Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 October 1887 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 183T.

THE DAILY JOURNAL. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13. 1887.

WA8H1NGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth St. P. S. Heath. Corresoondenv NEW YORK OFFICK lOl Temple Court, Corner Bcekman and Nassau streets. TOE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Ca be found at the following places; IX) N DON American Exchange in Europe, 449 btrand. PARIS American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard dee Capucine. KEW YORK Gedney House and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI J. P. Hawlay & Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Dearlng, northwest corner Third and Jefferson str eets. ST. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern lioteL - WASHINGTON. I. C Riggs House and Ebbitt House. Telephone Calls. Business Office. 23S Editorial Rooms 242 It was a good start for next rear. LAW-BREAKERS can take a back seat. ONE thing ia settled: Tom Johnsonism must goTHERE is reason to suspect that Sim Coy considers hims! f en ubbed. THE United States Court and grand jury trill soon have a chance to "vindicate" themselves. THE poorest, most platitudinous speeoji of, the entire series was that delivered by the Presid ent at Minneapolis. THE temperance (!) party in Indianapolis foiled to materialize on Tuesday, but the cause of temperance is marching on. LET Tuesday be memorable as the day when Indianapolis citizens rose above party that is to say, above the Democratic party. If the Hendricks Club had strength enough to gather itself together it is believed that it would form itself into a permanent hollow square. ' The handsome indorsement given to Mayor Denny is an encouragement to all public fficiala to do their duty and let consequences take care of themselves. It is easy to prove on paper that Dr. Edenhirter might have been elected if all the conditions and circumstance of the case had been different. But they were not. The public will expect a good deal of that new Council and Board of Aldermen. The members may as well be preparing themselves to live up to the blue china of municipal reform. Respectfully submitted to ex-candidate Edenharter: Do you now, after looking at the matter from all sides candidly, regard defamation of character as a profitable political policy? ' THE New York Herald has come out strongly in favor of Col. Fred Grant for Secretary of State of New York. Mr. James Gordon Bennett is at home, and he knows a hawk from a hernshaw. In epite of a good many things that need not he mentioned, but that will not be forgotten, the city election, was carried to a successful issue by tbe people, who rose up in revolt against Coyism and all that it implied, and made the canvass their own. , THERE are compensations in this life after alL Hearts which have been bowed down with woe over the standing of the Indianapo" lis base ball club, can find surcease of sorrow in contemplating the glorious triumph of honest Republican principles over Coyism. THE Cincinnati Enquirer callg it "Laxnont's specialty combination," and says that "the President is on an electioneering tour. " If a Democratic newspaper can thus speak, possibly a Republican one need not hesitate to tell "the God's truth about the whole busi ness. So far as the Republicans were concerned it was a square, fair fight for honest government and against rascality. "Week-kneed members of tbe party will perhaps be convinced by the result that the old-fashioned Republican principles make the winning card sow as in the past. SAYS Congressman Bynum: "As Indianapolis goes so goes Marion county, as Marion county so Indiana, and as Indiana so goes the Union." Let it not be said a prophet is without honor in his " own country. The Journal welcomes Mr. Bynum's prediction, and bows to his decree. George Francis Train is not crazy any more than Guiteau was crazy. The murderous ravings of this dangerous fool should be put a stop to. Jails, penitentiaries and asylums are the places society has provided for inch men as he, whatever the degree of their aioral or mental insanity. THE election of Tuesday was probably as honest and fair as any ever held in the city. Contemplated frauds were prevented by vigilance, and the boodle of Coyism failed to work out its expected result. The money was used, but its recipients were afraid to attempt the delivery of tbe goods. Mayor Denny's official plurality is 774. He received nearly 900 votes in excess of the rote he received two years ago, despite the lesperation of the gang. For city clerk Mr. John W. Bowlus has a plurality of 1,218. He received four votes more than Mr. Denny, and DDonnell received nearly 400 less thau Edenlarter. These figures measure the general iisgust and indiguation over the jackal cominaion of O'Donnell, while the body of Mr. Shields was not yet cold in death. Indecency ud brutality do not pay. TnE steadfastness of the colored vote and Ibe very efficient work of the colored clubs in recent election deserve distinct recognition. The Journal takes pleasure in voicing h general feeling on this subject. There

are many poor men among the colored population of the city, and a considerable number that might be classed with the floating vote. Tbe Coy gang intended and expected to buy a great many colored votes from both classes the very poor and the floaters. That they were disappointed in their scheme is due in part to the honesty of the colored men, and in part to the vigilance exercised by their clubs. They deserve great credit for the part they bore in Tuesday's victory, The PorterDenny Club particularly distinguished itself.

EEAL FAETY STEENGTH. The strength of the Republican party depends largely on its cause. Numerically it is always stroug, but its strength is not always developed. It consists of an active and a reserve force a patent and a latent strength. The latter ia its saving remnant, if not its best part; but it only asserts itself under the impulse and inspiration of a good cause and strong motive. The party had its origin in great moral ideas. Its enemies sometimes honor it by reference to that origin, calling it "the party of great moral ideas." They build better than they know. The Republican party is still greatest when it has moral ideas to fight for. It i3 hard to make an empty bag stand alone. The Republican party, inspired with a good cause, is a very different thing from the same party with a poor cause, or with none at all. In the latter case its reserve force never comes out. We have had some recent lessons on this line. A'year ago the Republicans of Indiana took manly and advanced ground on the question of liquor legislation, and demanded the removal of the saloon from politics. It also demanded the reformation of the State government and benevolent institutions. This gave them a cause worth fighting for, and they carried the Stale. In the city election two years ago they took high ground in favor of the just enforcement of law and carried the city. This year they took still higher ground, and carried the city by a greatly increased majority. We say they carried the city this year, because they furnished the great bulk of the votes to do it. The additional strength that came to them was owing to the justice of their cause, so it still proves that the party is always strongest when it has something to fight for. The way to get tbe reserves out is to elevate the standard, lift the flag up where all the people can see it. The worst enemy of the Republican party is the man who wants to put the standard lower than the great mass of its voters desire to have it. , ENFOECE THE LAW. The significance of Tuesday's election cannot be overlooked, nor its lesson be weakened by references to side issues. A persistent attempt was made daring the campaign to divert public attention from the real issue, and it failed. So will tbe attempt to misrepresent the meaning of the election. From the beginning to the end of the campaign, from the time the nominations were n,ade till the polls closed, there was but one issue, viz., the just enforcement of law. Major Denny was nominated and elected on that platform two years ago, and on account of the record he had made was nominated for re-election on the same platform. No candidate ever represented and embodied an idea more distinctly than he did the just enforcement of law or than did Dr. Edenharter the opposite idea. The only argument that could be brought against one was that he had enforced the law, and the sum and substance of all the arguments in favor of the other was that he would wink at its violation. Two years ago, on the same platform, Denny was elected by a majority of less than one hundred. After two years' trial, he is re-elected on the same platform by eight hundred majority, after the most determined opposition and a bitter fight by the enemies of law and order. The difference between Denny's majority two years ago and his majority on Tuesday represents the growing determination of the people that the laws shall be enforced. His majority of eight hundred proclaims in no uncertain tones the desire and the demand of the people. It is notice to all whom it may concern that the laws must and shall be justly and righteously enforced and law-breaking punished. If any person has had any doubt on this point, it must vanish in the light of Tuesday's election. The people have declared in terms not to be mistaken that they expect law-breakers to be arrested and dealt with as such. Mayor Denny's big majority conveys to the Police Commissioners, the superintendent, the members of tbe force, the officers of the Criminal Court in fact, to all connected with the administration of law a message from the people which cannot be misunderstood. The law is never to be made an instrument of revenge or vindictive punishment; but it does demand all the severity necessary to insure respect and obedience. The people have declared that they desire and expect that degree of severity to be exercised by all those charged with its enforcement. If the people's expectations are not realized ,they will kaowhow to deal with those who betray their trust. PUSILLANIMOUS PETTINESS. Commissioner of Pensions Black's treatment of poor Jap Turpen was simply brutal. The main facts of Jap's journalistic and political career are pretty well known in Indiana. He worked hard and faithfully for his party, and got very little in return. For a long time he got nothing but fine words and promises. At last, after hundreds of others less dese rving had been provided for, he did receive a little appointment in the Pension Bureau.. Jap served in the same regiment with General Black, and might have expected considerate treatment, if not favor, at his hands. He got neither. He was a victim of consumption, but performed his duties as long as he was permitted to. When it became evident that he could not recover the Commissioner of Pensions ordered his removal. Jap was removed Sept. 15, and died Oct. 9. General Black draws a salary of $5,000 a year and a pension of $100 a month in addition. Surely he might have permitted his former comrade-in-arms to draw his little salary a month longer, or he might have given him a month's leave of absence, with pay. It would have helped to pay his doctor bills. But it seems General Black did not look at it in that light, ne ia a can

didate for the nomination .: of Vice-president, and probably wanted Jap's place for one of hi3 strikers. With politieiausof the Black type gratitude is a lively sense of favors to come; pas favors and services do not count. So Jap was "bounced" removed from bis little office to die in less than a month. It was an indecent, brutal act.

THE KNIGHTS AND THE IEISH. A notable incident of the Knights of Labor convention at Minneapolis was the address of Michael Davitt on the Irish' question and its effects on the labor movement. Whatever may be said of the Irish cause, it has certainly produced some very able , and eloquent advocates. From Mr. Gladstone and his coadjutors in Parliament to Davitt, O'Brien and others outside, it embraces a strong array of forcible speakers. Mr. Davitt in a peculiar sense represents the cause of Irish nationality and liberty. He has spent a good deal of time in prison, and, judging from a recent utterance, expects to be arrested again. Speaking before the Knights of Labor, his task was to identify the cause of Ireland with that of labor in the United States. In doing this his line of argument was ingenious and pi ausible. After showing that the policy of England for a long time had been one cf expatriation towards Irishmen, systematically forcing them to emigrate from Ireland, he said: "Her millions of uncultivated acres are hungry for tbe labor and enterprise which England's policy drives across the Atlantic for that employment which is denied at home. When this labor reaches your shores, week after week, from year to year, it is reduced to the condition of impoverished labor. Our people's resources are systematically exhausted before coercion compels them to choose between the degraded pauperism of an Irish work -house and emigration. Landing in this condition they aie compelled to seek employment in your Eastern cities and to settle down where they are forced by circumstances to compete with you in the labor market of the Atlantic seaboard. Gentlemen, I Want you to consider how compulsory emigration from Ireland is thus made to conflict, more or less, with the interests of the working classes whose good -your organization ha3 at heart. JLn this policy of forced emigration from Ireland England is killing two birds with one stone. She i ridding herself as rapidly as she can of a Celtic national sentiment near her shores which she considers a danger to her imperial supremacy, while at the same time 6he is doing her best to reduce the wages of American workingmen to the low level which obtains in Great Britain by throwing upon your shores hundreds of thousands of laboring hands every year." Following this line of thought with impressive elaboration, the orator had no difficulty in winning from the convention a series of resolutions, proposed by Mr. Powderly himself, strongly indorsing the Irish cause." It was a notable illustration of effective oratory. If the time ever comes that the Democratic party can make the same appeal to honest, law-abiding Republicans that the latter did to Democrats in the recent campaign, we trust it will not be unheeded. We eay if the time ever comes, but we hope it may not. It would come if the Republican party should fall under the control of a corrupt and unscrupulous ring, representing and leading the worst elements of society, and who should nominate a - law-defying ticket on a lawdefying platform, which the Democrat! should oppose with a clean candidate on a platform demanding the enforcement of law and the purification of politics. In that case it would be the duty of honest Republicans to vote the Democratic ticket, just as honest Democrats voted the Republican ticket on Tuesday. It is no new thing, of course, for liquordealers to dabr le in politics, but these new and large combinations, these huce corruption funds, the long carriage parades of liquordealers in our great cities, show an organization that is growing insolent in the pride of its strength and riches. The movement is a daneer to public morals, not only on the side of temperance, but because it means a fresh source of corruption in the suffrage where there are too many already. The liquor-sellers are wise to keep their operations in the dark as much as possible. When the American people understand their plans and purposes fully, they are likely to hear thunder. This country cannot be ruled by rum-sellers. New York Tribune. The attention of the Tribune is called to the result of the Indianapolis city election. The Liquor League and the rum-sellers, who attempted to capture our city government, were emphatically told to go to the rear. Hon. B. K. Bruce, ex-United States Senator and ex-Register of the United States Treasury, will deliver his famous lecture on "The Race Problem" at Plymouth Church on next Friday evening, Oct. 14. Senator Bruce is unquestionably the ablest colored orator of our day, and his best thought has been given to the preparation of this lecture. This is his first appearance in this city, and his wellknown ability and the importance of the subject, dealt with in a non-partisan manner, make this lecture one of peculiar interest. Thousands of people at Chautauqua, and at other places in the East, have listened to it with great pleasure and profit. We hope to see the hall filled. The City Council was elected upon a very distinct issue. We believe both boards, at least the large majority of them, to be made up of good and honorable men. The Republicans have a majority, both of aldermen and councilmen, and they will be held responsible for what is and what is not done. "Tom Johnsonism" has its special representatives in both bodies, but Tom Johnsonism must not rule the new Council. The people must not be defrauded out of what they elected these councilmen for. Tom Johnsonism in the disgraceful mismanagement of our street railways must go. Indianapolis must have a decent street-car service. THE New York Commercial Advertiser talks about the "silly story" concerning the printing of the President's speeches at the Government Printing Office. Silly or not, it is unfortunately true. At least Mr. Benedict does not venture to deny that the work was done in his office, nor has any Washington job printer come forward to say he did it Miss Emma Abbott's protest in a Nashville church against the slanderous charges made by the minister against the members of her profession was the spirited act of a righteously indignant woman, and she deserves the thanks of the general public. There is altogether too much denunciation of the stage by

narrow-minded and prejudiced ministers, who have little knowledge of the matters they discuss, and by cheap newspaper writers who fancy they please a popular taste by defaming players. Miss Abbott herself is of stainless character, and well qualified to come to the defense of the profession. If, as is carpingly said, the incident will serve her as a profitable advertisement, let it be so. She deserves a reward for a brave act.

' The Indianapolis, the Capital City and the Anderson natural-gas companies could do no better thing than to poll their interests, form a large company with ample capital, each taking a one-third interest, secure the necessary trifling amendments to the ordinance, and commence piping gas to this city next week and have it here ready for use within thirty days. There is money in it for all these companies under this arrangement, and the plan will prevent the laying of more than one main for each street. There is gas enough if they will each contribute the product of the wells already flowing, and there is ample profit in sight for what capital it may be necessary to invest. Consolidate and come in ! POSTAL cards for the Democratic committee of his ward were printed by Postmaster Harrity, of Philadelphia, at public expense, but the excuse is made that the amount involved is so trifling as not to be worth considering. The expense of printing the President's speeches in the Government Printing Office was small likewise, but these things count up, and Postmaster Harrity's $1.50 and the President's $10 are likely to assume formidable proportions before they are done with. It is the principle of the thing that the people look at. The President has done a good turn to the publishers of the American Encylopedia by getting that work talked about in a way that no money could have purchased in the newspapers of this country. The Appletons ought to return the favor by putting that highly colored picture of the President which appeared in Puck recently, into the the next volume of their Annual, and get Mr. Dana to write a flattering account of the great Western journey. The files of the Journal are at their disposal for that portion of the trip relating to Indiana. What a pity Bobby Garrett's father is not alive to take care of him. He needs a parent's attention now more than at any other time in his sweet young life; and how the elder Garrett would attend to him were he here, for letting the finest inheritance ever left to an American youth slip out of his grasp because he thought more of drinking fancy drinks and wearing a new pair of trousers every day than he did of attending to business! A NEW gas lamp with pipes reaching from one end of the car to tbe other seems to have figured actively in the conflagration which burned up a dozen or so passengers on the Chicago & Atlantic railroad. The traveling public will not be free from the danger of being roasted to death until the cars are lighted with electricity and heated by the same power, or with steam from the engine. THE people ara looking toward the Criminal Court. They have just expressed their opinion of a Mayor who enforces the law; they now want to see the Mayor's court backed up by the Criminal Court. The rum sellers attempted to capture that court, but failed to accomplish their purpose by forgery and mutilation of tally-sheets. It should be made a terror to evil-doers. If it is true, as announced, that the National League is to be "totally suppressed" within a fortnight, it must naturally be supposed that it is the intention of the English government to exterminate the leaguers. If the unfortunate persons believe all they hear they should at once engage in making their wills and saying their last prayers. The "Baker improved heater" is a stove closely boxed up and with hot-air pipes radiating from it. It is said to be "perfectly safe;" but the accident at Kouts demonstrates the fact that when one of the heaters is smashed, the coals contained in it will set fire to a car as quickly as an ordinary red hot stove will do. If Mr. Cleveland will come back this way the Indianapolis Republicans will join in a "non-partisan" demonstration in his honor the like of which he has not seen since his e show went on the road. ' They are in much better spirits than they were two weeks ago, and feel too "non-partisan" for any use. It was a section boss on whom the coroner and the railroad authorities decided to place the responsibility of the Chatsworth disaster. Will it be the water-tank man or the local physician, who came to aid the wounded and reports twenty or thirty killed, who is held guilty of tbe Kouts slaughter? The semaphore lamp, though not a new invention, is a new feature in railroad disasters. The most accurate description of the contrivance is that given by the tank man at Kouts, who mentions it as "a sort of a thing which is supposed to act aa a signal, but doesn't" Fob the benefit of an inquiring snbscriber who does not read his paper as carefully as he ought, it is again explained that the Journal alludes to tbe handsome syoamore of the Wabash as Senator Van Yoorbees purely as a matter of courtesy. The Senator informed a Denver reporter recently that he was descended from a Knickerbocker Van Voorhees family, but that, much to bis regret, the "Van" bad been lost in the descent Knowing the fondness of the averaee man for his own rightful cognomen, and recognizing the fact that the Senator might have even a greater affection for his own proper patronymic, tbe Jonrnal borrowed a "Van" which can hardly be distinguished from the real article, and which will serve for temporary use, or until the genuine one is found. The Senator, wbo is now Id New York, and is supposed by the uninformed to be looking for the vicepresidency, is really searching for the missing portion of bis name.' 1 M& James Whitcomb Riley's wide circle of admirers will be interested to learn that a volume of choice selections from' bis poems is in course of preparation. . It has long been a matter of regret that Mr. Riley's best work was

inaccessible save in the files of newspapers and magazines, and the new volume will undoubtedly receive a warm welcome. It will be published bvThe Bowen-Merrill Company, and will appear daring the holidays. The position of knowing yon are expected to say something, and not knowing what under tbe sun to say, is a most agonizing one. But most people have experienced this agony at times, particularly in meetiug strangers. Indeed, it has been the study of social philosophers to prepare some form of conversation for such occasions at once suitable, elegant, sprightly and easy to learn. This has finally been done, and every one, irrespective of party, must thank the great man who has conferred such a gift on a wretched world. The fact that this great and good being is tbe President only gives brighter lustre to the achievement Hereafter a gentleman entering the bouse where he is for the first time entertained will use this form, varying names and dates to suit the individual. "Mr. Tibson, I am glad to meet you. You were born sir, in 1840, and during the next year struggled manfully against a limited diet, and a contracted vocabulary. In 1843 your teeth numbered fifteen, and you were visited during the summer by that awful scourge, the Asiatie cholera infantum. Not until 1850 were you incorporated in the neareat school, and it was at that time or shortly after that you dropped your former appellation of Bobby Tibson, and adopted the name which you have ever since so honorably worn the name of Orlando P. Tibson, a name which, let me say, has stood since then at the head of many a grocers bill, a name which has gallantly closed up a half score of subscription lists. It was in 1860 that you were married and entered with a bound into a career of financial effort, the population increasing steadily from that time. You, sir, have had your vicissitndes, your ups and downs, likewise your outs and ins; but in all of them let me assure you that the eyes of the neighbors have been on you. But what a pleasure it is to me to greet you now in your present prosperous condition, the owner of a magnificent dwellingbouse which I am astounded to hear cost no more than the twelve-hundred dollars originally agreed on, a mansion of which you may well be proud, adorned as it is inside with objects of bigotry and virtue, and with a large green pump in the back yard. Seeing all this, sir, I cannot but predict for yon a career of unprecedented success, nor can I refrain from assuring you of my continued and abiding interest in you and yours. I thank you, sir, for your kind reception."

The rivalry and jealousy between St Paul and Minneapolis is well known. While the presidential party were in the former city, Mr. Bissell, the President's friend, was hanJed a telegraphic message by a boy wbo rushed breathlessly up. It was marked "important," and he tore it open feverishly to find this message: "If you want anything in tbe way of gents' furnishings don't buy them in a on horse town. Wait till you come to a 'city and 114 street, Minneapolis." - , The Washington correspondent of the Louisville Courier-Journal speaking of the funeral of tbe late Mr. Jap. Turpen, at which Dr. Bartlett officiated, says: "Dr. Bartlett is a native of Indiana and was long acquainted with " the deceased." Probably this highly authentic information in regard to the Doctor's birthplace will surprise nobody so much as himself. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Ex-President Hayes is a grandfather. His son. B. A. Hayes, of Toledo, recently became a happy father. Frank Hatton ba3 retired from the editorial management of the Chicago Mail, and will probably go into the railroad business. The St Louis Globe-Democrat thinks that the Democratic sentiment is : "We love him for the vacancies be has made and filled with Democrats." Munkacsy's "Christ on Calvary" has been brought to New York, and will be exhibited about the middle of November at the Twenty-third-street Tabernacle. Pittsburg Chronicle: One of the Czar's valets has been sent to Siberia because he talked too much. What Alec would do with Dr. McGlynn can only be dimly imagined. Of late they hare chimneys invented Which all of their own smoke consume; Now a music-consuming niauo Is needed to help out the boom. ' - TId-Bits. John W. Keely, the man of the motor that never motes, said, in New York, yesterday: "My force is perfected, and in six months will be given to the world." Keely has been in the Catskills for three months. . One day little Emma's mother reproved her quite sharply for not changing her shoes After a moment's reflection Emma said: "I wish you would berealdood to me, mamma. I fink you would like it after you got used to it" Detroit Free Press. A WEALTHY man called Esq., Thought for fun to holler Fsq, But his false a I arm . Created no harm. And the Fsqmen called him a Lsq. f ew lorfe Evening Sim. Robert Grant, the novelist, has written a book for boys which is to be brought out by a wellknown dry-goods bouse of Boston. This method of publishing a story is somewhat startling: but, then, there is no necessity for surprise at anything a dry-goods bouse does in these days. The astonishing news goes forth that Dr. Phillips Brooks has adopted a slow delivery. This may weaken his reputation among baseball enthusiasts, but it will add much to tbe comfort of Boston stenographers. In the near future we may hear that Senator Evarts has taken to short sentences. William Gladstone, a cousin of the En glish statesman, died at his home in White Cottage, a village near Zanesville, O., last Monday.. He was born in Scotland in 1831, came to this country in 1839, served throuth the rebellion in the Union army, and afterwards settled down a miller in the village in which he died. The Grand Duke of Hesse has at last allowed his Holbein Madonna to be cleared of the crust of paint and varnish which has so long concealed its beauties, and there is no longer a question as to its genuineness. This disposes of the Dresden conv which haa been held to be the original, and the old dispute as to the real masterpiece is at last settled. Miss Alice Longfellow, the daughter of the poet, has just been chosen a member of tbe Cambridge school committee. She has lately been devoting herself to the establishment and management of industrial and kindergarten sohools. and she is one of the trustees of the Harvard Annex. She was graduated with high honors by a woman's college. Mrs. Holbrook, of Woodstock, Conn., is a lineal descendant of Gen. Israel Putnam. She has a number of letters written by "Old Put," which show that be was a better soldier than scholar. She also owns tbe canteen he carried thronch tbe revolutionary war. It is made of straight wooden staves, tightly hooped at each end. The canteen has a capacity of three pints. King Humbert, of Italy, is reported to have said, in a recent conversation, that the best monarchy is the one in which the King is felt everywhere without being observed. "And the best republic?" he was asked. "It is that one," was the reply, "where, as in America, the genius of the people has so deeply penetrated every fibre of social fabric that no place remains for a king." The King of Holland, who, only the other day, was reported as ill beyond recovery, has apparently no intention of dying just yet According to latest advices he has shaved off his beard, and is daily to be seen handling the ribbons of a spirited four in-hand team, which he drives through Schevenineen, his young Queen being always perched by hie side on the box-seat of the handsomely appointed coach. Ex-Queen Isabella's friends assert that she never formally abdicated. She signed a paper in the presence of witnesses which was understood to be an act of abdication. But it was never ratified by the Cortes, never given legal publicity, ana, indeed, never let out of her possession. The royal signature is no longer visible. Where it was there is now a hnge ink stain, she having, in her son's lifetime, ia a fit

of anger at bis disregard for her wishes, takea up an inkstand and dashed it down -upon the document in question. A citizen writes to the New York World to ask: "Can you explain bow a patrolman, getting a salary of $100 per month, can. in addition to supporting his mother and sister, present his fiancee with the following articles: One watch set with twenty diamon ds, one diamond ring (solitaire), one diamond ring (cluster), one diamond pin, one-pair diamond ear-rings, one pair di aroond cuff buttons, silverware to the amount of $100; besides the above, pay a florist's bill for $10, a confectioner's bill for $15 and $40 for eab Irtre all in one month?" , Potter Palmer, of Chicago, is one of those men - who always seem to be in a hurry and whose faces carry about a permanent look of fatigue. When he is wandericg about his hotel he togs away nervously at the whiskers on his chin and seema to be absorbed by some mighty problem. When he talks, hie sentences - are short and to the point He never looks his bearer in the eye and always seems anxious to get away. He is seldom seen behind tbe counter of his business office. He manages, however, to run bis affairs most successfully, though it be in a peculiar way. A lover of books who likes to droo into book stores says: "I never go to book stores where ladies are employed as clerks. This is! not because I object to ladies, but beeause when you enter a store where there are saleswomen, they come right up to you and expect you to make your purchase at once. Now what I like to do ia to go into a book store and loaf around, skimming throngh books. If I find anything I want 1 lay it aside, and frequently I get quite a lot before I am through. A man cannot be expected to run into a store and say, give me a book, just as be would run into a saloon and, say, give me a beer."

COMMENT AND OPINION. Governor Foraker's majority will be 30,000, Snubs tell. Chicago Journal. George Francis Train is a cordial and enthusiastic hater of newspapers and newspaper men. He is a good deal of a Cleveland man, Phil-idelph Press. Mr. Cleveland may not be "an orator as Brutus was," but all tbe same he ia delivering tbe greatest series of funeral orations in recent politiss. Philadelphia Press. If Mr. Blaine combines in a greater degree than any other Republican the qua'lities of fitness and availability be should be renominated; not otherwise. Milwaukee Sentinel. . The right of free speech is sacred, but permitting a lunatic like George Francis Train to make incendiary speeches to a lot of madmen is stretching it pretty far. Philadelphia Inquirer. fw? cent is very small, but when it is added to "ate of interest you receive on a stock it pos s a stern, magnificent grandeur that can ou away like a strain of music. Dry Gooda Chronicle. The New York Times and other Cleveland organs are scolding about tbe Gorman ring in , Maryland. It is a combination affair and should be called the Cleveland-Gorman ring. Boston Journal. Here ia something we want our free trade contemporaries to digest: Nine-tenths of all manufactured articles used by farmers are cheaper in the United States than in England. Atlanta Constitution. The Democratic party is doing much to prove that it has no more tbe capacity to discipline itself than it has to command the confidence of the people. It is working to destroy its chances for future success with a foolishness that would be beyond belief were not the evidence of s it so constantly before our eyes. Boston Herald. The Democrats in Georgia want the revenue laws wiped out They want the tariff then so modified that there will be no surplus, and every dollar that is levied for revenue they want levied so as to protect American labor where it competes with the serf labor of Europe. This is Demoeratis doctrine, and can be understood by a wayfaring man though be be a fooL Atlanta Constitution. ' Citizenship is a duty as well as a privilege. If political rings exist, the men who constitute the party are to blame. If tbe best men are not nominated for office, the men who do not take any part in the primary assemblies of the party the "dirty work," as torn kid-gloved fault-finders call it deserve the public censure. It is too late to lock the stable after the horse is stolen. Charleston News and Courier. There is this to be said in extenuation of the President's conveyance that he abstracted hia facts from the "American Cyclopedia." It was not from "Chambers," nor from the "Encyclopedia Britannica," and be withstood the temptation of purloining from any of.ier nation, Russian, French, Turk, Prussian, or perhaps Italian. And it is greatly to his credit that he remains American, even when getting the data of a speech on Terra Haute. New York Commercial Advertiser. "Ireland is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. Its climate, is good, its soil is rich. Irishmen get along and do well everywhere except in their own country. Englishmen may, therefore, profitably ponder the declaration of Fronde: "If we will neither rule Ireland, nor allow Irishmen to rule themselves, nature and fact may tell us that, whetber wa will or no, an experiment which has lasted for seven bnnd red years shall be tried no longer." New York Herald. We do not want the English tenant system introduced here, and, with millions of acres of unoccupied lands in the West, there is no reason wby it should exist, even in isolated cases. Onr farms should be tilled by tbe men who own, . them. Absentee landlords will be tolerated, perhaps, in England for a hundred years more, but not in this country under any circumstances. Least of all do we care to see the custom of wholesale and brutal evictions prevalent in our midst New York Star. Conventions meet and indorse the President and approve his poliey, while all the time tbosa concerned in tbem are doing things that prove their hypocrisy. Senator Gorman has his will in Maryland; Indiana is a scandalizing example of the survival of the spoils system; Kentucky, proclaims that she ia yet joined to ancient Bourbon idols; Massachusetts holds a convention) which, under a thin veil of pretense, really ' scoffs at that reform in which alone resides the) possibility of the Democrats retaining powerv Boston Herald. There seems to be a dearth of talent among the younger members of tbe ministry when com pared to the other professions. As a class, they are vastly inferior to what they were twenty- 1 five years ago. Whether this is because religion has lost its bold on the young men is a question that the professors of tbese seminaries should answer. As a matter o( fact, a quarter of a century ago a large proportion of the most able college graduates took up the ministry, whereas now it is an exception to find students of the first rank in seminaries. New York Star. Until tbe human mind can be taught to think less tenderly of departed friends, and to feel less acutely the revolting impressions which the idea of thrusting a loved one's remains into a fiery furnace for speedy dissolution invariably produces, the advocates o? cremation will have but a feeble following. It is a case in which sentiment, pure and simple, boldly and successfully defies tbe demonstrated facts of science; and from present indications the sentiment, founded as it is on the holiest feelings of human nature, will continue to triumph. New York Times. Cleveland has thoncht that Governor Hill was the only man in New York he bad to fear, but he has been misled. It is not that man, but another man, who is slowly emerging from the bushes. We intend to mention in a day or two the name of this man. He will be the product of the great forces that nnderlie and overcome the Democratic party. He is a representative man. He will get away with Grover in New York, bnt we think the Republicans can beat him. Of course the solid South may be counted upon for anybody called a Democrat When we name the man there will be no mystery. Cicsinnati Commercial Gazette. The carrying trade of the ocean is a matter of dollars and cents. If it does not pay and British ship-owners best know whether shares ia freight vessels are profitable the Yankee can find better use for hia money and energy. Nor will any American deny that we are behind the Old World in a great many things. A younj; nation can not be expected to attain everything in a single centnry, even with matchless advantages. But the wise institutions and wise laws which bring us the pirk of foreign craftsmen and inventors will continue to defend American industries and American development until in other things, as in the building of fast yachts, we can rely hopefully upon the ability of our countrymen. New York Tribune. The President's tour may be honestly intended to have no political significance or effect, but Democrats arw everywhere evidently resolved to make the best possible use of it At Indianapolis only one Republican ex-Governor Porter was originally on the committee designated to re- . eeive the party at the train. Senator Harrison was added only after considerable fuss had been made about it by the citizens, and Judge Woods, in whose court "Sim" Coy was indicted for ballot-box frauds, was wholly ignored. In St Louis the Democratic clubs have monopolized everything in the procession, while the social side of the entertainment is apparently being run for the exclusive benefit of Mayor Francis. Republicans everywhere so far. have bad to fight for a chance to do their share of the welcoming. Chicago Mail.

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