Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 November 1895 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1895.

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In orJer to receiTe attention, t aceouiautel by tbe name and atklrem of tb writer. the: inbiaxapolis jotnxAL au be foutwJ at tlt followiiiK riaea I'A It is American ixebacg-e lu l'arLs 39 Jioolarard d I'apurinea. NKW YURK CILmt House. Windsor Hotel and Aitor llonae. m OlirAtiO-rainier How. Audiloriuai Hotel and P. O. News Co., VI Adam street, tICINNATI-J. K. Haw'7) Co., 154 Vln street. LciflSVILI.E . T. Ieeruj. northwest comer of 1 bird aud Jefferson sis., aid LouUi Me Book Co., 2rt r mirth ave. H. LOUIS Union News Conifanj, L'aion Depot W ASHJM'TOVr. C BlRifS Hoote. Kbbltt !Ioue, Ward's Hotel attd tLe Washington Newt Exchange. Ulh street, bet. nn. are. and f street. In thirteen months the Gorman tariff has created a deficit of J60.000.000, and yet there are those who applaud it. So Mr. Cleveland will take the American people into hla confidence and announce to them his foreign policy when he sets ready.: ' That treaty of 1817, which prohibits the United States from building gunboat on the northern lakes. Is out of date, Hnd steps should be taken "to revoke it. aaaaBTanBBnasssnssjMMaBnBBSBMSvMSBSiaiBssBsssBasnnaBt Than that faith which Secretary Carlisle's subordinates and the Cleveland organs express In the early departure of the deficit there is nothing more confiding and childlike. If the State Printing Board, can save the taxpayers $25,000 by a carefully prepared contract, their efforts will be appreciated. A Democratic board seemed not to think of such a thing. Miss Wlllard rewiarks that the drinking of intoxicants is diminishing as the years pass; 2t the same time prohibition has lost one State and the sentiment is less ngr.resslve in others. A corresiKjiidnt has been writing a Chicago paper that Mayor Taggart "has not places ' enough to satisfy one-half of the hungry-" 'ot one in twenty can be cared for. as the very, hungry and the very angry know too well. If the old fields In the vicinity of Milford, eb., are anything near as rich as Prof. Herbert Bartlett reports them. Mr. Bryan. -who is wandering about the country labeled IS to 1. cannot but regard the discovery as a personal affront. If the President does not permit Congress to amend the nonrevenue tariff of the Democrats he should request them to add to It a section authorizing him to sell bonds at the best figure, to secure money with which to pay the neverfalling deficit. Mortimer Nye. Greene Smith, W. It.. Myers, ex-Uepresentatlve Shlvely and other Democratic aspirants for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination are viewing the distress of Mayor Taggart with ecstasy because they know that he is no longer, fn it. If Hoke Smith had been at the pension office yesterday and seen the feeble and poverty-stricken condition of ,many of those whose pensions have been reduced from S12 to Ji or $S a month he must have concluded that the doing of 'it was small business. SMBSaHaBMaaMBSHBMpSSSMHMMMMB' Unless there Is a willingness all round that the population of Kentucky should be wiped out in certain localities all will be relieved that the election takes place to-day. A political meeting in out-of-the-way regions ' usually culminates in a free shooting. Th. demand of commercial bodies in Eastern citlfs that the reciprocity clause Df the McKinley law be restored is not, well founded It Is a system by which an advantage was given for a concession considered as an equivalent. The fire list of the Gorman law has made it imiioxsible tu offer such advantages to South America and other SUgar-grow-Ug countries. ui ine t,.nu pensioners wno were dropiied from the rolls In a few weeks after President Cleveland returned to power. 4.200 have been fully restored and only 204 persons have been convicted of fraud, many of whom were claim agents. Yet In the face of his own figures the Commissioner of Pensions keeps up a howl about fraudulent pensions Just as if half or more of them were tainted with fraud. The Brewers Journal says that C3.463.660 barrels of malt liquors were sold during the fiscal year which ended last June an Increase of 191.42S barrels over ISO, and the largest total ever reported. Pennsylvania leads the list, with New York second and Illinois third. The output In New York, however, was nearly three times that qf Illinois. Wisconsin, considering Its population, must be the greatest producer of beer. The "war cloud" of European correspondents has come to be heavily discounted as chiefly a work of the imagination, but Just now there appear to be more indications of a generally disturbed condition than for many years. Russia, in spite of explanations on the part of that government, is In actual hostility to Gnat Britain. The 'effort of the Salisbury government to protect the Armenians is known to be a failure, the slaughter of that people having been resumed on a lai-ge scale, The Sultan. It is said, feels hecure against further interference from london. Salisbury Is embarra?d because It is known that his further attempts to coerce the Sultan may oring on a general European war. Already the Russian press is accusing Great Britain of proposing the partition, of' Turkey among the powers. Meanwhile, tiy? Sultan is beset by an increasing multitude of hla domestic

enemies, which may result in anarchy, which Russia is doubtless prepared to take advantage of. In the far East, Russia's military purpose becomes dally more clear. All Europe, except Great Britain, undoubtedly sympathizes with Russia's desire to secure a free outlet to the Pacific, so that British opposition will not long suffice to restrain the Czar. China, in .the opinion of Europe, will soon be in the throes of a revolution, so that diplomatists pay little attention to what the present Chinese government may do or wish to do. In London there Is already talk about Great Britain declaring warvuion China so as to get her share of the Oriental plunder. The latest from Japan Is the growth of a sentiment favorable to Russia. It Is also believed In European diplomatic circles that Germany is in hearty accord with the Russian-French policy In China. The triple alliance, which seemed so Important . in European affairs a few months ago, Is no longer talked about. That the situation Is considered grave appears in the disquiet, not to say alarm. In the financial world. Already the market has fallen sharply, and London bankers express a great deal of anxiety, PKKSIDKXT ASHLEY OX DAILROA IIS.

In the current number of the Forum, President Ashley, of the Wabash Railroad Company, has an instructive article on "The . General Railroad Situation," which, say those who possess the general information current regarding the subject, is about as deplorable as It can 'be. President Ashley Is able to give some of the causes. One of them is that there are tod many trunk lines. There are six roads connecting Chicago with St. Louis, and seven running from Kansas City td that point, and there are six .lines across the continent. He declares that two lines are ample to do all the business the six or seven" are doing. Here is, seemingly, the condition of irretrievable loss at the outset. The through business which six lines are' doing, but which two" can do," will increase vith the years, but . it can do comparatively little to make the money In all the lines a fair. Investment. The growth of local buslness on many lines Is the best hope of the railroads. President Ashley advances the theory that the-transportation interests cannot be seriously Injured "without a corresponding , detriment to the commercial and industrial interests of tho country. Intelligent observers cannot fail to see Its force. Any large investment of capital In the country which yields no returns to the owners can but have a depressing effect upon capital and the credit of the country abroad. Those demagogues who shout that all the people want Is low rates, no matter whether the owners of the railroads make or lose, have done great mischief. Rate cutting Incident to the present fierce competition of more lines than are necessary to do the business Mr. Ashley shows Is not only disastrous to railroad property, but Is detrimental to the interests of small shippers because it gives the advantage to shippers who control the largest amount of freight. It is the business of such shippers that railroad officials seek and give it special rates in spite of interstate-commerce laws. A year ago it was the complaint of the manufacturers of tin plate in this State that the plates Imported to New York city were shipped to nearly all of the larger cities in the interior at a lower rate than could be obtained from Elwood. This was because the shippers offered large quantities offrelght. President Ashley is certain that the enactment of the bill which the Senate passed during the last session, repealing the anti-pooling clause of the interstate-railway act would remove a large part of this ruinous rate cutting. To put the general execution oft a pooling agreement under the interstate commission ' would insure remunerative rates and prevent that discrimination In favor of. large shippers which places thousands of smaller shippers at such a disadvantage that they cannot do business. Mr. Ashley's argument In favor of pooling simply confirms the observation of a large number of business men who have witnessed the evil results of the anti-pooling law. President ' Ashley devotes a considerable portion of his paper to an effort to show that there Is a popular misapprehension Us to the extent of stock watering by American railroad companies. He maintains that the best and oldest lines have expended, year after year, from their earnings, for what may be called permanent improvements, more jncney than has been added to stock as water. He'does.not see why an average cost of $62,000 a mile for roads should appear excessive In the United States when the average cost In Great Bri tain is $223,000 a mile. In this country we. began to run roads with wooden bridges and culverts, which, in a few years, had to be replaced with Iron. Until recently this substitution had been paid for out of the earnings of the roads. Mr. Ashley doubts if any statistician can hnd that the railroad stocks of the country have been diluted by an aggregate of $000,000.000 by the watering process. It is not . probable that any statistician will undertake the task, and it is vastly less probable that the managers of several extensive transmisslsslppi lines built fllnce 180 would permit such an expose. There was a time' When stocks were given to those who purchased bonds In such lines sometimes dollar for dollar. If such stock Is not classified as water by the president of the Wabash probably his opinion Is correct. 1I LIIT VAGAniKS. It is in the nature of things that a minister of the gospel should be ruled by theory and sentiment in his treatment of political and social questions, and It is therefore not surprising that members of the profession frequently show a grea lack of practical judgment In dealing with public questions. They advance ideas that are simply Impossible to carry into practice In the present stage of man's development, If ever. To people experienced in the affairs of life and better acquainted with the possibilities and limitations of humankind the vagaries of these well-meaning theorists would be amusing wre It not that thetr Influence Is sometimes positively deleterious, retarding, as it has a tendency t do, the real work of uplifting the race. Rev. Mr. Mllburn, of this city, has, for instance, some notions about the punishment of criminals. He would have the rule of love prevail.

Offenders against law and moral should be dealt with gently and lovingly, and be entreated to reform, not for the good, of society alone, but for their own sakes. If a young man steals he should be permitted to make atonement without shame or odium and so be restored to his place in society, of course, with a renewed moral nature owing to the gentle treatment. If men and women will reject the chance to reform and become habitual criminals, he would not have costly penitentiaries provided, but would have two Islands set apart, one for each sex, to which the State could send them, and where their lives would be made as comfortable as might be. "I would," he says, "allot to each a portion of land to cultivate. I would make every criminal, as far as possible, self-sustaining, and I would make his or her way as easy, and as smooth,' and as pleasant as might be. I would adopt this method of discipline out of the spirit of love, and not out of the spirit of hate. I would do it for the sake of the criminal as much as for the sake of society. I would do it with the purpose of restraining the criminal against himself, as well ui with the purpose of restraining him against the body social. And I believe if society would apply this method. If it would lift the criminal wholly away from the conditions which tempt him with such vehemence, that, by reason of his diseased moral organization, he is powerless to resist, it would take the most sane step that has ever been taken toward the extirpation of crime, and at the same time toward the just and humane treatment of the criminal." With all due respect to Mr. Mllburn, it must be said that this Is twaddle of the most unmitigated sort, which cannot be met by serious argument. If he knew what he ought to know about the law of the State he would know' that it Is based upon the highest moral law that of the greatest good to the great-' est numberIn short, the law of love. If official application of this law sometimes seems to lack gentleness It is the fault of the individual representative rather than of the law. itself, and what certainty has Mr. Mllburn that his "expert commissions" who would pass upon thecrimlnals and the officers who would escort them to their-island retreats would be more humane or "loving" than courts and sheriffs now are?. Upon what authority does Mr. Milburn take away the penalty of sin and crime? If there is a divine rule absolutely inexorable it is that' which makes punishment follow sjn. An. Infraction of the physical or moral law is followed by an Inevitable penalty which even the law of love, and forgiveness does not hinder. If the Maker of the human creature does not excuse him from this penalty, by what right can his fellows do so? The "law of love" as sought to be applied by Mr. Mllburn, is an emasculated law, and a dissemination of such enfeebling theories in recent years has done more to prevent the proper regulation of crime and reform of criminals, than the stern and possibly harsh enforcement of Justice, can possibly do. EIGEXK FIELD.

The death of Eugene Field removes from newspaper and literary circles a peculiar and rather remarkable personality. He was not what is known as an "all-around" newspaper man, his work being confined to a special line, yet within certain limits he showed much versatility. He ranged from wit and satire and bitter personalities in his dally column of "Sharps and Flats" to poems of Homeric model and tenderly pathetic child verse. To' the Chicago public he was best known, perhaps, by th'rt personalities his unsparing pen touching upon local characteristics and upon the foibles of leading citizens in a way to attract attention and to amuse the rather large class of people who enjoy seeing their fellow-creatures held upon a spit. In this respect Mr. Field was a good deal of an Ishmaelite, his pen being turned against every man, even his best friend, when he saw opportunity for momentary applause. He gave the fVnpresslon of placing to the galleries rather than to the more discriminating part of the public audience which Is ready to recognize and ap prove the result of conscientious effort and genuine conviction, even though it take the form of satire. He may be classed, indeed, as having been a typical representative of the modern idea of personal Journalism his wit being so keen and his attacks so merciless that he gained more than the usual passing notice accorded to such writing. The world outside of Chicago knows Mr. Field best by his verses, in' which he showed another side to his nature. He has written voluminous!, and much will not be remembered. Perhaps there is little that will live In the sense of being widely known and quoted, and yet many of his pathetic poems portraying phases of child life and expressing love for children, and his occasional devotional songs are doubtless cherished to-day in scrapbooks and between the loaves of family Bibles surest proof that they have touched a common chord. Mr. Field was a man of talent and unique character, and he will be missed in the circle where he made himself so distinct a place. A SEGLECTKD DUTY. An exchange, commenting on the large Republican meeting held in Carnegie Hall in New York city a few evenings since, said that when Mr. Depew spoke of the other distinguished Republicans named In connection with the candidacy for President there was a limited applause, but when the name of Harrison was mentioned the whole audience of four thousand people seemed to break forth in enthusiastic acclaim. And yet the same writer, after showing the popular preference for General Harrison, predicted that the delegation in that city would be so selected as to vote for other candidates. . Why do not-those four thousand take an active part In selecting delegates to the Republican national convention? Why do they attend public meetings and make known their choice and then absent themselves from the primaries and the conventions and permit a comparatively few men, who often have petsonal ambitions to promote, to have them misrepresented in the convention which will nominate the party candidate for President? Thero can be no doubt that the three 'or four thousand Republican voters who vigorously applauded the name of General Harrison

can secure delegates In his favor if they will take action in that direction. As primaries and conventions are now conducted in any Northern State a majority of the Republican voters can have their way if they-will make the effort. The comparatively few men who are said to control primaries, and conventions do not succeed by ignoring the presence of the mass of Republican voters, but because Hid largfc majority of those who absent themselves from primaries enable the minority, led by such men, to have their own way. It is not the fault of the few men who are so often and so unjustly stigmatized as bosses that they fall inQrhe Impression that they are essential to the organization of the party and potential in its nominating conventions. Such a condition of party affairs results from the neglect of the mass of Republicans who do not take a iittl interest and devote a little time In organized effort to secure the nomination of tho men they prefer. The young Indianapolis lawyers of the Democratic persuasloh who are citizens of the United States are not yet reconciled to the fact that the Mayor and his city attorney have made an

alien assistant city attorney. They cannot appreciate free importations of ; that character. A Lincoln Portrait. Abraham Lincoln's ."hold upon the people of his century is ' manifested In no more striking way than by the eagerness with which everything relating to him Is received. It would seem as If the Incidents of his life had all been told over and over, and yet even repetition does not make them pall. The editor of McClure's Magazine has reckoned veil on this general interest in offering a new "life" of this marvelous man of the people. It is partly, no doubt,' because he was of the people! born in poverty, .familiar with toil, and "ever" with 'sympathy warm for the lowly that his later life of heroism and martyrdom touches them so closely. He came out from among them to lead his country to freedom and peace. The manner of his growth, ilc secret of his development from a farm hand and a country lawyer Into a greatness unsurpassed in human history are things the world never .tires of study ing. A rortrait published in connection with the biography mentioned will aid In this study, affording, as It does, a new glimpse Into- the character of the man. It a. reproduction from a daguerreotype IiFthc possession of Robert Lincoln and never before copied. It was taken when the subject was between thirty-five and forty, and shows him ns he was before life had engraved hard traces and before he was known outside of a limited circle. The resemblance Is there to he Lincoln the world knew, years after; but Its unlikeness Is most striking. In all the portraits familiar to the public the" extreme sadness of the face Is marked. Deep lines furrowed in the cheeks, the drcbp"othe mouth, and. above all, the expression of the eyes, speak this Infinite melancholy.; He bears the look of one acquainted with . grief. In this earlier picture this expression Is absent. The face Is that of a man much handsomer than would have appeared possible for the seamed and rugged features of the great President ever to have .'been and yet the old-fashioned daguerreotype was apt to be an accurate likeness. This one shows an intellectual head, a curve of the lips betraying the sense of , humor that stood him afterwards In so-good stead, and clear, wide-open eyes, speaking gentleness but not sadness. It is a noble face, suggesting the scholar or the writer, and looking at it the wonder comes as to what would have been the life of the man had fate not marked him for his wonderful career. The portrait is commented upon by a number of men who knew him well, and all regard it as a valuable r contribution to history, but Judge Thomas M. Cooley gives it. perhaps, the closest analysis. He says: "The same characteristics are seen in it which are found ' in all subsequent likenesses the same pleasant and kindly eyes, through which you feel,, as you look into them, that you are looking into a great heart. The same just purposes are also there; and, as I think, the ame unflinching determination to pursue to final success the course once deliberately entered upon. It seems almost Impossible Xo conceive of this as the face of a man to be at the head of affairs when one of the greatest wars known to history was in progress, and who could push unflinchingly the measures necessary to bring that war to a successful end. Had it been merely a war of conquest, I think we can see in this face qualities that would have been entirely Inconsistent with such a course, and that would have rendered it to this man wholly Impossible. It is not the face of a bloodthirsty ,man, or of a man ambitious to be successful an a mere ruler of men; but if a war should come Involving issues of the very highest Importance to our common humanity, and that appealed from the oppression and degradation of the human race to the higher instincts of our nature, we almost feel, as we look at this youthful picture of the great leader, that we can see in it as plainly as we saw in his administration of the government, when it came to his hands, that here was likely to be neither flinching, nor shadow of turning until success should come." Mr. Austin Corbin, railroad magnate and financier. Is given the first rages of the North American Review this month in which to present the shortest sea route between New York and London. At the point of departure; on this side, .for such a routo, Mr. Corlln names Fort Tond bay, one of the finest uatural harbors In. the world, located on the north side of Long inland. 114 miles from New York. On the other side, Mr. Corbin selects Mllford. the most westerly port cf Wales, which is 273 miles from London. He shows that steamers starting from Fort Pond bay on receipt of tfce mall which left New York Saturday morning would be able to deliver their malls in London the following Friday evening at the latest. Mr. Corbin is largely interested in Long island and its railroads. The recent issue of Beerbohm, an English authority on the wheat trade, places the world's crop this year at 2.2W,000,ooo bushels, which is C.2 per cent., less than the 0CQ.000 bushels estimated by the same authority last year. . In making this estimate the crop of this country is put 25,000,000 bushels above the estimate of the government report. The Paris Bulletin des Halles, a careful authority, places the aggregate deficiency, compared with last year, at 270,000.000 bushels. IIUUDLE IN THE AIR. Appropriate. When Bossy to the butcher went. The yearlings their notes did raise. In that touching song of the music halls, "She may have seen butter days." Doable Kotendre. Mudge That blamed idiot of a Johnsberry came up to me and slapped me oa the back and called me "Old Rounder." Yabsley Indeed. 1 hadn't any idea he was well acquainted with you. Carried Too Far. . From the Plunkvill Bugle: "We are American to the core, and we have no love for the blarated . bullying Britisher, but when our esteemed local contemporary car rles his Anglophobic tendencies so far as

to refuse to write his editorials in English, we have to quit him." True t lllmarlf. . Hungry Biggins 'Fever I take a notion to kill myself, I think I'll use a gun. Weary Watkins I wouldn't lie in no sich undignified haste. I'd use slow poison. AHOIT PEOl'Ln AXD THINGS. Alice King, the English novelist, who has been blind ever since her seventh year, is, nevertheless, a fearless horsewoman, and. when accompanied by friends, gallops over the roughest roads with keen enjoyment. A Capuchin friar in the south of France named Father Joseph has been in the habit of firing off a cannon to attract congregations. The cannon blew up recentb. killing a man some distance off, and the friar was fined 200 francs for "homicide through imprudence." The New York Tribune says that the surviving daughter of Horace Greeley (.Mrs. F. M. Cltndenin, formerly Miss Gabriellc Greeley) hopes that time and material will warrant her In undertaking a new and authoritative life of her distinguished father. She has lonir been collecting correspondence and other matter to this end, and will be glad to have letters or manuscripts sent to her at Westchester, New York city. t A girl named Slabln, called "the Sleeping Girl of o?nitza," is creating a sensation in Upper Silesia. . She fell 111 there about eight weeks ago of heat apoplexy, and has Buffered ever since from hysteria. She professes to have received direct communi

cation from the irgin Mary, and thousands have been flocking to her daily in tne nope or witnessing the "mirac e." in spite of the fact that the priest has warned mem mat it is an an illusion. She is now in an insane asylum. Ellen Terry has been taking bicycle lessons.. She is not yet an expect; in fact the reporter says she "flounders madly around just like any other woman, gets all tangled up, and then with a laugh begins all over again." Her daughter has got the start of her as a wheel woman, being now far enough along to try the flying mount. Sir Henry Irving looks in at th lessons occasionally but has not jet enlarged his acquaintance with tho tragedy of real life by tackling a wheel himself. During the last nineteen months N. E. A. Lasley, his wife and children, formerly of Port Angeles, Wash., have been traveling over the western part of the country in what is practically a house on wheels, drawn by horses. They were in Denver a week ago, having traveled 2,273 miles since the start was made. Mr. Lasley ts well-to-do, and the odd trip was undertaken on account of his wife's ill health. It has proved a success in that she has completely recovered, and she is now so pleased with the life of leisurely wandering that she is bent on continuing the trip to the Eastern coast. The craze for collecting posters bids fair to take a strong hole on the faddists this winter. It is proving a serious thing for the publishers, however, for .they find it very difficult to keep their posters displayed in book stores and at newsstands. There are too many dealers who find it convenient and profitable to get posters for nothing and then sell them to collectors for a quarter of a dollar apiece. Some of the largest magazine and publishing firms are already trying to devise some scheme which will enable them to retain ownership In the poster until It has been displayed for a. certain period, after which it will become the property of tho shopkeeper or newsdealer. 'TIs wrong for any maid to be Abroad at night alone; A chaperon she needs till she Can call some chap er own. . Kansas City Journal. In proverbs dangers often lurk Their meaning rather hazy.,. "The happy man sings at his 'work, But drives the others crazy. Atlanta Constitution. They proceeded with esprit, de corps, Their feelings in song to outporps. They sang in a flat, There remain where they' sat A few scattered splotches of gorps. . Detroit Tribune. Doncin Days. What Is It in old fiddle-tunes 'at makes me ketch my breath, And ripples up my back-bone, tell I'm tickled 'most to death? Kind o like that sweet-sick f eelin in the ' long sweep of a swing Yer first sweetheart in with ye, sallln up'ards, wing to wing; Yer first picnic, yer first ice-cream, yer first of ever thing 'At happened 'fore yer dancln'-days wuz over! s I never understood it and 1 s'pose I never canBut right In town here yisterd'y, I heard a poor blind man . A-flddlin old "Gray Eagle." Jerked my lines and stopped my load O hay and listened at him yes, and watched the way he "bow'd" And back I went, plum forty year, with boys and girls I knowed . And loved, long 'fore my dancin'-days wuz over. At high noon in yer city with yer blame magnetic cars A-hummin and a-skreechin' past, and bands and G. A. R's A-march!n and fire ingln's all the noise the whole street through -Wuz lost on me I only heard a whippcrwlll cr two. It peared like, kind o callin 'crost the darkness and the dew. Them nights afore my dancin'-days wuz over! Tuz Chused'y night at Wetherell's. cr We'n'sd'y night at Strawn's, Er Fourth o July night at cither Timps's house er John's! With old Lew Church from Sugar Crick and that old fiddle he Had "sawed" clean through the army, from Atlanty to the sea And ylt he fetched her home ag'In, so's he could play fcr me Onc't more, afore my dancin'-days wuz over! Tho wood 'afs all be'n cut away, seemed growin same as then; The youngsters all wuz boys ag'in 'at's now all oldish men; And all the girls 'at then wuz girls I saw 'em, one and all. As plain as then the middle-sized, the short-and-fat, and tall. And, 'peared like, I danced "Tucker" fcr 'em up and down the wall. As petrt as 'fore my dancin'-days wuz over. The facts Is. I wuz dazed so 'at I clean forgot Jes where I rallly wuz a blockin streets, and still a-standln there! I heard the poleece yellin. but my ears wuz kind o blurred My eyes, too, fer the odds o that bckase I thought I heard My wife 'afs dead a-laughin like and i jokln, word fer word, Jes like afore her dancin'-days wuz over. James Whitcomb Riley, In November Century. Reed's Doom. New York Evening Post. The presidential candidate who is having the biggest boom at present Is, undoubtedly. Torn Reed. He has Just been given a senior! at a dinner of prominent Republicans in Boston, and his managers declare that he will go into the convention with New England solid for him. But what his friends "bank upon" much more heavily is the claim that the Republican bosses of the two greatest States in the Union, Tom Piatt and Matt Quay, are for the ex-Speaker and will give him th New York and Pennsylvania delegations. The more sanguine treat the PiattQuay "combine" in favor of Reed as settling the question, and regard the convention as only a necessary device for recording the decision reached by the bosses. The Idea that the masses of the party wilPhavo anything to say In the matter apparently never occurs to the Reed managers. Perhaps they will not, but if the next Republican national convention Is really "net up" in this way for the candidate of the bosses. It will be the first time that such a thing has ever happened in the history of any party in this country. To Give Away. Philadelphia North American. President Faure. of France, is respectfully Informed that we have a Cabinet at Washington that we would be glad . to transfer to him. And it is guaranteed not to resign even when tho whole nation disagrees with It. Our Determined Governor. Loulavllle Courier-Journal. The Governor of Indiana Is determined to recognize the Cuban Insurgents" as belligerents. The Governor of Indiana is determined that somebody shall recognize his presidential boom as booming-

VOTE WILL BE CLOSE. (Ciulnlfil from First Page.) to that part ofthe election. The gold and silver Democrats, however, have exhibited some spirit, and each faction asserts that their Jtate candidates will poll the full strength of their wing, and in that manner the relative number of the voters favoring or opposing the white metal in Nebraska. In Omaha the battle has been hot, hotter. In fact, than any previous contest. Early in the fall the city was startled by the discovery that the. city treasurer and hi3 deputy were short J.0O). They were at once relieved. Other irregularities were discovered in city departments, and a com mittee of five hundred of Omaha's most prominent business men met and issued a call for ail citizens favoring reform to organize a citizens' league. Thts was done, and a ticket composed of business men of varied political affiliations named. It will be indorsed by the Democrats and Populists. The Republicans, it is claimed, were controlled by the A. I. v. The battle has been fought between these two forces. -10,000 OR MODE. The Plurality Expected for f'en. Drake by Ioun llepolillcnun. DES MOINES. Ia., iov. 4.-The Republican and Democratic headquarters in this city were closed to-night: the campaign work is done. Chairman McMillan, of the Republican committee, said, simply: "We have mad a good fight. We expect'more than Jackaon's plurality. I think we will do more than seven thousanJ more, which will gi-v- i!H a plurality of forty thousand and upArCs. We will also elect, probably, one hur.irei out of 150 members of the Generrl Afsembly, making sure of Senator

AiHfron reelection. Chairmun Walsh, of the Democratic com-mitte-, jVj that he was satisfied they could cut cVwi: ihi Republican plurality and that, with lue rfort, they would defeat General Drak-liy a small plurality. The Populists are eluimir.g from forty thousand to sixty thousand v tes, which is a large gain. The ProhlMtiomvts are also expecting a largely incrcJ,tVl vof due to the Republican party adopttr.r the ijvdct license law. The prospects are fori 'luge vote being polled, although -th promised fair weather may keep many fanners in th field. IX rEXXSYLVAMA. Interest Centers la the 'Rivalry of Democrats for One Jndjreahli. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 4. Little Interest is attached to to-morrow's - elections In Pennslvan'a. The only State officials to be vtd for are a State Treasurer, to serve for tv.o years, and teven Judges of the new Super icr Court, to serve ten years. Tho' cand iates for Treasurer are: Benjamin Hfywood (Rep.)., of Mercer - county; cxC.'nsr'&sman B. F. Meyers (Dcm.), of Harr'.'jrg. Mr. Hey good's election is regarded by . his party as. a foregone conclusion, the only question being the extent of his majority. The only contest will probably be for . one of - tho places on the Superior Bench. The Republicans have nominated the six men of that political faith who- are at present members of the bench Judges Beaver, of Center county; Wickham, of Beaver; Rctder. of Northampton: Willard. of Lackawanna; Rice, of Luzerne, and Orlady, of Huntington, These are sure to be elected if anything like the usual vote Is polled. For the seventh place there are six Democratic aspirants, Messrs. Yerkes, of Bucks county; Bechtel, of Schuylkill; Noyes, of Warren; Magee, of Allegheny: Smlthr xf Lackawanna, and Moorhead. of Westmoreland. The fact that there are so many pegs for the single vacant hole will encourage trading and cutting all over the State. The campaign in the city has been even quieter than in the State, Judge BIddle. of the Common Pleas Court, and District Attorney Graham are the candidates of both parties. The other candidates are: Recorder of deeds, W. M. Geary (Rep.), and J. J. Curley (Dera.). present Incumbent; city controller, John M. Walton (Rep.). present Incumbent, and F. B. Vandegrift (Dem.); coroner. S. H." Ashbridge (Rep.), present incumbent, and E. S. Harrington (Dem.). clerk of Quarter Sessions, W. B. Ahern (Rep.), present incumbent, and E. J. Sellers (Dem). Republican managers claim there is little doubt of the whole Republican ticket being elected by about 50,000 majority. PREDICTIONS PROM L'TAII. Both Republican and Democrats Say ' They Will Witt. SALT LAKE CITY, U. T., Nov. 4.-On the eve of the political battle all parties are lined up ready to cast a large vote. A snowstorm, which has raged all day, may interfere with the voting in the country districts. Both parties closed the campaign tonight with rallies at all principal points in the Territory. In this city the Democrats closed with Addresses by Judge Powers and others at tho Continental market The Republicans closed their campaign at the Salt Lake Theater, with Senator Shoup, of Idaho, as the principal speaker. An Impartial observation leads to the conclusion that the Republican ticket. will, be elected by a safe plurality, although there are many issues of doubtful effect. Roberts, Democrat, for Congress, will probably run ahead of his ticket. Chairman Cannon, of the Republican State central committee, says tho State ticket will be elected by a safe majority and that the Legislature will be Republican without question. Chairman Powers, of the Democratic committee, claims the Democrats will elect the State ticket by from five hundred to eight hundred majority, and that they 'will elect thirty-two of the forty-five members of the Legislature. He adds: "The only element of uncertainty Is whether the Mormon people dare to vote the Democratic ticket, when it is manifest that the leaders of the church desire the election of the Republican ticket." V. 11. Lannon, manager of the Tribune, says: "The Republican State ticket will be elected by from two thousand to four thousand majority, the Legislature will be overwhelmingly Republican and the Constitution will be adopted by a majority of fifteen thousand." General Young, manager of the Herald, says: "The church question, being novel, may upset all calculations. Indications point to a very close vote." KAXSAS rOPlLlSTS. They Wnnt to Elect the Sheriff In Every County. TOPEKA, Kan., Nov. 4. The greatest interest in the election to-morrow in this State, particularly In the eastern half of the State, will be centered on the office of sheriff. The Populists are making unusual efforts to elect the sheriff in every counts. In this city there will be the hardest fight on this office that has been known, for many years. Democrats and PopulJsts have combined on O. B. Kepley. a Democrat, to beat David Burge. the present Republican incumbent, and if by any chance Kepley should win the victory in this Re publican stronghold it will be used to advantage by the Populists In the next State campaign. The cniy State officer to be voted for is Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. David Martin. Republican, appointed to the position last summer, was nominated by the Requbllcans. Neither the Populists nor the Democrats .made any nomination and his only opponent -is C. K. Holliday. jr., independent, free silver and Prohibition candidate. Martin's election Is generally conceded. OX E St RE STATE. . Democrats Will Have Xo Trouble In Carrying Mlaalaalppl. . JACKSON. Miss.', Nov. 4. The State canvass was closed in Mississippi to-day by Hon. A. J. McLaurln, candidate for Governor, who made his last speech at Morton. Tho whole Democratic State ticket will be elected by an overwhelming majority, as It is safe to say that the Populists will not carry half a dozen counties in the State. It is doubtful if Capt. Frank Burkltt. tho Populist nominee for Governor, carries his own county of Chickaraiv. Full Stat, district and county tickets w'.ll be elected. The Legislature to be chosen will elect a successor to J. Z. George, who Is not a candidate for re-election. The canvass just closed has been practicallj' one-sidtd, and. It Is claimed, the remjlt tomorrow will end Populism in Mississippi for all time to come. The Indications are that the weather will be perfect to-morrow. ISSl'E IX YIIIGIXIA. Republican nntl I'opnllMtK Want the Election Ln-tvin Revised. RICHMOND. Va., Nov. 4. Virginia Is not a storm center this year, as no !miKrtant Issues are Involved and no State officers are to be elected. The campaign has been listless and a light vote ts expected tomorrow. Half of the members of the State Senate und the entire Houe of Delegates will be chosen, but as the legislature d(v not select a United States Senator the l lsl&tira contest baa not been animated.

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rin uuii id, me jiepuoncanj ani j oculists urging that the pteetYit Walton election law has the effect of Klvliig the dominant :arty control of the entire :cctl-a machinery of the State. MKi:cil 11 Y 1IOAH. . i . . at-... l . i . . a r-a The MttMnncliUMctta Sentora Vlrw o( Demorrnr?' ;m1 Time. BOSTON. Nov. 4. The Republicans of tli city and State brought their campaign to a close with two grand mas meetings ht-M at roon to-day, one under the auspices of Marktt Man's Republican Club, in Fancuil Hall, and the other In charge of the Republican State, committtec at Music Hall. At the former meeting Senator Georg F. Hoar, of Worcester, divided honor with Governor Gm-nualge. As the Senator made his apearance on the ' platform for the first time in this campaign he was accorded an enthusiastic greeting. The opining portion of the Senator's address was devoted to State issues, the salient paragraph being a declaration that the Reubllcan nartv of Massachusetts maintained the rights of American citizenship, all over tho country, without distinction of race or birthplace, or creed. "I mc," he said, "that some of our friends on lth inls are disposed to thrust into this campaign some matter which does not seem to me to belong to It, or to be a profitable subject for party or political discusiom On side takes as its emblem the little red schoolhouse of our - grandfathers. The Democratic candidate for Governor, not to be behindhand, says he goes for the little schoolhouse,, but he wants a white one. Now I think I can suggest a compromise wmcn win saiisry ootn. l propose to uotu sides to take as our emblem and I will" stand by them the little red cheeked schoolmarm. Let her take her shingle In her hand, and where she. brings up the boys there will be no bigotry and very littlo Democracy." Advertlnc to national i?sue. .Senator Hoar said: 'The Democrats of Massachu-. setts, those of them who have anything tt say in public, profess to le followers and admirers of President Cleveland. Thcj tell us that the times are l-ettcr. Better than what? Not certainly better than Republican times. Not certainly better than the last years of Benjamin Harrison's administration when the McKinley bill or the Republican tariff which preceded It w as in force. Those years were the high-water mark of 'fluman prosperity and especlally of the business industries of Massachusetts. Undoubtedly, times are better than they were during the days of the Democratic rebellion of 1851. Undoubtedly th times are better than they w ere during the first eighteen months of President Cleveland's present administration, a period which cost this country I do not speak of M UIU KJ L 1 1 1 limn 1 1 W 14 V " w this country, measured in money more than the rebellion. Itsejf. "But to whom is It due that the times are better than they were w hen the Democratic rebellion was flourishing, or during the Cleveland times of the first years' of this administration? They attribute it to the present tariff, and whose work is tho existing tariff? It is the work of Mr. Gor man, of Maryland, for whom the Democratic leaders and the press In Massachusetts hardlv find language to express their dislike. The present tariff, according Ac the President. Is a measure of dishonor and perfidy. If there be any one thing more tnan anotner to wnicn inc nuuur oi mn President and his Democratic supporters, in New England is pledged, it is to the revision of the present tariff, whenever they get the power, and the overthrow, of so much protection a Is left In It. They must either use all their efforts' for the immediate and absolute overthrow of the fiorman tariff, they must acknowledge that they have been mistaken and arc novr converted to the Republican doctrine, or they must admit themselves perjured and man sworn." ' Continuing, Mr. Hoar said: 'They (ih Democrats) congratulate you on , your escape from the odious, sectional. lumsy and socialistic income? tax. but that you owe to the decision of the Supreme Court. But who waa the political champion of the opposition to me income w President Cleveland submitted and which be allowed to become a statute? It was Senator David Bennett Hill, of New ork. So our Democratic admirers of the President are trying to get a little respect for him. and for themselves, toy coolly appropriating to his glory the labors of Mr. Gorman and.th. principle of Mrv W1IE.V IXDIAX SOIMEIl COMES. Not Yntll the Bright Days of MidXoTrmbrr. , Providence Journal. Manv person if they were asked about It would sav without hesitation that thesa last days o'f October are the real Indian summer. The term is vaguely employed, and at one time or another has Tueen stretched to Include almost all the attractive weather with which we are Wesid between the close of August and the 1ft of December. Thanks to the almanac, we have gotten the idea very thoroughly Into our heads that summer ends on the 31st of August, and when we find the rkle still warm and grateful after that date and tho woods and fields still calling to us with nriiali' vilrMi xet are a. little nemlexed as to what we ought to think about It, anl whether It is really autumn or summer come again. Thus we fall back upon th familiar term "Indian summer," which seems a sufficiently appropriate compromise, although there Is no special justification for our selection of this uncertain phraseology. It would be much more satisfactory If w should disabuse ourselves at once of the notion that summer proper ends wirh the month of August. There is nothing In 'the atmosphere or in the appearance of th natural world to indicate any radical change in the season at or about that date, and the increasing custom of lengthening the vacation outing at the seashore or In the mountains Is proof sufficient that w are gradually coming to appreciate the fact that summer really extends through September, to say the least. Let us fay. for example, that summer ends only when th frosts of October have put a change upon the face of things, and thia will not only be nearer the truth than the established conception of the season, but will enable u also to get at a fairer Idea of when Indian summer makes Its appearance. The lexicographer Worcester quotes Dr. Freeman a saying that the term Indian summer is ued in North America to define a season of pleasant weather in the late autumn, and this notion of its date is brought out in various ways bv most of the poets and versifiers who have discoursed upon the subject. And a very prolific source of verse It bas been. Here is one rhymer, for Instanc. who tells us that Indian summer comes in "the autumn's dotage, mid-November, when skies seductive woo the earth." and another who places it within the period when "the woodland foliage I gathered by the wild November blast." when "even the thick leaves upon the Khake-n bTugh are fallen, to the last." Samuel Longfellow says: "Summer Is gone; but summer day return: the winds and fronts have strippT' the woodlands bare," and a fourth poet tells us that the season comes "after October's biting frosts." From all f theie quotations and many more like them P, ts apparent that these present pleasant davs are not the Indian summer, after all. We shall have to wait until next month before the real red man's summer, warms the atmosphere and the soul of the reminiscent sentimentalist. The popular Imprewlon of November. l not a kindly one. We associate the month with tld and biting breezes, dltmul days of cloud and smoky haze, and ullen reminders In sea and sky of th aulck-comlnc winter. But this is an unjust concept Ion of the month. If we will tke the trouble thii year to note the comparative frequency of the pleasant and unpleasant diys cf November In this latitude, we shall be surprised to see how many of the whole number are agreeable ons, devoid of the harsher characteristic popularlv associate 1 with this time of the year. Warm davs and brirht sunshine will bring back attractive memories of the spring and summer, and the stillness of the bare woods will purest almost anything rather than th i.!nr and tempests of the winter season. Then it la that Indian summer makes its apjarance. The summer is gone and has bea succeeded bv a period of biting October frost. We have relinquished the warm season without exrx-ctatlon of It3 retirn. when suddenlv It comes back, shorn of its fonrrr glory of foliage, but a grateful season r:li. This belated summer Is one of the plesantest features of our New EnaUnd yenr. and anvone who studies the tu)ci with the poe'ts. for instance, to guide him will be surprised to' see what a deep lmrre'on It has made upon the mind of the Englishwriting bard SSBSSBlSSSBBBSMSBBaBaBBBSSBSlBBBSSBSaSSBaSBBMI t'nii It lief New York Post. Mrs. Rohrer says we must not cat iotatoes and Mrs. SomeUwly else says we mut not eat bread. Thro seems to be an organized femab conpiracv to drive the country to the deadly pb; habit. ' Marital Amenltle. Detroit 'Free Pres. "What Is the use of telklng alnit jrolng to the theatir when yod know It is too later asked Mr. Hlmberx. petulantly. 'Well, can't 1 have ths satisfaction of wanting to go?" retorted hla srilc.