Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 March 1888 — Page 4

THE EiDIAAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, 3IAKPH 20, 18S3.

THE DAILY JOURNAL. TUESDAY, MARCH 20, ' 1888.

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Telephone Calls. An electric railway to Broad Ripple and Crown Hill will fill a long-felt want. It would be worth much to Indianapolis if the city could be well and cheaply lighted by electricity. - Democratic civil-service reform employes in the Insane Asylum soliciting contributions for the Sim Coy fund. The Santa Fe strikers marched Tip hill and then marched down again; and now they are probably wondering what they did it for. A THOROUGH purging and fumigation of the Insane Asylum is needed. Under the present management it has been turned into a den of thieves. - So it seems the employes of the Insane Asylum had to contribute to the expense 'of defending the suit against Dr. Harrison. Nothing could better illustrate the methods of the gang. ' The report that Minister Phelps will resign because of his dissatisfaction with the fisheries treaty needs confirmation. The treaty -r- i i i V : l i . J 'jives ijngiana everymiag bus wauiu, uuu .what mora could Phelps ask? - The several Democratic vice-presidential booms of Indiana, which were tender plants It best, show signs of frost bite, and should be put under glass at once. This is likely to be a late, cold spring for the Democratic can didate. . Vvttkj the saloon interest is touched the Democratic patty squeals. Because the t t i i v the Sentinel is convinced that the party is going to the bow-wows; and, come to think about it, the Sentinel is probably correct. Mr. George Gould should buy that Southern railroad that came so near being the death of him, and put it in good running order. Under the system of railway management that prevails in the South people who visit that region for health's sake add new risks to life. THE new Sentinel editors should hays consulted members of the local Democracy before making the assertion that the saloon and gambling laws were enforced in this city under Democratic management. Sim Coy's smile, when he read that statement, must have illuminated his quarters at the jaiL A CASE has been finally started toward the Supreme Court involying the question of the necessity of shaving a man on Sunday. If the barber shops are to bo closed, why not the cigar-shops? What is the necessity for the sale of cigars on Sunday, outside of hotels to guests, which sale is protected by a Supreme Court decision. Let all the questions of "necessity" go to the Supreme Court at once. If reports from the Insane Asylum are correct, the old saying that those who dance must pay the piper may be changed to read that all employes of the Harrison gang must both dance and pay the piper whether they are parties to such amusement or not. If they won't buy tickets to the Coy ball their services will no longer be required at the State institution. SOME "of the papers are saying that the United States government has no foreign policy, but this is a mistake. Its policy is to let any other country have anything it asks for. Mr. Bayard has now an opportunity to make himself solid with the Sultan of Morocco by transmitting to him the information that he can continue to insult the American flag without danger of interference. By a vote of 16 to 8 the Council last nigh t declined to raise the price of gas for publio lighting from $1 to $1 25, and adopted a resolution instructing the Gas light Company to cease lighting the streets on the 1st of May nest, the city engineer, in the meantime, to advertise for proposal for electric , lights on the streets. A committee was appointed to request the gas company to furnish gas to private consumers at the rate of $1.23. The intersjate-coromerce law solved a good many railroad problems, but congressional Intellects are strained to a painful degree in the effort to amend the measure 60 that an employe of the road shall not quit work when he pleases. The employe may cause the public a great deal of trouble by his withdrawal from active duty, but the law in this great North American land of liberty has not yet reached the point of compelling a man who is cot in the stone-yand or the penitentiary to work when he chooses to be idle. The delegate Sunday-school meeting at lh First Presbyterian Church, last night, indicated the probability, if, cot the certainty, that the headquarters of the new international departme.it would be located here, if entha-

siasm and determination may secure that desirable result. Thirty-one schools were represented, composing nine denominations. An association was formed, a constitution adopted, and steps taken that will insure alive, vigorous and earnest support to the new educational movement. It will be a big feather in the cap of Indianapolis to be at the head and to be the central point of this great work. It is international and interdenominational. The international series of lessons started from Indianapolis, fcnd if the headquarters of the International Department of In struction is located here it will carry the name of the city not only throughout the United States, but throughout every country in Christendom. The matter is worth working for, and working bard , for. it should enrtst not only every Sunday-school and church in the city, but it appeals as well to every enterprising business man and citizen interested in the advancement of the city. 1 Let us boom the city on all lijes. It will be a good business card to have Indianapolis the headquarters of this important Sunday-school work.

THE INS AH E HOSPITAL S3ANDAL. A statement published this morning from a former inmate of the Insane Asylum at this city presents a startling picture of the cruelties practiced within its walls. The Journal takes no pleasure Jn thus making public a condition of things which is a disgrace to the State and a source of shame to every citizen, but where such things exist it is far better to expose than to conceal them. The person who makes the statement is entirely trustworthy, and was himself a victim of the cruelties he describes. It is safe to conclude that hid case was not an isolated one, and that similar cruelties were practiced habitually. While his story is startling in one respect, in another it is not. It reveals a state of things that will make honest men's blood tingle, and make heart-sick those who have relatives or friends in the asylum; but it is no worse than many things already brought to light in the management of the asylum. The investigation by the House committee last winter brought out many facts just as bad. It was then proved beyond any doubt that the management of the asylum was degraded and corrupt; that the State was plundered and its insane grossly mistreated in order to put money into the pockets of a corrupt ring of dirty politicians, and that many things were done which would not bear the light of day. The statement published this morning is simply cumulative evidence on the same line, though the facts related are of more recent occurence. They furnish additional proof of the utter unfitness of the notorious Dr. Harrison for the position be occupies as president of the joint board of trustees, and of the complete degradation of the insano asylum management. Under his policy as a Democratic partisan of the worst school the asylum has been run as a political machine in his own interest and that of the corrupt ring that has been managing things. Such a system and such, a policy could only beget rottenness, corruption and cruelty. These facts and the board's unfitness were practically admitted by Governor Gray's attempted removal of Harrison and Gapen from the board, but in defiance of publio opinion and public decency they still hold on. One of the State's greatest benefactions is shamefully prostituted and its unfortnate insane are cruelly abused in order that these partisan leeches may continue to draw their salaries and the corrupt local ring, of which they are part, be enabled to prolong its power. THE DEMOCBATIO FIGHT. There is trouble brewing in the Democratic party in Indiana. New trouble, we mean, for there has been no lack of trouble for a good while. There is no longer any doubt that exSenator McDonald is bitterly opposed to Governors Gray's candidacy for Vice-president, and that he is getting ready to make publio his opposition and the grounds thereof. Senator Voorhees will side with McDonald in this matter, and between them they will rally a large following. The contest may take the form of the young Democracy versus the old. Governor Gray is credited with having gained a strong hold on the young Democracy, though why it should be no one can tell, unless it is that he is a pretty young Democrat himself. Ex-Senator McDonp.id fitly represents the old guard of Democracy in this State. He was a Democrat 5n good standing before the war, and though the lost caste with the party to some extent by his open and avowed loyalty during the war he has fully recovered his position as a party leader of the old school. Senator Voorhees, though not the man that McDonald is in any respect, is still a life-long Democrat. It is natural that these men and other Democrats of their class should rebel against the leadership of Governor Gray. He is comparatively a new recruit in the Democratic party, having gone over from the Republican in 1872. He has never borne any of the heat and burden of the day, as the old-liners have, and hi3 rewards have been out of all proportion to his party services. .He is neither a brilliant nor a strong man, nor in any way well equipped for publio life. He is simply a political schemer and untiring worker for Isaac P. Gray. His nomination for Governor was a bitter dose to the old-liners, and Ms rapid advancement in leadership has been a thorn in their sides. His candidacy for Vice-president is gall and wormwood to them. ExSenator McDonald is not a hasty nor impetuous man. On the contrary, he is conservative, deliberate and slow to . anger. He has been getting madder and madder for a long time., until he is about as mad a3 he can be. When he authorizes a publio statement that he is opposed to Governor Gray's candidacy, and at the proper time will give his reasons therefor, it means something. Mr. McDonald will not do anything dishonorable nor undignified. He will not strike below the belt, but when he does lead out he will strike to hurt. Senator Voorhees will join in the attack. Gray is a constant menace to his political future. Most of the Indiana Democrats cow in Washington, beaded by that shrewd and popular worker, Col. Dick Bright, will aid in the attack. Thus there Is every reason to expert that the declaration of wax by Mr. McDonald will be the

signal for a general assault on Gray The opposition he ha3 met with heretofore is nothing compared with that he is likely to encounter socn. The probability is the sssault will blow his vice-presidential boom to atoms.

ETfilKES AHD BOYCOTTSThe word "strike" as applied to labor movements is of comparatively recent origin, and is not of American growth. The word, like the thing itself, is of foreign origin. It has only in late years found a place in the dictionaries, and is still marked "recent" or "modern." Words often grow out of circumstances or conditions, and in a country or state of society where labor troubles are unknown there is no use for a word to designate them. Judge Dandy, of Omaha, has recently done a public service by attempting an exact definition of the word "strike" and drawing a distinction between the different kinds. There are strikes and strikes. Without reference to their oiigin or the reasonableness of the demand on which they are based, it is evident that a broad distinction must be made between the strike- that simply asserts the rights of the strikers and one that interferes with the rights of others. The first is a simple strike, while the other is a boycott. This was the distinction made by Judge Dundy, and the time is cot far distant when it will be made by all courts and enforced by legislation. It must be done if individual rights and personal liberty are to be preserved. We have said new words sometimes grow out of new conditions. New conditions also create a necessity for new laws or the wider interpretation and application of old ones. ' As long as strikes were unknown there was no necessity of legislating on the subject. The modern strike, with its twin brother and ally, the boycott, has created such a necessity. Fifty years ago the law of corporations wa3 hardly known as a separate branch of jurisprudence; now it constitutes a great field by itself. The growth of corporations and the changes of modern society have developed it. So strikes and boycotts, with their inherent tendency to violence, will create a new branch of law and compel the erection of new barriers for the protection of private rights. For it is a fundamental' principle of law that every person may only assert his own rights so as not to interfere" with those of others. This is at the foundation of private rights and of justice. A strike that attempts to assert or enforce the rights of the strikers by injuring or interfering with' those of others is a plain violation of this fundamental principle. It is a strike at law,, at justice, at individual rights and at the foundations of society. This principle must be recognized and enforced by legislatures and courts. The boycott must be put dowb.swith a strong hand, and strikers, in asserting their own rights, must not be permitted to interfere with those of others. Anything'Jless than that would be a state of warfare and a lapse into barbarism. The ways and means committee recently, referred to the Secretary of -the Treasury some tables relative to the probable reduction of revenue under the Mills tariff bill, with a request that he examine them and report to the committee his views on the subject. In the course of his reply he referred to theunreliability of "mere individual opinion ' concerning the probable effect of tariff legislation upon the revenue," and cited, in illustration, the estimates given by customs officers as to the probable reduction of revenue under a recent decision of the Treasury Department. These estimates varied from $6,000,000 to $10,000,000 a year. Yet, said the Secretary, "it is now practically ascertained that the importations and revenue have largely increased." This has a very direct application to the President's free-trade message and the Mills bill. If custom-house experts are so wide of the mark in their estimates as to the probable reduction of revenue by a reduction of duties, what reliance can be placed on the guess-work of persons like the President and Chairman Mills? It is another case of "Jhingumbobs rushisg in where what-you-calI-'em3 dare not tread." Three times the employes' of the Insane Asylum have been "looted" in the name of the Democratic party and in the sacred interests of "reform." There have been three assessments or contributions taken up, one of which was for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the suit against Harrison and Gapen, and the last time for the benefit of the Coy fund. Mrs. Talbott, the matron of the men's departmert, personally superintended this last assessment. When an employe took a ticket nothing was said or done; when one declined, his name was taken, supposedly for future reference and black-listing. Could anything more disreputable or disgusting be imagined than this systematic voluntary (?) looting of the employes of the public institutions? No man is decently fit for office who cannot make a living out of office. The man who, conscious of his own inherent weakness, wants a nomination this year, hoping to float in on the tide, must be killed off early in the season. Sentinel. Come, now, name your man. The Democratic candidates were Nelson for Lieutenantgovernor, Miers for Secretary of State, Munson for Auditor cf State, Byrnes for Treasurer, McMillen for Attorney-genera!, Krueger for Clerk of Supreme Court, and Sweeny for Superintendent of Public Instruction. Don't include them all in an indiscriminate assault. Name the man. The outside editors and would-be President-makers, who think they know better than the Hoosiers themselves who the Hoosiers want, - are invited to study the reports of the township conventions as they appear in the Journal from day to day. The Journal, unlike some of its pretentious contemporaries, does not publish garbled reports nor color facts to suit its own taste, but gives the truth, and nothing but the truth; hence the preferences of the people may be accurately gauged from the records of these conventions. w mm mmm nsmmm The Supreme Court of the United States, by a majority of one, sustained the validity of the Bell patent. The decision is by Chiefjustije Waite, concurred in by Justice Mil-

ler, Blatchford and Matthews. Field, Harlan and Bradley dissent, while Gray and Lamar did cot sit in the case. It is a close shave for Bell, .and does not indicate a satisfactory settlement of the long-disputed questions involved. The dissenting judges hold that Drawbaugh was the prior inventor of the principle of the telephone.

If the tiled, blue-blooded, gartered and bejeweled nobility of Europe think they have a corner on aristocracy they should read an editorial in the Atlanta (Ga. ) Constitution of the 18th inst, in which, under the head of "A Southern Planter," the biography of Thomas S. Dabney is noticed. Mr. Dabney was an exceedingly rich planter before the war, owning a vast estate and 200 s'aves. With most Southerners, the war ruined him. In 18G6 he was called upon to pay a debt of a friend fo many thousand dollars, Mr. Dabney having signed the evidences of indebtedness to oblige his friend. Earnestly urged by relatives to take advantage of the bankrupt law, he refused to do so, insisting that he would pay his debts by his own unaided efforts, and be literally did so. Having several daughters, Mr. Dabney would not allow them to work, and the old man, then seventy years of age, did the gardening, the housework, and he actually "went to the wash tab'' and did the family washing, and his daughters let him do it. If those girls were not. blue and coldblooded enough to match any titled foreigner why not? It is gratifyine to note events tending to purify the slams tempting many a young man to destruction ia large cities. New York has at last succeeded in wiping out Harry II ill's old Houston-street resort, where for years past the proprietor presented the lowest and most brutal attractions, eight and day, Sunday included. The Bowery and Bleeker-street . resorts were, one after another, gradually closed.up, but "Arry 'HIV place, like Tennyson's brook, seemed destined to go on forever. Like theicamortal Tweed, Hill evaded the law by the famous interrogation, "What are you going to do about it?" keeping solid all the time In useful quarters. If the Long island authorities supplement New York's good work by shutting up Harry Hill's road house near Flushing, the little English sport's power for evil will be greatly curtailed, if not ended. A geeat deal is gome the rounds in the newspapers over Mrs. Cleveland's new "fad." It is generally claimed, and is doubtless true, that the "first lady in" the land" owns $50,000 worth of diamonds, all gifts from the devoted Grover. Mrs. Cleveland is certainly to be congratulated on being the possessor of so rich a dowry, and the President is setting a most excellent and praiseworthy example to other Benedicts of this country, many of whom, it is to be feared, have been sadly derelict in that direction. If Mr. Cleveland will go further, and inform benighted, would-be indulgent husbands how, in about three ytars, on a $50,000 saiary, he can get married, buy and improve a suburban villa, charter special excursion trains, go nhing, pay the butcher, baker and candlestick-maker, get his washing done, and still spend about half his income on diamonds, it will be the most salutary and notable act of his administration. , A good deal of sympathy seems to have been wasted on the dissolute young woman who was said to have been so frightfully burned and disfigured with acid thrown by Dr. Cox, of Spring"Jield, Mo. A week is hardly enough for the healing of such deep wounds as she was repreieented to have received, and it is reasonable to assume that she did uot go gaily off to her marriage with the foolish victim of her wiles with ; half -healed seams and scars, and one eye hang ing out of its socket. The fact, however, that the woman's injuries were greatly exaggerated by sensation-loving correspondents does not les- ' sen the brutality of Dr. Cox's act in using the acid. The Indiana citizen of any prominence who ventures outside of bis own State now does so at his peril. The Sentinel professes to believe that a certain Indianapolis Republican has gone to Washington to arrange for the nomination of the next President, while theJournal's correspondent learns, on the other band, that his business at the capital is cf a delicately personal nature. Gentlemen who go away from home in these troublous and uncertain times will save embarrassment to themselves by announcing the purposes of thwir journeys beforehand. If Horace Greeley were alive he would repudiate the organizatioof newspaper men which calls itself by bis name, and has for its object the lightening of the professional labors of the members with a corresponding increase of pay. A "Horace Greeley Club," whose chief purpose is to shirk work, libels the noted journalist. He gained none of his fame in that way. ' The Board of Trustees of the Northwest Methodist Conference at their recent meeting at Lafayette decided that at the next camp-meet-ing at Battle-ground the gates to the grounds would be locked on Sunday, and no Sunday fees be akn. The Aoton trustees have not yet taken similar action. The impudence of the interviewer wbo.asked J. Stanley Brown when he fell in love with Miss Garfield could only have been exceeded by the question whv he fell in lo- with her; but by some oversight this inquiry was not made. Shooitng step-fathers seems to be epidemic in Chieago. Two remedies will be suggested: Either follow the advice of the lamented Mr. Weller "Beware of the widders" or kill off the boys before they grow to be step-sons. POLITICAL NOTES. Gkat for Vice-president and Joseph E. McDonald for Governor would be a nice pair to draw to. Fort Worth Gazette: Mr. Orator Puff Grady, oC the Atlanta Constitution, is doing all he can to make Republican the new South, of which he prates so verbosely. Inteb Ocean: Democrats are pointing to Illinois, Indiana and Minnesota as "good fighting ground." As Phil Kearney said once to an inquirer. "Go in anywhere: there will be beautiful fighting all alone the line." Give Indiana Ben Harrison as a candidate for President and there will be no doubt about the answer to the above question. And, in any event, with a candidate in favor of protection, Indiana will give a good account of itself. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette: Two-thirds of. the delegates from Republican districts for 187G, 1830 and 1884 were for Blaine for the presidency, and all the delegates to the convention of 1888 will be. as they should be, his friends; and they will make no nomination that will be a slur upon fcim. The Bloomfield Democrat announces that it is just in receipt of a special correspondence from Jeffersonville to the effect ttiat Hon. Joseph E. McDonald is a candidate for Governor, and has an agent in every county now working to peenre his nomination. The matter leaked out through one of his lieutenants. Henry Cos sends us a beatifully illustrated folder of Indianapolis, lad., claimed as "the great manufacturing center of America." But, friend Cue, the query naturally arises in our mind, is Indiana going to vote this fail in the direction of a oolicy that will compel her to lose her distinction a a manufacturing center and cause her manufacturers to surrender to Manchester, Leeds. Nottingham and Sheffield? Watertown Republican. The Philadelphia Timet made a careful estimate of Republican presidential preferences m the States of New York. Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indians, and Minnesota. Tb canvass was conducted in the interest of .o special candidate, and embraced inquiries to the ourabr of over 7 000. It is suggestive of coming possibilities that General Harrison was the first or ftejond, choiee ot about 1,300 of the number or COO out

side of Indiana, a larger number than any other man except B aine and Sherman. In its summary of the repultp, the Times says: "Ind.ana is undeniably for Harrison, Gresham being hardly in sight."

ABOUT PEOPLE AM) THINGS. Mr. W. H. H. Murray is goine on a tour of exDloration to the extreme north of British America. Burlington Free Press: Bees, it is said, always fiy in a straight line. This ia undoubtedly the reason why a drunken man never gets stung. The Superintendent of Publio Instruction in North Carolina reports that $G35,C0O was expended on rubhe instruction in that State last yeir. Thirtv-six per cent, waa used in the instruction of the colored race. Miss Sara Elliott, the story writer, has returned to New Orleans, after spending a couple of years abroa l. She is the daughter of the late Bishop Elliott, of Texas, and is described as small, brown-haired and demure. Richard Henry Stoddard, the New York poet, is described a3 gray-bearded, grim looking, but walking with the elastic movement of a youthful athlete. H has for many years held a government position. It may interest fastidious letter-writers to know that the very swollest mourning paper used by the elite of France measures eight by five inches and has a black border half an inch wide. The envelopes maure four and a quarter by five and three-quarter inches. Mlle. Zucchi formerly leading ballet dancer at the Eden Theater, Paris, was recently married to Prince Basetchitkoff, and among the wedding presents were 120 silver drinking cups each from a former admirer, and each fashioned like a dancing slipper. Senator Chace, of Rhode Island, is the only member of the United States Senate who always wears a swallow-tailed coat. When a Senator rerently appeared at a Washington dinner in conventional evening dress a dignified punster remarked: "An, there is X. in extremely Chaced attire!" The Rev. Bartholomew Edwards, rector of Ashill, Norfolk, is the oldest clergyman in England. He has just completed his one hundredth year. He ba been rector of AsLill iuet seventy-five years. He is also the oldest living Cantab, having taken his B. A. in 1811. He is in good health, and still occasionally conducts the services at his church. M. iE Naville and Count d'Hulst, who are excavating at Te:l Basta, have recently made an important discovery in a statue of Rmeses II, having the striped head-dress painted in various colors, viz., blue, green, and gold There are also traces of red paint on the lips. Every care will be taken to preserve the colors from injury until the statue is placed in security in the British MuBeum. A maiden woman named Ann Vincer recently died at Mersham, in East Kent, Eng., at the age of seventy-seven. She was an eccentric person' with a great love for boarding money, and was never known to change a gold coin when once she obtained it. Seventy pounds was found concealed in match boxes among a heap of old rubbich, ana, besides, a bank book and securities were found, showing that she possessed 148 for which she waa receiving interest. She had been known to exist for a week on a two-pound loaf, a quarter of a pound of treacle, and a quar- . ter pound of butter. Dr. Mary Walker has been attempting to obtain an increase of pension from Congress. She now draws $8.50 a month from the government hardly enough to keep her in troupers and suspenders. She thinks the government shculd give her $50 a month. The Senate committee on pensions has decided that Dr. Mary cannot have more than $25 a month. This seems to be satisfaetorv. however, as the pantaloony patriot has come out in a new spring suit light trousers, black cutaway coat, silk hat and patent-leather boots. On one of the recent muddy days in Boston as a horse-car was passing, a lady at a street corner beckoned to the driver and the car was stopped at a crossing. The lady stepped on board and the conductor opened the car door for her to enter. Imagine his surprise when the lady informed bim that she did cot want to ride; that the crossing was very muddy, and that she wanted to step across, using; , the car platform as a bridge, to the other side of thestreet The veteran driver says that in his many years experience he has never had anything so completely unset hia equilirinm. At an elegant "red luncheon," given by Mrs. Whitney at Washington, lately, to twenty of theyouug daughters 'of prominent politicians in the capital, there was a broad band of Jacqueminot roses running diagonally across the under and lower end of the table, while in the central space between them was placed a huge Faenza bowl heaped with the same roses tied in clusters of five, with broad ribbons exactly matching the roe in shade. The souvenir beside each guet was a plate of old wilio w-pattern blue, across which was tied a wide, dark red ribbon, on which was written the guest's name in gilt letters. It is related of the late "Tom" Potter, the railroad magnate, that daring the war, as sergeant of a cavalry company, he was detailed to take a prisoner from the camp to Fort Leavenworth, and in company with a private started with his charge. There were only two hornes to the three men, and on reaching a swollen river it was something of a problem just how to get across with the prisoner. Finally the private plunged in on one of the hordes, the prisoner holding on to its tail, aud Potter on the horse in the rear. "You see." he said. "I commanded the situation. If the fellow let go I could have shot him as he went down stream." It may be taken for sure that Bismarck's illness is genuine, rot merely diplomatic. All readers of Dr. Busch's book are aware that the German Chancellor has long been afflicted with many ailment?, and that his big physical frame is rarely ever in a sound condition. A GermanAmerican medical practitioner m New York city, who knows the facta ot Bismarck's case, sa3's he ia fully aware of his liability to sudden death by apoplexy, arid that his physicians have recently become more than ordinarily watchful of hi symptoms. He has also become more careful himself, and more prudent in his table habits than he ned to be. He is a man of highly emotional nature as well as of stormy temper, and is doubtless profoundly depressed by the old Kaiser's death. He is seventy-three years of age. Princess Midas is the sobriquet of Miss Corn well, of Australia, who owns the Midas mine, and turned it into a London joint-stock company, with a capital of $500,000. Miss Cornwell has gone into journalism and has pure hased the Sunday Times, a literary weekly, long estab lished in London. To put new life into it she has engaged as editor Mr. Joseph II at ton, who is well known in this country as an experienced journalist and clever novelist. Under his management the journal has doubled its advertisements and more than doubled its circulation. Mis Cornwell is a gentle, unassuming lady of thirty-five, with no social ambitions, although she is charming in society. but eager to take her place among the money powers of the city. OCR EXCHANGES. The girl that hath a dimple, she Doth know if$ And always bites her pretty lips To show it. Washington Critic. ehakspeare's bones. Chicago Tribune. Oood friend, for Jesus' saVe forbeivre To digg ye dust enclosed here Blest be ye man yt spares yese stcnes And curst bt be yt mores my bones. Shakspeare. Ph&kspeare, come off. Tis dust I'm after! Your dosrgerel excites my laahter. Those bones, dear sir, are Bacon's bones. I ll prove it. too, by old Bill Jones. Donnelly. COMMENT AND OPLN10N. OCR object in giving an object lesson or two of the objections that might be offered to the cf ndidacy of Gresham as the happiest combination for harmony, have accomplished the purpose entertained in producing them. Nothing, a we understand it. has happened to delay the stars in their courses or the boom in their orbits. Let them boom. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. The Engineers' Brotherhood has corrected its own mistakes and retrieved the consequences of bad leadership and bad advice. It can do so again. The failure of the strike on the Burlington should have no nther result than to weed out the radical element and restore control of the order to the men who mad the policy of moderation so conspicuously successful. Chicago Tribune. Nowhere in the world ia there a more nakedly libidinous literature, a more cvnical atheism, than in Germany, and yet it would be unfair t weep the whol German people into the slough where Dr. Dix dinniivaea Prance, which i. iu comparison, a deeply religious natiou the proof of which is that there are moro

millions in French ehurehea of a Sunday than in any other country on the globe. If Dr. Dix's crtJicsra of home demoralization is no better founded than the assertions about French society, art and letters. h stands in need of a vestry visitation. New York Star. No Republican voted against the validity of the constitutional amendments, but the most conspicuous Democrat who did ao vote has recently been elevated to a place on the Supreme Bench by President Cleveland. Again th Press says a fair vote and an honest count down. South, or else a decrease of Southern representation in Congress and in the Electoral Collge. New York Press.

THE END OF TUB WORLD. Ohio AdventisU Expect It Soon and Are Gettine Raady for It. Cincinnati Special. There is beginning to be unusual, almost unprecedented activity among th- Adventists, both of the First-dav and Seventh-dav classes. Both believe that 18S3 wili wind up time, the difference bein that the First-day Adventists fix the date, whereas the Sventh-dayers simply pay the end is not far off. Araone the Fust-d ty Adventists tradesmen have sent the;r bills nut. They have as nearly as possible balanced all accounts, and among them all is ready for the ascension. Rich'wood, O., is a stronghold of Adventists. They have just completed a beautiful college there. Asked why they should build a college when eternity is so near at hand, Elder Andrew replied: "It is possible they may be wrong la their conclusions. Some Adventists," said he, "are not confident that the end is unon us. I, for ont, am not, though I do not think it will be long until the end, for the three great signs hate come to pass. 'The sun shall be darkened,' says the Bible. The eon was darkened in 1780. At ten o'clock in the morning it was as dark as midnight. No eclipse was expected none was duo. Science has failed to account for the phenomenon. 'The moon shall not gtve light,' says the Bible. ' This occurred the day of the greal darkness. That night was the blackest eve known. The stars shall fall from the heaven,' savs another, and the third, prophecy. Nv. 13, 1833, the mightest meteoric shower erer known, occurred. I do not know. I do not say this it the last year of time; I simply belieye the end is. near.'' At Nevada, O.. the biggest church in the town is the Adventist Church, of which Eider Dunlap ia the pastor. Elder Dunlan thinks much as does Elder Watson, but many of bin parishioners believe that they have but a few more months, at best, to live, and many of them, notably Captain Eidridge and familv. are even now "all ready." Mrs. Eidridge has disposed ot her jewelry, as have many other ladies of th congregation, because they believe ia simplicity of dress. "Another elder living in Nevada, O., is Mr. Wa ker, a highly-educated gentleman. His wife is exceptionally accomplished. Mr. Walker, when asked if the end is here, renlie i "Truly, I have not a doubt of it. 'Babylon is fallen,' says Holv Writ. Now what is Babylon? The church. Oh! how the church has fallen! Notice the last number of any of your church papers and what do vou find but accounts of the defiling of the temples by auction sr.les. lotteries, socials called grab-bag, necktie soap-bubble, popcorn and all too many others? Yes, Babylon has fallen. But there are other reasons for mv faith. I think the decline of the Ottoman empire plainly foretells the end. The Sultan of Turkey is the Appolyou of Revelations. To those who have closely studied the Scriptures, his fall ia convincing. Whenever the Sultan is d-riven from Turkey then will the end of time hasten on." Dr. Jerome Oatley, of Richwood. a gallant soldier in the civil war and for years P-st Commander of Livingston Post, G. A. R., No. 425. ti that plaee, ia an Adventist. "Remember," aaya the Doctor, "that all the Old Testament prophecies' were fulfilled. Isaiah told of the coming of Christ. Micah prophesied his birthplace. Jeremiah foretold Herod's massacre. Isaiah anticipated the commg of John the Baptist. The nrnnheciaa of thn first, nd vent eamn t.rnn. An will those of the second advent.' Elder E. McCullough, a scholarly Bosronian, is now preaching throughout Northwest Ohio, Indiana and Michigan, as is Mrs. E. G. White, widow of the real founder of the denomination. All over these section the lamps of the Adventipts have glimmered steadily ail this 5 ear, and few evenings pass that are notspentin devotional service at church or at. home, waiting for the second coming of Christ. The Adventists believe that the present dead only sleep and that they, with toe living, will be arraigned for judgment at the lattday. when the wicked will be utterly consumed, the fires purifying this earth, which will then be converted into heaven, where not only the souls, but the bodies of the righteous will live immortal. James "ffhltcomb Riley at the Author's Read lnesin Washinetun. Special to hicago fews. Col. Thompson W. Knox, an immense, broadshouldered mau wearing cosely ciopped hair and beard, read from one of bis juvenile story-books an adventure with a grizzly bear that was not a bear after all, but a mule, and then came the genuine treat of the occassion. There bad been sitting next to Mark Twain a young, smothfaced man wearing eye-glasses and with so little hair on bis head and that so luht in color that he looked bald. He wore a Prince Albert coat, buttoned close under his chin, and a standing collar, giving him the appearance of a young clergyman about to take orners. " . This young man was introduced to the audience as James Whiurnaob Rilt-y. He was already known to a large proportion of hia audience as a writen of dialect poetry and two ot his poems he recited. One of them, a hopeful, happy monologue, was a beautiful piece of dialect imitation, while the poem which followed, a little war story in verse, was full of pathos and so sympathetically delivered that it brought tears to everybody's eyes. So thoroughly charmed was the audience with Mr. Riley's work that when be sat down not a person in the house " stirred, although according to the programme the end had come. The applause continued so persistently that Mr. Riley was prevailed upon to again come forward and give a yonng educacator's address on an object lesson. Mr. Riley's wonderful versatility, his power of facial expression, the exquisiteness of his humor, the flexibility of bis voice, his keen sense of tha ridiculous, made him unusually effective. During the whole recital he convulsed bis audience with laughter, and it is certainly to be hoped that when he appears again Monday evening he may find is convenient to repeat once more his clever impersonation. Harrison's Record on the Chinese Question. Washington special to Pittburg Leader. The record of Gen. Ben Harrison, of Indiana, on Chinese immigration, while he was in the. Senate, having been brought up against bim in connection with the presidential nomination. Republicans here from his State have made not only a careful examination of the records, but a canvass of the sentiment on the Pacific coast, and say Harrison is invulnerable. They fit.4 that he voted on the proposition to restrict Chinese immigration, just as Sherman, Allison, Hawiey and other presidential quantities in the Senate did, and that he is acceptable to the anti-Chinese residents of the Pacific elope. Senator Mitchell, ot Oregon, says be regards Harrison as sound on the Chinese question, and one of the strongest men who has ever been in publio life, and that he would carry the full Republican vote on the Pacific slope. Uoosiera claim Harrison will be nominated, and say he will have the solid delegation trom hia State. A Non-Partisan Opinion. Indiana Pharmacist. The Indiana Pharmacist is in no sense a political pape , It was orienally started to promote the ititrest of pharmacy and the retail drug trade in Indiana. It is stilt publised for that purpose, and now is the time to subscribe. But we want to say a word in honor of a Hoosier. An opportunity wi!l be presented nxs June, at Chicago, that everv Indiana man should embrace heartily, and that is of placing in nomination for the Presidency of this Nation Gen. Ben Harrison, a brave soldier, a lawyer eminent for his ability, a statesman of untarnished integrity, whose private life is as pure as the day. A mau, who, as President of the United States, every Iloo&ier, regardless of political affiliation, would be proud of. Grant's Manliness and Sincerity. Cincinnati Enquirer. The admirers of General Grant will have ta search very carefully through all that he wrote in a quarter of a century of official ard private) life to find anything so touching y illustrative of the manliness, the earnestness, the sincerity, the simplicity of the mau as that letter to Badeau. Angry ns he was. and had a right to be, he was still gentle and true. There are iu the letter many repetitions, many reiterations, of its leading theme; but that adds to toe pathos of a dvine lion's gentle plaints against one whom he had made, and whom be had believed to be an honest servitor. A -Moan Remark. Minneapolis THhnne. The Indiana ProhtbitionUts are already in tha field with a full State ticket and a platform a yard and a half long. 'lheyscnt "soap" afar off, and want to be on hand when th diatribtv tioa tegins. Who I th "Snm One?" At.Hnta Constitution. ' If ih atlmmutration has been betrayed of d. ceid by some one in rirrd t the ft hsrlts treaty, is it undemocratic to call the ttntu of Cvogreas to the facta?