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This is true, not only as far as the city members are concerned, but it frequently happens that the members representing an almost purely agricultural community are in for a trade. One man, ■who has for years done a thriving business in this line, tells me that he has secured this year no less than thirty loads of seeds from different members, and that he has. besides this, negotiated trades for books with other members who have no farmers in their districts. There ought to be some better method adopted for disposing of these hundred thousand dollars’ worth of seeds each year, if it is designed to supply them to the rural element in the population. rUBLIC PRINTER ROUNDS. Candidates for His Place—The Splendid Record He Has Made in the Office. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. • Washington, April 4.—As the day approaches On which Mr. Sterling P. Rounds will have completed his fourth year in the office of Public Printer, a great deal of pressure is again brought to bear in the interest of various candidates to secure his place. It is understood, however, that the President has determined to allow Mr. Rounds to remain some months at least, and he may even conclude to allow him to retain his position indefinitely. Rounds has made a record which is a credit to the public service, and, in spite of the fact that the amount of public printing increases each year, he has so systematized affairs in his department as to have decreased expenses from year to year, so that for the twelve months beginning July 1 next he asks $242,000 less than his estimates called for a year ago. There has been no complaint of the publication of connuential work since he assumed control of the office, and this in spite of the fact that during the last year the work of this character has been very much larger than ever before. The most important work of reform, to Congressmen at least, has been that by which Mr. Rounds, since he has beon Public Printer, has so arranged the details of his office as to insure the prompt delivery of the Congressional Record every morning, and during the four years of his administration it is said that not a single issue has missed the early mails. COMMISSIONER BLACK. Th Senate Will Probably Take Cognizance of Certain Charges Against Him. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, April 4.—-It is probable that the Senate will take cognizance of the charges made against Commissioner Black and theCivil-servic6 Commission, and that an investigation will follow. The charges referred to first appeared in the National Republican of this city, and are to the effect that of the seventy-seven recently appointed special examiners of the Pension Office seventy-three were Democrats. Os course this large proportion >f party men could not have been selected without collusion with the Civil service Commission?rs. The Republican charges that, for the purpose of giving the Democrats an extra chance to pass an examination, the standard of perfection was reduced from 65 to 50 per cent on this one occasion, and that, instead of certifying four names for each vacancy, the Civil-service Commissioners and the chief examiner sent over the whole list of eligibles from which General Blaek made his selections; that he appointed no ope until he knew to a certainty how far the applicant's political b<#lef compared with his own, and that when certain Democratic Congressmen wanted men appointed who had not passed the examination of the commission and were not named in the list of eligibles certified, they were called to Washington, pushed through a special examination and appointed at once. These charges are of the most serious character, and, if they can be proven, those guilty of violations of the law should be summarily dealt with. The offense under the Pendleton act is a serious one, and the penalty pre scribed, if enforced, would be sufficient to guarantee that other officials will not follow the fcourse laid down by General Black in this matter.

RIVERS AND HARBORS. An Effort to Prejudice the President Against Western Appropriations. Special to the Indianapolia Journal. Washington, April 4.— Some of the Eastern papers, notably the New York Sun, are en deavoring to influence the President against the river and harbor bill, and to secure from him a veto in the event of its passage, on the alleged ground that it is unfair towards the East, and that the committee which formulated it was packed in the interest of the West and South. •The Eastern press forgets again, as it frequently •does, that the Western waterways were neglected for years, while the harbors of the East were receiving millions annually from the government. It is but natural that the great lakes and the rivers of the West should now some in for a larger share of appropriations than is given to the seaboard harbor improvements. Everybody who has looked into the details of the bill as reported to the House expresses satisfaction with its fair distribution of the total amount appropriated. It is two years now since the last dollar was appropriated by Congress, and it would be extreme folly to attempt to defeat this new measure on the ground of unfairwhen it is so easy to see that a great many - orks partially completed to great <*' '.mage if longer neglected. The bill will, uu-’-‘tbtedly, pass the House this session, and it is eiy that the seaboard will find friends in the •nate who will regulate any short-comings in .o bill w hen it reaches that body. MINOR MATTERS. Commodore Trr.xton Attacked with Epilepsy — His Condition Very Serious. Washington, April 3 —Commodore Truxton fell io an epileptic fit, this afternoon, at the Ehbitt House. He was being shaved in the barber shop, when he suddenly plunged forward, and struek heavily on his head on the marble floor. His scalp was badly cut He has been uticon*eioU3 most of the time since his fall, and has had one recurrence of his attack. He has been subject to a slight affection of this ®ort for some time, and yesterday had two Httneks. His case is considered very serious. He was greatly disappointed over his failnre of confirmation, and this bas noticeably affected his health. Mr. Manning Will Leave the Cabinet. 'Washington Special. It can be stated upon high official authority that, within the next thirty days, Secretary Manning will cease to be a member of Mr. Cleveland's Cabinet The Secretary will, of course, urge his broken health as a reason for his retirement from a position which he was not originally anxious to fill, but was persuaded by Mr. Cleveland to accept. There is, of course, speculation as to who will succeed him; but it can also be stated on high authority that the subject has not yet been seriously considered. Assistant Secretary Fairchild is filling the place, during Mr. Manning’s sickness, with signal ability. He has shown, in his administration of the customs service and the numerous other intricate branches of Treasury work under his supervision as Assistant Secretary, executive qualifications of a high order. Cabinet Invalid* Improving. Washington, April 4.—Secretary Manning is improving rapidly. He is very much better tonight, and it is hoped that he will be able to sit up within a few days. Secretary Lamar and Attorney-general Garland have almost entirely recovered, and are ow able to transact departmental business at hir homes; but their physicians wijl not perit them to go out while the present inclement v.gather continues. Miscellaneous Notes. Special te the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, April 4. General Shackelford and his daughter, Miss Lou Shackleford, of Evansville, are in the city yet Mrs. John W. Foster, after a trip to Mexico with her husband, and a visit to old friends in Indiana, has returned to her home in this city. John 8- Pettit, of Lafayette, having served a satisfactory prohibitionary term of six months, )ias been appointed to a SI,OOO position in the effiee of the Sixth Auditor of tho Treasury.

THE GREAT BAILWAY STRIKE [Concluded from First Page.] retary Turner waited in the lobby of the hotel for an answer? while committeeman Bailey remained in their room. In fifteen minutes the messenger brought back a reply from Mr. Hoxie, inviting the two committeemen to an immediate reception. Secretary Turner went upstairs, got committeeman Bailey, and the two walked along Sixth street to the Equitable Building again, and entered the office of the first vice-president for the third time. They were asked to enter, and walking in found Mr. Hoxie standing with Judge Hough, with a stenographer and several clerks in the room. Mr. Hoxie*and the two repsesentatives of the Knights of Labor shook hands And went at once to business. There were no unoccupied seats in the room except Mr. Hoxie’s, and the two visitors were not asked to sit down. Secretary Turner told Mr. Hoxie that he was not calling on him as secretary and treasurer of the Knights of Labor, nor was Mr. Bailey meeting him as a member of the executive'committee, but they had come simply as two men interested in the Southwestern strike to talk it over, and ascertain if some arrangement could be made by which it could be ended. Mr. Hoxie said that be was willing to talk to them oo this basis, and these preliminaries over, the interview proceeded. Sensational Story by Way of Chicago. Chicago, April 4.—The Daily News’s St Louis special says: “A telegraph operator named Frank McKeighau was arrested to-day, and made a confession which will create quite a sensation here. He says he entered into an arrangement with Thomas Furlong, chief of the Gould system secret service, whereby Martin Irons, A. C. Coughlan and other prominent leaders of the Knights of Labor were to bs arrested. A room was engaged in the third Btory of No. 2327 Market street, past the window of which ran a private telegraph wire on which H. M. Hoxie, vice-president of the Missouri Pacific railway, was in almost constant communication with Joy Gould. McKeighan engaged another operator named Nicholas. The wire was tapped and an instrument was soon at work. The arrangement was to have Coughlan and others in the room intercepting the messages between Hoxie and Gould, when the police would make a descent on the place and capture tho whole outfit. The signal for the descent was to be a lamp placed in one of the windows. On Friday night the detectives and a squad of police were ready, and a lamp appeared in one of the windows of the second floor. A rush was made sos the room, and a poor woman running a sewing-ma-chine was all that was found. The raiders found that they had struck the wrong room, and ascending to the third floor McKeighan was found alone. Chief Harrigan heard of the matter, and McKeighan s arrest followed.”

TURNER AND DAILY. The Secret Policy Denounced—Effect of Mr. Powderly*s Circular, St. Louis Globe-Democrat. In the course of a casual conversation, Mr. Bailey expressed himself strongly against the policy of tho local assemblies in keeping all information, as far as possible, from the press. “It was just that sort of thing,” he went on to say, “making necessary the publication of conjecture* and surmises at New York, that delayed, perhaps forever, the consummation of our arrangements with Mr. Gould.” “How was that?” “Weil, the morning after Mr. Powderly’s conference with Mr. Gould the New York papers, not being advised as to the exact character of the arrangements, came out in flaming headlines, ‘Gould Yields,’ “The Money King Downed by Labor,’ and all that sort of thing. This hurt Gould's pride, and embittered him to such an extent that he went back on the concessions that I am pretty confident he otherwise intended to make. That is the inside history of the hitch at, New York. Gould was very proud and very jealous of the position he had assumed, and could not bear the papers to put him in the attitude of a defeated man." “Both parties must come down off their high horses,” said Mr. Turner. “We do not expect that all strikers will be taken back, but want as many re employed as there are places for, and no discrimination shown. That, in fact, was what Mr. Gould privately agreed with us." “Asa matter of fact,” was asked, “aid Mr. Powderly, in hfe order, mean for the men to apply for work through a committee as Knights, or individually?” “Why, individually, of course. The demand for recognition as Knights was all a mistake. “Do not you understand that the railroads are willing to take them back on individual application?" “No. That’s iust where the trouble was. Now, I am told that in one instance, at, least, the road absolutely refused to retain a Knight who had staid by them. I refer to the case of a man named Berry, of Chamois, on the Missouri Pacific.” “Who told you about that case?” “The man himself. He came to the committee meeting this morning and made complaint.” “If neceseary, can the board give an order for the men to go back as individuals without consulting the executive committee?" “Certainly it can.” “Did you use the language attributed to you in the telegraphic reports pronouncing Martin Irons as one of the men who was doing the order a great deal of harm?" “Yes, sir, I did use that laneuage conditionally that Mr. Irons had made the statement that the strike would probably extend all over the country. I consider such incendiary language as that calculated to do a great deal of harm.” “How do you view the forcible stopping of trains and interfering with traffic?” “I don’t approve of it at all. If we can’t stop trains by moral force we will let them run. It is folly to use violence. We don’t know where it will stop, or how much property will be de stroved. Violence and property destruction always bas a reaction x taxes, in the curtailment of wages, and tho increase of the value of commodities, and this reaction falls directly on the laboring men.” “What was the effect of the publication of Mr. Powderly's secret circular in the East?” “Oh, fine,” replied the Secretary, breaking into a smile; “thefactis.it was simply wonderful. I can tell you a bit of secret history connected with it that may be interesting. The feeling in the East, just before the publication of the cricular, was bitter against the Knights. I was privately informed that the day before a warrant for conspiracy had been sworn out against Mr. Powdorly at Scranton, but the circular appearing in all the papers the next morning so completely turned the tide of popular opinion that it was not deemed advisable to serve it It was a noble document, aod did more to place our order in its true light than all other causes combined.” MR POWDERLY’S DIFFICULTIES. Intrigues to Disrupt the Knights of Labor—A Crisis in the Affairs of the Order. New York Tribune. A reporter had a talk with a gentleman well versed in all the phases of the labor movement iu this country and Europe, and whose sympathies lie entirely with the trades unions aud also with the Knights of Labor. When asked about the recent railroad strike he replied: “At the moment Mr. Gould declined to arbitrate, Mr. Powderly should have done one of two things. He either should have ordered the men back to work, or have moved the whole order to the front. The first would have been the wiser act, because of its justice. The strike was an illegal one. The man Hall was discharged for good cause. District Assembly No. 101 recognized this fact But for reasons best known to some of the leaders out West they seized the opportunity to order a general strike on the Southwestern system, aud tried to support their illegal, if not treacherous action by a bill of grievances which they presented as an afterthought, and to a company having no direct control of the road on which the trouble had its origin. Mr. Powderly’s sense of justice recognized all these facts, but it seems that he lacked, as on other and similar occasions, the courage to hotly confront the disturbing elements in his organisation. To order a general strike on all the roads in the conntry was out of the question, and for convincing reasons. First, publio opin*

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lon would not have tolerated sueh a proceeding; second, the deployment of all the forces of the order would have laid bare to the gaze of the astounded world its weakness in numbers, its lack of adhesion and discipline, its loose and unjointed organization, and its mob-like elements of discord, which in many localities may be said to be the sweepings and refuse of the entire labor movement; third, an order of a general strike at the present moment would have been just the instrument for which certain elements had been waiting as a means to disrupt the order, or to capture it body and soul. Mr. Powderly clearly perceived this particular and greatest danger, and, to avoid all chances of personal opposition in case of his acting on the line of justice, he took refuge in diplomacy. But I fear it will not extricate the executive committee from the quagmire into which it has been crowded. lam afraid that this strike, whatever settlement may be reached finally, will only be the beginning of internal disorders which may threaten destruction to the order.

“At present, the order though apparently greatest in numbers, is weakest in forces. Eighteen months ago, it numbered about 80,000 in good standing. Under the impetus given through successful strikes, particularly that of the car drivers, the order has increased its membership to probably 250,000. But these vast numbers represent a loosely organized crowd, indiscriminately thrown together in local and district bodies, without a strike fund and a welldefined centralized government Mr. Powderly might have spared himself the great mental strain and moral anxiety of the past weeks if he had promptly blown to the winds that ‘evil spirit’ which manifested itself in the boycott of Straiton & Storm's cigars. All this late trouble would have been avoided, and the order would rest to-day on a solid basis, if Mr. Powderly had issued his circular letter drafted eighteen months ago, as he intended to do, at the time of the Tousey trouble. The impending crisis in the life of the order is of sueh a threatening character that remedial measures must immediately be applied. Mr. Powderly will, in a few days, issue a call for a special session of the General Assembly to meet within the constitutional period, twenty days after the issue. At the beginning of the strike on the Southwestern system, communications passed between ' the prominent men in the order about the advisability of a special session. District No. 64 (eardrivers), the typographical unions, the New York Protective Union, and other locals and districts petitioned for the call of a special session. Within a few days Mr. Powderly will be in possession of the constitutional requirement of a written request of five district assemblies, representing five different States, calling for a special session of the General Assembly for the avowed purpose of expelling elements of discord not in harmony with American ideas, and hostile to the fundamental principles of the order, for a partial reorganization as to its mode of government, all of which can be effected without a change of constitution or laws simply by a return to the fundamental principles through the constitutional appliance of the machinery of administration. * ‘Before thisconvention meets it will be the duty of the executive committee to investigate thoroughly the causes leading to the last great railroad strike; the history of the Knights most active in its inception and conduct, and also to fathom the fountains from which, in this case, the wild Western spirit took its flow. The committee might then discover that this spirit is of the same vapor and color as that which for years in the East, in fact all through the country, has not only blighted the labor movement generally, but has also carried evil and discord into the councils of the order, and whose most important mission is to sad the order’s very foundation and to tumble its lofty structure into the ground. This evil spirit which has overawed the order like au ominous cloud is embodied in the socialistic labor party. It always held the order to be its most dangerous antagonist. Insignificant in numbers, unable to mass forces, and thus secure control, it has used stealthy, treacherous means to gain its object, to disrupt the order or make it subservient to anarchy for the sole purpose of destroying society. So loon as the order gained in numbers and power and became an established and most important factor in the labor movement, the socialistic leaders sent their shrewdest agitators as emissaries into the local and district assemblies wherein, within a short time, they have gained a influence. For instance, District No. the eity of New York, Long Island, axu parts of New Jersey, in a certain sense the most important district in relation to the general labor movement, was, until a late date, part and parcel of the socialistic party. “How far this influence became dominant may be seen from the fact that the present general auditor of the order. Mr. Caville, one of the first and most faithful members of it, and his local, No. 1562, were, with the exception of a single member, expelled from the district through the machinations of a socialistic leader. Victor Drury. St. Louis and Chicago were likewise made hotbeds of socialistic intrigue. The influence of the socialistic element within the order grew so powerful that they and their abettors attempted to capture it through the election of their partisans as delegates to the convention held in Hamilton, Ont. This was only prevented through the far-sightedness and energy of Gen. eral Auditor Caville and members of the international typographical unions. The strike on the Southwestern system had its secret springs in a clearly defined purpose to entangle the order in the general eight-hour movement and strike planned for the Ist of May. The idea of such a general strike originated with the edi : tors of a socialistic newspaper published iu this city, and was taken up by the editors of similar publications in Chicago and St Louis. When the determined opposition of the general executive committee of the Knights was encountered the leaders of the socialistic party decided on the utilization of the strike on the Southwestern system, or Gould lines, in tt:e firm and altogether not unreasonable hope that Mr. Gould, under the circumstances, would refuse to accept arbitration and thus force the order to a general strike throughout the country. The movement was properly timed. Unforseen circumstances precipitated it, laid partially bare the secret springs and thus enabled the executive committee to ward off the blow aimed at the peace, prosperity and good name of the order.”

Recent Utterances of Mr. Powderly. Scranton (Pa.) Special. Before Mr. Powderly left for New York for th 6 conference with Gould, he said: “This will be the last strike of the Knights of Labor in America." If his views could bo carried out this might be true. All of Mr. Powderly’s labors have been in opposition to strikes as a means of settling differences between labor and capital. He was at work on a plan when taken sick that would simplify the management of the Knights of Labor organization if adopted. The plan was to change the rules of the association, making it impossible for a strike to be ordered without first referring the matter to the general master workman and the executive committee. This was proposed with a view of preventing inconsiderate action by a local district such as Chairman Irons precipitated in the West. Mr. Powderly regretted Mr. Irons’s action in first ordering the strike without consulting the executive committee, aod he believed that the strike could have been prevented if Mr. Irons had conferred with tho executive committee. Another change that will probably be adopted as soon as Mr. Powderly regains his health will be to provide for the establishment of a regular bureau for the general master workman, with a number of clerks aud assistants. The existing rules were adopted when the Knights of Labor were comparatively a small organization, and are not suited to the present requirements. It is not thought advisable for the general master workman to be compelled to run about the country at the beck and call of the various local committees. His duties will be rather to direct the movements of the organization from his office. When necessary to hold a special conference he will send an authorized deputy. VAGARIES OF BOYCOTTING. A Case In Which It Proved of Great Benefit to a Bakery Proprietor. Newark (N. J.) Advertiser. An im< uisitive reporter had his attention called, while pausing up Mulberry street at noon to-day, to the almost constant current of humanity that ebbed and flowed through the doorway of Gustave Tobleman, bread and cake baker, at No. 264 Mulberry street Asa rush like this is most unusual in that quiet part of the city, the reporter naturally asked what had thus stimulated trade iu the bread and cake line. “Why, you see,”

said Mr. Tobleman, “we are boycotted. n To the reporter’s inquiry how that could help trade, he shrugged his shoulders and said: “I ao* no The Union fellers began the boycott about two weeks ago, and last Saturday they sent three men to distribute circulars before my store door, informing my customers that I was not a union baker and that they must not patronize me. They even spoke to some people who were coming this way with baskets, and urged them to go somewhere else; but it didn’t do any good. The old customers came all the same, and also new ones I had never seen before. Some wealthy people who had heard of the boycott came too, and my wife and daughter and I are hardly able to wait upon the people. Fact is, that was the biggest day’s trade we ever had, and before 9 o’clock in the evening we hadn’t a loaf of bread left, and had to send people away with empty baskets.” •‘Well,” interposed the reporter, “do all these people I see coming in now know that you are boycotted?” “Why, yes,” he replied, “that’s what they come for. Why, do you know,” ne added, “that we nay our three men what is equal to $2 a week more than the union bakers do? How is that? Why, I’ll tell you; we board and lodge our men cheaper than they could get the same accommodations anywhere else.” “Yes,” chimed in Mrs. Tobleman, “we told our men we would allow them $5 a week to get board somewhere else if they wanted to go, but they said they would rather Btay here* This morning the unionists came again and gave out circulars before the door, aud it seems as if a rush of business begins as soon as they appear. Our men don’t want to join the union, neither does Gustave, and I don’t know why we should be boycotted for that. We bake good cake and bread, and always have it fresh, and we 'tend to our own business, and I don’t know why we should be interfered with.” At this point in the interview the reporter bade the thrifty couple good-bye and left Boycotting, therefore, is sometimes a benefit OTHER LABOR NEWS. Lafayette Printers Demand an Increase of Wages All Around. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Lafayette Ind., April 4.—Typographical Union No. 64, adopted an amendment to the scale of prices to-day raising wages for night foreman to S2O per week; assistant, $18; day foreman, $17.50; assistant, sls; compositors on morning papers and book-work, 35 cents per thousand ems; on evening papers, 30 cents. It is generally thought all the offices will conform to the new scale. John Rosser’s job and book establishment, one of the largest in the city, shut down last week, but the failure is laid mor o to management than to the dullness of trade. The new scale goes into effeet April 1L Labor Notes. New York, April 4.— Five hundred journeymen bakers last night determined to strike on May 1 for twelve hours’ work, five days of the week, fourteen on Saturday, and to board where they choose. Evansville, Ind., April 4.—The strike of brakemen on the St. Louis division of the Louisville & Nashville road has ended. The eompany made no concessions. Mora help was offered than could be employed in place ot the strikers. Pittsburg, April 4.—At a meeting of second hnd third pool coal-miners at Schryocks, Pa., last night, it was decided to strike on Wednesday unless the operators advance the rate for mining coal shipped by railroads one quarter of a cent per bushel. The advance has been-prom-ised on May 1, but the miners want it at once.

Jones, Small and Their Hire. Chicago, April 4—Sam Jones concluded his relieious exhortations in Chicago to-day. In the morning he drew a large audience to Dr. Goodwin’s church, and in the afternoon and evening the Casino Rink was filled an hour before the services began. Nearly ten thousand people were present at each of the services in the rink. The collections at both services were given to Messrs. Jones and Small, and, with the salary guaranteed them in advance, netted them $3,000 apiece for tueir four weeks’ work. Steamship News. London, April 4.—Passed Kinsale: Roman, from Boston for Liverpool. Queenstown, April 4.—Arrived: Servia, from New York. Plymouth, April 4.—Arrived: Westphalia, from New York for Hamburg. Beginning Grant’s War Papers. Washington tar. When Roswell Smith started the serieß of war articles in the Century, he applied first, of course, to General Grant. It so happened that the period was that of the beginning of Grant’s illness, and of his financial reverses. Mr. Smith visited him at his home and opened the subject to him. He did not at first think favorably of it. He feared that tho public would not care to read anything he might write upon his battles. “What would you suppose,” said Mr. Smith to him, “would be the feeling of the public if they should be able now to obtain two accounts of the battle of Waterloo, written by Napoleon and Wellington, respectively?” “I think they would command a great many readers,” said Grant. “Well.” replied Mr. Smith, “an account from yon of the great battles in which you participated would command many more.” This favorable view from one in the habit of feeling the pulse of the public seemed to incline General Grant, for the first time, to engage in the work.. He was in a mood, too, to seek occupation and distraction from his troubles. He asked Mr. Smith if he expected to obtain contributions of the same kind from others. “With your example there will not be the least difficulty,” was the reply. Then the point was made what the Southern combatants should be called, in writing of them. “I propose to call them confederates,” said Mr. Smith. “I have been in the habit of thinking of them as rebels,” was Grant’s reply. “What should you call them if you had invited them to your table?” was the rejoinder. “1 think then the term confederate would be admissible,” said Grant. “Well,” said Mr. Smith, “I propose to invite them to our literary table.” Grant smiled, and this difficulty was settled. fie engaged to do the work, and the war papers were assured. When Girls Want To Become Nans* Undertones, in Ban Francisco Chronicle. I fancy there is a time in every girl's life when she wants to go into a convent. A girl always once in her life falls in love with a married man, falls into a pure, fervent, holy love that is deliciously hopeless. She sobs, and sighs, and dreams, and weers, and then the cloister seems to be the only place that can give her life its finish. This lasts a week or so, and then she goes to a ball, dances with a young man of unprincipled sentimentality. and, afterthat, they’re at the opera, and‘the park, and the Cliff House in turn all the time. Then she’s glad she didn’t go to the convent. It’s awfully lucky if the girl meets the married man early in life. There are only a few men like Charles Warren Stoddard who want to be moukr. Nature predestines the monks, but circumstances make themun. I have heard of a young wems.n who made up her mind that the world, with its pomps and vanities, was not for her. So odo day she laid aside all her finery, all her jewelry—the gauds that women wear and men pay for—and knocked at the gate of a convent lam not quite sure of the course of preparation uocessary for being a nun; but this young lady went through it up to the very last ceremony. After that ceremony the world would see her no more, and it was near at hand. She could yet turn back. She did. She left the convent after dark one night, having declared her desire to do so, and next morning early her friends met her walking down Kearny street in a full-blcwn bustle and bang, and all the fixings of a belle of the period. Wliat Excites Pittsburg. Pittsburg Dispatch. With the street-car and railway strikes settled, the public can give its undivided attention to the perennial Issue of instrumental music in the U. P. Church. A matter of choice—whether to suffer, uninterruptedly * with a cough or to invest 25 cents tor Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup and cure it.

SPIBIT OF THE STATE PBESS. Hla Tote Should Be Counted as Oust. Liberty Herald. •.. All roads out of the Republican lead into the Democratic party, and either one or the other of these political parties will control the legislation of this country for many years to come. Far above other considerations, for the present, it is the right of an American citizen to vote and have his vote counted as cast, something which is denied, at the muzzle of a double-bar-reled shotgun, by a dozen Democratic States in this country, to whose criminal brutality in this direction* and a cratch or two in the European city of New York, we are indebted for the present Democratic administration, which has only distinguished itself so far by its efforts to assassiate the character of thousands of American citizens. • I Black, the Assassin. Brookville American. When Mr. Black appeared before the committee and was requested to prove the charges he had made against the honor and integrity of Colonel Dudley and other gentlemen, he utterly failed to do so in every instance, and had to admit that he was wrong in the interpretation he had put upon ocular evidence and the weight he had given to hearsay testimony. Yet upon such grounds he had based charges that he intended should injure the reputation of honorable men because they were Republicans. Here we have another sample of Democratic honesty and respect for the rights of Republicans. Why Not Try Local Option? Union City Eagle. The experience of recent years fully demonstrates that local option is the solution of the liquor question. Nothing will create prohibition sentiment faster. Let the people of Indiana have an opportunity to treat the subject in this way, and we believe such a course would very quickly take the subject out of politics. Let the people who have to endure the horrors of the saloon have the right to administer this localoption treatment, and the greatest good will necessarily flow from it It has worked wonders in other States. Why not try it here! A Poor Old Democratic County. Versailles Republican. That Ripley county is looked down upon by neighboring counties, and by most counties of the State, is a lamentable fact which should not be longer permitted. One great drawback to the good name and reputation es our county is the class and “calibre” of the men we have selected to represent us in both houses of the Legislature during the past few years. It is a fact which all good citizens are compelled to blushingly admit, that her representatives in that august body have been the laughing-stock of the State, ami even of the Nation. That Indianapolis PostofHce. Lagrange Standard. The mugwumps made roueh ado, a year ago, about Father Jones, the postmaster at Indianapolis, for violation of the civil-service law. There is an opportunity for them to howl again. The old man, with his little ax, cut off the official head of one of his best clerks, last week, a wood-en-legged soldier, just because he wanted the place for a Democrat. The Indianapolis postoffice is the only one in the State under civilservice reform regulations, yet even in that one spot the Democracy will not observe the law. A Conspicuous Failure. Lafayette Courier. The Democratic party came into power over a year ago, on the platform of unconditional opposition to Republican principles and measures; and yet it has not made a serious effort to undo a single one of the lading features of the Republican plan of carrying on the government. Such a vindication of the record of the party that ruled the country for twenty-four years, through difficulties of the most trying and momentous description, may fairly be considered sufficient for all purposes.

Black’s Chargee. Columbus Republican. The more General Black tries to prove his charges against Commissioner Dudley the worse mess be makes of it. He has again beeu before the committee, after several days in which to fortify himself, and yet the showing that he made was even worse than at first. General Black first made the charge, and then undertook to hunt up evidence to sustain it, and failed. Another time he will know enough to be sure of the evidence before he makes the charga The Outlawry of Labor. Brazil Register. The great railroad strike, by which the business industry of the Southwest has been so completely paralyzed for so long, is a wanton exhibition of the might of organization to defy law and to destroy property. The suceess of the Knights of Labor in such outlawry is a sad comment on our institutions as a republic, and a warning of “danger ahead” that it is to the interest of all classes to heed. The Chestnuts Too Hot for Blaek. Kentiand Gazette. Senator Harrison has been putting Pension Commissioner Black in very close quarters in the latter’s official effort to injure the good name of the former Commissioner, Colonel Dudley. Mr. Black seems to be willing to drop a good many of his alleged crooked cases, indeed he would probably be glad to drop the whole business if he could. Tearing Off the Mask. Muncie News. If other Senators would follow Senator Harrison’s example in tearing off the mask of civilservice reform as practiced in their States, as he did for Indiana, the great “ref orm” of the present administration would have light shining through it at every pore, and there would be nothing left but the skeleton of a once robust pretension. Violated Their Obligations as Knights. Goshen Times. If Mr. Powderly is a correct exponent of the principles and aims of the Knights of Labor, and we cannot see why he should not be accepted as such, then the organization has been misrepresented, and striking and riotous Knights of the Southwest have violated the object, rules and tenets of the order. Completely Unmasked. Mancie Times. Senator Harrison’s speech in the Senate, on the 26th, was the most pointed and complete unmasking of the President’s preteuded civil-serv-ice reform that has, so far, been delivered in that body. The Infanta’s Wedding Dress. Lucy Hooper’s Letter. The wedding dress of the Infanta Eulalia, the bride of Prince Antoine de Montpensier, appears to be causing her princely father-in-law a good deal of annoyance. It was he who presented the dresa in question to his niece and daughter-in-law. It was an elaborate and costly robe of lace, the pattern presenting in its intricacies a representation of the arms of all the provinces of Spain. The Duke de Montpensier ordered the toilet and the veil from oae of the leading dressm ikers of Madrid, stipulating that every portion of it should be manufactured in Spain, as he wished to encourage Spanish industries. The dross came home, was approved of, and worn, and then the Duke received the bill for it, amounting to $23,000. Naturally considering that sum a rather excessive price, even for the wedding-dress of a Princess, he refused to pay it The dressmaker sued the Duke, and in tho course of the trial the fact was evolved that the lace had never been made in Spain at all, but had been furnished by a famous manufactory in Brussels, and had cost just $4,000. The Duke has deposited SB,OOO in the hands of the presiding judge of the court, and has declared his willingness to stand suit to any amount rather than pay such an iniquitous demand, his indignation at the overcharge being naturally aggravated by the flagrant neglect of his orders. There are some places in Spain where very beautiful lace is still made, though the once celebrated factories of Albufeoro ann Barcelona have lost their supremacy. _ Beaten by the Rival. Washington Capital. I heard a good story the other day of two ladies who, it is said, once lived in Chicago and who were social rivals. They were on visiting terms, but devoted much of their time to conridering how they could surpass each other in the richness and elaboration of their house and

raiment In the progress of their pleasing rivalry Mrs. A. gave a grand reception, at which she appeared in anew gown of very fine and wonderful texture, which quite surpassed anything that had ever been made into a dress for a Chicago lady in the whole history of that remarkable town. Everybody saw the incomparable dress and marveled greatly thereat—that is, everybody except the one unconquerable rival, Mrs. 8., who gave a reception at her own house a fortnight later, to which the same people were invited who had attended the reception of Mrs. A. The astonishment of the latter may be imagined when, on entering Mrs. B.’s drawing-room, she beheld all the upholstered furniture in the room covered with precisely the same material as that of the dress with which she had startled her friends two weeks before. In the language of the street, Mrs. B. ; ‘got away with her” that time at least. Science for the Sick. E. F. Andrews, in Popular Science Monthly. Invalids, as a rule, have a great deal of leisure on their hands—more of it than they like—and to All this time pleasantly is a question involving a good deal more than mere amusement. The importance of mental distraction to invalids is a fact too universally recognized to call for comment here, my object in this paper being merely to suggest a mode of distraction that, is my own experience, has not only been attended with the happiest results physically, but has proved a source of intense and never-failing pleasure. I allude to the study of botany—not the tiresome, profitless study of text-books, but j of the woods, and fields, and meadows. The beauty of this pursuit is that it takes the student out of doors, aud throat and luog troubles, as has been truly said, are house diseases. I am speaking, of course, to those who have begun to fight the enemy before be has captured the inner defenses, and who are supposed to be strong enough to do a reasonable amount of walking and some solid for boteuy, though the simplest of thtsscieuces, cannot be mastered without some effort. You are met right at the threshold by that fearful, technical vocabulary which must be conquered before advancing a single step—a labor so formidable and repeliaDt, when undertaken according to the old school-book method, that I do not wonder so many have shrunk away from it in disgust or in despair. Painting Them Bed for Easter. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A hen in Webster City, la., is laying eggs of a bright vermillion color. There is a good deal of chic about such a performance. A Bit of Realism. New Orleans Picayune. “The bravest are the tenderest,” except in tho case of spring chickens of last spring. All '"Play ed~ Out." “Don’t know what ails me lately. Can’t ©at well—can’t sleep well, Can’t work, and don’t enjoy doing anything. Ain’t really sick, and I really ain’t well. Feel all kind o’ played out, someway.” That is what scores of men say every day. If they would take Dr. Pierced Golden Medical Discovery they would soon have no occasion to say it It purifies the blood, tones up the system and fortifies it against disease. It is a great anti-bilious remedy as well. The New England Farmer says: “No man can tell what sex the egg will produce. In fact, it is almost impossible to tell, after the chicken is hatched, until the comb and tail begin to grow. It seems safe to assume that the rules for determining the sex of eggs will be monopolized by ‘scientific amateurs.’” It used to be thought unwise to grow small fruits except in the vicinity of cities or the larger towns, but of late years it has been found that the open country furnishes a better market for a certain amount of strawberries, raspberries and other small fruits Your system is now more susceptible to tha benefits of a reliable medicine than at any other season. Take Hood’s Sarsaparilla.

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