Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1891 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1891.

THE DAILY JOURNAL THURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1891. WASHINGTON OFFICF. 513 Fourteenth it. P. 8-Heath. Correnpondfnt. Telephone CalL Enhrness OfSce 138 f Editor!! Rooms 242

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T1IE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL " Can he found at the following places: FA BIB American Exchange Is Paris, 88 Boulerard deaCapucinea. HEW YOBX Gilaey Bouse and "Windsor Hotel. PHILADELPHIA A. P. Xemble, S7U Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO Palmer House. CINXLNNATI-J. P. Hawley A Co.. 184 Vine street. LOUISVILLE O. T. Deeriiig, northwest corner Third and J efferson streets. BT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern HoteL WASHINGTON, D. O Biggs Houee and Ebbitt House The Journal's greeting to its readers: "A happy New Year." This is the best day in all the year to enlist nnder Francis Murphy's banner. Those who have been holding back their good resolutions until to-day should bring them forth and keep them. TnE only way under heaven to establish local self-government and home rule is by fair and honest elections. It seems that Indians who have money with which to purchase the best firearms and ammunition should not be on the verge of starvation. The man who is troubling himself about a talking-machine should stop as long as Morgan, Vest, Cockrell et al. are in the United States Senate. TnE best resolution which Democratic Senators could make to-day would be to take a stand in favor of honest elections. But, alas, they will not do it. One is forced to the conclusion, by reason of the conduct of Democratic Senators, that they are fighting for the freedom to perpetrate ballot-box crimes. It must be a rather dull New Year for those persons who put up the prices of their goods in October because of the McKinley law and consequently have Dot sold them. : Snow us a man who opposes fair elections and a free ballot, and we will show you one who in his secret heart favors a. restriction of the suffrage, and ultimately a change in our form of government. TnE murder of a Republican postmaster seems not to attract any newspaper comment. The country should turn over a new leaf in this matter, and the beginning of the year is the best time to do it. Word comes from North Carolina that Senator Vance, who defied the Alliance last summer and denounced its government corn-crib 6cheme, has surrendered to it in hope of securing a reelection. ..' The postmaster whom Mr. Cleveland gave New Orleans will bo the new President of the Louisiana Lottery Company, and it is asserted that Mr. Cleveland has been one of the company's counsel for some time. If the report should prove to bo true that rich tin deposits have been discovered in Texas, a hundred miles from San Antonio, and sixty lodes located by experts, Mr. Mills will be compelled to abandon that State. It appears that the Democratic advocates of free silver coinage have adroitly inserted the microbe of Bourbonistio hatred to free and fair elections in the political system of certain Republican Senators from the silver-producing States. .' What a howl would be raised by tho two Democratic organs of this city if the Republicans in the Indiana Senate should imitate the Democrats in the United States Senate and attempt to fritter away the whole session in talk; and how vigorously the gag law would be applied. The proposal by Canadiau statesmen to settle the Behring sea troubles by the purchase of Alaska seems to imply a belief on their part that Americans would not trespass ou territory not their own, as the English are doing. No doubt they are right, but is it not rather a damaging confession? Senator Teller believes in majority rule, and is in favor of that principle obtaining everywhere, except in the United States Senate. Within that holy circle ho would substitute senatorial courtesy for majority rule. From this point of view minority rule Beems to be the quintessence of senatorial courtesy. A Carrollton (Miss.) dispatch says that McBride, the slayer of Postmaster Matthews, has had a preliminary examination, and been discharged on tho ground that ho acted , in self-defense. Of course; but it is somewhat remarkable how uniformly Republicans are tho aggressors in Southern affrays, and how very careful the Democratic slayers are to act only in self-defense. This is merely mentioned as an interesting feature of Southern life. Some of tho participants in the New York Central strike of last summer are dow reaping tho aftermath in the shape of sentences to tho penitentiary. The lesson that switches cannot be misplaced and innocent lives risked to serve the personal ends of dissatisfied workmen without subsequent punishment of such workmen is salutary and likely

to go far in hindering such acts in

future. The worst feature of tho matter is that Buch reckless deeds not only injure the perpetrators themselves but their law-abiding associates, by creating a prejudice against them as a class. As a matter of policy, labor organizations should weed out tho anarchist element from among them as rapidly as possible. admissions or a notable peee-teadee. Why the editor of an able magazine like the Forum should permit a person like. Thomas G. Shearman to waste ten pages of Its space 'upon such a topic as"The Comiug Billionaire'' is one of the things that those who have seen something of his mental meanderings cannot understand. Of course, every one who has read his essays or heard his speeches knows that that amiable person is a free-trade monomaniac, and that whatever topic he takes as a text he is sure to preach a free-trade sermon. He does it in this case. Tho billionaire to be is a millionaire now because of the protective tariff, which takes the taxes from him and imposes them upon tho masses. This is not the case. The great millionaires, are not manufacturers and are not protectionistsfacts which break into the Shearman assumptions. But he is consistent in one thing. As a theoretical free-trader he believes in free trade. He does not believe in a tariff for revenue only, but in a direct tax of some form probably on land to meet the expenses of tho government. The alleged Indiana Tariff-reform Club will not bring Mr. Shearman here again, lest he declares his honest sentiments as a logical free-trader. But ,the sentences in the Shearman paper which are notable are these: The managers of the Democratic party seem hardly jot to appreciate the situation. They still talk about a tariff tor revenue in opposition to one for protection, as if it could be a live issue of the future. The fatal defect of the present Democratic programme of moderate tariff reform is that no tariff can be devised which will suffice the needs of the government without including a tax upon sugar. But the sugar tax has gone forever. After the people have enjoyed free sugar for two years, any party which should attempt to restore the enormous sugar tax of the past would becrnshed atthelirat election. No party will attempt it. The protectionists have gained on this one point a signal and permanent victory. The issue of a tariff for revenue only against a tariff for protection, is practically dead. There is reason to believe that there is some sense in what Mr. Shearman says in regard to the impossibility of a moderate revenue tariff yielding sufficient money to pay the current expenses of the government without the sugar tax. For a few years a reduction of current rates of duty would yield a larger revenue, because the imports of foreign goods would be so large as to more than make good the loss by the percentage of reduction of duties; but, after a time, the revenues would fall off because of the inability of the people to purchase, as has been our experience under a revenue tariff. But the confession which Mr, Shearman unconsciously makes is that the protectionists have conferred a boon upon1 the masses in putting sugar upon the free list which they will appreciate when they fully realize the advantage, and which they will not permit any party to take from them under any. pretext. That is, the Republican Congress has done what no Democratic Congress could be induced to do when it put sugar on the free list and relieved the masses of a burden of $50,000,000 annually. That it was an act in the interest of the whole people, Mr. Shearman's declaration that the party which should attempt to restore the duty "would be crushed at the first election" is the testimony of a witness on the other side. Tho Republican party should tender the recognized attorney of tho importers in New York an elaborate vote of thanks. THE EXT0ET OF PE0YISI0SS AND CATTLE. Those who examine tho statistics of the export of meat and dairy products and of cattle?, hogs and sheep for thirty years from this country will be impressed with two facts, namely, tho growth of the trade and its fluctuations. In 1800, the year before the war, when the country was enjoying the alleged advantages of a strictly revenue tariff, the value of pork, lard, beef and dairy products shipped from the United States to other countries was $ 16,034,363. During the fiscal year which ended June 30,1800, the value of such commodities exported was $ 136,264,600. The export of cattle, hogs and sheep was of no moment until -recent years, amounting in value to only $244,148 in 1865 and to $1,193,464 in 1872. The value of the export did not reach $10,000,000 until 1879. During the last fiscal year the export was valued at $32,413,250 an amount largely in excess of any previous year's export, the next largest being that of 1884, $19,333,121. WThilo the growth of this export trade in cattle, hogs and their products has been remarkable, the fluctuations have been no less so. In 1870 the value of meats and dairy products exported was $30,092,305, but in 1881 it reached $156,809,840 the largest export in value ever made. Two years later it fell to $109,217,119, and five years after to $90,625,216. From the latter figure, in 1886, it rose to $136,264,506 last year. The ups and downs in the cattle export have not been so marked, but they have been sufficient to attract attention. In 1881, the year which saw the greatest export of meats, lard, etc., the export of cattle, etc., was valued at $15,639,173. The next year it fell to $8,913,656, rose to $19,333,121 two years later, it sank to $9,991,614 in 1887, increased to $12,051,0S5 in 18S8, to $17,339,862 in 1889 and reached the highest figure the last fiscal year by a jump to $32,413,250. The restrictions imposed under the cover of sanitary precautions have tended to interfero with the trade somewhat, but under the judicious act of the present Congress for tho inspection of all meats and cattle exported, and tho removal of restrictions upon the sale of hog products by Germany and other countries by the efforts of the administration, have largely removed the obstacles which have produced fluctuations in that direction. The export of the present year will be large, but it will always be subject to the competition of other countries. When such food products can be purchased cheaper in the United States than elsowhere

the export will be large. That is, when the prices are so low because of the largo supply as not to afford the stockgrower a fair return, tho export will be largo because meat and cattle can be bought cheaper here than elsewhere. The buying is not a question of barter. Tho foreigner does not come hero with his goods and say, "give me meat and bread for these, or I will go to those who will," but he comes here with cash and buys because ho can get better value for his money. These great fluctuations plainly show that "the markets of the world" are not to bo relied upon for those who raise cattle and hogs, because one year they may have a large demand and the. next a small one. The market upon which the farmer must rely chiefly is that of the United States, which is, as the census shows, growing more rapidly than the general increase of population, because cities and: large towns, which contain consumers, are gaining in population much faster than the population which produces these articles of food.

THE MEDICINAL QUALITIES OF GOLD. Although the composition and manufacture of Professor Koch's lymph are kept secret, it is known' that one of its ingredients is a certain preparation of gold. Now comes a New York physician. Dr. White, of the medical board of the Charity Hospital, and says that for some time past he has been using a similar preparation in the treatment of phthisis patients, applying it hypodermically. While he does not claim that his liquid is identical with Professor Koch's lymph, he says that it contains gold, and that its results are very similar to those produced by the Berlin lymph. "Although I do not say that the compounds are identical," says Dr. White, "I do believe the potent influence in each is duo to a powerful inorganic agent. The reason why I believe this is that Professor Koch recommends that his fluid, when prepared for injection should bo iiixed with a solution of carbolic acid.'; Thjs administration would result in a neutralization or very material modification o!f any effects which might be t due to thq presence of an organic ferment." lit will surprise most people to learn that gold;" which the world sweats, bleeds and dies, for, and the love of which has been at the root of so much misery and mischief is also a therapeutic agent of such tremendous potency. But more surprising still it is to learn that these therapeutic;, effects were known as far back as the, seventeenth century, and that pfepara-. tions of it were administered for phthisis, scrofulosis, etc. Afterwards 'gold remedies fell into disuse'pn ac-J count of their expense and abuse, and perhaps, also, because they were thought to savor of alchemy or quackery Bufr at intervals, for more than a hundred'' years past, they have been called to the attention of the medical profession, and their efficacy is no new discovery, Dr. t White says his preparation of gold is a powerful tonic and alterative, and! "seems to have a special direction to an; existing morbid process." We, have-; known it to act that way even'dwheir carried in the pocket. i: BCDTH AMEEICAN TEADE..; 'jfi - 'reft 3' , One of our consuls in Brazil calls at-) tention to the fact that an important factor in the establishment and exten-! sion of trade in that country i long' credits. South American ideas on this' subject are peculiar, and until' itheyx undergo a change it seems to be . necessary to conform to them. At present most of the importing houses in Ufazil, are German, and the terms on ..which Hamburg exporters sell goods to their Brazilian customers are about as follows: The length of time given by an exporter is generally ten months; in purchasing direct from the manufacturer, ? six months. All accounts are dated otf tho first day of the month following thepne in which the purchase is made, if i purchase is made beforo the 15th of !the month; but should the purchase bo made after the 15th of tho month, then thejaccount is dated on the first day of. the second month following the one" in which the purchase was made. This system may add forty-five days tb the ten months' credit given from thordate of the account. To cover the amount of an itemized statement of accoun tithe purchaser executes a negotiable note for the length of time the account ha to run, which the exporter indorses to hia bank and is advanced 75 per cent, of .its face value in cash, after which, when! due, the bank' sends the note to a bank; in Brazil for collection. In many instances the manufacturers take the merchants' acceptances for six months and discount them in bank, using the cash for the purchase of new material. This long credit of ten months gives the South American merchant time to secure returns on the products of tho country, which, practically, are in the market but a few months in the year. No doubt the Germans would prefer shorter credits and a different mode of doing business, but they make a virtue of necessity and conform to South American ideas to get trade. This is one of the great secrets of European supremacy in the trade of South American states. European exporters conform to' South American habits, customs and tastes, instead of trying to make the South American people conform to theirs. Another thing, the consul says American merchants and manufacturers cannot expect to get South American trade without, establishing branch houses or agencies there. Catalogues and price lists do no good, especially if printed in English. European exporters do not depend at all on such methods. They establish agencies to exhibit their goods and push their business. In the province where the consul is located, which is larger than the New England and Middle States combined, he says there are German, British, Portuguese, French and Italian merchants, but not a single American merchant. This is not enterprise. American exporters cannot expect to get foreign trade unless they work for it. Some lines of American goods are highly esteemed in Brazil, but in the absence of any means of pushing them the trade is small. After all. however, the starting-point of the whole business is the establish

ment of regular steamship lines and cheap transportation. Without this ell efforts to extend our trade in South America will fail. At present most of the goods ordered from this country go to European ports and thence to South America. Referring to the importation of cotton goods, the consul says: It is impossible to say how much of the cotton manufactures are properly of United States origin, as 1 am informed by the chief of oue of the largest German houses in this state that, although they handle some American cottons which are forwarded here direct from New York, as a matter of cheapness in freights and expedition in transit they have the greater part to come by way of Hamburg. Cotton goods are therefore shipped from New York to Hamburg and from Hamburg to Rio Grande do Sul for le89 money than from New York direct, and so much of the cotton as comes by the way of Hamburg to this port appears in the statistical department of the cuatoin-house as of German origin, although the same is, in fact, the product of American looms. Certain brands of American unbleached cottous, notably "Indian Heed," are well and favorably known in the market here so well, in fact, that this particular brand has been counterfeited in this state by dealers, who put a stencil imitation of the gennine npon any manufacture of cotton. In duck, sail-cloth and fine bleached cottons manufactures of the United States have an established reputation for good quality. Thus it appears that while some brands of American cotton goods are popular in Brazil, the most of those imported are shipped from New York by

-way of Hamburg to save freights. This shows how American trade is handicapped by the failure of Congress to imitate the policy of other countries in establishing steamship lines under conditions that will insure cheap freights. We boast of our smartness and enterprise, but while we are making Fourth of July orations and hurrahing for the American eagle every nation in Europe is beating us at the game of trade. The truth is Congress has not yet learned the A B C of commercial statesmanship, and never will until it rises above the level of small-beer politics and begins to profit by the example and methods of other nations. Great Britain, Germany, Franco, Belgium, Holland, Italy all European countries pay large subsidies to establish and maintain ocean steamship lines. Why should not the United States do so? TnE Sentinel, defending the last Legislature for not enacting any financial legislation, says: The last Democratic Legislature had an even more important duty to perform than, this the supreme duty of restoring to the people a free and pure ballot, without which no other reform could ever be accomplished. If a free and pure ballot is desirable in Indiana, why is it not desirable in other States, and if tHe enactment of an honest election law was more important .than financial legislation in the Legislature, why is it not equally so in CongressT If it is true, as reported, that "Uncle Dick" Oglesby, of Illinois, has joined the Farmers' Alliance, the best thing the Republicans can do is to support him for United States-Senator. With the vote of the Farmers' Alliance members he could be elected. Uncle Dick is a true and tried Republican, and a warm friend of the. President, and his election would be in every way an improvement over Senator Farwell. There is nothing out of the way in his joining the Farmers' Alliance, as he is a bona 'fide isLTmer. It is announced that the Democratic members of the Massachusetts House will pass a resolution reading James H. Milieu, a labor leader and member of the House for thirteen years, out of the Democratic party because he assailed the record of the Democratic candidate for Governor on the ground that he is the attorney of monopolists and hostile to labor. Mr. Millen's paper, the Labor World, is to be denounced. Mr. Millen seems to be in good luck. i The people who are anxious to have the civil-service-reform rules applied to fourth-class postoffices might recommend Carroll ton, Miss., as a good place for a beginning. Carrollton is the town where the postmaster was killed, last week, because he was a Republican and the "leading citizens" wanted a Democrat. The most practical reform to work in that place would be the abolishment of the postoffice until the natives become a trifle more civilized. When Senator Wolcott, of Colorado, declared that the friends of free silver coinage preferred to wait until such a measure could be made a law rather than pass the finance committee's bill, he admitted, in effect, that the advocates of free coinage are not impressed with the idea that monetary stringency exists in a degree which involves the welfare of the business of the country. A vast amount of alleged intellectual energy is being wasted to prove that Congress has no right to interfere with State election laws. Of course it has not and no one pretends that it has, but it has a right to regulate national elections. A State has nothing to do constitutionally with the election of Congressmen. Senator Wolcott, of Colorado, says "we stand in the presence of a great financial disaster;" therefore he opposes an honest election law. The great financial disaster which Senator Wolcott sees impending is the failure of Congress to enact free silver coinage. He is largely interested in silver mines. It used to be thought that authors and literary people were inclined to stand aloof and look askance at each other, but if this were ever truly the case it is a condition of things rapidly passing away. The writing brethren nowadays fraternize with each other easily and fall in with the tendency of the times and organize into guilds for mutual assistance. The executive committee of the Western Association of Writers extended greeting to the Southern Association of Literary Workers in session at Nashville, and that organization telegraphs back "extending the hand of good fellowship and common brotherhood to the W. A. W." This observance of the amenities of life and the evident disposition to follow the scriptural injunction to love one another suggests that the bridge over the much-talked of "chasm" may be supported in part by ropes woven of poetry and prose. The Cherokees have refused the government offer of 81.25 an acre for the Cherokee Strip and stand out for 2. Inasmuch as the government has purchased the land of them once for a given purpose and has paid them

5300,000 therefor, and the United States Circuit Court has declared that the Cherokees have no legal claim to the land, this demand for $2 per acre is absurd. To avoid any trouble the offer of 31.25 was made, and now that the Cherokee leaders will not accept any terms but their own price, there seems no way except for the government to open the lands for settlement without their permission. The undertaker who was made custodian of the corpse of the man killed by the street-car-driver was very much astonished to find himself denounced by an evening paper for permitting the public to visit his morgue and inspect the remains. After having seen a ghastly picture of the same "stiff" paraded before the publio in the same evening paper the day before, it had

naturally not occurred to him that he was perpetrating a "crime against common decency" by following the example of such a moral engine.. - Young Mr. Jones to Washington-street Employer I should like a leave of absence long enough to do an errand in the neighborhood of the Exposition grounds. Employer (sternly) Heavens and earth, Mr. Jones! What can you mean by asking for a day off in the busy season! If you must go, walk, and don't waste your time on a Pennsylvania-street switch or behind the superannuated Central-avenue mules. It has been ascertained by the records that the father of Governor-elect Boyd, of Nebraska, did not become a citizen until " last year, and consequently that his son, who was but ten years of age when tho family came from Ireland, ir. not a citizen of the United States. The Republicans will undoubtedly take action to4 prevent his inauguration. The latest report from Kansas is to the effect that Simpson, who was elected to the House because he bad no stockings, and is now known as the "sockless statesman," will be made a prominent candidate against Senator In galls, who is one of the bestdressed men in tho country. Ignatius Donnelly, the ShakspeareBacon cipher man, wants to be the Farmers' Alliance candidate for the presidency in 1892. Mr. Donnelly may be surprised to find himself a cipher when that time comes. Tns Indians are learning what white men have already discovered, namely, that a strike is not profitable, much less Two Strikes. BUBBLES IS THE AIR. Journalism. ' Simmons I've got a chance to start a newspaper. 8ome men are willing to back me. Timmlns Which style of paper readable or respectable! , Points In Pride. "Of course we are proud of our city," said the Chicago man. . "Our chief pride Is In our citizens," said the man from Boston, and the discussion was dropped. ' It Dawned on Him. "If you only were in New York," said Miss Flyppe to Cholly, "you would be a central figure in the 400." It was three days three blissful days before it dawned on Cholly's mind that the central figure in 400 is a cipher. Start Right. Touch not the demon beer this year. Nor assimilate the "smile That sends you home befogged and queer In Unconsidered Trifles. A Minnesota farmer named Hollowman has found a seventy-ounce gold nugget on his farm. There Is now nothing to prevent Mr. Hollowman tilling up. It takes more than years and gray hair to make a man venerable. A bad egg does not Improve with age. Does a woman feel complimented or not when she hears herself alluded to as "well preserved!" This is renunciation day. The change from "0" to UV will cause no Inconvenience to the woman who always dates her letters in this style: 'Tuesday eve, 8 p. m." ABOUT PEOPLE AND TfllNGS. Stonewall Jackson's grave in the Lexington (Va.) cemetery is found every day covered with flowers, placed there by unknown hands. The last day on which "The Angelus" can be seen at the Amerioan Art Galleries will be Thursday, Jan. 8. On Saturday, the 10th, it will be shipped to France. John Davis, of Kansas, is the first Socialist to be elected to Congress. He is sixtyfour years old and has twice been au unsuccessful candidate for Representative. King George of Greece is one of the most democratic of rulers. He has a thin and rather elegant figure, a fresh complexion and is bald. He is a fine horseman, but prefers walking to riding. Maurice Thompson is one of those fortunate authors who can seek his own place to do the work, and at present he is comfortably nestled in a flower-covered bower "way down in Mississippi." Vice-president Proctor, of the Singer Sewing-machine Company, is reported to be worth $25,000,000. He sharod the inventor's poverty with him and afterward married his daughter. Singer's original capital was $50. which grew to be $30,000,000. RALpn Ingalls, the second son of the Senator, will finish his course of study at the Columbia Law School next spring and will go into the office of William Evarts in New York city. Ellsworth, the eldest son, who is also a lawyer, prefers to remain in Kansas. Rev. C. H. Lovejoy, who is an aspirant for the chaplaincy of the next Kansas Legislature, once ofl'ered up a prayer of tuch length in the Topeka Legislature that one of its members afterwards declared it to be "the first complete statement of Kansas allairs ever made to the Almighty." Brigh am Young did not possess the fabulous wealth that was credited to him. He left just 1.200,000 when be died, and this sum was divided according to the strictest lawsof equity among eighteen wives and their children. Amelia Folsom, Hrigham'a favorite 6pouse, is still alive, and is a most charming woman. Mr. George Vanderbilt has already expended $100,000 on the foundation and first story of his North Carolina castle. He employs constantly a large force of men, who are at work macadamizing the roads, laying out gardens, planting trees, building artificial lakes aud doing everything possible to beautify the estate. George Bancroft is still seen on Penn sylvania avenue, Washington, pleasant daj'8, his arm in that of a friend or attendant, walking at a good pace and conversing constantly. He has entirely lost his memory of immediate events, dates, etc., and his mind is gradually passing away, as the minds of thousands of other intellectual men have gone before. The Chinese are no more welcome in Java than in many other countries. They introduce the consumption of opium, to the impoverishment ol the poorer clashes. Chinese money-lending also works untold mischief among the poor, who have to pay such high interest that ruin and misery befall most of them when they once take to borrowing, and this results in an increase of crime. It is said that Yale would sanction the establishment of a woman's annex if the money were forthcoming. The first fellowship for a woman has been established at Harvard. The incumbent will be Mica

Alice C. Fletcher, and the fund, which amounts to $.30,000, and is the gift of Mrs. Mary C. Thaw, of Pittsburg, will be used in the furtherance of the Peahody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology. MUa Fletcher is to continue her nhilanthronio

,and scientific work among our Indians. Lady Florence Dixie, during a recent tour in Bavaria, came upon an unvrritten chapter in tho life of "The Mad King Ludwig a romance which befell him dur ingoneof his lonely peregrinations after the chamois in the Bavarian Alps and she has faithfully recorded it with the purpose of showing that, far from beinginaane, the King was a man of high imagination and chivalry. Mrs. Salter, the Mayor of Argonia, Kan., is now administering the allairs of that town for her second official term. She is said to be a nervous-looking and timid lit tie woman, but it must be considered that besides attending to her publio and social duties she has done all her household work, including washing, ironing and cooking for a family of five, and during the past year she has increased her family from five to six. Lord RomscniLD and Lord Randolph Churchill are among the patrons of the Robin Society, an English organization which has two objects to give Christmas treats to poor children and to send the little ones into the country in tho summer. Last year it gave a Christmas breakfast to 5,000 London children and this year it largely increased this number. A Christmas card is placed under each child's plate. The breakfast consists of a large buttered roll, a good-sized currant roll and hot coffee. The buttered roll is consumed on the premises, but the currant one is taken away to be enjoyed subsequently. Said the young man, "Can anything equal my woel I proposed to four girls, and they all answered no " Said his friend, "That is nothing; behold my distress. For I spoke to two, and they both replied ye&. f Washington Pest. RESULTS OF THE NEW TARIFF. It lias Regan to Develop Manufactures an 61 'Create a Greater Demand for Labor. New York Tribune. A few days ago a Western gentleman arrived in this city returning from Europe, having there concluded contracts for tho establishment of a complete mill for tho manufacture of linen goods in a Western State. With ' supplies of raw material abundant and close at hand, which are now going to waste, with improved processes for preparing the tibre for the manufacture, and with ample capital secured, the parties interested in this enterprise expect to bo among the first to take advantage of the new duties on linen products. For three years from Jan. 1 the duty on tho finer manufactures of flax, "counting more than one hundred, threads to the square inch," will be only C5 per cent, ad valorem, as it is now, but the production can by that time bo bo developed and improved,' it is believed, that a largo share of the finer as well as of the coarser linens can then be produced in this country. Thus the new tariff is actually developing manufactures and creating a new and larger demand for labor, notwithstanding the apprehension caused by votes in November. In a recent issue the Pittsburg Commercial-Gazette gave detailed information of seven companies or establishments which have undertaken the manufacture of tinplates. A plant for 2,500 boxes per week: is to.be established in Brooklyn, two are going on with the work at Pittsburg, one at St. Louis and one at Chicago have placed orders for the machinery to begin the manufacture, one at Cleveland will begin the manufacture at a new mill to be in operation cejt month, and one other at Chicago has already turned out some tin-plates from a small factory and expects to have a large establishment at work: in the spring. All of this is only a beginning, it is true, but as soon as the manufacture has been begun with success tbcr6 will be domestio producers entering tho field in great number. The general secretary of ithe Tin-plate-workers' Association in Wales, Mr. Phillips, recently stated that 280 mills, costing S4.500.000, were engaged in making the 6.000,000 boxes now sent yearly to this country. The establishment here of works having half that capacity would be a great benefit to the United States, and at least a third of the tin-plata consumed in this country must be produced here within six years, or the duty wilit by the .terms of the McKinley act, be removed. These are illustrations of the benefits which are already being conferred by two sections of the new tariff that have not yet gone into full effect. The duty on tinplates has not been changed at ail as yet, and will not bo until July 1, and tho duty on finer linens will not be changed for three years, and yet theso provisions of the law are causing the establishment of important works already. It might have been supposed that the votes in November, if deemed reason for refusing to put up new works under any provisions of the new act, would with peculiar force deter men from acting in the hope that provisions would be maintained which are not to go into ef- . feet for some years. But level-headed business men evidently have a ditlerent idea of the political prospects from those entertained by free-trade rainbow-chasers. If such results as have been mentioned already follow these provisions of the new act, it may be inferred that the others which have already gone into full effect are producing a development of manufacturers in many direction. Aud this is the fact. In a recent glance through the trade papers received in a single week mention was observed of no less than fifty new works in progress, or about to open, including some of large importance. In addition, many establishments which have been idle for a long time have gone into active operation again, particularly in the woolen manufacture. The people who made haste to pronounce the McKinley act dead, or about to be repealed, may as well wait a littln to sea what the country thinks of its actual workin cs. The Rottom Truth About the Indian Policy. Atlanta Constitution. At a recent dinner in Brooklyn General Sherman madeaspeeeb in which he touched on the Indian question, and gave utterance to some very sensible views. He declared with emphasis that no Indian policy can be successful which does not tend to make the red men self-supporting. "Tho Indians," he said, "must either work or disappear." And that is an elemental truth which the government ought to havo discovered long ago. Here's Defiance. Charleston News and Courier. It may be true, as the Journal says, that the Hill men are whetting their knives for (Jrover Cleveland, but it is undoubtedly true that when the national Democratio convention meets Mr. Cleveland can aflord to ao without the vote of New York State. The time has gone by, let us hope, when the trading politicians of New ork can dictate to the national Democracy what candidates it shall select and what policy it shall pursue. Opposed to Law on Principle. Boston Journii. The Georgia Legislature has adopted a resolution calling for the release of internal revenue prisoners. This encouragement of lawlessness on the part of a law-making body is unique. The South appears to desire to be "let alone" in the matter of illegal whisky, as well as in that of election frauds. FarireU' MUtalte. Philsdelrhis It. The enthusiastic appreciation of President Harrison manifested in Chicago sincd the chief magistrate signed the world's fair E roc lain at ion makes Senator Farwell wish e had thought a few score times before he spoke once. Another Point fur Rellatnyltra. Chicago PotL Tramps will avoid Evanston next summer if the co-operative kitchen is still in operation. The knights of the road will never put up with a central food otlice. The Preferable Method. Toledo Commercial. Catching the Chicago bankrobbers shows it is better for a bank to be robbed from tho outside than the inside. A better chance to get back the boodle.

Hypnotized Mugwumps. If irwsukee Sentlnr t It is easy to necr at the thing called hypnotism, but I if the adoration of Mr. Cleveland by the mugwumps is not hy notism, what is it! ' ... J