Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 August 1893 — Page 4

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INDIANA STATE SENTINEL BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. s. e. mdrss, ben a. eton, b. McCarthy. Secretary inj Tnusnr.

llstmU t tbel'oatoßce at In.lUaapolu u Koond cUn natter. 1 TE11MS l'EIl YEARj firl eopr (InTariably in AdTane.)-... 1 OA W ak deuiocrau to l-ar in unnrf and elrct th Ir B state papr when they com to take auhncrlra. t.riinil Bikrip cluba. AfDti tuakicg up clubs tend for anr Information ieuicd. .AddtMTllE IS MAN A POLIS SENTINEL Indianapolis. IdcL WF,UESUAV, AlC. 2, 13. The Denver people seem to feel that If they cannot have free silver they can at least enjoy free murder. The democratic party should not row go for counsel to the republican silver senators who sold out to John Sherman In 1S30. Our esteemed contemporary, the Ram's Horn, devotes a good deal of attention to the devil In its latest Issue. Pretty warm subject for the season, it would seem. Fitting on a burglar to hold him until the police arrive may do, in some cases, but it can hardly be recommended for trial to the feminine portion of the community. ' The storm that swept Clay and Montgomery counties had the ear marks of a very vicious tornado. "While there were no lives lost the loss of property was large and the freaks of lightning rather peculiar. One of the banks in this city has found that the best use It can make of the gold It has been hoarding is to pay It out to depositors. If New York had followed that policy at first there would have been no panic. Nobody wants gold when he can get It. The creditors of "Charley" Foster are going to investigate his books in the search for irregularities." Can it be that this is another manifestation of what Mr. Foster would call "the general lack of confidence in Mr. Cleveland and the democratic congress?" "What the silver people need are leaders who can look more than thirty days ahead without seeing double. It is reasonably well demonstrated that Bland doesn't understand the silver question anv more than the western republicans who sold out to John Sherman In 1S90. The Philadelphia Inquirer explains the "unfavorable balance of trade" thus: "Too great prosperity has made us extravagant. The McKinley tariff, which Is the most scientifically constructed tariff ever adopted by this country, proved no barrier to our reckless demand for luxuries. We had the money and we would have the goods." That is pretty good, but the balance of trade would still have been in our favor if exports had not fallen off $202,000.000. Did "too great prosperity" cause that also? The esteemed Journal declares that "one year ago, under the operation of a protective tariff which was believed to be permanent. British money was steadily flowing into the United States, as evidenced by the $100,000,000 balance in our favor in 1S92." This information would be interesting if true, but unfortunately for the Journal's theory the balance in 1S32 was $13.301,346 against us. Moreover there was a heavy balance against us in every year of Mr. Harrison's administration, the total for his term amounting to $171.S9;,095. During Mr. Cleveland's former term the net balance in our favor was $4.237,948. We would therefore suggest to the Journal that it reconstruct its argument and show that it is a good thing to have "British money" flowing out of the country. It is an Interesting fact in the great falling off of exports under the McKinley bill, in 1S93. that the loss falls almost wholly on the agricultural Interests of the country. The falling off in the various lines of exports is as follows: Exports. 1S92. 1S93. Cotton J2.-.8.4R1.241 J1S8.76S.274 Breadstuffs ... 203.363.117 199.034.203 Provisions 14.3f2.i;9 137,031, W Cattle 35.fi24.2Sl 25.541,801 Mineral oil 44.805,992 42.077,770 All others 237,115,221 237,333,013 Totals 51,015,732,011 JS30.7S0.730 Seventy millions in coUon, and one hundred millions In breadstuffs;' that is the meaure of the purely agricultural falling off. When we come to manufactures and mining products, excepting mineral oils, there is a gain of $200,000. Verily, as Mr. Blaine said, the McKinley bill does not make a market for another bushel of wheat or another barrel of pork. The Kansas City Times gives its readers a timely lecture on good citizenship as follows: "Th events of the past few months carry with them a lesson to business men. A full appreciation of the fearful mental Ktrain which is now consuming the financial brains of the country does not deter the Times from reminding business men that the responsibility tor the present existing conditions rests on them. When men who have grown to ripe maturity of experience ana" Judgmrnf In business affairs are heard to declare, unreservedly, that they have neither time nor disposition to engage In politics. It is clear that they to not realize or appreciate the obligations of American citizenship. This disinclination to activity in political matters 13 born of the fear of antagonizing those whose patronage and good will tby hope to retain or secure, or else o'f a willingness to take the risks of allowing others to select men to make and Mlrister the laws which so vitally concern thir Interest. The result is the selection of legislators who have little practical kjiol!x cf bulne. coufcjuen t!y th 1

people, the business public Included, suffer the penalty." There is a vast deal of sound common sense which those who are grumbling about existing conditions would do well to consider.

THE CHIMB OP 1N73. It is possible that some newspapers of this country Imagine that they can aid the repeal of the Sherman law by the repeated publication of false statements concerning silver, but they cannot. They are simply puttin? arguments Into the mouths of the most radical free silver men. who are disposed to resist the repeal of the Sherman bill. One of the most outrageous articles on the silver question that has been produced appeared lately in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, and Is reproduced in the Indianapolis News. It is full of false statements, but we wish to notice here only one. It says: The silver demonetization act oflST3, It is frequently said, was passel "surreptitiously," and the movement which led to It has been called a "conspiracy" and a "crime." Let us see if there be any basis for these charges. John Jay Knox, an official of the treasury department and later a controller of the currency, was requested by the secretary of the treasury to prepare, in outline, a revision of the statutes governing the mints and assay offices of the country, and in 1S70 the measure was placed in the hands of the secretary, (leorge S. Boutwell, who sent It to the senate, with the recommendation that it bts passed. In the enumeration of the coins to be issued from the mints the standard silver dollar was omitted. 'But Mr. Knox, in a letter accompanying the bill, made particular mention of this fact. The coin was omitted because there was no demand for it. Although they could be coined on the same terms as gold pieces, only a little over eight millions of the silver dollars had been coined in the eighty-one years ending with 1S73. There was no demand for their coinage because In each dollar, at the ruling price for silver In 1870, when the socalled demonetization bill went to congress, there would be about $1.03. as measured in gold. The bill omitting the silver dollar from the list of coins was before two congresses, it was exhaustively discussed between 1870 and its passage in 1S73 In both branches of congress and through the press and every member of congress knew that the silver dollar was dropped from the list of coins who attended to his duties, and every reader of the newsjapers knew it who had any interest in the question. There waa nothing "surreptitious" about it. This Is absolute falsehood, and there is no excuse for it. because the facts have repeatedly been put before the country'. The bill prepared by John Jay Knox was not passed by congress at all. A bill was prepared Mr. Hooper of Massachusetts embodying the provisions of the Knox bill as to the regulation of the mint, but retaining the silver dollar. This was house bill 1,427. On May 27, 1872, Dill No. 2,934 was substituted for this bill and passed by the house. It also retained the silver dollar. It came to the senate in this form, and was up for amendment on Jan. 17, 1873. It is claimed by Mr. Sherman that on that day an amendment was adopted dropping the dollar. The Congressional Globe of that date shows no such amendment, but the papers on file do. There is some evidence that supports Mr. Sherman's statement, but after this amendment is claimed to have been passed. Mr. Sherman said to the senate "the dollar provided for by this bill is the precise equivalent of the five-franc piece," and that Is in the Congressional Globe. The whole debate proceeded as if the dollar were in the bill, and there is no intimation, either In the Globe or elsewhere, that It was not. There is no excuse for any misstatement on this subject, because the matter has come up repeatedly, in congress and out of it, and any person who pretends to discuss the question could easily obtain the facts. On June 5, 1S90, the entire matter was fought over in the senate, and the whole record of the passage of the bill is set out in the Congressional Record for that date. It Is shown there absolutely that the dollar was In the bill when It came to the senate, and therefore the discussion of what was in Mr. Knox's bill is entirely foreign to the question. As the result of that discussion, which was brought on by Senator Stewart in reply to the statement that he had voted for the demonetization act, the following dialogue occurred: Mr. Stewart "I repeat again, he will find that the section which demonetized silver was never read in either house, and anyone who examines it will find it was never read in either house." ' Mr. Sherman "It was never mentioned or spoken of." Mr. Stewart "Then I shall be exonerated for having been here and having voted for this bill, and my excuse will be taken." The statement that the dropping of the dollar was widely advertised at the time is unqualifiedly false. The telegraphic reports of the proceedings of congress for the day did not mention it, and the Globe did not mention it. We challenge the production of a single contemporary public statement to that effect. Not only Mr. Stewart, but also Blaine, Conkling, Garfield and President Grant, all denied that they had knowledge of this provision of the bill, and Indeed we have never heard of but one man who admits that he did know It, and that man is John Sherman. The Sentinel believes that the Sherman law should be repealed unconditionally, but that must not be considered as condoning the crime of 1&73. PtLIMT JESTI. Some days ago a New York preacher who devoted hit sermon to the Impurity of oroton water and Its evil effects took for his text the words, "And he showed ma a clear river of the water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and the Lamb." Rebuking this realistic and light application of a sacred Image, the Elmira Advertiser says: "The religion of the bible Is a very serious thing. There Is not a Joke In scripture from beginning to end." There is not much room for questioning this statement, though there Is an occasional Instance of irony or sarcasm that border on the humorous. For example, when the prophets ol Baal had built their altar and were crying to their God to consume the sacrifice there is something almost mirth-provoking in Elijah' mockery "Cry aloud; fur "He is

God: either He is talking, or He Is pursuing, or lie is on a journey, or peradventure He sleepeth, and must not be awaked." Tet It was a very serious occasion for the men of Baal, and the whole occasion was of a most solemn and awful character. On the whole, it must be admitted that there is nothing In the bible that can be called a Joke In our modern acceptance of the word, and the fact has been used effectively bv those who oppose pulpit jesting. Probably it was never put more effectively than by Cowper In the following lines: He that negotiates between God and man. As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of Judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness In his speech. Tis pitiful To court a grin where you should woo a soul; To break a Jest, when pity should inspire Pathetic exhortation: and to address The skittish fancy with facetious tales, When sent with God's commission to th heart. So did not Paul. Direct me to a quip Or merry turn in all he ever wrote. And I consent you take it for your text. Your only one. till fides and benches fail. No: he was serious In a serious cause. And understood too well the wetehty terms That He had ta'en in charge. He would not stoop To conquer those by Jocular exploits Whom truth and soberness assailed In vain. At first blush this argument seems unanswerable, and yet a very strong answer may be found to it in the changed conditions of life when those times are compared with the present. These changed conditions are not alone the advances in science and art that make our forms of worship so different now from the forms of ancient times. Life was more serious then than it is now, and people had a very different idea of humor then. When Elijah could call for the death of the prophets of Baal because their sacrifice was not consumed, when the daughter of Herodias after dancing before the king could ask the bead of John the Baptist as a reward, when Christ could be crucified, when Stephen could be stoned, when the masses could enjoy seei.ig their fellow humans torn to pieces by wild beasts, when the word of Herod could cause the death of the male Infants of his country, when Nero could make torches of his Christian subjects, it is not to be imagined that diversion would be found In the quips and merry turns that are considered amusing now. The same difference may be seen now by turning from the civilized nations of the world to the barbarous nations of Africa or othr countries where the frown of a savage monarch means the torture or death of the offending subject. Life is as serious there as it was In ancient times. There does not exist that sense of safety which permits the mind to turn freely to amusement. In all the bible there Is but one character who shows any sense of humor, and that Is Samson, whese personal strength made him fearless. His riddle, his mocking deceit of Delilah, and his sending the foxes with firebrands into the wheat of the Philistines, show a grim humor that is even more clearly manifest in his plucking up the gates of Gaza . and carry them away to the hilltop while his would-be captors slept. But Samson was free from the apprehension of damage that lay over the masses. The enemies of the Philistines were nothing to him. He feared no ruler, and he had no ruler's dread of assassination. He lived in something like the atmosphere of safety that we enjoy now. As we have lost the dread that hung over the people of bible times, it is but natural that our lives should be lighter and brighter. We are enjoying the blessings of Christian freedom and safety. It Is not to be expected that we should have the same solemn view of our surroundings as the Christian martyrs who were expecting to be killed at any time. Paul tells the Corinthians that he was five times whipped with stripes, thrice beaten with rocks and once stoned, besides numerous Imprisonments and casualties. What did he have to joke about? Life was a very serious thing to him, and you can hardly expect a preacher of today to view it as he did.

ADVICE TO COXGIIESS. It Is true that congress has not always taken the advice of The Sentinel, likewise the Indiana legislature, likewise the city council, likewise the Indianapolis school board, likewise the Ninth ward, likewise numerous other bodies. That Is not our fault. The Sentinel's business Is to give good advice, and it always does its duty. We defy any legislative body to cite an instance In which it profited by neglecting our advice, likewise any executive. Judicial, or other body. When the advice Is given The Sentinel's duty is done, and the advised have the responsibility of accepting or rejecting It. There are also several other responsibilities resting on this congress, some of which are quite important. Members of congress will probably recognize them, but It may not be amiss to point them out. Senators and representatives, you are about to assemble at Washington. The weather is unpleasantly warm, and Potomac water Is hardly fit for making mint Juleps. You will be glad to get away from Washington as soon as possible. In this your wishes and the wishes of the great majority of your constituents coincide. Nobody wants you to stay in Washington any longer than is necessary to do two things. The first Is to reieal the purchase clause of the Sherman law. There Is no necessity for any speech-making on the subject. You cannot tell anybody anything about silver. There is iot a man in the country who does not feel certain that he knows all about It, and it Is too hot to read speeches. If anyone feels that he must say something, give him leave to print his speech In th appendix and proceed to business. Mr. Stewart and Mr. Jones think the country Is going to hades. That Is all right. Let them sayso, and refer to their previous speeches for proof. They cannotfadd anything of importance to what they have said already. Don't bother about substitutes. You can attend to that next winter when the weather is cooler. Don't bother about

any more circulation for national banks, i If they want any more they can make I an increase of over $500,000,000 under the I existing laws. Don't bother about any j

more currency of any kind. There Is plenty of it In the country. Just repeal the purchase clause, and stop. The other duty Is to pass, a tariff law. There Is no necessity for any speech- . making on this subject. The country is educated on the tariff. The three evils of the congress of 1890 were the Sherman and McKinley laws and the force bill. The one was killed then, and the twin relics must go now. We have gone to the country twice on these subjects and the result has been overwhelming both times. What Is wanted now is action. The thing to do Is for the democrats to agree on a bill and put it through at once. Republicans will probably insist that it will send the country to hades also. That makes no difference. They have been saying so for years, and the country says, let her go. No further information on the subject is needed. The manufacturers have had their say before various commissions and their views are In print. The people have had their say, and their representatives are in congress. The appendix Is open for any further remarks. Possibly a few mistakes may be made in adopting a bill quickly. They are certain to be mad'j If you dawdle around for a year. Fix your policy now and let the country adjust itself to the new relations. If any minor changes are needed they can be made next winter when the weather is cooler. Having accomplished these two things, by the first of September congress might adjourn for a needed vacation. The senate could remain a while to confirm appointments, but that is all that is needed. Aside from the silver and tariff matters the most Important fact before the country now is that not enough democrats are drawing salaries. Tut them in and let the republican office-holders who are predicting disasters get out into the business world and Invest their earnings. Then a grateful nation will bless you and re-elect you. A LAST RESORT. The republican press is making a great effort to convince readers that the present depression of Industries is due to the change of administration. A sample of the line of argument Is found in the following from the Philadelphia Inquirer: Last fall we were solemnly assured that existing conditions were ruinous and that the country- wanted a change. The majority of the people seemed to be of that opinion. Well, the change has come, and here are some of the details of the change: Depreciation of $2,000,000,000 In the value of American securities. All the plate glass factories in America shut down for an indefinite period. Blast furnaces banking fires every day in the week, curtailing the output of pig Iron enormously. Textile mills of all sorts In New England either shutting down or preparing to do so. All the large iron mines in the Michigan districts shut down or running with a short force. ... , . , Wool at the lowest figure ever known. Wheat at the lowest price in two generations. Balance of foreign ' trade heavily against us. Money tied up in vaults and banks with no accommodations to any but regular customers and few new loans of any kind. More men out of work than at any time since the. panic of 1873. These are a few of the changes that have taken place In the last six months. Business of every kind crippled or paralyzed. Are the people satisfied? There is no person of ordinary Intelligence In the country who does not know that tnese are'nearly all the results of the laws passed by the blllion-dollar congress, and the remainder are due to the action of trusts which were not suppressed by the last administration. There has been no change in the laws since Mr. Harrison went out of office, and the Idea that these things are a result of want of confidence in a president who received the largest popular vote ever given to any candidate Is simply absurd. They are the legitimate results of the legislation of a republican congress, approved by a republican president. It will be remembered that Just after their sweeping rebuke in the elections of 1S90, the republican leaders all folned In the cry that the people had been deceived that they had acted hastily and injudiciously on the misrepresentations of the democrats. The McKinley law was all right, but It needed time to "work ouL" The Sherman silver law was a good thing, but it needed time to work out. Just wait a little while, and the wisdom of these great works of statesmanship would be demonstrated. The country has waited and enjoyed their benefits for two and one-half years more and now the results which were predicted by the deceitful democrats are calmly ascribed to the change of administration. It is a case of desperation. They must make some explanation. They must offer the people some excuse for the stupendous failure of the legislation that had been put in force by the republican party. But there was none to be made. Even the republican press was forced to admit that the Sherman bill ought to be repealed at once, and with laughable inconsistency reproached the democrats of the house for not repealing t this masterpiece of their great financier. A few papers maintain that the party should still fight for the "protection of American labor," but most of them realize that question is settled. Then came the happy thought, blame It all to Cleveland. "With eagerness they clutch at this straw, forgetting that their own admissions as to the Sherman law have already barred the gates In that direction. Apparently the republican party Vi becoming badly rattled. A PLZ7.LIXG TOLICY. The New York bankers are becoming puzzled by the policy of the treasury ' officials, of paying out gold when some other forrrt of currency Is desired by the party receiving It. Mr. i Jordan, the assistant U. S. treasurer at New York, is eald to have suggested

that It might be due to a desire to create a need for an additional supply of paper currency. This Is possible. It is known that many national banks have retired a large part of the currency to which they were entitled, and that a number of them are now securing reIssues. This has been particularly the case In the East, where this expansion of the currency has already served a good purpose in relieving the pressure for money. It is quite possible that the government may have taken this method of holding Its own paper currency and putting specie Into circulation to urge on this restoration of the national bank circulation and thereby increase the amount of money in use. This would naturally result because no one wants gold in ordinary transactions, and the banks would be impelled to the reissue of their notes by the demand for paper currency. Another explanation that has been offered appears equally plausible, and that Is that the treasury Is preparing to meet the demand that will be made on It for moving the crops of the country. Whether there will be such a demand depends to a large extent on the question who Is hoarding money. If, as is commonly believed, the stringency Is due to the accumulation of money In the banks, in order to protect themselves against possible effects of stringency, there will probably be little demand on the treasury, as this money will readily go to the movement of crops, which is a comparatively short and absolutely safe form of Investmert. On the other hand, If money Is being hoarded to any large extent by Individuals, which Is not very probable, the national treasury may be called on for a large amount of paper currency, and It would be wise to be prepared for that emergency. The conditions that endangered the gold reserve a few weeks ago have now disappeared, and the country Is now relieved from any apprehension of a possible suspension of specie payments. A third possible, explanation may be found in the theory that the government anticipates a renewal of the effort to force the issue of government bonds by Clews and his Wall-st. associates. At firrt thought it would seem that the best way to do this would be to devote attention entirely to the accumulation of gold in the treasury, but this is not certain. English markets are now glutted with gold. A call for gold here would draw It away from England and might possibly result In a counter movement by the bank of England. So long as money is easy In London the "peculators In exchange cannot affect our monetary condition by exporting gold to England. This country has all the gold It needs now, and It may be a very

wise thing to let England hold all she j has. That course would have a tendency to improve prices abroad and so benefit our agricultural producers. By paying out gold now the government can glut the home market also and break up the hoarding of gold In New York. From whatever point it Is viewed this action of the treasury department seems a shrewd move to break the control of the currency that has so long been held by the New York money kings. THE I)AU. IS 1IUEAKIVG. The most reassuring thing that has occurred lately Is the New York World's interview with Senator Stewart of Nei vada In which he Is quoted thus: "I have no doubt the Sherman silver law will be repealed. The country is going to hades. I had hoped to help in warding off the catastrophe, but the democrats and many republicans, too, seem to have gone crazy. I can not answer for the consequences and I am glad I shall not have to share the responsibility. "I have no d:ubt that the Sherman silver law will be repealed. But if it ; is repealed without a substitute of some kind. It seems Inevitably certain that, , times will grow worse and continue to grow worse, for a long time to come." j Senator Jones of Nevada indorsed Senator Stewart's statements. When Stewart and Jones give up the struggle there is good reason to believe that the Sherman purchase law will be disposed of quickly and unconditionally. This may appear to be a bad thing to these gentlemen, but It is certainly much better than the adoption of any of the so-called "as good or better" substitutes that have been offered. In fact that term Is a misnomer. They could more appropriately demand something as bad or worse than the Sherman bill. The Intelligent free silver men of this country do not want any change In the coinage ratio, or any attempt at free coinage by the United States alone, or any more sub-treasury schemes, or subsidizing of mine owners. There Is Just one way out of the situation and that Is international bimetallism at the old ratio. If Mr. Stewart and Mr. Jones would reflect on the events of the past few years It might possibly occur to them that they are not In a position to inspire confidence in the free silver men. In 1890 they might have had free coinage, but they abandoned the fight in consideration of the purchase of American silver, offered them by John Sherman. They gave up a great principle for the sake of this paltry bribe to the mine owners of the Rocky mountains. They gave the He to all their professions of acting for the benefit of the whole country, and by their act admitted that they were acting merely for local Interests. In 1890 this country might have sustained free silver single handed. It had a surplus In the treasury. Its revenues were In excess of Its expenditures. By the McKinley law, the pension law, and the other legislation secured by Messrs. Stewart and Jones and their colleagues, at that session, the surplus has now disappeared, and the country's expenditures are now about $10,000,000 per year in excess of Its revenues. They threw away the chance for free coinage in 1890, and they aided to make It impracticable at the present time. The appropriate thing now is for Mr. Stewart and Mr. Jones and Mr. Bland to take a ba-k teat and let the "crazy"

people handle the silver question for a while. They have engineered it for fifteen years and silver has depreciated about 45 per cent. It cannot possibly depreciate any more than that in the next fifteen years, . no matter what course is followed. Theys have maintained all along that the Bland law and the Sherman law would keep up the price of silver. It has gone on depreciating, or more properly gold has gone on appreciating, under both of them. This might be evidence to these gentlemen that they have not understood the subject as well as they thought ther""did. Suppose they try the other plan now. Depress silver still more. The United States is in better condition for it than either Great Britain or Germany. With India on her shoulders England will have to give way quickly. Repeal the Sherman bill. Try another international congress a few months later, and see what will come of it. We will venture the assurance to Mr. Stewart that this course will settle the silver question, and settel It as it should be settled, quicker than any other course that can be followed.

The St. Louis Globe-Democrat makes this truthful observation: "In a time like the present, the croakers stand upon every street corner, exaggerating the size of the overhanging clouds and predicting the worst results that can be imagined. They are so constituted that they can never recognize signs of encouragement, or make allowance for circumstances that may have a double meaning. It is their habit to look at everything on its darkest side. They fancy dangers where none exist, and invent pretexts for gloomy prognostications when they might just as easily mako comforting and stimulating conjectures. If an Insignificant bank fails in a remote district, they Interpret it as the forerunner of a series of like disasters In all parts of the country." That is all very true, but the Globe-Democrat Is engaged in just that sort if. Idiocy. Every day it prints at the head of Its editorials such a statement as this: "At yesterday's quotation. 69c, the silver in the dollar was worth iJvc." What difference does it make whether it is worth 53 cents or 3 cents? This country is on a gold basis, and the government and both political parties are pledged to keep all dollars equal. Why doesn't the Globe-Democrat make a daily statement that at yesterday's quotations the paper in a legal tender dollar was worth onetenth of a cent? It Is announced that Governor McKinley will make a specialty of the wool question in the coming campaign-. He ought to. In the year ending June 30, 1S90. before his tariff law went Into effect, this country imported 105,431.285 pounds of wooi. One of the chief purposes of his law was to stop this importation. In 18S1, three-fourths of which was under his system, the importation rose to 129,303,t;4S pounds. In 1S92, which was wholly under his system. It rose to 148.670,6f.2 pounds. Meanwhile the price went lower than ever. Mr. McKinley will require several months for the explanation of the extraordinary results of his wool tariff, and he cannot begin too soon. Doubtless, however, the national and state associations of ram breeders will come to his aid with resolutions that it is all due to lack of confidence. ET CETERA. What we hope ever to do with ease we must first learn to do with diligence. Johnson. Even Jajatjit Singh. King of Klncs, was obliged to keep of the gras in Central park. The health of a community is an almost unfailing Index of its morals. J. Martineau. Peest thou a man that is hasty in his words? There Is more hope of a fool than of him. Solomon. The ideal summer hotel clerk wears a lare diamond and dispenses studded polite-ness.-N. Y. World. The Nawab of Rampur stayed a whole week in Chicago. His Income is $100,000 a year. Chicago Dispatch. The Cardinal Manning memorial funtf in London has reached a total of S30.OO0. The money will be given to the homeless poor of that city. "Are you in a position to let me have that $10 that you owe me?" "No, I've just lost my position. Can you let me have another ten?" Truth. One of the funny writers remarks that It will be well for the country if the special session of congress should prove to be both Bland and Crisp. Man (in theater, to woman In front) "Madame. I paid one dollar and a half for this seat, and your hat " Woman (calmly) "That hat cost $40." N. Y. eekly. Persevering Widower "It was she who drove me to drink." Miss A. (a little weary) "What could she have driven you to that you would have lüted better?" Life's Calendar. "One of you boys has been stealing raisins again. I have found the seed on the floor. Which one of you was It?" Tommy "It wasn't me; I swallowed the seeUs in mine." Tit-Bits. "Paper says she did it out of coriosity." "Must be a mistake." "How's that?" "Know'd her for forty years an' never heard o' her bein" out o'curiosity a minute durin' the hull time." Buffalo Courier. "Let's go out and see them play baseball this afternoon." "I don't know anything about the game." "Oh. that's all right. You'll be In good company. Neither does the home club." Washington Star. Chicago has some translucent sculpture on exhibition at the art institute. The beautiful effect of this work is achieved by chiseling the marble down to a thickness of half an inch so that the light can shine through it as an illumination. Edmund Yates cables from London that Mr. Ostrahan, a member of the Newlyn school, has painted a window for the parish church. In which he has managed to combine a Scriptural subject and an Eastern costume with a realistic view of JN'ewlyn harbor and a whole row of Newlyn n.shing smacks.

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THE WAY CF THE WORLD. . "I'll adopt three of them If you'll adopt . the other two." said the city treasurer to his chief clerk yesterday. "What do you say?" It was a genuine flight of steps. The eldest child, a boy, had reached the mature age of six years. Then came two little girls, than another little boy a very little, little boy, then a baby in arms. With those five children, the mother, a delicate, refined little woman, had traveled from Wilmington up to this city in search of a truant husband. It was a sad story, says the Philadelphia " Inquirer. The fellow had deserted her, she told the treasurer, and she had followed him. on information which led her to believe that he was located somewhere in this city. He had left her almost penniless with those five little ones on her hands. When she had succeeded in bringing them to this city and had ascertained that he bad moved on she was quite penniless. The little family were driven by the thunderstorm into the south portal ol the city hall, where Treasurer McCreary happened to see them. He was jokina when he invited Chief Clerk Smiih to divide the children with him; but he invited the whole family into the treasury office, and divining that the younjjsters might be hungry sent out for sandwiches, for milk, for a cup of tea for the mother, and then set on foot a collection, loading off himself, and raising over J5 for the stranded family, quite enough to tide them over present tiim'ulties. and after they had dined sumptuously in the large room opening on tha east corridor, the treasure! had them escorted to the Pennsylvania depot and put aboard the train for Wilmington. More than that word was snt upstairs to Capt. Miller, and before the deserted wife had left the city hall. Detective Geyer had heard her sad story and had given a chivalric pledpe to find the woman's husband if he had located in this city. And the little woman had been so cheered and comforted that, er she left, the'tenrs that had dimmed h"r eyes as she told her story had cleared away like the storm, giving place to smiles and sunshine.

Prof. David Swing was, of course, one of the conspicous figures of the recent literary congress, and charmed every one by virtue of his affable demeanor and ready fund of extempore wit. The good professor told a number of charming ancedotcs to the little groups of people with whom he came Into contact, one of the most amusing of which related to the ghoulish joke played upon him by a raseall printer; for he will never believe it was an accident. Some time ago the professor entwed into a contract to write a weekly essay on any topic he might select for Mr. John It. Wilson's Evening Journal, one of the oldest family newspapers in Chicago. The article was always printed in leaded I brevier on the editorial page, with the words "By David Swing" in large capitals just beneath the title. One week the professor undertook to chasten a few of his fellow-writers, whose composition was not all It should be from a grammatical standpoint. He quoted examples liberally and entitled the article, "Some Bad English." The foreman of the Journal composing room, mindful, possibly, ot some of the "kicks" made by his men on the profesor's rather quaint handwriting, so marked the title and the "by," etc.. that the article appeared under the startling black-lettered caption. "Some Bad English by David Swing." The professor says that he has never recovered from the shock. The eccentricities of James Stephens, a homeless negro of giant proportions, astonished Judge Martin In the Tombs police court yesterday morning, says the New York Recorder. During the previous evening James had amused the residents of Roosevolt-st. A policeman had found him walking on his hands and knees and making grimaces at a large crowd of men. women and children. "He iniasrines he's a monkey, your honor," explained the policeman in court, "and I had all 1 could do to make him walk straight like any other man." Justice Martin looked at the prisoner. "How Is this, James," said he, "were you drunk?" "He was not," put In the policeman. " Deed I wasn't, boss," called out the negro. "I'se a monkey, I am. Jes' here from Souf 'Merica. Jes' you look." Before any one could stop him the negro dropped to his knees and started to crawl. Two policemen lifted him to his feet. "Hoi on! hoi on!" he shouted, trying to pull away. "Lemme show yer." "Take him away." said Justice Martin. "I'll commit him to Bf llevue for examination. He's very bad." . It is rather curious that the Duke de Veragua is the second remote descendant of one of the discoverers of America to have visited this country and have here been in embarrassed circumstances. The other descendant appeared in the forties In the shape of a beautiful Italian woman calling herself Ameriga Vespucia. claiming to be a descendant of the person after whom the two continents are named, and desiring to be paid by congress for her ancestor's service. As she was attractive and fascinating a good many susceptible statesmen, such as Mr. Webster, for instance, believed her story and were rather in favor of helping her. But there were enough insusceptible people about congress to block the lady's game and she finally gave it up and retired to the shelter of Mr. Parish's roof tree at Watertown. Mr. Parish was the great man of that period in that part of the state, where he 11 veil in considerable style, and as both he and the lady were generous with money the public sentiment of the locality endured the irregularity of the affair and Ameriga, the claimant, lived in the Parish house for many years. She eventually returned to Europe and disappeared. One of the prettiest and certainly one of the most aristocratic looking girls at Bar Harbor this summer is Miss Maize Sturgis of Philadelphia, who has for two or three seasons been a belle at all social gatherings in the Quaker city. Miss Maizie's arm Is probably the most beautifully moulded in all quakerdom, and Its dimpied cIImjw has teen acknowledged by more than one university of Pennsylvania undergraduate to be the most fetchnlg thing he ever saw. This beauty's sister, Mrs. "Jimmle" Potter. Is quite the most popular chaperone In Philadelphia, and another sister. Miss Susie, is looked upon as one of the Jolliest and best girls that ever attended an assembly. Altogether Mrs. Sturgis, who was a Miss Inches of Boston, has reason to be proud of all three of her daughters. I Care erroosness and Constipation. Dr. Shoop's Restorative Nerve Pills J sent free with Medical Book to prove merit, for 2c stamo. Druggists, 25c Dr. I Shoop. Box X. Ilfc jine. Wis.

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