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THE DAILY JOURNAL WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, IS!>7. Washington Office—lso3 Pennsylvania Avenue Telephone Cal I*. Business Office 23S I Editorial Rooms...A 86 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DAILY BY MAIL. Daily only, one month f *7]} Daily only, three months 2.00 Daily only, one year B.J*Q Daily, including Sunday, one year l<*.oo Sunday only, one year 2.00 WREN FURNISHED BY AGENTS. Daily, per week, by carrier 15 cts Sunday, single copy - ac, Daily and Sunday, per week, by carrier 20 eta WEEKLY. Per year fl-Oo Reduced Rates to Clubs. Subscribe- with any of our numerous agents or •end subscriptions to THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, Imliiiiinpolis, Ind. Persons rending the Journal through the malls In the United States should put on an eight-page paper a ONK-t'ENT postage stamp; on a twelve or sixteen-page iat per a TWO-CENT postage •tamp. Fo.eign postage is usually double these rates. All communications intended for publication In this paper must, 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 all cases be inclosed for that purpose. g-: L;_—■" r-_ 1 .e '-=■ THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: KEW YORK—Windsor Hotel ana Astor House. CHICAGO—PaImer House and P. O. News Cos., 237 Dearborn street. CINCINNATI—J. R. Hawley & Cos.. 154 Vine street. DO l TSVILLE—C. T. Deering, northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville Book Cos., 256 Fourth avenue, BT. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot. [Washington, and. c.—Riggs House, Ebbitt House, Willard’s Hotel and the Washington News Exchange, Fourteenth street, between Penn, avenue and F street. CHANGE OF LOCATION. The .Journal Office* have been removed to the new building: on the •outhwest seßiuent of Monument Place. That Spain dots not appreciate the forbearance of the United States is shown by Its pompous threats of a rupture. Turkey is withdrawing from Thessaly by Bonding into that territory a fresh regiment for every sickly one sent out. The adjustment of tho Union Pacific affair upon a dollar for dollar basis has filled the opposition newspaper offices with woe. * • The mayor should have recognized, by the publication of a card, the timely service of the North New Jersey-street saloon keeper in keeping the peace on Sunday with a razor. Mr. Rosasco has been fined $lO and costs as the outcome of his efforts to make the town “homelike.” He ought to appeal to Mayor Taggart against this treatment bj' bis minions. Mr. Thomas Platt, of New York, is not an habitual talker, but when he does talk it is Straight at a mark. The mark this time Is Candidate Low, with Mr. Cleveland in Fange for an incidental side swipe. There was at one time a clamor for the election of United States senators by popular vote. One would think, from a glimpse at the Ohio campaign literature, that that demand had been complied with.

It Is announced that Mr. Bryan will not Bay a good word for Tammany, and posBibly may pat George on the back. Croker dk said to he pleased at this at'owal, but other Tammanyltes are reported to be dismayed. The fact that the treasury gold reserve has increased $3,800,000 since Oct. 1, and is now $151,411,148, is a fairly good sign of bettei times. There is some difference between selling bonds to obtain gold and declining free offers of it. Because of the idle money In the New [York hanks the managers are thinking of reducing the rate of interest in the expectation that it will induce investors to borrow. And yet we are toid that the Scarcity ert money is paralyzing business. It has been a long time since Indianapolis has had an industrial exhibit of any sort, and it has never had one of the kind contemplated by the Commercial Club and ■which are annual events in a number of cities. The improved business conditions make a move in this direction very timely. Bishop Potter, of New York, preacned a sermon urging the imperative necessity of every citizen registering and then neglected to register himself. It is a peculiarity cf reformers in politics that they spend so much time in telling other people their duty that they are apt to forget their own. If many of Candidate Low’s friends are as remiss as the bishop he will fare badly. Some of the Indianapolis citizens who voted for Mayor Taggart explained to the Eastern press that he represented a reform movement. Now that the election is over reforms are getting kicked over the hack fence as fast as possible. Indeed, there is reason to suspect that the mayor quite approves tho sentiment of his fellow-D. rnocrat, Gol. Asa Bird Gardiner, of the New York Tammany ticket, who Jaunuly exclaims, “to heJl with reform.” It is so soon after election, too, that the shock to some of his truly good supporters must be severe. Word comes from Illinois that a cellulose factory is about to be established in the heart of the corn-growing district. Cellulose is a newly discovered substance, very light and elastic, manufactured from cornstalks, which is found to make an excellent lining or filling for steel-plated war ships. It is said that experiments in Illinois show that for tho purpose of this manufacture cornstalks will yield from $3 to $5 an acre. At first glance this looks like a great gain, because cornstalks have been regarded as of little or no money value, but experience may prove that it is not. The substance which nature takes out of the soil for cornstalks, wheat straw, etc., should bo returned In some form as a fertilizer. If these materials are diverted to other uses the soil will have to be fertilized in some other way, and eventually it may be found more costly than profitable. Mr. William W. Woollen, who is becoming known as a friend as well as a student of nature, makes a plea for the trees. He Is rightl If man owes protection to dumb animals which still have some means of making known their wants and sufferings, how much more to forms of creation which are the helpless and uncomplaining victims of all kinds of barbarity. Mr. Woollen cites a few cases of Inhumanity to trees in this city. They might be multiplied by thousands. The city abounds with trees prematurely dead or dying, misshapen and deformed, as the result not merely of neglect but of pitiless cruelty. If they had tongues SB they have hearts they could a tal un-

fold. The plea for trees should not he unheeded, especially as in cultivating and protecting them we benefit ourselves. The 29th is Arbor day. On that day let the trees be in evidence and be heard. THE MAYOR AND THE LAW. The recent convention of retail liquor dealers in this city declared against disreputable resorts and in favor of keeping, the liquor traffic in responsible hands. The law of Indiana says that a license to sell liquor at retail may only be Issued to an applicant who Is “a fit person to be intrusted with the sale of intoxicating liquor,” and upon the filing of a bond in the sum of $2,000 “conditioned that he will keep an orderly and peaceable house.” The law also says that liquor shall not be sold on Sunday. Mayor Taggart has taken an oath to do his duty, and the charter says: “It shall be the duty of the mayor to cause the ordinances of the city and the laws of the State to be executed and enforced.” The charter gives the mayor power to revoke a license. The Supreme Court has decided that the unfitness of a person to receive or retain a license to sell liquor at retail “may be proven by specific acts and the character of a saloon kept by him may be proven.” In view of theses facts the people of Indianapolis have a right to ask Mayor Tagfeart what he proposes to do in the case of the Italian doggery where, while liquer was being sold on Sunday last in violation of law, a desperate affray occurred in which several persons were badly wounded. Does Mayor Taggart recognize his obligation to enforce State laws within the city? Does he regard the keeper of a saloon where liquor selling and deadly affrays occur on Sunday as “a fit person to be intrusted with the sale of intoxicating liquor?” Does he regard such a place as “an orderly and peaceable house?” Does he hold that an Italian has special license to violate the law? If he dots not regard a Sunday brawl and cutting affray in a saloon as evidence of a person’s unlitness to have a license, what would he regard as suph evidence? If such a case does not justify a revocation of license, what kind of a case would? How does Mayor Taggart construe his oath to see that the laws of the State are executed and enforced within the city?

A WONDERFUL RESULT. The yellow journals and those who ape their methods must be having a season of mourning over the sudden turn which the affairs of the Union Pacific Railroad have taken. These papers have been clamoring for weeks over the sale of the government’s interest upon the terms offered the Cleveland administration. By such a sale the United States would have lost $20,000,000, which is not a great loss compared with the losses which the holders and owners of roads have suffered by the shrinkage of values. A year ago the offer which Mr. Cleveland was in a certain ser.se committed to w r as a good offer. There would have then been no clamor if it had been accepted. It was apparent until ten days ago that the administration would stand by the offer of the syndicate and that the sale would take place Nov. 1, as ordered by the court. The yellow papers and their imitators have assumed that the President has power to postpone the sale, when the whole matter is in the hands of the court. Because the administration has paid no attention to the New York World, tiie New York Journal and the Cincinnati Enquirer and other representatives of yellowism, they have assumed that the offer of the Cleveland syndicate would be accepted. Consequently, they have been raving in bold type over the deal which, they say, the President was permitting to be carried out in the interest of Senator Hanr.a. All this time, it now appears, the administration has been in consultation with the reorganization committee of the Union Pacific. The committee has quietly been making bids, and yesterday the bid was such that the government will lose nothing. It will get its entire claim, something that no one has believed to be possible during the past ten or fifteen years. It is a great achievement for the administration and its party, whose policy has brought to the country the conditions which have made it possible for capitalists to pay $20,000,000 more for the Union Pacific than was offered a year ago. As for yellow journals they must know that their noise has had no effect whatever. They offered no scheme by which the government could get more than was at first offered. They simply shouted “jobbery, corruption, Mark Hanna.” They now know that while they were filling the country vith their clamor the administration was quietly perfecting plans which, as now announced, will let the government out of the Pacific Railroad enterprise without loss. — l> SUGAR-BEET CULTURE. The New Castle Courier contains a report of a meeting of the farmers of Henry county in that city on Saturday to hear what Prof. Wiley, of Washington, had to say in regard to sugar-beet culture. The meeting was composed of representative farmers, and was large enough to entirely fill the courtroom. Several of those present brought specimens of sugar beets which they had raised this year. Prof. W’iley gave them an instructive talk on the subject. Among other things ho said that while some soils were better adapted than others to the growth of sugar beets, any soil that was capable of producing good corn would produce good beets of the requisite per cent, of saccharine matter if properly prepared and cultivated. Ho laid much stress on tho importance of deep plowing in order to give the plants the proper downward growth, and of thinning out the plants so as to get the best results. The sugar-beet crop is not an easy one to raise. That is, it is not a crop that raises itself, and no lazy or slovenly farmer is likely to succeed at it. . Discussing the effect of the sugar-beet crop in enhancing the value of land Prof. Wiley said that in the north part of France, the great beet and wheat-producing section of that country, the annual average yield of wheat had increased from seventeen to twenty-six bushels per acre, and that the value of lands devoted -to beet culture was l’ar in excess of lands in other localities. The pulp from the factory, he stated, Is invaluable as a food for cattle, sheep and hogs, the finest milk and butter In ail Europe being produced In those districts where the cows are fed on beet pulp. With a beet-sugar factory at New Castle he averred that the lands within a radius of several miles, if now worth SIOO per afre, would within five years be considered cheap at S2OO. Among the requisites of a successful beet-sugar factory Prof. W’iley mentioned an abundance of good water and plenty of limestone at hand. These are found in Henry and other counties of the State where the soil and climate are adapted to the growth of the crop. The farmers of Henry county deserve credit for showing so lively an interest in the subject. It is

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one of great Importance to the State and country, and in the promotion of which there should be hearty co-operation. The profits of sugar-beet growing and of beetsugar manufacture are large, and It having been demonstrated that the soil of a considerable portion of tue State is adapted to their culture there should not be great difficulty in getting capitalists and farmers sufficiently interested to embark in the business. The suggestion that daily newspapers be introduced as a special feature or reading exercise in the public schools seems to meet with considerable favor from the press and from some educators. The step is said to have been decided upon in one or two cities. It is one of doubtful wisdom. The object of reading exercises in the public schools is two-fold—first, improvement in the art of reading, and, second, the acquisition of valuable ideas. Perhaps the first of these objects could be as well attained by the reading aloud of newspapers as by any other class of reading, but, with all due respect for its profession and itself, the Journal does not believe the second could. It believes that the habitual reading from books by the best authors or of choice passages from such books, including those which are already recognized as classics or which are likely to become so, is more apt to leave in the youthful mind a residuum of useful knowledge than the reading of daily newspapers. Asa summary of the day’s news and events every issue of a daily newspaper contains more or less matter of no permanent value and some that would better be forgotten as soon as read. It is the function of a daily newspaper to print such matter, and for obvious reasons it is not always in the best form. The haste of preparation and other limitations prevent newspapers from being models of style. The best of them cannot pretend to compete with the classics. Children will learn to read them soon enough; in fact, they begin to read them as soon as they begin to take an interest in current events, but in their school hours they should he given a different sort of diet. It was a matter of general regret and almost of national humiliation that a few months ago a United States war ship had to be sent to Halifax to be docked. If’we are to maintain a navy we must have the necessary equipments and appurtenances. The chief of the bureau of naval construction adverts to the fact in his annual report. “Serious inconvenience,” he says, “has been experienced during the past six months through the lack of proper docking facilities for the first-class battle ships. Had there been a rupture in the peace relations of this country, what has been an inconvenience would have become a positive calamity.” The chief constructor recommends the establishment of five large additional docks and thinks “no expense should be spared in obtaining convenient, efficient, substantial and economical structures, and such as can be ready for use within two years.”

George W. Norman, coroner of Gibson county, returns a three-column verdict in the case of Louis Miller, killed by a freight train. He recapitulates the evidence, and finds thus: At the time of his death said Miller was in a drunken condition, and was attempting to board said train while it was in motion; that his attempt to so board said train was clue to his then drunken condition; that his said drunken condition was caused by the drinking of drunk-making liquors furnished by John Wirtz and Patrick Golden, both of said Princeton—said Wirtz and said Golden each maintaining and operating a saloon for that purpose at said city by authority of the license law of the State of Indiana; that the responsibility for the untimely death of said Miller rests upon the citizens of the State of Indiana who framed and authorized the framing of the said license laws, and who assent to, authorize and uphold the operation of said license laws in the c ounty of Gibson and city of Princeton, and that said citizens of the State of Indiana, by their perverted use of the right of suffrage, are, together with their voluntary agents, the said saloon keepers, guilty of the killing of the said Louis Miller. Mr. Norman evidently believes that it is his official duty to labor for the cause of prohibition. Singularly enough, he neglects to remand the guilty people of Indiana to the attention of the grand jury. The appointment, by Secretary Gage, of Charles H, Ham, of Chicago, as president of the Board of United States General Appraisers, is a good one. Mr. Ham, who, by the way, is a journalist of considerable experience, served many years as appraiser of the port at Chicago, and has the qualifications and experience requisite for the present position. The board will have important duties to perform in connection with the prevention of fraudulent valuations of imports. Dr. Nansen, the Arctic explorer, is being lionized and having a taste of American hospitality at the same time. After his entertainment in New Y’ork he became the guest of the National Geographic Society in Washington, where he had a public reception last night. To-day he returns to New York, where he will have another reception, and will deliver his first lecture in Philadelphia on Friday. ■* • * Rev. D. J. Ellison has been a distinct power in the religious field during his stay in this city, and his departure would be felt as a loss not only in his immediate congregation, but in outside circles. The effort of his church to retain him meets with the sympathy and approval of the general public. A gang of sharpers have worked off about two thousand Mexican silver dollars on Kansas farmers in payment for horses, the farmers being assured that the banks took them at their face value. The discovery that the supposed dollars were only about 50 cents has made them all sound-money men. The chances are that the $40,000 legacy received by a Missouri woman from a rejected lover of twenty years ago is more spending money than she would have had had she married him. This story teaches that a woman should be sure to reject the right man. On Sunday last ninety-one churches in Toronto offered their pulpits to the women orators of the World’s W. C. T. U., and about fifty women accepted the invitation and preached. The response was as surprisingly general as the invitation was liberal. What’s the use of being a Taggart organ during a campaign if Taggart won’t submit to dictation after the election is over? If Dr. Ferguson isn’t reappointed the News will be very, very angry, and may do something perfectly dreadful. October has been a coid, rainy and unpleasant month on the Atlantic coast. The downeasters ought to come West, where the Octobers are of the kind that poets write about. “The cause of socialism” is again receiving serious attention. Unlike that of yellow fever, the former will exist after the frost. Spain Is said to have another aggravated case of determination on hand. The question is, is it real or varioloid? The miraculous supply of quail sent with the manna to the Children of Israel was

as nothing in number to the pigeons sent southward by Andree. Vide every day’s dispatches. “The two Jacks,” whose meeting is looked forward to with the greatest anxiety, are Yellow Jack and Jack Frost. BUBBLES IN THE AIR. The Cheerful Idiot. “The child,” said the shoe clerk boarder, "is father to the man.” “Oh, not always,” said the Cheerful Idiot. “Sometimes it is a girl.” The Result. “How did your bowling tournament come out?” “Well, the pins got bowled over, the losers got bowled down and everybody got bowled up.” A Slave to His Senses. Schemlnskl—Vat? You take a bath efery day? Vat for? Brown—Oh, it makes a fellow feel better. “Chust because it maigs you veel petter? You must pe von of dem ebbicures.” Properly Dneote C Library Assistant—Man came in awhile ago and asked for “The Plutocrat of the Breakfast Table.” Manager—What did you do for him? “Told him to write to Havemeyer about it.” ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Miss Amalia Kussner, the famous young American miniature painter, has finished painting the portrait of the Prince of Wales and has selected! Russia as the field for her work during the coming winter. A Tennessee paper is authority for the statement that Governor Taylor finds hi3 salary of $4,000 Inadequate for his yearly expenses, and it is to aid in supporting himself and family that he goes upon the platform to lecture for money. A little boy had fastened the door and compelled his little sister to stay out in the rain. “Why, Leslie,” said the mother> “open the door and let Dolly in out of the rain.” “I can’t, mamma; we are playing Noah’s ark, and Dolly is the sinner.” Oom Paxil Kruger has just received at Pretoria from England a state coach with silver spread eagles dotted all over the panels and roof, a gorgeous hammer cloth, coats of arms emblazoned on the doors and back and other features of splendor commonly unknown among the Boers. Tradition hands down an awful break made by a well-meaning American gentleman, who. in his embarrassment, genially assured Pope Pius IX that he had had the pleasure of a presentation to his father, the late Pope, many years before. Somehow this remark did not noticeably lubricate the conversation. In an interview with the representative of a South Wales paper Sir Henry Irving makes the interesting statement that he wanted the late Lord Tennyson to make a play of King Arthur, but the laureate seemed to think that, as he had dealt with it in the “Idylls of the King,” he had finished with it, and did not therefore like to make a play of it. Dr. Hamlick, of Vienna, tells of having asked Schumann how he got on with Wagner. “Not at .ill,” he replied. “He talks at such ’a rate 1 can’t get a word in edgeways.” Shortly after this Dr. Hamlick met Wagner and put a similar question to him about Schumann. “I can’t get on with him at all,” replied Wagner. “He just looks at me with a vacant stare and never says a word.” About forty thousand pilgrims a year visit the (supposed) tomb of Eve in a cemetery just outside the walls of Jeddah. Mark Twain's emotion at finding the grave of his relative Adam in a strange land would doubtless have been even greater had he come upon that of Eve. Her tomb, by the way, is about seventy-five feet long, so that the Arab tradition that £ve was a very tall woman seems to have ground of belief. The death of George M. Pullman recalls a story told about his adventure with Abraham Lincoln. In the early days of sleeping cars two men slept in one berth. One day a tall, lanky man engaged a berth from Pullman. Pullman handed him the check, and said; "1 shall sell the other check to that berth to another man of course.” The lanky man wound himself up to his full height, then unwound himself again. “Young man,” he said, “the person who can get into one of your berths when I am wound up in it is welcome to the accommodation.” That man was Abraham Lincoln. Miss Alice Hughes, of London, daughter of Edward Hughes, the famous portrait painter of court beauties, has become the favorite photographer of the aristocracy. Miss Hughes began at an early age by photographing the beautiful portraits made by her father, and, as she grew in reputation, was able to secure original sittings from the nobility and gentry, and lias now attained the “top of the tree,” as our English friends are given to saying, having become the fashion among “the royalties” themselves. Miss Hughes is only twenty-five years of age, but has a charming studio of her own and employs a hundred or more helpers, ’Tis not the dead alone that lie In the graveyards still and drear; Too often do the tombstones tell What isn’t true, I fear. —Cleveland Leader. The square piano has four legs. The grand has three to its frame; The upright has no legs at all. But it gets there just the same. —Chicago News.

VINCENNES POSTOFFICE. Mr. Keith Presents Evidence In Behalf of the Removed Curriers. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: For the sake of truth and justice I am compelled to ask for space to reply to the article of R. E. Purcell published in your paper Oct. 18. The article is full of misrepresentation, evasion and suppression of facts. He does Mr. H. T. Keith, the soldier carrier he removed, a- gross injustice, and not only does he fail to give the facts, but takes particular pains to suppress them and tries to leave the impression, when he knows it is incorrect, that Mr. Keith was inefficient and inactive, and that numerous complaints had been made and that he had ample opportunity to defend charges, etc. But as what Mr. Purcell says concerns the Republican letter carriers more than me, and as they know more than I do as to whether his statements are true or false, they may speak for themselves. The discharged soldier carrier makes his own reply to Mr. Purcell’s reference to him, which is as follows: “I notice in the Indianapolis Journal of the 18th a letter from R. E. Purcell, formerly postmaster of this city. In which he refers to me as the ‘only soldier,’ etc., and goes on to make statements in reference to me, while carrier of this city. His statements are so misleading and some so entirely incorrect that simple justice to myself requires me to answer. He says, ‘carriers against whom charges are preferred are given ample opportunity to disprove those charges.’ That sounds lovely, in theory, but let me present Mr. Purcell’s interpretation of this ruling of the department. When he had a man ready to take my place he notified me that Mr. Greene would take my position, I asked for his reasons for this and what were the charges, if any, against me. His answer was this: ‘Mr. Keith, there are no charges against you. You know how this is; you cannot expect to hold your position (meaning, as I understood it, that as we were Republicans we must give way to Democrats), so if you, Mr. Keith, will go out without making trouble you may continue in your position until you teach the new carrier the route.’ Realizing that resistance would be useless, I went out. Then he goes on to state that the basis of the removal of this ‘only soldier’ was a letter written by a Republican, on my route, making complaint of the nondelivery of a letter addressed to his wife. Now, I am glad he mentioned that letter, for thereby hangs a tale, the true inwardness and two-faced-ness of which does not appear from his statements. The facts of the case are as follows: The man mentioned, Mr. Calendar, had at that time a vicious dog on his premises, so it was not safe for me to enter his yard. I notified Mr. Calendar that I could not deliver mail at his house xintil he made it safe for me to do so. But, at the same time, offering to deliver the family mail at his father’s office, where he was at that time employed; also calling his attention to the fact that the postal laws did not require a carrier to deliver mail where a vicious dog was kept, unless it was made safe for him to enter the prom-

ises. I also, at the same time, called the postmaster’s (Mr. Purcell's) attention to the matter, telling him what I had done In regard to It. He said I had done right in the matter, and he wTote a letter to Mr. Calendar, which he showed me, calling his attention to the clause covering the case, and yet, he knowing the complaint to be without cause, forwarded to the Postofflce Department the letter (as I have since learned) as a charge against me.” When an effort was made, a few weeks ago, to have this soldier reinstated, in the investigation that was made affidavits were produced from neighbors of Mr. E. J. Calendar showing that he had a vicious dog and that it was not safe to go to the house. Affidavits were also procured from the deputy postmaster and one of the letter carriers stating that this soldier carrier was competent and efficient. These affidavits were sent to the department with other evidence, and he received a letter from the department of which the following is a copy: "Washington. D. C., May 24, 1897. T. Keith, Esq.. Vincennes, Ind.: "Sir—l am in receipt of your communication of May 19, in relation to charges which were preferred against you at the time your remival from the service w’as made. In view of the statements made, the department will interpose no objection to your reinstatement if the same is recommended by the postmaster at Vincennes. Very respectfully, E. C. FOWLER, "For First Assistant Postmaster General.” To those who know Purcell’s hatred of Republicans, his feigned admiration for lion. Theodore Roosevelt and the Indianapolis Journal and his honored successor, Mr. Adams, the present postmaster, is not only' amusing but disgusting; but it correctly shows the shallowness and obsequious disposition of the man. , on © of his flings at me Mr. Purcell says: If your valuable newspaper circulated only where Mr. Keith is known,” etc. Look at that sentence. The base flattery of the first part and the insinuating slur of the second part. The trouble with Mr. Purcell is, he knows me too w'dl. Several years ago I had the honor of being one of the Republicans in this county to expose the corrupt Democratic ring and defalcation of SBO,OOO in the Democratic county treasurer’s office, and having Mr. Purcell’s personal friend sent to the penitentiary for three years. Mr. Purcell defended this defaulter to the last and did what he could to cover up his crime till he was exposed. Ever since this civilservice postmaster has had a dislike for thorough Republicans, and every time we have an election and shake up the old dry bones of rock-ribbed Democracy in Knox county, and elect some Republican officers, ar we did at the last election, Mr. Purcell gets mad and begins to call us naughty names in his paper. Os course, we don't care for that, so we just keep right on with our Democratic bone-shaking. So far as my being mistaken in my first article as to who was discharged first, it matters little, as the son of a veteran was first discharged, then a soldier—but they both went and another son of a veteran was discharged last. And for further answer to Mr. Purcell’s statement that charges were always preferred and carriers given ample opportunity to disprove them, let us hear from Dir. Reep, the other discharged son of a veteran, whom I know’ personally to have been one of the most efficient, active and painstaking carriers on the force. Mr. Reep says: "This is to certify that I was a letter carrier in the Vincennes postoffice when Mr. Purcell took the office. I was the only Republican and only son of a veteran on the force when I w ? as removed. Mr. Purcell wrote to the department and recommended my dismissal when it was decided to reduce the force. I was the oldest in service w’hen removed. He told me there were no charges against me, but that I could not expect to continue in service when the tenure was so uncertain. But I learned afterwards that charges had been preferred against me and sent to the department by someone. I learned later from a letter from F. H. Jones, first assistant postmaster general, that Mr. Purcell sent these charges in. Mr. Jones, in his letter to me. says: ‘I have to say that the postmaster is the judge of the efficiency of his carriers, and that he recommended you to be dropped as the least efficient.’ I claim that I was not the least efficient, and there was no evidence going to show that I was. I consider that the charge against me was political only, and that I was removed simply because I was a Republican.” Now’, what do these stubborn facts show? First, that Mr. Purcell told these Republican carriers there were no charges against them, to keep them quiet, whiie he at the same time was working secretly to trump up charges and send them on to the department. Second, that he was professing civil-service reform, but practicing the spoils system theory In Its w r orst form. Third, he had made up his mind, as Mr. Reep said, in one of his letters to the department to get all the Republicans out and Democrats in. He knew about that vicious dog at Mr. Calendar’s, and that that was the reason why Mr. Keith did not deliver mail to the house when he sent a copy of his letter to the Journal for publication. And this is the way the civil-service law has been practiced under Democratic rule here. These are some of the "benefits from the operation of the civil-service law during the past ten years” in the Vincennes postoffice. Under its benign and healthful influence here hypocrisy, deceit, chicanery, suppression of facts, misrepresentation, injustice and unfairness have been practiced without stint. If necessary I could produce overwhelming proof that more faithful and efficient letter carriers never served Uncle Sam anywhere than w’ere E. L. Towmsley, Wilford Reep. H. T. Keith and Fred Egeler. the Republican carriers who were removed by means of deception and fraud just to give places to Democratic carriers. To have removed them because they were Republicans and given their places to Democrats because a Democratic President had been elected and a Democratic postmaster appointed w’ould have been all right, because that is the reason they w’ent out anyway. But the rule should work both -ways. But to remove them on false and trumped-up charges of inefficiency and incompetency is all wrong. These carriers who were successful and proficient in other callings go out of the service of the government dishonored and disgraced, and branded by Uncle Sam as failures. During four years of bloody war this Union soldier was a true, brave and efficient employe; no complaints were brought against him then. He received an honorable discharge. But in times of peace, when this soldier as a civilian has a chance to serve his country, and is doing so efficiently, he receives a dishonorable discharge, not because of his inefficiency, but because a Democratic ward heeler wanted his place. And this is all done in the name of civil service. Mr. Purcell says my articles are the vaporings of a disappointed politician.” I have never asked the government for an office, am not asking for one now’, and don’t know that I ever shall; but this does not prevent me from being Interested in the genera' welfare of my country and of the reign or justice and fair-dealing. I may be pardoned for venturing a word of warning here: If the civil-service law plays such havoc everywhere with justice and truth and honesty and fair dealing between Uncle Sam and his devoted subjects, and permits such practice of chicanery and deception as has been unearthed in its operations in the Vincennes postoffice, and if nothing is done to remedy this evil, the Republican party may prepare, in mv judgment, for a hopeless defeat at the next general election, and the American people may prepare for another gloomy era of a Democratic reign of hard times end failure and deficit and destitution. And the Republican party may lay the resnonsibilitv at its own door. sponsiDimy at JONATHAN KEITH. Vincennes. Ind.. Oct. 25.

WOMAN SUFFRAGE A FAILURE Petition to Be Sent to the Ohio Leffialntnre for Repeal of the Law. CLEVELAND, 0.. Oct. 26.—The Cleveland Board of Elections will petition the Legislature to abrogate woman suffrage In Ohio if concerted action on the part of all election boards of the State can be secured. President Hugh Buckley, of the Cleveland board, says: “Woman suffrage in this county and every other county, as I understand, is a complete and dismal failure. Were it only that I would not object to continuing It, but it costs one-third of the election expenses to maintain it, and this amounts to $13,000 a year. At first the women took the matter as a fad, and five thousand or so registered. During the last registration of four days only eighty-two women registered. That is simply ridiculous. Although only eighty-two women can vote next spring, nevertheless we are obliged tb furnish separate poll books for them at every booth and separate ballots. Their votes must be counted at the board rooms and every book examined at great loss of labor and expense of clerical help. I am decidedly in favor f ' shutting out woman suffrage." Member Carl Claussen was equally emphatic. "It is all very expensive nonsense," he said, “and should be shut out entirely.” Members Elzensperger and Kinney expressed opinions in accord with Messrs. Buckley and Claussen. In the spring of 1595, after the passage of the bill. 5.831 women registered and 4.945 voted. In the spring of 1896 2,728 registered and 1.632 voted—a falling off in one year of 3,113. In the spring of 1897 408 registered and 228 voted, a falling off from the first year of 4,917. At the last registration only eighty-two women regisWomen prominent in the woman suffrage movement were all stirred up by the report that the Legislature would probably be petitioned to abolish woman suffrage in the State, and several expressed themselves this evening as ready to enter a fight to hold off such action on the part of the Board of Elections.

FEVER RECORD OF A DAY SEVEN DEATHS AND FIFTY-NINE NEW CASES AT NEW ORLEANS. No Fatalities at Memphis, bat Seven Patients Added to the Siek List— The Plague in Other Cities. * NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 26.-Past the halfeentury mark the number of new cases of yellow fever had gene to-day by nightfall. The deaths by 9 o'clock had reached five. The new cases were developed from various sections of the city. There is no longer any attempt to establish foci. Cases appear where there has never been fever before, and the doctors say simply that the germs are flying around and that cases are not to be restricted by municipal or geographic boundaries. The official report of the Board of Health follows: Cases of fever to-day, 59; deaths to-day, 7; total cases of yellow fever to date, 1,269; total deaths from yellow fever to date, 145; total cases absolutely recovered, 637; total cases under treatment, 487. This is to-day's record: New Cases—Herman Rothstein, Miss Julia Newman, Miss Adeline Rothkugel, Miss Marie Langloff, May Hergender, Alphonse Burcher, John Francisco, Rosa Roth, Anna Pelle, Ruby Pelle, Theodore Pelle, May Thatcher, John McCartney, Planche, Anna Hart, William Hart, Henry Hart, Miss Clara Dinkel, John Ramos, Jacob Frey, J. T. Moody, Helen Omeara, Alfred Danziger, Rev. Father Blenk, Rev. Father Demsy, Sallie Fleetw’ood. Joseph Shamraux, Agronvisky, Galone Wight, Lilly Neulberger, Florence Meyers, Sister M. Anthony Fleck, Samuel Oaks, Miller, Mary Pendergast, Henry Falls. Frank Herts, A. Bonnocchi, Louise Pedalahose, Fred Marie, John Ujenny, Albert Barilas, John Barilas, Thomas, Blanchard Kiern, Clement Stewart, Mrs. Wilmuth, Walter Allen, Mrs. Alphonse Perrot, Philip Vivini, James S. W. Jirette. Melli, Katie Canneli. Deaths- John Cook, James Bolger, Rosa Roth, John Ramos, Joseph Gravet, W. F. Fahan, Wm. H. Canneli. Spooner’s Cyclers Quarantined. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Oct. 26.—The Chattanooga and Hamilton County Board of Health, at a meeting held to-day, decided to forbid the entrance to this city of the bicyclists who, with Ed Spooner, are making a tour of the Southern cities, because they would come here directly from Memphis, that city being under quarantine on account of the yellow fever. The managers of the local Coiiseum made an effort to secure a modification of the regulation, agreeing to guarantee that the racers should not come into the city and that they would be thoroughly fumigated, but the board was decided, and the races have been declared off. MEMPHIS, Tenn., Oct. 26.—The National Bicycle Circuit was forced to cancel one of its dates in this city on account of the yellow fever. The two Memphis dates were Oct. 25 and 26. The concluding performances were to have been given to-night. The races were abandoned because the county physician feared a gathering of several thousand people would give the disease an unusual opportunity to spread. The National Circuit chasers left Memphis to-night in their two special cars for Atlanta. In Mississippi Towns. MERIDIAN, Miss., Oct. 26. Dr. H. S. Gulley, state health officer, is in receipt of a telegram officially announcing yellow fever at New Albany, Miss. The dispatch adds that the town has been almost depopulated. At Scranton there were twelve new cases to-day and three deaths, as follows: Charles Geboe, formerly of Charlevoix, Mich.; William Bartholomew and William McKay. At Baton Rouge, La., one case and one suspicious case. At Bay St. Louis, seven new cases, as follows: M. Toulme, Aggies Sheerges, Maggie Ansley, John Lorenzo, Brother Agapet, Daniel Doyle, a sister of St. Josephine Academy. One death—Edmund H. Ance. At Biloxi, Miss.—Yellow fever cases under treatment, 87; new cases, 14; total yellow fever cases to date, 541; total deaths to date, 21. At McHenry. Miss.—One new case-VWes-ley Ossman. One death —Mr. Hardee. At Opelousas, La.—There is considerable fever, but a difference of opinion exists among physicians as to the nature of it.

Seven New Cases at Memphis. MEMPHIS, Tenn., Oct. 26.—T0-day’s yellow fever record in this city is seven new cares and no deaths. To-day’s patients are: Mrs. Seeguert, Miss Ida Logario, Albert Logario, E. J. Hatch, W. R. Howard, Mrs. W. R. Howard and W. J. Hillhouse. All of the new cases, with a single exception, are in the southern part of the city, where the original case was discovered. More than a thousand people have le.t the city within the last twenty-four hours. Dr. Thornton, president of the Board of Health, in an interview to-night, ‘aid that he does'not anticipate an epidemic; in fact, he can see no cause for serious alarm. A cold wave is predicted within thirty-six hours, and the health officer believes that the disease has reached its worst stage so far as Memphis is concerned. No Alarm at Cincinnati. CINCINNATI, Oct. 26.—The case of yellow fever which has developed in this city is August Wilkie, a horse trader, of Montgomery, Ala., whose wife has been here about a month. Mr. Wilkie arrived yesterday, and was almost immediately placed under the care of Dr. L. H. Medarls, who, knowing whence he had come, immediately reported the case to the health officer, and after examination it was decided to be a case of yellow fever in mild form. The patient was removed to the branch hospital, where he Is reported in very favorable condition to-day, being able to sit up. The case causes no apprehension, as the conditions for the spread of yellow fever do not exist here, and if they did the branch hospital affords complete isolation. Light Frost In Alabama. MONTGOMERY, Ala., Oct. 26.—The official report of the Board of Health to-day gives ten new cases of yellow fever and one death. New Cases—Harry Hood, Robert Faulks (colored), A. E. Stahl, Kirkland Stahl, H. A. O’Steen, John Phillips (colored), G. B. McClellen, Harry Winter, Wanny Gilchrist and W. E. Posser. Death—Mrs. J. E. Suggs. An official report from Selma to-day says there are no new cases and there has been but one death. There was a light frost this morning. Suspicions Cases in Arkansas. LITTLE ROCK, Ark.. Oct. 26.-The Little Rock bourd to-day quarantined against Bald Knob and Wynne, Ark. At Wynne there are two cases of suspicious fever, the patients being children of a refugee, a railroad man from Memphis. The local physician advised the State Board that the cases possess the symptoms of yellow fever, but, as he is not an expert he awaits an investigation. All towns are taking quarantine measures against Wynne. Decreasing lu Virulence. MOBILE, Ala., Oct. 26.—Three new cases of yellow fever were announcedto-day, the smallest number since the first week of the appearance of the fever. The names are: Alice White, William E. Fincher, A. M. Smith. No deaths have occurred in Mobile proper in the past ninety-six hours. Total cases to date, 219; deaths, 28; recoveries, 127; under treatment, 34. SANARELLI’S CURE. The Noted RacterlologiMt Discusses Ills Yellow-Fever Antitoxin. NEW YORK. Oct. 26.—A dispatch to the Herald from Buenos Ayre3 says: Dr. Sanarelli, who has been in Uruguay for many months, studying the yellow-fever problem, and who recently announced the discovery of a curative anti-toxin for the fever, has been interviewed as to his work. In the first place, Dr. Sanarelli states that American physicians who have been Interviewed as to his discovery are completely mistaken as to its uses. It is not a serum, to be used for inoculation to prevent yellow fever, but a serum which he believes will cure the disease. Dr. Sanarelli said that he had inoculated many dogs, horses and other animals with a serum which was Intended to give them a mild form of fever and immune tbatu. This method he found to be slow,

difficult and varying in its results according to the class of animal on which the experiments were made. In order to immunize a horse he found inoculation would have to be made at intervals covering fourteen months. Then he turned his attention to the experiments which resulted in the discovery of a curative serum. He first Inoculated certain animals In order to give to them yellow fever, then tried his curative serum, with most satisfactory results. Scverai of the animals were almost dead with genuine yellow fever when the curative serum was injected. In each case they recovered. He believes that the same results would follow the same treatment of a person who suffered from the fever, though as yet he has been unable to make a practical test on a man. He states that a human being will not yield so readily to yellow fever. Therefore he may have to make minor changes in his treatment after testing it. The quantity of serum for inoculating animals, he finds, varies, and he expects when he makes a test of the fever patient to find that the quantity will again vary. This, however, he says, can easily be regulated. This new serum, says Dr. Sanarelli, if compared with other serums intended for preventive or curative purposes, will be found to be far above them in efficacy, though it is not yet perfect. Before announcing his final conclusions and the composition of his curative serum. Dr. Sanarelli will try to make a more potent serum for experiment on a fever patient. He will soon leave Montevideo for Rio Janeiro, where he will continue his experiments. CURE FOR CONSUMPTION ♦ DISCOVERY OF DR. HIRSCHFELDER, AFTER TWO YEARS* EXPERIMENTS. ♦ "Oxytnberenllne,” and How It Is Prepared for L T e— Only Five Death* Out of Seventy tunes, 1 SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 26.—Official notice has been received by the Belgian consul, Leon Guastain, that the minister of foreign affairs had transmitted documents concerning Dr. Joseph O. Hirschfelder's consumption cure to the Royal Academy of Medicine, of Belgium, that the academy had commissioned Dr. Van Lair, one of its members, to make an examination. Dr. Hirschfelder has been at work on his cure over two years, during which time he has made hundreds of experiments and spent $15,000 in money. He is one of the most eminent physicians on the coast. Until a few years ago his specialty was brain and nerves. He has also long been an authority on lung diseases. oxytuberculine is made by a long, complicated process. Its basis is the extract of veal, treated with peptone, glycerine and made slightly alkaline. After being sterilized, the germs of tuberculosis are planted in it, and allowed to develop in an incubator, which is kept at a temperature of 38 degrees centigrade. After the surface of the liquid becomes covered with the germs, which take the form of a gray scum, the mixture is subjected to a heat of 100 degrees centigrade, which kills the tuberculosis germs. The fluid is then filtered and the clear, dark, amber liquid resulting is •he tuberculine used. Peroxide of hydrogen is added by a gradual process till the amount absorbed equals the tuberculine. Then 5 per cent, of boric acid is put in the cure and it is ready for use. A council of eminent physicians met at the Lane Hospital in this city yesterday to investigate the new cure. Besides the members of the faculty of Cooper Medical College, to which Dr. Hirscnfelder • belongs, there were present a number of other prominent physicians. Sixteen patients who nad been treated with the new cure were at the hospital for examination. Among those at tne meeting were Dr. Levi C. Lane, president of Cooper Medical College and of the Lane Hosph.il; Dr. Hirschfelder, Dr. Richard H. Plummer, Dr. Charles N. Ellinwood. Dr. A. Barkan, Dr. Charles H. Steele, Dr. Clinton Cushing, Dr. Henry Gibbons, jr., Dr. J. Farnum, Dr. Rixford, Dr. Kignon, Dr. H. C. Hanses and Dr. Riley. Among the patients was Mr. Williams, president of the California Jockey Club. _ast year Mr. Williams was told by Dr. Frank Billings, of Chicago, that he had but six months to live, as consumption had almtWP* done its deadly work. He was treated with oxytuberculine and the doctors at the meeting yesterday declared him absolutely cured. A Sonoma farmer, designated as "J. M.,” was in the last stages of consumption in 1895, when first treated with the new cure. Now he is a well man, working ten hours a day on his ranch. "Miss N. K.,” a Stockton lady, examined by the doctors yesterday, was found to be cured, although a few months ago she seemed doomed. In every case examined the patient was either wholly cured or the disease had been stopped and the victim was recovering. In all Dr. Hirsehfelder has treated seventy cases with oxytuberculine, of which sixteen have been wholly cured, thirty-six show great improvement, and but five have died. The others show little change. The committee of doctors will meet again next Wednesday to make a formal report. Dr. Lane said of the new cure: "I am absolutely certain that Dr. Hirsehfelder has made one of the greatest discoveries of modern times. His consumption cure is marvelously effective. At a recent meeting of the faculty of Cooper Medical College 1 appointed a committee for the investigation of the cure. The committee consists of nearly all the members of the faculty. They had their first meeting to-day. Sixteen of Dr. Hirschfelder'a patients were examined. Their oral statements were taken. Some of them were stripped and a careful, minute, physical examination made. Fourteen were found completely cured, and the other two showed marked improvement. It had been demonstrated by the microscope that each one had consumption.” Dr. Clinton Cushing said: "I was astonished and gratified at what I saw yesterday. The principle underlying the discovery is that the tuberculia shall be modified by peroxide of hydrogen.”

ROOM FOR DEMOCRATS. 434 Republican Policemen Dismissed by Chicago's Chief. CHICAGO, Oct. 26.— Chief of Police Kipley to-day issued an order discharging from the force 434 policemen and appointing in their places a like number of members of the "Star League,” Democratic ex-police-men, who had been discharged under the previous Republican administration. It is the biggest so-called "general order” issued since ex-Chief Badenoch (Republican) issued his famous order No. 13, in May, 1895, discharging 587 men. Chief Kipley’s order drops from the police rolls and retires on pensions three desk sergeants, one detective sergeant and twenty patrolmen. Eight desk sergeants and 393 patrolmen were discharged outright. Chief Kipley says the changes are made in order to put the entire department under civil service. The men discharged, he said, owed their appointments to political influence. Ail the newly appointed officers have passed the civil-service examinations. One notable feature of the order is that the four detectives who did the most conspicuous work on the Luetgert case are discharged. They are Detective Sergeant Wulter Dean, who, it is alleged, found the gold rings in the famous middle vat rtf the sausage factory; and Detectives George Lang, John Cederburg and C. L. Griebenow\ All these men worked in the case under the personal inspection of Inspector Schaack (Republican.) One patrolman removed is Nicholas Michaels, a brother-in-law of Inspector Schaack. The order has caused much excitement in political circles. CHICAGO SWINDLED. Alleged Frauds In the (.ranting of Rebates on Water Hills. CHICAGO, Oct. 26.—Years of fraud, abuse of power and loss of money to the city in its water department have finally been recognized by the mayor and aldermen, and a water commission is to be appointed by Ma>or Harrison, composed of Commissioner McGann, superintendent of the water office, three aldermen and two real estate men. A thorough revision of the present water rates Is contemplated. Expert Harper, who haa been engaged on the water office hooks for time months, has informed the mayor that his report, which will be ready in a few days, will show that fraud aggregating thousands of dollars has been perpetrated by former officials in this department. The report will show that during the past two years rebates to the amount of SIOO,OOO have been grunted without authority. Rebates of 1200,000 or more grunted on authority of past water officials are criticised sharply.