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the Senate 1t fell into the hands Of a
chairman of committee who, as 1t was
afterwards discovered, was the choice OF
the alleged. county officers committee.
The Republican caucus had Endorsed the
bill. but the chairman of the Senate
committee took days to prepare a sub
stitute, simply to delay action, and thus
defeat any action whatever. Finally,
when IL was referred back to the Senate.
several amendments were attached
which were acted upon. and in the shut
he the demagogic proviso that no officer
should have the salary provided unless
he had first earned 1t in fees was inserted.
That any friend OF the measure should
have inserted such a clause from the
Democratic law of 1891 seems incredible,
as he must have known that the fees of
auditors and t~reasurers are practically
nil. If the court shall decide that I'M
necessary section unconstitutional. the
remainder Of the law will stand, but ii
would be much better to have such bills
presented With the amendments at a pre-
liminary session, to be taken up and
acted On at a subsequent session of the
same body, as such errors could thus be
avoided.
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Somebody Making Use OF His O@cfal
Position to Aid n Few Specula-
tors in Wall Street.
EUsTIs INTERVIEW
OUR AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE
TRAPPED BY A JOURNALIST.
Didn't Know He Was Talking to q
Paris Reporter-Finances Of Our
Little Sister Republics.

NEW YORK, July 1L-There was much
kicking among the grain men on the Pro-
duce Exchange to-day over the alleged
leakage of the government crop report fig
ures yesterday. Insiders, ii is alleged. are
just about twenty-four hours ahead Of the
rank and file of traders in getting the re-
port, or. at least, figures so close to the
actual condition hat they can work on a
practically sure basis. A prominent broker.
who is indignant at the alleged tips from
Washington, came into possession. yester-
day noon. of figures on the condition OF
spring and winter wheat, said to have come
direct from Washington. He had received
them through a friend and refused to give
names or figures, but to assure the doubt
ers that he had a 'sure tip" the figures
were placed in an envelope, sealed with
the signatures of two brokers and put
away. This morning The figures were COM
pared with the official conditions sent out
in the crop report. In spring wheat the
tip was 101, against 1922 government fig
ures. and the winter IS, against 65.S official.
The significance and Importance of this
will be apparent when it is stated that the
best local guessers yesterday were for con-
dltions Of 1913 and 72.5 for spring and win
ter. 1t was said that the Northwest also
had a straight tip on the government re-
port, for they were heavy sellers in this
market yesterday.
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STATE PRESS OPINION.

We have seen nothing yet from Gil.
Shanklin in advocacy OF the denomination
of Grover Cleveland.-Gibson Leader
There is no kinder country in the world
than Indiana, and If the old people are
poor here there is no hope that in their help
lessness another country will treat them
~etter.-Mario Chronicle.
Governor Matthews has lined up with the
conservative element. Senator Turpie's seat
on the sound-money band-wagon is still
unoccupied. Time is flying. and the Sena-
tor should make haste.-Lafayette Journal
Dem.)
There is no wonder tlat the contest for
the Republican nomination for Governor in
Iowa is active. The candidate. whoever he
where between 5000 and T5.ooo.-Coiumbus
Republican.
A reporter of the st. Louis Dispatch,
after saying that Mr.. Debs and his associ-
ates at Woodstock Jail are all infdels in
religion, Populists in politics and labor agi-
tators In general: adds that one redeeming
silver Is the one saving grace they are
lost. indeed.-Terre Haute Express.
Some of the members Of the Prohibition
party are out in hot opposition to the Mich
olson law The Phalanx declares that the
law Is in the interest of the 'liquor power"
Queer. isn't 1t. that the liquor power. is
SO strongly OppoSeu 10 1t. II Is a udTu tate
for the Prohibition party that Ii Is usually
doomed to work hand in glove with that
same liquor power and to the same end.
New Albany Tribune.
When Mr.. Harrison stepped out and Mr..
Cleveland stepped in. on March 4, 1893. there
was a cash balance in the treasury OF
1924. lbs. 0ss. and the Understanding debt Of
the Nation was s5s5. 900. 200. To-day the inter-
est-bearlng debt is $77. 100000. an Increase
during the two years OF Cleveland OF $780,
600, 600. The Democratic administration
seems to be paying It's way by going In debt.
most miserable failure. Charlottesville
Journal.
The w c. T. L.. of<Terre Haute has sent
out a circular warning people to bewar Of
Thinking root beer. We heartily indorse this
suggestion. Root beer is q delusion and q
snare. 1t Is as deceptive as q mirage. 1t
IL as weaR as the knees Of . defeated candi-
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Coin. Poker school of Finance.

Buffalo Express.
Must have been a big game tonight"
remarked the newcomer. II see that all
the chips are on the table"
Looks big, but it's cheap" explained the
man who had been winning steadily.
None of the gang had much money. so We
put a ten-cent limit on the game and re-
duced the price of the chips. The different
colors sell tonight for 1, 2 and 5 cents re-
spectively, instead OF 5, Is and 80 cents, as
usual.
81 see," said the newcomer. ..you have
become rich by lowering your denominator.
instead Of increasing your numerator, as
Thomas Carlyle directs. Cheap money is,
indeed. a blessing"
We've been thinking, though put in
the man who had held the poorest hands.
that something should be done to re-
strain Eph, who has been winning every
pot. I have proposed q handicap: that
Eph be dealt four cards when the rest of
us receive five each"
Excuse me, Senator PETER. l didn't rec
ognize you without your whlskers.' ex-
claimed the newcomer. with all due def
erence to your recognized financial abili-
ty, I would suggest as a more easily
worked scheme that you proceed TO demon
etize Eph's holdings When he cashes In
redeem his chips at the rate OF seven for
a cent The debtor class must combine
against the money devil The Kansas, or
Warehouse, School of Finance, has solved
the problem Of doing others before they
have q cahnce to do YOU
And. so saying. Professor Coin. for II
was indeed he. hurried away 10 add an
other CHAPTER 70 his epoch-makins WORK
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IN NO CONDITION no FIGHT.
Peru, bolivia and Ecuador Prepar-
ing for War.

WASHINGTON. July 1f--South Amer
lean diplomates in Washington are much in
terested In the press reports that Bolivia
has presented the ultimatum to Peru which
the latter has rejected, and that Bolivia
and Ecuador have formed an alliance with
the prospect Of making war on Peru. Peru's
former strength has disappeared since her
war with Chile. The Chileans took all
the Peruvian war ships. and II Is believed
that one old transport is all that remains
OF the Peruvian navy. The army IS said
to number about four thousand men. Boz
livia has no navy. and her army is said TO
De about the same as that OF Peru. She is
entirely inland since the war with Chile,
when Chile took possession of those prov
lnces which had formed Boiiyia's coast line.
Ecuador is said 10 be In good lighting trim.
as she has just emerged from a revolution
and all her people are in arms. But her
navy Is Insignificant. her only good war
ship having been sold TO Japan some months
ago. II looks. therefore, to those con-
versant with the situation hat these three
crippled countries would not engage in a
very formidable war. They cannot fight
Dy sea, and there are great stretches or
desolate and mountainous country between
them Chile is in no way interested In the
trouble. The last wal appears TO have es-
tablishcd her firmly as mistress OF the
west coast of South America.
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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The silver dollars now in the PHILADELPHIA
mint lack only 1888 of being 1000, 900.
Mr.. Gladstone once said: II hate getting
up in the morning, and hate it the same
every morning."
There is no such title as "Shahzada'' rec
ognized in Afghanistan or Persia. 1t was
invented by the British government for the
Afghan Prince.
Mrs. Anna r.. Woody, of Omaha, de-
scribed as a ''swarthy colored woman" has
been named by the Prohibitionists as one
OF the candidates for regents of the State
University.
The Bishop of Coventry, England, who
recently got married, made everybody
laugh on his return from his honeymoon
by preaching a sermon on the topic, 1.-The
Penitents Return"
Long as she has resided in England the
Princess Of Wales has never mastered the
English accent. Channel" for instance.
she pronounces "shannel," and there are
many other little difficulties of speech
which betray that she is a foreigner born
and bred.
Rev. Robert Collyer oficiated the other
day in New York at a wedding ceremony
from which the word obey was omitted
by common consent. He explained after
ward by saying that women never did obey,
despite their romises. 1.-The very best
woman in the world promised to obey me-"
ne Sdlu, out she never mas.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox has a large collec-
ton of photographs. When showing them
to a stranger she picks up one and says
mysteriously; Now you must not tell of
man, with his back turned and his face con-
cealed, kissing a woman who is evidently
herself. The visitor asks sotto voce: who
is the mann" Then Mrs. Wilcox says: my
husband"
c. Is. Luffman. who has written a book
about Spain, says of the girls of Seville, of
whom Carmen was one, and over whose
charms the world has gone into ecstasies.
that they are. "black-eyed. sullen-faced,
~thick,ankled: dowdily-dressed. If 1 were
most regularly lacks" says Mr.. Huffman.
II should say goodness. One rarely sees a
good face In Spain"
1t was George Davidson, recently re-
moved from his place in the coast and geo.
detic survey. who persuaded James Lick,
the California millionaire, to establish the
great telescope that bears his name. The
eccentric philanthropist was induced to give
up a pet plan for a magnificent pyramid,
to rival that of Cheops. only by Davidson's
suggestion hat a giant telescope would be
a far grander monument.
The bridegroom in Mexico finds marriage
a very costly business. He Is expected to buy
the trousseau, and he is fortunate If he
can satisfy the extravaganza sanctioned by
custom and prompted by ardent passion.
Young men from the country are said to
be often seen In the City of Mexico pur-
chasing all sorts of finery for the ladies of
their choice, and the spectacle they pre-
sent as they consult the measurements
which they carry with them for all sorts
of garments, is very amusing.
Improve the shining hours, still,
o busy little bee,
The shining hours just as they are,
Are good enough for me.
Detroit Tribune. !.
The lightning bug is most polite;
He doth illuminate
Enough to see, but not enough
To spoil a tete-a-tete-
washington Star.
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The Hon. John Gilbert Shanklin has
been 80 kicked and cuffed about the past
two years that any considerable notice
brings a prompt and appreciatiye re-
Spouse. for 40 sooner had it been tele-
graphed from Washington that Gov
ernor Matthews had given him a rather
hattering commentator for the Demo-
cratic candidacy for Governor than the
following appears in the Shanklin organ:
Governor Matthews has made a good i'm
preston in the East and he was very
cordially received by the Democracy of
Boston and New York. He belongs to the
school of men whom destiny seems to
favor. He may be the next President of
the United States.
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wool now than in 1892. But the CD.
should not make such gross plumbers in
arithmetic If Kentucky's wool clip is
5000. 900 pounds. and it is worth two cents
a pound more now than it was last jan
uary. he addition thereby to the
wealth Of the State is s120 oo0. not
s1.2OO.OOO. Woods. are higher now the
world over because they were abnormal
ly low a year ago. due to the fact that
the business OF manufacturing was very
week were foreign. AS it is not posi-
BILE, with the largely increased importa-
ton of foreign fabrics. to manufacture
so much wool in this country as in 1892,
1t Is not probable that this advance will
hold until next January.
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The order of Field Marshal Campos,
to the effect that all Cuban insurgents
captured with arms in their hands shall
be shot should attract the attention and
call forth the protest of all civilized ma
tons. 1t is simply an order for assas-
sination, and turns what should be a
war of a civilized nation against a revo-
luton of one of its dependencies into
wholesale massacre and a struggle Of
a who murder captives. Perhaps
1t may be aid that the leading nations
have no right to interfere to prevent the
murder of prisoners of war, but is it not
clearly within the duty Of civilized ma
tons to demand that var be made as
merciful as possible?
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Ex-Governor Flower. of New York,
created a good deal OF by his
wholesale pardons OF convicts during the
last years Of his official term. His ad-
mirers ascribed his course to his kind
heart and sympathy for the unfortunate.
and he was evidently pleased with that
view of the matter. When he reads of
the u~nprovoked double murder COM
mitted by one of his pardoned men. it
will perhaps dawn upon him that GER
tain other virtues are more admirable in
a Governor than sympathy for GRIM
inals.
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Whenever a woman goes into any unac-
customed business or is appointed to an
official position usually held by men some
body promptly announces, with an air of
being thoroughly informed on the subject.
that she is the first woman in the State, or
the county or the world. to hold such po-
sition, and the story goes the rounds. Then.
from every direction, come denials of the re-
port from people who know other women in
just such occupations. The first woman" is
getting to be as uncertain a quantity as the
oldest Mason, and nearly as much of a
newspaper nuisance.
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WASHINGTON. July II. = Col. John NJ.
Wilson, Of the engineer corps in charge OF
the White House and other public buildings
and parks about Washington. in his annual
report recommends that an appropriation OF
$4,000 be made for the erection within the
Executive Mansion grounds. and directly OPP
posite the Treasury building, of a granite
structure for offices for the chief executive
of the Nation. This structure" he says,
could be connected by a wide corridor
with a large conservatory fitted up as a
winter garden. with tropical plants, foun-
tains and statues OF eminent Americans.
The conservatory could open into a picture
gallery. connected by two wide corridors
with the East room, and these improve
ments would serve a double purpose by re-
lieving the mansion of the terrible crush in
cident TO the evening official receptions. I
earnestly hope that this important matter
may no longer be delayed, and that action
may be taken at the approaching session
OF Congress toward erecting a suitable ONCE
building for the President of the United
States"
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GOING TO A GOLD BASIS.
Colombia Anxious to Follow I'm the
Wake of Chile.

Anxious to FOLLOW In the
Wake Of Chile.
WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE action Of
Chile in going to a gold basis is likely to
be followed by similar action on the part
of other South American countries. Gen.
Rengifo, the representative of Colombia
in the United States. says the tendencies
in his country are in that direction. and
that a gold basis undoubtedly will be
realized within the next four years. and
perhaps before. AT present." said he,
I'VE have a paper currency which an
swers every purpose of local exchange and
commerce.. but there Is no gold or silver
behind it. and neither OF the metals are in
use. except in Panama, where 1t has be-
silver. Practically, however, we have Moth
ing but paper. About 100000 of gold Is
produced from Colombia mines every year.
this product is speedily drawn out of the
country in payment for goods bought
abroad. 1t is needless, therefore. 10 at
the balance of trade SO that our gold will
remain at home as a basis for a gold circu-
lation. There is every indication that this
ports of coffee. The trade is increasing
enormously and promises to Offset the loss
of gold from imports
'Our paper currency is very satisfactory"
continued General Rengifo. although we
have just passed through a rebellion. the
paper is worth much more than that OF
some of the strongest South American
countries For instance, the Argentine Re-
public has a paper money exactly the
same as ours. yet it takes "a of Argentine
money to make 81 of the United States
money, while it takes only $3.50 of Colon
bian paper money to make an American
dollar. The Colombian money is made of
convenient denominations, with fractional
currency down to the Accent s~hin-plaster.
and small coins of nickel. Altogether,
therefore, Colombia suffers no hardship
from having neither gold nor silver metals
in her currency The depreciation of the
paper is natural, following the recent re-
bellion. for the paper currency of the
United States was at a considerable dis
count following their civil war"
1t is a curious fact brought out by the
action of Chile in going to a gold basis
that the intrinsic value of her new gold
coins is only about one-half of the value
of the amount stamped on their face. For
instance the standard s. gold coin has in
it only $3.50 of gold. The effect Is some
what like a paper currency, except that
the money Is OF a nominal gold basis, al
though one-half of i; is on the faith of the
government
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The action OF the Assistant Secretary
OF the Treasury in ordering revenue cut
tiers. which ave hitherto exhibited only
. department flag. to hereafter fly the
stars and stripes. is being favorably
commented on by certain papers as a
proof OF the ADMINISTRATORS true Amer
lean feeling. The order is, indeed, graft
flying, showing. as it does. that the pa
triotic spirit and love of the flag which
President Harrison did so much to en-
courage has at last affected the official
family Of his successor.
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The Republican convention in Iowa.
without dissent, reiterated the money
resolution OF the last Republican nation
al convention, and added an earnest re-
quest that Republicans in Congress do
their utmost to bring about a conference
which will adopt an international coin
z ratio for both metals. That is he
true Republican position, and doubtless
the one which the next national Repub-
lican convention will be most likely to
adopt. 1t is well in his connection to
call attention to the fact that, since the
silver agitation broke outsin February.
the Republicans in three States in the
central West have held conventions. and
all of them have declared for a sound
currency with apparent unanimity.
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The Missouri Democracy is just the
sort which might be expected to jump
into the Endorsement of the unlimited 16
real mossback Democracy; or, as one of
the leaders said. some years ago. 'the
one-gallus Democracy. that keeps its
whisky In a jug with a corn-cob stopple
and drinks out of a gourd." There are
some Democratic leaders in Indiana who
give the rank and file of their party
that rating. but. as a matter of fact. the
Indiana Democracy is a long ways
ahead of the Missouri variety. The for
mer ceased to burn s~choolhouses some
years ago.
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A BISHOPS GOOD EXAMPLE.

1t is the Christian theory that church
membership implies a change of heart,
a turning from sin to righteousness, Inc
that the eternal salvation of the men,
Der is assured if he will but remain in
the narrow way; also that the continu-
ance in the path Of safety depends
largely upon the determination and eff
forts of the individual himself. There is
reason to believe that this theory is not
invariably correct, but it is no doubt
true. in the main, that the great ma
upon church services are sufficiently
well grounded in moral and Christian
principles to be able to live clean and
honest lives without the constant sup
port and ministraticns Of preacher or
priest. They are, in short, fairly able to
stand alone, and, while their pastor is a
central figure and nay be their inspira-
ton to a higher life, the old idea Of a
shepherd leading his sheep is no longer
quite applicable. The flock travels along
the beaten track and the shepherd some
times falls to the rear, a trife disheart-
ened. The thought must often occur to
the earnest and enthusiastic minister in
his zeal and %eloquence in the cause of
the Lord are in a measure wasted on a
congregation in which there is hardly
one who has not been born and bred to
morality, hardly one not well versed on
essential points of theology. n few,
indeed, who look to him for anything
more thar a ~half-hour's intellectual en-
tertainment each Sunday. Zeal must
grow cold under such conditions unless
the worker can find other outlet for his
energies. Some have found it by going
into far-off heathendom in observance of
the injunction to preach the gospel to
every creature; others find opportunity
nearer home. The wide field outside of
the church, but at it's very doors, is at
tracing more and more attention. Bish-
op Potter has entered it. He will spend
his summer In the slums of New York
rather than in European travel or in
rest beside the sea. He has advised his
ministerial sub~ordinates to give each a
week to this work, but he sets the exam
PIE. his pIOCcCQiuS 10 SpOhCH III oS OAiC
of self-sacrifice. but probably he does
not look at it in that light. A man who
ha consecrated his life to the uplifting
of humanity ought not to feel it a sac
rifice when the chance is given to help
lift his fellow-creatures from a horrible
pit in which heredity n circumstance
have placed them. 1t should no be a
sacrifice, but a joy to u a one to be
able to offer light to those who travel a
darkened way and hope to those who
have had no hope. 1t cannot always be
a pleasure to a servant of the Lord to
labor among the saints and the prosper
Gus; it may be a greater one to serve the
poor and oppressed, even though they
be sinners. Bishop Potter deserves con-
CALCULATIONS rather tina sympathy.
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A California professor. in a speech at
the teachers in Denyer. said
that he had examined 200 compositions
by California children. giving their ideas
Of heaven and hell. and had found their
notions OF the fundamental principles of
Christian theology very crude and curl
ous Perhaps 1t is not to be wondered
at that California children know little
about heaven. but is the professor quite
sure that even learned men and women
IN any part of the world have clear n
accurate conceptions OF the future
state-or states. as he may prefer TO
put Il?