Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 January 1894 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY ' MORNING, JANUARY 17, 1894 TWELVE PAGES.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO.

S. E. MORS3, I'rcsideat, BEN A. EATON, Vie PrMidaak b. McCarthy. criry sad TrwiNi. (Entered at be roatofflfe at Indian, poll, aa second class matter.) TERMS PER YEAR I Single ropr (la Advance) ft OO Ve "lc druocrali to bear la mind and aelect tfaelr nnn state paper nh' they rorae to take subscriptions and make np elnba. Agents malclac ap rlvbi send for may Information desired. Address Tim INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEU Indianapolis, InA, TWELVE PAGES. "WEDNESDAY, JANUARY IT, 184. Th only mistake which Chairman Wilson has made so far is in postponing the date fop a vote on the tariff bill. What the people want Is roll-call and r.ot talk. .Wry Flmpeon's assertion that the shoddy coat 's a monument to the protective system is about the truest rer.ik ever attributed to that unique statesman. Ohio has just lynched a colored boy. The Commercial-Gazette and the Chicart lnfr-Ocean ought now to make a iw pertinent remarks on race outrages in th South. Tii republican party Is consistent in peeking to steal Hawaii. A pa-rty that would .u-mI the government of a country could not be expected to hesita.te a: stealing a country itself. It is a pleasure to learn that the Indiana delegation Is standing together on th i'K-onr tax question. The Indiana cb-lgation is in ä position to accomplish almost anytliing it sets out to do when it stands together. Th free traders call the Wilson bill p protectionist mea.ure and the prot ti'-nists declare it Is a free trade rru-asviro. In .pint -of fact it is neither, hut is a tariff reform measure, which is tthm the dtsnocaracy had promised the. i-i'iintry. Th country ls doing a great deal of fti. U.ninr just now. Over 1,000 woolen manufacturers have signed the petition f r free wool, but about three-fourths of them have also signed a petition asking ff.r 50 per ctnt. ad valorem duty on woolen goods. Tle American hog1 is Mill with us. The people who object to an income tax fay that the people who receive the incomes will not really pay It that it will be shifted to the price of goods produced or traded in by such persons, and therefor fall on the consumer. It si, what are they complaining about? Why not accept the tax and proceed to shift it? It was not the talented and brilliant "Jil" hanklin who was chosen a memb?r of the democratic elate central committee from the First district, but his brother. 3rf: W., also a most able and brilliant man. In fact, it would be a pretty difficult job to hit upon any member of the Shanklln family who would not fill with honor and ability any office. however exalted, to which he might be called. According to reports from all parts of the Chesapeake bay the church social Is not the only place where oysters are very scarce. The yield of oysters from Maryland and Virginia this year will not exceed 6.OOO.O0O bushels, while ten years ago it was 1S.OO0.000 bushels. The natural supply is all gone and unless the legislatures of both states pass laws that will protect the artificial cultivation of the bivalve the supply will coon cease. The rumored retirement of Secretary CarPsl from the cabinet to accept the presidency of a banking syndicate again calls attention to the fact that honest politic is never remunerative to the politician. Mr. Carlisle has been in public life f-r a quarter of a century; he is able, industrious and reasonably frugal. Yet today he is a poor man and feels the necessity of seeking, outside his chosen life work, the moans to a comfortable old age. That he is poor is a fne tribute to his honor, for during his career on the public stage unbounded opportunity has been offered to men of little conscience to amass fortunes. There are many rich men in public life, but thy have made their money otherwise than out of the honest emoluments of office. It is a prwtty safe assertion that politics offers fewer opportunities for honest fortune-getting than almost any other career that an American of brains and energy can engage In. The glass manufacturers are blaming Mr. Thomas Hart of Muncie for the cut In the glass tariff. Mr. Hart denies that he is responsible, but at the same time ays It Is right. He says that the labor cost of window glass making- Is not wer 65 per cent. The Muncie Herald has been interviewing Mr. Hart, who is conceded to be one of the bM informed men In the country, a-nd makes this report: "He pleels guilty to being a democrat with well grounded Jacksonian principles, but as to being a politician he pleads not guilty and his friends and neighbors will bear evidence that he la not a politician. Mr. Hart is heartily in favor of the- Wilson bill and thinks that this country has certainly reached a point where it is time to quit playing the Infant act. As for himself he does ot like to be regarded aa an Infant and declares that with a fair field and no favors he can make glads' against the world. Mr. Hart ha irme of the oldfahiored notions of honesty that tell him It to not fair t tax the masses for th benefit at the few.

FOR REPUBLICAN EDITORS. As the Journal has failed to answer our question concerning the foreign prices of American agricultural and other machinery we now throw the inCuiry open to all republican and other protectionist newspapers in the United States with suitable prizes for satisfactory answers. The question is this: If the Arr.ertcan manufacturers of agricultural implements and other machinery have to be protected against' foreign competition in this country, how do they compete with foreign manufacturers abroad unless they sell at lover prices abroad than at home? We presume that no protectionist paper will question that these manufacturers must be protected from foreign competition, or the foreign manufacturers will send In their products of pauper labor, undersell our manufacturers and force them to reduce the wages of the American workingman. That those same protected American manufacturers do export their poods and sell them in foreign markets in competition with foreign manufacturers will not be questioned. The official reports of our government show the following exports, among others, of this class for the year 1S92: Mowers and reapers and parts of $2.372.93 Plows and cultivators and parts of 3P7,73. All other agricultural implements 1.024. 310 Carriages, horse cars, etc 1.011.17' Saws and tools 1.0OO.4I4 Sewing machines 3,1 S.PO:! Stationary cnerincs --".-"' Boilers MS.iv-, Stoves, ranges, etc 'JÜ'i.fMl Machinery not specified 10,2:,213 Other manufactures of iron and steel S.S77,fi6 Total ?2r..fo.rj41 What we want to know is. how, under the above-mentioned conditions. do those American manufacturers sell these goods in foreign markets, in competition with foreign manufacturers, unless they sell at lower prices abroad than they do here? We presume that all reliable protectionist papers will, like the Journal, promptly deny that they do sell cheaper abroad than at borne. If this be true there must lw some satisfactory explanation of the method by which it Is done, and this, whatever it may be, has been carefully concealed from the public. In order to induce the publicum tion of the method we offer the following prizes: For the first satisfactory answer $10 in gold. For the second satisfactory answer One world's fair art portfolio complete. For the third satisfactory answerOne copy Shepp's photographs of the world. Fur the fourth satisfactory answerOne copy White House cook-book. For the fifth satisfactory answer One copy "History of the World's Parliament of Religions." In order to prevent any dissatisfaction as to the distribution of those prizes the answers will be referred to a committee of five gentlemen of various political faiths as follows: The Hon. W. P. Fishhack. republican. The Hon. Jchn W Kern, democrat. The Hon. E. I?. Cummings. populist. The Hon. Lucius I?. Swift, independent. The Hon. Ell Ritter, prohibitionist. This competition will be restricted to the editors of protectionist newspapers. They may either print their answers in their papers and send in marked copies or may send them in in manuscript. The successful answers will be printed in full in The Sentinel, together with the report of the committee. If any member of the committee should be unable to act the remaining members will act as a full committee, and a majority vote will decide all questions. Each answer must be accompanied by a coupon cut from The Sentinel's advertisement of this contest, which will appear in our issues of each week during the period of thirty days. No answer will be received after Feb. 15. 1SS4. The contest is now open.

THE RECALCITRANT INC ILLS. Our esteemed friend. Mr. M. E. Ingalls, objects to the Wilson bill, and after a careful study of his observations on the subject we are moved to Inquire what he has been voting the democratic ticket for? His arguments are all republican arguments, and if he believes in them he Is training with the wrong crowd. He has voted for Mr. Cleveland three times, and yet he now rails at him in a style that Is worthy of the New York Tribune. Mr. Cleveland has deceived nobody. He is advocating exactly what he has always advocated. Mr. Ingalls objects to free 'wool, and to what he calls "the great fad of free raw materials." and yet free raw materials, and especially free wool, was the central feature of Mr. Cleveland's groat tariff reform message of 1KS7. Mr. Inga lis has had six years to reflect on the folly of this "fad," and during that time has twice given earnest support to Mr. Cleveland for the presidency. He certainly ought not blame Mr. Cleveland for doing now what he promised the joople of this country he would do, and what they instructed hi in to do by their votes. Neither should he revile Mr. Wilson for doing what he has always publicly declared himself to be in favor of doing. The chief point of Mr. Ingalls's objection to the bill is the free coal feature. He says: "You will hear it said that I am interested in coal, and hence that Is one of my reasons for objecting to; this tariff. I am interested in coal, but only as the president of several railway corporations, a large part of whose business Is In the transportation of this article." It is going to ruin the railroads to have a duty of 75 cents a ton taken off from bituminous coal there is no duty on anthracite We wonder if Mr. Ingalls ever reflet ted how utterly ridiculous this proposition is? Suppose that free coal meant that every coal mine in the country had to shut down, though in fact- It would not shut down one. How could this affect the railroads? There is no place In the country to which cosl could be brought by anything but railroads except the seaboard. The utmost Injury that could be done to railroad would be

to take away their transportation of coal to seaboard points, and Mr. Ingalls is not transporting any coal there, so far as we rc aware. Will Mr. Ingalls give a bill of particulars of the injury to the Fig Four system that would result from free coal? Will he make a diagram of his objections so that we can see where he could possibly be hurt? The p,ig Four system seems abnormally prcdispos-'-d to ruin. Only a few months since we were informed that the fair and just assessment of these roads for taxation hy the state of Indiana would ruin them. Mr. Ingalls is probably unduly alarmed. We beg to assure him that the only effect of free coal will be to relieve the country in part from the clutches of the coal barons. He thinks that "the saddest right there is in the world" is "men hungry and willing to work for bread, but no work to be had." That is sikI, but we know something equally sad, and that is to see women and children freezing because mercenary coal operators limit the coal supply and put up prices. The people know these gentlemen. No favors to the coal barons.

AN ILLINOIS DEMACiOfilE. Of all the ridiculous demagogues that have spoken on the tariff question Ij?presenitative Hopkins of Illinois is clearly the greatest. His speech on the subject is a tissue of misrepresentation of facts that are known to thousands of living men from actual experience. He paints the condition of farmers in Illinois from 150 to 1S60 in the these extraordinary terms: A fanner with 1G0 acres of the richest land that tlod ever blessed man with would not' produce enough, when reduced to money under free trade prices, to pay his taxes, support his family, furnish himself with a new suit of clothes, and his wife with a calico dress. in those- days there were no carpets on the floor, no pictures on the wall, and no books in the home, sind the rudest kind of furniture was all that could be afforded by even the most fortunate o!).; among the farmers. The soil yielded abundant crops, but there was no market for the com, wheat, and other cereals raised. The strictest economy was the order of the day. The girls and boys in the family wvre all reuuired to engage in the hardest kind of manual labor to help their parents eke out thir humble existence; while Ihree Months" schooling in th winter season at a cross-road school house, reached sometimes by almost impassable roads, was the extent of the educational advantages that were given. The good old democratic days, mentioned as so favorable to the farmer, always bring to my mind the picture of privation and distress through which the fanners of Illlnis were compelled to pass during the p riod it was under democratic free trad control. This is downright falsehood. No such conditions existed in Illinois at the time. On the contrary that decade was the greatest ever known in the history of Illinois for advancement and development. In that decade her great railma. 1 development was made and her P-oplo were relieved of the narrow home market they had and given access to the markets of the world. In that decade farming in Illinois received a tremendous imrtus and the people experienced unbounded prosperity. In that decade the population of the state doubled, rising from 851,470 In to 1,711,019 in 1S60. And notwithstanding this great growth of population the per capita wealth increased from J1S3 in 1850 to JÖOD per capita, a gain of nearly COO per cent. The people of Illinois cannot be deceived by any such preposterous statements as these of Mr. Hopkins unless they are sadly deficient in intelligence. Not satisfM with misrepresenting well known facts, Mr. Hopkins develops his misrepresentation into an absurd piece of sophistry by contending that everything In the way of luxury or comfort that Is now owned by farmers is the result rt the protective tariff. The tariff ich le all the Inventions and cheapened all the processes of produotlon of goods whether protected r not. It built steamships In countries that have no tariff and built railroads everywhere. It discovered the Bessemer process and originated the cultivation of quinine. It invented gas and electric lights. II built school houses. It abolished slavery. It explored Africa. It will discover the north pole if the infamous Wilson bill does not stop It. The only things it did not make, according to Hopkins, are the millionaires and the farm mortgages. We presume he concedes these to an all-wise Creator. AT HOME AND ABROAD. The Journal comes to the front once mere with the threadbare denial that American manufacturers of agricultural implements soil them cheaper in foreign countries than in this country. It has made similar denials heretofore as to other articles. Only a few weeks ago it denied that copper was sold at a higher price in this country than in England, ami we asked it to read the daily market reports in trade Journals and inform itself, since when it has had nothing to say on the subjecL It has been repeatedly shown by the circulars of manufacturers and by the statements of witnesses that numerous articles of American make, and protected by the tariff, are Kold cheaper abroad than at home. It has been shown that along the Rio Grande btisiness firms maintain stores nil both sides of the river, ami sell poods of American make cheaper on the Mexican side than on the American side. And the Journal admits the charge in its statement that manufacturers "showed that the price which were attached to cuts of implements were the nominal retail rate, while tlvise which were represented as foreign prices were the figures tat which they were sold to the trade." Taking this statement as true, they are sold to tlm trade at the same price in this country and abroad, and the trade sells them to farmers here without competition, and abroad with competition from. the pauper manufacturers of Europe. Further than this, it Is necessarily true that thes goods are sold cheaper abroad than at home, or else the whole system of protection Is an absolut sham. The Journal says the manufacturers of thia ocruntry ry "ths. hst

wages in the world." It says that it is necessary for them to be protected and to Fell their goods at higher prices than foreign manufacturers tn order to pay there wagps. Hence they are given the exclusive possession of the "home market" by prohibitory duties. But they arc not restricted to the home market. Hen? are fome of the things they exported in 1SD2: Mowers and reapers, and parts of. J2.r.72,m Fiows und cultivator, and part" of. :',07,7:lö All other agricultural implements... I.e24.210 Carriage.?, horse cirs, etc l,944."ft Saws and tools I.foo.441, Sowing machine 3,1X!.W2 Statinnary engines 227.2T.7 F.oilers Stoves, rantres. etc 2?AUI Machinery net specified 10,229,2?3 Other manufactures of iron and steel 3,877,676 These goods are sold in foreign countries in competition with foreign manufacturers, and for weeks the Journal has been declaring that if the duty is reduced and our manufacturers are obliged to reduce their prices in order to meet foreign competition, they win have to quit business or reduce wages. Why? Why will there be. any reduction If they are not now selling these goods abroad cheaper than at home? We challenge the Journal to attempt to answer that question. Either these manufacturers are aellingf goods abroad cheaper than at home or they could not meet forvign competition, at present prices, fls well at home as abroad. We call Its attention also to the protected copper Industry, in which our exports for 1S02 were $7,22R,S32; to the protected musical instruments industry, in which our exports for 1S!2 wer? $1,164. 6r6; to the protected petroleum and mineral oil industry, in which our exports for 1802 were $44,S05,!W2; to the protected wood and manufacturers of wood industries, in which our ercports for were $23.These people are competingwith foreign labor and foreign capital abroad. How do they do it if they do not sell cheaper there than here?

THE ISS K PRESKNTEI1. Chairman Wilson has presented his bill in a masterly way, so far as his strength jiernutted. him to pro;eed with his speech. He shows the disadvantages under which tho committee had labored because of cowardly democrats "whose zeal for reform is in proportion to the square of the distance from their own localities and their own industries," in addition to ordinary differences. He shows that now above all times the necessity for reform is imperative. The countrj' is prostrate from the results of "vicious legislation" legislation which the people have condemned at the polls, and which the democratic party was called upon to repeal. He shows the deliberate, intentional dissipation of the government's resources by the last republican administration for the purposo of giving an excuse for the continuance of the great burden of taxation on the people for the advantage of the tariff beneficiaries. He shows how the magnificent surplus accumulated under Mr. Cleveland's fonner administration was thrown away, and additional eenses were provided in order to prevent another surplus from being accumulated by a frugal and economical administration. One cannot refrain from wishing that Mr. Wilson's strength had permitted the completion of this clear exposition of the question. In only one point is any statement made by him susceptible of misinterpretation. He says: I do not believe that those who voted to put the list administration in power expected any revision from it, in the direction of increasing rates. The campaign of 1SS was fought on the question of reforming and reducing the existing tariff, and not on the question of revising and raising the tariff of 1SS3. No single interst in the country, either in congress or elsewhere, had the hardihood to assert that it meant to demand an Increase of the protection, accorded It by the bill of 1$3, and it was only the wantonness of self-greed, rapacity and selfishness, and the knowledge that their demands, no matter how exorbitant, would be graciously recorded, that brought them to Washington In 1S30 to write up, in their own Intends, the successive schedules of the McKinley bill. Under the operation of that bill, taxes in every one of the important schedules have leen mercilessly and needlessly increased. It is doubtless true that many persons who voted the republican ticket in 18SS had no belief that the republicans would increase tariff rates as they did in the McKinley law, but the platform of the iarty certainly declared that they would. It declared that the republicans would "effect all needed reduction of the national revenue" by repealing the taxes on tobacco and spirits used in the arts, "and by such revision of the tariff laws as will tend to check imports of such articles as are produced by our people." There Is only one way to do that, and that is to Increase duties. The platform further said that if further reduction were needed they would repeal all internal revenue taxes "rather than the surrender of any jwirt of our protective system." The McKinley law carried out that platform. Of course many republicans did not anticipate that the party would do what the platform said, and this was shown by the terrific revolutions of iMO and 1W2. The protective lenefiiaries understofxi it, and they demanded and obtained their pound of flesh, as Mr. Wilson says. The tarilT issue has not only been fully disc ussed before the people, but the republican ride of it has been tried and rejected. What is wanted now is the democratic side as presented to the people and Indorsed by them. A SALOON-KEEPER'S PLAN. The siloon-keepc r, though a much-berated Individual, is after all Just about an average mortal. He has his good points and his bad. U Isn't half as black as ho is often " painted by the professional temperance orator and he probably isn't sprouting wings as mu h as he thinks he is when sitting in the sessions of the licensed liquor-dealers' league. The saloon-keeper's chief claim to friendly consideration always 13 that he is charitable. And there is much of Justice to his claim. The temperance specialist will' tell yi that the saloonkeeper gives to charity merely to ease

his conscience. But we don't believe it. We are perfectly willing to accord him the credit of acting from the same philanthropic and public-spirited motives which actuate others in relieving distress. A saloon-keeper of Kentucky has hit upon a novel and effective moans of collecting money with which to relieve the prevailing distress. This practical philanthropist is Don Gilberto of Paducah, Ky., who embodies Ids plan in the following circular to his fellow liquor-dealers: I beg my fellow citizens, as well as those who are in the same occupation as myself, to take and read this carefully and let us join our hearts and minds together and show to the world that if we are handling an evil that must be handled, as long as there is a demand, that we tan do a great good for our noble and great country. We have In our city of Paducah sixty saloons, and I ask every proprietor of these saloons to secure a large pallon Jug with a slot In it and, beginning on the first day of January, 1S94. for even' keg of beer that we buy to drop a dime in the Jug. It is customary all over this entire country when we purchase a keg of beer for the agent to ask us. "Take something?" and of course that means a drink. I,et one and all of us say to him: "f;ive us a dime!" and put it In this jug. That will enable us for every purchase of a keg of beer to drop the dime in the Jug. Directly the beer men will be the parties who make this donation, and It will keep men sober behind the bar. There are sixty saloons in our city which average in each saloon the year round two kegs of beer a day. That will be 20 cents a day in each Jug. making a total of $12 a day. We have 313 working days' a year, which will give at the close of 1R34 a grand total of $3,75?. which we can donate to the poor, to be used to the best advantage regardless of creed or color. Remember this will not be alone in oj. city, but I want every newspaper to do a kindness to the poor by copying this plan not only once but several times. Every hamlet, every village, every town, every city, that handles ma't liquors should do likewise, and it will run into millions in large cities. It will clothe, feed :md give warmth to manv thousands of the poverty stricken in a very simple manner. We will not lose a mill by this plan. Will every paier In the laud copy this? Let every man who runs a bar-room stick to the following and have it printed on their cards to hand to their customers, as I have done. "Know all men by these presents," that I have complied with all the requirements of the law, and am, therefore, entitled to retail liquors, etc., at, my place of business in this city, at "The Pelican," 107 S. Fourth, near Broadway. I wish to notify the wife who has a drunkard for a husband, or a friend who Is unfortunately dissipated, to give me notice In writing of such cases in which you are Interested, and all such shall le excluded from my place. Let fathers, mothers, sisters and brothers do likewise and their request will be complied with. I pay a heavy tax for the privilege of retailing liquors, etc., and I want It distinctly understood that I have no desire to sell to minors or drunkards, nor to the destitute. I much prefer that they save their money and put it where it will do the most good to their families. There are gentlemen of honor and workingmen who can afford it, and It Is with them that I desire to trade. I would say to those who wish to trade with me and can afford it. come, and I will treat you gentlemanly and courteously, but setters are not welcome. Respectfully, DON OIEBERTO, Proprietor "The Pelican Bar." The plan outlined in the foregoing is eminently practicable and could be put into operation by the liquor-dealers of this city with, we believe, excellent results. Who will take it up and father the movement in Indianapolis? In the meantime the charitably disposed will feel very much like taking off their hats to good Don Gilberto. CONCENTRATION OF WEALTH. In the current number of the Political Science Quarterly Mr. George K. Holmes presents some estimates of the distribution of wealth in this countrj'. based chiefly on the reports of the census bureau for 1S90, of the ownership of property and Indebtedness, which are of much interest In connection with the question of the proposed income tax. By a process of estimating, which Mr. Holmes explains at length, and which is certainly very conservative in character, he arrives at conclusions which surpass all the estimates of the "calamity howlers" that have ever been made In this countrj'. He shows that 9 per cent, of the families In the United States own 71 per cent, of all the property In the country, while the remaining PI per cent, of the people own only 29 per cent, of the total wealth. Of the wealth-holding portion 3-100 of 1 per cent, of the total number of families ow n 20 per cent, of the total wealth, and the remaining 8.97 per cent, of tha families own 51 per cent, of the total wealth. The 3-100 of 1 per cent, includes the class owning over flKiO.noO to a 'amily. As Mr. Holmes says, "thl3 result seems almost incredible," and jet it is more probably an underestimate than an overestimate, for he makes allowances for wealth in excess of debts to the poorer families that are extremely liberal, and his estimate of indebtedness is in some respects apparently too low. He gives specifications of debt as follows: Public debt (national, state and municipal) $ 2,027,170,745 Railroad and other quasipublic corporation debt.... S.OOO.onO.OOO Bank debt 3.15S.976.735 Real estate mortgages 6.000,000.000 Other private debt 1.941.023,2t." Total $1S.027.170,54 The public debt given Is the official census statement. The railroad and other corporation debt is very nearly correct, as most of it is funded and has been tabulated by the interstate commerce commission and other authorities. The. bank debt Is too low. It is known that the national bank debt aJone Is in excess of this amount. The real estate mortgage debt, in approximately correct according to the census figures, which have been published for twenty-two of the states and territories. The privat debt is certainly underestimated. It is Incredible that the unsecured private debt, open accounts, notes, etc.. Is not a t least equal to the private debt secured by real estate mortgages. The known extent of the credit system in this country makes that certain. Hence the estimate of Mr. Holmes is too small, and ot his estimate amounts to an average debt of $300 to every man, woman and child In the countrj. A to the source of the great fortunes the "millionaires" Mr. Holme adopts

as the best authority the New York Tribune list, as follows: Land, and its development 823 Natural and artificial monopolies... 410 Agriculture, ranch stock, sugar, etc 86 Trade and manufactures 2.065 Interest, profit and speculation 5-6 Inheritances S4 Miscellaneous 70 Unknown 2J Total .- 4.027 More Important, however, than the source of existing fortunes Is the accumulative tendency of such fortunes, for, as Mr. Holmes well states, the accumulating power of interest is in the long run the greatest aponpy of concentration, and even now ' it is equal to onetwentieth of the annual product of wealth and one-half of the annual savings." Certainly it is time for this country to call a halt, at least so far as further artificial concentration of wealth by legislative favors is concerned. The protective system of taxation must be abandoned, and a rational Fystem of Income and inheritance taxation be adopted, or we will experience in this coutitry a more intolerable concentration of wealth than has ever been known In any other countrj. ET CETERA.

Wife "What kind of cards do you think make the bst calling card?'" Husband (ab-sent-mindedly)-"Aces." Rochester Democrat. The Ttev. Sum Small's nwpaper. the Oklahoman. which he has Just started at Oklahoma City, is a six-column quarto and democratic in politics. Alexander R. Shepherd, once "Bofs Shepherd" of Washington, is now said to be a rich mine owner in Mexico. He is a man of great Influence in Chihuahua. Bluster "Do j-ou mean to say that I am a liar?" Blister "I hope that I could not do so unpen tlcrnanly a thing. But I see you catch my idea," Boston Transcript. "You say that your married life has been a miserable disappointment. Wasn't it because jou didn't marry the right woman?" "I suspect it was because she did not marry the right man." ISoston Transcript. There is said to be but one British hou? remaining where the old feudal custom is observed of guests and servants all dining together on Christmas night and the dance afterward being led by the hostess with the gamekeeper. The great Parisian dressmaker have a custom of charging a married woman mere for her gowns than an unmarried woman. An American lady In Paris recently commented upon this difference, which she hail observed to the extent of $50 in two dresses identically alike. "Ah!" exclaimed the great modiste, "why not? Madame has a husband to pay her bills, but mademoiselle's dot must be looked out for, so that she may get a husband." Charles Riiabork recentlj- gained admission to the San Francisco almshouse, at the age of ninety-one. He is a New Yorker by birth, and once owned the present site of San Francisco. In 1S2S he made a voyage as a sailor to the Pacific coast, and while there married the daughter of a wealthy Mexican ranch owner, through whom he Inherited the land destined to be so valuable. Hut he was taken away tn Irons by the ship's captain, and lost his chances of owning a city. Later he returned to San Francisco and made much money In mining, which he soon lost. Lately he has been tending sheep on California ranches. Bishop McNierny of Albanj. who died last week, plaj-ed an important part in the delicate and difficult negotiations carried on during the war to prevent the recognition of the confederacy by Great Britain and France. He was secretary of the three commissioners. Archbishop Hughes, Thurlow Weed and Bishop Mcllvaine, who were sent to those countries, and he was the last surviving member of that historic mission. For many jears he kept the records of their proceedings, rich in material of romantic interest, until a few j-ears ago, believing it better that they never be published, he threw them all Into his furnace. There died in Philadelphia not long aso a dancing master who had taught two generations of ladies the graceful art of Terpsichore and whose sprightly old age was a Joj' to all who came in contact with him. Terhaps there is some intimate connection between dancing and longevity. In New York the Dodsworth djmasty has ben sustained by father and son for forty jears, and in Boston the Tapantls, father and son, have instructed the offspring of the Hub's aristocracy in dancing for more than seventy jears. And this In one hall on Tremont-st., frequented now by the grandchildren of the ladies whose feet kept time, when the century was young, to the violin of the eccentric Italian an exiled nobleman, so the report went. A Mjsterlons Floiger. A flower is said to have been discovered in South America which Is only visible when the wind blow-s. The shru b belongs to the cactus familj- and is about three feet high. The stem Is covered with dead, watery -looking lumps In calm weather These lumps, however, need but a slight breeze to make them unfold large flowers of a creamj- white, which close and appear dead as soon as the wind pubsides. Other ThtiiR Didn't Matter. Judee "Am I to understand, mndame, that yo-t want to withdraw j-our suit for divorce?" Won.au "Yes, j'r honor." "But you have charged that our husband neglected you, starved you, and rial treated you most shamefullj-." "If you please, sir, I have just found out that the joung woman I saw him with last week was his sister." N. Y. Weekly. Wnrm Enough. Husband "Why don't you wear vour coat?" Wife "It's last winter's." "It's just as warm now as it was last winter." "True, but I don't need it so much When 1 see my neighbors with new coats I'm hot enough without anj" N. Y. Weeklj'. Vowed to Marty Thirty NVlTrs. At Nagoja, in China, a merchant who Is in his sixty-fifth jear has just divorced his twenty-sixth wife, and is about to many the twenty-seventh. He had resolved when he was young to marry thirty wives, and is delighted thai, he has now cnly three more to marry t keep his vow. Marrlng at Lelsnre. Daughter "Mr. Nlcechapp has a&ked for nij' hand, and I have accepted." Papa "What nonsense! You are not old enough fo marrj-." Daughter "That's the beauty of It. I will have plenty of time to Ink around while I'm engaged." N. Y. Weekly.

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The editor of any protect Ion tat newspnper i rrapert f n II y solicited to forward to our adilrr. In print of In mnn'ript, his answer to the fols lowinsr question: If the American manufacturers 4 nB-ricoltnral Iraprlmmt othev machinery have to he protected ngnfnnt forrlgrn competition In tb-ts eonntry, hoir do they compete wltk foreign minnfurttrer nhrnad unless they sell at lower prices abroad than at homrl The nnswers will he nnhmitted to a non-part !nn com mitte of five, the first five sn tlfnctory answers recf Itc1 will be reworded nn follows! First satisfactory answer J10 la Kold. Seeond iatlufnctorT nnsTrer One I World" Kair Art Portfolio complete. Third sntlsfiictory answer Ono copy Shepp's Photographs of the World. 1 I I'onrth aatlfjiclnry answer One J copy NVhite House ( 011k. ItooU. I Fifth satisfactory nnmcr-Onf copy History of World's 'Parliament of Religion. COUPON. Accompanying answer of Editor of Post office State CDDS Ai9 ENDS. Prior to P"7 tea was sold in England for $.",0 a pound. Cast steel is much cheaper for easting bells than any other mnal. The pearl is only carbonate of lime. Is readily affected by acids and burn3 into lime. Of the bodies cremated In New York state last year 50 rr cent, were those of Germans. The population of Italy is very dene there being 270 poorle to every squar mil? of tenitorj. Norway- ranks second to England tn the number of her sailing vessels C fifty tons and over. The United State is third. Tha first horse was brought to this continent in 151 S. Now there are in tha United States alone 14,056,750. valued at $941,o00,0t'0. Everv Flemish town has a saUflre called the "Kgg Market," where, on certain days, the country people resort and offer their produce to the inhabitants. The Russian orthodox mLsslonarles have 50 failed in their proselytizing efforts amng the Khirgese that th missions will probably be fhortJy withdrawn. An Auckland inventor has constructed a net to catch whales. The mesh is bit? enough for a calf to pass through. It is said to have been already iwvi with great success. In the geological triassl period the Connecticut river valley and perhaps th a whole eastern portion of what is now the NorUi American continent was inhabited by a gigantic species of two and four-footed reptiles. Turrianus is said to hav fashWuned miniature mills "that would run of themselves" so minute that a nVMift could carry one in his sleeve, -et lopwerful that they would grind enough wheat in a single day to make bread for eight nu n. A single match requires from 1-200 ta 1-100 of a grain of phosphorus for its production, yet the consumption of matches is so large that it is estimated, that the total of 1.200 tons is less thau the amount consumed in Europe in their manufacture. Calico printing was Invented in 1670. The number of yards annually manufactured is too groat for computation. One girl of twelve jears emplojvd in the Lancashire mills will make thirty-five yards a clay, and in a year can turn out enough to clothe 1.2u0 persons in India for the same "length of time. The first printers' union of which ther is any authentic reo rd was formed ir London in 1M0, "its ohjeet leing. as th-i charter states, "to correct iri-egularitiesi ami to bring the modes of charge from custom and precedent into one pomt of view, in crdcr to their being better understood by all concerned." i'reentlan Is Heller Than core, and thos who are subject to rheumatism can prevent attacks by keep, ing the blood pure ami f-ee from the acid which causes the disease. For this purpose Hood's Sarsapai ill i is ued with great success.

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