Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 February 1894 — Page 4

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 21, 189 i--TWELYE PAGES.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO.

6. E. MORSS, President, BEN A. EATON, Vies President. b. McCarthy, iettary and Treascrcr. CCatercd at the Postorn.ee nt Indianapolis as second class matter.) TERMS VT.lt YEAR Single ropy (In Advance) f 1 00 IVe mule drmocruli to benr In mind and select their own state paper ssüen they come to take sabscrlptlons ji utl make up clnbs. Agrntf making ap clubs nenit for ay Information desired. Address THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL, Indl.mapoIU, Ind. YELVE PAGES. medm!)v, Fi:nnr.inv 21, is94. It is pleasant to note that the New York Sun gives a hearty indorsement to the Cincinnati Enquirer. Now if the Enquirer will indorse the Sun we will know that the republican win?? of the democratic party is in full harmony. The democratic newspaper men of Indiana met in Indianapolis last week. The Sentinel of that city stated that without exception the reports were most gratifying to democracy and that there was nothing discouraging " any of them. What would discourage democracy anyhow? Delphi Journal. We really do not know, but wc can ussure our esteemed contemporary that the Delphi Journal would not. under any Imaginable circumstances. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat makes a wicked and unjustifiable- assault on the memory of one of America's greatest statesmen by asserting that John Sherman is "in a certain .er.se the Daniel Webster of today." Daniel had his little faults, but he never worked his native' land for the benefit of Wall-st. He was a patriot, an orator and a friend of the people. "Would he wfie in the senate now in the p-a.ee of one of the present Massachusetts senators. "We are pained to hear that the sugar trust will be ruined by the competition cf German pauper laborers, who are kept In, business by a government bounty of about 62 Per cent., unless a duty is put on refined sugar. l'ut if Germany can afford to hire people to make sugar and sell it to us for less than it costs us to make it. why should we kick? Lt Germany pass the sugar, but it may be remembered in this connection that the German bounty ends by express limitation in 1SD6. Notwithstanding the fact that the Wilpon bill Is going to ruin the iron Interests of Alabama, the Birmingham Age-Herald announces in one recent issue that the Birmangham rolling mill company has signed an asreenunt with Its men under which 1,000 men, idle since last July, go to work today; the Morris mining company is preparing to open its mines and start its furnaces; the Shelby iron company has just blown in another furnace at Shelby; the Howard Harrison iron company has Just sold one hundred thousand dollars worth of iron pipe to Austin. Tex. I'nder the circumstances the Age-Herald might drop Its calamity apprehensions for a few days and try to look pleasant. We are glad to record the fact that Farmer Godfrey of Bartholomew county recently avoided being swindled out of a large sum of money by card sharps. That county has paid rather dearly for its experience with this bunco gentry. The latter Is composed of a very oily, accomplished class of rascals, who would deceive the very elect, and when any of our agricultural friends is lucky enough to escape without any losses to their bank account The Sentinel takes pleasure in heartily congratulating them. Detectives say that Indiana and its neighboring states have been swindled out of at least half a million dollars within the. last few years, and this enormous amount has come almost altogether from the pockets of the farming classes. One would Imagine that the gold brick swindle had been so thoroughly exposed that the sharpers had dropped it altogether from their program of rascalities, but only recently it was operated successfully in Michigan. A woman was the victim. She bit eagerly and the venture cost her $5,000 in good hard cash. South Carolina has been running the liquor business on its own .account now for many months and it Is conceded that much money has been mads by the state r by somebody. The newsiaiers of the state are asking the question, "Where has the money gone?" of Governor Tillman, the chairman of the state board of control. In his article on the dispensary system, published In the North American Ttevlew for the current month, he says: I have had prepared tables covering the operations of the state dispensary and of the county dispensaries up t6 th? 2It of October, the end of our fiscal year. A careful examination of thesj figures will show that the dispensary has been more than self-sustaining. The gross sales to consumers for the past four months, under all the difficulties and obstacles, have been JIW,6t3; expenses of state, dispensary, $72. CtiG; expenses of the county dispensaries, $20,034; net profit of state dispensary, .:2.19s; of the counties, $20.23.". "Under the scale of prices fixed by the state board, on whisky now sold in South Carolina, there is a handsome profit. r Xow comes the Charleston News and Courier and asks "Where is the money? Where has 'the handsome profit gone? What has become of this money? 'Not a cent,' it is stated, 'upon the very highest authority, has been turned over to the state treasurer toward the payment of the general expenses of the Mate," and the reduction of taxation, er, was promised by thrt advocates of the dispensary law. Has it all lr-een urM for th hire of the "constables?" Can It he posrible. Indeed, that the doubtful and inadequate services of these officials have cost the state an average of nearly 110. Vfi a month, ami that the dispensary system hzs answered ni better purpose

so far than that of providing them with work and wages! And if the money has not been so used, where is it, and why has it been 'withheld' from the stale treasury

I'tlOÜKESS Ol- niMKTALLlisM. . While, the gold monomctalllsts are crowing over the continued decline of silver, as measured in gold, they overlook the signilieant fact that on the day that silver tou-.hed its lowest price in London wheat did the fame thing. And prices en the average make the same record. Th world is not now confronting the silver question. The gold question is the serious question of the day. How long shall the appreciation of gotl and the depreciation of prices continue? Not long we believe. The world is educating rapidly. Great Britain forced gold monometallism on the world and has been the one great obstacle in the way of restoring bimetallism, but Great Britain is being educated. On Feb. the London Standard said: There is only one way to stay th alarming decline of exchange rates and prices and th tise in the value of loanable capital. India's mints must be immediately reopened. The continued halting between two courses may imperil India's credit to an extent which will paralyze trade, and th government having abandoned th foolish attempt to establish a gold standard, regardless alil; of the conditions of Indian business and Indian indebtedness, the Calcutta government now has no longer an excuse fo keeping the mints shut. And at the same time comes th statement of the Calcutta correspondent of the Jjondon Times: The condition f the money market rapicly approaches a panic. Government securities have fallen below par. The bank of Bengal has twice raised the rate of discount, and several failures of bazaars are said t be imminent. IL is urged that the stringency of, money which Sir David Barbour looked to as necessary to raise the value of the ruiee, is reached, and that Lord Kiniberlev, backed by his credit of fPU'OO.Ooo. could c ntinue to maintain it at almost any vulue. but his abandoning the minimum utterly destroyed confidence, and unless lie can show that he appreciates the. fact that he now controls the situation, distrust will spread. The opinion is universal that the management of the sales of bills should le removed front l.ord Kimherley's hands and entrusted to an appointee in India. A few days earlier came another protest from u British colony in the resolution of the legislature of British Columbia praying the lieutenant-governor to inform the secretary of state for the colonies that in the opinion of the house it should be ordained by international agreement that cold and silver be legal tender to any amount, that the vc'ue of silver in terms of gold be fixed, and that gold and silver bullion in any amounts be freely turned into coin at the state mints. These are proofs that the British world is wakin? to the folly and stupidity of its policy, whose authors Ernest Seyd predicted the world would some day curse. The time is at hand. The only question now is whether the world will wait on Great Britain any longer. The iMHi-y of this administration of forcing foreign action by refusing to carry the silver load alone Is bearing fruit rapidly, but there are many who desire to bring still stronger pressure to bear. A few days ago this movement took shape in an organization .at Boston to advocate international bimetallism and to force it by means of a bimetallic league, on the plan of the proposed Latin union, but upon a broader basis. This is what The Sentinel proposed feveral weeks ago, and what is certain to result if England and Germany do not speedily consent to international bimetallism. The meeting formed a committee to conduct Its work of agitation and education, which is to be by means of th circulation of pamphlets and other literature, and by speeches, lectures, addresses and public; discussions. The chairman is E. Benjamin Andrews, the well-known president of Brown university, at Providence, R. I. The members of the committee who have accepted membership and signed the declaration of views and principles are E. Benjamin Andrews, chairman; Charles H. Allen, Alexander Agassi?:, Oliver Ames (second, Francis Bartlett, Robert Batehellor, Thomas P. Beal, William Bliss, Charles P. Bowditch. I'd ward I. Browne, Samuel Carr, Charles F. Choate, Alexander Cochrane, Robert Codman, Charles IT. Gotting, William W. Crapo, John Cummlngs, Charles II. Dalton, Eben F. Drapier, John M. Forbes, Willlam IL Forbes, Edward D. Hayden, Francis L. Higginson, George F. Hoar, F. W. Hunnewell, Jonathan A. Lane, William H. Lincoln, Thomas L. Llvermore, Charles L. Lovering, Henry Cabot Lodge, John D. Long, Augustus Lowell, Francis C. Lowell, William Mlnot, jr., Francis A. Osborn, Charles J. Paine, Charles E. Perkins, Thomas E. Proctor, Josiah Quincy, Alexander II. It lee, George B. Richards, John E. Russell, William A. Russell, William E. Russell, Quincy A. Shaw, William D. Schioer, Frederick J. Stlmson, Howard Stockton, Nathaniel Thayer, Francis A. Walker, Samuel Wells, Alexander S. "Wheeler, John A. Wheelwright, George Wigglesworth, Moses Williams, Brooks Adams, secretary. This is a strong list, representing the wealth and intelligence of New England, and rich in prominent officials and exofficials. Both political parties are well represented. We bid the movement "God speed," and shall lend a hand to help In this movement from which, as we have shown in the past, the only permanent solution of the coinage question can come. 311. COOI'KR ON TIIK INCOME TAX. Indiana has reason to be proud of the record of her democratic representatives In congress In the present session. TItey have stood up for democratic principles like men. and have exerted a strong influence in the counsels of the lower house. The democratic party of this state is entitled to congratulate itself on having rejected such able and reliable men to represent th state. Among othT excellent speeches that have ben made by theni we note as dserving special commendation the recent rennrks of Mr. Cooper on the income tax. which disposed of the chief objections made to that part of the Wilson bill In a very.

satisfactory way. Said Mr. Cooper: "Some gentlemen say this Is class legislation. All taxes in the nature of them must be classified. A tax on land is class legislation. It only affects land-owners. A tax on horses is class legislation. A tax on any kind of property specified by law is a tax upon those who hold that kind of property; ajid so a. tax on incomes is no more class legislation than any other kind of a tax." This is a simple truth that everyone must recognize. Xo tax can fall with exact equality cn all, and that is the hief objection to a single tax of any kind. From necessity there must be a diversity cf taxation to reach all classes of people in proportion to the benefits they receive from the government, and while each tax is "class legislation" a tax on a class the object of just legislation is that in the aggregate they may form an equitably distribute! burden. Mr. Cooper then took up th assertion of one of the New York members who had declared that he would "never be swayed to the right or to the left by the financial condition of any person who may be affected by a system of revenue." and said: Now, Mr. Chairman, that is not a correct principle. The gentleman is mistaken. He would not have said that if he had stopped to think. In the very nature of the case we must legislate upon the conditions as they exist. Let me give you an illustration. On one sid of a street, in a tenement building packed from cellar to garret, it may hthero are 50') people. On the opposite side of the street is a mansion occupied by one man and his family. Must the Z.nct on the opposite side of the street pay 500 times as much tax üs the man witii the mansion, who occupies it alone with his family? Or should the property lie taken into aeccunt? Is it not as expensive to tale care of this one mansion 011 the part cf the government as to take care of that tenement block? And ought not the one in that case to pay as much to support the government as the .'00? This, again. Is a simple truth cogently stated. Government is not for the protection of the person alone, but also, and very largely, for the protection of property, and our representative proceeded to show that the protection of the United States 1.3 given chieily to men of large incomes. He said: Mr. Chairman, the best way to arrive at a correct conclusion as to who obtains most protection from government is to consider who would be at the greatest loss if government should be abandoned. IIow would it affect your constituents? I will tel you who my constituents are. Most of them are the hardy fanners of central Indiana. T feel that I d " not exaggerate, Mr. 'hnirma n. when I say that if you withdraw the protection of government, if you abandon this magnificent structure which we have reared here, the greatest republic that the world ha.s ever seen, tlie Indiana farmer, selfsupporting, self-respect in sT :md selfmaintaining, will suffer least of all. 1. Applause on the democrat!. side.) There he is. There is his home nestling on the hillside, his .ivies spreading out before him on the plain down to the brook, or the river's brink. He is inured to toil, and accustomed to self-reliance. Now withdraw your government! What becomes of him? He is on the ground. He went there in advance i f your government. He and his investors went there when that was a wild country, inhabited by wild men, and when wild nature held her sway. If he maintained himself then, he can maintain himself new. If as a pioneer, with no other protection than his rille hung over his door and his faithful dog on guard, he could prosper then, he can prosper now. You need hin more than he needs yen. But, if you abandon your government, the government of tht.s republic, what becomes of your stocks, of your bonds, of your corporations, and all of these intangible and incorjoreal rights the machinations of the mind of man that are built up under the protection of government? They will disappear like the airy fabric of a dream. Therefore. I say the men who have Incomes, the men w ho have property of this character, are the most greatly benefited. The, argument Is forc-ibl- and just, and equally so was his specific reference to the committees of congress on foreign affairs, on interstate commerce, on manufactures, on Pacific railroads, on mines and mining and the like, the werk of all of which is necessarily largely devoted to the concerns of the income receiving classes, and so with the committee 011 patents, as to which Mr. Cooper continued: Take away th protection of the government and how could the inventor maintain his right to his patent or to the benefits thereof, and ought he not. .therefore, willingly and cheerfully, out of the magnificent fortune which he has been able to obtain through the protection given to him by the government, contribute for the support of that government? n further illustration I might, go through the whole of the work, which we do here In congress. Mr. Chairman, the principal work done by the government of the United States in the legislative, the executive and the judicial departments, is work whih protects and maintains the lights of men of great means, of individuals who have accumulated fortunes so vast that no narrow limits can circumscribe them, of corporations so great that they have passed beyond the limits of states and extend from one continent's edge to the other. Any man can see these things for himself. We do not mean, and Mr. Cooper does net mean, that the national government fails to extend Its protection and Its benefits to the lowliest of its citizens, but it does much more for the wealthy simply because they have more to le protected. The fact that the United States courts have jurisdiction in matters concerning national banks, interstate commerce, patents and in suit between citizens of different states necessarily results In their attention being chiefly occupied by the income receiving class, and It is as just that this class should bear a proportional share of the expense of the national government as that vehicles should be taxed to repair the streets, which they use and wear out. It -Is the simple justice of paying for what you get, and that principle is becoming more popular In the United States every day. Till COl.NTH.V'53 ISUKACI. The contest in the senate over the confirmation of Mr. Peckham's appointment as Justice of the supreme court has ended in his defeat, owing to the votes of republican senato.-s having been cast against the confirmation. They have gone on the theory that it Is "good politics" to oppose the administration and promote the factional fight against It, even at the awful cost of delaying the business of the supreme court, building up Hillism Jind Maynardism and strengthening the abominable doctrine that a candidal" for the. supreme bench must be politically acceptable to th most corrupt elements of his own party. PefslMy It Is good pontics, but what a lentflj fall It 13 from the high standing

of the men who once represented the republican party in the senate of the United States'. Imagine Sumner, or Chase, or Edmunds, or Conkling taking such a stand. Surely it must turn the stomach of every republican lawyer in the country to see the senators of his party in alliance with Hill and Murphy to degrade the character of the supreme court of the United States to establish th" proposition that no man must go on that bench who has lived in New York and has lifted up his voice in protest against the debauching of the courts in that state by Hill and his followers. We hope and believe that the president will return to this contest with renewed vigor. As this matter now stands the country can have but one opinion in regard to it. No man should go on the supreme bench who is not personally obnoxious to David B. Hill. No lower standard of judicial purity than that will be acceptable. No man who is riot obnoxious to Hill will be regarded by the i people as a man pure enough to hold this exalted and important position. He must have the certificate of good moral character that David B. Hill is opposed to him. There are plenty of such men In Nw York. Every lawyer of prominence in that state is such a man. The bar of that state has been practically unanimous in the same condemnation of Hillisni and Maynardism that made Hornhlowor and Beckham obnoxious to to him. Let the president semi in their names one after another until the list i.s exhausted, and then he may call on other states for eminent lawyers of the democratic party who have been equally open in their condemnation of the New York Judicial scandals. The Mississippi valley can furnish dozens of them, and we believe there is not a state In the union where every lawyer fit to hold the office d'es not hold the same views. Rush the fight to p. finish, Mr. Cleveland. The people are with you. TIHPIK ON" WOODS. Senator Turpie took the opportunity presented by the bill for the repeal of the federal eh-ction laws to Rive the senate some interesting facts concerning the administration of federal justice in Indiana, He did it in good style, too, as S' nafor Turpie can do when he gets warmed up. There has been enough of this matter to warm tip Indiana demounts whenever the subject convs up. We have all seen it and know it. We have had the national court of this district standing as a valuable adjunct of the republican party for years in several nspocts, and among other things a refuge for republican scoundrels from Dudley down to the lower classes who did the work that he laid cut for them. Mr. Turpie put the case and the. lessons to be drawn from it in these words: We have had a political judge in Indiana now in the succession, much distinguished for his rulings pro and con upon the subject of the.e laws, who has devoted very great attention to the practical administration ft th"in. What is the consequence? The consequence in such a case is that this judge, a man sitting to decide questions of life, of property, of character every day in his court, finds himself in closest alliance with most unscrupulous, the most unprincipled actors in the U cal party politics of Indiana, and that the judge's chambers upon the recurrence of every political campaign become headquarters for the management and administration of the pditical party to which he is allied, and the same feeling pursues such a one from his chambers to the bench. There never has been any ruling in favor of a political opponent indicted In our court; always against him. There never has betn any conviction of a republican fur any political offense In our court not a single one. Eighty republicans were indicted, indicted upon full hearings, upon lav.ful information- and upon full evidence, for violation of the election laws. Th" indictments were quashed, and what is known as the "general jail delivery" occurred in Indianapolis, and all the defendants were discharged. Nv. what does such a j:sdge do? What is his employment? How does he earn his salary? By midnight councils prior to the election held in the judge's chambers. I acknowledge he may pay some attention to other questions and cases pending In his court, but his chief employment, that which calls into action the whole faculties of his mind, is this: to decide how he may make appointments as supervisors and marshals in the different counties to decrease the democratic vote, and how he may make the same appointments in other counties to increase the republican vote. This is the gist of his labors. The consequence is the judge's name has become a by-word throughout Indiana. There is no precinct in Indiana which you cpn visit where you will not find it the subject of the coarsest objurgations on the one band and the coarsest, falsest partisan praise and laudations on the other. It has become a reproach in the eyes of both parties. How can the courts preserve their respect and how can there be that respect for the administration of the law and that projer regard for the law Itself under the administration and management of such a system? We shall do well to sever th courts from what Is called actual and practical politics, to make the distance between them and bummers and healers as great as possible and to separate the ermine I speak of the unspotted and pure ermine to be worn byjudges and their successors to separate that ermine so that no spot or blemish may be raised upon it, so that federal Judges need not be called upon to administer what are called the federal election laws, and not be known only as violent partisans. This Is good democratic doctrine, and it is som? recompense for all the outrages to which the democrats of this state have been subjected in past years to know that two great reforms have come from them. One is the Australian ballot law ef this state, which was the direct result of the Dudley frauds of 1SS3. The other is the repeal of the federal election laws for which our experience was a forcible argument. It Is not altogether bad to suffer and to endure wrong if great good comes of it, and certainly great good ha3 come of the sufferings and wrongs endured by the democrats of Indiana.

The Louisville Courier-Journal resurrects the following prediction of Reyerciy Johnson when the low tariff of 1S1 was under consideration in congress: I venture to say, though not in the habit of making predictions, if this bill passes, the days cf denncratlc progress, forward, upward, every way but downward." are at an end. It will ruin not only the hundreds of thousands engaged in the labor of th land, but th" value of the land itself; It will bring ruin to the manufacturer, ruin to th agriculturist, ruin to the planter, ruin to the public credit, ruin to the peace, comfort and Virtues of the people. We

believe that it will prostrate nine-tenths of the laborers of the land; that it will destroy those who a.ssist us in paying taxes, in building school houses, in erecting churches, and in sustaining the flag and honor of the nation. Plenty will, we think, be succeeded by want; industry and virtue give place to idleness and vice; prosperous villages be made desolate, flourishing establishments perish, public and individual debts increased. I appeal, then, to the gentlemen on the other side of th chamber 1 appeal to them In the spirit and wisdom of their ancestors to forbear. Do. I implore them and you, Mr. President, leave the American- laborer as von

! behold him. peaceful and happy, enjoy ing the reward of honest Jndustry. and feeling the conscious pride that h? is contributing to his country's wealth and power. Drive him not, T beseech you. to want and madness. Leave him as you find him. contented and a good citizen, and we shall return to our homes, one and all. with the blessings of thousands on our heads, and the blessings of heaven on our country. Curiously enough the passage of the bill was followed by the most prosperous period the country had ever known, and the most prosperous for th masses of the people that it has yet known. Nevertheless there ar prophets who are now repeating this doleful prediction, almost word for word, in regard to a similar measure. Prof. Ely, the leading American authority on taxation, says of an income tax: "Is the tariff less inquisitorial? On entering an American port you must open your trunk and exhibit all you have, and in case of suspicion your Aery person is liable to be searched. Is the personal property tax lets inquisitorial? By no means. The income tax asks one question, while the personal property tax, if really iuforced, demands every item of personal property, and involves an exInsure of all assets and liabilities. Anything more inquisitorial cannot be conceived." ANSWKRS TO COR H nSPOVDFATJI. Inquirer, Strawtown Women have full su Afras in Wyoming and Ylorado, municipal suffrage In Kansas, and suffrage on local taxation In Montana. They formerly had full suffrage in Washington and Utah, but this is discontinued. In the former by a decision of the supreme court and in the latter by th Edmunds law. They have school suffrage, to sorae extent, in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois. Indiana, Kansas. Kentucky. Massachusetts, Michigan. Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas. Vermont. Washington. Wisconsin, Npw York. Montana, Delaware. They can also hold school offices in Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Iowa. 'alifornlH, Louisiana and Connecticut. Women vote en questions of government in a certain sep.se by signing petitions for "liquor licenser, strept Improvements, etc., in Arkansas, Missouri and a number of other states. Investigator The term "'uckoo" was use 1 by Edmund Burke, who eseriled "ol. Luttrell, an administration candidate, as "n cuckoo put in a magpie's i:est to suck its eggs." It is not used i: this sense, however, by the witty people of t'ie present, but with reference to the "cuckoo elcck." in which a figure of the bird appears and calls "cuckoo" when tlie clock strikes. In this sense it was first used by Senator Morgan of Alabama, meaning that the person concerning whom it was used was under the influence of Mr. Cleveland, and acted in accord with the policy of the administration. We nhould nay it is about as offensive as the word "mugwump." which had a similar run among rolitleal humorists some time since. Inquirer Certainly a woman can be a candidate at an election for postmistress or for any other ofp.ee that a woman can hold. We believe there h:ve lieeji several cases i.i which women have been candidates, and s".me in which they have be-n successful. There Is no reason why one should nut lie. Such elections are held merely to learn what the people want, and If they want some woman to hold the office they will probably vole that way. We do not understand that any strict rule his beon made that ox-postmasters would not be reappointed. W. M. C. Markleville-In 1STS there was .1 "convention of the Pioneer assoeiatjon of Indiana" in connection with the state fair, and the proceedings are printed in the agricultural report for that year. There were three poems read on that occasion, and the one asked for is probably that by Mrs. Sarah T. Bolton, entitled "The Last Adventure, and Death of George rogue, the First White Settler in Marion County." It will be found at page 4"t of the agricultural report for J?7S. ET CETERA. You can easily fill the public eye if you only have the dust. Texas Sifting. To enjoy a warm spring sit on a hot flat-iron placed cn a chair by your wifeTexas Sittings. "When did her husband die?" East week." "Why is she in half-mourning?" "Oh, they were divorced." Puck. There is no bigger fool In the world than the man who is expecting to get to heaven because his wife belongs to church. Rani's Horn. Ward McAllister asserts that th reason why American heiresses marry foreigners Is tha.t American youths are too busy to marry them. Mark this: You do not attract attention in heaven for your piety every time you buy a dish of ice cream to help the. church. Rani's Horn. Mabel "Do you not think Mr. De I.lttle a man of small caliber?" Grace "Perhaps, but I'm sure of one thing; he's a big bore." Brooklyn Eife. Thomas Bailey Aldrich. being told the other day that a Boston blue-stocking had called him effeminate, retorted, "So I am, compared with her." Lowell. Mass.. the Spindle City, uses the water power of the Pawtueket falls, on the Merrimac, and makes 145,000 miles of cotton cloth every year. In an old church. Ethel "How harmonious the color of everything Is." Margaret "Yes. excepting the sexton. Why doesn't 1 wear stained glasses?" "I know I'm a little irritable, John; but If 1 had to live my life again I'd marry you Just the same." "H'ni, I have my doubts about that." Tit-Bits. "Is the bishop a bread man and liberal In his views?" "Oh my, yes. He's abroad most of the time and in giving his views he is most prodigal." Harlem Rife. The Rev. John MeMiller, a Scotland divine, has announced from his pulpit that he will not baptize children whose parents fail to subscribe to the church fund. Brotherly Love. Paster "Our church is Just like one family." Mrs. Candid "Yes. Indeed! I notice there is a good deal of quarreling among the members." Puck. Lady Juene says that claret Is no longer the only wine drank at London dinners. Champagne has superseded it and the difference In the morning is worse than ever. In a Scotch asylum there Is a woman whose one form of Insanity before she was Incarcerated consisted in having her horses' show of solid gold and nails eating ll Ex-Senator Charles B. Karwell of Illinois arrived In Chicago mort-' than flfty years ago in search of work and. he has resided therA ever rince. He Is row one of th wealthiest residents of that city. A woman lawyer from Detroit h deliver ing lectures before the ladles of Chicago 0:1 parllamentsry proredire. di 4i said to be a pretty woman and n graceful spak?r, and Is rapidly educating the Chi

cago women in the mysteries of roints of order, previous question, etc. She gives an Imitation of the wrong way these things are done in the Chicago city council. The former companions of Mark Twain's boyhood in Monroe county. Missouri, cannot understand Mark's popularity. They, say he was the dullest boy in the county school and the laziest one in the neighborhood. General Grant's book, which he wrote while dying, to leave, as he said, something in the "way cf money to his widow and children, has already paid them "AVV"1. The demand fcr the book i.s still good, and a cheap edition will b published soon. Th Boston Herald tind.) says, referring to the recent convictions of Tamnnny Inspectors of elections: "Whatever may be said about election frauds in New York, it is a fact that in no other slate are they more promptly punished when proven." Baron Edmond de Bothschilds's colony in Palestine shows such promise of success that he has purchased mere land. In ai.corda.no with the baron's request the colonists have all abandoned the use of Yiddish and new speak nothing but Hebrew. Prof. Edward Orten, an Ohio R"ologist. lies been making a careful study of Ihe coal capacity ef that state, and in a recent speech before the Ohio institute of mining engineers stated that, putting the annual demand at 2T..'iO,fi90 tons, which is U.iOPAift more than the amount marketed last year, it would take l.rv years to exhaust Ohio's known coal field''. The "grand old man" of the British navy Is Admiral Sir Lewis Tobias Jones, who recently completed his ninety-fourth year. He is a native of Sligo, Ireland: entered the service when he was eight years old, and was a midshipman when he took part in the bombardment of Algiers, in !!. He succeeded in seniority Admiral Sir Prove W allace of Halifax, N. S.. who was more than VO years old when he died a f-hcrt time ago. Governor Tcter Turney of Tennessee, though seventy years of age, is still an enthusiastic deer ami fox hunter. "I'nele" Tim Dyer of Yinal Haven, Me., has just celebarted his ninetieth anniversary of bis birthday by taking alone and unaided, fishing in an open dory, a halibut weighing oX2 pounds. J. G. Rich of Beth-1. Me., who is now seventy-three years of ate, has a record of having killed seventy-three bears. It Is evident that the American N-tor can do something beside talk. N. Y. Tribune. THE STATE PRESS.

The income tax should be praised for the enemies it has made. Fountain Warren Democrat. There is nothing now left for the federal senate to do but to vote. The country demands this, and it will take nothing less. Seymour Democrat. The effec ts of the pending tariff reform bill are far-reaching. Twenty-four paupers in a New Jersey alms lv-use have struck for more food. Seymour Democra t. The two republican congressmen from this state cast their votes against the Wilson bill. They ought to stay at home hereafter, as they do pot represent the pe,j,o ,,f Indiana. Bluff ton Banner. Th" calamity howl is growing weak and hoarser and the howlers evidently have "frogs" in th"ir throats. The steady revival of business knocks the wind out of them. Bluffton Banner. S we say the denunciations of the high tariff papers at this juncture ar to be taken as a matter of course and they disturb n one. not even the mills that are resuming operations. Ft. Wayne Journal. Seventeen democrats voted against the Wilson bill. And every one or these seventeen democrats was elected on a tariff reform platform. This treachery oupht to be and will be punished. Lafayette Journal. Some times men who run factories find some oie who makes it an object to shut down. In fact it is an open secret that trusts frequently pay some of the factories a. good round sum to shut down. Mumie Herald. The two republican congressmen from Indiana voted against the income tax and a reduction of the tariff, thereby going contrary to the interests of their constituents. What does Indiana want with republican congressmen anyhow? Anderson Democrat. The man who obtrudes his sore head into the councils of the democrat!-- part y in these times when mighty efforts for the general welfare arc absorbing the earnest and enthusiastic approval of the masses, will get It punched. Kvansville Courier. As an evidence that manufacturing has not stopped and that there is still a demand for products, an object lesson was furnished Saturday when four model barges passed this city laden with $1-(V-),Ono worth of manufactured sterl, from Pittsburg, bound for St. Louis. New Albany Ledger. This is the time of year at which many of our democratic, exchanges refer to "Hog Allen." Allen county may be "hoggish" in its demands for office, but cur republican friends about election time think that she gives a. "hoggish" majority. It would be better for the democracy If there was a few more "Hog Aliens" in the state. Huntington Democrat. The meeting of the democratic editorial association at Indianapolis last week was one of the most enthusiastic ami successful midwinter meetings ever held by the association. From all over the state come cheering reports of democratic, harmony and enthusiasm. Democrats realize that this is a life and death struggle with the plutocrats of the land, and they are ready for the fray. Miami County Sentinel. There are evident signs all over the country of the improving prosiects of business. Non-partisan merchants ami manufacturers all concur In testifying to the unmistakable evidence of returning prosierity. Most of the mills, furnaces and othe; manufacturing industries either have resumed or are preparing to rerume oeration.s, and the present outlook is altogether hopeful. The melancholy walls of paid party organs cannot stay the advent of better times any longer. Connersville Examiner. With this issue of the Sentinel closes Its fifty-sixth year. The next number will have ushered in its fifty-sewnth year. This certainly is heritage to be proud of and one that means more than a ripe and useful existence. It means the evolution of the primeval forest, Inhabited by the native red men and wild animals, into beautiful farm land inhabited by thrifty yeomanry and decked with churches and school houses in the mast secluded places. When the Peru Forester, of which the Sentinel is the legitimate successor, was first issued in 1837 the white man was just obtaining a foothold in the Wabash valley. Since then the Sentinel under its various titles has kept pace with the spirit of progress, and today, with no small degree cf pride, the management beholds a monument to wisdom, thrift and enterprise that shall endure as long as the ages. Miami County Sentinel, Feb. 1,".

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An EoKllsh Trareler's Description of (lie Parol Toner of Mlencc. I had heard fo much about the horrors of the Parsl method of entombment that In spite of my perhaps morbid dtshe to see and understand all th characteristic phases of eastern life I was almost nervous as we drove 10 the outer gate of the beautiful garden that Inclose tl.9 last re sting-rlaee of the Pars is who di in Bombay. The dokhma to give the correct name to the round Parsi sepulchera that we call towers of silenc the dokhma is always placed on high ground. '1 he Military reasons for this .-'.re very obvious. A PARS I TOWER OF SILENCE. The surroundings and situation of th Bombay dokhmas are dignified and beautiful. When our carriage stopped, w walked up a gradual rise, gravel paved, and tree-edged, to a vine-covered lodge. Here we wer eagerly seized upon by one of the half-dozen gato3;oeprs wh' are glad to act as guides to th- curious. We went on and up. passing groups of graceful, luxuriant trees and lids of brilliant, ill-assorted flowers. Our guld t-ok us into a little house in whi-h i kept a model of 1b" dokhma. From this ymi learn what the inner construction of every Parsi doKhma i. f"r into ii.j dokhma are you allowed t look. On the bottom .f the l..wvr j: a 1hl!c flooring of lime. A few feet aboe is tho grating uyon which the bodies are laid. This gi-ating is divided into three tiers not above each other, but inside each other. Each tier is divided into ir,e same number of sections. These sections are formed by iron rays thu spring fron the center of the tower to s oujer circumferen e or wall. Hence the apartments of the inner tier are sm alitor than those of the center tier those th tenter tlep smaller than thoya, of th outer. The outer tier Is reserved for tip lodies of men. the inner tier for th bodies of children, and on the center tle the swooping vultures find the 1-odi.-of the parsi women. Only the attendants of tb dkhma are allowed to enter it with the do-id. They pass quickly up a namw aisle tli.it runs from tlie d orvsy and lay the dead lijM-n tiie appointed place. They tenthe sheets rapidly from the body, f.-r i-. tultures are waiting, and they do n t wait lamely, only or,e article left upon the ecrpse the kus'i. The attendants hurry away, and the vultures, w:'!i I horrid cries, nc-h down upon their prey, t The vultures are kept and bred by th attendants of the dokhmas for the purpose of cleaning the flesh from off the I. ues of the Tarsi iler.d. They are only a few hours at the longest in executing their grewsome task. The dokhma i roofies. When the rain falls, it wahe the dust of the crumbling bones down tthe lime flooring. From there it gradually drains away and is absorlKd again iot- the economy of nature in a. way absolutely harmless to the living. A few yards from the tower of silenc is a white stone. It Ls kept dean and shines up fron the green Kras. Nearer the dokhma than this sbu-o no one maygo save Hie dead and professional attendants. It is the stone of parting, the stone of good-bye, of everlastingfarewell. m ltrsiulr. It was nipht. A large, feverish. Cpalinc moon swirled recklessly t brough a turquoise sky. while far below on a dank green pavement, by the Me of a cloomy stone mansion, a melancholy emerald toad, with silver scales and ber I eyes, hnj ped in dramatic, sluggbdi strides. From tli moss-sheal lied brandies of a bare tree iri the luminous distance a seniler owl. witH an evil gleam in Lis topaz eyes, broke th dismal stillness by horrid, discordant, hlack and erray ho. ts. In the oramre chamber of the mansion a lithe, graceful, dnrkh;iirei cir! was brood in 2:. Her lanfcuorous eyes were fixe! as if in dull despair: her midnight trrs.pF wer tossed tn wierd confusion; h-r clear cheks were of unearthly pallor, and lier slim, ei-,-ouent finders clutched in desperate pnssion the olive frreen canton flannel pofa on which she sat. Suddenly she arose. ttrppe-t forward three paces, flung her symmetrical arms upward and cried in a wild but only passably ood shriek: " h. heavens: Edmund Busselt says a woman of my complexion should wear moonstone and diamonds, with while ,hin silk, mid T have only 65 cents to my namel" N. Y. World. A Enropcnn l fopi.i. Th theories ef certain so-ial reformers a re to be seen in actual workinc in the little community of Klinpnberg-on-the-Ntam in Germany. In the neighborhood of thii town are valuable pits of fireproof d.w. which the authorities in days gone by were far-sighted enough to retain as publie property instead of allowing theni to hs o-n-iied by individuals. Thy are worked by the municipality frr the piih!i- benefit. The result is that K lin!rnbrg is ope of the happiest plac?s in Europe. "ot only do the profits on the clay suffice to cover oil ln.-l and imperial taxation, but then is considerable surplus, th" bulk of which is divided among the inhabitants. In addiiion a present of 10 narks Js made tins year to every young man who I beginning his military service. londou News. A Profound I'l)Mol.itll. A little Brooklyn fii'l astonished hr mother the other dav by her proncjrncy in philological pursuit. "Mamma" said she. "there are three kinds of ' by V aren't there?" --What do you mean, my dear?" responded the mother in sui prise. "Wo!!." sweetly lisped the little one. "there's on 'by' when you go by some one on the sidewalk, and" there's another when 'you k to the store to buy something. rit there's by gosh!" The mother was not long in reaching the conclusion that her daughter needed a little careful instruction in the minor morals. N. V. Tribune. Tern porn Mutant nr. The London Times reminds Mr. Gladstone that a good many xears ago lie said that no man should be prime mildster after reaching the ape of sixty. Hut the grand old man can plead in justification of his change of opinion the Ionic of lionedick: "When I said I would die a bachelor I did not think I should live till I were married." St. Louis Globe-Democrat. When Money C onies Especially Handy. Parents shoul-' exert themselves to sav a little money to keep them in old age. It will save their children the trouble and expense of shipping them from one child to another. Old people who are poor peMom have a steady home. Atchison Globe. In tmitur "Ith the Elements. The "cabby" watched the theater door. With determined and malignant air. And he grinned as the rain did pour. For he knew it meant a double fare. Chicago Tribuns. I Cure Nervousness mid Const ipntlun. Dr. Shoop's Restorative Nerve Pills sent free with Medical book to prove merit, for 2c stamp. Druggists, 25c. Dr. Shoop, Box X. Racine, Wis. , 5& owoer.

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