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THE DAILY JOURNAL TUESDAY, JANUARY 4. 1898. Wasbiflgtoa Office—lso3 Pennsylvania Avenue Telephone Call*. Business Office 23S I Editorial Room*...AW TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DAILY BY MAIL. Dally only, one month t *7O Dally onlr. thrve months LOO Daily only, one year L®* Dally, ir,< lading Sunday, one year 10.00 Sunday only, one year LOO WHEN FURNISHED BY AGENTS. Dally, per jverk, by carrier *5 c * B Sunday, single copy cts Dally and Sunday, jier week, by carrier ai cts _ WEEKLY. M Per year 11.00 Reduced KntCM to U'lul. Subscribe with anr of our numerous agents or ■end subscriptions to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, Indianapolls, Ind. Persons serding the Journal through tbe mails In the United States should put on an eight-page paper a GivK-CENT postage stamp; on a twelve or sixteen-page paper a TYVO-CENT postage ■tamp. Foreign postage is usually double these rates. AH communications Intended for publication In this paper n.uet, in order to receive attention, be accompanied by the name and address of tbe writer. is;. , rjt.. ■ "" 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. P.. Hawley & Cos.. 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE— C. T. Deerlng. northwest comer of Third a 1 Jefferson streets, and Louisville Book Cos., 25C Fourth avenue. BT. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot. Washington, and. c Riggs -House, Ebbitt House and Willard’s Hotel. If Senator Hanna should be elected, his experience should lead him to a material modification of his method of treating men In his own party with whom he does not agree. It is not altogether impossible that those who are now crying “deficit” will, within two years, be complaining of the Dingley law because it takes too much revenue from the people. Four years hence the precedent Senator Foraker’s friends are making in the Ohio Legislature may be used to his undoing. If chickens do not always come home to roost, buzzards do. It may be remarked to those persons who attribute the setback, in the manufacture of cotton to the Dinrfey tariff that its cotton schedule is substantially the same as that of the Gorman-Wilson law. When John Kelley was the head of Tammany he took all the power from the voters and vested it in one thousand members. Mr. Croker has reduced the one thousand to thirty-seven, which makes dictation easier. One of Mr. Kurtz's reasons for not supporting Mr. Hanna is that he was shaky on the silver question in 1895, going so far as to ask the state committee to stop him (Kurtzt from pushing the silver issue to the front It would not be safe to bet that Mr. Hanna will not be elected senator because of the vote organizing the Legislature yesterday, since his filends claim seven or eight more votes than were given for the Republican candidate for speaker. The recommendation of the monetary commission regarding the organization or banks in small towns by basing the circulation upon the assets thereof, seems designed to meet the demand of the South for a more liberal circulating medium.

The plan of the monetary commission provides against the contraction of the currency and also against the issue of bonds for the redemption of the greenbacks. These provisions meet two objections of those who would do nothing with the currency. The Denver Times shows that Colorado's output of coal last year was worth $14,000,00) and that the people of the State sold $6,000,000 worth of fruit. It predicts an output of $30,000,000 of gold the present year. The people of such a State should not make the coinage of 50 cents' worth of silver bullion Into dollars a side issue in politics. The director of the mints credits Colorado with $22,000,000 of gold during 1897, but the Denver News publishes the reports of the Bmelter and mint statements, which increase the year's output to $24,566,074 and an output of silver of $12,807,370. Silver has a little more than held its own, but the output of gold was one-third greater in 1897 than in 1896. No advocate of silver who stops short of silver monometallism, which unlimited coinage would bring, can ask more than the monetary commission advises in the proposition that the entire currency of the- country under $lO shall be of silver coin and certificates based upon silver dollars In the treasury, supplemented with gold coins of $2.50 and $5. The secretary of the navy has asked for legislation which will make It possible for the most efficient officers in Ihe navy to acquire commands earlier in life than is now possible because so many high positions are held by old officers who are not so well qualified to command modern ■hips as they should be. The revolution in naval matters requires that the man who commands a ship should be an expert engineer as well as a seaman. If such a requirement should be enforced it is said that quite a number of navy officers would be retired. Mr. Curtis, Washington correspondent of the Chicago Record, finds from the official records that President. McKinley haa done less pardoning than dkl his predecessor during his first ten months—the McKinley total for the period being ninety-seven pardons. to 220 by Mr. Cleveland. Even pardons fer violators of the national-banking laws were nineteen during Cleveland's first ten months, to fourteen by President McKinley. The comparison indicates that the President's attention has been called to his pardoning, and that he does not care to ■Land as free dispenser of pardons. Five or six men who were Republicans to the lower branch of the Ohio Legislature have joined the Democrats and organized it. True, the man who has been elected speaker is nominally a Republican, but the man who united with the enemy to defeat nine-tenths of his own party can no longer be regarded as a member of that party. To obtain the position he has given the control of the important committees of the House and many of the subordinate positions to the enemy. These men could have defeated Mr. Hanna J,ust as well by helping their party associates or those to whom they owed party allegiance in organizing the House. While it appears to the distant observer that the hostile organlzaticn of the House defeats Mr. Hanna, it is by no means pertain that it haa been accomplished. The most that the Governor and his allies can

expect Is to cause a deadlock, which will defeat Mr. Hanna, since, when it comes to depending upon Democrats to elect a Republican to the United States Senate, it is very certain that a half dozen will chooee the Republican for whom they will vote. SIMPLIFYING SOCIAL CUSTOMS. A New York woman has a display advertisement in one of the papers of that city announcing the granting to her of a divorce from her husband by a North Dakota court. “Mrs. Patterson,” says the ad., “has the privilege of resuming her maiden name. After a seven months' sojourn in the West she had an opportunity of visiting the Yellowstone Park and other places of interest, but returns to Brooklyn to reside at the home of her parents.” Why should the unsympathetic jeer at this ingenuous announcement by a woman who is nearly tickled to death to get rid of an objectionable husband? She wants it understood that she is free from the incumbrance and is back at the old stand ready to receive her friends; also, that she has added to her attractions the advantage of travel. Some may even interpret it to mean that she is open to fresh matrimonial overtures, but what of that? If Patterson was no good is she to be debarred the satisfaction of looking for a successor who shall be an improvement on him? Surely not. And what more direct way could there be of letting the world know* that she is free from legal bonds and is again in the marriage market than to advertise the fact in the newspapers? This method accomplishes the purpose quite as well as a debutante’s “tea,” and at much less expense and trouble. Indeed, there is reason to suspect that not a few mothers even among those who look coldly on this emancipated Brooklyn lady would secretly welcome the opportunity to launch their daughters in society by the use of the newspaper advertising columns; The announcement, in whatever delicate terms might be chosen, that Elinor Maud was no% r out of school and ready to receive the honorable attentions of eligible young men would, if placed at top of column next to reading matter every other day for a stated time, greatly simplify social life and relieve Elinor Maud's parents of much care. Such methods are not the accepted custom now, but the example set by this Brooklyn divorcee may be the beginning of a social revolution. For when they come to think about it it is not likely that the anxious mammas will let the woman who has already had one husband monopolize the tremendous leverage of the newspapers in her efforts to secure a second. Advertising accomplishes most things in this world, and people of all classes are daily becoming more dependent on the papers for a great variety of the things that make up their comfort in life. Why should not social affairs be expedited through the same medium and the regular advertising columns used instead of the uncertain society column, which cannot undertake to say about every' one exactly what she would wish said? It is the day of advertising, and the Brooklyn woman knows enough to take advantage of the fact.

A SILLY' FRIGHT. The London Times, noting th© conservative efforts of the United States to build a modem navy, betrays an alarm that i3 surprising for its absurdity. Among other ridiculous things which the Times stated in its apparent fright is the following: This agitation finds its excuse in Cuba and Hawaii, but the more vehement advocates of the new policy make no secret that it is against England and not Spain or Japan that the main effort is to be directed. The London Times has been called the Thunderer, but if it indulges in such silly absurdities as the foregoing it will be regarded as the inciter of scares which have their origin only with the very timid. It is not possible that any portion of the British people can fail to see the absurdity of the fears of the paper which has so long claimed to express English opinion. It seems unnecessary to assert that the United States do not contemplate war with any nation on the globe. We are at peace with the world, and, whatever party may be in power, its policy will be one of peace and good will. It is not our purpose to interfere with any government unless it shall first interfere with us. The American people regard a modern navy as a peacemaker rather than a menace. If the leading governments would agree to turn all their war ships into merchantmen the United States would eagerly join in the movement. Until they do this this government will build and maintain a navy, so that our want of it will not invite the covetous to take advantage of our weakness. Further, the United States proposes to be a competitor in the markets of the world. To be such successfully it must have a navy so large that its ilag can be seen wherever there is opportunity to open trade. Trade follows the flag, and the United States, seeing the advantage which the British naval system has been to British commerce, proposes to derive similar advantages by following the British policy. We may even have merchantmen which can be turned to cruisers should they be needed. The Times ought to know that Great Britain possesses no territory which we covet. Our mouth is not watering for Canada, as some Canadians insist on believing. We may hate little disputes with the British government about boundary lines and the like, for the reason that Great Britain is by habit a land grabber, but just now there is no possible dispute which could lead to war. Our gravest disputes with Great Britain have been settled by arbitration, and. it may be observed, settled in our favor. The British government acknowledges the rightfulness cf the Monroe doctrine and respects it, and both governments are practically committed to peaceful arbitration in the event of conflicting claims. It is hoped that no intelligent people in England share this ridiculous suspicion of the London Times and are making themselves wretched over the bugaboo of the "Thunderer.” AN UNFATHOMABLE MYSTERY. By their own statements the silver-pro-ducing States have never had so prosperous a year as that which has just closed. This is because they are gold-producing States and have other resources on a most generous scale. Colorado boasts fin output of $24,£00,000 of gold, to say nothing of the silver and others metals which attend gold mining. It has had good crops, and Denver again boasts its former prosperity. Montana has struck gold, while the Dingley tariff has put life into its wool-growing, so that it leads in that industry. So of Utah and other silver producers. And yet the silverites in these States are unhappy because Congress and the country refused to authorize the free coinage of their silver bullion, which is now a by-product of gold mining, so that they can realize double the market price by the process of minting. Was anything ever more absurd, when one comes to look with candor at the claim

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of the producers of silver bullion? All other producers, if not content with the price their product commands in the open market, accept the situation in silence. Pig lion has fallen 40 to 50 per cent, during the past twenty-five years. Mines which were worked with a profit twenty years ago have been abandoned at great loss. As in the production of silver bullion science and experience have brought new methods to the treatment cf iron ores, s > that pig iron can be produced much cheaper than it could have been twenty years ago. The same is true of production in other lines. What would people say if the producers of pig iron should unite in a claim that because pig iron was worth $25 or S2O a ton in 1872 Congress is in duty bound to guarantee them that price at the present time, when the market price is from sl2 to sls a ton? They would treat the claim with ridicule. What is the difference between silver and pig iron that the same advantage should not be claimed for the iron as for the silver? On the score of usefulness the iron is of vastly greater consequence. The world is so saturated with silver and its uses are so limited that civilization would not turn backward if an ounce were not mined for years. If the production of pig iron should cease for six months material civilization would come to a halt. Again, when the manufacturers of window glass or of structural iron or of strawboard or of print paper or any other article propose to unite to curtail production and maintain prices, so that wages can be paid and a living profit made, the free-trade free-silver papers cry out “monopoly,” "robbery,” and wildly Invoke a law which will compel every producer to compete to his ruin and the cutting of wages below fair living compensation. But when the silver mine syndicate demands that Congress shall double the debt-pay-ing value of their silver bullion to them by stamping 40 or 50 cents’ worth one dollar the editors of these same papers and the anti-monopoly politicians grow red in the face in their frantic support of the claim. There are many queer and unexplainable things in this world, but none is queerer and so past finding out as this remarkable claim of the owners of silver bullion and the zeal of their supporters. The assembling of the Joe Blackburn Legislature in Kentucky leads the Louisville Courier-Journal to indulge in a double-col-umn editorial covering half a page. In the course of this article allusion is made to the reports that one of the purposes of the Democratic or Populist Legislature is to destroy the Courier-Journal. Mr. Watterson tells such politicians that it is not in their power to reach or touch that paper. The Watterson newspaper would seem to deprecate such assaults as simply “raising hell,” but the spirit of the article indicates that the C.-J. is willing to join battle with the Joe Blackburns.

HUBBLES IN THE AIR. Easy, This Year. When you’ve written ’97, In putting down the date, It only takes a eurlycue To change it to an 8. The Cornfed Philosopher. “I wonder why,” said the Cornfed Phiiosopher, “when a fellow comes up to you and says, ‘Why, I thought you were sick!’ he always does so in a tone that implies your good health is an insult to him.” Very Much in Doubt. “His death was accidental, was it not?” asked the relative from the East. “ ’Course he didn’t die a-purpose,” said Rubbernek Bill, “but I’ll be doggoned, mister, if I know whether to call it, when a feller tries to bore a hole in a dynamite cattridge with a gimblet, a accident, era natural consequence of nater.” The Cheerful Idiot. Said the Shoe-clerk Boarder: “Any customer who desires to look at something in one of the upstairs departments is taken on the elevator, while the poor cierk has to w'ulk up the stairs. I think this is done to show the difference in their positions.” * “It looks to me,” said the Cheerful Idiot, “more like showing the difference in their bringing up.” In the shock resulting from cases like those of the Baliington Booth family the main fault lies with the public and the false views they blindly adopt in the flush of enthusiasm over a great leader or worker in any commendable line. The idea of infallibility is always popularly attached to such persons, and it is invariably wrong. The mistake is made in forgetting the humanity of those who seek to lead the rest of the world to a higher standard of human living. Let this false idea once become firmly implanted and the public is ripe for a terrible and demoralizing shock when it becomes known that the idols are but human—something that the wiser ones had had in mind all the time. There is one, and only one, safe rule to adopt, and that is to remember that "a man’s a man for a’ that,” not alone in the sense in which this expression was first immortalized by Burns, but in every sense. The idolized ones are as subject to mistakes in their daily life as are those whom they exhort to avoid such mistakes, and the charity and forgiving spirit they teach should be tpplied to them as well as to other men and /omen. Tolerance is the very essence of Christianity. Interest in the sugar beet industry has attained so encouraging a degree of development in this State that it should by all means be carried forward to practical results. It has been demonstrated that the soil and other conditions in many parts of the State are very favorable to the growth of beets containing a high percentage of saccharine matter. An important point has been gained in getting the farmers interested, and it only remains to get cajfital equally interested and to bring them together. Every one who is interested in the progress and development of the State should seek to contribute to this result. An illustrated lecture will be delivered at the Statehouse this evening by Prof. Stone, of Purdue University, which will present the latest information on the subject in a way calculated to increase popular interest. Miss Frances Willard recently undertook the job of collecting something like half a million dollars to pay off the debt of the Woman’s Temple at Chieago. She fainted during her lecture on Sunday night, probably because she was worn out trying to raise the money with no better security to offer than treasures laid up in heaven. Calvin S. Brice doesn’t like to do It, but if necessary—absolutely necessary—he would be a “compromise candidate” for the office of United States senator from Ohio. This is all a result of Brice’s great love for the Republican party and his reluctance to see any harm come to it on account of a party split. If Mr. Bryan is wise he will accept the proffer of the fusion nomination for Congress from his district in Nebraska, on the ground that half a loaf is better than loafing all the time. But if he is as foolish as the people who offer him the nomination, he will refuse and continue to chase his will-o’-the-wisp. According to the report of the health board, the death rate of New York city for the year 1897 is the lowest ever known. This

is a forcible object lesson on the benefits of clean streets and general sanitation. The health rate has kept even pace with these modern improvements. Now that Mrs. Nack has derided to plead guilty to the crime of cutting up her husband, the yellow press of New York which bemoaned the sorrows of this “lady” will perhaps go so far as to admit that the bloom Is off the peach. Mr. Wmamaker and the Salvation Army are going to buy up the abandoned farms of New' England and settle them with abandoned people. But what will become ot New' England culture and blue blood? The Georgia express embezzler who failed In an attempt to commit suicide by cutting an artery was brought to realize that it is easier to “bleed" a corporation than an individual. The Klondike relief expedition had better hurry and start before any more men return from the Northwest to give the lie to stories of suffering in that region. Charges of duplicity and things are being hurled around Columbus, Q., at such a reckless rate that innocent persons will do well to keep off the streets. Ohio politicians are never so happy as when they are having a family light. It may be addl'd that they have few intervals of unhappiness. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Charles Dickens left $500,000 to his children. but all his descendants are said to be poor. Not a writer of first-class ability has appeared among them. Runaway horses are unknown in Russia. No one drives there without having a thin cord with a running noose around the neck of the animaL When an animal bolts the cord is pulled, and the hprse stops as soon as it feels the pressure on the windpipe. Queen Victoria has accepted as a jubilee gift from a private person the engraved signet ring of Queen Mary 11, wife of William 111. The same collector gave her Majesty the diamond signet ring or Henrietta Maria, King Charles I’s queen, ten years ago. It Is believed that Adam Wicks, now a resident of Ventura county, California, is the only person now living who was present when James Marshall picked up the first gold nugget. It was found in a sluice that led to General John A. Sutter’s sawmill at Coloma. Mrs. Susie Yeager, now ninety-one years of age, who was a schoolmate of Abraham Lincoln, writes that the martyred President was fond of play, most assiduous in his studies and learned to read well at his first lesson. His favorite recreation was bending down saplings for horses. It is told of Tennyson that when dining with John Sterling at Ventnor, about the time when his lovely little volume of lyrics appeart*d. he suddenly observed: “I don’t think that since Shakspeare there has been such a master of the English language as I.” When those at the table looked around as if astonished, he added, calmly: “To be sure, I’ve got nothing to say.” E. P. Turner, general passenger agent of the Texas & Pacific Railroad, when an obscure ticket agent at a little Texas town hung out a sign that it was no trouble to answer questions. He was besieged by the people of the town with all kinds of foolish inquiries, but through it all he preserved his good humor. He says he owes his elevation to the fact that he has never been too busy to oblige anyone. Congressman Johnson, of the Sixth Indiana district, when a struggling young lawyer, was given a suit of clothes by a benevolent member of the same profession. Recently Mr. Johnson learned that the son of his former benefactor had been forced by reverses to leave college, where he was studying law, and secured for him a position in Washington which would enable him to continue his studies. The report that Verdi’s health has been seriously affected by the recent death of his wife is denied. Mme. Btpltz,> who has recently spent several daya with the aged composer at Sant’ Agata, writes to an Italian Journal to reassure Verdi’s admirers and friends. She says that notwithstanding the terrible blow of his wife’s death, he has shown great strength of mind and a beautiful resignation. The general state of his health is satisfactory, and his mind is unclouded.

A bell tower, to contain a chime of eleven bells, is being built on the campus of the lowa Agricultural College at Ames, as a memorial of the late Margaret McDonald Stanton, wife of Prof. E. W. Stanton, of the chair of political economy and advanced mathematics. The hells are to be the husband’s memorial to the remembrance of his companion: the tower is erected by the State to testify to its appreciation of Mrs. Stanton’s services as a pioneer educator and one of the women who helped to found the college and make it what it is. The bacteria idea has been utilized in a number of stories, and “Ouida” in her romance, “Toxin,” actually introduced fictitious animalculae as affording anew Italian mode of secret poisoning. But the first really conspicuous use of bacteria by the fin-de-stecle novelist has been made by Mr. H. G. Wells in his story. “The War of the W'orlds.” In this romance the Martins, queer people, come to the earth In great shells and nearly depopulate the planet by means of their fatal heat rays, when they themselves are finally all killed by the bacteria of this mundane atmosphere. Another recent tale tells of an Anarchist who sought to destroy his victims by means of widespread disease germs.' An Indiana Hero. From W. H. Smith’s History of Indiana. A volume might be written of like soldierly conduct by Indiana soldiers during the war, some by regiments, some by companies and some by individuals. At Gettysburg, on the first day, it w r as a gallant dash for the Nineteenth Indiana and one Wisconsin regiment which developed the fact that the Confederates were there in force. In that dash they captured a Confederate brigade. The Nineteenth went into the fight on the Ist day of July with 288 men. It came out of that day’s battle with only seventy-eight. It is told of a Hoosier soldier, Henry Shaler. of Company K, Twenty-eighth Indiana, that in the battle of Gettysburg he captured more prisoners than were ever captured before by one man. He captured in all twenty-five, taking a lieutenant and eighteen men at one time. On the morning of the 4th, before Lee had retreated, Shaler, so the story goes, went out over the battlefield, and soon came across a Confederate lieutenant and eighteen men. They mistook him for one of their own party, when he coolly told them to lay dow’n their arms and come and help carry off some of the wounded. Without thought they obeyed. When he got them some distance from their arms he drew his revolver and told them to march into the Union Un*>s. This order they obeyed, but very reluctantly. A Good Indiana Town. Washington Post. “Fort Wayne,” said Mr. L. R. Hartman, a banker of that lively Indiana towm, at the Riggs, “is about as thriving as any city in the West. We have some exceedingly big manufacturing plants there. There Is an immense electrical plant and one of the largest foundries and machine shops in the United States. These and other concerns are working extra time. The Pennsylvania Railroad shops are also located there, with a pay roll of about SIOO.OCO'a month. Politically there is not much agitation in Indiana. The State is close between the two great parties, and it is hard for either to get any permanent advantage. I do not believe, however, that free silver is altogether as strong as it was in 1596. Our busines men are expecting Congress to do something toward strengthening the currency system, and a Fort Wayne man. Judge Taylor, is a member of the monetary commission that was apopinted at Indianapolis to formulate a better system of finance than the country now possesses. The report of the commission is being anxiously awaited by business men all over the United States.” A Common Experience. Philadelphia Press. "I discovered a long time ago.” said Mr. Wingleby, “that there was a whole lot of words that I didn’t know how to pronounce; words that I suppose that 1 ought to have known about, but which I didn’t. My first discovery of this sort was when I heard somebody pronounce a familiar word in a manner that was totally different from that in which I had been accustomed to pronounce it myseif. I looked that word up in the dictionary, and found that the other man was right, ard I was wrong. It made me shudder to think of the many times T had mispronounced that word, and I fear Uhat 1 used it thereafter, for a while at least, oftener than was really necessary, just to let people know that 1 anew how to pronounce it.*

LOOK AT YOUR MONEY PERHAPS YOl T HAVE A fIOO SILVER CERTIFICATE IV VOIR POCKET. If You Have. It May Be Borun, for There Is a Dangeron* Counterfeit in Circulation. EXPERTS HAVE BEEN MISLED EVEN CYCLE SAM’S MONEY CHANGERS HAVE BEEN CAUGHT. So Much Like the Genuine that Secretary Gage Hus Culled in All Bills of that Denomination. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—The most dangerous, because mechanically the most perfect specimen of a counterfeit note, is afloat to the extent cf*possibly millions of dollars. It is a silver certificate of the denomination of SIOO, and is so nearly in exact similitude of the genuine as to deceive the best experts in the country. The first -?100 silver certificate was put into circulation between May and June, 1878, and there are to-day in circulation in round numbers $26,000,000 worth of these genuine notes of this denomination, or, in other words, 260, K)0 genuine bills. Since 1893 the Treasury Department has taken no account of the serial numbers of these particular certificates, and it is impossible to ascertain exactly just how many of the particular serial number corresponding with the counterfeit are outstanding. The counterfeit which turned up to-day bears the check letter D, face plate No. 1 and back plate No. 2. The face of this certificate bears the portrait of Monroe. There has been no change in the plate of the SIOO silver certificates since the first note was printed in 1878. The officials of the Treasury Department are naturally greatly alarmed that such a perfect specimen of the counterfeiter’s skill should be afloat, and there is no telling to what extent .he spurious bill has been “shoved.” Orders will be at once issued to cease payi.ig cut SIOO silver certificates, and all certificates of that denomination now in the various subtreasuries of the United States will be called in.

During the next few days there w’ill be a general overhauling of silver certificates of the SIOO denomination in every bank and counting house in the country. At present there are only six of these counterfeits known to exist, but the spurious note is so cleverly executed that the officials are reluctantly forced to admit that they would not be surprised should thousands of them be discovered scattered about the country. The very fact that these notes are so nearly like the genuine as to deceive experts in the subtreasuries, in large banks and in custom houses, forces the fear that persons having such a good thing would naturally rush it before chance should apprise the government of its existence. This is the first bill or certificate of a denomination as high as SIOO which has been counterfeited for several years. In fact, since long before the Smith-Brockway outfit was broken up in 1895 through death and imprisonment, the government has been free from dangerous counterfeits of large denominations. This gang counterfeited a legal-tender SSOO bill and SIOO greenback in 1569, and later a SI,OOO greenback and a SSOO gold certificate. So far as known very few of these bogus bills got into circulation, and they were not as finely executed as the counterfeit which now engages the attention of the treasury officials. An Associated Press dispatch says on same subject: One of the most dangerous counterfeits ever discovered has made its appearance. Mr. John Cramer, of the subtreasury at Philadelphia to-day brought to the secret service five SIOO counterfeit silver certificates, head of President Monroe. Their general appearance Is excellent and after close examination the officials of the treasury cashroom were undecided as to their genuineness and only after the notes had been soaked in hot water, when the two pieces forming the front and back of the note came apart, w’ere they convinced of the fraud. On examination of the day’s treasury cash another of the spurious notes was discovered. The notes brQUght over by Mr. Cramer had been turned into the subtreasury by two leading banks and the Philadelphia custom house, which had received them as genuine. Agents of the secret sendee everywhere have been wired a description of the notes with instructions to be on the lookout for persons attempting to pass them. Inquiries have also been sent to all the leading cities as to whether any of the notes have appeared other than in Philadelphia and Washington and the best man in the service will be put on the case. Following is the description of the note as furnished by the secret service: The note is of the series of 1S91; check letter D; face plate 1: Tilman register; Morgan treasurer: portrait, James Monroe. All numbers so far seen began with 345. The most marked difference between this note and the genuine, however, are found in the seal and numbering. the former being a shade lighter than the genuine and the latter slightly different in formation. Especially is this true of the 3 and 4. In the figure 3 the lower loop does not extend up as far toward the center of the figure as in the genuine and in the figure 4 the space between the base and the center cross line is narrower than in the genuine. One of the principal points of difference, however, is that the new counterfeit is 1-16 of an inch or less shorter than the genuine. _ , _ The chief engraver at the Bureau of Engraving pronounced the counterfeit a very dangerous production. It was engraved on steel and printed on two pieces of paper pasted together after colored silk fiber had been distributed between them. The work, he said, was that of a careful and excellent engraver, and while there was no apparent difference between the genuine and the counterfeit note to the casual observer, under a giass many slight differences were discovered. These, however, were extremely difficult of description. In view of the dangerous character of the counterfeit. Secretary Gage to-day decided to stop issuing and to call in all $lO6 silver certificates, of which there are about $16.003.000 outstanding. These will be exchanged for silver certificates of smaller denominations and the plates destroyed. As soon as new plates can be engraved anew series will be issued. Assistant treasurers at all the sub-treasury cities will be requested to send to the treasury at Washington all SIOO silver certificates in their possession and to request all banks, trust companies and other moneyed institutions to do the same. Secretary Gage desired the statement made that in h;s judgment it was unsafe for business men or others to accept silver certificates of this denomination, and in case any were now on hand they should be sent to the banks for transmission to Washington. SUPREME COURT DECISIONS. A Railroad Striker’s Appeal Denied— Tariff Appraisers Upheld. WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—ln the Supreme Court of the United States to-day the appeal of George D. Crossly from the decision of the Circuit Court for the Northern district of California, denying him a writ of habeas corpus, was dismissed. Crossly was one of the railroad rioters in California in the summer of 1895. and was charged with being responsible for the death of a railroad engineer, caused by the derailing of a train. On trial in the state court he was found guilty and sentenced. It was sought to bring the case into the United States courts on the ground that the derailed train was a mail train, but the court held that there was no statute under which the case could have been tried in the United States courts, and held that the application for habeas corpus was properly denied by the Circuit Court. Chief Jusflce Fuller delivered the opinion of the court In the case of the United

States, appellants, vs. Frederick Passavant et a!., in reply to the following Questions certified from the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second circuit. First. In proceedings brought before the board of general appraisers by P r ?*’ e ®ss , u ”' der Beetion 14 of the act of June 10. I#9o, to review the collector's decision on the entries in this case, had the board Jurisdiction to inquire into and Impeach the dutiable valuation so reported to the collector by tne appraiser, and upon which the collector assessed the rate of duty to which the merchandise was lawfully subject? Second, if the first question is answered in the affirmative, was the German duty lawfully inincluded by the appraiser in his estimate of dutiable value? Both questions were answered in the affirmative. The article involved in the controversy was a lot of cotton velvets imported into the United States from Germany, where it had been in bond. “The German duty" referred to in the second question is a tax which is imposed by the German government on merchandise w'hen sold by its manufacturers for consumption or sale in the German markets, but when the merchandise is purchased in bond for exportation to a foreign country this duty is remitted by the German government, and is called a bonification tax, as distinguished from being refunded as a rebate. . , . In estimating and appraising the actual market value and wholesale price of the merchandise the appraiser decided that the dutiable value of such merchandise equaled the sum of the net Invoice value and the German duty added together, and reported to the collector this decision as to the dutiable value of the merchandise appraised. In estimating this dutiable value the local appraiser added as an element the amounts specified in the invoices and entries under the name of German duty. The collector accordingly classified the merchandise at 20 per cent, ad valorem and 14 cents per square yard. The importers protested and the Board of United States General Appraisers reversed the decision of the collector on the ground that the German duty w’as not a lawful element of dutiable value. In rendering the opinion of the court the chief justice said: “As the question in this case was. What was the general market value and wholesale price of cotton velvets as bought and sold In the principal markets of Germany? the fact that the German duty was not in fact paid on such goods when exported is immaterial. Exonerated from its payment was a mere special advantage extended by the German government in promotion of manufactures and commerce. The appraiser found as a matter of fact that the market value in Germany was equal to the invoice plus the home duty, but he did r.ot therefore include that item as a substantive item independent of the market value and add it thereto to make dutiable value, though in ascertaining the market value in Germany he properly recognized the fact that that duty formed part of the purchase price in the markets of that country.” The court also stated that the Board of General Appraisers lias the same power to inquire into the legality of an assessment as it has to see whether the valuation is excessive or insufficient through error of judgment. Justices Brown and Peckham dissented. Justice Brown delivered a brief opinion, saying that he could not concede the position that the German duty was an element of dutiable value on the velvets or assent to the justice of the proposition that the manufacturers of a country should have one price on articles for home consumption and another on those for exportation. Justice White, of the United States Supreme Court, to-day handed down an opinion in the case af Rafael Meria del Castillo vs. W. L. McConnico. The case involved the tax title to a block of land in New Orleans, which had been owned by Castillo. The land was sold and Castillo sought to overthrow’ the sale because the feminine pronoun “her” was used instead of the masculine “his” on the assessment roll in referring to him. The decision in the court below was against Castillo and this decision was to-day affirmed on the ground that the court had no jurisdiction. The Supreme Court sustained the lower court’s refusal to grant the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company an injunction to restrain the city of Austin, Tex., from operating its water works. „ , Practically all of the cases on the United States Supreme Court docket involving title to private land grants in the Territory of Arizona were to-day reassigned to be heard on the first Monday in March. Among those admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the United States to-day was Hon. Wm. R. Morrison, who has been for so many years, chairman of the Inter-state-commerce Commission, and will now resume practice of the law’, his term of office having expired.

FINANCIAL EXHIBIT. Public Debt Statement and Receipts and Expenditures. WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—The monthly statement of the public debt, issued to-day, shows that at the close of business Dec. 31, 1897, the debt, less cash in the treasury, amounted to $999,111,567, a decrease for the month of $10,114,599. This decrease in the debt is due principally to an increase in the cash, which is accounted for by the sale of the Union Pacific Railroad. Following is a recapitulation of the debt: Interest-bearing debt $847,365,620 Debt on which interest has ceased since maturity 1,330,270 Debt bearing no interest . ... v ... 385,890,446 Total $1,234,586,336 The above amount, however, does not include $576 956,933 in certificates and treasury notes outstanding, which are offset by an equal amount of cash in the treasury. The cash in the treasury is classified us follows: Gold $197,469,235 Silver 607.291,684 Paper 106,331,691 Bonds, disbursing officers’ balances, etc 50,298,759 Total $861,391,370 Against the above there are demand liabilities outstanding amounting to $625,916,601, which leaves the cash balance in the treasury $235,474,769. The monthly statement of the government’s receipts and expenditures for the month of December show the total receipts to have been $59,646,698, of which $11,660,788 was from customs, $14,342,928 from internal revenue and $33,042,980 from miscellaneous sources. The expenditures for the month aggregated $27,634,092. The receipts and expenditures for December include $31,715,204 received during tne month from the sale of Union Pacific Railroad, $900,000 paid out to secure bid on Kansas Paoific and $517,428 interest paid on Pacific Railroad's subsidy bonds, not due until January. Excluding these items the receipts amount to $27,931,494 and expenditures $26.216,C63, leaving a surplus for the month of $1,714,831. As compared with December, 1896, there is shown to have been an increase of nearly $1,009,000 in the receipts from customs and about $1,145,000 increase from internal revenue sources. The monthly statement of the controller of the currency show’s the total circulation of national bank notes on Dec. 21 to have been $228,930,281. a decrease for the vear of $6,646,109. and for the month of 5619,t26. The circulation based on United States bonds was $196,146,093, a decrease for the year of $19,704,214, and for the month of 85,589,479. The circulation secured by lawful money amounted to $32,784,183. an increase for the year of $13,058,114, and for the month of $4,970.054. The amount of United States registered bonds on denosit to secure circulating notes was $218,992,950, and to secure public deposits $159,590,500. The monthly statement issued by the director of the mints shows the total coinage at the United States mints during December to have been $5,741,481, as follows: Gold. $3,628,642: silver, $1,977,167; minor coins, $137,671. The silver dollars coined amounted to sl,-60-1.330. ♦ “TRAV ELIXG POSTOFFICES.” Mr. Heath’* Plan for Increasing Benefits of Rural Free Delivery. WASHINGTON. Jan. 3.—The benefits derived from the extension of. the rural free delivery of mail matter, it is expected, will be increased as soon as authority can be obtained from Congress on the subject. At the request of the House postoffice committee, First Assistant Postmaster General Heath is preparing an amendment to the appropriation bill, giving to carriers in rural districts authority to receive cash and obtain money orders for patrons, and to receipt for and deliver registered letters. This additional duty can be readily performed by the carriers who will, if the scheme is put in operation, become “traveling postoffices.” Country people, therefore, will have nearly ail the benefits enjoyed by residents of the city in this regard, as the carriers _, ow are permitted to carry postal cards ar <\ stamped envelopes for sale. Should the proposition work well, the department will enabled to abolish many of the small postoffices along the star routes. The "Grpater Republic.” WASHINGTON. Jan. 3.—The complete consolidation of Nicaragua, Salvador and Honduras into a sovereign republic is progresing steadily, according to advices received by Senor Correa, charge d’affaires of the Greater Republic of Central America, Mr. Correa is advised that the Diet has completed a constitution for the greater republic. with full legislative powers, and that notice has been sent to the Presidents of the three countries forming the union that the constitution :s ready to be passed upon. The next sUp will be to convene a constitutional assembly, with twenty delegates from

each of the three countries, to pass upon th ccinstitution. The assembly Is expected to be hekUiuring the coming spring. Cnptuin Barker’ll Tradueer. WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—-It Is reported 'to the Navy Department that Capt. Barker, of the Oregon, haa unearthed the identity of the person who wrote the celebrated “Good Friday” letter, which appeared in the religious press, and charged the capta'.ii with trving to Romanize ail of the ship’s crew. The man is said to be Ernest Robin, of Castle Rock. Wash., a deserter from the Oregon. It Is asserted that he wrote the letter to arouse the sympathy of his relatives and make a pretext for his desertion. Dawes and s*co*t in Office. WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—Mr. Charles G. Dawes, of Illinois, to-day took charge of his offic e as controller of the currency, and Mr. N. B. Scott, of West Virginia, assumed his new duties as commissioner of internal revenue. Another Place for McNulta. WASHINGTON. Jan. 3.—Mr. John McNulta has been appointed receiver of the National Bank of Illinois in place of John C. McKeon, resigned. General Note*. WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—To-day’s treasury statement shows: Available cash balance, $235,474,769; good reserve, $160,911,546. By an order ;ssued from the War Department to-day, Col. Thomas E. Bair, of the judge advocate general’s department, now at Governor’s Island, has been directed to act as judge advocate of the court-martial which will meet at Savannah. Ga., on the 12th to try Capt. O. M. Carter, corps of engineers, for his conduct of the Savannah harbor works. Colonel Barr takes the place of Colonel Clous, who is relieved on account of illness, as explained in the order. Commodore Geo. Dewey to-day cabled the Navy Department from Nagasaki. Japan, that he had assumed command off the Asiatic station, relieving Admiral McNair, who is returning to the United States. ALLEGED SWINDLE. Four Nutmeg; State Men Think They Have Lost Abont $150,000. NEW BRITAIN, Conn., Jan. 3.—Thoren H. Camp, a wealthy retired manufacturer of this city, has come to the conclusion that he has been swindled out, of $15,900 through investments In alleged gold mine stocks, and three other well-to-do New Britain residents, one said to be a retired minister, have been mulcted to the extent of $1,500 each. The knowledge of Mr. Camp’s transactions became public through services of papers on Mr. Camp, attaching property to the extent of $10,0(8) in suits brought by A. C. Fletcher and "Wesley Supple, of Philadelphia, to recover on two notes of Mr. Camp, amounting to $7,500. The man w’ho sold the stock gave the name of Francis C. Grable. He opened an office in this city in July, and at once called on Mr. Camp and finally induced him to subscribe for some stock. As an additional incentive, Mr. Camp was told that his note for three months would be received for the amount, and if at the end of that time the dividends had not increased sufficiently the notes could be renewed. Mr. Camp purchased $7,500 of stock and save one note for $6,000 and another fer $1,500. Each was for three months, and made payable to a New York firm of brokers. Grable soon afterward closed his office in this city. Just before the notes became due, how’ever, he returned to New Britain and sought out Mr. Camp, remarked that if the returns had not been sufficient he would prefer to have him renew the notes, which Mr. Camp consented to and gave additional notes for $7,500, so there are now $15,000 of Mr. Camp's paper in the hands of innocent parties, who are now’ seeking to collect. -

CHARGED WITH PERJURY. L. W. Rynn, an Attorney for the Southern Railway, Arrested. NEW YORK, Jan. 3.—Leslie W. Ryan, one of the counsel for the Southern Railway Company, was arrested to-day under an indictment filed against him a month ago charging him with perjury, on the complaint of Henry Winthrop Gray, special commissioner of jurors in tills city. Mr. Ryan is attorney for the reorganization committee for the Thomson-Houston Electric Company. Mr. Gray is receiver of that company. Last September Mr. Ryan, acting in behalf of the stockholders of the electrio company, who were trying to effect a reorganization, filed a motion in the Supreme Court and, it is said, backed his motion by an affidavit in which he said that he, representing the stockholders, had paid Receiver Gray $70,060 and that the latter had in turn paid it out to the creditors. Receiver Gray denied that he had received any such sum front Ryan or from any one acting fer him and said that the statement was made to prejudice the court. Mr. Ryan was arraigned before Judge Cow’ing and held in $2,500 bail, which was furnished. Mr. Ryan denies that he perjured himself in any way. A CONFEDERATE RAID. Second of the Three Venture* of the Rebel* on to Imliunu Soil. From W. H. Smith’s History of Indiana. Soon alter the beginning of the war the Indiana state authorities had organized several regiments for the defense oi the border, and placed them under command of competent officers. Twice during the year 1863 they were called into active service. On tho 17th of June, 1863, a small force of Confederate cavalry, under the command of Captain Thomas H. Hines, crossed the Ohio river from Kentucky, landing abou* eight miles above Cannelton. The expedition could have but one object, that of plunder. Captain Hines only intended to remain on Indiana soil two or three days, and made an arrangement with the parties who had ferried him across the Ohio river, to meet him at an appointed time and place to reconvey him to Kentucky. He then started out on his little tour after plunder, playing a very shrewd game to avoid suspicion, and thereby escape with impunity, when he had gathered all he couitf. He claimed to be an officer of the Union army and acting under the orders of General Boyd, commanding in Kentucky, and was out searching after deserters. From loyal citizens he secured a number of good horses in exchange for those of his troop that had been broken down by marching. In payment for the horses he gave vouchers on the federal quartermaster at Indianapolis. The next day’ the suspicions of the people were aroused, and pursuit was organized, and the alarm sent ahead of him. The raid was magnified a thousand fold, almost, and the legion was ordered under arms, and preparations were made even at Indianapolis for his anticipated reaching that city. He did reach Orange county but there discovered that arrangements for his reception had been made a few miles further on, and he turned west, hoping to make the Ohio river at another point. At one point he met a small force of armed citizens, and captured them, after killing one. By this time the whole southern part of the State was aroused, and the militia rapidly assembling. The raiders soon discovered the perils wljich were environing them, and endeavored to make a rapid retreat. They were in want of a guide to pilot them through the bills along the Ohio. They found one in a Mr. Bryant Breedon, whom they had been led to believe sympathized with thdr cause, but who, in fact, was a strong Union man. By’ the morning of the third day the state troops were closing in on the raiders, and a race for the river began. The Confederates reached the river at the point agreed upon with the ferryman for crossing, but they had been forced there one day sooner than the time agreed upon, so no boats were found. It was now’ that the “guide” came into play. He persuaded the Confederate commander to attempt a crossing at Blue island, about three miles above Leavenworth. The water on the Indiana side of the island was readily fordable, but between the island and the Kentucky shore it w’as very deep. They got on the island, and were there hemmed in by the rapidly pursuing militia, and the steamer Isetta, which had been sent up the river to intercep their crossing. All the raiders, with the exception of Capt. Hines and two or three others, with all the property stolen, were captured. Thus ended the second raid of the Confederates on Indiana soil. Bail Combination. New York Commercial Advertiser. The fact that Mr. Kipling will be in Africa at the same time as Mr. C D Gibson would strike terror to our souis did we w they were separated by the the continent. A comblnaJj®* 1 “V- Kipling as author end Mr. Gibson as illustrator is to be avoided. There Are Other*. Chicago Inter Ocean. cofni'uUoJ 8 In the nature of a n the fact that the name of l k inK nmri who has all the grain ar k Liv. P J B J ? Be rh. Nevertheless, there are other kernels in the bin.