Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 November 1895 — Page 4

THE .INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER V, 1895.

THE- DAILY JOURNAL TIIUnSDAV. NOVEMBER 7, IS05.

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TUK IXDIAXAPOLIS JOURNAL C an be foiral at the following places ' " f A Hl. American fcicLange La rarls, 38 IiouleTard da t ajmrlnes. NEW YORK Cllsey House, Windsor Hotel and Astor lloue. 111 I t'AU- rainier Mouse, Auditorium Hotel and P. J. ewco vi Adams street. . C 1 N 1 1 N N ATI J . K. Hl7y a Co., 1M Vtn itreeC LOUISVILLE C T. Deer in i, nortnwest corner of Third and Jefferson sts., and Louisville Book Co., 3XS fourth ate. M . LoLIS Unloa News Company, Caion DepoC tVAMUNf.TOX, D. C Rlggs House. Ebbitt Houv, Wards Hotel and tbe Washington News Exchange, 14 Ut street, bee 1'eao. ave. and ' street It Isn't Gorman's Maryland; it is his Waterloo. ."' The Populist party seems to be finding its level, and a pretty low one, too. It looks as If a majority of the American people were In'favbr 'of "reciprocity. Tuesday's elections 'were a very loud vote of want of confidence in" the Democratic party. , , i. The recent so-called Democratic victory In this city does not seem to have operated as a keynote. The people seem to have stamped, brethren, and stamped with care, also in considerable numbers. The people have virtually said that thejr would rather' capture foreign markets than be captured by them. The reassurance of" Tuesday's election of Republican ascendancy .in 1896 will give new confidence to business. : - Now. If, the earth had quaked yesterday morning Instead of several days ago it could have been easily accounted for. If it had been a presidential year and a full vote the Republican majorities would have been larger, but they will do. The Democratic party should go into the hands of a receiver if enough assets can be found to compensate that official. It looks as If a great many Democrats who joined the Republican party on the tariff issue In 1S93 and 1894 had come to stay. President Ingalls. of the Big Four, is congratulated on his signal .failure in attempting to boom the Brice-Campbell combination in Ohio. . The wool growers in Ohio, the wool and pottery workers in New Jersey, and the old veterans all along the line got in their work Tuesday. Since the event of Tuesday In Ohio, would At not be prudent on the part of Governor Matthews to cease to parade In the select company of prophets? The result of Tuesday's- elections Is a declaration in favor of American markets for American products and American wages for American workmen. Wat Hardin is he of Kentucky now Is no longer a question. He is the Beaten Hardin who Jumped a , sound, money platform into the silver bramble bush. . Senator. Brice said the other day that he was proud of the ' fact that he Was born in Ohio. Ohio, according to ,the official vote, doesn't seem so proud of it; The attempt to Inflate Mr. James E. Campbell, of. Ohio, to the dimensions of a national statesman has failed, and he will now subside to his normal proportions. They had some trouble in ;the New Tork courts about the rooster on the Democratic State ticket. There is no trouble about that bird now. He' is "daid." Hamilton county,-Ohio, which used to be . Democratic, seems to have been soundly converted. jOn Tuesday it gave Bushnell,' Republican candidate for Governor, H.6SS majority. It. was fortunate for Mr. Wilsonrrof tariff bill fame, that he was not a candidate on Tuesday. He would' have-met the same fate that Senators Gorman and Brice did, only more so. - , As Is too-often the case, the "goo goos" or the ."too goods", in New York city have shown that their invincibility la 4 best demonstrated in. the- exercise .of their vocal. organs before election. Republicans would not Wave been surprised had there been a reaction in Ohio from the great majority of 1893, but there was not. In fact," there was no reaction anywhere. It was all action. In the magnitude of her majorities Pennsylvania is still the banner Republican State. As Daniel Webster once said of Massachusetts: "There she i3. Behold her and jude for yourselves." Telegraphic reports from Pennsylvania during election day indicated a light vote. A Republican plurality of 153,000. . and still growing. Is heavy enough to answer the purpose,, however. Those enthusiastic . persons who thought a short time ago that they saw in Mr. Thomas Taggart a Moses who was to lead the Democratic party out of the wilderness have discovered their mistake. The magnificent Republican victory In Ohio will restore good feeling among the party leaders in that State, who were beginning to crowd one another somewhat, and will re-establish harmony in the party. With the misfit of a Secretary of Agriculture leading the Cleveland Demo crats, and Bryan, bespangled with 18 to '

1 mottoes, leading the silver wing, no

wonder the Democratic voters of Ne braska took to the cyclone cellars Tues day. The fact, however, that the sound money faction voted better than the silverltes may be regarded as proof that Bryan is the greater all-round terror. TIIE ELECTIOXS. Fuller returns of Tuesday's elections not only confirm but emphasize the results as indicated by the first dispatches In the aggregate they constitute one of the most remarkable political victories on record. It is not more decisive or emphatic than that of last year, but it presents some even more surprising features than that did. - The elections of last year were more general than any that had occurred for twenty years, all the States electing Congressmen and manv of them Gov ernors and State officers. The net re sult was an overwhelming Republican victory and a complete , change in the political complexion of Congress. With the exception of California the Repub licans carried by largely Increased ma Jorities every State ordinarily classed as Republican, all the so-called doubtful States and several - usually classed as Democratic. As a result of last year's elections twenty-four States will be with out a single Democratic representative in the Congress which will meet next month, as against eight Stares without a Republican Representative, and the Republican majority aver both Democrats and Populists will be 134, as against a Democratic majority In the Fiftythird Congress of eighty-two. The elections of Tuesday were not "nearly as general as those of last year. being confined to thirteen States, but they were quite as significant and scarcely t less important in their results. The Republicans carried eleven of the thlr teen States which voted, all except Vir ginia and Mississippi, including the three usually reliable Democratic States ot New Jersey, Maryland and Kentucky. The large Republican majorities in , the congressional elections of last year "were either increased or well maintained all along the line, while the capture of Maryland and Kentucky was something that the most sanguine Republicans scarcely dared to hope for. The Repub licans gain two and possibly, three United States Senators, arid' such vantage-ground that two or three, others whose terms expire two years hence, will probably be defeated. ' There Is no mistaking the meanlng'of these results. The Republican victories on Tuesday were no more accidental than were those of last year. On the contrary, they indicate the deliberate Judgment arid fixed purpose of the people to make an end of Democratic mismanagement in national affairs and restore the government to the hands of the only party which has shown capacity to administer it and to legislate for the welfare and prosperity of the entire country and all classes of the people. THE EXD OF A BAD PRACTICE. That the officers of the southern prison and several other institutions have been for years expending: sums of money in excess, of the appropriation for any given year and taking the amount put of the' succeeding year's appropriation discloses loose and ; irregular methods which are not only In violation of law, but are detrimental to an economical management of their affairs. The official who feels that there Is no real necessity for his keeping within his appropriation for a given year will expend more than he otherwise would if, every two years, he was compelled to go before the Legislature and ask for the voting of money to make good a deficiency. Furthermore, if the officers of a prison or of any other institution can expend in one year the money appropriated for the next, there is no end of evil to which the practice may. not lead. In the case of the southern prison' the officers were permitted, several years ago,. to draw a small amount of the appropriation for the new year to pay bills contracted for the old. The next year the amount taken from the new year was larger, and year after year the next year's appropriation has been encroached upon until nearly the. amount appropriated, for a' whole quarter in the new year has .been expended during the old. There are those who defend the. practice on the ground of . precedent, which they urge has the force of law.' Prece dent may have the force of unwritten law, but it cannot hold in the face of a statute. The second section of the general appropriation act declares "that for the fiscal year beginning the 1st day of November, 1895, and ending the 31st day of October, 1896, including the' speciflo appropriations herein made, there are hereby appropriated the following sums of money." It is for a .given year that $85,000 was appropriated by the, Legislature, consequently it is a violation of law to expend it in the previous year. Still, for years the officials of the southern prison and of other institutions have been permitted by auditors to "antlclpate' the next year's appropriation In paying the expenditures of the previous year. How many other ' institutions have been doing the same thing? How much money that has not been accounted for in fact has been expended In this manner? The debt which has accrued tothe southern prison by" this lawless custom Js about $17,500. How many institutions have incurred a similar liability for the State? State Auditor Daily proposes to put an end to this evil and unlawful custom by seeing that the provisions of the law are compiled with. That i3 sound business, and where sound business methods succeed irregularities they are real reforms. AX OI1JECT LKSSOX. The attention of a few excellent men In this State who have been going up and down it. running at the mouth of the free-silver mania, is respectfully called to an object lesson," or, perhaps, better, an eye-openef. Some of these excellent people have, all through the heated season, been telling us that the people are frantic for the free and unlimited coinage of fifty-cent dollars. They have scarcely .given themselves rest, and they have certainly given no other person rest who was within the roach of their mouth deluge. For a time they were listened to. but of late sensible people with work to do have fled from their presence. There is nothing vicious about these excellent but misguided citizens. They do not intend to be dishonest. It has never occurred to them that they have become bores. They are eimply the vic-

tims of overdeveloped and distorted imaginations. They are for free silver, consequently all men are. Talking 'all the time themselves, they have. fallen into the delusion that all the people are

raving for the free and unlimited coin age of silver. Their vision is so de ranged that one silverlte is multiplied a thousand times, j Their " imaginations have so obliterated. their judgments that they can no longer grasp a fact. The voting In the Eighteenth Illinois congressional district on Tuesday pre sents a primary ..or simple' fact, which, if they are" not the; hopeless victims of their Imaginations, they should be able, little by little, , to grasp. It-has always been a Democratic district, and its Democracy has been diluted with the cheap-money heresies of such men as Edward Lane, who has represented . it in Congress and who now has twice been repudiated; Moreover, it is one of those districts of which it was asserted last March that all of the Democrats and three-fourths of the Republicans were frantically demanding the free coinage of silver. Composed largely of farmers, and In one county of such voters as" are found in manufacturing towns, it was a district which might be carried for free silver if any district outside a silver State could. In fact, the heresy was believed to be very strong in the district. The Republican elected last fall having died, another election was ordered for Tuesday. The free-coinage, crowd,' led by.Altgeld, jumped' Into the; district and nominated ex-Representative Lane on an advanced 18 to 1 unlimited platform. The canvass was begun early by the free-coinage champions. All trie Influence of the Altgeld crowd was 'brought to bear upon the district. Mr. Lane went up and down the, district showing that:he had Voted for every, free-silver proposition presented while he was in Congress. Bland, the high priest of' free silver, was early called to'.the Eighteenth. The boy orator Bryan, labeled 16 to .1, hastened to the battle ground. On th. other hand, the Republicans were late in the field. Then, about the time the candidate first nominated was ready to enter the canvass, he suddenly died. It was then so late that it was necessary to hasten a second nomination in order to file it before the expiration of the legal limit. Then the fight was begun, the main issue being between free and unlimited silver and such restriction of the use of silver as would Insure the circulation of both metals as money. Tuesday night the votes were counted, and the knight of free silver went down In disaster under 700 more votes than hfs Republican predecessor received in the landslide of 1894. Never was a fight so squarely made on the silver Issue in Illinois, and never did such unlooked-for and unmeasured disaster overtake a free-silver champion in a district always regarded sure for that - heresy. Would it be asking too much of the excellent persons to whom allusion has been made to request them to glue their attention for one silent hour, to the simple fact embodied in the result In Illinois? COX O RAT f LtATI OXS'TO KEMt'CKY. If there Is one feature In the great Republican victories of Tuesday which above all others will cause special .rejoicing among Indiana. Republicans it is the victory In Kentucky. The "two States are closely allied in many ways. Separated only by a river, they are practically Joined in many interests.. There Is a mutual liking and much in-' tercourse between their peoples. They haw intermarried a good deal, and there are many Kentucklans and descendants of Kentucklans in Indiana. During the war Indiana soldiers conceived a strong liking for Kentucky Unionists, and since the war they have learned to. like Kentucky Confederates. So it has come to pass that the people of the two States are friends as well as neighbors. They have not been quite as " closely allied politically as they havfe In some other respects. Heretofore' Kentucky has 'always been reliably Democratic, generally by large majorities, while Indiana, has often gone Republican. Tet Indiana Republicans have noted with pride and pleasure the steady growth of Republicanism onithe other side of the river, and have watched with increasing admiration, year after year, the splendid fight which the Kentucky Republicans have made. Kentucky Republicans are made of such stuff as might be supposed from the conditions under which the party, has grown up In that State. They are of the never-surrender kind. They have not been discouraged .by defeat nor cast down by disaster. Year afteryear they reformed their lines and renewed the fight when there was not a ghost of a chance of success,' and year after year they increased their vote and whittled down the Democratic majority. Hayes received 97,156 votes in 1876, Garfield 106.306 in 1880. Blaine 118,122 in 1884, Harrison 133,134 in 18SS. In 1892 the Republicans lost some ground. but In the congressional elections of last year they more than recovered it, and , this year they have carried the State.' Indiana Republicans have known what It is to be defeated, but they have never made as long a fight or had to wait as- long for victory as have those of Kentucky. The latter have deserved success for many years, and at last they have achieved it. The Republicans of Indiana congratulate them and send heartiest greetings to the old guard, to those who have borne the heat and burden of. the day, to;, the, new recruits, to the young Republicans in short, to all who have contributed to this splendid victory. y . It will be a good thing for Kentucky in many ways. The State has been under Democratic control far too long. . It Is a bad thing for any party to continue uninterruptedly in power as long as the Democratic party has, in Kentucky. So long a continuance of power begets irresponsibility and loose methods. It was high time for a. change, for the books to be opened and for the introduction of new ideas and methods. The result devolves a weighty responsibility on the Republicans of Kentucky. As the party of economy and retrenchment, of progress and reform, they are under bonds to , the people to give them a better administration of the State government than they have had in recent years. Fortunately, the Gov-crnor-elect, Hon. W. O. Bradley, is an able as well - as a. deservedly popular man, and he will doubtless prove a wise leader for the party at this important Juncture. Power ' brings responsibility, and the Republicans of Kentucky should realize that they now have a great op

portunity to prove that the confidence which the people have placed In them is

deserved. Meanwhile, their brethren in Indiana send them congratulations, i The Courrier des Etats Unls. the lead lng Franco-American ; Journal, charac terlzes the new French Cabinet as fol lows: - "A chemist for Minister of Foreign Af fairs, a civil engineer for Minister of War, a vaudeville writer for Marine Minister, a lawyer for Finance Minister, a doctor for Minister cf Colonies, a BoulanRi?t convict for Minister of Justice, a draughtsman for Minister of Commerce. with the addition of a few "supes" such is the Ministry which the Radical party, has just presented to r ranee. So heterogeneous a Ministry as that can hardly hold together long. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, designated above as "a chemist," is M. Berthelot. He is so notorious an office seeker that the late M. Renan suggested for his epitaph, "Here lies Berthelot, in the one place he never coveted." ' It begins to look as if Mayor Taggart is the only Democrat' who has enough success at the polls this season to war rant his being considered an aspirant for the Democratic -presidential nomina tion. That child of fortune and the pos sessor of the captivating smile is the only Democrat who has had more votes than the other fellow this fall. ; Governor Matthews after his return from a speech-making tour in Ohio, ex pressed himself as hopeful of Campbell's election, adding: "Indeed, I should not be surprised if he would pull through safely." As to the Legislature he said: "I am confident the Democrats will be victorious." The Governor knows more now.. enaaSBBBSBBBnsaSBBBSBlSBBBBnMSISBSHaSBBSSSBSBSBBnSSBBBBSBBBBW Henry Watterson's recent description of the Democratic party as "a monster without a head, running loose through the wilderness of political incertitude," has lost some of its fitness. The partyis still headless, but has dwindled so between two days that. It can hardly be classed as a monster. The success of Tammany in New York city will be a good' thing for the Repub lican party in the State at large. Tam many's local success and. control of the machine will widen the spilt in the Democratic party and prove a new source of internal dissension. The .verdict of yesterday is the third emphatic declaration of the people in Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and jbhio that they desire a tariff constructed on the theory of protection of American industries and interests. . . ";,?;f ensnnsBaBBBSasBSBsnMBSBsMasBSiBBBBBBSa The President madeno extra arrangements for receiving, election news on Tuesday, and apparently took little interest in the result, says a Washington dispatch. Well,- he has probably heard the news by this time. eBSSJBiBSBBBMSBSBaBBanSSBBVBsaVaaMSSSaBBBSBSBBBBSBBBB) DIBBLES IX TIIE AIR. Safer. EditorGo and interview all the Kentucky colonels you can on the election. Reporter If it is all the same to you, I think I will use the telephone. Sorry She Spoke. Mrs. liashcroft Dear me, Mr. Billings, If you read your paper at breakfast that way you will forget wjiat'yoir are eating. - Billings Of course. (Goes on reading.) Different Case. "If I give your friend a place," said the banker, "he will have to give a bond. I suppose you will go on?" "Bond?" exclaimed the other man. "Why, he can be trusted with uncounted millions.' "Yes; but all the money we have is counted." ' A I'eHMintknt. . Weary Watkins Say, If you was where you had a chance to steal a ham or a bottle of booze, and hadn't had nothin' to eat for three days, which would you take? Hungry Hlggins You talk like a man with a wooden leg. Hdw kin I Imagine meself bein' so lucky as td have a chance to steal a bottle of booze?. An Important Series of Lecfnrea. Next Friday evening, Dr. Edward W. Bemis will begin a course of lectures in Plymouth Church on the subject of "Money." It is a subject of practical im portance . and one concerning which there are many crude theories and much misinformation and Ignorance a fact which was demonstrated . by the dead end gone silver craze. The lectures of Dr. Bemis, six in number, cover the whole field, ' beginning with the "Nature and History of Money," and closing with the "Present Monetary Problems." It is fair to assume that Dr. Bemis whl give the historical features of the subject accurately, which is a very im portant fact. ' There can be no question. for instance, that he will give a true history of paper money in Europe and America, and set forth historically the advantages and dangers of paper money as he pro poses in his second lecture; but whether or not his opinions upon rthe expediency of retiring the greenbacks of the United States are wiser than those of -others remains to be seen. In the .third lecture Dr. Bemis proposes to consider -'Bimetallism Prior to 1873." His history wlllrbe accurate, but his conclusions s to whether or not Congress acted wisely and -.honestly In dropping the unlimited coinage of sliver In 1873 need not be accepted.: fr' .... The lecture on "Changes in Wages and Trices" is largely an answer to questions which he asks. If his answers are fairly deduced from the history of wages and prices since 1810, to which Dr. Bemis refers, he will give" some usefub Information, because it will be based upon the data of experience. If, however, he should reject as worthless the statistics found In a real history of wages and prices, as did a teacher In economics who was formerly connected with an Indiana institution, his answers to several questions he suggests wlll'be mere speculations. One " of the questions which he proposes; ' "Should the volume of money be as great as the present debt and annual transactions 'of the people r should be so, well answered before he reaches It that it- will need very little consideration.' When 22 per cent, of all the transactlonsf the country are adjusted by bank check and drafts. and when a. ten-dollac bill passing from hand to hand will practically ierve to -pay off fifty or a hundred dollars of obligations in a day. It stands tojejson that about fifteen billion of dollars inwhat may be called legal -tender moneyls not needed. Thfc Journal has no means of knowing the views of Dr. Bemis on the very important topics which he will treat; but, whatever his views, he will give a vast amount of useful information which 'it Is very important that young men and women should possess. In no one bookxran tijey find all of the topics treated which Dr Bcrots will take up, and the reading of no! treatise can so well convey the elementary Instruction as the personal lecture. Colfeges have ' ascertained this fact, and the. lecture of the professor has largely taken the place of the textbook. The young "man or woman of average Ielllgeaee who desires to. obtain Information regarding very important subject can- make no better Investment of a

dollar and no better use of six Friday evenings than by putting both Into Dr. Bemis's course of lectures. Paris women who wear" bloomers of knickerbockers when riding bicycles will be disqualified from receiving the sacraments of the church, according to the instructions issued to the clergy by the Cardinal Archbishop cf Paris. And the Cardinal probably had a voluminous and imposing gown that is to say, robe-when he Issued the decree.

The Philadelphia Inquirer says It is "not in sympathy with the Indianapolis News's apparent desire that Holmes 'shall be taken out and lynched." The Inqulrerrmust have misunderstood the News's utterances. It never, no never, could have advocated anything so unladylike. "Kaintuckian, sah? I? No, sah! I was a Kaintuckian, but by gad, sah! Kalntiicky is no mo. t sah! Give me a drink of that Yankee rye!" A Boston paper speaks of a certain Iowa politician as "Amos C. Clarkson." For a man whose name is all of him this' is hard. ' MAGAZINES OF TIIE 3IOXTII. Harper's Weekly of .Nov. 9 has a full page picture of the battle ship Indiana, "William the Conqueror" is the name of Rudyard Kipling's new story, to be published in the Ladles Home Journal. The character of the "wit and humor" departments of the various Harper periodicals gives weight to the charge that the contract for the work is farmed out to the lowest bidder. The Black Cat is the name given to the latest venture in cheap periodicals." It is devoted entirely to Action and Is Issued by the Short Story Publishing Company (Boston), is well printed and attractive in appearance, contains half a dozen original short stories and sells for 5 cents a copy. It is published monthly. The Horseless Age (New York) is the title of a monthly journal "devoted to the interests of the motor vehicle industn'." In view of the recent disastrous failure of Mr. Kohlsaat's motor carriage exhibit in Chicago, and of the fact that horses are f till with us in considerable numbers, the publication eeems a trifle premature, but perhaps we shall grow up to it. Among the artists who are represented In the Monthly Illustrator for November, either by reproductions of well-known pic tures or by original drawings, are C. W. Allers, C. L. Ball, George Du Maurier, Matt Morgan. Jr.. and Georee H. Smilli. The announcement Is made that the De cember number will be "the most masnlfl cent Christmas magazine ever issued in America. . . . . . Something new In fiction is Julian Ralph's story in Harper, of Chinese life. Plumblossom Bcebe's adventures have an interest in themselves, and at the same time serve to illuminate-vividly certain phases of life in that far off land which missionary records and consuls' reports fail to touch upon. Owen Wlsters "Pilgrim on the Gila" is another clever short story in this number. The incidental account of the tricks of the Western politician who is working for statenooa is not the least interesting feature of me taie. The Philistine, an Irreverent little, periodi cal, notes the fact that Rev. George II Hepworth now signs his name to 'the ser mon editorials in the . New York Sunday Herald, and comments on the fact in this light and airy way: "Unquestionably this will add a new and livelier interest to the church. Each combatant knows exactly whom he is fighting. It Is now Hepworth against Satan with a fair field and no favor. We have no hesitancy in saying that so rar as Air. nepwortn 'is concerned, there will be no Valkyrie business. Moreover, there is no desire to shirk responsibility. What he has to say he will say fearlessly over his own signature, and if those against whom these ecclesiastical thunderbolts are launched do not like them they know what they can do. Wot fell!" Mr. W. D. Howells makes a very entertaining chapter out of his recollections of literary Boston thirty years ago. Some of the men and women he writes of have gone out of life, but all still live In the literature of the country. Readers have formed opin ions of them and their work, but-It is Interesting to have this side light thrown upon them. Mr. Howells points out that New England -has yet to produce a novelist whose work Is proportioned to the merit of. the poetry, the philosophy and the romance which have been born in that region. He draws a distinction between purely Imaginative fiction and novels picturing life as it Is, which leaves Hawthorne's talcs among the former. New England, he concludes, yet lacks her novelist because it was her instinct and her conscience to be true to an ideal of life rather than to life Itself. Mrs. Linn Linton, in the National Review, quotes the saying that Britons are never slaves, and then proceeds to show how helpless they He under the tyrannies of brivate life that of servants, tradesmen, husbands over wives, and vice versa; parents over children, children over parents. Under the latter head she says: "In too many Instances the young people are glad to escape from home simply because within those four walls, which should be the dearest place on earth to them, they are stifled so that they cannot breathe freely denied and coerced so that they cannot live or move in liberty." But the young, she declares, are most tyrannous. "Thev inter fere with your lifelong habits, and inch by inch occupy the whole territory, till you have not so much as a rood of freedom left you. iney oppress you with their unresisting manipulation, and finally roll you flat: and the last days of an old person are ofttimes da's ot secret grief and pain for the very assiduity of the young, who, under theguise ot kindly car, exercise a tyranny that Is practically torture' This article and other choice gleanings from British periodicals are in the November Eclectic. Lafcadlo Hearn writes In the Atlantic Monthly of the political and social conditions in Japan after the war with China. Incidentally he describes the marching away and the return of the native soldiers: "These soldiers looked so much like stu dents whom I had taught (thousands, indeed, were fresh from school) that I could not help feel it was cruel to send such youths to battle. The boyish faces were so frank, so cheerful, so seemingly innocent of the greater sorrows of life." Later when they came back. "I could scarcely believe these were the same men I had seen going to the war; only the numbers on the shoul der-straps assured meJ of the fact. Sunburnt and grim the faces were; many had neavy Dearas. i ne uarK-niue winter uniforms were frayed and torn, the shoes worn into shapelessness; but the strong, swinging stride was the stride of the hardened soldier, lads no longer, but toughened men, able to face any troops In the world; men who had slaughtered and stormed; men who had also suffered many things which never will be written. The features showri neither Joy nor pride; the quick-searching eyes hardly glanced at the welcoming flags, the decorations, the arch with its elobeshadowing hawk of battle perhaps because those eyes had seen too often the things which make men serious. (Only one man smiled as he passed; and I thought of a smile seen on the face of a zouave when I was a boy, watching the return of a regiment from Africa a mocking 3mlle, that stabbed.)" It Is the story of the American soldier over again doubtless the story of all soldiers. They are aged by stress of war, not by years. ABOUT PEOPLE AM) TIIIXGS. .The Countess of Castellane, formerly Miss Gould, is the proud possessor of a crown that was once worn by Marie Antoinette. Peter Wyberg Is one of the few lucky miners from the Alaska Yukon fields.' lie has Just arrived in San Francisco with lio.000 in gold dust from the Forty-mile river flats. Queen Margherita of Italy is soon to publish her experiences as an Alpine climber. The book will be Illustrated with pencil sketches made by the Queen and said to be highly Interesting. The little town of Acreo. Ky., held its municipal election last week. When the balloting took place It was found that only one of the forty-two voter was properly registered. That one was the candidate for Mayor. He cast the only ballot at the election, and duly elected himself and a Board of Aldermen. President Dwigh'u of Yale, who was recently Interviewed as to the outlook for the poor young men in one of the bfg modern schools, said he believed the double trursl for education tad cvpjort had an.

excellent effect on a young man. His advice to the poor young man was: "Go to college If you can." Count Bonl de Castellane, the husband of Anna Gould, has paid $740.0CO for a site at the corner of Avenue du Bois dc Boulogne and Avenue Malakoff. Paris, threequarters of an acre in extent, whereon to erect a mansion. He has recently acquired for $2u0,000 another lot (about five hundred yards square) adjoining the first. The work of .building the mansion will begin Immediately. Henry Irving's two sons are making, a good record on the English stage and are members of Ben Greet's provincial . company, which has sent so many well-trained actors to the London boards. On the last night of the company's 'recent engagement in Liverpool they appeared In "Othello." H. B. Irving In the title role and his brother Laurence as lago. H. B. has also recently successfully essayed Dlgby Grant in "The Two Roses." a part In which his father won renown years ago. The London Times prints a hitherto-unpublished letter written by William M. Thackeray at the Clarendon Hotel in New York on April 3, 1853. fnit he says: "I have come here from the South not so horrified as perhaps' I ought to be with slavery, which in the towns is not by" any means a horrifying institution. The negroes In the good families arc the happiest, laziest, comfortable race of menials: -They are kept luxuriously in working time and cared for most benevolently in old age." Celery is modern; during the last century we read of it as sellery and selery. and In older English still as smallage. The French call it celeri; Germans know1 it as selleree; the Italians eat the stalks of the sedano with oil and pepper; In Flanders selerij is to be seen in every market basket; in Denmark seller! Is as popular as. with ourselves, while the Portuguese alpo and Spanish apio rank with garlic and onions in popular esteem. Further afield we find John Chinaman cultivates his ch'in ts'aL When you start to write an ad. Make it plain. Whether it be good or badMake it plain. Do not, when the ad is seen In bold type so clear and clean, v ' Have folks wonder what you meanMake it plain. Don't use words so big and grand Make 'em plain. Else folks cannot understand. Make it plain. Just remember when you write That the sense should be in sight. If the people you inviteMake it plain. Printers Ink.

SHREDS AXD PATCHES. Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. Franklin. : Never be. slow to forgive a man you can always remind him of it afterward. Puck. A small man does not know how small he Is until he meets a giant. New Orleans Picayune. . Yo may cry dis mawnin obah anuddah's trubbles, but yo'll sleep toe-night. Arkan-' m a. - - sas x nomas vai. -We do .not observe' any . European ententes that are cordial enough to burn Detroit Tribune. 'How many women would laugh at the funerals of their husbands If it were not the custom to weep J Lava ter, r- . ; She-Cholly has .brain trouble. He Is that so? What kind? She It troubles him to think. Detroit Free Press. A woman's idea of useless extravagance is to put in a telephone If the woman next door has one. Atchison Globe. ; He Were you at the Harlem Opera House last night? She Yes; did you se me? He No, but I recognized your voice Harlem Life. There's one good thing -about the Ar-' menlan massacres. They cannot last much longer; the supply of Armenians will run out Philadelphia Inquirer. It is said that Rev. Sam Jones smokes fifty cigars a day. The struggle between grace and nicotine in his system -roust be severe at times. Chicago Tribune: The- Rain of the Year. Along the hills and by the sleeping stream A warning falls, and all the glorious treesVestures of gold and grand embroideries Stand mute as in a sad and beautiful dream. Brooding on death and Nature's vast undoing; And spring that came an age ago and fled. On summer's glory long since drawn to read, And now the fall and all he slow soft ruin. And soon, some "day, sweeps by the pillaging wind. The winter's wild outrider, with harsh roar. And leaves the meadows sacked and waste and thinned. And strips the forest of its golden store. Till the grim tyrant comes, and then they sow The silent wreckage, not with salt, but snow. Archibald Larnpman, In Scrlbner. A TALE OF LOUISVILLE. k A Threatened Insult to a Ci. A. R.Man Which Wan Not Carried Oat. . In Boston, Monday night, a banquet was given to the G. A. R. members who attended the Louisville encampment. During the evening Department Commander Thayer was called upon for a speech, a portion of which. .us reported In the Boston Journal, is as follows: The department commanuer then related a little tale of Louisville which few of th comrades knew of. He said that H was well known to all of them that he had objected to the dedication of the mounment In Chicago to the rebel dead, and to the desecration of Memorial day there made. Just before the departure for Louisville he received a letter assuring him that, while the Department of Massachusetts would be well received, he had insulted the South, and that it was proposed to as publicly insult him as he had tho people of the South: that the Insult would take the form of rotten eggs, which would be 'thrown at him at a noint w-hr the crowd of women, and children were thickest, near the reviewing stand, in order that no attempt might be made on his part to ride down his assailants. He Immediately communicated . with the commander-in-chief, stating what he had learned and that he should be accompanied by forty mounted men a his aids on the parade. If the commander-in-chief notice! any gap between the Connecticut division and the Massachusetts he might know what occasioned it; for the throwing-of eggs or anything else at Its commander would not be considered an Insult to himself, but as an assault upon the department, and would be Immediately resented; that while he would wish to restrain his aids, still, were such a thing to happen, he would not guarantee what they might do. As a matter of fact, however, on that day he passed the reviewing stand with forty-five horsemen at his back, and no assault or Insult was attempted. He would only say for himself that he never had better treatment in. his life and that he was glad that they went to Louisville. He believed that It was the b-st thing that the Grand Army of : the Republic had ever done. Its comrades now knew the South better than they ever had before, and he believed that their visit had made those people truer patriots than they ever were before. He thought that it was th best encampment that the Grand Army had ever had. ' - THAXKSGIVIXG. DIXXER. Tynlcnl of Everything Grown In All the Lavish Summer. . Table Talk. , In the year of grace. 1&4. a Thankseivinif dinner was given by a descendant of the Puritan pilgrims to twenty-rour or her kins folk, whien was signmcani or the incrtaKe of our country and of its almost boundless resources. "A typical Thanksgiving dinner renresents everything that has grown in allthe lavish summer, fit to make glad the hrt of man," says Beecher, and the hostess was mindful of his words. In the center of the table was a lare sil ver tray, piled high with apples, pears, grapes, oranges, bananas, "lady apples," nuts eneasfd in their green sheaths, and the (whole artistically decorated with vine leaves. At eitner end was a sheaf of wheat two feet high. In the center of which bloomed American beauty roses life's lux uries based on its necessaries and at the four corners horns of plenty made of Very fine straw, out of which tumbled hot-house grapes and tine California fruit. At each plate there was a tiny box of red, whlte.and blue -satin, containing, besides the bon-bons, five grains of corn, in memorv of the starvation times of New England. The menu was a fin ce slecle adaptation of the traditional fare Blue point oysters. gumoo soup. Douea cca. egg sauce; terrapin; boiled -turkey, oyster . sauce; roast turkey. stuffed -with cnestnuts. cranberry pauce. sweet - potato croquettes; celery; Bcf ton

baked beans; corn fritters; a haunch of venison, with currant jelly souvenir In honor of Maa.olt. and canvasback ducks, with celery mayonnaise. The large pumpkin pie was wreathed with golden chrysanthemums, and. with the turkeys, shared the chief distinction of the feast. Huckleberry pies, Indian pudding and ire cram. in the form of a large American eagle, were followed bv fruit, nut candles, and tea In lieu of coffee their ancestors having vindicated the rl?ht to drink It. Besides the new cider, only California wines and the native mineral waters were served. CLE AX PAPER MOXEY. England's) Rnle of Paying Oat 'o Old nilln a iool One. Bankers'. Monthly. - . If the people really knew how many persons had caught some sort of disease from handling paper money which had previously been in the possession of sufferer from someVcontagion they. would demand a radical change In the policy of the government toward old greenbacks and bank notes. . . The Treasury Department has subtrcasuries In the larger cities of the eour;rv. through which, to a large extent, the currency of the country passes. These Institutions take in the small bV.'.d of their respective cities and regions iiui:.; a part of the' year and pay them ou: u ; other times, according as the conver.le of the banks require. Now the rule 10 - t be that no subtreasury should pay o ;: : banks or others any but brand new n.ut -backs, and rhat national bank nots v.Ij .i have been In use should be replaced nw ones. TWe banks pay the goverrM.Vc enough so that, as a mere tnatter of rr -merclal business, this policy toward ihe". iotes should be adopted. But whether tha: was so or not. this fresh-bill policy shou;i be adopted and maintained. It is a uniform rule with the Bank of England that none but absolutely new M'.ls can go out over its counter. No matter If the bill has not the slightest marks of us If It once gets back into the bank it never goes out again. The rule Is inflexible, and is carried out faithfully. The United States treasury should do as much for the American people as that bank does for the people of Great Britain. The cost to the bank of & new bill is precisely half a penny. Of course, this amounts to a good deal of money each year, but not enough to be an appreciable factor in the general business of the bank, and of the treasury Introducing the bearer as detailed, with his companions, to examine the office. That occurs Just a little before close of business for the day. Th experts sit there until the day is done and the money and books put back into the vault, and then the vault is locked by the subtrcasurer and sealed by the chief examiner. The next morning the examiner and subtrcasurer unlock the vault together. REIHBLICAX FOREIGX POLICY.

Theodore Rooaevelt Ma It Waa Admirable I'ntler Harrison. November Century. The conduct of our foreign affairs under President Harrison was, on the whole, admirable. Our attitude towards Germany inr the Samoan Incident, and toward Chile later, raised our standard high. We behavcl in each Instance with great moderation, but with entire flrmne. and in each our conduct was rewarded with excellent results. .We preserved the same attitude toward the great European empire and the jp!tflra South American republic. In the latter case,- indeed, it was only our timely firmness that prevented the Chileans forcing us to a position which would have certainly, meant war. All of this stands in striking contrast to' the behavior of the present administration towards Hawaii and Nicaragua and in the difpute between) England and Venezuela. The one failure of President' Harrison' administration was In the Bering sea casa and ths failure was due to oversnxlety for a peaceful settlement and consequent willingness- to yield what we ought not to have yielded. Had we taken th stand which was advocated by the Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Tracy, and which had already been advocated by Mr. Phelps when minister to England under President Cleveland, there would have been no war, the seals would now have been alive, and there would have been no dancer of the extinction of the greatest Industry, of tht north Pacific. We ought never, to . have agreed to an arbitration, but we did, and the present administration has. of course, made matters worse. It Is not a page of American diplomacy upon which we can look back with pride, but it offers a mot wholesome lesson. It should teach us to beware, beyond all other, of the peace-at-any-price men. It should teach us to be exceedingly cautious about entering into any arbitration. Above all. it should teach us the leion of courteous, but. resolute -re-,, slstance of. our rights. - Early Trading. Washington (Ind.) Gazette. "One of the biggest speculations I ever engaged in 'was when I was sixteen years of age," said Col. James S. Morgan, one, of the oldest settlers of Daviess county. "My father and I bought for SMO a crop of corn that a man had put in Owl prairie. He got sick and wanted to sell it long before it had ripened, and we bought it. When the corn had matured, we took a force of men from Barr township, gathered the corn and loaded it in flatboats. There were five flat boat loads. We boated the corn down to New Orleans and sold It there for $1.25 a bushel. At the same time we sold a quantity of hogs at a great profit. The money we got for our stuff was in Mexican sliver dollars, and we brought back twenty-five kegs of them. I headed the kegs up myself in the bank at New Orleans. We also brought back a draft on, Glrard's bank at Philadelphia for O.OoO. The flatboats that we used then on the river cost from $1.7) to $170 each," continued the Colonel. "When we got them to Nenr Orleans we sold the boats for a little or nothing. Sometimes would get $15 or $ii for them. I made a ten-strike in chickens once. I bought a boatload of chickens at the point on White river known as New London. I got the chickens for 7. cents a dozen, and when I got to New Orleans I sold them for 124 a dozen Just as fast as I cculd hand them out. Money was plentiful down there those days." Metnlllp Currency In Russia. New York Tribune. The attempt to Introduce a general metallic currency into Russia has not so tar proved a great success. The people, especially in the less enlightened quarters of the empire, appear to prefer the old paper money, and regard the silver ruble as well as the half and quarter ruble of the sam-e metal with a considerable amount of suspicion. An Idea of the dllliculty e tvountered by the government In withdrawing tha paper currency with the view to the substitution of silver coinage in its place, may be gathered from the fact that In spite of repeated advertisements in every newspaper published in the empire, and notwithstanding official placards posted freely throughout every town, village and hamlet, for a period of two yeans, it has been found impossible to recall certain issues of notes which were to be withdrawn from circulation. Although the term has expired mors than twelve months ago, and according to the proclamation they are no- longer of any valu several million ruble worth of these old notes arc gttll circulating. Xote for Free-Trndem. - New York Tribune. American free-traders would do well to observe what is now taking place: In Engi j .riA avorrv.iTP Itritish Countv. namely, that of Norfolk, 4S.0U) acres have gone out of cultivation altogther. while the rents of the cultivated area have fallen exactly one-half within the last , twenty-five years. Tills half-rental pronts nothing to the landowners, as it is absorbed in thtate expenses. What has occurred in Norfolk represents the condition of nearly everv English agricultural county, and during the last quarter of a century the Imports of foreign corn into England have multiplied nve-iold. In short, the English farmer has been ruined by the foreign producer. . . f 4W BBBBSBSBBSBBBBSBBSBSBBBBSBSajaSSBBSBBBBaSBBBBBSBBBBBBlB Apple fialore. Madison Courier. Thousands of bushels of applet are being shipped daily from Madison and other points in Jefferson county to Indianapolis, Chicago and elsewhere. Buyers are paying from a cents up on the barrel, and in this way distributing lots of ready money to farmers who thought their crop would go to rot. The healthy condition of the market is largely due to the low stage of the Ohio river, and is likely to continue until there 1 a rl.-e, -when," to use the expression of a buyer, "aprles can be had In-Madison for a-sonc." There are thousands of barrels of apples, the product of the river counties in Kentucky and Indiana, lining the Ohio banks for shipment. Secret Society Thought. Boston Transcript. How sweet and pleasant It Is to belong to 'some secret society and .after many years of listening to the continual Iteration of one collocation of wcrds. to l follow el to the grave by an awkward squad in black coats and white gloves two slaes too big. Another Pnaaled Forr!3er. Chicago Tritunc. - iJ" "I cannot understand ze language." said the despairing Frenchman. "I learn how to pronounce ze word 'hydrophobia,' and xen 1 learn at ze doctors sometime pronounce It