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The Bank of England seems to have made a very -weak bluff looking to the "rehaibilitation" of silver.

Seth Low's latest utterance conveys in polite language hie intention to be mayor Df the Greater New York or bust.

Gomez and Garcia have but one programme. To lick Weyler so completely that he can no longer lie out of it.

Spain threatens to do her worst if Gomez floes not let up. Is it possible that the Dons have some new enormity in stock?

The silver sentiments of the Bank of England have enough strings to them to preclude the possibility of their escape.

Cheap Dollar McLean of Ohio is practicing up for his exeprience this fall. He is making an easy beginning in railroad collisions.

It appears to be the consensus of opinion^ that Attorney General McKenna, as an interpreter of tariff acts, is not a howling success.

Says a writer on hygiene: "Swearing is healthful."' Small boys should not act upon this suggestion except when their mammas are not about.

Mr. Cleveland has purchased Elbow pond, a few miles from Gray Gables. The expresident probably intends to cultivate somes suckers of his own.

Politics is badly mixed in Kentucky this year. A Kentucky paper says the situation is very dark." Can't it be illuminated with a little moonshine?

There is a great deal of talk about the relations of Spain ai the United States, but it will be observed that Minister Woodford preserves a dignified silence.

Those papers that are disposed to make fun. of Mark Hanna's language should be honest enough to admit that it shows no marks of contact with his headgear.

Since California has raised a $20,000,000 prune crop this year, it is hard to understand how that state has any right to object to being referred to as "full of prunes."

The leading citizen ot Princeton is still opposed to the Chicago platform, but his opposition nowadays does not mean a greati deal. He is a political moribund and then

»ome.

Councilman Graham, in his anti-rapid transit crusade, presents an article of statesmanship discreditable alike to himself and to the city. He should meet with no encouragement.

Weyler promises to wind up the Cuban war in four months.: It will strike the average person that the Cuban war is pretty well wound up now at least Weyler has been wholly unable to stop it.

Those towns that wait to enforce wise sanitation until an epidemic Is upon them generally find that they have delayed matters too long. Cleanliness is next to godliness whether yellow fever threatens or not.

Dick Croker says "the people are tired of Teform." 'Does Richard imply by this that the people are hankering for the rule of the tiger? Certainly Tammany would not invite the contempt of its members by connecting itself with any reforms.

The Hon. Horace L. Chapman of Ohio, a man. who is for a little while before the public, insists that there is no prosperity inthis country. It is one of his ways ot convincing the people of the Buckeye State that he does not know enough to be their governor.

iMr. Bryan wants the Republican party to tssume responsibility for the wheat an-* »orn famine in foreign countries. The Republican party begs leave to say that history does not link its name with famines, rhese things may be more harmoniously issociated with Democratic rule.

AN ELOQUENT SUPPLIANT. It Is highly entertaining to observe with what lavishness of passion and poetry the Hon. Henri Watterson begs the Popocrats »f Kentucky not longer to persist in their apostasy from the true faith but to abandon the fetish of 16 to 1 and came back into the camp "where the fires of Democracy still burn bright and warm and clear." The famous editor speaks to his erring brethren in 4ouble-leads and at length. He asks whether they intend to adhere to the exploded fallacy of free silver coinage at the ratio of 16 lo 1, and to the presidential candidacy of Mr. Bryan of Nebraska, or to put themselves in shape to fight the battle of 1900 "on living and wianing issues."

Mr. Watterson does not think Mr. Bryan Is "a, patent, perfecting, perpetual political Moses." but "a very cheap half-and-half pinchbeck Moses, with a Populist cross and a Protectionist-Republican crown." The aggressive newspaper man does not accept "16 to 1 or bust" as '^Democratic law and gospel." He pronounces it "a mere expedient—and a very weak, losing expedient it that—got up in the last campaign for

fusion purposes, In which It failed most misirably." (n this strain Mr. Watterson chides, exhorts and supplicates. When he thinks of Mr. Bryan he gets wroth and raps right end left. When he thinks of the wandering members of his party he grows.mellow and beseeches then lo return. Be wants that

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the temple of Democracy shall not be desecrated. He desires that an altar shall be erected there "where every Democrat may worship in peace and love." The editor would blot out the past, with its Chicago platform and its Boy Orator. He would forgive and remember not the sins ot those of his party who have gone astray at the beck of a false god He would "open a fresh set of books," as be says, "in which each and every Democrat may enroll himself and begin anew the battle for Democracy, pure and simple, unterrifled and undefiled."

Can the Kentucky Popocrats resist this voice crying in the wilderness and jiromising the remission of sins?

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It is almost imperative that new world's records be made today. We have been so accustomed to making the claim for this track that it is the fastest in the country that we have lost sight of the fact that the same claim is made for many other tracks. Now comes Joliet with the announcement that Patchen and Pointer will race there October 14th that Pointer will go against the wagon record and high wheel sulky record, and that as the track is "the fastest" the horses will make the records of their lives over it. Ottumwa, la., says the pacers will race there over "the fastest" track on October 5th, the track, it is announced, "on which Sirathbqry made his famous racing record of 2:04%."

Twelve citizens of Peoria have ordered a marble bust of Mrs. Lydia Bradley, who founded the Bradley institute, which is to be opened October 4th. The bust will be placed in the building as a gift on the part of the people of Peoria. The Bradley is a new rival of the Rose Polytechnic.

There is some curiosity to know if authorities of other church, or denomiantional schools will follow Dr. Hickman's example dn making an exception of the Normal in their war on the state supported schools for higher education. Of course, the exception ought to be made, though there were merit in the opposition to state support. Perhaps as a matter of discretion the forces which are organizing to make the question an issue in the legislative campaign next year will make an exception of the Normal. The Normal can muster more strength in a popular movement than either, or both together, of the other supported institutions—Indiana University and Purdue. The Normal has representatives—thousands of them—scattered all over the state. Many of them are very active workers in campaigns, too. As illustrating that fact let it be known that last June after the bitter warfare had been waged on the institution in the legislature fourteen "Normalites" were elected county superintendents.

The special tax for these schools, of which complaint is made, amounted to about $200,000 last year. It is one-sixth of a mill and is divided, one-twentieth each for the Normal and one-fifteenth for Indiana University. (Altogether it Is going to be a pretty contest to look upon. So far as can be learned the like of it has taken place in only one other state. This was Nebraska and the state schools won. There are 100 state supported Normal schools in the country, and nearly every state has one or more state supported college or university. Illinois has speni millions where Indiana has spent hundreds of thousands. New York and Pennsylvania have been spending millions for many years and, as was remarked yesterday, universities like Cornell never raised complaint. Either the Indiana church school authorities are far in the vanguard of a new movement or they have started one which was ignored in the older states where they have had more experience.

STEAMSHIP (RECORD BROKEN.

The Kaiser Wilht'lm Reduces the 'Record Made by the Steamer St. Paul. New York, Sept. 26.—The steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der. Grosse from Bremen and Southampton, passed S)andy Hook ait 9:06 p. m. She has broken, the westward record from Southhampton, made by the St. Paul, by twenty-five njinuites.

The Kaiser Wilheirq. der Grosse made the passage from Southampton to. New York in Ave days, twenty-two hours and forty-five minuses, the fastest voyage on record. She is (548 feet long, 66 feet beam and 43 feet deep and of 14,0fl0 tons burden and 30,000 horse-power. On this voyage with a steam pressure of IS6 vounds •and 77 revolutions of her screws she developed a speed of twemy-two knots. She is schooner rigged, has four funnels and twin screws. Her engines are of the tr.ppie, expansion pattern. On a consumption of 500 tons of coal per day she tlevelpoed a speed of twenty-two knots per how. She is commanded l»y Captain H. Englebart.

cMl.lGE ECHOES.

Boston Post: Edward Bellamy, the writer on social ethics, has gone to Denver, Col., in search of health. With all his excellent ideas for the benefit of his fellowman, he cannot devise any theory which will prevent the progress of change and decay, over which even the most benign, paternal government has no control.

Louisville Dispatch: The statement that England is sending a strong force to India. including many battalions of artilleryshows that the rf.beI'ii'on there is not an •insignificant 'matter. It is not improbable that England sess in the uprising the hand of Russia, and is preparing to meet anv emergency which may arise. John BuJl, will not have time, for the present at. leas:, to meddle with the affairs of hds neighbors, and particularly with the affairs of the United States.

Washington Post: The desire to go "slumming," if it Is to be 'restrained at all. must be frowned upon by the pulpit and bv the sincerely religious, oecause then tlie cloak which makes the practice even semi-respectable is removed. When "slumming" Is conducted in'tfte ostentatious manner with which we are most familiar, it should most certainly be condemned. Young girls have been brought in contact with persons ar.d scene® calcuI teted to contaminate and harm. They have been allowed to do this in the supposed furtherance of better morality. They have sacrificed their simplicity and their immaculations, and for what good? •Pittsburg Dispatch: The first argument in favor of socialism of all the varying grades is that the present system has failed so utterly that it mus* be pulled up bv the roots and throws away. We have no intention of disputing the unsatisfaetorv nature of present"'cjwidiiions. We have long exposed and opposed the .abuses which concentrate the opportunities of enterprise to the benefit of a favored few.

The urgent need of reform is indisputable. But as employed. In favor of the alleged reform of putting all enterprise into the hands of the government, the argument of the failure of the system is utterly destructive of Its own conclusion.

Chicago Record: The length of Boston's subways is eighteen mile#. In some places there are doulble tracks and in some places four tracks. The staffl?-«irack mileage in the subways 1s five and three-tenths. As the 'motive power is electricity the air Is good. The oji*«ttan to subways that the air in them Is foul has disappeared with the abandonment of steam as the motive power. The relief to Boston's congested streeyi is reported to be very great 'already. When the entire subway system shall be put into use the busiest streets will be reserved entirely for pedestrians and teams. The trains make very much better time in the subways than they used to make upon the surface of the streets. Blockade and collisions are rendered impossible.

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Sulllvau's Mayoralty Candidacy th« Resatt of the Refusal of the Present Kiecn-j ,v,, tive to Shake Baada With aim. •/,«

New York, Sept. 26.—"Yes, I'm going to run for mayor of Boston. And I won't it, see! It's a million to one shot, a horse to a horsehair I won't be elected. But jftTl turn down Josiah Quincy, and I'm out tf So Mm."

It -was John L. Sullivan who did the tatting. The big ex-champion was found it WUlimantic, where his show was for the evening. "What was the trouble between you and Quincy?" was asked. "He threw me down," replied Sullivan, "at Panyul Hall, the night of the Ten Eycfc reception. I sticks out my hand, but Quincy don't see it. He thought it would be a good chance to fhake a little reputation off me. I heard Quincy make a speech that night, and say, on the level, I was sorry for the sucker. For a man who's the head of a big city and lets on he's a way-up intellectual man, it was a bum speech"If I was as big a fool with my hands as Quincy is with his head, he'd never got the chance to omit to shake hands with me for prize fightin'. No. he's dead weak. He's no mental heavy weight. "But I'm. going to do him," went on Sullivan. "The town's close 5,000 either way, and you can buy a pool John L's got friends enough in Boston to give Quincy a long layoff." "Are you a Democrat?" was asked. "I vote for the bS3t man," retorted Sullivan, "and I don't care a for parties. I've had more favors from Republicans than I ever had from Democrats, and don't you forget that. I voted for Bryan, though." "Do you believe in making the national issues questions in the local campaign?" was asked. "What's the bloody use?" replied Sullivan. "They've go: nothin' to do with the play. They a'n't in it. Take New York, for instance. There's a town that's dead sick clear through of reform. It turns in in '94 and elects a lot of marks for reform and it's got it in the neck. There's the Raines law it ups aud throws a mob of poor skates out of business ruins the poor suckers, that's what it does. And there's Chapman out pinchin' those frails in the tenderloin. Say! He was off to do a thing like that. Thai's not right. There's plenty of local issues what do you want to go draggin' in outside rackets for to confuse a mug?" "I see you have views on city government," was suggested. "Yes," retorted Sullivan, "I'm dead against monopolies and givin' away franchises to companies. I think a city ought to own its franchises. Look at Boston it-'k eaten up by street railway companies. New York's had better luck. But the corporations have got Boston by the neck all right, all right. A city ought to own them things itself, and not go givin' them away to corporations for nothin', see! It's like givin' a lot of mugs a rope to hang you with. You make those corporations strong by giving them things, and the first thing you know they jump and do you "Now, this morn in' I was readln' in the papers where the judges fixed bail at $6,000 for that sheriff and his mob who shot down those Hungarians in Pennsylvania. Now, on the level, was that right?" "T tell you." and Sullivan shook his head and spoke with much hoarse solemnity. "I tell you, we won't live to see—you and me distinctly won't be in it—but the day's CODOFin' when hell's goin' to pop in this country. There'll be a revolution. Look at all these British comin' over here and coppin' off our industries. Those English mugs own billions of dollars worth in this country. Do you think there won't be trouble come out of it? We won't see it. but a day will come when there'll be a revolution and the corporations and foreign landlords won't get a thing but the chase." "Well, to come back to New York City politics, who do you think will win?" "Tammany," replied Sullivan, confidently. "Tammany will win hands down." ,"1' "To change the subject, as you tra^fl about do you see any signs of this prosperity the Republicans tell us has come?" "Yes, people seem to be better off,"' siid Sullivan. 'There's more of the dough goliig about. But it won't do the Republicans much good." "Well, I can say, then, that you will ne in the race for the mayoralty of Bosto^l?" "You can put it in big type," replied Si}|livan. "When I get through with ^uiflcy he'll shake hands with every prize fighter he sees. I've had beeter men than Quincy ,in the ring with me. I got my muscle at the same counter he got his brains at pa|d tne same price, too: the sucker ought to recollect that. And I'll bet him, besides, my. fyands havan't done half the dirty work his ljave haven't been in on any such crooked plays as his. But wait until after election I'll be even."

HIS DEBUT IN POLITICS.

Bob Fitzsimmons Outlines 'the Speech He Makes in Billy Molloy's Behalf.

Bill Molloy lives in iNew Rochelle and is the candidate for sheriff on the Republican ticket, ai»d was nominated on Tuesday at White Plains, the nomination being ably pushed along by Professor Fitzsimmons, says the New York Journal. "In politics? Sure, why not?" said Bob after returning from the clambake of the "Suckers' Club." held at Port Chester. "See?" continued Bob proudly. "Even the kid knows. I'm an American citizen, and I'm a friend of Bill Molloy's. I wanted to show Bill that I thoughf he wass all righ^ so I goes over to the convention with me pocke upholstered with Molloy badges. They all knew me over there, and I was a delegate before I had chance to think. I guess there were twenty men there wearing Long badges—'Long was agin Bill—that I thought I could handle. I'd just walk over to 'em gently, I would, get a good grip on the lapel of their coat, and say: 'Here, what are you wearing a badge like that for? What's the matter with Bill Molloy?'—just like that. 'You know who I am,' I'd say. 'I'm Bob Fitzsimmons, champion of the world.' They all said they knew me. and every one of them asked me my advice about what he'd better do. Then I'd take a Molloy badge out of me pocket and pin it on, and you bet your neck .they wore 'em, too. Was he nominated!* Jjst a minute. "Now. there's no reason why I shouldn't be in politics up here. I'm trying to feuy property up in the village and locate here. 1 could make as good a bluff at holding office as a whole lot of the onions I know that draws money for looking wise. I can ft»ok as wise as any of 'em. Am I going to nftke speeches? Well, say, before I start OIK-on the road, which will be in a few weeks, I'll boom 'Bill Molloy around here until his election '11 be a cinch. Listen to this—one I've done many a time. Wrote it myself, too. *Fellow-Citi2ens—Here we stand like Roman gladiators, after the games, preparing for the feast. Like a hard wind through the trees is heard the sound of the voice of the people calling for*—I get in Bill Molloy for sheriff here. "Well, it goes on like that all the way,

TERKE HAUTE FXPRESSjinES0AY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 28.1897.

and it'J & bird. I spoke It up to a German Lutheran fair in Port Cheater die other night, and, say, talk abont a hit! They had a lot of magic lantern views there and at .the end they gave a picture of me, a profile —say, it was beautiful—that's on the level. The preacher had plugged up the game with me all right, and after they showed the picture went back on the stage where »t was dark. Then the preacher said they had seen the picture of the champion of the world, he would show him in reality. Then they turned on the lights and there I was. I makes the speech all right, only instead of saying, 'Bill Molloy for sheriff." I said, 'more churches for the people.' At that I think the people have got enough churches. "In case I take a notion to go into politics here and run for office, the people will find Bob Fitzsimmons just what be always was—on the level. I'll tell 'em just where I stand and just how feel. There won't be any oofty goofty about the way I want things done, and whatever I say I'll do I'll do. I was over to the -town hall the other night to a meeting and made a few remarks. I stood up there and told 'em the people wanted Bill Molloy for sheriff. I said, 'If there's a man here that don't think we want Bill Molloy, let him cough up his objections.' Was there any coughers? Not on your suspenders. "While I'm a Republican I'm agin the Raines law and every other law that makes a man a sneak. I'm a temperance man myself. and I always talk temperance, but there is a whole lot of people that don't feel the way I do. I always keep liquor in my house, and when I feel like taking a drink I take it,'but I'm temperance at that."

AFTER THE TRUANTS

THE OFFICER KNOWN AS THE "KID CATCHER" IS KEPT VERY BCST.

He Has Hade a Canvass of the City and Has Discovered a Considerable Number ot Children at Work.

These are melancholy days indeed for the boy or giri that would rather work or play than go to school.

All over the city roams the truant officer, vulgarly known as the "kid catcher," and whenever during school hours he sees a youth on the street that ought to be bending over a geography he immediately wants to know the reason why.

This disturber of junevile peace is aidedand abetted in his systematic persecutions by all the school teachers and all of the principals in the city, including Superintendent Wiley himself. For instance, if a teacher discovers that next door to where she lives, or somewhere in her neighborhood, there is a boy or girl whose age makes him or her amenable to the compulsory education law, that teacher reports the discovery to the principal of her district and he in turn reports it to the superintendent. The latter conveys the informa-* tion to the truant officer and an investigation is at once set on foot. If the child Ira question is found to be really between the ages of 8 and 14 it is required to begin school with as little delay aspossible.

Here is indicated one way that the authorities have of carrying into effect requirments? of the compulsory education act. There are other ways. The work was begun by the truant officer making a canvass of all the stores and factories of the city and inquiring as to the ages of the persons employed there. He was ten days getting over the town and found a considerable number of children of school age performing various kinds of service at trifling wages. The employers showed a commendable disposition to assist the officer in his duty and the boys and girls between the ages of 8 and 14 were told to go home and prepare to enter school.

Of course difficulties are. encountered in enforcing the law. Where children arefound whose parents are too poor to buy books and clothing for them the school authorities supply these requisites and the children are taken into the schools. Occasionally a family is found that cannot spare the earnings of the one or more children whom they may have to work. In such cases Superintendent Wiley endeavors tel solve the problem in some way or other. For example, a woman came to him and said she could not get along without the help of a daughter that, was earning half as much as the mother could earn. The superintendent explained that the girl must have at least twelve consecutive weeks of education, but he relieved the tension of the woman's anxiety by going to the employer of her daughter and getting bis promise to re-instate the girl at the expiration of the three months.

It is requiring eome time for the public to get adjusted to compulsory education. There is no disposition on the part of the authorities to crowd matters and yet th"?y are making the fact clear to all parents with children of school age that the law 13 not to be evaded. This year a number of new faces will be seen in the school rooms —faces that hitherto have been familiar to persons who visit the big stores or the' factories of the city. Little girls and little boys, old enough to be well along in their studies, will between now and Christmas get their introductory look into the books that pave the beginning of the long and weary way that leada to the Klondykee of the human mind.

OBITUARY.

Clarence H. Bridgeman, son-m-law of Mrs. T. C. Stay ton, 818 North Seventh street, died very suddenly at Roadhouse, 111., September 25, 1897.

Mr. Bridgeman formerly fired the switch engine for the Big Four at this place, but for a year pas£ has been wilh the C. & A. He came in to Roadhouse on his run Saturday morning from Slater. Mo., and was called to go out again at 9:30 a. m., but he complained of not feeling very well. He went to see the doctor, returned to his room at 3 p. m. and died at 3:15 p. m. -His three brothers, H. A. Bridgeman, of Paris, 111. A. C. Bridgeman, of aMttoon, and G. H. Bridgeman, of Elwood. Ind., are here with the remains, which will be taken to Paxton, 111., his boyhood home, for interment.

Mrs. Bridgeman, wife of the deceased, and her mother will accompany the remains to their resting place.

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Win. Jennings Neuiau, 648 Lafayette avenue. C«o. Reise. Set-end street and Wobasb avenue.

In almost all countries the birthday ot tbe reigning, sovereign la regarded as a popular holiday.

Richmond, Va., wag named from Richmond «n the Thames.

IT HAS BEEN POT OFF

THE JOINT CONOTBKICXCB OP INDIANA OPERATORS AND KIKKJIS.

No Date Fixed For tbe Meeting It Will Not Occnr Ontll There Is a Change ^. In tbe Situation,

There will not be a conference of operators and miners of Indiana ia this city tomorrow.

St has been decided fdf 'pdistfene thlrj^ftposed meeting for the reason that there is no change ia the Illinois-Indiana mining situation and there would be nothing for a joint conference to do.® 'n

Yesterday morning President Knight and Mr. Tarleton Thompson, cashier of the Coal Bluff Mining Co., had an interview on the subject of the meeting arranged for Wednesday. Mr. Talley, president of tbe Bituminous Operators' Association, was in Chicago and had left Mr. Thompson to represent him. Both the president of tbe miners and the representative of the operators decided there was no need for a joint conference at the present time.

So long as Illinois does not go io work at less than 37 cents a ton for mine run coai the postponed meeting will not be called. At least such are the probabilities of the case. The conference has been put off indefinitely and there is no likelihood of its being held until there are developments demanding the joint attention of the Indiana operators and miners.

Meanwhile tbe Danville and Grape Creek miners are firm in their contention for 37 cents a ton. They say they will not go to work at less than that figure so long as they can get a crust. In view of the fact that Clinton alone has thus far sent $800 in cash into the Illinois field it would seem that the men are not likely soon to be starved Into submission. President Knight went to Rosedale last evening for the purpose of urging the support of the Danville and Grape Creek men by the Parke county miners. The fight for the scale in Indiana has become the fight for the scale in Illinois,

Mr. Knight will spend the present week canvassing the various mining camps of Indiana and urging tbem to contribute liberally to the Grape Creek fund. Clinton has set the pace in abundant giving. Three hundred men have sent $800 into the Illinois field since the resumption of work. These miners are still ready and anxious to go down into their pockets for the encouragement of the Grape Creek miners to persist in their struggle. If Illinois should lose, under existing circumstances, it would mean a corresponding loss in Indiana or else a renewal of the strike. That the strike would be once more begun if a reduction were proposed there is no doubt, so tbe miners say. The miners went out in the first place to win a wage somewhat in excess of 47 cents or 51 cents a ton and they say before they will accept a return to those figures they will fight all winter. Of course no such declaration as this has been made by tbe officials of the miners' organization, but the men that drop into town from day to day are not timid about saying what course they expect to pursue in case it becomes necesary to make a stand against a reduction.

All the miners in Indiana are now working at 56 cents aton and are satisfied. They are congratulating themselves over the advance secured in wages and quite as much over the fact that the recent strike has rehabilitated their organization. It is recognized that the United Mine Workers of America have come out of their ten-weeks' struggle this year in better shape than they were ever in before. The good feeling prevailing extends from the highest officer to the humblest digger in the competitive field.

IN THE COURTS OF EUROPE.

Bebind tbe Scenes* With the Nobility of theOld World. The gold-mining craze has extended to Austria, and from Vienna comes the news of a colossal swindle in connection there•wlth, in which many of the grandest names of Hungary and of Austria are involved. The stories about Klondyke excited so much interest and enthusiasm on the banks of the Danube that a number of promoters with more brains than scruples decided that is would be a pity not to take advantage thereof, and accordingly they organized a jointstock company with a capital of several millions of dollars for the purpose of working the Fortuna gold mines in Transylvania, says the Marques de Fontenoy in the Chicago Record. The shares were soon in such great demand as to rise to an almost incredible premium, and the promoters seemed to have -experienced np difficulty whatsoever in securing the names of some of the leading and most influential nobles of the dual empire to figure on the board of directors.

In the course of time the inevitable collapse came, the authorities intervened, and the fact has now been brought to light that there is no such gold mine as tbe Fortunai In existence, and that there is indeed no gold at all or any kind of precious metal in that particular portion of the province in which the mining property was alleged to have been located.

Criminal proceedings have, been instituted by the government against all tbe promoters of the concern, and Incidentally against the titled directors as well, on the ground that the general public would not have invested) money in such a wildcat scheme had not the names of these nobles been considered as a! guaranty of good faith.

Among those who are called upon thus to answer criminal charges in connection1 with the affair are Count Geza Festeticz and Prince Edmond Batthiany. vice-presi-' dent of the Imperial Yacht club of Austria and one of the stewards of the English Jockey club. Both the prince and the count declare that while they invested money ii the concern, and in consequence permitted their names to be used as directors, they never attended any meetings of the board of management and are entirely ignorant and consequently innocent of the dlsbones'yj of the latter, the dishonesty consisting ii» the fact that every vestige of the subscribed capital bas melted away and that there is absolutely nothing save some office fixtures to show for it.

It scarcely necessary to add that tho money has left Austria for foreign parts, probably for America, In the hands of the promoters, who are far beyond the reach of the police.

Nowhere in Europe has the king of Siam been treated with such scant courtesy as at Pari*. True, the government accorded him military honors, and hired the mansion formerly leased by Mr. Whitelaw Reld while ambassador for his use during his stay on the banks of the Seine, but President Faure apparently did not think it necessary to accord to the king the same personal -attention* he had received from the emperors and other crowned heads whose courts he had visited and on the day when the ruler of Siam attended the races at Longchamps the president neither accompanied hfan nor even considered it necessary to put in an appearance, but spent the day shooting with some friends at Marly. Moreover, he quitted Paris and returned to his country house at Havre several day*, before the king concluded his visit. Inasmuch as France stands

far more in need of tbe king's friendship ii the far orient than Siam stands to need o( that of France, this course was, to say tfcf least, impolitic on tbe part ot the ordinarily shrewd, sagadious and wide-awake chiel magistrate ot the French republic.-.

Count atontholon, who bas just been appointed French amfbaasador at Washington, is a diplomat possessed of more heart thaa ambition, who imperiled his future and narrowly escaped being shelved for the remains der of his dayc for violating the rales and regulations of the service to which he belongs in marrying an undesirable foreigner. Not that ther»is anything against the character, reputation or antecedents ot the young cotmtea* of Monthclon. On the contrary, she is a singularly charming woman, but she 1MS tbe misfortune in the eyes of the French ministry of foreign affairs to be an Italian and tbe daughter erf an Italian envoy, over whose household ahe presided for a time in the role of Italian ambassadress—that is to say, ambassadress ot on# of the powers of the triple alliance—of an alliance formed against France.

There is no doubt that had it not been for this marriage Count Monthclon now would have been gazetted to the vacant ambassadorship in London, which is regarded as far and away the most important in point oS prestige, salary and allowances of all tha diplomatic missions of France. At the time* when he decided to wed in defiance of the semi-official remonstrances that reached hint from Paris, he was in particular favor with the authorities on tbe banks of the Seins and on the high road to promotion, not only in consequence of the dignified *ttitud» which he maintained at Athens on the occasion of the German emperor's stay there, but also because he had declined to meet the late count of Paris and the duke of Orleans when they visited Greece, on the ground that no matter what the royalist association of his parents and relatives might have been, it was not proper for him as an envoy of the French republic to hold any kind of social intercourse with princes whd bad been outlawed by tbe republic and whose avoded object was to overthrow latter.

The last occasion on which I saw tho count was under rather peculiar circumstances. It was at Berne, the capital of Switzerland, and I remember seeing a Targe crowd which had assembled in the street to watch the Italian minister plenipotentiary with his eyeglass in his eye, his bat cocked on one side, the wind blowing through his bushy beard and with his long, lanky body clad in tight-fitting garments, clambering up a long ladder in order to get into the second-story apartments, where had established the legation of his country. It being a pufblic holiday, the servants hid gone out, locked the doors and taken the key. His excellency was in a hurry to get into his rooms, and as there was no other means of ingress he had a ladder broughtl and entered through one of the windows.

THE BAiDE'NI-WOIiFF DUEL.

Dr. Wolff Called the Coant a "PoMsh Pig." London, Sept. 27.—The Vienna correspondent of the Daily Mail says this morning: "The duel between Count P.adsnl, the

•Austrian premier, and 'Dr. Wolff, the German Nationalist leader, has caused the (Wildest sensation. It arose out of the riotous scenes at the opening of the reichsrs«th, when Count Badeni, with arhn crossed and laid on his breast, listened unimoved by the clamor and gesticulations of the German party. "His attitude was most irritating. Tho 'whole left formed a threatening 'group around him, conspicuous among them t^ing the great lean face of Wolff as ha pressed forward and thrust his list into Count Badenfs face, saying: "If this Is your policy, it is miserable chicanery.

Some declare that Wolff called him a "polish pig." He was pulled back by hi# colleagues, but continued uttering menaces.

Early on Friday Count Badeni sent h!s seconds to Dr. Wolff, who accepted the challenge. Tha premier sent a telegram to the emperor asking permission to fight the duel and at the same Ume tendering ihls resignation.

In reply he received not only permission to fight but also the imperial approval. Count Badeni then made his will, after which he spent the evening at the Jockey club and a pleasure resort. H|s wife and family knew nothing about the affair until the duel was over. "There are no symptoms of fever and Count Badeni is conducting affairs aa usual. It is thought that, as the premief has sent the example with ths emperor's approval, there will be a serious epidemic of duelling.

The Arbeiter Zesting' points out thar Count BaSdenl Is liable to imprisonment foj from one to five years."

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It was at Athens that the count married/ His bride was the only daughter of hi» Italian colleague, Count Fe d'Ostiani, are eccentric diplomat, who, previous to being sent to represent King Humbert at Athens, had spent several years at Washington as minister. The young countess, however, did not live with her fahter at Washington, and when she now goes as French ambassadress to the United States, it will be her first visit to America. Indeed, at that time and until she came of age she was a source of no end of legal and somewhat scandaloui complications between Count Fe d'Ostiani and his wife, from whom he was separated. After her mother's death she resided with her relatives, who declared that the count was not a fit person to act the part of a parent toward a young girl.

Tbe Italian tribunals were somewhat in a quandary on the subject, for while it was impossible to deny that there was some foundation for this allegation yet its recognition by the courts of law would have entailed censure upon the Italian government, since it was obvious that a man who was not fit to take charge of his own child was not fit to be entrusted with the representation abroad of so great and important a country as Italy. The difficulty was solved in a rather Macbiavelian manner, one characteristically Italian. Tbe count was kept at: diplomatic posts known an:l renowned !ir their unhealthiness, such rs for instan-n Pekin, Rio, Tokyo, etc.. and the child wns not withheld from him on the ground of bis behavior, but on the pretext that it would be detrimental to her health to live in such a climate as that in which her father stationed. It was only when she had reached womanhood that he succeeded in getting her to insist on joining him, and on herf account, not on his, he was at length permitted to occupy posts in Europe.

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