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Now that Mayor Harrison has decided to permit "boxing" in Chicago the prize fighting sports of the Windy City are preparing for a season of great activity.

It is rumored that a free silver orator in Arkansas was addressing a large crowd the other day when he suddenly became speechlees. The story lacks confirmation.

Joe Blackburn's continued silence gives rise to the hope that he no longer regards himself as one of the most important and responsible factors in American life.

Perhaps the free sllverites are in some degree excusable for receiving with symptoms of incredulity the announcement that the Philadelphia mint is turning out money "very rapidly."

A saw mill engine exploded in northern Indiana, both ends of the boiler giving way. The engineer says he is a pleasure-loving man, but does not particularly take to this sort of a blow-out.

It is reported that Tom Reed does not know a great deal about the financial question. If this is true it means merely that Tom is one to a large company of American statesmen who are in the same fix.

[Pugilists are demanding more and more time for training for fights. The objectionable feature of this state of affairs is that It encourages the unrestricted garrulity that often leads men into strange political camps.

Up in the Klondyke country a fiddler gets |35 a night. But he pays out most of it for his daily portion of bacon and beans. The Klondyke is a great country in which to make money and even a greater one in *hlch to 6pend it.

Somtibody has said that there is no prosperity in Georgia. If this were true it would indicate that Georgia had slipped the belt that connects her with the rest of !he country. But the chances are that the itatement referred to will not bear close Investigation.

It is perfectly eafe to say of a man's yiews on money when they become difficult af explanation that they are not Republican. The grand old party believes in the gold ttandard pure and simple. It takes no stock whatever in the uncertainties covered by the term "bimetallism/'

It is said that to the Spanish admiral Captahl rtJeneral Weyler has written a "blistering communication." Weyler has always been a success at making war through his correspondence bureau. He succeeds in that particular almost as infallibly as he fails in the field.

The Ohio Democracy is again represented by a thorough-going bourbon. Chapman, the candidate for governor, says he will be elected "on account of the unkept pledges of (McKinley." Waiving the f»ct, known to all men, that never before cfid a national administration so promptly redeem its pledges nor with more perceptible good results, the Ohio Democracy is to be considered as the old "ferninst" party which opposed all the issues advocated by the Republican party since the beginning of the war until in each instance It would have been foolhardy to persist in the opposition. %rhe attitude of the Democracy last year was deserving of come measure of commendation because it was aggressive, but the Ohio campaign has reverted to the old-time cowardly policy of fault finding.

The indications are that William M. K. Olcott will be the regular candidate cf the Republican parly for mayor of Greater New York. The public lias learned much of Seth

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The Hon. William Jennings Bryan and! .the Hon. W. F. Cody continue to draw big crowd*.

It is said that Missouri trains are "loaded down with Bryan men." But fortunately the country isn't.

This year Texas is building a. number ot railroads. Last year that state wu saving Its money and buying things to eat.

The St. Louie Republic says the silver craze will never die out. If it doeen't it may as well prepare to be again knocked out.

Hawaii is williDg. Those people out there do not intend to neglect an opportunity to identify themselves with the best country on earth.

The Washington Post calls suicides cowards. This leaves open to the would-be self-destroyer only one way—to lick the editor first.

Now James J. Corbett will begin to mourn nfreeh. Just an ordinary coachman, and a small-sized fellow at that, knocked Fltzsimmons to bis knees.

Low, the candidate of those men who would resent "bossism" by dictating the nomination in advance of a convention, but Mr. Olcott is not so widely knovjn. No Barnum methods have been used to advertise him. He is 35 years of age, a graduate of New York College and Columbia law school and is now district attorney of New York City. In 1894 he was the Republican leader in the board of aldermen. He is an intense partisan but all his party acts have been credita ble to him as a man alid strengthening the Republican party*. He is by no means a machine man. In fact he rebels inside the party where machine rule seems to him to be hurtful to th*e party and this is the best kind of a reformer, but he is not an overfed, self-sufficient "reformer" such as those who for the sake of making a reputation bolt their own party and with malice aforethought encompass its defeat, though they frankly admit the Tammany party thus enabled to acquire power is not nearly so good as their own party. s'

THE SEALS CONFERENCE. •During the coming month in the city of Washington an important conference will be held at which four great nations are. to be represented. The conference is for the purpose of arriving at a settlement of the seals fisheries question and the countries that will participate are Great Britain, Russia, Japan and the United States. For a long time this government has been doing its utmost to have such methods adopted in the North Pacific as would prevent the extermination of the seal herds. United States experts have claimed that this fur-bearing animal was rapidly diminishing in numbers and that its total destruction was only a matter of time. Great Britain, on the other hand, has disputed the position taken by the United States and has contended that no precautionary steps were necessary to preserve the seal herds—that they were not in process or danger of destruction.

It has been with extreme difficulty that the state department at Washington has succeeded in gaining the consent of Lord Salisbury to open the controversy with a view to arriving at some adjustment that would remove it permanently from the domain of diplomacy, where it has long been a source of vexation and more or less of a menace to the peaceable relations existing between the two countries. At last the British government has agreed to go into the matter again within certain limitations described by Lord Sal^bury when he mentions the object of the proposed conference to be "to arrive if possible at correct conclusions respecting the number, condition and habits of the seals frequenting the Pribyloff Islands at the present time as compared with the several seasons previous and subsequent to the Paris award."

The British premier, it will be noted, desires to bring the inquiry within well-de-fined boundaries. He wants that the conference in October shall make clear what the effect of the Paris award has been on the situation. He is of the opinion that nothing further is necessary in order that the seals shall be protected and it is manifestly his wish to get the controversy off his hands with as little trouble as possible. Of course the United States will present an immense amount of authoritative testimony sustaining its claim that the seal herds are diminishing and it is altogether probable that Russia and Japan will side with Uncle Sam on the pricipal propositions involved in the dispute. Thus the pressure on the British representatives will be made exceedingly strong and it is hoped and believed that their prepossessions will be at least in some measure overcome.

CONTEMPT OF COURT DECISION. The decision of the Wisconsin Supreme Court this week reversing the action of a Circuit judge in a contempt case is in line with recent decisions of the higher court in several states, notably that of New York and Ohio. In Missouri as in the two states named the local judge misapprehending his prerogative exercised his power to order the punishment of a newspaper editor who had criticized his judicial action. Until a comparatively few years ago there was no occasion for such test cases and the state laws were silent as to the detail of proceedings against persons accused of secondary contempt of court. Judges were not so open to criticism and consequently were not so freely criticized. The personnel of the judiciary was of such high character that the bench was respected indeed, until there had come to be a general belief that a special divinity hedged it about and that the occupant was at liberty to assert authority such as no law conferred upon him.

Until the reconstruction days in the South there was no federal law restricting the federal judiciary in cases of secondary contempt but the abuse of power led to the passage of a measure which leaves the judge with only the recourse of any other citizen who may be libelled, provided always that the strictures do not impede the course of justice in a case pending in the court. And, as has been noted. the senate last winter unanimously pased a bill by which a person accused of contempt of court by violation of its orders, injunction or otherwise, would be entitled to a trial by jury.

In the Wisconsin case a Judge Bailey, of Bau Claire, was a candidate for re-election. An editor accused him of extravagance in the management of the court and of unfairness in his official conduct. Judge Bailey instituted contempt proceedings, whereupon the Supreme Court issued an alternative writ of prohibition. Then the angry judge at once made an order adjudging the editor to be in new contempt because he had gone to the Supreme Court alleging in affidavits that his editorials were true. The Supreme Court ruled that the new proceeding against the editor was in excess of the jurisdiction of the court. In the opinion filed this week the Supreme Court held as follows: "The importance of the questions arising in this case and the imperative necessity of a Wise and just decision can hardly be overestimaied. These questions involve not only the right of a court to enforce due respect for its authority and punish acts which tend to diminish such proper respect and interfere with the performance of its important public duties, but they involve as well the preservation of pertonal liberty as

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summary imprisonment, the rights of free speech, the freedom "of the press and the proper limit which may be placed upon the discussion of candidates for public office."

"We are' well persuaded that newspaper comments on cases finally decided prior to the publication cannot be considered criminal contempt." The court then goes "on to review the rights of courts. It says thai, important as it is that they should perform their grave public duties unimpeded and unprejudiced by illegitimate influences, there are other rights guaranteed to all citizens Which are fully as important and which must be guarded with equally jealous care.

In conclusion the opinion is as follow^: "Truly it must be a grievous and weighty necessity which will justify so arbitrary a proceeding whereby a candidate for office becomes the accuser judge and jury, and may within a few hours summarily punish his critic by imprisonment. The result of such doctrine is that all unfavorable criticism of a sitting judge's past official conduct can be at once stopped by the udge himself, or, If, not stopped, can be punished by immediate Imprisonment. ''4^. "If there can be any more effectual way to gag the press and subvert freedom of speech we do not know where to find it. Under such a rule the merits of a sitting judge may be rehearsed, but as to his demerits there must be profound silence. In our opinion no such divinity 'doth hedge about' a judge—certainly not whan he is a candidate for public office."

CURRENT EVENTS.-

The bearing of those who saw the prize fight pictures was another indication of {he absorbing Interest all manner people take in physical encounters between men ot championship reputations. No fact has been better established than that nothing prinioi in a new»fPjip. is more w:dt'j read ch«n the report of a prize fight. This means, too, as to the varied classes of readers. There is something in the struggle, physical, and perhaps brutal, though it may be, that is fascinating to the -learned scholar and the refined gentleman. They would abhor a dog fight, but their interest in the human fight is as lively as that of the fellow whose Inherent brutality causes him to view the dog fight with the same entrancing emotions with which he would enjoy the alertness and the scientific blows of the pugilists. Said a gentleman who was telling of his own experience: "I went to a prize fight once and before the fighters entered the ring was disgusted with myself. But, after the first round I had unconsciously become prejudiced in favor of one of the men and after the second round I was ready to shout for him, my emotions rising and falling with each blow. I would like to see good fights frequently." The frank admission of this gentleman tells the whole story. The exhibition of these pictures will do more to stimulate Interest in jugilism tlw all that could be done through the newspapers. If there should be a championship prize fight within 500 miles of Terre Haute now there would be many present from this city who could not be interested to that extent by anything short of the pictures

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The (Evansville Business Men's .Asseciation, which, by the way, was founded After. Terre Haute's association was do ng somuch good for the city some years ago, issued 175 merchants tickets to bus ness men in surrounding towns for transportation to Evansville between July Itt and September 1st. This system of transportation has been popular with all coucorned. The Evansville Courier explains that the system has been adopted in varying forms. Jointly by railroads and wholesale Scalers throughout the whole central states. Railroads going into Louisville offer cheap excursions to business men in particular upon, the assurance of wholesale dealers thatthere will be a iarge patronage. .These cursipns ofceur monthly, and the ra e,-is' usually 2 cents per mile for the round trjp. The plan in vogue In Evansville is slightly changed, it being the c9unterpart of one used successfully in Nashville. A wholesale dealer has a prospective customer.'at Olney. 111. He sends the man's name ,io" Secretary Murphy of the Business Men's Association and the secretary issues an der for a ticket to him. He comes, buys and returns. The cost of his transportation is apportioned among the dealers from wbdm he bought.

The civil service reform faddist, of course, would -see nothing except a deterioration 'in the service when there is a removal of an employe who is supposed to be protected by the civil service law. United States courts in two instances have sustained the postoffice department in making removals, or transfers, when it was clearly for the good of the service and not in violation of the law which prohibits removal on political grounds. One case was that of Carr, superintendent of one of the Chicago sub-stations. Carr was appointed by Cleveland a few years ago and then the civil service rules were extended to include his position. Postmaster Gordon thought he could improve the service by transferring him to another position and putting in hia place a man who on coming out of the war entered the postal service as mail clerk and has been in continuous service ever since, holding responsible positions as superintendent of various departments of tbe'Chicago office. How silly it is, therefore, to say that the postmaster could not make this change. The man who is set back has not had the experience of his successor and moreover got his office as a party reward.

Chicago's health authorities have decide® to repeat their policy of last winter by providing free anti-toxin for all destitute households where there are diphtheria cases. The board has mapped out a comprehensive plan of precautionary work. There are fajr more deaths from diphtherial than from yellow fever or smell pox, but not a tenth as much precautionary or heroic treatment resorted to except in a few instances like this of' Chicago. And, no doubt you will find persons imputing to the Chicago board the ulterior motive of furnishing a market for anti-toxin. f-o

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PRESS. FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 24. 1897.

WORK OR GO HUNGRY

WHAT JHE CHAKITIKS WILL SAY TO TBB BEGGARS THIS TEAR.

Citizens'Will Be Called Cpon Motto Feed Those Who Come to Their Doors Bat to Send Them to the Oome.

If thft charities of this city have their way editing the coming winter the beggar with ahatural recoil from work will have a hard 'time getting anything to put under his b4. _«

It bffb been the aim of the Society for Organising Charity since it was founded to jftstourage itinerant begging and the* pauperism th*t springs up from it as naturally as measles spring from measles. The general secrecy and the board of directors of this organization have done all they could to educate the people in wise charity, but still the tramp has been fed and has escaped the rUvine injunction that associates daily bread and the sweat of the face in the seme figure of speech.

The fight has not been successful, but it will not be abandoned. It will be kept up. Perhaps the society will issue instructions to the, public, informing everybody that the beggar should in no case be. given food, clothing, money or anything else of value unless he is made to give an equivalent In return. For Instance, If a beggar appears at your door and asks for something to eat—no matter how plausible the face he assumes—you are expected by the Society for Organizing Charity either to ask him to work for what he wants or to direct him to the Home for the Friendless on Chestnut street just east of Ninth.

The charity people claim that not more than one out of ten of thost- mendicants wlll.ever put in an appearance at the Home. They generally know what a direction to this institution means. They are aware that it signifies work and work is the thing from which they are declared to be ever fleeing, as bad men flee from guilty consciences. If you happen to be dealing' with the tenth man—the man who is honest and willing to earn what he possesses—he will ,go to the Home for the Friendless in respopse to your recommendation and there the matron will give him a little exercise in converting cord wood into sticks suitable for^use in the cook stoves of the city.

Sometimes in the woodshed back of the Home a number of men may be found working awa} industirously for their breakfasts, dinners or suppers. They are paid at the rate of a dollar a day and are charged 25c for meals. There is a certain amount of wood sawing that corresponds to 25c in money and after the hungry wanderer has placed that amount of work in evidence he can walk into the dining room of the Home and take on all he can eat.

What the society wants is that the public shiall understand the folly of feeding the back-door petitioners for food. It is a maxim among charity organization people that when a fellow once fills up his stomach with "lazy bread" he has made a sharp descent in character and is on the high road to professional mendicancy.

IN THE COURTS OF EUROPE.

Behind the Scenes With the Nobility of tha Old World. From St. Petersburg comes the news of a" reconciliation between the czar and his next brother, the ezarowitz, who, in spite of all the reports to the contrary have nofl met since a few days after the death of their father, entertainingly gossips the Marquise de Fontenoy in the Chicago Record. A certain amount of mystery prevails with, regard to the origin of their quarrel, but it is generally believed in Russian court circles to have been caused mainly by the Grand Duke George's matrimonial entanglement at the health resort in the. Caucasus, to which he has been practically exiled since the acoiission of his older brother to fhel throne.

It may be remembered that a short time before the death of the late emperor the grand duke, who was believed to have only a few more weeks to live, was permitted by his father to contract a morganatic alliance with a girl of humble birth. It was understood at the time that the alliance 'was only permitted in order to ease the jjnind of the dying lad, and at the time iwhen it took place no one—not even Alexander III himself—had any idea that his own end was so very near.

When, however, Nicholas came to the •throne and George become ipso facto czarowitz, and at the same time showed no Indications of dying, it became necessary that this morganatic alliance should be dissolved. Indeed, Nicholas,, calling the attention of George to the fact that he himsef had renounced the pretty Polish dan-# seuse La Duska, and hi? two children, and had contracted what was at first a loveless match with Princess Ailx of Hesse, demanded that his younger brother, who had now become the next heir to the throne, should in the same manner repudiate his low. born wife.

This George, who was in Livadia at the time, refused to do, and in the midst of the dispute between the two brothers, telegraphic news was received from th^ Caucacus to say that the girl had suddenly died. George at once returned thither without waiting for his father's funeral and ever since has declined to see his brother, expressing the convicition that the latter had not only acted most ungenerously In connection with the affair, but that he was likewise in some way or other responsible for the young woman's death.

Of course he did not go so far as to Intimate that the czar had instigated her death, but he firmly believed that some unscrupulous Individuals, who were aware of the quarerl between the brothers and ot fte wishes of the emperor, had put the girl out of the way in the hope and expectation of ingratiating themselves with his majesty.

Thanks to the widowed empress, however, the ill-feeling on the part of George has been entirely and completely dispeled. Both his mother and his married sister, Xenias, have ended by convincing him that the czar was entirey innocent of any share or responsibility, no matter how remote, in the death of the girl—not an easy task— for when such confirmed invalids as George get It into their heads that they have a grievance it Is exceedingly difficult to dispel It.

The meeting of the two brothers will take place, not in Russia, but in the south of Prance, where the eiarowitz is to spend the winter, and where the same residence has been taken for him at La Turble which he occupied last winter. It is there that he will be visited by both the csar and the czarina, ~who will come to France Incognita for the purpose.

That the empress mother should have succeeded In bringing about this reconciliation between the brothers furnishes perhaps the most convincing proofs of the falsity of the stories circulated by the Berlin press to the effect that she had been banished from Rysaia by the czar in consequence of having conspired to have him pronounced insane and herself appointed as regent In his stead, and for having caused the minister of the imperial household to send money belonging to the czar to King George of Greece without his majesty's knowledge.

Queen Victoria has raised a perfect tempest among boUl btabeps and baronets by

the authorization which she granted the other day through the official gazette to the children of life peers to prefix the predlcateof "honorable" to their Christian names, just as If they were the offspring of fullfledged peers of the realm, whose title does not expire and become extinct with their death. When the order of baronets was first instituted by King James I., who demanded 115,000 in cash for each patent that he granted, it was expressly stipulated by the purchasers ot this hereditary honor that) no grade between barons and baronets should be established by the crown, and that baronets should have precedence immediately after the children of barons, the latter constituting the lowest grade of the peerage.

The recent decree of the queen .however, in favor of the children of life peers, not only gives them the prefix of "honorable," but also the pas over baronets. This Is held to constitute a violation of the original conditions under which King James I sold the baronetcy.

The baronets' complain bitterly that they are becoming more and more discredited, end that one by one they ire losing all their andient privileges. Thus, until the close of last century they were officially accorded the prefix of "honorable," but this has been withdrawn from them. Formerly, too. they were authorized to wear, at all state functions at court, the badge of their order around their necks. This privilege, too, has been taken away from them and now the crown goes a step still further and gives the pas over them to the children of uumber of individuals who are not in any way full-fledged peers of the realm, but merely what are known as life lords, that is to say, lawyers who hav« a seat in the upper chamber as judges, and whose title is not inherited by their children, but dies with them.

The bishops and archbishops, too, are up In arms—that is to say, those of England and Wales, who alone have seats in the house of lords and are officially described as spiritual peers of the realm. They contend that inasmuch as their spiritual peer-, ages are not hereditary, they are precisely on the same level as the life peers, and that their children and their wives as well should be accorded the same privileges, that is to say that a bishop's wife should be authorized to prefix the word "honorable" to her family name, and that the children should have the pas over baronets and! and be entitled to the predicate of "honorable." At present no provision whatsoever is made either for bishops' wives or for bishops' children, who have no' place whatsoever in the social scale, this bejng a remnant of the prereformation period, when celibacy was the rule among prelates.

Emperor William has just issued another army order addressed to all the commanding generals, insisting on Spartan simplicity and upon absence of extravagance and luxury on the part of the officers. The order is almost idemtical with that isued shortly after his accession to the throne, which had the effect of driving a number of noble and wealthy officers to resign their commissions, on the ground that the emperor had no righS whatsoever to interfere with their private life or with the manner in which they spent their own resources.

Among those who left the army on this account was tho enormously wealthy German brother-in-law of the French Prince de Sagan, namely the prince of FuerstenIberg, who closed his palace at Berlin and declined to return thither while he lived. Emperor William would do well to set his officers an exampe of simplicity, since his financial embarrassments dua to his extravagance are a matter of public scandal.

The Kind It WM.

Johnnie (with a book)—Papa, what does a "conspiracy of silenco" mean!1 Papa—Don't know. One in which women are not concerned, fanafcj—Detroit Free Press.

EXCHANGE ECHOES.

Kansas City Tnims: The Democrats who live west of the A'.l^henlea have 4t looking for anything extra good in the &ha>pe of loyal fighters to come out of New York

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traitors as Grover Cleveland. D. B. H41'., W. C. Whitney and Roswell P. Flower. In the approaching druggie for national supremacy the Democracy of the countrv can win without New Tork. It wou".& prefer to wiin with her, but it refuses to •accept as the price of that result to repudiate one word or line of its declaration of principles or to violate a single pledge.

Brooklyn Standard-Undon: The oldfashioned coupler compels the men to go between the cars, where trains are being imade up, and most horrible accidents frequentl occur as a consequence otf thiis expos re. The new couplers—there are several kinds—work automatically, and the trainmen may stand at a safe distance •while connecting his cars. No argument 4s required to show that such a life-saving device 'should be promptly adapted, but although the railroads were allowed until January 1, 1898, to equip theJr lines with ithis improvement, the statement is made on the authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission that very little attention has been paid to the matter.

Kansas City Star: The refusal of the Kansas PopuUscic Exeutive Committee to caM a meeting to denounce federal oo rts and to boom the Social Democracy shows that the advent of proseprity is making its influence felt in that state. The PopuIdst leaders realize that when people are enjoying good times they are not going to keep up an agitation ifor radical departures from existing methods of policies of government. This is only one of many evidenoes that the Populist party is likely to grow more and more conservative. It •has enough issues on hand now, and instead of adopting more it is likely to tone down those It Is already advocating.

New York Mail and Express: At no time since the states of the South, casting off the lethargy that followed the awful results of civil war, began to compete with the North and East in manufacture, have the statistics of the mills of Dixie been so eloquent as as present of progress and promise. As cotton it' the great staple in production, so much cotton, manufacture become and remain the great feature of industrial ac!tv!ty. its depression or prosperity Indicating largely the general condition of the people. Statistics now at hand show, for instance such comparisons as the following for Alabama, North and South Carolina. Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee and Virginia combined: In 1890. number of spindles. 1,533,250 in 1897. 3,451,631. Approximate increase 120 per cent. The influence of railroad developments in the increase is shown by the fact that on the line of the Southern Railway are located 240 cotton mills out of a total of 434. representing 52 per cent more spinpies than existed in 1890 throughout the entire South. Well may the ante-bellum visitor to the South gaze in wonder upon what he finds there today, and cease to marvel at the steady conversion of Dixieland from the heresy of free trade to the doctrine of protection for the American manufacturer.

Neiw York Sun: The notion that New York Is a Democratic city. Its Republicanism of 1896 having been an accident caaised by the arousing of a sentiment which has passed not to return, must be abandoned. New York as It is to be, or even as 4t Is, Is a Republican city. It believes in the St. Louis platform. It la agttlnst the free coniaire of silver, and against the Incendiary Chicago platform. The Iteub'.ican majority of nearly 60,000 In the Greater New York district last year expresses the actual feeling of the metropolis today: and the domlnatlitg sentiment will continue so long as New York is threatened with the frawd and disaster of Bryarrism. The most striking evidence that New York is a Republican and not Democratic Is the fact that the Democratic leaders dare not take ihe issue between

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parties. They hava slunk away from the Democratic platform, seeing their only ehanoe of victory in the burial of Republican principles under a muddle ot pretended municipal issues and non-partisan ship. Next fall, with the forces of honest money and of conservatism following in. good faith the Republican candidates, the Republican ticket in New York city will be elected and Bryanl«n will be routed again.

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Iff FOUR LECTURES.

THE BKV J. Z. ARMSTRONG WILL 4P PEAK BKFOBK THE I. K. C. A.

The Central Presbyterian Chawh Will Probably Be Secured Wot Th««» Saaday Afternoon Addressee v,

It is the constant effort of the local Younfc Men's Christian Association to have its Sunday afternoon meetings as largely attended as possible. Thus far the management has been very successful in this respect, and there is no indication that it will make a less creditable record during the tresent winter.

Secretary Jamison has fregun the endeavor lor specially attractive features for the fall. •He is trying to arrange with the Rev. J. SS. Armstrong, at one time pastor of the Independence Avenue M. E. Church, of Kansas City, for a series 6f four lectures to be delivered on consecutive Sunday afternoons. The first of this series of addresses has already been arranged for and will be heard one week from next Sunday afternoon. It will be delivered beginning at 4 o'clock tn the afternoon and perhaps at the Central Presbyterian Church. The secretary will attempt t® secure that church for Mr. Armstrong's lectures.

Mr. Armstrong's opening address will be on the subect," "The Stuff That Men Are Made Of." The titles of the other three lectures are not announced. The lecturer was once under the direction of one of rt»e Boston lecture bureaus and was heard over the greater part of the country. His church In Kansas City is one of the strongest belonging to the Methodists. Mr. Armstrong has received favorable press notices wherever he has appeared and is spoken of as man of unusual oratorical gifts. At all these services there will be an attractive programme of music, Instrumental and vocal.

The fall announcements of the Y. M. C. A. will be In the hands of tho printer short-

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ly. The back of the pamphlet is already being prepared and is a neat imitation of alligator leather. Two or three thousand of thise little books will be printed for general distribution In the city. They will contain the full programme of the winter'! lecture course. They will also contain an announcement In regard to the Increased cost of the talent and the reduction in the price for tickets.

It is understood that never before aid an association attempt to give as fine a Beries of lectures and entertainments for the money demanded by the local Y. M. C- A. The talent will cost |2,500, 12 per cent more than it has ever cost hitherto, and the seasoft tickets will sell for $1.50 each. There are ten nui£jers In the course, so that they cost only lJ cents apiece. The fact that first-class entertainments are being offered for 15 cents is a novelty, and one that the citizens of Terre Haute are not likely to fall to appreciate. Yesterday afternoon Secretary Jamison was engaged with Manager Barhydt in arranging for the new theater as the place for holding the lectures

VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.

Measures Proposed That Will Cripple Efficiency of Street Ct»r Service, To the Fy- of the Express:

Sir: The street car service in this city is a matter of pride. It has b&6n made so by Mr. Russell Harrison, and he is ent ll«?d to the thanks of the people for this. Tha city council now proposes to destroy this service by legislation. There is no occasion for the proposed legislation, unless it is that in regard to fendsrf for the cars. The company's interests would he to put fenders on their cars without legislation. But as it has never yet killed any ena because there were no fenders on their cars, the wisdom of even this matter is to b« doubted. To Say the speed of the cars* shall be reduced one-third is to seriously cripple the road, and injure the public. It cannot be shown that the rate of speed at which the cars are run has ever Injured or killed a single person. This legislation then is uncalled for.

The stopping of the cars upon the near side of street crossings has been tried in imany ciUes and abandoned. People want off street cars at the crossings, that are usually kept clean and they will not stand being put off in the mud. Experience upon thjs point in other cities renders the leglsla* tlon as to where the cars shall stop uncalled for and useless.

Mr. Harrison has done all any citizen or man could do to give us the best service we have ever had, and this legislation will not do anything but cripple and give us poor service.

The city council or city councils a« all (legislative bodies usually are, Is prone to •too much legislation. These bodies do not stop to think and see how or what we have can be improved upon. I suggest that th council can and should run the city goveminent upon on© per ccnt taxation. it get after the expense® upon the taxnayers as they are now. Don't hire men to hunt u,p property for taxation unless there is -a cryin* evl( of the failure of our citizens to list their property, investigate how the public can have their burden in the way of taxes reduced. It is not: an easv matter to cut off heade. bm there is no doubt but that the cost of the po.ice force water, fire department, streets and schools can be reduced twenty per cem «nd good service given in fact, far better service than was ever contemplated under the law. Reduce taxation, gentlemen. Do not try to devise ways and means to annov those who are doing public service without cost to the taxpayers.

Cltlzeft

AN IMMENSE TOMATO CROP.

Procession of Wagons Carrying the Product a Mile Long. Special to the Indianasolis New*.

Kokomo, Ind., Sept. 23.-—'The heavy fros.* of the las: few nights have ripened the tomato crop with a rush. The vegetable i» being brought to market at the rate of 200 tons a day all this week. Both canning factories are deluged. The growers start to town a midnight, and by daybreak a procession of wagons a mile in length is at tha factories, awaiting their turn to unload. The Brookside packing works of Kllnger A Charles are putting up 85,000 cans of tomatoes dally, and the Gennebeck works nearly a« much. More than 1.000 barrels of catsup have also been made. The frost has injured the tomato crop severely, cutting it in half at least. One thousand acres were devoted to tomato culture in this county.

Importations of Wool Palliat Off Washington, Sept. 23.—The records ot the treasury department show that the imports of wool at the ports of New York. Philadelphia and Boston during August, 1897, the first full month since the new tariff act "went into effect amounted to 12,873,897 pounds, the smallest importation of any month since January, 1894, when the aggregate was 2,744,406 pounds. The wool importations for August, 1896. amounted to 4,719,778 pounds, and the largest previous Importations was for April, 1887, when it reached 95,569,935 pounds. Last August Importations were very largely of class 3, or carpet wools.

IN HIGH ESTEEM

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Hood's Pills core all liver ills. Seeota.