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4 THE DAILY JOURNAL THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER !), 1807. sitting ton Office—lso3 Pennsylvania Avenue Telephone Call*. business Ofltce 2US | Editorial R00m3...A 86 TERMS OF SI BSC RIPTION. DAILY BY Ma.L Daily only, one month # .70 Daily only, three months 2.00 Daily only, one year 8.00 Dally, including Sunday, one year 10.00 Sunday only, one year 2.00 IVIIEN FURNISHED BY AGENTS. Daily, per week, by carrier IS cts Sunday, single copy 5 eta Dally and Sunday, per week, by carriers....2o cts WEEKLY. Per year .. . SI.OO R..Jnced Kates to Claim. Sul"’.ribe ivith any ol our numerous agents or •end subscriptions to Dib A-NDIA.VAPOLIS JOURNAL, Indianapolis, Inti. Persons sending the Journal .hrough the malls tn the United estates snouid put on an eight-page pajier a postage stamp; on a twelve or sixteen-page paper a TWO-GENT postage stamp, foreign poataire la usually double these rales. All communicntions .mended tor publication In this paper mi ,t, in order to receive attention, be atccitHianie-J by the name and address of the writer. It ‘.t is desired that rejected manuscripts ne returnee., ixjstage must in ail cases be inclosed tor that purpose. THE 1N DI ANA I*o LIS JO LII.\ A L found at the following places: NEW YOKK—Windsor Hotel and Astor House. CHICAGO—PaImer House and P. O. News Cos., Dearborn street. CINCINNATI—J. R. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Peering, northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville Book Cos., 256 Fourth avenue. ST. lAJUIS—Union News Company, Union Depot. Washington, and. cT— Riggs House, Ebbitt House, Willard's Hotel and the Washington News Exchange, Fourteenth street, between Penn, avenue and F street. Indianapolis has never had a Democratic government that did not increase the city debt, and that of Mayor Taggart will main vun the record. Between the present Board of Public Works and the different corporations the people of this city have next to no rights at all in the streets. The Terre Haute Express thinks Mr. Smith will add to the levity of our munici pal campaign. If everybody took him as seriously as he takes himself the campaign, would be oppressive in its solemnity. The New York World prints statements from a large number of national and state Democratic committeemen showing con tinued adherence to free silver and Bryan, and warns its readers that “the battle for sound money and for national honor is not yet over.” If Mayor Taggart should conclude to at tend the convention of mayors which is to bo held at Columbus, 0., on Sept. 28, he would probably be the only ono present who would call it good business policy to Issue $350,000 of bonds before there was any use for them. “Be sure you are right, then go ahead’’ is a good motto in business, as in other matters. If Mayor Taggart had followed It he would not have issued and sold $350,000 of park bonds before the park policy of the city was defined or even the constitu tionality of the park law settled. Information from different parts of Ire land indicates a general crop failure, with a prospect of much real suffering. Last Saturday prayers were offered in several churches for relief from impending starva tion, and in some districts the prospect for farmers is said to be the worst since the famine year of 1847. It is probable there never was a time when American farmers owed less or had more good stuff on hand to buy not only what they need from day to day, but to invest in luxuries. That is equivalent to saying that by far the most numcious class of workers and producers in the country it' in better shape than ever before. Reports from 416 counties in twelve of the principal farming States of the West, hav ing 132,524,562 acres of faj-ming land, show an increase in the estimated value of that land since Sept. 1, 1896, of $474,745,240. On the basis of the reports from these 416 counties the total increased valuation in the farming lands of the twelve States in the last year would bo $1,000,000,000. The reports cover forty-nine counties in Indi ana, a few more than one-half of the coun ties in the State. In these forty-nine coun ties, having a total acreage of 9,670,886 in farm lands, there is shown a present valua tion of $345,835,762, as compared with $303,- 385,331 one year ago. This is an increase of a fraction more than 19 per cent. “Silver Dick” Bland, of Missouri, made a speech at a free-silver picnic a few days ago in which he said: I am in favor of a larger volume of money. I would have, first, silver and gold coined, free and unlimited, at the ratio of 16 to 1. If that does not furnish a sufficient circulat ing medium, I would issue paper money, and I would have that paper money like the old greenbacks—redeemable in nothing, and good legal tender for all debts, public and private. This Is interesting as coming from the father of the free-silver movement. It shows that Mr. Bland favors free silver be cause he thinks It would result in an infla tion of the currency and, that failing, he would resort to a further issue of green backs and flat money. Stripped of all dis guise, that is the true meaning of the sil ver movement It would debauch the cur rency in the interest of the mine owners. Mr. Bryan's speech at St. Louis on Labor day shows that he has lost nothing of his faculty of making false assertions by innu endo and adroitly presenting lies as half truths. Thus he said: “The idle man Is the menace to the man who has employment, and the number of idle men must necessari ly increase if we have a money system which constantly raises the value of the dol lar and constantly lowers the market of the products of labor.” Now. that is true as a general proposition, but the falsehood consists in insinuating, as hidden in the context, that these conditions exist at pres ent as a result of the gold standard. Asa matter of fact, the number of idle men is much smaller now than it was four years ago or four months ago, and the market and prices for the products of labor are ris ing instead of falling. In another place, while defending his advice to workingmen during the last campaign to wear Republic an badges, march in Republican processions ami vote the Democratic ticket, he said: The advice given, and the criticism with which it met. rulscd an important political question. Hits an employer a political right to evade the Australian ballot by forcing his employe to announce his intentions be fore voting? And. having forced him to announce his intentions, is that announce ment. made under duress, binding upon the employe when he comes to vote? If it is proper to thus force an expression from the employe and then hold him to that expres sion, the Australian ballot becomes a use less form. Here he Implies that the only question In volved is one of principle, viz., whether the employer has a right to control the vote or his employes. Os course everybody will say no. For an employer to attempt to do such ka, thing would be an infamous outrage. But that is not the question now, nor was it when Bryan made the charge originally. The question Is whether an employer ever attempted to coerce his employes in the manner Indicated. There is no evidence to that effect beyond Mr. Bryan’s unsupport ed statements. He has reduced the prac tice of lying by innuendo to a fine art. MR. HARDING’S SPEECH. Mr. Harding’s opening speech of the cam paign must have convinced ail who heard or who have read it that in nominating him for Mayor the Republicans made no mistake. It may be remarked in passing that Mr. Taggart does not make speeches. It was claimed for the Irishman’s owl, which looked wise and said nothing, that “he keeps up a terrible thinking.” Mr. Tag gart does not make speeches, but he smiles. Mr. Harding’s speech shows that he has found time in his legal practice to keep abreast with the best thought of the day on municipal government iq general and make a close study of the city of Indian apolis and this administration in particular. In devoting his attention exclusively to the problems of municipal government and the needs of the city, he afforded a. marked con trast to Mr. Taggart’s spokesman at the convention which nominated him—for, while Mr. Taggart does not make speeches him self, he has th,ose who speak for him. In performing this duty, Hon. John W. Kern discussed the issues of the last presidential campaign at length, eulogized Bryan as ”a matchless young leader,” told how McKin ley was elected by coercion and bribery, di lated upon the, enormities of the Dingley tariff and especially of the duty on opium, and gave both gold and silver Democrats to understand that on the money question Mr. Taggart was “all right.” He forgot to state how Mr. Taggart stood on municipal questions, but others who do his talking say he is “all right” on these also, and he emphasizes the statement with a smile. After showing that the question of better municipal government involves fundamental principles of local government in which ail the people are virtually interested, Mr. Harding proceeded to show how these principles had been violated and the rights of the people trifled with and bartered away by the present administration, lie showed how by a systematic course of fa voritism to corporations the people were actually taxed for the use of streets for whose improvement they had paid at exces sive rates. Speaking as a lawyer who knows something of the rights of the peo ple as against those of corporations, Mr. Harding said: “We demand and shall insist that these tax-levying companies shall act in quasi-public affairs with strict accounta bility, not only to their stockholders alone, but also to the people, to whom they owe their right of existence, because the use of the public streets is granted to them, with out which they could not exist.” This is the first time that any candidate for mayor has shown that he understands the underlying principle of this question, and that in the many-sided struggle now going on he stands with the j>eople. In treating of the city finances, Mr. Harding showed how the city treasury was being prostituted for the promotion of personal and political schemes and a debt being piled up which will handi cap the city for a long time to come, in this connection he brought out the startling fact that at the present rate of expenditure the city is likely to be without funds dur ing the last quarter of the present year. He said: There has been expended thus far in the present fiscal year commencing Jan. 1 for current city expenses the sum of $548,117.10, an average of $66,038 per month. The amount now in the city treasury is not sufficient to conduct the current business of the city for one month at the same rate of expenditure, and the city's business from early in the month of October must be con ducted with borrowed money or anticipated taxes. As the revenues of the city in 1896 were $829,(154, and will be considerably larger this year, and as $350,000 cf park bonds and $150,- 000 of station-house bonds have been issued, taxpayers had a right to expect a full treas ury instead of an empty one in the closing months of the year. These are some of the points in Mr. Harding's speech for the peo ple to think about. THE SONS OF VETERANS. As the power of the Grand Army wanes that of the Sons of Veterans should in crease. The glory which the former has attained the latter cannot expect to reach. Hundreds of thousands of people will never throng the streets of the city of the na tional encampment to witness in reverent silence the pathetic spectacle of the pass ing of the old men who saved the Repub lic! Such glory must be confined to those who won it. The next place, however, the Sons of Veterans can hold if they make their organization what it can and what if ought to be. With the passing away of the Grand Army the Sons of Veterans must wear the mantle of the fathers, if worn at all. Sometimes the veteran must wonder if those who constitute the Sons of Veterans catch full significance of their position or fully realize the duty which really de “volves upon them. This remark is made because it Is so often found that the re ports of their state meetings are made up of the rivalries of candidates for the posi tions which the organization possesses. Such honors may be honorably coveted if those seeking them desire to use the posi tions to strengthen the organization and make it useful. If desired simply to wear titles for a brief space, for the personal advantage it may bring, it may be said that those who have that sordid ambition for prominence would not, like their fathers, have enlisted had they lived at that time. Leadership was as essential as following in the late war, but the great battles were fought by men for whom there could be neither titles nor high honors; the great volume of personal sacrifice was made by men who answered the roll call as privates; the sturdy heroism which saved the Repub lic was displayed by the thousands who carried muskets. The great significance of the Grand Army is in the recognition of the veteran without a title. If the Sons of Vet erans shall succeed in any measure to the power and influence of the Grand Army, it will be by clinging to the fact that the citizenship of the Union armies is its great est glory and the central idea worth keep ing in view. There is work enough for the Sons of Veterans as an organization. The duties of patriotic citizenship are not fully under stood by all the people. Reverence of law yet needs to be taught. The seditious teach ings of a few bad men that the govern ment is the poor constitute heresies which should be fought as persistently as was the heresy of secession. “To promote purity in public affairs” is one of the prin ciples of the Grand Army. If the Sons of Veterans should make a fight upon the narrow selfishness which causes so many men to look upon the ballot as a means of personal gain and upon participation In public affairs for what there is in it, re gardless of the public welfare, they could THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1897. do the country an incalculable good. The patriotism of the fathers needs to be taught. Who can do it better than their sons? The Sons of Veterans should be mindful of their heritage. They are the sons of a race of men who preserved a great nation from dissolution by valor and devotion. Be cause they are the sons of such men they have additional right to be heard in pub lic affairs. The man who possesses as a part of his inheritance the tattered dis charge of a dead father from the Union army may stand unabashed in any pres ence in this country. It is the title to the American peerage. ANOTHER SILVERITE TRIES TO EXPLAIN. Congressman Bailey, of Texas, Demo cratic leader in the present Congress, has written a letter of some length, in which he tries to bolster up the failing cause of free silver, and pays particular attention to the divergence in value of silver and wheat. That the Democratic leaders are greatly worried over the simultaneous rise in wheat and fall in silver is evidenced by the fact that from Bryan down they are all engaged in trying to explain it. There is no accuser like a guilty conscience. They evidently realize that if they had not been so clamor ous in asserting that wheat and silver were indissolubly bound together and that the farmers need never expect a rise in wheat under the gold standard they would not now be put on the defensive to explain why wheat and silver have parted company. Mr. Bryan’s recent syndicate letter was largely devoted to this explanation, and now Congressman Bailey tries his hand. He begins by saying that those who think the recent rise in the price of wheat has refuted the argument for the free coinage of silver take a very superficial view of the question. “We have never contended,” he says, “that the gold standard renders all rise in the price of commodities impossible; but our contention is that it keeps the aver age price of all commodities below what it ought to be, and prevents the rises which do occur from going as high as they would under a system of bimetallism.” This is an entire change of base. The Bryanites did contend last year that the low price of wheat and other farm products was due to the demonetization of silver and its con sequent depression in value, and that no material advance in prices could be ex pected until silver was, to use their phrase, “restored to its rightful place.” Now they say the recent advance in the price of wheat is in spite of the goid standard, and that with free silver the advance would have been much greater. Continuing, Mr. Bailey says: Our gold-standard friends ought to in vestigate the question before they conclude that the recent rise in the price of wheat disproves our assertion that money has been appreciating since 1873. The records are accessible to aU, and these records show that the average price of wheat on the farms in the United States in 1873 was $1.25 per bushel, while the average farm price this year will not exceed 75 cents per bushel. If the value of money had not changed the price of wheat would be great er now than it was twenty-four years ago because the wheat crop of the world out side of the United States approaches nearer to a complete failure than it has in thirty years. If “money,” by which Mr. Bailey evi dently means gold, has been appreciating ever since 1873, then prices of all farm products should have steadily declined, in stead of which they have undergone great fluctuations, rising and falling through a wide range. It is not true, as Mr. Bailey says, that “the average price of wheat on the farms in the United States in 1873 was $1.25 per bushel.” Statistics show that it was $1.15 a bushel, and that when gold was worth 14 per cent, premium. Wheat has been higher in many years since 1873 than it was that year. “If the value of money has not changed,” says Mr. Bailey, “the price of wheat would be greater now than it was twenty-four years ago.” That asser tion is unauthorized and incapable of proof. Perhaps it should be said, rather, that it begs the question by assuming that gold has greatly appreciated in value in the last twenty-four years. Measured by labor, which is the fairest standard, it has not appreciated. The gold dollar will not buy as much labor, skilled or unskilled, as it did fifteen or twenty years ago, or in more recent times. A day’s labor commands more money now than it did in 1873 before silver was demonetized, and more than it did in 1879, when gold payments by the gov ernment were restored. If gold has ma terially appreciated in value in the last twenty-five years then wages should have depreciated. Instead of that they have ad vanced. As intimated above, the Democratic lead ers have themselves to thank for the pre dicament in which they are now placed of having to explain the divergence of wheat and silver. The Republicans had no part in the mock marriage between them, and even now they do not claim that the rise in wheat is due to anything but natural causes. No party and no legislation can control the world’s crop or prices, but Re publicans have a right to congratulate themselves that the present rise in the price of wheat and other farm products has come during a Republican administra tion and in such a was as to completely disprove the wheat-silver doctrine preached by the Bryanites last year. THE STATE FAIR. The managers of the State Agricultural Society are making commendable efforts to make their fair next week so popular and attractive that it will be a financial suc cess. The programme has been given in the papers from time to time. It is a varied one and should contain something that will be of interest to all classes of people who desire to make one day of the fair a hol iday. Years ago state fairs were a great insti tution. They were about the only occasion when the people of the State got together; probably the attendance was not larger then than it has been in subsequent years, but the expenses of the fair have increased year by year while the attractions have not been sufficient to bring out enough people to pay the expenses. It is probable that the state fair has been regarded more of an agricultural exhibit than a showing of the general industries of the State, because the managers are all farmers and the exhibit is made by the State Agricultural Society. Those who have attended recent fairs can not but have observed that the agricultural feature has not been more prominent than some others, while the general industries of the State have not been so fully repre sented in those exhibits as they should be. For that reason Indianapolis and other cit ies have not taken the interest in the fairs that they should and probably would if the exhibits and the attractions were of a more general and popular character. • This year the managers, appreciating past deficiencies, have undertaken to make a popular exhibit and to give on each day some feature which will bring out a large attendance. They may not have hit the best thing, but there can be no doubt that they have spared no effort to make an cx- hibition which will meet the approval of the people. They present many novelties in which they display a purpose to insure the patronage of all classes of people and par ticularly those of the cities. The Journal hopes that thousands of people who have not attended these fairs in recent years will do so this year, and thus encourage the managers to present new' features each year. There is no reason why the state fair of Indiana should not bring together each day many thousands of people who will find something in the programmes to in terest and instruct. From present indications there will be nine candidates for mayor this year, and the list is still open. Those now in the field are William Newton Harding, regular Republican; C. F. Smith, Smith party can didate; John F. White, Populist; Samuel G. Wilson, Prohibitionist; Thomas Taggart, gold-standard Democrat; T. Taggart, free silver Democrat; Mayor Taggart, syndicate beer candidate; Thomas Taggart, business administration candidate, and T. Taggart, shoestring park candidate. With such a list as this to choose from voters ought to be able to suit themselves. Several postal cards have recently been received in this city from persons traveling in Europe which show that Americans do not monopolize all the original ideas. These cards have printed on one end of the back, or message side, pretty colored pictures of local scenery or places of historic interest. The pictures are artistic, and, as they have plenty of room for a brief message, they do not detract from the usefulness of the card. BURBLES IN THE Alß (umpalKn Times. Now doth the busy candidate Go forth with Joyous greeting, And crook the elbow’s pliant hinge, That votes may follow treating. Fame. “I must confess,” said the Frank Young Woman, “that your poetry is wofully ob scure.” “Exactly,” admitted the Major Poet, cheerfully. “And that is why I am not.” An Alibi Established. “I hear that the crowd assailed you with eggs when you appeared at the Plunkville Opera House.” “False, me boy. false,” replied the emi nent tragedian, Mr. Barnes Tormer. “All false. There was no crowd.” A Too-Conscientious Secretary. “I v/ould like to find some good, bright young fellow who would act as my private secretary,” said the statesman. “What has become of the one you had?” “Had to let the idiot go. I told him to fix up my speech ior the press and put in the (laughter) wherever he thought it appro priate, and he jammed it right in after one of my finest flights declaring my undying love for the flag.” VIEWS OF INDIANA EDITORS. The Indianapolis Sentinel calls Bryan's explanation of things clear, intelligent and exhaustive. Emphasis gravitates on the last word.—Fort Wayne Gazette. They all with one accord from “Coin” down to Bryan now deny that they ever said that the price Os silver had anything to do with the price of wheat.—Crawfords ville Journal. The American farmer has never found a better market in the world than the home market. It is the mission of the Repub lican party to increase and preserve that market.—Plymouth News. Wheat and wages are moving in one di rection, while the value of silver bullion is moving in another. It isn’t hard to tell which of these movements is the better in dex to the condition of business interests. —Evansville Journal. The coal miners are entitled to and should receive a wagq, that- will enable them to support themselves and their families in decency and provide for the contingencies of the future, and their demands will not be satisfied short of this.—Muncie Times. The wage earner must have a fair share of the profits of labor to bring the highest prosperity to the whole nation. He must then make a right use of that share. The opportunity for men to rise above common place things was never greater than now, nor was the demand ever so great for so ber, industrious, trustworthy, thoughtful men in every branch of manufacture and business.—Marion Chronicle. There is less jealousy of the merely rich than most millionaires seem to believe. Wealth honestly obtained, with due regard to the rights of others, does not breed envy in the minds of the less fortunate. But ill gotten wealth, amassed mainly through grinding into practical servitude the masses of the people, can never fail to excite those conditions of irritation and distrust that millionaires view, and rightly so, with ao prehension.—Goshen Times. CURRENT MAGAZINES. James Barnes has in Harper an historical paper on “The Beginnings of the American Navy.” It is supplemented in an indirect way by a “Twentieth Century Outlook” from Capt. A. T. Mahan, in which he ar gues the probability of future wars and the need of them for purposes of civiliza tion. Recreation for September contains a va riety of sportsmen’s experiences in the hunting and fishing regions—a variety that ranges from the shooting of bear on the Little Big Horn, deer in Wisconsin and trout fishing in Nova Scotia. The literary features include a poem by Hon. S. B. Mc- Manus, of Indiana. The Midsummer number of the National Geographical Magazine, the illustrated monthly published by the National Geo graphical Society, contains carefully pre pared articles on “The Venuezuelan Bound ary Commission and Its Work,’ “Mineral Production In the United States,” “The Forests and Deserts of Arizona” and “Mount St. Helens.” In the Ladies’ Home Journal for Septem ber Miss Frances Benjamin Johnston tells how women may succeed as photographers. Considering the number of women who play with the camera surprisingly few make a serious study of It for pecuniary profit. Miss Johnston, who has made a great suc cess of portrait work in Washington, D. C., is qualified to speak with authority in the matter. The special features of the September Re view of Reviews are illustrated sketches of the three members of the new Nicaragua Canal Commission—Admiral Walker, Capt. O. M. Carter, Corps of Engineers, United States army, and Prof. Lewis M. Haupt; “Canovas: Spain’s Foremost Statesman,” by the Hon. J. L. M. Curry, ex-minister to Spain; “The Sine Qua Non of Caucus Re form,” by Ralph M. Easley; “Simon Poka gon on Naming the Indians,” and an article on “President Andrews and the' Situation at Brown.” The September Harper contains the last hit of work from the hand of the late Wil liam Hamilton Gibson—a characteristic study, in pen and pencil, of the milkweed. The reading rouses anew the regret for the untimely death of the artist-naturalist, who was also a poet In its truest sense, though he wrote no rhymes. Henry James contrib utes an estimate of Du Maurier from the standpoint of intimate friendship, which for its sympathetic comprehension may well be accepted as the final word concerning the author of “Trilby.” In Theosophy, the literary organ of the theosophic movement, a contributor ex plains that he believes in reincarnation be cause it is an absolute necessity to one who would solve the puzzling problem of exist ence. “No birth,” he says, “can meet a returning soul which it has not earned; there is no life, however overborne by hor rible suffering or hideous crime, which is not the exact and just recompense for deeds done in this or some other body; there is no death, however peaceful or ap palling. which has not been justly deserved by the soul itself, or comes to it because of family, racial or national deeds, in which it took an active part, and for which it therefore justly suffers. There Is no med ley or succession of acts so complex, nor sins so direct, that the infinitely wise law of cause and effect cannot adjust their ex act recompense. For this law is but the eternally present expression of the divine will.” He meets the objection that this I would deprive the individual of free will by this theory: “It must not be understood, however, from the foregoing, that every thing which happens to the soul during life, or even the inevitable time and manner of its death, are the results of causes set up in former lives alone. This would be to bind man in the straitjacket of predes tination. which is just the error into which the foreordinationists have fallen. There are new' causes set up at every step of the soul's pathway, to be adjusted by the divine law' in this or some future life. The soul is eternally free to choose, and must therefore be eternally able to set up new causes, w'hether for good or ili.’ All of which is interesting, if not convincing. Among the contents of the Eclectic for September are “A Retrospect of the Reign,” “British Interests and the Wolcott Commission,” “The Growth of Caste in the United States,” "The South African Bub ble” and “The Present Government in Tur key—lts Crimes and Remedy.” The writer of the last-named article says, in conclu sion: “It is not the laws of the country which are defective, but their execution. It is the present corruption in high places which vitiates and paralyzes the whole ad ministrative organization. Unless the one man rule is abolished, Turkey will drift from bad to worse, and an empire possess ing immense resources and inhabited by a people who have only recently given proof of their strength and Vitality, will continue to be a curse to the w r orld and a dishonor to our age.” Mr. A. J. Halford contributes a chapter on "Matters Diplomatic” to the Interna tional Magazine for September. He says, incidentally: “A sentence in one of Secre tary Olney’s letters to the Spanish minister, contained in the Cuban correspondence which was recently printed, has attracted attention. He wrote of ‘the ineluctable and lawful sovereignty of Spain.’ That sounds quite like a state document in the Cleve land administration. The strange word that gives it significance, scholars say, comes from the Latin luctari, to struggle; eluctari, to struggle out of; and ineluetari, not to struggle out of. The author of the phrase will not find himself sustained “by history in the use of it. Holland, Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, San Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras. Venezuela, Colom bia. Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Argentine, Para guay and Uruguay, have all at one time or another ‘eluctated’ out of the sovereign grasp of Spain, and if Secretary Sherman be accepted as authority, Cuba, is likely to do the same, and that right speedily.” In an article on “The Floating City Pop ulation” in the midsummer number of the Annals of the American Academy of Polit ical Economy the writer includes in such population not only the few hundred men and few score women who are at any given time absolutely without shelter except such as charity or relief may provide, “but also the 10,000 or 15,000 persons who live in cheap lodging houses and who are homeless in the sense that they have no real home no home ties and influences, no permanent engagements for payment by the week or month that would interfere with the cheer ful acceptance, at the eleventh hour, of a free shelter which might open its doors if only for a night.” As to the problem of improving this element of society, he says: “The irresistible conclusion of the most careful study will be that the fundamental difficulty is in the home and school life of the young people. The correctional de vices to which some attention has been given are needed only to give society a better chance as it were to work at its so cial and educational problem. Kindergar ten, manual training, trade schools, pro fessional training for public school teach ers, instruction in the best w r ays of using an income large or small, the prevention of indiscriminate charity, organized intelli gent effort on behalf of individuals and families in distress, the proper care of homeless children, the study of social con ditions in college settlements, the creation of public opinion by the extension of uni versity teaching—these are the methods which, without any desire to be eclectic and to conciliate everybody, but only with an intense conviction that our whole social problem is one, I propose as the means of eliminating our shiftless and floating popu lation.” H. S. PERRY HANGED. He Killed a Theological Student for an Alleged Assault on Hist Wife. ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. B.—H. S. Perry was hanged for the murder of Bely Lanier at Decatur to-day. The execution took place on a gallows in the yard of the De Kalb county Jail. Perry was taken to Decatur from the jail in this city early this morn ing, escorted by Sheriff Austin, of De Kalb, and four deputies. One incident of the trip served to show the depth of bitter feeling Perry entertained toward the people of De Kalb county. As the small procession was passing through East End Perry looked out and saw a store sign which read, “Chris tian Brothers.” “Well, I am glad to see there is one Christian in De Kalb county.” The condemned man seemed vastly amused at his own sally, which drew a broad smile from the guards.’ When the doomed man alighted in front of the jail at Decatur his attention was drawn to the smoking ruins of a row of small houses which had burned during the night. Among them was the house in which Lanier, his victim, died. He was startled by the coincidence, but made no comment. On the gallows the con demned man offered up a short prayer for his own soul and for his wife and five little children. While the black cap was being adjusted he muttered, “I did it in defense of my wife.” These were his last words. Horace Stephen Perry was conducting a small grocery business in Atlanta when he committed the crime for which he was hanged. To supplement the family’s in come Mrs. Perry took boarders at their home, on Piedmont avenue, and among these was Bely Lanier, a young theological student. The domestic relations of the Per rys were not happy. Perry had become in fatuated with a woman of questionable character. In the troubles that arose from this liaison Lanier became involved, and as a result Perry shot and mortally wounded him in the courthouse at Decatur on Mon day, March 8. After lingering for a few days Lanier died from the effects of the wound. Both men were under arrest when the shooting occurred, having been taken into custody at Ingleside, to which place Perry had followed Lanier for the avowed purpose of avenging an insult to his wife. Though both were searched. Perry suc ceeded in concealing a pistol, and no sooner had the party entered the courthouse at Decatur than he fired on Lanier. After the shooting Perry said that his only regret was the fear that Lanier might live. He declared that Lanier had outraged Mrs. Perry. Lanier strenuously denied that he had committed the assault, and before his death made a statement in which he said Perrv was angry because he (Lanier) had told Mrs. Perry of Perry’s alleged rela tions with other women. NEW ABELARD AND HELOISE. Love-Cra*ed Priest and Fair Maiden Separated by the Church. OTTAWA, Ont.. Sept. 8. The pathetic story of Abelard and Heloise has been re enacted here. The modern story relates to the pitiful love of an Ottawa Catholic priest, the Abbe Richer, and Miss Cote, a beautiful young girl of seventeen. The abbe braved the thunders of his cjnirch until the last moment, his affection for his lovely bride overcoming all his scruples and years of anathema maranatha. To-day, however, the affair abruptly terminated, resulting from a visit of Rev. Father Mangin to Abbe Richer on last Saturday evening. Rev. Father Mangin was closeted with Abbe Richer for over three hours. What trans pired is known only to themselves, but the result of it is startling. The two lovers have been separated. Tho girl is on her way to a convent, where she will spend the rest of her life. As to the priest, he has submitted, and is now awaiting the sen tence which will be passed upon him by his Grace, the Archbishop of Ottawa. He will probably be sent to a monastery to do pen ance for a term of two or three years. A scene full of anguish happened when the girl was taken away from her lover. Sire cried bitterly, and wished to die rather than bury her lost hopes and her cherished il lusions between the four walls of a convent, where she must renounce forever the joys of life and live in retirement and expiation. Extraordinary pressure has evidently been brought to bear upon Abbe Richer, for un til Saturday he was firm in his determina tion to give up the priesthood and live with Miss Cote. Th? name of the convent in which the young girl is to be conflned is not known. William llotto Arraigned. NEW YORK. Sept. B.—William Botto, the young man from Louisville, Ky., who di vorced his young wife to marry the aged widow Captain Irwin, was in the Su preme Court to-day on a writ of habeas corpus obtained yesterday. Rotto’a counsel claims that he ought to l>c discharged from arrest upon the charge of passing a worth less check on a Philadelphia hotel keeper, as the evidence is not legal. The hearing was postponed until to-morrow. HOLDING THEIR GOLD FOREIGNERS NOT DISPOSER TO SHIP COIN TO THIS COUNTRY. Settling Their Trade Balance* by Sending American Stocks Here and Selling at the Recent Advance. MORE FORTY-CENT DOLLARS 4. MINT TO BE PIT TO WORK STAMP ING DEPRECIATED SILVER. * People of Oklahoma Reveling in Pros perity—Remains of Captain Lemon Barred Out of Arlington. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Sept. B.—Those who have been anticipating large importations of gold this month may be disappointed. The foreigners, instead of paying for our w'heat and food stuffs in gold, evince a dis position to settle their business by heavy sales of American securities. Foreign holders are just now taking advantage of the advance in the poorer class of non dividend paying stocks and they are send ing them back to America bv the ream. Preparations were made abroad looking to the early shipment to the United States of about ten million dollars’ worth of English sovereigns, that amount to be sent direct from Australia. Thes\? preparations have not been entirely abandoned and the go-id may be yet sent into this country from the source indicated, but the arrival may be delayed considerably beyond the origi nal schedule arrangement. * * * The available supply' of silver dollars in the treasury has been reduced to about eight million dollars and the director of the mint will, within the next few days, issue an order for the coining of an addi tional lot of thesfe dollars from bullion purchased under the act of 1890. The treas ury holds silver bullion w'hich cost the gov ernment $104,000,000. It is worth Intrinsically less than $50,000,000 at current quotations as metal. * * * Hon. Dennis Flynn, formerly delegate in Congress from Oklahoma, was in the city for a brief visit to-day. Mr. Flynn said: “Oklahoma was never in such prosperous condition as it is to-day. We have thirty five bushels of wheat to the acre, and thte corn crop is so far advanced that no cli matic changes can affect it now. Corn is bringing 25 cents a bushel and the farmers are happy. Cotton is a better crop than it ever was before, and while the price is low the Indications are decidedly favorable for an advanc'd in this staple. Farmers go to the towns, buy new wagons, go home, load them up with wheat, come back and sell th'e wheat for enough to pay for the wagon and have money left besides. They have forgotten the silver question. In fact, the only reference I heard made to that is sue was made by myself in a recent speech, wherein I said that I agreed with Mr. Bryan that silver and wheat were get ting together? It takes nearly a bushel of one to buy a bushel of the other to-day.” * * * It Is said that the War Department offi cials who have charge of historic Arling ton have d'ecided to deny the executors of the will of the late Captain George E. Lemon, the millionaire pension agent, the privilege of burying his remains them and erecting a mausoleum over them. The G. A. R. Is indebted to Captain Lemon more than any other man for the 'existing liber al pension laws. He died about a year ago and left an estate of about $2,000,000, about $500,000 of which went to the family of the late Gen. John A. Logan. His remains are to b'e kept out of Arlington for the ex plained reason that he did not perform services sufficiently distinguished to entitle his remains to that distinction. * * * The claims of the letter carriers of South E'end and Lafayette, Ind., for work per formed by them overtime were approved by the Treasury Department to-day and checks will be forwarded at once. South Bend carriers will receive $7,428 and Lafay ette carriers $2,328. The names of the re cipients were printed in the Journal re cently. * * * Paul Jones, of Mt. M’eridian, Ind., was to day appointed a clerk in the railway mail service, and Miss Elizabeth J. Doherty, of Indiana, w'as appointed kindergarten teach'er in the Indian school at Rosebud agency, South Dakota. REPORTS FROM CONSULS. Germany Increasing Her Export Trade—Bicycles in Nicaragua. WASHINGTON, Sept. B.—Consul Mona ghan, at Chemnitz, has informed the State Department that Germany is steadily in creasing her trade with Mexico and that for 1896 it amounted to more than in 1895, when it was 16,300,000 marks. The goods Germany sends to Mexico are textiles, iron wares, china, glassware and machinery. The consul says that now the silver crisis has been bridged over successfully, all kinds of enterprises are being started in the republic, including minfng, railroads, breweries, su gar refineries, etc. A report has been received at the State Department showing to what extent the weaving industry has been followed in Ja pan. In 1896 there were 949,123 looms, with 1,042,866 persons engaged, of w'hich 985,016 were women and girls. The value of the textile product fol" the year was $96,187,235, made up in part as follows: Silk textiles, $46,401; silk and cotton mixed, $10,281,272; cotton, $37,083,757, and hemp, $2,021,467. * Consul O’Hara, at San Juan del Norte, has sent to the State Department a long re port on the sale of bicycles, typewriters and other articles in Nicaragua. He says that no wooden rims are used on bicycles there on account of the weather; also that the roads are not very good for wheeling. Span ish-Amerlcan women have not as yet taken to the wheel. He thinks, with active agents, sales of machines could be pushed. Tpye writers are not in very general use. Consul Morris, at Ghent, Belgium, has re ported to the State Department that anew system has been discovered for retting flax so as to destroy the microbes which are injurious to the cellulose matter in the flax. It is by a process of beating, and further experiments to perfect the system are being made. Consul General Maratta reports to tne State Department that for the six months ended June 30, 1897. there were received at the Melbourne (Australia) mint 619,214 ounces of gold. This came from Australia and the surrounding islands. REBELLIOUS POSTMASTERS. Action Regnrtilng Those Who Refuse to Vacate Tlieir Office*. WASHINGTON. Sept. B.—Acting Post master General Heath had a conference to day with the attorney general as to the course to be pursued by the officers of the Postofllee Department in cases where old postmasters refuse to vacate for new ones, or where clerks decline to accept transfer or removal, on the ground that they are protected by the civil-service regulations. The attorney general advised that the proper course in such cast's was to refer the matter, with the papers, to the United States district attorneys and their deputies, The conference was the result of an in quiry from Postmaster Gordon, of Chicago, who asked for Instructions in the case of Superintendent Carr, of Station O. In that city, who refused to accept a transfer to a clerkship in the general office and secured a restraining order from Judge Jenkins. Mr. Gordon asked permission to turn the Dapers over to tho district attorney. After Mr. Heath's conference with Attorney Gen eral McKenna he wired Mr. Gordon as fol lows: “The United States district attorney la the proper officer ta act tor you in a pre liminary hearing, and you may turn over all papers to him and request him to act for you. The district attorney here has charge of our cases of a similar character, and the Department of Justice advises that tho district attorney at Chicago act for you.” Hereafter this policy will be pursued in all cases In the Postofflee Department in which executive action is called into ques tion by persons removed from office on the plea of protection under the civil-service law. The postoffice officials are quite anx ious that there should be an early judicial opinion defining their prerogatives in mat ters of appointment or transfer. They are somewhat embarrassed by the present sta tus of affairs and by the objections made under the civil-service regulations to their acts. Thus far the Department of Justice has given no public intimation of the posi tion that it will take, but the result of the conference between Attorney General Mc- Kenna and Mr. Heath justifies the infer ence that the Postoffice Department’s con tention will be sustained by the legal de partment. rostoffioe officials say there will be no change in their conduct until decided against by the higher courts. They hold that their acts of removal or transfer are purely executive: that in making sucß changes they represent the President, and that the President has a perfect right to construe the civil-service rules, which ara of his own creation, as he may see fit. Honce, they contend that the matter is one in which the courts have no concern. MESSAGE FROM WAR SHIPS. Currier Pigeon* Bring Tiding* from the Squadron of Evolution. WASHINGTON, Sept. B.—Admiral Mat thews, acting secretary of the navy, re ceived two messages from the north At lantic squadron to-day. They w ere sent from the fleet to the commandant of the Norfolk navy yard by carrier pigeons ind then telegraphed to Washington. The first message was as follows: “Ship New York, 3 p. m.. Sept. 7, fifty miles from Norfolk. Assistant secretary ia on board now engaged in witnessing great gun exercise with service charges. Tha Brooklyn and Massachusetts will follow’. Subcaliber exercises suspended. Search and other night signal exercises to-night.” The second message follow’s: “Ship New York, 9 a. m. Sept. 8. southern drill grounds, fifty milts from Norfolk. The squadron getting under w r ay for evo lutions before assistant secretary, who re mains on Dolphin. Very successful target practice, by lowa and Brooklyn yesterday. Search light last night and attack on drift ing target by six and one-pounders with aid of four searchlights. Weather hazy, light airs from east; sea smooth.” Excellent time was made with this last message, it having been received at the Navy Department in one hour and fifty four minutes from the time the pigeon was released at sea. Increase in Prices. WASHINGTON, Sept. S.—Assistant Sec retary Brigham, of the Department of Ag riculture, has prepared the following table showing the increase in prices of farm products this year over those of the cor responding period in 1896: 1896. 1897. Butter, creamery, pound ... .15 .18 Butter, dairy, pound 07 .10 Cheese, pound... 07% .09 Eggs, dozen 10% .11 Hides, pound 04% .08% Rye, bushel. 30% .50 Oats, bushel 16% .23 Wheat, bushel.. Corn, bushel 24 .32 Hogs, per hundred pounds. .$3.25 $4.40 Potatoes, per barrel 90 2.10 Sheep, per head 3.10 3.35 Lambs, per head 4.25 5.50 These are Cincinnati figures in all cases. Cottle from Mexico. WASHINGTON, Sept. B.—The Treasury Department has received information from Eagle Pass, Tex., of the importation of 507 head of cattle from Mexico. It is said that this is the first entry of importance since the new r tariff law went into effect and the treasury officials call attention to it, as it was contended by opponents of the bill that the increase of 7% per cent, ad valorem on cattle would be found to be prohibitory. Another large entry is ex pected soon at Tex. 140,100 Free Batli*. WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.-William J. Lit tle, superintendent of Hot Springs military reservation, Arkansas, has filed his annual report with the secretary of the interior. He states that the reports made under hii supervision have been more extensive than usual, and recommends that they be con tinued. He says 140,160 free baths wera given and that 80 per cent, of the persons who had the benefit of these baths were either cured or greatly benefited. A Conscience-Troubled Pensioner. WASHINGTON, Sept. B.—The Pension Office has received a conscience contribu tion of $350 from a pensioner in Pennsyl vania, who states that he obtained the money fraudulently. General Notes. WASHINGTON. Sept. B.—To-day’s state ment of the condition of the treasury shows: Available cash balance, $216,597,520; gold reserve, $144,836,196. Pension examiners in the field have been reinstructed to give out no information to the press in regard to iheir woik, leaving this duty to the central office. An order of this purport has long been in existence, but some officials have recently neglected to observe it. Secretary Gage is at work on his annual report. He instructed the bureau chiefs to make their individual reports a month or six weeks earlier than has ocui customary in the past. That of Controller Tracewell, the first to be submitted, was laid before the secretary to-day. Secretary Alger to-day settled the contro versy over the award of the contract for the construction of six locks and dams in the Monongahela river by rejecting all the bids received under the original call and di recting that new proposals be invited for tho work. Consul Dart, at Guadaloupe, in the West Indies, reports to the State Department that continuous shocks of earthquake are being experienced there. He says that on Aug. 25, between 5 a. m. and 7 a. m., there were eight distinct shocks. It is said to be a strange phenomenon, affecting no other part of the island. The Department of State has been in formed by the Corean minister. Chin Pom Ye. that he has received notice from hig government of the'appointment of Mr. Min Jong Mock as minister for foreign affairs. SECOND CASeYn TWO WEEKS. People of Macon, Ga., Excited Over an Assault on n White Girl. MACON, Ga., Sept. B.—Miss Sailie Chap man, living at No. 152 First street, living with her half-brother, J. C. Mclnvale, was and brutally outraged in her bed room by an unknown man, between 3 and 4 o’clock yesterday morning. Miss Chapman is a handsome young woman about twenty years of age. She was sleeping in the sama room with a nine-year-old girl. This morn ing she was aroused from a sound sleep by feeling a hand on her throat and saw a dim form bending over her. She tried to scream but her assailant closed his hand on her throat and choked her. After ac complishing his purpose he escaped through, the window. There is not the slightest clew to the assailant. The town is worked up to a high pitch of excitement, as this ia the second assault of a like nature in the last two weeks in this city. DECLINES TO IT. Dr. Andrew*, of Brown I niverslty, In ni*t* on Acceptance of Re.-ilgnutinn. PROVIDENCE. R. 1., Sept. R.—President Andrews, of Brown University, to-day sent to the corporation a letter formally de clining to withdraw his resignation and stating briefly his decision to withdraw from the university. It is understood, though the text of the letter has r.ot lean made public, that he states his willingness to remain here until his successor shall he chosen. A meeting of the corporation will be held within two weeks, at which tha latest statement from President Andrews will be submitted. Veterinary Medical Association. NASHVILLE. Tenn.. Sept. B.~The United States Veterinary Medical Association to day elected Dr. E. S. Salmon, of Washing ton Citw, president; Dr. J. B. Rayner, of West Cheater, Pa.. Eastern vice president: Dr. W. C. Ravnor, of Tennessee, central vice president; Dr. Austin Peters, of Mas sachusetts, Western vice president; Dr. s. Stewart, of Kansas, secretary, and Dr. W. H Lowe, of New* Jersey, treasurer. Sev eral papers wero read and discussed. This afternoon the members of the association v.sited Bella Mead