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THE DAILY JOURNAL. 15Y JNO. C. NEW & SOX. For Rates of Subscription, etc., see Sixth Pace. FRIDAY, JULY (L 1888. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the followiuj? places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 419 Strand. TARlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard dee Capucines. NEW YORK—Fifth Avenue and Windsor Hotel*, WASHINGTON. D. C.—Brentano’s 1,016 Pennsylvania avenue. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. V. Hawley Jc Cos., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Bearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUTS—Union News Company. Union Depot. The St. Louis Republican favors the general government using up the surplus revenue in the extinction of State and local debts, which it estimates at $1,050,000,000. A scheme like this would end any necessity for discussion of plans for the reduction of taxation. Right Rf.v. W. H. Elder, coadjutor bishop, now becomes archbishop of this archdiocese, and is invested with all the dignity and responsibility of the office without ceremony. The consecrated vestment of the archbishops •—the pallium—is always buried with them, and that article, made only at Rome, must come direct from the hand of the Pope to one succeeding to the archepiscopal office. The Louisiana State lottery has used the mail facilities for a generation as a means of filching from the public millions of dollars annually. Some feeble efforts have been made to shut the concern off from postal privileges, but they amounted to nothing. The people are ready to give General Gresham a hearty support in his decision that the mails shall no longer be used by this gambling concern. The Virginia duelists have not yet been arrested, and because of the lack of witnesses to the encounter it is believed that conviction could not be secured. If there were no witnesses, who knows whether a duel took place or not? Perhaps Mr. Elam’s hip wound resulted from the explosion in his pocket of his own unloaded revolver, ns he hastily climbed a Virginia rail fence to get away from Beirne. The Louisville Courier-Journal has come to the conclusion that the next Presidential contest will be decided by New York and Ohio. It says the Democracy can win with cither State without Indiana. This is tantamount to notice to Mr. McDonald that his boom is shelved. This article takes on special significance from the fact that Mr. Watterson has been eating and sleeping with Mr. Tilden for some time. The eyes of the Democratic party will be turned toward the State of Ohio for a candidate, at least until after the October election, and then, possibly and probably, to New York. Mr. B. Hillsdalh, superintendent of the Cleveland schools, addressed the American Teachers’ Association, at Chautauqua, on Tuesday, in opposition to the current tendency in education toward the industrial. This paper was vigorously discussed, among others by ex-President White, of Purdue, who believed in any system of education that would make a boy manly—that would give him a steady hand, a bright eye, a straight back and a desire to do a man’s work in the world. No topic is receiving more attention at the present time than this one, and it is safe to say that, despite all opposition, public education will take on a more practical phase than heretofore. The Irish National LeagUe at Philadelphia urges that the study of the Irish tongue be persisted in as a means of preserving the national spirit. These tilings can never be controlled by resolutions. A language cannot be made or unmade to order. The once proud language in which were written the annals of Innisfailen is slowly but surely dying. The force of arms was too much for it, and it is disappearing. Time was, in the early history of the British isles, when that language was one of the most polished known, and when many scientific facts were locked up in it. The days of Bryan Boruand of the ancient Eblana are departed, and with them the language of the followers of the chieftain and of the inhabitants of the city. The celebration of the semi-centennial of Oberlin College served to recall some of the most important events in the history of the republic. An otherwise obscure institution was brought into notional prominence on account of its uncompromising stand in behalf of human liberty. It was a landmark visible from all partsof the South, toward which the fleeing slave hopefully made his way. It was one of the very few cities of refuge offering hospitality and help to the oppressed. It was a light house on a dangerous coast —a mile-stone on the road from servitude to freedom. But fifty years have passed since it was founded, yet in that comparatively short period of time it has undergone an experience that has marked it above its fellows. While other institutions of learning gave half-nearted support to the cause of human freedom or none it all, Oberlin boldly stood up for the right. Its fearless and noble position on this issue brought down upon it the objurgations of llave-dealers and slave-owners and slavelyninatbizers everywhere. Southern child'M* \*re taught to regard Oberlin as but a nar ow remove from Gehenna in all that was wicked and accursed. Oberlin was for the ir*irht when to be right was to be anathema- -*-•** nand ostracised. It coat something to bo

an outspoken anti-siavery man in those days. A man jeoparded his life then to plead the cause of the oppessed. But times have changed. The civil war that threatened so long has come and gone, and the myriad wounds have healed. The emancipation proclamation has become a portion of the constitution. The black man. instead of fleeing from cruel pursuers, is the political peer of any man anywhere, and is now making rapid strides to become the equal of the white man in every point of culture, refinement and good citizenship. Verily the metamorphosis has been marvelous since the daj r , half a century ago, when the founders of Oberlin began to pave the way to this glorious consummation. The events crowded into its five decades are of graver import and of grander result than can be found in as many centuries of history of almost any other similar institution. There is a vast difference between the action of the metropolitan police ou the Fourth and the alleged non-action of former police boards upon similar occasions. The Journal has hitherto expressed its opinion plainly upon the want of enforcement of the law against liquor saloons by the police authority of the city, and we have said publicly and repeatedly, what everyone knew to be the fact, that it was such lack of enforcement that made the passage of the metropolitan police bill possible and rendered it at all tolerable to the great body of the people of the city. But in this instance, according to the statement or confession of Superintendent Robbins, he gave instructions to the policemen to notify saloon-keepers that they need not obey the law of the State, and he pleads that he had the authority of two of the commissioners for this official action. We quote from the News of last evening: “Superintendent Robbins said to-day he did not wish to plead the baby act in the matter; that he knew, and the board knew, what the law was, but that he and two members of the board thought, considering the fourth of July only came once a year, it would be all right to ease up on the boys a little. He said he had given the saloon men to tmderstand that, so long as they kept order in their saloons and did not sell to drunken men they would not be interfered with. He said the mayor concurred in this view. He also said he was not aware that any trouble, specially, had followed as a consequence of the leniency.” It is not leniency, Mr. Superintendent, but it is an official violation of the law and an official violation of the oath of office by yourself and the two commissioners. It is not a question whether any “trouble specially resulted” or not. That trouble did not result is no credit to Mr. Robbins or to the two commissioners. The law was violated—violated by authority, and, as we said yesterday, if this sort of thing is to be tolerated there is no telling where it is to stop. The metropolitan police system was at least fairly received by the general public, who hoped there might be a better enforcement of the law than there had been; but we submit that never in the history of Indianapolis has there been so flagrant an instance of defiance of the laws as this by the men who have been solemnly sworn to make it their special business to see to its enforcement. The indiscriminate abuse of railroad corporations ought to cease long enough at least to afford an opportunity of giving credit for the good things done by them. In the cause of practical temperance work the management of railroads have taken the lead by excluding from their service the drinking classes, thus putting such a tangible premium upon sobriety as to have an immediate and extended influence in the right direction. The day is coming when drunkenness will be a complete bar to employment in all honorable pursuits. It is so now in many fields of labor, and the tendency is becoming general; when it does, much will have been accomplished in the disposal of the liquor question. Another wholesome measure in which certain railroad officials have taken a prominent part, and especially President Young, is the discontinuance of unnecessary Sunday trains, and thus allowing their men the needed rest of one day out of seven. These good works, among others, will be appreciated more fully in time, and will go a long way in mitigation of the abuses practised in other directions by these corporations. “Stomach bitters*’ uianiilacturers are somewhat disturbed In their minds. After a long and vigorous effort these eminent citizens succeeded in having the tax oil their various “tonics’’ and “elixirs” removed by the last Congress, and were iu high feather over their prospective sains. Subsequent reflection, however, has convinced them that the stamp tax was not an unmixed evil to them, whatever the medicines were to the consumers. The different bitters are, us some partakers may have suspected, largely composed of alcoholio compounds. This fart has come under the observation of the revenue officers, ana they propose that dealers in the goods shall pay the usual liquor lir?nse. If the article is not medicated sufficiently to make it uuplcasant as a beverage it cannot evade the law applying to intoxicating drinks. To be branded as intoxicating will destroy the usefulness of the bitters in toiuperauee communities, which have hitherto been their strongholds, and there is a loud protest all along the line of manufacturers. Bishop Pinckney, who died on Wednesday, was born at Annapolis, Md„ and graduated at 81. John’s College, in that city. In eurly life he stuoied law, but finally turned his thoughts to the ministry, and iu 1836 became rector of Bt. Andrew’s parish, Somerset county, Maryland. Two years later ne took charge of Bt. Matthew’s parish, at Bladensburg, where he .remained seventeen years and until he was called to Ascension Church, in Washington. Iu 1870 ho was elected assistant bishop of Maryland while Bishop Whittingham held the seat. In 1870, on the death of Bishop Whittlugbain, he succeeded to the position. His administration of the affairs of the diocese was murked by decision and determination, though he ruled in a kindly spirit. He was a decided low church man, and in this was the opposite of Bishop Whitliughum, but was iu harmony

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with the majority of the diocesan convention. At the beginning of his administration he took strong grounds against the high church party by refusing to ordaiu as clergviuau a candidate presented by Mount Calvary Church. This course made him many friends among the low church men, and by a continuance in it the strength of the low church party has been greatly strengthened in the diocese. Ho was a finished scholar and somewhat of an author. Difficulty is expected in selecting a successor, the high and low church parties being very evenly divided. The Rev. Drs. Hoffman, Lewin and Randolph are mentioned as candidates. The citizens of this great republic are awakening to the very serious realization that the orange of to-day no more tastes like au autebelluin orange than a paste-board box tastes like a watermelon. Fill an old-fashioned pocket-book with tepid sugar-water and cover it with red flannel, and the result is a very fai r counterfeit oi what is now palmed off ou the unsuspecting public as an orange. Unlike the banana, the orange akin is perfectly harmless—there is no slip to it, and as for the interior, it might well be used for steam packing. The uinouut of moisture in a good-sized orange would not moisten a canary bird’s tongue, and would not suffice to drown a mosquito. As for suoculenoe— pshaw! one might as well eat the leaves out of a photograph album. A last year’s sycamore ball is fully as nutritious, and has the advantage of being much cheaper. An orange nowadays is a fraud—as vindictive and uncouscionaole as a two-pound cuouin her —a yaller cucumber, with seeds in it as big as shirt-buttous. Who ever hears of rotten oranges in these tiniest Good oraDges were prone to rot. They shrivel and dry up now. A man with even a remnant of a conscience should uever attempt to go Into the business of selling oranges. The strain is next to that of being a free-trade Democrat. If the trade in oranges is kept up, the day is not far dlstaut when superauuated foot-balls will be sold for twonty-oent musk-melons. It ft a mean man who deliberately feeds his sou slips of sole leather and tells him it is a four-for-a-quartor orange. A liberal supply of oranges should be kept about the house. Otherwise the children may chew up the fine comb to satisfy their cravmgs for this well-known fruit. If it had been a modern orange instead of an apple, Eve would still be in the garden pulling weeds and waiting for the roasting-ear to get big enough foeat. The next legislature should change the adage to “an orange buj-er and his money are soon parted.” It is but fair to call the man who sells this fruit an orange outang. Bo muoh for the orury orange. The New York World talks to the brethren as follows. It does not squint toward Mr. McDonald: “The Democrats are not for free trade. There is only one Democrat who is a free-trader—that is the gifted but very erratic Frank Hurd. But there are hundreds of thousands of Democrats who are protectionists. “A tariff is a necessity. The government costs neatly a million a day. As long as we have a debt we must have a tariff. As long as we have any tariff we can have no free trade. “But even if the Democrats were for free trade, as they are not, they could not accomplish anything. “They have control only of the next House of Representatives. The President is Republican —the Senate remains Republican for years. Two of the three arms of the government are opposed to the Democracy. The one Democratic arm is powerless. “There are unquestionably hundreds of thousands of protectiouists in the Democratic ranks. We may not agree with them, but here they arc. Free trade would drive these protectionist Democrat* out of their party without gaining any Republicans. No free-trade Republican will desert Ills organization in a presidential eleolion. Not one. The Republican party is openly for protection. JftJrant, Hayes and Garfield were all elected by protectionists as protectionists. The record docs not show a single Republican freetrader woo ever deserted his party in a presidential contest. “Why should the Democracy invite dissension in its own ranks for the benefit of the enemy! Why should its arm be raised against its own friends) “When the time comes for wise and final action on the tariff question the Democracy will speak with no uncertain voice. It will not disturb the country by fighting windmills. It will not gratify the Republicans by making fictitious issues in its own ranks. “What would the Democracy, what would the country, what the cause of free trade even, gain if the Democratic protectionists were driven into the Republican ranks only to strengthen the party in power, perpetuate its rule and further benefit the privileged and ‘protected’ classes?” The News of last evening says: “In defiance of the law and in violation of their oaths of office, the metropolitan politic authorities yesterday permitted the sale of liquors. It is oven alleged that the saloon-keepers were assured iu advance of police protection while they broke the law. There is, to be sure, little if any difference between this and ‘winking* at a violation of the law; but if there is a difference, it is that in giving plain permission to a class to violate the law, the authorities become open partners In that violation, and thus wipe away every shade of difference between themselves and the classes they are created to suppress. If the police commissioners have done this thing they ought to have the decency to go to the stationhouse and give themselves up, for they have in that case not merely violated their oaths of office, but become participators in lawbreaking. Who are they that they should interpret the. law? They are sworn to execute H, not Interpret it nor make it. The people make it. They have declaied, for instance, that thev want no liquor sold on Sundays and the four th of July, and after 11 o’clock at night. The police authorities are put in power to enforce this law, among others, and they take an oath that they will do it. But they don’t do it. They betray their trusts. By what right, moral or legal, we challenge any of "them to show. Why should they assume that the people who passed this law do not mean what they say? They have, every two years, an opportunity to repeal the law if they like. And the saloonkeepers, for whose benefit this law-breaking is done, are equally represented with all other citizens in making that law. It is their law as much us it is anyone’s, and yet the metropolitan police commissioners, in order to gratify a little coterie of 300 saloon-keepers and their following, stop their ears to the voice of the people as expressed in the law, ami blind their eyes to their own duty. Will the police commissioners get out of this disgraceful attitude at once; or won’t they?” A servant girl in Plymouth, Mass., suddenly disappeared from sight and knowledge of her friends. The ialter grew excited and intimatedfoul play, with their suspicious directed toward the respectable family for whom she had worked. The house was searched several times from garret to cellar by detectives iu search of a clew to the missing dara<e), but no trace could be found. After a week’s time, during which the position of the family grew dally more uncomfortable, the young woman emerged in a somewhat disheveled condition from a cellar closet, where she had remained hidden behind barrels and boxes. Subsequent investigation showed that she had apparently courted retirement for the purpose of consuming the hard cider and home-made wine stored in the closet. Having exhausted the liquid refreshments, as well us the stock of preserves and pickles, she uppeared ahd allayed the excitement. An account is published of “three mysterious wells” nen: Kingston, Out. About 400 yards from the St. Lawrence siver rises a lofty granite ridge, on which these wells are carved out of the solid rock, which have defied the queries of the oldest inhabitants as to their intended use. These cylinders, only four feet deep and a foot or more in diameter, are hewn out of rocks whlck the keenest tempered tools of modern times would scarcely chip, and from top to bottom they are as smooth ns the finest polished Scotch granite. They always contain a conimis supply of pure water, which must be supplied

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by rains, as no surface water can penetrate them. The popular idea, the accouut says, is that therein former savages pounded their corn, but the diameter of the holes and their disproportionate depth renders that improbable. The theory is erroneous. Exactly the same kind of “wells” are to be found iu thesaudfttor.e Muffs along the Wabash in Warren couity, nearly opposite Attica. But the oldest innabitant there recalls the time when these “wells” were used by the Indians as storage places for their corn. Secure from flood and vermin, these holes, carefully sheltered, afforded splendid warehouses. The Canadian wells were doubtless ruined fuil of water, since the Indiuns would scarcely bore in the top of a granite cliff with a river only 400 yards distant. The wells in Warren county are still called corn holes. To the proper-spirited Bostonian any visible phenomena among the heavenly bodies are a source of intense joy. He can gaze at them through telescope or smoked glass and thus help sustain the city’s reputation as a center of scientific oulture. Public schools take a holiday on the occasion of an eclipse that no pupil may miss the sight. Last week innumerable citizens blacked their noses and strained their necks while looking at the spots on the sun, but in spite of discomfort felt a resulting peace which their religion oould not give. Bpeakino of a murder at the Wet Woods, near Louisville, the Courier-Journal explaius that it has been remarkably quiet at that delectable spot, “no fatal affray having ocourr6d since the famous Waller, Stowers and Carrico murder, and the other double tragedy in which young Matt. Figg and Augustus lost their lives.” The Courier-Journal does not specify the time that has elapsed since these little episodes, but it is supposed that something like several weeks have transpired there without a murder. Pleasant place to live in, Louisville. 0“The Philadelphia Press has Information that Hendrioks thinks seriously of running for Governor of Inuiana. It is sincerely hoped the information is correct.”—Cincinnati Enquirer. Well, if it will make you feel any more comfortable, you just hug that delusion to your bosom. But if you want the dead facts, just paste it in your bat that Mr. Heudrioks is done running for Governor; and, especially, done running for the purpose of helpiug those to better things who are spending their time heaping up insults upon him. A young woman m England is probably pondering the question whether it is better to be or not to be beautiful. She was slightly hurt in a railroad accident, and in her suit against the company was awarded a ridiculously heavy verdict. The judge granted anew trial on the ground that the plaintiff and her sister, who appeared as a witness iu her behalf, were so beautiful that the jury in contemplating them wore deprived of common sense. The Louisville Courier-Journal describes a marvelous invention of a local genius, who has devised a scheme for the annihilation of the house fly. “It consists of a sheet of paper coated with a sticky substance that holds the domestic tormentor fast, even if he places but one foot upon it.” The self-same arrangement has been in use iu Indianapolis ever since the war. The New York Tribune endeavors to trace the origin of tho word demijohn. Many ascribe it to the French dame-jean, a local name for that description of bottle. But tho philologist of the Tribune ascribes the word to the Egyptian daraagan, name for that kind of vessel along the Nile. Kentuckians will welcome these tidings with becoming joy. m It is not generally known that New Orleans has a deeper harbor tjian New York, but it has. The White Star and Guiou line dare not load their vessels above twenty-six feet, nor the French line steamship above twenty-four feet. At New Orleans vessels drawing tweniy-six feet of water have no difficulty or delay in getting to sea. The Central Advocate, published at St. Louie, publishes a page of letters from leading Methodists upon the propriety of a change in the limit of the term of the pastorate. Os those published twenty-two favor a removal of the limit, thirteen are opposed, and two are in a state of suspended animation, so to speak. Who next? Henry Bergh, the friend of animals, is said to have written a number of plays, which he expeota shortly to have put upon tho 6tage. Mr. Bergh may love the beast of the field, but he is an enemy to his kind. Judge W. D. Kelley has written a letter from Europe iu which he states that he is doing well, and convalescing rapidly. He has progressed so well, iu fact, that he has sent his nurse home. A Peruvian living iu Milan has made a clock entirely out of bread—uearly equal to the Yankee who makes health-lifts out of boardinghouse beefsteaks. To the Editor ot the Indianapolis Journal: Please publish in your excellent paper a list of all public or legal holidays. A Reader. Terre Haute, July 5. The laws of Indiana provide as follows concerning holidays: “The first day of tho week, commonly called Sunday; the first day of January; the fourth day of July; the twenty-fifth day of December, and any day appointed or recommended by the President of the United States or the Governor of the State, as a day of publio fast or thanksgiving.” ABOUT PEOPLE. There are nearly six thousand Americans residing in Paris. Mr. A. 8. Abell, proprietor of the Baltimore Sun, is estimated to be worth $15,000,000. Miss Chamberlain, the Amorioan beauty, was heard to address the Prince of Wales as “Jumbo” at Hamburg, last fall. Captain John Ericsson, the Inventor of the Monitor, still hale and hearty, is now eighty, looks about seventy and works like sixty. The British Home Secretary has appointed Mr. Henry Fielding Dickens, youngest son of the late novelist, Charles Dickens, to the* Recordershipof Deal. Victor Hugo, who is now a hale old man, rides every afternoon on the top of an omnibus through Parts. He likes to view tho city and to chat with fellow-passengers. Ciiappaqua still forms an attractive summer residence to the Greeley circle, and Gubriclle, with Mrs. Cleveland (sister of the great editor) and other friends, occupy the old farm-house. Queen Victoria has granted a pension of £l5O per annum to Lady Palliser, widow of Major Sir William Palliser, C. 8., the inventor of the Palliser gun, and of many* improvements connected with projectiles. Gen. Joe Johnston is still hale looking, though about seventy years of age, and his fiery black eye and close-trimmed white whiskers seem to defy the attacks of time and the results of long service iu the field and the forum. The Marquis of Lome will not leave Canada until after the arrival of his suocessor, and he is not expected to arrive in England till the end of November. It is probable, however, that the Princess Louise will return to Europe in August, in order that she may visit a German bath before the close of the season. Mr. Orange Judd, the well-known agricultural editor and publisher, and benefactor of Wesleyan University, is dying iu Florida, word to that effect having been received by his two sons, who are students at Wesleyan. Mr. Judd’s health has been poor for some time He i* now about sixty-one years old. When he was a stu-

dent at Middletown he erected the firt telegraph line in Connecticut, leading from his room out and around the college building and back to his room again. Professor Paul Haupt, of Gottingen, who has been invited to fill the chair of Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins University, is only thirty years old, but lias already risen to enviable prominence among German philologists. Aaron Glover, a Sumter county, Ga., negro, does not perspire like any other man. The left side of his face will trickle like a stream, while the right Is as dry as a bone. Then his body is just the reverse—the right side soems a continual stream while the left is as dry as a piece of iron lying before a big fire. Aaron enjoys most excellent health. Dr. Macon of the Inebriates’ Home at Fort Hamilton, L. I„ has looked into the family history of one hundred and sixty-one patients there. He learned that ninety-eight of the number had drunken fathers; six drunken mothers; and sixteen, grandparents and other near kindred who were intemperate. Fifteen were of families in which insanity existed, sometimes along with inebriety. Tiie rule forbidding a prince to contraot a marriage with a woman of inferior rank is rigorously observed in Germany. Prince Alexander of Wittgenstein, however, has refused to allow it to stand In his way. Ho fell in love with the gov *tness of his children. Asa prince, he could at best upon her only the doubtful position of a morgana.io spouse. He has therefore renounced Ills hereditary title. It is asserted that few of the merchant kings of New York are native Americans. The O’Neills and the McCreerys are Irish, the Johnsons are Sootch and the Sterns are Hebrews, of German birth. Looking back on former namos, Btowart was Irish and Aaron Arnold was a native of the Isle of Wight, wtiile the founders of the Lord & Taylor concern were from London. The only distinguished retailer of American birth was R. H. Macy. Inside the Garfield vault in Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, is a tall silver vase which Mrs. Garfield keeps filled with fresh flowers. On the casket lies Mine. Modjesku’s ottering of immortelles. Near by is a sheaf ot wheat, and at the foot the large paliu-leaf fan that was laid ou the casket at Elberon. On the fence outside hangs a box iu which vistors drop contributions to the monument fund, amounting to about $2.50 a day. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. The eye which can see one inch into the darkness iff 1884 belongs to the silent sphinx, and the feet that run on presidential errands at this early day weary themselves in vain. All such speculations are the thistles and thorns from which no figs can be gathered.—Chicago luter Ocean. It would be well for Kentucky not to boast so loudly of being the beet-managed State .in the Union until some provision is made for supplying qualified teachers for the 152,931 persons between ten and twenty-one years of age, shown by the last census to bo uuable to write their names.—Louisville Commercial. The petty meanness which leads a manufacturer or other large employer to buy up trade dollars of the brokers and pay them out to his workmen at their face value, deserves th* severest condemnation. It amounts to docking their wages 10 or 15 per cent., covertly, ami by a process which is little better than swindling. Something of this sort will be likely to be done wherever the crusade against the trade dollar extends,—Boston Journal. No doubt the manuersof promiscuous Americans may Jack polish. But the idea which lies at the bottom of them, that a man’s occupation does not classify him above or below any otlier man, and that courtesy is to he bought by courtesy, and not to be returned for insolence and put in the bill, is an idea which all real Americans believe and are proud of as the American idea. Tne Americans who would change It are a feeble and harmless minority.—New York Times. It is well, not less for the saloon-keeners than for the peace of the State, that the court’s decision [on the Missouri high license luw|, so promptly rendered, is just what it is. Had it been adverse, to the law, the shout of triumph from the saloon-keepers would have been answered by a ten times stronger cry of popular auger, and in the new conflict for a still sterner regulation of the liquor traffic the saloon-keepers would have been utterly overwhelmed.—Bt. Louis Republican. The issue of government paper, or greenbacks, is unconstitutional, and as soon as a decision of tho Supreme Court is readied, doubtless the notes already in circulation will have to be canceled when presented for redemption, or lose their legal-tender quality at least. The people will demand, or will be very foolish if they do not, as good paper money as they have been enjoying, and the problem ot furnishing it as a permanency is precipitated by the debt contraction. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. With the mercury at its present altitude, even politicians cannot be enthused, and whatever is done in that direction is time and labor thrown away. Wait until the hot blast shall have passed over, and then there will still be abundant time for the heavy work that is to be done. And there is plenty of hard work ahead. Heavy slugging is to ue done, but there are heavy sluggers to do it when the proper time arrives. The Republicans will marshal such men as Snerm n, liluine, Foster and Harrison. The Democrats will match them, and the fight, when it opeus, will lie a pretty one. In the meantime we may sleep on our arms without much duuger.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Agitation is at an end; there are no new plots, no menaces of assassination or dynamite; and the crimes act is working admirably. Bur the discontent remains as sullen as ever. At every election that is held in tho island the government candidate is deserted and the Home Ruler is carried to the head of the poll. The land act has been accepted by the main body of i lie tenantry, but no gratitude is evinced for it. The government Ims not strengthened its political position in tho island by rhe great measures which it lias enacted. On the contrary, Mr. Parnell is daily becoming more pow rful as the re preseiitauve Irish leader, and the constituencies one after anotber are rallying about him.—New York Tribune. t THE TRUTH ABOUT TILDEN. Honest Truths About the Sly Statesman of Gramercy Park. New York Star. “Do you want to see old Sam. Tilden?” The question came from a friend ot mine who was just on the point of driving down to Gramercy I’ark to show n span ot horses to Mr. Tilden. It is a very hard thing to get a sight of tho old man nowadays. He is now in the hands of his friends* who are grooming him for a presidential candidate. The scheme is to keep the old ruan out of sight, deceive the country about his condition, disclaim all presidential aspirations or intentions, and finally spring him upon the Democratic con volition. “If you want to see the old man,” said my friend, “jump in and ride down there. I have an appointment with him at 2 o’clock.” In ten minutes we were at Mr. Tilden’s liou.se, or rather at his two houses. Mr. Tilden has built two red stone houses exactly alike and side by side. Each house has a separate street entrance, but they are connected by adoorcut through the center wall. These houses are worth about SOO,OOO apiece. They gould be built in Chicago or St. Louis for $35,000 apiece. At 2 o’clock my friend rang Mr. Tildetvs door-bell. The servar.tTame to the door and said: “Yes, 2 o’clock is the time, but the old man lias just fallen asleep.” “Can’t you wake him up?” asked my friend. “No; we have orders not to wake him when he falls asleep,” said the servant. just then Mr. Wattorson came in. With the utmSfrt deference Mr. Watterson sat down to wait for Uncle Sam to wake np. In about ten minutes, during which time Mr. Watterson sat with his hat deferentially in hand, the old man tottered into tho room, rubbing his eyes will) his light hand. After whispering on Mr. Watterson’* eur-pan for five minutes, in the most secret manner, tne latter got up and left, while Mr. Tilden shuffled along to the front door to look at the horses. I say shuffled —it was not a shuffle. The old man simply scraped one foot after the otlier. His left hand is perfectly helpless. His left eye is almost closed, eyes arc dead.

They look like the eyes of a sleeping ox. They have a vacant stare, like the glass eyes of a wax figure. I examined the old man closely in the bright sunlight. His lower jaw was almost continually dropped down. It shook with palsy. Every nowand then he would close his mouth and brace up, for lie noticed that we were observing his palsied jaw. Then the jaw would drop again, the mouth would open an inch and the lower jaw would shake with the palsy. When any man says Mr. Tilden is not a very feeble old man, with one side paralyzed, one arm useless and mouth shaking with palsy, he simply lies. Mr. Dana, who knows how feeble Mr. Tilden is. does not deny this statement. II Henry Watterson says differently, he lies. There is no use of lying about the old man any more. lie is in liis dotage. Ilis relatives know this. They surround him silently and patiently as friends surround a sick man. They minister to him like a sick man. They watch over him as they would watch over a srek man liable to drop with paralysis at any moment. His obituary is written in every newspaper office in New York. And still, every now and then, sonic politician starts the story that Sam. Tilden is stout and hearty. Metropolitan newspapers, claiming to be honest and truthful, publish such reports when the editors know they arc lies. Sam. Tilden is a tottering wreck, shaking with palsy, incapable of walking, and only able to feed himself slowly with his right hand, and that hand shaking with the palsy, while the left hand is as helpless as the arm of a skeleton. The old man is shrewd and foxy even in his old age. His shrewdness consists in slow, thoughtful cunning. If lie has a political letter to write he thinks it over a week. Then he dictates a rough draft of it. His confidential friends come in and read and reread it -nd suggest politic alterations. Finally it is rewritten and submitted again to friends. Then the crafty document is sent forth to the world. Mr. Tilden is a natural demagogue. And still there are editors who mention him in the same breath with Madison and Jefferson. What State paper did Mr. Tilden ever write? He spent weeks on a letter to the Cincinnati convention declining to be the Democratic candidate in 1880. It was full of thin clap-lrap, which the convention discounted at once. When they took tho sly demagogue at his word it broke his heart. Smart, you call the old man? Why, every schoolboy saw through his game of bluff at Cincinnati. It was Chinese cunning, not statesmanlike diplomacy. And now dozens of politicians are talking to Mr, Tilden every day about running again. They play upon the old man’s dotage. It is understood by Mr. Watterson that Mr. Tilden will run, which, of course, means that Mr. Watterson is to be, in case of success, the White-house Warwick. Sara. Tilden can wreck a railroad when he is its confidential attorney, but he cannot fool the great Democratic party. Mr. Watterson and Mr. Dana ought to let the old man drop into private life. It is wrong to fool him, and wrong to flatter him up to make a fool of himself. He is in just that feeble, childish, putty state in which any three average men can mould him like dough. But any man who would persuade old Sam. Tilden to run for the presidency again would be ns wicked as the men who led poor Charles Francis Adams into a faro bank. Kennedy’s Visionary Scheme. Steuben Republican. The latest scheme to cheat farmers out of their wealth is being run by a lot of Indianapolis sharpers, who propose to organize a gigantic railway corporation with a capital stock of $320,000,000, the allowed object of the company being to build a narrow-gauge railwuy from the Atlantic to the Pacific and another from Chicago to New Orleans. The manipulators of the scheme announce that, they are to be roads for the farmers and that the monopolists will be all broken up in business. In view of the fact that after the completion of these trunk lines there will be no more extortion farmers are cordially invited to subscribe for stock. If any of the agents of the company come to Steuben county we hope the first person they visit will take his gun and chase them out of the State. The Men Who Curry Pistols. Chicago Inter Ocean. We have never yet seen a gentleman, a scholar, a person of politeness or refinement, while engaged in the duties of civil life, tarry a weapon. We have rarely met an innate coward, brute, gambler, rough or “deadbeat,” one who expected to carry himself through every controversy with a defiant temper, and a scourging, slanderous tongue, and to come out of it “first best,” whether right or wrong, that did not carry a pistol. The class most unfit to carry weapons are tho only men who ever carry them. The Republican City Convention. Indianapolis Daily News. The Republican city convention approaches quickly, and it has, apparently, received little thought and care except from citizens whose thought and care hunt in couples for no worthy purpose. The slate-makers and schemers, the law-breakers and their representatives, have been up and doing. It is time the mass of the people interested in good government and determined to achieve it, should consider means to that end. Common Politeness. Philadelphia Record. We supppo.se it is a matter of common politeness to believe all the opposing star-route lawyers say about each other, and the country will do its best to oblige them. They get no fee for mutual abuse, and we are therefore not at liberty to impute it to a mercenary motive. But how such a bad lot every came to be got together in the trial of one case will remain an inscrutable mystery. Drinking Fountains Giveu Away. New York Tribune. Some time ago. Dr. H. D. Coggswell, a citizen of San Francisco, Cal., publicly an* noil need that he would, if requested, present a handsome drinking fountain to each of the leading cities of the country. He ha? already heard from several, Albany, in this State, being the last. The fountains are said to cost SB,OOO each. Good for One Timo. Burlington Hawkeye. A young merchant wants to know how long a surety is good on a note. Well, generally as long as the note or the surety lasts. We don't know much about the length, but wc can tell you about how often a surety is good on a note. Once. Just once. Only w-o-n-st. You can’t catch him a second time, young man. Value of the Associated Press News. Cleveland Leader. The fact is quite apparant that the only source to obtain trustworthy foreign news is from the Associated Press reports. Thai association allows of no manufacturing ol news of a sensational character, or of any exaggeration of any news. Deserves a Vacation. Now York Mail and Express. If the President should manage to get t little rest this mouth, which we very much doubt, he has richly earned it bv as hard and wearing work es was ever done by our chiel executive. Have *Kn on Every Block. Clay County Enterprise. Indianapolis has five candidates for President, and the city has not yet been thoroughly canvassed. Great is Indianapolis, The Trade Dollar One of Them. New York IJarulJ. Os all contrivances for cheating the work ingman of ins re ward, a depreciated currency is the most effectual.