Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 March 1894 — Page 4

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 7. 189-1 TWELVE" PAGES.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL

BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. 6. E. MOR3S. I resident. BEN A. EATON, Vle President. p. McCarthy. Secretary and Treasurer. (Enterrtl nt the Po (office n Indianapolis as urconit clans matter.! TKRJH PKK YE All Single copy (In Advance) 91 0 We ask democrats to bear In mind and eiert their im täte paper vrtien they come to take subscriptions and make up clahn. Agrents making np clnbs send for any Information dei!red. Address THE IXDIAXAPOUS SENTINEL, Indianapoll, Ind. TWELVE PAGES. WKDEnY, MRH 7. 11 t. Mr. Hill should chars? it to "I am a democrat as long the caucus goes ray No senator who aids in de f eating the tariff hill can hereafter declare: "I am H democrat." Senator Hill declares that ;m income tax is unpopular in his state. If so, why docs his: state impose an income tax on certain corporations? The sultan of Turkey's kitchen costs H,OftO auninlly. Evidently the sultan has trouble with his servant girls as do .American housekeepers. Instead of the hous- of commons abolishing the lords a peer Incomes premier. This would Indicate that th campaign Bgainst th hereditary house Is not progressing: very rapidly. It Is noticeable that the papers which have been making mot complaint of th president interfering with congress are now kicking because ho has gone duckshooting while th country is in need of legislation. That Ohio judge who refused to consider a husband's refusal to pot up and light the fires as ground for granting a divorce to the wife, is, beyond a doubt, a married man as well as a just and eaplent judge. The shock-headed. broad-shouldered, thick-limbed youth with a broken no.se is out of date. The nimble-footed, closecropped gentleman with crooked fingers and enlarged knuckles is In vogue. The base ball season is at hand. It is pleasing to note, after the painful exhibition of the past few weeks, that the appropriations bills are farther advanced in the house than is usual Bt this time of year. In the prospect cf an early adjournment much can be forgiven. It is to be h"jed that the officials who are after the dynamiters and seiners will get the iieople that have been in the habit cf violating 1n!' ,jnv at :,,1d about liroad Ripple. There has I tern a vast amount of violation of the fish laws in that vicinity. Indication.-!, even this early, point to a great race meeting at Indianapolis next fall. There is every reason to believe tha.t this city will soon rank among the great racing centers of the country. And jt should so rank, for no better horses ere bred anywhere than right here In central Indiana. It is gratifying to know that the senßte is hearing from the country on the subject of tariff reform. There has been enough foolishness about this matter. The country wants free coal, free iron end free sugar. It wants the income tax. It wants no extension of the bonded period on whisky. It wants action. The time for talk is past. Let the senate jroceed to business. After all this cackling about Galusha A- Grow's majority in Pennsylvania it appears that he received 20,000 votes less than the republican candidate for congressman at large in 1S92. The democratic vote fell off about one hundred and fifty thousand from 192, which is not a very surprising thing to occur in an election of one man In a hopelessly republican state, in an off year. Time and asain women have tried to phoot burglars and failed, though the bullet has generally killed the wrong man, but two Chicago women tried the cld-fashioned and distinctively feminine weapons, a kettlo of boiling water and a broomstick, recently, and put to rout two big. burly burglars. The weapons are within reach of every woman and cannot fail to be effective, if tried. The professional nurse of today has become as distinct and separate a class as th5 physician, though formerly every woman learned to care for the sick and piofessional nurses were few and far between. The advancements of surgery Lave made the professional nurse a necessity, but that is no reason why the modem girl should not follow the footsteps of her grandmother and learn to care for the sick. Physiology and nursing might be taught fide by side, and the medicine chest be a recognized part f every household. Th woman who knows what to do In case of an accident or sudden illness Is a mighty handy person to have Eround. The girl who loves to draw plans of house with delightful closets and conveniences never found In houses planned exclusively by mn, is now turning her thoughts toward th study of architecture. Womn architects are parc, though theie is no reason why women rhouM not find this a valuable field since th most successful architects among men are the?- whose wives assist them in planning the kitchen and other convenient and necessary parts of the house. A woman knowa tha value ot caving

steps Jn housework and draws her plans accordingly. The field is as yet comparatively new to women, but is one in which they could be successful. THE IVEflMON !' THE COMMITTEE. We publish this morning the decision of the com mit too in our prize contest for republican editor. It is signed by John W. Kern. demo, rat; Ell F. Ritter, prohibitionist; E. B. Cummings, populist, and Lucius B. Swift, independent. W. I. Fishtwek. the republican member, after consultation with his spiritual adviser, declined to act with the committee. We regret that his anticipations of a MfsM future life have been found incompatible with an expression of opinion on this question, of any kind, but such being the caje we are obliged to ask cur republican friends to be satisfied with the unanimous decision of the remaining four members, iti accordance with our original stipulation, that If any of the committee declined to ao the remaining members named should constitute the committee, and the decision of the majority should le tinal. And no more representative committee could be named than the one which has acted. Fa-h of the members Is recognized as a leader in his political organization, and his decision nnquost ioii.bly voices the sentiments of his political alii"?. We may, therefore, say that in the opinion of the democrats, prohibitionists, populists and Independents of Indiana, no republican editor has been able to explain his own theory of the effects of protection. We say this i-; his own theory, for, as every one knows, these fai ls are true: t. All republicans tat least all protectionist, republican?) maintain that it is ne-ess-t ry to protect American manufacturers from the .-onipiitini f foreign manufacturers in this country in order to prevent the ruin of our industries. 2. All republicans deny thaf agricultural implements and other machinery are sold by American manufacturers at lower prices In foreign countries than they artsold at in this country. .'!. No republican has questioned or can question the official records which show that large quantities of agricultural implements made In America are exported by American manufacturers and sold iu foreign markets In competition with foreign manufacturers. And yet not a republican editor has been found who could explain how these three things could possibly be true at Die same time. Not one. More than that, not a republican of any kind has been found who could explain it. for if there had been one he would certainly have furnished his explanation to the nearest republican editor and relieved him from the embarrassment to which he has been subjected by this simple question. , And it is not strange that no answer has been given, because none can be given. The assumption of the truth of these republican positions is the assumption of an impossibility. They cannot issibly both be true, and, in our opinion, neither one is Inie. In its effort to defend the outrageous tariff combine in this country the republican party has put itself In a position that is utterly illogical and absurd. The republican press, driven by its taskmasters, the protection, beneficiaries, has taken up lines of argument whi -h arc self-confuting when placed ?de by side before any intelligent man. The editors are obliged to rely on a supposed want of common .sense in the people when presenting such arguments. They are offering arguments for which they have now been obliged, to show they can offer no rational explanation. We pity them. This matter being disposed of, we are now ready to take up the consideration of the question of the actual selling price of agricultural implements and other maclAoery in. foreign markets which the IiOgansport Journal has been asking us to discuss. If It lias any facta or any arguments to offer in that connection we trust it will produce them at Its earliest convenience, and The Sentinel will hold itself ready to answer to the best of its ability. ltOni!IG THE POOR. The Chicago Times is waxing indignant at the system of assessment of property in that city, and well It may, and well may the press and the public in every city in the country follow its example. The people of Indiana made an earnest effort to secure uniform assessment at fair cash valuation, but so inefficient is the administration of the law that in many instances there is almost as great injustice as any that can b? shown in Chicago or any other city where tax reform has not been attempted. The Times shows on the one side property fairly worth $l,00,000 assessed at $1,"3,000 as an example of the assessment of the rich, and on the other property worth $2,000 assessed at $1,743 as an example of the assessment of the poor and middle classes. The former Is per cent, of the actual value and the latter is TO per cent, of the actual value. In other words, the smaller property is taxed over eight times as high as the larger In proportion to its value. In the former case $1,647,000 escapes taxationentirely, and the amount of taxes it ought to pay is made up by increased taxation on the smaller properties of the city. It is merely one way the rich find to rob the ior. It may be surprising to many persons In this city to learn that there are instances almost as aggravated as this in this city under our new law, but such is the case. Take, for example, the Citizens' street railway company. It was bought but a short time since for $3,250,(00 and since then has been bonded for J4.0o0.000 and in addition J.l.noo.OOO of steck his been issued upon it. Nevertheless it Is down on the tax duplicate for only $l,48,305 in the city. The lines outside tli city will-add something i this, but evidently fh property Is not assessed at 50 per cent, of its true value. although there are thousands cf properties asjessed in the city at their full value. The Indianapolls gas company is a5;i for a total of $1,509,00!), of

which J91t.013 Is within the city. This includes also all the property of every description of the Indianapolis natural gas company, which is a sort of department of the same concern. The company's attorney stated to the board of review at the time this assessment was made that the bonds of this company amounted to $:6.'i0,000. In addition it has $;.opo.or0 of stock which is worth $l.r.C on the open market, making the actual cash value of the company's property $V3.'.o,oo. jn other words, it is assessed at less than 2.") per cent, of its actual cash value. The Conrumcis' gas trust is worse still. It is assessed for a total of J"iö2,050, ' being 70 per cent, of its capital stock," and of this $232.725 is within the city. At the time this assessment was made the trust probably had on hand, including its so-called "income account," not less cash than its total assessed valuation, and an investigation would probably sboTv that thf trust was not assessed one cent on its visible property, mains, pas veils, etc. This i?!. of course, an inference, hut we believe that a. thorough investigation would demonstrate it to be a fact. The trust property Is certainly worth as much as the Indianapolis company's property. It reported its receipts last, year at ? 17.3'.r. and it is known that its reciprts in the past have been sufficient to retire ail its bonded debt. The managers claim that they want to pay off the stock, but in fact have been increasing it. On any basis of calculation the trust is not assessed at over 10 per cent, of its actual value. Nevertheless it is impossible to get the tools of these corporations, who are now acting as city fli-ials, to impose a reasonable tax on the mains of these companies, although they claim that the city treasury i empty. And the constitution of Indiana says that taxation shall be "uniform and equal!" What a howling farce our reform city government is, any way! HWfJEHS or OVEItSTt nV. The Chautauquan for February glvs some interesting and tru- facts concerning the dangers and results of overstudy. It says, among other thing: "Wise study, even when severely stinted. is far more effective than reckless reveling in the lore of the ages." The brain must neither be overloaded nop made to go too fast, it must have time and freedom to stow away the best of what is offered to it. Study by artificial light and at late hours of the night is a fruitful source of nervous injury often resulting in dangerous and deadly disease. Many eminent persons have fallen victims to that distressing affliction, insomnia, the legitimate outcome of using sleeping time for exhaustive book study. To avoid overstudy, then, regular physical exercise in the open air and regular deep, refreshing sleep must be had. Indeed, sleep, sleep, sleep, should be the wise student's motto. Every night-hour pilfered from sleep js a hindere nee to strong, vivid, healthful thinking, and a snare for the winprs of the imagination. One of the greatest advantages of college athletics is their tendency to st rength.-u the body and to reduce the dangers of overstudy, but students outside of colleges unforturately do not have the requisite physical exercise necessary to counteract the heated, excited brain during the cramming process. Nearly every student, lawyer, physician or member of any profession whatsoevt r, is a nervous wrec k, ami nearly all brain-workers suffer from insomnia an l are driven to the use of stimulents or drugs to produce rest. It is a very senseless habit to crowd the brain with material for which it has no use. Brick and stone are valuable for building purposes, but one does not fill the yard and sidewalk with piles of them, unless needed for acertaln purpose. One of the greatest faults of the present educational system is that the intense desire on the part of the "fadists" among the educators to produce show work which will bring them a notoriety among other educators, and the result is the cramming of the child's mind with knowledge utterly valueless to nine out of ten. The children cannot stand the strain and break down, and the teacher who wishes to hold her place must keep up the cramming process until she dies from sheer exhaustion. Her days are sixnt In giving out information, and her nights in studying until midnight, until she can no longer see the page. Her Saturdays are spent in attending lectures, and her Sundays in studying. No wonder she is a physical wreck. Her taskmasters are merciless and no matter how many fads are introduced she must study them all. Eight hours school a day should be enough for teacher and pupil, and the excessive study on the part of both should be stopped in the interest of health and humanity.

AN OHtiAN OtT Ol' TIE. Our esteemed neighbor, the Journal, Is getting fearfully and wonderfully mixed on the silver question. In an attempt to make a jxiint against Congressman Cooper it declares that "he is supporting the seigniorage bill, so-called, and favors the coinage of about 30.0o0.000 silver dollars out of metal which could not have been claimed for coinage if the price of silver had not fallen C5 per cent, since its purchase. That is, if the price of silver had been maintained at the figure it was bought there would be no silver bullion to coin." If the Journal will make inquiry of the high-school children who are studying political science. It will learn that the fall In the value of silver since it was purchased ha.s nothing whatever, to do with the seigniorage question. The seijrniorage, -whose coinage is now advocated, is the differeneo lvtwren the coinage value of the silver bullion now in the treasury and its purrhaie, price. It was bought at pries ranging from 9 to 72 cents per ounce, but as there are only 371 grains of silver in a dollar, an ounce of silver has a coinage value of Jt.30. Th fall In the. value of silver since the purchase cuts no fgurs. There i3 juft so much silver

In the treasury and it cost so much. Under the Sherman theory the difference lietween" the cost and the coinage value is profit, or seigniornge, and that is what is now asked to be coined. But the Journal Turtner says that this silver "co.s not belting to the government." In the name of all that is holy, to whom does it belong, then? The government bought it and paid for it. It was holding it und-T the Sherman warehouse law as security for the silver certificates. It cannot be ii"ed in redeeming those certificates unless it is cither coined or sold. What would the Journal do with It? Does it want to hold that pile of silver pigs forever and do nothing with them? We would call its attention to the fact that it is getting out of harmony with Mr. Harrison whom it reports In Its columns yesterday as saying at Denver: You have another Interest out here which yon hav" asserted with a good deal of vehemence and determination, and that is the silver question. Now T pay to you today what I said when I was president, and what I have always believed, that a larger use of silver for money and free coinage of silver upon a basis to be agreed upon that would maintain its parity with gold was good for the whole world. I do not believe that we could run free coinage ourselves while the European countries were pursuing the policy tliey have i,ocn pursuing with silver. But. my fellow-citizens, there are dear indications now in England and In Cennany that they are feeling tli effects of a scarcity of gold and its prostrating effects upon the industries. I belieye th'-se two grent countries are. nearer rieht today than they have been for the last twenty years. They are all considering- favorably the question of a larger ana freer use of silver as a money nietnl. and bimetallism has gained strength in England. That energeti- and young emperor of Germany is himself considering the question of bimetallism. I clo not think that the?, countries are coming to the next silver conference as a coy maiden waiting for us to make th advance and boiling back, but will come with greater readiness than In any recent years, and will agree with us upon a basis for a larger use of silver as money. I would have leen glad if this could have been accomplished while l was at Washington. T said to one of your senators then that if 1 could bring about the free use of silver upon a basis that in my Judgment would maintain its parity as mnny I would rather sig-nalize my administration by that act than by any other that I know of. (Cheers.) Will the Journal please observe that Mr. Harrison favors the "larger us of silver for money." and "the freer use of silver as n money metal," and not a continuance of the idiotic storehouse policy, although he approved the law which created it. And at the same time it might observe that, while he neglects to give credit for it. he admits that the policy pursued by the present administration is bringing England and Germany to tlnir senses, as his policy was never able to do. They are not coming to the next silver conference "as a. coy maiden," as they came to his conference. They will come en their knees asking us to help them out of the calmity they have brought upon themselves and upon the world. THE OITtlllTI MTY FOIl IJIMETALIt is now reported that the Mexican government is in receipt of information from Its Ind'n representatives tliat England. France and Germany will soon take the initiative in calling for an international monetary conference. They will, as heretofore, propose some plan for the annual purchase of ;i certain amount of silver to be coined on a gold basis. At the same time comes the report of the proceedings of the currency commission sitting at Berlin, at whose opening the secretary of the Imperial treasury, who presided, said: "The commission's task would be to ascertain whether or not the value of silver could be raised; if it could be raised, what were the best means to the end: how the silver price could be kept stable, and what was the best basis for practical measures that would tend to solve the problem of an efficient agreement of states." There are other evidences that the present course of the United States is fast bringing the gold countries of Europe to their senses, and that as they realize that this country does not propose to undertake to carry the silver burden alone they will ta"e active measures to remedy the evil that is now convulsing the world. In his letter to the late meeting of the English bimetallic league, Mr." Henry Bucks Glbbs sr.ys: There are plenty of indications that London, the greatest center of all, the center not only of English commerce but of the commerce of the world, is already learning the lesson that that which destroys one part of the foreign commerce of this country is on the way to destroy the whole, and that monetary legislation which isolates England, which causes an artificial and continuous fall in prices, is in the end neither good for merchant nor banker, neither for con-sol-holder nor land-holder, neither for wage-earner nor employer of lalxr. I hope and think that Westminster will not long lag behind London, and that the strength we now have in parliament will soon be added to greatly. Then English commerce will again hold up its head, and the troubles of the Indian government will be ended with a stroke of the pen. The great essential now Is that this country should follow steadily and persistently the course upon which it has entered. The repeal of the Sherman purchase law has already done more to promote international bimetallism than all the silver legislation of the last sixteen years. The fact that the United States proposed to enter on an equal footing with them in the scramble for gold has thoroughly frightened the European financiers. They know that in . such a struggle this country would have the advantage of all of thein. It is above all things important that any proposal for silver purchases be defeated. The United States should stand for international free coinage or nothing. In standing for that It will of necessity have to abandon its present standard and accept the standard of l.Vfc to 1. That Is practically the universal standard outside of this country, and we cannot expect the remainder of th world to abandon It and come to our standard. The Filver men of this country ought to unite on that at the preJ"nt time. They should act on the theory that International bimetallism Is assured and all Xerlc 'together for It. Not another silver dollar should be

coined by this country at the ratio of 16 to 1. The veigniorige should be coined at the ratio of 15'j to 1 and notice should be civen to the world that we are ready for international bimetallism at that ratio, and for nothing short of it. Silver purchases are a snare and a delusion. No amount of silver purchases and coinage of silver on a gold basis will Improve the situation a particle. Nothing but the full restoration of silver as a money of ultimate payment, on an equal footing with gold, can stop the appreciation of gold and the general fall of prices. HECADEXCE OK THE SENATE. It is amusing to note with what avidity the press of the eastern states, and especially the republican press, has seized upon the recent remarks of Abram S. Hewitt concerning the deterioration of southern statesmen. There is unquestionably some truih in the statements of Mr. Hewitt, but it Would be a most remarkable error to overlook the fact that this decadence is in no sense local. In fa t there is less cause for complaint as to this in the South than there is in the East, and no more than there is as to the North in general. It is almost amusing to find such a charge coming from a New York man at this time, with Hill and Murphy as its senators. Think of it! The great Empire state that has sent su' h men to'the senate as Gouverneur Morris, Ilufus King. T.VWitt Clinton. s-ilas Wright, William L. Marcy, Hamilton Fish. John A. Dix, Martin Van Buren, William H. Seward and Roscoe t'onkllng to make complaint at this time of the Inferiorlty of the statesmen of the South to those or former times. Rut possibly Mr. Hewitt had it in mind to invite comparison. He does startling things occasionally. What room is there for criticism of southern statesmen from Massachusetts with such men on its list of former senators as Samuel Allyne Otis, Timothy Pickering, John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster. Ttufus Choate, Edward Everett, George s. Boutwell and Charles Sumner? And what has New England to say? Where now Is its Hannibal Hamlin, or Levi Woodbury, or Franklin Pierce, or Dudley Chare, or Stephen Tt. Bradley, or Oliver Ellsworth, or Roger Sherman? Where is Pennsylvania's Albeit Gallatin, or Robert Monis. or George M. Dallas? Whore Is Ohio's Salmon P. Chase, or Benjamin Wade, or Allen G. Thurman? Where is Michigan's Lewis Cass or William Woodbridge? On what basis ha.s the North, with its Hill, and Murphy, and Quay and Cameron, and Brice, and Boar, and Pcffer, and Mandera.ni, and Hansbrough, and Allen, and Power, and Petti grew, and Kyle, and Ca i!y , and Squire, any occasion to p lint the finger of scorn at the senators fnmi the South? Would it not be much more sensible for the people from all parts of the country to take into consideration the decadence of the senate as a body, and to address themselves to remedying the evil? As the system has now developed in this country there is necessarily a deterioration in the quality of senators, but also a continual evil influence on the states in their local affairs. The business of "fixing" a legislature to elect some man senator is carried on for months in advance. The national patronage is usually controlled for this purpose, and the sta.te patronage also. Candidates are selected and foisted on the people not for their fitness but for their usefulness to certain candidates for the national senate. Then every resource of party discipline is brought to bear to secure their election. Such men are invariably controlled by the local lxtliticians and have no Ideas of the duties of their office beyond doing service for themselves and service for their parties, as the local politicians understand party service. And commonly their understanding of it Is very- poor. Unquestionably state government would be Immensely improved if the state legislatures were freed from the connection with national politics involved in the election of national senators. And equally certain is It that the character of the national senate would be Improved if the senators were elected by the people and not by the politicians. ET CETERA.

Hannibal, Mo., has a big manufactory of "Indian moccasins." Little Lord Fauntleroy- has grown old enough to enter Harvard college next fall. It Is stated that Marshal Martinez Campos is attended in Morocco by fifteen photographers. John P.ooze was fined lately in the Nevada police court. Booze is always in trouble and petting other people in. Kansas City Star. It is a pretty safe rule for American girls to espouse Indians or Chinamen or foreign counts only as a last resort. Kansas City Star. Representative Hatch recently dined a party of statesmen and politicians at Chamberlain's in Washington, on mutton from his Missouri farm. The French army can't get along without our canned meats after all. We send them our cans and they send us their cancans. N. Y. Journal. By old English law a baron was required to have at least five hides of land, a church, a kitchen, a bell house and a borough gate with a seat in It. "Man's u fool." He walks out on the lawn and orders the bdly goat off his premises, follows a mule and argues with his mother-in-law. Galveston News. Madame Materna, who was Wagner's Ideal Brunhilde, has a bigger voice than Patti. and also a larger fortune. A portion of her wealth is Invested in an estate near Vienna The restaurants at the midwinter fair In San Francisco neither satisfy the stomach, the eye nor the pocket. The service is cxercrable, the food Is worse and the prices are out of sischt. Kansas City Star. MNs Azurehose "What a terrible, hopeej;H longmg is expressed in Coleridge's lines, "Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink!'" MI?b LIMlered-"It doepn't seem possible that the liquor habit ever had such a hold on a human being:." Tuck. Kate Claxton's tears have ceased ti avail. A don was shot in New York for chasing some one's pet kittens and th owner sued for damages. Mis Claxton appeared in court and shed real tears for th dog, but it failed to move the Jury. Oh. the mutability ot time'. " And Kate Claxton's trexs at that! Now let tha

galled jade wince. Perhaps even the tears of a Clara Morris will fail to loosen our tear ducts in the happy future. Hester "You prudish! Why. I saw Dick Hastings sit for an hour with his arm about you last night." Paly "Oh. I permitted that because he ated as if he was going to propose, and when he didn't I thought it would be unmaldenly to showpique over it." , Judge. Such is the paternal care for the nrv of its "clients" by the adm1nitration of the bank at Monte Carlo that all newspapers, foreign and local, containing any reference to the suicide or murders which occur at that place are rigorously excluded from the reading rooms of th Casino. Dr. William A. Hammond states that all the exercise that Is necessary to keep a man or woman in good health and plenty of muscle is a dMly walk of three or four miles In the open air at a three mile an hour Rait with the swinging of the arms that nature has decreed necessary when walking. The original designation of the Russian ruler was autocrat, a term borrowed from a title of the clrck emperors. The title czar was first taken by Autocrat Vladimir about 112". The Russian rulers were called czars or grand dukes until the sixteenth century, when they claimed th" title of emperor Celia Draper, a good-looking riclitcpn-yenr-old Kentucky girl, has married four men in the lapt two ;. e-.rs. At the age of sixteen she ran off with a roaming pe-Hlcr named Silas Peeling. She soon left Mm. however, and married a. new man cvery six months until she was arrested recently for bigamy. Her last hnsliand. a young druggist. Is so much In love with lie;- that he has ruined himself trying to clear nrrSomething new in the way of childrenparties was given in Uhicago on Washington's birthday. One of the features of the party was a game in which accuracy of aim. while blindfolded, v.-.-i.s neoessary to success. There was a cherry tree aad George's little hatchet. Each little guest, with eyes bandaged, tried to lodge the hatchet in a notch first cut in the tree. The first prize was a Georpe Washington hat. the second a hatchet. The late Mr. Childs is described by one who knew him as a philanthropist most ef the time, but a newspaper man all of the time. Most of the leading reporters of Philadelphia, knew hlni well personally, and he often gave them "scoops" on news concerning tiie Brexel estate and about matters of which he only was cognizant over his own paper. But after that his paper would take up the news where the others left off. and they would be "neoopei." The favorite lecture of Erastus Winwn and one which he was fond of delivering to young men in the V. M. t". .. hall, was "How to Get Rich." Mr. Wiman began his career as a newsboy, then Kot Jl.r.'l a week, then rose to handle thousands, and see millions without the aid of an opera glass, but unfortunately hi fingers were mor or less sticky. The hypocritical career of this man, w ho pose,! as a shining example for youth, while he was probably anything but that, will ultimately do more harm than good. A steamer has jut crossed the Atlantic using for fuel Russian petroleum, which is of little value unless this experiment results in its general use. The most important advantage was found in the perfect combustion of the petroleum, a result never obtained when coal is used. The process consists of forcing the fuel through the center of a pit of steam, which passes directly tinder the Ivoilers, which are protected from the flames by a superstructure of brick. The heat was so intense that the bricks are changed in color to white. Paul Jones, the globe trotter for $r,.rmo, had a busy day in Providence, R. I., lately. He entertained people all night and went to bod at 6 a. m.. but arose at 10 a. m. He sold soda water to a curious mob for two hours, then went to a reception of women iu a hotel. Went to Pawtucket and sawed a stick of wood and gave a ten minutes' talk in the opera house and then took a special train for Kosten, making the trip of forty-four miles in fifty minutes, to attend a concert at which he sang, lie then returned to Providence to proceed on his chase around the world. If women only knew it they carry a weapon that can be as deadly as the Italian's stiletto. A young woman went to a Kall in New York recently and returned home with a man whom she knew but slightly. On a quiet street he assaulted her. and placing his hand over her mouth threw her to the ground. The girl drew a Tour-inch hat pin from her hat and stabbed her assailant with it in the left side. He screamed with pain as the pin broke off at the head in his body and ran off. He is very badly hurt and the girl has a large new hat rln warranted not to break next time. In Vienna lanlurds have blacklists. Vienna, it Is said, contains more people who live beyond their means than any city in the world, and for some time householders have been trying to find means of self-defense against the growing army which prefers to move rather than pay rent. The tenants' directory is the result. It Is a blacklist in which the desirable tenants are merely named, while the undesirable are designated with stars opposite their names. While it does not duplicate the Almanach de Gotha, the names of counts, countesses and barons are not excluded from its starrred columns. Apple growing is one of the infant Industries of Kansas that is getting out of "short pants" into trousers with a crease down the front. In spite of the scarcity of that staple fruit during lat year and this, the assessors' reports from that state indicate that about 5,äuO,0C) of young apple trees, not yet bearing, have been planted. The number of old bearing trees is considerably over 7.o.0"o. Two counties. Wichita and Greeley, acceording to these reports, contain just one bearing apjile tree in each, rerhaps this is the reason w hy apples are so scarce and expensive. The assessors of these counties must have made returns on these two trees nith great pride. STREET IMCKIMiS.

Indianapolis has one unique combination establishment that certainly should entitle the city to put on metropolitan airs. It is a restaurant and barber shop in the same room. In front of the place is a si;n for ensnaring the wily countryman who is in town with his pocketbook and looking for the best of it. The sign reads. Soup, 3 cents. Good dinner only 13 cents. Best lunch in the city only 8 cents. Shaved while you're eating. Try our new barber. Here is the solution of the vexatious question as to how to spare the time to get shaved. There isn't a man in the state of Indiana who is not always in the biggest - hurry in his life as soon as he enters a barber shop. lie may stand outside ami smoke for an hour, but as soon as he enters the door he begins to sweat and fume. In the establishment here mentioned the hair may get in the butter, but even if it should there is a barber right on the spot to shave it that is, the butter and a man can thus kill two birds with

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one stone by getting a lunch anl a shavt at the same tim. And th"n the new bar ber. Everyone will want to try him. Human nature is always looking for something new. and there 1; nothing like a new barber. Be never seems to glow- old in the business. The long felt want has at las-t been supplied. There was considerable r"r,s'erratieu It the puhl'e library yesterday. A littl innocent dog had been kicked out the djr before by one of the janitors, and tk9 latter is to be sued for damage?. Several of the ladies in the library have been v:hr.oened as witnesses, and as they expressed it. are "scared to death." One r two subpoened did not even know th)t a. d -z lnd invaded th sacred domain wber so much knowledge is störet. These ladies thought they theme'.ve sr arrted anl wept bitterly. Each nn s-lemnly declare! yesterday that she had pot eon a dog sj".ce the library had been moved, cv.e little stray yellow dog which trot!i smilingly in yesterday afternoon wes carefully picked up by a janitor, smoothed ant pette.j and carried out as tnderiy as if :t were a Va by. Then It was taken arot.nl the corner and given a bene s- that it could not possibly complain of its treatment. Each lady turne 1 her back anl shut her eyes -while Iii deg was bii-.g r--moved. she should be a witness t the affair. Hereafter ther will be perjal hours for dogs at the library. There is a popular young :-ociety lady tn the city who has a most fwi;."T S'wii. She was one of the cnests at ihe German" given at the Propvlaeum Thursday night. The young lady had in mind anotVr dres for the party named and w?s to have worrt it, but friends persuaded nr to w-ar theotie first alluded to. H, promised to do so. but when she arrival home about 8 O'clock she had forgotten ihe f?ct fiat the stoel;i'igs that m;:1rh--l the "fer h ir t" dre-s were sailed. She wa t ot damit. by this. Imn mid "-;r. out in a )ic voice, "My pink stockin? will have to h washed." This remark was a iire.---d to one of her sisters. The yv,mz woman war u d .iware tl.rt her remark was over'-esrd by the demu-a Picking's man who w;;s .eq-ed in the purler In conversation with th younz lady's Mdor. but h noted th" fact, not -udihl but with the sat isfactioi that at least on young lady who was going to That partv recognized the adage that " '1--M ,.ii i- s is hext to Godliness." There enme n.ir being a divorce (n a North Si'le family the other day. The husband is the possessor of some puppies tf which he is very proud, and the wife merely tolerates them. The other morning the washing was hung out on the iln" and one of the pups took it into his head ' o take down the clothes. He tackled a brand ti"w sliest first, jumped at P. raucht Ms sharp teeth in it and tore it straight rriü trying to get his teeth loose. Then h took a tablecloth, a few bandkerrh'efs ani had a picnic trylra to tear them into enrpet rags. .Just about this time he was disc vered and the lady was furious. Sh"" ha ha..My spoken to the owner of the dug yet, though he is her husband, and ho is trying to pacify her as best he can. lr. I.. F. Page tells this story on his friend. Judge Rose of the supreme court of Kentucky, who spent las? wwli wit't him. The judge was very dev.. ted to a young lady and finally got to csllir.g upon her every right in the werk and staying until midnight. At last the young ladvfather got tired of this state of affairs and expressed, himself thuMy to his fair da lighter: "Now. see here, Mary. I thick your Rossis petting to be a night-blooming cereus." Mr. Rose heard it and took the him.

THE STATE I'KfSS. Any change in the free list of the Wilson bill except to enlarge it would oniasi ulate the whole measure. Ev ansvllle Demo- rat. It is well to remember that wheat and wool have touched tle-ir lowest price. under the highest tariff th country ha ever had. La porte Argus. Th"- majority will bo wise if they compel the senators who are insisting on taxed sugar, coal, iron ore and wool to olie.v party rule. Frankfort Crescent. Th prospects f jr tariff legislation of any kind are iioer indeed. The millionaire democrats and the eastern democrats in the senate are rr-puble-ans o:i every vital issue. Evans. -illo Courier. It appears that a nun. Vier of United States senators who were elected as democrats aro really protectionists they should charge either their opinions or their party fealty. Grc-encastle Star Press. The entire democratic delegation in ftiifrrcs-s from Indiana support tli Biinl Mil for the coinage of the silver bullion in the treasury. In this they reflect the sentiment of the party in the state. Frankfort Crescent. Young Mr. Armstrong has established an extravagant precedent. If all eseapJ criminals take a notion to surrender fro.n the Palmer house, either the roan'v sheriffs or the genial Putter must quit loser. Kokomo Dispatch. A party which fails to keep U.s pledges ought to be and will be castigated by the rod of defeat. Salvation for party and peopie is yet within our grasp, but may be frittered away by that hoary chestnut. senatorial courtesy. North Vernon Sun. The Jacksonlan from this time forward, will do what it can to abolish the seraiof the United States and the senate of Indiana. Nothing more than the United States senate prevents the jeope from getting the legislation they need. Rushville Jacksonian. With plain people the only fault found with the Wilson bill is that it is not thorough enough. If the senate puts more "protection" into it or fails to pass it at the present session it will sow the wind to be wrecked in the ensuing whirlwind. Terre Haute Gazette. The senate is moving very slowly in the matter of passing the Wilson bill. Every succeeding day's delay but intensities the dissatisfaction of the American people with the dilatory methods of congress in transacting the people's business. The country wants action an i legislation, not talk and filibuster. Brazil Democrat. In three years cf the McKinley law it is claimed by protectionists that thnumber of sheep in this country increased about 7 per cent. A thick of sheep ought to be nearly or quite doubled in three years if special efforts at increase were made. In Indiana there was an actual decrease in the number. Why. oh why was this thus, if a hin tariff "stimulates" the sheep and wool industries? Ibanon I'ioneer. Unfortunately, the democratic party ha.s a few men in the United States senate whom protection has made rich. We should think men like Senator Bri Senator Gorman ami Senator Camden, would be willing to give American consumers a chance. They are opposed to free coal because they are interested in coal fields. They are opposed to free iron ore because they own iron mines. If they owned -silver mines they would likely favor free coinage of silver. And thus it goes. Logansport Pharos.