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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. €. NEW dfc SON. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1886. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Tan be found at the following place* LONT)ON~-American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. r/.TtlS—American Exchange in Paris. 35 Boulevard des Capucinea NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor rfotela CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. R Hawley & Cos.. 154 Vino Street. % LOUISVILLE—C. T. Hearing, northwest corne Third and Jefferson street* ST. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 | Editorial R00m5.... 242 TIIE SATURDAY JOURNAL. The third by Mias Kate Field on Morxnouism will appear in the Saturday Journal tomorrow. Being St. Valentine's Day, the Journal will honor the festival by some special poems and articles upon the subject of that patron saint of lovers. The miscellaneous and literary features of the paj>er will be unusually full and varied. The circulation of the Saturday Journal is larger now than it was one year ago, and it is steadily increasing from week to week. Advertisers will find the Saturday Journal the best medium In the State for reaching the buying public. The Sunday Journal of the 15th will be a paper of special excellence. We have two original stories for its columns, one by Hjalmar H. Boyesen, and several other features of an attractive nature. Our compliments to the country. We have a little base ball league of our own, thank you. Now let the wide world wag as it will. As most of the cold-weather flags are re ported to have been torn to pieces by the re-‘ cent blizzard, and as only one a year is furnished to each station by the government, it may be sup|osed that the cold snaps are over for the season. The Union Depot bill passed the Senate yesterday. If it passes the House the Union Railway Company will gd at once to work in the erection of one of the finest railway stations in the country. Nothing could be a greater benefit to Indianapolis. Washington has a professor who teaches mnemonics, otherwise known as the art of memory. If Mr. Cleveland shows a forgetfulness of names and persons of applicants when ho comes to make up his jewels, lie should be encourged to take a course of lessons with the professor. TflE sheriff of Bangor, Me., recently issued a proclamation which says that all places where liquor is sold must, be closed promptly at 10 P. M.j that no saloou or hotel shall sell liquor on Sunday; and that, in hauling liquors through the streets, cases and tar re Is containing them must be covered. It will be remembered that Maine has been a prohibitory State for some years. Scientific men in New York are experimenting with cholera germs by feeding them to rabbits and watching results. As the rabbits suffer considerable inconvenience, usually dying in a short time, Mr. Bergh will probably take an interest iu the experiment when be hears of it. If he does not insist uj>on having the scientists’ cholera germs freed from cruel confinement timid and heartless New Yorkers will probably feel grateful.

Senator Winter's bill to abolish the offices of city assessor and treasurer passed the Senate yesterday by a practically unanimous vote. This is one of the measures that should be promptly and favorably acted upon in the House. The consolidation of tax assessment and collection iu this city is one of the reforms for which tho Journal, with other •papers representing the feelings of the people, tiave been earnestly battling for many years. Religious insanity seems to be of an uncommonly violent and bloodthirsty nature th is season. It is only a few days since an Indiana man beat his wife’s brains out because she objected to his spending so much time in prayer. A Pennsylvania farmer, laboring under a religious excitement, would doubtless have killed his wife, had ho happened to possess one, but being a bachelor was forced to gratify his murderous propensity by going to the bam and cutting the throats of his horses and cows, lie then rounded up his career, and possibly ended bis excitement, by taking his own life. Why will not all sensible religious people combine against the “crankism" that set3 off these ill-balanced minds? General Wolseley wants the special correspondents of London papers recalled from the Boudan on account of the scarcity of rations. That is. short supplies is the ostensible reason; but it is very plain that the commander of tho English army is not highly impressed with the value and importance of his ’iterary attaches or he would find means to fictnal them. P*ihaps he is right in disreusing with their services, but it is a great pity that he cannot have access to American newspai*ers. If he failed to learn how to conduct the Egyptian campaign successfully in 1,700 differeut ways, he would at least find >ut some surprising things about warfare that bad never entered into his studies before. It would be very difficult for anyone to miss Bore completely the spirit and purpose of the Constitution than does the Indianapolis News, i hen, in speaking of the election of a President, it cays: “When there is no choice by he people, the Constitution vests the choice

in the Ilouse of Representatives. So, in cas* of error or dispute, or verification, it is keeping that the House and Senate, or the whole body of the people’s represent atives should decide.” The proposition that the executive should be elected by the House or by Congress was specifically and in terms defeated in the constitutional convention, as well as one that the election should be by the people direct. That any intelligent person should say what the News does, in the belief that the House of Representatives, acting as a has anything whatever to do with the election of the President, only shows what a vast deal of ignorance and loose thought there is afloat on this subject; and the more ex cathedra the assertion, as a rule, the denser the ignorance and the looser the thinking. FREEDOM OF SPEECH. Harper’s Weekly, in a leading editorial upon the subject of the dynamite crimes, says: '‘Dynamite rhetoric cannot be suppressed, except by an intolerable abridgement of the liberty of the press. The adulation of assassins, the glorification of hideous and revolting crimes, like the exhortations of the Anarchist Most to a general slaughter of mankind, should place their authors under the strictest surveillance of the police, like men whose portraits are in the rogues’ gallery. But they can not be wisely suppressed by law.”

Coming from so high a source, and the statement being in accord with the general custom of the country, there will be little or no challenge of the assertion; yet it may not be improper to see whether the proposition stands squarely upon either law or justice. There is nothing which, in this country, is so boasted as the freedom of the press and the liberty of speech; aud this freedom is, indeed, acliief glory and strength of republican government. But both law and justice suggest aud provide that this liberty shall be properly exercised; shall be subordinated to the public good; shall be held liable for the infringement of rights; and, in short, shall be indulged in only within proper limitations and under proper restrictions. And these limitations and restrictions are more decided and imperious at particular times and under particular circumstances. When the country was at war, newspapers not held to loyalty by conviction were forced to refrain from disloyalty by the strong arm of the military power. Criticism was allowed, but when criticism passed the danger line', and threatened to interfere with the success of the government, there was no hesitation in closing the mouth of the dangerous newspaper, as there was none in sending Vallandigham through the lines. These apparently arbitrary acts were not based upon any susj>ension of the civil code and the declaration of martial law, but were predicated upon aud justified by the demands of the public safety, which is the supreme law. It is true, the bill of rights guarantees the freedom of the press and freedom of speech, “but for the abuse of that right every person shall be responsible.” So we have libel laws and slander Jaws, and we have never heard that the arrest and punishment of a libeller or slanderer was in contravention of the fundamental rights of froedom of speech and of the press; nor have we heard that a libeller or a slanderer should be placed “under the strictest police surveillance.” They are generally haled before courts of justice, and if it be proved that the libel was malicious, the libeller is not only mulcted in damages to the individual, but ho is placed in jail as a punishment for his crime. The bill of lights provides that “no law shall restrain any of the inhabitants of the State from assembling together in a peaceable manner to consult for their common good.” Would it be assumed for a moment that, were men to assemble to advocate and plan for the destruction of property and the as; sassiuation of some person or persons whose “removal” they deemed essential to their “good,” no law could be passed to prevent such meetings or to disperse them? We concede that this power to abridge the liberty of speech and of the press, aud to abridge the right of public assembly, should be used very cautiously, and that it would be easy for its use to degenerate into the meanest despotism. But that society has such a reserve power, a power that is not abdicated by any provision for the liberty of the individual, there can be no question; while the abuse of such a power is not beyond instant correction when the instruments tor its enforcement are the creatures of the whole body of the people, who are jealous of their rights, and hasty in redressing autocratic assumption. It cannot be safely conceded that there is an indefeasible right in any man, or set of men, to meet for the public discussion of the violent overthrow of law, the blowing up of property, or the murder of people. It cannot be safely conceded that there is a like right for any one to print incendiary newspapers, appealing to the passions of men, and openlyadvocating and arranging for the commission of high crimes, and even murder. The freedom of the press and of speech does not cover nor embrace the mouthings of Most, and of the mad-dogs at Chicago and elsewhere, nor the writings and printings of liossa, and the authors of the pronunciamentos, who seek to instigate midnight assassination and cowardly arson. The freedom of the press and of speech does not permit the printing and publication of immoral books and pamphlets, nor the indulgence in public profanity. Is it to l>e asserted that this great privilege will shield & man in openly inciting to murder, to arson, to the destruction of property, and to the overthrow of society-? Can it be held that the public morals, or the public peace, or the right of character of a private individual, are greater and more sacred than the welfare and possibly the very existence of socioty itself!

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1885.

To hold to such an opinion is to allow liberty to run into the wildest license. We do not believe it; and, further, we are of opinion that it may be necessary in the near future to curb and restrain the hissing tongues of the venomous snakes who are now injecting their poison into the vitals of society, and it should be understood that society and law have the power to protect themselves. Monsignor Capel has been generally regarded as a sort of prelatical dude, a little of a scholar, a little of a prelate, a little of a dilletanti and a little of a dandy; but he has some good ideas, or utters some, at least, whether they are his own or adopted and adapted. He says the desks in our schools are so constructed as to force a pupil to choose between round shoulders and bad sight. They lie so nearly level that the body must be bent down to them to get the head within reach, or if the body be kept erect the eye is unnaturally and unwholesomely strained to cover the unusual distance. So he argues very sensibly, to our thinking, that the proper construction of school-desks would set the inclined top at an angle of forty-five degrees or more, so that, while the body is kept in an upright position—just that indispensable to a proper exercise and development of the lungs —the eye is yet allowed to approach close enough to the book on the desk to see it clearly without straining. The piano-majker learned this long ago. He sets the little music frame almost perpendicularly in front of the player, so that the eye looks straight at it, while the backbone is kept as stiff as a candidate's in a close campaign. The painter has had the lesson thoroughly impressed by uniform practice since easels were invented. The only reason the clergyman has not applied it is that the light of the desk before his face would hide it, and make him talk like the priest of an ancient oracle from a sort of hiding place. The printer’s case is nearly horizontal, because he knows the places of his letters without looking. If he didn’t, lie couldn't make his salt. The wisdom of the world has uniformly straightened and shortened the distance between the back-bone and the object of intent study, so that the eye could maintain the longest and steadiest contemplation with the least fatigue, locally or generally, except in school desks. These are all fiat, and adapted only to a horizontal posture, which, however studious, is not capa* 'e of convenient use in a school-room. They are an anomaly of awkwardness and misfitting construction in a land of practical sagacity, that promptly lays hands upon every device to save labor and reduce the wear and tear of the system.

Tiie Sullivan Democrat says: “It occurs to us that the Democratic majority has committed an error in not prosecuting the investigation to the fullest extent, so as to effectually silence all charges, or even insinuations, on this subject in the next campaign. The public is exceedingly sensitive pn the subject of the safety of its treasure. A voter must have confidence in the integrity of the man who receives and counts his ballot, and in the honesty of the man who has charge of the public treasury; and a bold charge in the next canvass that the public moneys have been misappropriated, or that favorites .of the State Treasurer have gambled away the people's money in the Chicago market, will be damaging to the Democratic party.” This is the view of all sensible men, There are a few Democrats here and there who are smart enough at least to see the “nine hole” in which the caucus has run the party. For a day or two there seemed to be a probability that. Senator Johnson’s resolution would be taken up and promptly passed, but that appeal's to have blown over. Bv a very narrow vote the House of Representatives agreed to continue State support to the State University at Bloomington, but the appropriation asked for was cut down from $30,000 to $30,000. This action is not creditable. Either the State University should be abandoned altogether, or it should be properly supported. The niggardly policy proposed in the House is deserving of reprobation. Indiana cannot afford to lag behind in educational matters. If she is to assume to have a State university it should be one that will be an honor to the State, as Ann Arbor is to Michigan. A policy of slow starvation for our educational institutions will not win the approval of the people. TIIE New Albany Ledger, stanch Democratic, is not pleased with the action of the Democratic majority in the Legislature, which has voted that there shall be no investigation of the affairs of the State Treasury. It says; “The Ledger lias a good deal of confidence in the present Legislature, and in those at the head of both the Senate and House, and these remarks are made by way of kindly warning. Ugly rumors are flying over the State, some of which, if, true,* will prove very damaging to the State, to the Democratic partyand to individual members thereof. The present Legislature has it in its power to raakq the State securely Democratic next year, or to give Senator Harrison, or some other Republican, another term in the United States Senate.” At last our distinguished fellow townsman, Mr. Hendricks, is the Vice-president of the United States. —Indianapolis News. Don’t crowd the mourners. Mr. Hendricks is not the Vice-president, and will not be until the 4th of March next. Should President Arthur die Mr. Hendricks would not take his place. Mr. Hendricks is no more Vice-presi-dent than Grover Cleveland is President. The method adopted by mind-cure physicians, just now attracting so much attention in Boston, is that of areuing invalids out of the notion that they are ill. The operator sits down by the sufferer and labors, with a great show of logic and scientific research, to prove to him that his ailment is purely imaginary. After a time the patient arises, and the physician, going away, announces another cure. This is the treatment,

as outlined in the published accounts, but there is considerable mistiness as to detail It may be inferred, however, in the absence of pfficial information, that the argument acts as a counter irritant, and that the sufferer is compelled to arise from his bed and eject the talker in order to save his life—“his" referring to the doctor or the patient, as the case may be. “Mrs. Dr." Warner, of Paterson,.X. J., an accomplished and beautiful woman, of good social standing, has made her debut on the stage as a professional beauty and an actress. Her appearance was greeted with tumultuous applause by friends and admirers, and her success is thought to be assured. This lady’s career may seem to indicate an unusual versatility of genius even for an American woman; but is there really such a wide gulf between a professional dealer in pills and Lady Macbeth, or the more modern, but not less destructive, stage heroines now so popular? In his sermon last Sunday, Professor Swiifg declared Chicago to be a religious city, containa breadth and sweetness of the Christian faith not common upon earth. —Chicago Inter Ocean. There is nothing surprising in this statement, coming, as it does, from a Chicago man. It may not be generally known that the sweetness and light permeating the Chicago Board of Trade was the first revelation Rev. Joe Cook had of the spiritual radiance which may illuminate the faces of saints. This is an uncertain world. Because a paper chooses to be called Texas Siftings is no reason why it should be published in Texas. This eccentric sheet is, in fact, printed in New York, and on a Police Gazette press. ADy contamination which may result from this is claimed by the editor to be more than offset by the neighborhood of the Christian at Work, which is run off on an adjoining press. Nathaniel PorE, the cashier of a New York insurance company, who is charged with having appropriated $25,000 to his own use, says he can not account for the discrepancy in the books. “If,” said he, “I took the money I must have been crazy or something. lam sure I don’t remember anything about it.” The ingenuousness of this young man has seldom been surpassed. Oneida, N. Y., claims the honor of making Mr. Cleveland’s inauguration shirt Up to date we have heard of Mr. Cleveland's inaugural hat boots and shirt It is to be hoped the incoming President will be better furnished than this, else the inauguration will be “a return to the simpler days of the fathers" with a fearful vengeance. The mayor of New Orleans suppressed last Saturday’s issue of a local weekly, ostensibly because it printed immoral cuts, but really because its publishers waged war against the corrupt city government rings. If that mayor dreams that his name is Bismarck he is doomed to a rude awakening. Edmunds ranged himself on the side of the best interpretation of the law, as we hold and have held since the question first came up.—The News. Fortunate Mr. Edmunds! Sally Pratt McLean, author of the “Cape Cod Folks,” is the writer of the beautiful dialect poem “De Massa ob de Sheepfol’,” which appeared in last Sunday's Journal.

ABOUT PEOTLE AND THINGS. It is claimed by La Nature that the highest railroad viaduct in the world is that of Garablt bridge, Prance. That remarkable structure is 1,800 feet long, and near the middle of the great central arch the distance from the bed of the river to the rail is 413 feet. The Lees, of Virginia, are coming to the front again in the Old Dominion. General Robert E. Lee’s daughter, having finished her wanderings, is socially prominent, and “Runey” Lee, now on his farm in Fairfax, probably will be the next Demociatic candidate for Governor. The venerable Professor Tjeopold von Ranke is a great favorite in Berlin society. His conversation is brilliant and epigrammatic, and he is always goodnatured. In religion he is an ultra-orthodox Lutheran, in politics a conservative Royalist, and in all things an intense Pruss : an. Captain Henry Walker, of the steamship Cephalonia, who was married in Boston last week, will return to Europe by himself, while Mrs. Walker will sail from New York by another vessel, it being against the rules of the company for a captain and his wife to cross the Atlantic together. The Washington monument has had strange visitors since its erection. A gaunt and hungry cat climed to the top; five rats have made the ascent to get the crumbs from the workingmen’s lunches; wasps build their nests, and pigeons roost at night 434 feet above the habitation of man. After her marriage the Princess Beatrice will reside with the Queen for six months in the year, and the other six months in Germany. The marriage is the outcomo of a love match which has existed for four years. It has all along been even bitterly opposed and discouraged by the Queen. By means of a simple and conveniently-worked device of coiled spring, an English inventor has succeeded in dispensing with the need of driving sewing machines by hand or foot. A few turns of a handle winds up sufficient power to keep a machine going at full speed over an hour. It is completely under control as t? the rate of stitching and stopping, and can be applied to any existing machine at moderate cost. Ex-SENATOR Buckalkw, of Pennsylvania, relates that he once heard the famous Governor Ritner calling over the roll of prothonotaries by counties in alphabetic order. lie had gone through the A's and was among the B's, when an impatient man from Center county wanted to know how long he would have to wait. “Zenter coundy?” replied the Governor, “vy. vay down at de ent of de list, of gourse, mit de zets.” Mr. Edmunds, the presiding officer of the United States Senate, has fallen into a habit of late of wearing a black silk skull-cap. He is bald, and the air of tho Senate chambor is uncomfortably cool to the exposed cranial surface, causing colds and the consequent inconveniences. So he wears the little black cap all day, in the committee rooms, in the Vice-pres-ident’s chamber, and in the chair of the Senate as its presiding officer. The death of Bishop Jackson, of London, Is believed to have been hastened by an incident that occurred during the preaching of his last sermon in St. Paul's, on the evening of Jan. 4. A lunatic in the congregation interrupted the discourse by springing to his feet and screaming out; *’You worship idols while you scorn to save souls. Woe unto you!” This caused an agitation which the Bishop, then in delicate health, never recovered from. General Grant has recently repaid a loan of SI,OOO made to him last May, when the firm of Grant & Ward failed, by a man in Lansingburg, N. Y. The use of the money was voluntarily offered for oue year without interest, and in returning it General Grant expresses his thanks and explains that he had been able to earn the sum himself within the time specified. No doubt the latter fact gave the General especial satisfaction, and the entire transaction reflects credit upon the persons concerned. DURING bis boyhood days Governor Richard J. Oglesby, of Illinois, came very near being drowned. In company with friends, some days ago, he told his experience in the water. He said; “When I was a boy I was bathing with some friends, and got beyond my depth, and was unable to swim. I had heard that when a person in the water goes down three times he drowns. I counted distinctly the number of times 1 aaak, and when I started down the third time I said to

myself: 'How gw* Ih© third time; now I’m dead.' Etory event of my life passed before roe with a vivid distinctness, but without creating any particular feeling. I saw them go by as if they were a swift-moving panorama. I was dead. I knew that I was dend, and a sweeter death one cannot die. My consciousness suddenly departed, and I died without struggle or pain.” He was rescued immediately after touching bottom the third time, and after working with him for nearly an hour, life was restored. According to the Concord (N. H.) Monitor, “the English sparrows have an enemy in the bird commonly known in this section as the 'cherry' or ‘monse’ bird, so called from its fondness for cherries and field-mice as articlos of diet. A family on Union street was attracted by a fight between two birds in the front yard, Sunday afternoon, and after watching them for a moment found that one of them was a ‘cherry’ bird, and that it was engaged in killing an English sparrow. This he soon accomplished, and, taking his victim in his t&lons as a hawk would take a chicken, he flew to a convenient porch near by and ate him. There was a large flock of sparrows in a tree near by, but they preserved a strict neutrality and allowed their companion to be destroyed without an attempt to assist him.” Lord Wolseley, commander-in-chief of tbe British forces in the Soudan, was born in County Dublin, Ireland, in 1833. His full name is Garnet Joseph Wolseley. Entering the British army in 1852, he served in Burmah, in the Crimea, in India during the Sepoy mutiny, and in China in 1800. For several years after, in 18G7, he was stationed in Canada, and was knighted for his services in suppressing the Red river rebellion. In 1874 he brought the Ashantee war to a successful conclusion, and was made a majorgeneral and knight-oommander of the Bath. He succeeded Lord Chelmsford as commander-in-chief in ZuInland, and reduced King Cetewayo to submission. In 1882 he was appointed to the command of the English forces in Egypt, and after a short, but brilliant campaign, put an end to the rebellion of Arabi Pasha. Crocker's fence is one of the sights of San Francisco. When Charles Crocker, the partner of Stanford, Hopkins, and Huntington, of the Central Pacific railroad, and a man worth many millions, bought his residence property on California street, he met with considerable opposition from a property-holder on Sacramento street. Crocker had acquired the ontire block with the exception of a single lot on the Sacra-meuto-street side. The owner of this lot demanded an extra fair price for it, which Crocker agreed to give. Then the price was doubled, and Crocker accepted the raise. Again and again was the avaricious seller satisfied, until patience ceased to be a virtue. The railroad magnate got his mad up and sent word, “Tell him to Crocker built his house, laid out the grounds with rare good taste, and thou “fenced in" his co-tenant on the block. He built a fence fifty feet high on three sides of the house on Sacramento street. Only the front view remaned unimpaired, and as Sacramento street is very narrow, the front view is not a matter to care much for. The owner of the house soon sickened of his bargain and removed it bodily away, but Crocker's fence remains.

CURRENT PRESS COMMENT. If men in the country in which they were born and reared, who are fighting for their fires, their altars and their religion, are “rebels,” as we are told the followers of El Mahdi are, what, kindof “patriots,” pray, are those soldiers now in Egypt who wear red coats, live several thousand mile away and are trying to force upon the Egyptians a religion and a ruler that they do not want, and will, in any event, tolerate only as long as the bondholders’ heel of oppression prevents them doing otherwise?—Philadelphia Press. P>v the vicious tenor of its comments on a rather shabby counterfeit of Charlotte Corday’s infatuation, the London press is taking the straight course toward converting England into a shambles ami Ireland into a hell. Bat let its disciples do their bloodv work at home! Neither Irishmen nor Englishmen shall fight out 1 heir quarrels here. Our courts are open for tho trial and the punishment of Irishmen or Englishmen who can be shown to have committed any offense against our laws. But our streets are not open, and they never will lie, for cut-throats to glut their grudges in, and buy the cheap distinction of patriotic ardor by unreproved assassination.—New York Sun. The implications of the Mahdi’s success indeed are so complex and extensive that it Is difficult to set a limit to them. The overthrow of General Gordon may open up questions which cannot bo settled with out a European war; may necessitate the rearrangement of European international relations and alliances, and may involve England in dangers more formidable than any she has been called on to face since Napoleon undertook to barricade all Europe against her, and contemplated her dispossession from Hindostan. The crisis is unquestionably most serious, and only the most marvelous statesmanship and military capacity working in concert can prevent a change from bad to worse. —New York Tribune. An unusually large number of candidates are being boomed for the Cabinet. Bome of our guileless contemporaries seem surprised at the phenomenon, not seeming to reflect that not one man in ten who carefully launches a Cabinet boom expects to obtain a portfolio. What he does hope is that it may help him to amission of the first or second class, or a commiasionership, or a consulate in some warm climate. I3 there not recorded the instance of the favorite son who demanded the English mission and finally abated his claim to the position of light-house keeper, and, when he could not get that, avowed hia willingness, he and the President being pretty much the same build, to compromise oa a cast-off coat.—Philadelphia Record. Civilization is too firmly planted in the hearts and natures of men to be shaken by the lawlessness of a few restless people. These may make a good deal of noise for their numbers, but, they cannot upset anything. Evolution, not revolution, is the process by which all necessary changes will be made. Dynamite will play no important part in the future, unless it be as the servant of engineering science. There is no basis for apprehension. The world will go on in its slow but sure way to improve its conditions, and it will neither be bullied nor hurried into the adoption of abnormal mothods. And in the futuro, as now, the influence of American institutions, the spread of democracy in Europe, will prove invaluable in preventing dangerous explosions.—New York Tribune. Workmen can, almost, without obstruction, combine to carry out. any fair purpose of their own—to rofuse to work themselves, to dissuade others from working, tostatt co-operative factories in rivalry with their employers, and so on. The laws, so far from restraining them in the free excrciso of their rights, protect them. But if they encourage men who try to put them outside the law, to inveigle them into acts of violence and wrong to their employers, they will do themselves more and more lasting mischief than their most vindictive foes could possibly devise. They simply help to bring about a condition of things worse than slavery itself, f r under slavory there was forced production, from which the slaves got at least their poor food, and clothing, and shelter. In proportion as dynamiters have their way, production will beoome impossible and all the conditions of life for workingmen will bo made constantly harder. New York Times. The letter condition of general business, which was appareut during the first few weeks of January, has of late made little or no progress; this is attributable largely to the snows and floods, which have impeded transportation of goods, and partly to the apprehensions which the impending change iu the administration of the government naturally prodices, and which is likely to continue until it is known into whose hands the management of the national finances will fall, because that will indicate the policy which is to be pursued during the ensuing four years. But the hopeful feeling with which the year opened has not disappeared, the country is rich in material wealth, mercantile failures are decreasing, and much labor which was idle the first of the winter, has become employed. The conditions are not as favorable as they might be. but they are such as warrant the expectation that the vacillation between hope and fear, which keeps a vast amount of capital unemployed, wi ll flu ally settle upon the hopeful side, and then progress toward prosperous times will be more rapid.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazotte. Without entering at all into tbo question whether or not it is practicab’e to make provision for anything like a thorough course of study in the literature of foreign languages, ancient or modem, we wish here to emphasize the fact that it is both practicable and exceedingly desirable that provision shall be made in every college for the thorough study of English literature. It is a fact known to every educated man that a thorough mastery of English literature, without much study of anything else taught in tho colleges, may make a man of education aua culture, while culture, in nny true sonse, is next to impossible in any Englishspeaking country withont a greater familiarity with literature than college graduates have at tho time of graduation. And yet in every college in the country it has been the practice to make the study of English literature perfunctory, and so meager as to be nearly worthless. No provision is made for young men who may elect to make that literal ure their specialty, and no mastery of that literal ure, with the education and culture it involves, entitles the person mastering it to his bachelor's degree.—New York Commercial Advertiser. Cleveland Wants an “Organ.” New York -peeial. 1 learned to night from good authority, that a number or Democratic friends of Mr. Cleveland have raised a fund of $200,000 to back Ballard Smith, late of the Herald, in an attempt to purchase the Mail and Express, and turn in into a Democratic administration organ. Negotiation* ham been pending

# for several days, but Cyrus Field holds the paper at so high a price that nothing definite has yet been reached. An offer of $125,000 is said to have been refused as $75,000 too low. The Mail and Express is the only evening paper which is a member of the Associated Press, and there is no newspaper in the country in which the ability of the staff and personality of its owner, who does not manage it, are quite so conspicuous. For the Murder of the Prince of Wales. O’Donovan Rossa’s paper, the United Irishman, makes this offer in its headlines this weeks SIO,OOO REWARD FOR THE BODY OF THE PRINCE OF WALES, DEAD OR ALIVE. Beneath the heading editor Pat Joyce throw* the onus of the offer on the Shaun O'Neil, who i3 not easily to be identified as the citizen or subject of a power friendly to Great Britain. The editor manages it this way: “Special to the United Irishman. Uttblin, Feb. 4.—lt has been decreed to offer a reward of SIO,OOO for the l>ody, dead or alive, of Al* bert Edward Guelph, nicknamed the ‘Prince of Wales. "England has offered a reward for the assassination of Usman Digtna, and we may profit by the example. “[Signed] Shaun O'Nkil” Why Not Put iu Holiuan. Washington Special. Another thing occurred to day materially lessening the chances of an extra session. "Calamity" Weller, of lowa, asked for an indefinite leave of absence. When the request was read from the clerk’s desk, a smile ran around the nouse, followed by a ripple of applause, followed in turn by a spontaneous clapping of hands from all sides, then that by a roar of laughter. Is was the funniest thing ever happened on the floor of the House, and altogether anomalous. Someone suggested that White’s name be added, which caused another burst of merriment in the vicinity of the person who made the happy remark. With such obstructors eliminated thor* would be no question of the ability of the House to get through with the public business. Mr. Edmunds’s Position Known. Washington Special. It is due Senator Edmunds to say that over * month ago he informed tho Republican caucus, in writing, that he did not believe the Vice president or Pi esident pro tom. of the Senate had any authority to declare an election, and that if they expected their presiding officer, on the occasion of the electoral count, to so decide, he advised them to select someone else before that occasion. No action was taken by anyone, and he then the second time sent a similar notice to the Republican caucus, calling attention to hia first one. It is not probable that anything more will bo done about it. as there is a decided majority of the Senate who agree with .Mr. Edmunds. A Sample Harbor. Philadelphia Record. Probably the most remarkable stream that figures in the river and liabor bill is Buckhannou creek, in West Virginia It is fifty seven miloc long, during which distance it fall3 700 feet—twenty feet sheer at one place. It is navigable only for loose logs, and for some years an appropriation has been made by Congress to be spent in affording a fair water-way down Buckhannon creek for these logs. No ship, no steamer, no boat of any kind has ever navigated the stream. Government money has been used only to remove bowlders and masses of rock that cause log jams. This is simply harbor improvement ruu mad.

Cannot Forgive John ltrown, Atlanta Constitution. A recent number of Harper'3 Weekly contains a picture representing John Brown kissing negro babies on his way from jail to tho place of execution. It is a'well-known fact that no such scene over occurred. Tho wholo thing is a pic torial lie without the slightest ground work of fact The appearance of such a picture, however, is significant It shows tho deep hold which the murderous outlaw has upon the Northern heart Yet the very men who worship John Brow n as a martyr are against dynamiters and Auarchists. This is a strange world. Blessing Throats for Diphtheria. Jnckson (Mich.) Citizen. v - It was wonderful to see the attendance throat-blessing ceremony, at St. Augustine Church, Kalamazoo, Tuesday morning. The large house of worship was tilled with all sorts and conditions of children—white, black, and of ail nationalities and creeds—such a crowd of children as one rarely sees together. Mass was sung by the children’s choir, after which the ceremony began and lnstod about two hours. It is estimated that 1.000 little throats were blessed by Father O’Brien. - I' ■■ —— - ■ .1 ITow It Appears In the East. Brooklyn Union. The finances of Indiana are in a had way, and the Democratic Legislature is confronted with the disagreeable necessity of raising the tax rata. One feasible method of increasing the and at the same time improving the public morals, would be the passage of a high-license law. The Republicans, and a few of the Democrats favor such a measure, but most of the majority fear to offend the liquor interest, which opposes the scheme, ana so it will probably fail. -■" '• ■ Wliat Cleveland May Have Said. Philadelphia Record. A good many prominent Democrats are returning from New York to Washington and other places, declaring, with much that Mr. Cleveland spoke with them. We scorn to recall the story of the man who impressed everybody by telling them how Grant spoke with him once in his tent, the General's remarks, it subsequently appeared, being as follows; “Get out of here!” Mr. Cooper's Notched Stick. Muncie Times. As an excuse offered by the friends of Stats Treasurer Cooper for not opening the books, and examining his accounts, it is said he has no books. That lie cuts a notch in a stick when he sends the money for distribution out to the counties. There are several notches yet to cut for the January apportionment. Wolseley Corrects tho Soldier. i'lttubuiß Chrcnicio-TelcgnipU. Shortly after receiving the news of Khartoum’s fall, General Lord Wolseley heard a soldier singing “Go Tell Aunt Mary.” Ths General stopped him, and with that kind of dignity for which he is noted, said quietly: “NOl, my brave man—Tel-el-Keber.” What Will He J>o With It T Boston Evening Record. General Wolseley has been given carte blanch* and the question is, What will he do with it now that lie has got it? Tho time may come before he is out of the desert when he will lie willing to trade his carte blanche for a drink of water. Fledged to Reform. Richmond Palladium. The purpose of the Democrats is to leave only two Republican districts in the State. Ths Democrats are very sorry to be compelled to do anything of this kind, but as tney aro pledged to reform there is no help for it. They Are Opposed to a Surplus. Fort Wayne Gazette. The Indiana treasury is not burdened with surplus as in tho United States treasury. Oh, no! Democrats are opposed to a surplus. This is why they steal the mouey to prevent such a calamity. Not Up to Bata. Pittsburg Times. Has anyone heard of an effort made by the Harper Brothers to discover the whereabouts or Editor Conant, whoso mind pave way under the strain of arduous application in their interests! With Tlldeu In His Dotage, Too. PliUudclplMH Tim*-#. Physically, on Sunday, there was the width of a tabie between Tildt-n and Cleveland. Intellectually, the distance was inestimable. Occupation fur John Bull. New York Tribune. Between them, El Mahdi In the Soudan, and El Pahdi in Ireland, are giving poor John 801 l plenty to do.