Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 May 1892 — Page 4

- THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 18, 1892-TWEEVE PAGES.

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tor THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. S. E. MORSS, President. .tatara at tfca Poatoffioa at lailaaapolU m aaaopd mm matter. TERMS TEK YEAR ElocTa aopr (Inrariably in AdTe.) SI OA TVf ak !iocrata to tear In mind and telect th lr wd itat parer when they coma to tats lubacrlpUcm and Bau np club. .A grata making np cluba and for any Information ctircd. AddcM THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL Indianapolia. Ind. WEDNESDAY. HAY 18, 1892. TWELVE PAGES. THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNIC. Ikdiaxapolis SKyriNEL Compaet: "Wo received the "Encyclopaedia Britam nlca" all right, and are highly pleased -with it. It in much more than I ex pected, and U certainly a very excel lent work. Please accept our thanks. Xonri respectfully, , LESTXB I ALUSOS. Malott Park, April 2. To TH I EDITOR Sir: Having been in possession of the revised Encyclopaedia Hrltannica about two weeks I am highly pleased with it. I marvel at the extreme low price that you furniah It at. Being a student I And it of great benefit to me in the solution of a great many perplexing questions. I believe that all young readers of "The Sentinel" should have it, and many thanks to you for having been the medium through which I have been made able to procure so useful a book, which I consider the best investment that I ever made for so small an amount of tnonay. William D. Parr. Organize precinct clubs. Representative Brookshire did good work in fighting the land grant railroad lobby. In fact Mr. Brooksiiirk has been doing pretty pood work all along the lino ever since ha entered congress. Indiana is proud of bis record. The Chicago Herald is now a rampant Boies paper. It was a Hill paper until it Baw Hill's nomination was impossible; then in rapid succession it became a Russell paper, a Gray paper, a Fattison paper and a Palmer paper. Purine all the time it has thus, like the ostrich, had its head tinder cover, the conspicuously exposed portion ot its anatomy has distinctly identified it to the world as nothing more cor less than an anything-to-beat-Cleve-land reaper. The senate committee on judiciary has reported against the bill to prevent the use of the American flag as an advertising medium. Its reason for so doing is that the passage of the iaw would injure flag dealers. As the only maker of bunting in America is Ben IU'tllr, and as a prohibItive tariff retained by this same republican senate insures him exclusive control of the homo market, Ben- ought, out of r ere gratitude, to return to the republican fold. Heretofore W. W. Dudley's crookedness has been supposed to be confined to politics, and the beneficiaries of his misdeeds have been presidents and their retainers. But the evidence in the Baum case yesterday would make it appear that he is not above petting in a littio personal ""graft" occasionally. Iiowewr, Didi.ey lias been associating with H.u'M a pood deal lately, and a man who does that may fall to any depth without giving occasion for any eurpriae. We place very little weight on the stories that Harrison is to le beaten in the Xlinneapclis convention by Blaine, Mrxrjiax or anybody else. The talk to this effect may worry Mr. Harrison and his managers a eood deaf, but that is probably the full extent of its effects. Mr. Harrison seems to have as sure a thins of the nomination as any man ever had previous to the meeting of a convention. Republicans do not, as a rale, like him. but tbey recognize in him the Inevitable with a great big "I." It seems to us that too many lives are lost in the Clay county coal mines by falling slate. Every little while this accident occurs. On last Friday Newton Andekson's life went out by an event of the kind referred to. A young mother and one child will remember the story for many a I ng day when everyone else has forgotten it. Cannot the operators prevent the recurrence of this class of accidents? There surely should be some feasible plan adopted to gird and brace the roofs of the xi.iLe chambers as the coal is being dug cut. Why should this accident so frequently occur? The president is said to be very taxlous to appoint Attorney-General Miller a justice of the supreme court, but ia prevented by precedent. This excuse ought not to satisfy Mr. Miller. President Harrison has shown his contempt for precedent, and decency ti well, in appointing to the circuit bench a man guilty, by his own admission, of resorting to the xnost unscrupulous means to save corrupters of the ballot from the penalty of their crirres; he has violated all precedent in retaining Racm in office after everybody in the country has been convinced of his guilt of the gravest offenses; he has violated all precedent in giving a cabinet position as a reward for collecting money with which to purchase votes. The precedent in the way of Miller's ambition is trifling compared with that which the . president baa set aside in these cases a precedent that demanded a man should cot be publicly known to be morally unfit when called to high office. There has been an enormous increase in tbe demand for stamped postal envelope! and paper. In 1871 the total value of stamped paper and envelopes was $17,629,512. In Jane, 1891, there were 64,337 postoffices in the country. Now note the increase in the matter referred to in the foregoing: From these postofflees there were received 672,027 requisitions for supplies, on which stamped paper was issued as follows: Postage stamps to tbe number of 2,419,143,773, and value of $43, 19, 3.36; stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers amounting to 556,220,250, of the value of $11.031.167; postal cards to tbe number and value respectively of 424,216.750 and $4,246,165, and letter ihset envelopes numbering 817,500, of the value c &1&S02.60. making the total number ,

3,400,406,273, and the value $64,209,401.44.

This was an increase in ten years, in the number of posiofficea, of 19,823, or 44.53 percent.: in number of riuiaitions of 241,159, or 55.97 per cent, a. vi in the num ber of pieces of stamped papar issued of 1,900,642,775, or 126.72 per cent, and in value of $29,625,987.S5, or 83.91 per cent. Organize Precinct Clubs. In the recent city and town elections in Indiana that party which had the best local club organization made the pains. This is a valuable pointer for democrats. and especially for local candidates. It is to the interest of these latter that clubs be organized in every precinct in their counties, and it should be their pleasure to promote them in every way possible, They will find no direction in which they can better employ their time than this. Of course these will also help greatly in the work of organizing the etate for na tional and etate purposes, but the greatest beneficiaries will be the local candidates themselves. The imperative necessity for organiza tion no one at all versed in political affairs will deny; nor will anv one deny that the republican party has for years held its power against the wishes of a majority of the people, and against tbe interests of all the people except the tariff barons, corporation, stockholders and republican officeholders, solely through the superiority of its organization. Even the justice of its causa and the righteousness of its prin ciples have not enabled tbe democracy to permanently triumph over its adversary's magnificent organization. If Indiana democrats need proof ot the value of cluba let them glance at the re cent political history of Marion county. Seven years ago there was not a demo cratic club in tbe county; l'kewise there wasn't a democratic olTicial, and the greatest difficulty was experienced in getting democrats to make the race for office. About seven years ago the first democratic club was formed. The idea spread rapidly and grew in popularity until now scarcely a ward in Indianapolis and not a township in the county is without its permanent democratic organization, while a ma jority of the precincts are similarly pro vided for. In the campaign of 1SS3 every precinct in Marion county had a club which met at least once a week. What was the result? For the first time in history Marion county went democratic in a presidential year in spite of the fact that the successful candidate for president was a resident of the county, and that money was poured out like water to prevent his being repudiated in his own home. Another beneficial result is that every countv and city officer is now a democrat, elected by an immense majority. Right here the purposes and duties of democratic clubs should be clearly defined and understood. The true democratic club should not be regarded as an organization for marching or dress parade purpopes. These should be mere incidents. ine ciud snouid, in the hrst place, co operate with the central committee in securing a perfect poll. The precinct club does this. It makes democrats acquainted with each other. At its weekly meetings the members compare notes. They learn who of their neighbors are democrats and who are republicans ; who are voters and who are not; and their reports to the ccn trai committee make its poll complete and accurate. We all know that in 1SSS the republicans cast many illegal votes throughout tbe state. Had every democrat been as familiar with his precinct as he should have been and A3 familiar as membership in an active, welloreanized club would have made him the-e illegal votes would not have been cast, and Indiana would hare stood, where she rightfully belonged, in the democratic column. Another benefit of club organization arises from the weekly conference of members and through the understanding gained thereat of tbe issues and the way to meet them. One member has used an argument effectively on a republican which another had not thought of. One member has discovered an advantage which may be pressed and imparts tbe information to the others. Thus, in a short time, each member is armed with the experience of all, and his future work is made correspondingly more effective. Still another great advantage is derived from the dissemination of literature. If a member has a wavering republican neighbor he submits his case to tbe club, and some one of the members knows of the right kind of literature to bring that republican, with just an inkling of truth, into the full light of knowledge. And right here we want to say that it is one of the prime duties of a democratic club to see that every democrat in its jurisdiction reads at least his Iqcal democratic paper. Every democrat should take his home democraMc paper first, and then he should have all the other literature that either he or his club can afford. The club's mission is chiefly an educational one, and the main feature of that education this year should be in the line of securing the correct stampingof ballots. The legislature of 1891 made some changes in the election law, and in the ppring elections this year votes were thrown out in nearly every precinct of the state because they were incorrectly stamped. The precinct club, if it does its full duty, will see that not a democrat in its jurisdiction loses his vote through ignorance as to the manner of stamping. This work of education should be the first duty of every club, and systematically carried out will insure to the Indiana democracy a glorious triumph in November. The Sentinel has dealt with this subject at such length because it feels that it is oneof vital importance to tbe democracy of Indiana. It feels that the time to organize is right now. Democracy is on the right track; it is on the people's side; it is fighting the battle of the poor against the rich; the masses against the classes. and in Indiana it is fighting tbe battle of the taxpayers against the tax-dodgers and tax-eaters. The democracy is in the right. But tbe right must have veapous, and the most elective weapon is organization. Organization can best be secured through tbe precinct club. Let every democrat in the state belong to a precinct club; let every club educate the people in the truth of democratic principles; let every ciub sett that its precinct is properly and accurately polled; let every club see that every democratic voter within its reach knows exactly how

tOEtampbis ballot and not all the "fat"

fried from tariff-benefited trusts ;not all the influence of favored railroads; not all the skullduggery of federal officials, will suf fice to prevent the magnitude of the un precedented democratic victory in 1890 paling into insignificance when compared with the still more overwhelming demo cratic triumph next November. The Republican Tax Conspiracy. The evidence ia rapidly coming in, and in a few days Tub Sentinel will be able to demonstrate conclusively the most in famous conspiracy against the people that has ever been known in Indiana. It is already certain that as soon as tbe last legislature adjourned an agreement wai entered into by republican leaders to ascu tue u c tt wa. iaw uu wie gruuua mat it would increase taxes, and under covar ot this cry the republican officials wher ever in power should increase their local taxes as high as they deemed safe and blame the result on the new tax law. In structions for carrying out this plan were at once sent to all parts of the state, and the republican press immediately set up the cry that the new law increased the taxes of the people and decreased those of the corporations. A great furore was created by this falsehood, and while it was at its height the preparations were made for the next s:ep in the conspiracy by instructing every republican official who had any voice in levying taxes to make the local levy as high as possible. The implicit obedience with which this instruction was carried out is now mani . a a fest in the returns made by tbe county auditors to the auditor of state. Without regard to the public needs tbe republican officials raised the taxes, expecting that all they would have to do would be to cry, 'If yon do not believe democracy is a tax look at your tax receipt," and the people would believe them. It happened that just one-half of tbe counties were con trolled by republican commissioners, and these forty-six counties were called upon for additional state taxes to the amount of $006,755.13. Instead of raising the same amount of local taxes as before, the republican officials in these counties increased their local taxes $1,258,265.71, making a grand total increase of $l,865,030.84,or more than three times as much as there was any need for. There was not the slightest excuse or justification for this action, otification was given to all the counties by the superintendent of public instruc tion that the apportionment of school revenues would be increased at least ib cents per capita, and that local school taxes should be decreased to that extent. Every republican official knew exactly the increase ot appraised valuation in his county, township or town, and knew what rate he should lew in order to raise tbe same amount of taxes as last vear. And yet these officials deliberately and wan tonly increased the local taxes for the pur pose of making the people believe that the new tax law was a bad thing, while getting hold of more of the people's money to squander and speculate with. It should be remembered that the full est warning was given to these officials by tne press, ana in nearly every county in the etate prominent citizens went to them and insisted that the taxes should be levied in accordance with the law. In this city every effort was made to induce the republican school board to make its levy reasonable, but without avail. The Senti nel and Neu repeatedly insisted on this, and tbe two democratic members of tbe board offered a resolution to fix: the levy accordingly, but only one republican member voted for it. We said at the time when this board increased the city taxes 171,013.86: This increase is far bevond the require ments of the board. There is absolutely no justification lor it. It places a pre mium noon extravagance and lobberv in the administration of school affairs. It will, of course, be a fine thing for the bank which has the use of the school funds without interest and for the little clique which is managing the school board as a close corporation, but it is a gross outrage upon the tax-payers of Indianapolis. Wo adhere to every word of this, but we did not know then, what we know now, that this was a part of an enormous republican conspiracy that extended throughout the state. The democratic platform charged that as a result of this conspiracy republican officials had increased local taxes more than $1,250.000. It is now certain thaH they increased them more than $1,500,000, and the probabili ties are that the sum is much larger. For the purpose of creating unjust prejudice against a tax law for the purpose of cam paign capital these officials have needlessly taken from the pockets of the tax payers over $1,500,000, probably over onetenth of the entire taxes raised in the state. There have been remarks made at times about "peanut politus," but this is regular cocoanut politics, and the milk in the cocoanut is duly accounted for. The Mistakes of Watterson. Mr. Henry Watterson lingers at Wash ington, and Monday's Courier-Journil contained another three-column, doubleleaded statement oi his opinion that Mr. Cleveland cannot carry New York, and that therefore it will be folly to nominate him. Undoubtedly Mr. Wattersox be lieves that Mr. Cleveland cannot carry .isw i vim, out ins opinion is not more valuable than that of leading democrats and democratic newspapers of New York, who say most emphatically that Cleveland can carry the state. When Mr. Watterson says that "no one believes the election of Mr. Cleveland possible" he challenges at once the democracy and the common sense of the great army of democrats who, from Maine to ' California, through their state and local con ventions, their newspapers and other mediums, are demanding Mr. Cleveland's nomination. To say that these millions of democrats ' are urging the nomination of a man who they know can not be elected is to say that they care nothing for the success of the party, or else are collectively incapable of judging a situation which Mr. Watterson masters at a glance. Mr. Wattersow admits that Mr. Cleve land is tue choice of an overwhelming majority of the democrats of the country just as Mr. Tilden was in 1SS0, and yet he declares that his nomination means disaster, while his rejection, at the behest of Tammany hall, means success. It would be interesting to have Mr. Watterson explain, if he can. by what process the party will be harmonized into suppoit of the national ticket if. at Chicago.

the wishes of the ' overwhelming

majority of democrats are overruled in order to placate a noier. turbulent and 'corrnpt faction which, in 1880, after die tating to the national democracy, deliber ately "knifed" the candidate who had been named in order to securo "har mooy." It is of course possible that Mr, Cleveland, if he is nominated, may lose New York and be defeated. Parties are very evenly balanced in this country, but the reDublican Dartv has the support of r 0 - the tariff rintrs and the money power, and will make a desperate fi:ht against Cleveland or anybody else who may be nominated by the democrats. But Cleveland is the choice of an overwhelming majoritv of democrats the country v,.,i: r w -Ata . v can get the support of the independent press and of more independent voters than any other democrat: and the obvious fact is that if he can't be elected no demo erat can bo. Our own opinion is that, as against President Harrison, who seems to have a "cinch" on the republican nomina tion, Mr. Cleveland will sweep tbe coun try, carrying not only New Yorx, New Jersey and Connecticut, but several states in New England and the Northwest here tofore republican If Mr. Watterson would get away from the politicians at ashington and go out among the people, his opinion as to .Mr. Cleveland's chances would be more valuable than it is. Will the "Journal" Dare? The Journal, which has never had cour age to tell the truth about the new tax law, complains that, in answering a cor respondent who asked what the levy for state purposes was, we did not tell him that the appraisement had increased "from $-843,483,466 in 1890 to $1,249.S07,S99 in 1891." The Sentinel has published that repeatedly or rather the fact that the appraisement had increased from $357, 674,387 to $1,254,911,163. The readers of Tue Sentinel have been aware of that fact ever since the result was officially ascertained. They also understand that the increased appraisement and the addi tional levy of 6 cents for the support of the benevolent and reformatory institutions will make an increase of something over a million dollars in state taxes. That hag been fully explained. The Sentinel believes in publishing the full and exact truth, and always does so. If any of its readers are misinformed they have no one to blame but themselves. But as the Journal manifests a belated interest in facts, we will suggest a few glowing truths concerning the new tax law which it has not printed, and which it does not print, nor attempt to answer. It complains that the increase of ap praisement makes an increase of $650,000 of state school taxes. Has the Journal ever explained to its readers that all this money is returned to local officials for support of the common schools, and that the state does not receive one cent of it? Has it ever explained that the state school tax ia the basis of our school system and that local tuition taxes are levied to fid out what is lacking from the state apportionment? Has it ever informed them that when the state school tax is increased the local school taxes should be reduced in the same proportion, and that- the increase of tbe state school tax would make no increase of taxes if local officials did their dutv? Not at all. It has steadily tried to createthe impression that this was an increase, of Etate taxes, and it will continue to repeat its shallow lio until the campaign is over and it learns that the people have more sense then it gives them credit for. Take an illustration. Here in Indian apolis the schools will receive about $3S,000 more from the state than thev did last year. Did the republican school board decrease the taxes in proportion ? Oh, no. They increased the taxes levied by them from $139,013.86 to $252,708 ; that is to say, $113,013.86. That is the way they did their duty. They will collect $171.013.86 more than they did last year. They have increased taxes in Indianapolis that much. The total increase of taxes in Indianapolis is $333,393.46, and the' republican school board made more than one-half of it. Will the Journal dare to print that fact? Moreover, this increase by the school board was unnecessary. As the Journal says, "I litre wa$ no necessity Jor anv increase in the school revenues." The democratic legislature did make an increase of state taxes for the necessary purpose of meeting state expenses, and it provided a system by which the burden of the increase fell upon corporations. The entire state in crease in Marion county is $130,609.96, and of that amount $95,314.02 is an increase on railroads alone, and most, if not all, of the remainder falls on banks and other corporations. But for every dollar of neces sary taxes that the democratic legislature put on corporations the republican school board of Indianapolis put an unnecessary tax of $1.30 on the people. Does the Journal dare to print those facts? Does it dare tell the whole truth about this school board which has become a stench in the nostrils of the community? Will it even tell who gets the interest on the school funds? Further, this scheme of increasing local taxes has been carried out by re publican officials all through the state. The forty-six counties under republican control were required to raiee $606,755.13 of increased state taxes. They made an increase in local taxes of $1,258,265.71, or in all an increase of $1,863,030.84 three times as much as was necessary. Not only this, but in every county under democratic control republican township trustees and town boards did the same thing. Take, for example, the democratic county of Johnson, in which the increase of state taxes was $10,783.38, but in which tbe total increase was $17,529.45, and look at tbe increase made by republican officials: Rapnbliean trust a Clark township-.! 1,601 03 Kepoblioautraatfts Franklin township 2,122 74 Kapablioan board town of t raokhn... 3,653 e Republican board town of Edinburt. 3,777 S3 ltcpnblioan board town of Orsanwsod 217 33 Total rapublleaa inoroaso.....M....4H,437 63 But these townships and towns will re ceive at least $3,700 more of state school funds this year than they did last year, and should have reduced their taxes by that amount, and therefore they are rais in? $20,137.63, unnecessarily, more than th,y did last year. Will the Journal dare to print the facts as to this infamous conspiracy of . republican officials? Will it dare to tell its readers that this wanton and needless increase oi local taxes, made by republican officials every

where, was for the purpose of creating prejudice against the new tax law, which in no senee is responsible for it? The Journal denies that the republican party made anv part of the state dsbt of $482,608.34 which it left to the democratic party in 18S3. and that it did not create any of the bonds now outstanding. Everyone knows that the republican 6 per cent, bonds were refunded by tbe democrats at 3 per cent., but the republican party created the debt that they represent. Will the Journal dare to call the attention of its readers to the acts of Dec. 22. 1SÖ5, and March 11, 18d7, under which the re

publican party "borrowed" the money in the school fund and used it for other purposes? Will it dare to tell them that the republicans changed the school fund from an aeset to a debt? Will it dare to tell them that no school fund bonds were issued until 1S67? Will it inform them that, with the exception of about $20,000, the stato debt in 1883 consisted of this echool fund debt made by republicans and $ÖS3,000 of "temporary loan bonds" issued by tbem? Will it also casually mention that at the time the re publicans borrowed the school fund and for five years after the war the republic ans maintained a state tax of 25 cents on $100 in addition to the 16 cent school levy and a poll tax of 75 cents? If the Journal desires to try telling the truth there is a great field for it, and it is wholly unoccu pied by the republican press of Indiana. An Object Lesson. To tits Editor Sir: I have read your explanation of the way the corporations pay the increase of etate taxes, but I do not believe 1 understand it. If the corporation taxes are increased as much as the etate taxes it looks like no one else should be increased, but I pay $2.60 more taxes this year than I did last, and I am not a corporation. Most of it is local tax. but 85 cents is state tax." How do yon account lor that; Schoolteacher. Indianapolis, May 11. 1892. That depends on circumstances. If your property is a vacant lot in the suburbs, part of it may be due to the fact that it was assessed as farm land last year and as a city lot this year, in which case your appraisement would have increased more than the average. If your appraisement has not increased more than the average (45 per cent.) the increase is due to the fact that the local taxes are higher than they were last year. Perhaps you will better understand the principle of adjusting state and local taxes if you make a practical illustration of it. Take nine of your school children, and appoint one to represent the corporations and the other eight to act as citizens. Take two boxes, one for a state treasury and the other for the local treasury, and give the children 100 peanuts, or bits of paper, or anything elee, for tax money, twenty to the corporation boy and ten to each of the others. Then levy 10 per cent, for state taxes and 90 per cent, for local taxes. The result will be that the corporation boy will put two peanuts in the state treasury box and eighteen in the local treasury, while the others put one peanut each in the etate treasury and nine each in the local treasury. You will then have ten peanuts state taxes and ninety peanuts local taxes. i ou next want to raise twenty peanuts for the state, and proceed to double the assessment of the corporation boy and give him forty peanuts to pay his taxes. Increase the state levy to 20 per cent, and decrease the local levy to 80 per cent. The result will be that the corporation boy puts four peanuts in the state treasury and thirty-six in the local treasury, w hile the other eight put two peanuts each in the state treasury and eight each in the local treasury, so that you have twenty peanuts state taxes and 100 peanuts local taxes. Notice now that notwithstanding the deCreased local assessment you have ten peanuts more of local takes than before. and tbe state taxes of each of the eight citizens have been doubled, and yet each of tbe eight citizena pays only ten peanuts taxes in all, just aa in the first case. If the local taxes had not been increased, each of the citizens would have eight-tenths of a peanut left That is the way the tax law would have worked out if honestly administered. ism now suppose that while you are making the illustration a member of the republican school board comes in and makes and additional levy of 10 per cent. for his own benefit He gets ten peanuts, which he promptly puts out at interest, and you will have to furnish ten peanuts more for tax money ; and the genial politician from the school board will say: "If you do not think democracy ia a tax, look at your sack of peanuts." Who do you think is responsible for those ten extra peanuts, you or tbe school commissioner? And if, after the object lesson was over, one of the eight citizens should come to you and say, "I am not a corporation, but my tax was increased one peanut," would you not fall on his neck and break it? The Tax Law Decision. The decision ot the supreme, court in the bank deposit case settles two important questions: 1. That the legislature cannot confer upon taxing tribunals the power to com mit, for tbe reason that such a determination involves powers which are purely ju dicial and belong to the courts alone. The court holds that the state board of tax commissioners possess the power to com pel the attendance of witnesses and the production of books and papers, but that where its orders are disobeyed in this par ticular the board should proceed against the disobedient witness in the courts, where he may be punished as for contempt. 2. The court holds that the state board is not a court and could not be a court, but that it is an administrstive board, and for the purpose of assessing and valuing property for taxation it possesses powers judicial in their character, which are sometimes called quasi judicial. This is a strong point against the posi tion taken by the corporations in the rail road tax cases. Tbe main point urged by them against the tax laws is that the etate board is a court and unconstitutional because the governor is a member of tbe board, and that judicial powers cannot be conferred upon the executive department of the state. With this view of the case the railroads, it would seem, have but little to stand upon. At any rate tbe main proposition relied upon in the injunction complaints has. been knocked from under tbe corporations in the pending litigations.

ET CETERA.

The Eiffel tower was a pretty tall thing in its way, but it is dwarfed into littleness when compared with George Eiffel's claim that he made $10.000.000 profit out of it Mrs. Gladstone is at last satisfied that justice has been done to her illustrious husband. The portrait of him which Propheroe has just finished is admitted bv tv . a t . . nor io ue periect, ana tne only really good likeness ot him yet painted. William Astor was drawn as a juryman in New York last week. It was the day before the telegraph announced he had been summoned to appear betöre a higher court, , Last Friday the judge ordered his name stricken from the jury list. ' It is said that years ago Von Mollhaasen, the German novelist, who is now librarian to the German emperor, was a day laborer on an Illinois farm. His emE loyer at that time, Adam B-iss, rememera him well, and eays that he was very industrious. S. II. H. Clark, the new president of the Union Pacific railroad, began lifo as a brakeman on a gravel train. He is said to be particularly popular with the railroad labor organizations, and no trouble ever arose from those sources after he became manager of Gould's Missouri Pacific erstem. When they asked Dr. Edward Everett Hale the other day the secret of keeping young at the age of seventy he said: "First, never do anything yourself which you can get another to do for you; second, never trouble yourself as to who will get the credit for what is done; third, never work after three o'clock in the afternoon; fourth, eleep ten hours out of twentyfour." Col. A. K. McCli re, editor of the Philadelphia Times, was attending a Grant banquet on the evening that his office was burned down. Intelligence of the fire was brought hira as he was about to respond to the toast, ''The Press." Hastening to the scene, he quickly took in the situation, saw the case was hopeless, and then coolly returned to the festivities from which Le had temporarily absented himself. Herman- Zeituxo, who makes his living by traveling in trunks, and then exhibiting himself in variety shows on the conti nent, made his last trip from Antwerp to Chnstiania in a wooden box, which stood on the ship's deck four days and four nights without anybody knowing that it contained a man. The voyage was stormv, but Zeitung kept his nose' to a crack in the Doards, ate his sandwiches, and kept well. One spring morning a farmer went into his stable to harness his horse for plowing when he perceived that the animal was dead. "This," said the farmer, gazing at the dead horse, "ia what I call unlimited gall. I'd like to be a horse myself, under the circumstances. All winter long the miserable brute does nothing but stand in the stable and eat and drink, and when springtime comes, gentle Annie, when there is work to be done, he just pegs out" Texas Sif tings. Tennyson reads a great number of novels, says the Bookman. The time spent in reading them ia in the evening. So en grossed does he become in" their perusal that it is a matter of difficulty to get him to bed. He rises late and breakfasts in his bedroom, usually taking a 6trolI at about 12 and lunching at about 2 o'ciock. Much of the afternoon is SDent bv him self, when he enjoys the luxury of his pipe (with which nothing is allowed to interfere) and refreshes himself with a nap. Dr. Nokvin Green, the president of the Western union telegraph company, has been identified with teletrraphy since its earliest days. He was a practicing physician at Louisville, Ky., when he was induced to organize the Southwestern tele graph companv, which in time went the way of tbe other companies throughout the country it became a part of the Western union system. Dr. Green's fav orite illustration of the vactnesa of the Western union svstem is to sav that its wires would make a quadruple line to the moon. Samuel Mixtcrx Peck, the poet la In some respects a queer genius. He lives like a hermit on his farm near Tuscaloosa. Ga., and notwithstanding the fact that the critics have crowned him a poet he is very sensitive on that subject and invari ably enters a modest protest when laurel is served up to him at dinner. He informs one anxious inquirer that he is a farmer;" another that he is "a doctor," and still another that he has no occupation at all, other than that of "a landlord." He keeps open house tohis friends, and literary people occasionally drop in and spend six months or a year with him. ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT. A Reader, Crawfordsville, Ind.: The second Saturday of May, 1S56, was the 10th day ot that month. That tired, languid feeling and dull headache is very disagreeable. Take two of Carter's Little liver Pills before retiring, and you will find relief. They never fail to do good. REASONS Dr. Price's Cream Is The

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A Graat ItsTornar Morallaas Conearnlng Tham. Marat HaliUad in Commercial GizatU.l i The stabber of selfish schemes must always expect to find his motives questioned. He will be assailed as Dr. Parkhurst was the other day by the ablest criminal lawyers of New York, ' because, taunted by the representatives of criminality that he did not know anything, and could not prove anything, be "resolved to 6C6 the Worst Of it" and did See extraordinary or rather monstrous sights of riotous licentiousness, within a square of his own church, and on that street opposite the magnificent Madison equare garden ttructure, the most spacious and splendid place of public entertainment in the world, and the scene of the Actor's fund fair which closed last night, leaving the record of a festivity that has done a glorious work. Dr. I'arkhurst made himself a good witness, and convicted tbe woman in the case, in Epiteof the rulers of the city. He bad. however, to listen to charges of all possible improprieties, and these were formulated in tbe coarsest lanCiiave, and uttered with the most vindictive vehemence. The doctor was especially blamed beccune he did not appear in the house of ill-fame in his proper charccter r.s a minister of the gospel; did not wear clothing of clerical distinction, or propose prayer and the read ng of the scriptures. Of courhe he could not have done that without totally destroying his mission, which was to obtain personal knowledeo of criminal proc-ediugs. He was eupposed in the disorderly bouse to be "a westerner with lots of money," and his efforts to play that character were slightly awkward. "The least he could do was to throw his hat across the room and call for beer. He had to give an account of himself in some wav. A? a matter of fact he drank three glasses of the famous and foaming amber liuid, and the intimation that, as he paid several visits to evil resorts, he must have got tolerably "full" is not wholly unwarranted. But if there was any approach to fullnees, there is nothine to show that he has not behaved himeeif in a clear-headed way, and with a fixed purpose. He has shaken the pillars of the temple of sin, and done something to make vice less flagrant and that is as far as he expected to invade the enemy's country. There are several senses in which he is not a prohibitionist. He is not fanatical or fnnliah enough to believe he can cleanse the putrid places of a great city, to purify the elum at once, and he does not refuse to do any. thinz, which 14 the prohibition prescription, until be can accomplish everything. His simple policy has been to add difficulties to the facilities for criminality, and that, it is fair to say, he has done. It was a shock to many persons that he drank beer, called for it and paid for it and drank it on the premises. It was the cheapest and easiest way of dismissing himself, more effective and less odious than calling for a bottle of wine and with less liability to partake of some spurious and horrid decoction. He had to play that he was one ot the wicked, or he would have been pulled by the police. Old Faopla Elnpa. Clvcinnati, May 13. A remarkable wedding took place in Covington, Ky., yesterday. It was that of two old people of Mount Sterling, who eaid they had eloped. The bridegroom was David Heath, who gave his bq as ninety-three years, and the bride was Mary L. Hetrick, who registered at sixty-five years old. Unt Thaoitnd Mllaa by liiere!. CniCAGO, May 13. A lelay bicycle ride from Chicago to New York by means of which a government message signed br Msj. Gen. Nelson A. Miles will be conveyed from army headquarters at Chicago to Maj. Gen. Howard at New York will be started at 2 o'clock next Wednesday afternoon regardless of weather. A u A.d Sanator, Eostox, Mass., May 13. Today Jeffriei A. Winthrop, the oldest state eenator. is eighty-three years old, and is receiving many congratulations. Mr. Winthrop enjoys tbe distinction of having known personally every president of the United States except Washington aud Jefferson. If von feel weak, tired and all mn down. Hood's iSareaparilla is just what vou need to build up strength and purify your blood. TnE new residence for W. K. Vanderbilt at Newport K. I., will be a most gorgeous nnd expensive affair, judging from the $10,000 he has expended on bronze grilles for the entrance and the $75.000 order which be has just given for Mexican onvx for interior decoration and for the crea tion of a Turkish bath of oriental splendor. TlarllDgton Bants Niw Sarvlea. 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