Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 July 1895 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, JULY 22, 1895.

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TI1C XSDIAXArOLIS JOLltNAX, Can te round at the following places TAK IS American tichauje tu Varls, 38 Boulevard da C'artiflnM. - KW YOKK OUsey House, Windsor fiotal and Astor Mouse. PHILADELPHIA A. P. Ramble, cot. Lancaster ava SDd barter st. - CHICAGO-I'almer Hons. Aoditorlun. Hotel aad P. O. fctws Co VI Adams street. CINCINNATI-. B. UawlTy A Ca. 154 Tine street - - LOrraVILIX C. T. Dserlnr, northwest corner of Thin! and Jefferson sts auu LooWtLU Book Co, 35 r oortn aTe. ET. LOUia-Cakm Ktws Company, Union Depot T7Af JIINGTON. D. C Hotue, Ebbltt House, V Herd's Hotel and the Washington News Exchange, la street, bet. txuL are, and v street Even Senator Quay, sturdy as he is, has found it necessary to deny that he is for Cameron for presidential candidate, or has any taint of the.unlimlted Fourth ate. 18 w x ttuouL i urn. Master "Workman Sovereign expects "all sympathetic labor organizations' to sustain his national bank boycott. In this locality labor organizations seem not to have any sympathy for the Sovereign combination. ' . ' A few well-meaning but deluded meii imagine that all the country is yearning for fifty-cent dollars because, by giving nobody else a chance for a word.they have come to the conclusion that, the demand Is unanimous. , Professor W. S. McGee has found in Texas an 'agricultural ant" which cultivates crops of grain, builds storehouses In which to store it, keeps the streets of its settlements well paved and sustains a standing army. Among all these inA .111 i. m lemgeni workers, me proiessor seems not to have found any who occupy all thelr time in advocating the ments of an unlimited coinage of fifty-cent dollars. The rioting on the occasion of the burial of ex-Premier Stambuloff, of Bulgaria, discloses the existence of two bitter and revengeful factions in that country. His policy as Premier, whatever were his intentions for his country, was arbitrary and often brutally severe. His foes were punished by death, banishment or the knout, as served his purpose. The demonstrations at his funeral indicate that his assassins did not need the encouragement of any outside government. m H MB SM BBSS) The ' Cincinnati Commercial Gazette eays there is no man in Ohio that has as broad a constituency as Governor Mo Klnley, and none who can call to his support as large an array of supporters as he. It adds: "This is the great central fact in the Ohio Republican situation." This statement seems to make nol account of one Joseph B. "Foraker, who at present exercises a potential and controlling influence in Ohio politics. Really, the great central fact in the Ohio Republican situation is that Mr. Forafcer is not a McKInley man. The Democrats in Louisiana propose to amend the Constitution so that suffrage will be limited to those who can read and write, or who pay taxes on property assessed at $200. The object is to disfranchise the colored people in a State in which the most inadequate provision has been made for public Instruction and where a larger per- cent, are illiterates than in' any other State in the Union. Another feature of the proposition is that the Legislature may hereafter change the qualifications for. suffrage without submitting the question to the people. Among the evils ascribed to the socalled demonetization of silver, Profescor Harvey says: ''The decline In prices, covering a perijd of twenty-two years, has as a rule made all classes of productive, mercantile and manufacturing business unprofitable." If all classes of productive, mercantile and manufacturing business in the United States have been unprofitable during the1 last' twenty years, statistics are greatly at fault, and hundreds of thousands of men who have accumulated fortunes are dreadfully deceived. The rrofits of business may not have been as large as they were during the flush times 'following the war, but the aggregate wealth of the country has Increased enormously, and vast numbers of persons engaged in different productive pursuits have grown rich. During the last twenty-two years business has experienced considerable variation, but, taking the entire period together, the country never enjoyed as Crat prosperity as it has since the perpetration of what Harvey and his following call "the crime of 1S73' It would be illogical' to attribute this prosperity to the so-called demonetization of silver, but the prosperity itself is a fact of history. ' . The one paper in Indiana, calling itself Republican, which Is tha open advocate ct. Independent free and unlimited coinage of silver at the present ratio recently declared that there should be a Republican organ In Indianapolis which would advocate the principles of the

party, which it alleges the Journal does not. Other Republican papers have been crliad to make the same statement, probably by the same person who Inspired its publication In the paper In question. The Journal is not Republican, because it opposes the free coinage of silver. Now, who are with the Journal? Every Republican Representative-elect outside of the silver-producing States, except six, as far as heard from, every Republican Ccnator In the United States outside of ths diver producing States, except Camcrcn and possibly two others; every Reputllcan paper in Indiana except one. or rcriltly two; the Republican State con-v:-l!cr.3 in Ohio, Kentucky and Iowa," : :: C-.t tr.v3 teen held this year, by a every r.c;--a 7fco

Is prominently mentioned for the presidency. On the side of the Journal critic, what prominent Republican can be named outside of the silver-producing States? There are a few, but the number, is small and is growing beautifully less. When that paper' looks around it will find Itself in company with Senators, Voorhees and Turple, until the former took refuge in silence; Governor Altgeld, of Illinois; ex-Attorney-general Greene Smith, Senator Vest, Senator Blackburn, W. J. Bryan, V'. II. Harvey, the Populist leaders, every advocate of anarchy, and so on. In view of these facts, the Journal is content to remain with the Republicans' and advocate Republican principles. TUB 3IOXCY OP THE CONSTITL'TIOX.

; A favorite argument of the advocates of free silver coinage is that gold and silver are "the money of the Constitution," and, therefore, that any interference with the ancient status of silver Is a violation of the Constitution. "Coin" makes great account of this argument in his book, as does his progenitor also In the current debate at Chicago. "The States," says Harvey, with ponderous constitutional wisdom, "surrendered to Congress the right to separately coin money, but expressly retained the' right to the use of silver and gold as money, neither as token money, one representing the other, as silver is now coined, representing gold; but both as money in their own right. Congress, In good faith with the , States, has no more right to demonetize one of these metals than it has to demonetize both of them, without the consent of the States." Gold. and silver are mentioned in the Constitution only once. That instrument gives Congress an exclusive right "to coin money," and eays: "No State shall coin money or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts." Harvey says this 13 a reservation by the States of the right to the use of silver and gold as money. It is nothing of the kind. Instead of a reservation of rights it is a prohibitory clause. It prohibits any State from making anything but gold and silver coin a tender In payment of debts. What gold and silver coin? Obviously, that coined by authority of Congress, which has the exclusive power. There can be no gold and sliver coin except that coined by authority of Congress, and this alone can be made legal tender by the States. The Constitution gives Congress supreme and unlimited power over the coinage question in all its phases, including that of regulating .the value of gold and silver coins. The States have nothing to do with it,' directly, or Indirectly, and Harvey's assertion that Congress has no right to demonetize either metal witnout the consent of the States Is ridiculous." It is one of the highest duties of every government, to provide the people with a safe and sound circulating medium, and In order to insure for such circulation a solid basis of uniform value the Constitution gave Congress exclusive control of thi coinage question, with unlimited power to do whatever was necessary to maintain the parity of gold and silver, or, if commercial . conditions should make that Impossible, to suspend the coinage of either. The contention that the States have a "reserved right" to silver and that Congress may not suspend its coinage or even demonetize it altogether without the consent of the States is too absurd to find any. credence except among people who read the Constitution upside down. A HAD LAW. There Is reason to fear that at least one act of the late Legislature will not be productive of good results. We refer to the act which provides that all convicts confined in either of the State prisons shalloon the expiration of their tprms, be taken back to the county Jail of the cpupty from which they were convicted, and there released. The act provides for the notification of the county sheriffs thirty days' before the expiration of the term pf any convict belonging to their respective counties, and allows the sheriff1 the same compensation fof conducting prisoners from the prison to .the county Jail that is allowed for taking them to the penitentiary. The prisoner i3 not to be paid any sum of money whatever either by the State or by the county in which he is released. Under the old law, every discharged convict received fifteen dollars in money, a sum sufficient to buy him a decent suit of citizen's clothes and enable him to reach a locality where he was not known and perhaps begin an honest life. The new law pays the sheriff for taking the discharged convict back to the scene of his disgrace, where he Is turned loose at the Jail door in convict clothes and without the means of buying others. Aside from the Injustice and Inhumanity of this procedure It is obviously unwise, since it makes it practically Impossible for a convict to obtain honest employment and furnishes the strongest possible Incentive for a resort to crime to obtain the means of hiding his disgrace. No doubt many discharged convicts are Irreclalmably bad and will continue so no matter what the conditions of their discharge may be, but there are many who leave prison with a firm resolution to lire honest lives. It is the poorest possible, encouragement to the carrying out of such a resolution, in fact almost a deathblow to its execution, for the man to be taken back to the scene of his conviction, and turned loose.pennlless and with the badge of his disgrace upon him amid a pitiless and perhaps a Jeering crowd. The law is a good one for county sheriffs, but a very bad one for convicts and for the State at large.- It should be repealed at the earliest opportunity. OXB OF HARVEY'S FALSEHOODS. "Coin" Harvey Is a very dishonest debater. In discussing the so-called "crime of lS73,"as the free-silver people designate the act suspending the coinage of silver dollars, Mr. Haivey. says: Delmar, the English historian, says that the act of 1816 demonetizing silver in England had a clause In It that It might be reinstated by the King, that the act giving a right to reinstatement was repealed in 1871, and that the act by which It was repealed was. within two weeks, in the hands of Mr. Knox, th Controller of the United States Treasury and was. In part, the basis of the act of this country. By this statement Harvey sought to create the Impression that the substance of Us charge that the framers of the law of 1S73 were In a conspiracy with parties in England to demonetize silver was to be found in a work by "Delmar, the English historian." There is no English historian named Delmar. The person jeferred to is Alexander Delmar, a political adventurer who was once Dlrcclcr el" tl3 Eurciu cf Ctatl.Uc2, .at

Washington. He was born in New York, of Spanish parentage and is principally known for his violent advocacy of free trade. He has never written a historj'. The statement which Harvey tries to dignify by attributing it to an English history was made by Delmar In a speech before the free-silver convention at Memphis, a few weeks ago. The gist of the statement is that a certain act of the British Parliament was, within two weeks after Its passage. In the possession of Hon. Jay Knox, Controller of the Currency. Even if this were true it would not signify anything nor have any bearing on the merits of the present question. It would only show that in drafting a new coinage act for the United States, as Mr. Knox had been requested by the Secretary of the Treasury to do on account of his thorough knowledge and mastery of the subject, he was trying to keep Informed of the latest legislation of other countries on the same subject. This would be creditable to his intelligence, but Harvey cites It as evidence of "a conspiracy." However, the fact that the assertion was made by such a man as Delmar in a free-silver speech is prima facie evidence of its untruthfulness, while Harvey's attempts to dignify it with the authority of history is of a piece with his other falsehoods and misquotations. THE WASTE OF NATURAL GAS.

The opinion of the State Natural Gas Supervisor, given rf ter a careful and . thorough investigation of the field, is that the supply will last for several years to come. He is wisely cautious not to say how many, but consumers will find a good deal of comfort even In the guarded assurance. The Supervisor's greatest concern is about the enormous waste of the gas, a large part if not the most of which he attributes to leaky mains. He is confident that millions of feet of gas are lost by this means every day, and says the companies should employ men whose sole duty should be to stop the leaks. This is a new phase of the question of gas waste. The different companies have had a great deal to say about the alleged waste of gas by consumers, and have used It, as an argument in favor of the introduction of meters for the preservation of the precious fuel. The Legislature has taken notice of one means of waste so far as to prohibit the use of flambeaux, but this Is the first time that public attention has been called to the fact that the companies themselves are wasting gas. Perhaps this charge lies with the more force against small local companies than it does against larger ones which have to pipe gas a long distance, f mt the greed of gain is such that all may be more or less at fault. As long as a company's supply can be kept up and contracts filled by wasteful methods, there is a temptation to put in cheap pipes and let mains get out of repair. If the Supervisor is correct in his opinion that millions of feet of gas are lost in this way every day, it behooves the companies to see to It that the waste is stopped. The saving of millions of feet a day would postpone considerably the date when it will be necessary to require consumers to adopt meter measurement. At all events, the companies should not make any further charges against consumers of wasting gas until they can prove that they are guiltless themselves. , THE MILITARY EX CA M P3I EXT. The encampment of the State militia has become an event of annually recurring Interest, and it is to be hoped of permanent continuance. Having once experienced the advantage of a trained military force in time of need. It is not likely the State will ever withdra7 its support therefrom, and the annual, encampment will be kept up . as an important part of the training. As some of those in the present encampment are comparatively new recruits, it may 'not be amiss to offer them a few words of advice. They should remember, as, indeed, all members of the militia, t hould, that as representatives of the cause of law and order ihiy should be careful not to give any cause of complain:. for unruly or disorderly conduct. They wear the uniform of United State3 soldiers, and are in the pay of the State. They are, therefore, under a double obligation to set a good example of orderly and lawabiding conduct. Where so many men. Including many young ones, come together from different parts of the State, In an annual encampment, there is some temptation to turn it into a frolic. The officers will doubtless see that this is not done, and the privates should remember that pleasure enough can be got out of the occasion without violating any of the proprieties of military or civil life. It should be a point of honor with every member of the militia not to forfeit an lota of the high esteem In wheh the organization is now held throughout the State. Indiana is proud of her citizen soldiery, as she has reason to be, and it should be tho aim of every member of the National Guard to maintain that sentiment. With this word of advice the Journal wishes all participating in the encampment a pleasant and profitable time. THE OALY RE3IEDY. There should be no surprise that some gold should go abroad. Those who purchase goods in Europe must pay for them Just as they do here. If they purchase large quantities and sell Europe less quantities than heretofore, more gold will be needed to pay the difference. We are buying many goods In Europe which, two or three years ago, we were making at home. On the other hand, Europe has purchased less of us the past six months than usual. Consequently, American values of some sort, tx.nds, stocks or gold, must be used to pay the difference. The balances against us must be paid. The stock of gold has nothing whatever to do with it. The fact that Europe may want gold has nothing to do with the matter, for the reason that if we did not owe or spend money in Europe, our gold could not be obtained. , Another explanation for the drawing of gold from the reserve is that since June SO the disbursements of the treasury have exceeded its receipts by more than 112,000,000. This large amount of money must be paid out of the cash in the .treasury At times some of the moneys in the treasury are greenbacks and treasury notes redeemed with the gold of the reserve fund. Such greenbacks and notes, once redeemed, can be disbursed as other funds In the treasury. If the receipts of the treasury were exceeding the disbursements by thirty cr forty million .a year, the3 grccstzcl:3

and treasury notes which are collected time after time and presented for redemption could be retained in the treasury. If the public finances were in a condition that a large portion of the notes redeemed with gold could be held in the treasury, . there would soon be no surplus of paper afloat with which to raid the reserve. But, every monthly treasury statement showing a deficit, the administration has been compelled to use the notes redeemed with gold for current expenses, and consequently to. issue bonds for gold which has been used in this indirect manner to meet current expenses. Only one thing is necessary to retain our stock of money a tariff which will insure the home producer the home market, so that gold will not be needed to pay for foreign-made goods which can be made at home and which, at the same time, will afford a volume of revenue a few million dollars a year in excess of the current expenditures. And it is the only remedy. The American Wool and Cotton Reporter, a trade Journal with low tariff tendencies, recently published an article from a special correspondent in the English manufacturing districts of Yorkshire which is the result of a careful investigation of the" wage scale In the woolen and worsted industries there. He finds that the weavers in the woolen mills in Olneyville, R-.I., where there has been a strike for higher wages, are paid 112 per cent, more" than the weavers in the Bradford mills in England, and that the wages of all the employes in the Olneyville district are 100 per cent, higher than those' of the operatives in the English mills. Speaking of the Bradford mills, the correspondent says: Right through the whole mill, from woo! scouring to finishing, there is the same difference in wages to be chronicled. And I fall to see, viewing the subject from an unprejudiced standpoint, how your domestic manufacturers can hold the fort in opposition to foreign makers. While In Olneyville your weavers are averaging $3 to $12 per week, Yorkshire weavers snog home with J2.40 to $3.60 per week, while a few average a trifle more. With such a wide margin between the wages paid here In woolen mills and those paid by their competitors in England, it seems impossible that the Rhode Island 'manufacturers can advance wages 7 or 10 per cent, as they have proposed. On the other hand, it seems impossible that they can long continue to pay present wages. HUDDLES IX THE AIR.

Cheuper. Minnie-Dear me! "it costs 131.000 to kill a. man in battle nowadays. Mamie I wonder why they don't use trolley cars? - " On Parade. Watts I wonder .- if the knickerbocker woman will expect a seat in the cars? Potts Expect it? "You couldn't coax her to take it. - Consoling Him. Old Bullion It galls me to think that my money goes into your spendthrift hands when I die. r Young Bullion Never mind, governor, it won't stay there long. ' - Ilia Button. "Er, that is a funny looking button you are wearing," said the. man with the account. "I never saw an- 'N. C button before. Do you belong.to thei Sons of North Carolina; or. '.whatTV" , . "Sons of nothing "7 replied the grocer. "That means no credit.'.' - The man walked out without swelling the account. , STATE PRESS OPINION. The raising of wages l's always a sign that the Democratic party Is not expected to carry , the next election. Shelby Republican. 4 ' The probabilities are that the national banks will continue right along and do business notwithstanding a Sovereign boycott. Crawf ordsvllle , Journal. The Republican party has nothing to take back nor nothing to fix up with the money question, the tariff question nor any other question. Bloomfield News. We do- not knov a single Republican in this county who Is In favor of the free and unlimited coinage of silver, While the Democrats who have" gone astray on this lurid fallacy are to be counted by the score. Petertburg Press. The Kentucky Democrats are trying to eliminate the currency question from the campaign In that State. The only hope for the party next year, anywhere, wlU be to have "politics eliminated" from tha campaign.' Greensburg Standard. Governor Matthews has been elected an honorary member of the American Fish Society. It might also be stated that the Governor is a full-fledged member of the Crawfish Society, or In other words the Democratic party. Rushvllle Graphic. Terre Haute Is gaining a very unenviable reputation as a "wide open", town by reason of the refusal or failure of the authorities to enforce th new temperance law. If reports are true, the Governor should let up on Roby. and turn his attention to Terre Haute. Worthlngton .Times. It seems very strange to an outsider that in Indianapolis, where it Is claimed the laws are more strictly enforced than in any other city in the State, the police will permit the publication and circulation of a sensational paper that the police in other cities i:i the State are suppressing for its obscenity. Terre Haute Mail. When you see a notice in the papers that the workmen in some establishment have had their wages increased; don't Jump .to the conclusion that the Increase Is over that paid at any time during Harrison's administration, but over that of last year. The times are slowly improving in spite of the Wilson bill. Huntington Argus. .The proposition to boycott national banks will have no more effect than the effort of a pigmy to sweep back Niagara's torrents with a broom, and in counseling that sort of thing Sovereign only emphasizes tne general public opinion long prevailing that he Is a fool whose Identity with labor Is a distinct curse to the cause. Lafayette Courier. If you were to assure the manufacturers of this country that the next election would result in a Democrat victory you would see a greater crash In business than 1893 produced. Confidence In the returning supremacy of the Republican party in national affairs has had much to do with the recent revivals in business. Vinamac Republican. No wonder the Democratic leaders fought so vigorously against" turning over control of the prisons to the Republicans. They have long boasted that the Prison South was self-sustaining, ani It transpires that when tho Republican officials entered upon their duties the deficit was piling up at the rate of $4,000 per month. Fort Wayne Gazette. Horr and Harvey take up a good deal of time talking about the money of our fathers. It's a waste of breath. What have we to do with their money? Nothing. What's It to us what kind of money or how much of it we had ten years aco? What we want to know is what kind of money Is needed now. Crawfordsvllle Argus-News. The debate between Horr and Harvey develops the characteristic pettiness and demagogy to be expected In a man of Harvey's caliber, who appeals to prejudice to get the applause that might not be won by argument. He uses the well-worked terms of conspiracy, classes, bankers, etc., to prove that sixteen ounces of silver are worth one of gold. -Tarre Haute Express. We read, over the State, that saloon keepers In this city or that city have held meetings and agreed to obey the law. Whoever before heard of people holding mass meetings to find out whether they would or would not obey the law? . Euch actions make one tired. Caloon keepers rhould co tt;ut their burlnsra t.zi c.ry tta liw UXe

other people, without holding a meeting to find out their minds on the subject. Greencastle Banner-Times. The saloonkeeper wbo is opposed to the Nicholson law, seems to be impressed with the idea that It interferes with some of his exalted rights. If he has a right to violate law, when other people must obey, then it probably does. But since he has no such right, we 0 not see that the trafficker in liquor has anv reasonable ground upon which to register a kick. Mlddletown News. As the result of the Indianapolis election this fall will have great bearing on the State election next year, the politicians all ov:? the State are anxiously awaiting the out:ome. We are sure the Republicans of the State capital will make no mistake. Lt them nominate a good, clean man, a bold and fearless fighter for right, and they will have a triumphant victory Knisatstown Banner. Lieutenant Governor Nye Is said to be quietly grooming for the office of Governor. He was a candidate when Governor Matthews was nominated. Mr. Nye claims that he originated the silver discussion in Indiana, some years ago. In a speech at Indianapolis. He says that the political atmosphere at that time was so full of other subjects that there was no room for silver talk. Goshen News. Tho Democratic victory of 1892' was followed by depression In buslness.loss of confidence in financial circles which wrecked thousands of fortunes and caused loss and suffering In almost every department of life. The Republican victory of 1834 is being followed by a revival in business, better prices and better wages than have been enjoyed since the fatal blunder of November, 1S32. Huntington Herald. We have, no idea that Mr. Cleveland has ever thought of such a thing as a third term. In the first place, he knows that in no circumstances would public opinion even patiently consider such a proposition In the case of any one. In the next place, he has probably had all that he wants of public honor, and would prefer to spend the evenings of his days in the enjoyment of his home and family. Evansvllle Courier (Dem.) It is to be hoped that General Master Workman Sovereign will issue a supplementary, manifesto cautioning his sympa. thetic patriots against burning any national bank bills that they may find themselves in possession of, under a mistaken impression that In this fashion they will be striking these blood-sucker institutions a deadly blow. A national bank note is a promise to pay Issued by the bank whoee name It bears, and to burn It is to destroy an evidence of debt standing out against the bank. For its bills to be burned would cause the owners of a bank to laugh ha ha and ho ho. General Master Workman, who has a great head on him, should look this matter up and satisfy himself on its correctness, or he may make a mess of his boycott. Terre Haute Gazette (Dem.) ABOUT PEOPLE AXD TUIXGS.

Mr. Sze, of the Chinese legation at Washington, is an enthusiastic bicyclist, but on account of the peculiar style of his dress he is obliged to use a woman's wheel. Mme. Fonisl has finally retired from the stage and has gone to live In Washington with her step-daughter. She is more than seventy years of age now, but remembers vividly how she trudged twehty-flvo miles on foot to secure her first engagement. - Dr. Earrgraeve, professor of medicine In tho University , of Ghent, Is ninety-nine years old and in active practice as a physician. He has written a book on longevity and is now seeing his 'Remlnlscenses" through the press. He smokes, drinks wine and takes his little glass of gin. Don Carlos, of Spain, who wears the title of Duke of Madrid and Is the head of the historic house of Bourbon has repeatedly pawned the jeweled badge of the Order of the Golden Fleece, which had belonged In turn to Duke Charles of Burgundy and to Emperor Charles V, of Germany. ' Prince Khllkoff, Russian Minister - of Ways and Communications,- is a practical engineer of skill and experience. He worked as an ordinary mechanic and as a locomotive engineer In Canada and the United States and subsequently spent several years with an engineering firm in Liverpool. Mistral, the Provencal poet, married to oblige his mother, who said, to him regularly: "What will your life be like without wife and child when I am gone?" Remembering a little girl with pretty eyes whom he had seen at Dijon ten years before, the poet set out quest of her, found her, a girl of nineteen, and married her. A lady in St. Andrew, Jamaica, has been excommunicated by her vicar under extraordinary circumstances. She had lost a locket and chain at church, arid after two years found tho verger's daughter wearing them; she sent a lawyer to. demand her property and it was returned at once. The vicar thereupon insisted that she should apologize to the verger and refused to admit her to communion until she did. She went to another church. The Christian Endeavor excursionists appear to have been more interested in the grave of Mother Goose, in the old Granary burial ground, than in almost anything else they saw in Boston. It is recorded in. one of the Boston journals that - some of the visitors sought for Hester Prynne's grave in the King s Chapel Churchyard, but they seem to have failed to find it. It is rather curious that on the day tho convention ended the beginning of another "Scarlet Letter" story was telegraphed from Boston. A writer in Music relates this Rubinstein anecdote: "I had asked him why he never raised his eyes from the keyboard when, playing in public, and he replied that the habit dated from a painful experience he, had made when first he played In London. He had forgotten hfci surroundings through concentration In his work, but of a sudden desire for companionship in his artistic joy induced him to raise his eyes; they fell, by chance, upon a stout, buxom materfamjuas in the front row; his mental ecstasy was greeted toy the most exaggerated yawn, impossible to Imagine for tne facial capacities of polite society. It will not be duiicult to conceive the reaction. From this date he determined, in self-defence, never again to raise his eyes while playing In public. And everywhere that Mary went That lamb was at her heel; It couldn't do it now, you know For Mary rides a wheel. Louisville Courier-Journal. Oh, sweetly tender was her look. Her hair was bright as geld; I bought three copies of her book, And then her glance grew cold. Chicago Times-Herald. He thought as he gazed In her eyes, "She is dreaming a poem, I know!" But she suddenly said And his love it fell dead, "How far does this old ocean go?" Atlanta Constitution. DRUGGIST OWEN'S SALE. Valise Carried by n. Woman Had Four Quart Dottles of Deer. The liquor law was obeyed yesterday. The police had little to do, as no saloon attempted to violate the law. A road house south of the city, on the Bluff road, was reported as selling and to-day warrants will be procured. Late In tho afternoon patrolman Barlow discovered a woman leaving John Owen's drug store, at Mississlppe and North streets, with a valise In her hand. Barlow -noticed that when the woman 'entered the valise appeared to be empty and very llsht, but when sne came forth it appeared heavy and well filled. The woman was stopped and four quart bottics of beer were found !n the valise. The valise and beer were confiscated as evidence and to-day warrants will be taken ' out for Owens. The drug stores gave little trouble, as a great majority of them have shown a desire to obey the law. A WIFE BEATER. Fred Kroner Will Explain the Incident to Jadse Stubbsi To-Day. Fred Frouer was arrested early yesterday morning by patrolmen J. C. Johnson, King and Shafer for an assault and battery committed on his wife early the previous evening. The family lives at No. 423 East Pearl street, and early Saturday night there was a quarrel. Frouer is alleged to have choked his wife and struck her. and she la said to have hit him with a baseball bat. Mrs. Frouer and the two children were driven from home during the storm. They were drenched with rain and while Mrs. Frouer went for the police, the children sou-rht shelter behind a freight car. where they wtra fcuzl liter.

CONSTRUES THE LAW

S. E. NICHOLSON" DISCUSSES THE MEASURE WHICH HE FATHERED. Marlon Connty'a Commissioners, He . Says, Should Sindy the Restaurant Section of the Lair. S. E. Nicholson, author of the liquor restriction law known by his name, addressed a fair audience, yesterday afternoon, in the Sunday-school room of the Tabernacle Church, on the subject cf good government. The service was In charge of George W. Hall, superintendent of the Sunday-school. It occupied the Christian Endeavor hour, being under Christian Endeavor auspices, and In the interest of the good government movement. Mr. Nicholson appeared in a clerical looking Prince Albert coat; kept closely buttoned up, and discussed the subject of gocU government in connection with the new law with a fluency betokening much familiarity with the agitation now going on in behalf of better government and restriction of the power of the saloon. He has been speaking under stated appointment in a number of cities and towns of the State for several months. He is the president of the Indiana Good Citizenship League. Mr. Nicholson greeted the Christian Endeavorers present at the outset as coworkers in a cause of humanity. He referred . to the great Boston convention, which ho attended, and dwelt upon its Inspiring occasions as one causing a thrill of expectation that the milleniura is much nearer at hand than he would otherwise have thought. The work of good citizenship, he said, as he saw and heard it advocated at the convention, made It clearer than ever that good government is only applied Christianity. Referring to the reform movements of the day, he said that they are all based on public evils, which threaten society and in many ways militate against the perpetuity of the government itself. Chief of these, he said, is the liquor traffic. He recognized, he said, that there are other evils which, unrestrained, will bring ruin upon the best government that the sun ever shone upon, but the liquor business is the base ot ail these. It Is a corrupter of public and private morals. Corruption in politics, he said, is just as bad as corruption in business. Mr. Nicholson discussed the liberty of conscience idea as offered in defense of the right to sell and use intoxicating liquor. He said that, while he would yield to none in devotion to the right to enjoy liberty of conscience, It Is not consistent with the highest ideal of such liberty to engage. In the liquor traffic. He said tnat the opposition to this business is growing, and that if there is one thing more than another. observable in public affairs, it Is that a spirit of reform is prevalent and active, and is increasing in strength. Reform has come to be a household word, and the better sentiment of the country is coming to the front in common array against the evils. of the world, as never before. In the proportion, he Eald, that the moral sentiment of a community shall stand together. In that proportion will the evils be overthrown. The contest against the liquor traffic is a part of the eternal fight of tne right against th wrong. Mr. Nicholson here spent some minutes In describing in an interesting way Borne of the bad results of the use of intoxicating liquor. Incidentally he expressed an abiding confidence in the power of moral suasion as a means of saving men from the toils of evil into which they have fallen. Speaking to the argument of the personal liberty, that one has a right to eat and drink what he pleases, he asked what is meant by this right. If it means that one has the right to debaQeh himself to such an extent a to become a burden to his family, to the State and to society; if it means that he may destroy the peace and happiness of his home; if It means that the weak women and children whom it Is his duty to support and defend must be allowed to suffer without relief, then he would denounce and repudiate the idea as utterly beyond patient consideration for a moment. The personal liberty, he said, which alone could be tolerated, is that only in which an individual injures no one but himself, whose confines do not touch or Invade the rights ' of family, home, society or . the State. If it exceed these bounds, then government, which was organized to protect the weak and preserve society, has the right to step in and restrict the acts of the individual to lines consistent with the rights Infringed. upon. He had been met, he said, with the argument that restriction must not bo attempted because it would interfere with material prosperity and 'would interfere with business. He then showed that If the $1,200,000,000 annually spent for strong drink were used as it might be for the greatest benefit of the world, it would make a demand for more of the necessities of life, which would start more factories, and, in turn, increase the demand for labor, until all would be employed. This sum, he said, would build 600.000 school houses, 300,000 churches. It would enable the missionary spirit in Christian nations in twelve months to send the gospel to every one of the 800.000,000 benighted souls who have never yet heard of the salvation of Jesus Christ. PRESSURE ON LEGISLATORS. ' Indiana, Mr. Nicholson said, had the worst liquor law of any of the States up to the time of the last Legislature. He had been informed, he said, that there was only one State in all the Union that had a worse law. A bad liquor traffic law he described as one having evidently been framed in the interest of those who conduct the business; ono in which there wer loopholes Intentionally - created through which the provisions of law might be successfully evaded, one which it was impossible to enforce. It had come to be a fact in Indiana that in many localities the law was not regarded at all. and that saloon keepers had acquired complete political domination of public affairs. It had been so for twenty years, when the Legislature of 1895 met. But, if one wonders, he said, why a more stringent measure was not passed, he has only -to seek to realize what a pressure was brought to bear upon the members to avoid all such legislation. The wonder would cease with an appreciation of the apathy shown by party leaders, and even of the opposition based on the argument that the prospects of party would be injured. He said that when confronted with such argument he had said, as he had, said on the floor of the House, that there was never a time in all the history of the State when party fealty set so lightly upon the voters, it the Legislature, he said, had been cowardly enough to have listened to the arguments made on this line, the result would have been that the reform sentiment among the people would have started an Independent movement such as was never seen before. The floating vote, he said. Is no longer the 12 vote, but the thinking, conscientious voter who is struggling to make better the conditions of society; men Imbued with principle, with the hardihood and the courage to ask for. what they want. The time has come, he said, when it is good politics to listen to the voice of th peoole. Mr. Nicholson said he was also met with the argument that such a law as was parsed would Interfere with the property rights of saloon ketpers. He discussed the question as to whether there is an inalienable right in anyone to engage in selling liquor. The Supreme Court, he said, had declared in opinions that there are no such rights in this business, i..at no license is granted unconditionally. If the right v.cre Inherent, there could be no restrictions placed on the business. The rule of the law. therefore, is that what rights the saloon has are delegated rights. The Legislature has the right to restrict the sales of liquor, or to forbid them altogether, when t&e public welfare demands it. The public has the right by law to confiscate private property if the occasion arises. Private right must ever and always yield to the public welfare. It was the appreciation of this fundamental principle that Id the people to rush to the front with letters to the legislators, with petitions and aopeals. and the bill Which was the object of so much Interest was passed. This law, said Its author, was designed to accomplish two things: flr?t. It was intended to make possible the enforcement of the old law and to remove the domination from public affairs of the power of the saloon; second, it was to give . communities where the sentiment against the saloon .demanded It the right to prevent saloons from being opened In the midst of them. Section one, he said, was intended to elevate the character of the men engaging in the business by requirlrg that licenses shall be granted to those of good moral character, but the new law went further than the old and requires that a good moral character shall not be established where, within two years past, the arpllcant for a license has been convicted of a violation of the law. The speaker advised that rod cltlr?nhlp societies keep a record of all convictions for violating the law. cs. undir cr.s taction of tti 177 a zzzzzl c;nvl::l:3 zzzy r.cr- tn

annulment of the license, and on tha thirJ offense conviction snail carry with it aa annulment cf the license. SECTION 2 DISCUSSED. Discussing the effect of Section 2, Mry Nicholson said that If a person desires ta engage In any other business other than se'ding liquor, as in case of an attached restaurant, he may do so by applying for this privilege when the application for license is filed. The County Commissioners may in their discretion then grant tht right or not. and such business if granted then becomes lawful as a part of the license, But under Section 2. continued Mr. Nicholson, the saloon kreper agrees, in accepting a license, to keep his place securely locked during prohibited hours at night and on Sunday, and he is not permitted to open his restaurant during such hours. Tha County Commissioners of Marion county, he said, sbould study this section of the law. As to billiard and pool tables, he said that he thought the Supreme Court would find that these are devices for amusement, and not for business, and could not be permitted in the room usM for tle sale of liquor. Referring to the section which speaks of the evidence needed to convict, Mr. Nicholson said that the ruls of prima facie evidence serves to throw ths burden of proof in certain cases upo.th saloon keeper Instead of upon the folate, which has had so much difficulty In th past in making a case against the saloon keeper. In conclusion the speaker summed up that the effect of the law would be ta make the old law enforceable, and would enable people to rid themselves of saloons, if they desired. The law, he said. In its few weeks of quiet Sundays, and one orderly Fourth of July with Kss crime, and lert accident and waste of life and property, has won for Itself favor from those who before had not appreciated Its wisdom Speaking of the future, he said that II would not do for the law-loving people to sit down now and -rest, trusting everything to the law. In the next few months there would be seen such an organization of the forces of evil In the State as had never been seen before. It will not do to let the law take care of Itself. Iublic sentiment must be aroused to give it its full strength and power. It Is absolutely necessary for the Christian rlements of society to organize and stand tcgether in this conflict, so sharply defined between the frlendi of good government and the domination of, the liquor element. A KIDNAPING CASE

DISAPPEARANCE OF THE GEDIIARXJ CHILD VIEWED IX THAT LIGHT. "t West Indianapolis Excited Over 0 Strange Case Gypsies Passed' Through the City. " J It Is now believed that little tbree-yeir old Ida Gebhard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Grge Gebhard, of No. 12 Woodburn avenue. West Indianapolis, who so mysteriously disappeared last Saturday morning, has been kidnaped, and as a result the people of the suburb are much excited, and wide sympathy has been expressed to the parents of the child, although they -aro comparatively unknown, having lived there but about two weeks. The child disappeared as suddenly as if taken up into the clouds, and up to a late hour last night no traca of her had been found, west Indianapolis has been searched from one end to tha other by the father and neighbors of tha Gebhards, but nc- clew to the child's whereabouts has been found. The little one was last seen at the corner of River and Woodburn avenues, a few;, doors from her home, about eight o'clock Saturday morning. At that time Mrs Schaub, living near the corner, saw tha child standing in front of the drug stors on the corner. She says she thought fha would watch her for fear that she might wander away, but that for some reason she returned her attention within room for not - longer than three minutes, and when she again looked out on the street she saw Mrs. Gebhard looking fos the child, which was then nowhere la sight. She went out and told the mother that she had seen her but a few minutea before and the two women made a search of the neighborhood, but could not find tho child, and no one around had seen her wander away. By that time the mother was thoroughly frightened, and rent for .her husband, who is employed by the Inuianapolis Stove Company. As soon as ha arrived he made a house to house canvass on all the streets in the vicinity, but no one had seen the little one. Mr. Gebhard then notified the suburban police and: officers were immediately detailed on tha case. They also made an investigation-:1nj the neighborhood, but gained no information. All day yesterday and up to a lata hour last night the searcn was kept up. and when the little one was not found the? mother and father were almost distracted. The Indianapolis police department was also notified and given a description of tha child, and the night officers were ordered to keep a lookout for her. Yesterday morning early two neighbors of Mr. Gebhard's started on a search cf the road to May wood, iney examined all underbrush and woods, thinking that tha child might have met with foul play, buttheir hunt was in vain, for they returned with no more of a clew than rvhen they started. Another neighbor made -an investigation of all the culverts and sewers in the vicinity of the home, as it had been suggested that the child might have crawled into one and become fastened, but no trace of her wes found. Mr. Gebhard also spent the whole day in searching fr his. lost chhd. Thoughts of the rfver caused him to hunt up man wbo was known to have been fishing in the river all day Saturday, but he said he had een nothing of little Ida, and would certainly have found her had she ventured near tha water. The fact that the child had not bon seen by anyone after she was seen standing onj the corner, led her parents to believe that she had been kidnaped, though by whom they had not the slightest suspicion. As a last .resort Mr. Gebhard came t the city and visited a clairvoyant. There he was told that the child was in the possession, of a dark complexloned woman not far from his home. Not satisfied, he visited another fortune teller in another part of the city, and was again told the same story. During yesterday afternoon, his wife heard of a clairvoyant In the suburb and upon visiting her was' astonished when told the saws things which her husband had heard in tha city. This woman, however, told her that the child would probably be returned to her this week. Mrs. Gebhard has confidence in these sayings and was last night much better satisfied than on Saturday night. Mr. Gebhard has no theory to advance as to who might have abducted' his chjld. although he is confident that that is what has become of her. He has only lived in. the suburb about two weks, and says he has no enemies who could wih to retaliate for any injury by taking his child. Neither has he any wealth, thereby doiner wy with, any idea of the child being held for ransom. It Is said by some that two waron loads of gypsies passed through the suburb Saturday, and that the babv might have been taken by them, as she ts quite a pretty child, but the publicity of tho corner frorn where she disappeared would frighten such wanderers from an attempt of that kind. The two men who searched the Maywooi road state that they saw some gynsy wagons but that, although they watched thnn Tor some time, no children were seen. Oa the corner where the child was last seen 1 a druq: store and several other sfcres. which increases the mystery of the dlssppearance, as It seems almost InnposJible that she should have been pl-ked up there and no one have seen her. The corner 1 tha interjection of two of the main thoroughfares of the suburb, and if the child was really kidnaped, it was one of the boldest pieces of work ever ocurrlnc In this vicinity. Last night Mr. Gebhard again visited the Indianapolis police station and exhibited a photosraph of the missing chili, and all the night men were Instructed to make a thorough search for her. Mr. Gebhard is much discouraged at tha apparently hard luck which has foilwel him since h? came to this city. Hp rait, last night: "If I ever get my little s!rl back I will immediately take my family back to Dowaclae. Mich..where we- came from. I had a nice little Jiome there where I was employed in a factory, but times got hard and I thought I might better myself by coming here. We came to Indianapolis about two months ngo, and have lived her In West Indianapolis but two weeks. 1 have bf en pursued by bad luck ever since I cama to this town. Shortly after my Arrival felon grew on my hand and for a time .It was thought that I would die from Mood poisoning. Then I wa out of work, for a on? time. After that I semred work now and then, and recently have ha I very llttlt to do. And last of all my little haby la stolen away. I talked of movies back to our old home last week, but my wife and I thought that things woull probably change, but now I wth I had gone." Mr. Gebhard feels sure that hl little one ! still alive. He sap that Jf he thcurht anv. one was holding her for a rw-r1 he wrul' sladlv pay any amount wh'.h he ?ould r.--for the safe return cf his lUl'.a czz.