Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1890 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1890.

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Editorial in Indianapolis frntinel of Sept. 14, 1890. The tax on personal property ought to be wholly repealed. The prospect la that thb system or private property in land w ill remain as it Is, forsome generations, at ieast.but that ail taxes, at least for State Democratic Platform'. We demand the adoption of a system of equalizing the appraisement ol real and personal property in this State, to the end that an equal and proper uniformity in such assessments shall bo secured, for the reason that under existing regulations many counties are compelled to pay an unjust and local purposes (ex cept such as may be derived from the sale of franchises) will. In the near future, be laid upon land. proportion or toe mate s expenses, which others as unjustly escape. TnE State election occurs four weeks from to-day. Tho time for work is short. The Democrats in this State are not half so joyous over tho political situation as they were in May. TnE last Legislature spent $290 a day for door-keepers. This useless wasto is likely to be increased if the Democracy wins in November. ' Covington, Ky., the home of Senator Carlisle, has elected a Republican Mayor, a majority of tho Board of Aldermen and half of the City Council. , The moat effective man in politics, such seasons as this, is the one who lets no day pass that he does not do a little missionary work for the Republican ticket. Word comes from Washington that Mr. Voorhees is somewhat troubled about his re-election. Tho senior Senator has not as much faith in his gerrymander as formerly. Some of the German 'newspapers are laboring under the delusion that the McKinley tariff bill was passed because Germany and France have discriminated against American pork. Mr. Thomas L. Johnson, Democratic nominee for Congress in ono 6f tho Cleveland, O., districts, is a believer in the single-tax idea, but he is not likely to make hi3 campaign on that line. Every day increases the confidence felt by Indiana Republicans. Their nominations are admirable, and four weeks of energetic work and close organization will bring a victory for good government. The coming of the McKinley tariff law brings no business failures, no fear of loss of employment and no uncertainty to business and enterprise. The passage of tho Mills bill would havo closed thousands of hives of industry. The New York Sun heads an article, in which an extract from one of Mr. Mills's speeches is quoted, "A Dangerous Crank Loose." And yet tho Sun told us, the other day, that the Cleveland-Mills variety of Democrat had had his day. - The London News remarks sadly that "few Bigns yet exist that Americans are awaking to the unwisdom of high tariffs." America is wide awake to tho wisdom of framing an economic policy for her own interests, and not for that of other countries. Perhaps nothing more pathetic was ever witnessed than the consuming anxiety ot free-trade editors concerning the price of pearl buttons and tin cups. Who knows but they may be driven to hold up their suspenders with safety-pins and drink out of gourds? Contracts for the construction of four new naval vessels authorized at the last session of Congress have already been let. The four will cost nearly $12,000,000, and their completion will require an addition of about two thousand enlisted men to the navy. A well-known gentleman of this city, who has been connected with tho iron-manufacturing business for thirtyfive years, said yesterday that if the policy of protection was continued ten years longer this country could furnish England all the iron and steel she wanted at less cost than she could manufacture them. From Saxony come the manufacturers of the celebrated Chemnitz hosiery to make it in this country, while from Scotland the Mitchell gingham-works will be transferred to tho United States, and foreign capital will come to Pittsburg to establish an immense tin-plate factory. And yet the free-trader denounces tho McKinley law. Some Democratic Congressmen who have not yet left Washington are boosting that their party does not mean to permit a single Republican Representative to be elected in tho States south of Mason and Dixon's lino in November. This will be tho result, they say, of the attempt to pass the federal election bill.

but inasmuch as a considerable part of the Southern delegation in the House would be Republican if elections were honestly conducted, it Iqoks rather as it such result will be because of the failure of tho bill. A solid Democratic delegation will bo fresh demonstration of tho need of federal supervision over elections of Congressmen.

PARTISAN C0STE0L OF STATE INSTITUTIONS. The party platforms recently adopted in this State contain tho following reference to the State institutions: 1'e publican. We demand that our benevolent institutions be placed above the level of partisan politics, and that they ic controlled by boards composed of members of dif Democratic. We applaud the State Board of Charities law, and commend the excellent work done by that board in improving the condition and methods of our benevolent reformatory institutions. Tho cieation of our splendid system of public charities, and their honest ami etlicient management, constitutesone of tho strongest titles of the Indiana Iemocracy to popular conlideneo and support. ferent political parties, appointed by tho Governor, to the end that the cost of their maintenance rray be reduced. and the helpless and unlortunate wards of the Etate may not be made the victims of unlit appointments dictated by the caucus, and made as ft reward for rarty services. If there is any subject on which the public mind is fully settled and determined it is that the benevolent and reformatory institutions of the State shall be placed above partisan management. To all persons of correct and intelligent views there is something abhorrent in the idea of makingthese institutions political machines and using them for political purposes. It matters not that under such a system the management of tho institutions may bo better at some times than at others, and sometimes comparatively good. That is accidental. The system itself is radically wrong and a relic of political barbarism. At present, all the State institutions, except two, are under Democratic partisan control, and havo been for some years past. The exceptions aro tho Female Reformatory and the Home for Soldiers' Orphans, at Knightstown. The era of Democratic control has been characterized by flagrant official mismanagement and corruption, and by a succession of scandals, the mere mention of which should raise the indignation of every honest man. In the Insane Hospital tho Harrison-Gapen regime was the most disgraceful episode in tho history of the State. The Harrison board was put in avowedly for partisan purposes, and it did its work well. From top to bottom the Institution was prostituted to the basest partisan purposes. Favoritism and corruption reigned everywhere. Old and trained employes were removed to mako places for political workers. Six hundred and fortyeight changes in the forco of employes were made in four years, and the superintendent testified that every change worked (to the detriment of the institution. Tho comfort and welfare of the inmates were utterly. ignored. To put money in the pockets of favored contractors, the patients were fed on maggoty butter and the meat of cholera hogs. Ignorant and brutal attendants were appointed as a reward for party services, and th6 patients were subjected to cruel treatment. Dr. Harrison openly declared that he believed in a partisan management of the institution, and was there for that purpose. The system of purchasing supplies was wasteful and extravagant, and favorite contractors were paid extortionate prices for inferior goods. One of those contractors was John E. Sullivan, now a refugee defaulter. A Democratic political club was organized among tho employes of tho institution, who neglected their duties to attend political conventions. Political contributions were assessed on tho employes, and the money paid over to John P. Frenzel and Simeon Coy, of this city. Dr. Fletcher, Democratic superintendent of the institution, was forced to resign in order to save his reputation and avoid being held responsible for infamies ho could not prevent. He declared tho institution to be "a cess-pool of corruption." All this was only two years ago. It is part of tho record to which the Democracy point -with pride as entitling them to "popular confidence and support." From 1885 to 1888 the management of tho institution was corrupt and infamous. Tho same system of partisan control still continues, and if the present management of the hospital is an improvement on tho Harrison-Gapen regime it is accidental good luck. The roots of the evil aro still there. In the southern prison the evil brcko out in a somewhat different form. There, as in the hospital, everything was run on a partisan basis, and as soon as the soro was probed its rottenness was exposed. An investigation showed the affairs of the prison to bo in a state of hopeless demoralization, and Warden Howard a defaulter for a large sum. He had failed to pay tho guards and employes of the prison, had borrowed money of the convicts, misappropriated funds of the State, stolen the proceeds of garden truck and vegetables raised by tho convicts, and practiced many other frauds. An investigating committee reported that "it is impossible at this time, on account of the irregular manner of book-keeping, and on account of the refusal of said warden to produce his bank and check-books, and other book 8, papers and vouchers, to arrive at the true financial condition of the prison, but from the partial examination we wero enabled to mako, and from information from a reliable source as to outstanding accounts, and moneys received and not accounted for. and. peculations, your committee is of the opinion that thero is a deficit amounting to STS,." This investigation only covered a part of Howard's term, and the committee said "it is evident that tho deficit for his twelve years of service would aggregato a much larger sum, consisting of moneys received and unaccounted for, false entries and omissions." Tho reform of tho Southern prison conaists in putting in another Democrat in Howard's place, but tho vicious system of partisan control continues. Even this chaugo was made over Democratic opposition, for every' Democratic member of the House voted against tho removal of Howard. Prior to 1885 the Soldiers1 Orphans' Home was under Democratic partisan

control, and a legislative investigation that year revealed a scandalous state of a flair b. Corruption, peculation, cruelty and worse than political debauchery wero discovered. Tho popular demand for reform was such that even a Democratic House could not ignore it, and a bill was passed placing the institution under control of a non-partisan board, one of the three members being a woman. The partisan prostitution of tho Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb began with the removal of Dr. Maclntire, a trained teacher of deaf mutes, who had devoted his lifo to the work, and tho appointment of a party worker who possessed no qualifications whatever. If thore havo been no open scandals in the management of the institution there is reason to believe it is because they have been kept covered up. The last superintendent went out under a cloud. The management is still entirely partisan. The Institution for the Blind has not had a trained superintendent since the removal of W. H. Churchman, many years ago. The present superintendent, Mr. H. B. Jacobs, has developed good qualifications for the position, but he is not. pliant enough to suit a board which, though quiet and cunning, is as grasping and greedy as partisan boards generally. Under its present management the Institution for the Blind is likely to become thoroughly, demoralized. It is being managed for private and party interests, and not for tho public. And so we find in all tho State institutions only degrees of badness. Tho trail of the serpent is over them all. The efforts at reform are superficial, while the evils of partisan control are radical and fundamental. Under the present system a great scandal is liable to break out in any or all of them at any time. The system itself is a scandal. It should be reformed altogether.

" SOMETHING TO SHOW FOR IT." i That remarkable production which tho Democratic State convention adopted as its platform, whilo admitting the great increase of the State debt, added, in extenuation, that "tho State has something to show for it." The taxpayers, if they could see all the bills that have been paid in connection with the construction of the additional hospitals for the insane, would come to tho conclusion that many of tho things which the Democratic management has to show for the people's money are not the things for which they wish to pay. Some of the things for which they are paying, and which the Democratic management has to show for the increasing debt, are as follows: . - ;'" Twenty-forr cherry and leather dining chairs, 78; 4 cherry .easy-chair?, $50; canopy-top surrey, $125; extension-top phaeton, $275; 1 surrey harness, $28 4 Cairo squares, $90; 4 reception-tables 70;;9 chamber sets, $5S5; 6 oak massive leather eotteeg, $114; 2 no-bacK lounges, $S6; 4 . plush, lounges, $78; 6 leather easy-chairs, $79; parlor set, $149.50. . . On ono bill the good people will find these three charges on the same day: 4 Smyrna rugs, $175; 2 Smyrna; rugs, $119.12; J2 Smyrna rugs, $5v0wfIh 63noplace can be found ten , mattresses at $45 each, and a largo number at $G.75 each." These are samples of the "somethings" which the Democratic managers have to show for the annual increase of tho dobt at the rate of $500,000. But they are only samples. There are lots and lots more of tho same sort of lavish expenditures to prepare sumptuous and regal accommodations for the oilicials. Looking over the expenditures for the maintenance of the insane hospitals, one finds frequent charges such' as "4 pairs curtains, $75;" "one 'only' mustache cup and saucer; one 'only' jug; 85 yards of fancy silks for upholstering and ornamentation," and yards and yards of carpeting. These things aro all very nice for those who have the positions where they can enjoy them, but the plain people who are being run in debt for them may conclude (that they want no more of this kind of Jeffersonian Democracy. THE NATION IB BOUND DESPITE THE . PESSIMISTS. A paper by Rev. Richard S. Storrs, in the Magazine of American History, on "Sources and Guarantees of American Progress," should bo read by all who! have allowed their opinions to be affected by the socialistic prophets of evil f and the pessimists who profess to see wholesale disaster impending over this Nation. Mr. Storrs holds very cheerful and hopeful views. "Practically," he says, "pessimism in this country, so far as I have observed, is a fashion with condescending critics, not commonly born among us, whose residence is too recent, their stake in the general welfare too slight, to allow much weight to their opinions; or else it is tho weak cant of a native dudish class, despising thb work which was honored by their fathers, shining in club-rooms rather than in warehouses or on the exchange, with no animating sense of the verities of faith, too sensitive to noise to enter a caucus, too dainty of touch to handle ballots, and wanting everything, from trousers to statistics, to be 'very English.' The vigorous and governing mind of the Nation is not pessimistic; and those who, with shrill and piping accents, utter prophecies of alarm havo as little effect on its courageous confidence and hope as so many sparrows on tho housetops. I think, for one, that the Nation is right. Party spirit, often violent, sometimes brutal, may start fear in the timid; but party spirit, with whatever of either vulgarity or venom, is not as intense and not as threatening as it was in this country half a century ago. Political chicanery may frighten some, as if the foundations wero out of course,, but it cannot work effects as disastrous as havo been some which tho Nation has survived. Our rulers may not always be ideal men, as heroes or prophets, any more than aro their censors; but they are fairly capable and faithful, and. whether elected by our votes or not, we may reasonably expect that the public will tako no det riment from them. Tho Nation is 6till morally sound at the centers of its life; intelligent, reverent, law-abiding. Its rulers and policies are, on tho whole, as far-Bighted as thev ever have been. Its

readiness to apply tho principles of eth-

les to social usage and to law is as keen as at any time in tho century." Such utterances from such a sourco must go far to offset the tirades and lamentations of Bishop Potter and other mugwump Jeremiahs who can seo only calamity in the success of another political party than their own, and in the ascendency of American over English theories and methods. Dr. Storrs's article should have a wide circulation. FACTS ABOUT THE M'KINLEY LAW. The free-trade and foreign press are one in foretelling the dreadful effects which the new tariff law will have when it comes into operation. Everything will bo higher in spite of the fact that never in tho history of tho country has the free list embraced so largo a part of tho imported merchandise as the new law places there. But once in tho history of the country has tho ratio of duties imposed to the value of merchandise been so low as it is under the present law. Taken upon all the merchan-, dise imported the last fiscal year, tho duties imposed by the Mills bill would be equal to 28 12 per cent, of its value, whilo under the new law it would have been 27 per cent. On earthenware, glassware and glass tho duty is no higher in the new tariff on any article in general use imported to this part of tho country than it was in the one it succeeds. Tho duty on bar and structural iron, steel rails and most other kinds of iron, except the higher grades of steel, aro lower under .the new law. Great tumult has been raised about the increased duties on cutlery, but there is no cause for it. A specific duty of from 12 cents to $2 per dozen, according to tho value, has been added to the old duty to put a stop to undervaluation. The duty on table knives is changed in'. the same manner, but the Senate committee say that tho average of such duties is not much above the average of the old tariff law. The duty on tho common grades of wire nails is reduced nearly. 50 per cent., and on cut nltils 25 per cent. Tho duty on tin-plates has been increased from one cent to two and two-tenths cents per pound, to tho end that the great industry may be transferred from England to this country. It is believed that the increased duty will result, in a 'short time, in better tinned plates at as low a price as they aro now sold. Such has been the experience of the country with all iron products which have been fully protected.' On all the common grades of cotton fabrics the duty has been reduced, and advanced on the higher, in tho . expectation of their manufacture "in this coun try, which, by present advices, promises to be realized. The duties on some kinds of goods have been changed from ad valorem to compound duties, to prevent the evil of undervaluation. On all the higher grades the duty is slightly increased. The duties on woolens generally have been increased, but, on the common gades, only sufficient to mako up for the iticrease of the duty on wool, rwhich .was demanded by thousands of farmers. The. duty on rough pine lumber is reduced one-half; but, on all other lumber and manufactures of wood there Is no change. The greatest increase has been made in the agricultural schedule. It extends to all the products of the farm which come in competition with those of Canada and Mexico. Sugar is put on the freo list, except a duty of 12 cent a pound on granulated. Tiero is absolutely no duty on sugar, after April 1, which now bears a duty of 2 34 cents a pound. Such are tho plain facts about the new tariff bill. Upon the basis of tho revenues from imported goods last year, $58,000,000 of highly-taxed merchandise has been placed on the free list, where the Mills bill added not over $20,000,000 to the free list. Mr. Mills put wool, which our own people can produce in abundance, on the free list, while the McKinley law makes sugar, which we do not produce in sufficient quantity, free. In view of such facts as these, it is not worth while to listen to the falsehoods of the agents of foreign importers in New York and their organs which repeat them without caring what they say so long as they can strike at the protection of American industries. AN OLD 8PU0K BEVIVED. The negro colonization spook has been Tcvived again, this time in the form of an alleged scheme to deport negroes from North Carolina in order to make them citizens and voters in some of tho doubtful Northern States., The scheme was ridiculous in its conception, and its ridiculous ending will cause a laugh at the expense of tho alleged promoters of it. It has done duty as a bugaboo in former campaigns, and may have another brief run, though it will tako extra good management to revive public interest. We note that the alleged committee on emigration did not propose to violate any State law, nor to advise any illegal voting. The plan in all its terrible proportions was simply to assist colored citizens to i change their residence from North . Carolina to some other State where they might become legal voters and enjoy the luxury of' having their votes counted. There was nothing very dreadful in this, even if it had been carried out. Assisting colored men to emigrate is not as bad as killing them, and under our Constitution and laws black men have as good a right to move from ono State to another as white men have, and it is not a penal offense to help them to do so, provided the election laws aro not violated. However, nothing is known about the alleged colonization scheme in this State, and its ridiculous end makes the whole affair appear like ajoke. People like a man who has the courage of his convictions. Mr. McKinley is that kind of a man. In a speech at Canton, responding to a welcome from his old friends and neighbors, he said: They call rue a high protectionist. So I am. I believe in a protection high enough, and I do not care how high that may be, so it is high enough to make up the ditterence between the wages paid in European countries and the .wages paid in the United States, and if you don't believe in that. Democrats ana Republicans of the Sixteenth district, if you don't believe in that.

; : : : i you don't want to give me your votes on the 4th day of November, this year. If you believe in a low tariff and low wages, vote for that other candidate whoso speech I had intended to reply to to-night.

Records aro sometimes very inconvenient things to those who wish to float a false report, 'and very convenient to those who wish to establish tho truth. The following record of votes on various pension bills is a sufficient answer to the claim that tho Democratic party is tho soldier's friend: The Arrears of Pension Dill Passed Jan. 19, 1879. Democrats for the bill... 48 Democrats against the bill : 61 He publicans for the bill 11G Republicans against the bill None The Widows' Pension ISM Passed Feb. 2, 1896. (Increasing Widows pensions from $3 to $12 per month.) Democrats for the bill 80 Democrats against the bul 66 Republicans for tho bill 118 Kepublicans against the bill None The Amputation Bill Passed Aug. 4, 1886. Deraoorats for the bill 75 Democrats against the blU 51 Republicans for the bill 91 Kepublicans against the bill None The Widows' Arrears Bill ( Giting arrears of pensions, from the death of Uitir husbands, to rcidoxes entitled to pensions.) Passed the Senate by the following vote: Democrats for the bill.... 1 Democrats against the bill - 20 Republicans for the bill Republicans against the bill None The. Disability Pension Bill in Fiftieth Congress Vole to pass occr President CUtela nd's veto: Democrats for the biU : 37 Democrats against the bill 1-5 Republicans for the bill 138 Republicans against the biU. None Failed forlack of two-thirds maj ority. The Disability Bdl in the Fifty-first Congress (G ires pension to all disabled soldiers, and to dependent parents and children.) Democrats for the bill 28 Democrats against the blJL. 56 Republicans for the bill 1 17 Republicans against, the bllL None Same bill in the Senate: Democrats for the bill 3 Democrats against the bill 18 Republicans for the bill.: 31 Republicans acainst the bill None The lYisoncrs-cf-war Bill(Gires pensions for term of imprisonment to all tcho tcere prisoners of tear for thirty days or more.) Democrats for the bill 24 Democrats against the bill 78 Republicans for the biU 119 Republicans against the bul None The Democrats voted three to one aeainstthe bill, and as It lacked tire votes for the necessary two-thirds, it was defeated. Congressman Grosvenok, of Ohio, delivered a speech at Gallipolis, in which, after reviewing the impprtant legislation of tho last session, ho said: What has been the conduct of Benjamin Harrison as President cf the United States! 1 have referred to the fidelity with which the Republican party has discharged its obligations to the people. In every , act, word and work to which I have alluded tho President of the United States has stood as the bulwark of our encouragement, our support and our leadership. All these great measures were outlined in his message to Congress. All these great measures wore advocated by him In his private intercourse with members of Congress. All these great measures received his hearty indorsement and approval officially. He was elected as a Republican. I stand here to-day, when he has turned the naifway point of his second year of administration, and challenge honest, patriotic and successful criticism. He has discharged the dnties of his great office with a modesty becoming a citizen of the great Republic, where all men are equal, always approachable by day and by night, always insisting that justice shall be done to every citizen, and intelligently, faithfully and vigorously upholding and maintaining the principles of the party. Mr. William Clark," proprietor of extensive cotton and linen-thread mills at Newark, N. J., says the new tariff law will set a great many idle machines in motion, and, while it may be a year or so before the country realizes its full benefits, some of them will bo felt at once. He adds: ' The passage of the bill will give employment to thousands of workers in our lino Mone. Take the case of our own mills. Wn have a very large plant which wo run, and another plant which we have not been running, because we could not make money. Now, with the McKinley bill a law, we can place all the product, which will be just about twice as large as it was under tho old tariff law, and there are many other manufacturers just in the same position. There are over $1,000,000 of capital which has been lying idle waiting for a good investment in the linen business, and now, of course, it will be put in that industry oi this country. The annnal ball of the "Priests of Pallas" is the great social event of the year in Kansas City. Every woman who can get an invitation and some good clothes makes it a point to attend, and, having done so, she wants the fact mentioned in the papers, with a full account of her magnificence. As is well known to "society editors" everywhere, ladies whose gowns are not accurately described on such occasions are tilled with anguish of soul, and sometimes display an animosity towards the unfortunate reporter and his orher paper that interferes with the garnering of valuable and thrilling society news in the future. One of the Kansas City editors has evidently had an experience of this kind, and is determined, this year, to come out clear from blame, whatever may happen. Her plan for doing this involves, also, much saving of labor for herself. With a note asking for description of the toilette worn to the ball, this wary and enterprising person has sent out to each and every society woman of Kansas City and surrounding towns a printed blank, which is to be filled up by the wearers, thereby insuring, if not complete accuracy, at least descriptions that will not err on the side of plainness and simplicity. No detail is omitted in these blanks, from material of dress, style of bodice, length of sleeves, mode of dressing the hair, ornaments, gloves, bonnets everything down to shoes. Already the returns are coming in in advance of the ball, and if the Kansas City belles do not have full justice done them it will be their own fault, and not that of the long-suffering society editor. When the name of Rudyard Kipling became known to the public, a few months ago, through a quick succession of stories, poems and sketches, and the announcement was made t that he was but twentyfour years old, the thought must have occurred to many persons that such rapid production indicated a precocity of intellect that could hardly endure unless supported by an uncommonly vigorous physical constitution. Consequently the report that his health is impaired and that he is ordered on a sea voyage will occasion little surprise. Since his departure it is stated that London physicians declare he is much worse than was at first supposed, and that he is completely broken down. This report will occasion great regret, and the hope that the career of this bright and 'promising writer will not end in so meteoric a manner. Pennsylvania's' sleeping preacher is likely to soon be in demand. The only difficulty is that ho talks in his sleep. If he can only break that bad habit he will just suit the majority of the male members of numerous churches. . Elizabeth Sessions TcrrEit has sued tho Buffalo police superintendent for $10,000 damages for detaining her a couple of hours under a misapprehension. She is likely, however, to have considerable diffi

culty in proving damages to cither character or purse, for she herself made a sensational story of the incident and turned it into cash by offering it to all the prominent newspapers of the country at so much per column. . a m m m mm If the people continue xnugwumping on base-ball at the rato they have during tho past summer there will be nearly as many useless batteries next year as there were a short time after the war. They aro saying now that Nero wore a monocle. This rather upsets the old-time idea that he was a dandy but no dude.

A l'uzzled To-U Poet's Wife Dinner is ready, dear. This it the third time I have called you. Poet In a minute. I am trying tornaVoa rhyme of "go a-flehin M and 'prohibition.' Poet's Wife Why, that ought to be easy. Poet Oh the rhyme is plain enough, but tho ideas don't seem to jibe. s An CstlieUo SouL. Willie Yes; I've sold my parrot on account of his profanity. Blllle-First time I ever knew you objected to anything of that sort. Willie Oh, I don't mind it much; but the combination of green parrot and blue streak offended my artlstlo tasto Mr. Jason's French. "Well," said Mr. Jason, trying not to chuckle t at his own wit, "though Franc ain't sent us any dramatio star this season, she at least has sent the Comet dee Paris.' The Dear Girls Again. -Minnie I don't like these photographs one bit. They look too awfully flat Mamie But they look just like xou, dear. Warned, ; "Not buying any more mining stocks, ebr "No; I am about in the condition of a skinned eeL" "I told you it was a 6kin deal. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. ARcnBisnop Kenrick, of St Louis, who is expected to receive a cardinal's hat next year, is in his eighty-fifth year and is tho oldest of living American archbishops. Rubinstein, in his autobiography, thns estimates tho proportions of people of tho leading nations who understand music: Germany, 50 per cent; France. 16 per cent.: Kngland, 2 per cent; United States, higher than England. At Wellesley there are strict rules of precedence in entering the elevator. "No freshman," says Miss Clementine Racheler, "everthink8 of entering before an upperclass woman. The freshmen will have their turn in good time, so they do not mind' It is said that the tomb of George Sand and her son offer a sad spectacle of forge tfulness. The graves are ill-kept, wjthered llowers lie on tho marblo slabs and tho spectator turns away with a melancholy conviction of the shortness cf human memory. Victor Emanuel, tho heir apparent to the crown of Italy, assumed a fictitious title whilo traveling in Russia and Gerbelong by heredity to an impecunious Italian, who has now sued the Prince for compensation for its use. Citizen Geokge Francis Train, who has been living quietly in his villa, near Tacoma, Wash., since his famous round-the-world trip, will return to New, York city. He hopes to make an arrangement by which he will go around the world again via the Fast against his own time. Miss Ellen Terry is . said to have ''achieved her first stago distinction by screaming." In a play bearing the outlandish title of "Alter Geell," she had to take a snake around her neck and scream, and so realistic was her simulated horror at the situation that the scream electrifiedthe house. Professor Moller, of Carlsruhe, has made some interesting observations on clouds. The highest clouds, cirrus and cirro-stratus, rise on an average to a height of nearly 0,000 fee- The middle clouds keep at from about 10,0 X) to 23,000 feet in height, while the lower clouds reach to between o.OOO and 7,000 ft&t Henry M. Stanley expects to reach New York Nov. 5. During his coming tour he will travel in a private car constructed especially for him. Four years ago he made a contract with a Baltimore man to deliver lectures on Africa for $100 apiece. It is said that he will receive from $oOO to 5,000 for each of his lectures this coming season. . ' j . Mrs. Florence Fenwick Miller, who has achieved great success as a journalist and lecturer in England, contemplates a visit to America next year. She has lately been elected on tho hrst list of "fellows'' by the London district ot the Institute of Journalist?, an honor accorded by tbeir constitution to "journalists of special experience and distinction." The name of John Jacob Armstrong Astor, four years old, son of William Waldorf Astor, has undergone excision of bis third name, the petition to the court stating that all of the parties in interest desired the change because the revised name is tho same as that o the child's grandfather aud great-great-grandfather, and because his interests will be promoted by the change. On Decoration day, 18S2, Mr. Bancroft wrote the following words to S. Austin Allibone, which shed a beautiful light on the present life of tho splendid old man. "I was trained to look upon life here as a season for labor. Being more than four-ncore years old, I know the time for my release will soon come. Conscious of being near the shores of eternity, I await without impatience and without dread the beckoning of the band which will summon me to rest.'' Horace Greeley was a guest at a prlvato dinner in 1872. The talk turned uoon the issues of the campaign, and the company 6at charmed, listeners to his masterly arguments in defense of his course. Presently the hostess passed him a plate of pineapple, which, on perceiving what it was, he returned to her, remarking parenthetically. "I can't eat 'em; they give mo the colic," and at once proceeded witn bis argument all unconscious of the smile his frank and child-like avowal provoked. Paul Kruger, the president of the Trail svall, receives a salary of 8,000 a year, but is not much on style. A visitor who wished to make a call in proper style upon him wr.s at once ushered into a room where tho president aat calmly washing his feet in true Dutch fashion. Some fashionable ladies who desired to do the correct thing, and to leave cards for Mrs. Kroger, found the hall door open and the president's wife in the passage eating an orange with great relish. One arm was immediately plated akimbo, the orange carefully balanced, while the free hand was stretched out for tho cards, which she minutely examined as the visitors stood waiting. The latest news is that Rudyard Kipling is not a pen name at all, and that its owner has been passing the summer in London. The odd name of "Kudyard'' was given him in memory of the little English town Rudyard, where his father and mother passed their honeymoon; tho latter has been for vears in the Indian service. The London World describes the young author as short, but broadly figured, dark, with blue eyes and a resolute jaw. He wears in his sanctum a scarlet fez and eye-glasses, and be smokes a pipe, and his room contains a magazine rifle, a whisky decanter, a siphon of soda water, a battered dispatch box. and a quantity of Indiau papers characteristic enough of his stories. "I want to give good work, that is my only concern in life but up like the rocket and down like the stick!" he says, smiling grimly, when he is congratulated on his sudden and wonderful success. I'm sorry my daughter's a girl; Iler sex only adds to my woes; For though sbe'a as Tair a n pearl. ' She can't wear her daddy's old clo'ea. llarrtr' Uaztr. Anxious About Its Hut tons. Lojcansport Journal. The Indianapolis News, in the general and unprecedented prosperity wkich has followed the passage of the McKinley bill, is complaining at the increase in the price of pearl buttons. The News should lay in a supply of safety pine.