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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW ft soy. WASHINGTON OFFICE-513 Fourteenth St. P. S. Heath, Correspondent. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1886. KATES 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 S4x months, by mail 6.00 Six months, by mail, including Sunday 7.00 Three months, by mail 3.00 Three months, by mail, including Sunday 3.50 One month, by mail 1.00 One month, by mail, ineluding Sunday 1.20 Per week, by carrier (m Indianapolis) 25 THE SUNDAY JOURNAL. copy 5 cents ©n&TeaE. by mail $2.00 THE INDIANA STATE JOURNAL (WEEKLY EDITION.) One year SI.OO Lees tban one year and over three months, 10c 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, Ind. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. C;w* h* found at the following places: liOlOON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard * des Capucinea. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. R. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine strelt. LOUISVILLE—O. T. Dearing, northwest corner Third and JeiTerson streets. ST. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Riggs House and Ebbitt ■' House. Telephone Calls. Business Office 23S | Editorial Rooms 242 Telegraph it to the boys. The wicked Brennan did it. Men of convictions —Democratic officeholders. !... Like Mr. Cleveland, Mr. Bynum pleads the baby act. __________________ The firo record for the new year is growing to fearful dimensions. How do tho Democrats like the cry of '‘Turn the rascals out?” The English “government” is again wiggling. The Old Man is safest, after all. CONROY was a good enough Democrat to be salaried to work for the party. He ought to be good enough to hold office.

Not all the Queen’s flummery nor all the Queen’s men helped the Marquis of Salisbury. He will have to go. The Ohio senatorial squabble will be settled shortly. Both sides show signs of weakening; and both sides need to weaken. The Indianapolis postoffico dodges some responsibility for delays by occasionally failing to stamp the letters with tho receiving date. Postal matters are reaching a pretty low state of efficiency when business men feel obliged to send letters by express. It was not always thus. The graduates of Indiana penitentiaries having fallen into temporary disrepute, it is probable that the Reform administration will have to draw on Joliet or Columbus. General Sheridan wants the Signal Service transferred to one of the civil departments of the government. He thinks it has no business in tho army. The General is wise. ANOTHER cold wave coming. The day is not far distant, if this thing be kept up in an alleged open winter, when the great American Republic will crawl under the barn, way back. According to the Sentinel, “thieves, highwaymen, bribers and dead-beats” have been the sort of men appointed to office by the “Reform” administration. “Turn the rascals out.” Postmaster-general Vilas is considering the policy of providing a peculiar uniform for his new appointees, to be made of course materials with horizontal stripes, alternating white and black, with ball and chain jewelry. When it comes to giving pedigrees the Democratic State officials can be depended on. They had known Bernard Conroy as an honest, hard-working citizen for years and years. He was the man of a thousand for official recognition. A New business. A young Democrat proposes to start anew business. It is that of “Abstractor of Crimes Record.” He intends to furnish abstracts of the criminal records, with certificates, to Democratic office-seekers. He expects to do a rushing business. The advisability of electing women for school directors is a subject that comes up for discussion in large towns and cities every cye&r, and sometimes the arguments in favor of the innovation are used with such effect that a woman is put upon the ticket and elected. The result of such election sometimes differs seriously from the predictions of enthusiastic advocates of the movement. Two Women are now members of the Philadelphia school board, and instead of antagonizing the maid members by demanding impossible reforms and by upsetting their plans and schemes, they are regarded by the latter as agreeable acquisitions to tho body, and are said to exert a salutary and refining influence

on its deliberations. On the other hand, they are not received with open arms by the teachers, who, it was thought, would fly to them with difficulties and grievances, which they were restrained by timidity from disclosing to members of the other sex. Instead of this, the teachers pronounce the female directors meddlesome and fussy, and vehemently declare that they would a thousand times prefer to be “bossed” by a man. The dissatisfied teachers will probably adjust themselves to the new condition of things in time, and discover that it is beneficial, but the opposition from this unexpected quarter shows that the troubles of women are not all ended, even when they attain to the dignity of holding public office.

THE CAUSE OF IRELAHD. The friends of Ireland often do her the greatest harm by championing the cause of Irish political liberty in an offensive or impudent manner. This is true not only of the cowardly dynamiters, who live by keeping up a show of agitation and warfare too dastardly for any honorable man to countenance, but is true in no less degree of others of respectable character. Assassinations and explosions have been resorted to in vain, for, if anything, they only served to postpone the day of deliverance. Boycotting and agrarian outrages in general have done little if any more toward the accomplishment of the object sought. These “remedies” have come under the heartiest condemnation everywhere. They aro the work of imprudent men, such as in America lose their heads when a crime is committed and proceed to “even up” by supplementing it with another only less brutal. These things are to be expected; but they are not corrective because they are not manly and do not command respect, but rather provoke the feeling that the first reform work to be done should be the apprehension and punishment of such miscreants, more fit for the prison than for self-government. We will not be misunderstood in this. The Irish people have suffered monstrous injustice for years, and deserve speedy and adequate recognition of their rights as men and as subjects of Great Britain. But, for the comparatively few brutal and bloodthirsty fellows who have brought that people into disrepute as irreconeilables and chronic malcontents, there should be neither sympathy nor mercy. In a cause as momentous as the one at issue, anybody who casts discredit upon it is the enemy of the people. These things, however, are to be expected, and among enlightened men in no wise detract from the real merits of the cause. But there are other offenders against Ireland’s interests from whom better things might be expected, and the last to be placed in this category is the Moniteur de Rome, the official organ of the Vatican, through which the opinions of the Pope are spoken. When the Moniteur takes exception to the Queen’s speech to Parliament, and is impolitic enough to express the hope that the time will come “when the world shall see Protestantism entirely extirpated from Ireland, and Catholicism universally recognized,” it renders sorry service to the cause of Irish political freedom. Policy, if nothing else, would suggest to any temperate, though earnest, friend of Ireland to not needlessly stir up additional prejudice in the heart of Protestant England, from whose hands the expected deliverance must come. The Moniteur may or may not have done this intentionally, as an arrogant proclamation of defiance. It is a fact, though probably not generally recognized, that the question of religion very seriously impedes the progross of Irish deliverance. Not that England takes the opposite of the very narrow and bigoted view expressed by the Moniteur, but because of the fear of committing the material and social interests of the small Protestant minority in Ireland to the mercy of the disciples of the power behind the Moniteur de Rome. England consents to Ireland remaining under control of the Church of Rome; But when the question presents itself, shall the comparatively few Protestants in the north of Ireland be committed to a government that promises to be blindly intolerant? it is but natural that Parliament should hesitate. Every outrage, every assassination, every employment of dynamite, ,is but renewed proof of a narrow, bitter, unreasoning, dangerous element that might work incalculable harm to all who presumed to hold religious views at variance with those held by the great mass of the people there. It is but natural that England should hesitate. The Pope himself would not grant a dispensation under such circumstances, were the welfare and happiness of the people thus imperiled. The motto of Ireland should be one thing at a time, and she might with profit study the plan upon which the grandest republic on earth was built. When the American patriots, smarting under much the same form of oppression now suffered by those of Ireland, the question of religion came up, just as it does now. Popular prejudice was on the side of the established church, but the men interested in securing political liberty were not the kind to stultify themselves by prescribing tyranny in religion. They wisely and patriotically decided to make the conscience as free as they asked to have their persons made, They stripped themselves of all irrelevant issues, and fought the war for political liberty on its merits. Catholics and Protestants fought and fell side by side, until the victory was finally and grandly won. The fruit of this victory was a rich endowment for all religions; the churches are more harmonious in America than elsewhere in all the world, and the result is that greater good has i

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been accomplished for the people and for the churches than had this vexatious and irrelevant question been grafted into the struggle for liberty. The Irish cause, on its merits, will eventually win. Weighted down by Catholicism, or any other ism, it may never be accomplished. The true friends of Ireland will say to the Church of Rome, hands off. The members of the Republican party of Indianapolis and of Marion county are called to an important duty on Saturday next, and it does not seem that the county committee are properly alive to the responsibility of the occasion. On that day the members of anew county committee will be chosen, and delegates from each precinct to a district meeting, to be held on the 11th of February, when a member of the State central committee will be chosen. This work is fundamental to the party; it touches the organization of the party for the coming campaign, and it is a work in which every member of the party should be expected to engage. The meetings on Saturday will be held in the afternoon in the precincts outside the city, and inside the city at half past 7 o'clock. The county committee should see that places for these meetings in each piecinct are secured and properly advertised, so that every Republican may have full knowledge and be able to be present if he desires. If the officers of the committee do not do this, the present precinct committeemen should look after it. But, in any event, the places of meeting must be arranged for and made known, so that everything connected with the matter may be as open as possible, and command as large a per cent, of the membership of the party as practicable. But three days remain for this important duty. The places of meeting in every precinct should be secured to-day and announced to-morrow, so that every Re? publican should have ample notice. Unless this is done, there will be good cause for serious and, possibly, very disturbing ill-feel-ing.

The Sentinel is injured in its purer feelings. It says: “halt! “With due respect, we would suggest to the powers at Washington, and all others concerned therein, that the time has fully come when a halt should be called in the business of appointing unworthy characters to office in this State. “ * * * The honest Democratic masses of the State have already been sufficiently humiliated—the grand old party of the people damaged quite enough, surely, for a halt. “With becoming modesty we would venture to suggest to the forces inspiring and controlling appointments here that there is no lack of honest, competent Democrats in our State. In view of this fact we confess to our inability to make out any sufficient reason for the selection and appointment of thieves, highwaymen, bribers, deadbeats, and the like. Give honest, competent Democrats a chance,” A Washington special say3 there has been, particularly in the Postoffice DCfufetment, a wholesale withdrawal of letters and papers making charges against Republican officials. When the President decides that it is better and safer for him to produce the documents on which he based his removals, it would be very sad if there were none to produce, and he had, after all, to shoulder the responsibility of dismissing officials without other than partisan reasons. He will feel more secure after directing Mr. Vilas to lock up the papers and give him the key. The government of the Marquis of Salisbury was outvoted in the House of Commons last night by 329 to 250, but in the majority 73 of the Parnellites were counted. The House adjourned until Thursday, but Sir Michael Hicks-Beach gave practical notice that the Ministry would retire. With this vote Mr. Gladstone cannot form an effective government, as it is dependent entirely upon the Parnellites. Whatever is done now must, in the nature of the case, be but temporary, and in a short time there will be another appeal to the people. Hon. John Sherman telegraphs as follows: “Washington, Jan. 25. “Any alleged report or interview that I am opposed to or criticised the action of the Republican senators in respect to the Cincinnati election case is utterly unfounded. I regard tho attempt to change the rules so as to allow senators to vote in their own case as subversive of fundamental law, and almost as criminal as the forgeries and frauds upon which their claim for seats rests. “JonN Sherman.” The Washington Post calls upon the members of the House to stand up and be counted, and to answer when their names are called whether or not they are for free trade. The lack of a response to its call should suggest to the Post that many of the Democratic members aro timid, modest meD, who hesitate to make themselves conspicuous. Notwithstanding the fact that a Voorhees was sent as congressional delegate from Washington Territory, Democrats are inclined to doubt the advisability of making it a State. They fear, evidently, that experience with one Democratic representative will induce the residents to change their politics and send Republicans next time. It is not to hound Conroy to ’the death; let him, if possible, make an honest living. But when a competent, faithful servant, and an ex-Union soldier, is deposed to give a place in the public service to such a man, it is enough to make the very stones cry out. “A Democrat,” in the News, wails thus despairingly: “It does seem that with a defaulting city treasurer, a township saloon and Conroy 'evoluted into a statesman,’ that polit ical morals are tending downward.” Yet there is balm in Gilead. Under the pure leadership

of Simeon Coy political morals may yet be given an upward tendency, especially if Mr. Coy have the hearty assistance of Sterling Holt and his hatchet, Mr. Kuhn and his persuasive methods with conncilmen, with Reformer Ash to look after the postoffice. One of the principal objections to the continued coinage of silver is that its intrinsic yalue is but about eighty cents. The government, however, is the only one that profits by this fact, since it buys silver bullion at lowest rates. Would it not be patriotic to do everything possible to keep the credit of the silver dollar at par, as it is? The State officers unite in laying the blame on “Jorkins.” But what is the use of being sensitive? That bright and shining light, Dowling, is still in the service. Barney Conroy made a mistake in resigning. The Post-master-general would have pronounced him “indiscreet,” and passed him without a word. Seventeen cases of trichiniasis are reported from one little town in Wisconsin. Since this dreadful disorder is contracted only by eating raw or underdone pork, it is astonishing how many people will persist in partaking of swine flesh in its raw state. It is hard to understand how anyone can eat such flesh raw. Another attempt to make criminal use of dynamite is reported from Cleveland, The explanation is that it was in revenge for the shooting of the notorious burglar, George Foster. If this kind of villainy is kept up, it will have to be made a capital offense. Mr. Conroy has lost his office through the cowardice of the Postoffice Department, but he can take comfort in the very handsome recommendation given him by the Governor and Democratic State officers. He should have it framed. What with the recommendations given “Judge” Pollard, and those given Barney Conroy, it would seem to be about time for men in official position to be a little careful about what sort of documents they append their names to. Yesterday in the Senate eulogies upon the late Vice-president were pronounced. The Journal has a full special and regular report of the proceedings. St. Nicholas, for February, has a pretty frontispiece, “Tho Sisters,” and its leading articles are by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Helen Hunt, Frank N. Stockton, E. S. Brooks, Frank Ballard and others. It is especially rich in illustrations. The St Nicholas is as near a perfect childs’ and young people’s periodical as it is possible for brains, and heart, and money combined to produce. The illustrated articles this month arc on “George Washington,” the “British Parliament,” “Around,the Bay of Naples,” and others equally as interesting. The death of Dr. Lighthall disposes of a very shrewd and money-making mountebank. He was anything but a fool, whatever else he may have been. He had enough force in his composition to hold hi3 crowd of followers, and was good enough judge of human nature to profit at its expense. He was a man that might have been dangerous had his inclinations tended in the direction of lawlessness. As it was, he was an expensive man to the poor whenever he went. Perhaps that Philadelphia baker, whose family of seven has, one by oue, gone to the other shore, fed them on pie out of the shop. This would be a “natural cause” of death.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THLNGS. “Liberty Enlightening the World” is still off her base. Asa rule lawyers are a brave clasp of men. “It’s conscience that makes cowards of us all,” you know. Paris ba3 struck an original idea in the shape of an association whose object is to help drunkards home at night. There has been more snow this winter in London than for fourteen years, and there is great distress in consequence. General Longstreet thinks that his uncle, William Longstreet, of Augusta, Ga., should share with Robert Pulton the laurels of the inventor of steamboats. John Bigelow, of New York, has in his library the original manuscript of Franklin’s autobiography. He bought it in Paris when ho was Minister to France. She—-I suppose you visited Pompeii. Did you not find it very interesting? Masher—Well-er-er, I can’t say I exactly did. The fact is, the place is nothing better than a ruin. “Sam” Sanford, the oldest living minstrel singer, lives in Philadelphia. Ho was one of the earliest singers of such melodies as: “Dixie land is the land of cotton, Cinnamon seed and sandy-bottom.” Joel Chandler Harris (“Uncle Remus”) is himself actually an African by birth, for he was born at Joel, on the northeast coast of Africa, while his parents were engaged in missionary labor in that country. Mrs. Jennie Dawne, wife of Judge Dawne, of Alaska, after being deserted in that country by her husband, returned to Portland, Ore., a steerage passenger on an incoming vessel. She did not have money enough to buy a first-class passage. Mr. Gladstone is reported to have written, as a member of the Privy Council, to the Queen in reference to Irish affairs. This is doubtless incorrect, as, according to the Legal News, a privy councilor has no right to address the Queen unless that lady solicits his advice. Few monarchs can boast of progeny so illustrious as King Christian IX, of Denmark. Five out of his six children are married and have families. The eldest sons of each of these families are the prospective monarchs of Denmark, Greece, the British Empire, Russia, and Hanover. Professor Chevreul, the French scientist, who has passed his one-hundredth birthday, is a phenomenon. He does not smoke, and never tasted spirits in his life. He works in his chemical laboratory every day, and reads without glasses. He is the oldest working scholar and scientist in the world. Mr. Henry Curtis, of Stratford, Conn., nine-ty-one years old, suddenly remembering that eighty-five years ago he used to slide down Academy hill, was seized with a desire to repeat the performance, and did it with all the success of some of his esteemed contemporaries who have been sliding down hill all their lives. At a fancy dress ball in Melbourne, Australia, one of the lady guests appeared aa “Sport, the Spirit of the Times.” She wore a pink satin bodice, on the front and back of which we re pictures of horses. Upon her skirt were painted

the Puritan and Genesta, her sleeves were decorated with a painting of a foot baller and a lacrosse player, her fan was a lawn-tennis racquet covered with satin, on which a painted scene showed ladies playing tennis and croquet. Her cap and sash were gold, the colors of the trotter, Grace Darling. Petek Wise is the leader of the strike in the Pennsylvania coke region. He is a little, keenfaced, intelligent looking man. In a coarse working garb, with a close fitting velvet skull cap drawn down upon his ears, he looks more like a reckless young sport than a cool headed, shrewd agitator. Wise is it native of Somerset county. He was the leader of the big strike of 1881, and has been black listed ever since. To his experience as a leader of strikes he adds the valuable qualification of speaking several languages fluently. The peasant Indians of Central America hold some curious superstitions, of which the following are examples: When a child is ill the mother takes a drake, singes its tail feathers, and, muttering certain words, passes it over the patient. A woman feeds a parrot with a few pieces of tortilla and gives the child the crumbs that fall from the beak, as they will make it talk! Colic is due to the evil eye:* in order to get rid of the disturbing influence, the woman breaks four duck's eggs into a basin, and, having mixed them with rue, places the whole under the child’s bed; if the compound be curdled in the morning the spirit has departed. Os the various novelties in clock construction none have excited more general interest, perhaps, than those which consist of a plain glass dial suspended by a fine thread of wire, having the motive power—an ordinary watch movement concealed in the central boss of the hands, or in the enlarged counterbalance of one of them. Another contrivance of note in this line consists of two circular plates of glass, mounted in a metal frame or border, and connected by a slender column, or foot, to a pedestal. In these the figures are marked on the front plate, the hands being attached to the back plate, which is connected to a brass rim, toothed as a crown wheel, and driven by a pinion, the stem of which rises from the works in the pedestal. The necessary hour wheels, to give differential motion of the hands, are hidden between the center bosses of the hands and the brass washer on the back plate. Where three glass plates are used, the short and long hands are fixed to the second and third plates, and two pinions drivo the toothed rims of these two plates.

COMMENT AND OPINION. The worst thing about a freeze is the thaw. —Baltimore American. A President without a private secretary would be a poor creature indeed. —Atlanta Constitution. Mr. Parnell is simply waiting until Mr. Gladstone gets tired of standing on one leg. —Chicago Mail. Ohio leads the sisterhood of States in the argent and perpetual need of investigation.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. So far Senator Harrison has wisely abstained from making the admission of Dakota a party question.—Philadelphia Press. Give Logan credit for one thing. In the matter of the people’s appointments he was willing to let the people know their men.—Philadelphia Times. Several new machines for clearing snow from railway tracks were announced iast summer. They were highly successful then, but none of them seem to be working this winter.—Philadelphia Inquirer. The decision of the courts in Utah is spoken of as a “blow at polygamy.” But blowing won’t crush it. It will require something of the energy of a pile-driver to knock polygamy out. —San Francisco Examiner. The Ohio Democrats seem bound to be right on civil-service reform one way or the other. Mr. Pendleton brought in tho bill to establish the reform, and Mr. Seney brings in the bill to abolish it.—Pittsburg Dispatch. Senator Ecstis accuses President Cleveland of “incivism.” This is terrible. How can a man live who carries about with him a bosom burdened with a haunting consciousness of incivisticity?—Minneapolis Tribune. France is the great bi-metallic nation. She has been firm in her support of silver, opposed both to Germany and England. But she has stopped silver coinage, and we should follow her example.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. If Prohibitionists had their own way they would abolish local self-government and establish an absolute regime. The whole tendency of the craze is in that direction, and its excesses will ere long bring about the inevitable reaction in lowa and Kansas.—St Paul Pioneer-Press. Mr. Reagan is right in his opposition to further pensions for the soldier until the people have been pensioned. A halt must be called before the surplus is scattered. The people demand a reduction of war taxes, and this demand can no longer be ignored.—Louisville CourierJournal. It should not be an object of ambition with American youth to get into the nursery of the public service. Cultivate dependence on yourselves, young men, endure bravely your early hardships, and so strengthen your characters to mount the obstacles to a successful career. —New York Sun. The highest value of philanthropy would be in the provision of means by which discharged convicts disposed to lead a better life might find employment. It will do no good to reform convicts’if the fact of their having been convicts is allowed to close against them all avenues of honest employment —Chicago Inter-Ocean. The cheap silver dollar retains its power today because it can be exchanged at par with gold, but whenever the silver coinage exceeds that of gold not even the government stamp will prevent its depreciation in the money markets. It is an easy matter to coin too many cheap dollars at the rate of 2,000,000 a month.—Louisville Commercial. The motive for the anxiety of tho Democratic senators (of Ohio) to keep control of the Senate is to prevent a gerrymandering of the districts of the State in the interest of the Republicans, which will be surely effected, according to invariable political custom in Ohio, if that party controls both branches of the Legislature, the State being now gerrymandered in favtr of the Democrats. —Washington Post. If we are to have a national system of education, a national savings bank, q national telegraph system, a national ownership of railroads, and no money except what the national government issues, we will impose on the machinery of government constructed by the fathers of the Republic a strain which it was never designed to bear, and which will make it necessary to strengthen it in every part.—Louisville CourierJournal. The ways of capital are ant to be dark and devious, but in the eyes of the law they are peaceful and well mannered. We never hear of the police being called upon to watch the maneuvers of capitalists. Those specious gentlemen generally succeed in placing the workingman in that false position. Labor on strike is too apt to be outspoken and vehement, and places itself at a disadvantage at once.—New York Star. It is possible that the “glass house” in which Attorney-general Garland lives has proved such an uncomfortable residence that it has convinced Mr. Cleveland of the necessity of occupying more secret apartments. By carefully closing the blinds he may enable his partisans to aver that he has got his “great reform” safely housed somewhere, while the unobstructed glass windows would enable the public to see that there was nothing of the sort inside.—Milwaukee Sentinel. Alien landlordism has already seenred an alarming foothold in many of those States which did not provide against it, and as the establishment of a peasant class in the United States is not merely an economical evil, but a political danger, the duty of arresting it must soon become imperatire. There is more real public danger in alien landlordism than in almost any other matter now engaging public attention. Alien landholding is taking strong root, and if neglected will give this country a great amount of trouble.—Chicago Tribune. Monometallism seems to be the only safe and wise course. By our present legislation this country is moving surely though slowly away from gold, whieh is now our standard, toward silver. There seems to be no possibility of arresting this movement. Congress eannot be brought to repeal the present law providing for a steady coinage of silver; and, although the operation of this law is slow and gradual, it is sure, and, after a few years more under it, silver

will be our standard money, and tho gold will be gone. Will this result be good! Will it be beneficial! We think so, and we see no good reason for traveling any longer toward the benefit by the slow and circuitous route that we have hitherto pursued.—New York Sun. No considerable body of men can long remain idle without becoming demoralized. Their grievances, real or supposed, grow in size to their minds as the days and nights pass bringing no sign of a remedy. Bitter feelings are engendered, which are intensified by the meetings of laborers, at which ill-considered and too often violent harangues are made. The gulf between employer and employed, instead of being bridged, which the interest of both sides demand, i& widened, and in time what should be a mere business negotiation on both sides becomes a nerce personal fight. The Socialists and all enemies of society recognize this fact, and look t$ the Strikes of honest laborers to furnish their eventually the opportunity to tear down the fab ric of society.—New York Times.

THE BLOODY APACHES. Their Cruel Deeds Committed With Arms Sop* plied by Our Great-Hearted Government, Chicago Mail. Major Llewellyn, for a number of years in charge of tho Indians of New Mexico, is in the city, en route from Washington to his home in Las Cruces. The Major is one of the best known men in New Mexico and Arizona in connection with Indian matters. Like Mark Twain, he has “eat with them, slept with them, had them for breakfast, dinner and supper, and kuows all about them.” In conversation with a reported for the Mail, Major Llewellyn said: “Then*- - is, always has been, and, perhaps, a\ ways will be, a lack of appreciation in the East of the true state of affairs in the far southwestern Territories. Ever since the Ist of May last there has existed a genuine reign of terror in New Mexico. The people are growing desperate, and unless measures for their protection are taken I fear there will be serious trouble. I cannot blame them. They are entitled to prorection, for it is theif right, yet they are at the mercy of the Apaches. Since last May folly one hundred persons have been killed by these Indians. The Indians go on the warpath in bands just Btnall enough to dodge around in the mountains and evade ths troops, and just large enough to commit any depredation they please.” “What is General Crook doing?” “Everything in his power. The United States cavalry is an unwieldly body of troops for successful Indian fighting under present circumstances in Now Mexico and Arizona. It is notorious that soldiers, mounted on heavy horses,, loaded down with all kinds of equipments, anc often followed by a wagon train, cannot capture fleet-footed Indians who know every trail and spring of water, and who slip from mountain to mountain with a speed positively marvelous. Still, General Crook is doing everything he can. The proposition to have General Miles relieve him of the command is understood by the people of New Mexico. Its military-political significance is apparent to them, and they will resent the change so far as they can. There is no question of the ability of Miles as an Indian fighter, bnt now. when there is each a pressure that the government muet recognize tho demands of its citizens, it doesn’t seem right to to have General Miles or any one else step in and finish Crook’s work and get the credit The people of New Mexico may bo rough and rugged; they certainly have rugged ideas of what is right” “What measures of relief are contemplated?” “The Governor of New Mexico is powerless. He has already issued more military vouchers than the law allows. Congressman Laird, of Nebraska, will introduce a memorial to Congress with the purpose of calling out the New Mexico militia. Next Monday Senator Van Wyek will introduce a bill in the Senate providing for the disarmament of the Indians, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. The bill also prohibits the sale of arms and am munition to the Indians of New Mexico, Arizona* Utah, Montana, Dakota and the State of Colorado, either on or off of reservations. Tho penalty is imprisonment for twenty years. To my mind, the disarming of the Indians is the only solution of the present problem. Some of them own the latest improved patterns of magazine rifles, but many of them carry United States Springfield muskets. It would be interesting to knowhow many citizens of New Mexico have been killed with arms given to the Indiana by the government The country is being rapidly settled in certain localities, yet there is a vast area which for years will be devoted to ranches, and where the Indians can roam at will. Counties that in 1880 showed an assessed valuation of abont SIOO,OOO are now assessed at $6,000,000 in cattle alone. Interests of that magnitude have a right to ask for protection. There have been no depredations east of the Rio Grande since last spring, but there is great and imminent danger in the western and southwestern portions of the Territory. Over at Silver City it looks like war times. Everybody goes heavily armed and travelers go in large bodies in order to have some little degree of safety. Yet Mr. and Mrs. Yehter, of Missouri, were killed within two miles of Silver City and almost in sound of the bugle calls at Fort Baird. They left Demine to go out to their ranch. They were waylaid and horribly mutilated. Their cut and blood-stained underclothes were sent to the Secretary of the Interior with the request that they be given to the President as a gift from the people of New Mexico.

BOYCOTTING A MILL AGENT. Arbitrary Course ot the Knights of Labor Toward 9lr. H. L. Pratt. Boston Special. The Knights of Labor have pnrsued a most arbitrary course toward a prominent business man of Lewiston, Me. The organization has ordered all business men in Lewiston to “boycott” H. L. Pratt, the agent for the Bates mills, for antagonizing the order by cutting down and discharging members of the order without giving reasons i or doing so. Mr. Pratt said that he had not the slightest idea of the cause of the trouble. He is not aware of having done anything to meet with such treatment. He had received no communication from the Knights of Labor, either verbal or written, and had no reason to suppose he was not in good standing with the order until he received notice from a grocer that he could no longer supply Mr. Pratt or his family with goods. He has received no complaints from employes in the Bates Mills, and is willing to rest his case entirely in the hands of his overseers and operatives. One request was made some time ago to increase the pay of weavers. But on explaining to them that owing to the depressed condition of the market the mill was barely able to hold its own, they withdrew perfectly satisfied. The only important change has been the discharge of three overseers, which was due to the consolidation of six rooms under three overseers, instead of six, as heretofore. Last summer extra help was employed in repairing and building additions to the mill. The work being nearly finished, Mr. Pratt ordered tbe master mechanic to discharge as many men as coaid be spared, without reference to who the men were. Thus far Mr. Pratt has bad no difficulty in supplying the wants of his family, notwithstanding the Knights of Labor arbitrarily ordered tho grocers, bakers, butchers, doctors,'druggist*, and all other kinds of business men to refuse hie custom. Merchants have voluntarily told him that he can have anything he wishes to order from their establishments, and tho prospects are that the “boycott" won’t “boycott.” Wants To Bea Conkling. Carp’s Washington Letttr. Postmaster-general Vilas is also a man of wonderful conceit. He came to Washington with the idea that ho was a second Roscoe Conkling. Vilas stands as straight as Conkling, and be combs his hair in the same way. He is said to look like Conkling, but if he does it is the likeness of the statuette to the statue. Vilas is a slim little fellow, of medium height, who struts about Washington in a dapper way with a fussy air. I have called him before the Simon Tappertit of tbe Cabinet, and I doubt not, like Simon, ho often looks at his nobie form in tho glass, and, in the words of Tappertit, exclaims j;j his soul if not in words, “Let sculptors have such visions and chisel 'em out when they wak*" Especially in Ohio, Philadelphia Time*. Every year vindications come higher, but still no statesman should be without one. Where It Resorts. Burlington Press. People who “went South for the winter” tbif year have found it