Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 January 1894 — Page 4

THE INDTANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 31, 1891 TWELVE PAGES.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO.

S. E. MOBS5, IreaaUn:, BEN A. EATON, Vic l-jedtdenU b. McCarthy. Secretary and Treasurer. (Entered at tlie Postodlce at Indianapolis as second class matter.) TERMS PER YEAR I Single copy (In Advance) ?l 00 We ask democrats to liear In mind and select their own state paper when they come to tuke subacripioi and muke up rlob. Aicenti r.mkla;? up clubs send for aar information desired. Address TIIU INDIANAPOLIS SEMIXEL. Indianapolis, Ind. TWELVE PAGES. WEDVKSDVY. JMAHV .11, 1894. Germany is still elated over the visit of Bismarck to the emperor. Good fellowship Is always contagious. There la no protective tariff on prizefighters, yet the United States holds her own even against free trade England. The midwinter fair opened auspiciously at San Francisco. All It needs Is a little spell of Indiana weather to be a howlin 53 success. Corbett and Jackson are to fight In England. Gladstone has the opportunity of his life to prove hithself the friend of law and order. A correspondent cf the New York Herald devotes a irolumn to an explanation that the income tax is socialistic. Well, what's tho matter with bolus sociable? If Mrs. Lease goes on hr California farm will she raise rem or the other P'-pullst staple? Kansas City Star. Mrs. Loa so is not going on the farm. tfh will not raise corn. Congressman Feltziioovr of Pennsylvania declares that he is a protectionist, though fd -cud as a democrat, lie is holding office under false pretense. No protectioT,at is a democrat, no matter what he declares hirns-df Dr. Zergler, the German scientist, is of the opinion that it. will bo possible to predict the weather by rnans of photographs of the sun fir more accurately than by a study of the barometer. Circular or elliptical ha Ms rou:.d the orb cf day indicate violent storms. c-pj-eially if the halos ar.- d :rk in tint or of a large diameter. Lightning and magnetic disturt)ances max- also be expected from these signs. N'." Y. i b ra Id. Think of the agonies to he endured by future caU.TS vxhe:t an old resident gets down hi album of weather photographs and explains them! Photographs cf animal.- in nr-Mon are now a great b.H-.n t- artists who study and paint from them. Th nomination of Mr. FVckham for justice of the supreme court gives some ir.tim. ;ion that Mr. Cleveland intends to yi-.- t' xv!-t extent th- national sen;to i-att h" rontrnll d In th-- iu 1 Test of Mr. Ii:i!'s 'ri.-i:!, Maynard. Mr. Pockbam is certainly no less fbn'xious to Ifil! than Mr. Hornblow -r v.as, and as th" 'f w York bar association was prae-ti'-!ly ttnanirr us in its condemnation of Maynard the president cr.n continue sending in names that will be obnoxious to Sen;1 tor Hill until the opposition will be shown up in its true li;?ht. The country will hardly enjoy the realization that the national senate tan be brought to condemn a m.in for standirg up for judicial purity when h? is a candidate for a judicial position. Pome of our republican contemporaries attempt to excuse the Harrison administration for squandering the surplus accumulated by Mr. Cleveland by saying that It was used to pay the government debt. But Harrison did not pay as much debt, as Cleveland did. The reduction of th'- ' -ded debt from March 1, l&S, to V 1. 189. was $3r,,s,O42.S30. while from . .th 1. 1SS9. to March 1. 1S93. It was only $20.1.071.960. In other words, Cleveland paid off $178..9;o,S7n more bonded debt In four years than Harrison did. And that Is not all. "While Cleveland left a hanlsome surplus to his successor, Harrison not only exhausted the treasury, but created a. floating debt of $22.272,051. Nothing could be more extravagant than the Harrison administration. The final overthrow of prohibition In Iowa has hen brought about through a decision of the supreme court that the prohibitory amendment was never legally adopted. The probabilities are that the legislature will repeal the statutory prohibition law. The legislature is overwhelmingly republican and prohibition stood for years as a cardinal principle in the. republican faith In Iowa. But last year the party formally abandoned the principle and elected a "wet" legislature. It was a clear confession that in advocating prohibition the republican party had b"-n actuated by a desir to get votes and not by devotion to a principle. The vote-getting era in the life of prohibition having pa.ssed it was dropped like a hot potato. It is very probable that the republicans of Kansas will follow in the footsteps of their Iowa brethren. V.'e are grieved to note that the Huntir.gton Herald claims to have answered our prize question to republican editors "long ago." by printing statements of manufacturers that they do not 'sell agricultural implements cheaper abroad than at home. That is not an answer to our question. Our question is, how do these manufacturers manage to compete with the products of foreign pauper lalor, in foreign cou-11 tries, if they do not sell cheaper abroad than at home? The H'-rall says they do not sell cheaper abroad. Possibly It can win one cf our prizes by explaining how they manage to compete without selling cheaper. There Is room for competitors. We have not had that deluge of answers, which might reasonably be hoped for, con-idtring-the great number of republican

editors who are certain that the competition is successfully made without any reduction from American 'prices. iniAA horses. Contests of speed upon the racetrack, like athletic sports, have within the past few years been purified until they, have become legitimate means of diversion for the American people. Likewise the proper breeding and careful raising of fast horses has been developed into an established business. Scientific minds have been laboring for years with the many difficult problems connected with the development of the bone, muscle, limbs and vital organs of the horse "as well as the intelligence and docility of the brain of the animal that stands next to man in the graduated scale of the animal kingdom, until its speed has been increased to a degree that has surprised even hoi semen of the present day, and they can say with proper pride in their achievement that they have not been left behind 'in the wonderful advancement the world has made during the last two decades. The horse of today is as far beyond his progenitors as man is beyond his ancestors of even a generation ago. This has been accomplished solely by those who have devoted their time, money and talents to the development of the horse, it having been denied to the animal, in the wisdom of the Creative Power, the ability to evolve by myns of careful study and close comparison the laws which regulate strength, symmetry and speed as well as the powers of endurance which ate the necessary result of h gradual and healthful development. The noble animal, which Is seen upon the race tracks today, full of speed and spirit and entering into the excitement of the race with the same vim and vigor as does its owner, is the pro! net of years of proper mixture of the several strains as well as the result of healthful training and the advantages of proper food and a salubrious climate, and soil. All must ho present or the horse cannot advanc in the scale of development. No country in the world can compete with the PüitH Stat -s in the pioiuotion of tine Ihtsos und no state in the country an equal Indiana in raisin? find devej.-.ping horses for, speed. The East formerly claimed the honor of raisinp the fastest and finest horses and the tricks of New York. Massachusetts and New ,lrrsv enjoyed years of undisputed monopoly. Then the Pacific slope, with its warm climate and ni'lli nalres, expended vast sums upon stock farms and race tracks, but its g!'ry declined and its sun sank h-d-nv the horizon wlun the Stanford stabl s were io,j and th" expensive aggregation of t":n- t k was separated, the greater number coining east of the IJo.ky mountains never more to return. Iowa has been a formidable rial of the effete E.iM and den in? the past few years lndpend --in e lias shone brilliantly in the turf world, but its glory h.i- readied it-' zenith. Chicago has nude strenuous efforts to alttait the fast animals of the country by offering largo purses, but as soon as the purses have been captured the horses have been agoin shipped to their homes. Michigan ha-- entered into the business with sme success and some fast time has b. en made upon the tracks at Detroit, while Cleveland an.l Huffalo have entered the list for the honors. Kentucky, proud under the appellation of '"The P.lue Orafs Country." for years, has been a great state for the production of the finest horses In the country, but for the pp. st few years it has failed to keep pace with its competitors, and even Lexington has ceased to be important as a racing center. During the past two years not a record has been broken upon Kentucky soil. Since the race horse has been developed to its present degree of perfection, when it would almost seem that there was nothing more to le accomplished, horsemen Have been seeking for exterior conditions that would operate as aids to the lowering of records. Pneumatic and ball-bearing sulkies have been tried and found to be successful. This has suggested the unleycle and experiments are now being made with the one-wheeled vehicle. Kite-shaped tracks have been tried with partial success, and horsemen are daily racking their brains to invent additional aids to the arcompliphment of faster time. Speed has now been developed to that degree where one-fourth of a second is worth hundreds of thouands of dollars and the importance of these exterior aids becomes primal. The chief feature to which horsemen have been turning their attention during the past few years and especially during the pa.t racing season is the relative speed of the race tracks of the country, and as all other exterior al ls have, It seems, bven exhausted, the faces of the future will be run upon the tracks that have proved to be the speediest. Experience h;us shown that the fastest tracks must be built upon the most modern principle, upon low, level, toughsodded and marshy ground that affords the proper resistance as well as furnishing the necessary spring, with the top dressing of the proper composition and consistency, and having in addition the necessary facilities for rapid and easy transportation, and being located centrally, that the horses of the East, as well as the West, and of the North, as well as the South, may be attracted. It has now been established beyond controversy that the race tracks of Indiana are the fastest In the country, as the records of the past few years will show. Since 1890 more records have been brokfti, and more world's records have been made upon the tracks of Indiana than uiKn those of all the other states of the country. The tracks of Indianailis. Terre Haute, Evansville, Ft. Wayne, Canibridg- City, Hit hinond. New Albany, Columbus and Vincennes have all been the scenes of record-breaking, and the attention of the world has been drawn to this state as the natural home of fast horses and fast race tracks in consequence. The two fastest records in the world have been made upon the

tracks of Indiana, and It is now conceded, even by the rival associations, that this state must, in the future, be depended upon to furnish not only the race tracks, but the blood as well that will make the records of the future. The racing world has converged to the most central ioint of the whole country,

! where are possessed the finest natural ad vantages of soil, climate and food, as well as the greatest talent and the most liberal patronage, and from now on Indian must prepare itself to take it position in the first rank as the natural home of the raising and racing of fine horses. The famous blue grass of Kentucky is found in this state in even greater quantity and strength than in the confines of our southern neighbor; the tracks of the state cannot be equaled In the world as the past two years have abundantly proved, and the large purses hung up at Indianapolis, as well as at the other tracks throughout the state, and the immense sums that are being expended every year In the business by wealthy men in all parts of the state, show, that Indiana 13 fast preparing itself to accept and carry the honors that have come to her. As Indiana is now the natural home of the trotter and pacer, the same conditions that have made it so should also make it the home of the runner, and by taking steps to attract the runners of the country to hold their contests on the fastest tracks of the world, the state can surpass any other section of the country and witness not only the harness races, hut the saddle races as well. The eastern tracks have been engulfed in trouble and litigation for several years in an endeavor to Keep the runners east of the Alleghenies. but the eyes of eastern horsemen have been turned to the West where superior advantag-.s are possessed and rfiered, ard even now preparations at in course of completion to have the running races of the country come west. Indiana, by a little en-eo-.irasemept, can secure th's and the state will then be the greatest center for horses and speed contests the world lias ever seen. Millions of dollars will be atttiicied in invest nient. sio.-k farms will spring up from one end of the state to the other, the L'ast and the West, the North and the South will every year seivi hundred. of thousands of isitors to the races and wealth and di.tiu'tion will f. liow. The race tra ks hae been cleansed, of their unpleasant features, the rabble, h.a. beon w-ei.i out and in I he future the fraternity will represent th wealth and technical talent of the country without the detracting features that have been presnit in the past. 1111; ni!i;i of tiff iiEFonv. New textile mii's built in 1!2 were 27J in r.u'Kli'T and g; work to "l..Va mip.'nvf s. In IVO only 17J le w nulls were built. riii:g e.upb".-:iv:it to i::.r.e,i operatives. These figure, g.-lliered bv the Hosten Textile World, are th - full r.:eaiire of lis- check to one erf it industrv bv tic- vote for a low tariff in November, lo:. i'hi'ad dphia I'n Is it? What is the malt- r with including the ni'll-s 1hat w ere built afp r the vote v.as iast f..r a low tariff in Mir contcmporat y I.ax.s out two 11,0 iths of '( heck" that it should have include,! if it P-sireii to jnve th" 'full measure." Hut what a ridiculous false pretense this H to be advanced by a. pews pa per that nek's pr't-n: ns to intelligence and fairness, tvery 51-! 11 ie. this country knows that not only the United States, but the whole world was convulsed in 1'3 by a great money panic. It was as disastrous in tariff countries, where no change of tariff wr.s proposed, ps It wn5 elsewhere. More so. In Australia high tariff Victoria stiff "red m "re than free trada New South Wales. High tariff Italy suffered mor than free trade England, although England, like all other countries, suffered greatly. Did a projM-sed change in the tariff make people take their money out of banks? Did it make the Philadelphia and P.opton and New York banks suspend payments and Issue clearing-house certificates? The Press knows it did not. But. further, notwithstanding this great money panic, and notwithstanding all the republican talk that tariff reform would ruin all the manufacturing industries of the country, the fact appears that 172 new manufacturing establishments were built In 193 in the textile industries alone 3 pr cent, as many as were built in 102 when there was no money panic. Does that look like manufacturers were afraid of tariff reform? Would manufacturers have built these new establishments if they had believed that tariff reform would interfere with manufacturing business? Surely no intelligent person can be expected to believe such a thing. Moreover, now that the Sherman law has been reealed, and the money panic is ovc-r, we hear on all sides of the manufactories resuming work. Here are a few recent cnrs: The national tu! company's works at McKeesport, Pa., one of the largest manufacturing concerns in the country, has resumed work. Six hundred men resume work at the National rolling mill at McKeesport, Pa., on Monday next. The works of the American watch company at Waltham, Mass., which have leen closed since last summer, will be oitened on full time and with a full fon-o on Feb. 6. The Franklin brass and bronze company at Derby, Conn., will resume work on Monday. The Kansas zinc company at Girard, Kas., has begun work again with a fourblock plant. The Western file works at Heaver Falls, Pa., will resume next week with 4d0 hands. The Cepps woolen mills at Jacksonville, 1H., has started up with over two hundred operatives. The Durdap carpet mills, tlio largest plant of the kind in the northern part of Philadelphia, are making arrangements to start in a few days with 100 weavers. The largest manufacturer of lamp chimneys In America, George A. Macbeth, of Pittsburg, says tariff reform has no terrors for him. and he won't

bother the congressmen at Washington. He says: "The times are good already, and they're going to get better." His new plant at Charlerol will be started on April 1 and employment furnished for 300 to 40rt men. The new plant of the Sterling cold rolled steel company at Wilson station. Pa., has been put in operation, employing about fifty men. A larger number of men will be given employment In a short time. The Goff steel company Is also In operation at that point. Six shops were started yesterday in M Kee's glass factory at .Teannette, PaPreparations are being made to Ftart tip the Wood woolen mills at Northborough, Mass., in a few days. The Saxonville woolen mills at South Framir.ghani will start up with a full force tomorrowweek. The Abram Cox stove works at Lansdale, Pa., will resume Feb. 5. The Fabcock shoe company, limited, has already resumed there. The East Stroudsburg (Pa.) silk mill, which was closed for a long time during the dull season. Is now running, and the silk business is reported to be improving. Harvey's silk mills at Seranton. Pa., where 300 persons have been put at work and orders Issued for the mills to be run on double time, after an Idleness of everal months; White's Centennial carpet mills in Philadelphia, with a full foroe on full time; James fe Morris's yarn mills, and the High F.ri lge mills in Manayunk; H. C. Jones's woolen mills at Conshohocken, and woolen and cotton mills of J. & S. Les at the same place, and the GraunJy mills at Bristol. If the suspension of business in this country was due to fear of tariff reform why are these mills starting up as tariff reform draws nearer? The proposition that the business depression of 1S93 wa due to threatened tariff reform will have no weight with Intelligent people, and w hen tariff re-form comes, and business leaps ln'o activity in consequence of It. the proposition will have ne weight with anybody.

Ol IX OFF Ei TO TtEPi I5MC V Fl1 Hilt. Our republican contemporaries do not reetn inclined to act prettily in regard to our ofir to them. They not only misrepresent our prop' sition, hut they hurl appro-;-;, us epithets at u. This is not rieht. It hurts oor fe'iugv. and does not answer our question llet-p the Columbus Kepuolio.aa, for example, which says: The T:id'a:i;?no!is S'-utiii'-l offer? a prize to the re'iubiicati editor who makes a satisfactory auswar to the question of how to hi unt for th fact that American manufacturers of aur iciihural implements S'-ll lllclr products at l'HV"r prices abroad I'nn at here-. As we desire to be in on th" ground tloor, v hasten to give :,nr reply to the "nundrum as follows; Th ' SenMncl lies. Our readers all '-now that wo d'd not ad a::y knows i h r,;e ; joti. The u puHie.-ui And yet it gives this false stateine.it to its intelligent readers, and they vill probably accept it as true. ur readers know that an-cocci liiiir, for the pup'"-"c or '.I i-; nuestiop, cxa- ily v cat th'- I ;-mu M'.e.i "l -y! is true. We arc ;;co;i?t; n f or I he :-;tkc of the argument tlii.t the..e no; are tot sold r h.enper pi t r.i, n ct i t ion with the product:: of foreign pauper labor than they aiv In .America where they are protected from that compel i' ion by tariff duties. The pepublic-m i certain that thi.5 is true. Tt believes that foreirners can manufacture cheaper than we can. It has told its rade'-s again and again that if the tariff is remo ed the foreign manufacturers will flood this country with their poods. undersr-U nur manufacturers and force a reduction of American Then it must certainly understand how this foreign competition of our goods occurs without any reduction of price. Why docs It not make a simple, straight-forward statement of the method? What Is the use of misrepresenting our question, and accusing us of lying when we ask a question in which there is not a single assertion of any kind? We ask the Republican "how much is one-half of fifty-eight?'' and it - responds. "You lie." Our contemporary, the Elwood Leader, is equally unreasc nable. It falsely states that our offer Is thus: The Indianapolis Sentinel the democratic bible in Indiana offers a prii'.c to any republican who could answer why American agricultural implements are sold cheaper in foreign countries than to the people of the 1'i.iteel Stales. It has gone to the trouble to f.r statements from several in inufacturers w ho deny,- with more or kss emphasis, that they de sell cheaper 'abroad, which is nt now in question. The remarkable thing about it -is that the Leader deliberately misrepresents our question and in the same article admits th.it it understands the question, fop it states that it asked each of t'm-Me manufacturers "how can you compete with the cheaper labor of foreign countries?" After receiving their answers it wisely decided to offer no answer to our question. Neverth less we will file the Leader's article with the committee and give it an opportunity to win one of the prizes offered. This contest w ill be conducted on a broad-gauge, liberal basis, and no one will be excluded on any kind f technical objections. ' i i.oum -m i)is;kce. Prize-fighter Mitchell is knocked out, but he has the satisfaction of knowing that he was. not knocked out half so easily as Governor Miichdl. That gentleman had given the most explicit assurance that the tight should not occur in Florida, and the light occurred. The excuse is that the courts en Jut tied Interference with the proceedings, and therefore the executive department could not lawfully proceed. The idea is preposterous, and Governor Mitchell knows it if he knows anything. His legal advisers know it whether he does or not. That question was settled long ago in this country, and there is no reason to believe that Governor Mitchell would have receded from his position in this matter if there. had not been other influences brought to bear than the powers of the courts. On the face of the proceedings the most probable cause of the

back-down was public sentiment. There was apparently a strong preponderance of feeling in Jacksonville in favor of the fight, and the governor, having possibly a view to future political life, deemed it wiser to retire as soon as the action of the court gave him an opportunity to throw the responsibility elsewhere. The occurrence of the incident In the form presented is much worse for Florida than if the governor had never attempted to interfere. It has been shown that a united and defiant "sporting element" in that state is able to override the governor and set the law at defiance. That it has done so by th aid of the courts only makes the matter worse. The "glove contest" excuse as a means of evasion is so thoroughly transparent that it deceives nobody. A prize-fight is a prize-fight, and It makes no difference whether the combatants wear four-ounce, gloves or brass knucks. It is a prize.-tight that has occurred, and every one knows it a brutal and degrading spectacle a violation ef the law. And here stands Florida, with her governor cowed and driven from the field, with her courts conniving with the wrong-doers and promoting the wrong, and her people demanding that the law be violated. What a sorry spectacle for our nineteenth century civilization! What a plight for an American state! Hereafter we trust that governors will either have the nerve to prevent prizefights, when they say they will, or keep their hands off altogether. It will not do to have many such things as this occur In the United States.

M.UtK VOIR I1ALI-OTS HIGHT. The supreme court has made a decision In the case of Sgo vs. Stoddard, which Is of much interest to the entire state. Sego was the democratic candidate for sheriff in Porier courrVv- at the election of 1W2, and tha voters of that county seem to have exercised their ingenuity to see how many wajs they could vote without voting as the law provides. The board of canvassers did not count sixty-five ballots that had been protested, and gave a majority of three to Stoddard. S-go contested and in the circuit court a part of these were counted, but Stoddard's majority wa increased. As the caQe readied the supreme (.-;ivt twenty-five ballots were in coptrov.. rcy. and there were marked in all imaginable ways. Ope ballot bad a lend p"'n d marl; across the name of one candidate. On another a stamp-mark had len erased by a knife and a hole had been scraped th roii eh th ballot. Another is stamped in the square containing the device C'f th- mg!e and alse between the word "republican" and the name of the tirt candidate. Two others were statntod on the rooster and also on each square to the 1- ft of the name cf a democratic candidal". One was stamped on the eagle and alo on the squares opposite tlr iitiiiH S of twei democratic candidates, aifhouch there were candidates opposing them eu II.. republican ticlo-t. Another Wir- stamped 011 the rooster and also t" th" left of cue democratic candidate. Two or three were stamped in squares to the left of places left blank in the prchii it ion ti.-kot, where no candidate had been tioinoiat'd. but properly clsvwher. Fhe were stamped more than o'kc it the larse square containing the party device. The court ("opinion by .Tudpe McCahe" holds that nil of th"se ballots were void as having "'distinguishing marks" under the statute, and. therefore, sustains the statute In the strict construction that was intended by the legislature, and which. Indeed, is necessary for the effective enforcement of the law. It does away with the idea that a ballot Is to be counted if the ' intent of the voter" appears, even if the ballot is marked contrary to law. The court says: Appellant's counsel earnestly insist that though the ballot is not stamped as the statute requires, and In violation of its terms, yet unless there Is proof that the unauthorized or prohibited marking was done by the voter for a corrupt motive the ballot must be counted. Such a construction would be utterly subversive rf the leading idea, thought and purpose of the act. After reviewing the evils of vote-buying and intimidation which the act was intended to prevent, the court emphasiz"S the point that the purpose of the act was "not to afford relief against the fraud of vote-buying and bribery after lis commission," but "to atsolutely shut the door against making merchandise of his vote by the corruptible voter, as nearly as human ingenuity could devise such a plan." This U clearly the intention of the law. and it is gratifying that the court has decided that the law is to le enforced to the utmost limit of the intent. In this case it gives an office to a republican, and. therefore, notice is given that the law will not be weak' nod a particle for partisan purposes Ty the present Inmch. The court and the p-op'e are to be congratulated on the dec ision. niEK SKiAll AM AX ICOli: TA. The decision of the house of represent- ! aUves to put sugar on the free list may j be accept'-d as proof that a majority of that body favor an income tax. That is and has been the real question In issue ; in the light on the sugar schedule. It is ; recognized that a tax of 1 cent per j pound on sugar would raise a revenue of about $40,0i"0,H)0. and that would do away with any need for Income taxation at all. The Income tax as provided for by the bill now in preparation is probably as satisfactory as any measure of that kind can be made. It Is not j necessarily "inquisitorial." If a man makes a true return of his Income there Is little probability that it will be questioned by the officials. If he commits perjury no investigation could be more inquisitorial than he would deserve. The only objectionable feature would be requiring the disclosure of the Income at all, and that is no more objectionable than requiring a sworn statement of a man's propei"ty for purposes of taxation. It is Indeed a triumph of popular sentiment that the sugar bounty has been wiped out, and tho special tax created

for the benefit of the sugar trust by the McKinley bill has been abolished. The whole country will approve these changes. As to the question of removing the tax entirely from sugar there will still remain a difference of opinion among the people, and there is also a question as to the political wisdom of presenting the issue in this shape to the senate. The senate is very clcse politiealiy, and it is asserted on all sides that the protectionists will make their .reat fight against the Wilson bill in the ..?nato. Presumably th Louisiana senators and possibly some oiheis will object to free sugar, and there may be a disastrous loss of strength on that account. It is unquestionabl" that the pni would b--practically ns satisfactory to the great mass of the pe-op'. with a tax of 1 cent a pound on sugar. Hence it may be an unwise thing to rouse opposition on a point that is not material in the opinion of the great majority. The important thing to do i.s to pass the Wilson bill. Even though there may be some objectionable features in it. it is so much better than the existing system that it will be approved by the people.

The latent case of foreign snobbism comes from New York, where Prince Lu den Bonaparte, who is viriting in that city, turned on his heel and left a reception given by Sand.ow alter the hitter's performance because the blue-blooded prince saw in the same room a party of ladies and gentlemen of the highest respectability hailing from Boston. Whether It was the prince's first introduction into respectable society and it proved too much for him or rot is neit known, but the Boston people are naturally Indignant that thay should le conEidered as commoners even by a prince. However, they enn retaliate when the prince, visits Boston, which he is pure to do; they can refuse to run after him and carry him around on th- ir shoulders as New Yorkers are Uo prc:ie to do with all titled foreigners who come to thir citv. ANSWERS TO COKHF.SPOMIFATS. C. M. Butler, Kninhtstown: (1) c'ongrers may pass a law with provision that it is to be in effe t tor a definite p riod, but it cannot bind a sutequ'Mit coic-ress not to repeat it. Any law of rnngr-'S is subject to amendment or repeal by any centres. (?) We cannot say that it would "be b"! for the whole country to have a fuel and settled tanff schedule." " a law coe'd he pas"d that was for the best interests of the whole country it would le a good thing to continue it, but the difficulty to get a law passed which is satisfactory. (Si We do not think a. constitutional amendment prohibiting changes in the tariff uftener than once in ten years would be advantageous. On the contrary, we think it won id he very dangerous to give any one congress power to tie tin country up for t-n y.ars. (Ii We think the section of the constitution giving congress the power to coin mon. y is plai". and that it embraces both pol. I and silv.-r. e. and Co We do jot believe it would he pes. ! I j b to "set the questions of taritf and our circulating me-di-ira at r : t ! y c nsi iimioiial provisions. L. It. Olher, An aua: We un 1 island the meaning of th" l.iW of to be that toad supervisors arc to be appointed by the town.-hip trustees whenexer xacancies occur. The ri'is of the supervisors elected ii the tirst Mop-lay in April. IV'. expire on the first .Monday in April. l-.'t. and their successors should be appointed at that time. i:t ck.tkha. Tiie engine? of a first -class man-of-war cost nearly fr1.'"". B.-lrium was the iirst country to make liypnotisi 1 a crime. The totnb of Mahoniet is covered with diamonds, sapphires and rubies, valued at Jlft.iVrt.01rt. The queen of Penmnrli Is seventy years of age and is one of the finest harpists In the world. In Paraguay, when a (gentleman is introduced to a lady, it is customary for him to kiss her. An Illinois man tiamM Storms has named his three sons Hale Storms, Hayn Storms and Snow Storms. One hundred domestic servants are sacrificed each year in England in the process of xvindow cleaning. Two Scotch scientists have figured oat that power equal to 14" horses would be required to propyl a whale through the water at the rate of twelve mil- s an hour. Woman's suffrage has bejrun in France. The senate, by a vote of isu to S4, agreed to give votes to women engaced in business at elections for tribunals of commerce. Mrs. Mary Coxvden-Clark, compiler of the "Shakspearian Concordance." js living in Italy. She is eighty-five yer.rs old anl was lately described as a "prosperous gentlewoman." Harriet Hosnier. the American sculptor who has lived abroad for a long time, is in San Francisco to superintend the erection of her statue of Queen Isabella at the midwinter fair. Dayton "I thought yon gave rp sxv earing at Ncxv Year's." Peterson "So I did." I ayton "What caused you to start again?" Peterson "Writing '93 instead of 'Id on my letters." Friends of Jen. Uuss--ll A. Alger delight in telling that "he b-;:.'.n life as a barefoot boy." The only pecpi-. on this earth to lay who did not bep-in life under similar conditions are the xvomen. Miss Deborah Knox, who is sail to be a lineal descendant of old John Knox, the Scotch reformer, is preacl.in.T in the country towns of eastern Connecticut and western Ithode Island. Hubert H. Cutting, jr., the young NewYork swell who murri"d the actress, Minnie Seligman, has been totally disinherited by the will of his father, the late It. L. Cutting, who died recently. A man of Winsloxv, M-, dropped a nickel into a slot machine in a ciar store and won a cigar. He lit it and dropped dead. It is not known whether the cigar or the shock of beating the machine killed him. Miss Ida Welt, who studied chemist ry during her course at Yasar college, where she was graduated in is'.'!, has since taken the regular course ft.r doctor in science at the Geneva university, Switzerland, un -1 has passed a brilliant examination. Queen Christina of Spain is the only sovereign who has been up In a balloon, a f-at she performed on the Impulse some years

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sgo. when she happened to drive rear a field in which ba.llcuuiiis experiments were made. No crowned heal has equaled her highness. A woman. Fi.Tty years old. his walked from the Cherokee strip to Puehl,-. Col., a distance of üVi miies. averaging twenty miles a day. M(e v -tit to "the strip" at. the cpenir.g. but couldn't get er.ocga to eat and preferred a long walk to starvation. Harry- B- Smith, the Hr.rotMst of "Hoi-in Hood" end ether comic opera, has just completed a comedy who's subject matter Is rotojng less thrn t -o story of Sh.iksneare's life. Pi the le-t act the first production of "Hair Ft" is shown in the old Glole theater. Louden. Fred Burt. a. Chicago plckpockf t, was so successful in San Francisco that he excited the jealousy of the local talent. S th:ve of them lay for him. stood htm rp for flM. and the police drove; hi-n out f town. They wid tolerj-e ro Interference with hcene industry oe.t there. Charles C G. Winters, a soM'-r who fought bravely in four j.rfat wr. diet in I'crt .Jtrvis lat week tn penury ant Wr.nt. He w.is saved a pauper's burial bjr the generosity of a .-:tI::.;-:i. H servei la the Cri.ne;m. the A nt:o-Prussia 11. the Franco-Prussian and the American civl war. Andrew Jackson's body-servant, a verr ell negro, who is known as Fnela Alfred, is still living Ht .Tacks -n's old home, the Hermitage, near Na: hviHe. He acts a gu'.d to the many visitors and has a great fund of anecdotes about Old Hickory. II 1"? sail to be the only person now living who was at Jackson's deaih-bei. The sultan has a hobby. It is carpentry and cabinet work. Before he came to th throne, and when thfre seemed little prospect of his succeeding to thi heritage of u-mati. he spent a goe 1 djl of tln.e la the joiner's shop, an.l became a fairly skillful woikman. capable of shouldering his tools and earn in;; his living anywhere. William Preston Harrison, one of th sens of the late Carter Harrison of C;dc?so. has gene to Hawaii. He spent a few days in San Fran el sc a and visited the MiiwInt'T fair, of which he is an honorary commissioner. Mr. HarrisDn a t emiia n je-1 his father in his trip a.rouinl the world, but their Itinerary' d""l not tak them to Honolulu nor 1. Sn Fran'sco. Ada Kr-han is a great sue ess in London. Her "Viola" in Sha!;spe trv's "Twelfth Night" has become the positiv e sensation of th" fashionable I.Tdoii s-.-oon. Jtersaron will last until May. when Pure will occupy the theater for si wee'its. Pembardt for forty wfrks and between them Reran will p'jv for twelve weeks. She xx ill pars her vacation In a bungalow built for her in Cunil" -rl.il. d. Ixst summer two poa.ch.ers wer ariesfel. convicted and fined for i.ing In a lak based by the Anl r cl :b of New York. In revenue the pna.cher appea'.e-J the ca. e, and through it the supr. c ourt handed down the order that the law forbidding fish ins: on Sunday in th state of New York must b en fore d and that under it a man is not to be pert.iiitel to f.sh cn los own Kfounds en tl is one day of tha wok. A LKihuu.ne ila.l rith-vlist church recently cot a new mini .-tcr, a youn? man who formerly con I tc'l a rescue mission on the Bowery. Ne-.v Y..rk. 1 urlng hiS firt (icr-viee in the church th organist plaei the ir of "Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-Ay" as a voluntary and there was ahnest a riot. The former pastor denounced "such blasphemy" aud wa in turn denounced by the new pastor, who xvnnted to wake the old church up a bit. A Chicago newspaper re' 1 -irked that Patti sang "lietne. Sweet Hoaie" Kk a novlc. Tin made Pattl mad the way through. : he was so tr.ad th.it she rvoie tha confession that she had been sinking it fo- forty years. The French proverb says "Neither woman nor music should l-o tinted." out Patti V.as thus dated 1-oih. It would be Interesting to Knoxv where this critic hn b.-en "since befo" the xxah." to declare that Pattl xxas a novice in anviliin;. Mark Twain was one - ,,:k -l to ro to th Blii.ir.1 reformatory and give a reeding to the 1m-j,s (here from or.e 01 Ins Ftorie-s. II replied. "Now, that's a ged il-a, for me. Because f have tw-en asked by a literary club to rend down in ihc town. The bo s are unarmed and u.i i-r guard, and it will he perfectly safe for i:ie. Fy wytehmg theai I can eet an Idea of hew sate it's likely to be to read the same tiling to that lub." He gave both rcadir.;.. anl Mill lives. While th fTprssinn. "H.ibf"n' choie". is frequently used, it Is doubtful If many who u.-e it have any ilea of its oricin. Thomas Hobsen was the tir.t man In Encland to let out hackney or road horses, or to t-ec-p what would be known it this country as a first class livery stable. H had a rule from which h wou'1 nevr dex-t-ate. He had no particular stills for Ms hores. and whoever came was obiiuM to take the one nearest the door, nn matter how many there were in the stable, or po without, and this soon gave rie to tiie expression "Ho'i;.n's choice." Alout two years aso th" pestofr.ce Inspectors requested that a EaU"ry be built in the New York po-toflicrt across the sorting and distributive room about twenty feet from 'hn for. from which they could watch susp.-cf-l clerks. It was built and inclos-vi on both sides with hlfnds. Th e'erks c3Üed it th" "spy .-tnery." It wps great fun for th clerk-. When an inptor went Into the calkry the blinds creaked and the sun shimrin through sent his shadow ox.-r the floor b low. TVclerks wo".H 1-vk un ar.'l e a pair of eves watching them a"d would wink st them. A snicker would ro throuch th roof jut as the in-p.c'er ws preparing to do an afternoon's p:-' '" : wstchlnc. much to his dis-rcst. 3 inallv the inspector found that ti;e scher.-, didn't work sni the "spy nailer;." will be taken out. A Madame Clapton has f-een having some, trouble in Pari-- co.irts. Her lir.-t husband, dyimr, J.-ft Icr .!i,,.l(; her se -oi d husbani ooniiuitt-d siMcide six. months af'er bi m::rriace, having tin- xxiio.f Jl'.-i. Ibr third hus'-aii , who has just died, b it prux-rty worth J l .-. lie' intimate friend, Michaud. took to the p,y.r a pap-r which he stated was the dead man's last will. Michaud believed himself to be the. universal locate". The id xx hen open-d showed that every thiug v.as left to the wife. Michaud test.li-1 tl.-t she had b"cn .li-.ii. h. riled. The holy xxas exhumed and traces of arsenic f.und. Tie- widow xvai arrested, but there va not a tt.ice of evidence ngi'lnst her. Sue was then trl.-d for manipulating the will and acquitted. Michaud then brought forward a document in which Madame Gaston was disinherited. This s-J-.e ("re into piece's, but it was put tigethtr s:r.d expert-- testitiol that It Is in Gaston's h.in lv itin-t. Mme. Gaston asserted that Michaud forced it --.nd be has confessed b the crime. This wry complicated case has not yet been d 'c ided.

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