Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1896 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1896.

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TUD INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at tne foUowinj places MV YOEX GUsey House. Windsor Hotel and Astor House. CliiCAtJO-ralmer Hons and P. O News Co., n Adams street. Cici2(ATi-J. K. Uawiey A Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE T, T. Deerlc jr. -northwest eoner of Third and Jefferson aud LouUy Ule Hook Co., 2J6 Fourth are. CT.LUUIA-Unlcn News Company, Union Depot TTASHINGTON. D. C nlcr House, rbbttt House, WiUard s Hotel and the WaLlugtoa News Hxchangt, lita ttreet. bet. rnn. aie. and k' street Chicago Is to be congratulated that a majority of the Aldermen elected on Tuesday are not boodlers. When the 16-to-l advocates speak of bimetallism they mean silver monometallism. That Is what they yearn for. On this side of the Ohla those interested in politics are anxious for the battle between Carlisle and Blackburn for delesates to the national convention. It will take more double-leaded editorials than the New York World can print this "season to make Mr. Cleveland acceptable to th Democracy of Indiana. From, this time on the fighting for delegates to the national convention will be hot, and some presidential booms are liable to have a good many holes shot in them. If Speaker Reed brings about an adjournment of a "long session" of Congress by the middle of May, as he hopes to do, he' will deserve complimentary mention, at least. Should General Wallace be sent as delegate at large to the Republican national convention every intelligent man in the country will know who he Is and from what State he hails. A report of the Democratic convention in the Twelfth congressional district asserts that every mention of. the name of President Cleveland called forth shouts of applause. Is this true? Eggs and cabbages are now shipped Into this' country from Germany, and nearly. all kinds of farm products are coming In from Canada In great quantities. The tariff for deficit only hurts Amerl'can'farmers along -with the rest. Instead of petitioning the Police Board to enforce'- the Sunday laws In Terre Haute the good people of that city should come to Governor Matthews, who is responsible for the selectlen of the board by vetoing the bill which would have taken their, appointment out of his hands. - ' The methods of the press censor In Havana are. very simple. When the Insurgents enter a certain province he announces that they have been trapped, and when, in their own time, they leave he announces that they have been driven out. Meanwhile, they come and go at pleasure. .'". In Charles B. Landis the Republicans of the Ninth district have for a candidate for Congress an able and energetic young man who stands In the front rank of the many capable young men in the party In Indiana. It can be added that if either of Mr. Landis's competitors had been selected for the honor the party interests would have been In good hands. The Bank of, France having declined to lend Hpafn any, more money in addition to JlQ.000,000 already loaned, the Spanish government will try to raise the money at home.. Meanwhile, on the 8th of May Spain will have-to pay the Bank of France 15,000,000 and in June the remaining $3,000,000 of the loan above referred to or forfeit the securities she deposited to secure It. Financially, Spain is in a desperate condition. The silver-plated Republicans of Utah seem to have' set themselves up to criticise the Republicanism of the ablest men in the party, who have been Republicans all their lives, because, in their wisdom, S they favored a temporary tariff bill which would have rescued the treasury from deficit. Their platform shows that the alleged Republicans of Utah are for free coinage etf silver and nothing else. Their bimetallism Is silver monometallism. ' On the 12th Inst, the farce of holding an election In Cuba will be enacted. Friends of the Insurgent cause In this country say that only the rabid Spanish population will take part in the election, the Reform party and the Home Rule party having both decided to have nothing to do with it. Probably, however, it will be made the occasion of a resounding proclamation from General Weyler that the Cuban people are unanimous In favor of Spain. AfterSecretary Carlisle has accepted an Invitation to address the wage-earners and laboring classes of Chicago on the money question a committee of trades unionists have asked that the programme be changed to a joint debate with Co!n" Harvey. The suggestion is absurd. Secretary Carlisle can deliver an Instructive address on the money question, but to ask him to divide time and put himself on a level with a notorious crank and falsifier would be little less than insulting. 1 SSSSMlBSSSBmSBBBsSSSSSSlBSSSSSBSSSMSailBSBSBS ' A press dispatch from Chicago states that returns from 125 cities and towns in Illinois show Republican, victories in about four-fifths of them, adding: "In none of the elections was the vote on a ctrdcht political issue." This looks like cn cttirr.pt to offset a large-sized fact rrllli m cxrrerzioa cf personal ODlnion.

But if none of the victories was won on a straight political issue, the Republican candidates must have represented a better type of citizenship and better methods of government than their opponents; eo there you are. FAIR CRITICISM.

The Senators who criticised members of the . Cleveland Cabinet for leaving their plce3 two or three weeks at a time to make speeches while Congress is in session, or at other times, have the intelligence of the country, with them. Th'j members of the Cleveland Cabinet are absent during the summer, and for that reason should attend to! their business the remainder of the year. While it is entirely proper for the Secretary of the Treasury to make a speech or two in a year regarding the finances, or for the Postmaster-general to put his recommendations into a speech, so that his views may get to the people, such a campaign as the Secretary of the Interior is now engaged with in Georgia Is not only Indefensible, but must be a pernicious example to subordinates. When the head of a department neglects his duties it is fair to assume that the thousands of subordinates under him will not think It just the thing to devote themselves to their duties as if they were employed in a private establishment. The very fact that the. head of an extensive department of the government can neglect his duties for weeks is a confession on his part of incapacity to meet the requirements of his office. But, to have been consistent, the Senators who criticised Secretary Hoke Smith should have proceeded to denounce absenteeism in the Senate. One Senator, was absent over two months making a canvass to secure a place as delegate to the Republican national convention. Another was absent until the middle of March making a fight for a re-election which he did not get. An important measure of the House, affecting the credit of the Nation, was hastened to a vote in order that another Senator might go to his State and make a canvass for a re-election. These are but examples of the absenteeism of Senators. It may be just as well that many .of them are absent more or less of the time were it not that their neglect of duty gives many people the impression that positions in the government service are of so little consequence that those who hold them can go and come as they choose.. Because of this opinion many persons have come to assume that anybody is qualified for a '-public position. Consequently, men who have no qualification' for business of any sort or affairs generally become eager applicants for positions where ability and experience are required. Indeed, it is often urged as a reason why a man should be given a public position requiring Intelligence and ability that he has had hard luck all his life, which means that he Is of no personal force. As a matter of fact, ajl of the higher offices In Nation, State, county and city require men of character and attested ability, and when men who hold such positions, whether they arc members of Cabinets or State and county officers, cannot be. found In their places it Is evidence cither that such offices are needless or that those who hold them cannot meet their requirements. THE METRIC SYSTEM. The House yesterday passed, but later reconsidered and recommitted, a bill making the metric system of weights and measures the official standard in all government departments after July 1, 1S9S, and the legal standard In private transactions after July 1, 1901. In the opinion of the Journal this is a measure of very doubtful wisdom. It is very difficult to change long-established national habits and customs by arbitrary enactment. The Constitution gives Congress the power "to fix the standard of weights and measures," so there is no question as to the constitutional power of Congress to legislate in the premises, but the policy or wisdom of such legislation is quite a different matter. Our present system of weights and measures is substantially the same as the British, having been inherited from the mother country. In adopting a new form of government the framers of the Constitution adopted the decimal system of money accounts, the simplest and best in the world, but they left the old system of weights and measures unchanged. By a resolution of the Senate in 1817 John Qulncy Adams was commissioned to examine the weights and measures then in use, and in a report which ' he made in 1S21 he showed that considerable discrepancies existed among the different States and sometimes in different parts of the same State in all the measures of weight, dimension and capacity. No action was taken on this report, but in 1S30 Congress ordered a new comparison of the weights and measures in use In the different custom houses of the country, the object being to establish national con formity. This comparison was made by an expert, who reported that, though considerable discrepancy existed, the average corresponded closely to the English standard. Later, in 1825, Congress, by Jclnt resolution,. directed the Secretary of the Treasury to cause a complete set of all the weights and measures adopted as standard to be delivered to the Governor of each State in the Union for the use of the States respectively. To these the legal standards of each State have been made conformable, and no variation from thl3 standard, in any important particular. Is allowed. This has secured practical uniformity In ,welght3 and measures throughout the Union, but does not meet the objection of cumbersomeness to which, in the eyes of experts and scientists, at least, the system Is open. Under it we have ounces and pounds of entirely different weights, and several kinds of gallons, bushels and barrels. A mile represents one distance in the United States and a different one In every country in Europe. In Great Britain there Is an English mile, a Scotch mile, an Irish mile and a Welsh mile, and everywhere the geographical or nautical mile Is materially different from the land mile. In this country a legal mile on land is 5.2$u feet, while a mile at sea, a nautical mile, Is 6,082 feet. The present system is undoubtedly lacking In exactness and simplicity, but the question is whether, having become so "thoroughly ingrained in the national life, it can be changed by legislation. The metric system, so called because it is based on the meter as the fundamental unit of length, originated in France and was adopted In that country in 1723. Since then it has been adopted

by most other civilized nations, except in English speaking countries. It is generally used throughout Europe and by scientists and scientific writers everywhere. Its use is permitted in Great Britain and was legalized in this country by an act passed in 1866. The system is simple, scientific and exact, its greatest objection to English-speaking people being Us strange nomenclature. Besides the meter, which is the fundamental unit of length, the "arc" is the unit of surface, the 'liter" is the unit of volume and the "gram" the unit of weight. From these units or starting points the system proceeds decimally. For ten times, one hundred times, one thousand times and ten thousand times one of these units the prefixes deca-, hecto-, kilo- and myria- are used. Thus we have, in metric measurement, decagram and hectogram, decaliter and hectoliter, decameter and hectometer, with other variations on the same line. The system possesses undoubted merit, and the fact that it has been universally adopted by the scientific world seems to argue its superiority to any other. Although its use has for many years been permitted by law in Great Britain and the United States, the people have not taken kindly to it in either country. The old system of inches, feet, yards, rods and miles, of ounces and pounds, of pints, quarts, gallons, pecks and bushels is so thoroughly ingrained in the minds and habits of the people and so deeply rooted in the language that it is very doubtful If the mass of Englishspeaking people can ever be Induced to substitute a system with a distinctly French nomenclature and whose words convey no meaning to the common mind. FOR SOUND MO XEY.

No part of the record of the Republican party is more creditable than its unswerving devotion to sound finance and honest money.' During the war and for many years afterwards It was the chief reliance for maintaining the public credit. In 1SC4, when enemies were attacking the government in front and rear, it declared in Its platform "that the national faith, pledged for the redemption of the public debt, must be kept inviolate." In 1868, when repudiation was finding supporters, it said: "We denounce all forms of repudiation as a national crime, and the national honor requires the payment of the public indebtedness In the uttermost good faith to all creditors at home and abroad, not only according to the letter but the spirit of the, laws under which it was contracted." That same year the Democratic platform declared that "When the obligations of the government do not expressly state, upon their face, or the law under which they were issued does not provide that they shall be paid in coin, they ought, in right and Justice, to be paid in the lawful money of the United States," meaning greenbacks. The Republican platform of 1S72 said: "We denounce repudiation of the public debt, in any form or disguise, as a national crime," and urged the early resumption of specie payments. In 1S76 it declared that "Commercial prosperity, public morals and national credit demand a continuous and steady progress to specie payment." The Democratic platform of that year said: "We denounce the resumption clause of 1875, and we here demand Its repeal." And so through all the years of Its existence the Republican party has stood for sound finance, honest money and the maintenance of the national credit. The party will be false to its traditions and to one of the best features of its past record if, in the next national convention, it does not make a bold and ringing declaration on the silver question. If there is to be any Juggling on this question, any paltering in a double sense, any attempt at straddling or facing both ways, let it be done by the Democratic party. The declaration of the Republican convention in favor of the maintenance of the gold standard and in opposition to the free coinage of silver under existing conditions should be as plain and strong as the English language can make it. Anything less than this would mar its record as the party of sound finance and honest money and materially weaken Its position before the country. A year ago the Cleveland papers were shouting about the improvement of business and predicting that the country was on the eve of such a trade revival as It had never seen. Doubtless many were encouraged to embark In business, and the, result appears in a greater number of failures, with a larger aggregate of losses, during the first quarter of 1896, than the country has ever known. The figures.", as given by Bradstreefs for the last and corresponding quarters, beginning with 1S90, are as follows: No. Total Total Year.. . failures. assets. liabilities. 1S96. 4.512 I3S.1S2.i01 $62,512,926 3.S12 26.51,132 4,910,443 194. 3,1W 26,748,770 49,083,(88 P03. 3.ti: - 20.li.741 29,424.144 1892. 3.207 18,204.044 33.SG1.749 lb31. 2.401 22.861.883 44.348.7S3 1890. " 3.326 . 16.U82.202 33.814,301 It will surprise many well-informed men to see that the failures the first quarter of 1S96 were 543 more in number and J13.400.000 more in liabilities than they were during the first quarter of 1894, when the Cleveland policy was getting In Its first and most apparent work. The reason that the worse conditions are not noticed is because the country has settled down to the Cleveland policy of shrinking prices and of inadequate employment. These are the causes which have Increased the army of those c'riven to the wall and the aggregates measuring the great losses In trade and production. The figures which are given above tell the story of the results of Clevelandism when those of 1S92 are contrasted with those of 1S9G. Although the river and harbor bill passed by the House actually appropriates only 510,400,000. it authorizes the Secretary of War to enter into contracts for. the completion of thirty-two different projects for the improvement of rivers and harbors, the ultimate total cost of which will amount to nearly $52,000,000. But, as the work on these Improvements will cover a period of about six years, the amount necessary to be appropriated each year will not be large. It Is said the, experience of the last six years has fully vindicated the wisdom and economy of "the contract system first adopted by the Fifty-first Congress. Under this plan an improvement once begun is pushed steadily to completion, instead of being left to the chance of appropriations by successive Congresses, and the character of the work is materially improved. There has been a vast amount of money

wasted in past years on river and harbor improvements, and so much important work yet remains to be done that the government ought to adopt the best plan of operations and adhere to it. The contract plan seems to be a great improvement over the old one. If those who are opposed to the School Board clique really desire to defeat the men who are candidates for re-election they must organize. There must be harmony of action. By conferences reliable men, who have' an interest in the schools, must be selected. Into these selections no party question should enter. When they are made every man who calls himself a good citizen should vote. All fads about how the School Board should be constituted should be dismissed. To indulge a fad two or three hundred votes may be drawn away and the candidate bearing the brand of the clique may be elected. It should be enough for the women of the city to assist In the election of candidates who will oppose that policy of the clique which displaces women whenever it has an opportunity. All good citizens should drop all minor considerations and organize to elect antigang1 candidates as they would organize if the question of protection against fire or disease wre in their hands to decide. Bolts, fights and double delegations are reported at nearly all of the Southern State conventions to elect delegates to the Republican national convention. In several of them there is no longer a semblance of a voting party organization, and but for the hope of office there would not be a committee organization. The best thing the Republicans at the national convention can do when these double and treble delegations appear is to reject them all, because they represent no organized Republicanism nothing but a lot of spoilsmen lighting over offices for which the larger part of them are unfit.

An extraordinary increase la the number of applications for hotel licenses In New York has lei to the discovery of a supposed loophole In the Raines law. Under the law a hotel license costs no more than a saloon license and hotel keepers can serve liquors to guests in apartments, without serving food, at any prohibited hour.- As ten rooms and the same number of folding beds constitute a hotel, saloon keepers think they have found an easy way to evade the law. To-day Is the anniversary of the surrender of Lee at Appomattox, which occurred Sunday, April 9, 1SG3. Bl'DIJLES IN THE AIR. Erratic Men. "It is queer," said Mrs. Bloocher, "that a man can take enough interest in his wire's letters to open them, but not enough to mail them." No Innovation. Watts What do you think of this idea of Introducing the art, posfler In politics? Potts Nothing new in It, at all. One or two drinks of campaign whisky always would produce art poster effeqta. A Campaign Lie. "I have often wanted to ask you," said William Tell, "if it Is a'fact' that) you played on a violin while Rome was burning?" "That was a campaign lie," said Nero. "The truth Is, I played on the flames, along' with others members5 of No. 1 Volunteer Company, with a hose." The IIome-Matle Skeptic. ' "Gunpowder was" knowed' ' In the" Bible days," said the home-made skeptic. "How do I know? Look at the case of Elijah. That therv fiery chariot business wasn't itethir.g but a case of gitt'n blowei up by a powder explosion, an' all the preachers from hero to Texas can't make me believe nothin' else!" CURRENT MAGAZINES. An enticing picture of eager fishermen enticing .trout from a rocky pool forma tha frontispiece of Recreation for April. Besides the variety of contributed matter relating to outdoor life and amusements, a chapter of notes from the game fields of the country is of especial interest to sportsmen. A biographical sketch of the late George P. Root, composer of so many popular songs, appears In the current number of Peterson's Magazine. Also, a sketch of James Lane Allen, the Kentucky novelist. A chapter of personal recollections of Abraham Lincoln, by Frank G. Carpenter, Is a feature of the number. ' . . , ' A beautiful reproduction of a portrait of Christ, from, the original drawing by Simeon Solomon, is a feature of the. Art Amateur for April. The face, besides being gentle and refined. Indicates a strength and firmness of oharacter that portraits of the Saviour usually lack. Delft designs prevail in the supplement sheets. An article of Interest to many readers Is contributed to the Forum by Richard Hodgson, secretary of the Fsychological Research Society,' and bears the title. "Glimmerings of a Future Life." He believes the tendency of the Investigations into so-called supernatural manifestations is to support the theory of a survival of the individual after the death of his physical organism. Frank Bursley Tayor, the Fort Wayne scientist, is contributing to the Inland Educator (Terre Haute) an Interesting and important series' cf studies In Indiana geology. The current chapter relates to the glacial formation and geological history o the great lakes. This magazine bears the subtitle, "A Journal for the Progesslve Teacher," and the subjects considered, together with their scholarly treatment, sustain the characterization. It must certainly be found a useful and suggwnive periodical to the class of readers named. In an educational paper in tho Forum. President Schurman, of Cornell, makes the point in discussing the question as to whether teaching Is a trade or a profession, tnat primary teachers are apt to get their general education as well as their professional training in normal schools, and the tendency is to make them creatures of routine and lacking in true literary culture. Academic instruction, he urges, should be obtained elsewhere, and attendance at normal schools should be to gain technical training only. In the Ladies' Home Journal for April are some hitherto unpublished letters written by Louisa M. Alcott. one of which is of esp?clal interest as expounding her religious views. Among othrr things, she says: "I think immortality Is the passing of a soul through many lives or experiences, and such as are truly lived, used and learned help on to the next, each growing richer, happier, higher, carrying with it only the real memories of what has gone before. If In my present life I love one person truly, no matter who it is, I believe that we meet somewhere again, though where or how I don't know or care, for genuine love i immortal." It is a pleasing belief, but will not the Theosophists be claiming Louisa as one of themselves? A writer In Jennefs Miller's Monthly believes It to be the duty of every man. because of his superior strength, to provide some woman with a digree of leisure. "That men In New York," she says, "very generally held this idea is proved by the fact that women are the only leisure class here. They are the ones whose daylight hours are most free from business, and who do mcst congregate at forenoon lectures and afternoon entertainments. For this freedom from necessity to labor they are nearly always indebteJ to the industry, the foresight or the chivalry of ome man." The writer thinks this leisure should te applied to some useful purpose, and that If women are to "retain the veneration cf men they must devote their leisure to the public weal." Therefore she recommends active participation In municipal affairs by way of. payment of their debt to the men. In an article on pure drinking water In ciUes, a writer In the Engineering Magazine cays, very properly, that help should be employed to keep all reservoirs ani buildings making a part of the water works as clean and pure as an old-fashioned spring house a condition that is by no means the rule at

present . He would have tho water thoroughly filtered, of course, and among oti.er reforms suggested recommends "that, in connection with these reservoir buildings, a small refrigerating plant be erected, and po much of the pure water be frozen or refrigerated as may be necessary to keep the water In storage in a cool and palatable condition. The distributing and service pipes that conduct this water through the city to the consumer are." he says, "usually placed at a sufficient depth in the ground to prevent any changes In temperature from materially affecting them, and, if the little service pipes, upon entering the building, were covered with some nonconductive material, It would keep the water cool in summer, and prevent freezing and bursting of pipes in the winter." This would certainly be a great comfort to the numerous persons who. not having a refrigerator at hand, are compelled to drink the tepid water as it comes from the pipes. The Chicago magazine. Music, has asked a number of leading musicians their opinion of English as a language for singers, and without exception they asjree that appreciation and enjoyment of operas and songs by audiencea is vastly increased when the words are understood, and also that singers have no difficulty If their vocal organs are under proper control In using one language more than another; the only difficulty Is in securing translations that at once convey the Idea and have the accents and cadences in the right places, Helena Hastreiter declares that In this country the first thing she would do, had she the power, would be to have everything sung in English. "Take people," she says, "perfectly fresh, virgin, to an opera and have them hear an opera In a foreign language. They cannot enjoy it. They can enjoy the scenery and the melody, but still they cannot thoroughly enjoy anything they do not understand. Can any one enjoy anything they do not understand? Is there any comparison? Take it with a song like those of Franz or Schubert, for instance. I have had rauoh experience. I have sung the same thing in a foreign language; they were enjoyed, certainly enjoyed, and then I would sing them In English; there was no comparison. The listeners would say: i had no idea it was so beautiful just as though it was a different song entirely. And then how often 1 have sung a German 'ballad, for instance, and I can Just see who understands German. I feel it. I know who understands German, because those are the ones who are enthuslsatic and carried away with it. Others enJoy It, but they don't understand It." ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The . Empress of Russia la nearly two inches taller than her husband, and is Just the kind of a figure to "carry off" a $200,000 coronation robe. Friends In New York city confirm the truth of a report from. London that Anthony Hope (Hawkins), the author, is engaged to Evelyn Millard, an English actress. Conductors on the principal street-car line of San Francisco may not indulge In fashionable vagaries In the matter of linen. An order issued a few days ago expressly fot bids them to wear colored shirts, collars or cuffs, and further specifies that they must wear white shirts, collars and cuffs while oa duty. . A committee has been formed in Liverpool to raise funds for the-erection of a memorial tp Mrs. Felicia Hemans, who was born in that city In 1793. Her tomb in St. Ann's Church, Dublin, is marked with a small stone, and a tablet erected by her brother in St. Asaph's Cathedral is Inscribed: "To the memory of Felicia Hemans, whose character is test portrayed in her writings." Mothers of bicycling boys and girls are being applied to these days to treat windburned faces, the result of too zealous riding against the high winds of March and early April. Olive oil and vaseline are good remedies for the skin when burned In this way. Cloths dipped In water In which baking soda has teen diesolred and laid on the smarting cheeks and foreheads also afford speedy relief. Sir Arthur Sullivan has Just confessed that he does not always work with the rapidity ascribed to him. "When,, the fever Is on me and the subject excites my fancy I can turn out four numbers in a day. On the other hand. I have spent a week over a single song, setting it over and over again, until I felt the melody interpreted the story of -the words. I have thrown in the fire dozens of tunes that might have been used as 'potboilers and sold to the popularity of my name." . - In a recent article on "Peculiar Children," Max O'Rell tells tho following story: "A boy, reading - from a play that was being translated at sight in class, camo across the phrase: 'Calmez vous, monsieur He naturally translated this by 'Calm yourself, sir.' I said to him: 'Now. don't you think this Is a little stiff? Couldn't you give me something a lhtle more colloquial? For instance, what would you say yourself dn a Jlke case?' The boy reflected a few seconds and said: 'Keep your hair on, old man. " Taris has found a. new and characteristic use for tho Roentgen rays. Hereafter suspected parcels will not be opened with fear and a cold chisel in search of infernal machines, but will be put under the searching light of the cathode. The next thing in order will be to take a skiotograph of every long-haired person who applies for admission at a theater, to make sure that he has no bombs or pistols about him. The inventor of the new process, by the way, pronounces his name Renken, not Renk-en, but Ren-ken. Arrangements for the weddings of Princess Alexandra of Coburg and Princess Maud of Wale3 are now almost complete. The wedding of the former with Prince HohenloheLangenberg will take place April 20, at Coburg, and will be in full state, but the Queen will not be present. Her Majesty will be represented by one of. her sons. Princess Maud of Wales's wedding to Prince Charles of Denmark will take place In the early part of July, at the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace, and will be a quiet affair. The Queen will be present, but there win not be any state procession through the streets. The ceremony will be similar to that of the Duchess of Fife. It takes nine tailors, to make a man; At least, so the story books say. And when the man's made, it afterward takes Nine lawyers to make the man pay. New York Herald. Not n Money Campaign. Chicago Record. The West-side man who wants to be alderman on the reform ticket has hard work convincing the "touchers' that his is not a money campaign. He Is not going Into the race to make any money for himself, and for that reason he does not feel that he can afford to respond every time he is asked to help some needy voters. If the "touchers" had come at him with open demands for bribe money he could have refused them with indignation. But they didn't ask him to give them any money. They simply wanted tc borrow it. Finally he found a way in which to resist them. The other dav a husky man with a bulbous nose approached the candidate and said: "I want to ask a favor of you." "What Is it?" "Well, I'm out of work, and my wife's sick. I want to get a prescription filled, and the druggist won't trust me. Could you let me have 75 cents until some time next week?" The candidate gazed in admiration on the unblushing liar, and then he said, confidentially: "Do you know, I'd like mighty well to oblige you, but the fact is, I'm running for office, and I need al? my money for use in the campaign. You may not know It. but nearly every one j-ou meet wants money. If it wasn't for that I might accommodate you." That was too deep for the "toucher." He walked away, thinking it over. Governor Matthews Money VleTm. New Albany Public Press (Dem.) If "sound" money Democrats will go "kindor kurful like." a few at a time. Claude will assure them, cn his double honor as a man. that he is for a gold standarJ. and never had any sort of stock in the "silver craze." eheerin. a gold standardlte, is rntirely satisfied with Claude's views cn the money issue. When old-time Democrats call cn Claude he is in favor of the silver dollar at any ratio, and It only depends on what people want. Olaude Is In favor of It. "If you don't see what you want," when ycu visit Claude, "just call for it." He has a choice an I varied stock of solid twenty-two-carat gold standard, prohibition, free traie, h!gh protection, eld sumptuary, 10 to 1 free silver, free Cuba, "call out the troops," and. In fact, anything you want, "at all hours," all dene up in packages. But what in the thunder's the difference what he thinks or, tries to think? "He's not In it for ncthia' " anymore. ., The Senatorial Creed. Washington Star. "It Is my belief," said the Senator, "that when a man goes Into public life he ought to adopt -a motto and stick to it. As soon as I became associated with this august body I studied my colleagues, so as to find a sentiment which jruided them to their present positions of eminence." "And what did you select?" "Everything comes to him who waits." One' Exception. Philadelphia Times. , On the question of a circulating medium one thing that justifies a kind of straddle is the blcycia.

SENOUSSl'S HOLY WAR

EVIDENCE THAT THE 3IAIIDIST 3IOVE3IUNT IH SPREADING. The Stronghold of Jerbonb anil Other Resources at the Command of the Fanntlrnl Chieftain. New York Tribune. By far the most Important news that has reached this country recently has been the dispatch to the effect that there Is some kind of an understanding between the Ylldlz Kiosk, or imperial palace, at Slamboul. and the Dervish leaders In the Soudan. The correspondent adds that negotiations have been in progress for nearly a year between the Sultan and Osman Dlgna, a one-armed French renegade, who Is the principal lieutenant of the Soudanese Mahdi and, as , his most able and successful general, selected to command the Dervish army organized for the Invasion of Egypt. The Importance of this news lies in the fact that it goes to confirm the impression -which has existed for some time among those most intimately acquainted with Oriental affairs that the socalled Mahdist movement has ceased to be a purely local affair, but extends far beyond the borders of the Soudan. This is the meaning of the "Jehad." or holy war. which the Mahdi has proclaimed at Omdurmann. That he would not and could not have taken this step of his own accord, and upon his own responsibility, is rendered manifest by the fact that neither the former Mahdi. who destroyed Khartoum ten years ago, nor yet his successor, the present Mahdi. has until now ventured to Issue such proclamation. That they should have waited all these years, refraining from any appeal to their co-religionists, even at the moment when their very existence was threatened by Lord Wolseley's abortive . Nile campaign in 1SS41SS5, shows more clearly than anything else that they have been waiting for the word from the great chief, the Sheik el Senoussl, whose humble servants they have been, and still are. This Sheik el Senoussl is the most important Dersonasre in the Mahometan world. He is regarded with such veneration by the followers of the Prophet that, like 'I Moses of old, when he descended from the mount, he never appears otherwise tha' veiled, lest those who approach hlra should be dazzled by the divine radiancy of his features. The chief of all the Dervishes of the Mahometan faith, and occupying a position similar to but infinitely more influential than the General of the Order of Jesuits, his power extends from the most western point of Morocco to the Mohametan provinces of China and of Java, the principal chaplain and spirt ual adviser of the Sultan at Constantinople being one of his most trusted Dervishes or monks, if I may be permitted the expression in connection with a Mahometan. THE MAHOMETAN! MESSIAH. According to Koranic prophecy and Mussulman tradition, the great revival of tho Mahometan faith is to be brought about by a Mahdi or Messiah,' who was to make his appearance In the thirteen hundredth year of the Heglra that Is, A..D. 1SS3. His father's name was to be Mahomet, his mother's name Fatima. Sidl Mahomet el Senoussl fulfills all these conditions. He attained his majority in 1SS3, and before tho death In that year of his father, the founder of the great Senoussl Order, was solmenly proclaimed by the latter as the true Messiah or or Mahdi. by which appellation he is now known throughout the Mahometan world. It may be urged that since the Senoussl claims to be the true Mahdi, there can be no co-operation on his part with the Soudanese Mahdi. This Is a mistake. The Koran distinctly states that several Mahdis will arise simultaneously with the chief one. but that they will all in the end submit to the latter. It has been with the object of verifying this prophecy that Senoussl has called forth during the past decade Mahdis In the Yemen, Hedjaz in Syria, in the Mahometan provinces of China, as well as at Omdurmann. That the Mahdi on the Nile is in everything subservient to tho Senoussl is shown by a number of things. In the first place. Gordon's slayer, Mahomet Achmet el Mahdi, and his successor have both belonged to the Sldl-Abed-el Kadr el Djilani fraternity, which is one of the most direct affiliations, of tho Senoussl Order, and entirely subject and obedient to the Senoussl el Mahdi. Then, too. Mahomet Achmet did not claim to bo the true Mahdi, but merely the forerunner, the St. John the Baptist of the Mussulman Messiah, and finally, four of the chief leaders of the Mahdist army at Omdurmann are ex-colonels who, compromised in the Arabl insurrection at Cairo In 1882, fled after their defeat at the battle of Tel-ei-Kebir across the Lybian desert to Jerboub, when, after remaining with el Senoussl for a couple of years, they proceeded to Join the Soudanese Mahdi at Omdurmann on the Nile. One of them. Mahomet Pacha-el-Beit, the former Governor of Suez, now commands the artillery, which, comprises a large number of Krupp guns. LIKE A FORTIFIED CONVENT. Jerboub, the headquarters and stronghold of Senoussl el Mahdi situated latitude 30, longitude 24:20, on the shores of Lake Faregda, in the southeastern portion of Tripoli, and founded in 1S61 by the father and founder of tho Senoussl Order, is said to resemble an Immense fortified convent. Even ten years ago It had sixteen big guns, purchased at Alexandria, and several large factories, where gunpowder was produced and small arms, obtained in Egypt, remounted and repaired. In February last the number of big guns had increased to over ono hundred, and there were, besides, twenty mitrailleuses of German . manufacture. According to trustworthy information, two Italian and three Austrian vessels anchored In the months of June and July last in the Mediterranean port of Tabrouk, which belongs to the order, laden with arms, shot and shell, which were immediately forwarded over the 200 kilometers of desert separating the port from Jerboub. There are also at the latter place a splendid library, transported thither from Mecca, the former headquarters of the fraternity; stables containing over 4,000 horses, magnificent reservoirs and plantations, etc. According to the distinguished French author. Luvcyrier, the bodyguard, of the master, who lives there, consists of over 3.000 Algerians. Fortified convents and stations, cut cn a less extensive scale, exist near Siwah, in the oasis of Jujiter Ammon, at the important oasis of Farafra, and at about twenty other places, mostly In the various oases cf tho Lybian Desert, while about 500 or COO of these centers of action r'. known to be In existence in Turkey, Tripoli, Tunis, Algeria, Morocco, the Hedjaz, India, Yemen, Afghanistan, the Somali coast, and. in fact, wherever the Mahometan religion haa taken root, In Central Africa especially, at such places as Timbuctoo and in the kingdom of the WadaL The agents of tire order at Alexandria are welMcno wn moreover, It has its representatives at Constantinople and In France. To give one solitary instance of the activity of these agents, I may state that during tho Commune one of the Snoussi stationed at Paris managai, to purloin from the Ministry of Foreigu Affairs, in tne Qual d'Orsay, a uo-cumeni cf a compromising nature, Kamped with the seal cf tne chiefs of the Touareg of R'dames tribe, who, like most of the othBcdouin and desert tribes in northern Africa and Arabia, aro among the moat fervent adhexentst cf the order. The administration cf the affairs cf the order Is conlided to four "wuzeers," cr mlnls:ers, living at Jerboub, ar.d acting under the immediate direction of thu grand master, who la supreme. T.ie members of the order, whar names are carerully registered, owe absolute and unquestioning obedience to the mokkadjm. I. e., ;he rector cf the community cr of the convent cf th-e district. Tne mokkadem Is, In turn, subject to the agha. or dean, who.e immediate superior is the vakil, or apjsio.ie prefect of the province. Every member of the order btcocrhra ip?o facto a kind cf missionary, who oniy awaits a sign from h.s chief to become a preacher, a soldier, a brigand, or even an aisassln. For Just as In the casa cf certain religious orders cf Europe, so it is with the Senoussl le but Justitle les moyen and they have recourse even to the moat outrageous means to obtain the object they keep in view. The grand master, who styles himself, among other things, the "Khahlfa," cr lieutenant -cf God. corresponds with his subordinate by means f relays of special messengers, who In very confidential cases convey verbal mestages only. To each a perfection are the means of communication carried among the Arabj that the LtedDuira of the Pyramids of G:seh announced the massacre cf CcJonel Stewart's party at Merawi and the fall of Khartoum nearly a week before the ornclal news of it reached Cairo. In the same way the bombardment of Berber, the surrender of Tokar and the massacre of SInkat were known in the bazaars of Cairo long before the official news vra received by the Anglo-Eyp-tlan authorities. INITIATION INTO THE OREV1R. "Thou shalt be in the hands of Sidl Mahomet as a dead body In the hands of a corpse washer." Such Is the form of Initia tion into the Senoussl crder. which. stated 1

above, surpasses In point of number. r.mg of power and wealth -the Society or Jc.-u. even In the jialrnlc't ilajx cf tlut fratfrnily. The grand ma.vtrr of the fcriot:r,l ro,i?t that he ha ut his command a?Kiit Mahometans, that i. over a thlrJ of- tho total number cf the faithful. The rrrater portion of these, belnjr more or le mtjct to Christian powers, dream cf nothing but the universal empire promised by the Koran. The feeling- of Intense hatred against th Christian is deeply engrafted In their hearts and whether latent ot lrmptlve, the work which goes 0:1 in connection therewith is ccntinuou- and lastlr.tr. They are at any moment prepared to seize the epportunity of a struggje with civilized nations; thlr mclm aim Is 4 holy war, with neither vtruce nor mercy, against tLe unbelievers and apalnst all thoe wha covenant with the Infidel. The order was founded only sixty years ago, by an Algerian cf the tribe of MedJahrr. named Mahoimt Ben Ali-cs-Senouss.1. At an early ape he adopts the philosophical tenets tf the OhadhelMlc school, which ha much of the Wahabi doctrines about 1L On tne death of Sh. ikli Ahmed Ben lidri. whj was the chief cf the school In Question. Stnoussl. who had been his favorite disciple, wa- spolnted to succeed him, and soon evolved, partly out of the Koran, and partly from his meditation, a purified kind of Chadhelism. which he caused to be adopted by h members of the sect as being the true and reformed Hlamlsm. cleansed from all is KUperstltlons and unorthodox practices wh'rh twelve centuries of theologians had. grafted on to it. DOCTIIINE OF THE CUBED. The doctrine of tMs most intolerant of all rtiomci creeds is pretty much as follows: In the flVst place, the gloriflcatlon of God, who alono Is to be worshiped. Living faints may be venerated, but this vmeratlon mut Of a- immediately they die, and no pllgrlm-aait-. to their tombs nor Invocation of their nams .u firayer are permitted. The Irophet Mibanv;'j.v no exception to the rule, although admitted to have been the most perfect cf humankind. Unquestioning obedience is strlciy enjoined, ani even the Saltan and, all other chiefs of Mahometan states must conform to the precepts of Ielamism as interpreted by the order, at the risk of hostility against them being declared as Justified. All embroideries, gold or silver ornaments or jewelry are strictly forbidden in the case of men, but are permitted to women. Tobacco f.r.d ixiffee are likewise severely prohibited. Te. 'If allowed, but It must be sweetened -vKii. brewn sugar, and not with white, for thv iiUer Is defiled by the bones of animals, kiii't by unbelievers, which are used to re-fioe-i?. Members of the order are forbidden to r: salute or trade with or serve either vh cr Christians, and. according to tha VecefU contained In a sermon preached In March, 1&51, by HadJ Ahmed Ben Bel-Kasen, Nikiidem of the town ot Ithat. any Jew or Ch-ltin- who is no longer a rayah that ts tc say, who is no longer subject o a Mahometan government become an adversary v'im it is lawful, nay, whom It Is necessary, to rob and kill at all fmes and In all places. Tho members of the order who possess a capital of over 5 pay annually Zi per cent, thereon Into the treasury, which receives in addition vast donations of cattle, lands, slaves and money. The Turkish, Egyptian and Tunisian governments have been most liberal in granting it subsidies, lands and fiscal Immunities. I have frequently heard it eaid that tha Grand Master of the Senoussl was xt muc.i interested in commercial undertakings of ail kinds that he had neither inclination nor any kind of Inducement to adopt a militant policy. This is a grave misapprehension. Sheikh Senoussl, who has already unlimited wealth at the disposal of the order, has beem sagacious enough to perceive that commerce and trade constitute the most powerful means of extension ar.d influence all tho world over. When the ill-advised proclamation concerning :he abandonment . of tho Soudan was issued Just a year ago. the Grand Master immediately took teps to attract, via Jerboub, Tibroui and Tripoli, ths vast central African trade which formerly, making- Its way down the Nile and being- a source of wealth to various prosperous riverside towns, found an outlet at Alexandria, For Egypt is but a pays de transit. Onehalf of Its Immense prosperity In former times was due to the Indian and Chines trade, which was destroyed by the ooenlng of the Suez canal; the othfr half was owing to the transit trade with central Africa anJ Soudan, which Knj?'.and has, d palete de coeur, ruined by proclaiming the abanJonment of the latter. DEVOTED TO SENOUSSL A?ain, in the case of the kingdom o! Wadal, a country with 3.000,000 Inhabitants. west of Darfur, and with .mineral and natural wealth and resources of all kinds, which had long been closed to foreign trade, Senoussl's agents managed to ingratiate themselves with, the king and to attract the entire commcrco of the country to find an outlet via Serhboub and Tripoli. The. whole of the Wadai is now absolutely devoted to the Sheikh Senoussl, who receives frequently vast caravans of slaves as presents from the king to himself and for export. In fact. Turkey. Tersla. etc, obtain all their black salves via Serhboub and the port of Tebrouk. the king of Wadal being the great provider of that kind of merchandise. The "Jehad," or holy war, so long looked for by tho followers of the Prophet, and which not even the Turkish Sultan, in the hours of their greatest danger, had flared to call forth, has at length been proclaimed by the orders of the only man who. according to Koranic tradition and prophecy, is qualified to take such a step namely, the Mohametan Messiah. Senoussl cl Mahdi. Not the leart remarkable" feature in th affair is th deliberation and the regard to the situation in Europe with which every move leading up to the climax has been made by the roaster mind at.Jerbhoub. It was the Supreme Chief of the Senoussl who Instigated the Arabl rebellion at Cairo and Alexandria In 18S2. and it was he. too. who conceived and originated the revolt of the Soudan a few months later, Mohamed Achmet, the Omdurman Dervish, commencing the insurrection with the great Bagarra tribe shortly after reaching the Nile from Jerbhoub. There are few Englishmen who possess a more profound knowledge of the Mohametan world, alike in India and Arabia, than Wilfred Blunt, diplomat, explorer, and married to the granddaughter of tho great poet. Lord Byron. In a letter dated Dec. 16. 1S81, to the president of the International Peace Association, and written at Cairo. ' he lays particular stress upon the fact and declares that "the movement In the Soudan, which has been so much understood, is identical with that headed here at Cairo by Arabi." Certain It hi that ro more propitious moment In all the last sixteen or twenty year could have been selected for the proclamation of a holy war. What the immediate outcome or ultimate result of the declaration of the jehad is likely to be it Ls impossible as yet to predict. But one thing may safely be taken for granted namely, that no matter how vast may be the fierce and fanatio Dervish horde which marches on Cairo, either down the Nile from Berber or dashes across the relatively narrow slip of desert separating I'hartoum from Dongola, It will be among the least of the, perils that at the present hour menace England, and, incident-ail-, civilization. Colorado' Xnv Industry. North American Review. When silver mining underwent eclipse, the sister industry beneilted by the use of the whole of the complicated arparatus of men. money nnd machinery thrown out of gear by the collapie of the silver market. The experienced miners, trained tuperlntemlcrus, careful chemists and expert mine managers of the silver camps were compeilel to .ek near avenues of employment In the wake of the capital departing from districts blighted by adverse legislation. Those who could not get positions went to work prospecting. The parties of gold sef kers who wand red orer the mountains in the autumn of 1X3 were as diverse in comporitlon as tha con:panUa of pioneers who sought 11 Dorado In the dawn of Western history. They differed chiefly In being better equirped with experience and endowed with a larger knowledge of the ways In which an ore deposit can be converted Into a profitable mine. A year of steady development and vigorous explorations has told its story. ?ome cf it U conveyed through the stubborn testimony of statistics, some is suggested amid the rhetorical confectionery of an IrresponslNle prr, mere of It 1 known to those who direct the machinery of an Industry who?e unresting wheels are at the command of the capitalist. Fcr the nrtt time the annual yield cf gold exceeds In money value that of fllver; for the first time. also, it is believe!. Colorado haa wrested from California the honor cf being the leading gold producing State cf the Union. Mlntnken Prcrtptlon. Chicago Pest. Three yeans ago H. C. Itunner. who had worked very hard at b's desk for year, berjan to break down and to show unmistakable symptoms -of ntrvous prostration. His physicians hurrlnl n'm off to Europe, and after he had added to his troubles by the usual European trip be returned to New Ycrk and was a sain bundled on to California. Now com the i:ews that he Is no better and that hi phyIc!an has ordered iuni home. One of the days, after they have patented the consumption eura and ecured a cinch -on the vermiform appendix, tho doctors will come to the conclusion that trips cf five thousand and ten thousand miles are not ho positive cure of nervous prcstratlon. It la a pity that Mr. Banner, who. as the editor o: Puck, has pasted on so many Jokes at the expu of the medical fraternity, should fall a victlra to the xzrt. ruta he has ciricilurvi.