Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 June 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS . JOURNAL, , TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL TUESDAY. JUNE 18, 1889.

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Mr. Davis, of the Fourteenth ward, who was out of lino with his party on a preliminary vote, recently, demonstrated his faith in Republican doctrine and did his duty to his party by voting in favor of the advance. Now let the Aldermen promptly concur. f If there are two Republicans who, more than any and all others, have been targets for Democratic and mugwump abuse, they are lion. William "Walter Phelps, of New Jersey, and Hon. Will iam E. Chandler, of New Hampshire, Both have their personal peculiarities, both are small in stature, and both wear eye-glasses. Mr. Phelps is wealthy, is very neat in his dress, and chooses to wear his front hair different from most men. Both Pholps and Chandler are : men of remarkable ability and large ex'periencoin public affairs. It would be hard tO'lind two brainier men in the Re- ' publican party, and as for the Demo-1 cratic party well, the less said the bet ter. But Democratic and mugwump papers have seen nothing in them to approve, and their physical stature and personal peculiarities have been the subject of no end of small wit and severe criticism. But it has not seemed to hurt or even annoy them, and they have gone right along attending to business, with what results? Mr. Chandler, after serving with honor in many other public capacities, has just been deservedly reelected to the United States Senate, and Mr. Phelps, by .common consent, deserves tho principal credit for the successful result of tho Samoan commission. Tho result seems to prove that brains will tell, even though the owner wears eye-glasses, or does not cut his hair according to tho Democratic standard. An average of & a week is "pauper labor." With tho jprice of everything else enhanced in this country as it is. that amount of wages will furnish little if anything more than the necessities of life. Indianapolis News. Five dollars a week is low wages, but it is not "pauper labor" by a good deal. In many European countries most skilled laborers earn considerably less than $5 a week, many less than $4, and not a few less than S3. Five dollars a week is little enough for a family to keep soul and body together on, but hundreds of thousands of skilled laborers in Europe do not make as much, and they are not voted as paupers there, either. The Journal does not want to lee any such condition in this couutry, therefore it opposes free trade. The report of tho United States Commissioner of Labor gives tho yearly wages of coal miners in Belgium during the twenty-three years from 1SG0 to 188;. In only five years during that period did their wages reach $200 a year, or $4: a week. Tho same authority gives the daily wages of miners in tho eight largest coal districts of Franco as respectively 40 cents a day, Ki cents, f3 cents, C3 cents, cents, 01 cents, 53 conta and 53 cents. At 70 cents a ton, a Clay county coal miner can make $2 a day every day ho works. In a period of thirty consecutive years the annual earnings of coal miners in France varied from $110 to $217, tho highest being less than $4 a week. In Great Britain coal miners rcceivo from $1.08 to $1.13 a day.

Tho miners' lot is hard enough, but at the lowest wages ever paid or offered in this country the American miner can make a good deal more than foreign miners work for all the time. There is no ''pauper labor yet in the United States. It is an insult to call any man a pauper laborer who can earn even $5 a week, and the Clay county miners can earn' more than that any time they choose to resume work. The highest wages they could earn in' any other country would be lower than the lowest they are offered here.

THE PRESIDENT ARD CIVIL-BEBVICE REFORM. The following i3 from the New York Times: It is reported in a Washington dispatch to the Baltimore Sun that the Civil-service Commissioners declared to the President that they found the law in many places practically ignored, and in some of these it was asserted that this administration had no sympathy with the law. To this Mr. Harrison is said to havo replied that he was not responsible for any such impression, and tnat if they would see that the law was enforced throughout tho service they conld rely upon being sustained by the administration. These are fair words. We do not donht that they are sincerely spoken. But the pitifnl feature in the case is that the President does not seem to know that he is responsible for the impression that his administration is not in sympathy with the reform law. We do not know if the reported interview between the Civil-service Commissioners and the President ever occurred, but passing that, observe the tone of the Times's comments. What more could any honest President say under such circumstances than to disclaim responsibility for the misrepresentations of carping critics and assure the commissioners that the influence and authority of the administration would be given to the enforcement of the law? More than this from the President would be undignified and uncalled for. The Times seems to have vaguely understood as much, for it says "these are fair words; we do not doubt that they are sincerely spoken." Observe the patronizing tone. The great mugwumpian o rgan gives the President credit for fairness and sincerity. Then, with a grand show of reluctant justice, it adds: "But the pitiful feature in the case is that the President does not seem to know that he is responsible for the impression that his administration is not in sympathy with tho reform law." This is justice mingled with mercy, reproof administered more in sorrow than in anger. Tho President means well, but ho does not know. He says ho is not responsible for the misrepresentations, misconstructions and falsehoods of tho mugwump press, and he seems to bo really sincere in the assertion, but here comes the leader of the malcontents and says he is responsible for that very thing. "The pitiful feature in tho case is that the President does not seem to know" that the mugwumps understand his motives better than he does himself, and while he may think ho is heartily in favor of civil-service reform, they snow he is not. In spite of the Times's wail, the Journal asserts, and defies contradiction, that tho civil service is in much better condition now than it was six months ago, and that the law is more nonestly enforced in letter and spirit under this administration than it was under the last. AMERICAS' DIPLOMACY. v The result of the Berlin conference i3 a notable triumph for the United States, of a kind that foreign governments and people will rate more highly than we do, and perhaps more highly than it deserves. This government has never made a specialty of cultivating diplomacy as a branch of statecraft, though, as a matter of fact and history, it has generally held its own in all important controversies of this kind. But it has no '.'trained diplomates" and has never sought to develop them. Foreigners have regarded that as an evidence of lack of statesmanship and incapacity to deal with international questions, without taking notice of the fact, often dem onstrated, that the natural shrewdness, aptitude for affairs, and all-around training of American statesmen is always a match for their trained diplomates. Rating diplomacy higher than it deserves it follows that they underrate tho American qualities pitted against it. The outcomo of tho conference is no great triumph for us outside of European official circles. Wo had no great interests at stako further than maintaining a principle and resisting tho aggression of a greedy power. It is something to have avoided a war and settled an irritating controversy without bloodshed. Tho elements of war were there, and if both governments had chosen to be truculent, unyielding and bellicose, it was quite possible for war to have sprung out of the Samoan affair. It was not imminent nor probable, but it was possible. The settlement of the controversy as it has been settled is a triumph for peaceable methods, and to that extent is a triumph for mankind. The result will stand as a precedent in future international disputes, and will operate as a barrier against German aggression in other quarters. It is the more fortunate that we carried our points in this case, because it is practically the first appearance of the United States in European politics. Heretofore our international disputes with European powers have related solely to the assertion of some right affecting our own interests, or some question peculiarly American. This one related to tho colonial policy of Germany, and involved questions of vital interest to all the European powers. It was really a European question, and its decision is even more a victory for Great Britain than it is for tho United States. Being distinctively a diplomatic triumph, it will especially inure to tho advantage of the United States government among those who have been most disposed to belittle and decry it, viz., in official circles of Europe and among those who take tho color of their thoughts from official circles. The chief importance of the event to us is in reminding the world that the American Republic has interests far beyond its territorial limits, and in showing European governments that, when occasion de mands, the United States can exert a

moral and political influence which all must respect. A recent article in the

London Spectator shows the drift of intelligent foreign opinion in this regard. That able journal says: If the United States were a small power her original idea of diplomacy as tho German Chancellor's penmen call it, might be considered a caprice, and passed oyer with a smile, bat her people are becoming the greatest nation in the world. It is probable that nothing short of actual violence would now induce any nation to attack her, while she could, if she pleased, rain the commerce of any nation on the globe. It is true she has scarcely any regular army, her 2.,000 men being overworked at home; but if a neighboring planet kept no army it would not be subject to attack. Her cpast, if threatened, - would bristle with torpedoes and new means of destruction, and her protectionists would be only too pleased if importation stopped. Her navy, though till small, is rapidly increasing, so rapidly as to be a subject of special reports to the maritime powers; and if war were iu immediate prospect her limitless command alike of money and men would soon draw a fleet together. Besides, apart altogether from her existing resources, the growth in the strength of the Union affects the imagination of the European states. . . There are children alive who will see, or at all events may see, the "North American Republic" with a population of 200,000,000 and the means of raising 300,000.000 a year, and the idea ot incurring the enmity of such a power is as appalling as the idea of righting Russia would be, say by Italy or Spain. America could be met only by a confederation of Europe, which, without some great change of circumstances, would be impossible, or possible only if all Europe felt it too dangerous to put up with the treatment one power was receiving. The Union already stands toward the Spanish and Portuguese-American states in the relation in which she may one day 6tand toward Europe itself. Her foreign office already claims something like a protectorate over both Americas, and desires to wield a preponderating influence from the St. Lawrence to Patagonia, forbids any government to cut the Isthmus of Panama, and warns Europe, in a President's speech, not to meddle with any state "lying south of us," though it may be four thousand miles off. Mr. Gladstone's tour in western England has been an ovation. On Saturday, this wonderful old man, now in his eightieth year, began the day with a drive of twenty miles; then addressed a great open-air gathering under a hot sun; then, after a railroad journey, addressed another crowd at the Tavistock Station, and later delivered a long oration to 7,000 people in the Plymouth Drill Hall, and lastly held an open-air reception at night towitness a grand display of fire-works. The Journal knows of but one old youngster in this country who might equal this performance, and that is Col. R. W. Thompson, of Terre Haute, who is six months older than Gladstone. Yesterday was the last day for receiving bids for the funding bonds authorized by the late Legislature to redeem tho outstanding school bonds. The amount of the loan authorized to bo placed is $3,905,000, and after the bids were opened in New York the Governor received a telegram stating that $1,850,000 had been placed at an average premium of $1.82. The bonds are payable in twenty years, and draw 3 per cent, interest. The bonds to be taken up draw 6 per cent. The operation will result in a considerable saving in interest, and the rate at which the bonds are placed speaks well for the State credit. The Philadelphia Natural-gas Company, the leading one in Pittsburg, has docided to adopt tho meter system with all its private conumers. A circular says: . ; The Philadelphia Company takes pleasure in announcing to its patrons that, after a lout; series of costly experiments, it is now prepared to furnish natural gas to domestic consumers by meter, acknowledged to be the fairest, safest and mot economical method of buying and selling this product. Probably the company takes more pleasure in making the announcement than consumers will in hearing it, but the movement should not be a surprise. In all cities where gas is piped at heavy expense, the meter, or some substitute for it, will hecome a necessity against reckless consumption and waste. . ' ; ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Ex-President Woolsey, of Yale Col-i lege, who is now eighty-seven years old, is gradually growing weaker. Ho goes walking now to take "last looks'1 at 6ights that used to delight him. ; Adolphus Andreas, the inventor of tho American jackscrew, died in New York on! Friday, aged ninety years.' lie was the oldest Mason in the State and one of the original founders of tho Mechanics' Institute. Dr. Pefper, provost of the University of Pennsylvania, greatly wants to resign his, Fost, but the trustees will not hear of it.', le gets $5,000 a year salary, and gives the college $10,000 a year from his own pocket.' No wonder they want him to stay. Miss Fair, the daughter of James G. Fair, the millionaire ex-Senator, is said to he engaged to an assistant surgeon in the navy whose fortnnes are limited to his pay. Miss Fair has some $4,000,000. ho is very beautiful, with a cold, statuesque face, almost devoid of expression. Prince Albert Victor, oldest son of the Prince of Wales, ia to be sent to India to divert his mind from his disappointment at the failnre of Lis love affair with the Princess Victoria, of Teck. lie will visit princes who havo too many wives, and may thus become reconciled to the fact that he has none. The first colored priest to be ordained in America will be the subject of the ceremony of ordination at the cathedral in Baltimore, on the 21st inst. The candidate is a Baltimorean, and ono of tho first of several students to enter St. Joseph's Seminary. He is studying at that institution and attending lectures at St. Mary's Seminary. Miss Anna Howells, the aunt of tho novelist, was a woman of remarkable strength of character. She had a very intelligent, beaming countenance, and beautiful, but not piercing, brilliant black eyes. At one time sho undertook to memorize Webster's Dictionary, and had half-completed the work, when she concluded to give it up. Mus. Hetty Green, of New York, enjoys an income of $3,000 a day, and her total yearly expenses are said to be less than $2,000. Her fortune at present is estimated at $o0,000,000, and it is climbing at the rate of more than a million a year. Mrs. Green has proved on sundry occasions that she is amply able to take care of herself and this big hunk of money. Bellini's piano, on which he composed his earliest operas, has just been found iu tho possession of a widow lady of Catania, whose husband bought it for 1 10s. The Catanians havo petitioned the owner to present tho piano to the town Bellini's birthplace tnat the relic of their townsman may be preserved as a souvenir, and not pass into careless hands. In accordance with custom, the Court Journal of London, which announced the completion of Queen Victoria's seventieth 3 ear, gave the ages of her royal coteinporaries, as follows: King of the Netherlands, seventy-two; King of Denmark, seventyone; King of Wurteniburg, sixty-six; Emperor of Brazil, sixty-three; King of Saxouv, sixty-one; King of Sweden and Norway, sixty; Emperor of Austria, fifty-eight; King of the Belgians, fifty-four; King of Portugal, fifty; King of Kouraania, fifty; Sultan of Turkey, forty-six; King of Italy, forty-five; EuiDcror of Russia, forty-four;

King of the Hellenes, forty-three; King of Bavaria, forty-one; King of Siam, thirtyfive; German Emperor, thirty; Emperor of China, seventeen; King of Servia, twelve; and the King of Spain, three. Ex-United States Surgeon General Hammond says he recently ordered a bottle of wine while at dinner in a Rhode Island hotel, and was told by the waiter a physician's prescription would be required. "That's easily obtained," he replied, and cave him this: "R. Vini Champani, S2z. William A. Hamond, M. D." "I succeeded in getting that wine without any further difficulty," he added, "and as many more bottles as I desired." Beverly Tucker, the jovial Virginian 'who came so near being a commissioner to Hayti, is again in Washington. He registers as "Ik T., Berkeley, Va." He seems to be very busy and bustles around from ono department to another, though nobody seems to know what he is up to. Ho wears ono of his Hayti white flannel suits and an East Indian ventilated hat. When he has tired himself out ho hurries into Chamberlain's and calls for a mint julep. He seems to be having lots of fun, and is by no means crushed by his recent disappointment Lou Allen Sprint is the name of Baltimore's musical prodigy. She is' only three and a half years old, but her piano-playing is wonderf uL She plays entirely from ear, and the discovery of her accomplishment was made by a toy piano. Her little hands are so small that she cannot execute in dotail the music that arises in her mind, but her improvising is very remarkable, nevertheless. She has never had any instruction in music, and her genius has had to work out its own salvation. Baltimoreans claim that Josef Hofmann is nothing compared with Lou Allen Sprint. Positively the oldest living Mason in the world has been discovered. He is Robert I. Chester, of Tennessee, one of tho Cleveland electors in 18S4. He was born in Tennessee.in July, 1793, and will complete his ninety-sixth year next month. He joined the masonic order in Tennessee- in 1S14, when he was twenty-one years of age. He is still an enthusiastic member. Mr. Chester served in the war of 1812. He was a slave-holder, and he and his sons owned 115 negroes. Mr. Chester carried the presidential vote of Tennessee in 18S4 to the President of the Senate at Washington. He is still strong and energetic, though he has the rheumatism now and then.

COMMENT AND OPINION. Good American people are still in favor of hoirio rule, and they will insist upon it at Chicago, to begin with. Philadelphia Inquirer. The best thing in our opinion which Chicago can do with the bricks and timbers of old Libby is to buy up the whole lot from the showmen and dump it into the middle of the lake. Boston Journal. Right does not always win in diplomacy. The reason why right won in the Samoan conference in Berlin was because it was backed un by force and pnrposo which would make resistance to it both dangerous and costly. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The believers in polygamy have had considerable sympathy from members of the Democratic party, but the people of this country havo long since determined either to make all Mormons become monogamous, or commit them to the penitentiary. Philadelphia North American. Forbidden fruits have been the sweetest from Mother Eve to her latest decendant. In Khode Island, as elsewhere, the Prohibition of the sale of liquors has not promoted the cause of temperence and moderation in the enjoyment of liquors, but it has, by; the unreasonableness of its restraint, incited to intemperance and excess. Philadelphia Eecord. Since the days of Aaron Burr there has not appeared in the horizon of American politics a man so utterly despicable in his deniagogism as the present Governor of New York. Notniug is too low for his stooping: no disregard of public duty too base for him. He is tho ideal representative of all that is distinctively Democratic in political methods and purposes. Chicago Inter Ocean. There has never been a more extraordinary display of brutal selfishness and treachery or of heartless chicanery than that made by the factions which have controlled the Clan-na-Gael. Is it not time for honest Irishmen to rise and repudiate it; and to demand that the horrible crime which is so suspiciously tangled up with it shall be sifted to the bottom! Chicago Tribune. Our theological schools set up a farcical and insincere imitation of old-fashioned allegiance to dogma by compelling their preachers to subscribe to outworn creeds, thus forcing the ablest and most honest minds of the time into other professions. The pulpit must either become once more a place where strong and devoted men can sincerely preach the truth to the people or its usefulness is past. Chicago Times. The arrest of Sullivan appears to have so little justification, so far as actual proofs are concerned, as to suggest that it is the resnit of factional rancor, as the murder of Cronin certainly was. This is a very serious view of the subject, and it is one that the American people will not regard with indifference. American courts must not become the instruments of revenge or vengeance in the Irish societies in America. Philadelphia Times. SECOND-STORY BAB-ROOMS. One of the Peculiar Results of Prohibition In Kansas. Atchison Letter In Philadelphia Record. To outward appearances prohibition is better enforced in Kansas than in any other State that has tried it. Here in Atchison the saloons do not stand wide open in contemptuous disregard of the law as they do in Iowa, Maine andj Rhode Island. That there are plenty of them is shown by the number of beer wagons rolling through the streets from place to place, but the casual stranger in town is puzzled to know where they are, Tho mystery is easily solved. They are nearly all upstairs, in the second and third stories, sometimes even the fourth, of buildings. They are popularly known as "joints," but under any name - they are the same. They have bars and barkeepers, and the people of Atchison find in them drinks to their taste. It is difficult to say just how many of these "joints" there are. There may be one hundred of them, perhaps more. They aro especially thick along Commercial street, the main business thoroughfare, but thev are to. be found in everv part of the city., As a rule, it is necessary to nave a Key in oracr 10 nave ine entree to one of these places, as the doors are kept locked. "The principal effect of prohibition here," aid a gentleman thoroughly conversant with aftairs in Atchison, "has been to drive the saloons from the first to the second floor. Yes; there is one other effect. People drink more than they used to. When a man has taken the trouble to get into a joint' ho is not satisfied with a single drink, as he would be in a saloon, but ho sits down and has several drinks. The consequence is that more liquor is drunk than ever before." These are the words of an avowed scoffer at prohibition. Ho pronounces the law a fiat failure in Kansas in Atchison at least. Perhaps he is prejudiced, but still he has very good prohibition authority to back him up in his statements. This authority is no less than that of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of Atchison. Just previous to the municipal election in April, members of the union, interested in reforming the city government, hired a column iu the Daily Patriot, and proceeded to demonstrate to every one that prohibition was a failure, though that was not their leading purpose. They addressed an open letter to the Kepublican city marshal, upbraiding him for his dereliction of duty. "With the numerous 'joints' and whisky dens in this city running in open violation of the law, what say you!" they asked. "Guilty or not guilty t What say the members of your force that frequent whisky and beer dens! Guilty or not guilty!" As might have been expected, the marshal and his men said nothing. A few days later tho Temperance Union women poured in more hot shot, with this statement of how prohibition worRs in Atchison: "It had long been an open secret, even to tho uninitiated, that Atchison (like many other Kansas towns) was honeycombed with places where intoxicating liquors were sold by the drink, and that all classes of citizens who indulged in ardent spirits had their resorts. The rush of beer delivery wagons through the alleys and streets E roves it. The old bums know it; the oodlums know it; the editors knowing i ten could, and, undoubtedly, most of

them do know it It is the duty of the police to know it. Tho plea of ignorance will not avail. The Atchison man who does not know it or believe it is very ignorant or he is a hypocrite." These articles did not please the city marshal, and he gave notice that he would hold the paper responsible. Thereupon this plain answer was made, which is interesting as showing that even in prohibitory Kansas all officials are not Baints. and that here, as in less regenerate States, they wink

at violation of the law:; "Marshal Price knows, and . has known every day since he was appointed, of the existence of 'joints' in Atchison He is a frequenter of them. 'He is personally cognizant of violations of the prohibitory law. Ho is a member of more or less joints, and carries their keys as tokens of his affiliation. He could personally testify to more violations of the liquor enactments than anv other man in Atchison." The significance of this controversy is that it shows that prohibition does not prohibit in one of the oldest cities of Kansas, and that public opinion is not sufficiently strong to compel the municipal officials to enforce the law. The city marshal ia not the onlv officer of Atchison to violate tho law. The Women's Temperance Christian Union might have named officials of much greater importance who do just as he does. Bo far as the promotion of temperance goes, prohibition is a distinct failure in Atchison. . - THE MINERS WAGES. The Statements of Rev. Mr. McCuUoch Characterized as Poppycock. Terre ITaute Express. Now comes the Rev. Oscar McCulloch, of Indianapolis, who has investigated the condition ot things in Clay county. Mr. McCulloch is a man of intensely good intentions, and has admirably rilled the want of a stirrer-up of Indianapolis lethargy in matters ot benevolence. The Express is satisfied that it can say for him that he is a good man, with prospects of being an able and practical man when time does its work. Without disparaging his sincerity in the least, as we would not that of an Indianapolis News correspondent who likewise went to Clay county to investigate the strike situation, we will say that by some strange mishap both have been placed in the attitude, falsely, no doubt, of telling the public at large that the block-coal miners had been enabled to earn but $5 per week at the prevailing wages for the year prior to May 1. Neither of these unprejudiced gentlemen has seen tit to call attention to the fact that there was but less than half work for miners in the block-coal held because natural gas at Indianapolis and other points in Indiana, and oil as fuel at Chicago had so greatly curtailed the demand that the output was diminished, and tho question suddenly arose as to whether one-half the miners should he wholly employed or all of them one-half the time. While we do not impute any sinister purpose in this extraordinary neglect to in elude a fundamental fact in their resume of the situation, we do think that this correspondent of an independent newspaper and this clergyman should be more careful lest by their statements they mislead many persons into the belief that at the rate of wages in the block-coal mines last year an industrious miner, workingtulltime. could not make moro than $o per week. That is poppycock, with all duerespectto Rev. Mr. McCulloch, and he knows it is. PERSIA'S OFFENSIVE RULER. Ills Barbaric Conduct and Abuse of All Hospitality Extended to Him. New York World. Nasr-ed-Deen, Shah of Persia, who is now engaged on'his third tour through Europe, is far from being considered a welcome guest by the various courts which he has announced his intention of visiting. In the first place, the royalties of Europe have retained a most unpleasant recollection of his disgusting, and repulsive habits on the occasion of his iirst visit. His character is treacherous, cruel and deceitful, and his manners are distinguished by that utter absence of all ideas of decency which is such a peculiar feature of Oriental life. On various occasions during the past thirty years Eastern potentates, such as the Sultan of Turkev, tho Khedive, the second tri l- : l 1 T j; rviiii; ui ciiiiu uuu qui if a iuiiuult vi xuxxmn maharajahs, havo visited Europe. . In almost every caso they have displayed much refinement, elegance and courtesy in their dealings with their European hosts. The latter were, therefore, but ill-prepared for the offensive and unmannerly ways of tho descendant of Xerxes and Darius. After spending a couple of weeks at St.' Petersburg in 1S73, he came to Berlin. His behavior, however, was so intolerable that tho old Kaiser withdrew' from the festivities on the plea of indisposition and refused to see his Persian guest anymore before his departure. The whole burden of entertaining tho Oriental potentate fell on to the shoulders of the Empress Augusta, whose poetic hankerings for tho Orient, however, were subjected to a mo st severe shock. Thus to this day sho loves to relate, in her shrill and high-pitched voice, how during the grand state banquet given in his honor at erlin, whenever ho got some food which was not to his taste in his mouth he would coolly remove it from his jaws and place it on her Majesty's lap, to the intense horror of all present. Her magnificent robes at the close of the banquet presented a most woeful aBpect. . t : On his arrival in England he was quartered at Buckingham Palace, and while in Loudon he sorely tried the Prince of Wales'fl temper by coolly placing his hand on the bare shoulders of the Princess while talking to her. Having been entertained by the Duke of Sutherland at the latter' s magnificent country seat, at Trentham, he coolly suggested to the Prince of Wales that it would be in every way advisable to put the Duke to death, on the ground that hewas much too powerful and wealthy for a subject. Over 150,000 was required to render Buckingham Palace habitable again after his departure. The furniture had all to be burned, while not only the silken panels, tapestries, carpets and paper-hangings had to be thrown into the flames, but it was even found necessary to entirely remove the plaster of tho walls and the parquet floors of the rooms which he had inhabited. The slaughter of a live sheep for sacrilicial purposes in one of the Queen'3 daintiest boudoirs was but one of the most pardonable of all his oflenses, and the stench of the rooms occupied by his Persian Majesty was so intense and unbearable that quantities of disinfectants had to be used before even the palace attaches could muster up courage to attempt to clean up matters. At Paris he was received in great state by Marshal McMahon, at that time President of the French Kepublic, and on leaving the country his baggage was stopped on the Swiss frontier by several Paris jewelers, from whom he had purchased presents for the demi-mondaines of the French metropolis, but which he had refused to pay for. At Vienna he was quartered at the Chateau of Luxemburg, now the residence of Crown Princess Stephanie, and before he left got into serious trouble with respect to a young member of the Austrian half world, whom he had subjected to tho most gross brutality. His presence at Vienna was indeed a sore trial to the courteous, chivalrons and refined Emperor. 1 he Persian monarch had, during the previous portion of his tour, developed a strong taste for champagne, and was staggering about in a maudlin state dnnng the major portion of his stay in the Austrian capital. Nothing was morecurious than to watch the Emperor present some distinguished statesman or soldier to his Oriental guest. The latter would gaze with bleary eyes at the personage bowing before him, and then with a short contemptuous laugh and a twirl of his long mustache would leave the unfortunate courtier standing there in a state of mingled indignation and perplexity until the Emperor had stepped up and whispered a few comforting words in his ear. On the occasion of his present trip he is accompanied by a suite of seventy persons, among whom is a chaplain, whose sole duty it is to perform for his imperial master tho fasts prescribed by the Koran, but which the Shah is too much of a glutton to submit to. The most imfrtant member of his suite, however, is a yodig boy of twelve, whom the Shah has covered "with honors, dignities and titles, and who is an object of envy and fear to most of his Majesty's Ministers. Hisnamo is Goolamali Khan. He is the director of the corps of royal pages, and one of his titles is Azizus-Sul-tan, which, being interpreted, means "Favorite of tho Monarch." Not a Minister, not a Vizier, not a royal prince has ever yet been allowed to sit at the samo table as his Majesty, the only exception to this law of tho Persians being Goolamali Khan, who is constantly by his master's bide, and who has more servants to wait upon him than any. two of the royal Ministers. A Persian official declares that the explanation of this extraordinary treatment is to bo found in his Majesty' pro

found conviction that his life is inseparably and mysteriously bound up with that of Goolamali Khan, and that wise men havo foretold that the Shah's death will be preceded only a few days by that of his young favorite, that the health and prosperity of tho latter will mean the health and prosperity of the former, and that generally whatever befalls this little ono will also nappen to his royal protector. Tho Shah's belief in this prophecy has resulted in the boy 'a leading a life of ease and luxury unknown to the most fortunate courtiers in Teheran. Whatever the explanation, the facts are indisputable, and the boy was seated on tho knees of two magnificent gTandees on the Shah's entry into St. Petersburg, and was held by them with a feeling of awo and reverence during tho hurrahs of the populace and the cheers of the soldiers. GOULD'S PARSIMONY.

The Wall-Street Magnate Might Be More Generous If It Were Not for Ills Wife. New York Letter in Philadelphia Press. So far as Mr. Oould is concerned, it is well known in Wall street that he is parsinionious to a degree that is almost amusing, and that his family is now and always has been iu sympathy with him. In fact, a great many of Mr. Gould's friends seem to think that if Mrs. Gould hadn't been so mean her husband would have been a much, more open-handed and companionable man. Mr. Gould was always very liberal with her, possibly because of the fact that it was the money which he received with her on their marriage that started him on his money-making career, and the money thus received by Mrs. Gould in return for this early service was a constant source of calculation and bookkeeping with her. She ' was forever figuring over her books and estimating the value of her property, and forever scheming to save in this direction and in that so that she might add to her accumulation. She never encouraged any hospit- i ablo inclinations in her husband, so that i the occasions on which guests were enter- ? tained in the Gould household were exceedingly rare. This spirit on Mr. Gould's part did not, of course, fail of a distinct eflect oh Mr. Gould's character, particularly if he is very susceptible to surroundings, and a tendency toward extreme parsimony was thus encouraged and developed, and its manifestations in his Wail street life have given cause for considerable comment. He has seldom been known to assist anybody in the street except where the people whom ho assisted were of practical and immediate service to him. In fact, the only case wherein he was known to have given a friend or acquaintance a tip on the market was in the case of a well-known theatrical man Lsre who retired from the theatrical business a year or so ago, and whom he put into Union Pacific just before that stock turned in price and began to move very rapidly upward. It is understood that tho theatrical man in question made something like $150,000 out of the turn in the market, which never seemed to turn his head, by the way, and he is now able to enjoy life very comfortably. But this is a ' single case, and its fellow would be pretty difficult to find The waiters down in Delmonico's would probably doubt the truth of. the story. Mr. Gould used to lunch constantly at the Broad-street place, and he was never known to tip a waiter in his lifo. When ho came in with Charlie Osborne and Osborne paid for the luncheon, the fortunate waiter received $1 or so, but when Gould camo in, alone there was a skirmishing among tho waiters as to who would be fortunato enough to got out of the way. . Gould weiit down into Texas a number of years ago with a party of railroad men on a tour of inspection, and at some station alou the road the part got olt'aud some one blew in a round of drinks. Gould doesn't drink, a characteristic which is shared with a number of other millionaires, but Homehow or other ho seems to have felt it incumbent on him to return the courtesy thus offered and invited the party to smoke. The cigars were passed round, and a dozen or so of them were taken out. Mr. Gould asked the barkeeper how much ho owed him, and the barkeeper returned tho information that tho cigars were S3 cents each. "Isn't that a pretty high price!" remarked Mr. Gould in his 6lowt mild way. "Perhaps," returned the barkeeper; "but then you know we're not down here for our health." Mr. Gould paid the bill for the cigars and said no more. Perhaps there was nothing more to say. . GENERAL, TIARNEVS POWERS. Incidents in the Li To of the Great Indian Fighter. San T'raiicisco Examiner. t ' I have heard my father say (he terved under Harney in the Seminole war and also in Mexico) that he was the biggest, strongest and most powerful soldier that has worn a uniform since Frederick the Great. Ho was a giant in stature, a Hercules .in strength. His powers of endurance wero phenomenal. In the Seminole war he once went without food for four days and nights, and at the end of the time took Billy Bowlegs, who had caught him in the swAmps, by tho nape of the neck and threw him a distance of ten fe6t. Tho savage had an old bayonet pointed at his heart at tho time. Another time, when surrounded by Indians, ;he cleaved his wav through them with a sword, and when their arrows had him weakened and almost helpless by loss of blood he made a final rush, and, seizing one savage, hurled him agatnst another .with such force that both were disabled. That same night he swam three miles, trudged nine miles through a swamp, and 'finally reached an outpost in safety. . ' Indians were always afraid of Harney, lie could shoot an arrow better than they. He was a dead shot with a nlle, and when it came to physical violence something that an Indian has no taste for he could throw their mightiest athletes about like so many rubber balls. It was no trick at all for him to knock a truculent savage down with one hand, and with the other tako his mate, lift him clear of the ground and dance his legs over his fallen comrades. The Indians up abont Fort Snelling when Harney was a captain at tho post used to call him "Thunder Bull," who roared liko thunder and was stronger than a buffalo. The old General was, even in 18C1, when ho retired from service, the finest looking man in tho army. He was six feet four inches and built like an athlete. Ex.Gov. Gray and the Presidency. Taooma, (W. T.l Special to New York Tribune, Ex-Governor Isaac P. Gray, of Indiana, arrived in this city to-day. lie nays he is hero purely for pleasure. He declined to talk politics, but an Indiana friend says ' the Governor is going to make a desperate effort to get into the scat of Daniel Voor bees in the United States Senate, and that in his contest ho will meet with the determined opposition not only ofVoorhees'c friends, but those of ex-Senator McDonald. The latter is particularly bitter against Gray. m Ex-Governor Gray is said to be of the opinion that he would have made a stronger run than Thurman had he been nominated on the ticket with Cleveland. A newspaper man informed the Governor that Senator Pugh, of Alabama, while here with the Senate committee a week ago, declared in favor of Gray as the Democratio nominee in 1692. This made the Governor smile with a perceptible twitch of hit upper lip. Darld Boycott nilL Troy Tunes. The Governor of New York State tayi that he will use his influence against the State Associated Press if the latter fail to publish every word of the Governor's messages and every line of his memoranda ac companyiug bills. Is his name David Boy cott Hill! And will the Associated Preaa consent to become a groveling "literary, bureau" as an annex to Hill's presidential machine! A Great Year for Kansas. Kansas City Star. A process has been discovered by scmo Eastern manufacturers for making carpets ; out of cow's hair. This is a great year fo Kansas, and no mistake. Mnnhall Is Wanted In Chicago. Chicaco Herald. Dr. Mnnhall, the Atchison revivalist,"claims that it is cheaper to convert a man than to hang him. Will the Doctor pleaao 6tep this way! ' A Safe Inference, Boston Courier. If you hapDen to see a small boy chaslns a bumble bee you will know when ho yellj that he has caught it. A Childish Inquiry. Manchester (N. II.) Union. If a castor-oil trust is to be permitted la this country, what will become of thela fant industxyt