Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 September 1893 — Page 4

THE: INDIANA- STATE' SENTINEL; WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 13, 1893 T WELTE PaGES.

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INDIANA STATE SENTINEL BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. S. E.'MORSS, BEN A. EATON, PiMidtat, Vie rreaijUal b. McCarthy. ecrUry and TreMurar'

(Entered at the Potofflce at Indianpolls as second class matter.) ( i TERMS PER TEAR t Single copy (In Advance) 1 OO We ask democrats to bear In mind and .select their own state paper when they come to talce subscriptions and make up clnbs. Agents mnklajt up clubs send for any information desired.- Address THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTIXEL, Indianapolis, Ind. WEDNESDAY, $EPT. 13, 1893. India Is still a cent and a half short In xnalntalnlng the rupee on the gold standard. The Chinese pirates seem to be doing as much business In these hard times as the Missouri train robbers. There Is an oppressive backwardness about the defenders of John Sherman. The Sentinel is anxiously waiting for Bome one to take up Its challenge. The Brooklyn Eagle avers that a pirate ship has appeared on Long Island sound, and is robbing pleasure yachts .We suspect this is merely a cover for an attempt to secure an appropriation tor sea coast defenses. The New York Tribune Is still arguing that the foreigner pays the tariff tax. ."Well, have It that way. Let us then reduce the tariff, permit greater Introduction of foreign goods, and make the foreigner pay more taxes. What this country wants now Is more revenue. Senator Voorhees has done a most commendable thing In calling for senate meetings to begin at 11 o'clock instead cf 12. If the western senators are determined to talk against time they should be given Just as much time as possible every day until they get tired cf it. The Kansas female suffragists have torened a record called "the book of death." in which they propose to enter the names of all who oppose their views for political destruction. If the place is not already occupied, will they please enter The Indianapolis Sentinel on the first line of the first page? The Rocky Mountain News has become disgusted with the western congressmen. It says: "The one great leader has not been developed In congress. lie will come." It 13 suspected that the News has him; that his name Is Tom Patterson, and that he would like to fill Teller's place. Bring him on. Patterson1 Is an able man, and no one could be worse than Teller. If there is anything that could further weary a patient and long-suffering people it is the talk of replenishing the treasury by a whisky tax, an Income tax, the sale of bonds, and other systems for which the people have never called. What they have called for, loudly and clearly, is a tariff for revenue. Put down the tariff rates and let the gold flow into the treasury. Nearly every section of the state Is crying out for rain. The oldest inhabitant In many counties does not remember so lengthy a period of drought. De"vastatlng fires are reported from many 'pf the prairie and pasturing sections l northern Indiana. The dry grass and many splendid crops of hay are at ;the mercy of every passing locomotive. SWe are promised rain Sunday. f There is much suffering along the AtVtantlc coast of the southern states recently devastated by the rreat storm, ,jand the press of the East Is calling for relief contributions. Secretary Lamont lias furnished 300 tents for the homeless, ijid . Secretary Herbert will give employment to a number of laborers on the .'government works at Port Royal, which '.were badly damaged by the cyclone. jHomes and crops along the shore were generally destroyed. The republican press all over the country took Labor day as a proper j,t!me to pay "I told you so." They tlandly informed the worklngmen that f hey "had "killed the goose that laid the fgolden egg," and that all the depression Jin business resulted from an adminlstration pledged to tariff reform. They negijected to add, however, that we are still working under the blessed McKinley bill, twhich was to give high wages and steady Employment to everybody. ' Several accidents have occurred recently, and some of them proved fatal, t7 people Jumping on and off trains of cars "when in motion. There is a law Egalnst this sort of foolishness, but like .many others. Is seldom or never enforced. At Lafayette Saturday a police Officer was killed by Jumping from a moving train. The poor fellow was terribly punished for his temerity, but it may not be out of place to draw a moral from the sad affair. If a policeman Jumps on and off of moving trains, we may not expect boys and those of larger growth and experience to desist from following his example. The Sentinel congratulites Governor Matthews and the state of Indiana on the triumphant suppression of the prizefighting at Roby. This blot on our state's fair name Is now wiped out. The law is supreme. Indiana is no longer a place where the scum of Illinois may, resort to carry on the unlawful practices which they dare not attempt at home. This is a good and wholesome Chins. There is something better than this Involved In the action. It demonstrates what Th Sentinel has said from the first, that crime can always be 8uppressed when an honoet endeavor Is made to suppress It "Where there's a will there's a way." We have eaupad tiM aapalnit conclusion, that the

government can at any time be power-' less to protect Itself or to protect the people from criminals. We have escaped the equally mischievous conclusion that crime may be legalized by legislative trickery. These are the greatest benefits, for they place on the executive the full responsibility of enforcing the laws, and that is where the responsibility belongs. Indiana is by this enforcement of the law materially advanced In the eyes of the world. CHEESE IS NOT MEAT. The democratic party Is willing to admit the repentant New York Sun Into the fold once more, but only on condition that It shall chow a disposition and an ability to keep within the inclosure. We think the Sun means well, but It is not yet thoroughly educated in the democratic doctrine. It is, as It were. An infant crying in the nicht And with no language but a cry. Coming, as it does, from the milk of protectfrm to the strong meat of revenue taxation, it needs the friendly aid of a nurse, a guardian, to direct Its unsteady steps to the proper lunch counter and restrain the lactic proclivities of the cherub, which would cause It to call for cheese Instead of the liam sandwich which its system demands. There 1 are natural causes for this confusion In the infant mind. It reasons that cheese is solid, and therefore it cannot be milk. It has heard of no food beside milk except meat, and therefore it concludes that cheese must be meat. But cheese is not meat, and therefore the infant must be restrained from eating it and from tendering chunks of it to its little playmates, who are also desirous of becoming men. x For some weeks the Sun has been asserting that a tariff for revenue was an ad valorem tax levied equally on all Import?, Including articles now on the free list as well as those on the dutiable list. In a recent issue it explains its theory thus: Our present tariff laws are protective In their purpose, and if they should be reduced or equalized, the protective purpose would still rema'in. Moreover, they , would not bear equitably upon all the people, because they would raise the revenue by duties upon a few imported articles and not upon all. They would thus be entirely unequal in their operations. The people who should consume those articles would contribute to the revenue, and the people who should not consume them would not contribute. A tariff for revenue only cannot be constructed in this country as it is In a country of classes and of arbitrary distinctions, like England. Here it must be made to bear equally upon the consumers of all imported goods, in proportion to the respective amounts of their consumption. Thi3 is a country of equal rights and equal burdens, and not of classes with special exemptions and special privileges. Now, this is cheese cheese of the most ancient and .odoriferous character which would not only offend the nostrils of an adult tariff for revenue man, but would give him serious pains In the pit of his stomach. It does not look like meat. It does not smell like meat. It docs not taste like meat. It does rot feel like meat. None but an infant could mistake it for meat. "Tariff for revenue only" Is a phrase designed to exclude the Idea of protection. That i.H to say. the object of such a tariff i3 to raise revenue for the government as distinguished from a tariff whose object is to exclude foreign goods end give the exclusive possession of the "home market" to domestic producers. The Idea, of reaching every individual in the country by the tax has nothing to do with it. The object is to reach every consumer of the articles taxed. Neither Is it a part of the idea of a tariff for revenue to tax all articles, but only to tax such articles as will give a revenue to the government. Revenue and protection are inimical. You cannot have revenue without importing goods. You cannot have protection without excluding goods. The sole question, therefore, is what goods should be taxed to produce revenue, and at what point should the tax be placed to produce the greatest revenue. Perhaps we can make clear to the Sun the distinction between the cheese at which it is grasping and the democratic meat to which it should aspire by illustrating. Suppose we take ' the Sun's advice and levy an ad valorem tax, of 20 per cent, on all Imported articles. On some articles, as, for example, copper and copper, ore, this would be a duty more thoroughly protective than the McKinley law Itself. It would practically prohibit importation and prevent the receipt of any material revenue from thl3 source. On the other hand a 20 per cent, tariff on wheat or corn would produce neither protection nor revenue, because we do not import these articles except occasionally for seed. On sugar a 20 per cent, tariff could hardly be called protective, though it would probably Justify a considerable amount of sugar planting. It would produce a large revenue. On cotton and woolen goods a 20 per cent, tariff would produce a large revenue, but would be protective to some extent. On coffee a 20 per cent, tariff would be wholly for revenue. It is therefore evident that a tariff for revenue must not be levied equally on all article, but on those articles which will produce revenue, and must.be levied at such rate as fits the particular article. It Is Impossible that any one rate should be a revenue rate on all articles. We trust we have now made It clear to the Sun that even as cheese may be said to be milk with the Juice squeezed out, so its dead level ad valorem tariff la nothing but protection with the appearance of inequality squeezed out. But It Is the appearance only that is gone, for the real inequalities, the real Injustice, the real Iniquity of protection would permeate such a system. Nay, worse, for the protection or non-protection of any article would depend wholly on the accident of extent of natural obstacles to its Importation. Some persons have complained of horizontal reduction as unreasonable, but it was applied to a tariff presumably adjusted to

a purpose. To lay a taxiiX originally oa

a horizontal scale would be worse than unreasonable. It would be an act of supreme folly that nothing but-Insanity could excuse. It would be an attempt to do an act which would necessarily defeat the purpose of the attempt. It would not be a tariff for revenue only. It would be a tariff for ridicule only a limburger cheese tariff, whose scent would cling to the democratic party long after the vase was shattered. The Sun should crush this infantile appetite and pass up its plate for meat.

CARNEGIE TO THE RESCUE. It is painful to observe that the grand old stalwart republican, Andrew Carnegie, is opposed to tariff reform. But Mr. Carnegie has been bo closely Identified with the protection policy of the republican party, with its campaign funds, with Its statesmen, with Its efforts to increase wages, with its endeavor to reduce the price of manufactured goods by competition, with its labor of giving the farmer a home market, that we could hardly expect him to support a democratic measure of any kind, and especially one that would reduce the market price in this country of steel rails and steel beams. It would be necessary to pick the steel beam out of Mr. Carnegie's eye before he could see his brother at all, let alone picking a mote out of hi3 brother's eye. Hence we expect very little of this comrade of Mr. Blaine and we do not get any more than we expect. Mr. Carnegie's thoughts naturally turn first to the poor worklngman. "Yes," he says, "I am aware of the great reductions that have been taking place In salaries and labor In Pittsburg. It Is sad. but true. There is nothing else for manufacturers and men to do than share the loss in this emergency. The question Is not how much the manufacturer can make, but how little must he lose. It Is the same with labor." It is almost appalling how "emergencies" come along and make Mr. Carnegie reduce the wages of his men. There was one of them before the McKinley bill was passed, and again after that beneficent law was in force another "emergency" came chasing up, and down went the wages again. And now that the McKinley law Is about to be wiped out, another "emergency" strikes Mr. Carnegie amidships and he must cut wages again. It would seem that what his employes need is not a tariff law, but a law for the prevention of emergencies. Certainly worklngmen must understand now that so far as Mr. Carnegie is concerned the tariff has nothing to do with wages. Mr. Carnegie further proceeds to tell how the steel and Iron Industry Is specially a sufferer. Says he: "Take the manufacturer of steel rails. The amount required for renewals of old lines Is annually becoming less, as these lines are practically all laid with steel. The steel rail trade must depend more and more upon new lines and extensions of other lines. But these have altogether ceased. It is just so with most of other branches of the Iron and steel trade." You are forgetful, Mr. Carnegie. It was only a few months ago that competitive bids were made for furnishing steel rails for a railroad In India, and your firm made the lowest bid and received the contract. Protected against competition here, you agreed to lay down steel rails in India cheaper than any British, French or German manufacturer could. You are not confined to the railroads of this country. Further than that, you know that your most profitable work for several years past has been the manufacture of steel beams and girders, and you know that the use of these Is constantly increasing. There is some slackening in the building Industries just now, but you suffer from it as little as any one. And again, you have had a very profitable contract of furnishing steel armor for government vessels, and that Is an Industry that does not stop on account of financial stringency. Cheer up, old fellow, you and Mr. Frick will pull through this "emergency" without serious damage. By the way, let us call your attention to the encouraging remarks of your neighbor, Mr. George A. Macbeth, who employes 1,500 men at Pittsburg and elsewhere in the manufacture of lampchimneys, and who says that the claim that this business depression Is due to a fear of the results of tariff reform Is "the greatest piece of nonsense ever conceived." He says as to your Industry: The great trouble is that twenty-five years of tariff demoralization' have cultivated a socialistic and paternal Idea of government. If there is any uncertainty among iron men it is the result of their own doing. They have built a structure of shred3 and patches and expect it to stand. During all these years they have bent their energies to seeing how high prices they could get instead of working out the problem of cheap production. TJie tariff is bound to come down to a world's basis, end a few of the shrewdest already read It in the signs of the times. One of the greatest end wealthiest iron and steel manufacturers himself told me some time ago that he foresaw it and then began to prepare for such a condition. Recently he said he was now ready to produce against the world, no matter how low the tariff might drop. Like as not It was your wicked partner. Frick. who said this. Better wait till you see him before you talk any more. A SAMPLE TARIFF HEARING. The absurdity of the tariff hearings was Illustrated on Tuesday by Mr. Joseph Neumann of California, who stampeded the committee by announcing that the explanation of the needs of silk culture, which he was entering upon, would require three days. Mr. Neumann insists that silk can be produced In this country, in the southern states and in California, and that as a patriotic duty we ought to produce it Instead of buying the product of the pauper labor of Europe and Asia. For more than a century efforts have been made to encourage silk production in this country, and at one time there were indications that it would be successful. It reached Its greatest

development, however, about 1840, and then dwindled away until In 1850 it had become unimportant, and since then has almost disappeared. There are hundreds of mulberry trees now standing In Indiana that were planted when the "morus multicaulls" fad was at its height. Since then there have been individuals who felt the importance of the patriotic duty of developing the silk Industry in America, but not many. And none seem to have taken such a view of the way to do It as Mr. Neumann. He advocates a tax of SO per cent, on silk goods, 15 per cent, on raw silk, and cocoons free. Just how this would encourage the raising of silk worms is ' not apparent, because the cocoon stage is where the competition begins. If the committee had not been frightened away, and had questioned Mr. Neumann as to the theory of his tariff proposition, an interesting fact would have been brought out. Some years ago Neumann Invented a reel for winding silk from cocoons, and he is interested In promoting the use of this reel. What he needs to accomplish that is free cocoons and taxed raw silk. For years he has been trying to get congress to pass such a law. We think he Is a type. No one will go before the committee unless he has an .ax to grind, and If congress wishes to act in the interest of the people it will not be guided by the advice of such persons.

THE TRIE SILVER QIESTION. The Sentinel has repeatedly urged on the free silver men the mistake of opposing the repeal of the Sherman law, and thereby identifying themselves with a measure which was not one of their choosing. The Sherman law was a mistake from the first. The Bland-Allison law which preceded it was a mistake. They were both of republican origin. They were founded on the delusion that this country could sustain the price of silver by purchasing It at market rates. To a larga extent they were founded also on a theory that the government made a profit by issuing money based on credit. Being founded on erroneous ideas they were necessarily failures. They did not sustain the market value of silver. They did not make any profit for the government. They have simply availed to conceal the fact that our currency was on a gold basis, to confuse the public as to the real meaning and effect of bimetallism, to identify the struggle for the commercial welfare of the world with the petty Interests of a few mine owners. Among others coming to a realization of these truths is the St. Loui3 Republic, which advises against further opposition to the repeal of the Sherman law thus: Filibustering will do more than Irritate trade and public opinion. It will weaken the free coinage movement. The imperative need is a full understanding between the West and South upon both the tariff and the currency. The Sherman act has been a barrier to concert of action. It has been a weapon the Northeast could use, and did not hesitate to use, for impressing the West and South with their commercial dependence upon New England, New York and Pennsylvania. Some possible good can be found' In it by minute search, but in practical finance and practical politics it has been harmful in every way. There is but one road to free coinage and that Is int' rnational bimetallism. Until the silver men of the United States realize this fact there can be no harmonious and effective work by them in shaping the policy of this government. On that policy a great deal depends. The United States can force international bimetallism. If England and Germany refuse to join In the movement we can make an International bimetallic league that will bring them to terms. Money is the medium of commerce. It can be made the basis of commercial treaties. If France, Russia, China, Japan, the smaller European states. South America and the United States agree to maintain bimetallism they can do it by shutting off commerce outside . the league. They can all put double duties on articles Imported from states outside the league. They can all put ad valorem duties of 100 per cent, on goods exported to countries outside of the league. Strike England's commerce and England must surrender. In this country there is only one silver question now. It is International bimetallism or gold monometallism. And In truth there has been no other question for twenty years. PKNSIOX SKAHCH-LIGHT. The reports and resolutions of the G. A. R. in regard to pensions are quite as unjust and partisan ire their character as could be expected from an organization which professes to exclude politics from its actions. They are the more unjust because they are indirect in their character insinuations rather than charges. For example: The Grand Army of the Republic has no objection' to the search-light of investigation being turned on the pension list the nation's roll of honor but it does demand that it be the search-light of love for and not hatred toward the brave men who bore the battle, or their widows or orphans. This Is evidently intended for an assertion that the "search-light" of the present administration is one of hatred. The most direct form of this Innuendo, which appears in various forms at several points, Is In the report of the pension committee where, after recounting and denouncing the ruling of the department, the organization "scouts and denies these Indiscriminate charges of universal fraud, and resents the Imputation that because some unworthy survivors may be found discredit shall be cast upon the. entire roll, and this great body cf brave and patriotic citizens shall stand disgraced before the country." That is to say, the report of the committee asserts that the acts of the pension department In the suspension of pensioners are "indiscriminate charges of universal fraud." To the extent that this language has, or Is Intended to have, this meaning, It Is simply false, as appears by the pension records. There are on the pension rolls a total of 966.012 names. Of these 30.911 are pensioners of the Mexican, Indian and 1812 wars. There remain 935,101 as pensioners of the civil war. The

large majority of these have not been questioned In any way by this administration, and have not been Inspected with any kind of search-light, nor has there been any suggestion of intention of so doing. The classes of pensions not questioned In any way are as follows: Class. Number. Invalid pensions, general law...... 360,658 Widows and relatives, general law. 107,639 Army nurses 2S1 Navy invalid 4.7S2 Navy widows 2.583 Widows and relatives, act of 1830.. 77,838 Navy widows, act of 1S90 4,114 Total 557,898 These pensions have not been questioned at ail by this administration, and are not In any way affected by the rulings complained of, so that the "indiscriminate charges of universal fraud" have no reference to the majority of the pensioners of the civil war at all. The only pensions that have been questioned were those issued by Gen. Raum under the act of June 27, 1890. In the second place, no charge of fraud has been made by this administration against this class of pensioners. The only charge mf.de is that in a number of cases Raum issued pension certificates without authority of law. And this charge was originally made not under Mr. Cleveland's administration, but under Mr. Harrison's not under Hoke Smith, but under Gen. Noble. On Jan. 7. 1S93, Gen. Bussey. assistant secretary of the Interior, decided that the administration of the law by Raum had been improper and ordered that "the views herein expressed be observed In future adjudications under the act of June, 1SD0." He made no effort to rectify the illegal issuance of claims prior to that date. He turned on no search-light. He left over three hundred thousand pension claims already issued by Raum under the act of 1S90 with the cloud hanging over them that part of them had been issued without authority of law. And. what was worse, Raum continued to act, as before, in defiance of this order. The present administration proposes to find out what certificates were unlawfully granted and rescind them. It does not Indorse the proposition that a man has a vested right In a pension granted without authority of law. It has put to work a board of revision to sift out the pensions' that appear to be unlawful and has suspended 75,000 of the 377.203 claims allowed by Raum In accordance with" the Judgment of that board. Of the 935,000 civil war pensions 860.000 have not been questioned, and the 75,000 that are questioned are questioned for lack of legal authority, not fraud. Hence the talk of "Indiscriminate charges of universal fraud" Is a fiction which adds nothing to the force of the committee's report. If the G. A. R. questions the law as administered it can test it in the courts. If we understand the policy of the present administration It favors the use of searchlights of neither love nor hatred, but of law. It is the business of the executive department to administer law, not sentiment. Now thit Mr. Harrison has an opportunity to advance his candidacy for the republican nomination in 1S&6 by making speeches, we regret to notice that he devotes his time to criticising Judge Lochren's administration of the pension office instead of furnishing the muchneeded and oft-demanded explanations of the administrations of Tanner and Raum. Mr. Harrison ought either to apologize for those two worthies or Indorse them openly and fully. Old soldiers do not like a trimmer. They have no admiration! for a man who evades responsibility. What does Mr. Harrison think of Tanner and Raum? Does he approve of their administrations of the pension office? He appointed thern. Does he indorse the rerating of the pension office force and the continuation of the fraudulent new rates after express orders had been given to cancel them? Does he approve "sidetracking" the claims of soldiers Injured in the service in order to "make a record" under the disability law in time for the election of 1S96? Speak up, Mr. Harrison. Speak up fully and explicitly. There are no considerations limiting you "In the freedom of speech concerning" your record. Wl at do you think of your own pension office? This is a splendid opportunity to declare yourself. Do not waste it by saying all the mean things you can about the present administration and then sneaking away undor the pretense that propriety forbids anything further. Let us hear from you at length. There Is little room for question that the business Interests of the countrywant the tariff law settled promptly. Even In protectionist centers this policy Is strongly favored. Allusion was made a few days ago to the sentiment of the Manufacturers' club of Philadelphia. The Boston Herald says In regard to the feeling at that place: In our wool market report of yesterday we referred to the opinion of a number of the dealers In wool of this city that it would require scarcely more than a couple of weeks for the wool trade to adjust Itself to a free wool basis; that It is uncertainty which is the worst feature today, and that even strong protectionists affirm that absolute free wool, and that settled upon at once, would be far better than long drawn out suspense with a retention of partial protection. Beyond these dealers come the manufacturers, and while one of this class who was running his mill on full time and with ordinary demands might not shut down wholly or In part because of proposed but unknown tariff changes, yet If his mill had been shut down, or was running upon half-time, and the question came up of whether or not he should put it again Into full operation. It would not be unnatural for him to argue that it was better to keep things on the present level until the "new tariff taxes had been agreed upon. On this account It Is incumbent upon congress to act as speedily as it safely can. and we believe that In so stating we are but echoing the ideas of the merchants and manufacturers of New England. Give us tariff reform, and set the wheels to moving as soon as possible. Senator Peffer has Introduced a bill for a college of scientific learuing In the District of Columbia, It appropriates

J20.000.000 for a starter and gives a further appropriation of $800,000,000 for maintenance. Mr. Peffer must have been greatly Impressed by the prevailing ignorance In Washington, D. C. The ' Financial Chronicle explains the action of the Sherman law in bringing on the financial stringency as going through these stages: "It (1) destroyed confidence In Europe In the stability of our currency and hence in the stability pf all values here; (2) stopped the flow of fresh capital into the United States; (3) led to the withdrawal of a large part of the foreign capital invested here; (4) Infected our population generally with the same lack of confidence; (5) induced the hoarding of gold and currency by savings banks, trust companies and individuals in this country, the currency being hid away also by the less Intelligent; (6) and as a result business transactions became Impossible and so commerce was at a deadlock or standstill." That covers the ground. ET CETERA.

Governor Tillman of South Carolina has issued an appeal to the country for help to the sufferers by the hurricane tn the sea Islands. Young Mrs. Moses R. Crow, daughter of the wealthy brewer, Jacob Doelgerof New York, has sued her husband for her trousseau after leaving him within three months of their marriage. The principals in a recent wedding at Covington, Ky., were Morgan Reenar of Boon county, aged thirty-eight years, who measured seven test four inches in height, and an eighteen-year-old girl who stands but five feet high. Worth, the great Paris dressmaker, says that some years ago a Peruvian heiress paid his firm $30,000 for a single gown. $20,000 being the cost of the laces alone. A few weeks ago he sold a cloak for $12.000, of which $10,000 went for the fur. Thomas Bailey Aldrlch has recently bought a beautiful tract of land at Tenant's Harbor, Me., near the mouth of Penobscot bay, where he will build a summer residence of elaborate design. It will be ready for occupancy next summer. A late census shows that there are 80,000 stuttering children in the schools of Germany. The habit Is said to be Increasing, owing to children mimicking one another. The school authorities have taken steps to lessen the number of children thus afrlicted. The last performance In Köster & Bial's notorious music hall In Twenty-thlrd-st.. New York, was given last Saturday night. The new Köster & Bial's. the largest and most gorgeous music hall in the country', situate In Thirty-fourth-st., opened Monday night. Capt. James McNeill, who commanded the confederate detachment which captured Gens. Crook and Kelly In Cumberland, Md., during the late war, has still in his possession the sword taken from Gen. Crook. It is hi3 Intention to present the sword to Gen. Crook's widow. The New York Herald Is a very wealthy newspaper and many attempts have been made to buy it. Four years ago a syndicate cabled a message to Mr. Bennett, asking him what was the lowest price of the Herald. He cabled back: "Three cents daily, 5 cents on Sunday." A member of the parliament cannot resign. When he wishes to retire he accepts the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds, a nominal office in the gift of the crown paying a salary of 20 shillings a year. The acceptance of the government appointment forbids him to sit as a member of parliament. John and Peter Maloney and their sister Bridget lived together in Elizabethst,, New York, for many years. Peter died last summer and John and Bridget never ceased to mourn him. Six months ago John was taken tick and his sister nursed him until last Friday night when he died. Six hours later Bridget cried herself to death. Miss Klumpke, a young American girl, has won for herself recognition in France as being one of the most learned astronomers and most Indefatigable and successful observers in that country. Five years ago she was received as a pupil in the Observatoire, being the first woman to whom the doors of that institution were opened. The fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Jewish benevolent society, the Independent order of Benal Berith, will be elaborately celebrated in New York Oct. 12. The order was founded in New York in 1843 and now has more than 2S,000 members. It has extended even to Europe and the Orient, there being four lodges In Jerusalem. Every deliberative civil body in England, even down to the town councils, is provided with a mace, which is brought forth with solemn ceremony and placed on a table before the deliberations begin. In one or two city councils a candlestick of silver is added to the mace, and acts passed in the absence of these objects are supposed to be illegal. John Edgar McGowan, known In New York, where he was assistant chief clerk of the Jefferson Market police court, as "Johnny" McGowan, has married into a share of the fortune that Perry Davis's pain-killer . produced. Eva Klngsley Davis, a granddaughter of the medicine man, Is the bride and her income is estimated at JSO.000 a year, which must be better than anything that has befallen "Johnny" in his twenty years of small political pickings. Hollls P. Macomber, a Boston cigar dealer, has patented a device that bids fair to make his fortune and place his name high on the scroll of public benefactors. It is a chemical preparation that is rubbed on the "business end" of a cigar. When the pointed end of the cigar Is cut off and the smoker begins to puff the preparation ignites, the cigar lights Itself and the smoker does the rest. Cigars thus treated can be carried tor weeks in pockets or boxes and will be ready for use at any moment no matter how great a stringency surrounds the owner's match supply.

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There Is a question of identity being discussed at Shelter Island, I hear, upon which hinges the possibility of a wedding taking place in Brooklyn early next winter, says Town Topics. The wedding had been counted on by fashionable society in the City of Churches ac a. most advantageous time to display the most gorgeous gowns the financial stringency would permit purchasing. Now, I understand, the paterfamilias, whose consent to the marriage had some time ago been readily given, is In doubt, and unless he can convince himself that he 13 suffering from some malady that renders his vision unreliable, the young man will have to do penance of the most severe nature in order to re-establish himself in his prospective father-in-law's confidence. It seems that both are very fond of yachting, and as each owns a craft well known along the coast, they devote the summer season to cruising. Their methods of enjoying the pastime are altogether different, however, for whereas the old gentleman's yachting is strictly comm! il faut. the young one expected to become his son-in-law is given to inviting guests whose affections for each other occasionally reach the limit that would delight Pluto were he one of the party. On one of these occasions I hear that a trio of males and the same number of females were especially riotous, and although cruising lr. the sound within Fight of many smacks and craft of other kind, the "ladies" I quote the word after deliberation perched themselves on the knees of their "gentlemen friends" and imbibed salt air and eh.rnpagn'i with a gusto that made the lone fishermen they passed look on with envious wonder. If there had been no others but the lone fishermen to look and lau?h perhaps there would have been no occasion for me to mention the incident, but unfortunately the yacht owned by tha prospective father-in-Uw of the gay young man, with the old gentleman himself and a party of grave Wall-st. men on board, came so near that the sailors could exchange greetings, and those on board each could see the goings-on on the other. In a spirit of reckless hilarity one of the young man's guests lifted the convenient object with which to wave a greeting at the other party, and as that happened to be of an animate nature and was turned upside down, so that its skirts, falling tlm wrong way, revealed the lines that are said to attract aged men to the Casino, the old gentleman and his friends were naturally startled. So was the young man when he noticed the nam of th near-by yacht and saw that he had been recognized. His skipper was quickly given orders to steer away and the remainder of the time, until he met th father of his fiancee, was deveted to the manufacture of a plausible sea yarn that had for Its basis the statement that he had loaned his yacht and had been In Boston n business. He also, I believe, had his mustache shaved before returning, but the sacrifice, it is feared, was made in vain. At the recent labor meeting In Chicago Bishop Fallows made an impressive address in which he showed that the interests of labor were the interests of the whole country and that no class was more concerned in the preservation of law and order than the wage-woi ksrs. In the course of his remarks an incident occurred whirh is thus described by the Chicago Tribune, the bishop speaking: "These schools belong to you. The children come from the homes of working people. I ask of you, where do the men in the professions come from, your artists, doc tors, lawyers, minings and other professionals? Whre can they come from, but the homes of the people? You are the representatives of the people, you belng to the people, you are the people, and as such have sovereign sway in this country. You have an instrument whih God has put into the hands of children the ballot and you must determine what shall be the commercial and Industrial character of the country. The pub'ic officials are in sympathy with you; they have sprung from your own ranks. Where did our policemen come from?" The bishop was not permitted to anpwer this question. With one voice three or four hundred people yelled. "Ireland," and the laughter that followed was Infectious and even the bishop himself was compelled to join In It. When quietness was again resumed the bishop said: "You have stolen my thunder. It may be true that most of them come from Ireland, but still they come from your own ranks." Mr. , a newly made millionaire, has distinct social aspirations and does not particularly care to own up to what he thinks Is his somewhat plebeian lineage, says the New York Tribune. Notwithstanding this little weakness, however, he was ever an affectionate and dutiful son to the plain old farmer and his wife, who tolled and moiled to give him his first start In the world. One of his inheritances, when they died, was a pair of portraits, done by a rural painter two pictures with no merit whatever from an artistic standpoint, but startlii.gly lite, as such daubs often are, with homely Sunday clothes of the wearers realistically represented. Mr. , meanwhile, had become quite celebrated for his art collection and his first impulse on receiving these staring and unmistakably bourgeoise portraits was to relegate them to the garret. Filial affection, however, pleaded for the familiar old figures and in the midst of his perplexity a brilliant Idea struck him. He sent for Mr. A., a famous nrtist. and induced him to dress up his old parents in the most aristocratic garments of their day, leaving the dear old faces Intact, but even going to the length of arranging the old lady's hair, so that when the picture was hung in his magnificent hall she might have been taken for a duchess, so regal were her attire and surroundings, while the old gentleman, fondling the head of the setter between his knees, looked like "a renl old English gentleman all of the olden time." Nature's Mimicry. Curious resemblances in nature start with the cocoanut, in many rrspvts like the human skull and almost a fac simile of the monkey's. The meat cf th English walnut is almost a copy of the human brain; plums and black cherries like the human eye, almonds like the human nose, and an opened oyster and shell a perfect likeness of the human ear. The shnpe of a man's body may be traced in ihe mammoth squash, the open hand In growing scrub-willows and celery, the human heart in German turnips and egg-plant, and dozens of the mechanical inventions of the present day to patterns furnished by nature. Thus, the hog suggested the plow, the butterfly the door-hinge, the frog-stonl the umbrella, the duck the ship, and the fungus growth on trees the bracket. Petit Journal des Sciences. Do you read the testimonials published in behalf of Hood's Sarsapariila? They are thoroughly reliable and worthy your confidence. Sa king