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THLEPfiEONB 71.

John R, McLean did not withdraw Ohio, but he might as well have done so.

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The Paris Beacon of yesterday was Impressive in a gorgeous Thanksgiving cover.

If Kansas continues to vote as she did in the last election, she will shortly be out of the woods.

It need not surprise anybody if Kentucky refuses to take any considerable interest in a man named Dreyfus.

Now Kentucky turns up with a jaw bone three feet long. Let's see did Jim Corbett's ancestors hail from Kentucky?

Now that the foolball season is over, the parents with young men in college will settle down and take life comfortably.

It is gravely feared by free silver men that Mr. Bryan, in his restrictive remarks on the greeback, has hopelessly estranged the Popoulists.

Most persons who had followed General Miles' career and knew the man were prepared to see him rattle around in the highest position in the army.

President McKinley's message, whatever it may recommend or declare, will not be dense and laborious with the denseness and laboriousness of the father of little Dick.

The Cincinnati Enquirer remarks that "the Ohio legislature will have a tremendous responsibility on it." Don't you worry about the Ohio legislature, John it's all right.

Now that General Gomez has announced that anybody bearing a bribe to the insurgents will be "promptly executed," one of General Blanco's high cards sticks in his hands.

General Blanco does not report on the condition of the Spanish army in Cuba in a way to encourage the Madrid government. He tells Premier Sagasta that the depletion o£ Weyler's fighting force has been appalling. Those "Cuban "bandits" must be remarkably fine marksmen.

At Indianapolis an astonishing custom prevails in the public schools. Penholders and pencils are distributed every morning among the pupils and gathered together again at night. No child has the same penholder or pencil two days in succession unless by accident. It is no wonder diphtheria finds Indianapolis an easy mark.

Vice-President Hobart thinks the house will pass a currency reform law that will "meet the temper, the tone and the requirement of the people of the United States." This view is doubtless correct. But how about the senate? What will become of sound doctrines pf finance when they find their way into the upper branch of congress?

The esteemed Rockville Tribune thus vig. orously swats its Terre Haute namesake, our Valued neighbor across the way: "It's a good thing that we live in a time when it is unlawful to hang a man for stealing, or we could furnish the people of Vigo county with fifty-two executions a year—that being the number of times the Terre Haute Tribune commits grand larceny on our columns."

The Rockville Tribune extracts a "great deal of comfort from certain reflections In the New York Post and Harper's Weekly tending to a disconcolate view of the results of the recent elections from a Republican and sound money standpoint. What the Post and the Weekly think on this subject is not of va^t moment The Republicans of tbe country at large are very well satisfied with the way the voting has gone this year. They are not in the least discouraged and will show the free silverites an animation and aggressiveness next year that will fill them with wonder, not to say consternation.

That rumor of a probable bond sale on the part of the government had its origin in the mind of either a deliberate liar or an idiot. In other words, it was the product of a yellow journalist or a person mentally Irresponsible. In either case it is of course wholly unreliable. Secretary Gage said in regard to the rumor: "There is not the (lightest necessity for a bond issue and none is contemplation." Says a Washington correspondent on the subject: "That rumor was particularly faulty in that it reported that a bond issue was in contemplation to wipe out the deficit in tbe revenues. The cash balance in the treasury, besides the gold reserve, is today $102,561,895. There Is in the treasury today 556,412,246 in gold, in addition to the statutory requirement of $100,010,000. Another bond Issue would simply add to the plethora of gold, which Is the only trouble at the treasury nowadays. To sell bonds for gold when the treasury is suffering for paper currency would be an act dewsright fmaiiity, and Secretary Gage

is not contemplating it. Within a day or two over $13,000,000 will appear on the treasury statements as a miscellaneous receipt. This la the firat payment on the Union Pacific deal. The result will be thai the month of November will show a surplus instead of a deficit."

There is something decidedly wrong when men go on a strike because employers flatly I refuse to comply with the law. In Illinois thd law provides that the miner shall be paid on the basis of the weight of the coal as it comes from the mine or "mine run" ag the trade calls it. The operators insist on paying on the basis of the weight after the coal has passed over a screen. The strike of the men at a mine In Sullivan county this state is because the screen is not made in compliance with the law, the space between the bars toeing twice as large as stipulated in the law. It may be said that these laws are invalid but so long as this has not been held by the courts to be the fact it would seem that compliance is imperative. If it is not, if anyone may use his own discretion in obeying the law, whicfh is the logical result of the insiduous doctrine of "liberal construction," then why may not the miners conclude to disregard law and order and make this fight on the lawbreaking operators in a violent manner?

The tendency of this phase of the struggle is vicious and alarming**

BELIEVES IN ACTION. S Secretary Gage made a strong speech be!ore the New York clnxr.Ler of commerce. Tiers was no ohscurlty In wba: bo said. He gave clear and sincere utterance to the faith that is in him on the money question He declared firmly against a policy of inaction in deference to the maxim of "let. good enough alone." It is is deep-rooted conviction that there is no "gdod enough" in our national financial scheme to be "let alone." Reform of the currency Is his watchword and of course he is In harmony with President McKlnley and with Republican pledges In this particular. He says: ,v

It is said that under present conditions it is impossible that obstructionists can hinder and defeat the popular will t&a-t agitation on »o delicate a subject as the money standard is disturbing 'that we have the be*t of guarantees that for four years the present status will be maintained thait the revival of business will toe best assured by the policy of Inaction. Covered in one sentence all ,thi* is summed up in t'he much-abused rnaxiaa, 'Let well enough alone." Th£ maxim well applied is indeed a wise ope, buf the wisdom of it lies in the application of it. When ultra-oon-servaMsm applies it to justify a condition which is "bad enough" instead of "well enough" it is fatally misapplied. That the condition of our currency and hanking system is "bad enough" certified to by the deliberate judgment of the grat body of conomic students and by a general consensus of opinttm among business men.

Further on in his carefully chiseled discourse Secretary Gage thus re-enfroces his remarks just quoted:

It certainly Is not well enough with a bank system utterly inelastic and correspondingly irresponsive to the domestic requirement? of trade and industry ,to which, in its proper re'.ation, Ithe banking system should be ithe faithful and efficient handmaiden. It Is not well enough with the national itreasury awkwardly performing an office which is entirely foreign to its proper function. It Is not well enough, it is absolutely bad, when the result is a public treasury so expanded in its demand liabilities in a time of profound peace as to threaiten its solvency, in case of war.

It is quite impossible to suppress the money question at this time, even if it were desirable to do so. The problem may as well be faced now as hereafter. Far. better that the agitation occur while sane men are in positions of authority than that it should be put off until a less encouraging state of things exists. The Republican party has shown itself capable of dealing with matters of great delicacy and moment in te past and it will vindicate its long-established reputation in this emergency if its plans and policies do not come to grief in the senate. At any rate the struggle for a currency at once stable and flexible is shortly to he commenced and will be prosecuted by the administration and its friends with the greatest possible vigor.

CURRENT EVERTS,

This from the Sullivan Unron fairly comes under the head of "important if true:" "It will not be very long until Terre Haute and Vincennes are connected by an electric railway perhaps by Merom with a spur running into Sullivan."

An elusive cellulose, or "cornstalk" industry is reported at several places up and down the Wabash valley. Vincennes and Evansville tried to catch it and now CrawfoVdsville papers say Linden, Montgomery county, is claiming to have captured it The Argus News says the citizens of Linden are to purchase and present to the promoters of the enterprise sixty acres of laud and they in turn deposit a forfeit to cover their part of the contract. They claim that they have fifteen cars Of material loaded at Toledo, all ready for shipment, and that work on the factory will be begun at once. It is further claimed that the factory when ready for bushinfess, will furnish employment for Bixty-flve hands besides furnishing a profitable market for cornstalks, a farm article heretofore considered of very little value.

The Indianapolis papers say that there is a movement to supplant Gompers as president of the American Federation of Labor at the annual meeting next month and that W. B. Prescott, president of the International Typographical Union, will be a candidate against the man who has held the place since the federation was organized except one term, and during which he spent all his time canvassing to get back into the place. Gompers may be able to hold on. He is a shrewd schemer and an adept in labor movements. That he is not In touch with the sentiment of a large majority of trade union men of the country is quite true but he may pull the wires and reelect himself.

Up at Purdue they are getting to have a very fine opinion of their institution. The management has been making a special effort to improve the electrical engineering department as a means of bringing the school into wider notice and at the same time give the students the benefit of the Information and opinions of noted men, a lecture course was arranged for this term. Already John T. Brooks of the Pennsylvania company and President Ingalls of the Big Four have delivered addresses and the next is to be by General John W. Noble, who was secretary of the interior under President Harrison. On this latter occasion General Harrison will also be present.

When seine Evansville men were informed that traveling men pass through Evansville to spend Sunday in Terre Haute because of the poor hotel facilities in. Evansville they got together at once and decided to remodel the old St. George.

Another Indianapolis murderer is being tried outside of the county on a change of venue. It seems to be the fashion for them to takfe a change of venue and Marion coua-

ty is beginning to ask if it is always to be. The man Burton accused of killing Fireman Redmond when the latter was trying ta capture him for burglary, is on trial In Hancock county.

The Sullivan Union tells a correspondent that the James DePauw whose tombstone is to be seen at Palmer's Prairie church in that county was a brother of Washington DePauw of New Albany, for whom the University at Greencastle is named. He died in 1834 at the age of thirty years. The Union said it had neyer heard'of James De Pauw until the communication was received and that it is doubtful if there are 100 persons in Sullivan county who could have told anything about him, and still be was elected to the legislature in 1833 while living there. He was a brother of "General John DePauw and lived with the latter. Washington DePauw also lived in the county when a boy. An old resident tells the Union this: "I knew Wash DePauw well. When we moved up on Busseron, Wash was a lad about 15 years of age. He went around bare footed, and wore ragged home spun clothes like the rest of the boys in the neighborhood. He used to drive oxen and do other work for his father. There was nothing about the boy to indicate that he was different from the ordinary. Wash wasn't born in this county as some erroneously believe. He was born in Washington county, or that part of the state somewhere. I remember that he had two sisters. One of them married John Y. Todd in Cass township. The other was a widow Morton when she came here. The late Levi Maxwell married her. General DePauw kept a general store in Caledonia and also in season ran fiat boats out of Busseron down, the river loaded with produce and deer meat. He lived at Caledonia a few years and moved away, and Wash went with him." jf"

CAPTAIN GOWDY PRESIDED.

Ha Was Toastmaster of the Thanksgiving Celebration of the American Colony. Paris, Nov. 24.—The Thanksgiving celebration in the American colony began here this evening, when the University club gave its firSt banquet of the season at the. Hotel Continental. Consul General John K. Gowdy presided. Letters of regret were read from Prof. James Bryce, member ot parliament for Aberdeen Mr. Andrew D. White, United States ambassador to Germany, Mr. Andrew Carnegie and Mr. John Wanamaker. "The day we celebrate," called for a speech, eloquent and exceedingly complimentary to American citizens from Pere Hyacinthe, whose wife and only- daughter-in-law are Americans. Gen. Hirrace Porter, the United States ambassador, responding to "The College Man in the Civil War," spoke in a reminiscent strain of *the educational institutions of the days of -the war, which produced, he said, "men who have won distinguished positions not only in war, but on the bench, whose renown have extended to all parts of the earth."

Other toasts and speakers were as follows: "The French Universities," Gaston Paris, member of the French Academy and president of the College of France "The American Universities," Dr. D. J. Hill, ex-presi-dent of Rochester University "The University Man and the Press," Francis Que Sarcey "The Latin Quarter," Trist Wood, editor of the Quartier Latin American Students' Monthly. The dinner was a great success."

WILL CO-OPERATE IN ALASKA.

Secretary Alger Tells of His Understanding With Premier Laurier,^

New York, Nov. 25.—Secretary of War Alger, in speaking of the plans for the relief of Klondike miners in case of a famine said: "I met Sir Wilfrid Laurifer while he was in Washington and iafe had a talk in regard to the Yukon country. We agreed to work together if it becomes necessary to send relief to the people in that frozen region who are seeking gold. The co-operation of Canada being assured, I believe that we could manage to get provisions to Dawson City In some way before the summer opens the Yukon river. "Captain Rea, who represents the war department, has gone to Alaska to" report, but just where he is I cannot say. The Yukon river freezes early and it is not easy to travel on the rough ice. Therefore, to send relief in midwinter by that route is not practicable. My idea is, however, that in March an expedition will be sent over the Chikoot pass, by the Dalton trail. There are provi sions in plenty at St. Michael." "Do you think Alaska should be made a territory?" "I do, because by next summer I think from 100,000 to 200,000 people will be in the Yukon country. My idea is that two terri tories should be made and the Yukon coun try should be one of them."1

Whisky Pooling Scheme Pulls Through Louisville, Ky.. Nov. 24/—Ct-is stated local distilling circles tfiap'the proposed scheme of pooling the dlsaillery interests of Kentucky is about to fall through. The scheme was to form all the distilleries of the state into one vast combine for the .purpose of regulating the output and outting down expenses by reducing operating forces. Thw reason alleged for the failure of -the project is that Eastern financiers who were to buy up dietaries were frightened off because "they claimed that the'Kentucky distillers had listed their distilleries azt figures far beyond their real value.

Without A Rival.

As a positive cure for sprains,bruises, and pains of all kinds, Salvation Oil has no equal. Mrs. Frank Juif, 518 Gratiot Ave., Detroit, Mich., writes: "I used Salvation Oil in my family and can say it lias no rival as a liniment it certainly cures pains. I sprained my ankle and it cured me and since then I have always used it for any pains and bruises." Salvation Oil is sold for only 25 cents. Xo other remedy will do the work as promptly.

EXCHANGE ECHOES.

Waahisgton Post: In case Mr. Haistead return's to Cincinnati journalism he will do well to leave his lecture on Cuba in Brooklyn, where tihe folding beds can dispose of its vi')' tim.

Cleveland Plain. Dealer: K:ehard Manafiedd has written a poem about the braife High* lanlers at Dargai Ridge. It is a very fair sort of poem, as everybody will admit who knows how unpleasant Mr. MansSeld can be when he' is unfavorably criticised.

Chicago Journal: The board of education has decided chat flying the American flag from school houses daily is too expensive a luxury to he borne toy the tax payers of 4his eity.t If the board persists in the enforcement ®f such vast economies, it will soon be saving money enough to pay the taxes of Cook county.

Boston Globe: Regarding one point made iff Secretary Bliss' report there can scarcely be' any difference ot opinion In congress. Alaska must be given an assured and responsible government without delay. A hundred thousand persons may setk shelter within her borders during tihe next spring and summer. They must be under the rule of law and order.

Chicago Times-Herald: Senator Mason has] become sueh a prominent advocate of the war-at-anj-price po!:ey that It fs fair to ask whe:li"- in ai« Cuban matter, he expresses the a. the people of lb,- state. Do the merchants ot j! ::iol# ansi Ch:caga. who are jaSt beginning :o feel the :eady?ng influence of a conservative administration at Washington, wish to invite the calamity of war? 'Do the farmers of niinols want a war that ww*:d embarrass the shipment of their high-priced grain to tie hungry markets of Europe* sDoe? any one who has stopped to think Jook upon the prospect of even a successful war w.tbout terror?

TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 2fi. 1897.

TO SETTLE CURRENCY

FARMKRS KXPICT REPUBLICANS TO DO XT, SAYS JOHN WING ATE.

Some Sound Observations On the Welfare of tbe Party—Agriculturists and Bank*.

John C. Wingate talked very interestingly to ja. Journal reporter yesterday upon the reiktit^i of the farmer to the Republican party,'on the currency question and upon the probable results of the next campaign in jndiana, says tie Indianapolis Journal. Mr. Wingate is best known here as the man w&o so adroitly managed the campaign of Gpyernor Mount for the Republican nomination in 1898. He resides at Wingate, Ind„ and nearly all of his time is devoted to traveling in the interests of a thresher concern, and his business Is done almost exclusively with farmers: The territory he covers runs frorri Dallas to Winnipeg, and, from Denver to Boston. "The Republican party will carry this state without any question," said Mr. Wingate, "if the campaign is made upon distinct national issues. If it is permitted to drift to local issues the result will be questionable, but if the people are made to undertsand that the important thing to go after is the seat in the senate and the congressional delegation, and the Republicans stand squarely upon the issue of a sound currency and nominate men who have the courage of their convictions and stand squarely upon that platform, we shall win. It is likely that the Democratic state convention will declare for free silver, and I sincerely hope it will, for that will Jbelp us in making the issue. "Nothing could do our party so much good as to have congress take up the currency question at this session and fix it with the same wisdom and promptness that it did the tariff question. The masses of the people are pleased with the way the administration and congress took up the Dingley bill and stayed with the job until it was finished. That sort of thing gives the people confidence. Now they want to take up this currency question, and deal with it in the same prompt and straightforward fashion. The currency is all right as long as the balance of trade is in our favor and the revenues of the government are all right. But let us have two seasons of bad crops and so few imports that the gove/nment is hard up, and the way is oyen at once for any big banking syndicate of New York or London to come in and drain the treasury of gold and start a panic.and cause another period of hard times. Congress should fix this, and our party should not wait until the people of the country,-rise up and drive us to it. In order to give our party credit for it, it should be dotfe without delay. I do ttot believe in letting things drift. When things drift they go Democratic and then there is trouble and when the situation gets too desperate the people rise up and ask the Republican party to take charge. That's what thay asked us to do last year on the currency question. You know and I know that while the tariff Was an Issue in the last campaign, the money question was the great issue, and thousands of Democrats voted for McKinley, not because they liked him or liked our tariff policy, but because they thought he was a safer man to take charge of the finances of the country than Bryan If we allow things to drift We shall allow them to drift into the Democratic party The currency is all right so long as the Republican party is in charge, but the Re publican party may be defeated some time and our Republican business men and farmers will still be living, and the thing to do is to protect their business interests now while they can. ,,rt KA-RMERS .TALKING..CURRENCY, "Yeu would be surprised to know that I hear much more talk upon the currency question among the farmers in the country than I do among the merchants in towns. They study more and think more about the subject. The present generation of merchants has forgotten the days of 'red dog' money, but the farmer remembers very well hearing his father tell about the days before the war, when he sold his hogs one day and Went to ihe store the next day to buy groceries, and saw the clerk take down book to find out how much money was fworth.'V The farmer is the conservative 'fbrce OP this money question. He wants 'Yhe best prices he can get for his products

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he wants it, above all, in good motley, And when he stocks up his farm with breeding cattle or breeding hogs he wants to be ftblri to calculate with reasonable certainty upon what he can do when these cattle or Jfiogs are ready for the market. While the 'merchant has to look far ahead from one 'Season to another, 'the farmer has to look

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a thing is right he does not care who knows it, and he stays with it. Look at ^fthio. While the Democrats got in their Work in the cities upon local questions, the farmers in the country kept their eyes on the main point and saved the day for the Republicans. Let me also call your attention to the fact that right after the St. Louis convention last year, while you city politicians were standing on the street corners and hedging a bit on the silver question, afraid to express your real sentiments out loud, we out'in the country were plucking the golden rod from the fence corners and wearing it in our hats we were wrapping the trappings of our horses in yellow bunting Tve wefe dressing our daughters in yellow we were having go!den parades, and we were flinging the yellow rag to the breeze on every occasion. We were for good yellow gold, and we did not care who knew it. "Now, the farmer may not thoroughly understand the principles of the money question in all its phases, and, between you and me, I do not believe the average merchant in town knows a bit more, but be knows what is good mopey, and what is bad, \and he wants to see this Republican administration and congress give us a currency that will not fluctuate or be in danger, no matter what comes along in the way of political changes or bad crops. And if this monetary commission that is now at work can suggest something in the way of better banking facilities in the West and South, nobody will appreciate it any more quickly than the farmer. I know a little about the banking business in the West. In the early days across the Mississippi there were a good many bankers who were robbers and the prejudice against them has some substantial ground in fact, but the main trouble lies right here when the crops begin to move, the country banker finds a: big demand for loans from people who are buying and shipping grain, stock, wool and other farm products. He cannot keep all tbe year t4und a big supply of money on band, for its would lie idle eight months. When the crop movement comes on he's got to send to the money centers and get them to ship him currency. It costs him 5 or 6 per cent, and when he loans it to me at 8 per cent and pays the shipping charges both ways, he is not making any money on the deal, but he is charging me more interest than I ought ti have to pay when money is going begging for local borrowers in New York at 4 per cent. Now, the banker's credit ia good, abd if there was some plan by which be could issue enough currency to .meet the deaiand during those special periods, and Chen call it in. it seems to me he could afford to lend me what I need at 6 per cent. "As you go farther west thie state of things grot^ worse. Why. out la Dakota I saw a mac [sell a hundred bushels of wheat at is ceaia Jto pay interest at IE per ceai

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on a loan of $300. Now, where a condition like that exists, there is a real grievance, and one that ought to be remedied, not by Populist platforms, but by the application of sound business Intelligence to the problem. When the Populists proposed sheir'agricultural subtreasury scheme of issuing government currency upon deposits of corn and wheat in government warehouses, we laughed them out of court, but the truth is that this scheme, impracticable though it was, was the outgrowth of a real grievance. While it is not the business of the government to act as a warehouseman, the banks might encourage the use ot warehouse receipts by farmers. When I was in Minneapolis a few months ago I went through a warehouse filled with burlaps, lamp shades and a whole lot of miscellaneous merchandise. I teld the owner that the merchants of Minneapolis must have lots of money to be able to buy and Btore all these goods, and he showed me a warehouse receipt, and told me how the merchant who stored the goods took this receipt, made out to bearer on demand to the bank, and borrowed money on It at a reasonable interest almost up to the full value of the goods. 'These are live problems, and the people expect the Republican party to deal with them, and to deal with them squarely and honestly and promptly, just as it has dealt with the. tariff question. If congress takes up this work and we nominate men who will pledge themselves to carry it forward courageously, we need have no fear but that the average farmer as well as the intelligent business man will stand squarely by us."

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New York, Nov. 25.—Ada Rehan In silver is to (be outshone by William 'McKinley i® gold, according U, 'the Herald of today. The added fame which the actress acquired by posing for tbe Montana statae of solid silver, exhibited at the World's Fair ill 1893, IS to be approached, if not ecJlpsed, hy the president of the United States, who will furnish "the figure 'fir a life-sized statue of solid gold.

This will be ehe most cos-Uy lump of precious metal the people of the modem world have ever seen. So says 'F. D. Higby, of Chicago, who has been reteined 'by Western millionairs to 'furnish such a statue for exhibition at the Paris exposition in 1900. Mr. Higby was in the city yesteiriiay on his way to Washington to get the consent of President McKinley to pose for the figure.

As Mr. Higby took -a prominent part In tihe headquarters management of the late national Republican campaign, and has asWed for no office he is confident of success in this mission. "You know,'' s»id Mr. 'Higby, ''that I designed and built, the Mostana statue at the World's Fair for Miss Rehan. 1 suppose It was because of my experience that I have been retained to ibul'.d this statue Which, wfth the base, will contain ibulllon to the value of $1,050,000. "While it was designed primarily to exhibit this statue at Paris in 1900, the directors of the Pan-Aanerican expositdon, to he held in Cayuga island, in the Niagara river, in 1899, are anxious to have it completed in time to exhibit there first. It is .likely Chat this arrangement will be made. "1 can not divulge as yet who the capitalists are who aie~back of this project, but there are a half dozen of them, and everything is ready to begin work on the statue as soon as the design is completed."

DR. GUNSACLUS RES IONS.

Suffering From (Malarial Rheumatism Brought on by Overwork. Chicago, Nor. 25.—The Rev. Frank W. Gunsaulus has peremptorily resigned the .pastorate of Plymouth Congregational church. The resignation was considered by the trustees and the prudential commutee of the ohurch in joint session and the universal sentiment was that it would necessarily have to be accepted. It will be heard and acted on by :he congregation next Sunday morning, and the officers of the church say It will be accepted.

Dr. Guns&ulus' letter ot reei-gnation is a Jong and touching one. It refers to the fact that it Is the third letter of resignation he has sent the church within as many months, and says that, though the cOjiwch. in its loving partiality, has disregarded the first two, the third is final and irrevocable. The sole reason for this step, he says, is, the condition of his health.

Dr. Gunsaulus' malady is malarial rheumatism, brought on *y years ot overwork. He was stricken down with it suddenly and almost mysteriously. He had been to New York to preach for the Broadway Tabernacle congregation, which was resolved to securc him for its paster, it possible. He preached there the first Sunday after Easter, and then returned to Chicago, expecting to preach in his own church the following Sunday. 'But on the preceding Saturday he *was takeq violently ill and has never preached aince.

CRUISLMG WITH A PIKATB.

(friends of Sixteen Californians Anxious About Their Fate. San FYancifcco, Sbr. 25.—A story comes from

Honolulu that has caused much anxiety among the friends of the sixteen young men who recently sailed from t'Ws port on the echooner Sdphia Sutherland In search of .treasure on the Sofomon Islands. The trading matter of the little craft, now presumably cruising in the South seas. Captain Sorrensen, according to ex-Oon»ul Chwchall, of Apia, has black record as a pirate and despoUer of the natives in iflie islands of the Central Pacific. When the Sophia Sutherland reached Apia she was /subjected to a searching scrutiny, during which Borrensen was identified as the man who bad led a similar trc&sure-seeking expedition from Melbourne on the schooner Albert, Which he soon transformed into a regular pirate: In 1884 he was captured by the British man-of-war ©art and sent to prison for ten years. Since then he had not been heard from, but now he is in virtual command of a cotmfany of Callfwnians, who put faith in bis stsries of the fabulous wealth of the. Solomogr Islands. 3 ...

Y17KOX PIONEER DEAD.

Arthur Harper, the Partner of Joseph Ladue, of Dawson City. Yuma, Arts., Nov. 23!— Arthur Harper, partner of Joe Ladue, on the Klondike, and one of the pioneers qf the Yukon, died here last evening of consuospt-on. Harp«- contracted 43ie disease in the Arctic, but came down on the steamer Bxcfeliior Ia« October in search of health. His headquarters for several years had been at Fort SelWrk. Northwest Territory. Soon aftfc* he reacfted here he went to southern California and was on bis way to Phoenix whea death came.

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ABOUT COO PEOPLK ENJOYED DINNER AT THE LIWHT BOC7SK MISSION. *1

Tbe People of the City Donated Libenll]^ to tbe Spread of Good Things—A 51 3lemor»lle Occasion.

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At the Gospel Light House M.ssion oa West Ohio street ytsterday about 500 people were given a Thanksgiving dinner free of charge. The occasion was much like the I similar one of a year ago and it will be Ions I remembered by those who participated in It.*-'

Miss Mary McComb, superintendent of the mission, sent out invitations to a large nutuber of persons whose lives have been touched by the religious effort of tbe West Side and to numerous others whom the mission hotK3 to reach and influence. Nearly all of these' invited ones responded, but they did cot*' complete the entire number of people wh**'~*j enjoyed the free dinner. Various poor men/w women and children drifted in during the^^ progress of the meal and after giving fiatia-^^ factory evidence of their worthiness were, a ltywed a place at the long table. -Afti

The dinner commenced at noon and was .ri not concluded until 5 o'clock. During air I these hours the hungry were being fed.

•Thejl were seated at long tables and tha dinner was served to them by the active,, workers of the mission. Perhaps the ma'.njj staple of the meal was that favor,Ite Tbauks-.f*ff giving bird—turkey. It was nicely cookedand served with it was the inevitable and appetizing cranberry sauce. There was I dressing, too there was butter, bread, pickles and coffee. It was not exactly sumptuous feast, but it was characteristic of the day and answered all the demands of. a hungry mail, woman or child.

The people of the West Side have come tonf&l look upon the Light House Mission as their1 friend in many substantial ways. They fled. it looking out not only for their spiritual welfares but for their material requirements as well. The mission is careful not to oom- Z-'l plicate the work of the charities by propagating pauperism, yet it is not afraid to|^,i, take hold of the problem of the poor in aj &i# practical and beneflclent way. It has its emissaries among the people all the timo seeking to do good and when Thanksgiving days and Christmas days roll around those who are hungry know they will be welcome at the mission headquarters on Ohio street.

Mors Wage fncr«xs«.

A week ago the melancholy Aligeld made ,'c, a speech for the late Mr. Perkins, in which he declared that the workmen were no better off now than they were a year ago, and wanted to know of an Instance of a man whose wages had been raised since McKinley's election. 5

Though pretending to be a friend of tho workingmen, Altgeld will be pained to learu that the owners of the iron mines in the vicinity of Iron Mountain, Michigan, have given notice of a 10 per cent increase in wages, to begin December 1st. More than 2,000 men will be affected. Furthermore, cB5f the mines are to be worked steadily during the winter. jj

Tbe limestone operators of the Mahoning Valley announce that at the beginning of next month the wages of the 3,000 men In their employ will be advanced 20 per cent. There is such a demand for limestone on the part of the blast furnaces that employers can pay higher wages.

The iron end steel industries are booming. All the mills and furnaces have orders enough on hand to keep them rcmakis far Into next summer. So great is the demand for their products that the total shipments of Lake Superior iron ores for this year have been 12Vi millions tons, or 2 million tons in excess of the output of any previous season. The production at those mines for next year will reach at least 15 million tons.

These are facts which Altgeld angrily refuses to see. His mission is to spread discontent, and make men believe that everything is going to the dogs. So when businese improves, as it is doing, and when men get more work and better pay, as they are doing, he resents it, for it tends to make his preachings of gloom and despair less effective.

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