Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 April 1888 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1S33.

THE DAILY JOURNAL. TUESDAY. APRIL 3, 1888. i WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth 8. P. S. Heath. Correspondent. JiETT YORK OFFICE 104 Tern pi a Court, Corner Beekman and Kima streets.

TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DAILY. One Tear, without Pan day ..... One year, with Sunday 811 months, without iSnnday. ......... ... Six months, with Sunday Three months, without Sunday Three months, with Sunday ............. Dne month, without Sunday. ........ One month, with Sunday . . -- WEEKLY. Per year.... .......... Reduced Rates to Clubs. ..$12.00 .. 14.00 .. 6.00 .. 7.00 .. 3.O0 .. 3.50 l.OO 1.20 $1.00 THE INDIANAPOLIS JOTJJRNAI. Can be found at the following placet: LONDON American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARIS American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Cepacia es. NEW YORK Gilsey House and Windsor Hotel. CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI J. P. Hawley & CO., 154 Viae street. LOCTSYH.LE C. T. Deering, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. BT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. C Riggs Hons and Ehbit House. Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 Editorial Rooms 224 Center township. Republican majority: 1,497 ! We got there, Eli by a large majority. THE Journal's compliments to the demagogues. Tally-sheet forging is cot yet popular in Indianapolis. IIe was more than a thousand too Many for tim 1,497. THE Sentinel's stink pots .did not hare much effect. - 1 The eagle screams, and the fiery cross is on jfthe mountain tops. THE Sentinel's unstinted abuse of Judge fWoods did not count. It may be once more remarked that "All is sot Gold that glistens." To have bee: the creature and tool of the tally -sheet forging gang is not yet a credential for public office in Center township. "UPRIGHT citizens" who attempt to play into the hands of tally-sheet forgers are not wanted in the office of trustee of Center township. CINCINNATI gives a Republican majority of 5,000. There is no flinching of Republicanism anywhere, where Republicans keep the faith. THE attack of the tally-sheet forging organ upon Judge Woods did not make the hopedfor impression upon the voters of Center township. - The Republican tariff bill will differ -from the Mills bill in several particulars; for one , thing, it will be of such a character as to require no apologies to the country from ths party responsible for it. THE Journal begs to suggest that the nomination of a creature of the tally-sheet forgery gang, supplemented with abuse of Judge Woods, blackmailing law-suits and anonymous lj ing circulars, is not good politics any snore in Indianapolis and Marion county. The Journal made the fight in Center township practically single-handed and alone, being the only paper that seconded the efforts of the party committee and organization. The result 6peaks for itself. The Journal feels very well, thank you. Now is the time to subscribe. The Comptroller of Texas reports the surplus in the treasury of that State , to be $1,800,000 in cash and $7,000,000 in bonds, besides $1,000,000 indemnity recently voted by Congress and now in transit. How the State ever accumulated such a surplus under Democratic rule surpasses comprehension. This is not a good year for illuminating gas companies. The Maryland Legislature has just passed, and the Governor has signed, a bill fixing the price of gas in Baltimore at $1.25 per thousand feet. That rate is now enjoyed by private consumers in this city, and it is relatively considerably cheaper here than in Baltimore. In providing for a soldiers' monument, Carroll county has 6et a good example. The building of the State monument in this city should not be allowed to interfere with the erection of memorials of like character elsewhere. Each county should have its own. Too many honors cannot be paid to the war heroes, dead and alive. Ths Detroit Journal, having offered a prize of $500 to the person who should send to it before June 1 a correct guess as to the three hottest days of the coming summer in that city, General Greely, Chief of the Signal Service Bureau, telegraphed from Washington that July 14, 15 and 16 would be the hottest days. lie can probably come as near controlling the result as anybody. The New York Post has at last thrown off all disguise, and has abandoned the pretense that its support of Mr. Cleveland is based a his civil-service principles. The abundance! of proof that the President has no civil-service principles rendered the assumption that he

was a reformer so ridiculous that its absurdity was long since patent to the public, but the Post's defective sense of humor a charitable way of putting it caused it to make a silly spectacle of itself so long tht.t it became an object of mingled contempt and compassion to clear-sighted readers. At last it is driven to confess that the President has fallen short of the promise, but as there in another great question, the tariff, of more pressing interest to the bulk of the people, on which he is in accord with the Post's views, the paper will continue to uphold him. It would have been more honorable and would have placed the mugwumps in a better position before the country had this announcement of their true reason for being been announced years ago, but an abandonment of hypocrisy, even at this laje date, will hardly serve to give them a reputation for fairness and (squareness.

THE T0WH8HIP ELECTIONS. In the face of great apathy and apparent indifference, added to which was no little demagogy and personal malice, the Republicans of Center township yesterday achieved a most substantial, glorious victory,, a forerunner of what we hope to achieve in November next. Captain Many is re-elected by a majority of 1,407, and all the balance of the tick? et is elected by substantial majorities. The total vote in 1886 was 17,032; yesterday the total was less by 1,421, the aggregate being 15,611. In 1886 Captain Many had 676 majority, bo that yesterday we more than ' doubled it. This will do very well for one d ay, and the Republicans of Center township send greeting to their brethren throughout the State. This magnificent majority will nerve us to do even better things in the com ing greater contest. Our specials from the State indicate a healthy Republican condition in every quar ter. From many counties comes news of decided gains. The Republican party is dressed to the front, every man in line and flushed with' victory and hope. The Hoosier State sends compliments and congratulations to the party throughout the country, and feels that the April elections have pretty clearly indicated both a possible and probable avenue to the White House. ALIEN LANDLORDISM. One of the evils growing out of the loose and reckless manner in which our public lands have been handled is alien landlordism. During many years, when there was no prohibitory legislation on the subject, vast bodies of land were acquired by foreign owners in the different Territories, and also in some States, which have been too lax in this regard. An act of Congress of March 3, 1887, prohibits aliens from acquiring property in the Territories of the United States or the District of Columbia, but does not apply to the States, some of which have no laws on the subject. In the absence of such legislation, th foreign ownership of lands has been increasing to an extent that demands attention. The report of a House committee which has been investigating the subject says it has ascertained, with 'reasonable certainty, that certain noblemen of Europe, principally Englishmen, have acquired, and now own, in the aggregate, about 21,000,000 acres of land within the United States. In addition to this, European capitalists have invested largely in American railroad and land bonds, which will eventually be foreclosed and pass title to the lands. "It is thus manifest," says the report, "that if the present large alien ownership is an evil, of which we have no doubt, the probabilities of the near future still more imperatively demand legislation for its prevention. This aggressive foreign capital is not confined to lands it has purchased, but, overlapping its boundaries, has caused hundreds of miles of the public domain to be fenced up for the grazing of vast herds of cattle, and set at defiance the rights of the honest but humble Bettlers." The committee cite several instances of landlordism which emphasizes the evil. Thus, a wealthy Englisman named Scully, who resides abroad, owns nearly 90,000 acres of land in Illinois, occupied by several hundred tenants, mostly ignorant foreigners, from whom he receives about $200,000 a year rent. Another estate within the city limits of Pittsburg and Allegheny, owned by non-resident aliens, yields an annual rent of not less than $100,000, which is spent abroad. A single instance, or even a few instances of this kind would not be alarming, but the growth of such a system is not to be tolerated. To prevent it it is proposed to enact a law of uniform application throughout the United States declaring all foreignborn persons who have riot been naturalized incapable of taking title to lands anywhere within the United States, except a leasehold for not exceeding five years. Such a law could, of course, have no retroactive operation, and would not affect titles already vested in aliens, but it would arrest the further growth of the evil. While thecommitieeis engaged on this branch of the subject it should investigate another, viz.: the rapid acquisition of enormous tracts of public lands by syndicates and combines of American citizens. Thi3 evil is closely allied to the other, and if possible should be abolished. Both are equally opposed to the spirit and genius of our institutions and to wise public policy. That a person may be insane on one subject and perfectly sane on all others is demonstrated by a case just developed in New York. Mr. Luther R. Marsh ia an old lawyer of that city, once a partner of Daniel Webster, and well fixed in this world's goods. He is wellknown in legal and business circles, is one of the Park Commissioner, and is generally regarded as a shrewd business man. . He is not weak-minded nor in LU dotage. Yet he has become a believer in tpiritualism to such an exteutthat he permits a vulgar creature who calls herself a spiritual artist to palm off worthless daubs of her own upon him as new works by the old masters, and he pays big prices for them. In his dealings with men in the flesh the old lawyer has full possession of his wits, but in his supposed commerce with departed epirits, through the medium of a pro

fessional female swindler, he becomes a credulous fooL The case in some of its features recalls that of Judge Edmonds, who was also a New York lawyer of good standing and a confirmed spiritualist.

The latest semi-official announcement regarding the Chief-justiceship is that Associate Justice Miller will act as Chief-justice until after the presidential election. The reasons-given for this suggestion are farfetched. It is said the President hesitates to submit a name to the Senate at this time because the bulk of the work for the present term of the court is about done, and because the Republicans in the Senate would likely defer action on the nomination of a Democrat during this session, in the hope that the next election would be a victory for their party, and by non-action on such nomination. they might be able to place a Republican in the vacant chair of the court. This assumes that the majority in the Senate would "monkey" with the appointment for political purpose a very forced assumption. It is far more probable, as already suggested by the Journal, that the President will himself delay the appointment until after the presidential election, for obvious reasons. The Courier des Etats Unis, a French paper published in New York, resents the insinuation that General Boulanger assumed a limp as a disguise during one of his visits to Paris. As evidence that he has good reason for limping, it says: "On the 13th of June, 1859, at the battle of Turbigo, in Italy, Boulanger, then a second lieutenant in the First Regiment of Algerian infantry, was hit by a ball that passed completely through his chest. On the 24th of February, 1862, in the fight at Troidon, in Cochin China, he was wounded by a lance thrust in the left thigh. On the 2d of December, 1870, at the battle of Cbampigny, Boulanger, then colonel of the One-hundred-and-fourteenth of the line, had his right shoulder smashed by a ball. On the 23d of May, 1871, during the second siege of Paris, Boulanger received a gunshot wound in the left elbow." We can't understand why some citizen of Chicago does not bring the C, B. & Q. railroad into court to show cause why it shall not fulfill its duties as a common carrier, or else forfeit its right as such. The News. Is it not about time this oft-repeated bit of demagogy was stopped, and the real truth toldl The Burlington road is performing its duty as a common carrier; it is the other roJds that are abdicating their duties as common carriers, and boycotting "Q" business. It would be worth something, in the interest of commercial order, the freedom of labor and of business intercourse, and the supremacy of law, if some citizen would bring an action against the cowardly boycotting companies to compel them to discharge their duties as common carriers. Mr. Stephen Dorsey, having casually remarked that Judge Gresham had quite a strong following as presidential candidate in the East, mugwump papers refer to him as a man of keen insight and wonderful political acumen. It isn't so very long since a mention of this gentleman's name acted upon these organs like a red rag waved in the face of a turkey-cock. In those days he was rated as a depraved Republican wretch with the truth not in him. Strangely enough it doe not appear that any transformation in Mr.' Dorsey has brought about this change of opinion concerning him. ' ' - A Chattanooga, Tenn., special says: "Bets were offered in this city, to-day, for $500 to $100 that Grover Cleveland would not be a candidate before the Democratic national convention, with no takers. The impression is growing in this section that he does not want the presidency again." If any person in Chattanooga is in possession of reliable information to justify such a hope it is 'due to th e American people to make it known. We in-' cline t6 the belief, however, that some escaped inmates of the Tennessee Insane Asylum have found their way to Chattanooga. . The New York Post advances the theory that President Cleveland permitted the demoralization of the public service in Indiana and Maryland in order that the public might become completely disgusted with the spoils system, and "with a calm born of the belief that only in this way could his party be educated up to the point of supporting reform everywhere." The originator of this idea could, unquestionably, earn a large income by writing humorous matter for a syndicate. Careful consideration of the growth of the postal business, as shown by the reports of the service for the first quarter of the fiscal year, together "with other matters of information," has led Postmaster-general Dickinson to revise and largely increase the estimates originally sent to the appropriation committee. There is some reason to suspect that the universal complaints of the deterioration and inefficiency of the service come under the head of "other matters." Jcst as the country was about to draw a long breath of relief at the thought that the moral and social problems of the community were settled for a year, at least, word comes that the real business of the women assembled at Washington is yet to be transacted. The eight days' international council was merely preliminary to the suffrage convention of this week which, with such a good start, it may be expected will make things hum. The New York World is congratulating itself upon its auperior enterprise in printing the ways and means committee's tariff report ahead of its contemporaries, and intimates that the procuring of the report was a great stroke of journalistic enterprise. The whole thing was simple enough. Speaker Carlisle's clerk is the Washington correspondent of the Louisville Courier-Journal, and in that doable capacity is permitted to handle news in advance of other correspondent, and, of course, peddles it out to other papers. There is no enterprise about it. It is merely a case of mixiDg public with pn vate duties, and official with personal perquisites. It is not a matter to brag about. Frederick Douglass told the pioneers of the woman suffrage movement, while they were indulging in reminiscences last week, that he had een many happy-looking men bat never a more happy looking one than the husband . of Lueretia Mott as he stood holding his wift's bonnet while she delivered her first speech in behalf of the cause forty years ago. Men ani brethren, those of you who ave missed happiness and

fame, here is a chance for you yet if your wives

happen to be "advanced." Don't: hang back bashfully, but go the conventions and bold their bonnets and be joyful while they address ths public. " - POLITICAL NOTES. The Connecticut Prohibitionist State convention is to be held at Hartford on Ang. L Rhode Island holds a State election on the 4th of April. The meaning of Rhode Island is "uncertain." Chauncey I. Fillet is being groomed as a dark-horse candidate for the gubernatorial nomination in Missouri. Atlanta Constitution: How will this do: For President, Postm aster-general Don SI. Dickinson; for Vice-president. Postmaster Jones, of Indianapolis. Platform Turn the rascals out Minneapolis Tribune: More than 4,000 Re publican clubs have been organized since the movement started, last December. Will Mr. Cleveland please take notice that the old crowd is going to be pretty well organized this campaign. Loqan H. Roots, president of the State board of immigration and a prominent Republican politician of Arkansas, and nearly always one of the delegates to national conventions, says that his State has no particular choice for the presidency, and will vote at the convention for the most available candidate. Boston Advertiser: The tone cf the Republican press through the country is generally favor able to a presidential ticket made up of Depew and Harrison, they being from States which will undoubtedly decide the contest, and Mr. Denew seeming to many the most available candidate to secure the vot of New York.- Personally and politically, very little, if any. criticism could be made upon this ticket, even by its opponents. A Fort Wayne letter says: "This district will send Harrison delegates to Chicago. It has been claimed by the Chicago Tribune that the contrary would be the case,' but the district is overwhelmingly for Harrison. It will present two candidates to the State convention Col. Robertson, for Governor, and Judse Walter Olds, of Whitley, for the Supreme bench. Judge Olds is yet a young man, but he ranks as one of the first lawyers and jurists of the State. He is exceedingly popuiar. Fort Wayne letter in Cincinnati Commer cial-Gazette: "This is the home of Lieutenantgovernor Robertson, and he is deservedly popular. He is a candidate for the gubernatorial nomination, and an effort has been made to con vey an impression to the Republicans in other parts of the State that be is unpopular here, and could not command the delegation from this county. He will have the hearty and unanimous support of the delegates from this county, as he also will of this whole congressional district Since my arrival here I have met leading Republicans from every county in the district but one, and they all say the district will be solid for Robertson." COMMENT AND OPINION. The right to vote to women would add cumulative force to morality founded on power of self-support New York Press. A man may be truthful in everything else, but he always played a better game of billiards several years ago than he does now. Philadelphia Call. If the the negro should be left uninfluenced in any way by his once master, the Democratic party wouldn't get enough colored voters to furnish pall-bearers at its funeral on the 6th of November next Montgomery (Ala.) Horald. The tenacity with the Confederates and the dudes, and the Copperhead cuffs and collars ereatures, abuse Icgalls, shows that the sting of bis welting sentences still burns in their scandalous skins. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. No. my son, during all that long and bitter struggle to destroy the Union nobody ever saw a Republican haul down the American flag or enlist under the other one. You are entirely right There wasn't a Republican in the rebel army unless he was there as a prisoner. Detroit Tribune. Countfr combinations among employers to resist the force of organized labor have become a new feature of the situation, and the present year does not, so far, give encouragement to strikers. The lesson of so sad a record is the wastefulness of strikes, but that they are a bungling and most extragant way of forcing the claims of labor is well known and readily admitted by intelligent workingmen. New York Sun. The negro maxes no mistake when he asserts that the two means of commanding respect are a good education" aud "money." He has already done something in both directions, and if he has learned that even the prejudices of society give way to the man who has brains and the man who has a lone bank account he has got hold of the bottom fact of the world's political economy. New York Herald. "The Democratic party in Indiana makes no pretense of devotion to civil-service reform pricciples, indeed, ana as might be expected is not in a very satisf actora condition. It has been the experience everywhere that, where the civil service sentiment is weakest and the spoils doctrine strongest, there is most dissension in the party, and Indiana is no exception to the rule. Charleston News and Courier. While retaining a system which has done bo much to build up the denomination, the Methodist Church will act wisely if it relaxes the rigidity of that system. There is no divinity in the itinerancy, which is good only in so far as it is successful. And the condition of Methodism in all great cities is proof positive that in its present cast-iron form it has retarded the progress and growth of the denomination in the centers of life and thought where it should be most powerful. New York Tribune. In the face of his utter abandonment of the prinoinle that partisanshipwhonld have no consideration in the filling of the civil-service, the President's suggestion of a '"uniform classification of department employes" will excite only derision among intelligent men. The only uniformity the politicians of bis party desire is that the appointees shall be uniformly Democrats, and the only classification the President desires is that they can be classed as supporters of his re-election. Brooklyn Standard-Union. The Chinese treaty as wired is a poor affair. It is just binding enough to be an annoyance, and to enable knaves to levy blackmail upon the Chinese, and it will not restrict the coming of the Mongolians. It reads all through as though the person who prepared our part of it had no heart in the work, and did what he did simply in resoonse to a demand from the West, which he held as binding-in a political but not a moral sense. The treaty reads as a man's watch would look were he to take it to a common blacksmith to have it repaired. Salt Lake Tribune. (5 It is not to be thought of that the United States will submit to a rule of faction. The courts are making this clear enough. The questions of combinations of labor or capital are not to be considered as they affect each other, but as tbey affect the people. Trade is not to be crippled by "trusts, " nor is the right of any man to accept work on terms that are satisfactory to himself to be abridged or interfered with by any organization of any kind whatsoever. Nor is any organization to be free to eonspire against the public welfare in any manner. Chicago Inter Ocean. Another Section of Advice. Chicago Journal. Inasmuch as the Republicans of Indiana appear to bo in favor of Gen. Ben Harrison as their first choice for the presidential nomination, let ttem do their very best for him in the national convention, and, in case of failure to secure his nomination, take up Judge Gresham as their second choice. If the Indiana Republicans should act judiciously and with a unity of purpose, they would stand an excellent chance of securing the nomination of either the President or the vice-president Much will depend upon the sagacity and good sense exhibited by their delegation in the national convention. Jealous of Indiana. Boston Globe. Mrs. Mollie Corwein, of Shelbyville. Ind.. is suing for divorce from her sixth husband. She bas already been divorced f rem the other five. Mrs. Corwein (her more recent name) seems to be very hard to' please. It is outrageous that abe should have had six husbands, and isn't satisfied with that, while 60,000 Massachusetts women have never been married at alL The Penalty of Position. Boston Journal. The late Chief -justice Waite appears, like many other distinguished lawyers who have adorned the Bench ot the United States, to have sacrificed personal interests in the government service, content with the honors which the position brought Th announcement that his family is left in straitened circumstances Will be received everywhere with regret. The Down East Farmer. Buffalo News. There's do mystery abont the Farmer's Trust. The farmer's trust is in summer boarders.

MISSION W0HK OF WOMEN

The Conference of the Friends National Society Engaged in that Line. A Day Spent in Listening to Encouraging Reports Concerning Efforts Amonj the loung Addresses by Several Leading Workers. The conference of the Woman's Foreign Mis sionary society convened yesterday morning. Devotional service was conducted by AM T. Huntly, of Dakota. Loving greetings were presented by the committee and adopted, to Margaret C. Krinber, Amy Jones, Eli Jones and W. K. Fry. The following committee of two from each delegation was appointed on resolutions and suggestions: Western Mattie Chawner, Ella J. Paris. Philadelphia Margaret W. Haines, May Morris. ' New England Hannah J. Bailey, Myra E. Frye. Iowa Mary M. Naylor, L. Maria Dean. Indiana Mary H. Goddard, Martha A. White. Ohio Hannah Black barn, Ella R. Leviring. Canada Alma G. Dale, Phebe J. Wright. Kansas Hannah E. JSleeper, Mary A. White. New York Etta Carpenter, Hannah IL Mott. "The Junior and Juvenile Work" was presented by Elizabeth M. Jenkins, of Ohio, Good reading, she said, should be provided for the young, and young ladies' societies should be formed. They should not be burdened with machinery, but must have system, and must learn to use the right tools. The tendency of women is to narrow circles, but it is necessary to exercise for the Friends to get into broader fields. Pleasure is found in sacrifice for others. Offer willingly. Christ took the little ones in His arms. As the church gets nearer Jesus it gets nearer the children. Invite the little ones to Christian home; tell them of the heathen; give them something to do; enlist the mothers. Reports from the Yearly Meeting Societies were presented. Lyda W. Rhoads, for Philapelphia. said they have societies of boys and girls who raised in their most successful year $50. They meet once a month. - Mattie Hadley, for Iowa, said there were only a few juvenile bands. The report was meager, as the : worx began the last yearly meeting. Lydia Taylor reported for the Western. The work, fully r begun this year. Twelve of the q uarterly meetings have three junior organizations, and twentyeight juvenile societies. The children enter into the work heartily. Hannah D. Francisco reported for Indiana, where the work is in a prosperous condition. Elizabeth T. Larkin spoke for New England. But few bands are formed, but there are good prospects for the future. Elizabeth M. Jenkins represented Ohio, where there are fourteen juvenile bands, with a membership of 233; young ladies' hands, three; members fiftyfive. Much interest in the work is expressed. Phoebe J. Wright reported that Canada had not fully organized its juvenile work, but there were two juvenile bands, with twenty members each. The work has been taken up in the Sabbathschools. Mary IL White' spoke for Kansas, where there is no organized work by the yearly meetings. A few bands are formed and besides this the children show much interest. Mrs. Mott, representing New York, said that State has a few organizations, but not in the regular juvenile bands. "The relation of mothers to this work" was presented in an excellent paper by Phebe S. . Aydelott The first-born of Israel, she said, was to be consecrated to the Lord, which appeals to mothers as to consecrating their little ones. As the potter bas power over the clay, so the mothers has power over her children. How often in the Scriptures do we read that "his mother instructed him." God's word is "take this child away and train it for me and I will give thee thy wages." g John's parents walked before God blameless. The child was a joy and gladness to his parents, a rejoicing to man and great in the sight of the Lord. When the mother first receives her babe in her arms let her first act be to consecrate the child to the Lord. Silver and gold is nothing except as a means. "How shall tbey hear without a preacher!" If the children are not given and there be no preachers the money is of no worth." Love consecrates to the altar of service. Love to Jesus and love to the child sanctifies the mother's consecration of her loved ones. "Cooperation of schools and Colleges" was presented by Mananna Brown, of Earlham College.A slight defect in childhood beoomes a great blemish in maturity. The penny in the missionary box in childhood may be the beginning of a great development in later years. Good influences should begin at home, and these should be found in the school. Missionary societies should be formed in colleges to second the good influence of home, and to complete good intellectual training; to prepare students to give of their means and to do their duty; to fill up a place between the juvenile bands and the worn-, an's societies; to prepare those who are called to enter the mission field, so that they may go well qualified; to present every where intelligent knowledge of this subject will be to arouse them to answer the call to go into the field. On motion of Esther T. Prichard a committee was appointed, to be composed of superintendents of juvenile work, and one from each of such delegations as have no superintendents, on ways and means of promoting missionary interest and organization among the young people and children. Greetings from sister organizations were then presented by delegates from the Baptist society by Mrs. M. M. T ichener; from the Women s Presbyterian Board of Missions of the Northwest, by Mrs. P. C. Day; from the Northwest branch of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the M. E. Church, by Mrs. Baegs. A note of greeting was read from Miss Hart, of Baltimore, a secretary of this society; from the Women's National Indiana Association, by Myra E. Frye, Very appropriate words of response were spoken by the president, after which "Blest Be the Tie That Binds" was sung with th spirit A telegram of greeting was received from Rebecca May Morris, of Chicago, corresponding secretary of the Western board, who was prevented from attendance by sickness. A response was referred to the committee for that service. Afternoon Session. Devotional exercises were conducted by Hannah D. Francisco. f Resolutions of thanks to a company of little girls, who sang in the morning session, and greetings of love and sympathy to our missionaries in the field, were passed. A paper on "Ways and Means" was read by Eliza C Armstrong. The society, she said, has been intrusted with a purpose. Some seventy years ago separate meetings were organized. It is significant that the great missionary cause should be the subject upon which women are called to act. There must be leadership, and organization, and systematic work. If one society languishes, all suffer with it; if one prospers, its influence is felt by all. An organ must be had which carries the kuowledge and life of this work into all homes. There is such an organ in the Friends' Missionary Advocate, to support which measures must be taken and strengthened. The bonds of uniou must be strengthened in every way. Systematic giving is so important that there should be put into activity some plan to keep it before the people. Some kind of union should be formed by which the women may be preserved as one: not an organic union, not to be legislative, but having our arms locked together with each other, united in common bonds as to the support of a missionary paper, union reports and general means of raising money, eta The address was referred to a committee of one from each vearly meeting society, anpointed by the chair, as follows: Western, Eliza C. Armstrong; Pfciladelphia, Margaret W. Haines; Iowa, Eaza J. Lindley; Indiana. Mahalah Jay; New England, Phcebe S. Aydelott; Ohio, Sarah E. Jenkins; Kansas. Hannah E. Sleeper: New York, Ann Haines; Canada, Phoebe J. Wright; North Carolina, Mary A. Peelle. The next paper was "Our Woman's Foreign Missionary Societies," by Esther T. Pritchard. The question of a separate organization, pre sented ten years ago, would have found the women unprepared for it. Thirty years ago it was an unprecedented thing for women to go out as missionaries. Events in time showed that a large part of the heathen world could not be Christianized by men alone; women's societies were formed, and then came the relation of these societies to the parent boards. The plans of the Congregational, and the Metbodit, and the Baptist boar-ls were explained. The Methodist organization seem the most successful, and the reason is that the boards are free and independent in raising and expending money, and in managing work under thareare. In the uniin of men and women in work, eah sex should have its distinct individuality. "It is not good for man to be alone." There should be the helpmeet; men and women should be united, but so united as to work side by side, in their independent responsibility. The Lord ha permitted all our yearly meetings except one to

be formed into strong, healthy and vigorous bodies of women, which seem to show that His seal and approval is upon our organizations. - The following resolutions were offered by Phebe S. Aydelott, aod adopted by the conference, viz: " Resolved, That as a conference of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of Friends in America, we desire to record our conviction that the separate form of organization represented by these societies is the providential chanu-l of women' work in mission fields; and further, that we cherish the oriranieindividnality of onr boards and regard their self-eovarnment as essential to the best results: at the same time we earnestly hope the most cotJhU relations of sisterly svmpathy may ever be maintained by onr boards toward the other foreign missionary agencies of onr chureh. Sarah Street, who was for some years a missionary in Madagascar, was called out, and spoke to the meeting a few moments. Also Naomi George and Amanda Kirkpatrick, students at the Chicago Training-school for missionaries, who are preparing themselves for the missionary field, and Lizzie Test, a missionary amongst the Indians. The experience of these sisters as to their call and the Lord's leading was very fall of interest Esther Pugh. treasurer of the National and World's W. CI T. U., was then introduced, and greeted the convention on behalf of these great organizations. She impressively spoke of how elesely the missionary aod the representative of the W. C T. U. should go hand in hand in their work. The curse of Africa is tbe rum traffic, and so of other countries. Working against this curse and working to convey the gospel must go together. Kveninc Session. The evening s ession was devoted to work among the Indians, when Myra E. Frye gave an account of it among the Kickapoo and Iowa tribes. The New England Yearly Meeting has had charge of a mission amongst these Indians, and Lizzie Test and Mary Sherman are the missionaries-cf that meeting. Emeline II. Tuttle then delivered the address of tbe evening. She spent many years as a missionary among the Indians, mostly with the Modocs. She began by alluding briefly to some early history of the tribe in their relation to tbe government. Her work was first amongst th-s Otta was, in a log school-house, soon they had two other school-houses. Then the Modoc war came. She prayed much and longed for the deliverence of the women and children. Soon word came that the government would bring the Modocs to the Indian Territory. She was full of joy at this. She visited them in their homes, prayed for them, and soon got possession of their children , in the school, twenty-five of them, and in a year they all could speak English. The mistakes of Friends at first were that they d id not bring the Indians to Christ so that little ones, and ignorant ones might know about Jesus and be sweetly saved. In three years she had twenty happy Christians among them. She told of the conversion of steamboat Frame, his union with the church, his ministry, bis -godly life, the death of his wife and five children, one after anoth'f, and his own trumpbant death. She then told of the Ponca tribe, who had been driven from their home and were very dejected. She told of the terrible evils to this tribe, and to the Sioux, as perpetrated upon it, and plead that the Friends do alt they can to save these lost souls. Tbe programme for to-day will be: 9 o'clock A. M., devotional hour; topic, "Development of Gifts." Lida G. Romick; 9:45, miscellaneous business; 10, "Relation of Auxiliaries to the Executive Board," Hannah J. Bailey; 10:13, the auxiliary meeting. Eliza W. Hiatt; 10:30, reports from the boards: 11, "Missionary Literature," Mahalah Jay; 11:15. "An Official Organ," Elizabeth T. Larkin; 11:30, "The , Missionary Advo- -cate." Esther T. Pritchard; 11:40, discussion; 12:30, adjournment. 2:30 o'clock p. m., opening exercises; 2:45, miscellaneous business; general topic, "Our Mission Fields;" 3, "Syria Ramalleh Home," Ruth. S. Murray; 3:30, "Mansurieh School," Philadelphia Board; 3:40, "Medical Missions," Mary Morris; 3:55, "Mexiuan Women and Girls," Sarah J. 1 King; 4:10, "The Curtis Hussey School for Girls," Mahalah Jay; 4:40, adjournment 8 o'elock p. if-, Lecture on Syria, Dr. George E. Post, BeirSt THE SALOON IN POLITICS.

An Imitator of Petroleum T. Nasby Xlsensres a Political Issue. Detroit Tribune We wuz a 6ettin in the bak room uv the corner grosery the uther nite, wen sum wun cazuly remarkt thet a good menny eonntiz wuz a takin holt uv the lokle opshun law wicn wuz past by the last leeislaeher uv Miohegan. "Yes," 1 Bed. ordrin another round uv drinks & moshonin the barkeeper ter put i: on tbe slate, " the people's God-given rites is trod s under foot in over thirty eountiz alredy, & the end is not yit. The Republican party is responsible fur it & 1 am glad ter say thet the Dimmikrats in the legislacher uposed thet law, likewise sum' uv our frens, the perliticle prohibishcists." "Wut rite hez my nabur ter say wut 1 shell eat & drinkl" The barkeepar gir a aproovm nod. "He hez no rite," sad a vols. Lookiu up I seen the Republikin postmaster a standin in the doreway between the store and bak room. "No wun clames he hez enny sich rite. But we do clame that we hev a rite ter bev sum thin . ter say bout wat you shell set before our boys ter eat and ?rtnk, and that wen a majority uv the peple uv enny county sez that a publik plase kep fur enny purous watever sloon er enny-: thing else is fur enny reezen danjrus ter fam-" iliz and epeshly ter groin boys, tha hev a right ter pertekt the boys and close it up." "Do you meenter say," I replide, "thet I haint no rite ter take my famly uv a gloria Sundy afternoon and go out under the bloo sky and set under God's creen trees and drink beer wile wo commoon with nacher?" "1 doot meen no sich thing," he answered. "The bloo sky and God's green trees haint been covertid inter a sloon, net yit Besides," he addid with a brutle sarkasm. "I haint seen enny uv you fellers who speud most uv yoor time in sloons takin your familiz enny wares ter enny alarmin extent" Ez he turned & walkt away I wonderd ef sich remarks eoodnt be considered offensiv partizan ship wareby the raskle cood be turned out & . I git the post offis. The cry uv the venal Republikin press that . the sloon in politix most go is barin frute. Ther mernooerlists who control the Republikin party dont seam ter hev no noshnn uv wat the peple nead & must hev. The iniketus skeme ter drive the sloon outer politix wui inogerated ter defeet the will uv the peple. How air we goin ter run our corkuses ef we dont hev no sloons? How air we goin ter inspire enthoosiasm and beer inter the campane without sloons? Ef we don't hev no sloons and biznis men and onist workinmen and sich air a gointer run the corkuses, wat is goin ter becum uv the thrivin biznis uv selia proxii? Menny a pore man who don't do nothin all the rest of the year on akount.ov his hslth not bein good, hez turned a onist penny in the proxy biznis. But wut duz the Republikin party keer fur tbe pore man? How air we goin ter teeeh the young & groin mind the grate prinseouls uv Dimmekratic reform & personal liberty ef thare ain't no piases ware those things air disoustl Ef these grate ejukaters of hoonian liberty air destroid. limmokrisy ez a goner. Tbe war on the sloons Is ez danjrus ter the peple's rites and the Dimmegratic party in par tikelar ez wuz the late civil war. Roland R Roctsdheau. Klevland Corners, Iron Ko., Mich., March 4. " Tbe Death Kate in the O. A. B. Bt. Louis rost-I'isptcb "I noticed a few days ago an article concerning the mortality among the German members of the G. A. R," said Cant William T. Haskell of Kit Carson Post, of Washington, D. C, to a reporter, "and was struck by the facts it presented. I have not hitherto paid any attention to this question, but since the mtter has been cailed to my notice reeolleet that tbe death among the German veterans of my acquaintance have been very freqnent during the last few years. Another point in regard to Grand Army mortality which I have studied with sonu care is the fact that the death rate of those who originally came from the country far exceed; that ot tbe city men. It is generally supposed that a countrv life is conducive- to health, but as far a the records of the War Department prove anything, the contrary is the case. When in tbe Army of the Potomac I served ii a regiment recruited in the city ot New York. Stoddard's Vermont Brigade was in our division and it was a remarkable fact that thoss stalwart mouutainers, men of large size and great muscular development were far more subject to disease than our city boys, and died like sheep in the Chickahominy swamps, while the death rate among the city regiments was very low comparatively. Since the close of the war, and especially during the last ten years, the surrivors of the country regiments, at least in the East for I know nothiug of the West, show a mueh higher mortality than the metropolitan troops, and sickness is much moro frequent. I have heard from French and German officers that the same state of affairs prevails in the armies ot those countries, and frm all thee fa-t I am inclined to believe that the goners) impression that city life is unhealthy isent:rely false." A Popular Air. Nebraska State Journal. The most ardent admirers of that pleasing refrain, "Tbe Letter That He Longed for Never Csme." are those who thoroughly appreciate the condition of the Western mail service.