Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 July 1895 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1895.

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Eotitt House, WUiarU's Hotel and the Wellington Newt Exchange, Utn street, bet Penn. ave. and x street The fate of the British Liberals Is that which overtakes a party which has not a, definite policy or a positive purpose. Senator Blackburn has Just declared that "he never did apologize for having been in the Confederate army, and he never will." Is there any one who cares whether he does or not? When Senator Blackburn declare that if he is not re-elected Senator by the Kentucky Legislature a Republican wJIl or shall be. Democratic harmony seems to have been retired for repairs. Business has improved in the woolen mills in Bradford. England, because, as appears by Consul Meeker's report, the export of woolen goods !ia? Increased from $350,000 in May, 1834, to $3,450,000 In May, 1835. But Bradford purchases no more American products now than a year ago. When forced Into a corner relative to the quoting of a law, "Coin" defiantly answered that in making an argument a man took no more of an article than would sustain his cause. But when a man undertakes to instruct the public he should not quote to mislead, and will not If he is honest. The Minneapolis Tribune warns -he country against the exaggeration of the wheat crop of the Northwest by corre cpondents, by which It is made more than twice as large as it will measure when it shall have been threshed. This is probably the work of speculators designed to affect the speculative market. The Providence (R. I.) weavers are not satisfied with the advance of from 7 to 10 per cent, offered by the manufacturers. They want the full wages of 1832, which would be an advance of 25 per cent. : This fact, however, will not be noticed by those free-trade organs which .went off in an ecstasy of beadlines when this advance was announced. Jan. 1, 1833, the number of sheep in the United States was 47,273,553, which yielded a clip of 239,752,666 pounds. April 1. 1895, the number was 39,349,288, with an estimated clip of 252,131,G31 . pounds. A loss of 7,324,165 sheep and loss of 47,461,030 pounds of wool in two years shows the blighting effect of free raw wool upon the American sheep industry. i . Gold Is the commodity with which the commercial 'world settles International balances. If we sell the World a great deal more than we purchase of it very little gold will go abroad. If, by opening our markets by a deceptive ad valorem low duty tariff so that J200.000.000 of foreign goods are sold here which could, with a proper tariff, be manufactured at home, we wllLbe compelled to send much gold abroad, and if we have not enough gold we must send silver bullion at its market price. A new specific duty tariff, with the schedule arranged to favor the American producer, would keep most of the gold at home. The fight of the Democratic factions In Georgia over the silver question is as bitter as it was in Kentucky prior to the State convention. The opponents of free coinage, however, appear to have very much the best of it in that, former stronghold of cheap money. The Atlanta Journal has published the speech of the late Senator Ben Hill, against free coinage, delivered in the Senate in 1878, called out now by the assumption of some sllverito that Hill, if he were alive, would stand for free silver and the people as he stood by Jefferron Davis during the war. Secretary Hoke Smith has begun to deliver a series of speeches. Altogether it is an interesting conflict. Si Those Republicans who are reported to be exerting themselves these 3ultry days over the question of a Republican candidate for Mayor should assemble in a cool place, not to boom their favorite, but to coolly ascertain the name of, the man who will receive the vnt wMh Mayor Denny got two years a-o. It might be well for the more zealous cf them to take a tab of paper, jome fine day. and ask every Republican he meeta if he will support his favorite cr not, and his reasons. At the same time he might ask such Republican whom he prefers. "With such data thso active persons might arrive at a reasonable conclusion, even if it were not favorable to their favorite. One of the complaints made about Mr. Spofford, Congressional Librarian, by those who are conducting the investigation into the affairs of his ofllce is that he has little business capacity. One of the discoveries made is that he actually hired more clerks than the number assigned him and divided the salaries among them. Inasmuch as he needed more clerks and Congress would not give them to him. this does not look like a lack of business capacity, but quite the reverse. There has been a technical irregularity about it from an oHcIal standpoint, but when in private burircrj iltro men can be hired for J 50

work as the man who was getting $100 it is considered quite sC successful and praiseworthy feat. Moreover, Mr. Spofford was getting down to actual values. He knew that though government clerks may not receive princely salaries they receive for what they do far more than the same work would command elsewhere. In dividing the salaries and thereby getting double service he performed a great financial act, and deserves praise instead of rebuke. AX EVADED ISSUE.

Last November the superintendent of the Marlon county poor farm, located in "Wayne township, took to the polls and voted about forty paupers, some of whom were persons of feeble mind and others persons of unsound mind, a number being termed "paralytics." Not a half dozen of them would have gone to th polls of their own volition, and not a dozen in the whole number could have voted without the permission of the steward of the poor house, who was an election officer. For the most part it was the voting of Imbeciles by the officers of the poor farm the same thing as conferring the right to vote forty times upon the superintendent of that institution. If a dozen of these votes could have been rejected Wayne township would have had a trustee the choice of its legal voters and taxpayers. By counting these votes that important office is conferred upon a man whom the majority of the real resident voters did not want. Such are, In brief, the facts in the case which Judge Brown has Just decided. His decision practically sustains the right of the superintendent of the county poor farm to vote imbeciles. It may be contended that Judge Brown did not pass upon the question of the right of Imbeciles to vote. . True; but he refused to permit that, question to be raised under the pretext that the charge that such persons did vote was not in the averment of the contestant in the Wayne township case. That may have been a good point for a technical lawyer and judge, but the central issue in the case, or what should have been the central issue, was: "Have idiots, . feebleminded and insane men In the workhouses and asylums of Indiana a right to vote?" . It could have been proved, if Judge Brown had permitted it, that a large part of the persons taken to the polls by the workhouse officials were imbeciles who could scarcely articulate the word "rooster" when asked by the workhouse official acting as an election officer how they would vote that some of them are persons who have not even the Instincts of animals about caring for themselves. Unless the function of a court in this case is confined to the evasion of an investigation which would show the imbecility of the poorhouse Inmates whose votes made the most potential official in Wayne township that was the question which Judge Brown should have considered, rather than the fact of their being paupers and their residence as such. The question which the people would have settled is that involving the right of a thousand imbeciles in the poorhouses ln; Indiana being voted by the officers, of those institutions. A large majority of the intelligent people of the Stato believe that such a right does not adhere, to persons who are imbeciles. They claim that the voting of such persons tends to destroy popular respect for suffrage when everything should be done to elevate the franchise, making it, at least, 'the act of sane and fairly intelligent persons. Most States provide by constitution or laws that such persons shall not vote. Those who are not learned in the technicalities of the law have some vague idea that such questions should be decided upon the broad principles which underlie equity and Justice, in a manner which will elevate the suffrage and strengthen popular government. ' . In this and another political decision, which Judge Brown has made, he has laid much stress upon Republican authorities. This is well; but his zeal in this direction should not so far carry him away as to quote as a legal opinion to be heeded the argument of the late Attorney-general Brewster as counsel in a contested election case before a committee of the National House, for if, by so doing, he should establish a precedent which would make the pleas of lawyers for clients opinions to be cited by Judges in making decisions, what sort of law and decisions shall we have? TIIC EMPLOYERS' SURPRISE. In nine-tenths of the cases where wages have been advanced during the past three months it has been the result of voluntary action on the part of the employers. In most cases the attention of employers had not been called to the low wages received by their employes during any . period very near the time the advances were announced. In many instances the announcement of the advance was a surprise to the work people. In no case that the Journal has heard of has any of the recent advances resuited from "a strike. This is a very remarkable action, particularly if one has been led to believe the stories of agitators and alleged friends of labor regarding the cupidity and the selfishness of the majority of men who employ labor in the larger industries of the country. Such persons have been telling us that wages were forced down in 1S33 by a conspiracy of employers and that they would keep them at the lowest figure until labor should rebel, and the courts and the mllltla, being the tools of the employers, labor , was bound hand and foot, and consequently in a condition little or no better than slavery. Anarchism has been the only remedy these mischiefmakers have suggested. Now, to have these men who have been stigmatized as robbers, voluntarily advance the wages of a million of men is not only a surprise but it is evidence that employers are not blind to the welfare of the men whom they employ. This action certainly shows that they are not the oppressors of labor. When the Cleveland scare paralyzed the ltdustry of the country, closing .many factories, shops and mines, and compelling a reduction of production in others, manufacturers explained th situation to their employes, and many promised advances of wages as soon as the condition of trade should warrant. It was for the interest of these men to retain employes whose services, in ordinary times, were valuable; consequently they held out the Inducement I contained In the indefinite promise to

advance wages. The employes, in time, regardless of the inflammatory oratory of those who thrive by labor troubles, submitted to reduction, trusting not a little to the good faith of employers who held out the inducement of better wages with better times. Thousands of employers have kept faith with their men and have advanced wages in many case3 rather upon the promise of better times than upon the realization. It may be doubted if such a general advance of. wages was ever made in any other country without solicitation or to avert troubles as that which has Just been witnessed. Nor would it be right to make an unselfish Interest of employers or employes the sole motive. While it is true that most employers in this country desire that the men and women they employ shall live comfortably, and while they would sacrifice something to insure it, at the same time their Intelligence and experience tell them that they can secure better results when the men they employ are as well paid as the conditions of their business will warrant that the best results can be secured when employes feel that they arc treated with consideration. It Is not too much to hope that this unsolicited advance of wages marks the beginning of a new era in the relations existing between the employer and the employe that each will appreciate the worth and the rights of the other, and that conciliatory methods and reason will take the place of contention, strikes and passion. It is encouraging to note that the efforts of the head3 of the more influential labor organizations are directed to peaceful adjustments. The weakness of the agitator was shown in the attempt to censure President McBrlde. of the Federation of Labor, because, in order to prevent the laying off of thousands of miners, he became a mediator between a coal-carrying railroad company and a person sent to the locality to organize a strike which would have shut down the mines by stopping transportation. The assault upon Mr. McBrlde miserably failed because it was evident that he was working for the interests of the men whom he was chosen to represent.

EX-COXSl'L WALLER'S CASE. V Ex-Senator Martin, of Kansas, has been to Washington to learn the exact status cf the. investigation into the case of Mr. Waller, ex-consul to Madagascar, and who is now In a French prison on what seem to be trumped-up charges. Mr. Adee, acting Secretary of State, told Mr. Martin that after the papers In this country printed the story of Waller's treatment at the hands of a French court-martial in Madagascar the State Department wired the present consul to send particulars. He forwarded a copy of the charges and a copy of the sentence. He was then directed to send a copy of the evidence against Waller, as the testimony wes the most important part. To this came the reply that all the records in the case had been sent to France. When this was learned Embassador Eustis was wired to see Waller personally, get a statement from him of his case, and also send any documents bearing on the matter. Embassador Eustis stated in a communication to the department that he had tried to see Waller, but that the French auliorities had denied him this privilege, and also refused to give him a copy of the evidence upon which he had been convicted. On receiving this information Mr. Eustis was cabled to make another effort to see Waller and also to secure a copy of the evidence. So far nothing has been heard from the embassador. This is a complete statement of the efforts and failure of the department in the Waller case. It does not appear that any further steps are to be taken toward protecting the rights of this American citizen. In fact, Mr. Martin discovered a disposition on the part of certain' officials of the department to ignore the whole matter. Doubtless this will be done, and the case will add another to the long list of those in which this administration has failed to do its duty by Its citizens abroad. Waller will probably lie in the French prison until such time as a more patriotic and less weak-kneed administration is in "power. TUB GIRL WHO KILLED 1IEII DETRAY ER. The proverbial uncertainty of a Jury finding was exemplified anew; in the recent verdict of a New York Jury in the case of Maria Barberl, a young Italian girl, who killed her betrayer and was found guilty of murder in the first degree. Her ruin was accomplished, according to all accounts, in a peculiarly deliberate and heartless way by one of her own countrymen and under promise of marriage. The girl was very young, very ignorant, and of only moderate intelligence, but she had the instinct of virtue and valued her good name, so she importuned her lover from day to day to marry her and he as often put her off with promises. Meanwhile he treated her with great brutality, but this did not seem to chill her affection for him, and it was not until he finally told her roughly and in terms of insult that he would never marry her that she realized the situation and was roused to fury. She left him where he was seated with companions at a card table, went to her room, got a knife, and, returning, stabbed him to death. Now, murder is murder, and if law is literally observed, must be punished by the taking of the murderer's life. The Journal does not undertake to say that this girl "does not deserve the penalty, or to discuss the question of degrees of guilt; it merely wishes to point out that the administration of Justice in such cases is most irregular and uncertain. As a matter of fact, the law as found in the statute books is seldom strictly followed in trials of this kind. The Jury which decides upon the culpability of the accused is swayed by prejudice, power of custom and personal sentiment rather than by. abstract legal enactments. It is next to impossible, for example, to secure the conviction of a husband who kills the destroyer of his domestic peace, of a father who shoots the betrayer of his daughter, or of a wife who, with Insane Jealousy, kills her rival in her husband's affections. Conventionality and so-called chlvalrlc sentiment lead courts and Juries to disregard the letter of the law in such cases and to let the murderous assailants go free. The public complacently acquiesces in such decisions on the tacit theory that crimes Incited by wrongs of this character are in a measure excusable n4 roust be condoned. . Moreover,

in the caEe of women charged with such acts or even with offenses of other sorts It is difficult to secure an adverse verdict owing to the susceptibility of'Jurles to feminine influence. Especially is this true if the woman is of pleasing appearance. Maria Barber! is described as greatly lacking in comeliness, therefore the Jurors in her case , were not biased unduly in her favor. Can it be possible that her unattractlveness overbalanced the traditions and customs which, have heretofore governed the legal trials of women and dulled the sentiment which for seventy-five years has secured Immunity of women murderers from the death penalty in New York State In every Instance but one? It looks that way. For it is reasonably certain that if Maria Barberi's father or brother had enacted the role of avenger and killed the false lover, they would have escaped with but slight punishment, and if she had been a radiant beauty instead of a plain, dull-eyed creature, does any one think she would receive the death sentence? It is said that her defense was not well c6nducted,but this does not put the Jury in line with its predecessors In this class of cases, for they are wont to find favorable verdicts in spite of law and evidence. It may be absolute Justice that the poor wretch is getting, but, if so, she is getting it because of her poverty and plainness and American chivalry will hardly care to boast that it is Just on such basis only. So much is said in the papers about the enforcements of the excise laws in New York city so far as Sunday selling is concerned, that a brief explanation seems necessary. The law prohibiting the saletf liquors in New York on Sunday.was enacted by a Democratic Legislature for Democratic and" Tammany purposes. The saloon keepers were disposed to resist' the blackmail of the Tammany leaders. If Sunday selling were prohibited Tammany would have a new and sure "pull" upon the saloon keepers. Those who obeyed Tammany's orders and paid the blackmail assessed by the Tammany leaders for their enrichment were permitted to have their side or back doors open on Sunday for free tramc. On the other hand, if the saloon keepers who refused to submit to such exactions opened their side doors they were haled ' before the courts and compelled' to pay fines when they were not deprived of their licenses. In fact, the law was devised as an Instrument of blackmail and coercion cf the entire saloon interest into the service of Tammany Hall. Mayor Strong and Commissioner Roosevelt and his associates do not believe in the provisions of the Sunday excise law so far as New York Is concerned, but they have no option but, to enforce it as they find it. They cannot repeal It, and they are sworn to enforce the laws. Now the Democrats of the David B. Hill stripe are assailing these honest officials in their usual demagogic manner. A Pennsylvania girl who Jumped from the window of a burning house explained to the men who caught her and saved her from dashing her brains out that she couldn't stay and be burned, but was sorry she lost her gold watch. "It - was worth 112 if It was worth a cent," said the Ingenuous maiden. If .the rescuing fAeri. have' a spark of chivalry about them they . will Immediately replace that precious watch. An exchange down the State says that Indiana has reason to be proud of the capital city, now having 113,000 population.' Indianapolis has not yet 180,000 inhabitants, but If it has not so large a population its residents find satisfaction in the fact that of the thousands it now has, no larger, proportion of people in other cities enjoy more of the "comforts of life, and no city in the land is more attractive. The reports of the opening speech at the Baptist Young People's convention yesterday show that an allusion to "warm weather and warm hearts" was received with "much laughter." It must be remembered that young Baptists are Christians and will endure what some other people, not guided by grace, would not.- . The silver service presented by the city of Cincinnati to the ' cruiser which was named after it cost $3,500, and is said to be very handsome. The punch bowl holds sixteen gallons, which ought to be enough for the officers of any shlp.: . - Oregon packers are ? asking for special freight rates on canned and pickled hcrse. Who is it who has been saying that we would soon know the horse no more? If railroads are reasonable it may still be with us. ; DUniJLES IX. THE AIR. The Cheerful Idiot. "Shaving," said the Populist boarder, "is merely a habit." . "So is a beard," remarked the Cheerful Idiot. "Just look how it grows on a man as he gets, older."- '

New Roods. Old man Bowman has been playing the violin for more- than forty years now, but his work seems as full of youthful fire as ever." : ;i,"Yes, he gains that effect by getting full of youthful firewater." The Nw n Hill. Grogan If yez saw a dog on the corner wld his tongue hangln' out, would yez think he was mad, now? Hogan Ol would not. But whin Ol saw a certain tarrier standin' be the side dure av Houshlighan's saloon lasht Sunday wld your tongue hangin out, Ol knew well you was mad. Irreverence Rebuked. "See If you can tell the difference." eald the Colonel, netting two glasses of whisky before his guest. "This one seems to be the newer," said the young man. after sampling. "Sir," faid the Colonel, "when you say newer you mean to say younger. Good whisky Is entitled to have its individuality respected." - AIIOIT PEOPLE AD THINGS. Mile. Paulina, of Holland, Is probably the tiniest woman on the planet. She Is eighteen years old. welgh3 less than nine rounds and lacks four Inches of being as hlsh as a two-foot rule. S. R. Crockett, the Scottish novelist, worked his way through Edinburgh University on lees than $2 a week. He Is a farmer's son. and was accustomed to roughing It" in his youth. Prof. Huxley was burled, as probably he would have liked to be. In a bed of bowlder clay, a fittln? sepulture for a paleontologist. In the earth about his coffin are the relics of the prehistoric era when all Scotland and England ss far as the Thames were covered with a vast sheet of ice. It was a curious coincidence that J. B. Me-.rlll. who was long weather observer at New York and investigated forty Western tornadoes for the government, lived on the outskirts of Woodhaven, L. I., which was swept a few days asro by a tornado. He lay on a vacant lot and saw it all without being hurt. It Is Mr. Gladstone's latest statement that the older a man in gxd health becomes the greater his mental actlrlty ought to be. H declares that the mind grows stronger and

clearer as the body's vitality dwindles, and he does not see how anything, except disease of the latter, can prevent intellectual progress from continuing almost to the end of a man's life. Americans who go to Italy to be educated in music have a great advantage if they master the Italian language and study Its melodies. Otherwise they have none. Tae whole secret of the musical nature of the Italian people lies in the musical nature of the Italian language. No one can speak It habitually without becoming unconsciously educated ' in the laws of melody which underlie all music. John Burroughs, the essayist and naturalist, says that the golden orioles bother him a great deal. These birds are regular topers in their love for grape Juice. They stick their beaks Into the grapes, suck up the Juice, and three or four birds are table to ruin several tons cf grapes In a short time. As seventeen of Mr. Burroughs's twenty acres are devoted to grape culture this is a serious matter. The Davis Monument Association, of Richmond, Va., has issued an appeal for funds to build a monument to Jefferson Davis at Richmond, which shall ba "worthy of the soldier statesman who led us, worthy of the cause of constitutional freedom for which we fought, worthy of the patriotic survivors of the great struggle, and worthy of the children of the men who followed the battle-flag of the Confederacy." On midsummer's day at Copenhagen the court musicians, from a balcony of the royal palace, play airs on the t'Lura," the prehistoric Scandinavian metal horns kept in the museum. They are found in the moors, always in pairs, one in tune with the other. They are generally seven feet long, and are believed to be at least two thousand years old. A few years ago It was found that they could still be played on. At the Clifden sale of plate in London $17,000 was given for a beautiful silver gilt rosewater ewer, thirteen inches high, with figures of Venus seated on a dolphin and a Triton blowing a conch shell in an oval medallion on one side and a Cupid riding on a sea horse on the other, surrounded by fruit, flowers and masks In high relief, with a,, round embossed salver, the work of a Nuremberg goldsmith .of the beginning of the seventeenth century. The perfume of her violets I never shall forget. For the florist's bill that came with them Is hovering 'round me yet. New York Herald. There once was a terrible col. Whose thirst was simply infoL If he suffered a wound. No matter where found. He would treat it as being intol. . Detroit Tribune. CARED FOB MILLIONS

HOW TUB GOVERNMENT DOXDS WERE DELIVERED YS LOXDOX. Story of the Transfer of Paper Representing $31,157,700 to the Syndicate at "London Hard Work. Washington Correspondence Chicago Post. The skeleton details of the formal transfer of the Rothschilds allotment of those $62,135,400 government bonds from the treasury vaults in Washington to the syndicate depository in London have been given, but there is more to the story than the mere announcement that "the bonds were taken to London by agents of the government and delivered to the Rothschilds In compliance with the terms of the contract." Readers of the Evening Post want to know more of the romance of the Journey, and will not be content to let the 'subject be dismissed with a recital as bloodless as a paragraph from a South Water-street market bulletin. A bale of cotton or a carcass of beef might weigh more from a cartage standpoint than twelve boxes containing the $31,157,700 in bonds that were carried across the Atlantic in the good liner City of Paris, but it will hardly be held that the consignments are of equal importance or that the same degree of popular interest attaches to the transportation and movement of one as to the other kind of property. Onejs inanimate matter dead; the other is pregnant with all sorts of wonderful possibilities and Aladdln-Uke achievements. Chief Clerk Logan Carlisle, L. O. Murray and William Messervy, the three treasury representatives who took the vast sum to London, have completed their task and are back at their posts performing their accustomed duties with as much sang-froid as thcugh they had only been across the street to the dairy lunch, Instead of traversing the sea with the value of a kingdom in their charge. And they really do not seem to think they have been engaged in a performance in the least out of the ordinary. As though it were nothing to lug $31,000,000 in money three thousand miles. The travels of those syndicate bonds began much as William H. English's money package started through the malls. The government was not troubled about the transportation charges, but Secretary Carlisle knew of no safer way of getting the precious consignment to New York than through the agency of the postal service. Accordingly, the bonds were packed into twelve tin boxes, with an outer covering of wood around each, and the whole lot consigned to the tender keeping of a picked crew of postal clerks, who delivered them safely into the keeping of the treasury contingent on board the steamer the following day. That was 'May 29. Eleven of the twelve boxes contained J.000 bonds each. The twelfth contained 1,940 bonds, the total number of pieces being 34,940, having a face value of $31,167,700. They were divided into denominations as follows: 28.877 bonds at $1,000, $28,877,000; 4,186 at $500. $2,003,000; 1,877 at $100, $187,000. VALUABLE BAGGAGE. -Messrs. Carlisle, Messervy and Murray were oa hand to receive the mall that "Uncle Sam" had for them and when the twelve wooden boxes marked "Logan Carlisle, City of Paris," were delivered the packages were placed in the steamer's strong box and carried as the personal baggage of the Secretary's son and representative. The party had a delightful voyage. On arrival at Southampton, June 5. the custodians of the treasure were met at the wharf by Winiam E. Curtis, Afslstant Secretary of the Treasury, who had preceded them. Mr. Curtis was accompanied by L. M. Montgomery, special agent of the United States Treasury In Europe. The next morning the twelve boxes were transferred from the steamer safe to the bag gage van of the railroad train. Two or Rothschild' detectives were locked in the van with the boxes, and two hours later the party and the freight were in London. The twelve boxes were conveyed under guard from the station to the Rothschilds private bank in St. Swlthin's lane in a great English wagon especially designed for the transportation of the treasure. They were deposited in a special vault In the great depository and a receipt taken for them. It may be stated In thl3 connection that, although Infinite care had been taken for the safe carriage of the bonds and for the!r protection Intact, they were In their then state as a matter of fact of no more actual value than so much waste paper. They were still Incomplete and absolutely nonneotlable. Logan Carlisle and William Messervy came on from Washington to give the documents the finishing, vitalizing touch-the penstroke that converted them from pretty engraving into lovely bonds worth good, hard gold of any man's hoarding. In the lower left-hand corner of the bonds were three blanks. Into which the initials of three treasury officials had to be written in ink before they were finished and before they became obligations of the government. When they were shipped from the Treasury Building, in Washington, two of these blanks on every bond had been filled It only remained for accredited and named representatives of the Registrar of the Treasury to complete the business. Logan Carlisle and William Messervy were authorized to perform this duty. Every day for twelve days thcfe two trusted men Initialed a box full of bonds. The boxe3 were brought from the deep vaults of Rothschilds' great bank, one each day. to a room in the very bowels of the mighty building set apart for thm. opened, and the Contents counted and checked. Then each piece of paper was subjected to the same process, the lot was repacked, the private personal stamp of Assistant Secretary Curtis placed thereon and the box reconveyed to a place of perfect security Every move was cabled to Secretary Carlisle. The work of initialing began June 7 and trw finished June 3. The bonds were delivered to the syndicate in two lots on cablegrams from the Secretary that the cold to psjr for then htd been deposited

with the Treasurer of the United States. The formal delivery was made by Mr. Curtis. SUSPENDED OPERATIONS. Messrs. Carlisle and Messervy would have completed their pen and Ink business June 25 but for the fact that Messrs. Rothschilds' banking house was closed on Saturdays, the. Jewish Sabbath, which cut the working days down to five in a week. Lord Rothschild, besides shutting down on them Saturdays, cut them off another to go to the Ascot races. All London goes to the great Ascot races, and as there was no life and death rush about that bond decoration the treasury emissaries felt that they could take a holiday. Lord Rothschild met the party at Windsor and they were driven twelve miles through Windsor Park to the racing field. They saw the royal procession and were greeted by H. R. IL, the Prince of Wales and the Princess, who occupied the first of the six state carriages. The last of the bonds passed into the possession of the syndicate June 25, and the faithful trio were given a week's vacation by Assistant Secretary Curtis, who treated himself to a similar relaxation. Logan Carlisle and Mr. Messervy took a run over to Paris. Murray went to Ireland to visit relatives he had never seen and Mr. Curtis remained in London. They returned to London in time to participate in the celebration of the Fourth of July in King's Hall, an affair taken part in by five hundred Americans. The press dispatches have referred to this somewhat at length, however to Seth Low's oration and all that sort of thing and no extended mention Is called for here. The chronicle is complete without it. For ballast on the return voyage the treasury trio were given a set of canceled coupons on the entire $31,157,000 bonds, to take back to the Treasurer of the United States. This package was safely delivered yesterday, and then, and not until then, did Messrs. Logan Carlisle, William Messervy and L. O. Murray draw their first genuinely easy breath In six weeks. They came over from Southampton on the ocean flyer St. Louis. Mr. Curtis followed on a later steamer and will land in New York in a day or two. The Impression formed of Lord Rothschild was most favorable. He Is a well-preserved man of about sixty, large-featured, full bearded, keen-eyed and rich-voiced. Vocal organs rooted in $300,000,000 ought to be rich, but let that pass. There is hardly a perceptible trarce of the Semitic in his face, except that perhaps his nose Is rather full. It Is not of the beak type, however. He looks and acts like any brainy and successful man of business and affairs might look and act. He is a hard-working man, but does not make himself a slave to his business, as his brother Leopold seems disposed to do. Leopold rarely leaves the bank until 11 o'clock at night. In the three-story vaults of the Rothschilds great St. Swlthin's lane banking house are stored evidences of the Indebtedness of every civilized nation on the habitable globe billions piled high up on billions. WINDOW-GLASS WORKERS.

They Vote Against Creating; a Xew District in Indiana. PITTSBURG, July 18. It is anticipated that there will be a lively time in the Window-glass Workers' convention to-morrow, when the financial report comes up for consideration. The fight, it is said, will be made to have the books audited, and It is stated an Investigation will be made to see if some of the officials did not exceed their powers in the handling of the funds. All the minor resolutions before the convention were passed to-day in a bunch In order to be ready for the report. A resolution to adjourn to-morrow afternoon was defeated. A resolution was passed expressing sympathy for the American Flint Glass-workers' Union in the fight against the United States Glass Company and offering- financial support In unlimited quantities. The wage committee was instructed to have the manufacturers pay the snappers if possible. It was decided that a stockholder may become a boss cutter in a -window-glass factor. The resolution to create a new district in Indiana was defeated. The insurance plan was approved. By increasing the annual dues to $3.80 a year the organization will be able to pay each member a ueath bene fit of $500. Illinois Miners. JOLIET, I1L, July 18. The adjourned meeting between the mine owners and miners of Illinois was held to-day. Patrick McBrlde, secretary of the United Mine Workers of America, was present, and also James O'Connor, president of the State association. Representatives of the operators in the LaSalle, Streator and Wilmington districts were in attendance. They represented also a soft-coal association, including the three districts. Resolutions were passed which settle the wage question Indefinitely. They are to the effect that any reduction in the mining scale of northern Illnois be postponed until after the next meeting of the Joint board. Spring; Valley Miners. MASSILLON, O., July 18. There having been much discussion here as to the accuracy of the report 6ent out from Spring Valley, III., to the effect that several hundred miners in that district had volunteered to enter into slavery if guaranteed the necessaries of life by the mine owners, an inquiry was sent to Mayor Delmargo, of Spring Valley, and the following reply has been received: "I am unable to say whether our miners would accept such an offer as was described in the telegram. I firmly believe, however, that over one-half of them would be willing to sign such an ironclad contract." OBITUARY. Allen Jacques, Drother-In-Law of the Late Isaac P. Cirny. WASHINGTON, July 18. Allen Jacquea, formerly a supervising examiner In the Pension Office, died here to-night. He was fifty-nine years of age. He was from Ohio and subsequently lived at Union City, Ind. He was a brother-in-law of the late Minister Isaac P. Gray and leaves a widow and two daughters, one of whom is Mrs. Harry Birt, of Chicago. . Other' Deaths. BOSTON. July 18.-John T. Ellis, a newspaper correspondent, who fell on the steps of Hotel Tnorndyke, Tuesday, fracturing his skull, died to-day. Mr. Ellis was well known in newspaper circles in New ork, Chicago. St. Louis and Washington, as well as In this city. BERNE, Switzerland, July 18. Charles Emanuel Schenk. the distinguished Swiss pol tlcian. died to-day from the result of injuries sustained in a runaway accident on July 8. - Plnte-Glnss Jobbers. NEW YORK. July 18. At the annual meeting of the National Plate-glass Jobbers' Association of thf United States, held at the Manhattan Ilpach Hotel, the principal question discussed was transportation. Owing to the changes in the tariff, which altered materilally the cost, it was voted that a new selling list be adopted at once, to go Into effect on the 1st of August. The following officers were re-elected: President, W. W. Herov. New York city; vice presidents E. C. Sherburne, Boston. Maa.; George F. Kimball, Chicago, 111.: Charles Campbell, Ksnss City. Mo.; secretary and treasurer, W. H. Hadles. S:. Louis. Ilnrher Ilornetrhlpped lj- II f si "Wife. OAKLAND, Cal., July IS. Edward Larue, a barber, was whipped last nlzht by h! anry wife In the presence of a large crowd of people. Lirue was sauntering up Proadway at 8 o'clock. He was pursued by his wife and her sifter, who supposed that he had a meeting with a woman. Mrs. Larue thought she saw her hu?band goin? to speak to a woman, ro the drew oat a horaehlp from the folds of her drss and made a rush for him. The sister acted as a second to the wife and kept shouting, "Give it to him." The appearance of the police save! Larue from a worse whipping than he had. IlnuKncc Aurntu in Convention. BUFFALO. N. Y.. July lS.-The National Association of Baggage Agents opened Its fourteenth semi-annual convention at the Iroquois yesterday. At a business session held last night a committee, which ws aproIntM to consider the question, reported strongly aalnft following the example of the Canadian Pacific railway In allow!-;? 35) pounds of free baggage as against 2i) pounds by other lines. An effort will ba made to arrive at an agreement between all transcontinental lines on this and other questions. $MMM MUatns;. OMAHA. Neb.. July lS.-Willlam H. Quick, general superintendent of the Western division of the United States Express Ccmpany, la in the city nlta a view of lecating the pa?kj?e containing $5,000 missing from the United States express office in this city. He was net certain that the mrney had ever reached the Omaha oflco, but four Omaha employes are on tas car-' pet. ... j f ; :i .

THE GOLD RESERVE

1,232,1S: WITHDRAWN FROM TIIR TREASURY SINCE Jl'LY 1." Several Small Amounts Sent Abroad European 3Iony-Order System Not Suitable for the United States. WASHINGTON. July 18.-The treasury to-day lest $232,1S2 in gold, leaving the reserve $106,807,905. The amount of gold withdrawn since July 1 is $1.232,1S2, nearly all of which, it is assumed, was exported. There were, however, some gains through1 the mints and assay offlcra, making the net loss during the last eighteen days $733,470. .HThe treasury officials have no apprehensionstxf any, considerable withdrawals for export. They have absolute confidence In the ability and determination cf the syndicate to protect the treasury, and, so far, have teen nothing that indicates to them a purpose to withdraw their protection. ';.,', Shipments Abrond. NEW YORK. July 18. The steamship Normannla, which sailed to-day, took $50,000 In gold, shipped by Nesslage, Colgate & Co. The same firm placed $1,000 in gold cn board the Etruria for shipment on, Saturday. A report was circulated on Wall street this morning to the effect that a large amount of gold, as some had it, $1,000,000, would be exported this week by a prominent Importing firm. The bouse meant is W. IL Crossman & Bros., of Bread street, who, upon being interviewed, stated that they had not as yet fully determined whether or not they should make a shipment of gold. It depended entirely on the rates of exchange at which they could buy bills. If it was tc their advantage to send the gold forward Instead of buying exchange, they would do 80. 3IOXEY-ORDER SYSTEM. The European Plan Xot Acceptable to the United States. WASHINGTON, July IS. The recent visit of Director Edmund Hohn. of the Universal Postal Union, to Postmaster-general Wilson has aroused fresh Interest in the system of foreign malls and their ramifications. One of the subjects to be discussed at the coming postal congress will be the money-order system, which already obtains In most of the European countries. Tost-master-general Wilson has Informed Mr. Hohn that the United States will probably not be willing to Join this system, but It i possible that something may nevertheless be done to bring about a more systematic exchange of money orders than now exists. There are two systems of money-order exchanges In vogue in the world, known as the list and the card systems. All the United States conventions are under the list system, while the Postal Union plan is that of the card. By the list method, all money orders drawn here on a foreign country go first to an exchange office la the United States, where they are- listed. Then they go to a central office In the country on which the order is drawn, where they are checked off and stamped and forwarded to the town where payment is to be made. The books of each country can thu3 be easily kept and balanced. By the card system the postmaster In one draws directly on one In another country, and his order goes direct without pawing through any central exchange office. The United States postal authorities say that, while this plan works well enough In Europe, where the distances are short between the international money offices. It would cause great trouble when extended across the ocean to America. In addition to the difficulties arising from the difference of languages, there is the danger of frauds, which might not be discovered until weeks after they were committed, when It would be too late to capture the criminals. It Is for such reason that the United States Jias followed the course of Great Britain and all the English-sneaking countries and colonies of the world, and steaaIly refused to Join In any" money-order exchange other than through the exchange offices. , eaS"BBSBBSBBSSSSBBSSSBSSMBSMStBBSS LEGALIZED MOONSHINERS." Why Drunkenness and Insanity Ar Increasing in France. WASHINGTON, July 18. Consul Chancellor at Havre has made an extended report to the State Department on alcohol in France. He quotes largely from M. Maurice Laporte-BIsquet. who has recently published a brochure, inveighing against the farmers of France who, it is sai$. convert all or part of the products of, their vines and fruit trees into indifferent brandy by a process of imperfect distillation. Mr. Chancellor says they are literally legalized "moonshiners." The existing law in France concedes without taxation to this class of distillers having small portable stills, entire liberty to manufacture Into liquor all their own fruit and all that may be brought to them by neighbors, and also they may move about from place to place and make liquor. The large distillers who are heavily taxed object to this, and It is asserted that It works a great fraud on the treasury. The law was originally Intended to apply to a limited quantity meant for home consumption: but it has resulted In the manufacture of ' an enormous amount of vitiated brandy which Is sold to the community and drlnklnc houses at a very low price and has had the effect of greatly Increasing drunkenness In France. Insanity Is also on the increase with the increase of drunkenness In 1881 there were 133 cases to e?wvh i000 of population; in 1SS3. 135 to 100.000. and at this time it is said to be 165 to every 10rt 000 Consul Savage thinks that whisky drinking In the United States can be checked by the substitution of cheap wines. Nicaragua Doesn't Want Chinese. WASHINGTON. July 11-The State Department has received a report from Consul O'Hara, at San Juan del Norte. Greytown. inclosing a copy of a decree of the Governor of the department of Zelaya, prohibiting the landing of Chinese on the eastern coast of Nicaragua, and providing for deportation of those arriving hereafter. A fine is to be levied on v!o!ators of the drre. A number of Chin-se have come to Mcaragua. e.nd there are now said to be three hundred in the province of Zelaya. They have opened shops and et ores, and one man Is said to own eleven stores, dolnz a business of $15.ono a month. Quite a Urge number of the Chinese engage In minlnc tut they do not add to the development of the rountrv as they use no modem machinery or improvements. The history of Chinese com-etition has been about ih-ssme as in the United States. The Chinese patronize Chinese stores exclusively, and the gold found by the miners goes to China. Testtnff n State Hank Tnx Act. WASHINGTON. July 18.-Thc case of the Merchants' and Manufacturers' National Bank of Tittsburg vs. the State of Pennsylvania has been appealed to the United States Supreme Court from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The question involved Is the constitutionality of the Sta e bank tax act and the Is considered a Utl one The papers filed represent that there In 'JM national banks in the State of Pennyvlvrpln. the market value of whtse stock ? ti"K0(Wi, which will be an-ceted by the decision in the rrnt rase hen rendered. Indlanlans at the Capital. Spec al to the Indianapolis Journal WASHINGTON. July 1$.-The following Indianians are here to-night: Columbus. Ind. Miss A. M. Perry. Miss MThorntown. Ind.-Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Terre" Haute L. Goodman and family. Indianapolis T. I Armstrong. Mr. and Dinville-Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Hogite. IotoRlcc Fraud Order. WASHINGTON, July IS. A frauJ order has been Issued against the Excelsior Publishing Company, Lewis Hollcway. F. W. Hollaway and Charles I.arsch. manufacturers, of St. Louis. Mo. The concern has defrauded many pc-nons, with whutn :t baa made, contracts to tell books. tVeedlnic Out the A. I. A. OitAHA. .Neb.. July IS. Chif f of Polite White has discharged twenty-nve allegel political and sectarian azttatcrs from the polle force. The edict has been Issued by the h!ef that policemen must not let political and rel!ious affairs interfere wiUj their dutv a oClctra.