Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 October 1894 — Page 4

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THE IMDIAXA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 10. isvn.

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BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. t".ntcrcI a t the I'nulofllce at Indian, a poll a nrronil clan matter.) TKIIM.1 YEAR. 51nelc copy (I'a Ailrnurf) I1 Oil AVe ak ilrmorraU to brnr In mind and nrleet tlielr wn tute paper uhi-n (hry come to tnkr tmbscrlptlon mill make np rlnln. Agrntii mnklnK up elul end for ujr Infnrninlton denlred. Address THE IMH.VNAPOLIS SENTHEL, Indianapolis, Ind. AVKDMnV, OCTOHKK 1. 11 I. DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET. Juditc of Saiireiuf Court, First DUtrt"t firorcc I. Itelnhnrd. Jndee .f Supreme Court, FonrlU District Joaeph S. Dulley. Secretary of State William R. 2Iyem. Auditor of State Joseph T. FanBine. Treasurer of State Morgan Chandler. Attorney-General Prancli 31. Griffith. Clerk of the Supreme Court Charles .TV. Welman. Superintendent of Pnblio Instruction Charles W. Thomm. State Statistician All Fulton. State (ieoloKltt-Ell T. J. Jordan. DO NOT MOVE. If Ton Do You Will rrolmblr Lose Tour Vote. Democrats ?huM make It a point not to change their place of residence until after election day. The election law of Indiana requires that a voter must have resided previous to the election day six months 1n the state, sixty days in the township and thirty days in the precinct in wh'eh he Is to vote. It will, therefore, be apparent that if a man has changed his place of residence from one township to another sine? Sept. 5 he has lost his vote, and that if he changes his residence Bfter Oct. 5 he will also lose his vote.' Democrats should then-fore make it a point not to change their place of residence till after election day. MOAIl IIOTATIOXS. From the Indianapolis Journal:

Oct. 7, Oct. 7, 1S93. 1SD1. Hard sugars 6"i'J7 7,2 ! ftj's Confectioners' "A" ... r7H''6's 47i5t.i Soft "A" Z'S'iVj 4U'i4s Extra "C" Vh'R Yellow "C" 4Vti5U 44.r4si Dark yellow 4iil"i 34'i

T1IK ( VI SE OF Tilt: 1'ANIC. There Is no reason why any one in Indiana should have any doubt as to the cause cf the panic and depression of ISM. It passed before the eyes of the people as In a panorama. Think what was the first thing you heard of any trouble in the tusinrM worlJ. The earliest sign you Will find was the closing of the Columbia rational bank of Chicago the center of the Zimri Dwijrfns system on May 11. ls:o. and the closing of the Capital national of this city on the same day. On the next day followed the suspension of the Paris & Nave bank3 at various points In the state. From that time forward there were tanks going down at points all over the country, mostly those that 'were considered "will cat" institutions, with occasionally a speculative concern as that Involved by ex-Secretary Foster in his failure on June 25. By June 6 the panic had fairly set in In Chicago, New York and other points, anj the savings banks were suffering from runs. "When these failures began there was no Indication of any trade depression, factories and mil's were running as usual, and business was moving at ordinary rates In ordinary channels. But as the banks began to tighten up for anticipated trouble trade was forced into closer quarters. Loans v.ere called In and every one was forced to collect as close as possible. Jdlllions of money were taken out of circulation and placed In the vaults of banks to meet possible runs. A very large part of the business of this country , both mercantile and manufacturing. Is transacted on credit and on borrowed capital. Such business was contracted to JtS narrowest limits or obllped to suspend entirely. Men were thrown out of employment. Wages were stopped. The ordinary avenues of circulation were clogged. This condition continued for wrrks. Tbe worst pressure did not com? In Indiana until the lasrt of July. It was on July 24 that ex-Treasurer Huston's bank suspended, and on July 25 that the Indianapolis national and Bank of Commerce closed their doors. At that time the other hanking Institutions of Indianapolis strengthened their reserves to the utmost. Loans were cut to the narrowest margin, and the money of the community was pulled Into the bank vaults as rapidly aspossible. That was what stopped business, and every business man saw t that nothing could improve until the pressure was removed. The pressure was not removed, and the panic was not stopped to an extent to make meney easy until the Sherman silver law was repealed, and the fear that the national government might be obliged to suspend specie payments waa finally removed. It was a money panic, but Its necessary effect was to paralyze manufacturing end mercantile business. As soon as the S'i'-rmtii law was repealed The Sentinel ca!leJ attention to the fact that what was needed to stimulate business, and get It out ot Its abnormal state of depression. was prompt and radical tariff reform. The reform was made, but not o quickly as It might have been. Now that It is here every one can see Its beneficial, stimulating effect In the rapid revival or business of all kinds. It acts as a tonic on the business of the country which had been thoroughly corrupted by the evils of McKlnleyism. and therefore fell a speedy victim to the destructive tendencies of the Sherman purchase law panic. The Justification of a theory Is its practical demonstration, and most clearly Is It

demonstrated that tariff reform ta th, rroper and sufficient remedy for the evil.

i produced by billlon-dcllarlsm. Harrlsonj Ism, Shermantsm and McKinleyisro. ALLISO.V OX SlGUt. Senator Allison's erfort at Tipton, la., recently wxa devoted almost exclusively to the subject of sugar. He pave sjme very interesting evidence on variou3 lines. One of the first polnta of this character is a demonstration that the tax on raw sugar Is purely a revenue tax and not protection to any material extent. He said: "VVe had seen th.it under high tariff duties on sugar, the sugir cane industry of Louisiana failed to devel p, from year to year, any large increase of product, s that our large consumption, with a few exceptional years under slavery, less thin one-tenth was produced in our own country, and in 10 about one-ninth. This failure to produce at home any considerable fraction of our consumption had the effect to add th? tariff duty to the price of sugar Imjorted from abroad and that produced at tume, thus compelling th? consumers of sugar to piy th? foreign pries with duty added. In oth?r words the amount of the duty became a part of the price, and thus the duty became a tax upon all consumers of sugar. This Is something that every voter should bear in mind. Whatever tax he pays on sugar In its purchase price, under a revenue tax, he piys directly to the treasury of the United States, and not into the pockets of his fellow-citizens who have the power to get republicans to enact laws for their private benefit. Every loyal American is willing to pay his fair share of the burden of supporting the government, but many of them object to contributing ta th? accumulations of tariff beneflciaries. And Mr. Allison bore testimony to this as f ollows: This law of l.90 as respects sugar took effect April 1, l$!"d. The bjunty give a great impetus to th" production of cinesugar in Louisiana and Texas, and It at once started the development of the beet sugar industry In Nebraska and in California. The result has been that during the year is'Xl, Louisiana nearly doubled her production, and a number of sugarbeet factories were established. This p dlcy of a bounty on sugar was seized upon by the democre.tlc party as a m ans of criticising adversely the law of lyo as being unjust to othar producers, and straightway the cry was heard everywhere thit a discrimination was made against other ngricultunl products-and In favor of those who produced sugir fmm cane and beets; and in 1Vj2 this was one of the many things that was used with effect. But notwithstanding the popular condemnation of this syetm of taxing the people, avowedly not for th3 purpse of supporting the government, but for contributing to the bank accounts of the sugar growers, Senator Allison declares and shows that the republicans still advocate the sugar bounty and will put it In force If given the opportunity. It must not be forgotten in this discussion that the republican party in th.senate and the house voted against every provision and every suggestion placing a duty upon sugar. They were willing to encourage the production of sugir in this country by means of a system of bmntics which proved so successful under th act of 1S&0. and therefore voted f or each and every bounty provision that was offjr-'d; first, that proposed in the luv of is:o and then for a diminishing bounty extending over a period of yeirs. It was demonstrated in the debate that it was cheaper and easier for th? people of the United States to pay this bounty than to pay the duty proposed In the bill. Of course it 13 easier tD pay it, but why should it be paid? Th? tariff tax is paid on sugar to support the government. Mr. Allison admits It. The bounty, which is necessarily paid by taxes, is paid directly to the planters. There remains, therefore, still to b? raided by taxing the popl? in some other form, th? amount of money that would have been raised by the tariff tax. Hence the people In fact have to pay both taxe.s under th? bounty system. Ou? readers will remember that the objict of th? McKinley tax was to stop money from coming Into the treasury ami continue its flow Into the pockets of the protection beneficiaries. That wa3 the express declaration of the republican platform of That document said that the party would, if necessary-, abolish all our internal revenu? taxation rather than destroy any part of our protective system. And that was why sugar wn removed from the articles that produced revenue for the government and placed with thDs? which produced expense for the government. And Mr. Allison sajs it will be put there again by the republicans. Mr. Allison asserts that he is very desirous of raising th2 sugar we U32 at home Instead of spending our money abroad, and calls attention to the fact that "we paid In 1S93 f r imported sugar 511S.000.000 and In 1S04 $178,000,000 (he probably meant 512S.000.OO0), sending out of the country money or it3 equivalent to pay for it." But h? forgets that this 13 under his law which wa3 to stop importation and keep the money at home, and that these amounts are largely in excess of the Importation for any preceding yeirs. The truth 13 that the increase in Importation is far In excess of the increase of the home supply, and that as a d-weloper of at home industry that will supply domestic wants the sugar bounty is a farcical failure. But more important still. Mr. Allison f rget3, as do all republicans who attempt to discuss sugar, that the price of Fugnr In this country Is controlled by the sugar trust to precisely the extent it can exclude fc.reign competition, and that the movements of sugar prices therefore do not follow the ordinary rules of prices affected by tariff taxation. At the present tlme.ind for the several weeks The Sentinel has been quoting sugar prices, sugar Is cheaper than It was at the same time last year. During our quotations the prices have fallen materially. They arnow lower than they were two years ago. whatever may be the reason of It, It is an actual fact that no sugar tax has as yet been Imposed on the people through the new law, for the priee3 are lower than they were under the McKinley law at the same season. AS TO WOOL I'ltlCKS. The esteemed Journal is now engaged In trying to show that the farmer Is losing his little all by a decline of wool, which It alleges to have occurred since the passage of the new tariff law. It gives prices at three dates March 1, 1SD3, Aug. 27, 1S94. and Oct 1. 1S94, and by these attempts to prove that Mr. Bynuna and other democrats are trying to mislead the people. As a matter of fact all that Mr.

Bynum and other democrats have said was that wool advanced after the possag? of the LIU over the prices that obtained Just before the ratsage of the bill, and this is. strictly true. No;ne hi3 said that wool Is higher now than it was one year ago or two years ago. It Is a notorious fact that wool ha3 fallen steadily f or years under the efforts to keep it up by tariff taxes, and it will probably take as many years to regain its old position. To illustrate the movements of wool, we give the following statement of the average price of medium washed clothing wool for four months of each of the following years: Jan. April. July. Oct.

1SS0 :.." M 4S 4 1SS! 3S 37 39 37 1S:0 ' 37 31 37 37 1 0 1 3 1 3 1 30 3.i 12 3- 31 34 33 lH'J-i 33 32 21 24

These are the official average prices of the bureau of statistics of the United States. They are all on a gold basis. It will be seen that they show a material differ; nee In average prices In the different months of each year, but the prices are almost always lower In October than In the preceding months. Whether wool has risen or fallen permanently can be shown only by a record of prices extending over a number of months, but that a mere change of the tariff would caue it to fall Is very diHicult to believe In the face of the recorded fact thit it has fallen steadily under the tariffs specially designed to keep up its price even under the McKinley law itself. Of course special dates can be picked out in almost any year that would show higher than the average, but they are always produced by special ant temporary causes. It Is certain, however, that wocl did advance siightly after the passoge of the tariff law. :v khowi:ss IX POLITICS. There is occasionally hoard .a complaint of mrrowne-s in polities, nr. ! there Is usually gid support for it. The tendency of mankir. 1 is toward narrowness in everything in which th re is Intense personal Interest. You will frequently see a litigant, and sometimes an attorney, who becomes so wrapped- up In his sid of the case that he believes every one on the other side to be di-anest, if n.t worse, and whose estimate of the gool qualities of every one on his pile grows higher and higher each day. If the jUilr deciles in his favor a second Daniel has come to judgment. If he decides agiinst him he has Ken buirht. This is human nature, and it manifests itself very frequently in politics. There Is a'.n narrowness shown in appeals to the ignorance, or to the baser passions of voter.-', which Is deserving of rebuke, and so, perhaps, with the magnifying of unimportant matters. The Sentinel is not often accused of narrowness by its contemporaries ft Is generally recognized to stand for principles, and to stand for them bo'dly and cons;?ten:ly. It is therefore somewhat surprised by tiie following assault from Its evening contemporary, the Sun: About the narrowest bit of political capital that the democracy has yet brought into usj is that one-sixteenth of a cent per pound decline in sucrar. Oh, they draw the line mighty fine these times. The Sun is apparently laboring under the impression that a thing is small in principle because it is small in amount. I: would probe.bly denounce as a peanut politician the man who said. "Millions fir defense, not one cent for tribute.." As a matter of fact, the movement of sttgar prices is usually by sixteenths. Th -re is seldom a movement of prices elth r greater or less than the.t amount. The Sentinel's various editorials or. sugar have all been for the maintenance of a principle- or, perhaps better, a theory. It was claimed by the republican press everywhere at. the beginning of the campaign that the new tariff had increase.! the price of sugar. The Sentinel has shown that in fact it has not increased it above the M; Kinley prices. The republican press declared that sugar would rise steadily In price and make "a dear breakfast table." The Srntlncl has shown that in fact it has fallen, as appears by the following Journal quotations for Aug. 23, our first publication, and for yesterday: Aug. 29, Oct. 6, IN!) I. ISM. Hard sugars r.yuii' 5 fo.'Vi Confectioners' "A" -i5V.'. 4$i5 F- i't "A" 4-V'54 411; Kxtra "C" 4 ' V 4 44 Yellow "C" 4 4 4 .: 4 Dark yellow 3"!hfi48 3-Vy4'8 This reduction has come by steps of one-sixteenth of a cent, and as will be seen by the comparative statement at the head of the editorial columns, it puts FUe-ir from 1 to 2 cents a pound lower on various grades one year ago. It is also lower than It was two years ago. Thi3 result establishes" the principle for which The Sentinel contended, which was that the domestic price of sugar Is not controlled by tariff rates, but by the sugar trust. On the face of the proposition, on general principles, the imposition of a tax of practically a cent a pound on raw sugar ought to Increase the price of refined sugar, but as a matter of fact the sugar trust, under the McKinley law, was exacting a profit on sugar four or five times as great a3 lt3 "protection" of six-tenths of a cent. Either the new law In some way takes away its power to do this, or it 13 in some way controlled by some other influence. But whatever may be the case as to that, sugar is in fact cheaper th'an it has bÄen for many years, at thi3 time of the year, and it has fallen steadily since The Sentinel began calling 'attention to the market price. The Sentinel is not making any claim tliat a fall of one-sixteenth of a cent a pound in the price of sugar makes any materjal difference In the expenses of an average family. It does not believe that a movement of price to the amount of a cent. In either direction, .vould make a miterlal difference in the cost of living. That is not the point. It is simply establishing the principle that .tariff rates alone do not control the price of sugar, and that th new tariff has not,' In fact. Increased the price to the contumer. Whatever there has been of narrowness In the discussion of the sugar question has been on the republican side, in the both false and demagogical howl about

a "dear breakfast table." We trust, therefore, that the Sun will do The Sentinel the justice to withdraw Its unjust remark. Tim 1XCOMK TAX. The following striking observation is made by our republican contemporary, the St. Louis C,lobe-D era. erat: Neither party Is attacking th Income tax at present. Nevertheless this imput never would have ben adopted had the republicans remained In power. The truth of it depends very much on where the remark is made. The republican party is fighting the income tax In New York and some other eastern states, and is saying as little .13 possible about it in the western and southern states. It was announced that the republican campaign book would contain a vigerous assault on the Income tax, but that valuable document contains nothinc on the subjects but extracts from the New York Herald, New York Sun. Charles Nordhoff. Congressman Hendrlx and Senator Hill, all New York authorities, and all democratic authorities. This Is another instance of the funny republican idea of makii g a fight on quotations from the opposition when they have either too little courage or too little sense to make the same fight for themselves. But there is something very suggestive in the statement of the Globe-Democrat that the Income tax "never would have been adopted had the republicans remained in power." Most certainly it would not. The republican party would never levy any tax that would make accumulated capital pay it3 share of the exp nses of th? government. And it will go further than that if it gets Into power. It will repeal the income tax without a moment's hesitation, just as It will every reform law that the democratic party has enacted. That is what the republican party is here for. It is the tool of concentrated capital, and it will do whatever it is commanded to do to favor concentrated capita). No one need be deceived as to that. Th? republican party has made its record in that line. Or.e of the first taxes it red-cevd, and then repealed, when the conclusion of the war permitted it. was the old income tax. And that it is still of the fame miod is shown by its more ree.nt declaration that it woild repeal every internal revenue

tax rather than give up a, j t of its protection to th?" tariff robbers. The Income tax will neo r be repealed so long as the democrats r. re in power. The party In New York has seen lit to object to it. but .oil through the We-t and South the p-rty stands firmly by the new tax ar.d will continue to do so. But the influences that control the republican party In the West nil South are opposed to the income t; A and ask only an opiortunity to get icto power to destroy it. The two parties are squirely In issue on the question, and the peoyi understand it. The republicans ' will gain not.aing by tlv :r half-way fifhting. SOI.niKItS' I IUKM) eWKVS. The Sentinel publi.-hej thLs morning an account of a little incident" in 'the political carver of Mr. Owen, the republican candidate for secretary of state;' ;ich will be of interest to the old so'd r-of the ctete. Mr. Owen's victim was' Capt Mu'.I of lViganrport. and h's own account of his treatment by the foxy candidate will be accept 1 as strictly true by all who know him. He Is o. quiet, molest, unpretentious mm, who has learned by ex;. nence that the premises of politicians cannot always be relied upon, even when mad i:i the presence of others, and guaranteed by t'-e most solemn assurances, or, when in accordance with the expressed wishes of a large majority of the party In the community. According to Copt. Mull th-re were three stages in the deception and ignominy thrust up-n him. In the first place the office was expressly premised to him and given to another. In the; second place a promise was mad? that tloi ? appointee would resign and the ( lfi:e wou'.d be given to Mull, and this was never done. In the third place an attempt was maje to buy Mull off by giving him part of the salary of a place he did not fill in any way, and to which, he could never conscientiously lay claim. The tatter was adding Insult to Injury. It was bed enough to deceive th man in the first place. It was wcrse to keep him dancing attendance under the absurd pretense that the man. who had the necessary "pull" to get the aop ;intnieKt WOUld give it up and let Mull take it. It was still worse to offer an honest m-n a practical bribe of $500 a year to soothe his wounded feeanps. And Mr. Owen had no right to take away from the incumbent Of this second cfRce $000 of his salary. The salary is fixed by law, and. it belongs to thu man who fills the office and does the work. If he does not draw it no other person Kjs the right to do so. Capt. Mull's record as a soldier adds to the interest of the matter. ' Th republlean party sets itself up as the peculiar guardian of the veterans of the civil war, but It haa frequently been reproached by them for its forget fulness of its guardianship when It comes to the distribution of offices. This is a peculiarly aggravated case, and it Is hot strange that Capt. Mull and his friends are Indignant over his treatment. THK TIX-1'LATE OCT II A GR. The beginning of work in the largest tinplate work3 in tho world at Anderson Is very conclusive evidence of the falseness, of the claim that tin-p'.ate factories already constructed cannot afford to run on the existing scal? of wages. Our latest Information is that under thu orders of the tin-plate combine every factory in the country has closed down -with the exception of tho Moorewood plant at Gas City. The probable reason why It did not is that Its proprietor, J. II. Rogers, is in Wales. Here is one of those "federations of wealth" to which Senator Voorhees so truthfully referred as formed to restrict wages and oppress worklngmen, and one which deserves to be soundly punished for its meanness. There was no excusa for Its action. Every condition was most favorable for pushing work. Each Individual manufacturer saw It, sod -the tin-plate factories had started up all over the country and

new ones were in process of construction.

But when tho controlling manufacturers came together and the possibility was suggested of ad.hng to their already princely pre fits by Fqueezing a few dollars out of their employfs, they all joined in. This is not merely an outrage on the men. It Is a direct injury to every man In business. It is placing an obstacle In the path i cf returning prosperity of th country. It i.s stopping the, taming power and purchasing powsr of a large class of men who would not only help themselves but help every one by the earning and expending of wages. This action will not be forgotten soon. A 31 M.V i.i;ttkii. Republican papers in the gas belt are trying to prejudice the Hun. W. D. Bynuna with the glass makers by publishing the following letter: House of Representatives. Washington, I. C, Oct. 14. Messrs. B. O. Norcross, Charles J. Hoffman, ElWuod, Ind.: Dear Sirs I am in receipt of yours of the 17th inst., inclosing certain sundry petitions, numerously signed, addressed to me requesting that I use my infiuence i as a representative in congress to preI wnt a reduction of the tariff on window ! gla'S. After five successive campaigns, i in which I advocated, without reserve, a reduet.on of existing duties, I cannot believe that there i3 an Intelligent voter in the Seventh congressional district, which I have the honor to represent, that did not, when he cast his vote, understand my view on this important question. I shall not at this time undertake to demonstrate that the present rates of duties O'i window glass ar? unnecessarily and exorbitantly high and ought to be reduced. I am firmly convinced that such Is the cas. and I would be an unworthy representative should I not honestly endeavor t carry out the principles which I have so unfalu ring.y advocated, and i which I sincerely believe to be for the 1 best Interests of the people. Yours truly. V. IX HVNUM. The Sentinel does not believe that Mr. j Bynuni can be harmed by that letter. ThLs Is a tariff-reform district, and it is a district that believes In manly, cutrpoken representatives. Of what use would it be for a majority to eliK-t a re-re-ente.tive if a minority could step in afterward and bulldose him into doing what he had pUdged himself uct to do? Wo would like to have this letter placed in the hands of every voter in the district. It will make votes for Mr. Bynum everywhere. This country has come to n condition in which it netds men who are not afraid to proclaim their principles, and who stick to their principles aft.r they are elected. The New York Tribune, the leading republican organ of the country, has abandoned the calamity-howlers and Joined the ranks of those who hail with pleasure the indubitable evidences of swiftly returning pro.-jo erlty. It devoted a page on Monday t o a presentation of the evidences on which it based its faith, giving interviews with prominent merchants of New York, all of whom agree that there is a vast improvement in all lines of business, that the revival is on a healthy and permanent basis, and that there is no doubt of good times for this and next year. We would call special attention to the fact that no one will be bullied or intimidated by deputy United States marshals at the next election, and that republican scoundrels arrested for violations of the election laws will not be released by United States judges. This year for the first time the Indiana election laws can be enforced in all their fullness and strength, and the election ought to be made absolutely fair and lawful. Congress has repealed the federal election laws In toto. The Muneie Times accuses The Sentinel of "mud-slinging" because It Is proving that Mr. Owen Is an enemy of organized la!or. We had supposed that any republican paper In Indiana would consider It an honor to a man to be known as an enemy of organized labor. But possibly it Is different during campaigns. Gen. Bew Wallace is out predicting that I. Harrison would accept the presidential nomination if it is forced on him. We Fhould smile. But. by the way. why in thundtr is not Gen. Wallace at home drilling his militia company in anticlpatlcn of the bloody revolution he predicted? The new government of New Zealand is going Into the exclusion of immigrants with a vengeance. The minister of labor has Introduced a bill for the exclusion of "Chinese and other Asiatics, contract workmen, cripples, consumptives and paupers." We understand from Governor McKinley that cheap sugar makes a prosperous man. While a cheap coat makes a chap man. Wheat has fallen from $1.50 to f.O cents In thirty years of republican rule. What kind of a man docs that make? St. Louis Republic. A cracked wheat man, of course. Harmony appears to have been Introduced In New York state politics and there is a prospect for an united democratic fight for the state. That is the sensible thing to do. Xothing could be worse than the return of Piatt to power. There Is just one thing that keeps up wages in this country and that is labor organizations. If protection could do it there would be no attempt to reduce wages In the tin-plate Industry. The republicans find that they haven't a leg left on which they can stand comfortably, and so they have concluded to sit down on old calamity and stay there. Charles L. Henry is very fond of the worklngman, so long a3 he keeps out of unions, accepts starvation wages and works sixteen hours a day. AXSWI1KS to coimrcspoxuEXTs. Reader, Union City: A shut-down of the tin-plate factories belonging to the association of tin-plate manufacturers has been ordered. Its object Is a. reduction- of waecs. There Is no excuse whatever for it. The factories are protected to th? amount of $1.20 a. box and have free raw material. It Is one of the most profitable businesses in this country under these conditions. I). H. M.. City: In addition to the necessary length of resilience, a foreigner must "declare his Intention to become a citizen of the Unite 1 States" and take out his first papers. The clerk cf the county courts, the supreme court, or the United States courts will issue the papers. K. K., Lincoln, Ind.: The number of election precincts In the state Is 3.0C3. This

J Is 117 more than there were two years ago.

STREET PICKINGS.

"Pie or prunes." These words fell upon the ear of the Pickings man as he sat within the dining hall of a hotel, itself the principal hostelry in one of the new and enterprising towns cf the gas belt. The Pickings man looked up with pome surprise as he had not, been exporting the remark. Hence, It came upon him in the nature of a revelation. As his eyes slowly ascended they fell upon the ruddy countenance of a young girl. Her eyes were bright and h;r step was firm. True, one of her front teeth was mi?sing. but this may have been the result of an. accident when a child. Her dark hair w.3 corraled by a string of faded blue ribbon, which trailed down her buk. ar.d as she reached over the table to hand one of the regular boarders the p-pper box It dangled for a brief moment In the apple sauce. "Pie or prunea." The mysterious phrase again smote the ears of the Pickings man and he started from his absorbed contemplation of the fair young creature before him. Again he looked inquiringly into that happy countenance, and It was probably with an expression of some amazement as the real import of the ejaculation had not as yet trickled through his Intellect. As he looked up the second time the girl was wiping her nse with her apron. Of course there was nothing wrong that is criminally wrong in the act, but the action drove all thought out. of the head of the youth who sat before her. He tried to speak, but the words rattled in his larynx. At the moment hi3 mouth was full of dry cracker, and as he chewed vigorously with his eyes fixed upon the scintillating orbs of the fair" creature before him the two no doubt formed a beautiful picture. He was trying to empty hi mouth so he could speak. She had a cold. The girl moved from one foot to the other and. having dutifully attended to her nose, began picking at a pimple on her chin. She was in no hurry, but was waiting the convenience of the young man before her. He was chewing and thinking at the tame time. He was trying to make a selection and. like others who are out shopping, found k dklicult to make a choice. H-e wanted to do the best thing under the circumstances and therefore was careful to fully comprehend the situation before committing himself. Would be take pie? Would he take prunes? Darned if he knew. Supposing be took both. No, that would never do. He had thoughtlessly asked for a second cap of coffee, but a moment before and after the girl had reluctantly tak-.n his cup and disappeared through the pine d-K.r in the direction of the kitchen he had heard a terrible commotion and a moment later had noticed the door carefully pulled back and through the crack had seen the forms of some half-dozen faces peeping at him with an expression of wonder and consternation. The Pickings man had just eaten his dinner and was about to leave the table when the vision of rustic, neglige beauty had again confronted him with the opportunity for a selecti on of additional edibles. The girl had noticed the action and supposed that he was not used to dessert so was looking down at him with an expression of contempt. "Pie or prunes." This time the words were hurled forth with a vengeance and it was apparent that no more time could be lost. Something must be done and done at once. Without a thought and with the recklessness of despair, the Pickings man opened his mouth and it was over. He had selected prunes. m m m "How many childurn I got?" replied the old man as he dipped up from the spring back of his house a cup of clear water and handed it to the stranger. "Jes two." "Yes, jes two b,.y and girl," he continued as he wiped his fac with his tattered coat sleeve. "Me an' th' on woman live here an' work the farm same as we been doin' fer twenty year. "Ye see we had four chllurn, but two died. Nellie wuz born in '65 an' Tom in '03. They wuz likely childurn an' we took pride in givin' them a gxl edication kind o' stinted ourselves ye know fer a few years. But that's neither here (r there. We jist had the two an' thought we'd do the best by them we could." The stranger had been surveying the little log house that nestled beneath tV1? tall trees far back from the road. It was over in the edge of Delaware county. "And your children they've both gone to town, I suppose," he asked. "No," said the r.ld man as he p4cked up a splinter of wood and began bonding it between his finger., "they're both home and have been fer three year an' they're compny fer nie an the old woman too in our old age." "I thought maybe that after getting an education they'd want to leave you and move to the city." "Wall, Tom did go off fer awhile. He wanted to see the world an he went to the city. Got a clerkship or sumpin an' then went to railroadin. but somehow he got to bein" what he called a good feller an' I had to put a plaster on the place fer two thousand. Took long time to pay it Off, too. Tom got hurt on a railroad anhad both legs taken off. He's in there," , "And Nellie?" "Wall, Nellie you know she wuz the girl and mother alius thought a heap of her. Took on terrible when she wanted o go off to the city in an office. But we let her go an' she wuz away a year an' more. She looked Jest like mother did When she was a young girl mighty purtj-, too. On? day I came in from plowin corn an I see mother had been cryin. She had a letter in her hind. " 'Nellie's comin' home,' wuz all she said. "I didn't read th' letter; somehow I didn't want to. But Nellie came home an' she's been' home ever since." Ju?t then a little blue-eyed girl, with hr hair tied with a pink ribbon, toddled out of the door and came down the prass walk. The old man picked the child up and hugged it tenderly. "Nellie's," was all he said. The stranger walked silently down the path and thanked the old man for the water. As he drove down the road the world didn't seem to him so bright. He wanted to go back and say something to that old man, but he couldn't think of anything to say. Her F.nr Deceived Her. She "How the taste of the public is Improving! Just listen to that German b.Lnd playing a selection from Wagner." lie "Wagner? Not much! th? band is full and they are pimply playing the Washington Pest March' with their musie sheets turned upside down." Brooklyn Eagle. Living Piclnres. "Julia tells me she left the compmy she was in because she had too many lines." Delia "Yes. You see she was to appear as a pretty young girl in the living pictures." Chicago Inter Ocean. Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder World's Fair Highest Medal and Diploma. .

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Our rice crop is in5.00'V"i pounds. Th engine of the world can do the work of l,0'io,0"'r o men. The only quadrupel that lays eggs is th? nrnJthorhyr.chus ' Australia. The drill plr. v in every essentia', was known to th- 1a!n's- 4.0 years ago. The Natl . nil toc.hpl 'k ass viatln claims an output of fifty-two cars annually. Philadelphia needs no cxplanati- n. The In Hans callv ! th- plaee Coaguann-k, th pine grove. Norwalk. C r.n.. is sail to have an In dian origir. but there is an U.ngUsh vi'.Iez? of this name. The nu re we do. th-- m ro we can do; the niTe biwy we are tho m 're leisure we have. ll.izlltt. Samuel Ogd n wis the first English o.vrer of the lir 1 on whl h Ogd-:.'..urg. N. Y.. is now built. In 12t the first barrel of coal oil was commercially U'-ei. In lw3 ahmt HlV'V'V'.jO barrels were used. He whi establishes his argument by no;--e and eommand showsi that hls reckon Is weak. Montaigne. Charity laj s th rough path of peevish nature even, and opens in each heart a little heaven. Prior. Alphonso II of Portugal, a really ab'e King, was nicknamed The Fat, on account of his predigi us size. Charles Dibdin, the- sea poet, was called the Bard of the English navy and the Tyrtaens cf 'he navy. Change of opinion is often or.ly th prcgres of sound thought and rrowir.g knowledge. Tyrn Udwards. Augusta. Me., was named In honor of Princess Augusta Cinrlotte, the granddaughter c f Ge -rge II. To larg--?; electric locomotive In the werlJ. 2."''0 horse power, was bull: at Zurich. Switze.-Ian 1. In 1C1'2. John Buny.n w.n called the Inspired Tinker, from the vocation h- exercised even while ere.isj.-l ir. preaehinsr. Shelley was the Atheist. Ark!, the Poet's Poet and the Sr.. ike, s walle 1 by rh-e who took different views i.f i.U opinions. A man r-f nulitit: n is rarpy. rnt f-r an hour or a day. but quite round the circle of all his years. Isa oc Taylor. A man mu-t be b eh strpi 1 anl amcharltab'e win bc-Ii- v ther is no virtue or truth but i n his own side. Ad lis n. As virtue is nee. ssery in a republic and IvTc.r in a mo-.arehy, fear Is what is required in a d'-.-.j"ti.-m. M ntes-iiiieti. Joeph Hume, the politician, was ca'.'.e-l Adversity Hume, because of his frequ-nt pre lie: ions f ruin t the Kngüsh pr-'ple. A'.lib ronti Phos.-ophortiio was a n' kname given by W.ile r So;t to his P 't ipnis frit nd. John Ballant v n.-. th" publisher. A piece of flagging on Cra -swell road, London, weighing 217 p.mn 1 . was lifted out of place by the growth of toadstool beneath it. One of the most wonderful th.n;rs fn nature is a glance of the eye; is tran?ctn:l3 speech; 1: is the bodily symbol of il'.ntity. Emerson. The Egyptian embalmers preserved not only the human bedy, but als i tii bodies of eats, monkeys, s.e:rel bulls and some other ani.oals. Bunion pays 42 per cent, cf the income tax In England and Wales, and its governments anl management cost about 11,000,000 a year. In England the heavy fleeces of the sheep are needed for protection from severe weather. In Australia they are constantly growing lighter. He who.e first: emotion, on the vic of an excellent work, is to undervalue cr depreciate it. will never have one of his own to show. Aiken. S ovter was the old name for a shoemaker, hence Sowter, Sutter, and from another name Cobble, Cobbler, Cobber. Cobb et and others. That inversion of hone-s!ekness known to some, that incurable thrist for the sens of escape, which no- actual form of life satisfies. W. Pater. Arizona has produced mere than JS0,ooo.ooo of precious metals. The exports of silver have exceeded Jo.OOO.OO') a year and of copper J4,o(i0,(o0. Huggins, Hutchins, Hutchinson, Huggin n. II 'wlett. Hewlet. II .Avt, Hewitt, Ilowson. Iluches and Howsoa are 0.1 the s ns of plain Hugh. Waters, Watson. Watterson, Watkins, Watkln.-ors and s me others arcs s ons of a man called Water, because he livel on the bank of a stream. The mit ancient tombs in the world, so far as known, are th osi of the Thebaa kh.gs of Egypt. They are be li eyed to be ni 'iv than 4. WO years old. An Inquiry instituted among the London f-e Hbrar'.er. shows that Mrs. Henry Wood. Edna Lya'.l and I!ilr Haggard are the most popular writers. Whoev.-r may discern true ends shall grow pura enougli to love them, brave enough to strive f f th'-m, anl strong to reach them. I-:. 15. 1 Irovetli.'.g. New Zealan I has set apart two Island for the preservation of its remarkable wild birds anl nth. r animals: tb-Tion all hunting and trapping are f rbid 1 . n. Men are often capable cf greater things than they perform. They are sent Into the world with bit.- of creatt. and ppldotn draw to their full extent. Walp !. Coffee Is taxed J310 a ton in France, J280 in Italy, In Austria. 12" in Portugal, $120 in Norway. $100 in dertr.any and Spain. $73 in Russia. $70 in Great Britain. A gc-niUA ha-j arrived at the eonc-lusiorx that a '. 1 coin passes nx.ai one to another 2.0ii.o00,rteo tinier befon th stamp or impression upon It becomes obliterated by friction. The often discussed actually happened In the case of Eb.-n Whit- f sst. Jwhns, Mich., recently. He was asleep under a tree, when a chipmunk ran into hi' open mouth and interfered with his snoring. A primitive v t! n ex'od am rg the liomans and ..her ra -es that a L:Mge was an offense anl injury to the river tr-d. as it saved peop.e from being drown-.! wh: fording or i-wimming across, anl r bb d th? deity of a. ert :in num!.r of vi dims which were his due. Not so long since a stowaway was found dead under the mal: hitch of one of the National line steamers. He had concealed himself before the steamer l-ft Llveeponl, and died of suff -cation. Curiously eivush. in his pocket was fund. a novel entitled. "I . -nie 1 on the Deep." It would be unwise, however, to abandon the subject of the rains without due reference to th remarkably hea y rain which descended in Missouri last weeli. Feeing the ivcel running red, as if tinged with blood, past his house. Si Lam. n ran up to his melon patch, only to find that the heavy drops had pierced the rind of every melon In the field In a thousand places, and their rosy juice was staining the soil. N. Y. ltecorder's Liars Club. In all policies of life insurance thse, among a hist of other questions, occur: Ag- of father. If living? Age 'f mother, if living?" A man in the country niua up his father's age, "if living," 112 years, and his mother's 102. Tiie agent was amazed at this, and f.meieu be had secured an excellent customer, but feeling somewhat dubious, he remarked that the applicant came of a very long-lived family. "Oh, you see, sir," replied he. "my parents died many years ago, but if living' would be aged a3 there put down." Tit-Bits.