbat were present at Columbus. These were the veterans of tbe Gen. O. M. Mitchell Post, of Atlanta. It was General Mitchell who conceived tbe plan, and twenty of bis most trusted soldiers were detailed to carry It Into effect The scheme wss an excellent one, and had it been auccessf ul tbe federal army would have had In their possession one of the best locomotives in the South with wbich to cut telegraph wires, tear np tracks and burn bridges on the railroada over which the rebola wero drawing their provisions and camp supplies. The machine was easily takco, so well had the scheme been planned, but no one foresaw the desperate pursuit that was made by Captain Fuller. Had a less determined man been tbe conductor of tbe train from which the "General" was stolen it is probable that it would never have been recaptured. Aside from the exciting incidents of the day on wbich the locomotive fell into tbe hands of the enemy for a few hours, tbe "General" experienced many a close rub and saw many a battle. It was doing duty in a section which was more or less disputed territory, and tbe man in the eab never knew at what time he ruigbt run pest a party of Northern pickets or arouse the federal camp by the sound of his whistle. Every precaution was used to prevent capture, and when any effort was made in that direction by tbe -enemv the engine was backed to a safe place. In 1So7 tbe "General" was bought by the Western & Atlantic railroad for passenger service, and has done this duty faithfully until recently, when it has been need ae a jwitching engine The company hold it in great esteem, and it is said that it would not be sold at any price. The "General" was under fire many times during the war, and was in range of the runs of both sides during the battle of Resaca. In the fight at Jonesboro and Grahamville. S. C. it was in the midst of a particularly rapid and heavy fire, but escaped uninjured. In December, IS 04, it was drawing a train of seven cars and was stopped near 1'arkatblieo, S. C, directly ia the center of a battle-field. The train hands stood at their places while the ambulance corps rapidly loaded tbe earn with tbe dead bodies of those killed by the same guns that were aimed at the train. The "General." bowever, eeeaoed injury and hauled its load of dead from the field. Cantain Fuller, who has always had an affection for tho old engine, was tho conductor of the trains to wbich the "General" was attached dnrinsr tbe greater part of tbe war. He bad been requested to tell tne story of the capture and recapture many thousand times and remembers the eventful day in all its detail? as well as if it were yesterday. At the request of the World correipondtnt Captain Fuller told the story again in these words: "The 12th of April, 1802, the locomotive was captured at Big bhauty bv a party of federals under tbe command of J. J. Andrews. There were, besides Andrews, twenty two men in the gang, and ail were dressed in citizens' clothos.. This party has since been known as the Mitchell i aiders, because they were sent out by Gen. O. M. Mitchell. I was a conductor of the train and Jeff King wa my engineer. The party of raiders boarded the train at Marietta, and palmed themselves off as refugees from Kentucky who were desirous of enlisting in the confederate service. When we got to Big bhanty we got off and went to the breakfast-bonee. This was and eating house station. While we were eating breakfast i he raidrrs got in their work. The engine was on the track, and attached to it were three empty cars and the mail and passenger cotches. My face was turned towards tha trtek, but I did not see wht was going on till mr attention was attracted by the ringing of the bell It seems that the soldiers had detachel the passenger train from the locomotive and box-cars, but in doiuc eo had failed to cut the bell cord. As the engine moved off the bell rang, and I took all in at a elance. The engine with the three cars moved away rapidly. I hurried out and summoned engineer Jeff King. I went two and a half miles, and procured a hand car, and returned for King. We got in, and Anthony Murphy jumped m, too. We ran the band-car to Etowah, a distance of twenty miles. Two of ns would push while the other one rests 1. As we proceeded I observed tnat the federal raiders bad torn up tbe traek in places, and cut the telegraph wires. This was done, of course, to impede tbe sneed of the pursuing party. As we came to a break we would lift up the hand-car bodily and tote it over. At Etowah station we got tbe 'Yonah,' an old locomotive belonging to Mack A. Cooper's iron-works, and with this we went to Kingston, where we found the road blocked up with many freight cars which the raiding party had sent in. At this juncture they were not more than half an hour ahead of ue. 1 knew that tbe Home train must bo than heading in the direction of Chattsnooea on the 'Y.' Murphy end I went on through Kingston, to the far end cf the , and took the Home engine and hastened in pursnit of the Yankee. Several persons went with us for six miles to a point where wo found the track torn np for fifty a yards. Here we abandoned the Home train and went on foot to Adairsviile, a distance of four miles. Here we met the down day express, carrying twenty cars. "Murphy and I were the only parties that went all the way. After, switching off the twenty cars we went straight to Calbonn, a distance of ten miles, the engine going backwards. We ran this distance in precisely twelve minutes. We were gaining on the raiders. At Calhoun I saw a telegraph operator from DaUon. whom I knew, and I fot bin to eend of? immediately a dispatch to Oeneral Ledbetter, who was at Chattanooga. . I told him of the raid and capture of the locomotive, and begged him to intercept the men at Chattauooea. I alao told him that it was the evident purpose of the Yankees to burn tbe bridees as they crossed them. The messaee was rattled off and reached Chattanoona. Not a moment too soon, however. Before the operator at the other end of the line could say 'O. K.' . the wires were cut two miles north of Dal ton. We over took the raiders two miles north of Calhoun, while tbey were engaged in tearing up the track. Aa socn aa they saw us eoming they took a hasty departure, Thry detached one of their ears and left it on the track to obstruct onr passage. We coupled it to tbe entice acd dashed onward in hot pursuit It was very exciting about now. We bad some pretty running. It was nip and tuck. We kept about an equal' distance apart We pressed them so closely . that when they reached liesaea they detached another ear. This left them with one car and us with two cars. They had twenty-three men on board. Our party consisted of myself. Murphy, Peter Brackiss, Flem Cox and Alonzo Martin. Wo were armed with double-barreled shotguns. "Tha raiders bad considerable advantage of ns. Tbey bad loaded their cars with crossties, and as they ran they dropped these behind their cars and in front of us. We had to stop often .to remove these obstructions, and these took a good deal of time. We kept in sight of them for two miles or so, going some distance beyond liioegold. We had run past nil tbe wood and water stations, and it was easy to see that tha "General" could not hold out much longer. The raiders doubtless realized this, for they abandoned the machine and took to the woods. Before jumping from tbe engine they reversed . her and open wide her throttle, hoping to run her into us before we could stop. But this scheme was not successful. Tbe steam was nearly ex hausted ana the engine could not move many yards. Well, we lost no time in captur ing tbe 'General. I eoupled onto it the cars and had it towed back. Then I and Murphy, Cox and Martin ran in purauit of the raiders, who were attempting to eseape in the woods. Back at Ringgold I had seen a company of militia drilling. I sent the captain word about what bad occurred, and asked him to assist ns in capturing the federals. Soon we were scouring tbe woods. Our efforts were rewaraed with success. We succeeded in eaptnrine everyone of them. They were taken to Chattanooga and jailed. There was a court martial, over which Judge Crook, of the Rome circuit, presided. The late Judge Baxter, of Tennessee, and au-

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other distinguished advocate, were retained by the prisoners to defend them. "Andrews was tried and convicted, and sen tenced to he hanged. Seven others bad the same . a i T- fTL. V.I. experience, oeing triea in rvuoxvmo. iu nuuio lot was brought to Atlanta and pnt in jaiL Andrews was taken out and banged the first day. About ten days thereafter the seven raiders who bad been convieted were aimilarly disposed of. Their bodies were interred in tbe new quar ter of Oakland, but were subsequently removed to Ubattanooga. A few weeks later six or tne raiders escaped and wore never caught The others were exchanged." That was the closing act in the drama. FIFTY CKNTS A DAT, S. IT. Dyers, L.ate Consul to Switzerland, Writes Letter to Wprkingmen. es Moines Register. During a many years' residence in free-trade countriee I never saw, to my recollection, a pi ano or organ in a workiogman's house. The fact is worthy of notice. I was often in the homes of the working classes, too, for a part of my official duty was to report the condition of the working classes in those countries where I lived to our own government at Washington. I noticed some other things m free-trade countries that are worthy tbe sober consideration of an American voter, if that voter be a workingman. I seldom or never saw carpets in the homes of the working people, or pictures, or cushioned furniture, or even table-clotbs at the dinner time. Yet all these articles are 50 per cent cheaper there than with ns. Why then are they not in use there! liecause the wages paid In free-trade countries will not permit it Fifty cents a day is a good average there, and you can't support a family and buy any luxuries with so little money. The American voter is told that he can buy all his clothes, furniture, etc., much cheaper if he has free-trade than with a tariff. So he can, that is if he has anything to buy them with. Free-trade don't make bread and butter and meat cheaper, and, with 50 cents wages, there is nothing left after payiog for these necessities of life to buy clothes, furniture, etc, with, no matter bow cheap they are. It helped little that tho fox offered the crow some fine cheese for a song, for the crow couldn't sing. What gain is it to a working man to get a suit of clothes at half price, and lose two-thirds of his daily earnings) Clothes we buy occasionally only. Meat, and bread and butter we matt buy daily, and the oO cents earnings are quickly gone. I never saw a single workingman in freetrade countries ride in a first-class carriage, or even in a second-class carriage. Low wages won't allow it I believe I never saw a workingman's wifa own a sewing-machine in free-trade countries. Tbey were very cheap, too, owing to low priced labor there, but working people 'coald not afford them. The Singer Sewiue Machine Company baa a factory in Scotland, where it mnkes machines for less than half of what tbe same machine costs made by the same company in New York. But the Scotch working woman ean'c own one, spite of its cheapness. I never saw a workingmao's wife in free-trade countries wear a silk dress or a silk bonnet, and yet silk is made cheaper there tnan anywhere else in the world. It is made so cheap, indeed, that were we to take 20 per cent off from our silk tariff this eonntrv would be flooded with foreign silk made by 50 cent labor, acd 25,000 American silk operatives would be out of work in a fortnight. Why. I bave seen 25,000 silk-weavers in Switrerland work for 31 cents a day. I have seen women spin silk in Italy for 15 cents a day. The United States consumes one hundred mill ion dollars' worth of silk every year. We make less than half of it The cheap labor of En rope makes tbe rest. Knock off the duty just a few per cent, and cbeao labor abroad will make it all. In tbe meantime, what becomes of American weavers! They don't know bow to farm, bat they can become tramps; that's alL It is jostso with many other articles of mer chandise which we now manufacture by tbe nfillions, and pay good wages for the labor. hnocic otl the duty, let the bU-eent work: in; we can t compete with tbat, and our factories will close up, our people be oat of a job. That's all there is to the question. The cheap laborera of Europe never put a yard of the silk on their backs they make with their own bands. Fifty-rent wares won't permit it It is a matter for reflection. I rarely aawa work insrroan in free-trade countries carry a watch. Yet owing to low-prieed labor, watches are ao cheap there that were our duty on imported ones removed they could in aix months break no every watch factory in the United States, and tens of thousands of skilled American workmen would be out of a job. Tbey, too, could commence tramping. An American watch manufactuier paya his hands $1 to $3, and even $i a day. A Swiss or French watch-maker paya 50 cents. Who could stand competition like tbat! 1 bave attended publis meetings abroad where the universal prayer waa that the United States rateDt aiopt free trade. Why? Simply that they might kill us with cheap labor. All the magnificent machinery ever invented in the United States cannot compete with tbe under-paid hand-labor of tbe old world. We have been tryine it for twenty years. There ia scarcely an article made by machinery in thia country tbat is not made almost as cheaply by hand in Europe; or, if machlnety is advantageous, they simply imitate our inventions, make them for half what we can, and so beat us in the end. Thre is no puzzle about it The men who do good work far the lowest wages get the job. Europeans on work for 50 cents a day and live, in a way. For an American such wages would mesa starvation Tbe workingman in free-trade countries is homeless. It was an extraordinary case when I saw a workineman living in his own bouse. How could a man earning but 50 cents a day buy a home! The savings of twenty-five years would not make it possible. In fact, there are no savings as a rule. Workingman in Europe are not troubled much with the "surplus" and "eavinrs banks" and "deposits, and all that. They hardly know what tb words mean. Two hundred dollars a year is a very big averace for mechanics abroad. A family averages five persons. Support that family with the bare necessities of life, and what remains over to bur a home with! Not a red cent. We are told that free trade would not in itself reduce wages to fifty' cents. Why not? Won't the world buy its goods in the cheapest markets! What man will pay two or three dollars to have an article made at home when he can have tbe aame article made abroad for fifty cents! If made abroad, where is the employment for the man at home' He, too. must make that article for fifty cents, or do without work. He. too. must work for lew wages or he must work for nothing! We imported last year seven hundred million dollars' worth of merchandise from abroad. If we did that under a high tariff, what would we do under free trade! Answer: We would swamp the whole industries of the United States. And then what? Answer: Fifty cents a day or noth ing. Probably nothing. There is a great question staring us in tbe face. It is not a Republican problem, nor a Democratic problem. It is a question of simple business. Do we want to rut fifty cents a day! That's all there is to it. Low wases. besides. mtans lew living. It means poverty and it means ignorance; and these two things put a man at the foot of the ladder, and there be will stay. No European workingman, with his free trade and low wages, thinks of getting np in tbe world. Who ever saw workmgmen in Enrope filling oCices, or their wives and daughters in society, or themselves respected and honoredl Nobody. Workinemeu are cot respected there. Cheap labor is not respected anywhere. There is the worst thing of all about this lowering of wages. The American laborer would lose his honorable position. We don't want that - Low wages and disaster will come to this country soon enough it we don't stop indiscriminate immigration. The ill-fed, half-paid millions of Europe are already crowding us to the wall, and taking our work away from ns. Shortly they will compel ns to accept low wages and its thousand ills. Let us postpone tbe evil day as long as possible, and not add to the difficulties of our situa tion by foolish laeialation, or by putting men in power who lauch at the daneer. Beware of that policy, be it Republican or Democratic, that can take 'the erorkior man of this country down from his high estate. Free trade may be right were the situation cf all men iuf t tbe same; but it is not the same. God has given this country advantages over all nations of the earth. Are we ready to throw them awayf Are we ready to bankrupt ourselves on the hszard of an experiment! Are workiugmen ready to abandon their comfortable homes to live in tenements, to get down from their buctries and walk barefooted to eat meat on Sundays and mush the rest of the weekl Let him who thinks ail this impossible go acd live a few years in free-trade countries. "They have great prosperity over there In America," said Prince Bismarck. "It is owice to their tariff. Is it not time for Germany to do likewise?" While the greatest statesman of modern times is talking like that, thousands of short-sighted Americans are proposing to throw away the greatest advantage we possess. Let workingmen think twiee before they vote once this fall, and the spectacle of a wise people committing business suicide will not occur. The Way It Did It Pbllmlelr-hi Press. . Judge Thurtnan claims that tbe Democratic party abolished slavery, but he should have done on and explained how it did eo. He could have done tbat by simply showing that tbe Democratic party brought on a war which forced a Republican President to adojt emancipation as a war measure.

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Interesting Stcrj Concerning the Search for and Discovery of the Picture!. Ppeelal te the Indlanaooirs JcnrnaL Trenton, N. J., Sept 22. There are only two orinnal portraits of Aaron Burr in exisw enee. One or them ia tn tne rooms or the His torical Society of this State, and is considered cf great value. There is an odd story connected with the history of this portrait. For fifty years after the year 1801 the portrait of the famous , American was entirely lost sight of. All effort to discover it proved futile. Judge Ogden Ed wards, of New York, 'was the diseoverer of the picture, and the way that he got on the track of it is of more than passing interest. Tbe relatives of Aaron Burr, sr., president of Prlccetoa Collepe, knew that hie son, prior to bia breaking" np his house in New York city, had portrait of his father and mother, but they had disappeared, and, although much aocght fory could not be found. It was reported, however, tbat Aaron Burr had intrusted them, with other family effects, ta the care of a colored man by the came of Kcaser, who for some years had been bia body servant Jodce Ogden Edwards, of tho eity of New York, who was a relative of Aaron Burr on his mother's side, had for many yeara made diligent inquiries for this Keaser, but could get no trace of him. He had subsequently given up all hone of obtaining any clew to the lost portraits, and ceased his efforts, when, in 184 passinz throurh Pearl street iav the city of New York, he heard a person call tt a drayman, "Keaser, come hare with your cart and take these boxes." The Judge's curiosity was excited, and he immediately turned to the drayman as he drove up to tbe storo. and, inquiring if bis same was Keaser, learned that it was. The Judgethen informed him tbat for some time he bad' been trying to find a man by that name who was in the employ of Aaron Burr at the time hej lived in New York. Tbe drayman replied thai bis father had for some years lived with Aaron Burr, but he bad no recollection of it an it waa before he was bcrn. He had, however, often beard his father speak of Aaron Burr and of his living with him, but that his father bad been dead for some years. The Jcdze asked him if his father had any portraits of At rcn Burr. Tbe drayman said he never knew of any, but tbat bis sister, wnowas much older thaa' be. and who was a girl at the time his father lived with Aaron Burr, might give bin some information on the aubject and stated where) ' his sister lived. The Judge immediately started in pursuit of the sister, and found her in a smalt room in one of the many alleys inhabited by the popr in the crowded part of the city. He was informed byi ber tbat her father had been in tbe employment' of Aaron Burr, acd when Burr fed from the, city he left a great many thicge with her father? moreover, tbat she remembered seeing some? portraits, but what her father bad dose with; them she conld not tell, and referred tbe JndgeV to an older sister who waa married and lived ia the "abort bills of New Jersey. Tbe Judcra made many Inquiries of the woman, but she en dently was cnwilling to give any information aC to what bad been left with ber father by Aaron Burr, or what had been done with the property intrusted to him. She, however, stated thatf her father had been poor for some time before his death, and the Judpe concluded that he had disposed of it for his support. As tbe Judge bad never Leard of tbe "short, hills of New Jersey," be inquired of the woman where the short hilla of New Jersey were, but she being really ignorant or cot willing to give the Information, said ehe did not knowthat alf she knew about them waa that ber husband sv eral yeara before came into New York to see? her, and statod tbat they lived in the short hilla of New Jersey. As no further ieformatioa could be obtained from her. the Judge deter mined to find these hill, and soon after came t Newark and called on John Chetwood, who was then practicing law in that city, to learn their location. On beine told that tbey were bat eight miles from Newark, be informed Mr. Chet wood of his object and proposed taking a ride thither in pursuit of the lost portraits. Mr. Chetwood accepted tbe invitation acd they4 rode ont to Springeld. and were directed to tha hills on tbe wept of tbe village. After many in quiries tbey found the residence of tbeeldef sister of Keaser, which was a email building with a lean-to, having but one room and a low,, unfurnished garret On entering the bouse, the? Jndge recognized two portraits, which hung oa! the wall, as those of Aaron Burr and of Theo dosia, his daughter, who married Governor All e too, of South Carolina. The only persons intf the houe were tbe sister of Kei i-r, whom they; were seeking, and several small children. They; were evidently very poor. After some conversion with the woman, the Judge offered her i& for the pictures. She at once accepted it. Tm the Judge's inquiry whether she had any more, she said she had not when a little boy sail to, his mother there were two in thei' garret that "baby used to play with," the woman said yes, but the were good for cothinc; but at the request of thV Judge she sent tbe boy up for them, telling bint one was in the window where tbe glass wag, broken ont. Tbe boy went up a ladder tbat led? to the garret acd brought down two pieces canvas wbicb had been in oval frames. Oa spreading them out the Judge immediately recognized them as tbe lost portraits of President Burr and bis wife. The portrait of President Burr was much defaced; one of the eyes waa gone, the paint bavirg evidently been pieced o& the canvas in several pUces. and in other places been broken by folding. There two portraits tbe Judge ales purchased. The only in form tion that tho woman would give was that the? pictures had been given to her by her fa&er, anft that he kept them for some time, and the Judga left with tbe prizes b had for years been seekim. On brushing off the dust they were founl to be very fine paintings. Several artists have judged them to be painted by Stuart The portrait of President Burr is the only cne knowtj to have been taken. The portrait of Thccdosisi was a most beautiful painting, representing . woman just budding into life, in lull freshness of perfect beauty. The Judge had the portrait of President Burt carefully cleaned and repaired, and from it wa engraved the only likeness we have cow President Burr. As the Juswe had a portra of Aaron Burr, the eon, be presented the onev they found to Mr. Chetwood, ivho in li9. on leaving tor California, presented it to the Historical Soeiety of New Jersey. The ".Short Hills" referred ts is now one off the most fashionable ecrburban places of residence for New Yorkers. It is situated just above Orange on the Morris & Essex railroadJ and is full of fine houses, owned principally bw business and professional men from rvew lorkj There is a fine view of New York. Newark acU Brooklyn from any part of Short Hills. Harrison's Speech to the Irish. John Fitertr's Chicago Citiitn. The epeeial attention of the readers of theV Citizen is requested to the description this issoe contains of tne visit of the Irish-Amorican lit publican Club of Cook county to lndianapolia oa Saturday last; and, above all, special attentica is asked to General Harrison's speech in reply Mr. Becge. It is allowed by everyone to be thex greatest oratorical ctfort thsit General Harrison has ever made. . It is a very short speech, buP never, perhaps, did any public utterances of thai same length contain so much food for tbuucttA, or teil great truths more plainly. But there is more in General Harrison's speed) than mere politics. It is a grand poem in prose, It ia something tbat conld be conceived only bfj one full of souL It would be hard to find amoeff. all the gems of oratory or composition a en( tooce like this: 4,If you could forget Ireland,' if you could be unmoved by her minstrelsy, untouched by the appeals of her eplendid ore tory. unsympathetic vith her heroes and martyrs, i should fear that the bonds of your new citi zenfchip would have no power over hearts so cold and consciences so ccad. One michl search thorough the speeches of Patrick Henry Burke, Maeauiey and Gladstone and find ess iiassage superior and few equal to this; and the rishman, be he Republican or Democrat, whose' heart it would fail to touch, would be of xtrf little value cither to America or Ireland. Lam ont Has Uad Enough. Washington Special It comes from a source of indisputable ane thentieity that President Cleveland is to lost the invalnable services of his private secretary Colonel Lamont, at the end ct his present terra.. Of course, in the event o his failure cf a re election he would not need them. It is known hower, that Colonel Lamont regards a contiutfe ance of the present administration 'as certain, bat bie position ie not wholly copgenial to hicu He is a journalist who holds his profession higher than any sort of tclitical preferment, and he feels uueasy when not in bis journalistic harness. He would have resigned six montlt ago, but feared be might in some small degree; at least prejudice the President's chances for reelection by giving the Republican press an on portnnity to accuse him of beicg a rat desert ing a sinking ship." He intends reentering newspaper work in this city, either as a part proprietor with editorial control or aa the pro jector and editor of an entirely new paper. Hit career aa a mere private secretary has been a re tnarkable one. lie has bem rather a prime miuiater, official confidant and perkonal friecfc than a private clerk. It ia quite certain tbat nei 'other person in the same position has cxerteC each an influence or been such a pewes.