Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 August 1895 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1895:

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In nler to receiTe attention, be accompanied by the name and addrem of Um writer. , TUG INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the foDowln? flares FA IUS American txcLange la i'am, 33 Boulevard da Cipiiflnf. i 2U:f YOKK GUsey House, Windsor Hotel and Astor House. PIJILADELPITIA A. P. Kernble, cor. Lancaster are. rd Baring st. - CHICAGO Palmer House, Anditorium Hotel and P. O. hews Co., HI Adams street. . CXTCiraiTI-J. R. HawiTy & Co!, 154 Vine street. XTISVILLE C T. Deering, northwest corner of Mrd and Jefferson Us., and LoulsrUle Book. Co, 35 7onrta are. C. IjOU IS Union News Company, Union Depot. V?f fTTHf GTON, !.' C Tilars House, Ebbltt House, Vuiard'i Hotel and the Washington News Kicluuige, street, bet. PecA, ans-nd F street. The calamltylte looks mpon the promIced abundance of , golden corn as a Greater foe to his cause than the yellow netaL 7 Vhen Benator Peffer nfte C the declinecf the silver craze ythe thing must be giv-. Is J 1U expiring; gasps In that; part cf the Tile three leading parties In Kentucky, are the republican, the Blackburn and' t!r3 Democratic, which arc named; fcere in the order of their numerical ctrenrrth Inztead of docking the pay of his prl-V-ta secretary during his two. months cruize, Secretary 'Herbert ' should have taen him along to share a sixty days' Junket at the expense of the treasury of Once Senator Quay threw off the Cameron burden, declared against the free coinage of" silver and the aspirations of Cameron t or the presidential nomination, he seems to have been gaining in Pennsylvania, The, Minneapolis Tribune predicts that the next census of Minnesota will show a. return movement from the cities and tha villages to the land, a result of the hard times. Those on the farms find enough to eat when there Is little employment in the cities. It matters not whether the church be Catholic or Protestant, Lutheran, Meth-, e&lst or Unitarian, when It objects to a requirement to display the stars and ctrlpes on any pretext whatever, it is fair to 'assume that In. some manner Us leaders w6uld place the church above the country and stand aloof from it.' "The splendid work of the Wilson tariff," says the New York Herald, evident-; ly not knowing that the tariff bill which' became the present law was denounced by the President as a "piece of party perfidy In a letter to the author of the( Yllon bill. r Even with a special wire, a resident of Paris cannot possess accu-' rate Information regarding this country. 'The New York Tribune took sides with the tailors In the strike, which it Is hoped has ended, because they are on the side rrhlch Involves the breaking up of the cweatlng establishments. . Some manufacturers, seeking only cheapness, were determined to let their work to small contractors, who. in turn, put it out to others who had it made at so low a pries that the compensation to men and women who did the 'work in their vrctched quarters scarcely kept them from starvation. If there is any attempt to destroy the present government in Hawaii it will be found that the sugar baron Spreckels is responsible for it. Having the adVantcs of importing his Hawaiian urjar into the country free of duty, he dcrlrcs to have no Impediment' in the way of his controlling all the island and employing coolies. It would eim that the -free-sugar advantage i should , have canceled the obligation sId,, to lave been incurred by a quite! liberal donation to the campaign fund of ClevelunI and reform. . The Honolulu Time of recent date publishes a cartoon representing a main street as It will appear In a few years If unrestricted emigration from the Orient continues, and gives the Japanese control of every, branch of trade in the Islands. The stree shows low building and no evidences of prosperity. Another view of the same street shows Ita improved appearance when annexation to the United States has brought an influx of citizens who will invest capital and increase trade. It Is unnecescary to say that Time favors annexation. One Durrcll went to Honolulu, where he took such a part in the uprising of the royalists that the authorities of the republic put him in Jail, where be was fcept for seven we&cs. Now he claims that he is an American citizen and demands J.OOO. It also appears that Minister Willis has Informed the Hawaiian authorities that "the President of the United States Is of opinion that, upon' Durrell's statement, he has made a prima facie claim for a substantial Indemnity from the Hawaiian govern--ment." There is no delay In Durrell's case, but there has been In the case of Valler, who Is yet In a French prison. Cut Hawaii la smaller than France, and, following the Brltlsn example, we can safely threaten - to bombard Honolulu If the $25,000 Is not forthcoming. It neems. that the administration cannot survey with complacency Its failure to overthrow an lntclllseut government in Hawaii. The Bureau of Statistics at Washington is so elated that there has been an' Increase In some other department than treasury deficits that It heralds a large fr.crc-"2 of merchandise Imported under ttn Democratic tariff law as If It were' zz -tMn to-co Into ecataates over. . .'.'Tlt'Z tt" it? purport of .ths

law, and the greater purpose of the Wilson bill, v The Increase, however. Is no cause of congratulation. - All purchases abroad must be paid for. Purchases abroad have not and will not Increase foreign purchases here. We have sold less to Europe during the7 era of the Democratic tariff than In 'the average corresponding period before that evil befej.tlje Nation. Foreign purchases are of goods' yhlch will take the place of the home products. The Increase of $8,500,000 from France, more than 50 per cent, over the preceding year, is made up of dress goods, silk goods, millinery, china and glassware, buttons, trimmings, etc. The 50 per fcent. Increase from Belgium is chiefly glass, which takes the place of so much American glass. Germany's increase Is, made up largely of woolen, cotton, silk' goods, velvets and braids, supplanting; those made by Americans. These results are not cause for American congratulation. TUB REFOR3II.G OF REFORMERS.

' Mr. Kohlsaat, the new proprietor of the Chicago Times-Herald, Is a reformer who is zealously attempting to do certain things In Illinois and Chicago. The most ofi his alms are commendable, but his paper has the habit of attributing to all those who oppose the Kohlsaat schemes or have schemes which he does not approve the most unworthy and base motives. . Postmaster Hesing Is another reformer who Is often moved by that narrow zeal which regards all who fall to agree with him as bad men. These two positive reformers have come into collision. Reformer Hesing happened to sign a petition for a race-track bill which was before the Legislature. Reformer Kohlsaat -was r right In denouncing it as an Iniquity. Thereupon the Times-Herald sharply criticised Reformer Hesing for his "unseemly appearance as the advocate of race-track gambling," which, considering his position as postmaster of Chicago, is." in the judgment of Reformer Kohlsaat, "a shock to decency." For some time ' Reformer Kohlsaat has been running in his excellent paper, to stimulate the sale of it. a series of prize puzzles for which bicycles and other Inducements are put forth as incentives to solve and purchase Times-Heralds--the quite general device of those who are known as the most enterprising publishers. These prize puzzles had been running In the Sunday edition for more than a month, but it was not until the Sunday after Reformer Kohlsaat had criticised Reformer Hesing for signing a race-track petition that Reformer Hesing threw Reformer, Kohlsaat's Times-Herald out of the malls on the ground that the puzzle is a lottery scheme, and, therefore, the circulation of the paper' containing It is in violation of the postal laws. The two reformers have now assailed each Other In letters. Reformer Kohlsaat denounces Reformer, Heslng's support of the race-track bill as "a shock to decency," and Reformer Hesing comes back with the assertion that men in his employ bought pc many Times-Heralds with a view to winning a prize that "they actually deprived their families of the necessities of existence." Reformer Kohlsaat has put on his war paint and gone to Washington for the scalp of Reformer Hesing, while Reformer Hesing sneers at the reformer, who has gone to Washington to ask for his removal for throwing out of the mails the advertisement qf a lottery every way as pernicious ' &s the Louisiana. -' This affair should be a warning to those who advertise themselves as reformers to beware of each other when reforming by epithet, lest, by one assailing the other, common mortals will discover that advertised reformers are not made of a special brand of clay, of which there Is a very limited quantity. . ' S031EBODY, NOT EVERYUODY. , "Anybody could place , the, bonds of Indianapolis bearing 4 per cent.. interest," "was trie remark of a citizen yesterday. Possibly; but the fact Is the Democratic controller, beginning in, the flush times of . May, 1S92, did not do it. A year later the same controller; with the avowed assistance of Democratic financiers, failed to place a 4 per cent. bond. The result was a default and the credit of ".the city was resting under a cloud when the Republicans came into power.- When the first $600,000 of bonds were placed, the conditions were most unfavorable to the placing of a large loan. It has been said that the Republicans had the assistance of strong financial backers. So much the1 better, and so much more reason for keeping the same men in charge of the city finances. It can also be said that the Democratic regime had strong financial backers, but they controlled the Democratic ' finance committee and the Democratic Council to prevent instead of to assist in changing 7.3 per cent, bonds Into 4 per cents. The bonds which the Democratic finance committee prevented the Democratic controller from refunding in 1S92 ran at the old rate of Interest nine months or more after they should have been changed to 4 per cents., thereby costing the taxpayers $15,750. "This was because the Democratic regime, Mayor and Council were the willing dupes of Democratic bankers rather than the faithful servants of the people of the city. Because of this malign Influence, high rates of discount were paid on temporary loans. It Is the cupidity and the Influence of these Democratic financial, bosses that controls the School Board, which, at the present time, is paying more than twice the rate of Interest for temporary loans that Controller .Trusler is paying. It is the same Democratic bosslsm which prevented the" refunding under Sullivan that compelled the majority m of the School Board to pay a third 'more for a piece of real estate than it could have been sold for in the market. The same citizen further remarked: "Anybody can be a good controller." Perhaps so; but It is a matter of municipal history- that one of the weak spots In the municipal affairs is the management of the controller's office. That office must pass upon every bill before It can be paid. One of the first lots of bills upon which Mr. Trusler wa3 called upon to pass were those for the election expenses of October, 1S33. They had been made out under the direction of the Sullivan regime. Election officers were to be paid for twice as much service as they rendered. All sorts of exorbitant and fraudulent charges were In those bills. Presented to a Democratic controller in harmony with the Democratic policy and practice In such matters, he would have approved them. Mr. Trusler quietly but firmly refused to allow them. There was a howl, but several thousand dollars were raved to the treasury. For th2 fint timo In cvcrcl ycirs there was !

a man in the controller's office who had the nerve to put his foot upon a species of pilfering that had grown to be a public scandal under Sullivanism and In the county offices. A Topeka (Kansas) dispatch says that when the pensioners appeared at the agency in that city to get their pensions, a circular was distributed amonh' them which read: "Comrades, halt! You are entitled to gold In payment of your, checks. Demand It.- Do not accept depreciated currency." The dispatch further states that the circular Is thought to be the scheme of a bimetalllst, which is the false name taken by -liver nmnometallists to show that the treasury has' not gold money enough to pay the pensions, or was an . attempt to promote the boycott of ': Sovereign against the national banks. The dispatch does not state that any pensioner made a demand for gold at the banks which paid the checks. The probability Is that few, If any, asked for gold. The fact is that every man of intelligence In this country knows that no. currency issued by the United States Is ' depreciated, whether greenbacks, treasury notes, silver or silver certificates. They are not depreciated compared with gold because, upheld by gold, they will purchase as Jarge quantities of the necessaries of life as will gold. The person who issued the circular must have known that his assertion that there Is any depreciated currency in the United States Is false, but he would make trouble if he could,, even If he had to He to do It. It Is also a lie to assert that the pensioners can demand gold, because silver dollars, greenbacks and the treasury notes of 1890 are legal tenders by law. The pensioners could refuse to take silver certificates and national bank notes because they are not legal tenders. The incident only serves to show to what desperate devices the advocates of the proposition to stamp fifty cents worth of silver bullion one dollar will go to promote the mine-owners' and silver bullion speculators' cause. If there should be tree coinage of silver, gold, or. the equivalent of gold, would not be paid as pensions, but silver dollars or silver certificates, which would not purchase two-thir Is as much of the necessaries of life as thedollar of to-day sustained by old. Of all people in the world, those who receive $140,000,000 a year as pensions would be the worst swindled by having the country change to a silver basis. Mrs. Mary A. Llvermore's open letter to the missing Mrs. Gardner, inviting her to take refuge in her home, is

an epistle which, only a broad-minded,' generous woman could write. She chooses to take the view that the Missouri woman is a guileless, unsophisticated creature led by a sudden longing' for freedom from household drudgery to hide herself from her family and remain among what seem to her the dazzling aU tractions of a large city. She comprehends that it is quite possible that even a wife and mother may be so overcome by the monotony of life in a remote country village that liberty to go her own way and to mingle at pleasure with her fellow-creatures may seem to her- the one desirable thing; that the Impulse to break loose from the endless tasks may be so strong that love and duty are temporarily forgotten.--Mrs. Livermore is wise enough to know that this disposition to abandon responsibility cannot be lasting, and that -when the reaction comes and the poor creature finds that her home has charms 'greater than the outside world can offer, and her heart yearns for her children, she, will be at a loss to know what course to pursue. It Is to prevent the bewilderment of despair which leads to Insanity or suicide and to pave the way for a return to husband and children that has brought forth Mrs. Llvermore's appeal and kind offer. She may be mistaken In her assumptions, the Missouri woman nay have gone willfully and open-eyed Into evil ways, but the charity, and thoughtfulness of the act arc not the less ad mirable. Her course Is one that has its lesson for other women, who are less ready to think kindly of their sisters who wander Into forbidden paths. The massacre of British missionaries at Wah-Sang gives a timeliness to Julian Ralph's comments on missionaries In China. In the August Harper he says, in speaking of their comfortable quarters: "The comfortable houses nestled among luxuriant trees that rose in cloud3 above the solid, high walls, inclosing each home and building, and within the walls were pretty homelike garaens and the nice household appointments and retinues of servants that give rise to most of the criticism of the missionaries that Is so rife in pagan lands. And yet when I come to write the truth about the missionaries, if I over do, as some of the best of them have asked me to do, it will not be in this spirit for what Is the comfort of a cozy home as compared with the Isolation that goes with it, as compared with the hostility of the swarming multitudes that surround it? And who cares how comfortable the missionaries are if they can convey the higher law to those who do not know It? No; let us criticise those at home who exercise no Judgment in the selection of men and women for the work among these ceremonious and cunning millions; and until they study the demands of the work more closely, let us take off our hats to the pluck of the missionaries, even If it Is true that most of them do not dream of the pluck that is required of them until they actually reach the Orient and face the situation." The comment is often made, in this country that missionaries live in greater comfort in heathendom than in their own homes, but, as Mr. Ralph asks, what are such comforts when the people with whom they deal are hostile? The question Is forcibly answered by the events at WahSang. If that Missouri woman who lost herself In Boston during the Christian Endeavor convention wants to return home by an easy route she should adopt the expedient so often practiced by men in a similar situation. This is to suddenly "come to herself" and remember her name, home, etc., but as conveniently forget tiverything -that has happened since the day of her disappearance. Nobody can prove that she does remember, and she will thus be saved disagreeable questions. It is an old dodge In masculine circles, but is new to women and ought to work as well for them. The fact that a church was struck by lightning and several people killed will not keep anyone away from places of worship. Those persons who choose to regard the event as a warning to stay away are as likely, to be struck by lightning as to goto church at any time. The responsibility for the Casino disaster in Atlantic City, when the convention of Elks was In session has not yet been placed and probably never will be. It Is explained, however, that the reason this ramshackle building was chosen was that local authorities were afraid a certain saloon would prc't too much if another hall wer se

lected, and that the Casino was In the neighborhood of several favored drinking places which would be likely to divide the patronage of the crowd among them. This explanation may explain, but isn't it a little bit hard on the Elks? 1 A Pennsjivania woman's cooking was so bad that her husband and father put a rope round her neck and were engaged In pulling the cord over a rafter when her brother, who did not board In the house, broke In and saved her life. To be in danger of paying for bad cooking with one's llfe-may seem to some rather a severe fate, but no one is qualified to Judge of the conduct of the husband and father unless he has sampled the offending food. The male members Of a Quaker congregation in West Chester, Pa., voted to remove the ancient partition in the meeting house which divides the men from the women during the; hours of service. Somewhat to their surprise the women would not submit to the change,' but instated on retaining the partition... Girls at summer resorts, where men are scarce and In great demand, will hold that those Quaker women should be exhibited as curios. Miss Flagler, cf Washington, who shot and killed a boy who was stealing her pears, is nearsighted. The nearsighted weman seems lo be as dangerous as the unleaded pistol.' '

The Iowa holiness people -are going to have the world end In ten days. Can't they wait till we find out how many more people Holmes has killed? ' The Hartford Times celebrates Its seventy-eighth birthday by coming out in pink.. Isn't this rather second childish? BURBLES IX THE AIR. The Kls. "Sir!" said she to he. indignantly, "Just you-put that right back where you got it!" .-"Indeed," remarked the bacillus to himself, "this is a surprise. I had no Idea she would miss me." .. The Cheerful Idiot "Chaucer," said the student boarder, "is said to have looked like a dandy." "He was a dandy,"; raid the Cheerful Idiot. "These modern dialect spellers are not in it with him at' all." Willing to Treat. "Now, will you spend this dime for whlikyr asked the kind old gentleman. "I.in. if you insist.", replied the grateful recipient; "I guess I know a place where we can git two fer a dime." .Not the Real Thing. Watts Look what a savage brute that fellow Is leaning against the lamp post. I wonder who he Is.';'1" Potts I supposed' you knew. him. He la a fake prize fighter.'-; r "Not the real thing, eh?" "So. vile actually ' lights sometimes." ABOUT1 PEOPLE ,AD THINGS. Tailor Kuhary, a Frenchman born, has oeen Jugged for a year in Berlin for "insulting the majesty of the. Emperor.!' Wlll.T. Hale, the sweet singer of Tennessee, like Frank L. Stanton, is a newspaper man. He is one, of MbC, editorial staff of k the Memphis Commercial-Appeal. Nearly $4CO,CQ3 will , go to public charities ty the will of Thomas O. H. P. Burnham the bookseller, who'ephducted his business for years in the basement of the Old South Church, in Boston. ' Alphonse Daudet says of Mr. II. M. Stanley: "He is the-largest reservoir of human energy known to me since Napoleon. I admire him. I think, more. than anything in the world." ' The Empress of Japan, is a little woman, who almost disappear in the long-trained dresses of WeSteTti'Mtfllzatlon.in which she now appears? .at court ceremonies. Even in higli-heeled boots she appears almost a dwarf In the eyes of Europeans. Man asks for protection against mercenary woman in Bengal.. Babu Raslk Lai Roy wants the government to help him to suppress the excessive expense of Hindu marriages, and especially the dowry of the trldes, as "the temptation of selling the son to the hignest bidder has become too great to be resisted." ' It is said, that La dy; Frere once went to meet her hus-.nd at a railway station accompanied by a 'new-' servant, whom she sent to look for Sir Bartle Frere when the train had arrived. The servant protested that he had never seen him, to. which she replied: "That does not matter: look for a tall man helDlng somebody." The servant went and found Sir Bartle helping an old woman to alight from a carriage. Tie home life of the German imperial family Is a particularly happy one, which 1s well Illustrated by the following incident: Not long since, a beautiful dress with a long train was shown to the Emperor, thinking he might purchase it for his consort. "Impossible," explained the Kaiser; , "the train would get torn to pieces in no time, for my wife always has three or four youngsters clinging to her. gowns." Upon his accession1 to the throne the Emperor of Russia, .was appointed colonel-in-chief of the Royal .Scots .Greys. While dressing, for dinner 'an enthusiastic subaltern' communicated' the -Information to his ' soldier-servant. -"Donald," he said, have you heard that the new Emperor of Russia has been appointed colonel of the regiment?" "Indeed, sir J" replied Donald. "It's a very proud thing." Then, after a pause, he inquired: 'Beg pardon, Mr, but will he be able to keep both places?" In a letter addressed to the Leipzlger Zeitung Dr. Oscar Baumann. the African' traveler, makes some serious statements as to the 'slave trade' on the island of Zanzibar. Dr. Faumann says that the trade in slaves Is carried on openly and undisturbed. The negroes are brought over to the Island at night from the German Kt African coast opposite and quickly sold. This smuggling under cover of tne darkness may be difficult to prevent, but Dr. Baumann adds that notwithstanding the Brussels act the trafilc goes on in broad daylight. I lean my heart against the day To feel its bland caressing; I will not let it pass away Before it leaves Its blessing. . . :, , . - . Whittier. Alas! no more for me the flowers bloom; No more for me the lark fills the air with sonK' The sweetest chimes strike through me like the doom Of angry fate. I'm not for this earth . long. No more the rising nor the setting sun My girl has bought a bike and I have none. Judge. ConBtructlvc ,Fee for Judge. Noblesville Ledger. . There is a shameful gouge being made on tho taxpayers by circuit Judges or this State, under the guise of constructive fees, that ought to be stopped- It used to. be that when a case came up In which the presiding Judge waa-for ' any reason disqualified from acting the court would appoint pome attorney at the bar to try the case. In the last few years the matter i.i different. It has become quite common for Judg:s of different circuits to exchange courts, and .here is where the gouge sometimes cornea in. A circuit Judge draws a salary of $2,500 per year from the State treasury. There is also a law that allows a special Judge $3 per day in trying a case, and they U3ually claim pay for one day going and one day coming. This has -been made the base . for constructive fees by, which some Judges have Increased their income $1,000 or more per year. A case In point Illustrating the way the taxpayers, are fleeced happened here in Hamilton county. Judge Brown, of Indianapolis, was called to preside in a certain case, in which he made several trips to this city before finally disposing of-It. One tinge he left Indianapolis - at 11:15 a. m., arrived here at noon, called court at 1 p. m., heard & motion, adjourned court, drew his warrant for $13. three days' pay.- for the trip, and returned home with the money, hav.ng been absent from Indianapolis Just four hours, and his regular salary of $3 per day going on .Just the. same. This is not an Isolated case, by any means. It Is being dono all over the State of Indiana, and the taxpayers have to foot the bills. Some Judges have held court ' m a many as three counties In one day and returned home at night with $43 as the result of the day's work, besides their regular salary of 1 per day. The auditor's report shows that during. the past year there was paid out for oecial Judaea in this county $iP0.

THE EXILED LOTTERY

DRIVES FK03I !VEW ORLEANS, IT FIXDS A FAR-AWAY REFl'GE. With Broken Fortunes It Spina Ita Wheel in a Remoter Spot with liar barlana to SeeA Long Fall. Richard Harding Davis, in Harper's Weekly. .. If Puerto Cortez proved interesting when it was only , a name on a theater programme, you may understand to. what importance It grew when it could not be found on the map of any steamship company in New York, and when no paper of that city advertised dates of sailing to that port. For the first time Low's Exchange failed me and asked for time, and the ubiquitous Cock & Sons threw up their hands, and offered In desperation and as a substitute a comfortable trip to upper Burmah or to Mozambique, protesting that Central America was beyond even their finding out. Even the Maritime Exchange confessed to a much more intimate knowledge of the west coast of China than of the little group of republics which He. only a, three or four da Journey from the city Of New Orleans, So I was forced to haunt the shipping officer of linwHnir firppn fnr dav tnirphr arA rnn. vinced myself while sp engaged that tiiat is 1 th nnl v n-av nrnnerli n nnrcna 1Vii ati!.tr ' J " " 'J w V..W . V of geography, and I advise every one J try it, and submit the idea respectfully t instructors cf youth. For you win find that by the time you have interviewed fifty shipping clerks, and learned from them, where they can set you down and pick you up and j exchange you to a fruit vessel or coasting steamer, you will have obtained an idea of foreign ports and distances which can never be gathered from flat maps or little revolving globes. I finally discovered that there was a line running from New York and another from New Orleans, the fastest steamer of which latter line, as I learned afterwards, was subsidized by the lottery people. They use it every, month to tac tnelr representatives and clerks to Puerto Cortez, wnen, alter they have heid the month.y drawing, they steam back again to New Orleans or Tampa, carrying with them the list of winning numbers and f rizes. it was in tne boat of this latter line that I finally awoke one morning to ftnd her -anchorea in the haroor of Puerto Cortez.: v The harbor is a!,-very large one and a very safe one. It is encircled by mountains on the sea side ana oy. almost impenetrable swamps and Jungles on the other. Close around tfte waters of the bay are bunches and rows of tne cocoanut palm, and a village of mud huts covered with thatch. There' is also a tin custom house, which Includes the railroad omce and a comandancli, and this and the Jail or barracks. of rotting whitewashed boards, and the half dozen housed of one story belonging to consuls - and shipping agents, are the only other frame buuding3 m the place save one. That is a large mansion, with broad verandas, painted in colors and set in a carefully designed garden of rare plants and manaca paims. 1W0 poles are planted in the garden, one flying the blue and white flag of Honduras, the other with the stripes and stars of the United States. This is the home of the exiled, lottery. It is the most pretentious building and the cleanest In the whole republic 01 Honduras, from the Caribbean sea tQ the Pacific slope. s I confess that I was f ooliih . enough to regard this house of magnificent exterior, as I viewed it from the wharf, as seriously as a general observes the ramparts ana aefenses of the enemy before making his advance. I had taken a nine days' Journey with the single purpose of seeing and getting at the truth concerning this particular building, and whether I was now to be viewed with suspicion and treated as an Intruder, whether my object would be guessed at once and I should be forced to wait on the beach for the next steamer, or whether I would be received with kindness which came from ignorance of my intentions, I could not tell. And while I considered, a black. Jamaica negro decided, my movements for me. There was a b.otel.. he answered, doubtfully, but he thought it would be better,-if Mr. Barross would let me in, to try for a room in the Lottery. Building. "Mr. Barross sometimes takes boarders," he said, "and the Lottery Building is a fine -house, sir -finest house this side Mexico City." He added, encouragingly, that he epoke English "very good,' and that he had been in London. Sitting on the wide porch of the Lottery building was a dark-faced, distinguishedlooking little man, a Creole apparently, with white hair and white goatee.. He rose and bowed as I came up through the garden and inquired of him if he was the manager of the lottery, Mr. Barross, and If he could give me food and shelter. Tho gentleman answered that he was Mr. Barross. and that he could and would do as I asked, and appealed with hospitable warmth to a tall handsome woman, with beautiful white hair, to support him in his invitation. Mrs. Barross assented kindly, and directed her servants to place a rocking chair in the shade, and requested me to be seated in it; luncheon, she assured me would be ready in a half-hour, and she hoped that the voyage South had been a pleasant one. IN PUERTO CORTEZ. , . And so within five minutes after arriving Un the mysterious harbor of Puerto Cortex I found hiyself at home under the roof of tne outlawed lottery, and being particularly well treated by Its repretentatlve, and feeling particularly uncomfortable in consequence. I was heartily sorry that I had not gone to the hotel. And so, after I had been In my room, I took pains to ascertain exactly what ray position in the house might be, and whether or not, apart from the courtesy of Mr. Barross and his wife, for which no one could make return. I was on the same free footing that I would have been in a hotel. I was assured that I was reearded as a transient boarder, and that I was a patron rather than a guest; but as I did not yet feel at ease. I took courage and explained to Mr. Barross that I was not a coffee-planter or a capitalist looking for a concession from the government, but, that I was in Honduras to write of what I found there. Mr. Barross answered that he knew already why I was there from the New Orleans papers which had arrived In the boat with me, and seemed rather Pleased than otherwise to have me about the house. This . set my mind at rest, and though it may not possibly be of the least Interest to the reader, it is of great importance to me that the same reader should understand that all 1 write here of the lattery was told to me by the lottery people themselves, with the full knowledge that I was eolng to publish It. - And later, when I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Duprez, Hitnr of the States, in New Or leans, and then in Tegucigalpa, as representative of the. lottery. I warned him in the presence of. several or our irienus ij be careful; as I would probably make use of all he told me. To which he agreed, and continued answering questions for the rest of the evening. I may also add that I have taken care to verify the figures used here for the reason that the lottery people are at uch an obvious disadvantage in not being allowed by law to reply to what is aid of them, nor to correct any mistake In any statements that may be made to their disadvantage. ? I had never visited a hotel or country house as curious as the' one presided over by Mr. Barross. It was entirely original in its decoration, unique in its sources of entertainment, and its business office, unlike most business offices, possessed a peculiar fascination. The stationery for the use of the patrons, and on which I wrote to innocent friends In the North, bore the letterhead of the Honduras Lottery Company: the pictures on the walls were framed groups of lottery tickets purchased in the past by Mr. Barross. which had not drawn prizes; and the Safe in which the guest might place his valuables contained a larpe canvas bag sealed with red wax. and holding In, prizes for the next drawing $75,090. Wherever you turned were evidences of the peculiar business that was being carried on under the roof that sheltered you. and cutslde in the garden stood another building, containing the printing presses on which the lists of winning numbers were struck off before they were distributed broadcast about the world. But of more interest than all else was the long, sunshiny empty room running the full length of the house. In which, on a platform at cne end, were two immense wheels, one of glass and brass, and as transparent as a bowl of goldfish, and the other closely draped in a heavy canvas hood laced and strapped around it, and holding senied and locked within its great bowels 100.0CO paper tickets In 100.000 rubber tubes. In this atmosphere and with these surroundings my host and hostess lived their life of quiet conventional comfort a life full cf the lesser interests of every day. and lighted for others by their most gracious and kindly courtesy and hospitable good will. When I sat at their table I was always conse'rus of the great wheels, showing through the

open door of the room beyond like skeletons in a closet; but it was not so with my host, whose chief concern might be that our glasses should be filled, nor with my hostess, who presided at the head of the table which means more than sitting there with that dignity and charm which Is peculiar to a Southern woman, and which made dining with her an affair of state, and not one. of appetite.. FIGHTING FOR LIFE. I had come to see the working of a great gambling . scheme, and . I had anticipated tint there might be some difficulty put in the way of my doing so; but If the lottery Plant had been a cider press In an orchard I could not have been more welcome to examine and to study It and to take it to pieces. It was not so much that they had nothing to conceal, cr that now, while they are fighting for existence, they would rather risk being abused than not being menilcr.ed at all. For they can fight abuse; they have had to do that thing for a long tirre. It is silence and oblivion that they muvrow; the silence that means they are forsrotten. that their arrogant glory has departed, thar they are only a memory. They can fight those who fight them, but thev cxniiot Oght with people who. if they think c. tne.n at all, think of them as already d'a and burled. It was neither of these reason- that gave me free admittance to th workings of the lottery; It was simply tr.it to Mr. and Mrs. Barross the lottery A'i-s a rvligion: it was the greatest charitit e organization of the age, and the purest philanthropist of modern times could not havs more thoroughly believed in his god works than did Mrs. Barross believe tm; noMe and generous benefits were being bosi.cv.ed on mankind at every turn of the gnal wr cel in her back parlor. This showed itself in the admiration ..Ich she shares with her husband for the Rentlemtn of the company; their coming once a month Is an event of great moment to Mr;. Barross, who must find it dull sometimes. In spite of the great cool house, with Its many rooms and broad porches, and P'orgeous silk hangings over the beds, and tho clean linen and airy sunlit dining room, bhe is much more Interested In telling the rm-rs that the gentlemen brought down with them when the last came than in the result of the drawing, and she recalls the compliments they paid her garden, but she cannot remember the number that drew the capital prize. It was interesting to find this big gambling scheme in the hands of two such simple, kindly people, and to see how commonplace It was to them, how much a matter of routine and habit. They. sang its praises if you wished to talk of it. but they wre more deeply interested in the lesser affairs of their own household. And at one time we ceased discussing It to help try on the baby's new boots that had come on the steamer with myself, and patted them on the place where the heel should have been to drive them on the extremities of two waving fat legs. We all admired the tassels which hung from them, and which the baby tried to pull off and put In his mouth. They were bronze boots with black buttons, and the first the baby had ever worn, and the event filled the home of the exiled lottery with intense excitement. In the cool of the afternoon Mr. Barross sat on the broad porch, rockinar nlms-tf m a big pent-wood chair, and talked or the civil war. In which he had taken an active part, with that enthusiasm and deta!'Uh which only a Southerner ever speaks of it, not knowing that to this generation in the North it f history, and somefh'n of which one reads in books, and is not a topic of conversation of, as fresh Interest as the Ml of Tammany or the Japanese war. - And as we l'tened w watched Mrs. Barross moving about among her flowers with a sunshade above her white hair and holding her train in her hand, stopping to cut awav a dead branch or to pluck a rose or to turn a bud away frorn the leaves no that it mlaht set the sun. And inside ynuny Barross wa goimr over the ' letters which had arrived with the mcrninz'a stpamer. emptying out the money that came with them on the table, filinsr , them away, and noting them as carefully and methodically- as a bank clerk, and sealing up -in return the 2'ttle green and yellow tickets that were to go out all over the world, and which had been paid for by clerks on small salaries, liborlnsr men of large families. Idle good-for-nothlnzs, visionaries, born gamblers and ne'er-do-wells, and that multitude of others of this world who want somehln for hcth'ng and who trust that a turn of luck will accomplish for them what they are too listless nd faint-hearted and lazv ever to accomplish for themselves. It would be an excellent thing . for earji of these gamblers if he could look in at, the rreat whel'at Puertf Cortex and see Just what lCO.on. tickets look like, and what chance hfs one atom of a ticket has of forcing Its way to the top of that Kreat mfM at the exact moment that the car'Vil prl2e rises to the surface in the other wheel. He could have seen it in the old days at the Charles Theater, and he is as free as is anyone to see It to-diy at Puerto Cortez: but I should think It would -be unfortunate for the lottery if any, of its customers became too thorough a studert of the doctrine of chances. THE LOTTERY WHEEL. The room in which the drawings are held Is about forty feet long, well lighted by many long, wide windows, and with the stage upon which the wheels stand blocking one end. It Is unfurnished, except for the chairs and benches, upon which the natives. or any chance or Intentional visiters are welcome to sit and to watch the drawing. The larger wheel, which holds, when all the tickets are sold, the hops of one hundred thousand people. Is about six feet In diameter, with sides of heavy glass, bound together by a wooden tire two feet wide. This tire or rim is made of - staves, formed like those of a hogshead. 4nd In it is a door a foot square. After the tickets have been placed In the little rubber Jackets and shoveled Into the wheel., Ihjs door is locked with a padlock, . and trlps of paper are pasted across It and scaled at each end, and so It remains until the next drawing. One hundred thousand tickets in rubber tubes an Inch long and a quarter of an Inch wide take up a great deal of space, and make such an appreciable difference in the weight of the wheel that It requires the efforts of two men pulling on the handles at either side to even budge it. Another man and . myself , were, quite satisfled when we had put our shoulders to it and had succeeded in turning it a foot or two! But it was Interesting to watch the little black tubes with even that slow start go slipping and sliding down over the others leaving the . greater unas undisturbed and packed together at the bottom as a wave sweeps back the upper layer of pebbles on a beach. This wheel was manufactured by Jackson & Sharp, of Wilmington. Del. The other wheel Is, much smaller, and holds the prizes. It was- made by John Robinson, of Baltimore. '" - Whenever there is av drawing. General W I Cabell, of Texas and Colonel C. J. Viilere, of Louisiana, who have taken the places of the late General Beauregard and of the late General Early, take their stand at different wheels. General Cabell at the large and Colonel Viilere at the one holding the prizes. 1 hey open the doora which they hd sealed up a month. previous, and into each wheel a little Indian girl puts her hand and draws out a tube. . The tube holding the ticket is handed to General Cabell, and the one holding the prize, won is given to Colonel Viilere, and they read the numbers aloud and the amount won six times, three times in Spanish and three times in English on the principle probably of tbo man In the play who had only one line, and who spoke that twice, "so that the audience will know I am saying it." The two tickets are then handed to young Barross, who fastens them together with a rubber band, and throws them into a basket for further reference. Three clerks with duplicate bocks will keep tally of the numbers and of the prizes won. The drawing begins generally at six In the morning and lasts until ten. and then, everybody having been made rich, the philanthropists and generals and colonels and Indian girls-and. let us hope, the men who turned the wheel go Into breakfast. So far as I could see, the drawings are conducted with fairness. But with : only 3 434 prizes and tickets, the chances are o infinitesimal and the advantage to the company so enormous that honesty In manipulating the wheel ceases to bs a virtue, and becomes the lottery s only advertisement. . ' . ' . But what Is most interesting nbout the lottery at present is not whether it Is or it is not conducted fairly, but that U should exist at all: that Its promoters chojli be willing to drag out such an existence at uch a price and in so fallen a tate. This becomes all the more remarkable beciure the men who control the lottery belong to a rlas which, as a rule, cares for the pood Splnion of its fellows, and is willing to ac?mce much to retain it. But the lottery people do not seem anxious ,for the good bplnlon of anyone, and they have made Juch vast sums of money in the past, ?nd they have made it sa easily, that they cannot release their hold on the geese that are laving the golden eggs for them, even though they find themselves exiled and excommunicated by their own countrymen. , NOT THIMBLE-RIGGERS. If they were thimble-riggera or confidence men in need of money their persistence would not appear so remarkable, .but these gentlemen of the lottery are' men", of enormous wealth, their daughters are in what is called society In New Orleans and New York, their tozy are at the universities, and they then:iy.vc3 t:!cr.- to thcts clubs most diCcult cf slzz'-i. Cr:K would tr.'r.'i C;t.

they had reached that point when ther could say, "we are rl:h enough now, ar.J we can afford to pend the remainder f our lives in making ourselves respectable. Becky Sharp is authority fcr the fact that

it is easy to be respectable on as little a five hundred pound a year, but thete gentlemen, having many hundreds of thousands of pounds, are not willing to make ihe effort. Two yean ago. when, according to their own account, they were losing,$t0.fX.o B mAnth and ... kink . 11 I A t ... K - thev once cleared in a day, and when,thr were being driven out of one country after another, like the cholera or any othrdisease. It seems strange that it never occurred to them to stop flRhtir.g. and to pet into a better business while there was ytt time. Even the keeper of a roulette wheel has too much self-respect to co.iUnue turning when there is only one man playing against the table, and in comparison with him thescramble of the lottery company after th Honduranian tin dollar, and the scant savings of servant girls and of brakesmen to me the most curious fatnrc af this once great enterprise. What a contrast it make with thoe other days, when the Charlea Theater was filled from boxes to gallery with ;h "flower of Southern chivalry and beauty." when the band played, and the major-generals proclaimed . the result of the drawings. It is hard to take. the lottery seri ously, for the day when it was worthjr of abuse has passed away. And, Indeed there are few men or .measures so Im portant as to deserve abuye, while there is no measure if It is for eood so lnslsniacant that it is not deserving the exertion of a good word or a line of praise and grati-j tude. I And the only emotion cne can feel for the. lottery now is the pity which you might have experienced for William M. Tweed; when, as a fugitive from Justice, he sat on tne beach at Santiago de Cuba and watched a naked fisherman catch his breakfast . for him beyond the first line of breakers, or that you might feel for Monte Carlo wer it to be exiled to a fever-stricken island off the swampy coast of west Africa, or to pay the lottery a very high compliment-Indeed, that which you givo to .that noble adventurer exiled to the Isle of Elba. There was something almost pathetic tome in the sight of this great arrogant gambling scheme, that had in its day brought the good name of a State Into dis-. repute, that had boasted of the rrlces it paid for the honor of men, and that had. robbed a whole nation willing to be robbed, spinning its wheel In a back room in a. hot, half-barbarous country, and to an audience of gaping Indians and unwashed Honduranian generals. Soner than fall as low as that It would seem to be better to fall altogether; to own that you are beaten. that the color has gone against you too often, and. like that honorable gambler ana gentleman, air. jonn uaitnursi. wno "struck a streak of bad luck about th middle of February. im." to put a pistol to your head, -and go down as arrogantly and defiantly as you had lived. The Green Grass nr Owld IrelnndU The green grass av owld Ireland! Whilst I be far away. All fresh an clean an Jewel green It's growln there to-day." . Oh, it's cleaner, greener growln- ' All the grassy worrld around. It's greener yet nor any grass That grows on top o" ground. The green grass av owld Ireland a -.Jt. inaaae. an oaim i u a dc . To eves like mine that drip wid brln as saiiy as tne sea; -For still the more I'm stoppjn here, ; . ; The more I'm sore to see The glory av the green grass av owld Ireland. . Ten years ye've paid my alrnln's . I've the l'avin's on the shelf. Though I be here widout a queen. An own meself meself. I'm comin over steerage. But I'm goln back firrst-class, ' Patrolln av the foremast deck - -' For flrrst sight av the grass. . - God bless yez. free Ameriky! . I love yez. dock and shore! I kern to yez In poverty a . a That's worstinf me no more. But most I'm lovln' Krin yet. Wid all her graves, d'ye e?, By reason av the green rass uv owld Ireland. James Whitcomb Riley, In the Century. . , . . GERMANY AXD FRAXCE. XCE. ' I e Great At Fiffhtlnir Machine Known. Vienna Letter In Philadelphia Telegraph. I have In the last two years seen largar forces belonging to the armies of Grmjny. France, Italy and Austria, which are tho feur powers considered to be most closely; involved in the future military operations) . u AAniin.nt nr oil thnp the Interest. cet:t.rs most, of course, in the German. army, because it was Germany which took the lead in the aggressions of the )s and the early 70s, and which, to hold her rJacq as against ranee, ana as me ct-niri ubt; ure in 'the Driebund, must be regarded af the leading military state of Europe, . --'j As warfare is conducted to-day, the condltlcns are such in Germany as to give'Uie army a very high degree of efficiency. -Thft demands to-day are not for brilliancy ot Individual action, but for steady, reliable mass work. There are needed a few men sra tvli eauicoed mentally to direct and command, and many men who have a relatively small Intellectual equipment to obey and follow. These are the conditions as we find them In Germany. The many know Just sufficient to obey orders and to servilely do what they are told todo. They thus admit of a very severe drill. Each man Is but the piece of a great machine which. when It is in motion on tne paraue uu, looks as Irresistible as the very 'Iron. The men march together wlth tie preClSlOn OI ClOCSWUiiv. " . " hausting, and there is no feat of muscle, -t such as Jumping, swimming and running, to which they are not trained. They are drilled to every kind of marksmanship, and they, iw .tandirff anvwhere' under arms. The German arrnv Is under the unlimited control of the K'wr. nd the officers belong chiefly to the nobility, so, that there can be no uprising cr Insurrection in the ranks by reason of socialistic disloyalty. Sixteen put of the twenty ' army corps are efficient if employed against the somewhat rebellious South German states as against France. There can be no dlsoDeuience ui j - , - armyTas the rules are such as to absoiutelv prerlude It. Tho conditions in France are very m they are. in America. The Frenchman, like the American, and like every other citizea of a republic, is more habituated to giving orders than to taking thern. and he therefore, loss well calculated to be a S0d soldier as the standard has been s?t up in Germany. The average Frenchman d-e not enjoy being trampled over and lord.e;1 over by others. There is more of the ind'vidual feeling, the feeling of self: and though the average Frenchman is less well educated than the German, the one has a sp'rit of independence that the. other, or course, has not. , The French people are educated, as are the Americans, with a of Js rd a little of that. In Germany, however. It la all settled by the. government whit each man and woman shall know, a system predestination, and each learns what he Istold to learn, and learn it well and thorouchly The French soldiers strarzle them-, selves 'all over the street when- they g marching by. xneir doming is co i-ruu" . lv red and also awkwardly contrived, and. Physicallv. they appear to be smaller and f. 'iJ ,.,, ih Prussians. In a dash-ng charge they could probably maV.e if. very disagreeable for the Germans for a short , nv uri tuaii - - time. mouKii ,n "-.; , such fighting as this cou d .'d . aealnst the mass-work -vstem which wa And so perfectly exemplified In the Pro-, slan army. Mar Bt n Financial FaHore. New York Letter. It Is understood here' that, while the Horr-Harvey debate la Chicago was ostensibly planned as an educatlcnal Influence, financial impulses were reaCy the inspiring motive. Dollars, rather :han education, flrstsuggested it. The orirtnal plan was that the two debaters shouli meet in a private room, with only a referee and a Judge apiece, and debate every tzyi then the debates were to be edited, compiled and laid before a public whose curiosity had been excited. The expectation was that as many as 2X).r) copies ot the book at JO cents a copy could be sreed'ly marketed. The early plans were changed, and the reports now are that while the debate may serve in the campaigr of eduestion. it will not greatly enrich any of those who nart 4n th n'un. Harvey and llorr. New York Sun. ' Mr. Harvey seems to be the typical silver crank stark, raving crazy and Mr. Horr has a little more aense of humor than a hen. If one man had delivered his f erlea of addresses to a phonograph in Cicero an I the other to a telephone In East Sag rww, there would have been Just as much and as little of debate. The whole stream of talk flowed simply for publication. Some hater of his race has had the stuff reported and copyrighted and will carpet the country with it. She'll De Found, Thoush. Buffalo Courier. . Presumabfy it would be dlfScult to find a fenule silly and r-ntlmental enough to ser.i bouquets to 1L II. Holmes, the arch-ttc-l pf the ci.