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THE DAILY JOURNAL WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1897. Washington Office—f£o3 Pennsylvania Avenue Telephone t all*. Business Office 238 I Editorial Rooms...A 86 TERMS OF 81 BSCBHTIOX. _ DAILY BY MAIL. Dally only, one month 9 -70 Dally only, three months 2.00 Daily only, one year....* 8.00 Dally, Including Sunday, one year 10.00 Sunday only, one year 2.00 WHEN YURNISHED BY AGENTS. Dally, per week, by carrier 1? cts Sunday, single copy *> cts Dally and Sunday, per week, by carrier.....2o cts „ WEEKLY. „ Rednced itatex to Clubs. Subscribe with any o£ our numerous agents or •end subscriptions to THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, ImiiaiiupoliM, lml. Persons sending the Journal through the malls In the United Mates should put on an eight-page Pager a ONE-ChM postage stamp; on a twelve or sixteen-page paper a TWO-CENT postage stamp. Foreign postage is usually double these rates. All communications intended for publication in this paper muijt, in order to receive attention, be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. If it is desired that rejected manuscripts be returned, postage must in ail cases be inclosed lor that puppose. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL _ Can be found at the following places: NEW YORK—Windsor Hotel and Astor House. CHICAGO—PaImer House and P. O. News Cos., 217 Dearborn street. CINCINNATI—J. R. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Peering, northwest corner of Third and Jefterson streets, and Louisville Book Cos., 255 Fourth avenue. BT. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot. Washington, and. cv-Riggs House, Ebbitt Hsjttse, Willard’s Hotel and the Washington News Exchange. Fourteenth street, between Penn, avenue and F street. It was a beautiful fall day yesterday. There Is still something to live for. The end of the Luetgert trial is in sight. Tlyj "silver push” dropped out of existence yesterday, voting solidly for Mayor Taggart. The Journal hopes that Mayor Taggart will start In to correct the errors of his last two years. Mr. Taggart was talked of last night as the next Governor of Indiana by his enthusiastic friends. The Park Commission should now 1 ask the court to amend its petition to conform to its amended record.

The smile was in good form last night, but the halo is ruined. The Sentinel must make up its mind to take a second part as a Taggart organ. It should do so with good grace. The Dingley law has already done a world of good for the country, and Its effect is felt in every part of the land. Quite a largo number of Republicans did not vote yesterday. It is hoped that they will not have occasion to regret their nonaction during the next two years. An impertinent questioner w ants to know how gold can be “rapidly appreciating,” as Bryan says It is, when he gets the same fixed price for repeating his one stale lecture. The News will rise up and claim that it did it, and the corporations and the liquor interests will be perfectly willing that it shall assume the credit of the Taggart triumph. The reports from Maryland indicate that Senator Gorman will be beaten in his canvass for United States senator. In his defeat the Democrats in the Senate will lose their ablest leader. A conclusive argument against electing Henry George mayor of Greater New York should bo that he “has never held an executive office or given any evidence that fie possesses the least executive ability.” Os course the Democratic leaders wili claim that national issues have had an influence upon the result of yesterday. Make the tariff and sound money the issues, and a month hence the Republicans would carry the city. Senator Teller, of Colorado, in a speech on Saturday, declared That he is now an out-and-out Populist. Other former Republicans masquerading as silver Republicans should take notice and follow the example of their leader. ‘ 1 t r Up to the recent campaign Mr. C. P. Smith was supposed to be a gentleman. The false and libelous charges against several reputable gentlemen which were published in his campaign paper on the eve of the election will cause a reversion of this opinion. The city election in greater New York is a mammoth affair. If each party that is In the field had a candidate for each office there would be nearly 1,600 candidates running, but as some parties indorse the candidates of other parties the number is reduced to about 1,000. There is said to be $6,000,000 in gold on the way from Europe to New York, anu those who are in position to judge predict that an average of $5,000,000 a week will be received for the next two'months. So much for having a money standard in common with the commercial world. It is said that Secretary of Agriculture Wilson in his annual report will ask Congress to provide for the appointment of persons to represent the Agricultural Department at the important foreign legations. Sure enough. We have military attaches and naval attaches and why not agricultural attaches? Mr. Charles F. Smith lias made himself the harlequin of the municipal campaign. If he had not dropped his name from the last issue of his paper, slandering tile publishers of three newspapers, and they cared to do so, they could relieve him of some of that wealth of which he makes such a vulgar show. The gold output thus far this year indicates a total cf $71,300,000, and with Klondike of $80,000,000, or one-third of the yield of the world for 1897. A total of $240,000,000 for 1897 Is $35,000,000 in excess of the product of last year, and is about two and a half times the yield of 1887. All of which goes to prove that there is certain to be gold enough for the basis of the money of commerce. Mr. Yerkes, the Chiqago street-railroad magnate, has just returned from Europe, where he made a special study of the streetrailway systems in many cities. He says that as a rule the roads in this country give better service, faster transportation, cheaper fares and longer rides for one fare than those on the other side. In Glasgow, whore the plant is owned and operated by the city, and which haa been so much talked about, the railway* are operated, by

horse power, and Mr. Yerkes says the service does not compare with that in the principal cities of this country. THE DEFEAT AND ITS CAUSES. The plurality of Mayor Taggart is very large: but when the influences which were at work for him are considered the result should not surprise any one. For some reasons which have yet to be explained, but which will probably be apparent as time passes, all of the large corporations have been working in Mayor Taggart’s interest, and yesterday their officials and agents were active in rallying votes for him. The foreign magnates of the Citizens’ Streetrailroad, acting through local officials, organized their employes for the Taggart ticket. The same is true of the gas corporations—their officers have never worked in an election as they did yesterday. The railroads, the street railway, the gas compar nits when they set themselves to the task can rally several thousand voters. The liquor interest was solid and enthusiastic for Mr. Taggart. Nearly every saloon was a recruiting office for Taggart. All the brewing interests, which were at war a few weeks ago, united their influence and money for Mr. Taggart. Many contractors under the power of the administration did all they could to swell the Taggart vote. Nearly half of the colored vote went to Mr. Taggart, many being persuaded that Republicans could hold their party allegiance and yet vote for Mr. Taggart. The Taggart people had an abundance of money, which was used by men who are experts. It also appears that quite a large number of good men who have no sympathy with Taggartism, for some cause which Is not apparent, voted for Mr. Taggart. The Republicans who were in the canvass were not unaware of the activity of the agencies here named, but they had good* reason to believe that the exposures of the past two weeks would bring to the support of the Republican ticket taxpayers who favor clean and business-like administration. The exposures came too late; the corporations and the liquor interest and those who want a free-and-easy town had completed their work. Mr. Harding and his friends made a manly and open canvass, discussing the issues before the people and exposing the weakness of Mr. Taggart’s administration. People admitted the force of the reasons why Mr. Taggart should not be re-elected, and yet voted for him. It is a repetition of the campaign of two years ago, except that Air. Taggart had the influence of corporations which took no hand in the municipal election in 1895. Considering the aid which the corporations gave Mr. Taggart this year and the "pulls” his friends have had through their hold on the city government, he is not stronger- than two years ago. As the result of 1895 had no influence upon national politics in 1596, so the balloting of yesterday will not greatly affect the result next year, when the issues will be national.

INDIANA’S LUMBER INTERESTS. The current number of the Northwestern Lumberman, a publication devoted exclusively to lumber interests, has a carefully prepared article on lumber interests of Indiana. Few persons are aware of the extent of these. Nature has been most kind to the State in many respects, endowing it lavishly with agricultural and mineral resources, with rich deposits of coal, natural gas, oil, building stone, fine clays, etc., but in nothing was she more generous than in her original gift of forests. Considering the extent of these and the variety and quality of the trees they contained it is safe to say that Indiana was originally the best timbered State in the Union. On this point the Nt rthwestern Lumberman says: Maine was famous for its pine; there was and is a diversity of hard and soft woods in all the Eastern States; Pennsylvania is great for its hemlock and cherry; Michigan, Wisconsin and north Minnesota for white and norway pine; Ohio for oak, ash, hickory, sycamore and other woods, and it is a near rival with Indiana in these particulars; Kentucky, Tennessee and the Virginias are well timbered with excellent hardwoods; the gulf States and Arkansas are famous for pine and cypress, and the Pacific coast States for the biggest timber on the continent, but when it comes to a clean, long-bodied, superlative qualitied and all-abounding growth of oak, ash, hickory, walnut and sycamore, Indiana is chief of them all. And the greatest of these woods is oak, the king of the forests. “Indiana oak” is the synonym of all excellence in that most important of American woods; and the pity of it is that the greater supply has been cut off and marketed in a period of the country's history before any adequate apprehension of its future value was realized. There are old settlers still living who can confirm all that is here said concerning the magnificent growth ot hardwood trees originally found here, and unfortunately their descendants can bear testimony to the recklessness with which tne forests have been destroyed with no attempt to replace them. Not that our timber supply has been wholly destroyed; there is enough hardwood timber still left to supply our factories for a number of years, but the supply might have lasted very much longer had it not been so recklessly and wastefully drawn upon. True, it has contributed in no small degree to the maintenance of important manufacturing industries, thereby increasing the wealth of the State, but the fact remains that in clearing up the land and even in later years a vast amount of valuable timber was sacrificed without any return. Probably but few persons are aware of the extent to which Indiana’s timber enters into its manufacturing industries. The discovery of natural gas and later of oil were great events in the industrial history of the State, and their influence has been very marked. But our forests we have had with us all the time, and if their discovery has not been as widely exploited as that of other resources, their influence has been no less marked. On this point we quote again from the Lumberman: • The timber resources of Indiana have greatly contributed to her progress in the industries. They furnished the means for developing a line of manufactures which have built up the numerous thriving towns and cities in the State, and made the commonwealth industrially famous. Indiana’s products of wood include a. wide range, the Itemizing of which would require more space than can be allotted to it here. One of the leading industries that can be mentioned, however, aside from the sawing of rough lumber, is the conversion of oak. hickory and ash into dimension forms for wagon, agricultural implements, various machines and numerous uses in a variety of manufacture. Indiana is pre-eminently the leading State in this branch of wood conversion, and the product is shipped to all parts of the country and the world. It has grown up naturally because an abundant supply of most excellent materia! was at hand all over the State. Naturally the application of this dimension and specifically shaped wood in further manufacture became general. Probably no other region of the country has so many thriving towns, where manufacture in wood is the basis of prosperity, as the State of Indiana. A tabulated statement of the wood industries of the State, compiled from the census of 1890, exclusive of logging, shows that there were at that time 2,239 wood manufacturing establishments which gave employment to 31.201 persons, paid out $11,779,320 yearly in wages, consumed $21,565.898 worth of materials, and turned out $42,863,749 worth of Droducts. No other

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single industry in the State can compare with this except agriculture. The value of the lumber product in 1890 was about 20 per cent, of the total value of all manufactures. It is fair to assume that the foregoing figures would show a considerable increase since 1890, though a portion of that time has been a period of great business depression. Comparing the report of the wood industry in 1890 with that of 1880, it appears that within that period the number of employes increased from 20,466 to 31,201. over 50 per cent.; the wages paid increased from $5,597,112 to $11,779,320, over 100 per cent., and the value of the product increased from $31,163,458 to $42.563,749, less than 4C per cent. This shows that the workmen’s wages increased in a much larger proportion than did the manufacturers’ profits. The poor are not growing poorer. A QUESTION FOR CASUISTS. The case of Mrs. Atkinson, wife of Governor Atkinson, of West Virginia, who is now on trial for forgery, may become celebrated in more senses than one. It is already so in the fact that a woman of high social position, beautiful, wealthy, refined and educated, is charged with committing a penitentiary offense. She is charged with having forged the name of her second husband, Judge Camden, Governor Atkinson being her third husband. He is a man of high character, a church member and Sunday school teacher. As Mrs. Atkinson was under indictment when he married her, in June last, it may be inferred either that he believes her innocent or that he is very much in love with her—perhaps both. All these circumstances tend to make the case oelebrated, but it may become more so if she is convicted, because then there will occur a conflict between love and justice such as probably never occurred before. The question, then, will be whether the Governor will let the law take its course or pardon his wife. No novelist or dramatist ever conceived a more trying situation than this would be. Asa husband the Governor would be bound to stand by his wife, come weal or woe, while as an official he is bound to do his duty by the State. If his wife, after a fair trial, is found guilty, will he dare to go behind the verdict of a jury and pardon her for purely personal reasons? Some who know him think that rather than suffer his young wife to go to prison he would pardon her and with the same penful of ink write his resignation. But he cannot do that without making a record. The Constitution of West Virginia has a peculiar provision regarding the pardoning power. It says: The Governor shall have power to remit fines and penalties in such cases and under such regulations as may be prescribed by the law; to commute capital punishment, and, except where the prosecution has been carried on by the House of Delegates, to grant reprieves and pardon after conviction; but he shall communicate to the Legislature at each session the particulars of every case of fine or penalty remitted or punishment commuted and of reprieve or pardon granted, with his reasons therefor.

Under this provision the Governor must communicate the reasons for a pardon to the Legislature. That adds to the embarrassment of his situation. The circumstances are so peculiar that the New York World wired to the Governors of other States asking their opinion as to the ethics of the case. Governor Mount replied: "A Governor has no legal right to extend clemency to his w ife any more than to any one else.” It is quite clear what the Governor intended to say, yet he does not say it quite clearly. Asa matter of fact, a Governor has a legal right to issue a pardon in any case for reasons satisfactory to himself, the responsibility always being his. Evidently Governor Mount meant that the fact that a convict was a Governor’s wife should not count in her favor in an application for pardon. Governor Stephens, of Missouri, took a sentimental view of the case. He replied; "No true man with the pardoning power would allow* his wife to remain in prison unless he was anxious to get rid of her.” This seems to ignore the idea of official duty entirely. However it may be viewed the case is a most embarrassing one. Let us hope the lady may be honorably acquitted. Hon. Chauncey M. Depew is celebrated as a story teller, and, like most of the class, be edits his stories so as to make them as effective as possible. In his eulogy of Commodore Vanderbilt, at Nashville, he told how, during the war, a delegation of bankers and capitalists from New York went to Washington to ask the government to take prompt measures for the protection of that city against the rebel ironclad Alerrimac. After describing their interview with President Lincoln Air. Depew continued : Air. Lincoln hesitated a moment and then said, with a shrug of his awkward shoulders: "We have no funds in the treasury, not much credit and no warships that I know of now which can stand against the Merrimac, but if I had as much money as you say you possess and was as skeered as you seem to be I would go back home and find means of taking care of my property.” The two expressions which give point to this story are the one about "the shrug of his aw'kward shoulders” and the use of the word "skeered” for scared. These out, the anecdote would have lost most of its picturesqueness, and that is something which a professional story teller never allows. Yet they should have been left out. Mr. Lincoln’s shoulders were not more awkward than those of all men rather tall and spare, and he was not in the habit of shrugging them, especially on serious occasions, such as this was. Above all, he never would have said "skeered” for scared unless he was telling a story that required it. The man who wrote the Gettysburg address knew good English too well to use such an expression in a serious interview with a delegation of New* Yorkers. Dr. Depew has done Mr. Lincoln injustice. A dispatch from Eldorado, Kan., says that a farmer came into one of the banks of that city a few days ago and told the cashier he wanted to pay a $1,500 mortgage which the bank held on his farm. The cashier looked it up, and, finding that it was drawing 9 per cent, interest and w*as not due till next February, told the farmer he would have to let it run till maturity. The farmer argued the matter, but the cashier w*as obdurate. Finally the farmer laid $1,500 on the counter and, draw ing a revolver, told the cashier he was going to pay that mortgage right then and there. The argument was conclusive and the mortgage was paid. The colossal monument to Tubal Cain to be erected at Pittsburg will be a very suitable and appropriate memorial. It is not probable that Air. Cain lived in the neighborhood of Pittsburg, but had he preempted a quarter section there he would have found every facility for carrying on his specialty Considering the number of his descendants settled thereabouts, however, it must be said that the oftl man has had to w*nit a long time for honors. A writer in the New York Tribune who signs himself "Ex-Attache” says that "No I Christian or Hebrew has ever been per-

mitted to cross the threshold of this mosque or to view these tombs, with the solitary exception of the Prince of Wales,” referring to the mosque covering the tomb of Abraham. General and Mrs. Lew Wallace were accorded this privilege while he was minister to Turkey. An Eastern exchange has a long and thrilling account of Peary’s "capture” of the big meteorite. Inasmuch as Air. Peary caught the monster, clipped its wings and lashed it to an iceberg when he was up north two years ago there was not much clanger of its getting away from him this trip. Washington may, as the correspondents aver, be wildly excited over the romantic rescue of Alias Cisneros by a newspaper man, but the excitement does not extend this far West. Out here people have other things to think of. • According to a New York dramatic paper Shakspeare is about to enjoy a boom. Another evidence of returning prosperity under a Republican administration. BUBBLES IN THE AIR. Very Jealous. "Barber’s wife is little jealous, I hear.” "A little? Why, she won’t even let him look at a corset advertisement.” The Cornfed Philosopher. “Lovers’ quarrels,” said the Cornfed Philosopher, "are the sham battles that are useful as training for the matrimonial field.” Fair Play. He—lt is strange you women don’t wear those horribly big hats in church. She—But it would not be fair. The men have no chance to get even by going out between the acts in church. Quibbling;. Watts—l suppose, you would not think betting wrong, if you happened to put your money on the winning horse. Potts—The betting w*ould not be wrong, but I feel something would be wrong about it, or I couldn’t win. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. In Norway, people who are not vaccinated are not allowed to vote at an election. A play entitled "Pharaoh,” written in French by Oscar Wilde, is to be produced in Paris at the Theater de l’Oeuvre during the winter. The father, of Anthony Hope Hawkins, the popular romantic novelist, who is to lecture in this country for a few weeks, is Rev. E. C. Hawkins, vicar of St. Bride’s, Fleet street, London. There is special fitness in the appointment of Lawrence Washington, of Alexandria, Va., as assistant in the national library, in charge of the George Washington department. He is a great-grandnephew of tiie father of the rest of the country. A clergyman, sorely tried by a dozing majority of his audience, stopped speaking. When they all awoke, then he said: "Aly friends, this sermon cost me a good deal of labor and I do not think you have paid it the attention it deserves; I shall, therefore, go over it again.” And he did. Edouard de Reszke tells an interviewer that nothing in America surprised him so much as the objection to having American girls marry titled foreigners merely because the foreigners do not work. He fails to see why there should be any insistence on work for its own sake, when there is plenty of money without it. Novelist W. D. Howells, who is now in Paris homeward bound from a German tour, said, the other day; “I think in Holland you feel the atmosphere of a former republic. The Dutch seem a very free people. and. England excepted, I think one feels more at home there than in any other country in Europe.” Black bears are getting scarce in the Yellowstone Park, and Dr. W. A. Croffut, who has just returned from a trip there, has entered a protest with’the Interior Department against the suggestion of Superintendent Young that the black bear in the park be diminished in numbers by being captured and given to museums. Miss Leonora Jackson, the young American violiniste, who has just won the muchcoveted music prize known as the Alondelssohn stipendium, formerly resided in Chicago. She was sent to Berlin by Airs. Grover Cleveland and other ladies then in Washington, in order to study musie under Joachim. This is the first occasion upon which the prize, amounting to 1,500 marks, has been won by an American. Andrew Carnegie came to this country from Scotland a poor lad. His new Scottish estate, Skibo, contains twenty thousand acres, with a frontage of fourteen mil. s on Dornock firth, a fine salmon river, besides several smaller streams, one of the best grouse moors in Scotland, and a fine modernized castle, the traditions of which run hack to the beginnings of the country. Scotland is a fine land—for a rich man to come back to. A Philadelphia theatrical manager, who was brought into close relations with Airs. Langtry during her first American tour, declares that her husband followed her from city to city, watching her every movement, and that every precaution had to be taken to prevent him from killing at least one of his wife’s many admirers. It is understood that a sensational tragedy was narrowly averted at the hotel at which she stopped on her first visit to Philadelphia. The manager referred to insists that Mr. Langtry adored his beautiful w*ife. and that the worriment to which he has been subjected by the attentions paid to her by other admirers has led to his mental aberration. Don’t go meeting trouble, Adding to your load. For it li.ay go sneaking Up some other road. Greet the present pleasure, Shun the future woe; Seek the golden sunshine, Let the shadows go. —Pittsburgg Chroniele-Telefraph. I admired her beauty rare, praised her pretty Titian hair, Spoke in raptures of her eyes so bright and laughing, Os her dress so nice and neat, and her smile so killin'* sweet, And assured her that it was no idle chaffing. Then her little brotner dear sprung a grin from ear to ear, And despite her head and finger shaking warning, Cried aloud: "Oh, she’s all right! She looks mighty slick to-night, But, great Scot! you’d ought to see her in the morning:” —Denver Post.

ORIGIN OP THE POSTAGE STAMP. Curious Incident 'Which Caused n Revolution iu the Postul Service. Philadelphia Record. The incident which resulted in the invention of the postage stamp was a curious one. A trar-eler journeying through the north of England chanced to reach the door of an inn just as a postman stopped to deliver a letter. The young girl for whom it was intended came out to receive it. She turned it over and over in her hands and asked the price of the postage. The price demanded was a shilling, and as the girl was poor she returned it to the postman, saying that it was from her brother, but that she had not that amount of money. The traveler in spite of her protest, paid the money to the postman and handed the letter to the girl. When the postman departed the young girl admitted that she and her brother had arranged by certain marks upon the letter that the other should know that the writer was in good health and prospering. “We are so poor,” she added, “that we forced to invent this way of letting each other know of our welfare.” The travel r continued on his way asking himself if a system giving rise to such frauds was ro a vicious one. The sun had not set. before Roland Hill (such was the traveler’s name) had planned to organize the postal service on anew bass. 1 is views found favor with the English governmi nt, and on Jan. 10. 1840, the first postage stamp was issued and a postal system started by which not more than a penny was paid for letters which circulated over the whole extent of the British Isles. This bold scheme surpassed the wildest hopes of the legislators. Ten years later, in 1850. the number of letters increased from 1,500,000 to 7,239,962.

THE HERO OF THE FORGE TUBAL-CAIN AND THE PROPOSED HONORING OF HIS MEMORY. First Conning; Artificer In the Industry That Hns Made Pittsburg Famous Throughout the Laud. Chicago Times-Herald. Tubal-cain liv’ed and did his work while the world was young. He died and was gathered to his fathers and the world forgot him, save where he was remembered in tradition and tale by the elders of the race as they dozed away their declining years. But the work that he had started continued to become a greater and greater factor in the life of the myriads of human beings who have followed him. And now, when the world was old and weary Tubalcain is to have a monument such as he deserves—a towering structure of brass and iron tn the one city in all the world where brass and iron reign supreme in industry. Tubal-cain will stand as the hero of the forge, swinging his hammer and portraying to all the world the giant life of iron. The, hero of the forge. Well is he so called. In the book of Genesis it is written that he was the “instructor of every artificer in brass and iron.” In the Talmud he is described as the “furbisher of every cutting instrument of copper and iron." He was the first man to handle molten metal and form it to his purpose, the first man to make weapons of iron, the first man to prepare the way for the sharpening of the plowshare. He was the forerunner of all that great industry which furnishes every year the metal skeleton for the huge structures of commerce and business. Very properly, Tubal-cain is chosen as their patron by the societies of foundrymen and of engineers of Pittsburg. Very properly they have chosen to honor his memory with a statue which at the same time celebrates their own achievements and those of the industry to which they belong. Very properly they have chosen to place the statue where it can be seen by all who approach the city of forges, and where it will become the symbol of that city, as the great statue of Liberty is the symbol of this country to strangers sailing for the first time into the country’s greatest harbor, and as the statue of Minerva on the Acropolis was the symbol of culture and of art to all who made their pilgrimage to glorious Athens. Tubal-cain, a giant in bronze, will stand at the junction of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers. Besides him, on the monster pedestal of iron and steel, will be his great anvil, upon which he is in the act of raining blows with his hammer of might. Simple in conception, powerful in effect, the monument will mean more than if it involved the thousands of details with which the industry of iron is now carried on to the benefit of the human race.

PRIMAL IDEA REPRESENTED. And in truth the blows that Tubai struck on his anvil meant more for the race than all the subtleties of invention that have followed in the expansion of the primal idea. Tubal-cain’s was the great conception, the central idea from which all the others have sprung. His hearth lire, his simple furnace, were the seeds of all others, down even to those of the Carnegies and the other iron giants of the present day. It matters not whether we venture to be doubtiul whether Tubal-cain, the individual, the hero of the fourth chapter of Genesis, the descendant of Adam in the sixth generation, ever existed. It matters not that we look upon his name as the mere symbol for some far-off race of men from whom the Hebrews first learned the arts of iron and of brass—a race so far olf that its separate members all sank into a vague identity in the mind of tho early scriptural chronicler. Tubal-cain is still the great heio of primitive industry. Though he were at the start but an offspring of the fancy of the writer of Genesis, it was inspired fancy that gave him birth, and he has become a reality in the early history of the world. To the early Hebrews Tubal-cain is what Hephaestus was to the Greeks, and Vulcan to the Romans, and Dwalinn to the Scandinavians. The Telchines of Rhodes, who, according to Strabo, were the first workers in copper and iron, are his representatives, and the men of the race of Tubal in Scythia, repeatedly mentioned in the Bible, and told of as famous coppersmiths, are sometimes spoken of as his descendants, and all of these names, with the one exception of Hephaestus, are traced by philologists to a common origin. The simple omission of the first syllable from Tubal-cain gives Baicain. a word very similar to Vulcan. The name Telchines, when passed through a simple series of phonetic changes, very common in the passage of words from one country to another, becomes similar in appearance, and though Dwalinn seems further away from the original root, it, too, can have its history made clear to the men who know the languages and their development. Thus the same Tubal-cain that is the hero of the Hebrews is the hero of many other races as well, and the sounds in his name, even though changed to some extent have been common property for thousands of years over all the territory occupied by Semitic and Aryan races. All the more is he fitted by this to be patron of the modern w'orkers in iron and in brass. Tubal-cain appeared on earth, to follow biblical chronology, about the year 3ioo B. C He was the son of Lamech, w 7 ho was the son of Methusael, who was the son of Mfehujael, who was the son of Irad, who was the son of Enoch, who was the son of Cain, the son of Adam. It is well, indeed, that he is placed away back in the beginning of time Little history could the race have made before he had done his work. Hitting each other with clubs, stirring the earth with sharpened sticks in place of plows, scrambling and clawing and burrowing like, beasts, the men of those days must have spent their time. HIS FIRST WORKS. Then came Tubal-cain—man or race. He made a hammer of iron, with which, rude and clumsy though it was, he could pound harder than anybody else. All the others, when they had learned of him, followed his example. He tipped a lance with iron and became invincible in war and unexcelled at the chase. He fashioned a plowshare, and whenever anybody had time to till the ground he offered thanks to Tubal-cain for lightening his laoors. Perhaps he fashioned a naii, that first of things little to conquer things big. . . „ .. Tubal-cain’s work was carried from the far east, where he had wrought it among his barba-ian folk, to the west, where the descendants of Seth, the good son of Adam, were living. They were carried into Europe and into Asia. After thousands of years they came to America. Everywhere his ideas and simple accomplishments were enlarged and widened and improved. Every - where they furnished the basis for the whole system of human operations upon nature and for much that men did toward their fellow-men. , . Now in these last days the industry of Tubal-cain is greater than It ever was before It is centralized in huge works. From its furnaces goes forth the material that makes possible the railroads of the land. It constructs the mammoth buildings of. the modern city, and gives the color to modern architecture. It makes the stoves and furnaces which gives us heat. It provides the pans and dishes to cook our food. Its products are part and parcel of every operation which we carry on, and without it the whole system of modern industry would be impossible. Now', sad to say, despite the great achievements in the arts of peace that have flowed from his works. Tubal-cain was himself a man of war. He came of the race of Cain. He had nothing to do with the holy patriarchs except to fight them. The Bible has nothing to say in his favor. He was a broiler and a fighter, and a man of general bad habits. It was even told in legend by the writers of the Talmud that he w'as the first man to ferment the juice of grapes, and that when he had drunk of the product he proceeded to dance a weird and awful dance to the twanging of his brother Jubal’s harp, which he had stolen for the occasion and was inspired to handle as Jubal himself had never handled it. Tubal-cain was a strong man. too. Legend says that he could overthrow a dozen of his fellows in personal combat, and he was equally as mighty a hunter as a fighter. Indeed, if he had not been strong lie would never have been the successful hammerswinger and forgemaster that he was. Probably if Tubal had not had all his bad habits and taken such a strong interest in getting new and improved methods of killing men, he would never have done the work for the world that he did. It was spear heads and lance tips w'ith him first of all. and then other things could come tn their own good time. But nobody can be found now to blame him for his personal

habits, as the harm that he did is dead and the good has lived long after him. Nobody can even be found to say that it is for his characteristics as a man of might and a power in the land that he has neen chosen patron by the iron kings of Pennsylvania rather than for his accomplishments at the forge itself. It can be truthfully said of Tubal-cain that he was the first man to make a name for himself. Adam’s name Is well enough known, but that Is partly because of his prominent position at the head of the family and partly because he was the first person to get into trouble, and not for his own merits. Cain also achieved notoriety for his accidental discovery about the duration of human life and for the horn he wore on his forehead, but he can hardly be given much credit for either of those. Tubalcain, on the other hand, was distinctly a self-made man. As to Tubai-cain’s family history, there is not much that can be said. According to the Talmud his father, old Lamech. was not himself a man of the best reputation. He had two wives, and he didn’t seem to think much of his children. When his father had become blind Tubal-cain took hirn walking one day and showed him what he said was a wild beast to shoot at. The beast proved to be Cain, and when Lamech found what he had done he got so excited that in his wrath, the story goes, he killed or seriously wounded his s®n. Then he sang the first song of which biblical history has any record, and it was a song of anger and revenge rather than of repentance and sorrow. Tubal-cain had two brothers. One of them was Jabal. who was the father of such cs dwell in tents, and the other was Juba!, the father of such as play the harp 'and organ. But Tubal-cain didn’t think much of them or their pursuits. They were not in his line. A MILLION TEETOTALERS. What 50,000 People Are Going to Do In u Day. London Daily Mail. The attempt is to be made to secure one million teetotalers in one day. It is to be undertaken by some fifty thousand men and women, and the date fixed for this interesting event is Saturday, Oct. 16. The probability is that comparatively few persons know that next Lord Mayor's day is the fiftieth anniversary of the nrst Band of Hope meeting ever held in this country, and it is os a fitting ceiebrat.on of tnis great temperance jubilee that thousands of men and women are going to try to get one million more adherents to their cause. Yorkshire people are proud of toe fact that this first Bund of Hope meeting was held in Leeds. Everybody knows of the rivalry that exists In aimost everything between the Tykes and the sister county of Lancashire. The “seven men of Preston” will always go down to fame as the pioneers of temperance reform so tar as men aid women are concerned, but the land of the White Rose claims equality with the Red Rose in consideration of the fact that t e Band of Hope was formed at Leeds. Many think that the Tykes have greater cause tor congratulation, Inasmuch as 'he youthful abstainers greatly outnumber the adult-. On the Band of Hope jubilee day monster demonstrations are to be held and the crusade to-day fortnight for one mi'.l on more teetotallers is in order that its sucre s —if it succeeds—may be announced when the rejoicings take place. The attempt is to be made in a quiet way—not by buttonholing people in the street, but by the persistent door-to-door canvass of the fifty thousand workers who have pledged themselves to get this one miilioo more. , It is believed that every house in the land will be visited on the Saturday in question. Os course, if the parents will sign the pledge, so much the better from the teetotaler’s point of view. But the great idea is to get lathers and mothers to allow their child en to becoms total abstainers. The gieat sv.ee ss of ih- 1 Band of Hope movement in the past has been largely owing to the tact that children are seldom admitt' and without the wu'itten consent of their paren s o guardians, and it is hoped to g t th - l.iOl.OtXt on these lines. Each of the 50 000 workers will be allotted a certain district, and it will be his or her duty to visit even 7 home in that district and plead for recruits. Those organizing the cr, sade are very sanguine as to its favorable termination, because an attempt some years ago on a much smaller scale was crowned with success. If such proves to be the case, there will be no less than 4 OOj 000 juvenile abstainers in the country. “T< rr.p ranee Sunday’’ has been an institution lor many years, but this year It is to be observ'd more than ever. Nearly every cath dral, church and chapel in the lar d' will ho and special sere ices, the preachers including the Archbishop of Canterbury, most of the bishops, and all the leading Noncomformist ministers. The arch--1 ishop will preach at St. Paul's Cathedral, while a similar service, with a special pr- acher, will take place in Westminster Abbey.

THE MONETARY COMMISSION. Indorsement ot tle Selections Made by the Executive Committee. Boston Journal. One important factor in the solution of the problem of currency revision to which Congress can look for safe and strong help is the admirable monetary commission selected by the executive committee of the Indianapolis monetary convention. This notable gathering did not merely listen to a number of excellent speeches and adopt some excellent resolutions, and then go home, leaving the real work of currency reform to the national administration and to Congress. It took measures to keep arolling the ball which it had started. The convention authorized Mr. H. H. Hanna, the chairman of its executive committee, to appoint a commission to prepare a definite measure of reform. Mr. Hanna has done his work well. He has secured a commission in which all sections of the country and both great political parties are represented by men of conspicuous ability, ripe business experience and conservative judgment. Ex-Senator George F. Edmunds heads the list. Ex-Secretary Charles S. Fairchild is the leading spokesman of the honestmoney Democracy. The other members of the commission are: Charles Stewart Patterson, one of the most eminent lawyers and financiers of Philadelphia: Judge Robert S. Taylor, a distinguished lawyer of Fort Wayne, Ind.; Stuyvesant Fish, president of the. great Illinois Central Railroad: W. B. Dean, president ot the St. Paul Board of Trade; T. G. Bush, of Mobile, a Southern merchant and iron manufacturer; John W. Fries, of North Carolina, a cotton and w’oolen manufacturer; George F.. Leighton, of St. Louis, a lawyer and financier; Louis A. Garnett, of San Francisco, and Prof. J. L. Laughlin, of the Chicago University. A commission of broader makeup could not be desired. It is understood that it has the cordial indorsement of President McKinley and Secretary Gage, and it will probably report the results of its deliberations directly to Congress, although the Indianapolis convention may first be reconvened to give the findings Its formal sanction. The Republican party has fulfilled Its pledge of tariff reform. It must now go on to complete Its other task of a thorough revision of our currency system. The business men of the country desire and expect this, and they are not going to be disappointed. The work of this commission is sure to prove -of valuable assistance to the responsible heads of the government in Washington. THE BROWN UNIVERSITY INCIDENT. Summary of the Principle* Andrew*’* Return Ha* Established. “Graduate,” in New York Evening Post. The verdict has been rendered (so far as Brown University can render it), and the incident is clcsed. It remains only to ask what principles have been established by the logic of events. 1. It has been settled that the president of a college has the liberty of advocating any views he may please, no matier how harmful these views are to the State, in the opinion of the best part of the community and of the friends of the college. Not only is it his right to proclaim these views, but it is the duty of the college to furnish him a platform and a salary while he Is giving to his views the authority derived from his official position. To seek to dissuade him, however gently, from his course is to violate “academic liberty.” 2. If a portion of the faculty are dissatisfied with any action of the corporation of a college it is their right, and Is quite consistent with loyalty to the institution, for them to spend the long vacation in creating by every means a public opinion by which the overawed members of the corporation shall be Induced to retrace their steps. 3. It is the right of a few college presidents (let us suppose three out of eighteen in New England and five out of 480 in America), heading a list of signers (which will be swollen by the American instinct for signing anything that is started with a few good names), to Interpose in the affairs of any college—for example, to urge the governing board of Columbia University not to accept or to accept the resignation of President Low’. 4. All prospective founders or givers are notified that if they give to a college they do so at their own risk. The president and the professors supported by these gifts win be at liberty to advocate any views, however subversive of commercial integrity and national honor. No power exists that can call them to account. Like the Czar and the Kaiser, they are responsible to no one. Criticism, suggestion, is lese majesty. The corporation, if it has ventured upon criticism of the president, will yield to the influence of popular clamor, reinforced by the caricatures of the comic papers, and will withdraw the criticism with humble contrition. It is into these hands that founders will Intrust their gifts-

CROWNING CORN AS KING UNIQUE HARVEST CELEBRATION OF NORTHEASTERN KANSAS. ♦ Corn n Good Crop Out There am Well as Wlieut, mill Honor* Are Pulti to It—lu the Form of a Carnival. Atchison, Kan., Letter in New York Post. Once a year the Sunflower State grows enthusiastic over the glory of its corn crop and proceeds to celebrate the harvesting. This city has for the past three years been the center of the corn celebrations, and its corn carnival, to which it devotes a day and a night, is on* of the unique features of the West. The idea is to have a good time with corn as the central feature, and It is done in ways that are astonishing to those who are not familiar with the possibilities of the ceredri. The variety of methods in which the grain and husks can be utilized are many, and the citizens are all the year trying to make the event overshadow the celebrations of the previous times. The principal point on which the most stress is laid is the decoration of the town, and it is made very beautiful. The stores use hundreds of ears of corn in making odd designs that will attract the a-ttention of the passersby, and there are on the sidewalks strange creatures made out of the grain that seem impossible to the novice. Tho young ladies make out of the husks tho most bewitching bonnets and caps, and wear them through the day, and the young men even get up jackets and hats that rival those of the fair sex for ingenuity and attractiveness. Even the horses are decorated, and one might think that the town was all in the corn business so generally is the place given up to the festival. The thousands of visitors always have a good time, and they are invited to make themselves at home “without money and without price.” At the most there is only a small charge made at the booths for the meals, in order that no one may think that he is badly used in the city. The day is spent in sightseeing and the games at the park. The band of the city is aided by a dozen or more bands from the neighboring cities, and they all give a concert at the park in the afternoon. There is no speaking whatever, although there are many requests that the rule shall be broken in order that the political parties may take advantage of the crowds in the city. There is no programme either, in the usual acceptance of the term, only that all shall be happy and have a decent respect for the opinions of others. CORN “CONFETTI.” The fun comes at night. When the lights are ablaze and the streets are shining in the glory of corn decorations, the young people—and the old for that matter—go out with pockets full cf corn kernels and woe be it to the passer who is not ready to take his own part. Where in the Mardi Gras there is a shower of confection or flowers, here is one of corn, and the handfulls that are thrown among the crowds soon make the streets a crackling pandemonium. There is a prize offered to the farmer who will drive down the street with his wagon filled with corn and have any of it left when he arrives at the opposite end. So far no one has been able to claim the prize. There is license of the fullest sort during the night, and tho police are theoretically locked up until morning. Os course, when the fun grows too boisterous there is a stop put to it, but that is something that does not happen very often. With horns and corn, the parade goes up and down, laughing and shouting, and the corn decorations begin to suffer. One after another they are pulled down and used to amuse the people, and there are few stores that have the trouble of taking down their decorations in the morning. The streets become veritable mills for the grinding of the corn, and after the crowd has been on them all the evening, the corn is ground into flour. Bushels are gathered In the morning, and many of the poor are glad to get this corn for food. The greatest fun is over the red ears, for the young men insist that the good old custom that they shall be allowed to kiss the girls under the red ear Is still in force—and they abide by its rules, too. One grain buyer this year bought a large load of red ears at a fancy price to Sell again to the young men, and they were all disposed of. The State has a good right to be proud of the corn this year, for there is a good crop and the price is above that of many years. The State Board of Agriculture estimates that there will be 160,000,000 bushels of the yellow grain, and there are hundreds of thousands of bushels already in the cribs carried over from last year. Corn is the best crop that the Kansas .farmer raises, for he can feed It to his stock and be sur.e of getting from it a good return. He has no fear of a low price even In the off years. The- present crop is not the same as the famous one of 1889. when 300.000,000 bushels were raised, but it is much better than that of last year. The corn carnivals have the merit of making the jymple realize the benefit of the cereal, and they find that there Is sure to be produced here a grain that has some of the beauties as well as the substantial qualities of the vegetable kingdom, GOLD VERSUS SILVER. One of the Interesting contests of the interior of the State was that of the fair where the yellow and white ears had a contest. The silver advocates were supposed to be the favorites on the whltc-corn day, and no one was admitted unjess he brought to the gate a white ear. The corn w 7 as piled up, and made several large wagon leads for tha poor. The speeches were for the white metal and the bands played for the orators. Then on the next day the yellow was in the ascendency, and the admission was an ear of the yellow corn and the speakers made talks for the gold standard. This was a day of rejoicing, too, and the excitement ran as high as on the one preceding. The people came from all parts of the county on both days, and the addresses were by the best talent on both sides x o£ the question. Nothing was decided, but the corn was given to the poor, and many a family was glad that there had been the lively rivalry. The originator of the corn-carnival idea was E. W. Howe, the author of the "Story of a Country Town” and the writer for the Atchison Globe of popular reflections on life and manners. He proposed an occasion when there should be no speaking, and the com carnival was the result. The special trains that come from Topeka and the other cities of the State are for the most part his doing. The rival towns come with their bands and advertising mottoes and make tha city their own for the day. Northeastern Kansas, in the vicinity of Atchison, is the greatest corn region of tha West. The fields never know a failure, and the people are settlers who own their farms, and have been here for many years. They till th& rich bottom lands of the Missouri and harvest the crops with regularity and dispatch. They have no fear of tlia sheriff, for they can pay their debts (if they have any.) The cornfields that reach away from the highways are among the largest in the Nation, and are a beautiful sight in the summer. Now they are golden, but have on them the weight of the big ears. The new methods of harvesting the corn make the farmer sure of getting the most out of the product. There are being brought into the State harvesters that are drawn among the rows to cut and bind tha stalks and lay them off in neat bundles that later will be carried together and then taken to the feed lots. The harvester is doubling the farmer's return from his corn, and the invention is one of the greatest importance of any that has come to the State. The corn carnival is not only a jolly day and night, but it is a recognition of the possibility of uniting the pleasures and work of the West. Our people take very few holidays, and the addition of one, and the finding of anew way to celebrate it, is of much help in the arrangement of the prairie life.

A Mother’* Traetly. Washington Post. A sturdy small J>oy and a pale-faced mother came into a hairdresser's shop in Fourteenth street one afternoon last week. The.boy wore an Immense white collar and a mammoth necktie. His face was framed in soft golden curls. “I—l want my little boy’s hair cut.” said the mother, with a catch of her breath. "He's going to school, and his father ” "Yes’m,” answered the attendant, utterly unmoved. The boy grinned. * The mother gave a gusp as the first curl fell. Then she sat very still, her lips compressed, and blinked fast while the goldenhalfed cherub was transformed into a bul-let-headed small hoy. “There.” said the child, as he climbed down from the chair; "I'm glad them darn curls is gone. I ain't no baby now.” . "No,” said the mother, and then something seemed to choke her; "you aren't a baby now.” She carried the curls away with her in a little paper box. and she blinked her eye* rapidly as she went down the flreet. The boy was trying to whistle. He wasn’t a baby any more.