Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 193, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 July 1899 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1899.

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Can be found at the following; places: NEW IORK Aslor JIoum. CHICAGO-raJmer House, P. O. News Co., 217 Dearborn street. Great Northern Hotel and CSr&nd Pacific Hotel. CINCIN'NATW. R. Uawley & Co., 134 Viae street. LOUISVILLE C T. Deering. northwest corner of Third and Jeffcrscn streets, and LouUvllle Bock Ox, 2L6 Fourth avenue. BT. LOUIS Union News Company. Union Depot. .WASHINGTON. D. C.Itlggs House. Ebbltt House and Wlllard's Hotel. The man who discovers a copper mine In these days discovers that which is better than sold or gas stock. Banks la Nebraska are crying out for paper currency, for which they would like to exchange gold and silver coin. In 1S06 they had neither. The returns from the Fourth In the shape of deaths from lockjaw, burns, etc, are still coming it. It is not a holiday which ends in twenty-four hours. The Cincinnati Enquirer has not yet come ,out for John It, McLean for Governor, but It Is publishing editorials of other papers declaring him "the man of the hour." And Russia Is our friend, too, and wants to be on intimate terms with us. How very lovely. We have made so many warm friends over the world since the 1st of May, 1831' The last Populist Legislature of Kansas passed a banking law, under which thirty banks have been organized, which goes to show that the Populists have extended more favors to money lenders than the national banking act offers. Republicans will be delighted to learn that Senator Jones, of Arkansas, will re main chairman of the Democratic national committee. No man who has ever attempt ed It has managed a campaign as badly as1 was that of Mr. Bryan in 1S96 by the Jones committee. Mr. Wanamaker Is probably the greatest department store manager In the world, but he shows lack of self-control when he makes his paper in .Philadelphia an aspirant for- leadership in assailing the President and supporting Agulnaldo after the manner of. the yellow papers of New York. Is the remark of the- Crawfordsville Jour nal, which many persons should commit to memory , and repeat dally. And It might have added. No man's aspirations are of so much importance as the efficient service of & whole district by a man of. character. brain and experience. The Cleveland Plain-Dealer, which Is one of the ablest Democratic papers in Ohio, does not believe that John R. McLean is "the man of the hour." It calls him an "alien." and charges that his record in Ohio is a recital of treachery and corrup tion. Mr. McLean's paper will not copy the Plain-Dealer's editorial. VSJSIBMBBMBBBBSBBBWSSBSSBaBSSBlBMSMBSSBBSSSSSS The EvansvlUe Courier is troubled because of the statement of the New York World that 17.000,000 inhabitants of the United States are dependent upon the wages paid by trusts, and it is so Indignant that It calls these 17,000,000 trust slaves. As most of the industries which are stigmatized as trusts have increased the pay of their em ployes, they are probably not seeking the sympathy of those who call them "slaves." The victims of the trust are those who have lo3t employment by the closing of plants. Despite the fact that Admiral Dewey has declared that he would not accept the pres idency If he should receive every electoral vote, and the further fact that he is not a Democrat, the Eastern "combine," which desires the defeat of Mr. Bryan, is said to be engaged In a plot to pit the admiral against him. The splendid ceremonial In New York on the return of the admiral, in which Tammany will take a conspicuous part, is designed to prepare the way for his candidacy, concerning which he has not beard a word. "A Democrat," said the admiral some years ago, 'Is a man who is a traitor In time of war and a fool In time of peace." Those leaders who axe ex pecting to force him to be a candidate to beat Mr. Bryan for the nomination may be regarded as fools. On Sunday evening All Souls' Church In Chicago was opened for a lecture by two men who claimed to have been soldiers in Luzon. To an audience of 200 they ex hibited maps designed to shpw the wretched condition of our troops and made charges of the most startling character. They praised Agulnaldo and the small audience greeted his picture with applause. The attention of General Anderson, who was in command of the first expedttlDa sent to the Philippines, was called to the charges of these men, and his reply is that of a man who Is very Indig nant. "Those men deserve to be punished," he said, "for their talk; they should be put in Jail until they are able to tell the truth. Their statements regardtag the spirit of our troops in the Island vre at variance with the truth. The fact vat 1,000 of the volunteers In Manila have Unlisted in new regiments instead of cornice home shows that they are perfectly satis fied. Such talk is outrageous and should not be permitted; but I know no way to reach them now." These men have started out to make money by slandering American soldiers. They will find a few small audi ences who will pay to listen to them. Co many things happen in the course of two cr three years In this country that we Czrzzt i 7 events which would be long

remembered by people In other countries.

Consequently, people ask what claim did Austria have upon the United States which our government would not consider. During the coal-mine troubles of 1S37, in Pennsyl vania, several Hungarians, subjects of Aus tria-Hungary, wtre killed by a sheriff's posse. These subjects of a foreign government undertook to enter upon the grounds of a mining company to drive out or kill the employes who chose to work therein. March ing upon the mine with that intent, they were ordered to halt by the sheriff and his posse. They did not halt, and the sheriff's men fired, killing a few and wounding oth ers. The yellow papers made much of the affair. The sheriff and his assistants were tried and acquitted, on the ground that the men were rioters violating the laws of the land. Persons who cannot bring themselves to see that aliens have not the right to drive American citizens from their employment and kill them if they will not leave, concluded that the United States should pay a large sum to the families of the men who were killed while violating the laws of Pennsylvania, and Induced the Austrian government to make a claim. That government did so. Our authorities utterly re fused to consider the matter. It was not a case for arbitration. lit SSI A AXD A3IERICA. To most Americans the European Idea that the United States must enter into an alliance with some European power la Inexplicable. For more than one hundred years we have managed to get along: and to thrive without an ally. Indeed, we managed to pass through a great crisis In national life when the governments In Europe which could have helped us most were hostile and the others were neutral. If an alliance was to be useful to us that would have been the period. Now that in many respects tho United States is first among nations, why should we need form an alliance? In wha: respect would an alli ance with any European power benefit us? These observations are suggested by an article in the current number of the North American Review by a prominent Russian Journalist. Russia has indicated much solic itude over what It regards as a tendency toward an Anglo-American alliance. Its ambassador. It is said, has Intimated to our State Department that such an alliance would be inimical to the friendly relations of the United States with certain powers, and especially Russia. The writer of the article alluded to endeavors to impress upon the UnUed States that now we have begun our career as a world-wide power we must throw off the shackles of British tutelage. He tells, us that the friendship exhibited toward us by Great Britain during the war with Spain was due to the fact that England realized the dan ger she would run in defying the American Republic, with a hostile Europe at her back. In view of the common understanding that the continental powers of Europe were dis posed to Intervene, and were only prevented from doing so by the friendly attitude of Great Britain toward us, this is a most remarkable statement. The writer then proceeds to show the advantage which an alliance would afford the United States. They are not so obvious as tho writer Imag ines he has made them. True, the United States and Russia have -been good friends from the first; Russia has shown friendliness to us on several occasions, whl.ih we would not forget, even If It were diciated by self -Interest. . But friendliness is no argu ment in favor of an alliance which would commit the United States to the ambitious designs of Russia. The domestic policy of the two nations has nothing In common! In an alliance with Great Britain or Germany the common interest of kinship, so to speak, would be in its favor; but there is not and there never can be that relation between the people of Russia and the United States. There is no destiny com mon alike to the United States and Russia which the two can work out. The two nations are hopelessly alien the one to the other. Nor is there a reason why we should unite with Russia to dominate the world. It would be well for a few people at home, who are harassing themselves over groundless fear of an Anglo-American alli ance, and for the rulers in Europe to accept the fact that nobody in this country is in favor of an alliance between this Na tion and any other. Upon no matter is there greater unanimity among the Amer lean people. We would be friends with all of them, but with no one of them more r than another. SBBBaSBSSSBBBBBBBSSBSMSBHBBJSSBBSBBSSSBSBSBlSSaBSSBBSlSBBMSSk About clba lidre. A few papers are clamoring because the Island of Cuba has not been turned over to the Cubans for independent government. They assume that the Island is pacified, and, because of our occupation, the natives begin to regard American troops as they did those of Spain. Mr. Wanamaker's paper, in Philadelphia, remarks that failure to give the Island into the hands of the Cubans is retarding business. Industry and investment. The best advices state that business and in dustry are improving under the security which the presence of a few thousand troops affords. As to Investment, those who covet franchises and the purchase of bonds which a Cuban government would issue have a grievance. With a few exceptions the opinion of those in Cuba who are best informed Is that tho Cubans are not in a condition to set up and maintain the stable and popular government which the resolution of Congress contemplates. Cubans have no better friend than General Wood, yet he has refused a tempting business offer because he regarded it his duty to continue his work at Santiago. He and other army officers and federal officials are teaching the Cubans the rudiments of efficient government. They have shown them how disease can be driven out of cities, how the revenues can be collected and how Justice can be administered matters concerning which thev have had no Information. Furthermore, all the Indica tions are that the mass of the natives are not qualified for self-government. Twothirds of them are Ignorant beyond our con ception. Therefore, the chances are a hun dred to one that to turn Cuba over to the Cubans to rule at the present time would, in fact. Invite conditions little better than anarchy. Besides, there Is no cause for haste. Conditions are daily improving. With the coming of the dry season Congress will meet. If that body believes that the Cubans are prepared for self-government. It car declare to that effect and direct the policy to be pursued. If it is satisfied that the time has not arrived to turn the Island over to the natives, it can adopt some policy for the future. At any rate, there is no haste, and this fussing about "Cuba llbre" fussing is the word fitly characterizing it will be sure to cause dissatisfaction among the Cubans who will hear of It and hear of it in a manner which will cause them to believe that they are being wronged, which will incite

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them to lawlessness. Sometimes one sus- J pects that those who are talking about turning Cuba over to the Cubans at once desire to embarrass the government. A NEW BRITISH TRUST. A recent Issue of the New York Tribune contains an interesting article by Mr. I. N. Ford, of London, announcing the successful formation in England of an oilseed trust with a capital of $11,200,000, which will prac tically control the business in Great Brit ain. A number of competing companies found that their profits were not what they desired and were persuaded by a New Yorker that It would be easy to make more money if they united their Interests and saved the expense of independent administration. This combination has not excited any protest In England, because the people have become accustomed to that sort of thing. The corporation scandals which aroused the Englishmen Involved the floating of a large amount of watered stock, which Is sold because men owning titles are directors. Any kind of a corporation paying dividends is all right In Great Brit ain, no matter whether it does or does not shut up factories or advance the cost to the consumer; There is no duty on oilseed or any of its products in Great Britain. There is a really protective duty on no article; in fact, the British customs tariff is elective only on twenty classes of articles, namely; Beer, playing-cards, chicory, chloral hydrate, chloroform, cocoa, coffee, collodion, confec tionery, ether, ethyl, tropical and dried fruits, naphtha, soap, spirits, tea, tobacco, varnish, still and sparkling wines. Oilseed is not an especial product of Great Britain to such en extent that those in the business could monopolize the trade If there were a high duty to keep out competition. Indeed, a large part of the oilseed sold in Great Brit ain la imported and entered free of duty. In other words, In no other country would it be so easy to overthrow a trust in oilseed as in Great Britain. Nevertheless, a trust has been formed to control the production and price of a nonprotected article. The Brooklyn Eagle, an independent Democratic paper, and always the opponent of the theory of protection, commenting upon the British oilseed trust, says: There are scores of successful "trusts" over there and no one objects to them. The tar m does not seem to have much effect upon them one way or another. When we remember that many of the big American combinations sire competing successfully in foreign land3 with the foreign manufactur ers, we are inclined to wonder at the nar rowness of vision of those good people who think that the abolition of protective duties in this country would be followed by the abolition of the corporations, which have advanced to that point where they do not need the protection of any special tax. Every other person as fair-minded as the editor of the Brooklyn Eagle will come to the foregoing conclusion in spite of the unsustained assertions of those who are try ing to make political capital out of trusts. Captain Watkins, of the stranded liner Fans, has no doubt encountered many perils during his long seafaring life and had his courage tested in many ways, but it Is safe to say that he never had anything to do that as greatly tried his nerve as the making of the acknowledgment that he was to blame for the grounding of the Paris. After so long and successful a career to have made the blunder he did must have caused him greater humiliation than the same mistake would have done at an earlier period of his life, and to stand up and con fess to the error must have added an almost unendurable bitterness. But it is a manly statement that he makes, and few persons reading it and knowing his past record as a shipmaster would hesitate to trust themselves in his care again in crossing the Atlantic. Grand Duke George, brother of the Czar of Russia, who has Just died, had long been an invalid, and gossip from the court has had it that in case he, by any chance, sur vived the present Czar he would be asked, or, rather, forced, to retire in favor of his younger brother, the Grand Duke Michael, who now becomes the direct heir to the throne. It is said that this youngest brother has been something of a disturbing element during the administration of Nicholas. He is his mother's favorite and is opposed to the peace policy of the Czar. This policy Is not popular with the nobility generally; hence tho grand duke is an object of special interest. With the Czarina adding daughters and no sons to her family, he may be re garded with some probability as a future ruler. It would be Interesting to know if history repeated itself in the case of the Mohegan and the Paris, the two Atlantic steam ships that were wrecked on the same rocks off the English coast, even to the extent of the same mistake befng made by both cap tains. It is a matter, however, concerning which curiosity will never be satisfied. Cap tain Watkins has told what his blunder was; the captain of the Mohegan paid the penalty of his error within the hour and his secret belongs to the waves. BUBBLES IN THE AIR. The Cornfed Philosopher. "While It cannot be denied that all men are liars," said the Cornfed Philosopher, "yet not all liars are men." Coming Hero. JimmyCome an see me fall In de river. Sammy Wot fer? "A actor Is goln to be tbsre an jump in an pull me out." Beware! Young man, your dulcet tenor voice Can win a wifelet, maybe; And afterward, she'll make you sing To quiet "darling baby." Penalties of Greatness. At every mention of his name. The noise is something shocking; Some loudly toot the trump of fame. And some are loudly knocking. M. Zola announces that he will return to purely literary labor. This does not necessarily mean that he will engage in the pro duction of pure literature. Chicago is to have a gas war, but Chicago citizens are not losing any sleep over the prospect; far from it. A gas war is one of the few corporate transactions where the public really finds something worth while on the bargain counter. Chicago will prob ably prepare to let its light shine with un usual brightness for a season. A good many inquiries have come to the Journal concerning the National Export Ex position, for which great preparations are being made in Philadelphia. It is under the auspices of the Commercial Museum and the Franklin Institute, two great institutions of Philadelphia. It is expected that every line of American manufactured products which is, can or might be exported, from heavy machinery to the smallest novelties. will be exhibited. The exposition is in tended to be a collection of the manufac tured products of this country, of the high est grade and quality which American skill can produce; these will be displayed for the inspection and study of foreign buyers and representatives of business houses; 20,000 of

whom are expected. Thousands of articles made in the United States and considered indispensable here are unknown abroad, and this exhibition will serve as their introduction. Samples of foreign products

with which they corns In competition will also be displayed. It Is probable that Indiana manufacturers will desire to be well represented at this exposition, which is to open on Sept. 11 and continue until Nov. 30. Many have already made arrangements but others are but now becoming interested. These can secure Information of every sort by addressing W. P. Wilson, director general, 203 South Fourth &treet, Philadelphia. . THE STATE PRESS. It Is refreshing to hear that the wheat crop in Delaware county will be much larger than anticipated. It might have been great er, out it win not be the failure that was feared.? Muncie Herald. Casa county boys who are still anxious for another taste of army life may have their desires gratified and see some of Uncle Sam's new territory by enlisting In the Thlr-iy-nrst -Regiment. It Is safe to say that Cass county will be well represented in this regiment. Logansport Journal. - A factory which directly and indirectly employs a hundred men has the largest capacity of any factory of its kind in this or any other country and ships Its products to every part of the world, is worthy of con siderable notice. The Attica handle factory, by means of the new machinery Just added, which doubles its former capacity, places Itself at the head of the handle factory industry of the world.-Attica Ledger. It la given out definitely that Hon. I B. Posey, of Evansville, will be a candidate for Governor, subject to the next Republican state convention. Mr. Posey has many inenas in Pike county and they will do what they can to secure his nomination ari election. A man who works incessantly for the Republican party is the man who should be honored. The people throughout the Klrst district will certainly give foeey their enthusiastic support. Petersburg Press. Since his anti-expansion speech at Indian apolis on the Fourth the Democrats have quit booming Capt W. E. English as a candidate for Governor on their ticket. He expressed sentiments too strongly impregnated with antl-expansionvand in favor of supporting the administration in the Philippine war to suit the bourbons. In fact Captain English talked altogether too much like a Republican on this occasion. He talked like a true American, though. South Bend Tribune. If the coming Legislature will enact a law authorizing the whipping of dlsorderdly indi viduals, it will no doubt prove more effective as a means of reformation than any other system of punishment which has ever been devised. The present mode of boarding prisoners in idleness until their term of impris onment nas expired has no terrors for the lawbreaker, to say nothing of the expense which such a system entails upon the tax payers or tne county. A sore back would be much more conducive to future eood be havior than merely being confined in a comfortable cell with plenty to- eat and credit for time served at expense of law-abiding citizens. Clay City Reporter. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Senator Allison, of Iowa, Is a devout reader of the newspaper, and subscribes to at least one morning paper in all the leading cities of the country. Admiral Sampson has had a watch case made of iron from an old Spanish cannon captured at Manila. The metal was sent him by General Funston. Dr. Richard J. Gatllng, of gun fame, says that the secret of his success was perse verance. "Above all." he savs. "a vouna man should keep himself busy." Ex-Senator George F. Hamlin, of Kan sas, is the son of Europe Hamlin. He had three uncles, whose names were Asia, Africa and America. Vice President Hannibal Hamlin was the son of Africa. Prof. John Fiske is said to be writing a history of the Spanish war. Senator Lodge's history, Just published, is based largely on federal reports, but Professor Fiske is uuoted as declaring that he has made most use of material from the newspapers as having local color and picturesque details. "The man or woman who is much trou bled over the necessity of having an arti ficial tooth inserted,?, said a popular dentist the other day, "may take consolation from the fact that there are about 20.0u0.0u0 of such teeth manufactured and sold annually in the United States, allowing on an average one artlnclal tooth every four years to each man, woman and child in the country, including Indians, negroes and tramps." The astonishing price of 510 was paid at Sotheby's, in London, a few days ago, for a copy of that very rare play, "The Troublesome Raigne of John, King of England, lord." The only other copy of this play which is known to exist Is in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge. It was from this play that Shakspeare wrote his version of the "Life and Death of King John." This is said to be a higher price than has ever been given for any quarto o! tho work of Shakspeare. The distinguished painter, Laurerce AlmaTadema, has recently been honored by a knighthood- which has proved a source of embarrassment. When he came to England he took to himself the name Alma, partly to smooth off his Dutch family name, and partly (it is said) to appear among the A's in catalogues a very practical con sideration. But to the public he at once became "Alma Tadema. ' and even his friends dropped the Laurence. Herein lies the difficulty, for whereas it should prop erly be "Sir Laurence," the English public Insists on making It "Sir Alma." If all the floating newspaper paragraphs about Count Cassrlnl, the Russian ambassador at Washington, be true it is a wonder that he finds time to attend to his official business. During the past three months he has been variously described as an ex pert coin collector, an autograph hunter, a treasurer cf old cigarette holders, a con noisseur of old china, a stamp gatherer, a collector of walking sticks and an enthusi ast on the subject of Indian relics. By this time next week count cassini win doubtless be reported as having also taken up amateur photography and the collecting of butterflies. A DEAF 3IUTES CONVENTION. To Be Held at the Paris Fair and Will Be the First of the Kind. New York Journal. The deaf mutes of the civilized world are looking forward with much Interest to the international congress, which meets in Paris during the world's fair. It will be tne nrst gathering of the kind since the rise of deaf-mute education in the year 1750, and it is most appropriately a meet in the birth place of the method or education mat nas been Droved most natural and helpful to thousands of this afflicted class. This method found Its way to America not long afterward, at the hands of uaiiauaet ana Clerc. household names among American deaf mutes. The latter was a highly edu cated deaf mute. In the year named a be nevolent and ingenious French abbe discov ered the long overlooked fact that universal sign language, the mother expression of all uneducated deaf mutes, was a facile means of telling them the meaning of words and teaching them to read and write; and, better still, of preaching the gospel. He also found that hand signs are much plainer to the eye of a dear mute than lip signs, and thus more readily conveyed to him the ideas existent In the hearing world. Since this discovery dear-mute education has grown with great rapidity, there being at this day over 4uu schools in America and Europe. The government College for the Deaf at Washington is the nrst and only Institution of the kind in the world. A committee of deaf mutes of the French metropolis is at work making arrangements for the congress. Subcommittees have been appointed In other countries. A meeting has been held to discuss plans submitted by the chairman. An important feature of this international congress will be the "reading" of papers by the leading deaf mutes of different nationalities. The sending of delegates and other matters will probably be taken up by the national convention of deaf mutes, which meets at St. Paul early in July. Methuselah's Record Is nfe. Chicago Times-Herald. It is reported that Agulnaldo Intends to hold out until Bryan is elected President of the united Mates. There is no Immediate danger, however, that the record established by the late Methuselah will be broken. Good Adviser. Baltimore American. President McKlnley can feel perfectly safe in taking the advice of the Governor of New York, whatever that advice may be. Turn About. Kansas City Journal. About 105 Major McKlnley may be invited to Washington to consult with President Roosevelt.

STORIES ABOUT BONNER

ODD EVENTS IN HIS RISE FROM POVERTY TO MILLIONS. Man Who Never Borrowed or Owed Money II1 Only Bet How He Secured Dickens as a Writer. New York Journal. There are more forms of high art than appear on canvas, in marble or on a graven page. The late Robert Bonner, for instance, was a master of many. To be sure, he could not paint a picture nor could he carve a marble faun. But he could shoe a horse, and as an advertiser he had no equal. Besides this, he could set type with machlneUke rapidity and precision and decision, and could tell a paying story at a glance. Also, he never owed a cent longer than it took to pay it. All of which is more or less art. In 1S14 Mr. Bonner came to New York. He brought with him 170 to a cent. He put It in a bank, and one day the cashier wrote down in red Ink In his bankbook "13." "It was my interest," said Mr. Bonner. "I had to ask him what it meant. He told me. and I was overwhelmed with astonishment. I told him I hadn't made the money. 'No. but your money did he answered. fThat settled it- I learned that day that money makes money, and that to bo rich you must save. So I have saved." Mr. Bonner's greatest pride was that he never borrowed or owed. The only thing he ever borrowed was a maxim from Emer son 'O discontented man! Whatever you want, pay the price and take iti" He did. Whenever he wanted anything he paid for It. The price sometimes came high. But Mr. Bonner got it all the same. One day he suggested to a friend that Edward Ever ett ought to write for the Ledger. The friend smiled. "You couldn't get Everitt to write at any price," said the friend. "You wait and see," said Mr. Bonner. Mr. Everett was lecturing at that time on Washington, using the proceeds toward a fund for the purchase of Mount Verncfi. Mr. Bonner wrote to Mr. Everett that he would subscribe $10,000 to the fund if Mr. Everett would write once a week for the Ledger. The famous Bostonlan accepted. "There." said Mr. Bonner. "What did I tell you? It came high, but I got it." The only time In his life that Mr. Bonner ever made a bet was when he was a type setter on the old Hartford Courant. A "Jour" of tho name of John Hand came down the line with the advance reputation of being the swiftest compositor on earth. "Maybe," said the Courant men; "but you haven't tried Bonner yet." "Huh!" said tne "jour;" I'll try him for $10 a side." "I never bet," said Mr. Bonner. "You better not," laughed the challenger. Mr. Bonner changed his mind. He put up $10, got down to work, and, besides consuming two pieces of custard pie, set 25,500 ems of solid minion type in twenty hours and twenty-eight minutes. The feat has never been equaled. NEVER RACED HIS HORSES. V. AlthmicrK ff V?nnner snont In hi HfAtlmA about $650,000 for trotting horses, he never raced one or allowed one to be raced for money. His first horse was bought in July, 1855. At that time there had been Just nineteen horses in the world, dead and alive, that had trotted a mile in 2:30. To-day there are 15,000 on the list To Mr. Bonner is due much of this. He was the-first to show what might be accomplished by intel ligent shoeing, and without doubt no man alive has ever understood the foot of the horse as definitely as he learned it. This was effectually displayed some time ago at a sale of Palo Alto trotters. Mr. Bonner looked them over and picked out Ansel Chief as the best of the lot. But every other high horseman in America had discarded the animal as unsound. The day the colt came to New York he was lame, but that made no difference to Mr. Bonner. He sent his brother to buy Ansel Chief, and set a limit at $1,500. In virtue of his lameness Ansel Chief was knocked down to $500. Mr. Bonner grinned with delight. He took the colt to Tarrytown and paired down its toes. In a few days it was as sound as a dollar, moving squarely and fast, and at the age of four went the mile In 2:152. "You see," explained Mr. Bonner, "the toe of its hoof was so long that it stretched the suspensory ligament. I Just had it pared down and relieved the strain. It cost about 2 cents' labor and saved me a thousand dollars." Speaking of Tarrytown, Mr. Bonner's place was one of the nnest trotting farms in tne country. But, strange to relate, he never spent a night there from the time he bought it till the day he died. Why, no one ever knew. It was a notion of his just that and nothing else. Once Mr. Bonner wanted a place in West chester. He found one that was satlsiacr tory and asked whether there was malaria In the neighborhood. The agent said no; there was no malaria in Westchester, but over across the line there was plenty. Ev ery householder in the county told him the same thing. So Mr. Bonner bought the place, and promptly got malaria. A few days afterward an advertisement appeared in the New York newspapers. Mr. Bonner offered his dace for ale. In the advertise ment he enlarged upon the fact that it wis the only place in the enure county wnere malaria could be caught, but, notwithstanding this great and uncommon advantage, he would sell it at a reasonable price. In sup port of his statement Mr. Bonner called at tentlon to the assertion of every real-estate dealer in the neighborhood that there was no malaria in the county. He sold the place. Another story told of Mr. Bonner la sometimes laid to the nimble wit of the inimitable William R. Travers. Mr. Bonner was riding in a street car one day with his son, then a little bov. The car was crowded and jut. Bonner had taken the boy on his knee. Presently a handsome and stylish young woman entered and Mr. isonner nuagea ms son irons Vila Wnpp. "My boy," said he, gravely, "get up and !..,-. .Vi lnu vnnr coat " fclVC IUC 1QUJ . . . . , . , Even the young woman had to Join In the titter that followed. PUBLISHED A CLEAN PAPER. One rule that was always inviolate in the Ledger office was that nothing even remote ly suggestive should appear. "You shall not print In this paper," said Mr. Bonner, "even a single word that my mother could not read aloud without shame to her infants." Thprft Is nothing on earth." said Mr. Bonner again and still once more, "like ad vertising. If you have anything to sell ad vertise it." . tja nnp of Mr. Bonner's early ideas was to buy up the entire advertising space in a tcw Vnrk newsnaDer. Ills display consisted in repeating over and over wun Dewnaering iteration the fact that the Ledger was about to publish a story by " So-and-So. On the morning the advertisement appeared eight I. ii Tf Tlnnnpr's nhvsician hasJ'df,t:3 iu an . - " m tened to his house. "Is anything the matter with Mr. Bon ner?" he asked hurriedly. "I don't think so." said Mr. Bonner, an "Then tell me," demanded the physician, "what in the face of nature all this means? iTnvft vou cone out of your mind over night?" Mr. Bonner laughed delightedly. 'Thoro " h exclaimed. "I knew that ad vertisement would hit. I venture to say that every person that has read that paper this nnrninf la making the same query. It's grand!" The advertisement cost thousands of dol lnra hut It nald. "It's too bad," said a friend to him one mnrninf "that Charles Dickens won't u-rito fnr American Dublications." "He won't, eh?" cried Mr. Bonner. "Just wait till I try." tiA mshed down to his office, wrote to Dickens asking for a story and with the letter Kt-nt a draft for .000. Dickens was car ried off his feet. He accepted and at the same time asked whether this was the way Ampriran nublishers did business. "if the wav this one does." answered Mr. Bonner. A while afterward Mr. Bonner captured Tennyson Dy tne same pian. Mr. Bonner, with all the tens of thousands of Ktnrirci he tjublished. never read fiction. The only stories he ever finished were Dickens's "Hunted Down." and Syivanus Cobb, ir.'s. "Th Gunmaker of Moscow." It was hu custom to read merely the opening chapter, und'lf he found it satisfactory, to have the story reaa inrousn oy nis rtaaers. Once, when Mr. Bonner's capital wj Just $S,Oii0. he determined to make certain advertising. When the estimate was brought to "Too much," said he to the advartiainj

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agent. "Cut It down to 3.000. That's all th money I have."

'Can't do it " said the agent, "but I'll trust you for the 12,000." "I know that." said Mr. Bonner, "but I won't let you." The agent cut the difference. "Am I a teetotaller? No." said Mr. Bon ner once in answer to the question. "No, I am not a teetotaller. I had a glass of sherry when I came to New lork In 1M4." It is not on record whether he ever took another. JOHN R. M'LEAN. Fecnllar Ways of the Ohio Demo cratic Leader. W. G. Nicholas In Chicago Post. John R. McLean's "rooters" encourage the idea that fabulous sums cf money will be spent in Ohio if he secures the gubernatorial nomination and that the outlay will hp. th fnrpHinner of still more Drodizai campaign expeditures when he takes the nomination for President away from Colonel Bryan as the natural sequence of Ohio s success next fall. Rarely has there been a more beautiful structure built on a founda tion of ifs and perhapses. The trouble with John R. McLean is his unconquerable propensity for- "quitting" at critical points in a game. Race horses having a similar weak ness throw up their tails when the pace gets too hot for them. Mr. McLean bluffs violently in the index, but it has been observed of hlrn that fatigue overtakes him In contests of endurance, especially when he is subjected to financial strains. He does not like the gaff and does not pretend to. consequently he gets away from punishment without loss of time. An Instance In point was his venture in the field of metropolitan Journalism. He bought the New York Jour nal from Albert Pulitzer and it was thunder ously announced that he was going to spend $1,000,000 in building it up and giving New Yorkers what they had long needed, a live newspaper. A lot of high-priced "talent" was secured under long-time contracts and the paper was run under the McLean banner for six momentous weeks. Suddenly and without a minute's warning he "quit" and sold out to Mr. Hearst. The only excuse he ever made for letting go was that he had discovered that in buying the Journal he had acquired a "nest of polecats," property for which he had no use and which he unloaded as quickly as possible. The subsequent experience of Mr. Hearst In establishing the Journal Justifies the suspicion Mr. McLean discovered also that he might actually have to spend that $1,000,000. He had it to spend, all right, but not to. throw up in the air on an experiment. That is not the McLean way. Another case easily recalled Is the aicLiean nirtatlon with the Chicago convention three short years ago. under cover of a piay tor first place his lieutenants organized a clever movement to corral the vice presidential nomination. There was no stage of the game when second place was beyond his reach, but at a critical point he pulled out of the race. One story was that he aid not want to run on a ticket with Bryan. Another was that Bryan didn't want McLean for a running mate. It is known that while Bryan thought a better nomination could he made than McLean he did not rule the gentleman off the list. Still a third explanation of the withdrawal of .the Cincinnati-Washington editor and capitalist was the story current at the time in the Inner Ohio circle that ho had balked when the size of the campaign contribution that would be expected of him as a consideration for the nomination was broached. It was said of and about Mr. McLean that his whole moral nature revolted at the bare thought of getting a nomination that way. The test of the duciiity or -Mr. McLean's leg having proved disappointing. according to the chronicler of inner hl9tory. the convention turned to the Maine snipbuilder. This Dredlsnosltion on the part of Mr. Mc Lean to take flight when his pocketbook is threatened is a recognized peculiarity much discussed among his friends. He is not singular in this position, however, and the fact would hardly be worth mentioning were it not for the ostentatious efforts being made in certain quarters to produce the impression among Buckeye Democrats that if they only nominate Mr. McLean for Governor the State will be literally sown with ten-dollar treasury notes "in order to convince the country of the President's weakness at home." It is an act of kindness to prepare the minds of deluded Democrats who are being educated to look forward to a harvest of currency immediately follow ing the nomination of Mr. McLean for the disappointment that Is in store for them. What they take to be the odor of Mr. Mc Lean's "burning money" is something en tirely different. Those who have the pleas ure of close acquaintance with the Ohio multi-millionaire never expect to see a con flagratlon of McLean cash. MARK TWAIN'S MELON. The Path of Crime Which Leads to Virtue. London Mail. Mark Twain was the guest of the New Vagabond Club at the Holborn restraurant last night. Having a large assembly of vagabonds to address, he made use of the occasion to develop a brand-new scheme of morality. Mr. George Grossrolth. the chairman, pro-' vided the text. He said that was the first time he had ever taken the chair. "Quite so." said Mark Twain, addressing the gathering. "Perhaps you didn't see the lull bearing of that remark. I did. Though he didn't say it, he meant that he had taken lots or other things, but never a chair. Now Mr. Grossmith is like myself a practical. not a theoretical moralist." And Mark Twain, in his funny, sing-song way, and with his Hiawatha repetitions, explained his "practical morality. ' "You do not learn it at Sunday school. There they teach you to avoid temptation. That is theoretical morality. Now, I would teach you to familiarize yourself with crime. so tnat you win know what you must not do. That Is practical morality. I begin by teaching you how to steal. "It Is by the fires of experience that you are purified. By the commission of crime you learn real practical morality. Fami liarize yourself with every crime. Take them in rotation. There are not more than two or three thousand. Stick to the task dili gently. Commit two or three crimes every day, and by and by, when you have done tnem an. you win he proof against the temptation to commit any one of them. morally perfect, vaccinated against all wick edness. "I will tell you a story about the first time I stole a watermelon. That is, I think it was the first time. Anyhow, it was rin-ht along there, somewhere. 1 stole that melon out or a cart while the farmer was attending another customer. 'Stole is a harsh term. I will modify It and say that I with drew the melon. I carried it to a secluded nower and broke It open and it was green! It was the greenest watermelon that was raised In the valley that year. The minute I saw that watermelon was green I was sorry. "I began to reflect. Now: reflection I a th beginning of reform. If you don't reflect when you have committed a crime why. mat crime is no use to you at an. I said to myself, what ought a boy to do who has stolen a green watermelon? What would George Washington do? George Washingion, iatner or nis country, couldn't tell a He. He was the only American who couldn't. What would he do? Why, there was only one right and high and noble thing for a boy to do who had stolen a watermelon of that character. He must make restitution. He must restore the melon to its rightful owner. "And I said, I will do it The moment I made that good resolution I felt tht noble exaltation which comes after you have done wrong and you determine to do right. I rose up spiritually strengthened and refreshed and I carried that watermelon back what was left of It I restored It to the farmer, and made him give me a ripe one instead." Having delivered himself, amid screams of laughter, of his shining example, Mr. Clem ens returned to his morals. "It is," he said, "this constant impact of crime upon crime, this stacking up of iniquity after iniquity, and thus protecting yourself against the commission of those crimes In future it is this which builds up your moral eaince and completes it. You cannot become morally perfect by stealing one watermelon, nor by stealing a thou sand. It has been tried. But every little helps." And so Mark Twain concluded with the hope that the Vagabonds would grow in practical morality until they died and might that he a long time hence. Compulsory Vaccination. Hahnemannian Advocate. Each Individual may think unon the sub Ject as he will, and so far as his individual interests are concerned may act in accord with his own Judgnent. The Constitution of the United States will protect him from the assaults of others so long as he is not Jeopardizing the interests of others by the exercise of individual liberty. The rights of the community are greater than that of any single individual. If I have smallpox it is simple justice tnat I should be quarantined, but no one has the right to assume that I will have smallpox until it becomes an ac tual fact. If a child is filthy or has any infectious disease it is proper that it should be placed where It cannot contaminate oth ers. If Its home is in a condition whereby others are exposed to danger there is no difficulty in declaring it a nulrance and It will be abated. But you cannot assume that the home will be filthy at some future time or that in the course of human events the child may have smallpox and therefore roust be vaccinated. Boards of health are powerless to compel vaccination and can be prosecuted for usurping a power which they do not possess. The same may be said of boards of education, but they do have the right to insist upon a thorough inspection of person or environment, and If that

Inspection reveals a present state oi con taminatloa the thin must be abated. . - .

PADEREWSKI'S ROMANCE

AFTER NIXETEEX YEARS A WIDOWER HE WEDS BARONESS ROSEN. Tonchlng Story of nis First Love with Wealthy Roumanian CIrl-WIfe His Real Inspiration. New York Telegraph. Admirers of Paderewski in this city will be rleased to hear that he has been married to a baroness of his own country. News of the marriage was conveyed to the publlo prints by means of an engraved announcement sent out by the eminent pianist himself, which reads as follows: "Mr. I. J. Pedercwskl and Mrae. Helene, baroness of Rosen, have the honor to announce to you their marriage, which was celebrated on May 2L 1SS9. at the Church of St. Esprit, In Warsaw." Many times the story of his marriage haj been told, but Paderewski invariably denied it. What was his reason no one knew. His repeated denials finally convinced the public that he still remained true to the memory of his first wife. Once, when questioned as to why he had never remarried, he answered, with that exaggerated poesy often affected by genius: "Why should I marry? I, who have a wife there?" and he pointed to heaven. "There? She is here. She Is with me always. I would die if it were not for her presence." Recently a writer. In describing Faderewskl's courtship, said: It was twenty years ago that Ignaes Jan Paderewski, a poor, unknown pianist, made a tour through Russia. Siberia. Servia. and Rouro.nla. He played to small audiences at reduced rates. Most of his hearers listened dully. A few caught the whisper of the angel of genius when the boy pianist touched the keys. They were men and women who listened with their souls, for their ears noted many Imperfections in the musician's art. One of the few who listened and heard the angel note was a girl of seventeen. She was Rose Hassal, the daughter of a wealthy Roumanian. It was said there was noble blood in her veins. She was a girl in form and face and manner, but a woman's soul, mature and loving, looked from her eyes. She was beautiful because of that look. She had the divine gift of sympathy. The Roumanian village folk said that God had touched her with His finger at her birth and put that tender smile upon her Hps and in her eyes. Ignace Pederewhki, from the rude platform of the village hall, saw that tender, unconscious smile. He felt the girlish eyes' with their depths of unfathomed tenderness upon him. Under their spell he played as he had never played before. She and her father thanked him for the music He bowed low to the father and looked into her eyes and was mute. The father frowned. The girl blushed and her eyes felL Ignace Paderewski went back to the Roumanian village three months later. He told the owner cf the eyes that he could never play again without their presence and their inspiration. She confessed she had thought often of the player and his music. She loved : all the world, but she loved him most of all. 6o when the Roumanian had talked loudly about rank and fortune and angrily about "pauper musician." he did so to less than no purpose. The next morning there was an early wedding performed by the village priest, and the rich Roumanian's daughter and the "pauper musician" left the village and walked away hand in hand into their new world, a world that held much pain and poverty but more happiness. The young husband and wife traveled tof ether on his concert touts in Russian and ollsh villages. Sometimes 6he turned his music. Oftener she sat near him, near enough that) he might look into her eyes, those beautiful eyes with a deeper tenderness In them than when he had seen them first in the Roumanian village. When .Paderewski and his wife were not traveling they lived in his birthplace, the Russian-Polish village of Podolia, Here he practiced eight hours a day, always insisting that she be near him while he practiced. He complained that his fingers stumbled and would not obey his will if she were away. And she, chiding him a little that the household machinery must be stopped for him. obeyed. She sat near him and sewed until she was weary, while he played and played. And ever the music grew sweeter and the touch more divine. Sometimes the playing stopped with a crash, for the wife had snatched his fingers from the keys and kissed them and baptized them with a rain of happy tears. Then the music would be forgotten while these two fond, foolish young persons cried in each other's arms. Remember that she was not yet eighteen and he not yet twenty. "Ah! My Ignace!" she would say. "You shall be rich and famous. But what shall I do then? My heart cannot hold more happiness." They were very poor. They had thm piano, but little else. Her father would do nothing for them. His could not. Much privation can be endured In health. But the wife of Paderewski was not strong. She had been used to luxuries unknown In Podolia. She mi wed them, but she was too brave and tender to heave a sigh. When her husband saw the tired drocp of her lips he made the birds In the piano sing, and the brook In the piano ripple, and the flowers in the piano bloom, and the wun in the piano shine, and she forgot. The folk gossip about the Fodolla peasant's playing reached Warsaw, and a grave professor, with bristling black whiskers and hair and thoughtful blue eyes, went down to hear. He went to the little cottage and listened outside at the door. His grave eyes brightened. "Scnoen!" Schoen!" he said. He was so pleased that he quite forgot to knock. He pushed open the door. The girl wife was pressing her lips upon her husband's hand, and he was stroking her hair. . . . The Warsaw professor coughed. The child husband and wife started. "We want you at the Warsaw Conservatory." eaid tho man with the bristling hair. "Will you accept?" His career began then and his fame grew dally, but sorrow came at the name tlm. for a few months later the young wife died. How Paris Cabmen Flcht. New York Tribune. Guy Duval, recently returned from Paris, tells the following story as an illustration of the irresponsibility of the average Frenchman: "I was riding one afternoon In th Rotse de Boulogne." he said, "when I noticed a tremendous disturbance Just ahead of mv carriage. Two thoroughly angry tourists were standing In the street, rubbing their heads, and swearing with an ease and force which convinced me at once that they were Americans. Two empty cabs, which had evidently been occupied by the tourist were standing near by, and the drivers were hurling indistinguishable Jargon at each other, to the delectation of a crowd of onlookers. My driver Immediately stopped to Join in the excitement. With some difficulty I persuaded him to proceed, and when we were out of sound of the uproar I asked him what the trouble was. " "Why. monsieur he said. 'Jaspard ran Into Pierre's cab and ncraped some of the paint from the wheel. Pierre was naturally very angry and swore at Jaspard. whereupon Jaspard said: "If you don't shut up I'll hit you customer on the bead with my whip'." and Pierre retorted: "If you hit my customer I'll hit your customer!" Then Jaspard struck Pierre's cuMomer and Pierre resented the insult by hitting Jaspard's customer. That man Jaspard Is always getting Into fights.' " Self-interest In the Role of a Prophet. New York Advocate. Inventors in this country have a habit of talking about what they are about to do. There is usually an outbreak of the kind wldelv circulated a few months before specimens of their work are to b? offeted in the market, or made the basis of the formation of stock companies. It has a tendency to prevent the people from investing in anything already completed, lest something better should appear. In a number of cases the "something better" has not appeared, but this does not prevent the srre inventors from making similar promise. For people in general a good rule In ell tMngs Is "to be neither the first nor the last to take up a new thing." No Luck: In llorseahoes. Atchison Globe. There is nothing in th theory that horthocs bring good luck. What animal works harder than the hore or is treated worse 1 in its old age? Yet it wears four of them.