Bloomington Courier, Volume 15, Number 43, Bloomington, Monroe County, 10 August 1889 — Page 2
BY E J. FELTTJ&
BLOOMINGTON,
INDIANA
i Mb PabnelIt's- declaration that he -will never account "to, friend or foe" for the large sums of money which h e has received in aid of the Irish straggle 4f yirf. iimea 4p he regretted;' The persistent failure to- show, at least in a general way, what has been done With such f unda is neither creditable to the Irish leaders nor beneficial to the, cause :t oi; their unhappy country. . . '
Reports of Boards of Health in Hie Rnmhprn cities show that the death
rate per thousandamong negroes is far ' higher than among; whites. In .. some j cases this excess of mortality is 120 per i4 cenivvrl&e the average is fully 50 per cent. Hub is one of the facte which : show the falsity of the reasoning of the K philosophers who contend! that the t ? African is going to outnumber the; Can$t casian in the Southern States three2 4 quarters of a century hence; " v".' 9BSSSSSSBSSSSSSSSSSS $ -j rpQi prospects now are that the wheat crop this year will amount to 500,000,000 bushels at least, making all reasonable allowances for damage in the Northwest
The 600,000,000 mark has never been passed by the wheat yield except twite. In 1882 the production was 504,000,000 bushels? and two years later it was but a mall fraction under 513.000,000. Last year the yield was 415,000,000 bushels. Not only is a large wheat crop this year
! l& k assured, but the production of nearly all ?J0i. .'4k the other cereals is or will be heavy.
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certainty whic h there exists of a big demand for wheat from Europe, is the
foot, these heels are the natural enemy of corns, and the chiropodist has to suffer. It is generally behoved that women are more vain of their feet than men are of theirs, but my experience was shown me that quite the contrary is the fact. , Men will insist on making their foot look small, and any shoe that will do that is the fashion for them. The narrow-toed or "toothpick" style of men's shoes worn now as much as
ever, will always insure the corn doctor
a living, especially if the shoes are pat
ent leather. A patent leather shoe, for
some reason, will call a corn - into being
much quicker than an ordinary leather
shoe. . .. ......
The fellows who don't have corns are
those who wear roomy-toed shoes. Boh-
they musn't be too large. A shoe too
large is as bad as one too small. At oversized shoo makes corns on the bot
tom of the feet, and they are the worst kind. The late war was the greatest
com-curer ever known. I never knew
of a single case of a soldier in that war
who suffered fron corns, and I was all through it If a law should be passed that no shoe would be worn in this country out the pattern army shoe ot the rebellion, tiie corn doctorls occupa
tion would be gone.
MADE SECRETARY Or THE RE
PUBLICAN COMMITTEE.
A Man Who Hals Grown Rich Off of
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A SHxIjQOR WHO EXACTS 13 IS
EOUND OF FJjESH, And Extorts the Laws' Full Penalty From His Victims. FRANK M. MT1XIK AN, Secretary RepuWican State Committee aud Extortionist From the Poor
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bright spot in the busiBess eitnation. . Stanley writes that he is: reduced to two hate, four pair of boots and a flannel Jacket. This stock sets him up as a chieftain in Africa, but he is not encouraged in his necessity 'of returning to the coast without supplies. The ex-
Ks' M pedition on the whole has suffered
rxom an unmenso amouufc ui uau mau agement, and will have accomphshed
yeiy. KtUe -of what might have pbeen
done. sThe Pasha is to return Hwith Stanley, and give up the Soudan. This was title only sensible course, as he has but 1,400 troops along a line of communications of 180 miles. He really holds possession of a-very insignificant
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T" Tsbbk are 000 children reported in tine poor houses - of Illinois. Other 8tates allow the same abnormal outrage ; to continue. With them are some of the moet debauched of adults, insane as welliin some States. Immorality of the grossest sort is openly practiced, and i ot a child escapes pollution. There re probably over 5,000 cniidren being educated by the States in this nnwholesome manner. It needs another Howard to worfc a reform. Our prisons, jails and penitentiaries are bad enough,but pur poor houses are the worst of all. It has long been held by the decent poor to be the worst possible disgrace to be driven to resort to these public institutions. They are filled by tramps and prostitutes and vagabonds, and prostitutionis one of their common features. Not a
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A cocx-AJTD-BULii story to the effect that an English syndicate was forming with a capital of 1 0,000,000 for the purpose of controlling the dry goods trade oi the United States has been ca Died to this country and published in double leaded type in a leading New
: :'T xoArewspapeR The enterprise is f ol-
lowing in the lines, it is stated, of the brewery investments Didit ever occur to these English investment alarmists that the United SUtes 'hae twice the population of the United Kingdom; to say nothing of infinitely greater- natural resources, and that, moreover, the average Yankee can- take cave of himimlf
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know, baa never yet succeeded in wagging the dog, and the United States, in the respect noted, have feecome very decidedly the dog. An English syndicate might as well be formed to regulate our; atmosphere. '-. '. . :.
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" IiOte of Bass. ' This happened in a village in northern Illinois, says a writer oi the New York World. One moraine the village
miller came into my store and told-jed f that a school of bass had come up from
t'jMj-Jwr mso me tan race; paejc or tne
minnows and proceeded to one of the mill windows overlooking and about fifteen: feet above the race. Bight :down before me in the shallow water were at
, least 100 black bass; As soon as I could I got my tackle in shape and dropped a nice fat shiner down among them, and of all the fighting for food that' I ever . saw thatcontest among thebass was the , They tore the shiner to pieces before . it had hardly touched the water- and, of course, I got no fish with that shiner. On the next east I used a small minnow - and it was taken just as ravenously as the other, only they took the hook with ? i and I landed a fine fish. They- continued to take the - bait just as fast as I could give it to them until I had twentyseven of the beauties, ranging;from one ? and a half 1 to three grounds: I don't know but I could havaaught the whole - school if the twenty-eighth fish: had not run under the mill and tangled up my ; line with a big stone. I broke the line
in trying to get it loose, and that ended my fishing for that day. I was just
SINGULAR SAfflOAN CUSTOMS. How Brid es Are Won, Graves Marked and Houses Built. Lieut. Charles H. Bipley, in a talk on Samoa reporte 1 in the Springfiejd, (Mass.) Uaion, gave a most interesting account of the marriage customs of the Samoans. :. After ascertaining the amount of dowry the maiden is carried off by a party of the friends of the groom who never marries in his own village. The natives vie with each other in collecting bottles, which are a great rarity in that country, and are used after death to encircle the graves, which are level with the ground, two or three rows of bottles' indicating superiority. The beverage of the Samoans and the process of ' manufacture is more curious than uniting. A substance resembling liquorice is chewed by girls until it becomes soft and pulpy, when it is mixed withwater, and must be used Boon after being prepared; If too much is taken a slight paralysis of the limbs follows but soon passes off. It is used largely at entertainments, and people who indulge in it properly seem to be benefited; The occupation of the people comes down from generation to genera;tion. . The son; of a carpenter can not be anything but a carpenter, and no other family can follow that occupation , The process of house-building was described. A man needs a new house, talks with his relatives, sounds them as to whether they think he needs one and will be Ukely to contribute, visits; the housebuilder with many compliments upon trie fine houses he hears he builds, and leaves a present. After a time he repeats his visit Later a relative goes with a present and similar compliments, and so on until the builder signifies hie intention of building the man a house, and sends word he is coming. A house is put at his disposal in the village, his expenses are met by the man for whom the house is to be built, and when the house is finished the relatives assemble and presents are given to the housebuilder. Very little money is exchanged. .1 though a gentle people, in war the Samoans are quite barbarous, going: over the field and cutting off the heads of the wounded after the battle. The enemies show great consideration for each other In arranging for a battle, sending words that if perfectly convenient one will meet the other' 'with bo many men at such a place at such a time, never varying from the-number of men. agreed upon. ; . Lieut. Ripley closed with an interesting account of a picnic given by. a Samoan princess, several hundred servants being in attendance, and the chief entertainment for the natives consisting in sliding down a watedall. about SO
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r &; Extremely Thirsty. . In one of the hospitals which lined the heights north of the city during the war says the Washington Post, a nurse waa one day distributing a present of light wine which had been sent in by some generous firm. As she passed the cooling drink from cot to cot- one soldier, who was wasting away with camp fever, called out continually: "Lady, jpve me a drink? ; 'v fWait, friend,"JsbeT5 "there is
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"Year before last I had-two women patrons to one man," said a chiropodist. "But last year, and so far this yeaTj the falling off in the former patronage has been more than one half. But there has been no decrease in the number of male customers. How do I account f Or all -'ihlB? Easily. ? Fashion in shoes is responsible for it. A year and a half ago the high, narrow French heels were the fashion in women's shoes, and they are one of the best friends a chiropodist can have. They are regular and rapid breeders of corns! No woman can wear a pair of such ehoes long: without looking up a corn doctor. - 'i;-u'Wr
But the . low,; flat heel is now the faahion... If the rest of the shoe fit the
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sooni'' . v But he still called "Lady, give me a drmfc" . Finally his turn came and he quaffed the goblet? then fell back on his pillow with a sigh of relief and satisfaction. "You must be very dry, poor fellow," said the sympathizing nurse. ""Why, lady," said he, "I am so dry
that when i Bpits I spits dust;2
' Poisonous Snakes, Br; S. Weir Mitchell, the well known physician and author, of Philadelphia, contributes an - article; to the August Century on "Poison of Serpents," richly illusOrated by J, Carter Beard. With the aid of -Br Edward T, Reich ert, of the University of Penhsylvaniai Dr. .-Mitchell has solved many perplexing problems regarding the poison of serpents.4 Their experiments were made with the idea that a more complete analysis of the venom of serpents might lead to the discovery of an antidote. Br. Mitchell states "that while at -present we are still groping for remedies, yet we
are to-day in a position to know with some definiteness what we want ana what we do not need."
;V : A i'rainer-s Ideal "When your man's asleep is the time to tell how he stands work,'1 says William Mulctoon, speaking of the amount of training an athlete should have; "So long-as he sleeps well he's all right, but when he begins- to be restless and to have night -sweats, and shows similar
evidences that his nervous system is
sforained'flW t let up a little on the work.- Yor ?e heard men say they were so tired they couldn -t-sleep; well,
that's literally true when a man has had too much exercise. But you need never
worry as -long sonndly;"
as your man
f ? .Letters from the Eiffel Tower; r At the top of the Biffel tower, for a fee, specially prepared note paper, dated from the summit of the tower, is provided, and the writer cap have the letter posted on the spot ? .
Kokomo Dispatch, Aug. B, A tax certificate shark. At a recent meeting of the Republican State Central Committee, Frank M.
Millikan. of New Castle, the notorious
tax certificate shark, was elected Secre
tftTv the second ofilcer. in command of
the party machinery in Indiana. With
its eves open, with the facts fully 'before
I them, and over the earnest protest ot
many of the wisest and best men of the party, this man of malodorous memory
was chosen to one of the highest posi
tions known to the party organization.
It passes comprehension that the party
could have made, such a stupendous blunder. Not that Millikan is not com
petent, not that he is financially weak,
not that he is not smart, but that he has the unsavory record of a professional delinquent tax purchaser and has grown
enormously rich m tne last ten years
by process of law and through the mis
fortunes of thousands of poor men al
oyer the Statemen who have either
had their property taken from them or have been bled of the last drop of blood
permitted undercolor of legal authority.
Personally we have no acquaintance
with Frank M. Millikan, and personally
we have no quarrej with him, but when
he is put forward as the second highest
representative of a great political party his record becomes a fit subject for in
vestigation and comment. U may be said that Mr. Millikan has done nothing not authorized bv law. True, but the
law gives authority for the doing o
man v thin es not accounted honorable
or manly among people of high charac
ter. The eviction laws of Great Britain nermit cruelties unspeakable to be in
flicted upon the poor tenantry of Ire
land, yet no one can be found to defend or apologize for the infamies and bar
barities practiced upon these poorest o
God's civilized people. So it is with the shark who seeks the advantages
offered by our laws to rob the poor o
their hard earnings. Delinquent tax
buying is considered dishonorable and
is held to be an odious vocation the
world oyer.
Beginning in 1876 and extending over
a period of ten years, Frank M. Millikan
has bought largely of delinquent tax certificates in Howard countv, and in
every instance that we have heard of he
has claimed and exacted every cent
allowed by law. The following tabulated statement, collated from the official records in the office of the County Auditor, shows the names of the owners of lots and lands bought at tax sales by him, the number of acres, amount paid and whether redeemed or whether he obtained deeds for the properties. The statement is absolutely correct, and shows the transactions by municipal and town corporations and by townships: Here the dispatch gives the details of the transactions of Millikan, occupying over two columns of very small type. The dispatch then said. He has obtained deeds to 39 lots, mostly in Kokomo, and for some he paid taxes as $1.18 per lot, which to-day are worth $700. He has obtained deeds to 1,044.49 acres of laud, -some of which in Center township and now worth $200 per acre he paid at the rate of only eight cents per acre. Estimating his lots at the present valuation of say $500 each, the 39 for which he got deeds would aggregate $19,500. His 1,044.49 acres of land would probobly bring an average of $50 per acre now, or a total of $52224.50. The aggregate value of lots and lauds .to which he obtained title would be $71,724.50, and which cost him originally but little over $1,C00. In all his tax certificates he paid ou'; $7,299.51 and from this small investment he has prob-
ablv increased his wealth from $7d000 1
to $85,000, counting the enormous rates allowed byJajK4oj4ntefest and redemp-
This is simulv the record of Frank
M Millikan as a tax title shark, covering a period of ten years' operations in Howard county. It is probable, if not certain, that he has similarly operated in other counties of the State, and possibly in other States whose laws allow an
extortion of from 53 to 75 per cent. . This is no fanciful picture, as incred
ible as it appears; It is the God's solemn
truth as hundreds of men who have been placed on Miliikan's rack in Howard countyand, some of them leading Republicans at that can attest. Frank Millikan is well knownr here as a shrewd, tight-fisted man, who never fails to exact his pound of flesh, whose business has been that of a remorseless, greedy, unpit-ying percenter. Shylock. Shakespeare's creation of the uncanny Jew. will stand for all time as the prototype of the hard-faced, tight-fisted shriyel-sonled UBurer a being in whose face the image of God fs blotted out, in whose heart the fount of human sympathy is dried up, in whose soul there dwells naught but the demon of avarice In history, fiction, and . poetry there is not a more hateful character or a figure more detested of men. Shylock iB a
term of reproach, an epithet of opprobrium, among all civilized and christianized peoples of the globe a name that precludes the faintest ray of human sympatby or compassion for the misfortunes of his fellowman. A human octopus. No heart, no soul all claws, all maw, all stomach, all cruel, rumorseless tentacles a thousand slimy arms tliat reach and reach and clutch and clutchgiving out no sound save the harsh and guttural "More!" "irelP "More!" From whose cavernous depths comes no glint of sunshine or warm beam of love remorseless as the cold, uuanswering waves of the restless seS. . There are Shy locks and Shy locks the world over and, ah, the pity of it! Human vampires that feed and fatten off the blood of their helpless victim. Human vultures that gluttonize and gorge from the very vitals of the unfortunates who, .. through misfortune's ways, have if alien an easy prey to their
unpitying greed. Hard task masters i
who cruelly exact the pound of human flesh nearest the unfortunate's heart,
according to the stipulation of the bond, Men who miseirly build up colossal for
tunes upon the financial ruin of men
ifiWho drink deeply of the bitter cup oi
poverty; whose homes are wrested from
them by the enginery of law, and who despoiled of all the earnings of a life
time, are cast adrift upon the cold chari
ties of the world to beg, to starve, to
die.
It was in hu man nature to despise the
professional tithe-gatherer and ,tbe
oppressor of the poor, even before the advent of Jesus of Nazer eth. In all
ages and under every sun, the man who
seeks to take advantage of the misfor
tunes or the needs of poverty is con
temned and execrated. The Shylock who demands his pound of flesh, the
monev-lender wno extorts usurious
interest of his helplesB victim, tbo
human ghoul who robs dead men's
estates and beggars orphans, and the
tax certificate shark who piles up hi3 wealth by exacting the rigorous penal
ties of the law are ioint heirs to the
common hatred of mankind.
W hile the grim specter of starvation iB stalking in open daylight in the coal
fields of Indiana; while the colliers of Clay county are begging for alms to res cue their famishing wives and children from the hungry jaws of an awful death;
while labor all over the country is being
pinched until life itself is but a burden;
while industries languish, crops fail
and hard times are clutching at the throats of all poor classes; while the
capitalists, the tax barons, the money
changers, and the oppressors of the poor
are aggregating their wealth ten fold by
closer and harder exactions on labor:
the Republican State Central Committee of Indiana deliberately selects for its Secretary and second officer in command of the party machinery a man
whose sudden wealth has been wrung
from the unfortunate and the poor o: the State, whose chief claim to distinc tion is hifi infamous notoriety as a de
linquent tax shark!
Isn't it the very tempting of fate? What audacity, what heartlesB disregard
of the masses, has ever before charac
terized the act of any political party m
the histow of Indiana? It is a flat footed
defiance of the common people and
direct insult to the brawn and brains;o
the Hooaier Commonwealth,
. Men ot Indiana voters ot every po-
utical shade and hue what is your
verdict of this act of the Kepublican
state uommittee Does it mem your approval or warrant your condemnation?
What should be the fate of a party led
by such an orficer? We apprehend the
people will be heard on this matter a
tne pons next year, ana we rest con
vinced that it will be a verdict agains
the amassing of wealth in the sweat and
the blood of the pooi? and heavy ladsn.
The Cost of Governing Canada.
Boston Journal. Some person with a taste for statistics has been examing the salary list of the Dominion,, and finds that the . small population of Canada pays enormously to support a cumbersome official machine, of which its more liberal people are gradually becoming weary. It is often laughingly remarked in England that Canada must have a vast deal of legislation to attend to, since she finds it necessary to have fifty-six legislators more than the mother country, and so many departmental heads that no Canadian outside of politics can tell their number. The Canadian Commons consists of 215 members, who draw $1,000 each per session, and the Senate, which has little to clo except to look wise, has eighty members, who receive $10,000 each annually. The Speakers of each House of this immensely overpaid national Legislature receive $8,000 annually; the Ontario members and Speakers, $56,0G0, the Quebec Legislative Council Legislature and the two Speakers, $75,000. Then the country is saddled with a Governor General, who receives nearly $85,000 annualy and spends as little as possible in the country, sending to England for even the smallest articles
of daily wear and . consumpdonjBs4a--3
chief bujinesajeems Co be not to comply with the wishes of the people whenever be has a chance to show his authority. There are also Lieutenant Governors of Quebec and Ontario and Manitoba, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, the Northwest Territory and Prince Edwards Island, each of whom receive a larger salary than is given to the Chief Justice of the. Supreme Court of the United States; And " as a fringe around this circle of costly officials, many of whom are utterly useless,, there is a small army of aids-de-camp, secretaries, eiic., who have abundant perquisites. The idea of a country like the Dominion haying forty-seven political "Ministars" is certainly somewhat absurd.
Wilkie Collins' Wondrous Talent. New York Metropolis, Dining one evening with Wilkie Collins, he spoke of the difficulty of imagining a place or character that had not its original in real life. After he had described the house in "Armadale" a gentleman called upon him and upbraided him for putting his residence into print. The description was exact, although Wilkie Collins had never seen the place. He invented a man who was so careful about his food that he weighed it in little scales at the table. A gentleman was introduced to Mr. Collins, who said: You had no right, sir, to caricature me. I weigh my food in little scales, sir! Heie they are, sir! I always carry them about with me by advice of my physicians. But is that any reason why I should be held up to ridicule, sir?" In vain Mr, Collins protested that he had never before heard of such a habit.
A Smile or JPwo. The Red Cloud of the Sioux hungers for a silver lining. . . Many a man who is strong enough abroad to quell a riot is too weak, at home to put down even a carpet, "Go to the . ant, thou slugger." , says thia Chicago Herald. It might have added that heaven notes the sparrer's fall, ... : ....... ... v.....,..,,The highest office in the gift of the President; is that of postmaster at Idaneral Point, Col. It is 12,000 feet above the sea level. A married woman should not expect her husband to stay home every night in the week. She ought to remember that the lodge hm its rites
WMAMAKER.
Did He Purchase His Position?
That's the Way it fcooks. MB. WANAMAKBB'S PimCHASK
N. Y. World. . . ...
The Philadelphia Press insists that
"the allegation of the sale of a Cabinet office to Mr. Wanamaker is a sheer
fabrication, without the slightest basis
of truth."
Why quibble over words? It has not
been charged that Mr. Wanamaker was promised a Cabinet office if he would
raise $400,000 for the Harrison campaign
fund. Obtrusively pious politicians do
not make their bargains in that bold,
bad way. iJut it is alleged and is per
fectly evident that Mr. Vanamaker was made Postmaster General because he
raised this enormous campaign contri
bution and as a reward for doing it.
Is John Wanamaker superior to all
the other great merchants of the coun
try in business ability that he should
have been chosen in preference to any
of them? He had never before held an
office. Is it reasonable to suppose that
he would have been boosted at one push
to the head of a great department of the Government except as a reward for some notable service to his party or to the country? And what service had Mr. Wanamaker performed save the .distinguishing one of turning over to Matthew Quay t400,000 for use on election day? Mr. Wanamaker was just as noted a merchant and as good a man eight years ago as he was last year. Is there no significance in the fact that the year in which he was promoted from private life to a seat in the Cabinet was the year following the campaign wherein he raited the biggest pot of boodle? There is no more doubt that Mr. Wanamaker's Cabinet office is just as
much due to his skill as a money raiser
than there is that Levi P. Morton's nomination for Vice President was due
to his liberality as a money giver. In
ootn cases ic was an example, ana a
triumph of Plutocracy
FXiUTOCBAGT S TAUNT.
. Mr. Thomas G. Shearman having said that two-thirds of the wealth saved in
this country every year goes into the
pockets of 1CO?000 persons, the Tribune breaks out against the industrious people of this country with this taunting
remarB:
If this assertion is true the cheap
demagogue's outcry oJ Plutocracy has
more excuse, and yet not more reason, for the working people could save more than a thousand millions yearly if they chose. . ,,. ... - ....... . ;
That is to say, the workingman whose wages barely suffice for the support of his famil v deserves no nity. He has on
ly himseif to blame for not saving money. He ought to crowd his family
closer in the tenement house, stint
their Btomachs and backs more sharply, deny them their occasional outing on the street carp, take the little ones earlier out of school and set them at work and make his wife bend one more hour a day over the washtub. If he would only do these things he mightbarring illness or a lockout save his share of a thousand millions, which we reckon at the princely iaum of $60 or so! That is Plutocracy's answer to the cry of tax-oppressed and Trust-oppressed poverty. No, it is not ail the answer. There is another insulting suggestion yet to come, for the Tribune goes on to say of the workingmen: If they, in tact, see fi t to expend their money in usel(fps drinking, or in any other unwise way, it does not follow that the laws or institutions of the country make the poor relatively poorer or the rich relatively jricher. " "'lis an ill bird that fouls its own nest." Strangely enough, the article which thus brutally taunts -poverty and deliberately represents the great body of American workingmen as drunken and improvident begins with that apposite adage. And yet this fouling of the American nest, this libel upon American manhood, is published as an editorial in a newspaper: owned by the present American Minister to France, who is a-conspicuously good representatiue of the political pjirty which made
Plenipotentiary. The
utterance fairly represents the thought of the plutocratic class; which at present dominates that party, but it is not often that the thought is uttered with such brutal frankness.
Here we've been pouring down whisky when this poor child and her mother want bread. Here's a two dollar bill
that says I've gut some feeling left." "And I canadd a dollar," observed one.
"And I'll give anc ther.J ' They made up
purse of an even, flvo dollars, and the
spokesman carefully put the bill be
tween two of the sFfleper'a fingers, drew
the nickel away and whispered to his oomrades: "Jistlooika there the gal's
dreamingl" So she was. A big tear
had rolled out from her closed evelid,
but the face was cohered with a smile.
The men tiptoed out, and the clerk walked over and touched the sleeping child. She awoke with a laugh, and cried out; "What a beautiful dream! Ma wasn't sick any more, and we had lots to eat and to wear, and my hand
burns vet where an angel touched itl"
When she discovered that her nickel
had been replaced by a bill, a dollar of
which loaded her down with all she
could carry, sho innocently said: "Well now, but ma won't hardly be
lieve that you sent up to heaven and
got ananeelto come down to.be clerk
.in your grocery,
A TERM WANTED. There were three hundred trained' and experienced clerks employed in the railway mail service between New York and Chicago when Mr, Wanamaker took possession of the Cabinet office he had bought. . The duties performed by these men "are of a kind for which experience alone can fit men, and they have no more relation to politics than to the moons of Mars. Incapacity anil inexperience on the part of the railway mail clerks dis-. turb and delay the business of the coun
try and Bubjeet the public to inconvenience and serious loss. Of the three hundred experienced and
capable men employ eel Mr. Wanamaker
has removed 296, app ointing new ana inexperienced men in their places. If the railway mail service was a pri
vate or corporate enterprise, depending
upon the efficiency of its work for public patronage, a new manager who should disorganize the business in this reckless fashion would be justly characterised as a fool. Precisely what term at once accurately descriptive and duly respectful would it be proper to apply to Mr. Wanamaker fordoing the same thing? The fact that this policy was inaugurate ed by Mr. Cleveland, who found all the employes members of one political organization, does not afford Mr. Wanamaker a justification, N. Y. World An Angel's Touch, San Francisco News letter. One evening, not long ago, a little girl of nine or ten entered a place in which are a bakery, grocery and a saloon in one, and asked for five cents worth of tea. "How's your mother?" asked the boy who came forward to wait on her. "Awful sick, and ain't had anything to" eat all day." The boy was just then called to wait on some men who entered the saloon, and the girl sat Uown. In five minutes she was nodding, and in seven she was sound asleep and leaning her head on a barrel, while she held the poor . old nickel in a tight grip between her thumb and finger. One of the men saw her as he came to the bar, and after asking who she was, said; "Say,you drunkards, see here
FKEE BAW SATEBIAX.
WoolettManutaoturer Coming to Their
Senses atXatti
a recent issue oi vvaae s liner anu Fabric, a Boston organ of the cotton and
woolen trades, prints a suggestive letter
from its Philadelphia correspondent.
After referring to ember rassments in the
woolen trade and the nneasiness those
difficulties haye caused, the writer goes
on to say : 1
, i hear every day reports of certain manufacturers being "on the fence" on
the free raw material question, and who
say quite openly that it is either one J.L 2 XI ". ' rt ":' in
l uing or tne uiuer, -move south or
WeBt," or get cheap er raw materials
Why do they hesitabe on cheaper raw
materials? In the belief that our wool-
jrrowers would be left at the mercy
ihe wool-growers of the worid, they
wish to keep the duties on wool as they
lire, and pay out of their yearly profits thousands of dollars in taxes, in order to protect them from such fate. Is this be
lief founded on fact? Let us see. The
growers of wool in the Southwest and
me territories aonoc. as a rule, require
any import tax on wool because of the
vast natural advantages which they en
joy in cheap lands, eta, while we find
that wool-growers farther east, in Ohio Indiana, New York and New England
on nign-pncea iana&, a em ana xi. m
order that they may grow wool at
proht. Do they grow anything in the
line of Donskois, East India, China or
any of the low grade cloth or carpe
woois, or is any oi snac ciass or WOO
grown here at all? Then why is tha
grade of wool taxed? What wool is
that we f enr will cripple our home wool
growers if allowed to enter duty free?
Is it not Australian? Do you get any of
it here? I never see any of it; neither do a great many of our carders and spinners, who are more accustomed to shoddy, goat, pig or cow hair than they are to Australian or Ohio wooIb, Under what conditions do they grow Australian wool, and why should we debar its ad
mission here by a higher tax? Some ex
it
planation from high authorities may en
lighten your readers somewhat on this question. Wool-growers in Australia pay about, the same wages to the sheepherders there as they do here, averaging $20 per month. Good wages
are the rule on the Austsrauan- continent. As the wages paid there and here are the point of contention regarding the necessity of a tax an Australian wool, 1 think the above information will set at rest the doubts of our sheepherders about reduction of wages should wool be permitted to enter free of duty Now in the next place, will our woolgrowers be injured ? I cannot see how they would, in competing with Australian wool-growers, because they pay the same wagss there as here, and after they have the clip ready for shipment it must come nearly 13,000 miles, and add cost of transportation to cost pi growing it there, when it reaches this country, which shows plainly that freight charges such a great distance will add immensely to the cost when it gets on our market, and our wool-growers would, after all, have a -wide margin to work on, even with free wool from Australia. We grow no carpet wools here; they should be free. Our cloth manufacturers need cheaper clothing wools, and must have them or be com-
peled to move South or West. If not
neither of these, then they will reduce the wages of their employes in order to
cut down the labor cost entering into
the manufacture of the goods, and this
is what they are doing and have been doing all along. That is why your
eastern mills are reducing wages, and
the Rev. John Brown is certainly not
well versed on this question, or he
would -recognize the need 4w four . east
ern manufacturers to have recourse to desperate, means in order to enable
them to compete with the southern
cotton manufacturer,; withcottpn grow
ing at the door 'of his mill; and better situated geographically in our "home
market" for the sale and distribution of
his goods. - ,
Not only our trade, but other trades
are turning their attention to the neces
sity of free materials for manufacturing
purposes. The national association of
furniture manufacturers at their annual
meeting in New York adopted a resolu.
tion favoring free raw materials in their
business and the necessity of a foreign
trade to offset the injurious effects of
ovsr-nroductiom Is not that our trouble
also,and is it not patriotic to advocate this "remedy when we know that our
manufacturing interest s would be bene
fited nearly 50 per cent, by the adoption
of these two great necessities? Some
few years agp tne advocacy of such a nolicv would brand the writer as a
lunatic, or an alarmist of a dangerous type; but we are getting moro and more enlightened every day on national questions,and to-day every citiaen is interest odd eeply in them and wants to learn a way out of our present trouble. : 'v.. I Ani liyingv
lam lying, liypt, lying, in my own pecvllar
.way, " ,.
I acquired the habit lately, but I do it every.
. day,,. . -, .:. ,,-. , . . .
very morning to he river with my tackle T ro-
pair. .. ...
7o .beguile the Bpeckled troutlet from his deep,
pellucid lair; . ,..,, .....
In the evening, on retUTnlug, I-describe my, vie-
, tint's size, ; ' .,. ., - - ...
And I am roamlngi Kgypt, roaming;, In a Wilder-
neoUIesi 1
DR. TALMAGE' S SERMON.
COMMON SJBNSE THE GREA.T
i WAPP; OF THE WOjRIill I t is Kepeoially Needful in 'Miafetps Preparations for the Next riiife in the Upb uildtns of CUriatiaa Cha. r - Rev. Dr. Talmage preacbed at Living
atone, Mi -T Sunday. Subject, Out
witted by the World.'V Text Luke xvi.
8. He said: '
In the first place we want more cqm-
rnon sense in the building and conduct
of churches. The idea ot adaptiveness
is always paramount in any other struct
ure. If bankers meet together and they resolve upou putting up a bank, the
bank is adapted to : banking purposes;
na m ami lecturing company -put up a
building it is to be adapted to manufac
turing purposes; but adaptiveness is not
alwavs the Question in the earinff of
churches. In many of our churches we
want more light, more room, more yen
tilatioh, more comfort Vast sums of
monev are expended on eccl esi astical
structures, and men sit down in them ,
and you ask a man how he likes the
church He says: "I like it very . well,
but I can't hear;" Aa though a shawl
factory were good for every thing tut
making shawls. The voice of the
preacher dashes against the pillars.
Men sit down under the shadows of the Gothic airches and shiver and feel they
must be setting religion or something
else, tneyfeei so uncomtortabier
un. ray menus, we want more com
mon senne in the rearing of churches.
, There is no excuse for lack of light when the heavens are full of it, no ex
cuse for lack of fresh air when the world
swims in it. It ought to be an expression not only of our spiritual happiness, but
of our spiritual comfort when we say:
How. amiable are thy tabernacles, oh Lord God of hosts! A day in thy cour ts is better than a thousand, ;., ''1
Again I remark: We want more com
mon sense in obtaining religious hope
All men understand that in order to
succeed in worldly directions they moat
concentrate. Tney thine on tnafc one subject until their mind takes fire - with the velocity of their own thpughtsr All their acumen, all their strategy, all their wisdom, all their common sense they put in that one direction j and they succeed But how Beldom it is true in the matter of seeking after God. While no man expects to accomplish any thing for this
worm witnout concentration anu en
thusiasm, how many there Ere expecting after awhile to get into the kingdom of God without the use of any such means. Oh, that men were as wise in the. matter of the soul as they are in the matter of dollars and cents. This doctrine . of
God's sovereignty, how it is misquoted and spoken of aB though it were an iron chain, which bound us hand and foot for time and eternity, when, so far from that, in every . fiber of your body, in every
faculty of your mind, in every passion of your soul you are a free man. And it is
no more a matter of free choice whether
you will to-morrow go abroad or stay at nome than it is this moment a matter of
tree . choice : whether vou will accept
Christ or reject him. In all the armv of
banners there is not one conscript. Men are not to be dragooned into, heaven. Among all the tens of thousands of the
Lord's soldiery there is not one man but
will tell you: fI choose Christ; I wanted Him, I desired to be in His service; I am not a conscriptI am a volunteer." Oh, that men had the same common sense in the matters of religion that they have in the matters of the worldthe same concentration, the same push, the same enthusiasm! In the one case a secular enthusiasm; in the oter, a consecrated enthusiasm. 'f'Z 1 " Again,, I remark: We want more common sense in the building up and enlarging of our Christian character. There are men here who have for forty years been running the Christian race, and they have not run a quarter of a, milef . No business man would be willing to have his investments unaccumulative. If you invest a dollar vou expect that dollar to come home bringing another dollar on its back. What would you think of a man who should invest $10,000 in a monetary institution, then go off for five years, make no inquiry in regard to the investment, then , come back, step up to the cashier oi the institution and ay, "Have you kept those f 10,000 safely that I lodged with you?" but asking no question about interest or dividend? Why, you would say, That is not common sense." Neither is it, but that is the way we act in matters of the soul. We make a far more important investment than $10,000. v We invest our soul.
Is it accumulative? Are we growing in
race ? Are we getting better? . Are we
gettin g worse? God declares many divi-
dendsvbut we no not collect them, we
do not ask about them, we do not want
them. ;,- Oh, that in this matter of accumulation we were as wise in the matters of the soul as we are in the matters of the world! -.;. How little common sense in the reading of the Scriptures! We get any other book and we open it and we say; 4No w. what does this book mean to teach me? It is a book on astronomy; it wiU teach me astronomy. It is a book on political economy; it will teaeh me political economy." '. Taking up the Bible, do we ask ourselves ? what it means to teach? It;
means to do just one thing: get the world converted and get us all; to heaven. That is what it proposes to do. . But instead oi: that, we go into : the Bible as botanists to pick flowers, o? we go as gugilists to get something to fight other hristianS with, or we go as logicians trying to sharpen our mental faculties for a better argument; and we' do not like this about the Bible, and
we do not rlite that ,apd we do not like the other thing. What would you think of a man lost on the mountains? Night has come down: he can
not had his way home, and ne sees a
light in a mountain cabin; he goes to it,
he knocks at the door; the mountaineer
comes out and finds the traveler and says: "Well, here I have a lantern; you can take it and it will guide you on the way home?" and suppose that man should say: 4II don't like that lantern, I don't like the handle of itv there are ten or fifteen things about.it I don't like; if you can.1 1 give me abetter lantern than that I won't have any. , r : Now Ga ti savs this Bible is to be a lamp to our feet and lantern to our path, to guide us through the midnight of this world to the gates of tne celestial city. We take hold of it in sharp criticism and deprecate this, and deprecate that. Oh. how much wiser we would be if by its holy light we found our .way to our everlasting home! . " " ; ... Then we do not read the Bible as we
read other books. We read it, perhaps,
four or five minutes just before we
retire at niht We are wearV and
sleepy, so somnolent we hardly
know which end or tne ooox is up.
We drotf our eye perhaps on the
story of Samson and the foxes, or upon
some genealogical table, important in
its nlace. but stimne no more reliftious
emotion than the announcement that somebody begat somebody else and he begat somebody else, instead of opening
the booE ana saying: -jow l must reaa
for mv immortal life. My eternal des
tiny is involved in this book.".
But I remarx ajram: we want more
common sense in aomg gooa, now
m an v people there are who want to do
good and yet are dead failurfcsl Why
is it? They do not exercise the same
act, me same ingenuity, tne same
stratagem, the same common sense m
the worJc for Ohnst ..that they. do. in
worldly things; . : 'C
Otherwise, they, would succeea in this
direction as well as they succeed in the
other. There are many men who have an arrogant way with them, although they may nottertttrroga Or they . hava
a patronissing wayi They ttilk toa mail
of the world in a manner hich
m :-
it:
3
frt oQir 'TliT,f. Wn wtoli 'vah warn -: 5sfS
clear down before I can ace
are so much beneath me'
:you,-yoii That tasted -
ner always disgusts, always drives .ie.;f away "from the Kingdoai of .' Jesuit
village store, and there .was jii latge . group of young men there full5 of rol licking and fun, and a Christisin mad came in, and without any introiuclio a of the subject and while -thejrwere great hilarity said to one pi thenu
dom?" GeorK looked up fand::aaiiLf :Ml
UVClf linn Mjtw 111 1111 1 Ilin t II LX IJ U aiUL Ml if
Well, it was a rou&h answer, but it wiaa 4
in there as though . it; was- a botabshell. ,
of religion to the world; f -M- M
Do vou suppose that Marr in her coii-:
versauon witn unrisc lose ner simplicity
or that Paul.thuJidennffxom.inan:raL.:5iM
took the pulpit tone? - Why is it people V
can not talk, as naturally m prayer -ru
liiRRr.iTiO' RTin fin rpntnnnH nnniKina m - z-..
they do on worldly subjicts;Foir I one ever succeeds in anyJkifiioOlttliv
tiau nuiA . uuivw ua nui u ukvuiau.f v
WA want - imii-afA , ha ...I am laatl . ; -
grass 01 xne neia.-; we an wHiwiprMt.,
the man who "u went forth to? sow.- azid-
talked with the fisherman, about fcliisw;
arawn net mac Drougntin nan orw
n rf 9- n nwr -ttj.r .nfrfr h T " - w
aoout tne icier m tne vtnevara. ana -.
talked with those newly afianced about
tne marriage supper, ana rosea, wrii
the man crampea m money matte ra-
tne woman about tne yeast t hat leavenua ; the whole lump, and talked with the
shepherd about the lost aueei miffht gather even the stars B1
and twist them : like forgetrmernotsutk?''
.1 - '4 ..-TV l'.ji '- .' ' ;V.'-.4?sv-;
nvnrvLiiiiiv xt 111 tit -1.1 1 n . wtiMii.ii . rw r-ti-v
language, the tenderness oF sentiment; the delicacy of morning dewjthe safirsin of floating cloudy the tangled suri f tlie
iu? '-m.j--.-L --.. .?.. ..-Sir,jiiil;M
every star must point aownto idb, every heliotrope must breathe Efi?
praise, very uruniu lulv suauuti sxiontsr .
. UK UUVUVU WUV v.4.Vli? MIUII. WUIU'l. .'77 X
Now, all this being so, what is the
common sense thing for you and forlinai
that sin has ruined us. It has blaated -im hidvl mind and . snn& W,: wnvit' inftifi
jiui 10 prove inai. we are binnera. anjsi-;
uitii Mini in iifid wmiiiiv if. 1 'H uiiBinwn.;, u. ;
Viimaolf on ?rti nor f ant. an A o Binfutl.' K4jn'"L':''
nri Vi Wo oil faa t Vi o f ' can V aa 'Aimn:'-j&-
eanizea our entire narare. x net is cine ; mm
.5
if
.1... .:
correct, to reaeern; That is a sect ruin -,,..:
fact The third fact is that' the flJS
time we are sure Christ vriti -pardor,iig is the present. Now, what -is' the
mnn conoo thmo .for net tn tti viaw nr -
now. ro-mprro w we may get tnem we may notl Next day wet may
we may not. The prospect less and Jesa
;uuu ices huu tcee.v .;,-.,.. -,- t ? :'; The only sure timev. nbnoi
wouia not taix to you in tms . way-' it-
dtd not know thatr Ohr i&t was ablirtpp
save all people, and to save thou8a?aaa; ?
as easilv as save one.' 1 " would not eo
into a hpspital and tear : off tlie ; -bf attf g
ages irom tne woanas u jl naa no pnua to apply.- 1 would not have the face to tell a man he is a sinner unless I hM at
the same time the autnonty-ot saying tbat he may be saved.v Ohvman!'. "Oh;;
woman! I wish to-day I could
you the burned hand of Qhrisjbbra in pluckinar you out of the fire, buri
in snatchingyou awavr i ronithe fipf
Aye, also tne burnea toos, ana tne burned brow, and the burned Jiear
Durnea lor you. xy iu8kuui ye mm ;
neaieav ' . ;.. . ? ... .
Air
Two
Train at Kauai Cityi
. .... merii. evidently
novices, w
LUIUUU LUKJ lOl. A- all! UU J1X bUC If M.ADU . -r
train at Harlem, across 1 Jae river wum
KanBas City, Sunday nig ht. Their faces
were conceaiea nenina hanaKercme
ri:c men ana a woman ana an anieuv :
submitted and handed ovet n$l yiii
money anol two; gol watches. 'Date
roD oers men auvancea towara tne rtaxi car in front, but on the platform met the
conductor. They oraerohim to lipid
train Kenrla Al Dnnnai) tn itnnfioal iAlri4fa?li
ne soon cnangea nis op inion, nowe wari
and nit one or tne roobeJfc over toe3MQil
with his lantern, breaking the glass -attars
putting out the light. Tine rabwrjs$ fired upon him but neit her of the tl shots took effect. As they jumped t
the train, which they did immediately;
although it was runninir ata
twenty-five miles an hoc r, the conductor
area we remauas ox nis 'mnwrn m them4 with the same? effect their shool
had upon hira? The; conductor, Sbl
tore, haa "toe last tag," snowing tnas
UlOdUlf VUUWViMU UH JIVr VVU
The train was soon stopped, and -:Ki
A spial from Fort :orili4.'7il
m. .a ' mm' , . .' - s.3l7r
say sr at 2 o ciocK onna ty morning
masked men stopped the Fort Woiti
Denver mail express south-bound ; vHa
tween the Cheyenne water tank
Tnscosa. Three men gben e lp:j
tive, compelled the "liwiBfi3sW-iS
away rrom the passenger coaches, wl
had been detached by the robbers
left under guard :dl !-tliiSBv1nttfti
After going half amile they coin
t.h Amrineer to ct off 'the engin
bring a pick " to Jtito& :b;rtbe the expresa car: Express Messeitti
fliarsn oiosea xne aoor f ma puc m xnm
lights in the car, first 'sacreting all express nackages: but- tree; The;:
oers, coming to nis car; , oraereu mn w
open it ana urea into m xne engmefr
hammered away with his pick un
got the door partly 9001 when a-ftj
was pusnea into tne orening ana ti
voiver poxea m ana ppintea? at ma
who was told to opert- ap-or lcHjcKgi Marsh ooened the door- and thrwick-
people say verv utile money was seen The robbers- then weht,v theji
car and compelled Route Agent
to open his car He had hidden all
registered matter but one letter.
a sack, and turned -''h&riigbt.'iQ.4'):
ro oners got ine one oacnage au.t opened the mail pouches .and scatti the contents over the fimi After A the worx they then order ed the engii to put out the torch and nuirout."' w
they Jeft,-authorities ih'-t he neighbffi counties were notified an dare in putt
It is said that the totali amount stolen
is less than 12,000; The iaienrp badly frightened, but1 nt one" was; lested in anv waV: Chevenne is
Mil I A n am1. anniiii iaAMA XRhwIt' .Vitk
vomen-ai'e sare irom picKpocxeui bo
long as they do notcarr their pars$i ii
their hands:
The barnyard fowl M i evens mprj
dustrious than the farmer in the c
tion of crops. :y7--
It seems odd that (the oiftedi
should owe bis pecuniary j? adyanoeirient to a :&t;;Wefe CJ---:hkiM
This is the turning per iod in the
oi tne larmeT ppy U wsmMM; stone on m Ptetf &Wlfflm
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