Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1888 — Page 6

BLAINE IN INDIANA.

A STATE DEMONSTRATION AT INDIANAPOLIS. A GatUertn* of Republican Club* from Krery Part of «.ho Slat*. A Magnificent Paralte, and Matterly by Mr. Blaine and Other*. Hon. Jame* G. Blaine came to Indiana, Wednesday* and was accorded a magnificent reception at Gos Ken-by anthnninatic people.- FjOU) Goshen to Indianapolis, where he arrived late at night, his trip was almost a continuous ovation. Large crowds had gathered at Warsaw, Wabash, Marion, Anderson aad many smaller places, and his appearance was greeted with tumultuous cheers. Arriving at Indianapolis he-was at once conveyed to the residence of Gen. Harrison, who warmly welcomed him. His appearance is improved over four years age, when his mind was troubled "With the details of the campaign. Both he and his son, Walker Blaine, express the greatest confidence in the outcome of the contest. He says the crowds which gather at stations along the route greatly exceed those of four years ago. .._ Thursday opened up somewhat drearily,, with a promise of rain, but it was soon observable or no rain the crowd was headed toward the capitol city. The Harrison residence, most certainly, was the center of attraction, and long before the General or Mr. Blaine had ended their slumbers a crowd began togathe - around the front door. The crowd in the city was rapidly augmented by heavily loaded incoming trains, and between 10 and II o’clock fully 15,000 people Jiad entered through the gate of the new station. By noon the streets were an almost impenetrable mass of moving humanity, slowly meandering to the" various points of interest. Possibly 1,000.000 would not he an over-estimate of the crowd on the streets. The procession was one of the largest and finest over witnessed in Indiana. Fully two hours were required for the passing of a given point, and the gaily uniformed clubs, bands and mottoes-made up a pageant

long to be remembered. There were probable 15,000 people who took part in the parade from nearly every part of the state. Gen. Harrison, Mr. Blaine, Gov Porter and other prominent people re. viewed the procession from the balcony of the Denison House, and the honors were warmly received by the marching thousands. The proceedings proper were held at the Exposition grounds. An immense audience awaited the coming of those in the procession*: and the speakers, and when their number was augmented by the procession it was an inspiring incenresponded to their cheers. The largeness and consequent turbulence trf the crowd in the afternoon made it impossible for Mr. Blaine to be heard. His speech on account thereof was-poetponded until night and was delivered in Tomlinson Hall. He spoke as follows: Fellow-citizens of Indiana—lt is the studied and persistent effort of tile Democratic party, in this presidential campaign, *to prejudice the West against the East on tbfc subject of the tariff, maintaining that the Eastern States get the benefits of protection and Western States get its burden. Now, ifthe tariff for protection so operates that one section gets the gain and the other gets the loss, then the whole system of protection ought to be abolished; and, if the advocates of a protective tariff cannot prove that it is of as great -advantage to the West as it is to the East, as great advantage to the South as it is to the North, and that if it a national and not a sectional policy—if, I say, they cannot establish those' points, then the poliev ought to be abandoned. But I maintain—and, in the few minutes I shall occupy your attention, I shall endeavor to prove—by figures and by facts, that the West, the great, growi ng teeming, prosperous West, has gained more out of the protective tarill than any section of the whole Union. [Applause.] Gentlemen, I know • that involves questions of-fact and not questions of fancy; and I call your attention to the census of IS6o—and if there be any Democrats present, they will not wish to dispute the correctness of that ministration of Mr. Buchanan. I quote the figures of that census as to the weatth of eleven Western Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, -Minnesota, lowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado, The last two were Territories when Mr. Lincoln came into power, but were long since States. According to the census of IS6O the aggregate wealth of those eleven Western States was something under $4,000,000,000. and in 1880,twenty years afterward, by the national census, the wealth of those States was $16,50D,001,000. [Apfilause.] It had increased and grown our-fold in twenty years, and in the last eight years enough has been added to carry up the wealth of those eleven States for beyond $20,000,000,010 or a vast deal larger spifi than the whole wealth of the Unit'ed States the day Lincoln was inaugurated. [Applause.] You can test this question in another way. In IS6O these eleven States had ten thousand miles of railroad, or scarcely that, and to-day, twenty-eight years afterward, they have nearly eighty thousand miles of railroad. Mind you, these eleven Western States have almost, three times as much railway within their borders as the whole Union had before the civil war. Something or other has enabled yon Western people to get along pretty * rapidly; for these State have prospered in a degree far beyond that of the old Eastern States; * in a ratio for greater than the Eastern States have maintained. As another proof! of that progress I have here a angular table from the official census of 1860 I think you will agree with me that it is a very suggestive table. [Here a disturbance causedby the crowded condition of the hall interrupted the speaker for a moment] T. was calling the attention of the audience to a table in the census of 1860 in which the principal towns and cities in the United States are given. I will quote those of the eleven

Western States and give you their population at that time. Cleveland was 43,000. Toledo was not large enough to he included in the statement at all. Detroit was 45,000. Grand Rapids, that now has SO,OOO, was not mentioned. Chicago—what do you sav the population of Chicago was in I 860? 109,000. , Its growth does not seem to have been much impeded by the protective tariff, for it is now three-quarters of a million at least. [Applause.! Milwaukee was 45,000. St. Baal and Minneapolis bad n<4 grown to be enough consequence, in iB6O to b mentioned in this table At aIL Together thev now' contain nearly 400,000 people. Columbus, ()., had 18,000, now some 75,000; Cincinnati had 160,000; Louisville, 68,000; St, Louis, 160,000; Kansas City —Tlie census didn’t know there was such a place. Denver—lt had never been heard of in the census.' Indianapolis—How much do you suppose it was in 1860? Under 18,f00. Des Moines, something over 3,000. Omaha—Well, Oinaha had no mention at all. The aggregate of these cities was 670,000 in in 1860, and is to-dav three and a half millions." This is the way, Mr. Chairman, the protective tariff has been retarding the growth and development of. the- West. [Applause.l This* Hie great hardship that the Wests has suffered by reason of a protective tariff. When you drive the free-traders from every other ground they tell you that the protective tariff has stifled the export trade of the United States, that it has builtup alotof factories and railways but that the foreign commerce of the country has all gone to pieces. I again quote from the census, and show you that from the time the Declaration’ of Independence was made, down to the time Lincoln was elected President —I will go further back. From the time America was discovered by Columbus down to the election of Abraham. Lincoln the aggregate shipment of all those years and all those centuries from the United States amounted to nine thou?and millions of dollars in value. Now, mark you, that covered the entire history of the government down to 1860; and’ from 1869 to 1888, the aggregate amount has been seventeen thousand five hundred millions, almost double as much in the t wenty-eight years of the present protective tariff as it was during the whole previous history of the American continent. [Applause.] That is the way, gentlemen, in which protection has operated. , - .. I had occasion, in speaking of this same subject in the East, when contrasting what protection had done for the laboring men of America, as compared with the laboring men of Europe, to show what the laboring men of New England had in savings banks as compared with those of old England, and I saw in more than one Western Democratic paper the remark: “Oh, yes, you have got all the money in the East; it is w T ell enough for yoil to uphold protection.” But, gentlemen, you must re member the different conditions. The wealth of the West has been in growing towns, in settled farms, in great lines pf railway, in vast agricultural development, all of which goes forward more rapidly to the W T est. Those investments in the West take the place of the cash deposits which the laboring men of the East, have placed in savings banks. -But the ratio of increase of property under the protective tariff for the last twenty-seven years has been largely in favor of the West as against the East, so that the policy of protection has not proved a sectional policy. Why, gentlemen, there is no longer the old distinction between manufacturing States and the agricultural States. Do you reckon yourselves here in Indiana an agricultural State simply? Your manufactures this year in the State of Indiana have a larger cash value than your total agricultural product. [Applause] Manufactures are no longer concentrated an the

eastern side of the Alleghenies. The city of Chicago is the of run ahead of Pittsburg, and under the influence of this tariff the manufactarihg interest has spread each year further and further westward, bringing the home market nearer and nearer to the source of food supply: and proving all the while to every intelligent voter in the country that th'6 nearer you bring the food consumers to the food producers the more certain is the prosperity of both. I had an occasion to show the other day in Michigan, from indisputable statistics, that the little region of New England, with not so much population as Illinois and Indiana, with scarcely eo much area as Illinois alone —I had occasion to show that that little area with six small States takes more from these Western States than is shipped to* old England, and that those little States take from the other States of this Union every year in food and raw material for manufacture the enormous aggregate of over four hundred millions of dollars in money. [*4 ppiause.] Add to that the amount New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey take from the South, the Southwest and the great West and you have an aggregate of more than 6ne thousand millions of material [applause]; and this country will have realized the great objective point of the tariff system when every agricultural State shall have its market near to the producers. Farmers of the West, you have been complaining of the price of wheat, and erroneously charging the fall upon the protective tariff. Why has wheat fallen during the last ten years? Because you have to meet in the markets of Europe the wheat of Russia, that is raised in that vast country with labor that is not more tßan , eight to twelve cents per day; and, beyond that vou are meeting vast imports of wheat from India, where England has been expending hundreds of millions of dollars to cheapen and expedite transportations to Europe. Neglect your home market, and tne lareer the amount you will find unsaleable, and the harder will he your competition with these hard-worked wheat producers on the other side. Suppose you turn half the manufacturers and mechanics, under the basis of free trade—suppose you turn half of them into wheat producers and farmers, isn’t the market of the farmer cut off just that much and the surplus of his product increased? Suppose you add another hundred and fifty million bushels to the product of the West, where will you market it? Where will you find the r i that are able to pay . for it, who tto eat it? Remember, gentlemen, it is the home market of the United States that every day is affording more and more to the agriculturists of this country their best market, and the home market of the United States is the result, logically and indisputably, of the protective tariff. [Great applause. ] *

FACTS FOR THE PEOPLE.

x tto Room for Protection Ibmocnti. Hon. George L. Converse has written to Chairman Brice, offering his services as a campaign speaker for the Democratic party on the condition that he be allowed to continue in opposition to the Mills' bill and the free-trada tendencies of the Democratic party. ,Mr. Converse’s letter was written sometime ago, and in it Til mid tlA4i ioluiu 1111/ lift ru<rruMhk “Is it the intention Oi your committee -to allow on #ls stump expressions of opinion favorable to the reasonable protectipn of all American industries, and in opposition to, the continuance and establishment of the internal revenne system* as one of the permanant sources of revenue for carrying on the government in time of peace? “If not, I am as a loss to see how I can be useful in the canvass. 4 Jf,you do infreedom of opinion and expression you must decide whether, under the circumstances, my efforts will be of service to the party in this particular canvass.” Up to the time of going to press Mr. CopvsraeJiad notrecelv^’lHr^Srice 7 *' reply, and Mr. r Converse is, therefore, not as yet on the stump.

D. oxiciatic Paitlsn .ism. Washington*, Oct. 9. —At no time during the rule of Republicans was that party ever charged, even aimlessly and indefinitely, with having run the machinery of the government witlb half the partisan determination that has been proven to he exercised by the present administration. It was discovered today that 40,000 copies of the annual report of the Commissioner of Pensions

have been printed at the expense of the government for distribution as a campaign document. The report was issued early in September, which is fully six weeks before the time it is usually published, and it" contains a great deal of “edited” matter intended for political effect. The idea is that when the document is distributed it will be so late in the campaign that the Republicans cannot correct the exaggerations and prevarications, and that the report will have a powerful- effect upon the soldiers and their friends. Usually , two or three thousand copies of this report are issued, and the expense of printing the 40,000 extra copies is very considerable. Public Printer Benedict was to-day asked where the money came from for the extra expense, and he replied that it was “taken out of the contingent fund for the Interior Department.” There will beam investigation of the matter. Not even the usual number ot copies of the report have been ordered by Congress, much less this extraordinary and unprecedentedly large issue. To-day there was laid on the desks of all the clerks in the Pension Office “an address of the national Democratic committee.” It is an extensive document; —lauding the administration of President Cleveland, praising him as a man in his personal capacity, and pointing out the reforms he is alleged to have made since he took the office, March 4, 1885. It also reviews the life of Thurman apd arraigns the Republicans on their tariff and other records. The address is signed by Chairman Barnum

and Chaimian Brice. At the conclusion is a postscript or addenda, signed by Charles P. Canda, treasurer of the committee and sub-treasurer of the United States at New York. Canda says in his postscript: “All contributions of money for the use of the national committee may be made either by postal order, registered letter or draft. Such contributions will be duly acknowledged, and should be addressed to me.” The most brazen and astonishing part of ethis proceeding is contained in a second and small circular, which goes with the address. It is dated at the headquarters of the national committee, and is headed: “Caution to Contributors:” This circular reads as follows; “On the pretense that direct contributions from office holders to the national committee were in violation of law, certain swindlers throughout the country have sought remittances from postmasters and others, falsely stating or intimating that their solicitations were authorized by the committee. Several of these offenders have been arrested, and will be prosecuted for fraudulent use of the mails. In view of these frauds it is deemed proper td say that, while the law forbids contributions by federal officials to other United states officers and employes, any contribution they may see fit to voluntarily make oan be forwarded to their proper destination without the interposition of an intermediary.”

A Disgraceful Campaign. The Democratic managers with all their pretense of fairness, are conducting a disgraceful campaign, and are using as their favorite ammunition the vile slanders of one so disreputable that not a respectable citizen of Indianapolis, where he resides, can be found to speak a good word for him. if the Republicans wished to indulge in personal attacks upon the Democratic candidates they would not be compelled to take the mouthings of a scalawag, but would need only to repeat the tales that are common talk among the most reputable citizens of Washington, irrespective of politics. The Republican party, however, unlike the Democracy, is not “glad of anv aid it can get,” and declines to circulate* stories that would cause every American citizen to hang lus head in shame.— Journal. A Wfcll Street P*rty. hy should any Greenbacker support Mr. Cleveland? Why should any man who favors bitme'talism,/as a government currency, and is not in-favor of a Wall street dynastic? Shortly before be was inaugurated, Mr. Cleveland sent an appeal to the Democrats in Congress asking tor the immediate and unconditional suspension of the coinage of silver, thus anticipating his office and giving a foretaste of his bulldozing tactics. He placed the Treasury Department in the hands of Daniel Manning, and through him, in 18S5, declared: - 4. “The act authorizing the reissuance of greenbacks was a menace to the public tranquility and injurious to the public morals and public faith.”—Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, for 1885, page Mr. Cleveland fully indorsed these expressions of his favorite financial secretary- In accepting Mr. Manning’s resignation, Mr. Cleveland raid: “I have hoped that the day was at hand when the party to which we belong, influenced largely by faith in you and in the wisdom of your views, would be quickened in the sense of responsibil-

ity and lead to more harmonious action upon the important questions with which you have, had to deal.” In the lace of this record, why should any Gieenbacker or bimetalist support Mr. Cleveland? But further: Why should any Greeubacker or bimetalist favor the Democratic party? Did that party ever prove the friend of the Greenbackers? Who have been its nominees for President? In 1864, George B. McClellan, of NEW .YORK. In 181&, Horatio Seymour, of NEW YORK. In 1872, Horace Greeley, of NEW YORK. In 1874, Samuel J.i Tilden, of NEW YORK. In 1888, General Hancock, practically of NEW YORK. In 1884, Grover Cleveland, of NEW YORK- Who are, and were, in Mr. Cleveland’s Cabinet? Daniel Manning, of NEW YORK. Charleß 8. Fairchild, of NEW YORK. William C. Whitney, of NEW YORK, Who else? The first and second assistants of the Treasury Secretary, and the Treasurer of the Uhited Stated States from NEW YORK. New York, New York, NEW. YORK—always New Ybrk! Contrast this with! the nominees and secretaries of the Republican party. The Demaaatia-jiactY. has ever been the bond servant of Wall street. '■ ■

The Grand Army of the Republic declares that a Boldier’s honorable service in the Union army should entitle him to a pension. The pension bill first introduced by Senator Harrison recognized that disability from whatever cause, if honorably received, entitled the old soldier to the generous care of the government he fought to preserve. In the case of Francis Deming, July 5, 1886, Grover Cleveland vetoed his pension bill in the following words: “This case can rest only upon the grounds that aid should be furnished to this ex-soldier because he served in the army and a long time thereafter became blind, disabled and dependent. I am constrained from a sense of public duty to interpose.”—Grover Cleveland. Which principle do the soldiers of the country indorse? Grover Cleveland says his sense of duty compels him to interpose to prevent a pension to an old soldier who became blind, disabled and dependent after his honorable service in the Union army. Benjamin Harrison says his sense of duty compels him to interpose to secure a pension to such an honorably discharged and honorably disabled veteran.

Animals as Doctors.

When an animal has a wounded leg or arm hanging on, it completes the amputation withfits teeth. ~ If a chimpanzee is wounded it stops the bleeding by placing its hand on the wound and dressing it with leaves or grass. A sporting dog was run over by a carriage. During three weeks in winter it remained lying in a brook, where its food was taken to it. The animal recovered. A dog, on being stung on the muzzle hy a viper, was observed- to plunge its head repeatedly for several days in running water. The animal eventually recovered.

Animals get rid of their parasitqp by using dust, mud, clay, etc. Those suffering from fever restrict their diet, keep quiet, seek dark, airy places, drink water and sometimes plunge into it. Animals suffering from rheumatic fever treat themselves'by the continual application of cold water, which M. Dulauney considers to be more certain than any of the other methods. The warrior, ants have regularly organized ambulances. Latrelle cut the antenna 1 oi au aut, and other ants camc and covered the wounded part with a transparent fluid secreted in their little mouths.

When a dog has lost his appetite he eats that species of grass known as dog’s grass, which acts as an emetic and purgative. Cats also eat grass. Sheep and cows, when ill, also seek out certain herbs. Many physicians have been observers of animals, their diseases and the methods adopted by them in their instinct to cure themselves, and have appropriated the knowledge so brought under their observation in their practice. A terrier hurt its right eye; it remained under a counter, avoided heat and light, although habitually kept close td the fire; it adopted a general treatment, rest and abstinence from food. The local treatment consisted in licking the upper surface of the paw, which it appleid to the wounded eye, again licking the paw when it became dry.

Paper Pulp from Cotton Stalks.

Several samples of pulp made from the hulls and stalks of the cotton plant have lately been on view at Atlanta Ga. The pulp is as white as snow, and it is said that it can be made into the finest writing paper. The ligneous substance of the hulls and stalks are removed by a new process. Fifty per cent, of the fibers are extracted from the hull, which has hitherto been used either for fuel in the mills or for fertilizing purposes, and 38 per cent is obtained from the stalks, which are generally allowed to . rot in the fieids. If the process proves successful, the value of these comparatively useless products will be increased tenfold/

Why He Left Sunday School.

Arcola Record. “What did Cain do?” asked tl e Sunday school teacher. “Oh, nothing much,” replied a timid boy with his fihgei* in his mouth. “He killed Abel, didn’t he?” continued the teacher. “Where’s my hat?” asked a bad boy, rising to his feet. , \“What—where are you going?” stammered the astonished teacher. ‘Tapa’s a Democrat, and he said for me to light right ont whenever anybody begins to wave the bloody shirt. Gimme aay hat and I’ll go.”

GRAND ARMY OF BEGGARS

jJ?-' ; _ ' 4 . Such the Designation Applied to the Old Soldiers Who Ask for Pensions 1 A" Artffcle Woriby the Attention of Sol- 1 diem—A Democratic Organ Denounces Them a* Ileggnrs, Dead-Beats and Cof-fee-Co jlers. The following article apveared in the Chicago Times, a Democratic paper, as an editorial, March 2, 1887: DEFEAT OF THE ARMY OF BEGGARS! Thank God! the claim-agents,thedema-gogues, the dead-beats, and pordioseros, and deserters, and coffee-coolers, and bounty-jumpers, composing our great standing army of volunteer mendicants, have been defeated! * But the maintenance of the President’s righteous veto of the pauper pensions iniquity is not the end of the war upon the national treasury, which has been prosecuted by that army of insatiable cormorants ever since the war upon the national autonomy closed. The Presihaltand M Jl^fi w SllilfiX._liaa. been sustained, hut the army of cormorants. and claim-agents, and bountyjumpers, and professional mendicants only have been checked, not conqured. In fact, it is their'first repulse since the crusade of the noble army of pensionbeggars began. Their leaders, the claimagents and the party demagogues, will endeavor to rally their blood-sucking host and renew the war of mendicancy against industry. It is necessary, therefore, to follow up the advantage that has been gained; and give the hostile horde of thieves and beggars no rest until they shall have abandoned their villainous undertaking to depend on a government for support and gone to work to support both themselves and government. The Times repeats, therefore, now that the veto of the pauper pension steal has been sustained, everything that it uttered when there seemed to be great danger that congessional representatives of the claim-agents and bounty-jumpers would o\ erride it. ■ Not merely that most scandalous measures that has ever been sent to a President for his signature is the object that invites continued and uncompromising condemnation, but the principle which it was sought in that iniquitous measure to apply the theory and doctrine on which it was projected, and the whole vicious fabric of sophistry, cant, hypocrisy and humbug that patriotic rascality raised for its support. „ i

It is a postulate of claim-agents that the* grand army of pension-beggars“saved the country,” efc. That postulate is absolutely false. No- country, no nation, political constitution system, or establishment, has ever been saved by, or been able to depend for its salvation upon citizens that are not in the habit of depending on themselves or that would not indignantly spurn the idea of being or becoming either dependents or beneficiaries of the government. Nay, the truth is broader than this. Nor In all the history of the world can a political society be found that, becoming permeated with the idea that a government is an establishment for the support of citizens, instead of an agency for the execution of justice among them, did not speedily perish. No, this Republic has not been saved by any army of pensionbeggars, nor has any pension-beggar any advocate or apologist of pensionbeggary, the least basis of a claim to be enrolled among its saviors. On the con-, trary, pension-beggars, pension-beg-gary, and the notions of government that they imply, are more dangerous enemies of the nation than undisguised rebels. - '

A Southern writer who stood among the unpensioned rebels has objected, in a tone of great bitterness, to this crusade of the pension-beggars on the ground of alleged injustice to the citizens that fought on the wrong side. “There is -nothing left of the wary--h» -says, “exceptfng the annual tax [that is] wrested from the impoverished: South to pay pensions to the soldiers of the rich and prosperous North. * * * Not a Southern cripple receives a dollar of these taxes. Not a Southern home for a soldier gets a penny of them. Yet the South isfull of poverty,” etc. “If theSouth is a vassal, let us know it, and cease this’mockery of equality.” • This mode of writing is very foolish, and serves only to reveal the bitterness that still lingers in the liver of the confederate brigadier on account of the “lost cause.” Politically, there is no South,nor North, nor East, nor West. If there is a South it is more than an undefined geographical section of the country, it is a surviving number of citizens that were soldiers of the rebellion, but that, fortunately for themselves and their geographical section, have not been encouraged to become mendicant dependants on the bounty ot an unwise paternal government. “The ex-rebel soldiers,” said Mr. Bragg, “are toiling day by day, and exhibiting industry, energy and thrift that never was expected of them.” Why is this? It is because the ox-rebel soldier has not been enticed, tempted and encouraged by pension bills designed by demagogues to buy his vote, to become a professional mendicant. On the, other hand, the ex-soldier of the North, instead of thriving by dependence upon his own energy and industry, is in the almshouse, according to Mr. Warner, or, according to other claimagent statesmen, will soon be there un. less papa government grants him a pauper pension. Why is this? It is because papa government has indoctrinated him with the pestilent notion that it is becoming to a saviour of his country to fulfill the character of a dependent upon, its bounty, of a mendicant, of a loafer, of a pauper without character or self-respect, who has gained the blessed right to “lay down and open his mouth for a teat to suck.” a Which of these citizens—the ex-rebel soldier who is supporting himself and contributing to the support of the government by depending on his own industry and energy, or the ex-savior of his country who is lying down at the door of a poor hduse, (unless the bidders for his vote lie), opening his mouth and yelling for a teat to suck—is the worthier member and the more capable supporter and defender of the commonwealth? The Times says without hesitation: The ex-rebel, the man who is supporting the government as well as himself by his industry, energy and thrift is incomparably a better citizen and a stronger pillar of the State than the ersavior of his country who is begging the government to put a premium on pauperism and improvidence by giving him support from the earnings of the more industrious and worthy, Unfortunately, however, all the exrebels are not of this manly class, as,

fortunately, all the ex-saviors are not of this class of pension-beggars—though if the utterances of their so-called Grand Army societies are indicative of the fact, the majority of them plainly are of the mendicant order. The Mexican war pension bill was a sop thrown by Northern demagogism to the mendicant sentiment among ex-volunteer heroes in the Southern part of the country. It was a measure of the same vicious character as the pauper pension bill, and ought to rbaue-feeeived at the executive mansion the same treatment Yet it is not recalled that a single Southern statesman, press or writer emitted a word of objection to that vicious measure. y The truth is, as the Tjmes has ob>*> served before in this discussion, there up in the Dature of the volunteer hero (something that inclines him to the profession of mendicancy; something that tends to divest him of the manly character and self-respect of the independent citizen, and to degrade him to the Rtatus of a servile dependant or an incapable Sr. That this is the degrading icy, also,’ of the so-called Grand Army mutual self-glorification societies ftnijilft Times is, therefore, in agreement with its correspondent who says: “It will be a happy day lor the Republic when the last beggar of the Grand Army humbug is securely planted.

Morsels of Gastronomy.

New York Mall and Express. - Game and fish dinners, now in order, are most popular among those who are in affluent circumstances. It is already possible to have chicken salad made with celery instead of lettuce the latter not being now very good. Minced chicken, served in the half of the white of a hard-boiled egg is one of the gastronomic caprices at Newport. Eden pudding is something new, an’d with a view to “the eternal fitness of things,’.’ is made of apples and custard. Young domestic duck and apple sauce is in gastronomic order at present, and is a dinner course by no means to be despised. A Narragansett caterer is quoted as having introduced “old-fashioned gingerbread” there this season with great success. An observer at table d’hote says that' no two people eat green corn alike, and he writes to a local paper to know the “best forfn.” To tallow the gastronomic fashion of the elegant society youths of the period it is necessary to sprinkle cinnamon on muskmelons. Stewed pairs and plums, “old, familiar friends,” are again added to the alleged fascinations of Sunday night tea at summer hotels.

Fruits in great variety and greater abundance now appear in market, and those from the Pacific coast elicit es pecial enthusiasm. With the coming of September oysters are again in gastronomic fashion, although it will be some months before they are at their best. , There is complaint of the inferior quality of imported sardines of late, and it is more difficult than ever to decide which is the best brand. All members of Mr. Way back’s family are still of the opinion that their visit to the seaside is not complete without roast clams or the mysterious chowder.

Sons of Millionaires.

Providence Journal’s New York Letter. The news that the heir of a millionaire Harried George Law has jnst giveil away ~ $13,750 worth of diamonds to a lot of barroom loafers, fighters and ruffians, has made a great sensation here and has newly armed those who hold that what one generation saves is spent by the next. One of the Schuylers shot himself recently because the maternal pile ran out. Berry Wall is another instance of the tendency of sons to scatter quick-, ly what their fathers raised by patient anywherq from $1.50 to $2. Now, a main-gpring to a jeweler costs little more, all told and set, than 25c. Then there is the extravagant price that is always demanded for cleaning a watch. Few jewelers ever charge less than $1.59 for such work. The time usually taken in doing this class of work is not more than from a half to three-quarters ofjan hour. The main-spring itself costs on an average about Bc. Then there is an enormous profit made -on watch crystals. The standard price for them is 25c each. The jeweler buys them by the gross er in lesser quantities for 20c per dozen.

Wealth and Work.

Waldorf Astor has his hands full in managing his father’s estate, which has been put into his hands by a full power of attorney. The property is so. favorably situated that it is rapidly increasing in value, and it pays to null down Shd rebuild. A large force is thus employed all the time, and thiß requires on thq part of the owner a constant examination of architects’ plans and their accompanying specifications. In fact, Waldorf Astor is placed in the condition of a mere house agent op a grand scale, and it also recalls old John Jacob’s utterances on the same subject. A frfend was once sayingto the old capitalist: “Mr. Astor, what a splendid estate you have, and if I had it how happy I should be.” “Indeed,” said tho old capitalist, “and will you take it on the same terms that I have?” “Of course I will,” was the reply. “Well, then, go to work and you shall have your board and clothes.” “Is that all,” exclaimed the other. “It’s all I get.” replied Aster, and the friend raw the point at once. — South Bend people report a mysterious bubbling in the St. Joseph river, and an outlet of natural gas is thought to be the Cause. .'-. -7 .