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The times., 1897-03-24
The Dingiey Luggage Limit.

There are many things which appear
very obtrUsivcly and malodorously on the
face OF the Dingley tariff bill, while
there are some others that lie coiled
| under apparently innocuous verbiage, and
would not strike the country, or the
pockets of its citizens, until after the
bill should be made effective by oppo-
sition ''complacency" in the Senate.
One OF these sleeve-enveloped little jok-
ers is the innocent and virtuous pro-
vision that people returning from trip
| abroad will not be allowed to bring ia
wearing appare! Of foreign production TO
a value exceeding 500.
We shall not waste time in describing
the anger and contempt which this small
| item is calculated to excite among the
| ladies OF the land. who annually hie them
unto foreign parts, returning with the
| pauper productions OF Worth and others
| of that ilk to the value of as many
dollars, hundreds or thousands, as the
| parental or marital purse will afford
That sentiment is perhaps an important
consideration, and may exert some in-
nuence in future elections. but ii is not
the main one.
Everybody knows how few fat Offices
there are to bestow upon the patriotic
heelers and strikers who fought the good
fight Of the winning party last autumn.
1t is equally notorious that the job was
not an easy one, even with the advantage
OF a sixteen-million dollar educational"
fund There is every inclination in high
places TO reward such service, hut the OPP
portumities are few. The laborers indeed
ore many, but the harvest is like grass
hopper year in Kansas Under these cir
cumstances something must be done. Even
President Mckinley would rather see the
boys feeding at the public breast than
hungering and kicking outside the public
breastworks; and so this one-hundred-dollar
luggage dodge no doubt is one of the means
by which some Of them would have show.
1t would be confined to the most worthy,
always the most influential. for the op-
portumities would be great
Not to make. a long story of il, there
are officials known as customhOuse IN
spectors-tide-w walters, in the vernacular-
who board the incoming steamers and eX-
aminethe impedimenta of passengers. What
they chalk, goes, What they do not, has 10
p3yduty. tits, therefore, evidentthat many
good Ohio men who now are seeking first
class foreign missions, would be very Glad
that they had to wait for something
equally a good'' in case the Dingley bill
should become law. Because, under that
hundred-tlollar baggage arrangement, the
expenses and social responsibilities of q
tide-waiter would be much less than those
OF an ambassador, while it need hot be |
doubted that the net returns of the position |
would Toe much greater.
For these and other like sufficient reasons |
the worshipers at the pie counter are daily |
exhorted to wait patiently and TO be of |
good cheer
The times., 1897-03-24
A NORTH TEXAS BANK FAILS.
Farmers and Merchants of Paris
Forced to the Wall.


Paris, Texas, March 23.-At 10 O'Clock
this morning the Farmers and Merchants
Bank, one OF the oldest and thought to
be the strongest financia. institution in
north Texas. with a paid-up capital of
S200,0O0 and q surplus of $50, 900, made
an assignment to Judge d H. Scott This
action was precipitated by the failure of
the cotton firm OF Martin, Wise < Fitz-
hugh yesterday.
IL was known that the firm owed the
bank money, depositors became alarmed
and run begun. All checks presented
yesterday We're promptly cashed. The
bank Officials foresaw that If the run
was kept up it would be forced to the
wall.
An appeal to the other local banks for
assistance was made but refused When
the doors opened this morning the run
was renewed and continued until the
bank was forced to close This set peo-
pie wild and rush was made for the
City National, which was also large
creditor OF Martin. Wise & Fitzhugh.
a great crowd gathered in front of the
building and it became necessary for the
police 10 clear the side walks At IL
O'Clock Col George F. Hicks, vice presi.
dent of the First National Bank. walked
in and laid 100000 on the City Ma
tionars counter and told the people to
come forward and get their money
his was followed by the announcement
that the bank would remain open until g
o'clock 10 pay depositors. This aIlayed
the fears Of some, but many confined to
withdraw their money. Apprehensions
are felt for banks in neighboring towns
who are involved in the failure of Martin.
Wise 6 Fitzhugh.
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counterbalancc the stimulant of Scotch
whisky, when that happy beverage is
taken in moderation, SO it is said. And
as TO the quantity of liquor consumed, it
is probably true that in some of the
vineyard countries of Southern Europe
there is more light wine taken into the
system than in any country OF the United
Kingdom, with less drunkenness. 1t is
taken as q matter of course, and no.
body thinks anything about it, much less
organizes blue ribbon societies. But the
American climate seems to be a different
matter. and the highly sensitive American
temperament, which is said to be de-
yeloped with u few generations residence
in this bracing atmosphere, also compll
Gates matters The upshot of the whole
matter is that we have no business to
argue about the comparative morality of
any country from mere statistics All that
we really understand, unless we have de-
voted years to our researches, is u very
small section of our own land, and not
always that
The times., 1897-03-24
Panama Canal completion.

The duty of keeping up with the process
one to the people of this country. We do
not like TO see other nations get ahead Of
us, although Of late years we have grown
rather used to it in the directions of
diplomacy, ocean commerce and some
other things Still we do not like it.
These remarks are suggested hy the
fact that great activity is being exhibited
on the line of the Panama Canal, ard if we
do not move quickly in the Nicaragua mat
ter European nation or alliance may
have hole cut throughthe isthmus before
we can say Jack Robinson, in terms Gf
successful enterprise in the same line.
Reports from Panama indicate that six
teen miles of the canal have been completed
from the east and four miles from the
west coast This amounts TO about half
of the whole distance. 1t also is said that
three thousand fresh laborers are on their
way from Jamaica to take the places of
number recently on strike, and that the
work will be pushed faster than ever be-
fore.
Secretary Sherman and the Senate want
to be up and doing. There must be an
American canal. under American control.
to connect the comm cree of our east and
west coasts. Nothing less will satisfy the
people
The times., 1897-03-24
imnortantor necessary manufacturingtr trust
subscribers to the conspiracy fund for the
suppression of the American people.
Tariff Indignation swelling.


Even the Republican tariff leaders in the
Senate are scared at the national indigna-
tion excited by the Dingley trust and mo-
nopoly tariff, and declare that when they
get through with it its author will not recog-
nize the measure. They express the inten-
ton of shaving it down to d shape that, in
their Judgment, the country will swallow
without stranglng: but they will find it
a difficult and thankless task, between the
trusts, who even yet have not gotten all
they want, aud the people. who abhor the
entire scheme.
One of the bill S features which has re-
ceived condemnation at the hands of Repub-
lican Senators is the wood schedule This
interesting confection doubles the McKin-
ley duty of ST per thousand feet, and adds
case of any other country imposing an eX-
port tax On rough lumber, A consequent
howl comes from Republican Vermont.
whose Iumbermen say that Canada GER
tainly will levy an export duty sufficient to
make the total tax S4 or So thousand.
The business interests of the city OF Bur
lington are up in arms. as about all the lum
Der used in the place comes from Canada,
and the passage of the Dingley bill would
amount To q local disaster.
When even trust Senators are brought TO
see that the genuine article of protcc iyc
tariff cannot be had without pluuging the
United States into a hopeless commercial
war with Europe and Asia, Democrats and
other antitrust Senators ought TO take
heart of grace and see victory through the
smoke Of the battle to come.
The American people never will forgive
the Senator who does not fight this outrage
to the last kick.
The times., 1897-03-24
PUT BOGUS BONDS IN PAWN.
Clever Swindlers Raise Money on
wildcat Railroad Securities.

Clever Swindlers Raise Money on
wildcat Railroad Securities.
Philadelphia, March 23.-Detectives
Hamm and Eckstein, and Bank Detective
Kelly have arrested James NJ. Cath.ll, w.
II. Clough, and Thomas 2. Murphy. ON the
charge of obtaining advances OF money
upon wildcat" railroad bonds and stocks.
Murphy is alleged to have acted as the go
between for the two other defendants IN
obtaining loans OF So, $40. and S25, and
leaving tie alleged securities as collateral,
subject TO redemption lin q few lays"
The detectives also learned that CaJheIl
had rented a room on Fourth street, helow
Walnut, where he intended to establish { II
office in connection with 1.-The build
ing OF railroad between Egg Haroor
City and Tuckerton, n. j." In the apart
ments or Clough and CatheH several bun
dies OF letters and a mass OF certificates
OF stocks and bonds were found
Magistrate Jermon held the defendants in
$500 bail each for further hearing. De
tective Haram say the prisoners claim chat
the certificates were given them by
wealthy Wall street broker, named Hume TO
dispose OF. The authorities believe that
Murphy is fugitive from justice, from
New Orleans.
The times., 1897-03-24
a New SDautSh Horror,

The condition of affairs which this
Journal prophesied would mark the closing
days of the Spanish occupancy of Cuba it Is
to be feared has come about. report
from Sancti spiritus states that Sonora
Secretary of the Interior, had been seized
by the spaniards, tortured, and then
burned to death.
This is only one of number Of similar
occurrences continually coming to light,
and which are as much shame to the
United States as they are a horror to
civilization.
Has humanity no international rights
or duties?
The times., 1897-03-24
Warming to the Flooded Region.

Very sad news was sent out from the
Weather Bureau yesterday. That office
felt it duty 10 warn the people along the
lower Mississippi to move their eG1aGts and
abandon their homes within the next few
days, if they would escape destruction
by flood
Fortunately, it is announced that 1t
will require q week, at least. for the ad-
ditional volume OF flood water at Cairo to
reach and overflow the lower stretches OF
country between the Arkansas and Red
rivers, and. If the people have the good
sense to accept the official warning, thou
sands Of lives and much portable property
may yet be saved 1t Is TO be feared that
man may refuse to believe the worst, and
remain within the doomed area, until too
late to escape.
According to all predictions, the spring
flood of 1897 will exceed in extent and
devastating & effects anything recorded in The
history OF the regions visited. 1t cannot
fail OF becoming a national calamity, and
the possibilities of its ultimate consequences
are sad TO contemplate.
The times., 1897-03-24
Drinking.

Somebody has been compiling the statis-
Britisher, and found that he spends about
$40 a year in that more or less unprofit
able way. This includes men, women and
children, and, as it is safe to assume
that the children don't drink thirty-thrce
gallons of firewatcr apiece in a year, 1t
may be inferred that there is really more
down the throat of the head of the
family. Over half of this amount is
beer; the rest is wine and spirits. 1t is
also found that the Englishman drinks
twice as much beer as the Irishman, and
three times as much as the Scotchman,
The Scotchman is long on whisky. He
and as much as the Englshnan and Irish
man put together. The inference is that
there is considerable drunkenness in the
United Kingdom.
But one may possibly be too hasty
in drawing this conclusion. Somebody
once defined a statistician as the man
who knows how to make figures lie, and
the reason OF this is that his statistics
almost always deal with but one line OF
argument, while all the forces, big and
little, which balance and counterbalance
that argument are left out OF the gues-
ton 1t has been said that the climates
of Great Britain and Ireland make it
possible for men to hold great deal
of liquor without feeling any bad effects.
The times., 1897-03-24
cHAUNcEY DEpEw TALKS.
He Considers the Decision of Seri.
Gus Moment.

New York, March 90 -Chauncey M.
Depew, who is chairman of the board OF
control Of the Joint Traffic Association,
said today that there was no doubt that
the decision of the Supreme Court in reia-
ton to the illeeality of the Trans-Missouri
Traffic Association, and which has been
interpreted as applying to all traffic assO-
Citations, was OF serious moment.
From what he had heard he was inclined
to the belief that the decision did not
cover the Joint Traffic Association, ur, if
it did. that 10 opened up new course OF
action, and that each individual association
upon the conditions of it's organization
would have to have separate hearing.
Mr.. Depew then went on to explain that
the articles of the Joint Traffic Association
were drawn up with the most minute care
They were prepared carefully by the ablest
lawyers in the country and nothing was
done hastily. and that they were passed
upon by the foremost railroad men in the
country, the shrewdest and brightest law
yers. and amended so that there was not
a flaw where they might conflict with the
Government.
The times., 1897-03-24
7AsHINGToN.wEDNEsDAY MARCH 24
Conplacency as Remedy.


If, instead OF its present alleged de-
scriptive caption, the Dingley bill were
entitled: AN Act to assess the people OF
the United states for the purpose OF re-
lmsnrsine. and rewarding certain trusts
and monopolies, for monies advanced to the
Republican party with which to carry tlne
late Presidential election; and for other
nefarious purposes the true intent and
meaning of the measure would not be
palmer.
The Dngley bill is an open and impu-
dent attempt to tax the people OF
this country TO make good TO the robber
trusts the sum OF SIG, 1000, 900 advanced
10y thea for the campaign of education, :"
and a couple of hundred millions more,
that they may see how virtue is its own
reward, and have thirty or forty millions
to spare for the elections OF 1898 and
1900.
Some Democrats regard the Republican
tariff proposition as fragrant and GER
tain to throw the voting masses into a
boiling rage, that they ra ther like the idea
of it
This is OF a piece with much historical
Democracy, which always has been full OF
sincere love OF the Constitution and respect
for the plain people, and at the same time
empty of American comm on sense.
1t is still possible that there may be
war in eastern Europe, which would at
once shut out of market. say a. hundred
and fifty or two hundred million bushels
of foreign wheat. That would give our
wheat boom. American oats, meat prod
ucts and all food supplies would jump into
active demand and there would be business
activity here while the war should last
Republicans would declare with all the
power OF a subsidized press and billion
headquarters pamphlets: We diG it with
our little tariff
Helping the devil to curse the world that
sin may sicken the sinner and win his vote
for righteousness two years later is bad
morals, and profanely bad politics.
The times., 1897-03-24
Stnte Treasury All Right.

Harrisburg, Pa, March Ex-senator
Snyder, Of the treasury investiga ting
committee. reported the findings OF the
committee when the senate rec0nvened
at noon. The report finds that the State
is amply protected to the full amount Of
the State treasUrer's bond, and that under
the present law he and his boHdSmen are
responsible to the commonwealth for any
loss that may occur by reason of the
failure of any banking institution where
State funds are deposited.
The times., 1897-03-24
Detroit MuyoraIty Contest.

4, Detroit. March 23.-The nomination of
ex-Congressnan William c. Marbury for
mayor by the Democratic convention in
sureS remarkably spirited contest on
election day. The Republican candidate is
Capt. a. II. Stewart, Il representative in
the legislature and the personal choice OF
Mayor Pingree. Marbury has never failed
TO carry Detroit city, and although it is
ten years since he has been candidate for
office he is considered very formidable
The times., 1897-03-24
A BUBONIC PLAGUE REPORT
Egyptian's Agents Interesting Mes
sage to Health Officer D0ty.

Quarantine. S. l., March % Health Off
Ger Uoty this morning received report
from the agent whom he appointed in
Egypt 20 look after vessels arriving at the
Suez Canal from India during the preva-
Ieuce of the bubonic plague in the latter
country. The report says
From Bombay learn of the apparently
marvellous manner in which the disease
keeps to itself For instance. the natives
live mostly in IA large building. divided into
flats Each fiat consists OF a set of ruOms
divided by a passage or corridor, at the
end of which is q common 1avatOry.
1T has been kno hover and over again,
or room "a flat with several personsin
it, suffering from plague, and yet not one
other individual living in the same flat
has caught the disease although the same
Iavatory has been used by all. This was
proved also to lie the case during the last
epidemic at Hong Kong"
The times., 1897-03-24

Richard c. Rerens, of St Louis. was ut
the White House the other day pouring
tale OF woe into the ear OF the President.
Mr. Kerens is great rival of ChaUncey l.
Filley, the "old man of Missouri politics,
and in the Republican national convention
Of last summer he succeeded in defeating
him for member OF the national committee
But these are blue days for Kerens His
power as national committeeman has been
greatly diminished by the Presidents de-
cision that thP Missouri delegation must
fully agree before any appointments Will
be made from that State At least one,
3 and some say two, of the Missouri Members
of Congress are strong FilIey men, and if
the Presidents order stands, it looks
very much as though Mr.. Kerens would
be out OF it, notwithstanding his hard and
successful fight at st. Louis.
Kerens is particularly desirous of landing
Mai. William Warner, of Kansas City in
goodplace. The Filley menformerlythought
a good deal of Warner and were willing to
make him compromise candidate for La
tional committeeman, but he went over to
the Kerens faction, and now they have no
use for him
The times., 1897-03-24
Gunboat Tests Today.

New London, Conn, March 23.-1he gun
boat Helena arrived here this morning
from Newport News. About everything is
in readiness for the trial of the Whining
ton, which will bs the first to undergo the
speed test. She will leave here at 6 q. III.
tomorrow for the starting line off Old Field
Point, and the start Will be made as soon
as the conditions of wind and sea VIII per-
roit
The times., 1897-03-24

offices. Owing to certain exaggerated
publications, the impression has gained
a footing that lengthy petitions, con-
tanning the names of considerable pro-
portion Of the inhabitants of the place
in which postoffice is located, will be
necessary to properly support an appIica-
zion. Most of them have advised their
correspondents that twenty names Of
reputable citizens will be ample, and in
very small towns, d dozen names Will
be sufficient
The times., 1897-03-24

Yale and other in stitutions of learning are
Joining in the protest Of the Catholic Uni
versity against the book schedule of the
Dinglev bill. which takes valuable foreign
not published also in the United
States and subjects them to tariff of 80
,er cent. AS fast as the several features of
he measure become known to the people
indignant protest follows.
The times., 1897-03-24
Gentry's Friends Nav See Him

Harrisburg, Pa, March 23.-The house
today passed the senate bill to amend the
Philadelphia prison law so far a S it relates
to condemned prisoners. The bill now goes
to the governor. This is the bill which
was presented particularly to allow the
friends of James B. Gentry, who is under
sentence Of death for killing the actress
Madge Yorke, TO visit him in Jail
The times., 1897-03-24
RIGGS WIFE BRINGS SUIT.
She Wants Damages from Princess
of Chimay'5 Paramour

of Chimay's Paramour.
Paris, March 23.-Madame Rigo, wife Of
the Hungarian fiddler, Janos Rigo, who
eloped from this city last summer with
the Princess of Chimay, formerly Clara
Ward, OF Detroit, made her appearance in
court today accompanied by a cOmmissary
of police, and formulated a charge of
adultery against her husband and the
princess, alleging that the acts complained
OF were committed at the Hotel Terminus
and elsewhere. Madame Rigo. in taking
action at law against her husband and his
mistress. claims the sum OF 100, 900 francs
damages for the benefit of herself and
children.
Rigo and the former princess. whose hus-
band recently obtained an absolute di-
vorCe from her upon the ground OF her
relations with the Hungarian, are an
nounced TO make their appearance on the
stage at the Winter Garten in Berlin on
April l.
The times., 1897-03-24
CONTINUATION OF OUR
Great Sale of
Books ......,....

From the auction sale of
Bangs & Co., New York.
For this week we name IN
part the following:
T Meade-a delightful story for girls
healthy and strong Cloth limo
25c-Publisher's Price, SIPS
The Thing That Hath Been-a story
for boys-by A. A. Gilkes, VI. A. Crown.
Syo.
25c-Publisher's Price, 81. so
Maranuna-by d. b Marcott watson
Crown. 9vo.
Publishers Price, SI-25
,,a,s At Tuxter's-by G. Burgin- 12mO-
25c-Publisher's Price, SI.oo
History Of Virginia in Words of One
Syllable. Fully illustrated
25c-Publisher's Price, SI.oo
History of Illinois. in Words OF Ono
Syllable. Fully Illustrated.
25c-Pub1 sher's Price, ST 90
southey's Life of John Wesley-2 vols.
complete paper cover
25c for set-Pablisher's Price, ST
12 different volumes OF Mrs Amelia
Barr's charming books. Ought TO be
in every sunday school library III America.
I2mo. Cloth.
5oc-Publisher's Price. SIPS
Isles OF the Prineess-by Sunset Cox.
limo Cloth.
5oc-Publisher's Price, s.. 90
Richmond Prisons-1 -1s61-62-by W. II.
Jeffrey.
5oc-Publisher's Price, SI.5o
About Ceylon and Borneo-by W. j
maps Crown. Svo-
5oc-Publisher's Prce, S2.25
Spry's Cruise of the Challenger VOYAGES
5oc-Publisher's Price, $500
Old Diary Leaves. The True Story Of
the Theosophical Society. By Henry 5.
Olcott. $40.
5oc-Publisher's Price, $500
Diary OF a Journey Across Thibet-by
Capt. II. Bowers. 500 pages Many
Illustrations
5oc--Publisher's Price, S3.7s
Basement.
The times., 1897-03-24

Friends Of the Dingley bill, having re-
duced the purchasing power Of the people
more than so per cent, are now trying to
protect them by making them pay an ad-
life. "Grand Old Party" isn't 1t?
The times., 1897-03-24
INSANE FROM CIGARETTES.
They Caused William Leland to
Attempt Suicide.

Chicago. March William Leland,
a real estate dealer, and son OF General
Auditor Leland, Of the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern Road, tried to COM
init suicide this morning by hanging him
self In Il police station.
Leland suddenly became insane, it is
said, from excessive cigarette smoking
His mother is now dying in New York
hotel, having just returned from Europe
in search OF health. Young Leland will
die. The Leland family formerly resided
at Cleveland, Ohio.