Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 June 1894 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY lORNEKG. JUNE 13. 1894 TWELVE PAGES.

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!BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. 'S. E. MORSS. President, BEN A. EATON, Yi PTMidnk b. McCarthy. Secretary nd Traaaarer. Enter4 at he Poatofflce t ladlas poll mm second elasa matter.) TERMS PER TEAR Single copy (In Advance) fl OO AVe bik democrats to bear In mind 'and select their own state paper when they come to take subscriptions and make up clubs. Agents making np clabs send for nr Information desired. Address TUE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL Indianapolis, IndL TWELVE PAGES. WEDNESDAY, JCSB 13, 1S94. Physicians, wlio have been requested I recently by a Boston manufacturer to 'Elve their opinions on the bicycle In reflation to health, are of the opinion that tth Wcycle can be used to great advantage in the hundreds of diseases referable 'to a torpid liver, -weak digestion and an inactive skin. We should think that the J&d vantages of breathing an abundance ,'cf fresh air might be set forth In the feame connection and the strengthening ?of the muscles of the legs and arms. k. ' I ."With the closing of the theatrical seaon comes the hope that the villain who ear.g his woes, the lover who warbled out rfcis love eongs, the eoubrette and the tieroine, who sang upon the slightest Vxrovocatlon, will be given a rest, not IDdy for the cummer, but for the next feeason. The sensible publio is Intensely tired of hearing the same popular songs, tho same stale recitations, and seeing Xhe same dances introduced into every fcjlay which comes along. Everything in )the modern drama is made the excuse Isfor "Daisy Bell," "Two Little Girls in lue," and "Sweet Marie." In fait, there Is no more a popular, play, but ixerely a popular song performance. The convention of railroad employes, rhich was held in New Tork a few days go, declared in favor of compulsory arbitration. This 13 a most encouraging 'step. "When workingmen realize that the Teal cause of failure in their efforts for 'justice is that there is no legal method provided for the hearing and adjustment cf their claims, they will speedily unite In the demand for compulsory arbitration, end the public sentiment of the country will support them in it. As our law now stands they have no legal remedy. The strike is their only remedy, and that Is legal only to the extent of quitting work. ."What workingmen need Is a court whose decisions cf labor questions can be enforced, and their wrongs can never be righted until they get it. The most dastardly and foolish thing that has been done in the present strike Is the murder of "William Barr. No speries of logic can offer any possible justification for an assault on a man who .s peaceably performing his duty in a line of work not involved in the strike, even if it could justify lawlessness in anything. In this case the man assassinated was one of the most peaceable mnd reputable of citizens. He was unSirersally loved and respected by his fellow-workmen and had great influence in Jhelr councils. This action of the miners fcrill probably end all sympathy felt for them by the railroad men. A railroad man's occupation is hazardous enough in Jtself without exposure to attacks from Rmbush by miscreants who would kill a rnan merely to show dislike to his employer In discussing the consideration by congress of bills for increasing the circulation the New York Herald says: "These orators would be surprised to learn that practically every dollar of the big surplus in our city banks belongs to out of .town Institutions, and lies here merely because the communities to which it belongs can find no safe or profitable use jTor It." This is certainly true, and It ought to receive the careful consideration ,cf gold monometalllsts. The country recovered quickly from the panics of 1S37 and 1S37 because there was "safe or profitable use" to which money eo'ild be put, but under a constantly appreciating Btandard of value such use lr, hard .to find. Hence the slow return to pros(Perity after the panic of 1873, and hence the same in 1S93. It would seem to be safer and more profitable to let money lie in bank than to use it in ordinary legitimate business. In Chicago many manufacturing establishments and some people have solved on? of the problems growing out of the 'coal miners' strike by using coal oil for jfuel. At several pumping stations the Scity officials are using oil and the big I packing plant of the Anglo-American provision company, the Fowler packing jhouse, 13 to be equipped for burning oil ;at once. The Armours are contemplating the same change, and so is the Nelson Morris packing company. The.se last two ! have not yet definitely decided to make the change, however. A manufacturer said: "The oil costs from 63 to 60 cents a barrel jand is more economical, supposing good coal is used. The saving over anthracite is 40 per cent. There 13 a big saving in stoking of course. One man can attend to ten boilers. Oil is a smokeless fuel. If your chimney smokes when you are burning oil It is a sure sign that something is wrong and that you are not getting your money's worth out of the oil. The chief changes needed In altering a fire box for oil are the construction of flues of firebrick to lead the air to the point of combustion at as high a temperature as possible, and the placing of the pipes and turners, which cost $30 or $40 a boiler. The change back to coal can be made In half an hour." All thl3 is very Important Information. The Indiana oil fields are

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De utilized. Chicago brings oil clear from Ohio. PROVIDE FOR ARBITRATION. Commenting upon our remarks on the necessity for courts of arbitration, the Pittsburg Post says: "The Sentinel maintains that "when the rights of property and the rights of labor come in conflict, the public. In self-defense, has the clear right to adjust the difficulty." Admitted, but how? For every wrong there is supposed to be a rem edy, but in this case the difficulty is to find the remedy. An efficient law against the "pluck-me stores" would be a great step In advance, but when It Is attempt ed legislators and judges bowl It down that It interferes with the sacred right to contract between man and man. So It does, but so does the prohibition or regulation of the saje of intoxicants a.nd poisons, and yet a way is found as to them. "We imagine that the proper way to find a remedy Is to make one. In this country if one person falls Into a con troversy with another over any right of person or property, either may compel the other to come before a court and have the matter settled. But in these cases of conflicts between labor and capital we have made r.o provision for any legal adjustment of the matter in dispute. We say to the parties, "You must settle this between yourselves. You may quarrel and abuse each other as much as you like. You may starve each other if you can. But you must not fight. You must not resort to violence." At the same- time we know that they will resort to violence; they will fight; they will destroy property. These conflicts are conflicts of rights. The rights of property on the one hand are recognized by all. The right of labor, on the other, to a reasonable compensation Is equally recognized by law. If one person sues another for wages or services the court will give him "reasonable" compensation. The rule of quantum meruit is as well established as any other principle of law. It is also recognized by our protective system, whose benefits the coal operators have ought on the ground of desiring opportunity to pay reasonable wages. The only hindrance to the decision of these oanfilcttng rights is the idea of right to contract, but our courts hold that an unconscionable contract is void, and surely It Is a small step to take to require contracts to be made consclonable to begin with. If a corporation will not work its property on a consclonable basis, let it stop, or let the court appoint a receiver for it. If men will not work on a consclonable basl3 let them go elsewhere. But It Is urged that there will be no power of compelling the men to abide by the decision. Most assuredly there will be power either to do that or to compel them to stand aside and let others work. The only reason why public sentiment does not act quickly and forcibly in these cases is the doubt as to which side is right. If an impartial court should decide that the employes were wrong there would be no hesitancy in enforcing the decree of the court. The right of a laborer to work or quit work is, and must of necessity be, recognized. The right of a property-owner to work his property or not work it is recognized. But there is no rea?-on why the public, for its own protection, shou'd not require that when working they should work on a just and, equitable basis. 1VIIT THE DIFFERENCE f Perhaps the most striking feature yet developed In the Indianapolis bank cases Is the difference in the sentences imposed on Frank Coffin and Theodore P. Haughey and the way in which they were pronounced. Coffin is hurried to sentence as quickly as his motion for a new trial is announced, notwithstanding the assurance of his attorneys that they will apply at once for a writ of supersedeas. Haughey pleads guilty on April 8 and is released on bond until after Coffin is tried. Then his day of sentence is several times postponed. At last the day arrives and the court almost breaks down from the excess of his feelings of sympathy and pity. Coffin was sentenced with all the severity and sternness that could be Imagined to be shown by a Roman tribunal. Coffin is given the full limit of the law. Haughey is given six years, and that is permitted to run from April 8. And in fixing this sentence the judge begs the treasurer of the republican state central committee to believe that "this is one of the most painful acts of my life," and assures him that "I feel as much for you as any stranger can." This is the more striking when we re member that the crime of which Coffin was convicted was conspiracy with Haughey in the misapplication of only a portion of the bank's funds that were misapplied, for the misapplications out side of the cabinet company's account were very extensive. If we accept the judge's theory that Haughey was over come by Coffin's great mind and will power that he was hypnotized as it were what shall be said of the remaining misapplications? Did Schuyler Haughey hypnotize him? Did Lew Haughey hypnotize him? Did other parties who borrowed from the bank in excess of the legal limit hypnotize him? Did he hypnotize himself when he misapplied bank funds on his own behalf? Was he hypnotized when he told widows, and school teachers, and others who trusted him that the bank was perfectly safe, and urged them to keep their money on deposit? Was he hypnotized when he permitted, if he did not Induce, the widow and son of the man he professed to hold dearest on earth to lose everything they had by their connection with his bank? We may as well drop the hypnotic theory here. Theodore P. Haughey has been a per fectly sane and responsible man for the past fifteen years. He was the president of the bank, and was given by the di rectors the most extraordinary powers in the management of the "bank. There was probably not another national bank in the country whose president had such absolute control. lie has crtalnly known for ten years that his bank was unsound, and the only conceivable rca- i

son for his allowing funds to be used. In that time, as he has, is a hope that he might recoup through successful manufacturing enterprise. He has lived a double life, supplementing his unlawful actions In the bank with the most extreme professions of Christianity. There has never been a bank failure in this city where more depositors were caught whose very helplessness would appeal to any human heart. It must indeed be painful to sentence such a whited sepulcher to prison even for a short term.

RELATIVE PRODICTIO.V OF SILVER. In criticising some recent remarks of Mr. Robert Barclay in the May number of the "Nineteenth Century," the Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin says: In view of the enormous production of silver it is very remarkable that a director of the Manchester chamber of commerce should say that legislation alone has caused the reduced value. Not only Is the effect of the production ignored, but the effect of legislation has been exaggerated and the cause of the legislation wholly left out of the account. The enormous production of silver to which It refers is the gradual Increase of production1 of silver, relative to the production of gold, which has been in progress since 1850. The reason of this apparent Increase of silver production waa the great and sudden increase of gold production from the mines of California, Australia, British Columbia and the Rocky mountain region. From 1800 to 1S50 the amount in weight of gold in the possession of mankind in proportion to the amount of silver, stood very steadily in the ratio of 1 to 22. That Is to say, for every ounce of gold in use there were thirty-two ounces of silver, but notwithstanding this ratio the market value of gold stood ire relation to the market value of silver, during the same period, very steadily at about the ratio of 1 to 15x,. Hence, if the amounts of the metal in the world's stock have anything to do with their value, the normal relation would be 1 to 32, and any increase of either metal above that ratio ought to cheapen the metal whose production is increased. In 1S50 there began an extraordinary increase of production of gold, which is thus stated by the paper referred to: The California production of gold made the total production of silver only four and a half times the weight of gold from 1S51 to 1S80. Disregarding small fractions, the weight of silver was six times that of gold produced from 1S61 to lSGii, seven times that between lSf.6 and 1S70, eleven times that between 1S71 and 1S75. fourteen times that between 1876 and 1SS0, nineteen times that between 1SS0 and 1SS5; in 1SS0 the weight of silver was nearly twenty-two times that of gold; in 1832 a large increase in the production of gold reduced the ratio of weights to a little more than twenty-one. This increase of gold caused a marked change in the world's stock of the two metals, the proportion of silver steadily decreasing until 1S?4. when it stood in the relation of 1 to 18.4. From that time there has been a slight increase of silver, and the world's stock now stands in the relation of about 1 to 1S.8. On the monometallist theory there ought to have boon a steady decline of gold until 1SS5, and since then a slight decline of silver, but nothing of the kind occurred. There was no decline in gold at all, and the decline of silver began in 1&72, when the world's ratio stood at about 1 to 20, and the relative increase of gold stock continued for twelve years after that time, Hence it is impossible that the production of either metal could have produced the decline of silver, but the thing that did begin in 1S72, and that did cause the apparent decline of silver, but actual appreciation of gold, was the legislation for the demonetization of silver. It is astonishing that a paper usually so correct in business affairs as the Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin cannot see the force of its own figures. It quantity controls the relative value of gold and silver it is the total quantity in the possession of mankind and not the comparatively insignificant amount that is mined from year to year. rortLAU ELECTION OF SENATORS. No subject Is attracting more universal attention than the popular election of senators, and the sentiment is almost unanimously for such election. It is recognized, however, that the great impediment to the reform is the senate itself, which can hardly be expected to assent to Its own reformation on the ground that it is unfit to exist in its present condition. It will be necessary, in the first place, to get a senate which will aid in the necessary constitutional amendment, and the only way to do this is to adopt the Illinois plan of nominating sen ators in state convention, pledging them to the reform and leaving to the legis latures only the formal work of register ing the will of the party. To this plan the Baltimore Sun offers the following remarkable objection: There is undoubtedly much to be said In favor of this method of bringing sen ators once more into touch and sympathy with the people. There is also another side to the question. Senators have too much to do with state -olltlos already. New York and Maryland are flagrant in stances in point. The greatest "xon to both states would probably be Oe entire divorce of local, state and munk.pal pol itics, from the intrigues and combinations of national politics. We want no leg slatures chosen especially with reference to the selection of a United States senator. That is but a small, a minor oart of the duties for which a legis lature is chosen. An electoral college has but a single duty to perform, and that a purely ministerial one. A state legislature has a multitude of questions and In terests to deal with, and its action can not be regulated with reference to a single issue the choice of a senator. To us the Sun's objection is the strong est possible reason for the adoption of the plan. Unquestionably it is greatly to be desired that the connection of na tional senators with state politics should be reduced to a minimum, and that minimum is reached when the choice Is placed in the hands of the state conventions. Under a popular election system the senatorial candidates would have to be nominated by state conventions, and no harm can be done by making the nominations there under the present sys tem of election. The very purpose of state conventions Is the making of nominations. Senators cannot buy up state conventions by promises of office, and

neither can governors ana other states

men who are aspirjng to senatorial office. One of the greatest evils of the present system one almost as grave as the. debasing of the senate Itself is . the corruption of legislatures by senatorial candidates and the election of legislators for the special . purpose of voting for some particular senatorial candidate. This buines has already begun in Indiana in the selection of candidates for hold-over state senators, who will vote for a national senator in the legislature of 1S07. Such men are selected not for their fitJ ness for legislation, but because of their adherence to certain senatorial aspirants. INCONSISTENT MO.VOMETALLISTS. Our gold monometallist contemporaries are having quite a time with their explantions of the benefits, present and future, of the monometallist system. A part of them are dwelling on the enormous concentration of gold in banks, and especially in governmental banks, as conclusive proof that there is an abundance of gold for all the world's demands. For example,, we are Informed that the gold holding of the bank of England for the last week of May was $168,078,275 as against $120,035,175' in the same week last year, $128.393.470 in 18?2, and $121.336.545 In 1891. And this, It is claimed, "affords conclusive evidence of the falseness of the claim made by the Mmetallists that the world is suffering from a scarcity of gold." No bimetalllst makes any such claim, except in conection with the fact that legislation has made gold practically the only money in the world. There is probably more gold In use than there ever was before. It is scarce only because an abnormal demand for it has been created. And the presence of large amounts of it in banks of redemption prove its scarcity. They are obliged to hold more than formerly on account of the liability of panics. In these times gold goes . to the strong. The call for gold by England is now so marked that we are exporting It. At the same time our monometallist friends assure us . that the production of gold is so rapid that it will supply all the needs of the world, and so put an end to the scarcity, which they say does not exist. The new mines in Africa are inexhaustible, and we have been furnished with estimates of the amount of gold that must be in. and will be taken out of, a tract of country about four hundred miles square, and these estimates show that there will be an abund ance of gold. It is overlooked, however, that It would take several centuries to obtain this gold, if it is there, and that as yet no inexhausible gold mines have been discovered. One of the most interesting revelations of new supply Is the assertion of our neighbor, the News. tht large quantities are coming from India, where the natives are alleged to be converting their gold ornaments into coin by selling them to the mints. This is doubtful, for few of the natives of India have .old ornaments except the rich, and the rich in India hoard gold systematically. Probably nine-tenths of all the gold in India is held by the native princes. But if it be true it shows that gold is both scarce and dear. There is nothing more indicative cf plenty in it than there was in our forefathers casting church bells into cannon balls. THE St GAR SCHRDILE. The adoption of the sugar schedule of the "conservatives" by the senate will add nothing to the respect of the people for the senate, and detract nothing from the public detestation of the favors granted to the sugar trust. It was anticipated that the schedule would go through, the senate as reported, because it was one of the features to which a majority had consented, but the fact still remains that nothing could be more stupid and dangerous, politically, than to permit the extra duty on refined sugar to remain in the .bill when It becomes a law. As to Its merits it Is absolutely Indefensible. It has not even, the poor excuse of being a protective measure, in the proper sense of the term. It is simply a donation to the sugar trust, just as the McKinley duty was. The fact that it is a fraction of a cent less on the pound than the McKinley robbery makes the principle of the action none the less abhorrent. It is a robbery of the people for the benefit of one of the most corrupt, unprincipled and rapacious trusts that ever was fostered by republican legislation. It is a foul blot on the tariff bi.ll. How much truth there may be in the reports of sugar speculations by senators will perhaps never be known, but there is enough known to disgust the people with this concession The statement, reiterated by several democratic senators, that the bill could not pass the senate without this concession Is conclusive evidence that there are senators, who call themselves democrats, who are the tools of thLs infamous trust. There must be such, for if there were not the bill could easily be passed without any duty on refined sugar in excess of the duty on raw sugar. Whoever those senators may be, they are bought. Everybody knows it. No one has any interest in a duty on refined sugar except it be a pecuniary interest. Of course, democratic senators, from a sense of party duty, may vote for the schedule to Insure the passage of the bill, but the senators who force such a situation are bought. Mr. Havemeyer was not In Washington for his health. No political party can afford to take on itself the burden of any such odium as this concession entails. To do so would be a monumental political blunder. The house should see that the concessions to the sugar trvst go out of the bill, no matter what else may remain. ! THE STATE HANK TAX. The action of the house of representatives on the bill to repeal the state bank tax probably disposes of that measure for the present session of congress, if not permanently. The reason is that the ; members Who favored repeal COUld not . . agree among themselves as to the terms of repeal, some favoring absolut repeal. ;

and some favoring repeal as to banks which were put to a certain extent under federal supervision with federal guaranty of the notes issued. The- declaration for the repeal of the tax was brought Into the democratic national platform by New England men, and was. Intended to offset that part of the rdlver and other currency agitation which demanded a greater circulation. Their idea was that under such a bill each state could have all the circulation it imagined to be desirable, while other states, which were persuaded that the existing circulation was ample, might avoid the dangers of inflation. . The originators of 'the project ' contem-

s plated only a guarded repeal which would apply only to .banks whose circulation was guaranteed, or practically guaranteed by the national government, and which were, in fact, "state" banks, and not merely private banks authorized by state laws. There was of course an objection to this by those who felt that the national government should not control state institutions, and all shades of opinions existed between the extreme views. Practically the question was between a theoretical right and a possible danger. There Is not much room for doubt that the existing law is an infringement on the constitutional rights of the states. The national government has no more right to tax state securities than the states have to tax national bonds. The object of the tax was to destroy state banks. In the interest of the national banking system, and if such action is legitimate there appears no reason why the same principle may not be extended to state securities of any kind. It was a bad precedent, and a manifest straining of federal power. On the other hand the national paper money, notwithstanding the original constitutional objections to its Issue, and in fact that although justified by the courts as a war measure It has been continued in time of peace, has proven so satisfactory in actual use that very few persons have any desire to see it abandoned, or to see anything less stable put in its place. There are forcible arguments on both sides. The Sentinel has advocated a guarded and restricted repeal as desirable, but not an absolute, unqualified repeal. A safe currency is too important to the people to be endangerered on abstract propositions of right. ET CETERA. Twice ns many women as men are afflicted with neuralgia.. Ur.mnrrid and childless mm form 72 rer cent, of the criminals of France. The Brooklyn tabernacle has called the R?v. B. Fay. Mills to take Dr. Talmage's vac?.nt pulnit. After being abolished for twenty-five years the death penalty has been restored In Switzerland. He "May I kiss this dainty hand?" She "Oh, yes. if it will give you any pleasure. But where do I come in?" Boston Mildest. Window panes of poms glass, which allow a pleasant and healthy ventilation of a room, while preventing draughts, have oeen mtirlt? in Paris. "Old man. I'm engaged to Miss Dashe. She's a dear girl." "Yes. she is so. She cost me about f.oo the winter I was engaged to her." Brooklyn Life. Fosdlck "Is there any money in the business you are now engaged in?" Cawker "Oh. yes, l'v dropped live thousand dollars into it myself." Judge. "Dapper feels terribly uncomfortable about his wife's mannish ways." "Goes in for athletics, eh?" "No. but she won't learn to buill a fire." Chicago Inter Oeeo.n. They are talking in Boston of a clergyman who, at a recent dinner, drank a quart of champagne under the impression that it was apolinaris and good for his digestion. In the dominion of the British empire alone some S.öiX individuals vanish every year without leaving any indication as to their whereabouts or ever appearing again. '.'Is it true that your bride is very hard of hearing?" "It Is. Why, when I proposed to her I had to shout out so loud that all the neighbors ran in and congratulated me." Fügende Blaetter. The suitor (bitterly) "You reject me? Why, some months ago I consented to wait until you could learn to know ?ne better!" The girl "Yes; that's where you made your mistake.' Chicago Record. Mammoth drops of water, Little grains of cash. Make this life a burden To speculators rash. American Industries. Mrs. Jennywing (to distinguished foreign visitor) "That piece my daughter is playing is exeremely difficult. Baron." Baron Bresel (in extreme agony) "Ah, madam, I wish it was Impossible." Hallo. He kissed her cheek and stroked her hair. This young man bad and bold; And she didn't object in the least, because He was only six months old. Chicago Inter Ocean. Fair Maiden (a summer boarder) "How savagely that cow looks at me." Farmer Hayseed "It's your red parasol, mum." Fair Maiden "Dear me! I knew It was a little bit out of fashion, but I didn't suppose a country cow would notice it." Pearson's Weekly. A curio in the way of recipes for painting has Leen found In a writing by D'Arcet, who was a chemist and coin assayer in the year 10 of the French republic. lie advlse the use of soft cheese as a vehicle, and maintained that cheese paintings kept thtir color and consistency well. But he said nothing of the temptation such paintings might offer to mice. Old "Billy" McGarrahan, who for years urged a claim against the government without success, and who died in Washington a month or so ago, lies buried in the "strangers' division" of Mount Olivet cemetery. Some of his friends have joined in the erection of a tombstone over the grave, on which are carved the words, "Better Days," which was always the toast he gave on social occasions. STREET PICKINGS. F. G. Darlington Is general superintendent of the Pennsylvania lines, and to him it was necessary to go when the special trains were wanted to convey the militia to the scenes of rioting on last Saturday. He is more than clever, and when the situation became known to him he Immediately went to the state house, had a conference with Governor Matthews, Adjutant-General Robbins and Assistant Adjutant-General Defrees. He offered the train or trains that might be neected, and agreed to have them ready at any time they were asked for. While he was about the building MaJ. Defrees suggested to the governor that Mr. Darlington be made a member of the militia, with the rank of colonel, as a matter of courtesy. Accordingly a commission was made out and Mr. Darlington, feeling the honor, accepted. He was from that time on a member of the Indiana legion and under the command of MaJ Defrees, who was assistant adjutant. This was a peculiar position for the superintendent of the Pennsylvania company to i ho in at a Um when train a I'lr. noTa,! The peculiarity was not noticed, however! by Mr. Darlington until after thjs first train ha departed and he began to get orders from MaJ. Defrees, who appreciated- the poMtlon an(1 ordere(i -Col." Darlington to remain at his office In order that an ad

ditional train might be had on short notice. He was also ordered to inform "Adjutant-General" Defrees when the special train reached Cannelburg. Mr. Darlington said no word of complaint but bided his time and" got even. MaJ Defrees stayed at he 6tate house that night until pretty late In order to be where he could be in communication with those going to the front and with the civil authorities at Cannelburg and Shelburn. At about 11 o'clock he lay down to get some rest and left word- that he was not to be called except to receive news from these sources, lie had been asleep about half an hour when the telephone bell rang and was answered by the governor's messeneer. "Well, what's wanted?" said the messenger. This is Col. Darlincrton. and I want to talk with Gen. Defrees." "He is asleep." "Well, wake him. I have news from the special." Defrees was awakened only to be informed' that the special had passed Franklin. Again he returned to his couch, and again he was awakened. The train had passed Edinnurg. More sleep and again disturbed. The train had passed Columbus. Mr. Darlington was in the train dispatcher's office and every station reportei the train. And as often as it was reported he called his "superior" officer. Defrees saw the point finally, and tolS the messenger not to awaken him again. But when Col. Darlington called again and insisted upon talking to Defrees, declaring that he must talk with him, the latter was again awakened and again Informed that the train hadpassed some out-of-the-way and unimportant station which had no relation whatever with the trip of the special. Finally Defrees grew desperate and left the state house. At the Columbia club he was compelled to answer the telephone, no one there being willing to take the responsibility of telling Mr. Darlington thnt Maj. Defrees colud not be disturbed. In despair the major went horn-?, and had Ju?t got into a comfortable doze whn he was called to receive "Col." Darlington's colored servant who had a telegram that the special had passed "Frog Hollow." This was too much, and the major dressed himself, went to "Col." Darlington's ofTio and "ordered" the colonel to consiler- himself relieved from any further duty cf reporting news from the special. This was what Darlington was waiting for, and the major was allowed to rest. A physician told this story to the pickings man: "A prominent Marion county farmer discovered that he was gradually getting deaf. He couldn't hear the hired man blast stumps with giant powder. He came to my office and made signs that he wanted his ears examined. I examined them and in an ln?tant. almost, found that his defective hearing was cause! by the gathering of a waxy substance In the ears. When I removed this obstruction of the hearing I was surprised at the result. The old gentleman - jumped from the chair where he had been seated and put both hinds to his ears. He couldn't stand the noise from the street and the least sound startled him. He was one of the most pleased men I ever saw. He went away and it was several weeks before I saw h!m acain. He called at my office with his wife and she d;d all the talking. She hardly raised her voice above a whisper and every now and then she locked at her hurbnnd in a timid way. She raid that for several days he would net allow the least bit cf noi.-o in the house and that he butchered some pigs before their time on account of being elTpotel by their squeal. His daughter and her husband had lived with them for two years and they had to leave on account of the crying of their six-mor.ths-old baby. There w.-re two clocks in the house, one in the diningroom and one in the bed-room. These he stopped on account of the ticking. The clock in the bed-room was an alarm clock. It went off one nisht. He jumped from bed and nearly broke his ncck by falling head first on the floor. The woman said that she hid to keep the house as o.uiet as a graveyard for more than two weeks, as it was that long befrre her husband became accustomed to hearing His daughter, however, has gone back to the farm with her baby and the clocks have been started again."

THE SENATE AND THE TARIFF. Mr. McPherson is certainly right. It is very unfortunate for a senator when his speculation on his vote goes off before he pulls the trigger. N. Y. World (dem.). In lS90the republicans made the sugar trust rich and in 1834 they are backing its schemes. If the trust had not a firm grip on the republicans it could not have forced concessions from an unwilling democratic majority. St. Louis Republic (dem.). Senator Aldrich is oppressed by the thought that the sugar tariff would be a tax of $00,000.000 to $75.000,000 upon the people of the United States forgetting that the foreigner would pay It! Of course, a bounty would tax nobody. It would just come out of the treasurylike the eggs that are drawn from the magician's Inexhaustible hat. Philadelphia Record (dem.). The democratic newspapers of West Virginia denounce, almost without exception, the emasculation of the Wilson bill in behalf of trusts and special interests, and they evidently represent their readers, for at a recent democratic meeting at Phillippi, Barbour county, resolutions were unanimously adopted deploring the delay in the passage of the tariff bill, and expressing emphatic disapproval of the changes made by the senate. N. Y. Post (ind.). Some of the republican organs are calling attention to the fact that while the republican press never had any fault to find with the Harrison administratioq the democratic press is free in its criticism of the Cleveland administration. True, ind?:d! The republican press has blindly approved everything republican; the democratic press seems to believe that the mere party machine is not the be-i'll nor end-all of party. Louisville Courier-Journal (dem.). Senators Sherman and Aldrich display either great ignorance or great mendacity in repeatedly denying that the sugar trust was in evidence when the McKinley tariff was passed. Almost anybody could tell thorn that the trust existed and its certificates were being traded in on the New Y'crk stock exchange more than a year before the republicpns of the Fiftyfirst congress put into the McKinley act the high protective duty on refined sugar which enabled the trust to rob the people of millions of dollars. But how is this to excuse the democrats from doing the same thing with much greater deliberation and knowledge of its effects on the trust? SpringiitJd Republican (Ind.). There can be no terms of denunciation too severe for the action that the senate has seen fit to take in the face of an expo3ure of the defiant and dictatorial attitude assumed by the trust. Evidence is once more given, and more c learly than ever before, of how totally the senate can mistake 'or how recklessly it can ignore the will of the people and the spirit of the times. The house of representatives must be relied upon to save the nation from the disgrace of such an enactment and the dangers it would invite. No observer of current events can doubt that the whole framework of our economic, financial and Industrial legislation is being examined as never before by the mass of men in whose power it is to remodel it as they please. Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin (Ind.). . In the United States senate professors of a "straight" democracy are peen practising the most crooked democracy that was ever known and which does not deserve the name of democracy. Party organization has proved so weak and Impotent, that half a dozen of political renegades and traitors, self-styled "conservatives" have been able to take the whole party by the throat and to dictate to their democratic colleagues as the price of their support, terms which are as dishonoring to the party as they are

injurious and hateful to the country. All Ideas of party loyalty, fealty and allegiance are thrown" to the winds by thesa men, who, while professing the greatest horror of "mugwumps," "independents' and "kickers" are themselves now the worst kickers and party rebels in the land, Baltimore Sun (dem.). ', It's a long lane that has no turning. This lane may be long, but it will have a turning.. At.that turning the betrayers of democracy and the plutocrats of t the sugar trust, with their agents of alii degrees of importance or unimportance, will be confronted by the honest derrjoeracy of the. United States. This is going to be a pod year 'for honesty after all. It is going to b a good year to live in and to work In. An immense lot of housccleaning will be done in November. Brooms, brushes aind soap will be made redy between now and then, and si will plenty of fife. Hideous and scandalous as the action iof congress on this trusi i. the action is but an incident and oon.Trc-ss i;self Is only a remote 'circumstance '"('npirei with the might a:-d ma.i-sty of an aroused people. Brooklyn Eagle (dem.).

THE STATE I'll ESS. Free pine lumber r.ie.-ins cheap3r house for American citizens. Terre Haute Oa zette. J Senatorial courtesy is well illustratei by the record of tlie Washington. Ki-ssi ball team. It has won three grr.es In', twenty-eight. Kokomo Dispatch. it is a nourca.-i.e lac: mat republican conventlr-ns are not enumerating the income tax as among the "odious prop-i-tions" of the democratic party. Lafayette Journal. Governor Matthews 5. making a srent record a.s a sensible officer. He seems gifted in knowing when and how to do a tiling. The governor ha-' a great future before him. Con:iers ille Examiner. There are democrats in Washington and elsewhere who have become .co confirmed In regarding Senator D. B. Hill as a disagreeal-lo person that they honestly believe that if h ever gets to heaven h will make faces at the angels. Lafjyette Courier. The striking minors will soon strike themselves out at the rate they are going now. When they burn railroad bridges and blow up trestles and teer up railroad tracks ihey are no lcr.ger strikers, they ar? public enemies and must be so treated. Fvansvllle Courier. Since the free bank times, say from lS, Indianapolis has had no no less than fifteen bank failures some of them very disastrous. No city In the United States of equal population has suffered so severely from this cause. No wonder the victims demand exemplary punishment for the latest culprits. Evansville Journal. Despite the republican mass meeting to protest against the nomination of Charley Lanais for congress in the Tenth, district that "kid" politician 53ys that he will stick. Of course he will, and h should, too. He won the nomination, whether by fair means or foul and would bo a chump to give it up. Michigan City 1 ispaicn. There ought to be a law for arbitrating such difficulties as now prevail between coal operators and the miners. But such a law sh uld make the state the sole authority in deciding these differences. Surely no other intercut his as much at stake as the state. Evansville Courier. When you sell your wool at 10 to IS cents a pound. Mr. Farmer, remember that you are selling it under the "protection" afforded by the McKiny bill; and then, if yon yntt-d th republican ticket and helped make the McKinley law po: siMe, go kick yourself and don't kick too easy. Pulaski County Democrat. Governor Matthews has shown commendable promptness in protecting the property of citizens of Indiana. Lawlessness invariably weakens a cause-. The killing of a Yandalia engineer has deprived the striking miners the sympathy of a large number of laboring men who 'approved of this lawful movement for better v. ages, and other acts of lawlessness have further weakened them. Logansport Journal. Attorr.ey-Uenc-ral Smith has receive 3 much meriu-d praise lor the great victory in the railroad tax cases. Ho hj caused the supnmo court of the United States to write some r.ew law and set a landmark f-r future legislation on tho subject of railroad taxation, and has also somewhat shaken the republican platform. Green Smith has been abused more than any other demxrat in Indiana, but he is a bigger man today than ever. The people like a man vlth the courage of his convictions and nerv enough to face the music Sullivan Times. This is the 9th day of June, the senat has had the tariff bill under discussion for four or five months and no bill has been passed, and in the shape, as desired by the people is not likely soon to be. The thinking men of the democratlo partj", those who have always stood by it through good and evil report, who believe In the perpetuation of democratic principles, cannot but be thoroughly disgusted with the conduct of its leaders in the senate. A thorough reorganization of the party with all this Incom petent and mountebank crew left out Is the thing absolutely necessary for future success. Crawfordsvllle Review. Again we warn the miner' that lawlessness, riot and disorder will ruin their cause. The leaders wiil have to call off the strike if rioting does not cease. Conditions may be hard, but they cannot be made better by violating the law. In any event, the power of the state will triumph and bloodshed is certain to follow if better counsel do.-s not prevail among the men. A oomlict with the militia means certain death to a great many people, and in view of these facts, the cooler heads among th nun should encourage peace and good order. It is only in this way that success is possible. Let The- men be warned before blood is shed. Sullivan Times. Every good citizen w?'l approve the action of Governor Matthews in ordering out thi? militia for the portection of life and property in the coal minir.g districts. The strikers have over-t idd-n and defied the law and must be taught that the first duty of r.xk! citizenship is obedience to law. A serious anil threatening condition of affairs exists the country cwr, on account of the strikt-s and" the spirit displayed by the mn, a mo j crity of whom are foreigners cf the lowest class. Primarily the mine-ownct s aiv to be condemned for having liniert' J and encouraged tho importation of such people, but n-'W that th-.-y are here they must b? controlled by peaceable means if possible, by force if necessary. The pra sent is n time for the exercise of maudlin sympathy or despicable dtm.agogism. The law. redeyed law, must be en fore d, without fear, favor or affection, an 1 the officers enforcing ought to understand that they have the moral support of all good citizens. New Castle Courier. The peopl? of Vanderburg county will understand something of the ben-Tits of the new tax law when thr-y ascertain that the deei.-ion of the United States supreme court In the cases against the railroads will add at once from $l"i.t'0 to $25.000 to the revenues of this county. This large sum represents back taxei which have been withheld by thu railroads pending the rw nt de-cislon. As soon as the decision Is properly certified back to the court in which the case originated, that is sixty days from thj date of the decision, the money will be due and payable. It will le distribute,! in all the townships so that every portion of the county will feel the benefits. Hereafter these taxes will he added and payable every year. The city of Evansville will alsa derive ?ome benefits from this decision. This is the law which the republican stale convention declared to be "infamous" and which the republican candidates for the legislature in this county are pledged to repeal if elected, for pf course they will not vote to keep on the statute books an "infamous'.' law. Evansvilie Courier. Dr. Price's Cream E&kins Powder World's Fair laibct iHctLil and Diploma. .