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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW ft SON. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, I&SS. BATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. TERMS LNYARIAm,Y IN ADVANCE-—POSTAOK PREPAID BV THE PUBLISKJiKS. THE DAILY JOURNAL Ob year, by man $12.00 Onayoar. by mail, including Sunday 13.00 Six month*, by mail 6.00 'Six months, by mail, including Sunday 6.50 Three months, by mail 3.00 Three months, by mail, including Sunday.... 8.25 One month, by mail 1.00 One month, by mail, including Sunday 1.10 Pur week, bv carrier .25 THE SUNDAYJOURNAL Per copy 3 cents. One year, by mail $1.50 THE INDIANA STATE JOURNAL (WKEKJLT EDITION.) One year SI.OO Less than one year and over th: -a months. 10c per month. No subscription taken for less than three months. In clubs of five or over, agents will take yearly subscriptions at sl, and retain 10 per cent, for their work. Address JNO. C. NEW ft SON, Publishers The Journal, Indianapolis, Jnd. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe* 449 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. R Hawley ft Cos.. 154 Vine Street LOUIS Vi LLE—C. T. Hearing, northwest corne Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 { Editorial R00m5..... 242 Open the books of the State Treasury. Will Bishop Francis Silas Chatard excommunicate the Catholics who voted the cane to James G. Blaine? TriE few people who may survive this win • ter will pass up to the head of the "oldest inhabitants” in weather reminiscences. The people of Indiana will not forget that the Democrats of Indiana have said that they should not know whether the public funds were safe or not. Mr. Hendricks, why do you not go before the Indiana Democratic Legislature and demand that the books be opened? Your eloquent voice has lately been stilled. Why should not the books of the State of Indiana be opened? ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ll Carl Sciutrz is lecturing in Texas, and being presented with resolutions of respect from local boards of trade. If they don't give him something more substantial than resolutions he will never tramp that way again—and perhaps that’s the way they understand it. The luxury of a Demonic Legislature tomes high, but th*j people of Indiana seem to think wa, must have it. However, when all the bills are in for the particular one with which the State is now blessed, it is not impossible that the voters aud tax-payers may conclude that they have had quite enough. Senator Voorhees and Mr. Cobb visited Albany and Mr. Cleveland, in the interests of Mr. McDonald, on Saturday last. Up to the scour of going to press Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks has neither joined the McDonald procesjion in person, nor has he written a letter to his chief urging Mr. McDonald’s appointment in the Cabinet. The Journal opens another page in the books of the Democratic Legislature this morning. The Democrats seem determined to keop the books closed, if possible, but we are equally determined to let daylight in so far as can be. We may have a few figures, in a day or two, about the State Treasury, which will be of absorbing interest. The British Parliament meets on Thursday. The government is evidently arranging for victories at Gubat and Metemneh in time to influence the Lords and Commons. It is the intention of the opposition to support the vote of credit, but to couple with it a vote of censure, hoping thereby to overturn the Ministry. These be parlous times for Mr. Gladstone. Old Jefferson Davis, it is said, is preparing & vory bitter reply to General Sherman, which is to lie spokeu by some mouthpiece of his in one of the houses of Congress, possibly some Mississippi member. At the late Davis matinee in the Senate both Mr. Lamar and Mr. George were only too willing to act as the extraitor’s defenders. Mr. Davis will have no difficulty in finding a man who will considor it an honor to speak his piece. Just about this time a letter from Mr. Hendricks to Grover Cleveland, strongly urging the appointment of Mr. McDonald as the head, of one of the dej*artments, would look well in print and tend to compose the elemental disturbances in the party. It might Hot go iuto history with the celebrated Dubuque letter, but it would still have a greatly toothing effect. Mr. Hendricks should take jit pen ill hand before it is eternally too late. The Legislature of Indiana has hail three several and repeated warnings of the possibility of a calamity that it is their duty and within their power to guard against. First, the Kankakeo horror, then an incipient fire at our own Insane Asylum, and lastly the awful disaster in Philadelphia, wherein nearly thirty inaane people were rested to death. At each of these fires she discovery was made that the pater supply was grotesquely inefficient. The

press hab called the attention of the Legislature, now in session, to the paramount importance of seeing that every public institution of the State be at once thoroughly examined, and if the precautions against fire are not sufficient, to have the deficiency supplied at once. Officers of the institutions have either anticipated or supplemented these urgent appeals; and yet what has been done? Have the committees looked into this matter thoroughly? Have the Deaf and Dumb, and the Blind, and the Insane Asylums, the Woman’s Reformatory, the House of Refuge, the Knights town Home (already once destroyed by fire), the two prisons, and whatever other institutions the State may have wherein people are confined, been thoroughly and systematically examined, their wants intelligently discovered and arrangements made to supply them? It will not do for this Legislature to adjourn with this important and imperative work unattended to. This is of vastly more importance to the people of Indiana than the passage of an apportionment bill, whereby the Democratic party can steal power in the State and Nation to which they are not entitled in justice or equity. And while the State's attention is being called to the condition of its public institutions, the counties should look into their poor-farms and asylums. If the truth could be known, we make no doubt that hundreds and thousands of dependent people are confined in houses from which there would be little chance of escaje in case of fire. In the name of humanity, for decency’s sake, let not Indiana be forced to follow Kankakee and Philadelphia in the awful experiences of roasting to death the poor unfortunates who are at the mercy of the public. FATHER O'NEILL. The Journal has no disposition to lay a straw in the way of the Bishop of Vincennes, for whose scholarship and ability as ah administrator we entertain and have frequently expressed the highest regard. Nor do we think it the duty or privilege of a secular newspaper to heedlessly or improperly interfere with the workings of church machinery. But the case of Father O'Neill seems to demand consideration, and will surely challenge attention. A day ,or two ago, when tho rumors of the Fathor’s probable retirement became public, coupled with the statement that the step was to be traced to the fact that, as agent of a majority of his congregation, he had been the bearer of a cane voted by them to Hon. James G. Blaine, a Journal reporter went directly to the Bishop’s house, and, as a result of inquiry, published the statement that "the withdrawal Qf Bov. Hugh O’Neill from the pastorship of St. Patrick’s parish was contemplated for some time prior to the journey he took East, bearing tho gold-headed cane to James G. Blaine, and that episode had nothing whatever to do with it.” In view of the publication made in tho Journal this morning, and of the feelings and expressed opinion of a large number of Catholics who feel that injustice has been done to liberty of thought, and of speech, and of action, this statement, coming from the Bishop’s household, must suffer in the estimation of those who properly esteem candor and truth. In view of the letter of Vicar-general Bessonies to Father O’Neill, and of the statement by the father of his relations with the bishop, and in view of the further fact that no intimation ever came to priest or parish of intended removal until after the Blaine cane episode, it can not be denied —however plausible the explanation may be—that Father O’Neill is made an example of because he did not "leave politics to the politicians,” as Vicar-general Bessonies puts it It has not been understood, hitherto, that the Catholic Church has been % so conscientiously abstemious from "politics.” Indeed, the recent plenary council, at Baltimore, was led to deplore the fact, as other high-minded, clear-headed Catholic dignitaries have deplored it, that, whether justly or not, the Catholic Church has been understood to be hand-in-glove with the Democratic party. When the Catholic authorities of this city permitted the paupers from the home of the Little Sisters of the Poor to bo marcLed to the polls, and voted as so many cattle for the Democratic ticket, it can scarcely be truly said that they left "politics to the politicians,” as Father Bessonies thought the right reverend bishop would like Father O'Neill to do. It is only last year that there was such remarkable zeal manifested "to leave politics to the politicians,” when it was discovered that very large numbers of Irish Catholics were breaking away from their allegiance to the Democratic party and proposed to support Blaine and Logan. When this was found to be the case, there was great alarm, both in the Democratic party and in certain high Catholic circles; but thousands of Catholic Democrats, nevertheless, maintained their manhood, and voted the ; r honest sentiments as expressed in the Republican platform and candidates. There may, possibly, be good reasons why Father O'Neill should be removed, but, on the surface, they do not appear, except as revealed through the letter of Father Bessonies. Surely the action of the congregation of St. Patrick’s does not supply the reason for his withdrawal, aud the emphatic expression of the resolutions compels us to beliove that the Catholics themselves understand their priest to have been visited with "discipline” because of his political action. Bishop Chatard will find that his scepter, powerful as it is, is not strong enough to sway the consciences of men. He will find that the devotion of his people, deep and devout as it oertainly is, is not so un-

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questioning as to receive with dumb acquiescence this sharp reminder that Rome proposes to do their thinking for them. What we have written has been with regret. We have no tinge of unkindness toward either the Catholic Church or its able and scholarly head in this diocese. On the contrary, the Journal has the profoundest regard for the venerable and grand Catholic Church—with its history, its present great services and its future possibilities. But we must insist that in this country there shall be such a complete divorce between church and state that no church authority shall ever seem to exert itself to the deprivation of the fullest liberty of speech and action in matters outside its proper spiritual domain. NATURAL GAS. The recent explosion of natural gas, used for house-warming and cooking iu Pittsburg, has led to much inquiry as to the nature and source of this new combustible. Analyses made by Mr. S. A. Ford, chief chemist of one of the steel works, show that it is mainly marsh gas and hydrogen, over three-fourths of it being marsh gas. This is the "fire-damp” of the coal miners, which causes the explosions in mines, and to detect and guard against which Davy devised his famous safety lamp of fine wire gauze. Next to hydrogen, marsh gas is the most powerful of gaseous fuels. A pound of coal in an ordinary furnace will evaporate nine pounds of water, while a pound of natural gas evaporates over twenty pounds of water. The gas is free from phosphorus and sulphur, and so makes better iron and steel than ooal fuel. The change from coal to gas in the great steel mills is a startling one. Where ninety firemen were using 400 tons of coal a day, you now see but one man attending at firing the long rows of boilers. The furnace houses have been whitewashed, and all dust and dirt done away. with. Most of the iron and glass firms are now using the natural gas, or preparing to do so. The cost of coal, of firing and handling is saved, the repairs to boilers and grates are much less, and the glass and iron better in quality. The supply seems endless. It is found in an area forming three-fourths of a complete circle about Pittsburg, at a distance of from fifteen to twenty miles, and at a depth of about 1,200 feet. An eight-inch well is put down in forty days, and supplies 30,000,0000 cubic feet of gas in twenty-four hours, coming at a pressure of 200 pounds to the square inch, aud still showing tjuventyfive pounds after passing through twenty miles of pipes to and iron works. Eight pij*j lines convey the gas to the city from the three districts in which the wells are located. The source of the gas is the same, probably, as that of the oil and coal of the region—in the coal plants of the carboniferous Dewar, of Cambridge, thinks the gas is constantly distilled from the oil, and this again from the coal, and that long after the oil fails, if that is possible, there will still be abundant gas. The use of gas in place of coal is likely to restore Pittsburg to daylight and cleanliness. The subterranean treasures of this region—coking coal, gas coal, petroleum and natural gas —bid fair to make it one of the cheapest regions for the production of light and heat in the known world. A COMPLIMENT TO PREACHERS. In a recent leoture Mr. Robert G. Ingersoll makes the statement that "a lawyer on the defense never accepted a preacher on the jury.” The inference intended to be drawn from this is that a clergyman’s hatred of evildoing extends to evil-doers to such a degree that he cannot be trusted to do justice to one accused of crime; that tlie charity with which he should be endowed is in reality but a narrow prejudice, making him less liable to exercise unbiased judgment than the most ignorant, if irreligious, juror who can be chosen. What Mr. Ingersoll may choose to say in regard to the attributes and character of ministers is of very little consequence, his natural and cultivated bias against the profession, and his lack of acquaintance with the subject, rendering him unfit to discuss it intelligently. Being a member of the legal profession, however, his utterance iu regard to the "lawyer for the defense” may be entitled to some weight. If it be true that an attorney in such position invariably objects to a preacher as juryman, the public is likely to draw a very different conclusion from the disclosure than that intended by the speaker. The fact, if suoh it be, is more damaging to the lawyer than to the preacher rejected, and adds to the weight of testimony pointing to corruption in court and bar. It is well understood that the defense of an accused criminal, as now conducted, is merely a matter of clearing him, and has no reference whatever to his actual guilt or innocence. The "criminal lawyer,” whose name too often has a double fitness, takes the case, not because he is convinced that the client is wrongfully accused, nor because he wishes to properly give him the one chance before the law to which be is entitled, but because he is animated solely by the desire to set him at liberty, without regard to his deserts or the effect on the community. If by taking advantage of technicalities and the tricks of the law he may secure the discharge of a confessed murderer, he considers the act as redounding to his credit. If he can tamper with the jury in order to attain his end, so much the better. No wonder he objects to the presence of a preacher among the important twelve. It is not unbiased justice he is after, but a defeat of justice, and, in this respect, he is well aware that tho preacher is not likely to agree with him. This barringout of ministers and other good citizens from

jury service, the aqpepting of unprincipled men in their places, and the toleration of corrupt methods on the part of certain attorneys by the courts of Cincinnati, had their result in the riots in that city last year. That a termination of these disgraceful practices was then effected is too much to say, since the action of the courts in the case of one notorious attorney has become kno*n. He was conspicuous in reputation as a manipulator of packed juries and weak judges, and, whether justly or not, was credited with doing more, perhaps, than others to create the "contempt of court” which brought out the mob. To clear themselves of suspicion, the reputable lawyers of the city demanded that their associate be disbarred. The trial resulted in a sentence of ten days’ suspension from practice, and the costs of suit. The sentence was afterward modified by the withdrawal of the order of suspension; later, one-half the bill of costs was remitted. It is possible that the other half will yet beset aside, or charged to those who preferred charges against him, and the lucky lawyer presented with a chromo. If he is not satisfied with the triumphant success of his own methods when applied to himself, he deserves to be retained by no criminals in future. The Cincinnati bar must try some other method of purifying itself; but to be successful seems to need an entirely new judicial system. As remarked by one of the respectable, but indignant attorneys, "the perjury mill will soon be reopened, the bunko gang will commence operations, and juries and courts will again be packed.” Mr. Ingersoll did not learn the dark ways of the law in Cincinnati—they are prevalent everywhere—but he will probably he gratified to learn that as matters now stand no preacher stands a chance of getting onto a jury in that city. But he had better be silent as to the triumph of justice. The Philadelphia Evening Call says: "Yesterday the high liquor license bill was reported favorably in the lower house at Harrisburg. It is a wise measure, and one that should become a law. For too long almost every corner in this and other cities in the State has been occupied by a beer or whisky saloon, kept by people too lazy to work at anything else, and satisfied with the small financial return*—in many cases cot over SSOO per annum, the amount it is now proposed to charge for a retail liquor license. Under the new order of things the smaller saloons would be weeded out and the business concentrated in fewer and better hands.” Is it possible to have a high license law in Indiana? The treasury empty, a temporary loan necessary, a debt of a million dollars, the possibility of an increase of taxation upon real estate aud personal property, and yet the Legislature afraid to lay a proper tax upon the liquor traffic. What sort of a record will this be to go before the people who will be compelled to pay more of their hard-earned money into the public treasury? If legislators do not think that a liquor tax law is popular with the people, let them study the history of the Scott law in Ohio. The State Geologist has submitted his fourth annual report to the Governor, and, according to present indications, his last. Maurice Thompson, ex-representative, and known to dilletanti sportsmen as the writer of a brochure on archery, and to poets for his lines, "Ho! for the Dells of the Kankakee,” is believed to have first rank among the applicants. Dr. A. J. Phinney, of Muncie, one of the present field assistants, and an excellent paleontologist, as far as a knowledge of Indiana fossils is concerned, at least, is also urged by bis friends. He has a fine collection of Indiana fossils, and is well known to working geologists. Dr. Phinney is an admirer of Prof. Collett, and regrets any move to cut his head off for purely political reasons.

The copyright bill introduced into the House of Representatives by Mr. English, of this district, applies only to dramatic composition, and not to books. By the terms of the bill a foreign writer of a play can copyright it in America for twenty-eight years, and then for fourteen more, under certain conditions, providing that the country of the writer extends the same privilege to American playwriters. Mr. English says that the adverse influence of certain large book-publishing houses is too powerful to permit the passage of a general copyright law. It was Mr. Dickens who called the head of the Harpers the greatest pirate in the world. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Miss Lulu Hurst has made ifßo,ooo within a year out of her wondeiful “magnetism." Thk cheapness of living is illustrated by the fact that the price of board for students at Harvard memorial hall was $3.74 per week during January, the lowest point e' r er reached. Mrs. Edmond About pays the finest possible tribute to the domesticity of her departed husband in the declaration: “When he was to go out to dinner the whole day seeme<’ interminable to us." General W. H. F. Gee, son of General R. E. Lee, is prominently mentioned in connection with the Democratic nomination for Governor of Virginia. He is an able speaker and a man of popular manners. Many years ago the late Colonel Burnaby passed for the strongest man in England. He used to show his strength by twisting a poker around his neck and carrying ponies up a flight of stairs. He had an illness after performing these feats, and subsequently did not renew them. Mb. William Henry Hurlbert called on Mr. Cleveland on Thursday, but was careful to Ray to a third person that he did not aspire to be Mr. Lowell’s successor at the court of St. James. This must, have taken an awful weight off Mr. Cle\ eland’s mind—if he ever got to hear of it. James Morris Morgan, who is now engaged in writing up some of the inside naval history of the late Confederacy, particularly in regard to the cruisers, has had a pretty wide military experience for so young a man. He served in the confederate navy all through the war. Later he went to Egypt, where he was made a captain of artillery, and aervod under Ratib Pasha in the region now made famous by Gor-

•ion and the Mahdi. Mr. Morgon is especially popolw among the chib men of New York, ae well aa among his old companions in arms. He married Mias Trenholm, daughter of the Secretary of the Confederate Treasury. Lord Chart,jcs Bkresford has justified, in the rescue of the Wilson party, the prediction that if any hot work in the shape of brisk fighting was to be done in the Soudan, he would be a conspicuous figure. This nobleman, a brother of the Marquis of Waterford, hns gained a notoriety as a daredevil, and is determined to maintain it Empress Augusta has a custom of bestowing upou female domestics, in Prussia and Alsace-Lorraine, who have served in one family for forty years, a distinction consisting of a gold cross and a diploma bearing the royal autograph signature. Forty years is a long time to keep one servant girl, but during the past eight years the Empress has awarded 1,156 of these distinctions. •> ' Ex-Senator Buckalew, of Pennsylvania, relates that he once heard the famous Governor Ritner calling over the roll of prothohotaries by counties, in alphabetic order, He had gone through the A’s and was among the B’a when an impatient man from Center county wanted to know how long he would have to wait. “Zenter gountyt" replied the Governor; “vy vay down at de ent of de list, ob gourse, mit de sets." Mrs. Augusta Evans Willson, the novelist, has one of the pleasantest homes in Mobile. The house is surrounded by a grove of live oak and a thicket of camellias, the latter being Mrs. Willson's favorite flower. She places a white camellia at her husband's plate at table at every meal, “and he has never," she says, “been without a flower at any breaking of bread in our home since we were married, now sixteen years ago.” After Henry Ward Beecher had submitted to an interview, in which he expressed admiration for Mr. Cleveland’s attitude since the election, and predicted that he would do so well that the people would want him four years more, he said to the reporter: “There, you have got all you want, I guess. I understand how it is. When there isn’t anything to do they say, ‘Go and see Boecher.’ When I die reporters, I think, should raise a monument to me. If I were a politician I should be very politic, but as I am a plain citizen I talk freely, without regard to what other folks think." A CHILD with two tongues is said to be living at Yonkers. The socond tongue has grown from the root and on top of the first. The mother first noticed it when the child was three days old. It was then quite small, but it is now nearly as large as the real tongue. The anterior part of the upper tonguo looks natural, but the posterior part is constricted and round, giving the unnatural growth a pear shape. The child, now two years old, has never experienced any difficulty in swallowing its food or in breathing, looks natural in every other way, and has always been healthy. The arm of A. L. Davis, of llrtland, Vt., was so badly mangled a short time ago as to necessitate amputation, and the injured member was buried, but those who attended to this duty failed to wash and clean it. Soon after Davis complained of a bad feeling in the hand. He said it felt as though full of sawdust, and insisted upon having it taken up and washed. While sitting in a room with his wife, neither of them knowing that the exhumation had taken place, he suddenly exclaimed: “They are pouring warm water on my hand." This was thought to be imagination, buton goingto a back room it was found that some men had dug up the hand, which was undergoing the very operation described by tho owner. An entomological bore had just begun afresh on the eye of the common house-fly, which he declared, considering the size of its owner, to have the largest organ of vision in the whole animal world. “You presume to deny the foct I slate," gasped out the astonished man; “why, Buff on, Cuvier ” But before he could finish his sentenc#6ydney Smith was vehemently down on him onoe m ore with his, “Yes, sir, the weight of tradition, the infallible instinct of poetry, is against you. For what is the verdict of poetry on this very issue? Why, ‘I, said the fly, with my little eye, I saw him die.’ " At once the table was in a roar, and the discomfited bug fancier lapsed into, ailenoe, and suffered the talk to become general. Says Mr. Wallis Mackay. the Pall Mall Gazette's artist-correspondent: “Immediately after his return from Khiva, I was commissioned by the editor of a now defunct illustrated paper to make a character portrait of Captain Burnaby, it being impossible to procure a photograph of him at that time, none being in existence. Early one Sunday morning, by appointment, I waited upon the gallant and illustrious traveler at the Albany-stroet barracks. After a pleasant chat aud smoke, he, in a sort of uneasy and apprehensive manner, said: ‘Well, when are you going to put me through this ordeal?' I assured him that he had, during his most Interesting conversation, been unconsciously sitting for his portrait, and I required nothing more but the pleasuro of seeing him, as he had promised, in his habit as he lived on horseback. To this request he. with much good humor and evident amusement, retired, and soon returned in a rough blue jacket, with astrachan collar, and a cap of tho same material. Hugo boots came well above the knee. ‘When it was very cold across the steppes,’ said he, ‘I wore two layers over this, so you may imagine I cut a pretty figure on a small horse.’ As it was he seemed to tower a perfect giant.”

CURRENT PRESS COMMENT. If “competition" and the "natural laws of trade" were able to cope with the gigantic problems of transportation, there would be no more need of laws for the regulation of railroads than for the regulation of the dry goods trade or the farming business. But it has been demonstrated beyond all successful controversy that corporate monopolies are superior to the ordinary regulative forces of competition. There need to be laws which will preserve the natural forces and enable them to operate.—Minneapolis Tribune. The way to beget confidence is to be confident, and the way to secure fair and just treatment at the hands of the dominant political forces is to show a ready disposition to trust them. The prosperity and success of President Cleveland’s administration depends upon the prosperity of the people during his term of office, and no man understands this better than he. The disposition of the Iron and Steel Association to meet him half way and assume that no act of the general government while under his control will be inimical to the best business interests of the whole people is manly and will do much to bring about the result so much desired.—Philadelphia Times. Rules that will not work both ways are poor rules. If the British Parliament should pass a law to prevent Americans from holding large tracts of laud in England or Scotland, the movement to prevent foreigners and foreign corporations from acquiring thousands upon thousands of acres in the Western and Southwestern part of this country would rapidly gaiu Sound here. Mr. Winans, once of Baltimore, possiy is the only person of American birth who would suffer much by such an act of Parliament; but the name of Englishmen, titled and otherwise, who would suffer if excluded from our lands, is legion. So America could stand it, we think, if England could. —New York Tribune. The Italian statesmen have not forgotten the ounning of their ancestors. It is a very clever idea to seize upon Egyptian territory and at the same time to convert England into an ally who must support Italian conquests in Egypt whether she wants to support them or not. If some other nation ries to drive Italy out of Egypt how can England stand quietly aside and let the gallant nation which rushed to her aid in time of peril suffer for her generosity! Italy has long wanted an ally with whose help she could put a curb on French power on the Mediterranean. She has now secured this ally by the cleverest stroke of statesmanship since C'avour’s dispatch of an army corps to the Crimea.—Now York Times. Great Britain is now at war with a people with whom she has no quarrel, for an object she cannot define. She has gone to work to “punish” them. The measure of her vengeance is to be regulated, not according to any legal or moral standard, but entirely by the feeling of the British public. A pecuniary indemnity is out of the question. The fee simple of the whole country would not bring enough at auction to pay the expenses of Lord Wolseley’a army for a week It does not appear whether tho recapture of Khartoum will be held to have avenged Gordon, or whether it will be necessary to catch and hang the Mahdi, or whether all the tribes which have adhered to him must be extirpated. All that depends upon public opinion.—New York Times. Divorces in this country are seught by two classes, the would-be fashionable order, and. strange to sav, the hard-working farmers of some of the New England States. Immorality exists among the samo classes in Europe for the same reasons—one are frivolous and unreasoning, the other slavish drudges, and in both the sensual instincts predominate. The only difference between them auu their European congeners is that in this country the moral sense is strong enough to induce them to seek a divorce Itefbre they break their marriage vows, while over there they do net trouble themselves with any suoh formality.

Apart from these two classes, the greatest mass of Americans, the quiet majority, whose names aere* find their way into the newspapers, enjoy a domesG# life more pure, moder t and affectionate than that of any other nation.—Philadelphia Press. This year we are not. manufacturing possible preidential candidates. It is not fashionable. The gentleman from Buffalo does not like it. The fiui of it all is that Mr. Cleveland seems to lake more kindly to the little great men of recent manufacture than to thd somewhat larger sort who were known beyond the borders of their own school districts ninety days ago. For some reason not commonly explained by Ids party, his admiration for a man appears to be in inverse ratio to his size. If the man is intellectually large, Mr. Cleveland's affection is moderate. But u be is one of tnose great statesmen who have been manufactured out of nothing, or next to nothing, Mr. Cleveland is apt to regard him with an interesting oathusi&sm.—New York Tribune. PROHIBITION IN lOWA. How the Prohibitory Law Works in Favor of Free Whisky. Indianapolis Freeman. One of the editors of tho Freeman has just returned from a trip through lowa, and has had his convictions of the futility of laws attempting to make men honest or moral greatly strengthened. Creston is a town of perhaps three thousand people. One of the leading business men, in speaking of the new prohibition law, says that on July 1 there were eight saloons, paying a license of S6OO each; they were all of them kept orderly, and no habitual drunkards or minors were allowed about the premises. From business interests, the saloon-keepers promptly informed on all drug stores selling without license. On the repeal of the license law, the drug stores all took out United States revenue licenses, and there are now over thirty places where liquor can bo had, and drunkenness has greatly increased. Conviction is made difficult from the fact thae nearly ail the business men are opposed to the law in sympathy with the liquor dealers. Formerly a large amount of beer was sold, but it is 8* bulky that its transportation and storage withr out detection is almost impossible, and as whisky can bo carried about the person, whisky of the vilest quality is the only beverago that can be had. The revenue from the saloons had built their school-house and about supported the town, but now the treasury is empty, and the legitimate business of the town must boar the burdens taken from the shoulders of the liquor dealers. A proposition to restore the license law would easily receive 90 per cent, of tho vote. In Des Moines, Clarkson’s home, the saloon* are in full blast, with elegant bars; and no attempt at evasion. In one saloon half a dozeo men were seen drinking beer and whisky as openly and as leisurely as at any bar iu Indianapolis. TICKLING BEN BUTLER. Hew His Colored Servant Ronsed Him Ikons His Presidential Dreams. New York Special. As General B. F. Butler ambled Into the Fifth* avenue Hotel on Wednesday night a Michigan. Democratic politician said to a reporter: “The General nearly missed three or four of his appointments in Michigan last fall because tho people on the train were afraid to wak# him up. The old fellow has wonderfnt physical vigor. It has been preserved better than his mentality. I think Chairman Fuller, of the Greenback State committee, had charge of the express train on which the General traveled out of Detroit. I was also on boarxL After the first stop and speech, the General dropped back in his seat, shut his eyes and fell asleep. As we neared the next appoint* ment, Chairman Fuller tried to wake Butler up. It proved a hard task —it was even necessary to shake him soundly—and as he becam§ aroused he vented his annoyance in a volley at expletives that would serve the Irish cause better than dynamite. “Fuller tried it again at the second appointment, and after that said he didn’t propose to have his arm sworn off if Butler missed every appointment in Michigan. Butler’s body servant, an intelligent colored roan, who had kept out of sight all this time, now volunteered to undertake the delicate task, and when it came time to wake the General up agau& he produced a long feather, out of the porter’s duster, and gently tickled the great man’s nose. Butler slowly attempted to brush the annoying thing away, sneezed hard, and woke up, whU* we airtaughed at our stupidity and the colored man's cunning. He woke the General up that way half a dozen times that afternoon.” Vindicating the Press. Cleveland, Feb. 14 — Late last night, at the banquet of the Lincoln Club, Assistant City Solicitor Harry Bunts toasted the ladies. He said jokingly that tho members of the club were all susceptible young men, with the exception of two, who were writing a book on the subject of ladies. L. IL Cowles, son of editor Cowles, a Cornell graduate, misconstrued the toast to bo an insult to the press. After adjournment* young Cowles walked up to Bunts, and, without a word, slapped him in the mouth. Friends rushed between them, when Cowles held up hi* hand in a dramatic manner and said: “The press has been insulted here this evening, and I wished to retaliate. Gentlemen, tho press has been vindicated.” No cause can be assigned for his action, unless he is writing a book, or wishes to create the impression he is 4Mng sow Judge Griswold refused "to shake hands with Cowles, callinghim a “dirty puppy,” “dirty dog.* Cowles is denounced on all sides.

A Very Good Change. Saturday Herald. The Herald has no longer any grievance against General Grant A change of head has given it a change of heart. It will rather magnify men’s virtues than thoir faults. Notwithstanding the General did not give Blaine a hearty support, he carried Fort Donolson. Tho fact that he called on Cleveland weighs nothing against the enforced capitulation of Leo at Appomattox. True, he has taken gifts; he also took Richmond. He has lost money, but lie never lost a battle. You may shoot rockets at the Ursa .Major, but you cannot mar the constellation. General Grant has made his name immortal, and all the moral sewers in Christendom cannot tarnish it. ■ ■ ■——— I■ II .1! I Judge Bradley Not to Resign. Washington Dispatch to New York Evening Post. The renewed reports that Justice Bradley contemplates resigning have no better foundation than those which have preceded them. To a friend to-day Justice Bradley said, with indignant emphasis: “There is not a word of truth Uk it, I have never said a word to anybody on the subject of resigning, and I do not* contemplate resigning. You may say that with my authority.” If anything can be inferred from the manner of a man as well as from his Mr. Bradley is not considering resignation, duping this administration at least. A Model of Taste* Indianapolis Saturday Herald. The Daily Journal, of this city, bears the reputation of being one of the neatest and most elegant looking dailies in the United States, Tho first and fifth pages present to the ey# models of taste and are evidently the work of au accomplished artist. Tho editorial and reportorial work is fully up to the standard erected by the typographical artist. Mr. Hendricks’s Misplaced Anxiety. Philadelphia Press. Brother Hendricks has arrived at home, after his visit to New Orleans, to find the country just where be left it. His fear that our glorious institutions would wobble out of position during bis absence seems to havo been wholly unfounded. ■■ 1 ■ ■ ■■ Mr. Cleveland Better Stop This. Washington Post (Dera.) ' It begins to look as though an extra session were probable. What makes it look so is tho apparent disposition of both houses not to pra* vent it. Shutting off the Interviewers. New York, Feb. 14.-After Monday noon* will be received or accorded au interview by Mr. Cleveland, who will devote himself entirely to his inaugural address, canvassing the claims of those who have been named for Cabinet positions, and finishing up other work necessary to be done before going to Washington on March L Fund for Irish Members of Parliament. Nkw York, Feb. 15.—The various branches <4 the Irish National League in Now York and Brooklyn, have decided to establish a fund for payment of salaries of Irish members of th British Parliament.