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The tariff ‘'reformers,” having failed to succeed by bulldozing and dragooning, will now try fraud and theft, and will steal enough votes to set the tell rolling in favor of ultimate free trade. Senator Harrison's hill providing a civil government for Alaska yesterday passed the House of Representatives, and now only awaits the President's signature to become a law. The United States has been a long time doing this act of justice and good faith, but it's better late than never. Tiik Louisville Courier-Journal is joined by the Washington Post in the task of fighting for harmony. The two papers use with great glibness the towns “traitors,’’ '‘Democratic deserters," and other pleasing and delightful titles, calculated to melt tho hearts of Mr. Randall and his followers with fervent love. Devoto, of Cincinnati, is to bo tried today for the murder of a man several weeks ago. He was arrested at the time, but allowed to give bail, and while out on bail improved the time by killing another man. It pays to hold murderers to the strictest accountability. The man who shoots is a dangerous citizen, and the place for him is behind the bare. A new industry is opening up for enterprising and observant Ohio men. Among the laws of that Commonwealth is ono which provides that where a party has lost at gambling and does not sue to recover the amount within six mouths, a third party may sue, and, if judgment is given, pocket the money. A citizen of Youngstown with a little leisure on his hands has been in the habit of dropping into a certain bucket-shop, and there noted the not astonishing fact that many frequenters of that place lost their investments. They did not seek to recover within the time allowed, and he, therefore, proposes so realize a neat sum himself by bringing suit against tlie keepers of the shop. Asa business enterprise this has great possibilities. The Ohio nan cannot be always kepi down. The following is a clause from one of the Indictments found by the special grand jury t Cincinnati: “That on the 12th day of March. 18H4. with fierce and arms, at the county of Hamilton aforesaid, did unlawfully play at a certain game called poker for a sum of money, to-wit: the sum of two dollars, by means of a certain gaming device, to-wit: a pack of cards, contrary to the form of the statute in such cases made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the State of Ohio.” Tho English of this is that deputy sheriff Steve Minshall, the man indicted, played poker :.t which two dollars were lost and won. The chances are that Minshall will bo able to prove that it was not poker that he played, but “draw poker," and that it was two dollars and a half instead of even two dollars, either of which facts substantiated would kill the prosecution, according to well-established precedents. The Edmunds bill to place Gen. Grant on the retired list of the army yesterday passed the Senate unanimously. The measure will, doubtless,' receive like graceful and proper treatment in the House. That tho leader of the armies of the United States should be given this evidence of the justice of the nation, without consideration of any extraneous ciictiastanocs. goes with the saying with any

right-miniled, patriotic citizen. Gen. Sherman is borne on the rolls in honorable retirement, and Gen. Sheridan will be, when he reaches the proper age, and so is every other officer of the army and navy. That Gen. Grant voluntarily relinquished this certainty, in obedience to the summons of the people to do duty in the office of the presidency, is no reason why an exception should bo made in his case, and he be made to suffer 1 . Retirement on bis rank as general is his right, if there is right at all, and it should be so regarded.

TEE TILDEN HUMBUQ, The New York Tribune has been informed by a friend of Mr. Tilden. “who sometimes hits the mark," that the arrangement now is that when the New York Democratic State convention meets it will declare its support for Mr. Tilden for President, and that, thereupon, Mr. Tilden will cause to be produced a letter emphatically declining, etc. This will be very pretty as stage play, and its authors may reasonably hope that it will be effective. Mr. Tilden’s great role is to appear to be above the petty aspirations that tempt other men, and to pose in the character of the only man in America who would not accept the presidency, even though dropped into his hat. The “grand old man” must be compelled to forego his own desires, and to please take the nomination from a silver salver. When the July convention meets at Chicago, and the respective claims are presented for consideration, the backers of the man from Gramercy Park will be prepared to argue, first, that he is the only man of the lot who has been great enough to say to a New York convention, “No, I cannot be your candidate; the country needs me, and without me, or somebody as near like me as may be found, public affaire will suffer, but you must excuse me; I am already staggering under a weight of honor such as never fell upon an American citizen.” This will be the signal for “tremendous applause" and “renewed cheering." Asa second argument it will be urged that he can carry Now York, and come as near carrying any other close State —after the election—as any man living. His record, made in 1870-7, will sustain this claim. He is a man of resources and political shrewdness that will stop at no expense nor hesitate to employ any means to secure his ends. The play’s a success, the convention goes into raptures, Mr. Tilden's “lofty patriotism’’ is the theme of universal eulogy, his “objections" are gene’-ously overruled, and ho is nominated amidst intensest enthusiasm, such as no national convention ever witnessed. Great is humbug, and Tilden is its prophet. The country has not yet forgotten how the St. Louis convention was manipulated in Jiis favor. His desperate attempt to buy the necessary electoral votes is also a matter of public knowledge. His pitiful whining of “fraud" has been kept up ever since. He proved a martyr before the Cincinnati convention, but said “nay" when somebody suggested that he enter a race for vindication. He undoubtedly wanted a renomination, but wanted it in the character of a saint. He protested too much to get what he wanted as a gift, and not enough to get it as the only fitting tribute to his self-exalted abnegation. Experience has made him wiser. Realizing the error of his tactics of four years ago, he has not failed to show his wounds, and invite commiseration. He will again “decline,” but his claquers will see to it that “this time it doesn’t count. ” If this man may bo judged by any human standard, he is the most pitiable pleader for place yet. discovered. For eight long years he has pleaded the baby act of fraud, and for no other purpose than to keep his “claims” bofore the public. He will now make the last desperate struggle to realize on his petty investment, being well assured that his age alone stands in the way of complete success so far as the action at Chicago is concerned. These would be hard things to say of almost any other public man in the country. Yet they are so notoriously true as to admit of no controversy. Since the desperate men who precipitated the rebellion have passed out of prominence, Tilden is the most dangerous man in the nation. Ilis methods mean death to popular government, and his most shameless attempts to buy his way to the presidency have done more to corrupt politics than all other influences combined. It is absurd to claim any virtue for him. If he declines nomination it will be done ostentatiously and for a purpose. In his condition of helplessnass, bordering on imbecility, and at his time of life, he would never be seriously thought of as a candidate did he not continually scheme to bring about such a sentiment. His every action may well be regarded with suspicion. He does nothing idly and ’without a purpose; and as for him rising above the dignity of accepting the highest place in the nation, it is an absurdity worthy only of the credulity of fools. The special grand jury impaneled to investigate the Cincinnati riots has made its report, accompanying which were several indictments. Speaking of the source of the trouble, the jury’s report says: “Among the causes leading to the riot may be mentioned defects in the criminal code, which exempt many citizens from jury duty, and almost preclude the possibility of securing intelligent jurors in criminal cases; granting of new trials on the most frivolous technicalities; the opportunities afforded for corrupting jurors, and the light penalties imposed for the commission of the gravest crimes, supplemented frequently by the abuse of the pardoning power.” The same conditions exist and obtain else where than in Cincinnati. The outcome may not be as violent and unreasonable as that at Cincinnati, but, Sooner oi later, these flaws in

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our social and legal institutions must be taken out.. The reform should come from regular methods. The laws and court processes may be improved by new legislation, while the dereliction of duty on the part of citizens must be made odious. PROBASCO’B NICKEL No person who has over approached the environs of Cincinnati but is familiar with the name of Probasoo. It is a cherished name, and every right-minded citizen, being proud of it, never fails to Bound its praises. Indeed, it is rumored that a strong undercurrent of sentiment favors the changing of the name of the city to Probasco. However that may be, the title has become endeared to the residents by reason of the generosity of its owner. He gave them a fountain. Cincinnati needed a fountain, and its people love the gift with a respectful, keep-at-a-safe-distance love not often surpassed. Cincinnati has not washed itself clean at this or any other fountain, but this circumstance does not affect their regard for the stone structure, with its trickling streams of water. The town centers there, the horse cars radiate from the sacred spot, and if a stranger asks the way to any place whatever, he is directed to the fountain. Naturally, Cincinnatians are interested in the donor of the fountain, or anyone bearing that name, and will therefore accept with gratitude a lesson he has just given them in the art of economy, by practicing which he has been enabled to save money wherewith he may give gifts which redound to his credit. Mr. Henry Probasco lives in Clifton, which is a suburb of Cincinnati, and is mayor of the village. He rides on the horse-cars occasionally, and provides himself, as is the privilege of every citizen having the requisite funds, with six-for-a-quarter tickets wherewith to pay his fare. Whether the Mayor really invests his quarters in this manner, or whether the tickets are a complimentary gift from the horse-car company, does not appear, but at all events he is accustomed to tender them in payment for his rides. On Monday he boarded a car, but the ticket which he was about to transfer to the conductor’s hand suddenly and mysteriously disappeared, and he was forced to offer that functionary a dime instead, from which the five-oent fare was taken. After the conductor, who, by the way, was a bjoy, had recorded this receipt of cash upon his ‘ 'blue trip slip, ’’ the missing ticket, or one like it, was picked up off the floor of the car. Mr. Probasco tendered it to the conductor and wanted his nickel back, but this transfer the conductor refused to make, notwithstanding he must have been aware that by his refusal the passenger would lose a fraction of a cent, or, in ease the tickets were dead head, the whole five cents. The conductor said the rules of the company would not permit such a thing; but, of course, this was a mere subterfuge, born of the inoendiary spirit which is so rampant, in Cincinnati. At all events, Mr. Probasco recognized the fact that the Conductor needed to be suppressed, and, when his car came back, by the aid of the town marshal, placed him under arrest. After the lad had been confined for an hour or so the righteous and just millionaire kindly relented and ordered his temporary release, but is probably pained to-day on learning that he cherished a viper, so to speak. Instead of accepting his arrest as a mild rebuke at the grasping spirit of the age, the misguided boy has brought suit against his would-be educator for $5,000 for false imprisonment. Os course no Cincinnati jury will bring in a verdict against their beloved fellow-citizen and benefactor, should the case come to trial; hut it will undoubtedly cost him a few dollars—an expense which lie might easily have avoided by killing the conductor on the spot. It may be of interest in this connection to note that the nickel was returned to Mr. Probasco by the car company.

President Pouter, of Yale College, receives a salary- of $4,000 a year, while the professors under him get $4,500, and the tutors from SI,OOO to $1,500. Ewing, catcher for the New Y"ork League nine, receives $3,200 per season, and Wal'd, center-fielder, a like sum. The Bostons pay their first baseman $3,000, their pitcher $2,500, and for other men $2,000 each. Any sensible man’s reflections will preach a good sermon from this text. Thk elite of Milwaukee, whose blood has grown blue since their ancestors came over as steerage passengers, thirty or forty years ago, were shocked and scandalized, some weeks since, at the marriage of Mr Burt, an elderly millionaire widowor of the place, to his pretty Scotch servant girl. The question 1 ‘Ought wo to visit her?” was thoroughly canvassed and decided in the negative, but the sudden death, from apoplexy, of tlie newly made husband, last week, may put anew face on the matter. A young widow, with a million in her own right, is apt to develop many charms and attractions in tho eyes of the mammas of sons, to say nothing of the sons themselves, of which, as a poor and designing young woman who married the courted millionaire, she gave no indication. Governor Fkepkkiok Rohik, of Maine, is a good match for Governor Begole, of Michigan, when it comes to using original and peculiar English. On the occasion of the former’s renomination to the office he now holds, he took occasion to solemnly declare himself as follows: ‘ “For this renewed expression of your confidence, for this unaui mous rononiination to the 'highest office in tho State, accept my heartiest congratulations. ” It is reported that the rest of his remarks were in keeping with the above, abounding in eccentricities that .stamped them as original. Ohio tramps begin young. Tho latest example of precocity in this direction was given tlie other day by a child but three years old that attempted to steal a ride from Parkersburg to Cincinnati on an express train. Ho was discovered and put off at Athens with Instructions to send him backhome. He soon eluded bis custodian, however, and was found' on the forward piatfoim of a

baggage car, bound down the Hocking Valley. He was again rescued and sent home. It would hardly do to chain him to a piano. He might get away with it. It occurs to us that the star-eyed goddess of reform would do well to apply to S. J. Tilden for a box of his condition powders.—Chicago News. The general impression seems to he that Tilden might apply to the goddess for her elixir of life. Watterson maintains that there is a spark of life still in the remains. A colored walking match, ora walking match between colored contestants, is in progress at Louisville, the entries embracing the name of one Bud Buggs. Some of Mr. Buggs's relatives are good travelers, notably that ancient family known in Rome as Cimex Lectularius, and from which so many bugs have been handed down. FrvE cents doubled thirty-five times would pay the national debt. We are perfectly willing to do our part by maxing tin: first double. Who will keeb it up? —New Bedford Standard. We will by doubling the second time. Who next? —Boston Advertiser. Count us for the third double. Keep it going. Since its organization, nineteen years ago, the National Temperance Society has issued and distributed more than 600,000,000 pages of temperance literature upon all phases of the subject. It is enough to make a man thirsty to think of so much dry reading. Mr. Peter Rupp, the editor and proprietor of the Eau Claire (Wis.) Democrat, is reported to have fallen heir to a fortune of $1,100,000 by the death of his uncle in Germany. The toilers of the provincial press will -now cheer Rupp. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal.' Where was Henry Watterson, of the Louisville Courier-Journal, born? A short biography might be of interest to some of your readers about here. Reader. Stanton, Ind. Henry Watterson was horn at Washington, D. C., February 16, 1840, the son of a momber of Congress from Tennessee. He served as staff officer on the confederate side during the early days of the war, but soon left the field, and in October, 18G2, began the publication of the Chattanooga Rebel, tho name of which sufficiently indicates the character of the paper. After the war lie, with others, renewed the publication of the Nashville Republican and Banner, which had been suspended. Afterwards, in company with Mr. Haldeman, he obtained control of the Louisville Courier-Journal, consolidating two papers. He was a member of the Forty-fourth Congress, and is still at the head of the CourieraTournal.

POLITICAL NOTE AND GOSSIP. The Albany Journal has announced in favor of the candidacy of Mr. Edmunds. Thirteen aspirants are reported for the seat of General Keifer in Ohio, and he is not one of the leaders in the race. Charles A. Dana: I have no favorite at all. Tho only man I would really regard as a favorite is Holman, of Indiana: but I would never think of running such a man on a failing chance. A prominent Brooklyn politician is given as authority for the statement that William E. Robinson, better known as “Richelieu’’ Robinson, will not be re-elected to Congress at the end of his present term. This will be good news for the British lion. Boston Journal: Tho New York Tribune has a good deal to say against the dark-horse policy. That policy, however, placed Abraham Lincoln and James A. Garfield at the head of the Republican ticket in 1860 and 1880. Never were candidates more popular. Major W. D. Bickham, editor of tho Dayton (Ohio) Journal, who was one of the late President Garfield’s most intimate friends, says that tho Republican party is chiefly indebted for the present prospect of assured success, uuloss there should be imprudent nominations, to President Arthur, whose pure and dignified administration has healed dissensions and won the affections of the people. Boston Transcript: If the Blaine crowd will only open sufficiently hard on Edmunds he will be nominated without a question. His danger consists in the fact that he is indifferent to a nomi nation, and his friends do not believe in tho use of such methods as find favor with the Maine politician Now York will have something to say to the convention which will be worth hearing, and have groat weight with it, if the assemblage really proposes a Republican triumph. The Boston Traveller notes the fact that while some of the State conventions warmly indorse Arthur and praise his Administration, they elect Edmunds or Hawley or Blaine delegates, and comes to the conclusion that “when tho delegates got out to Chicago it may strike them alll as a wiser thing to nominate tho man whom they have all warmly indorsed, than to insist, on either of the favorites, who has only the indorsement of two or three States, or than to nominate a great unknown, whom nobody has indorsed." Senator George F. Edmunds, at a ratification meeting held in Burlington, Vermont, on the 22d of June, 1880, said: “I have long known General Arthur. The only serious difficulty I havo had with tho administration was when it proposed to remove him from tho colloctorship of New York. No one questioned his personal honor and integrity. I resisted the attempt to the utmost. Since that time it lias turned out that all the reforms suggested had long before been recommended by General Arthur, and pigeon-holed at Washington. ” Rochester Herald: Mr. George William Curtis says that “the extreme danger of the Blaine non ination would lie in tho immediate and final alienation of independent Republicans and of Independents.” That is the danger from the party standpoint, and it is one that most assuredly promises Mr. Blaine’s defeat if lie were nominated. But there is a danger beyond that of greater importance still in tho event of his election. It would be a peril that would strain and rake our constitutional fabric. Mr. Blaine is not a safe man. The country could not afford to gi\ e him tho presidency.

A ROUT PEOPLE A ND THINGS.

Mrs. Matthew' Arnold says that Hhe does not know how to settle down to her quid homo life, after having been “made ho much of" in this country. Julian Arnold tells the story that his father, Edwin Arnold, wrote tho “Light of Asia" from day to day while traveling in the cars from his house to the city, on the cuff of his shirt sleeve. Senator Edmunds, who is now talked of by detractors as worth millions, makes this return to the assessors at Burlington: Personal property, $56,825; real property, $15,120; poll tax, $2; total tax, $721.45. William King, who has just died in London, eleven years ago willed SI,OOO to his physician, with the proviso tliat the sum should bo doubled every year that the testator should le kept alive, so that tho practitioner now comes in for a bequest of over $750,000. Astronomer Proctor brought to his second wife who was Mrs. .Sadie Crowley and niece of General Jeff. Thompson, a largo, ready made family of ten children, Including two pairs of twins. Tho projected Proctor house, at St. Joseph, Mo., will cover at least two lota. Mr. Spurgeon, the Loudon divine, is said to bo completely broken down in health, and his stop is slow and feeble. Notwithstanding tho groat effort which it apparently costa him to preach, the old-time earnestness and the obvious sincerity of purpose which have always characterized his sermons still iia-

press his listeners with tho unaffected greatness of the orator, even though his voice has lost tho clear ring and vigor of other days. Mr. Spurgeon's greatest ambition now is to round out his half a century of life, which is now fast approaching. Mrs. Kate .Sprauuk-Ohahk has so far recovered from her affliction at the loss of her husband and property that she is now living in tine style in the most fashionable quarter of Paris, and her weekly receptions, every Thursday, are the astonishment and admiration of the American colony. The brilliant l'hihi],.., Brooks, of Boston, occupies the anomalous position of a prominent Protestant Episcopal olergyman who repudiates the doctrine of apostolical succession and does not believe in the supernatural office and efficacy of the sacraments. He is a giant physically, and theologically is as “broad" as his own shoulders. A Mr. Yoi, ’MAN'S publishes the following curd in a newspaper at Delhi, N. Y.: “Within the past sixty days I -have paid $2,150 for indorsing. Notice is hereby given to the public generally that any man who asks me to indorse his note will do well to have his life insured for the benefit of his family before making such application.” William M. Mkrktuth, who was President Taylor’s Secretary- of the Treasury, was the original owner and oocupier of James Buchanan’s “Wheatland." which is now advertised in the Philadelphia papers as for sale, and by a coincidence. Daniel Webster’s “Marshfield," advertised in the Boston papers, is going begging for a purchaser. It is among the facts not generally known that a certain toilet water owes its immense sale in the Southern States to the persistent allusions to it in the course of her performances of a certain comedienne once popular south of Mason and Dixon's lino. This actress tided many a poor season over with the ohecks the perfumer sent her, and she earned the money. Miss Emily Fikibld, of Nebraska, who was graduated from the Woman’s Medical College, in Baltimore, last week, has been appointed resident physician of the Thomas Wilson Sanitarium in that city, an institution endowed with $300,000 by the man whose name it bears, and especially in' ended for the treatment and caroof sickchildreu during the summer months. Edward King writes from Paris: “I hear that ex* Governor Iceland Stanford, of California, who has been here for some time past and who is in vorv had health, has decided to give several millions of dollars out of his immense fortune to the founding of a university for the sons of workingmen. This institution will probably be located in the State of California, and will ho named after Governor Stanford's onlyson, who died recently in Florence of malarial fever." Tiie Rev. P. O. Mozoomdar meets with bitter op* position in his aspiration to beoome the successor of the late Shunder Sen as leader of the Brahmo Somaj of India. A strong faction holds that the deceased Babu is still perceptibly present in spirit, and will always remain so, and henco they refuse to admit the possibility of there being a “successor" to him. Mr. Mozoomdar unqualifiedly rejects this notion, and is supported in his position by an equally strong faction. Among curious superscriptions of letters the one used by the wife of Dr. Andrew Bell, a friend of Coleridge, is perhaps the most insolent on record. When addressing a letter to her husband she did so with the following preamble and comment: “To that supreme of rogues, who looks the hangdog he is, Dr. (and such a doctor!) Andrew Bell. ’’ Madame Bell is dust long ago, but. her impudence survives in this one record, which makes one pity her husband—whatever he was —and return thanks in his behalf that “there is no marrying nor giving in marriage" in the other kingdom. “So they abandon their man?” said Zebehr Pasha, when told that the English government, had announced .that it was not prepared to relievo or assist General Gordon at Khartoum. “Well, well! Allah is great! Perhaps it is best so. Their government is imbecile. But it seems madness." “Can Gordon retreat in safety?" asked the correspondent, “I doubt if he could possibly out his way out," replied Zebehr. “Could he retreat in the other direction?" “Impossible. He would be marching into an unknown wilderness, among hostile tribes and in a murderous climate. Not one of them would reach the Congo alive. The British government is about to send him word to evacuate Khartoum as soon as possible. They might better send him a rope with which to hang himsolf."

CURRENT PRESS COMMENT. THE fact is that after a certain proficiency in reading, writing, arithmetic and the English language has been attained, education ought to become increasingly special ami optional, so as to permit each pupil to give scope to his or her natural abilities; and it should also become increasingly technical so that the pupils of the higher schools may not be compelled, as they now often are. to commence their business career at a level as low as those who have had little or no schooling.—Philadelphia Record. Much depends mwn tho result of this prosecution [of the murderer of Matthews]. The whole South ia on trial before the bar of public opinon, at least before tho Republican portion of it. If tho proceedings in this case confirm and justify the charge that, there is practically no redress for political murder at the South, exoept through federal intervention, then the Republican party will give special prominence to that issue, for the Wheolor case is representative on a national scale. —Chicago Inter Ocean. Whatever the reckless social dostructionists may sav, the chief of all reforms which most radically affects the condition of the people is wonderfully near home and quite within tho reach of us all. Nothing is so costly as the vices. Suppose for the next fifteen years tho saloons of Ch icago should shut up shop for want of customers, and every poor man's child should faithfully use the adnantages of education and general culture within his reach, the richer ami the poorer might live quite amicably together without the least temptation to throw stones or ugly words at each other.—Chicago Inter Ocean. IT seems to be thought that (h-3 world is too busy to pause for serious inquiry into what it eats and drinks, and it is also getting too full for half the people ever to know how tbev are lasing cheated and poisoned. But what is the state of trade morals that condones this systematic iniquity, that unblushinglv takes advantage of these omnipresent moans of fraudf Adulteration in any form is bad enough, but adulteration, tho agents of which are rather proud of their work than not, certainly indicates a laxity of commercial ethics which cannot proceed muon further without producing a catastrophe.—New York Tribune. Ax honest, hard-working and trustworthy gentleman, borrowing $2,000 or so. would be scanned by bankers as though he were a Jeremy Diddler; his securities must be gilt-edged. The lavish spendthrift who l*>aat* of fabulous contracts, and who plays a colossal confidence game, has free run of bank vaults and treasure chests. But. the Aladdin-like tower crumbles at last. The frenzied dream of the Wallstreet Alnaschar is rudely interrupted. The swindler is detected, and the man who reveled in imaginary or stolen wealth slinks from house to house, besot by bailiffs and dogged by detectives. After all, honest poverty with contentment' is bettor than this.—Now York Times. Taking his (Gladstone's] past it is easy te see that ho is anxious to avoid understaking new oriental engagements which he thinks England cannot carry. Pursuing this idea he may encounter failure, and even disaster, but it will not bo the failure of a timid, blundering fool, but of a statesman. Gladstone’s desire is to keep England first and foremost in the world, tho stay and center of her colonial greatness. Disraeli-ism. jingoism, oriental imperialism, he regains as a policy sure to overwhelm England beneath the wreck of her own too far reaching and too high building, sure to leave her buried under tho ruins of a too vast and unrealised conception, crushed by her own too groat plans and undertakings.—Cincinnati Nows Journal. Honest men there are in all these places; If honesty wer© qot the rule in them, society would drop to pieces; but rotten swindling to the tune of $8,000,000 is only possible where a community has agreed to wink at rotten practices when they succeed. The man who ventures into the maze of pitfalls which this reckless speculation spreads is sure, like General Grant, to prove that whatever ability, honesty and force a man may have in the higher walks of life and the real affairs of men, his training leaves him powerless to detect a stock-jobbing swindler or know a cheat when he sees one. The community has put. a tremendous premium on successful “operations," and it kulfere the consequence in tremendous failures. —Philadelphia Press. I)OK8 it not evince a low state of commercial morality for such numerous failures to occur through speculation. many t imes reckless, and with tho money of others? It would probably be a wholesome measure to enact a law making it criminal to speculate with such funds, with severe peAali-tes for its infraction, for the mere ©ivil liability which jvttaehos to persons standing in a fiduciary capacity to pthei s is no restriction whatever to such speculation. .There ought to be a popular sentiment, which is stronger v.han tho stat ute books, against it, but there does not npp&w to be. for such offenses are condoned. The stream' does not rise higher than tho fountain, and until there is a higher standard of commercial morality among business mon, legislation will be poworless to effect a reform.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.

TIIE FIELD OF LITERATURE. New Books. Everybody's Paint Book. By F. B. Gardner. M. T. Richardson, No. 7 Warren street;. New York. Price, sl. The invention of tho ordinary paint brush wax undoubtedly a device of Satan, so far as amateurs are concerned; but, like all contrivances of sin, there is in the breast, of mankind an irresistible impulse at times to buy a brush, a pot oi paint, and to proceed to “paint things” about the house. These “things” generally need paint* ing, and need it “bad," and the man. being tempt ed, generally falls. Recognizing these unalterable facts, the author of this book lias prepared an easv guide in all the matters pertaining to amateur painting, which, if followed, would prove an inestimable boon. The unhappy man about to undertake the job of painting the kitchen, the wheelbarrow, tho farm wagon, or varnishiug the parlor furniture, the piano or tho old buggy, cannot afford to commence without consulting this or some similar publication. It will save a deal of vexation, money and hard words. Sermons to the Spiritual M an. By William O. Ij. JShedd, J>. I>. Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York; Merrill, Meigs & Cos., lndiana{K>lis. The author of these sermons is the Roosevelt Professor of Systematic Theology in Union Theological Seminary, New York. This volume is complementary to another, published in 1871, under the title of “Sermons to the Natural Man.” In the earlier volume the author aimed to address the human conscience. In this In* speaks to the Christian heart. The former supposed original and unpardoned sin, and endeavored to produce the consciousness of it. The latter supposes forgiven and indwelling sin, and would aid in the struggle and victory over it. Our Chancellor. By Morit.z Busch. From the German, by William Beatty Kingston. Two volumes in ono Charles Scribner's .Sons, New Y'ork; Merrill, Meigs & Cos., Indiauapolis. A volume of 700 pages, presenting an able es* tirnate of the character and influence of Prince Bismarck, together with an insight to the life of this distinguished man as a private citizen. The relations between Bismarck and the Emperor and other notable mon in Europeau affairs are fully related, and, altogether, a very satisfactory biography is given, not as a biography, but as detached facts nicely placed together, forming the mosaic of his character. The Amateur Photographer. By Ellerslie Wallace, jr., M. D. Porter & Coates, Philadelphia; Bowen, Stewart & Cos., Indianapolis. While many may question the expediency of allowing the encouragement of this mild form of amusement, it must be admitted that if young people persist in trying to become adepts in the art of out door photography this is the best authority on how to do it. It is a manual of photographic manipulation, intended especially for beginners .and amateurs, with suggestions as t 4 tho choice of apparatus and of processes. ’ Memoirs and C-orrkspondenck op Eliza P. GurNEY. Edited by Richard F. Mott. J. B. Lippincofct & Cos., Philadelphia; Bowen, .Stewart & Cos.. Indianapolis. There is a purity and a wholesomeness about the life of such a woman as Eliza Paul Gurney as must ever inspire good in tho hearts of all who are made acquainted with it The experience of this remarkable woman, socially and religiously, is worthy of perpetuation as a guide to others.

Hank-Book ok Pkohii!lTlON. For 1884. By A. J. J utkins, 80 Washington street. Chicago. Contains data of interest to reformers, showing progress of the cause, giving portraits of prominent workers, etc. Times of Linn.euk. By Z. Topelius. From tha Swedish. Jansen, McClurg & Cos., Chicago; Bowen, Stewart & Cos., Indianapolis.. Price, $1.25: Another of “The Surgeon’s" excellent stories, taken from great characters in Swedish history. Mkthops ok Teaching Geography. By Lucretia Crocker. Boston School Supply Company, 15 Bromtield street. A series of lectures on tho best methods of teaching geography, beginning with children in the primary grade The author is a member of the board of supervisors of tlie Boston publie schools. Life ok Liszt. By Louis Nohl. From the German, by George P. Upton. Jansen. McClurg & Cos.. Chicago; Boweu, Stewart & Cos., Indianapolis. Price, $1.25. This is No. sin the series of biographies of musicians, by the same author, and presents a fine portrait An excellent biography of this noted composer. Stories by American Authors. No. 111. Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York; Merrill, Meigs & Cos.. Indianapolis. Contains six short stories by Fitz James O'Brien. Francis Hodgson Burnott., George Parsons Lathrop, David D. Lloyd, Celia Thaxter and Brander Matthews. Like ok Frederick J>knison Maurice. By Lt.Col. J. F. Maurice. Two volumes. Charles Scribner's Sons. New York; Merrill, Meigs & Cos., Indianapolis. A comprehensive biography of John Frederick Denison Maurice, the distinguished English theologian and author, written by his son. Ned in the Woods. By Edward S. Ellis. Porta & Coates, Philadelphia; Bowen, Stewart &.00., In dianapolis. A lively story for boys, of the adventures of two lads in the wilds of early Kentucky, Literary Notes. Arthur Gilman’s “History of the American People” will be brought out in as well as in this country. The new volume by IV. H. Mallock, entitled “Property and Progress,” which will bo published in a few days by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, fully dis cusses the theories and suggestions contained ii Henry George's "Progress and Poverty." In tho Juno Century President Eliot, of Harvard, will attempt to answer tlie question, “Wliat is a Liberal Education!" In the July number, ex-President WooLsey, of Yale, will write of “Honorary Degrees.” Co-education and the study of Greek will be discussed-in later articles, and Mr. Arthur Gilman, mauagor of the Harvard annex for women, w ill' conclude tho series with a paper on “The Collegiate Study of Women.” Charles Reade has left by will an oil portrait of himself, to be sent to Harper & Pros., “for their editorial room.” Thore are four editorial rooms in the Harper establishment, so the question naturally arises which room will have it. The only way to settle the question is for the Ann to hang it up in their inner sanctuary—that mysterious apartment whose swinging doors 1 give glimpses of Queen Anne luxury to the wait mg author in the outer room. A unique contribution to the history of thf war in Egypt in 18S2 will appear in the June Century. It is tlie diary of a young daughter of General Stone, chief of tho khedival staff (who himself contributes anintroductory note, in which he sharply criticises the British for the precipitancy of tho bombardment of Alexandria). Tin; family of General Stono were in’Cairo during tho bombardment, and were in constant danger of massacre by tho Arabs, from which the tact and courage of Mrs. Stone alone delivered them, her husband being on duty at Alexandria. Senseless and Unreliable. Plymouth Repflbljean. If all the statements of presidential, preferences which api>ear in the daily papers are a* senseless as those, in regard to Indiana, the}- ar very unreliable, indeed.