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THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS. TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1892.

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THE ISDIANAP0LI8 NEWS an independent newspaper, yvauNHD btsst Afmvooir, Mxcmrr bcvdat , Br JOHN X. HOLLIDAY * CO., Tai N tw> BatUttira, No. 19 W 4 WoilitagtoB ftt BnUwd oilko Pootofle* »t IsSiaapoUs, lad., M •oeoad'ClMt matter.

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as bringing them nearer to the promised reward. To no other class of individuals, save, perhaps, the prisoners behind the bars, does time pass so slowiy. To say to these children that their schooldays are the happiest period of their lives is the bight of satire, ifcppiness is a condition of the mind, and it is idle to try to impress these restless and impatient young beings with any such belief. The pupils of the present age work very hard and the discipline and exactions of the ecbool-room are of the most rigid character. Their burden*, their griefs and their annoyances are just as hara for their young natures to bear as the heavier ones that will come to them in after life. They do rfot rereeive the eonsideration and sympathy to which they are entitled. In looking back through memory’s rose-col-ored spectacles, the responsibilities of our school day* seem insignificant compared to the greater ones that have been laid upon os since then, and we forget how grievous they seemed at the time. Here's a hand of fellowship to the boys and girls as they shoulder their load of book^ and start in upon another term of school, and the assurance of good-fellowahip and appreciation oi their hproic efforts to bear their portion of the world's work.

of American manufactures, and that patent rights can be obtained and trademarks secured. There U an excellent prospect for a line of steamers from New York to Callao, calling at Rio Janeiro, Montevideo, Bueno* Ayres, Valparaiso and otner ports. At present the carrying trade is done in sailing vessels via Cape Horn, an average vovage requiring three months. Tne proposed new line will reduce the time by one-hall Several enggestions are made in this report as to the methods which should be employed in introducing our goods. Commercial trevelers -re indispensable, of coarse, but befo.a attempting to secure the retail trade they^nould put themselves :nto communication with the large wholesale and importing houses, of which there are at least twenty in Valparaiso. Especial emphasis is placed upon the manner of advertising, which should be don# not in circulars and publications alleged to be prepared for this purpose, but in the longestablished Chilian newspapers, which are universally read and will bring greater returns in a few months than can be secured in years by the former method.

Memories of Dor Helpers.

BLAINE OE MAINE.

It is said that there is a hight in India so shut in ;rom winds that names written in the ashes of taeir firt by traveler* have been found uneLaced after years. Whether fabulous or not, the story is suggestive. In Car Himalaya's Orient land. Where calm and sadness ever sleep. One loftiest mount doth silent stand Nor gentlest winds the still bights sweeo. And pilgrims lone who write their names In camp-fire ash. then onward fare To golden shrines and sacred flames. Years after find their writing there.

His Gains Daring the Past Year As Seen By a Political Opponent.

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The balance-sheet for Ur. Blaine at the beginning of the new year shows not much but gain. Foremost on the credit side stands the restoration of bis health. In

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that all men of kindly human impulses will rejoice with him, however embarrassing

So in far Orients of the soul. Dear travelers touch our choicest bights. Where tempest world-thoughts never roll. And through brief waten give Love’s blest lights; Then in hope's sacred ashes trace Their faintly names, for aye to show, As golden-gated life they face. Where templed heavens arch and glow.

Yet undisturbed Love's scroll remains, Unchanged as stars above it hung. And s-orms the spirit calm restrains. While charms of heart are o’er it flung; Deep writ by loving. Christ-like hands, it wakes our manhood’s noblest signs; It glorifies the soul’s lene lands. And tells of fanes where love still shines.

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TUEBDAY, JANUARY 5. 1W2.

The circnlation of the Indianapolis News for twelve months of 1H9I wn« ■u average of lor each day. This paper gimranlee* to advertisers that for the above period ot time, or for the pn#t five years, its ' bona fide circulation was larger than that of nil other Indianapolis duHies added together.

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"Wanted” (classified advertisements; re-

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“WAKEMAN’S WANDERINGS.”

jit ie a pleasure to bo able to announce that Mr. Edgar L. Wakaman, who Is known tbo country over by his letters of domestic and foreign travel, will he continued among The News'* long list of contributors for IHd?. Mr. Wakaman was first known as a student of the Gypsies, *ud his habit is to study tho people of a country close st hand, making most of his journeys on foot, living at the oomtnon inns and in the homes of lowly peoplt. In this way he learns much of legend and sees many customs that are not within th* range of the ordinary traveler. The first four of Mr. Wskcnisn's letters of IKn will t#U of s tramp across 1'orlugal from Lisbon to Aysmonte Kosd*ide pictures of Portuguese villages, peasant homes and everyday provincial life will be painted with the same fidelity and charm which have characterized th* Lngllih letters recently publtibsd In this country. Portngsl is a country famous for its past achievements, and It is outside the bcatcu lines of travel, ‘and inhabited by a most interesting race of psopls. After these letters will come two v describing a week In Morocco, and tkeee will be followed by a letter from Gibraltar. telling of the famous fortress and its surroundings. Majorca and Minorca, the Balearic Islands will asxt be visited, and then Malta and its people and their life, manners, customs and enpurstUioaa will be described. Throe letters telling of Italian rambles will follow, . and then forest travel in Qalfoia. This is the northeaaternmost province of Austria. Its petroleum fields, their workings, and peasant workmen and the home life and customs of the Polish, Ruthcnian and Tairas peasantry of this seldom-visited region will b« attractive subjects for Mr. Wakeman’ti P9A ‘ Returning to the British Isles Mr. Wakeman will tall of some of the men and women end places fhmlliar to American readers. Al- > together th* readers ot The Nows will travel % wtth Mr. Wakeman—and there could be no be^er guide—through some of the most interesting towns and regions the Old World eanahow. And they will do thia not as strangers might, but learning the secrets of the peoplt'a lives, as close friends would do, and gaining from history and tradition the charming story and sentlmenl that cluster about the old placea, where humanity has for M many hundreds of recorded years lived and loved and joyed and suffered and fought and 4|ud.

About Home Marketn. The Indianapolis News, speaking of the growth of Indianapolis, says: "The economic value of thu plan of home-purchasing is great. Not only do oar business men employ home capital in their business, but the sums disbursed in wages and in the many other channels ultimately reaching the laborer are kept at home and safely cente red by the buildingassociation plan. The general building of the year has been gratiij' ;n K- both a* to tho amount and quality. The beauty of the city is keeping pace with its material prosperity.” The New* is just a* strong for home growth and the home market as anv protectionist when it tails business -^Logansport Journal. The fundamental difference is that Thfe News does not propose to line people to compel them to trade ia the home market, the said market by the process massed in the control of monopolists. The process of freedom is that it induces, not compels, ou behaif of ones best interests hw support and patronage. If we should have a Jaw which would prevent Indianapolis customers from borrowing Loganeport money, or buying Logansport products or employing Logansport brains or labor, except on payment of a fine averaging 60 per cent, on J.ogansport's prices for these things, then the analogy would exist, and w- should have in Indianapolis the kind ot “home market” which our contemporary mistakenly tiiinks > that The News is lauding. The situation as it is, illustrates the beauty of freedom in trade for this is absolute. There ia no let nor hindrauce ou any one in Indianapolis to invest his earnings in Logansport enterprises il he sees lit. The competition is open. But the home inducements, from their nature, are the greater and broadly speaking it is ever thus. When the Logansport inducement should be greater it would he so in its intrinsic worth. That is to say, the Indianapolis investor would n uke mom by investing in a Logansport oilenug than in one ui home; tne sum total of his eairvnga would be greater if he bought a load of Logansport bricks, sent from Logansport, than if he bought a load made at Indianapolis. He would not buy them unless it were so. Thus, under freedom of trade, that great lorco which mates tho progress of tne world—the desire of each man to beticr himself—is allowed to operate. I uder an artificially walled-in home market, this desire is not allowed to act. The Indianapolis man is not allowed to buy the Logansport brick, which is to his best advantage, but is compelled to buy the Indianapolis brick, wnich is not to ins advantage, but to the advantage of the Indianapolis brickmaker, and thus to help him to artificial profits tiie law interferes with natural development, and compels consumers to part with their earnings in satislying their wants for the benefit of the “protected” industries. That is the kind of a “hutne market” w hich our contemporary laueigs exists here, but which does not, because Indianapolis is tree to patronize Logansport if the latter Can oiler to it greater advantages, tiie conclusion being tor tho benefit of both. If wc hud ‘‘protection” carried to its logical end, Logansport would be stint out as pictured.

The attempted separation of church and state in the new Brazilian republic is exciting the consternation of tha Catholic authorities and it is intimated that the Pope will excommunicate President Peixotto, his Cabinet and the members of congresa. It has been generally accept i tbat tha church has not been in sympathy with the republic, but preferred the monarchy, over which it exercised a powerful control. The new government does not extend federal aid to the church, and the people, accustomed always to have the expenses of their religion paid for out of the public lunds, do not take kindly to the idea of paying them by voluntary contributions. It is not clour, however, that excommunicating the officials will improve the conditions.

O Traveler great, with vestments dyed, O Pilgrim lone, o'er voiceless heighra. To thrones where Then art glorified, j Thy name of Love thy pierced hand writes On life’s cold range where earth-lights wane, j Where sinful tumults never come— ' Love's holy rendezvous from pain, | Whence Heaven-led souls behold their horns. — Western Christian Advocate.

his renewed vigor Be to other ambitions

j hdhe and there.

And the country has some reason to rejoieo in this oa its own aeeount irrespecti ive of its kindliness of feeling. Mr. Blaine's : Rood sens* ia the cnief mitigation of the Adj ministration that now ia, and there ia reaj boq to believe that it has spared the conn- : try a good deal in connection with tha ! Chilian business. His concern for his reciprocity program has been a much-needed ' brake upon the wheels of jingoism in that ! affair, and his opportune return to active j duty marked the beginning of pacific policies, on whioh the country has reason

to congratulate itself.

In so far as Mr. Blaina is responsible for the appointment or the retention of Egan he is accountable for a grievous mistake in administration; but he has at least averted the worst of its possible consequences by

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The last number of the Journal of tha American Statistical Association gives some curious facts concerning the number of suicides in the ranks, and more especially among th# officers of all the great European ! powers. The Austrian army take* the lead . in this matter. From 1S7S to 1887 a yearly ' average of 122 suicides is recorded for every < 100,000 effective troops. In 1889 the number was 149. Death by suicide represents

a fifth part of the whole mortality of tha Austrian army. No disease is more

deadly. , The ' Germans report about ; half the number; the Italian army about ! one-third; the Freoeh army ubout onej fourth; the English army in the home service about one-sixth; the rate in the Rus- ’ sian army is nearly the same, white in tha Spanish army it is'least of all. There are some curious facts about these suicides,

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the European armies, especially in Austr.a.

bis own judicious handling of a situation which Egan’s bungling had rendered ex-

it is the young soldiers who kill themselves ! during the first month of their service, i Suicides are the most frequent among the ^ cavalry and infantry, and in the latter among the soldiers who are accused and

, awaiting trial.

The most frequent method is shooting,

The linen.sale. Crowds at our linen counter all day long. To-day wc have an increased force ot help and all can be eomlortably accommodated. New lines of goods will be marked down every day. To-day we slash h . rti&w the

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‘SCRAPS.”

The New Ygrk Wofid Is reviewing the effect of the past year on some of our public men, soch as Cleveland, Blaine and President Harrison. Its conclusion as to the

latter is as follows:

In making up the account of Mr. Harrison’s

Queen Victoria’s household consists of nearly one thousand persons. During the last year 192 persons were arrested ia New York city for attempted suicide. A teacher recently asked a pupil what lbs. stood for. “Elbows, I guess,” was the unexpected reply. In the parrot’s beak both mandibles are movable—a peculiarity unknown in other species of birds. Every dav 249 mail trains arrive and leave Chicago. Its number is uuequaled,itissaid, in any other city. The man who never gives up misses the answers to some awfully good conundrums. — [Elmira Gazette. One widow of a revolutionary soldier and seventeen survivors of the war of 1812 draw pensions at-the Detroit office.

ceedingly delicate. And, after oil, the primary responsibility for Egan—possibly : the whole responsibility—rests upon the

| President and not on Mr. Blaine. We have spoken of Mr. Blaine as the mitt-

; gat ion of this Administration. He is more than that. He is the mitigation of Repnbj licanism itself in its perverted, modern form, i When the politicians who controlled the i party at the time of the Chicago convention made their bid for campaign funds by pledging the party to the obedient service ' of the monopolists, every Republican leader i of prominence was confronted with the neI cessity of “swallowing his own words” or breaking with his party.’ Every one of ; them had openly and emphatically con- ; detuned the fundamental principle 'of the i kind of protectionism promised m the Chi-

j cago platform.

though hanging and drowning are frequent

methods. The infantry use f

, j. — firearms, and : nsuaiiy aim at their beads. The mounted soldiers hang themselves by their "horse J bridles. The Algerian soldiers almost ! always shoot themselves tbroueh the bodv, perhaps because the Arabs think it is infamous to mutilate the head. In Austria a third of the suicides are attributed to a distaste for miliUry duty; in France, love trouble is a very frequent cause; the fear of punishment is everywhere a great incentive. The maximum of suicides is reached in the hottest weather, and the minimum is reached in the coldest weather. The late Mr. Buckle affirmed as a law of civilization that there - is a periodic regularity in the suicide mania, and this testimony of the suicides iu the European armies goes far to

confirm it! '

In making up the account of Mr. Harrison s ! Arkansas pig has a scent equal to a

in reputation lor

ability and—apart Iroin the possible effect of Mr. Blaine's restored health—in his chance of a nomination for re-election; that he has lo?t much oi the estimation in which he was held tor high official character by the Elkins and Woods appointments; that he has won notably in his effort to attach the machine politicians to his service, and that he has lost not a little in the esteem of those voters who are not under the control of a blind party spirit.

The read.ng public is hkeiy to become familiar with the geography, customs and political situation of foreign nations through their constantly recurring complications with other countries. Chili has come to appear almost like a next-door neighbor. We have become quite well acquainted with affairs in Russia. Egypt, India and China do not seem to be at the antipodes. In fact, the cable has annihilated time and distance, and we get oar news from the farthermost corners of the earth with more regularity than from the little towns to the right and the left ot us.

Chicago’s reports of 1MR show an immense business and colossal conditions, as these cot clasions show; New building, fifty miles of frontage, S55,-

in number.

006,0 0 in value, 11,60s in New paving. 88 miles.

New sidewalks. 195 miles. Produce trade, i-197,000,000. Wholesale trade, 3517,000,000. Manufacturing, 3567,000,000. Bank clearings, si.454,000,000; increase over 1890, 9 per cent; increase in three years, 60 per

cent.

Bank capital and surplus, $,'2,500,000. Bank deposits, ?163,500,000. Ileal estate tiausiers, $178,000,000.

The Now York Sun has withdrawn from the Associated Press and joined the United Press. This G a step which has been taken after long consideration, and which is likely to have considerable effect ou the status of the newsgathering combinations. The Sun is probably the best equipped paper in the world for collecting news, and its accession to the United Press will greatly strengthen an organization already very strong and which has shown its ability to cope with any rival. The Sun probably will have followers and a fierce competition is likely to result.

Wm. H. Haudino, supposed to have been the last survivor ot Gen. Sam Houston’s array iu the war lor .he independence of Texas, died yesterday morning at hia homo in Columbia, Pa. Ho was seventy-seven years old, and was a prominent citizen.—(New York Sun.

Probably there are a number of survivors of General Houston’s army, as it was a large body of men from first to last. One that we know of is Col. George D. Hendricks, of Eaton, O., a sprightly old gentleman of nearly ninety, whft has many friends in this place.

It is suggested from Washington that Senator Edmunds, or some other man of prominence, be appointed an embassador extraordinary to negotiate a treaty with Chili and settle oar existing difficulty. There is no ob-% jectiou to this that we can ace, except that it belongs to a past age of diplomacy, and that the mat ter can be attended to ia Washington

just as well, probably.

. j ' A Harmful Story. Th« Ut rar Observer lias started on the rounds a ston* of an «ngaiied couple. The young roan hsd agreed to present the girl VjEk. an engagement ring which should ©ost $100; instead of doing this he started •fT on % prolonged spree; when he had reeovsrtd be went around to see her and receive his dismissal; on the contrary, the forgave him, toid him she would do without the ring and he might liquidate his tm* with the money; he did so, and they were married and lived happy ever ftfter. As a fairy tale this is very sweet End pretty; as a chapter from real life it ia misleading and calculated to . . 4k * mat deal of harm. Th# girl who would marry a mau under such tireutnstauccs would run the risk of regret- . tfkg il as long as sh« lived. The utter fallacy of marrying a man to reform him fa exposed every day iu the divorc# courts Mid in the wretched homes and wrecked |tVM\ that may be seen on every hand. The young man who gets drunk and then goes to his betrothed to ask forgiveness, ahonld receive it and his ticket-oMeave at Ike same time. It is a much leu serious matter to five up a lover than a husband, gad the disappointment is but a trifle compared to the disaster which intemperate habits never fail to bring into married life. Let aa have no more of such stories, who^e Mage of romance tends to cover up their •Yil influences.

Tbe Return to School. Possibly the dose of tbe holidayt brines to ao one eo deep a regret m to the children who most return to school. For four long months they had counted on this respite and it has seemed all too brief. Now they have three months mere before the Easter vacation comes to their relief. All that sastaiae them thvoagh the different tenaa w tho vacation at Urn end, and §t$rj da/ fa dfamfaod with joy

Our Trade WUU Cuili. Possibly, in the minds*of a certa n belligerent element, the only trade relations winch we should consider iu connection with this defiant little country arc of the kind which are carried on by means of gunboats, in-tead of the merchant marine. But the cooler-headed and more conservative, wfio Lave no fears of sanguinary results, will be interested iu the recent report of our consul to that country, Mr. McCreery, iu regard to the existing commercial conditions. In 1889 he finds an increase of 22.ti2 per cent, iu live imports from the United States to Chili, according to the official statistics. Although the figures for 1890 have not been published, he believes that, notwithstanding tiie existing difficulties, both exports and imports will compare favorably with those of the prece ling ▼car. The imports from ;h<^ United S atos comprised about sixty articles. The list is headed with lumber, of which we sent to Chili about one m llion dollars’ worth. Prominent among our exports are vegetable and mineral oils to tue amount of $oo'.000; cottons, $291.0M; railway material, $200,000; flannels, $170,000; coopers' stsftes, $150,000; hardware, $94,000. We received from Chili nitrate of soda to the amount of $3,000,000; iodine, $ix>,000; sheep's wool. $325,000; beans $12,000, and a number of minor articles. Mr. McCreery says- “I have no donbt that Chili would take a large quantity of our productions if we in return would take a large amount of her products. We can not, of ourse, take h#r wneat, copper or silver: our imports, of necessity, must be „ confined to nitrate, iodine, guano, manganese and a little woo!. In my opinion it is to tiie first of these that we must look for an impetus of our trade with If our farmers were acquainted with the extraordinary fertilizing properties of nitrate, especiailv for beet culture, I feel cure that they would become large consumers of this substance. In ten months of last year Chili exported 681,241 metric tons of nitrate, most of which went to Germany for a fertilizer to beets.” Consul McCreery states that there is a ■ood Market in Chili for a Urge cumber

Some housewives of Washington City met at the residence of Mrs. John A. Logan and organized with a view of mastering the serv-ant-girl question. Should they discover a practical solution, it is to be hoped they will not take advantage of their close proximity to the patent office to deprive their millioua of suffering sisters of the results of their superior ability.

The Pittsburg Times is putting up one of the largest and finest newspaper buildings in the country. It is on the modern steel skeleton order, and besides affording ample* room for a great newspaper, will contain 111 offices, a banking house and store room. The Times occupies a commanding position among Pennsylvania papers, and is worthy ot its new home.

P.i'B: ic interest at present has two centers of attraction, tho New York and Ohio legislatures. The leading question in the latter is, who shall be elected Senator, and in the former, whether the body shall be able to organize at all. The New York situation seems, somewhat appropriately, to be placed in the hands of a clergyman.

The Salvation Army had a pitched battle at Eastbourne, Eng.and, yesterday, in which, apparently, they had to fight both the mob and the police. Their bravery showed that jhey possessed the courage of their convictions. and the treatment they received indicated that there is need of some kind of an army in that locality.

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has decided that a saloon-keeper ia liable for damages in the case of injuries received which resu.t from the sale of liquor to intoxicated persons. He also should be made liable for such damages as result from selling liquor to men until they become intoxicated.

A sbnsatiokal report of a man who was buried alive comes from Russian Poland. It will be noticed .hat these cases always occur bn the other side of tbe globe.

Somebody has invented the word “griplet,” to describe an attack that is worse than a cold, but not so had aa the grip.

Now the type foundries in the United States have been purchased by an English syndicate, and a trns^jrill be formed.

Both fire and water seem to have gotten in their fatal work daring tne last few daya.

Yesterday’s wife murderers lived in Philadelphia and St. Louis.

owner’s child from drowning the other day. An island comprised of about fifty acres | of rice land has broken loose in a river near | Depere, Wis., and is floating down the j stream. ; Eben C. Whitney, a lawyer of Glassboro, j N. J., died Wednesday from blood poisonj ing. Hia death was caused by a small shoe ! nail running into his heel. Mr. and Mrs, W. Jennings Demorest have given* a way $50,000 worth of medals fo the young participants in the oratorical contests held under the auspices of the W. C. T. U. Roasted crickets are a favorite article of diet with some tribes of Utah and California Indians, while among 'others the grasshopper is relished as a culinary deli-

cacy.

John W. Eckerson, of Tappan, N. Y., attempted to kill a three-hundred-pound hog. The animal struggled and finally bit the man's hand so that the phvsicians now fear that lockjaw will result. Martin Briggs, colored, who died on Thursday at the age of 100, was purchased seventy-five years ago in .South Carolina by Capt. George A. Winana, an uncle of the present Governor of Michigan. It has been estimated that the motive power furnished by the steam engines of the world represents the strength of a thousand millions of men—that is to say, twice as many as there are workmen. One of the patients nt the insane asylum which was burned at Pontiac, Mich,', the other day. suddenly regained his reason under the terrible strain of the occasion and offered his services as a fire-fighter. “Are -your eggs fresh?” asked the lady, and the conscientious market-man told her: ‘‘They’re a leetie off for biliu - ', mum, but they make as fine an omelette as ever vou sunk a tooth in.”—[Philadelphia Record. To protect itself from the sain the orangoutang crooks its aims over its head. The hair on the orang’s upper arm points downward, while on the lower arm it points upward, the apparent purpose being to shed the rain like a thatch* The Russians of Ellis county, Kansas, have sent $10,000 to Russia to buy food and clothing for their suffering countrymen. They have also sent an agent to bring 300 or more families to western Kansas, where they have selected several sections of land in Ellis, Rooks and Trego counties. There are few flowers whose perfume is actually deadly. The flowers of the kali mujah, or death plant, found in the islands of Java and Sumatra, emit a perfume so powerful as to overcome, if inhaled for any length of time, a full grown man, and killing all forms of insect life approaching it. Perhaps every one does not know how easily fresh apple blossoms can be had in winter. Get the ends of branches with plump flower buds, and place them in water in a warm, sunny window, and they will soon bloom. No doubt many other „kinds of trees and shrubs will give as good satisfaction.—[Vick’s Magazine. A sister of Christine Nilsson is said to be living in Milwaukee in very straitened circumstances a» the wife of a poor Swedish teacher, and to have a daughter with a wonderfully promising voice. Efforts will be made to (five the girl a conservatory training and to develop her talents so as to make them worthy of ranking with those of her famous aunt. Steel is destined to play a far greater part in the world’s economy than it now does. A Janesville (Wis.) man has invented and patented a telegraph pole that linemen suv settles the question of utility satisfactorily. The poles are constructed of steel strips an inch wide and one-eighth of an inch thick. These serve as corners of a triangular cage fourteen inches on a side and from forty to sixty feet high. Tho strips are laced together with No. 10 wire, and the pole sixty feel high weighs three hundred pounds. Small Boy—I wanter take gas. Dentist— It is not usual to administer gas for a milk tooth, my boy. It won’t hurt but an instant. Small Boy—You’ve gotter gimme gas, or I won’t have it pulled. Dentist—Yon shouldn’t be so afraid of being hurt. Now sit right up here, like a little man. Small Boy—I ain’t ’fraid of bein’ hurt. ’T«in’t that. I'm afraid I can’t help givin’ a screech when it comes out. Dentist—That won’t matter. Small Boy—Yes it will, too. All th’ boys wot I’ve ever licked is waitin’ under th’ winder t’ hear me holler.—[Street A Smith’s Good News. A new swindle has developed at Rosalia, Wash. The rognes watch the newspapers for estray notices. Then one goes to the farmer, says he has lost such an animal as the notice describes, and asks to seejit. Of course he is shown it, bnt says it is not his and goes away. Shortly after comes his confederate, who describes the animal he has lost in a way that exactly tallies with the appearance of the estray, which he, on seeing, at once claims. Tnen he says he can not take it away, and offers to sell at a bargain. The farmer usually purchases, and when a little later the rightful owner comes the farmer is just that much out William Harman committed suicide at Titusville, Pa., recently because be became convinced that he was his own grandfather. Here is the singular letter that he left: “I married a widow who had a grown-up daughter. My father visited our house very often, fell in love with my stepdaughter and married her. So my father became my son-in-law and my stepdaughter ray mother, because she was nty father’s wife. Soon afterward my wife had a son. He was my father’s brother-in-law and my unde, for he was the brother of my stepmother. My father’s wife—that is, my stepdaughter—had also a son. He was, o*f course, my brother and in the meantime my grandchild, for he was the eon of my daughter. My wife was my grandmother, because she was,my mother’s mother. I was my wife’s husband and grandchild at the same time. And, as the husband of a person’s grandmother is his grandfather, I was my own grandfather.”—[New York Recorder.

Yet not one of them raised a voice in protest. When the protected interests had furnished tne money with whioh to carry the election, an* when Mr. Harrison had paid off the claim of Waaamaker with a cabinet office and bad made foreign ministers or other stipendiaries of the editors who had refrained from criticising a platform that set at naught ail their teachings, the. leaders in Congress framed the McK nley bills in fulfillment of tbo party’s bargain

Now silver Coins.

with monopoly.

It was Mr. Blaine alone among promineot

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It was he who remembered the teaching of Garfield that no protection was tolerable except “the protection that leads to free trade.” At the critical moment, after the monstrous McKinley bill had passed tbe House and when it was about to pass the .Senate, he called a halt with his vigorous reminder that there was nothing iu the measure to open a market for a single additional bushel of wheat or barrel of pork. Mr. Blaine seized upon the reciprocity idea and fastened it upon the McKinley bill, and that was unquestionably a service of no little value to the country. There is not much ot reciprocity in it, to be sure. It does not take a single penny of taxation off the American people, but at any rate it is in tbe line of the freer trade for whioh Democracy contends. It is a mitigation of the policy of monopolistic protection, and it was the very most that any man could at that time have accomplished toward checking the madness of McK nleyism. At the least it saved the country from taking the legislative ground that commerce is an evil to be suppressed, a vice to be rooted

out and punished by law.

So far as Mr. Blaine’s personal ambitions are concerned, the year shows very decided gains. It is clearer, now than at any earlier date that the presidential nomination ot hia

j party this vear is his if he wants it: and if ! his health is as good as is reported, there is ' no apparent reason why he should not

want it, unless it be a personal disinclination to endure the strain of a canvass and a wise contentment with the place he has fairly won in public estimation as beyond question the foremost statesman of his

party.

Mr. Blaine has been ill during a considerable part of the year. During all of it he has been at the head of a department in

(New York Recorder.] The Director of the Mint begins the new year by issuing the new silver coins—half* i dollar, quarter-dollar and dime pieces— bearing the new design. The mint at Philadelphia has begun the coinage of these pieces, end the mints at ifon Francisco and New Orleans will do so as soon as tbe dies reach them. The silver used in this coinage will consist of tbe uncurrent silver coins now in the treasury awaiting recoinage, and the work will be conducted until the balance ef the appropriation available for recoinage, now about $22,000, has been exhausted. The director hopes to recoin at least a million dollars of the uncurrent coins in the treasury and the new coins under the existing appropriation, and when it is exhausted Congress will be urged to make a deficiency appropriation to continue this ooinage. The new pieces will be transferred iroin the mint to tbe treasury at Washington and the different sub-treasuries as fast as coined, so that they may be distributed in all parts of the country and the public get acquainted with them. It is stated at the Treasury Department that the cut in the newspapera did not fairly represent the beauty of the coins; besides, some changes have been made in them since the cuts were*published. Those who have seen tbe coins pronounce them very haudlome and a decided improvement upon those now in cirenlation. The new diet were first used yesterday morning in tbe stamping of half and quarter dollars and dimes at the mint in Philadelphia. Ten thousand dollars’ worth were stamped and delivered by the coiner to tbe cashier about noon, and they were put in circulation through the regular channels. The first boxful that came from the presses showed favorable results, and the ofljjcers were accordingly very much gratified. The relief work came out clear, the head on the obverse and the eagle and stars on the reverse being clearly defined.

which, ordinarily, phrase-mongering and formalities constitute the chief activ

activities.

Yet the year shows much to his credit, including the arrangement with Germany for the admission of American pork, the acceptance by France of an ameliorated trade relation, the negotiation of several treaties under tbe reciprocity clause, aud the preservation of peaice with Italy first aud with Chili afterward, upon terms honorable to the United States. It is a balancesheet with which the Secretary of State may reasonably be well content.

A. K. Moclure on the Kaitor. iLfopincott’s Magazine. | The editor-in-chief of a widely-read and respected daily newspaper holds the highest public trust under our government of the oeople. It.is the most responsible office to which an Araericau can aspire. Parries rise and fall; Presidents come and go; Cabinets gather and scatter; Senators and Representatives fill their brief mission and pass away; but tbe daily newspaper continues through all the swift changes in politics and society, ever teaching and ever I ennobling mankind, if faithful to its sacred duties, and its influence, although ofteu unseen and apparently unfelt, is as constant as the genial rays of the sun that bursts the seed and ripens the harvest.

Garza, the Revolutionist.

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Ob! Will Itt (Lawrenceburg Keg later. 1 A calm and dignified trust in the ultimate triumph of right motives will disarm the shafts of suspicion.

To Brown Trouble. (New York Herald.) When a man tries to drown trouble in drink the devil always supplies the trouble with life preservers.

Nothing; staple. (Hippocrates. 1 Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, judgment difficult.

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