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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, MARQH 16, 1891.
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Owners of Nevada gold-mines pro
pose to exhibit at tho world's fair a bar
of solid gold weighing 1,000 pounds.
This will be sterling, and no gold-brick
affair.
TnE people are discussing one feature
of the present tariff law with much
interest and with evident appreciation
of it the free-sugar clause which goes
into effect April 1.
Eastern mugwump papers are prais
ing Senator-elect Palmer, of Illinois,
well knowing that he is iu favor of free
silver coinage and of the issue of gov
ernment money, whatever that may be,
in lieu of the bank curroncy.
When all the discussion between tho
parties in Canada turns npon the atti
tude of the United States and the meas
ure of advantage to be derived by dif
ferent policies, the mother country has
reason to be solicitous regarding the
future of its American colonies.
So long as money is easy at 6 to 62
aer cent., would it not be wiser for
those demanding an expansion of the
:urrency to change their demand upon
'iie government for more money to one
for an issue of first-class collaterals to
mch people as have nothing of the kind.
Tnii annual wages in the hosiery in-
Jnstry inGreat Britain is $165.46 while
it is $318.25 in Massachusetts. The per
son who is paid $318.25 a year is worth
to the retail trade at Home, and to the
farmer and other producers, nearly
twice as much as the one who is paid
only a little more than half that amount.
Mr. Cleveland's silver letter Btill
perplexes the Democrats. It was pre
dicted that the effoct would wear off,
but it does not. At this late day editor
Watterson declares that the Democracy
of the South and West are sorely dis
tressed because the ex-President has
cast the subject among them in the un
pleasant shape he has.
Senator Hale, of Maine, who stands
nearer to Secretary Blaine than any man
in public life, declares that the latter
has no idea of being a candidate for the
presidency, and that the Harrison ad
ministration suits Maine Republicans.
As for Mr. Blaine, says the Maine Sena
tor, he is enthusiastically engrossed in
the work of his department.
There seems to be no doubt that the
Now Orleans jury In the Mafia cases
were improperly influenced, and the
weight of opinion in New Orleans is that
they were bribed. It seems quite as
likely that they were terrorized. The
latter would have been quite as effectual
a means of controlling the jury and
more in harmony with the vindictive
and murderous methods of the Mafia.
The Kansas City Journal says that
the somewhat notorious D. R. Anthony,
owner of the Leavenworth Times, has
mado secret arrangements with the Al
liance leaders to make his paper the
daily organ of that element in Kansas
under the pledge of a largo number of
subscribers. Colonel Anthony is hostile
to the admit--stration because tho Postmaster-general
would not permit his
paper to go through the mails with lot
tery advertisenents.
A ME3IRER oi the French Assembly,
General Cluseret, has written a letter to
tho Frernch consul at Kansas City, in
which, tUler declaring that American
hog products are preferable to those of
other nations, and that the duty now is
the same for all, goes on to say that as
the McKinley tariff law affects only the
luxuries whjch France exports, it will
not hurt French trade, as the people
who purchase luxuries of that class will
have them at any price.
California dispatcher eay that the
vacant scnatorship in that State is prac
tically for sale to the highest bidder,
the only condition being that he be a
Republican. The Legislature is said to
be openly mercenary and the clamor
for money is scarcely concealed. It is
about time for tho Senate to begin to in
vestigate the titles of Senators elected
under such circumstances. There have
been two or three Democrats in the Sen
ate who ought to have been investigated,
but wo would rather see the investiga
tion begin with a Republican than not
at all.
The Windom fund of $50,000, for tho
family of tho late Secretary of the
Treasury, has been completed and tho
fund will bo invested in good securitici
end handed over to Mrs. Windom. This
movement was creditable in its incep
tion and has been well managed and
quickly successful. There has been no
undue display about it, but it has re
sulted in placing tho family of the lato
Secretary in comfortabl e circumstances.
This is a much better way of providing
for tho families of deceased statesmen
than by adding to the special pension
list.
ILLEGALITY OF THE GERRYMANDER.
To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
If the late jerrymandering of this State
is unconstitutional, as claimed by the Gov
ernor and the Journal, why cannot the
matter be submitted in some way to the
Supreme Court and eettledt
Jeffersonville. Ind. , Republican.
It could be, and ought to Jje . It is en
tirely competent for the Supreme Court
to decide whether a legislative appor
tionment is in conformity with the pro
visions of the Constitution on that sub
ject or not. The Constitution, Article
4, Section 5, says:
The number of Senators and Representa
tives shall, at the session next following
each period of making such enumeration.
be hxed by law and apportioned among the
several counties, according to tho number
of male inhabitants above twenty-one
years of age in each.
This provision is not simply per
missive or merely directory. It is
mandatory. It is an affirmative com
mand. The requirement is that "tho
number of Senators and Representatives
shall be apportioned among the several
counties according to the number of
male inhabitants above twenty-one
years of age in each." An apportion
ment law clearly violating and explicitly
ignoring this requirement of the Consti
tution is just as unconstitutional as laws
impairing the obligations of contracts,
or requiring a religious test as a quali
fication for holding office, or restricting
the right of free speech would be. The
command of the Constitution is no more
emphatic in these last-named cases than
it is in requiring that Senators and Rep
resentatives "shall be apportioned
among the several counties according to
the number of male inhabitants above
the age of twenty-one years in each."
The question of the constitutionality
of an apportionment which plainly
violates the clause of the Constitution
above quoted should have been tested
long ago. Even yet an appeal should
be made to the courts to protect
and enforce the constitutional right of
equal representation in the State Legis
lature. It cannot be that the courts of
our State would hold . that a minority
can usurp control of the legislative de
partment of the State government and
subvert and suppress the will of the ma
jority by means of an apportionment
law that violates the spirit and the
plain letter of the Constitution. The
provision of the Constitution is plain,
and it is the duty of the courts to de
clare its meaning. Any legal voter or
body of voters in the State deprived of
equal representation and equal political
power with any other voter or body of
voters by means of an unjust and un
constitutional apportionment law has a
right to demand of the courts redress
and protection. The present gerryman
der should not be acquiesced in as pre
vious ones have been. Acquiescence
implies consent, and estops subsequent
proceedings against the law. It should
be attacked before the first election held
under it. There would be no trouble
getting the matter into the courts and
taking it by appeal to the Supreme
Court, and It should be done.
OUR SILK AND W001EN INDUSTRIES.
The following is from a published in
terview with Mr. Marshall Field, the
well-known merchant of Chicago:
Our woolen men ought to have the good
sen so to see that they are doing themselves
no permanent good by keeping out foreign
wool. The general activity of our woolen
manufacturers will do better to absorb
home-grown wool than a prohibition which
inflames the people and is pernicious to the
general interests. A few persons, a mere
handful we may say. in Ohio backed up the
wool clauses in th new tariff. If you want
to see the results of a more enlightened pol
icy look at the silk interest. Practically al
the silk now sold is of American manufact
ure. Of coarse, when a special person wants
a special dress, the foreign laboriously
woven article is called for; tmt the Ameri
can silk answer the general purpose for
dress, for decoration, for upholstery. In
that case we let in the raw silk without i
duty and put. a respectable duty upon the
manufactured article. The consequence
lias been, in a comparatively few years, the
rise of one of the great silk industries of
the world. Wool ought to take an exam
ple from silk.
. This shows that a man may be a suc
cessful merchant and yet , know very
little about political economy or the
laws under which he does business. Mr.
Field is a Democrat, an importer and
free-trader. He cites the development
of silk manufacturing in this country
under a free-raw-material policy as evi
dence that woolen manufactures would
prosper under the same policy. It evi
dently did not occur to him that we pro
duce raw wool and do not produce raw
silk; hence, while it would bo the height
of folly to exclude foreign raw silk,
there is the strongest reason for placing
a protective duty on foreign wool in or
der to protect a home industry. In one
case there is nothing to protect, while
in the other there is a great and growing
industry. Free raw silk is needed for
American silk factories, while raw wool
would destroy our sheep industry
and eventually close our woolen
mills. To place a protective duty on
raw silk would be to hinder the free
importation of an article which we need
and cannot produce, while to place wool
on the free list would be to encourage
the importation from other countries of
an article which we can and ought to
produce ourselves to the great advan
tage of farmers, manufacturers and
wage-earners. A slight acquaintance
with this fundamental principle of pro
tection would have saved Mr. Field from
making the blunder of comparing the
silk industry with the woolen industry.
Both the silk and the wool industries
have been developed under judicious
protection. It is within the memory of
men now living when we manufactured
no silk at all and comparatively little
woolen goods. At that time . foreign
manufacturers controlled and had a
practical monopoly of our market, and
got their own prices. Now we manufac
ture most of the woolen and a large
part of the silk goods that we use,
and under protection and competition
the price of both is much lower
than formerly. Not only this, but
the prices of nearly all kiuds of woolen
goods are lower now than they were be
fore tho passage of the McKinley tariff.
In building up home manufactories to
consume American wool wo have devel
oped, at the same time, another great
industry, viz.: sheep husbandry and
wool culture. The records show that
the number of sheep and the produc
tion of wool in the United States have
varied with the tariff policy, increasing
rapidly under adequate protection and
declining under a low tariff. Wo can
produce in tjiis country every pound of
every kind of wool needed for all kinds
of manufacturing, aud it should be our
aim to do it Meanwhile American
farmers as well as manufacturers are
getting the benefit of protection, the
number of sheep and tha production of
wool are increasing, and tho people are
being furnished each year with better
goods at cheaper prices.
TROUBLE IS A NEWSPAPER OFFICE,
The St. Louis Republic publishes this
exclusive information in its editorial
columns: .
The situation in Mr. Harrison Cabinet
has been strained for a long time, and it
must grow more and more unpleasant as
1891 wears into Icfj2. Mr. Harrison mnst
feel that Mr. Blaine is overshadowing him,
taking what little credit there is to be had
for the work of the administration and
leaving him to bear alone the load of odium
for the rest. This oould not fail to be in
the highest degree exasperating, even if
Mr. Harrison were not bent on. being renom
inated. His situation is full of embarrass
ment. His importance in his party does
not at all compare with that of Mr. Blaine.
He cannot be blind to the fact that if he
were to demand Mr. Blaine's resignation, be
would be crushed at once by Mr. Blaine's
partisans.
Most persons will attribute this to
Colonel Jones, vice-president of the Re
public company, and ostensible editorof
the paper, but that would doubtless bo
an erroneous conclusion. It is unques
tionably the work of the market reporter
of the Republic. It is a secret known to
but few outside of the profession, and
now divulged for the first time, that the
situation in the Republic office has been
strained for a long time, owing to the in
tense rivalry between Colonel Jones and
the market reporter. ( The latter i3 an
old newspaper man and a person
of brilliant parts, while Colonel
Jones is comparatively a tyro in
the business, and is now having
his first experience in metropolitan
journalism. Tho market reporter is a
man of fertile resources and very ag
gressive disposition. Employed orig
inally to report the markets and occa
sionally write on local business topics,
he has gradually encroached on the edi
torial page and the functions of the
editor until Colonel Jones has become
to all intents and purposes a mere sub
ordinate. For several months past the
market reporter has been making it
very unpleasant for him, and latterly
Colonel Jones has only been writing
short paragraphs on current events, or
literary squibs of a light and inconse
quential character. The market re
porter does nearly all the political writ
ing. Things have become so unpleas
ant for Colonel Jones that he embraces
every opportunity to get away from the
office, being now about to go to New
York, where he delivers a lecture to
morrow night on "The Problem of tho
South." t is an open secret in the Re
public office that Colonel Jones would
demand the resignation of the
market reporter, but he is afraid if he
forces the issue that he will have to go
himself. He feels that he is overshad
owed, but he would rather submit to the
humiliation of his present position;than
invite a contest with his rival, wh'ich
would not only advertise his situation
to tho world, but might result in his
losing a job. The foregoing (arti
cle, concerning the troubles of the adi
ministration, is undoubtedly the work
of the market reporter, who is a relent
less partisan and "devilish sly." It
would be obviously unfair to hold Col.
Jones responsible for it.
HISTORY OF THE "ARKANSAS GRAB."
Democratic papers which are shouting
themselves hoarse over the general ex
travagance of the last Congress are very
careful not Xo descend to particulars,
and well they may be. The only job
which succeeded in the last' Congress
was a Democratic job. It is known as
the "Arkansas grab," because Senator
Jones and Representative Peel, of that
State, were the prime movers. It is an
amendment which was attached to tho
Indian appropriation bill appropriating
nearly $3,000,000 to pay the Chickasaw
and Choctaw Indians for lands which
they have already ceded to the govern
ment and for which they have been paid.
On Its own merits the measure
could not have passed the House,
where it was discussed inaDeceniber,
and it was shown' that it had
no merits. Therefore the champions of
the job dropped the bill and bided their
time in the closing days of the session.
Senator Jones, when the Indian appro
priation bill was under discussion, pre
sented the job as an amendment. Its
advocates threatened in private that un
less the $3,000,000 was voted no more In
dian lands should be opened to settle
ment.' They made the threat to defeat
the Indiau appropriation bill, which
contained all the provisions necessary to
carry out the late treaties with tho In
dians, as well a all the money desig
nated for tho maintenance of the
bureau. The Jones amendment, or "Ar
kansas grab," was carried in the Senate
by a vote of 36 to 23. Jones, of Arkan
sas, and Cockrell, who poses as a watch
dog of the treasury, supported it,
while Mr. Allison, of the appropria
tions committee, and Mr. Dawes, of
the Indian committee, denounced it as a
steal. Every Democrat fii the Senate
who voted favored the grab, every one,
and the pairs were along the same line.
Nearly all of the silver Republican Sen
ators voted for it, making thirty-six.
In the list of those voting for the grab
is Senator Turpie, and 5enator Voor
hees is paired with a Republican who
would have voted against it. Every
leading Democratic Senator is in the
list of its supporters Carlisle, Morgan
and Vest. U of the twenty-three Sen
ators voting against it are Republicans.
The Indian appropriation bill, with this
grab a part of it, went to the House.
Mr. Cannon was watching for it, and
when it came up, late the Monday night
before adjournment, he assailed the grab
as a steal, reading a dispatch from tho
Secretary of the Interior to the effect that
tho claim was not well founded. He ex
posed the fraud and was assisted by Mr.
Perkins, of Kansas, while none except
Democrat) defended it. All of the
Democratic economists were silent,
fiven Mr. Holraan did not raise his pro
test against it, as he is wont to do when
a sniall sum is proposed to pay a just .
claim. Mr. Cannon offered a special
resolution instructing the House con
fer rees to disagree to the grab amend
ment, but on a demand for the yeas and
nays it was defeated by a vote of 70
yeas to 103 nays, 157 not voting. Only
ten Democrats voted for the Cannon
amendment, among whom were Berk
shire, Holman and Parrett, of this State.'
Many Republicans who would have
voted 'for the measure were not in the
House at tho time. The 102 nays were
given by sixty-three Democrats and
thirty-nine Republicans.1 Among the
Democrats voting for the grab were By
num, Cooper and Martin, of this State,
the other Democrats, not voting.
As the result of this vote, the
House conferree8 agreed to the grab
amendment and it became a part
of the Indian appropriation bill.
When it went to the President
he hesitated about signing the bill, but
if he had vetoed it, it would have been
necessary to have called the new Con
gress together to pass an Indian appro-'
priation bill. Furthermore, the , bill
contained special provisions for carrying
tho recent treaties into force, which are
necessary to tranquillize the Indians and
prevent further outbreaks. In view of
these contingencies, the President re
luctantly signed the bill, deeming it
better to have the Arkansas grab
succeed than to call the next Congress
In an extra session. It is reported that
the President's advisers find in the
wording of the amendment a provision
which gives him discretionary power.
If such power is given, the President
will be sure i to avail himself
'oi it to refuse ', the payment - of
the money. Thus, while the Republic
ans are technically responsible for all
legislation, and while some of them are
open to censure for being absent when
the' vote was taken on Mr. Cannon's
resolution, the party cannot be held
responsible for a few members voting to
sustain a grab planned, advocated and
pushed entirely by Democrats. It is
essentially a Democratic job, and was
worked by a lobby which controlled all
' the Democrats the Senate and all but
seven in the House.
Hon. John Jay Knox, ex-Comptroller
of the Currency, delivered an address
on financial topics, in Chicago, a few
days ago, in which he said that the ad
vocate of the gold standard is the true
bimetallism for he is earnestly in favor
of using all the silver that can be used,
and maintain gold payments. On tho
other hand, he maintained that the ad
vocate of free silver coinage is really a
raonometallist the worst enemy of sil
ver, of the silver-miner, and of the la
boring man, for free silver coinage will
bring about a silver standard. The
speaker said it would prevent silver
Trom going to the mints for coinage, be
cause the value of our silver coinage
will be no greater than the value of sil
ver bullion in the markets of tho world,
and silver bars are more merchantable
in the bullion market than coin. Under
free silver- coinage, and a silver stand
ard, the silver dollar would have the
purchasing power of exactly the intrinsic
value of the bullion contained therein;
That it has more now is because - it is
convertible into gold. Our neighbor,
the Republic of Mexico, has free silver
coinage and its dollar is a legal tender
for all amounts, but its purchasing power
at home and abroad is exactly equal to
its bullion value. So it would be under
free silver coinage in this country.
The question of free text-books in
the public schools is up in Pennsylvania,
and the Philadelphia Press expresses a
hope that the decision will bo in favor of
free text-books furnished, but not pub
lished, by tho State. "This principle,"
it says, "was long ago adopted in Phila
delphia, and its wisdom is proven wher
ever tried. One great benefit which
everywhere flows from it is a greatly in
creased attendance in the public schools.
These schools are not free so long as
text-books are used which have to be
paid for by parents." This is the cor
rect position, and it is only a question of
time when every Northern State will
come to it. The present law in this
State is, in some respects, worse than
the old system, and while it will un
doubtedly delay the adoption of free
text-bopks, as it was intended to do, it
cannot permanently prevent it.
Mr. A. E. Cole, presiden t of the Mich
igan Farmers' Alliance, recently stopped
in Canada on his way home from Wash
ington and organized a branch of the or
der, whereupon the national organ says:
The Alliance has already done more to
eliminate sectionalism in the past three
years than all other efforts during the past
quarter of a century. If permitted to fol
low on t their plan it will soon be entirely
wiped out. Just so with annexation. The
Alliance will arrange that in a most satis
factory manner if it is desirable. .No need
of politicians in an adjustment of such
questions.
The Alliance idea of "eliminating sec
tionalism" seems to be the suppression of
Republican votes and the establish
ment of white man's government in the
South and Democratic rule in tho North.
Just how it proposes to deal with an
nexation in Canada is not stated, but it
will probably be on a plan about equally x
broad and liberal as the other.
Considerable disappointment is ex
pressed iu different parts of the State
because the direct tax about to be re
funded by the general government is
not to be apportioned to ihe respective
counties according to the amounts paid
by them when the tax was collected.
There would have been an element of
justice in this, and it would probably
have been done had not the condition of
the State finances made it imperative
that the money should go into the State
treasury. This is another legacy of the
Democratic debt-making policy that has
been pursued during the last twelve or
fifteen years. Counties which expected
to build new court-houses or jails with
their share of the refunded tax can
thank the Democratic party for nrevent
ing them.
The American Institute of Sacred Liter
ature, with headquarters at New Haven,
encourages individual Bible study by un
dertaking a series of examinations. By
this means a person, or group of persons, in
any place which can bd reached by mail may
at any time secure an examination npon any
biblical subject. A certificate bearing the
seal of the institute will be awarded him,
should his work merit such recognition.
Thus a minister, a Bible teacher, or a non
professional Bible student may, on the com
pletion of the study of a biblical subject,
be provided with a series of comprehensive
and suggestive questions, which will show
him whether or not he has grasped the
essential facts of his subject, its teachings,
its relations to the Bible as a whole, and
its historical and literary value. Certain
general examinations upon topics of cur
rent interest to all Bible workers are offered
each year. For 1S91 the subjects are the
gospel of John and the life of Christ, based
upon the four gospels. The examinations
are conducted by special examiners ap
pointed by the institute. Eleven hundred
of these are already at work. They are
scattered through every State in the Union,
Canada, Mexico, and across the seas in
England, Ireland, Wales, China, Japan,
India and Syria. Eminent scholars of all
denominations are among the officers of the
institute. ' Prof. William R. Harper, of
Yale, is principal of its schools.
By geographical, divisions the govern
ment estimate of farmers' reservesof wheat
are shown to be, in round numbers, 84,000,
000 bushels east of the Rockies, and 23,000.
000 bushels in the mountain States and
Territories, and on the Pacific slope. In
cluding the visible supply, the total quan
tity of wheat east of the Rockies is 107,000,
000 bushels. The food requirements of the
59,500,000 population of this great area (cen
sus figures) from March 1 to July 1, on a
basis of 4 23 bushels per capita per annum,
equal 1)3,000,000 bushels; spring wheat seed
ing 18,000,000; total, 111,000,000, Making no
allowance whatever for exports, from
March 1 to July 1, there will be an appar
ent deficit of 4,000, 000 bushels east of the
Rockies at the end of the current crop
year, instead of a surplus. The food re
quirements on the western division, for
four months, approximate 5,000,000 bushels,
leaving an apparent surplus of 23,000,000
bushels from which to supply export de
mands and make up the deficit on the At
lantic division. The exporf i during toe.
first half of March will equal 4,000,000 bush
els, which must be deducted from the indi
cated net surplus of 19,000,000 bushels.
In an old geography printed in 1812 ap
pears the following:
California is a wild and almost unknown tend.
Throughout the year it is covered by dense fogs,
as damp as they are unhealthfuL in the interior
are active volcanoes and vast plains of shilling
snow, which sometimes shoots up columns to
great heights. This would seem almost Incred
ible were itvnot for the well-Sthenticated ac
counts of travelers.
Quite a contrast with the California of
to-day. But long after the date named our
school atlases laid down western Kansas,
Colorado and all that section of country as
the "Great American Desert.'1 '
The world is so large that there seems to
be room for all sorts of religious denomina
tions, and the population is so great that
they all have their following. At a General
Conference of the Seventh-day Adventists,
held a few days ago at Battle Creek, Mich.,
there were delegates present from thirty
States, and also from England, Norway,
Sweden, Germany, Russia, Switzerland,
south Africa and Australia. The reports
show considerable success in making con
verts. BUBBLES IN THti AIR.
A Guarded Answer.
Vickars Your daughter Is learning to play the
mandolin, is she not!
Figg She la supposed to be.
Woman's Sphere.
She You won't want me to glv nt my type
writing after we are married, wiJl you!
He No, indeed! We have to live, haven't we!
Lowly Ambition.
"Do you think he really has any hope of win
ning her, against young Cadslelgh's moneyf
"Oh, no. I don't think he is in the raoe to win.
He is merely playing himself for a place."
A Momentou Question.
Ann O'Delia Diss De Bar,
How we wonder if you are
Quite in earnest 'bout those tights.
Really battling for yoor rights.
We'd scarce expect one of your age
To shine &s Cupid on the stage,
B u t if y ou do, we'U all be thar
Ann O'Delia Diss De Bar!
Unconsidered Trifled.
The newspaper war on David B. Hill Is not
wboUy disinterested. . He Is strongly suspected
of larcenous designs on the editorial "we."
Thick and thin Boarding-house coffee.
Folitical farmers should beware of handling
the plow too much in their oratorical efforts.
The plow Is easily run into the ground.
If, as some suppose, this world shall be frozen
out of existence, probably the last two men left
wiU spend their fleeting breath In debating the
prospects for base-baU next season.
No doubt the world is growing better, yet an
engagement still causes surprise and a divorce,
a chorus of I told you so's."
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
A lamp tb&t burns cologne and flings
delightful scents is a new thing for the
boudoir. .
Ex-President Cleveland has reduced
his weight nearly sixty pounds since he
left the White House.
Two Australian theatrical managers have
bottled up in phonographs, for trans
portation to the antipodes, the voices of
several American actors, singers and states
men. George VanderbiltV castle in North
Carolina will require, it is said, ten years
of labor, and the expenditure of from
S8.000.000 to $10,000,000 before it is com
pleted. Mme. Bernhardt is said to be of Hollander-Jewish
origin, and to have been
born in Amsterdam forty-six years ago.
Less is known to the public of the antece
dents of this brilliant French actress tL
of almost any other artist who has. gain
like celebrity.
Queen Oloa, of . Greece, presented the
Crown Prince with a chapel and altar for
use in the field upon tho occ&ssion of his
a Ban in :g command of the First Regiment
of in: try recently. The small church
can be divided into numerous pieces and
carried in bags. It can be set up on low or
mountainous lands.
The Florida Times-Union says: "General
Alger drove up to one of the railroad offices
this morning, alighted and. went in. He
wanted to find out something about trans
portation, and the agent said: 'What is
your name, sir!' 'General Alger was the
reply. 'Well, said the agent. 'I'm glad
you're a general, 'cause these Florida woods
are just full of colonels.'"
Archbishop Thomson, of England, it is
said, once pointed out that he had received
advancement in the church for every child
born to him. "It is to be hoped, brother,"
said Dr. Wilberforce, "your family will not
continne to enlarge, for there are only two
translations more possible to you Canter
bury and heaven." The translation to Can
terbury was early barred. Archbishop
Thomson had to rest the second son of tho
church.
A singular discovery, it is said, his
been made 'in central Asia by a distin
guished Russian traveler and his compan
ions. They claim to have discovered a
large tract of land which is several hun
dred meters under the level of the sea.
They are expected to arrive in St. Peters
burg some time this month. Their arrival
is eagerly Awaited, as the discovery bta
created very considerable wonderraont
among students of physical geography.
Of the 4.5.9 books that were published In
this country in 1SW nearly one thousand
were novels. Never before in one year wero
so many new novels sprung upon an en
during public. The returns to the writers
varied. The man who netted $2,riro did ex
ceedingly well, thoso who got $300 were
congratulated. by their all friends, and thoso
who had the money and could not make the
venture in anv other war paid a few hun
dreds down for the privilege of seeing their
works published with the imprint ot thosa
publishers who do business in that way.
Secretary Nohle has appointod Mrs.
Alice Stocking, daughter of the late Justice
Miller, return clerk in the disbursing
office of the Interior Department, the fam
ily being in need of some such mrans of
support. A movement was started by the
bar during the winter to raise a private
fund for Airs. Miller, but for some reason
it fell through. The Western circuit,
where Justice Miller presided, was ex
pected to take the initiatory, and its fail
ure to do this made it impossible to secure
contributions in other section! of the coun
try. Miss Antoinette Knaggs. a young
woman with a good collegiate education,
owns and manages a farm of two hundred
acres in Ohio. She says she made cioncy
last year and expects to make more this
year. "I have triod various ways of farn
ing," she says, "hut find I get along beac
when 1 manage my farm myself. 1 tried,
employing a manager, but found he man
aged cnielly for himself. Then 1 sublet fr
tenants, and they used up my stock and im
plements and the returns were unsatisfac
tory. So 1 have taken the raauagoment all
into my own bands, planting such crops as
I think best, and 1 find, that I am a vsry
good farmer, if I do say it myself."
The basis of two big businesses on Broad
way, New York, is confidence in popular
honesty. Both places are luncheon restau
rants owned and managed by one man. Hn
plan is to serve luncheon in lightning quick
tirn5 to what are called "standees," or men
who eat while standing up. Along tho
walls are buffets heaped with pies, cake,
fruit and sandwiches. The people help
themselves, read the prices on the walls,
and tell the cashier what they have eaten.
"1 give a good meal for what it would cost
a man to tip a waiter in a sit-down restau
rant," said the experimenter; "and if any
one cheats me it will not' amount to what I
would lose if I employed a lot of waiters."
The Mary Washington Monument Asso
ciation of Fredericksburg, Ya., has con
veyed to the national association at Wash
ing the deed of the lots containing the gravo
and unfinished monument of Mary, the
mother of Washington, and tho larger so
ciety is to complete the work of erecting a
suitable memorial over the grave. Mrs.
Amelia C. Waite, widow of the lato Chief
justice, is president of the national associ
ation. Mrs. E. P. Terhuno (Marion Har
land), of Brooklyn, who has been promi
nent in the movement for the building of a
monument, and is one of the vice-presidents
of the Society for the Preservation
of Virginia Antiquities, will soon address
the national association on Mary, the
mother of Washington. It is hoped tat
over SSO.OOO may be raised for the monument.
THE NEW ORLEANS MASSACRE. .
An event like that of yesterday does tho
community in which it happens no good.
If it does not show that its citizens aro
disposed to lawlessness, it nhows thit tho
community has a lax and corrupt adminis
tration of the laws. Louisville Commer
cial. New Orleans may not have heard tho
last of this horrible and sickening tragedy,
which is only another episode, though an
unusually terrible one, in the long, dark
record of Southern lawlessness. It will be
time to comment npon it when the facia
are fully known. Chicago Tribune.
The law was not vindicated, the assas
sins were not convicted. It is easy to
understand how such a result led to the
swift infliction of the death penalty by
other than judicial means; and it will not
do to say that the proceeding was entirely
unjustifiable. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The killing of a number of prisoner in
jail is a poor way of avenging the death of
a murdered officer or of vindicating tfco
Jaw. The shootingof yesterday will nrouso
the resentment of the class to which the
murdered man belonged, and New Orl ana
must in the end appeal to tho law to sup
press the mobs on both sides. Chicago
Inter Ocean.
The mob in New Orleans yesterday com
mitted deliberate murder, as well-considered
and as cold-blooded ai any the Mafia
was ever guilty of. It was murder for re
venge just such murder as the mobs in
Cincinnati, in Birmingham, or anywhere
else in the country, commit or attempt to
commit where they can get the better of
justice and of law. St. Louis Republic.
If there was a failure of justice in tho
New Orleans case, the people of New Or
leans must blame themselves for it. Tho
sequence in their opinion seemed to be that
because they have not been honest and intel
ligent enough to secure a vigorous and fear
less administration of the law, therefore all
law must be broken down and men must
be murdered by the dozen because the mob
so decrees. Pittsburg Dispatch.
The disgraceful notoriety which New
Orleans has experience for years past is .
emphasized in a most tartling manner by
a lynching event, which, in wholesale de
fiance of law and order, equals the worst
examples of the days of border lawlessness.
Citizens who have countenanced
the legalization and protection of a huge
lottery swindle which has corrupted ex
ecutive officials, legislators and judges on
the bench should not be astonished when
the bribery of jurymen becomes an easy
matter and mobs proceed to do the work of
justice which ia obstructed in the courts by
foul methods. The fruit of corrupted pub
lio conscience is lawlesa degradation. at.
Louis Post-Dispatch.
PARNELIS MANIFESTO.
Parnell will not have a great deal of.
success collecting fonds in this country to
carry on his campaign. Toledo Blade.
It is chantable to snpposo that Parnell
is losing his reason. He is burlesquing the
role of injured innocence in gorgeous style.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Mr. Parnell's appeal to the Irish in
America is a piece of galling, effrontery.
For a time he gained ground by subordinat
ing personal issues to political issues; in this
address he loses it all by again subordinat
ing political issues to personal issues. New
York Commercial Advertiser.
All money given to him will be used as
directly to discredit home rule as if it were
given to the Tory electioneering fund, and
far more efficiently. In fact, there is abun
dant reason for believing that Parnell is
now getting all the help from the Ministry
he can get privately aud indirectly. New
York Post.
Parnell's manifesto to the Irishm en ia
America is simply a request for money to
aid him in crushing the McCarthyites, de
fying Mr. Gladstone and the Engllah Liber
als, and re-establishing himself as supreme
dictator of the Irish party. It is an ap
peal for aid for l'arnell, nut for Ireland, to
aid in carrying out Parsell's projects, even
though those projects lead to disaster.
Springfield Republican.'
Mr. Parnell has issued a manifesto to
the Irish people of America, asking them
for money. He says tbat Mr. Gladstone's
proposed solution of the Jrish qneMfon is
insufficient. The reasons ho gives for tho
split in the Irish party are an affrout to tho
intelligence of the American people.
Mr. Parnell continues to neglect his par
liamentary duties to bask in the smiles of'
Mrs. O'fcjhea. Hie conduct amazes his ene
mies and grieves his friends. Memphis
Appeal-Avalanche.
The part played by Parnell and Mrs.
O'Shea in the "sapping of the independ
ence" is not alluded to in his manifesto, but
he explains that certain delegates are about
to cross the ocean at his request to explain
in America what a patriotic, uusolfish and
truly good mtn Mr. Parnell is. aDd to re
quest a continuance of the old business of
shipping dollars to Ireland. - Let
the American contributions now resuniA.
This interesting pair may need money bad
ly. -'Pittsburg Chronicle-1 eierapn.