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THE DAILY JOURNAL BT JNO. C. NEW A 80 Tit, WASHINGTON OFFICE—SI3 Fourteenth St. P. S. Heath, Correspondent. FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1886. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. TEEMS INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE—POSTAGE PREPAID BY THE PUBLISHERS. THE DAILY JOURNAL. One year, by mail . $12.00 One year, by mail, including Sunday 14.00 Six months, by mail 6.00 €six months, by mail, including Sunday 7.00 Three months, by mail 3.00 Three mouths, by mail, including Sunday 3.50 One month, by mail 1.00 One month, by mail, ineluding Sunday 1.20 Per week, by carrier (in Indianapolis) 25 THE SUNDAY JOURNAL. Pfer copy 5 cents One year, by mail $2.00 THE INDIANA STATE JOURNAL. (WEEKLY EDITION.) ©• year SI.OO laws than one year and over three months, 100 per month. No subscription taken for less than three , months. In clnbs of five or over, agents will take yearly subscriptions at sl, and retain 10 per cent, for their work. Address JNO. C. NEW & SON, Publishers The Journal, Indianapolis, IncL THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. On be found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. •BARlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. <KEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. -CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. R. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine street. JjOUTSVILLE—C. T. Dearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. fiTT. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 242 — - — Seventy-five business firms iu New York eity have addressed a letter to Senator Evarts, asking him to exercise his influence to have the compulsory coinage of silver stopped. Charles Johnson, a Louisville saloonkeeper, retires from the business to engage in cattle-raising in Arizona. He claims to have cleared $30,000 in three years. A high tax would fit this profitable business to perfection. The last election showed 71,570 Republicans and 15,124 Democrats in Dakota. In Utah there were but 2,215 Republican to 21,120 Democratic votes cast. Probably the Democratic party would like to offset Dakota with Utah. The Cincinnati Democrats are doubly afflicted. They have not only to bear the sting of defeat, but must also submit to the sneers and abuse of brethren in other States who think the election frauds might have been more successfully managed.

The Law and Order League is making fair toward closing the theaters of Cincinnati on Sunday. There is a deal of wickedness to be credited to the lower order of iuch places in that city, and the only way to get rid of them is to close all alike. The movement should succeed. The Brooklyn Union remarks, seriously, and with the appearance of sanity, that it is much to Mr. Cleveland’s credit that he has succeeded in less than a year in banishing office-seekers from the capital. The Union evidently has sources of information which are not open to the remainder of the press or to the general public. A daughter of ex-Mayor Bowman, assassinated at East St. Louis, although a nun and in a convent, has brought suit against her brother for failing to produce the will of their father. The query is, how can one “dead to the world” take interest in secular affairs, and especially so gross a matter as worldly pelf? Will she be recognized in law? The murder of a French prefect of police in a railway carriage, the attempted murder of another official under like circumstances, and the assassination of a rich Italian farmer in the same way, suggests again that such crimes could not be perpetrated in cars built after the American fashion. A good many crimes are chargeable to compartment carriages. Statesmen who resolve themselves into committees and delegations whose ostensible object is to go about the country “inspecting” things or “investigating” something for some purpose or other, will look with favor upon Boston as a stopping point in their expeditions. The Boston city government has just< appropriated $5,000 for “civic courtesies” during the year. Speaking on the proposition to investigate the chafges of bribery made by Mr. Donavin, the St. Louis Republican says: “The only point at issue, we believe, is whether the Legislature cau sustain charges faster than Senator Payne can ignore them.” In the way of “ignoring” ugly issues Senator Payne is a pronounced success. The credit in success is problematical. TnE cause of prohibition has gained another victory before the United States Court. The case was of a saloon-keeper who had been enjoined by one of the Kansas courts from maintaining a nuisance. The case was removed to the United States Court, after having been decided against him in all the State courts. The ground of the removal was that, being a citizen of a State, he was made by the Constitution a citizen of the United States, and the Constitution said: “No State shall make or enforce any law whioh shall abridge the privileges or immunities of eitisens of the United States, or deprive any person of life,

j liberty or property without due process of law.” Judge Brewer, of the United States Court* refused the application for removal, and took occasion to say that “the right of a State to prohibit absolutely the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors is not to be disputed, and this power carries with it everything that is incident.” The Prohibitionists score this as another victory. THE PRESIDENT AND THE SENATE. This is a government of co-ordinate branches, and to talk of the “absolute and necessary independence” of the executive department is to talk nonsense, and possibly dangerous nonsense, for it may beget an utterly wrong idea in the public mind of the constitutional and proper relation of the several departments of the government. There seems just now to be a little cloud on the horizon between the President and the Senate, and we are treated daily to learned disquisitions upon the “independence” or the “encroachments” of the one or the other. In view of a possible disagreement it will be well to understand the limitations of the executive branch of the government, and to understand, if one may, the province of the legislative department, and especially of the Senate branch of Congress. In the first place, it will readily reour to any one that there is no “absolute and thorough independence” of either department of the government. Congress cannot make an effective law without the signature of the President, or, if he does not approve it, without the concurrence of twothirds of both branches. At the very outset the “absolute” power of Congress is decidedly curtailed, and the President is given a very decided legislative function and power. Here there is interdependence between the two branches of the most pronounced typo. More than this: the President, by consitutional provision, is not only empowered but commanded to give to Congress, from time to time, information and suggestions touching legislation; so that, as closely as possible, the President, who is to execute the laws, is brought in to direct and interdependent relation with the Congress which is to enact the laws. Very closely are the President and the Senate brought together. No treaty can be made, no foreign minister, and no officer of any high grade or authority, can be appointed except “with the advice and consent of the Senate.” If the President should be guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors he is subject to impeachment by the House of Representatives, and to removal by the Senate, by a two-thirds vote. These limitations should be borne in mind when the question is to be debated whether the one branch or the other is improperly and unconstitutionally interfering with the legitimate exercise of the special functions of each.

The present trouble is that the Senate, which is charged with the duty of advising and consenting to an appointment, may desire to know the “causes” wherefore an officer has been removed, necessitating the advising and consenting to another appointment. It is at once asserted, with great vehemence, that the attempt to discover these causes is an infringement of the executive prerogative, and the President is reported to have said to one senator that he will give any proper information as to the fitness and capacity of the new appointee, but not a word shall the Senate know as to the “causes” which have compelled the removal or suspension of an officer. The assertion is made that the President’s power of removal is absolute, and all that the Senate can rightfully ask is information necessary to intelligent advice and consent touching an appointment. Now this may or may not be true, in accordance with the scope given the statement by the one who uses it. It is possibly true that the Senate may have no just right to know the reasons that have influenced the mind of the President in making a removal; and yet when it is considered that the removed officer was in his place by a joint tenure—the nomination of the President and the confirmation of the Senate—we are not so clear that one party to the appointment may arbitrarily remove him without consulting with the co-ordinate power which placed him in his office. We are not so clear that the law which gives the President the power to suspend or remove an officer thus appointed for “cause,” and compels him to report the cause to the Senate, is not in close and exact conformity with the spirit and purpose of the Constitution. There are two co-ordinate trustees of the civil service, and to say that, after the two conjointly have placed an officer in charge of a trust., one of them can, at any time, kick him out without even so much as communicating to the other the reasons which impelled him to that act, would seem to be a stretch of autocratic power the justice and righteousness of which may not be conceded without question. But in the pending case the question does not assume this shape necessarily. The President sends to the Senate a long list of nominations of men to succeed officers who are suspended or removed for “cause.” Without asking or requiring the President to communicate to them the processes whereby he reached the conclusion that these officers should be displaced, it is certainly within the proper province of the Senate to ask that all papers pertaining to the discharge of the duties of his office by any officer whose appointment thoy had advised and consented to shall be laid before them. More than this: it is oertainly within the province of the Senate to call for all papers and information touching the public service which may be in the possession of the departments, and it would be a novel and unwarranted exercise of power if any department* or the President himself,

should defy authority which has been exercised without question by both houses of Congress since the foundation of the government. It cannot matter what the motive in asking this may be. It may be simply that of making party capital, or it may be for the conservation of the highest public interests. The body asking it is the sole judge of that, so far as it is concerned, and the public will, or may, judge of the matter in harmony with individual political bias. We may think the Potter inquiry merely one for party buncombe; or the Warner inquiry into the conduct of the Pension Office; but our opinion does not militate against the right, of either the Senate or the House to call for all papers and documents on file with any department of the government touching the conduct of the public business. On the question of the justice and propriety of the demand for the papers which mako “charges” against men believed to be entirely innocent of wrong, the Republicans are quite willing to go to the country. Men honored for years, of unquestioned integrity and capacity—men who have been scarred in the military service of the government—have been stricken down in the dark on “charges” the nature of which they do not know, and which the executive department has declined to allow them to know. Men like old General Milroy, Gen. John Coburn, Gen. T. J. Lucas, of Lawreaoeburg, and others of Indiana, have been the victims of this infamous and scandalous system; and now it is asserted that the Senate of the United States has no right to call for papers on file in a public department touching the public conduct of a public officer; and this assertion is made for the protection of the secrets of star-ohamber proceedings which the administration has inaugurated, and which it is ashamed to allow to be brought to the light of day. The Republican Senators can well afford to go to the country on that issue. Having disposed of the senatorial matter, the Ohio Legislature is settling down to the regular business of the session, a part of which is, of course, a consideration of the temperance problem. One member, at least, does not contemplate any compromise with the spirituous enemy, or any half-way measures toward circumventing his wile3. A provision of the bill which this member will introduce reads as follows: “Every man who desires to become an habitual drinker must go before a probate judge and obtain a permit, on payment of fifty cents, which will entitle him to purchase whisky at saloons. The bill makes it a punishable offense for a saloon-keeper to sell liquor to a person not holding such permit.” The consternation of the “sly drinker” over the enactment of such a law can but dimly be imagined. To procure a permit, a record of which must be open to the inspection of every one who chooses to examine the books of the court, will be to court the publicity whioh he has shunned, and will advertise his cherished weakness to family and friends, from whom he fondly believes that he has concealed it. It is to be feared, also, that the securing of a permit to indulge in his usual habits would injure the standing of many a pious brother who now poses in religious and temperance organizations—such things are known—as one without guile. We venture the prediction that so much influence will be brought to bear upon the Ohio legislators that the measure, however strongly their own inclinations may favor it, will not become a law.

Jesse James baa found a champion of his fair fame in quite an unexpected and exalted quarter. To the petition made in behalf of ex-Governor Crittenden, of Missouri, for a foreign appointment, the President is represented as replying that by no means could he ever consider the name of Governor Crittenden in connection with any appointment which he had to make, alleging as a reason the fact that in the East it was the general impression that Crittenden had conspired with the Ford boys to assassinate Jesse James, and that any recognition of the ex-Governor would be exceedingly unpopular. The Journal at the time lamented the death of this brilliant Democrat; but it does seem that enough time has elapsed to allow Missouri to lay off the habiliments of mourning. Probably if Frank James were to ask an appointment of the kind he would receive recognition, as a partial atonement for the injuries and injustice he has so nobly and so patiently submitted to. Verily, Democratic ideas of reform are peculiar. The New York committee on the Grant monument fund protest that all is working harmoniously so far as the committee is concerned, and that there is no ill-feeling or misunderstanding between the members. They say they are waiting only until a bill can be passed by the Legislature incorporating the committee, when the work of raising the fund will be vigorously prosecuted. The Legislature should afford the needed aid as soon as possible. “Both parties are pledged to civil-service reform," sagely says a contemporary, “and the only questions relate to the manner of execution. At this point the statesmen disagree." This is perhaps not very far wrong. The Republicans believe in the'execution of the Democrats, and the Democrats believe in the execution of the Republicans.—Louisville Courier-J ournal. Republicans accept your plea of guilty, but reserve the right to speak for themselves. The son of Henry Ward Beecher, recognized by the administration because of the services of his mugwump father in the last campaign, finds the paths of official life very pleasant As collector of customs in Washington Territory he has seised fourteen bar-

rels of opium, which was being smuggled into this country. His share of the find will net him $25,000, so it is said. His salary is SI,OOO, “with fees and commissions." The latter seem to be the principal item in this case. The cheß3 contest having brought out the statement that chess-playing tends to stimulate and conserve the mental powers, it was to be expected that the game would achieve great popularity in would-be intellectual circles. That the “boom” has already begun is shown by the announcement that Miss Maud Gardner, a chess enthusiast, will give morning lessons in the fascinating and mind-strength-ening pursuit to such persons as wish to avail themselves of this means of improvement. Miss Gardner—need it be addpd?—resides in Boston. The social wickedness of the French capital, with its once famous but now defunct Jardin Mabille, its Bal Bullier, or Students’Ball, its cases ch&ntants, and its thousand and one places of questionable repute devoted to gayety and crime, has been a perennial theme for strait-laced Americans to moralize upon. Such of our fel-low-countrymen as had visited that gay city have come back to us with fabulous tales of what they witnessed, and, of coarse, deprecated, and only visited to see how wicked the wicked could be. But a page from the Yorkville (New York city) court record, the day after the alleged French ball there, reads very much as though there was some of the real bad social wickedness west of the Atlantic. The police had to interfere when the “fun” crew too boisterous and the ''girls’ l began to kick off the hats of the men, just as they are said to have done in the Mabille of former days, and as they still do at the Students’ Ball there. After giving the names and residence of the several prisoners, the account says: “The prisoners were dressed in fancy costumes, and presented a novel sight among the dirt-begrimed vagrants on each side of them. One of the young women wore a long pair of hand-painted kid gloves, a blue silk train dress which she held under one arm, and long pointed shoes with enormous high heels. Another had a bright-red camel’s-hair cloak about her shoulders, and exceedingly brief ballett-dress and checkerboard stockings, with low slippers. Still another was dressed in the style of the Elizabethan age, with a high-frilled lace collar, a very low-necked and short-sleeved dress and powdered hair. “Mabel Rice, the first prisoner examined, was dressed in green silk tights, in the costume of a page. Around her neck and arms and on her fingers blazed diamonds of all sizes aud settings. She was still under the influence of champagne, and smiled wearily at the court officers about her. “Justice White cast his eye over the extraordinary array of diamonds and silks before him, and finally, catching the smile upon the face of the page, said: “ ‘What does all this mean?* “ ‘French ball, your Honor.’ “ ‘What were you doing that made the officer arrest you?’ “ ‘A little fun, your Honor.’ “ ‘Yes, I know. But what were you doing?’ “ ‘Well, Gertie put a chalk-mark on the wall and said we couldn’t reach up to it with our feet. Then we kept putting it up higher. We stood back to the crowd, and weren’t doing anything when we were taken in.’ “ ‘You had been drinking, too, hadn’t you? 1 “ ‘Of coarse, we had some champagne.’ “ ‘And you were 'kicking hats,’ too, weren’t you?' “ ‘No—we—were—not.’ “ ‘Well, I will fine you $lO for intoxication, because the chamoagne is still in your head. I don’t know that there is any law against kicking a chalk-lina The others may go.’ “Mabel tripped eayly down into the cell and remarked that it was a shame for a poor girl with $7,000 worth of diamonds to be held in jail because she could not pay a fine of $lO. A messenger was sent off, and in about an hour a young man with a high silk hat and a gold cane arrived, paid the fine and took the green page away in his carriage.” All this in America, and so flippantly told in the daily press that the suggestion follows that it is by no means wickeder than incidents of frequent occurrence there. Americans probably could not learn much in Paris.

New Yoke doctors have played it on a guileless colored man who was afflicted with cancer of the tongue. He consented to an operation, but under the impression that only a portion of that organ was to be excised. When he came out from under the influence of the anesthetic he discovered that it was all gone. He talks with great difficulty, and when he asked if he would ever talk well, he was told that he would “do.” But the saddest feature of it is that the heroic measure, thorough as it was, does not insure a complete recovery. The chances are that the disease will resume its ravages, and, finally, end his existence. A colored man stands no chance at all among surgeons. Phil Cox, of Yazoo City, Miss., is an alleged gambler and sporting man, but at the same time has proved himself one of the most ingenuous and confiding men of his time. He was in attendance upon the exposition races at New Orleans, and made himself conspicuous by wearing a one-thousand-dollar silver certificate pinned to his coat, and having a big dog trotting at his heels. He kept this up for a week, until the boys got tired of it. When the committee that took him in charge adjourned, after an executive session, he was minus the certificate, SSOO in bills, two diamond pins and a gold watch, valued at S4OO. But he still has the dog—and that's something. Professor Young, of Princeton, says the moon has no influence on the weather. Perhaps not; but this statement does not suffice to clear the moon's character. A Texas man notes the suspicious fact that each and all of the series of 'horrible murders which have been committed in that State during the past year occurred at the “full of the moon:” and he is convinced that the pale orb had something to do with the crimes. The ambition of diamond owners has at last been realized in the invention of a plan whereby the precious gems may be made to sparkle continually. A New York woman has her diamond pin arranged with clock work at the back, which produces a constant scintillation of the stones even when the wearer sits perfectly still. Could any woman ask for greater bliss than this! Bishop Stkvbns, of the Protestant Episcopal Church, is quite sick at his home in Philadelphia. He is in years the oldest member of the episcopacy, though not in service. Dr. Stevens is in his eighty-third year, and is a man of remarkablo vigor. Dropsical symptoms have set in. If the Indiana bee-keepers attempt to play the “Fessler” game upon the innocent honey-makers, a society for the prevention of cruelty to insects should come to the rescue. Te 8b Louis Republican ventures the opinion that “chess is not war.” Let the Republican slur the “tournamong’ and see if war doesn’t ensue. Ah adventurer fooled the good citizens of Lex* ington, Ky., by representing himself as a capitalist from the boundless West. He was at last

exposed, having foolishly adopted the title “Major.” The man who does not want to attract attention in Kentucky must be a “Colonel,” like the rest of them. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. The aged grandfather of the Rev. Sam Jones, the revivalist, is dying in Gainesville, Ga., from the effects of a fall on the ica M. Taine has fortunately finished the final volume of his “French Revolution,” for his health is so poor that his physician has ordered Taine to abstain from literary labor. The famous portrait of Goethe, by Heinrich Kolbe, which was recently discovered after it had been lost for half a century, is about to be placed in the National Museum at Berlin. A manuscript epitaph in the possession of an Italian reads: “Here lies Salvino Armota d'Armati of Florence, the inventor of spectacles. May God pardon his sins. The year 1318.” Professor Huxley has written for the February number of the Nineteenth Century a rejoinder to Mr. Gladstone’s January article on the order of creation as described in Genesis. An experienced vocalist has, it is said, during fourteen years cured any number of cases of obstinate cough by prescribing the free use of raw oysters as a diet The remedy is easily tried. Mr. Ruskin recently said, in a lecture on “Art,” “I do not speak of the Celtic race because I should now be expected to say Keltic: and I don’t mean to, if only for fear that I should next he required to say St Kokelia.” The most valuable postage stamp known to collectors is Baid to be one issued by the postmaster of Brattleboro, Yt,in 1847, which was suppressed after a few weeks. A specimen is now worth six or eight hundred dollars. “You should visit the Supreme Court to-mor-row,” Justice Bradley is credited with having said once, “for there will be some interesting arguments made. Mr. Sidney Bartlett, of Boston, is on one side, and Mr. Roscoe Conkling is on the other: and one of them is a great lawyer.” The right of women to vote in munioipal elections is already conceded in Ontario and British Columbia, and it has been contemplated to extend it to provincial and even Dominion elections. That right is now petitioned for by sixteen ladies of prominence in Portland City, N. B. The health of ex-President Arthur has caused some anxiety during the last few weeks. He has been under treatment for severe indigestion and his diet has been restricted to the simplest articles of food, principally milk and pepsin. He has suffered much from insomnia and the attendant nervous excitement and depression. Prince Frederick Leopold of Prussia, who, it is likely, will marry the eldest daughter and fourth child of the Prince and Princess of Wales, is the fourth son of the famous “Red Prince,’ Frederick Karl, and is a grandnephew of the Emperor William. He is now in his twentysecond year, while Victoria Alexandra of Wales is in her twentieth year. Mary Anderson has not quite made up her mind what she will do next season. Her ambition prompts her to attempt a professional tour of Germany, and she has many reasons for believing that she would succeed. On the other hand she finds her present American tour so fatiguing that a full year’s rest is the most pleas ing prospect which the future holds out to her. Parisian dandies have anew title—“becarre.” This new creature of fashion must be grave and sedate, after the English model, with short hair, tight high collar, small mustache and whiskers, but no beard. He must always look thirty years of ago, must neither dance nor affect the frivolity of a boutonniere or any jewelry, must shake hands limply with gentlewomen and gravely bend his head to gentlemen. Signor Martini, one of the largest owners of house property in the city of Genoa, had a feeling of gratitude to his tenants, who, by their regularity of payment, had enabled him to spend his declining years in comfort. When his will was opened it was discovered that the old gentleman had instructed his executors that all his tenants, rich and poor, male and female, were to reside, rent free, in the houses then occupied by them, if they desired to do so, as long as they lived. Lady Millais, wife of the English artist, Sir John Millais, was formerly the wife of John Ruskin, from whom a divorce was procured. A London correspondent says that “besides being a clever, a thrifty, and yet a handsome woman, she is full of Scottish pride. She soars. She has a mind above buttons, Earls, countesses, lords, ladies, judges, generals, baronets, bishops, she deigns to consort with, but not mare painters and sculptors, even if they have R. A. tagged to their names.

Ex-Queen Isabella knows as little about politics as about the value of money. It is said that when, once in the days of her power, she ordered one of her Miuisters to send a poor professor $4,000 from her nearly exhausted treasury, the Miuister determined to administer a muchneeded lesson, and heaped the money in small silver coins upon a table by which the Queen would be sure to pass. She ’ stopped, surprised, and asked what all the money was for. “It is the money for the professor,” said the Minister. The Queen understood the situation and smiled, but sent the money all the same. Once, when one of her advisers was trying to impress on her that times were changing and new political ideas gaining ground, she exclaimed, impatiently: “Well! Don’t I know it? Os course the times change. You never see me driving out now with my white mulea” The agent of a New Mexico ranchman paid his semi-annual visit to a distant grazing ground only to find the sheep-herder dead, and the sheep quietly feeding in a fertile canon near by, jealously guarded by his dog. In the rear of the corral, into which the sheep were driven every night, lay the bleaching skeletons of a dozen or more sheep. Astonished at the sagacity of the dog, the ranchman secreted himself and waited until night As the sun began to sink the sheep came trooping in, with the dog in the rear. They crowded into the corral through a narrow opening, and, as the last one pushed forward, the dog seized and killed him, aud dragged the lifeless body to the rear of the coral, where he made a comfortable supper off a portion of the carcass, leaving the balance for future meals. He had been doing this ever since the death of his master, and would probably have continued his guardianship over the flock until he died. A correspondent writes from Mandalay just after the deposition of Thebaw: “Next morning I obtained admission to the palace, and for several hours wended my way through the endless succession of buildings. It is impossible to attempt hero any detailed description of the mingled magnificence and squalor, filth and splendor which I witnessed. * * * I found myself in the Lord White Elephant’s house. He had been left without food or water. The magnificent silver vessels which held his food had been lying about unprotected. The royal monster seemed in a very bad temper (no wonder). He was chained by the fore feet to massive pillars. Unless you that he was white you would not perceive it In the dusky light he seemed much like any other elephant. On closer examination he seemed of light mouse color, with large white blotches.” The same correspondent describes a most disgraceful scene of plunder. The crown jewels narrowly escaped. The otherday a royal carriage, containing an elderly gentleman and three ladioa, who intimated that they had come to look over the establishment, drove up to the Telegraph newspaper office, iu London. The hour was early and none of the chiefs were about It was the period of the twenty-four hours when a newspaper enjoys as much repose as is permitted it The person in charge rose to the occasion. Not knowiug his guests, but realizing that they were persons of the highest rank, be conducted them into the editorial rooms while arrangements were made for showing them the wonderfnl machinery and appliances which are the pnde of this particular establishment In doe course the visitors were conducted over the different departments and derenliaily instructed as to ths meauingof the various objects end arrangements. Finally

came the supreme moment when the visitors? book was to be signed, and curiosity was to be satisfied whether the visitors were a royal dake and three princesses, or three princesses and a lord in waiting. Discretion draws a veil over the denouement They were a roval flunky and three maids, Charles Bradlauoh’s administering of the parliamentary oath to himself recently was commented upon adversely and as if it were a new departure. Mr. Bradlaugh has sworn himself in once or twice before, and voted, too, though his vote was not recorded. He has been tried and fined heavily for snch voting, and now has an appeal resting before the law lords in the House of Peers. Mr. Bradlaugh long since declared that the obligation involved in the oath was binding upon his conscience, but that the Christian form of declaration used has to him no meaning. His position is the same as that held by John Bright; who, as a Quaker, affirms upon his personal responsibility. watching the snow falling. When seated alone at my window, Watching the snow come down, Throwing its fleecy mantle Over the busy town; Watching the snowflakes whirling Round chimney-pots and spires, Circling, eddying, whirling, ” ith an eye that never tires, And filled with noetic fancies That the soulful scene Inspiresf How.it doth make my bosom * With angry feelings glow, To hear my wife shout, “Hi! come down, And shovel off the snow!" —Boston Courior. COMMENT AND OPINION. The best fighting ground of the Republican party in 1886 is in Tennessee.—National Republican. Four years of a Democratic administration will wear out the reputations, among Democrats, of a great many Democratic statesmen.—Boston Record. There has been too much cant of civril-service reform and too little of the real thing. Whatever embarrassment belongs to the present situation is largely of President Cleveland’s own making.—Philadelphia Record. The Mexican silver dollar contains more silver than ours, and yet it will only pass in thin country for 75 cents. Why don’t “the friends of silver”adopt measures for the protection of these maltreated strangers.—Milwaukee Sentinel. W ith the assistance of the Czar, who might consent to look upon the cessioa of Eastern Roumelia to his protege as a payment on account for his own services, the Porte would be able to defy the Austrian machinations and escape for the present a fresh curtailment of its possessions.—New York Sun. Our system of government — now the oldest unchanged government in Christendom—must furnish alike the ideals and the practical hints which are to help England to discover some way of living peaceably with the Irish, and to help the Irish io learn the real meaning of “horns rule.”—New York Mail and Express. Senator Payne says Donavio, the man who accuses him of buying his seat in the Senate, is a “cur” aud a “drunkard," and that he shall take no notice of his charges. This “cur” and “drunkcrd” appears to have been considered * good eno lgh man to ran a Democratic organ iu Columbus, and to be assistant Sergeaut-at-arms of a Democratic House.—Portland Press. No change in existing silver laws will b 6 mads during this session. To this there is but one possible exception. If Secretary Manning takes the advice of the Sun and makes his next bond call payable in silver dollars then tbere will be a howl throughout the length and breadth of the land whieh will lead to a speedy adiustment of the impending financial troubles.—Cincinnati Sun.

The work of the South must be done by this class of laborers [neeroes], or it will not be done at all. They can be retained by treating them as white men are treated under like circumstances in the North; and nothing short of that will prevent their constant drifting away to localities which offer them better chances to earn homes and to enjoy ordinary rights and privileges.—St Louis Globe-Democrat An experienced and powerful political leader in President Cleveland’s place—a role which he apparently has no ambition to undertake—would have a party at his back in C ingress, without regard to what name its members had heretofore called themselves by. With such leadership lacking, there is apparently nothing to do but watch the drift of things toward a reformation of parties. —Boston Herald. Tee national peril threatened by the electoral count experience of 1876-77 was even graver than that threatened by the defective succession law. The country would not again submit to the means by which Mr. Hayes was counted in, nor would it pass again so quietly through such a crisis. It is the part of statesmanship and patriotism to guard against this danger. The electoral-count bill should be passed without delay.—New York Herald. We can secure all possible advantage from the use of silver by fixing a limit to the coinage of standard dollars, or by limiting the amount for which, when coined, they shall be a legal tender. and leaving the amount of coinage to be determined by the wants of commerce. In either case the result would be greatly promoted by withdrawing the smaller notes up to and including the five-dollar notes and substituting foe them silver dollars, or fractional coin, or Bilvex certificates of minor denominations.—Now York Times. So long as there is a chance that the United States may come to use silver alone, England and Germany will persist in trying to force upon this country an inferior kind of money, of which they can control the value. But when the United States refuses, those nations will be compelled tc join with us in measures for the better übb of siver. This is the opinion of the wisest and most earnest friends of silver on both sides of the ocean, and it is a matter of regret that the people of the West and South do not make the same opinion known to their representatives. —New York Tribune. Rev. T. Dk Witt Talmage’s advice to women About to marry is almost as prohibitory as Punch's famous “Don’t” He says to first pray fervently, and then look oat for a man who has reformed, who does not go to the club, who is not selfish, who does not advertise for a wife, who is a Christian, who does not go to the opera or into the gay world, but spends the hot summer months toiling in his office. Where the perplexed woman will find just such an animated mummy it is difficult to imagine. Mr. Taltnage is not such a one himself, but he might open an intelligence office for old maids.—New York Star. In a good many things Prince Bismarck is behind the age. and one of these is oversensitiveness to newspaper attacks. There is nothing so foolish in a public man as to be always worrying about what newspapers say of him. No man is hurt by newspaper attacks unless they are founded on fact, and then it is the fact and not the attack which hurts. Mere newspaper abuse, not grounded on substantial truth, does no one any harm. Indeed, when it appears in a partisan journal, and is aimed at a member of the opposite party, it is much more likely to help the person abused than to injure him. It is newspaper neglect which public men have chiefly to fear.—San Francisco Chronicle. Mobocracy Denounced. Bloomington Republican Progress. A wild, passionate, unreasoning mob of men have hung the Solsberry murderer. The life of the miserable wretch is a small matter; but good order, law, justice and peace are matters of consequence. Mob law i3 anarchy. It is the absence of all law. It is the assassination of organized society. Its spirit is not that which loves peace, which seeks security, which executes justice, which would prevent and punish crime, which 'cspects law, which loves righteousness and halos Iniquity. It is the opposite of all these. The human passions—rage, hate and revenge, which have no part in God’s government and should have none in man’#—are the motive power of the mob. Men talk of thus preventing a repetition of such a horrible crime. But sad for their theory, it is true of ail times and places that murders and high crimes prevail in direofc proportion as mob law runs riot And so southern Indisna continues to disgrace the State, and advertises itself as a dark region whieh needs, first of all, the spelling-book and the New Testament These agencies, which have worked wonder* for good under worse conditions, are af work here. The world movea. Let us hope that; as it goes toward a better civilization, souther* Indiana may net fall out of the profitision, zor lag so far in the roar.