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STATE EXCHANGE TABLE. Opinions or All Kinds Upon All Kinds of Public Questions. Gnifrl TemleDCy in Favor of High License ami Restriction —No Quarter Shown tiie Civil Rights Decision. How Prohibition Works for Democracy. N-rth Vernon riain Denier. The whole object ana work of the temperance cranks is to hurt the Republicans. They never have aimed at anything else, and are kept at work by money contributed by Democratic State committees. Republicans have coddled with them entirely too long, and have certainly now had experience enough to know that they are constant and treacherous enemies. During the next campaign in Indiana that class will be found doing precisely what they think will help the Democrats most, and they will do it under the directions of the State Democratic central committee. A man is blind who does not know enough to bnow this. They have made Hendricks Governor, sent Voorhees to the United States Senate, and elected several Democrats to the Legislature already. A Denunciation of Constitutions. Martinsville Republican. Constitutions are a nuisance and a fraud. Whatever their framers may have intended them to be, they uniformly turn out to be the oppressors of the weak, the enemy of order and good government, and the '‘child of the devil” generally. The constitution is the great buggaboo—the hydra headed monster —that stands in the path of all nrogress and reform. It was the bulwark of ihe infamy of slavery. It is the chief defense of the evil of the age—the liquor traffic. It will be the shield of the scandalous sin, Mormonisra. It is a cover for all that is bad; a menace to all that is good. In the name of humanity let the constitutions, big and little, be abolished. Hero Worship of Criminals Kokomo Tribune. Just so long as murderers are treated by the people as injured persons, instead of red'lianded murderers, just so long will crime continue to increase and the salutary effect of a legal execution be lost. The time will come when ostentatious display ovey persons who take the life ofa human being simply to satiate their thirstfor blood, will cease. Whenever the romantic idea that criminals should be treated as saints loses its hold on the people—whenever the hero worship accorded them stops—then will the parade of criminals cease, and not until then. Tiie Slugger Show in Indianapolis. Ci lambus neimblican. The sluggers exhibited their precious carcasses on the stage and were received by the most enthusiastic marks of admiration and applause. It is not strange that in any city a crowd of thugs and criminals could be assembled to grace such an accasion. and if only such attended it would be little disgrace to the city; but, when many of the principal men of the place will countenance and encourage such thugs by their presence and assistance it is a disgrace to tiie entire community. Yeriiy Boston is not the only city that has reason to blush. Must Stand for High Incense and Regulation. Bushville Republican. If prohibition is the coming idea that is destined to draw all men to it, so be it. But let the advocates of that principle work up their own support, unaided by men who have tone as far as reason dictated in acquiescence to their demands, and received in return only treachery and opposition. The Republican party should stand distinctly on the platform of high license and strict regulation, letting those who want more than that look to the Prohibition party. Those who want less will probably look to the Democratic party. liMlorsea lion. Will Cumback’ft Letter. K<w cue tic Conrfer. In a manly, noble letter, replete with facts and strong in argument, published in the Indianapolis Journal of Wednesday, Hon. Will Curuback advocates the necessity of the Republican party adopting prohibition. Mr. Cumback is slightly in advance of the politicians, but they will get there by and by. We know many people will consider such talk rank insubordination. It matters not. We want the Republican party to live and rule, but know it can do neither through cowardice or as the apologist of avii. What the Party Should Do with Temperance. Madison Courier, It remains for the Republican party to continue to do right, to legislate witli judgment and justice on the liquor as on all other questions. Sooner or later the great mass of the people will recognize the wisdom and patriotism of its course and it will prevail. Meanwhile, let ns stand steadfastly for our convictions, tiie regulation and restriction of the liquor traffic within reasonable limits and the imposition upon it of its due proportion of taxation. The Silly Reductiou iu Newspapers. Warsaw Tunes. A more uncalled-for and insane proceeding than the reduction in the price of newspapers in New York has never before entered the heads of sane business men. There was no demand for such a proceeding; no one was asking for a reduction, and it is perfectly plain to even the most inexperienced, that in furnishing a newspaper at two cents, the former price of which was five cents, must end in cheapening the journal in the same proportion. I>pnocrtic Change of Front. h>w Albany Lwlirer. When the Courier-Journal was singing loud, and the Indianapolis Sentinel and a whole host of lesser voices joining in the chorus of tariff-for-revenue only, as the issue in the coming campaign, the Ledger’s solo oil another time was scarcely heard; but perseverance will accomplish wonders sometimes. and now the programme is reversed and the whole concert sing in the same key that the Ledger sounded witli its little tun-ing-fork many months ago. Asbury-DePuuw. Mnucii Tillies. Bishop Ashury, it is estimated, ordained 3,000 ministers and preached 17.000 sermons. He has monuments all over the world and needs noire to make him a name or to perpetuate his memory. The good men do follows after.” Ashury University at Greencastle will be Asburv still. A Deßauw monument cannot be erected on so grand a base as that of Anbury. He had not a dollar to give, yet lie gave all that he had, and that, too, not lo be seen of men. W'luit Is Needed fn Temperance Legislation. Porter County Victetto. The liquor traffic must, in equity, be subject to the same -rules as the trade in other poisonous or dangerous commodities, and courts must settle, in the cases brought before them, how far any sale was wrong and what the damage; then enforce the judgment. The truth is, all the legislation necessary for the cause o( temperance is such a reconstruction of the courts and ruies of practice as will give prompt, sure and equitable remedies for injuries. The People’s Demand Tor Equality. Didon city Ragle. No matter whether the robbery of vested rights or the imposition of indignity flows from the enforcement of an unlawful law, Dr from simple cussedness in the absence of ku v local law ou the subject, the general

government has a right to say to the lawless community, or State, “You shall respect the rights of my citizens.” This was the object t lie framers of the constitution had in view. This is what the Republican party has been striving for, and this is what it will achieve before its mission is ended. Disowned by the Prohibitionists. Vernon banner. The Prohibition candidate for Governor of Ohio boasts that they defeated the Republican party, but says, regretfully, that it cost them a good deal of money. It is these dishonest rascals that make all' intelligent nten consider Prohibitionists a party without principles and only seeking notoriety for pretended virtues. Real temperance men are disgusted with them, and consider it a disgrace to be called Prohibitionists. The Prohibition Mistake. Lfbiiuon Patriot. The Prohibitionists of Ohio have committed a most egregious error and have alienated hundreds of men whose sympathies were with the temperance cause. Will Indiana Prohibitionists ruin all hope of any effective action for temperance by turning their back upon their only friends? Surely there is too much fidelity to the temperance cause in their hearts to thus play into the hands of their enemy. Valueless to Humanity. Brookville American. The foolish dog that bays the moon is worth as much to humanity as a narrowminded, soulless politician who can say nothing in behalf of the negro because It is skin in black, though he and itis ancestors served their Democratic masters in tiie South for hundreds of years with fidelity prior to the day that they were liberated from bondage by Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation. The Republican I arty Will Protect Equal Rights. Columbus Republican. All the rights and privileges that the negro lias as a man were given to him by the Republican party, and lie may depend on that party to stand by its record. If by common consent the negroes are protected in their rights as citizens all will.be well, butts they are not. then the Republican party will see that such measures are enacted as will secure those rights. Democracy Responsible for No Appropriations. Huntington Herald. The blame for the present condition of affairs, in which the State is left without money to support the charitable institutions, rests with the Democratic members of that hob-tail body, and no amount of squirming in which they indulge can relieve ,tltem of the responsibility. The Republican party is ready to go before the people ou its record. Republican Duty Toward Civil Rights. Lafayette Journal. The late action of the Supreme Court has again called into prominence the civil-rights issue, which the Republican party had intended to settle, Since the unfortunate decision, the duty is laid upon the Republican party of meeting the question raised, and of determining it in the interest of the colored people, and in accordance with the principles proclaimed by it front its earliest organization. The Republican Party the Only Friend of Temperance. Clay County Enterprise. Temperance will never succeed except through the success of the Republican party, and by the legitimate workings of the party policy in general. Asa political question in Indiana, it will always defeat the party that carries it, and every such defeat puts temperance further iu the background and gives renewed strength to the whisky element. A Free-Trade Case in Point. Richmond Palladium. The attention of the able free-traders is called to a peculiar state of affairs now existing in the northern part of their idolized free-trade England. The steel industry, which is very large there, is suffering very greatly because of German competition, anil thousands of workmen are being discharged. Perhaps those workers in steel would not object to a little protection. For Local Prohibition. Winchester Herald. Let the constitution be so amended so that the voters may have a right to say by a majority of their ballots that the manufacture and sale of liquors shall be prohibited in any township or county that so declares, and we venture to say that it will be but a short time until nine-tenths of the State would be free from the greatest curse that afflicts the people. Favors Abolishing the Internal Revenue. Logausport Pharos (Dem.) Should the internal revenue system of raising revenue he abolished next winter, it will result in throwing a vast concourse of officeholders into the uncongenial sphere of private life. But it must come to this sooner or later. When the nation is out of debt we will have no need of internal taxgatherers. Prohibition a Hopeless Struggle. Madison Courier. The fact of the liquor element deserting the Republican party should not cause us to lose our heads and engage in retaliatory measures. We regard a fight for prohibition as a hopeless struggle for many years. We are opposed to the Republican party in Indiana committing suicide by attempting it. Republicanism Not Hummerism. Brazil Register. The Republican party is not a party of “slums” and “bummers,” and if it is to be guided safely through the coming national campaign it will be along the elevated highway of moral and political reform over which it has traveled so gloriously since the beginning of its illustrious career. Swindling Pension Claims. Sheiliyville Democrat. It is n fact beyond doubt that we have paid millions of dollars upon fraudulent claims, and we shall continue to pay these pensions for years to come unless some system for overhauling and verifying the existing pen-sion-roll is provided by Congress. More Safeguards for Marriage. Muucie News. The evils of divorce are becoming so prevalent and glaring in the United States, that the churches have become very much exercised about the matter, and will try to have greater safeguards thrown around tb“ marriage relation. It ought to be done. The Prize Asses. Shelby Volunteer (Dem.) Governor l’orter swears hv all that is holy that nothing can induce him to call an extra session of tlie Legislature. ’Tis well. The news of the reassembling of that crowd of prize asses would drive all the emigration front tiie State for a year to conte. The Recent Ohio Canvass. J.aporte Herald and Chronicle. We believe the Republican party honestly tried to do what was right on the liquor question, but the saloon-keepers were a unit against it, and the temperance people, instead of fighting the saloon-keepers, fought the Republican party. The L-quor Traffic Doomed. Goshen Times. If the persons engaged in the liquor traffic will obey the laws aid submit to proper restriction. the end may not be so soon; hut if they follow the tactics of the slave power,

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the final termination will thereby be hastened. In either case the day of judgment will come, and for the good of humanity it cannot come too soon. Steps to Prohibition. Greencastle Banner. Why not enforce our present law everywhere until we get a better? Assuredly this would be wiser than expending all the temperance force in the community in trying to accomplish the impossible, and would, in time, lead to a better law. Crawl, walk, run! That is the natural procedure in all things. Must Have Practical Sense. Andrews Express. A party must have practical sense; must know what it can do; must refuse to undertake to carry impractical measures. It is time for Republicans to seriously think of the necessity of ceasing to have every sort of issue chained to the party. Keep the Tax on Liquors and Tobacco. Richmond Palladium. We do not believe the time has come for the removal of the tax upon spirits and tobacco. These articles are, in their nature, luxuries. People pay taxes upon them more willingly than upon almost any article upon the revenue list. Unhealthy Dooms. Shelbyville Volunteer (Dem.) A presidential boom that the owner can’t keep up without perambulating around the country from city to city, giving parties and havin g himself interviewed, is badly in need of a disinfectant to keep it from spoiling. Whore the Whisky Money Goes. Terre Haute Express. “What becomes of the whisky money?” asks tiie Chicago News. Well, a good deal of it goes to buy diamonds, seal-skin saeques and tine horses and carriages for liquor dealers and their families. A Civil Canvass. Salem Press. Civil rights and the civil service are at present two of tiie uppermost topics in this civilized country. Reeulatlon by Limitation. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Jonntaii Does Mr. Beecher, as reportea in the Journal of to-day, or any one else, think that "regulating” the liquor traffic by reducing tiie number of drinking places will cure the evils of intemperance? Possibly the grocery business in Indianapolis and some other places is overdone, but no one dares to say that there would be less sugar and coffee solil if instead of one store, for fifty families there was only one for a hundred or more. Mr. Beecher’s plan—which, however, is not new, notwithstanding he is a great man—would make a monopoly of the liquor business, throwing the profits into the hands of tiie few instead of the many. It would give a chance for some towering minds to amass big fortunes from the misery of tiie drunkards and their families, so that tiie commercial value of a general distribution of wealth would be lost. Here is a danger of the times, and the eloquent preacher, now, not for the first time, has laid himself open to the charge of speaking for the heavy capitalists. The truth is, the problpnt of the liquor traffic cannot be solved by a stroke of the pen.or a wave of Mr. Beecher’s hand. No doubt the lessening of the number of saloons would be of some advantage in making it at times less convenient to buy a drink. This difficulty, however, would soon be overcome by a judicious distribution of the drinking places as to locality, and the wound would be only siiglmy, if at all, healed. If the principle of limitation is admitted at all, the public will determine its extent. They will have as many saloons as they want, and no wiseacre shall presume to settle just how many is necessary for tiie moral and commercial wellbeing of a community. Prohibition may not be a practical measure yet, if ever, and free whisky shocks the moral sensibilities of all interested in human happiness, but the evils of intemperance, it seems to many, cannot be much abated by reducing the nuntberof bars one-half or onefifth. What is the difference between ten saloons ruining fifty families each and fifty saloons doing the same work for ten each? There are very few saloons in the country that are working at their full capacity of making drunkards. There is no doubt that the force in every one could be increased if the demand was greater. Earnest but Puzzi.ed.

The Lhw of Sex. An English author, Mr. G. R. Starkweather, thinks he has discovered a great "law of sex,” of which the London Atliunieum gives this summary: If the husband is superior to the wife the family will consist mostly of girls, and vice versa. Dark complexion is superior to light; dark plants and trees are the most hardy, and dark horses the best. A square forehead and prominent veins are “superior;” a large prominent eye (which “indicates conversational powers”) is the reverse. But the best indication of superiority is a large and prominent nose, Roman or aquiline, full a third of the length of the face. Philosophers, lawyers, editors, poets, literary men, and brain-workers generally, have a large excess of daughters. Winemerchants, tavern-keepers, small retail dealers, orators, physicians and musicians have a preponderance of boys. I'ler men appear just to struggle through the-ideal without incurring the stigma of inferiority, being equally intelligent, sober and moral with their wives, and producing ail equal number of boys and girls. Os course, for the s'ahility of tiie new law it becomes necessary to show that musicians, medical men and mr* ere inferior. Accordingly the fir- .e lymphatic, the second arc made ratliei . n.m imru to their profession (mid the most distinguished, as an exception, have large families ol daughters), and mere public speakess do not possess “the highest ord' • of faculties or intellect,” while in most of them “the base of tiie brain will be found to predominate over the superior portion.” Jules Verne’s Methods. Pull Mail Oar.etle. After a few months of holiday life Jules Verne returns to nis home refreshed and strengthed for ids winter’s work, liis everactive brain full of fresh ideas gathered in earth, sky and sea. Before beginning to write anew story M. Verne carefully studies the country which be is about to explore, gathering information on all possible details, and then clothing them in the garb of his powerful imagination. Love, in most of tiie author's works, shines by its absence. Queer scholars full of fantastic ideas, and bardv adventurers, such as Fergusson, Hattaras. Clowbonny. Cienarvan, Paganel, Arronax, Captain Nemo, Michel Ardant, and Phileas Fogg, gave rich life to his pictures; but among all the thousand unexpected, original details love and passion find no room. Perhaps the fact that for some time tie was tiie collaborator of A. Dumas’s files has not been without effect on his writings. Though they separated after a short time, their relations have remained such that today it is said of M. Dumas: “He loves him as lie loves when he loves.” And as by M. Dumas, so he is regarded with esteem and affection bv all who know him—from his humble sailor friends to the leaders of society. _____________ Brown's Bronchial Troohe3 for Coughs and Colds: “The only article of the kind winch has done me good service. 1 want nothing better."—Rev. R. 11. Crulg, Ollsrille, N. V. bold only in boxes.

READING FOR TIIE SABBATH Could We but Know. Could we but kdow The land that ends our dark, uncertain travel, Where lie those happier hills ami meadows low— Ah! if beyond the spirit’s Inmost cavil Aught of that country could we surely know— Who would uot go! Might wo but hear The hovering angels’ high imagined chorus, Or catch, betimes, with wakeful eyes and clear, One radiant vista of the realm before us. With oue lapt moment given to see aud hear, Ah! who would fear! Were we quite sure To find the peerless lrieud who left us lonely, Or there, by some celestial stream as pure. To gaze In eyes time here were love-llt only— This weary mortal coil, were we quite sure, Who would endure! —Edmund Clarence Stedman. Religious Notes, Final review of the historical books of the Old Testament has been carried by the revisers at London as far as I Chronicles ii. The largest oyster shell in the world is in the Church of St. Sulpiee, in Paris. It weighs over five hundred pounds, and is used as a baptismal font. ' “Tiie Life of Martin Luther” is to be presented to every Protestant child in the public schools of Germany, by order of the Minister of Public Worshipat Berlin. Rev. Dr. Harsha. for several years pastor of tiie Second Presbyterian Church, Jacksonville, 111., lias accepted the position of president ol Belleview College, at Belleview, Neb. Rev. Thomas .1. Elkin, of the Kansas Conference, has been transferred by Bishop Bowman, to the North Indiana Conference, and he has been appointed to the Russiaville charge, in the Kokomo district. A woman sixtv-two years old, living at Akron, 0., challenged Bob Ingersoll to a public discussion of the Bible, and she says if she can’t make him sink down into his boots she’ll present him with anew milch cow. The seventeenth General Conference of the Evangelical Association assembled at Allentown, Pa., Oct 4. It now numbers 22 annual conferences, 1.152 ministers, 1,622 churches, 500 parsonages, 135,000 Sunday scholars, and a membership of 111),<58. A telegram from London announces that a number of gentlemen have together contributed $30,000 to meet the expenses to be incurred at Islington, London, in the meetings to be conducted by Messrs. Moody and Sankey during the winter. The Rev. Henry R. Percival having introduced into the services of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Evangelists, of Philadelphia, “theconfessional, adoration of the elements in the communion office, bowings, genufiexioiis and other like acts,” the vestrv of that church have decided to apply to Bishop Stevens for his removal. Sixty-one thousand five hundred and fiftyseven dollars! That is the contribution made to benevolent objects in one year by Plymouth Church, Minneapolis, in addition to carrying on its own great work. Not in Boston, or New York, or in any of our great cities has any church equaled it so far as reported. A few years since this Plymouth Church was a home mission station. “I’s sorter ’spicious ob de preacher what nertends ter despise riches an’ den tries ter tempt people inter heben by teliin’ era dat de streets is paved wid gold. I lias heard folks say dat da could tell a smart man by lookin’ itt his eye, but dis is a mistake. De moie ain’t got no eye to speak ob, butdinged es he ain’t got more sense den de toad what ken ioolt at yer ten minutes widout winkin’.”—Plantation Philosophy. New York Advocate: It is with grief that we have to state that our colleague of the New York East Conference, an old-time friend, who has been so long a Boanerges on the walls of our Zion, the Rev. Joint S. Inskip, has been stricken with paralysis. The blow fell on Wednesday last. At the present writing he is speechless. Physicians say tiiat even if he survive it is doubtful whether the voice that has been heard all around the world will ever speak in public again. The twenty-fifth international convention of the American Young Men’s Christian Associations, at Milwaukee, Wis., in 1883, following tiie fiction of each previoas convention since 1866, appointed the second Sabbath in November of each year, with the week following, as a season of special prayer for young men and Young Men’s Christian Associations. The ninth world’s conference of the associations, at London, England, in 1881, following the action of the previous conferences in 1875 and 1878, made a like appointment. Mr. John G. Whittier wrote to Francis B. Gummere, who was chosen in his stead to read a poent at the semi-centennial celebration of Haverford College: “I hope thee will say a good, clear, strong word for the old Quakerism. That central doctrine of ours, the Divine immanence and universal light, will yet be found the stronghold of Christendom, the sure, site place from superstition on the one hand and scientific doubt oil the other. I think Haverford has in a great measure kept the good old way. Long may it live and prosper.” Asa memorial of the Luther celebration, the publication of a collected edition of all Luther’s works has been taken ir. hand in Germany, and the first volume will be issued before tiie November festival. The editing is in the charge of a special commission, consisting of delegates from the Royal Academy of Sciences in Berlin and a representative of tiie Prussian Ministry of Public Worship. A collection of 337 initial letters, phototvped with the utmost care front some of the choicest manuscripts of the time next preceding Luther, has been made, and a series of ornaments copied from original drawings by Albert Dttrer, Cranach, and other contemporary artists, has been prepared, in order that tiie work may represent the highest stage of bibliography of the reformation and reiinaissance period. The recent election of the Rev. Father Antonius Anderiedy as assistant of the General of the Jesuits and the successor of the venerable Father Beckx, has awakened interest regarding tiie order. It is aivided into five great provinces. That of Italy includes Rome, Naples, Sicily, Turin and Venice, and has 1,558 members. The German province includes Austria, Hungary, Belgium and tiie Netherlands, and has 2,875 members. Franco and her possessions have a membership of 2,789, Spain and Mexico have 1,933, anil in England and tiie United States there are 1,894, making a total of 11,058. These statistics were gathered about a year ago and do not include members known as Jesuits of the “short robe,” who are far more numerous. All are pledged to advance the interests of the Roman Catholic Church on all occasions and by all means, believing that “the end justifies the means,” ami all other matters are made subordinate to this. Tiie Rev. Edward White, of conditional immortality fame, has been lecturing on the book of Genesis. His object has been to established the literalness of the story of the creation and the fall of Adam and Eve. Mr. White throws overboard a large cargo of theological lumber in relation to the consequences of the fall. "On the face of tiie narrative,” he says, “it appears plainly that, being created in the likeness of God and allowed access to the ‘tree of life,’ he was originally destined for immortality—for life eternal; but it was not conditional on the obedience of faith. If he transgressed he would die.” The penalty of withdrawing from God was death—the termination of his life—and with that, of course, the life of the unborn race which lie represented. The death in the three senses—physicial, spiritual aud eternal—is the invention of an age

later even than the first two centuries, and must be rejected. Mr. Sourgeon reviews the four lectures of Dr. White, and while he greatly prefers the old interpretation and chooses to cling to it he is willing to welcome Dr. White as a fellow-laborer in the great cause of truth and righteousness. Rev. .1. Jackson, formerly engaged iu the China Mission of New York city, and now in the Central China Mission, writesina private letter of some recent experiences iu opening new fields. He is at present in Wuhn, a large city ou the Yantse river, about 240 miles from Kiu-kiang. He has secured a native house, in which he aud his wife are living. He says: “The house you would think rather peculiar, if you saw it. It is open to the roof, with holes in the walls for light and air, instead of windows; rather inconvenient when a gale is blowing, such as we have had the last three days. We are surrounded by the Chinese, and if you heard the quarrels that take place almost every day, you would no doubt think they required the gospel to teach them to live peaceably with all men.” Social Life In Churches. Chicago Inter Ocean. Each individual church must be a center of social life or it will be a dreary failure. Pulpit eloquence and prayer-meeting lervor have their place, but unless the church is vitalized by the amenities of social intercourse it will be an unfruitful iceberg, as barren of good results as the mountains of Greenland. The experiment has been tried often enough right here in Chicago to demonstrate this fact. Evening gatherings of the old and young of both sexes ought to be often enough to cultivate a family feeling. In ecclesiastical architecture the parlor hasa place, but in some of our city churches the proper name for the parlor would be refrigerator. If a church “sociable ’is held the ice reserve of those who should lead off'in genial intercourse pervades tiie air with a deadly chill, and the only pleasure experienced is the sense of relief when the end comes. Still more important is it that the members should know each other in their homes, and in that way the several churches in our midst shouid be clubs in themselves. Bishops and Bakeries. New York Correspondence Boston Gazette. I did not go to the consecration of Bishop Potter, but I lunched at the Vienna bakery, which is next door to Grace Church, just after the service, so I got some of the benefits of the occasion. I saw all the clergy, and and there were all sorts to see, from the parson of a poor country parish, with mudbespattered trousers, to the round, fat, oily men of God, who draw the big salaries, and the dear little high-church dude curates, with their long gowns and silken sidewhiskers. An awning ran from Grace Church into the Vienna bakery, and so did the clergy. Bishop Potter will no doubt give great satisfaction in his new office. That lie is expected to is proved by the fact that tiie salary of the position lias been raised from $7,000 to $9,000 to meet his requirements. 1 do not think $9,000 a year a penny too much money for a bishop, but lam only amused that others did not think so until the bishop Was a Potter. I suppose that Bishop Potter will have to give up Grace Church rectory, or will that be the bishop’s palace and Grace Church the cathedral?

BECK’S STRANGE FACULTY, How the Senator Was Mysteriously Assisted ill Acquiring Latiu. Louisville Courier-Journal. “Talking about peculiarities of men’s minds, I beard Senator Beck tell a queer story the other day,” said a gentleman to some friends last night. '‘We were all discussing tiie same subject that is up now, when Senator Beck remarked that he thought a peculiarity of his brain had done him a great deal of harm in bis life. ‘I first noticed it,’ said tiie Senator, ‘when I was a boy goi ng to school in Scotland. I hud a strict old preacher for a tutor, and with a number oi other boys went to the parsonage to be educated. One night I was very sleepy and still had a long Latin lesson to get oil. I tried hard to learn it, but almost before I was aware I would be dozing. At length 1 read the exercise through in a half-dreaming condition, and. with the Latin all a jumble in mv iiead, I went to sleep. I awoke the next morning with my brain thoroughly clear, and, strange to say, all the ambiguities in my difficult lesson were made plain, and I read the Latin without a balk. The same thing happened a second time, and I again found that when I went to sleep w ith a confused idea of my lesson, learning it while half dozing, that I awoke with all the knotted points unraveled. It became my custom after that to read my tasks over just before going to bed, and I never failed to have them in the morning. My strict old tutor saw that I never studied, and thought one of the other boys was helping me. At length he gave me a page of Livy to translate, and told me if I did not have it for him the next morning he would Hog me. He then forbid any of the boys coming near me and watched my actions. I read the lines as usual before going to sieep, and sure enough the next day I had them pat as you please. He never troubled me after that. Well, the year passed by, and I found my faculty still clinging to me, till I began to put too much faith in it and depended almost entirely upon my mysterious helper. Some time ago a phrenologist came to examine my family’s beads, and they all went wild over him. I paid no attention to their talk, though my wife urged me to give the man a trial. One day, however, he met me and was so persistent that lat length sat down to him. He said that he would examine my head for $3. and give a chart for $5. I told him $3 was all I would throw away, aud he began to name my characteristics. At length he said: “You have one faculty that is fully developed. It is spirituality. You have that faculty developed to a marked degree. You would have made a fine medium. Your mind is capable of working separate from your body, that is, it can perform mental labor while the body is at rest and knows nothing of it. You sometimes solve difficult problems while yon are asleep, and wake up in the morning without knowing that you have been at work.” "Here is $5,” said I, “a man who knows as much as you do deserves it.” “‘My strange faculty,’ continued Senator Beck, ‘whether it is spirituality or not, is growing weaker. I can hardly explain the action of my mind during these abnormal spells. I see the lines and words before my mind's eye, and, without knowing the process, or, indeed, being aware of any process, I work out the problem.’ “You remember John Sherman’s anecdote of Beck,” continued the gentleman. “Beck was working day and night on the tariff bill, when a member wondered how be got any rest. ‘Oh,’ said Senator Sherman, who was present, ‘Beck rests himself when he makes a speech,’ A tuan who can work when he should rest may be pardoned if he rests when he should work.” Glad She Is Married. Boston Letter. Before leaving the subject of the stage, I am tempted to tell you u good thing I have heard to-day, very straight, from Anna Louise Cary Raymond, through one who knows and loves her. It has that touch of nature in it which will please you better than if it were polished off into more conventional language. She is very happy in her married life, and said, piqnantly: “lam thankful every time I put on my shoes, and stockings, and garters, that I’ve got a man to take care of me, and am no longer a ‘victim to circumstances’ on the stage,” Mr. C. D. Lenier, Loiransport, savs; “Brown’s Iron Bitters is nm qualeil lor euriebiug and purifying tiie blood-”

PICKLE FASHION, Silver-braid bonnets are used tor evening wear. Pointed-velvet girdles appear on many dressy suits. Ball or hoop earrings set with gems of various kinds are very fashionable. Cherry-red and ochre-yellow are the leading colors in millinery just now. No jewelry is worn by women on tiie street now except rings, and they are covered. Jerseys are as popular as ever. The white ones for evening wear, gold-braided, are very pretty. Pink is to be much worn this winter, but it should be remembered that it is only suited to the young. Parisan dressmakers now insert a small pillow bustle, stuffed with horsehair, under the plaits of the skirt in Ihe back, attached to the waistband. Long pelisses, made of finely-checked tweeds o -cheviots, and trimmed with fiveinch bgnds of fur, will be much worn upon the promenade this winter. Russian embroidery, known as point sans envers, or needlework without any wrong side, will be much used upon handsome cashmere dresses for home wear. The colors of the silk embroidery are either in darkwood brown, deep green, or Venetian red, and the color of the cashmere of nuns’ gray, golden lawn color or pale strawberry. Lillian Russell poke bonnets are quite the rage. These have wide, protruding brims and little or no trimming at the back, but a vast quantity of soft, wavy feather tips falling over the edge of the brims. The ends of these feathers are held by long, slender buckles studded with glittering stones. Tilts stylish head covering is adopted by those who wear the hair arranged ala Langtry. Many plush capes are worn just now, and, with a good deal of wadding, they are nearly as warm as fur. The collars are high, and the half sleeves set in in the fashionable way. In color they are expected to match the costume worn with them, or, otherwise, to correspond to that of the dress trimmings. Anew shade of plush, very thick and heavy, exactly matching (he color of natural beaver, is much used for pelerines aud shoulder capes. These come with jockey caps and muffs to match. Plain silk is scarcely seen in New York for walking costumes, cloths of every kind having become so much more popular. This year they are ribbed and repped and intersected with threads of bright dark color which is only slightly noticeable. These threads are woven in lines whicli run the same way as the cord or rep. Avery pretty suit for walking is made up in mouse gray cloth with dark red lines which show in tiie kiltings of the skirt and the folds of the drapery. The jacket, cut deep and away from the lower front, shows a small piece of a red vest, the jacket itself being of fine, solid mouse gray cloth. Tiie biouse-bodice is in great request for girls. Tiiis bodice is gathered top and bottom. and finished with a large turned-down velvet collar; the sleeves, gathered full at the arm-hole, are tightened at the wrist under a velvet band. The second skirt is folded up at the ed.eso as to form a loose puffin front, and draped tonrnnrc at the back; it is fastened at tiie side with a large bow of velvet ribbon. The underskirt is entirely pleated in flat pleats; it is trimmed near tiie foot with a deep velvet band pleated together with the woolen material of the skirt. Tiiis fashion is suitable for dresses of soft woolen material, such as flannel, cash mere, or vigogue, either plain or checked.

Dresses Fit for a Queeu. New York Evening Post. Two very elegant drosses just, completed by an tip-town modiste are lit for a queen. One is of lustrous milk-white satin brocaded with silver thistles surrounded by fine arabesques in pearls and crystals. Tiie bodice is of plain white Lyons satin, opening over a Louis XIV waistcoat of tiie brocade. Tnis toilet is said to be a perfect copy of a dress made in Paris for Cointesse Kesseler. Tiie second dress is of azure blue satin brocaded with full-blown garden roses and pale green foliage. The petticoat is of olive-green velvet embroidered all over in bouquets of fine flowers, showing forget-me-nots, scarlet star blossoms, and pale-gold buds intermingled in an exquisite manner. The train is cut in princess style, and the lyre-shaped opening in tiie neck and the edges of the hnlf-iong sleeves are finished with ruffles of Renaissance lace. Styles in Stationery. Brooklyn Eagle, Fashions in stationery are as variable as in everything else. Just now, although creamcolored paper is much liked, there is a decided tendency to the use of new shades; for instance, yellow, both bright like the golden rod, and dull, or brilliant orange, pale pink and bine. But perhaps gray is preferred above all colors. Boxes containing fashionable cards in all colors have envelopes to match. The monogram is no longer so fashionable as the single initial, a rustic letter in bronze being a favorite design. Illuminated Gothic letters are shaded in bronze. Ragged-edged paper, which is shown as “the latest thing” in leading stores, may be obtained in many different colors, and the rough snrface, made in imitation of alligator skin, which is decidedly unpleasant to write upon, continues in favor. Some of the newest writing paper is in white, with a colored bordering, and instead of the initial letter or monogram, they are decorated with fancy devices of all kinds. Birds in groups or on the wing, sprays of flowers, buds and blossoms, even animals’ heads engraved in imitation of pen and ink sketches, are shown. All these designs, as well as letterheadings of tiie days of the week in colored script, are placed across the upper left-hand corner either of cards or letter paper. Huw the Mint Is Guarded. Philadelphia Itecord. “It would not lie healthy for a burglar to attempt any of his tricks about the mint.” said Colonel A. Loudon Snowden yesterday. "About a year ago I caused all the muskets to be changed for repeating rifles and sevenshot carbines that are darlings. Outside watchmen who patrol the streets about tiie place are well supplied with fire-arms. In fact, they are walking arsenals. We can readily arm every person in the building who can handle a pistol or gun. There is no trouble apprehended that I know of, and I cannot divine why the Secretary of the Treasury has ordered Gatling guns and carbines for the mints. I have not requested any, because we are sufficiently armed. At this time there are being turned out over a million of standard dollars each month, and we frequently have $15,000,000 in silver in the vaults. But it would take a little army with cannons to get at it.” Ren. ltntler’s Highest Authority. Boston Herald. General Butler was once engaged as counsel for the defendant in a case where the prisoner was accused of manslaughter, and in the course of bis argument, based on the assumption of self-defense, lie informed the jifry that “we have it on the highest authority that all that a man hath will he give for his life.” Judge Hoar, counsel on the other side, rose and demolished his opponent’s argument by quickly saying that he had "long wondered what General Butler considered the highest authority, and was very glad to have trie question settled.” and proceeded to read to the court from the Book of Job: "And Satan answered the Lord and said, ‘All that a man hath will he give sot his life.” Patience and gentleness are useful and pow eiful, tun they cannot cure a cough, which, however, Dr. Bull'* Cough byrup will always do.