Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 May 1894 — Page 4

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 23, 1894 TWELVE PAGES.

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RY THF INTlIlINBPni IK SFNT1NF! PO B.E.MOR3S, BEN A. EATON, rrcaidant. Tlo Preildtnt b. McCarthy. Secretary and Treasurer. Entered at the Poatofllce at Indian apolls mm rronil class matter.) TERMS PER VE.in t Elaste copr tin Adraacc) $1 OO AVe aak democrats to bear In mind tad aeleet their own atate paper Thea they come to take anbecrlptlooi and make up clnba. Agents making up rlabs tend for Mr information desired. Address TUB INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL, Indianapolis, Ind. TWELVE PAGES. WEDNESDAY. MAY 23. 18f4. It Is not surprising that the tariff pro tected trusts should offer to bribe sena lors. It is one of the incidents of a law less career. The expenses of the senate average 14.000 per day. But that sum Is but a email fraction of what the senate i3 at present costing the people daily. Why should crude opium be put on the free list when crude iron and crude coal are taken off? Is this designed for the protection of American opium-eaters? One great piece of educational work fcas been done by the democratic senate: It has taught republican editors that a protective tariff if a toon to the trusts. Now the Chicago courts have taken fcold of the election law violators. After a time the peanutters will learn that the people of this country, of all sections, want honest elections. Now there are rumors of a national Ctrike in tho iron trades. It would seem that the enforced idleness of the past few months ought to have proven sufficient Jnnorulation against voluntary idleness this summer. Those of Col. Breckinridge's friends who are advising him to withdraw from the congressional race are friends in deed. They realize, what the colonel does riot seem to realize, that the sooner he betakes himself from the public gaze the better off he will be. The colored methodist conference seems to have about reached bed-rock truth when it declared that the race rroblem would never be fettled by appeals to political parties. So long as the colored vote can be controlled in a body a few leaders may get benefits, but the black multitude will get hooks. Republican leaders in the senate are alarmed at the attitude of certain west ern senators who show a disposition to proceed with business and get the tariff bill out of the way. Any man who places the Interests of the country before those of the party Is not regarded as strictly loyal by the leaders. The odd fellows are entitled to congratulations on the success ot their parade. Indianapolis has &een a good many demonstrations of one kind and another, but few to equal and none to surpass that made by the odd fellows Wednesday. It was every way creditable to the order and an honor to those In charge. In connection with the Pullman strike at Chicago it 13 noteworthy that the Pullman oalace car company has Just declared a quarterly dividend of 2 per cent, on its ?30,O0O,006 of stock, about two-thirds of which is water. This represents an earring capacity of 24 per cent, on the investment. Mr. Pullman claims that he has been operating his works at a loss for the benefit of his employes. In a paper read oefore the methodist rnim?ters of Detroit Monday the Rev. JCV. IL Venn declared that the country Was today suffering from the inordinate preed of two classes the anarchist without capital and the anarchist with capital. The former makes use cf the dagper and the bomb, and the latter of legislatures and congress. There is an element of truth about this statement that fhould recommend it to the thoughtful consideration of every good citizen. The opposition to Mr. Harrison's rer.omination has not died out in Indiana. It is even more powerful than four years ago. Then Mr. Harrison had all the patronage of the stae at his back. Now te has nothing but a personal following. Editor McNeely of Evansville is in Washington and cpeiriy revolts against the proposal to renominate the ex-president This will give the opposition courage and Mr. Harrison may reasonably expect a warm fight before he captures the Indiana delegation. The news from the watermelon belt of GeorgU is refreshing. Notwithstanding the freeze of the very early spring which killed out all the watermelons in Georgia, the replanted crop is nearly as large as that destroyed. The yield will probably Ie a week later this year than usual and perhaps not quite so prolific, but the reports made by all the station agents in the watermelon belt Indicate that there will be enough to go around. In Indiana we may expect a large yield also. Boston has bad more great conflagrations than any other city In the country. Scarcely a year passes without the report of a big fire, which sweeps a large section of the Hub. It would seem that experience would suggest to the Bostonese adequate means of prevention. Other cities have sustained great losses by fire, but in almost every such case on experience has been sufficient to secure piotection. Chicago's two great fires taught the city a lesson In fire fighting, as well as In building construction, ar - aawcr a -. Ja 4 fit

' Tuay at Boston practically Impossible

I The Hubites ought to learn a lesson rom their oft-repeated afflictions. ax advance: in infamy. The Journal appears to take some stock in the shameless falsehoods originally put in circulation by "whisperers" in Washington, and revamped by the New York Press, that Mr. Cleveland is responsible for the favors shown to the sugar trust in the senate bill. We give our contemporary credit for sense enovjgh to know that thse stories are fabricated by the men who are the agents of the sugar trust In congress in order to avert attention from themselves. The movement of the sug.ir schedules shows plainly who;' is responsible for them. Mr. Cleveland's friend-? In the house opposed any tax on sugar, and the house put sugar on the fr111? list by a large majority. The tatment was then given out that the trust would make Its fight in the senate. When the senate finance committee was working on the bill it was 'announced that the Louisiana senators not only insisted on a tax on raw sugar, but had gone into combination with the trust for an additional duty on refined sugar. Mr. Cleveland then appointed the strongest advocate of the suar tax to the supreme bench, and the charge was made everywhere that he did it to get rid of his Influence, but he shocked the nation by holding his place in the senate until such a bill as he desired had been reported. All through th disgraceful progress of conflicting reports on the sugar schedule, and consequent manipulation of sugar stock. anti-Cleveland senatoi-3 were speculating in that stock, and when the bill was finally taken In hand by the combination of pirates, the favors to the trust were again Increased. Ortainly no one will believe that these obstructionist senators were representing Mr. Cleveland In their work. A well-regulated idiot would know better than that. And in addition to the plain inference to be drawn from every preceding fact, the story printed by the Press is so extremely thin that no sensible man could believe It. It is asserted by the Press that Mr. Carlisle not only sent a memorandum to Mr. Voorhees, in his own handwriting, specifying the Gorman amendment, but that also in a private interview with certain senators, he used substantially this language: I want to say to you what perhaps you do not know, that gentl-men connected with the sugar-refining industries contributed to the campaign fund of the democratic party nearly JHOO.OOO, and at a time when the committee was greatly in need of funds. It would be wrong. It would be infamous, after such a party service as that, to turn now and strike the men who then helped us. This must not be done. These men are entitled to consideration, and I am sure that the committee will not fail to give it. This was evidently written by some man who was never in a political conference. Politicians do not talk like members of a country school debating society. If we may suppose that Mr. Carlisle was .-nough of a scoundrel to make such a plea, he certainly is not fool enough to do it. Moreover, there would have been no use of it. If the sugar trust made any campaign contributions, and it probably did to both parties, thre was not a senator in Washington who did not know it long before this latest amendment was suggested. And why would Mr. Carlisle send this amend ment to Mr. Voorhees? Every one knows that he had nothing to do with the Gorman amendments. Why would he not send it to the people who were preparing the amendments, if he were rascal enough, and imbecile enough, to make such a proposition and put it In writing? On Its face, the story is a transparent falsehood, and its origin and purpose are as evident as Its falsity. The guilty senators are being closely pressed; senators who had been approached in the Interest of the trust have exposed the offers; something had to be done. We think the sugar emis saries have done too much. If the fa vors to the sugar trust do not go out of the bill now it will be surprising, In deed. MR. H1I.VS LAMENT. David B. Hill has been 'interviewed, end In the course of his remarks he makes this extraordinary statement: I am to be cast aside In the house of my friends simply because I have the courage of my convictions ani stand up against the income tax, which is to be onerous and oppressive to the people of the state which I In part represent. We beg to assure the distinguished wire-puller from New York that he is entirely mistaken in his proposition. His objection to the Income tax has deceived no one. We imagine that there is not a single intelligent person in the country who believes that Mr. Hill has any con victions on the subject of the income tax, or any other subject. Most of them know that the state of New York Imposes in come taxes on corporations, and all of them know that the proposed Income tax could not be onerous and oppressive to any one. The Idea that a tax of $20 on an Income of $5,000 Is oppressive or onerOUS is so evidently absurd that no one would venture to put the proposition into figures. The more sensible opponents of the income tax frankly say that It is the principle to which they object, and not the amount. But the democrats of the country do not base their objections to Mr. Hill on even hLs pretended sentiments on the income tax. That has not yet become a party shibboleth. In Mr. Hill's speech on the tariff he had "the courage of his ccnvictlons" to such an extraordinary ex tent that he abandoned the avowed democratic principle of tariff reform and planted himself on the avowed re publican principle of protection. He declared that he favored duties equal to the difference between American wage3 and foreign wages, which is exactly what the republican platform of 1832 demanded, and thereby he virtually gave assent to the exploded republican idea that wages are Increased by protective Uriä'i, It w At sau tint-IUII'm

course was received as a triumph all over the country by republicans. The republican legislators of his own state gave him their unanimous Indorsement. They knew what was satisfactory to republicans, and the democrat who takes a course that suits republicans need expect no indorsement from democrats. That is not the way to treat them. We reprint elsewhere an editorial from the Louisville Courier-Journal, printed at the time, which Indicates the proper method of disposing of them. Mr. Gorman received a similar tribute from the republican legislators of his state. Mr. Brice has received the praise of the republican papers of Ohio. Others have received like favors in less proportion. The mere fact that republicans commend a democrat is no objection to him, but the fact that democrats obstruct democratic legislation and receive praise because they stand for republican principles, which are in sharply defined opposition to democratic principles, disposes of any claim they may have had to be considered democrats. They are simply political traitors. They have either obtained office by false pretense or they have abandoned the principles that they held when they went into office. In either case the democratic party has no further use for them. It is their duty to get over into the party where they belong, and It is the duty of the democratic party to speed them on their way in the mort vigorous fashion. We think the democratic party will do its duty.

KQIAMTY IS EQl'ITV, There is a noticeable revival of opposition to the income tax among the Hill organs, presumably as an Indorsement of that distinguished traitor, for certainly there Is no room for doubt now that the income tax will remain In the tariff bill. The New York Sun is making a great effort to play first fiddle In this orchestra of obstruction and is furnishing a collection of arguments that are quite as entertaining as its üinkBotts articles. One of the most appalling arguments it has yet produced is an approved article by a gentleman who declares that he is an American, a student of American politics, a graduate of Cornell and a special student at Johns Hopkins. This collegiate declares that the fundamental principle of justice in taxation is that all men shall be taxed equally in proportion to his property, and he asks with tine indignation: If by the utilization of our abilities we come Into the possession of a certain income, are we, by an edict of a czar at Washington, to be taxed not equally with, but additionally over other men? We do not know what czar at Washington the gentleman refers to, as Tom Reed is supposed to be the only person entitled to that name, and he has no especial connection with the income tax, but we submit that the income tax is no proposition to tax unequally. On the contrary, It is absolutely necessary to have an Income tax to secure equality, as is shown by the able argument of this same opponent of the income tax. He says: Every citizen of this country pays a tax, even if he occupies only a hall bedroom in a lodging house. If the landlord of that lodging house had no tax to pay, his lodger would have just that much less to pay proportionately for his accommodation. Eve. y man who hires a let me say $20 a month fi:it has his tax to pay in making the landlord "good" for the taxation imposed upon that landlord. It is needless to go into details; every man, from the single man who hires a hall bed-room at $1 a week to the man who pays $100 a month or more, has to contribute his pro rata share to the taxes imposed on the landlord. And so it comes to pass that we all. in one way or another, have to pay our taxes. Evidently in this case the landlord pays no tax at all, but collects the entire amount from his lodgers, for 'his lodger would have just that much less to pay" If the landlord were not taxed. Hence, instead of all of us having to pay our taxes, the landlord, who owns all the property, and ought to pay all the taxes, escapes taxation entirely. Now, how can you have equal taxation- unless you find some way of taxing the landlord? And how can you tax him except upon his income? We defy the Sun and its collegiate correspondent to answer this question. We challenge It to explain its theory of the injustice of the income tax in the light of its own illustration. Let it bring out its cyclopedias, its arithmetics, its grammars, its rhetorics, its rhyming dictionaries and prepare an answer to our question if it dares. INQUISITORIAL TAXATION. The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette has decided that it Is opposed to an income tax, because it Is "inquisitorial and unAmerican." If our contemporay has any desire to be consistent it must now oppose all taxation on the same grounds. What form of taxation is there that is not Inquisitorial on precisely the same grounds? The income tax bill requires a man to disclose the amount of his yearly profits. The general property tax law, which is in force in all the states, requires him to disclose his property of all kinds. It goes into the minutest detail. He must not only list the total of his property, but must specify the articles, how many watches and clocks and value, how many pianos and other musical Instruments and value, how many corn-shellers, pigs, mules, bushels of potatoes, and what not. Then he must swear to it, and If the assessor is not satisfied be may view the property and assess It himself, and add a penalty for false return. Take the tax which the Commercial Gazette specially favors. What could be so inquisitorial as it? The American returning from abroad must not only submit to the search of their trunks and sachels, but if they are suspected their persons may be searched also. We have frequent accounts of both men and women being obliged to remove all of their clothing, by the custom officials, In the process of search. Is the income tax as inquisitorial as that? Was any form of taxation ever devised that was so inquisitorial since the ' rack and thumbscrew have been abandoned? We are further informed that the income tax Li a uat burden on widows

and orphans, who are the principal owners of the great corporations of the country. There would be a great deal of force- in this argument if the facts could be rroven. But we have never had the pleasure of coming in contact with a corporation of this character. We should like to see one. If there is any in this region of the country the Commercial Gazette should point it out at the earliest opportunity. ' We challenge its specification of the Cincinnati street railroad company and the Cincinnati gas company as corporations of this character. We challenge it to publish the list of stockholders 0f either company with the amount of stock owned. We defy it to show a solitary corporation in Cincinnati in which one-tenth of the stock is owned by widows and orphans. PROVING THE HIIJLE. One of the chief arguments of infidels and unbelievers against the. Christian religion has ever been that biblical history lacked contemporaneous confirmation. On this alleged fact they have boldly set up the claim that the bible was but a clever work of fiction, and that any religion based upon it was perforce but a sham and a fraud. Enthusiasts in the Christian faith whose zeal outran their judgment have in times past given strength to this infidel reproach by bungling forgeries of pretended history whose falsity was sooner or later exposed. But true believers In the bible have for centuries sought to verify its authenticity and have found their reward in much circumstantial and some written evidence to support their theory. Of late years archaelogical research has revealed many confirmations of biblical narrative and the claim is no longer truthfully made that the scholarship of the world Is skeptical. The New York Independent finds, in this changed condition of things, occa

sion for great rejoicing and boldly challenges the criticism of the skeptics. It says that the bible is no longer a book of lonely records. Fifty years ago It seemed as If the only voice that came to us out of the ancient East was that of the old testament. Babylon and Nineveh had perished irretrievably; nothing could be gathered of their history except what biblical authors told or what Greek writers, to whom the rest of the world were barbarians, had happened to gather of the story of these nations that had gone before them. The key had been found to the Egyptian hieroglyphics, but not much of value had b'cn discovered; some names of kings and multiplied copies of one burial book. It then seemed hopeless to expect that any of the many questions which scholars were asking about the possibility of the truth of the scripture records which bear upon the histories of the countries about them could ever be answered. How different is the case now. The annals of kings of Babylon, Assyria and Persia, written by their own orders and in their own times, have been discovered and the forgotten languages have been reconstructed and read. It is something amazing when one .king, of , .Assyria makes mention of five kings of Israel and Judah, mentioned in the bible, and recounts his dealings with them. The king of Egypt, who was probably the Pharaoh of the oppression, has been found buried in his tomb, and any tourist that goes to Cairo can see his mummified features. Nebuchadnezzar tells us in his own language of the great Babylon which he had builded; Cyrus records for our instruction his own story of how he captured Babylon, and Belshazzar tells us such little things as how much he paid to the boatman to carry an offering to the temple of the sun-god. Nor have the hidden libraries of the East been less fruitful. A whole mine of historical material has been discovered which opens to us the constitution of the primitive Christian church and brings just the reeded evidence of the early composition of all four of the gospels. Meanwhile the labor of scholars in studying the literary problems connected with the composition of the biblical books has gone on with increased zeal, and archaeology adds its aid to critical Investigation. The bible seems likely to be justified even out of the mouths of its enemies. TUB inOX HALL SCANDAL. Now that the latest final settlement and distribution of the Iron Hail funds has been announced for May 17, and the customary notice for advancing the case in the supreme court has been given, we trust, that due attention will be given to the announcement of the June final settlement and the postponement of everything to September. Nothing is more discouraging to a claim-holder in an institution of this unfortunate character than a failure to have the monthly notice of final settlement promptly made. It makes him uneasy. He begins to suspect that some new complication has arlren which will require an appeal to the supreme court of the United States, or some similar perennial proceeding. He begins to feel that his funds hold in trust are much in the condition of a tariff bill in the hands of a vulture senate. There Is a vague feeling of unrest which nothing can quiet but another announcement of final settlement. And, by the way, when that settlement is made we would suggest that it would be highly appropriate to have an accounting for interest on this fund. Who gets the interest on the Iron Hall funds? Awe-inspiring question! The human mind is confronted by such mysteries on every side. Who gits the Interest on the city school funds? Who gets the interest on the Consumers gas trust funds? Oh that some Blavatsky were with us to peer into the unknowableness of the unknown and seek -out the usufructuaries of the city. But in the absence of Blavatskys why shduld not the courts attend to little matters of this kind? Banks have been paying 4 per cent, interest all through the existence of this trust, and we may reasonably presume that whoever has had possession of this Iron Hall money has not been making less than 4 per cent, out of it. Indeed, so. nearly is this presumption

of law that In the act creating trust companies, passed by the last legislature, it is expressly provided that any such company shall pay "upon any deposit under any order of any court record" Interest at the rate of "not less than 3 per cent, per annum" when the money remains on deposit six months or more. We have two of these companies in the city. What excuse can be given for. not depositing the money with them and obtaining 3 per cent, per annum on it, if, as has been reported, no interest is now being received by anyone?

Missornrs false pretense. The democratic state convention of Missouri has been guilty of framing a silver plank which Is entitled to take rank with the Sherman silver law as a "cowardly makeshift." It is as follows: We declare it to be a duty enjoined upon congress bv the constitution to coin both gold and silver money for the use of the-people of the states; that congress has no rightful power to refuse the com age of silver metal. We. therefore, de mand the free bimetallic coinage of both gold and silver and the restoration of the bimetallic standard. The first portion of the proposed resolution weakens the demand. It avers that the constitution empowers congress "to coin both gold and silver money.' and therefore demands "the free bi metallic coinage of both gold and silver.' Everybody knows that we have been coining silver ever since It was demonetized, and that we have a supply of coin on hand vastly In excess of the needs of the country. There can be no doubt in the mind of any sensible per son that so far as mere coinage Is con cerned congress has done all that the constitution requires. A requirement of coinage is not a requirement of free coinage, and it is folly for silver men to claim that it is. Such a thing as the present silver question was never dreamed of when the constitution was framed, and the constitution Is absolutely silcnt on the subject. But this Is a small offense as compared with the concluding section, which demands "the free bimetallic coinage of both gold and silver and the restoration of the bimetallic standard." We cannot believe that there was a man in the convention who did not know that it was absolutely impossible for this country to have both of these demanded results. We can have free coinage of silver if we want it. and free coinage of gold at the same time, but we cannot have a bimetallic standard jntll the commercial world, or the greater part of it, joins with us in the movement. All intelligent free coinage men concede that the free coinage of silver, under present conditions, will necessarily result in silver monometallism. Mr. Bland himself concedes this in private conversation and says that he prefers silver monometallism to gold monometallism. We would agree with him if the choice were limited to those two, but why should any one who is in favor of silver monometallism claim that he favors bimetallism? Why not tell the truth? Why not declare in favor of silver monometallism? That is the fair and honest thing to do. Free silver men cannot help their cause by pretending that they are in favor of bimetallism. We take pleasure in recording the fact that another Indiana farmer has recently proved himself too bright to be swindled by a small gang of the various sharps and sharks that make this state the scenes of exploiting all sorts of swindling operations. The case alluded to in the foregoing is that of John Gaheimer, a well-to-do farmer of Shelby county. It happened only last week. Three smooth, sharp swindlers were engaged in the transaction. Two of them appeared at his home in the country in Union township. After discussing the proposition to buy his farm, they displayed about $9,000 worth of what were probably counterfeit bank notes, but the money looked all right to him. Following this they pursued the old and well known swindling trick they introduced some sort of jx card trick and tried to make him believe that he had won $5,000, but he was informed that he must show an equal amount before he could get anything. At th?s stage of the proceedings the third rascal showed up and offered to go with Gaheimer to the Shelbyville bank and get the money that the farmer had on deposit. The l&tter then -woke fully up to the demands of the situation and, calling for help, the men skipped out for new pastures. Officers were soon on their track, but failed to arrest them. We frequently refer ' to these swindling transactions that the farmers who read The Sentinel may detect the scoundrels who roam through' Indiana trying to swindle them. It is estimated that within the last ten years the farmers of the state have been robbed of at least half a million dollars by three-card monte games and other swindling de vices. The new republican governor of Iowa haa just given an example of civil service reform by removing the state librarian, Mrs. Mary Miller. Mrs. Miller is a republican and was appointed to office by Governor Martin. She performed her duties so acceptably that when Governor Boies came into office he retained her in her position. Now Governor Jackson removes her to make a place for the wife of a political friend who knows lothing whatever about library work. There is nothing like republican reform. Shoot the Deserters. The resolutions of the New York assembly In praise of Senator Hill's speech is the most expressive comment upon it that could have been made. It was a recognition by the republicans of the services of an ally. That some democrats voted for it is nothing to the purpose. It was already known that Mr. Hill was not the only democrat that had deserted his party. That these desertions are disheartening It would be folly to deny. They cheat the country of the expected fruits of a long and gallant struggle for release from an unjust system of taxation. They postpone the realization of the reforms which but for this treason would have been within our grasp. Those who Imagine that it means the death of the democratic party, or the abandonment of tariff reform, have stulled

our political history to little purpose. The tariff belongs to that class of questions tsat are never settled until they are settlM right. This is net the first time that the desertion of democrats, so-called, has paralyzed the efforts of democrats. This spades of treason began In the house. :nd more than once defeated the attempt to pass tariff bills through that body. The party refused to defer to these inter.nl enemies, went bravely on Its way. making its declarations on the tariff bolder and clearer with each successive utterance, and In proportion as it had the courage to declare its policy it received expressions of the confidence of thj people. The members of the present house have allowed themselves to be Intimidated into passing a bill that falls far short of the expectations oC the people, but they have not deserted the party. The center of rebellion is In the senate, ani it is to that point that the attention of the people must be directed. There is but one course for democrats to pursue with reference to these deserters. The course of honor Is the course of safety. Their coniuct must he repudiated. In actual war there is but one thing to do with deserter?, and that Is to shoot them whenever they are caught. In the mimic war of politics, it is equally necessary to doom them to political death. To parley with them, to pretend to regard them as misguided friends. Is but to ncourage them In their treason. The man whose course upon the tariff receives the unqualified assent of a republican assembly can never again be, the trusted leader of genuine democrats. Louisville Courier-Journal.

ET CETERA. "Do you pay for poetry?" asked the pretty girl. "Y-yes." replied the editor, with some hesitation. . "What do you ray?" "Compliments." Washing on Star. Freddy "Have you haw such a thing as haw a full-dress cigah?" The tobacconist "No, sir; but we have some In very elegant wrappers." The Pink T'n, London. It Is said that Herbert Spencer has invented a pair of iron clappers which he shuts over his ears when the sounds of life become too oppressive for endurance. It may be very smart to compare old maids to ancient ruins, and all that, but it is wiser and wittier to remark that they do not help to make them. Kansas City Star. A German physiologist has discovered that there are an average of 140,000 hairs on a blonde head. The name of the blonde Is not given, but he must have been very devoted to it. Muller "You always said you would not marry except for beauty, yet your fiancee Is not even good-looking." Schulze "The beauty is in her bank account." Kladleradastch, Berlin. A story running in one of the magazines Is called "A Kentucky Cardinal." The title doubtless is intended to be descriptive of the color the hero painted the town. Kansas City Star. Maud "And am I to lead a happy life?" Fortune Teller "Very. You will never know grief." Maud "Delightful. And am I to marry?" Fortune Teller "Four time3." Harper's Bazar. "What is congress talking about, now, dear?" said Mrs. Dukane to her husband, who was reading the paper. "About all the time, love," was the comprehensive reply. Pittsburg Chronicle. The New York Herald prints the picture of a young woman with its weather reports every day, and old subscribers can tell at a glance what the weather is to be by the amount of stocking displayed. Customer "You are sure that this is the same spring water that we had last summer?" Dealer "Kr well, I thing it's taken from the lake about two blocks farther north." Chicago Inter Ocean. Emily "I am so unhappy. I begin to see that Arthur married me for my money." Emily's Dearest Friend "Well, you have the comfort of knowing he is not as simple as he looks." C.irlcaturen, Vienna, The Chicago Times ungallantly says: In the enlargement of woman's sphere It Is singular that the territory of the auctioneer has not been invaded by the fair sex. The strength of the auctioneer lies in his conversational powers. The Chicago Herald says: A Kansas man has brought suit for damages because a neighbor persists in calling him "Breckinridge." The insult Is a. bitter one, but It might have been worse. Suppose he had been addressed as "Dave Hill." The Ministerial union of Moline, 111., has declared war on pernicious juvenile literature and are going to endeavor to reduce the number of embryo "piruts," Daltons. et similes. This and the anti-cigarette crusade will soon make boy life in Illinois a hollow mockery. STREET PICKINGS. The sultriness of the weather during the past few days ani the oppressive heat In the federal court room have driven the jurors in the bank trial to remove their coats and vests during the sessions of court and as Mr. Kern put it the other day, "sit in their suspenders." Seeing the Jury disrobe to this extent yesterday during the regular afternoon recess to permit the twelve "good men and true" to "stir about" for five minutes reminded ex-Attorney-General Miller of a story which he proceeded to tell to the jurors. He said: "Some years I was trying a case up in Whiteley county, where things are not conducted with the formality that Is the rule down here. It was a terrible hot day In August and the sun was cutting across lots to get at us. We had stood it bravely for three days and after the testimony had been all given to the jury we began with our arguments. Opposed to me was a man who weighed something over 20) pounds. and it got so hot that he began to sizzle. It came his turn to' address the jury about the middle of the afternoon, and he began with a great big cabbage leaf sitting up on his head. As he became more and more enthused the cabbage leaf fell off, and then. as he began to warm up to his work, the only relief he could secure was by the removal of his wardrobe. "As he startei In to tell what an unprinclpaled villain the defendant really was he jerked off his coat and threw it on a bench. As he dived Into the 'res gestae' he shed his vest. The motive for the crime brought his collar off with a jerk, and as he, in vivid words, began picturing the scene at the final moment, one suspender slipped from his shoulder. It realy began to get interesting. "The court, as well as all the others in the room, had been dividing attention between the oratory and the shedding of ap parel, end as that suspender slipp d from the shoulder of the aroused orator the judge concluded that it was time that something should le done. He coughed once or twice and then remarked quietly: " 'Counsel In presenting his eise to the jury must not interpose anything that was not brought out by the evidence.' "The animated lawyer's lingers were nevously clutching at the other suspender, and as he heard the interruption he stopped in the midst of t concatenation of adjectives. He hadn't understood exactly. " 'Your honor, I trust I shall be given sufficient liberty to expose ' "The court interrupted him. 'You will be permitted In argument to expose everything connected with the crime as brought out by the evidence, but the court feels that you have shown a disposition to digress materially. You will please confine yourself more closely by adjusting your suspenders. "And then he understood." The humorous conspieuousness given "the goat" in the odd fellows' parade Wednesday recalled to the memory of one of the representatives of the grand lodge the dedication of the first hall owned by the order in Jefferson county. It was back In the early fifties and the delusion of the goat was apparently as old then as now. Ex-Governor Brough of Ohio and I. D. Williamson, president of the J.. M. & I. railroad, were the speakers of the occasion, and were assigned to wlk at the head of

the procession, a thing which in those days they were proud to do. There bad been excursions from up and down the river, and the town of Madison was crowded with people from Cincinnati. Louisville and other river points. The announcement that Governor Brough would deliver the dedicatory address, and that Mr. Williamson would also deliver an address was sufficient to draw immense crowds. Some Madison people conceive! the ilea of turning a huge white goat, which was noted in the town for Its ferociousness, loose in the procession Just at the time when it was starting. It was thought that some fun would be furnished by the scampering of the persons In the rrocession to get out of the blast's way. The wags were defeated in their scheme. However, much amusement was furnished, fjr when the goat was planted squarely between Mr. Williamson ani Governor Brough. insteij of getting in his work In the style expectei. he look about him and with a knowing wink, retained his position and marched the entire distance in the parade, ani ia the position of honor at the head of the procession. The goat plijol his pnrt 53 well that many cf the uninitiated really believe! that It was a trained goat, ani that it was a. psrt of odd fellowship and belonged in the paraäe. P. B. Coffin, on- of the dfndants In the bank trial, will go upon the stand- as soon as the testimony of his brother has been given, and he Is more or less uneasy, owing to the fact that he was never on the witness stand but once before. This was when he was a small boy and lived at Richmond. There had been a street fight between two colored men which young Coffin witnessed, and when their trial in police court was called the next morning he was summoned" as a witness. Gen. Tom Bennett was the prosecuting attorney in the case. On account of the fact that young Coffin came of a quaker family, he was opposed to taking an oath, but so rapidly was the oath put to him as he took his place in the witness-box that he didn't have time to explain until several questions had been put to him. Gen. Bennett was in a great hurry and wanted to get through the case, so that when the young witness stopped and explained that he was opposed to taking an oath but affirmel instead, the distinguished lawyer was out of humor. "Never mind," said he. "go on and answer the question." The other attorney objected an a squabble ensued. "Well." shouted the general, "affirm then and be d d quick about it." It has been re arked by an observing conductor on one of the electric line? of the city that there is an average of one person out of every ten who knows enough to wait until the passengers have left a car before stepping on. The rule is that as soon as a car stops those waiting to pot on make a rush for the platform and have to be forced back by the conductor tint II those wishing to got off have alighted. This happens every time a car stops in the city, and the result is always delay, not only for the persons who are in such a hurry all at once, but for a large number of innocent victims a well. This is seen also In elevators and on passenger trains where people lose time and cause untold annoyance and delay by thoughtlessly blockading a narrow passage, way and violating rules with which they are thoroughly acquainted. "But thoy reverTeem to learn," adds the conductor.

THE SENATE AND THE TARIFF. Senator Gorman has not yet been able to put the robber birons to flight. Washington Post (ind.). Congressman William L. Wilson of the ways and means committee was made very, very tired by a short visit to the capiiol the other day, and he did not gq near the senate either. No wonder h was weary, it makes the whole country tired to hear from the capitol nowdaya Springfield Bepublican (ind.). When the address of the Minnesota democracy appeared some weeks ago, there were many persons, doubtless, who thought its bitter arraignment and characterization of certain senator? by name as traitors to their counti ; and their party, and worthy only to bt- named in the same category with Benedict Arnold, was too sweeping and severe. Does anybody think it now? Baltimore Sun (dem.). In nothing is the ability of the senatorial "conservatives" to comprehend publl 3 opinion more clearly proven than in their notion that they can "humiliate" Senator Mills by defeating him for a place on the finance committee. Mr. Mills is thoroughly known to the people of this country and is respected for his sterling worth and democratic principles. The people will like him all the better for any condemnation with which the "conservatives" may see fit to decorate him. The only way for the "conservatives" to humiliate Mr. Mills Is by approving him. N. Y. World (dem.). There is not a democratic senator or representative in congress who did not stand with the democratic party on the national platform in 13, and was pledged to furnish a tariff for revenue only to the country. Those members, therefore, both of the senate and house, who have shamefully disregarded their pledge of tariff reform by forcing into the Wilson bill almost as much protection as there is in the our us McKinley bill, have forfeited their honorable obligations to the people and should never aain be trusted by their party Lynchburg (Va.) News (dem.). All thet the people can expect now and all that they a?k is that congress shall dispose of the tariff bill one way or the other and adjourn. They will have to look to the future and other representatives for tariff reform. To the piesent they are looking for relief from the incompetents and cowards who control the majority of the United States senate. It is not so much a question of tariff reform at this time as it Is of getting the pretext of tariff legislation out of the hands of the prott ctionist mercenaries to whom the senate has surre rdered. Louifcville Courier-Journal (dem.). . THE STATE PRESS. The increased valuation in this county and state fell heavi-st on the railroads and republican eorno.-ations, hence the squeal of republican papers. Vincennea Sun. With the banks all well loaded dowr. with money and many nun of capital similarly situated, there is going to ba an opening up in the near future. Columbia City Post. When the republicans went into power it cost $2 per capita to run the general government. After thirty years of republican administration it cost J per capita to run things. Muncie Herald. Admitting that every day's delay in the pasöag? of a taH'T bill was a day added to the months if business stagnation, these republican senators expose their hypocrisy by agreeing to prolong the popular distress in order to reap a possible advantage for protectionism. Lafayette Journal. There are a good many indications that the democrats in Washington do not realize what is going on outside of that city. There is something about the at mosphere of the national capital which is fatal to the dissemination among mem bers of congress and the senate of th latest news from home. Evansville Courier. David B. Hill mistakes his malice fop principle and listening to the promptings of his hatrsds thinks he is patriotic. He is quite ' 5 absurd as and much more dangero-w than the villagers o whom Tennyson said: They take the rustic murmur of their bourg For the g.eat wave that echoes round the world. Terre Haute Gazette. Dr. Price's Crcim Baking Powder A Pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder.

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