Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 November 1895 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 18!5.

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THE I.DIAJVAIOLIi JOUtAL ' ran be found at tlia followlnr places r.RIH American Hxciiange in trl, 38 Bontevard de t'apnrtne. N HV YORK GU?y llouse, Windsor Hotel and Atfor H OQM. CHICAGO Palmer Bouse. AtKlltorlura Hotel and V. (X Newt Co., t Adam ureet. CTOCISSATI-J. R. lliwlTy Co.. U4 Vtne street. 1-OinsTILLK C T. Deerlnjr, north went corner of Tblrd and Jefferson sis., and Loyuvllle Hook Co., 3tf 1 urth are. ST. LOUIS Uiloa Nws Company. Union Depot. WASHINGTON, D. C. Rlgrs House, Kbbltt Honse, , WUiarrys Hotel and the Wninston News Eicbanjs, 14ta atreat, bee r on. are. and F street. Senator Quay, while he declares that he Is personally In favor of Mr. Reed, makes haste to add that he does not say that Mr. Heed will be nominated. Senator Voorhees will observe that all the- correspondents of Democratic papers in this city do not so much as Intimate that he has a. possible chance of a reelection. The Providence (It. I.) Board of Trade has an original Idea' of the powers of Congress, which it Indicates in asking: that body to restrict the presidential campaign to three months. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue estimated the revenues of the last fiscal year at $171,000,000. but he collected only $143,213,000. It is an estimating: rather than a performing administration, anyhow. . . During the next month-Mr. Reed will not. be able to give much attention to his presidential boom. To put two hundred men Into the fifty places they all covet has never been successfully accomplished. The more it is discussed the less the scheme of holding the Republican national convention on the Pacific coast is favored, as it . means a great inconvenience to 720 delegates to please the sixty delegates on the Pacific slope. The more they think of it the more the people will object to having the work done abroad which can be done here. Eecause the policy of the Democracy has been to furnish' labor to foreign countries rather than to this, the party Is so very unpopular. Secretary Carlisle abusing the green back is a plain' case of ingratitude, -for without the greenbacks for which he exchanged the gold he got for. bonds he would have been compelled to hang the sign "closed" on the doors of the treasury. Everybody except a few cuckoos seems to be aware of the good turn the greenback has done the administration. "While there Is no war in sight in Kiirope, the recent sharp decline of nearly all stocks is attributed to the fears of investors who are anxious to turn their securities into gold. Whlle the disturbed situations in Turkey and in China are not so much discussed by the European press as they were a few weeks since, the uncertainty has not abated. If an avowed free silver coinage member of the llouse should be a candidate for the speakership he would not get mbre than a score of votes, but1 exEpeaker Crisp, who has recently made a fresh avowal of devotion to the freet liver heresy. Is likely to receive tht' indorsement of a nomination for Speaker in spite of the Influence of the administration. ," If the County Commissioners will select men who have a reputation for efficiency and integrity for the positions which they must fill, they will please as many of the applicants as If they should nelect men who do not possess those qualification?, and commend themselves to the great majority who desire a change for the better in the management of the county institutions. 0BBHaaMaBMBjaaaaaaaHaaiaaavBiaBi Thomas Grand Army Post, in Cnicago. the largest and'orie of the most Influential In the country, has extended an invitation to all the posts, relief corps. Sous of Veterans and ex-soldlers generally1 to Join it in giving a reception to Commander-in-chief Walker at the Sherman House in that city Monday evening, Dec. 2. Colonel Walker and the council of administration will hold a meeting in St. Paul the same week. The New York Herald, which can fairly be put in the list of Democratic papers, remarks that the Republican party enters the presidential canvass with a roll of "eminent candidates any one "of them worthy of the supreme honor." It contrasts the list., upon which are the n r mpq rtf Tfarr'son. Melvlnlev. Red. All!- . w - - - - - . - on and Morton, with the absolute barrenness of the Democratic political Held of men of national character and firstrate ability. It is the weakness of the Democratic party that Its policy and tactics do not Innplre first-class leadership. It would be well if those who will insist upon writing for newspapers regarding national conventions and State delegallons thereto would acquire a little information regarding the matters ot which they write. For Instance, there ar those who talk of solid delegations from New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and other States as If the old unit rule of early Republican and recent Democratic national conventions was now in force, under which the majority of a delegation can control the whole vote. The unit rule does r.ot prevail. Every delegate in a delegation can vote as he e fit. , There Is. therefore, no such thlna as Mr. Piatt or Senator Quay or any other man controlling a delegation

whose members are chosen, with th exception of four delegates at large, by district conventions, unless every delegate sees lit to accept the candidates of these or similar prominent men. Neither New York nor Pennsylvania has had a solid delegation since 1876. the question of the unit rule being settled adversely to that claim In 1SS0. Instead of on; of these alleged leaders being able to Insure a solid delegation for a candidate outside his State, the fact of his advocacy would lead others to oppose.

There is a very great deal of cheap tall: about the power of so-called bosses over delegations. MOMITTIIIMJ aiioit m POUTS. Some time since the Journal pointed out to the Cleveland organs which had discovered that the export of merchandise which is classified as manufactures was $12,000,000 greater during the nine months of 189 ending with September than (luring the corresponding period of the year 1834, was due wholly to the increased export of refined oil. It has since been stated that 28.000,000 gallons less were exported In the nine months of 1895 than in the nine months of 1834, but the advance of price increased the value of such oils exported about $9,000,000. The cuckoo organs heed none of these explanations. They do not hear. They cannot, so long as their time is taken up in showing that the Increased export of manufactures shows that the United States can compete with any other country in the production of manufactured goods refined oil, for instance,' and some specialties in iron. But these Cleveland or Democratic organs do not permit themselves to make comparisons of the imports of manufactures. The $12,000,000 increase of exports, three-fourths coal oil, is all of the results of the Gorman tariff act which they can grasp at one time. Like tht man viewing the caravan of a circus, who devoted all his time In looking at a white mouse while the veritable Jumbo was in the ring, these editors are engrossed with an alleged Increase of exported manufactures to an extent that they cannot notice that the imports of manufactured goods during the first nine months of 1893 were valued at $112,000,000 more than those of the corresponding period of 1894. The increase of the value of the importation of woolen goods Is nearly $33,000,000; and yet with this large increase of the imports of dutiable goods, the customs duties for the ten months ending with 6ctober were only $141,328,000. The treasury ls actually deriving less revenue from imports than it did during the fiscal years which ended with June, 1892 and 1893, before the Democracy created its disturbance. The McKlnley law, with its higher, duties Imposed upon luxuries and competing merchandise, yielded $203,3o3,017 and raw sugars were on the free list. The duties collected the past ten months, exclusive of sugar. Were not quite $120,000,000. The dutiable Imports, exclusive of sugar, during the ten months were valued at $299,814,000. Under the McKlnley law such an importation would have yielded about $150,000,000, or $30,000,000 more than has the present tariff law. Take woolens: at the old rate they would have paid $43,000,000 of duties in ten months if imported In the same quantities. As a matter of. fact, they have paid only $16,-000,000.-The duties lost by free wool and lower rates on woolens are as much as is collected from sugars. With the samevalues of dutiable goods the McKlnley law would yield as much revenue, and leave raw sugar on the free list, as does the present law with its 40 per cent. ad valorem duty. With all the talk about a tariff for. revenue, the present law In ten months has yielded only $120,000,000, exclusive of sugar, while the McKlnley law put $161,729,133 into the treasury during the first ten months of 1892. TIIK POSTAI, DEFICIT. The Postmaster-general reports a deficit of $10,000,000 In his department. It is one of the largest on record. "While the' postal service is not expected to be selfsustaining, a deficit of ten millions indicates vicious laws and bad management. The -Postmaster-general attributes the deficit mainly to the Inadequate laws relative to second-class matter. Ills two predecessors complained of the same thing. The second-class matter complained of is made up of private trade Journals, novels which are dated by months to escape postage, and the remalling of novels and magaxlnes. Another source of serious lot to the department is the express or package business. -It should be put upon a basis of paying the cost of carriage. If the government Is going into the express business it should adopt rates as do private corporations. They need not be as high, but the charge should be commensurate to the service. There is no sense asking the same price for carrying a pound in the mails fifty miles as for five thousand. "Within certain limits the charges should be regulated by the distance,. Every year the government loses several million dollars carrying parcels for less than remunerative rates. Heretofore interested parties have prevented a change In the laws which would put this business upon a self-sustaining basis. It is fair to assume that the people will not complain at a reasonable deficit in the mall revenues if the money Is expended for the advantage or convenience of the largest number of people, as it would be in a provision for free rural distribution. The excellence of the postal service is often referred to as evidence: that government can do the transportation of the country at a better advantage than can individuals and private corporations. When fully considered, the postal service of the government proves Just the 'opposite. A skillfully managed corporation could run the postal service a great deal more satisfactorily- than the government does It. because it would make it pay by applying ' business' principles. It would make the" vast - freight business which cumbers the mail service pay its carriage by adjusting the cost of carrying to the cost of the service. And this is what Congress should do. It should make the freight and matter now under the second class, but which is not such, pay a fair compensation for the service. The Pension Commissioner in his report, which has Just been received, says that the' board of revision considered 101,160 case's during the last fiscal year. Of this number 4.149 names were dropped from the rolls "as not disabled for the performance of s manual labor in any pensionable degree." In 2,297 cases pensioners were dropped as not entitled under the act of June 271890, and restored

to previous pensions granted: them under the general law which means that they were changed from the act of 1890 to the general net In order to give them a- smaller pension. In 20,339 cases the rate of pension was reduced. That is, 26.77 pensioners were dropped from the rolls or had their pensions cut down during the last fiscal year all of whom were pensioned under the act of June 27, 1890. In one of the tables It appears that under the general pension law 47,361 pensions were increased. It should be explained that the increase was made by an act of Congress passed last winter increasing all pensions less than $6 a month to that figure, and not by the bureau officers.

The French exports increased nearly $10,000,000 during the first quarter of lfc&.. The Paris dispatch containing this statement says that "this Increase is largely due to the Wilson tariff bill." As there are only portions of the Wilson bill in the present, tariff law, the result may be attributed to the cuts . in the woolen, lottery and miscellaneous schedules, which are largely made up from extracts from the Wilson bill. The fact Is, every large manufacturing nation in Europe is profiting largely from the present tariff which, with its reduced duties on an ad valorem, basis, has -been the "opening wedge," to ule the phrase of the Cleveland coterie of free-traders, to unrestricted Imports from all our competitors. Anil now the treasury gold goes abroad to pay for the foreign-made goods because exchange is so heavily against us, - ...... . The report of the United States Geological Survey on. the building, stone Industry of the country in 1894. shows that the State which has an abundance of building stone need not envy those which have gold and silver mines. During 1894. a dull year, the total production of the six kinds of stone embraced In the report was valued at $37,337,816. . Every year the quarries of building; stone. become more valuable, as stone is being used now not in the cities alone, but wherever good and substantial buildings are constructed.' Indiana has an almost inexhaustible quantity' of first-class building stone which can be put upon the market as cheaply as that of 'any other locality. ' The New York Sun, an expert In arithmetic, states that the Secretary of Agriculture has caused an output of 420,000,000 printed pages regarding crows, owls, gophers, etc. , This is more than six pages to every man, woman and child in the United States. These publications weigh 800 tons, and are sent through the mails free of postage. No wonder there is a .ten-miHion-dollar deficiency in the postal department. In his report the Secretary' says he thinks these books should not be distributed gratuitously. As , the people of this country would not purchase a ton of them to. read, how does the Secretary propose to make people take and pay for. 'his books? 1 ..' .' ' . At the next election Louisiana' will vote upon the proposition to so change the constitutional qualification for voting that to vote a. man must be able, to read and write or have property assessed at $200. The object of this. move is to, get rid'of the colored vote. -The males of the voting age in Louisiana are about equal-' ly divided between whites and blacks, but as 20 per cent, of the whites and 72 per cent, of the blacks in that State over ten years of age are illiterate, the adoption of the proposed amendment will make the State certain for the whites. The colored people have not been doing much voting In Louisiana for several years. It is said that tl.3 Srllsbury Ministry has under consideration a proposition which practically makes the British government the great mortgagee of the agricultural holdings of Great Uritaln. The mortgages which , weigh down the Rritlsh landlords are estimated at $10,000,000,000. The scheme is to reduce this indebtedness by advancing money to landlords at 3 per ' cent., thus saving them $200,000,000' a year. This, It is claimed, would enable the landlords to lease their lands at lower rates, which would have the effect to revive the rapidly decaying ugriculture ' of the United Kingdom. , Having become the champion of Mayor Tajrgart for the Democratic candidacy for President, the Chicago Tribune enters upon the task of maklni? a startling career for its favorite in a manner that will appeal to the class of Democrats whose Ideal the Mavor is. The Journal is not prepared to vouch- for all of the statements made regarding the career of Mr. Taggart, nor I? it in a position to successfully deny any of them, but to assist the Tribune in promoting the candidacy of its favorite, its biographical sketch is' given below: Further particulars of the life of the Hon. Tammas TagRart. of Indianapolis, the Tribune's own Democratic candidate for President, come slowly to hand. Horn' In Oshkosh. Wis., in 1821. he ran away from home when he was about ten years old and Joined the Winnebago Indians, who adopted him into the tribe and eventualy made him chief. At the age of thirty-four he returned to civilization, and. when the war broke out. enlisted in the Indiana regiment of which General. Harrison was a memler. He was six times wounded, once dangerously Ever since the famous day at Appomattox courthouse, where he stood near General Grant when Iee surrendered, he has lived in Indianapolis. He has a considerable fortune, accumulated in the manufacture of horse blankets His victorious campaign for the mayoralty in Indianapolis, which almost alone among the cities of the country went Democratic this year, is too recent to need description. In every respect Mr. Taggart seems to be the most available man the Democrats could choose. A few months ago charitably, disposed and patriotic reople of, Uoston got up a benefit performance for Rev. Samuel F. Smith, author of the hymn "America." About $1,600 was cleared and duly presented to tl)e old gentleman. Since his death, a week or so ago. these good people are much surprised to learn that he.; left an estate valued at $45,000. When they come to think of it,' they don't know that ' he ever gave them any cause to think he was in need, but they do not regret the gift if the recipient regarded it as a token of appreciation of his greatest production the patriotic hymn named Among the plays which the theater-going public Is paying its money to see this season may bo mentioned "The White Rat." ".Sins of the Night," "The Bicycle Girl," "The Sporting Duehes?," "The. Shop Girl," "A Runaway Colt." "Lady Slavey "The Artie's Model." "Chicago." "The Widow Jones" and "The Fatal Card." The noble work of elevating tho stage seems to be engaging the attention of an increasing number of dramatists and actors. Rottled water from the River Jordan for baptismal use is now an article of commerce in certain ecclesiastical circle. A Baptist minister in New York sneers at the

traffic, and says thrdealers show, great lack of enterprise in not shipping the water in quantities sufficient to supply the large class of religionists who believe in immersion. Perhaps this minister is too hasty and unscientific in his conclusions. The microbes which make the Jordan water efficacious in small quantities may so disseminate themselves throughout an entire baptistery that a mere favoring of Its contents with the precious fluid will do the work. Henceforth the bakeries in New York will not be allowed to keep open doors later than 10 a. m. on Sunday. After that hour no Sunday bread will be procurable.. Devo.it Gothamhes'are revising their morning petitions to read something like this: "Give us our laily bread six days in the week, with a double portion on Saturday!." -

The fi? Imrnon The fight with Corbett. for which FitzSlmiTlnn ha Drain to be "pulled off in Texas. The contest ants apparently make no account' of the antl-prlze-fight la,w which the Governor went to so much trouble to have, passed. Hut. come think of it, that law, as of course they; consider,; applies only to list and not jaw contests. .J The unexpected and . unprecedented has happened. The News has acknowledged Itself In error. That Schlatter handkerchief trust have some virtue after all. Now If the pickaninny preacher will come along and b.lng it under conviction of sin all may yet be well. .. . Now that Tom Johnson refuses to make reductions in Detroit street-car fares, except to worklngmen, me number of sons of toil may be expected to Increase with great rapidity in that city i" 'The eminent "friend of, labor' Is likely to have1 complications on his hands. ub5cribfr, Xew Castle, Ind.: The Yincennes Weekly Sun is, we believe. the oldest paper in Indiana. Its first number wan published In 1804.-, Ayer's newspaper directory gives 803 as the numlxr of papt-rs now issued in. Indiana.,! This includes dallies and weeklies, , also , several monthly publications. Reader. Elwood: The. Citizens' Street-railroad Company of th's city has 102 jnotor cars and eleven trailers in constant ue. Indianapolis has no horsecar lines. 'the only motive power belnj' electricity. ' III I'HLi: IX, THE A I It. - GooiIPIaii. "She talked ho fast that; 1 -could not get a word In eJgewlFe.". j "You should havo-retorted to sharper lan guage. IlenMnnnble. - ' "My brain Is filled with' burning thoughts"," The rag'ng actor said;" ' ' ' .The small boy In the gallery cried, "Oh, go and soak your" head!" . 2L,- - Faith. . 1 She And you toll me. that it would ever be your aim to make' my life naught but one of happiness. 4 And to' think that T believe J you! . .V7 ' . He That's nothing. U believed it at the time, myself. . luu-r-' Many oof-' Him. "Allers seems tomf,''':aI 1 the grocery oracle, "that, after ole('jlm Ililwallop hfz put in Sunlay. tellin' thO' Lord that he is the orneryest 'ole ''Vusis"'on earth he puts In the rest of the weckVtryin' to. sec if he kin live tin to It." ' I . . A1IULT PEOPLE AND THINGS. . Pressed by the bull JeK and unable to pay his bills the. owner of a i boat on the Seine has named it "The Floating Xebt." ! It Is said thatjthen Henrik Ibsen appears at public functions he .is fairly , covered with stay. crosses, pe.iriants and 'denotations of all kinds andefrom all sources. A paragraph' comes; from .London stating that Lady Ueresfor3, wishing to give her husband , a few days., ouling, hired a fishing stream in Norway, paying $4,000 rental for it. And lleresford caught two fish. Chief Arthur, of ' the lOrder of Locomotive Engineers, has just returned from his birthplace. Paisley, in 'Scotland. He says that after an abnencc of fifty-two years from thaj town he finds It. practically unchanged. ... . Lord Deaconsfield's brother,. Mr. Ralph Disraeli, is still firing. , 'He bears no resemblance to his distinguished brother, and has always lived a quiet, retiring life, having been for many years clerk of the llouse of Lords. J,,vV; .''" Not more than a hundred'' copies of the full. score of Mendelssohh'kr "Midsummer Night's Dream" muslc,,!of which the copyright expired recently, nad been , solJ In fifty years, oving to the, fact that conductors borrowed the score, from one another. Lilll Lehmann has lately been attracting large audiences in Berlin by her song tccltals. he was in glorious voice. and although her hair has grown almost snowy white, she Is said to-look as young as she did in New York. As a! matter of fact she Is only forty-seven years oil. The Westminster Garette announces the death of a well-known literary laJy, Mrs. Everett Green, who, for the last thirty years, has compiled the' calendars of state papers 1n the Record Office. She has published thirty volumes ot. calendars extending over the period from Edward ' VI to Charles II. , Air. Labouchere says: ,:The titlo of 'Col-onel-ln-chlef of the British army, which the Queen has conferred-upon the Duke of Cambridge, is her Majesty's own Invention. Of, course, nobody has ever before heard of such a designation, as the colonelcy of an army is 4. thing per se impossible, so that the Duke's -odd title is exceptional In being absolutely unprecedented. The Duke will have a general's retiring allowance." The skilled labor of . the school teacher commands small, compensation 4n.some parts of Wisconsin. The ' supply Is greater than the demand. In some districts in Brown county positions , go to the lowest bidder, instances being cited where, teachers have bid $13 a month and taught an entire school year at that rate of salary. The average sum per month paid male teachers in Brown county schools in October was $24, - while women employed as teachers . received an average of $1S xer month. The low rate of wages paid teachers may account for the fact that of the J4S.00O raised in Brown county for the maintenances of schools last year there is an unexpended balance of $10,000. The Bank of England, "The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street," will celebrate its two hunlredth anniversary this year. The founding of a bank was decided upon in 1691, and, upon the subscription of fl.2D.000, business was begun the next . year. The present building occupied by the bank was built in 1731. Although there are many handsomer edifices in the j. world than the "Old Lady," as all know who have seen it, it is as strong as a fortress, and, In fact, has resisted two slges by armed citizens in the course of its history. The capital of the bank at present is 14.333.000, with a reserve of 3,414 660. The bank is conducted by a governor, subgovernor and twenty-four directors; and 1.160 persons, drawing a combined salary of $1,300,000, are emplojed In the institution. Hill AVI 11 Keep Home. Washington Post. , A distinctive Innovation in the housekeeping line the present season will re the bachelor household of Senator Hill, of New York, who has heretofore resided at one of the hotels, but during the long session of Congress he Intends to enjoy all the comforts of a home. The historical house. No. 8 Lafayette square, is the residence the Senator has leased. It is imposing in its severely plain architecture, faces one of the finest parks oC the city, and Is very convenient to the White House and the business portion of the town. Senator Hill's new home, which contains about twenty rooms, was built by Major Rathbone, who, with his fiancee, occupied th theater box with Lincoln the fatal Good Friday, night. Major Rathbone ran wounded at the time, but recovered and afterwards married Miss Harris, who 1$ now dead. The house was the home of the late .Oen. N L Anderson for a number of yearsv and afterward occupied by Senator Dolph. Senator HHPs family will consist of hi private secretary

and his servants, and It la presumed that only two floors of the mansion will be occupied by them. ' 4)n the Other Side. We go our ways in life too much alone. We hold ourselves too far from all cur kind; Too often we are dead to s'gh and moan. Too often to the weak and helpless blind; Too often where distress and want ablJe We turn and pass upon the other ride. Th other side is trodlen smooth and worn By footsteps passing illy all the day; Where lie the bruised ones that faint and mourn Is sellom more than an untrolden way. Our selfish hearts are for our feet the KuiJe They lead us by upon the other sIJc.

It should be ours tht oil and wine to pour ' Into the bleeding wounds of stricken ones; Tfl tuln arm 1 1 tort ami fha a 1 lr an1 wrtr And btar them where a stream of bless- , ing runs. Instead we look about the way is wide An J so we pass upon the other sue. O frlenls and brothers, gliding down the years. . Humanity is calling each and all In tender accents, born of grief and tears! I pray 3-ou listen to the thrilling.call! You cannot. In your cold and selflis'i pride, Pass guiltlessly upon the other side. Buffalo News. THOMAS II. ItKEI). The Maine Mnn'M Itrtnrn to the Cno- : ttnl n Matter of Interest. Correspondent Philadelphia Record. The new "man from .Maine" is a real Maine man, and not like Blaine, a Pennsyivanlan. for he was born in the very city of Portland which has ten time sent him to Congress, and he has lived in Maine almost constantly, getting his education in her schools and being graduated at her leading college and having practiced for thirty, years at her bar. He Is a genuine Yankee In everything except physical appearance. Everybody knows how round and stout his body is, how rolling his walk and how cherubic his face at a distance, for near, too, Jt looks like IMsmarck's, and you can s-e the power behind it. He has all the Yankee shrewdness and sagacity, and the Yankee wit comes forth In 'his Yankee voice, and even, with Yankee pronunciation and the Yankee drawl. He has all the strong New England traits and'some of the line one.. His feet are always on the ground and his eyes are always on a level with those of other men. There is nothing of the transcendentallst about him. and he is a philosopher rather than a poet, but admires and practices the sterner virtues. He ia not known to tut -j a member of any church and I have not heard of his being a regular attendant of 1 any one here but no one. doubts that he is an upright man. His private life Is Irreproachable, and his home ltfe is beautiful.. His wife and his daughter and he arc three most devoted-, anJ Intimate friends. ... lie has never been .rich and probably never will be, for he Is not a money-maker, and he has neglected hJs practice -a good deal of the time that he has been in public life, and he was elected to the State House of Representatives three years after he was admitted to the bar. He has never been able to keep house here or to entertain extensively, and this winter. a last, he and his family will have a small flat In Vice President Morton's hotel, the Shoreham, and up on the fifth floor, at that. , Re has had little leisure of late years for his lawpractice, and has made, I suppose, almost as. much money by writing for the magazines as he has from most of his law cases. Howevfr, he has always lived comfortablyj and T imagine his-Yankee thrift has kept him out of debt. He keenly enJoys what are called "the good things of this life" by most people. v He likes society, at least, the conversational phases of. It, and especially dining out, although, like most public men. he' dislikes public dinners, and tince he first became Speaker he has been prominent in Washington society as he never was before. He is by far the greatest of the few public. mn who do appear in society, most of whom are more prominent there than they are anywhere else, although Allison. Hale. Lodge. Wolcott. Cameron, HItt and a few others are exceptions to this rule. ' He is fond of the theater; and of music, and of art. ami of literature, in French as well as in English. He is fond of fun of all better sorts, and especially of the kind that Is found at Gridiron Club dinners un-. der the robe of secrecy. Indeed, his funand his love of fun are the most serious drawbacks he has as a presidential candidate or a candidate for the presidential nomination, even in this country, .where we laugh more than they do anywhere else in the world. But these help to make him a Very delightful companion." He likes to' be out of doors, and usually walks to and from the Capitol, stopping to look in thbT shop windows, although now I suppose he will ride past on a bicycle. Of course, he has -never been able to maintain a stylish equipage, or, indeed, any kind of carriage and horses. He reads : newspapers v and frankly says so, unlike some smaller men, who think that is beneath the dignity of h. statesman, and he told me once that the. New York Sun was his favorite newspaper. Simple and straightforward in manner, like almost all really great men, he hatea pretentiousness as he does hypocrisy, and is to all appearances as democratic In his dealings with everybody as when he was unknown outside of his own State. He is overbearing and sarcastic at times, but he does not truckle and toady, and he does not bullv. and underneath It all he has a really kind heart. He loves his friends and hates hs enemies like the Roman that litis, or shall I say the Greek? But he helps sometimes as well as hurts even those who are opposed to him, and he does a favor most graciously. It. Is, perhaps, needless to say that he is a man of his word, who makes promises carefully, but keep3 them even more carefully. I think he has made a model for his political life out of William Pitt Fessenden, whom he told me once was the greatest man he had ever: known. Fessenden. I Imagine, had been kind to him aa a young man. I think he perhapf, got his appointment as an acting assistant paymaster in the navy during the last eighteen months of the war through Fessenden, and perhaps he favored his election to the State House of Representatives. But gratitude would not blind Reed's eyes, powerful as it would be with him. as with many men. It was admiration rather than gratitude which prompted IteeJ to risk his own personal fortunes in supporting Fessenden when the 'latter came home to Maine to face the opposition which Blaine had stirred up against him because he had refused to vote for the impeachment of Andrew Johnson.' Blaine's power was increasing and Fessenden's decreasing, but. Reed took his political life in his hands and supported Fessenden. although he fully realized all that It miftht mean to him. "I was a young lawyer." he said In speaking of it, "and my ambition then was to be Attorney-general of Maine. I actually needed the salary. But I could not keep from supporting Mr. 'Fessenden, and I have never regretted that I did." ' It was his support of Fessenden at that time whlah gained him the ill-will of Blaine, and it was not until a year or two before Blaine died that they were on friendly terms, even of a formal character. It was known that Blaine opposed his nomination as Attorney-general of Maine In 1ST0,. and it was suspected that he opposed his nomination every time he was a candidate for that or'any other office, but, nevertheless. Reed was elected Attorney-general in 1870 and served three years., and was afterward four years city solicitor of Portland before he began his long career In Congress. ' . Accounting for It. Philadelphia Press. In reply to many anxious inquirers it is proper to state that the sudden and mysterious disappearance of Uncle Adlai's presidential boom was occasioned by his taking the fragile, and delicate thing Into the house during the Western blizzard of last week. . , Wobbly. Kansas City Journal. "I confess to a serious doubt," says Eugene Deb, "whether this day marks my deliverance from bondage to freedom or from freedom to bondage." This sounds very much like the talk of a man who has been indulging too freely in cucumbers. Sherman "History. Philadelphia Record. Senator Sherman insists that he has written nothing but history. History, according to his Idea, is merely a story of blasted hopes," enlivened with numerous personal attacks upon all men with whom he has come in contact. No, They Don't. Kansas City Journal. Secretary Morton's argument in. favor of a third term is not a happy one. Hanks don't re-elect their presidents whoe records consist of deficits. Another Last Time. Kansas City Journal. We believe the powers would be pertcctly Justified in repeating that terrible ultimatum to the Sultan another time. , Suspected. New York Mall and Express. " There la a growing suspicion that if Mr. Cleveland has any foreign policy af all It is of Enallh make.

STRATTOiVS WEALTH

THE RISE OF A INDIANA CAR PEN. TEH FROM POVERTY TO RICHES. Oivner of the Cripple Creek Gold Field, nml Though Worth Millions, ' I u 3Ian of Simple Tastes. Chicago Injer Ocean. "One of the most remarkable characters of the great Cripple Crek gold camp is Winfield Soott .tratton." said John H. Proudfit. a director of the Colorado Springs Mining Stojk KxchanRe. at the Auditorium yesterday. "He was one, of the poor men that have grown Immns-ly wealthy In that camp, and no one envies him in the least. His remark, I don't need 'any larger nixed hat now than I did before the J.ord favored me wU'h the finding and opening of the Indficndence mine, Is a characteristic One of Mr. Stratton, and hi actions are certainly In keeping with his utterances." In speaking of this eame Winfield tvoti Stratton, Col. John Sovenoake. who achieved fame and fortune in his connection with the'Comstork mine of Nevada, after a thorough and careful examination of tratton's Cripple Creek concessions, said: 'I conlder him the largest Individual owner of gold mines in tho world, or, rather, I consdder hi gold possessions the greatest in the explored world." Colonel Sevenoaks has visited all the great gold-mining regions in the civilized worl.1.' and, being, a practical mining man and engineer, his opinion on a matter of this kind ia certainly worthy of consideration, a he Is a man now- past seventy years of age. r Although possessed of greatfr wealth than any of the crowned heads of Europe, rhe bonanza king, or "Old Man Stratton." as he is familiarly called by the miners of that prosperous camp, is the plain. Impetuous carpenter that , mad? long shavings at his bench" In; the Utile oid shop in Colorado Springs for the street Urchins to play with. His home Is' a common little, frame building of five or six rooms. and is furnished Comfortably but far from a showy manner. There 'are .'plenty- 0 easy upholstered chairs, a leacher-covered sofa, 'a small library, a well-supplied sideboard and a piano. The floor is covered with linoleum, while on one side is a large old-fashioned fireplace, which gives the room a cheery and lom?lIke appearance. Here the gold-mining king spenls a large portion of his time, and it Is in this room that he entertains h(s friemls. ' Mr. Stratton was a very poor man until fortune fivored him at Cripple Creek a few yearsj ago. He is a man of education and natural refinement, keen perception and capable of careful thought. He has always been an industrious . worker. nd would have--been considered a prosperous man but for his desire to make a stake In silver mining. In thin way he "sunk" all he could, make, and when the great gold camp at Cripple Creek was ooened four years ago he was a poor man. WAS BORN IN INDIANA.' ; Mr. Stratton was born at Jeflersonvllle. Ind.. in 1548, and there learned the carpenter trade. He went to Colorado Springs In 1872, and to-day, at the age of forty-six years, by reason of the hardships he has endured In his search for wealth, his hair and mustache; are almost white. He received his first lesson In mining early after he reached Colorado. Imbued with the idea that it' was only necessary to own an interest In a mine, or rather a prospect, to become wealthy, he soon Invested his savings, amounting to $3,000.. in a prospect in the San Juan country, in the southwestern part of Colorado. He paid out his cash for a one-fifth interest before he had ever seen the property.Had he taken the precaution to first make a thorough Inspection he would doubtless have kept his money or else have turned it over to some other sharper instead of the person who' fleeced him. not on a "salted", mine, bdt on a property in which the owners; had not even gone to that expense. There was positively nothing in sight but a hole In the ground on the side of the mountain when he arrived at his mine, the old Yretaba, in -Cunningham gulch., . - . After continued failures, trying his luckIn nearly all the. camps of the State, having in the meantime taken a course in assaying and mineralogy, he was one of the first to ester the Cripple Creek district, and was the first person to discover gold by the aid of a blow pipe. He. had about made up his mind to leave the camp, and was packing up his few "traps" to go when he discovered the yellow metal In a piece of float picked up on the Ijne Star claim, owned by Dick Wooton. the Indian scout, and the "father of Cripple Creek." This was on Gold Hill. , . DECIDES ;TO PROSPECT ALONE. Stratton again grew tired of being hampered with parties, and again decided to "g It" alone, end selected Battle' mountain as the site for his prospects. He was discouraged, but he kept pegging away, and finally, on July 4, 1891, he received the first assay from the mine that is now known as the Independence. -Experts had looked upon his claims and pronounced them worthless. He would get an occasional good assay, but the gold was elusive. His friends referred to him as the "Hermit of Battle Mountain." He was heavily in debt, but kept at it. One day he concluded to have a load of the big bowlders which" lay about on . his property sent to the stamp mill and tested. The . experiment was a fortunate one, for the stuff ran $12 to the ton under the stamps, and from the very spot where the first assay was secured the-ore chute began, and 1? yet. being followed, each daygrowing richer, until now it is considered by expert mining men to be the richest in the entire world, so far as has yet developed. It Is since he has become a man of 'tintold wealth that--Stratton's eccentricitieshave begun to show themselves, or rather to be noticed -by the public. No fm of money would tempt him to1 part with the Independence property, for, as he' truthfully puts it. "When the ore is in the mine no one can steal it. and banks can't fail with my money In their vaults, and whenever I want money for anything I have only to ,take the ore out of the mine and sell It. For these reasons I am not trying to take out the ore, but am content with developing the property and Just seeing how much there Is in it." Hundreds of begging letters, pleas from speculators, adventurers And adventuresses are received at the postoffice for him dally, not one in a thousand of which ever meets his gaze. Many peculiar methods are adopted by these writers, in all the vain hope that their, communications will pass his private - secretary and reach . the eye of the multi-millionaire, but not a scratch of a pen ever goes before him until it has passed through the hands of his private secretary, who knows only too well what is expected of him, and who does his master's bidding. A number of women, young and old, frail and stout, fair aid warthy. who have had designs to w.rk out on him, have found to their sorrow and regret that the shrewd old bachelor, w - successfully withstood the siege In yr.uflKer days, still stands impregnable to tlv shatt of their shj glances and longlnr jIcoV-3. while the dozens of schemers, t.llo Mnk it an easy matter to allure from lira his shekels, find to their sorrow that he J& too shrewd to be caught napping. avA 'ias no time to spend in listening to any of the hundreds of carefully laid plans to CaU.b him. With all this, be Is generous ' p n't .':.-ik gf'ted with- tha power of 3e. c'.i'i. it u glance those -who are his friemls Ms? well as those who are only after a pert ion of his gold. Mclilnttcr nnil Savagery, New York Evening Post. 4 Something occurs every once-In a while to make visible the narrowness of the line which marks the dltference between civilization and savagely. Only a year or two ago the white people cf.the United States were deploring the credulity off the Indians of the Northwest which led them to place faith lu r of their number who proclaimed hixr.yit a Messiah and led them to war under his uldanc as a "ghost dancer." New, a few years later, we sen thousands o ' these same white people rushing Mindly, i.t, any. expense of time or money, to , et into the presence of a man who proo!Vn himstf a miraculous healer, and lmit'iu the language of Christ In his annount n. :. Schlatter's history shows that thcr.- v nothing unusual in the career he. has &d'el. He lived, a number of years on Long Island, where he served as fireman on a fishing steamer and after ward a a shoemaker, . appeared "a trifle Insane." change hi politics from Republican to Jroelallst. had beautiful dreams of which he told his neighbors, went West and Invested all his money in a sliver mine, sinking the whole of it, and, according to his Long Island acquaintances, "it was thl?

great disappointment that affected Ids mind and mde him the figure he !s to-day." Civilisation Is not ierunlble fr. th- appearance of occasional Indian ghost dancer and white Schlatter, but we really owht to expect something better of it than thai it should permit crowds of rlMlis! per-i sons to flock to the presence of a "healer." expecting to be cured of serioua Ulni by touching him or even bv i-osnrpsing a handkerchief which he had "handled.

THE FOSTER AT HOMi: f'llmpse nt the Hnuriaoiuety I'arnlshrtl Hcftldrnce of the l'nrally. Washington Post. The home life of some of the great men of the national capital furnish Interesting pictures of that domestic strvnxth that ha made the American Nation great In th eyes of the whole wcrld. even front Its erlest infancy. " While the rrreat questions of the fats of nations are agitating Europe, one of the men most learned in International law Is ilvlng in Washlnston. and while not employed in any of the present disputes, hi services have been afkitl on the setllcinm of on- of the greatest war! of modern times, and he Is probably one of the fit lest of the world's diplomats. This Is John W. Foster, who, slit-- hi return frvm his tr!p to nettle the dlflrviK-es between China and Japan, ha been roMlng in his old home in this city. Mr. Foster's home is a large Prick. adJoining that of Mr. ltomero. the minister from Mxiro. and the loMlity !. a fashionable one. though trade is rapidly n'roa hing on the territory which for ynrs has been excluivIy occupied by the ho ties of the wealthy people of the Capital.' Within a short distance are thr homes of Senator Sherman, the Attorney-general, i-Vcrrtary Carlisle. Senator Gorman and a host ; other men of qual prominence, while mot 01 the Dig hotels are within a stone s throw. Mrs. Foster's front arlor is tastefully furnished, but the liaok otic is of pevuliar beauty. anJ the fame of its contents Is such that It is probably the be:. known room In Washington, outside' of the apartments of the White Hou.e. The rof of the back parlor Is of glass, and even Oil a. cloudy day a soft light s'fts In and makes a pretty r,!ow on the numberless curios that are all abjut this apartment. Thrare pi etty ' chairs, tables full of vases of flowers, walls cave red with pictures nd photographs of distinguished people front all over tho world, personal gifts to Mr. Fostrr. The writing ubbs are full of dainty silver Implement, the big open fireplace is shaded by bright lamps and I riirvii.i, in wiiv .-I'jv vi nit- nan i- iui iiiiu parny 01 a nuge mirror, w.urn one the imprrsslcn of there being a duplicate room. Pictures of the Emperor of Japan, curios from stxanae countries, a, brick from the famed wall cf China, and innumerable bric-a-brac that make . th room a veritable gallery of art. Mrs. Foster is a fine-looking woman.' with most plc8ant mtnners and of decided literary ability. She devotes a part of the. morning to such work, and several interesting papers frjn her pen have appeared In American journals. She is at present president of the Society of the Dtughteta of the American Revolution, a post- in which she succeeds Mrs. Stevenson, the' wife of the Vice President of the United" States. Mrs. Foster takes' h, great .deal of Interest In this society, which, she says, numbers about lO.OOrt, and Is the largest patriotic society in the world. There will be a blg'mtetlng of the Daughters of the Revolution tit the week of the lid of next February, and on that occasion she will give a l.trg reception to the delegates. Mrs. Foster Is fond of .society, and goea out a great deal, almost every day bmg present at some luncheon or fashionable tea. But she Is also an admirable housekeeper, and her home, which, is a luxurious one. is a model of neatness. and goes on In admirable order. She has several children who are married and living in other States. . Mr. Foster spends his time mostly 'at home, and Is p hard studtnJHs sclenc.? being international law, He uoes not take cases often, but. when he does go Into a. matter it is not for a paltry fee of a few Vi ti nil fort rf-llsiro 1 111 1 th turn la Ye.flrnneiA by the thousands. Tho Fosters dislike publicity, and live really very tuietly, inasmuch as they nevex give anyMarge balls, but they move in the highest circles of society, and their . position Is unaffected by the numerous changes which are continually taking place at the capital among. thos whose tenure of place Is purely political. TAXES THIRTY' YEA It H AGO. ltema That Appeared In the' Internal Revenue Lnwr of 1815. New lork Sun. ,. . ' In th last year of the civil. -'war .the total expenditures of the United. States govrrnment, which now amount to about $1.0O).000 a day. or S5,CX).UX a year, reach! the prodigious total of $1,300,000.)0. The revenue of the government lu the year preceding had been l254.OX),O0t. and there. w. an enormous . shortage, which could only be made up by a large Increase in the internal-revenue taxes, the receipt for customs having fallen off 20 per cent., below the year itrevJous. In 18&. therefore, th internal-revftnue taxes of the Treasury Department were doubled by act of Congress, not" In rate, but In amount, through the imposition of some new items for revenue getting, which seem now, thlrt3 years later, peculiar anl, it may be, oppressive as well. For instance. Section rt of the internalrevenue law declared that every eating house should pay an annual tax ot $10 to the Cnitel State government-; every retail confectioner, f 10; . every real-estaT.e agent, $10; every intelligence office keeper, $lu; every insurance agent, $10; every auctioneer, f L and photographer and druggist, $10. 1'eJdlers were divided into four classes, each with a special rate of tax.. First were the peddlers who traveled with two or more horses or mules. These peelers pall the United States government $00 a year. Then came the second class of peddlers, those with a single rig of two horses or two mules. These paid Sa year. Then came the third-class pedilers, with one horse or mule, who paid $13. and finally the . fourth-class peddler. . who sold their wares traveling on foot. They pall $10. 'The retail butchers were taxed $10 each, the proprietors of theaters, museums, and concert halls $100 each, and jugglers were taxed $3) each, a Juggler . being defined by law as "a person who performs by sleight of hand." There was a government tax of $10 for each alley in a bowling alley and $10 for each table In a billiard room, lawyers (and this was a feature of the law which' was singularly popular - among unsuccessful litigants) were taxed $10. and plumbers and gasfitters had to pay $10 apiece. Every miner employed In "mining for coal, gold, silver, copper, lead, iron, zinc, spelter or other mineral" was taxed $10. Architects and civil engineers were called upon to pay $10 to the government, builders, and contractors had to pay $25. Dentists were taxed $10. Proprietors of circuses were taxed $1, and in order that there might be no mistake about it the law declared that "every building, tent, fpace or area where feats of horsemanship or acrobatic sports are exhibited ahall be regarded es a circus." Pawnbrokers were taxed $T0 for a license authorizing the u? of a capital of $30,000. and for every additional $1.0fi0 invested In the money-lending business, there was a tax of Z. Cattle brokers were taxed $10 each apiece, bankers. 1UU. lottery ticnei ueaiers in nuna mercantile branch) tlOo, livery stable keeper $10 and custom house brokers $10. - Notwithstanding these Increased items of revenue and many similar oues, the deficit In the fiscal year of 1WT was nearly $l,'J).000.000; but the year following, the civil war having leen in the meanwhile brought to a close, there was a radical diminution of expenses, and the deficiency for 1S was only $J7,OW.O0O. OIR COtWTRY'S REAL E.XEMIES. Those AVho Refrain from the faithful IJIschnrue of n Citizen Ilnty. Ex-Prcsldent Harrison contributes bis prefatory article of a series on "This Country of Ours" he is writing for the ladles Home Journal, In the December Issue, of that magazine. In discussing thfl country's real enemies In his paper General Harrls-ori says: "The Impulpe of patriotism need to be instructed, guided brought to the whrel If it is to do the every-ay work of-American politic. Sentiment? Yes. never too much; but with it. and out of It a f.itthful discharge of the roy routine of a citizen s duty. A readiness to go to the field? Yes, and equally to the primaries and to the polls. The real enemies of our country the dangerous ones are not the armed men nor armored ships of th great powers. If there is too much exuberance in the thought that we can whip the world It is a safe saying that we can delenl our land and coast sgalnst any part of the world that will ever lw in arms aga!nd us. We tLlV alii I v iwuijii iwr-iiir UIU.JI rouses the heaviest leeiers. Dut we. air i dull XK'opte as to Internal a?aults upon the Integrity and purity of public administration. Salvation Army methods eern ta'1 needed in politico-moral reforms. It fens seemed to me that a fuller knowledge of our civil institutions and a deeper love of them would make us more watchful for their purity; that wc would think less of the levy necessary to restore stolen public funds, and more of the betrayal and liine of the thing. A jooo argument might le made for the wave theory as -4ppu"d to patriotism, for it seems to have its up and downs. There are eras when it rises to the combing point and others w..eti grei and selfishness rise above it on either side." : A Theor, .. Kaneas City Journal. Rhode IUnd has lo,om more wonifn than men. A number of polite gentlemen "have probably stepped out to make room fot the ladles' sleee,