Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 31, Number 43, Jasper, Dubois County, 12 July 1889 — Page 6

A TERRIBLE CRIME. ftntt Mnr4r mf MIm Arm W, frrwi Cltr, Mt hr ihr K4We Jiif tht WrlrN l.lmlta of fct. I.bhU-A Thttur r thd Crhwa hh4 ttt Arrert of Oee f the KHHtitl FHrtlelpaat Ta (Nil Stry r Mhn'i TcrMrir at th HstttHU r it. t. Locw, Juns 88, The poliee of this eity are having an opportunity to sharpen thlr wiU iu running to earth the perpetrator of a foul crime. Anna Wei, about twanty-four year ef age, head chambermaid of the Madbwm House, Jefferson City, who came to thi city a few days since, ostensibly on a visit to her sister, but lu reality to nk atu tit ridding herself of the evidencs of lwr indiscretion, lies a corps at tit morgue, having been found murdered by ttts road ide not far from the western limiU of the city yesterday morula. That she wan mardered and that there was a motive for her remoral wai demonstrated by a post-mortem sa initiation Hei?, fAc .YHnfead GW. Blade of the remains, the skull showing two contusions made by a bluut instrument which injured the brain sufficiently to cause death, and the evidence be Ins present that she was ia a delicate con tlitiOB. Several hastily-formed theories in regard to the crime aud its perpetrator have been made, the most tangible of which, and the one on which the police have already acted, was outlined by Mr. Fred Buhlre, of Jefferson City, an uncle of the unfortunate girl. The latter asserta that his niece had bees the victim of the wiles of one McLair. a rambler by profession, who had been in Jefferson City daring the session of the Legislature, and who had woa the girl's affections by presents of jewelry ostensibly of considsiderable value, but in reality almost worthless. The theory deduced from this was that finding the girl's condition could uo longer be concealed he provided" for her visit to St, Louis, where, under the escort of au acquaintance, she was to eecure the services of a practitioner in this city and be rid of her trouble. It is uown that she came here well provided with money to pay her expenses, and the fact that at the time of the finding of her body her pocketbook was discovered partially protruding from her pocket, rifled of its contents, save some few articles of cheap jewelry, led to the conclusion of a theory on which one man has been arrested aud Is now awaiting further developments. Wallace Bolton, formerly a guard at the State penitentiary in Jefferson Gitv, was the first person to disclose the identity of the murdered girl, and an inquiry Into his antecedents by some of the reporters of the Republic developed the fact that he was au acquaintance of McLair, and not at all an unlikely person to be selected by the girl's betrayer to attend to the St. Louis end of the business. That murder was originally intended is sot believed, but it is thought that the murderer's cupidity was aroused by the knowledge that the girl had a considerable amount of money about her, and that a desire for its possession led to an alteration of the plan of takln; her to a physiolan or lying-in institution to that of driving her out to au out-of-the-way place and there murdering and robbing her, ander the supposition that his employer would be served either way I Having developed this theory the reporters laid it before the chief of police, whose auspicious iu regard to Dolton had already been aroused to the extent of placing him under survellanee, and inasmuch as the theory would be published it was decided to place Bolton under arrest. Accordingly officers were sent out for him, and about three o'clock this morning be was landed in the holdover. The Interest in the city over this terrible crime is intense, and every effort U being put forth by the police aud detective force to fasten the crime where the responsibility for it belong. Paper Cannon and Bells. In 1861 a hot-headed French Inventor offered to contract for churches and cathedrals, including a peal of bells, to be constructed entirely ot paper. From.chitnos to cannon was but one step, and the Gallic inventor announced his readiness to supply a train of artillery of any given caliber.tnade ol the same material. Iluildlng-paper is enjoying a perfect boon just now, and is proving a fine material in the hands of architects and builders for several uses, ensido and out. The advantages, briefly stated, aro: Continuity of surface, or its adaptability for making into rolls of almost any width and lengthind flexibility; unlike wood, it has no grain, and will not split; it it unaffected by a change of temperature, and thus has an advantage over sheotmetal for roofing materials; though in its natural condition it is affected by moisture, it can be rendered waterproof by saturating with asphalt or by various other methods; being a nonresonant body it is well fitted to prevent the passage of sound; it is a nonconductor of heat, and can also be Inado of incombustible material, like asbestos, or rendered resistant to fire by ohetnieai treatment. Paper-Makers' Circular. The organ grinder placed hlmsol in front of the house and played selection from an opera; then he gentl glided into "Marching Through Geor gla;M this was succeeded by tho peren nlally popular "LnetRose of Summer." While this was In progress the exasperated cltlsten came to the door, and ia stern tones cried. "See here, Italy, you give us a rest1' "Doiita know that. Haven't got that tuna, sai. Me will giveyou Iueh-a-byBaba." The! the exasperated cltlxen threw him ten teats and shouted "GiU" and he got.

UOHNSTOWN NOTES.

AH fntUrtH-y KtMr. w thm and tk Int4lf hhmi CItiaeaa The KMporar t A-vtrh' iMnwIIimi IUirlWMteti . KinurtttHtu an tha Groan MHtlMi a t'MW tr tha PlniM Im Jrii.in Watw 'I Urn ChIwakh Muhm la 1 HftNil, Kte, Johnstow.y, Pa., June The subcommittee formed to secure aa accurate account of the living and dead has filed it report. The report, however, is aa HusatUfactorary a any preceding report. It is as follows: Fifteen thousaad four hundred and fifty-five men, women and children have been registered a4 survivors, which includes 4,310 heads of families. The morgues have accounted for over 3,000 bodies found, while the registration report shows ouly l,Ss as the total number of lives lost. The committee offer as an excuse for this discrepancy that they have not been allowed safticleut time to properly over the ground aud that a part of the information given to them was incorrect. There are but few people here who estimate the loss of life under 10.000. The citizens are very indignant at the last reduction in the working fore, aud have requested that th force be increased instead of diminished. i Austro-IIungary Consul Snamtarg Saturday and to-day distributed among his ccuntrymea the special donation received from the Kmperor of Austria. JoHXeiTOWji, Pa., July 1. Aside from the couf usion occasioned by the presence of a large number of excursionists yesterday, the city wa very quiet. The workingmen were enjoying much-needed rest ana the State troops had uothiug to do beyond pacing their beats doing police duty. Tho most interesting feature of the day was the baptism of a child of the flood, David James Joues by name, a bouuc'ns lad of six mouths who h:is ' proved beyond a doubt that he was not bora to be drowned. Rev. Edward Carnett, a Congregational minister, of the Red Cross corps performed the interesting ceremony. The baby and its parent had a very narrow escape. Gilbert IL Prindle, Quartermaster of the Philadel- j phia division, donated a bottle of water from the river Jordan and the youugste t got his name with honors. Religious services were held ia the va rious churches, which were largely attended. The objections to the Chicago readybuilt house have disappeared, and they are now eagerly sought after for temporary habitations. Coroner Evans will take the jury up to the South Fork dam this moruiug to finish the testimony on the question of the responsibility of the club. The citizens of Cambria City want to be supplied with lumber for two hundred houses, which they will erect themselves. They say that inside of a week they could house twelve hundred people. IN THE DITCH. n ExpreM Train en tlitt lloton M Al banjr Koad Ditched Senr New Iluven, Conn Three l'er.H Kltleit and Several Injured -Spreading Kails Cuuged tho Accident. 'ev Have.v, Conn., June 90. The limited express which left Boston at 11 a. iu. via the Bostou & Albany railroad, was ditched just outside the city limits yesterday afternoon. Three peisons were killed aad several badly injured. The killed are: Miss Mary A. Rrigham, of Brooklyn, X Y., who was recently appointed principal of the Mouutllolyoke Seminary at South Hadley, Mass. Clarence May, a drawing-room car conductor, thought to belong at Stamford, Conn. E. Pfeffer, a traveling agent for Brail Lauz, of os. 2 and 4 Stone street, 2tew York. The injured are: Rodney Beers, con ductor, arm broken; Drawing-room-car Conductor Ellis, thrown through a window and cut about the head; Brakeman McKean, thrown through a window with the porter of the car, but not badly injured; George Craig, of Meriden, badly injured internally. . ir. Lockwood, of No. S3 Farmington avenne, Hartford, with his two sons and two daughters, together with ,Benj. F. Fibber, were on their way to Short Beach. All were badly bruised. Mrs. Lookwood Is now at the hospital with a broken ankle. Mfcs Bertha Lockwood was quite badly hurt on the wrist, but has left the hospital. There were several hundred passengers on the train, and the majority of them got a bad shaking up and were more or less bruised and cut. They scattered so quickly after the accident that it wu impossible to get their names. The accident was caused by the spreading of the rails where a ging of trackmen were at work re-laying the track. The engine passed oveV all right, but the rails spread under the baggage car, turning it across the. track and the other cars behind it pushing it into the smoker. One passenger coach and two drawingroom cars also went over on their sides and landed in the ditch. The rear car left the track hut did not turn over. Addition to the List of Injared, New Have. C6nn., July 1. In addi tion to the injured in Saturday's accident to the Boston limited express, whose names were reported last night, are Mrs. I O. C. Hutchlns and son. of Worcester, Mass., who received scalp wounds, and Mrs. Heddrlck and son, .of Springfield, Mass., who were cut about the face and head. All of the injured are doing well, and none of them will be detained la the hospital more than a week. The wreokei cars were hoisted out aad brought here yesterday. milenn AiceHtlon Aecldent. Paris, July 1. A balloon aseeaaloa on the Exposition grounds yesterday became entangled on a projectioa of the machinery gallery. The oars which eo&iained three persons became detached aad fell to the ground, killing one of the occupants and so severely injuring the other two that they may die. Later. The man who fell from the balloon and was aupHsed to have been killed will recover. His name is Mayer. The other two men clung to the scaffold. An Unneeewiarjr 1.8XMrjr." Detroit, Mich., July 1. Preeecutinj,Attorney Wilcox wade a formal demaim for a grand jury before the Circuit Judges sitting en banc, Saturday, alleging that he had evidence to submit to the effect that the leading members of the City Council had demanded money from competlug contractors as a pre-requlsite to the awarding of contracts. The court, in a lengthy opinion, refused to summon a grand, jury, holding that the ordinary machinery of the law was sufficient to bring the guilty to trial, aad asserting that a grand jury is a useless, expensive aad unnecessary luxury. It is probable that the charges ef "heedlUm" -vlll he

NATIONAL. WALLET. Jhm MHrf for th nMil Vmr Th MtatH f tho 1'hMIc lfM-KwlU KUwnrtltHrfi liurlHg kt Year Jim Cluaeil-Tltfi reM.lutt Charge. j Wasmixotox, July 1 The reduction in , 1 the public debt during the past month, a shofva by the statement issued from tha Treasury Department yesterday was $.1R,4VW, and for the fiscal ytr just clo-.nl, fc'S.WWjlMft, During the preceding fiscal year the debt was reduce (0. The total debt now, lee cash in the Treasury, is 1.0;,W til. The net o.wh ' or actual surplus iu the Treasury yestr- i day wm 7Mitl,tM. agalut tiV3,83).4'U a year ago. j Receipts from all sources during the fiscal year just clo-d aggregated m,r,i against $79,:ft,tfTi for the precoding year. Customs revits for the wt yar awouutwl to $2SI,71.2. au increase of nearly six Million over the precediugj year, and is the largest revenue rr.im ' thk. source ever collected by the Uoveruwent in cue year. Customr receipts in 18(t cam very close to this sum, aggregating .M.MOtW. Internal revenue receipt for th year jest closed aggregated $l3l.'X&2.10t or nearly seven avid a half ml I Unas nKre than during the preceding fiscal yar. While the revenues for the year just closet! have iucreaed about etelit millions and a quarter over thoe of the , previous year, expenditures tor the year i which aggregated are thirty- I two muuoits more man tuey were uunng the preceding year, The ordinary expenses of the Government during th pat year Were l.Vl.TItl,137, against $1I,RW,1 12 during the preceding year. About ll.OOO.)!) of I wis increased ordinary expense during the past year can be accounted for by $3,.YX),000 increased War Department appropriations; J,5OJ.0iX) appropriations for new cruisers; $2,000,000 postal revenue deficiency, and 42,&W,O0J Court of Claims judgments. The pension charge for the past year was $37, 977,1 or about $$,000,005 more thau for the previous fiscal year. The total receipts during the year araounnted to 5,50 l.t57.. FATAL FLAMES. Destructive Conflagration at Savannah, ta.-Several Firemen Curried Down lr FHlllnp Wall -One Killed and Eight Injured, Some of Whom Will Die. i Savannah, Ga., July 2. Fire started in I the furniture house of A. J. Miller & Co., j heart of the ' on Brousrhton street iu the heart of the ' city last evening about seven o'clock, j and in an hour destroyed the entire establishment. The establishment .t i J. T. Cohens, dry goods; M. Sternberg, jewelry, and L. Byck & Sons, dry goods, were alo burned. The total loss on buildings and stock is $I.V),00). The arproximate looses aud insurance are: A. J. Miller & Co., ?rV.0; insurance,$40,000. J, T. Vohen, loss $45,000; insurance, 2j,CO). L. E. Byck & Son, $10,000; I insurance, ;..). The building's oceut pied by Miller, Sternberg & Co. were . completely gutted. I While the firemen were at work on ; Brougeton street on the front of the buildittg iu the heat of the fire, the wall , gave way aud carried tie firemen with it, burying six of them under a mass of hot bricks. J. T. Wehrs, ti.Jver of the Prolection Hose Company, who vss holding : the pipe was killed, and eight others , were injured, aud one or two may die. Murray Lapiuskl sustained a compound fracture of the shoulder blade, aud was burned and bruised about the face and . head. Thomas Davis was burned aad bruised about the head, face i and hands. Maurice Buttituer was ' seriously burned and scalded. Henry j. Goodson, foreman of No. 3 engine, was badly cut over the right eye; received a slight fracture of the skull, and'internal injuries and bruises about the limbs. Richard Hart received a frac- ! ture of the skull, and is injured internally. E. D, Pacettl, driver f the Mogul, received a scalp wound. Mr. Strobhar had his arm broken in two places, and alio suffered a scalp wound. Several 1 other persons were slightly injured. THE RED CROSS. Characteristic Letter From Clara Rtrten, 1'renlHent itt the National Kd C'rooi, t the Citizen Finance CnmMlttee .InhHAtnwH, la.-CUra hi There Kyory Time. Johnstown. Pa.. July 2. In response to the request of the citizen's finance committee to take charge of the putting up of the houses, Clara Barton, of the Red Cross Society answered yesterday ia the fallowing letter: Gentlemen ThR great courtesy shown me by your repiet that the organization over which I have the pleasure to preside shall unite Its efforts with yours In securing immediate shelter for the homeless people of this afflicted town and your offer to co-operate ia every way possible to that eml has left me practically without words with which to exI press my thanks or my acquiescence, and you ! will not wonder that I should have taken a few j hours in which to look the situation In the face and attempt to form some judgment as to tho probable aid which , we might be able to render. If the seed were lew imperative the decision might wilt admit of hesitation; but the presiiag necessity of the people who wait and setter oa the one hand and the great and perplexing burden of you who have undertaken and are striving amid so many and so appalling dlfncuitlet for their relief on the other.aJmlt of bo reserve, but demand every energv and every risk; and, God helping us. our organization will assume these, ami Iookinx t the atd of .vour greathearted public whose generosity Is equaled only by its sympathy and its abundance, we will labor hand to hand with you for the erection ot the little hornet which shall quickly take these dazed, bereft and houseless people up from the ground and shelter them from the sun and the storms, under a roof they may regard as their own. The whole country will be glad ot the click ot the hammer or the hillsides of Johnstown, and every staunch lumberman from Maine to Michigan and the mills of Iowa, from the Pine Tree State to the Itte Grande, will be proud of the iitr. plain cottaee that he has helped to rear la the Coaemaugh Valley. I have the honor to be, geattemen, most re iHK'UHIlr. CiaKA 1UKTO.H. VreAldeatof the Katloail Red Cress ef Amer lea. A SrlPHtlHo KxpedltloH. Washiiuitox, Jtilv 1. The Navy De partmeut Is making preparations for observing the total eclliKie of the sun, which will occur on December 21. It will be visible in its totality at St. Paul de Losntlo, on the coa?-f of South Africa. Captain 11 L. Pylhtan, Prof. Asaph Hill and Prof.Simon XtiWcorab,superiuteitdent of the Nautical Almanac, have been apwdMte! bj Secretary Tracy td make the necessary arrangements, The scientists, who will be sent to observe the ecltpfta will go to Hlo de Janeiro aad from there will be taken,with their instruments aad apparatus, across the oea to St. Paul j ee lAndo ia the iTr-Mtd States JM-of trar ltlekatoad.

I THE

HYrOCRIlY.

Mm lrWI OmSmmwI kr The fallavlng example of the "dead ly jmrallel" will repay attention: SHelt Ultath Xt I lift aa a keartr the UMHM-iMwecrat. First AoliUil tt atatr-arat Clark. prarer Uat we may evr have a Pretkleat whe will net either ptir tUI eoatlttUM hi HMk r dMaptiatlnt'CaMaet aJvtr M fourth elat HtHia- luru-, tk civil rvter of the Duorat c CJ lolicT pere aad variety aa4 subtttutnlmH m up a )ut tag (or thsm Ktuk- ., wiowiag men iteaas. Ptirlag t h F!ccued ki b hearO. week jut t cla deeWlag aalat ch.Ui(e war ma4 la taeia Hily vhi oompe l.ett cet. The kich teat trot aaU falriy pt uuwbwr at ehaaeet either have that klft4 m4 la one week waiiol a e v Mrrkw, 3,l. Th latter sumher broke tha record, which breaking oc ror ooa-t sake, let u have that ethar iraak a a it bold, ir brutal, MetHd f turaiBx wen rurred about th ml4 die ot May. The iaijd wkwh oat .wj.ty ween kvc o rcooru; wymivn. a eIH call, although) a have eae or the Mr. Clirksoa wade ae el" special effort. Sine, the Incoming ot the mvseat adHiialstratUa over 11,0 e DcmoeratMi postmasters ot the fourth rlas havt re tired from ofllce either v!ntarily or iavetua tartly. The quotation on the left hand speaks for iUelf and needs no explanation. That on the right is from a speech delivered in the United States Senate on March 26, lSSo. by llenjamin Harrison, benator from Indiana. It mij;ht have been supposed that be com w iresidt.nt. ir. Hat-riion. in deIngr deRrtinsr from his pledges in a wav so .1 orutat tnattu a single graaeot a single department of the service he has forced out over 11,000 experieuced men in less than four months, would have axopted his own alternative and so would have been frank and bold in his brutality. ,The country does not need to be told that hypocrisy has been as marked a feature of his administrative methods as the brutality he himself has defined. In the process of forcing out thesi thousands of tried public servants, every method known to partisan greed and rancor has been employed. Where resignations have not been forthcoming on demand, the threat of charges has been held over the heads of incumbents, and they have been given to understand that the nature of such charges Is aa administration secret The New York Evening Post has r ...... . i L Anna method, espeoiaUy in the case of .Airs, f .,.. ......,. ,, man vixv, ui nun tst iua, ilia. She was postmistress there, and her resignation was demanded. She asked to know the nature of the charges against her. The answer was a notice of her removal. The Administration claims to have the report of a special agent on charges showing her unfitness. When application was made at the Post-Ottice Department for information concerning the charges It was flatly refused, with no other information than that the contents of such papers would not be divulged in any case. The best comment on such a policy for use in this connection is that of the speech from which we have already quoted. "It is," said Senator Harrison, "a policy inaugurated by this Administration, a policy that is without precedent, and that will be without imitation a policy of stimulating and receiving secret charges against the reputation of men, ay, as I shall show presently, not only against the reputation of men, but against the reputation of women; of denying to the accused any accees to or knowledge of the charges, and of acting upon those charges ia the dark." Now. what is Harrison the President aa he is judged out of the mouth ot Harrison the Senator? Was Harrison the President pursuing "a civil-service policy pure and simple" In turning out over 11.000 fourth-class postmasters between March 4 and June 15? Was he "frank and bold, if brutal." in having charges filed by a special agent against Postmistress Mary I Clay and refusing to reveal the nature of the accusation or the names of the accusers? Is ot Harrison the President condemned by Harrison the Senator as a canting humbug? St. Louis Republic PROTECTED COAL MINERS. Men, Willing te Work Hard. UnaM U Kant KHHHgh te Support ThftHMlrra. The operation of protecting the in fant Industry of raining coal In Illinois has bow reached the stage of starvation at the Braid wood district, at Streator, Spring Valley, LaSalle, Peru, Oglosby, Roamoke. Minonk and Morris. Unless the charitable of Chicago shall give, the men who, for yeans, have dug the fuel of Chicago must starve as a reward of their labor. In a time of regular seasons f succeeding harvests, of copious rains, of gentle winds, of general health without National ills the farmer ef Dakota or Nebraska has suffered because his supply of food was inadequate, and the, hard-working miner starves because he can get no bread. First and foremost, therefore, we have the stupendous crime of governmental intervention in the ordinary business affairs of private citizens. It ha turned out ! that the Government in 18$$ collected 7'. n.nt. a titi d.nut 4 A.Vt IW rf foreign imported soft coal, while the Illinois miner, if we reckon all tho robberies of his employer, received not over55csnteatoK for digging soraatred fuel. Protected againat the better toft coal of Nova Scotia, the American capitalist has proceeded to fry the fat out of our people. As more capitalists have ucented the gain in that form of buslnese, tha domestic compe tition haa increased, and every coat of diminution ia price has ftvst come out of the vt X4fes paid to miners. Once f30 waa off eml for a ton of un screened oeal. To w-cure the present mult, in-adiees iave been ixtlUtl

that shame Humanity a tar ae grt4 ea shame lu As protect! or does net prelect, the mine-owners are hmw engaged In mtlag each other. lairing this ooaUaH the tuiiers. e eae re sea er other, must mrv. or b fed by the philanthropic This is the leeeon at kaail, aad this is the exigency. Unles these who have bread shall giva of It, about 11,000 miner with their families, ia Illinois alone, rnuet starve. Thee 11,-

000 miners voted for protection, because their wages of oente were paid with that understanding. d a the voter's ballot i marked by a num ber, as in Chicago, it would be a fatal J mistake to attempt to vote for escape from a false system. Wherever in America protection hat c$tabllhed an infant industry there has followed the truck system, the slave system, the company ,goverameat and the de-Americanization of that region. The Americans have Setl . and foreigners have come in. When ' Americans have been oeen in , the blasted district it lias been oa the call of the Governor for militia to effect a J lower scale of wages. Ae at Johns-, town. Pencoyd, JSrazil, i locking everywhere the friend of man has looked on the scone, and has wished that manufactures and mir.iiij had not come Into the world to inaKe the drama entirelv hateful. While the workers have Jsllently metamorphosed from Americans to Irih, to En glish, to Germans, to Italians, to" Mag yars, to Huns, to Scythians the great American millionaire has passed away and the billionaire corporation has taken his place. At laet men, con templating the work of protection, close their mouths and grow afraid. Now let them give, in order to save these worthy miners from death, for of late the labor problem has got to that stage where the strike and the militia can no longer be used to confuse the promptings of charity or to conceal certain hypocrisies of our civ ilization. Chicago Herald. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Strained relatione are bad enough, but President Harrison begins to wish that his relatives could be restrained, just a little. N. Y. World. Selling cheap and buying dear never made any man rich, and the American farmer is the' only person who seems to think otherwise. Louisville Courier-Journal. It becomes plainer every daj ; that Harrison has no originality, nc ' mind of his own except a mind to Ik obstinate with those who he fears will show superior to him by contrast. Cleveland Plain Dernier. New Hampshire has decided tc send Hill Chandler back to the United . States Senate. That queer old com J monwealth may now put on a- tall, ' conical paper cap and go and sit on the three-legged stool In the corner. Chicago News. Those who are engaged in farm ing are the hardest worked and the j poorest paid laborers la the land, anc J if they will only think, it is largely j their own fault, as taey conunue it j elect law-makers who make laws not intended to benefit them. L'leburae ! (Tex.) Tr.bune. So long as one man can get rich at the expenee of Ills fellows, there will be found the man to make the attempt- And. like Carnegie, he will work himself into a fine frenzy with the believing that he Is a blessing to the fellow-creaturee he is despoiling. Chicago Herald. Instead of jeering at the disappointment of the political ambitions of young Thurman in Ohio, would it

not be well for the Republican organs , mUt be' mcnitUmed in addition to to reflect upon the incident a evi-, Ul(we Hjrwi(ly mmeth For real Inteldence that the Democratic party s atti- UcUilil U)rCiS uka tmJ old Chestnut tude toward the sons of their fathers is glrtet a!lk, 0r the lUdlcal Club, as superior to It own?-Chiego Herald. ( vho9se. iu waere will you Mr. Clarkson declares that when nml ttJ ,ui i,aVe never had. the people elected a Republican Ad-, Rny thing like it la this country since, ministration they elected to have lie- the literary outlook seems publican postmasters. Mr. Clarkson 1 imtiv encouraging. I sometime feel Is undoubtedly carrying out hla view i tjul wm become a lost art with

of the election, but if he will prod his memory a little he will discover that the Republican Administration was elected on a pledge not to change any , officeholder except for cause, and tc ' appoint all oftceholder on the bsU 1 of fitness alone. St. Louis Post-Uis-' patch. The selection of Calvin S. Bfice to be chairman ef the Democratic National Committee is calling forth a hearty indorsement from the beet pa pers and men of the party. nether he will guide the Democratic hosts three years from now will depend upon the course of events in the Meantime,, but it fe a matter of congratula tion that i mil preparatory work preceding the next National canvas the Demoeraey u to have a tried sum! faith ful man at the head of the: Rational organization. Manchester (N. IL) Union. Montana's Constitutional! Election. The Montana official board lias fiished the counting of the returns el i the constitutional convention election. The Democrats have elected thirtyeight delegates, the Republicans thirty-five. Dreed, a laber candidate, is an old Democrat and the politieal preference of the oste independent candidate elected is unknown. Putting the indeuendenl la the Remiblicitn and the labor candidate in the Demoeratk column the totals would 1$ t to H no change in the majority of S. The total vote polled, taking the highest figures for each opposing candidate, was 10.597, of Which the Democrat trailed 6,368 aad the thumb) loans 5,211. The labor oaRdtdate received 3941 Vote and the iii4epedt HQ, VMkUt the, luU vote ll.-U.

OHOOt AND CHURCH, Twenty-two tier man eeagrefft tieae of 1'hllMdelpki have unltd ia the effort of founding a Home for tha Aged. The Presbyterian. A Iloboke. (X. J.) jm tor resigned his charge boeaue the trustees of his church objected te his calling oh hU parishioners and drinking a glass el beer with them. Among the charitable works carried oh by the sUwlenU of Harvard, that of supplying reading matter to t)te hospitals of lloetoa la one of the most commendable. At the third annual convention ol the Illinois Voting People's Societies of Christian Kndeavor, latly held in "SriHgneld. about one thousand dele

gate were in attendance representing ' nve thousand societies, with a mensbewhlp of twenty thousand. Fourteen New England colleges have united to form a commission oh admiiioii examinations as follows: Amher.t, lioelon University, llowdofn, llrown. Colby. Dartmouth, Harvard, Smith. Trinity, Tuft. Welieiey, Wceleyan. Williams and Yale. The Methodist Episcopal Church has throe annual conferences in India. According to the latest rojKrU theso conferences' havo an agirrpte of 81 foreign preachers and 51 native, 10.813 momlwr and probationers, 13K churches, l'-NJ parsonages and 20,1 scholars in day schools. A British pator thus describes the bcAtity of tlni chapel in which he ntinbtcni: "It is in the Ionic style. Over the portico is a tower, over that a cupola, and on the .top of all mortgage." The last of these ornamente is generally not specially attractive U ministers. N. Y. Independent Miss Mary Whately, second daughter of the Archbishop, died recently at Cairo where she went for her health in 1SS 1 and settled- in the country for good, opened the only .school there was in Cairo for Moslem girls, and lived to see it develop into an institution that receives an average ot tfQO pupils. ! The venerable cathedral of St. Pierre, in Geneva, in which Calvin l preached is to Im restored!! It is ln1 tended to renew the main facade and to nirit-h the north tower, beside altering and embellishing the interior ut an expense of A.W.0OO francs. A coiapany has Wen formed for the purpose, ( after, the pattern of the one which restored the minster of lto'o. A Presbyterian church In Pittsburgh has jut secured a soprano from Chieago by offering her 2.000 a year, which is fT0O a year more than she has been receiving. It is said that a few old fogies is the church wanted to dispense vitk a Kiprano and give the f2,lHM) a year to the poor and needy; but the idea was not entertained for a moment. This is not the largest salary ever paid to h choir-singer in this country, but it is said to be the large t calxry- paid to any singer at the present tinav THE AUTOCRAT TALKS. O. W. Uolmet Viw or" a I'hm er Twi t tltrrnturp. "The nucetioa is, will this country ever ee another such group of re markable men as Iloston has produced. Ia history there are Prescott, Motley aad IVkman. In theology, Theodore Pxrker nnd Dr. Ilartol; in oratory. Wendell Phillips; in philosophy, Emerson; ia poetry, Longfellow anil Whittier. for the latter, if not an actual resident el Itoston, must be regarded, nevertheless, as belonging to the ltOitoH literary guild. 'Thtr Im- Lowiill. also. Others us. To be sure wo have a largo number of writers of verse 1 refer to the rising generation of writers and it is vcrv oed verse, too. but very liufe -verr Iktlo of it rises to tho scale oi. rea poetry, it " ciently steikiagto impress Itself upon the world to ndure. 4The disposition is to indulge- in fanciful triolet and. the romloaUL. adl pretty enough in their way; but very few poems of this char--HOter-hawYor beeomo immortal. "For example, the sonnet is ono of the most mechanical and artificial, forms of, vere there Is. To be sure, Shakeepwe's sonnets am excellent,, as they do not conform to the estab-. Mshod sttles governing tMe construction of lae sonnet. If one is to succeed.in poetry lie must give free rein to his. Kcntinwatand imagination in the mora, simple aad natural forma of verae. Take for instance. Xcnnysoa - 'In. Mensriam;' the foria Is simple and. oaer. This i a greai poem and will, live". Still, from thwe observations. I would not seek discourage any young- wan from seeking to lie a poet if he really feels the divine tiwtlnot within him. "Hut I would wge him by Hit mean te adopt the ot nsjturttl way ot writing, and u4 by any mean deend on poetry or Hterature Ir Hy tense, for his bnwMl and batter- l.tit him . - . . .. r. r ..... w i have sometking olso for a stttffj It U absolutely accessary, unless one be a irenhis. and oven then it is far ff. l'oe w genius, yet hie case ought to prove a warning to all who nepire In literature. I In ny own case lmvn hud profeorakip. tho worker which nas not always been congenial? never. theie, It hue proved a goou sihh. 1 Vm h Interview in Boston Journal