Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 October 1890 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, OCTOBER G, 1890.

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All communications intended for publication in ihn paper viust, in order to receite attention, be accompanied by the name and address of the writer, THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: PARIS-Amertcan Exchange In Paris, 36 Boulevard des Capucuaes. NEW YORK Gllsey House and Windsor IIoteL PHILADELPHIA A. P. Kemble, 3735 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCTNNATI-J. P. Hawley A Co.. 154 Vine street LOUISVILLE-C. T. Deering. northwest corner Third and J eSer&on streets. BT. LOUIS Urlon News Company. Union Depot and southern HoteL WASHINGTON. D. C RlfiTgs House and Ebbitt House. " Democratic Plan of Taxation. di!orUil in Indianapolis Sentinel of Sept. 14, The tax on personal Democratic I'latform. We demand the adoption of a sYHtem of equalizing the appraiseproperty ought to bcjuient oi real ana perwbolly repealed. "isonal property in this The prospect is that tb.fi tiiate, to the end that an system or private proi-!etiual and proper un l erty in land will remain Jiorniity In such assesses it is, fumome genera-inieM) shall bo secured, tions.atleast.butthatftlllfor the reason that untaxes, at least Tor tstatejder existing regulations and local purposes (ex-'wany counties are comcert such as may be de-!peiled to pay an unjust rived from the sale ofiproportion of the State's franchises) will, in the'expenses, which others near luture, be laid up- as unjustly escape on land. I These arts the days when the Republican file-closer can make his work tell when the votes are counted. The Democratic party would rather break a quorum than vote for a pension bill. It thinks moro of empty seats than of empty sleeves. . Mk. -Cleveland denies that ho has purchased a yncht. It is rather early to purchase a craft for the Salt-river trip in 1892, and a yawl will be cheaper. The greatest blessing which can be conferred upon Indiana, its voters can confer by electing an anti-Democratic Legislature. There would be millions in it for tax-payers. "TniRTY seats in Congress are packed against us at the outset by fraud and gerrymander," said Mr. Reed, at New Haven. But that makes the duty to fight all the more imperative. The Indianapolis News . needs a good deal of sweentening, and perhaps it can make up in tho cheapness of sugar what it expects to lose from tho increased price of pearl buttons under tho McKinley bill. When papers in Memphis, Tenn., suggest tho boycotting of a leading mercantile firm because tho head of tho house is a Republican, it is diflicult to believe that the reign of ostracism is ended in the South. When the Sentinel declares that "Indiana will go Republican if Democrats do not do their duty," there is reason to believe that it is hearing from the land tax which it advocates, and that tho Democratic farmer does not take to it. Republicans believe in busy ploughshares, busy . engines, busy waterwheels, busy mills and mines and busy industries of every kind. Democrats believo in busying themselves kicking down doors to obstruct public legislation. The shutting out of a lot of the cheap and worthless cutlery which has flooded tho markets the past two years, will resultn tho establishment of cutlery manufactories. There is no better place for such than in some of the Indiana towns, where fuel, land, and living generally are cheap. The Birmingham (Ala.) Age-Herald, which, like the town in which it is published, owes its existence to the protection ol' the iron industry and tho enterprise of Northern capitalists, expresses th) hopo that foreign countries will adopt some retaliatory measures that will destroy the industries of the North. But there is not a Republican paper in the North which does not rejoice in tho prosperity of tho South. For several years past tho amount paid to Indiana pensioners has exceeded tho total amount of government tax paid by tho State. Thus, in 1S37, Indiana paid internal-revenue tax amounting to $4,2."9,030, and received in pensions $6,102,4S0:S.. In 18S3 she paid taxes amounting to $4,139,150, and received pensions amounting to $7,0lC.52o, getting back from tho government in pensions nearly twice as much as she paid in taxes. Ikon-mili.s all over tho country aro hurrying through the construction of plants to turn out tin-plate. It is safe to predict that within two or three years tinware will be much cheaper in tho v United States than it is now, or ever has been in the past. Snch has been tho history of paper, of cotton prints, silk plush, and almost every other article of common necessity first established and fostered by a protective duty. Homo competition is a pretty safe regulator of prices in the long run. If the Democrats did not accomplish anything useful in tho last session of Congress they succeeded in wasting a good deal of money. An examination of the Record shows that the number of roll-calls during the session was 4.iC,and . tho number of roll-calls upon measures . which may bo called dilatory, or for tho purpose of preventing tho passage of meaBures, may be set down at 222. So ttxat tho proportion of time wasted in

the discussion of tho passage of tho disputed measures must bear a relation to tho number of days wasted in useless and extravagant filibustering. If it cost tho United States jrovernment $1,100 extra for incidental expenses, outside of all regular appropriations, for tho maintenance and operation of Congress per day, then these dilatory methods during tho last session cover about 10 per cent, of the whole time employed, or its equivalent, thirty days. Therefore, tho wasto of money chargeable against this method of legislation is $33,000. This is a pretty good sum to pay for tho maintenance of a Democratic bear-garden.

TCOBXISG OF THE NEW TABIFF LAW. Tho newspaper in this city which is doing a strictly Democratic business in an advertised independent stand makes hasto to tell its readers that tho importers have already sent out circulars announcing a decided advanco in price of goods because of the enactment of tho McKinley bill. The assumption is that the British .exporters supply our markets with the hosiery, etc., which is used by the mass of people, and that higher duties will result in higher prices. This is not the case. As General Harrison said in 1888 of tho advocates of tho British free-trade theory, "they aro students of maxims and not of markets." They assume that tho foreign producer dictates tho price of. everything, and that the duty is added to the price. They do not know that wire nails, upon which the duty was 4 cents a pound under tho old law, and which cost $6 per cwt. before the duty was imposed, have fallen to $2.2o, or a little moro than half tho duty. They do not know that steel rails havo been as cheap in this country during periods of the last year as they were in Liverpool, or that kitchen utensils, edge-tools ' and scores of articles in common use, on which there is a high duty, are as cheap in the United States as in Europe. They will never know it not if they can help themselves. Take tho article of hosiery in common use. It was never as cheap as it is to-day, and its cheapness is duo to the product of American mills. If tho foreign manufacturers controlled tho supply and mado the price, as was the caso ten years ago, prices would now be higher. Reference is made to hosiery because it is one of tho articles on which it is alleged that importers have put up the price. Let us look into tho matter. The duty on hosiery costing $2 a dozen was 40 per cent, ad valorem under the old law, so that tho prico per dozen in Now York was $2.80, duty paid. The duty under tho present law is 30 per cent, ad valorem and 50 cents a dozen, making the cost $3.10 in New York 30 cents difference, or 2 12 cents a pair. As the manufacturers declare that they cannot compete with that duty it is fair to assume that tho American manufacturer will put them on tho market at less than $3.10 a dozen. Again, the public is told that tho prico Of -pearl buttons has been more than doubled by the duties of the new law. This is probably truo. These buttons are made chiefly by pauper and convict labor in Europe. A gross of pearl buttons will - now cost from 04 cents to $1. But families aro not using many gross of pearl buttons a month. The same independent authority 6ays that the importers havo advanced the prico of plain white crockery waro 5 per cent. In this connection it may be said that the duties in the new law on this and on ornamented chinaware are tho same as in the old law oo and CO per cent. under which tho prices fell 40 per cent, in ten years because of American competition. But the independent newspaper does not note tho fact that sugar fit for family use has been put upon tho freo list, and that the duty on granulated sugar is half a cent a pound under tho new law, whero it wns 3 and 3 12 cents under the old. Tho duty on raw sugar under the old law ranged from 2 to 2 34 cents per pound, and was equivalent to 78 per cent, ad valorem, and it was paid by tho consumer. Under tho new law this is removed, and tho American consumers will havo as cheap sugar as any other people. It will bo from 2 to 2 12 cents per pound cheaper than if tho McKinley bill had not become a law. The cost of sugar is one of the largo items of family expense. A family may not need a gross of pearl buttons in a year, but every family in the land regards sweet as a necessary of life, and will consume it at every meal in some form. When the prices are adjusted to tho new law a dollar will purchase about a third more sugar than it does now, if tho foreign price remains tho same. The head of the family who finds that his Riigar bill for a half dozen persons has fallen $00 to $20 in a year, under tho operation of tho McKinley tariff bill, will not trouble himself about tho increase in the prico of pearl buttons, or fret because importers of foreign hosiery havo added 25 per cent, to their selling price, lie knows that ho is compelled to eat foreign sugar and that he is not compelled to wear foreign stockings. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND PENSI0SB. Whatever merit or demerit there is in tho present pension laws belongs to tho Republican party. They have all been passed mainly by Republican votes, and a large number of Democratic votes are recorded against each and every one of them. Of tho bills passed during tho last few years fortjr-eight Democrats voted against tho arrears of pension bill passed in 1870, sixty-six voted against tho widows' pension bill passed m 18S0, fifty-one voted against tho amputation bill passed in 1SSG, fifty-six voted against the new disability bill passed at tho recent session, anu seventy-eight voted against tho bill to pension prisoners of war. All of these measures were passed by Republican votes, and not a singlo Republican voto was cast against either of them. The voto in tho House on tho disability bill 6tood 145 yeas to 50 nays. Of thoso voting yea, 118 were Republicans and 27 were Democrats, while every voto in tho negativo was Democratic. In the Senate tho voto was 34 yeas to 18, nays. Of those voting yea thirty-one wero Republicans and threo wero Democrats,

while every voto in tho negative was Democratic. Therefore wo repeat that whatever of merit or demerit there is in the pension laws tho responsibility belongs to the Republican party. The idea of pensioning Union soldiers originated with Republicans, the obligation was first recognized by theRepublican party, and every law on the subject is due to Republican votes. Tho benefits of the pension laws aro not confined to Union soldiers alone. They extend to the entire country. Tho pension list numbers over 500,000, audits beneficiaries aro found in every county and township of the North. It amounts to considerably more than $100,000,000 a year, and will bo greatly increased by tho new law. This enormous sum is collected by ,,tho government froni, sources whefo the people do not feel it, and paid out in a way that benefits them immense. Every dollar goes where it does good. It goes directly into tho pockets of the people and the channels of trade. To show how largely Indiana has been benefited by tho pension laws, we present herewith a statement showing tho amount of pensions paid to pensioners in this State each year since 1800: . Fiscal Year Ending Jane '30. Amount. I860 $100,432.17 1861 90.92 1.S7 l$r2.. 80.OSl.99 1863 104,436.44 1864 451MC2J1 18G5 854,288.52 1860 1,325,098.01 1867 1,868.171.17 180$.... 2,407,940.31 1869 2.252.025.80 1870 2,118,375.25 1871 1,726,745.00 1872 2.2S3.0OO.81 1873..'. 2,085,437.47 1874 2,110,203.23 1875 2.188.105.02 1870 2,225,024.12 1877 2.108.752.26 1878 1,844;130.48 1879 1,899,715.99 18S0 2,113,566.40 1881 3,416,520.15 1882 4,646.294.00 1883 5,117,987.48 1884 4,573,591.00 1885 5.105,168.12 1886 5,032,824.30 18S7 6,102,489.35 1888 . 7,016,525.19 1889 8,428,383.28 1890.... .. 0,984,475.00 Total I. $92,922,834.10 Up to 18C2 the payments were chiefly to pensioners of tho Mexican war. Tho payments to Union soldiers began in 1803, and since then they have increased from $104,43G.44 to$9,9S4,475 a year. The total amount paid in this State since 18G0 is $02,922,884.10. Tho amount paid out next year will exceed $10,000,000, and is likely to grow for some years to come. These payments, made quarterly at tho rate of nearly $2,500,000 a quarter, go to all parts of the State, and their influence is felt in all tho channels of trade. No matter what else may.fail, tho pension payments come with promptness and regularity, as certain as tho rising and setting of the sun. For this beneficial legislation, tho expression of a Nation's gratitude to its defenders, and for this steady and: healthy stimulus to trade the people aro indebted to tho Republican party. ,

THE BUSINESS SITUATION. The general business outlook continues to bo full of encouragement, j Tho number of business mishaps isjsraaller than for years, the clearings of the baiiks are at tho high-water mark, and confidence and activity characterize the business and industry of the country. In nearly all branches of industry labor is fully employed and products are in good demand. Tho phenomenal production of iron goes on, but consumption is closo upon its heels. The receipts of some of tho Western and chiefly grain-carrying railroads show a small decline in receipts, but that was to be expected. The general sentiment of Western papers seems to be that the shortness of tho season's crops is not yet f ulry realized, particularly in tho East. The grain market shows fluctuations tho past week, but on tho whole the "bulls" 6eein to have tho best of it, prices tending upward as the amount of wheat and corn in sight diminishes. The money market has been active in tho leading cities, but rates of discounts do not indicate anything like a scarcity of money. The volume of imports has been large beyond precedent during the past few weeks, in anticipation of tho new tariff law. While there has been no general advance in prices in manufactured goods, tho market is very strong, in anticipation that the higher rates of duty on some lines of goods will cause higher prices in tho near future. Tho indications aro that the passage of the tariff bill will stimulate manufacturing enterprise, particularly in tho higher grades of fabrics which receive greater protection. Nearly every Eastern paper contains announcements of the building of factories and mills for the production of goods which havo heretofore been imported. The passage of tho new tariff law has given a very general impetus to business and enterprise, which goes far to justify its enactment. PROPHETIC WORDS PROM JEPPERSO Thomas Jefferson was accounted a good Democrat in his day, and a pretty bright man. Ho wTas also a good American, and believed in protecting American rights, commercial as well as political, against all invasion from outside. Among tho wise things said by Jefferson was this: If particular nations grasp at undue shares of our commerce and carrying, defensive and protective measures become necessary on the part of that nation whose marine resources are thus invaded, or it will be disarmed of its defense, its pro ductioud will be at the mercy of the nation which has possessed itself of the means of carrying them, and its politics may be influenced by those who command its commerce. The senseless word "subsidy" had not yet been invented as a term of reproach, or Jefferson would probably have referred to it and defended that policy. As it is, he does so without using tho 'word. England, Franco and Germany are all "grasping at undue shares of our commerco and carrying," and have been for years. One of the methods successfully practiced by those governments to extend their commerco and carrying trade is by subsidizing steamship lines. This is a case where, in the language of Jefferson, "defensive and protective measures become necessary" to enable us to hold our own. As current evidence of tho persistent efforts of Groat Britain to extend her commerce at tho cxpenso of ours, wo quote tho following from a

pamphlet recently issued by Joseph Nimmo, jr., a well-known American statistician. He says: At the present time the Dominion government and the British government are conspiring, by the sheer force of subsidy, to divert an important part of the domestic and foreign commerce of the United States from American seaports, American ships and American transportation lines. The Canadian Pacific subvention of S210.000.000 amounts, at 5 per cent., to an annual subsidy of $10,500,000; the British steamer line across the Pacific ocean receives an annual subsidy of $375,000 a year for an Asiatio postal service one-twentieth in magnitude of that of the United States with Asia, and for which American steamers receive only $14,000 a year. The Dominion government pays an annual subsidy of 18fi,000 a year to the portion of the Canadian Pacific railway which traverses the forest region of the State of Maine, and the Canadian and British governments are to pay a subsidy of 500,000 a year to a British steamer lino from Halifax to Liverpool. Besides, the two steamer lines here mentioned receive admiralty subsidies, the exact amount of which is not publicly known. The total amount of subsidy granted to this combined British line from Hong Kong to Liverpool amounts to fully 811,200.000 annually, and constitutes a discrimination to that amount against American seaports, American steamer lines on the Pacific ocean and American internal transportation lines. Observe, also, Jefferson's reference to the ultimate condition of a country which supinely allows its commerce to be captured. Eventually, ho says, "its productions will be at tho mercy of the nation which has possessed itself of the means of carrying them, and its politics may be influenced by those who command its commerce." The words aro prophetic. Tho politics of this country are already influenced by Great Britain, whoso policy it is to capture our homo market as well as our foreign trade. Cobden Club literature, British money to aid her trade campaigns, and Cobden Club prize-medals for free-trade essays in American colleges are some of the evidences of British attempts to control American politics. The true American policy is to maintain commercial as well as political independence. We want tho Monroe doctrine in trade as well as in politics. . i

Instantaneous views ot empty Democratic seats and reviews of tho work of Congress make splendid Republican campaign documents, but, after all, the most effective arguments the Republican party has for its retention in power aro the daily accounts of new enterprises established and old ones enlarged, tho frequent mention of wages increased, the long columns of "male help wanted" advertisements in the . newspapers of the large cities, and, in a word, all the current indications of the unprecedented prosperity of tho country. There are volumes contained in this paragraph from Dun & Co.'s trade review, issued last Friday night: The details given show that in all parts of the country, and in all important branches of business, there is phenomenal activity, and, 'nevertheless, there is comparative freedom from speculative excitement or disturbances. The general soundness of trade is shown by the reports of failures, which for the third quarter of 1890 were smaller in number and amount of liabilities than for the same quarter of 1889, though in Canada rather larger in both respects. Such has been the almost Invariable tenor of the weekly commercial reports ever sinco early in 1880. It may have grown monotonous to the croakers and "prophets of calamity, but it is sweet music the ears of honest men who love their country cannot hear too much of. Here is a fair sample, from the Atlanta Constitution, of the petty misrepresentation a certain class of Democratic newspapers are fond of indulging in: Mr. Porter, who has undertaken to manage the present censne, is being severely criticised by the press in a number of cities. The Indianapolis Journal has been the last to take up the cudgels against him and his enumerators, but it is now engaged in raising a lively row on Mr. Harrisonrs campingground. If it be true, as the Journal charges, that the returns are Vmuddled," and that seven bills out of every ten sent to the ollico are found to be inaccurate or carelessly made out, what kind of a census can the people hope to get? The ground upon which rests this assertion that the Journal has "taken up tho cudgels" against Superintendent Porter is a special dispatch from Washington, published by this paper, which explained the difficulties under which Mr. Porter worked, and in which it was stated that a largo number of the returns were carelessly and inaccurately mado up. Having no conception of tho magnitude of the census work, it is perhaps but natural that tho Constitution should think that Mr. Porter collected almost all the information himself and personally appointed the enumerators who did tho rest. Although the recent tariff debate in Congress seemed somewhat long it did nat consume as much time as the discussion of the Mills bill in the last Congress. In the recent discussion there were thirteen days devoted to tho consideration of the bill in the House, and ninety-eight speeches were mado in general debate and under the five-minute rule, which consumed six days. In the Fiftieth Congress the general debate on the Mills bill occupied twentythreo days and eight evenings, 151 speeches being made, and the debate under the five-minute rule consumed twenty-eight days. The Republicans showed better management and leadership, consumed less time, and their measure became a law. It is fortunate for the country and for the Republican party that there is yet another session of tho Fifty-first Congress, and, although it will 'necessarily be a short session, it will doubtless be an important one. There will be the 6ame impregnable Republican majority, the same admirable leadership and the same presiding officer in the Speaker's chair. There is, therefore, every reason to believe tho same business methods will prevail, and that the important legislation of the recent session will be followed by the passage of other measures equally calculated to benefit the country and strengthen the Republican party. - The New York Sun takes pains to show that the New York Herald and the New York World, when they declared that the failuro of the House to pass a resolution of thanks to Speaker Reed, "was the first omission of tho kind in many years, if not since the foundation of the government," wore in error, and that only once, and then possibly through misapprehension, was such a

resolution passed at the close of the lirst session. Tho Sua is right; but it makes no difference whether such a resolution is passed next March or not. Speaker Reed has received the general approval of his party.

The Louisville Commercial hits the nail on the head and raps Mr. Carlisle at the same time in the following: It is unworthy of Mr. Carlisle to havo gone into an argument about the constitutional power of the government to levy protective duties or grant bounties. The first Congress levied protective duties and gavo bounties, and protective duties have been levied by every Congress since, and bounties were given steadily for nearly threequnrters of the first centnry of our national existence for- fisheries, just as the French do now. The States often give bounties, and though Mr. Carlisle met Mr. Blair's citatioiTof the New Hampshire bounty on crow scalps by holding that it might benefit the whole Stato. he could not say that of Kentucky bounties on fox and wolf scalps. The census report of tho population of Indianapolis is satisfactory where the facts aro known, but will be somewhat misleading where they are not. A population of 107,445 in tho city proper, with an increase of 43 per cent, since 18S0, shows a very healthy growth. Including the adjacent suburbs, which are, to all intents and purposes, a part of the city, though not counted as such, our population is fully 125,000. Before another census these suburbs will bo taken into the corporation, thus keeping up our per cent, of increase. The census returns sustain public expectation as to the increase of population in the natural gas counties. Of those reported, Madison county shows' an increase of 8,445, of which 6,033 is in Anderson, and Delaware follows close with an increase of 7,108, of which 6,120 belongs to Muncie. It is gratifying to observe that tho country has shared in the increase as well as the cities, showing tho influx of an enterprising class of farmers, most of whom, no doubt, like a majority of the wage-workers in tho factories, are Republicans. The Boston Globe says that if "Bill McKinley" should succeed in getting back to Congress "nothing but an overruling Providence can prevent him from being tho Republican nominee for President in 1802." Tho Globe and other Democratic newspapers have been saying all along that if Blaine was not tho nominee Reed certainly would be. As the Republicans will nominate but onb man it will save confusion if the Democratic organs will make tho choice at once. ' Strange as it may seem, a jury in Rhode Island has returned a verdict of not guilty in a case where the accused was proved to have entered a building and carried away a cart-load of intoxicating liquors and cigars. This remarkable verdict was due to the fact that two prohibitionists stood out because they insisted that taking "rum" is not larceny; and so insistent were they that the ten who thought otherwise yielded in order to avoid being locked up in a juryroom over night. , They say that Geoige Meredith is to write a novel in support of vegetarianism. It will then be in order for some one to write a thrilling story founded on the psychological effects of tight shoes. Crime seems to go in streaks, while the criminal is apt to go in stripes. The lied Above the Green. The woodlands plainly show . In their varied autumn glow, That Dame Nature just now is by England led, led, led, For it's clearly to be seen. She has doffed the Irish green. And is putting on the orange and the red, red, red. Comln aid Gwine. Wibble Did you ever notice what a doubleacting sinch a pawnbroker has! Wabble As to how! Wibble Why, he always gets the better of the bargain, and he gets many a bargain of the bettor. Seel - Willing to Trade. Victim Look here; at the lowest valuation my time is worth $2.25 an hour, and I have none ot it to spare to you. Insurance A gent And my time Is worth $2.30. However, if jrou wiU exchange I'll throw off the odd nickel. Dangerous Symptom. Wickwire I hear you have sworn off. ' Mudge--Yep. It was beginning to affect my mind. Every time I got a Uttlo full I wanted to discuss the tariff: ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Of the twenty-six barons who signed Magna Charta all but three had to "make their mark," being unable to write. Congressman Miller, the newly-seated colored member from South Carolina, has only a slight strain of negro blood in him. He has a son who is red-haired and frecklefaced. Two girls who chewed gum in church were reprimanded by a New Jersey minister the other day and a quarrel was the result between the friends of the girls and the members who disapproved of their lipservice. A physician who is studying the great North American dyspepsia discovered a woman in a New York restaurant making a luncheon on this appalling combination: Pickles, fruit-cake, ice-cream, soda-water, hot maple sugar. The Rev. Calvin Fairbanks, one of the old anti-slavery heroes, who is still living at Angelica, N.Y., and who is widely known all over the country, has written an account of some of the incidents in his career during the exciting years preceding the war. The book will be issued from Chicago in a few days. Chauncey Deixw was relating in his Syracuse address his experience on farmer Evarts's domain in Vermont, and how champagne and milk had been set out for his editication with the remark that "they both cost the same," when a tall farmer far hack in the crowd, who had ben literally drinking in every word Mr. Depew said, yelled out the unanswerable and literally stunning inquiry: "Say, Chauncoy, which did you take!" Annie Besant is said to be the most eloquent woman living to-day in all England. She is not young, nor pretty; she hasn't any taste, any money, or any reputation, but she is better than the whole London police force or House of Lords when there is a mob to be controlled. Her face is red and bloatad, her hair is short and gray, her eyes are sad and sunken, the grace of her . figure has disappeared, and 6he is a lonely, disappointed, discontented, old young woman, and as fierce a Socialist as Lucy Parsons. Princess Victoria of Prussia, the seoond of the Empress Frederick's daughter's, who is engaged to many Prince Adolph of Schaumberg-Lippe. is a clever and accomplished young lady, boasting proficiency in many branches of sport and art not commonly associated with royal blood, least of all when it flows in feminine veins. She is not only a clever horsewoman, but a clever whip as well, and handles a fonr-in-haud with consummate skilL To proliciency as a pianist she adds a mastery of the hanjo which would not disgrace a music-hall performer. The Trincess was formerly engaged to Prince Alexander o' Batten berg.

tho ex-ruler of Bulgaria, who, however, broke oil the match on the eve of tho marriage in order to contract a unioti with Mile. LoisiURer, of the Berlin Opera. Tiiehk are 250 mcmbersof the Hair-dreas-ers' Academy in Loudon, all men. females not being admitted, as being inferior artists. The academy meets once a week for lessons upon living models, though newmembers practice upon a block-head. A few women with fine heads of hair serve aa models, hut . a better lield for practice is provided by scanty-haired women, upon whose heads tho true ingenuitr and resources of the hair-dresser can find the fullest opportunity for oroducing a srand effect with little material. The siguAturo of.Christopher Columbus brings a higher pricethan that of any other dead-and-gone celebrity. It is quoted in the Pans market at 4,000 francs, while that of Titian only fetches 3,000, and Raphael's is worth l,f00. If aphael's love-letter to a lady only brought a fraction more than that prico, latterly. Molicre. who pi ems never to have written a letter, has left but four signatures; they are Worth a thousand francs each. Corneille's sole autograph was purchased for iearly 4,000 francs, ho also was Napoleon the First's last letter to tho Empress Marie Louise; yet an ordiuary letter of Napoleon brings only 500 francs. Signatures of Henry IV and Louis XIV. of Trance, are worth 1,000 francs each. Modern celebrities rarely fetch over 500 francs. Gambetta's is worth 400; Bismarck's. 100; Carlyie's and Thackeray's, 100 each. NEW YORK'S ROOMERANG. New York with her own census men Has counted Porter's work aain. Ana now her claims that 'he was robbed aro thoroughly exploded. The latest count is less by far Than Porter's total footings are. And Gotham's awful sorry, bat "ehe didn't know 'twas loaded." ChlciffO FOIL

POPULAR SEXTliim. It Finds Free and Forcible Expression in the Columns of the County Press. The Single-Tax Theory. Tipton Advocate: Now is the timo for the people to get on their thinking-caps. Before you vote tho Democratic ticket, ba sure you understand tho single-tax theory. New Castle Courier: Equalize the appraisement of real and personal property by reducing it on personal and raising it on real is the Democratic idea. If that suits you. farmer, vote the Democratio ticket. Rising Sun Recorder: Free trade and all taxes collected off real estate. the Democratic platform in Indiana, should induce every intelligent farmer in the State to vote against the Democrat ticket. State, district and county. . Hendricks County Republican: The single-tax doctrine advocated by the Sentinel means that tax shall be levied on real estate, that bonds, notes, mortgages and money shall not be taxed. This is the Democratic remedy for a State seriously ill with t.n enormous debt. Rushville Graphic: How do our farmers like the Democratio idea of abandoning the tax on personal property, compelling tho land-owners to makeup tbedehcit on tho State debt? The great farmers' befriending institution must have surely slipped a cog when it advanced this theory. Middletown News: The single-tax theory, as advocated by Henry George and indorsed by the Indianapolis Sentinel, is not acceptable to the farmers of Indiana. It is a theory very pretty in outline, but wholly impracticable. It would bear heavily indeed upon land-owneis if taxes for all public expenses were levied only upon land. Ligonier Leaden The Democratic Stato organ says that the tax on personal property is a fraud and ought to be abolished. The Democratic platform demands a higher appraisement of real estate, which means a proportionate release of personal property from taxation. This position will bo approved by money-lenders, owners of mortgage notes and corporation bonds, and coupon-cutters generally; but what do realestate owners think of it? Expressions on Oth.tr Topics. Rochester Tribuno: "Spunk" is on tho free list in tho McKinley bill. Columbus Republican:. England's manufacturers don't like the new tariff law. Neither does the Democratic yarty. Warren Republican: With fraud and dishonesty out of our elections. Indiana, is beyond doubt a Republican State. Democrats were convinced of this when they gerrymandered the State. Monticello Herald: Democrats used to call the surplus "a menace to the prosperity of the country." Now that the menace has largely disappeared, they refer to it fondly as "Cleveland's saving." LaPorto Herald: Senators Turpi and Voorhees vqted against free sugar and in favor of free wool. This plainly shows, as an exchange suggests, that they care moro for tho rich planters of Louisiana than tho hard-working farmers of Indiana. Clay County Enterprise: The kind of protection the Democracy of Indiana practice is protecting the State debt until it has reached the sum of over 3.000,000. Republican protection means retrenchment and a reduction of the burdens of the taxpayers. Goshen Times: Aggressive Republicanism is the kind that wins. Defensive lighting is always poor iightiug in politics. "When Republicans assume the offensive as vigorously as they did up in thoPine-trco State they can generally count on whipping their opponents. Attica Ledger: The State debt is like tho Old-Mau-of-tbe-Soa on the shoulders of Sinbad, tho Sailor, to tho Democracy of Indiana. No amount of shoulder-shrugging will dislodge the responsibility under which it is staggering to defeat. Tho burden is theirs. Let them carry it. Lawrenceburg Press: We believe that at least half ot the Democrats of this county do not approve of the gerrymander of thi Stato, which they know to be a wrong aud an outrage to their Republican neighbors, which they, the Democrats, would not wish to suller if it was indicted on them. Columbus Republican: In addition to free schools the Republican party declared for free school-books. Tho poor man with a larce family will be glad to know that if the Republicans elect the next Legislature a law will bo passed by which tho schoolbooks will be furnished free to pupils. LaGrango Standard: Any proposition which tho Democratic partj makes regarding a reform in the compensation of connty oOicfrs is to be taken with due allowance for the fact that four successive Democratic legislatures have refused to obey the vote of the State that something should be done. 'Franklin Republican: The State should bo reapportioned on a fair basis a basis which guarantees to every honest ballot its rightful weight. It is not fair that one man's ballot should count for twice at much as his neighbor's. When this is trae. the life of popular government is endangered, if not destroyed. Peru Republican: People want a better State Legislature, lower taxes, and a decrease instead of an increase in the Stato debt. There is only oneway to get these three things, and that in to discontinue the party in power that has been doing tho legislating in Indiana and managing tho bonevolent institutions of the State. Princeton Clation: The promise of the Republican national platform of 1SSS in regard to pensioning soldiers ha been fulfilled to the very letter and in its lull spirit tv the recent legislation of the present Congress. Tho platform declared, "Proof of aa honorable discharge and of existiug disability ought and must be deemed sutiicient showing to warrant the award of a pension." And that precisely is now tho law. South Bend Tribune: St, Joseph county, for example, has 410 soldiers who get 154 annually in pension money. The county is juft, that much richer for it; for not cent of this money comes out of any taxpayer, farmer or other property-owner in the county. The men who get it are nearly all poor men, who spend their pension money for produce from farms, dry good. 5rocerics and other uecessaries of life. St. oseph county is just SVi,0tK) a year beV oil because of Republican persion legisnw tion. That Awrtil Duty ou Pearl lluttons. Nebraska Journal. The terrible kick of somo of the Democratic politicians on the increase on "huttons" has been seen. The fact is that the only increase mado is in pearl and sholl "line' buttons of a particular ize, and that amounts to just-1 cents per gros. The faces of the poor will hardly be grouud into the erth b3 this additional protection to that American industry.