Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 July 1893 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 12, 1893 T WELTE PAGES.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. '6. E. MORSS, BEN A. EATON. Fraaidaat. V.ea Pratidenk b. McCarthy, acralary and Traaiarar. IXatarad at tha Poatoffie at Indl&aapoüa aa N(id elaaa bmit.)

TERMS PER YEAR Hnfla copy (Invariably la AdTnoa.) OO Wiuk democrat to bear in mind and aelrct thlr wftitit paper when they com to taka wbaerlp ticBiasd maka np claba. Aganta making up eluba aend for anT InfnnnatliHi cetijed. AddcM TUB INDIANAPOLIS BEXTINEL Indianapolis, lad. WEDNESDAY. JULY 12. 1S93. Dr." Houser's new story, the opening chapters of which will appear In next Sunday's Sentinel, la full of entertainment for the reader. It will be followed with deep Interest. Complaints of the Indiana exhibit and Its management at the world's fair are becoming painfully numerous. For once i Indiana doesn't seem to be acquitting herself with entire credit. The new story by Et- J.- A. Houser, 'Out of Darkness Into Light," will be toundcf the most thrilling interest from beginning to end. The first Installment will be found in the Weekly Sentinel this week. The Sentinel this morning begins the publication of Dr. Ilouser's new story, 'Out of Darkness Into Light." It opens In a way to give promise of the most entertaining developments. It will pay to follow it closely. The cause of self-government is spreading. Greece has become a republic. It Is not at all beyond the bounds of probability that the Bitting monarchs in twothirds of the countries of Europe will be the last of their line. Europe is saturated with democracy today. If all tales are true regarding the Parisian students' balls the police were entirely justified in preventing them. And the students must have descended to a very low moral plane If they regarded the suppression of such orgies as n Infringement of their rights. One of the most pathetic sights of the bga is the Journal's grief because Gladstone lias applied the cloture in the interest of the home rule bill. Gag law .applied by a republican speaker on free .Americans to pass tariff bills, force bills iavnd billion dollar appropriation bills Is the acme of patriotism, but when applied to English tories to do away with Üieredftary Injustice the Journal fain Vould weep. The republican papers are having a iard time these days. They are anxious for the repeal of the Sherman act, and, yet cannot quite reconcile themselvesto the Idea of having that act repealed by a democratic congress. But as there will be nothing but a democratic 'Congress for a good many years yet to come, the aforesaid republican papers would probably do well to reconcile; themselves to the inevitable. Now it Is proposed to raise a fund for the benefit of the duke of Veragua, who Is said to be practically a bankrupt. A great tmany fool propositions may be expected to be sprung on an unsuspecting public during the silly season, but it Is not at eil probable that any will equal this for downright imbecility. Still we Buppose the tuft hunters will carry out the idea. A far more proper course would be to advise the duke to go to work, earn some money and lift the mortgages on his estates, like an American. To give hard-earned American dollars to aid this European drone would be simply ridiculous. JThe closing sentences" of President Cleveland's Fourth of July letter to Tammany hall are well worthy of serious study: "If those who now celebrate the anniversary of American independence guard against the sordid Btruggle for unearned wealth that stifles patriotism. If they exact from' public 8erva.it the strictest accountability in performance of public duties. If ' they hold fast to the American idea that work is honorable and economy Is a virtue, if they insist that there should be honesty and cleanliness in politics, and If they refuse to encourage expedients that endanger the foundation of sound national finance, those who follow us Will joyously celebrate the day in centuries yet to come." The future of America 13 in the hands of the Americans of today. In its appeal to the national encampment of the G. A. R., Farnham post of New York, recently suspended, makes the following sensible suggestion: We beg leave to present respectfully to your body that, in the opinion of this organization, the leaving of the entire question of pension matters in the hands of a committee largely composed of gentlemen engaged in the business of procuring pensions is calculated to Injure the reputation of the Grand Army of the Republic. This ought to appeal to tb,e sober thought of every patriotic and honest veteran of the late war. The greatest danger that menaces the great organization of ex-soldiers is that it will be placed In the .position before the country of being the defender of the dishonest pensioner and the tool of the unscrupulous pension attorney. The warning sent out by Farnham post is timely and patriotic. Money is easier In New York and reports from all quarters indicate a rapid return of confidence and a restoration of business to its normal condition. Now If congress will only meet the reasonable anticipations of the world, repeal the Sherman act for the compulsory purchase of silver, and not Indulge in any further fool financial legislation, a long period of prosperity may be reasonably expected. Of course this prediction Is based on the certainty that the tariff will be reformed so that our surplus products will find a market and the trusts and combines will be prevented from maintaining artificial prices on

the necessaries of life. Unstable and reckless business enterprises have been pretty generally shaken out and the conditions barring alone the senseless and unreasoning lack of confidence are all favorable to national prosperity.

THE TAX LAW IMDOnSED. , An interesting Indorsement of . the Indiana tax law Is the report of the commission appointed by the last legislature of Iowa to revise the tax. system of that state. This report, - which has just been made, recommends "the reforms adopted In Indiana, and especially as to assessment at actual value, which is Indeed the predominant Idea of the whole report. As a preparation for their work the commission sent out letters of Inquiry to the county auditors of the state asking for information as to the mode of assessment of property, both real and personal, and the percentage of true valuation at which property was appraised In the several counties. Replies were received from nearly all the counties, and from these it appeared that the assessment in the several counties ranged from 17 to 60 per cent, of true value with , the average at 38 per cent. The variations In the assessment of personal property were equally striking. Cattle for instance were assessed in 1892 at $10.16 In one county and at $10.24 In another, while there were rates as low as $3.90 and $3.31. Horses rated at $34.33 in one county, and as high as $40.63 in another, decline to $13.37 in the atmosphere of counties almost adjoining the one in which they are more valuable. Mules rated 'at $33.32 and $33.93 in some of the counties are down to $15.03, and even' $11.34 in others. Sheep, assessed at $2.02 in one and $2.50 In another, are put in as low as 50 cents In two counties and as low as 23 In another. Sheep in two adjoining counties are put in at $1 and 50 cents respectively. Swine rating as high as $3.13 and $3.53 In some counties are worth for taxation only 59, 56 and 53 cents In others. Gross inequalities in the assessment of corporation stock as between the counties are .perhaps still more apparent. One county returns $105,630 in all of such stocks. Another, with fewer corporations and les9 capital invested In them,, returns $430,640. The former had a the time about a dozen banks with a paid up capital and surplus of over $2,000,000 and several loan and trust companies with about half as much capital, besides building and loan associations, Insurance companies, etc. In view of the Injustice wrought by those Inequalities as shown by the returns of the several counties, inequalities entirely unexplalnable by any consideration based upon population, natural resources, or otherwise, a former governor recommended that the state surrender all taxes of personalty to the counties. On account of these inequalities and the evident Injustice resulting from them the commission recommends the adoption of true valuation In all cases. Of course a reduction of the levy is to be made proportional to the Increase in valuation. In one respect a radical departure has been made from the ordinary American system of assessment. The bill reported makes no provision whatever for deducting indebtedness from moneys r and credits. One of the points most strongly urged on the commission was the extension of the deduction system to real estate mortgages, but after a thorough consideration of the question they abandoned the ' deduction system entirely. Every tax-payer pays on the property held by him without reference to what he may owe. Notwithstanding the popular demand for mortgage exemption, the committee agreed unanimously that it would not only be unwise and illogical, but that it would in fact injure the parties who desired the change instead of benefiting them. There Is hardly room for question that the : plan". recommended, of abandoning all deduction, Is more consistent and rational than any in use In the country. . '. The commission also considered, the question of the separation of the sources of state and local revenues, and after long discussion determined.' to submit alternative sections providing for such separation and not providing. In case the former is adopted the state will abandon its general tax altogether and rely for revenues on the proceeds of a tax levied on railroads and paid Into the state treasury. This is substantially the plan submitted to the legislature oflS31, which was defeated by the active efforts of the railroad lobby. Altogether the work of the commission shows advanced and careful thought, and the report will be a valuable addition to the literature of American taxation. SUFFRAGE IX BELGIUM. No country In the world Is showing more advanced thought on the question of suffrage than Belgium. It was one of the first of the European countries to adopt the Australian ballot system and It Improved on that system. by grouping the candidates by parties and distinguishing the parties for the benefit of those who could not read. Both these changes were adopted, in pjlnclple, in the Indiana law. The people, however, were not satisfied with a change In the manner of voting, but also demanded an extension of suffrage, and this, as our readers will remember, was conceded a few months since after some demonstrations In favor of the movement by the worklngmen of Belgium. The enlargement then conceded Is about ' to be supplemented now by a system of universal suffrage based on age, intelligence, matrimony and property. This will strike Americans as a novel idea, but there are many Americans who believe that these different factors should enter Into the right of suffrage to a greater or lops extent. ' v - Under the Belgium system a single man twenty-five years of age !s to have one vote. A married man thirty-five years of age Is to have two Vote. .A mar

ried man who owns property In excess of a certain amount Is to have three votes. Graduates of colleges and - universities are to have two votes. The system is based on the idea that suffrage is for the benefit of the community, the object being to secure the greatest welfare. It is assumed that voters will be interested in the public welfare in proportion as they are affected by it. A married man may very reasonably be supposed to be more Interested than a single man because he has also the interests of his family to promote, and in addition to that he cannot change his location so easily if the conduct of the government does not suit him. A person of large property may reasonably be supposed to have more interest than one with no property, for he has more to protect and more to pay taxes on. A person who is educated may reasonably be supposed to have more interest than one who is not educated because he has, usually, given public affairs greater attention, and understands them better, and realizes their importance more fully. In this country there have always been some states that required some educational qualifications, as for example Massachusetts has required, and still does, that the voter should be able to read the constitution of the state. The tendency to adopt this qualification is growing, especially in the South, where the desire to be rid of the evil effects of the ignorant negro vote works in its favor. Property qualification was an original English requirement, and was very general in the colonies, but it has now almost universally disappeared. The family Interest Is recognized In the demand for woman's suffrage, and the concession of It at several points In school elections, in which the family has a special Interest. The experiment In Belgium will therefore be watched with considerable interest by Americans, and striking results may fairly be expected on account of the vast change the system makes In the suffrage of that country Heretofore Belgium, has had only about 120,000 voters. Under the new system she will have about 1,200,000, and it Is estimated that the double voting will bring the number of voters to about 1,800,000.

LET US CXDERSTAXD OURSELVES. While the country is almost unanimously In favor of the repeal of the Sherman law and the present continuance of the gold standard without any attempt to bolster up the price of silver by legislation, it is still of the highest importance that the people should understand thoroughly the meaning and legitimate purposes of the movement. At this time gold monometallists are exciting themselves most strenuously to mislead the public as to the causes of the present monetary stringency, and to load the theory of bimetallism with odium that does not belong to it. It should not be forgotten that this country has had the single gold standard since 1873. We abandoned bimetallism then and have never had any application of Its principles since then. The Bland bill and the Sherman bill were both attempts to maintain the market price of silver by furnishing a market for it. The only material difference between them is that the latter went farther In its application of erroneous principles than the former. The only difference when the Sherman bill is repealed will be that the national treasury will be relieved of the expenditure for silver bullion, and will be better able to maintain its currency of all kinds on a gold basis. There will also be a "restoration of public confidence," which will do away with the pressure of the past few weeks. Beyond this there ought to be a clearing away of misunderstandings that will be of public benefit. It ought 'to be made perfectly plain that the "silver measures" of the past fifteen years have been gold measures; that they have been put through by gold monometallists under the guise of compromises for the purpose of bettering the condition of silver. In this they have been aided by some of the rampant silver men who have easily been led into the most absurd delusions, as for example that the government could make a profit by buying silver for 65 or 70 cents and making a dollar of It. The only way In which any profit could result would be by the restoration of silver to its former price", but the government was preventing that by treating it as a commodity. Under the circumstances it would be a public calamity if those who had procured such legislation could succeed in making it believed that its evil effects were the results of a policy they opposed, and there is therefore no higher duty for those who have advocated free coinage of silver as a proper course, Independent of any motives of personal interest, than to keep the fact plainly before the people that the country has been on a gold basis for twenty years, and that the decline of prices which has occurred In the past must be expected in the future. This is the more important because the country will also soon have a change In its tariff policy, and the advocates of protection will not hesitate to claim that the continued decline In the price of products of this country, which are not in fact affected favorably by a high tariff, is due to reform in the tariff instead of to the continued appreciation of gold. One of the most misleading of the statements thus far produced for the gold monometallists Is that of J. B. Henderson in his open letter to Mr. Carlisle. This gentleman Is a victim of the "balance of trade" theory and adjusts all recurrences to agree with it. He' asserts that the years following the demonetization act of 1873 and the resumption act of 1875 were years of prosperity, and proves it by the balance of trade, thus: "Two years after adopting the single standard, in 1875, a measure was inaugurated and parsed for the resumption of specie payments, to become operative, on Jan." 1, 1879. If these two measures had remained on the statute books. Inviolate and unamended, there 'Is ' no economical reason why the United States

and their . people should not today -0 enjoy the most unbounded prosperity. We. should have had the best and most abundant currency a gold currency of universal value and of such volume as to force Its circulation, as In England, France and Germany, into the hands of the people. To be assured of this fact it is only necessary again to examine the conditions of commerce for the last seventeen years. In the first year after resolving upon specie payments the excess of our exports of merchandise over imports was $79.643,481. In the next? year,' ending June 80, 1877, this' excess was. $151,152,034. For 1878 It was $257,814.234; .For 1879 it was $264,661,666,- and,. thiav excess - continued.. with various amounts, down to 1S32, excepting only small adverse balances In the years 1SSS and 1889. The net balance of trade in our favor from June 30, 1876, to June 30, 1892, amounted to the enormous sum of $1,892,885,446." Everyone who lived through those years knows that this country never had worse times than from 1873 to 1880, and that the decrease of Imports meant simply a decrease of ability to buy, which shook the business world to its very foundation. We have pointed out this fallacy " before. "We have shown that the mere balance of trade was no index to the movement of specie, and no index to the prosperity of a country. We have shown that during all these years of our silver demonetization, and for many years before, England has always had a very heavy "adverse balance of trade." and yet has imported specie nearly all the time. Mr. Henderson follows his delusion throughout. He says: "Finally, after passing the Sherman law of 1890, -Thlch more than doubled the silver purchases, the remarkable fact is disclosed that no amount of exportation of merchandise could stay the shipments of gold from the United States. For Instance, In 1890 we exported an excess of merchandise of over $68,000,000 and In the same year exported an excess of gold of over $18,000,000. In 1891 we exported an excess of merchandise of over $39,000,000, and exported an excess of gold of over $72,000,000, and although the excess of our exports of product in 1S92 amounted to nearly $203,000,000, yet the almost startling fact appears that during that year we exported over $13,000,000 of gold, and now that , the balance of trade has naturally turned against us the country Is being drained of its remaining gold with alarming rapidity. If any gold be left in this country it is hoarded by the timid. It Is as completely absent from the circulation as if it had no existence," This is amusing. With about $100,000,000 of gold in the treasury, and $300,000,000 more elsewhere in the country, we have no gold. It is hoarded by "the timid" probably he means the timid bankers who have been hoping it would go to a premium. Mr. Henderson fails to explain why anyone could expect the Sherman law to have any effect of stopping gold shipments. They have stopped, nevertheless, wrA their cause stopped, and that ought r , Wj good vdence that the Sherman law had nothing to do with them further than facilitating the extraction ofgoldfroni the national treasury. Indeed, Mr. Henderson's argument throughout is equally fallacious, and it is to be hoped that neither Mr. Carlisle nor anyone else connected with the government will waste any time on his recommendations, and especially on the one for an issue of bonds. All the country needs for the present is the stoppage of the silver purchases and provision for a revenue that will be in excess of our expenditures. With that done, the country can have as stable a currency as can exist on a monometallic basis, and we shall have a fair trial of monometallism without any pretense that danger of the use of silver produces the effects which necessarily follow from ä single standard.

THE LEGITIMATE SEQUENCE. The apologists for the Seymour lynchers ought to read the reports of the savage atrocity a Bard well, Ky with care and decide whether they care to have such an occurrence repeated on Indiana soil. That is Just -what may be expected If hangings by mobs are permitted to go unpunished. It Is but a few years since the report of a mob-hanging filled people with horror and such an event was regarded as the very utmost, limit to which unbridled rage would lead human beings. But ordinary lynchlngs by the rope have become so common as to cause very little comment and indeed have found some defenders. What is the result? The thirst for blood is not now gratified by the stringing up of the victim. There must be some devilish by-play of awful torture. The mob appetite Is no longer satisfied with the mere taking of life. It demands the fantastic and demoniac accompaniments of pincers and thorn and fire. The victim must writhe and cringe and moan and cry out in his agony to satisfy his self-appointed executioners. They draw on their imaginations to invent , new means of inflicting pain till the horrors of the inquisition are outdone. Who can predict where this thing will stop if the representatives of the law do not soon take action? Within a half year there have been two other such terrible outbursts of latent human savagery as that at Bardwell yesterday. The practice Is growing. Ferocity Is demanding new methods by which to give Itself expression. The law but the law doesn't seem to be thought of. Action must be taken to stop this thing. We are rapidly drifting back to the days when the individual righted his own wrongs; when the man's own will was his sole law, limited only by his physical ability to follow the dictates of bis. heart.' If . a body of men a mob may take the law into its own hands and Inflict, such punishment for fancied offenses aa it may see fit. and go scot free, why may not the idea be carried further to Its logical conclusion and the lndl-

vidual be permitted to avenge his personal grievances after the manner of his heart's desire? ... That Is the logical outcome of this whole lynching business. Its tolerance means that society Is retrograding: that It is returning to the ideas of the dark ages, on which we profess to look back with so much horror. It is a pity and a shame that this retrogression should be most apparent In America, "the hope of civilization." Yet it is a melancholy fact that In no other country pretending to even semi-civilization are such atrocities perpetrated as that at Bardwell. Not even the Kurds and BashlBazcmks, those human butcher birds of Asia' and Africa, have been guilty of such fiendish cruelty. Surely all America ousht to hide Its head in shame. Surely this third incineration ought to awake the authorities and the people . to a sense of their degradation. Surely there ought to be such an expression of righteous popular Indignation and such a meting out of Justice to these self-appointed executioners as will make lynching an obsolete crime, not only repugnant, but dangerous to practice. The recent unconfirmed report of the abdication of King George of Greece and the formation jot a republic, has attracted more attention to the famous little kingdom than it has received for many years before. A writer in Goldthwaite's Geographical Magazine says the little kingdom embraces a territory of about 25,000 square miles and has a population of little more than 2,000,000

Greeks and Albanians. Scotland has about the same territory and almost twice as many people. Switzerland has a third less territory and a third more people. Belgium and Holland taken together have about the same territory as Greece and five times as many people.' As for wealth Greece is proverbially the poorest country In Europe. Her rugged mountains and barren shores are hardly fit in many places for the scantiest vegetation; she has no rivers with fertile-banks; her commerce is still undeveloped, and she Is cut off from Europe by the treacherous Adriatic and the inhospitable strip of Turkish territory that promises to keep her for an indefinite future from opening her railroad connection with the north. In Greece today, says a recent writer, it is the universal custom to speak of "going to Europe" Just as Americans do with the stormy Atlantic between New York and Liverpool. Add to all this the fact that this little barren kingdom of 2,000,000 souls has a public debt of 80,000,000 and supports an army as large as the United States. The tax -s are so high that the island of Crete, now under Turkish rule, would nearly double its ratio of taxation should it enter the kingdom of Greece. But in spite of all this discouragement Athens today is a busy hive of educational institutions and in all the country villages there are thrifty schools, a compulsory law being carried out with more vigor year after year. Ten years ago the statistics of illiteracy in Greece were ahead of those In Italy today and these ten years have revolutionized educational affairs In Greece. The announcement of the president's serious illness will cause grave concern throughout the country, and give 'rise to the universal hope that he may be fully restored to health before the convening of congress. The universal confidence in his desire to avert a further financial . crisis and his ability through his keen foresight and sound Judgment to accomplish that ond makes the present business situation much less serious than it otherwise would be. The country at large feels that President Cleveland's wise counsels will prevail with congress, and feels that with him in Washington giving close attention to the details of the administration and aiding the leaders In congress by his wise counsels all will soon be well. Telegraphic advices give reasonable assurance that the president's indisposition will not be of long duration, and certainly the public at large will earnestly hope that this may be the case. The glorious Fourth, as we are wont to call it nowadays, was generally and generously observed throughout the country this year. The pompous old military and local soldiery display that were the great features of the day twenty-five years ago, have given way to more enjoyable modes. We are not so formal and solemn as the fathers were, but we get more solid fun and comfort out of the- holiday than they ever dreamed of. The fire cracker and other more brilliant pyrotechnics employed by our youth yield an Immense amount of enjoyment, although at the cost of an occasional finger and sometimes, alas, at the cost of a human life. The social surroundings of the occasion, as illustrated by the quiet picnics and family gatherings under the trees of the woods and along quiet streams, are all commendable in their way and yield Immense pleasure and enjoyment, and with them all we do not forget w!at the day means to every one of us. In New York there is a society composed of a dozen unmarried women and two widows, which has for Its object the extermination of - all stray cats, These ladies arm themselves with a basket, a bit of cat meat and chloroform, and prowl around tenement houses, cellars and like localities for starving cats, whom they feed first and then kill. Cats, they claim lurking around in these places are afflicted with consumption, diphtheria and other diseases which afflict human beings, and Just now there is great danger of cats spreading the cholera, should that disease appear. The work undertaken by these women is unique, and since several cases have heen cited where disease has been earn ried from child to child by pet cats, we commend the work and would say to the victim of the club, "Requlescat In pace." It would seem that those people who defend lynch law ought at least to admit

that the thing is being carried a little too far when the victim is burned at the stake.

ET CETERA. The salt bath is becoming very popular in New York and other cities. The Slaughter family of Texas, the most extensive landowners In America, whose Joint "Holdings ; are -500,000 acres, are at the Auditorium; hotel,- Chicago. V Aug."- 25 Is colored people's day in the world's fair 'calendar, and 250.000 Afro-Americans are expected to pass through the gates .during the four days of the convention. -- The most extraordinary failure of the Jury system In recent times was in New Orleans the other day. The prisoner was proved guilty. He confessed . besides. The Jury acquitted him. The court of appeals of New York state decides against Mayor ' Manning in the case affecting the ownership of the Albany Argus, and the Speer or Hill people are given control of that newspaper. Rivers of the Chicago Tribune "That Miss Blenkins, over there was born with a sliver spoon in her mouth." Banks (critically injecting Miss Blenklns) "It must have been a mighty wide one." Ex-Governor Nathanlal S. Berry, . the war governor of New Hampshire, is' still living at Bristol, In that state, in good health and active in intellect, although he has nearly completed his ninety-seventh year Nevergo (11:30 p. m.) "Well, I declare, the clock has stopped. What could have made It?" Miss Tiredout (wearily) "Oh, I don't know. Even machinery gets discouraged at times, I suppose." Buffalo Courier. The New York correspondent of a Chicago paper reports that Miss Helen Gould has secured the unanimous consent of the other heirs as required by the will of her father, and will marry within twelve months. King Bull, head of the Lapland village at the fair, is said to be 112 years old, and his son, ninety years old. has a son of seventy-three, whose daughter, fifty-nine, has a son forty-one, who has a grandchild aged two years. Mrs. Stannard. the writer, who is best known by the name of John Strange Winter, says she knows of one happy marriage that was the result of a proposal made on the fourth day after the couple met. It Is her own. Tat Carmody of St. Louis is conceded to be the oddest and most generously patriotic of all Missouri's pensioners. He divides his pension money equally between the confederate hme at Higginsville and a home for union soldiers. A correspondent from Helsir.gfors writes that women in Finland compete with men as clerks, managers of limited companies, doctors, dentists, house builders and back cashiers, in which capacity they are found more honest than men. Leland Stanford began his buelnes life by selling horse radish and when he died he was a U. S. . senator and had $50.000,000, more or less. This Is the season for horse radish, and ambitious young Americans can at once enter the business. Miss Ella G. Nash, a graduate of the Boston college of plarmacy, has rassed the board of examination and been awarded a druggist's certificate. Young men will feel a certain hesitation in ordering one with a wink in it at her soda fountain. Emil Ney, a San Francisco ship carpenter, who claims to be a aandson of the famous Marshal Ney, proposes to exhibet himself and his grandfather's sword at the world's fair. The latter is now in possession of A W. Maas of Meridian. Miss. When Billy Wamsley of Dimondale, Mich., went swimming he left his clothes on the bank. Seeing his father, be hid from the expected thrashing. The father found the clothes and mourned for his son as one dead for eight hours, when at last the boy turned up rather chilly. The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, having succeeded in paying off the debts which hung over the tabernacle, has relapsed Into Indolent and worldly ways. He has become a dog fancier, and has just paid $500 for a bull terrier known as Courett II. The animal is said to be marvellously ugly. A SHOWER OF TREASURE. Gold, Sliver and Xotes Fall Upon Surprised "Workmen. A veritable shower of riches fell upon the heads of workmen in the little brick building. 201 S. Second-st., yesterday. The house is occupied as a saloon by James Foley. There was an immediate scramble for the wealth among the men. The building had evidently been made the hiding place for treasure long ago, for it has a history.-' The treasure consisted of Spanish, Mexican and British gold and silver coins, together -with gome English bank notes, the whole aggregating in value something like $400. The dates on the coins and notes, however, being years back in the last century may make them worth considerable more than their face value, and already relic hunters are on the search for the find and profess their willingness to pay a substantial premium on- the old-time money. The building in which the treasure was found is itself a hfstorlcal relic around which cluster many Interesting memories. It is a small, low, two-story brick structure, modernized only to the extent of having the bricks in the front outside wall painted lead color. While not so old as the famous Blue Anchor inn around the corner, it was erected less than a decade after that landmark, and like it stands on what was once the shore of the old Dock creek. When Mr. Foley took possession of the place he caused the interior of both the first and second floors to be torn out, preparatory to a complete renovation, and workmen have been engaged on the repairs for several weeks past. Yesterday while Antrim Moss, a master plasterer, with some of his men, was hacking away the ceiling of the back room on .he first floor, a shower of coins and bank notes suddenly came down from a big hole that had been made in a corner of the apartment. Several paperhangers, In charge of John I. Hance. were also at work In the room, and there was a lively scramble by the men to get hold of the suddenly-discovered wealth. The coins proved to be golden Spanish doublons, silver Mexican dollars and Spanish pesettas, the last-named coin being valued at about 20 cents of U. S. money. The notes were mostly of the denomination of 5. All the money had been Issued during the eighteenth century, some of the coins bearing date as far back as 1741. and the rest ranging down to 1790. They were tarnished and covered with blue mold and rust, and had apparently been lylnp in their hiding place for many years. An investigation disclosed the fast that there was a closet directly over the spot where the hoard was found, and it is supposed that whoever secreted the money had ripped up a board from the floor of the closet and used the space between the flooring and the ceiling of the room below as a receptacle for their savings, adding to -the pile from time to time. There was no clue to the ownership of the treasure, and although It rightfully belonged, under the law, to Mr. Foley, he good-naturedly allowed the paperhangers and plasterers to divide It up between themselves. Philadelphia Record. Vbt Do To Take Medicine for? Because yoü "are sick and want to get well, or because you Wish to prevent Illness. Then remember that Hood's Sarsaparllla cures all diseases caused by impure blood. -Purely vegetable Hood's Pills 25c

THE WAY OF THE WORLD.

vThe quantity of rouge worn by the ladies who attended the Ascot and Sandown racing, meetings has aroused an much comment as , their fine costume. The' fashion of painted cheeks and lips has "been revived with much intensity this season and with little dlscret'jn, so palpable is the artifice. It is a bad fa.shion returned,- for the paintirg cf a ruby lip U a d-plorabie an artistic blunder as the painting of a illy. Visitor -(locking round at the nuptial nesr with ail its little knick-knacks) "And how do; you like your little flat?" ' Month-old wife (who can talk of nothing buL. her husband) "Well, John may not be sharp," but he Is by no means a fool. I -would haver -you know." P. & S. Bulletin. The statement has ben often made that New York society women are more given to drinking intoxicating liquors than the women of any other city in the country. This Is unquestionably true If the range of comparison be limited to northern and western places, says the Sun. It may be that the traditional use of liquor in the South brings its cities nearer to the mark. One thing, however, is absolutely certain, and that is that In no city in the United States, San Francisco, perhaps, excepted, is there so general a public Indulgence in wine by women as in New York. San Francisco, furthermore, is not exactly a parallel case, for the class of women who drink in public there are of a distinctly different order from the society women of New York. The mre harmless of wines, such as claret and sherry, are apparently forsaken In public. It is champagne at the dinner or theater party at night, and it is a cocktail or some liquor in the afternoon. The home dinner and, lum-h are the occasions when the regular table wines are in ut-e. There are hundreds of women who drink to this extent and are by no means counted as victims of the liquor appetite. Wher they will be in live years it is not safe to predict. Perhaps they will be drinking brandy, whisky, cologne, anythinaj with alcohol In It, to satisfy their mad craving. And then they die In delirium treaiens, and the doctor will kindly shut the door on the family skelet.on and sign a certificate with a long Latin name of some disease cf the nerves, those modern scapegoats of the ills which flesh Is heir to. One of the romances of senatorial life has relation to that handsome young inillionaire from Washington state, Senator Watson C Squire. His helpmeet in making a- career and a fortune In the Northwest has been his wife, the daughter of the late Philo Remington of the famous arms company. F . Shepard, Philo Osgood End William 8. King of Rochester, N. Y., have Ju?t begun a suit against Senator Squire involving J2.OOO,0D0 worth ot land near Seattle, The plain Lifts and Remington had formed a syndicate in '"1 to buy land near the terminus of the Northern Pacific road, and, they say, gave Remington a quit claim deed, to enable him to take the title In his own name, and so facilitate their common interests. They say Remington thereafter deeded the whole to Squire, and his father-in-law's alleged partners now demand their share of the profit. It Is very hard to make a millionaire U. S. senator give up anything. With the two exceptions cf Hoke Smith and Wilson Blssell, every member of the present cabinet, as well as th president and vice-president, has been at some time a candidate for elective offic at the hands of his fellow citizens. Mr. Cleveland ran seven times and waa elected five twice president, once governor, once mayor of Buffalo, and once sheriff of Erie county. He was twice defeated once for president and once for district attorney of Erie. Vice-President Stevnson was three times elected and four times defeated. Walter Gresham was twice defeated. John G. Carlisle was twelve times elected. Daniel S. Lamont was once defeated. Hilary A. Herbert was eight times elected. Richard Olney was once defeated, and J. Sterling Morton was eight times defeated. It was In a kitchen where the colored cook and laundress usually entertain their families and their friends. The lady of the house one day discovered a cunning little mite of Afro-American humanity visiting. The child was so attractive that a doll was brought down from the nursery for her. "What yuh say foh dat?" demanded the cook. "Why doan yuh tell the leddy how yuh thank huh? An ask huh to name the doll foh yuh?: The child shyly thanked the donor but said she wanted to name the doll herself. , "Well," agreed the cook, "but dona yuh go namln dat doll no niggah names. Yuh call huh after Mis' Blank there. But the child wouldn't. She had a pretty name for her doll and wanted to call it by that. Much Inquiry revealed that the name she had been holding In her heart Until she found an object worthy to bear it was "Abraham Maude." And by that name wasthe treasure known- . A young woman of Washington, whose quick wft is responsible for the loss of a number of friends, has Just seen another retire from the list, according to theStar. The young man was in a philosophical mood, and remarked: "Self study is a bad thing." "I shouldn't be surprised," she responded flippantly. "Now. I am sure that if I were to devote time to thinking about myself I should become very narrow-minded." "Oh, yes; you'd probably have to in orded to grasp the subject." And for the time he really felt as small as she had pictured him. Oh. Peary, should st trou weary In thy searching for the pole. And the aspect shall grow dreary Close to Svmmes' famous ho. Watch thy "time for afe returning. And get hack in full July When thy fellow men are burning) ' With a tow of Icebergs high. Post-Dispatch. "Don't send the horse reporter to any more hangings," said the proprietor of Texas Sittings to the managing editor. Managing Editor "Why not?" Proprietor "In this report of the . double hanging he has it that the two entries came in neck and neck. In reporting executions levity Is out of place. Bernhardt Is to have a theater in Paris . all to herself when she returns frtm her South American 'tour next September, where for three years she will have free play. She feels the ne-xl of being "baptized anew" in hr beloved city. The Theater de la Renaissance has been taken for three years by M. Grau in her behalf, and it will be opened about Oct. 15 with a great flourish of trumpets and a new piece, probably by Sardou. The repertoire of the new theater is to consist exclusively of new plays inspired by Reinhardt and written by the pick of the dramatists and poets. She loft for South America for a three months' tour a week ago. At Narragansett. Husband "Are you going to the hop tonight?" Wife "Yes." "Husband "Well, you had better ro upstairs and undress then. It's Hlmosl time. Town Topics. I Care 3ervoaneaa and Constipation. Dr. Snoop's Restorative Nerve Pllhi rfent free with Medical Book to prove merit, for 2c stamp. Druggists, 25c Dr. Shoop, Box X; Racine, Wis.

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