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VOLUME I.
MEMPHIS, MISSOURI, THURSDAY OCTOBER 15, 1891.
NUMBER 37
TRIBUTE TO GEN. GRANT
THE STATUE OF THE DEAD
COMMANDER UNVEILED.
The Ceremonies Preceded by an Impos
ing Street Parade CltlzeiiH antl Soldiery
I'nlte In Doing Honor to the Hero of the
Keui-lllon Crcat Naval Display.
Grant Day In hieaKO.
f-'unshine ami rain waned fiercely and
unremittingly with each otlior in C lit -cago
to determine which wou'd have the
mastery when it came to unveil the
(rant stati:e. Anil Pint bus won a
xlaz.zling victory, and all the people re
joiced It would have been a bitter
disappointment ha 1 it teen ordered
otherwise. The silken cord was gently
pulled by the fair hands of the
daughter of Gen. William M Strong,
and responsive to her timid action
the white drapery was loosed from the
ligure beneath it. fluttered a n o cent in
tie' I reeze and fell, disclosing in all the
majestic ea'm of a h- roie man s ulptured
'in bronze by a master hand. For a mo
rn nt admiration held th mult'tud
spellbound, incapable of uttering an
xclamat on. Then, plowing with pride
and patriot:? n, from a hundred
.thousand threats went up such a mighty
Shout as Is r.irely heard. It was th
apotleosis if their adniration the
wire at'ame with enthusiasm.
t'ne minute before v - unveiling s
signal gun was fired to v rn the gab
bling. excit d and expectant throng tha
everything was in readiness for tin
rcremonv. Slowly the ?e onds tieki :
by and there was a vast hush Scarce))
a sound was heard save from the fai
distant center of the city, Iron wher
tlie rear of commerce was plainly audi
ble. The statue was bared to the ev
snd the tiiinu tuous
1 roval had hardy
from the United
er Michigan there
murmur of ap
subsided when
States steam
bla.ed forth
a salute of twenty-one guns Bishop
Newman patiently waited for the re
verberation of the last gun before he
delivered the invo at'on. and Emil
Dryer had to be corr sponditigly patient
before ho i o dd introduce the ltishop.
Keverently the hist syllable was heard,
and, released from the first strain of
eagerness, the spectators leisurely
awaited what v. as ct to come the
speeehes of presentation and ae opt
ance and Judge I in sliam's oration.
'; wenty tlio :sand men marched from
ihe heart of the city to Linco'n I'ark.
Twenty thousand more were willing to
!o but that it would liave made the
parade too cumbersome. Soldiers and
civilians, old warriors and yo nig ones.
Knights witho it end anil societies with-
ttt number, all anxious to do honor to
the memory of the greatest military
chieftai i of his age, marched in solemn
pioe -ssion. Many an old comrade
of Grant was there: many a one
wl.o, i hough knowing him b .t
sightly, had magnified that trivial
a-ji:aintance until it seemed to blossom
torth to intimate relationship and friend
ship Memory kr.lt those sturdy fellows
w 'th their g'Kl. It was nothing to them
that at any moment the heavens thr at-r-ned
to oien and deluge them and trans
form their sober l arade into mincing
ste; s for dry ground. They had
splashed through many a country read
and not felt half so proud. And when
th y drew up in front of the monument
they were the admired of all admirers
I r.:m th t ine the signal gun was
fired until the eremony was ende 1
there was nui h to chain the attentb n
There v.cic many distinguished men on
the platform
FIRISO inK
(nice the statue was unveiled the excr
c iyes were burr ed to completion, for the
fear that rain would mar the occasion
ban iled the txeculive Committee,
i a or Washburne accepted the monu
m nt on L( hal ' of the city after Edward
r . 'i rylor. tor the Park Commissioners
Mid th; Monument Association, had
-lies uted it L wy r Villiani C-Goudy
d lowed in Hie wake 0 tuo Mayor,
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accepting the monument for the Park
Trustees.
And then fame the turn of Judge
Walter Q. Gresh.im, who In his oration
honored Grant, honored the people and
honored himself. The Judge was a
close friend of the dead h ro in his life
time,had his ronl'detu e and respect, and
was charged with niueh more of e titer
than many of those who vaing'oriously
make capital out of their acquaintance
ship with the General. Gresham was a
THE CHANT MilVfMtlXT- VIEW LOOK I NO WERT.
soldier, therefore he knows the value to
put upon Grant's services to the
nation; he is a Judge, therefore he.
Kill SHAM, ORATOR OK THE IV.
is Just: lie. seldom
and therefore his
t:i ks in public,
utterances had
woith More
KAVAt, SAIXTE.
than all, ho is an admirer of the mili
tary genius and human qualities of
Grant and he was f red to elo uence in
speaking of him. When ho ended his
speech a scene was witnessed like unto
t'tat whl. li was obs.-rved in the summer
when Chan cey Uotcw thundered out
the closing sentence of li s oration on
the occasion of the unveiling of the
Grant mouument at Galena- Approval
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'an extra touch of
-ftVZ. v
of the spoken words took form in a hun
dred wild varieties, and for the moment
the greatness of the orator seemed to
overshadow Ihe men;ory of the man that
iuickened his tonguu to words of elo
q uence.
Mti'-h moved as were the people, there
was yet one who was ipl'uenced more
titan all. A figure in mou ning: an
old lady with s lvered hair and a glance
of meiatr holy that dimmed her m en of
stately pride. Slie was Grant's widow,
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uncertain whether to mourn anew or
show her gratitude. Surrounded by her
friends, she calmly surveyed the scene
and resolutely stit'ed her thoughts as
1 est slie could. And the moment of bit
terness which may have flashed across
her sou! must also have 1 een felt by her
son. who sat by her side.
It was a bad dav for the naval parade
Huring the nicht a lvavy sea washed
the shores of the lake, and a stiff north
easter did not help to mend matters,
and for a time it 'coked as if the naval
display must I o abandoned. About 10
o"( 1 ck, however, the wind had changed.
and the outlook w;:s much more favor
able.
Tli- Michigan steamed slowly out of
the basin and li ad d for Lincoln Park
She was fo'lowed by the l-'i ssenden and
nuy .ionnson. with sevi rai x ursion
st aiuers and the two fire boats ov. ring
the rear. On board the cutters w.ti
ma'iy invited gu sts, mainly wives of
army o in ers in the parad . When the
Michigan c.vne abr ast of the monument.
l,.".o; f ct from the s a wail, the order
to drop anchor was given. Th 1 eutt rs
for im d the line, with a fir. boat to north
and south.
The steamers fell into line outside the
warships, and their anchors were
dropied on tho sandy bottom. The
lugs, which had been hurrying to and
from the harbor w.th tows, found
places betwc'-n tho larger boats. Tho
lifeboat of Ihe live-saving crew, rowed
by sturdy hands next came, and lay at
rest near the Michigan.
The scene from shore was one of
striking beauty. The monument was in
a noble setting. The lake, a'wavs Lin
coln Park's greatest beauty, was never
ha f so beautiful before
As the veil va pulled from the monu
ment the guns on the warships joined
with the battery on shore in tho J'resi
dentia! salute of twenty one guns. For
the moment there was silence. Then th
Hag at the Michigan's foremast was run
down It was tho signal for a hundred
whistles. The fire boats ent heaven
ward a score of streams. The flag re
ap eared at the .Michigan s foremast
and the noisy salute teased.
Tho Michigan then weighed anchor
and bore to the northward. The revenue
cutters followed her and the steamers
followed in their wake. (MT the Marine
Hospital the fleet turned backward and
formed a procession down the lake shore
past tl e mouument
Spain's youthful King has learned to
liack a pony. He will not be every
inch a king, however, until ho has
learned to baccarat.
A grain of fine santl will co- er one
of the minute scales of the hi man skin.
yet eacli one of these scales covers
from 300 to 500 vorei.
A girl waists her energy when s-he
hug ano her girl.
A mas sentenced to Le La geJ is
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THE 1UVSEKK.
I!Y ARTHUR li. KFXI.OOO.
t was once a tool of oppression.
And as green as a sucker could ne.
An.l monopolies tanlet! together
To heat a poor hayseed like me.
The railroads and old party bosses
Toiretm r aid sweeny agree;
And they thought t lere would lie little trouble
in working a nayseeil like me.
They told me that politics always
were li 1 1 li v an.l loin, mm I you see;
And raising my turnips and calil.age
Would lie lietter for h.tysce.ls Ilia; me.
And nt every election they fed me
With taffy as sweet us could lie.
Hut when thev elected their ticket
Thev fortrot a poor havseed like me.
Thev sold themselves out to a banker.
And thought It would be a tine spree
To lire all the greenbacks and silver
And rob all such hayseeds as me.
They went Into league with the devil
I or the sane of a high license tee,
Hut never a cent of Ihe profits
lias come to a hayseed like mo.
Hut now I've roused up a little.
And their creetl and commuon I see.
And my neighbors are waking around me
Aim i niiu tney re an nayseeus iikc me.
And so we've formed au Alliance.
Kroni oppression we're bound to be free.
And the ticket we vote hereafter
Will be made up of hayseeds like me.
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ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE.
Monopoly lapei-s l'ulilisli as I. title True
Newft as 1'oKsthle Kxericnce ol a I'eu
lile's Correspondent.
An explanation is due niv friends
among the Fanners' Alliunce and in the
people's party as to why I cannot any
longer publish in the Cincinnati Daily
l ost and Cleveland Daiui J rrxs the
news sent me lv secretaries and others.
I was invited !v the management of
those papers to become state corres
pondent for people's party and alliance
news and was told I could take charge
of the department, ami whatever I
sent in would lie published as I sent
it, without editorial supervision, ex
cept alone that libelous matter could
not be published and that lack of
stiaee might sometimes prevent.
Accordingly, 1 prepared circular
letters, which were approved by the
papers, and sent to the secretaries and
others, asking their help in making a
live department of people s party and
alliance news.
It went well for a few weeks, and
then articles I sent the 1'nst did not
appear, and there was no statement
that thev were libelous or that there
was lack of space. I could not afford
to have correspondents send me as
pointed letters as some of them did
and then be unable myself to keep my
promise to have the news published.
I was getting a good salary for the
work, but I at once sent in my resig
nation. 1 :nake no charges against the sin
cerity of those papers. I know of no
daily papers in Ohio that have shown
the courage and independence that
they have, and 1 honor them for it.
But thev, like all of us, feel the tre
mendous social pressure of the eco
nomic system under which we live. It
has been said that there is some point
at which the strongest will break
down. Tnat must be decided bv each
one for himself.
The managing editor of the Font said
to me as a reason for not publishing
all of what I sent : "You have no idea
of the pressure that comes from the
business department against publish
ing is much as we have done. It
doesn't pay."
If vou do not understand what is
meant by "pressure from the business
lepartment read the following "a-
tional banks' circular," issued nearly
thirty years ago, and remember that
the boycott then established against
all papers that do not support the
national banking system is still in
force.
NATIONAL HANKERS CIRCTLAR.
Dear Sir: It is advisable to do all
in your power to sustain such daily
and prominent weekly newspapers, es
pecially the agricultural and religious
press, us will oppose the issuing of
greenback paper money, and that you
withhold patronage or favors from all
applicants who are not willing to op
pose the government issue of money.
Let the government issue the coin and
the banks issue the. paper money of
country, for then we can better protect
each other. To repeal the law creat
ing the national banks, or to restore to
circulation the government issue of
money, will lie to provide the people
with money, and w ill therefore seri
ously affect our individual profits as
banker and lender. See your member
of congsess at once and engage him to
support our interests, that we may
control legislation. Signed by the
seretary. .Tas. liriXL,
147 Broadway, room 4, N. Y.
Ah, ves, it is the pressure of the bus
iness department that stands in the
way of the people, whose pockets are
empty and whose homos are mortgaged.
"It doesn't pay" to give the alliance
and the peoples party news.
Then, by the starving workman's
family, by the million of mortgaged
homes, by the reeking, Bteaming tene
ments, human beehives of tilth and
vice and destitution, by the stunted
children that poverty drives to tho fac
tories in spite of the mother's love or
father's pride, or the child labor law,
by the million and a half of tramps
that stalk, ragged and hungry, through
the land, we say that the farmers and
the laborers should rise en masse, and
with old Andrew Jackson's solemn
oath thundered forth : "Then by the
eternal, we'll make it pay to publish
the news and the facts concerning our
homes, our firesides, and our children's
welfare."
Shame, shame, on the cowardly, ig
norant, indifferent multitudes. Has
the blood of historic ages dried up
within their veins? Are we on the
liackward sweep of evolution's cycle,
bringing proud men again to the brut
ish condition from which Darwin says
they sprang? Nay, even the dove, to
say nothing of the lioness or the ti
gress, fight fiercely for the tiny fledg
lings of the nest. Does the man par
ent care nothing for the children? A
New York judge says: "There are mul
titudes, I had almost said a majority,
of the families in this city to whom the
coming of two additional children
means inevitably a boy for the peni
tentiary or a girl for the brothel."
Those conditions are closing like the
coffin pall around the children every
where of the poor man, on the farm or
in the city. Ah, yes, and even the pa
pers that profess to be on the people's
uide dare not publish the tidings to
the world, because of sordid worship
of almighty Mammon the "pressure
from the business department" forbids
it.
Workmen ! farmers ! start your own
daily papers in the chief cities in Ohio
and throughout the land, and make it
possible for the truth to be told. Let
there be a cyclone from the people's
department that will make the pressure
from the business department uufelt.
(shall the dollar lord it pvey you?
Shall tho capitalist be ytnr king, and
the politician his liveried noblemen,
before whom you lick the dust?
Think of the 30,000 laboring men in
Cincinnati, banded together in labor
organizations and federations, and even
the daily newspaper that makes most
claims to the "people's paper" dare not
tell the whole trnth because tf the
"pressure from the business depart
ment." Oh, for shame, ye sturdy sons
of toil. Do you think the old Roman
Cincinnatus, called from his plow to
serve his country, would be proud to
have his name perpetuated iu the word
Cincinnati?
Oh, ye farmers of Ohio, think of the
daily paper that lias offered to open
its columns for news from tho Farmers'
Alliance now stating that it cannot do
so because of the "pressure from the
business department?"
Men of America, must your proud
and noble bird of freedom, the eagle,
bo stamped in the mint before you are
willing to acknowledge it as tho sym
bol of your liberty? Nay, that is to
make the eagle a brand of servitude
stamped on your clanking chains. Is
Yaslingtol), who shook off the fetters
of Britain's military rule, forgotten for
ever? Did Lincoln, who shook off the
the chains from four millions of black
slaves, live in vain ? Shall sixty mil
lions of American freemen ( i) be com
pelled to read onlv the newspapers
that acknowledge that they print just
as the "pressure from the business de
partment" dictates? Then let Ply
mouth Rock sink forever beneath the
Atlantic wave. It "doesn't pay" to
stand as a symbol of liberty before a
nation of wailing slaves. Then let the
American eagle, like the American
men, consent to cramp everv soaring
ambi ion within the milled edge of the
dollar. Let capital be king in the
great western republic. Let the la
borer doff his hat and meekly give the
product of his toil to feed Lis idle
master. Let him thank his capitalis
tic lord for the "charity" that permits
v poorhonse to be built bv his fellow-
workmen's toil, in which, when death
draws near, he can lay his head tlpor.
a pillow, stuffed with feathers from
the goose's own baek, and die in peace,
and then be buried in a pauper's grave.
home of vou wonder how much truth
there is in t Lis. Then, to find out, you
go to capitalistic newspapers that are
ruled by the "pressure from the busi
ness department." They tell you it is
all socialistic rot and blatherskite non-
nse. Then vou nod vour heads in
wisdom, and par vour pennies for the
papers day after day. Oh, you fools!
I.. 1 . i oster in dolden Rule.
The Alliance Leaders.
The Farmers' Alliance and its na
tional officers have again been anni
hilated. This has been done with
almost tiresome frequency of bite, but
somehow the alliance seems to ueed a
heap of killing and the national ofli
cers appear to have more than the nine
lives of the traditional cat. Scarcely
has the type been distributed which
announced with a "seare head" its
death and interment in the Associated
Press dispatches of yesterday, when it
is again needed to tell a listening world
the same old story for to-morrow. One
day the alliance has died in the throes
of internecine strife in Kansas, then it
dies again because of family quarrels
in Texas; again it is repudiated to
death by a baker's dozen of political
farmers at some out of the way party
caucus, and now it has been smitten
bv the might v jaw of Congressman
Tillman of South Carolina. The alli
anca will please take notice that this
time it is dead indeed dend beyond
the hope of resurrection. South Caro
lina's terrible congressman must not
lie mocked by the victims of his exter
minating eloquence rising up and
making a laughing stock of him. Hav
ing disposed of tho alliance, Mr. Till
man turned upon the leaders of the
alliance, and, if the Associated Press
dispatch is to be believed, "made the
most scathing attack upon them that
has yet been made in public." We
suspect the telegraph editors or the
coupositors have been taking liberties
with the dispatch. The word "scath
ing" probably read "scurrilous" orig
inally. At any rate scurrilous would
be the more fitting word. Mr. Tillman
is not a master of invective, but he
does tho best he can. He does not
know the difference between invective
and clapperclawing, between strong
language and bad language, and so
when he possibly only intends to be
severe he becomes foul-mouthed.
Whether this is the fault of natural
depravity, evil training, defective edu
cation or questionable associations, the
failing is unfortunate and makes it un
desirable that lie should speak much
in public, lest the moral tone of his
audiences should be lowered. When
Mr. Tillman calls men like Jlr. Polk,
Mr. Macnne, Mr. Terrell an.l Mr. Wad
dell "a sorry lot" he does not injure
them, but merely advertises his own
lack of sense and inherent untruthful
ness; and when speaking of Mr. Mac
nne he says that "uo.l Almighty
stamped villain on his face," he simply
raises doubts iu the minds of such as
have seen Mr. Macnne of his assail
ant's sanity or sobriety ; and when lie
says that he thinks Mr. Macnne "took
pay from the republican party," he
says what none but a hardened and
utterly shameless falsifier would be
base enough to say. Mr. Tillman may
flatter himself that attacks such as his
will injure the leaders of the alliance,
but he overestimates the potency of
his weapon. Only once in all history
tlo we read of any damage being done
by a jaw-bone of his particular pat
tern, and it required a Samson to wield
it then. In the meantime we congrat
ulate the alliance leaders on being
complimented by the dislike of the
baser sort of politicians. K. of L.
Journal.
The educated yoemanry of America
are banding themselves together as no
people ever did since the dawn of his
tory and with a determination that
smokes of victory. The organizations
are known by a legion of names but
they all stand upon one platform,
which consists of only a few planks,
but they are broad and based upon
principles of justice to all men. Dis
honesty and oppression must stand
aside or be crushed. The people hold
the right-of-way. Wahoo (Neb.) New
Era.
The oft repeated question of "Do you
love me?" in engagements, should be
changed to "Can you support me?" and
"Do you know how to cook?"'
Whenever we hear a girl practicing
on the piano right after breakfast we
wonder if she does it out of love for
music, or a dread of the dishwashing.
The more subordinate to the position
a man is in. the more self-assured he is
that he could run things better than
the head man if ho was $iven a chance.
NON-COMMITTAL CHILI
KEEPING CLOSE WATCH OF THE
AMERICAN LEGATION.
Interesting Sltuatloi In Hawi .1 I.iltle
Krances Cleveluml the OIjet of AH
tiothaiii's Solifitmlo The Mother Is
J'roml of the Itu'iy, ami the Father
Happy.
Tho Chilian Situation.
The Chilian (iovernmcnt has so far
evinced no intention of abandoning its
position that it has a perfect rignt to
arrest persons as thjy enter or leave the
American Legation at Santiago. 15ut
while strenuously insisting upon the
possession of this abstract riuht, the
(iovernmcnt is at present making no
attempt t) put It in practb e. Tho par
tisans of lialtnaccca who took refuge
under Minister Egan's roof are still
there, and no arro;-ts have been made.
It cannot be. learned that the Iovern
mcnt has in contemplation any plan for
asserting in the near future the ritrht of
arrest that is claimed. Ri.t it U thought
that the present t nsatisfactory situa
tion cannot be of loiig continuance.
In accordance with instructions. Min
ister Ktran has given the Junta ti un
derstand that if tin Chilian authorities
continue to maiutai 1 their present atti
tude, the friendly relations between
Chili and the I nited States will be in
terrupt 'd. The .Junta's reply to this
notico is awaited Kith great interest.
What Minister Kgan's nGxt i-tep will be
In case the reply is unfavorable is not
known.
The, I'nited States flagship Kan Fran
cisco is expected to reach Yrduaraiso at
any hour. When she nets in port the
American Minister will ask the Chilian
(lovernment to allow the refugees now
at tho United States Legation to ro on
board the Cnited States man of-war
Haltimoio, and to take their departure
from Chilian territory.
THE CLEVE LANDS' BABY
Monopolizing Gotham's Attention Itoan
tlfnl anil Handsome 1'resent.
When little b!u-eyed, forty ciirht-hours-old
Frances Cleveland it is settled
that she Is to be nanioi Frances aft'-r
her pretty young mother opened her
eyes to the world the other morning the
Madison avenue mansion where she was
born was being overrun by servants re
ceiving and taking c.arc of bundles and
riackages which, when opened, revealed
all sorts of offering! from the friends of
her famous father and mother. It
looked as if everybody who enjoyed the
acquaintance of Mr. and Mr. Cleveland
had sent a present for the laby, which
Is as strong and healthy as its father
says it is. Then were silver and
gold puff boxes, rare bits of lace, the
dantiest of silver tups, richly dressed
and appropriately inscribed rattles and
toys that baby Frances will not use for
some months tocora3; offers of the finest
trousseau that any human baby ever
had. and many other varieties of orna
ments and toys; enough, in fa -t, to
keep baby Frances in good humor for
half a dozen do ades. One of the ser
vants said that over one hundred pack
ages had been left at the house and
more were coming every hour. The
offerings came from every city in the
East, and Buffalo, Albany, Philadelphia,
Itoston, Washington, and New York
friends sent gifts. Some of Mr. Cleve
land's friends in Chicago also contributed
offerings.
Mrs Cleveland and tho wonderful
baby were feeling so well that Mr.
Cleveland decided to leave his home for
the first time in thrjo days and go down
to his I'.road street offices in the Mills
Building. As it wa to be his fiist ap
pearance in public since the birth of the
baby he dressed himself with unusual
care. He wore a new fall suit of a dark
material and a high silk hat, A hand
some silk scarf and t, heavy walking stick
completed his outSt. Mr. Cleveland
took a glimpse at tho baby and then
walked over to Tivrd avenue and Sisty
eightn street, where ho boarded a down
town train on tho elevated railroad.
Everybody seemed to know tho b g and
good-natured ex-Prtsident. He sat down
between a schoolgirl and a workingman
and was soon being gazed at by all the
folks in the car, at 'viiich he bin -ho'.
While her papa was attracting so
much attrition down-town little Miss
Cleveland was not neglected. Several
ladies ca'lcd to se) the proud mother,
who is said to be convalescing as rapidly
as could be wished for. J)r. Bryant
paid two or three isits during the day,
and was visibly pleased at the rapid
progress which Mrs. Cleveland is mak
ing. Among tho presents received was
a beautifully finished cradle from Mrs.
Iianicl I.amont As soon a the baby
gets big enough she will be rocked
to sleep in this real work of art
Mrs. Chester (Iris ivold is said to have
sent tho baby a dozen gold safety pins,
so that the infant's tender skin may not
be scratched by accidentally coming into
contact with a rude Watetbury pin of
brass. A handsome silver bath tub is
another gift to little Miss Cleveland. It
is beautifully chased, and is one of the
finest pieces of work ever turned out by
tho Broadway silvei smiths from whom
it was ordered. Mrs. Clarence Postley
is credited with beir g tho g.ver of the
baby's hath tub.
Mr. Cleye'and's mail has increased so
largely that lie might easily imagine
himself in a Presidential campaign.
Candidato for tiovernor Hoswc 1 P.
Flower sent him a cordial rote of con
gratulation, and many wero received by
mail and telegraph from other well
known people in various tarts of tho
country, it Is said to bo Mr. Cleve
land's intention, when the time comes,
to take a few weeks' vacation and ac
company his wife and the baby to the
country.
REVOLUTION IN HAWAII.
The Queen Dying and Kngiand Scheming
to Secure Control of tho Islands.
The steamer Bclpie, which arrived at
San Francisco, brirgs most important
news from tho llavviiian Kingdom.
Queen Liliuokalani, the new ruler of
Hawaii, is at tho point of cieath. Her
physician. Dr. Trosseau, has pronounced
her trouble organic disease of the heart,
and her death may happen at any mo
ment. The Queen has been advised of
the worst.
Tho death of the Queen will bring
about the most serious of political com
plications, and already wire-pullers are
at work to se.'tire control of tho islands
in the interest of England. Honolu'u
newspapers dara not print one word of
what Is transpiring, but tho people ate
in a great fever of excitemen t
Americans in Honolulu w;ll make a
desperatj attempt to prevent the islands
from falling into British control. The
father of the heir to the thrano, who is
an Englishman, will work to his utmost
in the interests of the British. Ameri
cans will take advantage of any lapse of
time to prevent Princess Kaiulanl from
taking the throne. The natives are in
sympathy with Americans, and want
either a republic cr annexation to the
United States.
The Hawaiians fe jl no loyr.lty toward
their native ruler, who has foreign blooJ
in her veins.
Americans have some knowledge ol
what is to be done, and are making pre
cautions to organize and secure arms
sufficient to protect their rights. The
general election is rapidly approaching,
and excitement is at a fevsr heat be
tween rival political factions-
PUBLIC OPINION.
General Boulanger.
Tie was the leader of a faction of agi
tators with the least senso and the most
ambition. Cincinnati tlazette.
The suicide of Boulanger. removes tho
Piss Debar of French politics In
dianapolis Sentinel.
At last Boulanger lias attempted
something in which he has succeeded.
Philadelphia Inquiter.
His suicide, lik" Pahrac di's. w.;s the
only way in which he could save hiins -If
Ironi a wois- fate. Boston lb raid.
' When ho stood over the grave of his
mistress and decided to solve the mys
tery of the future, perhaps he made no
mistake, Minneapolis Tribune.
Babnaceda-Bonlamcr. The o tire al
literative examples for you. Barillas.
The world will not compla n if you 'ol
lovv where they have led. Detroit Free
Press.
Boulanger. the man of d'sCny. is
dead, and it may be sa d of him as of
another, 'the last state of that man
was worse than the first.'" Ba tinioro
Herald.
It will lie fortunate if France p olits
by the exposure of Bo ilan :ism. But it
does not take much t make a h ro in
France, as this man's life shows. Phil
adelphia l'ress.
The ass? riion that "den ral lVmlat g
er's d'-ath will stniritlen Fr.nce" is
bosh, of coins. For n t tha i a year
p;ist he has had i o following. St. Louis
(ilobe Democrat
His death marks the end of the lat
and greatest attempt under the Third
Kcoub ic to turn tho progress of events
backward and make France again a
monarchy. Buffalo Fxi r ss
The leal les-on of the career 'bus piti
fully ended is a simple one. It is
summed up in Wolse .'s familiar advi e
to Cromwell. Boulancer could r.or liing
away a mean ambition for a noble one
Boston Post
With one sentiment i:i Boulanger's
"political testament" there will boa gen
tral iigreeini n: the xpr ssion of re
gret that he did not di on ihe field of
brittle fighting for bis count! y. Ura id
Kapids Demi cr it.
The suicide of Gen. Boulanger by the
tomb of his former mistress seems to he
a not inappropriate termination cf the
career of a Frenchman who had been a
sham warrior and a sham statesman.
Milwaukee Sentinel.
He was selfish, mean, and cowardly, a
slave of ignoble ambitions, and a vi tim
of well-earned failures, hven charity
for the dead should not oneeal a lesson
so powerful in the discouragement of
arrogance and vice. Troy Times.
He was an opera bouffe her.i from the
beginning, and never did anything either
as a soldier or as a statesman to justify
the hold which he gained over the affec
tions of his admirers, or to explain the
dread which he aroused in th min'sof
his enemies. St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Ho was selfish, vain, and unprinci
pled. He was a brilliant so'dier and a
capable commander, but he never had
any higher motive than self-glorification
and self-advancement. The manner of
his death was a fitting end to a sensa
tional and dishonorable can or. Indi
anapolis Journaf.
lie overreached hitrs lf In his attempts
to attain th" height of his ambition, and
instead of becoaiing the dictator ef
Franc and a s cond Napoleon, he end
id his life miserably on th" grive of the
wo nan for whom he deserted his family
and disgraced himself. Philadelphia
Call.
The mob of Paris and tha aristocracy
of Fiance might have forgotten the
wound in Ballanger's neck: they might
have overlooked theliaiso i w th Bonne
main and the deserCon of the wife: but
they could not conceal their disgust at
the cowardly flight from danger. This
disgrace, added to th others, marked
1 he end Rochester l'ost Ex press.
Grover's Little Girl.
Baby McIOe to laby Cleveland: "Keep
off the White House grass." Washing
ton Post 5tp
I'apa Cleveland feels "a heap bigger"
now t han when he was elected President
Omaha B e.
Tiicro Is no use in talking. Crover
Cleveland's girl ought to have been a
boy. Indianapolis Sentinel.
President Harrison can send hearty
congratulations to Mrs. Cleveland's hus
band it's a girl. St Louis Bost-Dis-r.ltch.
Baby McKce will turn green with envy
when he fully realizes what has occurred
in the Cleveland mansion. Pittsburg
Dispatch.
Everybody is wishing Mrs. C'eveland
and the baby well and some people arc
interested in tho old man's welfare.
Toledo Commercial.
drover Cleveland is still in the sha low
of his bad luck. It was a girl, and Baby
McKce is a boy and has the innings.
Petersburg Index-Ap eal.
After all, if Baby Cleveland had been
a boy there would have been just as
many people disappointed. It is an even
question. Kansas City Times
If Mr. Cleveland is happy, no'iody else
has any right to complain; but. all the
same, about o.OOo.ono Democrats wish
it was a boy. St. Louis Republic.
Baby McKce has a rival in Baby
Cleveland, and the paragra pliers have a
brand-new and inexhaustible sounc of
inspiration. Wheeling register.
Crover was gently humming to him
self "Papa's I'aby Hoy" when the nurse
entered and told him it wasn't that kind,
and then his smile was "out of sight."
Columbus Journal.
If Harrison and t leyeland are the
nominees of their respective parties for
President in Baby McKce is
knocked out as a factor in the cam
paign. New Orleans Delta.
Grover Cleveland has been President
of the United f-'tates, and now ho is a
father. What has he left to live for?
The world can have no richer honors in
store for him. BufTalo Express.
The advent of little Miss Cleveland has
conferred on the ex-l'resident the full
dignity of a bendiet. and w ill enab'o biro
to realize more fully what is "the true
pathos and sublime of human life."
New York World.
The House of Lords.
Evidently Gladstone doesn't expect to
enter the House of Lords unless lie does
so with a broom and sweeps the Interior
from woo!sa"k to entrance Minneapo
lis Times.
If as statesmen there is reason in the
suggestion to pay members of the En
glish Parliament a salary, who is there
that can conscientiously cavil at similar
financial recognition of our able but
just now overworked city councils?
Philadelphia Times.
The "Grand Old Man" tells the people
of the United Kingdom that Parliament
could get along nicely without the Lords.
But how would tho Lords get along?
That is a part of the problem that Mr.
Gladstone does not appear to have solved.
Milwaukee Journal.
Mr. Gladstot.e's speech at the New
castle congress I dicates that tho Lib
eral hosts of Engla-.d will not la k vig
orous leadership In the approaching co::
l'ict. The Grand Old Man's brain has
not lost Its power nor his tongue its cun
ning. St Louis Post-Dispatch.
WESTERN INNOVATION.
PLANKIMTON'S HAPPY SUBSTI
TUTE FOR THE COUNTY FAIR.
A South Dakota Towu Sets an Origlna
Eiampte-A Iteautiful Temple to Ceres
Art and Plenty Combined la Create a
Novel festival.
The county fair, subdivision of tho
genus fair which has been a feature of
agricultural life since remote ages, has
finally been supplanted in the enter
prising commonwealth of South Dakota,
and its place has been supplied by some
thing so entirely new and attractive
that it is likely to be widely, success
fully and profitably copied. This sub
stitute is nothing more nor less than th
erection of a grain palace. Plankinton,
S. D , is the energetic place to first at
tempt the. new order of fair, and from
al! appearances it is evident flie has
made a "ten strike."
Plankinton does not claim to have
originated the idea of a palace, for of
late vears palaces have multiplied, town
after town choosing that method or at
tracting attention to itself and its enter
prise; but Plaukintiiii is probably tho
lirst community to experiment upon a
distinctly agricultural palace as a sub
stitute for the annual agricultural fair,
and her effort has been a marked suc
cess. The recent opening of the Plankintoa
grain palace was auspicious for mora
reasons than one. Plankinton has never
s ii tiered such crop shortage as to be.
come subject for outside aid, but she is
located iu a region which has for a year
or two before this suffered more or less
from insufficient rainfall. The splendid
crops of 1V.I1, however, loaded her gra
naries to overflowing, and from this
abundance came the beautifully deco
rated grain palace as a thank-oilering
tor nature's lavish bounty.
Sioux City, the nearest commercial
centre, responded to an invitation to
assist in the inaugural ceremonies of the
palace, and sent a special train load of
representative business men to "rejoice
with those who did rejoice."' A well
arranged program was carried out,
which included glowing tributes to tho
beauties of the palace, the splendid fer
tility of the soil whose products had
been so artistically drawn upon, and to
the hopeful promise, 'of future prosper
ity which the exhibit voiced. A para
graph Trom the opening address of Pres
ident Andrews indicates the confident
hopefulness of the new state. He said:
"From hillside and plain and valley,
where the silence of ages has lingered,
the white incense of steam, the curling
smoke of industry's fires, and the mu
sical hum of a busy, prosperous and con
tented people ascends like a grand
thank-offering to heaven for th gwd
time coming, come at last, thank Godi"
The palace itself, measured by the
rule of proportions, is remarkably cred
itable to its builders. It, is, in its ex
terior decoration, distinctly symbolic of
grain, corn occupying no conspicuous
place, but. ranking in its order. The
tasty building, adorned with gable,
tower and minaret, made an attractive
heading for the principle street. Within
every township in the county was rep
resented by an exhibit of agricultural
products, similar to, though more
artistically arranged than the usual
fair exhibits. The wheat, flax and other
small grain specimens won the admira
tion of all. Wheat sheaves from fields
that yielded over forty-six bushels per
acre, and other grain m proportion, at
tracted conspicuous attention. The
Plankinton schools occupied a hand
somely arrayed corner, including art
pieces worthy the best efforts of older
hands and heads. Three specimens of
genuine art in decoration challenged
particular attention. One was an elk,
with head upraised as if suddenly
startled. The blending of color was
produced with different shades of corn
silk, while the spreading antlers were
composed of wheat and flax grains.
The whole effect was beautiful and the
general design thoroughly artistic.
Opposite this picture was one represent
ing sheep in the field. The wool on tho
animals, perfect in appearance, was
composed of clematis. The third piece
was a South Dakota farm house, field
and buildings, taken from nature and
done in cornstalks.
The conduct of the grain palace festi
val is not particularly different from
that of the county fair. There is art
instead of horse racing, that is about
all. Bands of music, decorated build
ings, agricultural addresses, stock pens
all these there is ample time and
space for, but for years to come a new
interest, may be given and new ideas
be developed by the novelty of artisti
cally embowering a suitable building in
the gorgeous and easily blending colors
of the harvest time. The painter's
brush long ago detected the voiceless
melody of color in wood and field and
rick; it remained to the present genera
tion to use the colors as mixed by nature
itself, in all their strangely fascinating
combinations of tint and tone, and to
produce with t hem living pictures which
re in fact living realities, eloquent
alike of the art and boundless gener
osity of harvest hue and time.
How far east the "fad"' for palace
building may extend remains to be seen.
It seems as yet to be confined to the
west and south. Texas built a spring
palace of grain, grasses and cotton, and
won wide notoriety by it. Sioux City
has its annual Corn Palace festival, with
increasing interest from year to year.
Other Iowa towns build palaces a llax
palace at Forest City, a hay palace at
Algona, a blue grass palace at Crcston
and a coal palace at dttinnwa. But now
that a notion of a general grain palace,
created by and for a county population,
has been successfully experimenled
upon it is not improbable that the idea
may be expanded and enlarged until
the palace idea obtains a footing in
hundreds of communities. It is a
peculiarly apt and happy expression of
an appreciation of nature's bounty. Tho
community that has material for a
lavish grain palace has the inherent
qualities of soil and climate which as
sure prosperity.
PERSONALS.
Marie Basiikirtskff's tomb, near
Passey, contains a vault and a chapel.
Her portrait hangs just above the sarco
phagus, and is wreathed in flowers in
true Flench fashion; and day and night
a lamp is kept burning close by.
The Rev. Mary L. Laggett. the new
pastor of the Unitarian church of
Green Harbor. Marshfield, Mass., is
very successful. She came from Be
atrice, Neb., where she preached for
three years.
Pkesipkn-t Diaz Is the great Mexican
denier. He has always a broadsword
ready with which to deny the allegation
that Mexico is on the brink of another
revolution, and to bU w the alligator out
of his boots.
Dit Emma Gunkki.. of Newport, Ky.,
a graduate of a Cincinnati college, and
who completed her studies In Germany,
has become one of the most successful
physicians in her state. She is tho
daughter of a noted homeopathist.
Jay Goin.D says he devotes more of
his time to Missouri Pacific than to any
other of his properties. That is what
troubles Missouri Pacific. Mr. Gould
possesses the railroad jettatura, or
"evil eye," and when once he casts its
baleful gleam on any road that road'i
atSicfODi begin forthwith.