Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 August 1894 — Page 4

THE lADIANA STATE SENTINEL; WEDNESDAY MORNING. AUGUST 8. 1894-TWELYE PAGES.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO.

S. E. MORSS, FrMidcnt, BEN A. EATON, b. McCarthy, Secretary and Treunrer. (Entered at tlie PotoiTiee nt Indianpoll second class matter.) TEUM1 PER YEAR i Slaa-le opr tin AdTncrl........Il OO We ask drmorrati to bear In mind and select their own state paper when they eome to take subscriptions and make ap clubs. Ajtenta maklns p clubM send for any Information desired. Address TIIK INDIANAPOLIS SESTHEL, Indianapolls, Ind. TWELVE PAGES. -U'EDSr.SDAY, AIGIST 8, 1801. Trusts and tramps came with the republican party. . The Walker tariff till of 1S16, the greatest triumph of democratic tariff reform, passed the senate by only one majority 28to27. Li Hunjr Chang, the great statesman and real ruler of China, says: "Japan tm an extremely small country like a pill." That belns the casa we would advise China not to take Japan. It is said that Scott Harrison, the expresident's brother, whose, nomination for surveyor of the port of Kansas City was rejected by the senate, will not be renominated. In this respect of not being renominated Mr. Harrison bears a striking resemblance to his better-known brother. A good many ridiculous political stories have been put in circulation by the republican papers of Indianapolis, but the most absurd is that to the effect that the democracy would indorse populist candidates. The democracy would have everything to lose and nothing to gain by puch a silly move and the democracy thoroughly appreciates that fact. The Baltimore News published columns of interviews from all parts of Maryland, similar to the Issue recently made by The Sentinel, and showing that the democrats of that state are bitterly opposed to the Gorman bill as are the democrats of Indiana. Mr. Gorman seems to hav prepared a large picnic for himself when he shall return Lome. A sort of a Cronin mystery is agitating the good people of Crown Point. Dr. Brannon, a very prominent person and the secretary of the Lake county board of health, is mysteriously missing. That part of Indiana has experienced many peculiar sensations within the past year. There is the Roby affair, then the Hammond riots and the trials of the prize-fighters, to ' fay nothing1 of the stealing of an entire railway train in the interests of Judge Johnson of Valparaiso and his nomination for congress. Noithwei tern Indiana was unusually quiet for many years. "Ve derended upon southern and central Indiana for our white-cap and other sensations. Now we must make room for other sections of the commonwealth. The outbreak of hostilities between China and Japan i3 likely to mean a great deal more to the world at large than would appear from surface indications. England and France have Interests in the far East which they always guard with jealous care. That they may get mixed up in the present fracas Is byno means Improbable. Russia, whien ever has its weather eye on India, would Jump at the slightest chance of pushing her Asiatic boundaries farther south. No two of these could become involved in hostilities in the East without Foon transferring the sat of troubles to Europe. And when war breaks out in Europe it will soon Involve all the nations. The trouble between China and Japan may yet bring about the general European war for which diplomatists have long been looking. "The d -tii. ratio party of the country." pays the Indianapolis Sentinel (dem.), "is practically a unit for free raw materials. Its message to the house of representatives is: .Staad llrm for free coal and iron (fr wool, tree salt, free lumber, free o..rl-r. free rice, free oats, ejrgs, butter, frei- admission of all agreultural products? Why not go the whole figure on free raw materials)?, and against the sugar trust tari.T schedule. Better no tar'.Tf bill at all and a square appeal to the country" on the issue of honest tariff reform than the passage of the senate abornlratioii." Chicago Tribune. Why, bless your cerebro-spinal-men-Ingitis, The Sentinel Is, and always has been, in favor of free admission of all agricultural products, as well as of hundreds r? other things, and we have many of them in the Gorman bill, but the present fight is for free iron, free coal and no concessions to the sugar and whisky trusts. It is not necessary to täte everything that you favor whenever you have occasion f stae that you favor some particular thing. Come in out of the lake breeze and collect your scattered senses. It looks like a. bit of spite work on the part of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois road to insist upon the removal of its shops to Momence, 111., from Brazil, after the assurances given It by the good people of the latter city. At a. large mass meeting of prominent business men and other citizens of Brazil Friday night resolutions were unanimously parsed guaranteeing that the property and employes of the road should be properly protected if the company would not remove the shops. Notwithstanding this action on the part of this estimable people, and notwithstanding the fact that the citizens of Brazil had subscribed $20,000, witn the understanding that the shops should be established and maintained there, the work of removal began earnestly yesterday evening. The coravajiy was threatened with, a suit to r-

cover the $20.000. but what does a. corporation without a soul care for a law suit. The longer it lasts the more it is gratified. Another generation or its successors may have to foot the bill.

no si hu i:nEii. The news from Washington grows more encouraging. It is evident that Mr. Cleveland is not going to submit to the senate conspirators, no matter who else may do so, and Mr. Cleveland's veto and his Influence will effectually check the movement to sell legislation to trusts. Outside of Washington the tide of opposition to the senate bill is steadily rising as the people consider the matter and realize the true significance of the situation. They all understand that In any kind of a tariff bill there will inevitably be some favoritism, even if none were Intended, but when such favoritism is deliberately planned and probably paid for, when it is introduced over the protest of the large majority of congress, when it is insisted or as an essential condition, to any tariff legislation, it becomes evident that the beneficiaries are not only controllinglegislation, but also that they are controlling It in, defiance of the known wishes of the people and of the people's representatives. The! line will be drawn there. There is a limit even to the atrocities of protection. On the other hand Mr. Murphy has appeared1 as a factor In the tariff fight. Probably envious of the national notoriety of Mr. Gorman he announces that If the conference swerves a hair's breadth from the se-na-re bill he will not vote for It. and, more than this, that he would probably move to postpone indefinitely the conference report, even If the senate bill were accepted. Mr. Murphy is afraid that Mr. Cleveland will get some glory from the passage of a bill, and even the solace of an outrageous duty on collara and cuffs cannot reconcile his mighty soul to sudh a calamity. Mr. Murphy is a statesman from New York. He is a natural product of the machine rule that has made the proud states of New York and Pennsylvania, a disgrace to the country by their representation in the senate. There are senators more dangerous than Mr. Murphy, but merely because they have more sense. As a compound of malignity and stupidity he stands a hermit, wrapped in the mantle f his own collars and cuffs. It would be humiliating to submit to the dictation of Gorman and Brice. It would be a sorrow's crown of sorrow to submit to the dictation of Murphy. The country's voice was never clearer than now. It says to the house: "Stand firm. Stand more firmly than you are now standing. Make no concession worthy of the nam? of concession to the senate traitors. Better a thousand times fight the battle over than permit victory to be changed to defeat as they demand. Better a thousand times a temporary loss than disgrace and dishonor. Save the honor of the democratic party. Give us a record to stand upon. The rank and file of the party fear nothing but the sacrifice of democratic principle and democratic pledges." "We believe that the house is catching the sentiment of the people. It is beginnirg to understand that the desire for tariff reform and the hostility to tariff trusts are so deeprooted and permanent that they must be heeded. On with the fight! No surrender! No retreat! No quarter! AS TO COMPULSORY ARIUTRATIOX. Some days since the New York Sun delivered itself of a wild and weird article on compulsory arbitration which it described as a system of putting employers at the mercy of their employes very much such an article in style and quality of reason, on the other side of the case, as we quoted from Mr. Debs yesterday. It closed its lurid remarks by asking Th Sentinel how It would like to be forced to submit to "such a system." or words to that efTect. The Sentinel replied that it had voluntarily submitted to such a system, and quoted from its contract with Typographical union No. 1 in evidence thereof. To this the Sun replies with this cheap quibble: Our question is still unanswered. The Sentinel's plan, to begin with, is not compulsory arbitration, lt arbitration by consent of both parties. In one sense it is not compulsory arbitration. It was not forced by law. But it Is as nearly compulsory arbitration as can exist in the absence of a law for that purpose. The Sentinel cannot make laws, but it can and did bind Itself in a legal contract to submit to all that the most radical law could compel It to submit to. It i3 not "arbitration by consent of both parties" in the ordinary sense of the term. That applies only to existing controversies. In such cases the parties know the facts involved: they can estimate the strength or weakness of their cause; they may be affected by incidental contingencies that will prejudice them for or against arbitration at the time. In a precedent contract for arbitration all these considerations are absent. The parties agree that no matter what the controversy may be, no matter which side may appear to be In the right, no matter what temporary pressure there may be against it, they will submit to arbitration and abide by the result. The laws of Indiana provide for voluntary arbitration, but only for arbitration cf existing- controversies, and these only when they "might be the subject of a suit at law." The Sentinel's contract was to submit to arbitration "any and all disputes and disagreements" whenever they may arise. This Is precisely what the most radical compulsory arbitration law imaginable would do. The Sun follows Its quibble with this remarkable question: Suppose that the union arbitrator and the third arbitrator decide that wages in The Sentinel office shall be raised, although The Sentinel at that time Is making no money, or is running behlni; wou4d The Sentinel keep or break this so-called contract? Would It suffer Itself to be bilked in that way, and. if it did, how long could it continue Jn business? We see no reason why any newspaper that Is conducted on ordinary principles of business honor need ask any such question. If the Sun made a contract

for .five years for ink or paper, and during the time there was a heavy fall in the price of these articles, would it live up to Its contract? The Sentinel entered into a contract for five years, and it always regarded the contract as binding as any contract it could make. It never had any apprehension of any Injustice from arbitration, and still believes that no employer need have any apprehension If he has the intention to be fair with his employes. Neither neod employes have any fear of arbitration If they Intend to be fair with thir employer. The Sun further says: Suppose, again, there was a system of true compulsory arbitration; that there were court? of arbitration able to enforce their decisions as United States courts now are, Hjw long wuiili employers or worklngmen put up with a system that put the regulation of wages and pniits and losses into the hands of third persons? How long could business stand such a system? But. of course, there can be no such thing under our present form of government. As a matter of fact, mighty few persons want such a system. Once in a while a rounding-board clergyman, or a fresh-water professor, or an editor who thinks that sentimental idiocy is good fr a subscriber or two. bleats about compulsory arbitration. The labJr unions don't want it. We see no reason why any one hould not put up with the decisions of such a court. If we go into the supposing business, suppose some one should set up an utterly unfounded or unjust claim against the Sun, and the courts should uphold It; how long would the Sun and the community submit to such decisions? Undoubtedly the courts do sometimes make erroneous decisions and inflict great injustice, but courts are not established because they are Infallible, but because the public peace and general welfare require that there should be some lawful and peaceable method of determining controversies. There Is no such method for determining labor controversies. There ought to be such amsthod, and there will be such a method when the American people fully realize the evils of their present anarchistic method of dealing with such troubles. The Sun's statement that "the labor unions don't want it" is hardly consistent with its claim that the proposal i3 simply a scheme to put capital into the clutches of labor. There is a clas of labor leaders who oppose compulsory arbitration, but we believe that it can no longer be truthfully said that laborunions oppose it. Certainly it has received public indorsement from some labor unions and assemblies of workingmen. And even those lab r leaders who have opposed it are beginning to realize that 1 ibor is no match for capital n lawlessness or in lawless struggles for advantage. As we showed yesterdty, even Debs has changed front entirely on this question. But more important than the sentiments of either employers or employes is the fact that the general publ'c is becoming weary of the present system, whose chief evils fall on the general public, and is coming to the opinion that some lawful method of settling such controversies must be established. The pronounced opposition of the Sun 3 very good evidence that the accomplishment of the reform is near at hand.

COIXTI(i IMlATfllEII CI11CKKS. The republican besses and newspaper editors have frequently carried Indiana in November on paper. In fact, It is getting to be chronic and grotesque with them. They are good at that sort of figuring. They Were eminently successful in the same direction as far back as 1S75, and especially so in 1SS1 and again in 1S32. The Lallot-boxes, however, differed with their ante-election prognostications and told a strange story; the democracy was the victor. Some of thm talk now about 0,OiK) republican majority in November and wouldn't be surprised if it climbed to "0,Cm). This same class grudgingly allow us one congressman, iossil.ly two; but on no account will th-y make it three. Now, by what sort of impudent bravado do these gentlemen make their forecasts. Do they think that the democratic party id asleep, or all of its energies paralyzed and its managers ar.d leaders dumfounded? If they are laboring under any such an hallucination they wiil be rudely jostled before many moons have fulled and waned. If never b fore, the democratic party means "business" in Indiana this year. The alacrity with which thousands of the party in the state responded to the recent circular sent out from this office respecting the present controversy now in full flower in Washington City, demonstrated a widespread and wonderful interest in political matters. The great bulk of the responses to the question as to which should yield, the senate or the house, further demonstrated that the great democratic heart beat a timely and tuneful response to the pregnant tariff reform measures enunciated in the Chicago platform. All the sophistries end cobwebbian logic of republicanism that have been prominent factors in hoodwinking and blinding the people with false political problems will soon be swept away when the democratic speakers meet these false prophets in open platform discussion. And then, too, what a miserably weak state ticket the republican managers offer the people of Indiana'. Why should the party be sanguine of victory? Unmindful of the wrecked career of one other republican political parson, the late governor of Indiana, another one of much the same stripe Is placed at the head of the state ticket. His gold-mine record runs quite- parallel with that of the late parson-governor, Chase. In fact, these two distinguished or extinguished republicans trotted together very amicably in double harness at one time. They went to Mexico one was a congressman and th.- other the governor of the great state of Indiana, They traveled as far as they could In a Pullman with all the surroundings and trappings of wealth and general magnificence. It was a brilliant fake. They returned and upon their report and advice many worthy people went into a gold-mine specula

tion. Owen, It la stated, bought several thousand dollars' worth of stock that is, he did it on paper, but we understand never paid the notes. However, it is an old story. Many trusting ieople were deceived by the report of this double combination, and entered Into a mining speculation only to get experience and lose their money. This Mexican business should mean 20,000 majority for the democratic nominee for secretary of state. Oh, but Owen will get a large labor vote, say his friends. Will he? Not when his record as Harrison's immigration commissioner Is ventilated, as It will be on the stump this fall. It is a long and black record. We will refer to it again. It should sink him into obscurityT11K HltillT TRACK. The following communication Indicates that some of our readers are slowly waking up to the Importance of the silver question, and the -possibility that thfre may be some solution to it besides free coinage: To the Editor Sir: I read with much interest your advice to Mr. Conn and your lengthy answer to "Democrat," but I failed to grasp your Idea. Perhaps I am dull. You express the opinion that Mr. Cleveland Is "on the right track" on the silver question. Please explain in a brief and piain way which is the "right track." Every reader in Indiana desires to know which "track" is the rieht one. ItKADKH. Vinconnes, Ind., July 21, '94. If our correspondent had been a careful reader of The Sentinel there would have been no need for his question, for The Sentinel has not only presented its views on this subject repeatedly, but also has printed strong arguments In favor of them by such distinguished bimetalllsts as Gen. Walker, President Andrews, Balfour, Brooks Adams and others. To understand the right track out we must consider the track by which the world got Into the silver trouble. It did not result from the demonetization of silver by the United States alone, but from the demonetization by the following countries in the order named: Germany, the United States, Holland. Denmark. Norway. S wtden, France, Switzerland, Belgium. Italy, Greece, Spain, Egypt, Turkey, Itoumania, Austria-Hungary. The depreciation of silver, or appreciation of gold, is the result of the combined force of these acts. No one country can possibly undo the harm by remon'tizing silver with free coinage. The result of that would be that silver would be sent here and exchanged for our gold and we would be reduced to a silver basis, just as occurred in this country prior to is nr.. The only possible remedy is for all the countries to join in bimetallism, and that there is an extensive desire for this is conclusively shown by the three international conferences that have been held for that purpose. It is agreed on all sides that England blocks the way, and the question is how to remove the obstacle. English bimetallists are working nobly, and are making great progress. They are progressing much more rapidly since we abandoned the purchase policy, and notified England and the world that we would no longer attempt to bolster silver up by artificial methods. The principle is illustrated best by Mr. Ehrich in this way: Suppose there are ten mines on the side of a mountain, all of which are troubled by water. The owner of the lowest mine puts In a pump and dries his mine, but he finds that he is also drying all the others. He thinks they should contribute to the expense, and asks them to do so, but they decline. How shall he get them to contribute? Shall he say, "If you do not help pay I will do the pumping myself." or shall he say, "If you do not help pay I will quit pumping?" Mr. Cleveland's policy is to quit pumping, and already it has had a strong effect on the sentiment of England, for England must protect silver

or bankrupt India. We believe that England will come to terms before the close of Mr. Cleveland's administration. XOT COMITI-SORY AK1IITR ATIOV. The New York Sun very properly ob jects to Senator George's conipulsiry arbitration bill, the first section of which provides that whenever a corporation engaged in interstate traffic refuses to arbitrate a controversy with its employes "it shall not be '.awful for any United States court or judge to grant any injunction against said employes, or any of them, or to make any order requiring or authorizing any United States marshal to control or in any manner interfere with the conduct of said employes, or any of them." Neither Senator George nor any other person can properly call this compulsory arbitration. It is merely licensed anarchism. It can compel only through permitted lawlessness. Furthermore, it would defeat every end of compulsory arbitration, the chief designs of which are to furnish a lawful and peaceable remedy for every wrong and to avoid the annoyance, loss and expense to the public which necessarily arise from the stoppage of transportation and the repression of the lawless elements that frequently take advantage of strikes. The Sun says: Here we have compulsory arbitration with a vengeance. Arbitrate or be outlawed! Arbitrate at die dictation of two or more of your striking employes, or be put outside the pale of the protection of the United States courts and their officers! Arbitrate or be turned over to the mob. with full license granted them to pillage, wreck, burn, maim and murder! Was any such bill as this ever Introduced in the American congress since the federal legislature held Its first session In this town In the spring and. summer Of 17S9? This Is true, except that It Is not compulsory arbitration either with or without a vengeance. If the company prefers to submit to the Interference It would not be compelled to arbitrate at all. Compulsory arbitration must compel, and It must compel by lawful means. There Is not the slightest difficulty in this. Any one may be compelled to arbitrate Just as he is compelled to litigate. He may be served with process of the proper tribunal, and if he falls to appear the tribunal may proceed to hear the cause and pass Judgment In iiis absence.

Just as is done In thousands of cases in the courts. In case the employer refuses to operate Its road, a receiver may be appointed to do so. In fact, this remedy was very satisfactorily applied by the superior court of this county In a street car strike some months since when no question of arbitration was Involved. A citizen petitioned for a receiver on the ground that the public was "injured by the failure of the company to furnish public transportation, as it had agreed to do. The receiver was appointed and the strike wa3 bi ought to an end forthwith. If the courts generally would protect the rights of the public In this way there would be very little trouble from labor controversies.

Tin: I'ii.lm vv monopoly. The Boston Herald, in an attempted defense of the Pullman company, says: It is undoubtedly true, as the critic says, that the Pullman company, under its contracts with the various rreat railrobd corporations of the country, has been earnlnp money ujwn Its sleeping car service during the last year, and during the time that these industrial troubles have been going on at the town of Pullman. But, in our opinion, it does not follow from that that the company should treat the looses incident to conducting another department of business as if they were non-existent. i The construction of freight and pas senger cars for steam railway, street railway and elevated railway "purposes has been with the Pullman company a distinct business of itself. It will be in the nature of news to a great many people that the constriction of ears other than Pullman coach was a distinct business of the company, but even if we should accept this as true, why should there have been any reduction In other departments? The Herald says that the Pullman company has been earning money on Its sleeping car service. These cars belong to the company. Its profits are made not by selling them, but by using them. So long as it Is making a profit on them it can not excuso cutting the wages of the men who make them on the ground of loss. This matter is put very clearly by a member of the Pullman committee in an interview in the Chicago Record, as follows: We .are told that the company was losing money on its contracts that it had to bid so low to meet its competitors thu a reduction of wages was an Immediate necessity. Accordingly the pay of all the men in the shops was cut on an average of C3 per cent. The whole thing was ii farce. As a matter of fact not 10 ier cent, of the work done in the shojis is contract work, the rest being for the exclusive use of the Pullman company Itself. Because it hapjmed to be losing on 10 pt cent, of its outside business and we will admit fr the sake of argument that it was losing it cut the wages all over the shops. In this way the cost of manufacturing or repairing a Pullman car was decreased thousands of dollars. For instance, the labor n certain Pullman cars formerly cost $10,000. Cutting thr? wags one-third would save the company $3,03.1, or more on one car than it probably lost on all of its contracts. The contract bugaboo and the losses which they claimed to have sustained were simply an excuse to get the cost of repairing its own cars and building new ones reduced by one-third. Furthermore, the talk of competition is all bluff. Nearly all the work done on cars is covered by patents ar.d so thoroughly protected that competition would be an absolute Impossibility. This disposes of the Herald's argument, as every other argument advanced In defense of Pullman has been disposed of. It may possibly be that the Pullman company has some presentable defense for its ac ts, but if so it has as yet failed to present it. So far as the facts have been made puMic, the company appears to have imposed on its employes through the piece-work system, as appears from the following sample statements: W. II. Erwin, one of the employes, said that last year he- did enough piecework to make the limit of wages for a day--$.1. This spring the limit of wages for a day was cut to $1.C'J almost onehalf. Out of th.? 300 men employed in the department only twelve could work rapidly enough to make $l.f.O a day. The others worked as hard as they could and earned from 50 cents to $1.50 a day. ' "When we saw how things were working." said Air. Er win." we sent a committee to the company and made the request that we be given regular laborers' hire $1.50 ier day. We thought we could make more money in the long run in that way. We were skilled mechanics, capable of building patent refrigerator cars complete, using our own tools, which we were required to fharfn and otherwise keep in repair, but .Mr. Pullman had cut the wages so low that we were willing to work for the wages of ordinary lab rers." John Ward, who worked in the ironmolding department, says that last year he made $1 a day, but after the cut went into effect his wages were only S2.tlt! a day. In order to make this amount he had to finish seven iron pedestals each day at SS cents each. Many of the old men were not able to make the full number and their pay was correspondingly less. Obviously no such cutting of wages as this can be justified even by the losses which ihi Pullman company claini3 to have suffered, and if it in fact suffered any losses voluntarily, as it professes to have done, its action in so doing is very different from anything that the public has yet had occasion to observe in the management of its business. It is a thing for general congratulation that the president has appointed a commission to investigate this matter, which will probably bring all the facts to light. THE SHAME OP IT. It seems to be a pleasure on the part of some people and newspapers to send out boardcast to the world that the natural gas supplies of Indiana are failing. Do they reflect that they are doing incalculable Injury to the entire natural gas belt? Of course this sort of talk suits that extensive and wealthy Ohio combination that is piping gas from Delaware, Jay and other northeastern Indiana counties into Dayton and other large and small cities of eastern Ohio. Most probably the Chicago capitalists who are supplying portions of that great metropolis with Indiana gas feel very kindly toward those who are keeping up this hue and cry about the failure of natural gas. That sort of thing keeps out other companies, but does any one suppose that these Chicago and Ohio capitalists would be investing large sums of money in piping gas out of the state if there were any great danger of ultimate failure. Capital is too sensitive. Its ears are ever erect for the slightest Intimation of danger. Among the most damaging results that may accrue from this senseless alarm is j

this: That it will keep manufacturers out of Indiana. It Is no small matter to pull up a plant in New Jersey or Massachusetts and bring it Into the gas belt of Indiana. It is an arduous and expensive undertaking under the most favorable auspices. What chance has Indiana to secure enterpriJfing manufacturers if they are told at the outset that Indiana natural gas Is gradually diminishing? None whatever. Of course one can understand why corporation organs should Join In this cry. but why any one else or any other sort of a newspaper should Is quite beyond ordinary comprehension. During the past year, on ms'ny occasions. Sentinel correspondents repeated'y assured the readers of this paper that there was an abundance of gas. Even old wells that had been scheduled 33 dead and worthless waked up periodically an J gave out the precious fuel. Only a day or two ago the following dispatch was published from El wood: State Gas Inspector Jordan's report is incorrect in some of its loading statements, and it does the gas belt an injury. Elwood is located In the heart of the gas belt, and the condition of the gas here may be taken as an index by which to Judge of its condition elsewhere. There are twenty-five gas wells in Elwood, and among this number there is not a single dry- one. The first wells drilled, early in 1S7, are still in use and show a rock pressure of 350 pounds, as high as they did when discovered. During all of this time three wells hive supplied Elwood with gas and oil, doing so today, the output not having diminished a single pound. At times the prsure shows an increase of from five to ten pounds. Of the twenty-five well? herv, not one among them shows a. piessur under 320 pounds. This same state of affairs exists all over Madison county, and in parts of Grant, Howard and Delaware counties, which Is in the heart of the gas belt. The output shows no s"gns of diminishing. Note the sentence in the above: "There are twenty-five gas wells in Elwood and among this number there is not a single dry one." But why prolong this article. There Is hardly a town In the gas belt that could not send the same report. Det us quit this whining about the diminution of our natural gas supplies.

ET CETERA. Russian railways have ladies smoking cars. Photographs have been taken G00 feet under water. Chicago is the greatest railroad center in the world. Paper pneumatic tires are In process of experiment. Canada's foreign business amounts to $."o,0u0,o00 a year. In France the bicycle is ridden by more women than men. Foot ball was a crime in England during the reign of Henry VIII. Pneumatic tires have Wen found very serviceable on hospital ambulances. The United tSates has a greater railroad mileage than any other country in the world. Last year Australia produced gold to the value of $3,000,000 in excess of anyother country. There are clubs of girls in Sydney, the object of which is to attend the theater without male escort. It seems reasonable that a cat-ri cTsrc-d boat would suffer more from squalis than any other. Lowell Courier. In China a man who killed his father was executed, and along with him bis schoolmaster for not having taught him better. Bicy-ele riders in Southland, Australia, are required to dismount twenty-two yards from an approaching horse and draw their wheels past. "Have you ever been around the world?" "No. but my arm has." "What do .you mean?" "Well, you are all the world to me." Harlem Life. Explorers declare that no lowering plant has ever been found within the Antarctic circle- In the Arctic circle 7G2 different kinds are known. Pecent figures show that the total value of the matches made and consumed each year throughout the world is but little short of $200.000,000. In tests last year in the German town of Dessau it was shown that cooking by wood and coal costs a little more than twice that done with gas. In Chattanooga a man seventy-six years old kissed the hand of a young lady by way of compliment, and she hs sued him for breach of promise. Two colored women at SedalLi, Mo., run a farm themselves, and, when plowing time comes, In lieu of using a horse, one woman draws the plow while the other guides it. St. Peter "Minister, were you? I don't see many souls to your credit." New arrival "Didn't have time to save souls, St. Peter. I was too busy raising mortgages." Life. STREET PICKIXCiS. A crowd of grown people were discussing circuses last evening. "Circuses ain't what they used to be," moaned the man who attends them a'.l. "I went Monday niht and I missed lots of things. In the first place, there is so much to see in the menagerie that you can't possibly see it all. Then there are too many r.ngs. Just think of three rings and two stages. Why, I nearly went crazy, for first my wife'd s-ty. 'Look at that ring; then someone wou'.d say, 'Look at the farthest ring,' and so on until I missed the whole thing trying to see five rings at once. Then the clowns and the ringmasters are not near as funny as they used to be. Now there is a crowd of clowns tumbling and running, and they are not even funny. The whole thing is too big. You couldn't teil your best friend across the immense canvas." "They don't drK like they used to. either," said another member of the crowd. "Don't you. remember the bareback rider that came out witn hundreds of tarleton skirts that flopped when she rode? And the spangles? I didn't see any spangles at a.11 this time and only one grl had on the skirts. I can't remember anything about these big circuses and I could remember the old ones for a year." The whole crowd agreed that the oldtime circus was the best. A certain minister of this city was recently called to a suburb to preach the funeral sermon of an old gentleman who had1 died leaving a great deal of property. There was a large attendance at the funeral, the people coming for miles around. The house could scarcely accommodate the crowd, and the minister realized that It was a golden opportunity to distinguish himself. He dwelt glowingly on the virtues of the dead, nd reviewed his useful life, now drawn to n honored close. Then he spoke of the biorm f tmlly circle, and spoke many words of comfort to the wkXw and the sons aal daughters left to mourn. He bade the weeping wife dry her tears and think of her husband as happier and waitr.g for her in the promised land. He told the children to remember the virtues of their father and- to be a stay and a comfort to their bereft luotber.

J He ended his sermon with a prayer la I which be Wt the widow and children to

the mercy of the Ixrl, and h:v his entire congregation In tars. Only a few tu I '.cd. and after his touching remarks none had the heart to tell him that th corpse asa bachelor and had never manic L Side by siJ. we.th the craze to chanr th names cf the city streets cms ti.a desire to chance the aspect of oil landmarks, so tl;at no on? would r-ognlz them. Whiie to the intensely pru-tk-uj ruins are very' u w iejss to a modern city, s: .1 there aro a fe- p-r.- ns who regret that every" cil residence, no matter what lti h'story, is ion down to make way for glaring pip s of brick and stone. The old cl.urnhes, which have always served as lanlai.uks, aue p.daled so that they completely chan-T the whole ne"erhbjrI.oo 1. Ftocher-pliK-e church, whah for years hat ben a landmark visible from Wash.ngtonst. und all parts of the Smth SM, is now u pale gray, which s- shades in with the sky that it can only be s-,'H hi bclht sunlight. St. Paul's church, which ral acquired an anci.-nt look in keeping with its general style of aicr.lo-c U:rv. has Wen painted the color of ripe t.-maioe with yellow La n 1a It rc.-molc3 a huge circus wagon. The litv.uty of the c. 1 stona churches covered w.th ivy Is umjueKkwied and It is t 1-e hrip-i the modern sp'Jlt of change will aliow them to remain undisturbed. A gentleman who does not attend tht theater very often made up his mind last Wnter that he woull go and see Modjeska. The rlay was "As You Ike It" ami h got out h's volume of Shakpeor and studied It carefully-. When the evening came he took h's book to the theater with him and as soon as the certain went up h began to real t li line-. The players rama and went and he kept his eyes on h.s book following the lin-s. lie never once kwkel up to see U: tf.iutifi;l "Rnsalinl." After It was over s.nv en a.-kM him how hf JikM M.jeska. Hut ho shj-k his ha4: "I don't think much of hr." he RaM. "I followed the bk and sl.e m:il iots of mistake?. Sometimes she raip.iotei whola pries." a One be by traveled in emiifort the other day. Its parents carried with them a large clothes basket v-hlch was lined wtti pretty chintz, the si !vs being wadded and finished with a row "f coarse la.ee. A pillow and cheese clo.h covers mada a dainty ted for the buby-, and it -was as comfortable on the train as in its cradle. The handles at each eii' n;de It easy to carry, and one could not but admire th lnKnuity, prol-aMy the mother's, which thus provided fur the baby's comfort oa a l'jng Journey. Till: fcLVVIE AND THE TARIFF. Senator G rmms fallaI nis argument against free c will apply to every thing on the p.u quite as well as it applies to this product in which he is sa deeply int-Tesu d. If his argument Is sound, then th" MeKinh y Mil should ba bft alioie an 1 the d -m-". rat i s party should die. Ja' vest.. n News (d:-m.). Wi:h the cunning skill s characteristic! of Lira. Senator ;.-rman h.".s r.ot allowed his hand to b- s-- n by the public in alj tho--e weeks f d-bate n':d argument, o ceii.-ession and compromise; nevertheless the work is his and the responsibility fails up in hon. Th T' f-. re. it is not (!i:'li ölt to p- p.---ivo the r-ree of the blow that defeat will ir.fiict up'-n him. Haiti more News (d'-m . When tl.e tariff h'll came from ths wr.ys and ni.:;is committee thre was a provision In it thr.i it sl.ou 1 go into effect Mar -h 1. T.i'-re is a provl.-don in the senate Mil thir it sh.-.ll gj into effect A tiff. 1 (today). VV tl i'ik we can rU-tf th aserti".a thit the advisability of revising titis pi'nv i.-ioi is one thing upon which the h--u" aM snat can prree. Lnjisvill- C 'urier-Ioti? i:..l ( l-. rn ). Every syst'-m of tarifC taxation necessarily involves itntnenve a::d dbrcrtniinatitig "prote: tiw" taxati-.n, which th.3 democratic plaif-rm Oelures is robbery cf the people f r the txclu.-lve benefit of the pet manufact jrit.g cia?.?. Under the l .w tariff of 1-1-i all American interests Jlourishe 1 as never betöre or since. The similar Wilson bill is now the only h"pe f the country and it must bd Passed if it tikes ti.l December. N. Y. Herald (dem.). Iet the conferees agree upon a bill embodying reasonable concessions on both sides, but abolishing the corrupt and scandalous concession to the sugar trust. Whatever stays, this must go. Then let the country see if (Jorman and Brie ajid Smith will tetand by their bargain and their speculations even to the point of preserving the McKinley law. Mr. Gorman rightly said that the maintenance of this law, against the democratia pledge and the demand arid exiKrctatiort of the country, would carry "a fearful resjonsibility." Let him and his aociates he made to face it. There hat been enough talk and thrects and futlla dalliance aaid dickering. I'.r.ug Lha bolters to the scratch! N. Y. World (Jem.). The house has only to stand firm. II the senate refuses to act an adjournment may be had in order that members of the house may go to Uic-lr constituencies fol the fall elections with their tariff war cry still potent. !y that time public opinion will hive had its effect, perhaps, upm the half-dozen democratic senators who are now thwarting the democratic party's will, and the house bill may be passed as early as Jan. -1, 1S.S. AU this loss of time, protracted business deprpsion and public anxiety generally might be avoid. -d but for three or four deni.xratic obstructives. Their course il having its effect. It has excited the wrath of the people everywhere The "compromise" senators are generating a cyclone of indignation that may at no distant day destroy wholly the tarlfl rates on many other things besides sugar, coal and iron ore, f r which th'y are nowr so stupidly contending. Baltimore Sun (dein.). The people of this section demand that the house conferees shall p.nintsin determinedly their insistence that the senate recede from the trust am .numents. They have entire confidence in the completeness und justi; of the Wilson bill, yet they are not unwilling that gome concessions !. made in the intrest of harmony, though oppo-?d to the ?ban-donnic-nt.of a true measure of tariff reform at the mere b.hest of a minority which dares nr t act openly. They are in no desperate hurry, either. During th past six months they have waited, with varying decrees of patience, f.-r the realization of their hop s, and two or threa weeks more will not work any additional harm if they can finally se -ure the Wilson bill substantially as it passed tha house. They want the house conferees to exhaust every means that may injuc the senate conferees to recede from th senate amendments or secure from tha latter sflch concessions ai will preserve the integrity of the house bill and secure to the oe pie that kind and extent of,tarilf reform which the oemoeratio party stands piedg. j to give them. This is the sentiment of Missoeri. This is the sentiment of the We.-t. This is the fentlment of the entire country. St, Louis Republic (dem.). Time Hnild the IM re. Mrs. Striker "Don't you believe In tha union of labor?" Mr. S. ' Of course I do. Why, my dear, if there was no union cf labor th greed of capital with its iron heel would " Mrs. S. (interrupting) "That's all right; suppose you pet ip and buiid ths fire and I'll cook breakfast." Boston Journal. Knowledge nt Alwn Money. Librarian Spofford of the library of congress probr.bly knows more than any member of either house, but he gets only J4,0') a year salary, whili each member of congress gets Jl.Oej more. Knowledge is power, but It isn't always money in this sordid world. Boston Globe. Dr. Price's Cre-m Baking Pcrvdcr World's Fair Highest Award.