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All communications intended for publication In tnla paper must, In order to receive attention, be Accompanied by the name and address of trio Writer, if It Is desired that lejeded manuscripts be returned, postage must In ail cases be inclosed for that purpose. THIS INDIANAPOLIS .1(11 KN AL Can be found at the following places: NKNV YOKK—Windsor Hotel and Astor House. CHICAGO—PaImer House and P. O. News Cos., 217 Dearborn street. CINCINNATI—J. R. Hawley & Cos., 164 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Peering, northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville Book Cos., 256 Fourth avenue. BT. LOUlS—Union News Company. Union Depot. WASHINGTON. D. C.—Riggs House. Ebbitt House, Willard’s Hotel nnd the Washington News Exchange. Fourteenth street, between Penn, avenue und F street. Car- - - - The installation of Mayor Taggart, except the administering of the oath of office, partook of the character of a, ratification meeting. The recall of General W _ e'r by the Ministry of Spain in open c-uiu<• don that he has tilled to suppress the < üban insurrection. Weyler has had, In all, 23D,00(J men in his army. It will please the silver “push” to know that Captain Curtis will retain the same position during the next two years that he has filled the past two. The captain was particularly odious to the push. If it is found oy investigation that the waters of White river have again been polluted and poisoned by discharges from ■tr&wboard factories the persons responsible for it should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law’. It is announced that the gold Democrats in tills city have declared that their support of Taggart does not mean that they have fallen into line under the hi to 1 leaders. Possibly the 16 to 1 leaders of last year wijl quietly fall into line under them. In spite of all that Canada can do to increase its trade with Great Britain it appears that the Dominion purchased $12,315,000 of highly finished manufactured goods of the United States to $3,700,000 of Great Britain. And yet there are those who chatter about our “Chinese wall.” It is announced now that ex-Governor Matthews will be a candidate for senator, whether Mr. Turpie is or not. There is no reason why a Democrat of to-day should wait upon one who is superannuated. But the successor of Turpie will be a Republican. The resignation of Justice Field, of the United States Supreme Court, has been foreshadowed so long that its effect has been discounted, yet the definite announcement is none the less interesting. He has made an unprecedented record and his retirement from public life will round out a (real career. Mr. Bryan gives the impression that the Rothschilds own the American railroads. If they do they have a vast amount of dead Investments on their hands. The probability is that that house bolds very little American railway property, but any sort of story will do for a man whose stock in trade is cheap demggogy. The combined 4 statements of the Cleveland banks show an increase of more than $1,000,000 In loans since the last report, those of Pittsburg show an increase of a like amount since the passage of the Dingley bill in July. This meins that much more money has gone into business enterprises and active circulation. Prosperity is here. The silver mine owners and Bryan organs all over the country are heralding the reelection of Mayor Taggart us a great triumph for the free and unlimited coinage of silver and a sure indication of a reaction of public sentiment against the present standard. If those men who voted for Mr. Taggart who are opposed to the 16-to-J fad had voted the other ticket lie would not have been elected. No more appropriate name could be selected for the new Territory which is proposed to be made out of northwestern Alaska than Lincoln. It is somewhat singular that it has not been given to any of the new States created during the last twenty years, but no doubt there were good reasons for retaining names already made familinr by Territorial use. By all means let the new Territory be called Lincoln. Asa rtrst step towards making amends for the wanton destruction in past years of Indiana's forests there ought to be a. general observance of Arbor day on the 23d Inst., os designated by Governor Mount. That is a good time to transplant trees, and as this will lie the rtrst Arbor day observance In this State it ought to be made as general as possible. 1h Pennsylvania the superintendent of public instruction has arranged for the observance of the day in the public schools. It is amusing to read in the papers which oppose the candidacy of General Tracy for mayor of New York that he is the tool of Senator Platt. Yet cs secretary oh the navy he was the first secretary' who had the nerve to declare that efficiency as mechanics should be the only basis of employment, and to carry it out. Not long since Admiral Brown said that it is due to Secretary Tracy that the navy yards of the United States can build as good ships and M cheaply as can private yards. A dispatch in yesterday’s Journal stated that, the first run of anew beot-eugar factory at Rowe. N Y., had resulted in turning out four tons of superior granulated sugar. There arc already three or four successful beet-sugar factories in the United States, and the starting of this one shows that the industry ts taking root. Under the protection and encouragement offered by the Dingley tariff it will not be many years before this country will be making all the ■ugar it consumes. This will be gall and wormwood to the Democratic party, Just

as the establishment of the tin-plate industry was, but their sneers and prophecies of failure cannot prevent the consummation. A INI4IE AFFAIR, INDEED. On Wednesday night a number of colored citizens wty> contributed to the election of Mayor Taggart by voting for him or hy not voting at all, met to celebrate his victory, receive his thanks and enjoy his hospitality. The Sentinel says “the affair was unique and may be said to mark an epoch in the history of independent negro politics in this city.” As evidence of its uniqueness and epoch-making character the paper says the procession, illuminating its way with Roman candles, first, went to the residence of Hon. John R. Pearson, late Republican member of the Council. Mr. Pearson enjoys tho distinction of having drawn more columns of abuse from the Indianapolis News in former campaigns than any other person who has ever engaged in city politics, but he has not a particle of vindictiveness in his nature and in the recent campaign he buried the hatchet and joined the New’s in supporting Mr. Taggart. The Sentinel says: Mr. Pearson was called from his residence, and in a neat little address advised his visitors to maintain a thorough independence in municipal politics. In that way and by that measure alone, he said, would the colored people of this country attain and keep the rights of citizenship guaranteed to them by the Constitution and the laws. Now, in order that the movement for “independent negro politics,” as the Sentinel calls it, may succeed it should start off right. If Mr. Pearson told the colored Taggart men that the maintenance of thorough independence in municipal politics was the only way they could preserve their rights of citizenship he misinformed them. The colored man’s right of citizenship, thanks to tho Republican party, is imbedded in the Constitution of the United States, and it is not necessary for him to worry about it in connection with city politics. By all means, let him be as Independent as possible, but don’t try to scare him by telling him that if he does not vote the Democratic ticket now and then in & city election he w'ill lose his citizenship. He w’ould have lost it long ago, in fact, never would have had it at all, if tho Democratic party could have controlled the matter. In States where ft has undisputed control he has no rights of citizenship now to speak of. From Mr. Pearson’s the Independent movement marched to Mayor Taggart’s residence, but, not finding him at home, it began to make gradual approaches towards the Grand Hotel. The Sentinel says: “The procession wound its way in and throughout the ’Bucktown’ district.” This lapse into the old style of speaking must be overlooked. The independent movement is young yet. Napoleon said: “An army travels on its belly,” and an Independent movement must have refreshments. W’e quote again from the Sentinel: “At Vaughn’s case, on Indiana avenue, the contingent was given a reception by the proprietor,” and again, "At the yellow bridge the colored men were given a reception by Charles Bolster.’’ Mr. Polster is the citizen who came to Mr. Colbert’s relief on a recent occasion and who made assessments and collections from the saloon keeprs lor the Taggart campaign fund. He is in favor of "independent negro politics.” From his place the, movement moved to the Sentinel office, where Its spokesman complimented that paper for its long and valuable sendee in the cause of emancipation, universal suffrage and negro citizenship. He was sorry he could not say the Journal had been equally as good a friend of the colored race. Thence to the Grand Hotel, where Mayor Taggart was waiting to welcome the movement. Its leader congratulated him on his election and he thanked the movement “for its unswerving loyalty to me in this and other campaigns.” He’ did not say anything about citizenship or the necessity of independence in municipal politics, but, according to the organ: Mr. Taggart then directed Caterer Vaughn to take cnarge of the visitors and entertain them to a iinish. The procession then disbanded and those who had carried the demonstration to success, for the most part, proceeded to the Vaughn case and devoted the balance of the evening to the pleasures of a well-served banquet. All things considered, we quite agree with Mr. Taggart’s organ that “the affair was unique.” So is the movement for “independent negro politics.” That movement has always sprung up wdien Mr. Taggart has been a candidate for office, and its net result is always the same, viz., a number, of colored men vote for him and a larger number do not vote at all. The better class of colored citizens, all those who value their principles, and are as inaccessible to Improper Influences as the same class of white citizens, do not hesitate to say that the independence of those who thus contribute to Mr. Taggart s election is inspired by motives very different from the purification of municipal politics. Honest independence is a good thing in politics or out, in colored men as in white men, but independence for a consideration is not a badge o's good citizenship. Intelligent colored men do not need to be informed by the Sentinel that “They are now their own political masters ard no man and no party has a right to dictate to them how they shall exercise the suffrage.” When the Democratic party pats them on the back and assures them that it has always been their best friend and that they ought to show their independence by voting for its candidates, they might answer: Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did-you kick me down stairs? TWO FACTORS IN PRODUCTION. The platform of the Indiana Federation of Labor contains several timely declarations, the chief of which Is that it will not permit itself to become attached, to any political party. Its authors, however, full into the very general error that "labor is the producer of all forms of wealth.” giving no credit to capital. Asa matter of fact and history, la.bor was not productive in its highest sense until capital came to its assistance. It will be said that labor has created capital. At the outset this was true. Now, labor and capital working together Increases capital. In the dawn of civilization the bow and arrow were the first result of capital. Some savage became weary of trying to kill game by the use of hand-hurled missiles and invented the bow and arrow. He invented them and by their use killed three of four times as much game as others could with stones. All savages could not make bows “sand arrows, so they came to the inventor |o hiro or purchase. At first he let his weapons, and in payment received a considerable portion of the game. Thus he became in a rude way the first capitalist, the capital being the bows ami arrows which he made. He had game to exchange for lalx>r and all that savage lahor could produce. When game was stoned to death it was with difficulty that the men could kill enough to keep them alive. They often became very hungry. It took all of their time to hunt, leaving no tlmo to build huts or rudely till the soil. When the capitalist who Invented 1 and made bows amt arrows began to let or

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sell them, a man could kill twice or three times as much game as he could with stones. Thus by hunting half the time with the weapons capital had devised, he could obtain food and yet have time to build huts and make clothing out of skins. Thus the coming of invention and capital put the savages in a condition to secure a higher grade of living—to make a step toward civilization. It will be> urged that the invention and making of the bow and arrow' was the result of mind and hand; that is, the result of labor. True, the labor which the mass of savages expended upon stoning game to death or wasted in idleness this inventor employed in making a bow and arrow. When completed the bow and arrow became cap'tal, and were let to hunters on the terms named. Thus not only capital was benefited, but labor earned twice as much by its aid as it could without it. As civilization advanced labor and capital worked together. Indeed, their working together created the physical conditions upon which civilization has depended. All the toils by which labor is enabled to increase production are the contribution of capital, accumulated either by its own share of the increased and cheapened production or the saving of labor. Moreover, the more elaborate the implements and the more they save muscle, the better labor is remunerated and the cheaper the product to the consumer. In this age of the world capital is necessary at the outset. When the construction of a factory is contemplated, the first move is to obtain capital with which to construct buildings and machinery. When these are secured the field is open for the co-operation of labor. If capital cannot be secured the enterprise is abandoned, and the labor which would have been employed if the scheme had been successful is left without employment. When a large factory shuts down it is because the caidtal invested in the plant in materials and goods fails to be remunerative. When capital meets with disaster in railroads, factories and traffic, labor, by the loss of employmeijf, shares it. Demagogues, by declaring that labor is thp producer of all wealth without assistance, have caused much dissension. It is time that such disturbers, who appeal to class prejudice, be relegated to the rear, and that men who labor and men who furnish capital act upon the fact that, when they unite, wealth and abundance are created, and that when either fails both are involved in a common disaster. THE MISTRESS OF THE PACIFIC. / In the current issue of the North American Review Mr. Charles H. Cramp, the Philadelphia ship builder, shows that Japan is the “coming sea power.” Japan already possesses forty-eight sea-going vessels of 110,000 tons displacement. These include two first-class armor-clads. In addition to this fleet Japan is building four more armor-clads in England, four first-class armored cruisers as large as our Brooklyn In England, France and Germany, two 5,000-ton protected cruisers of twentythree knots In the United States, one 4,300ton protected cruiser and eight thirty-knot torpedo boat destroyers in England, eight torpedo boats In Germany and four in France, besides another 9,000-ton armored cruiser, three 8,000-ton cruisers, three torpedo gunboats and a dispatch vessel in the imperial dockyards in Yokosuka. The large amount of new tonnage under construction is several times greater than is in process of construction in our own ports for the navy. “Comparisons with the current progress of other powers,” says Mr. Cramp, “discloses the fact that Japan is second only to Great Britain in naval activity, being ahead of France, much in advance of Germany and much in the lead of the United States and Russia.” He adds that the vessels which Japan is building in European shipyards are superior to any these nations are building for themselves, class for class. It is not possible that this remarkable preparation of Japan is made with hostile intent toward this country, since no such preparation will be made because of the Hawaiian Incident. When Japan was pushing China to the wall, Russia interfered. Remembering this, Japan seems to be determined to be able to defy the Czar. It is probable, also, that Japan purposes to be a sort of Great Britain in the oceans of the Orient, holding both England and Germany in check. But, after accounting for the naval designs of Japan in this manner, the United States, aside from the Hawaiian incident, cannot well ignore this declared purpose of the Oriental monarchy to become the dominant sea power in the Pacific ocean. We cannot afford to let our naval weakness be a temptation to any power to interfere with our interests. We are very much of a nation, with immense territory' and resources, but we cannot be unmindful of the fact that in the future those nations which will have the greatest power, other things being equal, are those which support large and modern navies. THE FREE-SILVER PARTY' IX INDIANA. As the Associated Press dispatches from this city are made up in the Sentinel office, it was a fe-egone conclusion that they would represent the election of Mr. Taggart as a victory for free silver. They are particular to state that he was elected by an increased majority on a free-silver platform. This is literally true, and yet the election of Mr. Taggart was not in any sense a victory for free silver. His nomination on a platform Indorsing the Chicago platform and free silver was a very shrewd piece of politics. It is notorious that if he has any convictions on the question he is a sound-money man. He was chairman of the sound-money league and an out-and-out gold-standard man up to the meeting of tho Chicago convention. But he is a party man above everything else, and when tho Chicago convention declared for free silver he fell into line. For a politician who mistakes whims for convictions this is.not a difficult thing to do. Mr. Taggart’s recantation on tho money question made him an ideal candidate for a party that was split wide open on that question. His temporary advocacy of sound money made him acceptable to that faction, and if he could bo placed on a free-silver platform he would “catch ’em a cornin’ and catch ’em a goln’.” To perfect the beauty' of the scheme, the local machine was captured by tho sound-money Democrats, and he was nominated by them and elected by soundmoney votes. Without the votes of soundmoney Democrats and Republicans who voted for him for personal reasons he would have been defeated by a large majority. His election, so far from being a victory' for free-silver, demonstrates the strength of the sound-money sentiment in this city. The retreating Bryan faction will not be able to bolster up the crumbling cause of free silver in this State by the election of

Mr. Taggart. The Democracy of Indiana will have to fall in line and keep step with the national organization, and that is not moving on free-silver lines. The big men of the party, the men who shape its action on national issues, have already decided that it shall not make another campaign on the free-silver issue. That issue, including Bryanism in all its phases, is already obsolescent and will soon be obsolete. The attempt to get up a revival for it in this State on the strength of the election of Mr. Taggart will not succeed. He may become a sort of missing link to reconcile and reunite tho gold and silver factions in this State, but it will not be on a free-silver basis. The gold-standard men w'ho nominated and elected him will take care of that. If he should become the Democratic candidate for Governor it will be on a sound-money platform, or one ignoring the money question. There is a project on foot in Philadelphia for holding in that city in the fall of 1898 a national exposition of raw' and manufactured products of the United States. According to the present plan, which is still in a formative stage, it would be strictly a commercial exposition, without reference to art, science or literature. The idea is to bring together under one roof a representative exhibit of every' product of the United States, natural and manufactured, raw material and finished products, all so arranged as to furnish a complete exhibit of the country’s resources and industries. The idea is a good one and characteristic of the times. It is a sure sign of returning prosperity and confidence w r hen business men begin to branch out and work together on broad lines for the extension of trade. The endless chain which was taking the gold out of the treasury during the Cleveland administration has reversed its action and is now bringing the yellow metal to the treasury and taking the legal tenders out of it. A year ago the treasury officials were offering inducements to tho ow'ners of gold to send it to the treasury; now it is refusing to pay expressage on gold in California w'hich the holders desire to exchange for legal tenders. That is a change, and a very important one, which has come with the new administration. niUHLES IN THE AIR. Matrimonial Chat. He—You haven’t a mind above anew hat. She—And you haven’t any mind under yours. NVlfely Devotion. “Poor old Munnyrlch! With one leg in the grave.” “Y"e.s; but his young wife is pulling valiantly at the other one.” The Cornfed Philosopher. “Though it may not be true,” said the Cornfed Philosopher, “that every man has his price, yet, when he does have his price, it is always a heap bigger than his intrinsic value.” Dangerously Near It. “I come mighty nigh swearin’,” the deacon confessed, as he came into the house, nursing a bruised thumb. “You don’t tell me!” said his wife. “But I do tell you. I am a-tellin’ you right now. I hit my thumb with the hammer, an’ ’sted of sain’ ‘by ginger!’ like I most always do, I hollers out, ‘by pepper!’ I dunno how much hotter I would of made it if it had hurt a little worse.” TUESDAY’S ELECTION. Although Taggart iost his Holt he still seems to retain his grip on Indianapolis. —Logansport Journal. This must be an off year with the Republicans of Indianapolis—awfully off, as it were.—Anderson Bulletin. The Indianapolis election resulted in a victory for Taggart by over 4.000 plurality—a remarkable proof of his personal popularity, when the circumstances of the campaign are considered.—Richmond Item. The majority of the people of the Indiana capital have a very peculiar sense of good government and, having voted for Taggart and his boodlers, the hope is that they will Set what, they seem to want.—Washington uzette. The result was not unexpected, but the worst feature of it all is that his chief support came from the business districts, which would be supposed to be affected against him by the revelations of corruptions that have lately been made.—Elkhart Review. Taggart was and is a gold Democrat. He was elected mayor of Indianapolis Tuesday on a free-silver platform, but the Issues of the campaign were purely and wholly local and his success was made possible solely by renegade Republicans. It is in no sense a victory sot; free silver.—Plymouth News. Taggart was loyally supported by the street-car company, the gas trust, the breweries and the saloons. While Indianapolis is Republican by about 1,500, it cannot be carried by that party with all these powerful interests against it. Taggart is, moreover, generally popular.—Marion Chronicle. There are few persons who have kept informed respecting the trend of political sentiment in Indianapolis who did not anticipate the re-election of Thomas Taggart to the mayoralty, but they are fewer still who are not astonished at tne mammoth proportions of his plurality.—Wabash Plain Dealer. Indianapolis citizens have nothing to be proud of in re-electing Taggart and his rotten corps of politicians. The Journal and many of the best people of Indianapolis are to be commended in their efforts to secure good government and for their exposure of the crookedness of sewer contractors and city officials.—Bluffton Chronicle. Taggart had behind him all the gold Democratic influence that bolted the ticket in the national election of last year, and in addition a large Republican following which of course was in favor of sound money. Added to these factors were the silver Democrats who vote any ticket that is labeled Democratic. —Crawfordsville Journal. The result of the Indianapolis election carries with it the conviction that the sound-money Democrats are no weak faction of the Democratic party. They gave their cordial support to Taggart, his financial views being in sympathy with their own, and the personal following of Mr. Taggart, united with the solid Democratic vote, w’as amply sufficient.—Huntington Herald. Tho victory was a complete one and was due to the divorcing of national issues from the campaign, and making of it a personal one instead. The popularity of the Democratic nominee was assured before he entered the race a second time. He had Democracy at his back—and it seems from the returns a good many Republicans. —Evansville Journal. Mr. Harding had an enthusiastic follow’ing, made a good fight and deserves well of his party. But there was a combination of elements and circumstances which carried the contest more into business and financial channels than into party politics, and the combination was against Mr. Harding. If it had been a party contest, as the next contest will be. Mr. Harding would have had the majority now credited to Taggart. —Muncie Times. Taggart goes back into office loaded to the guards with obligations to corporations. Republicans will feel that with his associations he is welcome to his victory. The lawless element will take so much courage from his success—whether a corporation law breaker, a liquor dealer or gamekeeper —that in another two years the moral sense of the people wili be stirred as it was in Sullivan’s second term. The Republican candidates will then win.—Fort Wayne Gazette. The people of the capital city had their choice between a promised business administration and a good fellow, and they took the good fellow. Mr. Taggart Las been an accommodating mayor, and succeeded in pacifying public indignation to such an extent that the people regard him as somei Dinar out of the ordinary. His admlnlstra-

tion has been darkened by a number of scandals, but through them all his popularity has stood unshaken.—Lafayette Courier. The Republicans did not show their full strength at the polls, many of them being personal friends of Taggart and not caring to antagonize him. Although party lines were drawn in name, the election really has but little political significance, as the issues were purely local. McKinley carried the city a year ago by a majority nearly twice as large as that of Taggart, and he could do it again to-day. When the Indianapolis Republicans get together and do business right they can win easily.—South Bend Tribune. The result ®f the Indianapolis election was not unexpected to those who had been reading the papers and studying the situation. It cannot be said that the tight was made on political lines, and there is no political significance whatever in the result of the election. Mr. Taggart has made a fairly good Demoocratie mayor, or at least the people of Indianapolis so consider, and they have reelected him, that is all there is to it. A campaign of the kind made by the Indianaiiplis Republicans usually fails, but enough was brought to light to have beaten a Republican, if the same charges and proofs had been made against a Republican administration.—Greencastle Banner. The Republicans are largely to blame for this Democratic victory. While the Taggart machine was run on beer and boodle and was backed by all the syndicates, trusts and monopolies of the city, yet the lukewarmness and indifference of Republicans was largely the cause of Mr. Harding’s defeat. As is too often the case, the Democrats voted their ticket to a man, while the Republicans, losing their party spirit and pride, went over to the help of the enemy. They should be reminded that the moral effect of this Democratic victory is to give encouragement to the party whose success a year ago would have paralyzed the industries of the country and imperiled the perpetuity of the government.—Noblesville Ledger. ABOUT PEOPLE AM) THINGS. Corbett, the prize fighter, is said to have bought a house for $29,000 in New York and to have paid for it. From which it would appear that a man may possibly win in a losing fight. Rose Amelia, Countess of Wilbaix, is dead. She and her. sister,' the wife of General Adam Badeau. who are relatives of the novelist, Eugene Sue, are said to have been the originals of Rose and Blanche in •‘The Wandering Jew.” Rev. Dr. Henry Preserved Smith, who has been called as pastor of Amherst College Church, became famous in his trial before the Presbyterian Church for heresy after fifteen years of teaching in the Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati. Mrs. McKinley is said to be enjoying much better health at present than at any time since she came to Washington. Her friends say that there has been a great improvement during the summer vacation. This pleasant information seems to be borne out by the fact that Mrs. McKinley goes driving nearly every morning. Sometimes she is gone two hours or more. The famous Quineys, father and son, of Massachusetts, were so much alike at one time, in spite of their difference in years, that it was hard to tell them apart. Once at a public dinner, where both father and son were present, a toast was given to the father. Instantly the younger Quincy rose to his feet, and, pointing to his venerable father, said: "My son will respond.” One of the good stories in the life of Tennyson is of a poetical competition in which he once engaged with Fitz Gerald (who figures delightfully in the biography), to see who could produce the most successful line in Wordsworth’s most deadly-dull manner. There i3 a dispute as to who actually wrote the winning line, but here is the line itself, which certainly deserves first prize: “A Mr. Wilkinson, a clergyman.” It is said that hotel porters in Europe keep each other posted as to the tipping habits of travelers by the way they paste labels on their bags. A label pasted on the righthand lower corner of a bag Indicates that the owner is "mean,” that he is no tipper; when pasted in the upper left-hand corner it signifies that he is liberal in his tips, and, when in the center of the bag, that he will tip generously, but insists upon being well served. The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle says: “We are grieved to read in one of our exchanges that General John B. Gordon has had to cancel his engagement to lecture at Bainbridge on Oct. 22. He has been in consultation With specialists in New York, and he wires to the Lyceum Bureau: ‘Make no more engagements. My health is so broken that I will probably have to cancel all October and November engagements. Have lost over forty pounds of liesh. Strength gone from overwork.’ ” Prince Henry XXVI of Reuss-Kostritz has been shut up in a Berlin private insane asylum under the name of Graf Plauen, the title given to his morganatic wife. The prince is forty years of age and a captain in the Germany navy. He had been buying land in Hungary recklessly and paying for it in worthless checks. An adventurer with whom he associated is said to have in his hands letters belonging to the prince which compromise persons in high station in the court of Berlin. In commenting on the automatic hot-water supply now furnished in certain parts of London by dropping a penny in a slot machine attached to a lamp post, the London Telegraph suggested that food may soon be furnished in the same way. Whereupon a correspondent writes: “It may interest some of your readers to know that the problem is already solved, and that in the exhibition grounds at Brussels there is a case which provides hot and cold lunches entirely by the automatic method, and 1 can say from experience that they are very good. By placing a franc in the slot a chop or steak, with potatoes, can be procured, hot and well cooked; another franc will produce a half bottle of wine; half a franc will supply a plate of cold meat, with salad and roil, and a nickel of ten centimes will extract a piece of bread and butter and cheese, or a brioche.’ Besides all this, a nickel will draw an excellent glass of hock front one of the two large vessels in the center of the case.” She skips the columns that describe The horrors of the day; She only reads the headlines o'er What politicians say. She shows no curiosity About affairs with Spain; She does not care what baseball nine The victory may gain. She skims the editorial page With an indifferent eye; The details of “athletic sports” In haste she passes by; And so she turns page after page Till with delight she hails And pins her fond attention to The item, “Bargain sales.” —Washington Star. Sort of Town Indianapolis In. Northwestern Lumberman. Sixteen lines of railroad converge at and ten lines center in Indianapolis, the capital city of Indiana, one of the country’s greatest manufacturing cities and possibly its greatest hardwood center. Indianapolis has great resources in coal and natural gas, of immense advantage to its manufacturing interests, the use of natural gas also aiding in the very noticeable cleanliness of the ci:y. The metropolis of Indiana is abreast of the most advanced cities in the most approved municipal improvements, in street transportation facilities, street lighting and sewerage, paving, water works, public buildings, etc. It is an important wholesale center for dry goods, groceries, drugs, clothing, hardware and all classes of merchandise. Asa manufacturing center its importance is of the first magnitude. In the manufacture of metals into various forms and of sawm‘ll and wood working machinery. Indianapolis is of first importance, and its manufactured output, of vast magnitude, includes every line known in the Northern States. Its industrial and commercial importance is perhaps equaled by no other city of its size in the United States. _ Newppt*r Space. Philadelphia Record. Judge Gaynor. of New' York, declares that four inches of space in a newspaper is more effective than a public meeting in promoting any good cause. The judge never gave a sounder opinion. While the meeting comprehends thousands of listeners, the newspaper has hundreds of thousands of. readers. The inches of space that can serve a public cause cun as surely serve a private cause that makes the right appeal to the public. The Goliath of mouern business is newspaper space properly utilized. Give It f red if. Detroit Tribune. If yellow journalism can get a young person out of prison now and then, let the fact be recorded on the credit side of its influence

J. A. KASSON HONORED * GIVEN AN IMPORTANT POSITION BY PRESIDENT M’KINLEY. Appointed Special CoinmtMHloner with Plenary Power* to Negotiate Reciprocity Treaties. WELL-KNOWN TARIFF EXPERT WHO HAS HAD EXPERIENCE AS LEGISLATOR AND DIPLOMAT. Two Secretaries to AsmiM Iltm—Rhnnlu'n Method of Protecting Seal*— Free Delivery for Attica. * WASHINGTON, Oct. 14,-The President has decided tp appoint a special commissioner with plenary powers to carry into effect the reciprocity provisions of Sections 3 and 4 of the tariff act approved July 24, 1897. It was found, on making an investigation of the matter, that the regular force of the Department of State is at present so overcrowded with pressing business that serious delay in carrying out tho expressed wish of Congress would inevitably follow if, in addition to the usual routine work of the department, its officers were required to perform the special examinations and negotiations essential to carry forward the will of Congress as expressed in the sections above referred to. Moreover, the pressure for early and consistent action in the arrangement of measures of reciprocity has been very great from foreign countries, as well as from our own citizens. The interest of the President in reciprocity is especially keen, and during his connection with the tariff legislation of 1890, while chairman of the committee on ways and means of the House of Representatives, the Inclusion in that law of a reciprocity provision was conclusive of his determination to foster and promote American industry and commerce by this means. In view of the above facts the President has designated the Hon. John A. Kasson, -of lowa, as such special commissioner, with Chapman Coleman, of Kentucky, as secretary, and John Ball Osborne, of Scranton, Pa., as assistant secretary. The commissioner is charged particularly to look after the agricultural interests, both North and South, not forgetting the larg& and constantly increasing manufacturing interests east of the Alleghenies. Mr. Kasson has had a varied experience in diplomatic negotiations and has shown much ability in all with which he has been connected. He was minister to Austria from June 11, 1877, to May, 1881; minister to Germany from July 4, 1884, to March, 1835. He was also one of the commissioners to represent the government of the United estates at the conference held in Berlin concerning Samoan affairs, and is one of the signatories of the Berlin General Act, concluded June 14, 1889. He was then commissioned as special envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, his commission bearing date of March 18, 1889. Preceding his diplomatic service Mr. Kasson was for many years a member of the ways and means committee of the House of Representatives and in that place became thoroughly familiar with all aspects of the tariff question and the debate on that subject. Mr. Coleman has also been connected with the diplomatic service of this government. For a number of years he was secretary of the United States embassy at Berlin, where he entered the service as second secretary. He is a deep student of economic questions and a linguist of more than average ability. He is master of the German tongue, both written and spoken. He was strongly recommended to the President for appointment as consul general at Berlin. Because of his experience he is expected to render valuable service to Mr. Kasson in dealing with these important negotiations. Air. Osborne hails, as has been stated, from Scranton, Pa., and has also studied the subjects that will necessarily arise in considering the questions covered by Sections 3 and 4 of the tariff law. It is expected that the commission will be speedily organized and promptly begin its important labors. It will be established in the Department of State, where suitable quarters have been assigned by direction of the secretary of state. HOW RUSSIA PROTECTS SEALS. Rexulatlonß Which the Conference Will He Asked to Extend. WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.—Although formal conferences on the Bering sea question will not open until after the arrival of the Japanese delegates, yet the presence here of two of the Russian delegates has permitted the authorities to inform themselves quite thoroughly as to the attitude of Russia on the protection of the seals. It has brought out the fact that Russia takes an advanced position in preserving her seal herds, and has more stringent laws and regulations in that direction than any of the countries interested. Under the Russian system a zone thirty miles wide is established around tho seal islands belonging to the empire. The seals found within this zone are regarded as exclusively Russian, and no one other than the inhabitants of the islands can take a seal within these limits. This gives the Russian citizens exclusive rights over the seals, not only on the islands, but extending thirty miles seaward. A British oi Japanese sealer cannot operate within the zone, except to buy skins of the Russian inhabitants of the islands. The Russians themselves are permitted to kill only bachelor seals, it being against strict regulations to kill a female or a pup seal. The females are. guarded with special care, as the killing of one female is regarded as equivalent to the killing of three seals, namely, the female herself, her pup on land and her unborn pup. Furthermore, the Russians are allowed to kill a bachelor only when he is on land, it being forbidden to kill any manner of seal in the water. The Russian authorities see that these regulations are enforced. A fleet of government ships patrol the thirty-mile zone and any foreign sealer who attempts to operate within these limits is seized. Asa rule the seized sealers are taken to Valdivostock. their catch confiscated and severe punishments indicted. This has led to many protests, but Russia has maintained thus far her rigid regulations against foreigners within the thirty-mile zone. In one notable case the ship Dahlia, cleared by a United States consular officer, but manned with a Japanese crew, attempted to take seals on the Russian islands. They were met with armed resistance and several of the Japanese were killed. Claims for indemnity were made against Russia, but never paid, as the imperial authorities maintained their right to protect their property against invasion. It is understood to be the wish of Russia in the forthcoming conference not to stop at the protective regulations already made, but to carry them further, by Increasing the width of the zone considerably beyond thirty miles. The Russian authorities have found by experience that many of the female seals gu more than i : .U.-.y miles to sea in search of food. The wish is. therefore, to make the zone so wide tnat ft will extend to the furthest point to which the females go for food. Place That I* Not In Request. WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.—it is now stated that another change is to be made in the Composition of the Nicaraguan canal commission, and again in the place set apart for the engineer member of the body. Since the commission was appointed no less than five army engineer officers either have been appointed to this place or have been invited to accept it. First there was Captain Carter. who was obliged to relinquish the place because of the pendency of charges against him in Savannah. Then Major Leach declined it. Next Major Powell was called over from Pittsburg, only to find that the place was one that lie was scarcely able to fill for physical reasons. Captain Bossell, from Mobile, did not want the place, and last came Major Livermore, from Boston. His appointrm nt was announced from the White House, but it is now said that some difficulty has arisen and that the place is again open. The list of available engineer officers is being scanned, and as recourse

has barn had to the retired list It ha been suggested that the choice will fall on Gen. Craighill, late chief of engineers, who stands in the first rank of practical engineers and is in excellent physical condition. The Fart Sheridan Outrage. WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.—Secretary Alger to-day received the report of an inquiry conducted by Captain Richards into the alleged brutal treatment of Private Hammond by Captain Lovering, at Fort Sheridan, some days ago. Captain Richards examined a number of persons, including Captain Lovering and Hammond. The testimony of the two xvitnesses, Secretary Alger says, agrees almost entirely, except that Hammond claimed Captain Covering kicked and jabbed him with his sword more times than the latter admits; also, that Hammond declared that the captain swore at him, which the latter denies. The statement of Captain Lovering agrees substantially with that, he has made in published interviews. The testimony of the other witnesses, Secretary Alger says, is mainly corroborative of the mam facts of the case. Col. A. G. Robinson to Retire To-Day. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Get. 14.—C01. Augustus G. Robinson, assistant quartermaster general, who will be retired to-morrow under the forty years’ service clause, has been stationed at Jeffersonville, Ind., for the past three years, and is very well known in Indiana. Colonel Robinson is a native of Maine and was graduated at the Military Academy in July, 18, >3. After a few years’ service in the artillery branch he was transferred to the quartermasters’ department in February, 1803, serving there throughout tho war arid since. He reached his present grad* of colonel In September, 1896. Attica May Have* Free Delivery, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Oct. 14—The Postoffico Department is likely to act favorably very scon on Congressman Landis’s recommendation for free delivery at Attica, lud. When he was in Washington a few weeks ago Mr. Landis urged the matter strongly and soon afterwards received word that the department officials thought well of the suggestion. If Attica secures free delivery it will have the honor of being the smallest town in the United States to have the service. I‘lnce for an Indiana Man. WASHINGTON, Oct. 14,-The secretary of the interior has appointed E. B. Reynolds, of Hagerstown, Ind., special Indian agent; also the following appraisers of abandoned military reservations: Oliver C. Applegate and Rufus S. Moore, Fort Klamath reservation, Oregon; Edwin S. Archer and George W. Rutherford, Fort McDermit reservation, Nevada; Ezra F. Barnes and Hamilton McCain. for Halleck reservation, Nevada; Ctias. M. Scribner and Alvin W. Eager, Fort Fred Steele, Wyoming. Henry 11. Johnson's Health Poor. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.—A close friend of Representative Henry U. Johnson expresses the opinion that the congressman's health will not permit him to take a very active part in the proceedings of Congress r.ext session. Mr. Johnson did not gain strength during the summer as he had hoped to do, and it is more than likely that he will find it advisable to spend a part of the winter at least in a warmer cliraate. Appointments ly the President. WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.—The President to-day made the following appointments: Michael Nathan, New York, assistant appraiser of merchandise in the district of New York; Edgar T. Wheelock, of Wisconsin, register of the land office at Wausau, Wis.’; Henry G. McCrossen, of Wisconsin, receiver of public moneys at Wausau, Wis.; T. Jay Buford, of Oregon, agent for the Indians of Siletz agency, Oregon. General Note*. WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.—T0-day’s statement of the condition of the treasury ihows: Available cash balance, $211,766,035; gold reserve, $149,975,655. United States Consul Smyth, at Cartagena, in a report to the State Department says that as a result of the new United States tariff a most notable increase has followed in the shipment of ivory nuts from that port to the United States. The new tariff on vegetable ivory buttons has caused the crude article to be shinped to the United States instead of to Europe, where It was formerly largely manufactured into buttons. The Navy Department to-day issued orders to Commodore Howell, at present in, command of the League Island navy yard, to take command of the European station, relieving Admiral Self ridge, and to Commodore Dewey, president of the inspection board, to command the Asiatic station, relieving Admiral McNair. Assistant Secretary of War Meikeljohn left here to-night on a tour of inspection of the military posts in the East. Should Have Scanned Them. Chicago Times-Herald. Special dispatches from Baltimore bring the interesting information that a jury has requested Nathan Rosen to pay $1,7<0 to Miss Carrie Shappiero for breach of promise to marry. Nathan did not deny the engagement, but insisted that it was broken off by him for a good and sufficient reason, "and, when compelled by the court to state 'that reason explicitly, asserted that he declined to marry the plaintiff because he accidently discovered at the last moment that “her feet were too flat.” He added that he had consulted a physician about the matter and was informed that it W’ould be impossible to correct the defect, and he feared that his posterity might not have the arched instep which tradition ascribes to the beautiful. It is very evident that Mr. Rosen is not a lineal descendant of Nathan' the wise. In fact, he is quite otherwise. He himself admits that Miss Shappiero is “on the level” colloquially speaking. Besides. he ought to know that his fiancee has as much right to be flat at one ext-emlty as he has to be flat at the other. If he had any reason to fear that Miss Carrie's poetic feet did not conform to the established rules of prosody, why didn’t he scan them earlier? It is too late to make corrections of that sort after the form has gone to press. Anxiom to Let Go. Philadelphia Times. The escape of Miss Cisneros from a prison in Havana recalls many similar instances where the same tick has been played to get a government out of a tight place, and especially one incident in which tho United States government acted the part of victim to an unavoidable accident. In the early seventies General “Whack” RyanVColonel McCook and some others who had served with distinction in the civil war, joined the cause and went down to Cuba on the steamer Virginius, Captain Williams. There was quite a party of these filibusters, and they had considerable stores of war material on board. Before they reached Cuba, and while still in neutral waters, they were captured by the Spanish cruiser Tornado. landed, stood up to a wall and shot. The United State** blustered a little, demanded the Virginias baf'k. got her, and were rather sorry, for they didn’t know what to do with the ship. Accordingly they put a prize crew aboard to bring her to New York, which they were also Instructed never to do. She sank somewhere near Hatteras in the most convenient way and time. The bone being thus removed, the war dogs ceas'-d to snarl. In a like spirit the door of Miss Cisneros’s cell has been left open. , _ . Tlie Useful Quail. Kansas City Journal. Few people seem to remember how necessary birds are for keeping in check the harmful insects that threaten every crop. At the Missouri experiment station recently three quntls were killed and examined, when, it was found that each had recently dined on 2.100 chinchbugs, which seems like a pretty good meal for one bird; but it proved that they do more good than they get credit for. A Reminder. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. The New York papers which are printing pictures of beautiful girls ot about nineteen, ttnd labeling them "Mrs. Atkinson.” seem to forget that the wife of the Governor of West Virginia has been married three times, and that her first matrimonial experience occurred twenty-two years ago. Help* the Revenue. Boston Transcript. Do not chide the man who smokes a weed, nor snatch the social glass from him who is about to imbibe. Each in his own wav is a patriot, an unconscious one, perhaps, but still a patriot, for just now the internal revenue is putting more money into the coffers of Uncle Sam than do the customs. Mean* .Nothing. Kansas City Journal. "I am a Democrat," said Henry George in accepting one of his nominations. There was a time when a declaration of that sort would have Indicated the apeajedr's political principle*.