Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 24, Number 49, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 June 1894 — Page 4

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THE man who rn ns the weather bureau seemB to be In sympathy with the coal miners.

TIME flies, but it is valuable as it flies. An English syndicate has purchased the Elgin watch factory for $7,000,000,000.

IT turns out that Madeline's Breckenridge had more sense than the people of Fulton, Ills., who invited him to deliver their Fourth of July address. He declined.

8KNATOR GORMAN defends his tariff bill, but the most be says of it is that it can be passed. Senator Hill on the other hand says it can't. There seems to be a conflict of knowledge.

THK fight between Corbett and Jackson is said to be off, that is the proposed fight. The only fight really contemplated will be conducted by the sporting editors for many months to come.

ChAiTS SPRKOKMSS, who is a sugar trust all in himself, says the present Hawaiian government is bound to go to smash, and that very soon. With Claus, the wish is doubtless father to the thought and his testimony is open to rebuttal.

TIIK greater the number of college graduates that break into the sporting departments of the modern newspaper, the purer and less undefiled becomes the English that marks them. Last year abase ball crank was a "fan this year he is a "rooter."

THE Senate has evidently agreed on one thing—the Senate less Mr. Hill— that somebody must be punished for the talk about the sugar trust, and as senatorial courtesy will prevent the punishment of any Senators it must fall on the newspaper correspondents who told the story.

THIS has been a bad year for the Clan Breckenridge. The Kentucky specimen lias already been sent into, moral, and •will probably be put in political retirement, and the Arkansas statesman, Clifton who was responsible for the death of his opponent fot Congressional honors, John M. Clayton, Is about to be beaten for a renomination. The Breckenridge colors are trailing in the dust, and nobody is so responsible for this as the Breckenridges

SoMKof the newspaper writers whose natural feeling leads them to condemn labor organizations and all their movements are able to indulge in sarcasm and invective against the miners because tboy waylay coal trains and stop coal trafllo. These same writers have neither time nor Inclination to condemn the railroad owners for appropriating coal not belonging to them, %nd paying for it at prices named by themselves. Yet one is unlawful as tho other.

THK Populists seem to be able to furnish more novelties in.a political line than any party heretofore known. In Arkansas they are walking to their stale convention as a rebuke to the plutocratic railroads and in Illinois they have declared in favor of state saloons, demanding that the sate of intoxicating liquors shall betHJuducted by the state as a matter of police regulation, and without pro lit. Tliey stwrn to have forgotten South Carolina's experience with state sa'oons.

TRMStMiONK girls have rights that even churches are bound to respect. A Charleston, S, O telephone girl was dismissed frofu Presbyterian church because she worked on Sunday, WomanliKe she fought them, and the general assembly of that church has just decided that her dismissal was wrong. Now she can say "hello" on Sunday as well as on any other day, Wut it is likely that if any of her opponents have us© for the telephone, she will gi^o them worse service than is usually given patrons, if possible.

TUB racing ring that has controlled New Jersey for many years past received its death in the last election there, and now another reform movement has been started, tho anti-cigarette league. It is made up of the children of the pub Ho schools of Jersey City, and it has a membership of several thousand. If the children are wise enough to Inaugurate a crusade against the cigarette, it would seem that it is about time for older people to be doing something against an evil that Is on the increase among our young men.

IN- time* of peace we are preparing for war, by increasing the number and efficiency of our naval vessels, and in the army by perfecting the Instruments of death. The Kralg-Jonrensen rifle, with which our regular infantry will be equipped in the fall, la «aid to be the most perfect implement of war ever Invented. It I* the joint production of a Danish army officer and mechanic,

whence it gets its hyphenated name, and has the capacity to kill a man at a distance of two miles. It is a breechloading, magazine gun, its projectile has a speed of nearly a half-mile a second, and smokeless powder being used, it is claimed the bullet will kill a man before the sound of the discharge can reach him- The advocates of universal peace onght certainly find words of praise for these improved weapons of war, for ere long with the advancements being made in their production war will be so dangerous that nations will be fearful of engaging in it.

A MEASURE is before New York's constitutional convention designing to make a law disfranchising for a term of years any citizen who fails to exercise the right of suffrage. Such a law, with an amendment, disfranchising those who fail to attend primaries, would be good thing in every state in the interest of better government. It would most likely disfranchise that more or less useful class of citizens, the mugwumps, who reserve to themselves the divine right of controlling political nominations without belonging to any party.

THE heart of Editor Shanklin, of the Evansville Courier, is bowed down with grief. After leading the Cleveland forces to victory in the fight against the formidable opposition in this state in 1892, he has been persistently refused recognition by the powere that be. Re cently his friends applied in his behalf for the position of consul at Berlin, one of the most remunerative places in the diplomatic service, but it was given to one of the friends of ExGovernor Campbell, of Ohio. Mr. Shanklin can now return to the sad, sad task, of running a newspaper in Evansville, more fully convincod than ever that parties, like republics, are ungrateful.

IT is perhaps not so much his feeling against taking a second term, as his fear that he can't get it, that leads the present clerk of the Supreme court, Sweeney, to decline to be a candidate for re-election this year, but he expresses a wholesome truth when he says there is au increasing belief that a term of four years in a public office is enough for an officer. The legislature has passed laws limiting the occupancy of certain offices by one man to one term of four yqars, anJ it should be made to apply to all. The publio would get better service as a rule, the officials would get better returns, and laws that will benefit the public as well as its servants are certainly good laws.

THE movement to have the governors of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Iowa, Indiana and Illinois arbitrate the coal miners' strike will end in thin air, as it deserves to. If their decision gave the operators what they wanted they would be glad to accept it, otherwise they wouldn't the same, of course, ia true of the miners. Arbitration that doesn't arbitrate is silly. If these governors had authority to enforce their decision the plan suggested would be an admirable one, but under existing circumstances it would amount to nothing, except as it afforded tho different officials opportunity to make a little cheap political thunder for themselves. The miners'strike makes things bad enough as it is, without bringing any more politics into it.

THE United States Supreme Court has decided that the Indiana tax law is valid so far as it affects the assessment of railroad property by the State Board of Tax Commissioners. The decision affects railroad taxes assessed and partially collected for the years 1891,1892 and 1893, amounting to over $7,000,000, most of which has been paid under protest. To the total amount affected could be added about 8110,000, which would represent the penalty attached by the Auditor of State for delinquency. The tax law was passed, it may be said, in obedience to a public demand that corporations should be made to pay taxes on a fair valuation of their property, apd while opinions have differed as to its fairness in some respects, now that the disputed portions have received the sanction of the highest court in the land it should be rigidly enforced.

THK way of the transgressor is hard— sometimes. It has proved to be hard in the ?ase of the looters of the First National Bank at Indianapolis, who have been convicted in the United States court. Those convicted were the Coffins and Reed, officials of the Indianapolis Cabinet Co., into whose treasury, much or the cash of the bank was diverted. It is said to be the first time in the history of the judiciary of this country that customers of a bank have been convicted of aiding and abetting in the misapplication of the funds of a national bank, and when presented to the United States Supreme Court by appeal, as will be done, the defendants are in hopes that the finding of the lower court will be reversed. The conduct of Judge Baker in this case has been that of a jurist who believes that common sense should take precedence of mere technicalities, where there is so much at

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stake. He permitted the testimony to take such a wide range as to bring to light all circumstances and transactions tifat had a bearing on the case and, with a judicial fairness not to be found in ail occupants of the bench, he treated both sides alike in this particular. Would that there were

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Judge Bakers in

A CERTAIN New York publisher has been notified by Anthony Comstock that he will be prosecuted if he continues to sell copies of Henry Fielding's novel, "Tom Jones," which is looked upon as one of the classics of the period in English literature in which it was produced. The character of Tom Jones cannot be said to be an admirable one, and his adventures do not make fit reading for Sunday school classes, but if all publications that are unfit for Sunday school classes were proceeded against in these times, some of the striking successes of the past few years would have been consigned to the paper mill long ago. As Thackeray said of Fielding's "Tom Jones," "He is a hero with a flawed reputation, sponging for a guinea, who cannot pay his landlady, and obliged to let his honor out for hire," but he is- a reflex of the times in which his creator lived and moved, and he should not be wiped out of existence at the command of one who, however well-meant his intentions may be, is more or less a crank. What is needed in New York is a society to suppress some of Comstock:s cranky ^notions. yh

A GREAT outcry is being raised because of the destruction of property and infraction of the law by the foreign element among the miners, notably the Russians, Poles, Hungarians and Italians, who practically are at the bottom of all the violence resulting from the miners' strike. Yet the very people who are saying the most about this so-called "foreign, lawless element," and demanding protection from the State and Federal authorities, are responsible for these people being here. They were imported because they are willing to work for lower wages than the miners of native and foreign parentage who had been identified with that industry heretofore, and now that their own structure is being pulled down on their heads they cry out at the lawlessness that seems rampant. They have thus far fouhd but little sympathy, and it is not likely to be inoreased. Violations of the law and destruction of life and property are severely to be condemned at all times and under all circumstanoes, but it seems a rude sort of poetic justice that some of these cheap labor importers should be compelled to take some of their own medicine in large and drastic doses.

SHORT AND SWEET.

A coat of paint has no buttons on it It is rain or shine with the bootblao' Uneasy lies the head that has no ofrow in fly time.

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Envy is an acknowledgement, of the fortune of others. J1 A fool's advice is better than a knave's. It is at least sincere. 1

In prosperity, enemies flatter in adversity, friends encourage. The Chinese of California are the queuecumberers of the soil.

Girls are thinking of green grass and warm sunshine. It is a for lawn hope. It is stiid that bees can predict weather. They can certainly make it hot where they are. .» V/ ,1^ 'C'!

Now is the time to think of the summer resort. It costs nothing to think, so long as you do it quietly.

When banks become unsteady, because of falling tendencies, even the depositor is liable to lose his balance. "Ulsters," says an exchange, "may now be put up." Owing to the bard times they are put up earlier than uhual.

CO A TES COLLEGE COMMENCEMEN!. The commencementexercisesof Coates College will begin next Friday evening, at the assembly room, with the annual piano recital. The baccalaureate sermon will be preached by Rev. A. A. Pfanstiehl, at the Washington ^iavenue church, Sunday evening, June 10, where the commancement services proper will be given the following Monday evening. On Tuesday evening, Jun» 12, President and Mrs. Duncan will give a reception to Miss Edna Josephine McDavitt, who will, at the commencement exercises, have conferred on her the degree of Bachelor of Arts. The very tasty programme of the commencement exer•ises is from the press of E. P. Westfall.

The French Presidency.

The widest difference of opinion continues to exist in Paris regarding the oandidacy of President Cannot for reelection. In one sense he i» not a candidate, and it would be considered a breach of dignity for him to make a publio announcement that he is a candidate. It is now asserted that Casknir-Perier and Dupuy will refuse to allow their names to go before the assembly unless Carnot positively refuses to accept re-election.

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An Object lesson Introduced Into the ServIce by a Cincinnati Pastor.

r&Pastor Dobbins of the Lincoln Park Baptist church inaugurated a beautiful new feature in his services on Sunday. He announced that he would preach two sermons in reference to spring, one on the growing season and the other on song birds.- Accordingly he asked that members of the congregation, as many as could, bring canary birds to church.

The result was that there were 40 cages of bird3 in the church this morning when the service opened. The cages were hung from the gas brackets, around the walls and on the sides of the organ. The rustling of fans, the noise of turning leaves and the murmur of voices before the service began started the little warblers to work. I^At first they twittered and c.«i#ed to each other, then began to sing. Softly, first one, then another, each gradually gaining confidence and increasing the length and strength of his song, until finally, when the organist began the voluntary and the loud notes sounded, the whole flock broke forth in a Jtrarst of melody. All through the service they kept it up, increasing or diminishing their notes as the noises in the church gave them the cue. The same experience was repeated in the evening. Mr. Dobbins spoke of the birds affording a good example for the human race, in that they worked industriously early and late, raised their young and taught them how to take care of themselves.—Cincinnati Enquirer. ,', -jft 2! all glllllg The Biggest Fire Engine,

Hartford is now rejoicing in the possession of the largest fire engine in the world. It moves along the street by, steam, is steered by a man manipulating a wheel on the box and can throw 1,800 gallons of water a minute a distance of 360 feet When lying idle at the station, the boiler is kept continually fed with steam from a heater, and immediately the alarm is sounded the pipes are disconnected—leaving sufficient steam to run her a quarter of a mile—an arm swings round, striking a match and lighting the fire, with the result that steam enough can be generated in two minutes to move the engine along at a speed of 80 miles an hour.—Hartford Letter, PStlS

Used,Opium For Faint, wmsmm

A rancher onVashon island, Washington, hashis house painted more expensively than any other house in the state. Last fall he found a box which contained 200. pounds of what he thought was a fine quality of fireproof paint floating in the sound. The paint was packed in small tin cans and bore a foreign label, and as it had cost him nothing he thought he would paint his house with it. The house is now painted inside and out, and in doing so the greater portion of the paint was consumed. The rancher has discovered, much to his sorrow, that instead of fireproof paint he has his house covered with about $8,000 worth of smuggled opium, which was thrown overboard by smugglers.—Portland Oregonian. IfltiBSi STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO,

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