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sHERIDAN,s RIDE.
How General Grant Received the
News from Cedar Creek.

General Horace Porter, in June Century.
AT o'clock on the afternoon of Oct. 20
General Grant was sitting at his table in
his tent, writing letters Several members
of the staff who were at headquarters att
the time were seated In front of the tent
discussing some anticipated movements.
campground hurriedly, stepped into the
generals quarters, and handed him dis
patch. He read it over, and then came to
the front of the tent put on a very grave
look and said to the members of the staff:
III Ill read s you dispatch h. have inst re-
to hear the news, for We felt the telegram
was of Importance. The general began to
read the dispatch in very solemn tone.
have the honor to report that my army at
Cedar. Creek was attacked this morning be-
fore daylight and my left was turned and
driven in confusion; in fact most of the
line was driven in confusion. with the loss
OF twenty pieces of artillery. / fastened
from Winchester where / was my return
from washington, and joined the army be-
tween Middletown and Newtown, having
been driven back about four miles," HERE
the general looked up, shook his head SOL
EMMY. and said: That's pretty bad. isn't
it?, A melancholy chorus replied: Its too
bad too bad"
Now just wait till l read you the rest Of
1t, added the general, with a perceptible
twinkle in his eye. He then went on, read
ing more rapidly: L here took the affair in
hand, and quickly united the corps, formed
compact line of battle just in time to -
pulse an attack of the enemys, which was
D. m, after some changes of the cavalry
from the left to the right flank, | attacked
with great vigor, driving and routing the
enemy capturing, according to last reports,
forty-three pieces of artillery and very
many prisoners / do not yet know the
number of my casualties or the losses Of
the enemy. Wagon trains, ambulances,
and caissons in large numbers are in our
possession. They also burned some of hair
trains. General Ramseur Is a prisoner in
our hands, severely, and perhaps Iporsally
wounded. ] have to regret the loss of Gem
Bidwell. killed, and Generals Wright, Grow
er and Ricketts,, wounded--Wright slightly
wounded Affairs at times looked tadly,
but by the gallantry of our brave Officers
and men disaster has oeen converted into
a splendid victory. Darkness again lrter-
Vened to shut off greater results.
By this time the listeners had rallied from
their detection. and were beside themselves
with delight. The general seemed to enjoy
the bombshel he had thrown among the
staff almost as much as the news of Sheri-
dams signal victory. In these later years,
when this victory Is recorded among the
most brilliant battles of the war, and
"Sheridan's Ride" has been made famous
in song and story one cannot help recall
ing the modesty with which he spoke of
his headlong galop TO join his command
and snatch victory from defeat. He dis
missed it with the sentence: II FASTENED
from Winchester. where l was my
turn from Washington, and joined the ar
N.Y." Further news brought the details of
the crushing blow he had struck the enc
my.
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Eugene Debs has shown himself so lack
ing in executive ability and the common
sense, practical qualities that belong to sue
cessful leadership that it hardly seems pos
sible that any considerable number of men
will be drawn into the new socialistic move
ment he is now advocating He is a feath-
or-brained, visionary chap, with plausible
tongue that has given him such influence
as he has possessed in labor circles and a
fixed antpathy to the performance of labor
on his own part that accounts for his re-
solve to live by his wits and at the expense
of other people. So far as he is personally
concerned, he is not worth talking about,
but that he has capacity for mischief ana
for getting his dupes into trouble has been
demonstrated before, and as a self-consti-
tuted leader he deserves such attention as
warning placard might give. He is
man to be avoided by all who value their
financial and political welfare. All who
wish to better their condition in any way
should give him a wide berth.
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have been addueed to account for this curl
Gus result, none of which, however, is so
important the very unpleasant fact it
self Naturally, when a woman makes a
sacrifice of her rights and privileges by en-
tering given calling she objects to MAX
ing that sacrifice unnecessarily sweeping.
The law of propinquity may work against
her in matrimonial tables-eligible men, it
is asserted, being scarce in educational cir
cles-but that is no reason why she should
submit to an arbitrary local law having the
same effect. She may not wish to marry
during the school year or any other time,
but if an opportunity-and a man-otfer she
desires to be free to act. That, at least,
seems to be the view taken by the Valpar
also teachers. They wish the needing old
School Board to understand that it is none
of it's business when they marry; that they
will not be dictated to, and will marry when
they please, so there! Their stand is prop
er one. The board should see it's folly in
endeavoring to place any check on matri-
mony and should rescind it's action at once.
Teachers, as a class. are submissive to au-
thority, but there are some things they
won't stand, and deliberate interference
with their possible marriages is one.
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The story of Barney Barnato's life reads
like a fairy tale. The mythical men who
were led by a friendly gnome, whose favor
they had won, into the bowels of the earth
and permitted to carry away gold and
precious stones had no more marvellous adj
ventures than he. Aladdins famous lamp
was hardly capable of more astonishing
feats in fortune making than he. The author
of the Count of Monte Cristo" permitted
his imagination to reach the heights to
which actual happenings brought this mod
ern millionaire. He did not use his wealth
as those who have nothing fancy they
would do in like circumstances, nor like
those who were born to affluence but
doubtless he enjoyed it in his own way
the power and influence it gave him in the
commercial world, perhaps, measured his
capacity in this direction, and he missed
nothing of the finer uses open to him. And
now his career is suddenly ended by his
own choice the going out being thus as
tragic as the events OF his life We're I'M
usual He will be remembered, not for
what he was, but for what he did, and to
people a hundred years hence who delve
into the chronicles of this period his story
will be classed among nineteenth century
fables.
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Unsuitable Rebellion.

The female teachers Of Valparaiso, Ind.
who have refused to submit to the tyranny
of the School Board, which insists that they
sign a contract not to marry during the
school year. will undoubtedly receive the
moral support of the members of their pro-
fession everywhere. There is in the first
place the inVidious discrimination against
which they are naturally bound to protest,
no restriction being placed by the board on
male teachers, who are free to marry when
they please Again, there is the manifest
Injustice of a rule which tends TO interfere
with matrimonial prospects, Statistics show
that the woman who enters the teachers
profession lessons her chances of marrying
by an alarming percentage. Various reasons
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Those men who loaf about Washington
and New York calling themselves, the Gu
ban Junto or the Cuban legation. one Of
whom vented his wrath on the President
the other day, are the Cuban patriots who
disgust sensible people and cause them to
doubt If it would be better for Cuba to have
independence with such a worthless crowd
for rulers, or continue to suffer present
outrages. The more patriots Cuba or any
other country has of the Aguirre order,
who made a spectacle of himself Monday
the worse it is off. II a good government
should be established in Cuba, and these
patriots in New York and Washington, who
live off of the contributions to the cause
We're not provided with offices and luxury
they would start a movement to over
throw it.
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INTELLECT AND ACTING.
Madame Duse Says the Actor is Not
Necessarily Intellectual.
London Letter.

LONDON Letter.
good deal of Indignation, not to say
consternation. has been excited in theatre
cal circles here by Nine. buses very frank
expression of opinion upon the necessary
equipment of an actor. In these fin de steele
times we have somehow grown TO look up
to a successful actor as a person OF superior
and cultivated intellect We ask him 10
our houses and introduce him with pride
TO all our friends we invite him 10 dlnner
and listen with pleasure TO his instructive
conversation; we request Elm 10 lecture TO
various subjects at various inStitu-
tons; we seek his opinion upon every ques-
ton under the sun, and hold him mp TO our
children as an example of brilliant Scholas-
tic attainment But II seems we nave Deen
wandering in a fools paradise all this time.
According to Nine. DuSe the life OF an actor
is, of ali lives the least intellectual. II
would therefore appear that the few shin
ing lights of the profession who have man
aged to establish reputation Tor any sort
down as colossal frauds the only alter
native to this being that II must have been
acquired in another sphere of study, free
from the trammels of dramatic art.
The worst of IL Is mat now the subJect
has been preached. all sorts of illustrious
authorities are being brought forward In
support of Nine. buses statements. The
most emphatic of these would appear To be
no less a parsonage than NJ. Get, who ex-
pressed himself 10 an interviewer as foE-
lows: You ask me If an actor requires I'M
tellect in order TO succeed None whatever!
| would go even further, and say that the
less intellect he has the better he Will get
on Spea king broadly. IL Is best that the
actor should not be possessed of a great in
tellect' The Indignation OF the members
of the profession al this view of their men
tai caiiber Is only exceeded by the eonstef-
nation OF ths community at large, VINO see
with alarm "a fresh encouragement thus
held out to stage-struek plowboys and
kitchenmaldS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-16

The Pittsburg Dispatch learns from firms
IN that city dealing almost exclusively with
farmers that the latter are not so badly
of as many people have been led to be-
heye. or, more correctly, as "A number of
people who give instruction would have
them believe. While the farmers reached
from Pittsburg have not been getting rich
the past four years they have passed
through the period of depression with less
injury than any other industrial class. The
hard times have led many farmers TO diver
sify their products not only for the market.
but for home consumption. Ii appears that
they have purchased less machinery than
during better times, making old implements
do service when If times had been better
they would have purchased new. it is be-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-16

Mr. George w. Vanderbilt has always had
the reputation of being a retiring, unassum-
ing gentleman. 1t is quite probable that he
is averse to newspaper notoriety, and he
cannot be blamed if he has objected to
opening his house to every stray corre-
spondent who wanted to write it up 1t
is not at all likely, however, that he has
drawn any hard and fast line against all
representatives of the press, or that if he
had been at Bitmore in person he would
have done so discourteous a thing as to
try to shut his doors against a part of
the Presidents party. He would have saved
himself considerable adverse criticism, how
ever, had he left a servant in charge who
had wit enough not to discredit his en-
pioyer by such a blunder
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-16

Despite the fact that the Reichstag posi-
lively refused to make appropriations for
any important increase in the navy of Ger
many, it is now reported that the Emperor
intends to have ten battle ships and sixteen
cruisers completed in the next thirty
months. This may produce a clash between
the Reichstag and the Emperor, but it is
believed that he will have the ships. Stimuli
taneously with this declaration of the Ger
man Emperor the naval committee of the
French Chamber of Deputies has approved
the recommendation for a credit of nearly
$50 900 coo for the French navy, of which
$40 100000 will be expended on new ships.
Thus one power proposes to watch the
other regardless of cost.
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New York Evening Sun.

We would like to suggest to Mr.. w. ].
Bryan, the young and brilliant actor from
tired of free silver 1t has no longer any
drawing qualities. Why not go in for a
change of bill? His beautiful voice might
be put to more telling work. He would
have no difficulty In getting an engagement
at a roof garden. or in one of the continue
be better for then the good folks of this
town could drop in for a little while and
see part of an act of Hamlet" and get
out without being bored. We would like
to hear the princes soliloqit@ as delivered
by w. j. b. In fact. it is safe 10 say that
everybody would go TO see him IN vaudc-
ville while nearly everybody Will avoid
him as bime tallic orator.
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discuss the disease in all its phases. Prof,
Virhow will thoroughly elucidate its pathoI-
ogy; Professor Koch will consider the
question of its infectiousness; and other eX-
perts-all the way from During. of Con-
will hold a symposium of opinion. The
bacillus Of leprosy bacillus leprae) has
been already well determined but no cure
has been discovered. The loathscme
malady is strangely confined to man, and
does not communicate itself TO brutes.
Among men it has been prevalent, however,
in all parts of the world.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-16

If the Republicans in Congress listen to
the country they will not give the sugar
refining monopoly dinerential which Will
enable it to hold the trade in its grasp, as
il has under the present sugar tariff since
1894. 1t may be a difficult question to deter
mine. but the Sugar Trust has used the
special duty on refined sugars to dominate
the trade and to drive men out of the job
bing and retail trade who have exercised
the right to purchase elsewhere occasion
ally.
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leved that with the advent of better times
there Will be a more general demand for
agricultural machinery than there has been
for years. 1t is possible that what the Dis
patch finds to be the fact regarding farm
ers in that locality will be found to hold
in this State.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-16

Just what Mr. Debs proposes to do with
his colony of 100000 men when he gets it
to the State of Washington is not clear.
All the available public lands in that COM
monwealth are already pre-empted, and,
though there are a good many Populists
among the inhabitants, it is not believed
that any of them are ready to turn their
possessions over to the Debs community.
Unless they have a little property to start
with, they cannot even go to raising Gu
cumherS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-16

The indications are no more favor BILE for
a large wheat crop this year than they were
a year ago Argentine practically has no
crop, a1d European reports do not prom
Use more than last year. In this country,
according to the estimates. the crop will
be about 25,000,OO9 bushels above that of last
year. There certainly win be better crop
in Indiana. The winter wheat promises bet
ter than last year. while the spring is not
doing so wei.
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ton. and they are very grave ones. The
mere annexation of Hawaii presents no
real difficulties, but annexation complicated
with the claims and interests which are
connected with Hawaii is not without en-
harrassment
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-16

An Atlanta dispatch says that the Pop
ulists in Georgia have been Sinking their
taxes for several years in counties in which
they are in power, not less than 100000
acres of land not bet returned for
purposes of assessment. Evidently. the
days of fusion are numbered in another
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-16

The silver push" seems not so noisy; has
1t come to the conclusion that it can de-
feat the mayor without holding meetings?
That may be, but then. fits members cam
Selves talk.
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Ever notice" asked the boarder who
thinks he is sarcastic, what chilly recep-
ton man gets when he walks in on a
pair of lovers?
1T seems to me-" said the Cheerful
Idiot that it would be better form for him
to walk in on pair of feet"
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Made Wiae.

"He is an awfully wise young man, to
have seen no more than twenty-three sum
mers."
HE may have seen but twenty-three' sum
mers, but the number Of summer girls he
has met runs up to the hundreds
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Vac Unbnnnv RncbeIor

Women use a lot of art to conceal their
age said the Smart Young Man.
."Oh. not so many said the Unhappy
Bachelor. Most of them are content to get
along with plain lying"
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JpThe outlook for the financial success of
y the Nashville exposition is favorable
that the managers have already begun to
pay their debenture bonds, and now they
\ expect it to show profit over all expense
Aat the close
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Now that such Democrats as Senators
Jones, of Arkansas, and White, of Califor
mia, have admitted that the tin-plate in
dustry has been established in the United
States it will no longer be necessary for a
free-trade paper to attempt to ridicule it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-16

A suicidal wave seems to have accom-
panied the sudden hot wave. To people of
orthodox minds suicide seems a poor way
of escaping the heat
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Mr. Percival Lowell. astronomer, is sure
that Mars is inhabited Mr. Tesla, inventor
of wireless telegraphy, thinks it possible to
signal to Mars. Lowell and Tesla should
pool their issues.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-16

Cincinnati should have the National En-
campment of the Grand Army in 1898 on
a simple invitation. 1t has never been
held in that city.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-16

Ex-President Cleveland's recollections of
his two administrations are not to be pub
Hshed, it seems until after his death. May
his years in New Jersey be many.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-16

Pending consideration of the tariff bill by
the Senate, Senator Morgan is taking what
is called "a much needed rest" The coun-
try does not begrudge it.
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IT. LoUIs-union News Company. Union Depot.

for seamen, and they must be able bodied
seamen at that
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That the railroad earnings for May show
sn increase of 70 per cent. over those of
May, 1896, is regarded as positive evidence
OF business Improvement
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successful in planting colonies of working
men in the far West
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The Republican elephant now goes around
and the band begins to play. Indications
from all directions show business improve
1nent,
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Senator German. to insure his title to
being prophet must check the flow of
oTatory on his side of the Senate
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Leprosy Congress.
Philadelphia Record.

7
A unique and curiously interesting worlds
congress will be the International Leprosy
Congress to be held in Berlin on Oct III
next when the greatest meteorological ex-
perts of the modern scientific world will
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Desiccated.

'Timmins has a good deal of dry wit
why shouldn't his wit be dry? Think of
how often 1t has been warmed over"
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Petitions go to Congress on wheels now.
Is there no limit to the craze?
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STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS.

While this has been to her source or
strength, it has likewise constituted an
element of weakness. For it has rendered
her responsible in the eyes OF the world
at large for a number of acts and mis-
takes for which she is in reality in no
wise accountable. Thus in spite of her
being by birth a member of the inn
periaI house of Hapsburg, she is infinitely
more progressive enlightened and liberal
in her views than any other member of the
house Of Spain, and whatever personal
leanings and sympathy she may have are
with the Liberal party, the leader of which.
good old Senior Sagasta, has both in and
out of office. been ever since she became
a widow her warmest and most trusted
friend Indeed, it used TO be a pretty spec
tacle in times gone by to see the little boy
king clamberng on the knees of the old
statesman. and playing with his glasses
when he was bringing words Of not mere
constitutional but likewise of paternal adj
vice to the harassed young Queen so en-
tirely alone in a strange land where for
eigners, and in particular Austrians, are
cordially disiiked.
Thus at Madrid it Is no secret whatsoever
that the Queen Regent is imbued with SEN
timents of horror toward the methods pur-
sued by Captain General Weyler in dealing
with the Instruction in Cuba. She shares
to the fullest degree the humane views OF
her trusted old friend and champion, Mar
shall Martinez campos- who, as every one