Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 August 1893 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 30, 1Ö93 TWELVE PAGES.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL JCO. S. E. MOBS?, BEN A. EATON. President, Vie Präsident. b. McCarthy. ' crtry sad Trcutrtr.

Centered at the Pt office at Indianapolis a second class matter.) TERMS PER YEAR I Slaaje copy (In Advance! $1 fX We aik democrat! to bear In mind and eiert tbelr own mate paper when the? come to take subscriptions and make a p rliibi. .4(nli makloK n p rlobi send for or Information desired. Address THE IXDIAXAPOLIS SESTIXEU Indianapolis, Ind. WEDNESDAY, AlGl'ST SO, lSf3. An ingenious small boy of St. Louis touched a match to a load of hay and enjoyed the fireworks as the frightened team ran away. And yet they locked him up. A prize fight was broken up last Wednesday morning. Both the principals and thirty-five spectators were arrested. "We regret to say that this occurred in Missouri. Evidenty Mr. Reed hasn't yet become reconciled to the fact that the people turned him and his party down last November because they were tired of republican principles and republican politicians. The largest search light In the world Is being erected at the world's fair. The reflecting lens mirror Is 60 inches In diameter, and the reflected beam of light ha3 a luminous Intensity equal to 375.000.000 canil!' .. After hearing all the speeches on the silver question congress will probably come to the conclusion with which The Sentinel started, that no matter what your theory of the coinage question may be you are against the Sherman law. As all are agreed on that, let the repeal be made. Mr. Peffer is playing It rather fine on the national banks with his inquiry of the secretary of the treasury as to whether they are conducting their busi ness according to law. paying depositors In lawful money, and charging no more J than the lawful rate of interest. The ' New York bankers will hardly approve of the Inquiry. Says Mr. Voorhees: "As a democrat and American citizen, and loving and believing In Justice and fair play and common serse, I appeal to thos? around me, a. id to the great body of the people, to know whom we can trust, whn we - can b?lieve at such a time as this, if we are to turn our barks on such men as Grover Cleveland and John G. Car lisle? God help the democratic party and the country if such a stupendous mistake is to take place." And we are very sure the country will say: "A Daniel has come to judgment." Tramps continue to overrran Indiana, especially the northern portions of the state. In some of the cities and towns they are put to work or driven out. This does not meet the case of women In the country who are obliged to remain alone for many hours cvprj day whil-? the husbands, sons and brothers are working In the fields. These are subjket to insults and sometimes to outrage, perhaps th tramp nuisance will abite with the ending of the world's fair. a:j the exposition has doubtless attracted ri'ich of thi tnmp population from the eastern cities, but then the fair will not end for two months yet. Perhaps if firmers would furnish their wives and daughter with shotguns and revolvers ar.d teach them how to use them the tramp question might be more easy of rohitin. especially that phase of It vhih Involves the insulting of women and young girls of the agricultural portions of the state. It 'is td that the most sensitive nerve is the pocket nerve that Ir the one that leads to a man's purse. This is probably true with men collectively also, and In this th:re la seme hope that the damages resulting from white cap outrages in certain counties in Indiana may open the eyes of the people, who will in the end suffer materially. The pocket nerve will be agitated. The Jasper Courier says in a recent issue that Dubois county has lost In the value of her real estate by the white cap outrages at least $250,(X;i, about an average of $1 an acre on the area of the county. The paper thinks that the money spent in stopping and stamping out such outrages is money well Invested to prevent greater losses In the future. This argument 13 used In answer to tho". taxpayers who have been crying out against the expense attending the recent white cap trials of Jasper. In the cases so far tried in Dubois county the expense to be paid out of the county treasury has been a heavy one, and foots up, as far as allowed, as follows: Eleven regular and 120 special jurors, and boarding the juries In three cases 853 85 Thirteen riding bailiffs 119 73 Three court bailiff 42 ini Sheriff 'g attendance end telegraphing after John Brown.. 50 30 Clerk's fees 31 oo Boarding prosecuting witnesses, V"illlam Coffee and wife, John King and wife, James Button and Joseph Rogers, who had no means to pay their keeping 46 20 Total allowance by court... $1,143 10 To which will be added allowances, yet to be made, to the attorneys appointed by the court. "Justice sometimes comes high, but it is cheaper than mob law even then," concludes the paper. Two of those who were tried were convicted, one 1 In Jail and the other, who ty the way is an ex-republican postmaster, one of Mr. Harrison's appointees, ran away forfeiting his bail bond. The

expenses of the two trials do not seem to be very heavy, especially If the county has lost 250,000 in the value of its reul estate.

TARIFFS, REVEMES .D THE PA SIC. . In connection with the republican cry that the tariff produced the money panic It Is worth remembering that the McKinley tariff was an Important factor in producing It. The object of the McKinley tariff was to cut off the revenue of the government. The republican party and all protectionists recognized and proclaimed the simple truth that the government's revenue could be reduced by increasing the tariff tax so as to stop importation, and the McKinley bill was the practical application of that system. The republicans had heard so much about the surplus that had been saved by Mr. Cleveland that they were determined to get rid of It, and they stated so in their platform of 1SS8, and also stated how they would do It. Note the words: The republican party would effect all needed reduction of the government revenue by repealing the taxes upon tobacco, which are an annoyance and burden to agriculture, and the taxes upon spirits used In the arts and for mechanical purposes, and by such revision of the tariff laws as will tend to check imports of such articles as are produced by our people, the production of which gives employment to our labor, and release from import duties those articles of foreign production except luxuries, the like of which cannot be produced at home. The McKinley bill carried out this project, and reduced our revenues by "checking imiorts" and putting good revenue producing articles on the free list. The falling off in the tariff revenue in 1S92, as compared with 191. was $42.000,000. At the same session pension legislation was enacted which Increased our expenditures on that account in 1S93 $10,000.000, and is estimated to make in 1S93 an Increase over 1891 of $30,000,000 In 1894. $40,000,000. Also the country was required to purchase 54,000,000 ounces of silver annually, which at 70 cents per ounce would be $37, 00,000. Also the country was obligated to pay a bounty on sugar which amounted to $7,342,078 in 1S&2, and will probably be $10,000,000 this year. In other .words, the congress of 1S90 reduced our revenues $42.000,000 per annum, and increased our expenses about $G0,0O0,0O0 per annum, and the question with financiers was how long we could stand it. We stood it for two years. Then our surplus was all gone and our expenditures were $10,000,000 above receipts. The moneyed Interests of the world became afraid that we could not maintain our paper and silver money on a gold basis. They began withdrawing investments, and selling American securities, and a panic was precipitated. The' way out of the trouble Is to undo the mischievous legislation. Repeal the sugar bounty, repeal the silver purchase law, remove so much of the pension list as is fraudulent, and reduce' the tariff so that more revenue will be received. Some people do not understand how a . reduction of tariff rates will Increase receipts. It is very simple. All the money the government receives from a tariff is what Is paid on goods that are Imported. If the rate is put so high that no goods are imported the government would receive no revenue at all. Our present tariff rates have that effect on certain classes of goods now. Hence a reduction of the tariff which will let them come in will bring more money to the government. It is on the same principle that the Park theater pays the managers better than the Grand or English's. The prices are lower, but the audiences are so much larger that the receipts are greater. If you made the admission free, of course the managers would receive nothing. A revenue tariff should be adjusted, like a scale of prices for a popular show, so that the receipts of the government would be the largest possible. This means low rates. We say that England has free trade, but England raises about $95,000,000 a year fronv her tariff taxes. Under the Increased duties of the McKinley law some of our dutiable imports decreased in 1SD2 as follows: Brushes, $55,000; buttons, $7S0,000; cement. $105.000; glycerine, $165,000; miscellaneous chemicals, $540.000;. cotton knit goods. $C00,000; cottor, miscellaneous, $1,300,000; feathers, $S00.0O0; salted mackerel. $600,000; hemp, $1,100,000; oranges. $1,120.000; hops, $900.000; iron hoops, $100,000; fire arms, $100,OoO; jewelry, $750,000; manufactures of metal, $700,000; musical Instruments, $400,000; cheese, $120,000; rice, $1,200,000; flaxseed, $1.3.")0,000; manufactures of silk, $3,500.000; spirits, $350.000; tobacco, $3,0'),0O0; vegetables. $4,200,000; champagne, $1,100,000; woolen goods, $5.500.000. These illustrate the workings of the process of checking imports a policy that will have to be changed If the government wants revenue. A HIKVOl'S DIM APPOINTS EXT. The state board of tax commissioners has fixed its rating of railroads and announces that It will stand as now fixed subject only to appeals of dissatisfied railroad companies. The result Is a decrease of $734,522 in the total assessment, notwithstanding the addition of the new road, the Montpelier & Chicago, which Is valuod by the board at $1,107,350. Taking this out. the reduction of railroad property from last year's assessment is $1,901,872. The assessment of last year made a decrease from the year preceding of $213.773, so that In the course of two years the board has reduced the railroad assessment $2,115,645 notwithstanding the general improvement of the lines and general Increase of their earnings. So much of the ground gained by the new tax law of 1891 has been lost. So much of the advance toward an equitable taxation of the great corporations cr the state has been retraced. We are on the road back to the evils from which we had to some extent escaped. The Sentinel enters its earnest protest gainst this action in general, and

against several phases of It in particular. The three systems chiefly affected by the change are the Pennsylvania, the Big Four and the Vandalla. These roads are the controlling roads of Indiana. They own the Indianapolis Union, and virtually the Belt and Stock Yards. They have controlled the railroad lobby of the state for years, Mr. McKeen being the real head of that organization. Of the lines on which reductions were made, the Pennsylvania owns the I. & V., the P.. C. C. it St. L., the Island Coal and Gosport branches of the I. & V. and the S. L. & I. C. The Big Four has reductions on its Chicago division, the C, II. & Ü., the F., F. & M.. the P. & E., both divisions. The Vandalia Is Increased in both the T. H. & I. and the T. II. & L. All three profit by the heavy reduction on the Union and the Belt. It Is pretty well known that there has been a serious ruction between these roads because the Vandalia lines were underassessed heretofore as compared with the others, and this adjustment reminds one of the memorable occasion of which It was said, "And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together." We do not believe that anyone of these roads Is now assessed at 70 per cent, of Its actual market value. The L., N. A. & C. receives a reduction on its Bedford & Bloomfleld and Orleans, West Baden & French Lick lines, without any compensating Increase on its main lines. As we showed two days ago, this road was already assessed at less than 60 per cent, of its actual market valu. and there was no justification for this decrease. The reduction on the Indianapolis Union and the Belt Is simply an Insult to the Intelligence of the people. The former was reduced from $2,yi0,0OO to $2,401,925. The latt'.r was reduced from $3,064,000 to $2,558,000. The total reduction on the two, and they are practically one, Is $1,014,075. For this reduction there is not a shadow of excuse. These roads are not now assessed for over 50 per tent, of their real value. They are so valuable that they are absolutely out of the market and neither could be bought today for twice the assessment. The action of the board Is in our opinion a clear violation of the pledges of the democratic party, and The Sentinel washes its hands of all responsibility for it.

SILVEn I. THE l.MTED STATES. It Is a wearisome and thankless task to correct the errors of a contemporary, but possibly It is as good a method of spreading information as any other. The existing interest in the coinage question has called forth historical statements from a number of newspapers, and, among others, the Philadelphia Times has produced one that Is grotesque in its misstatements. Unfortunately the Times is a paper of large circulation1 and Influence, and In consequence its statements have been adopted by a number of its contemporaries, and thereby been given very large circulation. It seems reasonably clear that there will never be any Judicious or proper settlement of the coinage question until the American people understand the facts involved and apply the logic of common sense to them. We therefore invite the attention of our readers to a paragraph of this "historical statement." In which there is not a solitary fact stated. The Times says: The United States, by act of April 2, 1792, provided for the establishment of a mint and fixed the amount of precious metal to be used In their coins. The sliver dollar fixed as the standard at that time contained 416 grains, which made It worth a fraction of a cent more than $1 in gold. By the act of June 28, 1834. the weight of Kold coins was slightly Increased as compared with silver, which remained unchanged. By the act of Jan. 18. 1837, the French standard for both gold and silver was adopted. The weight of the gold coin remained unchanged, but the silver dollar was reduced to 41212 grains, where it remains today. At that time, as it had been from the establishment of the mint, and as it continued until 1873. the silver dollar of 412Vi grains was worth a fraction more than a dollar In- gold. To begin with the first statement, the act of 1792 did not make the silver dollar worth more than the gold dollar. It established a ratio of 1 to 15, which made the silver dollar worth less than the gold dollar, intrinsically, and therefore gold was driven away from the country. The act of June 28, 1834, did not Increase the weight of the gold coins; It decreased their weight. The gold dollar of 1792 contained 24.75 grains of pure or fine gold and the gold dollar of 1834 contained only 23.2 grains of fine gold. The silver dollar was not altered by the act of 1834, but the reduction of value of the gold dollar had the same effect as overvaluing gold and undervaluing silver. There was too much silver in the silver dollar as compared with the gold dollar, and consequently the silver left the country as soon as our gold mines were able to supply gold to take Its place. The act of 1837 did not adopt "the French standard," except as to alloy. It made no change whatever In the amount of silver in the dollar and very little in the gold. The act of 1792 had provided that the gold dollar should contain one-twelfth alloy, and the silver dollar should contain 179 parts alloy to 1,485 parts fine silver, which Is a ratio of a little more than one-tenth alloy. The law of 1834 had also made the alloy of the gold dollar a little more than one-tenth. The law of Jan. 18, 1837, provided that the alloy of both gold and silver coins should be exactly one-tenth, but the amount of silver in the dollar was not changed. This reduced the weight of the silver dollar from 416 to 412H grains, but the silver in It, as it always had been, and now Is, was 371.25 grains. The gold in the gold dollar was Increased by this law from 23.2 to 23.22 grains. These changes seem very slight, and yet their effects were of the utmost Importance to the country. Before 1S34 our gold coins were sent out of the country as fast as they were minted. After 1834 we had not verv much trouble until

the gold discoveries in California came. The reason why silver stayed In the country from 1834 to 1850 was that we had a large trade with the SpanishAmericans, and they used the same coinage ratio that we did. The produce of the Mississippi valley was not sold In the East, but was taken in boats to New Orleans and sold. The silver thus brought into the country passed to the East for goods and so permeated the commerce of the country. With the flood of gold from California came also the railroads to the East, and our commerce was completely changed in character. Silver at once began to disappear, and In 1853 It became necessary to debase our half-dollars and smaller coins In order to keep any change in the country. The same causes will produce the same effects now If we undertake free coinage without the remainder of the world doing the same. If we put too much silver In the dollar silver will leae us. If we put too little in it gold will leave us.

A SAMPLE RAILROAD ARGl'MEST. Mr. E. M. Field appeals to the state tax commissioners for a reduction of the assessment of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago railroad, and states his case in this way: The total assessment of the road is $9,673,311; the taxes paid in Indiana are 4.06 per cent, of the gross earnings, 11.38 per cent, of the earnings after deducting operating expenses and 56.70 per cent, of the earnings after deducting operating expenses and fixed charges. He then asks whether any business man could stand such a drain on his income. We think he could, but he would hardly go to the trouble of stating It In that way. The L., N. A. & C. has, or had in 1892 (it has a way of increasing its bonds and stock quite frequently), a funded debt of $12.800,000, on which it pays a yearly interest of $740,000, or nearly 6 per cent. When it was originally assessed under the tax law of 1891 it had a capital stock of $5,000,000, which was worth on the market 20 cents, making a total vaule of $13,800,000 for the road. It was originally assessed at about 70 per cent, of its actual market value. Last year the board very foolishly reduced its assessment when It should have increased It. The road has increased its capital stock to $12.000,000 and the stockholders took the last $5,600,000 of this at 25 cents, which" was the average market value in 1891 and 1892. The road is.therefore, worth $16.800,000 on the market, and Is assessed at less than 60 per cent, of its actual market valu?, notwithstanding the express requirements of the state tax law. Now let us examine the per cent, theory. Suppose a farm is assessed at 60 per cent, of what it will sell for at any time, and is mortgaged for 30 per cent, more than it is assessed at. The farmer finds that at the end of the year he has made enough to pay the Interest on his debt, all charges for farm implements, seed, insurance, wages to his hands and to himself. Including pay for the use of his teams, and all expenses of every kind, and then after paying his taxes has a surplus about equal to his taxes. Would he probably have the cheek to say that he is assessed too high? The operating expenses of the road cover all expenses except fixed charges. In the fixed charges the L., N. A. & C. includes rentals of about $165,000 per annum, of which about $125.000 is to the Chicago & Western Indiana. But the L., N. A. & C. owns one-fifth of this road, and receives from it an income of about $50,000, not to mention the division of the C. ..& W. I. sinking fund among Its owners. The state board of tax commissioners need not fear the abandonment of any railroad, as suggested by Mr. Field, because it is assessed at nearly 60 per cent, of its actual market value. And we imagine it would not be healthy for the said board to make any reduction in the aggregate of railroad assessment. 0 TARIFF HEARINGS WANTED. If the committee on ways and means consults the wishes of the country on the tariff question there will be no delay for hearings, or for any other purpose. The tariff question has been actively before the country for more than twenty years, and durin? the last six years of that time it has been the central and absorbing question. It has been discussed thoroughly in every conceivable phase. Congress has collected testimony In various ways from the tariff commission of 1S72 to the tariff hearings of 1890. The Information collected is all in print and carefully indexed. The literature on the subject has grown to tremendous dimensions. No committee could examine It in a year. We presume there is not a member of congress who has not studied the question as much or more than anyother question, or who has not made speeches or written articles telling how the tariff ought to be reformed. We submit that, for their own sakes, congressmen cannot afford to say to the country now thr.t they do not know how to reform the tariff without taking more testimony. But there is another and much more important consideration. Every thinking man realizes that delay In the adjustment of the tariff will be an injury to the business interests of the country. The change itself will be beneficial. Everyone who advocates tariff reform understands that. It Is the delay In making the change that does Injury. Everyone engaged in business, whether he believes in tariff reform or not, understands that. The manufacturer and importer both know that some change may be made that will affect their raw material or their goods, and they cannot safely proceed with their business until they know what the change is to be. A wise engineer will not run his engine at full speed If he does not feel sure that the switches are turned right, and a wise manufacturer or Importer will so restrict his business that he cannot be affected by a prospective change until he knows Just what the change is. This is simply the application of com

mon sense to the situation, and no intelligent tariff reformer has ever questioned It. A tariff is' like a dam in a stream. Whether it is high or low the water will adjust itself to the dam and get over, under or around it in some way or other. So will the business of the country adjust itself to the tariff. The country fcas said it wants the dam lowered, and congress says ir proposes to lower it, but everybody wants to know just how much it will be lowered, and at what points, so that he can proceed with his business. Why not go ahead with the work at once and complete it as quickly as possible? The majority of the people are not afraid of having the work done. They expect to be benefited by it. But they do not want to stand around and suck their thumbs while congress hears unnecessary testimony or makes unnecessary speeches about it. The democratic party has perfect confidence that the ways and means committee can prepare a Judicious tariff bill without hearing a word from anyone, and that congress will pass it, and that the result will be a glorious benefit to the country. Let us proceed to business. A good thing cannot come too soon.

CHANGED CONDITION'S. Mr. Bynum In his speech on the repeal of the Sherman law very Justly calls to the attention of the public the changed conditions since 1890. This country Is not now where it was then as to its ability to maintain the free coinage of silver, and any man who will look atthe changed condition is obliged to recognize the fact. It is evident that no country can maintain several kinds of currency on an equality with each other unless it is able to redeem each lnd in the most valuable one of them all. We had a full demonstration of this during the civil war, when the government was forced to issue paper money. That money at once went to a discount because the government had not the gold and silver to maintain specie payments. It fluctuated as the credit of the government fluctuated. At one time coin was at a premium of 285. but as the war was brought to a successful termination it rose. Even after the war there was considerable fluctuation, gold having reached 162Vs in 1S69, but with the resumption of specie payments paper came to par value. At the present time all of our currencyIs on a gold basis; paper, silver, nickel and copper, all have back of them the country's express or Implied promise to redeem in gold, and so long as the government stands ready with the gold so long will they remain at par. If, therefore, the country proposes to extend its credit, as free coinage of silver would extend it, the question of ability to maintain gold payments becomes the vital question, because first of all the democratic party is pledged to maintain the parity of the "dollar," of whatever material it may be. The question of restoring the market value of silver bullion, which Is a totally different thing from silver dollars, lies back of the question of maintaining the equal current value of our dollars. Any person must easily understand the disadvantages that would result from having part of our money at a discount, and we believe that all intelligent persons will agree that the prevention of suoh a calamity is the first and highest duty of the government. Are we as well prepared to extend our credit now as we were in 1890? Everybody knows that we are not. In 1890 we had a surplus in the treasury. Now we have a deficit. In 1890 our income exceeded our expenses. Now our expenses exceed our income. The congiess of 1890, in its effort to get rid of the hated surplus, resorted to the wildest extravagance that the country has ever known. It Increased our pension charges rom $30.000,000 to $40,000,000 per year. It created a sugar bounty of about $10,000,000 per year. It more than doubled our silver purchase, making an annual expenditure for silver of about $40,000,000 per year. At the same time, by that monstrosity, the McKinley bill. It reduced our income from the tariff $42,000.000. This year the reduction will be still greater. The tariff receipts for the first twenty days of August, at the New York custom house alone, show a falling off of $3,600,000. There Is no room for question that the country has been put in a very bad financial condition, and for that reason we cannot safely do now what we might have done In 1890. The thing now urgent Is to cut down expenses and build up revenues. Repeal the Sherman law and pass a tariff for revenue law. The American Wool and Cotton Reporter, a strong protectionist paper, tells a little plain truth to Its republican eontemporaries In these words: "It is a financial panic, and to contend that the election of one party or the other caused it to spring up at once is as absurd as to assert that Rome was built in a day. The possibility of tariff change can cause no paralysis of trade, but only a restriction of production, carefully proportionate to the demand. Again we say, remove the cause for money stringency, allay the financial panic, and the mills will be started again." We do not believe that any Intelligent business man In the country questions this. The mills that have stopped will resume with "only a restriction of production, carefully oportlonate to the demand," until a tariff law is passed, and then they will go ahead at full speed. ET CETERA. Telescopes were first made by Jansen in 1590. Rochester has a company of deaf mute soldiers. Europe now Imports every year 660,000 tons of meat. Ceylon has cinnamon plantations covering 36,000 acres. The lTnlor Pacific railroad crosses nine mountain ranges. The Chinese live longer than people of any other nation. A teaspoonful of microbes contain over 4,000.000 Individuals. Celluloid is paper chemically treated, re

duced again to pulp and then molded into' its final form. A Michigan street railway company uses allumnium tickets. Either I will find a way or I will make one. Sir P. Sidney. Rembrandt's father is said to have been a miller and farmer. In the rock of Gibraltar there are seventy miles of tunnels. The queen of Corea has a lady physician who gets $15,000 yearly. The anchors of the steamship Campania weigh eight and one-half tons each. A rattlesnake in the zoo at Atlanta has not eaten anything since last August In all countries more marriages take place In June than In any other month. The most prolific of opera composers was Piccinl. He wrote over two hundred operas. Marshal Besnieres was a farmer's boy, and after enlisting as a private rose from the ranks. Unbearable boorlshness can be changed to bearable eccentricity by the acquisition of wealth. Southern Pacific locomotives will soon use for fuel bricks made of coal dust and asphaltum. Some characters are like the black billiard ball not black, but called so because of one black spot. Lady Burdett-Coutts is announced as editor of a work Illustrating the philanthrophy of English women. We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it. Phillips Brooks. Brown "How often have I told you not to play ball In the house?" Johnny "Every time you've caught me at it." Judge. A man going shopping with his wife is usually a most woebegone looking object. His face always bears upon it the marks of despair. The "pit brow lassies" at English coal mines, of whom "That Lass o' I-iowrie's" was one. weär trousers, but short skirts over them to the kness. Summer Boarder "Are there any fish in that pon"3?" Host's Little Boy "Yesslree two of 'em. Pop put 'em in jus before you came." Good News. Perhaps you have heard of "Spartacus to the Gladiators." Its author, the Rev. Elijah Kellogg, still preaches at Harpswell, Me., although over eighty. The king of Siam wears a gold hat weighing twenty-seven pounds. When his majesty talks through that hat whatever he says must have weight. Boston Transcript. A Beverly (Mass.) man was fined $5 for slapping his wife in the face and $15 for assaulting the policeman who arrested him. There seems to be something wrong with the Beverly police court's tariff. Polite Tramp "Madame, may I Inquire what variety of fowl this Is?" Lady of the House "That is Plymouth Rock." Polite Tramp "Er I thought so. Have you a stone crusher on the premises?" St. Paul Globe. In one Kansas district at the recent school meeting only one man was present. He called himself to order, selected his wife as clerk and his son as treasurer, voted to hire a teacher, made levy enough to pay the bill and adjourned. The meeting was orderly and harmonious. Henrik Ibsen has set his heart on visiting England a country which interests him deeply, though he knows nothing of English. The Briton, when Dr. Ibsen appears, will see a small, stout man, with a splendid head of long white hair, brushed up from an unusually high forehead.

Possibilities of the Cotton Plant. After having for ages supplied clothing to a large proportion of the inhabitants of the globe, its presse 1 seeds have lately furnished a valuable oil useful for human food and in many of the arts, while the cake is prized for live stock feed, and the ultimate residuum or refuse makes a fair quality of soap. The stalks, too, besides being used for thatch and baskets furnish a fiber that can be converted into gunny and other kinds of cloth nearly equal to those made of jute, and they are also made Into commrm sorts of paper, while the lint which clings to the seed after it has passed through the gin makes excellent felt. The latest discovery, announced by the British consul at Zanzibar, is that cotton seed is capable of yielding sugar. The process extracts the sugar from cottonseed meal, and though its details have not yet been disclosed the product is declared to be a very superior quality, fifteen times sweeter than cane sugar and twenty times more so than sugar made from beets. He Is Golnff Friend "Going to the world's fair?" Country Editor "Going? Of course, I'm going. The idea of a leader of public opinion In this great and glorious republic missing a misrhty national enterprise like that! I sent for my tickets months ago. Got tickets for everybody except my wife's Aunt Nancy, and she's afraid of the cars. I've got passes from here to Swamptown. but there seems to be a hitch of some kind on the other roads. They've been reading my antimonopoly editorials. I reckon, and feel riled; but never mind that won't stop me. I'm going: yes. sir, I'm going; and I'll start with the whole family, the foreman, both printers, and the office boy, just as quick as I can arrange with the railroads and hotels to take their pay in porous plasters and liver pills." N. Y. Weekly. Phylloxera. M. de Mely. a French wine-grower and something of a classical scholar, discovered that Strabo had described a method of treating diseased vines with petroleum. He determined to try It on hl3 phylloxera-smitten vineyard. He met with a success that delighted him, and at a recent meeting of the French academy of sciences he exhibited healthy shoots grown from stocks rendered barren by phylloxera, giving statistics of his experiments that leave no doubt of the success of the method. It appears that the ancients knew a thing or two. Photographing; Wild Anlmnls. The duke of Newcastle's specialty in amateur photography Is to secure portraits of rare wild animals in their native surroundings. He in traveling in quest of these with Mr. Gambler Bolton, a member of the royal geographical society and well known as one of the most expert amateur photographers of wild animals in the world. The two proceeded from the world's fair to California, where one of their chelf objects Is to photograph the big sea lions on the cliffs, stealing up to them from off Fhore on a tug. London Tit-Bits. The First Asparnariis. The first asparagus of which we find mention Is during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. "Garden sperage," says John Gerarde, "hath at Its first rising out of the ground thick tender shoots, very, soft and brittle, of the thlsknesse of the greatest swan's quill. In taste like the green bean, and having at the top a thick, scaly bud. These shoots," he goes on to say, "be often ! sodden In flesh broth and eaten, or boiled In falre water and seasoned with olle, pepper and vinegar."

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THE WAY CF THE WORLD.

The monthly session of Squire Collins court always brought to the Perkins school house a large number of the citizens of Pine Log mountain district. But when It became known that Sam White, who used to teach school at the Perkins school house, had sued Ilince Williams, the blacksmith, for $5.25. the whole community went to court to hear the trial. "Air you'ns ready for trial?" asked Squire Collins, as he leaned back and filled his long-stemmed cob pipe. "I dest wants my $S.25 what dat scallawag of a Williams owes m;; yearn't honest?" "What dye say, Ilince?" asked the court. The blacksmith was fumbling in his pocket for a written document. He took it out and opened it carefully. "Jedge," he said, "I've jes got a leetle set-off agin his account." "All right. I'll hear the statement of the offendant." Williams walked to the middle of the room, and, taking his stand in front of the court, proceeded to read his plea of set-off as follows: "Know all sorts of men by these 'ere presents I don't owe Sam White nuthin", but he owes me a good deal. Here's adzactly what all he owes me fur: Makin' of him pipe stems, $2; fur settin round my shop and takln up my time. $1-50; fur talkin' too much to me when I wuz at work, J2; pure bothvr. $5.50; fur cussin one of my good customers an runnin of him off, $4.25; fur wearing out two good cheers a-settin' in them. $2; fur borryin' my store bought 'backer an payin' me back with home made, 2t cents; fur hollerin' at my you:g nag what I had hitched to the fence an' makin' of her brake loose an' breakin of the bridle bits. 50 cents; fur actin' of a born fool, $7; fur ginurul damages, $4." Williams placed the paper on the squire's docket and said: "Now. Jedge, hain't he a-owin' of me enough? I should say that he air. An, jedge, I wants my money. I ned hit wful, kase I owes Preacher Borders 20 cents an' want to pay hit ur my karactur will be damaged. Jedge. I needs all the money I honestly yearnt like this here what White Is a-owin' of m, but if he'll pay all costs I'll dismiss the case." "I hain't a-payin" no cost, nuther," shouted the ex-school teacher. "We'll see if you don't youn unhung scamp," returned Williams. Here Squire Collins brought down hia fist with a thump on the open docket and said: "Gents, jest stop right thar. This court's got to be suspected. I hain't a-goin' to hev no row, an', men, the cot is got to be paid by somebody to keep the law a-goin', and now I'll jst put both o' youn's under bond till the cost air all paid, an' youn's can jest fix up this here set-off case to suit yourselves." Atlanta Constitution. Speaking of newspapers and the men employed by them, Senator Manderson had an experience on Tuesday that is likely to last him. When any question of grave public concern is on the carpet it is the habit of some of the New York papers to round up anywhere from two dozen to forty reporters who never before saw Washington in their lives, dump them into a car, and send them over to do interviewing. The men themselves are not to blame, because they do as they are ordered; nor are they to be censured for lack of Intimate personal knowle.ice of senators and representatives, as they have been earning a precarious Mvelihood by reporting police happenings and writing editorials for their papers. On arriving in Wshington they brush the straw froii their hair and make a wild rush for the capltol. One of them was In the corridor back of the senate chamber when the Nebraska statesman came along. "Are you Mr. Manderson?" he asked. "I am Senator Manderson." was the somewhat formal response. "What state are you from?" The senator gorgonized him with a stony western stare. "Young man." he said, "does your paper own a congressional directory?" "Oh, I suppose so; I suppose so. What do you think alout silver?" "I think." he responded, as he edged toward the door and held it partly open, "I think that it is a metal. I have no other view to express." It was as bad as the historic meeting between Senator Sherman and Represe'itative Niedringhaus of St. Louis which occurred some years ago. "Ach. Gott, Senator," he said. "Iwas gladt to see you. I haf heard of you more times as I haf hairs on mv headt. You was from Atlanta, ain't it?" Washington Tost. We were camped alongside of an emigrant train in Nebraska, and just after supper a woman about forty years of age, who was smoking a pipe, came over to our fire and sized the crowd up and said: "I've got suthin' to say. I'm a plainspoken woman. When I've got a thing on my mind I don't beat around the bush." We looked at her with curiosity and surprise, and she leaned against the wheel of a wagon and continued: "I've been a wldder for three years. Over thar I've got a span of mewls, a good hoss, a new wagon tilled with housekeepin' stuff and I can rake up about $Sü in casn. I cum along with the party to take up a claim. I'm good tempered, healthy, and can swing an ax or hold a plow with most anybody As 1 said, I'm a plain-spoken woman. If thar's a critter among you who wants to get married, let him stand up while I take a look at him." The eleven of us promptly stood up. "Git into line," she continued, with a wave of her hand. "I hain't after beauty or eddec. shun, but I can't take up with a fellow who'd skeer a wolf to death." She passed down the line and then returned half way and said to a middleagod man named Remington: "You'll do I reckon. There's a preacher In camp, and 'twon't take fifteen minutes to settle things. All of you as want to see the marrying come on." 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