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All communications intended for publication In this jiaper must, in order to receive attention, he accompanied by the name and address of the writer. a.~ 1 "U THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can te found at the following places: NEW Y'ORK—Astor House. CHICAGO—PaImer House. P. O. News Cos.. 217 i learborn street, (treat Northern Hotel and Grand Pacific Hotel. CINCINNATI—J. It. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine street. U IUISVILLE —C. T. Deering, northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville Book Cos.. 256 Fourth avenue. ST. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON, D. c.—Riggs House, Ebbitt House and Willard’s Hotel. Again the Journal pays Its respects to the l&ouncl-money Democrats in Indiana. Taggartism got a black eye and Thomas’s gubernatorial aspirations encountered a frost. * Is It possible that the Democratic party will longer chase the will o’ the wisp of IS to 1? Roosevelt is a fine old Knickerbocker Lame, and will carry the prefix "Governor” in real stately fashion. The people of Marion county know when they have enough, and they have had enough of Taggartism. Tammany’s big majority in Greater New York shows that the weak point in universal suffrage Is the vote in large cities. The emergency for raking leases on the new park grounds having passed the implements can be housed for the winter. The cause of sound money and Republicanism seems to have more reliable support in the Northwest than in the East. It would have been a disgraceful record If the people of Marion county had punished Col. Harry B. Smith for going to the war. The best that can be said for free silver is that the Southern States went Democratic In spite of it. But, then, they always do. Mayor Taggart Is an expert juggler, but there is a limit to the number of balls that a man can keep in the air without a collision. The free silverites cannot extract a grain of comfort or encouragement from Tuesday's election. They were knocked out everywhere. Perhaps if Colonel Bryan were not as- ( flicted with "military lockjaw” he might make some remarks concerning the election In Nebraska. If the free-silver leaders In Indiana have even a slight appreciation of the situation they must feel that they have made unspeakable asses of themselves. The election law should be amended so as to make it a penal ofTense to hire a person not to vote. The present law covers about •very form of bribery but that. The evening Taggart organ tearfully conodes the election of Col. Harry B. Smith. It was a dreadful blow to the combination of the political machine and reform of the C. O. D. brand. The purchase of the lands for the park by the mayor’s cabinet was not, as a Taggart organ was pleased to remark, a “campaign issue.” The point was well made; the purchase is an issue to discuss. The most laughable thing in the late campaign was the state committee of the Indiana Silver Republican committee. Tho name was too much f?>r it. Its bushels of literature are now in the garbage heap. It now seems probable that Senator Allen, of Nebraska, will be succeeded in the Senate by a Republican. That of itself would be worth a ratification meeting, as there is no more i>estilent demagogue in the Senate. If the Republicans of the North Side Wards had voted awfully ns the Republicans of the South Side the sound-money majority would have been five or six hundred larger than it is. The South Side Republicans did nobly. In the late election Republicans were given no chance in the Southern States. In Kentucky the scheme of having the elections held by tho vote counters, as in Alabama, deprived Republicans of a fair count. One of these days the people of the South will see that two parties with a fair ballot is the bettor policy. The Republican who feels that he has done good work in the campaign in Marion county will not begrudge recognition of the excellent service rendered by Eugene Saulcy, chairman of the Marion county committee. Most men as nearly blind as Mr. Saulcy would not think of superintending the work of organization, which, he performed with rare judgment and tact. "Chairman Bell claims the county," said the Sentinel yesterday morning. Why? There were no considerable number of returns upon which to base that claim. Twenty-five precincts so showed the drift of the voting that thereafter it was simply a question or majority. When a hundred precincts had been received, the accuracy of the Republican poll was confirmed, showing a probable majority of 2,800. There does not seem to be any good reason for •(aiming an election after no more votes can be put in the boxes. Bryanism was badly worsted in Tuesday's election. Free silver did not win in a ■ingle State or district where a fight was made on that line. In the East the soundmoney men had everything their own way, and In the West, where the free-silver majorities of '96 were not wiped out, they were cut In two. Colorado, which gave Bryan 3*4.882 majority two years ago, gave the

Bryan candidate for Governor only 50,000. Bryan's own State, which gave him 13.000 majority, now goes Republican by about 10,000. Bryan and Bryanism are repudiated everywhere. A STATE TO HE I*l*ol D OF. Ail things considered no other State did as well in the recent election as Indiana. It is a peculiarity of the State that it always rises to the occasion, and the greater the occasion the more it rises. Its political record in the civil war is familiar to the country. Naturally a Democratic State previous to that time, the patriotic issues of the war appealed so powerfully to the people that they rallied in great force to the Republican standard and, notwithstanding the most determined opposition, made for the State a record for loyalty that will ever remain a part of its best inheritance. It gave large majorities for lancoln in 1860 and 1864, for Grant in 1868 and 1872, and has been generally Republican in presidential years. Two years ago, when free silver threatened to sweep the country off its feet and when American, industries were threatened with ruin. Indiana, after one of the most closely contested campaigns ever known in tho State, gave McKinley 18,000 majority, and now, in an off year, when great national issues are pending, it once more gives a large majority for sound money, protection to American industries and the maintenance of the national honor, as represented by the administration of President McKinley. The State has done nobly. It has maintained its record for patriotism and fidelity to national interests and established anew claim to the admiration, not merely of its own sons, but of loyal Americans everywhere. It is a State to be proud of. CONTRAST IN TWO STATES. The Journal is able to repeat its statement of yesterday morning to the effect that no State in the Union did so well from the Republican standpoint as Indiana. It is the one State which gave McKinley a majority in 1886 which has essentially held its own. The Republican lead on the state ticket on a smaller vote is essentially the same as it was two years ago. The Republicans have elected nine representatives to Congress, the same as in 1896. and the party has a working majority in both branches of the Legislature. In the State of Illinois the Republicans have done badly. They have lost representatives to Congress, and the \ote generally has been cut down. Wherein is the difference? When the Republican party same into partial power in Indiana in 1895 its legislation commended itself to the people if it did not to all those who held offices. It put the public institutions of the State upon a business basis. It put state officials upon salaries, and put men in state offices who adopted rigid business principles in the management of its affairs. The good beginning of 1895 was carried forward in 1896 when the state government came entirely into the hands of the Republicans. The people of Indiana generally approve of the Republican reforms, and at the polls indorsed them on Tuesday. In Illinois the Legislature fell into the hands of a gang which led it to pass the Allen law, which authorized city councils to extend the franchises of street rui'vats. The people ir. Chicago and all the cities denounced it, yet with whip and spur the scheme of the street-railway magnates was forced through the Legislature by the aid of a Republican Governor. The measuie was very unpopular. In the state Republican convention the Governor's friends pievented the condemnation of the Allen law. *The Cook county Republican convention failed to condemn the legislation as it should. Other things in the Republican administration of Illinois did not meet the approval of the people who vote the Republican ticket. On Tuesday thousands did not vote because they did not wish to approve the state administration. Such is the obvious explanation of the difference between Indiana and Illinois. The Republican party contains thousands of men who will not vote to sustain weak administration and corrupt local legislation. They will vote in off years when the state administration and policy of the parly are entitled to their commendation. The people of Indiana, and of this congressional district especially, are to be congratulated on the re-election of Hon. Jesse Overstreet to represent the district in Congress. The reasons for this congratulation are twofold. Ri the first place, Mr. Overstreet, during a service of two terms, has made un exceptionally good record, gaining experience and making friends that will enable him to serve his constituents still more efficiently in the future. He is a growing man, and it would have been a great mistake to have exchanged him for anew man who would have had everything to learn and who probably never would have acquired the standing in Congress that Mr. Overstreet already has. Another reason why he deserved election is that circumstances have made him peculiarly representative of the souml-money movement and the soundmoney sentiment of this city and district, and a bitter fight was made against him on that ground. His defeat would have been heralded as a defeat of sound money and currency reform in their home and at their headquarters, and his election is a distinct triumph for these principles. Under the circumstances his re-election has more significance than an ordinary partisan victory. and is as creditable to the people as it is to him. The rule of the silver barons in the United States Senate is broken, and broken badly. Ever since 18NG the rule of this oligarchy, led by the representatives of a few rotten boroughs in the West, has shaped in greater or less degree the deliberations of the Senate, the policies of political parties, and has been a standing menace to the financial stability and prosperity of the country. These men were powerful enough to foist their private enterprise upon one of the great parties of the country and thus bring about the desperate and exhausting struggle of 1896. For six years they have made the United States Senate, theoretically the conservative force in our system of government, a drawback and a disgrace. But Tuesday’s election forever put an end to the control of the silver forces in the Senate by leaving them in such a hopeless minority that the Democratic party is not likely to again obtain control of the upper House until long after the silver heresy has Leen forgotten. It would be very unwise for the United States members of the Canadian commission to consent to a reduction of 20 per cent. In the duties on all agricultural products which Canada is anxious to sell in our markets in consideration that Canada will not Impose a duty on American com. The quantity of com which Canada purchases of us In a year is not us much ns one of our larger counties raises. For Canada to put a

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duty on com would simply mean to increase its price to Canadians, for the reason that Canada cannot raise as much as it consumes. On the other hand, all of the agricultural articles which Canada produces we raise in great To let Canada into our markets would be equivalent to adding to a supply which is already so great as to create a competition that will keep prices as low as they should be to make production profitable. To let the hay, oats, horses, sheep, poultry and eggs of Canada into our large border cities like Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, etc., would, at times, cause a glut which would make the production unprofitable. The present tariff is a farmers’ tariff; no sentiment due to a change of feeling in regard to Great Britain should betray us into a softness which would lead us to sacrifice our industries and trade. Every general election has its surprises, and that of Tuesday will probably develop more than usual. One of the greatest was the defeat of Representative J. H. Walker, in the Third Massachusetts district. He is serving his fifth term and was elected two years ago by 11,80*1 majority. Though somewhat "crotchety” in his opinions he is an exceedingly well informed man and a useful member of Congress. A study of the causes of his defeat after his immense majority of two years ago might have an interesting bearing on general politics. It might be found that his position on the currency question had something to do with it. He is an ardent advocate of sound money and the gold standard, but has peculiar views on the banking question and is opposed to any plan of currency reform except his own. He camo to this city in January, 1897, to try and head off the monetary conference, and he was opposed to the commission’s plan of currency reform and in favor of an obsolete Massachusetts idea known as the Suffolk plan. As his successful competitor is a sound-money Democrat his defeat is not a gain for free silver and may prove to be a gain, for practical currency reform. It can be said that Chairman Hernly, of the Republican state committee, in the management of the campaign has come up to the expectations of his friends. He grasped tho situation when he became chairman, and he has been able to meet its demands. An off year, with more or less of the dissatisfaction which is the legacy of tho party in power, he has, by the aid of his colleagues, so wisely directed the organization as to secure a close local organization and to bring out a full vote. He has been faithfully assisted by Secretary Spooner and the other officers of the committee, and he has been aided by the general satisfaction of the party with the work that the Republican party has performed since 1895. In view of some of the disreputable devices of those who tried to defeat Col. H. B. Smith his election is peculiarly gratifying. Perhaps the meanest of these devices of his enemies was the fitting out of half a dozen fellows in the uniforms of soldiers and sending them over the city Monday night to tell stories of the cruelty of Col. Smith as an officer. One of these dupes received a terrible chastisement at the hands of one of the men who was a soldier in the One-hundrCd-and-fifty-eighth Indiana Volunteers. In political knavery nothing yet heard of could be more contemptible. What Fur da*- University Is Doing. The forthcoming biennial report of the trustees of Purdue University furnishes gratifying evidence of the progress of the State on the line of technical education and of the excellent work that is being done by this institution. Twenty-five years ago the State had not yet entered that field of education at all; now it has two of the best equipped technical schools in the country— Rose Polytechnic and Purdue University, one a private and the other a state institution, and both doing excellent work. It is not likely that anybody imagined when Purdue was established that within twenty years its attendance would increase from fifteen students to 750. Its first graduating class, in 1877, consisted of one person, while that of 1898 numbered fifty-seven. It Is doubtful if any other university has had as rapid and healthy a growth. In accordance with the spirit of the acts of Congress under which Purdue was established, while not neglecting literary work, it has aimed especially at promoting practical education in agriculture and the mechanic arts. In this it has conformed to the spirit of the age as well as of the law, for this is preeminently an industrial age, and calls for men who will use their knowledge in utilizing the forces of nature for the benefit of mankind. Since its establishment Purdue has had 4,425 students, and more than 80 per cent, of its graduates are engaged in industrial pursuits. They have carried with them into the practical industries of life the technical training'and spirit of original research acquired in the lecture rooms and laboratories of Purdue, and have contributed materially to the solution of problems relating to sanitary science, contagious diseases, railroad engineering, experimental agriculture, food values and other questions of public importance. Purdue is doing good work in other directions, but the forthcoming report will show that in the way of technical research and publications bearing directly on the material prosperity of the State it is not surpassed, if equaled, by any other college in the country. More and more every year it is a credit and benefit to the State. An able essay on "The Coming of the Short Skirt” was the Sentinel’s leading editorial yesterday; and about the time it was put into type the editorial breath was coming in short pants on account of the election returns. Perhaps Mr. Bailey made a mistake in promulgating two Edinburg speeches. However, he has nothing to do now but to put in his whole time “heeding the tocsin." W. J. Bryan went home to exercise the right of suffrage, but the result in his State looks as if he had mutilated his ballot. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. The eccentricities of dress of Hall Caine have culminated In a return to the purely decorative handkerchief of the upper breast pocket of the coat. A woman in New Hampshire sent a substitute to the war on the ground that her sons, being small, and her husband dead, she ought to have somebody represent her in the country s time of need. President Eliot, of Harvard, says in an interview that the modern university sometimes “develops a very peculiar human being, the scientific specialist. He wants his name known, not to millions, hut to live or six students of the Latin dative case. He does not make money, because, like Louis Agaslz, he hasn’t time.” A physician, in an article ilustrating the evil custom of talking to an invalid about his pains, says that once he requested a mother to mark a stroke upon a paper eacli time that she asked a sick daughter how she was. The next day. to her astonishment, she made 109 strokes. A three months’ visit away from home was prescribed. In a recent letter to a friend in New Zealand, Mark Twain said: "It is a great pleasure to me to know that in Australia the feeling of kinship moves the people to sympathy with us, and that Dew*y’s—and now, no doubt, Sampson's—Brittah-fike performance stirs them. The Australians used to tell me the Spaniards would whip us a few

times at the start, because we weTe Ignorant of war; but I said: Ve are merely Britishers under another name, and, ignorant or not, you will see the blood show up.” While in Hawaii with her father, Congressman Berry, Miss Anna Berry, of Newport, Ky., received as a gift from President Dole the royal flag which was lowered when Queen Lilluokalani was dethroned. The throneless monarch now wants Miss Berry to return the flag, but the Kentucky girl refuses to grant the request, although Liliuokaluni pleads that the banner is private property. The friends of the German artist Diefenbach have never been able to induce him to give up his eccentric ways. He lives with his children on a hill overlooking Vienna. Vegetables and water are his food and drink, and a long robe is his dress. He is tall and emaciated; his face is said to resemble Tolstoi's. His conversation belies his doctrine that he has found a more rational way of living than others, for no one could be more embittered and unhappy than he is. When the Rev. Dr. Robert Coyler was In London last summer he went down on the Strand one hot day to a place where he had seen American soda water advertised. "The clerk gave me some.” he said, "and grinned at me. I grinned back and smacked my lips, it was so good. When I had finished one glass I said, ‘Give me another,’ regardless of expense—it was such a hot day. He grinned at me again as he gave it to me, and I grinned back. After I had finished I said, ‘How much?’ He answered, ‘Nawthln’; I know you; I come from Chicago.’ ” Joseph Jefferson, at a recent dinner in New Y'ork, said that when called upon for a curtain speech In New Haven Billy Florence once delivered himself thus: "It is here, and to you. ladles and gentlemen, that I owe my present success in my profession. We played marbles together under the shadow of the old church, and now to receive this warm welcome from old friends —what can I say? Simply that I never can forget the people of Hartford.” A man in the front row said: "This is New Haven, Air. Florence.” "I mean New Haven, of course,” said Florence, gravely. October turned mv maple’s'leaves gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers; Soon these will slip from out the twig’s weak hold, Like coins between a dying miser’s fingers. —Thomas Bailey Aldrich. There is frost upon the pumpkin when it meets the poet’s eye; As ’tis piled in golden heaps, or ’mid the rustling com doth lie; When ’tis spiced and baked in pastry, ah, it brings to woe surcease — But there’s frost upon the boarder if he asks a second piece. —Chicago Record. BUBBLE.S IN THE AIR. Well-Known Phenomenon. Airs. Lushforth—lsn’t alcohol a good thing Ho clean a hat with? Air. Lushforth—lt always shrinks mine. The C’ornfetl Philosopher. "Alany a young man tells a young woman he loves her better than his life,” said the Cornfed Philosopher, “but refuses to change the life he is leading.” Light on History. Jimmy—l wonder why they always put the preacher away in tho back.- end of the church? Tommy—That was done in the days when they was Injuns around and tho preacher picked out the safest place. He W r a Wise. She—There! I bought this hat at the first store I came to. Y’ou said a woman could not do anything of the kind. He—That is, you came back after you had been to all the other stores. Isn’t i.iat the way of it? "Y-yes." OLD-AGE PENSIONS. New Zealand Provides Pensions for All Over Sixty-Five Years of Age. Alontreal Gazette. After eleven davs' discussion in committee at Wellington the old age pension bill has been passed on third reading in the House of Representatives by a majority of tern The bill provides that every person of the age of sixty-five and upward, of good moral character, whose yearly income does not exceed £34 and who has resided for twenty-five years in the colony will be entitled to a pension of £lB per annum. In New Zealand the poor have hitherto been relieved almost entirely by the state, charitable institutions for that purpose doing but a small part of the work, in 1896 a bill very similar in its provisions to the one in question was introduced into the House of Representatives. There it met with a determined opposition, one amendment providing that everybody of and over the age of sixty-five years should be entitled to the pension whether he was in need of assistance or not. That was a socialistic suggestion that, if adopted, would have turned the whole colony into one huge friendly society. Eventually the bill was thrown out. In the following year a fresh bill confining the pension to the poor was brought In, and after a hard wrangle it went through) its third reading by a majority of fifteen, only to be thrown out by the upper house. Still undaunted by failure, the supporters of the principle of old-age pensions on a discriminating basis' brought in a third bill this year, and now, after a desperate struggle for eleven days (which in New Zealand, where speeches of only ten minutes were allowed in committee, is a debate of exceptional severity), the bill has passed its third reading by the smaller majority of ten. It is expected that 6.500 persons will during the first year draw the £lB or part of it, and that about £IOO,OOO will be so expended. So far there is no mention of additional taxation in connection with the scheme. Marsh’s Mistake. Washington Special in Chicago Post. Gideon W. Alarsh, ex-president of the Keystone Bank of Pennsylvania, who turned up a few days ago after having been a fugitive from justice for several years, was very much disappointed that he was not starred as a colossal political sensation during the closing days of the Pennsylvania campaign. Friends wired him that Air. Wanamaker had announced In a speech that he would welcome Air. Marsh’s return and would do all in his power to save him from punishment for his crimes if he would come back and make a clean breast of the inside history of the Keystone Bank. Having wearied of exile. Marsh jumped at the chance and took the first train east from his refuge in the State of Washington. He evidently expected that he would receive an ovation, that Mr. Wanamaker would meet him at the station with a brass band and that he would he lionized. Instead, he was put in jail much as any common criminal would have been, where he has remained for several days, unable to obtain bail. "I was a fool to come hack.” he confided to his jailer Saturday evening as he was being led back to his ’quarters in jail after waiting in vain an entire day for somebody to come forward as his bondsman. The calcium light hasn’t been turned on him once. One reason for this is the prevailing belief that he has r.o startling revelations to make involving people of high standing. It will be a comfort, however, when he gets on the witness stand and tells what he really knows, as it will put at rest sinister gossip which has been In circulation ever since he ran away from justice. There has not been a time in a year when the law officers of Philadelphia could not put their hands on him. Not u Sufficient Reason. Baltimore American. It is hard to make any sensible man believe that any great part of the sickness in the camps was due to dainties sent to the soldiers by their friends at home. Yet, such evidence has been given before the investigating committee. Dainties may occasionally upset the stomach, but they are not likely to bring on typhoid and malarial fevers, pneumonia and the other diseases that came to the camps. Such flimsy excuses as this cannot relieve the War Department of its responsibility. Musical Culture in the West. Chicago Times-Heralil. The editor of the Atchison Globe very thoughtfully explains that "at one place the overture of ’Tannhauser’ sounds exactly like a big row’ in a saloon.” Alusical criticism in the great, bounding West is rapidly assuming pretentious proportions. Gloomy Outlook in Kansas. Atchison Globe. If people use all the new-fangled bread and butter plates, knife rests, etc., which are the craze now, there will not be room on the table for a man to put his elbows. Probably. Kansas City Journal. It is believed that Spain has sufficient mastery of her emotions to repress all outward signs of grief at the second sinking of the Maria Teresa.

QUAKERS FRCM RUSSIA PROJECT TO COLOMZE 10.000 DOCKIIOBORTSI IX THIS COUNTRY. * They Are Tolstoi's Flock of Persecuted Nonbelligerent* Who Decline to Fight for Russia. ♦ New York Sun. A project which has been under way in this country for the past three weeks, to colonize here ten thousand of the peculiar Russian sect, the Doukhobortsi, is to take definite shape now, following the arrival here yesterday of Mr. Mode, the rich Englishman, who has become known by reason of his residence for some time recently with Count Leo Tolstoi, whom he greatly admires. Mr. Mode went immediately upon his arrival to the residence of former Assemblyman Ernest H. Crosby, at Rhinebeck, who is one of the leading men on this side of the Atlantic in the enterprise. Associated with Mr. Crosbv are William Dean How'ells, William Lloyd Garrison, of Boston; the Rev. Dr. George Dana Boardman, of Philadelphia: Jane Addams, of Hull House, Chicago; N. O. Nelson, of St. Louis; Bolton Hall and J. N. Seligman. This committee was organized three weeks ago in Philadelphia. Mr. Seligman is its treasurer. The committee’s purpose is to raise the necessary money to import the Doukhobortsi and establish them on farm land in the West. The committee’s work will be carried on conjointly with the efforts of interested people in England, and the plan of operations will be formulated after conference with Mr. Mode, who is familiar both with what is being done in England and what has been accomplished in Russia under the direction of Tolstoi. It is Tolstoi who has at last secured the Russian government’s permission for the Doukhobortsi to emigrate, after they have been victims of nearly a century of ineffectual persecution. That permission has only lately been granted, and it may be availed of only within two years of the date of issue. When it was granted Count Tolstoi wrote to a New York man, who, it is understood, is Mr. Crosby, conveying the information and suggesting that something be done toward assisting, or rather enabling, the Doukhobortsi to take advantage of the Czar’s graciousness. Correspondence followed between various interested people in the United States, England and Russia, with the result of the formation of the committee already named. WILL NOT BEAR ARMS. When it is said that the Doukhobortsi are a sort of differentiated Quakers, who, among a multiplicity of curious tenets, hold so firmly to the belief that force against men is wrong that they will die rather than bear arms, it will readily be understood why they are obnoxious to the Russian government. Their characteristics and their his-, tory are of peculiar interest. The origin of the sect has been traced to an English Quaker. His followers first became known to the inquisitorial imperial police 1750, when they were found at Molochnaya, in the-province of Taurida, near the Caspian sea. They do not believe in a personal God, but they believe that God is in the soul, or is the soul of every man. Strange to say, they do not believe that God is in the soiil at the birth of the human infant, but that the child is born soulless matter, the soul entering the body between the sixth and the fifteentn year, and that the soul is a faithful image of God. They have strangely modified the idea of the Trinity, and proclaim that in the memory is God the Father, in the reason God the Son, and in the will God the Holy Ghost. Christ’s mission of redemption is abrogated in their belief that Adam's fall was merely an historical fact, that it was his own individual trouble and entailed no load of sin upon those who have come after him. They assert that each man rises or fails by his own acts. They admit the existence of Christ as a good man only. They believe in neither hell nor paradise, resurrection of the body nor the destruction of the visible world, but hold that the physical nature will exist forever, the difference between now and the future being that the good will overcome tho sinners eventually and possess the world to themselves. That is their millenium. They consider themselves the only true worshippers of God, and the rest of mankind as idolatrous and superstitious. But they promulgated a comprehensive idea of their “true church,” which they say is composed of all those whom God himself has called from among the world and ordained to walk In the path of light. These chosen ones cannot be recognized by any peculiar sign, nor are they associated with any outward religion, but among them are included men, of all religions, all races and all tongues. So one may be of the church and perhaps not suspect It, it would seem, if one have not wonderful spiritual insight. Tho name of the sect, translated into English, is "Champions of the Spirits.” They accept the whole of the Scriptures, but hold the Old and the New’ Testaments merely to prefigure, in some spiritual way, the mysteries which are accomplished in the soul of every faithful man. THEIR PERSECUTION. Their respect for man, as such, is so great that they deny even the authority of father over child, and they regard the subjugation of men by force as sacrilege. In their eyes the Russian government is, of course, an abomination, but they are not revolutionists. On the contrary, they are the most peaceful citizens of Russia. They pay their taxes scrupulously. They don’t even use harsh language. Upon discovering them, the police declared them criminals because heretics. Their systematic persecution began under Paul I, w’ho issued a ukase Aug. 28, 1799, banishing them all to the Siberian mines for life, they to be there set at the hardest work and the chains never to be removed from their hands and legs. This w’as done “that they might feel sharply, in their own bodies, that there are authorities on earth, established by God, for the defense of the good and the chastisement of villains like themselves. There were at that time 15,000 of the Doukhobortsi. Under Alexander 1 this persecution ceased. He permitted th*m to have, in Siberia, their own farms, which they made to flourish. He then ordered that they be enrolled in the army, and decreed that any unqualified should be sent to the worst mines of Siberia, those of Nerchinsk. They did not decline to perform the peaceful duties required in the service, but refused absolutely to bear arms. They were, nevertheless. placed in the Caucasian corps then engaged in permanent war with the Circassian tribe. When face to face with the enemy they refused to march or to handle arms, and the most awful corporal punishments failed to make them do so. All were then sent to the Nerchinsk mines. The sect grew in spite of everything, and between 1840 and 1860 there were never less than 25'000 of them, it is said. In 1860 they were allowed to return to Russia, but permitted to live only in the poorest parts along the eastern frontier. They were driven from section to section every six months, and their numbers have been reduced until now there are only about 10,000 of them. Tolstoi has been championing them for the past five years, and six weeks ago got the Czar’s permission for them to leave the country, provided that they do so within tw’o years. The Doukhobortsi are poor, and admirers of Tolstoi and lovers of liberty in England and America got together. as has been said, and determined to give to them all possible help. The committee before named will appeal for funds after the details of their plan shall have been decided upon. It is proposed, if exigencies arise, to colonize the people in the island of Cypress pending the raising of sufficient funds to bring them to this country. There is a small colony of the Doukhobortsi near London now. Ernest H, Crosby has lately published a booklet containing his reflections on the late Spanish war.in which the radical ideas expressed show him to have almost as great a horror of war as have the Doukhobortsi. Hall Caine as ft Lecturer. Philadelphia Times. A small red-haired person made an effort to tell a story at the Chestnut-street Opera House yesterday afternoon. He told a story that asked for tears and no one in nls audience wetted an eyelash. He appealed for pathos and did it vainly. He put himself in evidence and an ordinary actor would have made ills jiersonal effort dignified by reciting its dramatic intention with the stage meaning that Mr. Caine failed to give to his own lines, and his own story. Personally Mr. Caine looks like a blend of the late Henry George and the fictitious Fagin of Dickins’fr "Oliver Twist.” In his utterance his story telling has no claim for respect, and the people who came to hen. his lecture, bringing respect for his stories. , wondered that the man had so little to com- I

mend him, and yet had so much claim in the books he wrote. It is a curious fact that Mr. Dickens came to this country and had the same reception that Mr. Caine has received. He came again when his fame had been established and received the recognition of his secured successes and when Mr. Caine has done what Dickens did in the interval he can come back, but upon his literary eminence of to-day he is as far apart from a serious acceptance as Dickens was when he wrote "Martin Chuzzlewit.” He told in his lecture yesterday afternoon the story of an unwritten novel. In respect tc the story it had no claim for interest. In the way of telling it had nothing but dullness. It was simply too stupid to make fun of. He vainly tried to act scenes of the story and passed a few steps from a reading desk to do it. but never found the place. Go home, Mr. Caine! The steamer Ben My Chree will take you to your small Island, whose narrow limits will hold your abilities as lecturer and reader. From it as its novelist you can claim the attention of a listening public—perhaps as writer—but not now in other acceptances. KHARTUM WILL RISE AGAIN. Khalifa Left It in Ruins, lint Home Day It May Rank Next to Cairo. Frederick Villiers, in New York Herald. It is quite a little journey from Omdurman to Khartum, for one has to steam against a strong current—the full force of the main rush of the Blue Nile, which eddies round Tuti island—which is further south than the map locates it. On approaching Khartum one is entranced with the oasis-like appearance of the place. It stands out of the waters of the Blue and White Nile like a clump of bright foliage in a wilderness. Steaming close into the spit of land which divides the two rivers, the ruins of the Dervish fort which Keppel had reduced on Aug. 31 stood out down by the shore. Near it crowds of men and women camo to greet us, the softer sex uttering the peculiar cry which betokens grief or joy. It was certainly the latter emotion to w'hicli they gave vent to-day, for their pinched faces and emaciated forms did not give evidence of a happier condition of things under the khalifa’s rule. Many of them ran ahead of the boats to spread the news of our arrival. The tall greenery along the banks beckoned us to shady retreats, as palm trees, rose bushes, lemon and lime groves met our gaze. Soon, stark and black, uprose among the bright green foliage the ruins of the government offices; and facing the river stood Gordon's palace, even now a stately ruin of red brick and white plaster, surrounded with a luxuriant growth ot acacias, lemon trees and palms. Os all the Sudan, without exception, Khartum is the only place that one would choose to live in, and in the near future, like the phoenix, “she will arise from her ashes,” and eventually become, next to Cairo, the finest city of the great African highway. The palace and government buildings could easily be re-erected on the old foundations, wiiich are little damaged, and many other residences are in like condition. Only the upper portions of the palace are wrecked; but mostly the rooms and offices below can be easily traced. Gordon's study, for instance, with the three tall windows, in the left wing facing the river, is almost intact, but for the want of a roof. The window’s are carefully filled in with burnt brick, according to Gordon's orders in the old days when the Residency was placed in a state of defense. The stucco of the walls is in a wonderful state of preservation, and upon them some Dervish caricaturist has been drawing in black pigment crude presentments of a Baggara horse, steamboats and gallows. Outside this room, among the debris of the palace roof, can be traced the sockets in the wall for the steps-of the stairw’ay which led to the roof, and the flight of stairs on the landing of which Gordon stood on the fatal morning of Monday, Jan. 26, when his last w’ords were uttered to the fanatic who first gained the stairway—- “ Lead me to your master." This entrance to the palace overlooks the courtyard, within which is a round pond. From its center a fountain played in the old days, and beyond was the lovely garden, still beautiful with lime, banana, palm and rose trees. The garden has suffered but little by the ruthless hand of the Khalifa’s followers. Dates were hanging in golden or copper clusters, and limes, green and ripe, were waiting for the plucking from the same trees that Gordon looked at and watched, in his days, for the coming of the fruit. Birds were singing and doves were cooing in the cool shadows of the leaves; all was peace and happiness, as if under the influence of cue gentle spirit of him whom we had come to honor. Officers and men reverently pressed forward to gaze upon the historic ruins, and to pick up some memento of the visit. A few found remnants of shell or bullet; others passed through the gardens and plucked leaves from rose or banana bush. We were two hours wandering about the interesting ruins of the once famous center of commerce and khedivial government—the metropolis of the Sudan—and it was indeed very difficult to imagine that it was ever a busy, flourishing capital, with no less than 190,000 inhabitants, so deserted and forlorn did it appear now. As the boats steamed back to Omdurman night was setting over the river. Gordon's palace was all aglow in rosy sunlight, with, for the first time in its history, the British and khedivial flags fluttering side by side on its roof. It was some twelve years ago that the Dervishes were ordered by the Khalifa to wreck the place and return to Omdurman. Since then it has been a veritable city of the dead, a huge mausoleum to the memory of Gordon. The flush of the sun on its ruined walls that evening seemed to be the first blush of renewed life to Khartum. Before another decade has passed by the historic spot will probably become a great junction on the iron route to Cape Town, where the Central Africa express will connect east and west for Kordofan, while the passengers regale themselves for five and twenty minutes at the station buffet. AX ENORMOUS FIFE LIXE. An Australian Water Conduit Over Tliree Hundred Miles Long. Engineering News. The Coolgardie project proposes the delivery of five million gallons of water per day at a point in the mining regions of Australia, 328 miles from the reservoir in the mountains near th coast where it is impounded. To force the water through a pipe line for this long distance, not only must its friction be overcome, but it has to be actually raised a total vertical distance of 1,330 feet. Further, the district through w hich the pipe line passes is a desert whose soil is so corrosive to iron that it is deemed safest not to bury the pipe in the ground at all. Another reason for having it exposed is that in a pipe line of such great length avoidance of leaks is essential. If an ordinary pipe line leaks a thousandth part of its flow in a mile, the loss may be a trifling matter; yet even so small a loss in a pipe line of this length would amount to nearly a third of its flow. In the arid desert through which this pipe line will pass, it is thought that the soil might absorb small leaks, so that they would not show at all on the surface of the ground if the pipe were buried. Facility of inspection, therefore, is another important reason for keeping the pipe above ground instead of burying it. Besides this, the ordinary reasons for burying water pipes—to get them out of the way, and to keep them from freezing in winter —do not obtain at all in the region over which this pipe line will pass; and as the cost of excavating and backfilling a trench 328 miles long will be saved by placing the pipe on the surface, the decision not to bury it seems, on the whole, a wise one. The one great difficulty which is involved in keeping the pipe on the surface is the necessity of providing for expansion and contraction. * * * In an ordinary continuous steel conduit, buried in the earth in a temi>erate climate, the extremes of temperature of the water passing through it will probably not exceed 35 degrees Turning now to the Coolgardie conduit, to be laid unprotected on the surface of the ground, and with a distance between pumping stations as great as seventy-five to eighty miles, it is evident that the water confined from evaporation and exposed in a steel pipe to the fierce rays of the Australian sun may reach a very high temperature in its passage from one pumping station to the next, which, in the case of the longest conduits, will require nearly three days. The English engineers estimate the range of temperature which will occur in the pipe fine at 75 degrees, and we should think this rather an underestimate. It will be seen at once that with such a range of temperature internal strains would be set up in the pipe which might become so great as to cause movement and leakage at the circumferential joints. Expansion joints are. therefore, essential to the safety of the pipe, and the Plnglish engineers propose that such joints shall be placed at intervals of about 120 feet for the whole length of the conduit, which would make a total of about 15,000 expansion joints in the length of the conduit. The engineering problem presented, then (and one which we need hardly say is without precedent), is the design of an expansion joint for a pipe of twenty-six to thirtyone inches in diameter, which shall provide for a motion reaching five-eighths of an inch, which shall sustain pressures reaching two hundred pounds per square inch, which shall be and remain tight, with little or no attention., and which shall be as nearly as possible a permanent part of the pipe line. __________________ Dramatic Exchange. Springfield Republican. It is not often that we have a chance to repay Greece for the debt we owe to Aeschylus, Sophocles ukl Euripides, but "Charley s Aunt” has just been translated for the benefit of the Athenian public, which is getting a little tired of “Prometheus Bound” and "Antlogne.”

QUEEN OF FALL FLOWERS. The Chrysanthemum, Which All In* din iih polls Will Worship This Week. St. Louis Post Dispatch. Chrysanthemum shows—flower shows—originated in Japan. That was centuries ago. The leaf and flower are the emblem and crest badge of the Mikado, and huve been, as far back as Japanese records extend. The hilts of the swords forged at the time of Go Toba had it hammered upon the. scabbards. It became the form of one of the official reals of the realm, and there is undisputed evidence that China was busy with a fantastic culture of the plant os long ago as Confucius. There have been, for hundreds of years, feasts and festivals devoted to the show of the bloom in its Oriental homes, but neither in Japan nor in China did the culture take the lines whicif improved the art of the flower. There was a tendency to make it into fantastic shapes, the great triumphs being obtained when the bush might be fashioned into the form of a dog or the bloom itself distorted into a representation of something entirely foreign to its own intentions. The Chinese trimmed and tied them up until they looked like pagodas, ships, horses and many other shapes, which satisfied very much the Chinese sense of beauty, but which were repulsive to the foreigners who first saw the plant on its native ground. Japan took to making colossal tilings with the pet, and the botanists who saw it first in the island kingdom laughed over the curious devices to which the simple-minded folk resorted for effective exhibits at tho festivals. England started the propagation of the modern flower in the botanic garden at Chelsea in 1764. The collection comprised only small yellow blooms. The botanists were disappointed in the work of getting new types, and for many years the chrysanthemum trailed along at the tail of the procession, neither hideous nor attractive enough to take any particular position. A set of old Chinese reds, .'ess attractive than the poorest of the present American types, arrived at the royal gardens at Kew in 1795, and was forgotten as soon as the novelty wore out. America and England began to gossip back and forth about the Eastern blossom with the ’ong pedigree about 1811. The English began to solve the mystery of me stranger s make-up in 1835, and in eight years had brought out so many new types that the people of Norwich prepareu a show. This spread the fame of the coming queen, and in succeeding years chrysanthemum societies sprang up on all sides. A man named Salter was the bold pioneer who put his faith and l.'fe into the future of the chrysanthemum. His collection at the time of the first English societies numbered nearly four hundred varieties, but he found that the bloom did not prosper under the cold winds and fogs of England. So he moved to a place not far from Versailles, France. He became a great distributor, as well as a creator, and became famous in his line. The story runs along without a break to the time of Robert Fortune and his experiences at Ak-sax-saw. His devotion to flowers amounted almost to a mania. He was explorer for the London Horticultural Society— gave his whole time to seeking botanical novelties in foreign lands. He went far into Japan in 1860 and came upon this town near Yeddo. It was not then as easy to travel, nor as safe, in Japan as it is now, but the English emissary put up at a hotel and determined to wait a year, if necessary, to get the types he had come after. Ho cultivated with a vengeance the little man who kept tho garden.s about the royal house, and when the plants were ready he slipped a few cheap pieces of jewelry into the royal gardener’s hands and started with his treasures for the seaboard. He was stopped by an inspector on the dock just as he was boarding the ship with his luggage, but a few more pieces of tawdry got him leave as free as air. And it is very likely that this incident was the real beginning of the chrysanthemum in this country. Philadelphia was in the lead about thirty years ago. It held a show in which the best of the varieties brought back by Mr. Fortune and the best of the seedlings developed in England were shown. The tendency at that time was to grow vast numbers of flowers on bushes as big as underbrush, the American pioneers boasting that it had been possible to get between 2.000 and 3,000 blossoms on a chrysanthemum shrub which measured fifteen feet in circumference. They were of the pompon variety, and it is probable that plants like those which the amateurs began putting out at that time have never been surpassed in China or Japan and they certainly have not been in this country. It was this search that led to the present devotion which is almost an annual national craze of a month’s duration, The Americans refused to take any of the alleged information about propagation which earn* over the sea and started in along new lines. There does not seem to have been any great discoveries until about 1884. The gardeners and "reenhouse men in the East—not the one; the trade, but those in private conser ! es—had spent a number of years exj iting with the seedlings. A host of ne aides, wild forms and fantastic bh resulted, and the rare chance of geteven one good plant from a thousand kept all but the most hopeful and jiersistent from the work. It was possible to sell a worthy new one for enough to pay for all the failures, but the worthy ones were hard to get. The Interest lagged along until 1886, when the first show was held in New York—a humble exhibit at which all the plants could have been accommodated in a gentleman’s parlor, and at which “Uncle John Chrysanthemum” Thorpe, who now lives in Chicago, showed a bloom in each of the fortyeight. classes and took first prize from one end of the line to the other. The moment the ability to cross-breed became established the growers became furious in their experiments. The chrysanthemum leaped into favor with men who supplied the stocks for decoration, and the public suddenly found itself face to face with a gorgeous thing it had never before known. The blooms which won first prize in one year were not even shown in many cases the next year, being so far behind ill all .points of the scores upon scores of debutantes which came crowding Into the field. It has been impossible to keep faithful tab on the story of the chrysantliemdm during the last ten years. It has been in high favor about this length of time, partly because it was popularly new, partly because the very best of the types are absolutely new, and partly because it has been as profitable for the specialist to work in his chrysanthemum garden as in any other. A number of the great growers have done quite as well with their iittie collections of new plants as breeders of line stock have done with their herds of promising colts. It is positively known that an Eastern man paid $5,090 tor the first set of the type which showed the hairy petals. It took the chrysanthemum a long time to get a place in the heart of the people, but it was because the j>eopie would not turn its way when it was a modest thing. As soon as it became obtrusive there was a change, and all over the country i>eople will tell you that the c hrysanthemum is one of the easiest things to get along with and one of the most cosmopolitan flowers on earth. It will do fairly well in tho soot and smoke of the city, and better yet in the suburban garden—in neither place attaining the glory of the greenhouse product. It responds quickly to the least attention, and a rebuff or slight or cruelty will be shown just as soon. It must have sunshine, needs just enough water and not too much, and lasts longest after being cut in a temperature that is a bit cool. The bush will produce many small flowers or one large one—something which must be regulated by the taste of the grower. In fact, there is nothing about the flower which is not known at this time. It has ceased to be the mystery it used to be to the growers, has ceased to be particularly profitable as a crop. A Senator's Gift. Washington Post. The fashion of displaying the presents at a wedding is as obsolete as the custom of having the marriage solemnized in the evening. I believe, but at one of tne recent weddings a favored few of the invited guests were permitted to peep at the wonderful gifts the bride had reeelyed. Sliver, of course the gift of near kinsmen, was there till one's eyes ached, and eut glass and china, and dear oniy knows what. At one end of the table was a big. plush-covered, satin-lined box. stamped, oddly enough, with the bridegroom’s name. “That’s from Senator /...” said the prettiest bridesmaid to me. “He’s Jack's uncle, or something, and we did expect something lovely. Just look at that box. Isn’t it enough to wilt anybody’s pompadour? It's a dozen solid gold toothpicks. Ugh! How the loftiness of a man’s station does magnify his natural feeble mindedness!” And that about a senator! A Theory. Washington Post. A Philadelphia man dislocated his jaw while engaged in relating a story. It win probably a dialect story. Rather Strange. Springfield Republican. It is odd that the most sarcastic reference to the very human desire of Cubans to hold offices come from Ohio.