Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 September 1896 — Page 3
ALL M'KINLEY MEN
*EW YOKE DRY GOODS MERCHANTS fOB SOPSl) MONEY.
A Whooplnc Demonstration at Their Flirt M.o«Ui*»K—Cliauncey Depe*M ,« Talk.
Tfew York, Sept. 17.—Tt^ Sun says: Lunch was at a discount in the wholesale dry goods district yesterday noon. Every body forgot to»eat and went to the big sound money rally at Leonard street and Broadway. The big meeting room was jammed beyond the space where it was possible to hear the speakers by enthusiastic men, who cheered the speakers to the echo. It was the first meeting of the Wholesale Dry Goods Republican Club, but of the hundreds of men who signed the roll a large proportion were sound money Democrats. From this time on there will be a meeting every noon, and Mayor Strong announced yesterday that any man who had anything worth hearing to say on the currency question could get abundant opportunity to say it on that platform.
His honor, the mayor, president of the club, was escorted to the platform by Vice President William B. Fuller and was received with cheers when he rose to open the meeting. Mayor Strong said: "Gentlemen of the dry goods trade, and any other trade who favor sound money and sound men, I hope you and all your friends will vote for McKinley and Hobart. The whole political aspect has changed this season. The Democratic Chicago platform has been repudiated by all the honest Democrats. Sound money Democrats are with us in opposing the Populistic platform. We have with us the best elements of the Democratic party in maintaining our national honor and making every dollar issued by this government as good as any dollar isEued by any other government. We are fighting the battle against repudiation. We can welcome all our Democratic^ brethren to this club."
At the mayor's request "America" was Bung at the close of hi3 remarks. He then introduced General Horace Porter. General Porter began by commending the dry goods men as men of honor and good sense. "There is no more chance," said he, "of changing the currency than there is of your changing your yard sticks. Have you heard a whisper from Maine recently?" "Whisper?" yelled a man who was standing up in a window seat. 'Twasn't a whisper. It was a whoop!"
It was a whoop, without doubt, that greeted this correction. General Porter Bmilingly accepted the amendment and proceeded: "I think we have about tomahawked one candidate. Another will be scalped in six weeks or so. Justice Bryan is still going about getting notified. He don't stay at home for the notification. He just swings in a circle and meets tliem. He will be notified of a political death warrant in the first week of November. Issues no longer make parties. It is parties who make the issues. I'm glad to see the honest Democracy joining hand in hand with us to repudiate the putting of dishonor on" our country. When a blow is aimed at our mother country all her children rise in her defence. We stand for the gold bug against the humbug. When the war broke out both McKinley and Bryan tfere found in arms, McKinley with a musket on the battlefield and Bryan in the arms of his nurse. We will push the repudiation so far £own that no one will ever seo even its coat tails again."
Great cheering followed General Porter's speech and broke out afresh when Chauncey M. Depew got up to talk. He said: "You know I was born in the country. Most of my life was spent there as a granger, and the transition from a granger to a railroad monopolist is a very easy one. I feel today like an old leader in a Sunday Bchool class meeting where I used to live. When the experience benches were full of repentant sinners he would look at us and say: 'The time for preaching is over. Now let's shout.' When I read the news from Maine Here Mr. Depew was interrupted by yells upon yells for the Pine Tree state and it was some time before he could resume. Continuing, he said: "We ought to have some sympathy for some of our fellow citizens who are not with us. I refer to the few Democratis who have gone up to Buffalo to hold a so-called convention. Every one who went had that headline in the newspapers this morning, '50,000 from Maine,' to inspire him for martyrdom. I want to say to you, I received a telegram direct from Buffalo today that the gutters of that city were running with water wrung from the eyes of every wooden Indian sent up by Tammany Hall. "Bryan says he is seeking the salvation of the man who works for wages. He proposes to do it by a panic. Does this village lawyer know what a panic means? You dry goods men do. When you have a panic you know how it effects your trade. Bryan seems to think that the panic attacks the railroad president, the mill owner and the merchant, but doesn't touch the farmer or the man on the pay rolls. Why, such a belief is a monstrous exhibition of incapacity on his part, even to govern the little city of Lincoln, where he lives. Some of us have passed through a panic and wc know something about it. A panic means that the mills are to close, the furnaces to go out of blast, the store to put up its shutters. Does that mean that the employer alone is to suffer. No, my friends, it means for the wage earner that he is to go home to bis family without his weekly wage, and that the reut cannot be paid, and that the butcher bill and the grocery bill must be put off if possible to another day. "It means that the insane asylums, the almshouses and the graveyards are to be filled with the penniless and the despondent. When Bryan was in congress he offered free trade as the panacea for our ills. Well, free trade hasn't closed evrything it has only closed about one-half. Now he proposes to close the other half and he offers us free silver with which to do it. He reminds me of a quack doctor who was giving his patient some sort of a potion, but the patient continued getting worse. Finally he was asked what he did it for, and be said that he was trying to throw the eick man into fits. 'You know,' said he, 'I am death on fits!' "Bryan said that the silver dollar could in time be made equal to the gold one. The answer to his appeal did not come from the plutocrat, the manufacturer or the factory employe, but from the green meadows and harvest fields of Maine and Vermont. These New England farmers say we want good money and the prosperity of 1S91-92, and they are going to get it. "There is no North, no South in this country any longer: no East, no west. No Western farmer is cutting the throats of the farmers of Vermont and Maine. If you can't fool the farmer in New England you can't fool him in Iowa."
His Narrow Escape.
"I was riding along a mountain roafi in Leslie county, Ky.," said a timber buyer to a reporter, "and at nightfall sought •helter at a double log cabin. I had some acquaintance with the occupant of the bouse, and he introduced me to three men who seemd to be boarding with him. Wo }at up that night and played cards until
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late, after which I retired, occupying a bed with one of the boarders, who had been introduced to me as Sam Taylor. During the night it- grew so hot I could not sleep, and I went to the window to get some air. My host was below and, leveling a rifle at me, be said: "Go right back thar, Sam, an' drop yo' derned foolishness."
I hastily called out: "Don't shoot it's me," and hurried to bed. The next morning my host apologized. "I'm glad I didn't shoot befo' I spoke," he said. "Yo" see, these gentlemen yo' met las' night is all 'cused of mruder, sah, an* the one yo' slep' with "has done been convicted an' waitin' to go ter. Frankfort soon'a I kin git time ter take 'im, so I watch 'im putry clost for fear he gite restless. I'm Jailer, an' thar ain't no Jail, so they jess lives with me, and I take 'em huntin' and fishin' an' try to be squar with 'em, so they won't give me no trouble. But that feller Taylor's just sort o' cranky. Killed ten men, an' ef he takes a notion agin er feller he jess shoot 'im, so I didn't want 'im to git outer that window. He's gittin' oneasy, an' I reckon I'll hev ter start fer Frankfort with 'im termorrer."—Washington Star.
FRANK JAMES' NEW JOB.
Will Gnard Bullion Cars Against Western Train Robbers. It would be odd if Frank James, Jesse's brother, were to die at the hands of train robbers who followed in his early footsteps! comments the Kansas City Times. It may come to pass, too.
For now that oft quoted bit of advice, "Set a thief to catch a thief," has been heeded by the express companies who carry fortunes through the Southwestern States in their strong boxes, and who lose them sometimes at the hands of desperadoes.
Frank James, whose career of crime is, perhaps, second only to that of his notorious brother, Jesse, is to accept a position as special express messenger, his duty being no other than that of meeting train robbers at their own game.
Frank James^ is no longer young, but he can still shoot with both hands and shoot straight. But it is not on that account alone that his services are in demand. The men who have made him an offer have decided that the reputation which the man won as a desperado when the band which he and his brother lead was the dreaded scourge of several states, will prove a better safeguard for their bullion than even his ready revolver.
Indeed, it has been said, and with some foundation, that if Jesse James had heeded his brother's warning he would never have been shot down by Ford, whom he trusted so fully that he removed his pistol belt and turned his back to him only to receive his death wound. Frank James had said: "Trust no one when the price on your head is big enough to make a man rich."
He is willing to become a watchdog and guard bullion for a living providing the men who wish to employ him will agree to his terms. "I'll take the job," he told them, "and any one who gets the money from any car I'm riding in will get it over my dead body. But I've been supporting my family and little more, and. if I should go under I want to be sure that they will be provided for. "Now, I'll tell you what I'll do. You sign an agreement by which they are to get $20,000 in case I'm killed and I'm your man. I know enough about some of them to be sure that they can still shoot a little,' even if the business isn't what it used to be."
So the man whose name was once feared throughout several states is waiting to see if the expressmen will play $20,000 against his stake, which is his life. It will be strange, indeed, if the former desperado, the brains of the most bloodthirsty set of outlaws this country has known, stands on the side of the law against men who regard him and his brother as patterns to be followed.
OVERTURF SUSPENDED.
His Name Included In Chairman Gideon's List—Also Miller. Philadelphia, Sept. 17.—Chairman Gideon of the L. A. W. has issued the following weekly bulletin:
Suspended (pending investigation)—V. P. Dole, Kansas City, Mo. Louis Gimm, Cleveland, O. Gus Ellwanger, St. Louis E. M. Humphries, Columbus, O.
Suspension Raised—Robin Fletcher, Pendleton, Ore. M. Kennedy, New Orleans C. J. Neuman, St. Louis.
Suspended for Competing in Amateur Events, After Having Ridden for Cash— Frank Eberhardt, Salini, Kas. ninety days, from August 8th and E. M. Ward, Winfield, Kas., sixty days, from August 8th. Thirty days, from September 1st, for competing in unsanctioned races Charles S. Smith, Charles M. Evans, Salt Lake City, Utah. Thirty days from September 10th, false entry: Loss Hiller, Ft. Wayne, Ind. Allen Schruyer, Huntington, W. Va. Will Overturf, Indianapolis. Thirty days, from September 11th, unsanctioned races: O. F. Iminell, Kevelman Ole Olson and A. A. Herrick, Blair, Wis. Sixty days from September 11th, unsanctioned races: Ray Allison and F. Strantz, Mt. Carroll, 111. Suspension placed upon R. Guy Lee, Depere, Wis., is for ninety days, from August 92th,' instead of thirty days, as reported in bulletin of August 29th.
Permanent Suspensions—Competing in unsnnctfoned Sunday races while under suspension: William Aldridge, Arthur Griffin. W. W. Hatlon, F. W. Holbrook, W. J. Hutton, Charles Miller, J. L. Staldefer, W. A. Taylor. Emil Ulbricht, Clyde Washburn, Los Angeles, Cal.
BRAND NEW SPIDER STORY.
This One Spells Out the Words "W. McKinley" lu Its Web. Jeffcrsonville, Ind., Sept. 18.—A spider web three feet long, with the words "W. McKinley" woven plainly in the web, is drawing hundreds of people to the scene, which is on a commons in this city. Other webs have the initials "W. M." and the letters McKinley plainly woven in them. The letters are made by the large "gold spiders." Their backs are golden and they are unusually large. The letters are interpreted to mean that McKinley will be elected.
Makes a '''ST Bet On McKinley. New York, Sept. 18.—Gottrrled Walbaum, owner of the Saratoga Racing Association track, and Joseph Gleason, a bookmaker, became responsible last night for what is considered one of the biggest election bets up to date. During a talk about political prospects in the Grand Union Hotel, Saratoga, both men became groatloy exited. "I'll bet you $10,000 to $3,300 that
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will be elected," shouted Wal
baum at last. Gleason inquired laconically. "When?" "Now," was tho equally laconic reply.
Gleason produced the cash and agreed to accept Walbaum's check. The stakes are now in the safe at the Grand Union Hotel.
We will almost give away music on Saturday next to our sheet music sale. Be sure and attend it. Paige & Co., 648 Wabash avenue..
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A STfiONG ARGUMENT.
HOBART'S LETTEE OF ACCEPTANCE COMPARED TO BRYAN'S.
What the Dry Good* Economist Think* •t the Two Let te**.'''
Mr. Hobart's letter, on the other hand, is a clear, convincing, unembellished .statement of easily verified facts and the natural and logical deductions therefrom. Much of what Mr. Hobart says is new only in form, but in many instances that form is happy, epigrammatic and eminently calculated to drive home into the minds of our citizons the facts which it clothes. He dwells on the necessity of this country proclaiming to the world that the American dollar shall be any dollar equivalent to a gold dollar of the present standard of weight and fineness. He points out that any attempt on the part of the government to issue a dollar whose value is unsupported by gold would cause incalculable injury to this country, lower instead of raise the value of silver, defraud every man, woman and child possessing deposits in savings banks, insurance policies or shares in building and loan associations, entail an enormous loss on the manufacturing interests of the country, reduce the pensions of the soldiers who shed their blood in the war, and bring discredit on our country such as has never befallen any other nation which had the ability to pay its honest debts. Mr. Hobart made an excellent point in his refutation of the claim of the free silver advocates that the gold standard has wrought injury to the country when he cited the increase of the per capita ownings of the country in the decade between 1880 and 1890 to $1,036 from $870, and the increase in those ten years of the wealth of the country by over $21,000,000,000, or 50 per cent, in excess of the increas over any previous ten years since 1850, and at the amazing rate of over $2,000,000,000 a year.
Mr. Hobart's statements In. regard to the tariff are, like the rest of his letter, forcible yet conservative. Reference to, the inadequate revenues now yielded to the government leads up to a quotation from the St, Louis platform showing the moderation of the demands in regard to tariff legislation made at the Republican national convention, and the statement that while the adjustment of the tariff must be conceived in moderation and with a view to stability it is the duty of the government to protect and encourage in all practicable ways the development of domestic industries, the elevation of home labor and the enlargement of the prosperity of the people.
This is in marked contrast with Mr. Bryan's perfunctory remark that "taxes present a problem which in some form is continually present, and the postponement of definite action upon it -involves no sacrifice of personal opinion or political pros-, pects," and his absolute silence on how the revenues of the government are to be obtained and how the nation is to be preserved from bankruptcy in the event of his election.
No stronger document in favor of the election of McKinley and Hobart and the maintenance of the gold standard could possibly be prepared than by printing the letters of Bryan and Hobart side by side.
TRAINED ORANG OUTANG.
Ho Wears Clothing and is an Expert on tho Bicycle. Joe Storms, the first orang outang that ever visited the Pacific coast, was a passenger from Portland, Ore., on the steamer State of California, says the San Francisco Bulletin. Joe is at present quartered in a large, blanket-lined box on the Oregon dock, attended by a whole menagerie of badgers, civet cats, pumas and other animals. But Joe is the principal attraction, for he was brought here from Borneo on the steamer Coptic, In charge of Mate Storms, who had hunted on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, and during his chase had encountered and slain Joe's mother. Joo was then a mite of a simian, all arms and legs, and as bald headed as a firstnighter in the front row and as hard to please as a 2-year-old.
Mate Storms took Joe up north to educate him, so he said, but before the seaman's protege was finally prepared to receive his education another party purchased him. Joe was taught a good deal, however, and returns to us as gifted as is Johanna of the zop. Joe didn't enjoy the voyage down the coast, for he was seasick and could not eat his customary two meals a day. He had a good rest yesterday, and this morning he felt better. Harff boiled eggs were served to him at 11'o'clock, and these he relished immensely, carefully removing the shells before eating, just as a man would do. Bananas he is passionately fond of, and he is as dainty about turning the peel back as a lady wfth glovfed hands would be. After breakfast Joe roiled himself up in his blanket and took'a good snooze.^ Joe's hands are like those 6f an old woman, and his face is not a thing of beauty by any means. He has a mouth that runs a good deal too big, and his underjaw is rotund and heavy, like the husk of a cocoanut. Two Intelligent eyes peer out from beneath a forehead that is always furrowing like that of a man who is trying
TERRE SAUTE EXPKESS, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 18,1896..
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In no way has the weakness of the free silver movement and the' Strength of the effort to maintain the gold standard been so clearly emphasized as by-Aba letters of acceptance of Mr. Bryan and Mr. Ilobart, published this week, say* the Economist. From the volubility of tbe'iree sliver candidate and! the impassioned appeals lie is constantly making in behalf of a change to a silver standard, from his oft-repeaied claim that the gold standard is pressing down upon the brow of labor a crown of thorns and that this country can obtain prosperity solely by the abandonment of the standard now in use by all the foremost nations of the earth, no one doubted that the greater portion of Mr. Bryan's letter would be devoted to an exposition of the advantages to be gained by the change which his election would mean. But no. Mr. Bryan's reference to the all absorbing subject of discussion is confined to a mere statement that the tariff must be subordinated to "the crisis presented by financial conditions, that tremendous results will follow the action taken on the money question and delay is impossible, and that in the presence of this overshadowing issue differences of opinion upon minor questions must be laid aside in order that there may be united action among those who are determined that progress towards a universal gold standard shall be stayed and the gold and silver standard of the constitution bo restored." Not a word of argument, not a fact or figure in support of the position of Mr. Bryan and his deluded followers in regard to what he himself calls the overshadowing issue. "What's the use of argument," Mr. Bryan's silence seems to say, "when I can do so much more by attempting to set class againsfe class, to stir up hatred between employer and employed, and to convince people in one portion of the country that their fellow citizens in another portion are their natural and deadly enemies?"
to do some hard thinking, and the top of his pate has Just enough of small bristles oh it to suggest the idea that Joe has used hair restorer with the smallest kind of success.
The education of such a sensitive simian as Joe was not an easy task. He is a tender hearted brute and cannot bear a scolding much better, than, a'child. When whippied he weeps large monkey tears that roll down to and off that upper lip like drops ol rain on a rotunda. It required large numbers of hard boiled eggs and plenty of "ripe bananas to entice him to carry the %pd. dress himself, pull the cork out of a pottle and ride a bike. Yes, Joe bikes, though he is by no means a scorcher. He couldn't set the pace for a'run to San Jose, nof could he even ride hard enough to puncture a tire. He does not have to" stoop over lo each the handle bars, for his arms are as* long as his body, and when he gets down to hard pumping his elbows are going hopper fashion, above his shoulders. Joe can run along at an average speed, smoke a pipe while at work and pick up anything thrown on the ground in the track of his wheel while under way. When Joe shows off before company at the dinner table he takes a coat, vest and trousers from a small trunk, puts them on without aid from his owner, adjusts a collar and necktie, places a napkin under bis chin and makes himself comfortable in a dining chair. He cuts a slice of bread, peels a banana and uncorks the water bottle set before him. Then he eats and drinks to his heart's content. The dock hands on the Oregon dock do not tickle Joe's fancy. In fact, the young fellow is not very sociable to strangers, and it is said that he resented the passing of able seamen in front of his cage on the steamer by threatening to grab the offenders by the ankles.
BUREAU UNDER THE GAMBREL.
How One Woman Solved the Problem of an relySpmi*. "A" practical young patron recently found herself confronted in the evolution of her country home by the ugly slant in the bed room walls made by a gambrel roof. The bedd room had no lath or plaster on the walls—simply rafters and clapboards and to place a bureau, or, indeed, any piece of furniture against this inclined plane of ugliness was to make an awkward efZect at once. Calling upon a carpenter, she ordered him
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the whole side of the room under the gambrel, carrying them up to about half the distance between the floor and ceiling. The lowest drawers wtre, of course, very deep, extending far in under the eaves they were delightful depths, in which you could lay the skirt of a dress folded once. i3ach drawer above decreased gradually in size until the last were small receptacles for handkerchiefs and gloves—the little things which make a "glory hole"' of the most top drawers.
A ten-inch shelf, neatly beveled along the edge and made prettily neat with frilled muslin covers, afforded more space than is usual for the necessary toilet, silver, cut glass bottles q,nd powder box. The one broad window on that side of the room, with a Grecian latticed casement, looking out upon tho water, immediately became a fascinating window recess by reason of the4)uilding out of these deep bureau drawers. With an upholstered platform seat and pillows it is a haven not only of rest", but a thing of picturesque effect.
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To cover the floor with a white matting and a couple of blue and white Japanese rugs to give the whole room (including the high post single bed turned out for $7 at the planing mill), a coat of blue paint to hang, .blue and white Japanese drapery at the windows and as valances round the bed and washstand to cover the bed room screen and frill the little chair pillows with this same cool, washable material, which retails for a song—all this was to give the freshest, most summer-like aspect To a room whose decorative possibilities at one time Seemed well nigh hopeless.
WOMAN WHO CLEANS A CITY.
Mrs. Plclterlll Bid Lowest and Obtained the Contract. Dehver has a new garbage contractor, an4 it.is a woman. In spite of her sex, the preserves once thought to be the sole and undisputed possession of the sterner sex ha^e JjSen invaded, and this contract has goije to a woman simply because she was the lowest bidder, and now all that she asks is a fair field and no favors. The new contractor is Mary E. Pickerill, and sho says that she means business. Certainly she has given that impression since taking hold of the work. There has been a veritable'garbage war, but it has closed with Mrs. Pickerill, enterprising contractor, ahead, and her antagonists are obeying the law as laid d6\frn by her.
Mrs.'Pickerill is a widow and has brought up hei1 family of children unaided. She is a woman of business ability and plenty of nerve, and was willing and anxious to take the work at a lower figure than it has ever been done before, promising to show the city fathers how even so unsavory a contract can be filled properly and yet with profit to the city. Mrs. Pickerill took charge of the work, after supplying a giltedged bond in double the amount she is to receive fop her work, and, in spite of the ridicule heaped upon her by the city press and the public in general, has taken hold of the work in a clear-handed manner, which promises the cleanest sweep in garbage that Denver has ever known.
While a year ago it was costing the city at the rate of $10,000 a year to remove the garbage, the new contractor does the work for $280 per month and it seems possible that in the near future the city may be selling its garbage to the highest bidder instead of paying for its removal, ibis woman contractor having already inaugurated this innovation.
That "cleanliness is next to Godliness" the Western woman is mora than ever convinced, and Denver has a "village improvement society," whose ^members are making a crusade upon unnecessary filth. The tobacco fiends of the community are to be supplied with cuspidors galore and the so•cieyt hopes to marshal enough influence to cause an ordinance to be passed in the city council making it a misdemeanor for anyone to expectorate upon the sidewalk or upon the floor of any public place.
AN INDIANA PEACH STORY*
Second Crop Being Picked and Prospects For Another This Yaar. Ligonier, Ind., Sept 18.-H. H. Burnett of Elkhart county is harvesting the second crop of peaches raised this season. He reports good prospects of securing another crop before the winter weather sets in. The peach is of the California cling variety. Some six years ago Mr. Burnett planted the pits, which resulted in bringing forth the now famous trees. About the 1st of July fce gathered the first crop of the fruit. The second crop was picked yesterday, and the yield was phenomenal. He expects to get another crop in about thirty days. Similar conditions are reported to exist in a number of Northern Indiana' counties. Strawberries have also been picked this month in abundance.
The Express is the only Sunday paper in Terre Haute. 15 cents a week.
NO COEfiCION THERE.
RAILWAY KEN DISPROVE THE WILD POPOCRATIC ASSERTIONS.
Fifteen Hundred Employes' of the Pennsylvania Thke Part in a Soand Honey Rally at Iiogansporu /i,*1!
Logansport, Ind., Sept. 16.—The railroad men's sound money rally held in this city tonight was so far beyond the hopes of the projectors that it was a surprise even to the most sanguine. Ten days ago, when it was found that Mr. T. J. Brooks, second vice president of the Pennsylvania Lines, could be secured for a speech, it was determined by the leaders of the Logansport Railroad Sound Money Club to bring him here and to invite the railroad men from towns along the line to join in a demonstra tion. The word was passed up and down the line, and almost every man employed by the Pennsylvania expressed a wish to hear Mr. Brooks speak for sound money. Accordingly extensive preparations were made and the result more than Just! fied them. There were 1,500 railroad em ployes in the line of march, headed by an engine under a full head of steam. Follow ing the engine the men marched two abreast, with red, white and blue lanterns and transparencies bearing mottoes declaring the sentiments of the marchers. One of these was particularly appropriate in view of the slanderous talk about "coercion of railway employes" by the Democratic paper of this city. It bore the words "Do we look like we were being coerced?"
During the march over the principal streets there was continued cheers from thousands of throats, and when the Culcago employes of the Pennsylvania, 500 strong, marched past the reviewing stand, on the balcony of the Murdock Hotel, the men shouted to Mr. Brooks that they were with him, heart and soul, and would stay to the end. Every man in the line was provided with Roman candles and sticks of red fire, and the sight was inspiring as they marched through »the streets. Business houses and residences on the line of march were handsomely decorated and the city as a whole was in holiday dress.
The parade ended at the opera house, where an audience which packed every available foot of standing room gathered to hear Mr. Brooks speak. Mr. Brooks opened with a review of the situation, calling attention to the disastrous effect Popocracy's proposed repudiation would have upon the business interests of the country. This nation is anew one, he said, building up on borrowed money. Capital has sought employment where it felt it was safest, and came to the aid of the growing republic. Considerable time was given to the business history of the country, showing periods of depression and the causes thereof. The remedy for this, he declared, is a restoration of confidence, and on this now de pends the prosperity of the republic. The situation,' he said, is critical, and American citizens must realize it. Mr. Brooks «spoke for two hours. He was listened to with the closest attention and was enthusiastically applauded.
ORIGIN OF LAUGHTER.
Handed fabwn as a Souvenir of Early Ferocity. Just as the hoof of the horse is the remnant of an original five toes just as the pineal gland in man is now said to be the survival of a prehistoric eye on the top of the head, so, perhaps, .this levity in regard to particular ailments (in others) may be the descendant of an aboriginal ferocity in man. It is a well known theory that what we call humor arose from the same source that the first hurqan laugh that ever awoke the astonished echoes of primeval forests was not an expression of mirth, but exultation over the misery of a tortured enemy. observes the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
There is to this day something terrible in laughter. The laugh of madness or of cruelty is a sound more awful than that of the bitterest lamentations. By means of that strange phonograph that we call literature we can listen even now to the laughter of the dead to the hearty guffaws or cynical titterings of generation after generation of bygone men and women and if we are curious in such matters we can probe into the nature of the changes that have passed over the fashion of men's humor. For it has been said, not without the support of weighty cumulative evidence, that as we penetrate further into the past we find the sense of humor depending always more obviously and solely upon the enjoyment of the plain, misfortune, mortification and embarrassment of others. The sense of superiority was the sense of humor in our ancestors or. in other words, vanity lay at the root of this, as of most other attributes to our bumptious species.
Putting ear to our phonograph, we catch the echoes of a s-range and merry tumult boisterous, cruel, often brutal, yet with here and there a tender cadence from solitary voice, and presently this lonely note grows stronger and sweeter, as we travel slowly toward our own time, until at length, through all the merriment, we can hear the soft undermurmur of pity. Does the pictures not seize the imagination—the long laughter of the ages, which begins in cruelty and ends in love?
WANTS HIS SALARY IN GOLD.
A Minister Who Will Expect This If Bryan is Elected. At the annual meeting of the hoard of trustees of the East Baptist Church, Hanover street, near Glrard avenue, Philadelphia, held last Monday evening, tho pastor, the Rev. C. H. Woolston, announced that in taste William J. Bry^n is elected president he would expect his sal-irv to bo paid in gold, staging at the same tlms. "I cannot receive the devil's money for the Lord's work."
The trustees agreed with the minister and decided to grant this request, if Bryan was victorious. It further agreed that all the church bills would be paid in gold instead of silver. As the church is composed almost entirely of the laboring class, this and the trustees, said:
The Rev. M. Woolston was seen at the church by the Philadelphdia Press and when spoken to upon the actions of himself and thetrustees, said: "The free silver proposition represents repudiation, and in doing so violates one of the commandments, which says: 'Thou shalt not steal,' so we will repudiate the whole thing. "At the annual meeting on Monday evening I appeared before the board of trustees and told the memDers that in case Bryan should be elected 1 should expect my salary to be paid in gold, further telling them that I cannot receive the devil's money for the Lord's work. I gave my reasons, which are summed up in tbe statement that when a party gives a nation dollars which are worth but half the factvalue it violates the laws of God and christian men should protest. "The trustees, who are gold men, vi «.grt rt with me and decided to pay not only
my salary, but all obligations in an honest currency. We will not touch silver if Bryan wins. "The people pf my church, and we number 1,000 in the congregation, are all working people, and with but few exceptions they are for sound money. Out of 400 voters in the church I don't believo there is a score who will vote for Bryan."
In speaking of the general sentiment prevailing through Kensington the Rev. Mr. Woolston said that so far as his observation extended, the people in that vicinity were for honest money. "There are those who make speeches for free silver on the sidewalks and after drawing crowds of listeners go away believing that the district was all silver. People listen because of curiosity, and when they hear these talks are more convinced of the fallacy of silver than ever."
The Rev. Mr. Woolston will deliver a number of sermons upon the poiltcal question during the campaign.
CHEERED AS AN ANARCHIST.
An Episode of the Boy Orator's Louisville Meeting. Louisville, Sept 15.—Although the Republicans say thsre is little or no defection from the ranks, two well known members of their party here have gone o\er to Bryan. One is Mr. Matt O'Doherty, a lawyer, who ran for lieutenant governor on tie ticket with Colonel Bradley against General Buckner eight years ago. The other is David W. Fairleigh, also a lawyer. Mr. O'Doherty presided over one of the Bryan meetings last night, and in in producing Senator Blackburn before Mr. Bryan came, said: "My presence on this station tonight em-ph'-sizes my departure from my past politlcal associates. My Democratic friends, I( have fought against you in the past but I would sacrifice my own self respect if I did not support you now that I think you are right." He said he had not left the Republican party, but the Republican party had left him. He said that the Republican party had left the party of Blaine and Lincoln. He alluded to Bryan as the greatest anarchist that ever liyed, and there were wild cheers. This remark led to a funny.' mistake later. After Bryan's speech Joe Blackburn come forward and started to ring in one of his brimstone illustrations. "Who is the recognized leader of the anarchists in this country?" cried Senator: Blackburn. The crowd remembered whatO'Doherty said, and "Bryan, Bryan," was echoed back. "Hold on a minute," continued Mr. Blackburn, "It's Herr Most," which seemed to surprise the crowd.
There are two Republicans on the benc\ of the Court of Appeals, Judge Guffey of Edmonson county and Durell of this city. Both are for silver, but they say they will support the Republican ticket, though they take no part in the campaign. This morning Mr. St John Boyle, who was the party nominee for the senate against Blackburn last winter after Dr. Hunter withdrew, published a statement denying that he would vote for Bryan. He used to be a silver man, but now he says he stands on the Republican platform.
VANITY FAIR.
Divorce is coming to be so common an incident in fashionable society that it has been thought necessary to devise a code of etiquette for the guidance of the lady who is reaping its benefits and her friends. "The individual herself," says this new code, "when public announcement is made of the legal processes by which she will enter on a stage of peculiar widowhood, always waits to know on what terms she will be received by her friends when legally absolved from her matrimonial obligations. The friend who agrees to uphold and countenance the wife in the case always gives at once proof of sympathy. It is in eminent good tasto to call, after the fashion of a condoling acquerntance, leave a card at the door and sen'', up a modest offering of flowers. If no flowers are employed as indications of £oed will a message of noncommittal kindlfnes? rnd an inquiry after the lady's health a*, proper. Again, when the legal business is at an end and the feminine actor in the domestic tragedy retires for a time to her parents' house or makes ready to go abroad, the indications of unaltered interest ara made through the medium of visiting cards personally delivered. Ten days or two veeks liFving elapsed, a call is in order and an invitation is often given to a small and formal dining. Usually when so much ceremony is observed, the very deferential negotiations come to an end or merge rsto the usual polite intercourse. Where the friends! ip is more intimate a short and carefully expressed note should be dispatched to the lady. After a time a call is in order. No more recognition of these courtesies is required of the recipient than the s.mpie 'Thank you' of a wife bereaved by death of her chosen mate."
Dinard, I think, is the place on the continent of Europe that has been the most invaded and taken possession of by the bicycle, which is perhaps a rash statement to make, Einto I have not seen all the places on the continent of Europe, says a correspondent of Harper's Bazar. But the bicycle not a thing of luxury at Dinard. It is simply an indispensable accessory of the toilet, or apart of one's self. The Dinard g'.ri puts on her bicycle costume in tho morning when she gets up and takes it off at night when she dresses for dinner. And the other evening one of the smartest of the Dinard girls stopped at the door for .i minute after dinner, on her way to a concert at the New Club, dressed in a black satin skirt, a pink silk bodice and a l:"ick hat with feathers. When she got up to go and the door opened she calmly threw her skirt over one arm, got onto her wheel and rod* off.
At the concert given a taw days ago at the English church all the girls came in bicycle costumes, and the b'cycle teas, bicycle picnics and bicycle excursions have seriously changed the character of the place. One doesn't see the toilet that used to be inseparable from a fashionable place of resort. Each girl possesses four or five gowns for the wheel. One will bo perhaps skirt and gaiters of ecru linen or blue holland with a pink blouse, belt brown leather and brown shoes. Another a very smart and elegant little costume of light clpth, made with skirt, bolero and gaiters alike, worn with a black belt with a Breton buckle of old silver or rococo-work, and a sailor hat trimmed with stiff black ani hite couteaux or quills. A third is a rough-and-ready gown of cheviot, Scotch tweed or blue serge, for hard wear. A fourth may be entirely of white pique made with coat and skirt. But Dinard is absolutely the most independent place about dress I ever saw. One can get through the season perfectly comfortably with three pretty frocks—a smart blue serge, a pique white serge and one light evening dress vith two bodices for the Casino and functions. All this, o' course, if one is not •naking part of a large house party or going in madly for society.
Minister Willis' l.-nlal.
Honolulu, Sept. 9, via San Francisco, Sept. 16., per steamer Australia.—Minister Willis denies that President Cleveland empowered him to negotiate with the Dolo government for either annexation or return to a monarcbial form of government He said the matter had ne.er been referred to at Washington.