Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 September 1894 — Page 4

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THE INDIANArOLIS JOTJllNAlv WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1894.

THE DAILY JOURNAL WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 5. 1804. WASHINGTON OFFICE-1410 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE Telephone Cnlla. Bnln-M OfTm- Kditorlal oom 212 tersis op srnsciiiPTio.v. t.lLY BV MAIL Pally only. one month $ .70 I .';ii!T only. three iuntt. - J'iiily only, out j a r .u 1 felly, iuclnniiiK StttUr, ime year ltMM btiiKlay toiiy.on )uar -.OO WHEN llKMMltD BY AE.tT9. I 'ally, per w k. by earner L" ct r-ui:lay. Aiitirle toj.y Sets Daily uJ suii:y. i r e-k. by carrier tta WEEKLT. Ter Year $1.00 Reduced Itnte to CIul. i f-ut'ff rite with any of our numerous agents or e nl uL(.Tli)tion to thf JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, INblANAI'OLlS. M. rrwin feruling t&e Journal tliromjli thn mill In tl . 1 iiju-it suite kIkiuM j ut on an e-.iflit-parre l:iprr a ONt E.T iot.i;.' t.unp; on a twelve or aIsP-'-h I ypej ai- r a rw( kt pucf Uiiip. Foreign ist-' gts i imtial.'y ilouMv tlit-n- Tate. ri"AllrommTjnic:ition Intended for publication In Uu inr ntnt. in onlt-r to rrrt-ive attention, be accimpanml l.y tiie name au-l adilri of lli writer.

TUB l.M)IAAIM)US .IOIRNAL. Can l. found t the follow in gnlaoo: 1'AU IS American Lxcliau;;e in Paris, SO Boulevard ' Caj vi in-n. KLW YJl:K-Gilsey House and Windsor IIoteL I'lIILADEH'IlIA A. I'. Keuible. 3T3." Lancaster CHICAGO I'aln;r House, Ami itortnm IIoteL CINCIXNATI-J. Ii. Hawley t Co.. l.M Vine street. LOUISVILLK C. T. I Hiring, northwest cornerof 'I bud ami JeCeroti trt-et.. fcT. LOUIS Union New Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON', I. C.Iliggs Hous and Kbbitt t A word to the Republican leaders In Ohio: Stop q'irreling and go to fighting the enemy. The Washington Post prelicts the re-election of Mr. I!ynum in this district. When trie ballot shall have been counted Mr. Bj'num will lack as many votes of an election as he had plurality In 1832. The Cincinnati Enquirer has been making a further study of he President's letter to Representative Catchlngs and concludes that "the more one peruses It the more he wonders how so little could be said in so many words." Secretary Lamont Is said to be Mr. Cleveland's candidate for the governorship of New Yor!:. It Is barely possible that thepresidential choice will not carry Treat weight In that State, which, it must be remembered, is Senator Hill's bailiwick. 'The high-min led Mr. Cleveland Is "getting even" with Senator Gorman by ordering the dismissal of government employes appointed through Gorman's Influence. Probably the Maryland Senator -will survive, but It is a little hard on the employes. Mrs. Lease and Mrs. G g r are talking anarchy through the country, but It Is hardly fair to Judge from their antics of the Influence of women in politics, as some pipers are doing. It would be as Just .to take Altgeld as a fair sample of man in politics. The report of the Columbus, O., pension agency, for the, month of August, 1834, shows a decrease m the number of names on the roll of 222 during the month. There were 421 additions during the month and 613 losses, of whicn 4S2 were by death. The veterans are passing. New York Democrats are making the point that the Hon. Levi P. Morton is too old for Jvernor. He is seventy and well preserved. One man may be older at fifty than another at seventy. Gen. John A. DIx was seventy-four years old when he was elected Governor of New York, and he made a good one. In the statistics regarding sugar, read by Mr. Cheadle in his speech at Elnora, the word tons was used instead of pounds. The actual consumption of sugar In the United Sutc-3 during. th3 fiscal year which ended June 2. 1833, assuming that the stock was about the same at the beginning and the Close of the year, was 2,126.231 tons, IncludIng Imported and native product. En!r.ccr Hoot, whose name is In everybody's mouth on account of his heroism In connect'on with the Minnesota forest llres. Is a type of a class that probably furnish? xnor" notable instances of practical herohrn than any other. Locomotive engineers are used to traveling with their lives In, their hands, and it Is a rare occurrence that they ever consider their own safety before that of the passengers whose lives are committed to their care. When engineer Root, burned nearly to death and wounded in many places, was told he had become the hero of the country he replied. "I only did my duty." It takes the highest kind of courage and heroism to face death calmly from a sense of duty, and there Is no other class of men who do this more frequently or with less idea of winning applause than locomotive engineers. The resolution adopted by the St. Paul Chamber of Commerce favoring the securing of Information through United States consuls as to forestry management In foreign countries, with the object of preventing forest fires, is worthy the attention of the government. Although there are extensive forests and open plateaus In some parts of Europe, they have, never, so far as known, been subject to devastating fires such as occur in this country, wUh-more or less destructlveness. almost every year. European countries have made forestry a study for hundreds of years, and it Is quite likely that among their laws and regulations are some relating to the prevention and treatment of forest fires. At all events. It is worth while to make the inquiry. We can learn a great deal from European countries in regard to forestry, and, perhaps, concerning this phase of it along with others. At the recent convention to promote the material interests of the South, one speaker, a Georgia man. said there were several different races of negroes in the South. There was the Hottentot negro, who was good-natured, lazy and thriftless. There was the Guinea negro, who was honest, dignified and stately, the sort of old specimens who still serve as coachmen and family servants in the historic families of the South. Then there was the Zulu negro, who Is naturally bad and gets sent to the penitentiary. "When he has served three r four terms In the penitentiary." said the

speaker, "what are you going to do with him? The penitentiary hasn't done him any good. What are you going to do? Let him go on killing your women? No, they string him ,up, and that's an end of It." One

might Infer from this that Southern lynch-' Ings are part of a discriminating warfare against Zulu negroes a sort of patriotic movement, as It were, to rid the country of an undesirable class of people and elevate the standard of the colored race. REPLIIMCAX FACTIONAL TUOl'llLK IN OHIO. The chronic Republican factional fight has broken out again in Ohio, If Indeed that can- be said to break out which is never more than partially quiescent. It would be difficult to recall a time during the past twenty years -when there has not Leen a. Republican factlonaJ fight in Ohio. In the beginning it was probably due to an embarrassment of riches. The party was so strong that it was thought it could be safely divided and there were enough men In it of presidential and senatorial stature to furnish leaders for two or three parties. One of those conditions has passed away and the other has been modified, but the habit of factional fighting continues. It Is a bad habit. It has often proved a source of humiliation and weakness to Republicanj outside of Ohio, and more than once has figured as a disturbing factor In national politics. The latest outbreak of the chronic trouble Is In the form of an announcement that the rival supporters of Governor McKlnley and ex-Governor Foraker for the United States Senate have selected their respective candidates for Governor, thus Implying that the nomination for Governor will be made on senatorial lines ami that the factional fight will be carried from the convention into the campaign. The Journal does not believe that Governor McKlnley or exGovernor Foraker Is willingly a party, to this factional fight, and, in common with good Republicans everywhere, It regrets that their respective friends and followers should have organized it. Both of them ought to discourage it and use the whole weight of their influence to suppress the factional fight. The Republicans of Ohio owe it to those of the country and to the good' of the cause to do away with personal and factional controversies and present a united front to the common enemy. It is the height of folly to inaugurate an ante-convention fight which may Imperil the election of a United States Senator and make the majority for Governor so 3mall as to deprive the victory of Its moral effect. "The Republicans of Ohio should stop factional fighting, bury the hatchet, get together and go to work. PERIL IX CITY AM) COL.TRY. Residents of crowded cities do not go about "with the consciousness of danger menacing them, but when they stop to consider the matter they are forced to admit that most modern Improvements are attended by certain risks to life and limb. There Is a peril from electric wires a peril nearer and more threatening than many people are aware; there Is a chance of being maimed by a trolley car, there is a possible gas explosloi, the falling of an elevator, the dropping of stone or brick from a high building, a runaway team in a crowded .thoroughfare, a conflagration not easy to check In close built streets all of these things are in the way of that perfect security which the dweller in rural regions seem3 to enjoy. To ordinary seeming it would appear that the resident of a small village or the still more isolated occupant of a farmhouse had entire Immunity from risks unless it were the rare one from out the heavens in the shape of thunderbolt or cyclone, or the ills common to all humanity. Probably the 'people of Hinckley, Minn., and the region thereabout had the feeling of complete security a week ago, or even three days ago. If they thought of the forest fires and their approach they did not contemplate the chance that escape might be impossible. But the fires came like devouring monsters and took lives and homes, and left horror and despair in their wake. Where but yesterday were peace and prosperity and safety from all peril, to-day death and desolation reign. Again could the psalmist say of man that his, days are as grass, and that he flourisheth as the flqwer of the field; "the wind passeth over it and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know It no more." Tim 11 A I LAV AY MAIL SKItVICC. The twentieth annual convention of the United States Railway Mail Service Mutual I.eneflt Association met In Cincinnati jesterday. The association is chartered under the laws of Illinois, and, as its name Indicates, it Is for the benefit of persons In the railway mail service, to whom Its membership Is confined. Few persons are aware of the extent. Importance, perfection and value of the railway mail service in the United States, by which Is meant that branch of the postal service that handles mail on moving railway trains. In former times the mails were made up and transmitted from one distributing cilice to another and the work i of sorting and distributing was done in local postofllces. Now by far the greatest part of it Is done on fast trains while they are speeding from point to point. Under the operation of the Railway Mail Service nearly every fast passenger train in the country becomes a moving postofilce, and the aggregate amount of work done on them Is greater than that done In the postoffices themselves. The organization of this branch of the service has proved to be one of the greatest . advancements ever made in postal administration, and it is no exaggeration to say that without It th postal business of the country could not be transacted. Briefly, the organization embraces a general superintendent and assistant, with necessary clerks at Washington; eleven division superintendents, each of whem has charge of tne service In a certain number of States: and nearly C.oou postal clerks on trains. These clerks are men of first-rate Intelligence, thoroughly trained in their duties and loyally devoted to the service. Some of them work by day and others by night, and th?re is never an hour during the twenty-four of any day in the year that thousands of these faithful, laborious men are not hard at work distributing mail in trains while running

from thirty to forty miles an hour. The public does not see nor hear much of .them, but no equal number of men In the government service do better, more intelligent or more valuable work than do the railway mall clerks. With them the post of duty is also a post of danger, for there Is seldom a fatal railroad accident In which the name of a postal clerk does not appear among the casualties. Many are killed, many crippled, and many contract- permanent nervous Injury from continual railroad travel and the jarring Incident to their work, which has to be done standing. They deserve well of the country," and their work is something for the people to be proud of. . TIIK POSSIBILITIES OF SCIKXCE. An article in one of the September magazines treating of the possibilities of science In the 'near future quotes a noted "French chemist as expressing the- opinion that chemistry will eventually displace agriculture in supplying food. Startling as the suggestion may appear at first, it Is neither absurd nor . Impossible. Chemists have already succeeded in making fat direct from its elements. If fat, why not lean, and these given, why may not chemistry produce the equivalent of a beefsteak? Perhaps the product might not be as toothsome as a Juicy steak and probably it would never supplant the latter in the estimation of old-fashioned gourmands. But the coming man, he of the twentieth century, may not be an old-fashioned gourmand. He may be so thoroughly utilitarian and withal so busy that he will not care what he eats so that it shall sustain life and furnish the necessary fuel for brain and body. Who knows but the coming man may eat meat, eggs, milk and other foods In the form of tablets, swallow his dessert In capsules and top off with a glass of wine In the shape of a pill. It Is a fact, by the way, that one of the chemical by-products of coal tar is saccharine, a perfect substitute for sugar except that it is forty times as sweet, an ounce of it furnishing more sweetening matter than three pounds of the purest sugar. TUB IRRIGATION' COXVKXTIOX. The irrigation convention now in session at Denver represents a movement of general interest. The benefits and possibilities of artificial Irrigation as a means of reclaiming arid land? or Insuring regular and abundant crops have been known and practiced In some parts of the old 'orld for a long time, but not until recently has the subject received much attention In this country. As long as we had vast areas of fertile land still unpeopled, which were fairly watered by nature, it was hardly to be expected that much thought should be given to artificial irrigation. Gradually, however, the subject has been forced upon public attention. Experience has shown that the arid and desert lands of the West, which. In their natural and dry state, do not beai even a blade of grass, become wonderfully fertile and productive under irrigation. There are millions of acres of such lands in some of the Western States that can be reclaimed from a desert condition and made to yield abundant crops by a general system of irrigation. To establish such a sys-i tern would, however, be so costly that it is beyond the reactfi of private enterprise, and it Is to solicit government aid that the Denver convention is called. The work seems to be a suitable one to enlist government aid, but it 'would seem that such aid should come from the respective State governments rather than from the national government. In a certain sense it is to the interest of the entire country that every part of it should be brought under

cultivation and made productive, but It would hardly seem fair to tax the people of the Eastern or middle States to reclaim the arid lands of Kansas, Colorado, Idaho and other States, the benefit of the redemption of which would Inure almost exclusively to the States in which the lands lie. In this connection it may be of interest to state that many farmers in Iowa, Illinois, and some even in Indiana, have adopted fcrethods of artificial irrigation as a means of securing regular and abundant crops in dry seasons. In every case where the experiment has been tried It has been found very' useful, both as a protection against drought and as an aid to nature. The topic Is worthy of the attention of farmers in all parts of the country jsubject even to occasional droughts. "General" Coxey expresses confidence that his good roads bill, which was sidetracked in the last Congress, will come up at a future session and that he will be there to vote for it. The bill provides that, within sixty days after Its passage, the Secretary of the Treasury shall have printed five hundred millions of dollars of treasury notes, to be placed in a fund to be known as the "general country road fund system of the United States," and to be expended solely for that purpose. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of War to take charge of , the construction of the roads by this system, to inaugurate ; the work and expend the sum of $20,000,000 per month pro rata with the number of miles of road in each State and Territory In the United States. Laborers shall be paid not less than $1.50 per day and $3.W for laborer and team. Coxey has succeeded In convincing himself that this is a statesmanlike" scheme and expects It to float him Into Congress. The Civil-service Commission is being aided by a league of colored Democrats In New York In its efforts to have Recorder of Deeds Taylor dismissed for pernicious political activity. Inasmuch as he was appointed to the office by Mr. Cleveland for his political activity a dismissal for continuing the same course would doubtless seem to him very unjust. He is said to be greatly worried for fear of losing his job, but his fear is probably unfounded. Mr. Cleveland is not ordering the discharge of men who break the rules he fixed in one of those absent-minded moments when he fancied himself a reformer. Tfce statement of an exchivje that the transs.berlan railway, now being constructed by the Russian government, will be completed next year Is a mistake. The government hopes to have the line completed and open for traffic in 1900, and even that will be a great achievement. The line will be 5,700 miles long, and, besldes a great number of smaller streams, will

cross three rivers almost as re as the Mississippi. It may be added t. the road is being constructed without an extra tax on the people and without making any loan. Russia is immensely wealthy. The government Income exceeds Its expenses by $2.", 000, 000 a year, and there is a surplus in the treasury at present of more than $123,000,000. It would be a mistake to class Russia among "the effete monarchies of the East."

The local suicide list is becoming a long one, but, apparently, nothing can be done to prevent its lengthening. New York has a law inflicting a penalty upon one who attempts self-destruction, but this only has the effect of making those who determine on the act more careful to have no failure. It is the theory of many that no really sane person commits suicide, but if this be true, the Increasing number of cases only proves an appalling extent of mental derangement under modern conditions. A Detroit preacher, In his sermon, last Sunday, spoke disrespectfully of the Pope as "a bag of bones." If the Pope were a popess this might hurt his feelings, but, inasmuch as the preacher did not call him "fat-witted," no great harm Is done and no emissary will be sent out from the Vatican with secret instructions to administer cold poison or a dagger to the Detroiter. But the rash man had better be careful what he says next time. IIUIIIILES IX THE AIR. He IInl Noticed. "I have noticed," said the salt-barrel philosopher, "that when the office starts out to seek the man in this country, it usually begins looking for him near a barrel." The Areh Hore. "Does Tillswor'th talk much about that new baby of his?" "Not only does he talk, but he writes poems about the kid and then reads them to us." ' Xot Like the River. "What you studyln about so?" asked Mr. Hungry Higgins of his partner as they leaned over the rail of the bridge. "I was Jlst thlnkin if I had a good soft bed, like the river has, I wouldn't put in all my time runnln." Tribute to Distinction. "You are positively the worst-lookin object I ever saw," remarked the woman who came to the door. "Well, lady," answered Dismal Dawson, "don't you think sich a sight as that is worth something In the way of a little cold eats?" AIIOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. It is said that Sousa made over $900 last month in royalties on "Liberty Bell." His royalty is 4 cents a copy. Prof. Henry Drummond, the now famous Christian philosopher, while a student traveled with Moody and Sankey on their evangelical tour of Great Britain. Mrs. Humphrey Ward's son Arnold is the clever son of a clever mother. He has just won a scholarship which gives him $300 a year during his university career. The smallest woman living to-day is said to be Mile. Taullne, of Holland, of a respectable family, who is eighteen years old, weighs ten pounds and is one foot nine inches tall. ' Emperor William Is credited with the desire to buy the $1,000,000 diamond the largest ever known which is in the Bank of England for safe keping, to place in his new crown. One of Patti's trials Is the mania persons have that she should adopt their children. She declares that she receives hundreds of offers of babies for adoption in the course of a year. It is said that Ibsen carries a little toilet case in his hat and consults the mirror at frequent intervals to see whether his hair Is suiliclently mussed for a great genius. If not he speedily remedies the fault with a comb. ':,,TheT regulations of the British postofilce oblige every employe to have all unsound teeth extracted before entering the service so as to do away with the necessity of leave of absence for toothache. As a consequence a girl recently had fourteen teeth taken out at a sitting. President Carnot is the third Frenchman to whom a national funeral has been accorded. The other two were Gambetta, Jan. 6, 1SS3, and Victor Hugo, June 1, 1SS3. Their obsequies cost 20,000 francs each. The late President's is estimated to have cost 120,000 francs. . Cardinal Lavigerie'3 plan for the civilization of Africa is to be tested. The first caravan of one hundred African pioneers reared on the Algerian and Tunisian farms of ttu ccn fraternities founded by him have Just left Marseilles for Madagascar, where they are f to settle as agricultural colonists. Another . hundred will be sent as soon as these are established, and other companies are under orders to go to the Soudan, the Toitareg country, the Tchad region and the Congo, where they will spread the Catholic faith and French civilization. The JewLsh Messenger says that when the Rev. W. W. Newton, of Pittsfleld. Mass., was in Moscow he was asked why he went to Troitsa, "We went to see Count Tolstoi," was the answer. "Count Tolstoi?" cried the clerk In an incredulous tone of voice. "Well, have you seen the big bell In the Kremlin the Tsar of Kokodol, or King of Bells?" The answer was in the affirmative. "Well, then, if you have seen the big bell of Moscow and Count Tolstoi," replied the clerk, "you have seen the two objects of interest, and the same thing has happened to each of them they are both cracked." His health was perfect, as we know. He looked to be both hale and hearty, But he had no desire for crow. And so he left it to his party. New York Press. The summer older grows and soon The y ellow leaf and sere Will, crumbling vainly Importune ,The swiftly flying year. The golden pumpkins in the fields Will lie like toy balloons. And In the mellow evening haze We'll dream of coming Junes. The organs on the street, perhaps, Will play some brand-new tunes. And not a dude will walk the streets In whitewashed pantaloons. Columbus Dispatch. WANTS $75,000 DAMAGES. Mrs. Ilerschlield Claims Her Husband's Affections Have Hecn Alienated. CHICAGO, Sept. 4. A sequel to a world's fair romance was developed to-day when word was received here of a suit for $75,j 000 damages filed at Helena, Mont., by Mrs. I Aaron Herschfield against the millionaire j banker, J. D. Ilerschlield, and. his wife, of Helena. Aaron Herschfield, who is the wealthy brother of the Montana banker, had capitulated, it is claimed, to the charms of Delia Hogan, a beautiful Irish girl of Helena. The pair visited the fair together, and one day last summer Delia's two brothers called on young Herschfield at the Great Northern Hotel, and at the muzzle of revolvers, the Herschhelds claim, compelled him to marry their sister. When the bride and groom returned to Helena, banker Herschfield and his wife were horrified, ani. at the-ir solicitation, Delia allege. Aaron went to .North Dakota and began proceedings for the annulment of Ms marriage. Vht.- Mrs. Aaron heard of this suit she sought legal advice and the $73,000 damage suit, for the alienation of her husband's affections resulted. AfTaim of the Order of Tontl. PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 4. Attorney Francis Shunk Brown and the Land Title and Trust Company, appointed assignees of the Order of Tontl on May IS of this year, filed their first account in the court to-day. The account states that the as-s-isnees have received cash amounting to SJJiToO.l"!. and expended Ill.SlO.tW. leaving a. bil.ir.ee for distribution, subject to costs and commissions, of $J20.O7.oJ. The assignees have remaining in tneir possession between $900.0w and $1,000,000 worth of mortgages which are yet to be disposed of. The assets of th order were, on June 16. appraised at Jl.OTi.SSOT, and the assignees were accordingly required to file a bond for $2,020,000. The assignees find that the Order of Tontl has lo.llS members in g;od standing, of whom 714 hold matured cer-tiuc-ate.

BAD PIECE OF WORK

ALCOHOL SECTION OF THE TARIFF LAW WORRYING CARLISLE. It Cannot lie Enforced Without Supervision, anil There In Xo Avnllnble Fundi for Cnrrjlns It Ont. WASHINGTON, Sept. 4. No questions now pending before the Treasury Department are receiving so much attention from treasury officials as those Involved In Section 61 of the new tariff law. which exempts from internal revenue tax alcohol used in the arts and in medicinal or other like preparations. For some time past Commissioner Miller, of the Internal Revenue Bureau, has been diligently at work In the preparation of regulations under which this provision of the act may be carried into execution. It being the law of the land, both Secretary Carlisle and Commissioner Miller, as administrative officers of the government, are earnestly endeavoring to .Ind some way by which it may beeomi operative, tut thus far 'the solution of the matter seems as remote as at the beginning. It is explained at the Internal Revenue Bureau that it would be easy enough to formulate regulations were rt not for the fact that Congress has provided no money or machinery by which the department would be enabled to administer the law. Its enforcement would be easj also, were It possible to confine Its operation and benefits to the large manufacturers, who might be looked after with comparatively little expense, but the law. It is pointed out, forestalls any such interpretation by providing that "any manufacturer" may use alcohol for the specified purposes free of taxes. While this "use" must be controlled by regulations nade by the Secretary of the Treasury, yet it vould be a violation of the spirit of the act, if not its letter, it is said, were those regulations so drawn as to practically debar from the benefits of the act any honest or legitimate manufacturer, however small. The great question to be solver!, in the view of the matter taken by treasury officials, is how can effective supervision be established over the 200,000 drugcifts and other prospective beneficiaries of the act without the aid of a very large force of agents. This force the Secretary has not at his disposal, and, under the law, has no authority to appoint. Treasury officials who have given the matter much consideration and who advance these views say there seems to be only one course open to the officials, and that is to postpone action in the matter, until Congress reassembles in December, when the act may be either repealed outright or so modified as to admit of being executed without almost unlimitKl opportunity for fraud. There is at least one precedent for this course. On Aug. 3, 1851, Congress passed an act taxing all Incomes above $800 3 per cent, per annum. A3 In the present case, no provision for carrying it into effect was made, with the result that nothing was done until the meeting of the next session of Congress, when, on July 2, the act was. repealed. Whether this course will be pursued in the present dilemma cannot be stated, but it is under serious consideration. To-day a number of gentlemen representing the National Wholesale Druggists' Association had a conference with Secretary Carlisle and Commissioner Miller. Secretary Carlisle explained the dilemma in which he and Commissioner Miller found themselves. The law was a mere skeleton, without money or machinery to put It Into operation, nor could the department employ agents to be paid by the manufacturers themselves, the statutes expressly prohibiting it. Altogether he could not sae how it was possible to enforce the law" except .'without any supervision, and this would, no one could doubt, lead to unlimited fraud. Then aain, it was a very perplexing and difficult thing, the Secretary said, to determine Just what construction should be put upon the words '.'the arts," "medicinal preparations" and "other like compounds." There was likely to be very great differences of opinion on the subject. He, however, would be glad of any aid the wholesale druggists or any one else could give him. Mr. Carlisle's explanation, most of the members of the delegation thought, rendered any further talk unnecessary. They were frank to admit that they saw no way out of the difficulty except to let the matter go over to the next session of Congress. At the unanimous request of the delegates the Secretary agreed to hold the matter opent for a few days to enable the members of the association to present their views. PLAYING-CARD STAMPS. Two Million Reminders of the Old Wnr Tnx Printed. WASHINGTON, Sept. 4. Two million of the new playing card revenue stamps made necessary by the tariff bill have been printed by the Bureau of Printing and Engraving in thff last two weeks. This playing card tax is a revival of the old war tax, and is a feature of the new revenue act which is making much work for the officials. Every pack of playing cards offered for sale, whether by the manufacturers, the wholesale dealers or the retailers, must have a stamp affixed, under penalty of a heaiyy fine for selling unstamped cards. Consequently the collectors are obliged to look over the stocks of all stores In their districts where cards are likely to be kept and see that every pack pays a revenue of 2 cents to the government. After the stocks now In hand at the dealers' have been sold out it will be easier to collect this tax, because all cards can then be stamped In the first, place .at the manuacturlng establishments. Two varieties of the stamps are being printed a red stamp, which, beside the usual heading and denomination, bears the words "on hand August, 1894." and a blue one for regular use printed "series of 181)4." The designs are very simple, consisting only of a hand of cards beside the inscription. A change in the plates for all the internal revenue stamps is being made by the bureau to conform to the new law. The words "series of 1S94" will be displayed on all the revenue stamps hereafter. Those already in stock of the last series will not be wasted, but will have the same words stamped across the face, or will be surcharged, as the term is. Patents Granted Indlnnlana. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Sept. 4. Patents hare been issued in Indiana as follows: Matthew Arbuckle, Indianapolis, wheel-aasb-lng device; John S. Birt, Arlington, assignor to F. H. L. Kahn & Bros., Hamilton, O., pan-making machine; Charles T. Cox, assignor of two-thirds to M. J. Moon and 'W. T. Bowers, ' Liberty, disinfecting apparatus; Michael Gleason, Liberty, fence machine: Edward and I Hedderick, Pettit sawing machine; Isaac H. Henley, Straughn, fodder-tying device; Lauren Humbarger, near Columbia City, apparatus for transplanting plants; Frank G. Smiley, Goshen, beam scale; Adolf Weil, Greenfield, apparatus for boring wells; William A. Wildback, Indianapolis, target trap. General Notes. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Sept. 4. The postofilce at McCameron, Martin county, has been re-established, with Henry B. Sanders postmaster. George R. Barnhart has been appointed postmaster at Lawrence. A statement by the director of the mint shows that the coinage during the month of August was: Gold. $7,722,000; silver. $376,0u. of which $74S,uoo was standard dollars. The cash balance in the treasury to-day was $127,2X3,187, of Which $53,457,475 was gold reserve. Senator Harris will leave Washington for Tennessee to-morrow night, and will make the first speech of the campaign at Trenton on Saturday. Then he will go to Texas to rest on his ranch until the 1st of October, when he will return to Tennessee to take an active part in the campaign. . CARRIED HY A SUNBEAM. Message Flashed from Pike's Peak to Denver, Sixty-Six Miles. DENVER, Col.. Sept. 4. The sun yesterday carried a message from tie top of the Equitable Building to the summit of Pike's Peak, sixty-six miles in an air line. It was a remarkable feat in heliographlc signaling, but its success was fully up to expectations. Several days ago Sergeants McGlone, McLaughlin and Bissell left Denver for Pike's Peak to make the experiment. This Is a message which was flashed from the top of the snow-covered peak: "PIKE'S PEAK, Sept. 3. "Captain Glassrod. Denver: "We creet you via sunbeam. Arrived at 4 p. m. yesterday. Snowstorm prevented our opening station. M'Gt-ONE." Experiments will be continued at certain hours for four days of this week, at the end of which the signalmen will start for their attempt to flash a messace from

Mount Uncompahgre to Mount Ellen. 3 miles. The flashes of the mirrors on Pike's Peak could be distinctly ?een by the naked eve du-inu the transmission of the rr.essajre. The peak was first called from the Denver enq of the line, and within five minutes after the operators began thtfr wnrk the responsive flash toning th.it Pike's Peek vva readv to talk was signaled. Caotain Glassrod expressed himself as dellehted with the result of the trial. An interesting feature of the work Is that neither of the operating parties had the slightest idea of the message that was to be transmitted. Telescopes are used In focusing the flash, but after the fieM operations Is located the work is done by the use of the mirror and screen.

A SLEEPING POTION SEXATOR STEWART'S Cl'RE FOR WASIIIXGTOX MALARIA. 3Irs. Glasscock Statement RcKiirdinff Her Alleged Relations vlth the Xevnda Popullut Stntenmait. WASHINGTON, Sept. 4. Mrs. Carrie Brady Glasscock, defendant in the divorce suit in which Senator Stewart, of Nevada, is the corespondent, has written a statement of her side of the case for the Raleigh (N. C.) News and Observer. She gives in detail the story of her alleged relations with the Nevada Senator, beginning with her office-seeking attempts In Washington and of the Senator promising her a positlor and loaning her money when the position had not been obtained. Her statement. afer narrating the Senator's absence from the city, then goes on as follows: "He (Senator Stewart) was very cordial and friendly, even fatherly towards me. His venerable face prevented his demonstrations of affection from being as offensive as they otherwise would have been. He seated me on his sofa and Inquired after my health. As I was still afflicted with malaria, he said he had a sure remedy which he took himself. He made up a dose In a glass and gave it to me to drink. It put me to sleep. When I came to myself I found that he had taken advantage of me. I accused him of his crime and started to leave the office. He pleaded with me not to make a scene; that he had a family at home; that be had been overcome with his attachment for me; that he had obliged me so. long, had worked so hr.rd to get me a position, had given me money when my family were sick and I was in distress that I ought not to do him the great Injury of 'exposure. He assured me he had certain and immediate prospects of receiving a permanent tosltior for me with a large salary, which would place me and my children in comfort and beyond all want In the future. His promises and flattery finally overcome my indignation and I consented to aec-?i't the permanent position he was soon to have ready for me. "When I called again to receive the annointonent it was not ready, but his promises and flattery were. He had now accoutred power over me: as I had not exposed him he could expose me. Besides I owed him money that 1 could not pay. He persuaded me to submit to him. I was now at his mercy and he could command me a. he pleased." Then follow details of money paid, promises to obtain the position and freouent calls at the Senator's office. "One of his bank checks." Mrs. Glasscock says, "which w-is found in my pocket by my husband aroused his suspicions and he then followed me when I went out and had others watch me. He met me soon afterward coming out of the Senator's room. He created a stormy scene with me and I realized the great shadows into which I had been led. Life no longer appeared worth living, and but for my littla children I think I would have drowned mvself." Mrs. Glasscock then narrates the bringing of a suit for divorce by her husband and her fruitless appeals to Senator Stewart for relief for herself and family. She sys that the story was sent for her P the News and Observer by Frank Daniels, chief clerk of the Interior Department, who is part owner of the paper. To ?. reporter for the Washington Evening Star she to-day reiterated the statement made in the Raleigh paper that her husband had been going down hill through drink, and added: "Senator Stewart's secret? ry could verify what I have said if he would tell the truth. He entered the oWc one day and found us In a compromising situation. But, of course, hs mouth is sealed. Stewart's tnoney has bought everything in sight." ', Mrs. Glasscock denied that she had been living with her husband Finee he applied for a divorce, as Senator Stewart charged in a recent statement in which he accused Mr. and .Mrs. Glasscock of being engaged in a conspiracy to blackmail him. and said that he had obtained proofs of their having lived toeether since the suit for divorce was begun and would prosecute them. The Senator's secretary could not be seen to-day, as he left the city on a short vacation. Senator Stewart was seen concerning the statements of Mrs. Glasscock, but beyond reiterating the charge ..that the husband and wife were trying totextort money from him and to blackmail htm would say nothing1. The case, he said, was in court and h would make no further f statement before coming to trial. , STILL PURSUING PULLMAN. Further Charges Against-the Coniiwiny by Attorney-General Moloney. CHICAGO, Sept 4. Attorney-general Moloney has prepared his amended petition in the quo warranto proceedings commenced by him against the Pullman Palace Car Company. Mr. Moloney has served notice upon the counsel for the Pullmun company that he will appear before Judge Gibbons at the Criminal Court to-morrow afternoon and ask leave to file the amended petition, and also the information against .the company which follows the petition, according to the law governing quo v warranto proceedings.. The main additional charges made In the amended petition are in relation to the Pullman company, without charter or authority, operating a gas plant and brick works. The court is also told .that the Pullman company realizes a large profit by selling writer to the Pullman residents. The company also, 4t is represented, supplies steam neat to many of the business nouses and arartment houses for pecuniary profit. The maintenance of' a "trurk farm by the company - is charged, and this the court is told cannot be covered by a charter to manufacture railroad cars. The sale of liquors by the lullman company in its cars while in transit is also deemed by the petition to be direct violation of lt charter rights. The ownership of seventeen acres of unoccupied land south of lake Calumet by the Pullman company U attacked. The petition says that this amounts to a real estate speculation. KILLED WHILE ASLEEP. Virginian Assassinated by a Mob Opposed to the "Sanctified Land." CHINCOTEAGUE, Va., Sept. 4. Thomat Bowden, a prominent citizen of this place, was assassinated on Sunday night as th result of a sectarian feud. A mob, composed of those who oppose the teachings of a sect known as "The Sanctified Band," sail to believe In free love, attacked and demolished a church belonging to that sect on Sunday night, after which they stoned the houses' of several members of the congregation. While passing Bowden's house, the mob fired" through the open window, instantly killing Mr. Bowden, who was asleep beside his wife. He leaves six small children, and his death has wrought the people of the island to fever heat. X Room for" More Yrlrrniu. LEAVENWORTH, KAN., Sept. 4.-l nier the direction of General Franklin, president of the board ot managers, un order his been issued from the National Soldiers' Home here, stating no more veterans could be received at present. On account of the hard times veterans have been coming Into this home in large numbers lately, and there are 2.SS2 on the rolls, or 22 more thin ever before. At present they are sleeping In the basement of building;? and crow le i in everywhere. It costs the government l-'a cents a day to feed a veteran at the home.

Lightning; Striken a MlnUlrr. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. DANVILLE, 111., Sept. 4. This morning lightning struck the dome of the High School, setting the building on fire, resulting In small damage. The large barn of Isaac Cotton was also struck by lightning. Rev. S. H. Whitlock. In the Kimber Methodist parsonage, was severely stunned by i current of electricity.