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b.nrrasament and criticism. General Hazen thinks that some snch plan is necessary, as on more than one occasion the legal status of the service has been ealled into question, and an office charged with carrying out important matters under special sets of Congress should have a fixed and definite organization and a proper legal status. THE PRESIDENT IN BAD HUMOR. "Wrestling with Treasury SSfrplns Figure* Makes Him Nervous and Irritable. ‘Washington Special. The President is working harder on his message than he did last year. The wrestling with the figures of the Treasury surplus and the problem to find the best way to reduce needless taxes hare proven such unusual work for him that he *ia s become very nervous and irritable. A congressional caller who reached the White Bcuse library, yesterday, found the President swearing in a great rage at a trembling attendant, using him as an escape-valve for his nervous irritation. The Cabinet officers, who have been summoned from time to time to confer with the President, have caught the contagion of his irritation. Thore is never a time when the messengers shake go in their shoes as when the department masters have freshly returned from the White House. Cabinet officers questioned about the subjects of the President’s message turn pale and change the subject with lightning-like swiftness. The Pres ident does not hope to get any tariff revision measure through Congress this coming session, but he does expect that the Firtieth Congress will pass some measure. The President is inclined to believe that there may be a slight chance for the passage of some such conservative proposition as is embraced in the Hewittad-. ministrative bilL He is not in favor of calling the Fiftieth Congress together in special session, according to the plan of Senator Whitthorne, in order to reduce the tariff. He believes that it will be enough for him to take stroug grounds in that direction now and use his influence with the Fiftieth Congress when it meets. The long session of 1887 and 1888 will give him his opportunity, and if he is successful, will give him a great start for his renomination. THE PRESIDENT ON SILVER. The Recommendations He Will Make in His Forthcoming Message. , Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 2.—A Washington special to the Eagle says: ‘‘ln his message the President will call attention to the regulation of Silver coinage by placing discretionary power in the Secretary of the Treasury, and to the reduction of the receipts by a reduction of customs duties and internal revenue taxes in order to prevent the redundance of revenue and too great an excess of the surplus fund. The President, from the data furnished by Treasury officers, will be able to show that, because another year has passed without trouble, notwithstanding the indifference manifested toward his recommendation lasi year on the same subject, it does not follow that the danger has been passed. He shows that the favorable conditions of trade averted the complications threatened then, but that we are now so much nearer a crisis, and that when it cotoes it will come suddenly and will require prompt treatment." MINOR MATTERS. The Daughter of the Late Secretary Frelingliuysen a Helpless Invalid. Washington, Dec. 2. —Mrs. John Davis, the second daughter of the late Secretary Frelinghuysen, and wife of Judge Davis, of the Court of Claims, has become a hopeless invalid. She has never recovered from the injuries received by being thrown from a drag at Lenox, Mass., last summer. It was thought, after her return to Washington, that her recovery would be rapid and certain. The other day Mrs. Davis felt so ■well that- she thought she would try to walk down stairs with assistance. This was her first attempt to walk since the injury. She had taken but a few steps when she fell, from a stroke of paralysis, The attack was severe, but does not extend above the legs. The physician in attendance does not think Mrs. Davis will ever be able to walk again, but at the same time her general health will probably be good, so that she may live for years, but will always have to remain in s reclinin>i: position. This sad fate of a lad} r who was so prominent in society under the last administration has created great sympathy throughout Washington.

Politics In the Sooth. Washington Special. The Democrats of Virginia are gradually recovering from the stunning effects of the recent election in that State, and are beginning preparations for restoring it to the Democratic party as soon as may be. It is said that Representative-elect Brown, who defeated Cable in the Fifth district, has decided to act with the Democrats, although he was elected as an Independent Republican. Senator Riddleberger’s home organ has just come out with a suggestlvo editorial, very friendly to the President in its tone, and the inference is that the {Senator is thinking of trying to find his way into the Democratic ranks. Meanwhile, however, no matter how much influence of this sort the Democratic leaders in Virginia may be able to exert, the silent and steady growth of manufacturing enterprises in that State will furnish a counter influence in favor of the protective tariff and the Republican party, which they will find it very difficult, if not impossible, to resist. Virginia is just as likely to be a Republican as a Democratic State in future. The same may be said of West Virginia and Tennessee. “Matlar" Henderson Still Hunting Office. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Dec. 2.—Senator Voorhees, Re presentativd Matson and other Indiana Democrats were in counsel with Eb Henderson at the Capitol to-day, devising a move for the latter toward some office. It is understood that Eb’s name will again be pressed for the third assistant postmaster-generalship, and if be fails in that, which is altogether probable, he will be ■prged for a position in the Internal Revenue Bureau, but just what one is not determined upon. It is likely that something will be found for Eb this time, as he and bis friends are fishing with him in all official waters. One of his most prominent Hoosier backers offered to Wager a hat to-night that Eb would be in office before the Ist of January. A Cautious Congressman. Washington Special. Public men with Western constituencies find that owning large houses in Washington does not contribute to their popularity at home. More than one Western public man has been defeated by the judieious circulation of a photograph of his Washington house among his Sanger constituents. Congressman Robert itt, of Illinois, i9 evidently avrare of this fact. He rushed to-day from his house in great wrath to demolish an amateur photographer who had his camera leveled at the domicile. There were high words on both sides, but as the photographer looked like an athlete, Mr. Hitt beat a retreat and the man proceeded with his work. Butler Versus Carlisle. Washington Special. General Butler, It is Announced here, is to be the counsel for Thobe, in his contast for the seat for which Speaker Carlisle holds the cer iificata General Butler, by doing this, will undoubtedly endeavor to appear as the friend of organized labor. General ami Personal. Washington, Dec. 2.—Congressman Ben Lefevre, of Ohio, it is said, is being urged for appointment to the Turkish miasiou to succeed Mr. Cox. The President to-day appointed Frank Bacon, )f Kansas, to be register of the land office at Dberliti, Kan.; Rudolph Guyehard, of Washing ion Territory, to be receiver of publio moneys

at Walla Walla. W. TANARUS.; William A Ames, of Montana, to be receiver of public moneys at Bozeman, M. T. The Cabinet meeting to day was of short dura tion. All the members were present. The President’s message was the only subject considered, although there was an informal disoussion as to the probable course of Congress at its coming session. The message is practically completed, and the clerical force at the White House are now engaged in preparing copies for the houses of Congress. The President to day issued a proclamation promulgating the extradition treaty with Japan which was ratified after being amended by the Sentate last Jnne. The Secretary of War has approved a request made by the Chief Signal Officer that Lietenant Greely be retained on doty in the Signal Office as an assisant to General Hazen, who is in ill health. The Pension Office is informed of the arrest by Special Examiner Paul E. Williamson, last Saturday, of George Foster, of Knoxville, Tenn., for making false affidavits. To-day Foster was convicted and sentenced by Judge Key to one year's imprisonment in the Albany penitentiary.

ANOTHER BIG DEFALCATION. The Thief, However, Is Not a Moral and Respected Citizen, but a Wretched Sinner. Chicago, Dec. 2.—The Inter Ocean this morning says: “The most sensational, as well as the heaviest defalcation which lias taken place in Chicago in many years, probably during its commercial history, has just been brought to light. Miner T. Ames, the millionaire coal merchant, is the victim, and Theodore S. Mize, his confidential book-keeper and cashier, and secretary of the Chicago and Minonk Coal and Coke Company, at No. 142 Lasalle street, is the perpetrator of a robbery that is estimated at SIOO,OOO, and may exceed that amount. From bis position as book-keeper, cashier, confidential clerk and secretary of the coal company, Mize had absolute control of the money of the company and the private funds of Mr. Ames. Mize is one of the best-known men in local business circles, having a very extensive acquaintance, and has also been one of the most popular men of his set. He He was a member of the Union Veteran Club and the Apollo Club, being a singer of much ability. Mize is handsome, stylish and talented, but in this case it is the old story—wine, women and ruin. His employer, Mr. Ames, had known him from infancy, being an old friend of the young man’s father, Edward Mize, formerly of Akron, 0., but now living in this city. Theodore has been in the employ of Mr. Ames since 1872. Within a couple of years from the time he entered Mr. Ames’s employ he began a systematic course of robbery, covering up his dishonesty by false entries upon the books and by other schemes. At first his stealings were comparatively small, but he soon began operations on a more extensive scale, and of late years, it is rumored, his peculations frequently reached the stiff sum of SI,OOO in a single month. About a week ago Mr. Ames discovered that something was wrong with the money accounts. A brief investigation convinced him that large suras were missing. It is said that he then taxed Mize with dishonesty, and declared ne would engage experts to go over the books. Mize at once weakened, broke down and confessed that he was guilty, and had been robbing his employer for many years. He begged for mercy and promised restitution so far as it lay within his power. Since then all his property which could be found, including a fine house on Ellis avenue, has been turned over to Mr. Ames. Mize could not be found last night, but is believed to be stopping, for the present, with his father. Besides the extravagant manner in which he and his wife lived, it is asserted that Mize at various times supported three different women, upon whom he lavished money with a generous hand. To a reporter, last night. Mr. Ames said: ‘I am in hopes that the shortage will prove a great deal less than you have been informed. I could not tell exactly what the amount will be if I wanted to, for I don’t know myself. lam having the accounts examined, but it will be several days yet before they are in such a condition that we can tell for certain how they stand. Besides, Mr. Mize has made partial restitution by turning over his property to me. The matter is very painful to me, and I regard the feelings of Mize’s family as of more account than the loss of the money. His father and I have been close frieutls for thirty years.’” The father and mother of Mize were seen at their residence. They admitted the truth of some of the charges, but said the amount taken had been grossly exaggerated. They claim that Mr. Ames had promised to keep the matter quiet, and that young Mize went to the office regularly, as if nothing had happened. They said that he had overdrawn his account, and then, when Mr. Ames returned from Europe, Theodore confessed and turned over his residence to his employer, and this, together with what the parents gave, made a balance in favor of the son. Mr. Mize stood at the office door, looking gloomily out. as a reporter entered. “I don’t want to say anything* now,” he said, until I have a talk with Mr. Ames. There are, as you know, always two sides to every story, and this is no exception to the rale.” “Is there any basis for the statement that you embezzled $100,000.” "As I said before, I prefer to await my interview with Mr. Ames before I say anything. The matter was arranged with him satisfactorily, and our relations have continued undisturbed, and will until I find that he is responsible for this publication." Estimates to-night of the defalcation of Mize make the matter worse than at first stated, the amount being now placed At $112,000. The developments reveal a state of affairs sad in theeextrem a whole family ruined by the recklessness of a son, "who has brought a gray-haired father from affluence to poverty; from health almost to the verge of the grave. The homestead of the aged parents, the home of the sister and brother-in-law, the residence of the embezzler, the jewels of his wife, and his very birthright and heritage, ail have gone to satisfy the claim of Mize’s employer and save the son from the penitentiary. To-day transfers to Mr. Ames were recorded for all the property enumerated, and Theodore S. Mize, jointly with his father, signed away all right and title to the share of the father’s property that would revert to him by the provisions of the father’s will, already made. The brother of Mize, who is in Atohison, Kan., also came to his assistance.

Flight of a Dishonest Salesman. Cleveland, 0., Dec. 2.—Henry F. Fenton, a traveling salesman for the wholesale grocery firm of Edwards, Townsend & Cos., of this city, has been found to be an embezzler to the extent of from $5,000 to S7OOO. He was a fluent talker, had many friends, and heretofore had borne an excellent reputation. He bad been in tbe employ of the firm for twenty-five years. Fenton has not been arrested, and it is thought has left for parts unknown. An Embezzling Collector. St. Louis, Dec. 2.— Girard Farrar, collector for the firm of Evans Brothers, wholesale tobacco dealers, was arrested last night, on a charge of embezzlement A member of the firm states that the amount collected and not accounted for by Farrar they already know to reach $1,500, and the examination of his books had not yet been completed. A Building Association Embezzler. York, Pa., Dec. 2. —Theodore Noedel, late clerk of the Sooth End Building and Loan Association, was arrested to-day, charged with embezzling $7,000 of the funds of the association. Ex-Vice-Prosldent Wheeler. Malone, N. Y. f Dec. 2.— The Palladium today says: “The naked truth concerning ex-Vice-President Wm. A. Wheeler is that he is a sick mao; more grievously so than even most of his neighbors realize, and yet his condition is not such as to prostrate him, except occasionally." I’m one of the oldest horse-shoers in the town, and I have used your Salvation Oil for cracked heels, mange and sand cracks with horses, and it gives perfect satisfaction, and does the work every time. Chas. W. Lek, 414 West Baltimore street, Baltimore, Md.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 3, 1880.

AS MUCH MYSTERY AS EVER. Wilson Still Vehemently Insists that He Is the Son of Millionaire Moen, Bat the Official Figures Are Decidedly Against Bilim, and Demonstrate that He Isa Liar of Far More than Average Ability. Providence, R. L, Dec. 2,—“Doc” Levi Wilson was seen at the office of his counsel, George J. West, this morning. He appeared pale and haggard, as thongh he had passed a sleepless night The excitement of the past few hours seems to have affected him greatly, and he was nervous and apparently worn ont He said that, now the secret was out, he felt better than he had since he was seventeen years of age. “If,” said he, “the Wilsons [meaning the people with whom he had lived during his boyhood daye] stand by me now, I shall win my case and triumph over Moen.” He said his alleged mother lived in East Thompson, Conn., and his two sisters, Mrs. Downs and Mrs. Young, in Birmingham and Ansonia, Conn. Wilson stated that the story, as published, is true, and that Moen’s statement is false in nearly every particular. “Moen,” Wilson said, “knows that I am his son. He is an admitted perjurer.” He said he would continue his case in the courts to the conclusion, which he felt confident would be in his favor. Wilson was advised by his physician to go to his home, take some quieting potion, and devote the rest of the day to sieep. The secret of the case remains a3 much of a mystery as ever. A reporter of the Journal this evening interviewed Mrs. George M. Rice, of Uxbridge, who has always been considered a sister of Doc Wilson. To a query if Wilson’s story was true she returned an evasive answer. She would not deny that Wilson told an untruth when he said she was not his sister, nor would she contradict him in the slightest particular, but gave most unsatisfactory and evasive replies. Nothing could pin her down to a simple yes or no on any point excepting one, and that was that Wilson had given her a great deal of money first and last, and from what he said she deemed he thought it best she should not talk about his affairs. She remembered her father's illness, but could not tell the year in which he died. All efforts to extract more from her were in vair. Ail she would admit was that her father was at one time a church member; that after he was taken ill he often spoke to them ail on the subject of doing right, and that Levi Wilson supplied her with money. A Journal reporter found Mrs. Young, another sister of Levi Wilson, at Putnam, Conn., this afternoon. She stated that Levi was the son of Jonas Wilson, and that her aunt was present at the time of his birth. He was named after her first husband, whose name was Levi Fessenden, and her father and mother knew nothing about Moen for years after that. G. S. Hobbs, of Uxbridge, at one time counsel for Levi Wilson, has been placed in a rather unpleasant position by the latter's statement. Wilson asserted that Hobbs held papers in his safe which would send Moen behind the bars as a convict, and that he was the custodian of communications from Moen to Wilson in which the former addressed the latter as “Dear Son.” Mr. Hobbs was asked to night what dependence could be placed in Wilson’s story concerning the letter and papers in bis safe. He said: “I emphatically deny the whole thing from beginning to end; it is false and on a par with other palpable lies told by Levi Wilson. The only documents 1 have held, or now hold, with his name upon them, consist of deeds of property, in which transactions I acted as attorney. Wilson is an inveterate liar.” “What credence do you place in Wilson’s latest disclosure?” “It is like all the rest of his stories. Why, do you know that only a year and a half ago I said to him, ‘Wilson, what do you suppose* they are saying about you? They say you are Moen’s son.’ Wilson became very angry, raised his fist and .aid, ‘by , I’ll have you know there is better blood in my veins than that of Phil Moen’s,’ and now he claims that Moen is his father. Levi Wilson told me that the scar on his face was caused by his falling into a fire while suffering from a fit when quite young.” Mr. Hobbs here gave the alleged secret of Wilson's successful black-mailine scheme. Nothing that Moen had said or done of a criminal nature was known to Wilson. Mr. Hobbs was ied to believe that Wilson claimed to have detected Moen’s son in the commission of a flagrant offense, the details of which cannot be Dablished. But the sou, when he learned of Wilson’s assertion, denied that he was guilty, and Moen’s own declarations, made under oath, would indicate that he had ascertained that Wilson had lied.

Tlie Facts and Figures. Worcester, Dec. 2.—The dates and all the evidence collected to-day contradict the sensational story te’egraphed from Providence, last night, that “Doc’’ Wilson is the son of Philip Moen, Wilson, by his own statement and the statement of his friends, cannot be more than thirty-one or thirty-two years old. Moen was first married in 1846, forty years ago, and his first wife died before Wilson was born. These dates alone contradict his story completely. Life-long residents of Worcester say it is impossible that Moen could bear any such relation to Wilson. The first Mrs. Moen was a lady of very lovely character. She was a firm and upright woman, and neither she nor her family would have countenanced any such proceedings as are alleged. Moen’s father was a New York iron merchant, residing in Brooklyn when Philip L. Moen came to Worcester. An old chum of Wilson’s in this city said there is no truth in the story, and that Wilson is no more Moen’s son than he is. Miss Azent Sampson, an aged nurse, says she went to live in Tcbabod Washburn’s family when Eliza Washburn, Moen’s first wife, was only twelve years old. She had nursed in and been intimate with both families from that time to this. She had nursed both of Mr. Moen’s wives at the birth of all of his children, and had known him intimately since he was twenty-one years of age. He was always a kind, just and upright man, and a most faithful and loving husband and father. Moen and his counsel both deny, wholly and in detail, and in the most positive and complete manner, Wilson’s story. The records of the town of Oxford, Mass., show that Levi Wilson was born there on Dec. 1, 1853, eleven months after Mrs. Moen died. THE FIRE RECORD. The Brockton Opera-House Burning—Help Asked from Other Cities. Brockton, Mass., Dec, 3.— At 10 p. m. the Opera-house Block, in this city, was discovered on fire, At midnight the fire was still raging, and the probabilities are that the block, together with its contents, will be a total loss. Help has been asked for from other cities. The loss thus far is about $200,000. Farm Residence Burned. Special to the Indianapolis Journal Wabash, Ind., Dec. 2. —Fire this morning completely destroyed the handsome farm residence of Emanuel Lutz, a prominent stockdealer of this county, two miles south of Wabash. The flames originated from a defective flue, and spread so quickly that members of the family were unable to save even their wardrobes. With the exception of several articles of furniture the entire contents were consumed with the building. The loss is estimated at $3,400; insured in the Hartford for SBOO on the building and S4OO on household goods. Other Fires* St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, Dec. 2.— Lorin’s saw mill and sash factory, at this place, was destroyed by fire this morning, Loss, SIB,OOO. Fayette. Mo., Dec. 2. —The Howard County Court-house, at this place, was burned to the ground yesterday afternoon. The fire was discovered in the roof at 5 o’elock, and spread so rapidly that it was soon found impossible to save

the building. All the records and other contents were saved. The conrt-house was finished in 1858, at a cost of $21,500, and was insured for $20,000. Eau Claire, Wis., Dec. 2.—The Cass Drug Company’s store wa6 burned this morning. Loss, $30,000; insured for $23,000. Dr. Day, who had an office on the second floor of the building, loses $2,000; insurance, $1,200. The fire started from the furnace. Kansas City, Mo., Deo. 2. Fire at the Argentine smelting and refining works, at Kansas City, Kan., this morning, destroyed the building containing the smelting and furnace rooms. Loss, $25,000; insured. Thirty men will be thrown out of work for a month. East Saginaw, Mich., Dec. 2.— This forenoon fire broke out in the Fourth ward public school, where 400 pupils were in attendance. The children scrambled to get out of the eight rooms of the school, and for a few minutes the> confusion bordered on a panic. Many of the children had their clothing torn almost "completely off, while a few were slightly injured. Outside the building the excitement was equal to that within, as parents ran from all parts of the city to the school, under the impression that their children were in danger of being burned. The building was partially destroyed, with a loss of $2,000; insured. Ayer, Mass., Dec. 2. —The large two story brick building, and contents, owned by William Baeder & Cos., glue manufacturers, was burned this morning. The fire is supposed to have been of incendiary origin, because of threats made against the company on account of the bad odor always rising from the works. The loss is $150,000. Baeder & Cos. deal extensively with New York aud Western men. The matter is being investigated. The State Board of Health has just completed an investigation of the charges made by the citizens, but had not reported. The Ames Plow Company loses many valuable tools ready for shipment to the West. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. The work of completing the jury for the trial of ex-Alderman McQuade was continued yesterday. The house of Jesse Stockford, near Saginaw, Mich., was burned last night. One child perished in the flames, and another was burned so badly that death ensued this morning. Stockford and his wife were also badly burned. Diphtheria is epidemic at Wilkinsonburg, an eastern suburb of Pittsburg. Over two hundred cases have been reported and many of them are quite serious. The cause of the trouble seems to be a defective system of drainage. The spit of G. H. Bent against the Erie Telephone Company, on trial at Lowell, Mass., for services as attorney, was decided in favor of the company. Bent was an officer of the company, and it was claimed that he could not charge for his services. In the will of James Gordon, a wealthy retired Cincinnati merchant, who died recently, which was probated yesterday, there is a bequest of $5,000 to the Home of the Friendless of that city, and a like sum to the Colored Orphan Asylum of Cincinnati. Patrick Riley, William McCarthy, Hugh McGintv and Henry Neihaus were terribly burned in the converting department of the Edgar Thomson steel works, at Braddocks, Pa., yesterday morning, by the accidental lowering of the converter. Riley and McCarthy may die, but the others will recover. There were eight slight shocks of earthquake at Summerville, S. Cl, Wednesday night and yesterday morning. There was a severe shock at Columbia, at 8 o’clock, and two slight disturbances in Charleston, one about 1 o’clock and one at 8. The shocks in Charleston made more noise than shakes. No damages are reported in any quarter. Eight proprietors of second-rate hotels and restaurants in Hartford, Conn., 1 were arrested yesterday for using oleomargarine on their tables without displaying the placard, “Oleomargarine used here,” as required by law, under penalty of $59 fine. The cases were continued one week, under S2OO bonds each. These will be regarded as test cases. At Chicago, yesterday, Judge Bagbv, rendered an opinion in the case of Samuel I>. Ward against S. M. Nickerson, J. M. Ellis and E. W. Peel, finding that they, as the committee of the old Republic Life Insurance Company, wrongfully. while the company was insolvent, paid out $23,000. on Oct. 30, 1886, to Mr. J. Y. Farwell. The amount was said to have been given to Mr. Farwell ostensibly as salary, but in reality for stock in the Republic company. The decree will compel Nickerson, Peel and Ellis to refund $35,000 to the receiver. The defendants appealed. Thomas Reddy, aged sixty-live, wai instantly killed and Hugh M. McGinniss, aged twentysix, fatally injured, on Wednesday night, on the Ashland branch of the Lehigh Valley railroad. Reddy was walking along the track, and attempted to cross a short bridge ahead of an approaching train. When the engineer saw Reddy, he signaled down brakes, sharply, and McGinniss, who was a passenger, apprehending a collision, leaped from the flying train and fell head foremost into a pile of stones. The engine struck Reddy and throw him a distance of forty feet. He was lifeless when picked up.

A New Insurance Company. New Yoke, Dec. 2. —The dry goods men are organizing anew fire insurance company. It is stated that the name will be the New York Liberty Fire Insurance Company. The capital will be $1,000,000, divided among a very large number of stockholders. Among the leaders in the movement are John Claflin, John Heinman and George A. Morrison. Serious Charge Against a Minister. Philadelphia, Dec. 2.—A true bill of indictment, containing two counts, was found by the grand jury, this afternoon, against the Rev. Waldo Messaros. The first count charges him with assault and battery, and the second count with assault and battery with intent to rape Mrs. Mary Coulston. Steamship News. Hamburg, Dec. 2. Arrived: Westphalia, from New York. Liverpool, Dec. 2.—Arrived: Nova Scotian, from Baltimore. New York, Dec. 2. —Arrived: Westernland, from Antwerp; State of Pennsylvania, from Glasgow: Talmage’s Method. Interview in Pittsburg Chronicle. I prepare my sermons usually by walking the floor or on a railway train. I can think better when in motion than when stationary. Sometimes I jot down notes on a train, though I generally carry them in my head. When I go off on a journey, by the time I get back home I have sermons blocked out for 150 years. When I say this 1 don’t wish to cast reflections upon people who prepare their sermons otherwise. God gives to each man a different way, and Divine blessing should be asked. It’s all folly for some people to preach with notes, and folly for others to preach without them. 1 think that the less we have of circumlocution and the more we have of point blank utterances, the better we will be. lam sorry to say that I never studied elocution, and think that the colleges should pay special attention to it. The only professor in elocution that I ever had was my wife. A man acquires habits in speaking of which he is not aware. If he has a wife to point them out it is a great advantage to him. The trouble is in most colleges the professor is a man who can't speak himself, _ A Carious Political Prediction. New York Sun. We find in a Chicago paper an interview with the Hon. Chauncey M. Depew which contains one rather remarkable passage. Being asked for an opinion abont President Cleveland’s prospects of renomination, Mr. DePew is reported as saying: “I have no doubt of it. His marriage led me to that conclusion, and if his wife has a baby it will be confirmed.” • We have heard opinions of the same sort privately expressed before, but never with the clearness, frankness and felicitous simplicity of language here attributed to the distinguished gentleman who rules the New York Central railroad. _ Tobacco refuse is a rich and quick-acting fer tilizer. It is also repulsive to insects. Pleasant to the taste aod surprisingly quick in relieving coughs and colds, it is not at all strange that Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup has dia. placed so many other cough remedies.

CURRENT MAGAZINES. Tbe Eclectic Magazine, published by E. R. Pelton, New York, continues to offer to the American public the choicest selections of current foreign literature Good Housekeeping contains a most attractive “bill of fare.* The best writers on domestic topics are regular contributors to this magazine, making it without superiors in its special field. A bound volume of Harper’s Young People is a mine of wealth for juvenile readers, and is preferred by many in this form rather than in weekly installments. For convenience of handling it would be better were the fifty-two numbers bound in two volumes. Cassell’s Magazine is an English monthly filled with a class of literature not very high in quality but entirely harmless. A perusal of it and a contrast of its attractions with those offered by American periodicals, leads the reader to wonder if its publishers find a republication in this country profitable. The three most important articles in the current Quarterly Journal of Economics, published for Harvard University, are “The Reaction in Political Economy,” by Charles F. Dunbar: “Private Monopolies and Public Rights,” by Arthur T. Hadley, and “Silver Before Congress in 1886,” by S. Dana Horton. The red covers of the two volumes of the St Nicholas magazine for 1886, in uniform style with their predecessors, will be a welcome sight to all youthful readers who have ever enjoyed the treasures of literature and art that any one of the series contains. A more acceptable holiday gift could hardly be presented to a child than one or both of these volumes. The Sanitarian (113 Fulton street, Now York) is a monthly devoted entirely to the science of sanitation, and treats of the subject in all its relations to modern life. That it is a theme of growing interest to the public is indicated by the fact that the magazine has lately been enlarged to ninety-six pages to satisfy the demand for practical discussions of various topics connected with the scienea The tenth volume of the Century Magazine, including the monthly issues from May to October, 1886, is at hand, in the familiar gilt binding of the series. The war articles which have appeared in this periodical during the past year, and which will probably continue for some time to come, will render the volumes containing them particularly valuable. The feature lately adopted by the publishers of Lippincott of adding a complete novelette to each issue of the magazine proves a very attractive one. The story accompanying the December number is l#y Mrs. Burnett, and is a very pleasing one. Lippincott occupies a place of its own in the literary world, and constantly grows in popularity as improvements are added. The continuous chapters of the most absorbing romance will not be followed from month to month with more intense interest than Hay and Nicolay’s serial history of Abraham Lincoln, the second installment of which appears in the December Century. In arranging for the publication of this work the magazine has secured an attraction sure to hold the attention of the reading public as nothing else could do. An illustrated biographical sKetch of Henry Clay, by a life-long friend, together with an article descriptive of Ashland, forms one of the interesting features of this number of the Century. Mr. Howells gives the concluding cnaptors of the “Apprenticeship of Lemuel Barker,” a fact which must bring much relief to the Rev. Mr. Sewell, if to no one else. The war reminiscences are in relation to the second day at Gettysburg. Harper’s Magazine for December opens with Gen. Lew Wallace’s paper on “The Boyhood of Christ,” a part of which has been printed in the Journal. The paper is handsomely illustrated. The frontispiece is “When Christmas Comes.” The “Legend of St. Ductedes” is a nicely-illustrat-ed poem, and there are articles, illustrated and otherwise, by Sarah Orne Jewett, William Dean Howells, Richard Henry Stoddard, B. L. Farjeon and others. It is a number of rare excellence. Boberts Brothers, Boston, issue a pretty illuminated calendar, with appropriate literary selections for each day from French authors in the original text. Price, sl. The same house also sends out a unique and attractive double calendar, the excerpts from ancient and modern authors, which are given upon the cards, being arranged with a view to the suggestion of timely thoughts for morning and evening. This calendar can be used together or singly. Price per set, $2. The December St. Nicholas is a beautiful Christmas number. It opens with a frontispiece, “In Christmas LoDg Ago,” and has the opening chapters of anew story by Frances Hodgson Burnett, entitled “The Story of Prince Falryfoot.” Theodore N. Davis bas a very interesting article on “How a Great Battle Panorama Is Made,” showing the progress of the painting of Gettysburg and other great pictures. J. T. Trowbridge. Frank R. Stockton and others are contributors to the number. The New England Magazine, an illustrated monthly published in Boston, hardly realizes the expectations naturally aroused by its name and location, since it is not particularly attractive in its typographical features ami numbers none of the noted literary names of the intellectual center on its list of contributors. It is not, however, without much merit, and probably fills a want in its locality which the more ambitious and exclusive periodicals do not supply. In the December number of Outing, Captain Korneys gives some capital incidents of the hunter’s varying fortune among “grizzlies,” wolves and Indians. The “College Boy” takes us rambling among the precincts of the Jesuit mission at Shanghai. The intrepid Stevens i3 now wheeling through lonely and desolate wilds and aeain hobnobbing with Persian potentates. His varied pictures of Eastern life and manners, and his unostentatious recital of the dangers and difficulties of the arduous journey, are very pleasant reading. The second number of the Boston magazine, American Art, bears out the promise of the first issue, and is, certainly so far as mechanical effects go, an artistic production. The contents are somewhat “scrappy,” aDd give the impression of a lack of unity of purpose on the part of the publishers, but this defect will doubtless be overcome after a little time and experience. A dainty engraving of birds and a tint-plate draw ing entitled “A Glimpse of Scheidam," accompany this issue as supplements. American Art Magazine Company, Boston. A biographical sketch of the German artist, Von Haanen, with illustrations of several of his most important works, is the opening paper in the Magazine of Art for December. The frontispiece is an etching from Von Haanen's painting, “The Venetian Bead-stringers,” and is a fine piece of work, though showing a want of clearness in some of the faces. One of the most interesting articles in the number is one on “Old Blue and White Nankeen China,” with accompanying engravings in colors. Price, $3.50 per year. Cassell <fc Cos., New York. The Southern Bivouac (Louisville) for December contains the first installment of the muchadvertised Northwestern conspiracy correspondence. There is nothing in the letters published of a nature to hurt the feelings of the most seusative Northern copperhead, and unless this comes in later numbers it may be assumed that the counsels of Mr. Jefferson Davis prevailed over the desires of the editors to enlighten the public. The first of a series of papers on “Purebred Kentucky Live Stock,” by John Duncan, appears in this issue, aDd will doubtless prove to be of general interest and value. The popular character of tbe North American Review, under its present management, is plainly shown by the table of contents of the December issue. The following are some of the contributions: “My Campaign in East Kentucky,” a posthumous autobiography by James A. Gar field; “Labor and Condensed Labor,” by Pierre Lorillard; “Heathendom and Christendom,” by Gail Hamilton: “Why I Am a Churchman,” by the Bishop of Kentucky: a symposium of lessons drawn from the New York city elections from

the stand-point of the three parties; “A Letter to the President,"by Arthur Richmond, and “Jes ferson Davis, and the Mississippi Campaign,’* by General Joseph E. Johnstou. “The Object of a University,” by Elisha Mulford, “The Dream of Russia,” by Cyrus Hamlin, and “The Church of England Novel,” by Harriet "Walters Preston, are among the interesting contributions to the Atlantic Monthly for DeceuOber, Contrary to the usual custom with magazines, the serial stories are all concluded with tbe closing issue or the calendar year. James Russell Lowell’s address at the Harvard anniversary celebration is attached as a supplement to this number, together with Holmes’s poem. The Magazine of History, contrary to the usual rule with periodicals devoted to a special subject, is most attractive in style and character of contents. This is, of course, due in ameasur* to the fact that its chosen field is of great scope and affords infinite variety of topic, but must be credited largely to judicious editing. The list of contents of the December issue well illustrates the popular nature of the magazine. Among the contributions are “Creole Peculiarities,” “Ou New England Thanksgiving,” “Ohio as a Hospitable Wilderness,” “The Swamp Angel,” “A Reminiscence of Charleston in 1863,” “Halleck's and Grant’s Misunderstandings,” and “From Cedar Mountain to Chantilly.” Published at 30 Lafayette place, New York. SELF-APPOINTED KICKERS. The Confessions of a Boston Mugwump to Hia Minneapolis Son. New York Sun. The youth who edits the Minneapolis Tribune is the sou of the literate editor of the Boston Herald. The Boston father is among the foremost in the little band of devotees who regard mugwumpery as a cult, to be practiced with holy rites and adhered to even unto martyrdom. The Minneapolis son eherishes no such nonsense iu his noddle. He has no reverence for mugwumps and frequently laughs at them in public, his parent among the rest. We allude to the relationship between our two esteemed contemporaries because the irreverence of the son has just drawn from the father an authoritative statement, partaking of the nature of a deliverance or rescript. The father had counted up four parties as likely to enter tbe next presidential contest The son immediately inquired why the mugs were left out of the reckoning: We notice with surprise that the Herald says noth* ing about the mugwumps. Is it that this is a tacit confession that the independent element in politics is no more? Do the mugwumps themselves admit that they hare gone, one and all, into the Democratic maws It hardly seems possible, and yet we can believe nothing else from the statement to whiah we refer. The facts are patent enough, but tbis is the first suspicion of even a tacit admission that we have seen. Coming from any other source this pertinent question might, perhaps, have been treated with silent contempt. But a father cannot very well refuse to enlighten his son, and we accordingly find the following reply in the editorial column* of the Boston Herald; My dear boy, you do not understand these matters yet. The mugwumps do not form a party or nominate a ticket. They sit in judgment on the other fellows. They are not political “strikers.’' They are political kickers. They want no offices for themselves, but they demand the best services for the state. So there is no mugwump party, in the opinion of mugwumps themselves. They do not regard themselves as a political organization, but rather as a judicial body, a court of appeals, with the high and almost sacred function of passing finally on the decisions of their fellow-mortals. This is a tremendous responsibility, but we are not aware that any real mug ever shrank from assuming it. The young Minneapolis editor ba* drawn forth a most interesting announcement from his papa in Boston. Anything calculated to throw light on the origin, motives and esoteric philosophy of the mugwumps will be historically valuable. Soon there will be none of them left on earth. Now is the time to pump them dry. We hope that young Mr. Haskell will continue to take advantage of his parent’s paternal and communicative mood. An 111-Placed Word. Minneapolis Tribune. The Philadelphia North American mcationw* “an intelligent dog which smokes cigarettes.” Tho word “intelligent” should have beenomited. In his own house Senator Sherman is a cheery host. His greeting is more cordial than emphatic. He is never demonstrative, but rather inviting and assuring. The Senator ages gracefully. He does not look to-day older than his appearance indicated ten years ago, save that his whiskers have donned the full tiDge of gray and are kept closely cut to the chin. All true lovers of the delicacies and refinements of the table, in order to keep their digestive organs in good order, should use Angostura Bittkrs.

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