Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1887 — Page 6

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL SUNDAY, JAN UABY 2, 1887-TWEIiYE PAGES.

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WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fonrteouth bt. T. S. Heath. Corresronnu TWELVE PAGES. Telephon Call. Btiame- Office 238 Editorial Rooms.. The Sunday Journal lias double the cir culation of any Sunday paper m Indiana. Trice five cents. AUTHOES JULIAN HAWTHORNE. The reading world ia always interested in personal gossip concerning aathors, tlieir hours and methods of work, their habits of composition, how they came to write such and such I ooks, or to create this or that character, the profits of their labor, etc. These things come within the realm of legitimate gossip concerning authors. Most readers invest an author with a personality of their own creation, and they like to compare the truth about Lis per sonal character and habits with what they have imagined, and especially to learn some thing about his methods of composition. Very few persons can hope to be poets or novelists, though how that we have an Authors' Associ ation in Indiana it is possible the annual out put of literary genius will be much increased. The old adage, however, must not be forgot ten "poeta nascitur, non-fit" though there bo some so-called poets who were neither born nor made. The adage might bo applied with almost equal truth to novelists and story . writers, for unless the talent or instinct bo born in one it never can be brought out. At least, there must be a germ to cultivate, Given the germ and the instinct, the rest fol lows in duo course. Tho poet writes because he is moved to, and the novelist tells stories because he cannot help it. The old nursery bo rig says: Let dops ilellRlit to bark and bito Vtr (iod Lath made them so: Lf t txnrs ami lions prowl and fight For 'tis their nature to. The same explanation must suflice for gen ius. Not that poets are in any proper sense to be' compared to dog?, or novelists and romapoists to bears nnd ' lions, but if we are asked to explain why the former write verses wo cau onlv answer, ' God hath made them o," and as to the novelists' gift of story-tell Wig, that '-'tis their nature to." It is possible that ruauv poets have proved a disappoint ment to the C tea tor,"' and lhat the diviri mmd has experienced an enaction of sad regret that thev were not born fcometbin" ''sc- C'ertainly their feliow-niortals have often felt so And it would seem, too, that so-called no vol -i.-fs sometimes mistake their mission by im agining that they are called to a very differ out kind of romancing from that which na turo ltitended tbtm tor. Ihere are yarns and yarns, and a person may possess real tal ent as a common, ordinary liar without being a horn novelist. But wo have drifted somewhat from the purpose of this article. Apropos of the in terest which reading people always feel con cerning authors and the inside history of their works, we may instance a recently published tfsay, by Mr. Julian Hawthorne, in which ho takes the public in his confidence and furnishes some pleasant gossip concernuig his literary lue. it appears in at iur. Hawthorne was educated for a civilnginecr, and while studying at a polytechnic school in Dresden, he being then twenty-three years old, he wrote two sonnets for an American .magazine.. Two years later, while acting as hydrogranhic engineer in the New Yolk dock department, he wrote a short story for Harper's Weekly, for which he received .$50. From that time he besrnn to contributo to different periodicals. In 1872 he lost his situation as engineer, and, to quote his words, "I bought twelve reams of large letterpaper and began my first work, 'Bressant.'" Ho flushed this - in three weeks, then it to script found. rewrote and recast it, and sent a Boston publisher. The manuwas lost in the mails and was never Ho rewrote it a third time and sold it.to an English pul 'slier for ijviOO. This was pretty good for a beginning. Mr. Hawthorne's next work was "Idolatry," which he says ho re-wrote in r.holo or in part seven times. About this time he went abroad and spent 6eviii-al years in London. His next novel was "Garth," published as a serial in Harper's Magazine. He says: "When it had run li a year or mere, with no signs of abatement, the publishers felt obliged to intimate that unless I put an end to their misery, they would. Accordingly, I promptly gave 'Garth Lis quietus., Tho truth is I was. tired of him myself.'' After mentioning other short fdoties" a:)d sketches written about this time, Mr. Hawthorne says: "I had already ceased to take pleasure in writing for its own sake pai'tlv, no doubt, because I was obliged to write tor Jlie sake ot something else. Only those who have no reverence for literature should venturo to meddle with the making of it, unless, at' all events, they can supply the demands of the butcher and Laker from an independent source." So authors have talked in all ages. Poverty and literature have never been on good terms though doubtless necessity is a greater incentive t labor than leisure is. Kef erring to one of his chai-ucters, MA Ked-haired Girl," Mr. Hawthorne says: "i uniformly r prefer my heroines to my heroes; pei haps because I invent the former out of whole cloth, whereas the. Utter, are often formed of shreds and patches of men I havo met." When he worked he worked hard. "I remember," he ays, "one writing for twenty-six consecutive Uours rithout pauiincj 01 iaiug from my

chair." This is remarkable. One ot Mr. Hawthorne's storie8 "Archibald Malmaison," was offered to all the leading publishers in New

York and Boston, refused by all, then published abroad, republished here, and "has had a circulation, larger perhaps than that of all my other stories combined." While writing "Fortune's Fool" he used to com mence work at 8 o'clock in the evening and write till sunrise. He returned to the United States in 1882, and since then has published three or four novels and a biography, "Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife." In a retrospective vein he says: "I cannot conscien tiously say that I have found the literary pro fession, in and for itself, entirely agreeable. Almost everything that I have written has been written from necessity, and there is very little of it that I ehall not be glad to 6ee forgot ten." What Mr. Hawthorne savs about the evolution of a novel and the creation of characters is interesting. He says he never forecast the plot of a story or its characters in advance; "the characters develop unexpected traits, and these traits become the parents of incidents that had not been contemplated." In other words, the story and characters unfolded and developed as they went along. His most life-like characters, he says, were wholly imaginary, and his most lifeless and least satisfactory ones those which he attempted to reproduce from life. He thinks a novelist is likely to produce the best results if he revolves the materials and main features in his mind several years before committing it to paper. He describes the evolution of two or three of his stories. For one he had difficulty in fixing on a title. "The first one chosen," he says, "was 'Happy Jack;' but that was objected to as suggesting aspecies of cheap Jack, or rambling peddler. The next title fixed upon was 'Luck;' but be fore this could be copyrighted somebody pub lished a story called 'Luck, and What Came of It,' and thereby invalidated my version. For several weeks I was at a loss what to call it; but one evening, at a representation of 'Iiomeo aud Juliet,' I heard the exclamation of Romeo, 'Oh, I am fortune's fool!' and im mediately appropriated it to my own needs. "Fortune's Fool" is one of his best stories. SENSATIONAL EELIQI0N. Sensational religious services will "draw" for a time, but, like , any other exhibition whose chief attraction is its novelty, they soon fail to interest the public. A year ago ministers everywhere were anxious to secure the aid of Evangelists "Jones aud Small in working up religions "revivals." These- per sons came at call and labored after their fash ion, but in this city, at least, with little good effect so far as could be judged by immediate results. .That it was pretty much the same elsewhere may be inferred from the fact that thero is little demand in other cities for the return ot tho two revivalists, and, as one paper disrespectfully puts it, tho bottom is dropping out of their boom. " The Wood worth revival, which is a legitimate outgrowth of the Jones meetings, is not successful for the reason, as the ladv in charge alleges, that she receives no encouragement from other Christian workers. As these workers learned a lesson from the Jones Small episode, it is probable that Mrs. Wood worth's complaint has some foundation in fact; but the chief reason for her failure is the growing sentiment against hysterical religion and in favor of plain preaching of the gospel without cataleptic accompaniments. Even the efforts of Moody and Sankey, who, as laborers in the evangelistic field, rank the highest, are regarded by some as of doubtful value. They draw a crowd, it is true, and in that respect are of use in s-roall communities, as an Auburn (SX. x.) paper, where they have recently been working, bears witness. This sheet announces that tradesmen are so anxious for Mr. Moody to remain that they will contribute liberally to have him preach a week longer. This is not owing, as might be thought, to a sudden growth of pious feeling on the part of the business men, but because, as one merchant explains, "The trade brought by a circus doesn't compare to what we are having now." It maybe worth while, as a mere business move, to encourage these kind of "revivals," but the spiritual harvest gathered by the sensational preachers becomes smaller and smaller each year." The methods iu vogue with these emotional brethren, and often alluded to as "old-fashioned religion," will in time give way to more quiet, modern and improved plan3 of saving souls. The day of novelties aud sensation in religious work, is going by. . LEGAL ETHICS. What do legal ethics require or permit a lawyer to do in aid or defense of a client? is a question that has been much discussed. By legal ethics is meant the unwritten code of morals and honor that governs or should govern the profession. One trouble about establishing any code on the subject is the fact that there are all grades of lawyers from the strictly honorable and conscientious practitioner to the police court syhster who has no scruples about anything, and no fear of anything but imprisonment or disbarment, and not much of that. Of course, no code of leeal ethics can be made that will fit both of these classes, and there are numerous grades and shades between them. But what may an honorable lawyer do in defense of a client! In answering the question it must be remembered that a lawyer owes a duty to society and to the court as well as to his client. As a member of society clothed, with the iCTruD,vu,wa Vl vtutcuauip uu 3 uu officer of the court he can not escape the ob

ligations thus imposed. He does, indeed, owe a very high duty to hia client, but as an oftia . w iL ...... .4 t A a win?f-A. lnatlAfi ttld

' I duty to tho public is not less imperative. Conthat a lawyer's duty is to see that his client gets the- full measure of justice that is due him under the law. Justice to his client cannot be injustice to any one else, nor to society. Anything different from this would be an infringement of somebody's rights those of his client, those of society, or those of justice herself. In other words, the duty of a lawyer is to see that equal and exr.ct justice is done under the law; not that his client triumphs over the law, but that he gets his rights under it, no more and no less. Trying to beat the law, to defeat the ends of justice, to throw her off the scent, to cripple the machinery of the courts, to cover up crime and prevent its punishment according to law, are all in violation of legal ethics and good citizen ship, let all these offenses are of constant occurrence in tha practice of law. MINOR MENTION. From present indications, dwellers in "the States" may hope to revel in California fruits this season to a greater extent than ever before. The San Francisco Bulletin estimates the grape crop at about 175,000 tons, and that of dried fruits at 2,000,000 pounds of prunes. 750,000 pounds of peaches, 500,000 pounds of pitted. plums, 600,000 pounds of apricot?, 450,000 pounds of evaporated apples and 150,000 pounds of figs. The orange crop ia one of the largest ever made in California, and shipments for the East will be at their height in about a fortnight. An oppor tune freight war between the Southern Pacific and the Atlantic & Pacific railroads is likely to inure to the benefit of Western shippers and Eastern eaters of oranges. A San Francisco dispatch of the 28th says: "Notwithstanding the traffic war inaugurated between the rival companies last February, a 8 tiff rate of $300 a car-load on oranges to Chi cago has been maintained, other freight of greater value going at as low a rate as $60 a car load, ibis has been a subject of much complaint among southern California shippers, and it has only now been made known that the hleh rates were the result of an agreement between the trahic agents of the Atlantic & Pacific and the Southern Pacific, the bargain extending also to the shipment of raisins. Not long ago General Freight and Passenger Aeent Wilkins, of the Atlantic Ss Pacific discovered that the Southern Pacific's Los Anceles agent had a Becret under standing with a number of prominent shippers that rebates of $25 would be given on each car load of oranges shioped over the Southern Pa ciflc, and that raisins would be transported on passenger trains at freight rates. Without making his discovery public Wilkins commenced gathering all available rolling stock at Riv erside, Loa Angeles, San Bernardino, San Diego and other prominent shipping points. Then he canceled the agreement between his company and tho Southern Pact he, and now stands ready to cut rates to bed-rock. Amono the visitors to the Cincinnati exposi tion, last fall, was a Japanese artist, named Tabata. One of the commissioners of the expo sition became quito well acquainted with Mr. Tabata, and before he left gave him a photo graph to be enlarged, and also expressed a de sire to hear from him by letter. A few days ago he received the following. As a specimen of "English, as she is wrote," it will bear close study: "Nov22d '8G, " "No 120 Okinacho "Sanchone "Yokohamk Japan "Hoar Friend: "I did arrived my house last 1st thia month. I am making you the portrait if it done I will send it to von as soon as posible. . "And all your friend wanted portrait please send to me picture you ask anybody. I ought live Cinnati. Bcouse mv father sended me Japanese the Blace and silk tow it is since last September that ia after we are starth to there tor.' - "If ia arrived Exposition please send it to Mr. Henry Cobb. He live American, fire horse M. F.:Y. Company . "Chelsea Mass ! i "And oblige your truly : "M. Tabata . "Japan. One of the best known localities in London is Trafalgar square. It is" centrally located, paved with stones and asphalt, graced by the Nelson column, soma 200 feet high, and statues of Well ineton. Lord Napior and other celebrities, and surrounded by fine buildings. For many years past Trafalgar square has been celebrated as a gathering place for popular assemblages a purpose for which its central 4ocation and open character make it peculiarly available. In many instances these popular assemblages have given rise to riots and mobs. These big meetings have become such a nuisance that it is seriously pro posed to convert the open square into a park or garden. It is said that all property-holders in the neighborhood of the square are strongly in favor of the change. The largest hotels in London are situated in the vicinity. These hotels pay taxes to the amount of $300,000 per annum, and they are getting tired of boarding up their windows to save themselves from the hands of mobs. Several Chinamen in Springfield, Mass., were arrested for gambling last Sunday night The Republican says: 'The offenders were members of the Chinese Sunday-school here, and had been entertained at a Christmas gathering the evening previous. That a majority of the Chinese Sunday-school scholars were gamblers, and that their favorite time for playing at cards for money was Sunday evenings, are matters which have several times been explained to those in terested in the Sunday-school." The Chinese are gamblers at home. They Lave a natural taste for it, and it will probably take a good deal of Sunday-school training to reform it out of them. The Springfield, incident should put Sun day-school teachers elsewhere who have Chinese classes upon their inquiry. It is not altogether encouraging to missionary effort to find Sundayschool scholars attending a church festival Saturday night and gambling the next. The oldest Unitarian Church in Boston has just installed as its pastor the Rev. Mr. Brooks, a young Englishman imported expressly for the purpose. He is a graduate of Oxford, only twenty-eight years old, and very English. His style of preaching is described aa chiefly remarkable for its thorough embodiment of the English characteristics, of a hesitating delivery and apparent thinking on the feet. The pulpit oratory of this country cannot be Improved by engrafting these characteristics. A bookworm who has been searching for the golden rule among ancient heathen writings finds the following near approaches to it. SayS Buddha: "Let a pan overcome anger by love. Let hira overcome evil by good." In the institutes of MeQQ apj,ears the command: "Let not - 1 injustice be done in deed or thought, nor a word

be uttered pain.'

that shall cause a fellow-creature To the noble the whole world is Confucius said: "What ye do not a family." wish done to vonrselves do not do to others: ftnd) ap.aillt .,A maa OTeraow in love to Thr Congregational Association of Brooklyn, N. Y.. has just celebrated by appropriate cere monies the sixtieth anniversary of the installa tion of the Rev. Dr. Edward Beecher in the Park-street Church, Boston. Dr. Beecher is the oldest of the 4.000 Congregational ministers in the United States. He is now in his eightyfourth year, and is still in vigorous health and the full possession of all his powers. Every Sunday he walks a distance of ten miles on his way to and from his church at Parkville, Long Island. The Signal-service Bureau ha3 adopted a new svstem of weather and temperature sienals. It is comprised of four flags, which are as follows White flag, indicating clear or fair weather; blue flair, rain or snow; black triangular flag indicates the probable temperature changes. When a triangular flag is placed above other flag or flags it means higher temperature; when below, lower temperature is indicated. A white flag with black square in center indicates an ap proaching cold wave. The editorial profession is-looking up. Men tion has been made of the brass band which meets Col. Grady, of Atlanta, at the railway station aad escorts him to his home; and now comes an account of the presentation to a New York editor of a diamond ring by his admiring associates. Appreciation has been a little tardy in manifesting itself, and some of us die before the bass bands and diamonds show up; but the instances mentioned are encouraging signs of a better time coming-. A matrimonial epidemic seems to have bro broken out in ex-President Hayes's family. On Thursday night his eldest son was married at Norwalk, O. On the 4th of January Miss Eleanor Cook, the ex-President's niece, will be married at the Hayes mansion, in Fremont, to Mr. Walter Huntington, of Moss Point, Miss., and the following day, in Columbus, his nephew. Mr. Rutherford Hayes Piatt, will be wedded to Miss Mariette Smith. The form of an introduction goes a great way. sometimes, in giving a pleasant impression of a stranger, and, If such things have any effect on the heavenly powers, the 6uave and graceful manner with which the Rev. Newman ushers souls into the other world ought to have consid erable influence. A man who wants a favorable introduction into kingdom come cannot do better than to secure Mr. Newman to preach his funeral sermon. , . This is the season of poultry shows, anjl thousands of gallinaceous fowls are now exhibit ing themselves in various cities and towns of the country. With fresh eggs as high-priced and scarce as they now are, this condition of things raises the inquiry as to whether the interests of the community would be better served had these fowls remained at home to "'tend to their knitting." BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT. Bjornson, the Norwegian novelist, now lives at Paris. Ferdinand Ward is thin and haggard, and shuns the eyes of all visitors at Sing Sing. One dollar has been voted by the Albany Council with which to buy a picture of the late S. J. Tilden. The largest legal fee ever obtained by Abra ham Lincoln and his partner, Herndon, was one of $5,000 from the Illinois Central railroad. Danville .breeze: Teacher it you were president of a county fair, and wanted a gate tender, what would you do? Pupil Boil it. The war of the Catholic Church on the Knights of Labor is. having some effect. In the Dominion of Canada several lodges have been closed. Burlington Free Press: "Is it possible to teach eirls how to whistle?' asks in exchange. It is. if you will only leave theci alone when they get their hps puckered up. New Orleans Picayune: It costs too much money for ordinary people to hear the ereat sing er, and a number of dudes, on Monday night, had to content themselves with oyster Pattiea. St. Paul Herald: There is a strons suspicion afloat out West that the reason Bartholdi made his statue bare-headed is because to put a hat on her of tho present fashion would make her about three hundred feet higher. Col. Frederick Grant haa a small aquarelle painting in a giit frame. It represents a group of Indians, and shows evidence of artistic skill and traimne. "It is one of a series painted by my father," said Colonel Qraut to a reporter. Bon Ingersoll recently signed his name to a sentiment on exhibition in a Wall street , cigar case, whose proprietor lately sent the eloquent free-thinker a complimentary box of Havanas. He wrote: "Let us have a good smoke in this world not in the next." When Senator Stanford goes to Washington at the beginning of a session he deposits $50,000 at a local bank and he and his wife check against it. If any thin gjsmains at the end of the session, which happens rarely, it is left as a nestegg for the next year's expenses. Boston Commonwealth: "Maggie's no ther asked me to kiss him, mamma." "Well, of course, you did notf "No, I didn't hear 'im." "Then how do you know he asked you?" "Well, I didn't hear him on'y dus a little bit! I didn't hear 'im nuf to goto ;im, mamma!" A cousin of Charles Dickens, who is said to be living in New York under very straitened circumstances, absolutely refuses to sell valuable autograph letters of the great novelist, though handsome prices have been offered by collectors. Chief-Justice Waite has gone to Toledo to attend the eightieth anniversary of the birthday of his old law partner and friend. Samuel M. Young. The two were boys together, and began business together as young lawyers. Their3 was among the early signs displayed as lawvers in Toledo, O. M. Bartholdi says that, so far as he knows, the great statue of Liberty is the first example of a copper exterior mounted on iron trusses. He also said to a questioner on the subject of his compensation that he he had, practically, "given his work on it from first to last,r but he did not regret an hour or a stroke it had cost him, in his pride and delight. New York Star. The email girl whom I've quoted once or twice as making quaint remarks went to church on Xmas with mamma. Papa remained at home trying on his new Xmas bat. When they got home he eaid to his pet: "Well, darling, what was the text?" "I'm not quite sure, papa, but it sounded like 'Many are cold, but few are frozen. ' " It is a pity that Mrs. Logan cannot be chosen to succeed her husband in the United States Senate. "Of all the ladies of Washington," wrote a correspondent of the Elmira Tribune, some time ago, "I believe she is the only one whose photograph is in such demand that it is on tale at the picture ."stores, liks those of Senators, Supreme Court justices, generals and distinguished officials generally." - The difficulty of sighting rifles in the dark in warfare has been ingeniously overcome by the nee of luminous paint A small luminous bead is clipped on to the rifle over tha fore sight and fcnbther oyer th rear sight, when used at night

in reply to an enemy's 6 re, forming two luminous sights. The English war office authorities

have had some of these sights under trial for the past six months, and have now given their first order for some. Mme. DfEULAFOY, who enjoys, with Rosa Bonhenr, the honor of being a chevaliere of the Legion of Honor, was proposed for that distinc tion last July, but her name was removed in favor of the sculptor of the statue of Lamartine, which some cities call a wretched work of art The cross was handed her by M. Goblet, Minister of Education, in that room of the Louvre which contains the antiquities she aud her husband unearthed in Susiana. Tus greatest secrecy prevails during the re hearsals of the new Gilbert-Sullivan opera at the London Savoy. No outsider's presence is allowed in any part of the theater. If but a chink be open of any door in pit, boxes or gallery, a warning shout is raised at once until that door is closed. When the performers have occa sion to accost one another during rehearsal. they do so as A, B and C So great is the fear of piracy that even the actors themselves do not know the name of the play, nor the names of the characters they are severally engaged to represent. Thk recent death of Dr. Archibald A Hodge recalls thia anecdote illustrating his methods in the class-rooms: Once while he was a professor in the theological seminary he asked a student for a definition of eternity. The student need not have been ashamed to confess his inability to answer that question, but, after some hesita tion, he replied that he used to Know the aennition, but had forgotten it. "O, my, my, my exclaimed Dr. Hodge, bringing bis hand down forcibly upon the table, "What a calamity! The only man in the universe that ever knew what eternity is has forgotten." Empress Elizabeth, of Austria-Hungary, re cently visited the Vienna Lunatic Asylum, with the wife of Prince Karl Theodore, her brother, the famous oculist. Nearly all the mad men and women recognized the Empress, who had visited the place before, and several noblemen kissed her hands, while the women knelt to receive her blessing. One lunatic approached her 3iajesty and said: ''No one would ever think you were a grandmother." There was such a touch of flattery combined with the opposite sentiment in this that the km press broke into uproarious laughter, and asked the lunatic's name and if she were curable. She was told ehe was, and her Majesty immediately ordered that anything the woman wanted 6hould be charged to the imner ial purse. - IRON AND STEEL INTERESTS. Improvement During- the Year Jast Ended Encouraging Outlook for the Future. Philadelphia, an. L The bulletin of the American Steel Association, published to-day, contains, a review of the iron and steel indus tries of the United States during the year end ing yesterday, which shows some surprisin results. It says our iron and steel industries were especially active during 18SC, and this ac tlvity was fairly distributed through out the year. An improvement in the condition of most of these indu3 tries had commenced in 1885. and when the new year opened, and the temporary dis couragement produced by the Connellsville strike, had disappeared, the certainty of a much more active vear than 1885 Y A become assured. Orders became more abundant, and, except in one or two branches, they have continued to bear a most favorable relation to our producing capacity. Our production in 1886. of pig-iron, Bessemer steel and steel rails,'open-hearth steei, structural iron and steel, and some other products. has accordingly been much larger than in 1S85, and our producuiou of pig iron, Bessemer steel, Bessemer eteel rails and open hearth steel has been much the largest in our history. We esti mate the production of these four leading products in lt80 to have been aa follows, com pared with tho production in 1885: Pig iron, 5,600,000 gross tons, against 4,044,52Gin 1885; Bessemer steel ingots. 2.000,000 gross tons, aeainst 1,519,430 in 1885; Bessemer steel rails, i.duu.uuu gross tons, asrainst ifo,! in 1885; open-hearth steel, 200,000 gross tons. against 133,075 in 1885. The figures for 1880 have been estimated with care, and we believe will be fully verified by the official returns which we are now collecting from the manu facturerg. They are marvelous in their mere magnitude, but more marvelous still in showing our progress as iron and steel producers in one year. Our production of iron ore in 1886 was about 10,000,000 tons, and we imported about 1,000,000 tons. Notwithstandine the steady increase in the demand for iron and steel during 1886, it is remarkable that prices advanced so slightly. Such advance as was established came gradually, and in some instances, aa in the case of bar iron, slowly, to meet the increased cost of pro duction. The product of nails during the year actually declined, although the consumption in creased. In this case the producing capacity of the country is much beyond its wants After comparing prices, the Review proceeds: It may he said of the present prices for pig-iron and steei rails that they have only recently been estab hshecl, and that m tho case of steel rails larsre eon tracts for delivery in 1887 have been made at $31 and $35. Oar importations o irou and steel during lHSb have been very heavy, and much in exceas of the importations ot isso. in we im ported about 400 tons of pig-iron. about 75,000 tons of old iron, over 100.000 tons of steel blooms and billots, nearly 250,000 tons ot tin plates, fully 125, OOO tons of wire rods. and about 50,000 tons of stoel rails. Our total Im portation of iron and steel in 1880 will amount to 1,000 tons. The stocks of unsold p:tr-iron in this country at the close o 18SG was probably no larger than at the close ot 1 when they amounted to 371,885 gross tons, which was a very small surplus when the pig-iron wants of the country are consld ered. During 1886 this country built over 7.000 miles of new railroad, against miles reported by Mr. Poor for 1885. This great increase in railroad buildins: in 1 sb contributed largely to the improvement in our iron and steel Industries which has been no ticed. The general business outlook for 1887 is at this time very favorable, and for our iron and steel industries it ia especially so. Railroad building nromises to be even mora active in 1887 than in 1886, but none of us know what a day or a month mar bring torth in the stoclt market or in the financial or tariff legislation of Oonsrre3s, or the condition of the country s crops. Of one thins we feel certain: Soeatine generally, prices mast stoD where thev are. or we will have such an influx of foreign iron and steel in 18S7 as we have rarely, if ever, experienced. We need not dwell on the consequences which would ba sure to toilow. Logan's Farm. Philadelphia Times. Senator Logan was not a money-making man, Fifteen years ago it was estimated that he owned property in and around Chicago that was worth about $100,000, but the panic of 1873 cleaned him out, and he has since had nothing to depend upon but his salary of $5,000 per year as Senator. Several years ao he owned a farm in IUinois. and although he was warned that a geological survey of the State proved that there could not be coal on his land, a rascally contractor came alonfwbo insisted to the contrary. He said that he would drill down after coal on the farm and that if he did not find it he would charge nothing. If he was successful he was to be paid $6,000. Logan thought it was a good offer and accepted itT Ths fellow. rsn his drill down about three hundred feet and found nothing, but "salted" the hole with specimens, which ho carried to the General, who paid his $6,000, and the rascal decamped. At an expense of about $20,000 Logan caused a shaft to be sunk to the point where the swindling contractor declared he had discovered a vein of coal, and then the fraud waa discovered. The sharp waa never found afterwards, and Senator Logan bore the loss. Women's Ires Reform. Celia B, Whitehead, in woman's Journal. Women have long been asking, "What nextf The reform in undergarments is well established, as any paper-fashion catalogue will show, and the outside dress, while it may for a time be played with by society ladies, just as children change old toys for new, does not meet the physical needs of working women, nor the aspirations of those who are working for social purity and one standard of morals for men and women. So it will be a "sienal failure" even If it succeeds. Mme. Mindeleff says '"it is perfect," but I roust respectfully deny that any dress which makes a curtain for hiding the limbs, U the "perfect" dress for woman.

OLD-TIME WINTER SPOUTS.

How and Where the Youths of Thirty Years Ago Amused Themselves, A Flood That Brought the Bost and Longest Sheet of Skating Ever Kiiotvu ia the History of the City. With the present Etart, it looks like there will be no dearth of winter sports in Indianapolis for the young folks, with good ice for skating on the canal, fine sleighing everywhere, and the tobog gan slide in first-class condition. "As Indianapolis increases in size' said a middled-aged Old Residenter, ''the winter, and for that matter, the summer sports of the young are greatly curtailed. The school-houses have been builfc around until the commons that were onee about them have entirely disappeared, leaving no place for recreation and exercise but the cramped-np school-yard, which ii much too small for any live boy to spread himself in. A number of sturdy winter games have not been played about our school houses for fifteen years at least, having been in terdicted. Among these is "ehinny," aboui which the Marion county seminarians and old high-school boys talk so enthusiastically. "Shinny" was a famous cold weather game when there was no snow on the ground, and specially attractive when played upon the ice. Foot ball is seldom played about the ward schools now, on account of disturbing the neigh bors and lor fear of hurting small children. When I was a boy eveu the smallest boys indulged in foot-ball, the ball peine a hog or beef bladder blown up as tight as a drum. Twenty-five years ago there was no lack of good skating here almost any winter. The town was small, and there was water everywhere. Not only were there goodsized ponds, but the canal was longer than it now is. the part south of Washington street, now entirely obliterated, being then fine skating ground. The canal basin at Washington street. runnine halt a square aoove mat street ana nait a square below, waB two hundred feet in width and usually froze smooth as glass. Carlisle's nond, where the paper mill now stands, was an -other famous place. The water was dead and froze easily. Pattersons mill-raco was also much frequented. Before the course of Pogue's run was so greitly changed, there used to be ft little coastine. chienv on a hill below HmitU street and between Meridian and Pennsylvania streets. The boys had fairly good coasting there. Of course it has long since been built up and there ia nothing now to show even the slightest resemblance to a hill. Snow-balling was a regular sport here winter after winter. It was not all sport, oither. When there were only seven wards in the town the boys were more clannish than now, and tho feuds were many, resolving themselves some times into "pitched battles with enow-balls, be tween the boys of two different ward schools. They did not always confine themselves to snow balls, frequently throwing stones and coal, and it not infrequently happened that after such a conflict there would be a number wounded. In those days, if a boy happened to get across tho boundary separating hia ward from the enemy, it was at the risk of getting a . sound thrashing. "The boys of twenty years and more ago uidar. have fancv skates. The straps were often of, hogskin and would stretch amazingly, so that as a bov skated he would from time to time have to punch a hole in the strap and buckle up tighter.' No such a thine: as a skate without straps was then thought of. The boys would skate with the straps so tight as to stop the circulation of the , blood in their feet, which would become numb, but they had a good time anyhow. The boy who had a pair of skates with big turn up runners waa looked upon as highly favored by fortune and was envied by everybody. Up to that tlmo no boy had ever been seen with ' an overcoat on, even in the coldest weather. Such a thing as a boy's overcoat, was not known. The boy wore roundabouts, and,' with a comfort round his neck, trowsers (breeches, aa they called them, for boys didn't wear 'pants' or 'pantaloons' then) tucked in his boots, he would bid defiance to Boreas, let him , blow as he would. livery boy wore boots. As to tht. breeches, they were usually of jeans, and many of the jolliest boys didn't have under- ' clothing at all. No boy ever knew how cold he was until he got up to a red-hot stove and began to thaw out a little. Until twenty years ago skating was almost exclusively boy's sport, and when a few girls began to appear on the iee it was looked upon by boys under sixteen, who hadn't arrived at the girl age, and had no idea how near they were to the danger, looked upon, it as a very disagreeable innovation. " 'Hitchine on' was long a favorite pastime of the boys. When there waa pnow on the ground the boys would appear with their sleda, to which were attached ropes from twelve to twenty feet long. When a sleigh or other vehicle appeared in sight, the boys would slip the -ope through some convenient opening, and ride after it in fine style. Boys, in this way. wou'd hitch on to a vehicle going out on any of the country roads it didn't matter to them which and when they had ridden as far as they pleased, would slip tha strine out and hitch on to some vehicle that waa headed for the city. It was a very mean man who would turn a deaf ear to the customary inquiry, 'Please, mister, may I hitch "on behind!"1 "Probably the best and longest streak of skating this place ever had, certainly the most convenient of access, was in 1847, after the flood o! that year, when Fall creek broke through, and, spreading over a great deal of the town, froze up suddenly, and gave us a skatorial carnival of six weeks duration. But, bless me! that's forty years ago," at this retrospection the veteran, observed, heaved a sigh, and the interview was over. Comstock's Latest Crusade. Epecial to the Indianapolis Journal. New York, Jan. 1. Anthony C'ometock has taken a new departure in his censorship of art and literature. He has just decided that th. detective stories of tha juvenile papers and cheap "libraries" are hurtful to their youthful readers, and he has given notice to the publishers that he will proceed against them if they do not stop what be regards as their wickedness. His claim is that the depicting of crimes in this class of fiction is immoral, and therefore to be legally excluded from the mails. Two leading houses turning out these detective yarns are seeking to meet the difficulty by carefully revising the pernicious matter and excising the more objectionable passages. In one instance, long stretches from Charles Dickens's "Oliver Twist" are being ; dovetailed Into the New York novels, with th slightest feasible alterations of names and places. The calculation is that uorastock will hardlf dare to attaek (Dickens,' and that tha material thus protected will serve the purpose of that which is discarded. - ' Confidence Game on Methodist Bishops, epecial to the Indianapolis Journal New York, Jan. 1. A motherly-looking woman visited several of the Methodist Episcopal bishops at the Methodist Book Concern, and told them that she had a new and ingenious de vice for doing good unawares. She ha come into possession of a large amount of wampurn, or Indian money. She proposed to have it an nounced jn the official journals of the churcli that she would, on application, send samples oc it through the mails free. With each inclosaro; she would include a religious tract, so that tx9 curiosity should convey Christianity broadcast ! The scheme seemed excellent, and tae desired nniifA w iriven in the miners. It is now ieiirneil'

that the woman not only sent the tracts anLJ wampum, according to the strict letter of apre-, mont hut also ml jilofiiR of a stock of mailaAda'

Wiures which she had for sale. The misled bijsaj ops win sena out a warning. . - A Dose fur Servant Girls.! Frankfort Times. I A young lady of Delphi, employed as) Aifio

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