Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1894 — Page 2

THE I Is' DI A N A P OLTS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 189L

received IS votes and Boyd 11 A bitter fight is expected at the next regular meeting of the board. LmVKLLlXf; HACKS DOW.V.

It I Reported Ihe Corcrnor Mny Rein talc Mr. Lcnite. TOPEKA. Kan.. Jan. 2. An armistice has been declared between Mrs. Lease and Gov. Lewelling pending" an Inquiry into the. case by their mutual friend Judge Frank Poster. Mrs. Lease determined to make a fight In the Superior Court and employed Eugene Ha gen, a lawyer and Democratic politician, to act as her counsel. Afterward they called Judge Doster into consultation and rotihed Justice 1 lor ton that they would apply to hla chambers this morning at 8 o'clock for an order restraining J. "W. Freeborn, the Governor's appointee to succeed Mrs. Iease on the State Board of Charities. Governor Lewelling declined to be swtrved from his course, and notified the members of the board of charities to assemble at Wlnfleld as first called to do. Then Judge Doster appeared In the role of a mutual friend, and is reported to have advised the Governor that, upon a hasty oamination of the law, the Governor's removal of Mrs. Iease would not stand the test of the courts. Having been thus informal, the Governor agreed to let the matter stand until a further report from Judge Doster. Judge Doster would not go into details, but admitted that, if he were In Freeborn's place he would not attempt to act a3 a member of the board. The armistice, if not the weakening of the Governor, in his position seems to be confirmed by the action of Hagan and Judge Doster before Judge Horton this morning, to whom they stated that the case had been by mutual consent temporarily hung up. From other sources it is learned that the two attorneys stated that Governor Jewelling had consented to reinstate Mrs. Iease. Mrs. lease's position seems to be sustained by a legislative act of March 6, 18&3, which provides: "Whenever any charges are made against any person or officer in connection with the charitable institutions, the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the State shall meet at such time and place as may be named by the Governor and they shall proceed to select a committee of five members of the Legislature, the duty of which commute when selected, shall be to inquire Into the truth of the charges, investigate the affairs' of the institution and examine into the olllcial conduct of the olncer named in the complaint" Eugene Hagan says the case will be filed in the Supreme Court to-morrow. Further than that he declines to talk, but it is believed that terms of peace will be made before that. Mr. Lease Presided. OLATHE, Kan., Jan. 2. The Board of Charities met at the deaf and dumb institution in this city to-day, and Mrs. Lease sat in the chair as president, the board recognizing her as such, notwithstanding a dispatch received by that body to ignore her. The absence of Mrs. Lease's wouldbe successor is accounted for from the fact that her lawyer3 had instituted injunction proceedings preventing Freeborn from taking her place. All the members of the board were present. The principal action at the meeting was accepting the resignation, of Superintendent Carter and appointing A. A. Steward, a Populist of Manhattan, as hi3 successor. Mrs. Lease said to-night that as Carter had not reclined he would still be continued until the expiration of his term; that while the Governor had demanded his removal on account of his Democracy, the entire board would have stayed by him until the end. Denied ly tlie Governor. LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Jan. l-Gov. Lewelling to-night emphatically denied that he had decided to reinstate Mrs. Lease to her position as president of the Board of Charities. "The statement," said he, "is absolutely without foundation. I have not even thought of the matter, and don't, expect to do so. Mrs. Lease Is out to stay." TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. The Brazilian Insurgents have captured the city of Bage. r An attempt was made recently to poison the Czar of Russia, The new steel railway bridge, at LeavenWorth, Kan., was formally opened yesterday. The Holland Trust Company, of New York, will. It Is reported, soon retire from business. Captain Steven Drummond, ex-Mayor of Detroit, and widely known as an extensive vessel owner, is dead. H. L. Marbach, of the Marbach Machine Company, Cleveland, was arrested, yesterday, charged with arson. In come portions of Texas sheep are starving for want of food, the grass hav ing been killed hy drought. The uprising against the Octroi tax in Italy continues. A large amount of prop erty has been destroyed and many persons killed. Salvador Franch. a desperate Anarchist, was arrested at Saragona, Spain, yester day, lie attempted to shoot and poison himself. The employes of the Brazilian cruiser Nlctheroy, now at Pernambuco, have Btruck for wages still higher than those originally demanded. The new demands have been refused and it is possible that all may leave the vessel. Miss Charlotte Davis, of Racine, Wis., daughter of the late Captain Davis, U. S. N., has excated a sensation by eloping with J. B. McGann, a Chicago business man. The bride i3 an heiress and," it is said, her marriage was opposed by her relatives, she being but seventeen years old. SALVATIOX AllMV WOMKX. Tlicr Work In tlie Slumn nnil Ileach n. Clnsn That No Others Can. Harper's Weekly. How dark is the gloom, how oppressive the atmosphere of crime and misery, none can understand who "go slumming" as eight-seers, or who dabble for a time in Blum work a3 an experiment. To k low all, to understand the needs, and to be able to grasp the awfulness of the existing state of things, you must live and work in the slums as neicrhbor to the neople. sharing their poverty, dwelling in their homes, ana dressing m as poor a garD as they, that you may be brought to their level sufficiently to benent them, while you turn your back on all the comforts, ease and refinements of home as completely as If you were a missionary in Central Africa or China. These 'poor outcasts" have their feelings, are sensitive, suspicious, and sometimes proud. They do not care to be looked t as phenomena, patror.lzed and pitied by those who consider themselves above them, ind Ih-y will rebuff these who come as ipies or strangers into their midst. It is with love and constant kindly deeds that the slum workers of the Salvation Army have wxm their way from cellar to garret, from dive to saloon, making themselves necessary to their neighbors, showing them that real Christianity is disinterested, intensely practical, and believer sincerely In the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of all meo. In New York. Chicago, Brooklyn. Boston, Philadelphia and Buffalo, day and night. Bummer and winter, patiently and lovingly, awav out of sl;ht. between forty and nrty young women, without ealary cr worldly recompense, are passing In and out of the most wretchel homes and haunts of Bin. peeking, as Christ did, the most needy, the most debised n.nd most hopele?.. and, by their patient toll, winning thorn lack to life, and hope, and goodness. Fearlessly thev Visit from H.i!ocn to saloon, talking and praying with th rough, drunken crowds who. gathered therein, are drinking nd blaspheming, their pure, earnest faces carrying conviction of the truth of their words. ' They have no male escort with them to protect them; their own goodness and purity are about them like a wall of lire, silencing and Impressing the very lowest and most degraded, and arousing in the hearts of the men to whom they go with their loving mesare the dormant sparks of chivalry that still exist away beneath the hardened coating created by their tough lives and many sins. By the side of the hopeless fallen woman in the lowest dives you would find them talking of the possible purity and brightness that may yet chase the dark shadow of deat from tlie future. You could see many a poor Tainted face wet with tears amid the coarse laughter, the fetid fumes, and noisy dance. Of those night revels is tho girl has been drawn aside and lovingly talked to of Jesus and he loving message has sent of pardon, hepe. and restoration, with a t-aler reminder of "mother" and 'homo" in the now faraway past. Dnvii into cellars Cod's messengers have grop-i tin ir way, an 1 found there human brings sUping on the damp ground in places wh-r light wa.'i dim, and where rat; ran around and scampered over them, Gnd the bitter cold crept In to start fatal maladies In their worn and hungry bodies. To thes? in the darkness and poverty and plckness, as messengers of light, these brave, true-hearted girls liave gone, and have brought help and comfort. Not there alone, but away up In the garrets, where the rafters hang low, covered with funereal draplngs of eoot-laden cobwebs, their faces have brought sunlight brighter than that which dirt and old rags have effectually kept out of the window.

WOOD IS DISCHARGED

Murderer of Lawyer Blount in the Asylum Now a Free Man. End of a Once Famous Case Plight of South Neml Society Man Detective Morris Robs Up at Peru. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, Ind., Jan. 2. -This afternoon the Indictment charging James A. Wood with the murder of Thomas Jay Blount was stricken from the rc-ords. Wood was an attendant at the Eastern Indiana Hospital for the Insane and his victim was a Muncle attorney who was confined In the hospital for treatment. Wood got a new trial after receiving a twenty-one year sen tence for kicking the patient to death .n 1W1. Wood has been confined In tbe penitentiary two and one-half years, which i3 more than the minimum penalty for the offense, and inasmuch as three years have elapsed since the indictment was found, and many or the leaning witnesses have lett the county, the prosecutor believed it would be impossible to secure conviction on another trial. Since hU release on ball last June Wood has been in this city working at his trade as a baker. To-morrow evening he is to marry Miss Bessie Kaufman, of this city, a young woman who has been a clerk In Trustee Tingle s oillce. The "Widow Married and Gone. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., Jan. 2. The report from Richmond, to-day, of the discharge, of James A. Wood, the man convicted of murdering attorney Jay' Blount, of this city, at the Eastern Indiana Hospital at Richmond three years ago, caused a great deal of surprise here. The Journal cor respondent called on attorney C. B. Templer to-night, asking him what he thought of the action of the prosecution. Mr. Templer stated that he had been consulted by the officers at Richmond, and it had been agreed to discharge Wood. The wife of the murdered man is now married and gone, and no person seems overly anxious to again go through the trial. Mr. Templer was the first man inforrned by James Hannan of Blount's treatment at the hands of Wood, and he was most instrumental in urging the prosecution. He says he spent $500 of his own money in the case, all of which he is loser, and he was not anxious to sink any more. It is generally believed here that there was a great deal of whitewash used in Wood's behalf simply because there Is no one who is willing to push matters In behalf of the once-pap ular, but unfortunate, attorney. mm GOT POISON FOR IIKlt. Sontli lie ml Yoanj; Man 3IIxetl Up in n. Sensational Case. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. SOUTH BEND, Ind., Jan. 2.-Frederlck Tescher, aged about twenty-four, one of the best-looking young men In the city, Is under $1,000 bonds to appear before Mayor David It. Leeper, Saturday, on a very serious charge. Lilly Lloyd, aged nineteen, inmate of a disreputable place on Michigan street, attempted suicide Sunday night with morphine, and it is alleged that ycung Tescher procured the drug for her. The girl was infatuated with a physician at Columbia City, Ind., it is said, who had been here and called on otners than htrself. She became despondent and expressed a desire to die If she could get polscn. Tescher, It Is averred, procured a dram of the stuff of druggist John Fink and gave it to the girl. The latter tGok a portion, but was saved by the prompt work of a physician. i AXOTIIBR NOHRIS TRICK; The Notorious Ohio Detective Balked In a Scheme at Pern. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PERU, Ind., Jan. 2. When John T. Norrls, the Secret Service detective, came to this city this morning with a warrant for the arrest of Richard Weldon and twelve noted circus employes of the Sells & Rentfro and Wallace circuses, on a chargo of grand larceny, he little dreamed of the storm that was awaiting him. The lirst man he attempted to arrest was Wcidon, who objected on the grounds that N orris was a resident of Ohio and powerless to make an arrest in Indiana. Xorris deemed it advisable, under the circumstances of the dangerous feeling existing toward him, to leave the city without making any further attempts, and left with the understanding that he would return with the sheriff of Orange county In a few days and arrest them all. All the parties concerned are leading people of this city, and the attempt of Norris is looked on as a blackmailing scheme. GUKCXTOWX HAMv CASE. John W. Pari Files a Plea In Abate ment Agnlnwt the Indictment. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FRANKFORT, Ind., Jan. 2. John W. Paris, president of the defunct Greentown Bank, who Is to be tried the present term of the Clinton Circuit Court, on a charge of embezzlement, by his attorneys this afternoon filed a plea in abatement of the In dictment on the following grounds: First, that C. C. Shirley, who was an attorney for the depositors of the bank, solicited' and pro cured from the prosecuting attorney, at the time the grand jury met, the appointment of himself as deputy prosecutor, and, while acting as attorney for the depositors, went before the grand jury and by his Influence persuaded the jury to return the indictment; second, that John Loop, foreman of the grand jury. Is a brother of one of the deIK)sItors and a son of another, and that these two depositors were the principals in the prosecution; that through foreman Loop the indictment was secured; that he made known daily to the local press the ev idence of the grand jury-, thereby creating public sentiment against the defendant and Influencing the jury in arriving at the In dictment; third, that the order looks of the Howard Circuit Court nowhere show that the indictment was ever returned In open court. In brief, the position taken by the defense is that had it not been for attorney Shirley and foreman Loop no Indictment would have been returned: that a majority of the members did not wish to return it, but were influenced by these gentlemen. Judge WIntield, of Iogansport, Judge O'Brian. A. J J. Mrkpatrick, of Xokomo. and Bayless Guenther, of this city, are employed by the defense, and Shirley & Bell, of Kokomo, will assist Prosecutors Pike and Claybang. The case has not yet been set for trial. Death of Hon. James L. Mason. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GUKKXFIi:LD. Ind.. Jan. 2.-Hon. Jas. I. Mason, an old resident and prominent attorney, died at his rooms In this city at tiZO o clock to-night from an old complaint, after a severe illness of two weeks. He has no near relatives. He was born in Brownsville, Ind., April 3. 1S27. and was educated at Farmers Col lege, Ohio, and Indiana State University. He waa surveyor of Union county at an early age, and came to Greenfield In iSol, where ho has since resided. He taught school for several terms, and then read law with Thomas Walpole, and enjoyed a lucrative practice during the war. He has always boon a. iK-moerut. In 1S2 he was elected joint Representative from Hancock and Shelby counties, in 1854 he was elected State Senator. In lSSl he married Miss Kmma Mlllikan. who lived but a short time. In 1M7 he married Rebecca Julian, daughter of Judge Jacob Julian, of Indianapolis, and she died -In 177. Mr. Mason was probably worth JTG.WO, having property in this city and county, in Kansas. San Diego and liower California. He will be buried here, probably, Friday. SciiKntlonul Murder Trial. Special to the Indlinapolis Journal. RUAZIU Ind.. Jan. 2. The trial of Ellas Owens for the murder of James Rriggs, at Clay City, June IS, was commenced In the Circuit Court thU mornir.fr. The case Is of a sensational nature, and the court room was crowded to hear the evidence. Mr. Pr!ggs was a prosperous citizen of the count and his assassination caused sreat excitement, whija ba mt wholly abated. Owens claims th:tt Rriggs was in the act of assailing him. when he drew a revolver and shot him dead. The evidence, however, goes to show that the murder was the culmination of an old feud. Another Marlon Failure. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MAIIION, Ind., Jan. 2. The assignment of William KnJsht and the firm of Knl?ht Sl Wllcutts to-day startled people In business circles here, Uoth men and the 11 rm wero considered among the beat tiiuui-

dally. The assignment Is due more to the ill health of Knight than to the amount of the indebtedness Assets are estimated between $S'),oo(j and syo,'w; liabilities, $25,0110. A. C. Joy is the assignee. Thrown Through a "Vlnlotv. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO. Ind., Jan. 2. Frank Goldlng and John Martin were engaged in a friendly scuffle in a store at Greentown yesterday. Martin, who is the owner of the store, was thrown through a plate-glass window and frightfully cut by glass. His neck was cut half way around, and he came near bleeding to death. His recovery is doubtful. Solomon XclririTcr Read. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MITCH KLU Ind, Jan. 2. Mr. Solomon Ncideffer, of Bono, died on Monday. Mr. Ncideffer has grieved and brooded over the murder of his wife, of which he was falsely accused, since that event, three years ago. No clew to the pentrator of the murder, which shocked the surrounding country, has ever been obtained. Shot hy llahe llolloway. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CRAWFORDSVILLK, Ind., Jan. 2. In a sajcon this evening "Babe" Holloway and "Pete" Van Lanen quarreled over an old feud, and Holloway shot Van Lanen twice. One ball entered his side and the other hl3

arm. Holloway escaped. Indiana IS'otcs. A highwayman attempted to sandbag and rob H. Clay Darnell, of Muncie, last night. but was bested in the fight. Charles Crabb. a crippled chicken huck ster, was assaulted and robbed near Dublin Monday night. The highwaymen got-510. Charles Brokaw, of Pittsburg, committed suicide yesterday. He was a son of George Brokaw, the well-known Terre Haute mer chant. The Decatur Journal has changed hands, J. W. Porter selling out toH. S. Tenbrook and W. C. Cope, of Ewin.T. Hb The Journal nas always been Kepubllcan. Burglars went through the Lake Erie & Western station at IaPorte Monday night, breaking open trunks and taking some change from the money drawer. Albion citizens are looking for W. F. Lee, an alleged photographer from Chicago, who disappeared from that place along with the purse of his landlady's daughter. Mrs. Augusta Schmidt, who killed her tennant, Oscar Walton, in October, was re fused bail in a habeas corpus proceeding at Kokomo yesterday, fche will be tried Jan. 29. William Murphy, a Paragon store keeper. discovered burglars in his store Monday night and opened fire on them. One was wounded and they were tracked by the blood into the country. Madison county glass workers, failing to get help from Congressman Bynum, have petitioned Senator Voorhees to use his in fluence to change the schedule of reduction in duty proposed in the Wilson bill. A rumor that a mob was being formed at Manson, five miles south of Frankfort, to take Perry Gillam, who is charged with rape, from jail and lynch him, caused Sheriff Hill to remove the prisoner to Lafayette for safe keeping. John Deiss, aged sixty-five, of the Marion Soldiirs' Home, and Mrs. Caddie Gibbons. aged forty, of Orleans. Ind., were -iarried at Marion yesterday. They had never met before Monday, having carried on the courtship by letter. IN THE JURY'S HANDS Verdict in tlie Noted Howard Case Expected This Morning. Judge nammoncTs Charge A Kentucky Belle Invited to a Seat on tho Bench The Court Kooni Thronged. JACKSOX, Tenn., Jan. 2. The district at torney concluded his argument In the How ard case at 11:30 o'clock this morning after speaking ten hours. He declared that he had proven every allegation in the indict ments; he had proven the fraudulent scheme and device, without the shadow of a doubt. and he was entitled to a verdict on the twenty-two counts. In closing he made an eloquent appeal to the Jury for a verdict in the name of the poor who had been swindled from the lakes to the gulf and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, Mr. Hawkins was applauded when he concluded his argument. At 7 o'clock this evening. Judge Hammond began his charge to the jury. He said in part: "A more simple Issue has never been pre sented for trial to a jury. You may be astonished to learn it. but it is true that, except as a useful mass of evidence. It is quite immaterial whether the defendant ever did business under the names and styles of 'European Claims Agency, 4E. Ross, Manager," 'Felix Howard.' 'William Lord Moore," or 'Joseph Lrger or either of them. You may lay them all aside and all this Immense mass of proof about them, if you tlnd it doubtful or too troublesome, and consider the cas3 solely In relation to the Jackson correspondence of the defendant. ana ir you find that a scheme to defraud has been devised by him, to be affected by use of the malls, you may convict him no matter what you may believe about his identity with Ross, Moore or Leger. We gave no jurisdiction to try him for his operations in New York or London and their only usefulness is as evidence. . Rut if outside of that evidence you can see that he Is guilty, he should be con vie tel. But It you conclude that the business carried on by the defendant at Jackson was the honest and legitimate practice of a lawyer, prose cuting his clients rights to property or money belonging to them, or that he sincerely and honestly believed that such property belonged to them in foreign coun tries, -he is not guilty, and you should acquit him. Or, if you have any reasonable doubt about it you should acquit him upon that doubt. Rut if you bolleve that he knew no such vast sums of money or extensive property belonged to them in Kurope and he took advantage of their ignorant delusions on the subject already existing or artfully planted by the defendant in their minds and that he took advantage of these delusions to procure money in small sums from them In the belief that he could aid them In recovering their property and used the mails to cultivate and stimulate their delusions, he. Is guilty, and you should not hesitate to say so by your verdict. It is no defense to say or prove that these people believed that they had money or property in forelpn countries; if you find that the defendant knew that they had been by others or by circumstances or by himself deluded and he promoted and stimulated that delusion for fraudulent gain." i The court-room scenes to-night were unparalleled in the history' of Tennessee law suits. The excitement and interest manifested wast l.-oyond description. The corridors of the courthouse were packed and Jammed hours before court met, ami when the court-room ifciors were opened a rush and stampede was made for heats. It was a scene the like of which was never before witnessed by the oldest men present. The women alone nearly filled the court room. The marshal and his deputies were powerless to control the vast throng-, who seemed to have lost their reason. When order was restored Judge Hammond invited Mi.3 Phie Rond, one of Jackson's reigning belles, to take a seat by him on the bench. She han1l him a bunch of lilies of the valley, which ho plnncvi on the lapel of his coat before he lx-gan to charge the Jury The jury took the case at b:Z0, and court adjourned until 8 o'clock in the morning, when, a verdict Is oxieettd. The fJrentest Humbug- of the Age. New York un (Dem.) Is It a bill for the constitutional Democratic tariff for revenue only? Not much. Is it a tariff for deficiency only? Not precisely. It will raise some revenue. Is it for a protective tariff? Well, a sort of protective tariff, but a poor and cranky sort. McKinley's Is much better, much moro rational, systematic, and just to all interosts. Taking revenue and anti-revenue together, the Wilson bill Is a fantastic and personal bill. It is a jumble of unconstitutionalities and favoritism?. comiounded to gratify the more jiowerful applicants for license to rob, and to vindicate the hobbles of drover Cleveland put on record previous to the ChhMjro platform. It ia the greatest humbug of the age. When r. ISoycott I I.etrnl. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 2. The Supreme Court to-day banded down an opinion, decMing a question of Kreat importance in labor circles In thi Htate. The decision was that when lr:do associations boycott contractors and dealers who encourage strikers and concede to their demands, and when such associations extend such a boycott among other disinterested dealers, puch a boycott is legal. Ilentli of lllnliop McXlerny. ALBANY. N. Y.. Jan. 2. -The Right Rev. Francis McNlerny, Pishop of Albany, died of pneomonia shortly after 80 to-night.

A CURRENCY LESSON

Canadian Experiments in Fiat Money Under French Rule. An Era of Playinjr-Canl Money Was Fol lowed by Promises to Pay, AVliich Brought About Bankruptcy. Correspondence New York Evening Tost. Parkman, Garneau, and other historians have dealt in rather a cursory manner with the paper-money era in the early days of this province when It belonged to France. Much that is interesting and instructive re mains to be told. The older writers and the old records enable one to form a tolerably clear idea of what happened. A brief state ment of the facts may throw some light on questions now vexing the United States; It will certainly afford food for thought to such modern advocates of "cheap money" as are not above thinking. For many years peltries and wheat, the latter being legal tender at the rate of four Hvres per bushel, were used as currency In the colony. In 1670 Louis the Fourteenth caused a special issue of coin money to the amount of 1CO.000 livres to be struck for Canada and the Antilles, the object being "to facilitate trade with those our colonies." The Issue consisted of silver coins of 15 sol3 and 5 sols and of copper denlers. The other coins in circulation were the ordinary silver and copper coins of France, which were of unstable value. The llvre toumois, or Tours livre, so called from being minted at Tours, was the sterling or "money of account" in the colony. Very little coin of any sort, however, came In the way of the people who lived outside of the settlements at Quebec, Three Rivers and Montreal; and even from those places It often vanished, "displaying a strange tendency," as one of the intendants wrote, to return to France in payment of good3 supplied. Beaver-skins, moose-skins, and wheat were a cumbersome medium of exchange, though not more so perhaps than salted and frozen eels, a barrel of which passed as half a llvre in the islands below this city; and as time went on the settlers began to complain of the -difficulty of buying and selling. Things came to a head one day In 1GS, when the intendant, Meales, found himself without funds, with the soldiers waiting for their pay and the last ship of the season arrived from France. "I have no money, Meales writes, "and not knowing to what saint to make my vows the Idea has occurred to me of circu.utlng money made of playing cards, each cut in four pieces; these I have issued, togi-thsr with an cidinance commanding the inhabitants to. accept them." This card currency wes of various denominations in livres, sols, and denlers. There were no printing presses in the colony, and the cards were written by the treasurer, signed by him, the Governor, and the intendant, and stamped with the crown and lleui-de-lls. They were convertible at Quebjc into bills of exchango drawn on the French government, in the fall of the year, and so long as the bills were promptly paid passed from hand to hand at their face value and proved a great convenience. IJy and by, when the officials required more funds, a second lot of card money was issued, made payable, however. at Quebec on demand. Th? settlers pre-' ferred the first isue because It was vir tually redeemable in France, and because they had had experience of it; but the treasurer managed to put the second on a solid footing by giving out that it would have the call in buying bills on France. Other Issues followed, and everything went well until, in conseauence of the desneivite condition of the Fiench treasury, the bills began to be subjected to a big shave and were finally sent back dishonored. This occurred in 1717. It was then found that tne card money In circulation amounted to 2 000,(X)0 livres for a population of about THE CARDS REDEEMED. "When the crash came the first thing the officials did was to issue a decree. They imagined that by decreeing they could prevent thd depreciation of the money, but they were soon deceived and obliged to make a settlement. The settlement, a complicated affair, provided, In effect, for the redemption of the cards at half their face value. Thus a card for four livres was reduced to two livres. Some holders got off by a special arrangement with the loss of only three-eighths of their money. A new issue of cards was floated as part of the redemption scheme, but it did not fare well. At first blush some of the settlers thought a depreciated currency was a good thing for them, assuming, like the greenback and silver people in the United States, that it would enable them to get ahead of their creditors. This Is clear from the records of the royal jurisdictions, which show that settlers bought card money at its depre ciated vaiue, ana tendered it in payment of rent at Its face value. The seierniors resisted the fraud, and after or during the litigation, a decree was passed that where there was no provision In a lease or other contract that payment was to be made in sterling money (monnale turnolse) or in "the money of France," it should be made in the latter with a reduction of 25 per cent, that beinsr the usual difference be tween the currency of France and the colonial currency; but there was to be no reduction where payment in sterling French currency had been expressly stipulated. That was perfectly fair. Before the bottom of the welter was reached the settlers learned from experience that, after all, tho creditor and capitalist class had hold of the long end of the whlllle-tree. and that a de based currency does not hurt it nearly as rmicn as hurts the poor man. In the first place. It was the poor man. the habitant, who held most of the money. The officials, who formed, a large class. always had more or less coin, for specie still camo from France every year to pay royal accounts. This specie was passed to the townspeople, the butchers, bakers, and so o'u The traders who dealt with the In dians did not need much money, but what they h?jl was mostly coin, for they mado a business of buying poods smupcfcled from the neighboring British colonies and "habi tant money," as the cards was called, would not pass muster for that traffic. Tlie merchants In this city were the richest class in the colony. Their stores were in tho lower town- Their freights arrived from prance at the end of April or the begin nlng of May, and were distributed amon? their agencies, up and down the Ft. Law rence, by barges. As they had to pay for th goods in specie or the currency of France, they demanded tpecle from their agents, or, failing that, money of France. 1. e., they added enough to the eost price not only to insure a large profit but to bring the payment, if it were in cards, up to the value of French currencv. The well-to-do Feierniors, who purchased their bran dy, snuff and wine in Quebec, and wore imported clothes used coin money for the most part except in their business" with tlie ', habitant, who was paid in cards. Twice ' a year, spring and fall, the habitant came to town for supplies, bringing with him products for barter, but whatever might be coming to him after the d-al ?as naid t in cc rds. Besides being: beppnred by the depreciation ana "scaling; down ' of the card money, it is needless to say that he suffered more than anyone- else by the Iosm of credit, the enormous advance In the pric of store troods and the general prostration. The j price of his wheat did rot rise In proportion : because it was fixed by decree, nor the price of his other wares poultry, eels, meat, butter, etc. of which there was commonly a superabundance. A QT'KKB DECREE. Some truly remarkable decrees were promulgated during the attempt to right thlmrs, but we must remember that financial science existed. If at all, only in the germ, and that men's minds were full of illusions and delusions about money. One decree sought to reduce the value of gold coin, which had been coming into the colony after the debacle, apparently on the theory that if gold were depreciated there would be a better chance for card money to rise. When this failed, a decree w;s i.s'M'd to r-dr.'e the price of commodities. the oincials, naively supposing that ii thev ' roulu uot l.rinrx down pol I by commanding ! it in his Mris: Christian Majesty's name t: ! get dovn, tiiev could at any rate strike a ! blow at its pride by cheapening the goods i exchanged for It, th.it ir, to say, bv exalting Its Vurehz-sing power. The card money ! war; an easy mark for counterfeiters. There j Is a letter of ITU from tre othcials to the j French minister about an Irishman inred ' "Jean la Ilaye" and one "Jean Joublln," described as an Englishman, who were under arrest at Montreal for counterfeiting. At last the settlers in the rural part. refused to have anything to do with the card money. Occasionally gold and silver from the royal treasury rn France jcot into circulation, passing at bullion value, but It quickly disappeared. All this time trade with Xew England and the other British colonies was sternly forbidden. l'rotec3 tlon and cheap money, each carried to Its logical conclusion, neia tne neia ana the people were ruined and utterly dlsheaxt-

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ened. Petitions were forwarded to the King begging for relief, and in ITJS au ordinance was passed enumerating tho evils complained of and providing as a remedy the issue of new card money to the amount of 4'X'KK) livres, and no more, which was to be taken at its face value at tne royal stores and warehouses where the settlers bought powder and merchandise, and to be convertible Into bills ot exenange on u;e treasurers of the navy. These new cards, like the old ones, were written. The habitants woui-A nave loowea askance at a printed note, ivicn raw oi "regular" currency. I. e,. currency otner than fractional, was about half the s.ze of a playing card, and of the same thickness. The ends were clipped on to preeat wc-m from curling. On the top were tne roai arms. To the right of the arm was uie;ww of the issue, to the left the signature of the local treasury clerk, immediately uenvr were the words, "For the sum of so and so." followed bv the signatures of Governor and Intendant. The fractional currency was half the size of the larger. It bore the royal arms, the signature of the clerk and the date, with the words, "Quinze Sols, or whatever thev might be, toiiowea o me initials of the intendant. In 1732 another issue was ordered, the amount being O.WO Hvre3. It was received and convertible as before. The colony rallied, and for a few years made considerable progress. But before long the intendants undertook on their own hook to Issue a ne.v kind of currency known as ordonnancos. They were printed promises to pav, and ranged from la sols to loo livres, but their convertibility into bills of exchange on France depended on the state of the colonial treasury. If the expenditure in the colony exceeded the amount authorized by the French government the oraonnances were not turned into bills of escnange, duc inio bonds pavable In card money within a twelvemonth. Six livres sliver were worth 8 livres paper in 1753. A decree was issued that this ratio snou:a not oe exceeueu, out the pap?r money, both cards and the other, continued to fall until it reached 70 per cent, discount Just before the British conquest France repudiated the annual bills of ex change on Uie ground that the intendant. Bitrot. the first of a long line of Canadian boodlers, had robbed her and had made fraudulent Issues of money, liigot ana ms crew were tried in France and convicted. Meanwhile the habitant was beggared again, mo-ot's drafts on France for goods said to have been purchased for the royal service amounted In English money to 500,000, and the bonds, card money and ordonnances tnat were out to no less than 1,000.000, for a farming population of C0.000. The British government inaucea trance, at the close of the war, to redeem a portion of these liabilities, but the French-Canadians lost an enormous sum. They lost far more individually by bad money tnau Dy Are and ssvonl. In 1792 a bank was started under English auspices, but Duncan, the traveler, writes that "the project was speed ily abandoned owing to tne iact mat tne notes could not be circulated from want of confidence." It was a case of once bitten twice shy with the habitants, i ne nrsi uanKnote wer issued by a Dana at 3ionireai in 1817, and even then the people were shy. SCIENTIFIC STUDY OP DREAMS Heine; Mntle at Ynle Colle -Startllns DlKCOvcrles. New Haven Dispatch to the Boston Herald. At Yale the professors In psychology have for years been making a special study of the phenomena and scope of dreams, hallucinations and hypnotism. During the past two years Professor George T. Ladd has been dillg-ently at work on the historical side of the subject, and has gathered all the possible material for a thorough preliminary course of experiments on the subject along entirely new- and original lines of research. Professor Ladd has prepared the mind of the New Haven publio for these experiments by two courses of lectures, embodying the result of his work. These have been delievered at Yale In the university course of lectures, and were heard by .crowded audiences both last year and the year before. Now that the work is ready to be continued in an. experimental way, It has paysd largely Into the hands of Dr. Edward W. scripture, who has done so much original Investigation at Yale in physiological psychology the past year, and he has already made some startling discoveries Incidental to his new line of research. The experiments of Dr. Charcot of La Salpetrier "in Paris and Dr. Luys. of southern France," said Dr. Scripture to-day. are parlor science mere child's Play compared to what will be done In the United fetates during the coming few years relative to the investigations of the phenomena of hallucinations, hypnotism and dreams. The scope and desire of the French school has not. been so progressive as it should, and most of the most scientific results will. I think, come from investigations In laboratories in American universities. Dr Scripture and his assistant, Dr. Bllsg, have during the past few weeks been busy in manufacturing new apparatus for their experiments, as all the work to be done re5quires entirely original machinery. "How to cure some of the ills that the Mesh, or rather the nerves, are heir to " Is the aim of the experiments at lale, and the rhod to hypnotism in Eurotestifies that the results at vir, txhii ha nf momentous scientific woVth. !-,. r-Hnttirr rlrJms riehts of priority In r.T.e thine, his experiments in measuring v.,.iiinMnntinns. Thi. he says, has never v.ncn Hnnp. in the civilized world before so U x - for ac Viiatnrv records. 141a Rimniest experiment of this kind is eounle of wires which are at tached to an electric batt?ry and putting them in the hands of a person. Just enough electricity is then passed through the wires tr warm them. This is repeated severnl tirr till fiTiflllv thp swiblect is riven the direction: "Tell me now when you feel the electricity." None is passed through, but invariably in a few seconds the subject exca m?. I feel it." The lime which various persons require before thy a.re subjfet to the hallucination differs widely. This last is a unique and valuable discovery. In some carps the time is as srort as seven seconds, and in others as .long as thirty. The period required for the hallucination to take place is termed by Dr. Scripture "the time of suggestibility." Imaginative rfr.vtns and thntft Tint nvrhftlnHrol1v trained cire the most susceptible, and, therefore, this experiment may conversely become a practical test of a person's imaginative powers. Hy the delicate instrument for making sucn measurements in tne vale laboratory the intensity of the stimulus has been accu rately measure l. A Kf-oond law evolved by Dr. Scripture is tnis: in nmitng mat stimulus whose sen sation is not jerceptibly dirferent from the halluiination, the intensity of the mulucination I'seir can be measured. A third princlp'.e Is: By tne relation of the time of reaction to the hallucination. 8. recoru oi ine time requires ior tne nallu cination naa been calculated, showing1 it to be from sever, to thirty seconds In 'diff.r r ; t i V il 11 i -V Heretofore all the experiments performed at Yale have been upon persons laboring vrn'or hallucinations of temi-rat'aro. Am boop. a apparatus enn be provided peitons su'Oectei to hallucinations of hearing and sltrht will be experimented upon, and thn a new field for original . investigation opened. ' Again, people under abnormal conditions will be treated, such aa persona thoroughly hypnotized or asleep, or Insane persons, the buter including thos suffering from monomania and hindrtd mental states which has always U'fikd medical science. Dr. Scripture and his corps of assistants wili continue their investigations In this line throughout the year, at least, at Yale. siniKi: i"ii;iki:s. Immense "ot of Srlke More Than Tlircc-I'oiirlliM of Them l'all. Philadelphia Letter. The strike of the employ e3 of the Iehish Vallry KaUrc.ifi CorH.-ny is n appropriate occasion to iirect th p'iblic attention to the oir.oi;il record oi strikes ja I'er.nylvania K'rin the ye.-r l&ri, those that fuc-ce-letl. the that failed, the various purposes for which they were initlKttI, and to call th- inc st suetiv of all the statistics on tne suhjeet the os:?es. The llgiires are sufficiently Impressive vithout comment. The reports of the P.vrreau of Industrial Statistics constltutJru; Tart Z of the annual report of th? Secretary of Internal Affairs of Pennsylvania exhibit the details relating to f?riV-s Kii'l leckeuts which occurred in the State during lart year. From this efficial comr ilrtion it Hppars that there were twenty-sli: strikes in Pennsylvania. Of these three were successful, four succeeded iu part, and nineteen totally fallen! to accomplish their objects. The number of persons directly enraged in the twentv-slx strikes was 4,',?Z, but the number involved was 7.414. The c&usea of the Pennsylvania strikes were eleven In number. The most prolific were th refusal of employers to

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Jjc. .Mat:nev Orchestr circle, T."c; rmiainiler lower tttxir. 50;: balcony, II 3c Se ttw now hellingAll this week, matinees every lay, the famous WILBUR OPERACO'I Matinee to-day and to-night, "THE MRRHY WAR." No Increase in prices 10c. 20c. 30".. Next rock-DR. CAKVKlt In 'THE SCOUT." EMPIRE . THJATEK Corner abau and Do - 8tt Matinee at 2. Tvnlrht at a 10c, 15c, 25c. Telephone 1703. 15c, 23c, COo ROSE HILT, ENGLISH FOLLY CO Bill posting and rtJstrlbntinir for this theater U done by tbe Empire Bill Posting Co. Aext week KEILLY & WOODS' dio SHOW. National Tuba Ha WROKHWROS PIPS FOU Gas, Steam and VTate t Bolder Tub en, Cat and Malleable Iron Flttinra (black and gal ran 1 z edi, V lrea, 8top Cocks. Knrixi Trlminitijc.H. 8team Oanrs Pipe Tobffs. Pipe Cntnr. Viae Screw Fjues and Dies, Wrenches. S.im Triis, Pumps. Kitchen Mnks, Hose, Eelttnir, Babirit Metal. Sol. der, Wnlte and Colurod Wipin Waste, aul all other suj. plies use t Iu connect on with uas, Bteamand Water. Nnu ntal Oas Supplies a siKcia ty. tsteara-beatln Apparat ' tot Public Buildlufrs.&toTe.rtK-iii Mills, 8top, FactorlfK, fnndries. Lumber Drr-hon-, etc. Cnt anl Thread to or lef any sizo WiojahMrcn Piis from h lncli to I'd inches diameter. Knight & Jillson, 75 and 77 8. PENNSYLVANIA ST. reoognlze the Amalg-arnateJ Iron and Steel Association, and their refusal to agree to th? terms of employes. Kach of these produced five strikes. Other ptrikes were for "increase ot wages," "against rules of companies," "arainst reduction of wages," T'aalnst nonunion men," "for shorter hours of labor," "against the Introduction of machinery." These, with disagreements as to scale of wages, the improper loading of cars by miners and the Improper repairing of tools embrace all the causes for which employes have resrted to strikes. The total losses entaile1 upon the publio by the voluntary suspension of labor by employes during 12D2 oannot be estim.l?d. The loss to employes, as shown by the pay rolls, was $376,243. The errployers losses cannot be fixed. They were reporter 1 In only sevn instances. In these rliey reached $.7),&23. Tna heaviest reported loss to err.p' Dyers was in the Pittsburg street-railway ".rike. continuing from Jan. 15, 1K)2, to ?.!arch 9. 132, lifty-four days, in which the forr?pr.!es Jo.t $W,000 and the striking employes J!8. Jn the other instances? where the employers losses are estimated the striking employe were by far the greater lowers. In the strike at the IMttptmrg iron works. Aug. 3 ISTZ, to Sept. 13. 12. twelve dys, the employes sacrificed !2.w .vh!'e ih'.r employing company lost JT.,000. During the strike of rolling-mill hands at Allentown, lasting forty-five days, from July 1 to Aug. 15, 1892. the men Facrinced J3.0O), against a loss of $2,000 sustained by the company. Only a portion of the los.v3 resulting from the great Homestead strike are included in the tabulated statement. It lasted nearly nine months, and, as the monthly pay roll ther was alout J2.'0.or, the los to the strikers for the entire period of the troubles was about H.SM.onO. The secretary of internal affairs says that no estim?te of the loss sustained by the company could be obtained. The expense to Pennsylvania In maintaining the National Guard a Hom.-stf-nl whs J44A2T1.31. ii"M If a iotj! combined loss and expenditure of $1.03,25-.31. with an undefined lon from the FU?r?nsIon c,f- l1 In ?, and, ;erh;rs, the permanent transfer of hom:o of !t o other places, to be 'a'Mcil to above sum. In the face of those exhibit, with the complete failure to accomplish the des!rel end in nineteen of the tv.rty-dx strikes, ani with only partial success in thre lnFtanre?, It rr.r.y bo safely averts! thr.t, a.i a means of rdrcIng grievances and settling differences arising betvven n;rl-.yers an! thflr employer?. r,trtkeni not pay in Pennsylvania on the contrary, they have brought untold losses to the iulPe. grott privations to employes anl their families, and serious Interruption to business. AVIll Ilencfforlli Mirk to nngllnh. Portland (Me.) Argus. There H on- lawyer in Portland who will never a train use Intln phrases In addressing his clients. A short time ao he had occasion to write to a client in the extreme western part of the State. In doing this ls used a letterhead which bore his name and address printed on the top of the pge. After asking some questions which wouM require an immediate answer he sli?ned his nanr and at the lottom wrote "Address ut supra." After waiting some weeks for an answer to this letter, he wrote another note to the t ime party, severely reprimand ing him for not answering nis letter, ihe reply soon informed him that the cllont bad answered the lirst letter, hit had address! It to the lawyer at "l't Supra. Me." Tbe h';tl gentleman has not yet receive 1 the original answer. , Anollier nemoi'mllt Achievement. r.oston Herald. You may now travel across th lnod continent from the Atlant'c to the Pacific on insolvent railroads. To Manic for the llnwniliin lUnnder. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. The real truth probably Is that Cleveland and Gresham are equally to blame that thv must stand or fall tofrthr. and that neither can advance hi personal fortunes by pointing tbe linger of accusation at the other. "Old Process" whisky old only by druj?-iU.

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