Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1894 — Page 3

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1891.

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Muslin UNDER WEAR Begins this Horning. Pettis Dry Goods Co BECAUSE OF A CHORUS GIRL. Sensational Murder In Frisco by the Mother of Estrulia Shattuck. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 7. A sensational murder occurred here this afternoon. Harry G. Pool, a young man well known .about town and of a well-to-do family, was ehot and almost Instantly killed by Mrs. Shattuck, the aged mother of Estrulia Shattuck. a young and pretty chorus girl, st the Tlvoll Opera Houss, who severed connection with the Tivoll company last night and was to have left the city to-morrow with David Henderson's Sinbad Company. Young Pool was summoned to Miss Shuttuck's home on Stevenon street this morning, where the girl's mother met him and demanded that hs marry Miss Shattuck at once. Pool refused and Mrs. Shattuck put a pistol to his temple and shot him dead. The woman was arrested for murder and is now a raving maniac at the city prison. The girl is also in hysterics and unable to talk. Speaking of Miss Shattuck's appearance with the Tivoli company as leader of the Amazon march in the spectacle "The island of Jewel.-?." the Examiner this mornl.ng says: "The pleasing young person with a sword who leads the march is perhaps as much entitled as any one to wear the title 'the California Venus,' as she was the model of the crowning figure in the midwinter fair fountain in the sunset city, and her fac simile in staff will stand amid the falling drops of water in front of the Administration Building: as a sample of what California can produce in the way of female beauty." SHOT BY A WOMAN. Miss Bond, of Chicago, Fires Three Bullets Into Mrs. Mary Gardner. CHICAGO, Jan. 7. Miss Maud Bond made a desperate attempt to take the life of Mrs. Mary Gardner to-day by sfiooting her three times with a revolver. Jealousy was the caue of Miss Bond's act. At 8 o'clock yesterday morning she went to the residence of Mrs. Bond, on A Vest Chfcago avenue. "I am going to kill you," cried Miss Bond, excitedly, the moment Mrs. Gardner confronted her. She at once drew the revolver and commenced to fire rapidly at Mrs. Gardner. Three bullets struck Mrs. Gardner, and she cannot live. Miss Bond gave herself up. Ci:.M?llAL. WHATllUIl Ut'LLUTIN. Local Fori'fimt for Monday. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. For Ohio, Indiana and Illinois: Fair; variable winds. Locil Observation. iNUiASArous Ind., JaD. 7.

Time Bar. Ther. li. II. VVlud. Weather. Tree. 7 a.m. 30.22 32 73 West. Cloudy. O.Qt 7 p. M.3U.3t 2o M ywent C;car. U.OU

Maximum temperature, 30; minimum temperature, 21. The followlutf Is a comparative statement of the temperature and precipitation. Jan. I, is j 1: Tern. -2C O Pre, 0.10 0.00 0.10 -0.24 Normal Meau.... Departure from normal xcesordeticlejcy since Jan 1 tit -I'lUS. V. 1. R. WAPI'EMIAN. local Forecast Official, United States Weather .bureau. KING LOUKAttl'LA. The Merry Old Monarch and Ills Eighty Unxotu Queen. Blackburn Times. The members of the Colonial Institute assemble! on Tuesday at Whitehall rooms to hrtur Mr. Archibald It. Coliuhoun. the first administrator of Mashonaiand. road a paper on Matabeleland. Mr. Coliuhoun tj.ive an Interesting description of King Lobengula. "Lohengula literally 'The Defender,' and the bearer of many grandiloquent titles, such as 'The Great Elephant', 'The Eater of Men and 'The Stabler of the Sun' is sixty year3 of age, suffers from pout, and is enormously fat and unwleldly in person, which tend greatly to diminish his otherwise kingly appearance. He is close upon six feet. weighs nearly twenty stone, and rarely takes physical exercise, although he has In his early days been active and powerful. He is a man of extraordinary character and ability, with great power of work. "The descriptions of Eobengula's personal appearance range between that of a most truculent and blood-thirsty saavge, with a 'deadly cruel look in his eyes, and a pleasunt, mild-mannered old gentleman, with a winning, chlld-tlke smile. It Is probably wi?e to adopt neither of the extreme Jortralts. Ills natural disposition Is said by them who know him well to bo not cruel, but the exercise of unrestrained despotic power, surrounded by intrigues, has led to Indifference to life whenever it seemed to htm a. matter of rwlioy. or, as not unseldom, self-preservation. Relations and friends at the Matabeie court alike have been removed when found to be 'inconvenient, In the cattle kral, with his body vrapieU In a colored blanket and feet swathed in dirtv flannel bandages, in the mi. 1st of dirt and discomfort, and surrounded by skulls of slaughtered bullocks nnd mangy pariah dogs, the King was frequently to be s.-tn. The chief Queen. Ioskay. is typical of the elghtv other?. Her massive' form on the occasion of a war dance' in 100 was partly clothed in cotton sheet, while from her waist hung a black goat skin kilt. The head was encircled with a ctil of pink beads, the neck with tin, brass and iron chains. proUiLly taken in some of the many rails on the Mashoxvas, who. unlike the Matabeie, have some ekill In working these metals; on her ankles and arms were more beads. When in state dress during the 'war d.ince' the Queens present a picture of bright and effective colorinff-" . The rymmld Tile Care Is a new discovery for the prompt, penna nent cure of piles In every form. Every druggist has It. OrDeLiliUted Worsen, ihauld U39 BRADFIELD'S FEMALE REGULATOR. Every ingredient possesses superb Tonic properties and exerts a, wonderful influence in toninjj up r.nl strengthening her system, by driving through the proper channels all impurities. Health and Strength guaranteed to result from its use. 3Iy vIf,rho bedridden for elph. taen munthi, aftur uinS Jlrad field's Jremc.e Jtcgulntvr for two moiuii Ij getting well.' , J- Jonwso. Malvern, Ark. IiRADrttLD ICeoCLATOH Co., Allanil, (J. BoU by Druuu tr, $l.U per bwiUo.

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Mob Rushes Through Rohic Crying "Long Live Socialism." Evidence Against the Barcelona Bomb Thrower Latest from Matabeleland The French Charaber Elections. HOME, Jan. 7. A crowd of workmen tonight assembled In the Transver quarter and marched to the center of Rome, bearing two red flag's and shouting "Live Socialism." "Live the Sicilian martyrs." The police were on guard at the passage of the Garibaldi bridge and ordered the crowd to dlnperse, but the latter opened fire on the police with revolvers and during the riot which followed, a policeman was stabbed with a dagger. Finally the police succeeded In dispersing the crowd and In capturing the two red flags and two Anarchists. The police seized about 1.000 letters at the house of Father Urse, cure of Santa Lucia, The police found that Urse was Ignorant of the contents of the letters, and merely acted as custodian In keeping them in his house. He was arrested, but later was released. Many of these letters are in cipher from Cipriani. Handbills yesterday evening were thrown from the galleries of the theaters inscribed: "Down with the people's sweaters and taxes." "Live the Sicilian martyrs." Several of the Anarchists who threw these handblls were arrested. A mob yesterday evening attacked and disarmed a corporal who refused to join in their seditious cries, and afterwards brutally beat with cudgels some gendarmes who intervened. A sharp conflict followed between the police and rioters, ending In the dispersal of the mob. Four arrests were made during the struggle and two gendarmes were injured. A manifesto signed by several Socialist Deputies has been circulated at Modena, It says that the Deputies are going to Sicily In order to force the government to take proper and beneficent measures to restore peace. In the meantime, the manifesto continues, the Socialist Deputies call on the people to organize popular meetings throughout Italy in order to protest against the "designed violence of the governnent and to check the vain resistance of our oppressed brothers," and exhorting them to harbor their strength for future needs. A dispatch from Palermo received today says than General Morra di Lavriano, the military commander there, who Is charged with the suppression of the disturbances in Sicily, has Issued a proclamation to the Sicilians declaring hl3 earnest desire to reassure the peaceful majority of the population and intimating that he is preparing to strike a speedy and decisive blow at the few agitators who are disturbing the peace. The General also appeals to the aid of all good citizens in suppressing the disturbance. Another decree issued In Palermo grants the banking establishments a moratorium of two months, dating from Jan. 1 of the present year. BARCELONA nOMll TlIItOWEIt. Ill "Wife Give Convincing? Evidence Agnlnst Her Hunbnnd. MADRID, Jan. 7. The wife of Salvador French, the notorious Anarchist who was recently arrested at Saragossa, and who confessed after making two attempts at suicide that he caused the bomb explosion In the Llceo Theater at Barcelona, has Informed the police of her husband's movements on the day of the outrage referred to. French. It appears, was absent all day and remained away until the following morning, when, she said, he returned and told her that he had been working in a neighboring village. French remained secreted in his home until Dec. 8. when he became alarmed on hearing that Cedina had been imprisoned, and he confessed to his wife that he i French) was the culprit and not Cedina. French, a ceo riling to the story of his wife, then left home and sought shelter in some other hiding place. The Anarchist's wife says that French was a steady workman until he joined the Anarchist society. Several bombs have been discovered at Sabadell, ten miles from Barcelona, SIGXS iiV A FIZZLE. Native Troop Tired of (lie English Wnrfare AialiiM Klnjur LuUcnRula. CAPE TOWN, Jan. 7. A telegraph dispatch has been received from Dr. Jameson, saying that the natives continue to come into Euluwayo, announcing that they are tired of fighting and desirous of peace. A large patrol has been sent in search of Captain Wilson and his party. This information shows that there Is now a less hopeful prospect of the British officer and his men being saved. Premier Rhodes. In speaking at a public banquet in his honor, said that he was prepared to submit the conduct of the operations In Matabeleland to the strictest Inquiry. Referring to imperial control, he said he did not object to th Interference of the crown if It would recognize its duties to the colonies. If It failed to do so, however, the colonies might deal otherwise. The Paris Election. PARIS, Jan. 7. The triennial elections for a renewal of one-third of the Senators took place to-day. At midnight the results of the senatorial elections throughout France, as far as known, showed that seventyeight Republicans, nine Radicals and seven Cc nservatives hud been elected. M. Teloncle he- r.otltied M. Caslmlr-'erier thnt he lntenl.-s to question th? government regarding the African collision in view of a more -rapid settlement of the frontier question. LONDON'. Jan. 8. A dispatch to the New3 from Paris says that the result of the elections was a foregone conclusion. The complexion of th Senate will be practically unchanged. The Anarchical Socialists are nowhere. When M. Flouiuet's return was announced at the Hotel de Ville there was a loud cry of "Long live Socialism." which drowned a few cries of "iong live Flouquet." Numerous disputes, blows and cries of "Down with the Fanamists" followed. For Six Xcw Cnrrilnnls. ' ROME. Jan. 7. Preparations for the consistcry, which will probably meet at the beginning of March, are already proceeding. It is now stated that It will provide for six new cardinals, namely, Mgr. Jacoblnl, tha Papal nuncio at Lisbon: Mgr. Xoeella, seeretarv of the consisteral congregation: Mgr. Sitoili, the Panal delegate to the United States: Mgr. Faustl, the Papal auditor; Mgr. Sal vat I, secretary of the congregatk nal council, and Father Stemhueber, the Jesuit. The Pope Is not willing that any Italian Tr.ishoT should be appointed while Italy refuses an exequator to the patriarch of -Venice and twenty other bishops. Homeless in Merlin. BERLIN. Jan. 7. Th? cold weather has lessened In intensity. There will be a special meeting of the municipal authorities to-morrow to decide whether thsy shall establish several halls warmed for the poor who now nightly crowd th refuges. There wt re sh?ltered In the r.ight refuges last night 2,7-1 people. INCOME TAX onJCCTIOVS. A Business Man's Experience "When ihe I.ntr "Wu In Force in War Time Washington Correspondence New YorTc Post. The, income tax idea still has a lirm grasp on th? minds of the Southern and Western ir embers of Congress, bdt there is no doubt that S.-crttary Cirlisle's suggestion of a tax on legacies and on incomes derived from corporation securities is having its effect the more so a the newspapers and the visitors from other parts of the country who l.avo been in Washington lately and have discussed th" subject of government revenues in the lobbies of Congress and the hotels have Persistently kept this notion In the foreground. "I h d a taste of the- immoral influence of an individual income tax back in the war era," sail a retlicd comtrJssion merchant from New Ycrk to pome Washington friends !:it evening. "My business fluctuated so In volume that no two years found n e In the same condition financially. I realized fullv then how a man nvght declare his income for the year enllng Dtc. 21 to have bef-n JiO.oM, and yet by the ith of February following L' a bankrupt: or 'ic ve-sa. 1 could fc 1 in myself and see In others the tendency of t'io tax to make tne taxpayer dctbt whether he had b?tter ted the exact tiuth regarding H.e p 1st or modify it a llttlu with a view t-j avcrf.gir.g it with the

future. I believe that. In spite of the temp

tation. I always paid the government ivs full dues except once; and then it was the government's fault, not mine. But that ence Illustrated to my mind one of the bad reatures or the tax. Business naa caneu me abroad for a long stay, and by some accident my assessment blank was not forwamed to me to nil up. The result was that th tax collector announced to me when we finally met that I would be forced to pay twice as much that year as last, the extra 100 per cent, being the penalty for my delay. I protested, and begged to be allowed to fill my blank myself, explaining how the delay occurred: but the collector said he had no option In the matterthere was the law, and neither of us could go behind It; I must pay my tax according to the blank filled out for me. I accordingly handed over the monev. " 'Now.' I asked, 'is that all the government will permit me to do? " "Yes he answered. " 'In charging me twice my last year's tax you have collected everything you are entitled tor " 'Yes. " 'And I am absolved from every debt I owe the government to date?' " 'Certainly. "'Then, my friend said I. 'let me tell you something you will be interested to hear. My income this year was at least twelve times as large as it was last year. The government, by its very silly persistence in treating an honest man like a thief, has deliberately cut itself out cf more than SO per cent, of what it would have had if I had been permitted to fill out my own statement as usual. Good day.' "Since that time T have been giving the whole subject a good deal of thought, and I have wondered why It would not be perfectly constitutional and regular, besides being much more moral, to levy a tax upon outlay rather than upon income. Not one of us can tell accurately how much our neighbor acquires In a year, but most of U3 could make a pretty Intelligent guess at how much he spends, for the evidences of his modes of life are all around us. Would not a tax on exependitnres moreover, have a good influence on the community generally, tending to make them more simple In their lives and more thrifty? I commend the idea to the consideration of Secretary Carlisle and our other eminent financiers." GOOD WORD FOR ALGER. Michigan Called on to Send Him to the Senate Next Year. DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 7.The Detroit Tribune, the leading Republican newspaper of Michigan, will publish, to-morrow morning, a column double-leaded editorial advocating the election of a Legislature this year favorable to the choice of Russell A. Alger for United States Senator to succeed Senator McMillan. It urge9 him "chiefly and particularly because the united action of Michigan Republicans on two great occasions in the history of the national Republican party has made him the logical nominee of the Republican majority." General Alger was presented by Michigan Republicans as a candidate for the presidency in the national convention of 1S5S. and In 1S?2, although again Indorsed by Michigan and other States, he remained in the background to assist Mr. Blaine's candidacy. In advocating an early discussion of the subject, the Tribune says that heretofore "the Issue has not been made as between Individual candidates until after the Legislatures have been duTy elected, and some gentleman or other has had the votes necessary to secure the plum neatly ensconced in his vest pocket. The condition of affairs has been, in fact, unhealthy for the party, and unfair to some exceptionally deserving party leaders." WORLD'S SKATING RECORD. John S. Johnson Lowers It from G:01 3-5 to 6:002-5 at Minneapolis. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. 7. At the Normania Rink to-day John S. Johnson again demonstrated that he is the fastest skater In the world. In his two-ralle race with Ilarley Davidson, the strong skater, Johnson lowered the two-mile world's record, which was held by himself at G:013-3, to 6:00 2-5. This was done without taking his hands down off his back. The skaters started from opposite sides. Davidson skated well the first mile, covering the distance in 3:03, but seemed to tire after that. Johnson made his first mile in 2;53. At a mile and a half he had gained his half lap on Davidson, but went by the St. Paul boy and crossed the winning mark in G:00 2-5 the fastest time ever made In an amateur race in the world. Davidson's time was 6:30. MURDERED BY WHITE CAPS. Kentucky Regulators Terrorizing tht Leesburg Community. IIARRODSBURG. Ky.f Jan. 7. About fifty White Caps went to the home of Josh Mitchell, at Leesburg. six miles from here, last night and dragged him from his house. Mitchell broke away and etarted for his home, but his body was perforated with buckshot and he fell dead on the doorstep. Leaving Mitchell's dead body they next visited the home of "Brock" Bottoms nnd dragged him out and gave him fifty lashes on his bare back, badly lacerating the flesh. A rope was placed around his neck, but the entreaties of his wife and children aroused a feeling of sympathy in the hearts of his persecutors and they relented. Several others were badly whipped and ordered to leave the country. The White Caps have been terrorizing the people of this and adjoining counties for Fome time, HE TREATED HER BRUTALLY. Milton Barbee Assaults His Wife and She Runs Away. Milton Barbee, a colored man living at No. 213 East Wabash street, assaulted his wife last night between 8 and 9 o'clock. The screams of the woman aroused the neighbors, and the police were called in. When officers Richardson and Wheeler arrived at the house, Barbee was found alone with his two children. His wdfe could not be found, and he told the officers that she had run out through the back yard. He admitted that lie had knocked her down three times, and claimed that he did so because she did not get his meals to suit him. Blood In copious quantities was found on the floor, and the room indicated that there had been a hard st niggle. Barbee was arrested, and nn otlicer sent to search for his wife. No one in the neighborhood knew where she had gone,' and at a late hour she had not been located. tiik coiitT ui:coui. Superior Court. Room 2 J. W. Harper. Judge. Louis O. Carson vs. Sarah De Long; erult on note. Tried by court. Finding and Judgment for plaintiff for $70. Mary A. Illnchman vs. Chas. G. IHnchman et al.: suit to revoke deed and cancel contract. By agreement cause dismissed at plaintiffs cost. Margaret Dinges vs. Henry Dinges; divorce. Decree granted plaintiff. Ora Anderson vs. Victor H. Anderson; divorce. Decree granted plaintiff. Iouisa Ileimba-ch vs. John HHmbach: divorce. Cause dismissed at defendant's cost. Room 3 Pliny W. Bartholomew, Judge. Cliarles Sims vs. Jane Sims; divorce. Decree granted plaintiff. Circuit Court. Edgar A. Brown. Judge. Albrecht Klpp et ai. vs. Abel Schuessler et al.; on note.. Dismissed by plaintiffs. Criminal Court. Millard F. Cox. Judge. State vs. Henry Allison; grand larceny and receiving stolen goods. Pleaded guilty. Imprisonment In the workhouse for four months and fined Jlrt. State vs. Da Ills liolden: Incorrigible Evidence partly heard and the cafe continued. .eiv Sails Filed. Arthur M. Schleslnger vs. George Powell. Superior Court. Room 2. The Terre Haute Brewing Company vs. Kate McPride et al.; foreclosure of mortgage. Circuit Court. Calvin F. Darnell vs. Rrastus Tlumm; note. Superior Court, Room 3. William II. Payne vs. Harry L. Lowes; note. Superior Court. Room 1. Hrnest A. Won man vs. Thomas B. Carter et al.; note. Superior Court. Lula Fogleman vs. Charles Fogleman; divorce. Superior Court, Room 1. Terre Haute Brewing Company vs. John D. Sullivan; on account. Superior Court, Room 2. A goll watch, of the hunting ense style. Is In the tossesion of the superintendent of police. Th chief desires to return the article to the owner on Identification. L'very ienny tells. You can get Salvation Oil for 2J ctnts IHst liniment in the market.

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Mrs. May Wright hewall's Talk Before the Progress Club. "The Solidarity of Human Interests" Is the Topic Which She Handles in au Admirable ilauuer. Mansur Hall was filled yesterday afternoon to the fullest extent of its capacity, due to the announcement that Mrs. May Wright Sewall was to address the Progress Club. The theme upon which she talked was "The Solidarity of Human Interest." She covered well the broad field embraced in her subject, which had relation to the practical affairs of men. Even the title to her address had been well considered In its subtle meanings and deftly drawn distinctions, and was chosen with a view to avoiding incongruity in, any form. She would not christen it the "union" of human interests, because she did not think this title would necessarily imply tho compactness Implied by tho word "solidarity." There were also objections to entitling the address the "Identity of Human Interests," because it did not fully express the speaker's idea of what the address was to be. She thought the true sense could only be expressed by the word "solidarity." Her address was a consideration of the interests of humanity in three relations. They were the interests of nations, of castes or classes, with the "a" sounded as In "fall;" the Interests of men and women. She said she considered them all the Interests of hu manlty. Her address was substantially as follows: "Columbus, when he set saU on his voy age of discovery, had no conception nor consciousness of the kinship of nations. There was, in that day, little of the sense of dejendence which every nation bears in its relation to others. Merchants, manufac turers and inventors wer among the first to come to the new world, but they were lacking In the spirit of Independence, whlcn is one of the fundamental laws of nature. They did not reallza tho foolishness of tie feeling which nations felt for one another that they could get along without the other. It remained for the great scholars to make this discovery, which, after all, has Hone more for the development of th human race than any discovery in the material world could possibly have done, "The greatest festival of the kinship of nations was celebrated during the past summer In what was known as the world's fair. No matter with what object one went to the fair, whether he went in the Interest of electricity or to study the sciences or as a mere sightseer, the feeling dominant In all must have been, not the differences which exist between the men and women of different nations, but the similarity which subsists between them. More than the exhibition of Lhe material things of the world did tha numerous congresses held in conjunction with It emphasize this thought of likeness. It would scarcely occur in the discussion of a local subject that a reference would be made to our ancestors except by way of explanation. It would hardly occur that we would mention our German American citizens, our Irish American citizens or others asi being inferior to the English American, who might chance to be the speaker, for we all recognize ourselves in a measure as foreigners building up a new nation. We recognize the need of all these nationalities to make up the perfect civilization for which we strive; all this, notwithstanding tliat some think we might get along without the Italian, and that all nave declared that the Chinese must go. "This is a nation which boasts that there are within Its bounds no castes, and yet It has Its classes, as strictly defined as the most rigid demarkation of castes in other countries. There is no nation in which classes more identically exist. There is a great chasm between the rich and the poor; between the educated and the uneducated; between the religious and devout and the Irreligious and undevout, and It is necessary that these great chasms should be bridged over. Many lessons might have been learned on this line from recent and current events. When the cholera approached our shores it gave no indication of discriminating between tho different classes. When the yellow fever raged throughout the South It rgjvuvd- neither rich nor poor, all went down before its ravages without distinction. War destroyed the pious as well as the impious. The financial depression which is now the most common topic of conversation has not distinguished between the classes, but all are now suffering in some way from its effects. "All these things have caused the brain of the Nation to become active and the Nation has profited. We have learned enough of the science of hygiene to know that we cannot let disease and pestilence run riot In one part of the Nation or city and expect to hold ourselves safe In another. Unlearned as we are in matters of finance, notwithstanding many a colossal fortune has been made in this country, we have learned that hungry hundreds cannot throng our streets without affecting the physical comfort as well as the spiritual nature of all. "The definition of the 'Solidarity of Human Interests' ought to answer forever the question as to man's superiority over woman. Woman has always been considered Inferior to man. Even Plato, who mode the first advance in the way of freedom for woman, considered that woman was the property of man. Man can never own himself so long as his mind is abused with this idea, and it seems to be a general epidemic. The sentiment expressed in the subject ought to bridge over this chasm which exists between man and woman, and until it does neither can gain its full importance in the world. Thi time will not come, however, until each la recognized as no more trnn half, no less than half of the whole, which can never be made perfect until each recognizes a dependence upon the other and the necessity and importance of the other. "This sentiment of the solidarity of human interests, like the pillar of fire by night and the cloud by day, has been the guide to all nations in their development. France has given 'Liberty. Equality, and Fraternity.' The United States has declared that all men are created equal. Christ, speaking for no nation, and for all, emphasized it in the golden rule and also In the parable where he says all are members of one body and no member may say of another, 'I have no need of thee. This is the secret of the local council of women. Its appaxently disinterested work is not being done because the women of this city or the women of to-day are any less selfish than the women of ten centuries ago, but because they have learned 'the solidarity of human interests. That Is why we have in this city a hygienic association, a sanitary association and now, a public health association. It is because women have learned to known that they canncl keep disease out of their own nurseries if there Is disease In the nursery across the alley. It is the conditions which beget disease which started the action. No one can say, 'I am well' while his neighbor suffers. "And so it is in a spiritual sense. This reasoning will applv to th-wlne rooms Of this city, to tho saloons an3 to the numerous places where nameless crimes are committed and protected. Not because we may say that these things may never enter our own homes can we rest secure from them. They Indirectly affect the whole communfry and we cannoi feel safe In our own homes so long as they exist. It Is a question of public safety. This same feeling gave existence to our public scools. It was not because the rich, who could send their children to private schools, wanted the poor to he educated, that the public school was instituted. This is a country where the poor people have as much to say In the affairs of the government as the rich and it was that the poor as well as the rich might act intelligently that the means of education was afforded It was a matter of public policy. "So It appears that the solidarity of human interests arouses a consciousness of the many fallings and shortcomings of humanity and a study of the theme puts Into practice all that goes to the development of the human mind for good and for humanity." Gnar Law on tlit Tariff. Philadelphia Tress. The Democratio majority, unable to keep In attendance enough of its overgrown ma jority to make a quorum. U equally unable to face the prospect of debate upon the Wilson tariff. It ts not strange. Debate on this tariff would be destruction. Mills are closing or closed. Wages are falling. Firms are falling. Panic is everywhere. Depression hangs over every trade. The Democratic party dare not face full, complete debate. In which the cause of these disasters could be placed before the country, schedule by schedule, clause by clause, and line by line. The pressure at Washington is already strong against the bill. The caucus last night shows tne opposition to thp measure within the party. The only possible chance of the passage of the Wilson tariff through the House lies in a prompt and unrelenting application of the ga. One of Joe Jcffemon'a Stories. Philadelphia Record. An amusing anecdote of the veteran actor, "Joe" Jefferson, showing the enterprise of h local furniture manufacturer. Is now blng told about town. Several welts ago, when Mr. Jefferson was playing Rip Van Winkle at the Wolnut-street thea-

ter, he found among his mall cne morning a letter from the furniture man. The epistle, which was written on a letter head adorned with a large cut of a folding bed "closed" and "open," read as follows: "Mr. Jefferson Sir: I raw you play Rip Van Winkle last night, end I have a proposition to make to you. When the curtain goes up on the third act, and you rise all stiff and sore after your long sleep, you might say a few wonls something like this: 'Oh, how stiff I ami If I had only slept last night on one of Blank's patent folding beds, warranted safe, durable and comfortable, how much better I would feel this morning'.' I think It would bring down the house. Now, I am willing to pay you well for this, of course. Let me know what you think of It." The owner of Blank's folding bed has not yet heard from Mr. Jefferson. WILSON OX THE IC03IE TAX. Eqnttable in Theory, He Says, bat Distasteful nnd Hard to Enforce. The North American Review for January contains a paper on the "Income Tax," by the Hon. William L. Wilson, chairman of the ways and means committee, from which the following is an extract: "The place of the income tax in the English system has been stated by Mr. Noble in his 'National Finance' as follows: 'The enormous sendee which it has rendered in the liberation of trades from a multitude of onerous and oppressive burdens has already been referred to. Its existence has rendered possible the great reform of our system of indirect taxation, which has been the foundation of our modern commercial progress. It has the transcendent merit over duties of customs and excise that it does not interfere with the processes of Industry or the course of trade, and that the whole amount which it coats the taxpayer is devoted to the service of the state. It is, at present, almost the only Impost by means of which any substantial contribution is levied from the increasing wealth of tho country; and its repeal without any effective substitute would aggravate the pressure of taxation upon those classes which are least able to bear the burdenIt has its inequalities, but they are by no means so flagrant and unjust as the inequalities of indirect taxation. "But despite these strong arguments In favor of an Individual Income tax, and the unquestionable equity of its general theory, there are very grave counter reasons which rise up before a Legislature whleji seeks to embody it into our federal tax system. Aside from the very natural objection of those who might have to pay such a tax. Its administration is necessarily accompanied by some exasp-.rating and some demoralizing incidents. Our people have so long and so generally been free from any public scrutiny into their personal incomes, and even from any xxrsonal contact with federal tax collectors, that they resent the approach of either. Moreover, like the personal property tax, which Is so universally evaded, personal income tax would easily lend Itself to fraud, concealment and perjury, and prove, as Mr. Mills said, a tax upon conscience. And. finally, in a country of the large geographical dimensions of the United States, it would be difficult to put into smooth and effective working order the necessary machinery for its thorough collection." The North American Review also publishes a paper by ex-Speaker Reed on tho Wilson tariff bill. Mr. Reed says in part: "Now that the bill Is before us. what Is to be said of it? Clearly It is not a bill for revenue only, since It reduces the revenue of the country probably seventy-five millions of dollars, so far as the usual treasury calculations can furnish us any aid in determining what the loss will be. If there be any gain to be anticipated to be set off against this loss, it can only come from Increased importations, which will just so much diminish American protection and be so much taken away from American labor. The bill cannot claim the merit, if there be any, of free trade except such as comes to it from having selected and cut off from protection many Industries which were at least as des?ring as those which are to survive, in Its struggle to put raw materials on the free list, this bill, devised In the main by Southern men, has so stricken the undeveloped regions of this country that the South is more likely than any other part of us to pre-eminently suffer by their efforts. "The time was when the West felt toward protection much as the South does now, but with Illinois as the third manufacturing State in the Union, the West beyond the Mississippi is looking forward to the day when the more direct benefits may i -ach them and develop their resource? also. In like manner the wise business i icn of the South are looking forward t ) the day, or rather were looking forward last year. The bill cannot claim any merit as a fulfillment of the platform of the Democratic party, since that platform denounced protection as robbary, and If nrotectlon be robbery then this bill is robbery on a sliding scale. In one Instance, at least, the bill Involves more unblushing misuse of public funds than was ever charged upon its predecessors, even in those impassioned harangues over the horrors of taxed trace chains which illuminated my earlier days In Congress." HE II ETCH S TO AFRICA. Serlea of Journey In the Interior Thnt nishop Tnylor lias Planned. New York Sun. The other day Bishop William Taylor palled from this city on his way back to the mission stations he has planted in Africa. He intends to make an inspection of the entire field where he has established missionaries. He will first land at Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, to visit hl3 stations in that neighborhood. He will also stop at various points nJong the Ltberian coast and will ascend the Cavally river. In the southern part of that republic, which is another center of his missionary effort. Inen he will go up the Congo river as far as Klmpoko, on Stanley iool, over three hundred miles from the coast. Klmpoko is his furthest station inland on the Congo, and before the missionaries had placed themselves on a comfortAb'e, self-supporting basis there they were compelled, at Unfa, to kill hippepotamuses and sell them to the natives for food supplies. rrom the Congo Bishop Taylor will go to Ixanda. the capital of Angola, and will start on another journey Inland to his Btatlcns along the Cuanza river and far Inland to Malanje. his outpost in that region. Then he will sail round to ths other side of Africa to visit the points In Mashonaland and Zambcsa, where his agents have planted the newest stations in tho long series of Taylor mission. Some of these visits involve hundreds of miles of travel through high grass, and up hill and down under the tropical sun. Not one man in many thousands at Bishop Tavlor's time of life could take such tramps, or do the work that he does every time he goes to Africa. He is now in his seventvthird year, anil yet we have heard of him la recent years, tramping day after day through African wilds, sleeping at night on the ground under a tree, digging irrigation ditches, and putting all white men around him to shame by tho results of his remarkable energy. There axe few men thirty ears vounger than he in Africa to-dav who eival Bishop Taylor in health, strength, lnutMry or unflagging zeal. The Bishop is accompanied by his niece. Dr. Jennie Taylor, a graduate of Dickinson College and of the Philadelphia Medical College. She has already shown that the has special talents as a surgeon. There is one thing that missionaries sometimes need more than medicine, and that Is dentistry. Miss Taylor took a complete course in dentistry for th purpose of meeting this need at the Taylor mission stations. Her two years' service will doubtless enable

some of the missionaries to' remain la th field, when they would otherwise have com home for dental repairs. The health of some missionaries has been impaired, and they have been compelled to return home solely on account of serious trouble with their teeth. THE 3IOVE FOIl BETTER HIGHWAYS.

It Will Ileanlt In (he Training of Engineer for the Work. Harper's Weekly. Adequately to provide a fertile country with good roads it is necessary to have on the average one mile of well-constructed way to each square mile of the area. Constructed in the cheapest possible manner consistent with a true economy, the cost of giving these roads a firm and enduring surface, such as macadam affords, cannot b less than $3,000 per mile or about So for eacn acre of land which is thus furnished with means of communication. It is therefore evident that any blundering in the effort to better our roads may be not only costly to the communities which are seeking improvement in their highwaj systems, but may result in taxing rather than in helping the farmers. Therefore tha first and most Immediate ned is for a body of trained men. who have, in addition to a fair knowledge of engineering, which will 1 enable them properly to lay out a road and build the necessary bridges, a special training In the peculiar learning which the modern "highwayman" requires for his craft. This includes some knowledge of physical geology, so much of mineralogy as will enable him to juflge the qualities of rocks, and a fair acquaintance with chemistry and physics. To do the work demanded of him the roadmaster should have the general training of a skilled civil and topographical engineer, and Fpeclal education in the matters which pertain to roads. As yet our engineering schools hav hardly begun training men for the need which we are considering, though In several of them courses of lectures on thl subject have been introduced inte the work. In the Scientific School of Harvard University some further progress has been attained by beginning a laboratory for experiments concerning the value of varioua, road materials, and by having under a skilled roadmaster practical instruction for the students in the field, where they may beenma personally acquainted with tha problems to be met in that department of engineering. In order to fit himself for this employment in a satisfactory manner a youth, after receiving a proper highschool training, or its equivalent, should spend four years in making ready for his work. A fair knowlet?e of th subject may be acquired in two or three years, but to be in a true sense trained In the art demands as much time as Is given to that of the railway engineer. It behooves our technical schools to meet this public need in a prompt and efficient manner. Next after the need of professionally trained men we may reckon as most important a knowledge as to the distribution and relative value of the road materials which exist in different parts of this country. The cost and goodness of a road alike depend on the nature of the substances which are used. To construct a mile of first-class macadamized or other substantial road-bed, several thousand tona of material, the cost of which is In most cases made up in the mala of transportation charges, are required. It Is therefor most important to have accurate and detailed knowledge as to the sites of those rocks which cun be most advantageously used. At present the better sorts of road mstal are often carried for the distance of several hundred miles, often passing near their destination materials which are equally well fitted for service. This waste or money can only be avoided by a wellmado survey and report of the country from the point of view of the road-maker. It Is here that the federal government can render a most Important sendee in the Improvement of our highways. It Is not within the limits of its powers to build carriage roads, except In the rare instances where they are needed for military purposes. It can, however, through its excellent geological survey, furnish maps and reports which may serv this need, as in other forms they serve those of the miner. OSCl'LATORY PHILOSOPHY. Some Reflection ArUlnjr from a Re rent Letfnl Declnlon Boston Journal. Here I a true and singular story of contemporaneous human Interest. A young man In a village near Utrecht kised a young woman whom he did not know in the street, and against her wish. She complained to tho burgomaster. He fined tha offender 1 florin or Imprisonment for orwa day. There was an appeal, and the Appeal Court at Amsterdam dismissed tha case. The Judges declared that "to kiss a person cannot be an nature of a warm This decision recalls that long prevailed as well as in other oflVnse, as It is In the mark of sympathy." some curious customs In the low countries lands. It was a uni versal habit for years for strangers to kl&s "other men's wives, widows and maidens when they made them c-eremoniaas visits;" although there were ancient sages who condemned It. Kornmanus assures us that there were many places in Germany "where it would be looked upon a a great impoliteness for a young man to meet with a maiden without embracing and kissing hr." Kra.mu9 was delighted with a similar English custom: "Whithersoever you come, they all receive you with kisses; anil whenever you go away you are dismissed in the same manner. Do you meet with them anywhere you fea.t upon kisses." But let uh ponder the rensmruiblrt word of the philosopher De SaJnt Evremont. "See how tha manner of saluting which la peculiar to our nation lessen the pleasure of kissing br making it too common. Nor do we men get much by it. for, as tha worll stands divided, we must kiss fifty old and ugly women if we have a mind t kiss two or three who are handsome. And to a weak stomach, as thos of my age generally have, one diagreeable kiss overpays a delicious one." DR. SCHENCK'S Mandrake Pills have a value a a houneholl remedy far beyond the po-erof langtiar l da rcrihe. TLe family can hardly be trua to lUelf bat does not keep theiuou iiaal for uiaU .a$t (reticle. MANDRAKE Is tho only vecretaMrt Kiibstltute for that dtngar ous mineral, Mluci kv, and whllo Its action as s curative 1 fully equal, it possesses none of tha perilous effect. In ConstJpatlou, Mandrake acts npon the how ola without disposing the.u to uuseaant Costlveoesi. No remedy acta to directly on tha liver, nethIrg ao speedily cures tick Headache, bour t-dotnatli and JJilouiness as these PILLS. 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