Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 October 1884 — Page 4

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ROLLER SKATERS! ATTENTION! The most comfortable thing to wear while skating is one of those nobby Gentlemen’s Jersey Coats and Vests, to be had only of the MODEL CLOTHING COMPANY. THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW &. SOX. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1884. Blaine will carry Ohio by not less than 25,000. Kentuckians will not be allowed to “take care of Indiana.” The Blaine demonstration left a cold day for Indianapolis Democrats. Blaine towers over the Democratic pigmies of Indiana like a colossus over a toadstool. At Chicago Democrats anathematized the Irish. Now they exclaim: “ the Dutch!" The Democratic party is the home of bummers. At Fort Wayne they “yelled Blaine down.” ———a———■ Unable to answer Republican argument, the Democratic plan is to “yell down” Republican speakers. If Drover Cleveland were honorably married. Maria Hitlpin would not be a widow, disgraced and abandoned. Last night’s jollification, for ten days worked up for all it was worth, was as a chippy to an American eagle. The absurdity of last night’s Democratic ‘jollification” will be apparent enough two weeks hence. It was the thinnest piece of bluff ever attempted. \ The solid South is awarded thirty-seven votes in the electoral college on account of colored voters, but the colored voters are not allowed to name even one. Would American homes be honored in making the father of OscaFolsom Cleveland President? The time is near at hand when this very' question must be determined. They didn’t “yell Blaine down” in Maine, Vermont, Ohio nor West Virginia. It will not succeed in Indiana. Nor will Kentuckians be allowed to "take care of Indiana.” If the Ohio Republicans here on Tuesday hail staid over until last night they would have witnessed a rare “jollification.” It was a celebration of the Democratic “victory” in Ohio! Republican prospects look so bright that President Arthur—so current gossip hath it—will many in January next, the bride beiug Miss Tillie Frelinghuysen, daughter of the Secretary. After the example set in Ohio by sensible Germans, it is hardly possible that the liquor men of Indiana will allow the Democratic party to drag their interests into the perils of national politics. Grover Cleveland dare not write a line nor utter a word to the workingmen of this Nation on the topic nearest their hearts and hearthstones. Was ever stultification more shamelessly admitted? Mp.. Henderson should communicate with Ohio Democrats at once. They don't stem to realize that they won a victory last week. There are daily mails, to say nothing of the telegraph. Why not “jollify” in Ohio. Blaine's triumphal march through Indiana continues, attended with unparalleled outpourings of the people. He has the nerve to meet the people face to face. It is just like him, and is winning new admirers daily. Voters should speedily strip of prejudice. The day is near when a man must he chosen to represent Hie American idea. It fa time to realize that it would be a lasting disgrace to elect a man like Grover Cleveland. Singularly enough, no Ohio Democrats wore present last night to “jollify” over the “Democratic triumph” in that State. And, more remarkable still, it does not seem to have occurred to Ohio Democrats to rejoice at all. Mr. Henderson has a great mind—great mind. As champions of civil-service reform the Democratic nominees aro peculiarly exemplifying their sincerity. The very first thing Mr. Hendricks did after his nomination was to declare that not less than 50,000 federal '

officials must ho peremptorily dismissed to make places for that many Democrats. This was supplemented a fortnight ago by the summary discharge of an official at Albany, N. Y., because he dared preside at a meeting in the interest of General Butler’s candidacy. And now, to crown this precious pair of reformers, Gov. Cleveland has ordered out the New York National Guard ostensibly for review, although it is apparent enough that the sole purpose is to make a demonstration that may be construed as a compliment to himself. It will " afford him opportunity to write and commit a speech suitable to the occasion, which will be quite a help to him, since it is acknowledged that without careful ’preparations he can say absolutely nothing. WHY BUSINESS 18 DEPRESSED. The best,, though a specious, show of argument made by Democrats in reply to the Republican demand for a continuance of the policy of protection is that there are many men now out of employment, wages have been reduced in many instances, and mills have suspended operation. “If protection is such a good thing,” they argue, “why are not all the mills running and all laborers steadily employed?” That some men are out of employment is but the inevitable outcome of business vicissitudes—many men are unemployed even in the best times. The mystery that many manufactories should be closed or running on half time is no mystery at aIL The Democratic. party has done all In its power to produce depression and tear down business. The action of the one hundred and fifty-two Democratic members of Congress, who, in May last, voted against; the interests of American manufacturers, has done more than all else to paralyze trade and : enterprise. Let the reader put himself in the position of a man who has his fortune invested ip any enterprise. Now let some other man in a position to do him harm threaten to destroy his mills, his factory, or furnace. Will the millowner feel like going on with his operations, extending them and hiring more men, or will he take alarm and endeavor to guard against imminent loss by reducing his stock and running on half time or not running at all? Man ufaeturers are much like other men; they don’t engage in business for mere pastime nor without the hope and expectation of ultimate profit. A man owns a flouring mill run by water. A considerable number of his neighbors threaten to tear away his darn, and his mill-race and let out the water. He has friends who have all along stood by him and done all they could to preserve intact the dam and race upon which the running of the mill depends. But a meeting is to bo held at which it is to be decided whether his water supply shall be cut off. He realizes that those opposed to his interests are very strong, and that there is at least some danger that they may come into the majority and dairy out their plans. Would the mill property en-‘ liance or depreciate in value? Would the milling business prosper under such circumstances? Would it not be the most natural thing in the world for the miller to wish to get out of business, close up the mill and send his employes adrift? That man or party that strikes at the mill-race or at the miller strikes at the milling business and works harm to it in all its feautures. This is exactly the explanation of the stagnation of business now apparent. The Democratic party, hereditary enemies of free labor and protected industry, is numerically dangerous. Its hostility is little, if any, less pronounced now than at any time prior to the war, when the solid South, then, as now, stood out in favor of free trade and impoverished labor. In May last, 152 Democratic congressman voted to cut down the profits of manufacture by 50 or more per cent, by a horizontal reduction of the tariff by 20 per cent. The inevitable sequence has followed. Manufacturers are alarmed; their business threatened, they are anxious to know what is to be done about it, and meanwhile they reduce expenses to the lowest notch. The enemy, while attempting to disguise its ultimate purpose, has given too much evidence of its hostility to the Americau idea to deceive anybody by its enigmatical utterances on this subject. It has been shown that the Democratic candidate for the presidency has written letters in favor of free trade, though he is not permitted to speak publicly for or against it. The Indianapolis Sentinel says that “the Democrats have discovered that the people want free trade, and it is just on that issue that they are going to win in the election in Indiana.” It is foolish to think that Democrats will content themselves with a moderate or business-like reduction of the tariff. They believe in absolute free trade, and think they have discovered that the people want free trade. Their first pass at the tariff was with a broadax, and with the proclaimed intention of reducing duties by 20 per cent, all round!—a bit of legislalation on a par with the action of a surgeon who would undertake to cut off an arm or leg with a meat-ax. Business men are alarmed, and for the best of reasons, and they will continue in that feeling until the impending danger is averted. Mills will remain closed or work on half-time, and men will be idle or work at reduced wages until the enemy of American industries is properly rebuked and shorn of its power to do harm. The Democratic officials of Ohio, following in the footsteps of those in Indiana, and, later, the example of both Hendricks and Cleveland, have requested the resignation of Supor-

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TnURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1884.

intendent Srnead, of the State’s Institution for the Blind. He has filled the position for twenty years, and with singular success and to the satisfaction of all concerned. The defeat of last week, howovor, was too much for the Democratic cormorants, and he must go to make room for some untried Democrat, nis offense was that he is a Republican. EXPERIENCE OF OLD MEN. If, in their eagerness to read our account of the magnificent reception of Mr. Blaine, the representative of the American idea of protection, any of our readers overlooked the first two columns of the twelfth page of yesterday's Journal, •we earnestly request them to hunt up the paper and read those three short papers. They are reminiscences of three old men, hundreds of miles apart, written without either ever having seen or heal’d of the others, and they embody in substance the conversations of all the old men in the country, when contrasting the present with the past, whatever may be now, or was then, their political affiliations. The papers are worth the study of the young men, especially, who are signalizing their entrance into political life by very able dissertations on free trade. Boy3 get chock full of free trade at colleges. Mr. Blaine said the other day, at Ann Arbor University, that he was crammed with it when a boy, but the experience of manhood has shown him how little he knew when a boy, and how little college professors know, whose knowledge is obtained from books. The first of these papers is from J. W. Scott, of York town, Delaware county, and shows from an old ledger of his father’s what prices were in Delaware county forty to fifty years ago, under free trade, and what they are now under protection—trace chains then $1.62, now 70 cents; nails, 12 1-2, now 4 cents; iron 12 1-2, now 2 cents; salt 4 1-2, now 1-2 cents, and so on. The second is from A. A. Dunihue, a merchant for more than fifty years in Bedford. In the good old Democratic days of Jaokson and Van Buren, under free trade, such a wagon load of country produce as then brought sl3 would now, under twenty years of protection, bring $40.50, while the farmer can buy at the store for $4.65 what then took his whole load, and he can take home with him $30.85 in cash—good cash, at that; gold or silver, as he prefers, or currency equally as good, and good everywhere and always. The third paper is from G. W. Ryan, now of this city, but a mechanic in Cincinnati forty to forty-five years ago, when Democracy and free trade ruled the prices, showing that the disasters of Democratic policy invaded our chief cities as well as the rural districts. Ho can buy a better suit of clothes to-day with six days’ work than he could then with eighteen days’. He thinks that mechanics and farmers cannot afford to return to Democratic management. LEAVING THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. Monday evening last Rev. T. A. Goodwin addressed a large audience at Pendleton in the interest of the Prohibition ticket of this Stato. He began by saying: “I am a Republican. I came in at the beginning of the party, but I do not propose to stay with it to the end. The Republican party, founded on true economio principles and faithfully run in the interest of the right, has come to stay through the ages. I, with you, will pass away before many years, but we shall leave the Republican party in its vigorous young manhood, able and willing to wrestle with every economic, social and moral question that the progress of events may bring to the front. There will never be any permanent reversal by the American people of the general lino of policy, as developed in the last quarter of a century under the management of the Republican party, but the gulf between it and the old Democratic policy will widen as the years pass, especially if we continue to put in the front as leaders such men as the pure, and upright, aud talented James G. Blaine, of Maine.” This introduction was received with a round of applause by the audience. After this Mr. G. proceeded to state the reasons why he is in symjmthy with so much of the prohibition movement as relates to State concerns, very' distinctly announcing that from the terms of the call, in which he participated, he is not bound by so much of the action of the Prohibition convention as relates to a national ticket. The call contemplated nothing of the kind. The Springfield Republican is forced to admit that the Boston business men’s meeting, on Saturday, was immense and enthusiastic, but adds, sneeringly, that, like other Blaine demonstrations of the season, it was noteworthy for what it didn’t show. Exactly so. That is what we have maintained all along. Each and every Republican meeting the country over has failed to give any indication of that defection in the party which mole-eyed papers like the Republican claim to be of such great extent. The New York business men’s meeting was notewortLy in just tho same way. A man at Oshkosh had a fight, in which he had his nose broken, both eyes blacked and and an ear chawod off. He was pounded to a pulp, but escaped with his life. As soon as he was able to get around on crutches” he held a “jollification.” It was of the Democratic kind. Freed from partisan prejudice, we do not believe that there is an honorable man on the American continent who would be proud of Grover Cleveland as President. Narrow, bigoted. ignorant and immoral, his elevation would degrade the nation in the eyes of all the world. The country is prepared for fresh lies against Blaine, sprung up at a moment too lnte to allow refutation, it is said that a million copies of new Mulligan letters have been printed and will be circulated lai'S next week. The Democratic managers evidently distrust

their value under investigation. The people have not yet forgotten Chairman Barnum’s infamous Morey letter forgery. Spearing of the possible election of Cleveland, the Louisville Courier-Journal says: “It means a perfect reconciliation of the sections.” [With the solid South and the bummers of New Y'ork city on top.] “It means laws to increase the stability of our currency system.” [Think of it—increase the stability of the currency.] “It means a revision of the tariff, and a reduction of taxation.” [“The Democrats have discovered that the people want free trade."—lndianapolis Sentinel.] “It means honesty and liberality in conferring pensions on Union soldiers.” [The Democratic national platform gives the confederate soldier an equal chance with him who fought for the Union. The Democratic party dares not officially declare otherwise. ] “It means a foreign policy which will command the respect of all nations.” [The London Economist favors the election of Cleveland because it fears that “the Irish will have too much to do in shaping Blaine's foreign policy."] “It means better times to all classes, commerce With all the world, foreign markets for our manufacturers, and ste.ady work at good wages for our laborers.” [The Manchester (Eng.) Post is for Cleveland because “his election would promote free trade, by which English manufacturers would be able literally to pour goods into the United States.”] “It means a reform of the civil service, with :> honest discharge of all public obligations.” [“Not less than 50,000 federal officers must immediately ‘go/ to make room for an equal number of Democrats.”—Thomas A. Hendricks, July 12, 1884.] Weather-prophet De VoE,of New Jersey, predicts more red sunsets, and redder ones, this fall than the country was favored with last year. He ascribes the cause to the reflection of the snu's rays on moisture at a high altitude, but this is undoubtedly a, mistake. There is good reason to believe that the brilliancy of the sky is simply duo to the efficiency with which the Hoosiers are “painting ’er red ” for Blaine. . The News hits it exactly when it says: “The Democrats of Fort Wayne didn’t insult Mr. Blaino. They insulted the State of Indiana, and would have insulted themselves had that beeu possible. But it must be impossible for American citizens who sink so low in partisan degradation as to deny the right of free speech to a fellow-citizen, to feel insulted by anything they might do. Indiana will redeem her respectability on tho 4th of November. Notice is hereby given to all true and loyal Democrats, within and of the State of Ohio, that, whereas, I have discovered that there was a Democratic “victory” in that State, on Tuesday of last week, to-wit., Oct. 14, 1884, you are one and all cordially invited to “jollify.” It is probably your last chance. Don’t fail. Ebenezkr Henderson, Jollifier-in-Chief. The unanimity with which Republican newspapers condemn the attack upon Gov. Cleveland by Boone, tho Elmira crank, is, it is to be feared, only partly due to a good natured wish not to have the poor man pummeled. They want lunatics to keep their hands off, because the people of the country will do a neater and more complete job on the 4th of November. Aside from the great political principles for which the two men stand, which is the greater man, which comes nearest the ideal American, with its energy, patriotism and eloquence— James G. Blaine, with an honorable record of twenty years, or Grover Cleveland, with no public record whatever? There is one Democrat in Indiana who is not alarmed at his party’s outlook in that State. He lives in Kokopao, and is blind. —Philadelphia Press. And now his hopes are destroyed too. He is not deaf, and he heard from Mi’. Blaine on Tuesday. Mb. Chet Morgan (plays the organ, proba bly), paying teller of the United States National Bank, Omaha, could give give lovers a pointer on how it is done. He fell in love with Miss Rebe Yates, daughter of the president of the Nebraska Natioi.al Bank, and she reciprocated by falling in love with him. Ho persuaded her to consent to become his wife, and thereupon asked her father's consent. The father demurred because Morgan was a Catholic, while the lady was an Episcopalian. That was last winter, some time, and Mr. Yates insisted that the matter of matrimony be indefinitely laid on the table. The other day the cheerful and urbane Mr. Morgan kindly imparted t.he news to Mr. Yates that he had been his son-in-law sinco last March, at which time he and Miss Yates were secretly married at another town. A New York minister has evolved a deep scheme for getting money out of the pockets of his parishioners. At a pastors’ meeting recently held, the question of raising church debts was discussed, and the following plan proposed by oue of the reverend brethren was most favorably received. He holds it to be the duty of each congregation to pay its own debts, but recommends that all preliminary arrangements to such end be kept strictly a secret from the members. When all should be in readiness plans should be announced and a feeling of enthusiasm awakened. This enthusiasm could bo brought about through the crafty efforts of the pastor himself, who should, as a part of the secret preliminaries, have urged upon his flock the duty of praying for the liquidation of tho debt. He would wisely refrain from any suggestion of subscriptions, but repeat the hint as to prayers from time to time. After the devout brethren and sisters had continued to pray for financial aid for a reasonable period, it would, says this sly preacher, suddenly dawn upon them that

they had some interest in tho matter. When the collections and subscription papers should be sprung upon them by the official board, lying in wait for answers to prayer, the good people would innocently and unsuspectingly go down into their pockets and produce the required funds. The divulging of this scheme to newspaper reporters seems to have been a rather unwise move, as its efficiency is due to the secrecy with which it can be played upon the debt-bur-dened congregation. Asa rule, the church member of the period prefers to have his prayers, particularly those for cash, answered by others than himself, and when the New York preacher's plan becomes generally known, the wary brother will decline to pray when requested, unless he knows in advance where the money is to eoine from. Sitting Bull and Long Dog, the distinguished Indian gentlemen who are now making a tour of tho States, have profited by their close observation of young white ladies whom they meet. Mr. Dog now consumes three quarts of ice cream at a sitting, and Mr. Bull gets away with four quarts. Unless their demands for this cooling resreshment are complied with, there is danger that a waiter may bo tomahawked The enterprising young American who is personally conducting the tourists is heading towards the Northwest sinco this ruinous taste has developed, and hopes to get baok to the reservations before he is entirely bankrupt. A Pittsburg preacher has challenged any spiritualistic medium to a test of his powers, claiming that no one of the latter gentry can produce a message from the dead which he, the preacher, cannot duplicate or prove to be a fraud. If he fail to make good his claim, he offers to give SI,OOO to a charitable institution, and also SSOO to tho successful medium. The challenge has been accepted by a Philadelphia “professor" of spiritualistic accomplishments, and the faithful will now look out for attested messages from the other world. Mr. Stephen Van Rensselaer Van Allen Van llorne. an aristocratic young man of Toledo, has left his newly-married wife and fled to foreign lands, for what reason none of his friends can surmise. It doesn’t seem to have occurred to them that ho might have gone sooner if ho could have taken all his name along, and that his marriage was the result of a happy thought to divide responsibility by sharing the cognomen with a wife. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Will you pleas© state which should receive the money, when two Republicans make a bet be tween themselves, “that Ohio goes 13,000 plurality at the October election.'' A Reader. Warsaw, Ind. Unless an understanding was had that tho vote on some certain candidate was to bo taken as the test, the one who bet in the affirmative should receive the money. For reasons wholly irrelevant to the political issues at stake, a can didate may run behind his ticket, but that does not affect the general result. To tho Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: What State does Senator Mahone represent in the United States Senate? Marion Steele. Greenville, Ind. Virginia. rOLITKJAh NOTE AND GOSSIP. Senator Bayard is in the habit of making speeches without ever once mentioning the name of Grover Cleveland. •Jacob Romeis, who defeated Frank Hurd for Congress, is a plain hard headed workingman, who will make as good a Represeutiv© as he has been a municipal officer in Toledo. Carl Schurz said his hand should wither before he voted the Democratic ticket again. While he has been getting his hand ready for the November wither, perhaps the cold breeze from Ohio has given him a withered ear. Philadelphia Press: Yes, William Walter Phelps is a Republican dude and wears his hair banged. They say he wears it banged so it may cover up a big sabro gash cut upon his forehead by a good Democrat during the war. Major McKinley at Logansport: “I am a Republican because lam an American. I want to see that great American statesman, James G. Blaine,' elected, because every foreign nation and foreigner wants to see him defeated” Henry Ward Beecher’s son, Col. TL W. Beecher, has been quoted as an important addi tion to the Brooklyn Independent movement. In Col. Beecher’s office sixteen of the nineteen men employed arc earnest supporters of Mr. Blaiue. St. Louis Globe Democrat: The Democrats didn't expect to carry Ohio. Certainly not And Lee didn’t expect to win the battle of Gettysburg. Os course not. He fought it for fun .fust to keep his hand in. He thought he’d take a run into Pennsylvania, and while there he thought he’d have a little brush with the Yankees. MoSweeney, tho assisted emigrant of the Democrats, has been indulging in auother lie. He sayshe was elected Poor Law Guardian with out his consent. Hugh O’Doherty, a neighbor, says that MoSweeney sought tho office, spent some money to get it, and held it before his arrest. lie does not deny that he performed the duties of the office. New York Sun: Jut now the only apparent contribution to the campaign which can bo traced to tho independent Republicans is a copious flow of scandal. Numerically they are nowhere, but they are potent iu defam ition. and that, too. of the most repellent and odious quality. What wonder? Is it not tho natural and logical consequenco of their support of Grover Cleveland. In speaking of the Democratic effort to howl down Mr. Blaine at Fort Wayne, the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette says: “Tho indecency of the Fort Wayne Democrats toward Mr. Blaine, and the characteristic attempt to silence him by a display of mob violence, will do him uo harm in Indiana or throughout the country. It is no better than was to be expected of a party that silences Republican votes in eleven States of the Union by shoogun and bull whip. About a ton of campaign documents has been delivered to the Democrats at Springfield, 111. They are intended to prove that Blaino has been a Know nothing, and are to be sent among the Irish Catholics. The charges made in them against Mr. Blaine have been shown to bo false and malicious. The paper in which they were tirst printed, tho Boston Pilot, by tho way. has declared that Mr. Blaine’s principal opponent has not a single qualification to fit him for the presidency. “Gath” in “Broadway ’Note-book:” “I am asked occasionally on what the sanguine Demo crats base their hopes of Cleveland cariyiug this State. I have asked a great many of them to explain the faith that is in them, and when I get an answer at all, it is the same from each. They say that Cleveland got 192,000 majority only two years ago. 1 reply now that the Democrats had 12.000 only a year ago in Ohio, and aro beaten 12,000 or more this y**ar. On the same principle Cleveland ought to fall off 200,000.” “Gath’s" New York letter: The appearance of Gresham at the business men's meeting seems to cut tho last cord which unites the once promising independent movement to the Democracy. Gresham was designed, by a portion of the kick era at Chicago, to have been their dark horse. The more Jesuitical kickers even wanted to cheat Gresham because he was the dark hone, and have a third dark horse veiled in tho rear of

the stable. The average reformer is never quite happy unless ho can betray not only his competitor, but his competitor’s enemy, too. He not only has the white joker in the pack, but that white joker is split down the middle and takes itself. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. It is asserted that about a third of the banking done in tho world is done in the British Empire. The President has taken up his residence at fchft Soldiers’ Home until the approach of winter weather* Mark Twain is on another bust. It is bronze thl* time, and the work of Mr. Karl Gerhardt, of Elmira. N. Y. It is on exhibition at Hartford. Dahomey takes the palm for ingenious cruelty. Thft commander of tho forces having guilty oS high treason, he was buried chest deep and then shofc at by the Amazon regiment until dead. Miss Carrie Welton, the young lady who fro*# to death in a snow-storm on Long’s Peak in September, left a fortuno of $250,000 to the Society for thft Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, of New York. In Lord Malmesbury’s “Recollections" there ar# several amusing answers of children. This is one of the best; A ehild being asked what at baptism wai the outward and visible sign, replied, “The baby!” There is a rumor in England that when the Princess Imperial of Germany was in England, in September. she paved the way for a visit of Prince Bistnarok to Sandringham, wh*re ho and Mr. Gladstone are to have an opportunity of hobnobbing. An English society journal prints the extraordinary and altogether improbable story that Oscar Wild# made $50,000, iu New York city, by suggestions to shoddy society people as to the aesthetic interior decorations of their houses, receiving in some cases SSOO for such service. The London aldermen have deposed from his office Bartholomew Binns, who succeeded Marwood as city hangman. Mr. Binns was drunk at one execution, was found traveling in a railroad carriage in a class superior to that for which he hail a ticket, and was generally felt to be unworthy of his official post tion. John Monro, a native of Ross-shirty who died a few weeks ago in Edinburg, was said to have reached the age of 103 years and six months. Ho served ua the British army during the American war of 1312, and four years ago was admitted, with his wife, to thft city poor-house. The wife died there two years ago, at the age of eighty-five. Mouro himself died in the poor-house. King Kalakaua is said to be a close student, spending the greater part of his time in his library reading and writing. On all matters of Hawaiian history he is an authority. He traces his descent from someone of the great chiefs of Hawaii, whose story U the most poetic and remarkable in the whole range of Hawaiian lore. The Queen is also of a retiring nature, and is much beloved for her extensive charities and kindly disposition. There are two boys—Field by name-living at Ly sander, N. Y., who Rave some remarkable facts connected with their history. One of them will bo ft voter on the 4th day of next November, and will oast his first vote. The second youth is the twin brother of the first, but can not vote at this election, from the fact that he is six weeks younger than his brother. They, are both strong, fine-looking fellows, sons of ft farmer, and follow their father’s vocation. Dr. Madden surprised the British Medical Association at their last meeting by showing how common among children was the habit of liquor-drinking and how many cases of juvenilo alcoholism he had beeu called upon to treat in his own practice. The cases are found chiefly among people who send small children to public saloons for liquor. On their way home they take draughts of the liquor, and thus are sown the seeds whioli may germinate into an irresistible desire fWr alcohol. The Doctor has lately treated a case of well-marked chronic alcoholism in a boy of eight, and one of delirium tremens in a child of the same age. Dr. Schweninger, of Munich, has discovered a new mode of reducing the bulk of the human frame. It is, never to eat and drink at the same time, but to let two hours intervene. It has, it is said, cured Prince Bismarck of a tendency to obesity in this Way. Fat people have now their choice between four,*Si':b~ teius. 1. The original Banting, which of eating nothing containing starch, sugar or fat. 2. The German Banting, which allows fat, but forbids sugar or starch. 3. A Munich system, which consist* of being clothed in wool and sleeping in flannol Jdank* ets instead of sheets. 4. Not eating and drinking at the same time. Huxley gives the following table of what a fullgrown man should weigh, and how this weight should bo divided: Weight, 154 pouuds. Made up thus! Muscles and their appurtenances, 68 pounds; skeleton, 24 pounds: skin, 10 1 © pounds; fat, 28 pounds; brain, 3 pounds; thoracic viscera, o*3 pounds; abdominal viscera, 11 pounds; blood which would drain from body, 7 pounds. This man ought to consume pep diem: Lean beefsteak, 5,000 grains; bread, 6,000 grains; milk, 7,000 grains; potatoes, 3,000 grains; butter, GOO grains; and water. 22,900 grains. Ilia heart should beat 75 times a minute, and he should breathe 15 times a minute. In 24 hours he should vitiate 1,750 cubic feet of puro air to the extent of 1 per cent.; a man, therefore, of the weight mentioned, ought to have 800 ctibic feet of well-ventilated space. He would throw off by the skin 18 ounces of water, 300 grains of solid matter, and 400 grams of oarbonic acid every 24 hours, and his total loss during the 24 hours would be 6 pounds of water, and a little above 2 pounds of other matter. One Decent Democratic Taper. Nashville Banner. The Chronicle calls Blaino a thief and a liar. These are hard words. However much wo may condemn Mr. Blaine, we do not care to apply such epithets to him. Ho may be elected President. Between four and five millions of people in this country will vote for him for President. It is charitable, at least, to believe that these five million people do not think Mr. Blaino a pusillanimous scoundrel and a thief. If he is a liar and a thief now, will no not be as much a liar and a thief if he should be elected President of the United States'? Shoulji he be elected as tho chosen ruler and representative of the proudest nation on earth, and hold the highest positiou in tho gift of the world, in which the rulers and tho people of ovorv other nation will delight to do him honor, will tho Chronicle still characterize him as a contemptible liar and. 4 thief? • ‘ Another Preacher to the Fore. Rev. J. C. Sawyer, Presidium Elder of Troy, N. X. District. Believing that temperance men should be consistent; acting as a Republican from principle; regarding the protection of American labor as essential, not only to the prosperity, but also to the perpetuity of our free government; dreading the election of a notoriously unchaste man to the presidency as a national disgrace, an immeasurable calamity, and a stupendous crime against the morals of Christendom. I deplore the folly of those, who, under the banner of Governor St. John. ar n promoting free trade, free liquor and Grover Cleveland. * , Jrcllcal Temperance Work. Brooklyn Union. The advancement of temperance by what maybe called temperance methods is not generally appreciated. Every year more and more employers make intemperance a bar to employment. On all first class railroads indulgence in strong drink is not only discouraged, but is considered ground for dismissal. In other lines of business, also, the man who is known to drink liquor finds himself at a disadvantage when it is a question betweeu him and one who does not. Such practical “temperance lectures” are having their effect. _ Lets Them Out. PliilnilQlphia Prc.B. Iso ignoramus will bo elected President this year, and that lets Mr. Cleveland out. No old copperhead will bo elected Vice president this year, and that lots Mr. Hendricks out Swept Away. Philadelphia Press, Thomas Hendricks hasn’t been heard from since tho Ohio cyclone. Elopement is hinted at,