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A FREE TRADE SURPRISE.

1t is stated in a Washington dispatch
that considerable quantities of Administer
carpets made in this country have been
shipped to England and sold. The fact
seems to have surprised those people who
have insisted that the wooden manufactures
of the United States cannot compete in the
markets of the world because he pays a
high duty on imported wool. Now they
have the spectacle of American carpet
made from foreign wool sold in a market
which, for outside woolens, can only be
compared with carrying Goals to New
CASTLE" What will they say? Doubtless
they will cease repeating their WORKOUT
story of being shut out from those flying
islands Of the night" the markets of the
world" and assert that protection is not
needed for the American manufacturer if
he can sell Administer carpets in London.
The trouble with these purely assertive
gentlemen, who call themselves tariff re-
formers. when they are free-traders, is
that they never get half the facts in any
case. Now. the American carpet manu-
f~acturer is selling Administer carpets in
England for one of two causes. Either
he has manufactured them on so large a
scale that a price which would be bank
ruptcy to a limited manufacturer would
afford a small profit to him, or, being
loaded with Administer made in the conf
dence of 1892 and half of 1893, he is UNI
loading at any price he can get in any
market. 1t is possible that the latter is
the cause of the shipment of Administer
carpets to England. If 1t is the other. if
manufacturing on an extensive scale en-
ables the American manufacturer paying
nearly twice as much wages as his British
competitor to undersell the latter at home,
it is a triumph of protection. The United
States is the greatest carpet market in the
world. For fifteen years the American
manufacturer Of carpets has practically
had control of the American market. Under
home competition the prices have fallen
and the people. having the home markets
for their products generally. ave had good
wages and, therefore,. have been able to
purchase more and more and better and
better carpets. Millions of yards have
been made, and a small profit on the max
ing of a million of yards would be a fair
business, where the same profit on the pro-
duction of a hundred thousand yards would
mean loss and failure. No gardener would
contract 10 deliver a half dozen melons
for 10 cents apiece, but make the contract
cover a thousand and he would probably
make il profitable.
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Pullman seems to be about as cold as
some of his cars in the winter.-Chicago
Inter Ocean.
rs dancing wicked?' Not for those
VINO are bad enough to know how to dance
Well."-Puck.
A tax on playing cards will probably not
affect the progressive euchre p~arties.-Bal-
timore American.
Free alcohol for use in the arts would
be a boon to those who use it in the arts
of politics.-Philadelphia Record.
The probability is that business will not
revive sufficiently to ~re-elect the present
Congress.-Kansas City Journal.
A disguised ball crank remarks that the
Pittsburgs couldn't beat a stair carpet.
-Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
Times are still hard in Minneapolis.
Bathing suits are worn more decollete
even than last season.-St. Paul Globe.
Sunday-school Teacher-What is charity?
BOy-It's a feeling that folks used to have
before tramps got so thick.-Good News.
Mrs. Crandall-The servant of to-day
doesn't know her place. Mrs. Talmage-
How can she? She changes too often.
Truth.
The recording angel will have to open a
new set of books on the debit side when the
income tax goes into effect.-Detroit News
Tribune.
OF course. Deb testifes that the newspa-
pers have lied about him. That's always
the case when a man gets found out.-Bos-
ton Herald.
Miss Pollard should start out with the
character of Maud Muller from her init
mate associations with a rake.-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
81 little thought" said Ardup, eating
pigs feet at the free-lunch counter, that
I should ever be reduced to such extremi-
ties as tlis.'of hicaD go Tribune
A man regards his newspaper much as
he does his wife-something to find fault
with when he feels cross and something he
never approves of.-Atchison Globe.
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THE INDIANA RES

From any more Democratic Congresses
may the good Lord deliver us.-Rockville
Republican.
The tariff question is settled and a basis
is established on which to figure. 1t will
come hard on the laboring man. but it is
what they voted for two years ago.-Ham-
mond Tribune.
When the workingman's sugar is in
creased in price 80 per cent. and his wages
decreased half as much, he will be fully
convinced that Democracy is a tax. and a
pretty heavy one.-Richmond Palladium.
Seventeen pounds of graduated sugar for
a dollar is what made a reformed Muncie
Democrat wish Saturday night that he had
voted to keep ii at the Mckinley price, or
twenty pounds for a dollar.-Munci Times.
The Michigan City Dispatch is asking by
what name the new tariff bill shall be
called. Why that is easy enough. The
President has named it. Call it the bill Of
perfidy and dishonor.-New Albany Tri-
bune.
Now let Democrats come home and tell
us all about 1.-The half OF a loaf being bet
ter than no bread" A great many of their
constituents are practicing on the half
loaf" and have been for months.-Verno
Journal.
Is it not about time to hear from Hon.
John Gil Shanklin? Several weeks have
passed since he has been mentioned in
connection with a government position.
Something must be wrong.-Fort Wayne
Gazette.
Just why Indiana Democracy condemns
German ct al. for their support of the Sen
ate bill, and at the same time so warmly
indorse Voorhees, and Turpie, who also
supported the Senate bill, is one of the
things u~neXplanable even by Democracy
itself.-Elkhart Journal.
Dealers have already advanced the price
of sugar to meet the duty imposed by the
Democratic tariff. If the prices of any
articles have been reduced in consequence
of reduced duties. under the new tariff,
no dealer hereaboutS is advertising the
fact.-Shelbyville Republican.
The speeches made by Democratic Con-
gressmen during the tendency of the VIII
son bill for campaign consumption are now
utterly worthless for the purpose intended,
as every reading man, woman and child in
the country knows that not one of the
statements made in them has been borne
out by the subsequent action of Congress.
era wfOrdSVille Journal.
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A Progressive Negro Woman.

Miss Ida b. Wells, the negro woman
who has aroused a good deal of feeling on
both sides of the Atlantic by her denuncia-
ton of Southern negro lynchings, and who
is now visiting friends in this city. seems
TO possess something of the stuff that re-
formers are made of. Having put her hand
to the plow and started in to prove that
the negroes in the South are prosecuted,
and that many, if not most, of the lyach-
ings are without justification, even under
the code of mob law. she seems determined
to continue the work until a public senti-
ment shall be created that will demand a
reform. Very few persons, either men or
women, who have gone abroad on a special
mission, as strangers and without the in
dorsement of great names, have gained the
public ear or influenced public sentiment to
the extent that Miss Wells did in England.
She argued shrewdly that if she could rouse
the English people there would be some
reflex action in this country. and she was
not far wrong. So she went over there
and started her crusade. She says:
Il could only stay two months last year,
but this year | have been over there since
February. 1 visited every large town in
England and Scotland. l spent seven weeks
in London, spoke before all of the national
the guest of Mr.. Clayton, editor of the
Daily News, and all the London newspa-
lers took up the matter and had leaders
about it. 1t was said that nothing had
stirred up the English people so since
Uncle Toms Cabin was published. / got
was formed TO investigate. 1t is headed by
the Duke of Argyll. AS soon as that was
accomplished, 1 came over here to try and
stir up sentiment in this country. My
story was received in England with utter
incredulity. When | told them of the burn
ing of five negroes alive. they could not be-
lieve ii. 1t. was too shocking. / had TO
prove it to them"
This is not said in a boastfu1 spirit, but
as a narrative of facts. Miss Wells has
shown herself to be possessed of rare in
teiIigence and force of character, and she
has started a movement that may lead to
important results. She says she doesn't
mind being called names by the Southern
papers,, such as "a yellow wench," "a tan
colored adventuress,' etc., and that she will
go ahead on the line she has marked out.
The Journal does not know just what
Miss Wells has been saying in her public
addresses. and, therefore, is not prepared
to indorse in blank all she may have said,
but 1t is a notorious fact that the negro
stands no chance for justice In the South.
Since the war thousands of them nave been
cruelty murdered. and there is not a parti-
Gle of doubt that many of the lynchings
which occur at the rate of from $50 to 200 a
year, are as unjustifiable as they are bar
barous. AS long as Southern mobs continue
to hang, burn and mutilate negroes at that
rate without any p~retense Of applying legal
methods they cannot complain if they
themselves are gibbeted at the bar of public
opinion. Calling Miss Wells hard names
does not disprove anything.
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THE PROSPECTIVE INCOME TAX.

The estimates of Treasury Department
officials as to the probable expense of
collecting the income tax indicate that it
will require the services of a large num-
Der Of new officials and cost a considerable
sum of mony. The section of the tariff
law imposing the income tax is as follows:
That from and after the first day OF jan
uary, 1895, and until the first cay of jan
ua-y. 1900, there shall be assessed. levied,
collected and paid annually upon the gains.
profits and incomes received in the preced-
ing calendar year. by every citizen OF the
United States. whether said gains, profits
or income be derived from any kind of
property. rents. interests. dividends or sal
aries, or from any profession, trade. en-
ployment or vocation carried on I'm the
United states or elsewhere, or from any
other source whatever, a tax OF , per
centum on the amount so derived over and
above Si,e00. and a like tax shall be levied.
collected and paid annually upon the gains,
profits ard income from all property oWncd
and OF every business. trade or profession
carried on IN the United States by persons
residing without the UniteA States.
And the tax herein provided for shall
be assessed. collected and paid upon the
gains, profits and income for the year end
ing the 3lst day Of December next preced-
ing the time for levying. collecting and
paying said tax.
From this il will be seen that the tax
will attach on the lst of Januoy of each
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CARNAHAN AT THE CAPITAL.
The General Well Pleased with Pros-
poets for the ConcIave.
Washington Post.

pccts LOT IN Soncl1Nt.
Washington Post.
'"The outlook" declared the General. "iS
for grand sailing, and We Will have the
biggest conclave in the history of the
order"
attend the leader of the Uniform Rank was
enthusiastic, but he admitted that the
course of the railroads in putting Up the
He believed there would be enough TO fill
the city, anyway, and to make the gather
said, to make a correct estimate OF the
number who were coming at his date.
but he had received advices that Pennsyl-
vania would surely send a multitude, and
that the Uniform Rank would be well rep
resented among them Ohio and Indiana
would be close seconds, and the member
would come in constantly decreasing num-
bers as the distance increases away from
Washington and the railroad rates go up.
There would undoubtedly be 10000 Of the
Uniform Rank in attendance, and a great
The great features OF the parade, General
Carnahan thought, would be the marching
other cities where the conclaves have as
sembled the streets have been too narrow
for this. but the avenue. with $50 feet from
from curb to curb, would hold a continuous
front Of fifty men easily. He believed that
the spectacle of the men gayly caparisoned
and accoutered, with banners flying and
splendid uniforms, would be imposing.
"Bu one of the accomplishments OF next
weeks festivities" said the General, which
will be of far-reaching importance is the
impetus of strength il will give to our or
ganiZation. The boys who are coming hSre
in trainloads from every corner OF the
country will be able to comprehend the
magnitude of the Knights of Pythias, their
interests and membership as they never
have done before. The interchange OF fra
| ternal greetings and the reciprocating OF
acquaintance will give the order a wonder
full boom, and the effects viii be read in
the increase of members and the activity
of the local lodges
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KIDNAPPED HER DAUGHTER.
A Divorced Woman Despoils the Home
of GOttlieb Meyer.

CLEVELAND, Aug. BINARY Meyer.
the contemporaries daughter of Gottlieb
Meyer, was playing in front of her home
at No. 552 Scoville avenue, Wednesday
evening, when she was approached by a
strange woman. Are you Mary Meyer"
asked the woman.
YES" replied Mary.
MY child exclaimed the woman,
throwing her arms about her neck and
wrapping a heavy cloak she wore about the
frightened girl. Since that time nothing
has been seen or heard of he girl or
strange woman. Fifteen years ago Meyer
was married to Mary's mother in SwitZer-
land, and four years later they were d.
vorced, Meyer coming TO Cleveland and
his divorced wife remaining in Switzerland.
Meyer again married, and has since lived
in Cleveland. He heard that his divorced
wife was in New York, and was planning
to kidnap Mary and take her back to
Switzerland. He guarded her carefully,
but, relaxing his vigilance Wedn esday
night for a short time, the opportunity
looked for by the mother presented itself
and Mary was carried away. The police
have been notified of the kidnapping.
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year at the rate of 2 per cent. on the ex-
ing year. The law makes 1t the duty of
all persons having a gross income of more
than $500 a year TO make a full and cor
rect return thereof to the collector or dep
uty collector OF the district in which they
reside. The return must be verified by
oath or affirmation of the party rendering
it, and-the collector or deputy collector may
increase the amount of any return if he
has reason TO believe il is understated.
The collector is authorized TO examine
any person as to the correctness of his re-
turn. and also TO examine his books and
accounts. and if he discovers that a false
return has been made he is authorized to
correct it and add 100 per cent. as a pen
atty to the amount of tax ascertained to
be due. The tax is levied on the 1st day
of March of each year and becomes due
and payable on the 1t day of July. On
all taxes not paid by July 1 a penalty of
5 per cent attaches with interest at the
rate of 1 per cent. a month till paid. The
law provides what deductions may be made
from gross incomes. the intention being to
tax only net incomes above $1,000. The
object in requiring all persons having an
income Of $500 or more to make returns
thereof apparently is to enable the inter
nal revenue officers to judge whether the
return and deductions are rightly made,
Or Uhathor tho not ipnoroo cbnuI1 oopoa
above the $1,000 limit. that being the
point where the tax attaches. The
law provides that every collector
shall, from time to time, cause his deputy
to proceed through every part of his dis
trict and inquire after and concerning all
persons therein who are liable to pay any
internal revenue tax. and all persons own-
ing or having the care and management
of any objects liable to pay the tax, and
to make a list Of such persons and emu
merate said objects" Collectors and deputy
collectors are given large inquisitorial pow
ers. and the penalties for refusing to make
returns, making false returns or trying to
conceal sources of income or taxable prop
erty are very severe.
From this partial summary of the pro-
visions of the law. which does not include
any of those which relate TO the levying
and collecting of the tax on corporations
and dividend-paying institutions. it is evil
dent that the enforcement of the law will
REQUIRE considerable new machinery, and,
in some parts of the country, quite a num-
Der of new officials. The Commissioner of
Internal Revenue estimates that when the
law goes into effect the annual expense to
the government on this account will be
1904. 900. of which amount $4,000 will be
expended in the employment of additional
internal revenue agents and deputy collec-
tors. and the remainder will be expended
in office expenses and printing. How much
revenue the tax will yield remains to be
seen. ->n-ral
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Tenth District Nominee.
Journal.

1O6dACPOAN a
The Republicans OF the Tenth Indiana
congressional district breathe easier to-day.
The convention called to harmonic the
conflicting elements has successfully ac-
complished it's object, and a candisate has
been named VINO viii receive the hearty
suppor of every Republican in the district.
Lake and Porter unite with Cass and Car
roll in doing homage TO Newton's favorite
son. The old conflict is dead and buried
so deep that resurrection is impossible.
The Lands men and the Johnston men are
now Hatch men, and will march on side
by side to victory.
DR.. Hatch has the respect and esteem Of
his neighbors, who recognize in him a man
of trua worth. Though somewhat retiring
in his disposition, il il not from lack or
ability that he has kept in the background
in Tenth district politics. He has been a
man for his home. his family and his
town rather than for himself. DR.. Hatch
will make a strong candidate before the
people. His unostentatiOus manners and
sterling worth will secure 10 him the vote
of all in the Tenth district who desire the
prosperity Of the the country and the
welfare OF its citizens.
Here's to Hatch, harmony ,and three
thousand majority
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to go about the gardens. he often walks
or stands for hours. His intellectual facul-
ties are entirely fresh.
NJ. Casimir-Perier, President of France.
has been at his country home in Pont-
sur-Seine for a week or more. He is ex-
ceedingly popular among the people of the
neighborhood, for whom the family has
done much. When he went home last year
as President OF the Chamber he attended
If he remembered when he used 10 run
races with the children Of the neighbor-
hood. Yes" replied the future Pres!dent,
and i have not forgotten how. L bet you
20 sous" taking off his coat, that L can
beat you to yonder pole" The bet was &C
cepted, and NJ. Ca~simir-Perier won 1t with
ease.
The only male relatives OF Robespierre
living in France. according TO a Paris
paper, are Macmillan de Robespierre, who
owns a tile mandatory, and his son, now
eighteen years old. He appeared in a
Paris court the other day sponsor OF one
of his employees, who had run over a boy,
and announced that he was a grandnephew
of the notorious bearer of his name. He
is an intelligent man, about forty-1ve
years old, and a graduate of a school or
mines. When asked regarding his family
papers, he said that his uncle, Henri de
Robespierre, had fled with them to Ameri-
ca at the time of the restoration, and
that nothing had ever been heard of him
or them since then.
All who ever knew Charlotte Cushman
will join in regret at the recent death OF
her old attendant and friend Sallie
Mercer. The actresses biography reveals
in what estimation she held this faithful
mulatto woman, who entered her service at
the age of fifteen and who was her right
hand and trusted friend till her death.
She remained in the family of her late
mistress's nephew. w. Z. Cushman, more
as a friend and guardian of the household
than as servant. Sallie Mercer was sixty
three years old and had been with the
Cushman family more than fifty years.
Her death took place recently at Onteora,
n. Y, where she was spending the sum-
mer with Mrs. Cushman.
They ought to know, the staid and prim,
That Betty doesn't show her limb.
When on the road she goes to wheel 1t,
But dainty leggins that conceal IL.
New York Press.
o rarest tie, so oft misnamed,
No higher height has love attained,
Than that of friendship loyal and true,
Prepared to nacrifice and do.
For love is something not so free,
IT'S steadfast by the hearts decree,
While friendship in unfettered gear
Is like a trrsty volunteer.
-PhItadelDhia Times.
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WHAT DOES THIS MEAN2
Hawaiians Claim to Have Received Sc
cret Encouragement at Washington.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23.-Commission-
er Samuel Parker, II. A Wideman, j. A.
Cummings and W. I. Seward, Of Hawaii.
who went to Washington over a month ago
TO see President Cleveland on behalf OF
the deposed Queen, and who returned here
Tuesday, sailed for Hawaii to-day. Ia an
interview Commissioner Parker says that,
Washington dispatches 10 the contrary,
they saw all the great men in Washington,
including President Cleveland. ana that
their interviews were satisfactory.
went TO Washington" he said. Ito get an
answer from the government as to what
il intended TO do, and We got it. 1t was TO
the effect that the government would not
at present interfere. which was in sub
stance the answer furnished by the Sem
ate some time ago. Stil., we got much en-
couragement of a substantial nature, which
is to be held in private until We return TO
Hawaii and render our report TO the peo-
pie who sent US. j can say this much.
that IL is satisfactory. / stayed at the
same hotel with Secretary Gresham, and
saw and talked with him nearly every
DAY."
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The errors in the new tariff bill furnish
an object lesson as 10 the Importance of
correct punctuation which public school,
teachers might make use of. One often sees
the sense of a paragraph or sentence
marred by instrumentation. but in the
case of the tariff bill the errors have the
effect of legislation, and involve dollars and
cents. Thus the use of a semi-colon in
stead of a colon in the diamond schedule is
held by experts to have the effect of plac-
ing unset diamonds on the free list along
with miners. GLACIERS and engravers' .dia-
monds. 1t is said that some of the largest
importers of precious stones in New York
are so sure of the effect of this error that
they have ordered large invoices of dia-
monds pending It's correction.
In another instance the omission OF a
comma involves a curious construction OF a
sentence. A Senate amendment to the
House bill aimed 10 place on the free list
'burlaps. and bags for grain. made of bur-
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Trapped.

1t was rather startling to be awakened
by the light of a dark lantern shining in
ones eyes. but Editha's politeness diG not
desert her.
Wont you sit down. Mr.. Burglar" she
said sweetly.
Unthinkingly he obeyed, and met his
doom.
For in another moment ne was so en-
tangled in the tides, throws, ribbons, etc,
with which the little willow rocker was
covered that he could do nothing Eut sit
still and glare at her as she stepped over
to the telephone and called the police.