Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 40, Number 5, Jasper, Dubois County, 8 October 1897 — Page 7

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BABY'S SuEEPY TIME. L.tMe t et that run uimpl me. Little arum that fondly twine Round my neck wlih lovlns ft rvor, Little rad lips ouuxinir mine Thiene I love. tut wtni. thf shadows (f the hilltops slowly iiml. There I sonn-thlnK I hold drarvr "Til my baby's nice;. :lui . I ftly ro.-klriK In th twllltrht. Crooning some old crallf Bcinu, nswrrlriK the many questions That to chlldhoj'.s ra!m In-lons, Till the la.shcs, downward CCOaptnaj Touch her cheek will üalnty icrae. And I s ftly press warm klsOn the falnt-Muslnd. upturned fsflfl, 0 my little white-robed darlinK, All to Muon the years will fly. Y"U WlU ktow away from mother, Will not t;-ed her lullaby Timeis pitiless to mothers, And I know till life's decline, 1 shall, when the shadows gather. Miss my baby's sleepy time! -Florence - Jonas, la Chicago AJ vane.

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i Jack, Max and the E

uf Pretty Priscilla. BY FRANKUT4 TRUESDELL. Copyright, i.;- ;

TWO well-dressed men, both Still omvtj, though one was u few years the senior of his friend, stood near a Steamboat landing on t he Sound one Ummer morning, watching the roustii ! i . i . : i transferring freight from the thON Ifl the deck of the craft on which they were about to take passage. Tin- elder of the two, who had lecn continually look i ng about in an cxpeet(II. t manner, suddenly called out : "Here you are at lust, oM fellow. What in the world has kept um'.1" Then came rusn.ii.g toward him, skilfully anil yet politely, eluding ull play -ful attempts to impede his progre.su, a little hoy Infant live yeare of age. who was a perfect picture of ragged heuith and childish beauty. Hi hat. Dm bed carelessly on his head, formed the baekgt und for a n . a - - of golden hair, blow n hither and t hit l. r aa his sturdy little legs aped down the gravel I e. His round, happy face glowed in the morning air, and hit c-yea sparkled with ill-suppre.'sed excitement, "Oh. p:tpa!" he begun, before he had quite recovered his breath. "1 haM had SU h B time with Max ! "' "I was In-ginning to foal In hud made a hrfnhfba i of you," was tbe father's answer, aa the child slipped one little 1 and in hie, "tit might try, if he could gel at me now." rejoined the little fellow. "Hut he's -ate enough in one of the storeroom, if some one don't let him out." I'.t at that inoinint the Steenboet pa-.e a shrill whistle, nnd Jack, walking in tween his father and his father' friend, turned to goon hoard the In at. Among tb passenger- mbled on the :;pn r deck stood a i i t ; ! - i I of more than ordinary att nn tiv cm . She was just passing that line of life on one side of which people write "girl" and on the other " tuing lads." BBS attracted not a little attention as she stood Ihere, leaning lightly nur the ri' i. lien .lack and bit guardians tcbfld the dt ck she was say ing goodly to a sun-bonneted friend oa the landing, and Towle, tin younger of the tn men. caught the full beuut of the fresh face as she Innghed out tome pert reply to ROC frieiul's tarnest caution: "Now. do he can ful. I'riseilla." Already the time for casting oil the rtio irii'gs had p;o.sed. The captain wa rigorouety ordering about the t-ek-hantts and confusion reigned. The pretty girl Stood up on a seat to get clear of a line tha' was being hauled in. ttill talking with her friend on shore. "Pretty as a picture." thought Tow lc. as lie watched the lissome figure sway -ing with the motion of the boat. Pri cilia waved her mat adieu, and then her friend, mingling with those left on the landing, tinned awny. The young girl still stood on the rail M it; Tovvle hoveretl in her immediate vicinity : Jack was watching the receding shore. Presently the child's voice rose in n cry that was almost a scream: "Look, panel There comes Max!" Down the slope toward the water boundid the big Newfoundland. Hushing through the little party that had Just left the landing, the dog brought up with a mighty effort en the ciy edge of the wharf. lack, Jumping up on the rail sent, waved both hands ami shouted: "lioodhy. old fellow! Good by, Mast" Hut Max misi ii terpret ctl the gesture. Prompt in obedience to the mi piloted ignal, he jumped into the water and struck out in the wok of the hoat It wag not under much headway yet, hut Max could make but a poor showing in the race, .lack Imme . i-y nervoim. He scarcely knew whether Max w as sw i mini tig or drow ning. "Can't we stop the boat?" lie asked. "Oh, no." said his father. "Max will get tired in I BnlfiVtC n ml make f.,r the shore." Tow HI leaned over the stern nnd called to the dog to L' buck, but Max took it all for gBCOOmm meat, nnd swam on ateatlily. The boat as steadily gained on him. The channel was with ning now, ami Ma idci tly had no intention of abandoning the rate. BetrytOM M the boat pr -aSMlv be. MUM much excited, ami beginning s it sympathy for Little Jack, ended in the deepeM anxiety as to the fate of the dog. Jack was still standing bttJdc tbegirl, who wa making an tffori to aide the' excitement that Wat taking possession of her. Jack s father sto d just behind lth a light hnnd on his mildabottj oar. lowie wua uot fr away.

The boy was trembling in every limb. "Oh. Mux! D. ar Max!" bo cried. "You can't citch uj!" Then, recalled by his father's ton h. " hy, jwipa. We must stip the boat, s he can catch up." The girl reat hed out her hand ami took bold of Jack's. She aaid nothing, hut her teeth were press, ., tightly against her lower lip, and the big, brown ims were beginning to till. The only apparent ly uninterested person on the boat was the captain. The aw n i ng had not v et been spi t ad o er t lie deck, and he could plainly be seen standing in the pilot house. Towle turned toward hini ami called out : "I say, captain, can't you slow down, ami let my dog come up with us? He won't go hack, and I'm afraid he can't hohl out BlOCb longer." The captain turned from the wheel for a moment, and glanced lazily toward the log bravely paddling awav for his life. "( Hi, he'll get along well enough. He'll Mxjti give up and go hack. 1 can't stop for u dog." Murmurs of ind ignat ion were heard on every hand. Jack's face bore a look of the most complete surjiri.se at the discovery that the captain could ptssibly refuse to stop for Max's sake. The

sympathetic tears in Priscilla's ej at turned to glittering evidences of deep ! indignation, as she stamped her foot, j and seemed about to speak. HutTow lc's words came first: "I don't ask you to stop for the sake ' of t he dog," saitl he to the captain. "I'll muke it well worth your w hile to slow down a bit."

"Yes. indeed," chimed in a young fellow who had been growing particularly interested in the situation. "Hesales," he went on, raising Iiis voice so that the captain could not fail to hear, "it makes no difference except to your pasisengers if we get in a few minutes late, aad if we don't care, why should you r "That's what's the matter!" came loudly from the little crowd that was now facing the pilot house. 'Hiis uprising of the whole ship's company was more than the captain could quietly endure. Leering the wheel to his mate, he stepped out on the hurricane deck, and, looking down upon the passengers, his hands in his pockets and determination in his eye, blurted out: "You may as well understand me now as exer. 1 am captain of this boat, and 1 know how to run her. I've no time to

hud already jumped from between l Tie deekf ami was swimming with steady, i i - . strokes to the aid of the impulsive girl Other were lowering a boat, and the captain, at last in accord with the paaatageta, had the aaglaet eaeafaedL Jack's father was astounded at the turn of affairs. "Dili you cut dream of such a foolish nett" he exclaimed. "The child actually took up my words and leaped o er board to sue the dog." So impressed was he with the noble fil!,v of the girl that, bad it not been for .lack, he w Quid certainly have made one of the boat's crew. Hut Towle forstaüeil him. Yet. Hfter all, the girl did not appear to need much help. When si. i rOM i.ftcr her plunge into the water mi tamed her face toward thedogand struck out as if she had been a veritable water nymph. The sailor was soon close babied her. "Don't tire yooraelf out, miss." he cried, "hie on your back and float. They'll noon pick us all up now." T ut the girl swam on. Her bath had completely dispelled the momentary frenay Of excitement that had impelled her to jump. She felt nothing but chagrin now. She did not w ant to look anybody in the face, and there was not only 'he sailor close behind, hut a boat load of others were coining. She wished that she dared to go on with the part and dive down to the bottom of the sea. The sailor's breathing sounded nw folly near and the click of the nanlocks tohl how near the hoat wis also. Kven Max, w ho now w as hardly able to swim a stroke, and who seemed to recognize in all this excitement something which might accrue to his benefit, earned to her to be laagbmg at her predicament. She was beginning to think she had better drown herself than to face all the niortificntion that seemed to threaten, a hen she suddenly Stopped swimming and disappeared. The sailor readied the sot where the rirl bad gone down just in time to see her black hair gleaming at the surface again. Placing one arm under her body, he supported it as best he might until the Ixiat came up. Towle was in the bow. terribly frightened to sec the girl lying so still in the water. "Is she dead?" he naked, in a honrsf whisper. "Oli. no." said some one. "Shell soon come to. There'i too moeb color tbari for I had faint." They lifted her in nnd laid her care fully in the thwarts, a pea jacket mule her. with Towle's coat for a pillow.

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ilK H stop oni'K KNOUOH If THKRE WERK UAH OVERBOARD."

Mop for tlogs, and 1 won't stop, and ,oii ci.n make the iiust of it!" The gtri. looking prettier than ever, stooti erect as an arrow, bag Baad clutching the leide of her blue Banne) yachting dress, every nerve tingling with indignation. The captain retired

amid a chorus of groans and hisses.

toward Max. lie i

the look of mingled tpicstion and reproach that must be in the dog's eyes. "W hat docs it ali mean'.' Why must I sw i m so far? I thought you wanted me to conn' to you. 1 am doing my best " "Yes. poor fellow," said lowlc, as if in an;-"' r to these unspoken t(iieties, 'if you were a man now, instead of a dog, that brute of a captain might deign to lose a moment or so of his valuable time." "I'm not so sure of thut," remarked the young man, w ho had participated in the vain effort t" pi rsuade tbC captain. "There's er little of the milk of human kindness in that fellow, 1 fancy." "lWibly." said Jack'a father; "but the law would bring him to terms in such .i i ase. lb il stop i iu'k enough if there was a man oetiMard." Scarcely were the words spoken before they were echoed Uack from the low er deck. "Man overboard!" was the cry indeed. So suddenly it came that it almost seemed like a trie,, to bring hc enptain to terms. In the confusion uf the moment the renlity appeared st.angely unreal, liven little .lack was at lirst scarcely able to understand, when he managed to cry out: "There she is! Don't let her drown, too!" No one '"it .lack lintl noticed how something his fat her said seemed to add to the excitement of the pretty girl by his aide, ami in his terror for 1 he f ate of poor Max he hardly realized what she was doing when she put one foot upon the rail and Vaulted nrr the side. It was nil done in an instant; she was in the water before three persons knew that she had disappeared. Towle had lu- coat of! iu a tw inkling, but a sailor

Ocular Proof. Ned I belisve there is a skeleton in Miss Antique! ffcinily. Ted "I know it. Saw her in bathing eostunie y estcrtlay." Truth. A Beaton MOt has sent a poem to one of the papers, entitled: "Oh. let me die at home!"' The editor has promised to let btM, provided he keeps aw ay from his ofiice. Youkers Statesman. Hi markable Coincidence. "It's alway h scenic I u mighty strange thing to me," said Mr. Wipedunks, "that in P.ible times, thousands of years ago, they called a fast driver a Jehu, just aa they do uowatlays." C hicago Tribne. An old lady was telling her grandchildren alsnit some trouble in Scotl.iiitl. in Iba course of which the chief of her cht ii w as beheaded. "It was nae great thing of a head, to he sure." saitl the good oh! lady, "but it was a sail loss to him." Tit-Hits. "That," saitl the old boatman to the lonesome girl on the end of the pier at n summer resort, "is a man-eating shark." "Thanks!" she replied, looking in the direct ion in which he pointed. "We can sympathize with each other." Chicago livening Post. "Now. really." said the Thoughtful Man, "did yOV ever see s woman who was homely enough to stop a clock by looking at it? No," said the Nonsensical Chap, "but I have nOM a woman stop n ear by lookiBg at the conductor." Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. TWENTY-NINE DANGEROUS AGE.

"Dou't forget the log!" said a sailor, "That's so." said Towle. coining back from the realm of fancy into which he found himself drifting. "Pick up the poor beast, and you shan't lose by it, boys." And so Max. in ful! worse plight than the girl herself seemed to be, was hauled

All eyes turned again towartl the MS and placed bts.de her. eater. Max was evidently becoming ex- Everybody on tbt steamer crowded hauated; the pace vas telling on him. to the side to catch a glimpse of the

His red tongue now and again sliowtl heroine of the hour. The stewardess I clear sgainat the baekgrrouad of bis knelt dowa beside tbe dieaebed igere black head as he gulped in the air, and as soon as it was brought on deck and

once .lack thought he heard a faint Officially announced that the girl was yelp. The father had all he could do to only iu a faint. Theerowd was preteats restrain the bov's excitement. , l.v induced to stand back, ami tinally Towle was so at.grv that he could M.ix. w ith Jack's arms around his neck, scare. Iv speak. Hfl hardly dared look became the temporary center of attiac- - I I t ii l.tla Va I ,.n x.la I. ,.ltl.. .1

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carried down into her eabin. The burden bearers had scarcely disappeared up the eoinpanionw ay when the girl jumped from the sofa on w hieb, they had placed her, and, falling on her knees in front of the star' led stewardess, crietl out: "You'il never tell anybody, will you? I didn't faint at all. I just couldn't 'ook any IkhJv in the face, ami I didn't. I believe I should have died if they had mispet ted that I was shamming." Am! the jocr girl burst into tears. Meanwhile the boat passed through Hell (iate and presently nearetl the pier. The stew artless kept the girl below until all the other passengei-s had disembarked. Towle waited in rain for her reappearance. In answer to his inquiry he was told that the "young lady hail epiite recovered, but must not be disturbed." Nobody found out who she was. Whether Tow le was more fortunate subsequent! pertains not to this story. Even .Tnck and Mack had togonshore w ithout so much as saying good -by to Priscilla; but one of the deckhands, an old 'alt and a dry one. watched her out of the comer of Iii ey e w hen she finally tame on deck and hurried alone down tbe plank. This w as his comment : "That WM the pluckiest thing 1 ever 1. new a gal to do; fcl d tkfl frjollflbflfll atmen iinnu Blnatilnllf , Electrlcitj now supplies tbe power for ringing tbe chines of Qrace obnreb. New xoik. nnd the curfew hymn is phiycd by an automatic arrangement breaking tbfl CUT real to huge magnets oonnarltd "dtti ten ketb Ibfl largest weighing a.000 pounds. Lots of men would willingly work fot their board -if they could find

one to work. Chicago Newa.

XI an Commit More Crimes Tben Vesta " Oilier Time. It is a singular fact, yet one substantiated by statistics, that most crime is committed in this state by men lift years old. This is not only true of the lesser, but also of the greater crimes, although a Juan is presumed to be at that period of his life not only in zenith of his phy sical, but also in full and complete possession of his mental powers, with a complete appreciation of right and wrong and their respective consequences. This condition is a problem which has not been solved by the student of criminology, and one w hich is made the more complex hy the fact that the ages of tl, 27 and ii years nearly equal it, with the intervening y ears show ing a far less percentage of crime. It is Indeed peculiar that the criminal tendency should be so strong at 2'J with no such inclination, so far aa criminal Statistics show , in as great a degree for the succeeding It years, ami then another outburst of the o'ilmal in man. This condition is found to be true by actual figures, nnd as nil statistical computations at which average condition are sought to be determined are arrived nt by this method, so may the student of this subject, as well as the insurance magnate w ho bases his rates on the general average of losses in proportion to 1 lie risks taken, ami does so with full safety, employ it in solving the problem before him. Charles K. I'ahcr, chief clerk toFupTIntendant Eatbrop, has made this subject one of close study nnd will soon have completed a table show ing this to be true, ue kaa already completed one relative to murderers serving life sentences in the penal institutions, and its figures bear out the general conclusion. He offers at this time no explanation for this, but hopes after he has exhausted tbfl object, so far ns the presentat ion of figures is concerned, to be able to set forth reasons why these years should be productive of the most crime. The following figures show how old the various murderers who are serving life sentences were when they committed the act for wbleb they are serving time, together with how many like Crimes were committed at such specific ft d ige: i . ' see, It slxte-en, i; ieccnteen. "; eighteen, 2; nineteen, tj twenty, 2: twn'y-one, fi; twenty-two, 0; twenty-three, tj twenty-foer, 5; twenty-five. S; twenty-six. 10 j twentyseven, lit twenty-eigbt, T; tneenty-nine, 12; thirty. S; thirty-one. 0; thirty-two, 7; thirty-three. 6; thirty -four. ; thirtyfive. 7; thirty-six. '; thirty-seven. ."; thirty-right, 5; thirty-nine, 4; forty.; forty -one. .'!; fOTtyntWO, 3; forty -three, 6; forty-four. .'!; forty-five, 7; fortysix, 1; forty-seven. 1; forty -eight, 3; forty-nine. I fifty, 1; fifty-one. 0; fiftytwo. 2; fifty-three, 2; fifty-four. 0; fiftyfive. 2; fifty-six. 0; fifty-seven. 1; flTty eicht. 0; fifty-nine, sixty, 0; sixtyone. 1; sixty-fwo. 0 sixty-three. 1 1 sixty-four. 1; sixty-five. 0; sixty-six. 0; sixty-seven, 1; sixty-e;ght, 1; sixtynine, 0; seventy, I. Albany Times-'"nion.

ADMISSIONS OF GOLD ORGANS. aindr Araonriti That Have Urea i plotted. Nothing is more certain than thefacrt that the gold orgaiui are compelled to pay a fancy price for evidence of returning prosperity resulting from the higher price of w heat anil the sympathetic rise of other commodities.

They Inno been comp died to get rid of the remains of federal cur loads of ex plodVd thoriea anil arguments. They have been driven to applaud w hat they have heretofore denounced, a "depreciated" dollar "cheap money" for the Lollar will not buy nearly so much w heat as it bought awhile ago, and it will buy only haLf ob niinch wool. In tine, t he gold organs have been -omxpellcd to take refuge in the arguments w hich the free coinage men have bn anaploylagi to-wit: that higher firtees are an evidente of prosperity; hat low prices are an evidence of hard times; that prosperity to be real, must begin with the farmers and those who dopend on them; that the prosperity of the farmers and their dependents can only come from profitable prices for their producta; and that even when the dollar cheapens or depreciates w ith refpetct to only two product of the farm wheat and wool the result is beneficial. The Constitution is ve.-y glad to see the gold organa climb over the fence snd take position with the democrat on these elemental and basic propositionsnot beoeoae the admission is of any real importance, but becaxise it present these organs in a more ridiculoua attitude than they have ever occupied before, impossible as that may wem. A few months ag-o they w ere show ing that higher prices would be a very seTere blow to the workingmcn, and to all who depend On wages. They presented long columns of windy arguments to prove that the comfort of the wage-earners depended on low prices; that the low prices then prevailing w ere the natural nnd inevitable result of the progress of civilization and enlightenment, and that higher prices were the result of "depreciated'' currency, "dishonest" dollars. And yet, the moment that the dollar depreciate with respect to wheat and wool, two prime necessities to t he working people, the w indy arguments of the gold organs explode like inflated paper bags in the hands of naughty achoolboys tbey explode, and that is the end of them. Therefore, owing to the depreciation of the dollar, we have a new and a better condition. W'e nre to have higher prices for food and v inter clothtagfetea if tbfl working people do not get highor wages. Thus it fells out that the arguments of the democrats are proven to be sound, and the result is applauded by those who denied absolute! the truth of them. We have higher prices for some of the products of tbfl farm, and the result is a distinct note of pioeperlty, to which tbfl whole country is promptly responsive. Hut how much better it would be for the country if the symptoms of better

times now apparent had something more substantial behind them than dependence on Boa tinned failure of tbfl y heat crops in Europe, India nnd Argentina. Should these countries le blessed next year with even average crops of wheat, tbfl present price of our wheat cannot of course, be sustained. Dut notwithstanding the feel that tau h prosperity ns w e arc enjoying is entirely providential in character, we should make the mo st of it and rejoice at it. While so doing we should strengthen nr.tl fortify ourselves by taking measures to give permanence to jvrosperity by reforming our currency system ami putting it on a solid and Kubstantiail beets, A cheaper dollar, the resrult of bimetallism, is no teat sound or honest than the obeaper dollar reauitlng from short crops; In Curope or from tariff legislation. That is a feet whleh must be clear to tue dullest mind. Atlanta Constitution. PRESS COMMENTS. The McKinley hill has itsllome-

PAYINQ THE BILLS.

In tl.l Crocodile. Oncof tbe moat Intereotlngnpeelmenn In the Hritisli museum is a crocodile more than 2,ooo yfleM old. It. i a big, W-cll-preservi'd spieoitncn, snd on its back there is a whole family of little rrocndiles. Years before the Christian era the Egyptians worshiped iTotHwlTiee among their animal deities, nnd many specimens were kept nt great expense in their oarks and royal garden. x her they were attended by priests und given nil sorts of dainty morsels for food, When these CTOCOdib) Roda died they were embalmed and placed n the tOttlbl ilong with the sacred munrniis of other sacred nnimals. This particular crocodile was prepared by dipping It in wn.x nnd pitch, which rendered 't hard nnd shiny, ntid it lay in one of the pyramids century nfter ntury. until th- Fgrptinn govern!"' I I out nnd presented It to tbe British n eum.-I.os Angeles Times. Spanish Crastam. In nntne nhntea in Snnln, am"! - ' m v' i Trara, where Oolh we ga rrv -t l.nn old cu.fm prevails et immediate! v after the execution nrrestirg tbfl executioner nnd charring him vvtli m unlet before the; court, of jrrstfre. Tea, I killed a man." an were the executioner, "hut I did it in hh utinx1 of the law, tW tbfl benefit of society, ntd in oledlenea to tlm- inn naindeof your honor." Then the court disclnarges him, saying theft ius.ie bee been d.--JL T. Baa.

stead nnd t lie Diugtey bill has its Hazleton. Des Moii.es Leader. There is more retaliation than reciprocity under the McKinley administration. Kh gatOO Lender. It Is thought that Mr. ITanna is personally respooniblfl for the hag! price of whc.it t!anta Constitution. The misfortunes of other nations tend to promote American prosperity, in spite of the Iingley tariff. AlbanyArgue. The thanks which hould be given to Almighty (!od for abundant harvests seem to be tendered by republican organs to McKinley and Dingley. Newburg Hegl.ter. There is a gradually but steadilygrowing impression that as a president Mr. McKinley is, to borrow an cx-pres-slon from the vernnoular of the street, a "four fhrsher." TYheeling Kegister. The anxiety sh wn hy Spenker Reed nnd Secretary Gage to reply to the arguments of It land nnd Jlryan takes the edge off their assertions t hat the silver question is dead. St. Louis Rejptiblic. There is no mystery about the coincidence of liipti ' 'riffs and Talma troubles. Inbor revolt's upon being low that, it won't get any of the npple ami that there "isn't goifg to be ai y core." Chicago Chronicle.

The National Republican league hll offered Its services to Senator Hanna In Si is campaign for reelect ion. The league niny he of some little nss-istnnce, but the astute Otiio-msneger relies upon the "nlniighty dollar aa the agency that will carry bin throogblf an v thing sun. -Manchester (N. H.) Union. Speaker Recti's elaborate picture of sdversity nml prosperity playing leapfrog since the foundation of the government gives rise to the suspicion that the republican pnrty hasn't been a-doin' of Its duty with regularity nnd dispatch in allowing adversity to liare a Jump at any stsgfl of the game. Louisville Post

President MrKlaler How IllMbarf. Inn a oi pain n Urbla. I'pon President McKinley aloue reata the blame for the disgraceful act of bis administration in appointing to the important post of naval OtaOCf of the customs at New Oi lcans Henry Lemaa, a disreputable negro politician. In a case of this sort the president cannot shift the responsibility to the

shoulders of too pliant subordinates; nor can he offer as excuse for the blunder personnl ignorance of the unfitness of the appointee. The best citizena of Louisiana, irrespective of politics, Joined in a protest against Dornas Tbey sent delegations to the president armed fully with the private and official record of the man. lie made tbe appointment with a full knowledge of Dcriias character. Proofs of the facts were laid before Maj. McKinley and nre now in his posse:- s..,t . i.r.d he has ad nu t ted that he has read them and "was worried" by them. With ull these facts before him it will naturally be asked w hy the president of the United States should have raised to official dignity a man whose mode of life is a constant offense to decent people. The answer is not far to aeek. The president made the appointment to fulfill a bargain made between Demai on one hand and William McKinley Osborne and Mark Hauna on the other. Demas and several of his "pals" were pledged and even sworn to support Reed in the St. Louis convention, and Osborne bought Demas with cash furnished by Hanna and a promise of thii ofiice. I'resident McKinley has now made himself an actir-e partner in this bargain, shocking in itself, hut vastly more shocking in view of the character of the man with whom the president of the United States has locked arms. The. appointment is so insulting; to common decency that all elements ol Louisiana citizens are preparingto fight confirmation in the senate. From re ports of the widespread indignation which it has aroused in Louisiana it is evident that the act has not in it even the poor merit of "good politics." While the affair is lamentable and in its wickedness amounts to a national disgrace, yet there are in it the possibilities of good to the country. It is another exemplification of the dangers of syndicate polities, especially when controlled by a man like Hanna. It xv'll also in working out disastrous result.', to McKinley and his party impress upon the minds of all politicians the truth of the old Latin proverb: "Nothing is profits able which ia not honest." St. Louis llepublic. THE SHAME OF OHIO. MS Hnnni'i Vularnrltr and llemtoKiier?. S. Baton Forakcr and Bunne, at Burt , (., made a joint offer to convince tbfl people that Hanna is the best man In that great state to succeed the eminent Sin rman, and worthy of a place v m among those, illustrious senators of Hie past I'w ing and Wade nnd Cor-

win, l-iiase and cenuieton nuu eiiermnn. In frank and fulsome praise of Hanna, Foraker w as not so t xt ravngant as Hanna himself. Still Forakcr let drop no hint of his hatred and jealousy, of his rival for the control of the. Ohio republican machine. And together this precious pair succeeded in proving beyond a doubt that, while each is a tit colleague for the other, neither is worthy of a place, for which dignity, sincerity and statesmanship should be indispensable qualifications. Banna's sp neb will be a shock to tbfl moral at ntiment of the country. There have been other senators and other senatorial candidates of the type of this bood!e-f und collector and partner of Wlmberiy, Cohen ami Heinas. Hut when in any of our great ftatei lias such s one stood lefore an intelligent nnd moral people and appealed to them on tbfl very ground of hi - public immorality nnd exhibited to them the fulness of his vulgarity, his deniafognery, ids by poet lay nm! his colossal vanity? I s;i.,l the country; I discovered Mi Kinley and elected him; I love the workingmcn; rally round the flag nnd support me these are specimen sentiments that give a faint itlea of the tone of his harangue. In Ohio that waa a black-letter day of shame. N. Y. World.

A Fnrelarn Trade showing. The recent heavy outflow of breadstuffs and the diminution of importn of merchandise due to overstocking before the passage of the Dingley law are reflected in a very remarkable foreign trade statement for August. Exporte of domestic merchandise exceeded those of the corresponding month last year by $13.000,000. On the other hand, import were the smallest recorded in any month for more than 18 years, so that tbe merchandise balance In our favor for the month is nearly $40,000,000. For the eight months of the calendar year ending with August tha exports were $n2.0OO.O00 lnrger than in the same period of last year, hut the inrush of foreign goods in advance of the new tariff legislation results in an increase of $75,000,000 of import, so that the balance for the eight months is $H, 500,000 against us. It is notnbla that of the $75.000,000 increased imports all but $0,000.000 was in nondntinblo goods, largely wool, which came in free of duty under the Wilson law. N. Y. Herald. Long ago it became apparent tha the wholesale denudation of our forest lands was the source of great injury to many interesta. Arbor day has been instated in n nirmier of stntes for the purpose of tcnehinglbeyounfr how necessary the tree are to vast interests thnt cannot safely 1 overlooked. The lumber schedule of the Dingier bill was rcgnnlcd as a menace to those intercuts, and effort was made to prevent He adoption, but without success. A premium hae been put on force deetmo flom Blnghamton fJt. Y.) Leader.