Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 August 1893 — Page 4

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 16, 1893-T WELTE PAGES.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. 6. E. MOBSS, BEN A. EATON, PrMidcat, Vlo President. b. McCarthy, BecreUry nd Treuerer.

lIatT at th Poateffle mt Indianapolis: m aacond clan Batter. I TERMS PER YEAR flcfla copr (IsTarlably la A d an ea. );... 1 OA Wr fk dfiuocrtuv Wax In mind ni aelrct tVir d tat paper wImi they com to ti tubacrlfw t:cri and make up elnba. A grata making ap eluba aand for an lnfrmat1w tetfied. AddtM THE 1JD1A AFOUS 8EXTINEL Indianapolis Ind. WEDXESDAY, AIGUST 16, 1893. If congress does not hustle along: with the repeal of the Sherman law Indiana will turn the Conrads loose in Washington. The Philadelphia Times wonders that no one has suggested the free coinage of American tin. If scarcity is a desirable element in a money metal it would be worth much more than gold. The white caps of Harrison county find themselves in the same situation as the tiger-hunting Frenchman. "It is vera fine sport to hunt de tlgar," said he. "but when de tlgar hunts you den it is de devil." George Gould Is feeling the hard times. He says that if he were called upon suddenly to produce $10,000,000 in cash he would find it almost impossible to do it. Almost every man in the country can sympathize with George. Senator Quay is in a compromising frame of mind. He wants a tariff that will be reasonably satisfactory to both parties, so that it need not be disturbed for a number of years. All right. Just make it a tariff for revenue and it will not be troubled for many a day. We have no personal ill-will toward Senator Dolph, but a man who comes forward at the opening of this session with a bill for an appropriation of $133,000,000 for coast defenses, and $1,000.000 for a gun factory on the Pacific coast, ought to be shot or required to apologize. Between the white caps of southern Indiana and the tramps who are marauding the northern part of the state, our commonwealth seems to be getting back to the Jays when the Indians scalped and killed the early white settlers. History repeats itself with eome variation. All elements in the house have now practically agreed upon a program for bringing the silver question to an early vote. Now if that distinguished aggregation of most able procrastlnators known as the senate will "get a move on it" the country will experience a profound sense of relief. The country is in splendid condition to get along with a short crop of oratory. There is no doubt that the white cappers of southern Indiana have added woman whipping to their numerous other accomplishments. To say nothing of the recent whipping: of Mrs. Dalton in Clarke county. It was brought out in open court in Jasper last week that Mrs. Coffee had been outrageously maltreated by the white caps of Crawford county. Oneoi the rascals was convicted, but he has run away, forfeiting his bond. The peach crop may not be a failure after alL Early information was to the effect that the crop would be very email in Delaware. New Jersey and Maryland, but later Intelligence Is more encouraging. Advices from southern Indiana are to the effect that the crop will be above the average and an old fruit grower of northern Indiana, who has recently returned from Michigan, says that the trees are breaking down with the fruit and that peaches would sell for 60 cents per bushel. The quality he also pronounced to be excellent. The Philadelphia Record aptly illustiates the republican position on the tariff thus: "No one expected that the Sherman silver purchase act and the McKinley tariff would at once work out the evil that is in them. Like some physical disorders, the effect of these diseases on the financial and industrial body was somewhat slow in development. But now, when their ravages are manifest, eminent political doctors assure the patient that he is not suffering from the diseases but from the efforts to cure them. The trouble, they tell us, is not in the McKinley tariff, but in a fear of the consequences of a reformation of its iniquities and abuses." There is nothing to be gained by further kicking of the discharged doctors. The newly employed ones are in charge of the case and will treat it as they have diagnosed iL The tramps who are infesting tha counties along the trunk lines in the northern portion of the state are getting to be not only a nuisance, but dangerous and a menace to life. Only last week they de'vjyed a deputy sheriff of Lagrange county into the woods and murdered him. So far as we know, they all escaped capture. It is a frequent occurrence for them to enter a farm house and compel the women of the household to prepare meals for them. Recently sixty of them took possession of a freight train, locking the conductor and brakeman into the caboose and helping themselves to whatever was portable on the train. They were finally routed and one or two wounded. Another gang compelled two boys to exchange clothing. These are only a few illustrations" of the manner in which these wandering vagabonds are conducting themselves In Indiana. They seem to be either on the way to Chicago or returning from it, and are the off-scourings of the purlieus of the large eastern cities. From a state exchange we learn that at Rockford Monday nicht a big colored tramp shot At Brakeman Dally because he refused

to let him ride. The next night three tramps came into the caboose of a southbound freight train and refused to get out, and one of them grabbed up a link and hurled it at Ed Miranda, the conductor. The second link was thrown, when they were forced from the train. The tramps began firing on the train crew, and the crew returned the fire. The tramps then hid behind a hay stack and the fusillade, was kept up until the train was out of reach of the tramps, about twenty shots being exchanged altogether. The next night seventeen tramps were driven from one box car at a little station and two shots were fired by them at the trainmen as it pulled away. Verily the tramp is 'becoming a character In this country. TnK PRESIDENTS MESSAGE. Mr. Cleveland's message is another illustration of his remarkable power 'of cutting away from theory and dealing strictly with facts. We imagine that the majority of the people will read the document and finish with a feeling of surprise or disappointment because they have not found any discussion of the silver question. It does not go Into the history of the precious metals. It has nothing for or against monometallism, nothing for or against bimetallism, nothing for or against a change of ratio, nothing for or against any remedy that has been suggested for the silver trouble, except alone the silver purchase system. On the contrary, standing without the circle of controversy, Mr. Cleveland virtually says to congress and to the nation, "No matter what your views on the silver question may be, this Sherman law Is preventing what you want, and is doing great Injury. It is the one thing- that nobody can consistently favor, and it is the one thing that ought to be put out of the way. I urge it3 prompt repeal." At the outset Mr. Cleveland wisely and prcperly calls attention to the fact that the responsibility for action lies on congress. There Is no assumption of power or responsibility on his part no attempt to dictate. lie then points to the existing situation. In strong terms, but without exaggeration, and states bis belief that It is "principally chargeable" to the Sherman law, which he aptly terms a truce in the struggle between the advocates of free coniage and those, not more conservative, but "intending to be more conservative." He then takes up the Sherman law and calls attention to the notorious facts developed under the system provided by It; that silver has declined in price Instead of appreciating; that the law itself requires the payment of the coin notes in gold if demanded; that gold has gone out of the treasury as fast as silver bullion came In; that foreign nations have taken advantage of the situation to draw away our gold, most of which loss has fallen on the national treasury, as its stock of gold has fallen over $132,000.000 (out of a total loss of about $157,000,000 to the country) in the three years that the Sherman law has been in force; that the inevitable result of this movement must be an inability of the government to maintain its various forms of currency on an equality without resorting to the sale of bond3. . We do not believe that these statements will be seriously questioned In either house of confess, and it would make little difference If they were. They are so nearly self-evident truths that the intelligence of the country has already accepted them. It has also accepted the next proposition, that the fiat of our government alone cannot make silver or paper equal to gold, and that the United States, by attempting that beyond the legitimate limits of its credit, is merely lessening its influence with foreign powers to secure a universal agreement as to the basis of money. It may be fairly said also to have accepted the further propositions that the people are entitled to a stable currency; that speculators are using the opportunity to fatten on the misfortunes of others; and that wage earners must suffer more than any other class from the existing demoralization of business. From these propositions follows the Irresistible conclusion that the Sherman law should be repealed, and repealed quickly. Incidentally Mr. Cleveland calls attention to the fact that the tariff question .has lost none of .its importance, and that it must be dealt with as the people have directed at an early day. There Is no indication of any alarm, or any disposition to take the back track. In that direction. Mr. Cleveland's method of dealing with the situation is on the same line as his celebrated tariff message, which is now generally admitted to have been a' state paper of extraordinary ability. He proceeds on the theory that "it i3 a condition and not a theory that confronts us." He cuts away from all side issues and possible problems of the future in order to deal with the great problem of today. It Is to be hoped that congress will follow his example. It has been said that when a house is on fire is no time to discuss Its architecture. The thing to do is to put out the fire. That Is what congress should do now, and it is encouraging to note that Mr. Cochran and his aids are moving rapidly in that direction. They propose to make, few speeches, and Jet the oppositiondo the talking, in consideration for a speedy and decisive vote. If an equal amount of good sense is shown in the senate the country may look for speedy relief.

XO SEW RATIO WANTED. From the press reports it would seem that there is some slight danger of another attempt at a "makeshift" in silver legislation in the shape of a free coinage till at a new ratio. It is reported that part of the Indiana congressmen favor such a measure and that the ratio on which compromise would be accepted Is 1 to 18 or 1 to 20. It is to be hoped that tee report h Incorrect, so far as any possibility of the success of the scheme Im concerned, for it would be disastrous.

both politically and In a business way. As a compromise it would be worse than the Sherman law, because, even if it succeeded in bringing the value of silver to that ratio, it would only gain the disapproval of those who believe in the 1 to 16 ratio, and there are a great many of that kind of people. At present" silver holds a market value that represents a ratio of about 1 to 23. If a free coinage law could sustain it at a ratio of 1 to 20 it could as well sustain it at a ratio of 1 to 16. It- has been sneeringly asked If there Is anything "sacred" about the ratio of 1 to 16. There is. That is the ratio at which our coined money stands. That is the ratio at which money stood, practically, from the foundation of the government." That is the ratio which was destroyed by demonetization, and the prices of all commodities were carried down with silver from that point. The real object of Intelligent silver men Is the restoration of prices, the bringing back of the money measure to the same length that it had in 1873. A ratio of 1 to 20 Is an absolute surrender of this. It is a concession of a permanent reduction of 25 per cent, in all prices from the former standard. Hence no intelligent silver man will be satisfied with it, and our friends the populists would never get through kicking about it. Indeed they -ought not, if such a thing were done, because it would be an inexcusable abandonment of the cause of restoration of values. But there Is no reason to hope that it would be successful in stopping the decline of silver. We have the examples of Mexico and India to show the futility of free coinage by single nations to maintain the metal value of silver. It is urged by some that the United States Is so great and so prosperous that we could do what these semi-civilized nations were unable to do. How can we? Free coinage will not help silver unless we can command the gold to hold it up. Our treasury is practically at bed-rock. Our expenditures last year were $10,000,000 in excess of ur receipts. Before any new'.system of revenue can be made productive at least one year will elapse. Long before that time our remaining gold would have been exhausted and specie payments suspended. We urge on our congressmen that there is no plan so delusive, none so certain to bring ruin on the country and on the party as this proposition for free coinage at a new ratio. If it were a choice between that and the Sherman law, we would say stick to the Sherman law.

TUR MILLS OF TUB GODS. We would direct the attention of the the people of Indiana, and especially that of "the best citizens of . Boone township, Harrison county," and several other localities, to the case of Max Ilarbaugh. The Sentinei's special from Oorydon informs us that Max has come to that place and sworn out a warrant for the arrest of the Conrads, and that he remains in Corydon, being afraid to return home because the Conrads propose to kill him and two or three other persons who are supposed to have been leaders of the white cap expedition that resulted so disastrously on Sunday morning. This Is an unpleasant situation for Mr. Ilarbaugh. He may profit by his exile, however, if he will pass the time reflecting that he is now enjoying the agony that he and his white cap friends have repeatedly Inflicted on others. He is In a position to realize, as he probably never realized before, that there is no hell on earth like the life of a hunted man no torture that can be. worse than the feeling that you are never safe. Death hangs over him death by violence, at any time, at any place. It may fairly be presumed that these white caps never stop to consider the barbarous cruelty they inflict on their victims, of. which not the least part is in their "warnings." A person who becomes offensive to them is warned by an anonymous letter. From that time his life becomes a horror. He does not know at what time he may be visited and maltreated by these secret foes. Our law makes a man'a house his castle, and the fundamental principle of the law is to give him a place where he may be safe, a place where he may sleep in peace. Its object is to relieve him of the torture of terror. The Jewish law gave cities ' of refuge to which the hunted man might flee. Our law gives each man his home as a city of refuge, and authorizes him to protect it against any but legal invasion. The white caps take away that place of safety. Their1 victim is safe at home only so long as he can protect himself by force against fearful odds. Think of his life. Think what it must be to He down to sleep with a fear that in the darkness of the night masked enemies will creep upon you and beat you, maim you, possibly kill you. Think what it must be to start at every crackling of a twig, to shudder at every strange noise that makes itself great in the deep stillness of the night, to spring from troubled sleep when the wind rattles the door or window. It is horrible. It may well make reason totter and fall. That is what these white caps do to others, and now in this case the measure they meted has been measured to them again. They are the hunted. They live in constant fear. The Conrads are now embarked on a career of lawlessness. So long as they held their home and shot down the desperadoes who sought to Invade it they were acting within thefr lawful rights, and acting like men. Now they dare not Btay there to face the odds that can be brought against them, but are forced to become beasts of prey, filled with revenge and hatred for the men that made them. so. They have both .courage and shrewdness. They turn the tables. They propose to crouch In the darkness and spring on their enemies one by one. It Is an awful thing to contemplate, but these wh'.te caps have brought it- on themselves. ' It is the legitimate fruit of their own lawlessness. If it shall serve to teach Boone township and oth-r localities that law

lessness begets lawlessness, and that the only safe course for any community is the strict enforcement of law and the reliance on law alone, then the blood that has been spilled in this tragedy will not have been without benefit.

AHES BUD LEAD BLIND. The New Tork "World says, in the course of a long sermon on the financial situation: Its silver laws have driven gold out of the country from 187 to June, 1893, to the amount of $323,247,584. Substantially all of this went to Europe, and during the same time Europe sent to this country only $71.826,056 of the total amount imported, which was $114,683,033. In these transactions we lost to Europe $256,421,828. ' These statements are incorrect and those. who accept them will be misled. So far from our gold loss since 1887 having been J32S,247,SS4, It has been only $64,857,039 from June 30. 1886, to the date of the last treasury report, June 30, 1S92. Here are the yearly reports of the treasury: IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF GOLD. Exports. Imports. 1S92 $13.321,357 $49,699,454 6,873,976 1891 84,939,551 1,423.103 1890 .............. 13.403,632 3.870,859 18S9 64,930.332 5.021.953 18S8 12,560,034 5.S16.150 1S87 5.703.304 3,995,SS3 18,232,567. 12.943.342 10,2S4.S5g 43,934.317 42.910.601 $2U,S62.17S $173,005.139 Foreign coin transhipped. In getting these figures the treasury counts the gold coin and bullion over and over again, each time that it enters and each time that it leaves the country. An actual use of $5,000,000 shipped backward and forward last year was all that was needed to settle accounts, and that amount used for shipment would have given us the treasury totals. The actual loss In any one year must be the difference in amount, between what has been sent abroad and brought back. To show "loss" the World counts the same bag of gold from ten to firty times over each time it leaves, port but makes no account cf its coming ba-k. More than this, the World counts as a lo.ss of gold to this country the foreign gold transhipped through our. ports. When a London banker sends a bag of gold to Hong Kong via New York and San Francisco, the World considers that we have-"lost' it, because it was "exported" from San Francisco. To count all the passengers going out of New York dally, and to foot the dally reports at the end of ten years to show how much population New York had lost by Its unclean streets, would be squally as sensible as what the World has done In these gold reports. The actual loss of population of a city can only be obtained bv taftlng the difference in number between the outgoers and Incomers. A -commuter may ride out and in 312 'times yearly and the whole population "of the world pass through the city "without affecting the result. There has been, no, such gold loss as the World imagirif's. It' hns no figures for 1803, for they have not yet been compiled, to show our, gold .movement with foreign countries, .and its statement that out of $114.685.033 imported only $71,821,056 came from Europe' 1 a bald and bold guess as wide cf 'the truth as its statement that we have lost' to Europe $256,421,828 when our actual total loss to the whole world from IS?7 to 1S92, which is as late as we have reports, was c nly $Gi,857,039. The World may have occult knowledge of a loss for 1893 of $200.000,000 to Europe, but there's no hint of it in the summary for 1S93, printed July 14 by the treasury department. The gold movement is not to be obtained from the yearly grand totals of the treasury, but from its detailed statements in tables 2. 7,' 12 and 17 in its annual reports. If the World will consult them it will see its error. INTERNATIONAL BIMETALLISM. In all the variety of opinions on currency that are floating about the country at the present time we believe there is less favoring gold monometallism than any other one view. There are a few theorists and a few interested parties who hold to it, but the great mass of the people believe that both gold and silver shoud be used for our coins. Unfortunately a great many of them seem unable to distinguish between using silver for money and using it as a basis for money, and therefrom arise a great many wild Ideas in favor of "makeshifts" of one kind or another. The general consensus of opinion seems to be that international bimetallism is the proper solution of the question, if it can be attained. The Boston Herald puts it thus: There is very little opposition to silver as such in the United States. If an opportunity was afforded for the U. S. government to enter with the other great commercial nations of the world into an agreement for a bimetallic currencysystem, we think that the . great majority of our people East, as well as South and West, would heartily concur in the arrangement. But, so long as such an International basis for bimetallism cannot be secured, we must defend the stability of our currency system by keeping it in harmony with that of the other great trading countries. Taking this to be the state of the public mind, and we are convinced that it Is such, why should not America go to work systematically for the restoration of international bimetallism? This country has always lacked the Influence abroad that it ought to have had on account of our foreign policy. In the effort to "avoid entangling alliances" we have kept ourselves In the position of a hermit among the nations of the earth. We cannot expect special favors from other nations unless we are ready to show some favor to them. There was never a more propitious occasion than the present for the abandonment of that solitary policy. Russia has always wanted an alliance with us, and if we , may Judge from the published Interviews of the Russian naval officers who lately visited New York, Russia is as desirous of an alliance now as she ever was. Moreover, Russia is Just now engaged In a tariff war with Germany. i On the 1st of the present month. Russia

imposed a special tax of 50 per cent, of her maximum, tariff rates on all goods Imported from Germany, in retaliation for discrimination's made against Russia in the German tariff. Germany and England are the two countries that have stood In the way of international bimetallism.Russia would be glad to join an alliance "against them. What Russia" would do in this half of Europe would do." France is more closely tied to Russia, than to any other nation, and France has been the head and front of the little union of states . that have been fighting for silver in Europeagainst the Barings and the Rothschilds. France, " Belgium, Switzerland. Spain, Italy and Greece would readily enter an alliance for the restoration of bimetallism. With these countries, with Japan and China and Mexico, with all the states of South America and Central America, the United States could form a commercial alliance that would quickly bring England and Germany to terms. If the nations In alliance would place tariffs on all goods imported from England and Germany of. say. 100 per cent, advalorera In excess of any other existing tariff, and also tariffs of 100 per cent, advalorem on all goods exported to either of those countries, the trade of the world would be between the allied nations, and England and Germany would have to do their trading with each other and with their colonies. Then balances of trade could be settled In the International currency without any worry about fluctuations in gold and silver. So long as we did not trade with England and Germany It would be immaterial whether their currency was different or not. It Is humiliating that Engrand and Germany should be permitted to dictate to the remainder of the world in this matter, but they will dictate unless the rest of the world protects itself. The people of the United States ought to make the demand for international bimetallism felt.

ENOLAND AND SILVER. The press dispatches state that a proposition has been made by England for th continuance of the Sherman law. It is said that English bankers, hacked by the English government, have proposed to "leadinr; New York financiers" that if this country would let the Sherman law remain In force England would resume free coinage in India at the ratio of 1 to 24. The story is not fully credited, and it is hardly probable that the English government would make any such communication through such channels, but there is good evidence that England is becoming very si-k of gold monometallism, and if the silver men of this country. have sense enough to use their advantage the path to universal bimetallism may be made very easy. We say there is good evidence of this fact because the rankest gold-bug papers In this country have seen it and commented on the strangeness of the manifestations. For example take the following from the Springfield Republican Of Aug. 8: It sounds ' rather odd to read In the London correspondence of the New York Financial Chronicle that "distrust is very general and there are fears that gold in considerable amount may be withdrawn for New York:" and that yet "the supply of money is exceptionally large." the Rank of England holding some $12,000.000 mere in reserve t han a year ago. On this side distru?t is less general in view of this same prospect of gold exports from Lnnd-n. Has it come to the point that business trust and dls-, trust In every nation hang upon the -bb and flow of a few millions of gold? Apparently this matter of the gold supply i.l telng unduly exaggerated. Is it exaggerated. Indeed? Remember, if you please, that this Is a period of "liquidation" one of those beneficial seasons when the financial atmosphere is being cleared, when weak and unwholesome financial Institutions are being weeded out. Remember that within a few months past the Argentine Republic has "laid down" on England; that Australia has done likewise; and that now India is preparing to follow suit. Remember that six times In its history the Bank of England has been forced to suspend specie payments, and that each time England has suffered general bankruptcy before specie payments were resumed. Remember that the most acnte financiers in England have foreseen this situation and given warning of it, as, for example, in these prophetic words of Alfred de Rothschild at the Brussels conference: If this conference breaks up without arriving at any definite result, there may be a depreciation in the value of silver frightful to contemplate; and out of which a monetary panic may ensue, the far-reaching effect of which it is impossible to foretell. Suppose now that the Bank of England is forced to liquidate. It has gold enough to redeem half its outstanding obligations. Is it strange that it wants to hold what it has? Is it strange that it is now making every effort to turn the drain to the Bank of France? Let us take another evidence. Yesterday The Sentinel called attention to the rise of the price of silver bullion at a time when the repeal of the Sherman law was becoming more certain, and asked for an explanation of it. Here is the answer of the Wall Street News, which certainly cannot be suspected of any free silver proclivities. Criticising (.Acting Mint Director Preston for Inslst- ; ing on buying silver at the lowest mar- ! ket rates, this financial organ says: i The course of the Indian office in Lon- : don was exactly th? opposite. As sliver i was declining in the London market the i banks bought rupee paper and shipped large amounts of silver to India. They figured that with an abundant supply of silver they would be able to get India council bills at a profit, and at a lower price than ever oefore. Had the council for India followed Mr. Preston's idea they would have" allotted the bills and permitted the decline of silver ti go on, but they declined to aid in the depreciation of the white metal and for the first time in history refused to allot any Indian bills. As a result, the price of paper rose and the silver has been absorbed. The banks have not been able to force exchange below lö1,. If they could have done so the price of silver would have declined still, further. Thus the council for ' India did all that was possible to mitigate the results of the Inevitable decline In silver, while the U. S. treasury department devoted its en1 ergies to putting the price still lower. Think of it. " "For the first time in history" England endeavored to hold up

the price of silver. England does not dare to take any other course. The minute this country lays down the burden of carrying the world's , silver England is obliged to take it up. The republican silver-state senators, who sold out the cause in 1890, talk about our being slaves to England. We are so only as long as we continue to carry its burdens. Drop the load. Make England carry it for a few months, and we will hear no more of English: opposition to universal bimetallism at the ratio of 1 to 16. Make no compromise on the ratio. Stand for the full pound of flesh. Repeal the Sherman law without condition. Let national banks issue currency to the full amount of their bonds, and let Individual bondholders do the same. This is our opportunity to bring England and all Europe to our terms. Cigarettes are playing sad havoc among the boys of Indiana, Instances of death being the result of the habit are Increasing and are rare no more. Only recently a boy died from the effects in northern Indiana and still more recently a young life was forfeited from the same cause at Kokomo. The young fellow was trying to get a prize offered by a cigarette manufacturing company to the person who bought a certain number of boxes. Hundreds of boxes.approachlng nearly a thousand, were found in his room aftr the boy's death. There is law in Indiana forbidding the selling of cigarettes to boys and we are glad to note that the authorities of Peru are moving in the matter. A dispatch from that city Saturday said: "In numerous instances suits have been brought against the local dealers, which, however, fell flat. In the case of the state vs. Charles Clements, charged with selling cigarettes to a son of Councilman Oates, which was first brought before the mayor and transferred, on a change of venue, to a justice of the peace, judgment was rendered Friday p.gainst Clements. Bonds were given and an appeal was taken to the circuit court. It Is proposed to make a test case of the matter."

Says the St. Louis Republic: "No legislation under the sun can create a parity between the equipment of one who has led th silver forces of the house since 1878 and one who has 'made a special study of finance during the summer months.' This will be apparent when Bland's homely logic destroys the force of Bourke Cockran's spell-binding eloquence. The ratio of merit will be about 16,000 to 1." Possibly. But Cockran can frame the sort of bill he wants in fifteen minutes and Bland sc.ys it will take him a month or six weeks. Hence, the ratio of doing something is 4,320 to 1 in Cockran's favor. What the democratic party wants Is a combination of these superlative excellencies. Let Cockran write the bills, and let Bland print his homely logic in the appendix where the nation can read it during the long evenings of next winter. Nobody wants to hear any homely logic, or spell-binding eloquence either, when wheat is selling for 43 cents a bushel and you cannot borrow money from the banks. ET CETERA. The ladies' smoking cars on Russian railroads are well patronized. Gray rubber contains zinc oxide and is dangerous In any articles likely to be put into the mouth. The Baroness Blanc leaves as a souvenir of her visit to the world's fair an unpaid livery bill of $701 and no visible assets. Women shoeblacks are numerous In France. Some have been known to catch wealthy customers In the marimonia.1 net. A Cincinnati firm has ;ust booked a large order for wood-working machinery from parties at Algoa Bay, on the west coa.it of Twain's eldest daughter. Miss Ckra Clemens, not yet twenty years of age, hüs written a play of an allegorical character, which is said to be charming and clever. Mr. Arlo Bates, having accepted the chair of English literature at the Massachusetts lnstitue of technoloyr has resigned the editorship of the Boston Courier. Lafayette Grimes, a farmer of Dunlap, Tenn., was badly beaten by White Caps recently for the very peculiar reason that he wounld't let his daughter associate with one of the gang. Mme. Rhea, the actress, has married W. F. Hrat, the leading man. who is twenty years younger than his bride. It's a great thing for a poular star to have a leading Juvenile right in her family. "Women must coit-i.ler it a dreadful fate to be an old maid." mused Mr. Ciiugwater. 'They do, Jo3l.ih," sail Mrs. Chugwater; "what terrible sticks they sometimes marry to escape." And Josia.1 rubbed his chin and said nothlas. Tit-::its. Parent "Now, what ara you going to charge me to cure this boy of tlis r:easi.s?" Physicl in "Nothing at all. my dear, as It is an original case; and you get your 10 per cent, commission for etry hild that catches them from him." Providence Journal. Mme. Scalchi has eleven parrots and seven dogs waiting to greet her when she arrives home at Vlllino Sofia. These parrots are very Intellectual birds, the prima donna says, and she loves them. One sings two verese from the "Marseillals," and the others render music hall songs. Prince Maximilian of Saxony's sudden renunciation of the world and his withdrawal to the monastery is unprecedented In nodern times. The prince Is only twenty-five years of ase, and has hitherto been serving as a captain of a lancer regiment In garrison at Leipsic. Baron William Von Faber, the only son of Baron Lothar Von Faber, and part owner of the world-renowned leadpenci! factory in Nuremberg, died in Germany a few days ago. The family is one of the wealthiest in Germany, and Its members stand high among the patricians of old Nuremberg. N. Y. Tribune. I Care Nervousness and Constipation. Dr. Snoop's Restorative Nerve Pills sent free with Medical Book to prove merit, for 2c stamp. Druggists, 25c Dr. Shoop, Box X. Racine, Wis.

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Horatio Bridge, who was once paymaster-general in the U. S. navy. and In his youth a classmate of Hawthorne at Bowdoln college, writes thus of Hawthorne in his "Personal Recollections of Nathaniel Hawthorne:' "Like so many others who reaped fame In after life, Hawthorne 'was not studious in the general acceptation of the term, but he devoted much time to miscellaneous reading. His facility for acquiring knowledge would., with little labor, have placed him in the front rank of his class. As It was he took much greater Interest in the humanities than in the more abstruse branches of the prescribed course. It is also a curious fact that Hawthorne was somewhat addicted to card playing in his early college life, and President Allen once sent a short note to his mother announcing that her son had been 'fined 50 cents for playing cards for money last term Hawthorne and Jonathan Cllley. in purj suance of this gambling habit, made an i odd wager In November, 1824. The mattai. la etotail ( r Via tnllMrlm t9 ryntac " 'If Nathaniel Hawthorne is neither a married man nor a widower on the 14th day of November, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six. I bind myself upon my honor to pay the said Hawthorne a barrel of the best old Madeira wine. Witness my hand and seal, 'JONATHAN CILLEY. "Hawthorne signed a document of the same kind, and at the date specified Mr. Bridge opened the paper to decide which of the two bid won the wager. Cilley had married, but his tragic death in the duel with Graves settled the account and Hawthorne never got the barrel of Madeira," The town crier of Nantucket 1 not only a unique official, but he Is a unique individual character, says a New York Herald correspondent. His name is Alvln Hull, and he was formerly an end man In a strolling minstrel show. He does the end man every day in dally life, and is known by every man, woman and child in the place. He wears a cap with a lettered band around It and rings a bell to announce his presence. Then, whn he has them unawares and they can't help themselves, he springs a game of base ball between the New Bedford nine and the Nantucket nine, at so and so at so and so sharp, or there will be a meat aue;ion at Burgess meat market to dispose of various lv. of surplus beef, mutton, pork to th hisrhst bidder: or Messrs. Biff & Jone have just received a large stock of fin' clothing, which they invite the pub!I? to come and see. It may be half a dozen things, one aftr another. With his bell and cry he manages to introduce choice bits of persiflage, witty replies to queries from the crowd, and sometimes says very clever things. At 7 o'clock in the morning he rings the old Spanish bell that, has hung in the wooden tower of the unitarian church for nearly a century, repeating the ringing at 12 noon and again at 9 o'clock in the evening. This is done every day in the year. It tells the people when to get up, when to go to dinner and when to go to bed. There is no excuse for a man to remain out after 9 o'clock at night in the good old town of Nantucket. A dispatch from IUllsboro, HI., says: The mind reader A. J. Seymour is generally known in Illinois, and his proposed attempt to be buried and remain in the ground while a crop of barley is j being grown on his grave creates In terest in this state. Dr. E. C. Dunn of Rockford has been selected by Seymour as manager. Dr. Dunn says: "There is no question that this feat can be performed. I have seen it performed successfully three times in India at Allahabad, Delhi and Benares. For several days Seymour will be fed upon a diet of fat and heat producing food. He will then throw himself in a cataleptic state, the lungs will be filled with pure air to their fullest capacity and the tongue placed back and partially down the throat in such a manner as to completely close the aperature to the lungs. The nose, eyes and ears will be hermetically sealed with wax. After para fine has been spread over the entire body to close the pores It will be ready for burial. The body will be put In an extra large casket. This will be placed inside another and both will be perforated, In order that if any poisonous gases exude from the body they may make their escape and be absorbed by the soil. The Interment is to be made in a clay soil." . The Mohammedan paradise is a fairy land, according to an exchange. To enter it the believer must cross seven bridges, at each of which he must answer questions relating to his past life. Having crossed the bridges he is at the entrance. There sre thirteen doors. The first act is to take a bath, which, gives to the body great brilliancy. This abode of delight is built of bricks of gold and of silver, held together by a mortar of musk. Spring is eternal. Four oceans soothe the senses one of water, one of milk, one of honey, one of wine. Waves of perfume envelope them, so powerful as to be noticeable 500 days march away. Lastly come the castles of the houris seventy castles with seventy rooms, containing seventy state beds and seventy table already set, and in this castle 1,650,700,000 houris. This to each of the elect. He himself has seventy robes of green brocade embroidered with rubies and topazes. "Pray where do all the flies come from. That vex us so these days That buzz and fly and crawl about. And pester us always? "The toper makes the bottle fly Before he goes dead broke; The blacksmith makes the fire fly. Smiting with lusty stroke. "The carpenter makes the saw fly From daylight unto dark; The driver makes the great horse fly Out at the driving park. "The grocer makes the mean sand fly To "hx' his suar cheap; The boarders make the butter fly Thus making landlords weep. "And the cyclone maks the house fly The meanest fly of all. But now 'tis time to say 'shoo fly," And wait for frost next fall." Georgia Standard. "You are always complaining," said the king of the Cannibal islands to his ; wife, "though I don't see but what, after I all, you have as much as if you were civilized." "What makes you think that?" asked hl3 wife. "Well. I have I just been reading a lot of stories about English women, and there wasn t one or them who had a thing to wear." Exchange. Persons whose occupation gives but ' little exercise are victims of torpid liver and constipation. Carter's Little Liver ; Pills will relieve you.

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