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son have spent his years that he has that
superb article OF ignorance which enables
him to make that startling statement?
Has his uncontrolled Imagination so seized
control of his other limited faculties that
he cannot distinguish between fiction and
fact? In 1862 Congress issued both 73
per cent and 6 per cent. bonds. In 1862 and
1864 Congress issued both the lve-twenty
and the ten-forty bonds by tens and even
hundreds Of millions. the interest on which
was paid in coin, and the seven-thirty
treasury notes. March 81, 1865, the bonded
debt Of the United States bearing interest
was $1.1Oo.3 61 ,2G, and the annual interest
on those bonds was at the rate of s64,
631. To this bonded debt must be added
q 1,O55,12S Of loans bearing interest In law
ful money, that is, In greenbacks, the an
nual interest on which was sos. $40, Ss9. That
is, the bonded and interest-bearing debt of
the United States two weeks before the
surrender Of Lee was s1,S71, 416. 1863. This cor
rection of the s~o-called general master
workman is deemed necessary because the
fiat money organs will be repeating his
falsehood and the Populist orators will be
shouting il abroad
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III tney IL
brewing.

Great interest will attach to the special
election which will be held in the near
future to fill the vacancy caused by the re-
cent death of Congressman Houck, of Ohio.
The Third district. which he represented,
consists OF the counties of Butler, Mont
gomery and Preble. and has long been re-
garded as reliably Democratic. Judge Houck
was elected in 1892 by 4,316 over his Repub-
lican opponent, but last fall Mckinley car
ried two of the three counties composing
the district, and had a majority in the dis
trict itself Of 56S. Under existing condi-
lions and with the tariff issue at the front
the Republicans ought to carry the district.
To carry it at all will be a great victory,
and if they make any gain over the vote of
Mckinley 1t will show that popular disgust
with the course of the Democratic party is
still increasing. The date Of the election is
not yet fixed.
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III GABBLE ABOUT MILLIONAIREs.

1t is strange. but 1t seems to be true. that
more people will remember falsehoods than
truths which are told them. For instance.
a class of reformers go about the country
repeating the statement that $1,000 people
own 81, ENG. 100000 OF the wealth of the coun-
try-that is, half OF it. Another romancer
puts the number of millionaires at $4,000,
adding that they own more than half the
property, and, being a free-trader, he at
tributes millionaires to the protective tariff.
Recently another reformer of the social
istic variety takes the number of million
aires from the accurate canvass of the New
York Tribune in 1892 and puts it at 4.047.
But, not to be outdone by the rest of his
047 persons own 30 per cent. of the property
of the country. or so. COO. Co., O-that is, an
average of nearly SIC, 500. coo to each million
alre.
The absurd story is SO much the stock
argumen of the Populist tongue men that
the Journal often has inquiries upca this
subject. Quite recently a series of ques-
tons were received based upon this misin-
formation. In 1892 the New York Tribune
applied to well-informed persons in every
part of every State for the number of per-
sons whose property was estimated to be
worth a million and upwards. Then these
lists were sent to 200. 600 people all over the
country Cor revision. and were published
In many newspapers at the time. This only
systematic inquiry ever made in this direc-
ton discovered the names of 4.O47 million
aires in the United States. OF these. LIPS
had been in what are called the protected
Industries chiefly, and 2,227 had made their
money in industries and IN not in
the least protected, and the remainder by
inheritance. patents. cattle raising, etc. The
Indiana list Of millionaires. as presented by
the Tribune. contains thirty-six names, d-
vided as follows: In protected industries,
mainly, s; by manufacturing patented arti-
cles, /; in nonprotec'ed industries, q. Indi-
annapolis furnishes seven names for the mil
lionaire list, not one OF which has acquired
his wealth by manufacturing within the
limits OF the so-callsd protected industries.
What is true in Indiana is true elsewhere
The large fortunes OF the country have been
made in rallroading, real estate and sue
cessful speculatlons.
The opening up OF the country. the con-
struction and manipulation OF railroads, the
4,c-oa.. - the x-aIt.a 81 real estate in Cff9aG
the orening OF. mines. the manipulation OF
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HARRISON AND THE INCOME TAX.
The Unnecessary Struggle the General
Had with the Law in 1865.
w. II. Smith. in Washington Star.
H. Smith, in

The letter OF the late Chief Justice fancy
in regard to the income tax, printed in the
Star yesterday, calls to mind the story eX-
President Harrison told of his struggles
with that same income tax law. In 1864 he
was elected Reporter of the decisions OF
the Supreme Court OF Indiana. Under the
law as 1t existed at that time in Indiana
the Supreme Court Reporter drew no salary
direct from the State, the emoluments OF
his Office being made UP wholly from the
proceeds of the sale of the reports, he hav-
ing the copyright. According to the story
as told by General Harrison, not long after
he had taken possession of the oft1ce the
assessor OF internal revenue called upon
hi1n and stated as he published the reports
on his own accounts he would have TO take
out a manufacturers license. This did not
bother him a great deal, as it was compar-
atively q small sum- Some time subse-
Quently the assessor made another call on
him, and in the course of conversation
mentioned the fact that as he sold the re-
ports he was liable as a retailer and would
have to take out a license for that our-
pose. The general acquiesced and paid the
fee, asking If that was all. He was left
in peace for some four or five months.
a tax on his income. He had no income,
except what was derived from the office he
held, and thinking over the matter he
reached the conclusion that the national
government could not tax a State officer
on the income he received from his Office.
If it could, and was so disposed, II could
ing such burdens of taxation on the Of
ficers that no one could afford to hold Of
flee. With this thought in mind he called
on the United States attorney for the dis
trict and consulted with him. 1t was agreed
that the cause should be submitted TO the
judge of the court for that district, and the
papers were accordingly prepared. A day
was fixed for the argument. General Har-
rison appeared for himself and argued the
question from a purely legal standpoint and
fiattered himself he had put up an impreg-
nable case. To his utter establishment, as
the suit was an amicable one. when the
United States attorney arose he began his
plea by saying: IF Mr.. Harrison does not
like his office with its burdens he can re-
sign" and made his entire argument on
that ground. The court held with him. and
General Harrison took an appeal, but said,
never complained of the burdens and cares
OF an office he had voluntarily assumed.
The appeal never came to a final hearing,
case.
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THE HAWAIIAN DEBATE.
Teller Information from Gray
by PLYING QuestiOns.

Dy flying &uesttOus.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1S.-The Hawaiian
resolution was again the subject of discus
sion in the Senate to-day. Senator Gray
resumed his argument in support of the
Presidents policy and reiterated his charges
Of yesterday that the revolutionistS were
dependent on the United States minister
and the United States forces for support
of their movement, and that thereafter the
provisional government depended absolutely
on the United States forces and the flag
for protection and for the maintenance of
the government they had established. The
full significance of the present Hawaiian
situation came out at the close of the Sen
ator's speech when, in a colloquy with Sen
ator Teller, he admitted that, as a member
of the foreign relations committee, he under
stood the efforts of the President, moral or
diplomatic. TO restore the Queen were at an
end. and that the present minister 10 Hawaii
had no directions TO pursue further diplo-
matte negotiations TO that end.
When the Senate met this morning the
bill making Labor day, the first Monday Of
September, a legal holiday was reported by
Mr.. Kyle from the committee on education
and placed on file.
Senator Gray then resumed his argument
on the Hawaiian resolution. He read an
affidavit in which il was deposed that John
H. Soper, now commander of the national
military at Honolulu, had declined first to
accept this command. but ac-
cepted, saying: II have had satisfactory
assurances from the old man himself CMin-
lister Stevens) that the American forces will
give their support, and 1 intend TO take a
hand" The Senator proceeded 10 argue
that the provisional government could not
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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris is again set
tied down in England with her children.
Her father-in-law left her property that
realizes $4,000 a year.
The Wellesley College girls are wearing
a white ribbon around their arm in token
of respect for their late president. Miss
Shafer disliked the wearing of black as
mourning.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton. the veteran wom-
ans rights agitator, despite her years, is
actively engaged in organizing a grand rail-
~ in the interests 9ogieInale suffrage, which
will be held simultaneously all over the
country.
Jay Cooke, the fnancier, is spending the
evenings of his life at Ogontz, his suburban
home. near Philadelphia He is seventy
three years old and In excellent health. He
spends his summers on Gibralter island, in
Lake Erie, which he owns.
a little matter like Sabbath desecrat ton
does not bother President Carnot, Of France.
A few Sundays ago he gave a shooting
party. at which AGO pheasarts, 200 rabbits
and 1.500 roebuckS were ba gged. The game
was distributed to the Paris hospitals.
DR.. Talmage now declares his intention
to preach his farewell sermon In the Brook
Ign Tabernacle on the first Sunday in
March, and shortly afterward he will set
out on q journey around the world, going
from San Francisco to Honolulu, and then
to Australia, New Zealand and India
Switzerland has within a rev months lost
two of her most eminent theologians, NJ.
Auguste Bowler, who for many years was
at the head of the moderate liberal party
In the Geneva University and Church. and
NJ. Augustin Gretillat, who was at Neuch-
atel the representative of orthodox evan
gelical theology.
The doorkeepers of Congress are often re-
quired TO be purblind. a few years ago
every one in the senate chamber were as
tonished to see Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes
on the floor one day. The doorkeeper after
ward confessed that Senator Everett had
introduced the Doctor, with a wink, as
MY new private secretary"
"Alack," the postage stamp exclaimed,
Where has my courage gone to,
That every person in the land
Can lick me when they want to-"
Detroit Free Press.
When you see the sap a-flowin'
From the winters withered trees,
And an early blossom goin'
On a racket with the breeze;
When you hear a bird a-Singfn
And the lark is in the loan.
It's a joke that they are springin';
Keep your fires up at home!
When a violet is peepin'
With it's blue eyes at the sun,
And honeysuckles creepin'
Where the rivers love to run;
When the vines commence their clingin,
And the doves begin to roam,
It's a Joke that they are S~prfngin';
Keep your fires up at home!
Atlanta Constitution.
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WORK ON THE TARIFF. BILL.
~biIfty that Sugar WIFI BE Put
On the Free List.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.-The members
Of the Senate finance subcommittee on the
tariff devoted almost the entire day TO
work on the Wilson bill and made sub
stantial progress in considering minor
items. They, however, gave comparatively
little attention to the more important Gues-
tons which have from the first been a
stumbling block. They had a brief confer
ence with Senator Voorhees,, as a result OF
which a report gained currency TO the et-
feet that the subcommittee had agreed on a
decision with regard TO the whisky tax. and
had so reported TO the full Democratic
Membership OF the committee. The truth
seems TO be that the con-
ferred with the chairman upon this aues-
ton, as upon others, but no dehnite re-
suit was reached.
The subcommittee will TAX up the fig
ures bearing upon the whisky question TO-
morrow and will also consider In all its
bearings the effect OF an increase OF the
tax. and also OF an extension OF the bonded
period. There will, in all probability. be
ommitfe seem inclined 10 think that the
tax OF G cents per pound Is as high as should
be imposed, unless IL becomes necessary 70
increase T. for revenue purposes.
There has been quite a radical change in
sentiment about the sugar duty since last
week. when Ii looked as IL Il were almost
mend a duty Of at least 1 cent per pound
upon that article. The committee has not
dS YET uCltiilclE cLl1 GDDu lnt CuDlCGl
but IL looks now very much as II sugar
would be allowed 10 remain where II is
on the free list. The decision upon the in
come tax will have an important bearing
upon the sugar question, as 1t is not be-
lieved both the income tax and the sugar
duty will be necessary TO supply the requi-
site revenue, in view OF other changes con-
templated. II Is now even more certain that
the income tax will be- retained than that
sugar will not be interfreed with, and II IL
should not be stricken out the recommends
ton OF the subcommittee will be favorable
TO free sugar. dependent upon one other
contingency. This contingency is the posi-
bility OF not being able to pass the bill un-
less something is done for sugar. This ques-
ton IL giving The committee more concern
than any other in connection with the sugar
schedule. but they appear now 10 be in
clined TO take the chances on the loss OF
some Democratic votes with the hope OF
getting Republican votes. II they should be
necessary, 10 pass the bill without q sugar
tax.
The subcommittee has quite definitely de-
cided not TO a change OF the
bill as it came from the House with regard
to wool. The wool men have not. however.
given up the fight. but say they will APP
peal from the decision OF the committee, TX
IL should be against them, TO the Senate.
They are putting In n good deal or time
laying their facts and arguments before in
diyidual members.
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SHREDS AND

If you know how to spend less than you
get. you nave the philosophers stone.
Franklin.
The slot machines must go. but the cou-
pom newspapers still carry on business.
Boston Herald.
he will tell how others are treating him.
-Atchison Globe.
The fact that a woman is flighty by no
means indicates that she is growing wings.
Detroit Tribune.
Lobengula died poor. His estate consists
of eighty-four widows and a lost cause.
New York World.
There is nothing like bad luck to set a
mar about making a mental inventory of
his Observation-Disclosures Journal.
The poet writes of the music of the wood
land depths. but he omitted 10 say that il is
the pine tree hat gives the pitch.-Lowell
Courier.
The Democratic party would compromise
with the devil for the sake of securing
the patronage of a fourth-class postofice.
Buffalo Express.
Mr.. Talmage announces that he will
preach his way around the world. Now
is the time for Satan to clear the track.
Washington Post.
II never in all my experience remember
the time when political opinion was so
much on one ide-the Republican side.
Cen. Lew Wallace.
They are in a state of ecstacy In Boston
over the perfect literary form of Congress-
man Everett's recent prayer.-New York
Commercial Advertiser.
When we hear that the Senate is to
make the tariff bill more sectional the ques-
ton arises: Why attempt to paint the
ily?-Pittsburg Dispatch.
II may be unsophisticated." remarked
the big python at the zoo TO Chief Outan.
but I'd like to see anybody try to pull
my leg."-Philadelphia Record.
Senator Voorhees, can be depended on to
faithfully support the administrations pol
icies as long as he has a relative unpro-
vided for.-Kansas City Journal.
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HOAX In A U ROOM.
An Attorney Badly Frightened by a
Mysterious but Harmless Package.

PITTSBURG, Feb. 13.-During the trial
Of the fifty-eight Mansfield coal valley riot
ers, to-day, CONSERVATION was caused by a
boy handing to District Attorney Burleigh
a square object wrapped in brown paper
and tied tightly with a string. Mr.. Bur
leigh took 1t in his hand for a moment and
then, jumping TO his feet, he threw the
package on the table. He was white as a
ghost and all of the counsel were scared.
Mr.. Burleigh demanded to know where
the package came from. There were An
archists among the prisoners, and it was
known that there were many SympathiZers
in the corridor outside OF the courtroom.
When the package was opened ii was
found to contain half a dozen old books.
A smile passed around, and Mr.. Burleigh
admitted that he had been bit on a joke.
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mand no respect. Since 1892 they have been
almost purely mischievous." The Chronicle
is equally savage. Commenting on the re-
opening of Parliament it says there could
scarcely be a more humiliating position for
a popular assembly than is the case in
Great Britain, with the House of Commons
baffied and insulted by a survival of
under heaven but to afford a cover for
every ~anti-popular, reactionary and despotic
ltiment" The Lords must be very blind
brewing.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-14

The escape from jail at Kokomo OF Arm
strong. the Upton county embezzler. is a
fitting sequence to the farcical enforcement
OF the law which gave him only three years
In the penitentiary for stealing $50, 900 OF
the peoples money. His escape seems to
have been made without any difficulty. and
he evidently had assistance. 1t is putting
1t mildly to say that the jail authorities
pidlty. BY the way, does the outfit Of a
prisoner in the Howard county jail include
a saw?
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II Southern Democrats were wise. in
stead OF trying TO strike down American
manufactures they would try to multiply
the number OF cotton mills to such an ex-
tent as 70 insure the consumption of the
entire cotton crop at home. They do not
seem To be aware that the cotton crop Of
the world outside Of the United States is
increasing very rapidly, and that before
many years foreign cotton can be laid
down in this country cheaper than 1t can
Southern planters will call in vain for pro-
lection. They will have brought about
their W ruin.
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Morgan Was the Man.
Philadelphia Inquirer.

4 TTT'ttI~IF-'It tUITN
The New York Sun is I'm error I'm attrih-
uting the first application Of the term
Cuckoo" to Cleveland's subservient Con-
gressmen TO the gifted Boutelle. Of Maine.
1t was Senator Morgan who was the in
ventor of the happy name. In the course
of the silver debate he said that when the
White House Clock struck u the cuckoos
honor is due.
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Fear. of a London Paper.

LONDON. Feb. i3.-The Daily News.
commenting on the Wilson tariff bin. says:
What with free raw materials and duties
on manufactured articles as they stand in
the bill. the American manufacturer will
still be amply compensated for the higher
wages h. has TO pay employees. IL cannot
be too often repeated that IL Is not an es-
s~entially free-trade measure The first con-
Germ OF its authors Is 70 MI the void OF a
depleted treasury. It's most serious danger
lies in the fact that IL cannot wholly af-
ford relief without imposing an income tax.
II remains TO be seen whether that viii be
The daa IN knen Of is antEn-.
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1t looks as If the war against the British
House OF Lords were about to assume
serious proportions. The London Daily
News declares that the immediate business
Of the Liberals is to fight the Lords. After
remarking or the ''intolerable condition to
which the peers have reduced public af-
fairs the News says: The Lords are
faithful only to the selfish interests of their
own class. Therefore their decisions COM
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-14

The Augusta (Ga-) Chronicle stigmatizes
Is an outrage the whipping of a colored
pretext that he had caused some of the
colored men in his ~neighborhood to become
dissatisfied and to leave their places. 1t
calls upon the Governor TO display as much
energy and determination in discovering the
perpetrators OF this outrage as he did In
preventing a prize-fght.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-14

patents like the telephone, the control of
great products like mineral oils. and the
trolling the whisky market are the main
sources Of large fortunes. The past thirty
years has been a propitious period for such
enterprises. The next will not be.
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The Reason of II.

"The reason" said the ancient philosopher
to the inquiring youth, that a young wom-
an never comes up TO her young mans
ideal of what she ought to be is because
his ideal is based on his notion of what
sort of woman is due to so excellent a
young man as himself"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-14
FIattering Him..

Did you hear about Oldbatch joining
church,"
Some young woman at the bottom of
it, / suppose"
Eyes. She told him he ought to become
a member of the Young Mems Christian
Association"
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Sure Thing.

Peddler-Want to buy some cockroach
poison?
Woman-Thought I wouldn't remember
you, didn't you? ! bought some of your
truck two weeks ago, and the bugs got fat
on it.
Peddler-Yes'm That's the way it works.
They die of fatty degeneration Of the heart.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-14

The Secretary of War has transmitted to
Congress a report on the condition OF the
militia of the country which contains some
interesting facts. 1t shows that on the LIST
OF january last there were in the United
States and Territories $4,000 able-bodied
men available for military service. OF this
number 112. 100 are organized into regiments
and could be modified on very short notice.
The conclusion is that in case of war the
United States could organize the largest
army in the world.
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the Peckham case 1t will be known
whether Senator Vest was secured by the
nomination of his notorious friend or If 1t
was simply a bait thrown to the Mis-
sourian which he rejected.
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BUBBLES IN THE AIR.
One Worse.

Watts-If there is any one I detest from
my inmost soul it is the chump at the
opera who keeps time to the music with
his feet.
. Potts-He isn't half so bad as the fellow
who tries to keep time and can't.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-14

The Paris policemen seem to have a
happy way of being within call when a
Startling crime occurs. and they do not
lose any time getting into action. either.
where he is needed.
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An exchange says that the Peckham con-
troversy is a Democratic affair. Unfor-
tunately, this is not the case. 1t is an
affair which interests Indiana to the ex-
tent of the taxes assessed upon the rail-
r0ado