Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 March 1894 — Page 4

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Till; IMjIA.N l'4I.l JOURNAL Can le lom.d t tlie lollowlii? places: PAlUS-v.AmrriCbU . nnge lu i'arla, S6Boulerard ce Cupnciiits. Hk.i "iUllK Glitzy Rouse, anil Windsor Hotel. IIIILAIjELFHIA A. lTKerable. 3735 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO IV. n.cr Houne. AuUtorium HuteL CINCINNATI J. K. Haw ley Co, 154 Vine street. lCUlfeYlI.LE C. T. iHeriiig. Lortuweat comer of 1 hlld aliil J tCitson streets. IT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot. V'ASIIINUTON. 1. C-Tliiggs House and Ebbitt llOUSf. The Journal believes that Mr. Cleveland 13 enough Letter than his party to veto the seigniorage bilL T secure the votes of the two Louisiana Senators for the ex-confederat3 tariff bill a tax cf $11,000,000 will be imposed upon the consumers of sugar. The prominence of the campaign of the Whisky Trust appears to have swamped the Voorhees presidential boom; but, secure Itself, the trust can put a million or two Into the Voorhees cause. Secretary Gresham i3 named among those who are urging the President to 'sign the liland seigniorage bill on the ground Of "good politics." V.'hen a man b:gins to down hill there Is no telling where he will stop. It seems that the New York financiers did not wish to take the $C0,0u0,00O of bonds at 3 per cent., but they did It because Secretary Carlisle told them that if tha bonds were not sold the Bland bill would become a law. Thereupon they agreed to float the loan- I, No one who knows Judge Gresham is surprised that he Is urging the President to sign the seigniorage bill, but even the Populsts who sought him In 1SD2 will not take him in 1S&6. They will not take the man who Is responsible for the Hawaiian humiliation. Speaking of the frequency with which "holders-up" make their demands upon Individuals for their valuables. It is a retail business compared with the Democratic Congress, which is holding up the industrial Interests of the country with its "stand and deliver." The army has not asked Congress to give the senior major general the rank of brevet lieutenant general. It certainly has not reached tha dimensions of a demand elsewhere. Tne ranfc with which Thomas, Meade and Hancock died will do for those now in the army. The bill before the House which declares that testimony of falsifiers shall not be Used In pension cases would seem to be unnecessary, hut Its author, Mr. Martin, undoubtedly knows better than most people the restrictions which should be put upon the Pension Bureau. The trouble about any plan to take tariff legislation out of the hands of Congress is that no Congress can adopt any plan which the next one may not repeal. Senator Morgan's plan for the appointment of a tariff commission is good enough, but like all other plans, it Is open to the above objection. The New York Evening Po3t should come to the support of Mr. Breckinridge, of K3ntucky, in his campaign for renomlnatlon to Congress. It was the Post which, on a memorable occasion, enunciated the proposition that the existence or absence of personal purity had no bearing whatever on a man's fitness for public life. In Albany, N. Y., the Hill people have united with the Republicans in nominating a ticket which stands for honest elections. The Cleveland managers In Albany have been stulllng the ballot boxes Just as Senator Murphy's people have in Troy and Tammany In New York. It Is the instinct of the Democratic managers. The mugwump Boston Herald makes an earnest plea for the pensioning of the widow of a general officer, who is in comfortable circumstances, at the rate of ?1C0 a month, but it is unalterably opposed to the pension act of June 27, 1S0O. Such an attitude is an admission that the few are to be favored and the masses to be Ignored. Senator Voorhees complains because he has been singled out for criticism and suspicion of having been affected in his action on the iugar duty by the undue application of "sugar" of another sort. He doesn't see why he should be mailt a target while Mr. Cleveland himself is a strong supporter of the sugar duty and the income tax also. Cupiose Cleveland is. This doesn't prove tny thing, nor let Mr. Voorhees out. The betrothal of Lord Rosebery to one tf the daughters of the Prince of Wales, which Is authoritatively announced, forethadows an interesting complication of love and politics. His marriage Into the royal family will hardly strengthen Ixrd Eosetery with th? people or add to the effectiveness of his advocacy of popular reforms. tn the contrary, it will probably hasten the oming of the- time when he will range Himself with the hereditary class where he jjaturally belongs. If Senator Brlce Is correctly reported he fcas repented and eaten his valrtrous words about a tariff lill made by "three confederate brigadiers designed to destroy Northern iI)dllitre-.,' He was brave when first Ull to task, several weeks ago. by Svn-

ator Vest in the old offensive manner that j

Southern leaders have assumed toward Northern Democrats for many years. But in the Interval the Northern Democratic Senator has come down. It may have been the duty on coal and Iron ore and the two or raoro fortunes which he Is reported to navo made In Sugar Trust stocks. Dut, whatever the cause or cause?, no meeker Senator follows the tariff gonfalon of the "three confederate brigadiers" and Mr. Voorhees not one. And he Is no silent convert, but rises up to remark that the Voorhecs LIU "as It now stands, with slight changes, will receive the support of every Democrat in the Senate." It is the old story; the solid South controls the Democratic party in Congress, and when the call is sounded the Northern members of the party hurry Into line to answer at the roll call. "WHAT MILL. IIC DO WITH ITf The most Interesting question of the hour is, what will the President do with the Bland bill for coining the seigniorage? Will he sign It, veto it, or allow It to become a law without his signature? The fact that there Is any doubt on the subject shows a growing distrust of the sincerity of Mr. Cleveland's political professions. There was a time in his career when no person would have doubted for a moment what his action in reference to such a bill would be. At any time during his first term he would have vetoed it as soon after It reached him as he could seize a pen and formulate his reasons. At that time people said of Mr. Cleveland, "he may be mistaken In his political convictions, but he is honest and he Is sound on all phases of the money question." He was on record as opposed to any Increase of silver coinage at the existing ratio, and the people believed he meant what he said. Even his latest public utterances have the ring of honest money. In his message to Congress at its special se?sion last year ho said: "The people of the United States are entitled to a sound an! stable currency and to money recognized as such on every exchange and In every market of the world." Again, In the same message he said: "Whatever else the people have a right to expect from Congress, they may certainly demand that legislation condemned by the ordeal cf three years' disastrous experience shall be removed from the statute books." These sentences referred to the repeal of the Sherman law, which Mr. Cleveland used executive power -and patronage to the utmost limit to accom plish. Yet the Bland seigniorage bill Is more vicious in principle and tendency than was the Sherman law. Still later. In his annual message of December last, Mr. Cleveland said that after sufficient time had elapsed the repeal of the Sherman law would "probably disclose a safe path leading to a permanently sound currency." Mr. Bland's seigniorage bill does not open any such path. In the same message he said: In the pursuit of thl3 object (a permanent ly sound currency) we should resolutely turn away from alluring andtemporary expedients, determined to be content with nothing less than a lasting and comprehensive financial plan. In these circumstances I am convinced that a reasonable delay In dealing with the subject. Instead of being injurious, will increase the probability of wise action. The Bland seigniorage bill Is the worst kind of a temporary expedient and a most vicious departure from a lasting and comprehensive financial plan. It Is evident, therefore, that all of Mr. Cleveland's public utterances pledge him to a veto of the bill, and the fact that any doubt exists as to what he will do shows that the people axe losing faith In his honesty and sincerity. There are plenty of Democrats who. If they were In Mr. Cleveland's place, might sign the bill with entire consistency, but he cannot do so without a complete repudiation of all his utterances on the money, question. Those- who are urging him to sign the bill do so on the ground of "good politics," "the salvation of the party," etc. If he yields to these arguments It will show he has thrown principle to the winds and joined the ranks of the cheap-money howlers. VOICFi OF XUW VOKIC Ilt'SlMS MEX. The letter adopted by the New York Chamber of Commerce asking the President to veto the seigniorage bill was a brief but strong presentation of the reasons why the bill should not become law. After quoting the law the letter says: First There i? no "seigniorage" In the treasury uion the silver bullion thus purchied. Tiie term "seigniorage" means the charge made against the owners of bullion voluntarily bringing the same to the mint.to be coined. Under existing law all sliver in the treasury has been purchased by the government, and none of it has therefore been subject to any charge of seigniorage. tecon'l Neither haa tnere been any "gain" upon the amount of silver purchased under the said act, but. on the contrary, there has heon a very heavy loss. The bullion purchased under the act of 1SD0 has cost the government an p.venige of 92.44 cents p)C. r ounce, and treasury notes are new outstanding to the amount of J152,iCi,i:j0, representing all the bullion now In the treasury and purchased at that rate. The present market value of silver In this city Is 2 cents per ounce, showing a loss on every ounce so purchased, and for whicii the obligations of the government are now outstanding of 32..- cents per ounce. Instead, therefore, of there lelng a gain of $o.").l;.;,fiSl, there Is an actual loss of $40,3 k:.. Upon this lo?s the bill proposes to authorize an issue of further silver certificates to the extent of J3."j,l."u.Csl; In other word.-?, the actual loss would thus be capitalized by an additional issue of obligations, the effect of which will be to dlmlnsh the security, already Inadequate for the redemption of the treasury notes now outstanding. The letter declares that in comparison with this operation the Issue of flat money becomes rtspectable, for that, at least, rc?ts upon the faith of the Nation, while the proposed new Issue of silver certificates would be based on a violation of the faith of the Nation. "If a national bank," continues the letter, "should thus by false entries attempt to convert its losses into assets anil issue obligations thereon, its officers would le guilty of a crime, and, under the law, would b? liable to fine and Imprisonment. If a private firm were thus to falsify its books its members would commit a fraud, and, in case o bankruptcy, would suffer the penalties prescribed by law for the punishment of fraudulent debtors." The letter concludes with an ex pression of the firm belief of the chamber that the President's approval of the pend ing bill will prove a very severe blow to reviving eontldence and greatly retard the return of prosirlty. Tat? letter was unanimously adopted by an unusually larse me:iing of the chamber, an 1 a committee of I'.fteen representative business men was apiHtlnted to present it to the President. When he learned of

the movement he telegraphed them that they need not come. Indicating either that his mind wa3 made up or that he did not want any assistance In reaching a conclusion.

SLAUGHTER OP FARMERS MARKETS. The Washington correspondent of the Chicago Record calls the attention of farmers to that portion of the Voorhees bill which abrogates all the existing reciprocity treaties in order to secur? the votes of the sugar Senators. The Democratic Senators from the States most Interested in wheat growing and meat producing have failed to stand up for those Interests as have the Louisiana Senators, else these treaties would not be abrogated by the Voorhees bill. It may be that Senator Yoorhees does not understand the value of these treaties to the farmers, but a Senator should know. Instead of standing out for the treaties so valuable to farmers, Mr. Voorhees, . when the aggressive Loulslanians demanded that the abrogation be made certain, had the provision so changed that there could be no doubt regarding Its meaning. The correspondent of the Record turns to the change which the reciprocal treaty with Germany has brought about to the advantage of the Western farmer. He gives the figures in round numbers, but the Journal goes to the official reports recently Issued. They are the quantities of farm products exported to Germany a year before the Harrison reciprocal treaty and the last fiscal year, which ended June SO, 1S93. They are as follows: 1SSD. 1893. Wheat, bu 9 3,12632 What flour, brls 13,003 209,713 Beef, canned, lbs 2,260,793 10,017,142 Beef, salted, lbs 2.433.5G5 6.220.871 TtJlow, lbs 1.273.614 C.034.2M Bacon, etc., Ib3 1.336.C37 9,715,203 Lard, lbs 43,CJ4.i2 110.167,731 Oleomargarine, lb3 5.3&J.G31 23,576,742 The foregoing figures show what the reciprocal treaty with Germany has done to wld?n the markets of the American farmer in that country by getting lower duties than most other competing nations. It Is such advantages as these that Democrats like Voorhees, Turple, Brlce and Vilas make haste to give away In order that tho sugar Interests of Louisiana may be protected by a duty which will come out of the pockets of their constituents. There are thre? Senators who call themselves Populists who pose as the special champions of the Western farmers Allen, of Nebraska; Kyle, of South Dakota, and PefTer, of Kansas; will they rally to the support of the solid South to destroy the advantage secured by the Harrison admin istration for Western farmers In the markets of the -world? TIIE OUTLOOK IS HAWAII. A private letter received in Washington from W. R. Castle, one of the Hawaiian commissioners who were sent to Washington to negotiate an annexation treaty, con firms the published statement that steps are being taken for the establishment of a republic in Hawaii. Writing from Honolulu under date of March 3, Mr. Castle says: The bill to provide for the calling of a constitutional convention is about ready for submission to the councils. Eighteen delegates will be elected to sit with the eighteen members of the executive and advisory councils as a convention to frame a consti tution. The elective franchise is to be practically universal. The only restrictions will be prior payment of taxes required under all Hawaiian constitutions, th taking of an oath renouncing allegiance to the monarchy, and an agreement not to attempt to revive a monarchical form of government. A system of cumulative voting will be tried for the first time In Hawaii, which will be very apt to procure minority representation. This should please Mr. Davles and his royalist friends. An election Is likely to be held during April, and the convention will meet soon after. The provision?.! government is earnestly and honestly trying to provide a truly republican form of government. President Dole Is almost morbid in his anxiety to secure a full representation of all classes, and to take no stet without the fullest and most thorough understanding with the brave men who accomplished the revolution, and who during the trying weeks after the publication of Mr. Gresham's letter were ready to fight to hold what they had gained nnd maintain freedom and civilization in Hawaii. This indicates that the members and supporters of the provisional government are aiming at the establishment of a genuine republic on a broad and enduring basis. The situation is a difficult one, owing to the heterogeneous population and the large proportion of Japanese, Chinese and other Asiatics, but the provisional government has shown so much wisdom hitherto that there is good reason to hope It will be able to deal successfully with the problem In hand. If It succeeds In doing so the American people will have the satisfaction of 3eeing spring up In the midst of the Pacific ocean a republic which will owe its Inspiration and existence to the aggressive principles of political liberty as tausht by the Declaration of Independence and formulated In our Constitution. This will be a much fairer thing to contemplate than the restored monarchy which Cleveland, Gresham & Co. tried to bring about. COMMON' AM) SYSTEMATIC METHOD. Section 43 of the city charter. In specifying the duties and powers of the conferences of the Mayor and heads of departments, among other thing?, says: Records shall be kent of such meetings above provided for, and rules and regulations shall bo adopted thereU for the administration o' the affairs of the eity departments, not inconsistent with any law or ordinance, which regulations shall prescribe a common and systematic method of ascertaining the comparative fitness of applicants for office, position and promotion, and of selecting, appointing and promoting those found to b best fitted, except in the Department of Public Safety, without regard to political opinions or services. The question Involved Is whether or not the fere going provides for a common nnd systematic method for ascertaining the fitness of all applicants for all positions or Is confined to a half dozen clerks, a few assistant engineers and sewer and other Inspectors. Does not a fair construction of the exception have reference to the provision that the police and fire force shall be divided as nearly equal between the two political parties, and not an exception which takes applicants for the fire and police department out of the general examination? Does not the clause mean that f.ll shall have a common examination, but when the selections are made for appointment In the fire and police departments jtolitlcs shall be taken into consideration, nnd in regard to all others they shall b3 made "without regard to political opinions or services'" If the Board of Safety Is to examine or to cause to ie examined applicants for the police and fire departments, why should not the same system obtain in regard to the other departments

which do not have one appointment to make where the Board of Safety has five? Can that be "a common and systematic method" which does not apply to fourfifths of the appointments which will be made In a year? If It Is necessary to create a new board of examination outside of those specified in the charter for the examination of applicants, why should It not cover all of the departments Instead of one-fifth of them? As a matter of fact, does not the clause contemplate that all the departments shall have a system similar to that which the Board of Public Safety has adopted in reference to the police and fire forces? These are some of the questions which the creation of a new board in the city government suggests. Representative Harter, of Ohio, has an excellent reputation as a free-trader; in fact, as one of the few manufacturers who are , anxious to place themselves upon the altar of free trade as a sacrifice to the great principle of doing to others what others will not do to you. He permitted a bill putting agricultural Implements, In the manufacture of which he Is interested, to go through the House, but when the bill was sent over to the Senate Mr. Harter was there, and, using Senator Brlce, had the following proviso added to the clause putting agricultural Implements on the free list: Provided, That all the articles mentioned in paragraph 591 (those given above) when imported from any country which lays an Import duty on like articles coming from the United States shall be subject to the duties existing prior to the passage of this act. As Canada, and. in fact, nearly every nation In the world, Imposes duties upon agricultural implements, except Great Britain, the excellent Harter has secured the protection of hl3 Industry by retaining the duties of the McKinley act. Like all other free-traders, Mr. Harter demands It for the other fellow. Under the section of the McKinley law which authorized the making of reciprocal trade arrangements with foreign countries under certain conditions twelve agreements were made during the Harrison administration. They were signed in the following order. Brazil, April, 1S91; Spain, for the colonies of Cuba and Porto Rico, Sept. 1, 1S31; Santo Domingo, September, 1831; Germanv, Fb. 1. 1S32; republic of Salvador, Feb. 1, 1S?2; British West India colonies, including Trinidad. Harbadoes, the Leeward and Windward Islands, British Guiana, Jamaica and the dependencies, Feb. 1, 1S32; the republic of Nicaragua, March 12, 1S32; the republic of Guatemala, May 30, 1832; the republic of Costa Rica, the republic of Hrndura, May 25. 1892; Austria-Hungary, May 26, 1S92, and lastly France, which went Into effect some months later. Some of these agreements have proved exceedingly advantageous to American trade. The Wilson tyll as amended by the Senate abrogates every one of them. It Is not the first time the Democratic party has shown Itself to be a party of destruction. The Journal's correspondent, "U. L. See," Is quite right In his views, published yest terday, concerning the election of women to the Board of School Commissioners. There la no doubt that a woman may be

found In every school district who is quite as well qualified to serve In such position as any man, but .this fitness must be the first consider ation, and not the fact that she is a woman. The Journal has frequently adV A. VHV. V UlUiC 1 VI11C11 as members of the School Board, but It has no sympathy with the sentimentality which puts the sex of the candidate before that of fitness for the position. If women enter politics they must stand on the same footing with men and ask no special favors. It is the habit of those who are in favor of under-value money to declare that the opposition to measures which are calculated to put the country on a silver basis is con fined to Wall-street bankers. As a matter of fact, more than nine-tenths of the busi ness men in the country are opposed to trying any experiments with a sound cur rency. The protests against the seigniorage bill have come frem boards of trade and chambers of commerce In all parts of the country, and none are more insistent than those from Soutnern cities. Commonweal Coxey says: "If the people go back on us and do not feed our men on their thirty-five-day march, I suppose we will have to follow the example of Christ, who plucked the ears of corn." As this Is not the season for roasting ears. this probably means that the commonwealers will, If necessary', loot chicken roosts, smoke houses, pantries and cellars along the line of march. Local authorities should be on the lookout for them. Local capitalists are about to establish in Philadelphia a money loan office where the poor and unemployed can borrow with out being subjected to the extortion prac ticed by usurious money-lenders. It is pro posed to establish the business on -a business basis, limiting dividends to the stockholders for any one year to not more than 6 per cent., any surplus to be applied to the reduction of the rate of Interest. Detroit has an alderman who quotes Scrip ture. At a meeting of the board a few nights ago he Interrupted a member who was speaking with "The gentleman is talk ing on hearsay and the Bible says yon can't believe a word you hear said, nor anything but what you see." Great Bible readers up in Detroit. A case of leprosy has been discovered In Kentucky. One or two cases seem to have got away If developments In a Washington court room are to be depended on. TIIE INDIANA PRESS. Cheaper diamonds and dearer sugar l the doctrine of the free-trade party. Evansville Journal. The Jobbery going on at Washington is the most disgraceful In the history of the country. The present is a Democratic era. Muncie Times. Armies like Coxey's were unheard of during Republican administrating. They are exclusively Democratic products. Greencastle Banner-Times. The only thing Democracy brings is business failures, free soup houses. Increased Drison count and a marked enlargement in the national uem. uu urto iieiaiu. The Democratic party in 1S02 sowed the wind in the way of promises. It is now reaping the whirlwind in the way of performancet. Crawfordsville Journal. People are now more interested in the tarlrf question, since Democracy has full sway, than In a quarter of a century' past. They realize now what tariff means. Bluffton Chronicle. Whatever may le said of the excessive duties in some of Its schedules, the McKinley b!U was consistent and Just to all Interests and all sections In giving all protection, while the Wilson bill Is full of dlscrlmina-

tlon and favoritism, the combined result of the Democratic "accidental" tariff theory, i the hard kicking of some Interests and the political pulls of others. Richmond Item.

It would seem that there Is still a good j deal of the small boy In some of the United j States Senators. They can be Induced to do a mighty m?an thing for a lump of sugar! Warsaw Times. It looks very much as though the silver men of Congress had outwitted the Presi dent and are now Intent on compelling him to yleli to their dictation precisely as he compelled them to yield to his at the extra session. Richmond Palladium. When the people come to pay a higher price for sugar it will be a mighty poor consolation to think that certain Democratic Senators made a snug sum of money out of the imposition of the duty. Shelby Republican. The Wilson bill means more coal used abroad to manufacture goods for our con sumption and more coal imported Into the United States to displace that of our own mines, and therefore a general reduction of at least -5 ir cent, in the average annuM earnings of the miners. Sulli ran Union. Labor may be compelled to accept freetrade wages, but It will never b? contented. ought not to be contented, until the freetrade theorists are displaced by protection ists in Congress with sense enough to legislate for American and not foreign interests, for the workingmen of the United States, and not for the benefit of the pauper labor of Europe. HuntlngtorHeraid. ABOUT PEOPLE AXD THINGS. Our postage stamps of the ordinary ad hesive variety cost about 7H cents per 1,000. Prof. Hugo Masterberg, the eminent Ger man Investigator of mind phenomena, is to give a course in psychology at the Harvard Summer School this year. A French physician has constructed an acting model of the human heart. It Js of the same hue, size and consistency of the natural ortran. with every aetall, ana a red iluid courses through it and through artllicial arteries. The ex-president of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons of England says pub lic drinking troughs for horsea are a curse to horsetlesh, as they spread farcy and glanders. Troughs with separate compartments are recommended. Kipling's Vermont neighbors characterize the author as "odd." He Is never seen without his pipe, never carries spending money with him, wears shabby clothes, says "begad" a great deal, drives shaggy horses and likes to play with his baby. Perhaps the chief point of objection on the part of Kipling's neighbors is that he makes a rigid discrimination in the choice of his acqiiain tance3. The Brecklnrldges of Kentucky have been equally distinguished in the church and in politics. They have usually been uncompromising Presbyterians, and they held to the older branch or the churcn when the Cumberland schism stirred the whole Presbyterian body in the Southwest. Kentucky Piesbyterianisna has been of a peculiarly aggressive ami energetic type, and there are several names among tne list or Kentucky ministers that hold the highest places of honor in the church. When quite an old man Mr. Gladstone renewed the study of French for the sake of Increasing his familiarity with French literature, and when eightytwo years old made nis mat speech in French. It was an exterrrmv -neous after-dinner affair. Those who heard it and later In the same evening listened when he made another speech in English could not fail to note tne indications of the strain under which the Grand Old Man labored when not using his native tongue. his brow being contracted and his nostrils compressed. Ten young women are every year started in self-supporting careers by the generos ity of Mrs. Frederick Vanderbllt. The sum of fSOO Is devoted to the instruction nnd advancement of each young woman who may display ability, ambition and industry. The message spoken into a Dhonoirrarh by the late Cardinal Manning was heard for the first time recently by distinguished company, to whom it was distinctly audible. It was a characteristic one, as follows: To all who may come after me. I hore that no word of mine, written or spoken in my life, will be found to have done harm to any one after I am dead." He talked on the arifT for two mortal hours, So that her dear father ml.erht see How very' profound for a young man he was. In matters of great policy. Ti:is -Mtt- he tixsugnt ne would talk to the gin. But her conduct was reallv rude. For she told him to go out and sit up with pa. So that she could sit up with a dude. Detroit Free Press. ilUUULES IN THE AIR. HoieleMH. "I guess," said Mrs. Hashcroft to the cook, "I guess there Is no use for you to pound that steak any more In the hope of making It tender. It Is so old that Its habits are hopelessly fixed." Two View. Pessimist The world is growing wickeder every day. Look at the Increase in kleptomania, for instance. Optimist Bah. That's merely a sign that the world is growing richer. Puzzled II Ira. "What are you studying so hard about?" asked the wife of the rock-ribbed Demo crat. "I was Jlst tryin to flgger out in my own mind whether this man Cleveland is the Joner er the whale." Man and the Home. His porter weighed two hundred pounds. Yet with ease he fired him But when on himself the Job he took Of discharging the 90-pound redheaded cook. He had to adm't that it tired him. SELF-DENIAL WEEK. Salvation Army People Limit Their Rill of Fare. Detroit Tribune. The bill of fare for this week at 1C7 Fifth street, where Adjutant and Mrs. McAbee, of the Salvation Army, are to be found when not slumming or superintending things at the GriswoM-street Theater, is r.ot remarkable for Its extent or variety. "It's self-denial week, you know," said Mrs. McAbee yesterday,' and she smiled as if she enjoyed the prospect. "It's hard, but we feel all the happier for It. We shall exclude meat entirely from our table this week and have no side dishes. We eat mush, and we have potatoes in some shap? or other for dinner, or soup, not both. For tea we have bread and butter. My husland tried his best on Saturday night to do without the butter. He sat down to half a loaf of bread and tried hard to make his meal out cf that, but it was no use. He looked so woe begone. So we had butter that night, and a little of it spread very thinly since then. Perhaps two or three times during the week we shall have a little fruit. That will be our only luxury." Self-denial week Is universal throughout the United States. It began, on Saturday, the 17th, and ends next Saturday. All the funds collected by this mortifying the fles-h go to the central fund or "war chest," and are used for opening up new places in the slums and the extension work generally of the army. The army seeks to enlist the active co-operation of all those Interested In their movement. It sends out three kinds cf apptsUs or notices, one addressed to the "Friends of tho Salvation Army," another "To the lady or gentleman of the house." and a third to the various members or th corps. The notice to the soldiers is after this fashion: "Dear comrade In the good faith: You will know that it is customary throughout the world for our soldiers and recruits to observe one week for special prayer and self-denial, that the salvation war in some portion of its wide field may reap some additional knefit thereby. "During the we-ek thus observed we ask all our comrades and friends throughout the country to Join us in denying themselves some pleasure or luxury, of some article of food not necessary to the preservation of health, and to send the money thus saved to the national headquarters to help forwanl the salvation enterprise." The address to the householders contains th fnlloTvlntrr wiii.ee )uui jnisiu ji v r ti e sure you will sympathize with the work when you hear that numberless homes once dark and degraded have been brightened; that many neglected children of drunken parents have now steady, loving fathers. and that the dark haunts of slumdom are brightened by the presence and the labor of love of devoted army men and women, who have visited tiyhty thousand tenement buildings during the last year: also, that ll' i. 541 meals and 01.314 beds have been provide! in three shelters alow. "If you symiKithlze with these jeople and wish them well will you Join with them and give up some little thing that the rrne thus saved may be given to helr and blesj

some one less happy anj fortunate than ycurself?" Adjutant McAbee exi-cts that Detroit will rfrach the J2"0 dollar line this year. Although $3"Vn was raised throughout the States last year, and notwithstanding the hard times. It Is xjevted that a largtr amount will be gathered this week. Two girls. Sisters Christine and Carrie, are servant girls earning o and VI per weWc Tills week Christine, and Carrie will have no wages. They are going to turn In the whole fund. One enthusiastic young recruit living five miles away has teen in the habit of riding down to the meetings on the cars. This week he will walk. That Is all h can do, he says. Others have been in the habit of sending their washing out. This week the laundry women will le disappointed, and her usual quarter or more will go to swell the proceeds of the fund. Two ofticeri have existed this winter on 27 cents a week each. Their menu consists of oatmeal, bread and beans. One would think this would not stand much jiaring down. But this wek they are going to do with two meals a day. Instead of the usual three. These are but a few typical Instances of the many ways people are denying themselves. When asked whether any real good resulted from this method of self-sacrifice the Adjutant sa.il: "The very center thin. of Christianity Is denying oneself, and by turning this principle into a means cf increasing our funds . we are doing well. Our people and sympathizers seem to have caught on to the Idea with a yreat deal of enthusiasm, and results are getting more satisfactory every year. And, while a help financially, it advances the spiritual life, giving it a new beauty and a higher zeal for service." NEW YORK HAS NO CHARTER. The Only Large City Transacting Ilualnena Thla Way. New York Herald. New York la a city without a charter. It Is. indeed, the only very' large city which transacts Its municipal business without that convenient and sometimes Indlsocnsnble article. Cities in the United States derive their official existence from grants of rights and franchises made or raiinl by State legislatures, and in New York the original charter of the city antedates by nearly on? hundred years the establishment of the State government, which acknowledged and confirmed it. King James II of England granted in l&yj the Dongan charter of .New York. Dongan being then the Govrrnor of this colony. It provide!, among other things, that New York shall perpetuallj- own and control all ferries from its shores, and thla provision enables the city of New York to secure several hundred thousand dollars a year from this nource, wltLjut any payment whatever to Brooklyn. In January, 1730, nearly half a century before the breaking out of the revolutionary war, the city was given another charter, known as Montgomerie's. It continued in u.e for nearly one hundred years, until 1829, when a new

charter was prepared by the citizens or New York, and adopted by the Legislature one year later. In 1S43, In ISol, In is."t. In 1807, and in lSt3 this charter was variously amended, and in 1870 there was a oompk-t change effect ed by the adoption of what was known as the Tweed charter. whifS laid the foundation for much of the subsequent trouble, which resulted four years later in lt3 repeal, the last New York city charter having been adopted by the Legislature of 18.3. on April 30, Alonzo B. Cornell being at that time the Speaker of the Assembly. In iy2 the provisions of the city's charter, except In so far as they affected vested rights, were abrogated by the Legislfir. and, the so-called consolidation, a collection of separate statutes, was set up as a substitute. Since then various u.mnU-me-nts to the consolidation act have oet-n made from time to time, completely cl.nt.glng the laws governing the var ous departments tfcid prescribing many fhnnges In the local laws governing New ork tnl th methods of their administration. Thre is a bill now before the Legislature to give New York city again a charter, and tha matter will. It is thought by politicians, come up before the constitutional convention in May. At present New York is a sort of unincorporated concern, a Kenoral partnership of all citizens to transact municipal business, subject to the amendments made from time to time by th? Legislature. President Clevelnnd and Newspapers. Washington Star. "What newspaper does the President read most regularly and attentively?" said a prominent politician who has spent considerable tln:e at the White House since the present s?sion of Congress met. "The fact is, Mr. ClevelLnd Is very Indifferent to newspapers and their comments. The ona periodical he nsvJr misses to read dally is the Congressional Recyd, and In addition to that n? has the principal papers of the country placed before him. He spends but little time with them, however, and pays more attention to the newo columns than the editorials. He seems to be after fact, and Indifferent to mere opinions. A few papers, whose editorials are of a serious nature and carefully written, secure his attention for their editorial pace, but thes3 papers are very few Indeed. The President has a set of scrapbooks kept for tlm, as has been the custom at the White Reuse for a number of administrations, and In these are classified news articles and tltorials on the principal topics of the day. Mr. Cleveland occasionally sends to his secretary, who has this work In ch"irge, in order to Inform himself on any particular subject. The clerk who does this worU clips relentlessly and pastes In the book some of the severest criticisms on thi President, who reads them with the aspect of a stoic." The Xew Serennlon Movement. Washington Star. Somewhere up In the wilds of Colorado, near the headquarters of the Saphead creek, the dodo bird perches on the zanyloon tree and gazes down on the tower of Georgetown. Most frequently the dodo bird cocks its eye at a certain cabin, wherein resides a gentleman by the name of Parker, not plain Mr. Parker, but Mayor Parker, for this especial gentleman whom the dodo bird regards with affectionate Interest Is Mayor of the town of Georgetown. Mayor Parker is the happy Tossessor of a gigantic Intellect, and out of it he has evolved a gitrantic scheme, being no less than a prolosal for all silver Stater- to secede and join Mexico in a new union. Such a proposition could only have come from a resident alng the banks of Saphead creek, or its sister streams In Kansas. Mayor Parker takes hlm?elf and his plans perfectly seriously and is engagM nine hours each day, including Sunday, in circulatingpetitions through the mountain m nlng camps of Colorado. Evidently Mayor Parker, of Georgetown, Col., during his trance periods does not hold communication with the snirlts of a distinguished gentleman from South Carolina named Calhoun and a distinguished gentleman from Kentucky named Davis. The School Rook Monopoly. Lawrenceburg Press. The Indiana School Book Company has withdrawn from sale the first, second and third readers nnd all cpy bcoks. The reason given Is that a new and revised edition Is to b issued. Th's will necessitate the purchase oi new readers agrdn next fa! and In the meantime the pupils will have to pet alone without writing, nnl reading also, shovld they chance to need a book. The Indiana School Book Company, which was to b the great benefactor of the poor in Indiana by supplying them wdth cheap school books, now appears t be a thinly disguised monopoly, to which every parent who has children of school age must pay tribute. HlKh Time for Such a Rale. rhlladalphia Record. President Eliot, of Harvard, has Issued In the form of a requert what Js virtually . decree that "no punches or distilled liquors shall 1 allowed in any college rom on class day or commencement daw" This regulation has raised something or a hubbub among the students; but it i clearly within the iolice powers of the authorities, and might have ben made even more sweeping without trespass upon irsonal rights. It will probably not prevent th9 sophomores from getting all i.ie punch they want; put It will assurMiy compel them to "punch with care" In their future libations. One of MarNlitill P. Wilder' Stories. New York Tribune. I was tomlrg down In the elevated to-day when a big. sour-lo'.king chap got In. Across the aisle sat a gentlemanlv-looklntr young fellow mlndinr his own business. The sour-frtced man did r.ot !ika the looks of his nt!ghlor. and after making several wry grimaces, the nice your.g man retorted by saying: "Voi look s if you wanted to eat me." "I couldn't," repiird the sourfaced one, "for I am a Hebrew." DrfrUM-lriiH. Chicago Tribune. "If I had any able-bodied female wc-U-tlves," exclaimed Fwed 1y. wiping l.ls ye$ with a !arg. cream colored silk handkerchief, "that insulting Miss Oji-!:str weuM nevah call me a bwalniess dud attain, bail 3ove" p Will Somebody Explain? New York World (Dem.) If a trust contribution to a national campaign fund rei uits in rest Tinir the t ix i.n sujMr. bow wilt it b- i '.!.!? to ep.a'n it to the tr.-)-!e whn are i;Ot inl'.ueneed by trust contributions? They niilnt lit 11. Galveston News. v , Bad moral do not hurt a mar very mucb In American politic