Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1895 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS" JOURNAL," MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1895.

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NKK YORK (iiWj Hwisr, WUxtxor Hotel awl Astor Koutf. UIH AGO-Palmer ifnu, AwMormm Hotel and 1. O. Newt Co.. W Ada ma street. tlCINATIJ. IL Ilawley Co.. 14 Vine street. lOCIS V IllK-. T. ' Irtujr.- ihi ttrtvt corner of Third ami Jefferson st., ami Luivuit pook to., 4 Fourth ae. fcT. LOLLS Union Xw$ Company, I'ulon Depot. w.lSIIINOTOX, Di C KlifK Umiv. LLbiU Hmwe, W llUnl'a Il'H'I and ttie Wunblurtuu News Exchange, 140 street, ter. 1'enn. ave. miwl P ntri-eu Anions the Iwues- of. the next campaign the bond Issues will have a prominent place. . There U a strange rumor that the President will shake the American flag with amazing vehemence In his message. The brief speech of Mr. Reed In the Republican , caucus Is commended to those would-be statesmen who measure the value of a speech, by Its length. Controller Johnson will -cease to be as popular as he has beerj If In the interest of economy he, curbs any expenditure which will give Democrats employment. In Mr. Cleveland's first race for President Democrats denounced the accumulation of a surplus In the treasury. In the next they will have to defend the accumulation of a deficit. '.'. The nomination by acclamation of Mr. Crisp for candidate for Speaker by the Democrats of the Houw can be claimed as a free silver triumph, although that Question was not raised. ' irijtaaMaaiaMH If the Republican County Commissioners will follow the example of the Republicans of-the State printing board1 In making a contract for county printing they can save the taxpayers of Marlon county quite a sum. The only kind of financiering that plain, honest . people believe in is that Trhlch keeps expenses within income, or, which Is the same thing, increases revenues so as to cover expenses. The Democratic party has a chronic aversion for this kind'of financiering. - Mr. Cleveland does not show any more ability In dealing with a deficit than he. did in' dealing with a surplus. He disposed of the former by depositing it In pet banks that had the use of it without interest, and he tries to cure tho latter by borrowing money at ruinous rates from bank syndicates. In Nebraska n man who Wrecked a train on the Rock Island railroad, killing eleven " persons, was tried and found Cuilty of murder In the second degree. supplemented with a recommendation for clemency. If the most hideous of ciimes Is treated with so much leniency they will become more frequent. The Representative from California lican House caucus to present a silver Cavel seems neither to have learned that xne country wa3 never bo mucn against the free coinage of silver as now. or to have understood the pith of Speaker Reed's remark that. the first and greatest duty of i the Republican Ilouse Is to Clve confidence to the business of the country. An exchange criticises Rev. Dr. Parkhurst because he declared that the young fiends who cajised the wreck of an express - train should . be sentenced and hanged without any delay.. Still, the number or people who agree with the Doctor is increasing, because they are coming ; to believe that prompt and certain punishment will check such crimes. In England, where the gallows is reached by the murderer by the shortest route, murders are les frequent than In any other country.. ... MHMamMw m The names of the 'most' of1 trie' Senators who are reported asgeitlrfg together Saturday and deciding what the Republican party must do are not those In whom the country has the greatest confidence.' Allison. Cullom, Sherman, Davis, McMillan, Hawley. Piatt. Hoar, Hale, Frye. Quay. Aldrich, Morrill and Prootor are among the Republican Senators who will dictate the policy of the party In the Senate. Nor is it probable that the majority of reliable Republican Senators will favor the proposition of Mr. Dubois to send to the several committees the appropriations for the objects which these committees have under consideration. That would do If large expenditure were the policy, but the conservatism of the Senate will doubtless conclude that It will be better to have . the appropriations supervised by a committee of which Senator Allison has long been a member and will again be chairman when the Senate shall be organized by Republicans. The report of the Controller of the Currency shows that the national bank. In spite of Mr. Sovereign and Its demagogic enemies, H still doing business. Comparatively few new banks, were-organized th? past year, but those were in sections of the country needing them the South and the newer West, The circulation has increased the past year One of the interesting facts In the report is the statement relative , to the location of the banks 2,511 east of the MlHsUsipnl river and 1.104 west. The Eastern banks have much the larger capital, but In numbers, which Indicates the usefulness of the banks, 'there are more west of the Mtst-lislppl on the basis ...f population. That the national bank net the monopoly some represent it to f-j r - rn by .e.fact that the capital - -1 C"1",S1 13 OYr,?d

by 2S3.190 shareholders an average of about $2,326 to a shareholder. The Controller makes several suggestions relative to the amendment of the banking law. but the most important is that providing that on a day to be fixed by the Controller "the directors of all national banks shall be. required to make an examination of the affairs of the banks and submit to the Controller a report thereon upon blanks to be furnished for such purpose." Of course, the directors are now supposed to make such an examination from time to time, but In many cases they take the word of the president and cashier, and are deceived. Sucli a provision as the Controller recommends would require officers to make such a report as would make them Individually responsible. TIIK MFKAKKnSIIlP AXD TIIE PltKS- ' IDKSCY.

The election of Mr. Reed to the speakership of the new House of Representatives was a foregone conclusion. His pre-eminent fitness, his recognized ability and his previous experience - made the selection proper and Inevitable. It Is fortunate for the party that the action of the Republicans in this regard haa been unanimous, and will be heartily approved by Republicans everywhere. Mr. Reed will take the position Fomewhat handicapped by the fact that he is an avowed aspirant for the presidency. There Is a political tradition that the speakership does not lead to the . White House,, but it is not altogether well founded. It is true that Henry Clay, who was elected Speaker six times, and Mr. Blaine, who was elected three times, both failed to reach the higher position, but James k! Polk who served two terms, was afterward elected President, though he was not a candidate nor even thought of for President when he was elected Speaker. Probably the greatest danger that besets an. aspirant for the presidency who becomes Speaker of the Ilouse is the temptation to form the committees' or control the action of the House in his own Interest. Of course this would be highly improper as well as dangerous, but as human nature Is constituted the temptation does exist. If Mr. Reed Is wise he will not yield to it, and there Is no reason to believe that he will. Indeed, he. Is said to have repelled every suggestion of the kind. To a friend who made such a suggestion he is reported to have said: "I shall do nothing of the sort. I shall appoint no man, and shall pass over no man because of anything that may happen in the future or of any relation which that man might have to the future. I shall hope to appoint the committees so that they may work tor the best interest of all the people' i Mr. Reed probably knows that he serves his party best who serves his country best, and that the best service he. can render the Republican party and himself Is to try and organize and control the House for the benefit of the whole country. The Republican party Is bigger than any one man, and the country is bigger than the party. 3in. -REED'a POLICY. If Speaker Reed's address in the "Republican caucus of the members of the House ' foreshadows the policy of the party leaders in that body, that policy will meet with very general approval, and will 'greatly strengthen "the confidence of the country in the patriotio purpose and wisdom of Republican statesmanship. The declaration of Mr. Reed that "it is our first and greatest duty, to do all that we can to restore confidence to business" will, of Itself, tend to injure confidence. The prominent ' leaders of the Republican party In Congress are In cloe touch with the business and industrial jntercats of the country. Confidence has been growing ever -since the election of November, 1894. because its verdict was the death knell to the free-trade movement. The Speaker recognizes the impossibility of general tariff legislation along Republican lines so long as Mr. Cleveland Is President. Therefore he has declared against such a line of action because it would tey "waste of time and -would defer the relief of the treasury. A few measures can be tried In that direction. but the Speaker undoubtedly expressed' the general sentiment of the country when he said that it is impolitic for the Republican House to waste Its time upon a measure which the President will not permit to-become a law. ' The Speaker, however, gives the President 'a hint that , hls interference will not be permitted by this as It was by the last House in framing revenue bills. For the Republican House the Speaker declares that it will be ready at. all times to furnish adequate revenue for the government, but of the sources of that revenue the House will be its own Judge, because that is its constitutional prerogative. In this expression the Speaker makes if very clear that the' .first dvUy of the House Is to provide ample revenues to lift the treasury out of the bottomless pit of deficit into which Democratic incapacity has plunged it. If the House shall proceed along the conservative lines which the Speaker indicates It will commend itself to the country. aaMlMBMMaavm DO SOT PAY FOR TIIE DIGGING. .A recent crop report Issued by the Agricultural Department at "Washington says: The most serious complaint of the potato grower this year is the low price of the product. The report from' the department's agent for Wisconsin and Minnesota represents that in the latter State the tubers do not pay for the. digging." The potato crop Is not relatively as important in Indiana as it is in some other. States, yet it is of very considerable importance. Farmers did not have to wait for the official announcement from the Agricultural Department that the price of the product this year is so low as to leave little or no profit, but as the saim? is true of most other farm crops and of live stock, they have not found special ground of complaint in regard to potatoes. In an era' of Cleveland prices for all farm products there is no ground for complaint In one case more than another. It does not seem to have occurred to the Secretary of Agriculture that In calling attention to the low price of potatoes he would iurnish a new ground of contrast between the promises and performances of the Democratic party. One of the stock arguments of the party press and leaders in 1892, and one that doubtless had considerable weight, was that the value of all farm crc;-a would be enfcr.cvd If r.rut!!:n r-rty-Tras

turned out and the Democracy Installed In power. Free trade was to open for us the markets of the world which protection had closed, and there would be such an increase in the foreign demand for our farm products as would send prices away up. Wheat was to-be $1.23 a bushel and other farm products in proportion, and we were to go rignt on conquering and to conquer, capturing the markets of the world. Enough people had faith in these assurances to elect a Democratic President and Congress, and now we have the confession of a Democratic Secretary of Agriculture that in some of the Northwestern States potatoes do not pay for the digging.. Where are the markets of the world that we were to capture? Let a statement of our exports of potatoes for the last five years answer: Year. 'Bushels. Value. 1891....'. 341.19 $316, 182 1892 .7.022 361.37s 1S93 845.720 7(10.032 im 8)3,111 651,877 1505 572.857 418,121 The figures show that under the much abused McKinley tariff our export of potatoes increased from C41.1S3 bushels in 1S91 to 843.720 in 1893, while under the policy that was to capture the markets of the world they have fallen off to 572,857 bushels. Potatoes are not one of our important exports, but they serve as an index. A . great many people who are digging hard for a living at present are about ready to agree with Secretary Morton that the results "do not pay for the digging." ! TIIE IIHITISII BACKDOWN.

Now that the refusal of the Sultan to permit a guard ship to pass the Dardanelles into the Black sea has caused the British authorities at Constantinople, acting under the agreement of the powers, to' back down, the thousands in this country who, through sympathy with the Armenians, have become interested in movements In that quarter must see that the British Ministry is not dls-! posed. to do anything which will deprive the Sultan of his independence as a ruler or in any manner threaten the existence of the Turkish empire. The practical ruler of sixty millions of people in India holding the creed of Mahomet, Great Britain dares not assail the sovereignty of a government of which Mohammedanism is the warp and woof. To assail Turkey is to attack Mohammedanism, and, to such fanatics as that religion makes its followers, their faith is higher than allegiance to any. earthly potentate. Autocrat as he Is. the Sultan fears that he would be overthrown if he should permit the ships of the powers to pass In front of Constantinople Into the Black sea to protect Armenians against Mohammedans. It was the threats of the priests and the fanatics which led the Sultan to revoke his assent to. the passage of the guard ships Into - the BlacK sea. and it is the fear of a Mohammedan revolt In India which caused the British to desist from such a purpose when' the Sultan would not give his consent. The attempt of the powers to extend protection' to the Armenians having failed, as it hat?, their next move will be awaited with much Interest. Doubtless, the outcome gives Intense satisfaction, to the Russians. To have Great Britain placed In the attitude before the Chris-' tlan world of not. darins to disregard' the . wishes of Turkey or. to stop the massacre of Armenians is a positive ad-, vantage to Russia, whose ends are best promoted by the continuing of tho outrages in Armenia, since In the failure under British - lead to put an end to wholesale murder, Russia hopes- that the Christian w-orld will appeal to it to extend protection. . Thus called upon, Russia would only be too ready to respond by throwing large armies into Armenia to march on' Constantinople. Thus the British backdown of Saturday may Inure to the benefit of Russia. ; The annual meetings of the Indianapolis Charity Organization appeal in a peculiar way to the best sentiment and the best people of the city. Aside from Its noble purpose the plan and methods of the organization have attracted wide attention and contributed in no small degree to the honorable place which Indianapolis holds in the estimation or Intelligent students 'of social problems and municipal work. As a successful pioneer on new lines it has been an example and Inspiration for similar organization's in many cities, and is still, a recognized leader in the best methods, of dealing with one of the most difficult social problems of the day. The practical results accomplished by the organization are commensurate with its admirable plan, and Its achievements as well' as its motive should continue to appeal to the best sense of the community. The storm may have detracted somewhat from, the attendance at the anniversary mating last night, but it did not diminish the interest. Mr. Holliday's address was an excellent, presentation of the spirit and work of the organization and entirely in sympathy with the occasion. As an appeal to pure philanthropy and ' nonsectarlan charity nothing could have been better conceived. It is to be hoped the material response will b commensurate with the needs and merits of the organization. In his recent report arguing In favor of a single gold standard. Director of the Mint Preston quotes from a speech delivered in the House by Hon. Cyrus L. Dunham, of this State, in 1S53. in which he said: It is utterly lmiKJSjuble that you should lonjc at a time maintain a double standard. Gentlemen talk about a double, standard of gold and silver as a thing that exists, and that we propose to change. We have had but a single standard for tho laft three or four years. That has been, and now is. gold. We propose to Jet it remain so. and to adapt silver to it, to regulate It by it. And again Mr. Dunham said: The committee desires to have the standard of currencr to consist of gold only, and that the sliver coins shall be entirely subservient to it. and that they shall be used rather as tokens than as standard currency. . Mr. Dunham was a Democrat of the old school who had the faculty of seeing things straight. An account In the Sunday Journal of the Salem Farmers' Club ought to lead to many similar organizations. It shows how easily one of -the principal objections to farm life, viz.. the lack of the social element, may be removed in a way promotive not only of sociability but of improved farming. The Salem club does not aspire to the dignity of a farmers institute, of which there are some very useful ones in many counties of the State. It is simply a neighborhood club in which a few'cousenlal families In one of the oldest settled farming communities in tfca Ctate meet regularly et the

houses of the 4 different members and spend a day in social Intercourse, good cheer and the discussion of farm topics. That the members of , the club find the meetings Interesting as well as Instructive is shown by the factthat they have kept them up for several years. Such a club in every, well-settled farm community in the State would do muchto brighten up the social side of farm life and prove of educational value in other ways. , The Huntington Herald relates the following Incident in the life of a respected colored citizen of Wabash, Daniel Ferguson: In 1853 or thereabouts Mr. Ferguson came to Indiana on a packet boat of the Erie canal. He stopped In Huntington, prospecting, but so hostile w&s the feeling then toward the "nigger" that his stay was of brief duration. No sooner did he appear upon the streets than he was. surrounded bv a gang of hoodlums and threatened with 11 manner of evil. Seeking safety, he luckily took refuse In the store of that wellknown but long sln'e deceased pioneer. Samuel Purvlance. ' Mr. Purvlance was a friend of black a well as white humanity, and soon gave Ferguson's persecutors to understand that he .was under his protection and any attempt to mob him would be at the peril of the parties attempting It, All day long Ferguson remained a prisoner In Purvlance's store.. Toward evening Iurvlance sent for his horse and buggy, having the rig brought to the rear door. In the dusk of the evening Ferguson was seated in the buggy, and. with Mr. Purvlance holding the reins, was quietly taken out of town. Mr. Purvlance drove ipto. Wabash county, where Ferguson was placed In charge of some of the old-time Abolitionists, and afterwards taken to Wabash, where he located permanently. The relation should , remind the present generation that they have a special cause for thankfulness In the growth of a public sentiment that has made such Incidents impossible ..".. The day of small charge Is here and the penny has come to stay. It is not : a bad sign: on the contrary. It Indicates a degree of provident use of money that bespeaks safe expenditures by the people. Terre Haute Tribune. True, except as to the word "penny," which Is not found 4n our coinage laws. The penny Is an English coin. Ours Is a cent. ' RIDDLES IX THE AIR,

The Corn fed Philosopher. "A boy," said the cornfed philosopher to his admiring neophytes, "is a whole lot like an umbrella you ' can't tell whether he will amount to much until he Is pretty far raised." " ' Safe. The gallery was crowded. The timbers cracked ominously. A' few timid ones half rose." . "Aw, seddown!", shouted 'Bonesy McGinn. "Dey ain't no danger at all. Don't you see de cop ain't runnln'? " The; Cheerful Idiot. "What I would .tike? to know," asked the Cheerful Iilot, smiling blandly at the other boarders, "Is whether the proverb about riches having wings has any relation to the fly copper?" The amateur alienist boarder gazed on the Cheerful Idiot with thoughtful gaze. Easy Enough. "How," asked, thvroman. who reads the funny papers, "are you,women: going to nail campaign lies when you go Into polltlcsr i:"We have thought of that," said the severe lady with the straight hair, "and we have concluded to fasten them down with hairpins." . . , , . - .' IX MAX A PRESS OI'IXIOX.

H seems very probable -that President Cleveland will not take as active a part in legislation this year as ''heretofore. Hammond Tribune, "y Wonder If there is,a natural affinity between peanuts and 'Democrats, that . .there should be a failure 01Jftrptli crops thl year. El wood Call-Leader.- , Whatever may be thought of retiring the greenbacks, there is Unison of sentiment on the question of retiring the party now In power. North Vernon Plain Dealer. The farmers will get. Republican prices Cor the!r corn If they crip it and keep it until some time during the last year of the present administration. Tipton Advocate. The London Times , wants the Democrats to rally around Cleveland. Mr. Bayard seems to have worked up considerable enthusiasm on the other'slde. Goshen Times. Protection to home Industries la a Republl:an principle, and the party-will stand by it. The tariff must be. reformed until thl declaration Is, realized. Greensburg Iteview." ; CJovernor Matthews is not "worrying himself at present about the much-discussed presidential third term. The thing he is most interested In Is a first term. Lafayette Courier. . The administration .will' in 1K97 go into the practice of law, It is said. It Is to be hoped that it will not .'be,; as. expensive to its clients as its practice 'o the tariff law was to the people of the United States. Vincennes Commercial. ' When the people know that a protective tariff will be passed, they know that there will be more factory fires lighted, more work for labor, more demand for goods, more general .trade , and more prosperity. Wlnamac Republican. ' ' ' , . Let us have for President in 1900 the great Indlanlan whose- grandfather was our Governor In 1S0O. . Then- the. State ivlli shine out In the great centennial expos! W, : Illumined by the associations of avhundred years. Terre Haute Tribune, Nothing under the "heavens holds the Democracy together, but its name. It no longer represents any one principle, and no one can even hazard a guess as to what single line of policy the party may be able to agree upon when Jt meets In national convention next year. Richmond Palladium. "Four more years jOf Grover" would not be accompanied with any "clover." In fact, four years of Grover have been accompanied with an appalling absence or clover, and have been productive of an abundance of thistles and cacti. Anderson Herald. The demand of the country is that legislation be enacted which will restore confidence and stop as far as possible any further Increase of the public debt: that will keep intact the gold reserve: that will protect American honor and dignity, and If Grover Cleveland wants to throw himself across the path, that's his business. Fowler Republican Era. . . TUB Tt'RKISH Ql'F.STlO.V. We have finished th turkey. Now for the Turk. New York Recorder. The Sultan seems -.inclined ' to make a graveyard and call" it peace. New York Press. ' More children may be bayoneted before the Dardanelles are passed. Louis PostDispatch. At present writing the Saltan i playing "Hvengall" to Armenia's "Trilby." Philadelphia Press. . . . The Turks know who : to. massacre. They never touch the . English missionaries. Atlanta Constitution. The way to bing that Sublime Porte to" terms Is to fire a broadside Into the Sultan's palace. Philadelphia Inquirer. It is time for the powers to force tha Dardanelles and ring the Turkish empire's death knell. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Instead of forcing the passage of the Dardanelles the powers are talking about it. The Sultan's reputation for shrewdness is suffering no decline, while he plays upon the weakness of the European nations and meets their threats . with false promises. Pittsburg Dispatch. England, who has so persistently insisted on Russian war ships beeing cooped up In the RIack sea and having the Dardanelles closed to her, now finds herself caught In her own trap. Her ilrst attempt to send a war vessel through the straits might possibly be met by a response from Russia that would startle the world. New York Herald. -, The blessings of. peace turn to curses when too dearly bought. If liberty Is to be sacrificed, barbarous cruelty sanctioned and humanity outraged as the price of peace, tts puivhase Is a foul crime. Let the pow en xlnk their rivalries ar.d thtlr Jralou5lea U

until the Armenian atrocities are rendered impossible. After that their boasted civilization should be equal to the task of mak. ing an amicable settlement among them selves. Detroit Free Press. The Turks have method in their madne.-s. They are treating the Armenians exactly as the Russians treated the Jews in the "pale of settlement." They plunder all., and kill some to terrify the others into silence., New York Journal. The time for patience, toleration and mercy has passed. Let the civilized nations arise In their might and, crush once for ull this Impious and hideous defiance of "the God of nations." and wipe this stigma and shame from the map of the world. New York Mall and Express. He .will go down to history as one of the most bloody minded Turks that ever sat on the ensanguined throne he occupies, and unless he passes from the latter Into the former without more delay than Is necessary to dethroning him and putting him on trial, j the European powers will fail in their duty.-New York Commercial Advertiser. . THE SKIES IX DECEMBER. . The most Interesting groups of fixed stars are above our horizon during the evenings of the winter months. New moon will occur about the middle of the present month, and that will be a favorable time to see the stellar hosts In all their glory. At 8:30 o'clock the Milky Way extends across the skies from east to northwest, making a pretty curve to the south arvund the polar star and carrying Cassiopeia and Perseus as the central figures. Uelow these are Andromeda, Triangulum,, Aries and Pisces. West of Cassiopeia is 'Cygnus, which is between Lyra and Pegasus, and in the southwest Aquarius is nearing the horizon. East of Perseus is Auriga, which is followed by Gemini and Cancer. Ursa Major Is seen In the north, toward the east: Canls Minor Is rising In the east and Canls Major In the southeast. Almost centrally divided by the celestial equator, midway between his rising point in the, east and the meridian, and closely following Taurus, who carries the Pleiades and Hyades, Is Orion, the most beautiful of all. Note the large munber of bright stars above 'the horizon at this time.. Sirius, RIgel. Dethelgense. Aldebaran, Captdla and Procyon are all east of the meridian: Altalr Is In the west and Vega In the northwest. To add a few more would complete the list of all the brightest stars ever seen in this latitude. To the south is Cetus, whose "wonderful" star, Mlra. is at this time very near the meridian and Is due to reach maxima on the 9th. This was the first variable known, and Is the typical star of a class to which almost one:half of the variables belong. Its period is about eleven months, during more than two-thirds of which it is of the ninth magnitude, while at its maxlmas It varies, sometimes becoming a second, at others only a fifth, magnitude star. Interesting and Instructive telescopic objects abound In the field reviewed, but the opera and field glasses should not be overlooked. Those whose ocular aid Is limited to the Utter should repeatedly sweep along the Milky Way as if now presents .Jtself and examine carefully the great clusters In Perseus. The eye does not require much aid to obtain a good view of the great nebulae in Andromeda or the cluster in Can-' cer. and the Pleiades and Hyades, as well as the sword and belt regions of Orion, are all splendid low-power fields. Two new comets have Just been discovered, the first byC. D. Perrine, of Lick Observatory, on Nov. 13, In the constellation Virgo. Reports from Mount .Hamilton' say it is of considerable slzei is gradually growing brighter and will be, visible to; the naked eye about the middle of December. The second was discovered by pYofessor Brooks, of Geneva, N. Y., on Nov. 22, in the constellation Hydra. :n . The planets are all morning stars during the first week of the month. , .Neptune ( will be In opposition on the Sth, becomes an evening star and will be joined as such by Mercury on the 20th. Neptune is in1 the eastern part of Taurus, while Mercury moves from Libra into Scorpio,' and during the month passes through Scorpio and Ophiuchus and on to near the eastern edge of Sagittarius. Saturn and Uranus remain in libra, , with Mars for company until about the middle of the month, when the ruddy planet moves Into Scorpio. As Mars leaves Libra on the east. Venus enters from the west and passes Saturn on the 22d In the afternoon, api Uranus on the 28th. these two being' tho only conjunctions of planets during the month. The one occurring on the 22d will be quite close, Venus passing thirty-three minutes north of the ringed planet. Two days later they, will also pass In declination, and will be seen very near each other for some time. Venus has passed her crescent phase, and will be in perihelion on the 11th. On Nov. 12 the atmosphere was exceptionally clear in this locality and many ' persons followed her with the unaided eye until after the sun had crossed the meridian. Jupiter is in Cancer, and his motion will be apparently retrograde during the entire month. He Is not far from the Praesepe, or large cluster, and Is moving toward It in a northwesterly direction. The moon fulls on tne 2d, at 1258 a. m.t passes Neptune in the afternoon of the same day and Jupiter on the 6th, last quarter occurring on the th, at 1K59 a. m. She will be in conjunction with Venus on the 12th, ; Saturn and Uranus on the 13th, Mars the next day. Mercury on the loth, and be a new moon on the 16th, at 12:20 a. m. First quarter occurs on the 231, at 11:21 p. m., and the second full moon of the month at 2:31 p. m. on the last day of the year. Weather prophets whose predictions are based on the time of day the morn changes will have an easy time this month, as All these changes except the one on tho 31st, occur within less than an hour and a quarter of midnight. The following appeared In a prominent place in an Indianapolis dally of last Thursday: , ::! ..The fact that there will be two moons In December, for the first time sfnee Christ's birth, 1.896 years ago. is the. cause of some speculation among those who are superstitious as to whether or not the event may not portend the second coming of the Messiah." If the. superstitious persons referred to will investigate this matter they will flnO that the "moons" ; of December, 1S05, are exactly the same in number and kind a occurred In December. 1S57, and December. 1ST6. . The' sun enters the sign Capricornus, and marks the commencement of the astronomical winter, on the lift, in the evenlnjr. W. P. WALLHEISER. Bedford, Ind., Nov. 50.

An Ex-Indlanlan. New York Press. . Case Broderlck. the Kansas Congressman, who does not want a committee chairmanship, and whose letter to Mr. Reed to that effect has been filed away as the rarest curiosity of the decade, was a farmer in the Territory before the war. He came over from Indiana and settled In Jackson county. After the war he studied law and went Into .politics. President Arthur appointed him associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Idaho, and he lived at Uoise City for the four years of. bis term. Idaho was too cold for him, however, and he returned to Kansas. He Is about to enter upon his third term in Congress. Case is about fifty-six years old. He Is a first-rale Hoosier statesman. The SIlTer-Tonirued. New York Sun. The Hon. Bill "Breckinridge, the distinguished Kentucky representative of social decency and the domestic virtues. Is waving his hair and his mouth again, and it is said that he means to impose himself once more upon the Congress district upon which he has conferred sa much distinction. We are unable to believe that there is any strons movement In the Lexington re-ton for the revision or for the repeal of the Ten Commandments. '

A FBIENJ) 0FTHE TURK

HE CLAIMS IT IS THE M1SMIOX ARIES WHO MAKE TIIE TItOt I1LE. The Turk Is Cleanly. Pious and Chaste, anil lo Tench Him . Rellftlon In "Arrogant Itamptlousnen. Boston Herald. ; ' ... "I've just returned from Constantinople." said Mr. F. Hopklnson Smith, the author and artist, to a Herald representative in New York, two or three days ago. "While there, I bad an opportunity, through talks with Minister Terrell and two of the Sultan's aids, to learn all the Inside facts about the Armenian atrocities. The whole matter has been grossly misunderstood, if not misrepresented, in this .country. The root of the trouble lies In the missionaries sent out to Armenia from England and America. Instead of trying to help the people, they teach them that they are 111 treated, and sow the seeds of discontent and rebellion. They have started all the difficulty, and when the blame Is properly placed It will rest upon their heads. "We hear a great deal . In. this country about 'the barbarous Turk Now, I have traveled and painted all over the globe, and know pretty well the inhabitants of all countries: and let me tell you that I never met a more civilized, humane, intelligent, cleanly, pious nd chaste -man than the typical Turk. He Is quiet and respectable: he. Is pre-eminently kind and good to his family; and his religion enters into every part of his life. On my former visit to Constantinople four years ago I met a good many Moslems, and during my recent visit I came to know many more Turks of the best classes, and I make that statement without hesitation. "For instance, I spent several days painting in the streets of Constantinople. The Sultan would not- give a permit to do this, because he had refused such a perml: to divers Englishmen, and he did not wish to establish a dangerous precedent. He sent an official to accompany me on my trips, and every day that man left me three times and went Into the mosque to say his prayers. Just . think of the power of a religion which makes every man of a whole nation lay aside his business three times every day and prostrate himself toward Mecca In prayer. "Go out here in Wall street and try to perauade the people to go to church three times a day. You couldn't club them Into It. The best of them only attend service once or twice a .week. What are we. as a religious nation, that we should attempt to force our religion upon every other nation on earth? , We might -as well start out to make silk hats for the world and club every head into the right shape to fit them. "See how humane the Turks are to animals. I don't know how'manv hundred thousand digs there are In Constantinople, but probably there are fifty-to each block. Every frw minutes,, if you are watching what goes on around you. you will see a Turk go over to a bake shop, buy a bit of bread or something else that the dogs will eat and . feed thera.; Nobody owns these creaiurt,?.; Th have been common property for a thousand years I suppose, yet, ugly and maiify as they are, they never go hungry. Xor do they ever suffer violence, htriklnr a 1js lu the streets of Constantinople meaU'. imprisonment for a year. Why, I ve s.er. team come along one of those narrov streets when a dog was lying in the 'Ha, and the driver would stop his donkey arid lift the dog out of the wav rather thkn run the risk of . hurting him. I never fcv any one bent or kick a donkey in Turkey. T.': people recognize that these creature ar IhMr faithful sen-ants, and treat thnv ki. ti The, love existing between the Turk or the Arabian and his horse 1 proverbial. "What have we In the way of religion to teach these people? Nothing. It's pure bumptiousness for us to try to convert .m U1? '"either want nor need our religion. They've got a better one of their own. Better for them. I mean, not for us. Tney are. already more religious, as a people, than we are. : :. AS TO THE MISSIONARIES. "Another point. What order ,of men are they w;iom the English' and the American religiout. bodies send out as missionaries?. If you hive ever noted closely the students In our training schools for the ministry you must nave discovered that, as a class, they are f r from representing the best, or'even a -ery.good. type of American manhood. Mi.nv.tf them are young men from country towns nd villages who could not make a decent living in, any other calling. They go to these schools. In many Instances, because thy can get their education at half price, ,or free. Of course their poverty is no disgrace; but they are poor in every sense of the word. They hear & sermon by some returned missionary who wishes to aroue interest, in the country In which, he has lived, and straightway they are called to labor in the same Held.' Such sermons are apt to take hold of the less intelligent and more Impressionable men: and it is often the men who are not tttted to take the high rank among the ministry, in their own country who feel themselves, drawn to work In a. foreign land. The result is that we send out the most Incapable specimens of our rural population men of uncouth manners. who have learned a Uttie Latin and . Hebrew the representatives of half a dozen religious sects, which are at. constant war with each other about their creeds to convert' a cultured, courteous, pious, humane, temperate race, whose unified religion enters as much into the life of Its members as does their business. "Now and then we hear of some girl in a country town, who thinks she has a ml$Eion to do good to the heathen. She had far f"er go down to the factory in her own village and minister there but no. there Is no glamour about that. Imagining that she is a new Joan of Arc, our hysterical friend tells soma missionary body all about It, and they send her over to Turkey. You can picture to yourself the amazement and disgust with which the. Turks regard such missionaries. Superb specimens of physique, they look upon these little wizened, dried up spectacled women win, infinite contempt; Just as they scoff at ih Idea of adopting a religion of which the various schools cannot agree. "Well, colonies of such boors and cranks go over to Armenia or somewhere else and found schools. The children come to be taught, and eventually they Join some one or another Christian church. They . are pariahs as long as they live marked boys and girls, branded, men and women, who have lost.cnste among their fellows. What have they gained? 'Christianity,' you may say. Very true; but if -they would lead pure and noble lives under the religion of Mohammed. how are they better off? We surely cannot believe that- heathen who lead good lives according to their lights do not go to heaven. -. , . "Pretty soon some one 'comes along and bits an Armenian over the head. The missionaries keen telling their converts and the poor people that the Turk did it. They tell them that they are abused, and stir them up to rebellion. The result is tloodfhed, as you have, seen. Here on .my desk Is a letter Just received from Mr. Terrell, with whom I had many converse tlons when In Constantinople. He says: 'We have certain Information that .10.000 have been killed within a month. That official statement, of course, includes tho?e slain on both sides. ; AMERICANS ARE POPULAR. "He a Ms another statement, -equally si?-' nlflcant, to. the effect that so far as can be learned, not one American missionary has been injured. The Turks like the Americans who come to Constantinople far better than the Englishmen,' and they like America better than England, partly because as a nation we do not meddle with their affairs. When I have been, painting n the streets I have never bjeen subjected ,to discourtesies from the crowd which always assembled to watch me, except two or three times; and on these occasions the reason was that they supposed that I was an Englishman. When they learned that I was an American they ceased to annoy me, and even apologized for' their rudeness. And they carry this esteem for Americans to the point of sparing our missionaries, even when .the latter, have sown the set-da of discontent In the hearts of their subjects. - "The English talk of forcinj? the Saltan to abdicate. They can do it. of couie; but It would cost thousands of lives in fact. It would necessitate a war of extermination, as I can show you very shortly. "The Sultan did not desire this Woodshed. He knew very iittle about Jt. JJt. like every ether ruler, he is sum'tnied by numbers of men who are Irving u gain favors or permits at bis hanis. ar.l some-of these men obtained commissions lo slaughter tJie intldel. When tl) J'uPan gives en order to kill tho InflJel. th Moslem say: Thou art the son of Mohammed. Thy command Is Allah's will. England threatens to deport the Sultan for carrying cut tlic will cf Allah. and Yfr matt c: thtm

will nht to the latt drop of h!s bbxd to prevent It. Indeed, we would despise them If they did not. "The Sultan himself ha known very little of the ma5.acres which have resulted from his permit'. bcue the facts have been kept from him; but Mr. Terr?ll ha told him a good many p'ain statements about this and other matters, and the Sultan likes htm for It. "However, the Sultan has ordered investigations which result In laying the facts before him. and he Intends to enlorce his reform scheme. And. by the way. when he told the English embassador to read to that mass meeting his communication in whlcn he said that he intended to prosecute the investigations. It was one of the wisest diplomatic moves cf recent history. PRAISE FOR TERRELL. "The Fnlted States Is very fortunate to be -represented at the Saltan' court In this crisis by so able a man as Minister Terrell. Why he accepted t bedpost 1 cannot Imagine, for he was a prominent man of affairs in this country. I supiose he thought It w ould mean a pleasant change and an outing on the Bosphorus. He went over there and landed in the roldt of this turmoil, and ho has worked day and night till he is faxsed out. Mr. Short is another man of the rani sort clear-h-'aded and able. "One day called at the American consulate ani found several t-eople considerably excited. A man had Just landed from America and had been set upon by th Turks. Mr. Terrell had rescued him. and found out that he wj an Armenmn wh had gone over to America, stayed there four years and taken passage bek to his own country the very next" day after taking out his naturalization papers. Ho had landed in Armenia with J3.0OJ and a portemanteau full of revolutionary tracts. He claimed protection as an American citizen, and Mr. Terrell managed to save his neck and sent him on to Athens. "But our missionaries and those sent out by the English can. If they will, do Immense good. They can teach the races among which they make their homes to plow, to harrow, to make and use tools, and Innumerable other things In which thev are far behind us. There Is very little us to carry our knowledge of medicine to the Turks because the latter are never sIck. They are temperate in all things; they drink no wine (their religion forbids It), and they eat very little meat. Above all. they are the cleanest people on the globe. Your orthodox Turk bathes three times a day. When you enter a restaurant in Constantinople the first thing mey bring you Is a bowl of hot water and some fresh tow to wipe your hands on. Then they bring you cold water and a fresh towel. Now, disease Is bred by dirt and Intemperance.' and tu the absence of these there Is health. "But although Turkey Is not one of the countries to which we can with advantage

IcJne. we can really benefit the Tutks and the Armenians by teaching them mechanio arts and agriculture. And In that direction lies our rightful activities In their behalf, not In the way of religion. For a people whom you can hardly Induce to go to church ence a week., save to hear a sensational sermon, to teach religion to a race who go gladly and enthusiastically to worship the Jehovah whom they believe to ue oenina me ounk wall on the Meccaward end of their mosques Is the most arrogant bumptiousness." , ABOUT PEOPLE AXD TIIIXGS. Pope Leo wrote his will in Latin many years ago. The' disposition of 'his vast estate fs a profound secret. ' Sims Reeves attributes the marvelous preservation of his voice in old age to th fact that he Is a total abstainer. He holds that the use of stimulants will break ths voice sooner or later. Joseph Chamberlain once remarked to a vacillating and somewhat lazy member, of the House of Commons: "My dear -boy! observe the postage stamp; Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thlr.c until it gets there." The Prince of Naples declares that hft will never marry, for fear that he might give Italy a hunchback king. This prince is himself physically perfect, but his uncle. Prince Oddone. brother of King Humbert, was a hunchback, and the prince is morbil r n t Via ftitK ' , The monument to Garibaldi In Mllanl said to look better than was expected. Th bronze figure on horseback has a calm and resolute aspect. He Is unsheathing hU sword, and wears the traditional poncho and Hungarian cap. He Is represented as he looked when In the prime of life, during tho campaign of l&tf). It has been frequently slated that Monsignor O'Connell was virtually force 1 to resign the-presidency of the American Col-t lege at Rome because of his ardent sympathy with the ideas of Archbishop Ireland, of St. Paul. The Catholic Times, of Philadelphia, however, says that the caue of his resignation was ill health. The French government has paid the Persian Shah $10,000 for the right to dig up antiquities anywhere within the ancient empire, and the bargain Is regarded as an ex cellent one for the western nation. Several of the great cltie of the mi,l lie burird there, and archaologlsts think that they contain better treasure trove than tlm world has ever gained from tho Orient. George Du Mauriers friends never speak to hln of Trilby." He has grown fo weary of the book and the heroine that made him famous , as a novelist that ho never speaks of his creation and objects to all reference to the same. For a time he kept a "Trilby scrapbook," but It became so cumbersome after a time that he has not recorded recently received newfpapr clippings. Mrs. Sidney Lanier, the poet's widow, who is giving readings In various cities from her husband's verse, J? described as a fine example of the Southern lady of old tinv. Her hair, one raven black but now streaked with silver, is brushed back from the forehead, and she wears an old-fashioned comb in the chignon. Her dress is black. relieved oniy oy a wnite rurae at me mroat. Her voice has the true Southern intonation, which Is a plasing thing to Northern cars. Mr. Jacob Monteflore. whose death has Just occurred at the great age of nlnety-fivt, was a prominent member of the Jewlh community and "senior elder" of the congregation of Sranlsh and Portuguese Jews in London. For some years he was a partner In the houe ofl Monteflore Brother?, of London, who were agents for Messrs. Rothschilds in Victoria, and established largn business connections with New South, Wales. He was one of the commissioners appointed by King William IV for the colonization of South Australia, and throughout his life was Intimately associated with Australasian development. . Tho king ha left his counting house and wistly spent bis money; " The queen and he are bicycling, forgetting bread and honey; . The maid has bought a wheel, too, and left her hanging clothes.' ' 'Twould take a nimble blackbird. new-to nip off half her nose. Toledo Blade. "Tom Tagitnrt's Administration. Philadelphia Press. ; A few week ago when "Tom" Ta?gatt was elected Mayor of Indianapolis the Democratic newspapers all over the country callel attention to the circumstance as an evidence of a riurnlng Democratic t!de. As the elections which took place a little later went strongly Rep ublican the "returning Democratic tide" seen must -have het the Democrats Mayor Taggart has len putting on the police force of Indlanapoll-. The oil-ervre 'commission of that city, made up almost wholly of lemocrat and mugwumps, finds thai under th Tat;ar: rule experienced policemen have ten dismissed from the force and among thone put In their places are raen who iave betn charged with levying blackmail on fallen women, drunkards. i;amllrs. m anee:et for assault and battery and tUcfiwho hae been dismissed from the fr.ive in disgrace. This is the kind of a "returnlrtf Pemooratlo t'fio" tho Indianapolis people n ncin, tut it was male pol .lc not by a Democratic revival but by c: ucpopulur Republican nomination. r Ht Xevrr Smiled. Washington Post. . ." Dr. Talmage male a leiuaik yslerlay la the course of hs ThanksglviiiS ,,-rr.o.i which tickled many of th olhic'.an now In the city when it war. ijuoted to them. Mr. Talmage was d!Mru?strx the general productiveness, of the country. 'There is the great West." h raiJ, "which proluccs our cereal: the South, which vlelds mkU quantities of cotton, and Iherc U the Hu fson ilvi r, an I there Is li;ztru'i Bay, which surplles our hsh." And right In n?n aullence sut Ircli nt CKvelan and ntwr Smiled. Curiosity. Poughkeepsie Ealc. Grover Cleveland Is tbe on! man who ever went Into tfce presidency a poor man un.l came out of it a ro'llionrire. And sj h has had no business -or a;arnt source or Iru-onie outslJe of th o:... the mtloti seems to be Just a- rTtir.fr.t hs to t'.m as to Orofcrt, "Where i; 1 be ilf