Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 39, Plymouth, Marshall County, 25 March 1896 — Page 2

INDIANA INCIDENTS. HOLY WAR DECLARED SENATE AND HOUSE.' RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. DERVISHES CALLED TO ARMS AGAINST EGYPT. WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAW MAKERS. PLYMOUTH. INDIANA.

(Cfye3nbopcnEent ZIMMEKMAM t SMITH, Publisher and Prop -ie'.or3

(V tnY ' 9 -&

THE ARMY IN REVOLT.

SERIOUS SPLIT IN CHICAGO SALVATIONIST RANKS. Commissioner Uva Kontli Fail to If efctore Harmony lJallinston llooth Has Many Friend Changes the Name of His Army. Kef it hc to Follow Kva. Fifty members of tin Salvation army at Chicago proclaimed Sunday at Princess Killli their desertion of the olil organization. At the ;.l'tTttooii meeting, instead of marching to the platform and taking scats behind Commissioners Eva llooth and John A. ( 'a rlctoii. tin y smoothed out the little white bows they had pinned on the lapels of their coats as the badge of rebellion and seated themselves with the general audience. The lassies tili wore their blue uniforms and p ke bonnets, hut the seceding men appeared in plain riot lies. It is ro needed by both sides there will be two organizations in Chicago unless something raises Commnnder P.allington llooth to falter. Those who wore the white ribbon Sunday say a large number of oliict t und privates will throw off all reserve and flock to his tamhird. The white ribbon people say they are sixty-live strong in Corps N. 1 alone. This eorps numbers over l.0. The adherents of (Jen. Booth de hire there are not more than thirty revoliers in Corp No. 1. and say the new organization will be short-lived. Why Trade I Stagnant. It. !. Dun tfc Co.'s V'eekl.v Keview of Trade says: ".Movement toward better things is still the exception. There is better business in shoes and small industries and there has been a Hiueezing of short sellers in cotton. Hut the general tendency of industries and prices is not encouraglrg. and those who were most hopeful a month ago are still waiting, not ko hopefully, for the expected recovery. Causes of continued depression are not wanting. Had weather has cut off much business, especially in country districts. Some failures of consequence have caused especial caution. The root of the business is that in many departments men bought more and produced more when prices were mounting and everything was rushing to buy last year than they have yet been able to sell. That the buying was of a nature to anticipate actual consumption many months they were fully warned, but they had more hope than observation and went on piling up goods. Some arc engaged to-day in the same hopeful anticipation of a demand which has not yet appeared." Name of the Army Is Changed. The name of 'Mood's American Volunteers," Hallington Booth's new religious movement, has been chanced to "The Volunteers." The change was made because some friends of the move objected to the name of the Deity appearing in the title of the organization. The name "The Volunteers' might be changed again at some future time. The uniform to be worn by the women of the new organization will be cadet blue instead of brown, as intended. This change was made at the request of a majority of the members. Adjutant Turnbnll. who has been the leader of the Salvation army's band at headquarters, it is reported, will in a few days join Hallington Hoot It's forces. Composer Crouch Sick ami Poor. Frederick Nicholas Crouch, the aged composer and writer of "Kathleen Mavourncen" and other Irish songs, is dying nt Haltimore in poverty, lie is 8t years old. lie lies on a little scantily covered iron bedstead in a tenement house. His mind wanders and lie talks constantly of the old country and the time of the coronation of King William IV.. when he directed the lioyal Hand. The old eomjmser's last song was "(Jreon and ('old," written in honor of the anniversary of Hubert Emmet's birth and sung in New York on March 4. NEWS NUGGETS. After next week the weather forecast will be stamped on the hacks of all letters that pass through the Washington postolliee. Thomas A. Edison has discovered that by using X rays in connection with plates coated with tungstate of calcium he mn sei through the human hand at a distance cf fifteen feet. A hurricane passed over Hart's Creek ralley, fifty miles south of Huntington, V. Va., Thursday night. Huildings were blown down and immense damage was reported. It was the heaviest .vindstorni ever known in that section. The Hev. Dr. Ceorge W. Cray, of the Kpworth Home Settlement Mission in Chicago, has interested a number of religious and charitable men and women of Haltimore, Md., ir the project, and steps will be taken to locate a mission in the tenement section of that city. Private Allen of Company A, Fifteenth Regiment, shot and fatally wounded Privat' Daniel M. (Jail of the same company in the jMst quarters at Fort Sheridan, III. While being disarmed Allen was then accidentally shot with his own revolver, and he will also probably die. At Parkorshurg, W. Va., William Sprouse, fireman on the steamer King, was horribly burned, but by his heroism prevented an explosion and saved the lives of the passengers. He blew off one valve and had turned tin other when the first one blew out steam and hot water. Sprouse held to the second, however, with the scalding water and steam ouring over him until he had turned it off. He fell exhausted, nearly blinded and terribly burned. The town of Cabanas, on the north coast of Pinnr d 1 Itio, Cuba, has been reduced to ashes by the insurgents. It had 1,01)0 inhabitants, churches, .1 town hall and two school houses. The rebels are reiorted to have four camps in that immediate vicinity. The insurgents are forming a special corps to operate in the country districts. The Central Vermont I tail road has been put into the hands of receivers, President Edward C. Smith and Charles M. Hayes, general manajrer of the (jrand Trunk. Papers were filed in Itoston, New York State and Brattlebo- o ".nrdaj.

MAKE MONEY LEGAL TENDER. THERE would be no ditlk-ulty v hate vor in passing a free silver law in its ctTtets upon the value of o-t her currency in tho country, if sum law required tho disassociation of redemption iu other forms of money, such as sroM. In other words, if the present and wholly unauthorized process of re demption in old wore abolished in practice, and the declared policy of the (Jovernment to maintain the two coins at parity were construed to the allowance of each metal to rest upon its own foot by making each a full lejrnl tender public and private, all this stress, imaginary or real, upon tho treasury to red eon i in gold would at once, bo reinoved, and both silver and gold would remain at so near a parity that the difference for foreign purposes --would be no more than what is usual in the case of buying; ordinary foreign exchange. As is well known, and as has recently been forcibly put before Congress by Senator Hacon. of (Joorgia, Franco maintains tho two metals at a parity in tho described way, and Franco has double tho work to perform in this regard, considering its population, as would lfo tho case hero. French bonds or rentes are sold in Loudon at par, although they are no more redeemable in gold than silver; in practice, silver is commonly tendered in tho payment of the interest upon them, but as it is a full legal tender, it is of the same value in London as tho French gold, less a very small fraction of 1 per cent. Tho reason for this, as would occur with u the French silver is exchangeable by Englishmen into French products. French gold can do no mo. c; therefore, those who want French products are satisfied t take silver that will buy just as well as gold. The grave fault xith United States silver is that it is not a full legal tender, but allows people in this country to discriminate against it. in tho words of tho law, saying "Legal tender except when otherwise specified in the contract." It is a grave crime when this nation discriminates against itself, against its own money, by allowing schemers to discard it in favor of another form of money. That is the fault with American currency as compared with that of France, where both metals, as well as paper money, not redeemable into either, always circulates at par. No money should ever bo allowed to circulate in tho United States that is not full legal tender for all debts, public and private. It is rank insanity to do anything else. Any business person of tho most ordinary eapa -ity can see this on its face. Every dollar that is to do duty as money should, by law, at once bo made a full legal tender. And if bank notes cannot properly 1 made so, then bank notes should at one.! bo replaced by Federal legal tender. This retention of nearly a dozen forms of money that discriminate against one another in the matter of legal tender function, while striving to mak? them all redeemable in gold, a metal that cannot bo got for such a purpose, is the height of idiocy. Pass a free silver law that makes all silver in tho country, and the cert ideates into which it is exchangeable, a full legal tender, and not convertible into gold, and then United States silver will pass at par tho world over, just as is now tho case with Franco. Hut don't do the asinine thing of making silver one form of legal tender, while making the silver certificates into which it is exchangeable another form of legal tender, as was done iu the silver law of Feb. I'S, 1S7S. The Silver Issue. The New York Daily Financial News continues to present to its Wall street patrons a great many interesting facts that the editors of the big morning papers are careful to suppress. Hut for the Financial News, tin; men who hurry up and down Wall street in search of an honest living would never hear the truth about the financial question, and we have no doubt they appreciate tho earnestness of Mr. Lassen, the editor, for bis paper, small and modest as it is, wears an exceedingly prosperous air. In a late issue- Mr. Lassen takes pains to inform his Wall street readers that the salvor question, so far from being dead, is about the livest issue, being the most important the country has ever faced, lie tells t iem, indeed, that the silver question, as It stands to-day, is livelier and more important than the addition movement was. Tho quotations which the Financial News makes from the views of leading economists ate extremely important, especially the remarks of Kotiert (Jiffen, whoso arguments in favor of the single standard for (Jroat Hritain form the basis of tho gold contract ioiiists of the world. Hut it should bo borne in mind that Mr. (Jiffen is not so foolish as to maintain that if the gold standard is good for England it must, therefore, bo good for all Europe and the United States. AH his arguments and all his facts are based on tho condition of England's commerce and trade relations. He declares that the best rule that can be laid down in matters of currency is for each country to select the standard that suits It best and adhere to it, and this surely is the very essence of wisdom. There are those who argue that Englund ought to have a bimetallic cur

rency system, while others maintain that until England does adopt the bimetallic standard the rest of the civilized world will not be justified in returning to bimetallism. Mr. (Jiffen Is not a gold inononietallist of that stripe. He thinks that on the face of the facts and as the result of certain trade conditions, which are markedly different from those of any other nation. England is now on the proper currency basis. For that reason, therefore, he says that each country should select a standard money that suits its conditions best and adhere to it. Mr. (Jiffen, so far from denying the appreciation of grold as the result of tho demonetization of silver, distinctly affirms it. and in language that can admit of but one construction. "The pressure of gold," he says, "would have boon more severe than it has been if the United States had not passed Ihe Hland coinage law:" and h 'adds: "The appreciation of gold would have been much less if the United States had not locked up so much of it."

Japan and Silver. William E. Curtis, writing from Japan to the Chicago Record, said with regard to the use of silver in Japan: "Speaking as one who does not believe in silver money nor bimetallism unless it be universally adopted and all the nations of the earth agree to maintain the value of silver, I must, nevertheless, admit that it is the uniform testimony of all concerned that the demonetization of the white metal by the repeal of the Hland law in the United States and the suspension of coinage iu India was a groat thing for Japan. "A low theorists, arguing from the standpoint of what ought to bo instead of what is. insist that Japan shall join England (the Latin Union) and the United States in an international agreement to maintain a certain parity between the metals, but it is by no means a popular idea. They are college professors, minority members of Parliament, idle men who think and read a groat deal and do nothing, and others who are entirely without practical experience or a knowledge of trade and industry. Most of them have boon educated in England and have got their financial notions from reading the Times and tho Economist. The solid, wise men, who are governing the empire, say: 'No, let the debtor and the creditors of Europe and America light it out. Meantime, we will saw wood. The longer England holds to a single standard the better 'twill bo for Japan. Wo have no foreign debt. Wo owe nothing abroad. Therefore wo do not have to buy gold to pay interest charges. Tho import trade is nearly all in the hands of foreigners, and wo don't care how high foreign manufactured merchandise is. Cotton, iron and Hour will stay down in sympathy with silver and it would bo a good tiling if nothing but raw material were imported into Japan.' "You will notice that India. Japan, Mexico and other silver countries are not only much more prosperous than the gold countries of Europe, but their domestic industries are greatly stimulated. In fact, financial and commercial depression is almost universal except where there is nothing but silver money." Public Opinion. The Trouble Continues. The country now is more than a month away from the groat bond issue of $10OJKNWX)O. It was understood ami so stated by those who make it their business to deceive the people in the interests of the money power that this vast increase of the public lebt that saddling of an additional burden of taxation on the people would put an end to the strained condition of affairs, be an ample protiM-tion to the treasury and so give a bettor tone to trade and business. Hut what is the actual situation? The most careless observer can perceive that prices have fallen still lower than they were before. Even the speculative stocks that pay no dividends and are practically worthless the storks that Wall street uses as a blind behind w Inch it sits and calls up the lambs that are to bo tl cooed are lower. The situation must be pretty bad in that quarter when tho Wall street operators can not breathe the breath of speculation into the prices of those stuffed and padded stocks. More than this, the bond issue, instead of putting an end to the raid on the gold reserve, has accelerated it. Millions have boon drawn out to pay for tho bonds, and those who had gold and paid it into the treasury for bonds are now making baste to draw it out again. Since the announcement of the bond Issue in January vor $ÖO,000,()00 of gold has been withdrawn from the treasury, and very little of it has gone abroad. Foreign exchange is not at the shipping point and has not been for some time, but the raid on the reserve continues. Necessary to Success. A woman isn't competent to take boarders unless she can make a filling for pie that she can call apple one day and the next pass for peach. Atchison (J lobe. Maltre Poulllet, one of the most eminent lawyers in Paris, has begun an original work of charity. He gives sittings at the Palais de Justice at which he offers legal advice, free of charge, to persons who cannot afford to employ lawyers.

ITti if i itc Pcstiiiction llnjoyed ! Mr. and Mrs. Frank Shade Cincinnati Hanker Wlio Wum Formerly Ftmiona for Charity Filters a Poorhouse.

The Smallest Couple in Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Shade the smallest couple in the State of Indiana live at Kendallville, and Kendallville is rather proud of the uniuc distinction. Mr. and Mrs. Shade have lived in Kendallville for many years witli Mr. and Mrs. (Jeorge W. (iilbert. who are quite wealthy, and take a great interest in both. Mr. Shade, who is not quite three feet high, has a luxuriant growth of hair, wearing a long, heavy beard. His hair reaches below the waist, and when open covers much of his form. lie usually wears it in braids, often covering it with a net. Mr. Shade and his wife are good conversationalists, and both are acquainted with up-to-date topi.-s. Mr. Shade enjoys a got id joke, and withal is a good-soulod fellow. He is ."() years of age. His wife is a few years his junior. Her former home was in New Haven. Conn. Like Mr. Shade, she is also well known and has many friends and is a pleasing littk woman. Mr. and Mrs. Shade seek no notoriety, ami it was with great dilliculty that a Chicago newspaper correspondent gained their permission to allow their picture to appear. Mr. Shade is an enthusiastic Pythian, and now holds the otliee of inner guard. lie abstains from liquor and tobacco and is no stranger at the church, lie reads every day the current events and is not slow in expressing his views on matters of common concern. I loth Mr. and Mrs. Shade are in good health ami enjoy life to its fullest extent. Sarucnt to Die a I'smecr. Charles S.irgeant, at one time a Cincinnati banker and one of the most liberal men in the (ueen City, who gave many poor boys their education ami banqueted the boii-toii tif Cincinnati, l'js been taken to St. Mary's hospital in Anderson to die as a pauper. He is in the last stages rf cousuinptiezi and without a friend in the world, lie lived high while he had mont-y and among his many exploits was to charter boats ami take a party of friends to New Orleans at his own expense. Champaign and wine always llowetl freely, bat he never touched it. The crash came suddenly, ami, being too proud to ask his friends for help, he left the scene of his glorious reign and went to Anderson. IJe accepted a menial clerkship ami later went down to an otliee boy as disease lessened his vitality. The case is one of the niot pathetic that has ever come before the local authorities. All Over the State. Unknown thieves robbed the grocery wagon of John Shook, of Osgood, who had stopped over night at a farm house, securing properly worth S7H. The Ohio ami Indiana Itutter and Egg Shippers' Association met at Fort Wayne and passed resolutions indorsing the project of the Iowa association to organize a straw hoard manufacturing company to furnish fillers for the produce trade at reasonable figures. Jackson ami Walling, the indicted murderers of Pearl Iryan, uro in the Newport jail. John Eitzcr. the jailer, has increased the number of his guards and the police oT Newport have been instructed to exercise great vigilance. The prisoners were tirst put in a sensitive cell, absolutely ciark. in which were twenty telephone transmitters. In a floor above were stenographers and other witnesses. So far as hearing and communication between the prisoners is concerned it was a failure. They evidently discovered that it was a trap and maintained perfect silence. In the triii from Cincinnati to Kentucky the prisoners were handcuffed to detectives. These detectives say that both prisoners trembled as they entered Newport. Hiram A. Ilradshaw, trustee of Clinton township, near Lebanon, has left for parts unknown, having behind a bevy of unpaid school teachers ami a shortage to be paid by his lmmlsmen. Where he has genu is a mystery, and at a meeting held by his bondsmen the committee who had been authorized to investigate his affairs reported a shortage of about $1,1!M). Last Oecetnber the school teachers complained if being unable to secure pay for their services and the bondsmen investigated. They found Eradshaw iiliout .$MH short. He admitted having used the money in conducting his private business. Upon a promise to fix up the shortage he was not removed ami everything went along smoothly until the county schools were dismissed ami the teachers insisted uhiu having their pay. Finding exposure inevitable, ilradshaw went to Lebanon and took an Indianaiolis train Thursday afternoon. E. T. Lane, cashier of the Lebanon National Hank, says the local banks have protested Eradshaw's checks every week for the past six months. The bondsmen have arranged to pay the shortage as so hi as the exact amount can be learned. The i)-yoar-old daughter of C. C. Maymini, of Anderson, was fatally burned while playing nbmit a lire. Her mother sustained severe injuries iu rescuing the child. Mrs. Fred Lake, a fanner's wife near Anderson, loro twins Monday evening. She now has a record of eight children in four years. This is her fourth pair of twins. All of the children are alive and equally divided between the sexes. They are healthy, ami although the mother U a small woman, she is as healthy ns she could possibly be. She is but 28 years ol and the father ig about the same ag.

Osman Digna to Join Them at Doncola Threatens a European Convulsion Thawed the Gunpowder and Died Landslide Causes Death,

Jehad Asainst Kypt. A dispatch to the London (Hobe from Cairo says that the khalifa has proclaimed jehad (holy war) against Egypt and has called all the dervishes capable of bearing arms to enroll under his banners. The dispatch adds that it is said that Osman Digna is to leave Cassala and join the dervishes now mustering at Dongola. The under secretary of state for foreign affairs. (Seorge N. Curzon, answering a question in the House of Commons Friday afternoon, said that the decision of the ( Joverninent to send ltritishFgyptian troops to Dongola was considerably inilueiiced by a communication from Italy relative to the prospects of a dervish attack on Cassala and the effect it might have upon Egyptian interests. Who e Family Wiped Out. The people of Himlmau, Ky.. are very much exercised over the report that a large mass of stone and cinder-looking substance has fallen on the side of Fine Mountain, about twenty-six miles distant. Persons living in the vicinity say they were startled by a whirring sound and then a crash. Large stones and chunks of black substance came rolling down the side of the mountain, scattering in every direction for hundreds of yards along the valley. The house of Mrs. Hester Yates, on the mountain side, was demolished and rhe logs scattered in every direction. Mrs. Yates and family, consisting of several small children, are bun-'d bcne;ith tho debris. The hard substance was over half-buried in the mountain side, but struck a solid rock ami burst into hundreds of pieces. People for miles around have turned out and arc now searching for the bodies of Mrs. Yates and her children. Four Killed und Two Hurt. A terrible explosion occurred at the gold mines at Koseland, Man., in the remote Northwest country. As a result four men are dead ami two others so seriously hurt that they will probably die. Two boxes of gunpowder were being thawed out in hot water. The only man who knows how it became ignited lies at the point of death in the hospital. He came running out of the tunnel crying: "The powder is on tire!" but before he could reach a place of safety the explosion occurred. Eight men were working in the mine and only two escaped death or serious injury. Vote of Censure. The House Friday, after throe days of debate, adopted a resolution censuring Thomas F. Ilayard, ex-Secretary of State and now ambassador to the court of St. James, for utterances delivered in an address to the Kosten (England.) (Grammar School and in an address before the Edinburgh (Scotland) Philosophical Institution last fall. The vote stood ISO to 71 in favor of the first resolution and l'Jl to Ö'J in favor of the second. BREVITIES. A big coal pool, covering all the shipments from Pennsylvania and Ohio by way of the lakes, has been formed. Tho companies represent in the pool an annual output of over 1ö,mm.(kk) tons, of which 4,(MK,(HK goes in shipment by the lakes. The gross receipts at the thirty largest postollices in the country last month increased $.'4-1,7-11!. The total receipts were $0,7--. 17, against $2,077,4 15 for February, 1S'J5. Trained animals useiiin circus performances will hereafter be admitted into the United States free of duty, having. been classed as "tools of trade" by the Circuit Court at Xew York. Yellow' fever is again spreading throughout llio Janeiro at an alarming rate. One hundred new cases were reported Tuesday. The scourge reappeared on the Italian cruiser Loinhardia and it was resolved to send her to sea. The vessel started for the Cape Verde Islands. The steamship Peru brings to San Francisco news from China that the Presbyterian mission l.",0 miles southeast of Shanghai was raided by a band of robbers Feb. 7. Lev. Kufus II. llent was shot iu the thigh and seriously cut in the head. The robbers secured $000 from the mission safe and departed unmolested. John C. ltice, general manager of the I lue. Jay Mining Company, has caused the arrest of John II. Koyer and A. Yilson King, two brokers who figured in the llue Jay deal at Denver, charging them with embezzlement. The complaint alleges that Uoyer aid King were, March 1(1, 1 SIX I, acting as general agents of the Itlue Jay Company, and as such had in tliiir imssessioii $.".70O, the property of the IHuo Jay Company, which they embezzled. Two oflicers were shot and a train robber named Daniel McCole was killed in an attempt to hold up the south-bound New Orleans express near Tulare, Cal., at .' o'clock Thursday morning. The attempted robbery was one of the most daring that has taken place in California, and probably would have succeeded if it had not been for the perfidy of one of the robbers. The otlicers were informed that an attenmt Would be made to hold up the "Limited." The man who gave the information gave the details of the plot ami said that at first he intended to take part in the robbery. Lanioroaux and OTcll, two of the alleged murderers of Jim Washakie, the young Shoshone, win were followed from the Shoshone reservation by Deputy United States Marshal J. M. Waite, were captured in Malta. They will be arraigned before United States Commissioner Cockrell iu (J rent Falls, Mont., and then taken back to Wyoming. The Nebraska State Hanking Hoard has asked the District Court of Knox County to appoint a receiver for the State Itank of Itloomficld. The bank has a capital of $."0.(HH). K. L. Oxford was presu dent and A. K. Oxford caslner. Reports from the Mare Island navy yard as to the performance of the monitor Monadnock on her recent trial trip there are most gratifying to the naval officials. Edmund Allinpr, aged SO, and his wife, Charlotte, aged 8f, died within n few hours of each other at Warren, Ohio. Thej had been married sixty-three years,

A Weck Proceedings in the Halls of Con urcsH I mportant Measures Iit ciitsaed and Acted Upon An lixipar tiul Kcbumc of the Ltuincs.

The Nutional Solon. The House devoted Tuesday to the bill to amend the administrative tariff act of 1V.H), and passed it without substantial amendment. The purpose of the bill is tt strengthen the act of some weak spots having been developed daring the six years it has been in operation. The bill was drawn after extensive hearings, and the advice and assistance of th. Treasury Department, the Hoard of (ieneral Appraisers, importers and others with practical experience on the subject. One of the most important changes makes increased duties and penalties for undervaluation commence at the point of undervaluation, and not at 10 per cent, almv the undervaluation as provided by tic? present law. The House Committee on Immigration decided to favorably report two important restrictive measures introduced by Mr. M.CaIl (Mass.) and Mr. W. A. Stone (Pa.) The Stone b'.II establishes as a requisite for admission to the United States that the immigrant shall be provided -.villi a certificate from the I'nitcd States Consul or other authorized representative of the United Stales at tic: place nearest his last residence that he is eligible to admission to the United States under the existing laws. The McCall bill, as amended by the committee, excludes all males between the ages ot 1 and (JO who are not able to read and write English or some other language. Thy Cubau debate was continued in the Senate. The House Wednesday began consideration of the resolution of censure of Ambassador Ilayard for his Edinburgh speech. The remarks of Mr. Cousins, of Iowa, in support of the resolution were the feature of t'ne proceedings. The Senatehad in hand the public opening of the Uucompahgre Indian reservation, but nothing of importance was done. Cuba had the entire attention of thSenate Thursday, speeches being made by Senators I ray. Chilton and CaliVrty. the debate being enlivened by many spirited incidents. Mr. (.ray's plea for Cuba brought on a running cross-lire of comment and impiiry from Mr. Hale. Tho Delaware Senator caused nni'h amusement by referring to Mr. Hale as "thj Senator from Spain." Mr. Davis t.Kep.L of Minneapolis, chairman of the Committee tm Territories, reported favorably tho bill to admit New Mexico to Statehood. In the House Mr. (Jrosvenor (Uep..). of Ohio, in reply to the remarks made by Mr. McCreary about (Jen. Schenck, while minister to (Jreat Britain, in connection with the Emma mines, and his authorship of a volume entitled "Pules of DrawPoker," referred to (Jen. Schema's distinguished services in times of war ami peace. He could not understand the purpose of the attack. Mr. McCreary saiL that he had mad. no attack u (Jen. Schenck. Mr. (Irosvonor wanted to knowthen what the purpose was. If it was not intended to assail the memory of a dead man like a ghoul then the utterances of Mr. McCreary were idle words. In regartl to the Emma mines the best proof of (Jen. Schenck's good intentions was that Inhimself invested large sums of money ii those stocks and continued to pay the assessments to the day of his death. As t the book on draw poker he had written out a few rules of the great American, game by request tit' a friend and had been, of course, very much chagrined when public reference to it hail be n made. H abused no confidence when lie said that (Jen. Schenck told a friend he knew just enough about poker to always lose hi money. As a poker player, however, he desired to say that he died without leaving an unpaid poker debt. In conclusion. Mr. (Jrosvenor rehearsed (Jen. Schenck's career and paid a glowing triluite to hi services in the army, in Congress and iu the diplomatic service. In the Senate Friday the following bills were passed: Fixiüg Ogdcn and Salt Lake ('ity as the places for holding terms otf the United States courts in Utah; granting a pension of $00 to the widow of the late ltrigadicr (Jcneral Cleiidonin; authorizing the payment of highest grade of his rank to Pear Admiral Kussell. retired: for the disposal of lands in the Fort Klamath Pay reservation. Oregon; fixing the rank and pay of the Judge Advocate(Jonoral of the Navy; for a survey of the mouth tif the Yukon river. Alaska. The Senate adjourned until Monthly. In theHouse Mr. ltoatner. of Louisiana, was unseated by a vote of 1:51 to Ti'. and the seat declared vacant. According to the face of the returns, Mr. lioatner had 1."..rrJO votes and Mr. P.enoit ö.tUU. The minority contended that the purged returns would still elect Mr. ltoatner byover r,(oo. A vote of censure against Ambassador Ilayard was carried. Cost of Destroying; a Slum. London is spending nearly two million and a half dollars in cleansing and' rebuilding; one slum. American cities are just beginning to learn how seriou is the cumulative evil of slum construction. They may with profit also learn how costly is the necessity of slum destruction. The object lesson offered bv London may bo studied with interest in all our large cities, especially in New York, whrre, through the efforts of the State Tenement House Commission, legislation has with much dilliculty been secured which, if enforced, perpetuated, and added to, will tend to prevent the growth of such conditions as London is now compelled to combat. Century. Classes" ami the "Masses" in dnpan. It is said that the contentment of tho poor In Japan is the result of the spirit of politeness which pervades all ranks of the Japanese people. Kieh and poor are alike courteous, ami it is impossible to distinguish employer from lalnirer by their behavior. This politeness results from genuine kindness, and it settles all problems between man ami man. in Europe and America much of: the bad feeling; between the "classes" ami the "masses" is caused by insolence on the one hand and resentment on the other. Every time wc get shaved, .mid tho barber bothers us about a hair cur. it occurs to us that It is very easy to batoo enterprising.