Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 March 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1889.

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THE DAILY JOURNAL FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 16S9. WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth fit. I. S. Heath, Correspondent. JTX7W YORK OFFICE 204 Temple Court, Comer Beekman and Nassau Streets. ' TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DAILT. One year, withont Fnnday fl2.no One year, with Hanrtar H.co Fix months, without Snndaj 6.00 Fix montlis. with Sunday 7.00 Three months, without Snnday 3.00 Three months, with Sunday 3.50 One month, withont Sunday 1.00 One month, with 6 on day 1.20 WEZKLT. Ter year tl.00 Reduced Rates to Clubs. SnbcrlDe with any of oar numerous agents, or send subscriptions to THE JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, IXDIAXAPCLIS, I.VD. T - - . TIIK INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: LONDON American Exchange In Europe, 443 Strand. PARIS American Exchange In Paris. 35 Boulevard dee Capucines. NEW YORK Gilsey House and Windsor IIoteL PHILADELPHIA A. P. Kernel, 3735 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO Palmer nouse. CINCINN ATI-J. P. nawly A Co, 154 Vine street LOUISVILLE-C. T. Deerlng, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern IIoteL WASHINGTON, D. C.-Riggs nouse and Ebbitt Honae. Telephone Calls. Unisness Offlce 228 1 Editorial Rooms 242 Persons who address letters to their friends visiting Washington "care of President Harrison' probably wish to show their confidence in the administration and their familiarity with public life. Most people are not aware that the President is in the habit of making it Tegular daily tour of the Washington hotels and boarding houses to deliver letters so addressed.

It is good business sense to permit United States Treasurer Hyatt to remain in office until the close of the fiscal year. A retirement now would involve a balancing of the books and the rendering of an official statement which comes in any case at the end of June. The delay in appointing his successor lessens labor and simplifies matters by making the one financial showing sufficient. The Civil-service Chronicle, discussing qualification and equipment for office, thinks that "if Mr. Thomas Markey, of this city, had wanted a clerical position instead of being a candidate for the Insane Hospital Board, the fact that he wrote that he had to address the 'nights of laber would undoubtedly have been a disadvantage." That would depend. It certainly would not have lessened his chances with a Democratic caucus and Legislature. The Indiana Republican Congressmen have done wisely in requiring the Republicans of cities and towns in their districts to indicate their preference among candidates for postoffices. Nothing is more common than for the citizens of these places to sign every petition presented to them, while at the same time having a choice among the applicants. They do this probably to avoid offending, any candidate, and with the expectation that the Congressman will, in some unexplained way, understand the preferences of the majority and recommend accordingly. When he is unable to decide between the merits of men who are each indorsed by the same neighbors and secures an appointment according to his unaided judgment, then some accommodating signers are the first to grumble if the appointment does not please them. It is time the responsibility were divided. It is a petty and carping spirit that objects to the recognition of Fred Grant by the administration. Colonel Grant aiay not bo a second U. S. Grant, but ho is a gentleman of good ability and fully equal in point of fitness to the average American representative in foreign ?ourts. Were ho not the son of his father the dreadful charge of being commonplace and stupid would never be brought against him. . That ho is not tind has not developed into a prodigy nor hown a disposition to withdraw into obscurity, are held as good causes for criticism by unreasonable persons. But even if it were true that his abilities are moderate, this administration and future administrations are justified in honoring him for his father's sake. The fact that he is the son of his father is excuse enough, if any were needed, for appointing him to an important office, and President Harrison indicates his loyalty to the great General and his sense of the country's debt to him by thus distinguishing the son. The proposition in the Canadian Parliament to purchase the New England States was a fair rejoinder to the talk on this side of the line about annexing Canada. The talk of buying or annexing Cuba elicits even a more spirited rejoinder from the Spanish Minister of the Interior. Replying to a question on the subject, ho said the government had no knowledge of a scheme to sell Cuba to the United States, adding that there was not enough money in the whole world to buy the smallest portion of Spanish territory, and that, if necessity should arise, Spaniards would know how to defend their country's soil. These expressions from the parties of the second part should put an end to jingo talk for the present. If there is any country or government in the world that does not need more territory it is the United States. We have all we can well handle or govern at present, and our population is quite as heterogeneous as it ought to be. There was a whole volume of human nature in the action of the school-teacher voters in Burlington, N. J., tho other day. Women have been granted the right to vote for school officers, and exercised their privilege this week for the .first time. Trustees were to be elected, and tho women of the place put for ward a ticket on which were tho name of three members of their own sex. Opposed to this was the ticket bearing the names of the old board all men. Unfortunately for their candidates, the female politician h had not consulted the tchool-tcachu'A of tho town. Every

thing was going on swimmingly toward

the election of the woman's board when 4 o'clock brought a small army of teachers upon the scene. "This will never do," said the indignant school-ma'ams, on discovering the situation. "If those women are elected trustees we shall be in hot water all the time." Accordingly they rolled up their sleeves, figuratively speaking, and proceeded to electioneer for tho male board with great vigor and industry. For an hour the war between the two female factions waged hotly, but in the end the teachers triumphed. Their board was elected and they are now secure in the feeling that no woman will "boss over them" for at least one year. 1 he moral ot this incident lies in the application of it, and the application may be made at any time where women vote. ESTOBCIKQ A GOOD ORDER. Democratic office-holders who have been conspicuous for partisanship in office cannot complain if President Har rison removes them for that cause, whether he assigns it or not. In so doing he is simply enforcing President Cleveland's orders on his own appointees. On the 14th of July, 1886, Mr. Cleveland issued a circular in which he said: To the Heads of Departments in the Service of the General Government; I deem this a proper time to especially warn all subordinates in the several departments, and all office-holders under tho geneiai government, against the use or their official positions in attempts to control political movements in their localities. Office-holders are the agents of the people not their masters. Not only is their time and labor duo to the government, but they should scrupulously avoid, in their political action as -well as in tho discharge of their official duty, offendmg 03- a display ot obtrusive artisanship their neighbors who have reations with them as nnblic officials. Thcv shotild also constantly remember that the party friends from whom they have received preferment have not invested them with the power of arbitrarily managing tneir political auairs. iney nave no rigm, as office-holders, to dictate the political action of their party associates, or to throttle freedom of action within party lines by methods and practices which pervert every useful and jnstihabie purpose 01 party orfranization. 1 he inuuence 01 federal othcelolders should not be felt in the manipulation of political primary meetings and nominating conventions. The use by these officials of their positions to compass their selection as delegates 10 political conventions is indecent and unfair; and proper regard for the proprieties and requirements of official place will also prevent their assuming the active conduct of political campaigns. If this circular had been enforced or its letter and spirit observed the "obtrusive partisanship" of many Democratic office-holders would not have been so conspicuously exhibited. The fact that President Cleveland did not remove them for violating his order is no reason why President Harrison should not do so. Tho order is a good one, and touching its enforcement wo may say "better late than never." United States Marshal Hawkins is a conspicuous example of those who openly and notoriously violated the order and a shining instance of its enforcement. He has paid tho penalty of official contumacy. Other obtrusively partisan Democratic, office-holders should bo treated in like manner. ADMIRAL PORTER'S TALK. A recent interview with Admiral Porter in which he talked quite freely con cerning the probable course and outcome of a war between the United States and Germany, has attracted attention abroad. A London cablegram says that journals most friendly to the United States regret the publication, while the North German Gazette "hesitates to believe such of the astouuding language of tho Admiral as it finds in an English paper and awaits tho arrival of the American files before commenting upon it, and thinks it possiblo that an explanation will be requested by the government of the authorities at Washington." Admiral Porter's official position and high professional standing as a naval officer gave weight to his utterances. What he said showed he had '.been thinking about tho possibility of a foreign war, and that, in such an event, he was prepared to make practical suggestions as to the proper course to pursue. After referring to the rumors of a conflict at Samoa between German and American vessels, since proven entirely groundless, he said: Of course we are weak at present on the ocean, but there is a plan which will meet the emergency, and will badly cripple Germany while wo are getting ready. No ono supposes that tho American people would give up the contest until Germany had ro-. ceived a sound drubbing. We have a surplus and revenue enough, with taxes now at a minimum point, to carry on desultory war until wo are in lighting trim. While wo are getting ready wo can prohibit the entry of German manufactures into the United States. That is an important item iu the monetary activity of Germany. We send many millions there to pa' for goods. If, for tho time being, Germany should try to blockade our ports, in less than sixty days we would find an English fleet on our coasts, involved in protectingherown trade with the United States. A liundred millions and more of British goods finding a market in the United States could not be cut off without ruining British industries. Franco would also have au interest. Meanwhile, we could get along without their goods, if necessary; so that England and France would he forced, as a measure of industrial self-defense, to protect their vessels and their trade with the United States. As the country knows, I have been urging, in letters and reports, the importance of building up a powerful navy. We have the wealth and resources to lead the world in a najjy. But, taking matters as they are. the government should go to England and France, both countries being abead of (.ierman in modern naval vessels and guns, and buy all the rilled guns we can find, and bring them here. We will very soon make use for them. Here is a list of the entire strength of the German navy. It is more than we have, hut wo have th money, and could easily spend $3V).000.000 iu ships and appliances of war. There is League island, at Philadelphia, tho grandest place on the continent for a great navy -yard. If we can build one we can huifd fifty ships right 'there. It is inaccessible to a foreign fleet. The channel of tho river could bo lined with torpedos, if necessary, or they might bo operated from the shore. Ships could be built there with all the materials near at hand. Of course, this would take time. In the meantime we would he compelled to resort to other modes of offensive war. With $.V).000.000 in sixty days I could put an improvised fleet in motion which would make short work with Germany's commerce. There are COO German steamers afloat. I know whero they are. Wo have fleet ships; I could pick them ont now. We could buy more. They would answer for privateers. About the time we would have this part of the work disposed of, German industries affected by foreign trade would be paralyzed while we would be at the height of prosperity. It is not surprising that such talk as this, from such a man as Admiral Porter, should attract attention abroad. It is much as if General Sherman or Major general Schofield should seriously discuss the possibility of au early war withEng land and disclose with something like pro

fessional accuracy the outlines of a plan

of campaign for the capture of Canada. . That kind of talk coming from a private citizen, or even printed in newspapers without official or professional indorse ment, does not count for much; but when it comes from the admiral of the navy and an officer with the fighting record of Admiral Porter it'is bound to attract attention. We think Admiral Porter has been indiscreet. He probably did not duly consider the importance that would attach to such expressions coming from him, and especially the un pleasant effect they might have abroad. Admiral Porter is very far removed from a braggart, and is not given to unguarded speech. It was natural, under the circumstances, that he should have been studying the situation somewhat, and considering, in a general way, what we should do in case ot a naval war. It was even proper that he should think out a general line of action and be prepared, as admiral of the navy, to make some practical suggestions if suddenly called upon by the government to do so. But he should have kept his reflections and conclusions to himself or intrusted them only to official ears. It was imprudent for the admiral of the navy to talk in such a way as to create the impression abroad that the possibility of war between Germany and tho United States was being seriously considered in official circles, when, in fact, there is not the remotest probability of such an event. Moreover, tho tone of his utterances is such as to irritate German feelings un necessarily. No people like to have their weak places pointed out or bo told how inevitably they would be worsted in the event of war, and that by high official authority. Germans are not different from Americans in this regard, and probably they feel about as we should if the admiral of the German navy had explained how easy it would be to blow our navy out of water, bombard New York and capture Washington. Admiral Porter's unguarded talk is not a. very pacific introduction for the coming con ference at Berlin on tho Samoan affair. If the German government should take official notice of it to tho extent of ask ing an explanation it might place the administration in tho embarrassing position of having to disclaim tho admiral's utterances or of explaining that they were only harmless buncombe. ; TlIE new school-honk kir Trill mnVfl if necessa rv for thenarenta of Indian to rhrnw away moro than ono million dollars' worth 1 1. 1 1 i 1 . 01 vaiuaoie om uooks to maKe way ior new and probably inferior ones. Winchester This is a mistake. Tho law is practical ly inoperative in that it docs not require local school boards to adopt tho new books nor provide any means of putting them in the hands of the people. School boards, teachers and people may con tinue to use old books, if they choose to do so, and no doubt many will. Robert Louis Stevenson is said to have improved physically during his long voyage through having overcome the habit of excessive indulgence in cigarettes' F. Ma::on Crawford, who was also a victim to tL 3 habit, is said to have discontinued it When the literary critics of the day discuss the reasons for the lack of the virile element in fiction it is only necessary to remember that the leading male novelistsnTe addicted to the cigarette to decide upon the cause. j Does Indianapolis mean to do anything in the way of celebrating the Washington centennial inauguration on April SOf If so, it is time to ho making arrangements. Other towns and cities throughout the country are preparing to observe the oc casion with proper ceremonies, and President Harrison's homo should not be behind the rest. Not all tho citizens can go to New York, where, of course, the great celebration will be held. To tli Editor of the IiirtiauapolU Jonrnal: Please inform mo where I can obtain some of General Harrison's speeches ou "Protection to American Ealxr Also how many strikes thcro was in the years lS87-'88 in the United States. Kmgiitstowx, Ind. Inqcirkr. A small pamphlet edition of General Har rison's speeches during the recent cam-; paign, including several on the subject re-' f erred to, was published by John O. Hardesty, of Chicago. His other speeches have not been published in book form. 2. Statistics of 1S87-'!S are not at hand. Tho number of strikes in 1886 was 9,861. ' To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: 1 1 Canyon tell mo Where I can find James VThitA comb liiley s poem with the une "Good-by, Jim,1 tane care yourself, in ill cm. i T n r t A o 1 in 4 V a Pamm w Ta w 1 1888. ! To tho Editor of the Indianapolis Jonrnal: Where can I obtain a reliable and practical treanso on grape cuiturei curscmber. Terre Haute. Write to Geo. W. Campbell, Delaware, 0. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. x J Miss Mart Redmond, the Irish sculp tress, is about to make a bust of Gladstone. 1 a a m aotiiek oraer nas Deen startea in Maine, the "Permanent H a v-makers'! Asso ciation." Itslodges are called "Hay lofts.". Jean Ixgklow, the poetess, lives at Ken. sington, a fashionable suburb of London. She has a pretty flower garden, and keeps many pianis ana uowers in tne nouse. Thomas N. McClellax, who has been made a judge of the Supreme Court of Ala bama, is only thirty-six years of age. Ho was elected Attorney-general at thirty-one. Lieutenant Caisson, who was slightly wounded in the brush between the regulars and the Oklahoma boomers, is a son of Mai. John M. Carson, the famous Washington correspondent. The late James Flood, of California, is said to have spent S5.000.000 on his San Francisco home. The bronze fence about the grounds cost $00,000, and tho bronze gates almost as much more. Thomas county, Kansas, was named in honor of Gen. Geo. H. Thomas, and all tho townships of tho county were named in jiouor iii souiiers i iuc iiuiu ivansas infantry killed at Chickamauga. . SEXATOit Palmer's house in Washington, which was designed by Mrs. Palmer, is a model of convenience. The most striking feature of Mrs. Palmer's plan, tho kitchen av iuo iuini. nut iiuusc, is i iuisian laea. more or jess popular witu wealthy people. David B. Hill, the bald-headed Governor of New York, is really engaged to be married, despite tho numerous denials. Tho bride-elect is a Miss Iiotchkiss. of Klmira. She is a tall brunette, well educated and accomplished, and is twenty-threo years old. The thriving little Johnson City, in East Tennessee, is thinking seriously of changits name to Carnegie, in honor of Andrew Carnegie. If the town accepts him as a uamesake, he proposes to givo it a public library and reading-room worth not less thau S100.0UO. Mrs. Anastasia Parsells, of Bayonno, X. J., last Sunday celebrated her onehun-drod-and-third birthday. She was born on

Manhattan IslandMarch 17, ITS'!, and when a pretty, bright-eyed, Tosytrheeked girl of twelve years was kissed oii. the lips by the immortal George Washington, who was on a visit to her father's house.

The Jewish community, in -London will, says tho Jewish Chronicle, shortly receive a rare guest in the persoii of a lady bachelor of arts of the Bombay University, Miss Miriam fcamneL bhe is the daughter of a Persian merchant settled" in Bombav. and has obtained her position :at the university solely through private instruction. Dr. Seward Webb, ono of the Vanderbilt sons-in-law, who has., started with his family for an 18,000-mile pleasure trip, will travel with every luxury, and convenience in his train of four saloon cars. The nursery car is not only stocked with toys for the children, but has swings, rocking-horses and other juvenile toys, and the bath-room tank holds 500 gallons of hot and cold water. . Amklie Rives-Ciianler's mouth is pat terned after that of Beatrice full, red and sensuous, the lips slightly protruding and the cornets elevated in a kind of nernetnal smile. As a matter of fact the fair author very rarely smile. When she does her face takes on an expression that renders her very attractive. Unlike the rest of her 't v i . i jaiT, iucu iu repose is very classic, ner mouth resembles that of a Tyrolese gypsy. Col. D. R. Axtooxy has been nominated for Mayor of Leavenw6rth, Kan., by tho Republicans. Way back in the wild days of the sixties Anthony was elected Mayor of that city. He was another "Long John" A i T-V ... . wenrworin. uisrepntaoie resorts were suppressed by hnrning down the buildings, the track of a railroad company which re fused to obey the ordinances was torn up, and in other ways the "old man" proved himself a terror to wrong-doers. American society in London suffers a loss by the sudden death of Lady Arnold. She was the wife of Sir Edwin Arnold, tho author of "The Light of Asia," and was the daughter of the Rev. W. H. Channing, of Boston, whoso son sits in tho House of Com mons for the eastern division of Northamptonshire. She was a trreat-nieco of Win. E. Channing. Lad' Arnold was always very kind to Americans who wanted to cet a ; glimpse of the big guns of literary London. An unusual case of combined longevity is reported from Waterborough, Me. Four generations are unbroken by death. David Scribner, of that town, is now in his ninetieth year, and his wifo is nearly of the same age. The couple have been married for sixty-five years and have three children living, the oldest of whom is upward of sixty years of age. These children have childreu and grand-children, and the remarkable fact is that no death has ever yet occurred m mo line ot tne descendants from Mr. and Mrs. Scribner to their great-grand-children. V.Piiil Armour, the meat packer, who (jailed away to Europe Saturday for a two months's rest, is probably tho most successful business man of Chicago. His wealth is estimated at 825.000.000. He is stout and pudgy, with bow legs and broad girth. His face is in shape like the fnll moon, fringed by. yellow, English-cut side whiskers. He ascribes his success to good memory. He is said to carry all the details of his enormous business in his head, no can remember dates as well as transactions, and never forgets a man's name or face. The gift is natural, nut lias been sedulously culti,vted. iThe successful Sunset mine, in Colorado, was discovered two years ago by. a young lady, Miss Mina Ingraham. Wandering out "from camp ono day, she returned with a few specimens which sho had picked up. Iter mother deemed them worth investigation, and the same afternoon Miss Ingraham went with her father in quest of the place where she had found the ores. Clambering up tho side of a cliff, sho stooped down and marked tuo spot mst as the sun was sinking behind the distant ridge of the Elk ranee. A "discovery stake'' had been prepared, and was immediately set up. B. P. Siiillaber, better known as "Mrs. Partington," now lives at Chelsea, one of Boston's many suburbs. He is seventy-four ,yearaof age and crippled with rheumatism. He walks about ths hous with a cane and goes out of doors only in a carriage. He has not been to Boston for seven years. He began life as a printer, entering the Boston Post in 1888. He once cave two or three years of his life to a lecturing tour, and, although he was successful he regretted it. f eelimr himself not cut out for that line of work. Now, as he says, he goes nowhere. "With pen, paper, pipe and pills I sit here ftom year'pend to year's end, patient as may be, receive my friends and wait lor the better life.77 '.Frank Stockton, the author of "The Lady or the Tiger," is rather small in stat ure, and enjoys tun in a quiet and non-dem-bnstrative way. At a reception not loug ago all the young ladies crowded around him, and exclaimed in chorus, "Oh, do tell us. Mr. Stockton, which came out of tho door first, the lady or the tiger?" He smiled, .and regretted that it was a puzzle even to him. He has a -handsome income from his writings, but his simple and unostentatious attire does not indicate wealth. His wife, a matronly, sweet-faced woman, dresses plainly, and is devoted to her husband. Both of them have been asked so often the question mentioned that they smile at the questioner moro in pity than in anger. .COMMENT AND oriXIOX. It is tho self-evident right of every Amer ican citizen to seek oilice. People who think it isn't are the dupes of their own vanity and conceit, or of their 6llly trust in Sun. The practico of selecting the Governors and Secretaries and justices of the Territories from lists of non-resident candidates is not just to the people of tho Territories, and the rule the President has adopted will insure a practical and valuable reform. Now York Independent. We have lately seen how quickly good effects resulted from tho mere assertion of our dignity in the Samoan affair; we have only to act well within our mear.s and our comparative importance in order to occupy our rightful place in the estimation of tho world. Philadelphia Inquirer. The people have little to fear from trusts. Thev cannot possibly survive tho disintegraiiUK eiiecia oi meiuei.uraine iaw wiiicji underlie business transactions. The end of tho copper syndicate might have been predicted at its formation. It needs no prophet to forecast the fate of any monopoly. Albany Journal. The whole proceedings of the West Virginia Democrats in regard to the governorship have been a disgrace to the State and an outrage upon iustice. In time they will learn this from tne results that will follow their action. Such a course is one of the surest possible ways of making the State Republican. Cleveland Leader. The truth seems to be that rich members of the Senate and rich Cabinet oflicers have, as to the style of living, set the pace or cut out the running, as they say on tho turf, a little too fast lor their less fortunato brethren. These last cannot keep up. and it frets them. It is a little more moraf courage they need, and not a little more money. Louisville Commercial. The economies are disintegrating the policy of the "dominant element" of Democracy in tho South, as they have disintegrated it in the North. The American system will prevail over the American continent, and when it does there will bo no more chance for negro supremacy in Louisiana than for Scandinavian supremacy iu Nebraska. Chicago Inter Ocean. America should be second to none among nations in her power on the sea. We have an immense streteh of coast to defend, and the wealth and resources to build up and equip a great navy. If it can only be scared otten enough tins Nation will keep on building war ships until it will have some to span? and yet be able to maintain peace with dignity. New York Telegram. If the persons engaged in the protected industries are not; willing to meet that free homo competition which it is the express object of protection to encourage, they ought to get out of the business. The full force of public opinion and of the laws should bo brought to bear upon every Mich attempt 1o deprive 'the country of the legitimate iruiis oi protection Aew ior Tribune. v. Until tho United States has . bought the lands of the , Seuunoles aud Cherokee, comprising the territory of Oklahoma, they

have no moro right to dispose of them to

"boomers77 or other tramps than they have to sell any man's door-yard. It is probably best for the great American land-grabber to wait awhile before packing up for a trip to tho much-lauded plains oi Oklahoma. Chicago News. The Union veterans would do well to ask themselves whether the time has not come, nearly a quarter of a century after the close of the war, and when they themselves begin to feel keenly the burden of years, when it would bo well to make a public provision of homes, not for tho wealthy, the educated, the influential Southern leaders in the war, but for the poor fellows who were deluded or forced into the confederate ranks, and who are now crippled and poor, destituto and suffering. Now York Herald. The policv of hieh or low tariff, of pro tection or free trade, aonears to have noth ing at all to do with the formation of these trusts. Thev lionrish in all civilized gov ernments, and the statistics mentioned bear out Mr. Blaine's assertion in the presidential campaign, that England, the center of free trade, is "plastered all over with trusts." The "tariff reformers 1 who propose free trade as a remedy for the evil of trusts will not find any .backing in these statistical facts about them. New York Graphic. President Harrison has no desire or intention to interfere in Southern politics save as the laws of the United States au thorize or compel him to do so. And if the white voters in the Southern States once actually divided over the protection issues they would be likelv to find that the negro voters, when appealed to like men by -argument and persuasion, were no more dangerous to the peace of the Southern States than they are now. chafing under the repressive influences of fraud and co ercion. Boston Journal. The Democracy withont its immense vote in New York citv would he a verv insig nificant factor iu either State or national politic, and to hold this vote, composed of the jagged ends of creation, the present loose and corrupt election methods must be maintained. Sensible people, when they hereafter read in Democratic organs sentimental condemnation of bribery, will be able to put two and two together and reach a correct conclusion. Hypocritical cant of this sort is written to divert atten tion from the real issue. Baltimore Ameri can. ADVICE TO THE ELECT. They Will Lose Nothing by Showing a Meek and Modest Demeanor. Washington Po9t. To-day certain gentlemen are office holders who were, ono week ago, otliceseekers. On behalf of the anxious crowd still on the outside the Post, which is a friend of all classes and all conditions of mankind, would offer a suggestion to the now men in authority. Now that you are comlortably seated on the government velvet do not permit yourselves to be afllicted with an enlargement of the head. There is nothing about a position in this country to elevate a man above his fellows. You are in to-day, but you are liable to bo out to-morrow. Don't rear DacK in yonr seats with vour thumbs in the arm-holes of your vest and tell your admiring friends how much vou are "liored by office-seekers." The men who are out and who are applicants are as much interested in themselves asyou were interested in yourself one week ago. Don't soar. Keep ciowu on the dirt road with the rest of marchinghumanity. Touch elbows with the people. They are good company, and when they make up their minus they always boss the bosses. Another word of advico. Ho not let your delight over being successful lead you to think that the government business would stop still if you should suddenly be yanked out of your places by the hand of the President or the indiscriminate hand of Providence. Be assured that there are clerks of all grades serving under you who could tako your place with the advantage given them'by the position, and conduct your work in such manner that you would not be missed. He patient with the Senators and Congressmen who go to you and talk about "my State" and "my district." They think they own them, but they don't, and it is pleasant music to their own ears; and if you think they own StateH and districts, it may impress you with the belief that the entire earth is not your own. President Harrison's Daily Walks. "Washington Special to Baltimore American. President Harrison rigidly adheres to his business hours, and, in consequence, he is keeping fully abreast with all his work, and, what is infinitely more important, ho is not letting any rush of visitors break down his health. He has stood the wear of receiving his thousands of callers wonderfully well, and day after day comes to his work apparently as fresh and as vigorous as though there iwas not the shadow of a care or a bore to disturb him. . Hardly a day passes but he takes a long, pleasant walk. Herein he differs from Mr. Cleveland, who very rarely put his foot outside the executive mansion. Every afternoon, about sunset, Mr. Harrison rises from his work, and, accompanied by Mr. Halford, betakes a long walk about the city. One of his favorite walks is out Connecticut avenue to the boundarj, which is probably one of the plcasantest promenades in the city. He is a brisk, vigorous walker, and his companion, Mr. Halford, occasionally finds it just a bit tiring to keep step with him. This walk the President looks upon as relaxation. The happenings of the day are discussed, and many a citizen who has that morning made his little bow, would bo glad to learn inst what the President's frank opinion of him is. Mr. Halford is an excellent listener. It is vastly to tho credit of Washington that Mr. Harrison's privacy in these streets is entirely respected. No one has, up to the present time, annoyed him on the street by the presentation of petitions, or accosted him for office, and it is to be hoped that he will remain undisturbed during the only half hour of leisure that he grants himself. A Gracious Mugwump Approval. New Tork Evening Post. . The appointments to the minor foreign missions thus far represent an unusually, high level. Ex-Senator Palmer, of Michigan, is one of the lew representatives sent to Spain by the United States, with ability to speak the language of the Madrid court. In like manner, Mr. Thomas, of Maine, who returns to the post which he held at Stockholm under a previous Republican administration, speaks the Swedish language. Mr. Enander, who goes to Denmark, is a Scau-C danavian by birth, and the only cause for regret about his appointment is the fact he displaces that accomplished Seandanavian scholar, Mr. Rasmus B. Anderson, who now represents this country at Copenhagen. Ex-Governor Porter, of Indiana, the new minister to Italy: Mr. Thayer, af Minnesota, who goes to the Netherlands, and Mr. Washburn, of Massachusetts, who is appointed as minister to Switzerland, are all men of education and character, who will never cause their countrymen to blush. If the standard thus set for the smaller missions is maintained for the chief places, the diplomatic service will do the Nation credit. We have learned that the Hon. Perry Belmont resigned his position as minister to Spain, by telegraph, on the first day of March. Our comment, therefore, on his supposed removal bT Mr. Blame was' unwarranted, and wo tender to Mr. Blaine our apologies for the same. m ' Worse than the Tramps, rittabnrg Dispatch. The persistent bent of some communities toward barbarism is illustrated by a report which comes from an Indiana town of tho success of the citizens in capturing some tramps and making them run the gauntlet. Running the gauntlet is a custom adopted from the gentle North American savage, and iu this case it is reported that it did so much credit to its source that the blood trickled from the victims. An equal energy on the part of the citizens could have captured tho tramps and. under the vagrancy laws, have put them to work. Such work as making roads, building sidewalks and cleaning streets would have added to the general comfort and given the vagrants something to do. But these people could not rise to the height of respecting their own laws and reverted by choice to tho penalties of actual savagery. It isonly to be remarked that such a proceeding pnt the tramps in the light of the jespectable dnd innocent victims of lawlessness. Is Gen. Sherman Losing III Mind? Washington Special to Chicago Times. A Senator who had been talking about Sherman said this to me: "Sherman is losing his mind. He was always au eccentric man. He has had a good deal to contend with. His book is shown to be almost as full of error as truth and he got jacketed for that. He went to St. Louis to live after his retirement, and tho town, instead of honoring him. did all sorts of fool things to annoy him. lie was sensitive, in spite of

the fact that he. never respected the opinion of others. His wife died this winter, and that added to h trouble. He talks at random. I was with him soon after tho surrender of Yicksburg. I have been at his house often and have transacted business for him. I mot him at the White House the othgr day and spoke to him. He looked at me in a strange way and said: 'I beg your pardon, but I don t remember you.' I told him my name. He pressed my hand, looked at mo a second, and answered: Ves, I think I remember,' and passed on as if ho were pursued. I understand that he f:oes to the White House at nnrcspected murs and makes strange requests of tho President, who listensto him with patience and respect." The Pig In the Clover. New York Graphic The man who invented the Pigs-in-Clover puzzle, over which the entire population of New York has been going wild for a week, was a statesman. There is no sort of question about this fact, because onlv a statesman could have so accurately represented the real pigs in the clover the Democrats, who have had a taste of the clover of oCicial life and now seek by elusive method to keep out of the pen of private station. The Pigs-in-Clover puzzle is an excellent lesson for their warning. It takes only a little practice, with a strong and steady hand and nerve, and quick eye to pen tho marble piggies in a jiffy. So, too, the strong and steady hand aud nerve and quick eve of tho new Republican President, at Washington, will quickly pen them. They may squirm, and wriggle, and twist, and run round tho circle, but tho pen-door will stay open for them, and they will eventually be retired through it. It may not be done in three and a half seconds, tho best professional time on record with the little box. nor in seven seconds, the best amateur record. But it will be done in due time. It is tho "fad" of the day to drive pigs out of clover. The President's Views About the Navy. Washington Post. President Harrison will not be content with tho eight new war vessels which will be let to contract shortly after June GO, tho expiration of the current fiscal year. Ho will, it is said, advocate in his message to Congress the building of a very strong and modern navy. It should not be believed, however, that the President is of a naturally ferocious or pugnacious turn. He simply thinks it wise to be ready to back up diplomacy and good commercial treaties with physical force if necessary. It is also "understood that ho will recommend the encouragement of American shipping interests aud closer relations with our South and Central American neighbors. Ho is, a is known, opposed to class legislation, and would not couutenanee a law to afi'ect ono interest alone. Ho believes a law fdiould apply to everything in identical conditions. ' A Political Trimmer's Predicament. . Washington Post. Mayor Grant, of New York, is confronted now with a request that the English Hag be floated from tho City Hall on the 23d of April, which is St. George's Day. Alderman Divver and his associates will probably hold that, as tho English flag represents a nationality with which the United States is on no particular terms, whereas the Irish flag represents only a sentiment with which we are in sympathy, there is a distinction with a very wide difference between the two. . It is a delicate and difficult question to the politicians. Refort this flag business is done with Mayor Grant will begin to think that old man Hewitt's head was not so badly out of level after alL Can't Understand It, Washington Special. President Harrison's brasnuo manner.

many of the pilgrims say. is due in a largo measure to tho fact that the hungry officeseekers have nearly set him wild. All tho statesmen in Indiana nearly, from wardworkers up, have tried to get at him. The Indiana delegations look upou tho President as a neighbor and think because he is a Hoosier as well as themselves that they have find; call. An Indianapolis politician who was told the other day that the President wouldn't see him, simply screamed iu astonishment: "What! Not see me me!" Cruel, but Forcible. Philadelphia Inqnirer. When the Indians held possession of Indiana and the adjoining territory one of their favorite amusements was to make prisoners run the gauntlet, and it was noticed that if any of them escaped alive they were careful to avoid that part of tho country thereafter. . Tho citizens of Anderson, Ind., have been trying the same plan on a bt of vicious tramps, compelling them to leave town between a double line of men armed with clubs, and though i is too soon to announce results it is not expected that Anderson will sutler much from tho tramp nuisance in future. Suggestive Silhouette of a Hoot. Washington Post. There is a tree near the western entranco to tho White House grounds a branch of which casts a very interesting and suggestive shadow by aid of the electric light. It is an excellent silhouette of a very largo Wellington boot. A group of belated officeseekers were observed discussing it the other night, and opinions seemed to be divided as to whether it was 63'inbolical of tho President's intentions towards the Democratic hold-overs or tho aforesaid office-seekers, Democratic Approval. Philadelphia Record. The nomination of Mr. Whitelaw Reid as minister to France will be recognized in all parts of the country as a proper act on tho f art of President Harrison. Mr. Reid ha he character and capacity which will enable him to do credit to tho country as its diplomatic representative. There is tio question of his fitness. No one will dispute that he has earned at the hands of the Republican party tho distinction conferred upon him. . Tlenty Are Willing. Chicago Journal. - No free and independent citizen is obliged to accept an election to Congress at the present salary, or at any other salary. Theu why should congressmen demand more than the pay fixed by law! If tbey cannot afford it, plenty of good men can bo found who will take the oilice without au increase of wages. Fixing for a "Gratifying Gain." Chicago News. The Democrats of Tennessee have jist gerrymandered a Republican congressional district out of existence. After tho next congressional election look out for tho announcement that there has been a gratifying gain of ono Democratic Congressman in lenncssec." Making Some Impression. Chicago Tribnne. A Montreal paper insists that much of tho ho-called Yankee slang is really of classical origin and can bo found in tho writings of standard old English authors. It is evident that Uncle Sam's attentions to Miss Canada are making home impression on the coy maiden. Mr. Schuyler's Withdrawal. Waslilngton Post. The moral of tho story is that a man who expects to enter public life, through a presidential nomination, should bo extremely careful what he writes about the United States Senate, especially in book form. Cold typo is sometimes as deadly as a minio ball. Proving Its Itcpublicanlsm. Boston Journal. The number of veteran Union soldiers who aro being appointed to offices of trust and responsibility nowadays affords one of the best possible proofs that this is a Republican administration. Would He a lractlcal Lesson. Baltimorp American. If, while in Cuba. Mr. Cleveland and his ex-secretaries should fall in with some of the bandits infesting that island, they would soon learn how easilv their surpltn can be reduced. m A u Alternative. Atlanta Constitution. The Connecticut boy is now deprived by law of tho right to smoke. Tho only way he can show his innate manhood U to wear the flip-flop panties that have lately como into fashion. Signs of the Times. Philadelphia Press. There are multiplying and encouraging evidences that Benjamin Harrison has considerable inline nee with this admiui&ttar tioa.