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“AS | SHELLED THE PEASE.” Over and over, a little song - $ ‘Sung in oy heart, the whole day long; No matter what task to my lot did fall, ‘The song made musie, amid it all; I washed the tea-cups, I kneaded the breade My love loves me!” in my ear was said; *“T'rue love is better than wealth or ease!” Was whispered to me, as I shelled the pease. ‘And as I made custard or baked the cake, A voice kept saying: ‘‘lor love's sweet sakel" And, when the table I sat for four, Again I heard it, o’er and o’er: : “True love is better than wealth or ease, True love rejoices in tasks like these!” The clock on the wall, with its pleasant song, Ticked away, though the hours were long; At last it was time for my loved ones three, To gather around the board with me. In came two, with a merry shout— The children are in, but the father is out— I wondered if my True Love 'twould please To know my thoughts, as I shelled the pease! A hand isheard on the outer door, . : A well-known step comes over the floor, . And my Darling is here; though no longer young, 7 I wondered not that the tune was sung, ‘ For love in its loved one true beauty sees, When a stranger eye might see naught to please. The merry children make mirth for all “While the mother smiles and the father tall Bends low to whisper a loving word, That by no ear but her own is heard: “Sweetheart, what viands could taste like these! _ With love, I'm sure, you have flavored the ) pease!” So, over and over, the whole day long, Sung, in my heart, the little song: «®hat matters it if the house be small, If Love finds shelter within its wall? Naught else I crave but my Love to please, Though humble my task, as I shell the pease!” —Maud Wyman, in Good Housekeeping. ’ ] ’ NEWT BLEDSOE’S WIFE. How She Got the Drop on a United States Marshal =/] OME days ago ¢-;(/ / G an old deputy sty i\ United States g.’.///4 marshal sat in s:' NG a hotel corridor %=\ at Birmingham, = i __/-\_, G % = oA \ Ala., and talked %:// a : //// ¢4 | about hunting Snty—) / ™ oonshiners, ; RO — / says a Chicago :"7 : “’ Times: corre- . e _ spondent: i “.,', % “Sox_ne of RS T ”’ these moon- . ~ d|3 shiners,” said N\\ g 2 he, ‘are as treacherous as Tlndians, and will shoot at an officer from ambush, but they are poor marksmen and seldom hit a raan. I have been shot at a dozen times without receiving a scratch. It is this shooting from ambush and the pranks the moonshiners play on a revenue officer when they catch one alone in the mountains that makes hunting them exciting sport. “I have often spent a night at the home of an innocent-looking mountaineer and next morning found my saddle and bridle cut to pieces or my horse turned out of the stable and driven away. Upin De Kalb County once I spent the night at the house of a man who was supposed to be a good citizen and not in sympathy with moonshiners. I slept in a shed-room, and there was no lock on the door. The next morning my pants were gone. Every thing had been taken out of the pockets and left in the room, but the pants had been spirited away. My landlord expressed much sympathy for my loss, but charged me tive dollars for a second-hand pair of his jeans trousers that were probably worth one dollar when new, and I had to pay him the money before I eould get out of bed.

‘“The wives and daughters of moonshiners, as a rule, are smarter than the men and much more suspicious of a stranger. I was over in Clay County on a raid once and was in a locality where almost every man owned a still. In such a place it is hard to locate a still and almost impossible to obtain evidence against the owners unless they are caught in the act of making the ‘mountain dew.” 1 introduced myself as a land agent prospecting for mineral linds, but the natives did not all belicve my story and I was regarded with more or less suspicion. I was after a noted moonshiner named Newt Bledsoe. who was known to have been operating a still in that locality for two years. I had trouble in finding a place where they would let me stay all night, but finally a native suggested that I try Dedcon Bledsoe.

‘*“‘Ther deakin’s sot on ’ligion, the Bible, and sich, an’ ’e allus takes in strangers,” said the native. I was directed to the deacon’s house, two miles down the valley, and arrived there an hour after dark. I did notonce associate

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back of the house. I saw smoke rising among the trees a little ways down the branch, and walking down that way I found my host, Deacon Bledsoe, build‘ing a fire under one of the largest moonshine stills I ever saw. He seemed as ‘much surprised as I was, and in an in‘stant it dawned on me that Deacon Bledsoe and Moonshiner Newt Bledsoe were one and the same person. Before ‘he recovered from his surprise I had him covered with my revolver, and telling him who I was, ordered him to surrender. . . ** ‘Drap that thar weepin’. I knowed you warn’t no parson,’ said a female voice behind me at that moment, and turning 1 saw Bledsoe’s wife. She had the drop on me with a long rifle, and I dropped my pistol. Bledsoe picked up my revolver, and I was marched back to the house a prisoner. ** “Thar’s your critter ready saddled. an’ here’s a bite to eat‘; now git,’ said et it Q) i ] % | | "j 7 || = 3 Hl' ) ‘ "5» i i =~ Jl | b Fa s LAI el/ c,’ Y ‘ : ".’;/u".,?- p== wm / ) i TR \\\.\ \, iR 7 1 WA 1 i | oo —7 / = | (il Ny Nk ; 1 : - S : - \ | A 1] s 1) s :::E = © | GTT OUT THAR!? ' Mrs. Bledsoe, and she kept me covered with the rifle, while her husband handed me back my pistol when 1 mounted my horse. . ‘“ ‘Won’t you pray for us agin, parson, fore you go?’ said Bledsoe, with a grin, as I rode away. A week later I returned with a strong posse, captured Bledsoe, and destroyed his still. I oould have made a.case against his wife, but I wouldn’t do it. . ' ““The only romantic adventure I ever met with hunting moonshiners occurred in Marion County flve years ago. | I was over there hunting some wit- ‘ nesses and incidentally looking out for | stills. I was spending the night at the ‘ house of a man I had reason to-believe was a moonshiner, and a dangerous one. I saw he regarded me with suspicion, ( but he asked no questions and I felt safe. The man had a daughter aboutJ eighteen years old, a very pretty country girl, who seemed to take no notice of my presence and did not once speak to me during the evening. The house was a log cabin, with a loft reached by a ladder. I was given a bed in the loft, and retired about tem o’clock. I heard my host talking:in a low tone forsome time after I lay down, then I heard him take his rifle from the rack and leave the house. I had been asleep probably two houars when the touch of a hand on my face awoke me. The girl was standing by my bed with a lighted candle in her hand. She motioned me to be silent, and in a whisper she said: ‘Stranger, you’ll have ter git. Your critter’s at the gate. Take ther righthan’ road at the forks, eross the creek, and don’t stop this side of Lige Marcom’s—that’s ’bout four miles down ther road. Git out thar!” and she pointed to a small window in one end of the loft. Then she blew out the candle and disappeared as silently as'a shadow. I put on my clothes, went to the window and found a ladder on the outside. At the gate I found my horse ready saddled, and, mounting, I rode rapidly away. I have never seen ‘that girl since, but I am satisfied that she had learned of a plot to murder me, and saved my life.”

THE GOLD-BEATER’S ART.

Its Main Features Are the Same as in the Time of King Solomon.

“Are you aware that the main features of my business have not been altered for several hundred years,” remarked a gold-beater recontly to a Chicago News reporter. “It may appear surprising, but it is true, nevertheless,” he continued. ¢No one has yet invented machinery that will supplant the manual labor which devolves upon the gold-beater. The same form of mallet, the same sheepskin ‘bats’ and almost similar ways ot handling the gold foil are in vogue now as in the time of King Solomon. In those days the gold-beater was considered a first-class artisan.. That the same opinion holds good to-day is evidenced by the fact that there are but three er four gold-beating establishments in the United States. The method of manufacture of to-day is almost a counterpart of that in vogue centuries ago. See, here are several employes who are bugily engaged in striking what appears to be a square piece uf marble. But that square substance which the workman turns at every blow is composed of numerous layers or sheets of sheepskin vellum. Between these sheets are the precious films of gold. Our gold is received in long ribbons wound about spools. These ribbons aré an inch wide and about as thick as ordinary glazed writing-paper. The ribbon ‘is cut into inch pieces’ and then again into threq parts, which, when beaten between the sheepskin vellums, will make 100 sheetsof foil. To give a definite idea of the amount of surface a gold dollar will cover in foil, it has been estimated that the coin will make 100 sheets, each four igches square. So, you see, one dollar will, if converted into foil, cover 1,600 square inches, or a little over eleven square feet. A beater can hammer out 1,000 sheets of foil in four hours. One would think that the beater’s work was of the most arduous mnature. That steady up-and-down motion with the heavy mallet is deceitful., The wonderful elasticity of the vellum causes the mallet to rebound to the required height each time it falls.”

“How about the manner of packing the foil for sale and delivery?” the beat~ er of the precious metal was asked. “Oh, that, of course, has been improved upon. Should a novice attempt to pick up one of those films of gold to place it between the leaves of the specially prepared decorator’s book it would fly around at every breath, and become a worthless tangle of zephyzrs. The expert gold-beater flips the foil into the book so dexterously that he seldom spoils a sheet. The composition of the book paper is a secret. T could talk for a week upon the various details of my business, but I have already stated enough to convince one that this most ancient art has not changed materially for a long time. It remains for the coming generation to solve the problem of gold-beaters’ machinery.” . °

PARABLE OF THE VINEYARD. International Sunday-School Lesson for October 5, 1890. - LEsSON TEXT—Luke 20:9-19. GOLDEN TEXT—He is despised and rejected of men.—lsa. 53:3. 4 ; - TiME—Tuesday. April 4, A. D. 30. PLACE—In the Temple at Jerusalem. : PARALLEL ACCOUNTS—Matt. 21:33-46; Mark 12:1-12. : LESSON HINTS AND HELPS. 9. “Thenbegan He to speak to the people.” Because the scribes and elders rejected Him. He had silenced but not: convinced thera. See vers.l-8. ‘A certain man.” Called in Matthew a householder, a landed proprietor, owner of an estate. ‘“‘And let it forth to husbandmen.” Itiscustomary in the East, as in lreland and in other parts of Europe, for the owner to let out his estate to husbandmen; i.e., to tenants, who pay him an annual rent, either in money, or, as apparently in this case, in kind.— Abbott.. *‘And went intoa far country.” rather, as in the Rev. Ver., another country. - : 10. ‘‘And at the season he sent.” At the time when the fruit was ripe. “Give him of the fruit.” The householder’s share, 'as his stipulated rent for the use of the vineyard. ‘‘But the husbandmen beat him.” A verb which strictly megns to flay or sking but is secondarily applied to the severest kind of scourging.—Alexander. ‘“And sent him away empty;” that is, without the fruits for which he was sent.

11. ““And again he sent another.” The gradual growth of the outrage is clearly traced. (1) The first servant they ‘“‘caught, beat and sent away empty;” (2) at the second they ‘‘cast stounes, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled;” (3) the third ' “‘they killed.”—Cambridge Bible. 12. ‘““And again (with marvelous patience and unconquerable love) he sent a third.” Mark adds, ‘“and many others.” The prophets sent to the Jews were many. The messengers of God to us are many. ‘‘And they wounded him also and cast him out.” Mark adds that they killed some.

13. “What shall I do?” All that the wisdom and love of God could conceive was brought to answer this question. The answer was: ‘‘Jesus Christ the wisdom and power of God.” ‘I will send my beloved Son.” God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life (John 8:16.) ‘lt may be they will reverence. him.” This is.-what he naturally had a right to expect. 14. “They reasoned among themselves, saying: This is the heir.” Christ is the heir of all things (Heb. 1: 2). <Come, let us kill him that the inheritance may be ours.” 1f Jesus was the Messiah, and He was introducing the Kingdom of God, the whole spirit of which was so different from. theirs, then they would lose tueir places as rulers, as teachers, as men of influence, their authority over the people, and their chiet business.

15. “So they cast him out ofsthe vineyard.” The act of casting out denotes the whole rejection of our Lord, but perhaps with an allusion to the literal fact of His suffering without the holy city. (Heb. 13: 11-13). — Alexander. ‘‘And killed him:” as the Jews did Jesus. They killed Him that they might possess: and because they killed they lost.—Augustine. - :

16. ‘“He shall come and destroy these husbandmen.” - There was nothing else to do. ‘‘And shall give the vineyard to others.” *“'The others” were the Christian church, the new Kingdom of Heaven, which took the place of the Jewish Nation after the destructioa of Jerusaiem. See Acts 13:46. ‘‘And when they heard it, theysaid: God forbid.” No other English phrase could well be substituted for this, but it is worth remembering that the name of God does not appear in the original,and that the ejaculation is simply, as it were, a negative Amen. ‘“So t: it not.” 17. ““And He beheld them.” Looked earnestly and intently. “What is this then that is written?” Referring them to Ps. 118: 22, 23—a psalm which the Jews applied to the Messiah. . “The stone.” The stone is the whole kingdom and power of the Messiah summed up in Himself.—Alford. ‘Which the builders rejected.” The builders answer to the husbandmen: they were appointed of God to carry up the spiritual building, as these to cultivate the spiritual vineyard. The rejection of the chief corner-stone answers exactly to the denying and-murdering the heir.--Trench. *The same is become the head of the corner.” Christ is- declared elsewhere in the New Testament to be the cornerstone of His church. See Acts 4: 11; 1 Cor. 8:11; 1 Pet. 2: 8, 7.—Abbott::

18. “Whosoever shall fall upon that stone.” Whosoever stumbles at Jesus in His humiliation, and rejects His claims, failing to see in Him their Messiah and Saviour. “Shallbe broken.”, Shall suffer great injury, and yet it may not be utter destruction, for it is still possible to repent and be saved. “But on whomsoever it shall fall.” When Jesus was exalted to the right hand of God, and the people still rejected Him, resisting the latest and greatest influences of Pentecost, and the time had come when the destruction could no longer be delayed, then that falling stone would ‘‘grird him to powder,” bring complete and irremediable destruction.

19. ‘““And thechief priests . . . . the same hour sought to lay hands on Him:” arrest Him. They could not wait, they were so anxious to stop such condemnation of their conduct before the people. ‘“And they feared the people:” who had come from other.parts of Palestine, and from other countries. .

iIN ROYAL CIRCLES.

TeE Empress of -Austria is charged with smoking from thirty to forty cigarettes a day. ' EmpPeErOß WILLIAM has only portraits of Bismarck and Von Molke in the mu-sic-room of his private yacht, the Hohenzollern. s T o ;

QUEEN VICTORTA has sent a splendid cradle, richly orn%mented, to her great: grandson, the infant of the Duke and Duehess of Sparta, and the whole outfit for the child was bought in England by the Empress Frederick.. : CARMEN SYLVA, the Roumanian Queen, was admitted into the Bardic Circle at the recent Welsh Eistedfodd and given the blue ribbon of the order. She didn’t have toride the goat, but was compelled to listen to the singing of a large number of Welsh poems. BisMARCK is not a good conversationalist and is a worse orator. While making a public address he sways himself backward and forward, twirls his thumbs, occasionally looks at a scrap of } Jpaper upon which he has written some ‘notes, and altogether is a very good imitation of a man who is embarrassed if not intimidated. A Still Bismarck always manages to say something worth while,

+ STATE INTELLIGENCE. FIFTH INDIANA DISTRICT.

Total Population of Eight Towns and Sixteen Counties as Announced by the Census Bureau, g The Census Bureau has announced the result of the census in the Fifth District of Indiana, which consists of sixteen counties, which are as follows: Population. Counties. * 1890. Increase, Beutdn .. .o 0... 11800 783 Carvoll i .. 0. ... .20.005 1.650 CRSS o a 3 3,505 . Falton. ... ... ......... . ..16,605 2,304 HOoward. .. .1..........26.007 6.5:3 dasperiii i n L T 1,713 LBKO e seisr i niiin vivesarns 23.849 8,758 . Lapottei... ........... 34315 3,560 Marshall. = o 0 98508 392 Miamt = - .. . 955 X 1,439 - Newton.... ... .. ... 8189 62 Porter: oo o T IReOB 781 BRlashy oo oo S 0 1,361 St. J05eph................42,404 9,226 Starken.....).. ... .. . 7333 2,227 White . siaai, . 15660 1,865 The total population of the district is 827,909, an increase of 46,600, or 16.57 per cent. The population of eight of the largest towns in the same district is given as follows: : Cities. Population. Increase. Hokomo.oo. ... .0 .0 8294 4,182 BRporte. .. o 7 qoB : 927 . Logansport.... ...:....13,798 2,600 Michigan City ...............10,704 3,338 Mishawaka.... ... ... 3,362 79 Pertatiic oni o s 6,781 1,451 Biymouth ... 00 29198 153 South Bend ...........21,786 8,506 Va1parai50............. 5083 622

AT Danville, James Wilson, a boy fourteen years of age, recovered a judgment for $7,000 against the Indianapolis, Decatur and Springfield railroad asdamages for the loss of a leg, caused by negligence of the railroad company. THE city council of Crawfordsville the other night purchased a Gamewell firealarm system, with thirteen boxes, for which the sum of $3,250 is to be paid. THERE are now, in round numbers, 52,000 pensioners receiving their quarterly allowances through the agency in Indianapolis, and scores are constantly being added to the list. The last quarterly payment called for $2,250,000. This places the Indiana Agency nexs to that of Ohio, which is the largest in the country.

A rosT-oFFICE Inspector has made a favorable report regarding the establishment of the frec delivery system at Jeffersonville. - +

JouN SHAFFER, who was shot by his brother-in-law, Valentine Stierwalt, while attempting to forceé an entrance to his house at Brazil, died next day. Stierwalt, in his preliminary trial, was acquitted. : ’ ; THE Democrats of the Ninth District nominated Leroy Templeton, of Benton County, for Congress. The Farmers’ Alliance. Convention later indorsed the nomination, though part of the delegates organized a separate convention and entered a protest. ' ALFRED WILTON, manager of the Harrison Coal Mine at Clay City, was caught under a heavy mass of falling slate and crushed to death, the other morning. His. father, Edward Wilton, fainted when he heard of his son’s death.

FRANK BowEßs shot John Gisse in the hip in a quarrel at Mudsock.

- THE biggest wedding ever held in Northern Indiana came off a few days ago, and was witnessed by over 16,000 people. Hiram M. Miltenberger, a prosperous young farmer of Elkhart County, wedded Miss Nora M. Coulter, the ceremony taking place on the race track in front of the grand stapd at the Elkhart County fair. The happy couple were the recipients of presents valued at over $4OO, donated for the occasion by Goshen merchants. £ .

WILLIE CRAWFORD, a small boy at Muncie was accidentally shot in the breast by a rifle in the hands of his cousin, Edward Crawford, while they were engaged in shooting birds. His recovery is doubtful.

Tue Evansville street railway has been purchased by a Cleveland, 0., syndicate for $242,000. v | At New Albany, during an altercation between Dr. G. W. Gresham and Silas Graves, Graves hit Gresham with a pitcher, whereupon the latter cut Graves in the abdomen with a scalpel.. Graves died. The trouble grew out of a change of physicians at Graves’ daughter’s fatal illness, Gresham claiming he had not been given a fair trial. : :

"~ Mzs. WinnrLMINA REITZ, Evansville, and Mrs. Virginia Meredith, Cambridge City, have been appointed lady managers of the World’s Fair for Indiana, with Miss Mary H. Krout, now of Chicago, and Miss Sue Ball, of Terre Haiite, as alternates.

Josianm Comms, aged 60, a prominent farmer near Seymour, fell from a tree and was fatally injured.

THE fire fiend at Ft. Wayne, pitted himself against soap and water as a general cleaning out agent and won. The soap factory is a heap of ashes. Mgrs. GEeorGE Marsu’s boardinghouse, La Fayette, a two-story frame building, was gutted by fire, the other morning at 3 o’clock. All the boarders escaped except Noah Reddish, an elderly gentleman from Nebraska, and was on his way to White County to visit relatives. He was suffocated by the smoke. The building was old, and the loss small.

FourTH-CLASS postmasters were appointed the other day as follows: S. Weiner, Eureka, Spencer County, and J R. Fink, Hackleman, Grant County. - Dr. T. J. PUCKETT, Democratic candidate for Representative, was thrown from his buggy; at Muncie, and had his right shoulder blade broken. WitHIN twenty-four hours the five .children of Mr. George Davidson, of Mentor, died of a strange, sudden disease, that carried them off within a few ‘hours after the first attack. The parents are so frantic with grief that itis feared they will follow. AT Martinsville, in the case of the State against Fred A. Callis and James Dcuglass, on the charge of burglary and larceny, both parties confessed, and received two and three years respectively in the State prison. : ' } Hox. Wy HEILMAN, Ex-State Senaator and Congressman, died at Evansville, after alingering illness. He leaves a large family. . REV. ErNEST V. CLAYPOOL, pastor of the West La Fayette M. E. Church,. per- - petrated a successful and happy surprise on his congregation the other night. His uncle, Rev. J. J. Claypool, occupied the pulpit for him. After the sermon ended, Ernest escorted Miss Nellie Maltby from the congregation, led her to the altar;, and they were married in the presence of the totally surprised audience.

' '"A Knox County farmer planted 30 acres in Russian sunflowers and realized $65 per acre on the crop. A CHINAMAN at Anderson was refused - naturalization papers. ; :

RENOUNCES THE G. O. P. One of Virginia’s Ex-Governors Tells Why He Has Left the Republican Party. The following is ex-Governor William E. Cameron’s letter . announcing his determination to leave the Republican ranks: {1 ol To W. S. DASHIELL, Esq., Richmond, Va.— Dear Sir: Ihave been taught by the events of eighteen months past that men of our antecedents and convictions can no longer, with self-respect, lend our voices, gur votes or even the negative support of silence to the Republican party as it is expounded by the organization in this State or as it is administered by the present executive and legislative depart.ments of the United States Government. ' The Republican party preserves no longer the semblance of speaking for the entire country, but bases its claim to supremacy on sectional prejudices and sectional interests, pure and simple. Not only SO, but the direectors of its policy have not hesitated in the attainment of thei~ ends to prostitute the plighted faith of the party in sight of all the world and to renounce intheir Congressionsl enaetments the promises Solemnly made to the Chicago platform. They stand self-convicted, not only of false pretense and punic faith, but of mathematical malignancy in seeking to retain power by awakening the war sentiment at the North and West, and by resurrecting all the stock phrases of fanaticism and sectionalism which eould stir the South into resentment and retort. This object was and is to force the fighting as between a solid North and soiid South, and at the same time to use the small eontingent of Southern Republicans in Con: gress to minimize the. power of the South By such political abominations as the Lodge bill, and by so framing a tariff law (under pretext of protection te American labor and American products) as to inerease every burden of tha customs upon the weaker section, and as tz leave in force in all its shameless inequality. thé revenue tax upon the tobacco of Virginia, Carolina, Tennessce, Kentucky, Missouri Maryland and Florida.

The utterances of Mr. MeKinley on the fioo of the House, he the patron of the Chicago platform and the leader of the House of Representatives and the chairman of the committee which framed the tariff bill, and the action of the Senate in regard to the tobacco clause, constitutes an open declaration of war against Southern development, and we must realize that this action apart from its inherent injustice is a deliberate, wanton and absolute falsification of a solemn promise given to the tobacco States by the National convention: ¢

The record on the Blair bill is no better, and the tariff act, with its so-called revision and equalization of import duties. bristles with discriminations against the South and those industries and products in whieh Southern Republicans have the same interest as Southern Democrats. ' The Lodge bill 1s miscalled the ‘“force bill,” because in operation it would be imvossible of enforcement to the ends pretendedly sought. To enact it would be to paralyze the commercial progress of the entire country and to set back Southern development, .in which Northern capital is largely engaged, a half century. But the main sufferer would be the negro, who, by this vicious effort to neutralize inevitable conditions, would be deprived’ of all the safeguards which now surround him. Personally and politically he would become the scape goat in a local strife in which Mr. Lodge and Mr. Reed weuld have no concern and no influence. The pdssage of this act into law would be a public calamity. Its passage by the majority of the House of Representatives fixes the responsibility on the Republican party. The call for a halt by Senator Quay in the Senate only voices the protest of a frightened financial and commercial North, and only proves that Mr. Quay is afraid to risk this campaign on an issue which one section would re gard as a blunder and the other as a-crime. I see no reason to believe that the President has not been in active sympathy with all that );tis party has done and left undone in Congress. His own performances have not, however, been one whit in advance of the legislative department. He has done nothing south ,of Mason’s and Dixon’s line since his inauguration, except to recognize with reluctance that any such country existed. His appointments with just a few enough honorable variations to prove the rule, have been of men not representative in character, influence or capacity. He has shown utter inaptitude to square his actions with his utterances, his performances with his promises, his principles with his prejudices, or his status with his statue. He has been the instrument, willing or unwilling, of the machine elements of his party, and for want of bold and brave and catholie action he has made himself responsible for the fact that in the North and West there is a_divided Republican party and that in the South there is none worthy of the name. : :

After less than two years of his administration, Mr. Harrison has removed the last vestige with which we had hoped that- the Republican party, by fostering an American policy, by subordinating the past to the present, by equal consideration for all sections, by removal of un necessary burdens of taxation, might prove itself the restorer of the Union as well as the preserver of the Federal Government. It is not worth while for one man or one thousand men to seek to stay the current of partisanry which has swept Republicanism from its’ legitimate moorings. But one thing remains in my judgment for us to do—for men who recognize a higher duty than that which can be expressed by a party name—and that is to free ourselves from all part and lot with a party. which has no faith too sacred for violatign and recognizes no pledge as too solemn to be broken. I can not lend myself to the oppression of my people, and if there is no politfcal organization which meets the full measure of our approyal we can at least leave that which violates our every idea of right and sentiment. ¥ 7

Not presuming to set up for amy other man or set of men a standard of duty, and willing to concede to every one else that freedom of thought and ‘action I have always claimed for myself, my resolve, founded on a desire to be true to myself and my country, is to refuse all spmpathy or co-operation with the Republican party in the crusade against 'this section which it now espouses and undér the leadership to which it submits. = Sincerely your friend, WILLIAM E. CAMERON., LETTER-WRITER BLAINE. Jingo Jim Setting His Sails to Catch the Breeze of Popular Favor. Secretary Blaine has written another letter to a Boston, gentleman upon the subject of reciprdcity. As it bore no “‘burning” postscript the receiver felt justified in giving its contents to the public. The views of Secretary Blaine are enunciated at considerable length, but the letter contains nothing essentially new. It is simply a proposition for reciprocal free trade with Latin America and an exclusion policy toward other countries. It is urged by the reciprocity adherents ‘that free trade with Central America would prove beneficial to the commerce of both that country and the United States. In other words free trade would benefit both countries concerned in the interchange of commodities. But if freer trade with Central America at the south would benefit. this country, how about freer trade with Canada at the north? The protectionists urge that the protective theory deals with = conditions = and not with boundaries, but with this view closer trade relations with Canada could be logically defended before free trade with Latin America could be advocated. And this theory of ‘‘conditions” itself seems to be very loosely constructed. If the Vermont farmer is benefited by exchanging his products freely with his neighbors in New Hampshire on the east and in New York on the west, why would not he be equally benefited by exchanging them with his northern neighbors across the Canadian line? »

The reciprocity policy of Secretary Blaine is a partial surrender of the protection forces. It is a makeshift, an emergency policy advocated by one of the shrewdest of the Republican managers to tide his party over a crisis which he is far-sighted enough to perceive, There caa be no mistaking the drift of public sentiment toward tariff reform and freer trade relations. The Maine statesman, seeing nothing but party defeat in the Republican hightariff views of the McKinley school, has boldly cut loose and set his sails to catch the breeze of popular favor.—Chioaga Mathe oo e o e

LYING EXTRAORDINARY. A Habit Calculated to Injure the Morale i of the Nation. : 1s Iying a National vice of such pleasant mien that it merits Government protection? This question is suggested by the deliberate falsification of Representative Kennedy’s speech, which has been done under authority of the lower House of Congress. The Congressional Record purports to be a verbatim report of the proceedings of Congress; and, in order that it may be accurate, efficient stenographers are employed at big salaries to take down every word that is uttered during the deliberations of that body. ; . And yet the speech which is published in the €Congressiomal Record is not the speech which Mr. Kennedy delivered on the floor of Congress, nor is it the speech whith the sherthand reporters 300 k dowm. Mr. Kennedy’s speech comsisted mvainly in an arraign ment of *Senatorial courtesy,” wnder which he claimed all sorts of corruption were cloaked. And yet he now seeks refuge under a so-called courtesy of the House, which permits him #e publish a bare-faced lie in giving to the world a speech he never delivered. ' There isn’t'a hairbreadth’s difference between the evils resulting from Senatorial courtesz and the lower Heouse courtesy. THe former cloaks. corrup--tion; the latter is a refuge for lies. It is about time that both were abolished and that all Congressional proceedings were conducted on a square plan. . “If 2 member of Congress gets upon the floor of eitherhouse and@ makes an ass of himself the fact ought to appear on the record. The printed Congress- | ienal reeord is intended for the use.of the public, and not for the exclusive ; privilege of the €ongressmwen. The | very knowledge that his remarks were | to be reported and printed verkatim would be an incentive to a Congressman to behave himseif. Asitis, hecan indulge in all sorts of wild speeches on the floor and then go to the public. printer’s office with an afterthought speech and have the Congressional rec ord make him say very decorous things. The example set by those high in au thority always has a bad effect on the masses. If a Congressman is permitted to lie under Government patronage the body of the people are in danger of being infected with the idea that lying is respectable. For these very ‘good reasons we Insist that Congress shall return to the early virtwes of the Republi¢ and require all of its proceedings to be accurately and truthfully printed. —St. Paul Globe. : ! :

HOW MUCH, PRAY? Questionable Operations Which Will Pay A Well ThosSe on the Inside. : Itis a fair question. How much do Secretary Windom, James G. Blaine, Napoleon McKinley, Boss Reed and Matt Quay expect to make out of the present policy of the United States Government? Are they on the ground floor, as usual? Money is worth to the Wall street usurers nowadays all the way from onequarter to one-half of one per cent. per day. It has been loaned at interest as high as two hundred per cent. per annum. :Mr. Windom’s bond purchases for the purpose of ‘*‘easing” this situation are made almost without exception: of the men who are charging two hundred per cent. for money. The money that they get from the Treasury they dole out to speculators in Wall street at the rate of one-half of one per cent. per day. How much are the Republican - officials who are on the inside making by the operation? e

Another big swindle is in progress.! In anticipationof the McKinley bill’s enactment the big importers and others have been making heavy purchases of foreign goods in advance of consumption for the purpose of selling them in a monopolized market. They have bought under the present tariff. They will sell under the McKinley tariff. These goods are now in bond, and in the ordinary course the duties must be, paid soon. The speculators therefore ask their friends, Windom, Blaine, McKinley, Reed and Quay, to add an amendment to the McKinley bill permitting them to postpone the payment of duties for six months or a year. Im other and plainer words, they ask the Government to furnish them the capital or credit necessary to carry ona big deal designed to beat the Government itself out of revenue and to oppress the people with high prices. . How. much are the anchor-casting statesmen going to make out of this operation? e There is ‘“fat” in both of these things" for somebody and perhaps for everybody connected with the corrupt and wasteful regime now in power at Washington. The question is: How much?— Chicago Herald. e

THE POLITICAL POT.

——The Republican party is cutting no wisdom teeth.—Cincinnati Southwest. . - Y o

——ldaho is a rotten borough admitted for the purpose of giving to the Republicans two Senators and three electoral votes.—N. Y. World. i

——Mr. Plumb stood up in the Senate and voted for a tariff bill, nearly every line of which he has severely denounced. Such is party slavery.—lndianapolis Sentinel. L ——The aged Tennessee farmer who cut his throat because he could not live in poverty ought to have been in Maine when Reed was squandering his money.—Atlanta Constitution. ==

——There can be no question whatever that if a National election were to be held to-day Democracy would sweep the country like a whirlwind. And the party of the people is growing stronger every day.—Chicago Mail. ' L

——Pious John Wanamaker forbade the circulation of the Kreutzer Sonata in the mails, but he allows Joe Cannon’s filthy speech to be scattered broad’cg\sj_ through the same channel. Tolstoi, however, does not train in the g. o. p.— Florida Times-Union. e ‘ ——Pension Commissioner Raum seems loth to tell all he knows about that refrigerator business. Probably he, too, imagines that ‘‘dignified silence” isl all that is necessary these days to shut the eyes of the people.— Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot. ; ——ln ,justice to the Administration, to the Speaker and to the majority in Congress, there should now be an unsparing laying bare of all the facts, in order that aroused suspicion may wrong no innocent person. The time has come to find out all about Raum.—N. Y, ‘World. :

——Senator Quay owes it to the party that has given him place and power to clear himself of the grave charges that now besmireh his character, or else step down and out. The Hawkeye is Republican in every fiber, but it believes in honest Republicanism. — Burlingten Hagkeye, L RO

- REGARDING HYPNOTISM. Scientists »?Everywh‘;;:“\re Beginning, to it .« ' Study Its Phenomena. L Mesmerism alias hypnotism, the latest scientific sensation of the hour, was a few years since denounced by the scientific world in unmeasured terms. No expressions of scornful contempt were strong enough toe« characterize thosa fearless torch-bearers of advaneed thought, who, after patiently, earnsstly and exhaustively investigating the alleged powers of Mesmer, proved beyond the possibility of a doubt the genuineness of tho mesmeric or hypmosic influence. . ) They were charlatans, impostors or mentally unsound #m the eyes, mot only ©of the meidical profession, but the scientific world, with sorve few notatle ex%ptionr The more charitably disposed among the great conservative sosieties of scieqtific} thinkers were content 4o re: g3xd those who believed in such “absurdities” as mermeriswm as “unduly credulous;’” liable to be “duped;” and, therer_ore, et “Safe” or *aritical investigateors.” : ;

Camille Flammrarion, the illustriows French astronomer, in his recent ramarkable ‘nowel “Wranie,’” tells us that fifteen' years ago he commumicated to several'physicians-the magnetic phenom-~ ena observed by himself in %he courseof many experiments. One and all denied most positively and absoistely the possibility of the facts related, but on meeting one of these'same physéeians at the Institwte in Paris recently, he called his attentiom to: Bis deniall of the phenomena.. “Oh!”; *eplied the' physician, not wihout sg:wdness, “then it was magnetism, now it is hypnotism, and it is 'we who studyr ity that is & very different thing.” The astronomer wisely adds by way of impressing the nioral: “Let us deny nothing positively; let us study; let us examine;: the explanation wili come later:” 2

A true scientist will' tulke cognizance of the smalles% fact, and tbough the light that fleats before' may appear a mere will-o™-theswisp, he will follow- it untii he demonstrates by careful, iimpartial, and exhaustive imwvestigation whether it rests: on the* bed-rock of truth or not, remembering that the: prejudices of hoary thought and early’ training may blind him to sensible ap--preciation of the true significance of the problem that confronts himi. Itis not more than five years sincea.paper read! on “Hypnotism” in:the medical societyof a leading American'city was excluded. from the report of the society’s meeting,, on the ground that the subject was unscientific and absurd..

Less than a year ago telepathy was as. - much an . outcast in the scientific world as mesmerism wag after the celebrated Bailey commission pronounced it a. ‘fraud.”” Yet to-day telepathy, or thought transference, is as well estabs A } lished a scientific fact as hypnotism. Iy ~ From present indications we: are entering a new field of scientificdiscover%, or to be more explicit, the great.body 1 scientific thinkers are expressing-a willingness- to recognize phenomena other - than material, and to treat with a .measure of respect the views: and discoveries made by the patient: heralds of psychie truths which have longbeen tab‘booed as little worthy the attention of the materialistic scientifio inwestigator, whose eyes have been accustomed torest on the earth, its rocks, plants and animals, as the myths of bygone. days. ‘ The age of eléctrical invention has been So marvelous that men have ceased to - wonder at -the inventive ingenuity of man.. The age of physchological discovery upon which we are nowentering, if it be unrestricted arl receive: the careful and unbiased attention of our. best brains, - will, we believe, unfold a. ° world of truth, eclipsing in: its startling character as well as in its great utility the greatest discoveries. since the manchild secience was born, truths which - will give to life a deeper significance, a ‘richer meaning, a mnobler impulse; a grander ideal.—Arena. s : | THE NEW KENTUCKY. . Wherein It Difl‘eré from the: Commonwealth Depicted in Old Books., Iseem -to see in the perforation and breaking up of Cumberland Mountain an event as decisive of the destiny of Kentucky as though the vast wall had fallen, destroying the isolation of the State, bringing into it the new, and letting the old be scattered until it is lost. But while there is no space here to deal with those changes that are rapidly ‘passing over Kentucky life and obliterating old manners and customs, old . “types of charagter and ideals of life, old virtues and graces as well as old vices and horrors—there is. a special topic too .closely connected with: the foregoing facts not to be considered: I mean ¢he effect of all this development upon the Kentucky mountaineers: . The buying up of the mountain lands has of course unsettled a large part of these strange people. Already there has been formed among them a elass of tenants paying rent and living in their old homes. ' But in the main there are three movements among them. Some desert the mountains altogether, and descend to the blue-grass.region with a passion for farming. On county-court days in blue-grass towmns it has been possible of late to notice this peculiar type minglingin the market-piaces with the traditional type of blue-grass farmer. There is thus goimg on, especially along the border counties, a quiet interfusion of the two human elements of the Kentucky highlander and the Kentucky lowlander, so long distindt in blood, physique history and ideas of life. Toless extent, the mountaineers ° go further west, beginning life again beyond the Mississippi. . A second general tendency among them is to be absorbed by the civiliza- J tion that is springing up in the mointains. They flock to these towns, keep store, are shrewd and active speculators : in real estate, and successful developers of small capital. The first business house: put up in the new Pineville was built by a mountaineer. o But the third, and, as far as I ean learn, the most general movement among them is to retire at the approach of civilization to remoter regions, where they may live without criticism or obe servation their hereditary, squalid, unambitious, stationary life. But to these retreats they must in time be followed, therefrom dislodged, and agaim set agoing. Thus a whole race of peopl are being scattered, absorbed, civilized. You may go far before you will find a fact so full of consequences to the future of the Btate. o e o Rl

Withina few years thiseommonwealth will be a hundred years old. All in all, it would ‘seem that with the elose of its first century the old Kentueky passes. away;and that the second century will bring in a new Kentncky—new in many ways, but new must of all en account of the oivilizatign of the Cumberland.— James Lane Allen, in Harper's Magazine.