Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 July 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1889.

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THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1839. WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth 8U P. S. IIKATH, Correspondent. NEW YORK OFFICE 204 Temple Court, Corner Beekman and Naaaan streets. 1 Telephone Call. Business Offlce 238 tutorial Rooms 243 TER31S OF KURSCRIPTION. DAILY. On year, -without Sunday $12.00 me year, with Hunlav - 14.00 fcix month, without Sunday tf.oo 8lx month, with Sunday -00 Three months without snnday 00 Three- mouth, with Sunday 3.30 One month, without uncUy i .V, One month, w ttu fcundaj WEEKLY. Ter year fl.00 Reduced Rates to Clubs. PuWrib with any ot oux numerou agents, or send subscriptions to the J0UKXAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, I5DIAXAPOLU, I XI. A 11 com mu n if at ion t intended for publ iration in thtMpajtrr must, in order U revet re attention. M actum ptnied by the tutrne and addrts of thetertter T1IE INDLVNAFOUS JOURNAL Can h4 found at the tallowing places: LONDON American' Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARIS-American Exchange in Pans, 35 Boulevard des Capuciues. NEW YORK Gilaey House and Windsor Hotel. PUILADELPUIA-A. pTKtmble, 3733 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO-Palmer House. UINCINNATI-J. T. Hawiey is Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Peering, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets, fcT- LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot andhoutLeru lioteL WASHINGTON", D. C.-RigKS Uouso ana Ebbltt House. biiiirrKD of all disguises, tho Indiana School-book Company proposes to debauch tho schools aud wreck tho school system of Indiana for money. That is all there is to it. Tub Sentinel is very mad; almost mad enough to apply its Supremo Court adjective to the Journal. Possibly, too, if it were to free its mind, as it would like, the indiscreet Mr. Becktold might come in for some objurgations. In the matter of school-books, thebest nro none too pood for Indiana children. Those published by Becktold, alias Williams, re-sold to tho Standard company, and by that corporation supplied to Hawkins et ol.f are not the best. It may be legal for Becktold's agents to bulldoze county boards of education into accepting the St. Louis schoolbooks beforo tho company's bond has been tiled or tho Governor's proclamation issued; but it doesn't look that way to tho lay mind. The Secretary of the Interior has rendered a decision granting $15,000 to J. Milton Turner, the colored attorney of tho Cherokee frecdmen, one-half cash, and one-half in one year, subject to tho decision of the claim of E. C. Boudinot. Turner is the patriot who called a convention of colored Democrats in this city during the last campaign. It is within the limits of possibility that Mr. Edward Hawkins, as he says, never saw Butler's geography nor any of the school-books proposed to be furnished by tho Standard company. The Indianapolis company not having been formed until live minutes beforo the bid was opened, must, at any rate, have rendered examination of tho books by the members a very hasty affair. Mr. Edward Hawkins, a member of the "Indiana School-book Company," which was formed live minutes before tho St. Louis Standard Company's bid was opened, rises to defend tho books furnished through the benevolent aid of Mr. Becktold, alias Williams; but, curiously enough, he does not explain his interest in tho contract, since, as has been shown by Mr. Becktold, tho Standard company is tho ono to which it is awarded. A Washington special to tho Baltimore Sun reports tho President as saying: "It is my intention to remain at Bar Harbor for a week or ten days, and then return hero in time to go to Indianapolis Aug. 22 to attend tho dedication of the State soldiers' monument there." The Journal does not wish to encourago false hopes in this regard, but if tho President is correctly reported by tho Sun correspondent, there would seem to "be a strong probability of his coming. Henry Clay Smith, the colored Democrat who proposes to make a test case of his removal from a department clerkship, informs a correspondent that he is a tariff reformer, and says if the colored men could stop long enough to listen and think they would all be with him. He says: "Tho Republican party represents the manufacturers, and tho Democrats the consumers." The young man seems to possess tho germs of Democratic statesmanship. Ho ought not to "be willing to bury himself in a department clerkship. "Sooner," tho word invented in Oklahoma to designate a man who laid claim to land in that Territory before tho time legally fixed, is doubtless destined to wider uses, its applicability to other cases being evident. It may even be found useful in politics, tho risk of entering the iield too early for his own good being nowhere greater than in the case of a political candidate. Grover Cleveland, for example, is a prominent "sooner," his claim to the Democratic nomination of 1S02 having been tiled too e arly. His best friends are already beginning to acknowledge that his title would be clearer had he waited a little. The organ of tho school-book ring is losing its temper ami its head. It should take warning from Becktold, one of the St. Louis ringsters, and not talk too much. It leaks out that Becktold has made them very sick by telling how ho came here and registered under a false jiaino while he was organizing tho Indiana ring. His boast of tho big profits they expect to make and his revelation of the methods by which future legislation is to bo secured at tho further expense of the people and tho schools was a regular bombshell to the ring, and probably accounts, in part, for tho rage of its organ. By the way, while they are in the interviewing business, the St.

Louis papers should interview the president of tho Standard Publishing Com

pany, who is also president of a detective agency, and have hira tell what ho knows about Democratic members of tho Legislature being shadowed by detectives, invited to the Sentinel office by private note, and bulldozed into voting for tho nresent law by threats of attack in the editorial columns of that paper if they did not. THE SUGAR QUESIIOff. Tho present is a good time to discuss tho tariff question in its relation to sugar and tho Sugar Trust. It will be fully three months before Congress will meet in extra session, and nothing can bo done until then beyond discussing tho question and endeavoring to reach a conclusion consistent with true economic principles and with tho large interests involved. The subject is one for free and full discussion. , The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, a Republican and protection paper, says: "Tho tariff has failed to develop the sugar industry, although it has been trying to do so for a good many decades. There are physical laws preventing its development, and physical laws cannot be set asido by acts of Congress. On protectionist grounds, therefore, the maintenance of tho duty on sugar is indefensible." Replying to this the Inter Ocean, another Republican and protection paper, says: Our tariff has failed to develop the canesugar industry to very considerable proportions, only because the area adapted to its production is very small; but now, after these many decades of protection, at a time when the possibilities of sugar production from sorghum cano and tho beet-root are demonstrated by successful experiment, we ought not to withdraw protection, and leave4 the new industry to the tender mercies of the powerful syndicates of producers and retiners. Wo ought either to continue our tariff or offer an equivalent in the form of a bounty t to place the industry here on an equal footing with that afforded in foreign countries. These expressions show an honest difference of opinion in regard to the possibility of any largo development of the sugar industry in the United States, and of tho effect of a protective duty in that direction. , The Journal is of the opinion that the Globe-Democrat errs in saying "there are physical laws which prevent the development of tho sugar industry in this country." If it had confined the assertion to the cane-sugar industry it would be measurably true, for tho area of cano production is limited, and tho rate of increase in recent years has not been such as to clearly justify the retention of a protective duty on sugar for its development. But tho statement of the GlobeDemocrat does not apply to the production of beet sugar or sorghum. There aro no physical or climatic laws to prevent tho development of this industry in tho United States. On the contrary, no country in the world possesses greater facilities in that line. Germany is not as well adapted for the manufacture of beet sugar as this country, and yet last year Germany produced 1,300,000 tons of sugar and its saccharine resultants, or more than one-fourth of the sugar product of the world. The last report of the Commissioner of Agriculture says: The interest in the manufacture of sugar from the sugar beet in this country is constantly increasing. The coast valleys of California, large areas in Oregon and Washington Territory, parts of Nebraska, western and southern Michigan, northern Indiana, Ohio and New York, and many portions of tho New England States appear to he well adapted to the growth of a sugar beet rich in saccharine matter. There is every reason to believe that the production of sugar from the sugar-beet in this country will be vastly extended, and that beet sugar in conjunction with sugar from sorghum and sugar cane will be an important factor in the future sugar supply of the United States. The vast possibilities involved in this phase of the sugar question should warn Congress not to bo stampeded into a repeal of tho present duty on sugar without very careful investigation. There is no assurance that such repeal would permanently cheapen the price of sugar to consumers, while it would certainly end all hope of developing the sugar industry in this country. No new industry and no American interest ever was or ever will bo developed under free trade. INVESTIGATING THE PENSION OFFICE. The appointment by tho Secretary of the Interior of a commission to investigate the Pension Office is a wise act. It should be understood at tho outset that there is no charge of fraud or violation of law. Tho most that has been charged is that Commissioner Tanner has exercised too great liberality in re-ratingpen-sions, and has made some rulings which a stricter constructionist of the law would not have made. It is simply a question whether he has wisely exercised his discretionary power. Tho Commissioner himself asked for the investigation. It will cover the entire period of the re-rating business, running back into the last year of the Cleveland administration and embracing cases reopened and readjudicated by Commissioner Black. This is right. Commissioner Black inaugurated the re-rating business, and the investigation should show whether Commissioner Tanner has materially departed from tho precedents established by his predecessor or has exercised undue liberality towards pensioners. This is the gravamen of the charge against him and tho gist of all the Democratic howling. The investigating committee consists of two members of the appeal board and an official of the Attorney-general's oflice. It is creditable to tho administration and to the Secretary of tho Interior that one of its own appointees is to be investigated, and those who have been hounding him cannot object if the investigation goes back into the administration of his predecessor. Nothing has done more to establish habits ot thrift and to encourage proper personal pride and confidence among the colored people than the formation of benevolent orders among them. They have been quick to recognize the benefits of mutual aid societies, and have made much of them, both in a financial and social way. Comparatively few men or women in this city but belong to some order which is pledged to care for them in sickness, and to provide for decent burial. However improvident the members may be, dues aro paid promptly, as a rule, and great comfort is

derived from the thought of this provision for time of need a provision that would seldom be made if individual savings were depended on. Every organization of this kind, if rightly conductedand few complaints of mismanagement aro heard helps to advance the social and moral condition of tho race.

The Knights of Friendship, the society now holding its annual conclave in this city, is claimed, by those who understand its workings, to be one of the best of these associations. Its delegates are certainly an intelligent-looking body of men, and by their appearance bear out the assertion that, in grade, this is ono of the highest orders. Their presence in this city is regarded with favor by citizens generally, and they can Test' assured of a welcome as often as the' shall see fit to hold their annual conventions here. Hardly a week has passed since tho 4th of last March that the New York papers have not announced ex-President Cleveland's departure on a fishing trip. Ho may go to Florida or the Adirondacks, or he may go for a day only to a point on Long island, but go fishing he doesiiontinually. Just now he is reported to bo wielding lmrod and line on Buzzard's bay, in company with Joseph Jefferson. It is a harmless pursuit, not being known to lead to crime, even if followed immoderately, but as the constant occupation of a former chief mag istrate it does become a little tiresome to the public if not to tho fisherman himself. People will begin to fear, presently, that tho immense law business which ho was reported to havo stepped into will suffer through his absence. The school authorities and people of In diana should not bo alarmed by the threat of tho ring organ to invoke the penalty of the law if they refuse to adopt, use or buy the obsolete school-books attempted to bo forced upon them by tho ring. There is no penalty for such refusal, and no power in this law, or any other, to prevent local school boards from using any books they please, and buying them w here they please. The St. Louis pub-lishing-houso which engineered the law through tho Legislature probably intended to make it compulsory, and their organ would evidently like to make the people believe it is, but it is not. The people still have some rights which tho monop oly cannot override. After mind - reader Bishop died his mother and the wife whom he had lately married engaged in a wrangle over his effects, and the question as to their respective rights is still unsettled by the courts. Just at this juncture, wife No. 1, from whom he had procured a divorce, appears and produces a will which was made in London, in duo form, before their mar riage, and which leaves everything to her. She is instructed by her lawyers that sub sequent marriages cannot invalidate the document, and proposes to assert her claims. It need not take a mind-reader of any special skill to tell with accuracy just what each of those three women thinks of the others. On the recommendation of W. D. Howells, Boston has taken up Tolstoi's , novels, and pretends to like them. MauriceThompson having ventured some objections to Tolstoi and some criticisms upon Ilowells for eulogizing his works, a writer in the Boston Transcript takes up the cudgels and proceeds to annihilate Mr. Thompson, his most weighty weapon being sarcastic refer ences to the gentleman's residence, Crawfordsville, lnd. Evidently, the Boston writer doesn't know that Crawfordsville is a literay center; but, even if it were not, why should not as great men come from it as from Martinsville, O., in whose obscuri ty Mr. Ilowells was born and rcaredf The Pittsburg Law and Order League, which is trying to stop the sale of Sunday cigars, is confronted with an automatic machine which shells one out to every man who drops a nickel in the slot. Tho multi plication of these machines and their adap tation to so many uses suggests'that the time may come when a merchant can manage all his traffic by machinery, and after the ma chines are set can go fishing any day, se cure that there will bo noloafing orneglect of customers during his absence, as under the old system. The possibilities of .that contrivance are, as yet, but dimly perceived. ' The decision of the Cincinnati judge that ice-cream can no longer be regarded as a luxury, but has become a necessity of life, will be hailed with joy by the funny men as affording room for variations on the peren nial ice-cream joke. Hereafter, when a young man is out with his sweetheart, he will feel in duty bound according to the jokers to insist upon ice-cream in order to save her life. The rain-fall in tho East has been tremen dous this season, but it is a little queer that tho more water thei" have the more the people complain about the water supply. In Pitts burg and Philadelphia the citizens aro loud in complaints that the water obtainable in their respective cities is not tit to drink. The British House of Commons, in voting $3,000,000 for the construction of railroads for Ireland, has made a great step toward establishing peace in the troublous isle. It might go much further on this line without faring worse. The Atlanta Constitution labors through a quarter of a column of editorial to say that it doesn't care a continental cookie what Mrs. Canfield or anybody else thinks of tho social features of the South. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Who has the appointment of inspectors of in ternal revenuei I. w. Marco, lnd. You probably mean revenue agents. They aro appointed by the President or by the Secretary of the Treasury, under his au thority. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Mrs. LiVEitMOliE is hard at work upon a new address, the title of which will bo "Twenty-live Years on the Lecture Platlonu." Sn: Percy Shelley, tho son of tho poet, is said to be seriously ilL lie has no sou. and at his death tho title will become ex tinct. Dk. Makt Walker is a candidate for tho consulship at Valparaiso, the position so curtly declined by Hon. Roswell G. Horr, oi ancnigan. Joe Howard says that James Gordon BenDett never meets any prominent news paperman without ottering him the managmg euuorsnip oi mo ew ioriv iieraiu. Tin: wedding presents already sent in for the Fife affair would stock a good-sized jewclery shop. Tho Rothschilds and tho Shah both give diamonds. The Duke of Fife's wedding present to the princess is a fcjdcndid tiara of diamond. 'A he bride will

wear a dress of white and silver brocade, with a veil of Houiton lace, and diamonds and pearls presented by the Queen.

Charles M. Heed, tf Erie, offers to pay off the debt of that city, amounting to$l,100,000, if it will give him the water-works. x uj icveuun iroin me water-worKs service last year amounted to $74,000. Practical Christianity is illustrated by the Bishop of Durham. He has just finished a church at a cost of 8,000, as "a iuu vucmig ior xno uiessmgs vouchsafed during an episcopate of ten years. Lady Colin Campbell is writing a novel, which is to appear shortly, entitled "Darell Blake." It is thought that several persons prominent in social ant literary circles will be more or less faitWnllv re produced. Edward Bellamy, the author of "Look ing Backward," thinks that tho cause of compulsory education in the United States demands a school year of not less than thirty-live weeks, and continued tuition until the age of seventeen. It is au Ohio man who now makes a curi ous discovery. He says if you go out to feed a iiock of chickens and keep them waiting they will first flock about you, and then begin a circuit around you from right to left, and that no amount of interruption or maneuvering will confuse or turn them in another direction. At a recent royal ball in London the young Duchess of Portland wore a beauti ful white and silver brocade gown, trimmed with silver thistles; a necklace of pearls and sapphires, and a diamond and sannhiro tiara. It was really amusing to see the uuko watch her dance with - Frince Albert Victor, so proud was he of the admiration she commanded. Camping out is capable of much luxury. A largo camp at the dirondacks contains about forty acres. The sleeping-apartments are all in separate tents, the drawingroom and dining-room being in a very pretty log-cabin overhanging the lake. In one place is an artistic childrens' playhouse, and in another a perfectly-rolled tennis court, shaded by lofty birches. The stables are near. Edward Eggleston, the novelist, talks remarkably well, in a deep, rich voice, and is likewiso a good listener. Mr. Eggleston is a somewhat ponderous man, physically, being more than six feet tall, and broad in proportion. His head is almost leonine, by reason of his abundant gray hair, great oeara ana heavy eyebrows, lie is a Virginian, broadened by contact with men both East and West. . The death of Alexander Johnston, pro fessor of political economy at Princeton College, deprives the country of a most en tertaining and nowerfnl writer on noliticohistoric and politico-economic topics. Proiessor Johnston s knowledge of the history of political parties in this country was deep and accurate, and he had the faculty of presenting topics not entertaining of themselves in a way which rendered them extremely interesting. No one is likely to believe that John Mackay has been spending large sums of money in the interests of the Boulanger party. Count Dillon, who has taken such an active part in the Boulanger movement, was at ono time connected with the management of the Mackav cable, and there may have been some financial favor ac corded to him, and used for the benefit of the brav General. But any particular participation of Mackay in the Boulanger schema is highly improbable. , He is the tenth or twelfth person whohas'been called "Boulauger's backer." Prof. W. K. Harper, the Hebraist of Yale, who has broken in on the methods of the old-style students of Scripture, is mak ing a littlo sensation among the brethren at Chautauqua, where his views are under discussion. Apropos of his methods. Dr. Lyman Abbott, Beecher's successor in Plymouth Church, now at Chautaunua, and who agrees with Harper, says: "The origin of the Pentateuch, I think, is to be decided by precisely the same canons as the origin of the Homeric ballads; and it is precisely that sort of intelligent study of the Bible which will lead to its intelligent appreciation." 'The business of the Eiffel tower turns out to be immense. M. Eiffel calculated that when everything was in working order the gate money would be 5,000 a day. Since the lifts have been in operation ho is thought to havo averaged more than this. It costs a franc to enter the tower, two fraucs to get up in the lift to the second lloor, and four francs to the top. On any one of tho ordinary full-price days more than 20,000 people have paid admission, and, with the increased prices for those using the elevator, the entire receipts exceed 10,000. The original cost of tho Eiffel tower, all included, was a little less than $1,000,000. The proprietor has to keep it in repair and hand over one-fourth of his gate money to the exhibition. It is estimated that it will be half paid for when the exhibition closes, and then it will remain certainly three years more, aud perhaps ten. COMMENT AND OPINION. Of all the miserable and infamous tolls that are levied upon the American public that of tips to waiters and serving-men of all degrees in hotels, restaurants, sleeping cars and barber shops are the most miserable aud infamous. Chicago Herald. Tiikre is a great deal of foolish legislation in this country which withstands the scrutiny of the courts, but an attempt to restrict commerce between the States is such a refined exhibition of inanity that no court can let it pass muster. Chicago News. The lack of a decent abode drove Mr. Lincoln out to the Soldiers' Home, forced Mr. Cleveland to buy a country residence when he took to himself a wife, and will interfere seriously with the comfort of the present incumbent of tho presidency, Chicago Tribune. We know that until Democracy became tainted by nullification and secessionism there was no Democrat of note who favored direct taxation as the source of ordinary revenue. The internal revenue taxes aro war taxes; tarill duties are the natural sources of American revenue. Chicago Inter Ocean. England has increased rapidly in wealth in the free-trade period after the start which tho protection policy gave that country. The United States, though, under protection, has increased in wealth many times faster. Protection led England to free-trade. It will do and is doiug the same for the United States. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Tiik nominal plurality for Cleveland was less than 100,000, and he would have been beaten on the popular vote beyond doubt, as he was beaten on the electoral vote, if the election had been free and fair. As to that, men can hardly dispute, however much they may differ as to the extent of Kepublican loss through fraud in Southern States. New York Tribune. It the Salt Trustl further explains that no relief to consumers can be expected from foreigu competition, for "its arrangements'' preclude it. It even says that though the entire duty on salt should bo removed it would still be able to keep up prices through its foreign allies. In fact, its insinuations reach to the border line of asking tho public: What are you going to do about it Boston Globe. By turning over tho pages of children's magazines and of the latest books for young peoplo it will be seen that some of the best literary work of the time aims to furnish children with reading. Authors no longer write down" to young readers. The foolish "baby talk" of earlier writers and the dull axioms'of others are both avoided by authors of to-day. who try to furnish their most brilliant and wisest work for the critical minds in their most sensitive and tenacious period.-r-Boston Journal. A lloosier in Dakota. "Yankton Special. It goes undisputed that Gideon C. Moody, of Deadwood, will be one of the South Dakota Senators. He is a phlegmatic man, 6avage when aroused, bis framed and big brained. There is very little that is politic ahout Judge Moody. If ho does't like a thing ho says it in words that cannot be misunderstood. He is to-day the besc known of all the Dakotans about Washington because of his frequent visits there and aggressive light for statehood. The Judge is a New Vorker by birth, an Indiana man by virtue of. four years' war service, during which he roso from private to colonel in a lloosier regiment, and a Dakota", by iiiuil, luatuxo choice, lie camo to

Yankton in 1S04, and has been in the Territory ever since. At the recent Fourth of July celebration, which was also South Dakota's birthday celebration, there were read to the assembled people the Declaration of Independence and the Statehood memorial of 1885. It was difficult to tell which document aroused the deepest emotion. Jndge Moody was tho author of tho memorial. The Judge is the attorney of the famous Homcstake mine of the Black Hills, and is a warm friend of Senator Hearst, who is one of the large owners of the mine. He is spoken of as "well kxed" by those who know something of his circumstances, but will hardly class with the millionaires of the Senate. PRAYERS FOR CIVIL-SERVICE REFORM.

More than 20,000 Ministers Will Lend Their Voices for the Cause. Philadelphia Record. Over 20,000 ministers of churches of every denomination and in all parts of the countiy are to be asked to pray and work among their congregations for.the cause of civil - service reform. Secretarj Herbert Welsh, of tho Indian Rights Association, of this city, who is also much interested in other reforms, is the leading spirit in tho movement. As he said last night, the intention is "to bring the question of reform to the knowledge of intelligent people in all parts of the land, and show them the necessity for a better state of things in the government. We consider it a moral question, not a political one." Mr. Welsh has already communicated with a number of leading churchmen all over the country, and secured their support and approval in the enterprise, and during next month, or early in September, he will communicate by personal letter with over 20,000 ministers. He will send to each one a copy of the "Civil-service Primer" and a work which he has himself compiled, which is a condensation of Dorman B. Eaton's 'History of Civil-service Keform in Great Britain," and Mrs. Lucv M. Salmon's "History ot the Appointing Power of the President,-" It is intended to ask the ministers to preach cm the reform either on next Thanksgiving day, or any day they may select. "The danger of preaching politics is avoided," said Mr. Vvelsh,"by the fact that both parties are committed to civil-service . reform. It has been tried enough in this country to prove its practicability, and therefore it ought to bo extended to cover all offices in tho civil service of the United States which are nonpolitical. What I have seen of tho spoils system in the Indian service has convinced mo of the necessity for reform. I have seen incapable persons, criminals of all kinds and utterly worthless people put into responsible government positions; thoso who are, deserving and meritorious are not given a chance." The mauv prominent churchmen from whom Mr. Welsh has received favorable comment and support in the undertaking include almost every denomination, excepting the Catholic8,who,asyet, have not come to a decision as to what they will do. Among the gentlemen who are supporting the scheme are Bish op iiurst, ot wasuington; Hisnop Warren, of Colorado; Bishop Bowman, of bt. Louis; Bishop Mallalieu, of .Louisiana, and Key. Dr. Morrow, of this city all Methodigts. Among the Presbyterians, exPresident James McCosh, President Patton andjProfessors Greene, Hodge, Akien, Warheld and Dutiield, of rnnceton College; Dr. Howard Crosby, of New York, aud Dr. Herrick Johnson, of Chicago. Among the Unitarians are: Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale and Rev. Mr. Chad wick, of Boston. Among the Congregationalists are: Dr; Lyman Abbott, of Brooklyn; Professor Fisher, of Yale College, and Rev. Mr. Park, of Binghamton, N. . Baptists who approve the movement are: Rev. Dr. G. Dana Board man and Rev. Dr. Way land, of this city. Among the Episcopalians are: Bishop'Whitaker, of this city; Bishop Coleman, of Delaware; Bishop McClaren, of Chicago; Bishop Huntingdon, of Western New Vork; Bishop Clarke, of Rhode Island; Bishop Tattle, of Missouri; Bishop Whipple, of Minnesota; Bishop Knickerbacker. of Indiana; Bishop Spaulding, of Colorado; Bishop Bissell. of Vermont: Rev. Dr. Davies, Bishop-elect of Michigan: Bishop (juintard, of Tennessee; Bishop Dudley, of Kentucky; Bishop Seymour, of Springfield, III.; Rev. Dr. Phillips Brooks, of Boston; Rev, Dr. Morgan Dix, of New York; Rev. Dr. Mc-. Vickar and Rev. Dr. JJcConnell, of this city. The movement is a voluntary one, and is not in the hands of any organization, the necessary funds being raised b3 individual subscription. fr"CATTLE QUEEN" KATE MAXWELL. A Variety Actress, Stock Woman and Finally a Prairie Tramp and, Thief. Cheyenne Special to St. Louis Republic Averill, who was lynched Sunday night with "CattlcQueen Kate" Maxwell, though called a coward, and really a cur, has a record of killing two men. Onewas assassinated, being shot in tho back from under cover. The other was killed in a row over a game of cards, a bulletfrom a big revolver spattering his brains over tho room. No trial was lield in either case, though Averill was threatened with arrest and even lynching, but his victims were men of no prominence and the tragedies were soon forgotten. The fellow was appointed postmaster on account of the central location of his ranch. As an official he was not entirely satisfactory. Several men with whom he had quarrelod had their letters sent to a postoflice fifty miles away rather than risk a conflict With Averill. Mrs. Maxwell, whose rapid descent sinco the debauch which followed the gamblinghouse adventure had somewhat dimmed her luster, was a character indeed. She was once a Chicago variety actress, but, with the adaptability of women of her class, fell into Western ways readily. She improved vastly on ranch life by importing race horses, fighting dogs and sprinters and holding tourneys at her place. Her husband died mysteriously. It was whispered that she poisoned him. The ranch foreman, whom she had known in the East, became proprietor. This liaison was open, but Kate was true to her lover. She resented the familiarity of a drunken Mexican by sending a bullet through him.. Mrs. Maxwell participated in an Indian war before she had been in the country thirty days. One of her thoroughbreds showed his heels to the fast pony of Chief Sharp Nose, an Arapahoe dignitary. The same day a sprinter from tho East easily defeated a young brave in a dash of loo yards. The Indians Tost money, ponies, blankets and even squaws on the event. They started away from the race muttering threats, and suddenly turned about and opened fire on Kate and her men. Tho latter rallied quickly and repulsed the Arapahoes, killing several. No white men were killed in the contlict. Life on the ranch was now gayer than ever, but after the recovery of the money from the skin-gamblers at Bessemer, things went to the dogs. Kate's paramour made a trip to the railway and forgot to come back. The men left ope at a time, horses were stolen, dogs killed and cattle scattered. A colored boy who had been Kate's body servant was tho last to disappear. He took her diamonds along. She set out in pursuit, overtook the darkey and shot him down on the highway, recovering the jewels; but they were soon pawned. From her high estate 'as the wealthy and powerful queen of the cowboys, she became a prairie tramp, but still high-spirited, walking into camps and ranches, and helping herself as though an attache of the outfit. She kuew that Averill was a thief, and seemed to become ono herself after tho doubly unholy partnership had been formed. Again established in a home, she sought to resume her place in tho hearts of tho cowboys, but they were fearful of Averill, and could not be captivated by her blandishments. Failure to reorganize a lawless band did not discourage the dashing Kate and her terrible partner. For a time they were guarded in their criminal work, but everything com in it to their net was lish. Thev would kill a steer, bum the hide, and sell tho carcass to employes who owned the animal. It was darkly hinted and doubtless not without foundation that tho pair .were veritable Benders. Their ranch was only a couple of miles from the road. Travelers stopped for meals while freighters loved to camp beside a splendid spring just outside the Maxwell and Averill pasture. Many of these visitors were lured to linancial ruin at least by the wiles of the winning Kate, who was faded but still a beauty. Sho played every card game well, and to fleece the innocent was only pastime for her and her husband. Two men who mysteriously disappeared were traced to this deadfall, where they were, in all probability, murdered for their money. A thorough but fruitless searcn oi the premises was made. The "rustlers" at first stole calves in the night, . but soon branched out, aud on numerous occasions were met on the range in broad daylight driving bunches of young unbranded beeves to their cor

ral. When thus detected, theywould, a5 pistol point, make those in possession of tho evidence against them scurry. Within two months they have stolen hundreds of cattle, selling many to men who came in the night and hurried the plunder across the line into Utah. They intended making a big shipment to the Eastern market this fall. During the hanging Kate seemed to have no thought of death, only desiring to curso the lynchers. She referred to her mother without feeling, and spoke of no other relatives. The nephew says Mrs. Maxwell was born in Kentucky, but that her parents have left that State, and that he does not know their whereabouts. An Actor's Presenc of Mind. Boston Transcript. Lemaitre, intrusted with a tragic part, was so bebiudhand in reaching the theater that the stage manager was nearly distracted. When ho appeared, the stago manager, who had a part in the piece, weut on the stago wearing his spectacles, which in his excitement he had forgotten to remove. Lemaitre noticed the singular look of his companion, and to warn him changed his lines, and said: "What! nre thine eyes with watching and despair So weakened that these wonders you must wear! This so tickled the prompter that he fell off his 6eat with a great racket. There was con fusion all over the house, but the quickwitted Lemaitre prevented a disturbance by shouting: 'Heart thou that noise! Twere wise In my belief To seek within for shelter and relief." And he disappeared, dragging the astounded manager along with him.

The Attacks Upon Tanner. Logansport Journal. Taking advantage of the liberality of Commissioner Tanner to old soldiers, certain hold-over Cleveland officials in tha medical division of the Pension Office helped themselves and their friends liberally by re-rating their pensions. Discovering tllis Abuse of their power. Commissioner Tanner promptly dismissed these Cleveland rascals, and reorganized the medical division upon a sound and honest basis. The literary bureau organized for the defamation and destruction of Commissioner Tanner boldly assails hira for these acts of Cleveland Democratic officials, and avenges their dismissal by him in brazenlv false charges and insinuations against him. The partisan warfare waged upon Corporal Tanner is to the last degree disreputable, but it is making him new and moro friends every day. . "Roasting" the Metropolitan Police. Martinsville Republican. Marshal. Cox received a letter, last Friday, from detective Thornton, (colored) of Indianapolis, stating that a gang of crooks were coming down here to "work" the town, and that a fellow detective who knew them would come down and point them out to tho officers, who could then make them leave town. He wanted $1.50 a day and feed for his services. His otter was not accepted, as it was thought that if the police of indiauapelis could not put a stop to the stealing, sand-bagging,- etc., at home, they wouldn't be of any service here, where there hasn't been a burglary for six months. Probably Indianapolis had better send down here and get some pointers from our officers. Few Politics This Year. Philadelphia Press. There" are few State elections of importance this year, which in some measure explains the lack of popular interest in the subject. But tho satisfaction tho people feel with the administration is another reason. Of course, it has not been long in power, and has not had onnortunitv to do much, but what it has done meets with r, opular approval. Tho first election will e that of Kentucky, on Aug. S. but as tho State is hopelessly Democratic no one is concerned much about the result The elections in the new States will come next, andtheso will bo of greater interest. If they do not all go Republican there will bo cause for surprise. Women and Machinery. Rochester Union. 1 One of the most serious defects in the feminine mind is the inability to deal with machine'. It is a rare thing to find a worn-, an who really grasps the idea of a mechanical contrivance so as to set it to rights if it goes wrong. A Fad result of this defect was the dreadful death of Emma do Groat in an Albany shirt factory yesterday. Sho was caught in the machinery and whirled round a lino of shafting. None of tho girls with her had instant brains enough to stop the machine. One fainted and the others shrieked and ran down stairs for a man. m m , "The Logic of the Situation." Washington Post. Under the head of "The Logic of tho Situation" an esteemed contemporary tells us mat wi Diiitviu, uiuucia ill Indiana are starving" because they "could not live on the wages paid by tho companies" before the strike. In view of tho fact that they did livo on thoso wages, scant though they no doubt were, and in view of the fact that they are now starving because they do not pet those wages, it appears that the logic of tho situation sticks up like a hole in the ground. The Sale of Circassian Girls. New York Sun. The trade would probably cease entirely were it not that it is the highest ambition of many a fair Circassian to oecome an inmate of some luxurous harem far away from her own land. There is among the Circassians an unwritten law that no girl shall be sold without her consent: and the fact is that many of them are eager to bo sold, and so their fathers do not hesitate long to accept any tempting oiler which the agents from the slave marts may make. Republicans Not Caught Napping. Boston Journal. Louis T. Michener: who has been chosen chairman of the Indiana Republican State committee, to succeed Treasurer Huston, has been Attorney-general of the State, and is an able and successful politician. If the Indiana Democrats expected to catch the President's lriends and supporters napping, they are fated to disappointment, for the committee, with a true appreciation of its responsibilities, has already begun to prepare for tho campaign of 18(0. Tays No Attention to Gnats. Albany Journal. The latest mugwump charge against Coiporal Tanner is that he is not a "sensitive" man. Inasmuch as the Corporal has maintained his position under the concentrated fire of the mugwump batteries, and gives no evidence of preparing to retreat, we are inclined to believe that there is a grain of truth in the conclusion at which tho muggies have arrived. I Nothing Wrong in Democratic Traits. Washington Press. So far as we are able to gather the opinions of Democratic and mugwump editors on the question of trusts, those combinations are inimical to the public pood only when Republicans are in them. Trusts organized aud maintained by Democrats aro beneficent arrangements. Foreign Capital Is a Good Thing. Washington Pres. , Don't get scared at the rush of Knglifh capital to this country to find investments here. Money is a good thing, no matter whero it comes from. All the capital in the United States is under the control of our own laws. It will be our fault if it hurts us. Dropping Out. Iowa State Kegutf-r. It becomes painfully anpareut everj- day that Mr. Cleveland as a presidential candidate in is fast passing to a reminiscence. And that. too. when Repithlirnns are doing the beat they can to keep him going. Au Erroneous Report, St. Louis Pont-Disiat4 lu The report that the Indiana Republicans nro dissatisfied with tho administration is beyond belief. What on earth do the Indiana Republicans wantf A Thoughtful Remark. Somerville Journal. It is a great dt,l easier to w rite a vivid love-letter of Mxtcen pages than it is to hear it read two years aiterward in court. Files In Winter Time. Cleveland Leader. When tho Republican tariff bill is passed next winter we predict there will bo liiei ou tho Sugar Trust.