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The followers of pastor Stutzke, of New
York city, who had prepared themselves
for ascension into heaven on Wednesday
last. were. numerous skeptics had antici-
pated, disappointed in their hopes They
did not ascend, but do not yet despair OF
getting away from earth by the presumably
agreeable process of being taken by a di-
rect and instantaneous process to a better
world without the unpleasant intervention
of funerals and graves. There is always
margin of time allowed in the calcula-
tons of d-of-the-world prophets, and
pastor Stutzke insists that the end may
come at any hour within the next fifty
days. AS a matter of course, those who
still take his word for it will be under the
necessity of being under constant marching
orders for that length of time, of making
their wedding garments their daily apparel
instead of select robes for a special occa-
sion. 1t is true that the Christian world in
general is commanded, by a higher power
than pastor Stutzle, to be always ready,
but it is known that even with the best of
intentions it's garments will at times trail
in the mud, and that, as a matter of fact
swift translation to another sphere. This
being the case, there is reason to fear that
the ascension robes will not remain spot
less, even during the comparatively short
period of fifty days. The saints will be
willing, but even saints have their moments
of weakness, and with the seeds of doubt
sown in their souls by the failure of the
advertised performance to come off at the
date named they may be betrayed into con-
duct unbecoming in those who expect to
pass into paradise and leave the mass of
their fellow-beings to be dashed to destruc-
ton against the burning And even
if they remain firm in faith and circum-
spect in behavior, how weary must be the
time of waiting. For possibly fifty days to
come they are deprived of the joys in
serve beyond the skies and are at the same
time unable to have any ordinary human
sort of a good time To eat and drink
for mere physical enjoyment will hardly
be seemly, while. under the peculiar cir
cumstances, they will scarcely feel in the
mood to be merry, and are likely, on the
whole, to be in for very dull six weeks.
Meanwhile the rest of mankind will go on
as it has done, attending for the most part
to the business Of living in this world as
well as it can and cherfshing blind, but
fairly strong, faith that the next stage will
be no worse. If the end does not come be-
fore November the Stutzke people will be
under the necessity of adopting the same
course and as their part Of creation is
going to be in better shape from that date.
owing to the election of Mckinley, they
will be able to readjust themselves to life
the more readily than would otherwise be
the case.
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wear what they please. And each season,
after all the palaver and advance advertis-
ing, that is the end so far as the public
knows. If the women have the courage of
their convictions and really appear on the
streets in short skirts they attract no at
tention. Either this, or they never appear
and the matter is forgotten by the papers
which announced their purpose. Mean
while. women who do not need the moral
support of a club to sustain them in dress
ing array themselves in skirts of such
length as pleases them and go their way
unheralded and undisturbed.
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OUR MINERAL PRODUCTS.

The United States Geological Survey at
Washington has issued a statement of
Mineral Products of the United States
from 1885 to 1885, which contains some
interesting information as to the number,
variety and value of our mineral products.
OF metallic minerals we produce twelve,
namely, gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, pig
iron. quicksilver, aluminium, anthony,
nickel tin and platinum. OF tin it should
be said we have produced some, but do not
now. A small amount was produced in
each of the years 1891, 1892 and 1S93 but
none since. OF the other eleven minerals
the aggregate value produced in 1895 was
1921 ,679. Most persons would suppose
that gold and silver would head the list in
point of value, but they do not. The value
OF the pig iron product in 1895 was $105 1885,
$50 against ss6.61o,O00 of gold and s72, 051 600
of silver. Coming to nonmetallic minerals
the number is much greater These in
clude coal and building stone of all kinds
petroleum, natural gas, clays. mineral
waters, salt, asphalt, soapstone, graphite
sulphur. mica, asbestos, precious stones and
many others. The list embraces forty-five
including such odd names as baeexite,
monazite, rutile, etc. The value of the coal
product greatly exceeds that of gold and
silver both that of bituminous coal being
$115 40 III and anthracite $S2,019,272 The
value of building stone quarried in 1895 was
So, 6SS. Sic, and of petroleum produced $57,-
691 279. Brick clay makes the respectable
showing of 100000 and natural mineral
waters 81, 254 237, not including that drunk
at the springs. Either the country is not
very rich in precious stones the work
Of finding them is not prosecuted very Wig
orously, for the value of the total output
in 1850 was only $11S,621. This was exceeded
by grindstones, oil stones, flint. soapstone
and several other products that make no
claim to aristocracy The total value of
nonmetallic minerals produced during the
year was $3.50, $50, OIL The value of the out
put of bituminous coal fell from $125, 124, 3S1
in 1892 to s115 49, III in 1895; that of pig iron
from $131 161 G39 to S105, 1875 $50, and that of
building stone from $4S 706,625 to 1874 SIS, SIC.
The decline in these important products
marks a great decline of business.
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lie IS sure to offer. but none the easier
to bear because to older people 1t seemed
laughabie and their venture mere childish
folly More precocious and worldly-wfse
chlldren-and, let it be added. far less in
teresting ones-woufd have known that
IN the drainage canal and that the wages
OF small nurse We're not even the founda-
tlon for fortune; but to these imaginative
little folks one dollar had infinite purchas-
ing capacity, and gold in great Jumps was
to be found by him would delve for il in
the earth 1t is an unreal world that the
genuine child lives in-the child unspoiled
by too early acquaintance with what men
and womens perhaps mistakenly, call the
Facts of existence-but it is a very beauti-
full world. In it all things are possible.
The sun always shines somewhere: COM
fort and luxury and all things desired are
attalnable; obstacles are always overcome,
the pot of gold is at the end of the rain
bow, and the rainbow is not far. The
years of discretion are the years that ar
rive when this is lost, but the man who
has once possessed it looks back to his
youth as a happy time and sometimes has
a passing fancy that, after all, childhood
may be right and its world the true one.
He, at least, sees in the conduct of the
two Chicago children not an unaccounta BILE
freak, but a boyish proceeding, and smiles
in delighted sympathy
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ANOTHER GREAT SPEECH.

The speech of Carl SchurZ, the main por-
lions of which are given in this ISSUE is
another of those clear and unanswerable
arguments against the fallacies which the
advocates of free silver are presenting.
That the present monetary system has
nothing whatever to do with the fall OF
prices, Mr.. Schurz makes as clear as day.
Wheat has fallen because of increased pro-
duction and other articles because of the
introduction of machinery. Another phase
of the subject which Mr.. Schurz makes
very clear is the effect of a redundant and
deprecated currency upon wages. Wages
will increase but not as will the price of
commodities. Labor was scarce during the
war; but while the price of labor adj
vanced 43 per cent. the price of the neces-
saries of life advanced 1T per cent. By the
imitation of the currency labor lost a dollar
which would purchase q dollars worth of
merchandise and got in it's place SLAB with
which to purchase merchandise marked
s2.17.
Mr. Schurz's speech is one which may be
read with pleasure and profit. His ideas
are conveyed in simple and clear language,
while he uses phrase to which an oppon-
ent can object. There is no appeal to
classes or the masses. A sound money is
better for all.
During the week the Journal has pub
lished number of Mr.. Bryans addresses.
They are largely reiterations. The one string
upon which he harps is appeal to labor
to turn against capitalize rich against
the poor. Doubtless many readers of to-
days paper have kept some of the issues
which contain the speeches of Mr.. Bryan.
Let them take the two speeches, that of
Mr.. Schurz and one of Mr.. Bryan's, and
compare them paragraph by paragraph.
Those who will do this will know for them
selves the superiority of Mr.. Schurz's
speech in moral as well as intellectual
force and the weakness and Indebtedness
of the words of Mr. Bryan, who makes but
one purpose clear-the arraying of one
class against another. Mr.. Schurzs has
added another to the number of exalted ut
terances on the money question, among
which are included Major McKinleys let
ter, General Harrison's. Bourke Cockran's
and Speaker Reeds speeches.
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about golf so just overwhelmed him with
all those awful Scotch words could think
LII HUNG CHANG.

Lii Hung Chang ought to be an invaluable
contributor to London Queries.-Chicago
Post.
We had supposed Ii Hung Chang came
over here to see this country, and yet he
sklps Chicago-Chicago Post.
Now If Ii Hung Chang only had chance
to ask Bryan some questions, Ye gods and
little fshes!-New>york Tribune.
Still, it would be interesting to stand at
safe distance and see Ii Hung Chang
ask Sister Helen Cougar her age.-Chicago
Tribune.
If Ii Hung Chang asked G. Cleveland how
many fish he caught, the correspondent
failed to report the answer.-Pittsburg
Chronicle-Telegraph
1t is said that Ii Hung Chang takes his
first breakfast at $3.50 o'clock in the morn
ing. Evidently he is in his second child
nood.-BuHalo Courier.
Ii asks everybody How much are you
worth?' He is probably hunting for the
plutocrats he has read about in the news
papers.-Philadelphia Record.
Ii is inconsiderate in slurring the news
paper repor' RS. Who gave him his pres
ent popularity, we should like to know.
Philadelphia North American.
Ii Hung Changes diplomacy seems to con-
sist largely in saying just what he thinks
and allowing suspicious people to infer that
he must necessarily mean something else.
Chicago Record.
1t seems that in China it is polite for
great mandarins to ask questions of their
interiors: Perhaps this is why Plat Hung
Chang always asks What are you going to
put up this year?-New York World.
When Ii Hung Chang said that China.
Japan and the United States must settle
the financial question: he evidently for
got that William Jennings Bryan has kind
ly volunteered to relieve the world of that
trifing onsibility.-Cincinnati CONNER
cial Tribune.
There was nothing surprising in Lii Hung
Changes question when he visited General
Grants tomb: when will it be COM
pleted?' Thousands of people have asked
the same question over and over again,
and have never got an answer to it.-Phila-
delphia Inquirer.
We are glad to see him: we bid him well
come and Godspeed. But we don't want his
coolies and we don't want his one-twenty
second-of-a-penny copper coins his sill
Yer yens. We admire great Chinamen-and
he is the greatest-but well have none of his
cheap Cinnamon or his cheap China money.
Chicago Times-Herald.
We think the better of the Chinese gov
eminent because a man of his genius and
character can become commanding figure
in it. If China has other men of his kind,
capable of filling his place and continuing
his work, the imperial dynasty and the Chi
neSe people may we'll be congratulated.
Long live Ii Hung Chang.-New York Sun.
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THE BLESSED BABIES.

Miss Fannie Gilmore, aged twelve, and
her brother, Master Franklin Gilmore,
aged nine years, left their home in a Chi
cage suburb on Thursday to seek their for
tunes. The father Of the children was at
his daily toll in downtown shop and their
mother went upstairs after their MONDAY
meal leaving them engaged in the work
of washing dishes. 1t is not uncommon
thing in American domestic economy for
boys to be pressed into the DISTINGUISHING
service by their mothers, who think rea-
sonable amount of labor is good for them,
but it is not recorded that any boy or girl
ever regarded the task other than a
cruel imposition upon them. 1t is safe to
affirm that every normally-constituted
child. compelled to devote itself at stated
intervals to this irksome occupation. has
registered a firm VOW to escape from the
hated thralldom at the earliest opportuni-
ty. Grown-up people who have this expe-
rience in their Juvenile years need no fur
Their explanation of the action of the
Gilmore children than the fact that they
were required to wash dishes For the Gill
more children abandoned their home.
When their mother came down stairs she
found her son and daughter absent, and
in their place note written by the girl
saying; Franklin and I are going away.
We have found out where we can get a lot
of money and make papa rich Do not
worry about me, because 1 will be all
right. Do not attempt to follow me, be-
cause you cannot find me. / will make you
all rich before winter, and / will be home
before winter, with Franklin. Goodbye
mamma. Love from Franklin and me-
Naturally, the parents had no confidence
in the ability of their little ones to get
a lot of money and, like many grown
ups to whom the child mind will ever re-
main mystery, did not understand that
the real cause of their enxiety to get rich
was that they might throw off the tyran-
ny of the dshpan. So the elder Gilmores
sought the aid of their neighbors and of
the police, and went on the trail of the
runaways. Next morning the youngsters
We're discovered in the custody of a moth
erly woman living two three miles from
the Gilmore home. About dark the previous
evening the two wanderers had called at
her door. looking weary and a trifIe scared
and asked for leave to sleep in her attic
She suspected them of being absent from
home without leave and, though she found
them noncommittal, took them in. fed
Them put them to bed and awaited de-
yelopments. In the morning she found the
story of their disappearance in the paper
and telegraphed to the chief of police of
the suburb He presently appeared, took
them to their home and their adventure
was over. They were not communicative
as to the plans they had proposed to carry
out, but the girl finally acknowledged that
she was to work as a nurse for one dollar
a week. while her brother dug for gold in
the drainage canal.
Poor babies. The failure of their undertake
ing was, without doubt, bitter disappoint-
ment-one of the first in the series that
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-06
= DEFENSE OF FARMERS.


In the current issue of the North Amer
lean Review John NJ. Stahl, secretary of
the Farmers National Congress of the
United States, presents facts to prove that
farmers are not Populists in the sense that
they do not constitute the bulk of men who
have voted against sound currency and for
long ago as 1865 when the Pendleton ele-
ment wrote the platform of the Democratic
party declaring that 'all obligations of the
government not made exclusively payable
in coin ought to be paid in lawful money
all the great agricultural States Of the
North gave large majorities for Grant.
while the Democratic vote was largest in
the cities. General Grant during his first
term had made himself the most strenuous
advocate of the maintenance of the public
credit, yet the great agricultural States
voted for him in 1872 and against Mr. Gree
ley.
After showing that Greenbackisrn was at
times stronger in Eastern States, and that
it's votes We're given in States with large
cities during the fiat money period, Mr.
Stahl denies that the farmer Is responsible
for Populism. Iowa, which now disputes
with Illinois the honor of being the great
est agricultural State. has never been
troubled with Populism. In Illinois. Chi
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TIME FOR INTERFERENCE.

| If recent letters to New York papers
written in Europe, are to be believed there
is surprise in that quarter that the United
States should longer permit the conditions
in Cuba to continue because of our impor-
tant trade relations with that island. The
insurrection in Cuba is nearly two years
old, and yet the only thing which can be
said to point to a possible conclusion is the
reported jealousies of the insurgent lead
ers. So far as the Spanish forces are con-
cerned, they have done nothing the past
year except to demonstrate the inability of
the Spanish government to subdue the in
surrection. 1t is very clear that Spain
does not appreciate the Jealous efforts of
our government to preserve that neutrality
which is a national obligation. In spite of
the fact that this government has been
making itself a detective for Spain to pre-
vent aid from going to the insurgents
from our shores, the Spanish government
is not satisfied and talks of the heavy in
demnity which this government will be
forced to pay.
The recent action of General Weyler in
issuing a decree prohibiting the gathering
of the sugar and coffee crops this season.
and his orders prohibiting both natives and
foreigners on the island resident there
from holding intercourse with foreigners
outside, seems designed to put an embargo
upon industry and trade and to enter upon
a relentless war of destruction and ex-
tirpation.
The report that the Spanish government
will assent to the policy of General Wey-
Ter needs confirmation, but, should that
be the case the situation will be SO
changed that governments which have
citizens in Cuba whose property and in
terests are there will be warranted in in
terfering to put an end to conditions which
are intolerable. The productions Of Cuba
are important to the worlds supply of
commodities, and particularly to the
United States. Trade and intercourse with
Cuba have been of great value to our peo-
pie in the past, but, if it has not already
been destroyed the Spanish power is de-
termined to destroy all that is valuable to
trade by preventing the gathering and
shipment of crops.
After nearly two years of a warfare
which has proved destructive to American
AieeieStS, Win no prospect OF termlna-
ton, will not the United States be war
ranted in interfering as the people which
is suffering most? Such was said to be the
Cleveland policy nearly year ago. Now
that another year has passed and the
prospect of the suppression of the insur-
rection by Spain not having improved, it
seems time that Mr.. Cleveland should con-
suit other nations with q view of ending
the devastation in Cuba which has fallen
so heavily upon Americans and their in
tereStS
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of nineteen stations. The periods range
167 years at Stockholm to 1850 at Paris ana
give data from which tho positions OF the
magnetic poles have been calculated Tor
the years 1850 no. 1740 1900, 1880: 1850 and
1880 The north pole was in so degrees y
minutes north latitude and $50 degrees
west longitude In 1850. and its latitude ana
longitude gradually lessened during the
century following. The longitude was W
degrees minutes west in 1900 from which
time it gradually increased to l19 degrees
10 minutes In 1890: the latitude reached It's
lowest-T degrees-in 1880. and gradually
rose to rs degrees 81 minutes in 1890. The
south magnetic pole was in 81 degrees %
minutes south latitude and l64 degrees 10
minutes east longitude in l64o: III mas
moved steadily westward. reaching 80 de-
grees % minutes east longitude in 1880.
while the latitude increased to "A degrees
% minutes south In 1880. then decreased TO
y degrees 90 minutes in 1890. From this
1t appears that the poles travel consldera-
bly, but not in unison. Professor Weyer
has confirmed the exactneSS OF his re-
searches by special tests. yet his result Tor
1881 differs from the determination by Ross
by seven degrees of latitude. The present
position of the north pole is found TO be
81 degrees so minutes north latitude and 10y
degrees IL minutes west longitude: and OF
the south pole 20 degrees rs minutes south
latitude and los degrees SO minutes west
longitude.
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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Millais was once glad to turn out por-
traits at SIS apiece. He lived to receive
$4,000 for a portrait.
We are told that Mary Anderson Navar-
no, not having any material diversion, ad-
dresses herself with characteristic ardor
to chess.
Signor Crispi, as soon as he had resigned
his place in the italian Ministry, sent out
a circular to his former clients, and is now
in full practice at the Italian bar.
Writing upon THE Pay of College Wom-
en- Miss Frances NJ. Abbott. in the Sep
TENDER number of the North American Re
view, declares that a college woman is do
ing well if upon graduation, she can OBJ
tain place to teach for $500 a year with
out board.
Madame Sarah Bernhard enthusiasticaI-
ly patronizes the popular Spanish sport
1t is announced from San Sebastian. where
she is playing, that she was so enchanted
with a toreador who killed five bulls thai
she gave him valuable pin ornamented
with brilliantS.
Mrs. Langtry's bedroom is famous in
its way, with its curtains and draperies of
pale-bue brocade, its toilet table, gold
framed mirror and it's bed curtained with
brocade and net, enriched with an applique
of lace. 1t has long swing-glaSs across
the top of which is draped a satin ribbon.
embroidered with the injunction to BE to
my faults a little blind
Ii Hung Chang, while in Europe, dec
GRATED several persons with the Order of the
Dragon, among them a hotel keeper at
the Hague and two of the Queen of Hol
lands coachmen. There is much chagrin
on the part of other recipients of this honor
that the Chinese envoy should in these
cases have substituted the decorations for
the traditional tip" But. then Ii Hung
Chang is said to have followed a very fru.
gal course ever since he left China expend-
ing as little money as possible. He appears
to be a perfect type of Oriental shreWdness
and thrift.
The success of women as designers OF
book covers is worthy of comment. 1t is
safe to say that most of the recent beau
tiful book covers which have been made by
the leading publishing houses have been
patterned after the graceful and original
drawings made by women. Prominent
among these artists are Miss Margaret
Armstrong and Miss Amy Richard both
of whom possess much ability i'm this COM
paratiyely new field of artistic effort The
cover of "A Lady of Quality was designed
by Miss Armstrong and that of The Mas
ter Craftsman" by Miss Richards.
Good tea-tasters receive about IS 900. The
largest number of them are gathered at
Shanghai, Foo Chow and Yokohama, where
reside the largest number OF foreign buy
ers. The taster's business is to taste all
a book the character OF the tea and its
value, describing the dry leaf, the infused
deaf and the liquid. This requires a
most delicate, and carefully cultivated
taste The tasting results in a feeling
OF fullncss al the stomach. DESTROYING the