Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 October 1893 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1893,

THE DAILY JOURNAL WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 4. 1803. WASHINGTON OFFICE 515 FourWnthSt. Telephone Cant. Ecsire Pt Office 33 Editorial Ilooras C42 TElt-MS OF IIJSCIUITION. DAILY LY UAH. rally cnlr, "re mcnth $ .70 J;aJly -xily, three months 2.00 pally cnl v, ot.c year M.00 lally, intlu.Uns Suilay, ono year 10.00 fc uluu j one jt-ar 100 whlx itrm;iied st agests, Patty. Jr ireek, Ly carrier ....IS eta Monday, Mr.gle copy Sets lJalJy aud bumiay, per week, by carrier 20 ct welkly. Icr year $1.00 Jledcced Itates to Clubs. Fr.tFcrll.c with any ol our numerous agents or send rulfrcilpt'.ons to tutj JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY lDlANAI'OLI3, ITX rr Trees nenrticjr the Journal throneh th3 malls la OeUiilter". Mate should put on au .el icit.p:ic paper C5fc-i?..NT postage rtamr; on atweire orftix.ts.3a(af e paper a two-cent postage stamp. 1'orelgn post, tt In usually iloi;Lle tLei rates. All communications intended for publication in 0.1$ paper must, in order to recti te attention, be cevvpcmcd by the name and address of Hit vcritcr, . TUL INDIANAPOLIS JOUltNAL. Can le found at tho following place: 1A li IS American KxcLane in Paris, 3C Boulevard de Cspuclues. SEW YUKK-GUsey House and Wladsor IIoteL riltLADELPIIIA-A. P. Kemble, 3733 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI J. R.IIawley A Co., 151 Vine street. J-OUISVILLE-a T. Dferlng, nortnwcot corner of ILiril and Jefferson t nee ts. BT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot .Washington, d. c-Tmcgs Houso and edwu The Sullivan administration began with a salary fjrab and it has been grabbing ever since. The wholesale dispensing of beer to yotera before election is bribery. In fiomo States it is bo specified. Judge 3u&kii:k sentences a good many w.omen to the workhouse, but ho does not release nny. They cannot vote. ' The Brazilians mako war as they do every thing else, in a very languid manlier. They are too lazy to got very mad. The laws against Sunday opening aro tho laws of Indiana. Why docs Mayor Sullivan grant immunity to violators? The spectacle of n Mayor appearing regularly to mako briof speeches whero free beer drinking follows is a humiliating one. . Theke is but ono step lower that tho Mayor can take in the beer-drinking assemblies which ho attends, and that is to do the "jerking." Again.wo ask, can anybody toll why tho receipts from dog licenses, which wero $3,013.50 four years ago, were only $2,370.50 last year? Da thoy stick to Eomobody's finger! The station house, to run which cost 63,301. four years ago and $4,043 last year, is estimated at $5,400 next year. It is probably intended to put a few more tax-eaters on tho pny roll. ' "Every law prohibiting gambling houses and brothels is indorsed and sanctioned by the legislation of two generations in Indiana. Why does Mayor Sullivan nullify those laws? At atimo when the wages and incomes of all wage-workers and business men are being true down why should the Sullivan administration and tho Democrat ic Council Increase tho salaries of the commissioners of public works $500 each and that of tho controller $1,0001 The Populist lenders in Kansas and other States aro talking loudly of having transportation facilities which will tako their products down tho Mississippi and to Copenhagen for n market because they aro laboring under tho conviction that silver is legnl-tendermoney in Sweden. There aro times when tho professional Populist might safely pass as an imbecile. It has been discovered that tho judges of tho ring in tho Kings county (Brooklyn) courts, in New York, have accepted $220,000 from tho prize-fighters as tho price of immunity in the International slugging match. A number of excellent papers seem to think that it is a dreadful thin?, nnd so it U; but it is no worse than what tho Sullivan ring has done in making its deal with tho gamblers and dlvo keepers. In an editorial on "Cloture in tho Senate" tho Chicago Times Buys; "Tom Denton insisted upon practical cloture against Webstor and others. Benton desired to have passed through the Senate a resolution expunging remarks derogatory to President Harrison." It was not "remarks" that Benton sought to have expunged from tho rocord, but n resolution which had been adopted condemning, not Harrison, but Jackson. It will be a matter of indifference whether tho so-called bimetallic convention at St. Louis declares for a commercial union between tho South and

the States west of tho Missouri liver, or refrains from such an absurdity. Every intelligent man knows all about those bitnctnllists that they aro either inter ested in silver mines or are the dupes of their owners, and that, bo far as tho Eouth is concerned, they are men who have not got beyond tho fiat-money heresy. Two years ago Mayor Sullivan was protesting against the Coy gang and making promises to taxpayers that if they would veto for him ho would crush the Coy crowd, and thousands, bclioving that ho was hostilo to tho Coy clement,

did vote for him. Now the Coy gang aro his best workers, and he makes no pledge to taxpayers. Tho Mayor has deserted tho friends of good government who supported him, and it is now evident that they will not ratify his deal with gamblers and divo keepers by voting for him next Tuesday. Demochats who are not closely connected with the Sullivan-Buskirk ring aro going about among tho Urge nam ber of Democrats who aro wearied with high taxes, nonenforcemcnt of the laws and tho dicker with the gamblers and divo keepers, urging them to vote for Sullivan in order to preserve Democratic ascendency in tho county next ... ..... 2

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Chairman Tafart aro chiefly responsible for tho wrotched policy of Sullivan, it may bo possible that tho argument may not bo valid. Tho fact is that the Mayor has abandoned the decent men of his party. Instead of going to them and explaining why ho has caused tho appropriations for police and fire pay rolls to bo increased largely, why tho largo number of inspectors is kept up, and why the official expenses of the present year will bo 70 per cent, higher than in 1SS0, ho goes to audiences which aro called together by the promise of free beer and makes n few vapid remarks introductory to general drinking of beer purchased by his managers. THE OLD SOUTH TO THE P0EE. Thereport of tho minority of tho Houso committeo on elections upon tho bill to repeal all tho federal election laws.signod by the Republican members, is a document which should bo widely circulated. It gives every section of the election laws which tho Democratic majority proposes to repeal. These aro followed by an argument which shows conclusively that Congress has, under the Constitution, full power to prescribo "the times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators nod Representa tives," nnd by extracts from Madison's notes of the constitutional convention, opinions of constitutional authorities and the Supremo Court csscrtiDg such power. Tho necessity of federal supervision of tho election of members of the Houso is proved by referring to tho methods of conducting elections and of appointing election officers in soveral States. After quoting from an editorial of tho Now Orleans Times-Democrat sotting forth the general prosperity of tho South and warning Southern men not to adopt a policy which will revive old issues, the Republican minority closes with the following patriotic and eloquent appeal to tho majority: At this boar of the Nation's peril, when tho laborer, no loDger "workworn," is nnxlonely searching, not for au inoreasa of wages or an opportunity to better a condi tion until recently enjoyed, but fairly begging for a chance to earn a bare living; when capital is nervously seeking, not for new ventures or profitable employment, butto escapeirapending disaster at sach a time to hurl the brand of partisan discus sion into this, which should boa careful, intelligent, conscientious and patriotic ex amination of serions financial and economio conditions by a great legislative body, is an occasion for profound regret. Ibis discussion will light up no torses, will operate no mines, will set no spindles in motion, will bring neither food, raiment nor hope to the needy. Onr people all over this broad land are now heroically, with their whole strength, and with a judgment and temper truly commendable, as well as remarkable, battling with evils which are npon them; in this condition to place upon them this additionul burden Is, in the judgment of. the minority, not only ill-ad vised, bnt entirely without justification. We earnestly protest against it, The re sponsibility of precipitating this present struggle upon the country is with tho ma jority, and them alone. Already the independent press and tho raoro conservative Democratic papers, like tho New York Times, tho New York World and tho Louisvillo CourierJournal, have warned the Democrats in Congress of tho danger of thrusting this question to tho front at tho present time. But in vain; tho South cannot wait, nnd others who have found tho presence of ono Republican and ono Democratic supervisor nt each voting place, repretenting tho federal authority, an obstcclo to ballot-box frauds, aro demanding tho repeal of a law which has been invoked by both parties, and against tho execution of which, during tholast election, not even tho Democrats have protested. Already Mr. Tucker, tho Democratic leader in this repeal movement in the Ilouse, has taken tho ground that Congress has no right to supervise elections at which Representatives to legislato for tho whole country are chosen, but that it is the sole right of tho State to conduct its elections of national lawmakers as it pleases. The discussion has begun, and, ns it goes on, tho country will be aroused and n bitterness will follow which is to bo deprecated nt any time, but at tho present is deplorable. LAW AND ORDER AQAIK8T OAHQ RULE, The present municipal campaign has not been a long one, but it has been long enough to develop the fact that in Eomo very material respects it diners from any previous one. It is peculiar in that there is no general politics in it. Some attempt has been mado by tho supporters of Mayor Sullivan to divert attention from tho real issues of tho campaign by introducing general poli tics and trying to rouso party feeling by showing what on important bearing tho election would have on State nnd na tional elections, but tho attempt has not succeeded. Tho campaign opened on municipal lines, nnd it will close on municipal lines. It is to bo hoped all future city elections may bo conducted on tho samo plan. Whatever tho result of tho prrsent one may be, it augurs well for tho city that its affairs aro be ing gradually divorced from general nnlifiro n n il tli.it. thn nnnnlft nn coming to regard city elections and city interests apart from those of the Stato and Nation. If that idea once becomes thoroughly grounded in the people's mind tho city will bo greatly the gainer by it, for It must lead eventually to tho union of all good citizens, irrespective of party, in favor of good government. The tendency in that direction is moro pronounced at present than at any pre vious time. The issuo has been forced upon the peoplo in such a way that it could not bo avoided. Tho open nnd disgraceful alliance between tho Sulli van administration and the cr niinal classes, tho shameless prostitution of justice in tho interest of n corrupt ring, and the unblushing manner in which permits to violate tho law nro issued in return for political support havo forced in6re party questions to the rear and compelled decent men of all parties to recognize the necessity of uniting in favor of reform. These can always carry an election when they are determined to do so, but they must not suppoio they are going to have an easy victory. On the contrary they will have to fight hard for it. Let them learn from the enemy. Seo how terribly in earnesttho Sullivan forces are. It Is a motley crew, and they aro fighting for their lives. Tho Mayor himsolf heads tho guug with the city

charter in ono hand and blank permits for gambling houses and saloons to violate tho law in tho other. Then come his various boards and heads of departments with their long list of salaried subordinates, deputies, assistants, inspectors, clerks ond ringsters, big nnd little. The police judge, who dispenses justice with n string to it, properly heads a battalion of discharged workhouso convicts. Tho gamblers and other protected industries furnish a largo contingent, and an army of taxeaters and venal voters who can bo bought with a glass of beer bring up tho rear. This crowd is going to die hard. Its leaders have plenty of money and they will use it unscrupulously and effectively. If the friends of law and order and of good government and re

form expect to win they must bo up and doing. They must not only vqto them pelves, but they must exert themselves to induco others to vote. In short, if they expect to succeed they must show something of tho earnestness that tho members and supporters of tho Sullivan gang aro showing. THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AKD FOREIGNERS. Tho Sentinel attempts to identify the Republican party with the A. P. A. movement, cud says, "overy fight that has been rnado in this country for religious freedom and for tho rights of foreign-born citizens has been made by the Democratic party." The Journal knows nothing about the A. P. A. beyond what pome of its mem bers have mado public. Wo do not know to what extont it is political, re ligious, partisan, philosophical, theosophicnl, esthetic or esoteric, but if it is making war secretly or openly against tho corrnpt combino of Sullivanism, Coyism, Buskirkism ond Tronism, which is trying to control this city, wo wish it success in that most praiseworthy undertaking. The claim that bur foreign-born citizens owe everything to tho Demo cratic party is without foundation. Tho Democratic party, during tho greater part of its existence, supported slavery, which was tho deadly foo of freo labor. Itopposedthehomestcad and exemption laws, which were of incstimablo value to foreign immigrants. Tho old Knownothing movement was strongest in Democratic States. In 1853 Mr. Fill mure, the "American" candidate ) for President, received 873,055 votes of which 470,405 were cast in tho fifteen slave States. In tho samo year tho satno party elected two Senators, one from Kentucky and ono from Maryland, and twenty-threo Representatives, all from Southern States. Foreigners were never welcomo in tho South. In 1855 tho ab sence of naturalized citizens in those States was universal, nnd as Into as 1631 the proportion of foreign-born population in tho Southern States, with tho exception of Florida, Louisiana and Texas, was less than 2 per cent. Even now tho suffrago laws of most of tho Southern States nro moro stringent against foreigners than nro thdso of tho Northern States. Mississippi and Ken tucky reqniro full naturalization and a residence of two years boforo a foreigner can vote. Every other Southern State requires a residence of ono year, and most of them full citizenship, whereas tho general rulo in the North is six months residence and declared intentions of citizonship. The claim that tho Democratic party is or ever has been in any large or honest eenso tho friend of foreigners is false. THE AIM 0? THE CITY CHARTER. it Speaking to some friends, u fow dnya since, Mr. Denny, tho Republican cr.ndidatofor Mayor, said that "tho aim of those who put forth their energies to securo tho present, city charter was to insure to Indianapolis a business administration of its affairs which was not possiblo under tho. old system." It is this sort of an administration which Mr. Denny is pledged to givo to the people of Indianapolis. It is just tho reverse of a business administration which tho Sullivan ring is forcing upon the city.. There is no business in it except a few matters which tho disgusted controller has undertaken and failed in because ho has not been supported. During tho past year tho city government has been used exclusively to promote tho interests of tho Sullivan tax-eaters. That there might bo a check upon partisanship, the charter provides that ono member of nil the boards shall bo selected from a party other than that of tho Mayor. Tho object of this provision was to secure tho appointment of nonpartisan boards nnd nonpartisan subordinates. To-day tho Board of Public Safety is made up of men who worked in tho interest of tho samo party in tho election of last November. For at least a year everything has been dono in tho city offices to promote tho interests of Mr. Sullivan and his subordinates. Before the primaries tho street force was doubled to promoto tho dofeat of Mr. Downing. To-day there sire scores of men in tho employ of tho city simply to insuro their services in tho Sullivan campaign. But for tho employment of such henchmen ns inspectors, it would not havo been necessary for tho city to havo had its debt increased over $100,000 the past year. Tho revelation concerning tho city engineer's offico lets a flood of light upon the methods of tho Sullivan tax-eaters. There are twelve inspectors employed, and one of them is a man who, four weeks ago, was declarinjrthat ho would vote tho Republican ticket. Ho has been bribed, and tho purchasemoney is paid out of tho city treasury. No business man doubts that two or three active and intelligent men could do tho city better service than the twelve. It is but a sample. The pay roll of tho lire force is over an eighth' more this year than last, ami that of tho police nearly a tilth more, for no other purpose than to support worthless henchmen at the public expense. The efficient firemen and policemen will, havo just as much work to do now aa last year. Thus the Sullivan ring have practically nullified tho most essential featuro of the city charter tho nbolition of partisan tax-eatiug. Under

tho nerveless Sullivan tho energies of the employees of the city government are devoted to tho doable pnrposo of electing Sullivan and to billeting subservient tax-caters upon tho city treasury.

HOSTILITY OF SOUTHERN SENATORS TO THE PRESIDENT. While tha-letter of tho President to Governor Northen, of Georgia, was very satisfactory to the men of both parties who believe there is financial danger in not limiting tho expansion of silver money, itt has been mado the occasion of much hostilo expression by Democratic Senators in the South, who furnish tho majority of tho free-coinage votes. They appear to havo been deluding themsolves with tho idea that, after the repeal of tho Sherman purchaso act, tho President would agree to some plan by which there would be an unlimited expansion of silver money. Since the pub lication of that letter. Southern Democratic Senators have broken their silence. Until its publication, those Senators had agreed not to filibuster against a vote on the Sherman repeal bill, but now they have given notice that they will fall into the ranks of tho obstructionists, undor Wolcott and the silver State Senators. It is said upon good authority that several Southern Senators, who felt that they wero compromised by tho President's vigoious letter, havo been to him to protost, and that tho interviews havo been anything but harmonizing. They told him that his letter had forced out of his friendship and tho support of tho repeal bill the Senators whoso votes ho needed. In reply the President pounded his desk and declared that the letter was mado necessary in order that his position might bo understood. Southern Democratic papers, alarmed at tho growth of the demand for an expansion of tho currency, havo adopted u less friendly tone toward the President. To further complicate matters, Senator Wolcott has offered an amendment to tho repeal bill which provides for tho refunding of the war tax on' cotton, aggregating about $75,000,000. If a vote should bo reached upon this proposition overy Southern Democrat must vote for it. Such is tho situation to-day. No ono knows when a vote can be reached on tho Sherman repeal bill, and no one can tell how Democratic Senators who were counted for repeal two weeks ago will vote now. The Southern Democrats are merely drifting away from sound money and into opposition to tho President. In the Houso on Monday, Mr. Donsou, of Alabama, told the Democrats who had voted for tho Sherman repeal bill that "they ought to go over to tho Republicans." It is no wonder, then, that leading Democrats aro very gloomy over tho Democratic outlook. If the people propose to eleot Denny it would b6 well to increase the tax rates, but with onr present economical city government such an increase of tho burdens of the ptople is unnecessary. Sentinel. "Our present economical city government' costs the peoplo $230, 748.G9 more than that of four years ago. In the last fouryears it has increased tho salary list of city officials from $27,413 to $ 17,710; tho cost of the city engineer's offico from S3.50G to $10,020; flro department pay rolls from $04,800 to $100,179; firo department accounts from $13,950 to $20,11G; tho police force from $01,201 to $SC,SSC, and soon. Thero has been no attempt at or pretenso ofeconony in any department of tho city government. Tho expenses last year were much larger than ever before, and tho estimates for next year are much larger still. The call of tho alleged bimetallist convention at St. Louis begins with the very stale end feeble drivel about the subserviency of tho Eastern press to the money power. Just now tho Eastern press opposed to n. depreciated currency extends in the Northern States to tho Missouri river. The press is in favor of sound money and opposed to silver monometallism simply because it is sensible. This constant roitoration of the assertion that the press has been subsidized to sustain sound money has long ago ceased to be Ifelieved by any. man of ordinary sense. The ministers of tho city did well to depart from their customary programme at their Monday meeting and to discuss municipal nfiair?. It is not a question of politics with good citizens now; it is a question of morals and decency, and these certainly como within tho province of tho religious guides of the community. The moral sense of every self-re-pecting man and woman is shocked by tho manner in which tho Sullivan campaign is being conducted, and the ministers could not well avoid an expression of righteous condemnation. If any mother is moved to inquire "Where is my wandering boy to-night?'1 she need not depend upon echo for nnswer. Thero is a strong possibility that ho is being entertained in ono of the gambling dives so obligingly kept open by Mr. Sullivan's administration. A rillLATELIST magszine oilers tho interesting information that raro postage stamps are tho safest thing to invest money in right now. "Durina the financial depression through which this country has just passed," it says, "stocks and bonds were sacrificed without mercy, but not 60 with stamps. Prices have kept up and the stamp dealers report that business has been remarkably good, which is more than can be said for many other lines of business' At a time when capitalists are at a loss to know what to do with their money they oucl.'t to be glad to leirn of this eorno'arativeiy undeveloped held of speculation. Thero is certainly a chance to buy to advantace nnd to hold prices up. As to the chaocs to sell at hizb prices tho outlook is still a little olondy. To tlirt IMitor of tho Ind'.&nuuoli Journal; To nettle a dUptite, pleaso cive tho history of the banana: how it trrows and nature of plant J. n. t The banana Is a plant common to tha tropics of both hemispheres, and' grows from a bulbous root which sends a serieiof green leaves several feat in length which partly enfold each other, formlns a track, eight or ten inches thick, composed of leaf terns. At the end of a few mouths a deep purple bud appears In the centerof the leaves, works its way op until it pushes beyond the loaves and develops Into blonozns and fruit. Th; ?' or lour months are re-

quired to ripen tho fruit which, from the weight of the bunches, droops orer and ban its low on the plant before that time. As soon as the fruit is fathered tho rootstoctc sends up new leaves and also o&shoots.f rom which frnit may bo produced. The height of the banana plant varies in different countries from five to fifteen feet. Rkal estate owners in Chicago are beginning to wonder what tho effect on rents will be of throwing on tho market the

great number of buildings in tho vicinity of Jackson Park that will be vacated when the fair closes. It is estimated that the hotels and apartment houses near the grounds, and constructed primarily for the accommodation of transient visitors,contain accommodations for fifty thousand people. At tho close of the fair all of this property will be thrown on the market for lease, either as hotels or apartment houses. As a result, real estate agents anticipate a considerable movement of population in that direction, and a sensible decrease of rents, at least for a season. A movement, lately inaugurated by the Board nt Education of Philadelphia. i of interest to those interested ln-pulllo eeucois, no matter where located, 'f Lis movement looks to the abolishment of atatctl examinations In the public tchoola and the promotion of the pupil upon the average obtained during the school year. Cln cicnatl Tribune. The movement was not "inaugurated" by the Board of Education of Philadelphia. Tho practice has been in force in the schools of this city for some years. HUDDLES IX Till: . AIR. This Queer World. This world is but a paradox, And plainly does this show In the fact that the surest "coming man Is the man with lots of go. Valuable finality. "Grit," remarked the farmer to his son, "is a mighty good thing to have." "Yes," chipped in the grindstone, "It has caused you to serve me many a good turn." Certainly. "When we own the railroads," said tho orator, "a man can go from New York to San Francisco for the same rate that he will pay to go twenty miles." "In that case," said the idiot, who had dropped in, "we will all fare alike." Vigilant and Valkyrie. v Watts I do hope the Vigilant will win that yacht race. Potts I didn't know your patriotism went that far. Watts It doesn't. It's because I know how to pronounce Vigilant, and I don't the other one. x AIIOUT PEOPLE AXD THINGS. Editor Jones, of the New Hartford, Conn., Tribune, recently skipped a weekly issue of hi3 paper and took his entire staff to the world's fair at his own expense. Mrs. Cornythe, who lives at New Britain, in the Bismarck archipelago, is one of the greatest traders in the South seas. She is half American and half Samoan, her father being a former American consul and her motheY a native woman. She i3 said to be worth over J1,000,(K. The late Lord Calthorpe left $3,000 to his cool: and only $1,000 to his chaplain, which Impels an Eastern paper to remark that the amounts of the legacies were probably in proportion to the amount of consolation his Lordship had received from those two . retainers, respectively. George. B. McClellan, who is in the field for the Democratic nomination for Secretary cf State of New York, is a son of the frreat general of that name, lie is described -as being a young man of sound ideas -and large head, which, however. Is hot at all swollen by his pride of ancestry or by his prominence in politics. Americans are said to have the poorest teeth of any people In' the world. It Is said the more brain work a person has the wore e his teeth become. The same result Is attained by lack of proper nourishment, and it Is said by a well-known dentist that fifty years hence, among the very poor classes, everybody will be toothless at the age of twenty. Count De Casa Miranda, the husband of Christine Nllsson, the singer, is much older than his wife, and is said to be correspondingly jealous. He occupies a prominent government position in Spain, and is often forced to be away from home. On such occasions he leaves his daughter by a former wife to look after things, and pee that tho Countess does not flirt. with the young cavaliers of iladrid, a precaution which is entirely needless from all accounts. The Maharajah of Mysore has decided. If possible, to put an end to marriages between children, or rather Infants, in his kingdom. IJe issued an edict recently forbidding girls under eight years and boys under fourteen to marry. In the future no rann aged fifty or more dare wed a girl under fourteen. Tho edict has aroused much opposition in Mysore, but the ruler is said to be an energetic man, nnd capab e of. executing regulations which he is pleas?d to promulgate. Harriet Hosmer's heroic statue of Queen Isabella, which will stand In the club room of the Isabella Society of Chicago, Is expected to arrive this week. When It has been placed in position a reception will be tendered to the sculptor by the club. The Isabella Club was formed about five years ago, when it seemed that the Columbian year would be devoted solely to celebrating the achievements of Columbus, and that Isabella, who made them possible, was to be ignored. Its object was to erect a lasting memorial to her in Chicago. Louisville's great editor, George D. Prentice, has been so much the subject of newspaper reminiscence that almost as many apocryphal stories are now told about him as about Lincoln. In showing forth the falsity of some of these fairy tales the Louisville Courier-Journal says: "Up to three weeks before his death Mr. Prentice was an active and constant worker on the Courier-Journal, receiving a salary ten times more than he spent or was required to supply hi3 want3. Thero was no elevator for him to refuse or den for him to inhabit. He selected his own apartment, the most doirabl" room in. the CourierJournal building, which was then on Jefferson street, and he could not be induced by his family to leave it and make his home with them. His relations with Mr. Haldcman and Mr. Watterson were cordial and unreserved to the last." O won't thera ba a reckonln when the Congressmen come home When the Congressmen come home, come home! Won't they say they've been misquoted When we ask them how they voted When the Congressmen come home, come home! O won't there be a reckonln when the Congressmen come homWhen the Congressmen come home, come home! O It3 goin to surprise 'em When the people catechise 'cir When the Congressmen come home, come home! Atlanta Constitution. SlIUEDS AXD PATCHES. Fishing for compliments is r.ot a bit better than fishine on Sunday. Itam's Horn. Will some one kindly apply tho air brake to the senatorial train of thought? Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph. Peaches and cream are plentiful, but sugar is scarce. There Is always something wrong. Chicago Tribune. It is fortunate tliat the President had two rings in which to give his "wild horse" performance. Washington Post. It is a great pity that the Senators cannot save their rhetoric and write pieces for the magazines with it. Washington . Star. The President may think he has a hard Job managing Congress, but wait until those two girls grow up. Columbian Ledger. Uncle Sam's cash account for the month of September Indicates that he has been playing an inferior grade of racing tips. Washington Post. There Is no need to revile the Senate. It hi the leadership of Voorhees that taxes patience to resentment. It is his failure to force a vote that paralyzes business reI co very, It is a divided and Incapable De

mocracy that brings the United States Senate into public odium. Chicago Journal. The deaf and dumb man who presents himself as a candidate for the United States Senate will be turr.ultuously elected. New York Commercial Advertiser. Women are very far-seeing and thoughtful. When thy ore telegraphed to come, that some ono i3 sick, they always take a black dress with them. Atchison Globe. The American Sabbath 13 a blessing In many ways, not the least of which la "the fact that the American Congress is r.ot in session on that day. Minneapolis Tribune. The charge that Mr. Cleveland treat3 his Cabinet merely as clerks Is not altogether discreditable to him, when the personnel of the CaWnct Is taken into consideration.

ivansas city journal. Dan Voorhee3 says that he is chairman of the finance committee "by the providence of God and the kindness of the people of Indiana," and falls to see why anybody should smile, New York Recorder. Smoking by women is not a crying cvlh It is not a vice against which society needs to rise up in alarm. Instead of using tobacco more eenerallv. women .ira USini? it lfJS 11tl,J.p thA lin which they enjoy at present. Mrs. Lynton'S aSSaiilt on thf "n.l.rn wnm-jn" f unjustifiable. The modern woman is both a more beautiful and a more sensible creature man me woman or the past. i;nrlpr the llhertv tn xvhlph Mrs: T.vntnn nh. jects she Is developing in all graces, moral &UU. t . SOCIETY ltKPL'DIATES UEH, And Mrs. Dcncou, Whose Ilutb&ud Shot Abeille, Forsakes Taris. rhU&aelvMs T:ersph. The French line steamship La Bretaffns arrived from Havre yesterday. Ono of her pasaenccrs was Mrs. Florence Baldwin, as the divorced wile of Edward Parker Deaoon is now known. It is her liret visit to this country since the tragedy at Cannes in Febrc&ry. lts'.rj, when Mr. Deacon shot her lover, htmle Abeille, dead in her bedroom in tbe Hotel, bpleudide. She was met ut the pier by her brother. Charles A. Bald win, of California, and takeu to tho Brevoort Ilouse. where she shut heriolf in her rooms and refused to see any one. t-he brought with her her yoancest child, Dorothy Evelyn Deacon, now a little more than two years old. She is tbo only one of the four left to her mother's care by tbe terms of the settlement made in Paris last February. After Mr. Deacon's trial and bis imprisonment three suits for divorce were instituted ono in 1'uris by Mrs. Deacon, and one in Paris and one in Mew York by her hntfbund. Her euit was tried lirst nnd resulted in a verdict against her. Then he consented to a settlement. Tbecondi tiocs agreed on were that tbe father should h'ivo control of the threo elder children; that tbe charges of eraelty brought against him by her should be acknowjeded to be false; that she should resume her maiden name: and that she should forfeit all claims on her husband for support. It is supposed that Mrs. Baldwin will go to the home of her brother m California. He has stood by her through good and bad report, although he said at the time of the shooting that he aid not blame his brother-in-law. Mr. Deacon returned to America last March, bringing with him the eldest child. Uladys. who was abducted by ber mother from the convent in which her father had placed her, ponding trial of the hrat suit. The other children were sent here late in lbtC, and were taken care of by their maternal grandmother at the Buckingham Hotel. Mr. Deacon took the three children to Newport a few days later, and they have spent tha summer there. The rumor of a reconciliation between' Deacon and his wife was denied absolutely by an intimate friend of both pArtiea yesterday. "Deacon." said hi, "in bis second suit named other men us corenpondonis besides the dead Abeille, among them 1'rioco de Poix. Comte do Koahetouoautd and enatorKeuuult. H is eatished now with the custody of his three children. Mrs. Deacon's hrstquestion after the shooting. 'Will this aliect my social standing in FarisT' has been answer a in the alii rm stive, and she probably tin da no satisfaction in liviug: abroad now." Mrs. Baldwin is a strikingly handsome and olevr woman. Sao is the daughter of the lata Admiral Charles A. Baldwin, U. 3. N.. and was little more than a school girl when she was married, in 1SH. Mr. Deacon's mother was one of Boston's prettiest women, the daughter of old Peter Parker, at one time the richest man in Row England. Both families are long-time Newport cottazers. and it was there that the young people met. They went to live in Paris, only coming to America for tho Newport season. Tboy wore received by the highest society in France aud lived luxuriously on their combined incomes. Mrs. Deacon met Abeille, who was a notable figure in the fashionable world, in l?o3, and their friendship soon became a matter of gossip. Mr. Deacon forhade his wile to receive him. She obeyed for a while, but Deaeon found Abeille in May, 18!)1, in his wife's room behind a curtain. He began preparations for a divorce, but his wife succeeded in placating him. Desctte her promises, she beaan to meet Abeille again in the early part of 1832. and his death at her husband's hands followed Feb. 17. Deaoon was arrested next morning and tried in Nice 11 .-Vv 20, He was sentenced to one year's impaisonment for manslaughter, but was pardoned by President Carnot Sept. 21 Then followed suit and countersuit until the agreement of last February. The Fallacy of Cheap Money. David A. Wells, in the October Forum. The advocates of tho extended usoof silver as currency plant themselves also on what they regard as a fundamental principle, namely, that it is desirablo to havo cheap money, but as a matter of fact, no commodity money (and all true money is a commodity), be it gold, silver, copper, iron, cattle or cabbages, can be relatively cheaper than another kind. Tho value of each (if not a token or representative currency, and mintina is free) will depend npon tbe amount of labor embodied in it, or that will be required to purchase it; and no legislation can give it any other value. If statute could make one metal or other commodity eqaal in valne to another, tha State that ilrct availed itself of the opportunity would acquire boundless riobes. and the dream of the alchemists wonld bo realized. If it requires 5500.0CO.OOO to supply an exclusively gold currency for tbe United States, ana silver is depreciated to W per cent, in value in comparison with gold, it will reqniro $1.0CK),CO000 in silver to perform the samo money work as gold; and it will require the same amount of commodities, or embodied labor, to buy the exclusively gold currency that it will to buy the exclusively silver currency. A man who advocates the free coinage of silver for the pnrooee of obtaining ch?ap monoy. means, if he has any clar idea of what he is talking abont, a depreciated dollar; which, if left without any provision for redemption in gold, would be worth just what the bullion contained in it would buy in tho open market, but which invested with legal tender ability becomes an instrument of rasoslity for the scaling of all obligations of indebtednees. wages, bonds. avingsbank deposits, insurances, trust payments, pensions and tho like. 1-qual Kaflrake n New Zealand. 2Iew York Index ndent. A great victr-y for female suffrage is reported from Now Zealand. The eleotoralicform bill has been passed, which confer! the right of franchise upon women, and the cleotion of next December will be hel4 npon tho new sullragc Thus, for the liraV tirn. in the year ls&tf. a portion of the British empire will be governed by tbe equal votes of men and women. The bill rassed throaah the lower and upper honsa with no noise, and in fact its pssssge was a snrcrise to the liboral party wbich proposed It. The population of New Zealand Is not xnnch over half a million. The people are prosperous aud self-respecting, the average intelligence is high, and the experiment will havetjvery chanee of a fair trial. We believe it will prove as successful there as it has proved wherever it has been tried in this country, and that the future historians of New Zealand will proudly claim the honor for that colony of having led tho way in tho great electoral seform. Wasted Knergy. Atchison Olobs. A woman will spend an hour before tha glass primping to plcaio a man. when she could cook a meal in twenty minutes that would please him better. Ominous. New York Bacorder. Mr. Cleveland it amared that Congress should dare to disagree with him. The ntnarta often had theeamo fccliog towaia t'aruameut,

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