Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 August 1893 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 23, 1893 T WELTE PAGES.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL BY THE IHDMNÄPÖÜS SENTINEL CO. S. E. MORSS, BEN A. EATON, President. Vie Pr.4Bt. b. McCarthy. ecrtry and Treasurer,

fEtf rei at the Poatofllce at Indiana apnlls as second class matter.). TERMS HER YEAR I Single copy (In Advance) f 1 OO We aalc democrats to brnr'ln mind and select their own state paper tt hew they come to take subscription and make up elubs. Agents making ap elubs send for any Information desired. Address THE INDIANAPOLIS SETIEL. Indianapolis, Ind. . WEDNESDAY, AlGrST 2.1, 193. , REICCTIO!f OF RAILROAD ASSESS- . . , MESTS. During the general absorption in the consideration of the financal condition of the country the people should not overlook the renewal of the efforts of the railroad corporations to escape from the Just share of the burden of taxation that has been placed on them by the new tax Jaw of Indiana. The testimony and argumenta submitted by the representatives of the several roads have been substantially what they have been before. Cer tain gentlemen have said that their roads were assessed proportionately higher than certain other roads, and the representatives of these have indignantly denied the claim. Some representatives have, pointed to certain branches of their road systems as being assessed, too high. Nearly all of them have insisted that railroad property is assessed proportionately higher than other property. Then there has been talk about shrinkage of values, and depreciation of stocks, and all that sort of thins, which does not Affect actual railroad values any more than it affects any other values. The Sentinel has always desired to be fair to the railroads in this matter,- and also fair to other tax-payers. . It wishes to go on record now with the declaration that it does not believe that any railroad In this state is assessed too high." There probably are some that are assessed too low, and should be raised. There may be a few branch roads that should have some reduction made on their assessment, but in such case the amount reduced should be added to the main line's assessment. We challenge any railroad system in the state to show that its aggregate assessment Is greater than the actual market value of the roads, or greater than their cost value, or greater than their 6 per cent, earning value. Further than that, the railroad year ends on June 30, and following that date The Sentinel published the official statements of a number of railroads, every one of which showed an Increase of net earnings for the yar ending June CO, 1S93. We failed to find any Indiana road that did not show such an increase, and if there is anj- such one we should be pleased to be directed to it. And it should be remembered that many of the Indiana roads made unusual improvements last year, in anticipation of heavy world's fair traffic, in their ballasting, bridges, culverts and tracks. It is probably true that freights at present are not as heavy as usual, but the average of Indiana passenger traffic is certainly larger than usual. The Sentinel therefore feels confident that there will be no reduction In the aggregate of railroad assessment in this state. The existing measure of justice was reached by a most earnest and vigorous struggle against the power of the corporations, and It would be a painful commentary on republican government if we should lose any part of It by the inefficiency of tax officials now. The governor, of course, exercises great influence on the board, as he has the appointment of two members, and he is squarely committed against a reduction from the assessment which he aided in making last year. In his inaugural address he says: The tax law adopted by the last legislature and creating a state board of tax commissioners clearly intended to make railroad eorporatons of the stale pay their just proportion of ,the taxes. The persistent efforts of some of the representatives of these corporations, not only to evade and resist the law. but to defeat persons at the elections because they had honestly and faithfully endeavored to enforce it. show that every Just and proper means should be used to make these corporations perform their duty to the state. As there has been a large Increase In. the aggregate of taxable under the late assessment law, and this Increase is liWely to be maintained and probably augmented, I cannot but indulge the hope that with economy and prudent appropriations you may be enabled to make both a reasonable reduction in the rate of taxation and the state debt. .It will be greatly to the interest of all tax-payers of the state that this Just and wise policy should be carried out, and as the railroads have been heard against it, we think that the masses should be heard in favor of it. Let the people strengthen the hands of the governor in thi3 struggle. Let them by letter and by personal assurance make him know that they are with him. This Is the time for men to show whether they are truly for the people or for the corporations. A LEAHKED ARGIME'T. If not otherwise beneficial, the debate In congress will at least have the desirable effect of exposing the magnificent Ignorance of some of the members. One of the most frightful exposures thus far made was that of Senator Hoar, the gentleman who upbraided his fellowsenators for not following the directions of the financiers of their party. After urging this duty the senator proceeded to tell what he knew about finance in this line: He had always been a blr?tsint, hut It was the bimetallism of

effrontery of fastening this spectacular style' of bimetallism on the lamented Washington and Jefftrson, who took part in adopting a coinage that undervalued gold and practically made silver the standard. Indeed the "unit" of 1792 was made "of the value of a Spanish milled dollar, as the same is now current, and to contain 371 grains and fourslxteenths parts of a grain pure, or 416 grains of standard silver." But after perpetrating this outrage on "Washington and Jefferson, by declaring that they established a gold standard, he proreeded to contradict himself by asserting that the gold standard was established In 1834. when this law of 1792 was repealed. He asserts that "within twenty years silver has been discarded as-a measure of value in every country of importance but Mexico. It is not ' a measure- of value In the United States, and has not been since 1834." This is a material Improvement on John Sherman, who has been declaring that silver- was demonetized in 1853. Mr. Hoar, like a great many other estimable gentlemen, has been misled by the fact that this country-coined comparatively few silver dollars. They have neglected to note the additional fact that our laws made the Spanish milled dollar a legal tender in the United States, and that It was the common measure of value for many years. In fact it was almost the only measure of value In the West, as may be seen from the following explicit statement of Hugh McCulloch in his account of the State bank of Indiana: Although the double standard existed in the United States, the metallic currency of the country chiefly, and throughout the West exclusively, from the time the bank organized, in 1834, to the discovery of gold in California in 1S18, was silver. The capital of the bank was paid up In Spanish and Mexican dollars, and its reserve continued to be In this coin until It was sold for gold at a premium of about 3 per. cent, on Mexican dollars and 6 per rent, on Spanish. I had been a banker for fourteen years before I handled or saw a dollar in gold, except the ten-thaler pieces which we-e brought into this country by German immigrants. And yet this wise man from New England, this fossil relic of the republican age. talks about sliver not having been a measure of value in this country since 1831. Is this unadulterated ignorance or is. It a new scheme for evading responsibility for the crime of 1S73?

PA XI CS AX D TARIFFS. The crude and illogical ideas uttered by some on the subject of panics, as related to the tariff, emanate largely from partisan stupidity. The phases of modern' business life, seen in prosperity, panic and liquidation, following in cycles again and again, about everj- twelve or fifteen years in this country and in Europe, have received careful consideration and analysis from students of economics. There is a logical relation between these manifestations of business phenomena, founded on qualities of human nature, which appear with such uniformity and certainty as to deserve to be characterized as laws of human nature. A panic Is accompanied by and exhibits certain characteristics, the leading features being a lack of new buyers, a fall in prices and a lack of credit. In broad terms a panic may be said to be due to overtrading: this precipitates a need for more than the available capital, and in turn this results in the symptoms above named a general lack of credit followed by an uneasy feeling toward banks on the part of depositors and a falling off of buyers. From what has been said it Is evident that the indications of an approaching panic are: Abnormal activity in business with apparent prosperity, a prevalence of the speculative spirit, a rise In the price of all commodities, demand for labor, higher wages, higher salaries, and an incredible credulity on the part of the public in the success of any sort of business venture, extravagant and luxurious living, and large discounts and loans by banks. It Is said that the balance sheets of banks reflect the results of the above influences and constitute a barometer of the coming storm. When prices are high and business booming the loans by banks are large' in proportion to the deposits; when a panic comes. banks reduce their loans and discounts, and continue this conservative policy till prices are low, speculation cease and economy characterizes the habits of the people. This process of liquidation eliminates the weak business concerns and particularly the weak banking concerns. It is clear from these observations that no mere note shaver or half-informed business man can be a banker. The successful banker must not only be a man of intelligence with the money instinct, but he must be more; he must be familiar with economic history, the laws governing ' production and exchanges and the history of banking business. There will not be so many bank failures when this type of man Is placed in the important and trusted position now öccupled by the banker in a modern business community. " The present panic has been preceded by overtrading, under a hlh tariff, extravagant and luxurious living, which always marks the era of overtrading, and the distrust on the part of the creditor and capitalistic classes In this country and abroad of the ability of the government of the United States to keep Its silver and paper dollars on an equal footing with Its gold dollar. This distrust is emphasized by a congested financial condition abroad. England and France have been recently engaged In large and disastrous speculative ventures In Canal and railroad building; a demand for money and a lack of credit with a panicky condition has been the result abroad and notably In England. England Is the creditor of the United States, holding large investments In American municipal and corporate securities; the condition of her money market has necessitated the sale In this country of many of these securities; those here Interested In maintaining the credit of the institutions Issuing-- these bonds Lave been forced to ourchase or

protect these securities; the money paid has been gold or its equivalent. A currency panic has been the result. It is folly to say that the threatened reduction of the tariff has produced this panic or has been even a large influence In causing It; as compared to the Influences above enumerated Its causative Influence has been inconsequential. In truth a prospective raise In tariff schedules has more to do with precipitating a panic than a reduction of tariff schedules; money is withdrawn from business for the purpose of making profit in anticipation of the Increased tariff duty, or rather money In larger sums goes out of the country in the purchase of material for such purpose. In the last ninety years there have been fourteen panics, practically simultaneous, in France, England and the United States. The leading cause common to all was overtrading to such an extent that neither credit nor money was to be had, so that a forced liquidation or panic ensuedIn view of this It cannot be said that new tariffs have been the producing causes of panics. Panics have occurred in free trade England, high protection France and sometimes under a low tariff and sometimes under high protection in the United States in the last eighty years. AX ELASTIC Cl'RREXCY. It is noteworthy that the introduction by Mr. Voorhees of a bill to permit national banks to Issue notes up to the face value of their bonds, instead of 90 per cent-, as at present, has at once called forth the taunts of the republican press and the populist press, on account of Mr. Voorhees' former position of hostility to the favoritism shown to national banks. That is a thing that Mr. Voorhees can very well endure, because at the present time the one great problem of the government Is how to afford speedy, safe and adequate relief for the financial stringency, and every well-Informed person knows that national banking is not the profitable business that it once was. Owing to the decreased rate of interest and the heavy premium oh' bonds, no national bank has found a desirable profit In its circulaton, and in consequence nearly all the national banks In the country have reduced their circulation to the minimum amount under the law. On Sept. 30, 1S92, the total amount of circulation to which national banks were entitled, if they had seen fit to issue it, was $617,915,714. The actual amount In use by them was only $147,191,593. The minimum amount, which they are obliged by law to keep In circulation, was $96.357,7S7. There was, therefore, in circulation only $50,833,805 more of national bank notes than the law required, and $470,724.121 less than they might have issued. It is evident from this that the issue of notes has not been profitable. The proposal to issue the remaining 10 per cent, is advantageous because it induces banks to issue more money and is no expense to the government or to the people. It is commonly said that this would permit an immediate expansion of $17,000,000, which is true, as this is one-ninth of the existing circulation, but it will do much more than that. If the issue of circulation is thus made profitable the banks will increase their issue above the minimum, and possibly go to the maximum. If they should the expansion would be $549,359.195. It ought to be evident to anyone that a possible expansion of this kind would of Itself be sufficient to prevent any stringency that would seriously affect the national banks, as they are now being affected, because they would at once relieve it by the Issue of more currency, if they have or can secure the bonds. This is one weak point in the bill, and this is where it can be easily strengthened by the amendment suggested by Mr. Cockrell "to give to the masses of the people the same rights as are conferred on the national banks," and which we presume is Tom Johnson's plan of permitting any holder of bonds to deposit them and take out currency to their face value, the interest on the bonds ceasing during deposit. If national banks alone are permitted to Increase the circulation on bonds they will probably use it for their own advantage, and. may refuse tc issue until the stringency forces other holders of bonds to sell them at a discount. It is a wellknown fact that during the present stringency the eastern savings banks were forced to sell U. S. bonds at reduced prices in order to obtain currency, and that national banks bought up those bonds and Issued currency on them. It would be an uncalled-for piece of favoritism to national banks to permit them to Issue up to the face value of their bonds unless other bondholders are given this limited privilege of doing the same thing, and it would also tend to defeat the desirable expansive qualities of the currency, because national banks will not be apt to hold bonds in anticipation of financial crises. We think, therefore, that Mr. Voorhees would be wise if he accepted this amendment. It is worth considering that we need, for the immediate future, an elastic currency now more than at any time in the past. We think It probable that the Sherman law will be repealed by congress, and that this will aid In relieving the financial stringency temporarlly but no permanent relief will be found for the existing demoralization of business all over the world until the world restores silver to Its former position. Until that Is done this country will of necessity have to join in the great international game of gold-grabbing, and during that amusement there will continue the rime disturbances that hav. conits vulsed the world since the demonetization of sliver 'began in 1871. The one great duty of congress. Is to put our government in a position to maintain herself on a gold basis -mMl the world sees its folly. Cut off the useless expenditure of $35,000,000 per annum for silver bullion. Dut the country's reve

nues on a basis that will insure the meeting of expenditures, give the people a currency that will expand under pressure, and -the United States can withstand the evils, of monometallism better than any country in the world.

Somebody ought to start a fund for the benefit of the down-trodden white caps. They are certainly in hard lines these days. Down in - Harrison county the Conrad boys absolutely refuse to be white-capped, and contrary to all known codes of white-capping propose to fill their visitors full to overflowing with No. 4 buckshot. Ud at Delphi, where the state organ of whlte-cappery, the Delphi Journal, Is published once a week with astonishing regularity, a gentleman has been found so lost to all sense of whilecap honor as to pepper his midnight callers with the non-fatal but extremely irritating birdshot. If this Is to continue the white caps of Indiana will soon be forced to forego their operations or move to Kansas, where their eccentricities of conduct will be more highly apppreciatedThe Kansas populists are engineering a great scheme for the relief of farmers in the drought-ridden western counties. Under the direction of the executive council wheat will be collected in other counties and sent to the western counties for seed. The exchange is to be made through the county clerks, who will take notes from the sufferers for the wheat taken by them. These notes bear 8 per cent, interest and 5 per cent, for "trouble," and are to be paid at the market price of wheat Oct. 1, 1894, bushel for bushel, in cash. Wheat will probably be worth about 20 cents per bushel more then than now, and If so, the sufferers will be paying about 37 per cent, for the accommodation. Down with usury. Death to the shylocks. Senator Hoar obects to those congressmen who "thrust their own Judgment into a debate on a financial question against that of the men of their own party who are their recognized leaders on such subjects." Just hevlngs! Does this mean John Sherman? If so we beg to call Mr. Hoar's attention to the fact that John has been on all sides of every financial question that has been before congress during his public life, and has admitted publicly that every position he has taken on the silver question was a mistake. Mr. E. J. Phelps, one of our representatives before the Bering sea commission, says: "There is one thing the press of thvs country should acknowledge and the people recognize, and that is the courtesy and hospitality we received in France. The consideration given to us was in every respect the handsomest and most generous I have experienced." All right. We trust that France will accept the assurance of our thanks for its kindness in giving Mr. Phelps a front room and feeding him well. , The talk about guaranteeing the deposits of national banks i3 the wildest form of insanity that has appeared. If congress knows what it is 'doing it will steer close to the other side, following Mr. Cockrell's proposal "to give to the masses of the people the same rights as are conferred on the national banks and to put a stop to favoritism and prescriptive legislation. Congress has done one good thing in setting the fashion vof wearing "Kentucky tow" clothing. Senator Blackburn introduced it in 1890, and the loosely woven fabric attracted the attention of other members, who named It "the towel suit." The evident coolness, however, has made It popular, and now it is a common style of suiting. Union City seems to be getting a little more than its share of attention from the fire fiend lately. But the aforesaid f. f. might as well understand first as last that he can never hope to accomplish anything permanent against the enterprise, push and energy which have made Union City one of the best towns In Indiana. The New Tork World calls on B. Harrison to declare himself on the financial question as Cleveland did in 1S90. He will not. Benjamin has too much sense to try on Grover's hat in public. ET CETERA. Christine Nilsson has given $5,000 to found a hospital in France for diseases of uie throat. Women are employed at railway switches and crossings in Italy because they keep sober. "A well-urned rest." said Fopk when he was given the particulars of Stixby's cremation. Boston Transcript Prof. Nicholas Crouch of Baltimore, author of "Kathleen Mavourneen." celebrated his eighty-sixth birthday last Monday. Broke "Just saw the moon over my left shoulder." Soke "Tha nothin. Just saw seven moons over rl' shoulder." Chicago Record. Wanted By a young lady, an engagement as plain cook, where another lady help is kept as housemaid. Yorkshire Farmer. The watering-place girl says that when the "squeeze" is over In Wall-st she hopes it will come her way. Florida TimesUnion. Bridget "There's a man at the gate with piss feet, mum." Mistress "Gracious, Bridget, send him around to the dime museum." Philadelphia Record. " Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett is established In a little country nook near London, where she is at work on a play which she hopes to finish by Christmas. The ex-Empress Eugenie of France is godmother to 3.834 French children who were born on March 16, 18T6, the day of the birth of her son, the prince Imperial. Paul du Challlu, the famous African explorer and author, Is now In Chicago exploring the world's fair and means to give the world an account of bis discoveries. Flutterby "I have a great deal of difficulty, doctor, in getting sleep." Dr. Squibbs (unsympathetieally) "Try going to bed once in a while." Chicago Record. Tourist (in Oklahoma) "Tour fellowtownsman. Judge Begad, is a self-made man. is he not?" Alkali Ike"Wa-aI, not wholly; I put a head on him the other day myself." Puck. "King Humbert recently had sold at pub11a auction in one of the court yards of the

qulrinal all the old furniture, porcelain, glass, etc.. that bad gone out of fashion since Victor Emmanuel's day. He made it a veritable clearing-out sale.

j The Yellowstone region in Montana has produced a prize yield of potatoes, BIO bushels to the acre, and is said to grow wheat readily, but there is no grist mill at Billings, its chief town. George Washington's copy of Cicero's "Cato Major," printed in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin in 1744. was sold - at auction in London last week. It Is a rare edition of Interesting work. Lost children in Japan do not long remain astray. It is the custom for parents to label their .hildren with their addresses, so that in case they go astray any wayfarer may send them home. There are certain disadvantages connected with the ownership of valuable Jewels. It is said that Mrs. Potter Palmer's jewels are so costly that whenever she 'wears them a private detective is present The thakore of Morvi, who will soon be at the world's fair, is. a grave, thoughtful and businesslike man of middle-age, an observer, and an experienced traveler, who looks less like an Elastern prince than either the rajah or the nawab. "Absalom, my son, what was that note the messenger Just brought you?" Inquired old man Clamwhooper. "Nothing in particular, father, only a billet-doux from a friend." "Indeed! How much did he say there was doux?" Texas Siftlngs. Once in St. Paul a J1.50-a-day laborer had lung trouble. He went to Southern California and began Keeping bees. Last year he sold $40.000 worth of honey. Bees do well in Southern California, for flowers bloom at all seasons, and they keep on layiny up honey for the winter that never comes. ' The serpentine dance appears to be paying good dividends. Lola Fuller has returned from Paris and her visible assets consist of her mamma, a manager, a maid, a private secretary, and twenty-seven big trunks. When Loie left us she had but one unsuccessful breach-of-promise suit. Washington Post. "A proper sitting position." says somebody, "requires that the spine shall be kept straight, and that the support needed for the upper part of the body shall be felt in the right place." Therefore sit as far back as possible In the chair, so that the lower end of the spine shall be braced at the back of the seat. M. Diefenbach, the famous but eccentric Bavarian painter, who refuses to wear modern clothes and walks about the streets in a sort of toga, has about decided to come to this country. He Is a vegetarian, and for years lived In a little hut outside of Munich, which was a place of interest to many people. Recently he has been In Vienna. Lieut. Peary's wife is not the first woman to brave the perils and hardships of arctic exploration. About thirty years ago J. W. Taylor of London was placed in charge of an expedition sent out from London to colonize the east coast of Greenland, and was accompanied by his wife, an accomplished young woman, who lived with him two years in an isolated settlement, on Cobwin's Island. The oldest woolen manufacturer In Maine Is Joseph Robinson, who came to America from England In 1S37 with his wife and child, and with 2 cents in his pocket. He is now eighty-three years old, and has been engaged in woolen manufacturing as apprentice, workman and master for seventy-three years, during which time he never has had a labor difficulty of any kind. "Modem tapestry as one of the fine arts would be in very low water," says the St. James' Gazette, "were it not for Mr. William Morris' efforts to revive the time-honored craft. For upwards of two years his works at Merton, In Surrey, have been employed on the manufacture of a large piece for the dining room of Stanmore hall; and the undertaking is now rapidly approaching completion. It is certainly among the greatest art efforts of the century, and the value of it is in no sense to be measured by its price, amounting to some thousands of pounds." In Nantucket, Mass., is still to be seen the house in which the justly famed Quakeress, Lucretla Mott, was born, and for very many years lived. It is in "town," as the huc'dle of houses on the island's har side is called, and stands at the meeting of two narrow stony highways known as School and Fair-sts. A large frame structure, with the "hip roof" common to its era of architecture, wide, many-paned windows, and hospitable doorway opening upon a double flight of steps leading sideways to the street, it is much the same in general appearance as when first built. The only noticeably modern touch Is in its paint, which is of the fashionably creamy yellow, with flnlshings of dark green. The present occupant of the historic dwelling is Judge Dufrtea of the Nantucket district court. The Atmoipbrre In Kansas. The man going west was talking to the man going east from Kansas. "I understand," he said, "you have a very clear atmosphere in Kansas." "Yes, yes," replied the Kansan, not wishing to depress real estate values, and yet not entirely oblivious of his early training; "that is to say, mostly but It some times gets choked up a little with houses and barns and fences and household effects, and trees and a few cattle and pigs and horses and occasionally some of the population. As a rule, though, that Is, mostly, it is a very clear atmosphere." Detroit Free Press. She Liked Pink. It was a very nice little girl who was being dressed by her mother for the party that was going to be the winding up of her first dancing school season. Her mother could find nothing but a blue ribbon for her daughter's braid, but the little girl didn't fancy blue and objected strenuously to the arrangement. "But, of course, you like blue," said her mother. "It's just the proper thing for you to wear. Your eyes are blue, aren't they?" "Oh. dear," replied the child, "I wish they were pink." Boston Herald. An Important Department. Little Dot "Where you been?" Little Dick "I went down town with papa, to call on the street cleaning department." Little Dot "What's that?" Little Dick "It's a place where they tell people why the streets are not cleaned." Street & Smith's Good News. Inplrnnunt Uncertainty. Mother "That big dog your uncle sent you needs exercise. Why don't you take him with you any more when you go out?" Little Johnny" 'Cause w'en a boy acts polite I can never tell whether he's fraid of me or "fraid of the dog." Street & Smith's Good News. Gave Him Vim. First Boy "The ldear o bein' afraid of a boy like him. W'y, you licked a feller twlct as big as Vou once." Second Boy "Yes; but I had the toothache then." Street & Smith's Good News. Kot m Fault. Judge "Your appearance, sir, is disgraceful." Prisoner "Itsh (hie) not my fault, y'r honor. Th p'TIceman wouldn't (hie) give me time t' sober up." N. Y. Weekly. A Clenu Hoy. Mother "I am glad to see that your neck Is clean for once." Hoy "Yea'm. I got so sunburned the skin came off." Street & Smith's Gooa News. After IlreakfaM To purify, vitalize and enrich the blood, and give nerve, bodily and digestive strength, take Hood's Sarsaparilla. Continue the medicine after every' meal for a month or two. Hood's Pills curs constipation. 23c

THE WAY OF THE WORLD. When a belt-line car was coming down Virginia-st. yesterday afternoon a solemn-looking young man was the sole occupant of the rear seat. Just as the Seventy-fourth armory was reached two beautiful young women signaled the car and walked out into the roadway. One was a tall blonde with brilliantly blue eyes and golden hair and the other a brunette of magnificent figure. Both wore fluffy. white dresses, and both were exceedingly fair to look upon. Every seat in front of the one which the solemn young man occupied in solitary state was crowded. "Well, Lil," said the blonde, "I guess we've got to get in here." "That's the smoker's seat," replied Lil. "There isn't any other," contended the blonde. "I don't like to get in where men smoke," said the brunette, pouting. "Hurry up. ladies, if you want this car:" broke in the conductor, and the two women climbed aboard. The solemn young man looked them over with a great show of interest. He had Just lighted a cigarette, but. out of deference to his seatmates he threw it away. The blonde giggled. "Seems kind of queer to be riding in the smoker's seat, don't it?" she asked. "I don't think it's queer," replied the brunette. "I mean It seems as if we ought to be smoking." The solemn young man looked up. Then he dove down into his coat Docket, fished

I out a new package of cigarettes, broke me stamp ana nanded It politelv to the blonde. She shrunk back as If frightened. Not so with the brunette. She reached over, took the cigarettes, put them in her handbag, smiled a smile that was so bright it shamed the sunlight, and said: "Oh. thank you. We'll smoke them after we get home." And the solemn young man doesn't know yet whether she was stringing him or not. Buffalo Express. Here is a fine old Kentucky gentleman who bids fair to rival the late widely-known Dr. C. C. Graham in the matter of longevity. The New Haven Echo says; "Tuesday evening will long be remembered. It was certainly an occasion that will be recalled with pleasure j In after years, and those present can say that they saw what possibly none others 1 of modern times will ever witness. It I was not that the doors of William El liott were thrown open to his friends, for they always stand ajar and genuine Kentucky hospitality is extended to his guests, but that a moonlight dance was given to the young folks and the music for the first set was played by no less personage than the venerable doctor, who is enjoying the ninety-sixth year of his age. His touch Is sweet and musical, and his nimble fingers glided over the strings with ease and grace of a man of much younger years, while the dancers glided over the floor keeping time to his magic bow. After the first set the doctor gave the place to the Bardstown band, that made music for the remainder of the evening, while he sat about entertaining his guests by his remarkable conversational powers, and in this he succeeded admirably." Again has Chicago distinguished herself by taking the lead in a reform greatly needed In every large city namely, the establishment of a "Woman's advisory board of police," consisting of ten women who have charge of all quarters for women and children, as well as of all station-house matrons. The recognition of the need of police matrons was itself a seven-leagued stride In the right direction, and the appointment of this advisory board is better yet. A pathetic and haunting story by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps gives an ur-.fsr-getable glimpse of women of all stages of abandonment, wretchedness and physical suffering in a police station without the ministrations of one of thtlr own sex. The woman of whom the story Is told leaves the station for another world, but many an unhappy creature leaves such a place, her coarse nature made coarser, and what little instinct for good she may have had made less by the harsh treatment or the "guying" she received at the hands of men who are totally unfitted for such a position. Philadelphia Press. These are Siamese curios, as given by the New York Press: Cremation of the dead Is general. Besides the first king there is a second king, whose only duty is to look imposing. When the king dies all his subjects must shave their heads and wear white garments. Chulalangkorn, the name of the present king, means "royal hairpin'," or "royal topknot." The Siamese, In saluting, kiss each other's noses, and then, sniffing, remark, "Very fragrant, very fragrant." Among the articles cf diet relished by the natives are snails, crocodile eggs, ants, silk worms and horse flesh. It takes seven days after death, according to Siamese belief, for the soul to reach heaven, and prayers are kept up during that period to help It on Its way. A gentleman who recently witnessed an exhibition drill given by one of the troops of the Third cavalry at Ft. ftlley says that he never saw anything that approached it, and had no idea that horses could be trained so well as those were. They lie down at the trumpet call and allow the whole troop to fire with their pistols and yell like Comanche Indians, without even flinching, with the exception of one or two horses that were bought since the arrival of the troop here. They would follow their riders about as a dog does his master, and the men are excellent riders and can discount most anybody around here In the way of riding. N. Y. Recorder. The Lancaster Record-Homestead contains an item suggesting the pitiful in life. It is bad enough for a boy to be a tramp at all, but if he Is an intelligent lad. equipped for earning a living, it Is doubly distressing. That paper says: "The youngest tramp printer on record struck this office for a Job last Fridav morning. He had on knee pants and a shirt waist; barefooted, with a buckeye hat on, and carried a wad of tobacco In hl3 mouth weighing several ounces. Martin Maynard was the name he gave; sixteen years old, and from Mercer. He- had a 'case' on the Lexington Observer last winter. From here he went to Nicholasville." The man who does not pay his debts Is likely to have no credit with the recording angel. Dyed hair is a death notice strayed Into the birth column. Heaven Is away off and it takes an early start to get there. If a woman is ever merciless it Is when she gets a mouse in a trap. A bad man hates the bible because it makes him look at himself. Finding fault with Mary was Martha's way of bragging on herself. Y Christ never sends people to fish in deep water who have broken nets. Ram's Horn. A Toronto newspaper man who had an hour's chat with Henry Irving, the actor, on the day before he. left that city for the Northwest, represents him as expatiating upon the opportunities of the Canadian provinces, and saying: "Do you know when I think of these things I would like to travel in this country in a booth. I would like to quicken the Imagination of the people. I would like to teach them history, tell them of the present, and point out to them their possibilities." ;

THE McDOXALD WILL CASE.

An Appeal is Filed In the Sopreatal Court. The appeal In the McDonald will cast has been filed with the clerk of the supreme court. The case was originally brought in the Hamilton circuit court on a change of venue frcm y rion cour.ty. It was to test the will of the late Joseph E. McDonald and was brought by Malcolm McDonald, son of Joseph E. McDonald, and Joseph E. and Jessie McDonald, grandchildren. There were two grounds on which it was prayed that the will be set aside. namely, that undue Influence had been exercised to secure the execution of the will, and that it was a forgery. Th trial lasted for twenty-two days and was one of the most memorable In the history of litigation in the state. The attorneys for Mrs. McDonald are Addison C. Harris, W. P. Flshback and W. P. Kappes of this city and Georg Shirts of Noblesville. The transcript of the proceedings in the case fills 1,9? type-written pages and forms one of the largest documents ever filed in the supreme court. Thirteen errors are assigned on which the appeal is based. They are as follows: The court erred in refusing -to vacate the order made on motion of appellees requJring appellant. . Josephine F. MoDonald, to submit to a statutory ex amination under oath before trial. The court erred !n requiring said Josephine F. McDonald to produce, under appellees' motion, a duplicate copy of the will in contest. The court erred In requiring JosephliSJ F. McDonald to produce and submit tvt Inspection and expert examination said duplicate copy of the will In contest The court erred in overruling the motion made by Josephine F. McDonald praying the court to require appellees to elect upon what theory they would prosecute this cause. The court erred In overruling the motion made by Josephine F. McDonald to require appellees to make their complaint more specific. The court erred In overruling the separate demurrer of Josephine F. McDonald to the amended complaint. The court erred In sustaining the motion made by appellees to strike out the second paragraph of the answer of Josephine F. McDonald. The court erred In overruling Josephine F. McDonald's motion to require plaintiffs by counsel to announre whether they were content with the jury as the panel then stood, after they had examined each juror and announced that they passed the jury for the present. The court erred in permitting appellees peremptorily to challenge the juror, Henry Ebert. The court erred in- overruling the separate motion of Josephine F. McDonald for a new trial. The court erred In overruling the separate motion of Josephine F. McDonald to add to and amend the final decree. The court erred In overruling the separate supplemental motion for a new trial made by Josephine F. McDonald. The court erred in overruling the separate motion of appellant, Theodore I. Haughey, for a new trial. WAITH STILL. WADING. Colorado's Governor Breaks Out In a er Place. CHAUTAUQUA, N. Y.. Aug. 17. Governor Davis H. Waite of Colorado arrived at Jamestown yesterday and will deliver an address from the Chautauqua platform on Friday, the occasion being Grange day. Governor Waite, discussing the silver question last night, asserted that the decline in the price of silver was because congress had lessened the demand for silver ore by taking away the right to coin silver bullion in the treasury. "If congress authorizes free silver," he said, "you will see the price of silver go up to $1.29 per ounce, where it was years ago, and all hell can't stop it. The moment free coinage begins the price of silver will advance." The governor said that no paper has yet done him the Justice to use the "blood to the bridles" sentence in its proper connection with the speech containing it. though while in Chicago h sent copies to all the leading newspapers. He, however, had nothing to retract and reiterated that it would be better to wade in blood to any depth rather than have our national liberty destroyed. The governor thinks that the democratic party will be a worse whipped one at the next general election than ever conducted a campaign in this coun try and that the people's party will soon have control of the government. A BISIXESS-LIKE SHERIFF Who Makes a Gase of Raiders Take the Back Track. FRESNO. Cat, Aug. IS. It became known last night that a party of 100 unemployed men were to make a raid on the Chinamen at Egger's ranch, six miles east of here. Sheriff Scott and a posse of twelve men armed with Winchesters, went to Egger's but found no one there. At 1 o'clock this morning a telephone message from Roeding's vine-yard, two miles from Eertrer's, announced that the raiders were driving the Chinamen from there. Sheriff Scott was notified and immediately left for Roeding's, while an under sheriff formed another posse in the town and started for the scene. At 2:30 the sheriff and posse returned here. They had met the raiders between Ester's and Roeding's and held a long parley, daring which the sheriff ordered them to keep the peace, took the names of the leaders and compelled tom all to return to Fresno. Soma of the raiders were armed and when first met bv the posse were inclined to be warlike. The sheriff said he would arrest all the leaders. Bill TAL DOI BLE MI UDKR. An Acnl Co a pic Stain to Seen re Their Secreted Money. CHKROKKK, la., Aug. 17. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Shultz, an aged couple living alone on a farm In Tilden township. In Cherokee county, were foully murdered last evening. They had concealed about the house about $1 uoo, and of this the murderers secured only The body of Mrs. Shultz was found In. the yard. 'She had evidently gone to the well for water and was struck on the head with some blunt instrument while on her return to the house. Her head was poundl almost to a jelly. Mr. Shultz had retire! and was evidently murdered while asleep. A blunt Instrument was driven into the skull to a depth of two Inches. The crime was not discovered until late today and no clue has been obtained, though the murderers must be parties vell acquainted with the house of the couple. Ready for limine. Winkers "So you went to the world's fair the nrst week It opened. I don't believe you found a thing in readiness." Minkers "Yes, I did." "What?" "The turnstiles." Shrewd, hut rollte. Lady Con windy day "This window sticks so I can't set it up." Gentleman (behind) "Mine works easily, madame. Allowine to exchange seats wlü you." N. Y. Weekly. I Cure Dynpepnto, Constipation, and Chronic Nervous diseases. 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