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PITK will have to revise its cartoon. It is President Cleveland and the Civil-service Commission that arc the poodle dog at the heels of Thomas A. Hendricks and Grandfather Jones. Judge Thurman will not make the race for Governor of Ohio. The days of the red bandanna as a Democratic gonfalon are over forever. The “noble old Roman” nose when he has had enough. P. Cunningham, chief of division in the Sixth Auditor’s office, sends word to the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette that lie has filed a suit for SIO,OOO damages for “libellous publication.” He was probably accused of knowing how to spell. The Democratic party is to be congratulated upon the possible completo and unqualified accession of General Butler. Thoso who were at the Chicago convention will know that every Democrat will be just as tickled as if he had run a nail in bis foot. WHEN Lord Coleridge reflects upon the way retribution Las overtaken him for his conduct toward his daughter, the thought perhaps occurs to him that the mills of the gods do not grind so exceeding slow when an intending mother-in-law takes a turn at the crauk. A West Virginia man comes to the defense of Judge Thoman, and says he did not thrice repeat in a pompous manner that “if I have one marked characteristic it is firmness.” He employed the sentence, but said it only once, and then in a very commendable manner. This is important. Earl Carnarvon, in his Galway speech, Attributed the trade depression to foreign com|>etition. The new lord lieutenant must be A protectionist, of which class the number in England is daily increasing. According to the ethics of free trade, the more foreign competition the greater the domestic prosperity. We learn from the Washington specials of the New York Evening Post that Mr. Keiley is now in Switzerland, where he will spend some time, and also that his salary as Minister to Austria will probably continue until he returns home and resigns. Singularly enough, the Post neglects to refer to this editorially, as an instance of the rapid progress of “reform” under the present mlministration. The people of Indianapolis should turn their thoughts to the question of municipal administration. Anew Council is to be elected in October, and a mayor. The very best men that can be had for the places must be nominated and elected. For the first time the real voice of the Republican party has the opportunity to be heard in convention. Let it be hoard in tones that cannot bo misunderstood on the side of good government and economical administration. Mu. Theodore Watts, the English poet and critic, is the author of an article on poetry in the nineteenth volume of the Encyclopedia Britanniea, which has just been published. Mr. Watts defines “absolute poetry” as "the concrete and artistic expression of the human mind in emotional and rhythmical

language.” This definition, from such an authoritative source, will gratify those who object to the frequent assertion that poetry may be written either in prose or verse. Trose, they are willing to admit, may contain the essence of poetry, but it is only in verse, they maintain, that it finds true expression. Theirs is not the common view, but with the British Encyclopedia and Mr. Watts to back them, the anti-prose poets may enjoy, at least, temporary supremacy. WHERE IS TEE SURPLUS? The report of the Secretary of the Treasury for August reveals a most alarming state of affairs. Less than a year ago Mr. Hendricks and all the lesser lights were shocking the poor men of the country by showing, from the official reports of the Secretary of the Treasury, that there were more than $450,000,000 of surplus funds locked up in the Treasury, and that this, if properly disbursed, would furnish, more than eight dollars to every man, woman and child in America, and that an average family of half a dozen would get about fifty dollars, which would go a gieat ways towards bridging over tho hard times. Many an honest man voted for Mr. Hendricks, expecting that he would, in some way, get his share. lie wanted not only a change, but tho change. It seems from the August report of the Secretary of the Treasury that tho money has been promptly disbursed, for it gives as “tho net cash in the Treasury, $-14,052,929.04’' —that’s it to a cent! Now, what has become of the other $400,000,000? It would seem, at first glance, tha? the administration is not only turning the rascals out, as it turned Mullen out of jail, a few days ago, where a corrupt Republican court had put him for locking up 110 negroes the day' of the Cincinnati election, to keep them from voting—to which charge ho pleaded guilty before the court — but they are turning tho money out very rapidly. Surely we have this right to complain. Not one cent of this $400,000,000 has gone into Republican hands, and from all that we can learn very little, if any 7, has gone into the hands of the common Democratic laborer. Indeed very few of the hundred thousand offices have struck that class. There are too many Saints and Judds that have to be first provided for.

A REAL REFORM. The readers of the Journal are well aware that it is not in sympathy 7 with the #administration. It does not believe in Democratic principles, nor in their enforcement. The course of this paper has been consistent in its opposition to the Democratic party, and it did all it could to prevent what it deemed the political misfortune of elevating a man like Mr. Cleveland to the presidency'. Tho Journal realized, as millions of the best citizens of the country' realized, that the Democratic candidate could not escape his party; his administration must be in consonance with its spirit, his policy in harmony with it3 demands. It pointed out, in advance of the election, that the event of Democratic success would precipitate upon Washington such a horde of office-seekers of high and low degree as had not been seen in years. It predicted that faithful officials would be deposed, on one trivial pretext or another, to make room for men morally' and mentally 7 unfit to succeed them. It demonstrated how the bummer elemeut would inevitably come to the front, to the scandal and disgrace of not only the administration but of the Nation. All these things have come to pass exactly as predicted. Washington Las been the vortex of bummerism, bourbonism and spoils-hunting. Somo of these fellows have been disappointed, but in reaching over their heads others of even worse character have been selected. Many of tho most faithful, most efficient officers in the public service have been summarily dismissed, in defiance of the spirit of the civil-service reform law, and this has been emphasized by tho appointment in their stead of men of no moral or mental worth. The bummer element is at the front, and the Judds, the Meieres, Keileys, Mullens, Saints and Dowlings are in the front rank, to the evident humiliation of such Democrats as are possessed of merit. But while this is true, and while the party in power has demonstrated its unfitness to rule this great Nation, the Journal is not of those who fail or refuse to recognize good even in a political opponent. It is willing to concede to President Cleveland every honor his due, and to give him credit for every official act in accordance with real reform and good government. In all things in which he has introduced better methods or saved to the people unnecessary' expense he has the Journal’s unqualified approval, and no fear of Republican criticism shall deter it from making full acknowledgment. This is the only honorable way in w hich a newspaper can be conducted. It is in this spirit that we desire to point out and indorse a reform undertaken and now happily assured by the President. It is still less thar six montlis since Mr. Cleveland entered upon the discharge of his ' gh duties, yet the announcement was made yesterday that he Lad achieved the ambition of his heart that came nearest bis hand. With that simple honesty' and honest simpleness that so gieatly becomes his gieat nature, he has not been above what others would regard as trivial and of little consequence. Observing that a corrupt and extravagant administration had needlessly wasted money for washing towels, his mind finally conceived the idea of refoi tiling tLis abuse in the spirit of his letter of acceptance and his inaugural address. He thereupon caused bids to be advertised for from people wishing to do tho

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towel w'ashing for the government. The bids ranged all the wav' from forty cents to two dollars per hundred. The award was promptly made to the lowest bidder, and Mrs. Sarah Zahn is the lucky woman. The saviug will be about SJ,OOO per annum. Os course this will not pay the President's salary, but it proves that he is anxious to do what he can to earn the $25,000 paid him while devising this measure of economy. Actuated by' no spirit of levity* or cynicism, the Journal spurns the idea of a Democratic administration doing without towels, or dispensing with the formality' of washing them. We will admit that that would still further reduce the expense, but no editor with the least spark of pride in his heart cares to have the White House compared with a printing office and its traditional towel. But we do think, and, in the same spirit in which we have commended the President in hiring a good washerwoman, suggest that a 3till further reduction be made by letting each attache wash lii3 own towel. This is peifectly' feasible, and in peculiar harmony' with the idea of Republican simplicity and Democratic economy. Hot and cold water is conducted all over the house, and it would be the easiest thing imaginable for each occupant to do his own washing. If this does not meet with the President’s approval, it might be amended by detailin'?, say every six months, a clerk, or someone else, to do it all at once. A room could be set aside in the White House for this purpose, and, for our part, we see no reason why 7 the saving of all wash-bills might not be effected. The reform in tho official towelwashing we regard as the greatest triumph of Mr. Cleveland's administration, aud properly entitled to the publicity given it by* the tele graphic dispatches from the capital.

BUSINESS REVIVAL. Our telegraphic columns convey tho agreeable intelligence that one mill at least, at Pottstown, feels the impulse of better times. An iron firm there has notified their heater-helpers, rollers, and others working about the rolls, that their wages will be increased, the increase in somo instances reaching as much as 20 per cent., with a prospect of running double timb and plenty of work. This is a small matter to deserve public note, yet it will, and deserves to, attract attention. Business, and the iron business particularly', is never sentimental. Capitalists do not build rolling-mills and produce iron for mere pastime, nor does much consideration of the needs of the men cut any figure in the matter of making bar-iron or nails. Mill owners engage in tho business for the purpose of making mono}', and the rule is to pay tho workmen such wages as will leave a margin of profit on tho investment. Wages are seldom raised voluntarily', the tendency being generally in .the opposite direction. Hence the significance of the action of tho Pottstown mill-owners in this instance. They must feel warranted in the increase of pay, and must see some Encouragement in the undertaking. As indicated, they evidently have large orders ahead, and contracted for at figures more favorable than have been made in the recent past. It has been said that iron is tho best barometer of trade in general. When it is strong and active, all business feels invigorated, and capital ventures into the channels of trade. The people will hope that this is but the precursor of other improvements in business, so that trade may r resume its wonted activity. There appears to be but one thing lacking to set the wheels of traffic aud manufacture once more in healthful motion, and that is confidence. The country is rich in all necessary resources. There is plenty to feed and clothe every man, woman and child in the land. There is no good reason why' they may not be employed, as the means for their subsistence is at hand, and that is enough. Two desperate attempts have been made within the past few days to commit murder by the use of dynamite. At an obscure mining town in Ohio some wretch or wretches threw a dynamite bomb or grenade into the house of Hugh Kinney', with the evident intention of killing all the inmates. Kinney had incurred the displeasure of his fellow miners, and someone or more of them took this infamous mode of revenge, with an utter disregard of the lives of others than Kinney in the house. Fortunately none were killed, though through no fault of the assassins, and, as it was, the house was well nigh destroyed. Tho other attempt at wholesale murder was made on a river steamer at Philadelphia; a dynamite bomb exploded when the boat was in midstream, pretty well wrecking the upper works of the boat, and fataiiy injuring several passengers. The marvel is that many were not killed outright. The owners of the beat seem to have won the hatred of certain men who had been discharged from it, aud to these the crime is attributed. Offenses of this kind are so monstrous that it is difficult to conceive how any man can bring himself to their commission. The penalty placed upon them should be death, and that, too, without regard to the results of the attempts. A man infamous enough to employ dynamite or other explosive to the destruction of the innocent, is unfit to live. No brave man will do it, nor one who has any instincts above those of a brute. If tbe perpetrator of either of these infamous attempts at assassination should be apprehended, tho severest penalty possible should be meted out, and as promptly as the law will allow. ACCORDING to the Louisville Courier Journal, which claims to know, Mr. Cleveland not only does not fear the mugwumps, but he has no love for them. This seems quite pos-

sible in view of the action of the Civil-service Commission in the case of Grandfather Jones. The commissioners knew what would please the administration, and buttered the bread accordingly'. The Indianapolis Journal says that the Democratic party 7 is now in power “by tho votes of tho bummers of New lork City and Brooklyn.” The facts are all against this view. The wards of New York and Brooklyn in which the business of “bumming” is most extensively and regularly carried on showed surprising Republican gains last November. The wards in which Mr. Cleveland made large gains over the Hancock vote were those inhabited by persons who rarely* or never “bum” *—persons, in fact, whose character and standing will be best understood bv the Journal if we say that they* have usually* voted for Republican candidates. An occasional inaccuracy like this is a defect to be regretted in a newspaper so excellent in many vespects as the Indianapolis Journal.—New York Times. There is no inaccuracy about this whatever. We beg to repeat that the Democratic party* is in power by virtue of the votes of the bummer wards of New York City and Brooklyn. The Times, however, does not deny this, but goes into the irrelevant issue that Blaine made gains in these wards. This country is being “reformed” because the Tim McCarty’s of the metropolis so willed. Mu. Adams, better known as “Oliver Optic,” who has lately been interviewed by some newspaper men short of material, says his leading idea when he began writing stories for the young was to give girls and boys something interesting, even fascinating, and yet instructive and elevating in its moral tone. That he has succeeded in making his books attractive to the juvenile mind, any one who has ever spent an hour in a public library must admit. That he has made them equally instructive is a point answered by himself when he states complacently that he produces four books annually, in addition to many short stories and sketches. A man may write four books of literary and moral worth in a year, and continue to do so for an indefinite number of years; but the probabilities are that no man ever did. Certainly there is no evidence shown through improvement in youthful morals or other impression made by his works, that Mr. Adams is a shining exception to the rule. The one redeeming feature of the miserable Dilke scandal, in London, is the behavior of Sir Charles's fiancee, Mrs. Mark Pattison, who hearing of the affair when traveling in India, immediately telographed back to him to make their engagement public at once.—Globe-Democrat. The one “redeeming feature” would have been for Mrs'. Mark Pattison to have telegraphed a public annulment of tho marriage engagement. It is haid to see how Mrs. Pattison's determination to wed Sir Charles “redeems” him from the infamy of a crime for which he was willing to pay $125,000 rather than suffer the legal and social consequences of exposure. An admirer of Ituskin's close habits of observation narrates, as a proof that the gift was natural, the circumstance that at the tender age of three years ho astonished a photographer by asking him why there were boles in the carpet of the gallery. This is no evidence of precocity. *1 he education of a child of three years who does not know that to be full of holes is the normal condition of a photographer’s carpet may well be considered neglected.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. MATTHEW AENOI.D, in his speech on giving away the prizes at Dulwich College, England, said that the reign of the English middle classes is now just over, and that of the democracy has begun. A diary kept by Goethe fiom 177 G to 1832, with a gap between 1782 and 1796. has been discovered at Weimar, among the possessions of the poet’s late grandson, Walter von Goethe. Many otiiox' manu scripts and letters were found with it. * Prince Louis, of Batteaberg, is an excellent practical printer, and once when his ship reached a small port where no one was competent to print the programmes required for a dance given by the officers, the Prince came forward and undertook the work. Lord Dufferin is credited by the Calcutta Herald with having said that the diplomacy of the world will soon be in the hands of Americans. Nearly every member of the diplomatic corps who gets to Washington, he says, trios to bring home an American wife. “For fifty three years," says General Toombs, “my dear wife was my constant friend, companion, and adviser. We traveled four continents of the world together and visited many islands of the seas. Now she is waiting for me, with the same sweet faith she so well illustrated hero.” Professor Jaeoer, of Vienna, recently created a great sensation by the discovery that the human soul is an odor emanating from the person and intimately associated with the hair. The government promptly suppressed him—ou account of his invidious insinuations against the bath iftg and bald-headed classes. Carl Schurz is very busy writing his “Life of Henry Clay,’’ at Eiberon, N. J., as a continuation of the American Statesmen series. Ho is said to be continually solicited to re-enter journalism, both by German and American newspaper propriators; but he declines all such invitations, at least for the present. THE farmer’s son came home from school \v T ith ardor in his eye: Said he, “I’ve read how Washington Did make the Hessian fly!” “He did!” the farmer cried—his wheat Was cut by insect grim—- “ Well, if he made that bug, I’ve got No more respect for him.” —Yonkers Gazette. Fashionable society in and around New York has been surprised at the abrupt breaking off, on the eve of the mar: ir-ge, o the engagement between Miss Catherine Wadsworth Philipse, a decendant of the family that once owned nearly all of Westchester and Putnam counties and declined an alliance with George Washington, and .Mr. L. Prioleau Huger, of a family as rich and distinguished. In the biography of General Howard, which has just been published, he tells how he quit the use of tobacco, and what led him to cease altogether the use of intoxicants. His betrothed refused to see him one day because another young man, drunk, had been mistaken for him. Many weary months passed before the blunder was corrected. He saw that the only safe way was to have the reputation of not drinking at all. “I WOULD like to own that face,” was the remark made by Robert Deweiss, traveling photographer from Springfield, 111., to Miss Stella Stokes, daughter of a well-to-do merchant of Americas. Ga., as he looked at her for the first time through a camera. The lady blushed, whereupon the photographer grew bolder, and. pressing his suit, the lady consented to marry him. The affair has greatly scandalized the lady's parents. AN entirely new kind of bank note, printed in colors, instead of the black and white of tl e Bunk of England notes, is being prepa ed for issue by the Bank of Scotland. The chief novelty of the new note Is in it s colors, which will, of course, make reproduction by photography impossible, and, it is believed, will prevent forgery. The paper on which the hank note is printed is made by the same firm that produces the Bank of England note. Maurice Mauris, who recently died on the Congo river, was aver table genius among adventurers and swindlers. He was well known among New York journalists, was endowed with graceful manners, and had a most plausible and seductive address. He per-

suaded the ablest geographers of Europo that he had penetrated the heart, of Africa, and wrote a wonderful account of his travels. He was a man of slender build, dark complexion, clear-cut, handsome features and quick, energetic movement. Thk last, meeting of ex-President Jesse-son Davis and his Cabinet, as a body, was in a laige brick house at Washington, Ga., which stands on the site which Stephen Heard, in revolutionary days, built a fort from which to fight the Indians. The pen with which President Davis signed his last order is now in possession of T. M. Green, of Washington. It is a little strange that the ball of revolution set in motion by Mr. Toombs in Washington should have rolled back to his own door for final explosion. Ex-Marshal BazalNE, who has been living in Spain for some time, is reduced to such straits that he was unable to attend a dinner to which he was invited recently, because he was absolutely without presentable clothes. He is said, too, to have fallen into considerable disrepute among his countrymen visiting the country of his exile, as he acts as a sponge upon them; in other words, what, in "English as she is spoke,’ would be called “a dead beat.” This is a warning to military men never again to iuvade Mexico or to take a charlatan for a master. ‘‘l ALWAYS model,’’ says Meissonier, “before I begin to draw and paint. I like to settle all my difficulties before I take up the brush. When that is done, and I know exactly what I want to get, then I draw at my leisure. This horse,” pointing to a small wax model, “gave me infinite trouble. I wanted him for one of my pictures, and, as the attitude was a very difficult one, it was perfectly impossible to draw direct from nature, so 1 had to settle the que.stiou once for all in the wax. I used to have a horse brought in every day and made to prance. It killed him in the long run, and it nearly killed me.” SIR CHARLES Dilke, the hero of the greatest recent London scandal, is a widower who was married to an Irish lady of great beauty and sterling accomplishments. He was profoundly attached to her. She died in the child-birth of her first child. Dilke has since her death suffered from a grief so profound that many of his friends thought his reason would become unhinged. He used to be seen wandering by night around the railings of the square which is opposite his house, hatless, raving, hysteric. His grief was intensified, perhaps, by the fact that he could not visit her grave. She was a woman of strong mind and advanced opinions, and she left it is a solemn testament that her body should be cremated. Cremation was illegal in England and the body had to be transported across the continent to Germany, where the dread ceremony took place. The boy survived the mother. It is said that Dilke has never properly cared for the child that is a standing memento of inseparable ties, and Chamberlain Las brought up the lad with his own children.

CURRENT PRESS COMMENT. The mission of cholera is to emphasize the gospel of cleanliness. It is a sanitary agency which strikes its heaviest blows where they aro most needed. If Chicago would not be struci, she has it in her own power to avoid the blow. “People who do not invite cholera need not fear it.”—Chicago News. -All Democrats desire to see the important offices of the country fiiled by Democrats with no further delay than is necessary to select too right Democrats; but as there is every reason to believe that the President desires the same thing there can be no division on this point. Opposing the life tenure of office ideas advocated by Messrs. Curtis and Schurz is in no senso opposing Mr. Cleveland, since he has never advocated them. _ The election of a straight-out Democrat in New York this fall would be at once a rebuke to this idea, and an assurance of Democratic harmony and success in the future.—St. Louis Republican. As corroborative of the value of Christianity as a prophylatic against cholera, attention is called to the immunity of the New England States. This may be true iu tho case of that region, but it is also true that if the New England Christianity protects against cholera it is not efficacious against consumption, or sterility on the part of its women, or against a gradual disappearance of the race. It is well understood that if the population of New England were left to itself it would be but a very short time before it would become extinct. If cholera is directly from heaven as a punishment for lack of Christianity and its qualities, whence comes this curse which lias been laid ou New England?—Chicago Times. A DECREE that so many ounces of silver should equal in value one ounce of gold would be of no more avail than a decree that so many ounces of lead should equal in value an ounce of copper. This is the practical and the insuperable obstacle to international bimetalism, as it is to all bimetalism. Human laws cannot override natural laws, but must recognize them and conform to them. 'No country has ever yet succeeded in establishing bimetalism, and no country nor number of countries ever will establish it. The standard of value must be a single standard, whether it be gold, silver, copper, wheat or any other commodity. A double standard is an impossibility, as well as a contradiction in terms. —New York Sun. ADMITTING all that can justly be adduced in praise of the present administration, no one can seriously claim for it conformity to the true ideal of civilservice reform. The best that can be said is that the guillotine is not working with the greatest possible activity, that some disposition to respect the literal requirements of the existing laws is still manifested, and that important new appointees have been informed that hey will be expected to administer their offices on business principles. Party claims and requirements, however, are by no means ignored. Tho real differences of opinion developed among those high in authority or possessing genuine influence relate mainly to the best methods for entrenching the Democracy in power.—Philadelphia Inquirer. The stagnation in the New York money market has has been broken. The bank reserve is ou the declining scale. This shows that there i3 an overflow of currency to move the crops. Kates for money are also hardening in New York. These are sure signs for nn improvement in business. There is no speculative boom, but there is a steady improvement, and the prospects for the fall trade are favorable. When this comes it will likely be made to appear that stocks of goods in the country are not near so large as the stagnation made appear. Prices, too, are very low; in many, if not most cases, below the cost of production. There is, theiefore, no lower level to be found. There could not, therefore, be a more solid foundation upon which to recover from the dullness and depression that have prevaded.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Now no one, not even nn office cat, will pretend that the presidential chair was de facto filled for the four years of Mr. Hayes’s presidency, or that Mr. Hayes did not exercise the functions of President. If Mr. Hayes had only received ten votes in the country and only one from the electoral college, but had then been inaugurated and kept in office during his term, enjoying all the prerogatives which attach to the office during that time, he would have been President of the United States, and there would have been no inter-regnum. The question of whether he was legally elected or not is absolutely irrelevant. He was inaugurated and did preside; and that fact is all sufficient. According to the Sun’s theory the greater part of the history of all the monarches xa the world is but the record of a series of inter-reena, and there have hardly been a score of kings and queens since the world began.—Minneapolis Tribune. A F EK-TRADK party is not a friend of labor; and the enemy of labor is the enemy of the Irishman. Apaity that has the right arm of slavery cannot hate oppression. _ And a party that does not hate oppression has no right to expect the support of-Irishmen, who drink in hatred of oppression with their mother’s milk. The Irish-Aruerican voter is beginning to understand this. The scales are falling from his eyes. Democratic leaders can never again successfully claim that they carry the Irish vote in their breeches pocket. The large portion of it that was lost to Democracy lasi year was lost to it permanently. These voters* will never forget their 1 ransfor of allegiance. In becoming Republicans they identify themselves with a party which has done more for the prosperity of the country, more for the advancement of government by the people, more for the great cause of humanity, than any other political organization that ever existed since the foundation of the Union.—New York Tribune. , McDonald and the other Democratic chieftains of ms way ot thinkivg seem quite willing to accept defeat this year for the sake of punishing their President for not showing more zeal and haste in turning over the audiences to the Democrats. Though the administration has done litt e else during its five months ot power but dispose of offices, the hungry and thirsty are not satisfied, nor will they be content as long as there is a single Republican fourth-cla s postmastor left in the land. Chastened by defeat and enlightened as to the real opinion of the rank and file of the Democracy, they believe that President Cleveland will throw civil-service reform to the dogs ami go full length in <he distribution of the offices among the Democrats who want them so badly. Cleveland’s civil-service reform is of the thinnest, shallowest kind, but it p’aces him far ahe. and of the organized appetite called the Democratic party, and of the leaders who are criticising abusing and even threatening to betray their President. \V ill these threats shake his purpose, and will defeat compel him to let the entire civil service at once into the trough for tho benefit of the eager, importunate and disreputable herd who are clamoring and crowdingabout it?—Philadelphia Press. Its Amour Propre Injured. Atlanta Constitution. At the recent reunion of the Fourth Indiana Cavalry in Indianapolis, Lieut. Isgrige stated that he received .Jefferson Davis from the party capturing him and brought him into Macou. Isgrigg said that the old farm wagon in which Mr. Davis rode ooutalued the hoop skirt, old

calico wrapper and straw hood, which formed his dhguse when captured. Isgrigg probably belongs to the same class of abie-bodied liars who claim that they saw General Grant receive and seturn General Lee’s sword at Appomattox. The yarn published in our yesterday’s issue about the old Virginia negro, who declared that he saw General Washington cut off Cornwallis r head at Yorktown, is tame reading by the sids of such stories as Isgrigg tells. MEDICAL NOTES. There is a good deal of complaint in the Ne*r York medical journals as to the abuse of medical charity in that city. There is a series of dispensary tramps of every age and both sexes who make the rounds of the free clinics and dispensaries. T hose who are good illustrations of certain diseases dwelt upon by tho medical specialists who hold college clinics are at a premium: they are sought for eagerly and gathered by various devices, Some of them are “puffed up with pride if their ailments are 6uch as to draw the attention of distinguished member of the profession,” aud take a real or fancied delight in their ailments. What, with the college clinics, the free dispensaries, the outdoor clinics and tho like, of the various schools, there is little need for the poor to go undoctored and uudrugged. And in some cases people wellto do will attend the clinics to save a medical fee. They have even come to the free clinics in their own carriages. Between the established practitioners, who only treat those who can and do pay promptly, and the colleges and dispensaries. which take whatever c’omes, the struggling young doctor can scarcely attain a foothold. British conservatism, or rather stubborness, is shown in the persistence of the ar.ti-vaccina-tion people in not submitting to vaccination as a preventative to the scourge of smallpox. This disease is spreading iu ceitain localities in London because of this unwillingness to be vaccinated. The power of tho courts is occasionally invoked to compel persons to submit themslves and their families to vacination, but still certain obdurate ones will submit to be imprisoned rather than to yield. There is a vigorous agitation of tho question, aud some highly-educated people still insist that vaccination is harmful and barbarious. The opposition is led usually by some veteran maiden philanthropist, who issues a monthly serial and foots tho bills. It was by the aid of this class that vivisection was restricted by the English Parliament, and so all well-directed and useful physiological inquiry mado impossible. There has been little opposition to vacination in this country, and curiously enough what there has been, has had Mr. Bergh as its mouth piece and advocate. Statistics .regarding cancer of the tongue and mouth have greater interest at the present than ever before. If a patient has a ragged tooth and a smarting or ulcerated tongue, as a result cancer is fearod. Fortunately the mental condition or aptitude has little to do with tha induction of cancer iu any form. The report of the Middlesex Hospital for 1883, contains tabulated histories and statistics of nine cases of cancer of tho tongue, eight of the lip and two of the mouth, out of a total of 121 cases reported. Os the nine cancers of the tongue, eight were in males; the age ranged from thirty-five to seventytwo, most being over fifty years. Little could be learned as to the cause; one was from long holding a ciay pipe; no family history or constitutional taint appears to have existed in any of the cases. Five died in the hospital within three months to two yours. In one case, where the disease involved the floor of the mouth, the lower jaw aud the tongue, the patieut lived a little over a year. Operation seemed to have little effect in staying the course of the disease. Dr. Elkanah Williams, of Cincinnati, reported to the recent meeting of the American Ophthalmological society two cases of quiuine amaurosis (loss of power of the optic nerve, or retina, without perceptible alteration in the organization of the eye). In the first case a man took one ounce—437 grains—in the course of four days this produced total blindness and deafness. Sight returned in six weeks, but the hearing was not restored after eight years. The second case was that of a boy who took four largo doses, and was totally blind for several days. Deports made by the Army Medical Bureau show that the per cent, of scrofulous children, the scrofula being due to a specific taint, in various professions, is as follows: Editors, 0; teachers, 3; clergymen, 7, and soldiers 12 per thousand. We knew that the doctors wer ahead.

The Prohibition Fight Against Republicans. Janies Sanders, in Westfield Sews. Eminent Christian men and women, long in the temperance cause, have been held up to ridicule and contempt because they could not conscientiously join the third party. The main fight is made against the Republican party. Ask a third party man why this is so and he will tell you it is because the Democratic party is a whisky party, and claims to be such, while the Republican party is a hypocritical party, claiming to be a temperance party and is not. The theory is, defeat the hypocritical party and allow the whisky party to have control of affairs: but when pressed to the wall he will tell you that it is necessary to destroy the Republican party in order to build up the Prohibition party; that they expect most of their accessions from that party. That is, they would defeat the hypocritical party in order to build up their party with the hypocrits. The fact is the Republican party in this State does not profess to boa prohibition party, and is not & whisky party. So fsr as it has made any declaration on the subject in its State platform, it has favored temperance. A large majority of its members are temperance men and a majority of its legislators have voted for temperance laws. But we are told that her legislators are not honest, and only vote for temperance measures for a blind. Why should not a Republican legislator be accredited wdth some honesty of purpose as if he belonged to some other party! We therefore conclude that the grounds forcomplaint have not been altogether on one side. Let the blame rest where it belongs. Abuse is not argument. I)en by Sc Son. Lafayette Times (Deni.) Evansville has the minister in China, whose salary is $12,000, and the minister to China has the appointment of a private secretary at a salary of $2,500, six consular marshals at a salary of SI,OOO each. The Chinese ministry figures up to about $33,000, and of all this Denby & Sou either directly or indirectly reap the benefit. Colonel Denby is an avowed candidate for Governor of Indiana, but the people will, of course, want an introduction before voting for him. In view of the fact that he is anew discovery, something certainly has been very kind to CoL Deuby. Tilden the Democratic Oracle, Louisville Courier-Journal. Mr. Cleveland holds Dir. Tilden in the highest respect and honor. He is to Mr. Tilden what Martin Van Buren was to General Jackson half a century ago Greystone is the modern Hermitage. Mr. Manning is living proof of Mr. Cleveland's confidence in Mr. Tilden. As for the President’s fearing the mugwumps, that is a conreit. We know that the President has no fear of the mugwumps. We doubt if he has any love for them. The end will disprove all thee* lies. _ Dr. Leonard’s “Malaria.” Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette. The champagne story has got twisted in Springfield. It is there said that it was not malaria, but typhoid fever that afflicted Dr. Leonard, and that brandy and not champacrne was prescribed as a remedy. lie may have had typhoid fever, and drauk brandy at some other time, but when sick on Walnut Hills it wan malaria that ailed him, and it was champagne brought from the cool cellars of two hospitable Methodist brother a that cured him. There is uo doubt about that. What General McClellan Is Doing. Philadelphia Press. In 1852 George B. McClellan, of Now Jersey, discovered a vein of copper ore in New Jersey,* and this year he is preparing to develop it At this mad, McClellan rate of progress that min* will, more than likely, be iu full operation before 1950.