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< abin and roared among the unlettered. He was a rail splitter, a fiatboatman, a country lawyer, practicing In many counties, trying now a horse case, now a slander or a tresspass suit. He sat with his associates of the bar about the country tavern or the country store find exchanged store's. Yet In all these conditions and associations he was a leader—at the rail splitting. in the rapids, at the bar, in story telling. lfe had < comparatively small body of admiring and attached .friends. He had revealed himself in his debate with Douglas, and In his. New York speech, as a man most familiar with American politics and a profound student of oar institutions, with rare cogency and a rarer lucidity of speech, but above all as a man of conscience, a man who followed conscience and logic to their most alarming ends. "Most kind in speech and most placid in demeanor, yet disturbing the public peace by his insistence that these theories of human rights which we had all so much applauded should be made practical. A man not obstinate, but one who was tinder an inability to surrender a truth that his mind approved. A MISTAKE MADE BY MANY. "In the broad common sense'way in which he did small things he was larger than any situation in which life had placed him; he had never met any occasion inadequately. Europe did not know Idm. To the South, and to not a few in the Northern States, he was an uncouth jester, an ambitious upztart, a reckless disturber. He was hated by the South, not only for his principles, but for himself. The son of the cavalier, the man who felt toil to he a stain, despised this son of the people, this child of toil. Seward, a cultivated man of letters, a man who had long been a leader in a Senate of great men, a Governor of the Empire State, a proved champion of the antislavery sentiment, had been passed over, and his friends felt not only sc.re over ltis defeat, but some mortification that he should have been defeated by Lincoln. "He was going to Washington to meet misgivings in his own party ano to confront the fiercest, most implacable and powerful civil rebellion of which history gives us an example. Personal dangers attended his Journey. The course before him was lighted only by the lamp of duty: outside its radiance all was dark. lie seemed to be < onscious of all this, to be weighted by it; but so strong was his sense of duty, so courageous his heart, so sure was he of his own high purposes and motives and of the favor of God for himself and for his people. that he moved forward calmly to his, appointed work—not with show and brag, neither with shrinking. He was yet in ft Jorge measure to win the confidence of met til his capacity, when tin* occasion was so xigent as to seem to call for one who had already won it. “He could not have been ignorant of the fact that with Mr. Seward as his secretary of state he would seem for a time, at least to many, not to be the first, but the second, in his own administration. As 1 have said at another time, the selection of Mr. Seward for secretary of state was a brave act, ‘because Mr. Lincoln could not fail to know that for a time Mr. Seward would overshadow him in the popular estimation, and a wise one because Mr. Seward was in the highest degree qualified for the great and delicate duties of the office. A man who is endowed for the presidency will know hcw r to he President i:i fact as well as in name, without any fussy self-asser-tion.’ "He was distinguished from the Abolition leaders by the fairness and kindliness with which he judged the South ami the slaveholder. He was opposed to human slavery, not because some masters were cruel, but upon reasons that kindness to the slave did not answer. ‘AH men’ included the black man. Human law is local; liberty is the law of nature, and God’s law r takes no account of boundaries. The human enactment cannot pa:*> the limits of the state; God s law embraces creation. HE HAD FAITH IN TIME.

"Mr. Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith. If the panorama of the years from 1861 to 1865 could have been unrolled before the eyes of his countrymen would they have said—would he have said—that he was adequate for the great occasion? And yet. its we look back over the story ol the civil war, he is revealed to us standing above all men of that epoch, in his capacity and adaptation to the duties of the presidency. •It does not seem to he God's way to give men preparation and fitness and to reveal them until the hour strikes. Men must rise to the situation. The storage batteries that are to Tiirntsh the energy for these great occasions, God does not connect until the occasion comes. "The civil war called for a President who had faith in time, for tils country as well s for hintself; who was not impatient: who could endure the impatience of others and bide his time. A man who could, by a strong but restrained diplomatic correspondence hold off foreign intermeddlers and at the same time lay the sure basis for the Geneva award. A man who could in all his public utterances, while maintaining the authority of the law and the just rights of the national government, breath* an undertone of yearning for the misguided and the rebellious. A man who could hold the war and the policy of the government to their original purpose—the restoration of the States without the destruction of slavery—until public sentiment was ready to support a proclamation of • mancipation. A man who could win and bold tlie love of the soldier and of the masses of the people. .A man who could be just, without pleasure In the severities of justice; who loved to forgive and pardon. A man without small jealousies; who did not fear the shadow of other men. “The original manuscripts in the State Department show that even the finished end accurate style of Mr. Seward needed the revising touch of Lincoln, with his wonderful appreciation of the significance of words. Plans of campaigns were thought out by him. and as some high military critics say. with a remarkable appreciation of military problems and necessities. "Mr. Lincoln loved the ‘plain people.’ out of whose ranks he came; but not with a class love. He never pandered to ignorance or sought applause by appeals to prejudice. The equality of men in rights and burdens: justice to all: a government l*y all the people, for all the people, was his thought—no favoritism in enactment or administration—the general good. "He had the love of the masses, and lie won it fairly: not by art or trick. He could therefore admonish and restrain with authority. He was a man who could speak To all men and be heard. Would there were more such. There is great need of men now who can be heard lw>th in the directors’ meeting and in the labor assembly. •qualities of heart t ad mind combined to make a man who has won the love of mankind. He is beloved- He stands like a great lighthouse, to show the way of duty to all his contrymen, and to send afar a beam of courage to thost who beat against the winds. We do him reverence. We bless to-night the memory of Lincoln." KHMH'AT WIJ PINAM E.” Intercut Inn Address by Secretory Gage on tlie Finnneiiil Question. Following General Harrison, who was fretutently interrupted with applause, came Justice David J. Brewer, of the United States Supreme Court, who spoke eloquently on "The Nation’s Anchor," the court of Which he is a member. He was followed bv Lyman J. Gage, secretary of the treasury, who spoke as follows cn "Government and Finance:” "On an occasion where patriotic sentiments are given the place of honor, where the preconceived purpose is to indulge in retrospection of a nobh life and its htroie deeds, the introduction of a theme as cold and commonplace us is that which you have allotted to me. strikes the mind in its first impressions as a false note In an otherwise beautiful strain of music. On second thought, however, it will be perceived that In the great patriotic struggle which engaged the heart and brain of Lincoln this question of ‘government finances’ was a question not less difficult, not less perplexing. than those other primal questions which burdened him with their inconceivable weight. “It was quickly recognized by the new President that the three elements necessary to be combined for a successful result to any war were armies, ships and the power of ' credit These three elements are as necessary now as they were then. and. until human nature is transformed they will he •■qually necessary in the future. How could these be combined, co-ordinated, each supplementing In proper tint* and place the other. This was the problem forced upon that comparatively obscure man of the i>eople. who went to his task with tlie simplicity of good will for all men, a man who loved peace and haled war. Was ever man burdened like this man? Yes. one other. In the birth ti roes of the Republic there was another, broadly like hint, like him in unselfish devotion to liberty, capable of all sacrifice. patient and hopeful where others despaired, free from guile and evil ambitions. In grateful remembrance of them both the world speaks in one breath the names of Washington and Lincoln. "Untrained In finance, within a period of four years Mr. Ltncoln was to provide the mans for an expenditure greater than previous history of seventy years. No wonder that, under the uwfui pressure of events, with discordant voices loud iiFConflieting advice, he should have once exclaimed: q am worse off. than St. Paul. He was in straits betwixt two; 1 am in strait* betwixt twenty.’ "Happily at the outbreak of the war there was no national debt worth mentioning. No Immediate provision had to lx* made for the payment of goods already had and con-

sumed. If distrust existed as to the ability of the treasury, that distrust did not relate to a then present situation, but was born out of doubts and fears concerning a future over which ihe dark clouos of uncertainty were gathering wdth an over-in-creasing menace. LOOKING BACKWARD. "Looking backward now to that dark period, it is refreshing to remember that at the first sale of government bonds, occurring as it did after the depressing fact of the first battle of Bull Run, one hundred end fifty millions of these securities were subscribed for at par and paid for in gold by the associated Itanks of New York, Philadelphia and Boston. The gradual degeneracy of the national credit was marked by a falling off In realization to the treasury from par in gold upon Its bond issue to a price realizing hardly 40 cents on the dollar. That the issue of legal-tender notes, soon irredeemable in coin by the government, and further disereditaed by being refused in exchange at the will of the holder for interest-bearing obligations, was a contributing agency to the great decline is nowhere denied. Whether or not they were an indispensable incident to the financial needs of the government, is still an unsettled debate. ’As the war progressed and the country became poorer, this currency increased, giving new instruments and facilities to expend just in proportion as the means of payment were consumed.' "When the war was over the debt of our government, as then known, amounted to the appalling sum of $2,344,000,000. Os this amount $411,000,000 was payable on demand. The annual interest charge was $125,000,000. The means secured by this great debt were not alone sufficient for the war expenditures. The revenues of the government had been increased by taxation upon everything that could be made to yield revenue; the income of the treasury from all sources in the year 1866 was $553,000,000. “The disbanding of the army, the reduction of the navy and discontinuance of the great semi-military, semi-civil adjuncts to both, relieved almost at once the embarrassment of the treasury, or rather the source of embarrassment was reversed. Hitherto there had been inadequacy; now there was redundancy. During the years 1866-60 there was a surplus revenue over expeditures of $675,000,000. It was applied substantially to the reduction of the inter-est-hearing debt. Coin was accumulated to the extent of £>6.000,000 by the sale of bonds preparatory to the redemption of the demand debt. In 1879 the hour of test had come. Would the government be able to redeem its notes in gold? Had the credit of the government become fully restored? A nation waited for the fateful day of Jan. 1. 1879. which many had prophesied would end in shame and humiliation. That day witnessed a triumph, peaceful in kind, but scarcely less determinative than victories in the field. “The expectation existed that redemption meant retirement, at least a gradual retirement of the demand obligations. Statesmen. with scarcely an exception, while supporting their issue, deprecated the seeming necessity and plead for the narrowest and briefest use of the dangerous agency. "Why were these notes not retired? By what strange witchery of the imagination has it come about that they arc widely regarded not as evidences of an unpaid debt, but as money itself? That has happened which Mr. Sumner foreboded when, speaking of such forms of government issues, he said 'The medicine of the Constitution must not become its dally bread.’ WHAT THE BANKS DID.

"We have seen that at the beginning of the war, with a banking system heterogenous, unrelated by any common laws or rules of action, yet with these disabilities tlie associated banks had advanced $150,000,00) in gold to the government without endangering specie payments. Indeed, the record shows that so rapid were the government’s disbursements, and so strong the circulating current, that with the payment of $150,000,000 completed, the gold reserve of the banks had been depleted only $7,000,000. "We have seen that the interjection of government notes into the field of circulation—excusable as it may have been —crowded bank note issues back for redemption, filled bank vaults with government notes in place of specie, and led to the suspension of specie payments by both the banks and the government. Viewed from the present point of time, there is a consensus of the best opinion that had there then existed a banking system uniform in its general features. operative in all the States, the deranging influence of government notes would not have appeared; that specie payments would have been maintained: that prices of commodities would have remained not far from a normal standard; that tlie sudden fortunes won from legitimate industry by speculative craft and cunning would not have appeared in dazzling mockery of a nation’s distress; that hundreds of millions lost through depreciation of government notes would have been saved to the people. "If this be true or approximately true, the inquiry may be repeated. Why, out of the inflowing surplus, were not these notes, as the most dangerous part of the war debt, retired and canceled? Was it considered, is it now considered, that our war banners have been forever furled? Resting as we may in a sense of security as to peace at home, have all the nations given us satisfaetorv pledges against unjust aggressions from without? Why do we build war ships and spend millions in coast defenses and maintain an army? Experience—bitter, costlv. humiliating experience—has taught us that behind the army and the navy must be a strongly intrenched treasury and an unquestioned public credit. A floating debt, payable on demand, is an element of weakness. It is the very opposite of strength. “In pointing out the dangers of government paper money, Secretary Chase emphasized ‘The ever-present liability to be called on for redemption beyond the means of payment, however Carefully provided and managed; the hazard of panics precipitating demands for coin, concentrated on a few points and a single fund.’ "it requires but little reflection to convince the mind that this danger to which for many years we have been exposed would he realized to its fullest extent in the initial movement of a great war. In such a movement the folly of our present situas&n would be fully revealed. Tlie immunities of peace cannot be accepted as .-afe conditions against the contingencies of war. It is this which justifies navies and coast defenses. It is this which not only justifies but demands that in its finances tne government shall nuraue that policy which shall be safe, not only in a time of peace, yet one so guarded and protected that no surprise can throw it in confusion -a policy which will always be able to reinforce the army and the navy with the supporting power of an impregnable credit.” ANOTHER ANTITOXIN lt Discoverers Say It W ill Cure l’uenmoltiu in It* Worst Stage*. NEW YORK, Feb. 12.—Dr. Charles Lundbeck and Dr. Carl Elstrom, Ixtth of Brooklyn. have discovered an antitoxin which they claim will cure pneumonia In its worst stages. Dr. Lundbeck asserted to-day that in a dozen or more eases in which the antitoxin has been tried it has invariably worked a cure. Granting this, the cure may revolutionize the treatment of such cases throughout the world. Dr. Lundbeck refuses to say just how the antitoxin is obtained until he had conferred with his associate, who, it is said, first hit upon the correct solution of the problem upon which both were working for several years. It is said the antitoxin is secured by a method entirely new. The principle is, of course, to destroy one germ of disease by attacking it with another germ which is inimical to it. According to what was made known this morning, the antitoxin in this case is obtained from the patient himself in some peculiar way, and it ts Hypodermically injected. "The whole matter is yet in a somewhat experimental stage. Dr. Klfstrom is really the discoverer of the remedy,” said Dr. Lundbeck. "We have worked together with the method for some time, and I do not want to take credit which belongs to him. I will say, however, that so far the remedy has been very successful. In one case pa'rtlcuiarlv there did not seem to bo any possibility of the patient recovering, and no one who saw her thought she would, bui she is now well. There have been a number of cases where the results have been astonishing. No, it is not a positive antitoxin. I am not now in a position to give the matter any publicity. It is not intended at all as a money-making affair. It will l>e given freely to the profession and the world at large. I must, however, decline to say anything further until I have seen my colleague. Grover Cleveland Wan Absent NEW YORK, Feb. 12.—The Armstrong Association, an association for furthering negro industrial education and promoting the work of the Hampton Institute, held a public meeting In Madlson-square Concert Hall to-night. The announcement was made some weeks ago that ex-President Grover Cleveland would preside, but he had a previous engagement, and did not attend tonight. The speakers of the evening were: Wiliam E. Dodge. Rev. Charles Cuthbert Hall, of the Union Theological Seminary; Booker T. Washington, of Alabama: Robert C. Ogden and Dr. H. B. Frit-sell, principal of the Hampton Institute,

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1893.

SITUATION IN FAR EAST + SALISBURY VICTORIOUS SO FAR IX THE DIPLOMATIC GAME. He Ha* Been Successful in Forcing China and Ihe European Grubber* to Heapeet British Treaties. LONDON. Feb. 12.—Although the Chauvinists noisily persist in distorting the situation in the far East, the great majority are abundantly satisfied with the Marquis of Salisbury’s statement, and there is reason to believe that they will be still more gratified in the not distant future. When the government shall be in a position to lay the papers on the subject before Parliament, it will be seen that the conduct o# the affairs has been in strict compliance with the principles enunciated by half a dozen Cabinet ministers. Os course, the premier is not in a position to reveal the whole story, as there is much yet to settle, but he will be able to relieve all anxiety with an explicit statement that he will allow no power to Interfere with British treaties with China, which does not give freedom of entry to every port which may become open under authority or at the request of any power wHbtsoever. By his attitude in regard to Kiaochau bay. the Marquis of Salisbury-has paved the way for a community of political action between Great Britain and Germany, which will not only produce excellent results in the far East but help to assure the stability of the general international situation. This is already shown by the transfer of Herr Detring, the commissioner of Chinese customs, to the government service in Shan-Tung province, he having admittedly gone to Peking to undermine Sir Robert Hart, the Englishman who lias been director of the Chinese imperial maritime customs since ISSS. Great Britain’s agreement with Russia will probably also bo found to be more far reaching than a written assurance that Port Arthur will be a free port and agreeing to the opening or Ta-Lien-Wan when the railroad reaches there. The Britisli war ships now on their way to China are the first-class battle ship A notorious, the first-class battle ship Barfieur, the first class cruiser Gibraltar and the second-class cruiser Bonaventure. AN hen they arrive, on‘March 5 or thereabouts. Great Britain will have a preponderance of 25.000 tons of war ships over Russia and Franco combined in those waters. THE SLITTERLYS ARRESTED. Ex-Priest and Ex-Xuu Charged with Selling Indecent Hooks. EDINBURGH, Scotland, Feb. 12.—Joseph Slatterly and his wife, the lecturing expriest and former Sister of Charity, who were mobbed at Savannah and other A met - ican cities, were charged in a police court here to-day with selling indecent books purporting to be an "exposure" of Catholicism. The court was crowded with Catholics and Protestants. Slatterly promised to destroy the books and the ease was adjourned in order to enable him to fulfill bis itromise. Britain'* Treaty with Abyssinia. LONDON, Feb. 12.—The publication of the treaty with Abyssinia will prove sensational. The rumors of big British concessions are groundless. Great Britain secures another open door and the most favored nation, treatment in respect to imports and local taxation. King Menilik undertakes that the caravan route between Harrar and Zoile will be kept open for British trade, and promises to prevent arms and ammunition from reaching the Mahdis, whom lie expressly declares to be the enemies of his empire. Our Attaches Unusually Active. lAINDON, Feb. 12.—The United States naval attache, Lieut. J. C. Colwell, has gone to Paris to attend the conference of the United States naval and military attaches in Europe. The United States attaches have been unsually active recently. The naval attaches of Paris and Berlin recently spent a week in London with Lieut. Colwell, preparing documents, which will be forwarded to Washington. —- Mr. Gladstone’s Complaint. LONDON, Feb. 12.—The Saturday Review hears on good authority that Mr. Gladstone is suffering from a specific complaint. Some of the specialists call it necrosis of the bone of the nose and others ear cancer.

Strange Epidemic. BERLIN, Feb. 12.—A trichinosis-like epidemic has broken out here. The cause has not been discovered, but it certainly is not iriehinosed pork. w Cruiser for Ctiinu. STETTIN, Feb. 12.—A third Chinese cruiser was launched here to-day. She was christened Hai-Shen by the Chinese minister at Berlin. MOVING ON WASHINGTON. Passenger and Ticket Agent* to Meet at the Xational Capital. CHICAGO, Feb. 12.—The meeting of the American Association of General Passenger and Ticket Agents, which is to be held in Washington next week, will, from all appearances, be the Jargest in the history of the association. There are several things coming before the meeting in which nearly all of,the Western roads are vitally interested. and all of them will have their representatives at the meeting. The question of Alaska rates and the possible severing of relations with the iCanadian Pacific will draw nearly every general passenger agent ill the West to the meeting, as it is understood that this matter is to be discussed immediately after the close of the regular session. Then, too, it is considered desirable that the roads make as good a shotving as possible in order that the passage of the anti-scalping bill may be helped along. This afternoon the following general passenger agents left Chicago for Washington: Eustis, of the Burlington; Knisker, of the Northwestern: Stone, of the Eastern Illinois; Heafford. of the Milwaukee <fc St. Paul: Sebastian, of the Rock Island, and Passenger Traffic Manager White, of the Atchison, and Chairman Caldwell, of the Western Passenger Association. The action of the Western roads in deciding that they cannot grant any reduced rates for the large meetings of the year until after the fate of the anti-scalping bill is settled, is proving a. great help toward the passage of the bill. All of the officers of the organizations that see the danger of their rates being held up if the passage of the bill i: not settled one way or the other, are bringing ail their strength to bear for the passage. The most serious question is that regarding the exposition at Omaha. While there is no doubt that the roads will make low rates for the exposition, they may be made so late as to cause some difference in the attendance at the exposition as was the case of the world's fair iu 1893, when the roads were so slow in making their rates that many people throughout the country deferred their visit to Chicago in tlie hope of securing a lower rate iater on. When the rates were finally made some of them came and some of them remained at home. Fast Bun on the Santa Fe. TOPEKA, Feb. 12.—The Santa Fe made another remarkable run on its western division yesterday, eclipsing Us former records by several minutes. Train No. 4, the Santa Fe's California limited, consisting of a composite car. dining car and three heavy Pullmans, covered the distance from Lajunta. Col., to Dodge City. Kan.. 2(14.4 miles, in three hours and t'orty-fouf minutes. Deducting ten minutes for slow' dow s, taking water, etc., the actual speed was 56.7 miles per hour. Titis is faster than made by the Empire State express between New York and Buffalo, and the officials of the road arc very much elated over the performance. ■ f East-Bound Freight Shipment*. CHICAGO, Feb. 12.—Bas-t-bound shipments for the week ending I'eb. 9 amounted to 76,418 tons, compared with 78,464 last week and 90,782 tons the corresponding week a year ago, divided among the different roods, as follows; Michigan Central, 5,549 tons;

Wabash. 3,714: Lake Shore. 11,409; Fort Way te, 14.58 J; Panhandle, 8,478; Baltimore & Ohio 3.827; Grand Trunk. 9,460; Nickel-plate, 7,288; Erie, 9,173; Big Four. 2,986. NEW PATRIOTIC SOCIETY. The American Flag Association Organized at New York. NEW YORK. Feb. 12.—A new' patriotic society was organized to-day in the council chamber at City Hall. It will be known as the American Flag Association, and its tnemltership will be made up from committees selected from the various patriotic societies of the country. Its object will be to protect the national flag from desecration. The new association is the outcome of the congress held in the City Hall last December of representatives of a number of the national patriotic societies. At that meeting committees to form a permanent organization and to draft a bill for passage by Congress was named. Those committees reported to-day. and the ret>ort by the organization committee presenting a constitution was accetped. The societies represented to-day were: The Empire State Society, Sons of the American Revolution, the National Society, Sons of the American Revolutions, the Pennsylvania Society, S. A. R., the New Jersey Society. S. A. R., the Illinois Society, S. A. R., and the Massachusetts Society, S. A. R., tile Kiskiskioh Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, the Mury Washington Colonial Chapter, D. A. R., the Fort Green Chapter, D. A. R., and the Washington Heights Chapter, D. A. R.; the New York Commandery. the Command-ery-in-ehief, Illinois, Washington, Maine, Michigan, District of Columbia, Vermont, Kansas and lowa commanderies of the Loyal Legion: the General Court Founders and Patriots of America, the Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York societies, Founders and Patriots. After a lengthy speech by Gen. O. O. Howard, a number of names were suggested for the society, and the "American Flag Association” chosen. These officers were elected: President, Ralph E. Prime; vice president, Gen. O. O. Howard; second vice president, Colonel Fred Grant; secretary, Thomas Wilson; treasurer, J. L. Ward. Historic Pen rucseiitctl to l*rcss Club. NEW YORK, Feb. 32—Addison F. Andrews, son of the late Rufus F. Andrew's, who w'as survery of the port of New Y'ork under Abraham Lincoln, to-day presented to the New' York Press Club the pen with which Abraham Lincoln signed the proclamation of emancipation. This pen was given to Rufus F. Andrew's by Mrs. Lincoln shortly after the Presidents death, w'hen she was distributing personal mementoes to the various intimate friends of tlie President, and it has never been out of tlie jtossession of the family of Mr. Andrews. The gentleman w'ho now r presents it to the press club is a life member of that club. WORLD’S RUNNING RECORD. Tlie Two-Mile Mark Lowered by Judge Denny to 3:26 1-2. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 12.—Another world's record went glimmering at the Oakland race track to-day. The two-mile world's record held jointly by Tenbroeck and Newton was lowered by Judge Denny, the gallant son of Fonso, who defeated a crack field in the (wonderful time of 3:26>6, cutting a full second from the former best time, which was made at Louisville. Marplat made a game fight for the first place, but Denny drew away in the stretch, winning by three lengths. He was ridden by Charley Thorpe, and was the favorite in the betting. Denny is the property of S. G. Hildreth. Fleur de Lis, a prominent Brooklyn handicap and suburban candidate, won the Gunst stake, valued at $l,lOO, lowering the coast record for the distance, covering the mile and a sixteenth in 1:46*4- The winner was ridden by Tod Sloane. Traverser, also a candidate in the same event, finished second.

Garrard Whipped by SI Hoff. CHICAGO, Feb. 12.—Frank M. Garrard, of Chicago, was beaten by Otto Sirloff, of Detroit, at the Chicago Athletic Club tonight. In the first round Garrard had slightly tlie better of it, bringing blood by a stiff left on the mouth. Both men went at it savagely in the second round, and In less than thirty seconds Garrard went down with a right on the jaw. lie was up immediately and down as quick as he was up. Sirloff knocked him down eight times and hammered him all over the ring. Garrard was covered with blood and very _ weak when the round closed. In the third lie managed to land two light ones, but Sirloff put a right on Garrard’s jaw that sent him helpless to the ropes. Two more punches finished Garrard entirely, and although he was still on his feet he was so dazed that Referee George Silver pulled Sirloff off and gave him the fight. It was several minutes before Garrard was able to stagger from the ring. The bout was to have been for six rounds. Indoor Bicycle Race*. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 12—The St. Louis Indoor Cycle Racing Association races in tlie Coliseum to-night comfortably tilled the structure but the races failed to produce the enthusiasm expected and a number of times the riders were hissed. Jay Eaton, the indoor champion, was beaten in both heats in tlie match race, by Nat Butler, or Boston. The one-mile open professional race was won by A1 New house, of buffalo; A1 Wenig, of Buffalo, second; Bob Waltliour, Atlanta, third. Time, 2:12 l-o. Burn* Succeed* Anson. CHICAGO, Feb. 12.—The contract by which Thomas Burns is to become manager of the Chicago ball team for next season lias been signed, and Burns is now the fullfledged manager of the team. He said tonight that he had made no plans, and did not yet know who would be captain of the club in the field. No Siinrring Exhibition*. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 12— Acting President Lewis, of the Board of Police Commissioners, issued a fiat to Chief of Police Harrigan to-night stating that sparring or boxing exhibitions are a violation ol the laws of Missouri. He directed that hereafter the law be enforced in such cases. - OBITUARY. Justice G. I*. McFarland, of tlie Missouri Supreme Court. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 12.—Justice G. B. McFarland, of the State Supreme Court, died at 7 a. m. as a result of an operation for appendicitis. Justice McFarland was taken ill a week. ago. His condition became so serious that he was placed in St. Luke s Hospital, where an operation was performed Thursday night by Dr. Mudd. Appendicitis was shown to have existed, and some other trouble, besides a delicate constitution. tended to increase the danger. When the justice’s condition was thought to be improving he sank suddenly and dud. His wife was the only one present at the bedside. The body will be taa-n to Mexico Mo., for burial. Ex-Governors r rands and Stone, ex-Attorney General Walker and exJustlee Barclay will accompany the body there. Justice McFaxland was sixty-one years old. _ Inheritance Tax Uw Invalid. •COUNCIL BLUFFS, la.. Feb. 12-Judge Thornell. of the District Court, to-dav decided the state law taxing collateral inheritances to be unconstitutional. 1 fie law was passed at the last session of the Legislature, becoming effective Oct. 1 last. It provides for a 5 per cent, tax on all bequests other than to direct heirs. The law' was attacked on the ground that it was in contravention of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States in that it took property without due process of law. Judge Thornell rendered a verbal opinion, declaring the law unconstitutional on the ground taken by the plaintiff, as well us because the law contained no provision for annuities. An appeal will be taken by the State,

NEW YORK AND LONDON FIG I RES TO SHOW THEY WILL BE OF EQI'AL SIZE I\ 1045. Intereiiiiuji t oin par Isons Between the Largest City in the World and Its American Rival. ♦- New York Herald. Here is a table showing that if New York and London both maintain the rate of increase they have hud since 1840 the two cities will be equal in size in 1945. New York is growing more rapidly than London and is slowly but surely overtaking her. The table in connection with the facts about the two cities’ increase is as interesting a municipal study as has been made In a long time: New York. London. 1840 373.000 1.950.000 1850 650.000 2,600,000 1800 1,175.000 3,200,000 1870 1,440,000 3,600,000 1880 2,000.000 4,000,000 1890 2;630,000 4,500.000 1898 3.4**0.000 5,600,000 1945 16.000.000 16,000,000 In the twelfth century, when London had 50,000 inhabitants, bands of savages w, re roaming within the boundaries of Greater New York, and when, in 1609, their descendants saw Hendrik Hudson's ship London had a population of 180,000. Fifty years afterw r ard London rounded the 20:),000 point and New York had 1,000 inhabitants. In 1801 London took the first systematic census, and there were within her present boundaries 1,000,000 persons, and New* Y'ork had increased to 80,000. From 1840 to 1850 London increased 31 per cent, and New York 75 per cent. In the next decade London’s increase was 23 pel 1 while New Y'ork’s was 79 per cent. Frdm 1860 to 1870 London added 13 per cent, and New Y'ork 21 per cent. When 1880 was reached 12 per cent, was credited to London and 43 per cent, to New Y'ork. The next ten years gave London 13 per cent, and New Y'ork 31 per cent. In the past eight years London lias gained 24 per cent, and New Y'ork 30. At this rate the two cities will be equal in population in forty-seven years. Greater New* Y'ork has a police force of 7,725 members, while London has 16,000. London has 250,000 more women than men, while New Y'ork has only 25,000 more. New Y'ork has 1,198 places of worship tc London’s 1,410. New' Y’ork has 720 newspapers and periodicals and London has 412. lamdon has ten more fires weekly than New York. New York daily consumes 25,000,000 more gallons of water than London does. London has a birth every minutes and a death every five minutes. New Y'ork has a birth every nine minutes and a death every ten and a half minutes. Wealth and poverty are centralized in New York and London. London has forty citizens each of whom is W’orth to exceed $10,000,000. New York has six citizens worth $90,000,000 each, seven worth $50,000,000, fourteen with $20,000,000, and two hundred and sixty worth $2,000,000 each. London has 300,000 families earning less than 75 cents a day, while New Y'ork has 18.000 equally unfortunate. In London one out of each sixteen Inhabitants seeks relief through public charity, while similar aid is sought in New* York by 'one person out of each two hundred. The millions of London have 688 square miles of space, or one square mile for each 8,283 persons; while 9,470 occupy each one of the 359 square miles in Greater New Y'ork. Both peoples have the same area of public parks—about 6,000 acres. The Londoners have 3,000 miles of streets to the New Y'orkers’ 1,380 miles, but the latter have in contemplation twice the present amount. The famous Whitechapel district has a population of 393,000 persons to the square mile, while the Tenth ward in New York has 413,000, and this beats the world. Though London is larger than\ Greater New Y'ork in area, the Western metropolis has a larger boundary line than the Eastern by about six miles. This arises front the fact that London is more nearly square, while New York has one great diameter a third larger than the other, and the shorter of these prevails for only a short distance, making most of the territory comparatively narrow*. Then, while London has a water front of about sixty miles, and much of it unavailable for large shipping, New York, according to the Department of Docks, has 353 miles, with the greater part of it offering the best anchorage and landing, and dock facilities in the world. The boundary of London is almost entirely on land, while the 104 miles bay boundary line of New York—including an area the extreme north-and-south diameter of which is 35 miles and the east-and-west 25 miles—runs for 79 miles through water and for 25 miles on land. The two great cities are well supplied with transportation facilities, though those of New Y'ork are less adequate because they are confined to two principal directions—within narrow' limits in Manhattan and from a congested center at the Brooklyn bridge, in Kings. Then, Londoners travel much less than New Yorkers, so there is a greater demand here for transportation in proportion to the population. In London each, person takes nine rides a year, while each inhabitant of New Y'ork takes two hundred. ' The Londoner has many omn|bus lines, while the New* Yorker has one. The latter Las more surface tramways and elevated roads, of w'hicli the former has none, though it has an extended system of underground lines that the New* Y’orker contemplates having. The Londoner pays one penny for a short ride, and more for a longer cne. w’hile the New Yorker pays 5 cents for all distances. They travel at the same average speed, the Englishman going faster under ground and slower above. From the City Hall the American consumes thirty minutes in going to Central Park, tiie Englishman fifteen minutes from St. Paul’s to Regent's Park. The former must add an hour to reach Bronx Park, and the latter forty-five minutes to reach Richmond Park. The New Yorker will take ninety minutes to reach Tottenville, and as long to go to South Mt. Vernon, and eighty minutes to go to Cedarhurst. From St. Paul’s the Englishman will be from fifty to eighty minutes in reaching Woolwich, Brentford, Tottenham or Streatham.

INDIANA’S THOUSAND LAKES. An Extraordinary Group, and the Big Bass in Them. ■* New York Sun. “A person might look on the map until he was blind.” said \V. L. Mott, of Richmond. Ind., "without discovering the curious fact that, huddled together in the northeastern corner of Indiana, are more than one thousand natural lakes, ranging in size from ten to four hundred acres. They are all within the of Steuben, De Kalb, Lagrange, Noble and Kosciusko counties, 312 of them being in Noble county. Such is the isolation of this extraordinary group of lakes that the average .Indiana, citizen, outside the small area in which the system is situated, is unaware of its existence. It is entirely separate from the river system of the State, and corresponds in character with that famous group 01 lakes in Orange and Sullivan counties in New York, arid Pike and Wayne counties in Pennsylvania—literally great openings of crystal water, with bottoms of the whitest sand. The wild charm of mountain environment that is characteristic of their Eastern counterparts is lacking, however, in the Indiana lakes, although they occupy the highest situation in the State but one. "Nowhere else in Indiana is there a lake of any size whatever. These sheets of water are the natural homes of the small-mouth black bass, and ex-Fish Commissioner Dennis asserts that the small-mouth black bass that inhabit the various waters of this country come originally from that group of Indiana lakes. Nowhere else on the continent. except in a small lake near Glens Falls, N. Y., have these fish been caught equal in size to those taken from these Indiana waters. The largest small-mouth black bass on record was caught by A. N. • riienev. of Glens Falls, in the lake I mentioned. It weighed ten pounds. But that fish was an exception to the ordinary run of bass in that lake, while seven, eight and nine-pound bass are not uncommon in the Indiana lakes. Sidney Smith, of Rome City. Ind., caught a small-mouth bass In Sylvan lake that weighed nine and a half pounds, and Mr. Moyer, of Ivetidallville, killed one that weighed nine pond§ in the same lake. Sylvan lake is the largest of these Indiana big springs, its natural size having been enlarged by damming to make it a reservoir in the days of canal navigation. It is file miles long and a mile wide.” Papers by Express. New York Tribune. Anew development in the mad service which may not have caught the attention of the authorities is the present tendency toward forwarding bundles of newspapers by the express companies. The ordinary

[subscription mall of the various newspapers of the country, large and small, must he sent through the postoftlee; but bundles for newsdealers, which constitute the bulk the out-of-town dispatches of tho morning papers in large cities, are now going in the express cars to such an extent that it will probably, he found, upon examination, that the tonnage of second-class matter now 1 icing sent from large cities by mail has not increased during the last few years. { tould the tendency to use the facilities of tiie < xprCss companies increase, it is probable that any loss arising to the government from second-class mutter will gradually diminish. RIGHTS CREEKS. | Chief of the .Nation Appeals to l ncle in for Fair Play. MUSCOGEE, I. TANARUS., Feb. 12.—Chief lsparheehcr, of tho Greek nation, has issued a proclamation dealing with the recent action of the secretary of the interior forbidding tho appropriation by the Creek Council of money to pay attorneys to resist the operation of the recent act of Congress abolishing the tribal courts and conferring complete jurisdiction on the United States Court. He say*s: "I see in the public print much surmising concerning myself. Some think I have retired to my country home to saw wood, others that I have accepted the inevitable without a further struggle, and still others say that 1 am planning either war or a general exit with my people to Mexico. None of these surmises disturb me in the least, for I do not regard them any more than the idle passing winds. Y’et inasmuch as my' silence, seems to annoy some people, I will now' give the public my view* of the situation as I now* see it. The United States government has. by its late acts of Congress, abrogated the treaties heretofore made with the Indians of the Indian Territory', disregarding their wishes and Ignoring their treaty rights. 1 feel that this is an assumption of power unauthorized by the organized laws of the American Union and simply a declaration of war, which would be resisted as such if such treatment were attempted against the similar rights of any nation other than the weak, defenseless tribes of the Indian Territory. In other words, it is a challenge of power without affording the Indian any weapon of defense. The Indian is simply a target to stand up and be shot down. This is not fair. Let the Indian have an equal show, and if he then proves himself an unequal match, his defeat cannot be charged to unfairness. It has ever been the beast of Americans that, above all things, they loved fair play—equal right to the humblest of citizens at all times —but I ask in aIL candor, is such the fact regarding the Indian at this time? Is it fair that the Creeks shall be denied the use of their money to use as they* please? Are they not free born, and entitled to the exercise of the rights guaranteed to a free people? Yet we, the Creeks, are denied the use of the means necessary to protect our rignts in the courts of the United States. Tnus it seems that we, the Creeks, have no rights of self-control and are to be dealt with as little children only'.” REINDEER RELEASED. American ('annul at Cliristlitnia Goes Security for 30,000 Crown*. LONDON, Feb. 12.—Lieut. D. B. Devore, U. S. A., who has been purchasing reindeer, has arrived here from Norway on his way to tho United States. The United States consul at Christiania assumed the settlement of the claims for 30,t}00 crowns due for the SA) to 400 reindeer purchased, but unpaid for by Lieutenant Devcre and, as cabled on Feb. 9, detained until the lieutenant could furnish security. Lieutenant Devore said the promoters of a private reindeer expedition to the Klondike had tried to frustrate the United States government project, thereby greatly increasing the expense. ■WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—The secretary of war has received a report from Dr. Sheldon Jackson, dated Bosekop, Flnnmarken, Norway, Jan. 20, in which he details in an interesting manner the purchase and gathering there of the reindeer to be used for the Alaskan relief expedition. The doctor says that he is convinced that the deer can be used successfully for the purpose, and that the Dalton trail is the best for their manner of travel. He has many suggestions to make regarding the treatment of the animals and their disposition after they have been Used on the trail.

Citnailinii Customs It emit a Cions. BUFFALO, N. Y., Feb. 12.—The Department of Cutoms of the Dominion government lias issued a memorandum in regard to the entry of goods into the Yukon district. In brief the new instructions provide that goods purchased in Canada destined to the Klondike district must be carried in British bottoms, otherwise full duty must be paid on them. INHALED GAS AND DIED. Two Hungarian Women and an Old Man Found Dead. NEW YORK, Feb. 12.—Two Hungarian women were found dead to-day in a West Twenty-eighth-street lodging-house for servants. They were lying side by side in tlie same bed and apparently had committed suicide by inhaling gas. One was Agnieska Juduk and the other was Maria Makamitsch. The women had only been In this country a short time and hud recently been working in restaurants. John MeKivenry, eighty-four years old, was found dead in a hotel on West Fortysecond street to-day. The gas in his room was turned on. It is not known whether his death was acidental or suicidal. Min ementn of Steamern. NEW YORK, Feb. 12.—Sailed: Megontie and Mohawk, for London; Anohoria for Glasgow; Lucania, for Liverpool; Pa’atla, for Hamburg; Normannia, for Naples; La Gascogne, for Havre; Georgia, for Copenhagen. GENOA, Feb. 12.—Arrived: Alsatla and Scotia, from New York. LISBON, Feb. 12.—Arrived: Peninsular, from New Y'ork. HAVRE. Feb. 12.—Sailed: La Champagne, for New York. NAPLES, Feb. 12.—Sailed: Karamania, for New York. Willow to Wed Wealthy English mini. SAVANNAH. Ga., Feb. 12.-Mrs. Heyward Hall McAllister, now Miss Janie Garmany. her former name having been restored, is said to be engaged to marry Augustus H. Brandt, of London, England, member of the firm of William Brandt, Sons & Cos., prominent and wealthy Linkers, it is not known definitely when the wedding will take place, but it is expected in a short time. The engagement. it is said, was the result of a meeting at Aix les Baines. France. Street-Railway to Be Sold. CINCINNATI, 0,, Feb. 12.-Judge Taft, of the United States Court, has ordered the sale of the Main-street line of street-rail-ways, which has Deen for some time in the hands of a receiver. P. B. Spence was appointed commissioner to conduct the sale. He is instructed to accept no bids for less than s£o,ooo for the southern portion of the line, running from the Zoological Garden, and SIK7,COO for the portion running north from the garden. Suicide of it Police Chief. PITTSBURG. Pa., Feb. 12.—Henry Kline, chief of police of McKeesport, committed suicide to-day by shooting himself through the head.' Mayor Carrothers appointed him chief of police a few months ago, hut the Council refused to confirm uo appointment and yesterday rejectee! his claim of SSOO for services. He. left a note assigning this as the reason for the deed. Kline eras twentyeight years old and was married in December. A Murderous Negro. MARION, JO., Feb. 12.—Winfield Lewis tonight stole up behind James Woods in his lodging house and shot him in the hack of the head, killing him. He then shot at every colored person in sight, wounding two slightly and one, Lizzie Hines Johnson, fatally. All concerned were colored, and had come here from Columbus to work on a sewer. Victory for Alton Negroes. SPRINGFIELD. 111.. Feb. J2.~The Supremo Court to-day, in the Alton public

. , When lore Si knocks *.t a WO. man’s heart he I 1 3/| usually comes in \ (JJA disguise. Doesn’t ff want it known O* what he’s ttp to. O— v If ** ncw all about the little ‘rascal, would she pi ,! v let him in? That’s a question. LJ ''jj - Women are apt to look upon | " love and marriage as purely SO ll a matter of sentiment and afA 1 ~ section. That is pretty nearly qL 7 right; yet there is a practical 1 ( I . side to it too ; and the be t way IN i to preserve the ideal aspect of ft \s*T\ ' marriage and maternity if. got Vjhe * to forget the practical part of LyfiS* ” it. A woman cannot be* a thor- •“ oughly happy wife and mother *' - un ‘ eS9 1C distinctive physical ft rKjrfl - organism of her sex is in a I njk - healthy and vigorous condi- \ ( 'Wk - t * on * bcs,t that wo * I I X man ever had is the '‘Favor: # l mlk Prescription,” of Dr. R. v. Pierce, Chief Consulting Pby- ~ sician of the Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute. Buffalo, *■**" N. Y. The “Prescription.” is a perfect and infallible remedy for every form of “female weakness.” It cures by restoring health and strength to the internal organism, which cannot be reached by “local applications thus the cure is radical. complete and constitutional. Dr. Pierce’s eminent reputation as a physician of wide learning; and his special knowledge of the delicate and intricate organism of women, accounts for the unparalleled confidence, which women place ia his “Favorite Prescription.” over every other remedy. Its use obviates the necessity of dreaded “examinations” and the stereotyped “local treatments.” Dr. R. v. Pierce. Dear Sir :—I suffered fourteen years with female weakness, nervousness, and general debility, trying everything I could find to help me all to no avail. I then heard of Dr. Pierce's medicines and although I was thoroughly discouraged, I thought I would try onemore to find relief. I look your “ Golden Medical Discovery " and " Favorite Prescription." and too great praise cannot be given for the rapid tc!ief they gave me. I am now free from the former troubles. Veryumcerely yours, (Mrs., (7 (I Box 46, Saratoga, V 1/ Santa Clara Cos.. Cal.

school ease, sustained the demurrer tiled by counsel for Ihe negroes to the contentions of the mayor and others of Alton concerning the rights of th- latter over the local schools. A peremptory writ will now L asked for to compel the admission of m-gro children to the schools. REFUSES THIRD DIVORCE. Kansan Jiulge Deride* Two Decree* Arc* knuugli I'or One Couple. FORT SCOTT, Kan.. Feb. 12.-Judge Simonds, In the District Court here yesterday, intercepted Cupid in a scries of most remarkable caprices in the lives of Harrison and Lucy Sise. They have been married 'three times in the last twenty years, divorced twice, and Mrs. Sise was again seeking a separation and permanent alimony. The court very abruptly denied her a decree and assessed the costs against her. IP. Sise received the first decree, and his wife the second on the ground of natural incompatibility. The sidt tiled yesterday was brought three months after their third marriage. BATHER E>IBAHKASSINiG. A Night in the Hud House of a ltusHian American. Kirk Monroe in Harper. These Russians had been accused of being filthy in their habits. I did not tin T. them more so than are'many native-1,0 r. Americans of my acquaintance, though. n> be sure, certain of their customs wen nc such as a fastidious, person would approve: while others would at least strike him as peculiar, it was, for instance, somewhat embarrassing when I was ready to go to bed to have the entire family gather curiously about:, with the evident intention of witnessing the performance. In vain did 1 try to outsit them, but they declined to leave, and remained, laughing with cadi ether in high enjoyment of ihe situation. I was dead tired, and finally, in despair, crawled fully dressed between the two feather beds prepared for my resting place. Where I quickly feigned to be asleep. Upon this the spectators reluctantly departed, taking with them the only lamp in the house. Upon this I slipped out from tin,so beastly feather beds, softly closed the door, and began hurriedly to undress. Inside of 1 minute the door was Hung wide open, revealing my host, followed by his wife and others. As he smilingly inquired after my comfort, and if there ivc anything 1 wanted or at least 1 thought he did so, I replied that T only wanted to be left alone. With this they all cheerfully sat clown, prepared to keep me company so long as I should iVmain awake, and l .-gain retired to my feathers. This tim< I really fell asleep, and when I next awoke it was with a lively sense of suffocation. Tho house was hermetically sealed against the admission o' air, the outer doors were locked, not tlie smallest chink pierced the two-foot-thick walls, and not a window* could be opened, ass proved by strenuous effort. At length, In desperation. 1 plekeo up a stool and drove it through tin window* nearest my bed. The entire sash went out with a prodigious clatter, that, brought the affrighted family to my room. As I conic not satisfactorily explain my action, th< >* evidently believed me to be crazy, and watched me apprehensively until dayligir. Before leaving that oppressively hospitable house I was allowed to pay for h, broken window, but my host refused any recompense for board or lodging. Victory for Electricity. Philadelphia Record. A recent test made In Paris of the various methods of propulsion resulted In complete victory for electricity as th* in satisfactory and economical motive pow .* for use on tho streets of a city. The figures given demonstrate that electricity shows an economy of 17 per cent, over the horse and 32 per cent, over any othe 1 * method of propelling vehicles. Tin; expense of the horse cab per day is given at H cents; the petroleum cab. 20 cent>; the < : * ■ trie cab. 13 cents. The most satisfactory part of the report is that the electric can w'ere constructed largely from material obtained in the United States.

INSPECTING CARS. Small Defects Liable to Cause Trouble. A man inspecting freight cars crawled under each car and scrambled about looking at or feeling of each nut, bolt, brake beam and rod, journal, boxing, draw bar. etc., etc., until every part of the car had been gone over. If nuts were missing, bolts about to d:< P out,-brake rods dragging the ground, brak-r beams cracked, or any defects upixared in the running or important part, the car was chalked and the car number reported at the shops. Experience has taught the * xp< nsive folly of letting little defects remain uncorrected on engines or cars, until n time of need the cracked brake beam refuses to hold, or the nutless bolt drops out of place, and a smash-up is the result. If inanimate cars ahd engines are worth such care, why not the beautiful machiie > y of tho human body? If you find daily aches or alia be quite sure it is nature's cry for relief from some insult you have bec-n guilty of. Perhaps you put coffee Into your stomach day by day. Never thought, that was any harm? Perhaps it isn’t -to some thoroughly healthy men, but it hits a great number hard, and some very hard, before they know where the bangs come from. Ten to thirty days without coffee will tell you whether you are susceptible to its alkaloids or not. Tho trial startles people wno "know it never hurt me.” If one keeps on with the use of a thing that his mother nature objects to there is sure to be a smash-up some day, and business, property, health, comfort and happiness may bo lost beforo the wreck is cleared up. It is easy to change to Postuni looJ Coffee, a powerful liquid food, which, when thoroughly boiled, looks like Mocha, and has a delicious Java-like flavor, while the 80 odd per cent, of selected food elements go quickly to work to rebuild the lost phosphates and other necessaries of the brain and complex nervous system.