Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 January 1888 — Page 4

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THE ENDIAISTAPOIS JOURNAL, SAT UB DAY. JAlSrtJATTT 7, 1888.

THE DAILY JOURNAL SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1888.

WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenths! P. 5. Heath. Correspondent. SEW TORK OFFICE-104 Temple Court, Corner Beekman and Nassau street. TOE INDIANAFOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: LONDON American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. ! PARIS American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard dea Capucines. KEW YORK Gedney House and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI J. P. llawley & Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. . Leering, northwest corner Third and JeHerson streets. 6T. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. "WASHINGTON, D. C.Rigg House and Ebbitt House. Telephone Call. Business Office 233 Editorial Rooms 212 How would it do to have a deputy prosetutor that wouldn't bungle on liquor affidavits exclusively. There seems to be a sort of method in his bungling. If the building 'of an addition to the Indianapolis postoffice will insure a more rapid and correct distribution of mail, then the community is in favor of it. Roger Qcarles Mills, of Texas, is the young man now engaged in holding the I country up by the taiL lie threatens with condign destruction anybody who dares to differ with him. Gen. John 13. Castleman has been appointed chief of police of the city of Louisville. Gen. James B. Steedman was chief of .police of Toledo. That is the class of men who should be. at the head of the police forces of cities. It may be necessary that an appropriation be made for the. enlargement of the Indianapolis postoffice, but if Congressman Bynum would first arrange for an increase of the postoffice force the Indiananolis public would be far better pleased. Twenty-four States got all the committee chairmanships, and of these fourteen are l I Southern and ten Northern States. Of the fifty-one committees the solid South gets f thirty chairmanships. Who says the Confederacy is not "in the saddle?" "The fairest Speaker that has been known since Muhlenberg," is the way one of Mr. Carlisle's admirers put3 it. And yet this paragon of fairness so distributed the chairmanships of the committees as to give thirty to the solid South and but twenty-one . to the Northern States. Scarcely a finer eulogy could have been pronounced upon the late Governor Mannaduke, of Missouri, than the sentence written of him by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat: "He was one of the few Governors of Missouri who believed in the execution of the law against convicted criminals.'' Tee free-trade journals are unanimously agreed that Mr. Sherman's tariff speech is "full of transparent sophistries and easilyexposed fallacies of statement," but, somehow, they seem too busily engaged in discussing the prospects of war in Europe and John Sullivan's tour to find time for exposing the fallacies. The beauty of this climate is that it is framed to please all tastes. - If one does not like the weather at any given time he has only to wait a little while and his favorite kind will come. Variety is the epice of life that gives it all its flavor. Six months of the kind of weather we are having just now would be monotonous. Jacob Sharp's physician says that gentleman's health is very much better, though he is yet for from well. What the physician did not say, but what the public believes, is that . Mr. Sharp will not recover entirely until the cases against him have been formally dismissed. The boodler's friend, Mr. Fellows, is now district attorney, and the dismissal is likely to be merely a question of time. A Democratic organ, noting the slight attentioa paid to Mr. Voorhees's tariff cpeech by Republican papeis, says it is because his arguments are unanswerable. Well, hardly fthat. The truth is, Republican papers had ' all the timusement they wanted in demolishing Mr. Cleveland's funny little wool message, and further amateur efforts in that line have ceased to interest them. Life is too short for so much repetition. They have a McCleilan Veteran Club in Chicago, composed of Democratic soldiers. The other night one of the members of the executive committee introduced a resolution indorsing the nomination of Mr. Lamar to be a justice of the Supreme Court. It caused a .heated discussion, which ended in the resolution being laid upon the table by a vote of 0 to 5. The Democratic soldiers cannot be dragooned into approving so unfit an appointment. THE Atlanta Constitution prints a lengthy paper from Hon. A. O. Bacon, a leading Georgia Democrat, in which the absolute repeal of the internal tax system is demanded on purely Dcmocratio grounds. The Atlanta Constitution denounces the internal revenue as "an infamous system, " and congratulates Georgia and the country that Senator Brown has in-: troduced a resolution declaring that internal taxes must be repealed. Thus is Grover Cleveland's message responded to in the grand old Democratic State of Georgia. It Is perfectly well known that Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Manning were "out" long before the death of the latter, and were never reconciled. Not long ago a Cincinnati democrat of high official position received a letter from a gentleman sustaining confidential relations with the ex-Secretary, in which it was plainly abated that Manning would not ask a certain mall favor of Cleveland because of the coldness which had grown up between them. In view of this, what rot is much of the elegiac tuff that has found its way into the papers? Mr. ManciDg declined to be errand-boy for

Mr. Cleveland, which is about the President's conception of the duty and dignity of his eeveral Secretaries.

THE FOREMOST QUESTION. The Chicago Inter Ocean says of Mr. Sherman's speech on the tariff that "he has sounded the key-note upon which the next campaign will be pitched." This may or may not be so. No one has a higher opinion of John Sherman than the Journal, and no one indorses his tariff speech more heartily and completely; but the Journal does not believe that the next campaign should be pitched exclusively upon the tariff as a key-note, and we do not believe that Mr. Sherman thinks so. The tariff is one, -and a very important question,but it Is not the only question; neither do we think it the most important. The vital, fundamental question in this country at the present time, is the observance and enforcement of the Constitution of the United States and the equality of all men in the right3 guaranteed to them. This is the question that should be pushed to the fore; it is the question sneeringly called the "bloody shirt" by the murderers and criminals who profit from political crime, a sneer echoed by timid milksops and "statesmen" whose brains are not large enough to take in any other idea than that of revising the duty on paregoric. Tariff reform is to take its proper and important place in the next campaign; but if we are to have another nerveless and spiritless canvass, the result, in our opinion, will be defeat and dishonor as well. The way to win is to make a campaign that shall wake tip the manhood of the people; that shall inspire the heart as well as enlist the thought. We need a crusade for the rights of men, the right of one man to be as good as another, the right to vote and have the vote counted, the right to be represented, the right to work, the right to live and if to make such a crusade is to "wave the bloody shirt," then let the "bloody shirt" be waved; and in this sign we conquer. WHAT DOES MR. CLEVELAND MEAN? President Cleveland, in his free-trade message, declared that the internal taxes and duties on luxuries should be retained. His exact language was as follows: "It must be conceded that none of the things subjected to internal revenue taxation are, strictly speaking, necessaries; there appears to be no just complaint of this taxation by the consumers of these articles, and there seems to be nothing so well able to bear the burden without hardship to any portion of the people. The taxation of luxuries presents no features of hardship, but the necessaries of life used and consumed by all the people, the duty upon which adds to the cost of living in every home, should be greatly cheapened.'' The reduction in the revenue must be in the neighborhood of $100,000,000, if the Presdent's views on preventing a surplus are to be met, and according to Mr. Cleveland this revenue must come off by reducing the duty on manufactured goods. The amount derived from the tariff last year was $212,032,423.90. Deducting from this amount $58,004,358.89 received on sugar and molasses, and $39,522,323.23 received from duties on liquors, tobacco, jewelry, and articles of luxury, there is left only $114,505,751.78. It will be at once seen that to meet the President's views near ly the entire duty must come off upon manufactured articles and raw materials, for the entire remainder of the revenue received from all articles except those referred to is but a fraction above what Mr. Cleveland says must be lopped off. If the President knew what he was talking about, if his message was anything but a mess of generalities, and sophistries, and untruths, then .what he recommends is tantamount to the total abolition of all duty on raw materials and manufactured goods. If it is not this, we should like to see some friend of the President explain what his message really meant, and what should be done in a practical way to carry out its recommendations, and prevent the further accumulation of the surplus which so disturbs the executive serenity. Possibly Mr. Cleveland will venture an explanation in one of the promised supplemental messages. i THE HOUSE COMMITTEESThe position of Speaker of the House of Representatives is the most important in the government in the shaping and control of legislation. The Speaker can do a. great deal more in this direction than the President. In the appointment of committees he wields great and arbitrary power. Those announced by Speaker Carlisle for the present Congress show the bent and direction of his mind, and furnish some suggestive points as to the political situation. The constitution of the committees reminds the country anew that the Confederacy is in the saddle. Out of fiftyone chairmanships thirty go to Southern States and twenty-one to the North. This is according to the fitness of things. The Democratic party is in power, and the main strength of that party is in the South. The remains of the late Confederacy are its cornerstone. But for the solid South the Democratic party might as well disband, so far as engaging in national politics is concerned. It is simply the political assignee in bankruptcy of . the late Confederacy. Thirty committee chairman snips to the South against twenty to the North is not at all out of proportion. True, the wealth and population of the country are largely in the Northern States, as are all its great commercial activities and business interests, but it must be remembered the Democratic party is in power, and that means the South. The Speaker is a Southern man as well as a Democrat, and he could not be expected to forget his section. Not only a majority of the chairmanships, but nearly all the important and powerful ones, and a majority of the influential places next to chairmanships go South. The most important committee in fhe House is'the ways and means, the chairmanship of which has always been sought by members of the greatest ability. It is made up with Mills, of Texas, for chairman, who ranks now as a great man in administration circles because he is a great free-trader. Following him are five other Southern members, two Northern Democrats, and some Republicans as tail-enders; The country's financial wisdom and its economic policy are to come from Texas, Arkansas and Georgia. Mr. Mills Is likely to prove a bull in A china shop. Perhaps the next

most important committee is the judiciary, and the chairman of that, David B. Culberson, s also from Texas, though born in Georgia. We have no information as to his legal acquirements, but as the record shows he served during he war in the confederate army, he has the same qualification for the position that Lamar has for the Supreme Bench. Of the committee on rivers and harbors the chairman and every other Democrat except one are from the South. If they do not get their share of appropriations it will not be the committee's fault. Our merchant marine and fisheries are intrusted to a committee of which Mr. Dunn, of Arkansas, is chairman. Probably he does not know anything about those matters, but as he served in the confederate army, he can pass. The important chairmanship of the committee on postofnees and post-roads goes to Mr. Blount, of Georgia, of whomr it is said, the only post-road he knows is a red dirt road leading up to his house, with a mail-box nailed to one of the entrance posts. He will probably introduce a bill to improve the road so the carrier can dispense with his buggy and ride a blind mule, and so make a saving to the Democratic administration. And so on for quantity. Northern " Democrats get only the leavings after the South has been generously provided for. This distribution of important places means that the legislative affairs of the Nation are committed to the hands of the lata advocates of the lost cause, and that the fountain-head of political power and influence under Democratic rule is . to be in the hands of the late Confederacy.

MR. LAMAR'S POSITION. The committee of the Republican club of New York which reported resolutions opposing Mi. Lamar's confirmation, also submitted a statement, from which the following is an extract: "Mr. Lamar was once an avowed enemy of the United States and sought the dissolution of the Union. He believed in the sovereignty of the State, the right of secession and the extension of slavery in the territory then free. While it was believed that these questions were settled by the success of Union arms, and. that tho insurrectionary States disbanded their armies and accepted the terms of peace, and promised to obey the Constitution and laws of the United States, yet it must be said that this belief has not been realized, nor has this promise been fulfilled. Today throughout the States lately in rebellion the right to vote and to have his vote honestly counted is freely accorded to a member of the Democratic party but denied to Republicans. The Constitution and laws of the United States are nullified, ignored and disobeyed with as much impunity as they were in the days of the rebellion, when hostile forces stayed the march of the Union armies. The State of Mississippi is an overwhelmingly Republican State, but the existence of the party as a political force has been for several- years past extinguished and the voice of the Republican voter forcibly and fraudulently stifled. - The living and the blood of the murdered are crying to the Nation for redress. As a conspicuous exponent of this Southern Democratic plan to dominate the States and the Nation stands L. Q- G Lamar. He sustains It at homo and reaps the unsanctified fruit of an iniquitous and unhallowed success. He revels rin nullification in violation of the Constitution and broken laws at home, while he speaks loyalty and obedience at the North. At the South it is the voice of Jacob at the North it is the hand of Esau." '- j : . This is well put. ' Democrats who cite Mr. Lamar's eulogy of Sumner as evidence of his political repentance can not cite a single utterance of his approving the Constitutional amendments and the legislation of Congrees designed to secure the results of the war. On the contrary, he willingly appropriates and enjoys political honors based on wholesale fraud and crime, and has never a word to say it favor of fair elections or in condemnation of the Mississippi plan. , IT WAS NOT FINAL. The Republican party voluntarily surrendered the negro ten years ago, and with him the right to use his wrongs of suffrage as a dogma of political faith. And that surrender was final. Omaha World. We are not prepared to deny the first assertion of the World. The defeat of the force bill, followed by the events that came in the train of that action, may have "abandoned the negro," that meaning, as we take it, an abandonment of the right and duty of the government to protect "equality of rights" in the Southern States. But we do question the assertion that "the surrender was final," if by that is meant that the people of the North are precluded from agitation and righteous rebuke of the damnable crimes perpetrated against the rights of men in the name and for the benefit cf the Democratic party. For a time it seemed that milksoppery was to triumph, and that the mouths of honest men were to be closed by the shriek of "bloody shirt." But, thank God, that fear has passed away now, and there are evidences of a revival throughout the whole North that presage a public sentiment that will stand like a stone wall against the frauds and murders that blacken the record and disgrace the name of the Democratic party. Assassination and intimidation, murder and ostracism, are not to be forever condoned in the name of nerveless "statesmanship" and shameless mercantilism. The voice of our brothers' blood crieth from the ground; and if the Republican party is chargeable with having "surrendered" in any degree, that surrender is not final. There is to be such thunder along the whole sky as has not been heard since the days when Sumner and Stevens, and others like them, were not afraid to demand justice for the poorest and the most oppressed. A note to the Journal from a Democratic lawyer and friend, now in one of the Southern States, says that he finds much opposition to the appointment of Lamar to the Supreme Bench, on the ground that h e is not a lawyer of ability and experience sufficient to warrant his appointment. There is no question that there is almost a universal feeling of this kind among lawyers, North and South alike, and it only tends to emphasize and aggravate the scandalous fact that the nomination was made without any regard to fitness, but simply for political and partisan reasons. Yet the Southern men, who oppose the appointment on grounds of capacity, furiously assert that to reject it on "political" grounds would be an outrage. Why, pray, when the nomination is notoriusly a "political" one, and when his confirmation is urged solely upon political grounds? If the Democrats in the Senate vote to confirm an unfit appointment from political con

siderations, is it not a high patriotic duty for the Republicans to defeat it for political reasons? Shall a man go upon the Supreme Bench merely for politics sake?

President Cleveland, and the free-trade pack that are just now barking with him, have much too say about the tariffs responsibility for the "trusts" and "combines" that have lately developed. There is an "elevator trust" in Buffalo, and there is a "dock and wharf trust" in Brooklyn, and there are "hard coal trusts" in the anthracite region. Is there any tariff dury on elevators and upon docks and wharves, and on hard coal? As well charge the tariff with the coal combine in Indianapolis. However, the readiness to attribute every evil under sun to the operation of the tariff serves to reveal the true animus of Cleveland and his colleagues. They are opposed to the tariff in toto; their present movement is but a step toward their ultimate purpose. It is very proper for believers in the principle of protection to decline the aid of the free-traders in correcting and revising the tariff, no matter how profuse their overtures of friendliness. We fear the gift-bearing Greeks. ' " - ' Senator Aldrich, of Rhode Island, addressing the Providence Board of Trade, a few days ago, took decided ground in favor of a reduction of the revenue and a revision of the tariff. But he is not in favor of revision on the Cleveland line. "Iam in favor of a revision of the tariff," he said, "for the strengthening and preserving of the protective principle. It is a battle tor freedom or slavery, and I enter it a3 a protectionist, believing in the preservation and strengthening of our protective principles." That is American talk. As to specific measures, Senator Aldrich favors repeal of the tobacco tax, a large reduction of the duty on sugar, and removing the tax from alcohol used in the arts. This would effect a large reduction of revenue and practically dispose of the surplus. Then he would revise the tariff in the interest of protection. These suggestions indicate pretty clearly the drift of Republican policy. It is hinted that Congress will be asked to increase the number of Supreme Court judges to fifteen. There are now nine, and perhaps Mr. Lamar might be able to squeeze in as the sixth new one. Milwaukee Sentinel. A bill to do this has been before Congress for years. There tire but eight members of .the court living. If Mr. Lamar gets in he will make the ninth, and then, when the number of the court is increased, if the Southern Confederacy remains "in the saddle," the Democracy will have eight of the justices to seven Republicans. This is the size and outlines of the scheme to confederatize the Supreme Court. Mr. Lamar's appointment is the first move in the plan. The new justices need not all be Southern men; history shows that Southern ideas never had more superserviceable agents than Northern doughfaces. .. Dr. Burchard, of "Rj R. R." fame, who blundered into notoriety and assisted Grover Cleveland to blunder into the White House, says: "Considering all the circumstances in the case, I cannot now help regarding Mr. Cleveland as President of the United States to-day by the direct appointment of God." This is Burchard's modest way of claiming that he was the humble instrument of executing the Almighty's plans. From the cordial greeting he recently received from Mr. Cleveland, it would seem the latter is of the same opinion. Grover and Burchard should retire from public gaze and fall on one another's necks. " The Manchester Guardian, English freetrade organ, bubbles over with joyful approval of Mr. Lowell's speech, and says: "What strikes Mr. Lowell's eye and pains his heart in the practice of protectionism in the United States is the moral, social and political evil which it has wrought." It will surprise most people to learn how demoralized and degraded the American people have become under protection, and perhaps they will feel grateful to Mr. Lowell and his kind for publishing the fact to the world. Perhaps we had better import a few ship-loads of comfort and culture from the tenement-houses of Manchester. A private note from one of the most prominent and honored citizens of Indiana says: "I am highly pleased with the daily utterances of the Journal, especially on the Lamar and temperance questions. I even venture to xay that the Journal is not aware of the extent of public feeling that is abroad on the confirmation of Lamar it will be almost like the gun of Sumter if it is consummated, and woe be to the pusillanimous Senators who stand by and help consummate such an unseemly thing ' - The nine Republican Senators in Ohio who bolted the caucus nominations and joined the Democrats in the organization of the Senate have issued an address to the public attempt, ing to justify their action. It is a very silly document, and puts the bolters in a bad light. The amount of it all is they bolted because they could not have things their way, and the worst is there was no question of principle involved, nothing but a few paltry offices. Senator Paddock is the author of a gigantic scheme. It is no less than the appropriation of $10,000,000 for the erection of buildings for the use of postoffices of the first and second-class all over the United States. This would be a great thing for the building contractors, but it is not likely that it will receive the approval of the country. Denver Republican. And yet it should. There could not be a better way in which to spend ten millions of dollars than in just that manner. Col. Thompson' New Book. The Journal has already alluded to the important book about to be brought out by Hon. Richard W. Thompson, of this State, It is a history of the industrial and commercial legislation of the government or, to speak more tersely, of tariff legislation from the earliest days of the government to the present time. The timeliness of the work, and the eminent quaL ifieations of the author to produce at once a history of interest and of standard authority, will make its publication an important event in current literature. Whatever Colonel Thompson does he does well; and in this work he has brougHt into action unequalcd knowledge and experience, and trained literary faculties of the highest kind. The book will consist of forty-six

chapters, and it is a complete and exhaustive compilation of all the facts of our history upon the tariff, and an examination of the operations of the various tariff laws since the first one of 1796. The volume will show how the fathers of the government, the men who made the Constitution and laid the foundations of the Nation, adopted the principle of protection to American industry, for protection's sake. They were not afraid of the logic of their laws, and did not try to split hairs and triangulate the difference between tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum to suit the fancies or whims of theorists and schoolmen. They adopted protection because they believed in the right and duty of proteetection; they did not favor tariff law3 for revenue, with "incidental" protection. CoL Thompson deals fully with the history of the tariff, quoting all the Democratic Presidents from Jefferson to Jackson, and showing that the free-trade movement was introduced and fathered by the Southern slaveholding nullifying oligarchy. The book, however, is not a partisan one, and will be a mine of information for the free-trader as well as for the believer in a protective tariff. It is a volume of about COO pages, and it is to be issued by R. S. Peale & Co., of Chicago, who will sell it by subscription. They are good publishers and pushing business men, and they hope to have the work on the market by the middle of next month. It cannot come too early. The book is the product of the ripest years and judgment of CoL Thompson's long and honorable life. It was not written with a view to the present special condition of affairs, but the precipitation of the discussion because f President Cleveland's free-trade message makes its appearance peculiarly timely and .valuable. The manuscript has been read and highly indorsed by Hon. John Sherman and President Ammidown, of the American .Protective Tariff League. A second Josef Hoffman has made his appearance in New York. Of course; one infant phenomenon is sure to" be followed by others, and the public is likely to be made .very weary by a succession of juvonile prodigies. . The Prince of Wales shows an unwillingness to speak of his social chat with John Sullivan, but the world's champion refers to it frankly and without concealment. Boston's Pride is not the man to do a thing he is ashamed of. , It was unkind of Speaker Carlisle to give Sunset Cox no better chance than the chairmanship of the census committee. The United States census affords a very dry field for a humorist. A colont of wild of "insane people have been discovered in Connecticut. They are probably Democratic manufacturers who went crazy after reading the President's lamented message. One thing at least is definitely settled. The adiDocerous woman may not be adipocerous, but she is certainly dead, and cannot be buried too soon nor too secretly to please the public

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. A German physician has traced ninety-two distinct diseases in women to the use of the corset. The Empress of Austria has. subscribed 2,500 towards the monument to Heinrich Heine which is to be erected in Dusseldorf. The Duke of Cambridge, commander-in-chief of the British army, gets $33,000 a year, while all Count Von Moltke, of the German army, receives is $7,000. John M. Langston (colored), ex-mintster to HaytL is already in the field as a candidate for the Republican nomination to Congress in the foiitth Virginia district. . Judge Wasdweix of Buffalo owns a photo" graph of Grover Cleveland taken in 1862. It represents a tall, slight young man, long haired and with a heavy mustache. J "Holmes, Oliver W. professor, Beacon street," is the style in which the name and address of the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table appears in the Boston directory. Mrs. Mart Gallagher, of South Bethlehem, Pa., is a very active woman for her age, which is 104 years. The other evening she went to a party and danced an Irish jig to the music of a fiddler. The mother of the lost Charley Ross devotes much time to missionary work and is now organizing an effort to purchase an old Catholic abbey in the City of Mexico for a Mexican girls' orphanage. The Empres3 Eugenie has prohibited the publication of the correspondence of the late Louis Napoleon with his foster-mother, . Mme. Cornu, so it will not appear during her life, as she has a power over Mme. Cornu's wilL It is told of Dr. D. H. Agnew, the eminent surgeon of Philadelphia, that early in his career he became discouraged by an unsuccessful case of tracheotomy, gave up his profession and went into the coal business. In that pursuit he failed and then went back to surgery. Marshal McMahon, ex-president of Prance has aged rapidly. His old wounds, often inclined to be troublesome, have lately been much more so, and his friends have been receiving anything but reassuring news as to his condition. His intellectual powers are as .strong as ever. Professor Asa Gray, who lies hopelessly ill at Cambridge, had a peculiarly rich sense of humor, and not infrequently it crept into his hooks. A good illustration was afforded when, in speaking of that plant called "honesty," he wrote, "Common honesty is not much found in this countrv." Andrew Carnegie, the iron prince, who pays one of his foremen a salary of $25,000 a year, did his first work in a Pittsburg telegraph office for $3 a week. liufus Hatch was once a locomotive engineer, and is said to boast that he can take apart and put together any locomotive now in use. "The patent conferring an earldom on Lord Lyons had been sent to Windsor," says London, Truth, "hut the Queen had not signed it when he died, which is a fortunate circumstance for the inheritor of his fortune, as there would have been some very heavy fees to pay if the creation had been completed." ' Bronson Alcott recently passed his ' eightyeighth birthday. In a private letter to a friend Miss Louisa M. Alcott says: "Father fails slowly. He no longer goes out, sleeps much of the time and takes less interest in things about him. But he still likes hi3 books at hand and enjoys seeing a friend now and then. The twilight is closing gently in, and he may fall asleep at any moment. Thanks to the friend3 who hold the dear old man in loving remembrance." . When George A Hoyt was eighteen years old he gave his share of his father's small property to his mother and sisters, and became a porter in a clothing store at a salary of $30 a year and board. In the first year he spent but sixty-three cents out of his salary. He never in his life smoked a cigar or drank a drop of wine or liquor, and when he died suddenly in Stamford notion ago he was the richest man in the place, and was president of the Pennsylvania Coal Company. . - A Boston woman of brains has ; invented a new way of making herself useful and making money at the same time. She studies the newspapers, posts herself on what's going on in the world, use3 the scissors freely, pastes, writes, and revises carefully until she has a condensed digest of the live topics of the day. This she reads to a class of wealthy women, who pay her well for furnishing them with information concerning what they ought to be able to talk intelligently about. Miss Jenny Townley of Tipton county Tennessee, posseses a remarkable power over domestic and wild animals. . She is a superb horse woman, and can tame and ride in a few minutes horses end mules with which no oae else has ever been ahle to do anything:. The most savage dog in the neighborhood quails before her and follows as docile as a pet She has the same power over wild animals and squirrels, and birds eat from her hand in ths woods, and she often picks up rabbits in the fields. Philadelphia Record: Mr. George Bancroft accounted for his own longevity the other day with three reasons. First, that he was the middle child in his father's family, equally distant from the youngest and the oldest; second; that he had always gone to bed at 10 o'clock, unless it has been impossible; and, third, that he

had always sptnt four hours In each day in open air, unless prevented by a storm. He added that his riding, of which the newspapers had made so much, was primarily for the purpose of being out of doors, and not of being oa horseback. And now the gay and festiTe kid Skates on his skates quite cheery, Bnt when mamma wants a bucket of coal He suddenly grows weary. . ? ' Toledo Commercial. There was an old man named Lamar, Who fought with the rebels in the war, This wicked old coon. Who believes in Calhoun. Should be left in the cold, sir, ha! ha! New York Press. . LEAP YEAR. Leap till the last armed male expires; Leap for your husbands and for sires; Leap for a cbanee to build tbe fires. Fair ones throughout the land! Oil City Bliitard. .

COMMENT AND OPINION. It was a cold day for President Cleveland when he met John Sherman. Philadelphia Inquirer. Great Scott, brerr free-traders, don't drop too quick. We want to see the whites of your' eyes in a fair fight, just once. Hartford Post, THe Petersburg Index-Appeal admits thaV "the Democratic party is not an angel." No, but it has two wings. New York Commercial Advertiser. The Hooaiers are entitled to credit for one thing; they are making the temperature exceedingly uncomfortable for the telephone monopoly. Minneapolis Tribune. With 216 lawvers out of 225 members of the House of Representatives, it is to- be hoped that these gentlemen will remember that they are -retained for the people, and must abjure the profitable fees of big corporations. Pittsburg Chronicle. There is no better way of abolishing the strike musauce man 10 snow mat it aoes not pay, aua the report quoted from in this article Col. Wright's shows this so clearly that there is no room for a counter showing. With all the light now thrown upon the situation it is safe to say that the striker must go. Atlanta Constitution. Free-trade dreamers will continue to write sentiment and slush, which should come under the head of "raw material" nntil put in verse and set to music, but the incontrovertible fact s and unanswerable arguments presented in Senator Sherman's speech will remain for all free-traders to butt their heads against Detroit Tribune. The Republican party is not impoverished in materials for leaders, and it had better learn now than later that it has no indispensable members. Whoever may fall out. the place will be filled promptly. It has never been otherwise with party or people since the world began, and there is no reason to suppose it will ever be otherwise. Philadelphia North American. ' Men who in the full visror of their mental powers have been recreant, eves for a day, to the Union cannot be fully trusted with the care of the sanctuary. Even if they can be relied on in the future, the past cannot be blotted out, and there should be no spotted careers ended on the Supreme bench of the United States. Politicians should not be appointed. It is the place for jurists. Boston Journal. Cleveland would not have been President but for frauds in the Mississippi election and in other Southern States having a majority of Republican voters, who were prevented by terror and violence from exercising the franchise. To elevate Lamar to the federal Supreme bench will be to justify fraud, to canonize violence and to approve the barbarous and bloody methods of Mississippi in political action. Chicago Journal. , He is a manifest ass who holds that we should make money by letting our sheep go, and buying our wool ' "abroad." There appears to be nosurplus of wool as it is. The only way in which free trade in wool could make wool any cheaper, would be to have our farmers raise it for less money than now. but in as great quantities'. That is, therefore, their apparent desire. But would our farmers do it? Nebraska State Journal. It is singular that Pope Leo, who, unhampered by the temporal sovereignty, has enjoyed full political and religious liberty under Humbert's government, and who has exercised a political influence on the affairs of Europe greater than any Pope since the time of the reformation, perhaps, should at this stage of his career surrender to the influence of what Cardinal Newman might call "a reactionary and intolerant faction." Chicago Herald. Now Is the Time to Subscribe. Clay County Enterprise. This year, of all others, Republicans of Indiana should read the Indianapolis Journal. It is decidedly the most ably edited paper in the State, always at the front on every important question, and reliable. When the Journal knows a thing it says it in a language that cannot be misinterperted. It is no timeserver for popularity, but will censure its own party and party friends in their failure to meet the questions of the day in a manly and honorable way. Aside from its politics, the Journal is the best newspaper, and is more to be relied upon in market, financial and commercial reports, than any other paper published in the Mississippi valley. Every man in Indiana, no difference what his Eolitics, will have invested his money well when e subscribes for the Journal. O Tempore, O Mores. New York Tribune. Times have changed. When Caleb CKshing , was nominated for Chief -justice, the discovery that he had written a letter merely recommend' ing a friend for a clerkship under the confederate government killed the nomination so completely that no one dared to . lift a voice in its favor. Now it is proposed to put into the court a man who conspired to bring about the secession, fought for it, and is still so far from repenting that he flew into a passion in the Senate two years ago when some one ventured to intimate that Jefferson Davis was a traitor. The Supreme Court is the citadel of our government, Do wo want to garrison it with such men? A Grave Mistake. Philadelphia Press. The fitness of a man to sit upon the bench o? the highest court in the land should be discussed in calmness and intelligence, and not in passion or partisanship. Whatever can be said in Mr. Lamar's favor by his supporters should have a patient hearing and all due consideration. But his friends make a grave mistake when they , seek to intimidate the North by reviving th menacing spirit shown in Congress forty-five years ago when the representatives of slavery' sought to throttle the right of petition. mi I i BssB Lamar's Oath. National Republican. Senator Sawyer is quoted as saying thathff . 1 " f . , . . . . Deneves juamar is a ioyai man because ne oa made speeches accepting the situation. Does i not Senator Sawyer know that this same Lamar ' accepted the situation in 1859 when he took the oath as a member of Congress! Did he keep the " situation he accepted? What guarantee has Senator Sawyer that Lamar would not again violate his oath and again engage in treason? An Open Question. Kansas City Journal. Do the people who go to hear Sam Jones go to scoff and remain to pray, or do they go to pray and come away to scoff? Perhaps both. It depends upon the people. Some may be brought to tearful repentance by being told that they "ain't got nigh onto so much decency as a hog," and then, again, there are others whom such, exhortation does not favorably impress. A Matter of Economy. Philadelphia North American. Those people who have heretofore considered themselves too poor to go to Florida will find it more economical to go there for the winter than to remain here and burn coal at the prospectivehigh prices. . A Compromise. Boston Globe. Rev. Joseph Cook savs that either Sunday or the saloons must go. Why not compromise and keep both by getting rid of the Reverend Joseph? . : - - A Sic of tbe Times. Philadelphia Inquirer. The almost universal demand for a repeal of the New York Saturday half -holiday law shows the reactive drift of general sentiment toward labor. , About Time. Minneapolis Tribune. It is almost time for the newspapers to begin building Cleveland "pyramids. The Tribune suggests England as a base. A Will That Will Stand. New York Pres. There are just seventy-eight words in Judgo Rapallo's will, and it is safe to bet $78 to $1 that it will not be contested. A Suitable Color. Milwaukee Sentinel. The sickly green of the postage stamp accords entirely with the debility that-characterlaws the mail service.