Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 October 1894 — Page 4

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TIIE IMPIAXA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY MORNING. OCTOKEIt 17. 1891.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. BY TEE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. (Entered at the Fostofllce at Indian, npolls a lernud rlnxi mallrr.)

terms per year. Single copy (In Ailvnocf) ?1 OO We Rxk demorralii to bear In liilutl anil select their own stnte paper nhrn thejr come to take subscriptions nuil make up elnbs. Agent making "I club wend for any information desired. Address THE INDIANAPOLIS SKXTHKU Ind (una pol Is, Ind. WEUVKSDAV, OCTOBER IT, DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET. JniUc of Snpreme C'nnrt, First District (icorce I Reinhard. J 11 dee of Supn-me four, Fourth District Joseph S. Dalley. Secretory of State William R. Myers. Auditor of State Joseph T. Fann! nif. Treasurer of State Morgan Chandler. Atrornej-Gcneral Francis 31. Grlfgth. f'lrrlc of he Soprtme Con rt Charles ,TV. Wclniun. Soperintendent of Public Instruction Charles AV. Thomas. State Statistician AIIx Fnlton. State Geoloitlst KU T. J. Jordan. Twenty-one pounds of snctir nre selling now for u dollar and no lr. unties nre lirlnK paid to the Loalnlttnn lugar hnrum. THE TIN-PLATE CO N S P I R A C Y. It is beginning to be understood that th3 bluff oC tha tin-plate manufacturers In demanding a reduction of the wages of their employes Is. In fact, a political 0cheme. The Nie iringhaus firm, which led off In this movement, threatened in 1SD2 to close Its mills In case the democrats carried tha country. as did other manufacturers, ar.r! Indeed son- of thorn did shut down during the elect Ion for the purpose cf scaring voters. This year the Niedringhaus plant shut down two weeks or so Tjofore the others, and ostensibly for repairs. It W33 not. until several days after the closing dwn that the workmen were informed by the proprietors that a cut would be mada in their wages. It is not pretended that there has been, any decline in the prices of their good?, but still it Is claimed that the cut of wngs is du? ta tho tariff. The St. Louis Republic quotes one of the Xledrlnghaua workmen, as saying: I think tl:at tho closing down of the ml"s at this) time is for political effect. It appears very much as though ih thi-plate manufacturers am willing to clos- Juvn their mills and take the bread and butt'T out c-f the mouth. of their employes, with the iing!- pun1"-1-' of assist In- the republican party in the present campaign. The tin-plate workers aril members of the Ani:ilgamat-d asM.xi.ati-.n were all aware that under th agreement of the association with the- manufacturer a new scheduleof wages was about due. However, they did not anticipate that they would be :Lk--i to accept 25 per cent, and 30 p-r cent, re 1",?. lions. They cannot see the nee-seity of it now that. It has been dune, eve:? it:. dor the new tariff law, which is tho a"l. ! cau.-e, a we now urderstand it. i: t v.h-n th-- mi!! first do?ed down thf employes oa ere given no intelligence as to why. an 1 it was the general belief that tin cP-sirg was only fir repairs. Y.hil-i s :r- ted a slight reduction, all were si:r;r;. I wh n informed that it would av;;-:is'' f:vm 25 to ::') per cent. It i3 unjust, and I do not believe the men will ex--;-: it. The Xi- dt aighar.s firm was one that advocated the tax on tin, not because it deFired to make tin-plate, but because it owned thi patents for granite ironware, ar.d, had a mr-np Ay of the trade. It desired to advance th- rrice of tin in order to mal; that article a less formidable rival to granite ironware. It now has its patent article generally Introduced, but its patents expired about a, year ago, and in met with competition In the manufacture, which caused a reduction in the price of It. Kut after the first reduction no further reductions were made, and the price lists of the new companies are Identical with thos-3 of the old one. In other words, there Is either a trust or a combine in the granlto ironware business. The Nledringhaus firm operates it3 tin-plate separately from its granite ironware plant, and Mr. Thomas Xledrlnghaus admits that the tariff has no effect on granite Ironware. It has certainly not yet had any on tin-plate, as anyone may see by consulting the market reports, and. the pretense that It has is only a cover for the real reason for this unjustifiable proposal to cut wages. GEX. NELSON'S DELUSION. Among th? numerous republicans who have been turned loose on the country is Gen. Tern Nelson, and the Columbus Republican gives the following startling information concerning his speech at that place: Unlike the speikers who have preceded him here he did not go back six centuries to befuddle the minds of his audience, but b'gin with Lincoln and briefly touched all Important points and soon reached th? tariff, the question which h Just now agitating the public mind. lis ehowed that Hancock and Cleveland knew nothing about th? tariff when they wer& first candidates and said so. He described the origin of the word tariff and then proceeded to show that the breikfast table of every man in this land was free from tariff taxation under the McKinley law, and thit as it now stood it wa3 fir from it. We will venture the assertion that even If Hancock and Cleveland had known nothing about the tariff when they were first candidates, they knew more than Gen. Nelson does now. An untaxed breakfart table, indeed! If any. mm had one at any time under the McKinley law it must have been on fast days, for no man could eat under that law without paying a tax. Will Mr. Nelson kindly tak? a look at a breakfast table? To beg-in with, are the table and the chairs, eich with a McKinley tax of 33 per cent. Next in order Is the tablecloth with a McKinley tax of 54 pnr cent. Then come the knives and forks with a McKinley tax of 47 per cent., exoepting the carving knife and fork, which were taxed 74 per cent. The plates, cup3 and saucers paid a McKinley tax of 55 per cent., and all the glassware a tax of. 60 per cent. Proceeding to the eatables we find on th breakfast tablj on; thing that was not taxed, and that was coffee, and it is

not taxed now. Th? sugar for the coffe? was taxed hilf a cent a pjund solely for th? benefit of th? sugar tru-d. ind whatever miy be the reason the trust exacted a greater price for it under the McKinley law thin It does now. If there was any meat on th breakfast table it was taxtd thus: bacon 20 per cent., fre.h beef 23 ptr cent., mutton 17 j-r cent., fresh prk 21 per cent. If the open-faced codfteh adorned th? board it was taxed ID per cent. There was, of course, some kind of bread, and wheat fiur was taxed 25 per cent. Butter WJ3 taxd 33 r?r cent. Potitxs are usually on the breakfast table, and thy were taxed 52 per cent. Eggs ar? not uncommon; they, were taxed 41 per cent. In the way of vegetables we might have found onions, 51 per cent., or bean?. 40 per cent. Possibly there would b? rice, 112 per cent., or honey, 45 per cent., or dried apples, 35 per cent. And there mipht have been some cheese, taxed 43 per cent. And for seasoning there was salt, taxed 12 cents per hundred pounds, and vinegar, taxed 27 per cent., and pepper, taxed 58 p?r cent. What would Gen. Nelson call a taxed breakfast table?

Twenty-one pountls of iggar are selling: now for a dollar and no bounties are be! us paid to the Louisiana mngtr barons. 3IR. STEVEXSOVS SPEECH. The speech of Vice-President Stevenson at Lincoln, 111., is a most valuable contribution to campaign literature, and especially that part that refers to the causes of the business depression of ISjJ. That is one thing that the American people cannot reflect upon too much, for the lesson will 'be useful in the future if it be thoroughly learned now. Panics are not made by things that occur in the future. Their causes are always In the past. To adopt any other line of explanation is absurd. It would be as sensible to say that a fire Avas occasioned by the hot ashes that remained after the ibuildIhk was consumed. And the idea that the vast and diversified interests of a nation of over sixty millions of people were overwhelmed by a fear of something that those people had voted for is worse than absurd. It is false, and every sane man knows it is false. Certainly no one has forgotten the great surplus that Mr. Cleveland had accumulated in 1SSS. Certainfly no one has forgotten that he made it the ibasis of his argument in his great tariff reform message cf 1SS7. Certainly no one has forgotten that the republicans grew to hate the word "surplus," and from CorIoral Tanner's "God help the surplus if I h Id of if up to the platform utterance on the subject there was no feeling manifested by republicans tout a mad d sire to get rid of the surplus, deplete the treasury and do away with any excuse for lowering taxes. Their platform of 1SS3 says: The republican party would effect all needed redaction of the national revenue by ?uch revi.-ion of the tariff as Will tend to check imports. Tint was their object the reduction of the national revenue, and the preservation of the benefits to the trusts and combines. And right royally did they carry out their pledges In 1S30. The tariff beneficiaries were invited in and requested to fix them as they liked. "Put up the duties as high as you like," said McKinley and his confreres; "we want to check Imports." And they did put them up, and after they got through they found they still had too much revenue. So they took the duty off sugar and put a 'bounty on, the change costing the government over J.'Aono.ooO per year. And they bought the votes of the mountain states for this bill by the Sherman purchase bill, which cost the nation thirty or forty millions more per year. And they made appropriations exceeding a billion dollars. And then they returned to the constituents, and their constituents kicked them out. The republicans overdid the matter. They had fixed the revenue too low and the expenses too high. They had put the silver purchases in such a condition that the government was fdmply exchanging gold for sliver. In two brief years the surplus was gone, the treasury was empty and nothing tout the transfer of trust fund to the government's credit prevented a deficit. No wonder financiers feared that the government would not be able to maintain specie payments. No wonder the money market tightened. No wonder a bank panic was created. And tv'.l that has followed since is the result of that panic. The bu?iness depression from which the country has suffered is the direct result of Harrisonism. Shermanlsm and McKinleylsm. OAXADA AM) 31'KIM.EYISM. Our Washington correspondent on Monday morning exposed a number of misstatements in the speech of Mr. McKinley at this place as to th? effects of the McKinley law on imports from Canada in the line of agricultural products. It so happens that on a resolution offered by Senator Iliggins, and adopted by the senate, the secretary of the treasury made a special report on the commercial relations of Canada and the United Stites, under date of May 25, 1S94, and this report shows that Mr. McKinley misrepresented the figures all the way through. For example, he stated that our imports of wool from Canada in 1S90 were $233,000 and In 1892 they were cut down to J200.135. The secretary of the treasury shows th? Imports as follows: 18S! 5218,324 lSDi 2.;7.&;.;i 1891 271.141 lo r. 1 1S12 , 1893 2731 These statistics will be found in senate document No. 106, second session of the Fifty-third congress, at page 31, and the adjoining pages. Another article specified was hay, the Imports of which, Mr. McKinley said, were reduced from 022,001 In 1S90 to J5S8.000 in 1892. The official figures are: 1SS3 $1,081. Rf2 1S93 1,143.152 1891 414.903 1893 714.552 1893 964.502 Hay is an article whose Importation fluctuates greatly, according- to the condi

tion of th? hay crop along the Canada line. The largest Importation in the past ten years was in 1?S3, when It reached 51.517.133. In 1S..7 it was $739,129 and in 1SSS 5978,720. Mr. McKinley said the importation of potatoes fell from 1303.000 in 1S!0 to 511,0i)0 in 1S92. The official figures are:

ls: 1S:10 1391 1)2 1S33 .5 ls9.2" . 2:l7,i;27 . 1,752.727 22,131 . 2S,39 Thi?, too. Is an import that deptnds chU-fly on the failure or success of our crop. The effect of the McKinley tariff In 1891 was to make hundreds of farmer.-, who were already losers by the partial failure of th' potato crop, pay an extra price for seed potatoes. Hut under ordinary circumstance; the imports of these articles from Canada hive less effect on the farmers of the United States than the mosquito bites they receive. The hay crop of the United States in 1S93 amounted to 5370.SS2.872. In comparison to that what does the total Import from Canada amount to? It is less than one-sixth of 1 per cent, of our home product, and whether it increases or decreases three or four hundred thousand dollars Is wholly Immaterial to the welfare of American farmers. So with potatoes. Our domestic potato crop In 1S33 amounted to 10S.6r,l,S01. The ordinary importation is from 52X,000 to 5300,000, which is about cne-fifth of 1 per cent, of the home product. The great Importation of 1S91, under the McKinley law, is less than 2 per cent, of the home product, and it was never equaled but once, in 1SS2. The rlmple truth 13 that talk about competition of Canada with the United States in agricultural proI ducts is mere balderdash. Twenty-one pounds of sugar are selling- now for n dollar nnd no bounties nre bring paid to the Louisiana sii aar barons. SHERMANS SU YMEI.ESSN ESS. The Sentinel has on several occasions commented on the extensive and variegated mendacity of John Sherman, but it remembers no sample of it quite so atrocious as this statement made by him at Anron yesterday: It was the election of Mr. Cleveland and the threat of his party to overthiow our tariff laws that reduced our rccip.s. His election at once precipitated the hard times we have had. Who would manufacture goods and piy tie old wages when the dutlea on foreign goods made with lower wages were to be reduced? Disturbance and stagnation, the redaction of wages and limited production here were the inevitable and certain results. Does any man believe that if Harrison had been elected in 1S92 instead of Cleveland there would have been such stagnation, disturbance and distrust? There were no clouds In the sky except the steady decline in silver. )ut th; was easily corrected by stopping the purchase of silver bullion. Had Mr. Cleveland and the democratic party been content with this our industries would have continued in active operation. No one knows better than John Sherman what caused the panic and depicsslon of 1SP3. He has made more panics than any American living r dead. No one has stated the cause more explicitly. As against his present atrocious falsehood we set his own statement made, in the midst of the panic, on the floor of the senate: Now let us examine the situation in which we are placed. Our counfy is under the pressure of a currency famine. Industries, great and small, are suspended by the owners, not because they cannot sell their products, but because they cannot get the money to pay for raw material and the wages of their employes. Panks conducted fairly are drained of their dejosits, nnd are compelled not only to refuse all loans, but to collect their bills receivable. This stringency extends to all trades and business; it affects even your public revenues, all forms of public and private securities, and. more than all, It stops the poy of a vast army of laborin,? mtn. of skilled mechanics and artisans, and affects the economy and comfort of almost every home in the land. Th1 strange feature of this stringency is unlike that of any of the numerous panics in our past history. They came from either an irredeemable currency, which became worthless in the hands of the holder, or from expanding credit, based upon reckless enterprises which, failing, destroyed confidence in all industries. Stringency followed failure and reckless specula ticm. In former panics stringency followed failures. Tn tills, failures follow stringency. Cong. Record, Aug. 30. 1893, p. 1,049. This was what he thought, or at least said he thought then, when the effects of the panic caused by his imbecile law and Harrison's wanton extravagance were just passing from the barks to the Industries of the country. Then he- said that there was nothing in the way of the manufacture and sale of goods but the money stringency. Now he asks who would manu fact. .re goods fearing a tariff reduction. Then ha admitted freely and repeatedly that his silver purchase law was a mistake; that it had created a fear that the government could not maintain its credit; that it ought to be repealed at once. Then he had no belief that fear of tariff reform could interfere with the prosperity of the country, and he iaid so as plainly as the English language could put it. On Oct. 17, 1S93, while calling for a vote on the pending bill, and knowing that the senate would vote for th? repeal of the purchase clause, he said: If we would try It (voting) tomorrow, after all the long debate that has been had and dispose of this question as we think best for the people of the United States, uhile you are assuming your responsibility we would gladden the hearts of millions of laboring men who are now being turned out of employment. We would relieve the business cares of thousands of men whose whole fortunes are embarked In tride. We wouM relieve the farmer and hi product for free transportation to for: den countries, now cl ogged for want of nuney. In the present condition of affairs there is no money to buy cotton and com and wheat for foreign consumption. Ureak down the barrier now maintained by the senate of the United States, check this viper called obstruction to the will of the majority, give the senate free power and play, and In ten days from this time the skis will brighten, business will resume Its ordinary course, and the clouds that lower upon our house will be in the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Cong. Krcord, Oct. I7, 1803; p. 2,597. That was all he asked after four months of this panic and these hard times that he now says wore brought on by Mr. Cleveland's election. The repeal of hi3 own law wu all that was needed to bring prosperity. And It was to ccme at once winthin ten days. Was the fear of tarilt reform less then than It was when Mr. Cleveland came Into office? Had it vanished entirely? Mr. Sherman knew 'that tariff reform was assured when he uttered these

words, and neither he nor any other Intelligent man feared it. The repeal of the Sherman law did stop the money pnic, and stopped it quickly. It could r.o: anJ did n 't st-op the effects of .that ptnic of the 'failures that followed stringency." They still remained, and remained unt'l tariff reform put new life into .the country. Prom the day the tarii? law oa.-sel business began to revive and is now advancing with unparalleled rapidity. And in the midst of this demonstration of the correctness of his original position Jchn Sherman has the effrontery to flaurt h:s pitiful lie in the face of the country!

Twenty-one pound of Kii'ttr nre elliiiK now fop n clolliar nnl no bounties nre being paid to the I,oullan:: sugar barons. ARBITRATION Illüt TSSEIJ. The banquet of the Union league at Chicago Tuesday evening was notable for the discussion cf the subject of arbitration by representative workingmen, and others. Th? discussion wa3 opened by Carroll D. Wright, whose views on the subject are pretty generally known. He holds that compulsory arblatlon is impracticable because 'there is no way of enforcing the decrees of the tribunal, and on the theory that it would invade perssnal liberty. And yet he admits that it would be an incalculable blessing if practicable. He says: I am not prepared to say that there may not bo some modifications of this stern principle which I oppose so thoroughly, if it can be made practical. There is no man in this room there is no man in 'this country there Is no man In the grrat five or Mx manufacturing nations of the world, be he employer or employe that would not welcome any system of arbitration, whether voluntarily or compulsory, that would surely settle the great Industrial warfares which we have seen come up at certain times. There is no one who would not welcome any system of arbitration which would bring industrial peace and prosperity. Another most Interesting presentation of fact and opinion was mad? by Charles H. Waicott, chairman of the state board of arbitration of Massachusetts. He pointed out the beneficial effects of the Massachusetts system, both in preventing strikes and in settling them after they have begun. lie predicted the settlement of the New Bedford strike through the good offices of th? board. And yet hedoes not accept compulsory arbitration though his logic would seem to demand it: Arbitration and conciliation have not accomplished all that was desired, or all that might have been reasonably hoped for. Pu: for dealing with our neighbors and fellow-citizens the remedy, to say the least of it, is pleasanter and cheaper than the us? of bayonets or Catling guns. In each year for the last eight years their natural and Christian methods have .Ottled controversies fur the adjustment of which no other tribunal was provided. Can so much be said of any oth?r method? If you have a dispute with your neighbor about a boundary, or If your land has been taken by a railroad company and the question of amount of damages is the only thing to be determined, you may very likely, as a practical man. agree to leave the decision of the matter to three honest, disinterested men. If your neighbor is also your employe and the question of wages arises there is no reason In th? nature of things why the same course should not bo resorted to. If it Is a good thing to do in the one caso it is equally good in the other. I do not stand here as an advocate of compulsory arbitration that may possibly come in some form in th? future, although I doubt the feasibility of It but whatever the future may decree for us, it becomes us to rate at its proper value voluntary arbitration backed up by intelligent public opinion. When the principle cf voluntary arbitration has had a full and fair trial by all parties interested it will bo time enough to consider the advisability of enacting more stringent laws. At present I am .a firm believer in the power of public opinion alone to enforce the recommendations and decisions in an advisory state board, such as we have in Massachusetts, and he is a bold man to undertake to act in delianc? or neglect of that opinion or to underrate its impelling force whenever the ri?ht is made to appear. Mr. M. J. Carroll, editor of the Eight Hour Herald, stood for compulsory arbitration. The following shows the line of his thoucht: Voluntary arbitration is correct in principle, but difficult of application. The stronger party to the controversy will refuse to submit to such a method, and the rapid introduction of labor-saving machinery, business depressions, unrestricted immigratl n and other causes have established conditions where the lab.rtr can no longer be regarded as the stringer party, lt'was the refusal of the employer to submit the question at isue to arbitration that led 10 the strikes at Homestead and Pullman, and which is also responsible for th prolonged strike of ''), 000 coal miners in Scotland now in progress. Numerous instances might be cited showing the advantages of voluntary arbitration, where both parties enter into the negotiations in a spirit of fairness. I will content myself with a brief reference to one case which has taken place under my own observation h?re in Chicago. The compositors and publishers of the Chicago newspapers found great difficulty in adjusting the scale of prices incident to the great fluctuations in prices occurring during and following the civil war. finally arbi'ration was suggested and was put to its practical test here in 1S73. The result was a peaceful settlement of the dispute at issue, besides directing general attention to this nnode of settling contentions, the upshot being that arbitration was Incorporated in the constitution of the printers' union as a fundamental principle, always advocated by this class of the workers. Now and for many years back all disputes occurring on the dally papers here are referred to a regularly constituted board of arbitration, composed of an equal number of representatives from both sides, who have so far succeeded in preventing strikes and lockouts. It has bren luted that the decisions of the board rarely gav? entire satisfaction to both sides, but they hive been accepted by all as far preferable to a strike and certainly more equitable. I would favor the enactment of a national arbitration law with such penalties attached fr non-compliance a3 can safely be adopted without abridging or interfering with the constitutional rijrhts and liberties of the citizen, nor with the rights and liberties of the community, which is of the first and greatest Importance. I would also favor th adoption of ?:ate boards of conciliation and arbitration, these tD be supplemented by si h efforts as will be thouTht necessary to create a patriotic sentiment in favor ot a broad and liberal compliance with the law. In short. I believe that almost any law will answer the purpose, provided that it is backed up by a public sentiment strong enough to compel recognition. Tho workingman can be relied upon to favor anyreasonable course that will aid in establishing industrial peace. The essence of hi desire Is "a fair day's pay for a fair day's work." Extemporaneous remarks were made by some other speakers, and all, without regard to the remedy they deemed desirable, conceded the lamentable evil of our present methods of dealing with labor troubles. And whit 13 more remarkable, it is stated that tho3e present commended all the speeches made. In fact, reasonable men are not so far apart as may be imagined, even when" advocating appar

ently opposing ideas. And in labor trou- j ble, a3 in all other troubles, there may J usually b"- satisfactory settlement mad? j

if the matter can be calmly considered and prejudice, titterntss and anger be laid aside. The cheekiest thing that has been said by the republican press in this campaign, and that is saying a great deal, is the fillowing observation of the Brookville American on The Sentinel's headline, "Democratic Time.-," over Its reports of the revival of prosperity: "When the factories were closing and the working people were turned out to idleness we had the democratic imos indeed; but now that the shadow is passing and light returning the title is a misnomer. The light went out with the republicans and is coming back with the republicans. That is all. It Is plain to any one who wants to see." Let us reflect. The American, and other republican authorities, claimed that th? panic began merely because Mr. Cleveland was In office. Do the republicans propose to remove him? Do the people expect to restore McKlnleyism before March 4, 1S37? The panic began and spent its force under the McKinley law. As soon as the McKinley law was repealed business began to revive with unprecedented activity. And the repeal of the McKinley law caused the panic. Oh, Brookville American, where is thv blush? The Sentirel continues to find a powerful sight of comfort in the declining prices of sugar. News. Tru-, and no republican paper is getting a particle of comfort out of It. It nowhere just says so, but it plainly wants its readers to infer that this decline Is in some way due to the Gorman tariff. Absolutely false! The Sentinel has said repeatedly that the market was controlled by the trust. Well, if high duties makes low prices for the things taxed what was the matter with the McKinley law? Nothing, from the News' standpoint. It will probably be defending the McKinley law before the end of the year. Attorney-General Olney is only awaiting the decision of the United States supreme court in the Philadelphia cases against the sugar trust under the anti-trust law of ISM before bringing any proceedings under the new law. He endeavored to have these cases advanced! at the last session of the court, but they were continued to this term and set for Oct. 15 for argument. The lower courts decided that the Sherman anti-trust law was not sufficient, and it remains to ba seen what the supreme court will say. Secretary Hoke Smith is feeling very comfortable over the election in Georgia, lie says the state ticket is elected by majorities of from 30,000 to 33,000, against the combined forces of the republicans and populists. In 1S30 the republicans nominated no ticket, and refused to indorse the populists. In 1S92 both republicans and populists nominated full tickets. This year the republicans indorsed the iKopulist ticket and most of them voted it. The New Bedford operatives have practically succeeded in their strike, although they have accepted a 5 per cent, reduction of wages. If they had been in better financial condition to begin with they would have been able to brjng the millowners to terms all around. Mills cannot afford to be idle under the new tariff law. The republicans are finding that the people are not such great fools aa they had imagined. Their green-goods campaign is not working worth a cent. Twenty-one pounds of incur nre selling; now for n lollur and no bounties are being paid to the Louisiana agar bnrons. PERSONALS. Sophie Chrisensen of Chicago Is In domestic trouble because her husband won't let her work at her trade as a carpenter. Jim Root, the engineer hero of the forest fires, has become a freak In a New York museum. That settles the hero business. Dr. Talmage, who Is now in Bombay, preached recently in Bishop Thoburn's church, in Calcutta, and in Dr. Duff's missionary college. Mr. Gutzmann, a teacher in Berlin, cures stuttering. He makes his patients practice on the title of his m.tazine, Medizinischpaedagogische Monatsschrift fuer die gerammte Sprachheilkunde. A Warwickshire man who has lately revisited the scenes of his youth, which were also thos? of George Eliot's early life, says that tho novelist'3 relatives are reluctant to receive literary pilgrims or to tell them anything about Miss Evans's childhood, and that these people are ashamed to be known as kinsfolk of that famous lady. Max Lebaudy, whose efforts to make ducks and drakes of his large fortune are attracting much attention in France, was recently "jumped on" by Mm?. Severine, a French lady journalist of vigorous methods. In reply he wrote a letter complimenting her upon her trenchant style, and inclosing 5100 for a poor family whose cause sh? had been advocating. The Rev. Dr. John Henry- Barrows, the well-known presbyterian clergyman of Chicag?, suggests that a chapel in memory of Prof. Swing be built for the Universityof Chicago. A3 might be expected, President Harper of the university enthusiastically seconds the suggestion; but considerable opposition to the Idea has been aroused. The Chicago. Evening Journal thinks that a noble college building would be the best possible memorial to Dr. Swing; but it says that such a building should be erected for th? Northwestern university, of . which Prof. Swing was a trustee. The following story of the duke of Wellington is told in The Christian Commonwealth: "It was a rule of his grace's household that all visitors should attend worship on Sunday. One excused himself on the ground that he was a Roman catholic, and there was no chapel near. His grace caused inquiry to be made, found there was one thirty miles off, and th? guest was informed a carriage and four were in waiting to take him there. As a matter of fact he was not a Roman catholic, but simply had pleaded that as an excusD. However, in he had to get, nolens volens, and arrived back to dinner after his involuntary drive of sixty miles." Dr. Price's Cream Caking Powder World's Fair Hijthest Award. '

PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

The present commander-in-chief of the Japanese army In Core i. is Field Marsh 1 1 Count A. Yamagite, who ha- jus: brougat the Ping-Yang campaign to a brilliant 4 I" - bA'.vV.. corr:r close. On account of his nuiet strategy he has been called the Von M !tke -f Japan. Count Yamagate is about f. rtyseven years of age and of humble origin. He was a born soldier and receive! his military education in European sch xols. While yet in his teens his strategy and tactlt3 in th? field as commander of an army, commanded the admiration of all military men. Since joining the army he has borne a prominent part in all campalgns in which Japanese forces have participated. He is considered the ablest general that Japan has. Count Yamigata has also held several cabinet positions, but much prefers life in the army. Ernest Cady, whom the democrats of Connecticut have chosen as their leader in the gubern itor'al contest, is the present lieutenant-governor. He is a p.-orni-'mm EHREST CADY. nent freemason, a grand army man on the st.-'ngth of service in the navy during the civil war, a wealthy manufacturer and leading citizen of Hartford. He was born Sept. 6, 1S12. at Stifford, Talland county, lost his father when but nine years old. and thereafter supported himself by his own labor. His education he received at the winter terms of the public schools. Since 1SS2 he has been in the firm of Pratt & Cady, manufacturers of steam boiler appliances at Hartford. Mr. Cady has twice b:en elected lieutenantgovernor on the ticket with Luzon B. Morris. One of the distinguished personages now in the United States is Dr. A. Conan Doyle, the famous English novelist. He camo to fill a lecture engagement, and i V DR. A. C. DOYLE. will probably remain a couple of months. Dr. Doyle is a London physician, whose readers have forbidden him to heal people, that he may write books for them to road. Novel writing was originally merely a diversion with him, but, as often happens, It grew into a seriou3 occupation. Among detective story' writers in English, Dr. Doyle easily stands at the head. His firs: success was "Mieah Clarke," and his las: "The Refugees." In appearance he is tall, broad-shouldered, bronzed and robust. He is very fond of athletic sports, his love of the wheel amounting almost to a passion and he 13 never happier, it is said, than when on a tandem with his wife and starting for a thirty-mile spin. There are but few persons who know how the name of Bloomer came to be applied to the style of woman's dress, sometimes called the divided skirt. Mrs. AM.EMA BLOOMER. Amelia Bloomer, now seventy-six years of age and residing at Council Bluffs. Ia., adopted the style and advocated its genoral adoption in 1851. She wore the costume on several lecture trips and in this way it became associated with and finally known by" her name. At that tim she lived at Seneca Falls, N. Y., where she published a temperance paper called the Lily. For forty years she and her husband have resided at Council Bluffs, and have seen the village of 300 grow to a city of 23,000 people. 77. ELY 1H RUSTS. Hive you heard a republican lately breathe about sugar? Hancock Democrat. If there is any greater fraud than a protective tariff 011 wool, it is a protective tariff on something else. Lebanon Pioneer. It is quite clear that th? pmspeets of success for the democrats in thij state is improving. Hold up the truths of the democracy and they will triumph. Kusiiville Jack5oni3n. The new tax law of Indiana, the greenback till, the income tax. are three great measures to which the demxratic party can point a? etforls it has made toward making all classes pay their just proportion of taxes. Franklin Democrat. The Hon. Tom Reed, who !s a firm believer in ho.Hlo.ws, and who would not think of passing a black cat in a back alley without turning around three times, winked his other eye when he read of McKinley making thirteen speeches in one day. Evar.svlll? Courier. Republicans are harping on the great honors heaped on the Hon. William L. Wilson in England. As great honors were sheiwn James (I. Blaine when he was in England! seven years ago honors of precisely the same nature, which were all right and can meet the disapproval of no man, unless he Ls an advocate of a doctrine that relies on international and sectional hatred to kept it alive. William L. Wilson told the Englishmen that we had at last thrown off a part of the burdens which have been on the shoulders of our people and prevented them from securing a proportionate part of the world's commerce. RockviUe Tribune.

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The Hand of Ceylon is called the Pari of India. Manchester. Eng.. pet? Its water upply n;nety-:iv? miles away. Aft-r nmy v::rs de! ly th - spire of the cathedral at Ulm hi' b. en finis---! recently. It is said t l e the high-rt In Europe. At Prtdimost, in IV. hernia, where many mammoth sk-l'-tons have ! n u.teanhed, a prehist ri family has latdy lnvn f und. The ski let. .ns of th' n..vi. w man and chi! !n n - m; 1 -t , th? man's I ::ig of enormous .!o. The pv st u:ilu- Sunday-sch in the w.rld is . n the line . f th- Nashville, Chailair ga & Ft. L ti:s railr vtd. am -tig tlv it-legrjpht-rs. Th r-uul.ir !-- i:i af is used, an I all th- .i.-.-:: :..s and answers are given ly v.lve. Ia Australia great !:i. nvt rü-nee is experienced in telegraph construeti ly the fetidness ( t the natives f r wire f .r brackets, ear and n-w-v ri-.s. and their weakness f ir the p rc.i.n ir.str.rv..rs, which they- faahl n in:-- arr .v.h'-ads. TjLsco. from which comes Tuesday, was i-r.e of the mos-, aneier.t and popular god of the Genna ns. and reprcscr.tvl in his garments of skins, according to their peculiar manner of clothing; tho third day of the wt-ck was dedicated to his wrsnip. "James, have you poured th? American chimiagne into the imported bottle-s?" "Ez saur? cz m? nam? is Mollt mum." "Well, you can put th? cobwebs cn tha t-ttlo njw, and then practice yur English accent for the rest of the afternoon." Truth. The business of window cleaning has Increased so much that there are n ov employed in the work m-n wh d. iiothli.g else, making windjov cl-Mi.lr.g a regular trade. The concert ngii-e 1 in this business make contracts for a year or fer longer p rk ds. "The Sins of the Father," etc.: Tommy (studying his lessen) "I say. pa. wh-re d oc the Merrimao rise, and into what sei do?3 It empty?" pa "I don't know, my s-n." Tommy "You d .n't know? And tomorrow th? teieher will lik m on account of your ign -ranee." Harlem Life. A correspondent who has been visiting the St. Bernard Hospice says that the famous treed of St. Bernard dogs hive he.-ome almost useless for the urposes for whii-h they were formerly used, their sense of smell having lecetno greatly weakened frcm deterioration through too much interbreeding. A wilier in IlarperV Weekly siys that th- upper great lakes wore -n e drained by wiy of the Illinois river, and that the bod ..f the Illinois is now but thirty feet hlirh-r than the Niagara river. T cut the Illinois fifty feet de-p.-r would, therefore, tarn the flow of the Jakes into the Mississippi and leave Niagara dry. Campaninl was a blacksmith ani Watched a postillion. Now we have a we rjmin from the forest who aspires to become a vocal star. Al is- Bargstalhr, wh sar.g the part of "II -i.irk-h," one of tho minstrel knights of 'Tannhauser," at Beyrouth, va.i a wood.-h-opper in ujper Bivari.i at 23 cents a day when Fran Wagner discovered him last spring. 11. 1 her.-! tenor vs.ico induced her to bring him ti Reyivuth. where he has iv-r-n studying siniring, receiving meanwhile J.M a ninth for expenses- until the first salary day at th' theater comes round. CUTSIDE OPINION. The Louisiana democrat- th s-- who b--lieve that democracy m.-ans a government by the people and for the p--oj.e, instead of a government for the subsi, lists at tha expense of the peoj 1- don't propose to surrend-'-r the state at th.- order of the sugar planters. Let the fight be made without quarter. The bounty-fed sugar grower and the tariff-fed sr. gar maker have come to believe that the nation -jings to them on their private account. Let Louisiana show that they are mistaken as to that state, and that they can't deliver it to the republican pary as a "consideration" for more bounty. Louisville Courier-Journal (dem.). Opposition to th"- inc .me tax is in a bad way, indeed. Here is the republican convention of Massachusetts without a word to say against it, and the dem -ratio convention of the same state declaring in its favor. Those who think that a wrong step was taken whfn it was pissed m-jft oppose it individually if They oppose it at all. There is no organization in the whole broad land that will aid them to such an end. We have been asked why it is that ihe rej uMicans, who. most of them, v il against it in congress, and who denounced it severely In their speech-s, are now so mute upon the subject. Our reply Is that it Is currently reported that word has bf-en sent to the republicans of the East that their party at the West is in favor of the measure, and that it will seriously embarrass the latter if anything is said against It in this quarter. Hence thiJ sib: nee. Boston Herald (ind.). Mr. Whitney's letter is very strong, very persuasive and extremely effective in its appeal to the party f ling of democrats, lie reminds the factions that the issue in this election is not the personal fortunes of :ie man. but the triumph of party principles which are in grave peril. Mr. Whitney speaks but seldom on political questions, anJ perhaps for that reason his utterances always seem particularly timely, forcible and wJtrhty. The strongest point in hLs letter is the portrayal of the alternative which republican success through democratic dissensions offers to the dissatisfied voters f this city. "Th-ey want to defeat Tamminy lull, of course, he says, "but only on condition that their machine shall take the place of th Tammany machine." Their remedy f r C.ilroyism is I-lattism. Their substitute for ring rule by one parly is domination by the boss of the oth r party. And. as the World has said, bei ween a bos who stands out in the op -n and c an be fought and reckoned with directly, and one wh works in the d.:rk and through puppets, there arc distinct advantages in favor of the former. N. Y. World (dem.). The hit-or-miss republican candidate for congress in the Sixteenth Penr.sylvanii district does not lack the beautiful trait of candor. At a Coudersport meeting called to welcome him home he spoke to his party friends as foil vs: "I have always been a rank free-trader until the Wilson bill was passed, which taueht me a lesson. I am quite extensively interested in hemlock lumber, and since the passage of th? Wilson bill my buines- has been about ruined. Gentlemen, T thank you for the honor, and hope I v.i'l 1 .e elected Could anything be more charmingly naive than this little speech? The only criticism th Porter D- mo.-rat passes upon it is the fact that hem'ock 1 igs have advanced since the Wilson bill passed front 51.50 to 53. CO p.T thousand feet the best pri-'e obtained in thf past three years and thit for timber land boup-ht by Mr. Leonard a few years ago for $ per acre he now ask 525 per acre, after having cut a part of the limber. But trinins; inaccuracies like this will mike no difference to tho rovk-rihb'd republicans of the Sixteenth district. A lit 1 1 - e slipperiness upon th" part of their representatives in congress of late years seems to give them no particular uneasiness. If they could go Silver Hopkins, they (shouldn't gag at Hemlock Leonard. Philadelphia Record (dem.). A Strong Team. Senator Voorhecs is miking a great canvass of the state. His siHHH'hcs have all the old-time fire and arouse the greatest r-nthusiirm. Senator Ttirpie Is ?-) speaking every day with teüing ff'ect. Since the people are commencing to reap some .f the beneüts of democratic legislation it Is a labor of love to talk. Dt mocratlc meetings are Increasing n numbers, while republican mectingstare more slimly attended than tlxty days ago. Frankfort Cresecent. Pimples, bolls and other humors of the blood are liable to break out In tha warm weather. Prevent it by taking Ilood' Sarsararllla,