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THE DAILY JOURNAL. nr jxo. c. new * son. MONDAY, DECEMBER 29. 1884. THE INDIANA I'OI.IS JOURNAL Can he found at tho following place*; LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. UA RTS—American Exchange in raria, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. R Hawlev & Cos., 154 Vine Street LOUISVILLE— C* T. Dearing, northwest comer Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. New Year’s Calls. Ladies who intend to entertain friends on New Year's day will oblige the Journal by sending notice to that effect to the counting-room, not later than Wednesday noon. The Journal of Thursday morning will publish in alphabetical order the names of thoso who will “receive.” Ladies will please give the names of those who will assist in entertaining callers. Indianapolis has more than held her own during the year now closing, dull as it was. Tire earth's surface is in just that condition that favors high rivers—covered with snow and frozen hard. It is to he hoped that no extensive or prolonged rains will occur. A GOVERNMENT appropriation of about S7OO, - 000, more or less, at Mussel Shoals, Tenn., will, it is claimed by able Southern lobbyists, he productive of wonderful industrial results in that region. There can hardly be any doubt of it, but the government should wait to hear what Gubser’s Mills wants before dividing up the Treasury surplus. The returns from that 2>olitical center are not yet in. Editor Watterson is quite doubtful how cat Cleveland is going to jump. In a notice of Colonel McClure’s favorable impressions of the President-elect, the Kentucky free-trader and gostrator says: “According to Colonel McClure, everything is lovely and the goose swings high i’ the air. That is just what we think. Maybe, however, the Colonel’s standpoint and our stand-poiut are not exactly the same. Who knows?”

Consul Davis, of Berne, Switzerland, should be recalled. He recently cabled to Collector Robertson to stop one Maria Roden, daughter of a tavern-keeper near Berne, who was fleeing from an obnoxious lover. The collector very properly refused to do so, but sent her on her way rejoicing. If the flag of this country stands for anything, it is for the perfect freedom of women from marrying anybody they don't like. Ho V. Samuel J. Randall starts from Washington to-day for his Southern trip, and will likely reach the State of Kentucky, of which Mr. Henri Watterson is editor and proprietor, about to-morrow. It will be interesting to note the warmth and extent of the reception accorded the Pennsylvanian, for it will be both a measure of rebuke to the Courier-Journal man and a fair expression of the revulsion in a slow-going, conservative, tobacco-and-whisky-souked Southern city, against the old slavery free-trade Views which were inimical to the nineteenth century ideas of trade and industry. Thf. folly indulged in by a lot of folks in West Virginia, who proposed to contest the election for State officers held in October, in favor of a ticket voted for in November by a sow smart-alecks, has been stopped. At the time, the Journal said the movement was nothing but bakl idiocy, although it was undertaken under “eminent legal advice.’’ It is always safe to bet that for any foolishness or rascality there is “eminent legal advice.” There are “eminent legal advisers" who make their large fees, professedly, off gullibility and crime; and the measure of the latter can be pretty accurately estimated by the “eminence” of tlie advice and the size of the foe. The Utica Observer scolds like a termagant over Mr. Evarts's letter announcing bis candidature for the United States eenatorsldp. It is of opinion that “if he really possesses as exalted a conception of the character of the New York senatorship as he professes, he should have scrupulously refrained from advancing a bid for it after the style of tho ward politician.” We think bis action very far removed from the style of tlie “ward politician.” Instead of resorting to secret methods of wining and dining tho “boys,” and “fixing things.” he has come out in a manly, straightforward manner, attesting his high appreciation of tho dignity and honor of the office, and in no wise puffing himself above his fellows. With such an open, manly method, tlie office will not go to him unless it comes freely. It is ton thousand times more honorable and dignified than tho way in which the Ohio sernttorship was bought for Mr. Payne from one of Ohio’s ablest, most honorable Democratic statesmen. A DECENT government order, transferring the sewing from the Schuylkill arsenal at Philadelphia to Jeffersonville, Ind.. is causing an outcry of distress from many poor families in that city. The sewing gives employment to about 400 women, and by its removal they will be thrown out of work. An appeal in their behalf is being made to Secretary Lincoln to withdraw tho order. While it is well for every employer, not excepting the government, to be considerate of employes, the claim [>f Philadelphia laborers that because this ,',-ovk has always been done there it should al-

ways so continue does not seem to be good reasoning. The sewing women of Jeffersonville and vicinity are probably equally accomplished, and not less needy and deserving than those of Philadelphia, and if the seamstress question is to enter into the matter at all, this view of it should be considered as well as the other. MR, BEECHER’S OFFENSE. Mr. Beecher has a Christmas present and a New Year's jov. He was warned to “let up” on Blaine, and in response waged a more bitter war. Now, to gladden the holidays of his seventy-first year, comes the intimation that the men who supported him in the storm of Tilton’s prosecution will wreck his church and send him adrift in the day of the triumph of the cause he espoused. By a like seeming paradox, in this defeat he may win his highest honor. To a younger and less famous man such martyrdom would he commonplace. For the man who has grown hoary in serving Brooklyn’s most aristocratic congregation and gained the title, “the world’s greatest preacher,” to be “thrown out of work” for standing by what he believed right is about the only event that could place him higher in the world's gallery of heroes. It is singularly fitting that the champion of free thought should be the victim of a puritan intolerance which it is our boast has been nearly outlived. —Louisville Commercial. The Commercial puts a wrong interpretation upon tho attitude of Mr. Beecher’s protesting parishioners. His offense in the recent campaign was less against the Republican party than against the church and the cause of good morals. Not content with rushing to the aid of Mr. Cleveland, he must parade the claim that Cleveland's offense against morality must not operate to his prejudice. With no disposition to open an old sore or to parade the Nation's shame, we feci justified in condemning Mr. Cleveland’s offense every time it is apologized for or put forward at the expense of national self-respect. Mr. Beecher was not content with supporting Cleveland on political principles, hut must proclaim his personal sympathy because of the charge of social immorality, a charge at once unqualifiedly admitted by him. The action of Mr. Beecher was as though he wished to place himself in the same moral boat with the Democratic nominee, and then to challenge criticism. We do not recall that the great Brooklyn divine, at any time, in any way, admitted that Mr. Cleveland had even erred. On the contrary, in brazen defiance of public opinion, and utterly heedless of its necessary effect upon public morality and upon the rising generation, he seemed rather to rejoice in the fact that a man had been nominated who dwelt under the shadow of a crime similar to that laid at his own door in years past. The members of Mr. Beecher's church are, we think, justified in expressing their indignation at such prostitution of a moral teacher, seeking rather to make sin respectable than to clear himself of its taint. The members of his church have very much of its responsibility on their shoulders. They saw fit to stand by him when he was prosecuted for an infamous offense, but they do not feel that ha can reasonably expect them to follow and hold up his hands when ho apotheosizes such a wrong. It does cot appear that they have “conspired” to break down Plymouth Church or its venerable pastor. If they see fit, However, to withdraw their indorsement of Mr. Beecher when he becomes the defender of libertinism and the slanderer of the pure men and women of an entire State, we do not se< how exception can be taken to their course.

PRIMITIVE PROTECTION, Some thirty years or so ago the city of San Francisco was so infested by thieves, gamblers and general scoundrels that no decent man’s life or pocketbook was safe in any part of tho city in any hour of the day. The political foroe of the scoundrelism was sufficient to infiuence, if not control, county and city officers, and crime was rather safer than honesty. One day a villainous gambler named Casey killed Mr. King, editor of the Bulletin, for denouncing gamblers and thieves, and it proved the last feather that broke the back of endurance. The people at once organized a “vigilance committee,” and began hanging the gamblers and thieves, as the people of Natchez had done a generation before. Tho law was nothing, and they set it and its worthless officers aside, and applied justice “speedily without delay, cheaply without price,” as Blackstone says, and soon made San Francisco the safest and best governed city in the United States. Now any city that finds itself more or less unprotected against the depredations of professional villainy may take so much admonition from the San Francisco “vigilance committee" as will direct it, not to displace the laws or tho officers, but to reinforce them, to fill the gaps in the lino of guards with volunteer help, to supplement a protection that the city’s moans wall not enable it to maintain constantly. Indianapolis is in or olosely approaching that condition. There has hardly ft day passed for some months without a street or street-car robbery, sometimes enlivened by an attempt at murder, and sometimes hideously aggravated by actual murder. Our streets off the business lines are safe nowhere. No one can he sure that he may not be “held up” on bis way home any time after dark, on any street except a few blocks of about a. dozen. Mr. Price did a good work in shooting a footpad recently, and Mr. Finigan did another in gripping Havens and making him safe for the penitentiary. But these are only two cases of prompt and saving action in a score of cases of robbery. Ten footpads have esoaped for every one captured. The proportion should be reversed, and ten captured for every one that escapes. That, it is veiy certain, can never be in the present flondition of police protection. It may be as good as we have any reason to cx-

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pect with the force we are able to pay, though that is a little problematical, but whatever else it is, it is pretty much nothing in preventing street and street-car robberies and burglaries. A “vigilance committee” organized temporarily to help a tolerably helpless police foi’ce, might easily manage to watch the whole city so carefully for a month or two as to make the crimes of the last few months impossible, and finding tlieir trade a bad one, the scoundrels would be very apt to go. They can't afford to stay long where there is no chance for business. DOES IT MEAN ANNEXATION? The New Orleans Picayune seems in possession of information not accessible to other newspapers. It says: “The country is ripe for an entirely new departure, one worthy of our great Nation, and one that will stamp itself upon the whole history of North America. We must adopt a policy of acquisition, of territorial aggrandizement to the southward. It need not be accomplished by armed invasion or inaugurated in blood. The Nicaragua treaty is the opening wedge. Let us drive that home, and by investing a hundred millions in a ship-canal there secure the country. American enterprise will soon annex the whole of Central America from that base line.” It will be news, we think, to a very great number of people of this Nation that the country has even seriously thought of such an absurdity, to say nothing of being “ripe” for it. There are several insuperable reasons why the annexation of Mexico and the Central American states is not desirable. That entire region is populated by people speaking different languages from ours. The prejudice that would exist would be an insurmountable barrier against amalgamation and that fraternity essential to national unity. Then, too, our country is already large enough. Embracing in the heart of the western continent a territory eight times as largo as France, Germany and Austria rolled into one, and thirty-three times as large as the kingdom of Great Britain, it is large enough. There is infinitely more reason for the annexation of Canada, or Manitoba, and few care to do that. When Spain is added to France, Italy to Austria, Belgium to Germany, and all these are affiliated into one homogeneous people, then may the inhabitants of tho countries south of the United States be brought into the American Union. Let it bo admitted that they may become intelligent, that their territory is rich in mineral and vegetable resources, they are more valuable to us as friendly powers, with their own interests and ambitions in their own hands, than as an incongruous part of the Union. The idea of annexation is not yet “ripe” enough to pluck.

ADULTERATED FLOUR. The Georgia Eoleetio Medical Journal makes the astounding assertion that the adulteration of flour is “in proportion varying between 15 and 25 per cent.” The statementis made “after analyzing a large number of specimens of flour manufactured at different mills in various States.” It is difficult to believe that any flour could bo sold and consumed that contained such a per cent, of insoluble mineral matter, and it is possible that the chemist conducting the analysis may have made the proportion of adulteration too high. But, waiving the per cent, of admixture, composed, as is alleged, of tale, silica and other minerals, it is enough to know that flour is adulterated at all. No cheap substance can be added to flour without deleterious effect. No organic being can have its food mixed with insoluble matter without evil consequences. The stomach of an ostrich could not digest nor assimilate terra alba or silica in any form; it was not intended as pabulum, and cannot bo forced to serve aa such. An ounce of clay in a barrel of flour is not only a cheat to that amount, but becomes a positive and dangerous bairn to the consumer. But when it comes to increasing that amount to thirty and fifty pounds per barrel—or 15 and 25 per cent., as claimed by tho authority quoted—the offense becomos ono that ought to hold the perpetrator as a criminal, to be dealt with as any other man guilty of working harm to the life and health of the people. The man who would poison a well or stream would be execrated by all men. The man who, for gain, would mix with food any matter that cannot bo assimilated is a swindler, and no better than a thief. It ought to be a very easy matter to detect any person guilty of the adulteration mentioned, and detected, he should be punished not only as a thief, but as a conspirator against public health. Editor Watterson has advice galore, just now, relative to his frantic efforts to ward off Mr. Randall from his raid into the solid South, but the following from the St. Louis Republican, at least, possessos the virtue of anew remedy: “We trust the editor of the Louisville Cour-ier-Journal will not resort to the shotgun policy to keep Sam Randall out of the South. It is irritating, no doubt, to have a Pennsylvania protectionist poaching on bis preserves, but would it not create less scandal if he should be taken off by quietly dropping a little poison in his whisky as ho passes through Kentucky!” Suppose Sam Randall should be elected Speaker of tho House in the Fortv-uiuth Congress, what then!—New York Sun. What then?- Do you hear this, Mr. Wattersou? Great heavens! We thought the Cour-ier-Journal arsenal would be locked for good when Cleveland was elected. If this kind of talk is indulged in, there will be millions of people iu Washington next March to see the Kentucky troops deploy on Pennsylvania avenue and surround the Capitol. The funeral of the victims of the St. John’s Orphans’ Home reoalls the more appalling disaster when tho Brooklyn Theater burned. It

would seem that fate is unrelenting, and comes unbidden alike to those in the midst of gayeties and those who have consecrated their lives to the service of others. The law of nature is inexorable. Unless a structure is fire-proof it is liable to burn. The New York Tribune reproduces the “celebrated” elopement case of Mary Ann Boker with her father’s Irish coachman, John Dean, twentyfive years ago. Mary Ann's father was a rich wholesale wine merchant., a German, living in Jersey City. He never forgave Mary Ann, nor did her brother and sister. Mr. Boker died some years ago. It is said Mary Ann went to his funeral, but her brother and sister declined to recognize her. After his marriage John Dean first drove an express wagon for a living, but was subsequently successful in dealing in cotton. The couple, however, have lived apart for some years. She is about fifty years old, and lives quietly at New Rochelle. She has no children. It is said she lives on an allowance furnished by her mother, who fives in Germany. Mrs. Boker shared the aversion of her family to John Dean, but never persecuted her daughter. A Newark, N. J., bride got her name into the papers last week, through a bit of pretty perverseness characteristic of young women. She was eighteen, her husband forty—perish the thought that she married the old duffer for his money—and when he went to put on the ring where the ceremony required it, she crooked her finger, so that it would not pass over the second joint. The groom turned “forty colors," but finally had to let the ring remain between first and second joints. The bride naively explained afterwards that she did it “a-purpose,” she having heard that if she permitted him to press the ring past the second joint he would be “boss,” and if not, she would. We are averse to betting, but we believe fivo dollars’ worth that the bride will learn much as she grows older. The Louisville Commercial contains an account of a man “accidentally shot through the fence,” This is a trifle ambiguous. Was he shot through the fence, as a ramrod shot tkvoUgh ?. board, or was he shot through some portion of the anatomy technically called “the fence?” If the latter, is it a serious thing to be shot through that organ or member? Perhaps the anatomy of the Louisville man is different from that of other men. An obscure Virginia paper recites tho fact that a barrel of remarkably large oysters have recently been shipped to Baltimore, “eighty-six filling the barrel to overflowing.” This is at the rate of three to a pint. They have probably been given a big drink of fresh water, which has the effect of causing them to puff up greatly; and fresh water, it might be remarked, is the substance that makes oysters “fat.” To tho Editor of tho Indianar.olis Journal: To what time in the history of the United States has Bancroft in his history reached, and how many volumes are there? Shelbyvii.le, lad. Journal, Reader. His latest volume, just issued, embraces the events that transpired between 1776 and 1789. There are now five volumes in all.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Ex Vice-president Wheeleb is still in poor health. Experiments have been made with the pulp of the Florida banana, and the result is that from it can be obtained a splendid quality of paper and rope. Every visitor to the world’s exposition in New Orleans is required to deposit a silver half dollar in a glass box in charge of the doorkeeper, no admission tickets being sold. Dr. LONqcET states in L’Union Medicate that the first Napoleon’s pulse beat about forty-five times a minute, even when he was in his usual healthy condition. The average pulse of well men is given at sixty. JOHN B. Stetson, a Philadelphia hat manufacturer, is tho largest policy-holdor in the world. Ho carries $360,000 on his own life and pays premiums on $360,000 for others. Hamilton Disston carries altogether $510,000. Extremes sometimes meet.. In China a dog thief is beheaded, but the man who steals a million can he but slightly punished, and usually runs away to Corea. In the United States a horsethief is lynched and an absconding bank cashier goes to Canada. Nobody seems to say or know much of Mr. Coningsby Disraeli, except that it is related that not long after the funeral of his illustrious uncle he was told that he would shortly be presented to tlie Queeu. “Ah!" said he. "I must get my hat ironed, then!” The Infanta Isabella—Countess Girgenti—of Spain, inherits her mother’s propensity for ridiculing people behind their backs, but she has a more caustic wit and less good nature than the ex-Queen. Consequently she is much disliked, and is probably the most unpopular of her little-loved family. Dr. Schliemann’s new work, giving an account of his excavations at Tiryns, is now in the press, and will be published next March simultaneously in England, America, Germany and France. When the work is more advanced the learned Doctor will proceed to Crete, where he expects his excavations will be crowned with his usual success. Godliness is profitable—to Mr. Spurgeon. He has just received as a gift from Mr. Passmore (of Passmore & Alabaster, publishers, London) a black-and-tan colored carriage, upholstered with the most luxurious cushions, ard containing various shelves for hooks and parcels, an array of cigar-boxes and trays, and a handsome looking-glass. A pleasure seeking worldling could scarcely ask for more. The well-bred man who smokos only for the love of it puts but as much of his cigar in his mouth as is necessary in order to draw, keeps it in his mouth no longer than is necessary, and never fails to remove it when he talks, or passes auy one toward whom he would bo respectful, especially a lady. Further, our bestbred men never smoke in any street at an hour when it is much frequented, nor iu any public place where smoking is likely to be offensive to others. The venerable Archdeacon Abraham Nelies, of Brantford, Canada West, whose death is announced, spent fifty-five years in the ministry among the Indians of the Six Nations bn the Grand River Reserve, and as an officer of the “New-England Company" who hold the Reservo under a charter from Charles 11. He officiated in the old Mohawk Church of St. Paul’s, the first church erected in Canada West, in the tower of which hangs a bell dated 1786, and within the churchyard of which lie tho bones of the famous and sanguinary warrior and chief. Joseph Brant. Mb. Percy Reeve, the rising young composer, has met with a singular and singularly unfortunate accident. On a Saturday night recently, in London, Mr. Barrymore, the actor, who was leading man to Mme. Modjeska for some seasons, and is married to a sister of Mr. John Drew, Mr. Daly's first juvenile, was demonstrating to Mr. Reeve and a few friends at the Greenroom Club the excellence of certain catches and grips when wrestling, and in so doing he experimented on Mr. Reeve so successfully that he broke that gentleman’s arm close to the shoulder. The sufferer was conveyed to the Charing Cross llospitul. The famous shell road of New Orleans is a boulevard of almost snowy whiteness, nearly 200 feet in width and nine miles in length, extending from the western limits of the city to Lake Pontchartrain. A sum mer evening drive along this road, through the forests of cypress and oak, the black moss hanging in festoons across tho way, presents a weird and novel sight. St. Charles avenue, the aristocratic residence street of the city, is in the southern or new portion of the town, and is, perhaps, the most beautiful of all. It is paved with asphult, and from its beginning at the Trlvoli circle, where stands the Lee monument, to its

ending in a country road far beyond the village of Jefferson, are magnificent houses, homes of tho wealtiest men in the city, varying in style of architecture from the typical Southern house, with its great pillars and broad galleries, to the latest craze, the Swiss cottage. Beautiful lawns and gardens surround them, from which the rich perfume of orango, myrtle, Cape jasmine, and magnolia combined fills the air. The soldiers’ and sailors’ monument at Hartford is to be an arch near the bridge on the road up to the State Capitol, forming an entrance to the park, the design of George Keller, a local architect. Terra cotta friezes, running around the bases of tho arch, have been assigned to Samuel Kitson, an Englishman, who has studied in Rome and worked in New York and Boston. The frieze is seven feet high and 185 feet long, and will show more than one hundred figures the size of life. A completed section has ten figures and four horses; the scene is a confederate battery charged by Union infantry, and a landing of marines opposed by Southern troops. The frieze will be of a buff tint. The Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain is ex officio the Speaker of the House of Lords. He is also a member of the Cabinet, and usually a peer, though there is nothing to prevent the sovereign from naming a commoner for the position. He sits on the woolsack, and wears a wig and gown during every session. Members, as they arise, do not address him, however, but the House, and he has not the right to decido who has the floor, nor the right to demand order. He is a mere figurehead, for which he receives $30,000 as judge and $20,000 as Speaker annually—the same salary as the President of the United States. He goes out of office with the resignation of the Ministry, but receives thereafter a pension of $25,000 a year for life. The present occupant of tho woolsack is Lord Selbomo. There are at present seventy women in France who have received the distinction of the Cross of the Legion of Honor. The last of them is Mme. St.. Juliien, the superior of the Sisterhood of St. Vincent de Paul, who has been engaged at the Marseilles city hospital for thirty years. The order is generally given to women for devotion to the sick and wounded; Lady Pigott, for instance, besides several French women, has received the order as a reward for her services during the Franco-Russian war. But the name of Rosa Bonhenr, artiste peintre, is also on the list, and it is said that Mme. Abioot was decorated for defending the house of the Maire of Oison, her husband, against armed men, and that Mme, Ivegts, who is the first decorated Fixr.cti woman, earuod her d’iftiurtioji in 18-19 Art “resisting the mob.” At Hogoumont, that historical spot on the battlefield of Waterloo, there is a one-story chapel, eight by . twelve feet in size, in which a terrible scene was once enacted. During the battle thero was a hand-to-hand fight with swords inside the little structure, in which the French were all killed. The last one, a doughty colonel, piously took refuge behind the wooden figure of tho Virgin on the altar, but the Briton cared naught for the effigy, and he rained the sword blows upon the Frenchman with fatal effect. The wooden Virgin stands there now, and there is a split in the head and a gash in the wall behind her, the revolt of either the Englishman's uncertain ainffor the Frenchman’s ability to dodge. Over the door thero is a small effigy of Christ, but lacking a nose and having a terrible gash in one thigh—more work of the recklessly swung sword.

CURRENT PRESS COMMENT. There is a point beyond which thero is no sense in depressing prices, and that point has been reached. Property is generally worth more than wo are quoting it at to-day, and thero is no more reason in pushing prices lower than there would he in wiping out all values and declaring that nothing has any worth. We have gone far enough in this direction, and it is time to stop before a convulsive action sots in.—Philadelphia Inquirer. In _ all these cases where fools elope it is the woman who is the chief fool. She has everything to lose, and in ninety-nine cases in a hundred she loses. The Long Island case is not a singular one. The wife of the runaway husband takes him back, but tlie husband of the runaway wife cannot do that, and the woman is the victim. The experience of tL fools who elope is lost upon the other tools, however. They will continue to elope, and women will continue to be made victims of until the world is bui’ned up.—Philadelphia Times. There is no reason why thore should not be a restoration of confidence at once, but it is, alas, a matter that cannot bo reasoned in. It returns sometimes as suddenly and illogieally as it flies from us. When the balance of trade is in our favor, when the warehouses are filled with surplus crops, when money is a drujj at tho great centers of trade, when the wealth per capita in the country is simply immense, why should thero not bo an immediate return of confidence, business activity and good profits/ Such a revi val cannot be far off when all the conditions invite it.—Atlanta Constitution. The restoration of New York to her former position at the head of the Republican column would threaten not only the ascendency, hut. the very existence of tho Democratic partv as at present, constituted. The immense falling off of Democratic pluralities in the Southern States indicates that the South will not remain solid for another four years; and there aro sow Northern States, if an}', that aro likely to take their place on that. side. The disintegration of the Demo cratic party will then be probable, and it is not too much to say that it will require tho greatest sagacity on the part of it managers, and pre-eminently on tho part of the now President, to prevent 6ucli a result. —New York Sun. Did any nation ever propose to do anything to build up its home manufactui*es or extend its commerce that it was not met by an objection from the 3amo quarter. Has not England created a school of socalled political economy, the fundamental idea of which is a running objection to other nations doing Iheir own manufacturing? Let England go on object ing, and lot the United States go ahead with tho canal. We have tho means at hand, and the popular fooling is in favor of the groat public work. It has been aptly called a gateway between our Pacific and Atlantic coasts. Are wo to have the key. or is England or France? Let every patriotic American answer for himself.—Philadelphia Press. Should the State Legislatures pass laws prohibiting that discrimination in making greater charges for a shorter than a longer haul,which the common law may not reach, tho courts may be depended upon to enforce them. When unjust discrimination is then made in carrying freights across State lines the* place whore the injury began can always be fixed, and the court having jurisdiction can apply tho remedy. The treat objection to tho Iteagan bill ami such measures is that they may lead the general government step by step to a dangerous exercise of centralizing power. Such legislation should be applied only in tho last resort, when the State governments and the courts of the country fail to protect tho people against unjust discriminations.—Philadelphia Record. Ip we do not build that canal, some European power will. Tho republio of Nicaragua cannot be expected to suffer the caual route between the two oceans, with which nature has endowed her, to reinuin forever unimproved. She offers us the privilege of improving it. If we do not accept tho offer, she will make it elsewhere—to some othor groat power that will accept. And then, after a time, thero will come to us regrets for our short-sightedness, and cravings for territorial acquisitions southward to retrieve our lost opportunity'by annexation. Shull we build this canal, and tako tho risk of other great powers inter faring to stop us? Or shall we. by refusing to build it, first throw tho concession . into their hands, and then tako tho risks of interfering to stop them? That is the whole of tho Nicaragua canal question.—New York Herald. Tiieue can be no greator mistake by workingmen than that of assuming as the merest and most indisputable matter of fact, that their em-doyora are all antagonistic to them. That cannot be tlie case when the employer has wit enough to conduct a large business. He must and will know that, the more closely ho unites his interests with those of tho people he employs tho greater will be his gain. In fact, the interests of capital ami labor are identical, and to disturb the one is to disturb tho other. If in a quarrel the workingman losos his wages the employor as inevitably loses not only his natural profits, but he loses as well what may be called his interest returns upon the capital ho has invested iu mills, machinery, etc. While it is idle it is wholly unproductive, representing so much monoy hid in the earth which earns nothing at all.—Philadelphia Inquirer. * In a railroad depot of ono of the leading Southern cities the traveler may road the following notices: 'Gentlemen’s Waiting-room.” ‘‘Ladies’ Waiting-room, "Colored Passengers’ Waiting-ioom.” It is, indeed, u libel on our civilization that the implication should thus publicly be made that a colored man cannot boa gentleman or a colored woman a lady. And yot the fact that ‘‘colored passengors” have a waiting-room in the same depot with white folks is a mark of im % provement; a few years ago it would have been “nig gers' waiting-room,” ami a few years before that no room at all. Progress is making. It may be slow, but it is sure. Revolutions never move backward. The onlv thing to do is to "hammer away” until wider education and broader views have done their full work. Meanwhile we must remembor that it is a work of time, and have patience.—lirooklyu Union. Os old, when tho stuge was a great institution of art, the manager whs the consummate flower of tinactor’s art. lie began life in some menial capacity as a boy; his ambition did not rest at the footlights. Nor was he even a star when the English drama was at its best. He aspired to be a manager, and before he could boa manager he haul to be a thoroughly ooiu-

petonl and trained dramatic artist. His theater became a college of actors who lived upon its traditions, and he was, their instructor and intelligent critic, supercensorious before the wits of the town got a chanco at his artists. The stage has departed so far from this condition to-day that oven tho groundlings have wearied of having their cars split. That is why tho brokers aro “broke,” and why, before very long, the modern actor without any knowledge of his art ts about to be seedy and severe in his aspect and tone of voice.—Brooklyn Eagle. The fact is that the railroad managers are their own worst enemies. They labor night, and day, for years in succession, to convince the public that railroads can make great profits by carrying grain at less than a cent per ton per mile, and then wonder that the farmers really believe it. They spend years in fighting with each other desperately for each small fraotion of the through traffic, even at those low rates, and then wonder when people believe that the prize is ready valuable for which they contend so recklessly, and with such present sacrifices. They manage a great many of their roads with an eye single to the price of stocks, and then feel indignant when legislatures remind them that railroads ought to be managed primarily for the faithful and reasonable service of the public. All the sound argument in the world fails to outweigh, in the minds of men, their ow-u unwise behavior.—New York Tribune. THE WAR ON RANDALL. The Chaste and Beautiful Language Used bj a Kentucky Kditor. Louisville Courier-Journal. The attempt to “work" the "personal dodgo," as between Mr. Randall and Mr. Watterson, is as feeble in Its way as the baffled “hospitality dodge" was mean and tricky. It is of no account to anybody what relations exist, or have existed, between the two persons named. One of them, assuredly, i3 not disposed to obtrude himself upon the scene, having no othor concern about; the movements and opinions of the othof than relates to public affairs. Air. Randall knows, or ought to know, that he never received other thae kindly treatment from the Courier-Journal until forbearance ceased to be a virtue. If we cared to be “personal,” the materials for being so are abundant and could be used with effect. That is not our mode of warfare. We hit no blows below the belt, and we say again that, but for Air. Randall’s own bullying and insolence, he would never have had a cross word from ns. Though a man of an untrained and narrow intellect, ha has experience aud force, and has never accused of stealing anything, so t“„ r f ne on jy quarrel we have with hinj crcrre out of his depurpose 2*l colli pel the Domocratio party tq ,g',, ■ n ne behind Pennsylvania under ine threat, if it does not, of his displeasure. We do not care a tinker's dam for his displeasure. Since tho tariff came to the front he has been known only ns a disturbing element. He went over to the Republican camp on the threshold of a Presidential election, took forty others, mostly from Pennsylvania and Ohio, with him, and aided the Republicans in beating a Democratic measure to reduce war taxes. The result was that in Pennsylvania the Republicans doubled their majority, and in Ohio they confii'inedjiheir ascendency. In spite of this, Air. Randall is bent upon pressing to the front, and insists that the tail shall wag the dog. He is supported by a riDg of protectionist newspapers, each having an ax to grind in tho tariff, and the whole Republican press. Fortunately, tho braves were too eager and “shot their month off” too loudly and too soon. The cat got out of the bag, and here we are. A Conference that Astonished Air. Beeches New York World. The defection in Henry Ward Beecher's church, which caused Buch trouble, has left only a ripple on the surface. For several days it has been a subject of remark at Brooklyn dinner tables. Among the many explanations offered, there is one not before published, which seems to bear the marks of truth. As the story goes, Air. Beecher was very much worked up when told by his friends. General King, Air. Clnflin and Deacon White, that there was much discontent over his political stand, and he asked the gentlemen to bring the leaders of the disaffected ones to his house. The evening chosen for the meeting is said to have been Thursday, two weeks before Christmas. Air. Claflin and Deacon White appeared in company with the Republicans who were most outspoken against Air" Beecher, and a conference was held that lasted several hours. The discontented made known tho points wherein they felt the great divine lmd erred, laying particular stress upon his speech in Jersey City during the campaign, in which he said that if every man in Now York, who had broken tho seventh commandment would vote for Cleveland, he would have a majority of more than 200,000 votes. Th* array of wealthy Republican members who attended the conference is said to have been so formidable that the great divine was amazed, and expressed the utmost regret at tho turn affairs had taken.

Ex-Vice-President Wheeler. Buffalo Express. Ex-Vice-president William A. Wheeler is living at liis old home in Malone, Franklin county’. He is wifeless, childless, and sleepless, and said to be fast nearing his end. It is customary to speak of Mr. Wheeler as an “accident,” and as one of the “great obscure,” but he was a man men in his time, and his nomination to the vice presidency was but the crowning of a well-rounded career. He had been district-at-torney, State senator, and President of the State Agricultural Convention* and in Congress was chairman of the committee on ways and means and a power in debate whenever he could be prevailed upon to speak. Like all famous fishermen, ho was of a contemplative turn of mind, which may account for his preference for the shades. He is but another instance of a statesman lost in a Vice president. But William A* Wheeler played his part wcdl—and a very good part it was—and when he dies, which happily may not be soon, the country will wake to the knowledgo that it has one great man less. The Anthracite €oal Trade. Philadelphia Special. The shipments of anthracite coal last week were 720,328 tons, against 421, 0il in 1883, and to date this year. 30,357,368 tons, against 31,224,* 367 tons in 1883. Notwithstanding tho more seasonable weather, trade lias been very dull* It is supposed consumers’ stock has somewhat decreased, but there is more coalat the shipping ports than there was on the Ist of December, and there is as little readiness to purchase as ever. Prices remain about the same. It is certain that coal will bo lower next year, and that the carrying companies will have to reduce tolls. llow far the price will fall will be decided by circumstances which cannot be foreseen. There are many coal men who would willingly make contracts for their output at far less than last year's prices. Tlie bituminous coal trade is very slack at steady prices. It is rumored that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company is buying coal land in tho Clarttcld region. Politics and Religion in Georgia. Atlanta, Ga.. Dec. 27.—Shortly after the presidential election a number of colored ministers invited Senators Colquitt and Brown to make olive-branch speeches. Out of this grew great- trouble, strong factions in each of the churches accusing their ministers of selling out to Democrats. In one instance a church was invaded and tho minister walked out by tho shoulders. Rev. Jerry Jones was threatened with incendiarism. Finally, tho matter was referred to tho arbitration of threo white gentlemen. These made the committees sign an agreement to abide the decision expressed by tho congregations’ vote. The congregations convened in their churehes, and tlie votes stood sixty-four for Jones and fifty six against him. Afer the trouble was thus settled letters of dismissal wero granted to tho fifty-six who voted against Jones. They will start anew church, which will bo strictly Republican in politics. Sarah Althea’s Case. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. The useful moral lesson of the suit is tho enlarged sphere and new occupation which it opens to single women, and tho commercial gain by the new form of what are by traders conventionally called “securities,” for speculative investment, which are added to the share market by the pooling of the casos of wounded femalo affections, and the issuing of shares upon thora. If women shall embrace their opportunities, the shares of their pooled wrongs, issued upon the prospective cutting up of veteran millionaires —which, in honor of her, should bo called the Sarah Althea stocks—may come to be placed on tho call list of every stock board, so that the New York banks shall lend money upon them, when money is too tight to lend ou the uucer* Utilities of mere commercial paper.