Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 June 1897 — Page 4

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Now that Mr. Bayard ha# turned over the Mayflower log let us hope that he will saw

Jerry Simpson can at least congratulate himself that he is the^only one of the kind In the house.'

The sultan professes to fear the Islamic party. It is probably another manifestation

ftf his smpoth diplomacy.

Tom Reed is no doubt congratulating himself that he has not yet felt the tines of Captain Tillman's pitchfork.

Governor Pingree's vetoes pile up at a rate indicating that he 4s not in favor of any-# thing except possibly potatoes.

Time and again Weyler has promised to Sanovas a pacified Cuba but. thus far lie has lot be^n able to deliver the goods.

It is reported that Weyler has been woundled in the jaw. That is very probably where he has been hit If he has been hit at all.

Remarks a Havana paper: "Spain "will not Tool with the United States much longer." Will Mr. Morgan please roll this into a cig-

irette?

The calamity howler should take home to kimself the undoubted fact that he is the kiost consummate bore and burden in the

lountry,

King Humbert is probably replying to the fcreek demand for help from him with the statement that he has plenty of troubles of

his own.

Senator Vest does not approve of higher duties on perfumery. In fact Senator Vest Is no enthusiastic advocate of higher duties

on anything.

Any Connecticut man is persona non grata In Delaware since the former state announced that it will have a million dollar peach prop this year.

The free coinage fellows are still suffering more or less from the old aberration but another sound drubbing will doubtless 'bring

them out all right.

Mr. Bynum discloses the fact that he finds "an astounding amount of gold sentiment in the South." It should not astound anybody

but the white metal zealots.

Uncle Horace Boies is still for international bimetallism. He would even be willing to be elected president and to root for the cause at the seat of government.

The newspapers of Havana are sharply criticising Special Commissioner Calhoun. This fact encourages the belief that our envoy is finding out a few things.

Thus far Steve Crane has made no threats to aJbandon the European concert. He lives In hopes that sooner or later he will get to listen to the tearing of more cloth.

There is no reason why the sultan should have it in for Dr. Angell. The latter expressed perfect confidence in the former's ability to subdue King George, especially seeing that he had the help of the powers of

Europe.

The Salvation Army is meeting with a few legal obstacles in different parts of the country but "this organisation has been accustomed to combating obstacles ever since It was born in an East London park thirtylive years ago.

All of Morgan'^ frot'hing about the house being a "Reed machine" will not alter the fact that Czar Reed, the house and the executive branch of the government are in complete harmony on the Cuban and other important questions.

The gwld reserve in the United States treasury is not so high as it might be but it is above the* highest point reached at any time betiweao 1890 and 1897 and there is not the least apprehension anywhere that it will not remain within proper limits.

The Pima- tribe of Arizona Indians are going to launch an aerial canoe from a bluff on their reservation. It is deemed very likely that the census of the Pima tribe will be reduoed by as many braves as occupy the canoe at the time of the launching.

TheJW-ashington correspondent who has di«co^Sfel "serious differences" in the cabinet on the Cuba«i question ought to make application for a job as a war reporter. His #magination is of an order peculiarly suited •o the description of battles that he never •aiw.

Senator Morgan has no doubt that Spain will declare war against the United States. If this fond hope of the Alabama senator comes to nought there is absolutely no telling what he will do. However, there is no reason to entertaiu the pleasing thought that he will be still.

Prince Constantine should not commit suicide. There may yet be a good opportunity

for him to die in the front line of battle. That is about the only way he will ever be able to regain the Greek adulation that was his when he distinguished himself in the Olympian games.

The hope that Coxev, having failed as a promoter of the "reform press," would be content to persist in his retirement down on the farm appears to be doomed. The notorious Ohio champion of any old thing as money threatens to go back into the "industrial army" business.

One might suppose that Morgan "would find sufficient occupation for his belligerent tendencies in the senate but he cannot resist the temprtatton to extend his mouth-cam-paign to the house^ It is really wonderful how daring he is in assailing Czar Reed when the o*ar is at a uf« remove.

Jetra J. Ingall* says the Orson City fight seared him nor made him sick."

If this is true how did John ever write so poor a story of what he saw? There is no denying the fact that he was not at himself, It is barely possible that he got his baggage misplaced—that pare of It containing his extraordinary vocabulary.

Mr. Henry Watterson does not like what he calls "the Cleveland school of civil service reform." It is not of record indeed that .the eloquent editor likes the Cleveland school of anything. "He is one of the rather numerous multitude of people in this country tirat long since realized the fact that Grover is simply a solemn and pompous

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Omaha star bank wrecker got nineteen years in prison. He made a mistake when he did not operate in Indiana. Out here the more a banker can steal the more we think of him. There was honest hearted Johnny Johnson, for instance he got only a few years for getting away with half a million dollars. Indiana is the promised land for a re

Should the National T. P. A. convention at Nashville, Tenn., this week, decide iu favor of Chas. R. Duffin, for presideut of the association for the enauing year, ifc would be conferring an honor upon one of its most earnest and ardent workers and a pleasure to a large number of his friends in this city and at ait e. He justly deserves this recognition of his zeal and energy in the work of •building up the T. P. A. His friends—and their name is host—feels a just pride in all that concerns him, for they have learned to know his sterling qualities. He has lived among us these many years, as bay and man, and has steadily gone forward and upward, showingpluckand'lndomitable energy as well as ability and as president of the T. P. A. he would prove that the convention had made no mistake in choosing a man worthy in every way of the confidence reposed in him.

BUSINESS MEN TESTIFY Grover Cleveland does not think we can have any prosperity under the present administration. Professor Wilson, author of our troubles, agrees with the ex-president. Mr. Carlisle, once of Kentucky, entertains similar opinions. These gentlemen are echoed by the cheap money crowd and the free trade fellows. All in all the combination is a most dHamal one. Professor Wilson is writing columns at so much per to show why prosperity cannot come back under the policies of the Republican party. Mr. Cleveland rfiade one lugubrious speech but it brought down on him so violent a storm of criticism because of the third term ambition that was thought to lurk behind it that the fisherman has crawled into his hole and pulled the hole after him. It would be folly to expect any of these malcontents, these chronic enemies of the Republican party and its enlightened, ideas, to, recognize any favorable tendencies to develop. The professional politicians of Democracy, Popocracy and Populism would like to see all Republican promises of restored happiness utterly fail.

But they are going to be disappointed. They would be disappointed now if they had eyes to see and would use them.

The business men of the country say good times are returning. They declare that the fact is apparent in their enlarged receipts of money. Here and there are found persons engaged in commercial or industrial pursuits who state that as yet they cannot see any clear gains but the leaders in" the business world, the more cosmopolitan and better informed men, appear to be a unit in the declaration that the improvement has been slow but constant ever since the election. A few days ago there was a meeting of prominent tradesmen and manufacturers in Cincinnati. They came from all parts of the country and represented many dif­

ferent interests. Their expressions in regard to the business outlook were uniformly cheerful. Said Mr. Duncan, a St. Louis manufacturer: "I think the present year will be a good one to$ all lines of business." Said Mr. Pullman of Chicago: "There has been a decided change for the better in business affairfe." Said Mr. Glessner, president of the Chicago Commercial club: "I am positive that we are on the "eve of an era of prosperity such as we enjoyed previous to* the depression." Said Mr. Doane, also of Chicago: "I am free to say that business is

better than it has been for three years." Mr. J. W. Chandler of Boston: "I am confident that a revival is at hand." Mr. dowry of St. Louis: "Improvement is going on in the commercial world." Mr. Kohlsaat of Chicago: "There is a revival of business in

every branch." This testimony is from the lips of men who know what they are talking about. An ounce of it is worth more than a carload of Professor Wilson's opinions.

THE PARTY OF PROSPERITY. It Is amusing to place together the two leading charges made against the Republican party by the Democratic press, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The first is that the business depression of the las{ four years was caused by latent conditions prepared by ihe Republicans and handed over in 1893. The second is that a full tide of national prosperity has not appeared during the second month of the new R^ublican administration. These accusations are contradictory and damaging excuses. They not only conflict but Involve a compliment not intended. As for tie subtlety of the Republicans in preparing a disguised panic and unloading it upon the Democrats, that is a fantastic idea. Up to the last month of the Harrison administration the treasury reported a surplus. Then the Democrats took hold having been intrusted with full control of the government for the first time In more than thirty years. It was their business to avert dull times and strengthen the national revenue, and they should have thanked fortune that the difficulties were only "latent" not yet visible or urgent.

But a few months of untrammeled Democratic rule elapsed until the people discovered that the country had fallen into incapable hands. Everything went wrong. The national revenue fell off, and a heavy deficit appeared to take the place of the lo&g-estAb-lisbed surplus. An insufficient and politically shapelen tariff bill was passed. It had the double fault of violating the pledge of the party platform and failing to meet current expenses. Tite industries of the country languished, business confidence was lest, and new ventures Were indefinitely postponed. From this suite of demoralization and distress sprang almointlonary "Defnocratic fusion and attackfuftflB th« stand/trd of v*I-

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ues, threatening to reduce it one-half. Here was iPandora's box with a vengeance, and yet the Democratic explanation is that the Republicans had laid a trap yeara before. Why the Democrats failed to avoid ail traps is not cleared up. It is imperative that a party in full control should at least have that much gumption.

On the 4th of March a little more than two months ago, the Republican party took charge in Washington of a large assortment of Democratic debts, deficits, complications and tariff absurdities, and, at the same moment, the Democrats demanded immediate good times. Mr. Bayard is reported to have recently asked a crowd, "Havfc you seen the General?" In reply to the query, "What general?" his answer was, "Why, General Prosperity." In lees than ninety days the Republicans are expected to Testore the country to buoyant conditions. They have never failed heretofore to do it in due time. Whatever of statesmanship and courage was necessary they have supplied. They are now engaged in framing the sort of tariff they are pledged to, which is precisely where the Democrats showed one of their varieties of bad faith. The inheritance from the Democrats is not in the form of "latent" evils. They are numerous, positive and pressing.- But the Republican party expects to make short work of them on tiua as on former occasions.

CURRENT EVENTS.

A* mass meeting In ChicAgo shouted "Hang him" when Thomas B. Bryan, an eminent and conservative citizen who presided over this Sunday gathering of his fellow citizens, asked what the verdict would

be if Yerkes were arranged before a jury in tlhat city. And those several thousand orderly citizens yelled their approval. Among the speakers was John Harlan, the Chicago idol and he talked of Leiter, Erskine, Phelps, and Dr. Parsons, the philanthropist, who are stockholders in Yerkes' street railway companies as bribe givers, maintaining that they knew the agents of their companies were giving bribes to members of the legislature to secure votes for the bill which is to make more valuable'the bonds and the watered stock of the railroad companies. He said the officers of Chicago's great banks were conniving at the corruption at Springfield because their banks had tied up their depositors' money in loans to the Yerkes* crowd. And these men, said Harlan, and so say about all the newspapers, are "professional" leading citizens. And the orderly •citizens applaud the sarcasm. One newspaper which advocates the proposed legislation is accused of being under the contract of the rich stock speculators. It comes under the head of "plutocratic press." When It is said that this sort of talk is anarchistic, the reply is that the real anarchists are the men who own the stock and bonds of the street' railway companies, which are endeavoring to get a better hold on the use of the streets of Chicago.

When Judge Baker of the United States court at Indianapolis from the bench suggested the use of the,lamp post for street car stock speculators the Indianapolis press did not censure him instead he was upheld and the street car stock manipulators ^vere declared to be the real anarchists.

There is a strangely familiar sound in allthis. During the Pullman strike it was charged that "professional" leading citizens of Chicago, who were Pullman stockholders, but wiho did not appear in the controversy, were receiving increased dividends on their watered stock by means of the starvation wages paid at Pullipan and when the men who made the charge and hinted at lamp posts were called anarchists, they replied that these rich men were the real anarchists.

Henry Watterson, though one of the first of the Southern men to accept the result of the war in all sincerity and with full comprehension of what it meant, met with opposition when he appeared as a campaign speaker at Danville in this state. He was billed to speak with Governor Hendricks, but a crowd of hot-heads announced that no ex-confederate woyld be allowed to tell the people of that county how they should vote. Governor Hendricks sakl that if Mr. Watterson were not permitted to speak then there would be no speaking by anyone. Then the sheriff, a Republican, "gave it out flat" that Hendricks county would not be disgraced by a denial of the right of free speech and Mr. Watterson was permitted to make a speech.

Mr. Watterson is not the first ex-confed-erate to eulogize Lincoln. In the early '70's L. Q. C. Lamar, then a member of the house of representatives, in a speech in Mississippi said Lincoln was the greatest of all Americans. It was a' courageous utterance at that time but the Mississippian not only reiterated the statement when called to account for it by his southern admirers, bat proceeded to prove it and also to make the point that the death of Lincoln deprived the south of one who would have been its best and most efficient friend in the days of the reconstruction or the southern states,

There is an unusual activity In telephone circles in Indiana. Both the Central t/nion, which is the Bell subsidary company, and the independent companies are extending their lines. It will not be long before the state, is covered with a cobweb of telephone wires. The especial effort seeems to-be to connect groups of towns and small cities. The Logansport exchange is adding a dozen towns to its list, one of these new towns being Marmont, the railroad station at Maxinkuckee.

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Graves of Johsitoirn Flood Vletlm*. Johnstown, Pa., Alay 11.—Tie eighth anniversary of the Jjiinstown flood was tppropriately observed this city today wh»n thousands of people, many it ihfin i-aflng lost friends and :iear relative in the jrr«f appalling disaster -»f rece.it tim» visited the beautiful cemetery of GrauJ View a: it'Oi top of the hill, the unknown plot tbut contains the unidentified Itodi^s of over £00 victims of the disaster was literally coviied with flowers.

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hft Only Tbl»4 and Nothing More. The Springfield (Mo.) Leader says? "A pretty Springfield girl clothed in a shirt waist is undoubtedly one of the most attractive sights on earth." Quite likely.— Chicago Times Herald.

STOLE HIS SERMONS.

RBV. OR. tREOa CALLS DOWN A LITKBAUY riSATE or BRASS gall.

Ib« Former Terre Ilaate Preacher Objects fo Having tils Intellectual l£(Torts Credited to Somebody Else. 4

Alnfost everybody in the city will remember the Rev. S. V. Leech, D. D., formerly pastor of Centenary M. E. Churcfo. Two years or more ago he removed to Cra.wfordsvilie and was succeeded here by the Rev. Mr. Tucker, the immediate predecessor of the. Rev. 'Mr. Tippy. Mr. Leech was recognized as a strong preacher. His sermons were remarkable both for searching ^thought and striking rhetoric. He is now pastor of the leading Methodist Church of Crawfordsville. The following article taken from the New York Commercial Advertiser tells its own story:

The Rev. S. V. Leech, D. IX, a well known preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Churcfh, residing at CrawfordsVille, Ind., complains that in a volume of sermons published by the Fleming H. Revell Co., of Chicago and New York, and also by the Western Book Concern of the Methodist Episcopal Church, there is a remarkable instance of plagarism. In the "Homiletic" of September, 1878, Dr. Leech published a sermon entitled "Joy •Among the Angels Over Repenting Sinners." This sermon now appears in the book enti tied "Revival Themes," published by Revell, but as from the pen of a certain Mr. A. G. Browni Too solitary difference between the discourse published by I}r. Leech, nineteen years ago, and the one now published by

Mr. Brown is that Mr. Brown has left out one-third of l3r. Leech's sermon. But in every other respect it is the same sermon Dr. Leech has submitted the two sermons to Dr. Funk and Dr. Gregory, the associate editors of the "Homiletic," who says: "We regret to be obliged to state that we have eaxmined the two published sermons with care, and find Mr. Leech's statements concerning plagiarism true. The two sermons agree verbatim et literatum et punctuatim." This surely is theft and not plagiarism.

The delinquency of Mr. Brown reminds us of a story related by a New York clergyman. For some time there had been a system widely prevalent in England of obtaining original sermons written by invalid clergy, and sometimes by ladies, and lithographed so as to have the appearance of manuscript sermons. These sermons were often preached by men who had not either t!be leisure Or the brafins to produce their own compositions. In a cathedral city in the south of England there resided a Canon Brown, connected with the cathedral chapter, and a Mr. Brown! a Methodist preacher, who thought he had a perfect right to prefix the title '.'Rev." to his name. But Canon Brown considered that only the clergy of the Church of England had the sole prerogative pf using this clerical title. It 'happened that ft he Rev. Mr. Brown frequently opened by mistake a number of letters intended for the Rev. Canon Brown, but he always sent them to the cathedral dignitary with a humble apology. The mistake frequently occurred. At last the Rev. Canon sent t'iie following caustic message: "The Rev. Canon Brown presents his compliments to Mr. Brown, and accepts bis apology, but he would remind Mr. Brown that if he would not lay claim to a title to which he has no legal right such mistakes as these could not occur."

But Brown, the Methodist, had his revenge, Some months afterward a package of lithographed sermons came, addressed to tie "Rev M.r. Brown," and were delivered at the house of the -Methodist minister, who opened it. Mr. Brown immediately sent the package to the cathedral canon with this note: "Mr. Brown, Methodist preaciifer, regrets exceedingly that he has opened the package of lithographed sermons by mistake, but if the 'Reverend' Canon Brown would not attempt to exercise a sacred office for which he has no intellectual qualifications such mistakes as these could not occur."

IN THE COURTS OF EUROPE

Behind the Scenes With the Nobility of the Old World. To what extent police terrorism continues to prevail even in: the very highest circles of Russian society is shown by a cause celebre jaow in progress at St. Petersburg, which, by the personal order of the czar is being conducted in full view of the public, writes Marquise de Foptenoy in the Chicago Record.

The "prisoners are a general, Count MerentVille. de Ste. Ciaire, great-grandson of one of ithose French noblemen who emigrated durJpg the" reign of terror at Paris 100 years ago, a magistrate named Selenko, and Count Vladimi Popow. The latter is a younger brother pf ihe late Admiral Count Popow, who was pelijbrated throughout Europe as a naval constrjuctor, while in Russia Itself he was famed for his enormous wealth and immense estates, the latter being situated for the most part in the southern and most fertile provinces of the pi re

Cout Vladimir Powoow. the admiral's youngest brother, is a man of this most deplorable reputation and antecedents. He has shown himself on many occasions to be devoid both of scruples and honor, and it was entirely dlue to the generous assistance of the admiral in several instances that he was not publicly d'isgraced, expelled from all the clubs and even criminally prosecuted.

The admiral died a few years ago, having survived but a short time the demise of his intimate friend and associate, the Grand Duke Constantine and greatly to the dismay of Count Vladimir he found that there was no mention of his name in his brother will the admiral presumably having been of the opinion that he had done enough for him during bis lifetime.

Two of Vladimir's friends and associates came to his atalstance at this juncture. They were the Magistrate Selenko and General de Ste. Claire. The latter had spent a portion of his career in the imperial police, in the service of which he remained, indeed, until 'promoted to the rank of general, and he was believed still to form a very Important part of that particular branch of the secret political police which is known as the third sec-

^There two men, the magistrate and-the general, managed to get hold of the only son and •ole heir of the old admiral, and by dint of threatening him with banirhment to Siberia, and with sudflen and mistertous removal from his accustomed haunts?, terrorized him to such a degree that he not oniy surrendered to his disreputable uncle one-half of his fortune, but actually left the country, and took up his residence in Paris, where he considered that he was safe from the danjjer of any sudden and secret deportation to the wilds of Siberia.

After being there for a time, he seems to have plucked op courage. For. when the czar was in Paris laet year, he took advantage Of his presence to present him with a petition in which was set forth the manner in which he had been frightened into the surrender of Half of his inheritance. The csar did not have an opportunity of examining into the matter Until he got home but shortly after Christmas be Instituted a,little quiet examinaUon on his «wn account, which culminated In his discovery of the conspiracy to which young Ivan Popow had been subjected. By the order of the czar both the magistrate and the general were at once arrested*, and have been kept under lock and key ever slnoe. being permitted to -hold no communication with each other or yet any outside friend.

Count Vladimir Popow was arrested in Germany on an extradition warrant, and now. in jpite of all the pressure that has been brousht to bear upon the emperor and the authorities to hush un the «jtire matter, the whole affair

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It mtv be added that the threat made by the general "and by the magistrate was no empty one. and that it woaid have been oulre poselb'e for them, by virtu# of their official position. secretlv to klpnap and setee evert «*fon«»teuous mlNlonaire and nobleman as Count Penow nM ship him off to torn® desolate portion of Siberia, where he would" have

«t stquMMrrt am* eat off from all oommunic&tloo with bis friends for the remainder of his day*.

In Russia, when a man suddenly disappears, no one asks what has become of him or makes any inquiries. It is taken for granted that he has Incurred the ill will of the "W or

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displeasure of the goyernment. 90 that under the circumstances it in prudent to abstain from any comment. The government never vouchsafes any information as to whom it has or has not arrested, or as to what has become of the people it has taken into custody.

This mystery on the one hand adds to the awe and dread which the government inspires, while on the other hand.. it naturally enables •the prepetration of such'pleces of high-hand-ed villainy as that with which Count Ivan Popow was threatened by the general and the magistrate.

Alt extraordinary cas® of what is believed to be involuntary homicide has just taken place near Aix-la-Ch&pelle on the estate of the duke of Arenberg. Puring the course of a shooting partv a young Belgian nobleman named Coupt Edouard de Brlcy way killed by what seemed to be an accidental discharge of the gun of one of the game-keepers. The peculiar feature about the affair is that this very same game-keeper just twelve months ago accidentally shot and killed during a shooting party another guest of the duke, a rich manufacturer named Blankenhom. and almost on the very same spot where he laid low the young count. The game-keeper was condemned to three monthe* imprisonment for criminal carlessness hi killing the manufacturer. but showed so much sorrow and distress when released from jail that the duke took him back into his service, with the fatal result just mentioned.

CARRIER PIGEONS FOR HAW AIT.

Winged Messenger Service to be Adopted Between the Isldnds.

A carrier pigeon service on a large scale is about to be established on the Hawaiian Islands. Pigeon flying is generally carried on as a pastime, and is the national sport of Belgium but a company has just been formed in Honolulu to utilize the peculiar traits of the homing pigeons in a business which is set forth in a prospectus as being very remunerative, says the Chicago Tribufie. Birds have already been sought and taken to the islands. The proposition is to establish lofts on all of the different islands in the Hawaiian group, beginning first wibh Hawaii, Maui/Kauai and Oahu. By means of fast flying pigeons messages can be sent from Honolulu to al'l the towns and plantations on the different islands and vice verba. It is believed that not less than fifty plantations will join the scheme.

Commissioner Joseph Marsden of Honolulu, who is at the bead of the new company, has mailed maps of the island to the bestposted homing pigeon men in this country, and they have replied that neither the distance between the islands nor the channel winds will be an obstacle in the way of successful flights. Kauai and Maui are both but 100 mi?es from Honolulu, and the most distant point of the islands from Honolulu is but 250 miles. The best record shews that pigeons have flown 614 miles in one day in a fly from Gainesville, Ga., to Philadelphia. This could be done regularly, but it is generally considered a feasible plan to fly pigeons over moderat-sized bodies of water at a very fast rate.

The need of more frequent and speedy transmission of meessages between the islands of the Hawaiian group has been strongly felt, and as there seems to be little or no prospect of an interisland cable for some years at least, the proposition to establish a homing pigeon service is deemed a good business scheme. The company being organized is to begin with a capital of $4,000 divided into 400 .shares of $10 each. It is proposed to begin with a loft in Honolulu and equip ft with fifty pairs of ydung birds of pedigree stock and half a dozen older birds with established reputations. It is expected that within a year birds will be raised all over the islands and the service will be in full blast.

A very similar scheme to that of the Hawailans is also being established between Alaska and Puget sound. The long delay experienced in receiving news froii or transmitting it to Alaska has been a serious drawback Superintendent Duncan of the Alaska Treadwell Mining company has secured severail pairs of pigeons from an Alameda Hancier and a large loft has been built at Treadwell for their accommodation. As soon as tfhey breed, an attempt will be made, after training the young birds, to fly them from Port Townsend or some other Puget Sound port. The distance is 823 miles by steamer, and is too much for a bird to fly in one day. As a homer makes slow progress after the first day, a system of stages will be inaugurated. Stations may be established at Juneau or Dugolas. Island, Fort Wrangel, Fort Tongas," Xaniamo and Port Townsend.

GAGE'S SIGNIFICANT TALK.

•He Held That the Currency Question Should Be Speedily Settled.

Special to the CHicaeo Record. Washington, 'May'30—Secretary Gage returned this morning'from Cincinnati, where he has been attending the annual reunion of the Commercial Clubs of Chicago, St. Louis, Boston and Cincinnati. He reports a large attendance and a good time, and says thft the commercial and industrial interests of the cities named were very well represented. "People appeared quite cheerful, too," said the secretary, '"rfce reports from all directions for a revival of business were encouraging. Everybody said that things appeared to be picking up, but whether the revival is only spasmodic and temporary they could not say. It depends largely upon the action of congress. If we can have peace and quiet in this country and freedom from agitation, and can have the currency question settled and t*he new tariff rates fixed there will be no trouble about a return of prosperity. Everybody is ready and hopeful, but you cannot expect people to do business when they are nervous and uncertain about the future. think I satisfied them -that tbe president is in earnest and is going ahead as rapidly as possible with the currency question. and that congress is going to settle the tariff very soon. They.don't care what the rites of duty are half as much as they want to know what they are going to be. The manufacturers and merchants of this country can adjust themselves to almost any tariff if they only know what it is, but no man can prepare himself lor an uncertainty." "The moral value of these reunions of business men is very great," said Mr. Gage, "aside from the pleasure of renewing old friendships and forming new ones, and other sentimental considerations. When tho representatives of the chief industries and tbe commerce of four great cities meet familiarly, exchange ideas, compare notes, correct misapprehensions and stimulate confidence It has a wonderful effect upon them, an.5 after they get home they radiate the impressions and sentiments they have acquired, so that the influence is felt over a wide area and among a large portion of the community. "I talked wfth most everybody," continued Mr. Gage, "but I did not find a jingo in the crowd. Everybody wants peace and cessation of agitation. They think that the administration and the congress of the United States tbave enough to do to look after 70,900,000 of our own people without igiving the rest of the world the benefit of their attention. While of course we fell a sympathy with suffering humanity in ail parts of the world—in India and Armenia and Cuba and Greece—we have troubles of our own. and it ought to keep us busy minding our own business. Sympathy for the oppressed and the distressed should be encouraged, but it should go forth in the form of private benevolence, and not be made a part of an administrative policy."

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A DRUGGIST'S YAM.

"I am still a young man, though my Lair is almost white," he said when he at last consented to relate a few of his experiences for Tbe Post "But the drug business Is in many ways a trying one. I often wako in the night dreaming that I have poisoned some nnfortnnate by mistake. When I first began to compound prescriptions, I was very nervous about the components, and wonld look at a bottle several times before using its contents, and when finished wonld go all aver them to make sure that I was correct. Upon one occasion I became so nnxtons that, having carefully prepared a prescription and given it to a lady, I hastened after her. and took away the bottle under the pretext that it was the wrong one, and throwing it ont of the window I made dp the mcdicine all over again. Well, well, that WBS over long ago. I believe it wonld bare killed me if had made a mistake. But I never did. So I gradually became more confident, and now my own nerves, as well as dangerous f|| drugs, are under my control. "Yea. A man in my calling does hold a

good many secrets In his keeping. I fancj jM? that has helped to age me. Tbe problem of one's own Individual existence Js a sufficient tax on the mentality without plunging into the great maelstrom of human lifa "Do you ever feel yonr oollcetion of either people's skeletons to be a dangerous ai y. well as a heavy burden?" "No," he answered, "I never think ol that except perhaps in my dreams. No doubt theW area number of irreproachable ladies and gentlemen who will sigh with relief wBen they see my name in the deatn column. Nevertheless this is a civilized country and man is a creature ot habit. "I began life as a physician," he continued, "but I had neither capital nor influence, and so came to grief. I then took a situation as a drug clerk, in which capacity I managed to save enough after a few years to take a small store on the outskirts of the city and set up for myself. It was at this period of my life that the experiences I am about to relate ocourred. "The neighborhood where I found myself was semifashionable, and I did fairly well. The first Bcene in one of the most interesting real life dramas I have ever witnessed took plaoe on a lovely June evening. "A beautiful boy, apparently about IS or 19 years of age, entered my shop an*1, asked me to sell him a very small quantity of an extremely insidious poison. 'I want it to mix up with come other stuff to kill inseots,' he explainrl, with sweet smile. 'I'll take out a patent some day end make my fortune. I'm no end ot a chemist.' "He wanted so little of the drug that 1 could see no harm in giving it to jim. While I was wrapping the tiny parcel I looked curiously at my customer, for ifc is seldom you see so beautiful a youth. There was something odd nbout his expression. When he smiled, bis shapely lips parte.1 over rows of pearly teeth, but though the lines about his mouth were sweet, the effect was not altogether pleasant, because his eyes widened suddenly and shot out a tigerish gleam, half mocking, half^ cruel, that was as extraordinary as it was"transitory, But the peculiarity that struck me most forcibly was the small, well poised head and the delicacy of the profile of the tiny, shell-like ear, as he stood outlined against the ted sunset light that flowed through my western window. I also observed a mole that set off the whiteness of his throat about half way to his low collar. "Well, it was a number of days before I could get that pretty boy out of my head. On the third morning I read in the papers an account of the sudden death (probably of heart failure) of a prominent gentleman who had recently taken up his residence in the city. The reporter who wrote up the tragedy told pathetically abJ\it the grief -f the young widow, who had been devoted to her husband, despite the fact that he was a good many years her senior. "It was quite by accident that I went to the inquest. A friend of mine, happening in, asked me to nccompanv him, and for want of better employment I wont. "The afternoon was waning when tbd beautiful young widow took the stand to testify. A murmur of sympathy and admiration greeted her as she made her answers in a low, sweet voice. As she spohe the ghost of iorgotten music seemed to fill the room. I was strangely reminded of— I could not tell just what. The coroner spoke a few words of condolence and regret that he should be forced to question her. As he did so a faint suggestion of a smile flitted across her lips, and at the same time her eyes widened and agleam shot forth, as thbugh the blinds that guarded those windows of her soul had been for a moment raised, disclosing the inward Are. The expression was gone in a breath, but my heart was beating rapidly, for the illusive merfiory had come over me more strong' than before. 'Who was this woman, an. of wljat did she remind me?' I asked myself. Jtfy question was almost miraculously answered, for just then the sun, which had been behind clouds all day, made up hi3 mind to show his countenance for a space before retiring, and, suddenly emerging, lit the sky gloriously, throwing his beam* full upon the western window, nfjair which the black robed figure of the yeung* widow stood outlined. "This association of ideas was sufficient Whether without it I should ever havo recognized her I cannot say, but I saw it all then. The delicate profile, which was turned toward me, the well poised head aiiii pretty, tiny ear, even the mole became vinibleassbe raised her chin in replying rather haughtily to some inquiry. "Afterward I made private investigations among my business confreres and succeeded in finding two who remembered being visited by a beautiful boy on a certain lovely night in June. From each he had purohased an Infinitesimal quantity of a particularly insidious drug used to kill lncects—and other things." "Did no one ejse suspect her?" "If tbey did, they never made their suspicions public," he replied. "If half of the crimes committed in this desperate old world came to light, the criminologists would be forced to the conclusion that only the good people are abnormal.''—Washington Post.

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