Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 October 1895 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1S95.

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TUB IJDIAXAPOLIS JOURNAL Can bo fournl at the follow in i? jbves PAKIS Ame rkaa fcxeiuuge la larw, 38 Bottfertra fie Capuelne. KW TOKK Gilsey House. Windsor Hotel and Actor H rue. PHILADELPHIA A. P. Krmbl. cor. Lncaer are. tml I:artii7 L ' CIIIcAx I'almer Rouw, Aadltorluni Hotel and P. O. Stl Ct VI A (lam a trC CINCINNATI-. C Hawley A Cou. 154 Vine street LOUISVILLE C T. Peerinir, northwert corner of Third and Jefferson ta, and LouUvMe Book Co., 2 Vourih ae. ST. LOUIS Union News Company. Union Depot. WASHINGTON, T. C Rtjrjr Hoorn, Kbbltt flow, WUlard's Hotel and the W&ahlnxton News Exchange, 14 Ui street, bet. 1'enn. ave. and Y street. The professional good citizen at times reminds one of that 'soldier who was "Invincible In peace and Invisible In war." The silver question was not an issue In the late election, except so far aa It was used to Impart zeaj to the Democratic worker and his following. . As yet no one has hailed it as a Cleveland victory, but the Eastern newspapers worshiping at the shrine of the perpetual fisherman have not been heard from. It Is a Democratic victory because the Democrats polled their full vote, and because from 15 to 20 per cent, of the Republicans in the Republican strongholds did not vote. - The out-and-out Republican, when he desires to show his dissatisfaction with party action or administration, does not o Into the air on independent tickets, but Quietly remains at home election Cay. . If 90 per cent, of the. Republicans In d six wards having" the largest Republican population had -voted on Tuesday Mr. Taggart would be the only Democrat elected on the ticket, and he would have been saved by a few Republicans who supported him. It Is cause for General congratulation that a man so admirably qualified for the position as Representative Ilitt will have ep far recovered from his almost fatal illness that he will be able to take the position of chairman of the com- - mlttee on foreign affairs In the next cIouse. i Good morning, Mayor Taggart. The Journal wishes you success, and as clean an administration as that you succeed, tut If you give Indianapolis a buslnessjcTccmeni 01 ine jaws you win De tne most unpopular Democrat in the city within six months. Mr.YTaggart's organ is very severe on Rev. Mr. Crafts, "an outsider," for; daring to tell some truths in regard to Ini dlanapolis politics, but It sees nothing vronsr In Mr. Crawford Fairbanks, the millionaire distiller and political boss of Terre Haute, coming here to assist in Ur. Taggart's campaign. The two thousand votes which a very loud and strident bolter claimed to be election, recruited solelv. bv himself rather overlaps the fourteen hundred republicans who did vote for the Demccritlc Mayor of to-day. Still, that claim shut3 out all other claimants. It Is not worth the while of a citizen ATho can earn his bread In private emTloyment to accept a position under Tayor Tstggart, as soma of those who .vtcd for him are already predicting i::at he will have a Republican succcrror, . since it is Impossible for the ina party to outlive more than one term under the peculiar, provisions of Indianapolis charter. An ofljcial of the State Department r;hoLi- supposed to know something of what is going on is reported as saying that the newspaper statements regarding thi administration's Venezuelan rolicy are mere surmises,, and that "something -will happen that will attract public notice." Nothing that the adrrJnistratlon could do would attract as much public notice as the exhibition of G little American spirit and backbone. The traditions of the United States t!?na.te have been considerably shaken up by some of its recent members, but 11 accounts are true Senator Tillman, Cf Couth Carolina, will prove to be the most unconventional and Irrepressible lumber that has ever broken into the tody. He Is, moreover, a very strong rr.zrx in debate and a dangerous one to mtosure oratorical swords with. Altcrrether. Senator Tillman is likely to prcve a picturesque personage. It may be remarked that one man Is not necessarily immoral and bad because fcj fails to hold to the code of morals rhlch another has written for himself. A man. for instance, may believe In such freedom on Sunday as to allow baseball to be played and yet be a most excellent man In all his relations' to others, and Just as moral as those who believe It a sin. Kducatiou has all to do with It Thla remark 13 suggested by the prattle of an evening paper about irrirr.cral voters. A prominent lawyer recently said that " there Is no law whatever authorizing a court to operate a railroad, and that the practice of doing so through receivers has grown-up without any sort of rtctutory provision regulating it. The on the subject has been created by 3 courts, having been deduced and clved. little by little, from the genii principles of equity practice. The rr.3 thing about it is that the Judge ' r ccurt, who knows nothing what-

ever about railroading, can practically take possession of a railroad and run It, through his appointee, year, after year, absorbing in his own person all the functions or president, directors, auditor, treasurer and general manager. If all this is done without any law except that which the courts themselves make It is surprising that stockholders and bondholders have not found some way of asserting their rights.

AFTER THE VOTING. Tuesday's election proves conclusively that Indianapolis is a Republican city under ordinary conditions. The Democratic challenger In the Third ward who saiu after the polls were closed, "We have carried the city with the aid of Republican stay-aways if the rest of the city is like this precinct, for here fifty-three men who are returned as Republicans by our canvass have not voted, while only three Democrats are not accounted for," was correct. The Republican stay-aways are largely responsible for the result. The Democratic thirty days poll showed the city Republican on general issues. The closer poll of the Republicans showed a much larger Republican majority on the statements of the voters themselves or those who spoke for them. The Journal will not rely upon canvasses, but upon the vote at the last election in the First, Second and Third wards, whose limits have not been materially changed, and which are Republican strongholds, and that of Tuesday, taking the vote for county recorder as the medium between the highest and lowest and the medium vote for city judge, as follows: Nov., VQL Rep. Dem. Fi rst ward. . . 1, 4T.8 97t Second ward.l.&7 727 Third ward.. 1,763 iS Ocrt., 1S?5. Rep. Dem. 1,073 m 1,401 633 3,756 2.10G Totals 3,008 Both parties polled a full vote in November, 1S94, in these wards, but on Tuesday the Republican vote was 1,302 less and the Democratic 253 less than last year. That is, 1,043 more Republicans did not vote than Democrats in these three wards on Tuesday. If these Republicans had voted the ticket on Tuesday Mr. Taggirt alone of the entire Democratic city ticket would have been elected. In these three wards over 25 per cent, of the Republicans did not vote; and it is fair to say that they did not vote because the Democratic vote in these wards is smaller than it was In November, 1894. If the Democratic vote had been larger on Tuesday than in November last it might b assumed that a considerable number who were Republicans in 1S94 voted the Democratic ticket on Tuesday, but it is smaller. It would not be fair to assume that 25 per cent, of the Republicans In the whole city did not vote on Tuesday, but if 13 per cent, did not, which Is below the correct figure, we have, on the basis of Judge Suibbs's vote, 2,250 absentees, making a vote of 17.230 as the number of Republicans in the city entitled to vote and who can be relied upon in ,a presidential year- These figures are verified by the' voting in Indianapolis last November, when Mr. Shilling, who received the average Republican vote in the city as It was then, polled 13,373 votes. Adding the Republican vote of Tuesday, reduced as it was, in the additions which have been' made to the city, equivalent to the vote of the Fourth ward, and the total Republican city vote of 1894 should have been 17,230. Again, add to the vote of Anderson for recorder last November - the Democratic vote in the annexed districts and the aggregate is a little over 1,200 less than the vote of Cox. Fdr such an expenditure of money and beer as was made this increase obtained in the strongholds where the Democratic managers did not get their vote out or where It was lost to the Populists, the result Is meager indeed. The Democratic triumph i3 due to the refusal of 23 per cent, of the Republicans In. the strongest Republican wards to approve of all that has been done the past two years, added to prejudices against the head of the ticket which could not be overcome. Absenteeism is the Republican method' of expressing disapproval. Nearly all these men are Jlepublicans, and all the Democratic triumph has achieved in a political way is to demonstrate that Indianapolis, all things being equal, is a Republican city by between two and three thousand votes. THE FRENCH IX MADAGASCAR. , The French operations in Madagascar, afford a good illustration of European colonization schemes of conquest and robbery. France is only in Madagascar at all as tin intruder and by virtue of superior force. About ten years ago the Queen of the Hovas, the dominant native tribe, entered into a treaty, under compulsion, by which she accepted the protectorate of France. This treaty was the result of two costly campaigns by the French, and in addition to signing away her sovereignty the Queen agreed to pay a war indemnity of $2,000,000, thus In effect defraying the expenses of the campaigns against her country and government. By this. treaty France acknowledged tho sovereign rights of the native government over certain part? of- the Island, an acknowledgment she had no right to make, and which was morally worthless, and also recognized the Queen's authority In domestic matters while reserving entire control of the foreign relations of the island. The present war, which is really but a continuation of an old controversy, grows out of a disputed construction of this treaty, which, having been made under compulsion, was never morally binding on the Hova government. France also bases her claims in Madagascar partly on the fact that five years ago s her protectorate over the island was "recognized" by England and Germany. As these two powers were scrambling for a division of territory in Africa they sought to strengthen their position and placate France by recognizing her claims in Madagascar. This was about as If two burglars plundering the lower part of a dwelling house should recognize the rights of a third burglar to the contents of the upper floor. The Queen of Madagascar, Ranavalona III, is thirty-three years old, and succeeded to the throne in 188-. She and most of her officials and the native nobility are professed Christians, and the Queen herself Is a woman of dignity and attractive qualities. Among her own people her government is autocratic, and she Is hld in the greatest reverence by them. A few days ago, when

the French were marching on her capital, she was reported as having; made a speech, to her nobles, in which she said: "The French are close on you. You said you would fight for me, but you have not fought. I will not yield. I shall die at the palace." his was bravely spoken. A later dispatch says the French have captured the capital, but no mention is made of the Queen, though it is stated that the Prime Minister and court escaped. The London Times says the capture of the capital Is "an achievement but not a success," and thinks it will not materially alter the situation. The Ilovas will probably establish their government at another point and compel the French to pursue them at great disadvantage. The expedition has already been costly in money and lives, and Is likely to prove more so. Altogether, It is difficult to see how France can get any credit or glory out of the business. The more complete her success in wiping out the native government and establishing her own authority " by force the more discreditable it will be.

A NEWSPAPER MYSTERY. There is a mystery deep, dark and unfathomable to the general public that needs a "Sherlock Holmes" to unravel. A few days j before the close of the municipal campaign an evening newspaper that had been daily shooting darts of sarcasm at the Republicans suddenly changed front and espoused the cause of the party it had been "knifing" with ridicule. In a double-leaded leader it gave reasons why the voters should rally to the polls in behalf of Mr. Trusler and why Mr. Taggart's ambition to be Mayor should not be realized; and the reasons were repeated in a modified form until the day before election. To most people this sudden change seemed mysterious, but it is not unfathomable. It is within, tho province of an Independent newspaper to change its "we think" or "we believe" at any time; a change, no matter how radical, is a mark or badge of independence. Hie change may be made for business reasons or to "catch 'em a-comin or a-goin,' or pressure from a source that does not concern the public may cause the change; but, whatever the reason, if left to the newspaper itself, "independence", would be the solution. The unsolvable mystery is not in the sudden change of front, though the change has much to do with it. While this evening newspaper was exploiting its seeming deathbed conversion it was, in the same issues, continuing its ridicule of Republicans. In one column were reasons why Republicans should be successful. In another column were fllngra and sneers at Republican argruments, with advice to Vdecent people" to vote for whoever they pleased; it made no difference who was Mayor, "decent people" would make the Mayor bend to their wishes. Now, all great newspapers have managing editors editorial directors among whose duties is the supervision of all matter that appears in the paper. If the owners of the newspaper have a policy to be pursued the managing editor's duty is to see that that policy is carried out. The evening newspaper alluded to being one of the "great" (it has repeatedly asserted that it Is) it is fafr to suppose that it is provided with a responsible head, and it is also fair to presume that this responsible head either wrote or caused to be written the editorials supporting the Republican ticket In view of this it would be unjust to say that the other editorials those In which the Republicans were adroitly "knifed" were either seen or written by the responsible head. And herein lies the mystery. Robert Louis Stevenson, the famous novelist, in his "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," told how the good doctor, with the aid of a powerful lotion, transformed his personality into that of Mr. Hyde, a very bad man, and that Dr. Jekyll, In the form of Mr. Hyde, did very wicked things. Is it possible that the responsible head of this evening newspaper in his learned researches discovered a potion like that used by Dr. Jekyll, and that he was experimenting with it when the paper was occupying Its duplex position? Can It be that the good Mr. Editor, after writing the Republican editorial, transformed himself into a bad Mr, Editor and destroyed the effect of the good Mr. Editor's work? Or was there a good Mr. Editor and a bad Mr. Editor two distinct personages? Did the bad Mr. Editor watch for his opportunity and slip in the anti-Republican editorials, perhars while the good Mr. Editor was enjoying his lunch? Or again, did the bad Mr. Editor creep Into the machine room, hypnotize the linotype operators and set up his own matter and put It into the pages? "Who can answer? THE COXGREGATIOXAI NATIONAL COUXCIL.

The National Council of the Congregational churches, which met yesterday in Syracuse, N. Y., draws no inconsiderable part of its attendance from the Western and Northwestern States. Although Congregationalism is one of the oldest forms of religious faith and church government in the country, having come over in the Mayflower, it was slow In becoming established in the West. During the last few years It has been making so rapid progress In this section of the country that it looks as if the seat of its power and strength might be transferred from New England to the West. The Congregational National Council bears the same relation to the churches that the General Conference does to the Methodist, the General Assembly to the Presbyterian or the General Convention to tho Episcopalian, Its sessions being devoted to a general survey of the working functions of the denomination. The Congregationalists have always been active In missionary and educational enterprises, and are so still. They started the common school system In Massachusetts 'and founded Yale, Dartmouth, Williams, Bowdoin, Amherst, Oberlin and other colleges. They claim to have established the first theological seminary, Andover. in '1S07. the first Sunday school in the United States and the first Christian Endeavor society, and to have organized the firt foreign missionary society. They were the pioneers in establishing schools tnong the freedmen of the South, and have done a great deal in home mi?s;.nary work. A religious denominatfo i with such a record may fairly be c'-aFjved among the foremost conservative Influences of the country. The National. Council' meets once In three years, and ;t composed of about - ' A '

630 delegates from every part of the country, representing 5,342 churches with over 583,000 members. It was ungrateful of Lord Sackville, better known as Sir Lionel SackvilleWest, to have censured Embassador Bayard in his pamphlet regarding his mission in the UnMe ' States Lord Sackville has neveT done his government more faithful service than Mr. Bayard as Secretary of State and embassador to the court of St James ha3 attempted., It was no fault of Mr. Bayard's that Sackville was recalled. He was inveigled into writing a letter to an alleged British, subject in California setting forth that it would be for the interest of Great Britain to re-elect Mr. Cleveland. This was In 18S3, when the presidential campaign was on. The publication of the Sackville letter was a very painful as well as embarrassing affair for both the Cleveland administration and Lord Sackville. To have retained him after having written such an improper letter would have lost Mr. Cleveland thousands of votes. As between losing votes and causing the humiliation of a tzealous . friend, Mr. Cleveland can be relied upon to make a martyr of his friend' rather than himself, who was about that time undergoing one of his periods, of consecration to his country. So, at the request of Secretary Bayard, Sir Lionel SackvilleWest was called home. Evidently, in recognition of his high service, possibly In writing the Cleveland campaign letter. Sir Lionel has been, made Lord Sackville. He has gained rather than lost why should he turn upon our Anglomanlac embassador and make him sad? Why not have limited his criticisms to full-grown Americans? . It is currently reported that all of the figures relative to street and other improvements designed to show that the South Side had been compelled to do more than its share, and tho suburbs generally more than the heart of the city,s which-were published by the Sentinel, were prepared or predicated by the Democratic clerk of the Board of Public Works all of which goes to show that the chief clerk, of a Republican board should be a Republican, or at

least he should be one who will not use the position given him to the detrimant of those who have provided him with employment. A civil-service system which retains such persons in position is described best by the word "snivel." A real civil service' should require the quality of honor. The free-silver wing of the Democratic party in Ohio has been thrown into a cold sweat by the discovery that Campbell, their candidate for Governor, is opposed to free silver, 4The platform on which he was nominated leruis to free silver, and he was supposed to be unsound enough on the question to make him acceptable to the silver men. They have Just discovered that a few days after his nomination he wrote a letter indorsing a book written in reply to "Coin's Financial School" as "terse, vigorous, interesting and instructive," and predicting for it "a wide circulation with much resulting good." In view of this letter the silver Democrats have concluded that, .Mr, Campbell is only silver plated. -,r . The large number of Democrats who declared or are reported to have declared a purpose to knife Mr. Taggart kept their trolleys on the old Democratic wire, as usual. ntllllLKf is THE AIR. A Trne American. "With all her wealth. Miss Cashroll is a true American at heart." "Yes. She told me not long since that If she didn't catches, prince she would die single." Seen. Laura And now you must see papa, Reginald I have seen him or, rather, he has seen me. He told me yesterday that I either had to declare myself or stay out of the house. Xo Excuse. She (just kissed) How dcre you, sir? He I hope you will pardon me; I didn't think. She Think? Of course you didn't think. But your inability to think Is no excuse for your conduct I suppose you mean to tell me that if you had stopped to think you would not have wanted to kiss me. Tlie Ratio. "What," asked the Populist orator, "what comparison can be made between the wages received by the laboring man and the work he does?" "Wal," said the man with the scattering whiskers, "in my case the wages is hard earned and the work is durned hard," and they arose and threw him out. It affords the Journal pleasure to commend the first appointment made by (Mayor Taggart, viz., that of Mr. E. M. Johnson for city controller. Mr. Johnson has both the ability and Integrity to make a good controller, all of which he will have to bring Into requisition if he succeeds in making anything like as creditable an administration of the. office as his predecessor, Mr. Trusler. The first and final thing for him to do is to oppose the schemers in his own party, who succeeded in thwarting the best purposes of Mr. Woollen, to do which will make him sonie enemies and many friends. It remains to be seen whether he will ablo to resist them. The Journal is pleas.ed to fearn that the reorganized American,. Plate-glass Company, of which Major C. T. Doxey is president, will soon open an office and transact its business from thU city. The factory is located at Alexandria, Ind., and with the additions about to be mado will be the largest in the country. In opening an office in this city Major Doxey sets an example which other large manufacturers in the natural gas towns would do well to Imitate. Admiral Brown, row the ranking officer in the navy, would require many more days than he has had at his disposal the past week to meet the host of friends he possesses in this city and the State. They are proud of him for the distinguished honors which he has won during the forty-seven years he las faithfully served his country, and It is a source of gratification to them that he is proud to be known as a Hoosier. When lawyer Trude, of Chicago, who has been traveling out West, told a story to the effect that Theodore Roosevelt killed his bears af ter -.thiayV had been trapped he probably did not 'count -on 'Mr. .Roosevelt seeing the statement "That Is a lie, and that man Trude, whoever he may be, is a liar. I never phot a trapped bear in my life." Mr. RooseVelt goes loaded for bear. The Fort Wayne centennial, which will come off Oct. 13, 16, 17 and 18. will be a grand event in the history of that thriving city. Extensive arrangements have been made for four days of varied entertainment Th evening of the first day, Tuesday,. the exposition building will be thrown

open to the public, where visitors will be received during the day. Athletic sports and an old settlers meeting and band concerts will come off, followed in the evening by an historical address by Colonel Robertson. In addition to athletic sports, there will be a military drill on Thursday. On Friday Governor Matthews will be in attendance to review the military. The original settlers of Fort Wayne, who took the places of the Indians, were so prudent as to plant the seeds of the present city during so appropriate a season of the year as the middle of October, which is likely to insure comfortable weather. For this they are to be praised, since of all things uncomfortable is a midsummer anniversary. Col. John L. Sullivan Is afraid the profession of pugilism will be injured by the recent action of Governor Culberson, of Texas. "All such attacks," says the Colonel, "tend to degrade the noble art of boxing in popular estimation." It would be sad if the business of head-punching and nose-breaking should fall into disrepute. In most respects Superintendent Powell has made a most efficient official. He has brought to the police a discipline It lost under the Sullivan reginie, and, with many other good things, his administration was so clean as to be abovo suspicion. ABOUT PEOPLE AXD THIXGS.

By the Queen's wish the room In Kensington Palace, where her Majesty ' was born, and which was closed for years, hai been renovated, so as to present tho exact appearance it did in 1S19. Lobengula Is again reported to be alive, this time by Father Andre, a Catholic missionary at Bonoma, on the Zambesi, who says that the Matabele Kin& is with some thousands of his people in the Manika country near the Kafue river. Guerrita, who is now the first bull fighter in Spain, has appeared in fifty-eight fights this season, and is engaged for nineteen more. He receives $1,200 for each appearance. His clear income amounts to over $60,000 a year besides the presents made to him. John" Tjler, the son of President Tyler, is now living in Georgetown in greatly reduced circumstances. Mr. Tyler is more than seventy years old, and has served in two armies, having equipped a regiment for tho war with Mexico and having enlisted on the Confederate side during the civil war. It Is pointed out as a "curious fact" that there is not a female member of the Ruselan imperial family who is of marriageable age. There, are, indeed, only two spinsters altogether the Grand Duchess Olga. sister of the Czar, aged thirteen, and the Grand Duchess Helene, daughter of the Grand Duke Vladimir, who is also In her thirteenth . year. ' A lady who saw the Prince of Wales at Homburg says he looked like something out of a comic opera, dressed entirely in a light blue suit and with a yellowish hat and shoes. It was almost comical to see the Indies introduced to him even in the public places dropping curtsies before him, and when they were voung and pretty he put out his hand and lifted them up. The astounding news . come from Parts that . Sarah " Bernhardt Is dieting to decrease her weight She has actually been growing: fleshy . of late. She has a. hArror of becoming portly. Sarah ha? Rained world-wide renown as a genius whose internal fire had wasted her body. She Is not willing that any unwelcome adiposo tissue should cast a doubt upon the potency of that famous fire. "Mrs. Alexander," says the Living Church, wife of Bishop Derry, is lying in a critical condition of Illness at the palace, Londonderry. She is the author of one hymn that has served to make her famous, There Is a green hill far away, and it is said that the popularity of this hymn, having the effect of bringing her husband Into notice, obtained for him his elevation to an Irish deanery. He was made bLshop in 1S67." , Zola's book on Lourdes does not appear to have diminished popular faith hi the curative powers of that place-of miracles: So far more than 15,000 pilgrims have been transported from Paris to Lourdes thia ear, and many other thousands have gone from the other cities of France. Those that left Parte in one day filled nine special trains. Patients afflicted with similar diseases were grouped together so far as was practicable, so .that one train contained scrofulous patients, another paralytics, etc. Meantime Zola has had a lawsuit with Gil Bias, the Paris newspaper that offered him $10,000 for the privilege of publishing the story in serial form and objected to the premature publication of the novel as a book. The courts sustained the author and condemned Gil Bias to pay all the costs. Mr. F. C. Burnand, the editor of Punch, Britain's one concession to the national inability to see a joke, was once the inmate of a Roman Catholic monastery in Bayswater. When Burnand was a novice he was made to scrub the floors and clean the windows like the others. But he was not at all amenable to discipline, and strongly objected to the performance of these menial duties. On one occasion, when he was told to clean a window, he pretended that he did not know how.. The good-natured father superior showed him by opening the window himself, getting on the ledge and beginning to wash it. Burnand, strucK uy & happv thought shut down the window and left the poor father out on the ledge for some time, to the edification of irreverent passers-by. Mary had a little lamb. Which said that it was very Anxious to be Informed just why Women wished to wear men's Clothe9 and there The little lamb had Mary. Detroit Tribune, AX EXTERPR1SIXG PASTOR. He Was Ont for the Money nnd Col- - lectcit Willi Ensc. Atlanta Constitution. "I have often heard of strange methods adopted bv ministers to collect money at churches, "but I never heard or anything more amusing than the course of a negro preacher down In middle Georgia the other day," remarked a well-known Georgian yesterday. "The sermon was over and the congregation sighed with relief at the prospect of getting home soon to get their dinners. But the preacher said the church needed a certain amount of money I think it was $3.2. to pay certain expenses, and he said he didn't intend to let the congregation get away without raising it. The money was due and the members of the church owed it to the Lord, he said, to pay the debt. "He ordered a collection of subscriptions, but before doing so he had all the doors barred and fastened the windows. He declared that he did not Intend to let the brethren get out until every cent of that money was in hand or the value thereof in chickens, butter or eggs. "On the first count it was found that $1.65 was the pile. After singing another song and offering another prayer, another subscription was taken, and the amount went 10 cents over $2. There was another round of prayer and song, and the subscription went up only a few cents more. After going through this process stveral times the amount was finally raised, but it was sundown before many of the members got home that afternoon, having four or five miles to drive." Advice for "Sophy, Denr New York Evening Sun. They boarded a Broadway car at Sixteenth street. "And so you're going to get a bicycle. Sophy, dear," said the first girl. And Sophy, dear," with much enthusiasm, said that she was. "How perfectly lovely. It's such healthful exercise; it'll" do you worlds of good. What wheel are you going to get? Are you set and determined on paying full price? Because, if you're not, Sophy, dear. I know where you can-get a splendid $100 wheel for $50. It belongs to Bessie Bloomer. She dislocated her knee, you know, last June, and she's had to give up riding altogether, so. she's simply wild to sell her wheel. It's a 'Can't Be Beat;' that's a splendid make, you know. But maybe you'd rather have a Right-ln-lt.' I know a girl who has a 'Right-In-If for sale; it's such a safe wheel, and that's everything. What does the girl want to sell it for? Oh, she had an awful fall last spring, and she hasn't been abte to ride since. You might have had my wheel. Sophy, dear, but I sold It Just last week to Susie Scorcher. Oh. yes, I've had to give up riding. Isn't it a shame. It's my heart, my dear. Why. It just used to plttlpat and pity zekle and pity everything else, so the doctor said I'd have to stop unless I wanted my heart to. How I envy you. Sophy, dear, being able to bike. Oh. what fun you'll have aid how much good it will do you." But, strange to say, "Sophy dear" didn't look so wildlv enthusiastic as she had a little while before.

COMET TO STRIKE US

EXD OF THE WOULD THE SlllJECT OF FI.AMMAItlO.VS XEW ROOK. Parallel in Fiction irtth the Recent . Meteorological Conditions and Approach of Fye' Comet. New York Herald. The periodical comet of Faye was discovered by. Professor Javelle, of Nice, on Sept IS. It is yet only faintly visible. Owing to the approach of Faye's comet the intensely Interesting parallel to be drawn between the remarkable weather experienced throughout Europe, and even felt in this continent, during the last month, and that so graphically set forth inM. Camllle Flammarlon's "La Fin du Monde" may well attract the attention of the scientific world. In his astronomical work of fiction the French savant describes as a precursor of the earth's death Just such a condition of unseasonably hot weather as England and Fralico have been having during many days past This condition of atmospheric uneasiness lias been published in the cable dispatches forwarded from London and Taris daily. As( M. Flammarion himself Ptated in a communication on Monday; "Since meteorological observations were first begun in France that is to say, more than two hundred years ago there never has been a month , of September, so fine, dry and so entirely free from clouds." It has been accompanied by Intense heat, not only in France, but throughout central Europe and England. A large anti-cyclone has apparently hung over.the whole of western and central Europe. Cases of sunstroke have been numerous during the prevalence of this warm spell in Great Britain and on. the continent. So intense has been the heat In London, as reported In cable dispatches, that omnibus and cab dorses have collapsed in the street and deaths from heat have been numerous. Withal, the weather has been clear, with ty-esh breezes, which would have been delightful In any other than the tremendously oppressive atmospheric conditions prevailing. Nothing like the present spell of hot weather has been known in Enrland. The thermometer has ranged in the eighties, which for Great Britain is unusual for any continued period, and there has been an absenc of rain not only there, hut also throughout France for weeks, which renders the conditions even more telling on the animal and human population. No such season has been experienced on the other side in the history of the weather service. FLAMMARION'S PREDICTION. M. Flammarion's book, "La Fin du Mon de," or "The Last Days of the World." is full of legendary' and conjectural theories in regard to the World of planets, and Paris Is evidently reading about them with' considerable interest at the present mo ment. The comet of Faye la well known to astronomers because of its appearance in the heavens once in about every seven and a fiaJf years. Paris has had periods of cometary excitement before this. The comets of 1577. 1G07. 1652 and 1C65 were the subjects of endless commentaries, forming a library oy themselves. At the last or these Alphonso VI, King of Portugal, angrily discharged his pistol, with tlvo most grotesque defiance. Pierre Petit, by order of Louis XIV, published a work designed. to counteract the foolish and political apprehensions excited by comets. This lllu-. tnous king desired to be without a rival, the only sun. "Xec pluribus imparl" and would not admit the supposition that the glory of Franca could be imperiled even by a celestial phenomenon. "One of the greatest comets," says M. Flammarion, "which ever struck the imagination of men was assuredly the- famous comet of 1680. to which Newton devoted, ho much-attention. It issued,' said Lemonnler, 'with a frichtful velocity from the depths of space and seemed falling directly into the sun, and was seen to vanish with an equal velocity. It was visible for four months. - It approached quite near to" the earth, and W'histon ascribed the deluge to Its former appearance.' Bayle wrote a treatise to prove the absurdity of beliefs founded on these portents. Mme,. Do Sevlgne, writing to her cousin. Count de Bussy Rabutin, says: 'We have a comet of enormous size; its tail is tho most beautiful object conceivable. Every person of note is alarmed and believes that heaven, interested in their fate, sends them a warning in this comet. They say that the courtiers of Cardinal Mazarin, who is despaired of by his physicians, believe this prodigy Is in honor of his passing away end tell him of the terror with which it has inspired them. He had the sense to laugh at them, and to reply facetiously that the comet did him too much honor.' MISSED BY AN 'ACE. "In this century," M. Flammarion says, "predictions concerning the end of the world have several times been associated with the appearance of comets. It was announced that the comet of Biela, for example, would intersect the earth's orbit on Oct. Z), 1S32, which it did, as predicted. There was great excitement. Once more the end of things was declared at hand. Humanity was threatened. Vhat was going to "happen? "The orbit, that is to pay, the path, of the earth, had been confounded with the earth itself. . The latter was not to reach that point of its orbit traversed by the comet until Nov. 30, more than a month after the comet's passage; and the latter was at no time to be within 20.000,000 leagues of us. Once more we got off with a fright" But M. Flammarion's great comet, which gives the world such a terrible scare, does not appear until the twenty-flrtri century. "Inexorably," says M. Flammarion, ."with a fatality no power could arrest, like a projectile speeding from the mouth of a cannon toward the target, tho comet continued to advance, following Its appointed path, and hurrying with an ever Increasing velocity, toward the point in space in which the earth would be found on the night of July H-13. The final calculations were absolutely without error. These two heavenly bodies the earth and the cometwere to meet ilke two trains, rushing headlong upon each other, with resistless momentum, as if impelled to mutual destruction by an insatiable rage. But in the present Instance the velocity of shock would be 8fi5 times that of two express trains having each a speed of one hundred kilometers per hour." The atmospheric conditions when M. Flammarion's comet entered the earth's atmosphere was something fearful. "The atmosphere was growing drier and warmer. Since the evening before no one had bethought himself of food, and the stomach, usually f-o imperious in Its demands, craved for nothing. A burning thirst was the first physiological effect of the dryness of the atmosphre, and the most self-reftralned Fpusht in every possible way to quench It, though without success." Paris has evidently been suffering during the heated September term when the thermometer reached !M degrees In the shade from the same lassitude and a thirst unquenchable except by means of the foaming bock. We shall have many centuries, let us hope, to wait before the other part of M. Flammarion's description will be paralleled, when "everywhere onthe streets and on the boulevards the same silence relsned; not a nound dlsturbd the hush, nothing was sold, no paper was printed; aviator, aeroplanes, dirigible balloons were no more to be seen; the only vehicles passing were' the hearses bearing to the cremsa tories the first victims of the comet, already numerous." PICKERING NOT ALARMED. The article containing the announcement that Professor Javelle, of the Nice Observatory, had discovered the approach of Faye's perodic comet and pointing out the singular concurrence of the extraordinary phenomena now existing in Europe with M. Flammarion's predictions of a collision between a comet end the earth, was read by Professor K. C. Pickering, LL. D., director of the Harvard Observatory, with deep Interest. When asked if there was any danger of such a collision, he answered with a emP.e that personally he didn't feel the slightest alarm, and that so far as hlj observations went there wev no Fclentlflc evidence for prophesying such collision. "furthermore," he aid, "there la no leasonable ground for supposing that the unusual dryness and Intense heat now affecting parts of Ejrcpe is in any way connected with the approach of a comet." Just what the premonitory sl?ns would be he was unable to say. but he thought it probable that a collision of. the kind 50 graphically predicted by M. Flamtnrrion would be wholly unannounced. Notwithstanding the fact that it was an exceptionally clear and valuable nljht for rstronomical wcrk the Professor received me most courteously and was, very willing to give what information as to Faye'p comet he could afford. "Inert art" t?veral scientific reasons," he explained, "why cne should not be tlarmed

st tho approach of this comet. In the first rlac, astror.omers agree that comets ar bod;.s of extreme tenuity, probibly much I'ghter than air. Thl furt has l-d to the theory, advanced by M. Faye hlm!f, that cornets are deflected by any rsis:Ing nedlum, such as is nunx'scl to exist in a very rarefiM condition in the planet ry sp-ices extending from the sun f the crblt of the planet Mars, a mean distance cf 14..(ifM.O0") miles, the earth' orbit being 500.0CX) of miles distance. Thus, even if a comet should not be deflected by the planetary medium of res'.siam-e it doubtls would be by the earth's atmnsfhere. But there !s little probability that the comet of M Faye, now on another visit will come even as near as the orbit of Mars, for the astronomer have discovered that the flliptical orbit, which is of small eccentric-N itj lies wholly cutride tho orbit of Mar, or at an exa.-t distance varying Irom 37,000,(KX to CO,!..! miles, acecrdlng to the relative position of the planets at aphelion and parihllon." The Profeas-jr had not yet seen any signs of the comet A VERY LITTLE COMET. There is a dearth of astronomers of national fame in Washington at present, but that numerous population which takes interest in celestial things his been much animated over a discussion of the Herald about the approach of Faye's comet. In order to secure some definite expert opinion on the subject I called to-niht at the Georgetown University and saw Father Iledrlek. the young astronomer who has lecently achieved much distinction for his advanced work in the photography of stars and his improvements in the mechanical appliances devoted to this branch of astronomy. . "Faye's comet Is a very little comet." he remirkcd, "and I hardly think there is any need of trepidation about It. The fact ia that no one knows how much solid matter a comet contains. It may be no larger than your n?t and It rrmy be of greater proporportionS; tut I do not think In ar.y event that the approach of a comet would afffvt the atmosphere to eny appreciable extent. You notice, perhaps," he continued with a smile, "that our days of M above have gon by and it is growing cold. tWl we haven't heard of Faye's comet switching off." "Do you believe, father." I inquired, "that a comet moving with the velocity If is" known to acquire, if conrr z directly owird the earth, would give u. iny atmospheric warning of its approach, such as increased "heet. for' instance?" "If a comet were to collide with tho earth,' he responded promptly, "we wouM know nothing of the smash until It occurred. There might l some, effect in the immediate neighborhood where It struck, but I do not think there would he any widespread danger or disaster. There is every reason to believe that the earth has passed through the tail of Biela's comet, but tho only phenomena observed appeared to be a more than usually numerous flight of shooting stars." SOUTH A Fill CAS JU.XHS.

InTCHtmcntB In Them nnd the Infla Hon of Vitlaca of. Stocks. New York Special The Engineering and Mining Journal ha been making some figures on 1he speculation In South Africa mining share,, from which it draws the following conclusion: "We find that the total investment thus far In the South Africa gold mines Is at its par value over JOAO.OiO, while its present sellng prico reaches nearly $1.1.000.000. How much, cf this extraordinary value Is duo to speculation purely and to the popular tendency to exaggeration will be apparent If we attempt to examine th question, and to Inquire what is the rrobable return. At the rate of production of the mnes so far this year. It apears probable that the sold output of the Transvaal for lStf will amount to not far from 2.400.0UO ounces, or reducing It to fine gold at the rate ususually allowed for the Transvaal product, to 2.000.000 fine ounces; that 1. the money value will not be far from $41,000,000. This Is the gross value of the output, with no allowance for the cost of mining and reduction. It is, of course. Impossible to give the exact amount of the latter. The Transvaal ores are not, however, high grade as a rule, and the average return, taking all the mines together, and accepting the figures of the monthly statement lKued by the Wltwatersrand Chamber of Mines, is probably not over 12di per ton. A table compiled from the official returns by the South African Mining Journal gave the average cost of working at twelve of the larger mines at about $7J per ton. or nearly 70 per cent, of the average yield, leaving the profit of CO per cent, of the value of the gold produced. Another tett would be to take the amount paid In dividends last year, which was 23.5 per cent of the entire output of gold. Allying this to the estimated production of the present year would give a profit of J3.675.000, that is, S.8 per cent, on their selling price, a return manifestly most inadequate. It is useJes to pursue this .question further, since the figures already given will show how much the current values of the outl African mines depend upon speculation and the popular craze In their favor. "In the figures above we have reckoned only the gold mining companies and those operating in the districts actually developed. The figures do not Include any of the diamond mining companies, nor do they Include the new organizations formed to operate In Mashonal&nd and the other districts of the Charter Company's domain, whose value is as yet problematical. It Is evident, however that even in these known and established districts prices have been carried to a point far beyond the real values, and that a disastrous collapse is inevitable in the future. We are not at all disposed to underrate the great importance and value of the Transvaal mines, but the enormous Inflation of which they have been, made the basis is quite as Injurious to the true Interests of South Africa a to tho?e of the investors In its mines." London advices In the Wall Street Journal on the same subject say the tendency of speculation is to discount the future. As an example, the "Rand mines" may be cited. This company has a nominal capi-, tallzatlon of about Jl.OO.'nO and t7.") mining claims In the Rand district, of South Africa, It has paid no dividends, but its fl shares aro quoted at 29, making the present valuation of the property about "2.5rii,iuO. Th position of the other companies is much the same. JinS, JA3IES RROWX POTTER. She Tells Her History nnd Talks About Her Husband. New York Special. ' . Mrs. James Brown Potter has been telling the story of her early marrd life, and how ehe made entrance into society, ay"I know I have hern censured by the world for going on the sUge. I was born and brought up In the South, a country girl, educated differently from city girls. y.y familv was poor. My wedding drrss was the first gown I ever wore made outside my own home. I met James ltrown Potter, a fine, handsome man. fill In love with him. and before I was seventeen year old we were married and came to New York to live. Mr. potrer was ronsiiered a howling swell. My family was led to h lieve that I had made a great matrh. and that my future lay along a path of roe. "My ideas of life and those of the potters' were utterly at variance. I lived the first year of my married life in New Vcrk, the home of the Potter, anl during that time not one of them ever .nviled n.e into his house. "Th Butler-Duncans were my cousin. One day 1 was walking down Rroadway when I met William Wilton Phfpp. Mrs. Hutlr-Duncan's son-in-law. Under the patronage of the Butler-Duncans, who were lovely to me, without any thanks to the Potters. I was introduced into cw1ety at this ball, and I took; but I always felt that people patronized rr.e. for we wer poor. Mr. Potter never rarncl a pnny beyorl his stated income. I had to make my o? n gowns. I worked harder thin I have ever worked in my chosen profession, and all for what? "One day, sick and weary of all the mockery', tired or the constant fault-finding to which I was compelled to submit, lire I of going out with a smiling face and a breaking heart, tired of the smihs of the Potters, who are always Jealous of eirh other, tired of genteel poverty. I walked out of that home Mr. Potter is keeping for me and left everything behind me. I have never been permitted to go b?ck to Ret my belongings, and net even as much as a pair of sleve buttons ha ever been Rent to m. "I was amused the other day at what a newspaper had to say about Mr. Jams Brown Potter posing as a saint and kef ring his home ready for my return at any tlm I chose to come back, and th? -1'ke. Ti writer was quit" r'.frht in his ccnclurtort that-there is po likelihood of such a return. "It Is very nice of Mr. Potter to ex:ret such sentiment but that hause and home happens to be mine, a well as everything In the houie. It wai given to ne by Pierre Lorillard for the successful work I did la gtttlrg pcoi'l to Join tho Tuxedo Club." Serm to Explnln It. Chicago Tribune. "You needn't tell nc." observed Rivers, "that Henry it Stanley haxn't wheel in his head. I know he has. That's why he'a traveling inoog." Couldn't Understand. Chicago Tribune. "What do you do with the water ft f ter you bell it. anyhow?" in'vsired tb. visitor from Kentucky, considerably mystifui