Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1897 — Page 4

r

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNA FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1897.

THE DAILY JOURNAL FRIDAY. JANUAKY a, lS'JT.

Washington (Wive 1533 Pennsylvania Avcnu; Trlrphnnr Cnlln. !'.i'.inv4 cfT.cc ZZi ! Editorial rooms.... A K terms op m bscru-tion. DAILY II Y MA1I J'ady only, on month J .7 Ii:y only, thre months 2.. iMiljr only, on year I'aiiy. JncluilirK sun-lay, one year 1'Wt Sun-lay only, one year 2.00 WIIKN FL-HNISHCD BY AUKNTS. Daily, rer v.ek. by rarrlr I ft Snn!ay. finjrle -py 3 t Iaily un?2 Survlay. ir wrok, ly carrier 20 its WEI-IK LV. Fer year 11.00 Reduced Hater to Club. Fubfrril with any of our numerous agents or sen. I auK-rlr.u-'nsi to the Joins vi. i;w:i-ai-eu cdmimny, IniliaunpollM, lnd. IVrsvuiF sending the Journal through th mails In the l'nifr-1 States tfcouM put on an eight-pas paj-er a O.VK-f'KNT i-(t.at?e Hamp; or. a twelve or lxte r-i'Hse par-r a TWU-t'SXT r.staKe stamp, Foreign iJ4tiie is usually double these rate. All roTnmuni-aticni lni?:irl1 for puMUatlon in this pajier ruj.t. in erdfr o reeive attention. I-a-xm;anied r.y the nam tnI ai-ires of the writer. THE !M)I APOI.IS JOl RVL fan r-e fouu at the fcjllnwlns i-Iats: NLW YORK Windsor Hot-! an! AU.r House. CHIiu;0 Palme r Ilou.-e ant 1. O. News Co.. 27 "e-nrbr ru Mu-et. CINtlNNATI-J. I:. Haw ley & Co.. VA Vine rfrft. II"ISV'I!.LK C T. Iiir. northwet corner I Th!rl and Jnre n stre-e-ts. and Louisville J-Vxk Co.. 2ii Fourth avenue. ST. Lni.'IS L'nlen News Company. Union Depot. WASHINGTON. 1. C.-i;is Hoie. KhMtt iJiije. Will.od'n Hi.tH and tlx Washington Nw Kx'hanKf, Kirtcr r.tti treft, U.-tween IVnn. avenue and V Mreet. The Cameron resolution seems to have become decidedly irresolute. . Nothing makes a free-trader madder than a proposition to legislate for American interests against foreign. One of the Chicago papers Is printing the pictures of the convicts whom (lovernor A'tgeld has pardoned from day to day. with their biographies, like a continued story. There is some hoie of the United States S?nute yet. The backing down of the jingo senators on the Cameron resolution shows they are not wholly impervious to public opinion. The notorious Alderman Madden, who proposes to break into the United States Senate through the Illinois Legislature, voted for Cleveland In 1SSI. He Is Republican or Democrat for revenue only. vThe Chicago Times-Herald is of opinion that the candidates opposed to Madden for United States senator in the Illinois Legislature will combine their votes to defeat the notorious alderman. " Tho now Democratic Governor of Missouri. Mr. Stephens, has intimated that the members of the Legislature must appear in full dress at his receptions. Evidently Mr. Stephens Is not expecting a re-election. When the Sultan of Turkey gets the lifesize figure of a Sioux Indian chief, arrayed for a war dance, which the Smithsonian Institution Is- about to send him. he will probably conclude that native Americans are somewhat savage themselves. If the Southern senators should be convinced that the Cuban revolution is "a negro insurrection." even the zealous Senator Morgan,' who owes his place to the suppression of the colored vote in Alabama, might lese his interest in the cause. In one of tho villages in an adjoining county the Democratic postmaster resigned and recommended the appointment of a lady who belongs to a Republican fam11. She has been commissioned and will be postmistress in a few days. This beats the scheme of being elected. ' A month ago tho announcement that the Smith carpet mills, in Yonkers. New York, had been partially shut down gave the Bryan press very general delight. Now that tho seven thousand employes have been called back to their places in the factory, not a Popocratic organ notes the fact. The Democratic opponents of Governor Altgeld charge that he pardoned several of the notorious criminals which he has set at liberty In order to win control of the Democratic State committee. Several members of the committee had friends In the penitentiary whom they were anxious to have pardoned. One of the many good things which the last Republican Legislature did was to lix by law the number of employes of the Senate and House. Instead of being undetermined in regard to this matter as was the case In previous years, the two branches had a law specifying the number and compensation of such employes. The remarks of Speaker Pettit on taking the chair yesterday will meet general approval because they show that he has a clear appreciation of his duties and of the situation. His illusion to the condition of the country and the consequent necessity for carefulness in making appropriations will le appreciated by the great body of taxpayer'. The United States senator to be elected by the present General Assembly will be the first Republican senator from Indiana since General Harrison, who was elected in IsM). Senator Voorhees, who has been in the Senate cine 1S77, is mainly indebted for his several re-elections to the gerrymander, a factor which will soon .be eliminated from Indiana politics. A curious effect of the Raines law, as stated In a bulletin of the Agricultural Department regarding the American cheese Industry, is that In prohibiting saloons from offering free lunches it has lessened tho sale of cheese in the State of NewYork 13. 0. (M) pounds a year. The statement seems to .challenge investigation by Its Improbability. Senator Blackburn Is reported as saying that Senator Voorhees Is the logical candidate of the free-silver Democracy for 19W. Now. If Senator Voorhees will reciprocate by insisting that Blackburn !s the man. honors between the two logical gentlemen will be easy. By the way, this Is the first time Indiana senior senator was ever charged with King logical. The closing months of Mr. Bayard's term as minister to England are likely to l marked by a irreat deal of sentlmentalism between him and tho English people regarding the iio kinship of the two rouiitrfvs. etc. He seems to lc very proud of th popularity he ha acquired there, and expresses gratitude that "I have Ikco able to bring the hands and hearts of th two countries together." All this Is well enough

In a way. but it eloes not amount to much and Is not statesmanship. All the jollying and exchanging of compliments between Mr. Bayard and the English people will not prevent the British government from overreaching the United States every chance It gets In a boundary dispute or any controversy involving material interests. British ministers to th United States do not waste any time trying to make thempelves popular here or in making academical speeches in exaltation of the fraternal relations between the two countries. They attend strictly to business and look after British interests without bothering themselves as to whether blood is thicker than water or not.

SCHOOL board FIA i:s. The report submitted to the School Board by its committee on finance discloses a condition of affairs which, to say the least, is not very comforting to taxpayers. It a pilars that for three years past the board has been levying the full limit of the tax permitted by law for school purposes. St cents on the $lo0. and it cannot levy more. On the present valuation this levy yields $-"J$l,0uo and the receipts from other sources bring this up to $507.21';. which is the estimated revenue for the current year. Against this revenue the estimated cost of the schools is $Tjr7,2W this year. $".2I.3.:7 in 1SK increasing to $jK0,0W in 1M1. Allowing for a moderate increase of revenue at the present levy, on account of increase of taxables. the revenue in 1W1 is estimated at $KV),(i. which would have a deiicit in that year of Tm,09S and an average deficit from 1S:iD to ld of about $:;i.K) a year. But this deiicit relates only to current account. There is still a debt to be provided for, viz., $1CC..T; of manual training building equipment notes and $2!'),0u0 of ' schooJhouse bonds, all maturing between 1W and 10)). In other words, with an estimated deiicit of $.)4.0M a year after 1SW there is a debt of .$.112.0 to be provided for between now and lrmo. This is a situation which calls for good financing. The board thinks it calls for an increased tax levy, ami will so recommend. Possibly it does, but it also calls for retrenchment and curtailment of expenses, and they make no recommendation or suggestion looking in that direction. There are some points in the report which seem to show that a reduction of expenses is possible, and even if the report did not show it there is no doubt of the fact. For instance, the estimated increase in the cost of the schools seems excessive. Some increase Is inevitable owing to the growth of the city, but why should the cost of the schools increase from $4f.M3 in ISO" to $S30.0W in 1301? Because they have been run on a broad-gauge, high-pressure plan in the past Is no reason why that ioIIcy should continue indefinitely. There are many persons who believe that the cost of the schools could be materially reduced without lmiairing their efficiency. The report says: The tendencies of education have been and particularly now are toward a widening of the curriculum, the adoption of new studies, and new methods, which, while generally in the line of progress, nevertheless, incur cost and In the aggregate greatly increase school expenditures. This Is put forward in defense of increased expenses, whereas it is an argument for retrenchment. The constant tendency towards a widening of the curriculum and the adoption of new studies is one of the very things that people are complaining of. The curriculum has leen widened too much already and had better be narrowed. Tho schools are attempting to teach too much now. and the curriculum could be contracted without hurting their usefulness. Again, the report says: "The cost of German in the schools has increased in the last ten years from $S.500 to $1.1.000 annually." Perhaps that item forms part of the estimated Increase of the cost of the schools from $489,913 in 1S97 to $M000 in 1901. The teaching of German should be stopped. Again, the report says: "Our high schools in the same period have increased from $23,000 to $.TJ.00) annually." This Is another just cause of complaint, and instead of being an argument for further indefinite increase is a strong one for retrenchment. These avenues of retrenchment are disclosed by the report, and no doubt others could easily be found. The School Board will be in a better position to ask for an increase of taxation when it has shown a disposition to curtail expenses. TIIK (illUUD FOR OFFICK. Very soon after his election Governorelect Mount announced two or three appointments that he had decided to make. It being understood at the time that he did so to put an end to the pressure from other applicants. Now. several days in advance of his inauguration, he finds it necessary to announce that, owing to other demands on his time, he will not give further .consideration to applications for office until after the adjournment of the Legislature. As.no office which he has to 1111 will become vacant till after the adjournment, no public Interest will suffer. In making this announcement the Governor-elect says he has not yet had time to inform himself of the details of the Governor's otllce or prospective legislation, and as he wishes to keep in close touch with the General Assembly he must have time to do these things. "With that purpose in view," he says. "I desire it to be made known that until after th close of the General Assembly I shall be compelled to decline all personal appeals for appointments." This announcement of the Governor-elect will be approved by the public, and probably by no class more cordially than hy members of the Legislature, who have felt the pressure themselves. Every President in recent years has testified that a large part of the time which ought to be devoted to Important and weighty affairs has to be given up to office-seekers and these urging their claims, and every head of department bears witness to the same effect. The evil is nothing like as great as it was befo're the passage of the civil-service law, but It Is still great enough to be recognized by every federal official who has any patronage to bestow. An ancient poet wrote of the accursed greed for gold. For modern use the phrase might be changed to the accursed greed for office. Offlceholding is honorable, and so is ofilce-seeklng within reasonable limits, but the wild rush and the hungry, importunate scramble that generally characterize:; a change of administration in national or State affairs has no relieving feature. To say that it is calculated to grieve the judicious would Ik? putting it altogether too mildly ;.tt Is calculated to disgust everyliody not in the scramble. Governor-elect Mount accompanies his announcement with a statement that some too iniHrtunate applicants for office should lay to heart. After promising to give due consideration to all applications that may be Hied he says: "No person can- reasonably expect to gain advantage by persistent urging indeed, every stud nt of human nature may well conclude that an opioslte effect may b brought about by ovcrzcalous

espousal." A man who Is just assuming the duties of an Important office to which the people have called him Is not likely to be very favorably impressed with the claims of a person who would have him

neglect affairs of State for some petty ap pointment. ST. JAC'KfcOVS DAY. In some citfts a number of citizens call ing themselves Democrats met last night to celebrate the anniversary of the battle of New Orleans, which is known as Jack son's day, and other meetings will be held to-day and to-night. Probably the largest numler of meetings will be held by those who supported Mr. Bryan during the late campaign. There is no reason why they should. They are not even far-off follow ers of Andrew Jackson. Some of them may know it. and so will not quote his opinions in his words or refer to history to affirm his views. Mr. Bryan, who is more Populist than Democrat, spoke in Chicago. He applauded Jackson, but he seems not to know that applauding Jackson is denouncing Bryan. Jackson was the soundest of sound-money men. It was through the inIluence of Andrew Jackson that the standard was changed from 13 to 1 to 16 to 1. It was done to give the United States gold. It proved to 1m the lirst of the series of acts which demonetized silver. The most strenuous leader of the change in the Senate was the senator who stood for the administration. Thomas H. Benton. No men took a more active part in securing the adoption of the new ratio than the congressmen nearest General Jackson. It was an administration measure. It will be well for that wing of the Democratic party calling themselves Bryanites to go back and study the arguments that led to the change of ratio. They can be found in "Benton's Thirty Years." The supiorters of tho Popocratic ticket last fall who desire to learn how they have wandered from the Democracy of Jackson's time will lind those chapters of Benton's volumes instructive if not interesting reading. The reason for changing the ratio was that gold had been undervalued in the ratio of 13 to 1 and had left the country. The ratio was changed to W to 1 in the belief that the market value of sixteen ounces of silver was equal to that of one ounce of gold. To ascertain and fix a legal ratio which should be identical with the market ratio was the purpose of Jackson's party in Congress In 1S.H. and yet many men calling themselves Democrats who ignore this Jacksonian theory have the audacity to declare that Jackson, and his associates held their views on the subject of ratios and values. Another point which Jackson believed and expounded at great length is that the federal government had the constitutional right to enforce the laws of the United States without asking the leave of any local officer. In the case of the attempt of South Carolina to nullify federal laws, Jackson emphasized the federal supremacy with fervid vehemence. Jackson would have denounced the Altgeld plank of the Popocratic convention in that emphatic language for which he was famous. The Popocratic or Bryan Democracy is not the Democracy expounded by Jackson. It will not be until white is black. AX EARLY WAItMXG. The mistake made by the Republicans about the hour of assembling of the Legislaturefor which the Journal acknowledges its due share of responsibility, with apologies should be a warning, particularly to the members of the House, where the Republican majority is so small. If the Republicans are to do anything in the way of vseful legislation in the House, every member must be present at every session. This must be evident to all, because lifty-one votes are necessary to pass a bill. If two or three members fall to attend, it is fair to assume that no important measure can become law. Thus, two members who lind some excuse to be absent a day can be charged with the loss of a legislative day if an important measure comes up and is lost because of their absence. Under such conditions punctual and all-day attendance Is the imperative duty of every Republican member. Last session committees consisting of a number of members could be absent without greatly interfering with legislation; still, much valuable time was lost by visits to public or other institutions which, if necessary', can be made by small committees. If the days of the session were not limited by law, visiting lltetary or even State Institutions by committees would not be so objectionable, but when there is so much important work to be done there can bo no possible excuse for a waste of time which pushes the most important business into the last few days of the session. Very naturally, all the more important matters, like the apportionment bills, require much consideration from committees, but when such committees have reported their bills should take precedence of all other matters. It is the mistake of all legislative bodies that they defer consideration of certain bills to suit convenience of members who aro absent about their own affairs. When there are really less than sixty legislative days such courtesy is at the expense of the public interests. Unless illness prevents the attendance of members, no matter should be deferred because of the absence of members. The Journal does not make these observations in a spirit of dictation, but in the light of experience and in the interest of sound legislation. It realizes that the task imposed upon the Republicans in the House because of the slender party majority is in the nature of a hardship, but in every-day attendance is the only hope of successful legislation. . If Senator Allison has declined a place in Mr. McKlnley's Cabinet, as the dispatches indicate, he has doubtless done a wise thing, from his point of view. He is now sixty-eight years old, has served in the Senate twenty-four years, has been reelected for six years longer, and can probably remain there as long as he desires. He is a model senator and not only tills the ixtsltion admirably, but enjoys it. He would be unwise to exchange It for a place in the Cabinet which might prove uncongenial, would certainly involve much worry and arduous labor, and might leave him politically stranded at the end of four years. It seems that several members of the Senate committee on foreign relations, including Senators Sherman, Cullom and I'rye. were not in favor of the Cameron resolution lut made no opposition because the majority favored It. A decided change of sentiment has taken place since the resolution was reported. The senators have heard from thtlr constituents. It has Ih'cii several times officially recommended that those who present themselves for naturalization should be required to af- 1

firm that they interidto reside within the United States. This is important because there is reason to beheve that many persons become American citizens for .no other purose than to escape military duty In the lands where they were born and to claim the protection of this government during their residence in other countries. . The Journal differ whh-Senator Sherman on the question f ne Vjcpedlency of retiring the greenbacks, but it is a mistake to say that his latest expression on the subject, as contained In a letter printed in the Journal yesterday,- Is a recent change of

front. He has always been regarded as a sound-money man and has a consistent rec ord as an aifvocate of the resumption of specie payments, maintaining the public credit, etc. But he expressed himself against retiring the greenbacks twenty years ago. In his report as secretary of the treasury in 1S77. after stating that the point ought to be settled by . Congress whether the legal-tender notes, when once redeemed, could legally be reissued, he said: The decision of,' this question by Congress Involves not merely th. construction of existing law, but the public policy of maintaining in circulation United States notes, either with or without the legal-tender clause. These notes are of great public convenience. They circulate readily, are of universal credit, are a debt of the people without interest, are protected by every possible safeguard ' against counterfeiting, and. when redeemable in coin at the demand of the holder, form a paper currency as good as has yet been devised. It is conceded that a certain amount can. with the aid of an ample reserve In coin, be always maintained in circulation. Should not the benefit of this circulation innre to the people rather than to the corporations, either state or national?, The secretary ventures to express the opinion that the best currency for the people of the United States would be a carefully limited amount of United States notes, promptly redeemable on presentation- in ' coin, and supplemented by a system of national banks, organized under general laws, free and open to all. with power to issue circulating notes securer! by United States bonds deposited with the government and redeemable on demand in United States notes or coin. Such a system will secure to the people a safe currency of equal value in all parts of the country, receivable for all dues and easily convertible, Into coin. Interest can thus be saved on so much of the public debt as can be conveniently maintained in permanent circulation, leaving to national banks the proper business of such corporations, of providing cuirency for the various changes, the ebb and flow of trade. Many able financiers will say that experience has shown these views to be erroneous. However that may.be, they were expressed twenty years ago, and are practically identical with those expressed in Senator Sherman's recent letter. Let us give the devil his due. Governor Altgeld in his recent message used a phrase on which he is entitled to a copyright. Speaking of the alleged danger to republican institutions from the "money power," lie said: "We arc developing a kind of ejarbonatcel patriotism which seems to elerivo its most sparkling quantities from respectable boodlelsm." That is witty, and "carbonated patriotism" is distinctively original. It is a pity, however, that Altgeld has not a little of the article in its natural state. A New York paper ftels called upon to explain that the luftfcf.cent. duty on raw sugar cannot help the Sugar Trust. That is true unless the one great purchaser of raw sugars In the country Is able to cause a depression of the.V.prlce by allowing stocks to accumulate, purchasing at the low prices and putting them up after refining. The duty on sugar should be a specific rate per pound. Senator Cameron, of Pennsylvania, cannot be said to go out in a blaze of glory when all that his own party papers in the State find to say 'abcArY Wrn in commenting on the election of his successor, is this sort of thing: "It would have been very hard to find a senatorial nominee who would not have been an improvement upon the incumbent whose term is expiring." BII1I1LHS IN TI1C Allt. lMeamircH of the Chase. , i t, ., "Do you really enjoy shooting?" "Why, yes, of course." said the Dear Girl, who has lately bought a light rifle ind a lovely pair of hunting bloomers. "Every time I manage to kill a rabbit or a poor little bird, I have just the loveliest cry imaginable." ' Trngcdy In One Fytte. He asked her to wed She repulsed nim. with scorn; For the start he, Thought the right thing would be To eire-p on one k e Ere making his' plea Sho heard not what he said, For he'd dropped on her corn. The Cheerful Idiot. "It must have been. a very tender-hearted butcher who killed this lamb." said the Cheerful Idiot, pausing in the sawing of his chop. "Why?" kindly asked, the shoe-clerk boarder. . .: "He must have hesitated three or four years before striking the fatal blow." Cuefiil' Verse. When the poet's in a hurry, and his head is filled with worryj because he has to fill his space within certain time. It is then you find him turning, with his eye in frenzy burning, to the sort of stuff that rattles in the meter of this rhyme. Tis then sings he of the maiden, who. with bookish knowieelge laden, who can catalogue the emperors in the twinkling of an eye. Who can subjugate ' geometry, knock the spots from trigonometry, but can't construct the mechanism of a cherry Pie; Or Ihe poet and the editor, the young man and h.s creditor any one of these three subjects is a pudding for his pen. For the rhyme affords much latitude for all that sort of platitude, and Is a mighty handy thing for countless funny men. . . , INDIANA NKWSPAPCU OPINION. The fact that a badly managed bank falls does not prove that the gold standard is the cause of It nor that In the course of time prosperity will not come to the country. Rock ville Republican. One of the things, that the Republican Party proposes to do for the restoration of good times Is to substitute a debt-diminishing for a debt-increasing policy in the management of the national finances. Greencastle Banner-Times. The Plain Dealer desires to congratulate the Republicans of tho House on their excellent judgment In the selection of a presiding officer. Mr. Pettit is a fine parliamentarian, a ripe scholar, has good Judgment in all matters pertaining to law. Is a lerfect gentleman.) and. in fact, possesses every qualification for the honorable position. Wabash Plain Dealer. There aro many hutlding and loan companies doing business in Indiana that should be crowded out. Some of them are highway robbers and they injure othir associations that do a legitimate and honest business. The State Legislature should remedy the evils that art stealing off thousands of lKrrowers mid Investors within the borders'or 'thin-Blate. El wood Call leader. ;T '"f Governor Mount' Is said to bo opposed to the Metropolitan Police law, which places the control of the police departments of cities having more than ten thousand people In the hands of h board of three appointed bv the Governor. Mr, Mount believes in hcal self-government, and so do the people. This la a. principle which is gradually ling lost dght of. the tendency being strongly toward a centralization of power In state boards and state officials.

It is not too soon to start on the return to sound first principles of government, and Governor Mount will be gratefully remembered for all that he accomplishes in this direction. Rushvllle Republican. It Is generally believed that the special verdict law will be modified or repealed by the incoming Legislature. Its abuse Is the cause of its unpopularity. In Delaware county recently a jury was required to answer .133 written Interrogatories. The case was one for tlamages against the street railway company and the questions were written by one of the shrewdest lawyers in the State with no other purpose than to confuse the Jury. Noblesville Ledger. It is not likely that Mr. Mount's career as Governor will be brilliant and of the sky-rocket style. He was elected by the people of Indiana to give them a practical and economical administration, and be can. be depended upon to lend his best efforts towards reducing the State debt and lightening the load of taxation under which Indiana groans. Mark the prediction. When Governor Mount retires it will be with a clean and efficient record behind him. BlufTton Chronicle. Since the agitation over the apparently excessive expenditures of Concord township for the ioor other counties are comparing notes upon the same question. It is found that Noble county for the last quarter paid out $) and DeKalb county 51.4SS.17 for the poor. Both counties have alout the same population, made up of about the same class of people, and information is wanted as to the reason the expenditures of DeKalb are more than twice what Noble's is. Goshen Times. The Republicans have seen how a Tammany machine, styled a metropolitan iollce law. has workeel in Indiana under a Democratic administration, for whose benefit it was constructed. It has satisfied the Democratic Governor, being a political lever in his hands of which he has made good use. but. being vicious in principle, and destructive of popular rights, whatever power it may lodge in the hands of the Governor, or his party, is not deslreel by Republican managers, who advocate the rule of the iveople In all matters relating to their local affairs. It is creditable to the judgment of Governor Mount that he does not approve of the law, which confers great political power upon him, and will recommend its repeal. Muncie Times. Ct HRENT PERIODICALS.

"St. Ives" is continued in the Pall Mall Magazine, which contains, beside the usual fiction, several articles of historic interest. In addition to a number of good stories, the Strand has a batch of puzzles calculatetl to produce severe insomnia among those of its nMders who cannot wait for the February number, when solutions will bo given. In a discourse in the North American Review on "Genius in Children" Andrew Lang says: "You cannot recognize literary genius, in boyhood, by results. Musical, mathematical, mechanical and artistic excellence are. for some reason, much more easily recognizee! almost from the first." The publishers of the Decorator and Furnisher announce that they have wholly foresworn trade journalism and will henceforth devote themselves solely to the editing and publishing of a decorative art magazinewith the purpose of interesting and benefiting both professional and amateur decorators and designers. Hamlin Garland contributes an interesting account of the cadet life of U. S. Grant to McClure's Magazine. He has evidently gone to considerable pains in gathering the information. The story of the famous "Martha Washington Case." or the trial of William Klssane and his fellow-conspirators for burning a steamboat on the Mississippi in 1S32. is well told by Lida Rose McCabe. "The Laying and Making of ah Atlantic Cable" and "Benjamin Franklin" are the titles of other interesting papers. Current History for the third quarter of S9; is received, and covers a large part of the late political campaign. An outline of other events in the United States and of international affairs is also given, together with a summary of miscellaneous happenings, that mike up the newspaper history of the three months beginning with July. The number opens with a biographical sketch of Li Hung Chang. It is a most useful periodical of reference. Th- Musician, a monthly publication coming from Philadelphia, completes its first volume with a number containing a variety of admirable features. In the long list of contributors to the issue are John S. Van Cleve. John Towers. Emil Leibling. Dr. Henry G. Hanchett. W. O. Forsyth and Constantin Von Sternberg names, that are in themselves a sufficient indication of the character of the contents. There are also a number of excellent musical compositions, a colored supplement page and a fullpage portrait of William H. Sherwood, Cie pianist. The spirit and dash of Kipling's story, "Captains Courageous," in McClure's Magazine, make it entertaining to any reader, but only those thprou.jily familiar with the Atlantic coast jjnd the ways of the cod fishers can spea'c as to its accuracy of "local color." This testimony is given by the Boston Transcript, whicli says the tale is "full of mighty refreshment; its vigor is a tonic that is good to take." The writer add 4: "Our local spirit (to change the figure) is piqued and gratified by the great splashes of local color on the Klnllng canvas, color which is as true as it is brilliant, ami as familiar to Atlantic coast knowledge and association as the sunsets on the waters of Gloucester bay." T ie Outlook has issued a monthly magazine number for some time, but has now transformed this and its regular weekly issue into a periodical Q( the stanelard magazine form. In making thi3 change it announces that It does not become a literary magazine, but will be more than ever a weekly newspaper. The nrst Issue in each month will contain from 12S to 160 pages, with numerous illustrations; the remaining Issues will contain not less than 68 pages. The prospectus for the coming year shows a number of interesting features, among them a life of Gladstone, by Justin Mc Carthy, which begins in the. January number. Hundreds of pictures have been gathered for this "Life." The Outlook has. by exteneled correspondence? and investigation, prepared itself to give a careful summary of the personal and political character of the twenty-five newiy-electeel Governors. The article is not a dry collection of biographical data, but a study and analysis. Dr. Lyman Abbott and Mr. Hamilton Mable are editors of the Outlook, and the best writers of the country vre among its contributors. It is published at 13 Astor place. New York. A'n lua ble Reference llookx. The Almanac of the Chicago Dally News is the first of three or four in which can be found the thousand things some of which so many people desire to know, but which they could not find until these annuals were Issueel, five or six years ago. The News Almanac for 1S07 is up to date In election returns, national and State governments, statistics of all the inelustries. crops of the world, mineral products, exports and imports, the debts of all the nations, statistics of education, histories of the party conventions, concise accounts of the dispute between Venezuela and Great Britain, Turkey and Armenia, the Cuban revolt, a sketch of all the financial panics; in short, about all the current information which busy and Intelligent people de-sire. And the cost of all this Information is only 23 cents. In a few days It can be obtained of all dealers in periodicals. The New York World's Almanac for 197. one of the three conspicuous annuals issued by newspapers, appears promptly with several new features. One new feature is a compilation of the laws passed by legisla tures which met in is.0. Other new fea tures aro the laws of American whist, he In in case of accidents and antidotes for poisons. It Is one of the books which those w ho have occasion to use ready Information cannot well do without. The price is 23 cents, which is a trifling amount to pay for 340 closely printed pages of all sorts of information. Here nml There. We sit lesi1e the lower feayt to-day-She at the higher. Our voice falter a we Lenl to pray; In the gieat choir Of happy faints he sings, ami does not tire. We lreak the brea'l of !atienre and the wine Of tears we share. Sh? taste the vinte.e of that glorious vine, WhoFe tranche fair. Set fr healing of all cations are. t wonder i -he orry for our jialn. Or if. (fmwn wl.e. She won K'rir.g. Fmiles. and eounts them Idle, vain. Tle heavy figh. Those lor.gir.gs for her face and Iiapjy eyes. Sinilo on. then, darlinir. as Cml h will is Wst. We lopt our hol-l. Content to lave thee to the tleejicr rest. The nafcr fold. To Joy' Immortal youth while we grow old. Content the cold and wintry day t Uar, The ley wave. And know theo In immrtal nummT there. Beyond th rrrave. Content to Klve thee to the love that rav. Suean Covlldte.

CLOSED THEIR MILLS

HOW WOOL .MAXlFACTtilKltS WHRL AFFECTED BY TUB W ILSON LAW. Statement Ileplete -vlth Stntinticn lreentel to the limine Way uud Mennn Committee. NO RADICAL DEMANDS MADE COMI-KNSATOItY AND DISCRIMINATING DLTIE3 RECOMMENDED, And n More Moderate Tariff thnn. Ah keel hy Woo Ik row em I need Shoddy Muiiufneturer'a Assertion. WASHINGTON. Jan. 7. The wool manufacturers furnished an interesting elay in tariff hearings. They did not ask for freo wool, but represented that the Wilson lawhad closed half of their mills and had proveel destructive to the country's business generally. They wanted compensatory duties on woolen goods and a'more moderate tariff than the woolgrowers had asked. The chief spokesman was the secretary of the WeKl Manufacturers' Association. S. D. N. North, of Boston. William Whitman, of the Arlington mills, of Massachusetts, urged the committee to consider the question of permanence above everything else in framing tho tariff, and 11. C. Moses, of Maine, suggested discriminating duties against consigned goods. Sigmunel Muhlhauser, of Cleveland, the proprietor of the largest shoddy factory In the country, asserted that tho woolen manufacturers all bought his goods, and promlseel to give the committee a list of his customers. The lirst speaker to-day was S. N. D. North, of Boston, secretary of the National Wool Manufacturers' Association, who made a statement in behalf of that organization. The association counselled moderation in fixing rates, requesting moderate protection which would enable them to reopen their mills, but not excessive duties and a promise of iermanence. Changes were only a less evil, ho said, than rates too low to permit competition with foreigners. The wool manufacturer had euffcrcd more than any other class by tho tariff of 1K04. The months preceding the tariff revision of 1804 and the two years subsequent included the most disastrous period to American woolen manufacturers. The bulk of the wools and worsted machinery had been wholly or partially idle. At present there was more machinery in operation than during tho summer, but the general condition of the manufacturer was bad. Other causes beside the tariff contributed to business paralysis, but the prospect of a business revival brought no promise of improvement to this industry. lmiKrts of cloths in ran up to 40.070.lH) pounds, almost equal to the three years 1K91, 1S02 and 1S?3. under the McKlnley act. The largest quantity oJf cloths Imported In any year before, was HJ.24S.313, in 1W2. and the increase in 1'.5 over the largest previous year was 117 per cent. IMPORTS AND THEIR VALUE. The total imports of manufacture of wool in 1S03 were valued at 160.319.000 foreign value. The value was $'.).OX),000: about onethird the value of woolens made in the wills of the United States in such a year as 1800, and equal to about one-half the domestic product in 1S03. The United States has enough machinery when In operation to supply home consumption. These ImiKrtations at low valuations, he said, crowded on a sluggish market, had broken down the domestic manufactures, while the foreigners so overdid the business that they too suffered from the reaction. No recovers of the market seemed possible under the existing tariff. The cause was that the quality of goods was falling so that the unit of value, a pound of imported goods, fell from 90 cents in 14 to fin cents in lSf). The elecrase In value was due partly to the general fall in value; also two phases of the tariff. First The removal of weight duties let down the bars to cloths practie'ally excludeel heretofore. The ad valorem basis allowed the importation of the meanest qualities of goods, the products of the llatlcy and Dewsbury districts in England, where the making of woolens out of shoddy, cow's hair and rubbish has been reduced to a science. Higher grades of American goods had been compelled to compete, with these cloths at prices fixed by the poorer qualities. Consequently American manufacturers were being driven to use shoddy to compete. Second The systematic consignment of goods at prices less than the cost nf manufacture abroad and their sale in this country at less than cost of manufacture here so that the dome-stic manufacturer is compelled to calculate his costs six months in advance, has been unable to know what condition he might have to meet. It was the belief of wool manufacturers that wrhlle the law nominally allows duties of 40 and TA per cent, the protection, because of undervaluations, did not exceed 23 to 3T per cent. The manufacturer did not complain of the present rates, but of the form in which they were assessed and the manner collected and to the dividing lines In the levying of an ad valorem duty, and particularly to the dividing line at .) cents a pound, which tempted importers to save 10 per cent, in duties by undervaluations of 2 or 3 cents a pound. The manufacturers desired a law reducing undervaluations to a minimum and ojerating with certainty and equity. A special committee. of the rate association of wool manufacturers after a year's investigation had concluded that it was Impossible to do away with the ad valorem principle, he-cause of variations in weave, texture, materials and finish, which distinguish woolens from other textures. Therefore the compensatory duty was the vital part of the woolen schedule. COMPENSATORY DUTIES. It was to the misfortune of the industry that It was the only one upon whose raw material the protective policy required a tluty to be placed which correspondingly increased its cost. Other eluties on raw materials did not affe-ct the cost of the finished product. Ohio wool had dropped in value from 29 cents in 1&2 to 18 1-3 cents In 1CG. The 1ST2 price was 31 cents alfbve the scoured pound of the London price of the corresponding grade of Australian wool, while the 1VJG price was below the London ptice. The purpose ef the compensatory duty was to place the American manufacturer in the same position as though he had his goods duty fre-e. The compensation duty had never before accomplished this. Mr. North discusse-d in detail the theory of the compensatory duty, and estimated the manufacturing lo;s on woel at an average of ." per cent. As heretofore assessed that eluty bore no relation to the value of the material; It might be equivalent to .7) per cent, or to 150 per cent, ad valorem, according to shrinkage, and was a tax on every pound of dirt and greese Imported with the woci. The compensatory duty was based on shrinkage of CO per cent. The tariff on scoured wool Is three times as high as on greasy, fixed by the growers, established in the law a uniform shrinkage of e 2-3 per c-nt.. bui compelled the manufacturer to import greasy wools. The compensatory duty piled up the duty on goods to a point far above that necessary for protective purpose s. every tent added to the duty on wool making necessary the addition of 4 cents on woolen goods. The disadvantages to the manuafcturer . of the wool duty were: First It restricted him to the narrowest limits in the selection of foreign wools, excluding him from many blends, in whi:h the foreign manuafcturer got the Inst results. Send This concentration of American purchasers on a small cImks of foreign wools Increased the price of those wool?. Third It correspondingly enlarged the choice and cheapened the price of the wool. of the foreign manufacturer. Fourth All restriction of the old law on the Importation of wool were devised to embarrass the manufacturer, implying that the whole business of importing wool was talnte-d with fraud. Nevertheless the manufacturers did not resist the restoration of wool duties, they agr eel to a protection on wool equal to the protection they exieci"d on their own gowls. but they resb:t-d any. return to the extreme characteristics of previous sched

ule. The use of foreign wool had become Indispensable. The supply of fine wools grown here was decreasing lecause tho farmer found greater profit in mutton sheep. Notwithstanding the high duties on wool from ld to ISM there never was a time when the home supply was so insufficient. Nonamericun manufacturers thought foreign weoI for any purjoc for which domestic would serve. lecaue he had to advance money on imported wool to pay duties eight or ten months t-fote he could realize by sales. There had becn no year tefore W;3 when the requirements of the domestic manufacturers had not exceeded the domestic wool supply, and the manufacturer under a proper tariff would promise the woolgrower a quick market for all his raw material. PLEA FOR SMALL MILLS. A plea for the small mills was made by Thomas Sampson, of Rhode Island, who protested against high duties on rags and shodd3 The same subject was handled by Sigmund Muhlhauser, of Cleveland, .. tho head of the largest establishment of its character in tho country", employing 700 hands. Mr. Muhlhauser deprecated the prevalent impression that shoddy was a fraud. It was made from remnants of pure wool and manufacturers bought it to mix with new wools. When the witness declared that all the leading manufacturers of the country were his customers there was an outcry from the assembler! manufacturers. The witness said that the shoddy business bad flourished better under the McKlnlev law than the Wilson law. Unlike Mr. Sampson, the witness wanted higher duties. "Mr. McMillin asked him "Would you have any objection to filing with the committee a list of manufacturers who buy your goods." The witness replied that he would Ikj glad to do so. He explained that he made 2Ji grades of goods. In the test grades be mixed 12 per cent, of pure wool; the iHorer grades were all of rags. All his customers lought of him with full knowledge of tho character of his goods. Emil Rinke, ait importer representing several hat manufacturers to whom be supplied materials, asked that wool hats be taken from theblanket clause of the wool schedule and a clause covering "hats of wool, wholly or partly manufactured, including wool hat bodies." le Inserted In the paragraph with other articles of woo! not otherwise provided for. They desired the McKlnley rates. Wilson 11. Brown, of Philadelphia, spoke for several Eastern manufacturers. They assumed, he said, that the bill would b based on the lines of the McKlnley act and asked to have Clauses 1 and 2 of the McKlnley act clothing and worsted woolscombined in one class. Chairman Dingley obtained the statement from other manufacturers that with their improved machinery worsted manufactures 1 were using much wool of Class 1. Mr. Turner inquired of Mr. Brown if tho manufacturers would not prefer free wool, which gave them, among other advantages, a wider range of selection. The manufacturer answered in the negative, because, he explain!, free wool decreased the flocks of the farmers, decreased their purchasing power and the -same condition ran through all the Industries. B. C. Moses, of Maine, whei had spoken yesterday.) appeared again. "I am an original free-wool man among the manufacturers," he began. "I am still in favor of free wool, theoretically But we have been through the experience and It e-ost our corporation JlOO.uoo to get down to a free-wool basis. Now wo have got to go through tho process of getting back. What the manufacturers, the woolgrowers and the imiorters want is a tariff so moderate that it will be permanent and will not be overthrown." Mr. Moses urged the committee to pay attention to undervaluations of consigned goods and suggested! an application of ad valorem duties to them, or some discrimination against them. Robert Stuntz. of New York, a manufacturer of woolen rugs and carpets of tho Smyrna style, who stated that he represented the only factory making the -roods in the country, asked for higher protection. The committee then adjourned.

$2,500,000 INVOLVED. Suit to ENtnlillMh it Fourth Codicil to lnycMveiither' Will. NEW YORK. Jan. 7. A suit has just been brought In the Supremo Court to establish a fourth codicil of tho will of Daniel li. Fayerweather. Those who bring it through William Blalkle, are John B. Reynolds, as sole executor of the will of Mrs. Lucy Fayerweather, widow of the millionaire merchant; his wife, Anncr AmelU Reynolds, Emma S. Fayerweather and Mary Wachter. They allege that provision was made for them In this fourth codicil, and that, if certain iortlons of tho will are dcclareel Invalid by the Court of Appeals, they will bo entitled to about J2.ryn,Ooo.from the estate. The charge Is made that there "was a conspiracy to keep tho contents of the codicil concealed so as to prevent the paper from being probated. It is alleged that bequests were made in the coelicll to those who have brought this action, and that it "further provident that after his said wife and his heirs aforesaid should be fully satisfied, the residue of his estate should be divided among the colleges named in the ninth clause of his will." By the third codicil, which has been admitted to probate. Miss Anner Amelia Joyce, who was a sister of Mrs. Fayerweather. was to have an annuity of $U0 a year for life, which was to cease on her marriage. She married John B. Reynolds, and the annuity ceased. It Is declared that by the. codicil this restriction was removed. By the terms of her will Mrs. Fayerweather gave the residue of her estate to Mrs. Reynolds. Mrs. Reynolds insists that, succeeding to the rights of Mrs. Fayerweather, she will be entitled to about $1.5W.OO0 from the Fayerweather estate If this destroyed codicil is established nd certain parts of of the will of Mr. Fayerweather are declared inoperative. The purpose f this suit is to compel the production of the draft of the codicil In court. It is suppofe-d that it was this fourth codicil that was burned in the kitchen range of Mr. Fayerweather a house at about 4 o'clock on the afternoon f his death. This new litigation in all probability will prevent any distribution of Mr. Fayefweather's millions until ufter tho litigation brought by the colleges interested in his will is passed on by the Court of Appeals. EZ ETA'S LAST HOPE GONE The Exiled I'resltlent Cannot Nov Return to Snltor. OAKLAND. Cal.. Jan. 7. General Kzcta, the exiled President of the republic of Salvador, has hael one more- bitter dreg to his cup of happiness the published report of the cancellation of the papers of the consul general of the republic of Honduras, Salvador and Nicaragua and the issuance of papers to his sworn enemy. Dr. Calderon. as consul genera! of the three united republics. These facts mean that Ezeta's last hope of returning to Salvador and being received by his faithful peoplo will never Ik reallzeel. "I look upon tho whole matte r." said the general, as he paced uneasily up and down in his reom in the Caitndo hotel, "as a great tarce. The unification f those thre republics has all been ace crnpiished by their respective gov-, ernnunts without ever submitting the eiuestion to the p-ple. There is a motive lor it. and before long the money Under a of this country and Kurope will discover It. These three bankrupt republics hae simply baneit-d together lor mutual strength and for the purpose f presenting to the world an appearance of solidity and stability, so they will be enabled to tlout some heavy le-ans under the tutse or making permanent improvement vnd eleveloping the greater republic of Central America." LYNCHING IN GEORGIA. Anthony Ilmlernon Hanged for Murder untl Attempted Criminal AmmuiiII. UNAD1LLA. Oa.. Jan. 7.-Anthony Henelerson has be-e-n lynched for assassinating George Sumner and attempting u jsault his daughter. Henderson was ontlnd In the town barrack awaiting removal to tho county Jail at Vienna. At the preliminary bearing yesterday be- made a full inn. fe-ssiou of the crime. Last night lie was ta.ken from Jail anil hanged in the streets of the town. Nothing was known oi' it by the citizens until they awoke to find hi body elangdng from a tree In the street. The crime for which he was lynched was committcd on ihe night of Dec. 27. Sumner, who was an edd man. lived alone with his daughter. Henderson ilrt set tire to the barn and shot the old man as he came out of the house. He then attempted to assault the girl, who put up such a plucky te sitance that Henderson was frightened otf. leaving hl gun and pistol in lur p--sessHn. These weapons tcel to his identification.