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HKW YOUK TiUsey llouae, Windsor Hotel and Aftor l.onie. CJIU'AGO Palmer Ilont, Auditorium llotel and P. o. e C VI Adams streec C1J.CINNATI-J. K. Haw ley A Co., 154 Vine street. lOTTISVlIJJv C. T. Pterin?, northwest corner of Ulrd aixl Je.lerson f., and Louisville Loot Co., .TW Kourth ate. tT. IaJL IS Union wa Company, Union Depot. Washington, d. c rij? iioue. Kbbitt iiooe, WtlUnl'a Hotel end ths ih!nto'i New a Kxcbange, litUkti-eet. bt. heiin. ave. aud K btrvet. W A It M G A;.MST A FRAUD. A man. calHng himself F. E. Taylor and o:her aliases. Is traveling about In the gas belt; representing himself as a general agent cf the. Journal and collecting money for f inscriptions from unsuspecting person. He Is a fraud and unworthy of any confluence. Tho description given of him Is that he is about five fee-t fou'r Inches In height, weighs about 111 pound., is smooth shaven, except a close-cropped, gray mustache, wears a cutaway coat and soft hat, and looks to be about fifty years of age. All persona are warned not to pay money for the Journal to him, or any one el3e, unless at their own risk. The only traveling agent the Journal has, who la authorized to collect money. Is Mr. William Smith King, and he carries credentials that are unmistakable. John Bull Is very slow to learn, but he Is beginning to see himself as others see him. Cripple Creek. Col., should he careful fcow It exploits its wealth of gold. It may be Inviting British Invasion. Well-informed Kentucky Republicans admit that Senator Blackburn will be renominated, but predict his defeat. Mr. Cleveland Is not as popular in England as he was a while ago. but he is enjoying quite a boom in Venezuela. The few men in this country who cannot tell whether they are Americans or Englishmen should get together and draw lots. .Henry VUlard presenting some of the evils of railroad management is as amus ing as would Senator Voorhees be in the le of a traveling lecturer on civilervice reform. Now the grand jurors of Chicago are charged with being bought by bucket shop keepers. The charge, however, comes from bucket shop keepers who have been indicted. The English-speaking bond is not so strong In this country as to prevent a large majority of the American people from taking sides with Germany in any quarrel with Great Britain. The final success of the Cuban in surgents is not assured, but the Incomktence of the Spanish ofllcers, notably f Captain General Campos, has been demonstrated beyond any doubt. The recent discovery of an immense nugget of, gold in North Carolina will probably make Lord Salisbury wonder how England could ever have been so foolish as to relinquish that State. Jt was scarcely necessary for any one to go to the expense of telegraphing that Senator Hill and ex-Secretary Whiticy will not accept the Democratic nomlfor President. For such men here is no glory in political annihila tion. It Is probabi? that Mr. Morgan believed the President had made an agreement with him to sell him $200,000,000 of bonds. If he had not so believed he would not have proceeded as he did. Snubbed as he now appears to be, Mr. Morgan might make an Interesting statement about the affair. At no period in recent years have there been so many events of unusual importance in different rarts of the world to attract attention. The Venezuelan affair, so prominent three weeks ago, is now overshadowed by more exciting events in Cuba and South Africa and the strifes which these conflicts have created. Mayor Taggart should keep his promises when he agrees to address Democratic county conventions. It is not so much the speech that would help the disconsolate brethren as the sight of a Democrat who has been elected durins 1S34 or 1S93. Tammany and Taggart are the spared monuments of the Democracy. It is now understood that the Senate finance committee will report the bond bill substantially as it came from the House, but that will be the end of it. The silver Senators will substitute a free coinage bill and pass it. but that. In turn, will be summarily killed in the House. For the deadlock that is likely to ensue the country will place the responslblllty where it belongs. It is said the new poet laureate of England "has done the Conservative party some service with his pen." If that is true his prose must be better than his poetry. His first "offlclar poem praising and defending England's Ar menian policy, and, in fact, her foreign V)licy in general, is as stiff and stupid Lb it is fulsome. To call it poetry ought to make Tennyson turn in his grave. It Is hoped that the reports to the effect that the President is angry with the Morgan syndicate and that he will not issue bonds until Congress has had time to act are true. 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they will be advertised and will be sold to the lowest bidders. The fact that Mr. Morgan, within a few hours after the evidently premature launching of his syndicate, received subscriptions for $150,000,000 of the bonds shows that there Is no trouble With the public credit, and that a 3-per-cent. bond will sell if made a popular loan. If there has been at any time any doubt the President, by his remarkable course, is responsible for it. STILL. AS OPCX QUESTION. Recent dispatches foreshadowing the early and definite settlement of the Alaskan boundary question are liable to misconstruction without explanation. Lord Aberdeen, Governor-general of Canada, In his address at the opening of the Dominion Parliament, a few days ago said: "I am happy to be able to inform you that the commissioners appointed by Great Britain and the United States for the purpose of delimiting the boundary between Alaska and Canada have concluded their labors and have signed a Joint report for presentation to their respective governments. This report will be laid before Parliament in due time." It was also stated in a Washington dispatch of the 3d Inst, that General Duffleld, chief of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, had presented to the Secretary of State the Joint report on the Alaskan boundary which had been agreed on by him and the Canadian representative at their meeting at Albany last week, and that In view of the results of the surveys "General Duffleld does not hesitate to express the opinion that there can be no serious dispute between the United States and Canada over the boundary." This commission is the one referred to by Lord Aberdeen. In so far as the dispatches Imply that the commission had authority to agree upon or establish the boundary line they are misleading. It was simply authorized to summarize and report the results of a series of surveys which have been in progress for three or four years past. The trouble in this case has grown out of the failure to make surveys and locate the line as it was defined in the treaty of 1823 between Great Britain and Russia. The boundary has always been clear enough on .paper, but has not been located by actual surveys. From 1S23 to 18S9 It was not disputed, though it was .all the time operf to dispute. At the instigation of the Canadian authorities negotiations were opened between Great Britain and the United States, resulting, in July, 1S92, in the signing of an agreement providing fer the appointment of a Joint commission to locate such parts of the line as had not already been permanently and definitely settled. These commissioners were to complete their respective surveys and make their reports first by Nov. 28, 1S94, and then, under an extension of time, by Jan. 1, 1896. This extension of time was made by President Cleveland and Secretary Gresham in March, 1S94, at the request of the British authorities, and there is reason to believe it was asked for in order to give further time for British subjects to make settlements on the Alaskan side of the line. At all events, the extension of time has been utilized in that way. . The surveys under the agreement of 1S92 were carried on by parties from the United States and Canada under the "direction, respectively, of the superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey and the chief astronomer of the Canadian Department of the Interior. It will probably be found that the survey on the part of the United States was embarrassed and our Interests endangered by the removal of Dr. T. C. Mendenhall as superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey in July. 1S34, and the appointment of General DufHeld as his successor. This change was made by the present administration for political reasons. Aside from the fact that scientists do not regard General Duffleld as competent for the position, it was obviously unwise to make the change pending the settlement of so important a question. The surveys on the part of the Canadian government have been under the control of one head from the beginning. The report of the commissioners who met last week at Albany will not definitely settle anything, and will not touch the location of the northern extension of the 141st meridian of longitude along that part of the boundary which

is now in dispute. Moreover, the lines as surveyed have not been marked, and as long as they remain unmarked by permanent monuments British aggression will continue. The President urged congressional action on the subject in his recent message. He said: Her Britannic Majesty's government has proposed a joint delimitation of the one-hundred-and-forty-flrst meridian by an international commission of experts, which, if Congress will authorize it and make due provision therefor, will be accomplished with no unreasonable delay. It is impossible to overlook the vital Imponance of continuing the work already entered on. and supplementing it by further effective measures looking to the exact location of this entire boundary line. Senator Squire has Introduced a resolution for the negotiation forthwith of a new treaty between the United States and Great Britain for marking the boundary, and appropriating $73,000 for expenses. The mere establishment of a boundary line without marking it avails very little against British greed. In dealing with such a government delays are always dangerous. No time should be lost in definitely settling and conspicuously marking every part of the boundary line. TIIItKi: OF SEXATOIt SIIER3IAVS POIXTS. The speech of Senator Sherman Is one which those who desire to have accurate Information regarding the financial condition of the government can read time and again with profit. He is, above all men, a master of the subject, and he can bring the whole matter to the easy comprehension of everyday people. In the pcech cf Friday he made it clear that no one can successfully assail his position that the present difficulty is not a demand for gold for United States notes, but the deficiency of the revenue incident to the legislation of the last Congress. It is the fact that for the year ending June 30, 1S94, the deficiency was $89.S03,260.u8; for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1S93, it was $42,803,223.18; for six months ending Nov. 1, 1S93, it was $17,615.W9.24 a total of $130,221,023 In two and a half years. It is because the receipts of the government for two and a half years have been $130,221,023 less than the expenditures that bonds had to be sold to keep up the reserve and the greenbacks had to be paid out for pen

sions, etc., as soon as redeemed. Deficit month after month made the endless chain; ample revenue is the power that can break It. Gold Is needed for export because the Democratic tariff law has opened our markets to the competing products of other countries, but the treasury need not furnish that gold to be paid out, and could not be made to do so if It had sufficient revenues to enable it to hold back the greenbacks until some one should desire to exchange gold for them, as was the case under Republican rule and treasury sufficiency. Mr.' Sherman proceeds to show why gold Is needed abroad. "The agricultural products imported during the first year of the Wilson law," said Mr. Sherman, "all of which are such as are produced in the United States, were of the value of $107,342,522, when under the last year of the McKlnley law the value was only $31,414,844." The Senator goes on to say that "other Importations during the year under the Wilson law which the country can readily produce were valued at $263,CS4,513, while under the McKinley law the value of the same articles Imported was $172,743,510." That Is, we paid to outside competitors $136,000,000 for goods which should have been produced at home. These millions have helped to swell the balance of exchange and trade against us, increasing the volume of gold which must be exported to square the account. Another specially pertinent fact of the Senator's is his refutation of Mr. Cleveland's assertion that the McKinley law was Ineffective for the purposes of revenue. Mr. Sherman shows that the McKinley law went into operation Oct. 6, 1890; that the revenues exceeded expenditures up to June 30, 1S92. by $36,700,000, and that even to-the close of the fiscal year which ended June 30, 1893, that law furnished a surplus of $2,300,000. The McKinley law would have continued to furnish sufficient revenue had not Mr. Cleveland's party come in with the announcement of a policy which checked production and traffic at home and made it certain that there would be an era of lower duties and of no duties on Important products. Under such conditions customs receipts dropped, there was soon a deficit of $70,00,000, and there has been nothing else since that time. RESPOXSIDILITV FOIt THE "ENDLESS CIIAIX."

Who Is responsible for "the endless chain" that the President and Secretary Carlisle talk about? If there is distrust of the greenbacks and a desire to convert them Into gold, who Is responsible for it? The largest amount of greenbacks In circulation, in 1864, was $449,000,000. Their cancellation was discontinued by law of May, 1S78, and the amount then outstanding, $347,000,000, has continued unchanged to date. On the 1st of January, 1879, when the government, In aordance with previous acts, was to resume specie payments, it had on hand $114,000,000 in gold with which to redeem greenbacks. During the month of January. 1S79, only about $1,500,000 of greenbacks were presented for redemption, and in over eleven years, to July, 1890, only about $28,000,000. There was no "endless chain" in those days. The gold redemption fund did not fall below $114,000,000 until July, 1892, nor below $103,000,000 until April, 1S93. The mere statement of these facts and dates shows that' as long as, under Republican legislation,- the revenues of the government exceeded its expenditures and thor balance of foreign trade was in our favor there was no distrust of the greenbacks, aad as there was no necessity of obtalnlnggold to send out of the country they were not presented for redemption. The "endless chain" was unknown. It only began to operate when the blundering legislation of the Democratic party caused the revenues of the government to fall below its expenditures and turned the balance of trade against us, and when Messrs. Cleveland and Carlisle, having waged successful war against the Industries of the country, began to make war on the currency. While doing all In their power to create a necessity for gold they have at the same time engendered distrust of the greenbacks by trying to create the Impression that the only reason for their existence was as a means of obtaining gold. The "endless chain" is as distinctly a creation of the present, administration as insufficient revenues and monthly deficits are. PAYING PENSIONS 11Y MAIL. The bills vhlch Representative Overstreet and others have presented in the House providing that pensions shall be paid by draft are entitled to consideration, and one of them should be enacted. It Is of growing importance that pensioners should not receive their checks at the agency, but through the malls. A large part of them now so receive them. As there Is no complaint relative to such payment It Is fair to assume that that method of payment is satisfactory. Payment at the agency and cashing in this city is always attended with loss to some. Many of the pensioners are very feeble and easily bewildered, and a considerable number are the victims of appetite. The amount of money wasted and lost by such is considerable at every payment. In some cases It would be better that such men have no pensions. As those who are paid at the agency grow older and feebler the number of sharpers who would rob them grows larger. This of Itself were sufficient reason for payment by check through the mall. One of the objections to payment by draft Is that the pensioners will be compelled to pay fees to notaries for witnessing their signatures. Such a fee would not be more than 23 cents, and in thousands of cases notaries would gladly attend to the preparation of the papers for nothing. No pensioner would be likely to go to the agency, even if he lived In this city, without paying In car fares and In discounts as much as a notary's fee. If the pensioner llve3 ten miles from the city and travels back and forth by rail he will pay two notary fees at least, and if he lives fifty miles away he will pay four or five in railroad fares. There Is another consideration. Many pensioners obtain credit from local provision and other retailers. If their checks are sent to them through the mall these obligations will be more promptly paid,. which is for the advantage of both the pensioner and the retailor. In this connection It may be added that the officers of Grand Army posts and

township officers should take advantage of that law which authorizes the payment of the pensions of men of intemperate habits to guardians, who shall expend the money for their support. Every man who spends a pension in debauchery Is worse off than If he had none. This fact should be recognized by the pension laws, and will be when the code shall be revised with a view of solely benefiting , the pensioner and those depending upon him. Many of the pensioners who waste their pensions In debauch are assisted by township trustees. In such cases the trustee Is in duty bound to see that the pension is paid to a guardian who will expend it for food and shelter, and thus relieve the taxpayers from the burden of his support. D. C. Gilman, president of Johns Hopkins University, and one of the Venezuelan commissioners, is the author of a "Life of President Monroe." In that work he says of the Monroe doctrine that while it was "an Idea dimly entertained at first, it was steadily developed by the course of public events and the reflection of those in public life." In support of this statement he quotes from the writings of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, John Adams and others to show that the doctrine was "in the air." He thinks it likely that the passages In Monroe's message formulating the doctrine were written by John Adams, though there is no proof of It. "Very little," says Mr. Gilman,' "has come under my eye to Illustrate the workings of Monroe's mind or to show how it came to pass that he uttered In such terse sentences the general opinion of his countrymen." The author adds that notwithstanding. Mr. Monroe was not particularly skillful with his pen, "he alone, of all the Presidents, : has announced without legislative sanction a political dictum which is still regarded as fundamental law, and bears with it the stamp of authority in foreign courts as well as In domestic councils." After further observations on this line the author concludes: It appears to ma probable that Monroe had but very little conception of the lasting effect which his words would produce. He spoke what he believed and what he knew that others "believed; he spoke under provocation and aware that his views might bo controverted: ho spoke -with authority after consultation with his Cabinet, and his words were timely; but I do not suppose that he regarded this announcement as his own. Indeed, if Ithad been his own decree or ukase, it would have been resented at home as vigorously as it would have been opposed abroad. It was because he pronounced not only the opinion then prevalent, but a tradition of other days which had been gradually expanded and to which the country was -wonted, that his words carried with them the sanction of public law. One gathers from this that Mr. Gilman is very much of an American, and that he knows how to put his ideas on paper. f'" A State court at StTLouis has rendered a decision whlchi if valid, may have far-reaching consequences. The decision was rendered under a provision of the anti-trust law of Missouri. After defining and prohibiting trusts the law says: Any purchaser of any article or commodity from any individual company or corporation transacting business contrary to any provision of the preceding sections of this chapter shall not be liable for the price or payment of any " such article or commodity, and may plead this chapter as a defense to any suit for such price or payment. . r' -"HZH? .v In the case at bar a? lead company Incorporated under the) laws' of New Jersey, but with headquarters in New York city, sued a St. Louis firm on an itemized account for goods furnished to the amount of $1,800. The court sustained a demurrer to the complaint, holding that under the foregoing' provision, the sale being on credit and therefore a contract, was void. If the decision Is valid it holds against contracts of all kinds made in Missouri by a member of a trust or combine In another State. It Is a question, however, whether such a law would not be held unconstitutional as interfering with interstate commerce. A recent dispatch from Washington announced that records in the Navy Department showed the United States government to be the owner of G rover island, In Camden county, Georgia, No geography, map or gazetteer mentions such an Island. Camden county Is in southeastern Georgia, abuts on the Atlantic ocean and has Islands, but the oldest inhabitant never heard of Grover Island until this announcement Diligent inquiry has elicited the fact that the island is on or In Crooked river. It contains about five hundred acres of good land . and has belonged to the United States for more than a hundred years. Heretofore it has been known and laid down cn local maps as Graves Island, but, for reasons of state, it will hereafter be known as Grover island. Perhaps some member of the present administration will establish there an experiment station for the propagation of cuckoos. Thirty thousand white Alabamian3, mostly Democrats, and thirty-five members of the Legislature, Democrats, Populists and Republicans, have sent a petition to Congress claiming that they have been disfranchised and that there has been but one fair election in Alabama in twenty years. So long as colored voters were disfranchised by tens of thousands It seemed to be of little consequence, but when It comes to whites, and to whites who have doubtless had a hand In disfranchising negroes. It is a different thing, and the Populist Senator Allen leads off with a resolution to Investigate and ascertain if Alabama has a republican form of government. Already the Mining Engineer has given the figures of gold production for 1593. Upon that authority the output was $203,120,590, against $179,346,504 in 1594. These last figures, however, are somewhat less than those of other statisticians. The output of the United States was the largest of any country, $44,870,993, an increase of over five millions. South Africa Is next with $44,750,000, and Australia third with $4.w0.000. The gain In South Africa Is no larger than that of the United States, but Russia increased Its output from $27,646,000 in 1S94 to $33,990,000, showing the . greatest increase of any country. Certain advocates of the white metal are pointing ou that as a gold country we cannot compete in manufactures with Japan and China. That Is a fact; in the manufacture of straw . matting, firecrackers, fans, and possibly of cotton goods when they get at it we cannot compete w,lth the Orientals. They can produce cheaper. Wages are from -4 to 8 cents a day. None but the fanatical

worshipers of the white metal desire Americans to compete with labor whlcn is paid less than 10 cents a day in silver. The point upon which the free silver Senators cannot agree is which party shall have the benefit of the profit of stamping 60 cents' worth of silver one dollar. Senator Jones, of Arkansas, desires that the government shall have the profit, but the silver State Senators want it for their constituents and the silver mine owners. If they cannot have the profit the Senators from those States will take less Interest in the free and unlimited coinage of 60 or 70-cent dollars. The Muncie Times publishes facts and figures showing the substantial growth of that prosperous city and the corresponding increase in the value of neighboring farm lands'. The Times says editorially: The country around us, in fact, the farms of Delaware county, are perfect garden spots. They are generally under the highest state of cultivation, and what the farmers raise and have to sell finds a good market at home. As Muncie grows, so the lands increase in value, and the greater the growth the greater the value. You do not find farms for sale now, with almost entire neighborhoods moving to the West, as was the case ten or twelve years ago. On the contrary, it is very seldom that a farmer sells or moves away from Delaware county. The population of the county has increased about five-fold in that period, but there has been little change in the county except in values. The towns 6how the Increase In numbers as well as values. Such evidences of prosperity are gratifying. Other cities and towns In the gas belt have made fine progress, butnone more than Muncie. The increase In the price of land in Delaware county shows the value of home markets and the importance of developing them by legislation. It is true the recent growth of Muncie is largely due to the discovery of natural gas, but it was aided by protection and retarded by legislation hostile to home industries. HUDDLES IN THE AIR.

A Fable. The frog looked at the tadpole kindly and tolerantly. "Yes," he remarked, "I remember when I was your age I had a swelled head myself." Caste. "Children," said the anxious appendicitis bacilla, "if I ever catch you playing with those low typhoid fever bacilli again I'll have your father attend to you." The Test. "Old man, I want you t be the best man at my wedding." "Er I " "What! I thought you would surely stand by a friend in his hour of trouble." Defeneration. "Timmins I fear that I will never succeed as a literary man after all. Simmons You don't mean it? Timmins But I do. I had myself carefully examined by a most eminent brain specialist and he says there is nothing the matter with me. INDIANA PRESS OPINION. . Democrats should quite voting for Jackson and try James Monroe awhile. New Castle Courier. Gold began to go out when Grover Cleveland and his- party began to come in. Knightstown Banner. If the British Hon don't like its tall twisted, it should keep it curled up where it belongs. Elwood Call-Leader. Every new bond issue attests the impotence and inefficiency of the last Democratic Congress Vincennes Commercial. If, as the sentimentalists contend, England Is a relative of ours, she i3 at best only a disagreeable mother-in-law. Terre Haute Tribune. The Dingley bill is not a scientifically constructed revenue bill, but as an emergency should be passed without frills and at once. Richmond Telegram. If the Senate wants to do a popular thing it will put that tariff bill t'.irough without any waste of time. If it must deliberate let it be upon some other bill. Goshen Times. The lower House of Congress is controlled by a business party, but there are still too many Democrats in the Senate for practical legislative purposes. Kendallville Standard. Emperor Wiliam's message to President Kruger, congratulating him upon whipping a British force was a direct slap in Great Britain's face, and one that it will not dare to resent. Tere Haute Express. The time to compel England to halt 13 ripe, and this government must firmly maintain the position assumed on the Monroe doctrine to thwart her schemes of conquest on this continent. Muncie Times. The Democrats profess to be in favor of a tariff for revenue and yet they are unwilling to assist in making their own tariff law produce sufficient revenue for the needs of the government. Greencastle BannerTimes. President Cleveland seems to imagine himself a statesman, a financier, a warrior and a general poo bah. He has no use for a Cabinet or Congress, or anybody else when they differ with him. Huntington Herald. Tho Cuban revolutionists seem to be a brave and' determined lot of rebels who deserve success and appear likely to win it. They have lots of sympathy and good wishes from this Republic Mishawaka Enterprise. In answer to the Democratic administration howl that "there is no good of increasing the revenues," the deficit since June is about $20,000,000. They must imagine that the people of the United States are half idiots not to understand such plain statements. Fowler Leader. The English people generally are not familiar with the German language, but In spite of that deficiency it is observed that they lost no time in understanding what Emperor William meant when he emphatically declared himself with reference to British aggression In Transvaal. Lafayette Courier. Under Republican rule, with p. Republican tariff, there was no failure to pay curent expenses no deficit and the principal of the public debt was being rapidly paid. There is no reason why we should not return to the same methods of doing business except the partisan prejudice and freetrade theories of the President. Shelbyville Republican. How would It do for Great Britain to pull her police out of Alaska, take her battle ships away from Venezuela and her soldiers from fighting the Boers in South Africa, and concentrate the whole outfit, in protecting the Armenians from the unspeakable Turk, whose power to murder Is due to British interference, in preventing the dismemberment cf the Turkish empire? Madison Courier. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINKS. Mary French Field, eldest daughter of the late Engene Field, Is preparing herself to read in public the poems of her Illustrious father. She is a handsome young woman of noble presence and will make a. striking appearance on the platform. Andrew Carnegie has announced that he will give $30,000 a year for the emebllishment cf the mueums and. the art gallery In nttsburg bearing his name. The only proviso that he attaches to the gift is that two or more pictures by American artists be purchased each year. Col. C. A. Lincoln, a poor farmer of Cowley county, Kan., and said to he a cousi i of Abraham Lincoln, has suddenly becom j a Populist leader. He assumes the commonplace characteristics of old "Abe" and drives a little bay mare, which, he says, he has driven three times across the continent. Emperor William of Germany received from the Empress several Christmas presents of great appropriateness. She gave him a set of porcelain plates, with paintings on them of naval scenes; six drinking cups, each holding a golden spoon, and two large landscapes, painted by a German artist. . An expensive apple tree stands on the Albert Smith farm, in South Strabane township, Washington county, Pennsylvania. It has cost its owner over $13,000. Pool gushers began to break the oil market in 1SS7 and the owners wanted to sink a well near

the old apple tree, but Smith, the owner, wouldn't have it that way, and the hole drilled on the Cameron line produced a running well of three thousand barrels a day. The oil came from the Smith farm, although the well was on the Cameron tract, and Cameron was paid a royalty of $I5,0X. But the arple tree still lives. A tribute to the memory of the late M. Pasteur will take the form of an underground chapel, somewhat resembling in style the tomb of the Great Napoleon at the Invalides, which is to be constructed under tae shadow of the Institute bearing the famous savant's name, and where his ashes are to be laid definitely. A monarch who almost never wears gloves, according to the Westminster Gazette, is the King of the Belgians. He dislikes to cover his hanis even when riding or driving. The King Is an excellent rider and oarsman. He prefers the English fashion of sitting in his saddle, and likes an English thoroughbred for a mount. The picture "Breaking the Home Ties," by the late Thomas Hovenden, which has been on exhibition in Philadelphia for the past month, is to be exhibited In Chicago. St. Louis and St. Paul, along with other Western cities. The proceeds of the exhibitions will be 'devoted to founding a Thomas Hovenden students aid fund in the University of Pennsylvania. The faculty of Columbia College announces that two prizes, the first of not less than $1,000 and the second of not les3 than $400, to be known as the Loubat prizes, are to be awarded in 1898, and every fifth year afterthat, to the authors of the best works on the history, geography, archaeology, ethnology, philology . or numismatics of North America. The competition for these prizes will be open to all persons, whether citizens of the. United States or not. Police Captain Edward Coonan, of Madison, N. J., is a phenomenon. He is about twenty-eight years old, and stands six feet two inches in his stockings, without an ounce of superfluous flesh on him. He never carries a pistol, and seldom a club, depending on his own wonderful strength for every emergency. His great specialty is shaking. It is an every-day occurrence for him to lift an ordinarily sized drunken man entirely off his feet with one hand and shake him sober. Dr. Stephen M. Emmens, who Is the inventor of the most powerful explosive known to modern times, and a practical mining engineer, has a theory of the solution of the labor problem which he expounded in New York the other day. He warns' the people of the United States to elect ten "grand councillors" to preside over a national bureau of tabor, which shall give employment to the two million souls who are annually reckoned as out of employment in this country. This is his solution. It is stated authoritatively that the report of poison as he cause of the death of Hon. Edward M. McPherson Is an error. He died many hours after he had taken by mistake one teaspoonful of the tincture of nux vomica. The drug was not the cause of his death. The amount taken is not a lethal dose. No symptoms of strychnia poisoning occurred. After the dose was taken the patient went to a physician's office, a walk of ten minutes, and there took an emetic with immediate results. Death took place twelve hours after the drug was taken. Mr. McPherson had organic heart disease. Death was no doubt due to the effect of physical effort mental excitement on account cf the accident. His family physician, a mjst skillful man, concurs in this belief.

Tricks of the Trade. He lived r.ext door to Promlsetopay, And across the alley dwelt Deepindebt; Collectors camo to the street each day. But the Other M.vn went his quiet way, And never was once beset. No one in the street who knew his name; He might heve died and gone to smash The street wouid have wagged on Just the same Collectors gor.e and collectors came For thi i man raid in Cash. When Pf irisetopay went out of town, . A hir.died tradesmen would question "WlK-le? And Deepinuebt, from sole to crown. As he moved him up and moved him down. Was buUetlned here and there. And these were the fellows who "stood In line" When they did pay bills they got cigars. Or at Christmas season a case of wine Or other souvenir quite as fine And drinks over polished bars. The' Other Man? Nothing; they took his gold And tucked It away in savings banks. With never a thought that they should hold A present out to the Man who told His money to barren 'Thanks." They even figured In flushest times, . How Cash-in-Hand would easily sauare Those frequent losses In dollars and dimes That came from customers skipping to climes Which hadn't collectors there. Moral. And thus is a premium put on debt. Thus bids are made for going to smash; Just ay as you go if you'd like to bet Some slower fellow will come and get Your prize for letting the trade forget That your name Isn't "Cash." Chicago Record. Sherman Feebleness. Washington Special. In one respect Senator Sherman's speech yesterday was a disappointment indeed, something of a shock. For the first time the veteran showed visible signs of age. He "mouthed" his words and sometimes lost himself completely in a sentence, being obliged to bein over again after getting nearly through. His feebleness was almost painful at times, and it was painfully apparent that he had lost much of his oldtime force. His speech reads all ri-?ht in cold type and is full of fact and sound argument, but In delivery the great old man was visibly weak. Never before was this letting down noticeable. Senator Sherman is almost the sole survivor of the heroic figures of war times still in active life in the big. broad field of politics the only genuinely big man who was big In those tumultuous days of the last generation. The public will learn with keen regret that h is beginning to feel the wearing effects of time. Somehow people could never think of John Sherman as an old man, yet he Is seventy-three years of age. No man In American public life has had a career so rich in varied experiences and honors as he. although he has fallen short of his one greatest ambition the White House. England's CJral. Philadelphia Record. Mr. John Bach McMaster. the historian, in an exposition of the Monroe doctrine contributed to the New York Times of yesterday, pointed out the fact that Great Britain was trying to exercise "squatter sovereignity" In Venezuela, not over thirty thousand square miles as had been stated, but 109.000 square miles an area which, as he says. Is "exceeded by no States In the Union save Texas. California and Montana; an area ninety times as large as Rhode Island, fifty-four times as large as Delaware, thirteen times as large as Massachusetts, and forty thousand pquare miles larger than the six New England States." Yet Mr. Depew rushed into print, a week or more aso. with tbe statement that be had been offered the whole tract for $25,000: The Knlner'n ".Monroe Dctrlne. Philadelphia Record. Kaiser Wilhelm is reported to have accepted "the principle of intervention" In case the independence of the Transvaal should be threatened by Great Britain. The similarity between the Kaiser's principle and the Monroe doctrine is as close as that between two peas. If the championship of the cause of a weak State by a great jwver bo accepted as a valid principle in the Eastem hemisphere, with what grace can the statesmen of Kurore deny the legality of a similar doctrine in the new world? Evidently. Europtan publicists live and learn. Anxious to Make Ills Acquaintance. Chicago Tribune. If the man who sends in the statement in a disguised hand that "the election of the Iowa candidate would make this country an Allison wondtrland" will send his real name or let us know where he can be reached with a shotgun he will place us under renewed obligations. Their Rifles Were All Right. Philadelphia Press. The South African grab didn't pan out. The Boers may have been fifty years behind tho times, as the Iondon Times suggested, but their rifles seem to have been up to date and their courage of the A 1 type. The Democratic Way. Philadelphia Times. Purity In politics as exemplified by Tom Johnson in Detroit seems to be of the Josiah Quincy order 1 per cent, of sincerity and 99 of pretense. We Do, We Do. Washington Times. Do we need more money?

DID KOT RILL ROSS

44 DAT SHEA WAS W It O li FULLY CONVICTED OF MURDER. nil Death In tbe Electrical Chair This Week Averted, and n Respite Granted by Governor Morton. JOIIX M'GOUGirs CONFESSION SAYS HE HIMSELF FIRED THE SHOT THAT KILLED ROSS. He Was with Shea at the Head of a Crowd of Democratic Repeater When the Fatal Riot Took Place. ALBANY, N. Y.. Jan. 5. The climax of ono of the most dramatic and sensational criminal incidents of the State's history ws made public to-day, when Just forty hours prior to the execution of the death sentence on Bartholomew Shea, another man confessed to the murder, and Shea, steps from beneath the shadow of death thrown j the electric chair. The invitations for the electric killing of Shea had been issued, the State electrician was already on the ground at Dannemora prison, the Governor had decided, as stated on Satudray, not to interfere In the earning cut of tho sentence, and Shea had resigned himself to his fate, when ancther rrlsoner in the institution, a comrade of Shea's and participator In the election outrages when the tragedy occurred, confessed to the. crime. The man who voluntarily confessed to the crime, an! who practically steps from a prison cell to the menacing shade of the electrical death chair, is John McGough. of Troy, now serving a sentence of nineteen years and six months for shooting and attempting to kill William Ross, a brother of Robert Ross, who was supposed to be Shea's victim. In some way known only to convicts, McGough had contrived to kep informed as to tbe success or failure of the application for commutation made ia behalf of Shea. When Shea was resentenced to die the 2Crd of December, it is believed that McGough was ready to confess, but when he learned that a replte had been granted be withheld his confession. After the holidays he learned that the efforts to obtain a commutation for Shea had not ceased, and so he made no siga. On Saturday, when Warden Thayer was made aware that the Governor would not Interfere and arrangements. were being made for the execution. McGough sent for the warden of the prison, Mr. Walter N. Thayer, and when the warden had come, told him that he wished to make a statement concerning the murder of Robert Ross. The warden 2iad McGough taken to the office and, handing h'.m pen and paper, told him to put down what he had to say in writing. McGough wrote a communication of about two pages and, signing It with his full name, handed it to the warden. To the surprise of the warden and his deputies, the paper contained a .decided statement that he (McGough) and not Shea, had shot and Killed Robert Ross. The statement contained no details of the shooting other than tho boll confession of the fact. Warden Thayer went at once to the telephone when McGough had been returned to his cell and called up the executive chamber. He asked the Governor to please receive a messenger who he said would arrive and then at once dispatched the prison stenographer, Mr. Edward M. Coughlln, to Albany. Mr. Coughlln arrived in this city this morning and caught Governor Morton at the mansion just as he was leaving for church. The Governor, on learning the nature of the communication, sent at once for Pardon Clerk Joyce, and Shea's counsel, Mr. Galen It. HltU After a brief conference the Governor decided to grant a respite for four weeks, during which time counsel could take the proper means to bring the matter before the courts for a new trial. The respite will be Issued tomorrow and will be in force until Feb. 4. Mr. Hltt will go btfore the Supreme Court to-morrow morning and ask for a trial for Shea and tho production in court cf McGough. The confession of McGough will bring to mind the tragic series of events that led up to the present drama'tlc results. The conviction of Shea and the great public sentiment against his release were duo not entirely to the fact that he shot Ross, but to the aroused public sentiment against the disgraceful violation of the purity of the ballot that had made the city of Troy a by-word. The crimes occurred on the 6th of March, 1KM. Shea and McGough headed a crowd of repeaters, who had worked almost every polling place in Trey. They had been told not to try their camel in the ward In which tho Ross brothers, William and Robert, were the head of the Republican workers, but announced that they would. In anticipation of their vUdt. the Rosses, John Poland and several other . citizens, had armed themselves with clubs . and some with pistols, leaded with blank cartridges. It was shori'y after that the melee occurred and whlls twenty or more ' shots were fired, tho two Ross boys felU It was while Robert lay prostrate that somebody ran up and shot him In the head. This crime was finally laid to Shea's door and he was sentenced to death, while McGough was sent to prison for nineteen years for his assault on William Ross. Shea's case was taken to the Court of Appeals, which confirmed the conviction. The Governor respited him until after the holi- ' days, but on Saturday he refused to commute his sentence. Some idea of the sentiment in Troy over the matter can be obtained when It Is known that the citizens are erecting a monument in honor of Ro:b, who lost his life. At the same time Shea had many friends, as was attested by tno largo memorials in his favor signed by almost five thousand women ana nvn and sent to the Governor. Not In the Interest of Pence. New York Sun. Lord Salisbury's choice of the author of "Ioj-y Horrors" and "Won ty a Head" a poet laureate of the British empire, will not serve to decrease the state of tension now existing between the tvo EngliiWaking nations. This event is de prt slng. it not oppressive. Nevertheless, the Monroe doctrine lids us keep our hand. fT. This government will not Inter'ere. Let Alfred tho Small take the bays. It is no buslne. of our. So. There! Kansas City Journal. It might as well be understood at the outset that the-United States will Ir.siit on the Monroe doctrine, no matter what that Venezuelan commission may report. Duon't Wen re Them. Kansas City Journal. Ju3t at present references to the fervid character of June weather in St. Ixmls do not seriousrly terrify convention delegatts. The Way It Looks. New York Press. Don Dickinson thinks England desires the acquisition of Cuba. It looks as if the Cubans -would acquire it first. A Difference. Brooklyn Eagle. A statesman wants to do something for the- country. A politician wants the country to do something for him.