Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 December 1894 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING. DEC EM HEU 2(5. 130

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO.

(Cntrrrd at the rnsto.Ti-e nt Indianapolis am srrunil claM matter.) TERMS PER YEAR. Sinjrl or (fa Ailvancr) J?t 000 Wir nnU. i!f nmrrnli to brnr In niind ndiI nrlert their on n ntntc pjtper uhrn they foni t tnke ntmcrip-. tlon nml na!ic up clnha. Agent ninklni; p eluha Kfnil (ir any Information drittrril. Ailtlrrs TUE IXDI.YXAI'OLIS SETI.EL, Imliunnpoli-, InI. WKI)M:sVV. DEC'EMIIEK 2. lSf)4. J I STICK to Tin: I'lHITAV. A ntabl. dinner occurred i.i this city on Friday evening. Three hundred descendants of New Knglind gathered to celebrate Forefathers day. The Rev. X. A. Hyde presided. Judge Woods, Governor Matthews and den. Harrison were amcn th? speakers. Tho principal address wes made ly M. K. Ingalls of the His Four railroad. Bloquent and iIeasing as the addresses were. The Sentinel submits that the men who land-id on Plymouth Rock were not well represented in thm. Puritan life was not a thins that would be attractive to many Americans of. this day. It was too strict in minor matters which this generation considers Immaterial. The 013 thing that makes puritan character lovable was its stern "Jevotion to exact and even-handed justice, 'a practice as well as in precept. Those men were Knglihmen. They recognized Tully English right. They would neither give more nor accept less. If thrtt one Virtue were tak-n from them there would not bo much left that anyone would care to commemorate. That was what nude them. That was what mad? th commonwealths they established. That was what made this nation. In the course of the remark of Mr. Ingalls he r frn-d to his presence in Paris and his reflections on the excesses cf mrb rule there in past time?, continuing thus: I rejoiced that I lived in a hind vollere the puritan ha 1 laid the foundation deep- and fife and property were sife the laws were obeyed. Itu: just thn the cable brought the news that in my own country rnobs were repeat i t? the setnes that had been enacted in tri streets of Paris, and I asked mj'.'f if it vuld indeed be true that the people In this fair country' of mine had so soon f. .rotten the history of the past, had so forgotten the trials and sorrows through whi -h its foundations wer? bid. and were willing to allow the liberty and law and order that the puritan had established to b- destroyed. Could it be true that the g-.vernment which had guaranteed to me and my children liberty and protection and a fair opportunity for the pursuit of life anl happiness- was to Trie stricken down principally by nv:i who had coin? tVre frni other countries with 210 id -a of liberty md ith no Interest except to destroy ? l-'or'u lately we were so n-ar the days of the puritan that their preempt were not f orgo.trn and peace and law and order were restored. Is this true? Would the ...':tans have decided this ci.e? as this i.Mon has decided It? Remember, if you pleas , that they made no distinction in persons before the lav.-. Governor Bradford enforced upon himself the rule that he who would not work should not cat, as well as upon the poorest man of his colony. Governor Carver fell from sunstroke in the common field where he labored with the other men. In their relations with the Indians the puritans treated them as fellow-men whose rights were not to be impaired. True, they took corn from Indian storehouse?, but they paid f or it at the first opportunity. They were hones t allies to Massisoit and fair foes to- King Philip. Even Pecksuot and his allies were given equal opportunity four to four man to man. Imagine Mr. Pullman before a puritan town-meeting- refusing- to submit his controversy with his men for arbitration. Imag-in his profession that he had reduced the price of his product solely to give his men work. Imagine the revelation from his books that he had reduced his men's wages more than he had reduced the price of the work, and that h? was actually making a greater profit than usual by his alleged pliibanthrophy. What vouid the pilgTim fathers have don? for Mr. Pullman? Does anyone Imagine that this groodly hypocrite would have found anyone to apologize for him in his deceit, or to support him in his further proposition: I have the right to do with my own as I will." That, as Cirroll D. Wright says, Is a moral question rather than a legal one, and yet common law and equity have both recognized morality as their bisis, and both have enforced the doctrine that a man oould not use his own to the inJury of his neighbors or of the public. The puritans never slighted the moral aspects of a question. They never excused hypocrisy. They Had a hearty hatred of oppression. And hone3t words for ein of every kind. Anyone who has studied their history knows that the full pressure of church and state would have been brought upon Mr. Pullman to make him do Justice to his employes. But It may be said that this is cot a question of Pullman. It is a question of riot and destruction of property and Interference with commerce. Very good. Let us look at a New England riot. We hive one in Old Floyd Ireson. for his hard heart. Tarred and" feathered and carried In a cart By the women of Marblehead. What had Skipper Ireson done that his liberty should be thus assailed? Simply vscl hij own as he would. It was his beat. He was not obliged to rescue the crew of his rival. And yet In open violation of law he is dragged through the streets of Mirblehcad and no man lifts his hand against It. Why? Because the people looked past the riot to the wrong that caused It. The puritans did not approve cf rioting even If the "tea. party" did occur in Boston. Certainly not. Rut they did not let the word "riot" drive them away fcom the questions of right and wrong that lay back of It, and they did not l.-t It drive them to unprecedented legal remedies. Suppose the women of Marblehead had been brought before a court cn c charge of "combination In restraint of trade." They made as much a "purpresture" on the streets as Dibs Is astomcd to have made on rallrosd tracks. Would the Judges have made a new deflnltlcn of that common law offense to convict

thm? We think not. but If th"y had you may be sure that the ly.ne.n old quaker poet would never htve Fung their prices for doing It. The Sentinel bas too mu h r.sp.-ct for th ., character of the puritans to permit that character to be attainted by any responsibility for present American treatment or labor troubles, and particu' irly this 0112 of the past summer. The action taken would not have be3.i their action. Let not this generation imagine that It would. The pilgrim fathci rtrove earnestly to attain the right 13 they saw the right. They did not leave wrongs without remedies. They did not punish one wrongdoer and honor another. They loved Justice. They hated lnjanics and unfairness. Once when th?y were confronted by starvation an Knslish vessel appeared In Plymouth harbor. It had a surplus of food, but when the captain learned the condition of the colonists he put an exorbitant price upon It. The puritans had the money to pay, but th?y bade the captain go on his way. They preferred starvation to oppres?Ion. Hive we that puritan courage? Have we their love of right and hatred of wrong? We leave it to your consciences. rilOIIIHITIVK I.TKRKOGATIO.. There is wild excitement in Denver over the Introduction of McKinleyLsm into the examinations for teachers' licenses. S?ven-ty-two candidates for licenses were examine! and not a solitary ens obtained a satisfactory mark for a license of any kind. In consequence a protest hns been entered against the questions aked, which wert' pr.' pared by the faculty of the .täte normal school. Th; questions arc certainly tough ones, as may be sr.rt from a few samples. One was: Draw a (memory) sketch of North America, showing the amount of rainfall in the different parts. Now, a school teacher ought to be able to draw an outline map that would bear a general resemblance to North America, but why should a teacher or anyone else be supposed t know the rainfall in different sections, ur'e-ts he h d been brought up in the weather buieau? Of course there are mips made v.hloh hov rainfall, and presumably they are publi.-hed !:; 1 iiy.Meal geographies, together v. !.h !ro.?e snaky isoth'-rmul lines and col .73 showing th distribution of "i:ane of foreign parentage,"" and "acreage of susar beets," but the idea of expecting anyone to carry such stuff about in hLs head is preposterous A teacher who knew very much cf it would not be qualified to teach. Iiut these inquisitors were not satisfied with investigation as to such physical details. They fired at the ambitious candidates the question: Give an analysis of memory. Think of it. You can define memory for ordinary purposes by calling it a power cr faculty producing certain results, but no one can tell what memory actually is any more than yuu can tell what life is, or what mind is. And how can you analyze a thing when you do nct know what it Ls? Another question of the same character was: "What is the true aim of ail :irt? What Ls art? It is not definable because it is infinite. And what is it its aim? It Ls very doubtful if artists would agree, but it is certain that they would not agree with persons who are not artüL-?. Probably the questioners would have been Fati-fled with an answer that it is "the elevation of mankind" or something of that sort. They appear to have been rather practical people in soma things, a3, for instance, such questions as: Whit different grades of courts has Colorado? Give the functions of each gnule. What are the essential features of the Australian ballot? What in brief are the requirements and privileges of a national bank? What da you mean by a federal election law. and what d ies tho constitution of the United States ay upon the subject? What is your definition of socialism, paternalism, anarchy? Possibly 5 per cent, of the lawyers in Colorado could answer these five questions, but it is doubtful. Probably more of them would fail dismally on the last one than on any of the others. Certainly not 5 per cent, of them could answer this: Give a short synopsis of the different forms of government found in the original thirteen ljnie.. The propouniing of such questions to candidates for a teacher's license Ls an Illustration of the distorted modern ilea of school work. It is impossible tD teach everything in schools. The attempt to do it interferes with the teaching of what ought to be taught. School-, public schools at leat were designed to give children the elementary instruction which they can grasp and hold, and not to till their heads, or attempt to do so, with thing3 that even men in the higher walks of professional life do not always know. It is of infinitely more importance that a teacher should be able to teach a child to read, write, spell and solve ordinary problems In arithmetic than to be able to answer any or all of the above questions. And It would really be unfortunate if teachers who could answer them should try to impart their Informatian to school children.

THE LAST IUTCH. It 13 apparent, from several manif??tations, thU capital is preparing to mnk; its list right agilnst the Income tax In the cjurts. It -will be remembered that the constitutlomlity of the old incoms tax liw wis established by the supremo court of the United States in the face of a very strong fight. The Xfw York Sun has republished the able and elaborate brief then filed against the constltutlontlity of the law, and its Ideas and arguments have been caught at by corporation attorneys as affording possibly a meanä of escape from the law. In the current number of the American Law Review there is a leading article by a prominent member of the New York bir assailing the constl tutionality bth of the old and the new one. H? bise3 his argum?nt on th two clauses of the constitution that were formerly relied upon for the same purpose, namely: Art. 1, see. 2, "Representative and direct taxes shall be apportioned among" the several states which miy be Included In this union, according to their respective numbers," etc.; and art. 1, sec 9. "No capitation or other direct tax

shall b3 latd, unless in proportion to th? census cr enumeration hcrelnb-'forj dir?ct:-d ü be tiken." Th? supreme c:urt ctnnot po.i"oly hnld that an income tax I3 a direct tax without ry. Ms ing 2b.Tlut5ly it decision on the old law, and alio overturning the doctrine: e;txblished by a 1 -nj line z' cares whtcii takes out of th? purview of th??e cltus?s all s rts of taxer, except poll taxes and pos-ibly taxes on lar.d, though it wuld s?ern utterly lmpraeticlble to treat even a tat: on lar.d as a direct tax, and utterly absurd to make a land tax proportional t population. It his been luld that a tax on carriages ia not a direct tax, 2nd a numbrr of rimilir decisions hive narrowed down the meaning. of th? clauses until it may safely be s.ild that. In fact, nothing remains but a capitation tix that cm prareriy be called a dir?ct tax under the constitution. Nevertheless it serin? probable that an attempt will b mide by the multi-millionaires to induce the supreme court to overthrow all that has been established, by it in this lin, and save wealth from bearing any proportional pirt of the burdens of the national government. It ls hardly credible that such an effort could uec?ed, but capital hesitates at no effort to escape taxation, and its efforts are very frequently successful. THE XICAIIAGIA CAXAL STEAL. Senator Turple left very little of the Nicaragua canal steal when he got through with it. and what is left is in a fair way to be removed by ethers. One cf the most remarkable attacks on the bills -now before congress u by ilr. M. II. Moore, who is or.e cf the executive committee appointed at the New Orl?arrs convention to promote the construction of the canal. Of course Mr, Moore believes that the construction of the tar.al i fex-ible. but at the same time he evidently realizes that there i3 a big steal in the bills undtr consideration, for he says, i:i a pvbiiihel letter: The project Is perfectly feasible and simple, though one of great magnitude. Th? promoter and snecuhtor can mike millions. if allowed to mir.ipulate it under this act. The r-iil.5 b-foro congress contain excellent provisions if contracted and simplified. This cor.rt.c.i r ill derw the- greatest prais- if it so airls thus canal project as to secure its construe! ion. nnd at the same time prevents any of the Panama can.1 corruption. This is very plain talk from a man speciilly deputed to help the canil project, but he go.-s farther, and points out objectionable features in the bills which are suffkient to kill them wi:h all honest m:n. lie says: Roth bills in cor.grt-ss proceed upon the plm of indcr.-ansr b nd?. The senate Uli bestrw.s a Fubsidy of S7.000.0C-0 up:.n the ean.il company in New York. The hot'se bill allows them but $1.000,000. and is an exc:.lle::t bill upon the plan adopted. The great objection to both bills i.a that they givs unnecessarily to Nicaragua anj Costa Iii: a 7'i per cent, on the $70.000.000 of bonds which ;hey provide for issuing. The lar.guase of th? conccs?ioii3 is tint the.ie stat s-hall receive 7i per cent, of all the etocks. b rds and certificates in cortni-ct-ing the canal. The senate bill also provides for a capitalization cf !00,(M).COO, which is at lens: $20.000.000 more than would be neefj-sary under prudent and economical management, thus adding another 7V per cent, on ths $25.000,000 to the allowance of the Central American states. Mr. Moor? states elsewhere that the estimated cost of construction of the canal U "about $52.000,C00." If the canal can be corstructed for that amount there would be $18.000.000 in bonds, indorsed by the United States, over and above the entire cost of construction, a;id this presumably would be partly used in bribery, but chiefly divided among the promoters of the scheme. And Mr. Mo.re shows a "needless and lavish extravagance" in the very preliminaries of the undertaking, in the provisions abo-e mentioned, thus: The New York cansi companies having mad? a failure of the enterprise would be m.ire than satisfied to receive their money expended and a round million f or thir concessiw. The Cer.tril American states are exceedingly anxious to have this canal built, and would not and coald jiot claim any mor? than the minimum conditions cf the gran's. Then why bestow $C, 000,000 upon trie New York stockholder!! ani $7.123.000 upon CVsta Rica and Nicaragua, and thus water the stock of the Maritime canal company gratuitously with $13.123.000 and then back trie enterprise with the credit of the United States? The sooner congress kicks out this scheme and all kindred ones, and turns its attention to an earnest consideration of currency retorm. and ether important legislation, the better it will ha for all concerned. The country is in no mood for extravagance cr knavery. It needs and is entitled to demind the full attention of congress to legislation that will improve business conditions and promote the weliare of the ma.es.

FOR CI.l I ORGANIZATION. The Sentinel commends to the support and co-operation of the working democrats of "the state the movement for a state organization of democratic- clubs. The development of the plan has been chronicled from day to day In The Sentinel and it now appears to have reached a point at which all democrats interested can put their shoulders to the wheel and aid the committees in carrying the work to a satisfactory conclusion. The plan of inception is a grand banquet to be held on the evening of Jan. 8 next, at which representative democrats will be heard, and on the day following the organization of a state league of democratic clubs. The object of this league is not merely the union of clubs now in existence, but the organization of clubs where none now exist, and the harmonizing and unification of all democratic clubs to the extent of making them efficient agencies of campaign work throughout the state. Of course each existing club retains Its own individuality and carries out the purposes for which it wns organized, so far as Its members are concerned, as at pressnt, but ls destred In addition to assume a relation toward other club3 that will make it more eerviccable to the common cause. It may bs conceded without any blurhes that the republicans in this state have taken the lead In this matter,' and that they have acted wisely in so doing. No one who has watched the progress of campaigns in this state will que'tin that the Lincoln league has been, an organization of great value to the republican party in its Campaign work, and It is to be observed that the value of such organizations Ls not confined merely to their furnishing a permanent stato organization through which the political work of a campaign can bo quickly and effectively" done. They are

a'.30 permanent sc-hojls for instruction and development of political 'v.orkerj of the best class. There is a natural tendency of young men in this country toward organization. Some one has wittily said that three Americans never get together without appointing p. chairman and adopting it constitution and by law. js a result of this the country Ls tilled with organizations for carrying: on .all sorts. of work, religious, educational, agricultural, financial, and equally for all sirts' of social entertainment. This tendency can b? as profitably used for political work as for anything else. There is also a natural tendency of young men, and old ones, too, to talk, and especially to talk politics. This can be most proHtably cultivated in clubs, if it be accompanied by any desire on the part of members for information. There are practical questions of governmental policy constantly coming up a.3 to which party men ought to be as well informed as possible, and reatiy to defend their positions on such questions. There are hundreds of places where polltieal clubs that would cornder public questions would be places of real entertainment as well as of profit. They would bring the members of the party together, promote harmony, educate and develop youns men, and prepare the members for the work of individual discussion and persuasion which u becoming every year a more important factor In political contests. From every standpoint an extended and well-sustained system of political c'.ubs Is of great value to a political party, and there is no way in which that work can be accomplished without a central organization. No further reason is neetlcrl for the active co-operation of democrats in the work.

One of the most startling of recent supreme e;urt decisions is that of Shellenb-r-g:r vs. Random. 23 L. R. A., 504. in whic h the supreme court cf Nebraska holds that a murderer may take the inh-ii nance of a person whom he kills for the purpose of gettins it. The decision r.-puliates a rec r.t New York case to the contrary on the ground that tho statute cf descent contains no exception to cover th? ca.se and the court cannot make o::e; but the maxim that "no man can profit by hi.? own wrung" i.shown by the lrre number of decisions collected in a note to the eve to have i jvi almost uniformlly regarded as in fore3, notv. ithstar.dins ar.y mere g?::eral words of a statute on a different subject, and that it constitutes a part of the cr-mmon law. w'r.ich is to prevail until repeaLd by statute. It is hardly probable tint this will remain the law of .Nebra-k.a after the next session of the legislature, and if there is any other state in which so horrible a dectrine is liable to be held it h'x.U seek safety in a statute at the earliest opportunity. The New -York' Tribune indulges in the "peanut" remark that "gold will continue to go out as l;ng as the democrats s:ay in." During the years of Mr. Cleveland's former administration. lSSÖ-'SS, the excess of gold imports over exports was $r4,T7J.4."9. Duilng-the 'years of. Mr. Harrison's administration, lSS3-;2. the execs of gold experts over imports was $122,561.536. Too extravagance cf . the. Harrison administration and tho legislation under it put the treasury In Its p.-'-sent condition. Tlu purchases of silver alone under the Sherman law cost the government $15.1.S22,3T4. When Mr. Cleveland came Into office the second time he found the treasury almost bankrupt, revenues decreased, expenses heavily Increased and the country on the verge of a money panic. Ti e new administration, briyely met and overcame these cbstnclc3 and the country Is rapidly regaining prosperity. The only rem lining obstacle is the republican currency system, which every one admits to be villainously bad. The game and fila commissioners of Minnesota have succeeded in x'ropigaiirj a bread cf albino trout, which constitutes a remarkablo addition to the wonders of artificial selection. They are pure white, dotted with pink sp'ts,' with pink fi ts and pir.k eyes. The superinten l-.!;,t, y. S. Warkins, first obtained spe iiner.s thr.-e yens ago, and by careful brceiing his succeeded in accumulating a stock, of 700 of them. An albino trout is. cf cours a mere freak of nature, and it is not tften that mere freaks can be rmde into perrnment lines, as the tendency of nature i.t always to return to normal conditions. This ease is a nost interesting exception to tne g-neral rule. The arbitration bill prepaied by Carroll D. Wright and submitted to congress L? cn the lines reeomm nded in the report c-f the Pullman Investigating committee, whkh The Sentinel discussed at length at the time. Either this bill or the Springer bill would do a great deal toward relieving the country of labor troubles if enacted. If public .-cr.tlment is to have any weight with congress there certainly sh mid be some steps tiken toward the peaceable settlement of such questions, and it Is difficult to see how any reasonable objection can b? made by any one to mere conciliation! and voluntary arbitration as provided for In these bills. New York City lioji become noted for the aversion of Its people to any kind of conversation with strangers. The simplest inquiry usually calbi forth a suspicious stare which makes the inquirer feel like a condemned green-goods man. A few days ago a stranger attempted three tiim3 to ask a question of paasersby on Broadway, but could get no furthsr than "Please " before they hurried off. Then he was arrested by a policeman and brought before a magistrate on a charge of begging. He showed his pocketbook and explained that he merely wanted to ask the way to Delmonico's. He received tho desired information with apoIogies; Aaron Ranelill Is dead. He I- also burled. Aaron Randall lived, died and was buried a democrat. He lived In Maine. It is highly creditable to b a dejnocrat in Milne. One who so lives Is certain to escape all the corruption of the gang that controls the oflices In that state. Long befora his death he mads ill the arrangements for his but III. lis had his coffin made of pine that grew on a democrat's land and tha: was -awed at a mill owned by a democrat. Tho coffin was made

by a democrat, and he r-dieted democrats to do all th-.t v.-!S done to bury him.. And yet if AaTon Rttndill had d vir:d a Jfb In the railway mail service he would have boen oblij'J to pas3 a civil service examination.

Protests are beginning to be heard against the proposition of Senator Dawes for th? statehood ; f Indian territory. In fact that propositi n Is ba-cd on an alleged impossibility of the United Stitts removing the white intrude: s f r :n the territory, as It agreed to do when the Indims agre-d to the ces-don of the ' Ch:rokee cutlet," In spite of ail the effor;3 that have been f;r the protection of Indlin rights it seems as if this country were continually getting into a more indefensible attitude toward them. The government ought to drive the intruding whites out of the Indlin territory if it requires the entire army to do the work. An admiring newspaper says that John Sherman "knows more about finance than the combined democratic party." He ought to know more than anyone about this country's present fimnclal system, for he is responsible for It more than any man in the country. It is demostrated that he is capable of getting the country Into so bad a financial condition thit the entire democratic party will have trouble to get it out. Once more Mr. Turple Is being abused for trampling cn "senatorial courtesy," ar.d thi3 time it ls because he only allowed two opponents to speak on the Nicaragua canal bill before he proceeded in regular turn. How many docs "senatorial courtesy" demand? Uncle Sunt Ls growling over the unfriendly discriminations shown toward our ; commerce by foreign powers. He asks no ! special favors. All he wants is fair treati nient on an t jiriiity with other powers. He ! does not propose to be imposed on by any- ! or.e. Th' republicans in congress will never consent' to any currency system that does not establish a privilege J class of banks "did put the power of expansion and conti acti n i f the currency in the hands of teiose banics. PERSONALS. V... A. II. I. vt-land. wh bt.ilt tho first railro.it in the ItocUy mountain rontons, ladir.i; to V-oi -itetown ani Silver Plume, Col., died at Detivcr .Monday, ae,oi sixty-nine J ears. Ilx-Mjyor an! ex-C. n..: re man Richard Yaux of I'hil.id. l;viia was seventy-eight years ot age Thursday. Kec. t.' anl is st.li able to talk fluintiy el' his d-ir.ce with Queen Yict iria. halt a century or more ago. KHvin N. Curtis, the mayor-elect of Boston, Is thirty-three years cf age, Ins he! 1 no previous office extent that of city clf-ik, 5s a m.tn of trreat aliiitty and Inherited a fjrtune a fw years aqo from an uncle. Picquinto Miranda of .Columbia. Central A rr.f.dc a. was born May 5, 1772, anl is .ititl living, though blind tn-l hdpless. Within a stone's throw of the Miranda house lives a man win is lor yeirs old. who pisses his time In knitting nuniila ba's, and who occasionally gets drunk. After many wanderings Robert I.ouis Sttvenson dies in Samoa. Kipling has bt"n a J great globe-trott-T. Bret Hatte, Marion Crawford and Henry Jim are practically denationalized. Julian "Hawthorne, after much travel, has? yettied down In Jamaica. Stinley JAVeymin har- wandere.! over Kure p. afoot. Conan lOoyle hss travtloj much, and Is planning further globe-trotting. Julian Ralph s;tys that 'it Yokohama he found the s-teos of h's hotel littfred with "Trilby" circulars; and in Shanghai applicitions for the next available copy of the book rfsemlole petitions. In the nuirioer of signatures attached. 0.1 the other hand, the Auburn. N. Y Advertiser says that many readers of the book in that part of the state are woai'Tin? why it has attained such widespread popularity. An! two clergymen of Roxboro, Pa., have requested the committee on public libraries o the board of elucation to rr.icve "Trilby" from the public library shelves, on th ground that it Is Immoral an 1 antagonistic to Christianity. Am tig the Ir.st letters written by Pr. Helmes was one to CharDa rollen Ahm.-. ackrsowleJaintr tho rt-eo.pt if his dialect poem. "IKt Kong Handleä Dipper," in which tho genial autocrat sali: "I thank you for the fresh draught itr.m this 1 ong-han Ue l tin liippr, which you have made a rival to the 'Ol l (akn Bucket.' t-'ome of my best dr nits when I was a boy of fifteen et Ar.d over were from a co-'o. ccc.H tipp-r. but that was not destined to Irrr.o rtribty, I'.'.te the more fortunate rr CM'ta. 1: s. I have always hi I a ;;reat biting fit" Yuwcob and his yoivi-i hopeful, and 1 lae the will lori? continue to in ike the world bu rner ty their domestic history and family peutraits." Te.e New York Sun. in sr eak'ng of a recent sale of br'.c-a-brae, the property of I'rln-e tlilM-in. refills the fact thit the earlier prince of that n tme, for whom the little Pennsylvania town of (J.alitzir.c was nimeJ, came to A.aur.ea in 17.V2 and established himself in 17SU at L --retro. Pa. H" had h-'Id from his Mrth a eommlss'on In the Russian army, bat becani:" deeply ivlirri-iis while trave;in.r In this country, anl having studied divtuity und r Rish-p Carroll of P.iltimore, renounced hH brilliant lluropean prospects, cnterel the rathe lie priesthood, and golo Into the V.'ect es'aliStshel a reI!ki n:s center at Lorelto. II"1 h come fundus ai a writer upon religious subjects, anl died after a pastorate v! . f jrt-t w a years. The first piri-h. In I nchfstor. Mass.. over which the Rev. Kujene H. t'hippen wa " recently instillel as pastor. Is the oldest church or reli,dous s.eiety In Ileston. It Is unitarian, although -n one usually well-informed religious weekly It is set down as congregational. It Is m"te thin 2Ö0 years oil and his had only eleven pas-tor In Its history. The Invariable custom has been to Install a young man. and not to call a m'n ster from another church. Mr. Ph'rp n ls the non of the Itev. Rush R. Hhlppen, pester of thf. Unitarian church in Washington. He ls a graduate of Harvard, and for the !a-t year has been Studying at Oxford. Pre vt jus to that, however, he was settle! ovr a congregational church in Wichita, Kas. The Rev. R. R. Shlpp n preached thj sermon at the Installation cf his son. Tho tepl. At ai Oermin Court ' Martial Captain (presiding) "Then I am to uncl-rstar.il that the accused off erf d you a cigar when you were doing sentry duty?" "Yes, your honor." "And you declined?" "Yes, to command, your honor." "And what reply did h: mike?" "You are an ass, your honor." Kölnische Volksz-titung. The Permanent Stimmer Girl. No dog-day fame is hers to claimIn autumn's g'oom to perish: All th'cuih the year I have her here, A summer g rl to cherish. Because, you see. where'er she be Are skies of June bes'iillng. Her rat-rry words are singing birds, Ani summer's in her smiling. N. Y. Reorder. KcniRcnntlon. "U your wife lecturing on the destiny of ! worn in 7 ' was tne synipatnetic inquiry, "yes." "Isn't that a prftty heavy subjjet?" "Yej. But It could be worse. She might be at hams making biscuit." Waslalnsteoa Star. .-..'.

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r.eerbohm Tree, the finest comedian on the InglL-li staße, who made a very suc cessful tour in America two years ago, r ; tin: noil m tii:& proposes to rr.pke another early in '3.". Mr. Tree 13 F.mo-.ig the few men who may I said to have waked up one f.ne morning and found himself fa mm 3. That occurred on ahe occru-i.-:i of hi.- impersonal! ,n .f the Rev. Robert Spauldin?, in "The Private Secretary." Although not Intended to be a particularly comic character, he made it the funniest on the cast. Mr. Tree 13 the originator of the famous "giving away brains" gesture. His wire is a clever actress, who will p.-obabiy come over with him as his leading woman. Chess players have been watching with interest the bitter newspaper war between the noted chess players, Adolph Albin and a: ci.vm Ai-mer. ex-Champion William Steir.ttz, which was precipitated by the refusal of th? latter to accept the decision of the juCc' to call the game a draw because of SUeinitz having exceeded the prcscrib d time limit. Adolph Albin is the champion player of Vienna. He was horn at Itueharest and came to this country only about a year and a half ago. He gained a great reputation in Europe, principlly by his defeat over the hitherto invincible IOr. Tarre.s.-h on the oeeassion of the Dresden congress. He commenced to play chess at the age cf twenty-f -ur, and is known as a clever chess journalist. Sievert Rroekmo, whose romantic adVentures at Spitzbergen last winter won him fame, is a man forty years of age, of T e MLV1 ltT JUtOEtOiO. medium hi?h't and very neatly built. The accounts of Arctic life a? narrated by him are most entertaining. Last winter. In order to show that a little craft well handled could go anywhere, he decided to go to fetch his fishing sloop, which lay in Green 1 labor, Spitzbergen, in a boat fourteen foot long, by six feet beam and two and one-half feet deep. lie was accompanied only by a youth of eighteen and accomplished the voyage in thirteen days. On the return voyage in the little fösbinrr sloop of ten tons, they were continually driven bai k and compelled to winter at Spitzbergen. The two men had to live as I st they could on reindeer and bear's flesh, as these are the only forms of life represented there from the time the sun ".isuppear3 in autumn until its reappearance iu the spring. Brockemo's pluck, energy ari Ingenuity during this terrible winter have made him the hero of Spitzbergen. The "Dickens of Norway" is the enviable title given to Jonas l-.it.-, the poet, novelist and lover of nature in the Northland. He 'vi r JONAS ME was born near Drammen sixty-one years ago. His e.iriy years were passed in Troinso, a town within the Arctic circle. Here the picturesque mountain?, fiords and glaciers, the boundless store gray wastes, the three months day and horror of the nine months night, early awakened poetic responses in his impressionable nature. He attended the University of Ciirl.-iiiuna and was graduated in law, but journalism proved more to his taste. He was thirtyfou? yeArs of nj;e when he published his first volume of p eins. Mi ny novels have been turned out by his ready pen, and all Norway does him honor. He has been happily married many years, and his wife is his favorite critic. Renewed interest is aroused in Antonio Maximo Mora by President Cleveland's mention of his grievances in his last mes- ' it.' 7 ' A. MAXIflO M 'i.A. sage. .Antonio Maximo Mora L- a native of Cuba, where he once owned large and valuable sugar plantations. In 1S53 he came to the Unitvd States and In 169 took out his final naturalization papers. For alleged complicity in the Cuban rebellion his property was confiscated and he was cnieaccd to death. With his brother he escaped from the Spaniards and returned to New York. The property taken fro.n him was worth millions, and for twenty-five years the United States has sought to collect Spain's debt to him. The Mora case has become famous In the annals of modern diplomacy. Though payment has long since been promised, the promises were made only to be broken, Mr. Mora Is growing old and enfeebled.

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Aluminum Is sDred. Chicog has 7i00 Danes. Tasmmii lu-is dim: tnd. Th? Lor.d.-n Times is printed on American piper. The Dall.-s (Ore.) markets are glutted with b"ir nv.it. Ci.nclbn l inks hive a paid-up capital c f ab ut 'V1 r ifi.Co . D v! ort?' pre -'rip" lo-.s mu et not be written in Lit in In Frtrue. The averag-- 11 f .f American-built ships Is about eicht"?n y;irs. Tiv bulk cf th? M rmon veto in Utah thli yer was cl -m ra le. Baptists in Ru??ia ?t:!l oM-rtinue to sUf. fer deep rellg'.-.us j cro.cute-ns. At Ncirf Ik. Va.. sa! ns are allowed tu op n at 6 a. m. and must cl ? at 10 p. m. I'.ircli berk, tacked on with brass mils, m.:kc3 a f.ne wail piper fur a sumtiicf An Instrument has been devised that eo curably records the lapse of one-millionth of a second. Chine- merchmts if Sn Francisco have sul.-scrib- d 11.000 toward th? San Joaquin, valley ra.lr al. Ne.v Y rk City his r.22 chur.h? of all d n ominati ms. These afford a seating capa it y of 4'.,0C0. Th? law cf Missouri ntak's the attending physician Hal le to indictment who fails to rtdx.rt cause of death. Great Britiia buys more than half of all our exported firm rreduets. Her purchases usuilly exceed 1300.000,000. Bulgiria hij the smallest money supply as compared with th population, il.To p r cipitv and it is all in s.lver. On Oct. 31 the number cf nithml bmk3 In operate n v.-as 3.7C7. wlti an authotlzel capital sto -k of ?t72 Ö71.S0... A chth for the head r face wa' f trnvrly called a covcrehief. ju5! as one f er tha hind wis call.l a handkerchief. ' South CiroMm is the only state in the union that refuse to dlsa-lv the marital rc!atin for any cause whatever. A hundred t or.s of cats' tails were s:M In one lot In L'-ndon recently, to b? uod in ornm -nlin? ladlc-s" vrcir'-ng appard. The tMil lmirih of the railways A t United Stit-s on June 30. i?3. wis ;7't.r.0 miles, or including all "tracks." StJo.noO mile.'. Black p-irls are mo-"ly found in the black-lippel ovrter of Lower Cilif Ttiia, a::d bei.ig s r.tre and precious, are eagerly sought fjr. Engineers In the war d partm?nt rprt that it i entirely praciicahle to build a six-trick su -jenii n bridge with a span of 3,2'") feet. During thf firt n'n? months of 104 the Un;tel States exprrted to ftrat Britain more tlte.n three hundred t.h usind head of beef cattle, valued at J J3.000.0'0. The British steam r Maro rec.ntly salb -1 from New Orleins with lS.Ms bales of cotton, which is said to be the largest cargj ever shipped In a single vessel. A treasury expert declares that there is enough silver now laid by the government to make a column one foot square and six ar.d th-ce-jtnr;e."s miks high. South American wheat exports tills crop year, it Is said, may equal 70.000,000 bushel. Al mt fifty-seven milli :i bushel- have already gone forward from Argentine. T he-re aro now 32.203 specimens in tha Army Medical museum at Washington. The number of sinndmens received during the year ending June 3' lSai, wi3 1,30 5. A suburb of Berlin will b? known as Trade-ham. It ls started by workingmcn, who have purchased about eighty acres of land, which will be built up with shop3 aad houses. Out of 4,000 workers In the sulphur mine3 in Sicily who wer? examined for ths army not 2'"x could pass muster, which stm-.ps the occupation as the most unhe.iUh.ful known. Mrs. Davenport of Ulster county. New York, was ort hrr knees saying her prayers, but being too near the fire the flames caught her dr?ss and she was so bidly burned thit she died soon after. The practica. lesson frem ihis incident is that whether engaged in religious or worldly duties i: Is adviable at all times to tike the usual precautions and to exercise a certain degree of care. Several associations of minister- In Washington and Oregon have protested against the raising of hops and barley, because those products are usd in the manufacture of intoxicating drinks. It is now stated Ihot a v-:-y lorge acrag In Washington at presfot devoted to hopa will nvst likely be put to other us? next year. IDctuse of the ruccess of experiments tobacco will be grown on the lani In the future. The ministers hive not yet been heard from. A cording to th New York Press the "chiee-t" thing In Wisiiington society just now is the "shaving mug fad." When a young lady thinks that a young man ls de.ir enough to her to have h r photograph in his possession she his her miniiture painted on a shaving mug. The Press very v. iso'.y concludes lhat th operation, of shoving, which has hitherto been the bine of the young nun's life, may lecome by t'ai; lnnc.vition a positive delight, of oo-trse. there is the danger that becoming ;tb:-orbed in the face on the mug his razor might d injury to his own face, but tho man who w.-ul not take this risk is not a true man. Maine's two Indian tribes, the Pen obsoots and th Passimaquaddys, wear the drcr.a of tiv whit?s and for the most part have adopted their ways of living. But the nomadic spirit is still strong witloin them, and the summer finds parties tamped at the various Milne watering places making ar.d selling beaded pur?e3 and woven grass and bisket-wcrk tnnkets, while the squaws turn many a silver piece by telling fortunes. In some wd lot, where the ash tre that supplies them witla working materl.il Is plentiful, they sometimes build their camps of hsrs and appllngs. roofed with bark or shingles and well climbed with lnw. There is a fe ling among owners of forest linds in Maine that the Indiins. as first 1 roprletors, have a clairi to reside In th? wilderness wherever they choose, and. as they nr peaceable and do little d-.mige to valuable forest growth, permi -.-ion t oxupy a piece of woodland is seldom refused them. Some idea cf how much money a successful doctor in Hngland miy accumulate in the course cf a long life Is shown by the sworn statements made to the prohit office of the personal property they leave. In tee lest five years sixty-five doctors have left f3,.Va,oi'), an averag- of 5').0eu, or $230.000 each. Thir, D In prrt due to careful lnv tments by Sir Willlim (lull, who was physician in ordinary to the c.ueen and prince of Wal,?, and when lie died, at the nee of seventy-four, left a fortune of Jl. 720.O00. He once spoke of molting over Jtjä.oeo in a single year. Snenty-five tiv usand dollars Is probably an much as any doctor or lawyer can P issibly make in England, and not more than htdf a dozen neon probably in each pivfeetsioi ivera?" more than S'O.O-iO a year. Of thirty-two doctors In the list v.hore ages were given one was ninetythree, eight m re were eighty or over and clvea were - betwen seventy-five and eighty, rir Andrew Clark, president of th College of physicians, l"ft over a million; Sir Oscar Clayton. $::0,0't0; Dr. Armltage. a blind man. over a million. Dr. Morcll Mackenzie, who was fifty-five when he died, hft only S110.C00. Seven estates only out of sixty-five exceeded $500,000. Or. Price's Crcatm C.!c!n; Powder A Pur Grase Cr eaai ot Tartar Powder.