Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 May 1893 — Page 4

0 '4 THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 17, 1893-TWELVE PAGES.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL

BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. S. E. MORSS, President. IIeUt at the Foatomce at In1lanapoli aa aecond c!a. matter. TT.KMS l'EK TEAltt f inpte rof (Invariably in Adanc.)..............JM OO V t ak !e niorrf t to K ur In mind ami oeWt th-lr ec tl rpr when they cctue to take ub-erin-t.cr ami n:ake up club. Apents making up club aerd for any information tetmrd. Audita Tit t 1M1A Alf I.IS 8i:NTINF.L ln.llnnnj r.Iin. In. I. TWELVE PAGES. VEDXI-SÜAY, MAY 17, 1893. Fostmastkk IoMiAM of Terre Haute evidently proposes to be postmaster. Thero was not the slightest excuse for Okeineü'.s attempt to hold the office. But what is to Le expected of a man who would let his private reputation be ruined rather than give up his office ? A (ouple of Kansas City constables have just been sent to jail for three months for extorting money from disreputable women ander threats of arrest. Human jackals of this sort are to be found among the force of constables in almost everv large city. The Kansas City courts are taking the right course in beginning a crusade against them. They are entitled to no sort of consideration from any possible source. TiiE New York UVrAf, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of Mr. Pi litzkk's ownership, struck a handsome and unique medal as a souvenir for distribution among Its frlendi On the face is a raised representation of the I'ulitzer building with a fac t-in.ilo of the UorAf. heading, together with the name cf the recipient of the souvenir. (Jn the reverse is an engraved rvilendp.r ot the year lS'.Kj. It is altogether the neatast thine in the wav of a pocketpiece yet brought out by the engraving urt. Afttk all the republican league convention at Louisville hadn't amounted to much. lU'yond resolving a few times and electing ctlici-rs little has been accomplished. To be eure a step has been taken toward giving tho party a new ibsue that of woman suflrage. But even this has not been fui.y accomplished, and it is extremely doubtful if the hole party, when it meets in convention, will tangle itself up in the crinoline. Beyond the glorification f Chi:kon- the convention baa done nothing worthy of note. A io r.M en t or a testimonial of approval aliould be voted o that courageous Pennsyivar.ian who went to New Yorls recently and secured 1,5mJ from tho jrreeu gooJs rascal of that city. This is the first victory over that disreputable pang yet achieved, or, at leat, eo far recorded. Several Indianians have been victimizod bv this ean.e gentry at various tinier. Thoy were farmers for the moat part, who, if they had been readers of Tiik Siativki, would have been upon their guard. Philadelphia has organized a society for the suppression of the Saturday haircut. This a great an i ranch-needed reform. There are men who feel that their naturally depraved sentiments Lave not been fully exercised unless they have their hair cut on Saturday while twenty waiting shaver sit on hard chairs and swear at them v..-v. They shotil 1 be ostracised from barberism. Indianapolis fihould have u society for this purpose, and pledge the members not on!y to refrain from the pernicious habit themselves but also to boycott barbers who cut hair on Saturday. The rec-nt death of Col. W.um II. La M-was a reminder of -tirring times. The dispatch announcing his death referred t: hira as President Lintmlx's private secretary. This was an error. Ha was appointed by the preeidont to be the marshal of the I '.strict of Columbia, and hid herculean frame became one of ha xnent familiar figures in Washington. His vigilance relaxed after the surrender of Lee, because it wis then thought that all danger to the prudent had parsed. It was for this reason that I.ammn ; was not near Lincoln on the fatal uight in Fold's theater. Lamon's life of Lincoln' was published a fw years after the war. It is not at all beyond tho bounds of probability that Minister i i zm x spooks advisedly when he charges that the recent revolution ia Nicaragua is instigated by New Yorkers in the interests of their bu-ines ventures in the isthmian republic. A good many of the political troubles to the south of us in late years have been due to the same cause. Uncle Sara, while not actively meddling in the b flairs of our neighbors, has permitted many of his subjects to do so, and to this interference nearly all the coldness aud ill-feeling which have manifested themselves on the part of our neighbors has been attributable. It ia time to call a halt. There appeared in Chicago the other day the Kar.ItotthKT D.I'm xkett of Texa?. lie is described as a tall, slight man, dreved in clerical costume, with a superabundance of fine whiskers and curling hair. He was interviewed by an enterprising reporter of one of tho daily papers and he seems to have had a message of dire import. He prophesied a great storm in cane the exposition opened on Sunday. The time set for the storm is the afternoon of Sunday. Joly 1. He was thoughtful enough to inform the reporter that the storm would not come if the gates of the fair remained unopened, but look out if the contrary was allowed to happen. Practical Patriot Um. While the bankers of Whil st, and other localities in the East are doing all in thir power to force the U. S. government to issue bonds for gold, the bankers of the "West are putting forth every eodeavor to assist the government in its financial policy. Indianapolis bankers have been patriotically, though quietly, at work accumulating gold ready to ship Last La-t Saturday one bank shipped 100,000, and Las followed it up regularly since with otbr shipments to the national treasury. Other hanks will follow the example, and everything Indianapolis can do will be done to assist the government over its crisis. But Indianapolis is cot alone. The entire West had ristn as on man to aid the

government. There ias no narrowness of vision, no attempt to make the administration appear at a disadvantage, however slight, before the people, but, instead, a spontaneous outpouring of gold in return for greenbacks, the promissory notes of the government. Happily the time has gone by when Wall-st. can control the finances of the country. The West is a too potent force in commercial as well as financial circles today. Wall-st. is getting to be a back number, and its influence in the financial world is fast passing away. That influence can pass none too soon if the best interests of the people are to be maintained. * * * Abolish Capital Punishment. What a sickening spectacle; what a travesty upon civilization; what a refutation of the boasted progress of the nineteenth century! A man judicially murdered ; struck by lightning by order of the court, a court which is supposed to sit in an impartial judicial attitude and temper its decisions with mercy. The death of Carlyle W. Harris was murder just as much as it would have been murder to have struck him down with an ax. What a horrible thing it was for a number of men to seize one man, bind him in a chair and send nearly 2,000 volts of electricity through his quivering body, while the judicially appointed officials stood by, stop-watch in hand, and calmly watched the doomed man die. There is little to choose between burning negroes in Texas and electrocuting condemned murderers at Sing Sing. Advocates of capital punishment tell us that the bible is the authority for capital punishment. Way back in the dim barbarous past, when the Mosaic law was promulgated, amid lightning flashes and crashing thunders and rocking mountains, as the chronicler puts it, there may have been a necessity for "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth." But if one carefully examines the customs of the nations of antiquity he will find that many of them had a city of refuge to which the murderer could flee, and once safe inside no judicial or other authority could touch him. Furthermore, advocates of biblical punishment cannot consistently be guided by the Mosaic dispensation if they profess to be followers of the Nazarene. He taught an entirely different doctrine and forever set aside the reciprocal death clauses in the Mosaic law. Christianity, as taught by Christ and His followers, does not teach judicial murder. It is asserted that murders vastly increase where the death penalty has been abrogated, and the example of Maine is often pointed to in illustraton of this. It would be well to tell the whole truth respecting the actual condition in Maine which caused such an increase in the number of murders. It was about the time that lumbering was extensively begun there, and the woods fairly swarmed with the lumbermen, who are largely composed of half-breed Canadian French and Indians of the very lowest class. The death penalty was re-enacted, but there has been little decrease in murder during the lumbering seasons. New Hampshire is another state which offers a striking example of the influence of judicial murder in the prevention of killing human beings. The state has suffered some of the most atrocious murders of modern times. Think of Almy, who gives up his life this month. Look at Vermont, where the finding of a murdered body means sure death to some one, and has for the past century. Look at Massachusetts, where Lizzie Borden has just been arraigned in the superior court for a crime that there is no evidence she committed, excepting that she can't tell exactly what she was doing every minute of a certain day. But that is very slender. Few of us could. The New England states have been noted, first because they claim their civilization is superior to that of the West, and second berause capital punishment has been reduced to an exact science there. The world has got away from that antiquated system. The modern idea is to reform and not to kill. The sickening spectacle of a judicial murder like that of Carlyle Harris, the columns of rot telegraphed all over the country and read by thousands whose taste has become vitiated by years of association with such scenes, ought to be abolished forever. A reformatory institution in which murderers could be incarcerated for life would be much more in accord with the broader spirit which is supposed to characterize the actions of humanity in this age of the world. * * * A Needed Change. The method of electing senators needs revision. Just how it t-hall be done has not yet satisfactorily boeu settled, but there is uo question that the present svstem is susceptible of great improvement. The election by tho people is probably the only practical solution of the problem. There mubt b something done to prevent the senate, the body which was formed by the fathers of the government to be a bulwnrc against the possibly ha-lv and ill-consi lerea action of the more popularly chosen representatives, from deterioratiag into a inero aggregation of money bags. The proposition which has met with the most pronounced approval on the part of the people is the submission of the election of sanators to tho people let them be voted for direct. The state of Nebraska recognized the neceeaity of this when the constitution was revised in ls7"). A provision was incorporated in that instrument which allows eectors to express their preference for senators when voting for members of the legislature. In 1SS1 a joint resolution waa introduced in congress providing for the removal of the election of senators from the legislatures and tbe selection by popular vote. Iu ls'.Xt the democrats of Illinois, at their state convention, nominated John M. Palmer as their candidate for senator and put a plank ia their platform declaring in favor of the election of senators by a direct vote of the people. In November, IH'J'2, the votors of California were requested to give an expression of their opinion at the polls regarding the election of senators by popular vote, and they responded by a majority of twelve to one in favor of it. These are all recent and -notable instances that the populr r mind is ready for a change. The present system no longer conduces to conservative action in legislation On the contrary, the morel recent

actions of the senate and house show that the house is, after all, more nearly the guardian of the people's interests than the senate ; for the most visionary propositions of the past few years have originated in tho eonate. K.ch men have succeeded in forcing their way into tha body was intended to bo next the supreme court in point of conservatism. They have done it for thi purpose of becoming dispensers of official spoils, or for honor, or for any one or more of many other reasons which have attracted them. Cases are well authenticated where legislatures have been bought, not openly with money perhaps, but in the way of paying the election expenses of members, and in one or two instances the debts aud mortgages of members. Thi has contributed to a lowering of the standard of the senate and of the state lei'iolatures too. The only method of purifying both is to elect the senators by direct vote of the people and be rid of what is really a star chamber proceeding. Very many times tbe people do not know who is going to be a candidate until the election is over, and they are powerless for six years. The same tactics which won once will win again, and it is practically impossible to rid themselves of the incubus of a poor senator when once he is chosen. In undertaking the reform, however, it must be remembered that the people will never listen to any plan which overthrows equal representation. The states have that guaranteed them, but thnre is plenty of evidence that the senators might be elected by direct vote without protest, except from those who have fattened on the epoils of the present system. The Illinois democrats set a good example in nominating by state convention. To be sure there is nothing more binding than party practice in such action; but in a few years it would become an established method of procedure and would drive out all the corruption and abuses that are) carried on now. No political party which had made an open campaign before tho people for a particular candidate would venture to net hi:n aside and voto for another man when the election came. Independence among voters id too common. Numerous other plans have been advocated; some more simple, some more complicated, but none which, on the whole, ho nearly solves the problem as the nomination by the state convention and a canvass, the same as for members of the legislature, while the legislature, when it meets in joint session, would only carry out the will of the people in electing the candidate of the people's choice. That would solve the problem and would place the man in the senate who was most closely in touch with the people and understood their needs.

Tho Cause of the Cordage Itreak. Now that the cause of the break in that "industrial" stock know as the Cordage trust has been made public we will have to lay aside sumo of those proiound reflections on the manner in which organized greed may overreach itself that have appeared in the McKinley organs. There was apparently no reason why this trust shou d come to grief. The McKinley law provided bountifully for it. lhe duties on the raw material used by it, which had given the government a revenue of a million and a half, were removed, and the duty on manufactured foreign product put bo high that only ?H.'5,4o: worth of foreign manufactures were imported last year. There was every reason to lookforward to great prosperity, and it ia not surprising that the "four hundred" were easily induced to put their funds into cordage. The stock went up and up and the chappy was happy. But there was a little cloud. Mr. John Cool) had not been taken into the combine, because the trust would not agree to bis terms. Mr. tiooj not only continued to manufacture cordage, but he put the price down to bed-rock figures and the trust was obliged to comedown after him. This was hard on the trust, because it had taken in several establishments at fancy prices, and also had purchased hhverat establishments for the t-ole purpose of shutting them up. These circumstances, together with the necessity of m ikiog dividends on watered stock, mado it rather rough sledding for the trust, and when Mr. Ci.kws and his colleagues began to work their pinch on tbe treasury a little too hard the cordage trust grew weak. And to add insult to injury Mr. Good now informs the trust that he can give it eome valuable pointers on the cordage business, one of which probably is that it will be advisable to take Mr. (i(M,i ia on his own terms. Nevertheless it is to be hoped that this w ill not be done. It would perhaps benefit the trust, but it would be hard on the countrv. A Sensible Itevoluti n. The cause of the people is inarching on. Tottering thrones and shaking kingdoms, unMuble principalities and weakened powers herald the tidings that the people will soon be free. From all over the worid the reportä are the same. From the enlightened country of England, down through all the varieties of governments to the oppressive monarchies of Persia and Turkey, the masses are catching the ttep and learning to keep time to the music of freedom and popular government. It is only a few days ago that tho press told of a popular uprising in Belgium which resulted in the addition of nearly L0o0,0(X) voters to those who already enjoyed the right of suffrage. That is, the number allowed by law to voto was raised from lL'O.OoO to 2,000,000. The only objectionable feature about it was the part the mob. had in it. and it may be hoped that the mob influence will be overcome as the people come to appreciate the benefits arising from the opportunity thus granted them to govern themselves. About the same time the announcement wo9 made that the two regonts who have been administering the government in Servia had been deposed and the rightful king enthroned in their place. There is no question but that affairs in Servia bav been manipulated by politicians for their own purposes ever since the regeuts were appointed. Though the king is only nineteen years old, he can't well govern worse than the regents have done, and, as he has the support of the people, it is more than likely that he will govern better. Beally the people have triumphed in Servia as they did in Belgium. The form only is different. There are lessons here for the whole world. It is not always the anarchist, the nihi ist. the socialist or the some

other ist who succeeds in changing tbe form.or perhaps the spirit, of government. The time is passing when isllamitatory co'ip will accomplish anything in the cause of freedom. The reiga of reason and respect for government as represented by the will of the whole people began long ago, but for some reason the powers of the old world have failed to notice it. They realized something of the spirit of freedom when the colonies broke away from the mother country and began business for themselves; but the object lesson was too far away to be very impressive. Tue nations of Kurope simply thought that L'ngland had lost eome valuable territory, which would, ere long, be annexed to the possessions of some other great power. But they didn't know the inllnencea and they couldn't appreciate tho great forces which bad been working ever since the nobles compelled King John to

eign the mngnn clmrt t. The infant col- j onies have grown to commanding eminence, and their growth is only begun. The bugle note of progress is still ringing, and it will not die away until thrcnes are second hand and kings are memories. The struggle of the human race upward has been slow, but it has been constant and sure. Only in the middle ages was there any clouding of the star of hope, and then it was temporary and the glittering symbol blazed forth again with eveu more than its erstwhile splendor after its temporary obscurity. Sinco then there has been nothing to mar the symmetry of tbe growth of liberty, and when, as occurred in Belgium, 2,000,000 votes can be added to the suffrage under a monarchy, with no more friction than was created in Belgium, then there is indeed hope for the cauae of humanitv. Hint to Ollice-heekcrs. Every man who has the good of his country at heart will commend the recent utterance of President Cleveland regarding the method to be adopted by those who want office. It is perfectly right and proper for one to aspire to hold office under the government. It is the unseemly scrainblo, theBtruggje for place, which has characterized the office-seekers of recent years that is objectionable. There has been little opportunity to attend to public affairs, the pressure is so great. A horde has beset the government officials from the president down to the newest member of congress, a horde which has blocked all progress and prevented the transaction of important business. The president now requests all seekers for office to file their papers and go home, and assures them that their claims will receive due attention when the proper time comes. This request is couched in the ixost courteous lauguage and should appeal to the patriotic impulses of every man to whom it may apply in any degree. This accumulation of office-seekers is not new. Lven in the dark times of the war President Lincoln very often complained of the men who seemed to have no thought except the securlngof as much of the government spoils as possible. The came has been true after every election since, though it is probable that the seeking for official preferment has been characterized by more dignity and less scandalous proceedings under this administration than for many years previous. President Cleveland make possible the earlier application of the civil service law. That is the ideal, that is the end toward which all are looking and which every patriot hopes to see consummated soon. Tho earlier the better for the country. The unseemly scramble must be abrogated. All honor to President Cleveland: for his brave words and actions. DREAMING. At er'.-ntido I lit aud dream leid the clear, iI!uci'l -Uaam, A nd as the ripj'Iii),' wati-rs How Sweet "Jrasmlauil face'' cuiue and go. I think of liy that Ion have fled. Of wett wc.r 1.1 mat to me weranaid, While L )Te'a ireel fettori LouuJ for ay Our hearts, fore Tor and a day. Preuiuln?, only dreaming, Niar the ri, i in tr.'am. While dth liii,'.'r noar iuo A eilr'ry, j a u moonbeam; And iu each IluVruitf fbalow, That on tho ri rer piajs. Are lairr.ircJ th re rdlecMoos Of the old, old haj'py Jays. Tho ware doth lapt the pohbly beach. While far out an the ore cau reach, The harbor iUhtt are glcaiuiu bright, ThU loiieir, fair, luiJmuuner uiht. To yonder diitaut Tin-un shore Mjr thoughts rull uu loreferiuore ; And lueiaory'a lamp with k1.I,'0 K'eairi, I'otli lllit mj litart with lore'a weit dream. iJrenmins, only dn-nmiDg, hy the river's shore; lr amlnz, only dn mil ins. Wh'le I pi ndrr o'er All tha moonlight ra'ublos 'Neath the tarrjr gaze, All tha by-Kone sweetness Of those old, old happy days. Oh! 'tis the rophrr stir the treaa, And waits across the verdant lea The Tiolet's perfumed odora rare. That bide-an J-S' -k play turough wj Lair; And, aa 1 ait at ereilt. da, 1 ray "sweet iiu-iuories abide With me, and bring naln once more The happy daya I knew of ore." Lreaiuinp. b'Jy dreaming, As the ripple murium low; Ir-aiuluif, aweetly du am1 tig, While the tali uips come and go, While tha moonbeam lingers. Wherein Ha light diiplaya The words "Oh! lorinx heart truton For future happy deya." MaLax. Indianapolis, May 12. Itnuk Failure at Indlnnnpolis. The Capital national bank ftas suspended. The doors were closed Thursday morning about 0:1)0 o'clock. The announcement came as a surprise to business men and bankers alike. No aid was asked from any of tbe banks, but after a brief consultation with the presidents of the various banking ins'ilutions of thecity.it was decided to suspend operations. This conference of bankers was not called until about 8 -o'clock in tho morning and it was fully 8:30 o'clock before all of the gentlemen arrived at the bank. The time was too short for a thorough investigation of tbe affairs of the institution, and after a hasty review of the books, and the hearing of a report of the condition from Cashier Dohcrty, the conclusion was reached that tbe bank would better close its doors. Upon this conclusion the notice of suspension was hung upon the outer doors. This was the first notice of the bank' cooditioo that reached the public The news epread rapidly, and it was not ten minutes before the business men all along S. Meridian-sL were aware of the financial disaster. Found the reason for the great popularity of Hood's Sarsaparille simply this: Hood's Cure3. 13 eure to get Hood's.

WORLD'S FAIRS OFTHE PAST

A SUMMARY 7ION3 OF PREVIOUS EXPOSIWITH RESULTS. Heralds of Wnr end Ppntilenre Failure of Our Fimt Kxpohit ion Cholera Closes the Vienna Exhibit Chicago Thorn Danger In ItcAclion An Army of Unemployed Men Mftf.-iulny'a Propheey Cryntnl I'alace Our Great Centennial Expoaitlon. S hcraldsof peace and urosperity, world's fairs of the past have been dismal failures. Hopes were entertained that the firet great world's expo6i- " tion of England, held at a period when fierce and heated international disputes wore raging on every hand, would bring about a peaceful commingling of various European nations and evoke a spirit of fraternity that would prevent threatened war. Prince Albert, the most conspicuous champion of the fair, was regarded by tens of thousands of intelligent Englishmen as destined to prove a tort of Parnum-Meeiias whose mission would be the inauguration of the millennium with his "greatest show on earth." Yet the exhibit had hardly closed its doors before Von Moltke and his mu.-kct bearing legions had crossed the English frontiers towage the bloodiest war that Europe had ever known. Instead of that fraternity hoped for as a result of this world's fair there eprang forth that powerful secret organization known as the Internationals instead of the dove cf peace there was hatched this new bird of prey. Those who are old enough recall tbe brilliant hopes that ushered in the first American world's fair. Financially it failed ; and before the smoke of its destroyed crystal palace had cleared from the land the North and South, brother and brother, were engaged in the fiercest contest of modern times. The great exposition at Vienna in 1873 was closed by that terrible scourge known as Asiatic cholera. With proper precautions no national misfortune euch as this may be anticipated in connection with our present great fair. Hut it remains tobe seen whether the city of Chicago can withstand the reaction which will necessarily follow this monster exhibition. New Orleans was almost paralyzed by the Southern exposition of 184-5. Philadelphia suffered from depression for several years after li7J. And so it has been with alt cities engaged in great undertakings of like nature. Chicago will have a local support that no Americau city other than New York possesses, but in tins very element of present etrength lie its greatest future dangers. Its poworful organization of muzzled anarchists, with batred and revenge for imagined wrongs still ranking in their hearts, are ready at any moment for bloodshed and riot Socialists abound, labor organizations are constantly increasing in numbers and power, and when the world's fair shall have closed its doors in October thousands of laboring menlwill be without employment. These disturbing elwments may diffuse themselves throughout the proper channels and allow Chicago to recuperate from its six months exhaustive jubilee, or they may remain to prove a thorn in the side of the progressive western city may bring about that crisis predicted by Macaulay when our population stiall become congested in cities and test the compatibility of liberty vith civilization. Chicago now sees only a sky of roseate hue, with no cloud to disturb its future peace of mind, and every patriotic citizen can but wish this plucky city future success aud its mammoth uudertaking a hearty godspeed. In view of the anxiety for the present fair's success felt by every American, a summary of previous world's fairs iay not prove uninteresting. The first great world's fair was held in Hyde park, London, in the year 1SÖ1 in a single building 450 feel wide and 1.S00 feet long. It accommodated not quite 14,000 exhibitors, half ot whom came from the colonics, and closed with a net profit oi $750,000. Two years later tbe United States held its first wor.d's fair. No discussion was then needed to determine the proper location. New York was tbe only American city with temerity enough to engage in such a stupendous undertaking. 5? 4CV fa?? S T.IEODOUE SEDGWICK, rrevdeut of the first orld'a fair, 18Ö2. Mr. Theodore Sedgwick received the high honor of being elected president and in July, 1SÖ2. the exposition was opened bv his excellency, the Hon. Franklin Pierce, president of the United States. The main building. Crystal Palace, composed entirely of glass and iron, was a magnificent piece of architecture, inclosing four acres, with accomodations for 4,100 exhibitors.. So great was the canfidence felt in this venture that tho stock sold as high as SO per cent above par, but to the disappointment and ruin of several individuals, it I eloped with a loss of J300.000. Crystal i Palace was designed as a permanent structure and remained standing until 1SÖ7, when it was totally destroyed bv lire. ' The next exhibition was held in Paris, ' France, in 1S55. covered l.MMi.OOO square I feet, had 24,000 exhibitors 144 of whom 'were from the United S'ates 5,102,0 JO i visitors and was financially a success. Smaller exhibitions were now success ively held at Turin in 1850, Brussels in 7)7. Lanäunnein 'öS, and Hanover in '59. England held its second great exposition in 18(32, which was visitod by 0.210.000 persons. Its buildings covered seventeen acres and it proved to he a losing venture to the amount of $2.001,500. The second great exposition at Paris in 1808 covered eleven acre?, had 52,200 exhibitors and closed with a profit exceeding that ot anv previi ous fair, lhe great exposition at Vienna in 1S7:, which promised to eclipse all preceding ones, failed on account of the cholera. One hundred years had elapsed since that great event which gave birth and national sovereignty to a new republic America and the centennial commemoration of that august act tilled the land with such festival and pageant of joy as only a free people prqaerous, powerful and renowned could be expected to exhibit. This great exposition was held in Philadelphia, occu-

pied 2S5 acres end was participated in by thirty-two foreign countries. The United Slates furnished ÖO.Stit exhibitors, tireat Piritain and colonies 3,584 and Spain 3.S22. It was visited by i-.911,000 persous. President U. S. Grant started tho great Corliss engine, by the turning of a lever, while beside him stood Don Pedro of Spain, the only reigning crowned head whoever visited the United Slates.

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'Vit- ' Rt'TTOS TRESSERS OF TIIE PAST. The enormous sum of $8,580,000 was lost in the I'aris exposition of 1878, despito the fact that it had 52.835 exhibitors and was attended by more than lC.OoO.OOO people. Ten years later these plucky Frenchmen tried it again and won. Beside the educational advantages of the Chicago exposition it will be. in the familiar newspaper phrase, a ''big ad." and the nation will prosper vastly by these influences of the world's fair. THOUGHT HE HAD A BARGAIN. How a FrugAl New England nridegroom tVua Dereivr! in Iionton. I Boston Herald. "Hev you got any rooms, mister?" "Yes, eir; we have a few left." "What's the price of them?" "Some at $1.50, $2. S3, $4. and so on." "Waal, you may give me one of the $3 kind; that's about as heavy as I wanter go." The above colloquy took place botween the clerk of a prominent Washington-st. hotel and a middle-aged man who had the appearance of being a journeyman farmer. He opeued up a long conversation with the clerk, telling him, among other things, that he lived in a back town up in New Hampshire, that he had saved a few thousand dollars, had recently got married and was now on his weddini; tour, and intended to stay in Boston for a week seeing the eights. When the week rolled round ho again interviewed the clerk, saying that he wanted to square up his account and go borne. The bill was made out and banded him. When he first looked at it ha stepped back five foet, the suddenness of the motion nearly throwing him olf his balance. Then he turned red iu the face, held the bill close to his eyes, turned it upside down, squinted at it sidewise. and was seen to gasn for breath. He finally gathered himself together sufficiently to stammer out: "What in thunder does this moan?" "I beg your oardon, sir, but what is it that troubles you?" inquired tbe clerk. "This bill is' for $21, and you said the room was only $3." "Three dollars a day, my dear sir." "Three dollars a day!" yelled the startled ruralist, "why, you can hire a whole house in Coos for that. Three dollars a day," he repeated, as he scratched the left side of his head and gazed at the figures with bulging eyes. "Kents are higher in Boston than they are iu the country," suggested the young man behind the desk. "Three dollars a day for a room so high up that I could shake hands with the man in the moon ! Waal, I can't pay it. I started out with $25, and all I have left is $5 and the price of our tickets back home." "You must make some arrangements for paying this bill,' interjected the clerk, "before leaving this hotel." Then the newly-made benedict communed with himself for a moment and replied that there was no way he could raise the amount except by pawning his wedding present to his wife, which was a small gold watch, and this he finally did and was allowed to depart. When the room was examined after the pair had taken their leave, a most amusing collection of relics was made. Under the bed was a little gas stove and a tin pan, while near by were half a dozen eggs, a paper bag half tilled with old-fashioned doughnuts, while another was about one-third tilled with red apples. It was 6hown that the couple had been doing their own cooking during their vinit, and, with a room at $3 a week, as they thought, no material injury would have been done the family exchequer. She S iveil the I.iceune. Ii u Halo Courier. One should not be too confident and precipitate in affairs of the heart. James McCarthy of Norfolk has learned this bitter lesson. Last Friday he purchased of the town e'erk a license to marry a certain lovely widow on whom his favors fell. With the parchment in his vest pocket he presented himself before the widow, and for the first time asked her to be his cherished bride; and in the certainty of her answer he showed her the precious license. The proposal was so sudden, and the swain so sure, that the widow was nettled, and refused him with considerable emphasis. Mr. McCarthy wa? dazed for a moment, and then, realizing his discomfiture, he dashed the license to the Moor, danced a breakdown on it, and left the house. The next dty, says the local chronicler, the economical widow took the license back to the town clerk and requested him to hold it until the right man wanted her. Alltng Fuel. IKate Field's Washington. 1 Pay "What is your idea of future punishment?" Weeks "To have the devil constantly asking, 'Is this hot enough for you?' " You can't help liking them, they are eo verv small, and their action is so perfect. Only one pi'd a dose. Carter's Little Liver Pills. Try them.

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ANECDOTES OF LINCOLN.

Homely Illustration More Forceful Than Long Arcuiu-Rta. ChattanO' va (T-nn.) Times. I was in Washington during the day of the second battle of Bull Pun. For several hours olficia.s as well es everybody else were quite uneasy. A wire stretching from field headquarters to the war office was kept hot. lhe next morniog ex Governor Bibb, who was then an examiner in the patent ol!:ce, told me this incident: For several day Lincoln reading the were received, returned to the hours during the gat with Stanton, dispatches as they Later in tbe evening he white house, a short disStanton, by the use of a tance away, and lnrge hand bell, advised him of the nature of tha dispatcher. A single stroke was favorable and two strokes unfavorable news. Lincoln sat near an open window bo as to Lear the hell distinctly. At last a brisk wind commenced blowing through tho adjacent shade tree?, making it dillirult for hiiu to hear the bell corrrctly. Lincoln got up and btarted to the war ctfice, saying: "Confound that bell; I would ai soon havo a felt hat with a sheep's tail in it for a clapper. One cf the best illustrationsof Lincoln's forceful manner of enforcing his meaning was told me by an ex-member of the confederate congress. At the time Hunter, Campbell and Ould, as a commission, went to Ft. Monroe to have a conlerence with Lincoln and Seward to see if terms of peace were possible, A. H. Stephens, vice-president, went also at the request of tho commission. Stephens reported what I now refer to. saying that Lincoln's shrewdness of reply by illustration had more force than loug and learned speeches could hav exerted. Lincoln first assured the commission that his and Mr. Seward's meeting aud conference with them must not be construed as treating them as a commission from a government of the confederate etates, but only as private individuals, as the fixed policy of the government of the United States had been, and was, not to treat the rebellion as an organized government. To this Mr. Hunter replied that it ought to be enough to decline to treat the confederate states as a government de jure, but that it might, for the purposes of this conference, looking to the possible terms of peace, be treated as a government de facto, and cited the action of Charles I as a precedent. Lincoln quickly replied: "You'll have to talk to Seward about euch things as that. AU I remember about it was that Charles I lost his head." Stephens said it would not be possible to conceive of a more complete ending of what might have been a long discussion. After a lutle delay Mr. Campbell inquired whether, if the confederate forces laid down their arms and submitted to tbe authority of tho federal government, the southern states could be restored to their places in the union, with rights of individal property unimpaired. To this Lincoln replied: "My proclamation of freedom tu slaves muet coutinue in force. Long notice - of it was given ns a condition of the arms of the rebellion not being laid down. Now the freedom it has given to the slaves must continue." "Well, but, Mr. President." said Mr. Campbell, "are you aware of the fact that that would mean almost cruel death to the southern people? The climate is too severe for white men to work, and. not being used to field labor, if now deprived of their slaves, many of them will starve." Lincoln looked thoughtful for a few moments, and then said that it reminded him of a man in Illinois who tried to winter a large stock of hogs on turnips. His fields of turnips wero divided into lots, and after one lot was exhausted the hogs were turned iato another. The hogs did well until the ground froze deeply. A neighbor came by and passed the man sitting on the fence watching the efforts of the hungry boas to get at the turni;. The neighbor observed: "Your hogs can't get at thee turnips. You'll have to feed them." "Well," eaid the man, "that's all I have for them to eat, and it looks to me like a case of 'root, hog, or die.' " Stephens said : "That most conclusively ended the conference." THE OLD BELLMAN. All honor to John Peyton, A Hurly patriot he; In the old bell twer Fur many an hour lie waited patiently. lie grasped the hempen bell rope. While in the convention Lall Thi-y aat below, A noble row Of Btau-iuen one and a L They sought the nation's freedom, Th fa tli tr of our land, For freedom's cauao They formed the lawa That hall forerer stand. And sturdy John Payton tood ia the dukf tower, From early liht Till chailis of night. Full tuaoy a weary hour. And when the joyful tl Iin;:e Fell on his linteniiiff car, Jcbn I'aytun ran? A thunderous clann, That echoed far and near. For said this grim old bellman, "leteach vibration roll, Like an Iron note From out thy throat, And spread from pole to pole." So honor to John I'ayton, A sturdy patriot he. And to the bU He rang so wi ll, To sound our liberty. IX. J. Jacesoh, Anderson, Inj. Trnde-Mnrka. (Street A Piaith's (iood Xewa 1 Bov "I want a bar of soap." Healer "What sort?" Boy "I forgot the name, but any kind will do, I guess, if it will take oil trademarks." pealer "Eh? Trade-marks?" Boy "Yes. M v father in a cellar digger, and wants to wah his hands."