Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1890 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1890.

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Just about the time Mr. Gould gets his "great railway trust to working in the West, Congress may take a notion to walk in and foreclose the mortgage of the people on the Union Pacific. . No political party founded upon class interests has yet lived more than three or four years in the United States, and it will be a dark day for the Republic when such a one does obtain a permanent footing. Now that the Democrats, puffed up with victory, feel big enough to get along without them, the mugwumps are beginning to learn how cordially they are hated by the party with which they have cast their lot. . If the Atlanta story about the affiliation of some of the Alliance leaders with the4 railroad magnatesto elect United States Senators is found to have a basis of truth, what will the rank and file of the organization say? So far as the Farmers' Alliance was concerned in the last election, the tariff was a side issue. An inflated currency is its first aim, and if the Alliance -continues to gain strength this will be made the leading Issue in 1893. It is said that since the stringency in the money market in England there has appeared a very decided sentiment in favor of restoring silver to full money power. When England says the word it will be done by all commercial nations. The mugwump Providence (R. I.) Journal says that "so far as the Southern States are concerned, any representatives of the Farmers' Alliance in Congress would simply be Democrats with hay-seed in their hair." They will certainly be Democrats for all practical purposes. , The first month under the new tariff act 425,000,000 cigars were manufactured and sent to market in this country, compared with 370,000,000 during October, 1889, an increase of 14.80 per cent. There has beenrno increase in the price of domestic cigars to the consumer, while the makers have had much more business. No paper was more imperative in its demands that the 'widows of soldiers like General McClellan should be pensioned at the rate of 82,000 a year than was tho New York Herald. But when it comes to pensioning men who served in the ranks and are now unable to earn their bread the proposition is denounced as "iniquitous and outrageous." Mr. Cleveland has entertained tho samo views. "The country is solvent. Tho business of the'eonntry is on a sound basis." This remark is made by the Philadelphia Record as a preliminary to comment upon the Barker failure. The country is solvent and its business on a sound basis, truly, but that it is so is not due to the free-trade policy advocated by tho Record and its party. The protective Bystem has made such prosperity and security possible. In one respect the "lady managers" of the world's fair are strikingly like the gentlemen managers. They are keen on the scent of offices and salaries. The indications now are that between commissioners, managers, executive committees and salaried ofticers, male and female, tho congressional appropriation will be pretty well consunied before the fair opens, if it ever does. What are the "lady managers" for, anyhow! General Raum denies that he has made a statement to the effect that there will be a deficiency of $40,000,000 at the close of the fiscal year. He estimates that the average pension value of all pensions the coming year will be about $1S0. If thero wero 1,100,000 veterans living, and all wero pensioned at that rate, $143,000,000 a year would be required. No experienced officer in the Pension Bureau has any idea that this limit will be reached. The alarmists have been overdoing the thing. TnE London Daily News, in commenting on the composition of the next Congress, eays: ' Aa some of the Republican members will probably bend to the popular will, it will be easy to pass a bill repealing the Mckinley act, unless it is vetoed by tho President Such a veto would probably insure the election. In 1892, of a Democratic President, i If the London News were printed on this side of the water it would bo Democratic and free-trade, but, published in England, it is simply English and antiAmerican. The only interest English

papers take in American politics is in their relation to English interests, and as all Englishmen are praying now for the success of the Democracy and free trade, the News tries to encourage them with pleasant prophecies of what may happen in 1892.

TARIFF AND TARIFA, A favorite argument with tho evening organ of the Democracy, and one it is very fond of using to prove the iniquity of protection, is the alleged origin of the word tariff. The word is said by some authorities, and perhaps truly, to have been derived from Tarifa, an ancient town in Spain at tho entrance to the Straits of Gibraltar, where tho Moors formerly collected duties from all passing vessels. Hence, the argument is drawn that the tariff is of barbarous origin, and a symbol of oppression and injustice. If this powerful argument were' good it would hold against all tariff duties, including those formerly and now levied by England, and against a tariff for revenue only, the Mills bill and all others. Indeed, as the Moorish exaction was for revenue only, and levied without reference to protection; it would seem to have been the forerunner of the modern Democratic idea of tariff duties, and not of a protective tariff. But the argument, if it can be called so, is silly and pedantic. The English language abounds with words of curious and remote origin, which, by a process of evolution, have come to mean something . entirely different from their original signification. Thus the word electricity is derived from the Greek atehtron, meaning amber, but when councilmen vote to establish electric lines of street-railroad or electric lamps they do not mean amber lines and lights. Yet the word .electricity bears the same relation to amber that the word tariff does to the ancient Moorish exaction. Again, the word pecuniary is derived from the Latinpf ctinia, money, which, in turn, was derived from peats, cattle. Originally it meant property in cattle, but now it means money. When we speak of the pecuniary resources of a country or people, we do not mean their cattle resources, and when the evening organ of the Democracy sells its advertising space for a pecuniary consideration it does not expect to take cattle or sheep in payment. The common dress material called calico is so called because it was first imported from Calicut, in the East Indies. Our first supplies of tho article were obtained from England, but, under a protective tariff, we have come to make better and cheaper calico than England, and, of course, far better than was ever brought from Calicut. The word neighbor is compounded of the old Saxon words nigh and, boor, and originally meant one's nearest or next boor. Yet, nowadays, if one speaks of a free-trade editor as liis neighbor he does not mean to stigmatize the able crank as a nigh boor. The word rascal in the original AngloSaxon meant a lean, worthless deer, and Shakspeare snys, "Horns, tho noblest deer hath them as huge as the rascal." By degrees the word came to mean a mean, low fellow, and finally a scoundrel. But if we were to say of tho importer or the merchant who marked up his goods under the pretense that the McKinley bill had raised the price, when, in fact, it had not changed the duty at all, that he was a rascal, we should not mean that he was a lean deer, but that he was a dishonest trickster and cheat. The word sincere is composed of the Latin words sine, without, and cera, wax, meaning literally without wax. Originally it meant pure honey, or honey without wax, but by a process of evolution it has come tomean, unadulterated, unaffected, honest. Thus if we should say that the News's opposition to American interests, though misguided, is probably sincere, we should not mean that it was without wax, but that it was an honest devotion to foreign iuterests. It is evident from these examples, and many others might be added, that words have a fashion of drifting far away from their original meaning, and in the course of time come to stand for something very different 'from what they did at first. If the word tariff is of Moorish origin; it has become thoroughly anglicized, and in American hands has come to represent a great American idea. Originally it may have meant that the Moors wanted the earth; now it means America for Americans. As enforced by pirates.it was tariff for revenue only, but as practiced by patriots it means protection for home industries. TRANSCONTINENTAL TRANSPORTATION. A few days, ago it was briefly announced that George Gould had been chosen president of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, that gentleman and his friends having secured a majority of the stock. About the same time, among the rumors which came from tho center of the stock depression was one to the eftect that Jay Gould had secured a controlling interest in tho Union Pacific railroad, and that Charles Francis Adams would retire from the management. When Mr. Gould was questioned about the rumor ho said that he was buying no more stocks than he could pay for. Since that time it has been openly announced that Mr. Adams would retire and the road would be controlled by tho Gould interest. The stocks which underwent the greatest decline during tho past " two weeks were those known as the Villard stocks, which includa tho Northern Pacific and the lines on the Pacific slopo tributary to it. It has since turned out that the Rockefellers, who have contributed so largely towards making tho Standard Oil Company what it is, were the leading purchasers, and now control the Northern Pacific. It is further announced that Kidder, Peabody &, Co. and other parties controlling the Atchison system arc in full accord with the Gould element. That is to say, all of tho transcontinental lines, or those portions of them west of Chicago and St. Louis, are now in the control of Gould, the Rockefellers and a few men like Sage, Huntington and Dillon. It is already given out that these interests will work in harmony. With, the Pacific Mail, they would stem to have the practical

monopoly of transcontinental transportation. These developments make clear the true inwardness of the squeeze in the stock market during the past ten days. Tho complications in the London money market might have had an influence to depress the values of stocks to some extent, but it is now;evident that it was the powerful manipulations of the men who have secured control of the Pacific systems which forced prices to a lower figure than has been known for years,' and squeezed the life oat of hundreds of small holders and speculators. The manipulations were made for the purpose of getting control of those properties at the lowest cost, and they have been successful. The combination has been successful; and now the public will watch with interest the policy which tho new managers of the once competing systems will adopt. It is a matter of very grave importance to the whole country.

WHY NOT LOCAL BANKS OF ISSUE? Admitting that the farmers have a real grievance in the present monetary syste ji of tho country, it is worth while to inquire what the remedy should be. Grant for the sake of argument that the present system is too much centralized in the national treasury and in the large money centers and wealthy banks. ?The farmers claim that this is the case, and that they are placed at a disadvantage in thenarket, while speculators are able to force down prices. They propose to remedy the grievance by the establishment of an agricultural sub-treasury through which the government should loan money at a low rate of interest on farm products. It is easy to see that such a scheme would involve vast expense, costly , machinery and agencies, an army .of . accountants, enormous risks, and eventually great losses. ' But still,, admitting the reality of the grievance, it is worth while for Congress to consider whether it cannot be remedied by some system of local banks of issue which would at once absorb local capital and become centers of local credit and trade. The nationalbank law prohibits loaning money on real-estate security, and comparatively few farmers have enough farm products to constitute, good security for a loan. The result is they, are at a disadvantage in borrowing money. It ought to bo possible to devise a system of local banks of issue, based on tho credit and solvency of the whole local community, with stock distributed among all its traders and agriculturists, which would be a distributing reservoir of local wealth ancj, a center of local credit, based on local assets. This would, answer every purpose of an agricultural subtreasury and would be all the better for being under private management, just as the national banks now are, except government inspection and control. The circulation of the national banks is rapidly disappearing, and when it is gone there will bo no banks of issue throughout the country. This will not be.a desirable condition. Any system of local banks of issue that might bp devised should bo under government supervision. A COSTLY yiCTOEY. The Wabash Plain Dealer contains a fuller statement than has been given before of the reason why the Indiana Steel Company had withdrawn from its proposed investment at that place. The company was a Pittsburg organization. The Plain Dealer says: 1 In speaking of the causes which impelled the cancellation of the contract, one of the stockholders said: "There are two reasons for our withdrawal from the enterprise. One is that tho condition of the money market is not favorable to investments in manufacturing. Funds are scarce and rates abnormally high in the Fast, and we may be entering upon a period of stringency and depression which wonld render the venture unprofitable for years. Again, there is no disguising the suspicion and alarm with which iron men and manufacturers regard the election of an overwhelming" majority of low-tarilf Representatives in Congress. It means that tariff agitation will be kept up until one party or the other obtains control of both houses, and if the so-called revenue-reformers' triumph, disaster to iron and steel manufacturers cannot be averted. While ' we were, as you observed, anxious to consummate onr deal with yon, and were continent of a prosperous future for our project, the elections and the panicky f feeling in financial circles upset our calculations completely, and we are as eager to get but as wo were to get In six weeks ago. The talk of our going to Anderson or any other place is sheer nonsense. We shall not embark in the business at any point at this tiino, and if wo ever conclude to establish a mill we sbail certainly communicate with you. As for our responsibility tinanciailr, you have merely to inquire at any Pittsburg bank to be satisfied on that score, and we ci ve vou 'our word that in a pecuniary sense we shall make you whole." It is evident from this that the result of the recent elections was the main canse of the failure of this promising enterprise. The necessary amount of stock had been subscribed by Wabash people, land had been purchased and machinery ordered, when the Democratic victory and threatened reopening of the tariff question came to block the enterprise. It looks now as if that victory might cost Indiana millions of dollars by preventing the establishment of new factories. WHEAT AND THE DEM00BATI0 VICTOEY. Nov. 4, the day of the late election, was not the date of any special developments regarding the wheat and corn crops which should have caused a decline in prices. On the other hand, all the reports from which Statistician Dodge, of the Department of Agriculture, made up the October report of the conditions of these crops were of a nature to fully sustain all of tho previous reports of a short wheat crop and the smallest corn crop for years. So far as these reports should have had an influence upon prices, it would have been in the direction of an advance. The opposite has been tho result. From the day that the Democrats won the victory which kept them in a delirium of joy for ten days, and led them to believe that their presidential candidate would carry all but half a dozen States in 1892, tho prices of wheat and corn declined. Nov. 3, the day before the Democratic victory, wheat was quoted in Chicago at $1.00 13 and coin at 5313 cents. Nov. 5, the day following the Republican catastrophe, wheat was quoted at 9853 cents and corn at 52 14 cents. As the extent of the Republican disaster became more and more evident and tho Democratic triumph appeared more sweeping.

prices continued to droop. Nov. 13 wheat was down to 92 34 cents and corn closed at 49 cents. Nov. 20 wheat was quoted at 8812 cents and corn nt 5033 cents. Here was a decline in the price of wheat of 12 cents and in corn of 412 cents a bushel. Before the election the price of wheat and corn had been steadily advancing in spite of the efforts of the "bears," but after tho election, when, in view of the short cro; of both, prices should have continued to advance, the most strenuous efforts of the "bull" interests could not prevent a shrinkage of 12 cents in wheat. Just now prices, particularly of wheat, show a little improvement, but they lack a good deal of being up to the figures of the day before the election. It may be urged that this decline was due to speculative influences and interests. That assumption cannot relieve the Democratic triumph from the charge of a responsibility for the decline, but only makes it more emphatic, because, as one of the causes affecting the markets, it was sufficiently potent in the hands of the "bears" to break prices and pound them down day after day in spite of the desperate resistance of the "bulls." ;It has only been within a few days that prices have begun to recover, because the public have had time to consider the extent of the Democratic raid and to see that it has not been achieved by influences and forces which indicate an accession to Democratic ranks, and that in 1 1892, as in 1876 after 1874, the triumph of the Democracy can be turned into defeat.

WOMEN AND THE WORLD'S FAIR. It is about time somebody answered the conundrum propounded to the world's fair commission, namely:); "What are the lady mauagers here -for?" That body, as at present constituted, is as useless and unnecessary as a fifth wheel to a coach. It is rather more than the mule board of national commissioners and tho Chicago directory can do to tell exactly what they are there for themselves, and it is highly probable that the courts or Congress will be called upon to define their respective duties; but the women's board was an afterthought of gallant .Congressmen, and no attempt was made to designate its powers ' and the character of ita " work.' It was possibly the vague intention to mako this board subordinate to the other, but this purpose is not plainly indicated, and the women display a not unreasonable disposition to insert their fingers in the pie as deep as any others, and to do an equal share of the bossing. Unless a speedy agreement is preached , the male board will no sooner have its quarrel with the local directory settled than it will be engaged in a struggle for first place with the women. . Whatever the agreement that may bo reached, the situation is an absurd one. It is hardly to bo expected that the two boards will work in entire harmony, and even if they finally do so the existence of two such large and unwieldy bodies, both with practically the samo object in view, will not only complicate the management of the fair throughout, but is an unnecessary expense Women should undoubtedly have a voice in the management of this great enterprise, but they should have been made members of the original commission. If one man and one woman, instead of two men, bah been appointed from each State, the matter would have been simplified and the preeent awkwardness avoided. As it is, the women hold an anomalous position, and are likely to.be greatly hampered in their official movements.. Congress could not do better than to rescind its action in this matter,and provide for the addition of a certain number of women to tho regular commission. A German woolen-manufacturer who has been prospecting in this country writes a letter to a Berlin paper in which he says: - It is out of the question to erect woolen-goods-mills in the .United States whose products shall compete with the mills of Germany. I have, been three weeks in Pennsylvania, in a section where wages are the lowest, but I find that even here they are 25 per cent, .higher than with us. For several years I have employed between seven and eight thousand hands, and almost the half of my production goes to the United States. I nave come to the conclusion, moreover, that In spite of the increased duties by the new tariff bill I shall send just as much to this country as I ever did, and . probably more In addition to this, my agents in New York have received more orders than last season: and to gllay wnatever fears our manufacturers may have, I will add that the large importing houses of all branches of trade- here aro sendink their buyers and', agents to Germany as they have done in past years, and that these buyers have received instructions to place their orders as they have always done. The points of interest in . this arc, first, that the new tariff law is not going 'to prohibit the importation of foreign manufactures, as has been charged; and second, that tho predicted rise in prices is not going to occur. In the New York Times of Nov. 20 there is, in its Washington telegrams, the following: . Now that the election is over and the admission can do no harm, there are some reasons for regretting the defeat of Cannon. He is a good man on the committee on appropriations. He has done some rork on that committee in the way of saving public money that the public will not be likely to appreciate, but that should command admiration for Cannon's honesty. He it was who in ado it a business to find out how the lump appropriations for the departments were misspent and to recommend the practice, now followed under the law, of making the appropriations specific. Wo reprint thin without further comment than merely to say that if the annals of politics show a deeper and more disgraceful acknowledgment than this, it has not come under the Journal's observation. And this from a pretentious, independent, honest (!) newspaper! Congress reassembles one week from to-day. It has a good deal of business to finish, which makes it necessary that every Republican member should be in his seat. ' . The action of the School Board in voting the sum of $300 for the purchase of ten cabinet organs to be used in as many 'schools has caused surprise to many who have hitherto .assumed that the members of that body were' possessed of humane feelings. Possibly these gentlemen had no thought that they were perpetrating an act of cruelty to children, and did not know that they were providing ten instruments

of torture for the unfortunate punils and their teachers; but, if such is the case, it may be regarded as certain that they have not lately been compelled to listen to the agonizing wails of $G0 organs. A cabinet organ at its best estate is an atrocious contrivance. The best ever made creaks and shrieks, and wheezes, and groans until the distressed listener is forced to believe that it is suffering untold misery in its interior. What a $S0 organ will do when its keys and pedals are vigorously manipulated the musical imagination feebly refuses to consider. Certainly the sounds emitted by such an instrument will not go far to educate the juvenile ear in the "concord of sweet sounds." There are people, it is true, who profess to like the cabinet organ; there are also people who are fond of bagpipes. The two classes should dwell together on a lonely island. The School Board should think again before it wastes its $300. AMONG the new members of the next Congress will be Mr. Jerry Simpson, of the Sixth Kansas district, elected on tho Farmers' Alliance ticket. Mr. Simpson stumped his district thoroughly, and in every speech he made he removed his shoes to show that he was too poor to wear socks. This powerful appeal and ocular proof of poverty excited a great deal of sympathy and secured him many votes. A few days ago Mr. Simpson received from the woolen-mills of Fort, Scott, Kan., a pair of socks, accompanied by the following letter: Now the election Is over, cold winter Is coming on, and it is not meet that one of the tribunes should appear on the steDs of the Capitol without

socks, '.therefore, Jerry, we herewith inclose j you a pair or socks. Not the patrician stockings of costly silk, but ocks made from good, honest wool; wool grown by Kansas .farmers op the backs of Kansas ubeep and manufactured at the only successful woolen-mill in the State. Take them, Jerry, and wear them. They are good, honest socks, and will do you good service. They are not so fine as some of your compeers will wear in Washington, but they are well betttting a good, straight, honest, Kansas American, us we know you to be. And when any one undertakes to claim that Americans cannof compete with tho vile stuff made by pauper labor of Europe, from old horse-blankets, cast-off undershirts and refuse of small-pox hospitals, which the very disinterested importers call foreign goods, show them jour socks, and tell them how they were made from honest Kansas wooL Mr. Simpson seems to have made a great hit by electioneering' in Kansas with bare feet, but he v will find when he reaches Washington that the customs of tho country require statesmen to wear, socks. But the Fort Scott people should have sent him two pairs, so that he might have a change. Among other political fads and isms which will be represented in the next Congress will be the single-tax theory, and its representative will be Mr. Thomas L. Johnson, formerly of this city, "and now of Cleveland, O. A Washington correspondent, who is writing up the ' new members, says: Five years ago Mr. Johnson bought a book of a train boy. That was the beginning of his Interest in "Social Problems." Mr. Johnson developed rapidly into a single-tax man. and that is his political creed, lie is very rich in streetrailroad stocks, and he believes that real estate should bear the whole burden of taxation. His experience in the street-railroad business began over twenty years ago, when he was errand boy for the office of a Louisville line. At the age of sixteen he had developed such precocious aptitude that the company elected hlin secretary. lie turned his mind to street-car improvements, and got out half a dozen patents before he was twenty. Then he went into the manufacture of street-railroad supplies at Johnstown, where his partner was Arthur Moxham, afterward of flood fame. Mr. Johnson now owns street-railroad shares, in big blocks, in St. Louis, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Johnstown and several other cities. Henry George is his political guide. Mr. Johnson is known here as a business man for revenue only, and his advocacy of the single-tax theory is in accordance with that idea. A single tax on real estate. would be practical exemption for Mr. Johnson, his wealth being nearly all in personal property. A young German girl, upon discovering that she had seen united in marriage to another woman,, straightway committed suicide. She needn't have taken it so much to heart. Lots of men have found themselves in the,8ame predicament, and have survived the ordeal by a proper display of fortitude. .. The Washington, Ind., Gazette contains jin advertisement for ,41,000 grown houseVat skins," for which 10 cents apiece will be paid. The advertiser proposes to work them up into lap-robes. This opens as fine a field for young marksmen as the killing of English sparrows. It is sincerely to be hoped that foot-ball will never develop into a professional game. Its Chief element of popularity is the fact that its players fight for glbry alone. BUBBLES IS Till) AIR. A Reformation. Woman Have you no trade! Hungry Higgins I used to be a coal-dealer, mum, but I am a weigh-fairer now. Ha! Hal Ha! Woman What are you laughing at! i . i w. Distance Lends Enchantment, "Yes." said Mr. Noodad, "itis only the father of a bouncing boy who 'knows what life is. You cannot form any idea of how dearly I love the little rascal especially after I get away from the house." " The Brute. Mrs. Wickwlre It seems strange, when one thinks of it, that man Is the only animal that laughs. Mr. Wickwlre Well, you see, he has woman to laugh at. .' The Eternal Question. "Is marriage a faUure?" "Oh! that's a chestnut." - t 44 Yes; you might compare it to a chestnut, too. You can't tell whether a chestnut is good tinUl you have tried it." ' - By the Lakeside. ' Mrs. Wabash Give me Mr. Wabash's office, please. ; Telephone Girl What number! Mrs. Wabash Eh! Oh! ne's No. 3, but I don't think it any of your business. A : B : : C : D. Mudge Yabsley, old boy, if I . had a million dollars you should have half of it. ; Yabsley Speaking of dollars, can you let me have $5 for a few days! . Mudge-l wish I could; I do, indeed. But Tve only got $10, and need every, cent of It. . ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Major Pond, Mr. Stanley's manager, is something of a discoverer himself. He is discovering, among other things, that there are a great many towns throughout tho country that will not or cannot pay $1,C00 to hear his star. The late Mrs. Astor had a lace dress which 6ost 615,000, and it is stated that another was recently sold to an American lady for 25,000. There are a number of ladies in New York who each own laces valued at from $20,000 to $50,000. It is said that onco a certain person asked Robert Browning as to the meaning of one of his poems. The poet started to explain and said its meaning was so and so. Then he stopped explaining and said: 'T am not certain what I meant. Ask the Browning Society. It knows." Mrs. Humphry Ward, author of "Robert Elsmere," is busily at work finishing the new book which is to appear about Christmas. Its motive will be the aspirations of a workingman after culture. Mrs. Ward is said to have ained soma hints from the life of Kobert Chambers. There is a bill before the Queben Parliament which has quite a little romance. It is to enable Joseph Grandbcis to change his name to that of De Villeneuve, and it is asked by the Count and Countess of Villeneuve, of Paris, who, being childless.

"have adopted Grandbois as their son. TCa latter ii a little orphan boy four years ot age, born in St. Casimir. selected in Canada by the Abbe Casrain - at the desire of the Count and Countess. He will now be heir to the title and S7.(XX3,000 beside. , PRoniKT John F. . Nickerson, of th Maine Advcntists, is about to go on a pilgrimage from that State to California with a shoemaker's outfit to make his living by the way, and he announces that ho will give one-half of whatever sum he may have in his pocket to any one in trouble. The Hon. Samuel Chipman, who re cently celebrated his centennial, has been a Mason in good standing for more than threequarters of a century. He was raised to the master's degree in Virgin Lodge. Halifax, two years before the battle ot Waterloo, and is undoubtedly the-oldest Mason. Eugene Field, declares that Mme. Belle Cole, the American contr-ilto, drives the finest equipage in London, and adds: "You put a spirited thoroughbred English horsa in front of a light-rnnning American vehicle containing a handsome, well-dressed and cool-headed .woman and the ellect upon the British public is simply eletricaL" The halcyon days of the American Lyceum seem to have come again as ono reads the names of the lecturers who will be heard in various cities this winter. Among them are Henry M. Stanlov, George Keunan, James KusseJl Lowell. F." C. Stedxnan. Professor Bryce, Prof. Thomas Davidson. Alexander Black, R. K. Munkittrick and J. K. Bangs. ; One of those surprising accidents that happen but once in the life of any mortal met Miss Venice Omalya, an actress in a burlesque company at Carbondale. N. Y., Wednesday evening. Miss Omalya in jumping about the side of the staize struck the register of a large hot-air lluo connected with the furnace in the basement. The register simply swallowed Miss Omalya, and away she went on her trip to the furnace. What wonld have happened ' had the 4lue gone straight on forms but a dismal guess, but a turn in the big pipe was torn apart and Mis Omalya suddenly found herself fn a millinery store on the floor below. She was so thankful it wasn't a grocery. After Princess Beatrice was married and , had children the accommodations at Balmoral Castle were inadequate, so that tho Queen built a wing for the especial use of the Battenbergs. The addition was so cleverly constructed that it harmonized perfectly with tho older portions of tho castle. Tho prettiest part of the now wing is th9 Princess Beatrice's boudoir. Buhl cabinets, Chippendale furniture, Indian screens and fans, rare china, superblychased silver and fine paintings are scattered with a free hand around the room. Even the nurseries have beeu furnished with the idea of having the roval babies grow up amid artistic surroundings. The Czar's railway train, which is to b the substitute of the train wrecked in the Borld accident two years ago, is at last completed, and a few weeks ago its first successful trial trip was undertaken. The train consists of a carriage for tho Emperor and Empress, another for tho heir apparent, a third for the grand dukes and the grind duchesses, two for tho attendants, two more for the servants, a saloon carriage, a kitchen and a workshop. Electric light has been introduced, and tho technical details are, naturally, carried out "with all the latest improvements;" but otherwise the carriages are very simply furnished, and in the Emperor's carriage the furniture from the wrecked, train has been used again "by special request of the Czar." The life of Caroline Herschel, one would imagine, was anything but favorable to long lasting. Insufficient sleep, irregular and hasty meals, long fasts, excessive toil, both bodily and mental, were the conditions of her life at least during the tit teen years she was her brother's housekeeper and astronomical assistant. A lady who devoted herself to hard work, one of the necessities of which was that 6hnhadto spend the whole of every starry nisht, covered with dew or hoar frost, on a grass plot in the garden, would not, one would think, be likely to make old bones. At the age of eighty-two, however, according to her nephew's account, she skipped up two flights of stairs and ran about like a girl of twenty. She died at the age of ninetyeight. Prince Bismakck is still at Varzin enjoying excellent health. His stay there

was originally fixed for only a feiV weeks, but he has prolonged it to some months, ' and his departure for Friedrichsruh will still be delayed. The statement that ho will attend the sittings of the lteicbstag is for the present untrustworthy. The Prince entertains at dinner, every dav, several gentlemen of, the neighborhood, and the conversation is said to turn more often on 'farming subjects than on politics. The Prince is working most zealously at his memoirs, with the assistance of. Herr Loth a r Bucher and his private secretary. Dr. Chrysander, but it will take some time to complete them. The Princess is still in delicate health, and has to take great caro of herself. The Miscellaneous Southron. -Kanaas City Star. This indignant outburst is the sentiment of the Memphis Appeal: "In the South, at least, the pure stream of Caucasian blood will never be clouded by the dark torrents from African veins, nor will social equality ever be considered or conceded." From which it is inferred that the various quadroons in the South are mere freaks of nature, or perhaps the attempt to lighten the dark torrents from African veins with the pure stream of Caucasian blood has ceased to be fashionable as a scientific- experiment. Let 'Em Alone. Boston Journal. Over-elated by their triumph, tho Democratic managers are alreadv manufactur ing political capital on a wholesale scale iur me ueueui oi men adversaries, ine scheme to oust Mr. lteed in a case in point. We repeat that if it should be carried out it would make it almost impossible to elect any considerable number of Northern Democratic members of the House of Bepresentatives. There is a limit even to the subserviency of the Northern Democrat and it is just here. m m ' Distrusted by Business 3Ien. Iowa Register. The wholesome lesson of the present decline in values is that the votes ought not again to be allured by the rosj-hued prom, ises of business prosperity that are biennially held out to them by the free-trad orators. The Democratic party, with its insane devotion to the theory of wage competition purely, lor that is what fret trade means, cannot be trusted with power. So Nice. Philadelphia North American. Says one Mr. Cleveland: "I would prefei to continue in private life with complete control of my own time, but if they want me 1 shall accept." Dear, ceiierous-heartetl old fellow. I guess you will accept. Bur isn't it nice that both Republicans and Democrats want Groverforthe Democratic nominee in ISOlif It will avoid any ill-feel-ing, you know. What! Who's laughing! Thnnnan Didn't Gratp the Point. Minneapolis Tribune. Cleveland's worshipers complain becanst ex-Senatcr Thunnan had nothing to nay auout their idol in his banquet speech. Perhaps Mr. Thurmau labored under the impression that it was a birthday partj given in his honor, and not a mere' recejtion to the conceited ollice-seeker whe wants to be a candidate for the xireaidency for the third time. m m An Insane 1'oUcy. I Logansport JooraaL The newspaper that would advocate tha abandonment of protection in the etiori to still further increase trade would advise a banker to leave his backdoor open while he went out to talk to a mysterious stranger in a buggy. Protection to tho home market is tho first essential. The additional market can then be sought safely. Good Advice. Vevay neveilie. When you go into a store and a merchant tells you ho has advanced the price of an article you desire to purchase on account of the McKinlev bill, walk out and don't go back. It .will take you but a few minutes to And a merchant who will gladly sell you anything in his store as cheap, if not cheaper, than before tho McKinley bill waa yateed