Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 November 1895 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, JIONDAV, NOVEMBER 4, 1895.

THE DAILY JOURNAL MONDAY. NOVEMBER 4. ISO

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THE INDIAXAPOLIS JOUUXAL. , -( int round at thi following i.lace - I'AKIS American itfcan;e m l'axia, 3tf Boulevard da Caiurlitea. ' NEW YORK GlUey Ilome, WlaUaor llctsl and Astor House. tllI(A(;0-Paln.r Horn. Auditorium Hotel and 1. O. jsewtto.,! Adam .tree t, CIXCINSATI J. R. Hawiey Co.. 154 Tins ttrest LOUlsVIU.F C. T. Peering, iiortnwert corner of 1 bird and Je.lerfton tt., and Louisville Hook Co., Xrf I onrtb ate. .......... H. LOUlii Colon Ife Company, Caioa Depot . WASHINGTON. D. C IlTJrsr HonW. EbDltt Hon, W thanl's Hotel and tbe tablnzton Newt txcLaagf, Uln street, bet. l enn. are. aod r street, Indiana will have.no part In the balloting: tomorrow, but Just wait till a year from now! . We conclude that Mayor Taggart has been reading the charter, otherwise he could not violate It with so much directness and precision. This would be a bad time for England to get Into a war with any leading: power. Her recent bluffing" policy has made her enemies In all directions. In the cfws of Holmes and Durrant, against whom other Indictments are pending. It might save time to hang thcmflrst and try them afterwards. A free-trade paper In the East remarks that falling prices are unfavorable to business. U is a late but seasonable discovery that cheapness is not everything. . If the Treasury Department should put out a sign , Indicating tts business It would read: "Deficits made here. Bonds sold to" foreign syndicates 16 per cent, off." . ' The Journal is not under the necessity of saying: any last words to the Republicans, of Indiana to-day, but It feels like remarking to those of other States, "Up, boys, and at them!" Before John Bull tries it on a larger people he might arrange a fight with the Kins of Ashantl, who seems to be very much nearer spoiling for a fight than tha professional pugilists. A physician says that walking backward is a. certain cure for the headache; nevertheless, the' Democratic party, '.which alway walks backward, often has dndlcatlons of terrible head troubles. It takes a very able Board of Public Safety to discover-the vnfitness and inefficiency of twenty-nine policemen within a few hours after the board's appointment. Perhaps they were aided by a blacklist from the Mayor. i Senator Sherman says he does not like to predict election results, but he thinks the Republican plurality in Ohio tomorrow will reach 50,000. The chairman of the Republican State central committee thinks It will considerably exceed that. ' 4 . General Harrison's brief address Introducing General Gordon has probably been printed by more papers than ever printed a similar address, and it has been the subject of more flattering notices by the press than any similar address has ever received. A Cleveland organ figures out a deficit of 16.601,657 during October in the national treasury, but hastens to add that It is not so bad as it appears, because the revenues of October wereJ$,762,30S in excess of those of October, 1834, when the deficit was $13,573,739. The civilized world outside of Great Britain will find some difficulty . in locating the Klnsr of Ashantl. but It. will sympathize with him in his refusal to accede to the British ultimatum. It is .to be regretted that he probably has not the ability to make his refusal good. The opinion has been very general 'that populism is dying, but the fact that ex-Governor Campbell has assailed it .nd its candidate in Ohio -leads to 1 the suspicion that Mr. Campbell fears that some Democrats in Ohio may conclude that Coxey Is the better man of the two. Senator Brice's vote in favor of free wool should Insure the solid opposition of the wool growersj of Ohio, and the growe ni&de ; fact that he made a considerable part of his fortune by the employment cf convict labor ought to make him odious to the workingmen. Yet by corruption he hopes to succeed. If Calvin Dice is defeated In Ohio to-morrow he will doubtless abandon his fraudulent claim of citizenship In that State and take up his permanent residence In New York, where he really belongs. As a citizen of New York holding a purchased senatorshlp from Ohio he has been a standing object lesson of corruption in politics. ' The folly of certain excellent men of narrow and Imperfect vision, to put It charitably, is illustrated in the determination of a faction of the organization known as Good Citizens to vote an Independent ticket In opposition to the fusion ticket opposed to Tammany. , If honestly done, .each vole for such a ticket. If not half a vote for Tammany, I a vote. "in the air," doing no cause the least good. The address of Hon. D. S. Alexander at the Morton memorial exercises yesterday was a graphic and scholarly presentation of some of the salient features of Governor Morton's character by one who had good opportunities to study them. Two points especially were well brought out. ngmely, Morton's faculty of winning and holding friends, and his rare powers as a political leader. He made friends and attached them to him ic the strongest possible manner

without resorting to the cheap and comron arts of the demagogue, and hia political leadership was entirely free fiom the elements of modern bossism. Ills faculty of making friends was largely due to the simplicity and sincerity of his nature and his political supremacy to a masterful power which made him a natural leader. These points were well presented by Mr. Alexander, and the entire address was In close sympathy with the subject and occasion.

IXDIAXA AXD OTHER STATES. The North Vernon (Ind.)' Republican publishes n letter from a former Jennings county man who is now living in Nebraska. The writer is one of those enterprising Indlanlans of whom the State has furnished so many during the last- few years who sought to better his condition by going West- They can be found by thousands in the new States and Territories, some of them prosperous, all of them holding their own In the race of life, but many. If not most, sorry that they ever left Indiana. Among the latter seems to be the Jennings county man referred to. He writes that since leaving Indiana he has canvassed Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota and Texas, and, while he found something to admire and commend In each, he failed to discover the attractions set forth by the local newspapers and real estate agents. In Colorado he admired-the -Rocky mountain scenery, enjoyed the exhilarating effects of the rarefied atmosphere in the high altitudes, and found a . few fertile valleys and plains. But in the mountain regions he found little tillable, soil, and the valleys, except near the mountains, were dependent on artificial irrigation for crops. His canvass of Colorado led him to conclude that the most Impressive features 'of the Statu are mammoth rocks, eternal snow, roaring cascades, awful ' gorges and echoing canyons. "Once the novelty is worn off," he says, "one longs for his old home back among the more fertile and prolific valleys and moderate hills of his native State." He' found Texas a real empire State in point of extent, some portions of it rich and fertile "in favorable years," other portions admirably adapted for cattle raising, but the entire State subject to frequent and destructive drought. Not being enamored of Texas he passed on to Kansas. A canvass of that State led him to the conclusion that it was "one of the finest producing States in the "West when not . overtaken by drought, or floods, or hailstorms, or the terrible hot winds." After seeing "emigrants with their teams and household goods lining the roads in every direction, going they care not where to get out of Kansas," he felt that he could not offer better advice to the friends he had left behind than Viet the boys stick to their old Jennings farms." Nebraska does not please him much better. He finds the State poorly timbered, "what scanty timber there is being artificial, save the scrubby and worthless cottonwoods which grow along the banks of the lew streams and on the islands of the Plattn." He says thi3 is the third consecutive year of drought In Nebraska, either general or partial, and that really good grain crops this year were confined to the central part of the State. Many farmers are so discouraged with grain raising that they will abandon it altogether and try sugar beets and other crops which are drought proof. Another ' crop which stands drought and yields well in that climate Is Kaffir corn, which is described as resembling sorghum In appearance, with no ears on the stalk, but the top composed of innumerable grains about the size of hemp seed, which, when thrashed and ground into meal, makes good food for man and beast. But our Hoosier emigrant is no more in love with Nebraska than he was with Colorado, Texas or Kansas, and he declares that "one acre of old Jennings land is worth a whole Nebraska farm." No doubt this man's experience has been that of hundreds, perhaps thousands, and the obvious lesson of It all is that there is no better State than Indiana, and nine times out of ten he who leaves it hoping to better his condition is disappointed. No other State has a greater variety of resources, more elements of prosperity or offers greater facilities for individual success. It does not depend on artificial irrigation or artificial timber growth. In respect of agricultural, mineral and manufacturing resources, in variety of soil and climate, in adaptability to general and diversified farming, and In all the conditions of productiveness it is hot surpassed by any other State. It cannot compete with Colorado , in mountain scenery, with Texas in facilities for raising broad-horn cattle, with Kansas in hot winds or grasshoppers, or with Nebraska in sugar beets and Kaffir corn, but in all that goes to make a good allaround State it Is far superior to either. Already one of the best and greatest States in the Union, it is growing better and greater every day. What this migrating non of Indiana says about "old Jennings" Is true, and yet Jennings is only one of ninety-two. counties. In the aggregate they form a State that every Indianian should be proud of, and which. Instead of sending emigrants to other States, should attract them from all quarters. Ol U JACK TALSTAFFS. A Washington correspondent has discovered that there are many people who are anxious to have a war with Great Britain right off. Foremost among these are a large number of Democrats who see that their party is sure of defeat next year if the administration cannot have the opportunity to commend itself to the voters by a war which will arouse the patriotic fervor of the country. Another element which is desirous of war with England Is a portion of the South which desires to show Its devotion to the Union. Still another class which the correspondent gives as eager for "the blood of an Englishman" Is the remnant of those who were known from 1S61 to lS6-"i as copperheads. The stigma attaches to the names of their families, this correspondent has been told, and they are anxious to cause a forgetfulness of their ignominious rast by wonderful deeds of valor. There is reason to believe that the thoughtful people of the country who have some Idea of the unmitigated evil which war is will not consent to have the Nation plunged into war with any nation for the sole benefit of any such persons as are referred to. Fortunately, there Is no prospect of war with Great Britain, and it is unseemly to go swag-

gering about making war talk for such Inadequate reasons as the correspondent assigns. It is probable that if the administration has any stavesmanshlp it can induce the British government to grant , the arbitration for which Venezuela asks. If the attitude of President Monroe and Congress seventy years ago, when this was comparatively a feeble nation, checked the Holy Alliance, it is reasonable to suppose that Great Britain, which has vastly more important interests in other quarters than the seizing of 80.000 square miles of South American territory, will not lightly incur the hostility of the United States by so doing. It stands to reason that Great Britain would not forfeit the best market it has on this hemisphere to obtain a piece of comparatively worthless territory. During the past month the British government and people hare discovered that their old policy , has deprived them of the good will and the support of the leading nations. For the first time the British press has discovered this state of feeling and is discussing it. There is also little doubt that the British Ministry has ascertained that it cannot enlist any powerful allies to help Great Britain in the East or elsewhere. Under such conditions, talk of immediate war with Great Britain should be left to the Jack Falstaffs who wait about "Washington bar rooms to accept invitations to imbibe.

LOUD S AMMIll nVS COXFESSIO.Y. , The recent speech of Lord Salisbury, In which he deplored the destruction of British agriculture by' the corn lawn, very naturally attracts attention and calls forth comment. - Free-trade papers in this country have already criticised his expressions because, on the whole, they are a condemnation of England's free-trade policy which Salisbury criti cised in 1892. Doubtless British papers will do the same; nevertheless, the fact that a man who has long been '.'known to be hostile to the free-trade policy, is at the head of the present British government will have its Influence upon the minds of that people and even beyond the United Kingdom. In many respects the conditions of Great Britain have been unfavorable to the maintenance of the agriculture of that country. The larger part of the land is embraced in the estates of the titled aristocracy which cannot be disposed of except to be rented. To maintain the proprietors, rentals must take so large a part of the products of the soil that small returns are left for the tenant. If the tenantry owned the lands the competition would have been . less disastrous. The impoverishment of the tenantry was the first result, and the fall in rentals followed in time with a great loss of the products of agriculture. The wheat crop has not been over half as large the past few years in Great Britain as it was In 1S60. In the last named year 19,000,000 inhabitants' of Great Britain were fed with native wheat and 9,500,000 with Imported. In 18S9 11,800.000 inhabitants were fed with home-grown wheat and 26,000,000 with imported. In other articles of food the falling off in the home production has not been as marked, but there has been a large decline all along the line of agricultural production. Unable to remain on the land, those who had been tenants of the soil have flocked to the cities to add to a population for which there was already scant employment. As a result, or as one of the results of a policy which has very nearly ruined British Lgriculire, a writer . in fhe current number of the North American Review says that "every fourth person you meet on the crowded, bustling thoroughfares of living London dies a" pauper, an inmate of a hospital or of a lunatic asylum." If the head of the present Ministry and one of the first statesmen in Great Britain finds the cause of agricultural decline and municipal pauperism n the free-trade policy of his nation there is no reason why he should not declare it. In another direction the British statesmen must find embarrassment in any line of action which may Involve'1 that government in war with any considerable power, and that is the increasing inability of Great Britain to produce it; food and raw material for manufacturing. A nation which In 1883 obtained Its bread 231 days and its meat 142 days of that year from other nations Is in no condition to embark in a war which would make every British ship bearing food a prize for a hostile navy. A nation which has deliberately sacrificed its wool clip because it could be bought cheaper elsewhere, and whose cotton factories depend upon other countries for raw material has everything to fear from a war with a first-class power. France has been able to carry the vast war debt Imposed by Germany very largely because that government has protected Its agriculture. One year with another France raises nearly all the wheat it consumes, while the agricultural products it exports In the form of beet sugar, wine, etc., largely exceed in value the products of the land which it Imports. If the French people had no greater debt than the British, the former, with its always protected agriculture, would be in a vastly better condition than the latter. The A. P. A.'s in Boston have circulated a handbill purporting to have been made up from statistics furnished by the Pension Bureau to the effect that 16 per cent, of the Germans enlisting in the Union army and 72 per cent, of the Irish deserted. This would give 29,760 German and 104,000 Irish deserters an aggregate of 125,700. Adding to these the other deserters of foreign birth who enlisted, the total of such deserters would be 136,500, or 26,000 more than stand as deserters at the present time. This gives the natives no show in that sort of thing, but they had. As a matter of fact, the bureau of records for the Pension Office has never entered into such a calculation. Those cities which are desirous of securing the Republican national convention nre circulating a story to the effect that the executive committee of the Republican national committee in 1SS8 were arrestetl by the Chicago police because they resisted the demands made by the Gresham crowd to permit his friends to fill the building with Gresham claquers. Those in this city who are familiar with the matter say that no arrests were made or attempted, but that dire threats were made because the committee would not give up the convention to the Gresham claquers. It can be added that marly prominent Republicans who

were present declared then that their treatment, so far as access to the building in which the convention was held was concerned, was unjust, and the conduct of the Gresham. managers so notoriously unfair that they would never be in favor of holding another convention in that city. At the same time, other things being equa1t Chicago can be one of the best places for holding such meetings. And it maybe added that no city which has not ample hotel accommodations can gain any credit by drawing the attention of people of all parts pf the country to that fact. Furthermore, no city, which Is not within a few hundred miles of the center of population should be thought of for such a meeting. It is a rare occurrence for any person to be tried on a charge of one murder with, an indictment and trial for another hanging over him. Yet within the last few days two persons. Holmes in Philadelphia. and Durrant in San Francisco, have been tried and convicted under' these peculiar circumstances. In each; case if the defendant had been acquitted he would have been Immediately placed on trial for another murder. Public opinion approves the verdict of guilty in both cases, and it will not be shaken by Durranfs canting protestations of innocence since his conviction any more than it was by Holmes's bluffing during his trial. .They are two remarkable criminals.

The generous gift of John D. Rocke feller, added to what he and others have already given, makes the Chicago University one of the most richly endowed In the world, and if money alone could make a university it would soon be one of the greatest. But, important as money is In the establishment of a university, it is not everything. Time, patience, labor, prestige and results are important factors. ,'The Chicago University is making. a brave start, butit has its spurs to win before it can hope to rival some institutions which, though not so rich in money, are richer in some other things. The Louisville Commercial reminds the workingmen of that city, and those who would like to be workingmen if they could get a chance, that "the silly' theoretic tampering with our business and industrial system by the Democratic party caused the hard ttmcs .from which they have suffered during the last two years." That is something no workingman should forget. Three years ago many of them were shouting for "G rover, Grover, four years more of Grover." Now they ought tomake their ballots say, "Grover, Grover, we're glad his term's most over." The New York Sun, commenting on the styles and varieties, of goods shown by the Jobbers of that city for the holiday trade, says: "French china and glassware is prominent; the Austrian small wares and toys are in immense variety; German products are most noticeable In porcelains and fine textiles. The greatest number of novelties is shown In Japanese, goods." This is another evidence of the rapidity with which, under the Wilson-Gorman tariff law, we are capturing foreign markets. The Atlanta exposition is entering on the period of Its big days. The 14t Inst, will be observed as "Chicago day" and the 25th as "Manhattan day." Chicago will send two regiments of the State guard, with brass bands and several thousand visitors, and New Yorx will send at least one of her crack regiments and a peaceful army of occupation. Altogether, things seem to be going Atlanta's way.. , . IICDIILES IX THE Ain. ' TrrMlifiil. ' "Well. Willie," asked 'grandma, "have you had all the dinner you want?" "Nome," answered the truthful little boy, "but I have had all I can eat." Ilie Benson. "What!" exclaimed 'the astonished foreigner, "you allow paupers to vote?" "Yes," said the citizen.' "The posstsslon of the ballot Insures them decent treatment." Able llefenxe. "Just as-ve arrived.", the driver' of the patrol wagon testified, "the prisoner and some more of his gang were trying to drop ofilrer McGobb through a sewer manhole." "Sure," said Mike the Brute, "I didn't know there was any law agin droppin a copper in the slot." Xot So Drnve. "Dar me!" said Mrs. Wlckwlre, looking up from her paper, "but women are getting brave, nowadays." ' "Braver echoed Mr: Wlckwlre. "Yes. Here is a story, about a woman who shot a mouse. She pshaw! I read it wrong. It was only a moose.". f- . Following is an extract from a recentlypublished letter wrjttea by the late Robert Louis Stevenson to an. intimate friend in October. 1S04: ' - ' I know I am at a climacteric for all men who live by their wits, so I do not despair. But thetruth. Is I am pretty nearly useless at literature. Were it not for my health, which made It Impossible, I could not find it In my heart to forgive myself that I did not stick to an honest, common-place trade when I was young, which might have now supported me during all these ill years. But do not. suppose me to be down in anything else; only, for the nonce, my skill deserts me, such las it is, or was. it was a very little dose of Inspiration, and a pretty little trick of style, long . lost. Improved by the most heroic, industry. So far, I hav managed to please the Journalists. But 1 am a fictitious article and have long known it. I am read by Journalists, by my fellownovcllts. and by boys: with these, inclpit et explicit my vogue. Good thing, anyway, for It seems to have sold the edition. And 1 look forward confidently to an aftermath; I do not think my health can be so hugely improved without some subsequent improvement in my brains. Though, of course, there is the possioillty that literature is a morbid secretion, and abhors health! I do not think it is possible to have fewer illusions than I. I sometimes wish I had more. They are amusing. But I cannot take myself seriously as an artist: the limitations axe so obvious. I did take myself seriously as a workman of old. but my practice has fallen off. I am now an Idler and cumberer of the ground; It may be excused to me. perhaps, by twenty years of Industry and ill-health, which have taken the cream, off the milk. . If thte was Mr. Stevenson's candid opinion of his own powers, and there Is no reason to suspect him of Insincerity, it affords a singular contrast to the Judgment of the English reading world. It is surprising that while critics are vying with one another in eulogizing Mr. Stevenson's genius, originality, style, etc.. his posthumous estimate of himself should summarize his powers as "a pretty little trick of style." Mr. Stevenson was probably wrong. Many authors have erred greatly in their estimate of the comparative merit of their different works, and the Judgment of the literary world will probably be that Stevenson did not know himself. He certainly cannot bo accused of Immodesty.. A careful estimate as to the nationality of Chicago's population places the native Amerl-aiis at 323.000 out of a total of l,7u0.

Ow. The residue embraces thirty-six different nationalities, of whom the Germans lead with 400,000, the Irish come next with 230,000, and so on. The paper which collected the statistics and made the estimate confesses its surprise that the Germans outnumber of native Americans, that 40.000 Russian Jews have' poured into the city within the last fifteen years, that there are three different foreign peoples in Chicago, the Germans, Irish and Scandinavians, who, each of them, make a bigger city than Kansas City. . ' -The report of the premiums awarded at a cbunty fair, recently held In Belle River, Canada, shows that' Peter Brolssolt took first premium for embroidery on muslin, for embroidery on "cotton, for, tidy, for guipure netting, for.honlton lace, and for pillow shams. In fancy knitting Henry Gpnes took first premium, while Henry Hedrick got the prize "on feather flowers and Charles Cornetet on hair 'flowers. Ernest Suave excelled In Berlin wool work and Joseph Dennis In bead work, both , taking first prizes. The new man seems to becoming by the way of Canada. THE.I.VDIAXA PRESS. Monroe' doctrine in commerce is as essential as a Monroe doctrine in territory. Decatur Journal. While the Monroe doctrine Is thoroughly American, the only trouble . with Its enforcement at present seems to be that all the Monroes are dead. Michigan City News. The rush of European Imports to take the place of American products continues unabated. Under a Democratic tariff our wage-earners will be forced abroad to obtain work. Muneie News. The coterie of politicians who Imagine they can dictate to the party who shall be the next Republican candidate for President are undertaking a Job they will not be able to carry out. Peru Republican. Colored Democrats ought to go to South Carolina to live, where they will have no trouble about the ballot. - the Democrats In the constitutional convention of that State having deprived them of the right to vote. New Albany Tribune. There are' men in , every county in the State of Indiana that never did a day's work for less than a dollar or a dollar and a half that are now glad to get 60 cents a day. This is the result of free-trade legislation. Tipton Advocate. Here are your Democratic 'good times." Produce low, money scarce, collections slow, business stagnant, a tariff that don't produce as much money as the government expends, and bonds being Issued to meet the deficiency. Vevay Revlelle. When It takes three months of labor to conduct a trial that the jury arrived at a verdict In twenty minutes, as was done in the Durrant murder case at San Francisco, it looks as if the law and Its processes are all too cumbersome and expensive. Warsaw Times. . It Is a question of protection and prosperity, or free trade and failure. The American people have tried both, and are now forever weddjed to that Bystem which gives labor remunerative employment and the tiller- of the soil a market among his friends. Fowler Republican-Era. .. We may look for a Thanksgiving proclamation any day now. There-is-no surplus to bother and the profits of the last issue of bonds ought to be conducive to a. proclamation full of consecration. Mr. Cleveland has also been quite successful in his fishing expeditionns. Owen County Journal. The historian and scientist, John Clark Ridpath, In some way tries to connect, the recent seismic manifestations with the disturbance of Trenton rock in the gas and oil fields of the country, but as New Orleans. f Omaha, Michigan and other points remote from the gas and oil j fields .were within the seismic area, and as all cf these regions were affected - with earthcuakes prior to the disturbance - of Trenton rock by boring for gas and oil, there is a possibility that the argument, pardon us Mr. Scientist, may be considered far. fetched by practical minds in the gas belt and elsewhere. Muncle T!mes. Governor Matthews ist playing In tough luck. He prepared an elaborate speech in favor of the Cubans, which was to have been delivered at the Atlanta exposition, but President Cleveland used his Influence to prevent its utterance. He then accepted an invitation to make a few Democratic speeches in the Ohio campaign, and the State committee assigned him to appointments so inconsequential that they would have offended Pod Dlsmuke. The Governor very properly availed himself of the great North American privilege of kicking against the arrangement, and he wc eventually shown consideration more in keeping with his ability, position and dignity. lafayette Courier. ...

AIIOLT PEOPLE AXJD TIIIXGS. Mrs. John A. Logan is greatly distressed over a'publicatlon to the effect that she Is lo adJiess a Cuban insurgent sympathy meeting Just on the eve of her contemplated visit to Spain. There are In France two brothers with the surname of Assassin, who recentlv obtained the necessary permission from the high functionary, called Keeper of the Seals, to change their name to one less offensive. President Diaz, of Mexico, is a. man, of tremendous energy. At sixty-five he possesses the bodily and mental activity of a man twenty years younger. He attributes his health to the fact that he has been a great eater and a , good , sleeper. Mr. Ruskln sees very few visitors now. At 11 'a. m. and 3 p. m. he regularly takes a walk with his attendant. But even then he Is so averse to the eye of a stranger that he will turn Into the first field, or get over a hedge if possible when the gate is too distant, rather than be stared at. The digestibility of cheese has been tested by a German chemist, who placed the samples in an artificial digestive fluid containing a considerable portion of fresJi gastric juice. Cheshire and Roquefort cheese took four hours to digest. Gorgonzola eight hours, and Brie. Swiss and ten other varieties ten hours. As an ordinary meal Is digested in four or five hours, the common belief that cheese aids digestion appears to be erroneous. The new biography of John Stuart Blackle recalls the sturdy old Professor's famous remarks at the temperance meeting where he was called on to preside. In expressing astonishment that he should be called to such a post, he said: "If a man asks me to dine with him and he does not give me a good glas of wine I say he is neither a Christian nor a gentleman. Germans drink beer, Englishmen wine, ladies tea, and fools water." The Society of the Army of Tennessee has appointed a committee to solicit funds and to importune Congress for an appropriation to erect a statue to General Grant In Washington. It Is a lngular fact that while any number of statues, equestrian and otherwise, have been erected In Washington to the memory of leaders in the great civil war. none has yet been reared to the great triumvirate, the giants of the struggle, Grant, riherman and Sherman. The treasures of tlje Bank of France are said to be better guarded than those of any other bank in the world.. At the close of business hours every day, when the money is put into the vaults In the cellar, masons at once wall up the doors with hydraulic mortar. Water Is then turned on and kept running until the cellar Is flooded. A burglar would have to work in a diving suit an 1 break down a cement wall before he could even start to loot the vaults. When the officers arrive next morning the water is drawn off. the masonry is torn down and the vaults opened. Joe Jefferson made an address before the Normal School alumni of New York the other day, and among other things he had this to say alout genius and art: "Of the much abused and much misunderstood qualities,, genius and art, It Is dlfftVult to tell where one leaves off and the other begins. Genius is apt to look down upon art. But, while genius can accomplish much more without art. art can accomplish mote without genius. Genius produces; art reproduces. In the first place, genius products the character which tne actor represents, but to keep it fresh, as at first, with continual repetition, requires art."-Barcelona,-the aecond'clty In pa!n as to population, was for a long time strangely remisa in regard to printing editions of Cervante'a immortal work. Only one edition in the .seventeenth century, and one in the eighteenth century appeared, but during the past fifty years Barcelona has published a jrreater number, of Illustrated editions of "Don Quixote" than any .other town In Eu

rope. A recent number of that deservedly popular Spanish Illustrated paper, the "Uustraclon Espanola." gives a list of nearly three hundred different editions or translations cf "Don Quixote." in almon all the European language, collected by Senor Bonsoms, a citizen of Barcelona. "What? Only a shilling to bury an attorney?" said Douglas' Jerrold when asked for a contribution for that purpose. And then, puttlns: his hand into his pocket, he added: "Here's a guinea; go and bury twenty-one of them." "I do believe." said Adam to Eve, His living picture eyeing, "Now I look at you. you're the" woman new The papers all are guying." Kansas City Journal. This Is a story of Hallowe'en: Two chestnuts ranged on the hearth together. One was -seasoneJ and one was green: They were named to solve the riddle whether Kitty and Fred Would really TveJ--They were made for each other, people aIJ. Pop went one chestnut away It flew. The other kept roasting on serene: The one that was seasoned through and through Had popped away from th'i chestnut green "It merely flopped. The one that stopped." Said Kitty. Fred took the hint and poppel Detroit Free Press.

SHREDS AXD PATCHES. Time is money especially a high old time. Philadelphia Record. One is not always happy merely because he has enough. Galveston News. Isaacs Has Cohen ever failed. Levi No, he vas had fires; he dinks dey pays be'-ter.-Ufe. A London newspaper man has Just been reduced to the peerage I nEngland. Florida Times-Union, Corbett and Fitz will now buy fresh supplies of paper and open the next round. Syracuse Post. Anyhow, It Is about time our re5plendent navy was tried on some country's ships. St. Paul Globe. Every woman , temporarily renews her youth when reading a .good love story. Atchison Globe. "That." remarked the giraffe, as he slaked his thirst, "meetii a long-felt want." Detroit Tribune. There was a cigarette-smoking clerk who once became proprietor, but it was by ac cident. Hardware. " A man who sits around and boasts of his ancestors makes a might) poor ancestor himself. Atchison Globe. It Is certainly high time the baby King of Spain was taking charge of his government in person. New Y'ork Morning Advertiser. Doctor I must forbid all . brain work. Poet But may I not write, some verses? Doctor Oh, certainly. Fl legend e Blatter. It Is the general understanding that the Cullen pres;dentlaf boom Is not to attempt to travel on Its shape. Washington Post. Last , year President Cleveland explained that he "had Congress on his hands." In a few w eeks he .will have it on his neck. Chicago Dispatch. It was of one who could write more forcibly than he could talk that It was originally said: - His pen is mightier than his word." Boston Transcript. "Ah," he , sighed, as his , wife went to confer with the delegation of her constituents, "this is no such campaign as mother used to make." Detroit Tribune. A LETTER FROM LOXG5TREET. Statement Concerning; HU Intervleiv -iTlth, 3Ir. Virginia S.' M. Coleman. Richmond " (Va.) Special to . Philadelphia Ledger. . ( The following letter of General Longstreet, relating to an interview between Mre. Virginia Stuart Mosby Coleman and General Longstreet, which Mrs. Coleman made public, has been sent from the J. IJ. Llppincott Company, of Philadelphia: To J. B. Llppincott Co.. Philadelphia. Pa.: Dear Sirs Yours of the 23d instant, with Inclosures. received and carefully noted. Regarding a recent newspaper interview, I would state that the reported saying about General Lee Is untrue. 1 have denied come of his alleged sayings about myself significantly current only since his death, nud have produced evidence in support of the denials. It is generally conceded that there were some mistakes in the campaigns of the Confederate armies. General Lee has said, so. too. and I have quoted him and hi letters upon that point. He was true to the last to the right of secession. I left it with the prayer that it might rest in peace In its big grave at Appomattox. I appeal to the public to read before they condemn. When asked why pursuit was not mad after the first Bull Run, I said: "It was not clearly understood; that a report In the army at the time was that Johnston and Beauregard were In favor, but the President objected." This was only mentioned as a camp rumor. Referring to newspaper reports- of speeches and interviews, I will say that they rarely bear scrutinizing. For instance, a late letter refers to a speech reported as made by ;ne recently in Chicago about her Majesty's governtnen; and people. 1 have not been In Chicago since the 30th of May, and when there made no criticism of that government, nor even mention of it, nor was it at any time In my thoughts. I did say recently in Chattanooga that we should care, for the Monroe doctrine, and that Is all that has been said in reference to the "subject that can be construed into a feeling adverse to our kinsfolk of the other continent. On the contrary, my admiration for that government and people is unlimited. My narrative Is, a plain statement of facts as recorded in the reports Of events as tney passed, and in that differs ' with accounts made since through newspapers, and may be offensive to those who prefer post-bellum fame. If truth is offensive, then 1 have offended. ' To claim that the people went apart from the Union to embark in a boneless cause will be to put them in a fale luht in ordc-r to conceal Individual indiscretions, for events have Illustrated reasonable hop .f a success and Justify their noble appeal to the power of the sword. Their fortitude, patience avj courage ' vv! exalted their character hi the eye.- or the world; the light of truth me ul-1 dorn the record of their heroic struggle, and will, when time his smoothed the asperities that are left by rough usuage in war and in politics. ThTft seems to be an undercurrent at work to prejudice my-book before it Is published, but I have faith that -the time ha arrived when people are not adverse to reading facts; supported as. they are by records of events aa they transpired. I remain, respectfully and truly yours, P JAMES LONGSTREET. Gainesville. Ga.. Oct.- 26. CLEVELAND'S MEDDLIXG. tnwHrrnntejJ Interference . In Free Speech for Cnbu. New York Commercial Advertiser. The statement is made in a special dispatch from Atlanta, published in a New York mornine newspaper. . that Mr. Cleveland has directly interfered to prevent the projected demonstration of sympathy for tho Cuban patriots at Atlanta Exposition. The original scheme was to set apart Nov. t for an imposing . manifestation of American friendship for the revolutionists. Governor Matthews, of Indiana, had .accepted an Invitation to deliver the principal oration on that date, and arrangements had been made to prove conclusively to Congress and the country that progresfive Southern sentiment would heartily welcome the recognition of the Cuban insurgents as belligerents. According to the dispatch to which we have alluded, the President, through Secretary Hoke Smith and his subordinate In Atlanta, peremptorily Insisted that the exposition managers should postpone their demonstration sine die. They are nald to have consented to put it off until Dec. 17. when Congress will be in session. No argument is needed to show the brazen attack upon popular rights Involved In Mr. Cleveland's conduct. The President has no more right to meddle with the Atlanta Exposition than any other American citizen. His fervent friendship for the shameless Spanish despotism which is fast turnlnr Cuba Into a Wert has been a source of profound humiliation and Indignation to the whole country. His perversion of the powers of the executive branch of the government In endeavoring to hinder the perfectly legal shipment of arms and ammunition to Cura has aroused sweeping popular condemnation. Brt not even Mr. Cleveland's severest critics supposed he would go so far as to assail the fundamental right of American free xpeech in behalf of an opr-reseed and neighboring peopl. Such conduct Is unparalleled in its insolence and Its glaring disregard of the limitations of the presidential prerogative. It should be sternly rebuked bv every self-respecting newspaper in the I'niled States. As for the directors of the Atlantn Exposition, we believe that they will be stronglv condemned by public ODlnlon for yielding in any degree to the imogdent demand made noon them In th PresHent's HTe bv the president's underlings. Cuban Independence Dev should hre been celebrated at the date originally determined upon. The Oovernment of the I'nttcd 2?tate Is a reptililc, not a icUlorthip! .

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AXXLAI. E It VICE 1IELI YESTERDAY IX EXTIIAI, ( IIHISTIAX CIII IICII. Peril lie Euloulen to Indiana's threat Wnr Ciovcrnor hy I). . Alexander find John I CirllHtli. As the years roll past and leart behind the days of the civil war many of the scenes Of those days and the men who participated in them are slowly forgotten; .but for many years the memory of Oliver P. Morton, the great war Governor of Indiana. has been honored and ket : frcih .by a memorial meeting held on the Sunday coming nearest to the anniversary of the great man's death, Nov. 1. Yesterday afternt at the Central Christian ChiacU ucl a service was held, and from the nature of the exercises and the large attendance it is safe to say that , his memory will not soon-be allowed to fade. Several of th G. A. R. posts attended in a body, and to add to the .appropriateness of the occasion the- commander-in-chief of the G. A. R., Col. I. N. Walker, acted as chairman. Tho main address was delivered by D. S. Alexander, and John I Griffilhs made timely remarks. The church was profusely draped with the stars and stripes and the rostrum was banked with palms and chrysanthemum. The auditorium of the church was filled by the time the exercises began, at 2 o'clock, and the lecture room was thrown open and accomodated many late comers. Members of the George H. Thomas, John F. Ruckle and Joseph R. Gordon posts attended in a body, and there were many others present whose bent forms ana strongly-marked facts gave evidence that they had been among those who had in by-gone days gcnerously answered the call of Governor Morton. The widow of the late Governor and his. son, Oliver T. Morton, of Chicago, were present. After a prayer by Rev. D. R. Lucas the Mozart Quartet sang "O Mourn Him Not." Col. I. N. Walker, acting as chairman, spoke of the usual custom .of gathering each year to honor the memory of that distinguished citizen' and great war Governor, Oliver P. Morton. Ho eulogized him as a man of reason, a born leader of men, and as possessing a wonderful comprehension of the true principles of republican government. . 1 In fitting terms he then introduced D. S. Alexander, who madV the' formal address of the meeting. Mr. Alexander had an Intimate acquaintance with Governor Morton, both before and during his term as the chief executive of his State. At times hia voice was full of pathos as he recalled some touching Incident in the life "of the great man, and again he would fiU the large room with his eloquent delineations of the man's lofiy character. Many times the speaker was interrupted by the suppressed applause . of those who could not refrain from giving vent to their concurrence in his statements. Mr. Alexander said: Comrades of the Grand Army and Friends It was at Memphis in December. 1862. For hours troops had been huddled together upon the decks of fifty steamer, waiting the word that should send the flotilla, ladened with Sherman's army, on lr way to Vicksburg. So long as the sun wa shining there was no need of overcoats or blankets: but when darkness settled down there came with it a cold, raw wind which penetrated ' to the bone. Somo Kentucky troops (belonging. I believe, to the Nineteenth Regiment), .being without such wraps, began bitterly to complain. An In.diana regiment happened to occupy an adjoining: steamer, and on hearing: the Kentucky grumblers, one of tljem snouted out: "Write to Governor Morton, he'll get you a b!anket. He's the Governor of Kentucky, anyhow." This raised a lauch. and very Boon we Jumped from one boat to another, and the stories began. There were several Indiana regiments, the Sixteenth and Forty-ninth. I remember, and I think the Sixty-ninth, possibly the Fifty-fourth also enough, at all events to sing tho praises of their Governor. Among a score of reminiscences I recall an Incident told by a member "of the Fortyninth. That regiment had been severe sufferers while at Cumberland Ford, several hundred being down with malarial fever at one time. The colonel wrote the Governor of their condition, and. In a few days four wagon loads of chickens and' delicacies, such as sick men get at home, were on their way to the camp, with several fresh mi!k cows tied on behind. This was my flrst acquaintance with the real character of Indiana's great war Governor; but I did not meet him personally until the summer of 1S71. At that time two score or more of gentlemen, representing a dozen counties of Indiana, had assembled In the east room of the White House to be irftroivsced to, President Grant. Presently Senator Motton, walking with great difficulty upon two canes, entered the room, taking a seat near the entrance. While being introduced to him by General Veatch, of Evansville, he addressed a few words to each of us, and soon led the way to the Cabinet room, where the President received un. As ono gentleman after another stepped forward tho Senator without rising, presented each one by name, giving hi place of rcsldtnre and some, pleasant incident connected with his life. At flrst this familiarity with name and residence created no surprise, but after twenty or thirty, myself among the number, had been treated in tho same courteous manner, making each one feel that he was a gentleman of some consequence in his locality. I becan.! deeply interested in observing the work of such a remarkable memory. I could not believe that all this large company had met him as strangers only half an hour before. His easy manner, the entire absence of hesitation and the interest which he manifested in esch one, made me feel that wc were acquaintances if not old friends. Iter in the day, being given an opportunity to speak with the Senator more at length, he said he had never before, to his knowledge, met any of the gentlemen; that he had informed himself as to the character and occupation of each, because, for the time being, they wete his guests whom he was to have the pleasure of presenting to General Grant. - " He met us as strangers, he left us his friends. It was enough that we caught his smile; that we heard his voice- mellowed Into tenderness: that we looked Into his face, full of tremendous determination, but softened by eyes twinkling with good nature. 'So wonder that old men revered, that middle age admired, and that the young loved hitn. "How to win friends and keep them." saj-s Mr. Forney, is the secret of u successful public man." Senator Morton pos- . essed this gift in large measure not.-perhaps, in the same form as that of Hmry Clay, whose charms of unrivaled eloquence, of commanding presence and of great personal magnetism, drew men to him in spite of their previous prejudice? ; but, because, back ot his recognized ability, there were strict Integrity, high honor, a generous nature, and a simplicity, sincerity and naturalness which were irresistible. A MAN F VARIED TALENTS. He easily u . common men on a common level, becaus ' 'prung from the ranks of the common e. Among those classed as great, i ctually, he was .the- peer of the ablesv. wlth-all of whom h mingled with ease and confidence. 'Thus he was perfectly at home with whatever class cf men he happened to bv thrown, winning some by sympathy, othtra by his frinlly manner, and all hy the superiority of hia mind. He enjoyed humor, he was ready at repartee, he delighted in anecdote; his laugh was infectious, and he was careful never to wound the feelings of the most sensitive. I recall a Ml or: characterise pleasantry. On 'the way from San Francisco to Oregon, In U77, our steamer wai followed through the Golden Gate by t ne of the magnificent Pacirtc Mall steamers, bound for China and Japan. As we turned northward, and the other kept oil to t henorth west, giving us a splendid view cf her nohle proortlons. Senator Saulsbury. of Delaware, who was of the commisfcion, enJoved the sight fur some time, then, turning to Senator Morton, he sail, with a pride almost amounting to haughtlm: "Senator, that ship was built in the State of Delaware." "How much or It?" asked the Senator, with a twinkle in his eye, referring to the smallnef of the State. "The whole of It. tlr." replied Mr. Saulbury. "Then." said Senator Morton, thor must have laid the keel lehgtuwlse of the State." - . In the Senate he had no enemies, while among his iarty u&sociates he was universally held in high esteem, and with sone wa upon terms of Intimacy. Ills relations with Senator Sumner were peculiarly ptfnsant. lie poyesed a charm of manner too, that attracted ilr. Surr.n-r'a