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

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THE INDIANAPOLIS J OURNXL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1895.

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TUG INDIANAI'OI.IS JOIR.VAL ran W found at tbe following place PA K I-American Kxctacge lu l'aria, 33 Cooletard de taiu"tr. KW voliK JUsey Iloiice. Windsor Hotel and Astor House. FlIILAHELl'lUA A. 1. Keinbie, cor. Lancaster are. and Hartuir r. UIK'AC.O lalmer Hnue, Auditorium Hotel and P. O. Sew t'o VI Adams street. CINCINNATI J. IL Ila l7y A Co., 154 Vine street lOriSVILJ.E T, T. Deerinj. northwest corner of TLlnt and Jefferson sts., and LouisvlUe Hook Co ' fcurtbnve. T. LOU IS Imoo News Company, Union Depot. TVASIIINOTON. D. C Itiirr House, Ebbltt House. U UJard Hotel nd tbe Vso'n ton News Kxchane. liih sueti. bet. I'tua. ave. aud ' street. Younn Mr. Thurxr.an. the noisy son ol his father, should drop politics and resume activity cn the diamond field. In tlie sign of ?, Senator Brie, of New York, conquered in Ohio yesterday by a large' majority. And his $ $ are cound ones. Everything seems to feel the business revival except the United States treas-. ury. TI:at !s hcpslcssly weighted down with Democratic incompetency. The Republicans in the several wards thould see to It that no man who can be controlled by the natural gas combination is nominated for the Council. . The last time that ex-Goxernor Campbell ran for Governor in Ohio he was on a free-sliver coinage platform. Then he and his leaders said they would "chance it." The new danger which threatens Spain is an insurrection' at home If the military reserves are sent to Cuba' to' fight the insurgents. Spanish rule is an out-cf-date affair. The country is having a season of train robbing, evidently by amateurs, as the most of the trains which have been etapped are on roads over which little money Is carried. ' In his chronic candidacy and coy actance of nominations, ex-Governor CarrrpWl resembles Mr. Thomas Tagcart. He also belongs to the same school cf overrated statesmen. The civilized world knows that Bismarck ' "Was the man who ' devised" the plan and worked out the scheme to unify the German people even if the young Emperor claims the honor for his (grandfather.. In Indiana, where Mr. A. C. Power, of Terre Haute, Is Quite well known, the fact that his open, letter to "All Populists" has been telegraphed over the country as the utterance of a great light causes surprise. The outcome of the Democratic convention In Ohio is a victory for the administration and for Senator Brlce, so far as his own party is concerned. In a larger sense it is a victory for honest money in so far as it commits the Democracy of that State against free silver. Senator ' Brlce's speech was conciliatory and. from a party point of view, adroit and able. Assuming that the favorite of . the Democratic heelers will receive the Democratic nomination for Mayor, the only question for the voter who has a real Interest In the welfare of the city to decide is, '.'Which will make the best Mayor, Mr. Taggart or Mr. Truster' Those who examine the performances of both in public office must decide in favor of the Republican candidate. In view of the vote of the Ohio Democratic convention on the silver issue, the demand of the Memphis editor. whose name first appeared In print outtide his State In the Democratic silver conference, that the man who gets the Democratic nomination for the presi dency must declare, himself unequivo cally in favor of independent coinage on the basis of 18 to 1, seems slightly oremature. ssssbibbsbssbbbwbbssbbsbsibbisbsbbbb It has been given out that the con stitutional convention which has just been elected in South Carolina will disfranchise the majority of the colored voters in that State as has the Democratic party In Mississippi. And yet there are a few colored voters in the North' who seem to delight lndeclaring that they belong to the party which de prives tens of thousands of their race of citizenship in States like Mississippi and South Carolina. Hon. Joseph II. Manley, chairman of the executive committee of the national Republican committee, hopes to see the Republican party In the South divided In its preferences for a presidential candidate. He thinks It would be unfor tunate for the party to have the South ern delegates In the next convention colld for any one candidate, and still more so for the man whom they might ennnnrt. "Sunnort of this sort." he savs -defeated Mr. Blaine in two national conventlons deucy." and cost him the preslThe Ohio Democratic convention de clared for sound money yesterday by a vote of 523 to 270. Two years ago the Democracy of Ohio put their candidate for Governor upon a free-coinage plat form. Yesterday, after full discussion In convention, it declared in favor of sound money in which the dollars of both metals shall be of equal Intrinsic value, by a vote of nearly two to one. This indicates the change which has resulted from a full discussion of the tilver question during the past few jnoaths. Two years ago free silver car ried the convention by a decided mairity. In April. If the delegates had t?7t; c!?cttd two-third of them would

have been In favor of free coinage. Yesterday only one-third could be mustered for the white metal. If these changes in favor of a stable money have taken place In the Democratic party, it is fair to assume that the free-silver element In the Republican rarty, outside ofthe silver-producing States, Is but a very small percentum of the whole party. SIWDAY LAWS ASD THEIR E FORCESI EN T. The attempt which is now being made in some Indiana' towns to make the Sunday law odious by its strict and Indiscriminate enforcement is nothing new. Such attempts have been made repeatedly in other cities and States, and always result the same way. In a little while the spasm wears out and the common sense of the people asserts Itself In favor of a common-sense enforcement of the law. As to the constitutionality of Sunday laws there can be no question, and there is as little room to doubt that they are founded on correct principle, and, under proper construction and reasonable enforcement, are conducive to the welfare of society. They have existed in this country from its earliest settlement and ,are still found on the statute-books of nearly every State. They are, however, largely a "dead "letter." As a general rule, whoever wishfs to disobey them does so, and prosecutions for their violation are very rare, except for personal spite or for the purpose of making

thg saloon-closing law odious. Most of the State laws are substantially like that of Indiana, which is as follows: Sec. 20SS. Whoever being over fourteen years of age is found the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, rioting, hunting, fishing, quarreling, at common labor, or engaging in his usual vocation (works of charity and necessity only ex cepted) shall be fined in any sum not more tran u nor leas than $1, but nothing neren contained shall be construed to afreet fuch as conscientiously observe the seventh day of the week as the Sabbath, travelers. familifs removing, keener or ton bridges aid tell gates and ferrymen acting as such. This law has been in force ever since Indiana was a State, and there Is never a Sunday that It is not violated In some 3f its partr by thousands of persons. The keeping of a - law on the statute ooks which !s a . dead letter, which thousands of people violate in the .regu lar discharge of their duty, and which nobody really believes can or ought to be strictly enforced, Is very, questionable policy. Nearly all-the State Sunday laws con tain a provision similar to the Indiana law, permitting works of charity and necessity on that day. Some of them say "works of mercy" Instead of "works of charity." Everybody knows in a general way what this language means, but it has sometimes been construed to cover special cases. The Supreme Court of Maine gave It a singular construc tion. A woman visiting at a friend's house on Sunday said she must get home that night, and the. host started to drive her home In his sleigh. His horse fell on a badly paved street and he sued the town for damages. The authorities answered that he was, violat ing the law by driving on Sunday, and he replied that he was engaged in a work of charity. The Supreme Court so held, and it is, therefore, judicially settled that it Is a work of charity to drive a woman home on Sunday. The word "necessity" admits of a broad interpretation, and the courts hold that jvhether a work is a work of necessity depends upon the facts in each case. It has been- held that as feeding live stock Is a work of necessity, It is permissible to gather and haul corn for that purpose. So with the harvesting of grain on Sunday to save it. In one case the Supreme Court of Indiana said: "Labor performed on Sunday which is necessary, under any partic ular state of circumstances, for the accomplishment of a lawful purpose, is not a violation of the Sunday law' In another case the court said: A work of necessity, within the meaning of the statute, does not mean a physical cr absolute necessity, but a moral fitness cr uroDriety in the work done, under the circumstances of each particular case, may be deemed a work or necessity within the meaning of the law. The necessity may grow out of or be Incident to a particular trade or calling and yet be a work of necessity within the meaning of the act.It is not- the . design of the law to impose onerous restrictions upon or add burdens to any lawful trade or business. It has been held that keeping up a blast furnace, running a mill, manufacturing gas. supplying water by water works, famishing milk by dairymen, gathering and boiling sugar water, making malt Deer, taxing watermel ons to . market according to circumstances . of each case, are works of necessity within the me?n!ng of the law. So strict a construction cf the act as that neia Dy tne court Delow rright antagonise the arrest of superintendents, engineers, firemen, conductors and brakemen while operating railroads, laborers in depots and stockyards, herdsmen and feeders of cattle "engaged In their usual n-atlens" on Sunday, and thus embarrass, i . J m 1 1 a 1 ti otAn tViA prist PMnmerrlil i inn f iiLiiriY mis..', w..- ..tiufc .. interests and leading mausiries i ine s-tate. a result certainly not Intended by T - . . . the Legislature that enacted the law. The decision shows a disposition on the part of the courts to give such a con struction to the phrase "works of ne cessity" as will recognize the propriety of the work done under the peculiar cir cumstances of each case. There are many lines of business which do not involve any necessity whatever of Sun day work, and many others which plain ly do. Modern conditions and urban life have developed many kinds of work necessary to be done on Sunday which did not exlrt when the Sunday law was passed. Even Christ said, "The,, Sab bath was made for man, -and not man for the Sabbath." In construing and enforcing. Sunday laws common tense should draw the line in such a way as to preserve the spirit of the law without making it an engine of interference with legitimate and necessary business, DEMOCRATIC DISCORD IX KEXTt CKY The political situation in Kentucky is unique. Dy a two-thirds vote the Democratic convention adopted an antl-sll-ver coinage platform. Then, by nearly as emphatic a vote, a free-coinage candlate was nominated for Governor. Such being the condition, either the candidate must change his opinions to suit the platform or go back on the party creed. It - was believed that -General Hardin would, as far as possible, con form to the expressed creed of the con vention. Such seems to have been his design at the outset, but, unfortunately for him and his party, he seems to have fallen under the malign influence of the forceful Blackburn, whom he resembles in his oratory, and practically repudiated the platform of his party in his Louisville speech. Very naturally he has created a great uproar inside the Democratic party. The German paper repudiates his candidacy and the Even lng Post has taken his name from the head of the ticket, leaving a blank. The reports from different parts of the 'State indicate that the anti-free silver

Democrats will not vote for General

Hardin. As the Louisville Post puts it. it is a question of following "Hardin and Blackburn or Cleveland and Car lisle." For the remainder of the cam paign, so far as the Democrats are concerned," It must be an Incessant wrangle, which will make it Impossible to insure harmony at the polls. From other points of view than the money question, the speech of Colonel Bradley, the Republican candidate for Governor, standi for the better policy. The Democratic candidate clearly showed a purpose to revive the sectional Issues growing out of the war, while the Republican candidate asserted that , the war was over and the issues growing out of it were dead and should not be revived. Thus the leader of the Repub lican party In Kentucky has at the outset declared against a policy which, if adopted by either party, will continue to make the Ohio river the dividing line of sectionalism. It is fortunate that the Republican leader in Kentucky repudiated such a sectional policy at the outset. His declaration that the Republican party in Kentucky will not fight over the war issues will meet the emphatic approval of the Republicans of the Nation. A SXARL FROM THE 1SRIT1SII LION. Editorial topics must be scarce in London to have Induced so sudden and violent an outbreak in the St. James Gazette on the Nicaragua canal ques tion. The Gazette is an ultra Tory or gan, and can always be depended upon to put the most unfavorable construction upon any situation in which the United States are concerned, but it should try and not make itself ridiculous. Its discovery that the Interest cf the gpvernment and people of the United States: in the construction of the Nicaragua canal is simply a blind for the purpose of getting a foothold and ultimate control of the country will be a surprise tm this side of the water. President Cleveland, in his last annual message, said: The canal company has. unfortunately. become financially seriously embarrassed. but a generous treatment has been extended to it by the government or Nicaragua. The United States are especially Interested in the successful achievement of the vast undertaking this company has in charge. That it should be accomplished under distinctly American auspices, and lia enjoyment assured, not only to the vessels of this country, as a channel of communication between cur Atlantic and Pacific seaboards, but to the ships of the world, in the interests of civilization, is a proposition which, in my Judgment, does not permit of question. The Gazette finds those Innocent words "carefully weighed" and loaded with dy namite. Taken in connection with other alleged suspicious circumstances, it says "it is plain that the ultimate object Is not so much the cutting of the canal as the firm and final establishment of the United States authority in Central America." If there is one thing that the people of the United States are not thinking about, or caring about. It Is the' gaining of a foothold and establishment of au thority in Central America. For com mercial and other, material reasons they are lnterestevi in the construction of the canal and are determined that wnen constructed it shall be. if not under tha control of this government, at least entirely free from European control. That position Is one of self-interest and self-defense, and need not excite the Jealousy of any European power. But the suggestion that ths government is scheming for the establishment of Its authority in Central America Ms midsummer nonsense. ' It is probable the true animus of the Gazette's scare article is found in the reference to England's threatened com mercial supremacy. "Should a situation be brought about," it says, "in which the United States finds it can Ignore the United States of Central America, then good-bye to any hope of retaining, much less extending, bur commercial hold of the republics of the Spanish main, a market in which we already suffer from . . .... uncommonly snarp competition irom tne Americans and Germans." From this it is evident that the Gazette is not so much concerned for the Independence and autonomy of the Central American States as it is for the preservation of British trade. British disinterested ness never gets beyond that. PROTEST OP A DEMOCRATIC VET ERAN. In this issue is printed the letter which Mr. Albert Thayer, a Democratic veteran in this city, has written to the President. He expected no reply, and he has not been disappointed. Mr. Thayer has had his pension "reissued," that is, reduced from $12 to $S per month. In a private letter Mr. Thayer says that he does not complain so much for him self, because he Is not entirely dependent upon his pension for existence, but he makes his protest in behalf of the majority of his comrades who are unable to earn their bread by manual labor and whose condition is made pitiable by this cutting of pensions. Thousands of indigent veterans, who are unable to perform manual labor, have had their pensions reduced during the past year. Reissuing, that is, cutting doyn seems to be the chief work of the Pension Bureau these days. A few days since a veteran who has Interested him self about the matter copied the evidence In several cases lit 1 which the amount of the pension has feeen reduced. The affidavits of reputable physicians In the half-dozen cases shown, which were fair, samples, stated the diseases with which the victims were afflicted, and in each case they were sufficient to make manual labor impossible. These vie tlms are called upon to; furnish fresh evidence of disability. Often they are reexamined by the local examiners and other evidence furnished to show their inability to labor, yet thousands of them have been reduced and are being reduced at the present time. How far these local examiners are promoting this conspiracy against the veterans cannot be known. They are now of the Cleveland party, and may be In sympathy with Its pension policy. . In the late election Mr. Thayer Was a very active supporter of Mr. Cleveland. Directly after the presidential election he undertook to organize Democratic Union soldiers and ex-Confederates into a secret . society somewhat inimical to the Grand Army, but did not meet with success. Attention Is called to this mat ter to show that Mr. Thayer has been and may. now be a very ardent Demo crat. He is in no way allied with those who are stigmatized as pension howl ers. Mr. Thayer very sensibly charges the present pension policy upon the President Instead of Secretary Hoke Smith. In that he is right. The policy s the? president's, and the criticism of

r the Secretary of the Interior as if he were raiding the pension rolls in defiance of the President is absurd. Mr. Thayer, as a Democrat, it will 'be observed, confesses that the Republican party Is the better friend of the veteran. This is a confession which so ardent a Democrat does not like to make, but he seems to feel that the time has come to free his mind. The majority of the Democratic party as it gets into Congress is hostile to the pensioner. It has always been and always will . b,e so. Consequently the veteran. If he desires to help his comrades, must Xote with the Republicans. Every Democratic victory, even If It should take place In the city of Indianapolis, will be claimed as a sign of Democratic restoration and an indorsement of Clevelandlsm. Senator Brlce, in his speech to the Ohio Democratic convention, seemed to think It was necessary, to make some remarks that would assure the delegates of the high quality of his Democracy. The remark he made was that he was a delegate to the Democratic convention in 1S63 which nominated Vallandigham for Governor. To have been a delegate in a convention which ' nominated a malignant traitor for Governor on an anti-Lincoln platform, to be defeated by 100,000 majority by a patriotic people, Is not a thing one could naturally be proud to call attention to at the present time. Still, It should satisfy the most ultra Bourbon that the Brlce

brand of Democracy is of the quality which is blown In the bott!e. If Washington gossip Is true, Secre tary Morton's frequent commendations of Virginia as a desirable place of residence have an ulterior purpose. He Is said to have political aspirations be yond the present Cabinet, and to con template settling in Virginia because he knows there is no political future for him in Nebraska. ' He would be willing to go to the lower house of Con gress, then to the .Senate, and. If his services were demanded, to stand as Virginia's candidate fpr the presidency. He is greatly mistaken if he thinks the Mother of Presidents would consent to become a stepmother. Senator Manderson,.who has made a thorough study of the beet-sugar busl--ness, thinks that with, proper encourage ment it will become' one of the great industries of the country. He says that recently Germany sent a special agent over here to examine into our.' facili ties for producing sugar beets, and the agent reported that the only hope of Germany controlling the beet-sugar In dustry lay in the introduction of Ameri can party spirit info industrial and economic questions.", In "other words, if the beet-sugar industry is killed off by free trade, Germany can control the American market. i A prominent Eastern railroad man who attended the -recent international railway conference.1 In London, and afterward traveled on the continent, says that what struck him most was the fact that wherever the government of any country had control of a railroad the service was bad, the stations were, dilapidated and badly kept, the rails de fective and the employes indifferent and often impertinent. He might have add ed that freight antic passenger rates are cheaper in this country than in any country where government control of railroads exists. The Louisville Post declares that no country grows rich Oy what it, exports, but by what it receives from, other na tions. That would be the case if nothing was paid "for -goods Imported, but when'tnoney must'be paid for them, and money which could better be paid for gcods made at home, the nation that receives such goodsMs impoverished instead of being enriched. The South generally for many years purchased all its manufactured goods in the North. That policy has -been changed, and with -diversified Industries the South is forging rapidly to the front. Higher prices forsugar promises to be one of the results :of the Cuban revolution. More than one-half our supply comes from that island, and the insurrection has reduced the crop one-half, compared with that of last year. The insurgents are. doing all they can to prevent the planters from realizing on their crop, with a' view of starving out the Spanish regime. "Such a large reduction of the supply is sure to cause an 'advance of prices, which have been unprecedentediy low , the' past two years because of excessive crops. BURBLES IX THE AIR. Safe. The boy stood on the burning deck. But 'twas safe to cut such capers; For it happened long before the day Of portraits In newspapers. Hi Collection. "Who are all these?" asked the visitor. 4,Oh! That album?" said the languid young man. "That is a collection of photographs of the only girls I ever loved." Progressive. Visitor I hardly think this town Is very progressive. Pessimistic Native Oh, but It air. Runnln down hill at a regular two-forty gait! Too Late for Her. "I-I think I will get a pair of them," said Mrs. Watts.. Mr. Watts arose to the uprightest position he could attain, .and with the air a man assumes when he puts his foot down, said, "My dear, when a woman has passed the bloom of youth, it is no time for bloomers." A South Bend paper, says that Hon. Clem Studebaker recently received a request from Governor McKinley, of Ohio, that the location and condition ' of his grandparents graves in the cemetery at that place be looked up. The graves were found In a neat lnclosure mar'tod by n snarMc slab bearing the names of James McKinley and Mary, his wife, and showing that they both died on Aug.. CO, 1847, the forty-third anniversary of their marriage. Old residents in South Bend still remember them and recall the fact , that Mrs. McKinley died on the same day and only a few 'hours after her husband. ' They lived on a small farm near South Bend nearly all their married life. After, their death two surviving children went to Ohio to live with the Governor's father. Representative-elect Watson, replying to an Intimation that he would withdraw from the race f on Congress and become a candidate for a State office, says: "I am a candidate for Conpress and nothing else. I have no Intention of running for Governor or Secretary of State." . Current picturen'-of President 'Cleveland show him In two very different asnects. As a statesman with creased pantaloons.

Prince Albert coat and s!lk hat he looks as if he were about to issue a proclamation or appoint a Justice of the Supreme Court, while as a fisherman in slouch hat, baggy trousers and short seek cat he ff-Svjinbles a retired Boston hackman out for a day's sport.

Subscriber. New 'Jistle, Ind.: The rcT-Ua-tlon of Indiana, according to the census of 1SD0. was 2.192,404. Estimated by the Governor In 1895, 2.408.504. Among the States and Territories Indiana stnndj the thirtyseventh as to area. It is the eleventh State in the' aggregate of wages paid by manufacturing industries, $51,749,976 being the amount of wages paid in 1890. Indiana sent to the' civil war 74.4 per cent, of its men of military age. Only two States sent a larger proportion, namely. Kansas and Delaware. The percint.ige of rc!awtre was greatly Increased by its number of short-term men and the enlistment of negroes in the last days of the war. The average percentage of all the States was 61.3. The quotation you ask is this: The winds of heaven never fanned, The circling sunlight never spanned The borders of a better iani Than our own Indiana. The lines are from a poem called "Indiana," written by the late Mrs. Sarah T. Bolton. It is found in the volume of her collected poems. THE INDIANA PRESS. The Indianapolis election is one that is of great interest to the State politically, and the Republicans cannot afford to lose It, and they won't lose It if the Indianapolis Republicans all pull together. Frankfort News. The majority of newspapers have made the most possible out of the township trustees reports. They will kill the goose that laid the golden egg by' such unnecessary padding. Nearly all of the reports could have been set in single measure, thus saving fully one-third of the cost to the counties. Elkhart Review. "Boodle it's in the- air." Indianapolis Sentinel. No doubt of it whatever, since Tom Taggart and his cohorts have bagged the Democratic machine in Indianapolis and are to be crowded to the front in the municipal campaign in that city, despite the protests of honorable, self-respecting DemocratsFort Wayne Gazette. After perusing the report of S. N. Yeoman, ex-trustee of Stafford township, we. can readily understand why the people of, that rock-ribbed Democratic bailiwick rose In their might and elected a Republican trustee last fall. The report shows that every fund but two is overdrawn, and the outstanding Indebtedness is S2.261.40. Worthlngton Times. There has not been a summer in a great many years when the water in the rivers was as low as it is now. Only for the fact that a great many farmers have taken time by the forelock by" having deep wells drilled on their farms, the scarcity of water would work many hardships.. Most all small streams are dry. and Big and Little Blue are nearly so. Shelby Republican. Crawfordsville has a taste of the enforcement of the nonsensical blue laws that encumber our statutes Sunday. 1 An overzealous Good Citizens League had been clamoring for a more strict enforcement of the laws. The Mayor accommodated them. As a result drug stores, news stands, groceries, meat markets and almost every other kind of business was suspended. Many people suffered and all were disgusted. Anderson Bulletin. Either the school authorities of this State have placed tbo standard of the teachers' attainments too high or the school teachers are abandoning the profession. All over the State there is a scarcity of teachers. A superintendent of a neighboring county, unable to fill the vacancies, has decided to circumvent the matter by licensing all those who make a fairly good showing in the examinations, although below the six months' grade. Never before was there such a shortage of teachers as there is this year, and the young man who can pass an examination. has no occasion to howl hard times and no work. Wabash Plain Dealer. The American tin-plate works, at Elwood, In which Richmond capital contains a controlling interest, are- to be enlarged again, and arrangements to that end are being perfected. The increase in the demand for the product has rendered an Increase necessary; and five new mills will be added as rapidly as possible. The plant is already a sixteen-mlll concern, and employs 1,200 hands, with a weekly output of tin-plate In the neighborhood of fifteen thousand boxes. The new addition will make it a twenty-one-mill concern, and will Increase Its employes five hundred more men,, and its output to nearly twenty thousand boxes per week. Richmond Item: The Journal believes that the typical American Sunday is a quiet day, not jpurely a religious day In the ecclesiastical meaning of the term, but a day of rest, as much sanitary -as religious. All men may not answer the bell which is heard in every city, town and hamlet calling them to prayer, but all men should listen to the call of their physical natures' which resounds In louder tones than the bell from any spire that at least one day in seven they should rest from their labors. How that rest shall be taken is not for the Journal to say. It may be employed In any way that does not conflict with the laws, either of heaven or of land. As to the enforcement of the laws on our statute books, there should be exercised a modicum of good, common, everyday sense. There are men in business, from the very nature of which, who cannot close on the inhibited day. It would be ln viodlous to particularize.- All these places are respectably quiet, and most of them are employments of necessity. To close them would work a hardship not only to the owners but to the public Crawfordsville Journal. ABOUT PEOPLE AXD THINGS. The French language contains 13 per cent, of useless letters. There are 6,800 journals published in this language, and they print 108.000,000,000 letters every year, so that 14,040,000,000 letters are printed, not because they are needed, but because they have come to be used in the French language as It is poken. The French courts do not grasp the idea of pecuniary damages for a breach of promise of marriage. Recently a young woman who sued for the recovery of $250 expenses incurred under promise of marriage had her case dismissed because she also claimed $1,750 damages for the broken engagement. Herr Peters, of Leipzig, has discovered another one of Beethoven's sketch-books. It is dated 1809, and contains sketches of the choral fantasia and the piano concerto in E flat. It is well known that Beethoven remodeled his ideas many times before he was satisfied in roxne cases more than a dozen times. An anecdote of f the historian Michelet, newly told but good enough to be old, concerns a friend who said to him: "How young you keep, in spite of your gray hairs!" For a reply the old author, whom fifty years of literary work had not exhausted, turned to his writing table and pointing to the inkstand, exclaimed: "There is my fountain of youth!" A man in Paris, who had treated his wife so cruelly that she was compelled to leave him, found out where she lived, and following her one night with a ku'fe, when no one was by, stabbed her twice. She recovered from the injuries he had inflicted and the man was' brought up to the assizes, where, however, the jury acquitted him on the ground that his crime was "passlonel." LI Hung Chang, worth $500,000,000; John D. Rockefeller, $180,000,000; Duke of Westminster, $100,000,000; Colonel North, $100.000.OC0; Cornelius Vanderbilt, $100,000,000, and Wah Qua. $100,000,000. i the way a newspaper sums up the sixth wealthiest men in the world. The Rothschilds are omitted, because the wealth of that family, though enormous, is held In common, and no one member can be . ranked with the billionaires as it were. Sir William Arrol .is the b'.ggest contractor in the new House of Commons. Jle began life as a millhand, and was subsequently apprenticed to a blacksmith. He then became -a foreman at Iaidlaws. the famous bridge builders. His latter day triumphs have been concerned with supplying the steel for the Tay bridge and for the colossal Forth bridge. Sir William, who was knighted in 1830. is in his fifty-sixth year. He contested- South Ayrshire for which he now sits unsuccessfully in 1S92. W. E. Curtis writes from Tokio that most of the bookkeepers and cashiers employed In Japanese business houses are Chinamen, who are given the preference for such po

sitions because of their honesty. 'It Is said that a Chinaman will cheat if he gets a chance, but if entrusted with money he keeps It safely, and if in making a promie he utters the words "can do" those words are as good as a bond. The manager of a Hong Kong bank declared recently, after forty years of active business life, that he had never known of a Chinese defaulter. An Interesting story of how the Vicomte de Goutaut-Blron, French Embassador at Berlin in the years after the . war, saved Belfort for France Is told in the Paris Figaro. When France offered to pay up the indemnity in 1S7S, a year before the time agreed on. the military party In Germany was unwilling to give back Belfort. M. de Goutaut notified M. Thiers, who wrote back: "After serious reflection I advi.e you to ask for a private audience with Emperor William, and there, face to face. . say o him: 'Sire, you are an honest man and ko am I; you are a gentleman and so am I; in the name of the higher sentiment that I invoke, give us back Belfort." Thiers added: "What I write to you is known only to yourself an J to God; to God who knows all. even what is not said to Him." M. de Goutaut did as he was directed, and the old Emperor was noble enough to understand the appeal andto compel the military party to observe the conditions of the treaty. A PENSIONER'S PROTEST

Asrnlnat the Cheese-Pnrinsr Policy of the Cleveland Administration. To the President of the United States: I protest against the manner in which we ex-Union soldiers are being dealt with by this administration in the matter of pensions. By reason of poverty and bodily affliction a soldier's pension ,1s too often his only support, a meager crutch on which he Is forced to lean for scant food and shelter. We do not dole cut exact, begrudged Justice to those whom we hold in high esteem and delight to honor. Hence, it is difficult to understand why this administration, thirty years . after the war is over, should be ransacking the public records to flnJ some excuse under the law to snatch away this crutch from the old, veteran and leave him to sink in the mire of want and misery. If It is in this way that the pension roll Is to be made a roll of honor then God forbid! Hundreds of thousands of soldiers enlisted In the Union army to serve, at stated wages, for three years, or during the war. We kept out part of the contract faithfully, but we were forced to accept pay in money depreciated one-half in value. This deficiency was never made good to us. If the government found warrant under the law to Justify this transaction then warrant can be found to stop the raid on the pension rolls. No one remembers better than yourself, Mr. President, the vague, but . extravagant, promises made by our people to all -who would enlist and fljht our battles when the safety of the Republic hung by a hair. It is the desire of all who believe that the war for the Union was just to make good the spirit of these promises. The system of cheese-paring. mice-milking, retrenchment in. which the administration is now engaged belittles the splendid achievements of the loyal hosts who staked their lives to save the Nation. One of the saddest results of the war was the demoralizing effect it had on the young volunteer soldier by disqualifying him for the duties of civil life. Thousands who fought In the front rank of a score of fierce battles, though, still retaining health and strength, nave found themselves unequal to the hard task of earning a living in the peaceful vocations of life. In their helplessness they hold out their empty hands beseeching aid from the Nation whose life they saved. Their claim Is just, and should be met with gladness and full-handed bounty. I was one of the full quota of. Democrats that volunteered to serve In the war for the Union. . On every battlefield we fought side by side with our Republican comrades, and we did a soldier's part. We have remained, all our lives, true to the Democratic faith. So straight-laced have we been in our allegiance to the party of our choice that thousands -of our number refused to affiliate with the Grand Army of the Republic, because we believed that great order to be dominated by . the spirit of the Republican party. Though . our . Republican comrades warned us continually that It would prove an evil day for the Union soldier If ever the Democratic party became intrenched, in power, yet we trusted and never doubted. But now we stand shamefaced before the wcrld, forced. to confess ourselves the dupes of misplaced confidence: forced to ctand helpless and see. our ranks invaded by the agents of this administration, who strike down our beloved comrades and force from them their pitiful stipends, because they happen to retain a remnant of health and .strength that might enable them to earn a pittance at hard labor. We are . forced to admit, too. that the Republican party is the best friend the Union soldier ever had, or can hope to have. Our land Is overflowing with the abundance of all the good things of life. Our Republic' was never, as now, so firmly established as a great nation, the result of the valor of the Union soldier. Our posterity, the children of the Confederate South, as well as the children of the loyal North, their hearts will swell and their cheeks will glow as they read of the great battlefields where their fathers braved death for the cause they believed Just. They will cast the mantle of oblivion over the barbarities that were but the unavoidable incidents of chivalrous war. They will even find palliating excu.e-j for the horrors of military prisons. But, Mr. President, it is not good that posterity should read how thousands of Union soldier, palsled with old age and disease and steeped in poverty, sank Into their graves, their, hearts filled with bitter curses against an administration1 that found a way to withhold from them the rewards promised by a grateful people. Respectfully submitted, ALBERT THAYER. Ex-private Company C. Fifty-first Illinois Volunteer Infantry. Indianapolis. Aug. 8. ' Government by Syndicate. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: The warring factions in the Democratic party seem to have enough to stir them to the depths by the frequent reference In the press to tlu fct that the "bond syndicate" Is, from day: to clay, maintaining the gold reserve and credit of the Nation, coupled with the Hher statement that the head of the government' and his Secretary of the Treasury were still away at their summer resorts. It vaul t ie galling enough to Republicans to have it truthfully repeated dally thai Ms administration had employed a'ccmmlssi v.: ai r. cost of ten to twelve milUor.m. to rmiige national affairs, andto maintain t! credit of the country, while Its trusted servtta were having a good time. The theory ct our government is that those w;e elect V places of trust and appoint to places of honor are intended to manage affair?, bat tbe practice now Is that, finding them- -. incapable of doing -this, they aDDOlIU l Commission tn Hn it n.-Kok - known as "th bond syndicate." No wonder mai inr waning Tactions realize that sjmethi.ijr Is wrong, and, feeling the necessity for Ktrskinry at somebody or something are doing so in the dark. What is to be done wh'n the bond syndicate's time is up in October? Who will manage public affairs then? The A -related Press dispatches refer to the "unwritten" part of the contract with the bond syndicate. That would Indicate that part of the agreement was too galling to be put down in the bond. The next Congress can no doubt learn what it is, if the present administration and Its helpers can hold things to reach to December. In the meantime, the English press will go on sneering at the Nation being "managed by a commission." j. b. C Indianapolis, Aug. 21. The CrnwforiI illr Affair. To the Editor of th? Indianapolis Journal: I deem It recessaiy that the true facts atout the rtrai-ed renditions at Crawfordsville b2 made public. I have been at torn pains to find out the exact condition of affairs and learn that the extreme and offensive measures, are not due to the Goo! Citizens League, but to others who have sought to make law oaious by ninf enfical metheds. Not for a moment would I sanction a resort to trivial and obnoxious rretheds by Good Citizens' leagues or o:re:s. espccitlly when only insignificant results are to be obtained. As I understar.d the situation air the Good Citizens' League at Crawfordsvifte afked of the officers was that the supremacy of tne law tnouia De maintained ast against a "wide open policy an J that such practices as were a menace to the -good order of the cl y should be abolished. am told that the league p?ciflcallv asked that ceita.n works o necessity" be allowed t3 continue, knowing full well that extreme measures would defeat the ends sought But when the leigue presented . its case ce tain offices decared that no laws wo-M be enforce 1 unless all were treated al k and hence the obnoxious order went fcrth that has brought about th exaggerated conditions in that city. The only purpose of the order teems to have been to render offensive, by extreme methods, the very

legitimate attempt of the league to freserve Rood order in Crawfordavllle.. It is possible that indiscreet things may have been said and done o.i both skl-f. nor.e of which fluid! be rail attd. but. inasmuch as the offensive measures are not. owing . to the league. It is but fair that the public know the facts. It may Le argued that any attempt to enforce law agaln?t recognized public evils will naturally result in extreme efforts be;ng put forth. Not nectsFarily, except as the enforcement of law l in the hands of the nemi of reiorm. Tjt must the public remain unprotected Just because romr'body is liable to do. something fcollfh? While I have no sympathy personally w.th the nonobervance cf Sunday cr other law, yet I recosnlze tn fact that the ends sought are often defeated ty undertaking measures that will accomplish but little or about which tao torces of reform cannot ba rallied. It is often the case . that when any reform Is attempted its enemies seek to defeat Justice by trying to "cloe up" eventhing. It is true that degrees of public evils were recognized and when, by united effort, the more flagrant and open are abolished the lesser ones will often right

themselves. In this connection it may r said, for instance, that the law against Sunday saloon bi-s ners rests upon a differert basis from that against Sunday business in cenenl. I have r.o ieslre to rondone the nor.enforcement or nonobsorvanc of the latter, which recognizes the n-ei of test one dav in seven asiue irom religious grounds,' but it is well to recognir that the law against Sunday saloon sailing is designed largely to protect the day against drunken brawls so that the better Fensibllities of the church-going and ot dc-r-lovlng people will not be outragtd. oa that day. . . , The fight against evil and in favor or law. must not be lessened, even thougn fone oftic'al with more zeal than good sense undertakes impossible things. A reaction at Crawfordsville has already set in, the efforts of the league cominj to be understood and when the ex.'itemenL has passed away It will be found that the league deserves the support of every honest citizen and that certain other popie need to be "lcll0U.0S. Waveland, Ind., Aug. 21. Let StlUnena Relffn. More massacres in China! Be sure to wnisper ngni, For Grover's busy fishing And he's going to nave a one; The French again have Eustis snubbed? Oh, never mind. to-day; Remember Grover's line is out Don't scare the nsn away. The Cuban's recognition ask? ' Be still: lou u miencre With Grover he's a-flshing! lie s nsnmg uoni you t-ar The debt is going upup up? ; Sh-h! Let your voice be curbed I For Grover Is a-fishing. And he mustn't be msturDea. New York Pres. TELLS A DEAR STORY. Gen. Harrison In Till a h. m. to Get . Shot at a Deer. Old Forge Letter, In New York Herald. The first few scarlet flags of autumn arei . waving to-day, and a roystering breeze is whipping its way -rough Fulton chain and ruffling the waters of that series or beautiful lakes. Great heaps of. blue gray clouds have formed themselves In the Bouth and east and General Harrion. sitting in his camp on First lake, cocks his weather eye and finds his hunting one. Two nights the stars and a red moon have shown the crafty deer where the former President has sat In the bow of his Adirondack boat, a flaming Jack above his head and a 'trusty shotgun on his lap. eroom fort able Frank Sperry, his guide, has made him. despite the searching cold, with a bed of balsam plumes t sit upon and a. red blanket snugly tied in to keep out the night damp. But deer he sought have been no less comfortable. Not even a shot haa rewarded his two four-hour vigils, and he. like every other unsuccessful hunter, is grateful for the promise of a cloudy, even If a rainy, night. The camp, the life and the experiences which General Harrison has chosen In coming here for the first time are genuinely those of the Adlrondacks. The camp is dilettante, of course, a big one. the handsomest in the region and known far and . near as Dodd's Camp. , As one leaves Old Forge, which is reached by stage from Fulten Chain, one rows acro the pond and through the narrows Into First lakeT which is about two miles long. Around at the right, in the center of a graceful bay. stands the camp, a low frame house, with a fairly large piazza and surrounded by ex-: tra tents. An open camp and campfire and a boat-house, a group of comfortable rockers cn the piazza and scarlet curtains at tho windows made at more eosey, and nomelike n n tVian hanilv anv other. 1D8 scene there at noon to-day is suggestive of the peace and the comfort to which the General and his family have come. In the bay near the camp there was a long, blue Adirondack boat. Frank Snerry in the center, and with, him three children, each with a rod and line. At one end of the boat was little Mary . Lodge McKee, wearing a dark blue cotton frock and a simple sunbonnet above her flowerlike face. At the opposite end was little Marthena Harrison, neither bonnet nor hat upon her flaxen head, and between her and fcperry was baby McKee. himself, now a sturdy, tine bov, the childish image of his grandfather, and addressed always i "In." Soerry was baiting -their hooks and they were all catching shiners" for 'grandpa Ben" to use in his afternoon s salmon fishing. Now and then they fetched up an agitated sunflsh. at which Marthena never failed to hold up her hands and cry to Sperr to "Take off tnat sunhower." . About as far on the opposite ide of the cottage, but quite out of sight of the General was a boat of the order commonly called here a scow. In it were Frank Sperrys son. Louie, a lad abjut sixteen, anl Mrs. McKee and Mrs, TibbctL They were engaged in practising the gentle art of catching frogs with a bit of red flannel on a hook, and very happy and chattering they were about It. too, until one great grandJaddy frog got away and began making long leaps for liberty around Mrs. McKee's feet. In the hammock by the piazza swung Mr. Tibbetts. his gray cap pulled down. over his eyes, making up for the long and fruitless hours spent last night on North Marh. In his easy chair on the piazza, in the inevitable frock coat and the familiar gray slouch hat. General Harrison was making a valiant pretense of reading the New York papers, thlrty-slx hours old. but now and then sliding softly off into billow land. Near him. sewing and rocking gently. ws Mrs. Dimmick.- This afternoon, being a persevering flsherman, the General has arranged to try again his luck at pumping the buoys. He has been quite persistent at this pursuit, which' is nothing more wearing than hanging the tall of a tshlner two feet from the bottom of the lake by means of an ordinary hook and braided line and unceasingly hoisting It up and down. In the week of his stay General Harrison has secured one salmon, not too big to t true, and had the usual number of bites and catches of those that got away, always the-biggest. By means of rod and minnow he has further added to his score two small speckled trout, caught in a nearby spring w n 1 A Duck shooting, a sport practically unknown here. Is. of course, the General's . m..aamont Vet even with hi imA KlCtl o.uu... -- ----- luck so far at deer and fih. he has not murmured or complained. One ale he has Indeed had to tell to-day that no one of those who came back with a ?eer in the bottom of the boat have equalled. It is the first authenticated bear story of the season. "We went out in Northmarrh last night, as you know." he said, "and floitrd there till nearly 3 o'clock. 1 did not get b shot, but 'we did come across a bear and a couple of cubs. We could not tee them, but could hear them. They caught a frog, and then the two cubs took to snarling and yelping over 'that. - - But a bear la more shy of a Jack untern than a deer, and when Sperry tried to get the light on him they took to their hfclt and got away.". Sfory Told by Peter Studrhnker. Peter Studebaker. of the noted wagonmaking firm of South Bend. Ind.. wa interviewed by "Gath" at Saratoga last week. Mr. Studebaker tells thl stcry: "We sent this year six wagons to South Africa, which amounted to about H.50O. Th young man who ordered them sent no money, Lut ald he had attended scbool at Chester, Pa., with my son. I ordered the wagons made without delay, but was queried about sending them so far without any remtttance. Mil. privately, I wrote that the wagons were coming, hut that II.COO would not be unwelcome. He promptly pent me $2.0O0 and added that as a matter of Interest for my son he was probably the bet salaried man not an oftlci.il in the world, getting vo.O0O gold a yrar as a mining superintendent. I took the letter In with a long face. 'Are we very far proceeded on the African lot of . wagon r I asked. I held th letter in my hand and concealed the check. Told you s-o. ald all the wie countenance "you had fair warning; I am. on record a to that Job. raid one rood, strict fellow: Well. a!d I, 'the poor man only K-t 0.o a year, and I laid down hl check." A Ciooil (iunrantrr. St. Louis Glabe-Demoorat. The best assutance of thv success of th Republican paity next year Is to be found in the fact that it haa not acted the fool about silver this year.