Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1896 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1890.

Til A DAILY JOURNAL MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1S0G. Washing on Olfke 1410 Pennsylvania Avenue , Telephone Cnll. 5nlEfM Office.... Kdltorlal Kcoms.....A S3 terms of sluscriptio.x. T DAILY BY MAIL. f' fly only, me month S .70 rsi'ij only, three montfcs Z.W aily enly. one jar. H.00 Dally, lnrludlnfc Sunday, one year 10.00 SucUay ccly, one year 2.00 WHM ri'KSISillU) 15 Y JkGKXTS. pally, rer wee it, by oinw- 15 eta HitHlay. oincle copy 1 LU) aud fcuauaj, per wcvk, by carrier IXi ct W KKKLY. ref year. fl.00 Reduced rtates to Club. PnbM-rlbe with any oX our uumcruiu agent or send aiUcrtjtJona to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY Indianapolis, I nil. T ron necdics the Journal through tli malls In the rtlieil ftite FtnmM put on an eiKtt-pne paer a Dse-cest jiota?f Ktainp; on a twelve or blitee n-page rair a two-cent postage wanin. i orelgu prtae is anually double Uee rates. rT"AIl rommnnlcatlons intended for publication In flu paper munt, in orUrr to receive attention, be acxni panted by the name and address of the writer. TUG INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, Can be found at the follow lux places FEW YOKK tLy Houe, Windsor Hotel and Astor House. ' CHICAGO Palnifr House, Andltortum HottiandAnui and I, o. ewt Cc, H Adams street. CIN CINNATI J. R. Haw ley Co.. 154 Vine street LOriSVILLE r. T. Peering, northwest corner of Third and Jefferson t., and Louisville liook. Co., 3J6 Yourth are. ET. LOUIS Union News Cornpanj, Union Depot WASHINGTON, D. C-r7pj House Kbbltt House, Wmard's Hotel and the Washington News Exchange, 11th street, bet I'enn. ave. and rtreet Several Republican Senators have recently expressed the opinion that the Uouse revenue bill will be passed, but they are not certain. If' Turkey tells the truth, it has made no treaty with Russia, but Sultans have not always been distinguished for the virtue of George Washington. The - silver platform says "the paramount. Issue at this time in the United States Is Indisputably the money question." That Is not so; the paramount Issue is therevenue question. ' A report comes from Alabama that

the Populists are going back to the Democracy. There Is no reason why they should not. so far as opinions go. Besides, their votes will be counted as Democratic. . Republicans and the people generally will not sustain the Manufacturers As sociation In its recommendation to in crease the duty on sugar. The sugar in dustry is not sufficiently general and promising to Justify a greater tax than the present 40 per cent. : In the last election In Mississippi only 64,329 votes were cast, yet tnere are 266,049 men of the voting age in the State. Of these; UO.OOO have been disfranchised, leaving 116,000 whites as voters, of whom less than one-half voted. Two or three other Southern States contemplate this elimination of voters. Judge Caldwell, who is spoken of as the silver candidate for President, has put considerable of Populism Into his legal opinions during the past two years, showing that the bee Is in his judicial hat. But the man who becomes a candi date for President should resign as cir cuit judge In the United States Court. The Massachusetts Legislature is asked to consider a bill "for the better observance of memorial day," In which It Is proposed to fine those who partici pate In games on that day. Deplorable as Is the thoughtlessness which the dese cration of memorial day Indicates. It will not be cured by fining those who play baseball. Senator Jones, of Arkansas, the Democrat who has charge of the free coinage bill In the Senate, has asked to have a vote next Thursday, as on that day, the dispatch says, the Utah Senators will be In their seats to support the measure. This Is. probably the first time that a Democratic Senator ever waited for the votes of those who call themselves Re publicans. ' - . There is no reason to believe that Great Britain contemplates forcible Interference with Turkey, yet It Is a fact that her fleet In the eastern Mediterranean Is the imost formidable she ever had there. According to latest advices it consists of twenty-eight ships, carrying 224 guns and with 8,368 men. If the flying squadron should go there, a? has been Intimated It may, this force would be greatly augmented. Dartmouth College Is not a richly en dowed Institution and Is not much talked about, yet from a New Hampshire vil lage It has sent Into the cities of Massa chusetts for more than a century many of their ablest men. Even the Boston Journal says that this old-fashioned col lege "has contributed largely to the best elements of our local life." That class of c lieges has the lorgeat lists of men yfho do things. A New York paper thinks that a salary of $2,000 a year is sufficient compensa tion for a good alderman. There are cities which would be millions better off now If they had paid $10,000 a year for aldermen devoted to the city's interest. And this city could better afford to pay its school commissioners a fair salary . If men could be secured who, as financial agents, would not sell Its loans to the highest bidder. The House should always be excepted from the application of criticism upon Congress for doing nothing. The House is industriously at work. It is not wast ing time on bills which the Democratic Populist Senate will not even consider. but It Is pushing ahead with the appro priation bills more rapidly than any urevious Congress has done in many years. It is a first-class House, would do much but for the Senate. and It will serve no good purpose for the local Populists who believe In the remarkable platform of 1S92 to protest against being placed on a platform twothirds silver. If they should constitute two-thirds of the Populist national con vention a few of the leaders like the chairman of their national committee will make - the transfer. They will do that which they are paid to do, and the silver organization. If It is insistent, will absorb the Populist contingent. There are many excellent people who cannot distinguish between cultivating a warlike spirit and a proficiency in military exercise. Probably no men are so much rxerrised In milltarv drill as the eoidlers of the regular army, yet very little of the warlike spirit can be found

in that quarter. Military instruction Is mo3t conducive to discipline, not only In regard to movements, but In conduct. In the reform schools the experienced

superintendents hold that the military movement and precision are most conducive to discipline and a manly bear ing. Those who urge the Introduction of military Instruction into the public schools are mindful both of the physical culture which comes fromit and the se curity which the existence of a consider able body of men who have been under military discipline are sure to give to the community In which such men reside. 31ISTAKK OF A KIIAL. COSlL-K.-The United States consul-general at Shanghai unconsciously enlivens the dreariness of the consular report of Jan uary by an article on "Labor and Wages In China." He begins his essay with a few well-known statements to the effect that the "Chinese laborer will save money on wages that would be hardly sufficient to supply the absolute necessities of an American laborer." He goes on to say that because Chinese la bor Is cheap It does not follow that "the product of that labor is Inferior." While the Japanese, with a little higher wages, is the superior of the Chinese In enterprise and artistic sense, the silks of China are favorably known all over the world. The consul-general, Mr. Jernlgan, also tells the limited number that will read his report that the Japanese and Chinese are nothing but Imitators, and consequently cannot become the rivals of the Western nations. Japan has already become a rival in many direc tions, and the writer believes that the hour of China's awakening is not far distant. The United States, he goes on to say, should not be far away when this awakening of 400,900,000 of people comes, In order to secure a share of the valuable trade which will spring up between the aroused millions and" the Western nations. There is much more of this, but the consul-general concludes with the sig nificant statement that his "observations have been suggested by the following table showing the price Of Chinese la bor." He then proceeds to give the wages of Chinese at Shanghai last Sep tember, reduced to American currency. The blacksmith is paid 13 cents "a day, with food, the barber 3 cents, the boot maker 10 cents, the bricklayer 10 cents. the carpenter 11, the tailor 10, the cotton mill machinist 11 to 22 cents a day with out food, cotton factory hands 18 cents a day, without food, and so on. Just what tha consul-general at Shanghai has In his mind by presenting these prices of labor In connection with m his remarks about the industrial progress In Japan, showing Its capacity to be a rival of Western nations and the" early awakening of China to such rivalry. It Is not proper to positively assert, but If It means anything to others It Is that the United States should lose no time in get ting In close commercial relations with a country whose hundreds of millions of people will soon wake up to become ri vals In producing the very goods which Japanese skill and enterprise with ma chinery Is pushing Into San Francisco and selling at from 30 to 40 per cent. lower than they can be produced here. The consul-general seems to have given these low rates of wages as an Induce ment to hasten to China and purchase In the cheapest market, sure that the cheapest market must be where wages are, on the average, one-tenth of those which prevailed here before the Cleveland assault was made upon the pro tective policy. ' The Journal does not know Consulgeneral Jernlgan, but it assumes that he Is of that party which has demanded the privilege of "purchasing In the cheap est market" and feels called upon to ad vertise where the cheapest market will be. But since Mr. Jernlgan became a resident of far away Shanghai the mass of the American people have changed their minds about the cheapest market. They have learned that the cheapest market Is where wages are the lowest and the rewards of labor in living are the most meager. Consequently, the American people are against that sort of cheapness which puts them in com petition with the low wages of the Chinese which the consul-general has quoted. A LAWYER. OX TUB FAILLIIB OF JUSTICE. Judge Rufus B. Smith, of Cincinnati, known by reputation In legal circles out side of Ohio, recently delivered an ad dress before the bar association of that city on "The Failure of the Administra tion of the Law in Civil Cases In Ohio." Perhaps the average layman would hard ly put the case so strongly as to gay that the administration of law is a failure, but It is certainly far from satisfactory, and Is In great need of reform. As the situation in Ohio cannot be materially different from that In adja cent States. Judge Smith's views have more than local interest. To begin with, he thought the growing disrespect for courts was largely due to the delays of the law caused by appeals and new trials. In Ohio at this day, he said, no man could foretell when n lawsuit would end or whether at the final trial his wit nesses, his lawyer or himself would be alive. As a case in point he told of one tried before him in 1894, growing out of a dissolution or pannersnip. ine suit had begun in 1S7S, had gone backward and forward, In the courts, and was now In the S?;eme Court. He thought that If his Judgment was affirmed the case might be settled In a few years less than twenty-five from the time it was begun, but If reversed It would run Into the next century, with no end in sight. Such delays are very discouraging to a litlI gant who has a righteous cause, and are I calculated to breed contempt for courts. The speaker thought judges and lawyers themselves measurably to blame for many of the delays of the law. He said: Figuratively speaking, the whole judicial machinery, which Includes the bar, needs something akin to a modern current of elec tricity sent through it. and the current kept running with a strong and steady force. The profession of the law must come to regard litigation as a matter of hntlncM nn.l In tr.-it It ax such. Tneetlntr It promptly at the time appointed for Its w.....vr, " : , r, disposition, and disposing or it with that dispatch which characterizes tho age In its disposition of business affairs. But no such sr.lrit can be infused into the practice of the law until the obstacles of delay which our system itself interposes are removed. When this is done, and the profession can see that promptness and dispatch will lead to an earlv termination of the litigation, we may hope for a new spirit to settle upon and direct tho transaction of, business in the courts. Judge Smith Is of opinion that the defects of the Judiciary are largely due to the elective system and short terms. He would have all Judges appointed by the 1 executive either for life or lor long terms.

It is not likely that so radical a change will be made In any State that has adopted the elective system unless its evils should become too great to be endured, but all must admit that this system has its defects and that they are aggravated by short 'terms and frequent elections. As human nature is constituted it is almost Impossible for a Judge who is nominated and elected by a political party for a comparatively short term to have the Independence in opinion and action and the complete removal from the temptation of Influences affecting the prospects of his re-election that he would have If appointed for life

or elected for a long term. Judge Smith referred to other, defects in the admin istration of law, but it was evidently his opinion that the greatest need of reform was In Judges and lawyers. TIIE-C03IIXG OP HIC WHEEL. It is perhaps rather early to look for signs of spring as long as the traditional backbone of winter continues unbroken. It will be some time yet before the first robin or bluebird will make its appear ance, but these are not the only prognostications of spring. Perhaps the earliest is the bicycle. During the rough weather and sloppy streets of midwinter the wheel gets a rest, but it comes out on very slight provocation. Wheels and their owners seem to have rested long enough, and now, when the weather is even half way favorable, they begin to be in evidence. The first bluebird is not a surer harbinger of spring than the first young woman on her bicycle, nor a blither or prettier one. On the first fair day she appears suddenly, almost as if springing out of the ground, alone at first, but the forerunner of a multitude. There are indications that the coming season will witness a great growth in bicycling. Many thought "the craze," as It was called, had culminated last year and that next season there would be a reaction.- On the contrary. It looks as if there would be more bicycles sold, and used , the coming season than ever before. The recent bicycle exhibit at Madison-square Garden, New York, drew great crowds night after night, and one In Chicago was attended by thousands of people. All the old factories are increasing their capacity and new ones are getting ready to enter the field. A prominent dealer said recently: "Six months ago I estimated this year's product at 1,000,000 machines. That num ber is ridiculously low. To-day, more than one thousand different bicycles arc made In this country, and the number continues to grow. Where It will stop is an open question." Not the least interesting feature of the case is the surpris ing number of new Inventions In the way of bicycular improvements and at tachments of a kind that are likely to make wheeling more interesting without making it more difficult. Altogether, It looks as if the bicycle would be more in evidence next season than ever before, both for purposes of business and pleasure. Senator Warren, of Wyoming, may be in favor of free silver, but if he Is it does not prevent his seeing that there are much more Important Issues a fact which is made very apparent in l is speech last week on a resolution direct ing the Senate finance committee to report what legislation Is necessary to pre serve the flocks and herds of the coun try. The hay crop of the United States, Mr. Warren remarks, Is worth over $450,000,000, which Is more than four times as much as our annual gold and silver product at Its coinage value, yet while days have been devoted to consideration of the precious metals, he has not heard a word about the hay crop. Going to the statistics of the Agricultural Bureau, Mr. Warren shows that during the Cleve land regime the values of live stock In this country had shrunken from J2,4S3,506.6SI to $1,819,448,306, or $664,000,375. Senator Warren goes through with the details of this enormous shrinkage of an average of $1,100,000 during every Working day the two years after Mr. Cleve land returned to power with a complete Democratic outfit. He comes to the conclusion that this is a more important subject than any which Congress has been discussing, not excepting the Monroe doctrine. It Is net the rise or fall In the precious metals which has caused this great disaster to flocks and herds, says the Wyoming Senator,, but the blight of Democratic legislation. Mr. Warren then contrasts the price of wools In Wyoming and Utah under the McKlnley law and now, showing that wools which sold for 16 to 17 cents In April, 1892, now sell for 8 to 9 cents, and that the best grades of medium, which sold for 20 to 21 cents in 1892, now sell for 11 to 13 cents, with a large part of the clip not yet sold. The Wyoming Senator has intimated that, in his judgment, this shrinkage of values on herds and flocks demands more of the attention of the Senate than do the matters over which that body is wasting its time. And he Is right. Senator Smith, of New Jersey, con firms the statement that President Cleveland considers Senator Davis's Monroe doctrine resolution inopportune and un fortunate, and says he will submit a resolution in line with the President's Idea. It la possible that in the present situa tion of affairs the Davis resolution may be unnecessary and that Its passage would do harm, but Congress should not allow itself to be put In any position that would look like an abandonment of the doctrine. Senator Smith says his resolutions, speaking generally, will declare that the United States does not propose to establish a protectorate In South America nor to become responsible In any degree for the conduct of other nations. Certainly not, and, that being the case, what Is the use of declaring it? If the reported alliance or agreement between Russia and Turkey should prove true It would probably lead at no distant day to a British naval demonstra. tion in the bay of Constantinople, and this would have to be preceded by the passage of the Dardanelles. This might be a difficult feat, but, in the opinion of military and naval experts, by no means . ,, . rr .il. . j. I - i L lmpossiDie. ine entire lengtn oi ine straits Is about forty-seven miles, and their average width from three to four miles. Both sides are lined with Turkish forts, but some of them are said not to be supplied with modern guns. Besides, some of the strongest forts are so situated that they could be attacked and carried from the land side. In 1S07 a British fleet made its -way past all the fortresses into the Sea of Marmora. That was In the day of wooden ships, and. while some of the vessels were roughly hanaieu, me ueci guv iuruu6.

when Its mission was accomplished, fought its way out again. The straits now have the additional defense of torpedoes, but if a British fleet should undertake to pass them the commander would probably adopt Farragut's signal at Mobile, "Damn the torpedoes! Go ahead." Soon or late Great Britain will have to test the fact whether the strait can be passed or not, for, if it cannot, of what use Is her powerful fleet of Ironclads?

The grand Jury of La Salle county, Illinois, has returned indictments against the mayors of two cities and the presidents of the village boards In two towns of that county for nonfeasance in office in failing to enforce the saloon closing law. The grand Jury In its report says: There can be no evidence of persistent violation of law against the law-breaking closes of any community which dots not equally testify to the inetticiency, neglect or misconduct of local cfneers. Holding conscientiously to these opinions, this grand jury recommends that hereafter when It Is found necessary to punish saloon keepers for frequent and open violation of law the officers of such communities wherein these violations occur be also held to a strict accountability. If this should be generally recognized as good law there would be an end of municipal officers deciding which laws they would enforce and which they would not. The Boston Transcript publishes a letter from a Bostonian now in Constantinople giving horrible details of the Christian massacres in Turkey. The writer says that only those Christians who apostatize are spared, and, as the number of these is very small, the massacres are likely to continue for some time. The letter concludes: Tho Sultan clearly means to make Asia Minor a purely Mohammedan land, and thus, as he thinks, to get rid of European intervention. He has still to kill or make to apostatize at least three million Armenians, Greeks anl Catholics. But he has made such progress the past three months, and has been so completely free from European or American intervention, that no doubt he is greatly encouraged. The Baltimore Sun, from time immemorial the leading Democratic paper of Maryland, says of the new Republican Senator from that State that he made an open fight, "and he will enter the national Senate handicapped by no scandals, and let us hope prepared to do his full duty to his country. The event marks, we trust, the beginning of the end of the dictatorship over Maryland from the Senate of the United States." It may be added the Sun made an open fight against Senator Gorman, whose "dictatorship" is evidently' the one referred to. The increasing emigration to the South from the Northwest has induced a sort of return tide. It Is said more than a thousand land ( agents have gone from Southern States to 'Ih'e'Northwest since Jan. 1 for the purpose of presenting the advantages of different localities and Inducing homeseekers from the Northwest to locate in the South. , A large proportion of those now going South are Union veterans and pensioners, and Southern people are congratulating themselves that the latter fact will add materially to the money in circulation in that section. Electric wires and appliances have become a recognized source of fire danger. In the cliy of Baltimore twenty-one fires during the last year were .clearly, caused by elec tricity while others whose origin could not be ascertained were supposed to be due to the same cause. The local board of underwriters are threatening an increase of rates , unless measures -are taken to reduce the risks. Among other things they recommend the appointment of a skilled and competent person' as supervisor of electric wires, wiring and appliances therefor, with authority to compel all dead . wires to be promptly removed, to require such device to be used as would prevent cross or parallel wires from coming In contact, and to detect and have remedied all Imperfections In the apparatus or mode of conveying the current of electricity from the dynamos to the point of service.- :They also urge the importance of placing electric wires underground. They claim that the Increased voltage of electricity necessitated by the Increasing demand for its use for Illumination or power and thevdelay and embarrassment occasioned the fire department upon reaching the fire ground, as well as the natural hesitancy of the firemen in having to contend with such a treacherous and deadly foe furnish unanswerable reasons for doing away with overhead wires. HLIlULES IN THE Alll. Inertia. Mrs. Wickwlre How long did you stay In your last place? Bridget Agnes A year and a half, mem. "A year and a half! Dear me; I'm afraid you are not very energetic." In the CnuHe of Art. Judge The plaintiff accuses you of kicking him violently In the stomach. Artist Yep. He's my model. I was trying to get him into a proper attitude for the poster I'm expected to design for the Ladies and Gents'. Home Magazine. Impossible Transformation. Mr. N. Peck came home rather elated. (He never leaves In that condition.) "I guess Watts thought he would make a monkey of me In that horse trade," said he, "but he got left." "Of course," said his amiable wife. "How uld he make a monkey of a goose?" The Wron-c Tack. "I know what I'll do," said the young candidate. "I'll lay in a big supply of plug tobacco, and every time I meet one of the hayseeds I'll offer him a chew." "You will do nothing of the sort," said his manager. "You will go out without a bit and borrow a chew rrom every man you meet. Haven't you got sense enough to know that the man you are under obligations to always feels warmer toward you than the man you have done a favor?" INDIANA, PRESS OPINION. The thing which needs the most twisting Is that eminent" financier in the White House. Fowler Leader. The Senate is paying too much attention to defining and proclaiming the Monroe doctrine. Madison Courier. Congress should look after the coast de fenses before It reaffirms the Monroe doctrine too often. Greensburg Review. A large appropriation for coast defense, if pasesd by Congress, would mean as much as the Davis resolutions. Terre Haute Express. The Impression is widely abroad that the bamboozling of voters by a Democratic platform will never again be successful. It has been done once too often. Llgonler Leader. One would suppose thit Carlisle had made a bad enough mess as Secretary of the Treasury without trying to pose as a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. Goshen Times. If the British would load up their Maxim guns with some of Alfred Austin's Jagged verses and go at the Boers again, they might retrieve the'r recent losses in the Transvaal. Terre Haute Tribune. A pound of wool that can be exchanged for seven pounds of granulated sugar indicates good times for 'farmers. This was possible on Jan. 1, JS02. But when a pound of wool l3 worta ony three pounds of Duba., -v r.

uarr. 1S0G. it is very clear that a policy I of free trade In wool is mighty unprofitable

to the American wool growers. liuntingburg Argus. When Democracy was groaning under Republican days about "the enormous surplus" we were paying off bonds by the hundred millions, not issuing new bonds. With a sound protective tariff we would return to the old policy. Hunticgton Herald A Missouri man has s-rrarned to his friends after an absence of seven years, his mind being a total blank as to the events of that period. This is the only man in the United States who has a tangible excuse for being a Democrat. Peru Republican. The loan now pending Is not supported by the people as it should be, to be sure, but It should be remembered that this Is the first time that bonds have been placed anywhere within reach of the masses, and even now the details are so complicated that the public has little information by which to be guided. Lafayette Courier. After the disgraceful record of the last Congress which was overwhelmingly Democratic and a Democratic President, the Democrat who even chirps about the present Congress, which Is handicapped by a iDemocratic President and Democrats anl Populists in the Senate, exhibits more gall than brains. Orleans Examiner. A HOLT PEOPLE AND THINGS. An authority on cats says that blue-eyed cats are always deaf and that pure white ones are afflicted in the same manner. Miss Balfour says, in her book, that she saw In Dr. Jameson the hardest-working man in South Africa, a firm ruler and humane reclaimer of the native race. A C34-karat diamond, the finest ever found In Africa, was discovered at Jaggersfontein. la the Transvaal, on the day after Christmas. When cut it is expected that it will be worth $1,500,000. The influx of immigrants into South Africa is continuing at such a rapid rate that the Cape Times fears that before many months have passed they shall once more be face to face with the unemployed difficulty. President Kruger, of the .South African republic, lost the thumb of his left hand while he was a boy. He was out hunting, when his gun burst and shattered the thumb. He calmly took out his Jack-knife and cut what was left of the member off at the joint, after which he tied his hand up as best he could and went home. Captain Kldd's quadrant, or one of his quadrants, or at least an ancient quadrant bearing his name, is in the possession of a family at Rockland, Me. It is more than two hundred years old and bears the. name and address of the London maker. Part of It is of Ivory, now dark brown with age. The name "Captain Kidd" is engraved on the metal part of the instrument. Senor Casanes, the principal Secretary of the Spanish government in Cuba, is acting as censor. He does not speak English, and all cable dispatches in that language must be accompanied by a literal copy in Spanish. Senor Casanas Is extremely courteous and kind in his manner, and only pauses in his protestations of regard to draw his pen through a few sentences In a dispatch which do not meet his approval. An English curate was preaching to a large congregation on New Year's eve. In the course of his remarks, which were extemporaneous, he . appealed to different classes, beginning, "And you, old men, with your hoary heads." Then, addressing tho young men, he said: "And you, young men, with your blooming cheek ahem! J mean, with the bloom still upon your cheek." Pope Leo ives on what the American people would call 'the third floor of the Vatican. Marlon Crawford, writing of "Pope Leo XIII and His Household" in the February Century, says: "To the PoDe's bedroom only his private valet and his secretaries llAVP UPPPyiS If ia rt email A I manslons, and contains only a bed. In an alcove ac.ornel with graceful marble columns, a writing-table, an arm-chair and kneel-ing-stool, and one wardrobe." The London Telegraph tells the following story: "When Emerson visited Carlyle in London he expressed doubts to the latter of the personality of the devil. Carlyle took him to see many of the 'shows' of the metropolis, asking him. as they issued from each reeking lane filled with the shouts of intoxicated men and women, whether h. had not changed his opinion. At last thev arrived In the House of Commons, and as they sat in the strangers' gallery listening to some orator's rigmarole Carlyle slyly punched his friend in the ribs and asked: jjo you oeiieve in a deevil noor " isostcn is ooasting of a "new-woman" pastor, the Rev. Ellen Van Anderson, who was recently made pastor of the Church of the Higher Ufe.and who was ordained without ever having pursued a course in theology. Her training for her work was gained through her connection with various trans cendental cults of which the new church is the outcome. The new woman Das tor was born in Iowa and is about thirty-five years old. one is lair ana fashionable, and an Interesting episode of her Dastorate was a threat on the part of her follower tht unless she modified the gayety of her attire serious onense would be taken. Miss Anaerson now preaches In sober garb. The first sewing machine that was ever made was probably that patented by Thornas Saint, in 1790. He patented a machine for stitching, quilting and sewing. It was Intended chiefly for leather work, and just missed being a real sewing machine. After him came Bartheleray Thimoler, of St. Et lnne, France, who Invented machine In 1S30 which contained the srerm or the modern machine. He was nearlv murdered by the Parisian work people, who iujctiru iu me use oi macnines ror sewing. This happened in 1841. Walter Hunt Invented the eye-pointed needle and lock-stitch in Aew York In 1S32-34. He did not patent his invention. In 1SU Ellas lTnw invant. ed them by original work and patented his uuginiu sewing macnine. A Psnlm of Art. If you want to make a fashionable poster For to advertise a novel or a pill You can do it. sir, and be a smiling boaster That the selling is a matter of your skill. You must draw a dame with awful angular ity In a landscape that's geometry run mad; uive ner irocn a, sweep wim long particularity. And a pattern that no raiment ever had. N. B. Oh, the sky It must be green, and the tree it must be blue! k And a lake must look a clarel-colored bubble; And a foreground must be found That can be a far background But a fashionable- poster's worth the trouble! Pray be careful that you're never true to nature! Pray be wary lest you're ever true to Art! Not a touch of beauty given human feature (If you dare do that, my boy, youil break my heart!) Make a purple sun against a salmon moun tain; Paint a torrent every wave of which Is brown: Spread a figure In the middle, wrestling with a "tall horse-fiddle. All the colors ranged in strata on her gown. N. B. Oh, your rocks must be triangular, your clouds must all be square! And a garden must be rank with crazy lilies; And raw red and blue and yellow must be jostling each his fellow And you thus have art for Trade and Cash and Sillies. Irenaeus Stevenson, in Harper's Magazine. Snann Anthony's Joke. Washington Post. A man took a leading part In the session of the woman suffrage convention yesterday morning, and in introducing him a slip of the tongue on the part of Susan B. Anthony caused a few people to entertain the Idea that she had carried a Joke to a point which made It somewhat embarrassing for the man suffragist. This was not the case, however, as the occurrence embarrassed Miss Anthony more than anybody else. Mr. George W. Catt, whose wife Is the national organizer of the association, was to present a paper on "Utah's Victory the Result of Organization; Its Lesson." In a brief speech introducing Mr. Cttt. Miss Anthony said: "A man once met my father and asked him If he was the father of Susan B. Anthony, which caused my father to remark to me that times had changed considerably since the day when a daughter might shine by reflected light from her father. So now a man may oe iamous as the husband of a famous woman. It therefore elves me pleasure to introduce Mr. Carrie Chapman Catt." The laugh came be I self by adding fore Miss Anthony naa time to correct neri mean air. ueorge vv.

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FRIGHTENED THE SAVAGE TROOPS II V A DISPLAY OF FIREWORKS. King: Prenipch's Soldier Thought the Devil Was After Them and Ran Incidents of the Campaign. New York World. The most extraordinary war of modern times has just closed. 'The ferocious bar barian king of Ashantee has surrendered to the British expedition. The funniest part of it all is the way the English troops frightened the brave African monarch and his warriors almost to death without even firing a gun. The path from the coast to the interior led through a dense African Jungle an ideal place for an ambush. The army en gineers went ahead of the troops with a corps of wood-choppers to clear the way for the army. As the expedition approached the kingdom of the brave King Prempeh they found the woods full of armed savages. Suddenly the engineering corps, after darkness had settled on the forest, set off an enormous display of sky rockets, Roman candles, aerial bombs, plnwheels and fire crackers. They sent the rockets whizzing into the underbrush and exploded the manycolored bombs among the trees. Red, blue and yellow lights glowed here and there. and Roman candles shot their exploding balls up over the heads of King Prempeh's ambushed braves. The warriors were, astonished. Their eyes bulged with terror and in five minutes there , wasn't a corporal's guard of . the valiant army to be seen. The fireworks were kept up all night and at daybreak a courier, from King Prempeh crept up to the British picket line and begged to announce that the King was ready to agree to anything the English commander wanted. Encland has been quietly rushing her con quest of Ashantee, while the attention of the world was directed to another part of Africa. Thus a British tentacle in the form of an army of conquest has stretched put from tho great central octopus and another kingdom is to be quietly added to the British possessions. ine English propose to "delimit tne boun dary" of Ashantee by absorbing such of it as possesses gold fields, Just as the Schomburgk line moved around in a mysterious manner in Venezuela until stopped by the United States government. The purpose of the present campaign against the Kng of Ashantee, as the English allege, is to stop the inhuman sacrifices of that funny mon arch. As was recently described in these columns, King Prempeh has been main taining a private slaughter yard for his enemies. He has 3,333 wives, and he orders people's heads cut off whenever it suits his wh:m. This, It is true, had been going on for a good many years without the British desiring to put a stop to it until gold was discovered within Ashantee's borders. As soon as the presence of the gold was known the offenses of this inhuman mon ster cried to heaven for vengeance. Clergymen all over England were shocked and horrified as they read of tne human sacrifices going on in the neighbor hood of Coomassie, and as rumors of the new gold fields were circulated a strong desire sprang up for "advancing civiliza tion " In that nelghborhooa. NOVEL METHODS OF WARFARE. Nowhere in the history of war, perhaps, Is there record of a campaign so remarkable as this for the methods by which it has, been conducted. For once the. English have shown great military Intelligence in a foreign campaign. Perhaps the reason for this :s that they went to Coomassie once before and that the present comrhander-in-chief of the British army is the gentleman who led that expedition. Lord Wolseley knew what was before the troops. He knew that a large army or invasion would be a useless Incumbrance, and the ordinary British methods would be wholly out of place in Ashantee. He also knew that the followers of King prempen were up to date so far as nrearms were con cerned, but that their knowledge or science was somewhat deficient. -The Ashantee warrior will fight when you place a rifle, In his hands, but when you confront him with a kinetoscope, a magic lantern or a penny-in-the-slot machine he goes all to pieces. The way this war was carried out is the funniest part of the whole opera-bouffe performance. Little or nothing has been said about It in the English newspapers. These publications took the expedition seriously and published lengthy detailed accounts of the preparations as if they were directed against a real military power. The steamer Angola left Liverpool and arrived at Cape Coast Castle early in December with the first detachment of the expedition. Hidden away down In her hold was an Immense quantity of skyrockets and Roman candles. She had tons of these Fourth of July fireworks among her cargo of warlike implements. There were skyrockets of every kind, fire balloons, shooting stars, red, white and blue powders, plnwheels, "snakes" and Chinese firecrackers. Another ship followed the Angola similarly loaded, and containing no rifles or cartridges whatever. The ship bore to the gold coast simply an enormous consignment of fireworks. Long wooden boxes that looked as if they contained rifles with which to shoot down the Ashantee really had within them harm less skyrockets with patent tails that made fiery streamers of sparks through the African Jungle and exploded in gorgeous clus ters of stars of every hue. Some of the skyrockets released strings of red balloons of fire to flcat serenely over the dense Ashantee forests. , PARALYZED THE NATIVES. Other rockets had bombs in their heads and would finally terminate their career with a loud explosion far from the place they had been set off. Still other rockets that were taken along on the Ashantee expeditlon carried a curious whistle and as thpv shnt thrnnch th air m rlo a ViMomia , . as . nn'co that mill Kio heaM fnr mllos anil tropical forest through which the British forces had to advance. The purpose of this enormous consignment of fireworks carted into the very heart of Africa was to frighten the black satraps of King Prempeh, who have no fear of firearms, but are wholly unacquainted with Coney island rockets. The road from the Gold coast to Coomassie that was cut by the British forces through the dense forests of Aaphantee in 1874 had since completely disappeared. Under the fierce tropical sun, with numerous rains, vegetation grows in a way to as tonish people in northern climes. Trees grow by day and night, and a path through the forest closes up behind an army almost as it advances. The King of Ashantee Is reproached by the English with not keeping the road open and nicely swept for them to use. It is chartred that he deliberately let the trees grow up so as to cut himself off, and that in fact the forest is his Monroe doctrine which protects him from Intrusion of the monarchical foot. It was In getting through this dense for est that the Enplish expected to encounter their greatest difficulty, me Asnantee war riors have no love for fighting in the open. They appeared to rely upon picking off the British by sharrshooting methods In the lunirle. The thick unaerbrusn. tne numer ous large trees and the dense foliage af forded them every opportunity ior conceal ment. FIREWORKS FRIGHTEN THEM. Here It is that the skyrockets, the pln wheels, the "snakes" and the cheap Chinese firecrackers came Into play. A well-directed rocket shooting between the tree trunks and hissing over the ground with its long train of fire, to finally explode in a gorgeous shower of brilliants, would have more effect In frightening the followers of King pvemneh than a dozen actual shells fired from a mortar. ninA fire alone Is enough to make the or,Unarv African native quake. Fourth of July crackers make an admirable imitation at mnsketrv fire. To hear a couple of dozen bunches of them g3 off you would think a thousand men were shooting. Fire balloon, plnwheels and Roman candles are enough to make an army of African natives throw up their hands ana surrender. This Is the purpose cf the great consign ment of fireworks in the Ashantee war, which is funnier In its various a?pects even han the Chinese war. The English hired fiturdv nejrroes to hew a way through the forest before they landed the main body of the troops They had to be protected, however, and

These natives were impregnate iu me groups ; ui . .. , - -- miasmatic fever of the region. They un- the . attendant, when suddenly, d rlrg derstood the forest and its strange denl- pause in the proceeding, an old ranferw iens. and unier the direction of the British that was his appearance-broke ""J; raSpers and miners they made an admlr- ly: 'I alius thought it was a harre that lK?roorr7s of woodsmen. Oreeley wasn't elected President, and I .aid

this protection from the rifles of Prempeh men has been secured with the firecrackers and skyrockets. A large quantity of this material has teen carried in advance of tho corps that was cutting a roaJ through th forest, and It has been sufficient to scare off the enemy. Stores of every kind had to be carried on the heads of natives and thousand of women, each to carry fifty pounds, were engaged for work beyond the lTah. Bakers were also sent across the river to bake fresh bread at the defensive posts. Altogether the expedition included 783 white soldiers, 4"0 men from the West India, Regiment and tuO Hussars. The artillery consisted of a small mountain battery of six seven-nounder field guns, a Maxim gun and a large number of rocket tubes. The King of Koranza, who is a neighborinrc monarch Jealous of Prempeh' greatnes, volunteered to help the British in "advancing civilization." The result of the British expedition to Coomassie in 1871 was summed up by Sir Wilfred Lawson. In the Houe of Common?, when he said that all the English gained by it was "an old umbrella and a treaty." He was reminded that there had teen no treaty, and then remarked that he was not sorry, as the treaty would have been worth no more than the old umbrella. In this he was referring to the umbrella, of state captured by Sir Garnet Wolseley from King Koffee and brought to London. This time they propose to bring back tho old plug hat of Prempeh, which has taken the place of the umbrella of state as the symbol of supreme Ashantee power and greatness. Incidehtally the slaughter yard will be r4 and end to, while the mines will be open and possibly the golden stool of Prempeti captured and retained for what it is worth per ounce. What the other European powers think of British designs on Ashanteo has not yet appeared. STRAIT OF DARDANELLES.

Somethlnir About the Strip of Water that Forms Turkey's Dulirnrk. Army and Navy Journal. The strait of the Dardanelles, to which numerous references are now being mado In the papers, is. as many know, & narrow and tortuous water way of no great lengtn leading In from the north Aegean to tne Inland sea of Marmora. But what many do not know Is that the Turkish fortifications of the Dardanelles at least thtte of any Importance are situated in a sinrle locality in the vicinity of the squatty J;ttle Turkish town of Chanak-Kalesl (or the "Pottery Castle"), which lies on Vie Aslatia shore a few miles in from the mouth of the strait. One cf these batterles-a lowlying fortification constructed of mud. or rather clay, walls, faced here and there with stone is situated at Chanak-Kalesl itself. Another is planted about two miles further northeast on the same shore, while Immediately across the strait from ChanakKalesi other battlements have been reared on somewhat higher ground. None of these defenses are especially formidable, as modern fortifications go. although It must be admitted that. Inferior as they are in many respect, they do mount some heavy Krupp .guns of modern construction and undoubted power, while torpedoes. It Is said, have lately been sunk in the channel. Every now and then the Turkish government buys a new gun and sets it up at the Dardanelles with a sublime confidence that thereby the integrity of the empire will be effectually secured. But the Turks understand little about the handling of these great guns, although tho Osmanll soldiers are brave when well officered, and It Is probable that in the event of actual hostilities the gunners would soon be driven from these defenses and many of the guns themselves be dismounted (d tho skinful flra at lone range of a fleet lying Just irlde the lower strait) before the Os manll garrison couia aiscnarge more iiiiui . few wild shots with their Intricate but poorly managed balll&tic apparatus. What really adds more to the strength of these doorway defenses of Turkey, so to speak, than any qualities of the garrison in these forts is the swiftness of the currents ana mo tortuous character of the ship cnanner or the Dardanelles. Yet it is not improbable that once crippled by a fire at long range a nervy and resolute captain or a moaern ditle ship could run the gantlet of the upper batteries before tho bewildered gunners could adjust their artillery to the war ship's varying range or succeed in accomplishing more than a smasnmg or some oi mo vessel's unner works. Out of a fleet of half a dozen vessels endeavoring to force tho passage of the Dardene'.les two would probably be disabled or would helplessly ground in maneuvering, wnne me Daiamc uui4 steam triumphantly past Galllpoll, at tho upper end of the Dardenelles. and thereafter have absolutely free course directly to the Golden Horn and that part of tho pretty Bosphorus overlooked by the windows and modest facades of the Ylldlz palace. It Is said that in the old aays or inreedeckers an American frigate, whose right, of entrance had been challenged by the Turks, hove to opposite Chanak (as tho orientals familiarly and almost anecuonately term the palace), fired a salute, and then, under tne cover or ine smone inuw raised for that was oerore me aays ui sinkeiss ivmder" made boldly up ine strait for the Sea of Marmora before tho Turks could recover from the astonisnmeni or internose any forcible remonstrance. An other American naval officer tells an amus ing story of an experience mat neieu nun when his ship was ancnorea oi cnanas awaiting the reception of "pratique." Alter some delay a boat was observed putting off from shore in the direction of tho United States corvette. As the boat came alongside a dirty Turkish omcer stooa up In the stern sheets, and. pointing with his thumb in the general direction of ConstantlnnnlP e-rrl.iimed: "Stamboula git!" The officer of the deck did not understand the whole force of the expression -too to Constantinople!) but with the quick wit of a Yankee he instinctively divined the significance of the "git" ( an imperative from tho Turkish verb gitmek) which seemed to pos sess a certain resemblance to yanicee siang, and Immediately gave orders to get the an chor aboard and bear away up tne strait, toward Stamboul as fast as the slow American tub could travel. Outgoing (that Is west-wrrt-hnnnd vessels ston their engines abreast of a Turkish guard ship no bigger than a North River tug. ancnorea anoui two miles above Chanak-Kalesla. and there the permission in documentary form which they had received authorizing the navigation of the Turkish waters by them they deliver up before steaming on past Chanak out among the Greek islands of the Aegean. If a' venturesome or ignorant merchant steamer on entering tne strait presumes io pass on beyond a certain point a shot Is fired across her bow, and the cost of the powder thus burned Is collected scrupulously from the owners or agents of the vessel on her arrival at Stamboul, as Oriental logic falls to comprehend why poor Turkey I should pay for any foreign disregard of her I rwaatnnhle rules! Thei Dardanelles rracticallv constitute tho I 1 rai Kia. " . . as regards its westward exposure), whereat many would-be visitors are now ringing tho bell. But the Turk is not at home to all callers, and Just now is especially shy of such observers as foreign men-of-war that may be hanging arouna vesica nay a. piece of water Just off the famous plain of Troy, where Dr. Schliemann mad hlJ much-discussea aiscovenes, ana nit-u i readily reached by a few hours' ride frora nhflnak.Knlesi along the southern Fhore of the Dardanelles and thence up and over a fine range of hills that affords a magnifi cent view or samotnrace, imDros ana omer historic islets of the blue Aegean. Great Britain's National Deht. Springfield Republican. The British national debt dates back to the final 'expulsion of the Stuarts In IKS and the introduction or the commercial classes as a power in the government of th realm, prior to mat time rma aj ru and waged wars largely on their own per sonal Incomes and on wnai mey i-uuu personally borrow and steal. Public debts are thus comparatively a recent creation. And mark the change from government by and for hereditary privilege to government m which the unprivliegea classes nave a part, vino- wiiiinm Ill's relen saw tho public Jebt of England increased from little or notilng to 12.000.000 (SW.wi.uam rrom i.u- o me outbreak of the American Revolution tho debt through various wars, offset by rome reductions aunng me iiuun iiimi or t,,o hd crown to 126.8,2.U'iO. That war added 116.220.000 to th debt: the French and Napoleonic wars aaaea over tu:i,w.wi $3.103,000.000) to the British debt, and the total debt stood at tne peace oi i-ans in iv at Wil 029.019, involving an annual interest charge, etc.. of 32.645,000. or 110.223.00). Tho forty years or peace succeeamg Droagnt a reduction of &l.3.0u0 In the deH. tho Crimean war added 39.0iO.OuO to It. end tho reduction since then has reached Hl.CI.o:vleaving a debt at this time of something like C66.0ijO.OiiO. involving an annual crurge or 25a.t00. or S126.OU0.OfW. This debt ta what is called a perpetual debt, having io fixed time of maturity, but being redeemable at par at the option of the government. Realised the Injustice of It. Washington Star. "Do you know," said Representative Aldrlch. of Chicago, "meeting General Greely recently reminds me-of a day at the world'i fair, when wo all stood with open-mouth wonderment and interest, looking upon that scene, so graphically Illustrated, of Greely and his little band of surviving explorer! struggling with death and worse. At th am, time we were listening with aine to the eloquent recital which was given to

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