Ligonier Banner., Volume 29, Number 41, Ligonier, Noble County, 24 January 1895 — Page 3

-~ . [ \ L,.g‘- a 1 LI FARANREBEL- 2, SR | i f;;;’ ' 2% ! it s |oA . }&& <Y Py LB w&m.‘;:,l/;'ﬂ,/j,; | e msmm—— s e ; loopymionT, 18041 - CHAPTER XVIL—CONTINUED. But Clip Davis was not a man to settle down comfortably under any of the amcnities. [le took possession of the house, %eamhed it * thoroughly, focked the inmates in their rooms and put guards ix# the balls.” It was thus impossible for the docdtor to inform Hendricks of what was going on, and the next morxii‘ng he was astonished to learn that four stragglers had been picked up in the woods, brought in and scarched and a large quantity of gold taken fr?m their persons. They refuscd to gi‘je any account of themselves and were shut up in an upper room and guq’?ded until’ they could be sent to Covington. In the course of the day twomore were brought in and five hundred dollars in gold taken: from each of them. 'Fhe doctor’s nervousness over these proceedings can well be imagined, especially as he ‘could not communicate with Hendrieks, and the sheriff’s ‘remark, under any other circun:fsta.nces, would have had a flavor of humor. - *‘We have struck a bonanza,” hegsaid; “the woods are full of them.” He then sent to Covington for reinforcements and scoured the whole neiglifporhood, making his headquarters at the Laran house until he had got to the bottom of the mystery. The next dd(y in attempting to arrest two tramps pﬁe of them was chased far down to the sonthwest and suddenly disappeared. ' He undoubtedly reached the. Bayou.house and coms--municated with Hendricks, who immediately sﬁsgected the truth, and, wmaking up a party of twenty-five mounted me‘n,‘ headed them himself and started off in the night for a re-connois’s:-mct?. They were out two nights, and on the first afternoon overtook and killed the chasing party of two that wls returning to the'Laran house. They then went north, picked up one of th}rir own men who had managed to escape from the sanitarium, and learned thuﬁ Clip Davis was systematically bagging the returning men and had possession of the house. ; As it was above all ‘else necessary to protect the return of the men of his regiment, and asthe sheriff wason the point of arming the®country and preventing it,/ he determined to malke short work fof him. It was not a difiicult job with his facilities. Ille got to the Laran house in the night, disposed ‘his men:in ;thc woods so as to intércept .reinforcements and then picked off the sheriffls men as they appeared on th\evgroum‘ls or balcony. At the first shot, two of them rushed out and were killed on the steps. Clip Davis knew instinctively what this meant. He barred his | doors and stationed himself at a window and succeeding in killing one of Hendricks, men and disabling another. ' His idea was-to gain time and wait for his reinforcements. The doctor, who saw from his window in the room where he had been locked, what was going on, succceded in breaking out and went straight to the shaft. In tfwenty minutes he had ten men in the house. The captives were liberated arxd_ a rush .made upon Clip Davis swwho, | recéived them with all the fire he hdd and was killed at the window. | , . ~_Hendricks kept this work up with vigor, intending, if possible, to prevent the escapéd of a single soul who would report thé discovery of the gold upon the ln(:!l.f_ Before two hours were aver, he was master of the situation and then wdited quietly in- the house for the reinforcing party. :

The rfesult was a cruel and successful one, The posse of only six men rode up to the gate unsuspiciously and had no sooner got upon the inclosure of the lawn, than they were received with a murderous volley from the house and another from the wood. In a moment the lawn was strewn with #boir bodies. o . %

fAendricks knew very well that all ¢his me{ant war and he faced it with a vigorous military energy. Ile converted )’rhe' house into a fortress and barracks and began moving all that was valuable into the cave. : 2

As the affair was reported to the governpr of Tennessee, it looke(} like an organization of robbers who had taken possession ‘of the Laran house for thcir headquarters. He thercfore uppoin}fe‘d a new sheriff and placed the Memphis Tigers (eighty men) and the Cro¢liett Fuseliers of Paducah (sixty four men) under his orders with instructions to proceed at once to Tipton countylsand arrest the gang. Adjt. Gen. Luscomb met part of the. troops and the sheriff of Marshall and proceeded|overland with them to Laran.

The sanitarium stood upon a rounded knoll of about ten acres, corresponding; . to another and larger knoll which Ilendricks had by measurement fixed upon -as the erown’ or roof of his rotunda. The gfoli,i;x“d‘ sloped gradually to the road two hundred feet away, which road marlked the valley between this hill and aneother slicht but extended e';:cavaitiori that bégan on the other side and stretched away eastward into the wilderness. : .o t}#e west there was aclearing and +the stables jatid extensive outhouses, and beyond a heavy timber belt that ran with' occasional breaks a.lrtast to : Marsh}j.ll. It was from this direction - that the troops came. They surrounded the house in the carly morning and the adjutant general, on -a fine white ~ horse in full uniform and gold cpaulets an’g cocked hat and sword, rode . apon the lawn and in an impressive 'woiee called upon all the house to sur: »;eqqﬁx‘ 3 AR o fie v - A veice from the house replied: “This i‘g private property. .If the ¢omwmanding officer will come in, I will confet with him.”” = e ; There. was a consultation on horser back, the sheriff and the general leadinL over and evidently comparing viem.,"‘“ ’:’,.’-',' s A VOIS «::"'4_'l]} While thus engaged lendricks made’ his appearance‘upon the balcony. . “General,” MNe' said, “itis my desire ‘to avoid bloodshed. If you: will step. inside wwe, can: probably arrange mat-. ters. . p‘léd}ge_ you my word that no ~treachery ‘will be gtte&bt'e}:l;"iﬁ ga ... The general and, the sheriff moved o th::; 8 p Qﬁﬂép%?o ‘the steps, and the goner: D e . “Po youknow who I am,sir? I rep _ resent. dgzﬁi%%“héwg _ ereign state of Tenncasee. I command. eloainan. it o i san R w‘,"h “"?‘. i ; ﬁ,‘"ﬁ"'ls%%""”{""? i ’»;«w’ ? avold bloods »ﬁwﬁwwg“mﬁwﬁ

Hendricks smiled. **You are too ol and experienced an officer,” he sni “to be foolhardy,and the lives of theje men you have brought here are in your hands. T have expressed a desire to avoid bloodshed.” : §

“Sheriff, arrest this man,” cried thb general. ‘“‘He defies a law, and we are under cover of the guns of the state troops.” i ’ | ~ Hendricks took a step toward _tliexq". *‘One moment,” he -said, ‘‘before youn attempt to arrest me. You and your men are covered by four hundred repeiting rifles. One move on your pari to arrest me and your force will be annihilated. I mention this in the in terest of humanity. If you decline;tct treat me with the courtesy due to a brave enemy, you had better retire. will give you two minutes to rejoi yourmen.” . ‘ : \ The impulsive general wheeled his horse. galloped into the center of the lawn and called, in a loud voice, as h:l drew his sword:

_ “Capt.’ Hawkins, mass your men. Bring up the reserves. Prepare tol storm the house.” ; ‘

Hendricks leaned against one of the pillars of the balcony. ’ ‘“You see,” said the sherift, ‘“‘resistance is useless. It would be better tt;] surrender at once, as I propose to take you now,” and he made a motion uﬁ draw his pistol. - Before he could get it fairly into hi hand, there was a sharp crack of al! rifle at short range and he half raise himself in the stirrups and fell heaily backward upon the horse’s haunches,\ the pistol falling upon the ground.| Hendricks stepped down and picked it\ up-as the horse reared ahd baclked aﬁy——and at that moment a crack of | firgarms was heard and he went quickly back into the house and shut the @gn T .*As soon as he got to an opening in the . barricaded window, he saw the general wildly galloping up and down, flourishing his sword and calling upon ‘his men to fall in. But many of them | were past' falling in. Their bodies | were conspicuous by their uniforms, lying where they had fallen in the grass and the rest were huddling confusedly, running .indeterminately into the trees at the foot of the slope under a murderous fire from all parts of the thouse. o

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He could see when the general turned his head that a stream of blood was running down his face from a cutin the temple and had dyed his white whiskers. s :

Wounded as he was, the old general succeeded“after awhile in withdrawing his men across the road-to the opposite acclivity, where under the shelter of some rocks, he reformed them and tried to encourage them. Ilis condition was a distressing one. He had lost, out of a hundred and forty-four men, at least fifty. He could not even bring them all off and consequently did not know if they were killed or wounded. The sheriff was dead. He had no hospital stores or stretchers, for it would have required more than the ordinary military presience to have calculated upon such a reception as this. Ilowever, he did the best he could, jand the first act was to dispateh couriers to the nearest telegraph station to summon assistance and notify the governor, he giving up his own horse,to one of the messengers.

What was his surprise about noon to receive a.communication from the house. A man dressed like an ordinary workman was brought ‘into his little camp by a picket and delivered the following note with a military salute: “To the Commanding Officor: : ; H#Slr: You can safely remove your dead and woundoed. If you are in need of bandages, surgical assistance or medieal stores, and wiil scnd for them, they will -be supplied until you receive help from the state. Respectfully, “OFrICER COMMANDING OPPOSING FO:CE3. The audacious coolness of this proceeding aroused the old general to an eruptive state of indignation. lie tore the message to'pieces and ordered the arrest of the messenger. - llalf an hour later asiother arrived. - ¢

“I am ordered,” he said, ‘‘to. say to you that if you do not rclease the messenger a sufficient force will be sent to take him.” ; : ; “Away with him!” shouted the iirascible old general. “If he attemptis to escape shoot him,”, : © During the night Geh. Waterson and Fenning got in at'the bayou eatrance, and before morning Gen. Luscomb’s forces were fallen upon and complete1y routed. g B b

Lopb R SCHAPRER NI 1 ik JlnJune of that year there appesred in severgl of the Indiang papers the following advertisemeént:y - e

-, * “MILITARY EXCURSION., . “Uniformed military compinies in Indiana, wishing 1o join the excursion battalfon 1o make o summer visit to MNew York ingjuly. will please report to Lictt Bidwell at” Indtinapolls "Un nsynl indicoments are offered toorginiz?d companies to join this pleasure party. Tio batralion will be the gucst ‘of New York' for ‘two days-" i 4 . | g : 2 ot - This vague axmouncement 0f g proJeeted excursion did not fail to atfract ‘some attention in New York. 'Several Fof‘thq‘pﬁpgx‘é ‘referred fo 'it in paragraphs, which' briefly stated that the militia of Indiana intended to visit the ity during the sammer., cuiis. On the .:Gt-léwv,»oi' duly tlie . superintendent of police”in Kéw Yl roceivad a formal l¢tter from Indianapolis saying ‘t‘hat if the arrangements could be eompleted.a regiment of Indiana militia ‘would visit the city on or about the 12th, and agked for the ‘upnal: right to ‘parade and a police. guard to ¢lpoy the streets. . At.the time of the reccipt of the letter overy man of the regiment A é&w%"%ﬁ ipf, the 1 ‘[; »,‘ ) amy a ' P ! m /A, Sripotinl Shat & military orgaition

IR O T o 3 repr the sov-.

S Bl R R T <G 3 was invij&s’ihle fach man had in bis pqssessiﬁiu a light uniform consisting of a blue flannel shirt, duck trousers and belt, asthin glazed hat, a knapsack and Spencer rifle with twelve rounds of ball cartridges. Thisuniform could bae puton in a few moments. ' -

At half-past five on the morning of the 12th the men thus equipped came to Tompkin's square from all points of the city. The inhabitants in the neighborhood looked on with the lazy interest. that a military parade awakens in the metropolis, but no one knew or cared to inquire whether the regiment had arrived en masse by an early train or had come in the night before. ! ;

The troops had to wait till mnine o'clock for the platoon of mounted police that was to precede them. Gen, Watersdn, the colonel commanding, communicated with the sergeant. of the squad through his adjutant. - They had been invited, he said, to visit Wall street and the sub-treasury. They were then to march to Gen. Grant's tomb for battalion evolutions.

It does notﬂ appear thas any suspicions up to this time were awakened in the police, who regarded the comnspicuous cartridge belts of the men as a piece of twestern military nonsense, and it was not within their line of duty to question the visit of the officers to the sub-treasury. If the sub-treasury did not. want their western visitors they would shut the doors in 'their fdces. | : |

- It was twenty minutes past nine when the regiment, preceded by the police, and with the colonel and his staff, dismounted, left the park and it was ten” o'clock when it wheeled into Broadway at Eighth street, making a ‘solid and formidable appearance in its ' homely uniforms and soldierly -bear--Ing. | g’ othing occurred along the route of conseqi}xencc to interfere with its progress. The idhabitants looked upon it as part of the constantly recurring | show Qf that highway; carcless re- | marks twere here and there made about ‘ the.cheap” get-up. but the crowds eyed }lit carelessly and went on their way. (It was just fifteen minutes of cleven by the Trinity clock when the armed force turned into Wall strect and five ’minu‘teﬁs later it had come to a halt in front of the sub-ireasury

building. The regiment filled «1} the space on the Wall street side and extended around into Nassau and Broad streets. The lines were quictly and quickly but effectually formed and the sub-treasury was, for the time bezing, cut off from interference. i

' We have in Police Sergeant McGuire's account and in Gen. Waterson’s report sufficient data from which to form some idea of the scenc. The sergecant says: “I don’t think ten minutes had passed when I found the whole of the broad steps leading up to the building covered with soldiers, leaving only a space of ten feet in the center, and the colonel and his staff followed by another hundred men were marching up that alleyway in‘o the building. One of the patrolmen. who was as much astonished as I was, asked me what the regiment was going to do in the buildiég, and I made some careless answer There was a black crowd of pebple d anin' Broad street looking on and ost of the office windows in the neighborhood were crowded with people, but there was no excitement. The men cn the steps looked as if they were drawn up for a show, but I calcuJ,ted‘;that it would take the whole police force of the city to dislodge them. The first’ thing that gave me a twinge ‘w{as that,: after the troops went in, none of the people who were doing bu§iqless inside came out, and the soldiers|wouldn’t let anybody go up. Inspector Fairchild, who didn’t like the laoks of things, turned his badge out, took two men and insisted on going in to see what was being donme. We waited over half an hour and they did not dome back, but the company ot troops that had gone in-had come ont, fallen into line, and another hundred men had been marched in. Word was then|sent to the central ofiice.” That was about twelve o’clock. Itsvasthrees qu:z.’rf}_ers of an hour beforc the supers intendént and another ‘inspector arrived, They went at omee into the b.gild}ing, where they were placed unuer guard. We were then ordered back, ottside of the lines, by one of the captains.” o - i

ITO BI CONTINUED.]

| . Schools in Western States. The elaborate provision for publie schools is a striking characteristie of statc and terrvitorial legislation in the far west.. North Dukota estimates thu. ultimate amount of her school fund a$ somewhere between $30,000,000 and $40,000,000, Oregon’s school fund i 3 now | $2,500,000. Idaho’s school lands are svorth:ncarly $7,000,000. Kansan holds nearly $7,000,000 in bonds for tha benefit of her public schools. Missous ri helds between $4,000,000 and $5,000,¢ 000 for her schools. Oklahoma will ane (jlay have a large sehool fund, and half a dozen other western states and ﬁerriltories. have many millions invested for the benefit of such funds. | bR R e L . | bl Dorrowing Trouble. . e . Little Fonny Peterby is a naughty littlf girl, consequently her mother has to subject hér to discipline every once in awhile. It was after one of ﬁhcs'e‘ painful scenes that’ Fannie was observed to shake her head solemnly and sigh. G o i _,'f‘w\h'hat is the matter with you now?" B kﬁ&her‘mmhe‘i'. A Enßt e 3 I hope," replied Fannie, “thatwher. 1 get maevied 'l never hiuve as. bad &

~ SQUIRMING REPUBLICANS. Trying to Explain the Votes of Their Sen= ators’in Favor of the Sugar Trust. It is laughable to read the shifty explanations of republican papers for the fact that all republican senators recently voted to retain the present differential duty of one-tenth:of a cent per pound on sugars exported from countries that pay an export duty.: As usual the republicans are preaching against trusts, but are voting to sustain them. If even three republican senators had broken loose from their trust alliances and had voted with the democrats against the trusts this inexcusable and meddling duty would have been abolished. But they did not do so, and now the republicans are searching for plausible execuses for such conduct. ; The New York Press of December 15 would have its readers satisfied with the explanation that ‘‘republicans are for free sugar”’—nothing less and nothing more, except a bounty to sugar growers. If they. cannot have all at once they will continue to vote for the trust.

~.The New York Tribune does not presume quite so much upon the ignorance of its readers. It conjures up two reasons for the misconduct of republicans. The first is, ‘‘to shut out any action on the tariff question, which might under the rules of the senate be turned at any time into action on the free trade bills demanded by the democratic majority.” As absurd and false as is this excuse the Tribune is bound to conclude that it is ‘‘sound and sufficient.” -

The second reason is ‘‘the feeling that the record of the republican party in favor of a bounty to American producers of sugar should be upheld, and that the repeal of the duty on refined sugar should not be permitted without restoration of the bounty granted in 1890.” Contrary to the declarations of the Press the Tribune has a very poor opinion of this reason. It says:

‘“The second reason has weight only %vith those who believe that the duty imposed in the act of 1890 in favor of refiners of sugar was warranted. The Tribune did not so believé when the act passed, and there have been a thousand good reasons since for maintaining that protective duties for refiners of sugar had no good excuse. The duty was palmed off on the congress of 1890 by representations of refiners who claimed to be opponents of "the trust, but who within a few months sold out to it and took part in that outrageous monopoly. The declarations of the sugar trust itself, both in testi‘mony before congressional committees ‘and in official reports, has abundantly proved that there was never any reason for casting around this monopoly the shelter of protection.”

This statement contains several admissions that the Tribune has often made at certain times, viz., before the McKinley biill passed and since the passage of the Wilson bill. It admits (1) that a tariff protects a trust; (2) that the sugar trust duped the republicans in congressin 1890; (3) that the industry of sugar refining needs no protection; (4) that the sugar trust is an outrageous monopoly which has made a thousand bad uses of its protective duties and has,therefore,forfeited its right to such duties. 'These are all very rich admissions to come from the leading protection organ of this country. They cannot but awaken the thought of thousands of Rip Van Winkle republicans whose minds have been asleep during the past thirty years and whose eyes have only been opened enough to read the Tribune once a week. They will rub their drowsey eyes and scratch their stupid heads and wonder how it is that a sugar duty can protect a trust and work so much harm to everybody while other duties are such blessings.: Some of these readers may in time call upon the Tribune to explain what duties are, and what are not good, and why. ' . ByroN W. Horr.

UNMASKING. Protectionist Pzi_x;tisans Showing °‘Their Hand jin the Senate. . - The recent appearance of a solid republican vote in the senate for the sugar trust—the unanimous republican vote against the proposed removal of the trust’s .differential protective subsidy of 1-8 of a cent and of the very harmful discriminating duty of 1-10 of a cent on sugar/from Germany—was at first rather disconcerting to the leading journals of the party, which had been denouncing the trust and urging that both of these dutiés should be repealed. But they qnickly regained their partisan self-possession, and while Some have framed ingenious dei’ fenses for the sugar trust senators, others rely upon the doctrine that the irepublicans in the senate can do no wrong. . ’ All this would be amusing if, the action which these journals now com- ! mend had not confirmed the trust's § power to collect from the consumers of i:"suga,r between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000 per . annum by means of the duty of 1§ of a cent a pound, and if it had not at l the same time intensified the commercial hostility of Germany and invited additional and still more injurious and ' retaliatory attacks upon our export [ trade with that country, the value of | which has been in the neighborhood of - $100,000,000 a year. When these facts I are considered;'the defense of the sugar -trust alliance and the sugar trust vote in the senate, /by the republican press, should not promote hilarity or ! gayety in the mind of any honest and - patriotic citizen. o ’ THe president’s urgent recommendation in his message that these two duties should be repealed ‘was regarded t with much fayor by the republican press. It was “‘heartily approved” by the New York Tribune. The Cleveland Leader saw that it was ‘‘sensible” and. ‘ “wise.” The Chicago Tribune remarked that ‘the change suggested by the president should be made without loss of time.” We have at hand the comments of the Philadelphia Press on_ Senator Quay’s new hill to repeal the duty of 1-8 of ‘a cent, and these comments, published three days after the - message was submitted, very decidedly favor the removal of this duty. The ! bill, or resolution, said the Press, ought to be passed,” The passage of it, the Press continued, would cause ‘“‘the removal of a special ‘fayylr-«to,; the sugar trust which ought never to have L gone.into the bill originally.” But our Philadelphia neighbor perceived that the wicked democrats were trying-‘‘to - prevent action” upon the question, and were saying that the bill “could not. pass for want of republican support.” The Press continued as follows: ‘‘Senator Quay’s proposed amendmeat will at loast serve o tear of this mask. It will have republican support, it e ey e Eoen by GEme slieb opposition ﬁ%b the democratsin

2 e TSR : e the senate are wjlling to make a still more emphatic confession before the country even than they have yet made that they are the servants of the sugar trust and mnot the representatives of the people. This is certainly a good time to have a record made on this point. It [the proposition to repeal the duty] should be pressed with the utmost parliamentary skill and energy, not merely to put democratic sugar trust senators on record, but with an earnest purpose to enact it asa very desirable amendment of the sugar scheaule of the Wilson-senats tariff bill. Let us see who can be depended upon to further this righteous result.” Five days later the Press got the record for which it had asked. How does our neighbor in Philadelphia like it? The question as to the repeal of the 1-8 and the 1-10 was brought up by the motion of one of those wicked democrats who were *“‘trying tq prevent action.” The ‘‘mask” was torn off, but what was then revealed? ' Did it appear that the proposition had *‘republican support,” and could ‘‘be beaten only by democratic opposition?” There was a solid republican vote on the side of the trust, and all of the twenty-three senators who voted on the other side were democrats. Every republican present either votéd against even .the consideration of the proposition, or was paired against it, and one of these voting republicans was Quay himself! Has the Press ascertained “who can be depended upon to further this righteous result?” o ‘ The New York Tribune had ‘‘heartily approved” Mr. Cleveland’s recommendation. ‘‘Cuckoos Get a Black Eye” was the headline owver the report of this vote, and it has. sinece laboriously. endeavored to defend and excuse the senators of its party on the ground that ‘‘there was no other way to shut out action” on other tariff propositions. But was it not possible for the republicans to vote for the repeal ofr these two duties and then to use their power effectively to prevent other tariff legislation? :

Before this vote the leading journals of the republican party were in faver of the proposed repeal, as we have shown. The same journals now strive to defend the republican senators by explaining that the country ‘‘ought to have a rest from tariff agitation” or by asserting that the democrats shonld be held responsible for these two duties during the next two years.- : The vote shows clearly, however, to any unbiased person who is familiar with the history (as told by republicans themselves) of the German-republican alliance in the closing days of the last session and with the history of the making of the McKinley sugar schedule, that the republicans of the senate, under the leadership and control of Mr. Aldrich, are suvporters of the sugar trust mow, as they were in July last, and as they were four years ago when they increased the house bill’s subsidy to the trust and thus gave, to this organization a protective cuty that has been worth not less than $40,000,000 in clear cash profits since bhe McKinley bill became a law.—N. Y. Times,

Tariff and Fireworks.

~ The Cincinnati Enquirer says: ‘“There is much besides mere personality and personal popularity to be considered in the choosing of a president of the United States or a senator. The times are big with grave questions. The next president and the congress which will be coincident with hfm must handle the currency problem. ~Have the people of the state who have been respectively shouting for McKinley and Foraker ever stopped.a moment to ask how much either of these gentlemen knows about the national finances? To be frank aboutit, neither of them, though both have frequently been on the hustings, has ever given pérspicuous. evidence that he is even’ an amateur thinker on the subject. . They should ‘be put through their paces. Gov. MecKinley has sawed on one tariff string nearly the whole of his public life, and ex-Gov. Foraker has mainly devoted ,hi_ms'é'lf to flichts of fancy about the American eagle and the flag of freedom. The next administration and congress must be neither a tariff-talk-ing machine nor a Fourth-of-July celebration.” R

‘Who Pays the Taxes?

‘Who pay these taxes? When the manufacturer of iron comes to the senate and says: ‘I can live or I can make a profit if a certain duty is imposed,” what is he saying? He is simply saying: “If you give me a certain duty, you put it in my power to charge over that duty as an additional tax on the farmers of the United States.” These manufacturers were not willing to enlarge their products and thus meet the entire American demand, but preferred jto manufacture a limited supply at enormously'increased profits, and that, I think, is a feature of the iron manufacture in this coun-

try to a very considerable extent. That is to say, those who manufacture these articles—beams—do notv care to supply the entire American market, but prefer to supply only that portion of it which they can supply at.an enormous profit.—Senator P. B. Plumb, in 1889. ° 5

The Attack on the Income Tax.

John G. Moore has brought suit to test the constitutionality of the income tax. Mr. Moore is a member of the brokerage firm of Moore & Schley, through whom sundry senators scandalously made money by speculating in sugar trust stocks while the sugar schedules of the tariff bill were under consideration in the senate. The income tax has come to stay. It is just, constitutional and especially commends itself to the popular sense of right. It will be so altered by future congresses as to malke it conform more closely to the demands of ’gust‘.ice, but it will not be abolished. The burdens of government will be laid upon accumulated wealth where now they rest upon industry. Superfluity instead of necessity will be made to pay.—N. Y. World.

% Gorman’s Politics. : The Baltimore Sun (dem.) says: “The few weeks that have elapsed since the present session began have furnished Mr. Gorman with abundant oppor‘tunity to illustrate his claims to be ranked not as an ‘assistant republican’ simply; but as an out-and-out, fullfledged member of the clan, worthy to take hisseatin the nextcongress alongside of Steve Elkins and Gas Addicks, 'should the republican .galaxy be further adorned by the presence of ‘those shining lights of statesmanship.”’ | ; The Next Step in Sugar. i It is now in order for the United States senate to appoint a comm ittee to wait upon President Havemeyer, of the sugar trust, and ascertain whether ho has any further, communications to malke 4o that body. ~Bulfalo Cousier.

“FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. | s POLLY'S LESSON. 7 | Come here. you nigoramus! o " I'm 'shamed to have to 'fess % You don't know any letter b *Cept just your cookie S. .= : . Now listen, and I'll tell you— i .. 'This round hole's name is O, ; And when you put a teil in : It makes it Q. you know. e : And if it has a front door = ; s = o wa/lk in at, it's C. foos ; , Then make a seat right here To sit on, and it's G. 5 And this tall letter, doliy, : 5 Is I, and stands for me; | . And when it puts a hat on, : o 1t makes a cup o’ T. . : < ) " Andcurly lisJ,dear, i r AndhaitetßisP. ... & - . et And E without his slippers on - 1s only F, you see!” i | You turn A upside downwards, = i ’ And people callit vV; - - ! ~And it it's twins, like this one, - - b W *twill be. _ | - Now, dolly, when you learn 'em, - You'll know a great big heap—- * Most much’s I—O dolly! - : IDb'lieve you've gone asleep! L —Youtl’'s Companion. : RINGING AN ALARM. - The Apparatus in Use in’ the New York Fire Department. i . Let us look at the various instruments for receiving the alarm. They are not - many, and are very interesting. I shall describe them without using any technicalities, for the very good reason that 1 don’t know anything about them technically, dut can explain them only ' as they were explained to me by a fire-

First, at the lower right-hand side, on a black walnut base-board, is placed the instrument officially called ‘the ‘“‘combination,” and by the fireman termed the ‘‘joker.” ‘Why ‘‘joker” Ido not know; but it is probably called the “combination” because it combines

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Beside the = combination-bell, or ‘‘joker,” there is a small weight that slides up and down a brass rod. It is held in place at the top by a catch connected with the hammer of the bell; and, as this hammer draws back to make the first stroke of the alarm, it releases ‘thi§ weight, and the weight slides down the rod. Being attached by a little chain to a lever projecting from the side of a clock hanging beside it, the weight, as it falls, pulls this lever down and stops the clock, thus showing at what instant the alarm was received. ; S At the bottom of the rod there.is a very large lever set with a trigger-like catch, and connected by certain mechanism underneath the floor with -the stalls of the horses. The same falling weight strikes . the trigger alsoy and releases the lever, and. the lever-in turn releases the horses. | ; !

Above ‘the combination is placed a Morse instrument, sounder and key, and beside it a telephone to communicate with headquarters or with other companies, and also a few frames containing a list of stations that particular company goes to on receiving the first, second or third alarm.

At the other side, nearly over the desk, is placed the big gong, twelve or fifteen inches in diameter, and very loud-sounding. = This begins to strike about when the smaller one gets through, and‘'should the man on watch. ha e failed to count the number of the: station on the ‘‘joker” he will have no difficulty in getting the number from the big gong, for it strikes slowly, that is, slowly’ in coruparison with the ‘“joker,” which rings the number out very fast. The large gong is very loud, and cin be heard a block away. The company receives four rounds on the small bell and two on the big bell; ory more correctly speaking, the number of the station is rung four times on the *“‘joker” and twice on the big gong. But it is rarely that the firemen have to wait'to get the signal from the latter, for before the. small bell has rattled off its four rounds the engine has rolled out of the house and they are cn the way /to the fire.—From “Fighting a Fire,” by C. T. Hill, in St. Nicholas. D r s

l . Conundrums, i ; - If a porson is _suffering with disease, what covering should be used? A “counterpanc (counter pain). ' . Why is the whole of anything worth a dollar? %(:G;ause four quarters are always worth one dolar. . 3 When you speak of the bankof a -small stream why do you hint that the stream itself is sorrowful? Because you say: *‘The brook side (sighed).” If a dissipated man should beg at your door and you shomnld ask his business, and why he did not reform; how could he answer both questions with one word? ‘“‘Mend I cant’ (mendi--gant).— Youth's. Companion, ... . = " L motiool Bheke . TUOL __Parent (angrily) — Those ‘‘school shoes” I bought for my boy didn’t last | two weeks. L _Dealer (surprised) —He must have been wearing them_ out.of schogti—. S aems T -;ﬂ e Peght Thltew . L . 'This old world’s bright enough forall = - Thousnail the dave wna mghoa - For whien the sun goes down the west,

© FUN FOR THE CHILDREN. ‘Making a Pig and His Pen from a Lemon- .- and Some Toothpicks: Yes, you can make your: own pigs very easily, children, and they will be 80 nice and sweet and funny that nobody can object to your taking them right in the parlor with you. « The first requisite is a lemon. This will cost about three cents ?nd you can get it at any grocery store.. You-must ask the man who sells it to you to permit you toselect one from his basket. "Take one with a long stem or peak at: one end like this: i : ’ o o Yl N : : : ‘ -0 : . i\" oK > ey *‘:‘:: A === - : e INEMBRYO. [email protected] o ‘When you get home cut a small notch down in the-stem, as shown by the dotted lines in the sketch above, This ‘will be the pig’s mouth and should be ‘colored red. (Red ink will do). After ‘his mouth has been properly cut Mr. ‘Pig should be laid square on his back: and four matches or small sticks of wood should be. sharply thrust through the skin and well intg/the lemon at or near the places indicated by the rings ‘and points in the sketch. - The matches or sticks' should stand out at an angle 50 Mr. Pig won’t fall over, and if he is tobe allowed to sit down put the hind legs deep in, something like this: -~ ° ‘ "?_ ' pIGGY WHEN,FXNI§HED. i ‘Pigs like to sit down, and they usuals 1y doafter'eating; so it is just as well to make the pig repose in this comfort. able manner at the start. Now ask mamma.fer a couple of black pins to ba -put in above his nose for piggy’s sharp ‘little eyes and whittle out two earshaped pieces of thin wood, dye them with pink on the inside with paint or red ink, and press them in over the eyes so they will ‘“lop” or hang a little, Now tie a small piece of grayish brown string about the head of a pin and drive it, head andall, in through poor piggy’s gkin where his tail belongs. You can then cut the string. off to leave his pigship with a tail of an inch or so in length,: * 0 i “ Dt is really of little importance where you keep tiis kind- of a pig, and pigs themselves don’t seem to be very particular where they are kept if they only .have enough to eat. - You can make a ‘small pen qf one of papa’s cigar boxes; and I will show you how to hang the door and fasten it so Mr. Pig can’t get out unless you open the gate for him., Sn < e g = ‘ - The inside measurements of the boxshould be 8 by 38 by 4 inches, though some - pigs like a large pen, and a great deal depends upon how often you let your pigs out. « When you have - made %our pen take three pins and cut “the heads off in such a way as to leave a point, with an old pair of shears ora file, and then bend them carefully into a long, slender *“‘U” for staples. Now cut a piece from the cigar box cover quite as long as the pen is wide and “about an inch wide itself, the grain of - the wood running with the length. " This is for the gate. Makea notchin the center.of one end for the latch. Now for hanging the gate, which is the nicest part of the whole job and ‘must be done very carefully. The first thing to do is to hammer down the heads of two:pins so they will pass through the: staples. - When they are Just righ‘.‘lrive_ one into the lower edge of the gauwe, close to the opposite end from' the lateh. If you don’t put it .very near the edge the gate will ‘‘bind” —it won’t openly-freely. Now put the’ other -pin in the upper edge, directly opposite the lower pin. - Then lay the house on its back, the open side up, and place the gate in the position you want

D \ ‘ ‘ it - Lo et 1 L faee i L e | L N Rol (1 e it. The ga\t)é'slim'ﬂd be a?}guﬁ half an inch from the bottom of 'the pen so piggy can’t get under it. .Now very carefully drive two of your staples into -the edge of the box - just above and below the edges of the gate and over the pins. Don’t drive them too far at first. Try your gate to see if it"swings. A urved pin makes a good hasp. Cut “the point{off, o you will not prick your fingers when [you ‘go-to let piggy out for a stroll in the garden. - Your pig -and his pen afe done.—N. Y. Herald. Ho e B Fa ; HURRY AND SPEED. s A 2“‘;« —_' 3 S ~While Speedis fifling the bottle, Hurry is spillo o inpehe indtie i eel B G s . ‘While Speed. is solving the problem, Hurry’s . - beginning to thiuk, S T ! While Speed is hitting the bull's-eye, Hurry is Lo o steinging hsbew, - o “While Hurry is marching his army, Speed is L {.'“”tmshis T 00: bl jassy fa ahiok at beginning, Speed s quick as. s ol R R o g bl but Speed wins many o| e e e T T e to see a whole barnyard fall of cows oopilicenily skpniks GNEBRi butlad tho fantex wishi, Res eiNEIoR. :deTon have 40, %*&m all those caws?’—Ch m«»‘gg‘% srudied the supiect Inat 10,000, £33 'Se e podd be v R B % eT e R ﬁj"’\"y'“ .3‘§‘ ‘u e v i._¢‘§ ‘ T e @““if**}'&‘vﬁﬁaf@%%%ﬁ# bl