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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BT JNO. C. NEW A SOW. "WASHINGTON OFFICE—SI3 Fourteenth St. 4 P. S. Hratr, Correspondent. THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1886. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. Terms invariably in advanck— postaok prepaid BY THE PUBLISHERS. THE DAILY JOURNAL. One rear, by mail $12.00 One year, by mail, including 5unday.......... 14.00 jsis months, by mail —..... 6.00 JBix month*. by mail, including Sunday. 7.00 Three months, by mail 3.00 Three months, by mail, including Sunday 3.50 -Qne month, by mail 1.00 One month, by mail, ineluding Sunday 3-20 Per week, by carrier (in Indianapolis) 25 THE SUNDAY JOURNAL. Per copy 5 cents One year, by mail $2.00 THE INDIANA STATE JOURNAL. (WEEKLY EDITION.) One year SI.OO Lees than one year and over three months, 10c per jnonth. No subscription taken for less than three month*. In clubs of five or over, agents will take yearly subscriptions at sl, and retain 10 per cent, for their werk. Address JNO. C. NEW & SON. Publishers The Journal, Indianapolis, Ind. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. Can be found at the following places: JbONDON—• American Exchango in Europe, 449 Strand. PARIS —American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucmes. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO —Palmer House. CINCINNATI—J. R. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE —C. T. Dearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. JBT. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. House and Ebbitt House. Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 242 There is no immortality for a fence-strad-dler, The 1 ‘Manning crest” is the latest development of the “Jeffersonian simplicity” of the great Democratic reform administration. Recent events in Indiana have given a backset to the cause of popular education. The happy man is the man who can’t write his own name. SINCE the President declines to give his reasons for removing efficient public servants, it will be nearly as good to hear him explain how it happens that he makes such outrageous selections to fill the prepared vacancies. The Indianapolis Sentinel shrieks in italics, all over its editorial page, that the Democratic administration must stop appointing “thieves, highwaymen, bribers and dead-beats” to office in the State of Indiana. Nast is said to be “gathering impressions” at Washington. An impression he is believed to have gathered some time since is that the mugwump route is a cold and unprofitable one for a commercial artist to travel. There is a general demand by newspapers east of the Mississippi that if Washington Territory is admitted to the Union as a State it shall change its name to Tacoma. Washington people themselves have not been heard from on this point. Will the Sentinel stop its drivel long enough to name one single appointment ever Jnade under a Republican administration on a par with that of confessed-briber Dowling or penitentiary convict Barney Conroy? Let us have the name of just one. Hon. John B. Stoll refers to the appointees made to federal office in and about Indianapolis as “perjurers, dead-beats, exconvicts and reprobates generally.” There are some exceptions, Mr. Stoll; but there is a great deal of truth in what you say. The inefficiency of the mail service at this point is becoming a matter of general comment. It will require a full term of four years, under the best sort of administration, to restore the service from the demoralization Into which it has been thrown by a few months of “reform.” The New York Times is opposed to the plan of Senator Sherman, of referring a disputed electoral vote for President and Vicepresident to a joint convention of the two houses of Congress—“an arrangement certainly never contemplated by the Constitution, and full of Inconveniences and risk.” The Republicans are doing Democracy a good service in so promptly and effectively kbow mg up Democratic rascals that gentlemen of that description will eventually fear to make application for official honors. But the supply of rascals, heelers, bribers and ballotbox stuffors in the Democratic party has not been exhausted. A STECIAL to the Cincinnati Enquirer says •f the Heudricks eulogies that “the spirit And tenor of nearly every eulogist was the condemnation of President Cleveland’s course towards his party friends through the exaltation of the dead man, who was canonized because he would have done different than Cleveland had he held his exalted station.” The wars in Europe constantly outlined and predicted by the newspapers make very good fceadlng in the absence of more exciting news fcu the shape of stage gossip, royal scandals, te., but such rumors have lest the power they once held to thrill the martial spirit of jUMrfoftM or to cause apprehensions of bloody Wtles and consequent stiffs, r'ng. The experience of a series of years has shewn that Vkile there is a great deal of growling and

snarling, mid a great display of teeth by rival powers they are content with making faces at each other across the fence, and that closer encounters are carefully avoided. Those impulsive and reckless men, Alexander of Bulgaria and Milan of Servia, did, it is true, overstep the customary limit and tear each other's eyes, but they were quickly separated by stronger powers, and have promised not to do it again. It is not at all likely that Greece will do any fighting elsewhere than on paper. War fever in this civilized age is apt to take a mild form and is cured without the application of those old-fashioned remedies, lead and steel. __________________ THE QUESTION OF PARTISANSHIP. The opinion of several senators-on the question of offensive partisanship was expressed in pretty plain terms in the eulogiums in honor of the memory of the late Vicepresident. Mr. Hendricks was a typical “offensive partisan,” and gloried in it. Strong in the belief that his party was right, he was a Democrat in all that the term implies. In good report or in evil report, the public always knew where to find him; whatever he may have been personally, he was always a Democrat. It was this trait of his character as much as any other that made men respect him living and lament his sudden death. Men who did and do despise the Democratic party as an organization honor this partisan Democrat's memory because he had the courage of his convictions. He did not blow hot and cold when it came to drawing party lines. He never sulked when the organization of which he was a member was in the fight. He didn't pretend to be a liberal Democrat during the war of the Rebellion, nor did he ever put on a Republican mask and claim to be better than his fellowDemocrats. When it came to partisanship he was no Pharisee, nor did he give countenance to the palpable hypocrisy assumed by a few Democrats to capture Republican votes. He had the confidence of his party during the campaign, and held it up to his death. He was a friend of those that helped him win the victory, and it was his belief that they should enjoy the fruits of it with him. If the farce that has been made of civil-service reform, since its champions have had opportunity to enforce it, has not made Mr. Hendricks’s memory a tower of respectability by comparison, it is a vain thing to be a man of honest convictions with the courage to stand by them. It is foolish to talk of conducting a popular government without organized parties, so completely knit together as to be a sentient organism, a multiplex personality, to formulate and put policies into practice, and to be held to accountability for whatever may be done amiss. A well-organized political party gives hostages to the people for the faithful performance of its obligations. It works under a charter, with proclaimed principles for its constitution and by-laws; engaged in honorable business, it agrees to stand or fall by its doctrines and practices. To be an active, enthusiastic member of such an organization is as much superior to being a freebooter in politics as a regular soldier is more honorable than a bushwhacked The man who is too “good” to belong to any party is generally too cowardly to assume the responsibility of his acts. An illustration in proof of this has been afforded by the recreant Republicans who went to the aid of the enemy in the last national campaign. Professing to do so in the interest of civil-service reform, and strenuously maintaining that they were still Republicans, better than their associates in years of peril, they have not the manhood to condemn the palpable hypocrisy and sham that Democracy has made of reform. Scoundrels of high and low degree have been honored by this administration; have been thrust into places from which honest, patriotic, competent men have been hustled to make room for them. Not a week passes but some new scandal of this kind is made public. But the men who, with sanctimonious unction, have prayed to be delivered from offensive partisans, have no word to utter in disapproval of the appointment of confessed bribers, nor of the infamous methods pursued to get rid of good men protected by the spirit of the civilservice rules. The gentlemen who choose to be freebooters in American politics, flying no flag and amenable to no constituency, seem to have lost their conscience when they surrendered their self-respect. No outrage is enough to arouse their indignation. But recently so conscientious that they could not bear the idea of even associating with partisans, they are become the champions of some of the most infamous practices that ever disgraced American politics. In contrast with such hypocritical insincerity offensive partisanship is a virtue resplendent with honor and respectability. Dorman B. Eaton has once more resigned as Civil-service Commissioner, and it is to he hoped that in anew appointment Mr. Cleveland will recognize the spirit and the letter of the law. No honest and candid man can doubt that the purpose of the law was not to have more than two of the Commissioners in political harmony with the administration. That is as plain as the nose on a man’s face. Yet, since the great “reform” administration of Mr. Cleveland came into power the spirit of the law has been willfully violated by having three Commissioners upholders and supporters of the administration. For Mr. Eaton to claim that he is a Republican, and therefore eligible to sit on the board with two pronounced while he is as firm a supporter of the administration as either Mr. Edgerton or Mr. Treaholsn, is a quibble unworthy of a man who claims so high a measure of devotion to

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the spirit and principle of civil-service reform. We do not believe it can be successfully disputed that the purpose of the law is to have but two out of three of the Commissioners the political supporters of the administration in power. We are in receipt of the following postal card, which we print verbatim, et literatim: “WILLIAMSTOWN Ind Jan 26—86 “Mr Editor will you be so kind as to quote Sec 3701, allso Sec 5413 of the laws of the United States on the Lones and currency question and give us your opinion on the Same and then you will find the correct answer to the question that was asked you in refferinc to the tax on National Bank currency you will do a great many of the readers of your paper a kindness and dont Show your ignorence in answering Such questions this is for the benefit of the Jamestown Subscriber Ind who asked you for truth “a reader of your paper.” The question of a Jamestown subscriber, to which reference is made, was printed and answered in our issue of Jan. 16, as follows: To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: “Are national bank notes subject to State, covinty or municipal taxation, either as the property of a lank or of the individual. SUBSCRIBED. “Jamestown. “They are.” The sections which our courteous Williarastown friend desires printed are as follows: “Section 3701—A1l stocks, bonds, money, notes, and other obligations of the United States, shall be exempt from taxation by or under State, or municipal or local authority.” “Section 5413—The words 'obligation or other security of the United States’ shall he held to mean all bonds, certificates of indebtedness, national currency, coupons, United States notes, Treasury notes, fractional notes, certificates of deposit, titles, checks or drafts drawn by or upon authorized officers of the United States, stamps and other representations of value, of whatever denomination, which have been or may be issued under any act of Congress.” " It is a remarkable fact that, in the greed to escape taxation, not a few people confound national bank notes or currency with national currency or Treasury notes, and insist that under the two flections quoted national bank notes are exempt from taxation. Os course, almost any one who does not need to go to night school knows better, and, therefore, the answer we gave our Jamestown inquirer is absolutely correct—national bank notes are not exempt from taxation. It is to be hoped our Williamstown friend will acquire an access of information from this statement. The Journal has replied to this question more than a score of times, showing that there is quite a prevalent desire on the part of holders of national bank notes to escape taxation. The contested will case brought by the heirs of W. F. Storey, late owner of the Chicago Times, and now in progress, develops some curious occurrences in the life of that eccentric editor, and some remarkable conduct on the part of certain persons with whom he was in confidential relations. As an instance of the latter, it is brought out by ination of Mr. Trude, the attorney who looked after Mr. Storey’s legal business for some years previous to his death, and who wrote the will now in dispute, that he purposely drew that document loosely, for the reason that he did not regard the testator as of sound mind, and, knowing that it would be contested, thought it advisable to lend his aid to the complainants in advance. One reason given by Mr. Trude for bis belief in Mr. Storey’s insanity was the fact that, in dictating this will, he left the bulk of the property to his wife, and persistently refused to listen to the attorney’s urgent advice that he make bequests to certain relatives. These relatives did not, it appears, have any special claim upon the testator, and were not needy; but it hurt Mr. Trude’s feelings dreadfully to have them left out of the will, and Mrs. Storey provided for more liberally than he thought proper. Mr. Trude, it may be added, is now attorney for tho heirs whose cause he so valiantly espoused in advance. If the will isn’t broken, he can assure them that having done what he could from the very beginning, it is not his fault that they do not get what he considers their share of the property. The “Jeffersonian simplicity” of the Democratic reform administration has once more been demonstrated. A Washington special to the Courier-Journal says that “Secretary and Mrs. Manning entertained at a handsome dinner party of eighteen covers, Tuesday night, President Cleveland and his sister. The other guests were Secretary and Mrs. Whitney, Speaker and Mrs. Carlisle, Senator and Mrs. Yoorhees, Secretary Epdicott, Senator Hampton, Secretary Lamar, Mrs. Fairchild, wife of the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Mr. and Mrs. Robt. L. Foyer, of Albany; Mrs. Andrews, of New Yo/k, and Mrs. Cassidy, of Albany, who is a guest at the White House. The cards at each plate bore tbe Manning crest in silver and name in pretty text. There were baskets of hybrid roses and hyacinths at the ladies’ plates, and an oblong bed of growing pink and white tulips were surrounded by single camellia blossoms, which were afterwards given to the gentlemen as boutonniers. The silver service in use was very elegant.” The “Manning crest,” is good, and is in itself a strong evidence of the plainness and democracy of the present condition of things in the national capital. How the “simplicity” of the Cleveland administration does shame the aristocratic manners of tho White House in the days of Mr. and Mrs. Grant and Mr. and Mrs. Hayes. How do the rural roosters of Indiana like the “Manning crest?” The Washington correspondent of the New York Post declares that the conflicting reports as to what the President has said and done, or has refused to do, in the matter of giving information to the Senate concerning appointments, are one and all without proper

foundation. Then the correspondent proceeds to settle the business by declaring that the President has taken no position on the question whatever, not having had occasion to do so. It is gratifying to have the alleged trouble disposed of in this way, but all the other correspondents having been branded as liars, who vouches for the Post’s man, or for Colonel Lamont?—from whom the information is said to come. The New York World feels bound to say that: “Mr. Garland owns $1,500,000 of stock in a telephone company whose instrument is alleged to be an infringement of the Bell patent. If the Bell patent is declared fraudulent this stock alone will make the Attorneygeneral wealthy. If the Bell patent is sustained the Attorney-general’s stock becomes waste paper. No one doubts Attorney-general Garland’s personal integrity. We respect his ability. But he is placed in a false position by his ownership of this' stock. He should rid himself of it at once. He cannot regard it as desirable that the judges before whom the Bell case will be tried should know that by their decision they enrich a high Cabinet officer or render his property worthless. We ask him whether he considers that his ownership of this stock is calculated to raise the highest standard of official honor in public life? We ask him whether it is creditable to a Democratic reform administration?” But Mr. Garland is a clerk for that stanch reformer, Grover Cleveland. Has not Mr. Cleveland any influence with this “Democratic reform administration?” The iron has also entered the soul of our esteemed friend John B. Stoll, of the South Bend Times, who has not yet been appointed Public Printer. Our friend has not broken out into a case of italic smallpox, like the Sentinel, but he is vexed, grieved, angered, disgusted. He says: “There is more complaint at and around Indianapolis about the administration not ‘turning the rascals out' than anywhere else in the Hoosier Commonwealth. And yet no locality has rendered the turning out process more odious than that same locality. Perjurers, dead-beats, ex-convic‘3 and reprobates generally, are seemingly recommended to office with a good deal more zeal than the just claims of honorable and meritorious gentlemen are thought of being pushed. Such conduct is an outrage, not only upon the administration but upon the Indiana Democracy. The politicians who foist that kind of cattle upon the public service ought to be exposed and held up to public scorn and indignation.” Os the cigar-makers out on a strike in New York 2,660 are entitled to help from the union, requiring $10,365 per week. To make up this sum the members of the 230 local unions throughout the country are assessed ten per cent, of their wages. The fact that members elsewhere have to help foot the bill of expenses will have the effect inevitably of making them insist that strikes shall not be entered upon except for best of reasons. The News is right—Barney Conroy should be provided for by the Democratic party of Indianapolis. He served them when they wanted dirty ward work done, and has been drawn into a very humiliating trap, where all his quondam friends seem disposed to leave him while they save themselves as best they can. He is no worse now than when he was an active ward-worker, and should be cared for. His services will come handy. The colored people of Kentucky held a meeting at Frankfort on Tuesday evening, and formulated resolutions asking for their civil and political rights. There are 270,000 negroes in that State, but they have no representatives in the Legislature. If these deluded men will read the Democratic press they will find that they are in the enjoyment of all their rights and are perfectly contented. It does not hurt a v man to be a partisan. The two men whom the people of Indiana most delight to honor, and whom the Nation holds in remembrance—Oliver P. Moton and Thomas A. Hendricks—were distinguished for the intensity of their partisan convictions, and the tenacity with which they adhered to them. A milk-sop does not live long in anybody’s esteem. Investigation into the so-called “eighthour movement” in localities remote from Washington seems to indicate that the movement is engineered chiefly by government employes, who, although accustomed in private life to ten and twelve hours’ daily labor at lower wages, immediately become oppressed and overworked when they are under contract to Uncle Sam. A Chinese cook at Cloverdale, Cal., has murdered his employer and wife. The antiChinese organizations at once met and the Chinese of Cloverdale were notified to leave the place within forty-eight hours. Suppose an Irishman or a German had committed the crime, would such as had nothing to do with it be made to fly for their lives? If not, why not? Democratic Senators are quoted as saying that Democrats in Congress are united in determining to support the President in whatever policy he may outline in regard to removals. This is a rash assertion. Just suppose Mr. Cleveland should take them at their word, and accede to the mugwump demand that he make no removals. And now they talk of dividing Texas into three parts and making two more new States. The country might be brought to accept three States of Texas on condition that Flanagan, Ochiltree and one or two shining lights of that Commonwealth, are each divided in three parts at the same time. Washington papers announce as one of the coming society events a “Kaffer-Klatsche, yumyum tea.” Anybody can see at a glance that this is infinitely worse than “cold tea,” and the bold, flaunting announcement of it gives color

to the stories of the wild indulgence by our statesmen and law-makers in foreign forms of dissipation which have been going the rounds. Householder, to gas man who has just inspected meter: “Well, my friend, how many feet of gas have I burned this month?* Gas man, evidently new to business and unable to prevaracate with oomposure: “That I can’t tell ye, sir. It’s orders I have from the office not to such questions whin I’m asked.” “Why do they give such orders as that?” “W’y ye see, sir, ye can see for yourself, that av I was to stop and tell ivery one who asked me how much gas they’d burned it wad detain me so that I’d never get me rounds at all. We’ve to take the measurements and make the bills all iu so few days, sir, an’ av course av we was to read the figures at each house it would hinder us to that extent that we wouldn’t get done till next month. That’s what they tell me at the office to say to any of the likes of ye who inquire, an’ I’m sure ye can see that it’s reason they have, sir, on their side. Av I had time to tell ye how much gas ye’d burned the month gone, sure an’ I’d not be disobligin’ enough to refuse.” And the gas man shuffled off, leaving the householder to ponder on the marvelous things of this world. Hon. W. Dudley Foulkk, of this State, has a three-column article* in the Boston Woman’s Journal of Jan. 23 upon the legal status of women. It is an historical review of the gradual elevation and advancement of women in all the countries of the world. Mr. Foulke says: “If there be any basis for human prediction in anything, thte progress will go on until its perfect work is done. It will not stop short of the recognition of absolute equality, when man will claim no right which he will be unwilling to accord to his mother, his wife, his sister, upon equal terms.” A Louisville man’s lungs are thought to be in his legs. At any rate, “during the seventysix hours that he was unconscious nearly 1,500 gallons of oxygen were forced into his lungs through a small rubber tube, passed down through his nostrils into the stomach. ” And the man recovered, too. Ak'Su, a Chinese merchant at Apia, Samoa, complains that the United States consul there had attempted to bargain with him to bring Chinese to this country via Samoa, where he would fit them out with papers that would pass them for SIOO. The Chinese, it should be understood, must go. Cincinnati looks on progressive euchre as the greatest amusement of the age. A party of one hundred and twenty competed for favors at one of the hotels Tuesday night. Betw- en Sam. Jones, progressive euchre and Sunaay plays, Cincinnati is at the zenith of social enjoyment. •Paul Boyton, having disposed of his drinkery called “The Ship,” says he will make bricks before he will ever again touch the gin trade. A good many “bricks” are made by men who sell gin. Joel Chandler Harris (“Uncle Remus”) was born in Africa. —Morning paper. He was born in Georgia.—Second edition. He was born in Kalamazoo. —Evening paper. Wahkeen Miller and Mrs. Maud Miller-Mackaye-McCormlck have become reconciled. A great big loose-fitting suit of seven-ply silence will fit this precious pair precisely. The latest rumor is that the Mormons are bargaining for land in the Sandwich Islands, with the idea of transferring the kingdom thither. But will Sandwiches do for wives? ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Herr Zukertort’s name translated is Mr. Sugar-tart. The editor of the Philadelphia News sharply criticizes the newly published history of the United States mint. It basnet a word about juleps. A Russian physician has experimented on dogs to find out the proper treatment for restoring a frozen person. Every dog when placed immediately in a hot bath recovered quickly. According to the report of the Surgen-gen-eral, there were only two cases of varioloid and one of smallpox in the United States army last year. Vaccination was carried out with great regularity. Joaquin Miller, the poet and novelist, is now in his forty-fifth year. He looks older, and walks with a limp from a wound received when a boy in an Indian fight, during which he was on the side of the red men. Man milliner Worth, of Paris, corrects the current opinion that Eugenie, when Empress, was the leader of feminine fashions, and declares that she persistently refused tc make innovations on prevailing styles for fear of being called giddy and frivolous. There has been a remarkable performance in New Orleans. For probably the first time in America, if not in the world, “Julius Caesar” was played with an entire cast of colored persons. The production was ambitiously prepared, and was not, it would seem, devoid of merit. A despairing Prohibitionist wail3, “Our magistrates license publicans to make sinners, and the chnrch licenses ministers to convert them. Men pull down the fabric of society with the one half and build it op with the other; and so the world wags—it thinks, and winks and drinks.” An eminent oculist says that persons who indiscriminately resort to the use of colored glasses without first consulting their physician incur serious risks of permanently injuring their sight. The exact shade should invariably be prescribed, just as the precise strength of a drug is in an ordinary prescription. Canon Farrar said in an address delivered in Aberdeen, Scotland, “Now as to the attitude of clergymen in regard to the drink traffic, I think there is nothing excites my scorn and indignation more than a man who carries his reverence for Scripture to the extent of holding that it sanctions the use of drink.” Attorney oeneral Marshall, of California, who is now in Washington, is a nephew of the late Chief-justice Marshall and a brother of the celebrated orator, Tom Marsha?]. Thirty-four years ago he was a member of Congress under President Fillmore, and this is his first visit to Washington since that time. A petition has been presented to the Connecticut General Assemby asking that reparation be made to Mrs. Prudence Pbilles (neo Prudence Crandell, who now lives in poverty) for injuries inflicted upon her in 1833 by citizens of Canterbury, because she persisted in teaching a free school for nsgro girls. Mr. James T. Joy, of Michigan, who in 1880 nominated Mr. Blaine, and in 1884 exchanged the lie direct and the He circumstantial with Rev. Henry Ward Beecher over the report of a private conversation anent. Mr. Blaine, is in New York. He states that he is out of politics, but that he thinks Mr. Blaine should not retire from the race for the presidency. Miss Annie Louise Cart, the famous contralto, is living with her husband, Mr. Munson Raymond, Hi New York. Always a favorite in society, she is as much sought after to-day as sue was when her fame was world-wide. Miss Cary was some years ago betrothed to the intimate friend of her husband, but whose death abroad a short time previous to their marriage left her alone, and it was while acting upon his friend's

dying instructions to look after Miss Cary’s interests that Mr. Raymond found himself in love with his charming charge. Since her marriage she has not sung in publia f An alumnus of Yale College recently said: “The alumni of Yale have certainly learned one thing in their efforts to find a man to succeed President Porter, and it is this—the extreme difficulty that exists in this country in supplying; as educators, men of executive ability, capable of inspiring public confidence and of making a lasting impression on those they attempt to educate.” United States Justices Bradley, Gray and Miller, during the cold spell and since, donned black skull caps. Justice Bradley, who has a fine head of hair, but is sensitive to colds, wears a close-fitting cap of fine black silk. Justice Gray could not find one to fit his big head, so he wears one that just covers the top of hia cranium. Justice Miller is economical, and dons a home-made affair of black velvet It is too large and flaps over his ears. When Goldsmith wrote “She Stoops to Conquer” he adapted words to a pretty but difficult Irish air, “'The Humors of Ballamagairy,” intending that they should be sung by Miss Hardcastle. But as Mrs. Bulkley, who, as critie# would say nowadays, “created” the part, could not sing, the song was not included in the play when it was first published. Goldsmith gave it to Boswell, Johnson’s “Bozzv,” who sent it to the London Magazine soon after poor Noll’s death. In the Island of Trinidad is a large lake of asphalt. A Scotchman who owns a small cornel of this lake receives an income of $25,000 a year from it He holds it under a grant given by Charles II to one of his ancestors. A Chicago capitalist is neeotiating for the purchase of the Scotchman’s corner. A square yard of this “Pitch Lake,” as it is called, is just as good as a square mile, for no matter how much asphalt is taken out in the course of the day the hole fills up again at night Nearly three years have elapsed since Gambetta’s remains were consigned to the grave at Nice, but nothing has yet been done to give even a decent appearance to his last resting placet An old friend of the departed statesman, who visited the cemetery on the anniversary of his death, in order to strew flowers on his tomb, gives a melancholy account of the state of neglect into which it has been allowed to falL Ha says it is only a temporary scaffolding, a pyramid of wood covered with wreathes and offerings. The barrier which surrounds it is half rotten. The great tribune, apparently, is forgotten already. COMMENT AND OPINION. If Ohio isn’t ashamed of her Legislature, she is not the State we take her for.—Philadelphia Inquirer. Japan is becoming oivilized. The newspapers are pitching into the gas companies.—Pittsburg Chronicle. Ohio will never improve much in political morals until she iearns to keep sober. —Philadelphia Press. Ruskin sneers at America because he avers that wa have no ancient ruins. What’s the matter with St. Louis?—Chicago Rambler. The bogs of Ireland have a miring capacity sufficient to accommodate a large number of English statesmen. —St Louis Post-Dispatch. If we are going to freeze out the Mormons, Mr. Edmunds appears to be just the man to urn* dertake the work.—San Francisco Examiner. The secret executive session for the consideration of appointments is an antiquated abuse, and the practice cannot be too soon abandoned. —New York Commercial Advertiser. Much is said about the “Irish outlook.” In a word it can be stated that the “Irish outlook,” both in the old country and in this, was never better. They are on top.—Boston State. . We may not admit Dakota, but the man who tries to ignore her weather will have to hire a boy to help him. The Dakota biizzard is rapidly winning recognition as one of most vigorousinstitutions.—Philadelphia Press. It would be a huge joke at the expense of England, Germany and Russia if a Slavonian union should result in anew emoire, built in great part of the ruins of the Turkish and Austrian edifices.—New York Mail and Express. A Democratic congressman* from New York says that “President Cleveland could not be renominated by any hook or crook.” Unless his party shall give him & better support, it can’t elect anybody in 1888, by hook or crook.—Boston Herald. The most terrible weapon of the American Socialist is his jaw-bone. He has the same variety of jaw-bone, too, with which Samson did such execution among the Philistines. Make no account of his dynamite: but, when he waves his jaw-bone at you, seek shelter.—Philadelphia Inquirer. We suspect that the last generation was not entirely at a disadvantage in escaping the deluge of stuff now annnally hurled at the heads of juveniles and called literature The boys are fed on it just at the age when they ought to be acquiring a taste for real literature—and still more the girls.—Springfield Republican. We have no idea that tho country has gone rampant mad over tho cheap money idea. The fact is that such an idea enters Congress much more easily than it is instilled into the minds of the people. The majority of the latter are unchangeably honest, and have tasted of the bitter cup of currency debasement.—St. Paul Pioneer Press. If the American workingmen want higher wages and fewer hours, they must quit voting for the Democratic free-trade party. They can not expect American manufacturers to pay $3 for eight hours’ work and put their goods in competition with foreign manufacturers who pay less than $1.50 for twelve hours’work.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. For the moment, however, the fate of Greses seems to depend on the pressure which the greater powers are ready to exert The attitude of the English government is just now very do* cided against Greek aspirations, but, though this intervention may seem fatal, it might not be an unmixed evil should it bring out Russia once more as Greece’s champion.—New York Times. We have long contended that the two great parties should divide upon this line [the tariff]. The Republicans were always ready to do it, but whenever a general election was to be held the Democrats avoided the issue. If thev have really resolved to be honest for just this once and have the courage of their free-trade convictions, the tariff question can be easily settled.—Philadelphia Inquirer. We trust that neither through government aid nor public sympathy will any of the various professional or future amateur polar discoverers ever again receive the smallest encouragement. There has been a period—an appallingly extended one —during which mankind has wasted a world of sentiment upon this terrible delusion. It seems time that the era of common sense and humanity should be ushered in.—New York Star. If organized monopoly has so fastened its hold on the party machinery that a reduction of the tariff is, for the time, impossible, at least let honest Democrats see to it that the surplus revenues gathered from a distressed and discos tented people are applied to the payment of the public debt Then, when the time comes for a reduction of the tariff, it wiil be possible to “out deep” into the revenue of the monopolists. —Louisville Courier-Journal The restraints of the Constitution have saved us thus far from disorders to which popular governments are supposed to be particularly liable. Let us be careful how we set them aside. Providence has guaranteed no special immunity to the United States from disasters which have overthrown other republics; and it is hard to imagine a more dangerous experiment than empowering a popular majority in Congress to annul the constitutional choice of the States for the chief executive office.—New York Tribune* Why should not a law be passed compelling all the railroads of the State to carry members of the Legislature free of charge, during the continuance of session? It would amount to the same thing as the voluntary issuance of passes, and it would relieve the legislators from the imputation of accepting favors from the corporations. The railroads are the creatures of the State. The legislators are the servants of the, State. She State has a right to say that its representatives shall be carried to and from.; their homes, when engaged in the business o$ the State.—Albany Express.