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BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. B. E. MOPS, BEN A. EATON, FrMiJent, Vie Pri4ak b. McCarthy. Secretary anl Tremiaror. (Kntrrnl at the FoatofDce at Indianapolis as ofcond class matter.) TEHMS PER YEAR I Single ropr (1 Advance) ft OO We ask. democrats- to bear la mind and select their own state paper when they come to take subscription and make tip rlnb. Agents ranking up clobs send for ny Information desired. Address THE INDIANAPOLIS SEXTIXEL, Indianapolis, Ind. TWELVE PAGES. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1S93. Th New Tork papers are tili howling vigorously over registration frauds. Wherever there is a general registration, i-ystem there are more election frauds than elsewhere. The Indiana system, destroyed by a republican supreme court, Itv&s the best ever devised. A kiss comes high in Massachusetts Vnder certain oonditlons. A member of Ahe senior class of Harvard university 'recently kissed a pretty maid who was showing him a suite of rooms that he proposed renting. She complained to her mistress, lie was fined $300. Under the Old blue laws a man was fined for kissing his wife on Sunday, so perhaps civilization has made its impress upon New England. ' The late news from Washington puts a more cheering face on the tariff reform JbilL It Is said to have been submitted In the rough to the president and Secretary Carlisle, and Is a genuine tariff reform measure. The president Is reported ready to send la a message on Hawaiian affairs as soon as the silver Question Is out of the way, and this will hold congress until the tariff bill Is ready. There Is. therefore, reasonable ground to hope that congress will do Its tariff legislating before it adjourns, and that the legislation adopted will be of the sort the people want. That is a very bloody story that James Stone tells In this morning's issue of The Sentinel of how he murdered the entire Wratten family. It differs from his other confession in this that he exonerates the six men whom he implicated before. It is difficult to believe him now, although it would seem probable that his last confession Is the more reliable from the fact that he acknowledges that he committed the fearful crime alone and single-handed. He seems to have been under some sort of a religious influence when he made this last statement, which will perhaps stamp it with credence in the minds of some. It Is a horrible affair from beginning to ending. A young woman now a patient In a New York hospital has attracted much recent attention. .cl.e is an unusual victim to the cigarette habit and the use of arsenic In wafers and belladonna. She is one of the most remarkable morphine and opiate fiends on record. Her customary dally allowance up to the time of her being sent to the hospital consisted of sixty drops of fluid extract of belladonna, half a dozen arsenic wafers, 100 drops of Fon ler's solution and ten packages of cigarettes. This beats all the cigarette records of the young bloods cf Indiana. This young woman manages to live while a much more restricted cigarette regime has already killed several youthful Indiana smokers. Bud Stone's confession is not believed In Washington and other portions of Daviess county where he Is well known. He sticks to it, however, that he killed the entire Wratten family. He seems Indeed anxious to establish the truth of what he says In answer to doubts expressed as to the ability of any one man to commit such a hellish crime. The most earnest doubters apparently are those bright detectives who eearched far away from the Wratten neighborhood for the criminals, and who had aroused great expectations on one occasion when It wa stated that they had the murderers corralled in a Dubois county swamp. Stone was Indulging In a quiet smile about that time, and If It had not been for his wife the perpetrator of the crime never would, perhaps, Yiave been known. Yes, we can readily imagine that the unsuccessful detectives would doubt the truth of Stone's confession. It hardly squares with their preconoelvetl theories regarding the crime, Judging from the manner In which they bungled through Daviess, Pike and Dubois counties and managing at last to arrest and Imprison the wrong men. It is estimated that many of the citizens of northern Indiana counties have ennt at least 1200,000 at the Chicago exposition that Is each of many counties will average that amount. As we get lower down in the state the amount grows less. The total of the money spent In Chicago by Indiana people must be enormous, approaching probably million. The Lagrange Democrat says: 'It Is estimated that not less than 3,000 out of a total population In the city and county of over 15,000 have visited Chicago since May 1, 1893. Some of these have been to Chicago dur'ng the summer as many as three times. The number of days spent at the fair range from one day to two weeks. The average time is not less than four days. The very least calculation places the average sum of mony spent by each of the 3,000 people at $-5. Some spent four or five tlms this amount and very few spent I'?, including railroad fare. The money expended all went out of the county." The Plymouth Democrat thinks that $::00,000 was spent in Chicago by Marshall county visitors. Is It any wonder that "hard times" prevail throughout Indl-

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Is stated that 150,000,000 lies piled up in their vaults. Of course this did not all come from Indiana, ut It' shows something of the Immense amount of money spent by visitors to the world's fair. THIXK A1IOIT IT. Now . that the city campaign Is well over, and people can look at the matter with . less, prejudice, it may be beneficial to the people of Indianapolis to consider the reputation the city has secured by the course of the republican papers during the campaign. The Washington Post informs its readers that the election was "a general uprising against dishonorable administration of the city's affairs," and the Burlington Hawkeye points with pride to the fact that "the dishonest administrators were all democrats." To every one who lives in Indianapolis the absurdity of such statements is apparent. There is not a sensible man in the city who does not know that Mr. Sullivan's administration was In fact the first honest one that we have had for years. No one questions it. The local papers that defamed him most maliciously have conceded his honesty and good purpose since the election. Moreover, under our new charter the municipal boards were nonpartisan -each had a republican representative. The police and fire departments were divided as nearly evenly as possible between the two parties. The only complaint made of the political character of these republicans was that they supported the municipal administration of which they were a part. The process by which the Poet arrives at Its conclusion Is peculiar. It says: It was shown by the Journal that the democratic organization had been captured by a set of men who were prostituting the city's welfare to further their personal ends, and the only means the democratic voters had was to Join with the-republicans In wiping out the objectionable administration. This was done and after the election the Journal acknowledged their services of the democrats who deserted the party ticket and admonished the new republican officials that in the future they might look for considerable non-partisan voting In Indianapolis. When such a stanch republican newspaper as the Indianapolis Journal can lay aside political feeling in order to secure municipal reform there are excellent reasons for believing that in the future it will not be so difficult to secure more wholesome local government. This Is extraordinary. The Journal Is a republican paper. It supported the republican ticket, without regard to race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It Is well known that the Journal was opposed to the nomination of the republican candidate on account of his bad record, and did what It could to prevent the nomination of the democratic candidate on account of his good record. If there was any laying aside of feeling, the Journal laid aside Its desire for the welfare of the city In order to secure a political victory. The question which now confronts the republican party is whether the new administration can be held up to the level of the past one. We say this with no ill will to Mr. Denny. He has given some evidence that he desires to improve on his past record. But the fact Is apparent to every' one that It will take hard and careful work to keep his record up to that of Mr. Sullivan. Will he do It? Can he do it? Already there Is a strong pressure put upon him to abandon street improvements by Influential republicans. Will it succeed? Has he nerve enough to do what Is for the welfare of the city without regard to the effect on the men of "Influence" In his party? Mr. Sullivan and his board had the requisite nerve, and we believe It the chief cause of the defeat of the party. But It was right. Have Mr. Denny and his board equal courage? Look at the Issues. The republican papers raised a great outcry about the failure to put a curb and sidewalk In front of the Big Four depot. The new board can have one put there if it desires, but It will not, and no republican paper will say a word about it. They raised a great outcry about the enforcement of the gambling and liquor laws. The new mayor gave orders for their enforcement, but they are not enforced and will not be, and'no republican paper will say anything about It except to pretend that they are. They clamored about municipal extravagance, and yet we now have the new administration Insisting that It cannot get along on the revenues which were sufficient for the old one. We have talk about cutting down expenses and decreasing oh, no, not decreasing, but increasing taxes. The former administration "lived from hand to mouth," you know, and the new one cannot be expected to do that. They maintained that the street car Issue amounted to nothing, and yet irr-.med lately after the election the Citizens' street car company files an amended answer in the case of the city against it, in which it claims everything forever. They claimed there was nothing In the street Improvement Issue, and yet the result of the republican campaign as conducted from house to house 'Is a widespread distrust of one of the bent boards of public works that any city ever had, and n oppo. sit Ion to street Improvements that will be very hard to overcome. There are hundreds of men who have been led to believe that there Is not a foot of Trlnldld asphalt pavement In this city, and yet during Mr. Sullivan's term there was not a foot laid that was not genuine Trinidad asphalt. There are hundreds who believe that there Is a "steal" In the asphalt paving, and yet we get It as cheap as any city In the country, and cheaper than any with only two or three exceptions. There are hundreds who believe that no one can buy Trinidad asphalt unless In the "ring." and yet this city has a standing offer of all It wants at $10 ier ton. To the circulation of such false state ments the republican victory was largely due. Has It benefited Indianapolis? Is there so favorable a sentiment toward progress as there was before? ManlI festly not, and the city is Injured in

the same degree. Kor Is It less Injured by the reports concerning the campaign, derived from republican papers, which are now circulating through the country.' Not only are the reputations of honest men Injured by this talk of dishonest and dishonorable officials, but the reputation of the city which elected and re-elected them to office is also injured. But worse than both of these Is the fact that men who stood honestly and firmly for good government, whose record Is unblemished by any yielding to corporate Influence against the city's interests, have been turned down. The effects if this cannot but be bad. Indianapolis can afford to reflect on this matter. There ought to be a lesson in it.

A. P. A. LAWLESSNESS. The A. P. A. bigotry is fast approaching the stage of bitterness that the leaders of the movement have tried to create among those on whom It makes war. It finds that men who have entered its fold under misapprehension of Its real objects are deserting it, and all the hatred which it has been cultivating against foreigners now turns on these "apostates" and "traitors," and manifests Itself in a way that must disgust all civilized people. An Instance of this kind has just occurred in Denver In the case of Mayor M. D. VanHorn, who has this certificate of character from the Denver News: "He is an exemplary husband and a loving father. He was a union soldier promoted for bravery on the field of battle. He is a Protestant and a native-born American citizen." But Mr. Vanllorn appointed an Irish catholic to office and thereby violated the blood-curdling oath which these political schemers impose on their members, for the chief purpose of the A. P. A. is to get office for the A. P. A., and no greater offense against it can be committed than for an A. P. A. to give office to outsiders when he gets la charge of a pie-counter. On account of this unpardonable sin the order adopted resolutions of condemnation, among which were the following: Resolved, That a photograph or likeness of said traitor be prepared bearing across the breast of said likeness a Roman cross painted thereon, surmounted by the word "Traitor;" said likeness to Im draped in black and hunt; in our council chamber. Resolved. That when his carcass reposes In the arms of mother earth, in whatsoever land, an unknown committee, duly appointed, shall perform the last rite In the name of this council, by marking the place so that all may knew, "ITrre Lies a Traitor." Will our readers consider for a moment two questions? What was the offense? What is the punishment? The offense is obedience to the provision of the Colorado constitution that "no p. rson shall t denied any civil or political right, privilege or capacity on account of his opinions concerning religion." A man who puts his all .'fiance to the constitution of his state higher than his allegiance to A. P. A. rules Is a "traitor," meriting the severest punishment. This is what these people call patriotism. And what punishment do they propose? An act that Is a criminal offense in every state in the union the desecration of a grave. This is what these people call the preservation of American institutions. What a horrible burlesque upon American liberty Is this proclamation of lawless defiance to the very foundations of Americanism. And yet this is the almost inevitable end to which secret societies organized for lawless purposes will come. To accomplish the purpose of overthrowing constitutional liberty lawless methods must necessarily be adopted. Will our readers consider these things and will they reflect on the further humiliating fact that these crimes are done In the name of protestantism? Can any Protestant afford to countenance such things? Can any American afford It? NOT OH All IT Y, IU"T WORK. The meeting at the criminal court room Friday night was the first of a series cf remarkable meetings which will be held from time to time during the winter. It was a meeting of workingmen and those Interested in workingmen to discuss the present outlook for labor and to try to devise some means beside charity for assisting workingmen during the winter. Hard times, depression in business, stringency In money markets and the periodic slow up which comes upon the country about once In twenty years, have had their Innings. The workingmen are the sufferers. Now what shall be done? At the meeting Friday night a proposition was made to hold another next Wednesday night, when the committees' appointed at the first meeting can make their reports. We wish it were possible to Impress upon the minds of every laborer, every property-owner, every capitalist In Indianapolis hew Important it is that the laboring men meet and discuss these conditions. There is no incendiary' denunciation of capital, no ranting against those in better circumstances, no demand that they divide their wealth. The anarchist has no place and the advocate of free land Is promptly suppressed. Indldual opinions are not promulgated and the meetings turned Into a rabid denunciation of the present order of society. All those subjects are dropped and employer and employed meet upon a common basis and give their views of the question at issue. This 1 right. Few people stop to think of the condition of the average workingmen when such a crisis as the present comes upon them. As we have pointed out very many times before, this city Is especially favored as regards com-, fort of workingmen. Many of them own their homes more than the average In most cities and most of their homes are more than comfortably furnished. They have bought these homes In building and loan associations upon the supposition a perfectly legitimate supposition, too that the prosperity and business development of Indianapolis was always going to last. No one told them differently; no one thought differently. Now they are caught with their homes partially

pald for and a long winter without work ahead of them under the present business condition of the city and country. A larger proportion of the more favored ones of the city have never stopped to think of this. They have merely gone on, paid for what they had, subscribed liberally to the c haritable associations, and felt that they were doing their duty. And they were. No one wishes to criticise their action for a moment. Under those conditions it was exactly the thing to do. But things have changed. There has been a period of depressing influences which have tended to suspend business of all sorts for a time. Now something must be done to alleviate distress. What shall It be? That question has been asked over and over for the past few weeks, but no satisfactory solution has yet been reached. A solution must be reached or right here In this great city men, women and children will die of hunger and cold before spring. Some one will say there Is the charities organization. Very well; but remember it Is American citizens we must provide for, not beggars. Remember that the American citizen's birthright Is his independence. It Is that which makes him grand, and noble, and free. We don't want to do anything to destroy that feeling of Independence. Therefore, if you have $25 that you feel as though you could spare to help those who are needy expend it in some sort of improvements about your buildings and pay some of these men for doing the work. Look out that you choose those who have families, for It is doubly sad to see little children suffering for bread, and that In this great, prosperous city. You won't regret your decision to do so. We have the noblest body of laboring men In the country, and it is for us who ire better situated to keep them noble. Give them work and pay them c fair price and you will still permit them to, retain their independence, their dearest heritage, and help them at the same time. This is the only solution to be offered now. Perhaps the discussion of the subject will bring .nit other points, but assistance rendered along this line will be of far-reaching benefit both to the giver and receiver. FOOT ll,I, AM) TIIEOI.OfiY. It has been clearly demonstrated within the past week that foot ball and theology are utterly inconsistent. How was the demonstration effected? Why, the faculty of Princeton college says so, and that ought to b enough to satisfy the most fastidious critic. It Is iseless to think that theologians can ever kick foot ball any more. If they do they can't khk the devil from the pulpit with the Princeton degree behind him. No, sir; no more foot ball and theology mixed. It may be well enough for the ordinary run of students at Princeton to kick foot ball and get all tangled up In a scrimmage, but It soils the theological cloth. The theologians nre too cleanly Immaculate. x They can't kick f..t'ball. No decree has been issued condemning the practice that theologians sometimes indulge of taking a snifter on the sly to brace up their fagged brains. It Is a tremendous drain on tlje theological intellect to search for the meaning of Hebrew words and Sanscrit idioms; but the snifter braces them up. That still goes; but They can't kick foot ball. The common enough system of meeting a few girls on the sly, on the dead quiet, you know, which has been one of the prerogatives of theologians from time immemorial has been passed unseen. There Is nothing about the morality of this thing In the faculty's decree book. The practice can go on indefinitely, but the faculty has failed to notice it up to date. Perhaps Its attention has not been called to It. Perhaps it is less disgraceful than a good, healthy sclmmage. Perhaps there are good and sufficient reasons for allowing one thing and forbidding another, but They can't kick foot ball. The frculty has not yet Interdicted the practice of Indulging in cigarettes and wearing Immense canes with a monocle and other nonsensical emblems of snobbery. All those are still permitted under the rules of a faculty which has set Its foot on the neck of a healthy sport. All these tomfooleries still go, but They can't kick foot ball. The snobbery and utter senselessness of this order is apparent when It Is considered In comparison with some of the evil practices In which college boys indulge and which are unnoticed. The average foot ball player Is physically a splendid specimen of humanity. He Is generally a man of great, fhysieal endurance, and, conseqr ntly, more than ordinary mental power. His scrimmages, and rushes, and tackles have made him bold and fearless and skilled In downing anything he undertakes. He Is powerful with his muscles. In a sound body he has a sound mind, and while he may not be able to conJugate and subjugate Greek verba and Hebrew roots with the same degree of facility that his brother can who never played foot ball, he will still be able to grapple the problems of actual life better than the purely book student, but He can't kick foot ball. The truth of the matter Is that while foot ball .nay appear rough and rude to some who look on. It is about as representative of this life of ours and Its activities as any game ever played. If a man Is not afraid to tackle in a foot ball game. If he Is capnnle of maintaining his position and holding onto the ball in a scrimmage, rest assured, dear Princeton faculty, that he will tackle the more serious problems of the pulpit with the same degree of fearlessness, and the chances are that he will get away with the problem under his arm, too. Retter let him kick foot InR. Muscular Christianity is what Is needed in thels world. The little pusillanimous

coward who stands up in the pulpit and mumbles over the words of somebody else every Sunday will never amount to anything and will always be a mere nonentity. "Vhat is wanted is vigor, and courage, and energy to tackle the problems of life and start for the goal with the biggest one. Give us such mlnlsteis aad the churches will be packed every Sunday. Let them kick foot ball.

HASTEN TARIFF REFORM. The Sentinel voices public sentiment in this part of the country In saying that congress will make a mistake if it adjourns before passing a tariff bill. Of course there may be causes for delay that seem Important from a Washington standpoint, but there will have to be something very substantial to make an adjournment satisfactory to the people at large. The repeal of the Sherman law will do away with the immediate source of the financial troubles, and will relieve the national treasury of the heavy burden of silver purchases imposed upon it by that awful blunder of the billion-dollar congress. But the repeal of the Sherman law will not correct the evil results that have come from the panic that It created. These still exist. Business is cramped, and many men are thrown out of employment on account of it. This stoppage of employment has reacted, because the people have less money to spend, and, therefor, sales have fallen oft In all departments of business. People feel a pressure and instinctively contract their spheres of operations, thereby making the matter worse. It has been a scare, a senseless scare, but the effects produced are as serious as if there had been some basis for it, and the recovery from such panics Is usually slow. What the count ry needs now is a stimulant. It needs something to make It throw off these evil effects quickly. It needs something that will set business in motion. The best conceivable remedy Is the speedy passage of a tariff reform law, and this for two reasons. In the first place it will relieve trade of the heavy artificial burden that has so long been uimn it and give the people the iMMietit of cheeper prcs at the time they most need them. Tariff reform cannot come too soon for that purpose. In the second place it will let manufacturers and importers know the ImisIs on which their business will be conducted, during this administration at least, and enable them to go to work under full pressure. It Is the general exjioctation that the bill will give them raw materials free, or at a very much reduced rate, and this would certainly be a stimulus to every factory owner in the country whose raw materials are taxed by the existing tariff, and there are few that are not. Why not give them this advantage as quickly as possible? We can see no good reason for an adjournment. If the committee on ways and means Is not ready to report the house can occupy itself with other matters until It Is ready, and the senate can certainly find occupation in the bills that have passed the house during the senate's nine weeks' talk. Let us proceed to bvisiness. A TARIFF FOR REVEME WANTED. Nothing more discouraging has come from Washington recently than the report that the tariff bill 1 being delayed by members who demand protection for Industries in their own districts. If this is the idea of tariff reform that is entertained by democratic congressmen they should bring In an indorsement of the McKinley bill, and relieve the country from suspense at the earliest possible moment. That is the principle on which the McKinley bill is founded, and if it Is desired to retain McKinley Ism we might as well have It pure and simple. There Is not a western democratic congressman who asks protection for a special Industry In his district that represents the sentiment of his district. The West does not want protection for Itself or for any other locality. There are probably a few men in every district who want protection for their special Interetts, but the people do not want It, and the people will rebel If It Is given. The country wants tariff reform. It has voted for It. If It does not get it from the democratic party it will get It from some other party. We are Informed by the dispatches that some gentlemen want protection for mica minee. Democrats do not want protection for mica mines or any other kind of mines. If mines cannot be worked profitably why should the people be taxed to work them? The proposition Is unjust and It Is more than unjust. A tariff on mining products Is simply an encouragement to consume the natural riches of the country before there Is a natural call for them. We have been guilty of this folly In our "protection" of pine lumber. The result of it Is that the country Is almost denuded of pine timber, and In a very few years we shall be obliged to Import the lumber that we have been taxing ourselves to keep from Importing. There ought to be no consideration of "protection" In this measure. What Is wanted Is a tariff for revenue. Trepare and pass a bill for that purpose, and the incidental protection It will give is all that is needed for any Industry. Repeal all bounties. If a tariff on sugar Is needed for revenue, put it on. If not, leave It off. The essential thing is to make revenue the central feature of the bill, and to make it so plain that no one can mistake It for a protective measure. It has been supposed that the world's crop of wheat would be short this year. In fact the agricultural department has so stated after an investigation of the subject, but now comes W. II. Marston, who is recognized by New York brokers as the authority on wheat, and he puts a different light on the wheat production of the present year: "I am more than ever convinced that the world's wheat crop of 1S93 is an average one. The estimates of statisticians are of little value

on this subject, as they differ too widely. Beerbohra estimates the production of 1893 at 2.243,000,000 bushels, the Hungarian minister of agriculture at 2,279,000,000 and the Liverpool Corn Trade List at 2.312,000,000. Beerbohm also estimates this year's crop of Europe at 1,333,000,000 bushels, and Dornbusch at 1.224.000,000. : There Is no doubt but the surplus wheat carried over from the previous crops was the largest ever known. At the beginning of this crop year every importing country was 6tuffed full of wheat and flour. The exporting countries were also stuffed. This condition was caused by continued underestimating of the crops and the overestlmatlon of consumption. Our crops of 1891 and 1S92 were underestimated at least 100.000,000 bushels. The large visible supply of . last year shows this conclusively. I am satisfied that the agricultural department has overestimated the consumption by at least half a bushel per capita."

A Chicago paper takes the following for a text to read a lecture to Indiana and her people: Since a party of professionally good women came from Indiana a few days ago to reform the slums of wicked Chicago many have supposed that those great and truly good reformers had been forced to extend their influences outside of their own bailiwicks because nothing was left for them to reform at home. This, it appears, it not the case. While that noble little band of skylarking Spartans has been enjoying low life in Chicago Satan has been busy in Hoosierdom. . Four noble white-cap professional reformers, who did not come to Chicago, but were left to guard the field at home, have Just been sentenced to Jail in Crawfordsville for tarring and feathering and torturing an erring sister. Following the foregoing comes a resume of the Wratten murders, recent white-cap deviltry, the mailing of smallpox scabs from M uncle, late prize fights and train robberies. We must admit that It Is rather a formidable arraignment, and yet much may be said In defense of the people of the state. The sentiment of the state is In decided opposition to white-capism and prize fighting. Several white caps were recently sentenced to long terms of Imprisonment In southern Indiana, Roby has been squelched and the officials of Hamilton county are hunting down the participants In the recent bout at Fisher's Station. The report of the mailing of small-pox scabs is not true. The Sentinel correspondent at Muncie in Saturday morning's paper demonstrated that it is utterly impossible for anyone to use the mails for any such a purpose under the stringent quarantine regulations now prevailing at Muncie. Train wrecking and roboeries are not confined to any one section. They have been of common occurrence from one end of the country to the other. Indiana has been overrun with tramps ever since the Chicago exposition opened and on their way back and forth they have put this state under contribution. Many of the prevailing highway robberies, train wreckings, burglaries, incendiary fires, etc., we think may be traced to the tramp. The Oklahoma scheme for a "government bureau of relief," which made its appearance In the senate Tuesday, seems defective In two particulars. It provides as the duties of the bureau: They shall see to It that the rich and poor are helped along. If a few dollars will help a rich man out of a tight pinch so he can retain his property it shall be furnished. All poor men shall be furnished a comfortable home and the comforts of life provided. If they are able to work, employment shall be found for them; if unable to work, medical aid and assistance shall be found for them; but every person must have a home, well furnished In needful things, plenty of room, food, fuel, lights, bedding, clothing, cooking utensils, etc. everything to make them comfortable. And they shall be furnished with teams, wagons, fanning utensils, tools of any kind, hired help, extra Buildings, payment on property that can't be met, or any article of much value that Is needed to make men self-supporting. Any person - with $5,000 receiving aid shall repay It at the quickest possible moment without Interest. For the purpose of meeting this expense there shall be a direct tax of 23 cents assessed on every person over ten years of age and 10 cents on every $100 real valuation of property. The first objection to this is that it Includes provision for the rich. The result of this would be that the rich, under pretense of need, would take nil the funds of the bureau. The second objection Is that It includes the poor. The result of this would be that the bureau could never get money enough to supply them. In other respects the scheme seems to be a most worthy one. ET CISTKRA. The population of the earth doubles Itself in 260 years. The tongue is like a rac horse, which runs the faster the less weight It carries. The practice of using eggs at Easter Is of Hindoo origin, the eg being in India an emblem of Immortality. The Swiss io8toHlce conveys anything from a postal card to barrels of wine, scythes and bundles of old Iron. There are at the present moment eleven pretenders to the various thrones of Europe trying to make good their claims. Castile soap Is a natural product of the soli of the state of Nevada, Nevada is fast becoming the chief soap producing state of the country. The tallest building in the world Is claimed to bo that of the Manhattan Life insurance company In Broadway, New York. The structure Is eighteen stories high. If you .aim at happiness you will' lose It, and mere happiness Is rather a low aim anyhow. Strive for high development, for living a life of une, and happiness will come to you Incidentally. Fried llnm. It Is difficult to get fried ham that Is nice, sweet and tender, so I have hit upon a way maybe It is not original which insures all these above qualities. I use boiled ham. Just try It. Cut a slice from a boiled ham, lay It in a hot, well-greased frying pan and let It turn a little brown or crisp. I think you'll like it. Shaved thin and fried It Is delicious with lamb's kidneys. I always sprinkle a little bit of sugar on ham or bacon. Exchange. MnrrlHK-. The first blessing which God gave to man was society; and that society was a marriage, and that marriage was hallowed by a blessing. Celibacy Is never commanded, but marriage is. The gift of Eve was that of a wife and friend. Marriage was in the world before sin and hvui been the greatest antidote against sin. Jeremy Taylor.

A PLEA FOR THE POOR.

OLIVE HARPER SCORES THOSE "VYUO OPPRESS THEM. Scathing- Lecture to ladles of Wealth Fair Pay for the Honest Washwomen Those Who Push Mors Guilty Than Those Who Fall. It has always 'eemed to me that specially hot corner should be reserved in the place that some reople say doesn't exist for those who live by grinding the faces of the poor. It is hard enough tc be poor, God knows; to do without the thousand and one things that make th difference between comfort and mlseryi to see loved ones pine and wither foi want of the necessities r.f. life until the machinery stop3 and falls apart and the weary body is at rest. Rut it is not the work that I am com plaining about, for work is right, is honest and should le a pleasure, but It should be paid for, and paid for willingly, and the poorer the person is who has done the work the greater his or her claim for pay. Half the talk about the laziness of the poor and their mwillingness to work hard comes from two causes. One is that a half starved man or woman cannot "put in a day" with the same vim that a well fed one can, and another Is that there is so little encouragement to work when the pay is so grudgingly given. Often even when a poor woman has toiled all day long cleaning paint or washing or sewing she is put off and told that she should have her money next week. I have been brought in contact within the last few years with hundreds of women who had the sam t;ile to tell. They would wah. Iron, scrub or sew until ready to drop with pain and weariness, and when they went to collect their little earnings they were coolly told to wait till it suited their employers to pay. They would not realize, those refined ladies, that these few inmnies or dollars meant food, fire, rent and perhaps medicine or burial. "It was such a small matter." For these very trifles families have been put out on the sidewalk shelterless In the rain and sleet; others have gone three days without food or fire. One woman whom I know took home a large washing which, with part pay on a previous one, amounted to over $1. and the "lady of the house" "was out," and the poor woman went back to lind the sheriff putting her things out on the sidewalk, two of the children being sick with measles. Neighbors afterward gave them shelter for a few days, but these two children have nearly lost thtrir eyesight. Now there is another baby. This woman washed and scrubbed up to the htst day to keep these poor children and is still struggling. Another trouble with the joor '.s that every lady takes it for granted that her ow4i work is the only hard work the poor wash or scrubwoman has to do, sc that there Is always an awful effort to get at thorough cleaning. One tK.r woman told ine that she hated the words "thorough cleaning," for they always meant tiie hardest and most wearing and disagreeable, toil for a dollar a day, and there was not one "lady" out of ;ufl who did not set all the old scrap- and dry crusts saved up for a week before her for her dinner. Then, too, many "ladies" try to reduce the amount of their pay by making them take their castoff garments and old shoes in part payment at least. The haggling over the scanty wages of the poor woman by the same "lady" that pays $2 to $3 for some cosmetic only worth about 10 cents, or some other extravagant folly, is a crime, and one for which I think a punishment as hard as that he bears who kills another in the heat of passion should be the penalty. But if this were to come true we have not prisons enough in the land to hold the women who think they are doing a righteous action in grinding the faces of the poor and "scrimping" on the poor laborer's wages. The utter heartlessness snd lack of common humanity of our "ladles" toward their help passes description. They will load the woman who comes in for a day's washing with enough work to kill a man, and then when the poor back aches and the limbs almost fail they will bring out perhaps a pair of blankets to "Just run through before you go. it won't take a minute." Many persons would look upon a woman as a hardened criminal and would have sent her to prison, leaving the five little children she Is tolling so hard to keep together to starve or be scattered here and there for 'pawning all the "wash" which she had In her house for one of these "economical ladies." The lady went off and left no money to pay for the work when done, and the ioor mother, desperate with her hungry children around her and her angry landlord threatening, pawned the things for Just the amount of the bill. It required the hardest kind of work on the part of sympathizing people to save her from the wrath the rlghteoii3 and religious wrath of the owner of the garments, who can thus find herself guiltless of wrong when she neglects or refuses to pay for honest work. It Is no wonder that women go down to perdition when other women feel that they are doing a meritorious actior In "scrimping" their fernab help. I may be old-fashioned and foolish, but I think that those who push are more guilty than those who fall. OLIVE HARPER. The Purler's .Mistake. A traveling man named Edward Dickenson occupied a sleeping car and dtslred to Wave the train at Syracuse. Calling the porter h said: "I wish to get off at Syracuse. I am a sound sleeper, and I want to be put oJT at Syracuse, asleep or awak-. Now. here's a dollar, but don't forcet nie." "All right, sir, you'll come off the train sure." was the reply. The traveling man settled down to peaceful sleep. At last, waking with a start, he glanced at his watch and found Syracuse must have been passed an hour ngo. Hastily dressihg. he searched the car In no pleasant mood and found the porter at last with one eye closed an i one arm tied In a sling and presenting a demoralized npjearance generally. "Here, you black scoundrel!" he exclaimed, "why didn't you put me off at Syracuse?" The porter gave a teniflei glance at the gentleman as he said: "For the Lawd's sake, who was dat man I put oft nt Syracuse?" California Review. To Remove Grrmf from Multlnir. If you have been so unfortunate as to drop grease upon the matting, do pot try ammonia or lx-nzine or grease extractors. You will only make the spoi worse, savs Jenness Miller. Sometimes brown paper and a hot iron will be effective, but the best eradlcator Is French chalk and lenzine. Cover the sjot thick with the chalk and moisten by sprink ling not pouring the benzine upon It. When the benzine has evaporated, brush off the chalk, and, lo! the spot has van Ishcd also. Thr'Nmiir of It. An old gentleman Uod before a marble statue which wore only the costum of the "nude In art." He slowly spelled the title "P-s-y-c-h-e" and with one) sweeping glance, lie murmured: "Ah, yes! I Ece Physique."--Life. I Care Mrrvonsncaa and Constipation. Dr. Shoop's Restorative Nerve Pilli sent free with Medical Book to prove merit, for 2c stamp. Druggist. -3c. Dr Shoop, Box X, Racine, Wis.