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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1889

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mental faculties, and Trill keep out of departments those who are old or feeble, and who hare not the readiness of sight and the physical ability to perform the work. Members of Congress have expressed themselves as being greatly relieved by a reference directly to the commission of all appeals to them for places." . . Aftar the applicant has received his preliminary blanks, filled them out and returned them to the Civil-service Commission he will be given notico of the time and place of examination. If unable to attend the applicant will, upon a satisfactory explanation in writing, be allowed to attend another examination. No person who has failed on an examination can within .six mouths be admitted to another examination without the consent of the commission. Consent for re-examination is given only where sickness or other disabling cause occasioned the failure. If a re-examination is not allowed within six months from the date of failure, an applicant can be again examined without making, in due form, a new application. No person dismissed from tho civil-service for misconduct, and no person not absolutely appointed or employed after probation can bo examined within ono year. No one can predict when an appointment will be made, even atter tho applicant has passed a successful examination. When they are needed they are called for in the ratio of percentage their States are entitled to in the matter of recognition. Every appointment is made probationary for Bix months. Persons who make false statements in filling th blanks to be sent to the Civil-servie Commission are treated very severely. Thej' are ruled out for preferment for all time to come, and for the purpose, of assuring the commission that the applicant is acting in good faith and honestly, the indorsement o? two wellknown and reputable citizens is required. A medical examination is among the preliminaries, and is quite as thorough as that relating to the educational qualifications STATEHOOD FOIt DAKOTA.

Judse Tripp Say Springer I TVllllnff to Make the Desired Concession. 5pecial to th Indianapolis Journal. WjisniNGTOX, Jan. 27. Among the most prominent Democrats from Dakota who have been here recently working for a division of that Territory and admission to statehood is Chief-justice Bartlett Tripp. He has taken great interest in all the conventions looking toward statehood for Dakota, lie came here ten days ago to assist in the efforts being made to have the Springer omnibus bill amended so as to be satisfactory to his people. Speaking of the outlook for the ultimate passago of this measure by both houses, Judge Iripp said, last night, before he departed from the citv: "Mr. Springer is willing to concede the details relating to our Territorv which are demanded by the people of Dakota. lie is willing to strikeout the provision requiring a separate majority of both North and bouthDakota in favor of division, and will submit to the vote of the entire people of the Territory. Of course, t his is superfluous, as we have voted upon the question before and decided in favor of division and admission bra very large majority. We are not inclined to split hairs, however as to voting again upon the subject of division, as the decision will be swift and emphatic. It begins to look to me as though the omnibus Fill would become a law at the present session of Congress TOTE INTKRSTATE-COMMEKCE ACT. Certain Amendments and Modifications Suggested by Chairman Cooley. Washington, Jan. 27. -The Interstatecommerce Commission has published an opinion on the subject of passenger tariffs and rate wars, prepared by Chairman Cooley. The paper narrates the facta at-' tending the war in passenger rates at St. Louis, in October, and also the circumstances of the passenger-rate war which prevailed at Chicago in December, both of which were investigated by the commissionIn the St, Louis case, east-bound limited fares were rednced by all the lines from about $23 to from $6.50 to $10. It is found that the provisions of the act to regulate commerce wero not complied with, and that the reductions, in the manner in which they were made, were not illegal, but unwise, and injurious to the carriers who took part in tho warfare, as well as to thepublic. The Chicago rate war extended over the lines running to St. Paul, Minneapolis, Kansas City and St. Louis. Its characteristic feature -was the fact that tickets were placed in the hands of brokers or scalpers to be sold at rates below the tariff rates, and that the roads excused themselves for their dealings with brokers Declaiming the right to nay commissions at will. The business of tne ticket-brokers was investigated, and many facts elicited. The act to regulate forbids discriminations between passengers, and forbids the sale of tickets at a greater or less rate than established schedule. Violation of law in many respects is pointed out. The commission recommends that the act bo so amended as. first, to deline what shall be considered excursion and commutation tickets; second, to prohibit all payments of commissions on the sale of tickets for interstate business, except by tho regular agents of the carriers; third, to require the carriers to provide for the speedy and convenient redemption of unused tickets or coupons. Previous recommendations in respect to amendments relating to joint tariffs and notices of reduction of rates are renewed. 3trNOIt 3IATTERS. The Democrats Make Some I Rather Gauzy rromle About the Tariff Bill. Sprial to th Jmllanspolls Journal. Washington, Jan. 27. Tho Democratic members of tho ITouse committee on ways and means announce that they intend to begin making "an analysis of the Republican tariff bill," and that, although this will take some time, it is their purpose to "report it back to the House as soon as the work can bo completed." A meeting of the committee has been called for next Tuesday. Uepublicau members of the committee say there is no prospect of the Senate bill receiving consideration in the House, and that it is a waste of time for the Democrats to pretend that they intend to do something with tho bill. The Electoral Messengers. Washington, Jan. 27. The messengers with the electoral votes of California, Colorado and Oregon arrived, yesterday, and delivered their rrecious burdens to the President pro tempore of tho Senate. Tho only votes not received yet are those of Texas, Kentucky and Florida. The last day for delivering them is Monday. General Notes. Ferial to tho Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 27. Otto and Milton Carmichael, of Munice, and Elmer E. Miller, of Evansville, aro at the Ebbitt. Capt. Wm. Badger, Sixth Infantry, having been found by an army retiring board incapacitated for active service on account of disability incident to the service, is. by direction of the President, retired from active service. Obituary. Sr-KINGTIELP. Mass., Jan. 27. Lewis II. Taylor, formerly editor of the Evening Union, died to-night, aged sixty-seven years. He was at oue time a member of the Legislature. He was a large real estate owner and paper manufacturer. Coxord, Ma.. Jan. 27. Charles Henry nurd, formerly for many years superintendent of the Michigan Central railroad, died here on Saturday night. He was seventy years of age. New York. Jan. 27. A. R. Cazauran, the playwright, died to-day after a long illness. a Jlntterworth Denounced. Cincinnati. Jan. 27. About one hundred persona assembled at Arbeiter Hall tonight, at a called meeting for workingmen, and listened to ono speech in English and otw. in (ierman, denouncing Congressman Bon Hutterworth for his recent speech in rhh House on the team-press versus the hand-press matter in theUovernment Printng Office. Condemnatory resolutions were also passed. The Urookljrn Street-Car Strike. New York, Jan. 27. Under the escort of the police Deacon Kichardson's company started a salt-sprinkling wagon over his strret-car lines to-day. A mob followed, and an oltic er received an ugly scalp wound from a stone aimed at his head. At midnight the entire police reserv e was ordered

INDIASAAXD ILLINOIS NEWS

A Counterfeiter and His Outfit Captured While Making Spurious Coin. Gamblers Arrested and Their Apparatus Taken Possession Of A Stationary Boiler Explodes with Fatal Effects. INDIANA. Arrest of a Counterfeiter While in the Act of Making IJogus Silver Dollars. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Sullivan, Jan. 27. W. W. Boatright was arrested here at 2 o'clock to-day, by Major Carter and Mr. Sweeney, of the United States Secret-service, for counterfeiting. He has been shadowed for several weeks by Charles W. Mason, of this place, and they Srocured a key to hi room, which has two oors. and entered while he was at wcrk moulding dollars. They captured the whole outtit of dies, tools, etc., together with forty-five pieces of spurious coin. As yet he implicates no one. lie was sent to prison for the same offense 6ome eight or ten years ago. The officers and their prisoner will leave for Indianapolis to-night. Parrett Decllneg Posey's Proposition. Evansvillk, Jan. 27. On Tuesday, 29th inst, a special election will be held in this, the First congressional district, for a member of this Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Governor Hovey, Republican. Tho candidates aro W. F. Parrett, Democrat, and F. B. Pose-, Republican. They wero candidates at tho November election, tho former having twenty plurality over the latter. Posey contests on the ground of illegal votes at St. Meinrad, a Roman Catholic college and monastery in Spencer county. The counties in tho district are Gibson, Pern', Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vauderburg and Warrick. Both parties will make a stubborn fight. Posey has proposed that this election snail decide the contest for the Fifty-first Congress, but Parrett declines the proposition. Defection in Posey county gives the Democrats great uneasiness. Gambling Dens KaldetL Special to tli Indianapolis Journal. Maiuox, Jan. 27. About midnight last night tho police made a raid on tho gambling dens of the city. Frequenters of John Condon's place had received a "tip," and no players were found there. Nearly a thousand dollars' worth of checks, cards, roulette wheels, faro and stud-poker tables, and other gambling devices were taken possession of, and will be burned according to law. At Andy Bishop's place about a dozen Slayers were captured, and several hundred ollara worth of apparatus was taken. It is the purpose of trie otlicers to drive tho gambling sharks out of town. Minor Notes. Walker Jenkins, an old and well-known citizen of Madison, dropped dead, on Saturday, from heart disease. Mr. Tibbits, widow of the late Charles S. Tibbita, died at Marion, on Saturday night, at an advanced age. Companies B and C, of the One-hnndred-and-twentieth Indiana Regiment, held a reunion, last Saturday, at tne home of F. D. Mason, at Linden, Montgomery county. While Joseph Conrad and family were attending a funeral, on Saturday, his residence and outbuildings, near Colfax, were destroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000; insuranco, $1,500. Sv. J. Blanton was bitten by a mad dog near Greencastle, on Saturday. He immediately went to Terre Haute to have the "madstone" of that city applied to the wound. From eleven contestants for an oratorical prize at Huntington, Miss Minnie E. Jacobs was selected as the winner. The young lady is said to be an unusually forcible speaker. James Sassafras, aged seventy, and Susana Goodhoo, agetl fifty-three, were married recently, at Peru. They are members of the Miami tribe of Indians, and are well known. Mrs. George Barkley, of Seymour, attempted to start a tire, on Saturday, with kerosene. She narrowly escaped a horrible death. As it is, her face and neck are badly disfigured. While loading logs on a truck at Peru, the blocking slipped, and before Abraham Kissman couhlget out of the way one log rolled on him, breaking a leg and otherwise injuring him. John R. Jarvis, who was married only a few weeks ago, was, on Saturday, sentenced to the penitentiary for two years from Seymour, for assault and battery with intent to kill. His chief fault is an uncontrollable temper. The town board of Ladoga have passed an ordinance that every dog found in that place without a muzzle shall be killed at once. It is made the duty of the marshal to see that this law is carried into etiect, and he is to be paid for every dog killed. This is on account of the mad dogs that have been creating such havoc in Moutgomery county. A special from Rockport says that hydrophobia is prevalent anions the dogs in the Oak Grove neighborhood, and tnat they have bitten and killed many sheep and fowl. Some of these were eatenby the people before they were aware that the dogs were afllicted with the rabies, and now, that the fact is known, the residents are very much alarmed as to the outcome. Quite recently there was a death from blood poisoning in tho St. Joe Hospital, at Fort Wayne, the disease resulting from continued fever. Now a brother of tho doceased is dangerously ill with the same disease, and in the opinion of the physicians, it was contracted while nursing the former patient. The case is important as upsetting the theory that blood poisoning is not contagious. A gentlemau from Crawford countv, who is well posted on affairs thereabouts, reports hite Capism dead in that county, and says that it will never be revived. The gentleman thinks that the White Caps indicted will not be convicted. As to the Gregory-Davis shooting atfrav, he thinks there will be no prosecution of'the case by Gregory, and that the whole matter out of which the shooting originated will be hushed up. Last Friday morning the store of Richard Nash, at Bethlehem, was robbed and then burned to the ground. On Saturday a part of the stolen goods were found on a shantvboat at Morelaud's Landing below, but the men belonging to the boat are missing. The loss will reach 4,000, with $1,600 insurance. The robbers belong to a gang of river pirates, and nearly the whole town of Bethlehem has organized itself into a vigilance committee to exterminate the thieves and incendaries, if they can be found. ILLINOIS. One Man Killed, Another Fatally Ilnrt, and a Hoy Injured by a Holler Explosion. Special to the Indianapolis Juurnal. Bloomixgtox, Jan. 27. A stationary boiler in the electric-light worksat Pontiac exploded to-day, with fatal results. Charles Young, tho electrician, was testing a dynamo, and A. B. Sells, of Blooniington, a visitor at the works, was looking on when the explosion occurred. Young was killed instantly, being badly scalded and mutilated with pieces of the boiler, and Sells was cut about the head, scalded and fatally injured. A boy named Samuel Calkins was entering the door at the time of the explosion, and was badly scalded, but it is not thought fatally. Four tramps in the boiler-room escaped with slight injuries, and Park Sells, the engiueer. had just stepped in an adjoining room and was not injured. Tho boiler was an old one, and had on upwards of eighty pounds of steam, which is supposed to have been tho cause of the explosion. The building took fire and burned, but the engine and dyna mos were saved. The electric light mailt was purchased a week ago by W. II. Fursnian, C. A. McGregor and Samuel Finn, and this coming week the works were to bo moved to other quarters and a new boiler put in. Union Ilevlvul SerTlce. Special to the ImllanapoUa Journal- : Marshall. Jan. 27. Union revival meetings have been held at the Methodist Church for the last two weeks, closing last night. Rev. Dagan, of the Methodi Church, Rev. Wilson, of tho Presbyterian,'

and Rev. Sherrill. of the Congregational, have preached at all the meetings, and have been greeted with unusually large audiences. Something over twenty conversions have resulted. Revival meetings will be held at the three churches above named during this week. Brief Mention. At a Tecent wolf hunt in Hancock county two wolves were caught. A little child of Leo Thompson was accidentally burned to death last Friday at Marion. James C. Valcanburg, of Kewenee, while switching, fell under the cars and had both legs cut off. C. W. Stromberg, of Galesburg, lost, an eye on Saturday while cutting a bolt, a piece of steel dying into it. Charles Wilson, colored, set tiro to the calaboose at Elbnrn to make his escape, and was smothered to death by smoke. The largest lump of coal ever taken from the mines of tho Consolidated Coal ComSany, at Danville, was removed last Friay. It weighed 3,700 pounds. Joseph Knittel, of Quincy, has been indicted by the grand jury for clandestinely tapping the water and gas mains and obtaining in this manner 500,000 gallons of water and 300,000 feet of gas. The State convention of civil engineers and surveyors elected officers as follows: President, C. G. Elliott, of Gillman; vicepresident, D. W. Mead, of Kockford; secretary and treasurer, A. N. Talbot, of Champaicn, and recording secretary, S. A. Bullard. of Springfield. The next meeting will be held at Peoria, in January next. ASSASSINATION IX MICHIGAN. An, Old Lady Shot Dead in Her Bed-Room and a Yonng Girl Seriously Wounded. Laxsixo, Mich., Jan. 27. A horrible murder was committed last night, in Delphi township, about seven miles from this city. Christian Stockal, a Polander, resides on a small farm near Holt, with his family, consisting of his wife, aged 6ixty-three years, his 6on Fred, aged twenty, and Minnie Falts, his thirteen-year-old granddaughter. Stockal went to bed about 8 o'clock last night, in the only room in the cabin; Minnie retired a short time later to another bed, and her grandmother was disrobing when a shot-gun was discharged just outside the east window of the cabin. The shot crashed through the glass and struck Mrs. Stockal over the heart. Minnie sprung up in bed at the sound of the shot, and the gun was discharged a second time, the load striking tho child in the breast. Minnie sprang up a ladder in the corner of the room to the loft above, and her grandmother was attempting to follow her when a third load struck the old woman in the back and she fell down the ladder to the floor, dead. As Stokal sprang out of bed, a fourth shot struck him in the head, though but few of the shot hit him. Stokal crawled out of bed, and seeing the murderer standing several rods from the house slipped oil' in another direction, and, bare-footed and clad only in shirt and drawers, ran through a tamarack swamp, in the . intense darkness, to the house of Cornelius Driscoll, half a mile west. Deputy Sheriff Cook and Coroner Bennett, of Lansing, were telegraphed to from Holt and went to Stockal's place at 2 o'clock this morning. It required very little time to convince them who the murderer was, almost beyond the possibility of a doubt. August Tanto, nineteen years old, who is acquainted with the Stockals, yesterday borrowed a Winchester repeating rifle. Young Tanto filled the chamber of the gun with cartridges loaded with bird shot, and went to Stockal's, where he remained from 3 to 6 o'clock in the afternoon. He then left, saying he was going to Charles Crantz's house, but instead the officers found that he hid behind a haystack ten rods from the cabin, to which he afterwards returned by a circuitous route, as shown by the tracks. Outside the window were found two empty shells and one loaded, which corresponded ex--

actly with the shells lanto had secured. After the shootincr. Tanto had trono to Holt' station, three miles away, and bought aI ticket to Mason, going south on the i)-Js&fi Michigan Central passenger train. He has -not yet been apprehended. Fred Stockal came to Lansing on Friday, and has since been staying with friends here. lie was arr rested to-day and is detained on suspicion of being connected with Tanto in the crime. Minnie is in a precarious condition, but may recover. Stockal is not seriously injured. A NEW SWINDLE. Seekers After Bargains in Dry Goods and Hosiery Cheated by a Smart Rascal. St. Paul, Jan. 27. A shrewd and extensively worked scheme for the swindling of people looking for "bargains" in dry goods and hosiery has been unearthed by the Pioneer Press. A letter from J. Q. A. Campbell, editor of the Bellefontaine (O.) Republican, which was received to-day, inquired after the reliability of one C. U. Warner, who had sent him a proposition for advertising, to be paid for by check on demand. Mr. Campbell was suspicious and desired information. The advertising matter oflered was in the shape of reading notices to the effect that Wood, Thornburg & Co., importers, of London, New York and . San Francisco, had purchased large stocks of lino plush, silk and hosiery at a great sacrifice in London, and would sell it m limited quantities to individuals in this country at prices away below actual cost. No goods would be sent C. O. D., but the cash must accompany the order. All orders must be sent to C. H. Warner. Union Block. St. in New lork, and it cannot be found entered in the books of the business agencies. It was found that Warner had an office in the building named; which he took a week ago. Ho seldom appeared at his office, but a great deal of mail was delivered there and secured by him when he saw fit to go ' after it. His "ollico" was entered yesterday, and forty-eight letters from various parts of Ohio. Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin and Kansas were found awaiting his arrival. Many of these were in ladies writing, and are believed to be orders for the goods advertised. A marked newspaperdirectory showed that he had sent out his advertising matter to the States named, and the letters are answered with inclosed money. A few days ago he bought a half yard of fine silk from one of tho leading linns of this city, which he had cut up in small pieces, apparently for use as samples in rase such might bo desired. No other goods of any kind wero found, and the police are now on the lookout lor tho swindler. There are ,half a dozen -charges that could be brought against him, but it is probable that if caught he will bo tried for using the mails for swindling purposes. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Mrs. Harrison and her daughter, Mrs. 3IcKee, spent yesterday quietly in their rooms at the Gilsey House, New York. Jack Burgess, the prize-fighter, and his wife are supposed to be on their way to the Pacific slope, with the proceeds of $4,000 worth of diamonds, which Mrs. Burgess stole from her sister. Mrs. Hewitt, of NTo. J07 East Forty-eighth street, New York, on Saturday. Henry S. Ives, tho Neapoleonic financier, and Staynor, his partner, in the great two-and-a-half-million case for which they are under arrest, spent yesterday in company with their lawyers preparing their defense, under the guardianship of the deputy sherifls, at the Sinclair House. New ork. David Kimball, aged sixty-three, a wealthy and highly-respected "citizen of Omaha. Neb., while attempting to board a Union Pacific train yesterday, at the transfer station at Council BluiTs, slipped on the ice. fell under tho train, and was instantly killed. He was one of the early settlers of Omaha, and had accumulated a lor tunc of over 00,000, J. W. Bidgood, who was mysteriously assaulted several nights ago in a disreputablo quarter in Kansas City, died last night of his injuries. His family live in Trinidad, Col. Deceased was a mining engineer. It is supposed that he was killed on account of his intimacy with a woman who lived in the neighborhood. i

Paul, by whom the goods would be promptly shipped. No sucn firm as tho one mentioned is known, either in San Francisco or

THE SCHOOL-BOOK QUESTION. ; Is State Uniformity or Text-Dooks Desirable Professor Parr Thinks it I Not. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal; Nearly all of the measures proposed in the Legislature in relation to the text-book 6upply look toward State uniformity in one form or another. State uniformity means that the entire State shall use ono series or a very few series of text-books. Do the people of Indiana want the effects this condition of affairs would bring? There is but one benefit claimed for State uniformity. It would save money to the few who move from one county to another. Other claims are made, but they are all reducible to this ono. There are ninety-two counties in Indiana. Ono would make a very high figure to calculate that, averaging the whole State, one hundred children per county per year remove from one county to another. Tho aggregate is 9,200 removals per year; that is, 9,200 children out of a total school population of 506,120 buy new books, because they have removed to another county. That is to say, a little more than 1 per cent, of the whole number buy new books from this cause. Putting the question in another way, shall 92.2 per cent, of Indiana school children be subjected to all the evils of State uniformity to accommodate 1.8 percent.? It would bo vastly cheaper for the State to buy. the new books required for such pupils. Stat? uniformity is chielly objectionable because the State undertakes to do for its citizens yrhat they can do better and cheaper for tlidm6elvea. Most State uniformity systems propose large contracts, involving in thi aggregate millions of dollars, to be let by1 boards, tho money to be handled niauy times over in one form or another. This affords opportunity forringsand corruption. All localities cannot use with proht the same books. Granting equal intelligence (a condition never actually admissible), different localities have different needs and require difl'erent books. Indiana has now one of the best systems of uniformity in tho Union. The county is the natural unit for uniformity, 6inco it is the business of the county superintendent to know the needs of every school in the county. There is no man whoso business it is to know the needs of every school in the State. Such a knowledge is an impossibility. The county and the city school district are the only units that have expert knowledge as to what they need. State uniformity cuts off competition and discourages school-book improvement. The much-maligned school-booK agent has been an educational missionary, bringing new ideas and new methods to our perSetually changing lower-grade teachers, tato uniformity dispenses with tho whole class. Those who are championing uniformity should not forget that, as schools now go, the books determine, largely, methods of teaching. Routine in books means stagnation in methods. As mechanical routine in methods of teaching are the most serious and hurtful element in education, whatever adds to this is to bo avoided. All system of State uniformity conteinElate throwins away great numbers of ooka but little worn and little used. This entails large loss. In Indiana, by any mode that could oo devised, it would amount to one-fourth of the average value of the books in a pupil's hands at any given time. This is, as shown in a previous article, $1.49 per pupil; one-fourth of this is S7 cents per pupil, and for 500,126 pupils amounts to 187,000 in the whole State. Stat .uniformity contemplates keeping the same books in use, without change, for periods of eight, ten, or even fifteen years, as in Minnesota. This prevents occasional changes, which are generally conceded to b beneficial. Such changes, made at introductory or exchange rates, cost comparatively little. No doubt, changes should not be frequent, but eight, ten, or fifteen years is too long a period to go without change, etate uniformity contemplates the selection of books by a State board or commission. The men composing this board may be good judges of books, or they may not: they are not di-

recny responsiuie to me people wno use the books. It is their business to do something else, and the thought they give to selection must necessarily be superficial aud cursory, Finally, State selection is usurpation. It is & step toward that absolutism with which a Hussiau bureau decrees the affairs of a Siberian village five thousand miles away. It has uniformly created greater evils than it was intended to cure. It abridges the rights of communities to secure resdlts in their own way. School otlicers can expend heir energies to better advantage than in carrying out sucn a measure, n is, merefore, poor economy of expert supervisory skill. Dissatisfaction is the uniform result of trial. S. S. Pari:. DePauw Uxiversitt, Jan. 23, More About School Books. To tho Editor ot the Indianapolis Journal: In the discussion of the school-book question a few stubborn facts confront us. The first of all is that the State has no more right, and is under no more obligations, to manufacture school books than to manufacture school shoes. Manufacturing is no moro the State's province than farming is. Second, if we had the right to create a huge book-making establishment, we haf e no raw material to work upon. Our State shoe-factory might go into the market and buy as good material as any competing establishment could, for leather is leather and pegs are pegs, and they are kept on sale everywhere; but where will we get the material for books! We have brains enough, and pens enough but such brains! School books are not made to orderthey grow. In tho beginning they are the emanations of scholars already trained in teaching the particular .branch about which they write. A man may be eminent as a magazine writer, or even as an editor, vet bo utterly unfit to prepare a school book. More than a third of a-century ago several teachers combined their experience aud produced a series of readers, known then as McGully's. It was the product of a half-a-dozeu trained teachers, . and at once leaped into favor; but the McGuffy's readers of a third of a century ago were like the series now known by that name only in name. A family likeness has been preserved, but that is all. The present series is an outgrowth of the series which was the outgrowth of the experience of teachers who had spent years in the school-room. And tho same is true of all text-books. The grammars of to-day are outgrowth of good old Liudley Murray, not as to the science itself, but as to methods of teaching it. and these are the results of experience in the school-room. The idea of appointing a commission to prepare a lot of school books is the most absurd proposition yet made. Plainly, the writing and making of school books by tho State is too absurd to be seriously entertained. What then! The less the better. It is a very cheap exhibition of wisdom Jo say, Ietter let well enough alone' Almost anybody can say that, yet it is wise to go slow in radically chansring a svstcm that works fairly well. What are the bottom facts in our present school system? First, we have corrected the great evil of changing books at the whim of the teacher. Except in cities tho school board settles tho book (question for six years. That is well, and it works well. It will surprise croakers to learn that the actual cost of school books whero this law obtains is less than 00 cents per year for the scholars enum erated, and less than l per year for the scholars in actual attendance. This includes slates, pencils, pens, copybooks and all. Now, should wo not hesitate before seriouslv disturbing a svstem that produces such results? Does not the success of this svstem susreest that instead of changing it, it should be extended to cities as well as the country! Whether the State should furnish books free or not is another branch of the ques tion. It does not follow that because tui tion is free, and the school-house is free, that, therefore, the books should be free. anvmors than that the shoes worn in the school should be free; neither that the town or township should keep a book store, or a circulating library, anymore than it should keen a shoe store with shoes to sell at cost. or to rent cheap, or give away. Self-help and self-reliance underlie success in schoollife as well as in auv department of life. and school-books come in for their share of the proper education of children in these essential elements of success. The Stato cannot make books as cheap as they aro now made: it cannot cet the material out of which to make them as good as is now furnished, and school tiurds canaot go into

the book business without great inconvenience and loss. These are stubborn facts to be confronted on tho school-book question. Indianapolis, Jan. 23. U. L. See.

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GEORGE H. PENDLETON'. United Slates Minister to Berlin. DA-ELY WEATHER IS UXJLETIX. Indications. Washington, Jan. 27. Indiana and Illinois Fair, clearing, colder, except in Illinois and western pprtions of Kentucky and Tennessee, nearly station ary temperature; northwesterly winds. For Western Pennsylvania and Ohio Snow, followed bv clearing, except along lakes, continued light snow; colder; high winds, becoming westerly. For Lower Michigan Generally fair, ex cept along the lakes, light local snows; coldrr; winds becoming wcsterlj. For liner Michigan and isconsin Gen erally fair, preceded in eastern portion by lignt locai snows; nearly stationary Temperature, except in eastern portions, slight ly colder variable winds. Jocal Weather Keport, Indianapolis, Jan. 27.

Time. liar. Jher. R.H. Wind. Yeat,her. lYc 7a.m. 29.53 'JO 05 North Lt. Snow. .20 7r.M. 29.6G 23 86 y- W. Lt. Snow. .20

momcter, 25. Following is a comparative statement or tne condition of temperature and precipitation on Jan. 27, iy: Tem. Frttip. 35 0.09 Normal. Mean... 28 0.40 Departure from normal.. 7 0.31 Total excess or dencitsinae Jan. 1.. 152 0.03 ........... v Plus. General Observations. Ixdiaxapoljs, Jan. 277 p. m.

Station. 5 J- t fej Weather. a ? X New York city. 20.16 40 .... 4a. .74 Rain. Buffala, N. Y.. 29.12 30 .... 34,1.20 Snow. rhil'rtelphia.Pa 29.18 42 .... 4s .35 Rain. Pittsburg, Pa.. 29.20 38 .... 34 .64Snow. Wash'tou.D.C. 20.20 4G .... 46 .10s Cloudr. Charlesfn.S.C. 29.58 56 62 ,CB Cloudless. Atlanta, Ua 29.es 40 .... 62 ... Cloudy. Jacks'nv'le,Fla 20.74 53 .... 68 ..... Cloudless. Pensacola,Fla. 20.84 44 50 .... Cloudless. Montg'm'ry.Ar 20.78 41 .... 54 .... Uoudy. VicksburK,Miss 29.9-2 36 40 .... Cloudless. N. Orleans, La. 29.9o 46 52 .... IV. Cloudy. Little Rock, Ark 20.94 30 .... 34 .... Cloudy. Galveston, Tex. 30.06 4fi 4k .... Cloudless. S'nAntonio.Tex 30.16 48 56 .... Cloudless. Memphis, Tenn 29.8S 30.... a) .04 PL Cloudy. Nashville, Tenn 20.76 28 .... 34 .04 nov. Louisville, Ky.. 20.6S 28 .... 36 .1 Cloudy. Indian'p'lis. tad 29.66 22 24 30 .20;3now. Cincinnati, O... 20.62 30 .... 36 .04 Snow. Cleveland, O... 20.36 30 34 f.56Snovr. Toledo.0 50.50 20 .... 32 .COiiow. Maruette,Mich 29.82 20 .... 22 .02 Cloudless. fc.St.MariMieh 30.74 12 14 .... Cloudy. Chicago, 111.... 20.70 20 20 2b T Cloudy. Cairo, 111 29.86 20 20 34 T Cloudy. Hprintrtleld, ni. 29.82 gQ. 20 28 T Snow. Milwaukee, Wis 29.72 22 22 .01 Cloudr. Duluth.Miun.. 30.02 10 .... 20 .... Cloudless. St. Paul, Mmu. 30.00 10 .... 1 .02' Pt. Cloudy. Mooreh'd, Minn 30.22 1 4 .... Cloudless. t.Vinc'nt,Mi'nl30.12 2 .... 2 .... Cloudless. Davenport, la.. 29.86 18 14 22 T Cloudless. Dubuque, la... 20.86 20 20 T Cloudy. Des Moines, la. 30.02 12 6 14 T Snow. St. Louis. Mo... 29.S6 20 24 22 T Cloudy. Kans's Citv, Mo 30.08 14 8 20 .01 Cloudy. Ft. Sill, Ind. T. . 30.14 32 18 40 .... Cloudless. Dodge City, Ks 30.26 24 14 30 .... Cloudless. Omana, Neb... 30.16 6 6 38 .02 Cloudless. N. Platte. Neb. 30.24 20 li 28 T Cloudless. Valentine, Neb. 30.26 18 18 24 .24 Cloudless. Yankton, D.T.. 30.2C 2 4 1C T Cloudless. Ft. Sully, D.T.. 30.22 16 .... 22 .01 Cloudless. Bismarck, D.T. 30.16 16 .... 22 .02 Cloudless. FtBuford.D.T. J0.20 20 .... 28 .... Cloudless. P.Arth'r'sLVrs 30.04 4 .... 12 .... Cloudless. qu'Apelle,K.V. 20.94 26 .... 28 .... Cloudless. Ft.As'nab'ne,M 30.1C 42 .... 44 .... Cloudless. Helena, M.T... 30.54 16 .... 26 .... Cloudless. Boise City, I. T. 30.62 23 8 36 .... Cloudless. Cheyenne, W.T. 30.30 24 20 32 .... Cloudless. FtM'KVy.WT 30.26 34 .... 42 .... Cloudless, Ft.Vashakie,W 30.38 22 2 38 .... Cloudless. Denver, Col 30.36 36 12 40 .... Cloudless. Pueblo, Col 30.32 38 16 42 .... Pt. Cloudy. Santa Fe.N.M. 30.42 12 0 28 .... Cloudless. Salt Lake City. 30.64 22 8 ,28 .... Cloudless. T Trace of precipitation. Note One inch of melted snow equals ten inches of snow.

Offensive Carpet-Va?gUvru Cleveland Leader.- , Nearly the whole adult population of Dakota were formerly citizens of tho loyal Northern States, and a large proportion of them served in the Union army. What they have to undergo under a Territorial form of government,whose officials are appointed by a Democratic administration, is illustrated in one Dakota town where1 the United States judge, clerk, commissioner, deputy marshal and postmaster are all carpet-baggers, and everv one an ex-rebel. In spite of President Cleveland's promise to till all Territorial offices with citizens of the Territories, he has sent a lot of hungry and thirsty ex-eonfederates to rule over the loyal people of the Territories. Tho Democrats nave made a great deal of noise in times past because loyal Northern men were appointed to otlice in the South during tho reconstruction period, there being in many cases no loyal men of sufficient intelligence available in those States; but it is manifestly much worse to send ox-rebels to till the offices in a loyal Northern community when plenty of competent men could be found on the snot. The Democratic practice of "carpet-bagzism" is infinitely more offensive and uncalled for than that of the Kepublicans. , lt is no wonder the people of; Dakota desire admission to the Union. Such appointments as we have referred to wvuld not be made if Dakota had tho status of statehood. A Fine Opportunity Offeret. New York Sun. "Mamma," said a fashionable ip-town girl, "there's a gentleman in the pari or who wants to see you." Mamma enters the parlor. "H'excuso me, madam, for not scnrlink h'in mo kiard, but h'unfortunately I forgot hapt. h'if there h'a re young ladies h'in tho family that you would like to have ther.o join me class h'in h'order to catch the correct Piccadillian and Pell Mcllian h'accent." Whr. rertninlv. Professor. T think T will be glad to do so (touching a bell.) James, call Miss Laura." German in School. Philadelphia Pres. The action of the school board "of Louisville in abolishing the teaching of German in the public schools of that city is right and timely. Americanized English is about the only living language that should bo taught m the public schools, and it should be taught with more thoroughness than it has been heretofore. A little learning of solid texture and with square edges such as the public schools were originally intended to impart is worth a good deal more than lot of fancy open-work education with frills of foreign material. Great Joke. San Francisco Examiner. Giddiugs 4That young Smithy that got married the other day is a mighty nice fellow." Peyton "Don't know. Saw him treating his wife, the other day, as 1 wouldn't treat mvdog." Giddings (excitedly) "Is it possible! And she' so lovely! What was he doing to her!" Pay ton (calmly) "Kissing her. 1 wouldn't kiss my dog,"

Absolutely Pure. This ro-wrter never varies. A marvel of parity strtnjrth and wholecmene$5." More economical thaa tie ordinary kinds, and cannot he soM in cti) petition with themultifiifie of lovr-wst. hort-weicrht a lam or pliofphate jxvw.lors. Sold onlv in cans. 1UVAL JIAKIXa POWDER CO., 106 Wall U X. Y. A DEATH-DEALER. Gatling's Iatcst Invention for Making Ocean "Warfare More Terrible. Hartford (Conn.) Special to New York TicraW. I had a conversation this afternoon with Dr. Gatling, the inventor of the Gatlinjr machine-gun, regarding his newly-invented torpedo boat. Pending linal protection of his rights as a patentee. Dr. Gatling wa disinclined to give a detailed description of his boat, but ho fortified his assertion that he had devised something; at once cheap, simple and effective, by quoting from letters from naval ollieers of high standing; substantiating everything that he claimed. Dr. Gatling said: "I have devised a torpedo boat which I regard as more effective and certain in action than any heretofore invented. With it any ironclad seeking to enter our harborn or coming to anchor, for instance, in tho lower New York bay, could be ojiickly and easily destroyed. The boat will be iucx pensive as compared with other torpedo boats. In an emergency tug boats of twenty-live to one hundred tons could be speedily converted into effective torpedo boats. My choice, however, would be iron or steel boats with a speed of not less than twenty knots an hour." 'ls speed one of tho essentials of your plan!" I asked. "Tho chief elements arc speed, the armament and the full protection of tho ollieers and the men. and these may all be readily combined. With such a craft as I have do signed I can put a torpedo under any war vessel, however protected, despite tho utmost efforts of the vessel to avoid it. Mr boat will bo propelled by steam and will approach an ironclad bow on, resenting the least snrfaco to the guns of. the ship, and will be. so protected that the shots lired at her will have no effect." "What arc your weapons of offense!' "Making my boat as impregnable as nos sible, I resort for the destruction of a uos tile vessel in the use of high explosives, such as nitro-gelatiue. dynamite, etc. My system mav be generally described as that of 'controlled torpedoes.' which are under the absolute control of the ollieers on tho boat until the instant of explosion. My plan will drive a torpedo through any net or other protection an iron-clad maytavo and jdace it at the desired point for explosion. In a short time I shall be propared to give to tho public a detailed description of my plans, and I am satisfied that the simplicity and economy of the system will be seen at once, as well as its efficiency." , STANXEY IS AFRICA. A Strong: Suspicion that the Explorer Is En gaeti in itookcu mc , London Dispatch In New York Ttlerrara. , f Thrre are more daily rumors about?5ao ley, which are discussed and then promptly denied the next day. To a disinterested! person the tone of inquiry and exasperation, with which tho journals sneak of the Afri can explorer would bo ludicrous were tho subject of less importance, but ?ho anxiety concerning Stanley's whereabouts over weighs trilling considerations, and the expressions of people and press are only natural. It is undeniable tiiat thp greatest concern still exists, which tho aL'egrd letter to Tippoo Tib has rafhe,r increased than allayed. Some of the London jo.irnals utter mysterious hints that they know more than they dare divulge. 'Some appear to bo afraid that the oracular hints of the other are true, and in the meanwhile tho general public is disposed to anathematize both them and the King of the Belgians, who in supposed to have received letters which ho will not give to the world. Those most likelv to know the truth of the matter do not believe that his Majesty is any better informed than the least of hisubjects, and it is probable that men liko Mr. MacKinnon, of the East Africau Companyt would be included among thfl first recipients of any news from Stanley. In tho mean time all the exploded scandals about the intrepid explorer are bciu revamped. Ho is charitably included among those whom African travel has rendered subject to tho mania which attacked so many, who have felt themselves unable to keep away for anv length of timo from the Dark Continent after onco having felt its weird fascinations, and it is hinted, that, as no white man who ever started with him for the interior has ever lived to) contradict Stanlev's assertions as to hia wanderings and discovery, so it will bo found that none of his present Caucasian associates will ever return with or without him. The German and French papers accuse, in no measured terms, the Knglish government of concealing information which id has received concerning the expedition, really undertaken with its assistance, as they do not hesitate to say, and they call for some explanation of the affair. Hepresentations to the contrary have not satistied them, and, in despair of being unable to force the hand of the Premier, thy demand that his Belgian Majesty shall bo made to divulge what he knows. One feature which renders the report of Emin Bey's victory over the Mahdi doubly welcome is that, if the news be true, it wan in all probability duo to reinforcements and arras that ho must have obtained from Stanley. IJoyin;; a Coflln to Secure a Vote. London Letter. A good story is told of Mr. Karslake. Q. C. When that gentleman was contesting the borough in lSCShe sought to win tho favor of tho shop-keepers by making extensive purchases of them. At one shop he ordered a large trunk to bo made for Dim. "But," objected the trader, "I don't make trunks." "Well, what aro you thenr" inquired the candidate. "An undertaker.' "Oh!" and Mr. Karslake countenance fell in contemplating tho awkward position ho had placed himself in. But he almo& immediately rejoined, "Well, never mind, you can mano me a colli n and send it to my Jxmdon address." To this, however,. Mrs. Karslako strongly objected on hearing of the transaction. Mrs. Karslake then directed that the coflin should be sent to bis chambers, adding that it would make a good receptacle for He van's rf ports. Mr. Karslake, it mav be added, has been retired from the profession for several years and lives the life of a country gentleman in AVarwickshire, hunting always having been hi'b favorite pursuit. Son-ln-I.aw .McKee lioesn't Know. Xew York Int rvinr. "X'o, I certainly am not talking about the tieneral's Cabinet. Mr. Harrison is a very conservative, reticett man and keens his own counsel. I may know a very littlo more than you do about hi plans, bVeauso I live it. the samA city in which ho lives. But really I know nothing ;ibout his Cabinet plant, and haven't tho faintest idea when he will announce tho names of tho chosen omfs.' A New Cure. rittburg Chronicle. A baby su fieri ns from hkin disease wa buried in tho ground to its nrck, at Pottstown, the idea being that .Mother Earth would draw the humor from the blood, and while tho little mm remained buried other little ones walked around it beating tiu pans to keep tJte evil jquritH u av. liuu 1 1 . a ... i irn r ins. miu wi n in in-ri'i i imt n r tii yi .'- American citizens out oi.