Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 35, Number 26, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 August 1889 — Page 4

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1889.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL

I la tared At the Postoffloe at Indlanapoli M second class mittr.l TERMS l'KK YKARt Fing! copy (Invariably la Adanc.) .-.Sil OO Wrifk democrats to boar In roiod and select lhlr rD ttat paper hen they ctin la take subscriptions and make up clubs. AKfuts nuking np clubs sen 1 for any Information ieMred. Addvas TUE LN DIANA lOLl.S SLNTINEL Indianapolis, ind. Wednesday, august h. Lamlholdin; iu Franco. The recent "Hinglo tax" conference at Paris elicited some curious information concerning the present state of land-holding in France, which was presented m a carefully prepared etatistical paper by M. A. Tortus a r. It is commonly stated, and V.m been accepted as a fact, that there ere from twelve to fourteen million landed proprietors in our sister republic, but M. ToniKAU utterly demolished this supposition by showing that in the reviewed estimates renters were counted as proprietors. The common impression as to the comparative size of holding was also overturned. Six years ago Maurice 1'fH'K, a recognized authority of ability, estimated 5 percent, of the soil of France to be included in large propertief, 19 per cent, medium properties, and 74 percent, in mall proierties. M. Tocbf.au shows that 12 per cent of the proprietors possess 77 per cent, of the land. Of course, these foldings must be clawed as largo propertie?, w hile the !'; per cent, of the soil that is held by W per cent, of the proprietors includes the medium and email Holding?. After considering bis figures, ono is somewhat prepared for his startling statement that "There is more land now in the hand of big proprietors than before the revolution, and very few Frenchmen I now thi." Usually startling is his comparison between tLc present and the period prior to 1703 a to the relation of the people to tne landed proprit tors. We are accustomed to rctrard the ante-revolutionary period as one of unexampled oppression of the peasuutry, and the present as one f happy prosperity for the laboring classes!, especially in the agricultural regions. Historians are wont tu excuse the excesses of the revolution on the ground lhat the masses had been ho trodden under foot and subjected to tyranny in every conceivable shape that human nature could endure no more, and that maddened and brutalized by their treatment they wreaked a blind vengeance on the clas that had tortured them. If this be true, and M. Tocde u 's htatements be correct, France mut be a smothered volcano today, fur he declares that the landlords are more harsh and severe now than before the revolution, and he gives a graphic statistical pic ture of the present miserable condition of the masses in the statement that 2,000,000 of Frenchmen hardly know what meat is, and flOO.OM live in buts which have but one opening. Pospiblv it is the struggle to escape this con dition which seems so hopelessly fastened on the nation that makes France a country of unstable government. A third notable feature of M. Toi heai'.s paper is the record of the decrease of the land tax. In 17!K) 200,000,000 francs were raised on lands, while to-day, notwithstanding; the enormous increase in the value of realty, only about 120,io0,000 francs are collected from this source. This is treated as a shifting of taxes from Ianis to industries, but the position is not altogether tenable, beeausfl the land tax of 1700 in fact fell partly on industries, the vassals of the various fiefs being taxed by their lords without raurh regard to w hether their work was mechanical or agricultural. The figures show, nevertheless, that the landed plutocracy of to-day is quite as powerful as the landed aristocracy of a cntnry aso, and that through all the governmental changes of France the rich have t-olvcd the problem of how to rule the poor. Give 'Ihn the Other Barrel. While Mr. II akuisos's secret committee is actively engaged iu calcimining Pension Comniis.-iouer Tanner Private Pai.7F.t I. comes to the relief of the corporal in an oir-n letter which is ingenuous to the last degree. Among other interesting olBervations ?dr. Dai.zki.l tsaya: The graud army are all at yoar hark except the bn aiiers. You can well a.Tord to lauvli at the hypocrites and scoundrels who accuse you of givins out too much pension money, as if the republican party could give too much money to the oldier whose vote it obtained by that very promise. That anl tliat aione carried Indiana. Nothing else carried New "York. The hope of more money is the power in American politics. Then? is no other power. We hai the bul;re on the democrats. We mad big promises to the soldiers. We saw Black und wem one better. Poor devil, all he could do, bein? io, wo to ftire all he had in his hau 'Is, which he did lavishly, but we "saw hirn" and went one better, ami said we would pive more, will give more even if it is all. That's hov we elected Harbison! The promise of bigger pensions than Black gave did the job, and now you do rijrht to go on and redeem that promise to the soldiers if it buta the treasury. You have got them on the hip. You are fortified. One million claimant, decoyed to the support of Harrison by this promis, expect this money and demand it, and will have it or down poes the republican party, and let it go down to hell if it betrays the boys. This brutal confession of coundrelism is at least a relief from the canting pharieaism which characterizes the republicans of this region. It is notorious that what Palzell Rays was done waa in fact done in Indiana. Not only were these promises made on the stamp, but parties of t elected men were sent to visit old soldiers and make any kind of promises needed to eenre their votes. The very men who would like to hold back Taxner now authorized and encouraged this businen., jnst an tbey did the blocks-of-five business, and the chicanery by which Mr. Dcdley escaped punishment, and all the other wretchedly disgraceful features of the late hoodie campaign. Mr. Dalzell is firing eold truth into them, and he seems to have an improved breech-loading jrun. Under the circumstance it is even more j.leaäing to see them; gentlemen of broad phylacteries eand-baed by Dalzell than to have them blackmailed by holders of the Dudley letters. Why shold not every goldier have a key to the pension bureau ? It was promised to them over and over azain, and they would be arrant tools if they did not insist on the keeping of the pledge. We hope the administration is correct in ita apprehension that the Ci. A. R. means businesi, for it deserve

all the trouble that it gees in store for it No wonder effort is made to keep Tanner away from the encampment at Milwaukee! Jo wonder that the department commanders of several states have been induced to advise comrades not to attend the encampment, on the pretenso that the railroads would not givo reduced rates. A large and enthusiastic gathering of veterans would almost certainly mean an indorsement of Tanner, and a demand that the promised raid on the treasury should bo permitted to proceed forthwith. Hence it is desirable to make the encampment a failure, so that any action taken may be represented as the doing of a factious and irresponsible minority. In the interests of retributive justice we hope the scheme will fail, and that the veterans will require the administration to too the mark that it laid down. iHHH and lHO'J. The New York Trihnne seems to bo alarmed at the tariff outlook. Ina recent Issue it said: True friends of the protective policy have pecial occasion just now to consider carelully the sources of their power and their recent victory. A change of X,0u) rotes out of over eleven millions cant laut fall would have elected a democratic president and vice-president, a democratic senator from Delaware, making the senate a tie with the vice-president's cnxting vote controlling, and a democratic majority in the house. The protective system gained it great victory by the power of certain arguments over the votes of the working people, and it is not wi.e to forget what those argumenta were. The "certain arguments" to which the Trihnne refers are doubtless of the kind which Benjamin II a rkison addressed to the now starving miners of Clay county when they were brought here to "pay their resjects" to him laftf summer. Similar arguments were addressed to the silkworkers of New Jersey, the iron-workers of Pennsylvania and the cotton -pinners of Massachusetts, all of whom, along with most other employes of protected industries, have been obliged to submit to reductions in wages since March 4. It is safe to pay that these arguments will not forgotten by thoso to whom they were addressed, however it may be with those who made them. F.utthcMj were not the only "arguments" which proved olfective last fall. Those which Wanamaker supplied and Qr ay and Dcdley used had even greater potency. Indeed it is not too much to say that theso are the arguments that turned the scale in thn pivotal states of Indiana and New York. And yet, as the TriJ-nne points out, a change of J,000 votes out of over eleven millions would have reversed the result. This is to say, as the New York Thwn puts it, "that if in every 11, 000 men there had been found one who for any reason had voted for the the democratic candidato instead of for the republican the whole machinery of the government w ould have remained in democratic hands; the republicans, instead of gaining the presidency and the house of representatives, would have lost the senate; the power of making any changes they might acrree upon in the tariff laws would have been piventothe democrats; the country, in place of saying no to the reform of the

tariff, would in effect have said yes." It is well, not only for the protectionists, but for tariff reformers, to bear these facts in mind. What they foreshadow of 1S'.i-J, if the democratic party proves true to its principles and itself, it needs no superior penetration to discern. There are tecs of thousands of workingmen and farmers in this country, who were deceived last Lall by the lies and false promises of monopoly, who will never be deceived by them asain. They will vote right in 1S'J2, if the democracy gives them an opportunity to do so, by keeping faith on the tariff question. Mr. Hewitt on the Tariff. Ar.riAM S. Hewitt is one of the largest iron and steel manufacturers of the United States. lie recently went to England for the purpose of investigating what is known a the basic process of making open hearth steel, with tho adaptability of which to the conditions of manufacture in the Fnited States he expresses himself entirely eatieiied. predicting its general adoption in this country. "I am convinced," he says, "that America will make iron and steel for mankind in the long future ; we have the iron, coal, capital, skill and energy necessary to do it." The single obstacle to the early attainment of that object he finds in the war tariff. He says: That is all that hinders us now that foolish truiiT but that is only temporary. Another iteration will see it removed. I believe the Aiuerieau people will get tired of stewing in their own tut after awhile. I believe every tub otiglit to stand on ita own bottom, and that the Fnited States is abundantly able to doit. It has the facilities for beiui; the createst exporting eountry on the earth, und it ought to be. The sooner tin lie are abolished the sooner it will become so. Now that food, cotton and petroleum form the bulk of our exports, we ought to export very largely of manufactured articles. Mr. Hewitt advocates the repeal of all the duties pressing upon our industries. Ii the duty on iron were abolished, the result would be, he declares, that "we would simply be compelled to make our iron w here facilities are favorable, and stop making it in places where they are not. We would have to shut up some of our mills, w hich are now where they have no business to be. The iron and steel manufacture would be confined chiefly to the territory lying between Ohio and Lake Superior, to Tennessee and Alabama, and there is where it ought to be." These are the words of an eminently practical man a student both of markets and maxims a recognized authority, the world over, on all matters connected with the iron and ateel manufacture. They ought to have great weight with the American people. Harrison and Civil Service Kefbrm. The Poston Herald, an able advocate of civil service reform, takes a gloomy view of the prospects of the reform. It says: The single chance for taking the offices we have described out of politics is to give a fair how to both parties in the holding of them. There waa mora than pluibility therefor there was justice and sound policy on the part of President CLEVELAND in deciding that when terms of office expired which were in the hands of a party that had held them for twentyfonr years, there should be an equalization of their amiifnment by bringing members of the party that had been tabooed all this time into their possession. When President Harrison came into power he found a very large proportion of the offices still in the hands of republicans, who had been retained by President Cleveland. If he had followed in the footsteps of his predecessor, and maintained a fair division of offices between the great parties, this country would never again havo witnessed a "clean sweep."

But the president chose the opposite policy. "He invited republican partisans to apply for government positions. He sienified his intention to so arrange the offices that none but republicans should hold them. With the fact before him that republicans have held theso offices for twenty-four years, while democrats havo held them but four, he decreed that the democrats in oflico should all be swept out to add further to the immense and altogether unfair disproportion in the case." This is a fair and truthful statement of what tho man who went into the presidency with the most solemn pledges on his lips to observe the spirit of civil service reform in every department of the government has done. In so doing ho has dealt a blow to civil nervice reform from which it will not recover, in this generation at least. lie has undone all that Cleveland accomplished during his term of office. What tho Itofdon Herald says in the subjoined paragraph, with which it concludes tho article from which wo have quoted, is manifestly true and we commend it especially to the H01.1.1days and Swifts, tho Foclkes and tho Mortons who insisted last fall that the substitution of Harrison, who had never been anything else but an unconscionable spoilsman, forCiRovER Cleveland, meant gain for civil service reform. What is the e fleet of this upon the fnture? It is altogether too plain. That effect is to be the ferpetoation of the spoils system. President Iarrison proclaims and establishes it in the republican party. There are manv republicans disgusted with his so doing, but there is only a scattering remonstrance to his action. Can anything better be expected of the democrats? We see slight occasion to hope for it. If President Cleveland is to be re-elected, it will not be again as a civil service reformer. This administration has niade this impossible. It is not in human nature to submit to see the re publicans first appropriating all the offices for twenty-four years, and then, when the democrats Nueeeed in getting them for a brief four years, making a cleau sweep of the democrats in office at the end of that time least of all is it in democratic human nature to submit to it without retaliating. If there were any doubt as to what policy iu the democratic party was to triumph as regards the offices, President Harrison has settled it. He has fixed his own

policy to be that of proscription of all his on !onents in othce. lie has made it impossible or his opponents to have a policy more liberal Tho IVw vs. tho Many. An attempt was recently made to induce parliament to abandon the English iree trade policy so far as sugars are concerned. A compact had been signed in behalf of Great Britain and several European Btates abandoning the policy of paying bounties on sugar production, abolishing drawbacks on sugar exports and agreeing to levy discriminating duties upon the importations of sugar from countries that pay bounties on sugar production. In pursuance of this compact a bill was introduced in parliament to exclude sugars from France and the United States. The sugar refiners warmly supported the measure, claiming that if it wero not passed their establishments would have to close and turn their 12,000 employes adrift. But it developed that over Sö.OOO persons were employed in industries which had been built up by the policy of admitting sugar free, such as the manufactures of confectionery, jams, jellies and marmalades. If foreign sugar was shut out it was pretty certain that these industries would suller and possibly be destroyed. Parliament could not see the justice or wisdom of sacrificing the interests of 1S5,000 persons in order to benefit 12,000, and the sugar bill was "indefinitely postponed.'' Our country is every day sacrificing tho interests of the many to the interests of the few by keeping heavy taxes on raw materials. If these taxps were remitted, industries would speedily spring up which would employ thousands of men where tho industries that would be injured by such a policy do not employ hundreds. The greatest good to the smallest number is the principle of our tariff laws. The Bethlehem ( Pa.) iron company has given its employes a handsome increase of wages. Democratic and mugwump newspapers have been laying every business failure and wage disagreement to the tariif. Will they credit the Uethlehem increase to the same cause? If not, why not? Troy A. Y.) Timrs. Beg pardon, but your statement is not true. The " free trade " position is that the tariff does not make wages larger that wages are dependent on supply and demand. All other causes affect wages only as they affect the supply and demand for labor. Tho tariff affects wages only in cases when, by preventing exportation in competition w ith other countries, it creates over-production here and thereby causes manufacturers to suspend production and throw labor out of employment. Our proposition, and it is being demonstrated every day, is that the republican claim that wages are made higher by the tariff, is false. The workingman get? nothing but injury from "protection." The report from Cincinnati of successful experiments with the Brown-Sequard elixir may have a tendency to make some of. the physicians of the country wish they had not made sport of the new idea so hastily. When a man seventy years old, bent and crippled with rheumatism, is enabled in two or three hours to kick up his heels and run and dance, there is something in the medicine given him that can at least demand trial. These are the days of experimentation in all things scientific, and it is usually safer to decide a scientific proposition by trial than to decide it on preconceived ideas. The storm of indignation which has been created in England by the charge of the judge in the Maybrick poisoning case and its effect on the jury will serve as a weighty argument for our jury sytem. The English system of permitting the judge to review the testimony and instruct the jury as to its weight, which is also occasionally practiced in our TJ. S. courts, is generally approved by lawyers, and yet this case indicates that it is as susceptible of abuse as our custom of making the jury judges of the law and the fact. The committee on invitation to the laying of the corner-stone of the soldiers' monument should bid Maj. Gen. W. S. Kosf.crans to the ceremonies. Ho ie the only general now alive with the exception of Gen. Sherman who ever commanded an independent army. Claims are made on behalf of our own J. B. Cheadle that he is the man who discovered and first called attention to the revolting rottenness in the pension office. A more interesting question is whether fc'cuator Manp&oox of Nebraska will give

no his fortv-three hundred-dollar steal

before he is comtelled to. The possibility of the onenders being removed does not appear to lie contemplated by anyone. Prayer-Meeting Harrison knows no crimo but democracy. In an open letter to James Boyce of Muncie, D. G allagher, who is endeavoring to collect moucy for the unfortunate Clay county miners, makes the following statement: I have, with other patriotic citizens, labored during the last campaign to establish a system that would maintain and protect the industries of this country. We naturally expected that th rvrilll ll.fi t in tliai 111 ttrnt.rtiFti Vfcttil would bring to invested capital that "labor stiould have a fair proportion of it, but when our bauner of protectiou triumphantly is Hunting we behold a sweeping reductiou in the wages of our workinemen audi us we have not witnessed in the pat lour years. I am a prolecuonisi, out n protection noes not proieei our workingmen, we must find something that will ameliorate their condition. This indicates that Mr. Gallagher is becoming acquainted with the "American protective system which ho labored bo hard to support. If ho will take tho troublo to investigate, he will find that tho "fair proportion" of the spoils promised to the workiugman is exactly the amount that the employer can be forced to pay by tho workingman, and that protection adds nothing to it. Mr. Gallagher was evidently taken in by the republican confidence men. PERSONAL GOSSIP. The latest about Chauneey M. Pepew is that he is tired of railroading, and intends to resign the presidency of the New York Central railroad for the purpose of devoting himself to politics. Toe funeral of the Ilev. George Zabriskee Gray, late dtan of the Protestant episcopal theological school at Cambridge, Mass., took place yesterday in New York. The burial was in Greenwood cemetery. Oliver Wendell Holmes says that in reviewing his life be finds that he has taken more interest in surgery than in poetry, but be realizes that his fame will rest upou the eflorts of his pen, not of his knife. Gen. Van Vliet is the oldest brigadier general in the U. S. army. lie is seventy-four years of age and has been fifty-two years in the service. He has a ruddy face, overflowing with good humor, and bushy hair, worn long. An old chum of Explorer Stanley's, now city controller of Omaha, says that when they were both there twenty years a?o Stanley was the readiest and most aeeomplished liar he ever knew. Stanley was then correspondent for several eastern papers. TlIE courtiers of the boy king of Servia have been trying, with some success, to set bim against his mother. "You are a king now." they said to him. "ami you don't require to be governed by your mamma." To which the lad replied, "Oh, yes; I'm a king, andean take care of mvself." Machinist Charles II. Kessel of Birmingham, Conn., could hardly ..believe his senses when on Tuesdny he received a check for t22.Ct That stood for bis pan of the estate ol his grandfather, who died in Germany not long ago. Kessel hns been working for $2 a day. He is a happy man. Senator John Sherman has had but a single experience during his European trip which he remembers with disgust. It occurred in London a few d:ivs airo when he returned from Belgium with his bascuge checked throunh to Charring Cross station. The customs officials insisted upon examining the contents of every piece, and trunks were emptied and boxes broken open. When the senator related bis grievance to the American consuleeneral the authorities expressed their sorrow and said they would discharge the men if required. A Vast Saving to the People. faKok4u iXr.patch. In-order that readers of the Ditpath may know exactly the saving to the people under the present law, we quote side by side the prices charged by local dealers and the prices fixed by the recent act. The reader must remember that in Howard county at least two sets of books are in use McGutly's in the city of Kokomo and Swinton's in the eountry: Prr.sfnl pricn, Isyiil pric. MfiftMfTt. Sainton's First reader .2o S . S .10 ."Second reader ai .45 .1.1 Third reader .50 .no .25 Fourth reader.'. M .75 .rV) Kiftli reader .S5 1.00 .el Elementary arithmetic $ .fJi .;c ( Vituplete arithmetic .". .4..", h'leinentary geography .' .;w Complete geography l.:5 .75 Copy book .10 .05 Suppose, to show the saving to the average family, a parent lias three to five children in the public schools and h required to purchase one of each book: Under the old law the books would cost him, McGutly's series, all told, Under the present law the same books, or their equal in every respect, would cost him but $3.10 a net savin; ol 2.75. Say there are .fyMi school patrons to the county, and we have a total couuty Raving of $13,750. The annual savin? in the state, at this rate, would aggregate $1.2t5,0tX. True Enough. Youth's Companion. 1 "Willie Johnson," wud the teacher, "if you had five doughnuts, and your mother were to stive you four more, how many would you have?" Willie twisted the corners of his jacket, moved bis lips, and tried to think, but he couldn't. "Lou't count 'em up," said the teacher; "tell me right oiu" "I xhould have a a a a" "Well, how many?" "Hug Ish'd have 'nough I guess!" said Willie grinning broadly. An Unexpected Way of Patting It. Locdon Tit Bits. "Mabel," said Henry an'' In spite of bis effort to control himself the voice was tremulous, and be spoke with the air of timid desperation which marks the elocution of a man about to ask for the loan of 5; "Mabel, I do not kneel at your feet" (and he wasn't lie was sitting bolt upright on a sofa) "to plead for myself. I come here only to beg you to think of my brother George.' He he loves you dearlv, Mabel, and should you refuse his plea I tremble for tbe consequences. He is alone in the world, and he wants a sister-in-law. Ob, will you not be one to him?" A Way of Escape. Burlington Free Fress.J Mrs. Bummer "Aren't yon going to eat any breakfast this morning, John?" Mr. Bummer "No, my dear. I think I shall give up eatintr breakfasts for a while." Mrs. Bummer "Give them up! What for?" Mr. Bummer "Because I promised the doctor I would drink a class of water every morning before breakfast, and if I don't have any breakfast, yon see, I shan't have to do iL" Beating th Devil Bound the Bash. fPlttaburg Dispatch. "Why did you give your husband that letter to mail, he'll be sure to forget it?" said a nice old lady to her daughter yesterday. "That's why I gave it to him. It is an invitation to that dreadful Mrs. Blank. I've got to send her an invitation to my reception, bat I don't want her to come." ' Wasted Affection. Fliegende Ühtter. Husband -Tood-bye, dear. Should I be detained at the office ths evening I'll send you a note by messenger." - Prudent Wife "Don't co to the expense. I've already taken it out of your breast pocket." Tlit. Best Advertising. The mo! efficient advertising in behalf of Hood's Sarsaparilla is that which comes from the medicine itself. That is, those who are cured by it, speak to friends suffering similarly, who in turn derive benefit and urge others to try this successful medicine. Thus the circle of its popularity is rapidly widening from this cause alone, and more and more are becoming enthusiastic in behalf of Hood's Sarsaparilla as it actually demonstrates its nbsoluie merit All that is asked for Hood's Sarsaparilla is that it be given a fair trial. If yon need a good blocd purifier, or building up-medicine, try Hood's wamcuril'a.

SOME ASSEMBLED WISDOM.

THE NEW STATE OF WASHINGTON. What the New Convention Represents The New Constitution Tide Lands Explained Political Matters The Spoils of Of. nee ImH Klectlon Kxplalned, Ktc. Olympia, W. T., Aug. ä. Special. The "assembled wisdom of the state" is busily constructing the organic law of tho commonwealth. The convention ia composed of seventyfive delegates, forty-fivo of whom aro republicans while thirty are democrats. Tho political complexion of the convention ia largely the result of tho law, as the enabling net provided that the territory be divided into districts, each of which should be entitled to threo delegates, tho electors respectively to vote for but two of such delegates. As a body, the convention represents a fair degree of ability and respectability. There are several very bright men of both parties in the convention, who would be an honor to any state. Of the eeventyfive members, there is about seven who are careful students in state-craft, fifteen who aro well read, brainy, industrious and dignified, and about ten more, who are quiet and unobtrusive, but who aro thoroughly imbued w ith the spirit of progress, who have broad and enlightened views on all oractical business questions, who are alert, sagacious, incorruptiblo and patriotic, and serve well as the break-waters of contending factions. Could the framing of tho constitution bo turned over to these twenty-tive men a month would 6iilfice for the work, and the work would be well done. But in the convention, aa a whole, there is too much noise and bluster. There is an unhappy preponderance of mouth and lungs over brains. There uro too many who arc itching to become members of the roming legislature, nnd who arc paving the way to local notice by attempts to shape tho organic law to favor local interests. In all deliberative bodies of considerable size there is always a surplus of men who are only noticed by their noise, but usually the frothy ones soon subsido, while "modest worth asserts its power. l?ut this convention presents an exception to the rule. Biwing a hope upon usual results, I expected from the general appearance of the convention a fair constitution from a sixty days' sitting. ilut new ditficultics present themselves. The frothy ones will not subside, and the useless lumber forced upon the real workers is appalling in its vanrty, quality and quantity. Then, too, it is provided by congressional enactment that the election for tho ratification of the constitution be held Oct 1. As it is feared the people would not care to bear the expense of two elections, only four weeks apart, but would rather olect all otlieers provided by the new constitution at the October election, the politicians are becoming alarmed, as the protracted convention will leave too little time to instruct the dear people their party duties. As a result, there will be an effort to "hurry things up," and high speed with a rickety machine almost inevitably ends in disaster. Present indications would justify a guess that the convention will adjourn by Aug. 20, and that the constitution to be otlercd for the people's adoption will be chiefly remarkable for its length. Nearly every question upon which the legislature might, with propriety, deal has been forced before this convention by petition, resolution, or in some other way. I am not sure that the constitution will not constitute a code of laws sufficient for all time. The instrument may properly be called the constitution and by-laws of Washington. Among the gravest questions in this gran I new state are those atTectinz the disposition, or management, of tho school ana tide lands. A brief explanation regarding the tide lands may be of interest to your readers. The tide lands in question, or, more properly speaking, the "mud lists," are lands marked by the daily ebb and flow of the sea, and over which riparian rights do not apply. The average tide on I'uget sound is about fourteen feet, and on Gray's harbor and fhoalwater bay about ten feet Between this high and low-water line there lies thousands of acres of lands usually, of course, at the head of bay coves, or along streams where the future cities may stand. These lands, by suli'erance only, belong to the state and are Bubject, with certain restrictions of a commen ial character, to state control. Much of this land, from its advantages for commerce and manufacture, is destined to become very valuable. The difficulty in handling tbe" question arises from a "deep and growing feeling among the people that these lands should not be sold to privato parties, but held by and for the use of the people of the state. To neutralize thh "craze" the attorneys of a few wealthy men who have taken possession of very valuable tracts of this tide land and desire to buy it at nominal prices, are so industriously flying the ecare-crow of "state landlordism" or "Henry Georgeism" that the convention and the people will probably turn over this vast domain to private" speculators and local monopolists. But, between tho growing demands of the many and the persuasive argument of the wealthy, this question is causing h vast deal of grief among the statesmen. While the convention has been in session some four weeks but little of tho actual work for which it came together has been done. The preamble, the bill of rights and the judicial articles, have been finished. The articles on counties, townships, etc., have about passed, and some other questions are ready to emerge from the committees. Happily the grand jury system is practically abolished. As the political pot begins to boil the buzzards turn a business eye to Olympia. The keen-scented politician is all ready, arrayed in a straw hat and a grin and is cultivating the good graces of the dear people, who, from raw material, are to manufacture the whole political machinery of the 6tate. All the officers of counties, of the late, of the courts, of the legislature, of congress, with two ornaments for the American house of lords, called the U. S. senate, are to be elected this fall. What a field for ambition, and as there is no limit to aspiring ignorance tbe "statesman" who fails to get to the U. S. senate may get to be postmaster. With spoils so rich, the fight must soon begin, and already the party councils are being called to prepare for the conflict In obedience to a historic order, "claim everything," the republicans claim the eta to while the democrats, true to their practice of great faith and small works, feel hopeful of carrying the state, with proper effort. fince the organization of the territory it ha been represented in the U. S. congrees six terms bv democrats. In 1SS4, after a long republican rule, Charles S. Voorhees w as elected by 144 majority. But he was the anli-Northerj Taeific railroad candidate, and it was more of a Northern Pacific railroad issue than a political one, as Mr. Armstrong was considered the North Pacific candidate. Two years later Mr. Voorhees was re-elected by 6,(XX) majority, but in 1SS3 he was defeated by John B. Allen by some seven thousand majority. The last election was the result of a peculiar combination of tircuatuuees or

conditions. The flattie land ofSs waa badly managed. "So democrat ctjld or would defend it and it was paradecas an excellent illustration of democrats rule. Many democrats claim that this oneintHi- j encc lost the party 1,000 votes. Vhn, there are largo coal and lumber intetew, and here, where waes were high ad times active, the great mill owners, ptected $2 per thousand on lumltvr, and tc coal mine owners had. excellent onpetunities for playing tlto "pauper labr dodge," as they 6 wore tlwit if tho democracy was successful the lumbermen anl coal miners of British Columbia, iuit across tho line, would force them to cloto up their business. The tim was too shorf to hunt the loggers from the jungles ant expose this hypocrisy, and the eoal mine were practically closed against tic defene ers of industrial liberty. But a change has como "over tie spiit of tiieir dreams," for though Harrison aid not Cleveland was elected, vet tte taillprotetted mills have entered" intoa triH'protected combination, and waeestre ow, many persons are out of work, theloXring camps are silent, tho mills arc rlo-eono day in each week, ono week it each month, and one month in each yearhile carpenters, masons and laborers nfc idle or working at reduced wahres, brause those who want to build homes anc'business houses cannot pro-juro the linber for the work, and if they do, it is atrices outrageously high for this cheap wood country. This whole lumber country is cursed by a tariff-protected cotabiiation, and the fools who sowed tlo wild ore cursing bitterly the whirlwind. There has lieen a general dullness anl cutting down of wages since Harrison election, and the hour is ripe for the remval of tho tariff discussion. Further est, two protected interests, the smelers and the lead miners, have each jtlier by the ears. The lead miners wan a heavy tariif on lead ore, while thesmeltrs insist, on the present treasury rulingthat all ores, the greater value of which is silver or gold, be allowed to come in lty free. Theso blighting inconsistencies of the cursed protective system has placd it in the power of tho democracy to crry the state if proper work is done. If the democrats lie down and alow the tariff beggars to carry the four nestates, and place eight more tariff-fed milUmaires in the U. S. senate, they had betVr disband. There is no hope of the Wzzardswept Dakotas, for those patient sets will never tiro of feeding their aristcratic

masters, but tho live, wide-awake nt tiers of Montana and Washington are realy to hear tbe argument and decide the mention on its merit t. Of course the democrats have but a poor organizationtuid few papers, while the monopolists 1)1. 1 close corporation in the political eauipmd have able champions in tho newspaj.T field, but work and argument, with jusice and reason on our side will win with a proper cUort. 1 As every good republican confidenjy expects an office some time, there .to legions of candidates. Tor the plans where the "hiebest ambition soars tie U. . senate there are a goodly numlxr. Among the republicans aro John B. Allel, A. W. Connor and T. H. Brents of eastesi Washington, and W. C. Squires, J. f. Haines and W. J. Wompson of western Washington. The chances are greatly u favor of Allen and Squires, the latter tf wdiom is an honest, able gentleman with the requisite $1,000,000 st his commaiU. With republican success, the latter gentleman's election is about a foregone conclusion, not alone because he is wealthy, but he has the genius of success. J. J. Brown of Spokane and Mayor Wheelrijrht of Ta coma are the only democratic names before the public, though others would doubtless spring up should tho sleeping party arouse and win a victory. George W. Bell. The Teaching of Flowers. "There's instruction hi a flower, Mountains and ocear, planets, suns and systems . Bear aot the ioipreM of Almighty power In characters more legible than thoe Which lie has written on the tiniest flower, Whose light bell bflnis beneath the dew-drop's weight." Mrs. Sicourkey. When the duit of the earth has gTown thick on the heart. And we see the gay dreams of our childhood depart, When the sun o" our hopes has gone down in eclipse, And tbe apples of joy mock with ashes our lips. There's naught in this life can those dreams still renew Like the innocent flowers all bending with dew. For they glow in their yecture, the fair and the bright, As If basting in them were strange beinjjs of light, And ther carpet with freuis the beautiful earth. At in Eden of old, where these had their birth ; And the spirit drinks in at the morning's glad hour, Its life fron the sunbeam its joy from the flower. Why may not the buried, the loved ones of ours, ReTinit this sphere in the guise of the flowers. To cbecr with their beauty when hope has grown dim, And in breathings of fragrance to whisper of Ilim Who raiseth the lowly, whoguardoth tbe weak, And whofheltereth all if His sholter they rctk? What sermon from pulpit can a leon Impart Like that which the flowret distil on the heart What peal from the organ, so startling and grand, Can raise np the soul to that bright rpirit land, Like the breath of tbe jas'niine, the I lush of the rose, When the earth is all beauty and the soul all repose. Oft times I have thought some invisible power Belongs to, presides o'er, tbe tiniett flower; Prompts the visions of fancy to steal on the soul, And sway o'er the passions a w.tchlng control ; Make thoughts crowd tbe mind in the language of SOUg, Bearing swift in their impulse the feelings along. The life of the patriot, tbe death of the brave, The tumult of battle and the perilous ware, Tbe sallies of mirth c r the shadows of woe Tinge the color of thoughts like the God-given bow, As In gay or in pensive gradations they rise, A cloud o'er the earth, or a ray from tbe skies. If tliee be but dreams which my fancy hath wrought, Why is it that sympathies holy are brought. Deep feellore awnkened, ray being's harp stirred. As though it the voice of a loved spirit heard, If there dwells not a monitor solemn and stern. In the depth of the heaiher bells' cloud-tinted urn? At the close of the day, in the stillness of the even', When the soul hears tbe music of angels in heaven. When our thoughts are all freed from life's wild commotion, As would rise on faith's wings as a hymn of devotion, Let us praise tbe great God of creation on high, For the flowers on the earth and heaven when we die. Indianapolis. Aug. 5. Joseph F. Brown. Suspicious Submission. Providence Journal. A small boy bad been having a dar of unmitigated outrageousness, such as all children who do not die young are likely to have at times, and when he waa ready for bed Lis mother said to him: "When you say your prayers, Georpie, ask God to make yon a better boy. You have been very naughty "to-day." The youngster accordingly put np his petitions in the usual form, and then before closing with "amen" be addeJ: "And, please, God, make me a good boy." He paused a second and then, to the utter consternation of his mother, concluded with unabated gravity: "Nevertheless, not my will, O Lord, but thine be done." One Good Tarn. Etc Faris Fiparo. City Man (to one of bis clerka he finds fishing in his ornamental water) 'Look here, Sraithers, I've no objection to giving you a day now and then 'to attend your aunt's funeral,' but I think you might send some of the fish up to the bouse!" A Little Caution. Omaha Republican. 1 Jakey "I vas goin' to tell you a sheke, fadder. Der vas Mr. Orpenheimer (excitedly "Pon't you tell no shokes here, Jakey. Dere Tas two gustomers in der store, and if dey laugh de new suit Ton't Lut Uli Ucy tt to de door."

IN THE SPOUTING WORLD.

A FIGHTER TELLS HOW IT FEELS. Jimmy Carroll, the Light-Weight Instructor, Describes What It Is to light I'omters For Pugilists When st Man Don't Feet Notes. Jimmy Carroll, the liht-weight instructor of the California athletic club, haa leen telling how it feels to fight. "The worst part of a fight is when a man fiteps hetween tho ropes atad takes hi peat in his corner," ho fays. "No ina;ter how Ion;.' he has been in tho business, Iiis knoes will feel weak anl shaky. His hair Htantla on end when the lirst chill etrikts him, but commenced to pull eavaeely lefore he reaches his corner. The chill works down his back and settles in the pit of his stomach, where it btays until he feels as if bo ha l swallowed about a pound of the rough en4 of a frozen pcantlin?. He endeavor? to look einilinc and confident, but the under jaw drops until his countenanco resembles that of a ly inyr cattish. After the lirnt round this fet-ling is gone and a man commences to feel at home. "Now I'll tell you how it feels to get hit. Kvery one who has ever had an impromptu finht knows how it feels to get his nose or ear banged. It feels the cams in the ring, but a little more so. In tho first place, it is simply a jab of inexperience, while in the ring the pugilist throws in a stroke of art. Iut the blows which dazo an opponent are the ones which count, and very few know what eort of feeling that is. I have been dared several times in tights, and once was almost dead from drowning, and the feeling is almost . exactly the same. "It is not at all unpleasant. T felt as if I was floating slowly hither and thither in the air, not knowing or caring wbern I was or what I was doing. 1 experienced no pain, but was perfectly comfortable. "When a man is knocked out he doesn't feel it at all. He suddenly goes to fleep and fet ls nothing. When he recovers b is d.icd for a time. I Paw Le blanche knock a man out in Missoula, Mont., when we were traveling with John L. SniIlivan. The fellow diJn't recover confeior.sncss for over an hour and then he was badly rattled. He finally said, 'Some one has docd me and I'm not going on to spar.' He didn't know he had been on and knocked out, and we couldn't make him believe it." Genera! Sporting Notes. Sullivan oßers to fight Smith for $CO,O00 a bide. Frank Murphy received 70 and Hilly Mnr phy .-Vi".1 for iht-ir recent fijrht before the California athletic club. Jera Smith and Jack Wannop are matched to ficht with small cloves Sept. .V, the former wnerin? 2 to W'annop's Wti. Frank V. Slavin Las arrived in London and intends to challenge any man in the world for fj.WO and the Wire Jizrtte belt. Joe MeAulifte Iim cone into training for bis match with Fat Killen, to oceur at the (iolden (iate athletic club, San Francisco. Sept 11. 11 has been taking exercises daily vith Jim Corbett. Henry Teteron lins returned to San Francisco from Salt l.ake C ity, where be engaged in several matches. He wants to row any one in America lor 1,000 a side, Ilanlon or Gaudaur preferred. Richard K. Fox is trying to induce II. Searle, the Australian champion oarcman, to enter a regatta in this country. Fox may offer t'i,0H for a sinele scull race for the championship of tbe world, with 3,eo0 to the first. The accident to Mignon at Saratoga has created a fnror among the race-goers who are superstitionsly inclined. She was No. 13 on the card, a fact that attracted much attention, and they are shaking their heads over it yet. McCarthy, the Australian middle-weicht now in Frisco, is only five feet 6ix inches in highland now weighs 170 pound. He can train to 1V pounds. His first üzht ia this country will be with "ILeddy" Gallagher of Cleveland at the California athletic club. I Ax tell, 2:H?4, the reat three-year-old. stands fifteen and one-half bands high, aud measures the same over rump as at the withers. The day he trotted in l':15)ihe weighed 1,050 pounds, and w ns retarded as fifty pounds too hiirh in flesh. His shoes weich five ounces forward and three ounces behind. An Fnirlish correspondent discussing the duke of Portland's luck, says: "He has not been on the turf ten years, and yet almost every classic race has fallen to his lot. lie has won the Derby twice, and bids fair to win it next year, as I hear that Semolina is by no means the best of his two-year-old?, and that St. Serf is the best be has." Dexter trotted a mile over the Buffalo track twenty-two years aro in 2:17. The Rreat gelding; was nine years old at that time, and his performance excited the whole trotting world, llarus trotted in 2:13J4' on the tmrae track eleven years aco. At the inectin? when Dexter reduced the world's record $H,(X) was bune up in the ditlerent races. Jimmy Carroll, the light-weight instructor of the California A. C, has written a letter to the London Sport. 7 Le in reply to certain dispnraging remarks made by Jem Carney and Sam Ulakelock, since their return, home on "lair play in America." He shows hinielf to be quite an able ad vocate. and concludes with and oiler to thrash both Carney and lüakelock in the same rincr. Hardy M. banks, jr., the popular collegian and member of the Manhattan athletic ciub. states that be is through with running for an indefinite period, on account of business. He was always a perseverin? trainer, und has soiiw high-class records, lie has done :10 3-5 for lri yards, :'2'l 1-3 for 129 yards and :öl 1-5 for 4V) yards. He won the amateur championship at the quarter-mile run in lvr. Alf Kennedy, billy Myer's backer, says that the light-weight champion nuibt either fight Myers or give up tbe belt and championship. Although Myers does not care for the belt, and as yet has not demanded it. he is entitled to it by all the rules of prize fighting. When Kilraiu challenged Sullivan lticbard K. Fox gave the belt to him, and that, ton, when John I was laid up with a broken arm. Yet, when Myers went right to McAuliÜe's home and pnt up his forfeit money for a match, McAuhtTe, without any excuse at all, refused to make a match. Why didn't Fox give the belt to Myers? The demon of discord has bas been mighty busy for the past month. The ties between owners and jockeys have been snapping at a great rate. First came the break between the Dwyero and their fleshless little Knglishman; then Willie Palmer drew f 1.8U0 that he had in bank and struck out from under Papa Daly's sheltering wing; next came the long-expected break between the only Jimmy and the speculative Chicago stable; and now a little bird whispers that all is over between Martey Bergan and Capt. Brown. Truly the aforesaid demon must feel quite proud of bis month's work. Sportsnux . Peter Cannon, at Montrose, Eng., recently pave J. Fergurson yards start, A. Hunter 300 and A. Iellor 440 in a four-mile handicap race. The track was carefully 6taked otf, and measured .V0 yards, so that, in order to accomplish the distance, twenty-one laps and 110 yard had to be traversed. Every roan finished, but Cannon managed to get to the front, and won in lt:40, which is only one-fifth of a seoond longer than W. U. George's record at Stamford briJce, London, made about aix years at-o, and four seconds longer than the best held by Jack White. Cannon is considered the best professional raaner ia England to-day, and judging by the time he made in his recent raee, the opinions eoncering his running must be right. The Kentnckr Klectlon. LonsviLLE, Aug. 6. A special to tbe Eivninj Timtt indicates that Stephen J. bharp (dem) for treasurer of Kentucky, baa been elected by between 30,000 and 4J,OoO majority. The democrats gain eight and possibly more feats in the legislature. The vicissitudes of climate are trying to most constitutions, especially to people having impure blood. For all such (and they constitute the msjorityl, the best safeguard is Ayer's Sar aaparilia, the use of which cleanses the blood aud nUeusiueiis and inviuraUs the system, j