Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 January 1895 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS . JOURNAL," 1 FRIDAY, JANUARY I, 1895.

Til E DAILY JOURNAL FRIDAY, JANUARY 4. 1895. ' wASrlNGTOW OFFlCETilQ PEnIkVLVANIA AVEKUE Telephone Calls. Biisiuf b OtUr.e '-'3a Mitorlal Kooms 'J42 TERMS OK SUBSCRIPTION'. ' HAILY BY MAIL. pnily only, one month.......;'.......... $ .70 S'aily ouly, tlirue nioDths. - l!.0O Jaily only, one year. - H.00 J'Bily. tnulniliiiK Humlay, one year lo.oo kunday only, one year -'.00 WHEN n'KNWHED BY AOKNTS. I'ailvper veelt, by carrier. 15 eta Minday, singlfl cooy 5 eta tally uuil Sunday, per weak, by carrier 20 cU WEEKLY. Feryear . $100 Reduced Hates to Club. Subscribe with any of our numerous agents or aeml Subscriptions to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, Indianapolis, IimI. Persona sending the Journal through the mails in tlie United btatea alum lil put on an elifht-pa:e paper S onk-cemt postage stamp: on a twelve or sixteenpage fain'r a two-cent iKmtaae stamp, foreign pobtnge is usuully double these rates. Or" A II communications Intended for publication in tin inr must, in onler to receive attention, lie, accompanied by the name autl address ot the writer. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOIKXAL Can be founit at the following: places PA K I H American Exchange lu Paris, 36 Boulevard ile (aimriiirs. , HEW YoKK-Gllaey House, Windsor Hotel ami Astor House. I'M iLADKbPlIIA-A. r. Konib'.e, cor., Lancaster uvp.unil liarln st. CHICAGO Palmer Hoiitie. Auditorium Hotel and P. O. News Co., 91 Adams street. CIXCJNNATI-J. U. llawley & Co.. 151 Vine at. LOtTISVIM.K C. T. Peering, northwest corner ot Third and Jefferson st.nv and Louisville Book Co., 8C I mirth ave. fcT Lo U 1 U ulon News Comiiany, Union Depot. WASH I NOT ON, 1. C lliggs House. Kbbttt House. Wlllaitt's Hotel uud the Washington News Ex- . chaiitfe, I4tli street, bet. t'enn. avo. and F street. The Democratic Congress has reassembled, but the Democratic party has not got together. If the Lord had ever intended that the Democratic party should have control of this government He would have given it brains. The Democratic policy for opening "the. markets of the world" seems to have resulted in closing them to the American farmer. " . There was no indication ' in its demeanor yesterday that the Democratic House derived anv substantial advan7 'tage during the vacation. No citizen who is now thirty-five years of . age has ever had a bank note issued under the national system, which was not worth its face. That there should toe a deficit in the treasury of $27,000,000 the fourth month after the passage of the Democratic revenue act1 discloses an unusual degree "of incapacity even for Democrats. The latest cut In wages by the Carnegie ' companies furnishes additional evidence that Mr. Carnegie had in mind a reduction of wages to the European scale when he indorsed the duties on iron in the Wilson bill schedule. The Democracy went down in Indiana because it was dominated, and run in the interest of such a crew as pervaded the last three legislatures, whose interests were not those of the public. The llepubllcans can profit by this fact. The suggestion of Governor Morton, of New York, that the , labor of convicts which cannot be disposed of under contract in that State may be employed in building good roads is entitled to consideration in other States. There is considerable -difference between the free Democratic barbecues given during the recent campaign and the high-priced feed which is to he held here on the Sth Inst. The idea seems to be that a change of diet may revive the party. And so members of the Texas Legislature desire to resolve that Senator Roger Q. Mills, author af the Mills bill und out-and-out free-trader, does not represent Texas. That is nothing; he has met the approval of all countries beyond the United States. It seems that the district attorney is in duty bound to ask the right to say a word in defense of the Cleveland administration at the funeral feast of the Governor's friends next week. It needs it, and it would be a dismal performance In keeping with the regular obsequies. .The fact that a person has broken into the Washington Legislature who has a resolution requesting Congress to send Mgr. Satolll out of the country shows that all sorts and Ulnjils of people have representatives, and that the asinine are never without an exponent. In distributing responsibility for the present deplorable condition of govt'.rnnuMit flimneis a full share should be laid on Speaker Crisp, who packed the business commit tees df the House with men who were known to entertain unsound views on economic und financial ques

tions. .... i ii i A rumor, prevails in Washington, that the President will semi a special 'message to Congress urging the necessity of some financial legislation that will restore confidence. Such a message woufd be lost on a Democratic Con'&res.. Men 'do not '"gather grapes- of thorns or tigs of thistles. BSSBSSSSWBSMSHBSBBSSaSaSBMBMaasalSaBBSBBflBBSal A prominent Populist in Washington has admitted that free coinage of silver, is accepted by himself and his associates us a tangible issue with which to overthrow the present financial policy of the country. That is, what he and his party desire is the unlimited issue of irredeemable paper mill money. Speaking of the bills which Governor Matthews will reeommtVid the Legislature to enact to suppress Koby, the Chicago Record says that "the institution of racing as recently carried on at Roby Is merely public gambling nothing more nor less." Winter racing has been so recognized in all other States and suppressed. ' The man who has been called the Piatt candidate for the speakership of the New York House was defeated by a vote of more than three to one by a candidate who has always been hostile to that lender. This and other incidents lead the tmtsider to suspect that "Bobs Piatt" is a spook of the Democratic and some Republican editors. Dr. Parkhurst has rendered a great public service In bringing about the Lexovv investigation and Is entitled to a full measure of credit Tor the results that have been accomplished, but Jt does not follow that he should be allcrwed to dictate a plan for reorganizing the New York police department". As a moral reformer he bar shown qualities

that command the highest admiration, but the reorganization of a city government is a work for constructive statesmen rather than moral reformers. Senator Voorhees writes to the St. Jackson committee that "238,000 Democrats standing steadily in line in November last in Indiana and voting the ticket with a resolute, undaunted spirit is a spectacle full of encouragement and hope in the years that are just ahead of us." If the Senator thinks that was an inspiring spectacle what does he think of 2S4.000 Republicans standing In line and voting the Republican tidket? THK RANKERS AM) TUB PRESIDENT.

The report that leading bankers have' asked the. President to retire Secretary Carlisle is not denied any further than that Mr. J. Plerpont Morgan was not among them. It may turn out that there were no leading bankers, but others who-assume that importance; but. however this may be, such action cannot be regarded otherwise than an impertinence and as unwise so far as it may affect the financial situation. As regards Mr. Carlisle, it is fair to assume that his action has been directed by the President as the head of the administration.. It Is not probable that he has ordered the issue of bonds without the sanction of the President, and it. is probable that the award of the bonds and the conditions were known to Mr. Cleveland." In regard to the currency scheme of Secretary Carlisle, which has proved so defective and unsatisfactory, the President in his message gave the first official outline of It and gave It his emphatic approval. Whoever, therefore, may be the. author of the ill-advised scheme, the President himself is 'as much responsible for its recommendation as the Secretary. ' If Mr. Cleveland had been able to detect the defects of the Carlisle bill he could have told him that it was an unwise measure and must not be. presented. Then the Secretary would have been at liberty to resign or under obligation to draw another plan in conformity with the views of the President. Furthermore, during the- pendency of the measure the President has been reported as being determined, that the Carlisle bill should be enacted. Under such conditions the President is as responsible for the' mischief which the bankers are reported as charging upon the administration's currency scheme as is Secretary Carlisle. Consequently the bankers have asked the President to remove the Secretary when they could, with the same propriety, have asfced Mr. Cleveland himself to. resign. Altogether, it is not a very creditable performance on the part of the bankers if they have done what the papers report. Their interference can do no good, and it may do harm. It certainly will not commend this interference of what is known as Wall street with the affairs of the President, because it will be believed that they have assumed altogether too much. As there Is no reason to believe the Carlisle-Springer bill will become a law, such an interference as that with which the unnamed bankers are charged Is not warranted by the situation, and it will not help the financial situation. . " TWO DISPATCHES.Two dispatches in yesterday's Journal are entitled to consideration because of the bearing which one has upon, the other. One of these dispatches was an account of the reception of , John Burns, M. P., in Boston, . in which he declared that speculation and monopoly were more prevalent in America than elsewhere in the world, and as the result' he foresaw "a storm in this country before which the French revolution will be a nightmare and the Commune an illusion unless guided into proper channels by labor unions." Of course this wordy Briton did not name the monopolies or the speculations that are such monsters, because he could not. There is ,no monopoly in the necessaries of life, some of which are heavily taxed in Great Britain. There Is a lack of'employment, but It Is less pressing than a year ago, and the wages paid labor are yet . from 35 to 50 per cent, higher than they are in Great Britain. They would be yet higher had not an attempt been made to reduce them to the British level, by the adoption of a revenue tariff. If Burns, M. P., is rnxlous to elevate labor let him go home and urge the adoption of a protective system which Will enable British labor to be paid as . well as in this country, and thus enabled to purchase some of the British goods which are now sent abroad for a market because British laborers do not receive wages which make It possible for them to buy. At the same hour that the Burns Jeremiad and doleful prophecy was being put on the wires at Boston the abstract of the report of the Census Bureau regarding the owners of farms and homes was coming from Washington. Burns, M. P., and all of the dismal brood of calamityltes will never , read that abstract. Statistics showing that "the owners of farms and homes, regarded as substantially the land owners of the United States, own more than GO per ceivt. of the wealth of the country" are evidences of conditions which make the Burns chatter about monopolies ridiculous and his visions of revolution the creatures of his overworked imagination. Having ridden over the country on fast trains and seen only the most forbidding features of the cities, Mr. Burns knows no more of the people of this country and their conditions than the man knows of literature who has read a half dozen penny dreadfuls. That 7i per cent, of the white owners of farms are free of mortgage, and that 23 per cent, of occupants of homes in the fifty-eight cities of 50,000 inhabitants and upwards are owners are conditions which cannot be found else-; where in the world. If a dozen of the larger and older cities were excluded from consideration the proportion of those who own homes clear of incumbrance or mortgaged for the purchase money would be very much larger. One of the agencies which Burns and his ilk denounce as monopolies, the means of rapid transit from suburbs to city centers, has promoted home owning very largely. The ownership of farms and homes and the interest of a much larger number in some one of the numerous agencies for the saving of small amounts from current earnings constitute a force for the preservation of the country from bloody revolution which Mr. Burns seems to know nothing about. The man who seeks audienaA

made up largely of the less thrifty and largely foreigners in. large cities and demands to be shown the vilest resorts In the towns he visits can know very little of the American people.

CAUSE FOR GRATITUDE. During the last presidential campaign the people were promised a great many blessings , as the result of Democratic success, but one blessing was to outweigh all others. Wheat was to be higher, wages were to increase, .employment was to be more steady, taxes were to be reduced, money was to be more plenty, times were to be1 better, but above all we were to have free wool. This was to be the climax of the happy condition which Democratic control of the government was to usher in. Democratic leaders might differ about other things, but they were agreed on this. Chairman Wilson would surrender some points and compromise on others, but he would never give up free wool. It was Mr. Cleveland's ultimatum, Mr. Carlisle's last ditch and the iret fad of all the tariff reformers. .Well,' we have got free wool, and, according to the Democratic prophets and tariff tlnkerers, we ought to be happy. True, there are some drawbacks to our happiness, but we should try and cultivate a spirit of gratitude. The price of wheat Is lower instead of higher, wages have fallen, employment is scarce and times are hard, but we have got free wool. ' The public debt was increased last month more than $31,000,000. the expenditures of the government exceeded its revenue during the month $5,269,324 and the total deficit for the last six months is $27,564,465; but we have .got free wool. There Is a steady and alarming outflow of gold, the treasury surplus is only maintained by repeated sales of bonds, the public credit is seriously menaced and Democratic currency tlnkerers are doing all in their power to aggravate the situation: but we have got free wool. ' We have lost our flour trade with Cuba. our trade with all the South American states has been crippled and every government on the continent of Europe has prohibited the importation ,of American cattle and beef; but we have got free wool. During the last year there have been two issues of government bonds of $50,000,000 each, which should have netted the government about $117,000,000, and yet at'the close of the year the treasury gold reserve was only about $6,500,000 more than o'n Jan. 1, 1894, and nearly $15,000,000 below the supposed safety mark; but we have got free wool. With the government in the hands of tyros and blunderers, and with a Congress without patriotism or brains, the main dependence of the country is good luck and a kind Providence; but the people should be thankful that they have free wool. A LESSON FOR REPUBLICANS. In the long list of outrages perpetrated by the Democratic party in this ptate in the gerrymander business not the least was the manner in which the present one was passed. After the Supreme1 Court had held the act of 1891 unconstitutional, assigning specific reasons therefor, the Democrats met in caucus and adopted another bill as nearly as possible like the one that had been overthrown ty the Supreme Court, and as plainly in violation of the Constitution. Four bills were presented- to the caucus, and it adopted the most unfair one of the lot, rejecting the other three because, . although still strongly favorable to the Democratic party, they were not unfair enough. They differed too much from the gerrymander that had been held unconstitutional. In commenting at the, time oh this action of the caucus the Journal said: This is an insult to the Court. It is also an insult to the people, a large majority of whom, irrespective of party, are opposed to gerrymanders. They do not believe that any party has a right to gag, tie and elisfranchlse the opposition. The Democrats have the power to pass the pending bill, but they have not the power to compel a majority of the voters of the State to submit to it. The bill, if passed, will be fought before the people and in the courts with that persistence which Inspires men determined to have their rights, and the fight will never be abandoned till-right and justice have been established. The manner in which the 1)111 -was passed was us great an outrage as the bill itself. The Democrats refused to permit any discussion of the measure. The gag rule was applied and all debate was cut off. The Speaker of the House even refused to permit Republicans briefly to explain their votes. One member who endeavored to make such an explanation was howled down, and another who insisted on making his protest was" shoved into his seat by a doorkeeper. The Speaker not only tolerated but encouraged these outrages. , The Journal said: The Speaker and his fellow-conspirators In the overthrow of representative government In Indiana may shout over their victory now, but. one of these days the people who believe in decency and fair methods will rise up to rebuke the ruffianism which disgraced the House yesterday. The day has come, the people have risen and the rebuke has been administered. The lesson of the hour is this: The Republicans will have a larger majority in the next Legislature than the Democrats had in the last one. They will have votes enough to pass any measure that may be approved by a caucus and made a party measure. This fact should give them a keen sense of responsibility, and the recent overthrow of the Democratic party should teach them that political sins riever go long unpunished. GOOD ROADS MOVEMEXTS. The farmers institute in Jennings county has inaugurated a good roads movement which promises excellent results. First, the institute appointed a good roads committee consisting of one member from each township except Center, which had two. and named the chairman o? the cemmittee. The first meeting of the committee was attended by all the members and by a number of citizens interested in the subject. It being the sense of this .neeting that the present laws afforded ample machinery, if rightly applied, for the construction of good roads, the chairman was authorized to appoint a subcommittee of five to formulate a plan for the construction of one or more good roads 'leading out of the county seat and to call a mass meeting of citizens to consider the plan. The subcommittee has not yet reported, but it is evident that a good start has been made in the right direction. The people of Jackson county have also commenced the construction of a free gravel road under U act of '"',''''' ; . - :C: ':: ."'." ; .". ' ' -'.'-'.'V

March ., 1893. The road is to be nearly "five miles In length, and the estimated cost $3,081.60, which is to. be 'divided between two townships. The character of the general road may be gathered from the following description: The road is graded s as to make the road-way eighteen feet wide from the Inside of the inner edge of gutters, raised to a crown of four inches in the center, culverts to be of socket tile, bridges, of which there are three, to be of good, sound oak timber. The road i to be graveled with White river gravel, placed so that one. cubic yard of gravel shall make three lineal feet of road, gravel to be spread fourteen feet wide, and twelve, inches deep at center. . These movements', in, two adjoining counties show that the people are waking up to the necessity of better roads and are beginning to discover that the. way to do things is to take'hqld and do them. The best laws in the world will not build good roads without 'intelligent action on the part of the people. The trouble in this State has not been so much in the laws as in the unsatisfactory manner of their execution. There hasf been money enough wasted in maintain ing bad roads to have constructed good roads all over the State. The action of the farmers' institute of Jennings county should be emulated by other county institutes. ' The President in his annual message gave "his unqualified indorsement to Secretary Carlisle's . currency plan. He said: The Secretary explains his plan so plainly and its advantages are developed by him with such remarkable clearness that any effort on my part to present argument in its support would be superfluous, r shall, therefore, content myself with an unqualified indorsement of the Secretary's proposed changes In the law. . , This had reference to Mr. Carlisle's plan as embodied in- his first bill. That bill was khbeked out in one day's discussion, and ' the one now before the House is materially different. As Mr.. Cleveland has no intelligent views on the currency question' he probably gives his unqualified indorsement to the present bill just as he did to the first one. Of course the government should not be run in the interest of bankers or any other special class, but it must be remembered i that, bankers are generally sound and. conservative in their financial views, am? New York bankers are not the most stupid in the business. While the President should not in anything yield ; to their, dictation he should not ignore their advice nor underrate the value of their . opinions. The administration is sadly in ..need of good advice on financial questions at present, and is more likely to get it from New York bankers than from Southern Democratic politicians. ; , In his address to the Legislature Governor Morton, of New York, calls attention to those .commissions which, after being created, have increased their demands .'fJTtjm year, to year until they have become a grievous burden. It is the danger everywhere that those in charge .of institutions supported by the State gradually, come to the conclusion that the great ? tax-paying public was created for no , other purpose than to build, up and . embellish the hospitals, prisons and schools' to Which they are attached. ,

BUBBLES I! THE AIR. 'The Boy Pianist. "It strikes' me that he "has a good deal of assurance to call himself a boy pianist. He must be all of t wenty-five." "Guess he Is;, but bje plays like a boy of nine." ' ",- .. 's.-v' , v -., Uood Intentions." - ' . . "How are things, down your way?" asked the wizard. ' "All torn up," replied the gentleman in' red and black, flicking a bit of dust off his cioven - boot with a sulphur-scented asbestos handkercnief. "This is the time of year,., you know, when our pavements are laid." j ; - Sail . Cane. "Got it this time," shouted the inventor. "Got -AjhatT asked his friend. "Got an' idea "tliat , is going to make my fortune. I have i invented a furnace that gets hott?r on cold days and cools off as the weather warms up. All I want now Is to see a capitalist." ' "Capitalist? What you want Is to see a doctor," . ! i 'Tlmly Advice. ( The evangelist was relating a few of his experiences. ;., , ; ' "Of course, I get a good deal of advice," said he, "from the local brethren. But it was down in Georgia that I got the queerest 'pointer, if I may. use the expression. I had scarcely registered at the little hotel and brushed the dust of travel from my clothes, when the chief deacon called on me. 'I s'pose brother,' he said, "that you mean toe preach the flowery path toe destruction and the narrer way to the blessed land and all the hard times it is gittln there, don't ye? ' I answered that it was likely that I might expand a little In that line. 'Wal,' he said, T want toe tell you right now that . It won't do at aIL Theso here fellers 'round here is so doggorui lazy that they'll jlst simply take the easy road. Understand?' " , -, "Did you understand?" "Well, it.waa.one of the most successful revivals I ever conducted." THE INDIANA PRESS.' The Legislature in framing a new fee and salary law should regard the rights of tlje Ieople for whose service the offices are created. Salaries should be liberal but not excessive. There , is no danger but competent men will appy to fill the offices. Muncie Times. t ; ? It is utter ,'folly to talk at this time of Indiana going into the university business on a scale to compete with Ann Arbor and Chicago University. It is impracticable. With a State debt of $8,000,000 hanging over us and taxes already up to the highest notch, such a move would raise a perfect storm of indignation all over Indiana. The leaders of the Republican party must understand at the outset that the present Legislature was elected as a debt-paying not a debt-making Legislature. Delphi .Journal. The Legislature should enact an entirely new law basing the salaries of county officers not only on population but upon the amount of business done. Population is not always a just criterion. Some counties have double the amount of business cf others with an equal population. It is not just, it is not fair, that counties which do a large business requiring the assistance of a greater number of men' should pay their officers the same salarVn that are paid in counties- doing half the business and requiring fewer number of assistants. Crawfordsville Journal. There can be no serious objection to the proposition to take the appointing power away from the governor, so far as police commissioners are concerned, and investing the same in the judge of the Circuit Court, except that when such tinkering is commenced there is no telling where it will end. As for political advantage, it is unworthy to consider that feature in connection with the subject. The present governor being a Democrat, he is naturally expected to create boards with a majority of . members of his political faith. In all probability the next governor will be a Republican, and It is reasonable to believe that he will eontine the present practice. But what the people desire and demand is non-partisan boards and non-partisan police throughout. It would be- entirely satisfactory if the appointing power of boards were given to the Judge t the Circuit Court, as proposed, but the danger is that if the gates of revision are once spened, there will follow a flood of changes and substitutes that will

eventually result in the destruction of the principal and admirable purpose of the law as It now stands. In this instance, surely, the best plan to be pursued Is to leave well enough alone. Lafayette Courier. The action of the Indiana college presidents n the foot ball question has" been heralded far and wide as a practical and significant protest against the; brutality of the game., A careful examination of the resolutions passed fails to indicate any change except the dissolution of the inter-collegiate association, leaving each Institution free to make its own schedule of games. Foot-ball will be played as com-

monly as ever but between different teams, i It is rumored that the fine hand of President Smart, of Purdue, is apparent in this decision. The president Of Purdue University is a foot ball enthusiast, and would certainly do nothing to injure the game which has given his institution so wide a reputation. Purdue has for some time been planning to join an association composed of more equal competitors and President Smart has adopted a shrewd method of getting out of the Indiana association gracefully. Terre Haute Tribune. . ABOUT PEOPLE AXD THINGS. Mile. Julia Frement, a French teacher, declares that the muscles used in speaking the French language are entirely different from those used by the English-speaking public. Chief of Police Crowley, of Sart Francisco, who was sent to Hawaii to arrange for the transfer of San Francisco's lepers to the islands, has met with little success. The people of the island naturally object to receiving any more lepers than they now have. One of the Fifth-avenue banks not only has an awning over its pavement to the carriage block on rainy day3 and a special : reception room and ladies' maid . Inside for the comfort of its feminine customers, but it 'has a double set of receiving and paying tellers, so that the women may not be brought into contact with the men customers in any way if they do not wish it. Berlin papers say that the tallest man in the world is now in that city. He is Hassan All, an Arabian, who was born in Egypt. They say that he has reached nine feet two inches, and as he is only sixteen years old, it is thought that he may grow taller. They also say that the Chinese giant, Shang-Yu-Sing, was only eight feet eight inches when he was twenty-four years old. The ' confederate silver half dollar Is reckoned as one of the rarest of American coins. Only four such coins were struck. The confederate silver half dollar bears the date of 1861, and was struck at the mint at New Orleans just before that Institution was closed by the federal troops. It has the Goddess of Liberty on one side and a stalk of cane, one of cotton, ana the stars and bars of the confederacy in a coat of arms on the other side. , - Mr3. Ormiston Chant cannot retire into private life. . Since the Empire affair she has been the most written about woman in London, and now such is fame her toy image is being sold about the streets. The toy consists of a bladder, with a woman's face, which, when blown out, flourishes a little red umbrella, shriek3 and shakes Its head,' and finally collapses. The .venders cry out. "Ere Is Mrs. Hormlston Chant a-maklng a fuss at the Hemplre. "Did you ever see your own eye?" asked an unscientific person. "It is a very simple matter. , The most satisfactory view is obtained by shutting, say, the left eye, and pressing gently upon the right side of the right eye. You will then see, apparently at the right 'side of the nose, a round dark object about the size of the apple of the eye. That is what I take it to be. and I suppose the retina is made in some way to reflect the outer portion of the eye. though the phenomenon may be only an optical illusion." , Noah Brooks tells in his Century article, "Lincoln In Wartime," the incident of Mr. Lincoln and the driver at the time the President reviewed General Reynolds's corps at Potomac Creek. Six wild mules had tested the patience of the driver of the ambulance which conveved the presidential party over a rouh corduroy road. Finally Mr. Lincoln, leaning forward, touched the man on the shoulder and said"Excuse me, my friend, are you an Episcopalian?" The man, greatly startled, looked around and replied: "No, Mr. Pres ident." "Well," said Lincoln, "I thought you must be an Episcopalian, because you swear just like Governor Seward, who is a churchwarden." The. driver swore no more. There isn't half as many M -That want to take the cake. A2there is that want the biscuits, . ,Their mothers used to make. ; ; . Philadelphia Inquirer, The north wind doth blow And we shall have snow, ' ' And what will the tradesman do then, poor He'll at once advertise Or contrariwise " Be completely snowed under ere spring. ' Printers' Ink. SHREDS AMD PATCHES. It is a misfortune for , any man to be an ass. Philadelphia North American. Those Gotham faddists who spell it Haarlem ought to live In Nieuw York. Boston Globe. ' It la heaven to a woman to go fooling around a dry goods store, but hell to a man. Atchison Globe. A man's New Year resolutions are knocked out on the first round by his wife's Christmas bills. Atchison Globe. Connecticut has Introduced ian automatic gallows. Those who have tried it will use no other. Chicago Dispatch. It Is a fortunate thing for Colonel Breckinridge that he has nothing to lose by lecturing. Milwaukee Sentinel. Colonel Breckinridge's lecture tour is a failure. Now let him eat forty quail in forty days. New York World. . If Pope Leo were a woman we could understand his objection to secret societies. Philadelphia North American. "Does Morrison know anything about music?" "He knows that the correct pronunciation ia 'Vogner.' "Brooklyn Life. If it comes to the worst we believe Anthony Comstoek could get a job in New York as a living picture. Chicago Dispatch. It is already proposed to make two States out of California, one for Mrs. Lease and one for the rest of the people. Cincinnati Tribune. It is all right ti dot your "i's," but the wise man will go a long distance out of his way to escape crossing a pink tea. WasnIngton Post. She Do you think a girl ought to let a man kiss her before she marries him? Hp Yes. if Hhe expects to be kissed at all. New York World. . A lot of pope-orn balls hung all oyer a Christmas tree will create more interest in a Sunday-school than twenty miracles possibly could. Texas Slftlngs. When a man' becomes firmly convinced that he Is a genius. It is then that the fringe slowly begins to form on the bottom of his trousers. Harlem Life. Little Hnth's Surprise. Washington Letter. President Cleveland's Christmas gift to his .wife was a pair of sldecombs, each having fourteen diamonds glittering in it, and. of course, these were just the things Mrs. Cleveland wanted. Little Ruth had prepared a great surprise for her parents and waited until she and Esther were brought in with their father and mother and grandmother to see their tree lighted up Christmas morning. Without giving th?m any previous warning she recited clearly and distinctly and with scarcely a falter the twenty-third Psalm. She had been taught It by her nurse, but the greatest part of the surprise, as far as her parents -were concernad, was that phe had kept the secret so well. The White House babies received at Christmas fifteen or twenty dolls and a wonderful collection of rag dolls in the number. A Veteran's Xevr Year's Gift. Washington Special to Chicago Record. I hear of an old soldier, who, after having been in the Treasury Department for more than twenty-three years, received a New Year's gift in the form of a reduction of his salary from $1,800 to $840 a year. There is no question about his qualifications or Industry, but he .is a Republican and his place was wanted by a Democrat. As a special favor he will be allowed to continue the same work h always performed at let's than half hin formed nalarv. I rn told that when he went to the chief clerk's office and asked an explanation of this extraordinary treatment Logan Carlisle replied: "This is a cold winter. You had better not kick." A Xote of Rejult'liiMr. Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. . No one has been murdered in Allegheny county so far this year.

A BAD YEAR FOR LABOR

HEAVY IOSSES OF MEMBERSHIP 1 ALL RAILWAY ORG AM7.ATIO.S. Death of the Carmen's anil Track. men's Unions The Knights of Labor In Arreara with Salaries. St, Louis Globe-Democrat. George W. Howard, vice president of the American Railway Union, has resigned. The information leaked out through the visit of Mr. Howard to St. Louis, . nominally for the purpose of: attending the conference of the People's party, but in reality to consult with certain parties, whose names he refused to give, with regard to a scheme he has on foot for the organization of the most gigantic federation of workingmen ever proposed. When seeny a Globe-Democrat reporter Mr. Howard admitted that he tendered his resignation to the directors of the American Railway Union on Deo. 13. at a meeting held in Chicago. He was not disposed to discuss the matter, further than to state that it was brought about through a disagreement between himself and certain of the directors as to how the business of the order should be transacted. The Vice President wanted business methods to govern, the same as would be in effect in any commercial enterprise where as large sums of money as are handled by the officers of the American Railway Union are in daily use. The primary differences between Mr. Howard and the opposing members of the directory grew out of the oft-repeated demand of the vice president, that Sylvester Kelleher, secretary of the union, be placed under bond. Out of this grew widespread differences, which finally resulted in Mr. Howard tendering his resignation when he found that his wishes would not be observed. ' . ... Pressed further, he refused to talk, but there is good grounds for saying that great laxity has marked the handling of the finances of the order. At one time It only required the signature of President E. V, Debs and Secretary Kelleher to a check to insure its payment. The president lives at Terre Haute, Ind., 187 miles south of Chicago, where the headquarters of the organization are located, and, as he spends the greater part of hist time at home, it left Secretary Kelleher in charge. In order to facilitate matters President Debs signed a number of blank checks, leaving them in Secretary Kelleher' s hands to be filled out in whatever amounts the Secretary saw fit. It is understood that this has been recently, changed, and that the signatures of other officers are necessary before a check can be cashed. It is claimed that Vice President Howard was not only prompted by business methods , in demanding that the secretary be placed under bond, but that the defalcation of W. A. Simsrott, of the Switchmen's Mutual Aid Association. , only a short time before, served as a practical warning to all labor organizations as to what mieht result in case they left their treasuries unprotected. The year 1894, which has just been brought to a close, was the most disastrous period in'ithe history of labor' organizations. It marked the defeat of the coke workers in the Connellsville. Pa,, district in the bloodiest and most stubborn strike ever inaugurated in that troublous - region, the defeat of the United Mine Workers in their strike against the -operators all over the United States, and the defeat of the American Railway Union, the largest, broadest and best organization ever effected among the employes of American railroads. Labor has to its credit but one signal victory during the past year the concessions granted to the American Railway Union by President J. M. Hill, of the Great Northern road, the newest of the transcontinental systems. The hard times have nad more to do with the signal decline of labor organizations than a union of capitalists could have possibly accomplished, and several of the heretofore strongest orders In the labor field have driftecl close upon total dismemberment. This is notably true in the case of the Knights of Labor, which, under Martin Irons and T. V. Powderly, flourished as the strongest labor union on the Western hemisphere. So rapid has been its decline, and its falling off in membership has been so great, that its offices claim that it can no longer afford' workingmen protection against reductions of wages or the encroachments of capital. Grand Master Workman J. R. Sovereign, by way of evasion of the question as to whether the order has not abandoned the policy it was organized to carry out, stated the other day to a reporter that the order is now going forward on political lines. He stated that his plan is to get control of the federal courts and the various law-making bodies through the medium of the ballot, and thus redress the wrongs of the laboring men. KNIGHTS OF LABOR. An officer in the Knights of Labor, who attended the New Orleans convention of the order, stated yesterday that its affairs had become so bad that it Is now a question of where Mr. Sovereign's salary is to come from, and, in fact, there had already been times when the Grand Master Workman's salary had not been paid. The arrearage is said to be quite large now. The same authority stated that but for the shutting out of Patrick McBrlde and all of the delegates from -the United Mine Workers, who were friends of Powderly. Sovereign would have been defeated for re-election by Powderly. They were shut out on a technicality, but in reality because they were known to be Rntl-SoverelRn. The existence of the Knights of labor is now said to be merely nominal, and. in fact, to have been so since Sovereign's great fiasco in calling out PiO.OUO men In sympathy of the Chicago strikers. Its complete disruption is said to be only a question of a short time. Meanwhile affairs have gone awry with the several organizations of railroad men. The American Railway Union ias badly shaken by its defeat In the great Pullman boycott strike, and the blacklisting of its members since by tha railroads all over the country has done anuch toward crushing the work so ausplcuously begun by defeat. Already it begins to look as though two short years of existence would be the fate of the pet scheme of President Debs, which was fourteen, years in process of evolution. There never can be a unification of the several orders of railroad empolyes, such as the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, Order of Railroad Conductors, Order of Railway Telegraphers and the Switchmen's Mutual Association. The firemen and engineers are further apart to-day than they were ten years ago. The same is true of the brakemen and conductors. The reason of this is that the lower order restrains the higher, the firemen's organization embraces both firemen and engineers, and can afford as much protection and possibly more than the engineers' brotherhood. The same is true of the brakemen's and conductors' orders. Engineers are promoted from the ranks of firemen, and conductors are made of brakemsn. Each order has striven to place its banner a little higher than the other, and the continual clash for supremacy, personal bickerings and Jealousies between tha grand officers has accomplished an equal amount of trouble. RAILWAY ORGANIZATIONS. Since January, 1894, just 131 lodges of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen have become defunct. This means a falling off In msmbership of over 4,000, to say nothing of Individuals who may have withdrawn In lodges everywhere throughout the country. The International Trackmen's Union is dead, and the Switchmen's Mutual Aid Assoclatiqn Is little more than a nominal organization. The defalcation of W. A. Simsrott, general secretary, to the tune of $32,000 was the greatest factor in accomplishing this. Grand Master . Miles Barrett has secured a job, and is now switching cars in the yards at Kansas City. The Brotherhood of Railway Carmen has gone to pieces, and but the semblanc? of the order of which W. G. Misemer was elected grand master In this city two years nkro remains to-day. Misemer was supplanM-d by Stevenson, of East . St. Louis, a ho has not turned a hand toward ,aving the organization for six months. The headquarters were removed to Chicago and then to Kansas City. John Bowie, head of the Trackmen's Union at Battle Cr?ek, Mich., has been equally inactive. The same sad story may be told of the Order of Railway Telegraphers. -Not to exceed 5.000 members are now In good standing, and many lodges have surrendered thotr charters. Orand Chief Powell, who succesded D. O. Ramsay, fnalntains the headquarters at Vinton, Iowa, and l doing all he ran to preserva the organization from compieie dismemberment. Ex-Grand Chief Thurston is practicing law at Lathrop, Iowa, and is doing none too well, while Ramsay is following the same profession In Chicago. -Between November. 1S93. and the present

time the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers has . lost over eight - thousand members. This is partially due to hard times, partially to loss cf confidence in Grand Chief Peter M. Arthur, and partially to the growth of the feeling that the order cart na longer afford protection to its member. Several charters hav been surrendeie't, and the membership is on the : decline. There is war between the Eastern and Western engineers over the grand chief, who has for years been objectionable to the Western contingent, and further trouble Is bound to follow at the next biennial convention. By withdrawing his appeal to the Supreme Court in the Toledo injunction cases. Chief Arthur has practically placed the order in a position where a strike cannot bo ordered without bringing its leaders into contempt of court. In the ranks of Grand Chief Wilkinson s order, the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, 145 lodges have become defunct withIn the year, and returned their charters. This means a loss in membership tt nearly four thousand, besides the withdrawals

from lodges which are still In good condition. The Trainmen's Journal is the only official organ of any of the organizations named that has had the honesty to strike the names of defunct lodges from the directory which is published monthly. The Order of Railway Conductors ha.j suffered a proportionate loss. LOSSES IN OTHDR UNIONS. The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, .once a mighty power and able to dictate terms, in a measure, . to the iron and steel mill owners of the United States, has been shorn of its strength and has fared in some respects J even worse than the railroad organizations. Reductions ot wages can no longer be successfully resisted,- its threats to call strikes have lost their potency, and the ability of tne organization to afford protection to its members in the sense It used to has long since been a minus quantity. The Carnegie-Frtck Company has not stood by the men who came to its rescue in the famous strike, and has submitted a scale to them cutting wages. In some Instances 50 per cent., which, if not signed, will result in a lockout at an early date. The Amalgamated Association is powerless to resist this, even if It were disposed to do so. In equally bad shape is the American Federation of Iabor. with Samuel Gompers at its head. Its loss of membership has been evert heavier in proportion than that of any other named. How long it will hold together cannot be said, but it has been weakened to a point where it cannot afford the protection to its members which it claims to give. The Bricklayers International Union, one of the strongest orders embodied within the building trades unions, has ever held aloof from kindred organizations and has maintained a sort of aristocracy. There has always been that lack ot ,afrihatiorr, a looseness of erganizatlon and the absence of brotherly love within,' these organizations which., in time of trouble, has resulted in long-winded resolutions of sympathy instead of practical support. i There are in the United States, Canada and Mexico over 16,000,000 wage workers. Of this number not to exceed 750,000 are organized. There are a million railroad employes, of whom not over 100,000. or onetenth, are organized. As a means of solving the great labor problem George W. Howard has conceived a plan of organizing a universal labor union, to include every man who toils In the three countries named. The idea is to organize the whole into one great body, where there will be no occasion for difference between leaders. The plan will be after the form of a tree, with a constitution and laws for its nourishment, and branches for the various branches of labor radiating from the great central body. or iruna. one will De the railroad braneh. with its twigs, the engineers, firemen, brakemen, conductors, switchmen, trackmen, machinists and other classes of employes sprouting from it. Another will be the building trade branch, with the bricklayers, carpenters, plasterers, slaters, lathers, etc., forming its twigs. And so on until every laboring man secures representation within the vast central "body. Each of the organizations will maintain its trade or class organizations, and adjust its own affairs, as is done in icity, township, county, and State governments, but each will have representation in the central body corresponding in a measure to the national Con.gress. The cost will be placed at about 59 cents a year per member, and there will be an insurance branch, noncompulsory, conducted on the plan of the old line companies, but at less cost per $1,000, by reason of the tact that- rtn nwntii will hum tn. paid and na branch offices maintained. The expensive grand offices, such os are kept up by the several railway orders as they now exist, will not be known, and the expenses will be reduced to a minimum through the maintenance of one central office, which will probably be located at Chicago, instead of one for every class organisation, as it is now. Mr. Howard has his plans perfected, and is now looking for a suitable man to launch the universal' -order. He has a man of national prominenco in mind, 'who is said to have partially consented to undertake the work, the announcement of whose name will be a surprise, and whose acceptance will in a large measure insure success. THE INHABITANTS OF ARMENIA. The Population Composed of Conflict Inn- Races, with Different Hcllalons. Review of Reviews. . Probably one-half of the population of Turkish Armenia is Mohammedan, composed of Turks and Kurds. The former are mostly found In and near the large cities of Erzinjian, Balbourt, Erzroom and Van, and the plains along the northern part. The Kurds live in their mountain villages over the whole region, but especially In the south near Moosh, and Bitlls, and in the Hekkierl country beyond Van, and the mountains stretching south and east and far over Into Persia. Their number would be difficult to compute. A few of them go a great ways. They are a race of fine possibilities, as shown in the case of Saladln. But at present they resemble packs of human wolvesactive, cruel, proud, treacherous, and still calling themselves "lords of the mountains," though the Turks have largely OKoken their power and spirit during the past fifty years. They keep up a strict tribal relation, owing allegiance to their Sheikhs, some ot whom are still strong and rich, and engage in bitter feuds with one another. They could not stand a moment against the Ottoman power if determined to crush and disarm them. But three years ago his Majesty summoned the chiefs to the capital, presented them with decorations, banners, uniforms and military titles, and sent thern back to organize their tribes Into cavalry regiments, on whom he was pleased to bestow the name "Hamldieh," after his own. Thus, shrewdly appealing to their pride ef race, and winking at their subsequent acts, the Sultan obtained a power eager in t!m of peace to crush Armenian growth and spirit, and a bulwark that might check, in his opinion, the first waves of the next dreaded Russian Invasion. The Armenians are generally known a being bright, practical, industrious and moral. They are of a very peaceable disposition, and entirely unskilled In the use of arms, the, mere possession of which I a serious crime in the case of Christians, although the Kurds are A'ell equipped with modern rifles and revolvers and always carry them. Their great and fundamental weakness, seen through all their history, is a lack of cohereni-e. arrsing from their exaggerated Individualism. They have the distinction of being the tirst race who accepted Christianity, this having taken place when King Dertad and his people received baptism In 276 A. D.. thirty-seven years before Constantlne ventured to Issue even the Edict of Toleration. Their martyr roll has grown with every century. The fact that the Armenian stock exists at all today is proof of its wonderful vitality, and excellent quality. For threa thousand years Armenia, on account of her location, hns been trampled into dust both by devastating armies and by emigrating hordes. She has been the prey of Nebuchadnezzar, Xerxes and Alexander; of the Romans, the Parthlans and Persians; of Byzantine, Saracen and Crusader; of Peljuk and Ottoman, and Russian and Kurd. Through thin awful record the Christian Church, foutuhdby . Gregory, the "Illuminator," hast been the one rallying point and souree of strength, and this explains the tremendous power of tha Cross on the hearts of all, even of the most Ignorant peasant. A Fire I.oiik Predicted. Philadelphia Press. That disaster which so many persons have long predicted, the burning of the Delevan House in Albany, has occurred, although happily without the loss of life which it KM) feared would certainly happen whenever that tinder-box took fire. I know of politicians who dreaded to go to Albany, because they declared, they never could rest easy whle staying at that hotel, nor did they care to go to certain others, fearing also that an outbreak of fire would result in a dreadful holocaust. : It was Tweed's purpose had he not been overthrown to buy the Delsvan. tear 1t don and put upon its site a flre-proof building. Tweed was a man of courage, not given much to worrying about possible dangers,, but he often used to say that he never went to sleep In the Delevan House without wondering whether before morning he would not be suffocated by smoke. . Appropriate Gift. ' Rochester Democrat and Chronk-le. We hope jiomebody has been thoughtful enough to send' Secretary Gresharn. ut a? Christmas present, a copy of Edward Everett Hale's "Man Without u-'Country." Read In a proper spirit, at.u time vhen rood resolutions are in ord?r. Hhat ibook miunt ao cirtsnam a powerot sowa,