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THE DAILY JOURNAL THURSDAY. DECEMBER 2, 1897. Washington Office—lso3 Pennsylvania Avenue Telephone Culls. Business Office 23S I Editorial Rooms...A S6 TERMS OF SI RSCRIPTIOS, DAILY BY MAIL. Daily only, one month $ .70 Dallv onlr. three months 2.00 Daily only, one year 8.00 Daily. Including Sunday, one year 10.00 Sunday only, one year 2.00 . WHEN FURNISHED 11Y AGENTS. I>ally. per week, by carrier ....loots Sunday. single copy 5 eta Dally and Sunday, per week, by carrier 20 cts „ Y/EEKLY. Reduced Rates to Clubs. Subscribe with any of our numerous agents or •end subscriptions tc THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, Indianapolis, Ind. Persona sending the Journal through the mails In the United States should put on an eight-page paper a ONE-CENT postage stamp; on u twelve or sixteen-page paper a TVVO-OKNT postage •tamp. Foreign 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. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: NEW YORK—Astor House. CHICAGO—PaImer House. P. O. News Cos.. 217 Dearborn street, and Great Northern Hotel. CINCINNATI—J. R. Hawley & Cos.. 134 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T\ Deering, northwest comer of Third atul .leffehson streets, and Louisville Eook Cos., 256 Fourth avenue. ST. LOUIS —Union Npws Company. Union Depot. WASHINGTON. D. cT—ltiggs House, Ebbitt House and Willard's Hotel. Emperor William would seem to be having trouble enough at home just now without seeking It in China and Haiti. Not an American citizen is confined in a Cuban prison at the present time—a fact which will take all the vim out of the Cuban orator in Congress. Those people who are deploring that Congress will soon be In session seem to forget that It is a Republican House and an evenly divided Senate, which makes all the difference in the world. There seem to be more congressmen interested in Cuba than in passing a bill to cut off the abuses of the second-class postal matter, which is responsible for half of the deficit of It is safe to say that the wool dealer of Crawfordsvllle, Ind., who made SIO,OOO by holding 250,000 pounds of wool for an anticipated rise under the Dingley tariff, believes that protection protects. The fact that the gross earnings of the Pennsylvania Railroad last October were $399,000 in excess of those of October, 1596, Is one of the proofs of improved times which Bryanites cannot gainsay. It is reported that the President does not Indorse the postmaster general's scheme for a postal savings bank. He doubtless knows that the government has all the legitimate business it can attend to.

If it should turn out that Germany has designs upon Haiti it would have been better that General Grant's effort to annex it had succeeded in 1870. That no other government may have designs upon Hawaii, It would be better for us to take it now. ft Germany, should assume that a man born in this country, whose father was a German and his mother a native of the United States, is a subject of that empire, It would make a glaring mistake. It is just the same when it makes a similar claim regarding a resident of Haiti. The savage excoriation of Dr. Parkhurst by Richard Croker, the Tammany chief, recalls a recent local incident, differing somewhat in details. Preachers who devote themselves chiefly to intemperate assaults upon those who do not go their way need not be surprised if the latter sometimes strike back. A Republican and a Democratic ex-mayor of Boston who gave that city acceptable administrations hold that it is better to conduct municipal elections under party names than otherwise. The Democratic ex-mayor says if the issues were not on party lines they would turn on religion or some local question which would work greater harm than partyism. The Republican ex-mayor finds party discipline and party responsibility wholesome. The Mexican coffee planters ate reported to be making money in spite of the fall in wholesale prices, because they pay their laborers in depreciated silver and sell their coffee for gold. That was the scheme of the stlverites liko Senator Stewart to enable the United States to compete with Japan. To pay on a silver instead of a gold basis would cut wages 50 per cent. Unfortunately for the silverites, Japan has adopted the gold standard, doubling the purchase power of wages. The popularjirotest against the waste of natural gaS'ts beginning to take practical form. The Madison county case in which the local judge refused to grant an injunction will be appealed to the Supreme Court, and the attorney general will appear for the people. Thus we shall soon know whether that remedy is available. If not, somo other must be found. Meanwhile, cannot the City Council do something towards restraining the waste of gas through the recklessness and dishonesty of consumers In this city? The gas company which is held down by a stringent ordinance on the one hand ought not to be held up by dishonest consumers on the other. The United States, through its minister at Constantinople, has renewed its demand on the Sultan for hi* indemnity for the pillage of several American missions in Turkey. It will have to renew the demand many times and will fail at last unless the demand is backed up with a show of naval force that will bring the Sultan to terms. While General Lew Wallace was minister to Turkey, acting under instructions from the State Department, ho made a peremptory demand on the Sultan for indemnity for outrages on American citizens in Turkey, which has never been settled to this da y. The Sultan palavered and did nothing, as ho will in tills case unless forced to act. Those who have been disposed to regard the announcement that the cornstalk will afford the country anew industry as an exaggeration will be* surprised to learn that •ne factory is in operation in Illinois and another in Kentucky, and that plans for eight more have been completed. This would indicate that tho turning of cornstalks into a valuable product is a coming Industry rather than an experiment. Cornstalk cellulose, as the new product Is called, is an article of commerce already. Those who control the patents assert that there Ais practically no limit to the demand for

it. They predict that ultimately the cornstalk will not be a nuisance when dry in tho fields, but the product of the whole acreage will be utilized. The pure pith of the stalk is worth several hundred dollars a ton. If this use of the cornstalk should reach anything like the proportions which those who have started the enterprises predict, the new industry will add many millions a year to the incomes of farmers in the corn belt, and employment for labor and capital. The thousands of farmers who raise com will have anew source of revenue. In addition to this it has been discovered that the outer covering of the cornstalk, ground Into meal, is worth as much per ton for feed as timothy hay, but the great industry that is promised is in the utilizing of the pith. The fact that the company controlling the processes for making com pith cellulose is capitalized for $50,000,000 would indicate the faith the owners of the patents have in it. CURRENCY REFORM. For nearly a year past, since soon after the last presidential election, and especially since the Indianapolis monetary conference, in January last, the Journal has been arguing the duty of currency reform. It has done this partly because it believed the Republican party was virtually pledged to some action in that direction, but more because it thought public interest required it. Tho tariff question being out of the way the duty of currency reform seems to have become imperative—at least, the duty of facing in the right direction and taking the first step towards a reform which will cure the worst evils of our present system and place It on a solid, stable and healthy basis, commensurate In volume with the business needs of the country and with a degree of elasticity that will make it responsive to every legitimate demand. Whatever the Journal has said on the subject has been said from the standpoint of public welfare and public duty. The question of currency reform is not a partisan one and should not be discussed as such. It is one in which all parties and all classes are alike interested In reaching a right conclusion and having wise action. The Journal still believes it the paramount duty of the hour and the most important matter that will come before Congress at the coming session. For it must come before Congress. It is before the country now, and the President’s message and the forthcoming report of the monetary commission will bring it forward still more conspicuously. Congress ought not to wish to evade it, and cannot do so without a degree of cowardice that will amount almost to imbecility. Os the many plans of currency reform which have been submitted to the monetary commission by persons who have made a study of the question quite a number have been laid before the public. All of these, without exception, recommend either the redemption and permanent retirement of tho greenbacks, or the repeal of the clause requiring the secretary of the treasury to pay them out again when redeemed, and providing instead that they shall only be paid out in exchange for gold. Some of the plans favor the raising of gold for this purpose by the issue of bonds at a low rate of interest which shall also *>e used as a refunding bond and for national banking purposes, while others favor the accumulation of gold without a bond issue. If the latter is feasible, and the Journal believes it is, it is preferable. Anew issue of bonds for refunding and banking purposes, though an entirely legitimate measure, would be certain to excite popular opposition, and that should be avoided if possible. The idea of currency reform needs to be popularized, and to this end public sentiment should, If possible, be conciliated instead of antagonized. If the retirement of the greenbacks could not be accomplished without an issue of bonds then it should be .done, but if it can be accomplished without that, so much tho better. By retirement in this sense is meant repeal of the law requiring the greenbacks when once redeemed to be paid out again as such, thus putting them on a gold basis. For a tlrst step towards currency reform on this line that would be sufficient. This can be done without an issue of bonds, provided the revenues shall increase so as to exceed the expenditures, and thero is reason to expect that will occur within two or three months. The Journal believes the business sentiment of the country would rally strongly to the support of such a measure and that it would pass Congress. It will be wiser for the friends of currency reform to unite in support. of a moderate measure that will probably pass and servo as a first step in the right direction than to take the risk of failure by trying to accomplish too much at once. . NIBBLING AT CHINA. Following close upon Germany’s occupation of Kiaochau bay in southern China comes an announcement that Great Britain has obtained a cession of a sizable strip of territory near Hong-Kong, including some islands off the coast. It is also announced that Germany has her e>e on Shan-Tung, a large coast province of China which juts out into the sea, making a long coast line. When she has acquired that England will probably see another strip that suits her fancy. Germany's alleged reason for occupying Kiaochau was to afford protection for German missionaries in China. Everybody knows what a propagandist of Christianity the German government is. and how thoroughly tho piesent Emperor is imbued with the missionary spirit. He has not yet announced a crusade by the German army for the purpose of carrying the gospel into heathen lands, but who knows what plans he may be revolving in his mind? At all events, German missionaries in China must be protected, and that is the reason why Germany occupied Kiaochau bay. At least, that is tho official statement, and to doubt it would be lese majesty. The reason given for England’s acquisition of a strip of Chinese territory near Hong-Kong is that she may fortify it and increase the garrison. There are no missionaries in her case, at least no pretense of protecting them. When Germany has been in the land-grabbing and territorial aggrandizement business as long as England has she will be more frank and will not think it necessary to find a pious pretext for a military occupation. These operations of Germany and England in the East illustrate the latest and most approved style of territorial extension. It may be called nibbling, in former times when the world was larger and there was more land lying around loose, whole continents or islands as big as continents waiting to be appropriated, the process was different. In those days a European power, especially England, would appropriate half a continent or a whole archipelago at once and by a simple edict make a vast addition to the national domain. But those good old days are passed. Pretty much all the world i pre-empted now, and the acauisi-

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tion of territory is not nearly as easy as it used to be. True, there is Africa, where large areas of land can be wrested from the natives, and European powers are making hay while the sun shines there. But the other continents are all peopled and territory cannot be acquired in great big pieces at a time. It must be nibbled at and bitten off in small slices. This is what England and Germany are doing with China. That is a good country to nibble at, and comparatively a safe one. In the first place, it is so large that a little slice now' and then will scarcely be missed. China contains 4,300,000 square miles—half as much as Russia, considerably more than tho United States, more than France and all her colonies, and nearly twenty times as much as the German empire. China can stand a good deal of nibbling. Moreover, while the Chinese are numerous, they are not warlike. The Chinese empire is not nearly as large as the Russian empire, and Its population is much larger, 403,0)0.000 against 114,000,000, but it affords much safer nibbling. Russia is a bad country to nibble at, and neither England nor Germany shows any disposition to try it. In fact, Russia is in the nibbling business herself, and is likely to get her share of Chinese territory before the process is ended. It may be because of this similarity of tastes, it may be because Russian territory does not tempt the British or German appetite, or it may be because there are no missionaries in that country requiring protection. Anyhow, England and Germany do not nibble at Russia, and if either of them should happen by mistake to swallow a piece of Russian territory they would probably give it up immediately. But China affords safe and pleasant nibbling, and they will probably continue the process until' their appetites are satisfied. So far as the United States is concerned it can afford to let them nibble at their pleasure so long as they confine the operation to China or Africa. Uncle Sam has no interest in that part of the world, but if they undertake to do any nibbling in this hemisphere that will raise a very different question. SPECIAL PENSION BILLS. At the close of the last session of Congress the Journal published an interview with one of the most prominent members of the Indiana delegation in the House, in which he spoke in positive language of the growing evil of special pension bills. Not long ago there were only scores of these: now there are literally thousands. Few of them become laws, but they would be a menace if a lobby should be organized to push them. Many of these special pension bills provide for increase of pensions under existing laws. Os course, there is no lack of pretexts, such as the insufficiency of existing pensions to relieve the needs of those now enjoying them, the assumption being that the purpose of a pension is to place the recipient above need. It scarcely need be said that such an assumption is baseless. Pension laws are not based upon such a theory, but, on the contrary, on the assumption that the recipients have rendered the Nation a service in which they received injury, and the pension is based upon the nature of the disability. If pension laws were based upon the theory that government is under obligation to maintain pensioners in comfort, it could not raise sufficient revenue to do it, since some would regard comfort as involving a cost of $2,000 a year. Another class of special pension bills are those for men who cannot obtain pensions under existing laws. They were not soldiers, or some sort of disability attaches to them, like desertion. They should have no consideration whatever. In fact, no man should be allowed to prosecute a claim who cannot bring evidence of an honorable discharge. During ten years a commission was in existence to consider every case of charge of desertion and to remove those charges when there was evidence to justify it. It is fair to assume that all those who could present such evidence had their records set right. The pension laws of the United States are liberal in the extreme, and nearly all the rulings have been to broaden their application. The pension ranges from $6 to over SOO a month. Such being the case, no special pension bills should be passed, because general laws are sufficiently liberal. Furthermore, to pass a few thousand such bills is not only an injustice to other pensioners, but the fact will cause most of those who have just as good claims to beset congressmen who already have all the work and worry in connection with pensions that they have time for.

Papers which should know better are declaring that it would take $835,000,000 to redeem the outstanding currency obligations of the government. This is absurd, yet many people may believe it. According to the last treasury statement the paper currency in circulation is as follow s: Gold certificates $36,814,109 Silver certificates 372.838,919 Treasury notes, act 1890 101,759,955 United States notes 255.998 998 Currency certificates, act 1872 48,283,000 Total $818,694,951 Every dollar of gold certificates has a dollar of gold in the treasury to redeem it, so that disposes of the first item. The same is true of the silver certificates. For every dollar of treasury notes outstanding there is silver bullion in the treasury to coin into dollars for its redemption. Here is a total of $500,919,933 of the $515,634,981 disposed of without any provision for redemption, because it already exists. This leaves $317.781,50S of outstanding paper money. The latest treasury statement shows that the government holds $153,417,732 of gold coin and $19,678,005 in silver dollars against which there is no charge—a total of $173,095,829, which, deducted from the outstanding paper money unaccounted for above ($317,781,995), leaves $114,656,169 as the approximate amount of outstanding paper which is not covered by coin. The current issue of the Capital, published at Washington, contains an excellent portrait of Hon. Perry S. Heath, first assistant postmaster general, and an article over his signature on "Civility in the Civil Service,” concluding as follows: The people are at least entitled to civility ar.d promptitude of service from every employe of the Postoffiee Department. They might even ask more and expect a disposition to step outside the mere routine of office duty for the purpose of giving them information, or facilities connected with the service. When they receive less than proper courtesy it is. in my opinion, time for the department to step in. So long as I remain first assistant postmaster general I am determined that in all the branches of the service over which I exercise any control there shall be civility in the civil service. Politeness, civility, courtesy, patience, kindness—all of these qualities should be meted out to the public by ail persons in the public service, and without respect to class. The matter of civility in the civil sendee is one of equal importance to the government and the public. It is important to the government to be represented by civil and obliging officials, and certainly the people have a right to expect prompt and polite

attention from those whom they pay for such sendee. Mr. Heath has the right view of the subject. The prospective transfer of Mr. Blcknell to charity work in Chicago has called out a number of applicants for the position of secretary to the Board of State Charities. The secretary of the board is its executive officer and right arm, and its success depends largely on his fitness and ability. It is important, also, that our recent reform legislation should be intelligently and conscientiously administered. For these reasons it is to be hoped the board will be careful in its selection of anew secretary. If there Is any favoritism or yielding to “pulls” the board may work injustice upon itself and upon the State as well. On Massachusetts avenue, rear New Jersey street, somebody is tearing a house to pieces, and as it is convenient and aids in tho work, he has for two days completely barricaded the entire sidewalk, compelling thousands of people to turn aside and walk in the street. A city with a model charts - and government should be able to put a stop to this sort of imposition on the rights of the public. The Cobden Club of London will at least have a chalice to saddle its assured and speedy disintegration upon that unlucky number thirteen. That was the number in attendance at the last meeting of the club. The cause of free trade is deader than ever, and the world will be charitable enough to the club not to say, “I told you so,” and to let it go as another instance of the deadly thirteen. Whatever concerns Indianapolis concerns all its citizens. The question whether the 1898 meeting of American wheelmen shall be held here is one of considerable importance. The effect of such assemblages is cumulative and each one aids in advertising Indianapolis as the ideal convention city. For this reason all should unite in pushing along the movement to land the wheelmen's meet here. The Board of Public Works was guilty of a gross impropriety, to say the least, in charging and allowing against the city for a carriage used by its members at the funeral of a deceased official. The controller was right in refusing to allow the bill of S2O for tlowers, and he should disallow the carriage bill also. Such business should be nipped ii the bud. John. Chinaman has had a thought and wants his head rubbed. He lias found that he can get Great Britain to defend all his coasts. All he has to do is to give Great Britain the aforesaid coasts, and she will defend them to the bitter end. It is as simple and practical as the Irishman’s plan for selling his frying pan to to cook in it. If the armed young woman who is creeping surreptitiously across the continent with an arsenal on her person and a corps of correspondents to help her keep secret the object of her visit gets hold of “Lucky” Baldwin she may amputate that pseudonym, at any rate. Martin Thorn, harner-llke, cannot stop talking. First he says he didn’t kill Guldensuppe, then he says he did, then he says he didn't say he did. He appedrs to be something of a liar himself. Persons should not for one minute understand that “The North American Wrecking Company” is another name for the Bryanite party. BUBBLES IN THE AIR. The Mean Man. She—lt takes more skill to ride a wheel than it does to drive a, UoFse, He—The ideal can ride a wheel. BleHKlngft of IfninelineM. "Fine feathers,” said the crow, as he watched the women on their way to Christian worship, “lino feathers make shortlived birds.”

The NVay It Huppenetl. “Whatever do you Suppose possessed Mark Twain to get into the Austrian mob and yell for the Germans?” "Maybe he didn't know how to yell in the Czech language.” Unkind Comment. “No, sah, I haven’t seen the old State fo’ twenty yeahs, but once a Kaintuckian, always a Kaintuckian, sail.” “I wouldn’t fed that way about it. You are just as respectable in the community as anybody.” ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Septimus Winner, the composer of the popular song, “Listen to the Mocking Bird.” written in 1855, celebrated his golden wedding the 25th of November. Miss Minnie Power, of Lockport, N. Y., is eight feet In height lacking one inch. She is the tallest woman in the United States. She is handsome in spite of her abnormal proportions. Prof. George Lincoln Goodale, of Harvard University, says that there are now about 200,000 species of plants, divided into flowering and flowerless plants, and although nearly all of the flowering varieties might be used for food, only about one thousand are so used and only three hundred are frequently. A large hall named after Paul Revere, lias been dedicated in Boston by the Charitable Mechanics’ Association. Revere was the founder and first president of the association, and the principal address of the dedicatory exercise was delivered by Frederick W. Lincoln, great-grandson of the patriot and ex-mayor of Boston. A unique and interesting gift is being prepared for Dr. Nansen by several Russian lady admirers. This consists of a carpet, on which is a map of the north polar regions, handsomely embroidered in silk; the places visited by the explorer In his recent famous voyage of discovery being embroidered in gold and silver thread. A statement recently made by the Society of New England Women that there is to be found no descendant of Priscilla Alden. of Mayflower fame, is proved to be incorrect. A little girl about twelve years of age, named Priscilla Mullens Alden, who lives in the old Alden homestead, at Duxbury, Mass., which was built in 1653, is ninth in descent from Priscilla and John Alden. A young woman entered a New' York book store the other day and timidly asked for “the beth book.” “Oh, yes,” answered the salesman confidently, not misled by her lithp. "we have them all—Sir John Lubbock's ‘one hundred best books.’ ” “No, I mean the beth book. Sarah Grand's.” And with a sudden realization, the man behind the counter produced a copy of “The Beth Book.” Danton is to have a street named after him in Paris, in a spot replete with bloody memories. The thoroughfare begins close to the place where the leonine triumvir first set up as a barrister, and in a neighboring house his colleague, Marat, perished by Charlotte Corday's dagger. A little further on is the home of Dr. Guillotin. and not a hundred yards beyond is the spot where the worthy doctor’s invention was tested on Danton’s stout neck. Princess Louise, Duchess of Fife, lives her own quiet life, among the hills of Braemar, doing her errands like the wife of a crofter. The Duchess of Fife is the wonder of the district, and many an uppish dame lias been inclined to sneer at the modestly dressed young lady who enters a village shop, orders a pound or two of that, a few' yards of ribbon, etc., and carries them off to her carriage, as if she were doing part of her day’s work. M. Czernik, the w’ell-know’n Russian chemist, has examined two minerals from the Caucasus, with very noteworthy results. One of them is a kind of coal, the ashes of which contain a considerable quantity of the new' element helium, along with several rare and precious earths used in the manufacture of incandescent mantels. The other is called cerite, and consists mainly of the new' element arirou. The most remarkable

thing is that these two new elements have never before been found In minerals in a pure state, but only in chemical combination with other elements. The man who lies is mean. And so is the man who steals; The man who cheats is a sinner, and Should be hung up by the heels. But the meanest and lowest of all the rogues That flourish under the sun Is the fellow that takes the credit for Good work some other has done. —Cleveland Leader. GEN. HARRISON’S STORY ♦ AMI SING INCIDENT ISED TO INTRODICE EX-SECRETARY NOBLE. Partiue Students Listen to a Lectare on “Relations of Railroad Corporations to the Public.’* Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYETTE, Ind.. Dec. I.—General Harrison and ex-Secretary of the Interior Noble visited Purdue to-day. Mr. Noble came specially to address the students on “The Relations of Railroad Corporations to the Public,” and General Harrison accompanied his old friend, giving him an introduction to the crowd' of students and visitors that put every one in a happy frame of mind. President Smart first introduced General Harrison, who began by relating the following incident from his own experience: “I have sometimes been the orator, where the duty of introduction devolved on a man whom I had previously thought to be my friend. I have sometimes suffered fvonv.the effect, as the person who was to do the (introducing has sometimes misconceived the situation, and thought he was to make the speech rather than I. I am not going to fall into that mistake to-day. Once in southern Indiana, in a campaign, I was told there was a gentleman holding the audience for my arrival, and when we came down to the platform, and the little stir that was made advised him of my presence, he turned and said; “ ’The distinguished orator who is to address you is now present, and I must bring my remarks to a close.’ “However, it was not convenient for him to close just then, and he went on. After a half hour he was reminded that I was there, and he again reminded the audience, in turn, that the ‘distinguished orator’ was present, but still he had not found a fitting place to close. “At first I was out of temper, but presently the humor of the situarion got hold of me, and I interposed to prevent those having the meeting in charge from putting him down. I said to these gentlemen that I thought it was the most humorous performance I ever attended, although it was not billed as such. (Laughter.) He went on speaking until the drums were beating to assemble the people w-ho were there, and who were going home, and I didn’t make a speech at all. . _ , .. “I am here only to present General Noble, a gentleman with whom I was not very much acquainted when I asked him to take up his laborious portfolio of the Interior Department at Washington; a gentleman with whom I became very well acquainted in the four years of our close personal and official intercourse. The Impressions that I had of him were enlarged and magnified by these years of personal contact. He was a most intelligent, public-spirited, conscientious and devoted public officer and left a record in his department of which I was proud, and of which he ought well to be proud. Ho is here to speak to these young men this morning, and he will give you words of instruction, for the youths of our land are about the only ones that it does any good to talk to. The grown people are either saved or spoiled already, and you can’t do much with them.” (Applause.) General Noble's address was largely devoted to the questions of railroad indebtedness and capitalization, and he argued that the practice of watering stocks, manipulation of stock markets and the forcing of weaker companies into the hands of receivers w T as an unpardonable violation of every corporate obligation. The speaker contended that the writ of injunction issued to prohibit a lawless attack on property was an efficient process of law to secure at least a fair hearing on the merits of a case, and prevents the destruction in advance of the very central right to be brought before the court for its consideration and determination. Injunction, he ueelared, was the result of experience and wisdom, and it w r as entitled to confidence as a means of administering justice. The plea for trial by jury at such a time, he said, would be akin to that which would disarm the state from protecting its courts, its mails, its treasury or any of its property, by its own right hand, and compel it to wait the consent of its constituents, whether States or citizens.

HOMES fOR THE POOR. Salvation Army to (iinlle the Globe with a Chain of Colonleti. NEW YORK, Dec. I.—There was a great audience in Carnegie Hall last night when Commander Booth-Tueker, of the Salvation Army, unfolded his plan to colonize the unemployed. It is his intention to have his plan in operation within six weeks. The colony is to be settled in western Colorado, and territory enough to accommodate several thousand persons has been obtained. Commander Booth-Tucker said: ‘’The plan of the Salvation Army is to transport the surplus population from our cities to the vast tracts of fertile lands which have been placed at our disposal, varying in extent from 1,000 to 400,000 acres and including twenty-three different States in the West and South. Smaller tracts have also been offered to us in the East, and it is our purpose to form a chain of colonies which shall girdle the continent with hope and shall form stepping stones from the dismal abyss of poverty to the happy homes of prosperity which shall constitute our poor man’s paradise. In the fertile valley of the Arkansas, in Colorado, tens of thousands of acres await us, with a climate and soil which can hardly be surpassed. “It is our purpose to divide up these tracts of irrigated land into five and ten-acre blocks, to erect on them a small cottage and to make such preparations that may be necessary for the welfare of the colonists. Not only is the land there, but the colonists are eagerly awaiting the signal to take possession of it with an alacrity that has surprised us. They have responded to our call from every portion of the United States. They will be selected with the utmost care and planted by us where there is everv prospect of their success. There is only one missing link required to perfect the chain. To carry out the plan on the large scale which shall be worthy of our Nation and worthy of the emergency which faces us will require a considerable amount of capital. This we do not propose to ask for in the shape of gifts, but as loans, bearing interest at per cent, and repayable in a period of ten years. We propose to raise- immediately a fund of *IOO,OOO, with which we shall be able to place two hundred fami.ies of one thousand souls upon two thousand acres of good irrigated land. We shall form a co-operative loan association, thus enabling the colonists to have some money in hand for the purchase of stock.” When the blanks had been circulated among the audience it was announced that Elizabeth Livingston had given SI,UCO. a ’.secret subscriber’’ $5,000. ex-Governor Flower SSOO and John E. Milhnlland SI,OOO. There was a large number of smaller subscribers and at the close of the meeting it was stated that near y $30,000 toward the movement had been CLAY’S CHILD WIFE ILL The General Says Site Will Return Home If She Lives. WHITEHALL. Ky., Dec. I.—The following letter has just been received from Gen. Clay: “Dear friend: Dora sends by messengers ’ovlng letters and denies all said to her injury. She was thrown from a vicious horse and dragged by the foot in the stirrup to possible death. The intent of our enemies. She will return if she lives. God help us. Your friend, C. M. CLAY.” The general is not well enough to go to the bedside of his seriously sick wife, and he is bowed with grief. There is no doubt that Dora wishes to go home, especially since the terrible quarrel by her sick bed last night between her brother CleH and her sister. Mrs. Leroy Kelley. She thinks her relatives are quarreling over her because of the money General Clay gives her. Her condition la verv serious.

ROBBED OF HER $65,000 . VERDICT IN FAVOR OF MRS. FIONE VAN SCHAACK SET ASIDE. , * Wife of n Chicagoan Who Sued Her Millionaire Fnther-ln-Laiv for Alienating Her Husband's Affections. NEW YORK, Dec. I.—Upon the application of a lawyer representing the defendant, Judge Smith, of the Supremo Court, Brooklyn, to-day set aside the Verdict of $65,000 recently given Mrs. Fione Van Schaak by a sheriff's jury in the undefended action brought by her against her father-in-law, Peter Van Schaak, for the alienation of her husband’s affections. -The application was made on the ground that the verdict was excessive and that the sheriff had no jurisdiction in the case. Mrs. Van Schaak’s lawyer consented to the dismissal, as he had already instituted two suits in Chicago against the defendant, one for criminal libel and the other for alienation of affection, each for $65,000. Peter Van Schaak is the head of the largest wholesale drug house in Chicago. He is said to be many times a millionaire, and is president of the Holland Society of that city. His son, John C. Van Schaak, is well known throughout the West and in Chicago, and was called “Handsome Johnny.” At present he is ill in a hospital In Baltimore. Sheriff Buttling presided at the trial at which the jury awarded Fione $65,000. Mrs. Van Schaak w-as the chief witness. She testified to her marriage and produced letters showing that her father-in-law had made repeated attempts to persuade his son to leave her. Among these were documents showing that she had been offered by the elder Van Schaak the sum of SI,OOO on the installment plan to agree to a divorce. '* John Van Schaak and Fione Palmer met in Florida In 1888. At that time Mrs. Van Schaak was sixteen years of age and John Van Schaak was engaged to marry a Chicago woman of great wealth and high social position. The breaking off of the engagement and his capitulation to the witching graces of the youthful Fione estranged him from his father and the rest of his family. The couple after marriage lived in Chicago for a while and were well known there. The Van Schaak set utterly ignored them. A child, a boy. was born to them in 1890. Mrs. Van Schaak went to Europe In 1895 and was entertained and chaperoned by royalty in Paris and London. She asserts, and produced letters to prove it, that her husband paid her bills for this trip. One letter from him says that he was looking “forward to the happy time when you will turn your pretty little nose toward home,” and another, under date of April, 1895, says: “My Dear Darling Wife—Don’t worry about that gossip any further. I love you and trust you. Do anything you please. Snap your little fingers at the whole pack of them and have a good time. Your devoted JACK.” Mrs. Van Schaack eventually reached home, only to find that her husband was in financial difficulties. They lived in New Orleans for a w-hile and then went to New York, where her husband secured employment as manager of one of Hudnut’a Broadway stores. He soon became ill, however, and lost his position. Mrs. Van Schaack, who had acted In amateur performances and had been told by her friends that she was a good actress, went on the stage to support her husband and baby. She played an engagement with Milton Nobles and was connected with other theatrical companies. While she was weeping in melodrama John was hustling for a Job, and he secured one. In March, 1897, he went away on a trip and failed to return. Previous to this there had been domestic difficulties, and at one time their little boy had been kidnaped, supposedly by emissaries of Peter Van Schaack. At the time John Van Schaack left his wife the boy was in a private school in Westchester county. New York. He was taken away from this institution by the father last summer, but Mrs. Van Schaack recovered him. It was the letters of her husband that won Mrs. Van Schaack’s case, the verdict of which has just been set aside. She had a great bunch of them. The first of these produced in court and identified by Mrs. Van Schaack was one written by her husband to his sister, Mrs. Jennie Simmons, in 1892. In this letter he referred to certain slanderous statements which had been circulated in Chicago concerning his wife, and declared his belief in her innocence. Concerning an anonymous letter he had received, making charges against his wife, ho said: “The man who wrote it must have a devil’s hoof and a cow-ard’s heart.” Other letters were produced showing that John regarded her as his “sweetheart,” his "darling,” his “baby mine” and other sweet possessions for a great many years. Last summer John went home and had a talk with his father. The elder Van Schaack succeeded in gaining from John a promise that he would leave his wife and again John fell to writing letters. He insinuated that his father was willing to pay as much as SI,OOO if Fione would agree to a divorce and give up the child. If Mrs. Van Schaack ever gets the money she is after the stage will lose her. It is said to be her intention to star in a society drama telling the story of her life. A manager of this city stands ready to put the drama on and guarantee that it will be a success. He figures on playing a long and profitable season in Chicago, whether he does anything on the rest of the circuit or not.

COCOS ISLAND TREASURE. Crnlser Amphion Relieved to Have Removed the *30,000,000. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Dec. I.—lt Is believed by this time that the $30,000,000 treasure of Cocos island is safe on board the British cruiser Amphion. This is indicated by the news brought from Guatemala by the United States gunboat Alert. While she was in port the Amphion arrived from Esquimault and immediately sailed for Cocos island. Some of her men, however, gave more information of the trip of the British flagship Imperieuse to the island, and this shows that the search was far more successful than was supposed. It seems that when Admiral Palliser went to the island with the flagship in October he landed a party of men, and, guided by a man named Harford, they commenced digging in a certain spot. At a depth of about six feet they uncovered a large square slab of granite that had once been some sort of an inscription. A tackle was rigged and the block of granite removed, disclosing the entrance to a sort of tunnel. At this point the sides of the excavation caved in, completely tilling up the hole and almost burying a number of the exploring party. Being unable to proceed with the facilities at hand, the Imperieuse sailed for home. A few days after the Imperieuse arrived at Victoria the Amphion returned to that port from Cocos ismnd. Admiral Palliser, acting, presumably, by the authority of his government, dispatch' and her to San Jose tie Guatemala, where she arrived while the Alert vas at that port. She left the same day for the island. HYPNOTISM iN SCHOOLS. Effect of the Craze Started toy a Teacher, Who VVhm Forced to Resign. SHEBOYGAN, Wis., Dec. I.—The school authorities have made astonishing discoveries in their investigation into the results /of Prof. George W. Ferguson’s hypnotic experiments in the public schools. Demonstrations have been made in all ward schools, the High School alone escaping. Pupils of all ages, from the tiny tot in the kindergarten to the youths bordering on manhood, have been used as subjects. Os the hundreds of children Professor Ferguson has hypnotized none has suffered injury in any way, but the effects are shown in the hundreds of young Svengalls that are found in the various grades of the school. Boys of ten, twelve and fourteen years have become experts in control, and they And their subjects among their little play-fel-lows. Girls in short dresses have taken up the mysteries of the science and have experimented on their younger brothers and sisters. Little groups of loys and girls that assembled in the halls and playrooms or on the grounds of the school buildings, and who before the exposure of Professor Ferguson’s classes In hypnotism were supposed to be discussing verbs and percentage, are now known to have been deep in the mysteries of hypnotic suggestion und control. One of the most sensational facts brought out at the meeting last evening of the School Board, when Professor Ferguson

was dismissed because of his hypnotic experiments, related to a demonstration of hypnosis in the Fourth ward school a week ago. It was charged by a commissioner that recently Professor Ferguson visited the Fourth district school, and after th# close of the study hours Invited the older pupils to remain. Then the windows were covered with curtains and the transom darkened and a dozen or more of the pupils were placed in hypnosis. The experiments continued for an hour. Another cas# was that of a six Year-old girl named Alker, a pupil of the Second ward school. She was called into Professor Ferguson s resi- . dence and hypnotized. She was then told that dogs were pursuing her, and the fright and nervous shock seriously affected her. A few days later the little one was in school and Prolessor Ferguson attempted, in th* presence of the teacher, to place her in hypnosis, but the experiment failed. At the next meeting of the City Council an ordinance will probably be introduced prohibiting the practice of hypnotism in the city and punishing offenders by a heavy fine. The feeling inspired by Professor Ferguson's experiments is intense, LOVERS’ DtflD LINE. Young Woman'll Suitor Beaten by Hu Father for Fussing a Troehu. CHAMBERLAIN, S. D., Dec. I.—A cas* tried at the last' term of the Circuit Court in Grant county which ekeited considerable attention was that of Robert J. Ewing, nineteen years of age, against Tdathias S. Druecker, a prominent merchant, for $2,000 damages for assault and battery commftted upon him on the night of Sunday, July 4. On the night in question Ewing accompanied the eldest daughter of Druecker home from church. W hile the old man has been married twice, and in his younger days undoubtedly enjoyed the pleasure of walking home with young women, he insists that none of the young men snail keep company with his daughters. The boys who nave .ived near the family for some time understand the old man’s temper, and peculiarities, and when escorting the daughters home take the precaution of blading mein good qpght at an adjacent street corner. Young Ewing, nowever, who was a comparative stranger a id not aware of the existence of the old man's trooha, walked, boiuiy up to the. garden gate with the young woman. just us lie nlted his hat to make a upw preparatory to walking away lie was rudely and violently accosted by tno irate lather, who imormeu him mat he wanted him to go into me house, where he count get a look at ‘him. Having the young mail at a serious Misadvantage, the old man was able to force hi m into the dwelling. Druecker’s two sons were on hand and assisted, and Ewing tsetilied that ail three pounded him unmercifully. His testimony was corroborated by witnesses vYho chanced to be passing the house at the time. Finally Ewing succeeded in escaping irom their grasp. He rushed from the house, his three assailants following nan some distance. So severe were his injuries chat it was a month before he was able to be about. He then consulted an attorney and the s2,ut)o damage suit was the result. Druecker engaged three good attorneys and the case was bitterly contested. It occupied the time of the court and a jury for more than a day, and the jury was out about ten hours. Eleven jurors wore practically agreed upon a verdict of ssiw, hut the twelfth would not consent. They finally compromised upon a reasonable amount. The affair cost Druecker nearly s4do. Nevertheless, in future the dead line tor his daughter’s escorts will remain at the adjacent corner instead of at the garden gate.

TITLED MAIDEN ELOPES * COUNTESS FERSELEW WEDS A POOR WISCONSIN CHORE ROY. * Three Generations of Rouiantic Marriages in tlie Family of the Yonnjg Woman—A Time-Honored Custom. * JANESVILLE, Wls., Dec. 1.-For three generations back the maternal ancestors of tho Countess Ferselew had eloped or married against opposition, so when Miss Alice Arthur Starrett, holder of the title by reason of inheritance under the laws of Denmark, quietly married Robert C. Tetzlaff, a poor chore boy, yesterday, without telling any one about her plans, she may have simply followed out a “family custom.” Educated at the convent at Lemurs, France, and having had every advantage wealth and station could command, the countess chose a poor student who cared for the fires and did other chores about the home of the proprietor of the school that ho attended as her life partner. Thus was tho nuptial romance that runs through the three generations rounded out by the winsome young countess and the embryo telegraph operator yesterday, when the young couple went quietly to the jlomc of the Rev. G. Kaempflein, of the t German Lutheran Church, and wero married. Then, as the young woman’s ancestors had done before, they took the first train oat of town to wait for the cloyds to roll by. During the civil war J! B. Doc, former president of the First National Bank, was one of the leading men of this part of the country. He had a daughter, Miss Martha, who was popular with ail. About this time Count Ferselew'came to America, the story goes, to fight for the federal cause. The count met pretty Martha Doe and fell In love. The attachment was mutual, but it is said that the parents did not look with favor on the proposed union. One day, however, the young couple decided to end it all by getting married, and did so. Their nuptial sky was rosy with bliis for a time, but later count Ferselew and his wife separated, he returning to Denmark and she remaining in the United States. One child, a daughter, was the result of this union. This was the romance of the grandmother. The daughter grew up and became tair to look upon, and when Captain Starrett, a hand-ome soldier, fell In love with her, she reciprocated. but her relatives refused to sanction their wedding because of the youth of tho girl. Love, us usual, found tim way. however. An elopement was planned and carried out. To this couple also a daughter was born, and estrangement followed, the husband and wife separating. I his was tho romance of the mother. Like the other daughter who was horn to elope Alice Starrett grew up and became fair to look upon. One day a message came to her from Denmark, and she went to that country to become identified with the noble house of Ferselew. Education and polish were necessary, so it was decided to send her away to school. The famous convent at Uerr.ars was selected. Here the good nuns devoted their time to the pretty girl from America, who was to be the heir of her ruble grandfather. They taught her to sing and to Play, to paint, to embroider, and to rp.ak five languages. Then the count died The pretty young American girl was his heiress, and as she had learned all the accomplishments that the convent could afford her. she was presented at court and her title of countess officially recognized. Shortly afterwards the countess returned to America. Her srandmoiher. Mrs. Fersclew and her great-grandmother. Mis. Doc. were still living here, so the young countess came to Janesville. Her stay, it was tald. would be brief. Time passed and the countess remained here. She was a good-looking young woman, under twenty years of age. She gave lessons in painting, embroidery anil French to pass away t.ie time, it was natural she should notice the good-looking students, who passed her home each day on their way to a local school of telegraphy. The couple met by appointment yesterday morn ng, and fifteen minutes before the Milwaukee train left they appeared at tho depot as man and wife. The bride had leftno message at home whatever. \ Mrs. Ferselew, the countess’s grandmother is a sister of J. B. Doe, who was assistant secretary of war under President Cleveland. _ The Lexow Inquiry Recalled. NEW YORK. Dee. 1. -. Corporation Counsel Scott has recommended to the ooara of police commissioners Hie reinstatement of John L. Stephenson as captain cr police. Captain Stepht neon was dismissed from the torce in 1894 on his conviction of accepting a basket of peaches as a brine tor nonenforcenient of the ordinance against the obstruction of sidewalks by merchants in the down-town district. The conviction was recently review* and and reversed by a higher couri. The captain's reinstatement will carry with it the payment of slo.woo ° r back salary. Liggett Left *3,500,000. ST. LOUIS. Dec. I.—letters of administration on the estate of the late John ELiggett, the millionaire tobacconist, wrre to-cay taken out by his widow, who was made executrix. The estate was valued at Rtmooo.