Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 October 1894 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER . 10. 1894.

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TUB INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. Can I e found at the following places: 2'A It I s American Exchange in Paris, SS BoalerarJ rt Cauurlnea. NEW 1 oi:K Gllaey House and Windaor IIoteL rillLADELPIIIA A. P. Kemble, 3733 Lancaster uremia. Cil 1 UUO-Palnier House, Auditorium IIoteL C IN CIXX ATI-J. It. Hawley & Cot. 154 Vine street. LOU1SVILLK C T. Deering; northwest corner of TLiid and J ;ffe raoa streets, ST. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot Washington, d. o-Tuggs iiouse and xuwtt Iloae. What has Mr. Bynum done for Indiana and the Seventh district in five terms that fee should have a sixth? In time the President will, doubtless, lnCorse the Hill ticket in New York, but he Kill not leave his fishings to do it. The Charleston (S. C.) News and Courier says that "nothing is uniform this year end blessed uniformity. The Journal would remind Senator Voor--liees that he has from now until baturuay rd!t to raise the. price of XX Ohio wool from 18 a to over 31 cents. Those people In th-a Seventh district who are complaining- thai Mr. Bynum has done nothing- for his constituency must not forget what he did for his own son. The tidings from all parts of t the State Is most . cheering:, but to make the result a two years Jubilation every Republican Should put in his best work during the next twenty-four days. BHSSBBBBBBaBSBBSSBBaBBBBSSSSBSSSSSSMBSSBSBBWBBSBHSBMSSt It must be pleasing to Secretary Myers to have several federal and State facers iwho are ex-soldiers going about trying to make veterans believe that "Cleveland is the best friend the old soldiers have." Doubtless the Marion County Commis sioners who gave the bridge building at o, higher price to foreign builders and labor U1UUIU Wljkh, tucjr n vi u vai i j vui Democratic policy of opeidng the home markets to the world. If any one notices that any Democrat :who has faith in Senator Voorhees has been investing heavily tn wool, which the Senator predicted, Oct, 1. would be higher la two "weeks than It was under the McKlnley law, Krill he Inform the Journal? George William Cooper is having1 a very mournful time of it In the Fifth district. The fact is, that lively statesman has been bo many things to so many men that his . affidavits would suffer a heavy discount tn any sort of a fact market. If Attorney-general Smith would but tell the public the amount of money he expects to pocket from the school fund in a "whata are-you-golng-to-do-about-It" manner, he will not longer be irritated by reporters.There is really much curiosity as to wheth er he will get $15,000 or $30,000 from the school funds. . One of the potent causes of the low, price cf Wheat la the fact that last year the American people consumed over a bushel less per capita than during the year W2. Tht means, on the present estimate of population, 67,000,000 bushels. If that Quan tity had been consumed last year, as the Vear before, the vast amount of "wheat In sight' would not have hammered the price down to 47 cr 4S cents. Too much credit cannot be accorded those Unflinchng Republicans, mostly young men. In the 'overwhelming Democratic precincts Who are doing the Republican work therein so effectively this campaign. To be a work er in a strong Republican ward is one thing, but to face the enemy where he is three or four to one and resist the bulldozing and expose the tricks to debauch the ballot is a very different sort of duty. . The demonstration which the glassworkers made at North Anderson, Monday night. in honor of Charles I Henry, js an emphatlo refutation of the slanders which the Sentinel and the Bynum officeholders have so persistently circulated to the effect that 3tr. Henry hi the enemy of organized labor. Not only did they declare their preference lor Mr. Henry, but they declared on their mottoes that they understood the Issues of the campaign and that the man who voted to make the bill a law which has reduced their wages 22.a per cent, will not get their votes by posing as a Democrat. Those who noticed the statements of the bank3 in this city, published In the Journal the other day, could but have noted the large amount of money which they are car rying In the aggregate. This shows that ther? 13 an abundance of money which could be obtained If there was business which would warrant it. If there was full employment, If manufacturers were using It In their business, or merchants were In the rrarket purchasing the staples of the country, it would come out of the banks Into the hands of the people and Into the channels of trade. And the much-abused banks, they lose with all the rest by hav ing eo much Idle money In their vaults. It will be noted that a British wpr says that the tin-plate manufacturers have of fered to find employment for and pay the passage back of the Welsh tin-plate workers In this country because of the reduction oZ the duty by Congress. They will not pay the plate-cnUers more than they did he fore. V-t tzlrz c:z7 protection of tho Mo

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the Welshmen will prefer to work a little lower at home for the sake of being there. That Is. the Tin-plate Trust of Great Brit ain, which controlled the American market until the passage of the McKlnley law. Is putting forth an effort to regain supreme control of the American tin-plate market. AN INEFFICIENT SERVANT. What has Mr. Bynum done for the Sev enth district? A modest gentleman, he can scarcely be expected to answer, but some of his champions might make it the topic of an evening's speech. Mr. Bynum has been nearly ten years in Congress. In that time he should have been able to have ac complished something for, his district to. which he could point with pride. There Is not a city the size of Indianapo lis which has such Inadequate and mean public buildings. Its postoffice is in two buildings, the federal court rooms are a disgrace to a great State, the pension of fice 13 In a rented building. During the last Congress the citizens of Indianapolis made for him the best case that was ever pre sented to Congress for the construction of publle buildings, and yet he utterly failed. The Republican Senate passed a bill mak ing an appropriation, but, with his eight years experience in Congress, he failed to make any Impression upon a House twothirds Democratic. During the past season he has informed his constituents that he has got a bill through committee and on the calendar, but he knows that it will never be reached during the next session. During the year3 that Mr. Bynum has represented the city with the worst public buildings in the country for a city of its size and the federal courts and pension office of a large State, scores of smaller cities have obtained appropriations for pub lic buildings. Why is this? Simply be cause Mr. Bynum lacks the capacity for business which a useful Representative should have. He Is unable to impress him self upon members of his party in the House. That is, he Is without Influence with his party in the House. If he were. he would not be at the tall of a committee. Once Mr. Dynum had an opportunity to serve the people of Indiana, but he refused. The refunding of the direct taxes Imposed by Congress during the war was a fair measure, because many of the States paid none. Mr, Bynum should have used his influence to pass the bill, but he went with the South and Mr. Cleveland, being one of the few Northern Democratic mem bers who fought the bill from first to last. It became a law during the Harrison ad ministration, and Indiana got $700,000, and because the State got it the State debt is now $700,000 less than it would otherwise have been. During his whole period In Congress Mr. Bynum has been teaching the heresies of the Cobden Club and posing as a free-trade statesman. To those who have protested he has been insolent, as his letter to the employes of the Merrltt woolen mill shows. To the- delegation of the association of the winter wheat millers who went to him. asking that the reciprocity treaties which had made a market for 1,500,000 barrels of flour be continued, he made prompt refusal, saying that all such advantages must" be given up ' In order that other nations should be in fluenced to reduce their duties as 'had the Democratic Congress. Had Mr. Bynum and the Indiana delegation made a stand for the retention of these valuable treaties, some thing of them might have been saved. No wonder that voters In the Seventh district are coming to the conclusion that so unprofitable a servant must be discharged. MONEY AND TUB MASSES. An Associated Press dispatch from New York, a few days since, announced that banks in Western cities were sending their surplus funds, which have been increasing the past six months, to Eastern cities 'for investment. This is an unusual thing at a season of the year when money Is usually sent to the West to move the crops. and when manufacturers are borrowing heavily to meet the expenses of manufacturing for the next season. This muans. first, that there is a limited demand for money with which to engage In business and manufacturing enterprises. If business were starting up with, energy,' as lem:rratic orators ana papers ciaim. If all the factories In the West were run nlng full time with full forces of employes. if men dared to embark In new enterprises as they did three years ago. West ern money would not be stored in the banks, or sent East for Investment until needed at home. The trouble Is 'that all business men dare not go ahead as they did in 1S93 because they do not 'know the . future. I A few days ago Senator Voorbeesr talked about putting money into the hands of the people as if there was anything but good wages and full employment that would do It. If he and his associates had not destroyed the confidence of business and enterprise money would be in the hands of the people now as it was in 1891 and 1S32. The money ac cumulated In the banks because manufacturers and capitalists whom he denounced dare not take It out to pay for labor and materials. When he and his associates who have given the American market to Eu rope and reduced the price of wages' and the volume of employment are sent to the rear business will revive and enterprise will take courage. Factories will start up, farm products will have a home market and money will be called from the East to pay for labor and the products of labor. There is no other way to get money into the hand3 of the masses. THE MARKETS OF THE WORLD W HERE ARE THE V t t ' f "The markets of the world" where are they? All the theoretical free-traders speak of them, but they never locate them. They have been often asked to Inform practical people where these markets can be found, but they never seem to hear such a practical Inquiry. In 1SS7 the Demo cratic Commissioner of Agriculture, In com pliance with an inquiry of Congress, sought to find "the markets of the world" for the surplus of the products of the Americac farm. He ended his answer by saying. tv t? there were none In Europe. And yr Wilson and Mr. Bynum speak as if ivii

world outside of the United States was one market of Infinite capacity for American products. Take the article of wheat. Europe's crop supplies its people with bread, except Great Britain and Belgium. To supply the deficit of these countries are the surpluses of the United States, India, the rapialy developing Argentine Republic, Canada and Australia, whose aggregate surplus the present year is nearly double the requirements of those two nations at the present capacity of their people to purchase. For the United States, until two months ago, there was Cuba, Brazil and a few other limited consumers on this continent The Democratic Congress has thrown away the special markets created

by the Harrison administration, which were valuable and becoming more valuable every day, that farmers, millers and other Amer ican producers might seek the fabled markets of the world, which are not to be found on any published map. Practical men know that there are no markets of the world in which the general producers of the country can compete unless the American can undersell them. To undersell means to produce cheaper, and to produce cheaper means always and inevitably cheaper labor. Besides, we have no means to reach the markets of the world. Great Britain, France and Germany either pay subsidies or high postal rates to maintain lines of steamships to the markets In which they compete, but the Democratic administration and Congress has set aside and repealed all in that line that the Republican Congress set on fooL The best market in all the world for Americans s the American market the country In which the capacity of the peo ple to purchase enables one-twentieth of the world's population to consume one-fifth of its products This market the free-trade Democracy propose to exchange for the fabulous markets of the world. . 1VILSO.VS REVISED SPEECH. The Journal trusts that all of its readers have carefully read the revised speech of Chairman Wilson before the British mer chants who gave him a banquet while in London, it is a remarkable speech for an American to make. A British subject could have made It with a certain propriety; in deed, Macaulay, Carlyle, and even Glad stone, during our civil war, predicted the end of the Republic. No Englishman in recent years has attempted to belittle the growth of the United States. Gladstone has noted It, and that greatest of European statesmen, Bismarck, has proclaimed it to be marvelous. Professor Bryce, after traveling over the country, gave his judgment that the American people were the most prosperous of any In the world. After all these encomiums. Chairman Wilson, of the ways and means committee of Congress, the mouthpiece of President Cleveland, took It upon himself, before a British audience, to disparage the growth and progress of the United States. Whatever growth the country has made in thirty years has been under the protective system. Neither Chairman, Wil son's declaration that our Chinese policy has clipped the wings of our industry, nor his assertion that our people have been robbed by a protection which taxed the ' masses. for the benefit of the few, counts against, statistics which are of recognized correctness. During the era of protection the wealth of the country rose from $16,153,616,068 to $63,037,091,197; the wealth per capita from $514 to $1,038; wages per capita in the manufacturing industries from $289 to $4Si; the foreign commerce of the country from $087,192,176 to $l,S57,68i),G10-are these the fruits of industries with clipped wings? In 1SC0 the value of the manufactures of the United States was $l,9SO,00O,00O, and that of those of Great Britain $2,&So,CO0,000; in 18SS that of the United States was $7,215,000,000 and that of Great Britain $4,100,000,000. That is-, in twenty-eight years the value of American manufactures was multiplied by more than three and one-half, while those of Great Britain were not increased one-half. Pages of similar statistics could be added to show that the growth and prosperity of the American people has been marvelous, far outstripping, Great Britain, with Its free trade and superior advantages in manufacturing. But Air. ; Wilson rejects facts and goes abroad - - Ltq disparage his own country. It Is not, perhaps, generally known, but there Is a law prvidlng penalties for Issuing or publishing bogus weather reports. The act was approved Aug. 8, 1S94, and reads: 'Any person who shall knowingly issue or publish any counterfeit weather forecasts or warnings of weather conditions, falsely representing such forecasts or warnings to have been Issued or published by the Weather Bureau. United States signal service, or other branch of the government service, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, fnr' paph offpnsp. r flnd in a. sum nnt xi iceqiing $500, or imprisoned not to exceed t n , r it il . . c K. V"vr r I wi i - fUliiCkj' uas, ui (lc tyvtit iiucu tiuiA lUlfJiiaoned In the discretion of the court. TRHIUTES TO HOLMES. He taught us how to laugh without coarseness or malice; how to chastise without anger or bitterness; how to expose error without arrogance or mockery; how to be true and earnest without the sacrifice of charity and gentleness. Chicago Inter Ocean. His was a full and well-rounded life, and he went down to the grave after attaining the great age of eighty-five years, crowned with honors, ami bearing with him the respect and admiration of Intelligent people all over the world. Pittsburg ChronicleTelegraph. The reader of Holmes receives a continual impulse toward the steadfast, cheerful performance of duty; a continual Incentive to unquestioning faith In the final prevalence of right; and therefore the world is better anil nappier because he has lived in it. New York Tribune. What matters it that he never wrote an epic? He wrote a song. What matters it If he had never written anything but "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table?". His nime would live as long as light and warmth shall be sufficient to perpetuate life. Louisville Courier-Journal. No gentler, sweeter soul will ever cross the Stygian river. Like well-ripened fruit dropping from the stem, so full of years and honors, he falls into the embracing arms of Death as one "wrapping the drapery of his couch about him to lie down to pleasant dreams." Ioulsville Commercial. The "last leaf on the tree," he did not cling, in the words of his early verses, to u forsaken bough. He never dried up, but kept the rich sap of his sympathy flowing us freely in the hazy atmosphere of the nd of the century as in the bright, early days of young American enthusiasm. Philadelphia Times. There have been more spectacular minds, and doubtless geniuses of a more pretentious character have engaged the public eye in the half century and more that - Oliver Wendell Holmes was actively labor'.i.j. but it would be difficult to name writer.

statesman or military leader whose ministrations have been so greatly beneficial to the people of his day as his. Chicago Times. He was conspicuously a benefactor In an age rife with grewsomeness, depressed by perslmlsm, overborne by mortid and de-

spirituallzing forces. . He taught men that 1 laughter yet abides with the rs.ee: that to te wholesome is not unwortny a. uivine origin and Is consistent with the highest destiny. Chicago Herald. Kindly, helpful and genial, it was his peculiar trait to look upon the sunny side of things and to tempt others to do so. The fact of life he saw as clearly .s any one; but, even while he recognized, he mitigated ami alleviated it with his humor. His loss. after a life full of works, will be deeply felt by the many who claimed his friendship. Chicago Record. Such a man can never utterly die. He has left an immortal heritage. His philosophy is worth more than that of all the Dryasdusts, and his doctrine is more livable than those of the dogmatisms. He diffused sunshine all about him and it radiated from him at the very last. The world was better and more beautiful because he lived in it Chicago Tribune. His gentle optimism found good In everything, and his wit was incisive enough to penetrate to the very core of sham. Every month of his long life reflected credit upon the Nat.'on that gave him birth. His place among the great writers of his time was happily fixed and assured early in life. The fame that was his did not chill his relations with human kind. He was gentle, genial, lovable to the last. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. BL'BDLES IN THE AIR. Sure Slsn. "I never realized how I was getting along in years," sighed Miss Manyseasons, "unti last week. I received two proposals of marriage from boys of not over nineteen." Variety. "We have four kinds of bread at our boarding ' house," aid the man with the pasteboard extension on top of his head. "And what are the four kinds of bread at your boarding house?" asked the man with the crimson whiskers tied on with a string. "Dry, old, stale and moldy." Sons: of a PoKllUt. There was a man ir. our town, A pugilistic chap, Who met another of his kind. Quite eager for a scrap. And then, with pen and Ink galore, He sat him down that night. Nor ceased his labors till he licked The other man outwTite. Mnrks. "See here." said the suspicious woman, "I believe this recommendation Is one you have had for a long" time, instead of being from your last mistress. How did it get all those grease spots on it?" "Sure, ma'am," s.lJ the lady who was looking for a situation, "thim is marks of the tears she shed because she had to let me go." AIIOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. It remained for the Rev. John W. Campbell, pastor of the Nonsectarian Church of St. Ix)uis. to preach a sermon In defense of Judas Isoariot. And he did it. George W. Cable, the author, is a small, frail and unimpressive man. He is very nervous and so careful in the selection of lis words in conversation that he seems to halt and almost stammer. The Japanese papers speak of the oldest living couple as now being residents of Sawada, In the province of Sado. The man s 132 years old anLhe is three years young- ' . X f I M - ..' . 1 1 A. . J I. A 1 er man nis wne. i.wr ciuesi uaugmer is 108 years old and their eldest son 105. There is a Spanish proverb that "on Tuesday oru should neither travel nor marry," and this superstition Is so ingrained in -he Spanish mind that even in Madrid ihere are never any weddings on Tuesday md the trains'are almost deserted by native .ravelers. The castle of Chlllon, on the beautiful Lake Geneva, in: Switzerland, is to be restored' and the Grand Council at Lausanne lave sanctioned an appeal to .the canton of Vaud for 'contributions. Bonivard's dungeon and its "seven Solumns massy and gray" will be carefully respected. Mrs. Catt, of Seward county, Kansas, is m& of the leading speakers In the campaign, but she carefully steers clear of the district in which her husband Is the candidate for prosecuting attorney on the opposition ticket. She doesn't care about having a fight with Thomas Catt on his own fence. An amateur worker in clay casts in Chicago has just finished a beautiful figure of the exiled Marias sitting amid the rulns of Carthage. Local critics object to the splintered baseball bat and the battered silk hat which Marius regards with such sorrow as he leans dejectedly on his breechloading rifle. ' , ; ' Mark Twain has discovered that there a a "syndicate of doctors" at foreign health resorts. When one of them gets hold it a good patient they pas3 him from one place to another until every physician in ine combine gets his share of the victim's wealth. Mark say3 ho dares not complain of even a headache over there. Sir Watkyn Williams ; Wynn owns 137.025 acres of land, in Wales and has manorial rights over 1S0.00O acres more. Of the land he owns 112,000 acres are occupied by Welsh-speaking and 5,C00 by English-speaking tenants. Ihe tenants are 941 in all. Among them twenty-four families have held the same land from S00 to 250 years each; three In one pariah an average of U33 years apiece; one for 400 years, "while the Foulkes family are suppo6.?d to have occupied G.irtheryr 1,000 years." Mr. Toole, the English actor, says that while he was recently playing at Oxford he got into conversation with a policeman on his Jeat. He rather liked the officer of the law, and, considering him as In telligent as he was polite, thought to re ward his politeness by sending him a codv of his "Reminiscences." And so, just berore leaving him, he inquired ir he liked "reminiscences." "Well, thank you kindlv." said the bobby, "but" and he stooped to wnisper in ine comedian s ear "rm afraid there s no house oien. So live, that when the sun Of your existence sinks in night. Memories sweet of mercies done May shrine your name in mernofy's lis-ht Aim ine uiest seeus you scaiierea,' bloom A hundredfold in days to come. Sir John Bowrtng. I'm glad that grandma's specs don't grow 1nn. V. V. - . I i I couldn't ever hunt around And bring 'em to her when, they're found. Then only think what I should mis3, A smile, a "Thank you" and a kiss, Youth's Companion. SHIIEDS AND PATCHES. The "soft answer" precipitates the deaf man's wrath. Brenham Press. How would Mr. Bissell like to change the name of Gettysburg to Davlsville? Phila delphia Press. Possibly Mr. Corbett is mindful of the example of China, who accepted a fight out oi ner ciass. Detroit Tribute. Possibly the earliest Instance in time of giving the cold shake was when fall first took leave of summer. Philadelphia Times. Mr. Greathead. the landlord, says he pre fers as tenants experienced chess players, because it is so seldom they move. Boston Transcript. It does not leem to make much difference which way the Iaxow gun Is aimed: it is sure to hit something. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. It is always hard to associate quarrels and unpleasantness with a house that has vines growing over the doors and windows. Atchison Globe. If the Chinese had a baseball club we would be willing to make a small wager that tne asaincrion nine couia beat it. Washington Star. Before Chairman Wilson gts fairly Into his campaign he will find himself engaged in a joint debate witn his London speech. Washington post. Something or other seems to have been marching through Georgia playing havoc with the Democratic majority. Pittsburg Commercial uazette. Some of these people that think they are Christians will find that St. Peter isn't re ceiving when they send up their cards. Philadelphia Record. While Captain Howgate was chief of the Weather Bureau he seems to have thought

any method of raising the wind was Justifiable. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A FAiSLti.

In the second year of the Reign of the Great G. C, which, being interpreted, means the Great and Good Calabash of the City on the Windy Lake, it came to pas? that, according to the Laws of the Animals, a Council, 'composed of the rep resentatives of the Anlmal3, was to be chosen for the purpose of adding Dignity to the Great G. C. In former times It had been the Custom for this Body to advise with its Members and make the Laws of the Nation, but on the ascent of the Great G. C. this Time-honored Custom was abol ished. The Great G. C, In His wisdom. and for His own Aggrandizement, soon after being Installed as Chief Ruler of the Birds of the Air and the Beasts of the Forest, called "His Council together and instructed it to make certain Regulations in regard to the business of the Nation. The Council hastened to Obey and do the Will of Its Lord and Master, fearing that If His mandates were not observed the Awful Wrath of the Great G. C. would be called down upon it and that henceforth its Members would be barred from the Imperial table, whence they received the Official Pap. Then all was Peace between the Great G. C. and His Council for a short time, and In His Wisdom and Goodness He provided. the members with their regular allowance of Pap.' But there came a change. It will be re membered that the Great G. C. was simply the Foolish Goose that had lived all alone in His Cottage by the Lake until He conceived the idea that it would be a grand thing to be the Ruler, of the Animals. To obtain His ends, he had, with the assist ance of the Lion and Unicorn from across the Great Water, disguised Himself and went before the People as the Great and Good Calabash. Now the Calabash was a new Animal to the People. Some of the Older ones could remember the Legends of the Past which told of a time when the Nation waf. ruled by a Calabash, but it was long before, so long. In fact, that the People had forgotten that He was their worst Enemy. The Great G. C, with the assistance and advice of the Lion and Unicorn, told the Animals what a glorious thing it would be for them If they could get such things as they needed from across the Great Water. By the aid of such fine talk He T.as selected as the Ruler of the Nation. Some of the Members of the Coun cil, which, was selected at the same time, were opposed to allowing the Great G. C. to reap all the benefits of His alliance with the Lion and Unicorn. They began negotiations with other rulers acrcs3 the Great Waters, and soon were drinking at the fount of the powerful B. B. G., which means the Goat of the Land of Bock Beer, a country situated In the interior of the land across the Great Water. Some even entered into an alliance with a Monster of their own country, which . had already Devoured a large Number of the less Powerful Animals. Thi3 Monster, with Its Sweet and Honeyed words and great slices of Saccharic Pap, upon which the Gormandizers loved to feed, was able to secure the Influence of four of the Greatest leaders. Thus when the Law was finally passed It didnot suit any one,; least of all did it suit the Great G. C, Who bellowed loud and long, knowing full well that it would be the means of ending His existence as the Great G. C. and compel Him to once more assume Hi3 natural role of the Simple Goose in His Cottage by the Windy Lake, The disappointment was great when the Animals found that instead of paying tribute to the friendly Animals of their own Nation, all would be compelled to pay Tribute to the Great Saccharic Monster and to the Lion and Unicorn, who were the Rulers of the Animals across the Great Water. It was found that even the very existence of the Great Nation was threat ened. The Sheep had been compelled to give up His fleecy coat, "and all the others had suffered, that the Monster, the Lion and the Unicorn might keep warm and grow fat. Such was the condition of the Nation s affairs when. In the second year of the reign of the Great G. C, the time arrived for the selection of the members of the new Council. Each Animal had lost soemthing. The Sheep and the Innocent Lamb had been slaughtered in large numbers; the butter and the cheese, which the Cow had labored so industriously to make and depended upon bartering for Food and Clothing for her Children, could not be disposed of, be cause such things were then brought rrom the Domain of the Lion and Unicorn in the Great Forest of the North, and she tnd her children suffered the pangs of hunger and cold; even the hides of her dead relatives were unsalable. All had suffered In a general way. because it took all their Surplus to pay the heavy Tribute demanded by the Monster and the Lion and Unicorn, and they could not purchase such things as could still be had from their Friendly Neighbors. The time was drawing near for the se lection of the members of the new Council. The Great G. C, by the excessive use of Pap, got the Rooster on His side and sent Him out over the Land to Crow and tell the People what "My Council" had done. The Animals went to hear the Rooster a few times and then refused even to listen to His arguments, knowing full well that they were dictated by the Saccharic, Monster and the foreign rulers, which the" Animals had come to look upon as Their Common Enemies. Then the Sheep, the Cows, the Hogs and the other Conservative Animals eot together and selected the Eagle, the King of the Birds, to go among the People and tell them the true condition of affairs. His were listeners. The People knew that His life's service, as the King of the Birds, had been devoted to the advancement of the Interests of His Subjects, and they were not afraid to follo.v His advice. ,The result was that when tho Jreat Meet ing for the selection of the Members of the Council was. held a Council was chosen which fully Represented the Animals. Laws which made the Animals prosperous were c-nacted. and the vicious laws which had been passed for the benefit of the Monster and the Lion and Unicorn were repealed, although the Great G. C. refused to approve anything which the new Council did. The lesson was a costly one to the Animals, but its very costliness made it valuable. Never after that was the Great and Good Calibash or any of his Tribe selected as the Ruler of the Animals., and the Roosters were banished from the land forever. Moral The 6th of November is the date of the next great meeting. W. A. R. The Lmtt Lenf. I saw him once before. As he passed by the door; And again . The pavement stones resound As hf totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that' in his prime. Ere the pruning knife of tlme Cut him down. Not a better man was found By th crier on his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets And he looks at all he meets Ho forlorn; And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems .as if he said, "They are gone." The mossy marbles rest On the Hps that he has pressed In ther bloom; And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a yer On the tomb. My grandmamma has saidPoor old lady! she Is dead Ixng ago That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In the snow. But now his noe is thin. And it rests upon his c!i!n Like a start; And a crook is In his back. And a melancholy crack In his laugh. I know It Is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here, But the old three-cornered hat. And the breeches and all that. Are so queer. And If I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Iet them smile, as I do now. At the old forsaken bough where I cling. . Oliver Wendell Holmj

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AXD OXB POSSESSING t'XrSUAL IX- . TEREST FOR IXDIAXIAXS. Hon. Richard V. Thompson's Personal Recollection, of Sixteen Prealdents, from Washington to Lincoln. It was a happy tfcou.sht of the friends of Colonel Thompson whD suggested that he should crown the labors of a long and Illustrious career by writing this book. There Is a note of distinction in the work which will preserve It for many generations, and make the fame of Its author as permanent us the I-Tatlon whose annals it recounts. In perusing these pages the reader is amazed at the stores of information of its author, at his retentive and serviceable memory, and at the copiousness and elegance of his diction. There is not a dull page in the book. It lacks, perhaps, the minuteness of detail, the painstaking elaboration of material and the methodical arrangement which should characterize an ambitious historical work; but it has the great , merit of giving. In clear outline, sketches of the great men and great events in the political history of the Nation for a period of sixty years. A partisan and a vigorous party fighter for two generations. Colonel Thompson comes now, at the advanced age of eighty-five years, with the asperities and prejudices and animosities of party strife toned down and softened, to tell his story. In which much is extenuated ani naught set down In malice: It Is one of the happy features of Colonel Thompson's character that he has never made personal enemies of his party foes. In the heat of a canvass he abates no jot of his firm opinions. He wastes no time in soft words of empty compliment. He rather compliments his adversary by assuming that he can take care, of himself, and thrusts and parries with all his skill and strength, but with a knightly courtesy that ever keeps him within th line of honorable combat. While these pages will be read with interest and profit by thousands who have never been under the spell of Colonel Thopmson's matchless oratory, to others, who have known and seen him at his best there will be the added zest which comes from the memory of the old man eloquent, standing erect In the midst of vast crowds, his tall frame trembling with excitement, his lustrous eyes flashing with indignation, his clarion voice, clear, resonant, ringing with such well-modulated cadence that every syllable could be caught at the verge of the largest outdoor assemblage. But, for a time, let us put aside the personality of the author and consider the task he has set before him and how he ha3 fulfilled it. As Colonel Thompson says in his preface, his personal recollections "do not reach back far enough to embrace any portion of the period covered by the administration of Washington and the eldev Adams, Jefferson and Madison, and are shadowy with reference to that of Monroe, but my early avocations were such as to bring me from boyhood into immediate intercourse and under the direct Influence of men of the revolution, who stamped impressions upon my mind with regard to early events, and those who were the chief agents in producing them, which nothing Intervening, however stirring, has ben able to remove." From boyhood Colonel Thompson had a wonderful taste and aptitude for politics and public business, and his active young mind was greatly stimulated by being brought into contact with the patriot statesmen who laid the foundations of our Nation's greatness. The Nation had just been formed, the Constitution had been framed, but what it meant, what were the limitations it imposed upon the States andthe general government these were things which were to grow out of it, and In a sense, to be created by such master minds as Webster's and Marshall's, and at last to be annealed and toughened by the fierce fires of civil war. In his chapter on Washington's administration Colonel Thompson notes that the first symptom of sectional division cropped out when Congress came to pass on Secretary Hamilton's report, in which he urged the chartering of a national" bank. The bill to charter the bank passed the House by a vote of 39 to 19. The affirmative vote, with two exceptions, came from north' of the Potomac, and the entire negative vote, except two from Maryland, were from souta of the Potomac. The bill coming to Washington, was referred by him to three members of his Cabinet for opinions as to its constitutionality. Jefferson and Randolph denied Its constitutionality, and Hamilton alone asserted IL So cogent was his logic that It convinced Washington, and the bill was signed. Hamilton's criticisms of Jefferson's opinion, which had been submitted to him, were severe and made permanent the breach between these two, great statesmen whose friends ranged themselves in two parties as Federalists and Republicans, and, under different names, the constitutional questions which divided these two men have survived till the present day. Washington had undertaken an Impossible task when he tried to form a harmonious Cabinet composed of men of such opposite opinions as Hamilton and Knox. Jefferson and Randolph. Washington did what he could to prevent the estrangement of Hamilton and Jefferson and to bring about an adjustment after the strife began, but it availed nothing. The friends of the two rival statesmen took up the quarrel and a war of vituperation by speech, newspaper and pamphlet was inaugurated, as acrimonious and unscrupulous as It could be made. Washington himself did not escape the poisoned shafts of the enemies of Hamilton, and even Mrs. Washington was accused of trying by her evening parties "to accustom the people to the pomp and manners of European courts." Of one pamphlet entitled" "The Prospect Before Us," writ ten by one Callender, who was hired for the purpose and stimulated with whisky made at a distillery, the site of which Colonel Thompson knew, Colonel Thompson says: "It was the foulest and most mendacious publication I ever read, exceeding by far anything to which the readers of the Dresent day are accustomed." The effect upon Washington's friends, who had served with him in the revolution, was to infuriate them, and Colonel Thompson has a vivid recollection of how their lndlgna tion kindled when they recounted these things. JOHN ADAMS. John Adams came to the presidency as the successor of Washington by a close vote. He received 71 and Jefferson 68 of the 1S3 electoral votes cast by the sixteen States. It was a triumph of Washington's policy, but by a very narrow and dangerous margin. In his inaugural address Adams announced his purpose to adhere to and pursue the policy marked out by Washington, of whom he spoke as "a citizen who, by a long course of great actions, regulated by prudence. Justice, temperance and fortitude, conducting a people Inspired with the same virtues and animated with the same ardent patriotism and love of liberty, to independence and peace, to increasing wealth and unexampled prosperity, has merited the gratitude of hi3 fellow-clt-izens, commanded the highest praises of foreign nations and secured Immortal glory with posterity." As an earnest of what he promised Adams retained the Cabinet of his predecessor, a thing that has never occurred again. Thtn came the trouble with France. 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Paris. French cruisers were authorized to commit depredations upon our commerce. Adams convened Congress In extra session. There was a strong feeling In favor of France, but Congress finally passed the necessary laws to enable the President to vindicate the national honor. Here again sectional feeling phowed ItFelf. AJams'g supporters were from the North, and the French party, as it was called, was composed of members from the South. Meanwhile a navy was built and the fear of war subsided. The Federalists were called the British party, and were accused of being in collusion with England In opposition to France. To prepare for the expected war an army was organized, with Washington as commander-in-chief, with the rank of lieutenant general. He consented to serve on condition that the general officers and staff should not be named without his concurrence. He gave Adams a list of three major generals Hamilton. Pinkney and Knox. When they were appointed anl confirmed by the Senate Adams directed commissions to be made out in the reverse order, putting Hamilton last. Washington protested, and it was evident he would not serve unless the President kept his promise and put Hamilton first. Adams was forced to yield. Hamilton proceeded at once, under Washington's directions, to organize the army, and before there was occasion to. use it the war cloud blew over and the peace of Sept. 30, 1S00, put the two nations on a friendly footing which

has never since been disturbed. THOMAS JEFFERSON. Colonel Thompson thus describes Jefferson as he first saw him. In the spring of 1825: "I visited Charlottesville, Albemarle county, Virginia where the State University is located and then had an opportunity to observe Jefferson somewhat closely, but for a much shorter time than I desired. He had come to town from Montlctllo which is near by, in a light covered carriage, drawn by two horses and driven by an old negro man. The object of his visit seemed to bo the purcn-ase of goods, ns I found him in a store thus engaged. I was scarcely old enough to form intelligent conclusions regarding him from observation o casual especially as he was engaged in such commonplace business as purchasing domestic supplies yet to a j-outh like me It appeared something more than a mere privilege that I should le permitted to look upon the author of the Declaration of Independence, who was one of . the foremost men In the country and who had reflected honor upon his and my own native tstate, as well as upon the Nation. I scrutinized him so closely that the scene was photographed upon my mind, wnd memory, ever) now and then, has summoned him again before me. "He was then two years younger than 1 am as I now write, but bore tJie marki of decrepitude the wearing away of the Vigorous energies of manhood. Notwithstanding the thoughts that crowded m)' youthful mind, I could not avoid obserin,vthe plainness and almost simple rusticity $ of his dress. His clothing was evidently homemade probably woven upon a domestic loom and there was nothing aboub either its cut or make up to indicate thaw " it had pas.?ed through the hands of a fasl.V ionable tailor.' In fact, he belonged to that class of men who, disregarding the frivolitles of society, devote tneir best faculties to 'other and greater objects. His shoulders were considerably stooped. He did not remove his hat, and I could observe only the face below IL I obtained a position, however, which enabled me to see his eyes with tolerable distinctness; and while they had undoubtedly lost somewhat of their brilliancy, they were still clear, penetrating and bright. His voice was feeble and slightly tremulous, but not fcufficiently so to leave the impression that It was not susceptible of distinct and clear enunciation when there was' occasion for It. It appeared to me that he was careful In helecting his purchases, but he did not higgle about the prices. The merchant with w.iom he dealt exhibited the most marked deference to him, and when his purchases closed took him by the arm and conducted him to his carriage, which he slowly entered with his assistance and that of the driver. The carnge then drove In the direction of Monticello. and I gazed at it until out of sight, with mingled emotion of pleasure and regretpleasure at being permitted to see a venerable statesman of such high. distinction, and regret at the fear that I should never see him again." Ten years before that time Jefferson had been reduced to bankruptcy. Congress had purchased his library for about one-half Its value. When Colonel Thompson saw him in 1825 he was in very straitened circumstances, and had It not been for the generosity of the three cities of New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, who gave him In the year 182S, a few months before his death, the sum of $16,C00, he would have died in absolute wanL It is probable that Colonel Thompson errs in intimating, as he does at pages il and 42, that Jefferson opposed the adoption of the Constitution. He was not in the convention that framed It, but wrote from , Paris, saying. "The Constitution Is a good t canvas on which some strokes only want retouching," and Mr. John Flske ays that while he was "not of the party of Federalists, he was much further from that of the ant I-Federalists, and .that he characterized the Federal convention as 'an assembly Of deml-gods. " On the Cth of February, 1788, Jefferson wrote to Madison from Paris: "I wish with all my soul that the nine first State conventions may accept the new Constitution, to secure to us the good it contains, but I equally wish that the four latest, whichever they may be, may refuse to accede to it till a declaration of rights be annexed; but no objection to the new form must produce a schism in our Union." The same criticism was made in Massachusetts, where the Constitution was ratified unconditionally, but amendments such as Jefferson contemplated were suggested, and the ten amendments were acted on by Congress In 1790 and became part of the Constitution in 179L Jefferson never abated a Jot of his animosity to Washington and Hamilton, and was weak enough to write, eighteen years after Washington's death, that Washington's, mental powers were decaying rapidly when Jefferson retired from his cabinet in 1731. and that the Federalists "had unchecked hold of him and did his thinking for him, over ' which," he continues, "in devotion to his imperishable fame we must forever weep ns -monuments of mental decay," and this mental decay was two years before Washington penned his immortal farewell address and four years before Congress put him at the head of the army, with the rank and title of lieutenant-general, when we were on the eve of war with France. How the fatuous friends of Jefferson ever allowed his name and fame to be discredited by the publication of these evidences of senile dementia it Is hard to understand. . Colonel Thompson does not fail to remind us that it was Jefferson who wrote a sentence in his Kentucky resolutions of 1798 which contained the Seeds of the civil war In Its belly, which sentence declared that each State had "the right to Judge for itself as well of Infractions of its constitutional lights and of the moJe and measure of redress." and that nullification is the rightful remedy. What more was claimed by the rebels of 1S61? Jefferson owed his election to the presidency in 1800 to Alexander Hamilton and his Federalist associates, and It always, galled . him to think of it. The electoral vote was 276. Jefferson received 73, Aaron Burr 73, Charles C. Pinkney 64, John Adams CS and John Jay 1. The election went to the House, and for a time It seemed that Burr would be chosen. At this Juncture Hamilton said to his friends: "If there is a man 'living whom I have reason- to hate it Is Jefferson, but Burr is not fit for the presidency, and to prevent rhe calamity of his election Federalists should pacriflee their party and personal feelings to their patriotism and vote for Jefferson." After thirty-six ballots Jefferson was elected by the votes of ten States., but ' he did not get the necessary Federalist support until he pledged himself to adhere to the commercial and financial policy of the precedlrg administration and to abstain from removals from office for political reasons. It was probably the recollection of this moral duress put upon him that led Jefferson to givs vent to his malice or resentment zzlzx