Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 April 1894 — Page 4

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THE-INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MOUSING, APRIL 11, 1S04 TWELVE PAGES.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. E. . MOBSS, BEN A. EATON, Trfsidcnt, Vice rrwident. b. McCarthy. Secretary and Tnusttr.

(Entered at the I'uatofllce nt Indian apolla na irrond claa matter.) TCRMS PKR YE AK t f-Rle cMr tin Advance) ft OO "We aak democrats to bear In mind and select their onn state paper when they come to take snbscrli tions and make up clubs. Areata making up el aba send for any Information dealred. Address THE I.DIANAPOLIS SEXTIXEL, lndlanapolla, Ind. TWELVE PAGES. MEpE!DAY, APRIL 11, 1S4. JIE.D IT Oil KXD IT. We have now reached that stage of the proceedings on the tariff bill In the senate when th republican members begin to show their disregard and contempt for the known sentiment of the people. Mr. Allien has been heard from for two hours. He has made the 'beginning of his first speech on the Question of tariff reform, and will probably make other?, as he announced in an Interview a few days since that he lott it his duty to obstruct the passtge )of any kind of a tariff law. He says Ihe feels that there has been a great change of sentiment in the country since 1S92 and that it is now the desire of the jeople to keep the McKinley law in force at all hazards. And yet there, is rot. a person of ordinary intelligence In the country who does not know that this is absolutely false. There is an al(rnost unanimous demand from business men, republicans as well as democrats, to pass the tariff bill as speedily , as possible, all of them realizing that jsome sort of tariff bill will certainly tie passed. ' It is evident on the face of the proceeding that the whole effort of the republican senators is for delay. .We are Informed by the press dispatches that . every senator will make a speech, and that the flow of wind will last into July. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts . has given notice that he will begin next Tuesday, and we presume that Allison will occupy most of the time until then. Mr. Allison's speech is, like his excuse for making it, a tissue of false pretense, lie expressed his honest views on the tariff twenty odd years ago when he earnestly advocated a reduction of the then existing tariff, together with free .wool and free coal. When this fact 'has been called to his attention in latr years, he has pleaded that conditions had" changed and that we needed' more protection than we did at that time. That was his excuse In 1S90 after twenty years of high protection we were more in net! of protection than we were at first. Mr. Allison is making a false plea, which he knows to be false, for a system in which hi does not believe, and is making it und.r the false pretense that the country wants obstruction and delay which every one knows to be false. And "senatorial courtesy" permits this trifling with the business Interests of the country. We fear that the democratic senators permit it for a further reason. They want to- force the action of the conference committee into the very closing days of the session, and thereby bulldoze the house into compliance with their mercenary demands. What are the people of the United States going to do while this scandalous proceeding goes on? These people, who are supposed to be elected and paid to transact the business of the country, deliberately propose to consume more than three months In making speeches which no one desires to hear or to read speeches that are absolutely "Without value from any point of view. The people can protest, but protest appears to have very little effect on this dignified body. Will the people put their protests In effective shape? No man who is in any way responsible for this delay, either republican or democrat, ought ever be elected to another office. The people can make their protest heard If they will work syjdematleally to that end. No man ought to be elected to a state legislature who will not bind hinuelf in the most solemn manner not to vote for any man for senator who is in any way responsible for this delay, or who will not pledge himself openly to support in every way an amendment to the constitution for the election of senators by popular vote. That is the way to reach the evil. The senate must be put on another basis or it must be abolished. Jt Is a standing menace to American liberty, an all-powerful preventive of popular government, a refuge for every lawless combination . to plunder the people. ' THE II A It K AUK. As Th" Sentinel predicted some months ago th? dense bigotry and fanaticism of the dark ages is now pretty well revived In this country which had so long boa ted of being the home of religious liberty and the refuge of the oppressed of all nations. In a number of the city election of Tuesday the A. P. A. took a leading part, and everywhere In support of the republican ticket. In several . t :: eitle riots occurred, growing -.u-. of this revival of knownothinglsm in politics. The worst occurrence was in Kansas City, where the A. p. A. seem V have followed the example of the Toledo) organization, and armed themselves. An A. P. A., with revolver in band, undertakes to make an arrest, and shoots a city officer who questions his right to carry a deadly weapon. A volley of shots follows from all sides, and one man dead, three fatally injured, and two wounded, are the fruits at the aalr. I'ronx th am city cooes

the report of another shooting by an A. P. A. man earlier In the day, but his victim is not fatally wounded. What a record for one day for an American city. What a pleasant Intimation of what may be expected elsewhere as this business proceed?. 'We call especial attention to the fact that these elections demonstrate everything that The Sentinel has said concerning this treasonable organization. It was organized for political purposes. As appeared fully by reading the dispatches the A. P. A. was an active factor in the election everywhere. It was formed as an adjunct to the republican partv. Everywhere that the A. P. A. showed Itself it was In support of the republican ticket, just as It was her in the last city election. At Milwaukee there was an express A. P. A. issue between the democrats and republicans and the republicans carried the city by the A- P. A. vote. At tlalesburg, 111., the republicans swept the town, and every man elected was an A. P. A. At St. Joseph. Mo., both the democrats and the populists were routed, and the republican ticket was elected by A. P. A. votes. Other places show similar results. Thnre is no room left for question that this movement was organized by republicans for purely political purposes, and that we are Indebted to that party for the flood of insane bigotry and race prejudice that Is now being poured out upon the country. To that party we ove this worst blot on the enlightenment and civilization of this century In this country. ' THE "iIOOMKT AI.I.IST STY I.E. Granting all that can le said against the wild ideas of -the populists, it can safely be said that they have not done more to confuse the public mind by their fallacies and sophistries than gold monometallists have done by their persistent misrepresentations and suppressions of fact. The Chicago Tribune furnishes an excellent Illustration uf this foolish and injurious method of treating a public question. It is a prominent paper of large circulation and supposed to be reputable and reliable in its editorial statements, and yet in an editorial article it makes this disgraceful statement concerning the resolutions of the Warner bimetalllst meeting at Des Moines: The statement that "the terrible condition," etc.. Is caused by the alleged "demonetization of silver" 13 a bildheaded lie. There was no silver dollars In circulation in 1873-74. whil? in :S31 there w.is $.OO.O0O,0vO of silver money. Including sulldiary coins, the amount of silver exceeding by 100.000.no. the total gold In the United States last ye.ir. And all that silver is legal tender money. Why then do they call tho present bimetallic standard the "single gold standard?" Is it because they are barbarously ignorant or actuated by lying malice? It must be one or ihe o:her. for no h ne"t man In his sob-r senses would make su"h an assertion. As a matter of fact there was J'ist as mui'h silver "In circulation in 173-71" as there was gold. That Is to say, there were none of either. Our s.le circulation at that time was ptprr money. Put at the? time it was issued that piper money was redeemable In either silver or gold, and the "demonetization a-t" made it redeemable in g"!d only, so that when the resump:ln of specie payments came In 173 the entire currency received all the appreciation that ha 1 come to go'd from tl'.e demonetization of silver by this, and other commercial nations. The Tribune's statement as to this is a quibble of the cheapest kind. Its denial that this country has "the single gold standard" is the most insolent falsehood that has cmi-; under our notice recently. We cannot believe that the Tribune makes such a statement through Ignorance. The fact is too public and too easily proven for that. Any schoolboy can turn to the law of 1873 that makes the gold dollar the standard of our currency, and that law has, never been repea'.ed, or, as to this point, amended In any way. To say that our present standard is bimetallic would be idiotic if It were not knowingly false. That the silver dollar Is a legal tender has nothing to do with the question. The greenback is a legal tender, but It Is redeemable In gold, and so Is the silver dollar, under the pledges of both great parties to maintain the parity of both dollars. WHO ARE THE TRAITORS f . In his speech on the tariff bill Senator Mills devoted his attention chiefly to the ad valorem system and Its advantages over theeystemof specific taxes. He made an excellent presentation of the case, as can any intelligent tariff-reformer, for It is a subject that has been thoroughly presented In every phase. Mr. Mills, however, overlooked the fact that the obnoxious senate amendments are made more obnoxious by the fact that they provide for specific duties. The duties on refined sugar, coal and iron ores are all specific, in the course of his remarks he made an allusion to those amendments, as follows: You must come to the confession, and I. must come to the confession. We cennot pass our bill without making some concessions. I am between the devil and th deep sea, and when it is a question of going to the devil by keeping the McKinley law or of going to sea, and as there must te some favorable wind to blow me back to land, I am going to ea. There Is a great deal of force in that statement, and we believe there is not a democrat or a tariff-reformer in the country who does not recognize It, but there Is also a fatal weakness. There is a democratic majority In the senate, and there are populist votes that will te cast for tariff reform. Therefore, if it be necessary' to make concessions to pass the bill, those concessions must be made to men who claim to be democrats. We are clearly informed by Mr. Mills that professed democrats have placed him between the devil of MeKlnleylsm and the deep sea of the senate amendments. Now, who are those rascals? The democratic party has the right to know who Is betraying It. The senators who are Innocent cannot afford to shelter them. It has ben generally anticipated, from the known frailty of politicians, that It would probably be necessary to buy up a few vote tor th bill. That is a

common thing in legislation. But who are we buying and what are we paying for them? Th people pay and they ought to know the t?rms of the bribery. N one suspects the purchase of Senator Mills, but he evidently knows who Is being 'purchased or he would not say it was necessary to mr.ke "some concessions." There has been a very general understanding that a certain crowd of half a doen men were the guilty parties, but this ex plannt ion is not wholly satisfactory, even if those names be accepted. It. Is understood that (lorman. Faulkner and Price were purchased by the iron and coal duties. It Is understood that the Louisiana senators were purchased by the duty on raw sugar. It is understood that Murphy's price was the increase on collars and cuffs. But what senators were bought by the tax on refined sugar? And who demanded the extension of the bonded period on whisky as the price of his vote for the bill? What did Hill get? He is commonly named among the concessionaires, but no definite information has been furnished as to his price. This Is an Important statistical fact. The price of an IndianaiKjlls councilman used to be $50. We have known a member of the Indiana legislature to be hired to vote against a suburban street railway bill for railroad transportation for himself and family to the world's fair. But how much Is needed to induce a man who aspires to the democratic nomination for the presidency to vote for a bill embodying the principles which he professed to hold? There is an opportunity here for obtaining useful and extraordinary information. The decent senators should not let the opportunity slip. THE VOICE OF THE HYPOCRITE. Having ehampioned the whisky and sugar, trust clauses of his tariff bill, Mr. Voorhees has evidently left the defense of the lead trust to that illustrious freetrader from Missouri. Senator Vest. Then all the democratic, trusts In the tariff will be defended. Journal. In the name of all that Is holy, what room have you to say anything on th subject? if these are democratic trusts they are no more democratic than they were when the McKinley bill was passed in 1890, and the McKinley bill did more for them than even the most recreant democrats of the senate have done. The McKinley bill gave a greater donation to the sugar trust than the senate amendment des, and you defended It, and gloried In It. More than that, even during the present strurgle to break the hold of this octopus on the country, you have championed It, and have prated about the loss of wages to its men if the McKinley stipend of $20,000,000 per annum were taken away from it. Was it a democratic trust then, or has it only become so in the last week? Is the iron combine a democratic affair? If so your McKinley bill gave it a bonus of 75 cents a ton where the senate amendment gives it 40 cents. 13 the conl combine also democratic? Your MeKinlry bill gave It a bonus of 73

cents per ton also, where the senate amendment gives It only 40 cents. And you not only defended It and applauded It, but only a few weeks ago, when Mr. Ingalls Insisted on these taxes, for the benefit of the railroads, you applauded him as a wise man who realized the necessity of filling the pockets of these trusts for the benefit of the American workingrr.an. Bah! You talk about corrupt concessions to trusts. Why your very types ought to drop out of sight for shame and leave a blank on your editorial page. You who have defended every infamous combination that has preyed on the people through the tariff system, who have pretended that they were beneficial to the country, who have In every way aided to build up these monsters which now grapple at the throat of the nation you talk of democratic trusts? You Impose double condemnation on yourself with every word. The Sentinel will neither apologize nor plead the baby act for any democratic senator. But understand this: The complaint we make is that the worst and most mercenary democratic senators have shown themselves almost as depraved in this matter as the best republican senators. What republican senator protested or voted against any Iniquity of the McKinley bill? What one will fall to defend them now? If there were half a dozen republicans In the 6enate now, who had any honest objection to any of the concessions to what the Journal calls democratic trusts, they could have them Btricken from the bill. But they will not. They would give the lie to their protestations of former years If they did. It does not lie In the mouth of any man who has voted the republican ticket since the McKinley bill was passed to say anything about concession to trusts. And more than that, no one need imagine. that any democrat who Is pretesting against the failure of democratic senators to do their full duty will ever turn for relief to the republican party, which has made and fostered every trust In existence. This Is a controversy between the white sheep and the black sheep. The goats are not in it. THE MAX OF THE SEAL. We are becoming more and more lmpressed with the belief that Congressman Oeorge Cooper 1 the typical man of the Indiana state seal the man who steadily chops wood without wasting his time on the animals that cavort around him. He does not make a practice of beating the trembling air with ponderous oratory, but he accomplishes things. He makes headway. The dispatches announce that he has secured from the committee on banking and, currency a report favoring the taxation of greenbacks, as other money is taxed. That Is a matter of very great importance to Indiana. It Is an essential- to a perfect administration of our tax law. It was demanded by the democratic state convention In its platform. It Is of course equally necessary to Just taxation In other states, but It Is of especial Interest to Indiana, because Indiana first

proposed it, through the late Senator McDonald, and first demanded it in state convention. It Is also interesting to note that II. IT. Johnson, republican representative from Indiana, vigorously opposed the report, just as his party has opposed every reform hi Indiana for the past six years: It may also be mentioned in this connection that Mr. Cooper, as a member of the committee on the District of Columbia, has joined in a report on the gas question that is of interest to Indiana. The committee mad" a long and careful examination of the question of illuminating gas, and recommended that the maximum price to be charged for it In Washington be fixed at $t per thousand f?et. or ." cents less than is nvr charged in Indianapolis and Kvansville, 60 cents less than Is charged In Lafayette, New Albany and Aurora. 45 cents lss than Is charged In Elkhart, 40 cents less than is charged In Vlnoennes, 3 cents less than is charged In Peru and 20 cents less than Is charged in Richmond. In Indiana the average price of illuminating gas is $1.53. The state where the price averages less are New York. $1.32: Ohio, $1.45, and West Virginia, $1.38. The cities that have obtained lovfer rates than Indianapolis have usually done so by making a fight for them. The following are noted from the committee's report as some of the cities that have secured lower rates, together with the rate: Philadelphia $1 00 Pittsburg 1 00 Cincinnati 1 no Providence 1 00 Cleveland SO Atlanta 1 00 Buffalo 1 00 Contralia 1 00 Milwaukee 1 00 Jackson (Mich.) f0 Allegheny p" Belief cntalne M Detroit 1 ' Hamilton 1 CD Of these cities Philadelphia, Pellefontalne and Hamilton control their own gas works. In the Hue of his duty, Mr. Cooper has here been engaged in a work of practical value to the people of Washington, and incidentally to the entire country. And it may be added that in doing his duty he has called upon himself some unkind remarks from corporation organs. The Washington gas light and coke company has for its president John R. McLean, proprietor of the Cincinnati Enquirer. Its original capital stock was $50,000, but It has now been increased to $2.000,000 and it has bonds and certificates of Indebtedness outstanding amounting to $1,200,000. In addition to all expenses and Interest it pays a regular annual dividend of 10 per cent, on its stock, and in the five years. 1SS9-1SD3, it paid extra dividends of 54S2.793.73 or nearly 5 per cent, per annum. It now has on hand S-S0.00C of undistributed earnings, exclusive ' of the undistributed earnings of . last year. It Is the same old story of gas companies everywhere watered stock . and. enormous dividends, secured Iby unnecessarily high rates. Mr. Cooper has done a public service by his work in bringing the facts to light.

MItiD VOIR OWN 111 I NESS. Some sort of law Is needed to compel people to mind their own business: not In the ordinary sense of preventing them from "nosing around" into other people's private affairs, for human nature is so constituted that that would probably be Impsslble, but Just simply to compel them to prevent dangerous interference with matters that do not concern them. In Chicago the other day Thomas Gillen. a Janitor employed In one of the sky-scraping buildings of that city, went out upon a ledge near the top of the structure to wash windows. While thus employed some one came along and closed the window, shutting off his means .of return to a place of safety. When he realized the situation he became alarmed, and called for help from the street. After considerable trouble the fire department got a ladder up high enough and rescued him just as he was about to tumble to death. Some time ago In Philadelphia, while the erection of one of the big bank buildings was in progress, a curious visitor closed the door of a time-lock vault with walls of steel and stone four feet thick. There was a man inside attending to his business, and It took a good many hours hard work and expense of several thousand dollars to get him out alive. Nearly the entire front of the vault had to be removed and the steel lining battered down to accomplish It. The rebuilding cost days of labor. Of course in neither of these cases was there any Intent to injure anyone. The Chicago man who closed the window was probably one of those cheerful idiots Who can't stand "a draught," and the Philadelphian who closed the vault was undoubtedly one of those Inspired Imbeciles who In everlasting "trying to find out how the old thing works." But something ought to be done to place this sort of crank under surveillance. "Without aiming to do so they accomplish more evil than they could possibly do if they directed their best, feeble efforts to that end. If permitted to run at large they are likely to split the earth asunder one of these days. If there Is any truth in the Washington dispatches as to. the opinion of Indiana congressmen concerning tho reasons of democratic disgust in this state, there is a most woeful avoidance of the real reason. That reason Is the treason of alleged democrats In the senate. The Indiana democrats want genuine tariff reform, and they want It quickly. The present absurd delay In the senate Is hurting the party more than all the pen- I sloti, patronage, and silver business combined. The St. Louis Republic kicks because Senator Voorhes puts Thomas Jefferson's : birthday on April 2. Instead of April 13. It Is certain that the 13th is the 151st anniversary of his birth, ana that Is his birthday under the new style calendar, which Is, of course, the only one in use now. We think, however, that Mr. Voorhees came closer to Jeffer

son's birthday than he did to Jefferson's principles in defending the senate amendments. If Jefferson were in the senate he would read his colleagues a lesson on faithfulness to professed principles that would make their hair stand on end. In his speech announcing his candidacy for senator to the people of Illinois, (Ion. Black makes many brilliant, epigrammatic statements, and among others this concerning the panic that marked the close of Mr. Harrison's four years of office: To say. braus the popl elected the democratic party to administer their affairs, that therefore the ruin came, is as idle as to say that the sun sets because It is dark. A depleted treasury and a false system of finance were the causes of that panic. We are gratified to note that the republicans of New York are already pinning their faith to David B. Hill. For example the Troy Press says: Resumption of tariff talk In the senate next week. Watch Hill of New York. He will make the Wilsonltes squirm when he confronts their misbegotten bill with formidable facts and figures of vital consequence to the industrial world. "We have long believed that Mr. Hill had all the essential qualifications of a first-class republican.

The fact should rot be lost sight of that the Pennsylvania rioters and murderers were imported by tho coal and iron barons of that stat" to displace, at lower wages, American workingmen. And in the name of and ostensibly for tho benefit of the?e American workingmen the national senate proposes to permit these same barons to levy a tax on all the people of this country. Benedict Arnold, after his attempt to betray his country, took command of the troops of the British. David B. Hill has assume.! the leadership of the publican filibiisterers against the tariff bill. Judging by the reports of recent municipal elections the republican party has been merged Into the A. P. A. The democracy is rapidly learning who the traitors are. The Information is not pleasing, but it Is valuable. A V" AVER TO COHRESPONDEXT. J. C H.. Kokomo The rooster was originally selected as a party emblem by the Chapman brothers, who edited The Sentinel In the forties. The reason was that they wpnted to "crow" over democratic victories. The expression, "Crow, Chapman, crow," was taken up all over the country. ET CETERA. There are fifty suicides a year at Monte Carlo. Worn-out billiard balls are usually cut up Into dice. The stem side of the orange is not usually so sweet and juicy as the other half. He "And would you marry a poor poet?" She "I don't see how I could marry a rich one." Life. Every man thinks he might become famous if he had more time to write poetry. Atchison Globe. There is at present a colored prisoner in the Alabama mines who speaks twelve different languages. An advertisement in a Chleapo paper, describing a lost dog, states that the animal has a gold-capped tooth. it i.s said that Mr. Gladstone will devote much of his leisure time hereafter to a new translation of Horace. "That's what I get for my pains," sobbed the small boy as he swallowed a dose of castor oil. Phllade'phia Record. One mile of wire such as Is used In the manufacture of hair sprlnps for watches would weigh less than half a pound. Husband "Does that novel turn out happily?" Wife "It doesn't say. It only says they were married." N. Y. Weekly. New York has a man who makes a living by ridding houses of rats. He sells the captive animals for baiting matches. Can. it be possible that Mary Ellen Lease Is the mysterious veiled woman who Is traveling with Coxey? Buffalo Express. A Wisconsin man got a divorce because his wife kept a servant girl "who spit on the frying-pan to see If It was hot enough." James Sladen is in jail at Puyallup, Wash., charged with stealing a hot stove. Evidence against him is that his hands are singed. The I'nited States government Issues bank notes of the following denominations: SI. $L ST.. $10. $20. & $100. $500. $1,000, $3.000 and 510,000. Prof. Ernst Haeckel, the "German Darwin." Is sixty years of age. and has been connected with the university of Jena thirty-three years. Senator Colquitt died a poor man, notwithstanding all thf? golden opportunities presented by his long membership in the millionaires' club. Coxey sang in a church choir for' ten years, it is said. He's on" his base now, judging from the tenor of his remarks. Philadelphia Ledger. Ills Mother "You ought to feel ashamed of yourself fighting little Johnny Naybors." Tommy "I do, mamma, he licked me." Chicago Record. . Will Carleton says the total output of poetry In lbt'3 is nearly three million poems. Spring was the theme of 250,0;X, despair 100,000 and discontent 10,0m). Joy seldom kills a pusson, but there are thousands uv pussons who are tryln'tew squeeze the life out uv joy ev'ry minute uv th're lives. Boston Courier. lie (exhibiting; sketch) "It's the best thing 1 ever did." She (sympathetically) "Oh, well, you musn't let that discourage you." Boston Home Journal. Wife "Isn't it funny? Prof. Garner ways the gorilla only speaks eight words." Husband "Nothing strange; he has five or six wives." Cleveland Plulndealer. A Nebraska man hugged his girl so hard that he broke one of her ribs. When she got well he forpot to hiiR her. and" that broke her heart. N. Y. Tribune. "At what time In life do you consider a man In his pilme?" "When he Is neither young enough nor old enough to want to write poetry." Washington Star. What do you Klrls call that club of yours?" "The Analytical." "H'm. What do j'ou analyze?" "Other people's reputations, mostly." Washington Star. "There was great consternation on the stage of the Oriental last evening," wrote the critic, "when Ah Sing, the leading actor lost his cue." Poeton Courier. The man whose return from dinner you have to wait for before going to your own. never has poor healUi as the result ot eating too rapidly. -SorAervllle Journal. , First lady "And the lad thing that Henry did was to give me a kins." Peoond lady "Indeed; I should think that Is about the last thing he would do." Tit-Bits. The sect of Jains. In India, are the champion long-dlntanee faster. Fasts of from thirty to forty days are very common, and once a year they abstain from food for seventy-five daya. Aluminum Is now to be usei for engraving in place of stone or steel. It Is claimed that, besides the advantage of llgbtncs.

an alummum plate will furnish S.W) Impressions, against eighty to one hundred from a steel one. Telling a story, or making a call, in a sense resembles the pastime of fishing. The fisherman In his enjoyment does not stop to Inquire whether it is fun for the fish. Boston Transcript. "Is your daughter improving in her painting?" Mother "Well. I should say so. H" last picture was so good that only three of the family failed to guess what it was. Chicago Inter Ocean. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. despHe his ag?, is tescribed as silver-haired and keeneyed. He laughs and chats with animation, and his flashes of repartee are as frequent and brilliant as ever. Jojeph James Cheesrman, the president of Liberia, was born in that country. His parents were srtt owt to Liberia by ilic American colonization society and were among its early founders. Mrs. Prown (nudging Mr. Brown, who snores with his mouth open) "William, you'd make ley noise if you'd keep your mouth shut." Mr. Brown (only half awake) "So'd you." Life. "Did your late boarder succeed in removing all his effects?" "I should say not." rejoined the landlady. "I don't stirpos I can ever get the cigarette smell out of the curtain?." Chicago Tribune. Wife "My millinr was here today to see you. and I told her you were out." Husband "What did she say?" Wlfe"She said that when she had seen you you would be out still more." N. Y. World. In water In which decaying vegetables have been Infused the microscope discovers things so minute that lO.Oiv) of then woe'i not exceed in bulk a grain of mustard, though they are supplied with organs as complicated as those of a whale. I" an Interview reported In the current "Outlook" Mr. William D. Howells asserts that everybody ought to do sonie work wlt.'i the hands every day, and says that he knows It would do him more grind to chop wood or dig potatoes for two hours every afternon than to walk In Central park. "I spent a week out at my father's pHce in Ohio last month," he adds, "and 1 bad a very good time. He had half an appl tree blown down, and I bought a sharp ax and cut It up myself. I don't suppose a tree was ever cut into such small pieces before. It was astonishing hew quickly 1 got back the knack of chopping, though 1 hadn't used an ax since I was a. boy. 1 thought I could chop better than when 1 was a boy. too. The only ill effect was that it made my shoulders lnm"

STREET PKKIM;. Mathematicians can prove by cold calculation that there Is no such thin'? as luck: that events transpire according to law ani that there Is no subtle or extra-natural influence which affects them. Be that as it may, it would be hard to convince the average man that Cnlted States Marshal Hawkins is not a "lucky" man. About two weeks ago a tailor near his office raffled off a forty-dollar suit of clothing by the modern method of placing in sealed envelopes tickets, numbered from 1 to KJ. The man taking the chances draws a ticket an 1 must pay for it th amount In cents to the number drawn. In this way the chance might cost 1 cent or a dollar. The "boys" prevailed upon Mr. Hawkins to take a chance and rather than to be mean he did so. When he drew No. 62 and had to pay f.2 cents they "gave him the laugh." Put he who laughs last laughs best. On the day of the drawing Marshal Hawkins and 62 were strictly In It, for 62 was the winning number. The suit was made up in nobby style and Mr. Hawkins donned it on St. Patrick's day. He strolled Into the tailor's and let the boys enviously admire him. There was another suit to be disposed of In the same way. and to help out the cause Mr. Hawkins took three chances, costing him a little over $2. Yesterday he was Informed that he had won the second suit. It would be Impossible to make up another raffle of the same people with Mr. Hawkins as a participant. A mother and her little daughter got on a N. Peansylvania-st. car yesterday morning, and the child attracted the attention of the whole car on account of her rare beauty. She had eyes of pansy tint and hair like spun flax. The corners of her little mouth turned up like the petals of an opening rosebud. Her dress, too, was beautiful and in keeping with her general appearance. She wore coat, cap and leggins of lavender hue, and was as fair a "pocket Venus" as could be desired. After she had Bat in silence for several moments, smiling sweetly at the passengers who admired her, she took It Into her head to turn around and kneel on the seat. Her feet were very muddy from the asphalt pavement, and as there was a lady next to her the mother refused to allow her to muddy the dresses around her. Behold, what a change took place! The chill turned with perfect fury and kicked her mother, pulled her hair, pounded her face with her tiny but vigorous fists, and for a few moments there was pandemonium in the car. Tears of mortification came into the mother's eyes as she said: "Why, baby, I am ashamed of you. You never did this way before." Put sh would have been Justified In administering a good spanking then and there; and after Fhe left the car several passengers avowed their willingness to do the Job for her. A music critic in the city has been in a state of nervous excitement ever since the season of grand opera opened In Chicago. He has been prevented from going one way or another until last week, when, to his Jay, he went. His friends dropped In upon his return to hear the account of the opera, and this is his report: "I must tell you of th fourth act in 'Carmen. It was grand. The curtain went up and there was an ampitheater with live people, not the painted ones like Kobert Downing uses in 'The Gladiator, but live ones. And what do you think? horses running around the stage. Yes. nlr. live horses. We couldn't give anything like that here." He went on in this strain for some time, when one of the crowd ventured to ask: "But what of the music; was it worth going to hear? Who sang?" "The music was great, and I wish you could have seen those horses running around the Ftase." He cannot understand yet why his friends laugh at his account of the grand opera which cost him about thirty dollars to fcee. He was on the car late at nisht and his breath was redolent with the perfume of several different brands of liquors, jn-pper-mlnt and lozenges of one sort and unother. He was very sociable and the whole car was entertained by his talk. When he got up and started for the door the car didn't low up, but went rlffht along. He stood on the step and prepared to take a header. "The conductor had better lie careful how he drops him, said one of the passengers. "He might fall." Then the woman with the acid voice spoks up: "I guess If he -falls on his breath It won't hurt him." And everybody in the car lookel relieved at the thought. A lank youth in the eastern part of the city Is the victim of a novel experience, which he relates thus: "Th other day a man got me to lay off and bej for him. I went to the bakeries and groceries and told them I hadn't had anything to eat for two daya. and they'd give me bread and cake and doughnuts. The rnan'd watt at the corners and take the stuff and sell lt. I begged two days for him. Then he told me he was Kotnt; to have me arrested for begging; and I'd get sixty daya and he'd et a dollar for having me arrested. That scared me so I hid all night, and the next morning I walked to Mooresvllle. I walked sixteen miles in four hours; had to go barefooted part of the way, for I walked ray shoes-off. My uncle there put me on the cars and sent me home again; and then my father said if I had anything more to do with that man he himself would have me arrested. You bt I'll keep away from him."

THE SESATE AMJ THE TARIFF.

Johnny O'Neill is seated and all he can do for tariff reform now is to vote to disagree with the senate bill and afterward m help the passage of a conference report. Put he ran hustle in the departments and rai?e a how! if Missouri does not get her due. Never will It be said that John J. O'Neill sulked in offended congressional dignity when there were unsupplied wants in his constituency. St. I-nui" Republic (dem.). The tariff drbate wa fairly launched In tlje senate yesterday, and it will probably continue for week. I)eni -ratio fienators should not aid in prolonging ontroversy. As a matter of fact, tha ariff question has leen abundantly dented. Nothing new is to te said. What s' desirable Is a trial of su-h a revised jystem as the people have demanded, rid which the democrats are now In a position to establish. Philadelphia Record idem.). There is. cf course, ro honesty In the rhatter that the policy of free raw in.'.terils is opposed to th- dcm-Tcrati. principle of a tariff for revenue. No friend of such a tariff ever proposed to tax everything that is imported. Inlr a strict application of the principle the ?rtlclfs to be selected for revenue duties are those the taxation of which would yield the most revenue with tho least burden to the people. To tax raw materials Is to handicap our manufacturers, to limit the demand for labT and to increase the cost of ell gords produced from them. The policy of fre raw materials is explicitly approved in the Chicago platform. N. Y. World (dem ). Conceding its imperfections. Senator Voorhees claimed that the bill as It now stands will be hailed as a substantial measure of reform and relief by the great producing masses, of the American p.-oplo. Assuming this to lo measurably tri, the ccnate should pass th bill without unnecessary delay. The senate i not a large body, and everything that is pertinent jn the way of discussion ch n be said without prolonging the debate into the heat of summer The party in power is under pledg to revise the tariff, and since it has the votes nesary t-i pass the bill now before the senate ,i failure t do so with reasonable promptness will le a confession of inability or unwillingness to make a campaign promise. Philadelphia Times idem.). Mr.' Vr r'uees's speech contains LVOO words, that of Mr. Hill is understood M be much longer, and if all th" s'-natora who have announced thfir intention t participate in the debate speak with qual freedom it will rep.dily be seen that th flow öf tariff literature is likely to last for several weeks. The changes which the senate committee has made in the house bill are many, the most Important being those pertaining to the curtailment of the free list. Although wool, which Is the chief cause of difference between the tariff reformers and the McKinleyites, has beon left on th free list, several other articles which are aliTKt equally imjvirtant. including sugar and iron ore. have been made dutiable by the senate committee, which has accorded heavy r-oncesj.ir.ns to the high tariff ad vocal es. This, however, was to le expected, for the senate has always been the citadel of protection. Erooklyn Eagle (dem.). Senator Voorhees stumbWl awkwardly w hen he allowed himself to lo fooled by mugwump histories attout the date of Jtfferson's birth. The 2d of April is nu Jefferson's birthday, and Monday last was not the one hundred and fifty-first anniversary thereof. A good many Eastern cyclopedias and handbooks of alleged American history have it that way. but they are wr ng. They have simply carried the old style of chronology Into the new style, and. are therefore eleven days out of plumb. If Jefferson was ln.rn on the 2d of April then Oorge Washington was lxrn on the nth of February a reductio ad absurdum evident to any sch'K.Ihoy. Tlwnias Jefferson was horn at Shadwell. In Albemarle county. Virginia, on April 13. 1743, and died at Monticello. a few miles distant, on the Fourth of July, isi'6. While the democracy is marching on. it will le just as well to keep these milestones f democratic history in ?:ght. St. Louis Republic (dem.). During that time when the country had been aroused to such a pitch f Indignation against this state of affairs In the senate, democratic leaders, m..ng whom was Senator Vrx-.rhees. who n"w has charge of the tariff bill, avowed th necessity of a revision of the rule?, and promised that such a revision should 1 made when the repeal bill was out of the way. Senator Hill constituted himself a champion of revision, and sought repeated opport unities to proclaim his determination not to rest until it should be made: while we were promised that the committee on rules should promptly report common-sense substitutes for th absurd and obsolete er.de of traditions) which regulates the action of the senate. Put today how have these promises leen kept? Mr. Voorhees opens the debate on the tariff bill, confronted by the sann rules which so long obstructed the passage of the repeal bill. The voice of Mr. HUI has not been heard except to demand changes In the bill, making It more acceptable to the enemies of tariff reform, and the committee on rules might as well be a committee of mudturtles sunning themselves on a log. The tariff discussion opens under a set of rules whose observation will render th majority powerless. As the democrats have made no attempt to change those rules, they can not plead them in extenuation of failure to dispose of the bill expeditiously. And they must dispose of it thus, or take the responsibility for the delay. It is hardly necessary t say that they have already Incurred i very heavy burden of responsibility during the present session of congress. Louisville Courier-Jcurnal (dem.). TIIU STATU PHCSS. What people want is tariff reform, not tariff debate. Munde Herald. Th I'nited States senate has become a morgue. Terre Haute Oazette. There is no law compelling a writer to put h's words on slilts jut because they are to appear in a newspaper. n-vkville Tribune. If the tariff speeches in the senate are inversely proportional L the disgust tha tuple have for th- senate they will ba short i.nd in monosyllables. Senator Voorhees is having a hard time to harmonize his recent speech on the Wilson bill with his p.ist record o:i thi tariff question. Attica Democrat. Unless several senator? mend their ways there will be several pictures turned to the wall when the people clea'l the political household. Muneie Herald. Oh. Coxey's tramps have lots of fun. Their record can't I' beat. K.ir when they start for Washington. They get there with loth feet. Seymour Democrat. The debate is on in the senate and the wait is on in the county at large. As the senate has the first deal at the cards, it has just that much the lest ef the game. If the deal goes wrong. Kokomo Dispatch. The democrats of lndu:u s, nd .noti.-e to congress that they -want o.i compromising wllh trusts. ' Any effort t extend the live of these leeches upon th? pubis.'! welfare will be resented i:i un.T.istik. a.t)'e terms. Peru Sentinel. Senator AlJrleh was the first to "rply" to Viator Voorhees. !'ilt whit was there to reply to? What is thser.se of a controversy over percent grs? The Inditna and tr.e Iowa senators both advocate the republican doctrine of prtectl.m to trusts. Kvansvd.e Courier. Passel as amended by the senate finance committee and in the f .rm eulogized by Senator Voorhees In his steeeh, the tariT bill strijTs the armor of Justice from demo.T&ey and leaves it naked and defenceless to its enemies. H is a pitiful ending to high hopes. Tcrre Haute (iazette. There Is a good d"al of complaint among the memb?r of our bar of the discourteous treatment accorded them by Judge Baker of the district federal court. Put they should bear In mind that there are a great many very good Judges who are utter strangers to good manners. Evansvlllc Courier. '

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