Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 October 1887 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOtTimAX, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1SS7.

THE DAILY JOURNAL. FRIDAY, OCTOBER U. 1887. WA8U1SOTON OFFICE SI 3 FoortMnth SU P. S. HlATH. Correspondent. NEW YORK OFFICE 104 Temple Court, Corner Beetman and Nassau itreeta.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at th following places LONDON American Exchange in Strand. Europe, 449 PARIS American Exchange in Paria, 35 Boulevard da Capueinea. NEW YORK Gedney Hoase and Windsor Hotel, CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI J. P. Ilawiey & Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Pearing, 'northwest corner Third and J efi'eraon streets. ST. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, If. C Riggs Hoose and Ebbitt House. Telephone Calls. Bnstaess Office '.238 Editorial Rooms. .....242 , " FIRST the Baltimore & Ohio railroad was absorbed, tben the B. & O. telegraph lines, rod finally Mr. Robert Garrett himself. THE election in this city has started a movement in Evansville for the enforcement flaw. This shows the power of good example. " - THE presidential progress is developing a degree of snobbery and toadyism in the American character not altogether pleasing to contemplate. ' KANSAS City complains that Omaha pur posely detained the presidential party out of j pure "hoprgishness." We seem to have heard Something of that kind before. A coroner's verdict exonerating everybody will prove very useful to the Chicago & Atlantic Railroad Company when the survivors from the wreck at Kouts bring suits for damages. . It is high time that Mayor Roche put a stop to the stupendous fool, George Francis Train, and we are glad to see that the police Lave orders to clap the fellow into jail until he can be sent to a lunatic asylum. THE part taken in the late election by that once amiable and upright citizen, lion. Joseph K, McDonald, suggests that Le is acting fcs Dr. Jekyll to Sim Coy's Mr. Hyde, and that the Hyde half has got the upper hand. Ex-Senator Thurman does not move at the bidding of the gang, as does Mr. McDonald. The Democrats of Ohio have been using every effort to get the old Roman to make speeches for Powell, but he steadfastly refuses. Has the gang a friend in or about the Criminal Court after all? The facts seem to indicate it. Yesterdays action, and the non-action against convicted whisky selling criminals, shows that there is something or somebody rotten in Denmark. Who is it? Ex-Senator McDonald, Governor Gray and Congressman Bynum put off indorsing the Coy gang until two eights before the election when they felt sure of success. If they had waited till the night after the election, perhaps it would have been indefinitely postponed. SOME of the young and foolish Massachusetts mugwumps wanted to nominate a State ticket of their own, but the older members of the party promptly crushed the movement. They know that if they once stand up to be counted their influence, such as it is, is gone forever, and they wisely prefer to remain an unknown quantity. Now that the election i3 over and has gone the right way, it is time to think of reviving that business boom which Rtarte'd into life last Spring, when it was thought for a few brief and happy days that we were to have natural gas. And the way to revive it is to get the gas. Does anybody propose to bring gas to Indianapolis, and if so, on what terms will they do it? The conduct of the Chicago and Atlantic railroad officials concerning the recent shocking accident has been infamous. But what is the public going to do about it, or what can it do? The press has hammered away on the subject of the responsibility for railroad accidents and condemning the compauies until it has become a wearisome topic. It appears to be a case of a wrong without a remedy. An inquiring subscriber is respectfully informed that the roosters which marched in stately procession across the pages of the Journal on Wednesday are the same birds which have appeared before under similar circumstances. They are hardy roosters, and will survive to do further service of the same kind, no doubt, though the Journal hopes to secure a few specimens of larger breed to crow for the Republicans of the State next year. JOHN Swinton is opposed to Henry George and bis land theory, which he speaks of as "this new dogma which is setting so many women crazy," and he talks bitterly about the man who in his efforts to abolish poverty has Accumulated a fortune for himself and his family. Meanwhile Swinton has lost all his means, is out of employment, and is a poor old man, and these sacrifices he has honestly made for the cause of labor. Truly his case is pathetic. BPRNED-UP passengers bring no damage suits, and as most of the people in the Chicago & Atlantic wreck were totally consumed, the company is congratulating itself that the disaster will not cost them as much, by many thousands of dollars, ts if the victims had only been crushed and left in a half-dead condition. Friends of missing persons who probably went out on the train cannot prove the fact, for the bodies aro burned, and the railroad company will profit by it. But ween the awful fire and the coroner, who exonerates everybody, there will be scarcely any expense whatever on account of the loss of life, and in excursion or two will make thia up. Doubtless in the next annual report to the directors, tho board will be congratulated that 'he Are was so kind to them. &ud a extra per

cent. will be added to the dividend, if the road ever pays a dividend. A company that will hire men who can talk as the employes did to the Chicago newspaper men, will gloat over the fact that the disaster was an inexpensive one. One of them said: "The accident is none of the newspapers' business and none of the public's business. If the newspapers would come to us, instead of rushing off to an accident, they would get the facts nearer right. It's none of their business, anyway." This beats Vanderbilt's, "the publio be d d," and its heartlessness will always be charged up to the Chicago & Atlantic Railway Company.

. IEDL4HAF0LIS EEPDBLICANISM. The Sentinel has, as often a3 was required, phced upon record the fact that the Republican party of Indianapolis has for a number of years past, lost strength. Sentinel. The Journal has not claimed and does sot claim the result of Tuesday's election as distinctively and exclusively a Republican victory in a partisan sense, but we deny that the figures show any decadence of Republican strength. The statement that the Republic an party has, for a number of years past, been losing strength in the city, is not true. The official returns of the elections for Mayor during the last six years show the following: In 1881, Grubbs, Republican, received 7,182 votes, and Smart, Democrat, 6,695; Republican majority, 487. Grubbs did not poll his party strength and Smart polled more than his. In 18S3, " McMaster, Republican, received 8,657 votes, and Schmuck, Democrat, re ceived 8.337. Republican majority, 270. In 1885, Denny, Republican, received 9,091 votes, and Cottrell, Democrat, 9029. Republican majority, 62. In 1887, Denny received 9,960 votes, Edenharter 9,186, and Davy 1,455. Republican majority over next highest candidate, 774. The Republican vote has increased from 7,182 in 1881 to 9,960 in 1887, an actual increase of 2,778, while the Democratic vote during the same period has increased from 6,695 to 9,186, an actual increase of 2,491. The Republican candidate for Mayor, on Tuesday, polled 2,778 more votes than the Republican candidate for Mayor in 1881 did, while the Democratic candidate for Mayor on Tuesday polled 2,491 votes more than the candidate in 1881. If these figures show that "the Republican party of Indianapolis has, for a number of years past, lost strength," what do they show in regard to the Democratic rarty? The uncertain 'factor in the late election was the labor vote, 1,455. The preposterous claim is made that 90 per cent, of these came from the Democratic party. Why not claim 100 per cent., or all of it? The usual analysis of the labor vote in cities where the labor party has an organization is two-thirds Democratic and one-third Republican. The claim of nine-tenths Democratic is absurd. The labor vote in Indianapolis is more largely Republican than in most cities, but giving the Democrats three-fourths, an unusually high estimate, would still have elected Denny. Thus: Total vote for Denny 9,960 One-fourth of Davy's vote 361 Total 10,324 Total vote for Edenharter 9.186 Three-fourtha of Davy's vote 1,092 Total 10,278 This division of the labor vote would still elect Denny by forty-six majority. But, as a matter of fact, if the labor vote were now resolved into its original elements it would probably divide about equally 50 per cent. Republican and 50 per cent. Democratic. This division would still leave the Republicans 774 ahead. But as between Denny and Coy ism the former would doubtless have received four-fifths or five-sixths of the labor vote. WHAT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED. ror a Minnesota snow-shoe club to toss a man in a blanket is a mark of their distinguished consideration, just a3 it is for the Philadelphia Clover Club to interrupt and "guy" a guest when he is speaking; but just suppose the SDOw-shoers had succeeded in their plan to capture and "bounce" the President! All the prim mugwumps of the East, who look upon the present incumbent of the presidential office as little lees than divine because they chose him, all the swarm of obsequious officials at Washington and the administration attaches everywhere all these would now be in a state of collapse over the indignities offered to the sacred person of their chief. Is it even to be supposed that Mr. George William Curtis, or Mr. Godkin, or Mr. Endicott would survive the shock? The two writers could not rally to his defense with their pens, nor the Secretary of War order out the United States army for the purpose of exterminating the impious snow-shoers; they would simply gasp and expire. It would be left for such noble and loyal patriots as the gentlemen composing the Hendricks Club to form into hollow square and avenge the insult. Had that blanket-tossing taken place the Hendricks Club would now, in all probability, be wending its devious way to the Northwest by rail, if enough funds were left after the election, or on foot with the favorite beef and iron elixir in their canteens, if cash were short. What would happen when the collision between the fiery Hoosiers and the depraved Minnesotians took place the imagination shudders to contemplate. The Hendricks Club isn't good for much as a political power, but as a compensation for its defects in this particular it ought to ba invincible in war. Spurred on by its wrath at the treatment of Mr. Cleveland, and with its sensitive spirit still inflamed with disappointment over the late election, there is little doubt that the St. Paul snow-shoe club would have been made to slide off the face of the earth, or at least into the woods. The only thing to 6ave them would have been a proposal to refill the canteens of the attacking party. The President, in the meantime, would not be half so indignant as his satellites and worshipers. The shaking up would disturb him somewhat, doubtless, and he would not be ready with a speech for the occasion when finally tossed upon his feet, butit would not occur to him to get angry until he had proceeded some distance on his journey. It will be remembered that the criti-

cisms on his Indianapolis and Terre Haute

speeches did cot affect his temper until week later, and just as innocent Milwaukee had to suffer for the comments of the ribald press, so the people of Memphis and Atlanta would . shiver under his expressions of dis pleasure for what St. Paul had done if St. Paul had really done it. As a matter of fact, it is highly probable -that the snow-shoe club, reckless and irreverent as it may be, did not seriously contem plate shaking the President of the United States in a blanket; but that such a proceeding should even be talked of, and accepted by the public as a possibility, is an interesting development of democratic sentiments. It is truly a democratic country, and the further one penetrates into the wild and wooly West, the wilder, and woolier, and more democratic it proves to be. HAEMLESS AMUSEMENTThe Sentinel is trying very hard to extract some comfort from the returns of the city election. It does not succeed in electing Edenharter, but it proves very clearly that he would have been elected if he had re ceived enough votes. It demonstrates be yond a doubt that if 388 of the persons who voted for Denny had voted for Edenharter, it would have made a change of 776 votes and elected Edenharter by two majority. It. is also able to show that if 775 of those who voted for Davy had voted for Edenharter that he would have been elected by one majority. If either one of these things had happened, Edenharter would have been elected, but as neither of them did happen, he was defeated by 774 votes. The Sentinel seems to get some comfort out of shuffling the figures and electing Edenharter on paper, and certainly it is a harmless occupation. We do cot begrudge it any consolation it can obtain in this way. The fellow on top of , the harrow does cot begrudge the toad under it any comfort it can extract from the situation, though he cannot afford to stop the machine or change the course of the horses. And if the toad can prove by figures that he is. on top and driving, why shouldn't he do it? The man on top of the harrow just at present is earned Dennv. President Cleveland participated in the ceremonies of laying the corner-stone of the new Y. M. C. A. building in Kansas City yesterday, and made an address creditable to himself and of practical value, not only to Kansas City, but to the whole country. No expression of Chrisiian effort is more worthy the active and generous support of the business community than the Young Men's Christian Associations. The beautiful new building in this city should attract the earnest and intelligent sympathy of all classes of people to this work in Indianapolis. The debt now resting upon the structure should not be allowed to stay there long. With that debt lifted, a great impetus would be given to the association and its work. " At least, the association should not be hampered in any of its efforts from lack of means, or lack of the personal, kindly presence and sympathy of the business public, as well as of the Christian people. If any man has not visited the new building, it will pay him to go there and examine it and its work, under the guidance of the secretary. The Marion county grand jury yesterday indicted two colored janitors at the State building, Jones and Dickson, for stealing and converting property of the State. Their alleged offense consisted in disposing of a lot of old books of the possible value of $25 or $30. We believe it is cot denied that they disposed of the books, together with a lot of waste paper, but the facts rebut the idea that they were acting with criminal or dishonest intent. They were indicted .out of spite, and to punish the colored voters for standing by Denny on Tuesday. The same grand jury that indicted them has heretofore ignored the tally-sheet frauds. If these colored men have violated the law they ought, of course, to be punished; but we think it will appear, when the facts come out on the trial as they have been brought out in the Journal by the statements of the State officers and others, that the indictment was political spite-work, engineered by the gang. Fhksident Cleveland's failure to stop at Springfield and pay a visit of respect to the tcmb of Abraham Lincoln is provoking considerable criticism from prominent Illinois Democrats Ex-Governor Palmer, in particular, is very indignant, etc. St. Louis GlobeDemocrat. Stuff! The effort of the Republican newsEa per organs to belittle the President during is trip have become more than puerile, they are ridiculous. Mark Twaiu weeping at the tomb of Adam, we presume, is what these organs would call truly pathetic. The News. Such a paragraph as that, comparing a possible President of the United States at the tomb of Abraham Lincoln, with the mock pathos of Mark Twain at the tomb of Adam, is the most flippant and outrageous thing we have seen in print for a long time. It would have become Grover Cleveland to have paid a visit to the tomb of Abraham Lincoln much more than to have gone to a big brewery in Milwaukee. He had plenty of time for the latter, but none for the former. Railroad companies, it is understood, prefer that passengers should be killed rather than mangled in a collision, as the consequent "damages" to the company's treasury are much smaller, less money being allowed by the courts to the legal representatives of a dead man than to one who is crippled by the cars. This being the case, it must be extremely gratifying to the Chicago & Atlantic company that two entire families were destroyed in the disaster at Kouts. Had one of the six Bohemians survived he would, perhaps, have exacted compensation for his own injuries and for the death of the other five members of his family as well a result that has now been escaped. The Chicago & Atlantic company, it may be supposed, is feeling duly jubilant, because the six dead Millers are not to cost it a dollar. A REPORT from the forestry division of the Agricultural Department shows that the destruction of forests and consumption of the timber supply in this country is going on at a startling rate. A large proportion of this consumption has been for railroads. "Consider-, ing the wasteful manner of getting out rr llroad timber," says the report, "it can be fairly

estimated that to build our present railroad system more than one hundred million acres, or one-fifth of our present forest area, were stripped during the last fifty years, and the next fifty will very likely call for more than double that amount, judging from the accelerated development which is probable and the requirements for renewal." The main fact here presented, viz., the rapid, wanton and alarming destruction of forests has been known for some time to all possessed of any information on the subject, but as yet it has failed to attract more than a very limited and languid degree of attention on the part of the public or the government. The American tendency to wastefulness and to sacrifice future resources to present convenience has in nothing been more conspicuously shown than in the" wholesale destruction of forests. Fifty years hence people will .be laboriously planting and raising forest trees in States where their ancestors destroyed them with almost criminal prodigality.

A RAILROAD conductor of long experience expresses the opinion in the Louisville Courier-Journal, that many of the railroad accidents of recent years are traceable to strikes. He says: 'tA.ssoon as the regular crews leave the trains new, inexperienced and utterly incompetent men, picked up any and everywhere, take their places. Life and property are thus often placed in the hands of tramps.' There seems to be some reason jn this, but how is the evil to be cured? Strikes cannot be prevented, and when they occur the public expect that trains shall be run, regardless of danger. Nevertheless, there might be legislation holding the managers and employes of railroads to a higher degree of responsibility, and there ought to be. , The Governor of Pennsylvania has appointed a committee of six gentlemen, who are presumably scholars as well, to "consider the propriety of adopting a correct orthography for the public documents hereafter to be printed, and how far such amended orthography may with propriety be adopted." The natural inference to be drawn from this remarkable appointment is that the subordi nate officials of Pennsylvania are Democrats, and that the clerical force of the State is a relic of Governor Pattison's administration. Perhaps it would be better for Governor Beaver to institute a little civil-service reform, and put into the offices some Republic ans who have already adopted a correct orthography. ' The matrimonial question is figuring curi ously in politics. It is generally conceded that President Cleveland's wife is the bright spot of his administration and his marriage the best thing he has dono. Now, politicians are saying that General Hawley's approaching marriage to an English lady will kill his pres idential chances, for, they ask, "how do you suppose the American publio would like the idea of having an English woman, bred and born, the mistress of the White House?" Well, we are a queer people, and there might be 'something in that. A great nugget of political information comes from Franklin, Ind., furnished bt a correspondent of the Louisville CourierJournal, who says Mr. Cleveland's visit to this city "has had a strong tendency to crystallize his supporters, making them stronger for the battle to be fought next year, and to br.ng back to the ranks thousands who had become lukewarm and negligent by reason of civil-service reform." This is going away from home to get news. The Democrats of this city have not yet discovered any such results of the presidential visit. A Boston man spent five hours a day for six weeks in pecking away at a stone which came from the top of an Oregon mountain. The secret of his industry was discovered when he finally dug into a petrified fish, only the tail of which had been visible when he began the work. Something in the appearance of the rock led him to believe that it was a Boston fish-ball left in the mountains by some wanderer from the Mayflower, and the discovery that the creature within was once a codfish has, of course, confirmed his suspicions. Senator VanVoorhees is preparing to make another great fight over the promotion of , oneWaldeman Wulff tothesuperintendency of the Jefferson ville depot of the Quartermaster's Department. Wulff is a Republican, hence the howl. But as General Saxton, deputy Quartermaster-general, is under a heavy bond for the faithful performance of his duties, the War Department will probably conclude that his recommendation in a matter of this kind is entitled to more weight than Senator Vorbees's protest. The coal men yesterday forced up the price of anthracite fifty cents a ton, and all other kinds of coal twenty-five cents. The coal men are unanimous in the opinion that no change whatever should be made in he natural-gas ordinance that might invite the new fuel to our citv, and thus interfere with their merry war against the poor people who have to buy their coal. .Are the Council and Board of Aldermen merely stupid, or are they in the "ring" opposed to the introduction of natural gas ? It is hard lines when a young woman must take her reluctant mother arfd flee to Europe to escape a man she doesn't want If Miss Molly Garfield objects to J. Stanley Brown as a future husband, why doesn't she tell him so, and let him go about his business? And if Brown wont go, why doesn't she marry another man, and thus compel him to depart? Or why not call npon the American public to save her from Brown? Bat, perhaps, the young lady wants to go to Europe, and makes her saitor's unwelcome attentions, an excuse for the trip. Girls have been known to do just each things. A shop-keeper in a Pennsylvania village met with a curious and very unpleasant experience the other day. Burglars broke into bis store room and finding him sleeping there, tied his hands together and with ropes passed under his armpits suspended him from the celling, bis toes barely touching the floor. He was then gagged with a strip from a green window-shade and left in that position until he was rescued an hour or two later by bis wife, who bad come in search of him. The green caper in his mouth became saturated with saliva which he was forced to swallow, and which acted as a poison, so that when released' he was not onlv physically ex

hausted but seriously ill, and now lies in a critical condition a result which the burglars probably did not contemplate. Love seems to be more profitable than literature in California. So many breach-of-promise suits have been brought to successful issue out there that Miss Ida Addis, who is described as the "leading literary woman of the Pacific coast," has felt encouraged to sue ex-Governor Downey for $500,000 for breaking his matrimonial promise to her. Miss Addis would have to write at least half a dozen magazine articles in order to realize that much money in the regular

way. Senator Don Cameron has reduced the matter of being interviewed to a fine art. He told a Pittsburg reporter who wanted to get his views on politics: '-.Politics! loo know as much about them as I do." and modestly declined to bestow information wbere .it was cot needed. And what could a poor reporter do but smile and go away, much as he might have wanted "fill ing" for his paper? St. Paul's reception of the presidential party was magnificent, but it could only afford four white horses to hitch to the carriage in which Mrs. Cleveland rode. Indianapolis trotted out eight horses for that purpose, and the Presi dent's wife hasn't red hair either. AB0DT PE0FLE AND TUINGS. Miss Frances E. Willard wants all temper ance women in the world to observe Nov. 12 as a "day of special prayer for the cause." Yonkers Statesman: Talmage is authority for the statement that there are no pianos in heaven. What the use of a piano trying to be square or uprigni, tnen; Ex-Attorney-general Benjamin H. Brews ter attended a theater for the first time in years a few nights ago in Philadelphia. His costume was as picturesque at any on the stage. Mr. Andrew Lang used to write anonymous articles for the magazines, but now he always sijrns his name to his pieces, for fear some fool should ask, "Why doesn't auld Lang sign!" The English carry bad taste in advertising to a greater extent than is done in this country. A big picture of General Gordon on his death-bed. used as an advertisement for a patent medicine, appears in a London woman's journal. Prof. Richard A. Proctor, the famous astronomer, is about to leave St. Joseph, Mo., and make his home near Orange Lake, Fla. Prof. Proctor will deliver a course of lectures during the fall and settle down in Florida about the end of November. Thomas A. Edison, th e inventor, is an inveterate pipe-smoker. It is said that he has invented a new kind of pipe which will make a sensation in the world of puffers. There is no electricity about it, but the xnventer hopes it will come into current use. Mrs. Clarissa Cox, of Wake field, Mass., who on Thursday rounded out one hundred years of life in this vale of tears, was asked the secret of her longevity. "Hard work," said she; "hard work has alwavs been good for me, and Iv'e always had plentv of it to do." Harper's Bazar. "Oh, Tom," she whispered, after the momentous question had been propounded. "I am so happy! Papa and brother Frank have been teasing me awfully about you lately, and besides, I'm the first girl of our graduating class to he engaged!' Mrs. Robert T. Lincoln keeps a scrap-book for little Abe Lincoln, in which she preserves all the newspaper paragraphs of her illustrious father-in-law. It is her intention to make an' historian of her little son and have Abraham Lincoln the subject of his first work. The famous cloak and helmet of red feathers once worn by the Kine of the Sandwich Islands, and given by him to Captain Cook a few days before the death of the latter, were lately brought to light in a closet in a Yorkshire country house, where they had lain lost for many years. Chacncey Depe w told this experience in a recent speech: "I was up in Scot .nd this summer, where they understand a joke more easily than anywhere in the world, and was tired out traveling and sight-seeing and, said to my Scotch guide: 'I must find a soft stone somewhere to sit down on.' He said: 'My friend, there are no soft stones in Scotland.'" The recent canard about the stealing of Napolean's remains from the tomb of the Invalides recalls the story vouched for by excellent authorities that during the post-mortem examination of the great warrior's body at St. Helena, the work being suspended over night, rats devoured the heart and a corresponding portion of the viscera of a sheep was substituted by the surgeons. This is the time of year when frisky students cut queer capers. At Brunswick, Me., the other night a Bowdoin boy. Cilley by name and sillv by nature, climbed to the top of the northern spire of King's Chanel and fastened thereon a white flag bearing his class numerals. The spire is of stone, 120 feet high, and the -only thing the foolhardy fellow had to hold on by was a liehtning-rod. Mrs. George W. Childs's parlor at Wootton is a gem. The carpet is gendarme blue and the mahogany furniture is upholstered in a rich dark brown with a few odd pieces in white and gold set out The ornaments on the mantel are few and large. The prevailing color in the scarfs and draperies, stuck here acd there on corners of chairs and other articles, is yellow. As befittine a country homo Mrs. Childs has white mull curtains all through the house. Erskine M. Phelps, of Chicago, who was master of ceremonies at the dinner given to the President at the Palmer House, is one of the i best dressed men in the Western Venice. He bears a striking resemblance to J. Wilkes Booth. He is a member of nearly every club in Chicago and was the inspiring genius of the Iroquois Club. His home is a model of good taste, and he has the finest private library in Illinois. He also owns a fine collection of paintings and statuary. . Mrs. Cleveland writes a big, strong, round hand, and signs herself, "Very sincerely yours, Frances Folsom Cleveland." She uses very pale blue paper, the sheets rather short, and the envelopes large and almost square. She naa her note-paper and envelopes emblazoned with a red, white and blue shield, enameled with a narrow golden scroll containing the words "The White House" in raised letters. She writes in an easy and straightforward way. and, like her Bisters everywhere, she indulges freely in underscoring. An old printer of Cincinnati says of the Rev. Hugh O. Pentecost, late Labor candidate for Mayor of Newark: "He used to be a printer in Cincinnati and worked on the Enquirer. After that he was a compositor in Indianapolis. He was wonderfully profane, and there was another man who was about bis match in that line at the Indiana capital. Thev started out to see who could be the most sacrilegious and the other man got away with Pentecost. He became angry, reformed, and turned preacher, and is now one of Henry George's right bowers." His majesty, Dong Khan, of Annam, has fit cooks taking part in the preparation of each roval repast, but each chef is confined to the elaboration of a single one of the fifty dishes of which the menu is nnvariably composed. The dishes are taken first to the intendant of the household, who delivers them to the eunuchs for conveyance to the King's female body guard some thirty of the ladies of the serAgha, who serve the repast and wait on the table. The royal table beverage is Annam is a particular brew made from poppy seeds and aromatio plants, but Dong Khan never touches the traditional concoction, finding a bottle of old Bordeaux quite good enough for him. Lord Salisbury has really regained his health, but it is not unlikely that he will presently break it down again. His indisposition was mainly the result of too much sedentary occupation. He puts on weight instead of mnscie. Like Lord Beaconsfield, he cannot walk, but he can saunter. Mr. Gladstone walks, and there is no mistake about it. He passes everybody as he goes down Regent street, and by exercise keerts himself strong. Lord Salisbury passes from the Foreign Office to the House of Lords, when he does not use his carriage, at the rate of about a mile an hur; and that is frequently all the exercise he has, for be does not always walk from Arlington street. . How to dispose of the garbage is one of the qestions that is troubling large cities. In Montreal the system of burning has been adopted, and the Philadelphia Board of Health has gouelit information concerning the success of the device. From the reply received it appears tiiat a crematory can be built at a cost of $4,000

for each furnace, exclusive of the cost of the abed covering. It can be worked by four men. In twerve hours each furnace will cremate sixty or set enty cubic yards or cart-loads of garbage. There is no nmoll, and the crematory can. be erected within the city limits without detriment to publio health. It will require two and a half tons of the cheapest soft coal, screened, for each twelve hours.

COMMENT AND OPINION. The letter from a deserted wife in Augusta, Ga., seeking information about her departed dear, is a striking illustration of a trite and true saying: "The way of the transgressor is hard" to find out.- Montgomery (Ala ) Advertiser. Some surprise is expressed that a New Hampshire legislator should have brought $5,003. but it must be remembered that twice that sum was obtained for a base ball player during the bull movement in pitchers. Pittsburgh Chronicle. , There is a disposition to abuse Jay Gould whenever he chews up a railroad or swallows a telegraph company. And yet it must be admitted that for his opportunities Gould is a modest scoundrel. Wnich one of his critics would beany better if they had the world-in a sling as he has? -Louisville Commercial. The doctrine of the personal liberty party of New York, as interpreted by the conduct of its advocates, means that no man nor set of men has any rights which any other man or set of mm is bound to respect. In other words, no man has a right to any rights. Therefore, all rigMs are wrong and all wrongs are right. Philadelphia Press. If prohibition laws are ever to be enacted generally, it most be through the influence of Prohibitionists as a moral force. On re prohibition becomes the basis of a practical party in politics, it may work mischievously, it may determine which of the two existing parties shall hold the office, but it can never advance prohibition. Milwaukee Sentinel. Have we no law to punish wholesale manslaughter except through tedious and difficultlysustained actions for damages? Cannot something be done not only to improve the lighted tinder-boxes which the railroads call passengerCoaehea. hnt tn reform th f" rpl.c. tnH ir itnu seem utterly irresponsible management of many of them? Louisville Courier Journal. The party is always stronger than the individual. Profound knowledge of this fact impels conscientious statesmen to refuse a nomination at the hands of a party they do not trust. Faith in themselves they have, as much as they ought; but they know that their best endeavors will be hopeless and probably useless against the resistless tendencies of a great National party, embodying the wishes and beliefs of millions of voters. That is the reason why the Republican who votes, directly or itdirectly, to tern over the government of this country to a disloyal, demoralizing and dangerous party is false to bis duty. New York Tribune. THE INDIANAPOLIS CITY ELECTION. good advice to republicans. Shelbyville Republican. The triumph is not only for the Republicans as a party, but for all that class of citizens who like to see the laws enforced, clean men in office, honest methods in city government, and correct principles vindicated. It is matter for Republicans to congratulate themselves upon that thev were on the right side and that the right side came out victorious. In the Ion? run it is better to be defeated on the right side than triumphant in advocacy of a bad cause. Now that the Republicans have gained the victory let them act wisely acd they will have no trouble in retaining ascandency at Indianapolis. Let them keep all pledges to the people and give them good city government at all points. Let them eschew the ring business, stand aloof from jobs, practice economy in expenditures and in every way look to the interests of the people as against self-seekers. Let them see that all the laws are strictly enforced and not fear that they will lose anything by making all hands toe the mark" in this respect Let them not pander to this element or that element to curry favor for future use but depend upon the betttir sense of the law-abiding to sustain them in an impartial administration of the statutes and ordinances. Let them show no favoritism cor wink at abuses of any kind. Let them draw a tight rein on all the corporations enjoying fran chises from the city acd see that they live up to tbe strict letter of their contracts. This is a much more effective way of keeping in control than by appeals to mere partisanship which has largely lost its effect at the capital. The people want good government above all things and they will sustain that party which gives them the best of what they desire. , general comment on the rfsult. Cambridge City Tribune: The Republicans have downed the Coy gang in the city election at Indianapolis. Logansport Journal: Coyism has received a backset, but it wlil cot be downed completely nctil every interest of the State is wrested from its control. Shelbyville Democrat (Dem. ): Sim Coy was elected yesterday by an increased majority. He stands vindicated by the people of his ward. Shake, Simeon. Anderson Herald: The tally-sheet forgers and election conspirators of Indianapolis received a rebuke at the ' election yesterday thev will do well to profit by. Seymour Republican: The Sim Coy gang of tally-sheet forgers wanted vindication in the election yesterday. Now they have it over the left shoulder. How do they like it? Terre Haute Express: Now if the next jury in the United States Court will be as unerring in its judgment as a majority of tbe people of Indianapolis Sim Coy will be "did for indeed. Delphi Journal: Simeon Coy and his hire lings may handle a majority of Democratic par tisans on a federal jury, but when they attempt to extend their sway over a city the size of In dianapolis they fall short. Rusbville Republican: The victory is one over which the whole State is entitled to rejoice with its capital city. Tbe issue was fairly joined be tween the best and worst elements, and Coy and his dirty gang came out of tbe struggle Boundly threshed. Huntington Herald: The people throughout the entire State will congratulate the city upon its having shaken off the shackles of the boss who has for so long been corrupting the elections, and upon its victory over the ballot-box stuffers and tallv-sheet forgers. ' Tirton Advocate: Tbe result was all that the good citizens could wish. Sim Coy, the saloon element and Democracy all got a black eye that they will not soon recover from. It was a victory that all honest men may be proud of, and it is a lesson that will not soon be forgotten. Lafayette Courier: The Republicans of Indianapolis, aided by law-abiding citizens of every sbade of political opinion, have won a good fight, and the people of tbe entire State who respect law and order rejoice with them in their victory over the lawless and wicked elements which centered about Sim Coy. South Bend Tribune: The Democratic party of Indianapolis had the misfortune to get under control of Sim Coy. a saloon-keeper, with as corrupt a gang back of him as ever infested any city. The Coy gang was so badly defeated that, for tbe sake of the good name of Indianapolis, . it is to be hoped it will never be beard of again. Richmond Palladium: It is a great credit to Indianapolis that at the first opportunity presented the people of that city have so overwhelmingly placed the seal of their condemnation on an attempt to introduce fraud and forgery as tbe controlling element in their elections. Every respectable Icdianian congratulates the capital city on this rssult. Ex-Senator Jones's Serious Illness. Anniston ( Ala .J Hot Blast. Ex-senator Jones, of Florida, is undoubtedly dying of brain disease. He was not a temperate man, but harmed himself pore than any one else. In mind as in pbvsiqu he was robust and masculine. Rising from humble life and honorable toil at the carpenter bench, he became a great lawyer and note! United States Senator. His aberrations of tn nd were noticed some years ago, but did not become a public matter until he abandoned his seat in the "House of Lords at Washington and camped out at Detroit. While Mr. Jooes was presumed to be in pursuit of a Western hiress. we once asked a senator what was really tie matter with him He said: "Jones is crazy oi several subjectson religion, on women, on liquor and the constitution.. It is a sad case." This unfortunate man bad a lovable, genial, arnost boyish temperament, allied to great strenrth of mind and body. He svowed his metal by he progress made from the bottom of the ladder almost to the top. Tou Itet We Are. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. The Republicans carried Indianapolis yesterday. They are on tbe war-path in Ldiana and the Democrats were cot inspired by the passage through the State of the poiaerous President with bis Cy-Ciopedia. They Rechrtaten Them 'Keedblrds, New York Commercial Advertiser. People up at Utica shoot an English spairow, scoop out a big potato, pat an oyster and bit of butter into the bird, and bake tbe whole haa oven, when it becomes a delicious tidbit. ' For the Cwnc'a Reflection. Omaha Republican. . It is never safe to be sure in politics.