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pgfrji. a Tysr.pmj manufacturers an* FREE SILVER. 1%» mmir- rr —’ Club of PhHadotpAto. whlob respOBdod ao liberally to tAa Atmtir 1 ^ of Mr* Jobs 'Wanaro&ker for eampatffn oootrtbuUona in ms, has Anally declared It* Irreconcilable hostility to the free and Independent coinage of stiver, it baa been sharged that this club, or at least many of the members of It, were willing to make a deal with the silver men, by the terms of which they would advocate flee coinage, provided the beneficiariea oC free coinage would stand by the tariff. That there is & natural basts for such an agreement can not be denied. The purpose* of both partie* to it would be Identical - namely, to secure the enhancement of the price of their product* through the action of the Government Moreover, the recent action of the silver fienatons. In holding uptthe tariff bill, must he taken as a threat to prevent all tariff legislation, unless there Is favorable silver legislation. But the Philadelphia club does not seem willing to be considered a party to such a bargain. It may be that its members feel as business men that they would toss more fey free coinage than they gain by protection — which is probably tb* /»f n* — and that if protection can not he saved except at the prloe of a disordered and degraded currency it had better not be saved at all. Whatever their motive, they adopted a set of resolutions last night, over the protest of pitch great protectionists as Wharton Barker, James Dobson and other a which will almost certainly result in a permanent breach between them and the free silver men. They denouncs “as false the statement made by the friends of free silver, and echoed by those of free trade, that our Philadelphia manufacturers are willing to barter with the silver Senators tor the free coinage of silver in exchange for additional protection." They deolam it to h* their opinion "that the question of bimetallism can be permanently settled only through an international agreement." and they also declare their "unalterable opposition to the free coinage of silver by the United States alone, firmly believing that such a policy would result in disaster at home and dishono* abroad, and would only operate to pinto this country on the basis of silve« : 4? Bks Deep said, this resolution was cot approved by that distinguished economllt, Mr. Wharton Barker, who pretented a fcee gtlber amendment to the resolutton. My. Dobson also thought that If wo tot get an international agreement, wo ought to "go It aloie " But all amendments and eubstltutas were* voted Sown and the original resolutions were adopted by a large majority. People that •r* opposed to the use of the taxing powpr for tha benefit of private Individuals will rejoice at any manifestation of hostility to any form which that policy may assusas. Pree stiver Is wrong both from an economic and a financial point of view. The men that are fighting It are doing good work, even If they can not see that they themselves are also profiting by legislation. Bo the country will be much gratified at the stand that this Philadelphia club has taken against free sliver. And. Indeed, the declaration Is If it means what it seems to the men Who adopted It would prealong under the present site any deal with the “k for they denounce as false the it that they “are willing to barter r silver Senators for the free coin silver in exchange for additional Uon." The only thing for Mr. Wharton Barker to do la to form a party f«r it Is evident that in Pennat least, free silver and prol mix.

jWORE JNZ> FLAK The Indianapolis News: to know whether the Carthe Rev. Mr. Milburn or .« News thinks there is any In playing baseball on Sunquiet way than It was for the to work on the Blast man. A Lee block on Sunday? Please this letter in your paper and give opinion. CONSTANT READER, we should answer this, letter catewe Should say that. In our opinls more harm in playing basea qulst way" (which la very funBunday rhan in working on the Schleicher A Lee building on But this would simply be our We might reinforce the opinion as testimony that the assemblage o# people, yelKng end toreamdo at a bane-hall game on attendant coming i demoralising every way society than for worklngin work In an emerbullding. Ae we have this la simply our opinpoint Both acts are Neither should be per- > ter as this paper is conprotested against demanded the to that particular. In the matter of play, where both It belie ves that vnful than lawpeople. We are W« elect our own It is we do not like a law on It is ♦Xlstfor ' an to favor of awli ha* been ta-

•whtoh w# have doubted, they ere taking a stand for the enslavement of themselves. By whet rule can those who advocate lawbreaking for their pleasure demand lawenforcement for their protection against work? Men are short-sighted Indeed it they do not know that custom can easily absorb a man until he Is practically a slave during all hts waking hours. One of the great drawbacks to the "continental Sunday" - the Sunday that prevails In Europe allowing professional amusements of all kind* — la that by the mf. token there Is no protection for the workingmen against work or* that day. In Germany and France far more than a majority of workingmen are compelled to labor seven days In the week. And there is a mighty protest by workingmen in the former countries for protection. Wipe out one distinction between Sunday and the other six days and the tendency is for all distinctions to be wiped out. Certain things can be done with human beings in mass and certain things can not be done. There is no lesson In history plainer than that a movement once started exhausts its possibilities. It splits clear through like the cleavage of a rock. It may be tome privation to workingmen that the theater aad professional ball game# are not allowed on Sunday. If we grant that it Is a privation at all. It must be conceded that It Is small. But for it, let It not be forgotten, they get tn exchange a day that is their own. By the same token they can keep themselves free

from work on that day.

There 1* not one of them, we venture to say, and, to make the Illustration local and concrete, who will not admit. If he have the courage of hia convictions, that if his demand that law be ignored for his pleasure in the Sunday base-ball question be granted, he can not demand that it be enforced for his protection in the case of Sunday work. The pressure of a complex civilization makes necessary a great deal of work on Sunday, and the amount of this work is probably Increasing. As people become more prosperous their wants (artificial almost entirely) Increase, and things come to be regarded by one generation as a necessity which to another were a pure superfluity. And similarly with localities, things are necessary in one that are not necessary in another. In large cities Sunday morning grocery and butcher shop* are necessities because people housed In tenements can not have ice to keep food sweet from Saturday to Monday, and the conditions of their living prevent other substitutes. So in large cities street cars are necessary. But In any case the tendency is constantly to expand the limits of "necessity.” This tendency Involves the freedom of the workingman as It involves the freedom of no other people In society. It Is foolish not to see this. It is foolish to do anything to accelerate this, and It is thrice foolish not to see that the advocacy of law-breaking for one’s pleasure does accelerate It and will nullify his plea for law observance for his protection. Let this community be stultified by the breaking of the law that some few hundred workingmen may have two hours of sport of a particular kind on Sunday afternoon, and leave will be given for many hundreds of workingmen to be put to eight and ten hours work on Sunday. And what la the privation so-called? Not that the workingman shall not have his Sunday free. He may ride a bicycle; he may go Into the suburbs by streetcar; he may go into any vacant common and play ball for himself. No law forbids, or attempts to forbid, anything of that kind. One would think, from^ihe pleas that go up with reference to this forbidding of professional base-ball on Sunday, that the workingman was forbidden every kind of pleasure on Sunday. He is, indeed, forbidden none consistent with the rights of the greatest number. The same spirit that forbids professional base-ball on Sunday forbids professional brick-laying or professional carpenter work. It Is the intention of the law to protect those who toll, as far as possible. Their lot In life is hard enough. The necessities of an encroaching civilization tend to deprive them of time for rest fast enough — to an extent great enough, one would think, without having aid and advocacy from themselves. The workingman is She last man In society who c&n afford, to live without law, and, above all, the last man who can afford to urge the violation of a law that preserves one day in the week free from the concerns

that fill the other six.

SOME IMPORTANT DECISIONS. The United States Supreme Court yesterday decided several important cases arising under the inters tat e-commerce act It was held that a railroad engaged In Interstate commerce through tralilo agreements with other roads could not claim exemption from the provisions of the act, although its own line was entirely In one State. In the case In which this decision was made there hod been a complaint that the rale charged was excessive, and this was shown to be the result of the action of the local road In fixing its own rates between points on Us own line. This road, if amenable to the Interstate-commerce act, bad Odn tedly violated It by charging a higher rate for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same fine and In the same direction, the shorter being Included within the longer haul. The question then was whether this local road was subject to the Jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission. The court held that.lt was because, “having elected to enter Into the carriage of Interstate freight, and thue subjected Itself to the control of the commission it would not be competent for the company to limit that control tn respect to foreign traffic to certain points on its road, and to exclude other pointa” The court settles the question thus; We bold that when goods are shipped under a through bill of lading from a pomt in one State to'another, and when such goods are received in transit by a State common carrier under & conventional division of the charges, such carrier mus: be deemed to have subjected it* road to an arrangement for continuous carriage or shipment within the meaning of the interstate-commerce act. That is, such a road becomes part of a continuous line, and so subject to the Interstate-commerce act.

There ere Indications which seem to point in this direction. The oourt said: Whether the consolidation of competing lines will necessarily result In an Increase of rates, or whethej such consolidation has generally resulted In a detriment to the public Is beside the question. Whether It has that effect or not It certainly puts It in th* power of the consolidated corporation to give it that effect — In short, puts the public at the mercy of the corporation. • • • There are, moreover, thought to be other dangers to the moral sense of the community Incident to such aggregations of wealth, which, though indirect, are even more insidious in their influence, and such as have awakened feelings of hostility which have not failed to find expression in legislative acts. In both these cases the charters of the roads gave them the right to consolidate with other roads. But in both of them the State, one by statutory enactment and the other by new constitutional provisions, took away this right. The court held that such modifications might be made, though it decided that in one case the right claimed was really not conferred by the charter of the road. The other case grew out of the practice of charging a lower rate of freight on goods coming from abroad under a Joint ocean and railroad tariff than on goods shipped from cities on the Eastern seaboard. This was Justified by the railroads oa the ground thit "through shipments from a foreign country to Uk interior of the United States differed in circumstances and conditions from shipments originating at the American seaboard bound for the same Interior points.” The court held

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state Commerce Commission had nothing to do. All classes of people and not simply the shippers muA be taken into account.

The court said:

The efforts of the commission to deprive the inland consumers of the advantage of through rates, and thus to give an advantage to the traders and manufacturers of the large seaboard cities, seems to create the very mischief which It was on* of the object* of the act to remedy. There was no Intimation that the inland rates were unreasonable, and, In the absence of such intimation, the court declared that “the mere fact that the disparity between through and local rates was considerable, did not, of itself, warrant the court 4n finding that such disparity constituted! an undue discrimination.” The circumstances in the two cases were different, and, therefore, the same rule could not be applied to them. The effect of these decisions will be for the good of the publio, and they will result In strengthening the hands of the Interstate Commission and giving additional potency to the Interstate-commerce act

LIEUTENA N T- GENERA L,

It Is natural that the friends of General Miles should be urging the passage of a bill conferring on him the rank of lieu-tenant-general. There Is an added dignity and honor to the recognition of merit that goes with the title. And, then, too, (In General Miles’s case, It would be a recognition of the volunteer soldier. He alone of those who have risen to the command of the army since the civil war was a volunteer soldier, and not a graduate of West Point. 8o much can be granted, and there Is also some slight reason to the point made by those who favor reviving the rank for General Miles that the chief officer of the army should have

a distinctive and exclusive rank.

But there Is something to be said on the other side. The letter written by Secretary Lament to General Hawley, chairman of the Senate committee on military affairs, speaks wisely in this matter. The Secretary is opposed to reviving the rank. If there were reasons of expediency, called for by the needs of the service, he would hardly oppose the movement. He recalls thaB in 1870, while Grant was President, and Sherman and Sheridan were, respectively, general and lieutenant-general, Congress enacted that when such offices became vacant they were not to be filled again. This made it Impossible for Meade, Halleck and Hancock, who were then living to receive the honor of the complimentary tltl& And yet it can hardly be maintained that General Miles, either in the otvll war, or in Western campaigns against the Indiana since, placed his country under greater obligations than these other men, who far out-ranked him. About the merits of Grant, Sherman and Sheridan there ban be no debate. There were reasons for their recognition by their appointment to the gradee which they attained. Sherman was easily second to Grant In ability and to services performed, and Sheridan waa third to public regard. The latter tos made a general on his death-bed ifffn reasons of sentiment But after Sheridan the merits of other genorals become debatable. In respect to military ability and publio affeotion, there were a number of generals whose services might fairly be 'ttt down against those of' men like Miles, the present ranking major-general; Schofield, who was retired aa a lieutenant-general, and Howard, whose friends are already waiting for the grade to be revived for Miles, that they may give it to the one-armed hero. After Mile* there will remain men like Merritt, Ruger and Brooke, minor figures in the civil war. Their ultimate elevation to the rank of lieutenant-general is contemplated to the measure now pending to the Sonata We think that the value of the rank that was conferred on our civil war generals of the first rank would be, tn a measure, destroyed if it should be further accorded. The services of three men, who have been to succession lieutenant-general and general, were preeminent; the services of Sbhofield end Miles, Howard, Ruger and Merritt were not preeminent, and there ia

no disparagement to saying so.

and the

consolidation is declared to be unlawful. In both these instahfcee there were constitutional and statutory obstacles to the way of the proposed action, and whether would be unlawful to the &£ if-Uffii iiii is

Speaking of presidential candidates, isn’t it about time for General Weaver to “put in an appearance^*?

Some of the presidential candidates will hardly have enough votes to entitle them to a seat to the St. Louis convention. Tickets, however, may be procured by writing to Mr. T. E. Byrnes, sergeant-at-arms, Minneapolis* Minn.

Governor Bradley may not have much hope, but he has been seen in "conference with his friends.’’

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city was alive with wheels last Hundreds of riders took advantage

Two of the other cases had to do with- of ^ a VH pleasant evening of the season attempted consoiidaUoiu of parallel and 1 » nd cam# out for a spin on the paved

competing lines, and tn both cases

streets utttil a hue hour. People on foot, crossing Pennsylvania and Meridian streets, had to keep a sharp lookout, and marrow escapes from being run down were frequent. There were many rider* out without bells or lanterns, and this caused confusion. It may add excitement to fciqyoto-vtolac to go wandering around the

streets in the dark dodging other riders and people afoot, but other people have rights. It is not very pleasant to people walking to have a wheel booming along at the rate of twenty miles an hour loom suddenly In front of them, causing them to make a wild scramble to get out of the way. It la not fair to wheelmen that have complied with the ordinance to have to be continually or* the lookout for other riders bowling along in the dark. All riders should be compelled to get lamps and bells at once.

Justice Field, of the Supreme Court, is usually to be found these days on the side of the dissenters. Suppose, after all the noise and blare of trumpets and hot contention, the Republican nominee In the Sixth district should be beaten by a Democrat? Compare th* zeal with which effort will be made to see that non-resident bricklayers are not employed In sewer work and the way to which the request for the enforcement of the plain and positive law as to professional ball-playing on Sunday has been left.

What the country would like to know, Mr. Taggart, la whether you are or are not In favor of the free and unlimited coinage of base-ball. Yes or no?

There is a sort of suspicion abroad in the land that the McKinieyaes are rather overdoing it. Their effort to create a diversion In the New York convention, resulting to so pitiful a display of strength, has rather tended to bring ridicule upon them in the East; and their political bad manners in making Incursions into other States with avowed candidates can hardly fail to make all the other candidates and their special friends uncompromising opponents of the Ohio man. Every new discovery, of course, has been known to the Chinese some time or other, but the attempt to credit them with a knowledge of cathode rays is taxing average credulity a little too much. ■ .-! ' ' — Perhaps the gigantic iron and steel trust, with $3,000,000 of capital, needs more “protaction” as an “infant Industry’’? The Treasury reserve has almost. If not quite, reached the high-water mark of this administration. There Is little fear of further great exports of gold until the foreign actors now In this country start for home. The Hon. Ben F. Havens, F. R., Is reported to be greatly elated at the gayety his "conscience” has added to the Nation. We congratulate the Council on passing the ordinance prohibiting gates from swinging outward. Now let the Board of Safety enforce the ordinance^ It is a nuisance. It is something that has prevailed to Indianapolis for years, and has been a reproach to us. Now that It has been made illegal, may we expect that the law will be enforced? Sixty days is given to property owners to comply with the provision* of the law, and this is ample time. Perhaps Mr. Mark Hanna does not know It all. after alL There have been politicians before his day.

The rebels and the government of Nicaragua could not come to terms. The rebels wanted entire control and possession of the country and the government desired the rebels to lay down their arms and be decapitated.

Mark Hanna should use every endeavor to stop the formation of trusts until after the convention nominates.

The Egyptian question will not be taken dp In the French Chamber of Deputes until Thursday. France has an excellent opportunity t<# make a great deal of trouble for herself within the next few months. If she should endeavor to meddle in the Egyptian affairs she would not only Involve herself in serious trouble, but precipitate a grave crisis throughout Europe. Any one of the powers could have brought on a general war several times during the past year, but there is a temporary satisfaction at least In their evident reluctance to do so. Several times during the Chtoo-Jap&nese war the danger seemed Imminent, again In the recent Transvaal Incident there was a good chance for Germany to take the initiative, and this Nile expedition touches more or less Intimately the relations of all the powers.

It does not now appear that England is entirely Isolated. Agitators, who are accustomed to malign the United States Supreme Court ae being on tha side of corporations, etc., should make a careful study of the recent railroad decisions.

A few hundred carpenters of Chicago have gone on •trike for an. eight-hour day. Is this the first echo of the Indianapolis conference?

It ia amusing, but not very nterestlng, to see how anxious the ihayor and the sheriff are that the other shall do hia full duty to preventing open and serious violation of law. Now, If both men belonged to the same party?

Ravag-m of Absinthe. Weituotoster Gazette. M. Rochefort’s recent advocacy of ternperanca has directed attention to the consumption of absinthe to France, end some startling statements in connection therewith are being mode. Men, as a rule, take the absinthe diluted In water, sipping it slowly. But the women, to the consternation of the doctors, insist as a rule on drinking it "neat," with most terrible results to their constitutions. The number of brilliant men whom France has lost through the abuse of the opalescent but poisonous fluid, from the great poet Alfred de Musset, who used to be picked: up drunk and half dead every night in the streets, down to the celebrated artist and caricaturist. Andre Gill, Is simply appalling. An idea of the extent of the evil may be gathered from the recent returns of the ministry of finance, which show that at the present moment there is a marchand de vln, or French absinthe seller, to every three houses to the French metropolis. i Feeble Spite. The Arcadian. The Indianapolis News has been boycotted by Dickson & Talbott, the theater magnates of Indianapolis. The News, however, Is still published at the old stand and Dickson & Talbott are giving The News considerable free advertising through the other Indianapolis dallies. It’s a pewter dollar to a doughnut that The News will live on when these theaters and the chicken-coop arcade, running from Virginia avenue to Washington street, are only mere matters of history. Coantlagr Chlokens Before Hatching Marion Chroaicle. The Indianapolis News of Friday has pictures of the fifteen Republican candidates for Governor, with a short biographical sketch of each. They are not as good-looking as a base-ball nine or a college foot-ball team, but they’ll do. To elect the Republican nominee for Governor this year will be a mere matter of form. Absolute Proof at Last. Somerville Journal. Mrs. Atherton—The Walsinghams have a dinner service that has been In their family for more than a hundred years. Mrs. Beckwith—There! I always knew that the Walsinghams, before the present generation, were too poor ever to keep 1 servant*.

Wave-Cradled. W* **11 toward evening’s lonely star. That tnzmb. -z in the tender blue; One single cloud, a dusky bar Burnt with dull carmine through and through. Slow smoldering In the •rummer sky. Dies low along the fa ling west; H..w sweet to watch Its splendors die, Wave-cradled thus and wind-caressedI The soft breeze freshens; leap* the spray To kiss our cheeks with sudden cheer. Vpen the dark edge of the bay Light-houses kindle far and near. And through the warm deep* of the sky Steal faint star-cluster*, while we rest In deep refreshment, thou and 1, Wave-cradled thus and wind-caressed. How like a dream are earth and heaven. Star-beam and darkness, sky and **ea; Thy face, pale In the shadowy even. Thy quiet eyes that gaze on me! O realize the moment’s charm. Thou dearest! We are at life's beat. Enfolded In God’s circling arm. Wave-cradled thus and wind-caressed. —Pel la Thaxter. An ORl Love Song. Thrice toss these oaken ashes In the air. Thrios sit thou mute In thy enchanted ebalr; And thrice three times tie up thy trurtove's knot. And murmur soft, '‘She will or she will not! Go burn these poisonous weed# In yon blue lire. These screech owl’s feathers and the prickling briar: The cypress gathered at a dead man’s grave. Then all rhy fears and cares an end may have. Then come, you fairies, dance with me a round! Melt her hard heart with your melodious sound! In vain are all the charms I can devises (she halh an art to break them with her eye*. —Thomas Campion. « SCRAPS. «

When terrified the ostrich travels at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour. The output of coal from the mine* of India yeaily is nearly S.ooo.DOO tons. Over 600,000 cattle are slaughtered yearly for the manufacture of beef extracts. Five-sixths of the men at Oxford and Cambridge Universities are teetotalers. The feeding expenses of the animals in the London Zoo are over $25,000 each

year.

In England and Wales upward of 60,000 persons per annum die from tuberculous diseases alone. Fright at the upsetting of a lamp by a pet d»g resulted in the sudden death of James Price, of Pottsville, Pa. , The woolen factories of this country are mostly located in New England, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. “Better times now,” said the tramp as an old gentleman handed him ten flvecent pieces; *T feel the change."—Texas Siftings. — A Boston paper says that there Is more steel used in the manufacture of pens than there is in all the gun and sword factories of the world. * A Pittsburg trolley conductor refused to accept a Columbian half-dollar and ejected the passenger, who got a verdict for $100 against the company. Lady Customer (in china shop)—Do you break these sets? Dealer—No, madam; the purchasers’ servants usually attend to that.—London Tit-Bits. Mrs. Potter Palmer reports that the tenth annual charity ball In Chicago yielded $16,860 for the cause. The expense* were $3,389 and tha receipt* $20.The curfew bell Is gradually becoming extinct In England. Last October, for instance, the authorities of Sandwich decided to discontinue the pleasing old cus-

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Fannie—I have told you again and again not to speak when other persons were talking, but wait until they stop. ’Tve tried that already, mamma. They never atop.” —Woonsocket Reporter. \ Through the labors of Amen Jung Kin Chun, an Intelligent Christian Chinaman of Pittsburg, a Chinese Young Men’s Christian Association Is soon to be organized In the Smoky City. Fat Lady (in the park)—I am going to ride on one of the donkeys, and I'll pay for one for you If you like to accompany me. Small Boy—Thankee, mum, but I’d rather sit here and laugh.—Pearson’s Weekly. Mr. Gotham (of New York)—I am never so happy as when I am to Philadelphia. Mr. Qruay-Kerr (of Philadelphia)—I am so pleased to hear you say so. Mr. Gotham— Yes; I am so happy I don’t have to live here.—Puck. Three Viennese tourists have fallen from the Martlnswand on the Rax Alps by the Semmerlng Pass, being the first victims of the 1896 Alpine season. Snow 130 feet deep from an avalanche had to be cleared away to reach the bodies. George Eliot’s only memorial at Nuneaton, her native place. Is a steam fire engine named after her. Her admirers, who do not like the association with a fire extinguisher, wish to substitute a free public library in her name. The two youngest children of the Dowager Empress of Russia are devoted to music. The Grand Duchess Olga plays the violin remarkably well. Her brother, the Grand Duke Michael, age seventeen, loves to accompany her on the flute, while the Empress plays the piano. Not many years ago the FIJI islanders were considered Incapable of civilization; but last year these same men. gave nearly $25,000 to the cause of foreign missions. Orders have Just been sent to London for 5,000 Bibles, 6,000 hymn books and 6,000 catechisms, to be sold to the Fiji islands. Among the answers given by certain Chicago ‘high school pupils recently In an examination were the following: “New York was settled by the duck of York, and Pennsylvania by the English Quackers”; ‘‘Hie earth is a sphere, because. If It were fiat we would fall off the end of It if we walked that way”; “The Declamtion of Independence was a document draw® up by Abraham Lincoln at the close of the Revolutionary War, giving freedom to the negroes.” It Is said that Dr Carver, of St. Augustine, Fla., Is living In the oldest house In the United States. It was built In 1562, and was occupied by Spanish monks before St. AugusUne was founded. In the house Dr. Carver has surrounded himself with a collection of antiquities connected with the history of Florida and the Span ish, who once ruled It, that is of itself a veritable museum. His collection of curiosities contains relics connected with the first Spanish settlers that date back Into Moorish history 1,000 years ago. Fishermen on the Newfoundland Banka had a very rough experience during the late storms, and some thrilling stories are being told in Maine ports. The schooner Nourmahal arrived at Portland a few days ago after a fisti ng trip lasting five weeks. During only four days of that time was it possible for men to leave the schooner to set trawls. One day six men succeeded one another at the wheel in fifteen minutes, every one being 1 compelled to quit after a minute or so, hi* eyes full of Ice particles and hte face partially frozen. Miss France* E. Willard is back in Chicago. after a lecture tour of live months through the South. She will sail fot England the latter part of April, to be present at the annual meeting of the British Woman’s Temperance Association. She will then visit Norway, after which she will return to this country. It Is the present intention of Miss Willard and Lady Henry Somerset to take a large company of women on a trip around the world next winter. They will visit every potentate and ruler of Importance In the world, and will present to each of them the mammoth petition against opium and

rum.

Japan, too, has keen explorers. The professor of astronomy in the University of Tekyo, Mr. Nomaka, accompanied by his wife, last October ascended Mt. Fujiyama, 13,000 feet high, to make meteorologioal observations in the course of the winter. A abort time ago word was received that the professor was dying, and a relief expedition was fitted out. With great difficulty the members of the expedition reached the snqw-covered hut. Professor Nomaka was found to be exceedingly weak and unable to. move, but his wife had suffered no evil results from the exposure. Nomaka was uken back to Tokyo, but he declares he will return next winter, and his wife says she will

accompany him again.

In Uie researches he made while gathering statistics for his book on colonial furniture, the late Dr. Lyon came across a curious legend about the introduction of mahogany Into England. It seems that a Dr. Gibbon, who was a London physician early in the seventeenth century, had

some mahogpiy

planks Imported from

West Indies with the idea of grinding th up for use eta a substitute for Peruvian bark, *hlch was just gaining vogue as a medicine. Finding the wood unserviceable aa a medicine, he had a cabinet-maker construct a box of one of the planks, and the beautiful grain of the wood pleased him so that he had a bureau made of the same material. All London flocked to see It, and the wood came into Immediate

a*f qttfing furqitve-makers.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

A. B. C.—Is there a premium on a dime of 1873? A—No. R. B. C.—Is there a premium on a halfdollar of 1839? A,-No. Carthage-What is a half dollar of 1M0 worth? A.—No premium. ShelbyvlHe-^You should consult a lawyer. The News does not answer legal questions. Haughville—From what source do the city police draw their pay, from the city or State? A.-City. Carthage—Write to J. W. Scott Company (Ld.), No. 40 John street, New York, for Information about stamps and coins. J. S. M. E.—This inquirer is evidently a school boy, who will profit greatly by looking up answers to his own questions. Carmel—Give the address of Mr. White* who recently bought $1,500,000 of Government bonds? A.—Abraham White, Boston. C. H.—State when and where Jefferson Davis died and at what age. A.—New Orleans. December 6, 1889. He was bom June 3, 1808. R. J.—Does any one remember an old negro song that was In vogue forty or fort)-five years ago called ‘ Old Bob Ridley” ? This correspondent ia anxious to get North Salem—Does the president of the Senate appoint the committees? A.—No. A committee of the majority of the Senate arranges the standing committees and reports its action to the Senate, which can approve or reject. L O. A.—(1) How is the name of the composer Beethoven pronounced? (1) Was Beethoven blind and known as the "Blind Composerr’ A—(1) Bay-tu-ven, with accent on first syllable. (2) No; but he lost bis hearing. Handel became blind. Hadley—<1) Does the United States coin silver dollars now? (2) Was the paper money, issued before the resumption of specie payment, redeemable in gold and silver? A—(X) Yes. (2) Yes, whenever the government was ready to redeem. B. B.—Give date of the exposition to be held soon to Tennessee. A.—It I* to be at Nashville, but can not give date or tell more about It. Our impression is that it Is to be held some time this year, which la the centennial year of Tennessee’s admission to the Union. Oblige and others—Several inquirers have lately askg^ questions which had already been answered. We repeat that legal questions and mathematical problems will under no circumstances be answered. Several of both kinds of Inquiries have been received this week. Franklin—State the population of Indianapolis, Evansville, Ft. Wayne and Terre Haute. A—Indianapolis (in 1890),• 106.436; estimated population in directory for 1896. 169,166. According « the census of 1890 th* population of Evansville was 50,766; that of Ft. Wayne. 35,393; that of Terre Haute, 30,217. G. A. M.—(1) Who are the directors of the May Musical Festival? (2) What is the meaning of “les miserabies”? A.— (1) Major Taylor, F. L. Mayer, W. T. Barnes, Clemens Vonnegut, Jr., A. J. -Beveridge, Hewitt, H. Howland, Albrecht Kipp, Charles C. Perry and O. R. Johnson. (2) The miserable. Carmel—Must farmers pay $5 license on a wagon If they haul wheat and hogs to market? A—Farmers who only semi-oc* caslonally come to town are not required to take out a license. But hucksters and farmers who come to town daily and transact business on the market In other ways are required to pay $6 a year for a double team and for a stogie one-horse vehicle SB. Spencer—Are overcoats ever made shorter than undercoats in America. A.—They are not made shorter to be shorter than an undercoat,, but, properly, to wear over a sack coat. They are sometimes worn over dress coats, the toils of which show beneath the Overcoat. These garments are called top coats or Covert coats, the latter from the goods of which they are commonly made. Elwood—(1) Are any of the Pottawatomie Indians still residing in the State? (2) Is there a premium on cents of 1853 with daggers on each side of date? A.—<1) Very few; and these are hardly distinguishable as Pottawatomles. The civilized Indians remaining in the State numbered, in 1890, 343. These were distributed as follows: Allen county, 48; Miami county, 97; Wabash county, 94; other counties, ten or less In each. 78. Of these more are dt« seendants of the Miamis than of any other tribe. (2) No. Henrietta—(1) What languages are Included; under modern languages? (2) Is there a place in this city or State where one may fit oneself to be a teacher ot modern languages? A.—(1) Any language that Is spoken to-day is a modern l%nguago, although German, French/ Italian ard Spanish are generally meant when tha term is used by a person who speaks English habitually. (2) To fit yourself properly for teaching modern languages, you should study them abroad, or else with educated natives of the countries. C. W. S.—(1) Who Is the author of the lines— “I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms In air, I only know I can not drift Beyond His love and care.” (2) Can you print the poem in which this verse occurs: "The diver must dare the commotion Of billows about him that swirl. Ere he from the depths of the ocean Can bring up the peart.” P think It is by Mrs. Margaret J. Preston. A.—John G. Whittier. It Is from his "The Eternal Goodness,” which Is too long for reproduction here. (2) This does not occur in the two volumes of Mrs. Preston’s poems accessible to the library. Perhaps some one can direct us to the poem. — o Bouquet mid Thank*. Lafayette Herald. Rooker, the wife murderer at Indianapolis, who was acquitted by a jury of his peers a few weeks ago, is to be tried on a charge of assault with intent to kill another woman. His attorney advised him to ask for a change of venue, which he has done. He doesn’t seem to be satisfied with the former verdict, and expects that If he can be tried in another county the Jury will not only acquirhlm, but will give him a bouquet and a vote of thanks.

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