Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 336, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1899 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1S99.

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Rejected manuscripts will net be returned unless postage Is ln'JoeJ for that purpose. THE INDIANATOLIS JOlKAL Can be fcund at the following piacei: HTW YOHK-A.tor House. CHICAGO P-tlmer irouse, P. O. News Co., 217 .' Dearborn street. Great Northern Hotel and Grand Pacific Hotel. CIXCINNATI-J. . K. Hawley &. Co., 154 Vine street. &OUXSVTLLE-C T. Peering, northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville Book Co., ZL Fourth avenue. CT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot. .TvASHINOTOV. D. C-mszs House. Ebbitt House and Wlllard'e Hotel. The reducing of our army In Cuba 20 per cent, must be a blow to those persons who axe trying to frighten the country with the Jrord militarism. It looks as If our forces In the Philippines might put the finishing touches to the rebellion Just as the President Is doing the fcame with his message to Congress. By pushing anti-imperialism to the front fts a political Issue the silver Republicans hope to gain a foothold In the Eastern 8tates, where free silver Is not popular. Great politics that. , The list of killed and maimed In Thursday's football games Is larger than that of the average Philippine battle, showing that hereafter it will require as much nerve to .play football as it does to go into a real battle. Spanish finances seem to have reach el a Hesperate stage. The Chamber of Commerce at Madrid has addressed a circular to all chambers of commerce throughout the country ordering the people to refuse to pay any taxes until the government shall redeem Its promises. If, at the- beginning of the war with Bpaln, the anti-expansionists had taken the Kround that under no circumstances should the United States wrest any territory from Spain the American people, with one accord, would have pronounced them idiots and asses. What else are they now? . Senator Hoar made a Plymouth Rock tpeech in 1S35 in which he spoke in glowing words of the growth of the tree which the Puritans planted. "Its boughs hang over the Pacific, and In good time," he predicted, "it will send Its roots beneath the . waves and receive under us vast canopy the Islands of the sea." Two prisoners from the mountain counties of Kentucky, now in Jail at Lou.vlHe, rere baptized yesterday and announce their Intention to return to their former homes and become missionaries. Now, If a Democratic home mission could be established and a reformatory Influence be brought to bear on the Goebelltes, there tfrould be e ome hope for civilization in Kentucky. The situation In Kentucky Is critical. The Ooebelltes are entirely confident that the 8tate Election Hoard will sustain him and his associates In spite of the showing of the returns. On the other hand. Governor Bradley will recognize the iwepublican candidate, Taylor, as Governor if his election Is shown by the face of the returns. The Indications now are that both parties may be in Frankfort bearing arms before the day of the inauguration. The statement that Agulnaldo's interference prevented the execution of Lieutenant Gllmore and his men seems to be well authenticated. Agulnaldo has never been represented as a cruel or bloodthirsty man. On the contrary, those who knew him before the present war began found him a Centle and attractive sort of person. He Should have the credit for having saved Lieutenant Gllmore's life, and If he is captured no doubt he will get it. The action of the Georgia Legislature In rejecting the disfranchisement scheme of other Southern States by an overwhelming .vote would indicate that the most progressive State of the South has no fear of negro domination. The Atlanta Journal explains the position of Georgia on the subject by a spirited picture showing the exBlaveholder refusing to deprive the exslave of his vote, but urging him to use It for his own good and the interests of Georgia. In the list of officers of the Anti-imperialist League in Boston there are but two or three at most who were not the leaders of the Cleveland mugwumps in Massachusetts in 1SS4. . Two of the exceptions are exGovernor Boutwell and the present Democratic candidate for mayor of Boston. The annual meeting In Boston was "rather small." but lacked nothing in Interest and enthusiasm. The speakers talked of Agulnaldo as a patriot and gave their adhesion to Mr. Bryan. The headquarters of the Antlimperiallst League will be removed to Chicago. It having been claimed that the vote given for Mayor Jones and the golden rule In Ohio was an anti-expansion demonstration, Mr. Ghent, Mayor Jones's campaign manager, has made a statement declaring that thousands of expansionists voted for the nonpartisan candidate. The issue which Jor.es made, says his manager, was popular rule against boss rule in Ohio. "Had it included the issue of the war in Luzon," he ays. "I should have taken no part in the campaign, and there were thousands of like mind." He further declares that two speakers a pl ailed the war policy of the President and by so doing drove many votes away from tho golden rule candidate. The case of the transport Manauense affords a remarkable Instance of conflicting testimony. The first reports, based on the statements of officers and soldiers who galled on the vessel for the Philippines, represented her as unseaworthy, inade

quately manned, short of provisions, overloaded and in every way unfit for the voyage. On the other hand, the reports of government officials at San Francisco, treasury officials as well as army officers, declare that the ship was entirely seaworthy, in good order and condition when she sailed, with an ample supply of provisions, a crew really larger than she needed, and was underloaded rather than overloaded. The conclusion Is Irresistible that some features of the case were greatly exaggerated by the first reports, and that whatever trouble there was arose from the storms she encountered after leaving Honolulu. No government can guard against typhoons, and the wonder is that In all the transport service of the last eighteen months we h.fte had so few accidents. FACTIOUS OPPOSITION-. No person who has at heart the maintenance of the public credit or the financial welfare of the country will find any ground for opposing the monetary reform bill prepared by the special committee of the Republican caucus. The objects aimed at by the bill are so clearly desirable and the means adopted to secure them are so well fitted to the end that every real friend of sound money and currency reform must approve of it. It does not follow, however, that there will not be opposition to the bill, for there are a great many people in the country who are not friends of sound money or currency reform. There were enough such to give Mr. Bryan over 6.000,000 votes in 1S06, and most of them are of the kind who never learn or forget anything. Those of them who think it worth while to assign any reason for their political conduct or for the financial faith that is in J them can find reasons enough for opposing the new bill. The Sentinel says:

The striking feature is the Increase of favors to the banks, Involvinc url.iit tnnnt cVintILo1 over the co"ntry's currency. As In i"e cnemes mat nave been proposed, there is a reduction of the tax on banks. The proposition is to remove the present tax of 1 per cent, a vear on cirr-ulnt inn nn.i substitute for it a tax of one-tenth of 1 ner cent. At the same time the amount of cir culation Issued is to be increased from 00 per cent, of the face value of the bonds deposited as security for circulation to the par value of bonds. That is to say, the power to issue notes is to be increased oneninth, and the tax on the notes Issued is decreased nine-tenths. Perhaps there might be some force in this statement If it were true, but it is not. So far from the tax on national banks being reduced by the bill It is increased. The Sentinel says "the proposition is to remove the tax of 1 per cent, a year on. circulation and substitute for it a tax of one-tenth of per cent." Instead of a tax of one-tenth of 1 per cent, the new bill Imposes a tax of two-tenths, or one-fifth, of 1 per cent., and instead of laying it on the circulation, as the Sentinel leaves Its readers to infer, it is laid on the capital, surplus and undivided profits of each bank. This tax would yield more revenue to the government than the present one, and therefore, of course, be somewhat more onerous on the banks. The change Is proposed in order to shift the burden from the smaller to tho larger banks. Representative Overstreet, in his summary of the provisions of the bill, says: Under the present law tne tax falls unequally upon small banks, which must issue bank note circulation, while the larger banks, and especially those which do not issue note circulation above the minimum amount, escape the burden of the tax. By the removal of this tax upon noe circulation, all restrictions will be removed against such issue, and the full power of bank note circulation will be gained, thus increasing the loanable capital of the country. The substitution of the tax upon the franchise of the bank is for the purpose of equalizing the burden upon all banks, in proportion to their aolllty to bear the burden. The per cent, fixed is such that the amount cf tax received by the government from this source will be about the same as realized from the present tax. any difference being In favor of, rather than apainst, the government. The tax under existing law. for five years ending June ZO, lh'J'X was JU, 469.948.33. The tax under the proposed bill for the same period would have been $9,778,858.12. If the weight of a tax is to be measured by the amount of revenue It yields, the new bill. Instead of decreasing the tax on banks nine-tenth?, as the Sentinel asserts, would Increase it In the proportion indicated by the above figures. The proposition to allow national banks to Issue notes to the full par value of the bonds deposited as security therefor. Instead of only 90 per cent., as at present, is in the interest of the people and not of the banks. Its immediate effect would bo to add about 10 per cent, to the volume of national bank circulation, the security for which, consisting of government bonds away above par, would still be ample. However, as this proposition tends to recognize government bonds at something like their actual market value, instead of underrating them, it is natural that it should be opposed by those who have opposed every measure to strengthen the public credit or improve the national finances from the civil war to the present time. REPORT OF SECRETARY ROOT. The report of the secretary of war has for years contained little to Interest those who observe public affairs. Many people had come to believe that the army was an unnecessary expenso for the reason that the Impression prevailed that there would never again be' any use for an army. Congress, accepting that opinion, dealt niggardly with the War Department. Very naturally, when war suddenly came to us the country was shocked because of our lack of preparation. This year, however, the report of the secretary of war will be read with interest, not so much because it affords information as to what our armies have accomplished, but because It contains much-desired Information regarding the administration of affairs In Cuba and Porto Rico. The latter la ours; consequently the problem regarding its government is much simpler than that presented by Cuba, which the United States holds in trust for tho people of the island. Porto Rico being ours, the secretary advises the abolition of all customs duties on the products of that island coming to the United States. As Cuba is likely to have, in time, an Independent government of its own, duties will be retained but reduced If the advice of the secretary is followed. In what Mr. Boot has to say of the future of Cuba, Cubans should be assured that the United States will keep Its pledges ami retire from the Island as soon as good government is established. To that end he recommends an educational or property qualification for the exercise of suffrage. In respect to the organization of the army. Secretary Hoot makes several suggestions. The most important of these is the creation of a war college composed of the commanding general, a number of the most competent officers of high run... in the army and the heads of the staff departments, to direct the Instruction of the army and to advise the President upon all plans of armament, transportation, mobilization and military preparation. This, it seems, would remove the objections to the present system of control or independence

of staff departments, which seemed so inefficient when the Spanish war began. Another important recommendation Is that seniority shall not be the sole cause for promotion in the line, but that qualification and personal record shall be taken into consideration. Still another recommenda ion limits staff appointments to four or fiv- consecutive years, and that such appointments shall be made after an examination to ascertain the qualification of the officer as well as his merit. The report contains a largo quantity of Information regarding the organization and work of the army, showing that great im

provement has been made. The secretary of the Interior has under his direction the public lands and surveys, Indian affairs, including Indian education, pensions, patents, the census, the geological survey, public education, public documents, subsidy railroads, the Territories, national parks, the insane and other federal asylums. The bureau of this department which is of the most general interest is that devoted to pensions. It appears that the number of pensioners June SO, 1S03. was D91.51D, or 2,193 less than a year earlier. During the year which ended June CO. 1819. 156,973 claims were adjudicated, of which S5.051 were allowed; June 30. 1S9S, 635.053 claims were pending; June SO. 1W, the number pending was 477.233. The total expenditure of the bureau the last fiscal year was $1 42,210.123.18, of which J12S.3Tw.052.93 was paid as pensions. Among other recommendations which the secretary of the interior makes to Congress is that widows whose income from property or labor does not exceed $230 a year shall be pensioned. J. T. Sylvander, of Scottsburg, writes to a city paper felicitating himself, the bonds men of the sheriff who was recently on trial and "the good citizens of Scott county" generally on the recent verdict in the Tyler case. He regards the verdict as a vindication of the sheriff and "the good citizens of Scott county," especially the latter, of whom he seems to be one, and a defender of lynch law. He goes so far as to admit that the lynching was "an unpleasant affair," but Is quite sure It will not hurt "old Scott," as "the good citizens" have shown that they will stand together in defense of local customs and rights. He calls the United States Court that "Justice's 'court at Indianapolis" and the Judge a "federal usurper." Mr. Sylvander should hire out to a dime museum and exhibit himself as "a good citizen." Tho Bryan-Hogg boopi in Texas suggests the availability of Mr. Root on the other ticket, If for no other reason than to give the paragraphers a chance to take the burrs off the "Root, Hogg or die" chestnut. BUBBLES IN THE AIR. The Illet Scare. "There are ptomaines in mince pies." "Of course; there are ptomaines In everything that's fit to cat." One Kind. n 'It makes a man manly to give up his street-car scat to a woman. "It makes me mad." "Well, that's manly." An Europe. 'I'm glad I'm not a poet," said the pink chrysanthemum, 'With verse to write, and all this hair, I'd find life burdensome." Apropos. Lives of great men should remind us Not to let our fame increase, For the man most Inconspicuous Is the man that knows most peace. Never. "The kind of drummer we want is a convincing talker who has a large circle of friends." "You'll not find him." "Why not?" "Convincing talkers never have a large circle of friends." Good Aim. "A man who owns an automobile has sued me for damages." "What happened?" "My horse scared at his machine and threw me." "Well, you are tho one that ought to sue." "No; the horse threw me on top of him." Chicago Aesthetics. New York Sun. Mr. Maurice Grau finds Chicago faithh?ss to grand opera. Tho gross receipts of his season there were not equal to the subscriptions for the coming performances in Boston. It may be that money is a little scarce in Chicago at present, for the Cook County Marching Club has locked up an immense sum in diamonds. The gross receipts cf four recent burglaries, including a safe blowing of some merit, were only twenty-three cents. Before exDresslnir anv opinion on the financial side of the m ttter. i nowever, it win oe wen to wait until the Chevalier Fuller elucidates the aesthetic side. The Chevalier Fuller views Chicago with alarm, yet he should be encouraged to find that the town is interested in literature ir not in music. A reciter in a Chicago variety theater has been compelled to substitute 'Yap" for the final word In the third line of this stanza of Mr. Kipling's: " 'ITs a daisy, 's a ducky, 'e's a lamb; 'Fs an injla-rubbcr Idiot on a spree; 'E's the on'y thing that doesn't give a damn For a regiment o British infantree." The rhyme limps in the revised version, tut the porches of Chicago's ears are not shaken by a word of strength. Perhaps Mr Grau will consent to havo grand opera set to "ragtime." Mormon Inconsistency, Salt Lake City Tribune. The Deseret News is the church organ: it champions Roberts until :he whole country is backing the polygamous congressman-elect. Then It denounces ministers and others for laying the Roberts case at the church door. All the time it claims that the Roberts fight is a political fight, and that the News Is not a political organ. And when the Inconsistency of all this Is pointed out, the News claims that its position is nil right and consistent, and that those who cannot see it that way suffer from confusion of mind. The News Is a miracle of inconsistent and obstinate foolishness. Plenty of Entertainment. New York Herald. Mr. Grau's decision not to take his grand opera company to Chicago again will not deprive the dwellers of the downtown section of the Windy City entirely of entertainment. The highway robbers who used to confine their operations to the outskirts are now plying their vocation In State street In broad daylight. Chicago is still sure of entertainment. Official "Knowledge." Boston Globe. Ignorance of things "officially" is a fearful and wonderful thing. When a Cuban applied for first naturalization papers in the United States court, in New York, the other day, he was obliged to forswear allegiance to the Klnsr of Spain, "whose subject he Is." according to the ancient prescribed form of the old regime. The Blindness of Trades Unions. . Engineering Magazine. Disputes as to wages between employers and workmen are of very much less im-

portance than questions as to restrictions of trade and management of works. Supposing half the cost of an engine consisted or the engineer's wages (and. generally speaking, it is less than this), a 5 per cent, rise or fall wouid only mean 2Y2 per cent, on the cost, whereas methods or policies which make men work in a less efficient manner may double, or treble, the cost of labor. The settlement of questions as to the diflerenee between pece and time work, of the questions of a greater number of machines being worked by one man. and still more lmnnrtant. of the question of

substituting machine for hand labor these and numberless other matters that are often in dispute In English workshops are therefore far more vital than mere rates or wages, it is probably the case mat. it the workmen could their way to throw themselves heart and soul into the views of the emplovers in trying to economize the cost of work, they could get, with little or no trouble, a very large increase in their wages, make very much larger incomes ana have much more permanent work, with employment ior a much greater nunioer. THE SHARP NEW YORKER. lie Doesn't Ray Gold Bricks, bat In vests in Percentages. New York Tribune. The New Yorker always declines to buy a gold brick when It Is offered to him; he hears with pity and contempt, which amount almost to incredulity, of a man from the interior buying one; he wonders if the world will never grow one bit wiser. and he chuckles if he is not already tired of chuckling at the perspicacity that seems so simple a thing in himself and yet so hard for others, which makes it impossible that anybody should ever get an inch ahead of him in any financial operation. The next minute his eye falls on an adver tisement In a paper In which the advertiser says: "Give me $100 and in six months I will hand you back an independent fortune." This Is no gold .brick. This is business, because it talks of percentages, and the New Yorker goes to the advertiser, finds that he has hired a desk for a month in a big office building, and is thereby proved to be a business man of solidity and standing, ana he thereupon bess him to accept his Jitu as any investor in nis senses would. The only reason why everybody does not do it is that everybody doea not see the advertisement. If trustiulness is a virtue, heaven ought to come to New York, for it would be easier than moving all New York to heaven. It might be supposed that the exposure of the franklin syndicate wouid lead persons who have from $10 to on hand to be a little more carefui i .t; but the managers of such investment shops do not seem to think so. Since the exposure of that swindle the papers wnich prim advertisements of such tilings- have been no les filled with them than usual. Kight such advertisement are before the writer at the present moment. The most interesting of them says that $25 deposited with the advertiser will amount in three months to JJJ1.40, in six months to $734.10 and in a year to $J,l74.yj. It Is usually supposed that more proportionately can be done with a large sum than with a small sum, out tnai is not me case with this concern. For it will be noted that In the first three months in which a sum of money is lett on deposit U amounts to more than thirteen times itself, that in the next three months it only a little more than doubles, and that in the next six months it does not quite double. It will occur to anjbody who is acute enough to Invest his money In that way that the Judicious course is to draw it all out after each three months and put it back again as a new deposit. Thus the sum will be multiplied by thirteen every three months, and a little calculation will assure anybody as to about how long it will take him at that rate to own the earth literally. But it may be that the advertiser cannot handle such large sums as he will have on his hands, so it might be better for the investor to expect a little less. Suppose, for instance, that the sum invested doubles only once in three months after the lirst year. That would be a pitiful sort of Investment, truly, but suppose that was all. Then, starting with the $2,174.10 which the advertisement promises at the end of the first year, after five years more the investor of the original $25 would have something more than $2,007,000,000. This is only a rough estimate and is well under the mark, but as the reader when he gets this will have many times as large a fortune as anybody ever had In the world he surely will not be particular about the few odd million dollars and.cent. . ., The most of the other advertisements are as entertaining in their wayras this one, but this is the most explicit. Along at the end comes trailing an advertisement of somebody who says that you can learn a trade in ten days which will bring you In $25 a day for the rest of your life. But why should you bother with that? When you get your $2,W7,Oji),0CO you will, if you are sensible. Invest It in some ordinary way at about 3 per cent, to save your brain from being overwhelmed by your own wealth. You will then have an assured income of over $1,000,000 a week, and why should you work at a trade all your life for the sake of adding $23 a day to that? Chivalrous .Women. Baltimore American. A famous woman poet said In her famous poem that, though the world's male chivalry has perished out. Women are knights to the last; and this assertion has recently been borne out in a remarkable ? strike in Chicago, where a number of girls in a factory refused to work because the men working with them were paid les than themselves. They demanded an advance for the men, but nothing on their own account. They won the day and the men are happy and thankful. It was, no doubt, a generous act, but it gives room for thought as to which sex is to be protected in the coming century. Metropolitan Honesty. New Y'ork Press. Apropos of Miller's lax method of keeping books, numerous stories are being told about depositors having received not only their principal back In cash, but also by check, thus Ketting 100 per cent, on their investment, besides the weekly 10 per cent. I have yet to hear of one of these lucky Individuals returning either cash or check. To keep both and boast of so good fortune is to advertise oneself as a thief. Other lc?s fortunate depositors want that extra principal. Another Job for Coin, New York Sun. It is said that the members of the Democratic national executive committee intend to organize a bureau of Information and education. This, we presume. Is another rame and emanation of tho Hon. Coin Harvey, whose 5-cent JefTersonlan cigar is still rank In the lobbies of memory. A Matter of History. Chicago Tribune. The Duke of Wellington was hardly recovered from the excitement which he had to undergo as a result of the hilarious enthusiasm of the British public after Waterloo before a London mob smashed the windows in his house. This is mentioned only as a matter of history. TIs" Different Noir. Omaha Bee. Burglars are doing a good business with tho Kansas banks of late. It is a poor bank In that State which has not had a visit from these gentry. A few years ago the banks did not have money enough in their vaults to make it a paying Investment to tap them. Kentucky Will Not Secede. Louisville Courier-Journal. The price of bottles has been advanced 10 per cent, by the bottle trust. Fortunately, a man can buy his liquor either by the drink or the barrel and thus escape paying tribute to the iniquitous bottle monopoly. Quite Enough. Kansas City Journal. Emma Goldman declares bitterly that there are not more than two dozen men and women In this country "who deserve the name of anarchists." We trust Emma has not erred in this estimate. Simply Prophecy. Minneapolis Tribune. England Is nearly moving. When she Is well under way, the Boers will shoot out of Natal like the ball bearing left hind foot of the pale gray Missouri mule. This Is proph.'cy. New York Vlevr of Indlnna Art. New York Mail and Exprera. The management of the Vonsronal Library is credited with a remarkable performance. It is said to have ordered the

firft .coPy of a composite photograph, executed by a gentleman of Indianapolis, of the greatest Madonnas painted by the old masters. The face of this photograph is de?iare,(?,t0 bc '"marvelously beautiful." etc. l ossibly this is true; but It Is difficult to detect the value to an institution like our Congressional Library of a picture in which all the distinctive qualities of each great painter's conception are lost, and the true mission of the Madonna of art utterly destroyed. The composite photograph, at best, represents a meaningless fad, unworthy of senoua attention. THE COMING SPEAKER.

Colonel Henderson Has n Pleaslnfir Personality and a Good Voice. Washington Special. Colonel Henderson's age (sixty years) shows only in his whitening hair and mustache. His bodily movements are more active than one usually sees in a man wearing an artificial leg. His walk is necessarily slow and Is aided by a cane, except when his stump pains hln when he leaves off his artificial leg and supports himself on crutches. Ho has a big, round head, broad and fleshy face, whose individual features are good and ensemble pleasing. In fine, "Dave" Henderson, as his intimates call him to his face and everybody else to his hack, is a mighty good-looking man.' He has fine, large blue eye3 that can blaze in wrath or melt in tenderness, as the mood seizes him. His voice is powerful, sonorous, far-reaching, yet pleasant withal. He never has any trouble In making himself heard, owing to the tremendous volume of sound, ho can pour forth when occasion demands, and none in making himself understood, because lie understands how to use his vo.ee. His articulation is good, and that is where some of our congressmen with great voices fail. They do not understand the art of articulation. For instance, Brosius. of Pennsylvania, who used to teach elocution. Henderson is not an elocutionist, but he is an orator. Colonel Henderson's voice is musical as well as powerful. It is the kind of voice the old novelists used to be fond of giving their heroes, describing them as singins in a "fine manly barytone" some song of love of the sea. Henderson delights in song. When the hour of lir.al adjournment came last March and Speaker Reed's gavel fell for the last time a number of the leading representatives gathered in the space directly in front of the speaker's desk. The final fall of the gavel was the signal for an outburst of patriotic song. Fitzgerald, of Boston, who possesses a good tenor, led in the singing of "The Star-spangled Banner," with Foote, of New Y'ork, frantically waving a flag. Among those who Joined in the singing was Henderson, whose mighty baritone was distinguishable above every other voice. "America." "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean" and "Y'ankee Doodle" followed In quick succession. Then Henderson started "Dixie" with a rush and amid the wildest enthusiasm, which was still further intensified when he roared out the opening words of "Marching through Georgia." Union and Confederate veterans joined In singing these war songs. It was a genuine patriotic love feast, a fitting valedictory to the Congress under whose auspices the most successful foreign war in our history was fought, a war whose victories added undimmed glory to the flag of our country and whose blood cemented anew and mora llrmly than ever the fabric of our Union of States. THE OLD BUGBEAR. Democratic Newspaper I'roteati Against Its Party's Course. New Haven Register. . The experienced Washington observers have decided that a feature, a political feature of the next session of Congress, will be a never-ceasing debate upon the question of a large standing army. This is not at all Improbable, but the outlook becomes painfully fatiguing for the rest of the country. 1 It Is declared that the Democratic leaders are expecting to make no end of political capital for 1CO0 consumption by a grandstand attack upon the inevitable proposi tion for the maintenance of the army on the 100,000 footing as long as it may be needed. In this move they will be cordially supported by Senator Hoar, Senator Wellington and presumably by Senator Mason, who is counted on by his allies of the opposition to keep on blushing for his coun try whenever the opportunity presents. OpI'osltlcn to a large standing army Is a shibboleth that has done long If not useful service. The horrid spectacle of lw.OOO soldiers trampinc upon popular liberties will be paraded through both wings of the capitol with all the stage effects that oratory and gesticular athletics can produce. What will Interest most people in this connection will be the extent to which this sort of political slang-whanging can suc ceed. There is nothing novel or original In the plan of forcing a counter Issue from the discussion of the main issue, and it some times succeeds. In our opinion, however. there never was a time when the circumstances were such that the chances of suc cess remain doubtful to rely upon. It Is a verv difficult undertaking to scare 73,000,000 of 'people with 100.0CO soldiers. It Is not so difficult to take the measure of the men or partv undertaking it. The country Is in no danger of militarism, present or remote. Its awakening will do no harm. Mexican Harbor Improvements. Evening Star (City of Mexico.) The Diario Oficlal, or official organ of the Mexican government, will publish to-morrow the contracts made with Sir Weetman Pearson for the leasing of the Tehuantepec Railway and the harbor improvements at Salina Cruz and Coatzacoalcos when they become laws. The deposit also is to be made to-morrow or as soon as the publication is made. The lease of the railroad to the English contractor is for a period of fifty years, but the details are only available after they are published In the government organ. It is understood that Sir Weetman Pearson Is to completely equip the road, even if it has to be rebuilt, and a sliding scale will Indicate the percentage accruing to the government from the earnings. Mr. J. B. Body, who is the agent of the contractor concessionaire, is going down to the isthmus on Sunday to take over the road. The harbor improvements contract granted to Sir Weetman Pearson, and seriatim publication whereof will also commence In the Dlarlo Oficlal to-morrow, is also a huge undertaking. An exact estimate cannot be made of the cost of the two new harbors. The heaviest cost will be on the Salina Cruz seaworks, on the Pacific, where something like the Southampton breakwater will be necessary, a wall of rock and concrete, and It Is thought this part of the work will cost not less than $S.C00,000. The work at Coatzacoalcos will cost about $3,000,000. and will consist of dredging out the bar at the mouth of the river and building protecting walls out to deep water. Boers Encouragement of Mining. Engineering Magazine. As some one has put It, It was the Irony of fate that finally, after all the toll, danger and abnegation, the Boers should have been led to th region most alluring to the cupidity of the hated ultlander. The realization of this did not come at once and as a shock, but by degrees. It was not until 1&S3 that gold-bearing conglomerate beds of the Witwatersrand In the Transvaal were discovered, and It was not until some time later that the almost fabulous richness of the region was fully appreciated. At first restrictive and prohibitory laws were enforced against prospecting for and mining gold. Then, when It seemed hopeless to stave off the inevitable, a reversal of policy ensued. The Transvaal government saw the opportunity to replenish Its empty treasury by means of taxing gold mining, directly and indirectly, and even went so far as to otter a bonus for the discovery of paying gold deposits. In Mr. Hammond's opinion this latter move acted as an immediate incentive to prospectors and was an efficient factor in the rapid growth, not only or the revenue, but of gold mining and Its allied industries. Sooner or later discoveries were bound to come, but it Is worthy of note that the Transvaal povernment itself encouraged them and thereby tacitly but Impliedly entered upon obligations which no amount of argument can disguise. ThU feature is neither admitted nor recognized generally certainly not by the" Boers themselves. Taklnir It to Heart. Chicago Times-Herald. A Cincinnati boy swallowed a McLean campaign button, and It is feared. that he cannot recover. He seems to be the only one, however, who has taken McLean's case to heart.

CAREER OF "MR." GLENN

OXE OF THE 3IOST REMARKABLE STORIES OF THE DAY. Playlns: the Role of Martyr to Save a Ttvln Ilrother 'Her' Love Affair -with 311ss Ella Dukes. Litchfield (Til.) Letter In Chicago Tribune. Either "Ellis Glenn." who Is still an inmate of Illllsboro Jail, is a latter-day mar tyr or she is an adventuress so exceptional as to lack a class. nether the martyr, donning male attire to expiate a twin brother's offense, or adventuress, employlntr the masquerade as a means toward livelihood and incidental love-making, she is equally remarkable. If the adventuress, the woman's power for dissimulation continues to be on a par with her audacity. Other women have committed crimes while passing themselves off for men, and there are Instances on rec ord where a woman has taken advantage of men's garments to usurp man's right of courtship, but until Ellis Glenn gave the proof to-day there has never been an ex ample of the ability of such a deceiver to maintain a sway after exposure. Nellie Dukes, sister of the girl Ellis Glenn was to have married, herself the first object of his (now her) attentions, and later on such familiar terms with. Glenn that she was called "sister." left tho cell this morning declaring on her conscience that she could not Identify the prisoner as the former suitor. Y'et on entering the cell she greeted its occupant as a dear friend; and before she left was holding "Miss" Glenn in her arms, caressing and talking tenderly to her. "If these were to be the last words I ever should utter," said Mss Dukes, with a somewhat exaggerated emphasis of trag edy, "I could not take oath that woman in there Is the Ellis Glenn I knew." Ella Dukes, the former fiancee, did not come to the jail, but she sent words of friendliness, If not of love. To understand something of the magnet Ism of the Glenn woman, if she is the per son who wooed and won Ella Dukes, it need only be explained that James Dukes, the father of the two girls, wih lose his farm and the house over the head of his family if the Ellis Glenn in the Hillsboro Jail Is not the Ellis Glenn for whom he ave bond on the charge of forgery brought against "Mr." Glenn last spring. If Glenn, the forger, whether man or woman, has been rioHv-erW? to the rountv authorities Mr. Dukes is released from his bond. If the twin sister has been captured instead the bond is forfeited, tne criminal naviut ueu. NOT BAD LOOKING. Miss Glenn Is not a bad looking woman. and in her disguise would be called a goodlooking man of a somewhat feminine type. She is five feet and seven inches high, more than medium height for a woman, is slender and has sloping shoulders. The least masculine feature of the woman's figure is her feet, which are small, but her hands are large. She Is a brunette, and when she was much In the open air evidently had a good rnmnlPtlnn and a soft skin. After the troubles of her present plight and a month of imprisonment, nowever, ner iace u uc Tho career of Ellis Glenn, the former Glenn, whatever the sex. In and about Hillsboro, Butler and Litchfield, is one of simple happenings, even to nis matrimonial eiv tratrempnt On July 17. m, a slight built young man AitcvVitsi r-ri i W tr PVmr trn In at the LitCn field depot, and asked to be directed to a boarding house. lie was toia to go iu mo house kept by Mr3. Hay, and there ne went. He told the landlady he was from St. Louis, and said he was a private detective, not naming the Agency he was working for. It the ingratiating stranger told the truth, and the Glenn of that time is the woman now behind tho barred door?, It Is not impossible that Detective Grannon, or Cincinnati, may have been an acquaintance. That the woman would mention a person who knew anything important, however, is aeemeu unlikely 1 "Mr." Glenn made friends with his landlady, and was soon welcomed as a member of the family. His stay In Litchfield, neverv,rsi..o ri n e nf nniv mnnth s duration, lie left, saying he was going to hunt for a moro paying occupation, in a lew wwm back again, this time coming as the agent of a sewing machine company. He bought a team of horses and a ugnt carriage uu gun to make dally trips through Montgomery county. Glenn continued to make Lltch In November, a year ago. "Mr. Glenn met Miss Ella Duker. her sister and her father, comprising the Uukcs iamnj. no drove up one day to the farmhouse, which is a short distance out of Butler, a to wn six miles from Litchfield, toward Hillsboro, and inquired if a new sewing machine was wanted. Ella Dukes, a pleasant-featured young woman, twenty-four year3 old. not a schoolgirl, as she has been described, informed him that there was a machine ; In the house, but that it needed mending. The agent was as willing to repair as to sell. He fixed the machine and staid tp supper. He came again the following Sunday and again remained for supper. Before tflfc end of that week "Mr." Glenn brought Miss Dukes and Nellie, the elder sister, to Litchfield for a day's stay at Mrs. Hay's. After that there were frequent visits, and the love-making soon took on the aspect of earnestness. The landlady was "Mr." Glenn's confidant. TELLS OF HER BOARDER. "He came to me." said Mrs. Hay to-day, "the first night after he met Miss Dukes and told me what a nice girl he thought she was. He used to bring her here often, and I got to consider both of them as part of my household. A nicer yoifng man than Ellis Glenn I never met. There was nothing he would not do for me, and he always was so gentlemanly. I never suspected he was a woman I Just can't speak of him as her though ho cared far more for the society of women than he did of men. He used to tell me he was his mother's girl, and when l Joked him about his preterence he didn t seem to mind. , . . "Mr. Glenn did not seem to have a bad habit. He never drank, smoked, chewed or swore, and he always stayed at hpme nights unless he wus out at the Dukes farm. Mrs. 1 lay's story does not provide for a twin sister. ...... w "Ho told me." she said, "that he had a sister, but that she was fifty years old. He said he was thirty-eight years old. but I never believed it; he did not look over twenty-six or twenty-seven. He said he was born In Ashtabula. O.. but that he left there before he was fourteen years old. He said the sister's name was Mrs. Unger and that she lived at Jackson, O." The story about the sister Is being Investigated by the sheriff. The sewing machine agent spent a pleasant winter, working when the weather was fine, going a-courting when it was not. Two or three times he went to St. Louis, but he never remained longer than two days. It was noted by his landlady that he often came back depressed In spirits, and that after such a Journey he was apt to refer to a dear friend T. H. Terry, a companion from boyhood. He used to correspond regularly with this Individual, and, oddly enough, he wrote in shorthand. Mrs. Hay is sure answers were received. Constant as were his attentions to Miss Dukea, "Mr." Glenn found time to take Litchfield young women to parties and to become popular with them. Indeed, his social record Is such that Mrs. Hay must be mistaken about the number of evenings he spent at home. Glenn Joined the Sigma Sigma Club, a social organization to which many Litchfield young people belonged, and aoem to have become one of its movinsr spirits. Two or three of the best known young women In the town were singled out In turn for hla attentions, and they accepted a Mil I his courtesies wuungiy. It was to Miss lukes. however, that "Mr." Glenn's heart was given, and early In April the news of the engagement was told to their friends. Miss uuKes aoes not nesitate to say that she adored the soft-spoken fellow. "He was gentlemanly In his bearing and was Buch a pleasant talker." she ald today. "He was a splendid companion, sympathetic and cheerful. I don't mind saying that I grew to love him dearly and th.it when he asked me to marry him 1 was made extremely happy. "I never had i suspicion that the Mr. Glenn of my acquaintance was a woman. I will not say that I believe so yet. though I cannot longer love the man who deserted tne almost on the eve of my wedding day. He was feminine in every way, for he could sew beautifully, but he explained his faculty with the needle by saying his occupation was responsible. I do not think his voice was feminine In the least, though it was not

deep or harsh. He sar.g hymns with us on Sunday evenings and scorned to have a good tenor voice." Mls Dukes i rlcht abort the voire If the original Glenn is in custody. The prisoner's voice is more boyish than manly, but if is not feminine. -vj ARRESTED FOR FORGERY. Disgrace followed not far behind succsi In love making. On April 23 Ellis Glenn was arrested, charged with attempting to pass a forged note of J4.CA The complainants were John and Duncan McLean, two wealthy farmers of the county. The note never was honored, so the offense cid not bring as much as temporary financial reward. One of the signatures was a close copy and would have passed, but the other name was not even that of the farmer. It developed on trial that the st lnr ma.

chine agent wrote to Dura an McLean asking the price of a horse. The farmer's wife answered in his name, and hers was the w-riiine copied on the forged note. Uut for the accident the forger might have got safely away with the money and the prftseut question of ex never would have been raised. Mr Dukes and his brother-in-law. Marshall Winters, had faith In Glenn and went on his bonds for $1.0.x) each. The Dukes holding is only one of forty acres, accounting for the fact that the fonelture of tho bond means ruin. "Mr." Glenn was less in public evidence during the summer, but he mill had many friends. These friends were Informed late in September that he and Miss Dukes would be married on Oct. 8. On the Thursday previous he started fcr St. Louis to purchase his wedding outfit, so he said. He left a trunk behind at Mrs. Hay's, but he took two valises. On Saturday Nellie Dukes received a letter from St. Louis saying that Ellis tJienn fell on a steamboat and was drowned in the Mississippi river on Friday. The letter was signed T. H. Terry and contained the further Information that the writer was obliged to go at once to Charleston. W. Va., where his mother was sick. A letter directed there, he said, would reach him. The Dukes were quick to conclude that Glenn had fled and that their farm was likely to be lost. They offered a reward, and Nellie Dukes wrote a decoy letter to Charleston. No answer came, and then the postmaster there was afked to what city he had been told to forward Terry's mail. He said that Terry had ordered his mail sent to Paducah. Ky., and on this elew Terry was arrested at Paducah on Oct. 22. Terry cr Glenn made no resistance, admitted his identity, and three days later was lodged in the Iliilsboro Jail. Tnough the Dukes family had worked hard for the capture of "Mr." Glenn, they forgave him as soon as he was safely locked up. They made his cell comfortable and sent him messages of forgiveness, but did not visit him. The prisoner made no explanation. At this time Mr. Dukes says he began to suspect the sex of his daughter's former fiance, and at last went to Sheriff Cassady, who only laughed at his suspicions. Mr. Dukes recalled the circumstance today and added to it the declaration that the Glenn of his first acquaintance wore an upper set of false teeth. So does the occupant of Cell 1. in Tier 2. of the county JalL On Wednesday of last week Mr. Dukes and his daughters made the first exception to their rule of keeping away from the Jail and paid the Inmate a visit. The scene is said to have been pathetic. On Saturday the sheriff took his prisoner to Chester Penitentiary, where the discovery of sex was made. The following day the unmarked Glenn was returned to Hillsboro. where she immediately gave out the story that she was not the Ellis Glenn who forged the note, but his twin sister. Glenn explains that the farewell to the Dukeses was part of the deception. At first she said her name was Alice, then that it was Ellis, and that her brother's name was Elbert. Since then ehe has told a dozen contradictory stories, but has not changed her statement of Identity. The woman begged on Sunday to be sentenced to Joliet. where women are received saying she wanted to pay her brother's penalty. The woman waited until the first sentence was set aside and then, on the advice of Attorney Amos Oiler, of Litchfield, who volunteered to defend her, she refused to plead guilty and demanded a new trial. She is within her rights, but she will not be given the trial before January, possibly not before April. The prisoner's attorney will to-morrow move to quash the lndlrt-.nt nIn:t her. but as the formal charge merely recited that one Ellis Glenn committed a forgery and did not refer to sex. the prosecuting attorney does not believe It will be quashed. If It is he will have the woman rearrested on affidavit, he says, and held to the grand Jury, which does not meet until next April. In any event, Ellis Glenn, the woman, is not likely to breathe the open air for some time. One of Life's Happening;. Detroit Free Press. A pathetic home-leaving took place at Battle Creek one day last week. Forty-one vears ago Lucius C. Sweet and his wife moved into a new house on Main street. It then was out of the city. To-day it is surrounded by business blocks with the two leading hotels on the opposite side of the street. The property has become too valu able for a residence and has been sold and excavations commenced for a business MnMr Mr Sweet is dead and his wife still live. She moved out on Friday and workmen are demolishing tho building. Fortyone vears ago when they moved Into their new 'home they partook of their first meal, which was supper. Friday night Mrs. Sweet ate her last supper aii aione in mw old homestead on the same old table and then left the premises. In that time thero v n heon nnlv m death, her husband, and one birth, her son, who now has a position on a Baltimore paper. The great shade trees that Mrs. Sweet planted with her own hands have been cut down for rnode-rn improvements and sadly the old body bade a tearful good-bye to her old home. Gives One Thousand Dollars. New York Telegraph. Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartorls has contrib uted $l.ono to the British fund for the relief of sufferers in the South African war. The money was sent through ex-Postmas ter General James to Sir Percy Sandcrwm. British consul general here. There is no Ftrlng attached to the pift. The money is to be usxd in Oreat lmiain ior nospu.n re olvcn t r the Red Cross Or deVOtHl to the aid of the fatherless and the widowed, according to the discretion of Sir Percy. "It shall be sent to tne widows ana orphans' fund." he says. "Such acts as this .m An tnnih t n Btrwiethen the tonds Of sympathy between England and Amer ica." The- Debs Way. Boston Journal. Eugene V. Debs is going around the Massachusetts circuit prophesying that the worst panic of all. Is on the way. That chestnut was roasted years ago. However, If the spare alarmist didn't make pome such prophecy every time he stood on his feet he would probably soon be looking for v-,t-l- rtTi and men like Itbs are simply gulling and demoralizing the labor unions. A Slovr German Town. Flttsburg Dispatch. Berlin Is an old and Is asserted to be a slow city. Yet It costs 2 cents to use a tele phone there, the water Is filtere'd. the man rrhrt utter the streets with rubbish Is hauled up with lightning sped. and no ens knows what would nappen to mm wno undertakes to fill the city with coal smoke, for no one has attempted that offense. mmmmmmmmmm SBBBBMMBMSHSBMBMSaBSHSSBBMSft The Danger of It. Omaha Bee. The evils of talking about one's neigh bors furnished a Sunday topic for one of Omaha's clergymen. Never talk about your neighbor taiK about some one larmrr away. Your neighbor mignt near coout u and make trouble. He Saw Stravf berries. Kansas City Journal. The last words of Sherman Halm, of Abi lene, as he passed to his Maker, were: "Mother, see up there! O can't you see the strawberries; how nice and sweet they taste. Give me a pail that I may bring some to you." 11 Its Drnwbarkt. Baltimore American. With llobson practically forgotten. Dewey under a storm of criticism, and bravo "Bill" Anthony In a rulcide s grave, the hero buelnees Is not one to commend itself to the ambition of practical young men. Troubles of Their Own, Superior (Wis.) Times. Some cf our Republican editors are sug gesting planks for the Democratic platform, as If the Democrats were not likely to raaks a bad enough mess or the job.