Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 October 1893 — Page 4

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INDIANA STATE SENTINEL BY THE I NDI ANAPOLJS SENTINEL CO.

S. E.MOBSS, Presides!, BEN A. EATON, Vie Proaidtnl b. McCarthy. . . IvcraUrr od Tressnrsr. tEntered at the Poitofflc at Indianapolis as trrond class matter.) TERMS PER TEAR t Single copr (la Advance) fl 00 We ask democrat to near In mind tad select their own state ' paper when they come to take aubscrlptloai aid make ap elans. Agents making ap elabs send for Any Information desired. Address THE INDIANAPOLIS SE.VTISEL, Indianapolls, Ind. TWELVE PAGES. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1S03. Chicago la to be congratulated oa the financial success of the world's fair. It Is assured that the debt -will be wiped 'tut by Oct. 9 and the plucky managers jwill be on the road toward doing something for the stockholders. ' The democratic party has always stood for freedom of conscience and the right cf parents to control the education of their children, and It will always stand for those principles against any organization, secret or otherwise. No one need have a moment's doubt that the people of this country believe the majority should rule, within the limits of the constitution. What the senate needs is a. cloture rule and one that does not apply to the silver question alone. Mr. Johnson of Indiana entertained the house with one of his great wlndUamraing exhibitions on Thursday. Unfortunately he neglected to show the great value of the federal election law In the Dudley case and several other interesting cases in this state. The St. Louts Republics calls for a tetter plan of disposing 'of public lands. There is only one sensible plan. Sell them at auction to the highest bidder. t There ts an abundance of homestead land to be had free If anyone wants it, .without relying on newly opened lands. There are evidently a number of republican senators who claim to favor the repeal of the Sherman law, but object to cloture because of coming legislation on tariff and elections. Put them rrt the rack. This congress will never accomplish anything without cloture In the senate. The Pittsburg Dispatch Is discouraged about the future of the Indian. It says: There have been hopes that the Indian nations would gradually become assimilated to the methods of American politics, but fuch expectations are now shown to have been ill-founded. The Kovernor of the Chickasaw nation has refused to accept 51,000 in legal fees that fcad been plael to his credit. Physicians prescriptions must be written In a legible hand, says an Austrian law. It would be a wholesome law In this country. Many prescriptions look to , layman as if they were written In Chinese. Perhaps the intelligent compounder of medicines would not so often hand nut strychnine for quinine If physicians were more careful as to their writing. The tendency of the people, especially lhayoung of the agricultural districts, to migrate to large cities has attracted Attention in thla country and the same U no less true concerning Europe. Berlin, it is stated, has Increased its population 200 per cent within the last quarter of a century. Not only is this true as to Berlin, but nearly all of the leading cities of Germany show a similar result, nd this Increase comes not from other countries, but from the rural districts. In many portions of Germany there are kiot enough laborers left to perform the fcjccessary agricultural operations. 1 We have recorded several cases within Ahe last few months of death being j caused by the excessive use of cigarettes. pSiose which yet linger In the memory 'Occurred at Elkhart, Peru and Kokomo. I'A more recent case comes from Ft. Wayne. Allan H. Dennlson was found 'in his room in an unconscious condition Thursday morning. He died Friday night. It was supposed that he had Leen drugged. It now appears from 'later developments that the cause of his death was the excessive use of cigarettes. We have called attention to these 'cases as they occurred from time to klme, hoping that they would attract :the notice of the boy readers of The fSentlneL It is not good for boys to use tobacco in any form, whatever may be eald of its effects upon those of maturer years. For a young man to use the ("weed before he is fully developed the conscientious medical practitioner tells jus that it Is altogether hurtful. Let us Jiope that these several deaths that have Occurred from this cause may not have teen In vain to those who are thoughtful and careful concerning their physical well being. The Sentinel has for many weeks called the attention of farmers to the many nwindles that have been concocted for their special consideration, ' and we are glad to note that on several occasions recently the swindlers have been outwitted. One case that occurred in Huntington was especially worthy of note. The dodge was laid along the same old lines. A stranger wanted to buy a farm and the farmer was willing to sell. As the two wandered over the broad acres the confederate appeared as usual. The hell game followed and the farmer was Interested. The bait was skillfully adJusted, and the farmer pondered long and carefully a big sum of money was apparently in sight. At the supreme moment, howevtr, he suddenly had an inspiration that he was about to be swinAited. and tha man tier In whioh h with

drew from the conference would have been no discredit to Talleyrand.- ."We congratulate him. His name has escaped our memory. His neighbors will talk about it for many months. At the recent county fairs and races several farmers were touched for small amounts by various swindling devices, but we are happy to record that no heavy losses occurred. ANOTHER DEFENSE. We find In the columns of the News of " Tuesday a further defense of. and apology" for, the A. P. A. which Is Interesting for what it' suggests. In regard to the statement that the city school board Is "catholic by one majority" Mr. Pyle, .who sterns to be the .brains of the order, admits error and says: "This information was given us by a committee composed of twelve democrats and nine republicans, who unquestionably thought it was correct, and was not handed out for political effect." Now. if thin be true, and we have no reason to question It, what are we to think of the value of A. P. A. investigations? If twenty-one members conscientiously Investigate a matter in their own city, as to which anyone could have full information for the asking, and miss the truth so far as this, what belief can be given to the A. P. A. revelations concerning events in Rome? If twenty-one members Investigate a school board, in whose election the A. P. A. took an active and aggressive part, and report six of the eleven catholics when In fact there is but one catholic on the board, and he was supported by the A. P. A. in the election because he was thought not so good a catholic as his opponent, why should anyone expect this order to secure any important secrets from tha alleged nysterles of the Vatican? Could anything be more absurd than. the pretensions of such Ignoramuses? As a matter of fact, their statements as to such matters are so utterly absurd and Impossible that they could Impose on no one who was possessed of common intelligence. One example will suffice to illustrate this. In the A. P. A. paper, the Loyal American. Issued here last week, there is printed a stupid forgery called an encyclical letter from Leo XIII. It is well known to all Intelligent protestants that the catholic church lays great stress on form in all ecclesiastical matters, and indeed that is one of the chief arguments of protestants against Catholicism. The form of this letter shows absolutely that It Is a forgery, because It violates the well-established and notorious rules of catholic composition, and this any person may decide for himself. Take the Encyclopedia Britannlca and turn to the article "Bulls and Briefs." You will find that there are two kinds of papal letters, bulls and briefs, which have distinctive characters in form, and in this forged letter of the A. P. A. they are mixed up as no catholic clerk certainly none Intrusted with important work at the Vatican would mix them. In the body of the article it is called a bull, but it opens with the heading of an encyclical letter or brief, and after the greeting introduces the heading of a bull a place where it would not be nut If the document were a bull. It names first Leo XIII, which characterizes a brief. Immediately following, it names "Leo, bishop and servant of the servants of God," which are the characteristic words of a bull. The address of the letter Is still more faulty. It reads: To the Jesuits. Patriarch, Primates, Archbishops and other Ordinaries in Peace and Communion with the Apostolic See of the Entire "World. No bull or brief would be addressed to the Jesuits any more than to the Franciscans or Dominicans, unless It concerned them especially. They are merely an order cf monks, but people of the A. P. A. class consider them especially obnoxious, and therefore they are Introduced here. Moreover, if the pope had anything to say to thm he would use their proper title, "Society of Jesus,"1 and not a cant name. And more important still. If he should mention them in the address of an encyclical he Would not place them first, because in the order of precedence, which is more strictly observed by the catholic church than by any temporal court, the highest of the order of Jesuits ranks lower than the least bishop. The regular form of address for an encyclical letter is this: To all the Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops and Bishops of the Entire Catholic World, having Peace and Communion with the Apostolic See. If the laity are Included, as in the body of this forged letter, the words "and all the faithful in Christ" would be Inserted after the word "Bishops." Following this address should come the words. "Venerable Brethren, Health and the'Apostollc Benediction," after which the subject matter of the letter would follow immediately. Forms can be seen In the News of June 21. 1S93, or In Henry George's "The Condition- of Labor." There is also a .funny blunder 'in the body of the article. It recites "numerous absurd charges and grants an absolution from any oath of allegiance to the United States, which absolution is to take effect "on or about the 5th of September, 1893," and immediately following this, it proceeds, "and on or about the feast of Ignatius Loyola, in the year of our Lord 1893. it will be the duty of the faithful to exterminate all heretics found within the Jurisdiction of the United States -of America." It is evident from this that the forger supposed the feast of Ignatius Loyola to follow Sept. 5, whereas the feast day of that much reviled gentleman is July 31. If the heretics were all killed on July 31 t would be superfluous to absolve the faithful from allegiance to the said; heretics on Sept 5. Ältoarether this A. P. A. document baa more characteristics of an Irish bull .hanof a papal bull. The prophet Pyle also desires to knowwhr the A. P. A. should be "pulled Into pontics." It pulled itself into "politics. Th most notabla thing In th paper It

IssueC here is this: "Vok 1, No. 1." The next most notable is this: "We are willing to be governed by these principles in our future political action." What is the meaning of this appearance of an A. P. A. campaign paper, if it is not in politics? Why does it appear now if it is not In politics for this election? Why does it make repeated attacks on the democratic party if it is not a republican organ? Why does it say this: And who Is at the head of that Jesuit organization called Tammany hall? The son of a drunken Romish rum seller, who Is called Archbishop Corrigan. Everybody knows that Tammany is a democratic political organization. And why does it say this: Rome defeated the Bennett law in Wisconsin. Everybody knows that the democratic, party defeated that law, and that Lutherans took Just as much part In defeating it as catholics. The A. P. A. need not think it can conceal Itself by hiding its head in the sand. The people of Indianapolis are not fools. They know that it is hore for a purpose, and they, know that purpose. It is the election of Deimy. The A. P. A. might as well make Its fight openly and above-board. It deceives no one by its sneaking course. OUR " BIMETALLIST PRESIDENT. Mr. Cleveland's letter on the silver question disposes of the claim so often made that he is a gold monometallism It makes clear that he favors international bimetallism, and that is the only bimetallism that can possibly exist, because free coinage by this country alone, In its present conditions must inevitably bring silver monometallism. Ho says: Within the limits of what I have written, I am a friend of silver, but I believe Its proper place In our currency can only be fixed by a readjustment of our currency legislation and the inauguration of a consistent and comprehensive financial scheme. I think such a thing can only be entered upon profitably and hopefully after the repeal of the law which is charged with all our financial woes. In the present state of the public mind this law cannot be built upon nor patched in such a way as to relievo the stagnation. I am. therefore, opposed to the free and unlimited coinage of silver by this country alone and independently, and I am in favor of the immediate and unconditional repeal of the purchasing clause of the so-called Sherman law. "The free and unlimited coinage of silver by this country alone and independently" is what the president objects to. If we can secure an international agreement for free coinage he will favor free coinage, and it must now be apparent that this is the only hope for free coinage. No one imagines that congress would under any circumstances adopt a free coinage law at present. The house has just rejected the measure by an overwhelming majority, and the minority in the senate, while it may be able to .obstruct, has no power of affirmative legislation. Free coinage is absolutely out of the question except as it may be obtained by International action. The only question now is whether we shall persist in the Sherman purchase folly or abandon it and endeavor to secure international action. Certainly the democratic party can trust Grover Cleveland to do all that can be done to secure international action. He la resolute and aggressive. For a firm foreign policy no better executive could be found, and we believe he would bring every possible pressure to bear to secure the co-operation of enough foreign countries to insure a return to bimetallism. The question has reached a stage where pressure must be brought on England or England must be shut out of the commerce of bimetallic countries. That Grover Cleveland Is a man for such an emergency was shown by his attitude toward Canada In the fisheries dispute, and especially by his request to congress for the power of retaliation. We again venture the prediction that Grover Cleveland will show himself a truer friend to silver than any of the silver monometallism that are now barking at his heels.

OCTOBER. The month that poets rave over and love-sick swains sigh about is here October, the golden, the fruitful, the incomparable conglomeration of mud, dust, rain, sunshine, cold, heat. That is, in this climate. But after all who does not like to see October? Who hasn't sighed many, many times when the mercury was carrying on an open flirtation with the nineties and the heat was shimmering in the air like incense, for the cool nights, the fragrant breezes and the golden skies of October? The average man is so prone to forget his previous fancies in the presence of a very little discomfort that though today is the opening of the month to which . all have looked forward for weeks t?.ey . will declare that it is a bore and that October cannot compare with June. If the Junes are all like the one that occurred a short time ago, one can sigh for deliverance. A little discomfort and chilliness is far preferable. If one could enjoy October as one could wish it would be well to have it a sort of progressive month. There is FKe October which begins way out there in Nova Scotio, an October when the touch of the mysterious fingers of the wonderworker. Nature, colors all the leaves of the forest the most brilliant hues, scarlet, yellow, crimson, glowing on the same tree. Far up the mountain sides the strange artist works and on awakening some morning and looking from your window you will see that a 'tree in the midst of the dark green has suddenly burst into color rivaling the red of the fire's flame. It is the advance guard of the flambeaux of autumn. There is a charm in the Octobers along the St. Lawrence and In New England which is seldom equaled. It comes there before it does here, and if one . is well provided with money and time, two indispensable factors for the perfect enjoyment of October, one can wander there among the most beautiful scenery man ever looked upon for days and weeks. To see the splendid ranges of the Adirondack mountains all ablaze with the wonderful autumnal tints is to realize the fairy dreams of tha story booki

and revel In a perfect heaven of delight." Take a' boat and cross Lake Champlain and, stray," among the rocky fastnesses of the Green mountains in Vermont or the White mountains in New Hampshire. The scenery is indescribable and the air Is filled with the wine of exhilaration. - -But It "passes, and unless one can afford the -time to enjoy the perpetual October it must Vrid for that year.- But .pro-, vlding . ho- - can, then come this - way.; The : October of this middle West is magnificent There - are ,no mountains slopes r to . be glowing and rich -with color, but, thre are . the great level stretches c-f ; prairie with their corn and wheat fields and the whole landscape dotted with the farmhouses around which is ripening the luclous October fruit Where can .one find a better October? It, Is a part of the heritage nature left to man on this continent alone. The' fear weeks pass and ne must hasten on. ' Then go South and enjoy the October of Uv Tennessee of Carolina mountains. The great stretches of pine lands are balmy in the glorious air, and though one cannot see the colors of the New England or New York October reflected from numberless' lakes and streams, clear as crystal, there is a languid enjoyment, a feeling of quiet lassitude which is unknown in the regions farther north. One merely wants to drift with the tide, so to speak, and cares only to float away with no care or annoyance and dwell forever with the sprites, which seem to haunt every mountain and valley. Such is the American October. Such Is the best month in all the year, the month of fruition as June is the month of promise. October in America can be equaled by no other month in no other country. With the poet one can say: 'I love to wander In the woodlands hoary In the soft light of an autumnal day. When summer has put on her robe of glory. And in a dream of beauty glides away. A. P. A. KOWOTHIXGISM. Although the A. P. A. professes to pay no attention to nationality its principles are squarely against all foreigners, as will be seen from these declarations of principle taken from the A. P. A. organ: We believe there should be an educational qualification to the elective franchise that will require every "American citizen" to be Americanized. Extension of time for naturalization. American lands for American settlers. No foreigners given employment unless naturalized American citizens. The necessary effect of these principles, if carried into action, would be to prevent any foreigner from coming to this country. If you extend the time for naturalization and require a foreigner to be "Americanized" before he has any rights, he would have to stay here a number of years before he could be an American citizen. If during that time he is refused all employment and not permitted to, settle on our vacant lands, he will be unable to stay here unless he is able to live on his income. It is Evident that no foreigners could come to this country under such a system, and the thousands of people who are desirous of bringing their friends and relatives here to escape the tyranny of Europe would have to abandon their hopes. There is another point in these declarations that ought to be remembered. They demand an "educational qualification" that will Americanize that is to say, the educaLon must be in the English language. This principle of the order is further shown from another declaration in this same paper: R me defeated the Bennett law in Wisconsin. This law said a child shall go to school twelve , weeks each year till fourteen years of age, and that five branches in the English language shall be taught In every public school. This law Is well known to people here. It was not directed merely against catholics, for it applied to all private schools. It was not directed against the Irish, for they use the English language. It was . directed against the Germans, Swedes, Danes and Norwegians who desired to have their children taught their own language and were willing to support private schools in which they might be taught This law required that thelr children should be sent to schools where English is' taught, and against this oppression they rebelled and left the republican party, which passed this law. In Illinois" the same thing was done, until the democratic party rescued these people from republican oppression. That it Is the intention of the A. P. A. to "bring he same laws into effect here is plainly seen from their declarations: 8. We are in favor of maintaining the principle of ONE ' general, unsectarlan free school organization and will oppose all attempts to supplant it by any sectarian Institution. 11. The opening of private and parochial schools, convents and monasteries to public official Inspection, and placed on thQ same plane of morality and law as Protestant institutions are. It Would be unfortunate, indeed, If these pernicious principles were to get a foothold In Indiana, and so long as the democratic party is in power there is no danger of it The democratic party crushed knownothingism forty years ago, and It can do it now if those who are opposed to interference with the rights of conscience will stand by it

The signs, we are told, indicate that next winter will be a severe one. These signs seem to vary. The weather prophets do not agree. Others intimate that the weather will be otherwise. Prophecies of severe winters have several times within recent yeafs been followed by opposite conditions. Birds go south every year, corn husks" are thick and thin and the breastbones of turkeys vary In thickness. .It is so every year, yet wiseacres continue to gather comfort We lave no great faith , In weather prophets. The government bureau may forecast events for. a day or two, but beyond that intelligent science seems to know very little about them. At Home to Ulm. Mr. Sapple "I am glad to learn that your sister is at heme." Small Boy "Yes, she's at home, and I guess, from what I heard her say, ahe'll be at home to you right along now until Mr. Nicefellow gets back from his vacation." Street & Smith's Good News.

FIGURE YOUR CHANCES.

SUCCESS WITH THE FAIR SEX REDUCED TO STATISTICS. Paul Bonrget's Table of Professions That Win Hearts Revised and Corrected by Some of Those Vbo Appear at the Top of It Tony Pastor Says the Ballad Singer Is at a Premium . of One Hundred Per Cen Views of Some Well-Known Comedians. Faul Bourget, the French novelist who "studies life as he finds it and paints truthfully what he sees." recently made public some statistics of the chances of men In different callings of being successful with the fair. sex. These statistics, he claims, were the' results of the observation and investigation of a physician attached to a woman's hospital. He does not make it clear Just what he bases the percentages on, whether he means the percentage of chance men have In a calling of being loved by one woman or by all women, but at any rate his figures give comedians pretty nearly a sure thing whatever the game. They are credited with ninety-nine chances in 100, while tragedians have only twenty, and magistrates, lawyers, army officers above the rank of captain, college professors, and proprietors of business establishments have only five. Academicians have only two and one-half, bankers and brokers only two, while kings, presidents, ambassadors, and that sort of thing have only one chance In 10,000. As comedians have decidedly the best of It an explanation was sought from some of the comedians themselves. "Yes," said Tony Pastor, "ninety-nine In a hundred is about the right figure for a white-faced comedian, but you'll have to raise the ante for the ballad singer in the minstrel show. He's the man that gets the billet douxs. He's the man that is popular with the ladies. Why, hi3 percentage is about 200 out of a possible 100. He's at a premium. Then not more than half a length behind comes the end men and other burnt cork comedians. Then there are the song and dance men, the clog dancers, and that sort of thing, so that the regular white-, faced comedian Is pretty nearly as far behind some of these as he Is ahead of college professors. Still he's right up to the front and doing pretty well. "Now, why Is it so? Well, the comedian keeps right close to the people. He doesn't get distant. He Isn't haughty. He's a fellow people feel like they could talk to without his trying to explain the silver question to them or being fnubbed for wearing a silk hat with a sack coat. Take Nat Goodwin, for instance. Anybody who sees him on the stage and meets him afterward on the street feels like slapping him on the back and saying: 'Hello, Nat.' A woman will bow, not meaning any harm, but Just because the personality of the comedian in him makes it impossible for her to do anything else. Now take a tragedian, Henry Irving, for instance: there isn't anything of that kind. Women aren't attracted to him. Instead of bowing when they meet him on the street they're more apt to edge away from him and whisper under their breath to their companion: "That's Henry Irving.' I know a certain number and kind of women N make a fuss about tragedians, and rave about the genius they display, and the sublime art and all that sort of thing, and want locks of their hair, but, bless you! that isn't love, and if it is, why, according to this table of statistics here, they are entitled to twenty in 100. A .tragedian's about a 100-to-l shot, I guess. "But the comedian well, he's generally pretty good looking anyway, and if he isn't he's got some other good qualities that make people forget it, or he wouldn't be a comedian." "I am too modest even to have supposed that comedians are so almost perfectly lovable." said Sol Smith Russell. "But of course I cannot help feeling flattered if some one else gives them that character. If they have such chances of being loved as this table of figures makes out I suppose it is because in their professional work they portray the amiable, the care-free qualities; they are making people happy without imposing the obligation cf gratitude on those they thus benefit. These are qualities a woman likes in a man, and I suppose the quality of the part is transferred in the mind of the hearer to the actor. I know my manager gets a great many letters and personal inquiries as to whether I am the tame kind of a character off the stage that I am on. In the construction of a comedy the leading character is generally, or at least often, given qualities that make the handsomest, brightest and most richly endowed woman character In the play fall in love with him, and I suppose it has the same effect on those in front of the curtain as back of It. To be always pleasing, and by inference studying to please, is a species of personal devotion, and womankind are peculiarly amenable to personal devotion. "Then again comedians as a rule get themselves up in a pleasing way. To a pleasing address is added a pleasing perFonallty and a pleasing garb. That is i.ot so in my own case, for even If I had a pleasing and striking appearance the characters I portray do not permit this. As 'Noah Vail' in 'A Poor Relation' I am called on to picture cheerful poverty, and in 'Peaceful Valley there is an exterior of uncouthness and gawkyness, but in both there are the amiable, gentle, devoted qualities which are attractive. But where to these are added, as they frequently are, physical perfection, comeliness, and the advantages of good clothes In short, a pleasing exterior you hay a combination of pretty nearly all the attractive qualities in man. I do not says all the substantial qualities, or those that hold affection or command respect but the attractive qualities. "I see that in this table of statistics officers under the rank of captain have ninety chances in 100. That reminds me that my wife spoke about what a center of attraction for the pretty girls the cadets were at the world's fair. There you have the same qualities, or at least presumably so, and they are not constrained and evert iiadowed by the sternness and preoccupation that cornea with responsibility, and reduces the chances of officers above the rank of captain to five in 100, right to the point where magistrates and college professors are, in whom also, from the nature of their duties, the stern and unattractive qualities are predominant at least to the superficial view. "This table does not give the rating of ministers. I shouldn't wonder If they would rank pretty high up. Their duties require the amiable and gentler qualities. I think. Indeed, that In looking through this table callings rank high or low in this particular according as the unconstrained. amiable, and kindly qualties are patent or latent" "Comedians have ninety chances In 100 to a king's one in 10.000. do they?" said Eddie Foy. "Well, I'm playing favorites. See? I'll put no money on a long shot like a king or prime minister. They couldn't win In 1.000 years at a game like that. They haven't as much show as a Guttenburg selling plater. Oh, we comedians at ninety-nine to a hundred are rljrht In the push; It's pretty near a dead cinch." "It's my opinion." said J. W. Kelly, "the rolling mill man," "that the fellow who depends on his calling for his chances .of popularity with the girls will get left. -Your table d'hote of figures may give comedians the whole ex, but I prefer It a la carte and take my choice, and so will every other man in his right senses. Where would a man's pocketbook be if he had to support, such universal popularity? It's bad enough to have to give up your whole week's wages, barrln car fare, to one woman, and she your wife. But where . would you be if nlncty-nlna women out of every

hundred had a claim on you? You might as well move. to make it unanimous, and then move out of the country. - No; I'll tell you why comedians are so popular; it's because so many of 'em are Irish." A Long: Black Finger. - A Lee gentleman, who is in the habit pf reading after he goes to bed,, tells us of a 'queer experience" he . had recently. The other night he had been , reading a newspaper and finally turned to the stand and 'blew out the light preparatory to going to sleep. As he closed his eyes he was surprised and not a little startled' to pee a big black hand appear to' his vision. It was surrounded by a halo of light, and " w'nether - he opened or shut his eyes the hand still appeared with a long black finger pointing downward. The gentleman is not . classed as a splrtuallst and says he is not superstitious, and thoughts of the apparition rfLs a warning that he was going down to perdition were only momentary, as that fact was not news to him. Still the hand staid, and he felt uneasy and could" not explain it, and as It continued to point down he concluded that It might be a warning that the Stockbridge burglar was in the cellar. About this time his wife beard a noise that she could not account for. That settled It. He got up, lit a lamp and proceeded to the cellar, lightly clad in a nightshirt and hand lamp. He did not find a burglar, but succeeded In knocking over a pan of milk, and when he heard his wife scream he knew the family were awake and frightened. He swore softly and mounted the stairs and restored quiet As he entered the bedroom the Gleaner lay on a chair, and . there, boldly printed at the head of an advertisement, was the hand. He had read the news, the Etory. the advertisements and finally dropped off Into a muse with his eyes fattened on the hand. The lamplight, white paper and black printed "fist" had left an impression on his eyes that remained after the light was extinguished. Lee (Mass.) Gleaner.

Eventually Successful. The uncertainties of politics pursued as a means of livelihood find a living example in the person of a recently appointed attache of the house, says the Washington Post During the recent warm and worldly campaign for the chaplaincy of the house of representatives, which attained a vigor unusual in a pulpit canvass." an aspiring young parson of the baptist persuasion came on from the West and pressed his devotional abilities upon the attention of members with a persistence' which could find excuse only In the scriptural exhortation to be deligent in business. It happened that the western clergyman was not the first under the wire at the democratic caucus. But the taste of public life which he had secured kindled an unquenchable thirst for office so that he turned his efforts to the pursuit of other plums. Two or three sinecures had slipped through his hands this term, but yesterday the aspiring reverend appeared in the rotunda garbed in the uniform of a capitol watchman. He had secured an office finally, although one not often filled by a graduate of a theological seminary. While he had sought to keep people In the path of rectitude by moral suasion, he finally concluded to attain the same result as an instrument of the law. Xamlna Family Pets. Every boy and girl has at some time had a pet for which a name had to be found, and all enjoy the pleasure of teaching the pet to answer to his name. But have you ever stopped to notice how few pets are nicely named? Suppose you have a little Scotch terrier. Do ycu think it would be pretty to name him Sandy or Andy or Bruce or Wally or Campbell or Donald or Mac? And if you had a water spaniel, do you not think he might be called Lake or Taddle or Plunge or Dip? And Paddy, Rory, Moore. Shannon and Tyrone are all good names for an Irish Better, and for the cat family there are such names as Felina, Catnap, Malta, Softpaws and Fleece. In the city of New York there is a man who makes a business of finding pretty names for valuable pets, and in no case does he ever give the same name twice. N. Y. Ledger. Curtains Made of Glai. Glass curtains arc a novelty in household furnishings. They are in colored glass and have the effect when closed of stained glass. They consist of a series of little squares of colored glass, each set in a small zinc frame, the squares being attached to each other at the four corners by little S shaped hooks. We are told that they can be as easily taken down and moved as any other curtains, and la case of changing from one size of window to another can easily be enlarged or decreased in size by the addition or substractlon of a certain number of squares. They are also easily cleaned, and one of their particular attractions is said to be cheapness. London Inventions. Senator Proctor's 11 amor. Senator Redfield Proctor may have surprised some of his associates with his dry humor the other day, but there are those who know that the Vermonter possesses a fund of humor and good fellowship. It was while he was secretary of war that he attended an alumni dinner of Dartmouth college. .7 To the surprise of all he kept the assembly convulsed while on his feet Referring to his college days and pranks which "would not become a future secretary of war," he said that he was often called upon for protracted and learned discussions with the faculty, and on such occasions his fellow-students, with great want of dignity, would say: "Old Red's yanked up again." Wouldn't Leave His Dor-. In the crowd of yellow fever refugees last night was an old man, with a little dog as his lone companion. When the rush was made for the train he was crowded out, and upon learning that his dog could not be in the coach by his side he determined to remain. This morning the old gentleman left by dirt road, walking on the journey he had anticipated a distance of forty miles. His companion was the precious dog that he would sacrifice his own comfort for rather than leave behind. Times-Advertiser. Woman Writers Live Long. The longevity of literary men and women is above the average. Amelia Ople, Miss Edgeworth, Caroline Herschel, Mary Somerville, Maria Mitchell, George Eliot, George Sand, Harriet Martineau, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frances Power Cobbe, Charlotte Cushman. Fanny Kemble, Mrs. Emma Willard, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and many other noted writers and thinkers have lived and worked far up into the sixties, seventies and eighties. Bricht Eres. Fashionable women unwisely try to enhance the brilliancy of their eyes by exposing them to an air slightly impregnated with a powerful acid or rub over each eye a tiny quantity of belladonna ointment. This artificial dilation has again and again been the means of injuring beyond repair the sight. Plenty of, sleep and good digestion will make any woman's eyes as bright as need be. Exchange. Ills Credit Good. Mr. Finnegan "Ye kl- charge thot drink to me, Dennis Flnnegan." Bartender "Hold on." Raising: his voice. "Say, is Finnegan good for a drink?" Proprietor (from the Inside room) "Has he had it yet?" Bartender "Yes." Proprietor (shortly) "He's good for it." Life. , I Care Dyspepsia, Constipationand Chronic Nervous diseases. Dr. Shoop's Restorative, the great Nerve Tonic by a newly discovered principle, also cures stomach, liver and kidney diseases, through the nerves that govern these . organs. Book and samples free for 2c 8 tamo. ; DR..SIIOOP. Box X. Racine, Wis.

TWO VIEW'S OF GOLD,

Comments of Two Senators Who Have Since Changed Their Minds. In the United Slates senate on April 1, 1874, the Hon. John P. Jones of Nevada said: "The value of geld is represented by the average amount cf labor required to produce it. Its scarcity gives a small quantity of It great value, fo that it is easily transported from place to place. It is capable of division and subdivision, and also cf being reunited all without loss. It is in every commercial country made into coins and stamped by national authority with a certificate as to fineness and weight It is flexible and self-regulating, and flows by natural laws wherever the exigencies cf fad demand It. . "Gold Is the articulation of commerce, it is the most potent agent cf civilization. It Is gold that has lifted the nation from barbarism. It has done more to organize society, to promote Industry and insure its rewards, to inspire progress, to encovrage sciene and the the arts, than gunpowder, ßteam and electricity. "The use of gold had its origin In the necessities of mankind. The human heart is set upon it. It will command the proper services of every body at all times and in all plaep. The necessities "which compel its use are as inexorable today as they were in the beginning, although Improved systems cf exchange have diminished the proportionate volume necessary to do the work. "So exact a measure is it of human effort that when it U exclusively used as money It teaches the very habit of honesty. It neither deals in nor tolerates false pretenses. It cannot lie. It keeps its promises to rich and poor alike. "While it has seen human institutions perish and human governments crumble and decay, it Is itself imperishable. The gold that was In Solomon's temple possessed the same qualities as the gold dug today from the sands of Africa. The gold of California and the gold of Australia are precisely the same. It defies the corroding hand of time and the friction of the ages. It is the common denominator of values. It makes possible the classification of labor and the equitable interchange of commodities. "Gold has intervened In the bargains made between men since the dawn of civilization, and it has never failed to faithfully fulfill its part as the universal agent and servant of mankind. But It withdraws from the companionhslp of the bedizened harlot called irredeemable paper money and says to every people, 'Banish her before you look for my return.' It is the oxygen In the commercial atmosphere, and its absence produces financial asphyxia." Senator John J. Ingalls-, in a speech Feb. 10. 1878. Paid: "No people In a great emergency ever found a faithful ally in gold. It is the most cowardly of all metals. It makes no treaty it does not break. It has no friends it docs not sooner or later betray. "Armies and navies are not maintained by gold. In times of panic and calamity, shipwreck and disaster. It becomes the agent and minister of ruin. No nation ever fought a gTeat war by the aid of gold. On the contrary, in th crisis of the greatest peril, it becomes the greatest enemy, more potent than the foe In the field, but when the battle Is won and peace has been secured gold reappears and claims the fruits of victory. In our own civil war it is doubtful if the gold of New York and London did not work us greater Injury than the powder and lead and Iron of the rebels. "It was the most Invincible enemy of the public credit. Gold paid no soldier or sailor. It refused the national obligations. It was worth most when our fortunes were the lowest. Every defeat gave it increased value. It was in open alliance with our enemies the world over, and all Its energies were evoked for our destruction. "But as usual, when danger had been averted and the victory secured, gold swaggers to the front and asserts the supremacy." The Dnnraow Flitch." It is In the ancient town of Dunmow, . in North Essex, England, that every year the high court of love Is held, and wedded couples who live in pace and harmony lay claim to the celebrated "Dunmow fliich." Baron Fitzwalter.who, tradition says, was the lnstitutor of the quaint ceremony, lived in the twelfth century, and to him is attributed the saying, "He which repenteth him not cf his marriage, either sleeping or waking in a year and a day, may lawfully go to Dunmow and fetch a gammon of bacon." It is refreshing to learn that In the present year of grace three couples deemed themselves worthy the award and presented themselves before the Jury, which is composed of six young maiiens attired in white and six very youthful and beardless bachelors. The claimants sit during trial on old fashioned seats "made for two." which, when the award has been made, are hoisted on long stretchers and the lovinjr couple borne in triumph around the race course. Following them come the judge and the advocates in their robes of cince, the crier proclaiming silence with the wonted formula, then the white robed maidens and the beardless boys of the jury, and lastly the chaffing crowd. London Letter. Colombian Stamps. United States Columbian postage stamps are in great'demand by philatelists all over the world, and the stamps of this series that are purchased by collectors form a large part of the daily transactions In them at the Baltimore Dostoffiee. This is especially true of the larsrer denominations, which are seldom ussed on mall matter and are difficult to obtain. The stamps are issued In the denominations of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10. 15, 20 and 50 cents, and $1, J2, J3, Jl and $3. It costs 516.26 to purchase a complete set, but such purchases are frequently made by collectors or their agents. It is easy of course fur persons in this country to obtain the stamps of the smaller denominations. It is a difficult matter, however, to obtain those of the larger denominations unless they are purchased from the government, and it is Haid that when they have been canceled they may be sold here for 75 per cent, of their original cost Baltimore Sun. About a. Popular Ioiprmilon. It is a popular impression that live fish may be frozen stiff and readily revived by carefully thawing them. The Industrial World tells that to test the accuracy of tlys impression a New Haven ice manufacturing company recently placed five live perch in water and froze the water solid. The freezing process took about Flxty hours. As the water congealed from the outside inwardly, the fish continued to swim about as long as they had room to move. The cake of Ice containing the perch was left in a solid state for a day or two, and then cut open and the fish taken out and placed in water to thaw. They were carefully watched for a long time, but none of them exhibited any sign of life to the observant watchers. A Mascot. Ebony Hughes "Don't yo want a boy fo to bait ycr hook?" Luckies. angler "Yes, if you'll guarantee that I'll catch some fish." Ebony Hushes "I done hoped a man las' week, ani he got turned out ob the church fo' tellin do truf about the fish he caught." Puck. An Unfortunate Condition. Wool "What are you sitting there for? Are you badly hurt? Van Pelt (with a groan) "Badly enough for sll practical purposes, but not badly enough to sue the city for damages." Puck. Every woman should know that Carter's Little Liver Pills are a rpecifie for sick headache. Only one pill a dos. A woman can't stand everything.