Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 July 1895 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1895.

THE DAILY JOURNAL FRIDAY. JULY 5,

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TX1D INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can te found at tlw followin ula-i FA BIS American HzcLange in Vats, 'M Bculerard de raruflne. KV VOKK GDaey Ilouae, Windsor Hotel and Aitor House. I'll I LA DELPHI A A. 1. Kemble, cor. Lancaster are. ami Ha r tn st. , CliU AijO-rainier Ifou, Auditorial! UoUl and p. O. Ji ew Co.. 1 1 Adams street. CINCINNATI J. H. Hawley A Co., 154 Tine street. LOUISVILLE C T. Deermr, north -et comer of Third and Jefferson sts., and Louis;! lkok Co., 1'onrtb are. ST. LOLL Union News Company, Union Depot WASHINGTON, D. C.-Itign lloiwe. Ebbltt House. WiUard's llou;! and th Washington News KxcLang. litn street, bet. fens, are. anl F street The Supreme Silver Knights is a secret organization to promote the project cf coining SO-cent dollars, but the knight device in politics has had its day. Down in Missouri the horse "Free Coinage" got a fall that has put him out of the season's races. The party "Free Coinage" has met with a similar mishap. . M m A ,1 A. . A . ' j. iew ut me unnmueu io-io-i continue to pump air Into the pneumatic tire of the free .coinage wheel. Just as if they did not know that it has a dozen holes in it. Do his worst, Hoke Smith cannot inflict any part of the injury to pensioners which the unlimited 16 to 1 would do if U could, succeed in reducing the purchase power of a dollar, 50 per cent. If the "President had dismissed Secretary Morton instead of the head of the Weather Bureau he would have rid his Cabinet and the country of a general nuisance and an official misfit. The export cf iron ores to Germany and of steel to England is due to the fact that we have varieties which cannot be found elsewhere, 'and which are essential to the best results for certain purposes. . s There was much more hopefulness in the country yesterday than on the previous Fourth, largely due to the certainty that Democratic mismanagement will come to an end with the Cleveland administration. The day we celebrate seems surely to have been" celebrated wherever on earth the combination of an American, a flas and a handful of powder could be made. It was a trifle nerve-wearing In spots, but we all feel the better for having had a glorious Fourth. The fact that President Cleveland sent a letter to be read at Tammany's Fourth of July would lead to the inference that he had forarotten the investigation of th j . (J.. v - Senate committee, which shows that it Is the most corrupt combination of political plunderers the country ever knew. When the fellows who have been preaching the heresy that the Fourth of July means nothing to a large part of the people saw how keenly the masses enjoyed yesterday, they should have felt that the vocation of turning the. people to distrust the Republic and its institutions is a fruitless, one. At any rate, it Is a contemptible one. , That letter sent by Secretary Morton to ex-Congressman Taylor in answer to come criticisms made by the latter on certain regulations of the Agricultural Department, Is not a dignified document. Its introductory remarks read a good deal like the heavy sarcasm of the "personals" addressed by an Arizona editor tf the owner of the rival paper. , Reports from the contest now going cn In Pennsylvania between Senator Quay and the element led by Governor Hastings Indicate that Senator Cameron, and his free-silver votes and views arc a serious drawback to Mr. Quay. Leaders in several counties have expressed a desire to support Senator Quay if he will drop Cameron and his free-silver heresies. With the tax on whisky increased 20 cents a gallon the last eight months of the present nscal year, and with an unusual amount of tax paid on whisky in bond to save the -0 cents a gallon during the first four months, how does it happen that the Internal revenue is $3,COO.000 less the last year than in 1SD4, and $17,500,000 less than for the year which ended June 30, 1S93? Is it due to the fact that Mr. Voorhees washable to extend the bonded period to eight years? Speaking of Jealous women, who would not charge a novelist with dealing in Improbabilities if he should allow one of his female characters, previously a common-place, respected young woman, to help hang her lover because of a report that he had smiled at another girl? And. come to think of it, the story told yesterday In a Texa3 dispatch of a case of this sort needs confirmation. Even the most trustworthy newspaper cannot always vouch for the accuracy of all the tales which come to it from Texas. SBBBBBBSaBSSBSMBSMSRimmiBMBNiSimmaiyjMHBmiimaBSBaMHI No wonder the insurance companies cxe opposed to paying the policies Issued on the lives of the wife and mother-in-law of Mt. Ufcl. of Chicago, Mr. Uhl says he had a direct warning from the other world of the approaching demise of these two ladies, and, thinking it no harm to make use of his knowledge, he took out the policies. The women did die, and now the companies refuse to pay. They cannot, of course, riff ord to encourage anything of this sort. If revelations of coming death were to become at all common. It would break up tr.5 Insurance business. A ccrrerpondent suggests that the sllv:? rtirriirn 1 3 dropped by Republican rrC-V tariff taken up as the

main Issue before the country. As to the importance of that issue, the Republicans cannot differ. That which affects the production of the country, the employment of the people and the markets for the products of the armies of Industry must always be of first importance. Cut the Journal cannot agree wholly with the correspondent that the silver question can be dropped. The millionaire mine owners have determined to make their demand for free coinage an issue in the next election. At the outset many Republicans were deceived and might be led to regard the silver issue more important than that of the tariff if It were not shown now that the free coinage" of silver by the United States alone is a snare and a delusion. Probably the correspondent is so convinced at the present time, but it will not do to assume that all others are so Intelligent. So long as quasi-Repub-llcans, in small numbers, to be sure, but with powerful vocal organs, are howling that doubling the value of the mine owners' silver bullion by free coinage will bring prosperity, it is well to combat the heresy. Besides, the silver heresy is subsiding, and if it is pressed now there will be nothing of it when the Republican national convention shall meet. A FALSE TREASURY REPORT.

It was intimated by several correspondents in Washington, - Just before the treasury statements were made for the fiscal year which ended June 30, that the payment of considerable sums due had been delayed until the early days of July, the object being to make the deficit for the fiscal year 1835 appear as small as possible. At the time little attention, was given to this statement, it being assumed that the treasury authorities could have no object in deceiving the country regarding its expenditures and deficits. Now it comes out that the treasury officials have done this very thing, the expenditures the first fortyeight hours of July being $6,000,000 in round numbers, while the excess of expenditures over receipts was nearly $4,000,000. At this rate there would be a deficit the next fiscal year of $600,000,000. All of this goe3 to prove that the treasury officials have deliberately deceived the people in making the, statement that there was an excess of receipts over disbursements in June, and that the deficit the last fiscal year was $12,800,000. As a matter of fact,- there was really the usual deficit in June, except that it was less last month than during preceding months. At the rate of the payments of the two first d.iys In July, the disbursements of the present fiscal year would reach $000,000,000 instead of $336,230,000, which was lase year's expenditure. A Washington correspondent states that when the delayed payments belonging to the last fiscal year are accounted for the deficit therein will be in reality nearly 160.000,000. The show of economy which the treasury officials have made in comparing the expenditures of 1891 and 1803, whereby the expenditures in the latter were made to appear $11,273,000 less in the last than in the year preceding, is simply a fraud to deceive the people and to gain a credit not due the administration. It is a fraud which has never before been resorted to by the Treasury Department, and one which, if it were made by the officers of a private corporation in its annual financial, statements, would cause some sudden vacancies to be made. " FORuERIHS LXfOSED. Ever since "Coin's" book appeared. It has been assailed for Its forgeries. The Journal was one of the first to expose one of them, and, after explanation, to show that the explanation itself was even a worse forgery than the first. Since that time several writers have taken a hand in the work of exposing, until the last pamphlet put out declares that "every financial argument and every statistical statement set forth in 'Coin's Financial School is quoted verbatim herein and absolutely refuted with the true quotation from the very authorities 'Coin has deliberately falsified." This is a sweeping statement, but those who will take "Sound Money," a pamphlet recently published by the Charles II. Sergei Company, Chicago, and carefully read and compare its exposures of "Coin's" statements, will find that the claim is literally true. The authors have adopted "Coin's" method of treatment. He is questioned by wellknown men in a public audience, and his statements are exposed by official statistics.Two or three of "Coin's" forgeries which are exposed In this pamphlet are so astounding that they are worthy of attention. In a table in his book "Coin" gives the world's production of gold and silver,' purporting to present the official figures of the Director of the Mint. In that table there, are thirty-eight values of gold and silver by periods, of which "Coin" has changed twenty-four, making thern. forgeries to sustain his argument. There can be no mistake about' this, for the authors of "Sound Money" give both side by side, and the pages of the treasury report of 1834, uponNwh!ch the director's figures are given. Another table is a more audacious forgery than ' that already noticed. On page 10S of hls book, "Coin" gives what he asserts aro the export prices of wheat,; cotton and silver from 1S72 to 1S03, to show that these commodities rise and fall together, and that the fall of. the first two is due to "the crime of 1S73." There are fifty-four quotations of wheat and cotton. How many of them are correct, according to the Statistical Abstract of 1894, Issued by the Treasury Department? All of them should be, and would have been if "Coin" were honest; but, not being honest, but Just three of the fifty-four quotations are correct--one of wheat and two of cotton. Indeed, twelve of his quotations of silver are incorrect. His object is to make the price of wheat and cotton high with sliver prior to 1SS0. To do so he has so Increased the prices of wheat during those years as to make the average $1.23 a bushel, when, in fact, it was $1.124. From USS to 1833, when silver dropped from 90 cents to 7S cents an ounce, he has falsified the figures so as to make the average price of wheat during that period 82 cents, -when the official figures make it 91 cents. This pamphlet, "Sound Money," which is one of the best of the dozen which have been published to refute "Coin's" falsehoods and forgeries, exposes a score of other frauds perpetrated upon the public by Harvey in his book, utterly discrediting It with all intelligent people who will read It. So much attention has. been given by writers to "Coin's Financial School,"

which for a time swept so many people into the free silver craze, that, in the end. It will prove to have been one of the most useful and timely books ever issued, for the reason that it has incited a discussion of a popular character which has proved that the proposition for the free coinage of silver by this country alone is the most preposterous one that could be presented. Yesterday was a genuine holiday, which all the people recognized and enJoyed in one way or another, but generally in a rational manner. 'Thousands patronized the advertised amusements, but those were only a small part of the people who enjoyed the holiday. Thousands in family or neighborhood groups picnicked, visited and otherwise found pleasure in a day of summer recreation all the more pleasurable because such days are not frequent. There was but one patriotic demonstration, and that was not patronized as it. should have been. Still, there is no cause for gloomy forebodings because a few people are not inclined to public assemblies, for never were so many flags displayed in the country as yesterday, if one should judge from the general display in this city. Whatever else patriotic people forgot or neglected yesterday, they did not forget to put out the stars and stripes. The national color may have been small and cheap in most cases, but that fact indicates that In the hearts of the masses the love of country, its institutions and traditions grows as the years increase. There is every indication, too, that it cannot much longer be said of us as a people that we know not how to enjoy a holiday that we rush through them as we do through the duties of life. In this city there was evidence yesterday that a large number of people have learned to fully appreciate and enjoy a holiday. The thousands of families and parties of families to whom yesterday was a quiet day of recreation, without excitement and without dissipation, proves that, as a people, we are learning the true methods of enjoylnr; the occasional holiday. The day of Itself was perfect, the temperature being moderate and the fervor of a July sun being obscured by a hazy atmosphere. The Manufacturers' Record, a Baltimore publication, recently asked the State vice presidents of the National Association of Manufacturers and a few leading manufacturers in the foreign trade what Is necessary to secure a wider market In foreign countries for American good3. About twenty responses have been received, most of them from the representatives of manufacturing companies. Most of these answers are to the effect that the reciprocal treaties of the Harrison administration, which" the Democratic Congress abrogated, must be restored, and all of them answer that we must have better steamship communication, supported by such subsidies as other nations extend to scores of lines a policy which the Harrison , administration inaugurated, but which the present administration has discouraged by an attitude of hostilityAll these matters are sure to come to the front again when the country shall have an American administration. Prof. C. S. Plumb, director of Purdue University experiment station, writes to the Journal that the institution is in receipt cf many inquiries from farmers throughout the State In regard to the inoculation of chinch bugs with cholera, and is anxious to be of ell the assistance possible toward the extermination of this pest, but is not yet able to supply the material for inoculation, having to send elsewhere for that used In starting the work at the station. He adds: "The readers of your paper are especially requested not to send U3 any. bugs. If we are able to make a success of the. work of inoculation we will endeavor to send out what Inoculated material we can, with instructions for doing the work. It is perfectly useless to send bugs here." This matter of Inoculation is not an untried experiment by ahy means. Professor Snow, of the Agricultural College at Lawrence, Kan., was the originator of the plan, and mado a successful test of it some years ago in that State. The contagion spread rapidly after the diseased bugs were distributed, and soon destroyed the insects. This year they appeared again in Kansas wheat fields, but were drowned out by the rains, thus doing away with the need of other methods of destruction. , This being the case it Is probably difficult to obtain a supply of the cholera material with which to undertake the work, hence the delay at Purdue. It is estimated that the Delaware and Maryland peach crcp this year is threefourths of a full one, . but it does not follow that the growers will be losers by the shortage. The trees not being so full as usual, the fruit will be larger and finer, and will command better prices, the market not being overstocked. With a heavy crop it frequently happens that a part of it is left on the trees to rot. This condition of affairs proves the soundness of the advice often given by experienced horticulturists to their brethren to thin the fruit on the trees while it is yet green and undeveloped. It requires considerable faith and courage to do this, however, and most growers prefer to leave the thinning process to nature and take their chances on disposing of an abundant crop. Speaker Meyer, of the Ih'nols -House, died on Wednesday, quite unexpectedly, though for months he and his friends have known that his days were numbered. He presided at the session which a few days ago adjourned to July 8. He came to this country, with his parents, when eleven years of age, and was an orphan, depending upon his own efforts, when thirteen. And yet by his persistent perseverance he came to be one of the prominent men of the State, while yet a comparatively young man. Mrs. O'Leary's cow, which kicked over the lamp that burned the city of Chicago, died long ago, and now Mrs. O'Leary has gone the way of all the earth. The least Chicago can do is to set up a monument in honor of the departed, for it is a greater and more beautiful Chicago than It would have been but for that historic and farreaching kick. When the Consumers' Gas Trust agrees to try the experiment suggested by the committees of the Board of Trade aud the Commercial Club, these bodies should select the. men who will try the meter experiment, and see that the company purchases the meters, as do companies furnishing illuminating gas. The Democratic administration wisely put another Republican iij charge of the signal service.' It knew that, while the country might submit to its monkeying with the tariff and the currency, no liberties with the weather would be allowed. With Moore at the head of the Weather Bureau there must necessarily be more weather, but he will need to step lively to make it more varied. The baseball and the bicycle are rivals of the old fashioned Fourth of July picnic, but the varied attractions only add Interest to

the day. Tou can be reasonably sure when you choose one form of entertainment that you will regret not having selected the others. Lord Dunravert, owner of Valkyrie III, evidently neglected., to put his rabbit's foot In his pocket when the race began. nilillLES IN THE AIR.

Hadn't Heard of It. Wabash Why do the funny men keep making jokes about your town being slow? Rlttenhouse-Penn Do they? A Word in Defense. "I fear he is rather wild, my daughter." "Oh, not so awfully so, mamma. I don't th?nk his little escapades are as red as they are painted." - 3Sarket Quotations. "Sir," raid the indignant alderman, "are you not aware that were I to vote for your measure I would be exposed to the condemnation of all the gcod citizens in my ward?. And that sort of thing," he added, lowering his voice, "comes pretty high, you know." - . Political. 'j Watts I can't agree with your Idea of sending none but.busiuess men to Congress and the Legislature. Business men are not statesmen, not by a lot. Potts Mebbe not, but no good business man can spare the time to make speeches from four to forty hours long. STATE PRESS OHMOX. Matthews says he did not say it. He says how. that he has alwavs been in favor of bonest money. Delphi Journal. The Nicholson law will not be looked upon as a hardship by saloon men when they get used to the . change. It .will give the proprietors and bartenders a chance to rest at night and to go to church.on Sunday. Vincennes Commercial. ; The Democratic editors, in view of their action, or rather no action, at the Maxinkuckee convention, must recall their jeers about the cowardice of the League Club meeting in Cleveland. One was atrald and the otner daren't. Goshen News. What has become of .those , fellows who, a few weeks ago, were sitting on the street corners howling lustily' for free silver? Have they learned that the people look upon them as demagogues of th very vorst sort, and concluded to hold their oeace? Plainneld Progress. The free-silver movement has certainly reached its greatest force when Its advocates are able to gather. less than half a hundred sympathizers in-a State where for obvious reasons one would look for practical unanimity in favor of legislation which would make the United States treasury the profitable market for the bullion of the sliver .mines. Lafayette Journal. Dem. The last General Assembly passed a law making it the duty of township trustees to register all township orders and warrants and keep an account of all indebtedness of the township, and to cause the same to be posted and published for one week In one weekly newspaper having treneral circulation. The time set for pucn posting and publication -Is on the first Monday of August. Corydon Republican. Wheat will produce about twelve bushels to the acre as an average over the country this year, is the Judgment of well-Informed farmers, and this is but'a few bushels short of the usual average for the whole county in an ordinary year. When most farmers speak of there being not half a crop It will be found that there has only been a half crcp according to their views on the genera! average for years. Salem Republican Leader. ;; ; The Times would" hot rab'use the men in Blackford county who are in favor of free silver, but It insists that" they who favor It are making a mistake. The silver already coined and in the treasury amounts to $500,000,000. The people will not have it. The $00,000,100 now in circulation Is all they want. What could be done with another five hundred millions? The advocates of free coinage in this county are few,but,we hope for still fewr numbers. The free-coinage idea is a ranker fallacy even than -the old fiat-money doctrine. Hartford City Times. Whether the Democrats will attack the congressional apportionment cannot be learned, but it is highly probable that they will not. As but one election will intervene between this and the" regular time for the apportionment,- the disposition to let the congressional apportionment alone is very strong. In fixing the districts the Republican Legislature was compelled to throw many of the men elected last year Into the same districts together, and this fact will bring about a number of bitter contests in the Republican party. Shelby ville Democrat. MAGAZINE' NOTES. Frederic Remington's story in' Harper of "Bear-chasing in the Rocky Mountains" is told in the Illustration's which, it is needless to say, arc spirited. The text, however, i3 not less interesting. 1( The "recreation number" of the Outlook is a thing of beauty. Among other pleasing features It contains some beautiful reproductions of amateur photographic work, for which it recently offered a series of prizes. Mrs. Candace Wheeler, who has been known to a portion of the public as a promoter of art embroideries, has tried her hand at story-writing The "Horoscope of Two Portraits," In Harper, is constructed around a very far-fetched idea, and suggests the thought that the writer would be wise to resume her original role. In his Pall Mall Magazine Mr. Astor is giving his English patrons an object lesson in illustration, this feature of the publication being in advance of anything of the kind in other English periodicals, though it is not equal to the best American work In black and white. Some color work, however, which appears in 'each number, is admirable. ' The Engineering Magazine for July devotes itself entirely to railroads, principles of management, legislative regulation, electricity as a motive power, advance In securitiec and the car-building industry being some of the topics, discussed. The author of each paper is a man especially qualified to treat of his theme, and the number Is, therefore, a valuable one. In the July Mid-Continent (Louisville) Mrs. Emma Carleton has a description of the pictures of the Chicago artists' exhibition. The article Is illustrated by some excellent reproductions of works exhibited. A poem, by Miss Evaleen Stein is in the same number. This magazine is constantly Improving its literary character, and shows advertising indications of being a financial success and, therefore, a permanent institution. Thomas Hardy's "Hearts Insurgent," now running as a serial in Harper is, by no means, equal in power to "Tess." In fact, it drags a little and the reader grows weary of the lukewarm love., of the hero and heroine and their shilly-shallying when all obstacles to their niarrlage are removed. It seems also that the author is hardly true to feminine nature when he makes the heroine. wm is not represented as a woman of 'advanced views,,, so careless of conventionalities. , Mrs. Humphry Ward's "Story of Bessie Costrell" reaches its inevitably tragic and unpleasant end In the July Scribner. It is a study of an ignorant woman who succumbed to the temptation to steal and was so overcome with shame when her crime was discovered by her painfully pious and puritanical husband that she committed suicide. It is, no doubt, a true representation of the mental and moral action of a woman of the class described, but the portrayal is not edifying. As a mere work of art It may be interesting, but further than that seems to serve no good purpose. Mrs. Ward seems constitutionally unable to take a cheerful view of life. The Critic has collected all the matter it has published from time to time cencerning Trilby, and issued it in a little papmhlet called "Trllbyana; the Rise and Progress of a Popular Novel." " People of sufficiently stable opinions to have retained their original liking for the book In spite of the much foolish discourse concerning it will file the famphlet away with the volume and read t a long time hence when the name has been forgotten by th multitude. It contains a portrait of Du Maurier. Among the many - pleasing features of the new literary journal, the Bookman, is a series of graceful essays on "Books and Culture," by Hamilton W. Mabie. Mr. Mabie la one of the faw living Americans who has mattered the art of essay writing. Among the original contributions to the June number of the Bookman la a biographical cUetc!) cf Jarre Lane Allsn, ty N&ncy

Huston Banks. It Is rather too eulogistic, not to say gushing, in style, but serves to show how h&fd and conscientious a worker the author of "The Kentucky Cardinal" has been, and how well he. deserves the success he. has achieved. Robert Grant discusses the "Summer Problem" in the July Scribner, said problem being that of where and how to spend the summer vacation. He is in doubt as to the wisdom of certain popular forms of socalled recreation, but as to that known as the summer school he has no doubts whatever. He disapproves of it entirely. "There Is wisdom, sometimes," he says, "in sending young and very active boys to school for about an hour a day in summer, in order, chiefly, to know where they are and to prevent them from running their legs off; but with this exception the mental workers in this country, male and female, ycung and old, can afford to close their text-books with a bang on July 1 and not ?eep at them until September. Philosophy n August has much the flavor of asparagus in January." In an article In Harper on the traits and peculiarities qf some American artists, Roy-' al Cortissoz speaks in terms almost enthusiastic of the qualifications and talents of the sculptor, MacMonnies. The paper was written before the misunderstanding had arisen between this artist and the board of commissioners of the Indiana soldiers' monument, and th writer expresses the opinion that MacMonnles's work, notably the statues of Vane and Hale, warrants the liveliest expectations of those military groups which he is modeling for Indianapolis. "Intrusted with a theme of this description," he says, "he is certain to make a great advance in a career which has already been marked by the production of such mature and beautiful work. He has the technical mastery; and he has not only the imagination, but the ideal that makes that gift worth while." The June Review of Reviews has an article on Wall street, by the editor of Bradstreet's, showing how the great bankers of Now York rallied to the support of the government and sustained its credit during the past year and a half. The Australian statesmen of to-day are written about In a pleasant way, and their portraits are given; but the paper of greatest Interest Is one giyjng the details of the explorations of Dr. Augustus le Plongeon in Mexico and Central America. He and his wife spent twelve years' in examining the ruins of ancient temples and deciphering the hieroglyphics on their walls, and his speculations are interesting, even If they are not accepted as conclusive. He looks upon Central America as the cradle of man's primitive traditions and the ancient language of the Mayas, whose descendants still live there, as a tongue as old if not older than Sanscrit. ABOUT PEOPLE AXD THINGS. It is said that neither Mark Twain nor Edison has any faith In doctors. A famous tiger huntress is the Baroness Marie Ede von Amellne, who killed, with her own hands, the four beasts whose claws she invariably wears around her neck. W. H. Denton, of Markham, I. T., has leased the Petaca jrant of 180,000 acres in New Mexico, and with twenty families will at once move 27.000 head of . cattle to the new territory. The property Is owned by ex-Congressman Farwell, of Iowa. Colonel Spohr, In a German military newspaper, points cut how frequent is the case in his country of horse trainers forcing their animals to Indulge In alcoholic "pick-me-ups." The writer declares that the effect of alcohol on horses is of a highly injurious nature. , , Corot. the painter, used to give needy artists pictures which he had painted, telling them that If they knew how to bargain they might get for them twelve francs each at a dealer's. One of these paintings was sold lately for 12,000 francs, and another for 46,000 francs. A Russian cycling paper reports that Count Leo Tolstoi has become an enthusiastic bicyclist, and joined the Moscow Cycling Club. He rides for an hour each day, accompanied by come members of his family, who are keen cyclists, too. Tolstoi is said to have learned the art In a very short time. His age is sixty-seven. Balfour Is in appearance one of the most indolent men in' public life In England, though in reality one of the most active mentally. A writer describes him as sitting on the treasury bench with his backbone so curved as to bring his head where hl3 back should have been, with his feet in air, his heels resting on the desk before him. As an orator he has presence and self-possession, speaking with a refined drawl and making large use of Irony. In 1856 a band of Sioux. Indians raided a little colony of settlers who had built cabins on the shores of Lake Okoboji. in Iowa. They massacred all the unfortunates except three young girls, one of whom. Miss Abbie Gardner. Is still alive," the only survivor of the tragedy. She now has a museum of Indian relics In the Identical cabin that was her home at the time of the massacre. Miss Gardner has secured from the Iowa Legislature an appropriation of $7,000 for a monument to mark the spot, and it is to be dedicated with due ceremony next month. In the Fourth ward of New York lives a queer character named Daniel Gallagher, who, goes about with frowsy locks and tearstained face. Gallagher is known as "Johnny Lookup," from his habit of holding his head down as If in deep meditation. The only thing that interests Gallagher is a funeral. There never was a mourner that Gallagher could not out-weep. His sister has recently been trying to stop him from going to funerals, for after coming home he makes everybody miserable with his moans and yell3. A magnificent Luther monument is to be erected in Berlin. The project dates back to 18S3, the four hundredth anniversary of the year of the great reformer's birth. Funds have been contributed in large sums, and the cornerstone was laid a few weeks ago. The toiodel was prepared by Professor Paul Otto, of Berlin, who, however, died a year ago. His successor is Robert Toberentz. It will be a group monument, all the leading coadjutors of Luther finding a place on it. The whole will rival the great monument in Worms. William D. Guthrie, who sprang into sudden fame by his prominent part in the successful attack on the validity of the income tax, It is said, originated the plan under which the case was taken to the Supreme Court. The attempt to have the tax declared Invalid did not at first meet much support among lawyers. Mr. Guthrie's persistence and ingenuity did much to encourage his associates, and his industry in collecting authorities and skill in argument assisted greatly toward the final victory. Mr. Guthrie has been connected with Clarence A. Seward's office since he was a boy, and has won his position near the head of the firm by twenty years faithful service. He is only thirty-rive years old. Harris Wlilnlcy Test. Washington Letter In Chicago Tost. Senator Harris Is a most industrious whisky drinker. He is to-day the most remarkable living example of the preservative qualities of "red licker." and he enjoys the reputation. He is probably close to eighty years old, and In the full possession of his faculties. The capital is full of stories about the man and his peculiarities, most of them having a whisky point. One day not long ago he was in the office of the Controller of the Currency trying to pull Mr. Eckels's leg for a bank examinership for a constituent. The Controller was favorably disposed toward the Harris favorite, but frankly told him that he was afraid he couldn't name the man because of his drinking habits. "What," exclaimed the Senator, "Blank drink; not much. I know he doesn't drink. He has been living in my house a month and has been in my room twenty times a day. I keep a demijohn of Robinson county (Tennessee) whisky on a table by my bed, and he never took a drink all the time he was with me. A man who won't drink Robinson covfnty (Tennessee) whisky under such circumstances won't drink anything. I'll stake my life on Blank's sobriety." Blank got the appointment. . Level Head. Philadelphia Record. Rev. Mr. Wheeler, of New Brunswick, who rides a wheel on Sundays when he feels like it, has oxygenated his moral courage to the point of declaring in his latest sermon: "I see no more harm in a spin on one of our streets on a Sunday afternoon than I do in a walk on the same." Good for the New Brunswick Wheeler! Tnrple'a Accomplishments. Louisville Commercial. Von Moltke was said to sjjeak' four languages fluently and to keep silence in seventeen. Senator Turple, it la understood, is proficient in seven languages, but from the way his gab flows, and the eutctancs of It. one would suppose that ha hid catered nothing elzs but lincrc" '

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T AMMAN Y S CELEBRATION NOT AS SUCCESSFUL AS VSUAL. Few Really Distinguished Democrats Toole Pnrt in the Independence Day "Long" and "Short" Talks. LETTERS OF REGRET READ DANGERS AND DUTY POINTED OUT BY PRESIDENT CLEVELAND. Effort by Senator Hilt to Imitate the Chief Executive Style Ex-Governor Campbell's Remarks. NEW YORK, July .-Independence day was celebrated by the Tammany Society In a nuuiner commensurate With former celebrations since the founding of the Columbian order, 110 years ago. There was no diminution in enthusiasm manifested by those present, although the audience was smaller than in previous years. Ex-Governor James E. Campbell, of Ohio, id exGovernor Thomas M. Waller were. In Tammany parlance, "the long talkers," while well-known men from all parts of the country delivered "short talks." One feature of the celebration was the reading of letters from President Cleveland, Senator Hill, Secretary of the Navy Herbert, ex-Governor Flower, Frederick R. Coudert and other distinguished Democrats. Grand Sachem Smyth presided. "We are not here," he said, "to celebrate a Demo cratlcWictory, but I believe you will realize with me that those responsible for Democratic defeat have been guilty of a great mistake." Ex-Governor Campbell, of Ohio, was introduced as the "the great war horse of the Democracy," who, Grand Sachem Smyth predicted, "would again head the Demo, cratlc list In Ohio next fall." Ex-Governor Campbell said: "Tammany has always been a protector of the people, and If I mistake not the city of New York needs some such protector at the present time. However, I will leave that to my friend, Governor Waller, who. if I mistake not, will have the scalps of some of the renegades dangling at its belt before he is through." Governor Campbell said he would confine his remarks to the Monroe doctrine, than which there was no more popular subject to the American heart. The meaning of the Monroe doctrine, he said, meant that we should extend our territory In the Western hemisph'ste whenever the opportunity was presented, and confine the nations of Europe to the possessions on this continent which they already hold. An Infraction of the Monroe doctrine now confronts us. It was done artfully and insidiously and to-day the British government lays claim to a tract of territory larger in area than the State of Ohloy every foot of which belongs to the republic of Venezuela. The policy, of Great Britain looked like an effort to force the United States to abandon the Monroe doctrine. It ought to be met in the same spirit that the United States ordered the French troops from Mexico thirty years ago. Great Britain ought not to be told again that she would have to submit the Venezuelan question to arbitration, or be prepared to see the United States enforce the Monroe doctrine. Any attempt to seize a foot of soil on this continent thould be treated by the United States as t. declaration of war. It has become fashionable of late, he said, to "cough" at those who advocated such measures, and derisively call them "Jingoes," but there was a time coming when "Jingo" would cease to be a term of opprobrium, but would become the proud name of those men who loved their country and flag. Ex-Governor Waller, of Connecticut, rehearsed the history of the Tammany Society organized by common soldiers of the wtr cf independence. Tammany, he Paid, was fully prepared for the coming, fight in November. Tammany has been responsible for the government of New York almost for ages. Is there anybody who believes that this great city of New York should be governed like an Ohio township, or, worse still, like a hamlet down in Maine? PRESIDENT CLEVELAND'S LETTER. Secretary McGoldrlck tben read letters of regret from President Cleveland, Senator Hill, ex-Governor Flower, Frederick R. Coudert and others. The President's letter is dated Gray Gables, June 28, and addressed to "Hon. Frederick Smyth, Grand Sachem." . It follows: "Dear Sir I regret that I cannot accept the Invitation I have received from the Tammany Society to participate in its celebration of the one-hundred-and-nineteenth anniversary of American independence. "The patriotism and devotion of those who fought for our liberties and established, our free government ought always be held In grateful remembrance; and neither lapse of years nor changed conditions should ever detract from the zest and enthusiasm of their commemoration. The thought must not escape us, however, that .while every anniversary of American independence reminds us of the stern sacrifices of the fathers of the Republic and while on such occasions we find abundant cause for rejoicing in the splendor of their achievements, we should not fall to be seriously Impressed by a proper apprehension of the duties . and responsibilities we have inherited as their successors and legatees. It was their lot to endure the rigors and hardships of a discouraging war in order that a government by the people might be established. 1 We cannot without wicked recreancy disregard the lessons taught by their sufferings, nor can we, without disgrace, neglect the duty of . preserving and maintaining in their lntegrityand strength the free institutions born of their heroism. Their work was done through privation and in the midst of doubt and gloom. "Our duty can be well performed If we are simply honest. Intelligent and patriotic. They found their danger on battlefields and In the uncertain issue of an armed contest. Our danger Is found in the recklessness of selfishness and Insidious appeals to popular passion and thoughtlessness. Nothing but the same patriot.c steadfastness and adherence to principle which led to their success will now shield our government from disaster and preserve our national glory and prosperity. "I earnestly hope that the celebration contemplated by your organization will stimulate those who are within its influence to do valiant deeds in the political field, and amid present possibilities to teach by example and declaration the. potency of adherence to sound and consistent principles and the safety of a reliance on the honor and patriotism of our countrymen, when impending danger arouses them to activity." SENATOR HILL'S REGRETS. Senator Hill wrote from Wolfort's Roost, Rensselaer boulevard, Albany, N. Y., July 1, as follows: "Dear Sir I regret that I shall be unable to participate with you In your celebration cf the Fourth inst. You have, however, my best wishes that the occasion will be one of the mo3t useful of all your time-honored demonstrations. The present Is. indeed, a fitting time for the renewal of patriotic pledges for the promotion of the beat interests of our common country. It Is useless to disguise the fact that the spirit of socialism is, unfortunately, abroad In the land, demanding, among other things, a more liberal construction of the foaeral Constitution than our fathers were ever willing to sanction; Insisting upon odious schemes of taxation, foreign to the genius of our free institutions; proposing to ignore or belittle the reserved rights of the States: seeking an extension of the functions or Jurisdictions of the federal judiciary by the gradual and insidious absorption or exercise of powers heretofore Invoked, la violation of the spirit. If not tho letter of the Constitution; persistently Insisting upon special legislation for toe benefit of private interests and cliques rather than for the general welfare and for public purpoe3; clamoring for a fiat or depreciated currency in the place of the coined money of the Constitution; urging; the assumptiou on the part of the State of the actual management of nearly all corporate Interests of a semi-public character, rather than a reasonable control and regulation by law; and desiring to inflict upon us the enactment or arbitrary enforcement of unjust, vexatious and puritanical sumptuary laws, which needlessly interfere with the harmless habits and customs of large portions of our people. "In other directions there are Indications cf efforts to chants the nature of our go rcrnment b.v transforming it from a r "la. r::ut:i3 cf CtattJ to a rtrc--; cent, :1

government with vastly augmented power: of endeavor to maintain an Immense standing army and a powerful sea-going navy not for the purpose of the defense, but In readiness for conquest, in furtherance of scherr.-s for national agyrandizeme nt or Illegitimate uses of intimidation: of tendency towards plutocracy, and for the seclusion of the rule of the plain people and Tor attempts to proscribe citizens from political

religion, occupation or social status. "These are some of the evils, or danger?, which threaten the teop and which patriotism as well as good policy require shouil be stoutly and earnestly resisted. In nil your efforts In opposition to vicious tendencies and false sentiments, and for the promotion of right principles of government, patience, perseverance, courage and confidence will eventually and surely enure to success." SECRETARY HERBERTS LETTER. Secretary of the Navy Herbert, in his letter, said: "Gentlemen I beg to thank you for the Invitation to address the Tammany Society at Its coming celebration of the one hundred and nineteenth anniversary of American independence and to express at the same time my regrets that I cannot be present. The Democratic party has beers sorely tried during the past two years. It came into power at the beginning of & financial crisis, which was the logical outcome of many years of Republican legislation. For a time there was a disposition to k.U .. ILL I . I I.. , iiuiu us rrsponsiDie tor rxjiiiis i-uuuiuons, notwithstanding the fact that, for thirtytwo year, the Democracy had never leen. for a single hour, able to legislate at Washington. It is peculiarly unfortunate that when we did get into power we were not united, but in spite of factional differences among ourselves wo have upheld the honor of the country at home and abroad. Wo have, by the repeal of the Sherman law. and by stopping the outflow of gold, maintained the credit of the government which we found in great peril and we have reformed the tariff laws. Prosperity is returning, and voters are beginning to take that sober second thought which invariably leads the American people to-correct conclusions. If we would put the Democracy in power again at the coming presidential election we have only to forget our factional quarrels, come together for sound money, as our fathers did in the days cf Jackson; stand together against the rol beries of high tariff, as we ourselves did in, 1892, and continue to adhere to those vital principles that have made the Democracy a living force, whether in or out of power, since the days of Jefferson. "With the sincere hope that your great organization, which has rendered so many memorable services to the Democratic party in the past,-and all other Democratic bodies in the Empire State of the Union, seeing and appreciating the necessities of the hour, and recognizing the opportunities before us, will, in the near future, act as an example of confraternity that will insp're and give courage and confidence to brother Democrats throughout the land, 1 am faithfully yours," Woman's Edition Poetry. Once there lived, side by side. Two youthful maids. They did not dress alike. But hair was In braids. Ono Sunday, half-past 20, One of them said. I wouldn't go to church if I were ycu, Td rather lte in bed. But nothing daunted, the other replied, You Just wait and see where you will go When we both have died. . . You can be an Infidel If vou want to But I don't Want to go" to h I ' Even if you do. "" chorus. You'll be Borry when you see me . Stttins Just, inside tbe.daor; And you will. cry. and you will holler. Please, Oh. Just. let. .in one more. You'll remember. whit. l.toid you. And your heart, will. prick you sore. When the devil with a smiling glance Escorts you to tee.. bottom floor. St.-Paul Dispatch. Senator Harris' Investment. Washington. Letter. ....... - Senator Isham G. Harris, of Tennessee, wasn't always a-silver-man. although he did sign the -call for a bimetallic convention in this city next months There was a time in his -life when-he was out for the gold. That was about the breaking out of the rebellion.- He -was Governor of Tennessee, and -when -he decided to cast his fortunes with the Confederacy he concluded to save S12S.O00 in gold belonging to the school fund from the clutch of the ruthlessly Invading- Yankees. - He accordingly seized the amount -and carried It across the line. When the cruel-war was over the Tennesseeans bethought-themselves of the $125,000 in gold that Governor Harris had saved from- Yankee confiscation. About that time the self-constituted custodian of the fund emigrated to Mexico. He stayed there six years, which period In his life is a blank. - Where he kept hlmrelf or what he -did there nobody in the wide world knows but I sham G. Harris. Occasionally .some- close friend will chaff hita about this mysterious passage in his life for the fun of seeing the old man curse to the ragged edge of an apoplectic fit. It is -one of the delights of Senator Blackburn's- existence to ir.qu're of his colleague from Tennessee if V. is a good time to make investments In Mexico. But. anyhow, the Yankees never got that $125,000 in gold. If the school children of Tennessee derived any benefit iron It the fact has been kept a fecret. The school fund incident and the mysterious absence in Mexico were never charged seriously against Harris, however, for upon his return to his native State he was sent to Congress, where he has been ever since. There' are three things about Senatoc Harris that are sealed books: 1. What he did with that $115,000 in school fund gold he rescued from the "d d Yankees." 2. What he did In Mexico for six years. TTI. 4. 1113 age. Ilrlce's Ilee. Washington Special. Extraordinary as It may teem. Senator Brice has the presidential bee buzzing in h'.s bonnet. That he should HOberly entertain White House ambitions might strike the populace as a Joke, but not so with the' Junior Buckeye Senator. The Brice programme is to make the play of his life for the Ohio Legislature, and then. If he wins there, to go before the national convention as the biggest man in the Democratic party. He is building on the plea that he, haw a really fine soldier record; that he was the backbone of the Brice-Gorman-Smith combine that strangled the Wilson tariff bill, thereby saving the Democratic party from the shame of having to stand a treasury deficiency of $l(X000,0o0 this year instead of $43,000,000; that he thereby proved himself smarter and In every way abler than the President and his advisers; that the Senate measure was In reality a protective scheme, and that he Is, in point of fact, a firm and fast friend of American Industry. He t.'gures that he can win the Legislature, eveil) though Bushnell. the Republican candidate for Governor, hould win by 3,000, and he Is prepared "dive down" with prodigal, liberality to aw-pHsh his modest purpose. If the conte4 uld narrow down vo a race betweer .bags Whitney, of Xii York, and i oags Brice. of. New York and Ohio, b the national Domocratii . 1 1.1 . . . . . w t-uaveiiiioii ntii year, ueteBawH wouu navi a good thing. They could swim In champagne. Ximt Vnrk Potato Fnrm. New York Commercial Advertiser. The Pingr-e potato patch movement ia the metropolis Is proving a success, in plt3 of the criticisms and forebodings of which so much was heard a few weeks ago. .Many poor people havn been provldtd with l-tnd. and thus far only one beneficiary has been discovered who neglected his crop after It was planted. There are all classes of people, including several professional men, among the farmers, but most cf them aro foreigners, and some of them have vegetables that compare very favorably witt those of the regular truck farmers on lonqr lland. The work Is In charge of a regularfarmer hired for the purpose The Common Supposition Correct. ' Milwaukee Sentinel. ! The Chicago Chronicle Is both partlsnri and original when It sas tht Horace Boles "rescued'' Iowa from the Republicans. It has been commonly supposed that cne of the principal figures in this rescue was Mr. J. S. Clarkson. The Pastime New Woman. Atchison Globe. Slowly and painfully, with her hand grasping the stair rail, the new woman Is ascending to the attic to Join tho roller skate, the pigs in the clover puzzle and "Trl.by." - ' Amen. ' Philadelphia Tress. We are now In the last and short half of the Cleveland regime. May the run be made in all swiftness and March. 1U7. tee the G. O. P. in full possession. Trennou In Missouri. i St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Dem.) Calling black white Is moderate exaggeration compared with callins the present adjmlnlstration Democratic. ' 1 If It Only Wonld. i Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. I 1 Smokeless powder may be all rtet. b nlselesn powder would never suit your-