Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 232, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 August 1901 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1001.

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The address will te charged as often as desired. Both telephones 2C3. Latest advice from Mr. Bryan Indicate that he does not enjoy being buried with the founders of his party not at this time. The pension roll for the fiscal year -which ended last June contains 1,011.321 names, and It la the first time that the number of Pensionen exceeded a million. People -who travel on electric car3 these days aro sharing perils with those who go down to tho sea In ships. The week's list of auch casualties is unusually long. Mayor Taggart must bo disgusted with his subordinates because they have learned nothing of cleverness in manipulation during all tho years he has been an instructor. If the population of Oklahoma shall be 600,000. as Is predicted by Jan. 1, one of the flrst duties of Congress will be to admit It to the Union, with, two members in the Slouso. Observing Democrats who read that Mr. Bryan will not peak in Omaha from the aamei platform with David li. Hill must conclude that tho Uew Yorker is not the taan for 1004. It is doubtful If the much worried Fantünif coterie Is enthusiastically attached to the provision of the prim try election law iwhleh authorizes the making of nomination by popular vote. The hard things which tho Maguireites sirs saying about Candidate Mooro cause spectators to suspect that they are frightned as well as demoralized by the tactics of the Tagsart managers. , -w Tho eagerness of tho Board of Works to snake contract for the lighting of the city, which will not go into effect for nearly two year?, is evidence that its members do not expect to be in a place to help their favorites after tho second Tuesday in October. The growth of our export trade In July the past few years is remarkable. In July, 180S. exports were valued at $72,ono.O0; in $04.000.000; 1900. $1M.OOO.IOO. and last July $109.000.000. The average exports of merchandise In July were valued at $50,000,000 between 1SD0 and 1S06. After reading all the scientific screeds on the mosquito question, the wonder Is that so many of U3 who have fought with and been bitten by mosquitoes every summer of our lives remain to tell the tale. The mosquito, according to the scientists. Is more terrible than any other beast of prey. The application by poorhouse farm hands jid domestics of the 20-cents-an-hour law to their own cases is a clever rendering of the statute. A county attorney assurts them the law does not Include them, but perhaps it will have to do so before thesa wide awake workers get through with It. The same old story comes from 1-ondon that hundreds of people are in that city who cannot lind steamship accommodations to return home. As usual, many f them are running short of money, which warrants the observation that a great many people go abroad who should stay at home. 'A correspondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch who has been looking over tho political field in Ohio comes to the conclusion that Democratic leaders do not consider the r resent a Democratic year. Tho two would-bo leaders Tom I... Johnson and John R. McLean are not putting nny work Into the campaign, while the Democratic candidate for Governor has declared ha will not carry on a ironey campaign. Tho building of several hundred cotton factories in th t?outh during the past two years has resulted la .a surplus of goods hlch must be pot rid of. Kastern manufacturers suggested a reduction of wages, but Mr. Horden, a leaelng manufacturer. tells his associates that cutting wapes will not lessen production. His advice, that the rcills fhut down for a few weeks ho that the surplus may bo sold. s. cms sensible. Tho statement of General Fitzhtmh Leo In t recent address, to the effect that the blowing up of the Maine was the work -f tudents experimenting with exi.lo.-ive-they were making in the Spm!sh aisenal at Havana. I undoutndly true. It us fee with the j-.atfment of naval officers who have been investigating th matter. Span ish officials in the awn.il knew the fact at the time and the names cf tho students, ajid now it I stated on good aüthoiltv that naval officers have the names o! some of the perpetrators. The man who attacks the penilon ro teeaue he ha3 found on it thu names ut

seventeen men of a, Kentucky regiment j who wcro severely censured by the commanding oflk-er for cowardice at Chattariooga has not made the ixjint he and others imagine that he has. I'very one of thtse men was doubtkss given an honorable discharge. Such a discharge is necessiry in every case when an application for pension is made, and a note of It must he found in the records of the War Department. The frauds which have been perpetrated have been such ha were possible with records of discharge. While fraudulent and untruthful affidavits have been rnide iu many instances, the Pension liureau would never lssiu? a pension without evidence of honorable discharge. The impression that the bureau is "easy" prevails only among these who were never in

a position to make a claim for a pension. Ol It MIGHTS OX Till: ISTIIJUS. Men who are well informed concerning affairs in Central Annrica express the opinion that the revolution in Colombia and tho Invasion of that republic by Vene zuela is due to the ambition of President Castro to unite the three republics Venezuela, Colombia and Kcuador with him self at the head, as they were prior to the division of the old republic of Colombia in 1S31 the real prize being the Panama canal. However this may be, all govern ments know that the United States, by a treaty made by President Polk, In 1S16, when the building of the isthmus railway was under consideration, is broad enough to protect tho right of way across Panama. The article of the treaty by which the United States Is bound reads as follows: In order to secure to themselves the tranquil and. constant enjoyment of these advantages, and as an especial compensation for the said advantages, and for the favors they have acquired by the third, fourth and sixth articles of this treaty, the United States guarantees positively and efficaciously to New Granada, by the present stipulation, the perfect neutrality of the before-mentioned isthmus, with a view that the free transit from the one to the other sea may not be Interrupted and em barrassed In any future time while this treaty exists; and in consequence, tho United States also guarantees in the same manner, the rights of .sovereignty and property which New Granada has and pos sesses over said territory. The United States not only guaranteed the perfect neutrality of the isthmus as a route of transportation from ocean to ocean, but also the rights of sovereignty and property which New Granada (Colom bia) has and possesses over said territory. This is a remarkable guarantee and tho nearest an alliance or guarantee of sovereignty that this government has ever negotiated. On several occasions, when Colombia has neglected to perform its duty. the United States has sent naval forces there and landed troops to preserve the peace and maintain freedom of transit. Sixteen years ago the United States policed tho whole line of the railroad. Thero can be no question of our right or duty in the matter, and no government will take exceptions, since all nations are interested in free transit across the isthmus. A Discoi itA;i:n statesman. Senator Vest, of Missouri, has given his view of the situation at length In an interview in the Kansas City Times. For years he was one of tho senators who kept the silver issue to the front and made dismal predictions as to the results of the gold standard. But he has learned in six years that free coinage of silver Is something to be let alone. While he protests against a return to the reactionary policies of Mr. Cleveland's two administrations, he views with complacency the action of the Democratic conventions which do not indorse the Chicago and Kansas City platforms and forget to speak of Mr. Bryan as the "peerless leader." He does not fall to say that in his opinion Mr. Bryan is directly a fallen party idol; nor can he forget or forgive the part which Mr. Bryan took In aiding the ratification of the treaty with Spain, for which he seemingly holds the Nebraska man responsible. He explains that ho has no personal feeling against Mr. Bryan and admires him as a man of high character, ability and courage, but, after these fine words, he says he does not think he is a great leader, and does not believe that he can lead the party to victory. As for the free coinage of silver, he thinks it would be suicidal to take it into the campaign of l'j04. He would go into the campaign on three fundamental principles, namely, an Income tax, hostility to trusts and to the acquisition of territory not meant to be politically incorporated into the United States. As the people of the territory already acquired are not fitted to be citizens of the United States and be admitted as States to the Union. Jlr. Vest's policy would necessitate the sale and abandonment not only of tho Philippines and Hawaii, but of Alaska, which we have heM more than a quarter of a century. Senator Vest is not cheerful over the outlook. Indeed, his prophetic soul is despondent, and the gloom which the years of prosperity under Republican rule brought to the Democratic politician darkens the future. With Charles A. Towne and "Coin" Harvey, Senator Vest foresees in the repudiation of Colonel Bryan inevitable defeat in Wl. In this connection he makes the following disheartening prediction: If conditions remain as they are to-day the Republicans will elect anybody they choose. If their policy gives ua the enormous balance of trade we had last year and opens a market for agricultural and manufactured products in Japan and China there will be littlo chance to change the administration. Very naturally the disheartening interview ot the Missouri senator has not been copied by those Democratic papers which are vociferously confident over party reorganizetion and tho obscuration of Mr. Bryan. It is possible that some of them do not find in the destruction of the Nation's prosperity, which the senator intimates Is necessary to Democratic success, the best possible reason for Democratic victory. two i:li-:ii:xts or iiwcnn. The Pittsburg Dispatch, which speak3 from the center of the strike region, asks: "Why not stop the fisrht?" Most people who are not involved In the fight are asking the same question, and many are nsking it with no little impatience. More than the drought and the loss of crops. which can now be discounted, the strike is the disturbing element to the business of the country; if it is not now It will be If It shall be prolonged, and other in dustries and enterprises are halted by it When, however, the Dispatch says that it is "tho privilege of the Steel Corporation and the Amalgamated Association to go on lighting to th bitter end." many will di.sent. The shareholders of the Steel Corporation number about 50.oV and the mem bership of the Amalgamated Association is about 12.C"). Why should the quarrel of this limited number of men be permitted to disturb the industries and business of millions of people? This question may bring into the discussion of the problem of controlling extensivd

combinations the element of the danger of such combinations to the general business and prosperity of the country. When one corporation shall control so large a part of the production of a staple that its ceasing to run its factories from any cause will affect hundreds of industries and the employment of thousands of men, may it not bo necessary to prevent such extensive combinations in order to protect the Interests of the many? Probably no law exists by which the combination of plants can bo limited, and possibly no such power exists in Federal or State Constitution, but the Constitution can be amended to meet new conditions and provisions made for the curbing of both employers' and employes' trusts, since one combination may be as perilous to the rublic welfare as the other. With the despotic power which a few men exercise over the Amalgamated Association, forcing tens of thousands into idleness and want because their demand is not complied with, it is fair to ask if the queston of striking should not be submitted to the whole membership through a secret ballot before action is taken. Such a method would be in keeping with the genius of American institutions. It is also fair to ask if, by law, the 10O.OtO men now forced into a strike by unions of which they cannot become members by the action of less than 13,0u0 men who are members, cannot have some voice in the matUr. A dozen men, headed by a president who shows lack of discretion every day, and assisted by a secretary who predicts bloody revolution, declared this strike because a scale of wages agreed upon by the officers of the Steel Corporation and themselves for union mills was not extended to nonunion mills. This, and this alone, is the cause of the strike. Such power is more autocratic than Is exercised by any

dozen men at the head of any government In the world outside of Russia or Turkey. In the case of tho thousands of workmen who cannot belong to the Amalgamated Association they have no voice in the Felection of the men who force them to idleness and their families to hunger. Such being the situation, when legislation is considered to check the power and ex tent of manufacturing corporations, it pcems that ome limit should be put upon the authority of such men as Mr. Shaffer. In dismissing a Jury which had been try ing a murder case a few days ago a New York Judge said: You see tho difficulty we had in sretting a Jury, and you must regret with me how our wealthy citizens look upon their oaths. lou heard them declare conscientious scruples against capital punishment. Very often, I fear these scruples are neither long maintained nor deep seated, but are used, for the occasion as a means of es cape from Jury duty. With the more reason, therefore, gentlemen, the court thanks you for your services. In this case more than fifty talesmen out of less than one hundred examined pleaded conscientious scruples against the death penalty as a reason for not serving on the Jury. It Is incredible that any such proportion could have had well-settled views on the subject. In most of the cases the "conscientious scruples" were doubtless a dishonest device of the moment to escape a service which every good citizen owes when called upon. The coffee question is a live one in Hawaii as well as in Forto Rico, and the coffee growers in both islands are equally interested in having a duty put on foreign coffee. Both islands produce a superior quality of coffee, but the planters say that under existing conditions they cannot com pete with the cheap labor employed on the coffee plantations of Brazil and Mexico. As far as the United States is concerned coffee will doubtless continue on the free list, but Congress could probably impose a duty on 'coffee imported from foreign countries into the islands, while admitting the island coffees free of duty. Some way should be found, if possible, to encourage coffee culture in the islands and give the country at large the benefit of their fine products. Mr. Bryan says, in his Commoner, that he is with the strikers, and says further that he cannot see how any wage-earner can give any support to "consolidated capital." Possibly Mr. Bryan owns the Commoner. If he does he is more fortunate than most publishers, since they must form companies in order to get money to start In business. There Is not any considerable concern In the country employing fifty men that is not backed by consolidated capital. Not ten miles of railway could have been built and operated with out such capital. A writer in the Spectator quotes Stanhope Sprigg as saying of British writers that he cannot point to one new man among them whose work 'rises above the level of mediocrity. ''There are," says Mr. Sprigg, "a few of the old school writers remaining, such as Meredith, but there is none coming forward to fill the gap. In "the States," he Is kind enough to say, there is more promise. It is "up to" American writers to rise and bow to Sprigg. but will one of them kindly tell who ho is, anyway. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. The ex-Empress Kugenie Is making a tour of tho west coast of Scotland, and has visited the Glasgow exhibition. The trees now growing on the farm near Franklin, N. H., where Daniel Webster was born, are to be cut up and made into matchstioks by a manufacturing company, whicli paid $2,800 for the timber. C. Planitz, of Frankfurt-on-Main. writes to the editor of Appletons' Annual Cyclopedia as follows: "I have the honor to ask you if you do know the address of young and rich girls, which would like to go marry Gorman noblemen. You will have the kindness and to send me your answer." The counsel in behalf of Rear Admiral Schley before the court of Inquiry, which will convene in Washington Sent. 12, will consist of these gentlemcrw Ex-Judge Jeremiah M. Wilson, of Washington: the lion. Isidor Hayner, of Baltimore, attorney general of Maryland, and Capt. James Parker, of Perth Amboy, N. J. Prince Kropotkln, who was recently on a visit to this country, like many other Russians, finds the environment of England more congenial than that of his native country. He lives at Bromley. Kent, and keeps in touch with all the Socialists and Anarchists. His own country i too warm for so pronounced a Socialist. The Rev. Mollie B. Craft, of Chicago, colored, has Just organized the First Baptist Colored Church of Chicago Heights. She was ordained In Milwaukee in 1S0S. and is a graduate of the Howe Baptist Theological School, of Memphis. Her evangelical work began in the North; much of it was in the mining and lumber districts of northern Michigan, where she organized many churches. It is now said that Whistler sold his painting, "Thames in Ice," for $:) at the time he was working on his "Wonderful Series of London Etchings." and that the present owner has refused for this picture JlO.lAM. The Mrst painting sent to the Itoval Academy by Whistler was "The Piano;" it wa bought by John Phillip, the royal academician, for something like $150. It is now valued at $15,0uu. R. B. Weddlngton, a farmer of Union county. North Carolina, who died recently,

was not troubled by the "race issue." He lived in the kindliest relations with the negroes, and in his will he gave three

tracts of land to three of his faithful col ored servants and gave money to others. lne nalance of his estate, amounting to I.'Vkj acres, he bequeathed to the Methodist Church. FROM HITHER AND YON. Microscopic Metaph ale. Life. Mrs. Hoyle I can read my husband like a :irs. Doyj You must have good eyes to read tuch final! type. What He Wanted. Puck. First Citizen I wish I was a great scientist. Second Citizen Why? Firtt Citizen I'd like to devise some cooltnj drink that wouldn't make you hut afterward. The Egotist. Philadelphia Press. "He thinks he's popular, eh?" "Does he? Why, whenever his name arpe-ars in the papr he, fancies the public reads It this way: 'John cheers) Henry (applause) Muggia (loud and continuous cheering. ' " Bud Taste. Cleveland Plain lealcr. First 't-'keetor Where's your fister? fcecund 'Sket'tcr Gone. First 'fc'keetcr Dear, dear, I hadn't heard of It. How did It Iuimkd? Second 'fckeeter--She bit a crude oil magnate. The Honeat Rustic. Baltimore American. While an honest rustic was rubbering throush the city he saw a sign in a bookseller's window which read: "Hums Works for J2." Contrary to all precedent and expectation, the honest rustic 111 not Ret eft his wagon and ko in and ask if Burns worked by the day or by the month. No, indeed, he clucked to his horse, and said: "I hope he gets It." For the honest rustic had once been lured to a city Job. Got a "Wronsr In.yreaston, Detroit Free Press. "Yes, this parachute Jumping business is dangerous," said tho old aeronaut thoughtfully. "But it may surprise you to learn that it is not nearly so dangerous as the old form of ballooning. With a parachute you can pick your landing place, and while coming down it can be guided more or less, and thus clear obstructions that you aro apt to meet with. But with a balloon you are absolutely helpless, and you have, to come down wherever the big bag may choose to land you. I remember a humorous incident that happened to me a gcod many years ago when this parachute business was never dreamt of. I had made an ascension and had been carried out into the country. There was a strong wind blowing, and I scented danger when I came down. As I neared the earth I threw out my grappling hook, but I was passing over plowed fields and the hook merely dragged on the ground and did not stay the progress of the balloon. Peering over the side of the basket I noticed a wagon loaded with seed potatoes standing in a field, and a moment later my grappling hook caught hold of it. But the wagon was not heavy enough to stay the progress of the balloon, the result being that I dragged it along with me. Then I saw an old man who had been taking a nap under the wagon Jump up, look dazed for a moment and then start in pursuit, yelling wildly. " 'Gol dem your ugly picture, what do you mean by stealing my potatoes?' "The wagon ran into a stump at last, and as the hook held I managed to make a landing. "I spent an exciting fifteen minutes trying to convince him that I had no designs on his potatoes. I succeeded in a way at last, but I think to this day. if the man is still alive, that he is under the Impression that it was only a pew scheme to rob the honest old farmer." The Bren-ery and the Cotts Detroit Tribune. Traverse City has a new brewery, and the dairymen who had designed to feed their cows upon the refuse are grieved to learn that there is a penalty of "not less than $10, nor more than J10O" against the pale of the product . of any distillery-fed cow. The question arises: Does not this law conflict with the liquor law which merely requires that venders of malt liquors shall take out a beer license? In that case, if a cow gives beer instead of "soft drink," and foam instead of cream rises on the milk, what of it? There is many a merry son of Momus who would sing: If I had a cow that would give such milk, I'd dress her In the finest silk. I'd feed her on the best of hay. And milk her forty times a day. Object Lenon for Crooks 71 Troy (N. Y.) Budget. It would have been a profitable object lesson for those members of the "under world" who make safe cracking a profession if they could have been present at Crockett. Cab. yesterday, and watched Jack Winters up to his neck In water and mud digging up the gold bars he had hid there a few days before. Arrested on suspicion of knowing something about the Selby smelting works robbery, when $2aO,OC"0 n gold bullion was taken, he was led to confess and led the officers to the place where he concealed the booty, and then helped to dig it tip. All of which goes to show that "the b.st laid plans of men and mice gang aft aglee." and also that thieving as well as murder will sometimes out. Mayor of Goshen Interviewed. Kansas City Journal. B. F. Dehl, the mayor cf Goshen, Ind., Is at tho Victoria Hotel, accompanied by his wife. The mayor of Goshen is making a tour of pleasure in the West. He is a believer in municipal ownership, and Goshen own-? and operates its own electric light plant and water works system. "The municipal ownership of the plants," he said, "gives perfect satisfaction. Instead of our lights costing 5110 a year, as in Kansas City, they cost but $37.50 a year each, and the service Is excellent. However, it should be understood that we have the 'moonlight circuit.' with no lights on bright nights. We estimate that if tho lights were burned every night in the year the cost for each would approximate $30." An Unworthy Spectacle. New York World. There is a place provided at the public expense for Carrie Nation. And It is the duty ol 1he authorities, for her own good and for the public comfort, to conduct her to it with the orderly ceremonies of the law. However it may be in Kansas, in this State it ought not to be possible for an unfortunate demented woman to wander at large, annoying the public, exposing herself to public derision and to danger to bodily injury. The spectacle is one of disrespect to womanhood and to the public decencies. Qnnlificatinn for Immigrants. San Francisco Chronicle. The Australasian commonwealth has In troduced a bill in Parliament which pro hibits admission into' Australia of any per son "unable to write a fifty-word test from Enslish diction." It is already provided that no immigrant shall be admitted who is likelv to become a burden on the public purse or who within three years has been convicted of a nonnolitical offense. The educational qualification is designed to effectively exclude Chinese and otner unüe sirablo immigrants. Ami There Arc Others. Springfield Republican. The New York Herald's stirring appeal to the United States government to Inter vene in tho Colombia-Venezuelan troubles has a weight that can be measured by the ignorance it displays of geography Throughout its article the Herald refers to Venezuela and Colombia as "Central American republics." This might do for the Paris edition, but over here we do like to get our continents straight. "What Statesmen Arc Doing. Boston journal. The Texas Legislature has not only indorsed shirtwaists for statesmen in session, bi t it will not draw the line against plain sJiirt sleeves. Tho Boston Common Council is heartily !n favor of sweaters, roli tranri anl whlta canvas belts.

TWO SIDES OF A PROBLEM.

Reasons for Strict Rnllngs as to Chinese Exclusion. Washington Correspondence New York Post. Attorneys for the Southern Pacific Railroad have been besieging the Treasury Department to procure, without the formality of an appeal, some modification of the instructions to the collector of customs at San Francisco regarding the admission of Chinese who enter the country ostensibly on their way to Mexico, so as to get the advantage of the bonded-transit privileges. The collector has been refusing admittance to a number wiio, on examination, he believed he had reason to suspect of a purpose to use Mexico merely as a point of departure for a sly trip across the border into the United Stateä. Assistant Secretary Taylor refused to entertain any protests against the collector's severity of ruling. "You may appeal the cases," said he candidly, "but I warn you that it will -do no good where I have such evidence as this." And he produced data showing that the help-up Chinese carried, in some instances, sealed letters addressed to persons in the Eastern States, and In others memorandum addresses of residents of Boston. New York and the like, with every indication that these were to be used for the guidance of the bearer on a visit to the cities concerned. Such things, in Mr. Taylor's opinion, put the stamp of fraud upon a great deal of the transit traffic, especially a the onenlnars for Chinese employment in Mex ico are too Indifferent to offer much inducement to cross the Pacific merely for the purpose of living in our neighbor republic. It is probable that the Southern Pacific will drop the matter as far as its Washington end Is conct-rned. and wait to see whether a more liberal collector cannot be procured after a while. Apropos of the subject of Chinese Immigration, it is understood that there will be a more Judicious effort next winter than has ever been made heretofore to head off further legislation hostile to the Chinese. Hitherto the Chinese market has been comparatively ignored by our manufacturers, but recent events, which promise to have as a seouel a notable extension of China's acquaintance with the western world, have aroused a spirit of greater enterprise in them, especially since Minister Wu Tingfang has given them assurance that there is no nation with which the merchants of his country would rather trade than with us if they were premltted to travel here as freely as the American merchant can travel In China. The Chinese merchants know, of course, that the exclusion law explicitly excepts persons of their calling from its operation, but they do not relish the indignities to which they are subjected In proving their right to enter the United States the certificates as to their origin, destination, calling, purpose in traveling, etc. demands not made upon them else where. If this barrier were swept away, or even tf the exclusion law-3 were made to apply to all Orientals or-'to all nonCaucasians, or to any other broad class, and not limited to the Chinese people alone. Mr. wu believes a great deal might be done to increase our commerce in China. What this would mean to the United States few persons have attempted to figure out by the same process of reasoning as James J. Hill. When he was laying his Elans ror a great "a round-the-world route y rail and sail" he askd his friends whether they realized what the sale of one cent's worth of American products daily to eacn man, woman ana cniid in China would amount to in a year. When they confessed that they had never made such an estimate he fairly knocked them down with his figures $1,400.000,000. "Now," said he, "com pare tnis with our present total exports to all the world, and tell me whether the trade of China Is not worth reaching tor. un tnis basis it would be worth more to us than all the trade of all the earth besides." This style of argument involves a sort of Sellers-like assumption, but it appeals to a great many persons, and it had a sound Idea at bottom. Even supposing that Mr. Hill overdrew the posible av erage, ana we sola a quarter cent s worth a day or a cent's worth twice a week, in foodstuffs or clothing material, or what not. tne sum would still be huge enough to furnish an incentive to more enerev in con ciliating the Chinese trading class. "" """"SSSBSSSBBBBBBMBSSSB ENGLAND'S TITLED GENERALS Lirnnts of Money and Land to War Leaders Before Lord Roberts. Pall Mall Gazette. In one respect, I fancy, this grant to Lord Roberts will constitute a record. It will come, that is to say, before both houses at the same time. The respective figures of grants of this kind have an interest beyond that which they naturally afford to the curious. As matters of comparison they possess a retrospective Interest even for th& most preoccupied man in the street. Lord Kitchener, the latest grantee, got a lump sum of $150.000 for Kartum. Kartum certainly meant all that. Sir Garnet Wolseley was voted $125,000 for Ashanti. It has never seemed to me at all an extravagant vote. But Lord Wolseley benefited by a subsequent vote or two, I believe. Lord Clyde what was the salvation of India considered worth from a parliamentary point of view, when that great soldier had ground out the mutiny under his heel in 1S5S? Parliamentary records of that date are a good deal more concerned with the question of how on earth we were to garrison India if we took it over from John Company. One of John Company's last acts, indeed, was to vote the new peer $10.0u0 per annum pension. But he took his title from a river, and had never an acre to his name when he took it. However, his will It was drafted, you may remember, "strange to say, on club paper," when it was proved in 1S63. showed personalty sworn at under $3.70.000. When this will was reproved in the personalty was sworn at under half a million dollars. Wellington's pecuniary rewards are all filed and docketed, as are Marlborough's. With the viscountcy. in 1810, the former was voted $10,0U a year for his own life and the lives of two successors. With his earldom, in 1S12. he got $10.0) additional on the same terms. With his marqulsate, in the same year, he got $600.000 for the purchase of lands to dignify his title. His dukedom, in 1814. put him in possession of an additional $2.000,000. And. in the Julv after Waterlco. he received Jl.ooO.OOO more lor the purchase of en estate to be held by him and his heirs on the tenure of the yearly presentation of a tricolor flag on June is. He had also acquired as Prince of Waterloo an estate in the Netherlands which was estimated at $10,000 per annum. Well, he had saved Europe, and if Europe was not particularly grateful, it cannot be said that Englrna. who had to pay the piper, was ungrateful. John Churchill certainly got nothing like these sums in the way of parliamentary grants of cash. The Marquis of Blandford and Duke of Marlborouerh of was voted $2f,000 a year during lier Majesty's life. And the life of her Majesty, Queen Anne, was not then what an actuary would have considered a particularly "good" one. But for Blenheim the duke got 22,000 acres, the manor of Woodstock, the hundred of Wooten and the site for the future nalace of Blenheim. And the cost of the Blenheim "works" presently totaled up to some S1.500.OW, of which sum the Marlboroughs never paid more than $r,K),OoO. Moreover, the duke had sundry other sources of income. He had $3ü,(m) per annum as plenipotentiary: SjO.Goo as general of the English forces; $15,000 as master of the ordnance: SlO.fj as colonel of the guards: JÖO.uoti from the states general $'.',15 for traveling expenses: $0,000 for table money. Add his grant of $25.0 0 a vear to nil this, and vou have, or rather he had $joo,(ii0 annually to dispose of. And as. owr and above all 1hi., I find his Grace in receipt of a further annual sum of $?5.uM, mysteriously put down a "percentages." I do not find it difficult to understand why Parliament did not consider it necessary to vote even so distinguished a commander a lump sum in addi tion. "Wade Hampton's Trout. Washington Letter in Louisville Tost. General Wade Hampton knew how to meet a hot summer, and he taught several senators how to make the campaign when the dog star is in the ascendant. General Hampton went afishing in the mountain streams of North Carolina, Tennessee or Virginia. He angled for the rainbow trout, and very successfully. The instant the fbh. was landed it was dressed, and a chunk of sweet, fresh butter, a pinch of salt, a shower of pepper and a diminutive rasher of breakfast bacon were placed inside. A fresh shuck, out of which the roasting &r had just been taken, w.n procured, anc the trout, thus prepared, put in place of th ear, the shuck smoothed down and tied ct the silk end. Then this shuck, with its precious carfto, was put in the embers and covered with live coals until the fish was done to an exact turn: the roasting ear was toasted before the fire, and a corn hoerake, such as onlv our colored fellow-citizens know how to manufacture, wa.4 brought Into requisition. The fish must swim three

times once In water before he 1 captured, once in butter after he is roasted and again in whisky after it Is eaten. No wonder General Hampton enjnvs a green old age. DUSE WAS BORN IN A WAGON.

Soldiers Saluted Cradle nml Parents Took It as Omen of Greatness. Washington Star. A new biography of Duse Is the work of Luigi Rasi. who relate that she wis born in a wagon near Venice and was b.ii: taken to church for baptism, according tlocal custom, in a glass cradle ornamented with gold, when a detachment of Austrian soldiers came along. Regarding ti.'.s sumptuous cradle as a shrine full of holy relics, they respectfully presented arms. The mistake delighted the father. Win n he returned to his wife he deplored the fact that ho was too poor to Lrinc a present, but related the happy omen. "Our daughter will be something gv it some clav," he nald. "for already they have ?hovn her military honors." Great trials and ptivatioi.s followed, however, before she was shown honors of any kind. Her mother died when shewas fourteen. For four years after this she played with strolling piat.i and at the age of eighteen mado her great success as Juliet, in Verona. D'Ai.nuuzio. in the Famine, mentions that with what little money had been able to save the actress 'bought all the roses she c ould. She eara before the audler.ee decked in flowers and appeared in every sec ne covered with blooms of a different color. The symbolism and beauty of tho device delighted the spectators. The second stage of her career began at tho Theatnro Florcntini in Naples, where she had her first opportunity in "Los Fouichamhault." The lending, actor. Giovianni Kmanuel. praised her higluy. She was disliked in the company, however, and given few opportunities, although she did secure the position of second lady In the company formed by Mme. Pezzana. In an unguarded moment that actress gave her the wife in "Therese Raquin." which so increased her reputation that Cesare Rossi at once engaged her. From the time she went to Turin with Rossi and Mme. Pezzana and played in "La Prlncesse de Bagdad." after Bemhardt's visit, her career has been well known. THE MELODRAMATIC WEST. Improvement In the Munners of Hallway Hold-lp Men. Baltimore Herald. The West may always bo rough-and-ready, generous, strenuous and accustomed to doing things upon a large scale, but there have been fears that the pressure of the practical affairs of humdrum business life might deprive that section of some of Its melodramic characteristics. Tho days of the James brothers and other gentlemanly road agents of their type, which seemed a modified survival of the gentlemanly highwaymen of the Dick Turpln age, seemed to have passed, but now comes a story from the Indian Territory of a train robbery which, except for the ure of dynamite in wrecking tho express car, demonstrates that there are yet among those who hold up trains some who are not entirely unobservant of the proprieties of their profession. In this case two masked" men climbed over the tender of the engine and, presenting the muzzles of their revolvers for the inspection of the engineer and fireman, demanded that the train be stopped at the next water tank. The men behind the pistols may have appeared a little rough, but it was the regulation way. The train was stopped at the water tank, its arrival being greeted by a volley from the pistols of three confederates of the unwelcome passengers on the engine. Could anything have been more melodramic than this? The men went through the train and called upon the passengers to give up all their Jewelry and money. There was no evidence of ill-breeding on the part of the robbers; they slighted no one, and it Is easy to imagine that, after relieving tho gentlemen passengers of their rolls and watches, they discussed with them tho best methods of reorganizing tho Demo cratic party or the result of the coming international yacht race. It is not hard to believe that men who were too high-minded to carry their collection in a sack as they proceeded through the train, but forced the postal clerk to do this for them, were sufficiently gallant to raise or lower window sashes for the ladles and allow them to keep their Jeweled powder cases. Certain it Is that after they had Mown open the safe In the express car they sat down and chatted pleasantly with the engineer and fireman for an hour or so, and upon leaving presented the engineer with a diamond stud and a diamond ring as a Flight token of their admiration of his ability to ptop a. train nt a. desired spot with precision and promptness. Beside the deeds of these train robbers the groveling accomplishments of the smel ter thief on the Pacific coast sink into Insignificance, if manners, and not merely mercenary ideals, are considered. CRUEL KANGAROO HUNT, How the Animals Are Herded and Slaughtered in Australia. Kansas City Star. "Oh, yes," Faid W. II. Read, of Australia, "I have been on any number of kangaroo hunts. It Is Jolly good sport, the best sport In Australia. You have to go back into the interior and Into the mountain districts to find any kangaroos. Y'ou couldn't get one within 200 miles of Sydney, where I live. Unless something is done to stop it, the kangaroos in Australia and there are none, I believe, anywhere else will, within a few years, be exterminated, as your American buffaloes were. "We always hunt these peculiar animals on horseback. A large party will go on a kangaroo hunt. Then we will build a fence as a trap. It will be a long fence, meeting at an angle at the center and made of logs and sticks, and is usually about ten feet high. You will wonder, perhaps, why the kangaroos will not leap over such a fence, but it is a peculiar fact about them that they cannot Jump any great height. A big, strong kangaroo can jump horizontally twenty-five or thirty feet. In fact, that is their method of moving forward. They do not walk or run. They simply jump with long leaps. This fence of los and sticks will be built usually across some ravine or place of that kind where nature helps to make the trap. Then the hunt begins. "The party scatters over a considerable territorv. The hunters on the ir horses ride this wav Hnd that, driving the kangaroos out of their hiding places, but not shooting them. As the scattered hunters move forward, each driving, perhaps, a few kangaroo through the rouh country before him, they converge to a common point, the place where the fence hr.s been built. As the hunters move nearer and nearer to the trap the kangaroos go leaping ahead of them. Thev are timl i animals. They will flee rather'than fight. They are vegetarians. Their food is grass and they have none of the saving characteristics of those animnls which live on flesh. The kangaroo will flght onlv when he Is brought to hay. But then vou would better look out for the hind legs and the tail. A good strong 'old man' kangaroo can kill a man with a blow Of his tail. "When the kangaroos are all herded by the hunters to the fence trap thev are surrounded. Then the fun begins. Sometimes the do?s are turned in among the frightened, leaping animals. But that is an extravagant thing to do. They kill dogs too fast. Tluy Wick them and beat them with their tails, pendln the dogs whirling throuKh the air, stunning and killing them. Sometimes some of the mn venture into the edge of the herd of kangaroos with stick to beat the animals to death. But this is very dangerous sport, find there are not many who care to do it. The usual way is to stand at a respectful diftar.ee and shoot. "Sometimes one of the?e hunts will bring together a hundred kangarros. After the hunt there is always a fcj..-t. There i- j;o better meat than kangaroo steak. It is taken from the upper part of the hir.d Ws of the animal. Ar.d it tastes something like beef steak, only sweater. I tell ou, it's good. And they make soup of the tail. Kangaroo tall soup Is considered the liest of all. The tall Is made of a set of J'thrt s. And these fibres are tiscd in surgery in sewing up wounds. "But this method of hunting the kangaroo is reducing their numbers too rapidly. It in dimply slaughter, and the time will come soon, I believe, when the government will pass laws protecting our native animals, it oujsht to be done." Mr. Read, who W3S a surgeon In the British army during a part of tit Beer war. was passing through Kansas City on his way back to Australia. He had been to Europe and was returning home by way of the United States. He will set tail for Sydney from San Francisco.

JUST A SUGGESTION.

Good Point for the Contention of Firemen to Consldrr. Buffalo Times. The annual convention of ti;e Interna tio.ial Association e f Fire Ln Olivers will t held in Indianapolis during the presei.t month. Buffalo, of course, will h- represented by Chie f McCop.ne 11 and pe:hrps by som- other members of o ir fire dep.irtn.ent. Buff. do. as a -ity in a very Kreat number of hon.es, is p ink ;;! irly i.-iterotej in all subject pertaining to j ro.ection from lire, ur.el the papers v. hiili will r ad upen this topic at toe ln'lanap-li convention will prove of timely interest. Although. Buffalo's icsidence districts are fcMom v isited by disastrous conflagration.--, j t her business district, and especially il.t tie vator.4 and lumber yards alone the water front, sc.ui to be. from time to time, sp-clal targets of the lire land. But the hurnintof a comfortable liorne and its content;-, very often ir.sutht iently insureej. is frequent enough to make the c nider.t ion f a bet ter means e.f defense jialnM sudden tires a matter of no small Importance. There will U iiouhtles. at the Indianapolis meeting many elib.ir.ite plans elelsed mid many valuaid suggestions given in ihi." ilireeiion: but there is one partieuUr subject, or thought, which may b ub-mitu-d for d!sc'.isb,!i be fore the e-onve r.tiou. Statistics show that the burning e.f reside m es ic occasioned more frequently by c aieiej-sne -s o,i the part of numbers of families than by any either e.;.r -tho handling of matches by children, the scare! for a gas 1-ak with lighte d mate h. gas or lamp- le ft lighted and unwatchcei r.ear Ci curtains, the ose e.f gasi.'.in MeVcs. etc., are' largely ciinti ibuting causes to tires in houses usee! for other than business pur-4o-cs. Such being the case, why not have th fire department of each city, with the coopcratieMt of the various insurance companies, furnish householders with a printed list of "lon'ts" anel "musts." set forth, clearly and explicitly? Such circular, printoel In its many languape-s as necessary, should bo displayed in the foreign ejuartcrs of the city c specially. There is little doubt but that Kuch a coutse would be beneficial and especially so If the city authorities should enact ordinances setting forth proper penalties for the careless or intentional infraction of the provision therein contained. We recommend the suggestion ta the serious consideration of the expert and professional fire fighters who will ussemble at Indianapolis this month. LAND OF EARTHQUAKES. Venezuela Often Shaken ly Flerc Seismic Disturbances. Venezuela Herald. At 6 p. m. on Juno C (IDoO) an earthquako of uncommon violence shook ths towns of Cumana, Carlaeo and Cumanacoa. In the last named the effects wer specially disastrous; a largo number of public edifices havo been destroyed. Including tho telegraph office, which is complete ly ruined and the employe seriously wounded. Many Injuries to persons of a more or less slight nature have lieen reported. It is said that after the first shock, which was ono of tho most violent, the earth trembled during tho space, of fifty-seven minutes. As a subject of information we reproduce below a compilation from the pen of I,andaeta Resales, which will give our readers an ielea of the numerous earthquakes which havo taken placo in Venezuela: 153oSpt. l. Great earthquake in Cumana, when the sea. rose twenty feet above its ordinary level. 134.1 Feb. 3. Karthquako nt Cubagua. 1610 Karthquako at Da Grlta and other towns of Meriela. ICil-July 1) and 1L Karthquako in Ca racas. 1641 Karthquake In Meriela. 170.-67 Karthquako in Cumana. when there were shocks almost every clay during fourteen months, but with special force on Oct. li. lTfiG. ITMKarthquak in Cumana, 17;7 Dec. 14. Barthqnake In Cumana. 1S12 March 26. Karthquake in Caracas, when 4-t.OOo lost their lives. 1S34 Karthquake in Merida and other districts of Corderillas. April 12. Karthquake at Cumana. IM'VFeb. 26. Karthquake at Ibatera. 'i isffci July 15. Karthquake at Cumana. 1S6.V strong shocks in Caracas from September to December. isrro June 26. Karthquake at Tocuyex 1S7S May 1. Karthquake at Cucuta and other parts of the country. 1S7S April 12. Karthquake nt Cua and other districts of tho Tuy, when over 40J persons lost their lives. Kt Oct. S. Earthquake in Tnijillo. 1SS Nov. 17. Karthquako causing much! damage in Guinarr. 1K94 April 24. Terrible earthquake, causing loss of many lives nd rreat damaM In sections of Trujillo, Tachtra, Barqulslmeto, Portuguesa and Zamora. iv.ni Dee. 4. Karthquake in Caracas. lxto Nov. 16. Strong shocks in Caracas and other parts. IKfl July 4. In Barqulslmeto, throwing down many buildings. PHILADELPHIA CELEBRITY, - "Follcy Queen" Whose Death Will B Deeply Mourned. Philadelphia Press. The "Queen of Policy Backers." Mrs. Mallon, Is at death's door. Her physician declare her condition is such that fche may die at any moment. As a result, members of the gambling fraternity, from one end of the city to tho other, are flocking to her home, intent cn learning tne latest details, for her position in the policy world is such that her Illness is of more moment than that of any queen of Kurope. There are many women policy backers and writers In Philadelphia, but none has secured success such as that of Mrs. Mallon. She has had control of more writers and books and has been longer in tha "business" than any other woman in this city. Her place as "Queen cf the Policy Backers" has not been obtained in a day or a month. It has taken years to build up her immense gambling trade. Her title has been secured not only by length of service but by the ingenious manipulation of every feature of the policy game and the clever manner in which she can pull every wire for the 'potectlon', o her interests. She lives on Kleventh street, below Bainbridge, and many poor families in the neighborhood are living witnesses to her many acts of charity. In the biting cold months of winter, they testify, she has not only supplb-d them with foed, but has given them clothes and fuel also. In addition, many an aged person as well as th tiny ha bo she has kept from Potter's field by defraying tho entire funeral expenses, as well as paying for the lots in which they were laid. She Is the widow of James Mallon. of the Fourth ward. who. in partnership with his wife, was one of the biggest policy backers in l'hilaelelphia. At one time he and his wife had the unllmiteel and uninterfere.l with control of the Third, Fourth anel Fifth warels. Mr. Mallon died upward of five years ago, and since then his wife has managed thf entire business, which was never to prospereuis as at the present time. She controls thirty-five books, and after all expenses, ir. hnling "protection." 'ere paid, .io has a protit e.f over t-.i") a month. At her last appearance m a magistrate's court she wore jewel.- valued at over $!0.0u0. Chief ( Hiie of Operative Cost, I Knglneering Record. The greatest stumbling block to hlghef railway spe-d Is the line itcif. as it exists on most American railways, und It ifemi liopeless to expect any improvement until the roadbeds e.f the railways of the United St.di-s are- constructed for h!gh speed. Ti e re Is no object in buihUc.g hiKh powere.J hie .motives to drag trains up steep hlils and arourul short curves, or upon gradients more or les.- heavy, by brute force. Thai is me rely burning the candle- at Loth ends, for it increases the expense cf m&intenance without correspondingly improvlnf ther .-erviee-. High sped an obtained a pre.-er.t l costly exceedingly so and ra4 way manager are well aware of it. Kconnmy of Machinery. Kam-as City Star. The eld wooden batt!ehlp Vermont, which it is propped to discontinue as thf receiving ship at the Brooklyn navy yard, when in commission in the fifties carried complement of l.im officers and men. Th nw battleship, altogether much larger and infinitely more powerful, do not rquiro crews to exceed 0 0 men. To such sa extent does machinery displace humaa labor.