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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NKW St SOX. (WASHINGTON OFFICE—SIS Fourteenth St. I'. S. IIKATH, Correspondent. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1885. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. rSS¥<3 INVARIABLY IN ADVAXC*—POSTAGE PREPAID BY THE PUBLISHERS. THE DAILY JOURNAL. One year, br mail .$12.00 One year, by mail, including Sunday 14.00 Six months, by mail 0-00 Six months, by mail, including Sunday 7.00 Three months, by mail 3.00 Three n onths, by mail, including Sunday 3.;t0 One month, by mail 1.00 One month, bv mail, including Sunday 1.20 Par week, by carrier (in Indianapolis) •‘^s THE SUNDAY JOURNAL. Per copy 5 cents One year, by mail... $2.00 THE INDIANA STATE JOURNAL. (WEEKLY EDITION.) One year ¥IOO Irf'-s than one year and over three months. Kb* per months. 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. O. NEW & SOX, Publishers The Journal, Indianapolis. Ind. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL <2an be found at the following places; uONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 440 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Canucines. HEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels, CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. R. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine street. IiOTHNVTLIiE—C. T. Bearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. gT. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. Telephone Calls. fltuiness Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 242 Maybe somebody wants to call Bob Toombs l liar! Mr. Beecher denies as a baseless fabrication the story that lie is to retire from the Plymouth pulpit on a pension. Mr. TILDEN is not a mummy. He does take an interest in politics. Mr. Simmons, president of the New York Stock Exchange, says that the sage of Greystone did give indorsement to his, Simmons’s, candidacy for the colleetorship, and wrote a personal letter to Mr. Cleveland in his behalf. But the old man’s influence did not reach. If the figures are correct, the assessible value of the property of the bondsmen of Treasurer-elect Miller is less than $-100,000, while the penalty is $600,000. Besides, the wealthiest of the sureties are on a number of other official bonds antedating this one. If a bond is anything more than a form, the commissioners should look carefully into the matter. A WRITER in the Popular Science Monthly declares that learning to spell the English language “is one of the worst mind-stunting processes that has formed a part of the general education of any people." This being the rase, it is gratifying to know, from specimens of their cliirography, that many of our most distinguished citizens have never had their minds stunted in this way.

The sudden death of Hon. Reuben E. Fenton removes a man who was once quite a prominent figure in New York and national politics. In later years, however, he has Jived a comparatively retired life, but always tetaineu an active interest in public affairs. He was a man of fair abilities and of good character, and has done very considerable service to his State and country. For ways that are dark and tricks that are vain commend us to the hungry horde now besieging the administration for place. Horse-thieves, confessed bribers, burglars and rogues of all degrees have been found among them, and the end is not yet. And now a new swindle is discovered among the faithful. It has beon found that one young man who got a favorable paper in competitive examination got it by proxy, his brother having undergone the ordeal and used his name. Alas, and an era of reform! Judge LoG'Hßane, of Georgia, in the New York World, denies with great vehemence the statements of Lieutenant Isgrigg respecting the arrest of Jefferson Davis. Mr. Lochrane says that Mr. Davis ‘‘represents in his person the true type of all that is hold and chivalrous” in the Southern race. This is the •ort of stuff that makes it almost hopeless to expect a homogeneous country on any other basis than an exaltation of rebelism and a {onsequent abasement of the principles upon which the war of the Rebellion was conducted by the national government. Tiif. suicide of William Carleton, the play writer, has brought out a number of touching obituaries of Will Carleton, the author of “Betsy and I Are Out.” Good, sympathetic people are mourning because of the supposition that th* writer of the pathetic ballad, “Over the Hill to the Poor house/' wa3 driven by impecuniosity to a choice between the poor-house and death. Lots of them will never learn their mistake, and will continue to cherish a belief in the irony of fate as instanced in this favorite verso writer’s case, unconscious that he is all the time enjoying prosperity and affluence. The report made by Mr. Davis, who lately resigned as consul to St. Paul de Loan da, on the west coast of Africa, to which he was appointed a year ago, is calculated to discourage hungry and impecunious Democrats who wish to serve their country abroad. The salary lonnected with the office is only SI,OOO per

annum. It cost Mr. Davis just $750 to transport himself, wife and child there. After their arrival they took African fever, which attacks all newcomers to that coast, and were ill a long time. By the aid of friends and the sale of their personal effects they were enabled to get away, and now Mr. Davis finds himself SI,OOO out of pocket as a result of one year’s diplomatic service. He will not apply for another position of the kind. LOWERING THE FLAG. ‘•Unfortunately for the returning pilgrim, his readers will ask why, if a protective tariff is just the thing to relieve England’s distress, a protective tariff, borne with remarkable heroism, has not prevented distress in America.” This is the comment of the Louisville Courier-Journal upon the remarks of Senator Edmunds since his return from England. Something is gained when a hare-brained and vaporous free-trader can bo compelled to admit into his calculations that free trade has not brought unspeakable blessings to Great Britain. The claim is that all the depression, and stagnation, and evil, of which the United States is a victim, result from the protective system, and that free trade would give all workingmen employment, fill with orders eveiy factory and shop, extend our trade with the world, and make the entire country to bloom and blossom as the rose. No I<;S3 radiant a picture is ever painted by any free-trader, while the pigments used by the editor of the Courier Journal have been such as harmonize with the redundant ecstasy of his nature. So we say that it is great gain in the intelligent discussion of'this question, when there is a concession on the part of a free-trader that neither his theory nor yet that of the protectionist is a perfect and complete panacea for all the evils to which human society and the body politic is heir. The sensible protectionist willingly concedes that a protective tariff will not do everything—will not make over human nature; will not stop waste: will not prevent the ravages of war; will not prevent a nation from paying its debts to itself and the world: will not, in short, do any other miraculous thing. The claim is, however, that, all things else considered and the force of all other influences properly appreciated, the protective system, wisely and judiciously applied, is the best for a nation, and particularly for such a nation as the United States, with its structural, and social, and political, and economic differences from the balance of the world. In tho discussion of that question, the protectionist confidently appeals to the verdict of history and of experience, as well as of sound a priori reasoning. Let a comparison bo instituted between the industrial advance of Great Britain and of the Uuited States withiu the last thirty years. Let a contrast be made between Great Britain and the United States during the past twenty-five years—the United States with its tremendous civil w ar; its years of waste and its years of profligacy; its years of inflated currency and its years of struggle to reach solid ground. Run a parallel between the condition of the workingmen of the United States and of Great Britain to-day, or at any time during.tho past quarter of a century. Fix the ratio of increase, if possible, in the lives and homes of tho great mass of the industrial laborers of the two countries —of their material, moral, educational and social advancement. Let this bo done fairly and candidly, and the protectionist gladly welcomes a sober judgment upon the merits of the respective industrial systems upon which the two countries have proceeded. But we did not intend to be betrayed into an argument; our only purpose was to noto with pleasure that even so rabid au apostle as the editor of the Courier-Journal has been forced to admit tho possibility that free trade might not be the cure-all he has so persistently asserted.

SPOILS IN FUTURO. If the mugwumps are not sick of their bargain and ashamed of the company they are in, Republicans are ashamed for them, and ashamed of having produced men simple enough to put their trust in Democratic promises of reform. Not a day passes but the recreant Republicans who helped pull the Democratic chestnuts out of the fire are insulted for their pains. The last Democratic paper to take a whack at them is the New York Sun. The Sun, apparently, has no conception of the absurdity of it reading mugwumps out of the Democratic party, and proceeds to the work with all the seriousness of a deacon in good standing. A snub from the Sun ought to be too much, but it appears that nothing is too much for the meek and lowdy mugwumps to submit to. In its Sunday issue the Sun says: “For once, every true Democrat hopes that the mugwumpian speaking-tube, the Evening Post, is light when it says that ‘the President is soon to stop making changes.’ The time to stop making changes will be when the Republicans have been turned out, and the government is in Democratic hands. The sooner that is done the better.” The spectacle of a disloyal, faltering Democratic paper like the Sun rebuking the pharisees with more than phnrisaical self-com-placency, is one of dhe richest of the season. How mttch of this can the mugwumps stand? How do the saintly editors of Harper’s Weekly, the Post, the Times, and papers of that class, like the idea of being with a crowd actuated by such sentiments? And how do these sentiments compare with the Miss Nancy promises made by the sly deceiver only a year ago? The Democratic ax is grounded for the present; but the fall elections will ho past in a few weeks, and then business will begin in earnest, if the indications of Democratic sentiment are worth anything. What the administration wants is an Indorsement.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1885.

That secured, and the circus performance will begin, with no postponement on account of weather. That the above-quoted sentence was not an accidental misstep, another from the same number of the Sun may be cited in a like vein. Speaking of Mr. McDonald’s remark, “I will frankly say that I would not have voted for the civil-service law,” the Sun says: “Mr. McDonald has long been known as a devoted Hoosier, but we doubt if he ever emitted a sentence which more truthfully represented Indiana sentiment. are true Democrats in Indiana.” This is the Sun’s estimate of Indiana Democracy, of that party to the aid of which some very estimable but misguided gentlemen went last year. Mr. McDonald, hostile to tho enactment of such a law, represents “Indiana sentiment.” The shame of such fellowship, the humiliation of being made the victim of such an unconscionable confidence game, should seal the mouth of the mugwump, if not send him back to tho better paths from which he strayed. Demociatic professions of honesty and reform are the same to-day, yesterday and forever. For years the act has belied tho promise. Having sneaked into power this time by the narrowest of pluralities, and the most stupendous system of false promises, the representative Democratic papers, with ill-concealed impatience, now spit upon the mugwump, and laugh his ideas to sccru. No one man can hope to stand out agaiust the rank and file of the Democratic party. Its sympathy is with Hendricks more than with Cleveland. The latter dare not interfere with the Vice-president’s small slice of the spoils. Ho awarded him little, but that little must not be molested. The issue has been skillfullv avoided by the aid of an accommodating civil-service commission, and the way for the President’s back-down has been made easy. At this juncture he dare not lock horns with the “Indiana sontiment.” What he will do after the election in New York and Ohio remains to be developed. Meanwhile the Democratic press is making a foot-wiper of tho mugwumps. The administration is doing one thing, at least, that is commendable. It is looking into the precedents of thoso clerks and department attaches in Washington who claim that they are and have always been loyal and unfaltering Democrats, though holding positions under Republican administrations. The new Commissioner of Patents came across one of these fellows recently, and promptly and properly dismissed him. The man put up a pitiful howl of indignation that a true Democrat should be so despitefully used. Mr. Montgomery looked him over and then called for the letters of x’ecornmondation upon which he was originally appointed. “You are a Democrat, are you?” “Yes, sir,” replied the man. “And always Lave been?” “Always." “Then you are discharged for falsehood and for obtaining an office under false pretenses. In this application for appointment, filed five years ago, } ou state that you are a Republican, no one but Republicans indorsed you, and every one of thorn commends you as a faithful and useful member of that party. You can go.” A man of that description ought to go, for he is worthy only of the contempt of honest men. And exactly the same thing may be said of Capt. P. H. Dowliug, of Toledo, who never dreamed of being anything but a Republican until he found that his lease of office might depend upon currying favor with the Democratic party. Then he comes out strong, and is a better Democrat than anybody. He is plainly on the make, and if his contemptible action does not win for him the treatment he deserves, the President will be lacking in judgment and in gratitude to men who have been Democrats from principle. The Toledo Dowling seems a fair match for the Indianapolis Dowling. They are a fine pair.

Hon. John Sherman opens the campaign in Ohio to-day with a speech at Mt. Gilead, Morrow county. The New York Evening Post has a lengthy editorial upon the Ohio campaign, in which it argues strongly for Republican success, so as to insure the return of Mr. Sherman to the Senate. Os the Senator’s public service and character it says: “Mr. Sherman has been in public life as congressman, senator or Cabinet minister more than thirty years, and has rendered very great services to the country. He is one of the foremost of American statesmen, possessing a store of experience beyond any other man now in public life, and wdth all his faculties unimpaired. He is a politician, but a politician of the useful type, lie has not stood absolutely perpendicular in all the financial gales that have swept the State of Ohio in his time, but his average line has been true, and his personality has been at times the deciding influence which guided the policy of the Nation. The restoration of specie payments is inseparably coupled with his name. Whether this great achievement was due more to himself or to the favoring circumstances of tho time is immaterial. A less skillful and less experienced hand would probably have made a botch of it. The public relied upon him to enforce a law which, when passed, very few expected to see carried into execution, and they did not rely in vain. “The elevation of the national credit is not Mr. Shfcrman’s sole claim to public confidence. He has shown remarkable fertility of resource in all the emergencies of politics during the past quarter of a century. He is a partisan of the unflinching type, but withal a statesman of keen discernment and high usefulness. He is one of the class of tried and proved men of ability and leaders of parties whom any State ought to be proud to keep as her representative in the highest councils of the Nation. We shall be surpiised if the |>eople of Ohio do not find means, even in the existing tangle, to return him to the Senate.” Ex Minister Bingham denies the whispered rumor that General Grant went to his grave with the secret that Andrew Johnson had approached him upon a scheme to effect a coup d’etat by means of the army, embracing the assassination of Mr. Lincoln and the

advancement of Johnson to tho presidency. The story is preposterous. If Mr. Johnson could have been capable of making such a proposition, General Grant would not have hesitated a moment to publicly denounce his treason to the country and to the world. The New Y'ork Republican committee took wise action in inviting the participation of all voters “who adhere to the principles of the Republican party, and whose general intention is to act with the party, and promote its success by their votes and influence at the next general election without regard to any socalled ‘fundamental test.’” This action opens the door to all those members of the party who felt themselves unable to vote for Mr. Blaine last November. Deeply as it may be regretted that there were such, and blind as we may believe thoso to be vdio relied upon the Democratic party to do more for civil-service reform than the Republican administration would have done under Mr. Blaine’s presidency, it must be remembered that very many of them are still adherents of Republican principles, and will be glad to renew their allegiance to the party. In the contest this fall in New York, and in Ohio, and in all other places, the Republican party should invite the cooperation of all who believe in its general policy, and who will unite for its future success, without respect to the personal differences that temporarily estranged them last year.

The National Republican says: “It is a welcome truth that at this time —some fifteen or sixteen months after the killing of the Morrison monstrosity by the Republican party and protection Democrats, and fourteen months after the promulgation of the last Democratic platform—we are entering upon a business revival. We do not charge that all the depression of the past two years has been occasioned by fears of Democratic legislation and administration. Other causes have had some share in producing industrial disturbance. But it is a self-evident sact —a fact known of all men —that our great industries are in mortal dread of the free-trade Demociacy. And any sensible man who will read the speeches made by Mr. Randall and his associates against the Morrison biil will find the reasons tor this dread. It was those speeches, quite as much as anything else, that created alarm, for they were accepted as reluctant confessions of Democrats, while Republican speeches were credited to partisan zeal. “There is no danger of an#ft‘ee-trade legislation while the Republicans have a safe majority in the Senate. It is hoped that the conservatism of the President and his Secretary of the Treasury may have a tendency to restrain the zeal of the free-traders in Congress. Should this hope bo realized, the present business revival will last for some time.’' The New York World says: ‘‘The merchants of this city, and, in fact, business men throughout the country, are to be congratulated upon the substantial improvement in general trade, which has grown more and more apparent with the approach of the fall season. Only a short time ago this improvement was confined to one or two branches, but the change for the better now’ includes most of the leading industries of the country. Cotton and woolen good*, iron, groceries, etc, are all in better demand, and are bringing better prices than for a long time past. The American people seem to have at last thrown off the lethargy which has been the main characteristic of the commercial world since the reaction set in after the ‘boom’ of 1879-1881, and, having regained confidence, are preparing, with their proverbial energy, to build up American commerce and manufactures.” The Boston minds who projected a Grant memorial day had a moment of aberration, in which they forgot the traditions of the city long enough to name ex-Senator Conkling as first choice for orator of the day, with Henry Ward Beecher as second. They were brought to their senses speedily enough after their action was made known, by the wail of disgust which arose from loyal citizens because home talent was neglected. Now it is proposed to substitute native orators for the aliens proposed, and to withdraw the invitations to the latter. Some regrets are expressed over the consequent mortification to Conkling and Beecher, but these gentlemen will doubtless survive the slight. The New York Times, with great truth and rare candor, says: “In. the Democratic party the spirit of reform is only beginning to assert itself. In the Republican party we may count it fully established, partly by the severe lessons of adversity, but in the main because the well-grounded, honest convictions of the great mass of the party have asserted themselves, and have compelled the reluctant leaders to accept a pledge of fidelity to reform in the civil service as a conspicuous part of every declaration of party principles.” The Journal can have no possible controversy with the papers of Jeffersonville over the fitness of that place for the southern penitentiary. We merely published the naked fact that Warden Howard said Jeffersonville was not a fit place for the prison, without commending or indorsing the opinion. The quarrel of the Jeffersonville people and papers is with the warden, and not with the journals that have simply reproduced Colonel Howard’s remark. In London recently a wagon-load of young girls was hauled through the streets bearing a banner reading, “Shall the Innocents Be Slain?” This is absurd to a degree; but how much more ridiculous was the ambiguous Democratic motto of the sixties: “White Husbands or None!” The simple folk of London have almost as much to learn as the Republican party has taught American Democracy. The measure of appreciation which the poet Walt \\ hitman receives from his fellow countrymen may be judged from the fact that the annual royalty on the sale of his books paid him by his publisher, is precisely $44 12. English literary critics who claim to have first discovered

Whitmans genius are getting up a subscription for his benefit The poet writes, according to a cable special, that he will gratefully accept the proposed gift, which is certainly a sensible decision on his part, if the $44.12 is his only income. His lack of financial success is calculated to discourage other aspiring poets who interpret nature after too realistic, if not prosaic, methods. Carmel N. Y., has a postmistress-editor who succeeded to both these offices of honor and emolument after the death of her husband. Not only is she a competent official and satisfactory editor, but sho is likewise a widow to which any masculine shade might point with pride as a truly loyal relict Having been criticised by some Democratic citizens, she replies through her paper as follows: “Those whom our predecessor [meaning her husband, the late editor] had helped, and even put in office in times cone by. were the first to abuse his memory. But we raised his motto as our guiding star, and have conscientiously and carefully adhered to the right, and to-day our books are open to those who are interested to know that the widows' God has not forsaken us.” And then she goes on to say that she shall continue to keep the office in the building which had held it when her lamented “predecessor” and husband was alive, and, as a clincher, she points out that she is obliged to rent of a Republican landlord, inasmuch as no Democrat in the town owns a room suitable for the office. If ft Republican postmaster and editor must leave this world, as sometimes, unfortunately, happens, he may count himself favored of Providence in being so ably represented and defended after his departure. The poetry published by the Chicago Current of late has been of a gloomy sort. Some verses which appeared last week of a spasmodic sort containing exclamatory references to “cold, gray ashes,” “embers gone out,” “vain tears,’ “death,” “sighing breath," and closing with the asseition “Naught’s left us but to die,” were a sample of the rest. Could a premonition of the early death which has overtaken the little magazine have affected the contributors'? Attendants at the Harrisburg Insane Hospital, where Miss Addie Brinckle was confined nearly thirty years for extravagance, and for buying goods she could not pay for, are now asserting their belief that she was undoubtedly insaue because sho talked continuously about dress and fashions, and “put on airs” in the presence of gentlemen. If those peculiarities be signs of insanity how many lunatics are at large? The perennial land tortoise has turned up at Barnesville, 0., with the name and date, 1857, on his shell. The name was that of a soldier who was killed in the war, and his brother hishlv prizes this memento, despite the fact that no marks, however deep cut upon the shell of a living tortoise, remain for more than a few years. Joaquin Miller tells how he and Bret Harte stood at the tomb of Dickens. “His left hand sought mine in silence,” says Miller, in describing the momentous occasion; “his eyes filled with tears. We had never been friends before.” And the spectators wept because there are no base ball clubs stored in Westminster Abbey. Minneapolis boasts the possession of a policeman who not only does not driuk intoxicating liquors, but regards it as an iusult if anybody invites him to drink. That man would soon become immensely wealthy by joining a dime museum and exhibiting himself as “the only one of the kind on earth.” The brother of Budd Doble, the famous jockey, has applied for a divorce. Budd hmiself is divorced, the father of the two is separated from the mother, nr.d their only sister is living apart from her husband. It seems to run in the blood. This explains why the family name is not spelled with a “u.” Who says thirteen is not an unlucky number? That number of gamblers were playing poker in a Now York saloon, and they all lost. The police raided the place and arrested the whole gang. An Englishman has just written a three-vol-ume novel called, “What Is a Girl To Do?” If time is of any value to her she wili not read the novel.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Nine monuments to General Grant are at present projected in this country. The foundation of three-fourths of all eases of consumption is laid before the age of tvvonty-five years; in women, during their teens. Those who fear lest the humor has gone out of the Western frontier may bo reassured. A uowspaper just started in Kansas is named the Thomas County Oat. Mme. Patti was asked to appear in “II Barbiere" and ‘ La Traviata", at Munich, with King Louis of Bavaria constituting the entire audience, but she daily refused. Not many persons know that on the middle stem underneath a cotton leaf, is a small cell or cavity that contains a drop of blood, which cau be 6een by pressing between tho thumb nails. No one can possibly sink if the head is thrust entirely under water, and in this position a novice can swim as easily as walk, and get to shore readily by lifting the head at intervals for breath. Dubing eight centuries one’s direct ancestors would amount to 16,000,000, taking three generations to the century, though, ns a matter of course, the figures would bo immensely reduced by intermarriage. A MAN became bankrupt with liabilities of $20,000. and in the settlement of the estate, which yielded 78 per cent, to the creditors, the costs of the administration amounted to less than $3. This happened away off in Smaland, Sweden. Thk belles of Saratoga have a substitute for kissing, and it consists in rubbing cheeks. The maidens meet. The nose of one is slid back about to the ear of the other, and the conjunctive cheeks, held hard, are slowly rubbed together until they part at tho corners of the mouths. Among the most beautiful women at the Pequot House, New London, this summer, Mrs. George Ingraham, wife of Judge Ingraham, of New York, ranks foremost. Mrs. Ingraham is of that indescribable type having dark-brown hair, large gray eyes and brilliant color. JACOB Kkiitkb, of Bridgeport, Conn., has growing in the open air a quantity of fine ripe figs. He has a peculiar method of cultivation, which brings the figs along at an early date and in fine condition. He says it is easy enough to have fine figs in this climate and to have them early, also. A TOCBIST in New Mexico writes that he started back in horror on first seeing one of those black-eyed beauties whom he had heard described as characteristic of the native people. She was ginger colored, hard featured, barefooted, half naked and very untidy, and she proved to be a type, too. Now it is said that what is loft of the Washington family has turned up to be provided for at tho hauds of the administration. One Washington scion is to be appointed government storekeeper at an Alexandria distillery, and another one, who is more nearly related to the original George, is to have a consulate. POSCOK CONKLI ' Glsa man much sought by the interviewer, but be declines emphatically and promptly, and with all the frigidity at his command, to be interviewed. Yet he will talk with the utmost freedom and express his feelings in the fullest degree when he thinks they are not going to be reproduced

In print Two or three times he has been caught A peculiarity about Mr. Conkling is hi* liking for compl mentary thing# about himself in the newspaper*, lie is also, which few people know, very sensitive to criticism. 'Tis now that the schoolma'am begins to remember She's drawing quire near to the month of September, And having enjoyed herself through the vacation, Sho views its conclusion with much tribulation. Sho feds so much happier, healthier, stronger, She wishes the season would last a month linger. And the urchins, who sit on the wharf catching fishes, No doubt, when they think of it, echo hor wishes. Being informed that a man whom ho had discharged for drunkenness was the sole support of a wife and six children, a Lowell mill superintendent replied: “It happens that the man who takes the place has a wife and seven children. It should be borno in mind that every expulsion of a bummer makes a job for * decent worker.” The once Reverend W. H. H. Murray, now the proprietor of an oyster saloon in Montreal, recently ms da a formal speech of welcome in that place in which he rapturously declared: “I know of no purer name in American history, past or present, than that of W. P. Cody.” Buffalo Bill’s press agent must understand judicious distribution of free passes. Anew London enterprise advertises toemplov pensioners of the army and navy as window and house cleaners. Life in tho barracks and on shipboard is said to give men better ideas of neatness and housowork than are found among maid servants, so that housekeepers are always willing to employ the veterans. Windows are cleaned for four or five cents each and indoor work is paid for by the hour. It is the custom to have a clock in the parlor, but whether it is right seems to boa reasonable question. Some women, desirous of keeping their guests in complete ignorance of the fleeting hours, have a miniature timepiece concealed in a paper-weight or an album. In either case it is no larger than a watch, and a convex cover of frosted gold will conceal it if sot in the centre of the binding of ar. album, or on the back of * porte-monn&ie. An old theatrical manager says that the memory i# taxed more by a pantomimic role than by an oral one, and he instances Marie Zoe, who for years was th® leading French Spy of the American stage. The performance as the dumb girl was always a hard strain on hor. Tho pantomime, with its requisite nicety of movement and expression, was more exhaustive to her brain than tho heroines of Shakespeare to a tragedienne. Sho was compelled a few years ago to retire because her mind was affected, and now she baa been taken to an insane asylum. Her sliattered intellect knows no; Ling but the French Spy. and she it almost constantly going through with its scenes. The combat with the Arab is fought over and over, without weapon or antagonist; but with a zest and vim of pantomime that startles hor attendants, A PTTBnitfHEP portrait of Return Jonathan Meigs, jr., one of the early settlers of Ohio, leads to an old reminiscence in the Hartford Courant. HU father was a resident of Middletown, and his singular name originated thus: In the early history of Middletown, Mr. Jonathan Meigs asked a lady to become hU wife, fcdie refused him, and Meigs felt so badly that he left her house weeping. She, observing his grief, cried out to him when he was a few rods from her, “Return, Jonathan Meigs.” He went back, she accepted him, and they were married. He declared that the word* uttered by the young woman gave him more comfort than any other that he ever heard. Therefore, wish* ing to express his gratitude, he named his first child Return Jonathan Moigs. The son became PostmasterGeneral of the United States and Governor of Ohio. CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

Do President Cleveland and his chosen associate# in the administration of tho federal government mean to keep on earning their living only by “shooting little birds?” Do they mean to dodge their responsibilities to the country 7 as it3 representative magistrates, and to their party as its representative leaders, by 7 continued silence, or, worse still, by dickering with the “silver kings” for a compromise, when they well know that nothing short of the absolute repeal of the Bland act will meet the real necessities of the hour? Is the Democratic State convention of New York to follow the cowardly example set in Pennsylvania, Virginia, lowa and Ohio?—New York Herald. Wiiat good is it if the President means well under such conditions? Why should he be credited with doing well when he is only meaning well and doing badly? In administration thoro is nothing to judge from but the results. If it is civil-service reform that this administration is giving us, then civil-service reform is a glittering fr aud, an unmitigated swindle. But it is not civil-service reform. It is a now system of spoliation vastly more sweeping and unspeakably more corrupting tnan that which permitted members of Congress to dictate appointments, and held them responsible for them. Under the administration's method of reforming the civil service, only 7 a system of indeterminate sentences that will keep criminals honsod up will protect tho service from this class. —Milwaukee -Sentinel. Between 1870 and 1880 the white population of the United States increased fiv>m 53,502,245 to 43,402.070, or 20.20 per cent, and the colored population from 4.800.387 to 0,580,793, or 34.07 per cent. Yet the colored people gained nothing from immigration, while something like tbree millions were added to the white population from that source. The contemplation of these suggestive figures has caused the subject of what is to bo the future of the colored race hero to be discussed in anew light, and in a temper very different from that with which it used to be treated. Will the whites be swamped by the blacks, in certain parts of the Union os ecially, or must we look for amalgamation in the future? These are questions which are very seriously asked by men who have given careful study to the facts of the situation.— New York Sun. Sensible Southern Temperance Men. Philadelphia Record. The liquor dealers in Mississippi seem to bo in something of a funk over the Prohibition movement. Let them kindle the protecting fire of high license, with local option for the rural communities, and lose no time about it. The temperance men in the South are more inclined to take the common sense view of the subject than their brethren at the North, who have been flattered or harried into extremer positions by the politicians. A fair and practical arrangement of the matter is possible now, and it had better be entered into now. A Malicious Fabrication. Philadelphia Press. Commissioner Black’s latest charge against Miss Sweet, the pension agent At Chicago—that she has been carrying on her rolls as pensioner* 500 men who had no right to be there—turn* out to he little less than a malicious fabrication. It is a fabrication and the malice follows by presumption. If Black has any blood in hi* veins ho should blush for himself. Os Coarse Not. Milwaukee Sentinel. There will be no split in the Democratic party iuto reform and anti-reform factions. There i* nothing to be gained by an open fight ou th* President—he has the men who control th* offices at his back. A Warning Signal. Bt. Louis Republican. The case of Rev. Dr, Leonard, Prohibition candidate for Governor of Ohio, should be a sufficient warning to all conscientious Prohibition* ists against having the dyspepsia at camp* meetings. _ Labor Hurting Itself. Boston Advertiser. It is certainly to bo hoped that no strike will take nlace. The country is struggling toward* better times, and wants no set-back. Labor will hurt itself by embarrassing capital at this *oa> son. The Straight Old Democrat* Philadelphia Pres#. Things may yet come to such a pass that Me. Tilden will have to a letter reading Me Cleveland out of the Democratic party. Ther* is no other way to cipher the affair out. Dr. Leonard’s Alcoholic Cure. New York World. Gentlemen who are preserving themselve* from day to day by the liberal use of alcoholi* stimulants will see no argument in favor of prohibition in Dr. Leonard's case. In Recognition of Their Ally. Pittsburg Dispatch. The legend on Ohio saloon placards just now is, “Stock ale in quarts. Dry toast freo lunoh clay and night. 0