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10, 1 ..10 THE COURIER JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, FRIDAY MORMING, FEBRUARY 26, 1897 Courier- Journal. PUBLISHED DAILY, SUNDAY AND WEEKLY Car. Ave. and Green Stu office, LOUISVILLE. Daily edition, one Daily and Sunday, one Sunday edition, one Saturday edition, edition, Give post -office in full, wunty and State.

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26-The stock market opened strong this morning under the influence of higher news from Europe, but went off Inter on Cuban war reports. There came a rally when it was found the Morgan resolution could hot pass; but the closing was at general losses. Money easy and sterling Arm. Bonds were steady, Wheat gained and corn and oats tollowed to the extent of 40 each. Provistons were slightly lower.

Cotton was stronger: leaf tobacco better. Hogs were active and be higher in cano; cattle and sheep steady. A G00D BEGINNING. Decent Journalists everywhere will heartily approve the action of the President in refusing to pardon the Indian- apolis editor convicted of publishing and wending through the mails an obecene paper. "This convict." the, President said in denying the petition 'for his don, "was one of the editors and proprietors and a distributor through the mails and otherwise of a disgustingly vile and obacene newspaper.

His conviction and sentence was an event distinctly tending to the promotion of publie morals, and the protection the sons and daughters of our land from nith, and corruption. At a time when Indecent newspaper publication dangerous and common, everybody in favor of cleanliness should encourage the punishment of such offenses and dewire that it should be more frequently Imposed. While 1 am much surprised by the number of respectable people who have joined in urging clemency in the case, my duty scents 8d clear to me that I ain not in the least tempted to interfere with the just and wholesome sentence of the A simitar conviction in the case of Chicago editor was the other day afBrined by the Supreme Court of the United States, and the President's words make it certain that this class of offendera can expect no mercy from him. They deserve bone. It would be bard to name an offense more potent for evil than that of which these publishers have been found guilty.

It is no extenuation of their crimes to plead, as one of them did, that there are other papers in the country similarly culpable which have not been interfered with by the law. It is unfortunate that only a small percentage of any class of criminals are legally punished. Reputable newspapers are thankful that even a beginning has been made in enforcing the law against the lepers of the press and are desirous, now that a beginning has been made, that the work shall be kept up. THE SPECIAL PENSION EVIL. Our pension ruti has for many years been the wonder if not the admiration of the world.

That a nation which boasts that it will not maintain a standing army should yet distribute annually thirty-two years after a war ends a greater sum than any European Power devotes to ita military budget is almost Incredible. Nobody opposes treatment of surviving and needy veterans, though that the Government should take upon itself the whole burden of their maintenance outside of the homes which are provided for thom straining generosity very far. It 1 the abuse of the pension system that makes the burden so hard to bear. The widest latitude is allowed to applicants for the nation's bounty, and the rolls are loaded down with fraudulent claims. No man lives among community of pensioners who is not personally aware of suspicious or improper circumstances in connection with the grants.

As if this were not bad enough in all conscience, Congress has come to look upon the allowance of a private pension claim as an honorable perquisite of the Representative or Senator who presents the bill. The other day when the President sent in a veto of act an granting an allowance to Maria lat, the remarried widow of a volunteer, his message was greeted with undisguised contempt and hostility. Senator Gallinger declared the President's vetoes were "trivial and foolish," and Senator Hoar, with an assumption of virtuous indignation, announced that such bills were never questioned "until the modern method of finding fault with them came in vogue." Senator Morgan, with fine imitation of the pot calling the kettle black, did not defend the pension, but sneered at the aggregate amount carried by private bills being insignificant in comparison with the sum "paid to the bond syndicate." The veto was eminently a proper one, for the wisdom of the law which forfeits widow's pension upon her remarriage has never been questioned. The same day that Mr. Cleveland vetoed the Someriat Bill he vetoed billa pensioning Mrs.

Mary Freeman and Mrs. Mary A. Viel. Mrs. Freeman's first husband, Andrew Pritchard, Mexican veteran who died twenty-five: years ago, and after receiving pension for five years apd obtaining pensione for her two minor children until they were of his wife married again.

Maj. Sanger died in 1872, and the Senate's report says: "There no proof that the soidier contracted disease in the service or that he died of pensionable disabilities." Three years after his death Mrs. Sanger married Paul Viel. Viel lived eight years, and now proposed to pension his widow Mrs. Banger.

How fast the special pension evil is growing Mr. Cleveland shows by the statement that 206 of these bills have been presented during the present sion of Congress, and 391 have become laws during his administration. He says truly that "the relation of the subject to justinable increase of our national revenue can not escape attention." Demagogues who wish to curry favor with their constituents and sickly sentimentalists who Insist that charity must be given without question as to the obJect denounce all efforts at economy in connection with the pension rolls, but we have a million pensioners now and the burden of their support is 80 great that this country, rich as it is, may well reminded that it should be just before it is so generous. THE POPULISTS AT MEMPHIS The resolutions adopted by the Populist editors at Memphis fully bear out what has already been said in these columns with reference to the state of the party organization. The resolutions strenuously oppose all fusion with other parties, and invite the "boys in the who want office to come into the Populist organization and work for Nevertheless, they also admit the existence of another element who advocate "mere compromise measures for deceptive partisan purposes." The Democratic leaders, by which is meant the Popocrats, are charged with having failed to carry out the promises by which they secured the Populist indorsement of their candidate for the presidency, from which it is Inferred that no reliance is to be placed on "old party pledges." To this it inay be objected that the Popocrats did not belong to any old party, but to a new one organined for the purpose of catching Populist votes; that they framed their platform with a view to that end; that they nominated an avowed Populist toe the presidency: that they lost their heads and nominated a national banker and a protectionist for the vice presidency; that they relied on the folly of the Populists to nominate the same ticket as 8t.

Louis; that they were right as to the nomination for the presideucy, but wrong to the vice presidency. It is true that their candidate for the presidency refused to recognize their nominee for the vice presidency, and to that extent betrayed them, but it may aiso be mid, in vindication of the truth of history. that his intent to do so was foreshadowed before the nomination was made, and the Populist delegates would have known It had they not been betrayed by some of their own leaders. They have only their own folly and the treachery of some of their own leaders to thank for the deception practiced upon them. They were forewarned.

They should have known that the Chicago convention was organIzed to deceive, and that its emissaries to St. Louis were meant to perfect this deception. As many of their own leadets not only dictated the greater part of the Chicago platform, but joined in the deception at 8t. Louis, it is folly for the Populists to complain that the pledges of the old parties are not trustworthy. In point of fact they were deceived by the treacherous pledges, or surances, of their own leaders.

While pointing with pride to the Louis platform of 1896 and the Omaha platform of 1892, enunciating the principles of good government for which the party is to strive, the "Reform Press save the it necessary to emphasize certain of their demands. The frat of them the Government ownership of railroads, which is considered necessary not only to secure lower rates of freight, but pecially to prevent railroad employes from taking an interest in elections, and thereby overthrowing popular government. An idea of this sort could only And lodgment in the mind of Populist. It recalla the question of famous orator: "Shall we reform a rake by putting money in his pocket It sume that the interest in politics manitested by railroad men is undesirable, shall we reform them by making them Government employes, with their employment absolutely dependent upon their adherence to the successful party in a presidential election? Nothing could do more to promote the "pernicious of railroad men in politics than to make them employes of the Government. While there seems no reason for the disfranchisement of railroad employes, the proposition to take them into the service of the Government as a remedy for the supposed evil of their participation in politics is indescribably fantastic and absurd.

The Press Reformers also insist on non-interest-bearing bond, Which they appear to suppose would be an irresistible attraction to capitalists. They want the initiative and the referendum, which are wholly Impracticable without change of the entire system of our Federal Government. They want the perative mandate," whatever that may be. In short, they desire a great many things that they could not get even they were intrusted with power. The most exhilarating suggestion of this Populist body in vigorous prosecation of educational work.

We have seen good deal of what Populists understand by education. It consists in Alling the minds of their people with ploded fallacies, errors that posed in prehistorio times and have been known to be delusions ever since by intelligent people; gross misconceptions of the principles of finance, the sphere of government, the basic grounds of the social compact; downright falsehoods, that are repeated as confidently after thousand complete exposures, as when they were frat Invented. Populist education is to teach a man to deny all that science has discovered, all that history has recorded, all that experience has demonstrated, in the sphere of government and political economy. When he has been filled with the east winds of norance, error and falsehood, he is pronounced educated, and is sent out to roar in public places, to vex the air of the Republic with volume of sound which shall search in vain for one single note of reason or truth. The Populist editors have done the country a service by the promulgation anew of these principles.

As said of the make dangerous in the but comparatively innocuous in the open ground: when we see its wicked eyes, And when we know for what they wink so; One would be very far from wise To let it bite one- don't you think a specimen of ingenious reasoning and a Mark Tapleyism that age can not stale nor custom wither the following from a New York journal that favors tree silver not be beaten: "It to reported from Tokohama that the Government will introduce measures in the Imperial Diet for the gold standard at 13 to 1. In other words, Japan, getting great advantage from balf-price silver, proposes to keep it that way. Her eliver dollar will pay for all it ever would for labor and terial, and so long Europe and this country have a gold standard, silver-using Asia will have an advantage of 2 to 1 in her Industrial competition. Therefore, she Axes her gold standard at double price to keep things they are, recognizing that the gold dollar two-dollar dollar. of course, if the world should get around to bimetallism on old lines, and it will never get there on any new lines, Japan will have to call in her sliver and revalue it.

But until then she is sate in all the advantage of half-price money that has brought her, In the past few years, from a country unknown to the commerce of the world to most active competitor with the Western nations for general trade, with future prospecta which make her still more dangerous to Europe and the United While this gives up the theory of a divine institution of the 16 to 1 ratio on the ground that the Almighty put teen times as much silver in the world gold, the optimistic resignation of the writer is greatly to be commended! The Japanese Governnient would coin silver at its actual value, and the contention of the silverites heretofore been that the colnage should not recognize the market ratio. The gold-standard believers have always insisted upon this being done. "It am not mistaken, said Carl Schurz in his address Wednesday night, "every silver man is a spoilsman. He la at the same time an enemy of the arbitration treaty, for he thinks that if we set into difficulty with foreign nations we may get on a silver basis or something worse." It la perhaps too sweeping to class "every silver man" thus: but it is certainly in accordance with observation to so class the majorIty of the silver men who make themselves heard. They are not only spoilsmen and against the arbitration treaty, but they are against everything looking to peace and prosperity: against property, against thrift, against order; inciters of war, passiop, upheaval, communism, chaos.

Mr. Bryan as a lecturer and oratorical stormy petrel has not lost any of the dignity of manner and charm of humor which characterized his stumping tours last fall For instance, read the following from Cincinnati silver journal's account of a visit to that city last day: "Have you seen anything of the General?" remarked Mr. Bryan to the reporter during a lull in the conversation. "What General do you refer to?" asked. "Why, General Prosperity," repiled the distinguished young man, with a chuckle.

So Dr. Ruiz lived in Cuba sixteen years after taking out his naturalization papers here. Apparently he is one of the numerous class who obtained AmerIcan citizenship solely for revolutionary purposes, We want no such "citizens." and we want no wars over them. Protect every true American with the flag. but do not permit a palpable fraud like this to deprive a nation of the right of dealing with its own subjects.

shall know all about everything in a day or two," says the Washington Times. We should be well satisfied to know all about everything, but the trouble is that between the war correspondents at Washington and the WAr correspondents at Key West shall, it seems, know great deal more than all about a great deal more than anything. A member of the Kansas Legislature urges a law providing that a bachelor must either marry or go to the penitentiary. With such a law in force much mistake the character of the Kenwomen if it did not soon become necessary to improve large tracts of the Kansas prairies with new and spacious penitentiaries. There are intimations from Tennessee that Capt.

Hal Snapp of Jasper, Col. Dood Scarce of Troy, and Maj. B. Gum of Rutherford county, hope to form Trust for dispensing the patronage of that State. Does this trust propose to allow Col.

H. Clay Evans an office, or does it propose to shut up his works and pay him a share of the swag? IN AND ABOUT KENTUCKY. J. H. COVINGTON.

(County Court Clerk of Simpson county and cashier of the Meguler Banking Company, of Franklin.) Unless the enthusiastic owners are badly fooled there are several very valuable vioIns in Kentucky, A paragraph printin this column a few ago reciting the tact that R. M. Hamlin, of Calloway, the owner of a Stradivarius 183 years old. The Paducah News has discovered "Col. Herbert H.

Hobson, of this city, the owner of a genuine Stradivarius Col. Hobson's instrument brought from Germany half century ago. For while it was the treasured property of Mr. Henry Well, of Paducah, who presented it to its present owner. new neck and front have since been added to the violin, but it is virtually same instrument, and it is every bit capable of producing as exquisite harmony now was hundred years ago tinder the practiced fingers of some old-world musictan.

Col. Hobson himself no poor player and he can draw stirring melody from the ancient violin. It in 4 genuine Cremona. Legends burned in the back Latin show it to have been made 1723. It la beautifully carved and colored.

Formerly the carved features of man surmounted the scroll. This face has been removed, but it in still in Col. son's possession. He the violin highly, not only on account of its intrinate worth, but because it has a market value of a good many dollars." The Owensboro Inquirer tells of a rare instrument belonging to a Davies county man: "This instrument is the property Harry Moorman, who obtained it eight or ten years ago from a pawnbroker, who evidently did not know its value. The violin a magnificent specimen of the great maker's handicraft smail, elegantly shaped and as light as a feather.

Its neck is made of a beautiful piece of wood; its head is finely hand-carved in seroll work, with lines of exquisite symmetry. The body of this violin, for grace and lightness, tar surpasses that of any other Instrument in the reporter's knowledge. Its varnish has the peculiar texture and gloss Violina, characteristic of the maker's Inside, on the back of the instrument and just benedit one of the is written in the maker's which name. year it it was made and the city Hehich was manufactured. The reads follows: Antonius Stradivarius, Cremonenals, faciebat anno 172." former Harrodsburg boy has struck it rich in the East.

The Danville Advocate says: "Dr. T. B. Lillard, a Harrodsburg boy, son of 'Cacie' Jimmy -Liliard, has been employed by a Norwich (Conn.) Pharmacal Company, as an advertising ex. pert, at salary that runs up in the thousands." The Murray Times feelingly remarks: "t'nele Billy Overcast, of Hazel, says he his father pay his taxes with twenty -five squirrel scalps.

How different from what it to now, especially since we got our railroad, it almost takes our scalps now to pay them." It is rather early in the season for makes, but they seem to be in evidence in some parts of Kentucky, The Danville Advocate says: Frost, of Alum Springs, says that 'cow-sucker' snake four and a half feet long was killed in that neighborhood on Monday. To find snake in the dead of winter is almost unheard of." Likewise, the Mt. Sterling Sentinel-Democrat: "Dr. Jo Jones reports that a Mrs. Karrick, of this county, one day last killed two full-grown garter snakes in her yard, and a third one escaped.

Dr. C. E. Lining, who died at Paducah few days ago, was a grandson of the mous Commodore Dent, of the Tripoli campaign. Dr.

Lining had a war record of his own. He was a native of South Carolina and after studying medicine became sistant surgeon on a United States cruiser and went on three years' voyage in the Pacifle. Returning at the beginning of the war he resigned and entered the Confederate navy. His war record in told by the Paducah News: "When New Orleans captured by Federals Dr. Lining's gunboat, the Pontchartrain, was sent the Mississippi to avoid capture.

In al gagement in the lower river she caught fire and burned. The officers and crew saved themselves by swimming. Dr. Lining went ashore with that famous old sword of his grandfather, Commodore Dent, clasped between his teeth. Bullets whistled around his head, but he never loosened his grip on the trusted saber.

The same weapon is still in possession of his relatives. For time after this escape Dr. Lining served on dry land under Gen. Price. He took part in several bloody batties in the South, but he longed for life on blue water.

He was transferred to one of the English-built cruisers of the Southern navy. He successfully ran the blockade from Charleston to Bermuda, thence to England, where he was assigned to duty on the famous cruiser Shenandoah. The Shenandoah cruised among the whalers of the northern and southern Pacific. The war had been over for six montha when the crew of the Shenandoah steamed into Liverpool with the Confederate flag flying. in August, after the close of hostilities, chance vessel off Ban Francisco gave the first news of it.

They decided on return ing to England and, carefully avoiding the chance of meeting any ship on the reached in October the mouth of the Mer. sey, steaming up to Liverpool in a dense fog, floating the stars and bars, Dr. ing went to South America and was appointed Government surgeon at Santiago del Estero, where he remained until 1874. Then he returned to the United States and located in Evansville, He came to Paducah ten years ago." The Covington Commonwealth "The other witness was a Dutchman, and after the ceremony refused to even give me his name." This is the strange entry which was made on a marriage return this morning and it caused considerable comment in the office of County Clerk Wes Wilson. The certificate was returned by.

Ludlow minister who officiated at the marriage of a couple from St. Louis, The license was issued seveial days ago and reada: Thomas Chapman, 4, and Caroline Helm, The name of the witnesses are required at every performance of marriage. At the one in question but one name is recorded on the return, the place for the other witness containing the unique message. Rev. R.

Dyer performed the ceremony." A Boyle county romancer contributes the following to the Danville Advocate: "Sev. eral years ago I was out in the knobs hunt. ing squirrels, and late in the afternoon found my bullets were all used and was on my way out, when I heard some hounds coming my way. I knew Tom Tadlock Co. were out running foxes I rammed down a charge of powder and put on top of that an eight-penny nail that I had my pocket.

In a few minutes here came the fox and ran right near me close big beech tree. I was ready and Aired, the nail struck the tail of the fox and nailed him to the beech tree. I took out my knife and intended to dispatch the creature, which was now plunging, jumping, ing and trying to get away, but accidental. ly cut his hide right down between hia eyes to his nove. The fox ran right out of his hide and away he went, leaving every hair behind The Hopkinsville New Era "Perhaps the oldest man in Kentucky now sides in Toda county, in the person of.

Uncle Jacob Logan, of Sharon Grove, His age is given at ninety-eight. He said to never have taken a drink of coffee on whisky, does not use tobacco, never voted but once in his life, and, although living within nine miles, never Eikton, his county seat, in all his life. He is plain farmer and staya right at home." DOWN IN DIXIE. The Chattanooga Times says: "The most feasible method that has been suggested for overcoming the shallowness of the Emory is to build a twelve-toot lift lock at Kingston, on the Clinch river, which will increase the depth of the Emory at Harriman one foot ond correspondingly at points below, besides increasing the depth of the Clinch for twenty-fIve miles above Kingston. The Clinch is about 100 feet wide at Kingston and has solid rock bottom.

The lift lock, one should be constructed, would be about the size of those at Muscle shoals and would be constructed so as to be lowered in of flood. The Confederate White House, which now used as a museum for the repository and preservation of curios and relics of the war, one of the most Interesting spots in or around this city, says Richmond letter to the Baltimore Sun. During the past two years the society has spent more than $10,000 in making the structure fre-proof and arranging the rooms for the preservation and proper exhibition of historie mementoes placed in their charge These embrace the only large collection extant of such things, Among them are a full uniform of Gen, Lee, his spurs, saddle and many articles pocket, camp handkerchief equipage. used There to are also the stanch blood from the wound which Gen. Stonewall Jackson received at Chancellorsville and other interesting articles used by that chieftain during the war.

Besides these there are relics of nearly all of the other conspicuous figures in the Southern army. The old Davis Mansion is now in an excellent condition and the society in charge of it will continue to keep it so for all time to come. recent marriage at Five Forks, in Habersham county, is causing much comment there, says the Atlanta Journal. Jas. Griffin was suitor for the band of Miss Ada, Loggias, but the young woman's father was opposed to the mateh.

Preparetions were then made to elope. Grimin's friends secured a Beense, and on Saturday it was announced that all wis ready and quite a crowd gathered by the road to see the couple make their flight. At' this Juneture a young mah nained Joe Henderson, who had before taken no part in the mance, entered most prominently. After the failure of the adventurous young lov. er to carry off his intended, Henderson went to Miss home, quietly slipped her out of the house and carried her to a neighboring minister, who made them man and wife.

The secret understanding between them had never been suspected and under the cloak of the other lover's importinities, a neat little coup was scored. A farmer aged ninety years eloped with widow of eighty a few days ago in Jack. son county, Ga. The children of the aged lovers objected to the match. PERSONAL MENTION.

Hon. Joshua Levering, who arrived here Wednesday morning, too late to be present at the dedication of the Levering gymnaslum at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, left for his Baltimore home terday. While in Louisville he visited, among other places, the Industrial School of Reform and was greatly pleased with this Institution. He is a director in a similar school at Baltimore. Mr.

James McKenna and wife, of Fair. fleid, are in the city for a few days visiting friends. Col. William R. Ray, Vice President of the Sinking Fund, who has been in Flor.

Ida for some time past, is expected home some day next week. Miss Fannie and John Cuniffe left terday for New Orleans to attend Mardi Gras. Mra. Louis Dreisbach left yesterday for New Orleans to attend Mardi Gras. Charles Dickerson and Lillie Riddle went over to Jeffersonville yesterday and had the nuptial knot tied by Justice Hause.

In the afternoon Justice Hause married John L. Haines and Mollie Parson, who had eloped from Fayette county, Ky. The couple left home in a buggy, but after proceeding few miles the vehicle broke down and they walked to the railway station. The wedding of Mine Emma M. Peters, the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Frank Peters, and Mr. Frank Ruffra solemnised at St. Columba church, Buchanan and Washington streets, yesterday afternoon. Father Sullivan officiated.

Mr. Ruffra is employed at the City Brewery. The young couple left for short trip East. Mr. Tony Landenwich, proprietor of Fountain Ferry Park, has been ill with the trip about five weeks, but is rapidly recovering, and is now able to walk about the house.

Kentucky People In Washington. Washington, Feb. 2-(Special.) Mr. C. C.

Turner, of Louisville, in at the Riggs House. Mr. and Mre, Walter Harper, of Midway, are expected to-morrow as the guests of Col. 8. M.

Gaines. Mra. A W. Smith, Mrs. W.

T. Tevin, Miss May Belle Miller and Miss Belle MoDowell, of Richmond, who have been attending the convention of the Daughters of the American Revolution, at the Capitol this afternoon. They will remain here until after the Inauguration, Humble -Mitchell. Princeton, Feb. 5-Mr.

Ire D. Humble, of Hopkinsville, and Miss Nannie Luella Mitchell, daughter of the Rev. F. A. Mitchell, pastor of the M.

E. church, South, of this city, were married at the M. church by the bride's father last evening. They left immediately after the ceremony for Hopkinsville, where they will reside. Southern People in New York.

New York, Feb, 25 -(Special.) -Louisville -J. 8. Morgenroth, Hoffman. Nashville G. F.

Sedberry, Imperial; M. 8. Lebeck, Vendome. PROM BITS THE NEWS, SHOES FOR MRS. M'KINLEY.

Mrs. McKinley will wear shoes made in Beloit on the day of the inauguration of Mag McKinley as President. They are now being made on a. special. order by John Foster Co.

Two pairs were ordered, one of the finest black kid and the other of black satin. All the work on them in by hand, and they will be sent to Mrs. McKinley this week. In order to secure the highest grade of kid, four small skins vere used, the center being taken from each. The shoes are lined with surah silk, and all the sewing is with silk thread.

John Foster Co. furnished Mrs. Harrison with her footwear upon her husband's inauguration, and Princess of Hawail, Also had a special pair made for herself by the Wis, dispatch to the Chicago Times- Herald. LOVERS OF FORTY YEARS AGO MARRIED. Forty years ago Perry Thorp and Miss Mary Summers planned to elope, but were caught by objecting parents and were separated.

They finally forgot each other and married. Each fared well and raised large familles. Thorp's wife died some time ago, and Mary Summers' husband died two years ago. They met by cident in this elty yesterday. The old love revived, and, being apprised of each other's singleness, they immediately got a marriage license, and last night, after forty years of separation, were married.

Thorp is sixty years old and his wife is (Anderson dispatch to the Chicago Chronicle. UNUSUAL. Senator Hill presented to the Senate Monday the credentials of his successor, Thomas Collier Platt, which were read by the clerk and duly filed. It is unusual for retiring Senator to present the credentials of the man who mounts upon the ruin of his own ambition, and in the minds of those who have been in the Senate many years, a like instance. could not be recalled, For this reason the action of Senator Hill caused no little Post.

SHERMAN'S AUTOGRAPH IN DEMAND. Senator Sherman's autograph is in great demand just now. Every morning before the Senate convenes he signs about a half hundred autograph books for the Senate page boys, who are always waiting for him. Tuesday morning one little fellow had three autograph books and fifteen twenty cards which he wanted signed by the Ohio Senator. Mr.

Sherman took the popularity a matter of course until the boy with the fifteen cards came up. Then he said smilingly: "Look here, what do you boys do with my name?" "Oh," replied the little fellow," sell it to the autograph collectors." Then Senator Sherman turned to his desk and started in signing the cards at the rate of one every two ton dispatch to the New York Sun. AFFIDAVIT BY TELEPHONE. book-keeper for a manufacturing firm over the railroad has a friend uptown wha is a notary publie, and who has taken his affidavit on several occasions, He called him the other day on the telephone and explained that be wanted an amdavit taken, but was too busy to leave his office: "If 1 sign the form--and you knowing my signture-will you put your seal to the asked the book-keeper. "Certainly," answered the notary.

your hat off and raise your hand; have you done so?" "Hat's off; hand's up," game the sponse over the 'phone. "Do you solemnly swear the accounts are correct? asked the notary. "Send up the paper and I'll stamp it." The adidavit will probably never be ques. tioped, bus it in clearly Call. FORTUNE TO LEAVE A CONVENT.

In the will of the late Frederick Taylor, fled in the office of the Surrogate Tuesday, one remarkable bequest is made. "One of my nieces," the document reads, "has embraced the Roman Catholle faith and is soon to become a sister of the Order of the Sacred Heart, I have no desire to disinherit her on account of her Lion with her adopted faith, but I do not desire to leave her any sum, which might, on account of her connection with sacred orders, eventually revert to the Roman Catholic Church. Therefore, should she not become a sister and sever her connec. tion with the religious orders, then a sum of $35,000, which is to be set aside by my executors, is to be held for her, in trust, and the income paid to her." The beneficiary of this strange clause in the last testament of the wealthy banker a pretty young woman of twenty-five, who now en inmate of the Convent of the Sacred Heart in St. Louis, Mo.

The will was written about seven years, shortty after Miss Jewell had astonished her entire family by announcing her intention to become Catholic. It was regarded by her relatives as an accident. She had been sent to a Catholic school when mere child and had there fallen so deeply in love with that faith to determine, early in life, to devote herself to it entirely. Strong pressure brought to bear upon her to prevent her from becoming a nun. It was at that period of her religious development that her uncle, Frederick Taylor, made his will and included in it the strong inducement which is now held out to his young niece.

Despite all protests and arguments Miss Jewell left her family and entered the famous nunnery in St. Louis, where she has since remained, None of her relatives believed that she would consider for moment the thought of leaving there or giving up her faith on account of the codicil in her uncle's will. In the event that she does not, the money is to be turned over to large fund which he has left to various charitable York Journal, A MODERN ALCHEMIST. All the known laws of chemistry are to be overturned and the dreams of all chemIsta are to become practically golden ities, according to Benjamin Brazelle, young inventor, who is well known in scientific circles throughout the country. Mr.

Brazelle has gone further in his periments than the mere transmutation of metals, and has made discoveries by actual experiments, which, he says, overturn the entire science of chemistry, metallurgy, electricity and laws of gravitation, He has been able to prove his theories to such an extent that company has been formed to make practical use of his derful and startling discoveries. The company has already started its plant at Fair Lawn, in St. Louis county. It will soon be completed and ready to turn out num, calcium, gold, silver, iron and many other metals not now known to science, all manufactured from common clay. By actual test Mr.

Brazelle has changed silver into goid and gold into sliver. The transmutation he considens the most insignificant part of the discoveries he has made mere nothing in comparison with the feat of changing clay into goid, silver, iron, calcium, aluminum, glacium, and teen other metals not now known to science and whose qualities have not yet been determined by the discoverer. In addition to his ability to convert clay Into metal, Mr. Brazelle advances the thethat metale are endowed with life and ory like any plant when placed under grow the proper conditions. The theory is not lacking demonstration, and has been proven to the satisfaction of the scientists and his financial backers beyond a doubt.

From that he deduces that all things in the universe are endowed with life and that rock, minerals and earth, all apparently inanimate, are full of life, energy and growth, and develop and die like plants. Mr. Brazelle sweeps all known chemical laws and axioms out of existence. According to him there is no chemistry as it la at present understood. The tenchof that science have been in error these many hundred years because 'they never went deep enough into the apparent mysteries of nature which Mr.

Brazelle claims are not mysteries at all, simply childish problems, easy of comprehension if you once hold the key. That key to the secret of all the phenomena of the world Mr. Brazelle holds in his hand. That key is simply the full understanding and knowledge of what electricity is and what he claims to have secured in his Louis dispatch to the Chicago Inter Ocean. OHIO QUARRELS.

(Correspondence of the Courier Journal.) Washington, Feb. are poking a good deal of fun at and making great many uncomplimentary remarks about one Joseph B. Foraker, one time known he and his' clan have seen fit to gratify the powers soon to be by the selection of Mark Hanna as the successor of John Shermair as ator from Ohio. On the morning of Aus. terlitz Napoleon said to Soult: "Marshal, you are the first tactician in We all recollect that famous reply, celebrated for its egotistic humility.

Look out for Foraker, for he is liable to be the best tactician of them all. By acceding to the demands of the new Administration he has nothing to lose, certainly, and there may be millions in it either "a-comin' or a-gwine." He has not made the tactical mistake of quarreling with the Administration in its honeymoon, as Conkling did with the last Ohio layout, and if the riage proves a failure why then he is in position of immense advantage. He can say to McKinley, Sherman and Hanna: your ways, but look to it that you lose not a trick." Ten months hepce MeKinley may be the most unpopuler man In Ohio. Whatever befalls Foraker will be just as popular then as ever. In 1880 it was Conkling and his fellow "three-hundred-and-sixers" who elected Garfield.

In September the battle was hopelessly lost, but Grant's friends came to the rescue and saved the day. No sooner was Garfield inaugurated than the battles of the factions began. Conkling was besought by his friends to act as Foraker has acted now-bide his time. He refused, quarreled with the Administration while it was yet less than two months old and the world knows the history of that miserable business. Except the Administration of R.

B. Hayes every one that has conducted the affairs of this country has had the confidence of the people at the beginning. Even Cleveland, as late as September, 1893, was potent enough to force the repeal of the Sherman silver law. Had he begun in March of that year he could have had a Democratic tariff bill, and it was in the timber to have had even a banking bill. Now he is unable to secure the ratification of a treaty everybody is for.

There have been no politicians since Jackson and Lincoln. never met Foraker but once and that was the night he made stump speech before the convention that nominated Ben Harrison for President in 1888, As a stump orator he is about as good as I ever heard, and they say he is a very fine lawyer, too, though the two rarely go together. His opening sentence startled me and It was about the most vicious promulgation of a political tenet I had then heard fail from the lips of an American statesman, and -I had been about Congress some time then. Here it is: "We Republicans are for tariff for protection, and if revenue is an incident thereto, will not seriously object." There was a heap of politics making in that town of Chicago at that time, John Sherman tells us in his book, and 1 have often thought that the famous attack on our own William O. Bradley by the Chicago Tribune would not have been so vicious had Bradley joined in the Gresham movement, and had Bradley done so, I think Gresham would have been nominated, for at that time Bradley WAS at hie zenith and the most conspicuous Southern Republican leader.

We hear great deal about how Quay would have acted had Quay been Foraker and got a whack at George Cox such he got at Dave Martin; but even Quay could not have acted with more discretion than Foraker has. When the Legislature meets to select Sherman's successor there will be in Ohio something like 100,000 disappointed applicants for fourth-class postmastershipe; there will be 10.000 disap. pointed applicants for consulshipe; there will be thousands of Republicans oursing because they are not watching stillhouses; there will be other thousands curs. ing because they are not in Government positions covered by the classified service, These gentry are of the practical politiclan class. They will not care a continental for tariff, or for free trade, for sound money or rag money--they are the gan gang.

Every one of them will be agin McKinley and agin all McKinley's friends, Foraker knows this. Hence it is that Foraker is a very lamb of a man, Wait till next fall and he will be a very Non of man. There must be a good deal in Foraker, Had he been common he would have been utterly ruined by that "ballotbox" campaign, some years ago, when fakir made a tool of him. Everybody thought Foraker was done for; but only a little while later he tried conclusions with John Sherman for seat in the Senate, and not even Robert Schenck ever gave Long John such a scare. Had the ballot been secret, Foraker would now be serving the term Sherman is serving.

There never were two men more different in temperament than Foraker and McKinley, and, truth to say, McKinley belongs to that type which always and ever-in the long run--wins over to the type to which Foraker belongs, McKinley has won already. We have only to see what use he will make of his victory. know of no Democrats left in Ohio except John A. McMahon. All the others are Populists.

Brice is New Yorker, and Brice is a pretty good Democrat, if he a rich man. Campbell could have wrought wonders had he set about it, but Campbell went into the Populists, bag and baggage. Frank Hurd is dead. Indeed, the Democratic party of Ohio has had a sort of dry rot ever since that fatal day when Clement L. Vallandingham accidentally shot himself, a quarter of a century There was man for you--full grown.

As' early as 1868 he warned the party against fatiam, and, had he lived, he would have led the party in Ohio at least, if not in the whole Union, out of the wilderness. When he died he was at the head cf a io cal Palmer and Buckner movement. His spirit is still abroad in the land, it not in Ohio. SAVOYARD. Missouri's High Hat Amendment (St.

Louis Democrat.) One State Legislature has inserted fendish clause in a high hat law. It provides for the confiscation of the hat. TRADE AND LOCAL FINANCE GOSSIP. 18 almost over In The turkey season market, though the birds are the local bringing good prices. Receipts are still light, is sold here daily, but however.

During the season an Immense number shipping point. Turkey it is not a great Paris packers Frankfort, and buy and slaughin country towns like locate or shipping direct. Some of them ter the thousand. Bosthere, buy turkeys by ton claims to be the biggest turkey marthe United, States and certainly ket in shipments of the receives immense birds, wheat market does The decline in the selling, and while not bring out any there is plenty of wheat in local elevathat stocks are light in tors it is plain hands of the farmers of this section. the it has been a matter of comment No.

2 wheat can In tact for some that what no was bought and be had in the tall. Grain merchants stored early are inclined to the opinion that the market from now on will be largely one. The following from will the Cincinnati Price consolation Current to yesterday the bulls, not carry it is any contrary to the commonly though received opinion: "The wheat markets have lost ground the past week, and there in nothing in sight at encouragement the as to especially higher close to give substantial values in the near future. The evidences are increasing fact that more liberal than the the stocks unmarketed are in flour popular trade is recognition dull. The milling demand has suggested.

The for movement wheat is not especially assuring. is disappointing. The export The cheapness expected of to continue to have other food products must be a modifying the highest prices on the crop influence on wheat. Quite likely have already been realized." The death of Mr. Fred H.

Wulkop was a severe blow to the tobacco trade. Mr. Wulkop had not been on "the breaks" good while on account of his bad for a health, but he is warmly remembered, and the news of his death was a topia of sad comment yesterday. Mr. Wulkwas one instance of a successtul op man with very few enemies, His manners were particularly genial and unassuming.

Mr. Wulkop began his bustness life as a carrier of samples for breaks," and kept on until ers on he became the head of one of the few remaining firms of tobacco merchants in this city. He was the possessor of' a handsome fortune, Some comment was aroused on Malni street yesterday over the action of the United States Building and Loan Association in making an assignment. Ite charter is said to contain a provision that no more than one-half of the funds on hand shall be used to retire: outstanding stock, and some believe. that this provision would have enabled! the officers to liquidate without an assignee and at their own time.

Business was better in the wholesaler district yesterday than any other day this week, judging from the number of men and teams on the street and boxes on the sidewalks. The wholesale merchants between Seventh and Eighth had so many goods piled up in front of their doors that pedestrians did not have much chance for rapid walking. Belowi Eighth street, front of the tobacco. warehouses, it was even worse, the big hogsheads frequently extended for half a square without a break. The rapid rise in the river weakened the bay market, Many.

dealers use the whart as a warehouse, and, when the rise compelled the removal of their goods, they offered to sell at easier prices rather than And storage room. One of the biggest fur-buying houses in the United States is located in Louisville. It la by odds the largest in the South, and has been in the same hands for over Afty years. Its receipts of turn have been large this winter. It is now shipping its pelts to London to be In time for the great fur sale beginning March 30.

This is the biggest sale of the year. The fur business is quite a speculative one, as the skins must be held a year before selling, and this keeps a great deal of capital tied up. After next week no more pelts will exported until next tall. The rumor was freely circulated on Main street yesterday morning that wan had been declared against Spain, came in a dispatch over a broker's private wire, and received some credence for a while. When people had time tor cool they remembered the million lies that have been sent out about Cuba from Jacksonville and Key West, and the excitement subsided.

IT IS THE LAW. The tender of an old and rare silver colt differing in appearance from coin of later date is held valid, in Atlanta Consolidated Street Railway Co. VA Keeny (Ga) L. R. 84, when offered for fare in a street car, although the conductor believed 18 was counterfeit.

The annotation to the case reviews the authorities on the tenden of old, worn and mutilated coin. The fact that the cashier of a bank wha was an employe knew of the dishonesty of another bank employe whose fidelity Bad 1 been guaranteed by bond is held, in Fidelity and Casualty Co. vs. Gate City, National Bank (Ga.) 8 La R. 821, to be insufficient to charge the bank with such, knowledge or to put it in default for tallure to give notice of such dishonesty to the surety.

An ordinance prohibiting association with thieves, with intent to agree to commit any offense or to cheat any person is held, in Ex parte Smith (Mo.) 3) La R. 606, to be an unconstitutional invasion of the right of personal liberty. The right of a life tenant to stock dividends declared from net earnings made after the rights of the life tenant and remaindermen have attached to corporate stock bequeathed to them is sustained in Pritchett vs, Nashville Trust Co, 33 R. 866. Implied authprity to make county bonds payable in goid coin la held to exist in Packwood va, County of Kittitas 33 L.

R. 673, especially when the authority to lasse bonds is given without in any which restriction should as to the kind of money they be made payable, and it has become customary to make such bonds payable in gold coin. Ex-President Question Settled In One Household, (Philadelphia Record.) The question: What shall we do with our ex-Presidents? is no longer a burning one in the Harrison household. Mr. Har.

rison will find plenty of occupation now, "High Ball." (Cleveland Leader.) Half of the State of Kentucky is reported to be under water. Truly, this must be a visitation of Providence. And Sometimes They Do. (Chicago Tribune.) It now appears that Greece was trying to force a pair of deuces to beat a hand full of Kings, Glad Tidings. (Cleveland The gladdest words of tongue or Ben is pop again." A Game Cook.

(Dallas News) Greece is one of the blue hen's chickens, and a rooster at that,.