Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 December 1897 — Page 4

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TBLEPfi&Nll 73.

Now Tom Reed once more will begin to command bis share of national attention.

The Hon. Jacob Cosey has shown himself •wholly incapable of accepting a cue to be quiet.

The weather clerk J* to be congratulated on his introductory specimen of moderate Sf, winter.

That Ohio street opening matter may be only sleeping, bat it scarcely will look more palii iwd still when it to dead.

Charity organization societies will have I less to do under the Dingley bill than they bed "under Professor Wilson's act.

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meats.

of the man that has recently

s'jgpS haa hie wages increased is a poor field for liTj the cultivation of anti-sotmd money senti-

plausible representations

laL-te*t cbh**° al«hwnist'

that sllort

(mm* f.ut 'the possession of gold appeals to be Plugged up. !|U

,vinasmuch

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Italy's treasury enjoying

^6 pleasurable excitement of a surplus it seems a queer time for King Humbert to be thinking about abdicating.

vji-, MftjThe esteemed Gazette believes in a gold ,mtl currency, but it foresees free silver domination tn its party and is preparing to accom.jfici modate itself to the situation.

Wanamaker has never complained of S"

a lack of prosperity on "his own part Ills mtu, persistence in the business-getting art of vttciu advertising (has prevented that. *a.V i"}tutn ,The gold Democrats can come into the

,%Reptiblrparty

for the time toeing on

^the~'$riBciple that they do not hate pro--v4-u lection less but love the national honor more.

«ni Aft" Populist, telling his hard luck ^tory,B^bmglaihs 'that, he has a barn "with

mean that he has three boards without any

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barnon'«hetn.

t^t Tom ^Reed: states In an interview that many things in congress that will not be "doable" at this session. But Jerry

Simpson should not run away with the no\4«a'.th &e is one of them. git JMSC

Harvard University committee on

composition advises that the young men be fe&Mfcaught to "talk with the pen.' If this could .. .*/ 'J-- ,rhe. .brought. about they wo.uld probably be \fittiwore pointed than they are. r' *(!!!£i'~-1

'v enthusiastic Kentucky swain says that 4'hia sweetheart}» Vfat as butter" and he ini&nds to "cling to her till the cows come

Ifiotne." This fellow seems to draw rhetoriCal aspiration from the dairy to-usiness. _____________

s*' The white anetalJists announce that they will win in 1900. The country will see to it S .. f-- /-JJ that In due time this announcement takes -!"*.* place among the ante-election ojtim-*:-*v' Isms of the Hon» James K. Jones of Arkansaa. ,,

An Arkaiisas editor says he does not know "which has been the mightier, his pen or his

rl ofv* *i pistol," He tadds, what is probably correot, that he has used both "to shoot it into people?' jtournalism in Arkansas scorns the its?r .«•.» 1 a it a a

I Ul ble.x ..jt,. 5 -i»l *tti It-is believed by many, among them the :J cilstingnifihetf speaker of the house of represe'n^atives, that this will a do-nothing ,su.

aio*e«i0» '0f sopgress. Their view is possibly cofrent, Abut the fact remains that there is deitfth ot momentous subjects that ought to be attended to.

•ivoflAH t)r, TMt OBSTRUCTIVE SENATE.

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Senator Teller of Colorado, a man who gen-

r'erally attempts to *ive up to his word.\. says

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Prevent it no iegislatio.i on

the money question shall pass the senate a this session unless it "does something for eihrer.** the Colorado statesman caa do what he uuvTfl *vowediy .desires to do, 4t is at once a settied fatjt that the fifty-fifth congress can ac--jj oonpliKh nothing in the direction of monetary reform. It cannot so muoit as pass an act providing for the carrying out of (President MoKlnley's scheme for breaking "endless chain."

This scheme is a simple one, has been oftea .discussed by statesmen and newspapers and ',H(» f'.l» regarded as adequate for the purposes for which It Is intended. The president mere'suggests that so much of the law of .May 31, 1876, as provides for the reissuing um*f greenbacks wheo redeemed in gold shall ke repealed. He recommends such legisla-

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tn other words, ae will prevent green,ba«k» Jbeing repeatedly withdrawn from the treasary and presented for redemption in f*!d. He would not allow this paper, once

redeemed, to be reissued except in exchange for the. yellow metal itself. Of course the »ian here indicated would stop the drain upon the nation's gold and so far as the 'Endless chain" is concerned would be all Htat the monetary situation demands.

But Senator Teller and his fellow ailver'1 ttes will oppose anything and everything in 'tie way of financial legislation unless it smiles upon the white metal. The fact that J- .the scheme for preventing the depletion of 1. the gold reserve would in nowise injure silVo

ver

does not mean anything to the rabid white metailist. He does not want the wheels- to turn at all unless they grind out 50-cent silver dollars. What the senate needs is «. proper form of cloture.

N W O E S E O I E

Cuba has some particularly interesting •tr*a ju?t at this time. They have won distineitfoti %jr" not wanting office. When General Bianco_c*me to the island he came bearthe olive branch. He reserved the right gadding in what manner he would pretia^lkttoka of effacitiatiea and peace, but

he bore It and bore it for the purpose of making use of it. Arrived en the island General Blanco summoned the so-called leaders of a sadly reduced autonomist party and asked them to aid him In the pacification of Cuba. He explained that he wanted to see the natives at peace and pursuing the arts and industries interrupted at the breaking out of the revolution not quite three years ago. General Blanco told the autonomist leaders that they could help him by accepting office under his administration and uniting their efforts to his in the scheme for the restoration of order in the revolted provinces.

The leaders hesitated. They realized their comparative insignificance. Their minds turned to those gallant advocates of Cuban autonomy who long since had lost hope of winning so much as respectful treatment from the mother country and had gone to the front to fight for freedom. General Blanco was astonished at this hesitation, fie was incensed at it also and said to the men who were about to refuse the proffered offices that they could either accept the work assigned to them or go to Africa. He did not put the matter in just those words, but he stated as much when he remarked that "Spain could not conceive of a loyal subject declining to assume any responsibility that he might be called upon to assume.

Autonomy is regarded as practioally dead in Cuba. Those who onoe advocated it with zeal and brilliance are inarching under the banners of Gomez and Garcia and will talk to General Blanco only through ibe voice of musket and cannon.

CURRENT EVBHTS.

.There is an infallible test if you are in doubt Whether the chill of winter is in your blood. If you can pass & house where the summer chairs are on thfe front porch without shuddering winter has not come over you. There are few persons whose teeth will not give an imitation of oasteneta if there is on the porch one of those settees on rockers, tilted back in a position suggesting that it is frozen atiff.

Fort Wayne di not enjoy Modjeska and Mary, Queen of Scots. The Gazette say a the house was only half filled and the people wondered why Modjeska, "who has marked versatility and could please in classic comedy, should have the evident Infatuation for this character. Tragedy has a proper and high place on the stage," continues the Gazette, "but the tragedy of Scottish Mary is without relief, particularly when painted by the perfect art of Modjeska. Schiller gave the world no heritage of blessing in his terrible story." Does that consist with the opinion of those who saw Modjeska in Terre Haute Saturday night?

The Illinois state .poultry show will be given at Danville January 10-15. An incubator company will exhibit a pair of ostriches hatched by the incubator on an ostrich farm in Arizona. The rate of premiums on single birds will be as follows: First, $4 second, $8 third, $2.

A man and his wife at Blnora, Daviess county, who were compelled to dismount from their wheels because a man in a wagon would not turn out for them prosecuted him to raise a test case and he was fined.

Attica and Washington each has.a."Mq^hers' Club'4 which holds regular jmeetings that are largely attended. It is said the mother with a first child usually gives the most advice as to the proper way to raise children.

There is a taxpayers league in Evansville, brought into evidence to enforce economy in expenditure of public money. The league is now after the management of the poor farm which has not been buying supplies by asking for bids.

The suit of H. S. Bonsib of Vincennes, the agent "of the American Bible society against the city, of Pittshurg for $10,000 damages, will come up for trial in a few days. Air. Bonsib was arrested on his arrival in Pittsburg to attend the national convention of the Prohibition party in May, 1896. His arrest was on telegraphic information from an Ohio town that he was accused of assaulting a girl. The Indiana delegation rallied to his defense but the police authorities with that propensity to believe guilty any .one accused and to prove a case after arrest, however palpable may toe the innocence of the accused, would not release him. Some days after the convention was over the blockheads of the department discovered their error and released Mr. Bonsib.

Expert testimony was given in a hog case in the court at Vincennes last week, the like of which probably never before was heard in a court room. John Manning accused John Gibson of stealing three black shoats. Manning accused Gibson of markr ing the pigs by cutting off their tails but Gibson said the tails were frozen off when the pigs were only a few days did. Twenty of the best informed hog raisers of Knox county were summoned as witnesses. They were sent to look at the stump tails of the pigs. Afterward they testified that the tails had been frozen off and when Judge Shaw asked how they arrived at that opinion they said that if the tails had been cut off they would have "haired" over again. The court thereupon found for the defendant.

Tile new train on the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, on the Brazil division, will be like a new road for Terre Haute. It puts the city in direct communication with a number of places from which the city has had no direct train service. These are such towns as West Union, Mecca, Tangier, Kingman, Yeddo and Veedersburg, within seventy miles. Attica is eighty miles. You can leave here in the morning and make Veedersburg and Attica and return the same evening at 5:15, with about two hours in each place. It also enables & Terre Haute man to get back from Brazil in the evening. It is often the case that persons to go to Brazil at noon or on the 2 o'clock train on the Vandalia who are ready to return before the evening train on that road. By the new train on the Brazil division they can be home for supper. To be sure the company did not put this train on with a disinterested purposes, but the accommodation and benefit to the city is appreciated just the same.

Eugene Debs was in St. i/ouie Sunday, where there was a big meeting under the auspices of the Central Labor Union. He will go to Chicago at once to spend some days at the headquarters of the Social Democracy aad then start on a trip in behalf of the organisation. He spent six weeks in the East, mostly in New England and everywhere had a cordial welcome. The staid newspapers of New England betrayed their surprise in the character of the reports of his meetings. In nearly every instance the reports told how the people .were agreeably surprised to find that he was not the typical agitator. Tie Boston Journal, the .ultra respectable and conservative paper of NewEngland, gave him hall a page for an interview and big picture.

W. F*. Hyaes ot Denver, me of the true-, tees of the Brotherhod of Lwcoawtlve Fire

men, ana who has many friends in this city where he frequently oame when the brotherhood's headquarters were here. Is in Washington, presumably as the legislative representative of the .brotherhood as he was last winter, or the. winter before. In an interview with a Washington correspondent he said there is a growing sentiment in Colorado against the #qual suffrage law. A great many of theeVnmen ot the state are in favor of repealing k, he says, because the practical effect of the law has been to degrade the women who availed themselves of the voting privilege? All of the low and ignorant elements of the female population offer their suffrage to the highest bidder. The total vote of the women has been growing smaller each year.

A comparison of, prices in the sale of municipal bonds recently by several cities of about the same iize of Terre Haute showed that the securities of this city sell to better advantage than do those of nine out of ten ciies of like size. The recent sale of $75,000 of 4 per cent twenty-year bonds at a premium of $3,150 was a top notch mark lor a city's credit. At' the time of the sale 4t was remarked to one of the three or four bidders who were here in person that a large number of bids had come by mail. This broker explained that fact by saying that bond buyers knew they would get a fair show in Terre Haute and did not feel tha it was necessary to be on hand. Those who were here said they happened to be near by and lor that reason came to the city.

SHOPLIFTERS ARRESTED/

Four Women Who Were Prominent Soda at Lynn, Mass. Boston, Dec. 6.—A gigantic and •comprehensive system of shoplifting has been unearthed by the Lynn police, and, as & consequence, four women, alleged to be the operators of the scheme, are under arrest at police headquarters. They have confessed and the goods have been recovered. Several trunks are filled with the booty. The officers are positive that there are other women implicated.

The women are Mrs. Clara Phillips, wife of Lincoln Phillips her sister, Miss Lulu Cobb Miss Florence Manson and Mrs. G, B. M. Houston, wife of ex-Alderman Houa ton. They are ail »piWainent socially, and members of societiss arid fraternities. Their sole motive was vgnH& and the desire to dress well and furnish: their homes in luxury. .f-*B

Fura and broad61o& cloaks were taken in large mtmbrs, wMfe there are also hundreds of yards oty laces, numerous pairs of stockings, bundred%.«of yards of silk, silk skirts, entire dresses^ ^bric-a-brac of every nature, ribbons, clocks, shoes perfumery, brushes mirrors, tolftt articles underwear and almost every arjTcjtfon sale in dry goods, milliners' and furriers' stores, valued at many thousands of dollars.

GEORGE DROPPED.

Boston Reform OJub Snickered When It Heard He Hadn't Paid His Dues. Boston, Dec. 6.—George Fred Williams, lately Democratic candidate for governor of Massachusetts, has been expelled by the Massachusetts (Reform Club for non-payment of dues.

TsTo particular action was taken by the club as a whole, but it. was announced in the regular course of business at the annual meeting tonight by Secretary Warren that Mr. Williams, together with former President Herbert S. Car ruth of the board of aldermen, had been expelled by constitutional process.

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The annual meeting and banquet of the Reform Club was.,held at Young's tonight. Mr. Williams was:jformerly a shining light in the organization' «wid a favored speaker. When the secretary" announced the fashion of his taking off a general snicker went around the board and then the reformers turned their attention to other things. The annual dues of the Reform Club are $5.

McNutt and the Attorney Generalship. The Evansville Tribune has the following to say about John Gilbert McNutt, who made the losing race for the attorney generalship of Indiana last campaign: "John Gilbert McNutt, the Terre Haute lawyer who made such an admirable race for attorney genesal OH the Democratic ticket last campaign, will probably be a candidate for nominatRra again. 'Gill,' as he is known among his friends, has one of the best legal minds in the state. What he doesn't know abou£ lay is not worth knowing. He seldom losesi a case, and as attorney general of one of tae greatest states would do much good.. It takes a lawyer to look after the iaw business of Indiana. What I mean by lawyer is one who is versed in law, npT-ohe who has read the first volume of Ch)tiy's Blackstone and perused the statutes and been admitted to the bar because he is citizen and of 'good moral character.' If ,'Gil' is nominated this time hei going to'^b, it's a sure thing for him."

Pngh Says tte Will Sue.

City Attorney Pugh has become tired ot waiting for the committee or bondsmen of ex-Treasurer Fitzpatrick to report what will, be done in the matter of settling up the amount alleged to have been on deposit by the bondsmen in John S. Beach's bank wheu it failed. The bondsmen are inclined to the belief that the money was not theirs, but belonged tp the City and therefore they are not responsible for it. The city attorney, however, believes the money was still in possession of the bondsmen. In case no answer is made by the bondsmen today he says he wiil bring suit.

EXCHANGE ECHOES."

Kansas City Star: Kansas land is being sold and bought again in quantity, and the buyers are Kansas farmers, not tenderfeet, who may turn around some day and say that they have been duped, but men who know all about the hot winds and the flying sand, and the drought, and the locusts, and ail the leading Kansas bugaboos, but who, having tried Kansas land, want more of it. That is the best possible sign for Kansas.

Indianapolis Journal: The further improvement of our rivers and harbors can well afford to wait until the revenues of the government shall covers its exenditures. This is articularly true of the rivers, some of which that claim aproprlatlons are only navigable in a very wet season and then only for mud-turtle steamboats. The able congressman who wants to do something for "my deestrict" should be sat down upon.

Philadelphia Press: The collapse of Klondike companies is to be expected. That the craze wduid result in boom companies consisting of equal shares of pretension and frozen gravel was apparent from the start-f SuTjU^ companies even when covering dp«r«tiOns in accessible and well known localities manage to catch the unwary, but with the mysteries if the Klondike and the Yukon as part of their capital they/ha^pe been in clover this time. There is plenty of opportunity for enterprise and c%pit«it) to exploit Alaska, but there will be many a bubble burst before all its golden seorets are known.

SsTacuse ost: Violations of election laws are severely punished in Philadelphia. Three election inspectors in that city who had been convicted of making fraudulent returns* at the recem election have been lined $500 each, and each one has been sentenced to nine soMiths' imprisonment, with disfranchisement for four years, and disqualification for holding office for seven years. TI*e punishment was none too severe. The fcta»ility of the government itself dependsiupon honest elections. If officials who are charged with the solemn duty of protecting the rights of citizens are false to their trust, popular rights are in danger and tohe punishment for such offenses should be severe.

Care Bodachi in 15 Minutes By using Dr. Davis' Anti-Headache, druggists.

TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, TUESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 7.1897.

SCANDALOUS PROTEST

BITTER WAR AGAINST H'EMTlti'S APPOINTS* KNT TO SUPREME COURT

It Recalls the Disreputable Proceedings VThma George H. Williams Was Mom! nlted by Grant to Supreme Court.

Special'to the Chicago Record. Washington, {Dec. 6.—Whatever motive may have inspired the protest that is being sent from Portland to the president against' the appointment of Attorney General Mc Kenna to the supreme ben en, it is one of the most forcible and by all odds the most shocking that can be remembered*4 »Judg McKenna ervd in eongrss for ight yeure, with an xcllnt rcord, and for fonr yais was. an associate of President McKinley upon the committee of ways and means. He served for four years as United States Circuit judge in California, and attorneys here who are familiar with the records say that very few of his decisions were overruled by the Supreme Court that there is scarcely a judge upon the circuit bench with so good a record in this respect.

Notwithstanding all this, we have the extraordinary spectacle of two judges of the United States Court, who have been his associates upon the bench three judges of state courts and one of ha predecessors in the office of attorney general, protesting against his .promotion on the ground th&t he Is unfit to occupy so elevated and responsible a position. The first signature on the protest Is that of George H. Williams, who Ws attorney general in President Grant's second term. He, too, was nominated for the supreme bench and rejected by the senate, after a scandalous attack upon his character and domestic life, but there was no question of his ability. The reputation of his wife was also involved and was assailed' in a most cruel and vindictive manner.

One of the bitterest critics was the wife of one of'her husband's associates in the cabinet, who is stilP residing in Washington, after a very stormy career of her own. She was believed to be the author of a series of anonymous letters which were received by the members of the senate and also by their wives, relating incidents in the domestic life of Mrs. Williams, and making the vilest charges against her character. Mrs. Williams was of humble parentage, but of remarkable intellectual attainments and social accomplishments. When young she taught school, and her first husband was a stage driver, from whom she secured a divorce, and Mr. Williams was her attorney. He afterward married her and brought her to Washington when he came here as a senator. For ten years she was a leader of society, but the persecution she endured broke her spirit, and, after her husband's rejection, she disappeared and spent tfae rest of her life in Oregon. I believe she became insane before she died.

There was great excitement in Washingten in those days. Senator C^nkiing refused the nomination of chief justice of the United States, and he is the only man who ever declined that elevated position. Caleb Cushing was nominated and rejected by the senate after a most bitter fight and charges and countercharges. And then George H. Williams suffered the same fate, as I have told you, but not until official Washington had been torn to pieces by the scandals.

A few days after Judge Williams' fate was announced E. Rockwood Hoar, who was his predecessor as attorney general in the cabinet of President Grant, eutered the hall of representatives and remarked to a colleague: I "And, for heaven's sake, Vho Is Morrfg^n R. White?" "6h, he is an innocent third party from Ohio," retorted Judge Hoar.

I do not believe the protest from Oregon will have the slightest influence with President McKinley. If it had been presented to him in a quiet, dignified way, with evidence to sustain it,'he must have given it careful attention, but being blazoned out in the papers, even before It was mailed to htm, gives it all the symptoms of a malicious attempt to defame Judge McKenna, and the president is consequently very indignant at an attack made in such a manner upon a member of his official family. And what is most shocking, in the opinion o^ the members of the bench and the bar here, 5a that Judge Gilbert of the United States Circuit Court and Judge Bellinger of" the District Court should be guilty of such undignified and unjudicial conducr as to utter a protest against the leading law officer of the government in a public manner, arid furnish the newspapers a copy of their communication to the president before it was even mailed to him. The attack has injured the persons who signed it more than the man at whom it was directed. Judge MeKenna Says it is inspired by malice, and that he had trouble with Judge Gilbert about the appointment of a clerk of the court, and that the bar of Portland has never forgiven him for refusing to hold court in that city. People there are compelled to come San Francisco to try their cases before the United States Circuit Court and Court of Appeals.

CONGRESSMAN HENRY'S VIEWS.

He Has No Hope for Currency Legislation This Session. Special to the Indianapolis News.

Washington, Dec. 6.—Congressman Henry arrived yesterday and was in his seat wh'en the house opened today. "I do not see how a currency reform bill can pass, and, in face of a hopeless situation, I do not believe congress ought to waste time on it. Frankly, I do not believe we need currency reform. Our money is all right. The difficulty with the finances of the country was a deficit in revenues. That has been remedied by the Dingley law. I think it will-yet produce enough revenue. If it does not it will be remedied until it does. This congress will not hesitate to ameDd the Dingley bill if necessary."

Mr. Henry is a business man, and has had an opportunity to investigate financial conditions. "There is no doubt that business is improving," he said. "It will continue to improve if agitation ceases. While at Indianapolis a few days ago a farmer came in and made an investment of several thousand dollars in connty bonds. In payment he produced, not a check, but a roll of wellworn bills and government bonds, on which there were six coupons that had not been clipped. The significance was that the farmer had been hoarding his money and bonds, afraid, to invest, and had finally recovered from the scare."

Mr. Henry has retired from politics because he has preference for business life, and likes to be in Indiana better than Washington. The Indiana congressman is opposed to the postal savings bank bill. He takes the ground that the government has no right to interfere with private business.

MODELS OF REPARTEE.

Courteous Retorts Which Tennyson Waa 'Jfond of Quotings In the "Life of Tennyson" we are told, soyjs the Philadelphia Times, that the poet was fond of quoting the following as perfec in their kind: 1. A certain French king, seeing at court a man said to be like him, blurted out: "Yeu are very like our family is it possible that your mother was much at oourt?" "No, sire," said the man "but my father fas." 2. The Prince Regent, being in Portsmouth one day. and seeing Jock Towers across the street, shouted oat in bis royal way: "Halloa, Towers, I hear you are the greatest blackguard in Portsmouth!" Tower* re-

SIX SPECIAL SALES,

fcE: Never was there a better time to buy goods E cheap than now. Prices all in your favor. =3

SALE ON ATOMIZERS.

S£ Prices lower here titan elsewhere—19c, 35c, 39c, 45c, 75c and 98c.

:E SALE ON HANDKERCHIEFS.

,w IC, ac, 3, 5C, 8c, 10c, saj£c, 15c, aoc, asc, 30c, and so on. Children's Handkerchiefs iq boxes, 15 and 35c, worth 25c to 40c. Handkercbjefe In boxes, 75c, 89c, $1 and $1.75 a box.

f§ SALE ON RIBBONS. y— 8c and ioc for all silk and satin Ribbon worth 15c and aoc. ^3 gS'- The town's Ribbon stock is here. ^3

CORSET SALE. In order to introduce our immense new stock we have special prices for 5^ a short time only. $x Corsets 89c. St.as Corsets Sx.to. ....^3^.

DRESS GOODS SALE. JET 35c and 38c Novelty Dress Goods 35c a yard.

S~ CLOAK SALE. y- 50c does the work of a dollar in the Cloak room.

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plied, with a low bow, "I hope your Royal Highness has not come here to take away my character." 3. The reply of Margaret Mere to a Lady Manners, both having had honors conferred on their families.. To the satirical remsurk of Lady Manners, "Honors mutant Mores," Margaret More replied: "That goes better in English, madame—'Honors change Manners.' 4. The reply of the Italian lady to Napoleon, who said to her: Tuttl Italiani sonp .perfidi," "Non tuttl, ma Buona parte,"

Tennyson used laughingly to say that he would give all his poems to have made the first two retorts courteous cited above.

LABOR, WAGES AND WHEAT.

How the Return of Prosperity Increases Values of Agricultural Products.

In 1892, when our workingpaen were all employed, we consui-ed in this country 117,-, 000,000 more bushels of wheat th*n 'Wg (lid In 1894—177,000,000 more. IB 1894 our work' ingmen were idle, say3 the Des-ilolnes Register. They did not-have io jjeat as much food as they did when they Wfere all employed in 1892—and ^they ^d ilotr eit as much for the simple reason that they did not have money with which to buy wheat: or flour. Those idle men ate coarser and cheaper foods, and, we fear, that many of them did not eat anything during part ot the time This is one of the most marked facts in cobneotion with the hard times. To the extentthat the Wilson-Gorman low tariff bill threw workmen out of employment by transferring the work to Europe, to that extent that bill' was responsible for the 177,000,000 bushels of. surplus wheat or rather unconsumed American wheat.

It can readily be seen what an influence such a quantity of unconsumed wheat would have on the markets of the world. This year under the return of better times, for which the tariff settlement and the return of finan* clal confidence are jointly responsible In large part, the American people are going to consume more nearly their normal quantity of wheat. There will still be under consumption to some extent, but the prosepct is that the American people will live on full rations again. This fact is helping hold up the price of wheat. We have a surplus of wheat in this country, but there is a short supply In the rest of the world, generally. If we had a low rate of employment in thiis country we would have a low rate of consumption and our surplus to throw on the markets of the world would be accordingly larger. In this way and to this extent the return of proseprlty is helping the price of wheat.

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Notice by Inspector-Fisher^

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State Mine Inspector Fisher has isued the following notice: j^ 'tflCM I find it necessary t6 again latll tion of miners and others to the statement I have made several times before that ^9 attention can be paid to-unsigned letters complaining of conditions at coa^pjineq, jis have received a number Of such lately. Any complaint signed by the party making

it will have prompt attention,--tart^ the• mlr

notice that is taken of oth&ftfs to fttail the uj0Se

letter to the person in charge of the mtne

complained of. My reasons for this action have been stated before, and I shall not repeat them here.

Robert Fisher, Inspector of Mines. Papers in coal districts please copy,

ABOUT PEOPLE.

Frances E. Willard says that among other things women of the present need are larger shoes.

Lafcadio Hearn, who lUis lived many years In Jaan, thinks that the grotesque ictures made by Japanese artists now seem to be qul^s true to nature. ,fv

Governor Jones, of Arkansas, announced that he Is determined to banish from that state the game of foot ball, which he characterizes as a brutally dangerous and disgusting sport.,

Dr. Gunsaulus, the noted Chicago preacher, who is still at the Alma, Mich., sanitarium, is In-extremely poc- health. Another operation upon his disabled leg will soon be necessary.

Mrs. Ormiston Chant says in regard to women smoking: "I tried a cigarette once, but the result was by no means en* couraging. Broadly sp.eaking, see no reason why women should not sn^oke as well as men, if they want to."

Mrs. Julia Ward Howe -will pass the winter with her. daughter, Maud Klliott, In Rome., Her lameness Is not as severe as it was a few weeks ago. but her physician thought that she would -better spend the cold months in Italy than in the changeable climate of Boston.

Rousseau's tomb in the lie dea Peattpiers was recently examined and found ,lb. be untenanted. Speculation is rife as to tha wher^bouts of the body of the great philosopher. An examination win be made of the tomb under the dome or the Panthenon in Paris, and if the remains are not there, it is probable that they were disinterred by some fanatic.

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PEUS8IAN NAVAL BILL

PRINCE BOBENLOHB STATES REASON FOR ASKING APPROPRIATION.

Social Democrats Oppose the Bill, Declaring That Germaajr Can Never Be a Great Naval Power.

Berlin/ Dec. 6.—The relchstag today begaa the debate upon the first reading of 33® the government's naval bill. The imperial chancellor, Prince Hohenlohe, made a statement on the subject, saying: »'We absolutely require an efficient navy to maintain the position created for us by the army. This conviction has gained ground With very large sections of the population and I declare, in the name of the federated governments, that they consider as sn fcn-C perative necessity that the navy should bo&L.j strengthened and that its strength should -be,'vV fixed by legislative enactment. The bill, it is true, demands a certain sacrifice fremiti the relchstag, but by its adoption the hands of, the government will-also be tied. The idea of a policy of adventure is far from the thoughts oiVie government as is any intention of rivalry with the great maritime ^,v powers. If we desire to secure a position in the concert of the powers which we must have, a fleet of modest dimensions will (be adequate, I ask you to adopt the bill for Ihe welfare of the fatherland." -14

Admiral Von Tirpitz, the secretary of the navy, then addressed the house, explaining iPAdetail tfae necessity for introducing the bill to strengthen the German navy.

Herr Schoenlank, Social Democrat, opposed the bill. He said he thought it rurious that the flaws in the navy had only now been discovered. Attempts were being made, he claimed, to frighten the people with phantoms and excite them to 1 craving for glory. Hoiw, the speaker asked, could this be reconciled with the pacifictdec!arations of the emperor? yU

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Herr Barth, the Freisslnnige leader, said the Freissinige party had r.o idea of rejecting the measure summarily.

The house adjourned until tomorrow.

SOME RECENT DEATHS.

Luther Stark, an Old Veteran, Dies Sunday Night—Other Deaths.

Luther Stark, a well known veteran of the late war, died Sunday night of chronic diarrhea, at his home, 22 Swan street. He was 83 years old. He was a cooper, and had lived in this city for the past forty years. The funeral will be beld today under tha auspices of the G. A. R.

Mrs. Charles Shields, wife of the Jaaltor at the Rose Polytechnic, died of consumption Sunday evening at her home, 1310 Third avenue. The funeral will be held Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock from St. Benedict's church.

The 3-year-old child of John York, of 1601 South Second street, died yesterday morning. William Hall, who resided at Thirteenth and Voorhees streets, died at St. Anthony's hospital yesterday morning.

Alfred Whittakcr, the 2-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Whittaker, of 124 South Tenth and One-half street, died early Sunday morning.

Algie Lee of Pierson township, who waa recently operated upon for stomach trouble, died Sunday night, aged 32 years. He leaves a widow. Funeral at 11 a. m. todjy. Burial at Liberty cemetery.

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ters, Herr Schoenlank said that if Germany established herself in China she would become involved in endless complications with Great Britain and Japan. Germany, he claimed, would never be a naval power. The .bill, he said, was the outcome of personal rule. -.- *•. .j?

The minister for foreign affairs, Baron J] Yon Bulow, said: "Herr Schoenlank's fears we shall plunge into adventures are not well, grounded. The object of the expedition to Kiao Chau Bay is to obtain satisfaction and greater guarantees against tha repUitlon of such occurrences. We do not wish to intimidate or provoke China. Notwithstanding the grave injustice done, we (Jeclare a continuance of her friendship. In addition to the murder of the two German missionaries, whom we cannot allow to be regarded as outlaws, we have had a number of other serious grounds for complaint. We cannot allow the view to become established In China that Germans can be treated in a manner which other nations do not per- .?

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