Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 February 1894 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, ISdh

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Can be found at tho following place: X'ARIS American Exchange In Faria, 38 Boulevard ceCapncines. XW YOISK Gllsey House and Windsor UoteL PHILADELPHIA 4. pTKcmUew 3733 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO Palmer Hons CIXCIXNATI-J. R. Hawley & Co., 131 Vina street 2X)UISVILLEC.T. Tiering: northweat corner of Third ana Jefi'ersonareets. feT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot. Washington, v. a-Tiug- iioase and Ebtutt I louse. .When the President received Boss Croker cordially It was in the hope of turning him against IIlll. What a, blundering, bumping, staggering thing the Cleveland administration has come to be, anyway. A Democratic Secretary of- the Treasxry has to look mainly to Republicans for support In pursuing" a sound financial policy. ' If the Wilson bill could be decapitated today Instead of being passed by the House business would start, up in a week all over the country. Reports from Washington indicate that the President is using all his purchasing power to win Senators to vote for the confirmation of Peck ham. 'Idle millions of dollars," laments a city paper; but idle dollars are of no consequence compared with the Idle thousands of men and women who are suffering for employment, ' Wall street will get the .Carlisle bends, but If the Democratic Congress had voted a small denomination 3 per cent, bond the people who are hoarding small sums of money would have purchased them. . The thirty-nlno riotous foreigners who have been Indicted and listed for trial this week for participation In the Pennsylvania mining riots are in a fair way to discover that the law governs In tWs country. There were 130 more names on the penslon rolls Dec 31. 1S03, than six months earlier, but 700,000 .claims are pending. These are the facts that lay bare the Cleveland pension policy, which, it is fair to assume. Senator Voorhees now Indorses, The New York World is not always re liable, consequently all hope that Its state ment that Attorney-general Olney "was well known in the office of tho Whisky Trust and to similar corporations when appointed" Is not true. The World, however. Is Democratic, If anything. It Is characteristic of Senator Sherman that he defends tho public credit under any and all circumstances. If he were a peanut 'politician he would try to put Secretary Carlisle "in a hole" and embarrass the administration by denying the legality of a bond Issue. But that Is not his way. Eleven alleged Representatives in Congress from this State,' when they see the deep grave in which th Tammany man. with 8,000 majority behind him in 1S32, was buried on Tuesday, will view the place where they will shortly He. Tho other sort of lying. In a mean way, they do In their tariff speeches. Governor McKlnley, who has been in Chi cago, 'refused to talk to reporters about .the Wilson bill. lie said: "I am letting the free-traders do the talking now." This Is all that is necessary. Even Mr. McKInley could not make more effective argu- . ments for Republicanism and protection than the free-traders are doing. The thousands of men in Brooklyn and other cities who worked In the sugar re fineries are entitled to sympathy for the tree sugar proposition of the Wilson bill. which will Interfere with their employment. but the Sugar Trust, which runs the re fineries and which took millions out of t the people before the McKlnley law, and recently practically withheld sugar from tho markets, deserves no pity. There was a rumor among the Washing ton correspondents the other day to the ef fect that Senators Hill and Murphy, of New York, would resign if Peckham was confirmed for the Supreme Court. If they should resign, two Republicans, elected by. the present Legislature, would succeed them and the Democratic ascendency in the Senate would be Jeopardized. Hut they will not resign. The Boston Transcript publishes a list of semi-annual dividends declared by vari ous corporations and duo in February. The list Includes eleven manufacturing companies doing business in Massachusetts, and their eVml-annual dividends range from ' .nothing to 6 per cent. Three companies de clare a dividend of 2 per cent,, one of Z's per cent, four of 4 por cent, one cf 6 per cent., and two declare no dividend at all. Doubling theso dividends givea tho annual rati of profits, and certainly It is not exorbitant Tho Brazilian Incident, coming so soon after the Hawaiian incident, furnishes a very different Illustration of the patriotic temper of the American people. Whtn the news came that the nag had been hauled down at Honolulu every American, with the possible exception of Messrs. Cleveland, Gresham and Blount, felt humiliated and angry. Putting aside all questions as to tha legiliroacy of the provisional govern-

ment, or the reasons for hoisting the flagover the government building, every American with a spark of patriotism in him felt that the hauling down of the flag represented a cowardly and un-American policy. Very different was the feeling when the news came from Rio de Janeiro that Admiral Benham had fired Into Admiral Da Gama's flagship because she fired on a vessel flying the American flag. "Good for Benham!" was the first thought of millions of Americana. Everybody felt that here was a man who did not belie'e the flag was made to be hauled down or insulted, who knew what American rights were, and was prepared to maintain them. The patriotic heart of the Nation was as deeply stirred as it was by the Honolulu Incident, only in a very different way. In one case it was with humiliation and in the other with delight. Depend upon it, the American heart Is lu the right place in all matters where the flag Is concerned. REPUBLICAN riUDi: DEMOCRATIC SHAME.

Senator John Sherman never more nobly represented the best impulse of the Republican party than on Tuesday when he stood up in the Senate to defend the bond policy of Secretary Carlisle. From the demagogue's point of view It was not good politics, and from that of the clipped dollar or liat money advocate it was not good policy; but in the estimate of the intelligent American citizen, who believes that the maintenance of the public credit is the highest duty of the American statesman, no matter who Is President or what party Is In power. It was a noble discharge of a patriotic duty. The credit which John Sherman stood up to sustain was that which was restored by Lincoln, Chase and their associates, and made permanent at Appomattox. It is not a thing to be trifled with. It is no less cause for Republican congratulation that no man among those who are known to be In sympathy with tho President came to the defense of the President's bond policy. McPherson, the ablest of them, is sulking in his tent, Gray, of Delaware, seems not to be able to take up the financial defense of the administration. Voorhees, cuckoo-In-chief, knows nothing of the subject, while the Vilas oratory is limited to simpler topics. It, then, remained forJohn Sherman to defend Secretary Carlisle against a majority of the Democratic party in both branches of Congrees. And what Is the President doing while his Secretary's policy of bond Issue Is prac tically on trial? Is he doing anything to sustain It? If he is, his newspapers have not discovered it. So far from that, he is engaged with the Senators of his State in an unseemly tussle over the confirmation of Mr. Peckham. Indeed, If rumors can be credited, he Is making: overtures to Sena tors whom he has snubbed to give them patronage for votes for Peckham. This Is the employment of the President at a time when his influence Is needed to placate Democrats who seem to be pleased to sec the credit of the government in peril. It is a most remarkable state of affairs when the only men able or willing to defend a policy to maintain the public credit are from the ranks of the Republican opposiHon. IIELITTLIXG THE MOXL'MRNT. If It be true, as reported, that members of the Soldiers Monument Commission are trying to arrange for a display of weather signal lights on the top of the monument, those members show their lack A appreciation of the character of the structure. The monument was not erected to serve as a lighthouse nor as a signal tower, nor as any sort of advertising shaft. It stands there as a solemn and Facred memorial of the men who offered their lives for their country. It was built to show the people of this and future generations that heroes and pa triots were honored by those whom they served. To attach any other signs or symbols to the shaft is to degrade and belittle its purpose and Its dignity. The same men who are so ready to add an attachment that would at once surround the stately pile with new and commonplace associa tions would be tho first to cry out against a similar use of church steeples or a mar ble shaft In a cemetery, yet the desecration would be none the less in one case than the other. And If weather signals are put up there at night, why should the en terprising commissioners stop at that? If the lights, why not the flags for day use? And if the weather flags, why not such other advertising devices as may seem fit ting tr the same peculiar taste? It was thought that when the effort to divert the monument from its original Intent by putting up the Mexican war dates was thwart ed, no further attempt in that line would bo made, but this Impression appears to have been wrong. It hardly seems possible that the board, as a body, will con sent to the proposed scheme. It fhould put an end to it speedily and finally. IT SHOULD SOT HE DOXE. A petition is being circulated for signatures among G. A. R. men in Ohio asking the department in that State to memorialize the Xation:U Grand Encampment to amend the constitution ar.d rules of the organization so as to adroit the sons of veterans to full membership. The promoters of the movement justify it on the ground that before many years the old scldiers themselves will havj passed away, and that it Is desirable to perpetuate the records and spirit of the organization and preserve the sentiments of loyalty and faithfulness to the flag which It represents. This Is true beyond any question. The principles of the G. A. It. should never be allowed to fall Into decaj. and the sentiments It represents should be carefully fostered. But it 13 doubtful if Its true spirit can be perpetuated or its real life irolonged by the method Indicated. Tht essence of the organization is comradeship, and its unique dlstlfictlcn is in the fact that it is composed exclusively of m"-n who fought for the flag In the great civil war. A man may be ever so patriotic and loyal, and may have served tho country faithfully and evidently In a civil capacity, yet he Is net entitled to membership In the G. A. R. The wealth of all the m'.'llonalres in the t'nlted States could not buy admission for a pen.on who did not wear the blue during the war, yet the humblest private soldier that carried a musket

and got an honorable discharge is entitled to membership, though he have nothing but what Is on his back. This qualification of actual service constitutes the distinctive character of the organization. If the door Is once opened to the admission of any other class this distinctive character 13 gene. The sons of veterans deserve whatever honor there 13 in that appellation, but they are not veterans. So far as actual service is concerned, their patriotism is

second hand. It has never been tested on J the battlefield, in the bivouac or the prison. Thoy can never know the meaning of comradeship except from hearsay. Their admission to the G. A. R. would destroy its distinctive character completely and irretrievably. This character should bo maintained In all its uniqueness to the end. The sons of veterans have their own organization, and should maintain it, but they should not be admitted to the order of past grand veterans. The membership of the G. A. R. should continue uninvaded except by death, and when the last surviving Union soldier, bent and decrepit, starts on his last day's march, let the people uncover their heads and say, "There goes the Grand Army of the Republic." A PROTEST. The Journal Is a firm believer In the freedom of the press to tell the truth, but it Is decidedly opposed to the license which exaggerates, misrepresents and distorts facts out of all resemblance to the truth for tho purpose of making people believe that they are reading important news when, in fact, they are only reading worthless fiction. Some of the more or less able correspondents who send special and regular press dispatches from Indianapolis to the newspapers of neighboring cities have been doing a good deal of this sort of thing lately. The labor troubles and meetings of unemployed have been grossly exaggerated. A temporary failure of the natural gas ssrvlce in one of the city suburbs has been represented as a failure of the supply for the entire city. It has been stated that United States District Judge Baker had rendered one decision seriously afTecting the city's credit and another nullifying the city charter. Such things Injure the city and are discreditable to journalism. The following letter from Judge Baker shows how little truth there was in two of tho dispatches referred to: Hon. C. S. Denny, Mayor of City of Indianapolis: You have called my attention to certain newspajKT publications wherein It Is stated that I have virtually held the present charter of the city of Indlanarolis unconstitutional. Said publications relate also to the effect of such holding upon the city's power to issue valid bonds. I have not in any case held the charter, or any of Its provisions, unconstitutional or invalid for any reason. There has been no decision and Is no pending case In either of the federal courts for this district which in any manner questions the city's power, under a proper ordinance, to refund Its Indebtedness by issue and sale of refunding bonds. Upon the contrary, in the case of Collin & Stanton vs. City of Inliinaiolls ct al., one of the cases mentioned, I expressly held that the city had the undoubted authority to issue and sell Its bonds to raise money to pay off Its outstanding bonds. I have made ruling on the merits of the case of MacVeugh V3. The City et al., the other case referred to in the publications, and, no matter what may be the linal result In that case. It vrlll In no way affect the charter in general cr the right of the city to Issue refunding or street improvement bonds. Said publications are misleading and very unjust to the city. In ono of the cases the decision of the court was misstated, and in the other, In which It wa3 represented as having made an important decision, It had made none whatever. This sort of thing should stop. If local correspondents do not care enough for the newspapers they represent to avoid sending them false ne.vs they ought to hive enough local pride not to defame and injure the city In which they live. Indianapolis does not object to being made a news center, but she protests against being made a center of false news. DEVICES OF A SMALL STATESMAN, A correspondent sends the Journal an extract from a newspaper in whlcli It is stated that Representative Cooper has secured an amendment to the Wilson bill by which sumac and degras have been placed on the free list, and also reducing the duty on cod oil to 23 per cent, ad valorem. For this he is claiming the support of working men In Columbus, where the most extensive tannery In the harness leather line In the world Is located. Let us examine Mr. Coorer's claims. Sumac has been paying duty for years because free-traders In Virginia years ago asked It to protect the poor people In that State, who derive a part of their living In gathering it from the hurtful competition of cheaper labor in other sumac countries. Degras is wool grease, on which the duty is cent a pound. Cod oil, which is used in dressing harness. Is the cheapest of oils, ostensibly taken from cod fish, but it really includes other fish oils. The duty is now 13 cents. a gallon, and Mr. Cooper claims to have secured its reduction to 23 per cent, ad valorem. Turning to the comparative rates of the McKlnley law and the Wilson bill, as. prepared for the Wilson committee and printed in the Cleveland and a few other papers, it appears that, at present import prices, 13 cents a gallon is equivalent to 2G 1-3 per cent, ad valorem, whlcli Mr. Cooper has had reduced to 23 per cent, ad valorem a reduction of 1 1-3 per cent. The paragraph sent the Journal continues as follows: Mr. Cooper adds that In 1S72 the Mooney tannery was a small affair. l-ut within a stone's throw there was a large woolen mill. That same year hides were placed on the free list and tariff was placed on wool. The woolen mill has long ago disappeared, the resrlt of the wool tariff, and the farmers lind no more a local market for wool. With free hides the tannery has grown to be the largest of its kind in the world. Before wool was taxed there were more than fifteen woolen mills in Mr. Cooper's district. To-day. with twenty years of protected wool, there is not one mill left In the first place, Mr. Cooper displays the grossest ignorance when he asserts thr.t the duty was placed on wool In 1S72. There has continuously boon a duty on the grades of wools used In cloth-making woolen mills Flnee 1S2 1. Consequently, it is not possible that there were fifteen woolen mills in the Fifth district before there was a duty on wool, as Mr. Cooper avers. During the period of the. revenue or free-trade tariff of Walker the duty was 23 per cent, ad valorem and 20 per cent, in 1S3T. No change was made in the wool tariff In 1S72. From 1SG3 to the reduction In 1SS3 the duty was as hlsh on the grades produced In this country as now. From 1S63 until after 1S72 the duties were Increased by the fact that

they were payable in gold from 23 per cent to 100 per cent. The duty on wool, because of the gold duty, was higher from 1SG3 up to 1S72 than it has been since. Mr. Cooper may not know this, but a man who Is fit to ga to Congress should know It, because the Treasury Department has published a book which contains all these facts. The duty on hides up to 1S72 was 10 per cent, ad valorem. The duty did not particularly affect the price here because of the costly transportation to the East. But

the taking the duty off of hides coming from South America, where they cost little or nothing, and their shipment to Eastern tanneries costing much les3 than from the West ought to have made them so much cheaper In the coast towns that the tan nery there could sell their goods cheaper than those in Indiana a condition which spoils the alleged argument of Mr. Cooper. The Hon. George William Cooper Is very short in information and very long in assertion. Misinformation has done much for him in the past, but it is as true now as when Abraham Lincoln said that "vou w can't fool all the -people all the time." When It appears that his self-heralded effort of having secured such a reduction of the duty on cod oil that the harness leather industry will be expanded immensely is but a reduction from 25 1-3 per cent, to 25 per cent. ad. valorem it will oc cur to many people in the Fifth district that Mr. Cooper Is playing a 'confidence game. . - POLITICAL. SICi.S IX THE SOUTH. The Iowa State Register publishes a letter from a well-known physician, of that State who has been spending some time. In Florida. Referring to politics he expresses the opinion that between the steady Influx of Northerners ajid the mutinous spirit that is growing among Democrats Florida is liable to drop out of the Democratic ranks in a very few years. As bearing on the point of dissatisfaction among Democrats he furnishes a copy of a letter written by an old-time Southern Democrat to a friend of his who permitted him to copy it. Following Is the letter, omitting names: FLORIDA CITY, Fla., July 31, 1SD2. Mr. . Tampa, lla. Dear Friend: Things have come to . such a pass that I will never vote another Democratic ticket I would like to me?t you soon and give you a few pointers that would burst the "stuffing" out of the present way that the Republican party ts swindled out of their votes In the South. I know all about the trick and have taken hand in it nmny times. Can we meet soon and have a talk? You might moke something out of it. Don't say anything about this till we meet. Will not be at home again for a week. In haste. Yours truly, . This is one of many evidences that honest men In the South are growing very tired of being made parties to systematic frauds simply to maintain a corrupt oligarchy in power. It is not unlikely that the growth of this sentiment is largely the cause of the Democratic anxiety to -repeal the national election laws. In order to maintain the. reign of fraud as long as possible they want: to remove every possible hindrance to dishonest elections, so that it a mutiny occur In their own ranks they will . still have the advantage, of fraud on their side. This is the actual situation In Alabama, wrhere a large faction of the Democratic party has united with the Populists and Republicans In an effort to secure' honest elections and to enforce the will of the people against the Democratic machine reinforced by fraud. Honest Democrats in the South are beginning to discover that in encouraging and assisting in the establishment of unfair election laws and fraudulent methods they were simply forging chains to bind themselves. They find that the laws that were framed and the practices that were devised to disfranchise Republicans can, in the hand3 of unscrupulous managers, be used with equal effectiveness by (vie Democratic faction against another. These fraudulent methods are like "bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the Inventor." PRICES .OP FARM IMPLEMENTS. The El wood Leader publishes letters which it has received from some leading manufacturers of agricultural implements In reply to a question whether their Implements were sold abroad cheaper than at home. The Oliver chilled plow works, of South Bend, say: "The American farmer buys Oliver chilled plows cheaper than the foreign farmer does, and no advantage in the way of prices or allowances is given to the foreign merchant over the American dealer." They say their foreign trade comes solely on account t the merit of their good?, and not on account of lower prices to foreign dealers. The Studebaker Manufacturing Company, of South Bend,' says: "It is not a fact that wejsell vehicles abroad more cheaply than at home. Our prices wherever sales are made are based on the cost of goods in South Bend. Quality and quantity are thepnly considerations which govern us, and it makes no difference to us whether the customer comes from Indiana or Van Dieman's Land. A. Kalbmerten, manufacturer of threshing ma chines at Mansfield, O., says the only reduction they make ta foreign buyera is on account of spot cash payments, and they make the same reduction to American buy ers for spot cash. They add: Answering your question how we find it possible to compete with foreign machinery will simply say this: Those who were at the world's fair and noticed the foreign threshing machines on exhibition there must have ob.-crved that this machinery is not built to successfully compete with American threshing machinery when speed is required. A German thresher, for instance, that Is indeed a very Intricate piece of machinery and will have to retail for fully as much as an American machine, will not do one-fourth the amount of work that ours will, and that explains our ability to successfully compete with foreign threshing machinery. The Wayne manufacturing works, at Richmond, Ind., say. they o not sell goods in foreign markets for less than they do to the home trade. They have but one Jobbers price for the home and foreign markets, the only reduction being on large lots or for spot cash. These letters are in line I with othpr evidence, all of which rnps'M - - - - - , - r " v thow that the statement that American farm Implements are sold cheaper in foreign markets than they are at home is not true. The figures which the New Orleans TimesDemocrat gives regarding the cost of producing sugar in Louisiana during the past six years are not encouraging, since the average cost for tho six seasons la a frac

tion over 5 cents a pound. The lowest cost was a fraction over 3Va cents a pound, the season oX 1S00-9L Two of the six seasons were unfavorable, showing that the sugar crop In Louisiana is an uncertain one. The

sugar Interest of Louisiana has been protected for nearly a century, yet It supplies less than onettenth of the amount consumed. The sugar industry which promises great things is that of the sugar beet Its marvelous success In France and Germany assures success In this country when our people get to It. No doubt Tostmaster Thompson, in com mon with all peace-loving citizens, regrets to see great men falling out and making faces at each other, but he finally con soles himself with the reflection that it Is an ill wind that blows nobody good. It Is due Mr. Thompson to say that there Is no reason to suspect that he stands any better with the administration than any other good Republican. It is not that Mr. Cleveland loves him, but he hates Turplc Once, when a ruffian was about to throw a man from the upper gallery in an Irish theater, another ruffian called out, "Save him to kill a fiddler with." Mr. Cleveland is saving Postmaster Thompson to kill Turpie with. Mr. Smythe. the-United States minister to Haytl, who is said to have committed the dreadful diplomatic blunder of med dling in .the affairs of the country to whlci he was sent of offering unsolicited advice to the Haytian government was, until a few brief months ago, the editor of a small "patent Inside" country weekly In a little Virginia village. His experience had not been such as to give much knowledge of international diplomacy, but the editorial habit of laying down the law for all creation probably led him to write that letter to the President of Haytl. Mr. Cleveland should take this habit into consider ation before dealing with Smythe. Two policemen of Kokomo have issued the following challenge: , Wo challenge any two members of the Kokomo fire department to debate in a public hall, the following question: "Reoiveti. That a good police force Is or more benefit than a good lire department." The proceeds to be devoted to charity. Admis sion to be 10 cents. The challenge has been accepted by two firemen, who agree to meet the challengers at any time and place that may be agreed upon. The solution of the question, if it can be solved by public debate, will be awaited with Interest by many cities. There is no doubt but that a good police force or fire department is better than a bad one. but which department is the more useful is not so clear. The Journal inclines to the opinion that a fire department Is the best for extinguishing fires and a police depart ment for making arrests or preserving the peace. This, however, is n off-hand opin ion, and, upon further Investigation, might be modified. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Has the Legislature changed the weight of ear corn from slxty-eigh to seventy pounds; if so, when? There has been no charge in the law. The standard weight is still sixty-eight pounds to the bushel, but when corn is new and heavy some dealers require seventy or seventy-five pounds. UUIIllI.KS IX Tim A I It. And IllIftM Reigned. He Laura Miss Laura, I mean is there any hope for me? She Hope for you? I have been hoping for you for the last year. to Date. Country Aunt How did you like the fairy story I sent j-ou, Ethel? City Child Oh, the style is good enough, but the ending Is so old-fashioned. People don't get married and live happy ever after In stories nowadays. Modern Drnmn. Tlmmin3 I'm going to give up poetry and try my hand at realistic drama, Simmons Going to have any prize fighters in it? Timmins No. The hero and the villain each own a fighting dog, and I'll have the animals go through a four-round bout wdtii eight-ounce muzzles on in the second act. That Hoy Aanln. "It makes me tired." said Mr. Figg, "to see the style the Henderbys put on, when everyone knows that they are as poor us as pvor as " "Plaster," interrupted Tommy. "Yes, as poor a3 plaster poor as plaster; porous plaster. If you don't send that impudent kid to bed in five minutes I'll lick him till he can't see." Then Mr. Figg put Us hat on well down over his eyes, and, not heeding his wife's advice to wear hl3 cxershoes, went down town. HEXHAM'S GUXS. Correct Admiral Benham. Our navy is on tho seas to protect American citizens and their property. Our foreign policy goes no further, but It goes clear up to the limit on that line. St. Louis Republic (Dem.) Admiral Benham's performance was the most splendid and picturesque incident of the Brazilian revolution, and it was frauerht with the most momentous significance. The country is proud of Benham. Cincinnati Tribune (Rep.) American sympathy Is strongly in favor of President Peixoto, and if Admiral Benham has snuffed out the rebellion, inspired and supported as it apparently is by European anil monarchical Influences, no one is likely to be sorry. Chicago Record (Ind.) Any pugnacious Brazilian that thinks the American eagle has lost its voice and its claws because It Is not always screeching and scratching nas only to attempt liberties with the bird's plumage to discover his mistake. Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.) i The administration at Washington would probably not be averse to cover up the Ha wallan infamy by seeking a. little cheap glory in South America. The very fact that so powerful a squadron has been massed In RJo bay without apparent reason for the presence ot more than two cruisers is suspicious. Chicago limes (Dem.) It is in accord with our policy to support the Brazilian republic, and Admiral Ben ham is likely to get commendation from the administration for demonstrating that it has no objection to a display of genuine American vigor In foreiifii affairs when there can be no dispute about what administration the cretilt belongs to. Louisville Commercial (Ind.) It is a matter for congratulation that the miserable, inconsequential Brazilian war Is now about over. Of course it must be taken into account however, that Cleveland and Gresham may send Blount down there with paramount authority to take command of the fleet and set Da Gama on his fcet again with full power to resume operations. Chicago Tribune rltep.) A1IOLT PEOPLE A XI) TIIIXGS. A Chinese scot teaches that women who become vegetarians will be transformed into men in the great hereafter. The only hotel and public house in Biddeford. Me., has been closed for lack of patronage. The town numbers 13,IA0. Rev. Dr. Joseph Parker, of London, says that a place for Talmage will socn be found there if he is no longer wanud in America. Senator Morrill, "of Vermont has stopped patronizing news clippings bureaus, for he found it very monotonous to revive bushels of items a!xut his "remarkable intellectual vi;or at eighty-three." Attar of rose Is constantly growing more costly. A email quantity about eight tea-

spoonfuls costs from $10 to $15. The peasants who produce It In Bultrarla have largely given up raising grain to raise roses. Baron Haller, a German poet when a young man risked hl3 life to save his manuscript poems from a burning building. He laid them away, and. a few years later, sitting down to read them over he wos so distasted that he threw them all Into the fire. " Miss Flora. Kimball selected the trees and superintended the planting of them on seven mile's of the streets of National City, CaL She was requested to undertake the work by the supervisor, who deemed her the most competent person for the place. Miss Elizabeth Bullock, aged seven tyseven, died at her home in Salem. Mass., last week, after spending forty years In the house without leaving It. She was not an invalid until shortly before her death. Her sweetheart went West vears aco. promising to come back for her. Instead he married another, and she vowed then that she would never leave the house again. A beggar at Pesth. Hungary, who was arrested for throwing himself into the river with intention of committing suicide, was discharged after telling his remarkable story- H was an aiei and shriveled specimen of humanity, with long, patriarchal beard, and acknowledged that he was past ninety-four years of age. Ills excuse for attempting to take his own life was that he was no longer able to take care of

his father and mother, who were aged 13 and 120 years, respectively. There is a complaint that women in New York society chatter too frivolously. In London the complaint is reversed. It Is related that at a recent dinner party a Cabinet Minister was asked by his fair neighbor in the middle of the soup, "Pray, what do you think of the advance of 4he democratic feeling in England now?" Whereupon the oihcial. being very tired. bored and Inclined to be cross, simply exclaimed, "Pray, what do you think of that lady's dress on the other side of the table r "Let me give you my djdng advice," said Rufus Choate, and it Is quoted in the Green Bag. "Never cross-examine a woman. It Is of no use. They cannot disintegrate the story they have ence told; they cannot eliminate the part that Is for you from that which is against you. They can neither combine, nor s-hade. nor ouallfv. They go for the whole thing, and the mo ment you begin to cross-examine one of them, Instead of being bitten by a'singlo iacm-s:iuKe, uu are oaten Dy a wnoie Uirrclful. I never, excepting in a case absolutely desperate, dared to cross-examine a woman." SHREDS AXD PATCHES. We don't like the outlook. New. Haven Register (Dem.) If you desire to be wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue. Lavater. Cleveland is to have a baby show for the benefit of the unemployed. Philadelphia Press. Mr. Corbett Is lucky in landing that $20,000 before the income tax law goes into effect. Detroit .Tribune. Some of Mr. Cleveland's foreign ministers really ought to be tried for heresy. Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. St. Gaudens made a serious mistake when he neglected to provide a chaperon for his summer boy. Washington Post. Peckham seems to be a first-claw man. He once alluded to Hill as a "reptile." Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. A vote for the Wilson bill is a vote to disturb business and to dishonor the Democratic party. New York Sun (Dem.) The air Is black with the flight of Cleveland chickens which are coming home to roost Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. The child that Is spoiled by harshness Is never mentioned as a "spoiled child;" but this doesn't prevent him from being one. -Puck. It is not cheapness, Professor Wilson, which the million and a half of the unemployed are seeking but work Albany Journal. If Lillian Russell's marriage proves a good advertising card, it is predicted that she may make it an annual event. St. Louis Chronicle. The Hawaiian episode, so far as President Cleveland's administration is concerned, appears to have been a. soup d'etat. Chicago Dispatch. The New York Sun Is rapidly reasoning Itself into the belief that Cleveland is crazy. The Sua is always charitable.-Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Touching a man's conscience does not amount to much. When you touch his pocketbook there is business to attend to. New Orelans Picayune. A close landlord uptown raised the rent of one of his houses because the walls had bulged out, and therefore made the house larger. Philadelphia Record. Inrume-Tax 1'"1iik-o. New York Evening Post (Mug.) The vote in. the remocratIc caucus at Washington to attach the income tax to the pending tariff bill complicates the situation, both political and financial, enor mously. All persons are agreed that the fate of the Democratic party depends upon passing a tariff bill which shau be entl tied to the name of reform. Tna measure of reform may be much or little, but pas it they must. For that they were elected. and they must fulfill the law of their being or give up the ghost. It Is stilt an undeUrmined problem whether they can pass the mil through both houses of Congress unencumbered with extraneous matter. To fasten upon it another bill, and es pecially one which excites such bitter feeling as the Income tax, is an extremely per ilous move, and likely to defeat any financial legislation whatever. In iat case the Democratic party might as well stay away from the pons next autumn altogether. since the financial upshot would be the carrying on of the government by means of bond Issues and an entire failure to execute the promises of the party platform. Hotter 3Innuers. Boston Journal. Ex-Governor Campbell, of Ohio, has fall en Into financial difficulties, but we observe no disposition on the part of Republican newspapers to mock at his misfortunes, as was done most disgracefully by Democratic orcans when Governor Mclvlnley and exSecretary Poster were under tne wheel. The manners or a large part or tne Demo cratic press are a curious compound of Tammany vulgarity ana plantation arrogance. An Orrnn Confcimlon. Philadelphia Times (Dem.) Harmonizing the Democratic party just at this Juncture is rather a huge Job. It Is all pllt up in Washington, and until theTe shall be some cohesive Democratic power there, there is little likelihood of Democratic cohesion and harmony in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, or eisewucic. Shonlil He United. Philadelphlav Press. It would be much better If Utah remained a Territory until the last vestige of polyg amy was so effectively stamjed out as to insure against its reappearance, but if it must come in it Is certainly better by consolidating it with Nevada to reduce the relative Mormon vote. Workhmninn' Friend. New York Mail and Express. Professor Wilson wanted to cut down the duty on diamorvls to 10 per cent. In order. we suppose, to cneapen tnem for the Amer ican worklngrrven, who are taxed so ravenously by the "robber barons" who sell the diamonds. Am n Mutter of JunUcc. Boston Globe. If there is a tax on bachelors, should there not also be a tax on the women who have refused to marry them? We ask thi3 question in the interests of Justice. Mutton Should He Cheap. Chicago Inter Ocean. Cattle men say "good beef will be high before spring." Possibly so. but shfvp meat ousht to be cheap. It Is a Democratic sheep-killing year. " HotiiriiliiK Confidence. Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette. Some Democratic Journals are rash enough to pint to the mill that started up in Jacksonville Inst Thursday as a sign of "ralurnlng confidence." S y in pa t It t-1 i e A n n o u ti ce ui c n t . Chicago News. Over one thousand saloons went out of business in Chicago during the last three months. This Is rough on the poor, struggling breweries. Hey? Philadelphia Times (Dem.) Honest men can always get together, and honesty is all that Is needed to make all honest Democrats united In Pennsylvania.

MUST- BE TAKEN' SERIOUSLY.

Dr. Boyd Thinks There la Danger of tho Earth Collidinc: with Another Planet. To the Editor of the Irdiannpoll Journal: In yesterJay's Journal there was the fol lowing, clipped frcm the Hartford Ccurant: "Professor Falh. of Vienna. Is nuotM in Iaris pewstyrtners predicting that on or about Nov. ir wj. the earth will collile with a planet which was first sichted in lvJ and hn ever since t-en loafing around the neighborhood In an eccentric ar.d highly suspicions way." It Is not w'se to treat llchtly or with in difference a subject of such profound Im portance. Lat August I read a pajer before the Irrrdentallsts FxJety on "The Ce lestial and Telluric Phenomena at the Sec ond Coming of Christ." In this iiper I rave some astronomical facts, the same as those given by the Vienna astronomer, as fol'.ows: The interplanetary space is filled with dark bodies in the form of star dust and larger. So great are some of the m te-roids that they obscure the light of the star si'ns. These stars are called variable stars. We have several of them. The star Algal, In the constellation Perseus, is on) of them. Professor Newcomb says: "Usually it shines as a second magnitude star. But at Intervals of less than three days it fides out to the fourth magnitude for a few hours; then it resumes Its splendor one more. The apparent regularity of this vari atlon of light at first suggested, a3 an explanation of Its cause, that a large dark planet was revolving around Algal and passed over Its' face at every revolution, thus cutting off a :ortlon of light." There are many other variable stars trom like cause. Since is filled with meteoric matter, that, sometimes coming under the uttr:ctlva power of the earth, falls to the earth, attended by a bright light. Some of these me teoroids are of sufficient size to destroy life. 1 here s a record of several deaths irom this cause. "The remarkable meteor." says Herschel. 'of Aug. IS. 17V,. traversed the whole of Europe, from Shetland to Rome, with a velocity of thirty miles jer second, at a height of fifty miles from the earth, with a licht surpassincr that of the moon and a real diameter of fully half a mile." The November meteors have a iaraboIlc revolution around the sun of years, it is generally supposed by astronomers that they are the remains of some disintegrated comet. The earth cross.es the orbit of the November meteorclds every thirty-three years and comes in contact with some of the members, which gives us this briinant display of shooting slurs. Now. somewhere In this group of meteors is the he-ad. nucleus, or largest part of tha croup, and an intJivsting astronomical fact is that the earth does not pass throi:h this group at the same place, but advances uO.t)0 miles further along Its orbit, and soma time will come in contact with the nucleus. Some astronomers declare that at the lat period, in lStf. they saw this body as a sin ill planet. This is what the Vienna astronomer refers to. Now. what would be the consequence ol the earth coming in contact with a IkxIjt one-fourth the size of the moon at th rata of fortv-four miles per second? The apostle John says, in Rer. ix. 1: "And the fifth ansel sounded and I saw a star from heaven fallen unto the earth; and there was given to him the key of the pit of the abyss, and he opened the pit, and there went up a smoke out of the pit as the smoke of a Treat furnace: and the sun and the air was darke-ned by reason of the smoke of tha pit." Should a meteor IlKe a burning mountain strike the etrth with the rapidity f one of these deoidds It would burst In th shell of the oarh's crust nni release tha pent-up fires In the center ef the globe, and produce Just such a catalysis as is rcj rsented bv this text. It would fall a a burnIn star falling into the ocean, coming suddenlv as a dark object out of Fpaoe. "ilka a thjlef In the night." It would cause a ter rible e irthquaKe, cnange tne waiera ui mo ocean into vapor, penetrate to the melted ir In th renter of the earth, causing & nm of burninir lava to burst out as from a great furnace, causing terrinc cyclones and spreading over one-imni or tne gioin-. The congealed lava would fall from a great height in the form of fiery hall. The gas and coal oil in the earth, becoming ignited by the fire, would cause an immense smoke thit would nut out the light of the sun. and. :is it roll-d over the earth, would blot out all the celestial objects, as u a wcrvu rolled together." . Professor Dana's description of the great eruption of the volcano Kliauea. in Hawaii, i n fnint p eture of the anticipated scene. He says: "The stream of melted lava, like a fire, plunged into tne sea wien iovmi unonations. The burning lava, on meeting um ivntprs. was shivered like melted clas into millions of particles, which were thrown up into the clouds that uarKenea me y, and fell like a ptrm of fiery hall over the surrounding country. irofrsnr Klnnev sneaks of the same phenomena as follows: "The Intense heat from the rountam oi iava cauM-w j;u.u of cool air from every quarter. This caused terrific- whirlwinds, the most dangerous of anything about the volcano. This is the awful phenomena mat await hia rth -rul unless the calculations of astronomers and mathematicians are incorrect this Is to occur at Uie next visit of mMoors. Nov. 13-11. These am positive astronomical facts, and it is wry unseemly ana unwise iv with levltv. vi. Indianapolis, Jan. si. NO KUMIXE FOR ROSCOE CONKLIXG. lie Declined lie Chief Jutteeh!p of the United Slates Supreme Court. New York Mail and Ex cress. T- .Hanr rt h rPTf-tlt nomination Of Willi II UnrnUnu-or tct- A iOClt e JU?tUfl of the United States Supreme Court and his reaction by the Senate and subsequent nomination or air. neeier u. is interesting to recau tne laci. not very generally known, that the chiefjusticeship was offered to the late Roscoe Conkling by President Grant. (fn Grant was anxieus to make a nomination, for the high office that would meet with Popular approval, and to avoid subjecting jection. although Conkling was his first choice, he practicany waiicu uum - ion had !een conflrme-d by the press and public opinion. ... CJhief Justice haimon "-"i-. V, .1 7. isrs. During the recess of the henat. public men and the press suggested Mr. Conkling as the proper suocessjr. In .No vember he received the letter from President Grant which is given below. Mr. Conkllnp ?1hk a . C T 1 "Vfilr I ,. i.... f mim-ri led him to take Ilsl. Ills tutu vi n-"'-' . . part in a discussion rather than to a 1 stener. ana in uetimiHK V "" VVIjiyi, ship the Senator made this characterise remark: "If I accepted the place I would be forever gnawing my own chaliu. Indent Grant's letter and the t rci v are now In the possession of Roser conklirg nephew. Hon. Alfred It Conkllng?of tWs city. They are as follows: "EXECUTIVE MANSION. "WASHINGTON. D. C, Nov. S. liTJ. "Mv Dear Senator When the chief iusticeVhip became vacant I naturally looked n-ith anxiety to some one whose apiolntmit S be recognized as entirely fitting and acceptable to the country at large My own preferences went to you at once But I determined-end announced that" the appointment would not be made until the meeting of Congress that I thought a Chief Justice should never Ins injected to the mortification of a rejec; tiom Th2 possibility of your rejection of tWTuorowalTing for gSfflJnfftlSS nslSafe to you that my first convStoiw on the subject of who should S Judge Chad's succeor have now rSWLl Confirmation by time, and I ten.ljr the nomonatlon to you. to be made on th meetin?of Congress, in the hoi that you JmKtSln the full belief that no more acceptable ailment coul i l b mide. Very truly yo:rs. V. rt. GRANT. "Hon. Roscoe Conkling. "UTICA.N. Y.. Nov. 2 1ST2. "My Dear Mr. President Your letter ot the hth instant, postmarked the 13th. cnm here during my absence. On the 11th lien. Balcock mailed a copy, which reached me at New York on the lith, and the space slnc then you will not, 1 trust, think too iong" for due retle'Ction, You offer me the cM-f Justiceship, and this confidence outweighs all the honors of the place. "My transfer now from the Senate to the bench involves considerations not only beyond my own interests and wishes, but I think even beyond those before you; and after much thought 1 am convinced that in vlow of the whole cast you would ntine with me that another anointment should be made. "I will not detain vou with reasons nor with expressions of the profound soa3- e-f obligation to you which will abide with me always, but Instead 1 ask you to let your choice fall on nn th?r. who, however else uualU'.ed, believes as man and lawyer, as 1 believe, in the m.-aMires you have vnh'.d in war and in p;ue. our friend anu ' ?tTvant. KOSCni: CONKLING. "His Excellency President e,rani. I)nt rirane Anybody. Milwaukee Sentinel. It I a carious fact that every me-nber; of Com:res who has spoken In advocacy f of the iass.ice of the Wilson tariff bill has admitted that It Is not such a measure as ho would like to. see enacted.