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THE DAILY JOURNAL FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2. 1887. , WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth St. F. S. Hzatb, Correspondent. NEW TORK OFFICE 104 Temple Court, Corner Beeltman aid Nassau streets. "? . THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: bONDON American Exchange in Europe, 449 gd-and. PARIS American Exchange in Faris, 35 Boulevard des Capueinea. KETT TOKK Gedney House and Windsor Hotel. CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI J. P. Hawley A Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C T. Dealing; northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern HoteL WASHINGTON, D. C Rig-js House and Ebbitt Hons. Telephone Calls. Boshes Office 238 Editorial Rooms 242 r 1 This is the last winter of our discontent on account of coal. Next season will be made glorious summer by natural gas. Mb. Wilshire proved to be a telling witness in the Fidelity Bank case. He told snore facts than his former friend, Mr. Harper, was expecting to hear. The Congress which meets next Monday trill be the fiftieth in our history. Had we better have a semi-centennial celebration irhen the Congress meets or when it adjourns? THE doctors say the Indianapolis water is not yery good, but perhaps it will improve in quality before next June. If not, it will be boiled for the national Prohibitionists in convention assembled. Gen. William Mahone has demonstrated

bis leadership in three campaigns in Virginia, and never better than in the last. The popular Tote shows a Republican majority of nearly 6,000. Mahone is a very lively dead Tnan. CABEFUIi reading of the testimony in the Fidelity Bank trial, at Cincinnati, gives rise to the belief that friendly relations between broker Wilshire and financier Harper will not be resumed when the latter gentleman gets out of jaiL ' It is reasonable to suppose that Indianapolis was chosen as the place of meeting for the national Prohibition convention because of the fact that the city i3 under Republican . control, and the 11 o'clock and Sunday-closing roles will be sharply enforced. Two predictions can always be confidently counted on from Washington about this season of the year. One that the next session of Congress "will be the most important session for many years," and the other that "Washington will be unusually gay this winter." MAJOR Pond feels hurt at the course pursued by some of the Plymouth Church people in the Dr. Parker business. lie says that the extraordinary love for Mr. Beecher which they prof essed has not materialized in hard cash, and is mostly cheap talk. There is probably some truthn that. The world i3 full of cheap talk. t The Prohibitionists who wanted to make Mrs. Lord, of Chicago, a legal delegate from Georgia, on the ground that she was a woman and took a deep interest in the work, take the palm for gallantry, anyway. No woman would stand the ghost of a chance of getting into a convention of the other political parties on that plea. THE County Commissioners could make no mistake by changing the present county attorney. Any change would be for the better; but if a man like ex-Judge Norton or Mr. John R. Wilson be selected, as is now talked of, there would be some prospect of the office being filled by a gentleman and a lawyer who would command respect. A PITTSBURG paper says coal men there have about given up hope of a rise in the river until after a heavy snow fall. The rivers have begun to drop, and it will be impossible to send out any more coal at present. It is estimated that there are now fully 8,000,000 bushels of coal lying along the upper Ohio and its tributaries. The situation in all Western cities is about the same general dissatisfaction and complaint among consumers and serene complacency among dealers. Mr. GRINNELL, of Chicago, has retired from the office of State's Attorney, where he rendered such excellent service, and assumed bis duties as judge of the Circuit Court. To a reporter who asked him what he thought about the Anarchists by this time, he said: "I am more impressed than ever that the verdict in the case was the only right one that could have been rendered. I believe that anarchy is dead in America. There is no place in this country for the carrying of red flags or seditious mottoes." There is no sentimental nonsense about Mr. Grinnell. THE reported finding of "a gold mine of fabulous wealth" in Montgomery county, some eighteen or twenty miles from Washington, should not cause a rush of emigration in that direction. The story has been made to do duty more than once before. The last time was just after the close of the late war, when a company was formed in Washington to work the Montgomery county mines, and considerable money was spent without any returns.. There is some gold there, and small quantities df the ore can be made to show a rich ajsay, but there is not enough to justify working. - The Journal is free to acknowledge that Indianapolis does not at present possess hall or hotel room sufficient for the accommodation of so large an assemblage as either the Republican or Democratic conventions, but is fcappy to offer the assurance that there is Ample room here for the political Prohibitionists, and their cousins, and their sisters, and their aunts. The committee is to be congratulated on its good sense in making choice of this city for the place of meeting in June.

The location is central, everybody interested in the movement will come, and the people here will welcome them and treat them handsomelythe word "treat," of course, being used here in an inoffensive sense. If it should happen at any time during the convention that a candidate is needed one will be furnished from the local supply Indianapolis being always prepared for such emergencies. All necessary aid in facilitating proceedings and promoting harmony will be rendered, and whatever may be the final result, no delegate shall be able to say that wise counsel was not offered them by the Iloosiers. WHAT THE "BLOODY SHIRT" IS. The Atlanta Constitution, edited by Mr. Grady, and speaking for the "new South," says: "Mr. Sherman makes bold to say that he will base his candidacy principally on the pledge to secure, if possible, a fair count of the vote in the Southern States. In other words, he raises the bloody shirt and flaunts its gory fo!d3 defiantly at Mr. Blaine and Mr. Foraker." The Constitution says Mr. Sherman's bloody shirt platform is "entirely satisfactory to the Democratic party," and intimates that the South will fight it out on that line. There ha3 been a good deal of doubt as to what constituted the bloody shirt, in Democratic parlance. In a general way it has been held to mean any reference to the war or it3 results. Of course, we mean any reference by Republicans. Ex-rebels might refer to their side of the contest as much as they pleased, glorify the lost cause, and wave the rebel flag with impunity; that was not the bloody shirt. But if a Republican ventured to intimate that the rebellion was a crime, and that the results of the war must not be refined away by sentimental concessions, this was waving the bloody shirt. But now we have a new definition, and it goes further than the old one. The new bloody shirt is a demand for honest elections and a fair count in the South. Mr. Sherman, it should be understood, demanded nothing that is not guaranteed by the Constitution and law3, and by the sentiment of justice that exists, or ought to exist, in the bosom of every honest man. Fair elections and an honest count are the cornerstone of republican government; yet we are now told by a paper that claims to speak for the new South that a demand for these is a raising of the bloody shirt. This is getting along pretty fast, and shows that the South is indeed progressing. The statement of the Constitution that Mr. Sherman's platform "is entirely satisfactory to the Democratic party" is notice to the country that the Democracy know how to keep the South solid, and propose to do it. They do not intend to have fair elections nor an honest count. The declaration is in harmony with all that is known of Democratic methods at the South, past and present, and is a frank avowal of party policy. But what do the honest people of the North think of this new definition of the bloody shirt, and how long will it be before a demand for a fair count in the North will be brought under the same definition? State Senator Raines, of New York, proposes a novel method of disposing of the ! treasury surplus. It is to cash the adjusted claims of all pensioners at their present value, thus discharging in one paymeut the government's entire obligation. The term "present value," is used in the sense established by insurance companies. The annual value of pensions as shown by tho roll of June 29, 1SS7, was. in round numbers, $f3. 000, 000. This represents an annual interest charge at 4 per cent, on more than $1,3CO,OCO,000, which, in some respects, is as much a part of the national debt as are the outstanding bonds of the government. The policy has been adopted of purchasing bonds before their maturity, and of paying a premium for the same, and Mr. Raines suggests that the pensions be treated in the same way. "In a vast number of case3," he says, "the quarterly pension payment is in the nature of an annuity for life. The amount which will produce the annuity is easily calculated by established rules. I advance the suggestion that Congress shall enact such legislation as will enable all pensioners who desire to do so to receive the 'present worth' of their annuities or pensions. Such a provision would, for some years to come, eliminate the surplus as a political question, would obviate the necessity of tinkering with the tariff, or abolishing the tax on liquor and tobacco." Of course the proposition involves practical difficu lties which are probably insuperable, but it has the merit of novelty and is quite as feasible as some of the other schemes for disposing of the surplus. The demand for women in the departments at Washington, says one of the Civil-service Commissioners, is steadily decreasing. The reason alleged is that when they once get in they can never be dismissed without such a scene as to make the officers in charge afraid to attempt it. Hence men are always asked for, and the women are gradually thinning out. A man will stay dismissed, but a woman will use her entreaties, expostulations, tears, reproaches and family sufferings to work on the feelings of a bureau officer until he reinstates her to get rid of her. Then he calmly waits until she marries or dies, when he puts a man in her place who can .vote, and be discharged if he doesn't vote right.' From now on until after the election in Novembsr next women will have no chance in the departments. The demand is for men good, Democratic men who can be depended on in an emergency. At last we have the whole truth about the ate election in Virginia. It is now known that the Republicans carried the State by a decided majority on the aggregate vote. Owing to the peculiar districting of the State j and to their control of the election machinery, j the Democrats were able to secure a majority of the Legislature, but the Republicans had a majority on the popular vote. It has been like pulling teeth to get at the facts, but the truth is out at last. In order to conceal it and maintain the appearance of a Democratic majority the leaders and managers resorted to all 6orts of tricks, doctoring and changing returns, making false reports, etc. Among other things, they counted all scattering votes

and votes cast for . independent Republican candidates as Democratic. In one case they thus disposed of 1,120 independent Republican votes, in another case, of 1,221, etc. These votes would net have changed the result of the legislative election, but they are important in their bearing on the general result, -which, revised and corrected, shows a Republican majority in the State of 5,482. In view of this remarkable result we have simply to repeat and emphasize what we have said before, that a determined and united, effort should he made next year to place Virginia safely and permanently in the Republican ranks.

The Mayor of Chicago is a hard-hearted man. Some Anarchist friends of the late murderers who were hanged in Chicago proposed to get up a saengerfest for the benefit of the families of the executed, whereupop the Mayor notified them upon what terms they could carry out their plan. Besides prohibiting them from having any but the national colors in the hall, and from making any incendiary speeches, he informed them that no beer will be allowed to be sold or drunk on the premises, and this is liable to stop further proceedings. The terms are too harsh for Anarchists, and unle ss the Mayor will relent the meeting will be abandoned. No beer, no benefit. Not all Bostonians are mugwumps. Rev. Dr. Bartol is not, for one, and when he sees a flaw in the administration is not afraid to say so. In his Thanksgiving-day sermon he said President Cleveland had used those persons who supported him for reform's sake as cat'spaws to pull his chestnuts from the fire, and likened the civil-service reform of the administration to a rocking-chair that "goes backward and forward, but makes no progress." If Mr. Higginson and Colonel Codman are members of Dr. Bartol's congregation that sermon did not give them an appetite for Thanksgiving dinner. It is reported that Mr. Van Voorhees will ascertain if any objection is to be made to Mr. Turpie, and, if there is, then he will begin with the first Republican member-elect and object to his being sworn in. If Mr. Voorhees wants to take that sort of a position, he should be accommodated. Let him act the brawler and bully if he desires. There will be'an end to his programme some time, and only those persons seated who are entitled to a seat by law and justice. The United States Senate will hardly be bulldozed or stampeded, even by Mr. Van Voorhees. The anxious householder may be willing to accept the explanation of the coal dealers that the high price of anthracite for the past two months is clue to the fact that lake traffic practically closed for the season last week; but he retires from a study of this problem to wonder again why the trouble in the Lehigh region should affect the prices aud limit the local supply of Pittsburg and other soft coals which might have been shipped to the yards at any time during the past season when cars were not in sucLi demand as at present. A CAREFUL, consideration of the coal question, as elucidated by Eastern and Western dealers, lea-Is to the conclusion that the scarcity in ti e Eastern cities is due to the fact all the crs owned by the railroad companies are engaged in carrying coal to the West, while the short supply and high prices in the West ere caused by the fact that the cars are all in the East. In the meantime you "pays your money" and a lot of it, and the dealers reap the profit and wax wealthy. Minister Phelps made a good speech at the fiftieth anniversary of the Nottingham Mercantile Association recently, the concluding paragraph of which is particularly happy. He said: '"I for one should be glad to see a professorship endowed in all institutions of education which, in the good time coming, will make its appearance a professorship of silence. , Not to teach men to talk, but to teach them to hold their tongue, to teach them to display those brilliant flashes of silence which Sydney Smith found attractive in so good a talker as Macaulay; to teach men to think before they speak instead of speaking before they think. If I were frank enough to say just what IJthink, it would be that you have a great deal too much talk in this country. You seem in danger of being carried away by a sort of Noah's deluge of talk. Very good talk some of it is. but when the same ideas have been filtered along from the first expression through the minds of a great many lesser lights, it does not always seem to me when I read them in the newspapers that the world is a great deal better for the repetition. I do not believe that you are ever going to establish a government by oratory, but perhaps you are in some danger of it unless public sentiment takes a different turn. There seems to be a kind of morbid craving for speeches, which, like the craving for other stimulants, is not wholesome. I am sure the American minister has to make more speeches in four years in this country than he would be allowed to make in his own in all the rest of his life. You may think that this criticism does not come with a good grace from me. I am often kindly complimented upon the force and ability of some of my countrymen in the art of public speaking, but you must remember that the reason of that is because they are not allowed to talk all the time. There are intervals for reflection. Our orators are turned loose upon the community only once in four years; and the principal result of their efforts then is to make people thank God that it does not come any oftener. The Tower of Babel might have been built if the builders qould have held their tongues. It was confusion of tongues that put an end to that enterprise, and it is not at all impossible that the whole stuy of the Tower of Babel is one of those lessons found in Oriental literature to illustrate the curse that comes upon mankind by the confusion of tongues. Let me now express the hope that the next fifty years of your institution will be as fortunate as the last; that it will go on in its usefulness with peace within its gates and plenteousness within . its palaces, and silence enough in its halls for the still small voice to be heard sometimes." The announcement that President Cleveland is about to take a course of lessons in horseback riding comes simultaneously with the information that he is hard at work on his message. Persons who are unaccustomed to brain work always find it necessary to tone up for a littlo extra exertion. Volapuk, the new language intended for uni-, versal use, has but one swear word. That settles it. Street-car drivers and draymen are not the only men who will never learn Volapuk. The frequently-recorded downfall of prominent persons through the us of cocaine should lead social reformers to organize a political party for the prohibition of the drug. Secretary Cozzens, of the Newark Y. M. C A., has prepared a paper on "How to Get Young Men to Work." Probably his idea is that they can be cozened into it. Mb, John Greenleaf Whittier, the poet, will attain his eightieth birthday on Dec 17, and the Essex Club of Boston propose to present him on that day with a memorial in the shape of a letter, expressing the high esteem in in which he is held and bpeaking of his service

to the State and Nation. Among others who are to sign the letter are the Governor of Massachusetts and the members of the national Senate and House of Representatives.

AEOUT PEOPLK AND TILINGS. TTewabk Sunday Call: Messenger boy's diary "Monday, hired; Tuesday, tired; Wednesday, fired."' The trouble with lots of cats is that they don't get enough dreamless sleep these November nights. The Hon. George Bancroft is at present in fair health, but his friends regretfully observe that he has aged alarmingly during the past year or two. Le Gaulois of Paris has a sufficiently vivid imagination to draw a parallel between Jeanne d' Arc and Mr. William O'Brien; for they both, it says, had their their clothes stolen by "la perfide Aibion." Mbs. Gilder, the wife of the editor of the Century, both paints and writes, and in either field she signs her work by her maiden name, Helena De Kay, though always socially using her husband's. Mr. Nathaniel. Clapp, the inventor of absorbent cotton, is now eighty-five years old. He lives with his wife and two sons at Dedham, Mass., and devotes - the robust energies of his hale old age to the care of an extensive garden and orchard. Epoch: Amateur Actress (rehearsing) "You must not say 'exit' when you retire from the stage, Mr. Sissy." Amateur Actor (triumphantly showing her the book) "That's what the book says, Miss Gushiugton." Amateur Actress (convinced) "Why, so it does." Mrs. Dinah Mtjlock-Craik was unique among authors as regards her habits of work. She never began a work for publication which she did not finish before beginning another. It is thought that she did not at her death leave a Line of unfinished manuscript. Lord Lvons, the English diplomatist who has for so long a time represented his country as minister to France, is a teetotaller. The "rarified air" of diplomacy has never affected his unswerving devotion to coffee, water, tea and lemonade. It is to be noted, however, that Lord Lyon is at present a teetotal wreck. A preacher in Fleming county, Kentucky, borrowed a suit of clothes to wear while baptiz ing a convert. Somewhere in the suit there was a deck of cards which the owner of the clothes forgot to take out. and while the parson and his convert were in the water the cards began to float around them, to the amazement of the spectators. The first instalment of what will eventually comprise another handsome and costly gift to Stratford-on-Avon has just been received there. It consists of a life-size figure in bronze of Prince nenry. afterward Henry V, who is in the act of putting on the royal crown. The figure forms one of the Shatspearian group which Lord Ronald Gower hasoffered to present to the town. The remaining figures will be Lady Macbeth, Hamlet arid FalstafiF. They will be surmounted by a bust of the poet. II. G. Krmp, of Washington, has in his possession a photograph which John Wilkes Booth gave to his cousin, then a young lady residing in Washington, on the very night Lincoln was assassinated. In pencil and in a very small hand, Booth had written on the face of the card at the bottom: "J. Wilkes Booth, the Nation's avenger,"' and on the back, also in pencil and very small, these line-s: . Oh! thus be it ever when tyrant shall raise ThHr hands sacrilegious Vainst a nation's devotion, Ami the arm thkt strikes let her historie'a praiao Triumph tan tly snateh from oblivion's ocean. Foit several months Prof. Bell has been going doe) into his researches on the subject of hereditary., deafness. He has conducted a wonderfully large correspondence with people in all parts of the world to hunt up every scintilla of evidcr.ee necessary to trace out genealogies. He will eventually make public his discoveries, showing hereditary deafness in the same line of descent for 2(K) years. The Professor has alro constructed a valuable machine for talking with deaf mutes. It is something like the typewriter in theory, having a keyboard which turns up big plain letters in such a way as to construct a word, and so facilitate conversation. Prince Bismarck had just seated himself for dinner and placed his spoon into the soup to begin eating, the other day, when a telegram from Berlin was handed to him. "The message requires an immediate reply," said he, excusing himself to his guests. "But your soup will get cold." suggested one of them. "It is better it should get cold than that Herbert should grow hot." replied the Prince, jocosely, referring to his son, the sender of the message. "He is so diligent about his work," continued the Prince, "that if I do not reply right away he will send me another telegram in a few minutes much more urgent than this. He is a stunner at his work. I tell you. Had I been like him when a boy I should have been a very different man." Ella Wheeler Wilcox believes in pre-natal influence. She says she was made a poet before she was born by her mother's devotion to Lalla Rookh at that period. She also believes in mirrors, and never passes one without looking into it. She says it is not vanity, but for reassurance that no disaster has overtaken Jbustle, plume, or collar since her last meeting with herself. She always has a mirror before her when writing. When she is brought up into a corner in composition, her swift upward glance invari ably falls on the little plush-framed reflection of herself, and immediately the idea, rhyme, word or title is speared upon her impatient pen. She always writes in a rocker, lower from the table than ordinary writers. . According to the Boston Traveler, Secretary Endicott sits behind his desk in the handsome quarters in the War Department, with a semimilitary and semi-judicial air upon his countenance. As you enter, he glances up with a quiet, had-a-nice-dinner, don't-want-to-be disturbed look upon his face. If you are fortunate enough to engage the attention of the great man, he will talk to you with a slow, nicely modu li lated voice: and dismiss you as though you were uiitsoi us Hasui-im-es. wict? uay meio is a flutter of excitement in the War Department. These occasions are when the Secretary enters and leaves the building. A special set or signals are rung, notifying the messengers and elevator boys, so that each time he is received or ushered out with "all the honors of war." It is worth a long walk in a rainy day to witness this circus. THAT WAS ALL. i "We've won your suit," the lawyer said - And gleefully rubbed his pate. "And what are your charges, sir?'' they said: "Oh merely the saved estate." Oil City Derrick. COMMENT AND OPINION. Turpie, of Indiana, is not entitled to the seat claimed by him in the Senate. His election was a lawless and rascally farce. Chicago Journal. Most may find it necessary to blow up Blackwell's island before he can inaugurate the great work of destroying American institutions. St. Lotus Post-Dispatch. Nothing cures a young man of advanced ideas more readily than the responsibility of a great trust if he is a rich man's son, or the necessity of paying for his board and washing if he should inherit only from his parent the right to work for his bread. New York Herald. Op late Mr. Cleveland has shown much greater inclination to listen to the counsels of strong partisans than to the words of wisdom dropped by George William Curtis and other mugwumps, but he certainly would satisfy the general public much better by appointing Judge Cooley than by appointing Mr. Lamar. Kansas City Journal. The political end of the administration is evidently looking toward the Northwest for electoral votes. A Secretary of the Interior from Wisconsin, a Postmaster-general from Michigan and the Door-keeperof the House of Representatives from Minnesota make a combination stronger by far than anything yet attempted by the Democracy. National Republican. This reform which all desire will come, however, not from political but from moral causes education, the sacred influence of pure women, home life, Sunday-schools and churches, and especially the careful instruction of the young. W e have greater hopes from an agitation thus inspired than in the grotesque and unseemly scenes which marked the recent canvass in Atlanta. New York World. The old life and the glorious life of the Republican party is not dead. Nor is its mission ended. It fought one war with arms and armies to uphold the right and to put down the wrong. It will now fight at the ballot-box to preserve what it won on the field If this be waving the bloody shirt, it will certainly wave on till the Nation is able to protect all grades of its citizens in the full enjoyment of their rights. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. A government telegreph would be a tremendous undertaking in any case, even if existing linos couid be bought for a reasonable sum,' and

if they could not be so bought it would be an undertaking involving the useless loss of a .tst amount of property. Before the government takes hold of any such undertaking, it should seriously be considered whether a telegraph service quite as cheap and efficient cannot be obtained from the Western Union monopoly by government regulation, as in the case of the railroads. Springfield Republican. It has been given out that when Mr. Blaine f hall return to this country he shall approach it from the westward, and land in San Francisco just long enough before the meeting of the Republican national convention to make a timely triumphal progress across the continent. This is a very clever programme; but Mr. Blaine should remember that the course of empire is westward. He will be traveling in the wrong direction. Philadelphia Record.

Mr. Riley at the Authors' ConveiAlon. New York Times: The last contributor to the amusement fund was Mr. James Wbitcomb Riley, and so far as the audience was concerned he mads the hit of the afternoon. He cava character recitations, and the hilarity occasioned by bis "When the Frost Is on the Punkin" was so immoderate that it seemed as though bis. seooud selection, "The Educator," must be duller by contrast. Such was not the case, however, for, while the first made the audience shake with mirth, the second made them scream. New York World: Mr. George W. Cable in his inimitable and peculiarly dramatic stria recited a portion of his etory of "Grande Pointe," and than the stranger and tha success of the occasion was introduced. This was James Whitcomb Riley. He bears an intimate relationship in personal appearance to William Nye. His face is as clean shaven as that of a Roman priest and there isn't much hair on the top of his head. Moreover. Mr. Riley wasn't more than tolerably well known to the fashionable audience. . He is better known to them to-day than he was yesterday. He read a "poena" and delivered a character sketch. He sunk the author in the actor. The fun of Mark Twain shriveled up into a bitter patch of melancholy in the fierce light of Mr. Riley's humor. Dr. Howard Crosby, who occupied a conspicuous seat on the stage laughed until he looked as though he would faint, and finally in sheer non-sectarian uproariouanesa poked Bishop Potter in the ribs and subsided. New York Sun: The last author to contribute to the entertainment was James Wbitcomb Riley, the Indiana poet, whose homely songs of Western rnral life, and rhymes about the birds and bees, bare won listeners by their genuine music. Mr. Riley is a young man whoso hair is so thin and so light as to give bim the appearance almost of perfect baldness. His face is full of expression, quite suited to the genial sentiments of his TerEes, and he speaks the Hoosier dialect, in which he has written, as if it were his mother tongue. His recita? of "When the frost Is on the punkin" was the most taking thing of the afternoon, and bis character sketch. "The Educator," being an address to the children of a country school, was comedy of a very merry sort. The New York Star says of. the second day's proceedings of the authors' convention: "The printed programme had by this time been finished, and the audience was rising to depart when Mr. Lowell announced that James Wbitcomb Riley bad consented to give another recitation after the sty lb of that which he had given yesterday. "It was one of his own characteristic little Western dialect poems that he recited, the words of an old father to bis motherless daughter when she comes to tell him she is engaged. It was not much, perhaps, and every verse concluded with, 'Wall, I ain't got nothin' to say, but it went way down into the hearts of his listeners. Ladies took out their handkerchiefs and bowed their heads, and even their escorts in many cases bad to show their emotion." PRACTICAL TEMPERANCE IN GEORGIA. Ex Governor Bullock Tells How Prohibition Worked In Atlanta. New York Tribune. Ex-Governor Rufus Bullock, of Georgia, who is a big cotton maufactnrer of Atlanta, is at the Fifth-avenue Hotel. He left home some days ago and has been visiting in New England, but be has kept pace with the prohibition agitation iu his State, and talked freely yesterday about the result. Among other things he said: "The defeat of prohibition has left the way open for practical temperance. There has been no prohibition under the prohibition law that has been in force in Atlanta. It made liars, and hypocrites out of young men. It drove a wholesale business, that amounted to a million and a half a year, out of Atlanta It did not lessen drunkenness. It was a sham and a farce. Iam in favor of high license the higher the better. I have no interest in saloons. I don't rant any buildings for saloons. I don't drink in tham. I don't think I was ever in one in Atlanta. But I know that prohibition was a miserable failure. What I advocate is license restriction and a system of inspection by which the purity of liquors mav be assured. "Under our prohibition law it was customary for young men who otherwise would not have thought of drinking, or at most of more than taking a single glass, to get together on Saturday night in groups, buy a jug of whisky, and make a Sunday caroute out of it It was the forbidden fruit, and consequently they were bound to have it. The saloon-keepers really increased their eales. An old darky who worked fcr me showed me how that came about. He voted 'dry' two years ago. This time be told me he was going to vote -wet.' He said that before prohibition went into effect he got his glass of liquor, paid bis nickel, and thought no more about it. Under pronibition be bought a jugful, took one or two drinks, and his friends drank up the rest. He declared that prohibition was too expensive for him. There is no question but that drinkers all found it so." "How did the colored men vote?" "Two years ago they voted for prohibition. It was a new thing with them then, and they thought they must have it because it was new. ThiB time they voted 'wet.' The man from Africa was in great demand in Atlanta as election time drew near. The division in 'The Atlanta Constitution' office between Howell and Grady was a fair exampla of how prohibition worked in families and firms. Society and business weie all divided by it- The division made the colored man's vote sure to be counted. He was coddled by the women, coaxed and driven by the men. It is an anomaly that the very crazi ness of which the Southerners used to accuse the Abolitionists should first come practically into effect in the South in Atlanta. The finest ladies in the city, who once denounced the Abolitionists for wanting to associate with negroes, filled the prayer-meetings side by side with their black washerwomen, or banded out lunches to the black men advocating prohibition.- They held prayer-meetings that lasted from 6 o'clock Friday until the same hour Saturday, and were otherwise quite as much like 'cranks' as the Abolitionists they once denounced. Substitute whisky' for 'negro.' and they duplicated everything Slassachusetts ever did against slavery." SUING THE DANISH MINISTER. Bliss Marie Bruwn Claims Damages of Mr. Anderson for His Alleged Persecution. Boston (special. Miss Marie A. Brown, who has been engaged for some years in the work of getting and disseminating information about the Icelandic discoverers of America, announced yesterday to a reporter that she had decided to institute proceedings for libel against Professor Rasmus B. Anderson, formerly connected with an educational institution at Madison, A. T., and now representative of tho United States at Copenhagen. Miss Brown is a verv bright little woman, remarkably well versed in matters Scandinavian, exceedingly energetic and studious, and completely imbued with th Leif Erickson idea. She is known as the translator of several Swedish works, and recently appeared on the platform in this city to lecture on the claims of Columbus's rival. Miss Brown states that when she was in the West, several years ago, she became acquainted with Miss Selma Borg, with whom she was led to form a literary connection. Selma Borg was the first one who interested her in Swedish nooks, and together they began making translations for Duplication. The "Schwartz" and "Blanche" novels were published as the joint work of Selma Borg and Marie A. Brown, but Miss Brown now claims that the work was almost entirely her own. When the union was dissolved Miss Borg and ber friends at once claimed the whole credit for the work, and then the alleged persecution began. Professor Anderson, who had previously praised Miss Brown's work highly, giving her many encouraging notices-in the New York Nation, now tnrned against her, as she avers, and gave it to be understood in quarters where she could be the most seriously injured, that her ability was not of a very high order. Information of such an injurious nature was . sent to publishers that Miss Brown found it impossible to get her works printed, and what was the worst blow of all, the story of "Gustaf Adolf; or, the Thirty Year' War." was published by Messrs. Jansen. McClorg & Co. as the work of an anonymous writer, and an improvement on Miss Brown's translation. There was, however, so little change in the book that it wonld be readily recognized as Miss Brown's. Circulars were sent out, which asserted that Miss Brown was an adventuress, a woman of no ability, and Professor Anderson, who had previously said of Mies Brown in th Nation: "We can heartily comrnend her vork," now stated that the translation of "Gustaf Adolf" as

published by Jansen, McClurg & Co., was far superior to the previous work of Miss Brown is cow so redueed in circumstances, as she claims, by the opposition that her ease has become desperate. Hence her decision to go to law. She holds that the American consul at Copenhagen is responsible for the prejudice tbat has been excited against her, and to him she will look for redress.

EIFE IN MONTANA. Russell Harrison Telle of Civilization and Justice In the West. New York SpecialRussell B. Harrison is again in New York. He is the son of Senator Harrison, of Indiana. At one time be was ennerintendent of the govern ment assay office at Helena. M. T. When the administration changed he was already engaged in stock-growing. He is proprietor of a prosperous stock-growers' journal and secretary of their Territorial association. Mr. Harrison has recently spent some time in the new gold region of the Co? or d'Alene mountains and has lo cated there a number of valuable claims. Talking about that country, he says tbat the rudest civilization prevails. "In one place, said he, "I found a iustice's court, a saloon, a billiard table and card-tables all in full blast in one room. The justice sat at tb rear end of the room. In spite of the surroundings the utmost deference was paid to the group surrounding bim. When a witness got through testifying be was as likely as not to find bis way to the bar with a companion and take a drink. The justice was a rough old chap, who looked able to enforce, order by physical strength, if necessary. The billiard table was not a firstclass one. Indeed, it was the worse for fifteen or twenty years' wear. The game was pool, and half a dozen men pounded awav at it, with twenty standing around to watch them, who yelled and shouted at every display until they shook the building. The bouse, by the way, was a cariosity. It was one long barraeklike room, with a rough, board bar at the side. The structure was mace of slabs, and roofed with boards run lengthwise from the peaks to the eaves." In the conversation about Western justice Mr. Harrison said: "There was an incident in on of the towns of tbat region while I was there, which was amusingly illustrative of their roagk ways. There bad been an important jury triaL I am not certain but that a man's life was at stake. The jury had been out for over a day, and was still unable to agree. The judge sent them word thtt they must agree that was what juries were created to do. If they did not agree before night he would order them locked up until they could agree, and to be supplied meanwhile with only bread, meat and water. The foreman of the jury coolly sent back word that they had carefully considered the judge's message; that the bread and meat were all right, but tbat water was an unwarrantable interference with their rights, which they would be banged before they wonld submit to." A Senator's Wasted Sympathy. New York Mail and Express. While it is undeniable that everybody but the managing editor knows just how a newspaper ought to be made, it is equally true that people in general know very little how it is made. There is a common impression, for instance, that everybody connected with a newspaper office is at all times and under all circumstances skirmishing after "items " The young woman who astonished. Wihiteiaw iteict, tne miuifmaire editor of the New York Tribune, whoar'she met at a Murray Hill ball, by asking; ',, to "be sure to spell her name right in his n&per" has numerous cousins. Two Washington Journalists bad a similar experience once. , . It Was a muddy, sloppy New Year's day, and they were making calls in company with a friend who was also a friend of Senator Don Cameron's. They called at tho Senator's residence and were hospitably received. When they arose to go the Senator urged them not to be in a hurry, and insisted that they should take another glass of wine. ''You must find it tough work to slosh around after items on a day like this." he said. When it is stated that his visitors were John Russell Young, afterward minister to China, and the chief owner of one of the Washington papers, whose check for $500,000 would go at any of the Washington banks without question, the effect of his sympathetic remark may be imagined. The Duty of Republicans. Boston Advertiser. The Republicans in the House are likely to have a great responsibility put upon them. It is to show that while unrelentingly opposed to the free-trade schemes of the Democratic caucus, they are anxious to effect a satisfactory settlement of the surplus problem. From the very opening of the session they should appeal, not to Carlisle but to the country. They should demand their right to have important public measures voted upon, and if refused, place aright the responsibility for that refusal before the people. They should formulate a simple proposition, having for its purpose the plain idea of striking $100,000,000 from the revenues, and then make it clear by constant effort to secure its consideration that not they, but the free-traders, killed it. The party that goes before the people next year with an honest determination to wipe out the surplus will win, and the Democrats hope to put the Republicans in the position of defeating their bills without offering anything definite instead. A Dead Man's Heirs. Sew York Commercial Advertiser. It takesdeath to find heirs for a rich man. The late ex-Vice president Wheeler died wifeless' and childless, and it was a constant complaint of his that he was friendless and forlorn in the world. But now that he is dead and a fortune of $75,000 or so is lying around loose, heirs by the score are springing up in every direction. Were Mr. WTieeler alive again he could now not only die in the bosom of his family, but as Artemas Ward said of Brigham Young, if he desired to die in the bosom of his family he would have to go out doors to die The Way Anarchists Are Made. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The new trial granted to Jacob Sharp is simply a decision by the highest court of New York that Jaehne, McQuaid and the rest of the aldermen bribed by Sharp were sentenced unjustly, and are now detained in Sing Sing unlawfully. The decision is susceptible of no other interpretation. If Sharp escapes, the rest of the boodlers can come back from Canada and . display their swag at home in peace. Such a spectacle will make more Anarchists in one year than the violent tirades of Johann Most could make in twenty. Pity for Turpie. Chicago Mail. Judge Turpie, the Senator-elect from Indiana, does not expect to take bis seat without a contest, although Gen. Harrison has on several occasions stated emphatically that he would not make a fight. It would be too bad to rattse the bones of this poor old back-mtmber cadavar, that was resurrected from the political cemetery by the Hoosier Bourbons last winter, by exposing it to the dangers of a contest. Common humanity would dictate an abandonment of a contest, if any such intention is really harbored. Wisconsin Senators. New York Commeicial Advertiser. Senator Sawyer is shaped like a barrel and owns a barrel containing about $10,000,000. Mr. Spooner. though not yet forty five, has earned a half million dollars as a railroad lawyer. He is small, red-haired and has an ugly face. "The Republicans will elect the next President," he said to-day. "It is too early to talk of candidates. Any good Republican can be elected.".. Nice Man to Go on thje Supreme Bench. Milwaukee Sentinel. Just before leaving the Senate in 1885 to take a place in Mr. Cleveland's Cabinet. Mr. Lamar, replying to a Senator who had made a remark about Jeff Davis, said: "No one shall rise in my presence and call Jefferson Davis a traitor without meeting a stern and emphatic denial. " A Suspicions Public. Philadelphia Press. Two to one tbat the man who announced that Gladstone would visit America next spring is an advertising agent for something or other. An expectant public anxiously waits to see whether it is a new tooth powder or an original kidney cure. Our "Great Newspapers." Milwaukee Sentinel. Metropolitan journalism is certainly advancing. In great black letters The World advertises: "See The Sunday World! It will contain Mrs. Cleveland's Favorite Recipe for making brown bread." Han:lng the Proper Temperature. Mew York Mail and Express. Mr. Howells has gone to Buffalo to write his new novel. He probably wants to get his ideas frozen down to an ideal temperature. The east winds of Boston are to warm for him. The Other Fellow Was Crasy. Pittahnrff t lirnnirl Ex Senator Jones cannot be so very crazy. Ho has succeeded in borrowing some money.