Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 206, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 July 1899 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1899.

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vould have been no strike and the ten-hour law would have been observed. The strike la oftcner a hindrance than a remedy. The New. York Tribune thinks tnat if the new secretary of war makes up his mind to attack the chronic abuses of the War Department and gws about the work in a fearless and resolute spirit "he is sure to , command the sympathy and approval of the country and may reasonably hope to enhance his reputation, even though he may fall to achieve a full measure of success." Undoubtedly, but the work is one not adapted to the tastes of a lawyer nor likely to be accomplished by any person who does not possess professional .knowledge of mill tary affairs anJ the needs of the army. The understanding at present seems to be that the new secretary will address himself chiefly to the legal questions arising in our new possessions under military rule, leaving the administration of strictly department affairs to others. The Louisville Courier-Journal tells of a firm of thirty years' experience in the to bacco business and backed with ample capl tal, which has leased a building in that city to begin extensive operations in the raanu facture of plug tobacco. It says that this is but one of many factories that will be started in opposition to the Continental To bacco Company which, not content with Its special business, has secured control of two thirds of the tobacco capacity of the coun try. The new factory will have many ad vantages over the trust, the chief of which is that it will not be obliged to earn dlvi dends upon fictitious capital. The trust is 'pltallzed at $100,000,000, upon which It has omised to pay dividends, when its plants ra cot worth one-tenth of that amount.

What Is true of the tobacco business i3 equally true of all the trusts which cannot

secure an absolute monopoly over the raw material. A SLANDER UPON INDIANA. A recent Issue of the Chicago Record con tains a letter dated Andersen, under the startling caption. "A Tax-ridden State." which gives the Impression that all kinds of taxation have been increasing rapidly in Indiana. Other statements are made which it seems that a paper circulating widely In a State hould verify before publication. The statistics are from the auditor's report. but statistics are often used so as to mlsead. County, township and particularly municipal taxes have been Increased in Indi ana as In other States. In some instances county affairs are not managed upon busi ness principles, but many counties are expending large sums of money for gravel roads. Cities have been making costly streets and putting In systems of drainage, which have increased local taxation. In Indianapolis last year's levy was 15 2-3 per cent, over that of the previous year. The writer seems to have prepared his ar ticle with a view of giving the impression. among other things, that state expenditures have Increased heavily since the year 1S90, the last year that taxation was based upon the old system of valuation. If he had been desirous of giving correct Information he would have stated that In the years 1S91 and 1S02, under the present system of valuation, the levy for state revenue was kept at 12 cents per $100, reduced to 0 cents for 1S93 and 1834, and to 9 cents for all the years since. Instead of declaring that state taxation has been Increased $1,586,000, he would have turned to the auditor's report and given the figures as follows: State revenue. 1SC-0, 10S,557; 1S91, J1.&S6.564; 1S02, S1.704.S0S; 1S07, $1.379,2SS. He would have stated, further, that the state school revenue was S1.43C.S56 in 1S0O. J2.1&S.SS3 In 1S01 and 51,617,613 in 1S05; that the fund for the support of the benevolent institutions fell from $752,902. In 1891. to $642,874 In 1S93, and that the sinking -fund to extinguish the state debt added to the state taxation $3S7,342 in 1S93 and all the years subsequent until the present time.' Instead of so doing and thus pre senting the truth, he has added the state taxation for all purposes, including the high er state and state school revenues of 1S01, 1S92 and 1893 and divided them by Ave to make it appear that the present state taxation is $1,586,000 a year in excess of that of 1890. If the purpose of the writer had been to tell the truth rather than to rresent Indiana as being "a tax-ridden State," he would have said: The debt of Indiana, in 1S91, was $,$26,113, but It had been reduced to $3,016,613 Jan. 1. 1S99. If he had been desirous of giving Indiana a fair show he would have consulted the auditor's reports for four or six years prior to 1S91, and found that the receipts of the treasury of Indiana from taxation were less than the disbursements and that temporary loans were negotiated nearly every year to pay current expenses. If this correspondent of the Chicago Rec ord had been desirous to deal fairly by Indiana he would have said that the per capita cost of the maintenance of the Inmates of Its charitable and correctional Institutions is less than most of the States In the Union; that its state salary list is the smallest, on the basis of population, of any of its neigh bors. He could have said that its common school system, all things considered, is the best in the United States. Ite might have said that the last Legislature rassed two laws designed to check county and township expenditure. Instead, he was pleased to declare that taxes are so high in Indiana that they hamper business and drive moneylenders to Chicago or elsewhere out of the State. yjgBHUygHBBSSSSSMSSSSmSMM POLITICAL HEREDITY. The stubbornness with which the dominant wing of the Democratic party clings to the 16-to-l Issue illustrates the Influence of political heredity. Physicians and biologists know how strong thl3 force 13 In nature, transmitting physical, mental and moral characteristics from parent to offspring, generation after generation, in spite of all efforts to change their course or educate them out of existence. In some of its marked characteristics the Democratic party is clearly a victim of political heredity. It can no more get rid of Its vicious tendencies than the Ethiopian can change his skin or the leopard its spots. It seems to be nature's favorite medium for the transmission of mischievous doctrines. They are in its blood, and cannot be educated out. Jf they disappear for a few years it is only to sleep and break out again, somewhat changed in form, perhaps, but essentially the same. For the last third of a century it has found the wrong side on every phase of the financial question as unerringly as water finds its level and has assumed Its wrong stand with the cneerful alacrity that indicates obedience to a law of nature. Its record in this regard Is constantly wrong and harmoniously vicious. Beginning with opposition to national paper currency in general and to greenbacks In particular, it has by turns advocated their unlimited issue, opposed their redemption in specie and denounced every measure intended to give them permanent value. When an issue of greenbacks was necessary to the preservation of the government the Democratic party denounced them as unconstitutional, but when they became an Incubus on government finances and a menace to the public credit it demanded an unlimited increase In their volume. When expansion of the currency was necessary it opposed expansion, and when contraction became necessary it opposed contraction. It opposed the resumption of specie payments until it vras an accomplished fact and then did all in Its power to prevent the government from maintaining It. At different times It has opposed the issue of bonds, advocated their payment in greenbacks, and. when silver became depreciated, in sliver. It has favored scaling down the national debt and given open or covert support to every attack on the national credit. If the free coinage of silver at 16 to 1 were calculated to Improve the government finances and strengthen the national credit the dominant wing of the Democratic party would be opposing instead of favoring it. Three years ago it sold out to the Populists, as it did many years ago to the Greenbackers, and Joined in'a demand "that the volume of circulating medium be speedily increased to an amount sufficient to meet the de mands of the business and population and to restore the Just level of prices and labor." Now, when there is a plethora of currency, when money Is cheaper than ever before, when prosperity Is universal and business of all kinds booming, the grand old Democratic party Is preparing ti re iterate Its declaration of 1S56, that "We are unalterably opposed to monometallism (the gold standard), which has locked fast the prosperity of an Industrial people Jn the paralysis of hard times." a This long record of Democratic vlclous-

ncss on financial questions cannot be accounted for on any ordinary theory of po

litical wrongheadedness or stupidity. No amount of talent and industry could suc ceed in so invariably finding the wrong Side of every phase of a great question without the aid of some pre-natal Influence. It Is a clear case of political heredity, per petuating and reproducing an ineradicable taint in the Wood. THE CASE OF GENERAL ALGER. No one expects that any man or any con sideration can affect Governor Pingree, consequently if he undertakes to turn the De troit reception of General Alger Into an indignation meeting he will do so so far as he Is concerned. There can be no doubt that General Alger has the respect and re gard of the people of Michigan. Years ago he was a popular Governor of the State, and he has always been a public-spirited citizen. "While he has not done all things wisely as secretary of war, no responsible person has made any charge against him touching his integrity. When people come to understand the matter those wno have been assailing him will find it difficult to write out the specifications. The outcry which followed the disease in the army that was sent to Cuba to take Santiago made him responsible for matters over which he tad no control. He was secretary of war when war came, and, as it appears, the bureaus of the war office were not equal to the emergency. It can now be seen that it would have been better if Secretary Al ger had turned the ordering of the camps over to General Miles and compelled the quartermaster and commissary bureaus to furnish whatever wvs needed. When all is said that can be said, the humiliating conclusion must be reached that he was the victim of unjust newspaper criticism. which, coming at the time that' diseased soldiers were returning to every neighborhood, persuaded the mass of people that General Alger was unfit for the position he held. Causeless as It was, the existing prejudice against him deprived him of that confidence which a secretary of war at the present time should have. The chatter that General Alger will here after "write something" is that of the cor respondents who have assailed him. He be lieves that the War Department was wisely and honestly conducted while he was at its head. He will4 not admit doing unwise or dishonorable things to please the President or anyone else. Indeed, no speci fications having been made against him by any responsible person, he will not confess weakness simply to fix wrongdoing upon another. . Not only the Republican papers, but independent papers of New York whose opinion is of importance, speak in the highest terms of the new secretary of war. The New York Times is not surprised that the President should want Mr. Root, but it Is surprised that Mr. Root should accept the position. That paper predicts that Mr. Root will make an able secretary of war. Those who are likely to have correct information declare that General Miles will be called upon by the new secretary to discharge all the duties which belong to the general commanding the army. The country will be disappointed If this shall not be done, since the chief cause of recent complaint against Secretary Alger has been that he has ignored the general who should be in command of the army, and that because he has done so affairs have not gone as well as they would if General Miles, who is an able soldier, had been consulted and his advice taken regarding purely military matters. The recent discovery of Edward Everett Hale's story, "The Man Without a Country," in the public school library of Dallas, Tex., has led to a movement by a camp of ex-Confederate soldiers to have it excluded. One of them, in an address on the subject, says: Not only Is the work a disjointed. Infelicitous and utterly Improbable story, but its inexcusable and despicable slurs upon men of the Southern race should forbid teachers or boards of school trustees having any selfrespect or regard for the honor of our people or the verified truths of history to permit its use in our common schools. The literary workmanship and thrilling Interest of the story are above criticism, but its real fault from a Confederate point of view is that it seeks to make treason odious. Dead issues, need not be dug up, but as there are many children of Northern parents in the public schools of Dallas the book might be left in the library for their benefit. It will not hurt those who do not read it. This is a world of extremes and contrasts. The Epworth League, with its prayer and praise services, is scarcely out of town before the Journal has received the preliminary announcement and programme of the "International Drinks Exhibition," to be held in New York next Dec. 6 to 23. We read that "art is long and time Is fleeting," but it seems some people have enough time to spare to devote two weeks to the art of compounding international drinks. It is stated that the exhibition will be held under the auspices and patronage of the various protective associations of the allied drinks manufacturing trades of the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The programme announces prizes for a variety of things not witnessed in religious or scientific assemblages, lectures on various topics connected with the manufacture of distilled and malt liquors and exhibits of numerous bot tling and other mechanical appliances en tirely different from the "old oaken bucket that hung In the well." As the consumption ,f drinks is only less universal than that of foods this unique exhibit will probably at uuci a large crowa, dui mai is no reason wny the association should be urged to hold its next annual exhibit in this city. With nearly a hundred thousand post offices in the United States there must nec essarily be some odd names, but one is surprised to find in the list an office called Potato, in Virginia, and on the preceding page. one in Minnesota called Pomme de Terre, French for the same vegetable. INDIANA EDITORIAL OriNIOX. Democrats point with pride to Wilson's law as a paralyzer of trusts. The people only remember with a shudder that it palsied every business in the country and caused years of privation to millions. Marion Chronicle. The Democratic Idea now that the removal of a protective tariff would destroy the trusts is Just as stable as the Demo critic cry in isf that "silver and wheat must always go hand in hand." Starke County Republican. .. The apple crop this year Is more than ample to supply the home demand, . this being especially true of the earlier varle ties. Winter apples may be a scarce article before spring, but that Is nearly al ways the case. Howard county will average up to the standard in fruit this year if the wheat is a little snort. Kokorao News. . Every veteran of the CO's will say that the press censorship exercised by Otis is not only, wise but Just; and these same vet erans can demonstrate that our troops to day are enjoying a garden party compared to what the boys in blue and gray endured thirtv-flve veara ago. "War is hell." and the men who enlist for service to-day must expect to find It that in every sense of the wrnrrt. Thev are not compelled to enlist.

and when they walk into it with their eyes

open they ought to be game enough to be genuine soldiers, and that means that they must do their duty unflinchingly and never murmur at hardships. Henry County Republican.

The story to the. effect that the gas belt manufacturers are In earnst in regard to the proposed fight against the foreign pipeline companies may be only a pipe story, but it is to be hoDed not. In view of the diminishing supply, and the threatened danger to Indiana s industries by reason thereor, jnaiana snouia certainly find some way to keep the gas at home. Logansport Journal. With United States Minister Harris at Trieste, Austria, welcoming Dewey, Senator Beverldge in the Philippines, Senator Fairbanks In Alaska and Washlneton consider ing the International boundary question and Lien, xiarnson in Paris before the international board of arbitration the "gentleman from Indiana" does not bear out the Idea that whltecaplsm is the index to the Hoosler character Terre Haute Tribune. "Does the protective tariff foster trusts?" Yes, in the same sense that fertilizers applied to land foster the growth of noxious weeds. An abandonment of the protective policy would cripple trusts and all lines of legitimate enterprise as well. This was illustrated in melancholy experience 01 tne country during the last administration of President Cleveland. It is not necessary to kill the dog to get rjd of the .fleas; to burn tne barn to exterminate the rats. LJgonier Leader. John L. Wilson, ex-United States senator from Washington, Is In the city on a visit to his mother, and, barring a bad cold, is enJoying better health than he. has had for years. He reports Washington State as booming. "Men. who ' three years ago couldn't buy a ham sandwich, are to-day worth half a million dollars," said he. ".Not all of them, to be sure; but what I mean to say Is that every man who has been equal to his opportunity there has prospered. Washington is alive and business is better than it ever was. The people are prospering and are satisfied with conditions as there are. Populism is dying out. era wfordsville Journal. Contrary to what was believed before harvest, Delaware county farmers are selling their wheat. A large number are still holding, however. Those who have sold have succded in getting about 68 cents for the product. The wheat has been bought up by local commission men. who have shipped It to the Toledo elevators for storage pending a rise in prices. Many men who are in a position to Judge as well as many others are of opinion that the unexpected unloading of the grain upon the market will cause a slump, and that the commission men will get the worst of it. The farmers that have sold are willing to take 63 cents, when in the Chicago markets it is selling at about 70 cents. Those who are holding are firmly of the belief that it must rise. Muncle News. For twelve years Muncle, the largest of all the natural gas cities and in the cen ter of the natural gas belt, has enjoyed and now enjoys a large and powerful flow of free natural gas. Scores of Industries have been located here, attracted by free fuel and freedom from smoke and soot and the dirt that' naturally follows the use of coal and other material. The city has grown from four to thirty thousand souls. Never .was there greater prosperity in any center or section of the United States than is enjoyed In our midst every day. Every factory is running full force at least six days in the week, and a large number are running double forces day and night, while a few have shifts of men which amount to triple .forces, or a new force of men every eight hours. There Is not a manufacturer here who honestly believes in his own mind that within the next decade will he be called upon to purchase fuel. Now and then he may have to bore a new pas well, but the supply will not become exhausted. Muncle News. RUDDLES IN THE AIR. Sisterly Comment. "She Is two-faced, that is what she is!" "Well, she does enough talking to keep six ordinary faces busy." ' Sufficient Substitute. , She I do wish you would get me a-canary. ' : He If you will leave your sewing machine unolled for a week or two it will do Just as well The Motlern. Barber. . "Say, haven't you been eating onions?" asked the patient, sitting up and sniffing suspiciously. "No." answered the barber, "that is the disinfectant." ; - Not Useless). "Profanity," said the long-haired passenger, "is so utterly useless." "Wrong," said the short-haired passenger. "I can make my wife hopping mad any time by swearing a little." Care for Insomnia. Ladles' Home Journal. " . "Insomnia is a self-inflicted curse through the violation of nature's laws. The cause may be overanxlety. planning for the morrow, thinking and worrying over the yesterdays and to-days, but no opiate can remove the cause, even though it may bring sleep. If the cause .is merely mental overwork it may be quickly removed by relieving the brain of the excess, of blood. Physical exercise Is a panacea for about every ailment which human flesh is heir to. Therefore, stand erect and rise slowly from the heels; descend slowly. Do this from forty to fifty times until you feel the congestion in the muscles of the leg. Almost instant relief follows and sleep is soon Induced. For those who are averse to a little work I would recommend, instead, a bowl of very hot milk (without so much as a wafer) immediately before retiring. The hotter the milk the better for the purpose. This will prove a better sleep producer than all the opiates known to medical science. It brings about an Increased activity of the blood vessels of the stomach, causing slight temporary congestion, which relieves the blood vessels of the brain. The hot milk is also quite strengthening to the stomach." That Awful Labor Crasher. Baltimore American. Mark Hanna, the awful "labor crusher," doesn't happen to own the Cleveland street railroad that Is having so much trouble with Its employes. The contrariety of truth makes Itself manifest In the fact that the terrible foe of labor is having no trouble at all with his men. No Leniency for Rioters. Cleveland Plain Dealer. There is no safety or sense In pottering with rampant riot. Hesitancy to resort to the severest measures is construed as weakness, or as sympathy with the alms of the rioters. The sharper the measures taken at the beginning, the sooner the end is reached. Might Have Done Worse. Kansas City Journal. A Massachusetts girl worth $2.ono,COO has married the family coachman. That is bad enough, but it might have been worse. She might have married a foreign nobleman. Doubtful. Washington Tost.Perhaps Hon. Bill Goebel will be too busy with politics to kill anybody before the November election. Ornithological. Philadelphia Times. When properly examined. It will be found that as a bird the round robin was a readbird. v Overprodnction. There is an overproduction of cotton. An overproduction of corn. Too much of everything is grown. Too many people born; A surplus yield of wheat and bread. Of potatoes, oats and rye. Hog; and hominy, ham and eggs. And home-made pumpkin pie. Too much to eat, too much to wear. And cattle on too many hills. Too many agricultural toe-Is. Too many plows and drills: There's a surplus now of clothing. Of every grade and kind. Too many books and papers. Too much of thought and mind. Too many men to do the work. Too many women to weep, . More dayligtu than the people need. Too much night for tleep. Of Benedicts a surplus. An oversupply of wives,' Too many buds and blossoms. More bees than there are hives. More sunshine and more shadow Than is needed for-the deli f An overproduction of gravestones, More coffins than will sell; An overproduction of lmorance, A right too many schorls. Too many poor, tco many rich. And lots too many fos. Baltunora. America.

KEEPING OUT CONTAGION

COMMISSIONER SUGGESTS FINE FOR STEA31SHIP COMPANIES. Industrial Subcommittee Taking Evi dence In New York Another Rap at the Civil Service. NEW YORK, July 2!. The subcommittee of the industrial commission met here to day to Investigate the immigration ques tion Only three members were present ex-Congressman John M. Farquhar, of Buffalo. Ellison A. Smythe, of North Carolina, and Col. Albert Clark, of Boston. Sen ator Boies Penrose, of Pennsylvania, and Congressman Livingston, of Georgia, were unable to attend. Commissioner of Immi gration Thomas Fltchie was the first witness. He explained the working of the immigration law In detail. -He spoke of the great care taken in the examination of the new arrivals as regards their moral, phys ical and financial condition. Notwithstanding this, the commissioner stated that many persons were undoubtedly received who were suffering from dangerous contagious diseases. He mentioned the case of a woman who arrived here In the steerage of a French line setamer, and who was suffering from trachoma, a dangerous contagious disease. She was deported, but arrived here again on the next trip of the vessel, in the second cabin, and again was sent back. Mr. Fltchie suggested that the law be changed so as to Impose a fine on any company landing or attempting to land any passenger suffering from a contagious disease. He believed that if a specific fine were Imposed for each violation of the law the steamship companies would be more careful. Nine per cent, of one shipload of immigrants, he said, was found undesirable and ordered deported. Mr. Fitchle declared that sixty-five cases of trachoma were detected in a single week, besides many cases of favus, another dangerous contagious disease. He urged a more rigid medical examination at the port of embarkation. Mr. Fltchie was asked whether he found the operation of the civil-service law beneficial in his department. . "Emphatically no." he said. "Our department is a peculiar one, and I do not believe any examination discloses the qualities needed in many of our employes. Honesty, determination and experience are a thousand times more serviceable than civil-service examination." To Colonel Clark the commissioner said he believed it would be a good thing if all the offices in the department were taken out of the civil service. To a question as to how good men were to be protected under such a condition of affairs, Mr. Fltchie said he believed the appointing power would protect.them. The commissioner confessed that he had known of cases where valuable men were removed to make room for mere party workers, but he suggested that, while the clerical positions should remain under civllservlce rules, he could not see that any examination could produce as good immigration inspectors as the committee could select. Assistant Commissioner Edward McSweerey gave a succinct statement of immigration matters since 1S90, when the. government took the business out of the hands of the State authorities. He gave an interesting account of the various movements an Immigrant must take before permitted to land, from the time he applies to pur chase a ticket until the barge office gates bwing outward for him. McSweeney said it had been estimated that as a result of the law of 1S93 50,000 persons who. applied for tickets to this country were refused transportation by the agents of the steamship companies. .The commissioners listened to Mr. McSweeney's recital of the difficulties in enforcing the law regarding the exclusion of the various classes of undesirable immigrants. He said that any allurement offered to anyone to come here to labor should be deemed sufficient to bar the Immigrant. He also said it would be well to Include in the list of undesirables those "birds of passage," who come here and work in the summer months and go to Europe to spend., their savings ' In the winter, returning again in the spring. At the same time Mr. McSweeney said he doubted if there was any class as objectionable' as those men who came here without a dollar in their pockets, ready to take any man's Job at any price. Mr. McSweeney said that he believed the time had arrived when the laws should be revised. He thought the whole family should be deported when one member of it was found to be suffering from a loathsome disease. Regarding the statistics of the Bureau of Immigration, he said that they were of no value as regards the race or destination of arrivals. Most of those who announced themselves as, Austrians, Hungarians and Russians were Slovaks, Croatians, Poles, Lithuanians and Dalmatians. ' During the years 1SS0 to 1SC0 43 per cent, of the arrivals at this port, or nearly 2,000,000 persons, announced their' destination as New York city. The census of 1S90 showed an increase in the population of only 4)0,000. "Do you know that the padrone system still prevails here?" asked Mr. Farquhar. "We are morally sure that it does. When people come here from Italy supplied with equal amounts of American gold we think there Is something more than mere chance to it." In answer to questions the assistant commissioner said that he would" recommend that the head tax be doubled, and that the steamship companies be required to furnish a guaranty that none of its passengers shall become public charges for two years, instead of one, as at present. He declared that the reputable companies would support the enactment of such a law. Mr. McSweeney spoke of the establishment at the landing bureau of an office of the Italian government and also described the work of the Austrian government agents here, who have an office at the landing station and also provide succor for helpless countrymen In this country. Regarding the Italian office he said: "Dr. Eglsto Rossi, the representative of the Italian government, is a thoroughly honest and capable gentleman, but I believe that while the Italian government continues Its quasiofficial supervision over its immigrants, the inspection of the United States government may be offset to some extent. The establishment of such a bureau tends to encourage undesirable emigrants to come here because they feel they will be protected. We believe the objects for which the office was opened have not been achieved. The padrone system has not been broken, criminals from Italy have not been stopped from coming here and there Is no good reason for ltf maintenance.". "Do you still think there is assisted emigration to this country?" asked Chairman Smythe. "Yes, I think assisted Immigration comes from many countries, but that it collects in one and comes here generally through England' via Canada. Charitable societies In England are continually moving paupers on. They are landed In Liverpool, sent to Quebec and finally land in New York. It was a a common boast in Liverpool when I was there In 1SS6 investigating this phase of the subject, that while undesirable Immigrants could not be sent to America through the port 'of New York they could always get in through the back door." Mr. McSweeney said that there were very

few Immigrant girls led astray now by the pirates who formerly lounged about the entrance to the landing station. A number of the men had been sent to state's prison and the girls were now hedged about with many safeguards. The commission adjourned till 10 a. m. to-morrow.

BIG WELCOME FOR ALGER. Promised the Greatest Reception Ever Ghen a Cltlaen of Detroit. WASHINGTON, July 24. The following telegraphic correspondence has passed between Secretary Alger and Mayor Maybury, Detroit: "Detroit, July 22. Major Russell A, Alger, Thorndale, Fa.: "Public meeting of citizens cheer to the echo the mention of your name and arrange to give you and your family the most royal welcome ever accorded citizens of this community. All creed3 in politics and religion will unite in acclaiming their Joy at your return." "WILLIAM C. MAYBURY, Mayor." "Hon. W. Maybury, Mayor of Detroit; "I am deeply touched by your telegram notifying me of the welcome by my fellowcitizens which awaits me on my homecoming. Were I to consult my own feelings in the matter myself and Mrs. Alger would go quietly to my home and there receive the friends who might honor us by calling, for surely the fond anticipation of being; back In old Michigan eclipses all other thoughts. We expect to arrive home. Wednesday afternoon, Aug. 2. "R. A. ALGER." Consulted with Melklejohn. WASHINGTON, July 21.-Secretary Alger returned to Washington to-day and he was in his office early. Soon after his arrival Assistant Secretary Melklejohn Joined him and they had a consultation regarding matters in the department and the turning of the department over to General Alger's successor. Assistant Secretary Melklejohn will be In possession until Mr. Root qualifies on Aug. 1. Mr. Melklejohn has had charge of the Insular affairs and he finds on his return the subject of the Census Office quite a prominent matter. It is expected that the men appointed by General Brooke to begin the work of taking the census will come to Washington and receive Instructions. They will be referred to Mr. Merriam, who will have supervision of the census in Cuba' to such an extent as it comes under the civil authorities. DEWEY AND EMPEROR THE ADMIRAL DENIES THAT HE WAS DECLINED A RECEPTION. Manila Hero Objects to Visiting; Carlsbad Because Ills Health Is Goodwill. Reach Home Oct. 1. TRIESTE. July 24. A correspondent today visited Admiral Dewey on board his flagship and was cordially received, being requested to convey the admiral's thanks to the American press. Admiral Dewey said that, although he had received many Invitations from Americans sojourning at Carjsbad, be had never intended going there. "Look at me." said the admiral. "Do I look like a sick man? Do I look as if I required Carlsbad treatment? I am quite healthy, and, though I will be sixty-two next December, I feel quite young in health and spirits, and from my humor you will notice that what I tell you Is quite correct. I came to Trieste solely to recruit the health of my crew, they having passed seventeen months in the tropics without a break. "My reception by the Austrian officials was most friendly and according to the usual etiquette. All -reports of the Emperor's declining me a reception are unfounded, expect to remain in Trieste about a week longer, and shall then proceed probably to Naples. Further details and plans have not been decided on, but the cruiser will remain during the whole of August at Mediterranean ports. The last port touched in Europe will be Gibraltar, where we will only take on coal and stores. We are expected In New York by Oct. L "I have accepted Invitations to receptions by the citizens of New York and Washington and am already in possessor of a photograph of the sword of he r voted me by the American Congress." Admiral Dewey absolutely refused to talk on political subjects, and when asked what he thought regarding England replied: "I have not thought anything yet." The admiral this afternoon made another carriage excursion to the chateau of Mlramar. The admiral has formally declined Minister formally declined United States Minister Harris's invitation to visit several Interesting points In the interiorjsf Austria. At the dinner given by the minister to the admiral last Friday evening, the latter was cordially invited to go to Vienna for a few days as the minister's guest, afterward be presented to Emperor Francis Joseph at Ischel and then spend some time recuperating In the Austrian Tyrol. The admiral promised to take the invitation under consideration, and give his answer at the dinner aboard the Olympla last night, at which he entertained the minister and his staff, several consuls stationed in Austria and other Americans. The original programme announced the day Admiral Dewey arrived here will be carried out He said: "I expect to remain here two weeks and will stay aboard the Olympla. I know Trieste well. This air is doing me a world of good already, and it will soon restore the officers and men. From here we will go to Genoa." According to this the admiral will sail for Genoa next week, Thursday, Aug. 3. Accepts New York Invitation. NEW YORK. July 2l.-Mayor Van Wyck to-day received the following cablegram from Admiral Dewey: "Trieste, July 24. To Mayor Van Wyck, New York: "Letters received and invitation accepted. Expect to arrive about Oct. 1. Will cable definitely from Gibraltar. Have written. "DEWEY." Admiral Dewey's cablegram is in response to an invitation from the mayor, asking him to be the guest of the city on his arrival In New York and requesting him to express any desires he may have In connection with the programme for his reception. The committee on land parade and decora tions for the Dewey reception met to-day and decided to invite the Governor of each State to send a portion or the whole of the National Guard to take part In the land parade. Dewey Home Fund Now 10,518. WASHINGTON. July 24.-Unlted States Treasurer Roberts, as treasurer of the Dewey home fund, to-day received through the San Francisco Examiner contributions amounting to $1,513, making the total to date Jie.ois. Want to Know the Reason. BUFFALO. N. Y.. July 24 -At this morn1 Jl a ODdiuiJ W ific VVCaslUYTk ap,uu lSJ resignations of three societies, located at New Britain. Conn.. Akron. O.. and South Bend. Ind.. were received. It was decided to ascertain the causes for the resignations before acting. One Jury Briber Caught. RPArPT.P Vah.. Jufv 24. A rostIntelllgenccr special from Port Angelea utt that William Armntronsr. wanted In CMoaro or thi chance of Jury bribing, was arrestea mere to-cay.

TO CREMATE INGERS0LL

FUNERAL TO-DAY TO nE CONDUCTED ' BY JOHN CLARK RIDPATII. Great Agnostic's Ashen to Be Deposv lted In an Trn Beneath HI Bust . at III New York Home. NEW YORK, July 24.-Slmple funeral ex ercises over the body of the late Robert O. Ingersoll will be held at Walston. the Ingersoli summer home, at Dobbs Ferry, at 4 o'clock to-morrow afternoon. Dr. John Clark Ridrath, who was for many years a close personal friend of Colonel Ingersoll. will read the eulogy delivered by Colonel Ingersoll on his brother, Charles Ingersoll. Dr. Rldpath will also read "My Creed," the, last poem written by Colonel Ingersoll, and will afterward make a brief address. Major O. J. Smith, .of. Dobbs Ferry, a warm friend of the great orator and lecturer, will read other selectfons from Ingersoil's writ ings. - - ' ' Early Wednesday morning the family will accompany the remains to Fresh Pond. L. I., where the body will be cremated. They, will bring the ashes back to Dobbs Ferry and they will be deposited in an urn whlch will be surmounted with the bust ftf Col. Ingersoll, to be made from the death mask made to-day by John Gray Bernard, tho New York sculptor. The only music that will be heard to-morrow afternoon will b siegirled s funeral marcn. The mall to-day brought over three hundred letters of condolence, and telegrams continue to pour In from all parts of the country. Among those received to-day wa one from Julia Marlowe, the actress, now in London, England. Another long one was from Rev. R. H. Pulkman. who was a personal friend of Colonel Ingersoll. Many theatrical people sent letters of condolence, among them. being H. C Barnaby. Augustus Thomas. Nate Salisbury and Stuart Robson. Telegrams were received froai the Brooklyn Philosophical Association, the American Secular Society and . kindred organizations. A wreath was received from the Bohemian freethinkers and many beau tiful floral offerings filled the rooms of the lower part of the house. The funeral will bo private, and it is expected that only those who were personal friends of lotig standing will attend,' and representatives' of societies that believed as did the late Colonel Ingersoll. Mrs. Ingersoll Is so 111 that she is connnea to her bed. Members of the family say that the illness is due to the prostration of grief and the ceaseless vigil that she has kept at the bier of her dead husband since his death on Friday. It is not thought that the illness will result seriously. Colonel Ingersoil's daughters. Miss Maud and Mrs. Walston H. Brown. are both on the verge of A A SMI. ' . A I a M . prosirauon. ine gnei-sincKen wue ana daughters, who share the belief of the dead agnostic, have begged only to be allowed to) keep the body with them as long as possl-' ble. They have repeatedly refused to discuss the final disposition of the remains, and itwas not until this afternoon that they per-! mltted Clinton B. Farrell. brother-in-law,' and secretary. of Colonel Ingersoll, to complete the arrangements. When told this afternoon that services would be held to-morrow their only remarks were: "So soon? Cannot we have him with us a .little longer?" . INGERSOLL'S SPIRIT TALKS. ' Mrs. Richmond Seises on the Agnos. tic's Death for Self-Advertlsement. SPRINGFIELD, Mo.. July 24. Fully 2,000 people attended the Zoo Park Spiritualist camp meeting last night to hear Mrs. Cora L. Vt Richmond deliver an address under the control of Robert G. Ingersoll. Mrs. Richmond claims to have been the, first earth medium through whom the spirit of t r . - . t- i - i . a song by the choir President Underwood introduced the medium to the eager audience. No speaker ever had a more atten tlv'A hparfni' Thr nil nnt n vi-hlcrwr nr al movement in the crowded pavilion. Mrs. Richmond began to speak In the first person, addressing the audience as Colonel Ingersoll and describing the Hensatlons experienced in dying. The spirit said that the other life was yet a great mystery, but that no moment of unconsciousness intervened at death. In passing out of the body there was no pain, but a quickened sensation as though delirium had resulted from Illness. The spirit passed into a new body. The earthly form of life lay before the risen spirit and the weeping friends of the deceased could be distinctly seen and heard standing by the side of the lifeless body, viewing the unconscious brain and the pulseless heart, and yet feeling every faculty of the mind alive and active, a profound sense of wonder followed. Then tha presence of spirit friends and a fuller realization of the changed condition of existencemade the new arrival In the spirit world more conscious that death had actuallv oc curred. The message spoke of the agnostic's failure to investigate the evidences of Immortality and candidly retracted any materialistic views that Colonel Ingersoll had ever taught. While doubting a future life, the speaker had always longed for one, and never felt satisfied with his philosophy when standing by the side of an open grave. With respect to his warfare on theological superstition and bigotry, the spirit of the great free thinker had no word of apology to make. I Colonel Ingersoll had found no wrathful wardens guarding the tree of life, no yawning abyss for a single erring soul, no throned monarch of the spirit world with - angels tuning their harps for his delight. There was no flight through space In reaching the other life, but the two worlds seemed to Intermingle. The spirits live and move within the spnere of the earth life. Th sense of liberty grows rapidly with the consciousness of the spirit released from Its earth moorings. Vast vistas of golden delights mark the future course of the spirit in its exploration of the new world of life and freedom. The spirit had already discovered that each soul enters into an inheritance of his thoughts and deeds in this life immediately at death. Thero was no escaping this law of compensation and retribution. Whatsoever Is sown in this world must be reaped in the next, is th message which Mrs. Richmond delivered from Colonel Ingersoll. The address lasted about a half hour and closed with the statement that speaking through a new Instrument and organism, was not easy or safe for the medium. The stjie of the address was clear and sometimes elegant but the language did not suggest Colonel Inprersoll's rhythmic, resonant eloquence. The audience felt the absence of the great orator's characterlstlo periods. CANADA'S NOBLE GIFT. Will Raise f 100,000 as a rresent for Her Prime Minister. OTTAWA. July 21 A plan has been arranged for the presentation to Sir Wilfrid Laurler, prime minister of Canada, of 1100,000, $23,000 of which Ls to be handed to hlro In cash and $75,000 in securities, which will bring to him a handsome annual Income. The prime minister's salary ls IS.OOO a year, with a sessional allowance of 11.000, making a total of $9,000. Sir Wilfrid Laurler is a poor man. and the $23,000 which he will receive in cash will help him to liquidate all outstanding indebtedness and free him from all present financial incumbrances. Already an agitation has arisen which has in view the raising of the prime minister' salary to $.0j a year, a sum small enough for ore holding such a dignified and important office, and from wnom so many entertainments and festivities are expected, and on whose purse so many demands are made. Many consider that it Is a disgrace to Canada that her prime minister is so poorly paid. To the $100,000 complimentary fund Lord Strathcona, high commissioner for Canada in London, has already sent to the treasurer of the fund in Montreal his check for 110.000. and offers to give $i0.rtX more if called on to do so. Ten thousand dollars Is one year's salary to the high commissioner. H. N. Bate & Sons, wholesale grocers, of this city, may be looked upon as solid for at least $10,000. and It will not be urprlslnj should their contribution prove to be $2S,CCa