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VOL. XXXV-NO. 11. INDIANAPOLIS. AVEDNESDAY. APRIL 24. 1889. ONE DOLLAR TER YEAR.

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ALL IS FAIR IN LOVE Belgrsria. Rupert and Roland were, up to the day vhen they became bitter enemies, the very greatest friends. Thero were many reasons for this friendship in addition to the usual one of similarity of tastes and pursuits. They had known each other from their infancy, they went to the same school, and when the idleness of school was exchanged for the toil and labor of preparing for an examination, they chose the same coach and took the same subjects. They both failed in their attempt at "Woolwich, in the tame year, and both euc-ee-ded in the Sandhurst examination in the next. And though they chose different regiments, they had both the Fame club; both had ä good deal of "leave," and eo they still saw each other a great deal, and it was generally in each other's society that they played billiards looked at burlesques or ballets, and joined the other sports and pastimes of town or country. And then, ain, the idea that the army was a bore occurred to each pimultaneous'.y, and Rupert had not retired to civilian ease more than a fortnight before lloland followed his example. This friendship, it must be remembered, was in no way of the romantic or sentimental kind; our friends did not suggest Pylades and Urestes or Damon and Pythias to the beholder anxious for classical parallels, and if either liujert or Koland had read "Cicero de Amicitia" he would have been much surprised at what he found there, The friendship was practical and English by which epithets a' superior solidity based upon common sense was supposed to te indicated. But solid as the friendship was, the time came when it broke up Altogether, not drifting slowly into indifference the common iate of such attachments but being converted into actual dislike, and on one side, at least, into absolute hatred. The cause of this difference was, ot course, the great disturbing element in all times, das ewige Weib. They both fell in love with the same girl. And if there could be any excuse for a breach of friendship, Hiss Alice Hetherington might be taken as an ample apology. Those who a few years ago danced and dined in the great world can hardly have forgotten that younsr lady, as she flitted about the drawinz rooms of Mayfair and I!elrravia, under the protecting wing of Lady Heavytop. Alice had everything or nearly everything that a younjr lady ought to have who wants to make a brilliant marriage. In the first place she was very rich. Like the lady in the song, "she had gold and she bad land," and there was great heaps of the gold, and in the corner of the land was a hi? black coal mine, where hundreds of men worked and made Alice richer and richer every day. And then the young lady was 60 pretty. Her features were as regular as her habits, and her admirers could dissert their admiration and find mouth and nose and chin all perfect and faultless. And then her intelligence! the took in all the reviews and real most of them when she had time. She was quite accomplished, too, and plaved the piano "as well as most professionals," poo.etiaid, and sane divinely her tup C being a wonder of nature not unassisted by art and her waltzing, and her graceful manners, and her smile so bewitching and adorable who could resist all these? Her parentage was, it must be admitted, a little obscure ; but tben her parents were dead, which made all the diilerence. Her father had, it was believed, worked in the coal mine I have mentioned; but that was years before Alice was bom. And then the young lady had never known much of either of her parents, who Lad both materially assisted her chances of a brilliant marriage by their early retirement to a world where the society is not supposed to be so excessive. So it was no wonder that the young lady's society was eagerly courted, and that masculine enthusiasm could not exhaust itself in the semi-circular admiration of drawing rooms, but boldly rushed on to positive proposals, verbal and epistolorv. Alice showed all the letters to Lady Heavytop, w ho kissed her fervently on both cheeks, and assisted her to indite tbeletters of refusal, kind and at the same time firm firm enough to crush all hope and kind enough to show the delicate feelings of the writer. "Alice has had many offers, but the right man hasn't turned up yet," Lady lleavvtop confided to a friend. "With all her advantages, I look for something quite brilliant." Then it was that our two friends appeared on the scene, and her ladyship became all attention to the signs of incipient entanglement. For either of the two would bo a suiter to be thought of seriously. "Sir Roland Kghara and Sir Rupert 5-taines, dear," said her ladyship in one of her confidential chats, in which she dealt out the wisdom which was to be a light to Alice's path ; "they are both eligible, most eligible. When I say both, of course I mean either." (Alice had smiled.) "I hope one or the other will really come forward." The wort ot it was they both came forward, and simultaneously. Alice was in no hurry to decide between them ; she liked them both, they were Imth eligible, which was the main thing, and they were both gooddooking as men go: and they had both been in the army, and Alice was as fond of the "military" as a nurse-maid. Most young ladies are, for reasons which Lave not been communicated to the writer of this story. Only here Sir Rupert had a slight advantage, for he had been in action, and had actually seen two men killed. Of course, Alice's mind wouldn't have remained long in suspense; what ehe called her heart, assisted by the couneels of Lady Heavytop, whould have derided itself, but before that fond and fluttering organ could speak, the quarrel I have mentioned blazed out between the two friends. For each thought be was concealing the state of his feelings from everybody, and each meditated confiding the sacred secret to his chosen friend. Then, when the truth was evident, each felt the other had betrayed the confidences which he had meant to confide in him. Ho there was a soreness between the two, which an attempt to be very clever brought into a positive quarrel. It came about in thin wise: The two friends, having danced attendance, both literally and figuratively, on Miss Hetherington during the season, continued their dance on the green turf of Goodwood, and then followed her to Co wes. From thence the young lady was going to Homburg, while our two friends were expected in Scotland on the 12th. As the time drew near, a vague suspicion stole into the mind of each. "You haven't altered your plans, Rupert. I suppose," said the other doubtfullv. "Vlans! Oh, for the 12th? Xo, I supjx I shall go." "I had some trouble to get you the inritation. There are plenty of fellows who would give both their ears to shoot Lord Eiarwig's moors." "Of coarse I am cot going to decline

now, though I am getting a little tired of the everlasting grouse. You are going north with me, Roland, I suppose?" Rupert said this a little doubtfully, too. "No, I think not," was the reply, "if you will excuse me. I want to go up a day or so before to arrange one or two things with Lord Bigwig's agent. I'll join you at Perth." Sir Robert was delighted to hear this, though he managed to dissemble his joy. Ivoland was going to leave him at least one clear day with the heiress. Perhaps more than one, for it was not after all absolutely necessary he should be on the moors on the morning of the 12th. It was rather bad not to be there, certainly, but he would be-guidedby events. He said nothing further, but when the time came he paw Sir Roland off cafe on board the Southampton steamer, and even then gave no sign of his delight. Then he bought a huge basket of roses and waited till the Mermaid was on the station, when he took a shore boat and went out to her. (The Mermaid is Lord Tuftie's eplerdid yacht, and Lord Tuftie and Lady Heavytop are cousins, and so it came about that he had had the privilege of having Alice as his guest ) Ixtrd Tuftie nodded a greeting as the young man arrived alongside with his large basket of flowers. "Meant for the ladies, old fellow, I suppose," he said. "l.ut I've just landed them at Southampton, to catch the train for London en route for Homburg, you know. Your fidus Achates went up by the same train. Sir Rupert clambered on board, feeling very disgusted. It was quite evident now why Sir Roland had gon away, and the thought that he at that identical moment was almost certainly sitting opposite to her in " the railway carriage, talking while she smiled responsively, and Lady Heavytop nodded and dozed in the other corner exasperated him horribly. He found some consolation in characterizing his friend's conduct as infamous, and the expressions "mean excuse," "shabby trick," repeated over and over to himself, relieved him wonderfully. He had accepted Lord Tuftie's invitation to dinf aboard, but I am afraid his lordship did not find him an agreeable companion. Throughout the dinner he was tracking the train on its way to London, more than ever exasperated as he remembered that the southwestern expresses are verv slow. And the huge basket of roses, which had taxed all the floral resources of Cowes, seemed dreadfully silly on thetablo round which there were only mustachiod faces. Rut it was some comfort to think that he would see Sir Roland he thought of him now with the title prefixed to his name in a day or two, and be able to tell him what he thought of his paltry subterfuge. This idea consoled him out of the island and up to Huston and into the Scotch express, which was carrying men and guns on to Caledonia's heathery moors. Rut at Ruggy an idea struck him, an idea which made the set features of his face rel ix into something like a smile. He would not co to Scotland, but immediately follow Miss Hetherington to Homburg. For his friend's treachery, he felt, had released him from whatever obligation might attach to his promi-e which was not really a promise after all. "1 know Roland is-ceverer-haa I am, much cleaverer, no doubt," he said to himself, "but this time I'll trump his best card. I am sure she likes me better than him; but he always comes in to spoil my chance, though he hasn't any of his own. This time he won't be in the way." This idea had fully matured in his mind and was ri;e for execution before the train stopped at Crewe. So he jumped out then, leaving guns and everything, but Iiis dressing-case to go to Scotland, and took the train southward. He got back to London in time enough to g?t the Flushing lxat that evening, and the next night he slept in the Hotel d'Angleterro at Homburg. As he took his coffee the next morning he chuckled to himself as he thought of the stratagem by which he was to outdo the rival baronet. With the smile still on his face he strolled to Lady Heavy top's hotel, and there, mirahi'e dlctu, he saw Sir Roland., The astonishment was mutual, and so was the disgust. "You here. Sir Roland?" he said, with an emphasis on the prefix. "The fact is," said the other, "I've been a little seedy lately, and I consulted a swell doctor. He told . me Homburg would be just the thing for me, and so here I am. I am going to take the treat uient. You got my telegram at Perth ?" Sir Rupert did not reply for some time. Then, with a stern voice, imitating as well as he could the tones of an Adelphi hero confronting an Adelphi villain, he said: "Sir Roland, our friendship is over. But you shall answer to me at some fitting time and place for this deception." And then he went off" to his hotel and sulked all the morning, till the hour of nntta-sesen gave another turn to his idea. Rut though eating and drinking consoled him for atim he was still furious with his former friend, and inly revolved all sorts of schemes for revenge. Nothing practicable presented itself, and he regretted his want of originality for the first time in his life. Rut a deeper wrong was in store for him. Next day he m?t Lady Heavytop and her fair charge and Alice smiled sweetly on him, for she had by no means decided in favor of Roland, though his star was in the ascendant, as she remarked to Lady Heavytop, who smiled approbation. Rupert spoke of the theater a company was coming to Homburg to give a few nights of comic opera, nd Alice said she would like to see Gasparone. "May I offer you a box?" he 6aid to Lady Heavytop. Her ladyship smiled assent, and Rupert was happy most of all in the thought that Roland had heard the invitation given and accepted. Rut when, some hours later, he presented himself at the box otfice of tho theater a great disappoint ment was in store for him. Every box in the theater had Ix-en taken for the particular night on which "(Jasparone" was to be p'ayed. He could hardly understand the feeble English of the man in the box otfice, but as far as he could gather the boxes had been taken by some one acting on behalf of the prince of Wales, who was coming to Hornburg. Rut he learued that the places had been taken only an hour before. He spent the afternoon in concocting a suitable letter of regret and explanation, the composition of which was rendered more difhcult by the fact that he bad forgotten to bring his pocket dictionary with him from England. The next day he received a note from the box-keeper to say that the gentleman who had taken the boxes only required two and that the rest would be offered to the public That was on the morning of the performance, and he hastened to secure the last remaining box and to write to Lady Heavytop. A brief note came in reply, thanking him for the offer, but declining it. Another box had been offered previously and accepted. Full of bewilderment and disquietude, ßir Rupert went early to the theater and sat in solitary

state in his box. Right opposite to him two boxes had been knocked into one, and llowers and more elaborate curtains indicated the expected coming of some highly honored visitor. Sir Rupert was puzzled the Prince of Wales had not arrived at Hornburg. Whom could the preparations be for? He had just about ten minutes to solve the problem in, and he didn't do it. The solution was forced on him, and the poor fellow became almost livid with jealousy and mad with rage. For there he saw Sir Roland lead in Lady Heavytop and htr. And he took his seat between the two ladies, who smiled and beamed on him. They were evidently delizhted with the arrangements that had been made in their honor. As if anybody else couldn't have done as much, or more, if he had only thought of it. Sir Rupert's position in the box opposite was almost intolerable, but he bore it as bravely as he could. Sir Roland saw him, and nodded, and smiled an insulting smile. The ladieä saw him and bowed, but did not look across again, though his eyes were riveted to their box. Not the slightest movement escaped him. He sav that Alice was not paying much attention to the piece, but was listening to the conversation of her cavalier. "She wants to hear the music," he 6aid to himself, "but that fellow won't let her." Sir Roland was as lively as possible, laughed a good deal and very loud. Rupert had always thought his laugh unpleasantly loud, now he thought it disgusting, and fell back for consolation on a well-known proverb. An interview with the boxkeeper between the acts showed Sir Rupert the full extent of the treachery of his former friend, and he left the theater with a wild resolve that he would not sleep till he had got some sort of reparation ; for he had learned that it was Roland who had bought up all the boxes in the theater to prevent him from fulfilling his promise. He waited some time at Roland's rooms, maddened by the thought that the gallant baronet must bo having supper w ith the ladies at their hotel. "I will wait till midnight, if necessary," he said, "but I will see him." He hadn't long to wait. Germans keeD very early hours, and long before 10:30 he had poured out a torrent of invective in the presence of his former friend. He concluded with a demand for "satisfaction," and insisted that there must be a "meeting." Roland hardly listened to all this tirade; he took up a book and glanced at it from time to time while the other spoke. "When you are talking such nonsense," he said, "you niut allow me to look at the German irregular verbs. Let me recommend you study of the German tongue. It will teach you patience, and even a slight knowledge of it may be useful. 1 found it so to-night." The other started off on a fresh tirade, with "satisfaction" and "hostile meeting" very prominent throughout. "Nonsense again," said Sir Roland, imperturbably. "I dare say you wish me out of the way. Perhaps the sentiment is mutual. But we can't fight. Dueling is antiquated for Englishmen." "Rut we are in Germany." "That makes no difference; 3011 couldn't find any German second-, and no En

glishman would act for you." TrTTuirr have to deny ourselves the pleasure of cutting each other's throats." Sir Rupert raged and fumed and swore, but the other was deep in his "Otto." "Here is an idea," he said at last, "if you are thirsting for my gore. Let me read you an extract. 'An apothecary, having without intention insulted a young officer, was summoned by the, la ter to a duel. Arrived at the place of meeting, the apothecary took from Iiis pocket a small pill-box. 'Meine Herren,' he said, 'I can neither shoot nor fight, but have provided myself with a means of satisfying the claims of honor. This pill-box holds two pills, the one harmless, the other containing a mortal poison. Lot the Herr lieutenant choose which of the two he prefers; I solemnly promise to take the other.' When the apothecary's proposition had been heard, all joined in hearty laughter. the young lieutenant mo.-t of all, and the affair terminated. Now there's an idea for you. You said just now you would cut my throat with pleasure, "and have vour own cut with pleasure, only a little less. Now, if we go out and don't do any cutting to speak of, we shall be laughed at in every ciub in London and Miss Hetherington will think us rediculous. Now this plan obviates all that. One of us will have to join the majority, and the other will remain quite well, and without the bad feeling of having killed some one. However, I don't suppose you will accept the proposal. Few people are as anxious to get out of the world as they sometimes pretend. So leave mo to my irregular verbs. "Rut I do accept the proposal," the other cried hotly. Sir Roland stared in astonishment. "You don't mean that you agree serious'y?" "I do, on condition of entire secrecy." "Then come to-morrow night, and I will have the pills rea ly. Now, let me go to bed the irregular verbs I was going to learn won't do me much good if 1 am destined to take poison to-morrow." After a few more words Sir Rupert went away, already alarmed at his own daring in accepting such a plan of settlement, but determined to carry it through. When he was gone, his rival sat for a while thinking. Then he burstout laughing. "Rupie is a greater fool than I ever thought him," he said. Then he worked at irregular verbs for an hour, and finally went to bed. When Sir Rupert arrived the next evening, he looked very grave. "1 have come," he said, "to carry out the arrangement." "Seriously, you mean it." "Seriously, I do." "Then I shall not back out here are the pills." He took two boxes, each containing a pill, from a drawer. "The one in my right hand," he said, "is the poison one. You see in appearance they are exactly alike. Now I empty them both into this wine-glass and shake the glass. Now, can you tell which is which? "No, but perhaps you can." Sir Rupert said this doubtfully, for it seemed impossible tosee any difference between them. "Well, then," Paid Sir Roland, "you shall chose opne for me to take. I will take it first and you shall have the other. Is it agreed ?" Sir Rupert handed a pill over to the other, who swallowed it in silence. "You shall see me take it," he said, "but mav I write a letter first?" "Certainly." There was a few minutes' scribbling, and Sir Roland spoke : "Sir Rupert,'' he said, "the pill you have must be the poisonous one, otherwise I should hardly be living now. I might insist on your carrying out the arrangement, but I had much rather that you didn't. I only ask that you should

go right away somewhere. If you take the pill now, knowing it is the w rong one, you are really committing suicide." Sir Rupert hesitated for a long time, gazing now at his rival, now at the pill left alone in the wineglass. At last, with a deep sigh, he eai J: "I throw up the pon?e. You have beaten. I will not take the pill yet. Rut I will leave vou a free field. And I will take the pill witii me in case in case I want it I will quit Homburg to-morrow early." The next morning brought a brief note. "You will not see me again. I shall go to Texas or Colorado, or somewhere there, and shoot. Perhaps be shot, who knows?" The reading of this letter gave an additional flavor to Roland's early breakfast. "I have shaken him off at last," he said. And he remembered with pleasure that he would, meet Miss Hetherington that morning. Nearly five years afterward the two rivals met again in Piccadilly. Each looked notes of interrogation at the other, but they shook hands and agreed to dine together. Over the dinner-table Rupert narrated his adventures to Roland, who had not heard cf him since their parting. There was much talk of cow-boys, ranches and big shots, but the main thing was he was married. "I picked up a very nice girl, pretty and an heiress," he said briefly. "I am bringing her over here for the first time. I am awful fond of her, you know. And how do you get on with Alice?'' "With Alice?" "You are married, are you not?" "Yes, I am; but not to Miss Hetherington. A young Marquis came along the day you left and cut me out And I am not sorry now." There was an interval of silence, to break which Rupert produced from his Socket the identical pill-box in which he ad taken away the pill he had not wished to take. "There it is," he said, "the pill is still there. I thought I would bring it along to-night and show you." To his horror his friend calmly swallowed the globule and drank some water. "Good heavens! what are you doing?" Rupert cried out. The other laughed. "My dear fellow," he said, "neither of the pills was poisonous. They were both the same dinner pills. I only wanted to get you away." Rupert looked a little mortified. "It wouldn't do to play such tricks in Texas," he said. "Rut as you didn't marry Alice after all, I will forgive you." And so the dinner went on more and more harmoniously, and near the end of it Roland remarked in confidence that they had had a lucky escape in not marrying Miss Hetherington. "She is growing fat and coarse-looking, and they say the marquis is horribly henpecked." And Rupert confided to his friend that in his opinion American girls were nicer than their English sisters livelier, and not so conventional. "Wait till you l ave seen my wife," returned Sir Roland. And by this time ine dinner w as finished, the friendship was cemented more firmly than ever, and as they drove up Piccadilly in the same hansom afterward, both made a rather discordant but still fairly successful attempt to sing "Auld Lang Syne."

THE PRESIDENT'S SALARY. How It Compare With the I'ny of Crowned Heads and Other Magistrates. Boston Globe. The sole income of the president of the United States, from the treasury, is his salary of J.lo.O'X a year. He draws it at the rate of ll.ltji.; a month. This is a fraction more thaa &i! a week and $10Oeach for six working days. Until Grant's time presidents lived on half this salary. Experience has shown that the present sum is large enough to cover the expenses of the most extravagant households and leave a comfortable balance in the purse of a presidential faniilv of moderate ideas. Yet there is not another magistrate at the head of any people exceeding the number of ten millions who does not receive a larger salary thaa the august, potent and todiug president of the United States. The shah of Tenia, who has nothing to do except boss several hundred wives, is in the emjoyment of $30,UU0,0U0 a year. Then there is the czar of Russia, whose chief duty is to keep from being blown up. He is paid something like $10,000,000 yearly. The dignified king of Siani gets along on alike sum. The royal family of poor, miserable Spain receives $3,'öKi.UUU every year, and Italians sleep out of doors and eat nothing but iuaccaroni to make, up a purse of .V,W0')0 and more for their royalties. Such figures as these console the British people somewhat for their annual outlay, under specific laws, of $2,015,000 on Victoria and her family, to say nothing of indirect eitortions anil perquisites. That reiormed pirate of the seas, the sultan of Morocco, is slightly compensated for his self-denial by on annual allowance of $2,500,- (), and the mikado of Japan receives $2,300,0(H). The khediveof Eaypt draws $1,575,000 horn the substance of that tax-ridden land, while the llohenzollerns content tiemselves with a yearly tribute of $1,125,000 from the Prussian empire. Even the sultan of cottonclouted Zanzibar pockets a million a year, and $700,000 are wrung from the Saxons of Saxony, no more considerable aconitnunity than Illinois in population or Massachusetts in geographical area, by the reigning of monarch. Portugal, Sweden and Brazil earh spend about six hundred thousand dollar on their kings. The republic of France allows her chief magistrate only 1200,000, but little Hayti gives her president $240,000 a year. Switzerland's president comes the lowest of all the rulers of the earth. His salary is $3,000 a year. Married Twenty-Five Times. London Truth. 1 The following extract is taken from "Evelyn's Diary," and refers to a Dutch woman w ho lived in the seventeenth century : "Toward the end of August I returned to Haarlem. They showed us a cottage where they told us dwelt a woman who had been married to her twentyfifth husband, and, being now a widow, was prohibited to marry in the future; yet it could not be proved that she had ever made away with any of her husbands, though the suspicion Lad brought her divers times into trouble." Got the Quarter. N. Y. Weekly. Dude (to chance acquaintance) "That shabby-looking fellow is making right for us. ltet he wants to borrow money. He, bei I'll get ahead of him. Please, sir, can't you lend me a quarter or a dime to get something to eat?" Shabby Fellow "Certainly." (hands oat a quarter.) "Now, young man, if you are through begging of this gentleman I would like to speak to him. He is one of the depositors in my bank." The Attractive Hall Player. Boston Herald.) "It is now or never with me, Charley. Delays are dangerous at this season of the year, and I've made up my mind to propose to Miss bimpkins this very evening." Charley "Delays are dangerous! What do you mean by that?" "Why, stupid, the ball season opens pretty soon, and if I don't nail her now she'll get mashed on a ball player." A Natural. Mistake. Philadelphia Record. J Dentist (to patron) "I am through, sir. What are yon waiting for?"' ' Half-murdered patient (confusedly) "I I Iras waitiDg for pay."

STATE FINANCES AND THE TAX LEVY.

Some Facts and Figure Which Tell Their Own Story. To the Editor S r: There is alamentable amount of ignorance displayed in the discussion of the financial condition of the state, or else the statements made are inspired by malice and a desire to make party capital. Those who are seeking to destroy the credit of the state and injure its fair fame can take either horn of the dilemma in which their statemenu place them. What are the facts? For years the ordinary current expenses of the state have varied very little from ?UH,0oO not 50 cents for every inhabitant of the state. Last year, to be exact, they were $1,021,242.07. Of course, I do not include the interest on the public debt, the special appropriations and the amounts paid the colleges. But, including these, the total payments out of the general fund lat year were only 51,6,872.07, as follows : Current expenses an above 1,021.2-12 07 State university and normal school 'J5,hw 00 Additional hospitals and orphans' home 222.423 7 Soldiers' monument 7,'.V.3 64 Interest on Ute debt S1G,2:W 29 In the face of these figures Ian at a loss to understand how Mr. Butler can say that the twelve-cent tax levy is "only half sufficient to pay the running expenses of the state." The revenue derived from the twelve-cent levy last year and the insurance fees and taxes was was $l,ll,OiK).87, and from all sources the receipts of the general fund were $1,357,661,21. This amount was nearly sufficient to pay all the ordinary expenses and the interest, as will appear by adding the amount of the ordinary expenses as found above, $1,021,242.07, to the amount paiil for interest, $340,'i,'Sti.29, a total of $1,307,478.30, or only .',S17.15 more than the tax revenue aud other annual receipts. Why, then, was it necessary to borrow $3 10,000 last year? may be asked. This is easily answered. The extraordinary expenses for new institutions and additions to the old ones have run up the liabilities of the treasury above the yearly receipt1. I have already stited the amount of these extraordinary expenses for the last fiscal year, but I will itemize them: Additional hospitals lo'sae ...... .. Soldiers' orphans' home Frvble minded (furnishiüg).......M tl44.72fi 07 69,470 &l 6,26 17 Total. 222,425 07 And in addition, for soldiers monument, $7.968.64. It can easily be shown that for years the twelve-cent levy, together with the other ordinary yearly receipts of the general fund, have more than paid all the ordinary expenses of the state government and the interest. The fact is that the general fund, with only a twelve-cent levy, has contributed largely to the building of the state-house aud to the additional hospitals for the insane, and at the same time appropriations were paid out of it for necessary improvements for the other institutions. Any one with a thimbletull of brains can take the auditor's reports for years past and see that the twelve-cent levy has been amply sufficient for all purposes, except extraordinary expenditures. Then, when these extraordinary expenses were authorized, why was not the tax levy increased? and who is to blame? will be the natural inquiry. The trouble commenced when the legislature authorized the building of three new insane hospitals, in March, 1883. Gov. Porter allowed the bill to become a law with out his signature. It appropriated $000,000, and provided for a non-partisan board, with the governor as president, h-e to appoint the board. I have always maintained that the six-hundred-thousand dollar appropriation was a limitation on the power of the board, and plans should have been adopted to correspond with it. But Gov. Porter and his board adopted plans requiring the expenditure of $1,500,000 to complete them. Member of all parties advocated and voted for the law. (iov. Porter knew that no additional tax levy had been made to provide for the payment of even $600,000, much leM for $1,"vK.(KK). Yet he went on with this extraordinary expenditure, and our financial woes commenced in the reign of I'orter, and he is mainly responsible for them. It is true that this extraordinary expense was partly provided for by a loan, but much of it has been paid out of the usual revenue of the state, and to complete them, part of the last proposed loan was to be applied. The next legislature of IS was compelled to make large appropriations for the insane hospital, in consequence of the fire, and this added additional burdens on the treastry. The legislature of 17, of unsavory memory, was swift to pass lanje appropriations, and made no effort to increase the tax levy to pay them. The house of representatives, where all revenue bids must originate, was republican, and if the ways and means committee even reported a bill to increase the levy, it took good care not to pass the bill through the house. The legislature made the following- extraordinary appropriation: Soldiers' moneraent $200,000 i'ol'iit-rs' orphans' home HT.OoO Feeble minded institution SO.OW Total. - .. . S367.U0J It will thus be seen that democrats and refiublicans, when they controlled the house, ailed to increase the tax levy, and one republican governor I'orter planned for expenditures far beyond the intent of the legislature, and each legislature since has added largely to the extraordinary appropriations. The fact is that both political parties are in the same boat, and either ignorance or wilful lying must account for the kettle calling the pot black. The only ground for controversy is as to which party is the most responsible for the present financial condition of the state. As a democrat, I have, and still maintain, that Gov. Porter pulled down the dam. But I can see no good in agitating the matter now. It is prudent that all lips should remain closed, except to maintain the credit and honor of the state, but if the republican papers think they can afford to continue the discussion as to responsibility, certainly the democratic papers will also be warranted in doing 60. Very few, if any, of the extraordinary appropriations for mx years ast could have been passed without repubican votes, and, as a matter of fact, th republican members all voted for them. This was especially true at the last session, as most of the large appropriations passed by an almost unanimous vote of the members in both branches. In the I.onn Constitutional? I have given a ßhort history of the financial history for 6ix years. Grant that the legislatures may not have done their duty in increasing the tax levy at the same time that thev passed large extraordinary appropriations. 1 think I have shown that the twelve-cent tax levy was sufficient, with other usual receipts, to pay the ordinary expenses and the interest. The extraordinary appropriations had to be met by an increased levy or a loan. The legislature preferred the latter, especially as the state's credit was so good as to secure loans at less than 3 per cent. There was not money enough in the treasury to pay ordinary expenses, interest and oUiyationt which had already been incurred by former legislatures. Any increase in the tax levy would not be available until the May settlements in 18!X). The legislature was confronted with a casual deficit already existing, and for which they were in no manner responsible. It was their solemn duty to provide for this deficit, so that the credit and good faith of the state could be maintained, and this should be done immediately. A Joan was authorized as the only means of prompt relief. The deficit existed and the legislature was the to t jwife of 'this fart. If the learned attorneygeneral has not taken this new of the situation, I hereby give Lira authority to use these suggestions. It may be that a larger loan was authorized than is necessary to pay obligations already incurred by former legislatures. But there was an immediate necessity for making some of the appropriations by the last legislature which could not be foreseen. The normal school at Terre Haute burned down last year. Must it remain in ruins and closed until an additional tax can be collected to rebuild it? The proposition is absurd. This appropriation makes a casual deficit. The constitution (pardon the reference) makes it the duty of the legislature to provide for the insane, the deaf and dumb and the blind. Would it been wise and would the legislature have done its duty if it had not provided for the immediate completion of the new hospital, and not allow them to continue to suffer great injury by the failure to complete and take care of them? No business man would so conduct his affairs If he bad the ability to borrow money. borne of the inmates at the blind institution

cannot be accommodated in the main building. I remember the earnestness w ith which a republican senator urged the passage of the appropriation for that institution. It is a remarkable fact that all the extraordinary appropriations made at the last session received

the unanimous vote of the republican ; members. 1 pive them credit for it and I ! know they will be the last to say anvtbinz ! about large appropriations. There were a few appropriations made that could wait for an additional tax levy notably, those for the two colleges but the largest part of the extraordinary appropriations were rendered necessary by the exigencies of the several institutions for which they were made. These could not he foreseen and the improvements hhould be made months before an additional tax levy would be available. Of course the expenditures make a causual deficit, but it is just such a state of allnirs as the constitution contemplated and the loan bill is therefore constitutional. Lewis Joudas. Indianapolis, April 17. HAD TWO WIVES LIVING. A Young Girl Deceived by a Mock Mar rlage Ceremony. BlXGHAMTON', X. Y., April 16. A story of somewhat sensational character has just been brought to light in this city. Laura Granis, a seventeen-year-old gir!, came here a short time ago and secured employment in a factory. She was bright and attractive, and soon had several suitors. Among the most ardent was John Tl. Smith, who was several years her senior. He succeeded in winning her alfections and induced her to accompany him to Tunkhannock, Pa., where a marriage ceremony was performed. The couple then went to Nineveh, where they remained several days with the girl's parents. Mr. G ranis became suspicious of his son-in-law and instituted an investigation, which resulted in the discovery of the fact that Smith had been twice before married aud that both hi former wives were living. Upon searching the records at Tunkhannock G ranis became convinced that the alleged wedding was nothing more than a mock marriage and that his daughter had been grossly deceived. lUrturning to his home, he ordered Smith to leave the house and never attempt to see Laura again. That night Smith waited for his opportunity, and when he found Laura alone he pointed a revolver at her head and compelled her to leave her home with him. The couple walked the entire distance of twenty-four miles from Nineveh to this city. Several times during the journey Smith displayed a bottle, believed to contain poison, and swore he would force her to swallow it if she attempted to escape. When this city was reached the eirl was completely exhausted. She was at once taken to a house in the outskirts of the city where she was kept concealed for three days. There she was found by a detective who had been employed by her father. When the officer was about to remove her, Smith presented a revolver and declared he would shoot if any attempt was made to separate him and his wite. The detective dared Smith to shoot and departed with the girl who was restored to her father. She is completely prostrated by her terrible experience. Smith can not be found. 'DE PRAYER MEETINV Colored Congressman Smalls Illustrates With a Btory. fWsshinirton Pot. Mr. Smalls, the colored South Carolinian, who recently contested the election of Heprescntative Elliott, is a capital story-teller. Some of his illustrations are as original, and, indeed, smack very much of the same flavor, as those of Sam Jones, the Georgia preacher. One day, rot long aero, Mr. Smalls w as asked if he did not think the democrats of the South were acting very friendly to the negroes. "There was once a fellow named Eph Johnson," Mr. Smalls replied, "who owned a flatboat that he used to run on the Savannah river. Eph was a dreadfully wicked man, and the pious colored people all along the river had about given up their eflorta to reform him. One Sunday the bow of Kph's boat stuck fast on a bar not far from a church whrre the colored people were holding a revival meeting. All etforts of L'ph and his eon to pole it otl" were futile. " 'Roy,' said Eph, "you go obah to de church an' tell de nicgahs dat you dad has got 'ligion, an' dat he wants to hab a prayer meetin on de boat right away. Run along now, chie.' "In a few minutes the colored people came hurrying to the boat. "'De prayer meetin',' said Eph, am gwine ter be right dar on de stem.' "The innocent people assembled at the stern of the boat, and as they did so the boat floated free from the bar aud s upgofl luto deep water. " 'Now, den, you d d fool niggahs, said Eph, 'git off 'n dis boat es fas' es you kin 6erabble. ley an't gwine to be no pra' meetin' hyar ef I kin he'p it.'" With consummate story-telling skill Mr. Small left his audience to make its own application, and walked away. A FIENDISH HUSBAND. lie Severs His Wife's Head From Her Body and Cats His Own Throat. BcFFALO, N. YM April ltl A fearful tragedy was enacted about 7 o'clock this morning in the rear of No. 154 Seneca-st., a tenement occupied by Thomas Dominguese, a Spaniard aged about thiriy -eight, his wife, Clarina, and their two little children. Dominguese had been out all night On his return he attacked his wife with a razor. The bouse consisted of four rooms, one being nsed for a kitchen and sitting-room, while the other three were used as bed-rooms. From their appearance after the crime it would seem that a fearful struggle ensued between the husband and wife and that he must have attacked her a'most the moment he entered the kitchen from the hall. The woman, it is thought, was standing at the stove cooking breakfast, when he sprang upon her with the razor and gave her the first blow. She must have fought desperately, for her hands, arms, head and face were cut and slashed in many places, but he finally obtained the mastery and almost cut her head from her body. The fiend then dragged her down stairs and threw her out upon the pavement in the court where she died. He then went back into what might be called the front bed-room from which he could see his wife lying below almost swimming in her blood. Standing there he, with the same razor, cut his throat, tearing a hole into which a man could easily push both hands and falling close to the window. He must have died almost instantly. The murderer left a letter written in Spanish, in which he accused his wife of infidelity and said he had made up his mind to kill her. The Itelt Deposited. BALTIMORE, April 18. The fifteen-thousand-dollar diamond belt for which Kilrain and Sullivan will fight in July was deposited to-day by Mrs. Kilrain with .the Mercantile trust and deposit company for safe-keeping. It will remain with the trust company until June 8, when it will be turned over to A. H. Cridge, the final stakeholder in the fight The reason for this precaution is that should anything happen that the belt were not turned over to the final stakeholder at the agreed time the ten-thousand-dollar deposit of Kilrain's backer, as well as the belt itself, would be forfeited. Have Katurnl Uaa Now. Datto.v, O., April IS. Natural gas was turned into the pipes in this city for the first time this evening. Extra pressure was put on at the wells in Mercer county and the gas traveled through the pipes forty-eight miles to this city in twenty-five minutes. Arches of perforated pipes are to be erected on various streets of the city for a fiery display during the state encampment of the G. A. It here next week. A Tramp's Fiendish Deed. Tiffix, O., April 18. Mrs. Henry Bennehoff", aged seventy-five years, living in the country, went to the barn to hunt eggs. A tramp, who was hiding there, threw her down and choked her and then outraged her. injuring her terribly. The fiend was finally driven away by the family dog, and made his escape. If caught he will be lynched. The old lady will probably die.

THE PUBLIC LANDS.

A Decision of Vast Importance by Commitioner Stockidacer. TJie XationaJ Domain, a newspaper published in Washington, D. C, and devoted, as its nam indicates, to public land matters, in its issue of April 1, makes the followingediiorial comment upon an important decision of Land Commissioner StocksJager: . We publish in lull In this number the decision of the coiuin si, oner in the cae ot the Tuniacacori privat'-1 larid claim In Inch, fr the erst tiiue in toe hitory f the land department, tbe uelioa of private lanil claim rf-rvations in New Mexico and .ri.na, tli-ir legality ami limitations are considered. It ajpran that gnat quantities of land have Un, fur many years, withheld from entry and wttlvmDt by the mere clerical act of marking the words 'rsrv d"' on the tract book without autnority of law. The ha; fir the s iiJ luarkinj are the plats of socalled "prelimin try survey." These are surreya of claimed nienor boundaries procured by grant claimants after the surveyor general's examination and report, aud, as shon in tin cue mentioned, have been niuled into the printed reports as part ot the original examination. They are kuowa t b grossly excesMve in quantity and as held by Coroliiitsioner Mci'arland "are unauthentic tor any purpose." Yet all the a-imie i private land cla Mil reservations In the territories mentioned rest upot these 1 rami tl lent surveys. Commissioner MockslaRer in hii decision rejeeU and tts a-ide the re!. miliary survey id the Tuniacacori case and bv this "act and by lha princ pies of law 1;, id clown has opened ay for the redemption Irotu inegal reservat. 01. t of everai millions of at res of public land io the garden districts cd Arizona and New Mexico. Ilisamazio; lint a pract re so unfounded in lav and reason, tuijust to s ti'ers, so ruinous to Iba luteresrsof the government and so aburd ass matter of executive adininistra..on as that of lioid 1 1 tr in ainucd reservation creat b. lies of public l3tid foi the b-ticht of exaggerated atidoiien mythical claims, should so f'tig have nva. led in the practice of the peneral land olhce. It can Iw .'.rc unted for only, from the fact that heretofore but one side wa presented to or heard by the department. I'rivate claimants have been represented by abundant counsel. The Koverument has had noreprsactuation, and settlers revdir. upon the claimed land have not known the necessity for a representation of their i ute rests. Girant Claimants have, therefore, had their own way in impressing their wishes upon the department and in molding o.Ürial action to suit their own aims. Th time ha now com'? when tho-e who want to preserve lands front private laud claims speculation an 1 for those who are seeking public lands for settlement, to rouse themselves and join hands in the issue which Commissioner Sftocksiager'a decision has opened lor their benefit. The Hon. George W. Julian, the able and e5cient surveyor-general of New Mexico, refeirir.g to the foregoing decision of Comniielonerfelcckslager, is reported as saying: Mr. Sto-ksiacer haiaimt immortalized himself. It will po down in history as oue ot the great p.ovenients in favor of the just rights of tha government snd the people by the Cleveland administration, and one, too, which the present republican a . ministration cannot afford to gainsar. If carried out t its legitimate conclusions, it will restore more thaw tb ee million acres of land, now illecally held by grant claimants, to the public domain for the benefit of actual stttb rs. It is the most important stop taken under the Cleveland administration. It was the great opfiortunity that opened uj before Mr, Stockslaer, and he seized it with a bold hand, and fortilied his osition by unanswerable arguments. His other work, compared with this, was mere routine worK, faithfully and honestly performed, which reflected credit upon him as an efficient offiivr, hut this latter act, restoring to the people these millions of acres of land, places him above all his predecessors in its far-reaching e fleets lor public good. MRS. HARRISON AVENGED. She Get Even With Mrs. Lortnff Tor t Social Snub. Washington Special. There is a history attached to the recent awarding of a foreign nii.-sion, according to a story now going the rounds of the friends of the gentleman accredited to one of the European countries. Though an ardent politician, he is far from being a favorite w ith his party. Some years ago. tvhen the president wr,s in the kennte, Mrs. ILtrris)n, in company with a friend, called at the house of the politician, who for many years past has made his home in Washington, where his viia has been one of the acknowledged society lenders. At the time Mrs. Harrison was announced the hostess was engaged in animated conversation with a young stripling, a member of the diplomatic corps, and. instead of leaing bim and turning her attention to her la ly guests, continued to bestow upon him so much aitention that Mrs. Harrison, after waiting a few moments, turned to her companion with the remark that they would go, as their presenee was evideutly so unwelcome, and without further ceremony the two ladies quitted the house. After that littie episode the intimacy between Mrs. Harrison and her indi erent hostess waned. As soon as the fact cf the president's election was established beyotid all question, he was overwhelmed with congratulatory lettrr?. telegrams and pleasant messages of all descriptions from the politician and Iiis wife. The evening of th president's arrival in Washington, he found awaiting him in a pile of other letters one from his former friend urging bim to accept the hospitality of his home until the inauguration. The first thing the following morning the wife called upon Mrs. Harrison and reiterated her husband's invitation, using every art of persuasion to induce its acceptance, but without avail. Soon after this it became whispered about that the Hon. George U. luring was an aspirant for diplomatic honors, and had set bis aflections upon one of the best missions in the gift of the executive. So the friends watched and waited, wondering what would lw the outcome of the matter. Finally, in the list of appointments sent to congress for confirmation appeared Mr. IxirinpV, but instead of the mission upon which his hopes had been set, he had been accredited to one of the s uiallest, most unimportant and out-of-the-way places on the continent. JSo, after all these years, tbe incivilities to Mrs. Harrison has been avenged, und during their residence abroad, Mr. and Mrs. Lording will hereafter take ample time t meditate upon the wisdom of entertaining all their guests politely. DUDLEY'S SUIT STANDS. Jadff Beach Denies the Motion to Strike Out tli Complaint New York, April IS. Col. W. W. Pudley'a suit against the Evening Tost stands, Judge IWach to-day denying the motion to 6trike out the complaint because Dudley refused to testify before a commission at Washington. The suit is brought to recover damages for an alleced libelous publication of tbe '"blocks-of-nve" letter. Dudley refused to answer question put to him touching the authenticity of the letter, whereupon the motion to strike out his complaiut was made by I.aurem-e Godkin. The Southern Question. rniLAPF.LrillA, April 18. The Inquirer wCl publish to-morrow interviews which it has collected with prominent men and politicians of the southern, states. Only men well known to their sections were applied to, and to these the following questions were put: (1) What is the southern question? (2) How should it be met to produce tbe greatest good to the South? The iilea of the Inquirer was to obtain the real views of southern leaders upon a subject which is becoming very prominent. The responses nearly all voice the same sentiment, that tbe race problem is the great one to be solved, and that the South should be allowed to manage her own a"airs without interference. ltobbed the Mail-Car. Chicago, April 18. The mail-car on the Lake Shore road, which left here at 7:45 last night, was robbed before it had gotten out of the city limits. The thief secured the pouch continuing about 100 pieces of registered mail for Cleveland, and was rifling the contents in an empty freight-car, between Twenty-second and Twenty-third-sts., when detected by a watchman. As the watchman looked into the car, the man jumped throutrh the door on the opposite side and escaped. He had opened about a dozen reentered letters, and succeeded in getting away with their contents. An Unknown Vessel Lost. Norfolk, Va., April IS. A vessel went ashore last night near life-saving station No. 21, but as all on board were drowned before assistance could reach them and the vessel went to pieces shortly after she struck the beach, it has been impossible to ascertain her came or destination of cargo. There is no real chansre in the street-car strike at Minneapolis and St. Paul, although ff few cars were run in both cities Thursday.