Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 August 1895 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1895;

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THURSDAY. AUGUST 1, 1595. WASKIKGTOKOFF1CE-I410 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE Telephone Call. UaKtneMOXce 238 Editorial Ilooum...:..A 86 teusis op strnscitiimox. DAILY liY HAIL. Ptnyonly, ene month $ .70 Ially only. three month 2.00 Pally eol, out jear. , B.no r!lv, lucluding Sunday, on year 10.00 Suit-lay oaly, coe year. 2-w whe rrr.rusiiKU nr aoests. per ee. by carrier.. 15 rta Sunday, finale copy 5 ct laUy aud buuday, per week, by carrier 0 cts WEEKLY. Per year. fixo Reduced Rates to Clubs. Subscribe with any of oar nameroui agents or send wtwrlptlon to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER .COMPANY, Indianapolis, Ind. Trtm sending the Journal through the mans In the rnlted Utes sliouM put on an eihfc-page paper a cxkcit postage stamp; on a twelve or Hxtetn-pajjs .' I arer a TWo-crxT postage nam p. Foreign postage- U tiiiiJy double lhe rate. i tUAD. roraranniratlona intended for publication In tbt rarer must, in order to receive attention, be accom)anieU by tbe name and address of the writer. THE HDIAXAPOLIS JOURNAL ran be found at the follow In g place 7AKI3 American xchange lu laris, 3d BouleTard de C a purines ..-JfKW YORIt-CUsey House, Windsor Hotel and Artor Hohte. PHILADELPHIA A. P. Kemble, cor. Lancaster ave. and Hiring t. , CHICAGO Palmer House. Auditorium Hotel and P. O. ewi Co., n Adams street. CINCINNATI J. R. Hawley & Co., 154 Vine street ' LOUIifVILLE T. T. Peering, nofthwest corner of Third and Jefferson ts., and Louisville Book Co., Xtf - Fourth ave. -ET. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON, D. C fftgg House, Ebbltt noose, WUlard's Hotel and the Wi&blngton News Exchange, UUi street, btU Penn. are. and J?' street It Is a wise provision of Providence that those persons who have the most miscellaneous assortments of views have j, the least influence. When the followers of Tillman, of South Carolina, ' are called "reformers," it is time that ' some other word were Invented for those who are zealous in a rjood cause. K f Twenty Governors -will attend the dedicatory exercises on the Chickamauga battlefield. It will be a much more flfirreeAhlp nffnlr than fio rt Can in and 20, 1863. , cold in Colorado for the year ending July 1. was $17,000,000 is approximately correct, there is a menace for the sll- ' vermes in that quarter. The candidacy of Mr. Cleveland has broUfei out 'again, which indicates a deaith of topics for special dispatches arHl editorial paragraphs.' Mr. Cleveland ha had enough of the, presidency ; and the country has a surfeit of ClevelandIsm. SSSSSSBIBMBBssSMSSSSJSBSSSSSBBJSBS 0ie of the Republican Senators In the last Legislature, and who will be In the next, has recently been over his district, and saysthat Republicans. who are. for the independent coinage of-silver by the United States "are about as scarce as hens teeth." Now It Is reported that American citizens in Germany have had their passports taken from them and have been Imprisoned. That comes from having a minister who is laughed at for wearing an old army -uniform and an administration which every government in thej world knows can be trifled with. . The announcement that gold in payins quantities has . been found in Vermont will scarcely cause a rush of immigration to that State. No doubt there is gold In Vermont, but it is to be .found in the thrift and industry of her . Inhabitants and their apt'tude for mak ing money under hard conditions. The simultaneous return of numbers Df half-starved negroes from Mexico and Liberia, whither they had been Induced to go by false representations, should be a warning to others. This is the best country In t the world for black men as well as white, and those, who are fortunate enough to be here should be wise enough to remain. '"""''WSIS1BBS The report of the Kansas State Board of Equalization, Just completed, places the siim total of all taxable property in the State at J329.039.031. In 1SS6 the assested. value of all the ; property in the State was J170.000.000. An Increase In taxable values of nearly $160,000,000 in nine years does not Justify the wild as- ' lerttons of the Kansas calamltyltes. . The Cleveland Democrats in Maryland declare that if they cannot defeat Senator Gorman in convention they will at the polls. Except that he is a boss in .uarjjdnu, me oniy reason tne Cleveland people can urge for being hostile to the Senator Is that he is a more potential man in legislation than the entire Cleveland outfit. Maryland will make an excellent Republican State. r . t i ai t . . . Lx-congressman Forest, of Connecticut, who holds close relations with and Is a great admirer of President Cleveland, says that if conditions continue as they now. exist, and as it seems probable that they will exist - when the Democratic national convention shall meet. It is Inevitable that Mr. Cleveland will be the candidate of his party. If 'Mr. Cleveland is authorizing or encouraging this kind of talk he is an incurable victim of the presidential mania. - A three per cent, popular loan which U being offered by the city of Philadelphia-, is proving successful. During the f.rst .four days that the books wer open, $160,000 were taken in sums ranging from 1300 to $2,500.. The first subscriber had $2,300 in old notes and coin which he had carried on his person for ten years. It i3 discovered that very Ukiic v liiuucjr uiiiitu iur me DOnuS comes from the savings banks. It comes out of old trunks, tea caddies and holes In chimneys. Under, the McKinley law Hhere was a rapid development of tin-plate manufacturing In this county, and a corresponding depression of the business In Wales. Now It Is different. The present United States consul at Cardiff reports that the new tariff on tin plates . has , enabled manufacturers in Wales to increase wages from 10 to 22H per cent., and in an exuberance of loyalty to. British Inter-. sts he. adds that he hopes the increase "will continue for many years." The increase of wages t' tin-plate workers inValea is simply i diversion to their pockets of money that ought to be going Into the pockets of American workmen. Mr. Gorapers declares that the eighthour eystem will be adopted generally. In r, Z'CZT. Now, as at other times, he does rzl ti2 into consideration all the ex

isting factors in the situation which

seem to make this impossible. Take, for Instance, the manufacture of cloth Ing In New York, about which there is trouble. The wages paid in New York are from SO to 100 per cent, higher than are paid in Great Britain and Europe generally. That difference could be sustained when there was a compound duty on material and clothing equiva lent to 73 per cent., but it is different now. The ad valorem duty is 35 or 40 per cent., which means in practice less than either of these figures. Now, with these changes Mr. Gompers talks of an eight-hour system in this country re gardless of the ten or twelve hours in England and Europe. With the much higher wages, the less number of hours, and a largely reduced duty to make up the difference between workers here and In Europe, It seems impossible that Mr. Gompers's prediction can be real Ized. A MiCII-TOLD LIK EXrOSED. Ex-Representative Bryan, of Nebras ka. heralded a few years ago as a freetrade statesman of the boy orator vari ety, and now the most prolific In words of the propaganda of the silver-mine owners, has insisted on lauding the late James G. Blaine as a statesman, to the end that he might put that distinguished man In the list of his advocates of free silver coinage. For this purpose he quotes a small portion of Mr. Blainels speech of Feb. 7, 1878, declaring that Congress has no power to demonetize either gold or silver, and that if this had been done, which he did not aver, the demonetized metal should be restored to money power under the most favorable conditions, which, as Mr. Blaine then believed, was to put enough silver into a dollar to make it worth as much as a gold dollar If the restoration of silver could not be effected by international action. Because Mr. Blaine said these things , these conscienceless advocates of the bonanza mine owners are pro claiming that the Maine statesman was In favor of the free coinage of silver by the United States at the ratio of 16 to 1 at a date when sixteen pounds of silver were not equal in value to one pound of gold. Those of them who have read the whole of that speech kpow that hedeclared positively against such a coinage, as the following extracts from Mr. Blaine's speech in the Senate of Feb. 7, 1878, show: The question before Congress, then sharply denned In the pending House bulls, whether -it is now safe and expedient to offer free coinage to the silver dollar of 412 grains, with the mints oi the Latin Union closed and Germany net permitting silver to be coined as money. At the current rates of silver, the free coinage of a dollar containing 4124 grains, worth in gold about 92 cents, gives an illegitimate profit to the owner of the bullion,- enabling him to take 92 cents' worth of it to the mint and get It stamped as coin and force his neighbor to take it for a full dollar. This is an undue and unfair advantage which the government has no right to give to the owners of silver bullion, and which defrauds the man who is forced to take the dollar. And it assuredly follows that if we give free coinage to this dollar of inferior value and- put it in circulation, we do so at the expense of our better coinage In gold; and unless we expect the uniform and invariable experience of other nar tlons- to be in some mysterious way suspended for our peculiar benefit, we inevitably lose our gold coin. It will flow out from us with the certainty and resistless force of the tides of the ocein. Consider what injustice would be done .to every holder of a legal tender o a national bank note. The vast volume of our paper money over $700,000,00013 now A'orth or 99 cents on the dollar in gold coin. The holders of It, -who are our entire population, have been promised from the hour of Its issue that the paper money would one day be as good as gold. To make a silver dollar worth but 92 cents precipitates upon the, holders of these greenbacks and national bank notes a loss of well nigh sixty millions of dollars. Were Congress to pass a law to-day declaring that every legal tender note and every national bank note shall hereafter pass for only 08 or ;97 cents on the dollar, there is not a constituency in the land that would re-elect a man who should support it, and in many districts the Representative would be lucky If he escaped with merely a minority vote. So much of Mr. Blaine" speech thus early In the silver contention Is given because he is constantly being quoted as an advocate of free coinage under any conditions, .and to show that seventeen years ago he first outlined what 'has since become the policy of the Republican party. There are said to be a few men who' claim to be Republicans who are quoting Mr. Blaine as a free coinage advocate. It-is time that they stop repeating such a- slander against- a man who can no longer speak or himself. As for Mr. Bryan, no one expects that he will cease this misrepresentation. There are men who believe that a lie well stuck to is better than the truth. KANSAS .CITV AND HER WJ,TEIl WORKS. Kansas City Is engaged in a legal controversy for possession and control of her water works plant under conditions somewhat similar to those which exist or which may arise in this city. The . Kansas City ca5e Involves larg Interests. Twenty years, ago the city granted a water works charter, Including "the l usual rights and franchises, upon the condition that, at the expiration .of 'twenty years, the city should have" the option of taking the works on payment of $3,000,000 or leaving the company in control. The city now desires to tafce the-property at the stipulated valuation and the company resists the purchase on the ground that there is a conditional limitation on the city's debt, which limitation it would be necessary for the city to-exceed In order to purchase the property. A suit brought In the United States Court to test the question was recently decided by Mr. Justice "Brewer in favor of the city, on nearly every point involved, and on the strength of the decision the city has issued and Is now negotiating the sale of bonds to the amount of $3,150,000 with which to consummate the purchase. The litigation is not ended yet, however, as Justice Brewer has granted the company an appeal and a further hearing of the case will probably be had in the United States Court of Appeals lr St. Louis next fall. Meanwhile, Justice Brewer has: stated that he will hold the company accountable to the city for all moneys collected from the present time until the city finally obtains possession of the plant, unless his decision should be overruled on appeal, which he plainly Informed the appellants he did not believe possible. As the text of Justice Brewer's opinion Is not at hand, the Journal is unable to say whether it applies to the situation in . this city or not, but the general conditions are so similar as to lead - to a belief that it does. In each case the main point of difficulty to the city's purchasing the works is the constitutional limitation of indebtedness, and in the Kansas City case Justice Brewer haa decided that that does not stand in the way. In the case of Kansas City the charter provided that the city could

only purchase the works at the end of twenty years and at a flxf d price, while this city has the option of purchasing the works at any time after six months' notice, at a valuation to be fixed by three appraisers, of whom the city shall select one, the company another, and these two a third. Under the terms of the charter here there is no doubt the city could force the company to part with the works at an agreed price after the requisite six months notice, unless the' constitutional limitation of city Indebtedness stands in the way. The

point of interest in the Kansas City case Is the evidence it affords of the growing tendency of cities of the larger class to own their water works. As the Kansas City works are paying six per cent, on greatly watered stock and on $3,000,000 of bonds, the city can well af ford to take them at $3,000,000; and as' the present president -of the company receives a salary of $12,000 a year, the company's attorney the same, the su perintendent $7,50-3 a year, two cashiers $400 each, and a small army of clerks' salaries in proportion, the argument of extravagant management would hardly He against the city's purchase of the works. At fifty-one cents a ton the mining of coal must be a Hlarving employment. It appears that th. average production per day of ea miner in Indiana is about 2'2 tons. That would give $1.28 a day, but from this amount must be taken the cost of powder and repair of tools, which would bring the compensation down to about "a dollar a day. The average number of days to each miner in the most favorable year of 1892 was 225. Thus a miner would get $225 a year. This Is more than miners get in Europe, but it Is not enough "for such labor in this country, where Industry has been assured ol a compensation which would insure the necessaries of life to the workman and his family. This beggarly compensation is due to a reckless competition which overstocks the market and compels a reduction of prices below a fair compensation for those upon whom production depends. Trusts may be objectionable, but a trust which curtails production to the capacity of the market and insures fair wages to the men employed is far prefer able to that reckless competition which forces prices to a level which beggars the people whose labor is the largest element in production. It would be far better to have a coal combination. which would regulate production upon the basis of consumption and thus fix a price which would make It possible to pay fair wages to as many men as can be regularly employed. The St. Paul Pioneer Press claims that thA vnnncr women of that city excel as bi cyclists because, that being a hilly place. the women are stronger than those who live in level towns. "Of course," it says, "womn a-hn Hv in hillv towns are altogether superior, physically and ' Intellectually, to those who live in fiat towns, and will con sequently put more power and dexterity into the propulsion of their wheels. Walking up and down hill develops the muscles of legs and chest, and expands the lungs, Invigor ates the nervous system, and establishes a basis of general physical vigor for. the healthy action of the brain. Climbing is what makes the St. Paul girls so strong. and healthy, and pretty." On behalf of the young women of Indianapolis,' the Journal cannot allow this .to pass unchallenged. It assumes too much.. Before Inquiring what makes the young women of St. Paul stronger, healthier, prettier and better, bi cyclists than those of other cities let it be ascertained whether they are or not. Indlanapolis Is a dead level town, yet for strong, healthy and pretty young women it does not yield the palm to any, and as for expert women blcyclists-wel!. If St. Paul wishes to contest that point, let it be. left to a committee of experts. The young women of this city do not have " much chance to walk up and down hills, but what Is the matter' with running up and down stairs, we should like to know. f A Chicago newspaper, commenting on that city as a news center, wonders what would have become of the newspapers of the country in these lazy midsummer days if Chicago failed to give them subject mat ter for their news' columns and inspiration for their editorial pages. This is a solemn thought, yet there is reason to believe that the press, as well as the public, will be 'able to live without the daily installment of the Horr-Harvey Jawing match or the.highlycclored reports of alleged new discoveries In the Holmes abattoir. r . A prominent diamond merchant ot New York is reported . as saying that .the London syndicate recently formed for the control of the business is not likely to increase the price of diamonds, but he added: "The thing that has hurt the diamond business is the bicycle. Men who used to buy a diamond, either for themselves or for some one they liked better, now buy a? wheel or a bicycle built for4two that hurts the diamond business." This opens up a new line of speculation for social philosophers. " . . The Kansas City Journal, in advocating systematic street Improvement In that city. admits that property-owners should have a voice as to the kind of paving material to be used, but adds: "The city has had its experience with the cedar block abomination, and It has been just what the Journal said it would be before a single block had been put down." Plainly implying that it has been a failure. One woman from the West who attended the Christian Endeavor assembly In Bos ton has been missing ever since, but Holmes was in Jail at that time. Mr. Cleveland evidently has no third term aspirations. Ho has bought a naphtha launch of his own. Ul'UULES IN THE AIR. Mixed Emotions. First Horse Those bicycles have taken a great deal of work from our shoulders. Second Horse Yes; but whenever I see one I feel cheap. StrunRe Kate. Space What became of that story you were working on the one that you said would be immortal? Weekwage The editor killed it Information Wanted. "Who is Joslah W. Biggertix, and where does he live?" asked the reporter. "I never heard of him In my life, and I have been In this town for twenty years," answered the city editor. "What about him?" , "Just got an order, from the business office to make him the next one In our 'eminent citizen series." Itnslneaa Proposition. "You air the feller that Is giving the show at the opry house, ain't you?" asked the fat man with the' red face. The fat man did not look to be a pass fiend, so Mr. Barnes Tormer swallowed the Insult In . the word "show," and replied with dignity, "I am." Well," the fat man went on. "I want to make a little deal with you. - If you will say, when the feller asks that question

about what meat Caesar fed on, that he must have got so fat by gltt'n' his meat at

Sprager's anti-trust home butcher shon I'll see that your trunks go along with you when you leave town." . It is to the credit of Mr. Barnes Tormer that the proposition was refused. , ABOUT PEOPLE AXD THINGS. i Del Puente's chief regret of his American tour is that he was not allowed to smoke as much as he liked behind the scenes. He prefers the Spanish method of permitting actors and audience to smoke all through tne performance. - Among Queen Victoria's treasures are some verses written by the Prince of Wales when he was a small boy. In his old ace the Prince has not written anything but letters, and his chief work in writing these is 10 sign nis name. It 13 said that .of the 3,000 visitors to the Yellowstone National Park during the last three yearsx not more than one hundred were Americans. If the Dark was in EuroDe it would probably be visited by about 50,000 Americans a year. some women bicyclists nave a way of dividing their skirts at the moment of mounting by using a single safety pin to pin the front of the skirt at the hem to the back, between the feet. In this way all the vaiue or the divided skirt is secured with none of Its ugliness when walking. k The Queen of Corea lives In constant dread of some disease which will prove fatal. A female physician is accommodated with a suite of rooms In the royal palace and is obliged to visit the Queen every day. When her Majesty is in the least Indisposed she must always remain within earshot. The doctor's salary is-3,500. .In a recent ch2t with. an American newspaper man Alphonse Daudet said: "I can not tell you how Xdmire your people; But I can Hay that we- should all adimre them more if they were a, little more honest about -paying French authors - royalties on books which they have written and which have been translald-into English for the benefit of the United States." Sir Robert -Ball, 'who. knows almost as much about Mars as Mr. Percival Lowell knows, says that if the project of waving a signal to the supposed inhabitants of that planet is to be carried out tbe flag must be as large as Ireland and the pole 500 miles long, otherwiseit will not ba-visible from the ruddy planet. Sir Robert thinks that there are too many '"astronomical cranks" at present airing their theories about Mars. Queen Victoria's ""visit ' to Clmiez and Darmstadt is estimated to have cost her Majesty nearly 53,000, which, however, is a great reduction from the. expenditure which last year's trip to Florence and Coburg Involved. The journey from Cherbourg to Nice cost $10,000; Nice to Darmstadt, $7,500, and Darmstadt to Hamburg, 45,000. There was also a heavy ' charge for the special trains which conveyed the servants, horses, carriages and heavy luggage from Calais to Nice and back. ' , - -s When Pattl appeared on a London stage recently she wore diamonds that the daily press estimated to.be worth $350,000. NicoHnl says that these gems are worth a round $l,OCO,000 and perhaps more. They cornprise 3.7C0 stones, not one of which weighs less than six carats Pattl still takes the best possible care of herself, and that Is one of the. reasons she looks as if she might be thirty rather than fifty. She has fixed rules about, her diet' and her hours of sleep .and never, transgresses, them. Says the Literary Dlgtst;. fcJIn inspecting the great pahiting of . Moses-by Sargent, in the new Boston Public Library, Dr. S. A. Binian, a well-known. Egyptologist and scholar, discovered a curious error. The eighth commandment was omitted from the inscription on the tables held by the great lawgiver, which wan supposed to represent the Ten Commandments in Hebrew characters. Owing to the painter's unfamiliarity with Hebrew, he used the wrong letters In the phrase, Thou shalt not steal," with the result that he produced an utterly meaningless combination." FEVER AXD PASIHE. Hardships of Southern Negroes Who - ; Went to Liberia. Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. . . " The , meagre reports,, that have reached this country from time to time of . the very unsatisfactory-condition of. the col ored people , who mlfftated. rrom the South to Liberia., which has been heralded as their El Dorado," were fully verified, in the story told a Chronicle Telegraph representative b.V Charles Wilson. tnrmer-Ur a colored citizen of Arkansas, who has just returned from the Atncan republic. wusonjwas.a passenger on the Southwestern express, and J while at the Union fetation related his experiences ' in Liberia and described the awrul condition nt th Amcn:aa negroes who were inveigled there trom me eoum uy inausancis, to work on the cottee plantations.' bv the tnri nt h alleged advantage onerea oy Lioena. "I never want to.go'.b'ack to that country again," said Wilson, "and When I get back to my old home In 'the southern part of Arkansas I will never leave it. Life in Liberia for the American nern lo iinon. durable, and those who are fooled into going mere mane tne bigge3t mistake of liici iiic. inereis not a negro m tne country who came from rthe irmtpd stnt who does not wish he was back in the South again, and even the old days of slavery are preferable to tneir present condition. Although the whites in the South do not love the people of my race any too much, and their enmity Is the origin of many hardships, vet th south i ,.adlse compared to that" pestilential republic. vmere uieuse ana iamme meet one everywhere. The African negro can stand the climate, but the -American negro sickens and dies from the Intense heat. About onethird Of the necrrop who wont frnm tva South have died from the climatic fever mai seizes upon them, and the average term Of life Of mv Southern hrthr thora is about six years. : - alluring statements of some of the many agenis wno nave Deen, ana, l believe, still are, influencing negroes to leave the South and ET to TJhprln AVtfh. mv no -ran a t Joined a party of 250, which left eight mourns ago. ine aay or our arrival in la-ut-na my rainer tooK- xne iever and died the next day. My mother became 111 and became a victim four.'months later tn th dread fever. I only escaped on account of an unusually strong constitution, and I determined to leave ther affected country as soon as I could save passage money back. The natives have a, decided antipathy to the newcomers, and -show -it on every occasion. They haw committed many murders and assaults on the Intruders. n thv call them, and have, caused a veritable reign or terror to exist among them, as there is nrartlrnllv nn nforrfmin t rr laws in the eountrv. and the natives ham things in their pwn hands. - ine rainy. season lasts rour months, during which maiarla'W rampant. The intense heat of th rt nf th vnr. tvhMh rnm c a. m. until 4 p. m. can. scarcely be endured, makes life merely an existence. Prices for iiruvisions are very . mgn aiso, ine equivalent for S16 heincr charced for a barrel nf flour. The neeroes are not eominc Intrk h country nearly as rapidly as they have wtii, no uv iruin-oi ine conaiuon OI affairs in Liberia isr.begtnnlng to reach the civilized world. That the Southern negroes had better by far remain at home is the advice of a victim of:-thft Allnrempnta na are being thrown out to them to migrate." iisuii was, very mucn emaciatea and bore evidence of ha vine Dassed through vere illness. A CHEAT DISAPPOIXT3IEXT. Abandonment, of- a Proposed GlltEdged MtHMlonnry Expedition. Washington Letter in . Chicago Times-Her-The barbarians of the woollv West will be greatly disappointed to learn that Law rence uardiners missionary expedition thiough that benighted region has been abandoned. They were anticipating pleas ure ana excitement rrom tne meetlnar with Mr. Gardiner and his friends, and the chanee of programme will fill them with a gloom that could not be darker if they had met with serious personal loss. Mr. Gardiner is secretary of the Democratic con gressional committee, with headquarters in Washington, and he had arranged with the Sound-money League of New York to pay the expenses ?f a two months' excursion cf great Democratic orators through the Northwestern and mountain regions to still the agitation on the silver question and convince the natives " that all this talk about distress and losses and business prostration was only . a bad . dream, the veriest "tommy rot" of unreality. Mr. Gardiner's list of "spellbinders" embraced the greatest orators on both sides of the money question to be found , In the Dem ocratic party, and their mission was to pour soothing oils Into the political wounds of the far Western population. They were to travel in luxurious palace cars and in grand state, attended by liveried servants and their palates tickled by the roost deli cate viands. The cost of the trip was esti mate! at over $100,000. The excursionists were to roll through the country, on golden wheels. ,v , . The ' funniest feature about the whole business was that the crazy scheme had been projected in saber earnest, that the speakers had been engaged, the Itinerary fully planned, the dates fixed and everything arranged even Cown to the piylnz

of the expenses of the expedition to the uttermost farthing. It was to be the greatest missionary and harmonizing movement ever undertaken. The idea struck the irreverent miners and bullpunchers of the mountain States as irresistibly funn but they sent on word Uat they would receive the spellbinders flth open- arms. The exaggerated expressions of hospitality would have opened the eyes of anybody less obtuse than Mr. Gardiner and his adviser, DeWitt Warner, but they were overjoyed "at tne prospects of a royal and appreciative welcome. Finally, however, hard-headed Western Democrats thought the time had come to put a stop to the silly affair, and they beat it into the heads of the promoters that they were making monumental asses of. themselves and involving a good cause in ridicule, and to-day sorrowful announcement is made that the excursion is off. It -was to have started about the middle of August. ELECTRICITY FOK RAILWAYS.

A Trunk Line Ank Estimates Upon Electrical Locomotives. Chicago Letter in Philadelphia Press. Chicago is preparing to take a great step which will rivet the attention of the scientific and commercial world which is engaged In the development of electricity, and the step Is to be taken in a characteristic manner; not by slow and cautious approaches, such as have characterized the New York & 'New Haven, and also the Pennsylvania railway systems, but by one sudden leap into the great future which, almost everybody has predicted awaits 'the great railway trunk lines through the substitution of electricity for steam. I am debarred from giving the names at present of the great railway corporations whose lines stretch out from Chicago to the South. West and Northwest which have decided 'to abandon the use of steam, excepting for certain purposes, and to substitute for it electricity as the motive power for their systems.. The purpose has h?en carefully guarded; whether for business interests or to prevent the annoyauce wnlch publicity would be sure to entail, it is not possible to say. Not very many of "those who are engaged in commercial electricity have known of this purpose, although in a vague way it has been reported that some of the greater railway llneswhlch run out from Chicago were likely, by and by, to be found making partial use of electricity as a. motive power. Not yet have any contracts been signed, although negotiations have progressed very far, and some conditions have been mutually agreed upon. Some time ago the managers of three of the great Cnicago trunk lines sent to certain locomotive manufacturers for estimates of the cost of construction of locomotives adapted to electrical propulsion. The specifications were complete and all that is necessary for the locomotive manufacturers to do is to figure upon these plans, and then submit estimates of cost. Upon these propositions will 1 depend whether this substitution will be immediately done, or whether it will be delayed a little, for the element of cost of these locomotives is, of course, an Important one. My informant's impression is that propositions which will be satisfactory will be laid before the directors of these three companies, and that these are likely to be followed by contracts, and then some revelations which will occasion interest and excitement, perhaps, in thl3 country and in Europe. If these electrically propelled engines can be procured at a reasonable price then the rest of the plan will be very easily developed. It is almost as colossal as the scheme for converting the force of Niagara into a vast electric flant. In the heart of Illinois, Iowa and some of the Northwestern States vast coal deposits exist. The purpose is to establish at the mines great power generating plants The one in Illinois may ultimately become cf as great capacity as that which the' Niagara plant is estimated to be equal to. Right at the mouth of the mines the coal is to be used'for the purpose of generating electricity, thus saving the cost of traftsrvnrtatinn to Chicaso or to other centers. The Illinois .generating plant will be an enormous one, capable or iurnisning electric power sufficient for the uses cf one of the great railway systems of that State. This power will be conveyed to various stations along the line, there to serve Its purpose of replenishing the exhausted batteries of the locomotives. . . The system . proposed Is briefly or the following nature: Starting out from Chicago a locomotive will be fitted with a suitable chloride accumulated storage bat.rv of thP svstem which is made by Phil adelphia manufacturers. This chloride battery is charged at the station in Chicago and so charged as to carry the locomotive at a certain speed lor a certain aisiance. When the section of the road which Is proportionate to the power of this storage battery has been passed over the locomotive will stop and in a very few minutes' mo kv th use of a crane working by electricity, the exhausted battery will be removed from the locomotive and another fully cnargea De pm in mat uuc o , thiic another section of the road will be passed over again and the exhausted battery be removed and a fresh one substituted, the exhausted ones being recharged for the use of the following train. All nf tVi Alprtricitv - comes from the central generating station, which is located at the mines. ' . . ' - . ThP rvlnns do . not contemplate an entire substitution of electricity for 8team The electric locomotives will be used only for passenger and mall train service. Steam will be used as heretofore for drawing freight trains, for the problem of economical and successful use of electricity for fre'ght service has not been solved. Besides, the continuation of the steam locomotive-as a hauler of freight will prevent the dead loss which an entire substitution of electricity for steam would entail. The auestion of speed has not yet Deen reached. It Is sufficient for the managers of these three roads to know, as they think thev do. that it is possible to obtain and maintain with safety a higher rate of sneed with the proposed electric locomotives - 1 t . A. L..1A.I. and the cnioriae accumulator Dauenes than can .be secured by the use of steam, and that this high rate will probably be found to be more economical. What the maximum rate will be can only be determined after experimental tests. The substitution of electricity for steam and for passenger and mail service alone upon these three trunk lines will probably involve the expenditure of some ten to twelve millions in the aggregate, includ ing the cost of establishing the generat ing plants at tne mines, nut it is oeuevea that this vast expenditure will be In the line of economy. BANK ROBBER SHIMUIIV. William A. Flnkerton Talks About the Famous Criminal. Salt Lake Tribune. Mr. William A. Pinkerton. under- whose direction the great Pinkerton agency has been perpetuated, came in from the West. last night, accompanied by his nephew, Mr. Allan Pir.kerton, and is the guest of his old friends, the Messrs. Henry Harrison and George Silks. A lifetime has been devoted by detective Pinkerton to the suppression of crime, the apprehension and conviction of Its perpetrators. "From no source has this work received greater encouragement," said he, last night. "than the Bankers' Association, in which 2.700 banks In this, country are now united. and for. wnicn we are, in addition to tne two Jewelers' associations, doing the work. The results have been most gratifying. We now have in custody Count Shinburn and his gang of burglars, Charlie Fisher and his confederation of forgers, and the Allen gang of sneaks. What a career of crime, by the way, there stands against Shinburn. With the frost of nearly sixty years upon his locks, he is awaiting trial upon the charge of attempted bank robbery of a national bank at Mlddleton, N. Y and there are on his trail, and pledged to do everything in their power to procure his legitimate conviction. 2.700 banks. It was thirty years ago when his career began, and when he was first unmasked by the Pinkerton agency. He had Jusi done time a few years later, and coming from a State prison, leveled his energies at the Ocean Bank, cf New York city. From a neighboring foothold he tunneled into its vaults, and. with his confederate, departt with nearly $1,000,000. Tbat beats mining when you take time as essence to the deal. With his bit Which was the lion's share, of course he scught Eurore, settled In Belgium, and, after purchasing a manor, he bought himself a title. From Maximilian Shinburn's skin he Issued as Count Shinburn, and settled down to retirement. That, like ale uncorked, grew stale, however, and he was soon a frequenter of the ?rambllnff-houses, a prominent figure in the paddock. His losings were heavy, and his expenses on a similar scale. It culminated," continued. Mr. Pinkerton, "as do all careers of that kind. In his waking up one morning to ascertain that he was a broken man. Then, to recoup, he attacked a bank at Liege, in Belgium, was apprehended, convicted . and sent to prison. His time done, two years ago, he returned to America. Here he reopened his career of crime. He proceeded to reorganize the gang that years ago had shared his nefarious exploits and plunder. Finally, they went against a national bank at Mlddleton. One of his men was captured, and then fell Count Shinburn and his first lieutenant, Mahr, Into the embrace of ihe detective, and bath of thtm are cow cwaitins . trill tt

Albany. This is probably the last of the Count's career as an active criminal. He

will not likely survive the sentence, but lay aown his lfe beUnd the bars of Sing Sing." 3inS. JAMES J. CORDETT. She Talks of Herself and of the Fa mous PusHlst. New York World. Mrs. Corbett. who has Just received a divorce from James J. Corbett. was born in Amsterdam, N. Y., when her parents wee visiting relatives in that city, but was raised in Santa Cruz, Cal., and was graduated from the State Normal School. in Kan Jose. In an Interview with her In the San Francisco Ex?niner, she says: "I expected to begin teaching, but Jim came to Santa Cruz and changed everything. He was a big. handsome boy then. I met him one nignr. at an entertainment and he be gan to pay attention to me at once. We used to go to heps and had lovely times. Jim' was one of the best dancers I ever knew. He was a bookkeeper in the Nevada Bank then. "Before - the summer was over we became engaged. During the winter my sister went to San Francisco to study music. I went up there to visit her and I saw a great oeal of Jim. He used to take me around. He took me to the Olympic Club and I saw him box. That was the first time I knew that he was a boxer. , "My 'father was opposed to my marrying Jim, so I ran away and met Jim m Salt Lake City and we were married there. "For two or three months we did not do anything. We lived with his father. For a part of the time I worked In the Hall of Becords. I earned $8 or $3 a week. That was the only time In my life that I Vr worked "We all persuaded Jim to give up the boxing. He "secured a place in the Anglo-Nevada Insurance Company. Then we went to live In a little flat. At that time I think Jim received $100 a month. "It was not long after that when he was offered the place of instructor in the Olympic Club at a larger salary than he was getting. I was rather glad that he should have that, because he was fond of boxing, and I thought he would be much happier in a place like that. 4Jim used to say: I will be a great fighter some day; I feel it. I know that I shall be great.' And I was as sure of it as he was. "When the Olympic Club arranged the exhibition between Jim and Jack Burke I didn't like it at all, but Jim said it was part of the business of . the Instructor, and I thought that anything the Olympic Club did was all right. Jim was tickled to death about it. The night of the boxing I stayed at home and was very nervous. Jim came home when it was over. He hugged and kissed me, and I was as happy au he was. He seemed to think that It was the stepping-stone. "After that he drifted Into professional fighting so easllv and naturally that I hardly knew It. When the match was :nade with Choynskl he was so delighted that J knew it had a strong hold on him. I was badly worked up that night. I stayed at home, as I always did, and waited In fear and trembling for the- news. When Jim came In I nearly fainted. It seemed to me that he was !n a horrlbfcs condition. One side of his face was all cut up. That was the only time that he was punished at a!!. "I have alwavs' hated fighting. I would have been glad had Jim never made a name for himself. After each of the fights I begged of him to give them up. Ho would half promise. I used to persuade myself that each fight would be the last, but it was not. ' . ' , "After the McCaffrey fight,' in ?ew ork, he came back to San Francisco to act as instructor In the club again. He was paid J 225 a month. But Jim had made a name for himself, and men and women were anxious to do him honor. "Women have always been partlculary fascinated by him, and the manner in which they have pursued him is almost beyond credence. This became especially noticeable after his match with Jackson. I felt dreadfully over that match. I did not like to have my fine, big husband box with. a colored man, and I feared, as he did, that he would not be given fair play. It was after this contest that Jim Joined the Thatcher. Primrose & West minstrels and from that time we have been but little to""I made up my mind that I would no longer stay out in California alone, so I came East as well. We had a quarrel, but .we speedily made it up. As Jim s fame increased we were together less and less. He has never liked me to travel with him. He has insisted upon his freedom. And yet I know that he was very fond of me. H never beerudged me anything.- I had all -the money J wanted. . He has always. been very generous. 1 Know now ne was urj sieged with the attentions of women, and that he was too gallant to fly from them. "He Is a curious mixture. He has more noble traits than most people imagine. For the last four years we have not been together more than two or three months in each year, except when he was training for the Mitchell fight. When he firs . met Sullivan I was in New York. He would not permit me to go South. "When Jim went abroad last year I wanted to go along, but He objected L Twelve days after he arrived there he cabled for me to come over,, but. .we were not much t0.,hone can have the slightest idea of the nurrtber of women -who run after Jim. But when he took up with the woman who Is named as corespondent, when he flaunted his . relations with her. and V?hnSlX passed her off as his wife. I could stand it no longer. To have such a creature as she be passed off for myself was outrageous I felt no ill-will towards her. He is a strange mixture, and few can understand him. I hope that he may be very happy with her, but I fear for him THE SEWS OP LIXCOLX'S DEATH. How It AVns Ileccived by the Advance of Sherman's Army. ' San Diego (Cal.) Letterdn Chicago Tribune. Nlcholl. ine of the chief medical officers of Sherman's army at the time of the surrender of Gen. Joe Johnston, lives in this city. In speaking of the correspondence between Gen. W. T. Sherman and Gen. Joe Johnston as to the terms of the latter s surrender, Dr. Nichols tells of a dramatic incident. "I was with ueneral Logan. he said, "In the advance columns sent out by Sherman. We went Into camp thirteen miles from Raleigh. No one knew what would happen the next day. That night I sat with Logan and other officers outside of our tents. We smoked and speculated as to v. . 1, v,a rifino nn thp followlnz day. General Logan tcld us that the morrow might bring us plenty of business m in case of a fight the brunt of it would, fad on his command. We turned in. expecting stirring events the next day. but not of the nature which were realized. In the earlr morning of that day I was sitting outside my tent when a courier rode up. His horse was nearly spent, so hard had the rider punished the animal. Evidently he bore important dispatches. He hurriedly inquired for General Logan. The courier handed him an envelope. The General tore it open, read the message, and exclaimed: "My God." He rushed to the tent of his adjutant, who also uttered 'an exclamation of surprise. As both men emerged from the tent their faces were pallid. "What' the matter 7' I asked. "Lincoln Is killed." was the reply, "and don't vru breathe a word of It to nnr one." The General feared if the troops learned the news they might be so enraeed as to Ignore discipline and fall on Johnston's trooos nearby In revenge. "This will make a difference" he said, referring to the tragedv. Very soon word was received from General Johnston indicating that he had received the news of Lincoln's death almost at to same time of Its receipt by Sherman's officers. Shortly afterward . the surrender to Sherman was completed. It was critical time for the Union commanders. Hsd th news of the asjisslnitlon of Lincoln leaked out among the troops prematurely there is no telling what dire results might hrve fol-, owed. I shall never forget, the anxiety of the moment. And It has always Wn auestion to. mv mind as to how General, Johnston got the news of Lincoln's death almost as early as we did. SAVED BY A COIXTRV BOY. tit Stopped n Xerr York Express Train Just In Time. t Philadelphia Record. But for the heroism and rare presence of mini of a sixteen-year-old boythe officials of tbe Beading railroad would probably now be counting up the cost of a fearful accident, with heavy loss of life, on the company's New York division. The youthful hero is the sixteen-year-old Albert Henry, who lives with his father, James Henry, a farmer, a short distance this side of Bound Brook, and the train which he saved Is that which leaves New York every evening at 7:30 o'clock and reaches the terminal in this city at 10:18. After toiling all day In the fields, helping to harvest the ripened crops, young Henry went home the other evening, only to find that one of his father's choicest heifers was missing. Without waiting for his supper the boy went out to search fcr the wandering bovine, taking a small lantern with him. When he reached the Bound Brook railroad, which runs through the farm, he found the fence down, and, thinking the hifer might have strayed on to the tracks, he walked up the line a short distance to the point where there Is a siding. Notwithstanding the darkness, young Henry at once perceived that several freisht cars . which had stood on the siding had either been pushed or blown so that they projected over the south-bound track, and that they would surely wreclt any irala unaware cf. their position. Juxt-he

realized this the whi? tie of the New York V express was heard distinctly in the direction of Bound Brook, and in two or threo minutes he knew that it would be due to pass the siding. Waving his lantern and shouting at th-a top of h;s voice, the boy ran up the track. He had gone but a few hundred yard when the blazing headlight of the train's engine appeared around a curve as the express came on at the rate of sixty miles an hour. Henry waved the lantern frantically, and the engineer, scenting danger, at or.ee applied the air-brakes. When th? train was brought to a standstill tht- locomotive mtas only ten feet from the cars on the track. When the trainmen rushed up they were astounded to see how narrowlr their escape had been. The pasrengers. alarmed by the sudden stop, also came forward, and'were equally impressed. At the suggestion f a wealthy New Yorker the hat was passed around and a liberal purse was collected for the boy. The cars were pushed back on the siding, the train proceeded on Its way, reaching the terminal a little late. Whether or not young Henry continued his search for the errant heifer, and what his success was. history does not relate. He will probably receive a substantial reward from the Beading railroad, either in tha form of a position or in cash, la recognition of his heroism. ""SSSSSSSSSMBBSSBSSSSSBBSSSBSSSSSJ READY-MADE SOVEREIGNS. Thrones In Europe that Arc Occupied by Strnngers to the Land. New York Sun. Ferdinand of Bulgaria, who now rests under the shadow of a crime, is one of naif a dozen strange princekins oecuprlmr the smaller thrones or Europe. The most considerable cf these monarch is Georgo of Greece, who is the second son of tha present King of Denmark. George was elected King of the Hellenes by the National Assembly, under instructions from Great Britain. France and Kussla. Just after his predecessor, a small Bavarian prince, had hpn riH

King George's father was the first of his own dynasty In Denmark, having been de- ' clared heir to a childless King by - tho treaty or London in 1851L Bulgaria's little neighbor. Boumanla, hd another of the little German princes, elected under outside influence in 1SGS and proclaimed King Carol In 18S1. . He is a son of Prince Karl of Hohenzollern-SIgmarlnfn. . Several of the German states have newmade sovereigns. The. King of Bavaria, though descended from the ancient Electors of Bavaria, owes his title of King to the fact that it was conferred upon his ancestors by Napoleon I. Prince Albrecht. Duke of Brunswick, cousin of the present Emperor of Germany, was elected to his little throne in 1SS5, the Duke of Cumberland having been excluded, from the succession because he would not give up his claim to Hanover. Frederick. Prince "of Waldeck, gave up all but the shadow of sovereignty to. the Emperor of Germany, and holds even the shadow at. the willC the latter. - Half a dozen other dynasties wvte founded within the present century ,by election, which usually means that German princekins were placed upon ancient thrones by agreement of the powers. -The father of the present King of the Belgians was a prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. and was placed on the throne in the earlyyears of the century after Belgium had teen the victim of Napoleon. The present King, by the way, is a cousin of Ferdinand of Bulgaria, themothers of the.two having been daughters of King Philippe of France. The dynasty of Oscar II, of Sweden and Norway, dates from 1S18, when nernadotte, Napoleon's marshal, ascended the throne, having been declared heir to the throne eight years before. Umberto of Italy is. only the second of his line, though he comes of an ancient royal house. Spain has had a foreigner on her throne within twenty-five years, and her present little K?ng, being a posthumous son. came to thrust frcmthe. throne his young sister, proclaimed Queen some months before his birth. The European thrones , are In large fart occupied by strangers, and the only mrortant one that hr.s not suffered frsm revolution, threat of revolution, or nf 5asinailon in the present century is the throne; of Great Britain. . ASTOMSIIIXG PATIENCE. It Is Time the Country Should Object to Mr. Cleveland's Financiering. The Manufacturer. The indications now are that the government of the United States will soon need! reinforcement of Its revenues, which cannot be obtained from lawful sources without new legislation. The further plain lndicatiens are that Mr. Cleveland will not for this purpose summon Conger ss In extra session, but will proceed to impose additional debt upon the Nation. He -has: ho better right to borrow money 'foe -current expenses that he has to declare war against Great Britain. Either proceeding is wholly without warrant In law. He does possess sefnewhat questionable authority to issua bonds for the purpose of obtaining gold with which to redeem greenbacks; but as under cover of this authority, he has twice borrowed money to meet ordinary obligations, he will probably not hesitate to do so again. A more dangerous usurpation of the functions of Congress can hardlv be imagnied. and If the Republicans in Congress should? do. their duty they would Impeach him for so 'grave a trespass upon the Jurisdiction of the national legislature. He will take care, , of course, that he has the old pretext. Gold has already begun to go abroad. Soon it will begin to leave the Treasury. The newspapers, which are the . instruments of the pniri rinov will commence airaln the work of disturbing the public mind. Then the boards . nf trndA and chambers oi commerce win te invited to back the proposed bond lsues with resolutions, and men tne loreigner who are holding up the Treasury will take further heavy toll of the American people. The patience with which the Nation regards the imbecility that cuts off the revenues, and the lawlessness that supplies the deficiency with unauthorized loans Is sim ply astonishing. If the stupidest ana most . . . . i i .. 1 1 A n. Tt-r i- a than reckless staiesmanenip itjuiu u this, its method of.procedure can hardly bo Imagined. ' G13. SHEItJlAVS SOX. - Ile Hns Ben Assigned to Visionary Work In the Xorthweit. Milwaukeo (Wis.) Journal. ' m, tat rr T: V. Sherman, of the So ciety of Jesus, son of the late Gen. W. r. Sherman, is at .Marqueuc coiiege iur a. v..r. ,mi T 1 1 on?n?ements will tirevent v. qiivt-tnr prmAni In Milwaukee II 11 II J 1 Villi ........... --- - - churches this year, but the Catholics cf the State will nave an opponumiy v meet him next Friday. Aug. 2. on the rrounds at .Madison, where the Catholic Summer School is being held He - will speak upon "The Present Position of Catholics." From Aug. 4 to Aug. 11 he - wdl conduct a retreat of Jesuit scholastics . at Marquette College., and two days later he will leave the city again. . ' ' ' . Fatner Sherman, who enjoys-the "best of health, has just passed through the year of probation, which Is the last stage of preparation for adm'sslcn to the final vow of the Society of Jesus. He has been assigned to the mission service, and he expects to visit every point in the Northwest. He will Join the band of which the Rev. H. Moeller, a native of Cincinnati, Is the superior. , . . . Regarding general topics. Father Sherman declined to enter into a conversation, saying that he had not read a paper or pamphlet during the last year, ami was therefore unprepared to express himself. He ' nevertheless remarked that the tendency of the day toward compulsory measures was to be regretted, because liberty was the boon of the American people, anl the osly agent to lead It to salvation. Th! he. sail, also applies to language compulsion, which, in the end, would lead to opposite results. . . Father Fnerman. who has Inherited the affatility of "als illustrious father, will undoubtedly win the friendship of legions auring his tour through the West. That Blessed Revenue Tariff. New York Morning Advertiser. How harpns it that we hear-so many reports of strikes and lockouts -during these "halcyon and vociferous" days of "tariff reform?'' Was not a revenue tsriff to put an end to all sum troubles? Was not a LK-mocratle tariff to settle forever the difference between capital and labor? What is the matter that it docs not do so' The public has been repeatedly txli that the recent restoration or partial restoration of wager in various factories and shops was due to the Oorman-Vllon act. Is that act the parent of present labor dlfsensioiis? If not. why not? It's a .poor rule that does not work both ways. The champions of tariff "perfidy and dishonor" have the floor. WSBBBSlBBSBSSSBSSBSBSSBSBflSaSSSWBSSSBBSSBSSSBM A ctv Telephone Romance. Portland (Me. Press. Here is a little romance that occurrt-d recently In ' Portland. He was a clerk In a large wholesale house and used the telephone constantly. At certain ierlods his calls were answered by a sweet voice, which seemed tt, soothe his tired, wornout nerves and strengthen him wonderfullv. He grew to listen for that voice, dreamed of it, and finally It became a part of his life. One evening In the theater he heard It behind him and recognized it at one.. For a long time he sat as one diced.---and dared not look at '.he possessor ol the voice for fear he would be disappointed But he wasn't, and now they're, engaged. Inducement to Go West. Cincinnati Tribune. Scalpers' rates to the scene, of the lc'--i war are very low. .