Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 194, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 July 1899 — Page 4

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In order to receive attention, be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. Rejected manuscripts will not be returned unless postage is inclosed for that purpose. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. Can be found at the following places: NEW YORK Aster 'House. CHICAGO-Palmer House. P. O. News Co.. 217 Dearborn street. Great Northern Hotel and Grand Pacific Hotel. CINCINNATI-J. R. JIawley it Co.. Hi Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Deerlng. northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville Book Co., ZA Fourth avenue. ET. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON. D. C Rlggs House, Ebbltt House and Willard's Hotel. The Atlanta Constitution, , speaking of Bryan, says his speeches "read" as well as they sound. This is not unlikely, but how they do found! ... It Is now declared that Governor Fingree did not vote for the President or for anybody else. He had forgotten to register and would not swear In his vote; yet, he Is something of a swearer. A .Democratic, paper In New Albany complains that the wages of the employes In a certain Industry have been advanced but 13 per cent. That is to be regTetted, but an advance of 10 per cent. Is better than the decline of 10 per cent. Incident to the Democratic victory In 1S22. The claim of the Philadelphia Press that the rule' of recent Congresses authorizing the speaker to appoint the committee on rules and be chairman thereof affords him too much power is worth considering. The tpeaker should not be chairman, even If he should appoint the committee. Word comes from New York that exGenator David B. Hill is engaged In a political still hunt. It must be a very still one, since, between Tammany and the sllverite?, the once potential Hill cannot have much of a party, even If he is the ablest man In his party In New York since the death of Mr. Tllden. The examination of the methods of the Pension Bureau, which has been begun by a, Grand Arr ' committee, should be so carefully made and its report so full and complete that all veterans may understand the matter. But it should be remembered that no report will satisfy men who assume that cviience is not necessary to establish a claim. " The Louisville Courier-Journal has ad dressed a double-column, double-leaded edi torial to the gulf States, showing them that their Interest, above all other sections, lies In the Nicaragua canal and expansion. It tells them that it is better to follow Lee and Wheeler than a lot of small politicians, whose only aim in politics is to be opposed to Republican administration. HSSBMaMSMSBBSMMMiiMeSH There may be a few persons .who believe the statement of Rev. Clay MacCauley, to the effect that Admiral Dewey would hoist anchor and sail away from Manila rather than make war upon the Filipinos. Unf ortuna: sly for Mr. MacCauley, the admiral Is on record as being in favor of American ascendency. Aug. 23. to a corre spondent of the New York Tribune, Ad miral Dewey, standing on the deck of the Olyrnpla, and pointing to the American flag., said: "I hope it will float there for ever." Under date of Oct. 3 Admiral Dewey wrote President Brown, of Norwich University: "I trust that the entire archi pelago will be retained by the United States. Any other arrangement will lead to no end of trouble." Again, on May SI, Admiral Dewey said to an American correspondent, who met him on his arrival at Hong-Kong: t Viiva th crtst enthusiasm In the fu ture of the Philippines. I hope to see Amorira' nnvspftsinna the kev to Oriental commerce and civilization. The brains of our great country will develop tne umoia agricultural and mineral resources of the Islands. We must never sell them. Such an action would bring on another great war. tv win novpr nart witii the PhlllnDines. I am sure, nnd in future years the idea that anybody should have serlo-isly suggested it will be one or the curiosities oi msiory. From the foregoing It Is evident that the Rev. MacCauley has been the innocent vic tlm of his Imagination, to put it charitably. The closing up the affairs of the Iron Hall completes the history of one of the most remarkable of the many schemes dsvised to wheedle people out of their money upon the most visionary pretexts. Most of these schemes are short lived and end in the es cape of the leaders before the bubble bursts. with pockets full of money. Under the guise of a secret organization based upon golden rule precepts the Iron Hall lived for years when Its managers could not give a reason able explanation to a member as to how he could get his money back. Those who "did see through the scheme expected to get their profits out of the contributions of those who had paid one. two or three years' as sessments and were then compelled to drop out, losing their money. That sort of thing will do for a time, but a swindle Is sure. in the end, to have a dozen victims where one patron Is benefited. But while the Iron Hall swindle has come to an end there are always others to dupe those who believe that now and then there is a person who possesses the mysterious power to get for all those who apply two or three dollars for one. The more mysterious and unexplalnabie the process the more faith the dupes seem to have in the swindlers. And when the lists of the victims are published it will be learned that many of'them are very in telligent people. The Journal has carefully refrained from commenting on the affairs of its esteemed contemporary, the News, wnlle its family quarrel was in progress, but now that the matter is settled an allusion to it may be permitted. The Journal will not deny that in spite of Its polite silence it has, in com mon with the rest of the community, looked on at the fight with considerable interest

that la to say. with mingled emotions,--u

Is always painful, of course, to the rightminded to see brethren of one household fall to wrangling and tearing each other's eyes; but even to the righteous there is a Joy not to be overcome in gazing at a fight any sort of one, from a dog fight to a scrap between university professors. It is an unholy and purely human Joy, but If professors will scrap and get so bumptious that no self-respecting person can live with them in harmony, perhaps spectators may be excused for grinning. It is 'not necessarily a sin to "set and grin" at the performances of one's neighbors; on the contrary, the sin may consist in not finding entertainment when.it presents Itself In this sometimes dull world. But that is neither here nor there now. The fight is over, peace reigns and everybody should be happythe one faction for getting Its way, always a delightful sensation: the other one getting tremendously well paid in cash for lesing. If the winners paid a big price for their whistle that Is their own affair; the pleasure of blowing it may be worth to them all it costs. The Journal is not concerned with Its .neighbor's extravagances, but wishes to . extend congratulations on two grounds: first, that during the months of its internal troubles It has not neglected for a day Its heavy responsibilities in regard to the universe, but has laid down the law for all creation as usual and just as if there were no pain In its inside; second, that its troubles now being past it can take a double and twisted grip on affairs in general and particular, and with undisturbed mind and more leisure can assume the pressure to a greater degree than ever before and give the State officers, the mayor and Board of Works, the County Commissioners, political leaders, the government at Washington and all the rest a much-needed vacation. From now on great things may be expected from the News,

JEALOUSIES OF THE INDIANA IIHYANITES. While there is no such factional contest among the Indiana Democracy as that which divides the Democracy of Chicago into Harrison and Altgeld factions, there is much jealousy and suspicion between the elements which may be described as the sensible and the nonsensical Democrats. The former are not saying much, but the others are crying "wolf." Take the Hoosler Democrat, of Clark county. The goldlte ghost has filled it with fright. In about every prominent Democrat of the State it discovers a goldlte. The candidacy of Mayor Taggart fills its editor with dismay and words. Some one has spoken of Major Menzles as a manwho would make a good candidate for Governor. He is another "gold-bug" Democrat, it declares who has been brought into the canvass In southwest ern Indiana to divide the Democracy and assure the triumph of the Indianapolis goldbug ring.' "We are being betrayed," shouts the Clark county editor; thereat he pours out an appeal to the Democracy in southern Indiana to rise in Its might and destroy the Morss-Taggart "combine." ', The Public Press of New Albany is another paper which assails the editor of the Sentinel and alludes to all the men of brains in the party as political parasites. In the space which is not devoted to assaults upon these men it declares that "times are so hard that labor and the products of labor are falling.' The Salem Democrat is still another sample of the papers whose editors have discovered gold bugs under the bed of the Indiana Democracy. In a recent editorial it puts Captain English in the list of the secret traitors who are seeking an oppor tunity to stab the cause of bimetallism in the back. The man they call "Tom" Tag gart is also, they say, in the plot to defeat the cause of Democracy and Bryan in 1M0. Strange as it may seem. 80 per cent, of the Democratic papers in Indiana are crying out against those Democrats who are sus pected of being of opinion that It is not wise to reaffirm the silver plank of the Chicago platform. In a recent issue the Evansvllle Courier loses patience with one of these editors. It is for the reaffirmation Of the Chicago plat form, but it is weary of this continual abuse of Democrats who are suspected of having sufficient intelligence to discover that 16 to 1 is a losing issue. It tells these editors that Mayor Taggart did splendid service for Bryan In 1XXJ, and predicts that he can carry the State as the Democratic candidate for Governor. This is putting it rather strong, since a large number of Bryanities in Indianapolis are of opinion that Mayor Taggart did not ruin his health In working for the success of Mr. Bryan. When, however, the Courier declares that this snarling at Taggart, Menzles, Moras and every other prominent Democrat sus pected of intelligence has for Its object the keeping of such men as "Allen W. Clark and like political adventurers on top" it is getting down to the truth. The Clark ele ment is composed of a lot of small-sized schemers who are bent on controlling the Democratic party in Indiana. To do this their organs assail all the men whom they suspect of intellectual superiority and in fluence. Judging from the large number of organs the Clark coterie has they will con trol ' the Indiana delegation in the next Democratic national convention. GUILTY OF TREASON. The framers of the Constitution of the United States made the clearest and most libera! definition of treason that had been known up to that time. Previous to that tyrannical governments or autooritlc sovereigns had made constructive treason out of almost any act that was cffcnslvc to them. History Is full of such crscs. The Constitution says: "Treason against the United States shall consist only In levying war against them or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort." It is worthy of remark that this definition confines treason to acting with the enemies of the United States, that is of the gov ernment. There is no such thing as treason merely against the President. In monarch leal governments It is treason to do io lence to the person of the King; In this country the person of the President is not made any more sacred by law than that of a citizen. Although he is the constitu tlonal head of the government he Is not the government In the sense that'would make an attack upon his person treason. British statutes have at different times made treason of numerous offenses against the safety, peace or dignity of different mem bers of the royal family. The tendency in modern times has been to narrow the defi nition of the crime, though it has never been as liberally construed as it Is In the Constitution of the United States. Under this definition treason against the United States may be committed in two ways: First, by making war against them; and, second, by adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. To be guilty of treason it is not necessary actually to bear arms against the United States; it is enough if one adheres to Its enemies, glv

Ing them aid and comfort. To adhere to

means to side with and sympathize with. To give aid and comfort includes moral aid and comfort as well as material. Messages of sympathy and encouragement may give aid and comfort, as much as supplies and munitions of war. To oppose the prosecution of a war against enemies of the United States Is treason in the sense that it gives aid and comfort to such enemle?. To give armed enemies of the United States aid and comfort it 13 not necessary to take them Into one's house and harbor and feed them, neither Is it necessary to send them money or arms. It is enough to comfort them with friendly words, to assure them that they are right and the United States wrong, and to encourage them to continue the fight. Judged by this rule the so-called antlexpansionists are guilty of treason against the United States. They are adhering to its enemies and giving them moral aid and comfort. They first encouraged the Filipinos to begin war by opposing the treaty and the army bill that was Intended to enable the government to establish Its authority, and since the war began they have encouraged the insurgents to continue it. It Is not likely they will be called to answer for their conduct in any other court, but at the bar of public opinion they should be held guilty of treason. AGl'IN'ALDO'S AIDS.

The halt in military operations in Luzon because of the rainy season and the call of the President for ten regiments to be In the Philippines when the rainy season Is over has been a signal for a number of papers to pursue a course designed to lead the people to suspect that affairs are much worse in Luzon than they are represented. "Let Admiral Dewey tell the country the truth about affairs in Manila," Is the demand of Mr. Wanamaker's newspaper in Philadelphia, as if the prominent officers who have come home. Including Generals Anderson and King, have not told the truth about the situation. With the unreliability of a class of Independent papers the Boston Herald has again flopped, thereby giving o those who have slandered our troops aiM their leaders great encouragement. That paper Is simply, back upon its old ground. For months It criticised the Idea of holding the Philippines. Suddenly it faced about, urged the ratification of the Spanish treaty and vigorously supported the President. It continued three months in that line, and then faces about, laments the war, accuses the administration of inefficiency and of de ceiving the people regarding the condition of our troops and the work which has been done. It tells its readers that our troops are camping in the water and are suffering. It chatters about the censorship of General Otis over press dispatches. In fact, every Issue contains a chapter of lamentations. Several other papers have the same symptoms. They desire to dlicuss who began the war and why we armed the rebels. Is it the purpose of these papers to discourage recruiting? Would they have the President haul down our flag and sneak out of the Philippines? If not, why these com plaints? Is it because In every war in which the United States has been engaged there have been croakers in the rear? After the first Bull Run, until thirty days before the surrender of Lee, political leaders and news papers pursued the same policy that several papers are now pursuing. Among the volunteer officers who have re cently returned from Luzon is General King. He Is a graduate of West Point. He returned because of his' feeble health. He has recently written a letter to the New York World, at its request. He is an Intelligent soldier and is in a position to criticise. Here is what General King says: Our flag must never be lowered in face of an armed foe. and if it costs thousands of men and millions of money the insurgents wno rewarded our friendship with treachery and armed attack must be utterlv sub dued. ' ' I much mistake the temper of the Amer ican people if even a small number fall to accord to our President and to our commander in Manila that soll3 support which your glorious uovernor on his recent visit to our city urged as the paramount duty of the Nation to-day. But I have said, and I repeat, that it is not an easy thins: to whin those wellarmed Tagals, protected as they were every mile of the way from Manila to San Fernando by the finest field works science could devise. If driven from the plains tney can retire to the mounta ns or the dense bamboo thickets, through which only in single flle, along crooked trails, can they De approacnea. uur little army in the Philippines has had to encounter great difficulties and much hardship and peril. Its losses have been severe, but those inflicted on the enemy have been infinitely greater. That it stood the climate and the hardships so well was due to the fact that Major General Otis and his division commanders were tlrtless in their efforts to see that the men were well fed, clothed and cared for. Our supply system was excellent, our surgeons. ambulance service and hospitals equally good, and there was a total absence of com plaint or cause for it. Just now it is the fashion for certain papers to reflect upon the capacity and character of General Otis. He is accused of misrepresentation, and of late reports have appeared indicating that our soldiers are not well cared for. The testimony of this experienced army officer is to the effect that the precautions of General Otis and his division commanders have In a large measure prevented disease and death. The sensible and patriotic people of the country will accept the statements of such men as General King rather than thore of correspondents who write slanders about our troops and leaders from the Hong-Kong agency of Aguinaldo. EASY DIVORCE. The divorce based on "cruel and Inhuman treatment," so fashionable in high social clrcies in this country figures also in Eng lish high life. In this country more or less mystery always surrounds these cases; the testimony is given in private and the cu rious public is left to wonder whether the wife is seeking release because her husband has a habit of blacking her eyes or kicking her down stairs, or because his cruelty con sists In telling her what mother used to do. The offending husband does not in every case look like a bold, bad man; not infrequently he is a person of harmless and lamblike nrpearance. but when a court has practically labeled him as cruel and inhu man his best friends see him in a new light and begin to pick out evil and ferocious characteristics that they had not before ob served. The wife, that is, the lady who once bore that title, becomes an object of sympathy and is regarded as one who has haprily escaped from a monster. In Eng land so much concealment is not observed. The evidence Is given in open court, the proceedings are published and the exact nature of the cruelty and Inhumanity be comes known. From a study of these Eng lish cases the student of social phenomena may gather some idea of the causes of mar ital disagreement here, human nature being pretty much the same in both countries. In one Instance, reported at, some length in a London paper, the charge- of cruelty is brought against the wife," but she brings a like counter-charge against her husband. She Is accused of kicking her husband with such energy that he was forced to wear high boots. The kicking she does not deny.

but says he had always worn high boots

since she first knew hinu She is said to have locked him In his room on several oc casions. She says she did this to keep him from running to his mother with complaints. He says she gave him a black eye, and she says he got It by accident, when they were playing In the drawing room trying to lift a newspaper from the floor with their te;th and he struck his face against a chair. Her tale of woe concerning him Is even more serious than this. She says that once he brought two concert tickets home, but some thing making him angry at dinner he tore them up. This annoyed her very much. At another time he coaxed away from her o. ring which had stones that were not genuine and threw it Into the fire. At another time, when she was 111. he came in when the nurse was asleep and applied a poultice that was "almost" scalding hot, whereat she called him a brute. There were other charges of similar character on both sides, and the court, taking them all Into advisement, decided that one petitioner had been 'as bad as the other and that neither was entitled to a divorce. A Kentucky Judge has taken a similar course in such cases and declines to grant divorces unless the testimony is of the most convincing character. He says there Is no need of a new divorce law if the magistrates will do their duty. In other localities, however, such sternness is not known. It is apparently only necessary to say "cruel and inhuman" for a couple to be set free from each other. It is true that the man complained of is usually willing that this plea should be made, but when it is fully understood what the conduct is that passes among ridiculous young couples for cruelty and inhumanity the complaisance of the Judges who grant de crees on such grounds will be criticised severely. A good deal Is being said about the social deterioration evidenced by the prevalence of divorces, but perhaps some of the deterioration Is in the courts. Chicago Is going to have a stadium, if it can find a place to build one. Few people have time to struggle with Chicago papers long enough to find out precisely what a stadium is, but it may be gathered from the headlines that it will be a mighty nice institution, if it ever gets built. A bicycle bug is reported in the East which does not Interfere with quiet riders, but assails the scorchers. The bug goes directly for the face of his foe and brings him down, and, while he is in the midst of the confusion caused by the attack, the bug punctures the tire. HURDLES IN TUB AIR. The Mediocre Man. "No," eald the man who was feeling blue. "I have not been a success not even as a failure." - Friendly and Expert Comment. He Don't you think she has. a pretty complexion ? She Pretty enough but somehow it looks a little cheap. More Information. Tommy Say, paw. Mr. Figg-Well ? - - "How big is the universe?" "As big as all outdoors.' of course. Ills Drink. Mr. Halcede came home the other even ing and drove the wagon over the gate instead of through it, turned the team loose in the lot with all the "gears" on, went to bed with his boots on as soon as he got to the house, and could not be awakened. "You were full of whisky, wasn't you?" asked his wife next morning. "Indeed I wasn't;" protested Mr. Halcede. "I met Ike Jones, what Is keepin books in town now. and he tock me into a place and ordered what they call a Jim Ricketty, an eight or ten of them is every drop I had." THE STATE PRESS. Indications point to a large crop of candi dates for next year. A severe winter may do some damage, but the prospects are that the production will be more than the aen.and. Muncle Times. Hancock county is getting to have a large number of farmers' who have over 1,000 bushels of grain.' The fact is Hancock farmers were never so generally prosperous. Greenfield Republican. The Columbus Herald (Dem.) is fighting John Overmyer (Dem.) who is after the Democratic nomination for Congress in the Fourth district. Mr. Overmyer wears readymade politics. Rushville Republican. Wabash and Allen seem to be the only Indiana counties in which the .wheat crop this year is a total failure. In all the surrounding counties the crop Is. short, varying from one-third to one-half of an average, but in Wabash there is absolutely no wheat. Greencastle Banner. The three national banks of Muncle are doing a business of considerably over $2,000,000. It has increased several hundred thousand since the last published statement, and that was much greater than the one preceding it. Prosperity may not have struck Hooppole township. Bourbon county. wnere mossoacKs and pessimists huddle and ooo-noo, but it certainly is in evidence in this hustling Republican city. Muncle Times. Evidently the South" Bend Times is not hankering after another Bryan campaign for the presidency. - Commenting on the se vere losses sustained by the Indianapolis sentinel in the campaign of 1836, the Times says: "Only thoso who passed through that ordeal can fully comprehend what a ccstly experience the campaign of 1S96 was for Democratic newspapers that supported or acquiesced in tho nomination of Bryan. Some were brought to . the very verge of bankruptcy. The experience is one rememnerea oy Democratic newspaper men." Goshen Times. There is' one thing , that some of the brethren should remember in discussing themoney question in connection with Democratic platform' declarations, and that is the fact that never before 1STW5 did a Democratic national platform contain any reference as to what the ratio of gold and silver dollars shall be. Jefferson, the father of American Democracy., held that the com mercial vaiue or gold and sliver must de termine the ratio. That rule was adonted In passing the coinage law, which remained on the statute books for so many years with very few subsequent changes. South Bend Times, Dem. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Secretary Long suffers from the not un common falling of forgetting where he has put his glasses. The other day he hunted for them twenty minutes before he found tnem in his vest pocket. He has now adopted a chain attachment which he had hitherto refused to try. The conductorshlp of the Bayreuth festival plays has been divided among Franz Fischer of Munich, Felix MottI .of Carlsruhe, Hans RIchter of Vienna, and Siegfrled Wagner of Bayreuth. The series will begin with the performance of "Rhelngold," on July 22. and end with "Parsifal," on Aug. 20. Georg Brandes, the Danish critic, tells how Isben was once loud In his praises of Russia. "A splendid country!", he said. "Think of all the grand oppression they have! Only think of all the glorious love of liberty it engenders! Russia Is one of the few countries in the world where men still love liberty and make sacrifices for it." A crusade has been started In London against the "Sunday-baked loaf." It appears that there Is an act of George IV making It illegal to bake bread on Sunday In the city of London, though the fact has long been ignored. The question of Sunday baking is now to be taken up in Parliament. The will of the late Ogden Goelet left his widow an Income of J150.000 annually in lieu of dower, the same to be derived from certain specified real estate. It seems, however, that the real estate has depreciated, and does not yield the required $130,000. The courts were, asked in a friendly suit to construe the will, and Judgment has been rendered that S15C.000 a year must be said to

Mrs. Goelet, but thaOHhe shortage of the

real estate is not to be made up out of the Income of other real estate, but out of the personalty. Llfe-ln-the-troplcs Item from an Enid (O. T.) paper: "Mrs. Bird, of this town, was undressing the other night when she felt something crawling up her back. She called her daughter. Miss Fanny, and the latter saw a tarantula about four Inches in diameter on her mother's back. She took a broom and brushed it off, stamping it to death." William Sodds, the greatest cattle owner In the United States, attends to all the details of his work. Intrusting as little as possible to the care of subordinates, although he could well afford to retire from the active management of his business. "If I want to be sure a thing is well done I Just do it myself," he says. Twice a year he accompanies his shipment of cattle from northern Arizona Into Kansas City. "Plenty of salad," says Mrs. Rorer, "for the nervous woman. Fat around the nerves," she declares, "smooths them out very quickly. Cereals should be avoided and fruit partaken of sparingly and never in the latter part of the day. Lean roast beef, broiled steak or chops may be eaten to advantage three times a day. Sweets or desserts should be banished from the nervous woman's bill of fare, and coffee and tea sparingly indulged in." . The pen work of Rudyard Is valued, they say. At a guinea or two every minute; I reckon my verse, either better or worse, By the number of meals there are in it. In the morning a comic quatrain is enough, I can breakfast quite nicely upon it; And I lunch and I dine. I smoke and I wine. And get pretty well Jagged on a sonnet. -Life. THE VALUE OF SHARES. What They Are Quoted at on 'Change May Be No Indication. The Iron Age. Of the 3.000.000 railway and miscellaneous shares sold on the New York Exchange recently 62 per cent., or shares of the par value of $131,373,500. represented other than steam railway corporations. The trading in a single industrial reached 377,000 shares during the week, being marked by a wide range In prices. It is in these securities that much of the purely speculative trading Is done, since their merit as divident earners is yet to be tested. They are bought either with the idea that by shrewd manipulation they can be unloaded at an advance, or else on account of the encouragement held out of a high rate of dividends. The securities of some of the Important railways have ceased to figure In the speculative list, because they are practically certain to declare dividends at sl fixed rfitc? The speculative stocks will cease to be such only when their dividend earning capacity has become thoroughly fixed. The measure by which the new Industrial combinations will stand or fall, however, is not the price cf their securities In the public market. ihe sale of commodities at a price which yields a profit, but which is lower than the price of any competitor, offers a chance for a long life for any corporation, with results satisfactory to the shareholders, regardless of what the public or professional speculators may pay for its shares. On the other hand, a corporation, however great, which can be undersold by even a small competitor, stands in a dangerous position, which Is not improved by any possible quotations for the shares sent over the "ticker." Fears have been expressed lest a financial panic should result from an overloading of the market with "trust" securities. While this would be possible, there seems to be no reason for being disturbed about the matter now. Already the leading financial houses are more cautious about joining underwriting syndicates than when the consolidation of Industrial interests on a large scale was first begun; not because of any change of views with regard to the principle of consolidation, but because of the possibility of overdoing the thing. And yet the financial assistance needed in the consolidation of a really good industry, on a safe basis, doubtless could be secured as easily to-day as at any time in the past. Many of the so-called "trusts." the incorporation of which is reported from time to time, never take actual shape. Or, such a company may begin business without the Issue of shares to the full extent authorized In its charter. Again, it is usual, in bringing about a combination, to distribute the issue of stock among the owners of the various properties brought together with a certain amount to the promoters. In such cases there is really no change of ownership. The shares of such a company may amount to millions of dollars, but listing them on the Stock Exchange does not imply that the public is expected to Invest to any such extent. The public may keep its hands off altogether. Taking as an example a recent week, no sales were made on the New York Stock Exchange of the shares of a group of dividend-paying railways, with an aggregate capital of $$5,000,(M. This may have been because none was offered for sale, but at least it shows that the listing of shares and thslr purchase by the public have no necessary connection. Nor does the public always respond when Invited to subscribe to the capital stock of a new corporation. The weakness in the position of Mr. Hooley, the English promoter who recently came to grief, was that neither his alluring prospectuses nor the influence of his high-priced titled directors would Induce the public to buy the shares of the various companies which he assisted in gettitng up. Mr. Hooley passed for a wealthy man because his name appeared in connection with so many schemes capitalized for millions, but when the bubble burst it brought little panic or ruin, because the public really had not Invested largely. In this country, as in England, exaggerated ideas are afloat as to the amounts Invested in many corporations having a large capital on paper. The fact Is that a good industry capably managed, with the help of ample capital. is in no danger of being wrecked nowadays by any ordinary happening in the financial world. Its real assets are the same, whether Wall street quotes its shares at 24 or 2o0. and its actual liabilities are no more nor less on account of such quotations. It is not meant, however, that there can be no danger growing out of giving inflated val ues to Industrial properties. Gasoline Dangers. Insurance Rough Notes. . She will continue to clean her gloves with gasoline. She has also learned that carpets are more readily and better cleaned with this dangerous fluid than by other means. and she persists In using gasoline in ways most certain to give her notoriety through the medium of the newspapers. So intent is she upon cleaning those gloves that she forgets the light in the room where the glove cleaning Is in process; and the same reckless thoughtlessness attends the carpet cleaning while the carpet is on the floor and the grate is full of burning coals or flaming gas. Persistence in these and sim ilar industries under like conditions on the part of lovely women is her surest method for destroying everything combustible within the home, making quick calls for doctors and helping reporters to scare-line space. followed by harrowing accounts of the ex plosion, the lightning speed of the flames and the terrible mutilation of the woman. If glove cleaning and carpet scouring with gas oline could be performed only in a room wherein Is no open light or a grate fire It would be a great blessing to woman and save from destruction an immense amount of property. Gasoline would never be em ployed after the female mind was duly im pressed with the Idea that under these con dltions cleanliness and death are insepar able. A Photographer's Trick. New York Commercial Advertiser. The term "professional rates" at a pho tographer's means half the usual price charged for pictures. Considering, how ever, that any applicant's word is promptly taken as to his right to such rates, and his order accepted on that basis, it is only fair to ask wnen tne photographers will cease the little by-play, cut their prices In two and treat all comers, lay and professional. alike. It Is possible for a .total stranger now to get a hair rate by merely asking for it. Why not make the "half rate" the real rate and have done with It? SIcLean's Idea. Kansas City Journal. Perhaps Editor McLean is simply trying to infuse some life into the despondent ranks of the Ohio Democracy, lie knows the sight of a barrel will do this more ef fectually than anything else. Not the Sr me. Detroit Tribune. The Mr. Johnson who purposes to found a co-operative city near Toledo Is not the philanthropic Mr. Tom L. Johnson who re cently onered to give Detroit a street-ran way system for I17.OCO.000. The Way It la Paid. Philadelphia Call. "Shall have to charge you 75 Instead of 65 cents for this preparation, sir. on account of the war tax." "Ahd how much Is tne war xaxr ; jtwo cents a doiuc Yen, Indeed. Kansas City Journal. Her Majesty may rest assured that when she visits this country those American ladles whom she Invited to tea will not for 1 get to return the compliment.

AGUINALDO'S BOYHOOD

NEW ORLEANS INTERVIEW WITH SCHOOLMATE OF FILIPINO LEADER. Agnlnaldo Wa Once Editor and Pro prietor of a Boy's Paper Everyday Life of the Filipino. New Orleans Times-Democrat. Louis M. Rodriguez, the young Filipino who has applied for the position of sten ographer and tj-pewrlter to serve at the army headquarters In Manila, concluded his civil examination at the custom house yes terday and has strong hopes of securing the Job. Mr. Rodriguez Is a man of edu cation and culture, and In appearance is a typical member of his race. He is short, wiry and agile, and his features bear a marked resemblance to portraits of Agui naldo. "I used to go to school with Aguinal do,'.' he remarked to a reporter who called yesterday at his office, at No. 436 Common street, "and I know him" and his two brothers very well. We attended the San Juan Seminary in Manila. It is a Cath olic Institution and is designed to fit young men for two professions only, the law and the church. We studied Latin, philosophy, pedagogy, Roman and International law, the doctrines of personal rights and theology. One had to be a graduate of an academy or 'first school' before entering. "Aguinaldo was a hard student," contlned Mr. Rodriguez. "He used to literally turn night Into day, and it was at the college that he acquired his pronounced Ideas on republicanism. When he was only sixteen years old he started a little paper a boys' paper called La Repubilca. I took a great Interest In the enterprise. for my father was a newspaper man and I was brought up to the trade. I wrote a great deal of poetry, which I dare say was very poor. Anyhow, La Republica did not last very long. I doubt whether there Is a copy of it now in existence. "In his school days Aguinaldo was a very quiet boy, but everybody liked him. He was good-hearted and charitable, and had a great idea of one's duty to the. poor. He is extremely well educated, and finished his schooling abroad. I don't know where his two brothers are at present: They used to live at Cavite. One of our intimates at college, by the way, was Dr. Rlzal, who later on started the last war against the Spanlards. He was an able man and exercised a great Influence on Aguinaldo." "Have the well-to-do Filipinos a. good education as a rule?" asked the visitor. "Yes. There is a little Filipino who some times comes into this office. He was edu cated for the law, but Is now a common sailor. It would surprise you to hear him talk. He can converse on anv tonic in a. scholarly manner, and frequently speaks of the war, not merely of news events, but discussing it from a philosophic standpoint. He Is a fair example of the young Filipino of good family. They are thoroughly educated In everything except English and English literature.' FILIPINO LIFE. "Tell me something about everyday life among the Filipinos," said the reporter. "In what respect do their customs differ most strikingly from ours?" "Well." replied Mr. Rodriguez, "there are two ways of living in Manila. One is very cheap and one is very expensive. All except the rich live very cheaply; it costs the upper class about the same as it does here. Fruit is the principal food of the common people, and the banana plays a very important Part more lmnnrt Ant than !ira1 does here. I could describe over twentye4rv (MakamIi . c uuieiem ways or. preparing bananas, but they are commonlv erround int finr and made into cakes, which are very pal?iou- rvr 9 cenis a man can ouy enough banana .flour to live on several days. The upper class use Spanish cooking exclusively, and the prices at the fashionable mf are about what they are in New Orleans. une cannoi get a good dinner for less, than a dollar. The ice used is nearly all natural ice, and is brought from the mountains. "The rich Filipinos have elegant residences, and everybody employs troops of servants. A man earning $50 a month will employ at least four. The rules regarding social Intercourse are very strict. To get on calling footing at house Is often the work of years. One must be vouched for to an extent unknown even in Europe. Promiscuous calling on young ladies is strictly interdicted, and the usual American courtship would be regarded with horror. Once, when I was a mere boy, a companion about my. own age accosted a young girl on the street and told her she was very pretty. . She belonged to a Spanish family, and next day her brother hunted up my friend, who insisted that he meant that remark as a harmless compliment. 'My sister knows she is pretty said the Spaniard. 'She does not desire the information from you. There Is my card.' Next day the two met in a room and exchanged shots at a few paces. Both were killed. My Innocent part in it was made a pretext by the Spanish authorities to squeeze money out of my father, and he paid them nearly $3,000 to prevent my arrest." "Were the Spaniards as oppressive as they have been described?" the reporter asked. TYRANNICAL SPANIARDS. "Yes, fully," replied Mr. Rodriguez, his eyes sparkling with angry recollections. "They looked down on the Filipinos because of their dark color and never missed an opportunity to insult and humiliate them. The taxes were outrageous and the country was ridden by idle priests. The average Filipino is naturally of a religious temperament, and has great faith in the efficacy of prayer. In our house we prayed regularly nine times a day upon rising, before breakfast, after breakfast, before and after dinner, before and after supper, in the evening and Just before going to bed. All of our neighbors did the same. The Filipinos live in an atmosphere of continual supplication." "What do you think of the outlook for the war?" "It cannot last a great while. The resources of the Filipinos are limited and they will become exhausted. They are making a terrible mistake, but it Is not due to wickedness. They are simply lgnortant of this country, its resources and its policy. They imagine that the Americans want to anve them away and take their country. They are not used to dealing with honest people. You must remember they have never come in contact with anybody except the Spaniards. If they understood the situation as It really Is they would throw down their guns and welcome the Americans as sav iora " "How do you feel yourself about taking service in any army that is fighting your countrymen? "I feel this way about it," replied Mr. Rodriguez, earnestly. "I am going, If I am accented, in a civil capacity, as a clerk. I believe the American cause to be Just, and I feei I can occupy that kind of a position without sacrifice of honor. I could not go into the ranks. It would be impossible for roe to take up arms against my own peonle. but I do not believe any American olil cer would ask me to do such a thing or blame me for refusing. But if, for instance, I was told to go to such and such an insurgent camp and do my best to convince the leaders of their error, I would do so gladly. I hope that I may be ordered to carry such a messaee. for 1 believe I could make myeelf valuable. I know nearly all the leaders personally and my ramiiy is wen liked on the island. My father, who Is now dead. was especially popular among the poorer people, to whom ne was always very Kina. Mv mother died last year In Chicago and I determined then that I would never leave this country, but 1 would like to look at my old home once more and see If my father's grave is being cared for. That is why 1 ap nlifd for this position." Rodriguez himself is a good Illustration of the duck which Is part of the rlliDlno cnar aeter and has made them such unexpectedly good fighters. He says when he was a boy he noticed that nearly all the Implements and machines brought to the Islands were of American Invention, and he longed to come to this country and see its marvels with his own eyes. After his father's death h inherited about 13.000. and determined to make the Journey at once. His mother could not bring herself to part with him, so he brought her along, and they lived at San Francisco while he acquired the language. Then they moved to Chicago and bought a little home. He supported them both by working as a clerk and dcing translating after hours. incidentally, he started a ! Spanish-American newspaper for circulation In Central America. After his mother's death he started for Cuba, but stopped at 1 New Orleans, and has remained here ever

since. He does translating for nine business houses and helps edit a local SpaV.sH paper.. TUB LATE BISHOr .KWMAS.

A Tactful Man frith Friends In All Classes of Society. New York letter In Philadelphia Press. It was made clear in Newman's early pastorate that, after all. the greater quality upon which he was to rely for a career, with a charm of the ffpoken word as an accessory, was an ability to mold men to marshal groups of them to his purposes In fact, the very quality which in tho world that is outside of the church makes n.en politicians. His tact was exceeded by no man in this city, even during the somewhat unhappy or unsuccessful experience that he had while perving as pastor of a Congregational Church. It was a church) built for Dr. Hepworth. of Madison avenue, not far from the Grand Central Station. The structure was of corrugated iron, and It was built in the form of an amphitheater. It was an attempt of the ConCTegationallsts to do In middle New York What Spurgeon had done in London and what Talmage was trying to do 1n Brooklyn. Dr. Hepworth retired from that pulpit and Dr. Newman was hired as pastor. In the expectation that he. would pack the amphitheater, make It financially successful, a condition it would have reached before it could carry on the broad evangelical work which was planned for it by those who established it. Dr. Newman never preached with greater skill, with finer use of all of the arts of rhetoric than he did In the two years he held this pulpit. But it is doubtful whether Beecher himself would have been successful there, and when Dr. Newman gave up that pulpit the church was abandoned, the quaint structure pulled down and the Manhattan Athletic Club erected its beautiful building upon the lot. A less tactful man, a man who had not 1 . caPacIt' of the politician, which especially distinguished Dr. Newman, would have found It extremely embarrassing to pass from that experience into the new relation which he at once resumed, returning to his early rastorate of the Metropolitan Methodist Church at Washington a pastorate that threw him into the intimate relations with General Grant, which wera maintained until the general's death. Dr. Newman, between the time, of the first pastorate of the Metropolitan Church and his return to it. had traveled once around the world, nany times across the American continent xind across the Atlantic, and had been brought Into- contact with, princes of the church of all denominations, as well as with many of the statesmen and rulers who were In power at that time. As he had a singularly retentive memory, an unusual capacity for sifting, so that he pre-' served In his memory what was worth preserving and discarded the rest, as he had a delightful sen?e of humor and a happy faculty of narration, he was able to draw upori tho vast stores which his experience as a traveler had given him, so that he became a charming entertainer, alwavs holding an even place, even with men who had in early, life had greater opportunities than he. He kept a diary for nuny years, and If It could be published It would relate many interesting anecdotes or experiences with some of the world's great men. as well as with the poor and unfortunate or downtrodden whom he discovered In New York and San Francisco, as well as in Africa and In India. Probably no clergyman of the North, ex cepting Henry Ward Beecher, ever obtained and maintained the affection of the colored race In the South, especially those who had been in slavery, as Newmvn did. His p'ty ior the man who had been a slave was in tense, and he was Impatient with those who proresea a despair of any future for ti.a colored man. saying that a race that had been for 200 years in slavery could not In ono generation overcome the bllghtirg innuences or that servitude. It was this af fection of the colored people, and especially of tho colored Methodists, that, in large measure, made it possible for Dr. Newmart to be chosen bishop at the convention held at the Metropolitan Opera House in this city In 1SSS. It was this triumph which also illus trated Dr. Newman' rrpat lrfll in mar. shaling men, in obtaining friends and noiding them, and it Is probable that no man was ever elected blshoD whose can- " dldacy for that place w-as more adroitly nanaiea, hotn by himself and his. lnenas, man was tne cape witn tne campaign made for Dr. Newman. A major ity of the bishops of the Methodist Church did not look upon the selection of Dr. Newman for bishop with much favor, and some of his friends, know ing of this feeling, were pursuaded that he could not be elected. Dr. Newman, however, was perfectly calm. He assured his friends that ifwould all come out right. When the colored delegates visited Mrs. Grant and were cordially received by her. she said to them: . "I hope that you are going to elect my friend. Dr.. Newman, bishop." When the reception was in progrer s at the . opera house the colored delegates and many others first greeted the bishop and then went straight from the platform to the box in which? Dr. Newman was seated and gave him a welcome, ashd many who saw this . predicted that Dr. Newman would be elected bishop, even though the bishops themselves opposed it. When' Warner Miller, who had given up his day and nights to. the work of electing his life-long friend. Dr. Newman, bishop, came in contact with the colored delegates, ho saw how deep-seated was the affection for Dr. Newman, and he felt that, through tho aid of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, especially of the South, the bishop would be elected. And so he was. Yet Bishop Newman, within a few year after his election, made this remarkable confession of belief. Said he: "It is my firm conviction that not many years will pass before the Christian denominations of the world will number no more than three the Roman Catholic Church being one. the Protestant Episcopal, to whlrh, with greater and greater attraction, both th Methodists and the Presbyterians and Congregatlonalists will be drawn, and the Baptists, who will maintain for all time their doctrine respecting immersion, which alone will keep them from being absorbed like tho Presbyterians with the Episcopal Ghurch." Bishop Newman had accumulated considerable pn perty, most of It coming from royalties upon the sale of books. All of the fees which he received for marriage or funeral service, or for preaching sermons here and there outside his regular duty, were devoted to religious and charitable purposes, and ho kept a regular book account of such receipts and expenditure. Bishop Newman's children all died in infancy, and the understanding of his friends has been that the income from his estate will be devoted to the support of Mrs. Newman during her life, and that afterward the estate will be distributed in aid of those special philanthropies and educational work in which he was chieny interested. ALGER'S METHODS. How the Secretary Makes Himself Felt and Asserts Ills Power. Washington Special to New York Press. Secretary Alger Is directing the affairs cf his department In no uncertain manner. Whatever the feeling in administration circles may bo against him. he seems determined to assert to the fullest extent his power as an executive officer. He understands all the hostile movements In and out of Washington to force his resignation, but Alger is ignoring and will ignore all prersure and hints. He say it will take the direct request of the President to get him out cf the Cabinet. In this situation, and :vhi!o struggling for his official existence, it micht, be supposed he would bend somewhat beforo the storm. Several of his subordinates have assumed that with the many fights Alger has on hand In Michigan and elsewhere he would pay little attention to his department. They have been brought to their senses with e. round turn. Alger more than ever insists on having his orders obeyed. Recently he overruled an order suspending a contractor for guns and carriages who was behindhand in their delivery. He Insists that while away no action of Importance shall be taken without his approval. The consequence Is that all orders and details ot any consequence must be submitted hereafter to the secretary by telegraph. If he does not like them they will be canceled summarily. . - The engineer department got a touch of the secretary's lrcn rod io-day. The chief of engineers presented the report of a board recommending a Fevcn-hundred-foot span In a new . bridge authorized for St. Louis. Alger inquired the width of the spin in the bridge already erected there. He learned that WO feet was the limit In the bridges constructed, and he promptly disapproved the report cf the engineer board. General Wilson ventured to suggest that Congress left the determination of the span to the engineers, but trie secretary would not have it. He Insisted that the report of the board could not be adopted without the approval cf the secretary of war. and General Wilson had to admit the fact. Thereupon the secretary ordered another board that will In all likelihood recommend a shorter span than 700 feet. St. Louis representatives are pleised with Secretary Alger's action In their case. They say that the report which has been dlFapproved would have made the construction of the new bridge too expensive. Alger evidently will he "much In evidence" around the department for the rest of his term. His frlenfls say he has been charged with the responsibility of so many things he did not do he Is determined to be- responsible for what is done hereatter. Something: In m Name. Washington Special to Indianapolis News. The postmaster at Lafayette. Ind.. was recently called upon to take a clerk and carrier from the eligible list. The choice wt between two men Work and Doolittle. lie selected the former, and the Pcstofnce Department promptly approved the selection.