Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 March 1889 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL THURSDAY. MARCH 28, 1680.' '

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LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern IIoteL WASHINGTON, D. C.-Rlggs nonse and Ebbltt House. - Telephone Calls. Buisness Office 233 1 Editorial Rooms...... 242 Editors are not without honor in their Dwn country not under this administration, at any rate. Tiie only real drawback to the appointment of Robert Lincoln is the fact that ho is not an editor. Genuine Democracy means govern-, mcnt by the people. The new-fangled Indiana kind means local government by legislative commissions. Tins is not one of the administrations to which no Irish need apply. Patrick Egan, of Nebraska, and Thomas Ryan, of Kansas, will bear evidence to this. Imagine Thomas Jefferson, Silas Wright, Andrew Jackson, Thomas II. Benton, or any Democrat of the old school favoring the government of towns and citiesby legislative boards! In former years the Democracy used to make a great point of fighting centralized government. Now it favors the very extreme of centralization, even to placing local and municipal governments under the control of legislative commissions. ' Illinois has been holding its mouth open for three weeks, waiting to be fed. It didn't know exactly what it wanted, but did know it was hungry. Now that the English mission has been dropped in unexpectedly, will it be satisfied and stop its howling? How did Mr. T.J. Newkirk, late Clerk of the House of Representatives, happen to think that possibly the saloon-license law had a constitutional defect in ijt? Was it inspiration, or what, that caused him to call at the Secretary of State's office for the purpose of examining the enrolled copy of the act? SSBBSBBBBWSMBSBBBBBISBBBBJBBSBSJBJB The saloon-license law with a possibly fatal defect init, too! You will not find the Democracy making any great fuss about this, though. If all their schemes for providing offices for themselves are to bo knocked out, as seems likely, it will be some comfort to the would-be office-holders to remember that they can open saloons at the same old rates. - - . Arrangements "are on foot in St. Louis for a State celebration of the centennial of Washington's first inauguration, on April SO, 1789. When that event occurred Missouri belonged to Spain, was afterwards ceded to Franco and became a part of the United States by the Louisiana purchase in 1803. She is all right now, though, and may celebrate with the rest. The New Jersey Legislature is likely to pass a new charter for Jersey City, making radical changes in the city government, but, unlike the Indiana Legislature, they propose to submit it to a vote of the people, and it does not become operative unless adopted by popular vote. They are not so advanced as the Indiana Democracy in the direction of ignoring local self-government. Invitations have been circulated in Alabama for a conference of old Whigs, to bo held at Birmingham soon. The object is to have a meeting and consul tation of old Whigs .who will indorse the policies and principles set forth in President Harrison's inaugural. The old Whig party was strong in Alabama. In lcUOit cast 28,471 votes for General Will iam Henry Harrison, against 33,901 cast for Van Buren. Most of the surviving old Whigs are Democrats now, made so by slavery and war issues, but as these subside and the tariff question comes to the front the old protection feeling re vives. The changes already made in the rail way mail service show that the adminis t ration realizes the importance of a thor ough reformation of the postal service and knows how to go about it. The rail way mail service is the key to the whole system, the mainspring and driving power of tho entire machine. Under the late administration it was badly de moralized, and after being filled up with . inexperienced and incompetent men the civil-service rules were applied to it in the last days of the administration with a view of preventing changes. Presi dent Harrison veiy wisely suspended the order of his predecessor until May 1, and now the work of restoration is go ing on. Out of five division superintendents appointed on Friday four were former incumbents of the office, and men of long experience and training.! Tho entire country i divided into nine .divisions, and five of these are already in charge of experienced men. These old division superintendents know the service as a sailor does the ropes of a ship. They will bo able to perceive immediately where it is weak, and will know how to strengthen it.. Theycan tzll ly tiuunining the records andcx-

amination papers who ought to be re

moved, and can put their hands on old clerks who ought to be reinstated. Tho reappointment of these former division superintendents is the best thing that could possibly have been done, and will contribute immensely to a speedy reformation of the service. THE FIRST-CLASS MISSI0H8. In the important list of foreign ap pointments sent to the Senate yesterday President Harrison treated the country to at least one genuine surprise. The nomination of Hon. Robert T. Lincoln for Minister to Great Britain possesses that element, in addition to others, which will command universal approval. Neith er the politicians, the press nor the omniscient correspondents had predicted Mr. Lincoln's appointment, but it is none the less an admirable one. In addition to the illustrious name whose honor ho has so modestly and effectively sustained, Mr. Lincoln has by his own abil ity and merits won a high place in popular regard. As a private citizen and successful lawyer he is held in the high est esteem by those who know him best, while as Secretary of War he showed himself excellently equipped for public duties. Mr. Lincoln is a typical Amerm a w w w w -w ican or tne western scnooi, ana his solid, . manly character cannot fail to make a favorable impression on critical foreigners. As tho -son of our greatest President, whoso name is almost as well known in England as in this country, his appointment will doubtless bo well received by tho British court and people. Ho will need no introduc tion to intelligent Englishmen. Of tho other nominations sent in yes terday the names of Murat Halstead, the veteran and able journalist, to bo minister to Germany; of Allen Thorndyke Rice, the brilliant editor of tho North American Review, to be minister to Rus sia, and of Patrick Egan, the Irish homerule agitator, to bo minister to Chili, are probably most widely known, and will command universal approval. The other nominations aro equally good in their way. The President is keeping up his record. JOHN BRIGHT. In the death of John Bright, England has lost one of her greatest men; but he had dono his work, and had fallen a little out of line with the progressive movements of this day and generation. Loyal Americans will ever think of him with gratitude because of his advocacy of the Union cause during the civil war, and the world will revere him as a phi lanthropist and statesman who did much to make "life worth living" for British workingmen; but it is a matter of regret that ho did not remain the outspoken champion of Irish rights and liberties that ho was in tho early years of his service in the House of Commons. Tho probabilities are that had he retained his physical vigor to the degree Gladstone has succeeded in doing, ho would not have permitted the bumptiousness and ill-timed demands of Irish members of Parliament to irritate him, and would have rounded up his noble career harmoniously as a supporter of the homerule doctrine. As it was, his ill health for tho past ten years must unquestion ably be held to have darkened his judgment, and in reviewing his history this departure from his usual liberal course will not be estimated against him by fair-minded persons. Ho will bo remem bered for the many reform movements in which he engaged so earnestly, and not for the one in which he took no part. The St. Louis Republic, still laboring under a misconception in regard to the President's Behring sea proclamation, says: It sets up a claim to the entire sea be tween two continents as American waters as much so as the waters of the Mississippi river or of any inland lake. The position is absolutely absurd and untenable. In buying Alaska we bought Russian rights in Alaskan waters, but the open Behring sea is no more Alaskan waters than is tne open Pacific ocean. If Russia had in form conveyed to us a title to the entire sea, the title would have been worth no more to us than a similar title to tho Pacific. We have no right to claim any open sea as national propertv, or to attempt to exclude other nations "from it. To do so is to give just cause of war whenever violence is used in supporting the claim against a foreign vessel. It is evident tho Republic has never looked at the treaty by which Alaska was conveyed to the United States, nor at any map showing tho boundary line thereby established. Tho treaty expressly conveys to the United States do minion over that part of Behring sea embraced within tho boundary lino and the curvilinear lino of tho Aleutian islands. This embraces nearly the whole of Behring sea. Tho President has not made a new claim; he has simply asserted an old one, and this he did not do of his own motion, but in accord ance with a mandatory act of Congress. Tho proclamation doe3 not "set up a claim to the entire sea," but only to that part of it conveyed to the United States by treaty. The assertion of jurisdiction relates only to the seal fisheries, and does not interfere with the navigation of tho sea for other purposes. It is intended to protect the fur-seal industry by prohibiting any vessel, foreign or American, from catching seal in Behring sea during a certain portion of tho year. The discovery of a probably fatal blunder in tho act increasing saloon licenses will cause universal regret among good people of all parties. Tho defect is in failing to comply with a pro vision of tho Constitution that requires. an amended act to be set forth at full length, and not by mere reference to its title, while in this case the amended act is referred to in the prohibited way. i While there is no reason in this case to suspect trickery or fraud, the error illustrates the evils of hasty legislation, which characterized the entire proceedings of tho last General Assembly. If tho high-license bill had been carefully drawn, properly considered and deliberately passed the blunder would not have occurred, but Democratic opposition and caucus rule prevented that course, and compelled a resort to whip and spur methods. The responsibility for this, as for other blunders, is on tho Democratic majority. A Richmond, Va., dispatch says there is considerable feeling and despondency amoutf the colored people in that city over

the announcement that Mrs. Harrison had dismissed tho colored servants at the White House and employed white domestics in their stead. Tho alleged "clean sweep" by the lady of the White nonse, says the dispatch, "portends to tho negroes some terrible disaster, and many of them now believe it is the first blow aimed at their civil rights, if not their actual f reedom." We suspect the Richmond negroes are not as much excited as they are represented to be, and we suspect, also, that the domestic reform in the White House is not so radical as it is pictured. But if the chief executive of the household department has made a clean sweep of the colored servants holding over from the Cleveland regime, it was doubtless for good cause. It is not forgotten that when the new occupants of the executive mansion returned after the inauguration, they found some of the servants in a state of intoxication and all of them demoralized. The new mistress of the White House is a practical housekeeper, and has very well-defined ideas of domestic administration. In order to reconstruct the interior department and institute a general system of household reform, she may have found it necessary to remove dishonest or incompetent servants and fill their places with such as possess the Jeffersonian qualifications of honesty, capacity and fidelity. We do not think the colored race has anything to fear from this administration. The Indianapolis people who refitted their houses last fall and were induced bv tho cleanliness of natural gas to purchase hangings, carpets and upholsterings in del

icate colors, discover their mistake as the spring dust works its way through the crevices of their dwellings. Dust is one of the heavy burdens of life to tho Indianapolis resident, and there is, at present, no prospect that it will be lightened. And now Miss Julia Marlowe, the much be-praised young "tragedy queen," is suffering from nervous prostration and has canceled a week's engagements. "Play-acting" must be harder work than the people who plod along working eight or ten hours a day for SC5 days in the year, have any idea of. Holders of Bell telephone stock have no desire for the machine to "ring off" when it announces that the earnings for tho year were 24.45 per cent, on the stock and that stock is worth $258 per share. It can keep on "talking now" as much as it likes at that rate. If Mr. Robert Garrett is insane there is a method in his madness. A man who declines to take his chances among Mexican bandits who proposo to fix his money value without consulting him, is not entirely bereft of reason. An Indiana man is on record this week as having patented a dust-collector. Hadn't the Indianapolis City Council better investigate the contrivance and buy a few for use on the streets? ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Henry Cabot Lodge's two-volume work on George Washington will be published within a few weeks. Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris has sailed for her English home. She does not expect to visit this country again for several years. The handsome Duke of Portland has just given his beautiful betrothed a magnificent sable cloak and a pearl necklace, which is said to be the finest in England, Col. Washburn, the new minister to Switzerland, is not only said to bo the handsomest man in Massachusetts, but ho; is something of a poet as well. "' :-' The Duke of St. Albans is the hereditary grand falconer of Great Britain. He receives a salary of $4,825 a year, and, of course, has nothing to do except draw his salary. A Chicago man went into a bookstore the other day to buy a copy of "Ben She," and got mad when he was told there was no such book. It was learned afterward that he meant "Ben-Hur." Mr. Oscar Wilde recently called on a lady who had just received a lot of Japanese screens. "You have come just in time," she said, "to help me arrange them." "Oh, don't arrange them," he replied, "let them occur!" Gottleib von Ballerstrom, a San Francisco bootblack, much given to painting the town, but who always claimed he was of noble extraction, has fallen heir to $500,000 by the death of a relative in Germany. Word has come of the death of Miss Whately, second daughter of the famous Archbishop of Dublin, logjjfian and inventor of conundrums. She was 'the founder and head of important English mission schools at Cairo. ''" . The noble Marquis of Qucensberry ex presses his opinion of marriage and divorce by saying: "What God has put asunder lot not men bo so foolish as to endeavor to keep together." The Marquis himself has been divorced. Three popular Washington belles will soon go to the altar (Margueretta Cameron, Dorothy Phillips and Jean Matthews will marry respectivelv William Clark, of Newark, N. J.; Judge Hilton's son, and Justice Gray. Secretary Rusk has always been a prominent figure in Grand Army national encampments, and was at one time department commander of Wisconsin. His staff was always composed ot one-armed or onelegged veterans. H. Victor Newcomb, of New York, is called the finest amateur prestidigitator in the country. He is wealthy and is obliged to keep a private secretary to answer and investigate tho claims of imaginary relatives who pester him for money. Mr. Cramp, the Philadelphia ship-builder, is described as a small man physically, mild in manner, pleasing in address, and with a voice as gentle as a cooing dove's. One would hardly associate him with iron-clads. torpedo-boats, dynamite cruisers and big guns. The contract between showmen Barnum and Forepaugh to keep out of each other's territory docs not expire until 1800. This vear ForepauKh goes West and Barnum will be seen in the Eastern cities, the dividing line being the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Mr. Forepaugh's health, which was impaired during the winter, is said to be much unproved. Peter Coor-ER, who died at ninety-two, leaving a fortune of $9,000,000, remarked to a young friend a few months prior to his taking-off: "My son, I never went to bed without saving half of what inv day's profits were. If I made a dollar, half a dol lar was put away. I carried that rule into active life when I became a merchant, and never departed from it." Mrs. Margaret ti. sangster nas ac cepted the offer of Harper & Bros, to be come editor of Harper's Bazaar. Mrs. Sancster has been for several years the successful postmistress of Harper's Young People, and has been associated in other wa3's with Harper's publications. She is also a writer of graceful verse, and is wellknown as a writer for the religious press. During the military parade at the in auguration of President Harrison it was particularly noticeablo that many of the Pennsylvania troops marched along with , great vim while their faces were illuini nated with smiles. A possible explanation , of this is gathered from the statement of a Washington druggist who says that one drug store on the avenue sold to the mem .bersof the Penns3'lvania militia six dozen , nursing bottles, which were filled with whisky and placed in tho breast pockets of .'their overcoats. The long tubes were then , tucked under their cravats to be drawn

forth at will, and the contents of the bottle were enjoyed during the long march in the drenching rain. The precautionary action, it is thought, saved the lives of many of the men. At the Queen's last drawing-room the Marchioness of Granny wore the very dress in which her husband's great-grandmother, the ''beautiful" Dnchess of Rutland, was married in 1775. It was a white-and-gold brocade, woven in a design of roses and leaves. With it the Marchioness wore a tram of heliotrope velvet and some of Nell Gwynne's jewels in the shape of a splendid diamond coronet and a pearl necklace, with uncut ruby clasp. Notwithstanding the author's protest; "Robert Elsmere" is to be put uponthe stage in this country. The cast is complete, and TeOarsals are well under way. The company's first important engagement will be in Bosten, where sixteen performances aro to be given, the contract with the management of the Hollis-street Theater calling for representations as carefully attended to in the matter of details as if the play were intended to run for the entire season. One of the small humbngs of tho day is the advertising card of a coming theatrical attraction. On the reverse side is printed a pretty, highly-colored picture, beneath which is the caution to read ;the other side, and afterward immerse the card in water, picture uppermost, for three days, then watch carefully the result. It is needless to add the result is nil, but the scheme is rather clever, for it insures, six times out of ten, the careful preservation of the card. ; Von Bulow confesses his thorough astonishment over the growth of the Wagnerian sentiment in the United States. "The very atmosphere," he says, "is charged. I am no sooner on shore than I hear echos of a tremendous performance of 'Die Gotterdamerung,' and go to assist at another one of Tthemgold' in the afternoon. You can imagine how the change from fourteen years ago must impress a musical pilgrim. When I was here last the very names of these great works were unknown here, although familiar to musical Germany." Potter Palmer lias been a liberal patron of art during his sojourn in New York the last fortnight, buying extensively at the several notable picture sates. Mr. Palmer has already at his "palace home" in Chicago one of the finest art collections in tho West, which the gossips value at $500,000. Mr. Palmer began as a dry goods clerk, made a fortuno, lost almost all at the Chicago fire, quickly recuperated financially with the help of his great hotel, and is now in line with the wealthiest Americans. His wife is sister to the wife of Colonel Fred D. , Grant, and was Miss Honore. By the death of Franz von Mendelssohn the financial world loses one of its chief representatives, whose claims to a place among the eminent men of Berlin do not rest on tho fact of hia being a relative of the famous musician, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, nor on his being the head of one of the largest German banking firms. As a philanthropist of the widest svmnathies

thousands of poor have looked up to him as their benefactor, and most of his good deeds never reached the ear of the public. The Emperor Frederick showed his regard for him by knighting him shortly after he be gan nis uriei reign. TnE little Princess of the Netherlands when 6ho becomes Queen of Holland, will be one of tho richest sovereigns, if not tho richest sovereign, in Europe. The civil list of Holland, which is secured on the reve nues of Itorneo. is very large 3,000,000 per annum, it is said. The Duchy of Luxembourg passes to the Grand Duke of Nassua, anu men becomes a portion of the uerman empire, but tho kingdom of Holland, not law, decends to the King's little daughter. She is a bright, intelligent, clever child, with a good deal of character and determination. The marriage of the King and Queen, despite tho disparity of age, has been a very happy one. The unfortunate Crown Prince of Aus tria shares the crypt of tho Capuchin Church at Vienna'with 113 of his ancestors. With three exceptions, every member of the Hapsburg dynasty has been buried there since the Emperor Mathias died in 1610 these three exceptions being the Emperor Ferdinand II, buried at Gratz; the second wife of Leopold X, and the Empress Amelia, buiied in convents. Thus the crypt contains tho remains of eleven emSerors, two queens, twenty-seven archlikes, fifteen empresses, one king of Rome, fifty-three archduchesses, two dukes, and two electoral princes, besides the hearts of two empresses, of Marie Anne of Portugal, and an archduchess. When Miss Ebba Munck and Prince Os car of Sweden w ere married last year they affirmed that they preferred the life of sim ple citizens to the splendors of a royal court. That they still adhere to that,principlo was shown when their little daughter was born, for, instead of the usual elaborate announcements in the news columns, the happy parents, according to the custom on the continent, had , the event published in the advertisement columns of the Karlkrona local paper. It was worded thus: En Dotters lyckliga fodelse. KarLskrona den 28, Februari, 1889. Ebba och Oscar Bernadotte. The Scandinavians are naturally "fetched" by the signs of such a democratic spirit, and Prince and Princess Oscar are extremely popular. COMMENT AND, 0PIM0X. Ttiw Tleninerntie nnrtv had li v rlian a n trial, and was found wantinir. nnf. it. will iinrer 1iiva onnthpr nnn until it. liffnnia full of patriotism, love of country, obe- . a i . t At At.. - uience to law anu me spirit oi uio people. New York Graphic. deals and the lavish use of money must be stoppea, uui ii must ue uono in a way wuica accords with the idea that we are still livititf in tho niptATith rntnrv and flint. tliA millennium is not vet at hand. Brooklyn H 1(Tapitat. is not now fonnd aa readilv as oftnift vpiru nirn fnr inrpstmpnt. in tip.w rail way enterprises. The shrinking of values 111 cAlsuiig uiucii) wains juujixuus num Mal1a nlrotifltr nM1 ri Afl fIY TIlillrA tVlA Tn fwt. nf pstnhlishftd roads will nrobablv charaew ' - - 4 - terize all large railway operations of the Tiik creatures who want to live on the AominrrsAf nifioraiirA nnt; tliA Tnniftritv in any American city. Of all tho wild blunAnra xehiih fhf PnmtrmnistH makft. the wildest in this country is the notion that thAmi iotia who nsron witn snentcomeniPE IO xneir inreais woum aisu euumn lauieiy to their spoliation and destruction pf property. New York Tribune. T'ifp wMirit. nf rmnlift ontTiion i in favor A 1 1 At A 1.1 1 . 1 I J. A 1 of the creation of the Territory of Okla1 -A 1 - .ll 11 AA I A noma, ior it is xeiv tuuit ii in au uuuuiuiy iu permit so much land to be occupied by so lew people, ana oy jepie wuu mano uv use of it, when there is a demand for homes for the white people ot the united btates, i i r a in . .1 a anu wueu no jujusuuti nm uduuud lj mo Wtttt tliA nfi jin tr nf fSrnver Clvplnnd irani shea th ntttv spirit which practiced economy in vetoing m pension bills and UprTpaiilentflnd an administration friendly to the soldier, and that is something to J m . l . 1 . I . 1 1 1 il.. wnicn ine couniryiias ueca unustu ior iud last four years. Rochester Democrat and v Uuronicie. ) Tut nnntWpT' "on o fTnril in nav ennd men i;ir-fl It-- fnr Tiwl wnrlf in fTrmcrpfis even though in order to do 60 it must pay some . AAl 7 A 1 un wormy men accoruingxome same sianuard for doing nommg ot any vaiue. jjui nAnnlor con t i tn All t Til 11 ct ll IV A f 1 Til A tfl PIT fl taihze under the inlluence of knowledge and reneciion oeiore a posmvo i-uuciumuu as iu .. . i r i tne pronosea increase can ue eniorceu. Troy (N. Y.) Times. Kpvpi! Iefnr liaa so mnrh stresfi been laid among us upon public education: never before has liberal provision for the first principles oi ponucai t-uucanou uerii ieib r 1 r imnnrtnnt an elf ment in Public ed ucation; never before have our people as a rule been so ready to accept enlarged ideas ef Tclint. Tinlilir. education mav nrrnmnlish in the wise direction of our manifest des tiny. lioston neraiu. English public opinion has been so nrnncpil and excited that if the comnlieitv of the government with the Times can be nnrn ef:ilil ished LevoTid eontroversv. the present government will be doomed to a speedy dissolution, and the party which, under Beaconslield and Derby, put so much

Eower into the hands of the people, will avetho infinite mortification of tracing their overthrow to those very votes which they, in their attempt to out-liberalize

liberalism, had created. 15oston Adver tiser. i The negroes of the South are still the victims of the old prejudices of slavery. Pieces of the iron manacles and chains that bound them down during generations of servitude still adhere to them. They are the unfortunate victims of circumstances over which they had no control, and every assistance possible should be given them in overcoming the disastrous consequences of I mose circumstances. uioveianu JLeauer. It is in accordance with the American system to give every man "a show for his white allev " and if men in a distant State have a taste or talent for government serv ice, iney ougnt not to be depnvea oi me chance to indulge or exercise it because others of the same inclination live nearer to the seat of government and have better opportunities to know when, where and by what agencies to press their claims. Louisville Commercial. While the colored people of the South are talking "exodus."the whites are in viting white immigration. And yet the conditions which make it quite impossible ior coiorea people to remain in some portions of the South are such as to place restrictions on white immigration from the North. A Northern white Republican does not want to go where a Southern black Republican is not allowed to enjoy his political rights. Detroit Tribune. Tins countrv wants to Ree a good market for American trade in South America. And it also wants to see direct lines of communication between tho United States and South American ports. The latter are quite essential to the former. Commercial necessity, as well as national pride, suggests tnat tne united estates pursue a liberal policy in promoting more direct and closer re lations with tho South American States. Iowa State Register. The Intemperance of Prohibition. Washington Post. "If there is one thincr Mica TTatA Field, addressing a large audience of reTiresentnti va W i cT- i r rrt r n nonnlo of firnnil Army Hall last night, "which I never cared ,..l.i:i ia : v : a : i n. seems to be mv destinv in rtn thir. win eh T had rather not. Being in Iowa in September, 16S0, the Mayor of the town assured me iuc iaw were uespoiic, anu, oeing so, were violated. My own agent visited a saloon where beer wa heinrr nld not onlv to adults but to very little children, and urunimers assurea mo tnat just as mucn liquor as ever was sold in Iowa. Every drat? store in Town, ia n. trenteel trrocrrferv. "Going one day into the best drug store in a largo iown i oraereu nan a pint oi pure California brandy. I was assured I would lin vo tir t-attt lioct A -f tor- 1 1 1atV - " " . AA. w V A V . J U A. A A A A A AAV A v A had put on a large lying label, and secured my seventy-five cents, which was at the rate of $3 a bottle, I signed a certificate and the clerk gave mo the brandy." Miss Field then told several anecdotes of her experiences in prohibition States, and enierea inro a lengtny discourse oi pronioition of all kinds in all ages. A Democrat of the Old SchooL New York Graphic. One of the Democrats in the federal serv ice in New York who will not trouble a Re publican administration to turn him out is Col. James E. Jones, deoutv collector. He is a stitF Democrat of the old school, who came here from Corning, and was associated with Daniel Manning and Samuel J. Tilden. He has been Democratic enough to antagonize Collector Magone, and to denounce his methods of treating men until they scarcely speak as they pass by. Ihe Colonel's appointment to office was one of the novelties of Cleveland's administration. He walked in on Secretary Manning one day and said: "Dan, I want to be a deputy collector at New York." "Where's your application?" asked Manning. "I haven't got any," was the Colonel's reply. "les, but you must have a petition for the place and signers some one that knows you." "See here, Dan, you know me better than anybody," said the Colonel, "and I don't want any better backing. What's more. I won't ask anybody else' He got tho place. ITow Postal Clerks Should lie Protected. Washington Tost. There are a great many more reasons why a postal clerk in tho railway mail service should have a fixed tenure than that post masters should have. It requires a man of moro man orumary auiuiy to maKO a gooa postal clerk. .Most any man can distribute the mail after it reaches the postoflice. A very large per cent, of men who enter the railway mail service fail in tho examination at the end of six months' triaL Men who have devoted years of time and labor to make themselves valuable to this impor tant branch ot the service, and who are daily in danger of being maimed for life or killedoutright, should have a fixed tenure of office. 1 his will not prevent the removal of worthless men. It is a practical and sensible reform. The idiotic idea of a civil ' service based on an examination as to tho applicant's collegiate attainments should not be thought of. Tho good old Methodist Church idea of civil-service reform Is the best that has ever been originated six months' probation, come to the scratch or get out. The Harbor of Greytown. Overland Monthly for March. . The most difficult feature of the Nicara gua canal is the restoration of the harbor of Greytown, which has been destroyed by silt deposit from the San Juan river. Tho United States survey allows $1,707,000 for this purpose, but it may cost o,000,000. It is not more difficult, however, than was tho construction of a harbor at Port Said, and the work will resemble it iu character. Tho method of restoration is a question whereon opinions diller; mat favored by the United States engineers being the diversion of the lower San Juan into the Colorado branch, which already carries to tho ocean eleven-twelfths of the volume of tho river. This can easily be effected,, and once tho harbor is isolated, it is intended to dredge it and to run a breakwater 3,000 feet from the outer lino of the harbor into tho Carribean, with six fathoms at its seaward end. Tho breakwater may have to be subsequently extended seaward. Tho soil is a volcanic sand, easily handled, but difficult to locate permanently. A Complaint Against Harrison. Washington Special. There was a great rush of visitors at the White House to-day, and it seemed as if the oliice-seekers were trying to make up for their leniency of the previous two days: but President Harrison listened with great patience to quite a large number, generally dismissing tnem with a very brief reply and a very non-committal one. In fact, ho is making the reputation among the placeseekers of being something of a sphynx. One head of a "delegation" who visited him a few days ago came back to hk hotel in a state of boiling wrath. His followers gathered about him. "Well," they exclaimed, "have you fixed the slatef" "I don't know." he answered savagely. "Why. didn't you see the President!" 'Tes, I saw him.77 "Didn't he give you a cnance to ex plain the situation?" "Yes, he gave me a cnance." "Ana vou improvea ill" "ui course I did. But I tell you; boys, he's one of those infernal listeners.77 And Never Will Be. Lewis ton (Me.) Journal. TTia wreteh who nnt that brand v-lioftlA in the overcoat-pocket of a tctotally distinguished ex-Governor of Maine, and arranged it so that it fell out at a critical moment in the session oi mo legislature, nas not yet i j j .i ueen uiacoveruu. W1U Swell Itself to Death. Cleveland Leader. A dried-apole trust is the latest. If ihn concern ever "gets caught out in the wet," and behaves as dried apples do under like circumstances, there will be a "dried-apple i 1 DUSt on a grauu bcaie. "What Jloston Needs. Washington Tost. ftoaton ia starting ft mild crusade acrninst the fork. A spoon with a knifo edge, or a knife with a spoon bevel, would about cover the situation so far as pork and beans are conccrnea. What Men Are Living For. Philadelphia Inquirer. If the ancient philosophers were alive thev would no longer be wondering what men are living for. It is to get those pigs in the pen. Spring Drinks and Sea Serpents. Philadelphia Inquirer. A great many new "spring drinks" aro an nounced, and sea serpents of as many new epecica will soon ue reportco.

VALUABLE BOY MISSING. .

The Youthful Ilcir to a Fortune of $SO,O0O Disappears in a Mysterious Manner. CniCAGO, March 27. Mr. Kruschanrki is a Pole, and lives near the comer of Washtenaw avenue and Thirty-sixth fetreet. Yesterday morning ho sent his son to a butchershop, at the stockyards, to proenro 6ome meat for the evening meal. Ho gave tha lad the necessary amount to make his pur chase, and 10 cents for car fare. Tho father has nott seen his boy since. Mr. Krus chanrki waited until 10 o'clock for his son to return, thinking that he mighthavo been delayed, but as the hours passed, and the lad did not make his appearance, a suspicion that all was not right arose in tho father's mind, and ho started out to look for tho boy. He first went to the butcher-shop. The meat-dealer said that tho boy had been there, bought tho .meat, and starteU away. Irom the meat market the father went to several houses in the vicinitv where the boy was kuown. A number of people had seen tho lad, two or threo Laving mei mm in aoinpauy wuu. a siocKmun leading a Mexican mustang. A light dawned upon the father's mind. The lad. had been much interested in the stockmen who came in with cattle, and had been much in their company. From one of them ' lie nad secured a pair of Mexican breecnes of the wide-bottom-and-laced-at-the-sido variety. These he had carefully treasured. The father went home and searched for tho breeches. They, too, were gone. Mr. Kruschanrki notified tho town of Lako police of the loss of his boy. and this morn ing made tho rounds of the different police m. T a a. 1 m stations ana leit a uescripiion oi nisson. When the boy left he wore a light checked, cloth cap, sack coat, black breeches and laced shoes. He is a very bright lad, and can speak German, Polish and English very correctly. Tho clothes he woro were well made and of the latest style. Mr. Kruschaurki told a reporter that the boy was heir to a fortuno of $80,000. left to him by his grandfather, who formerly lived in lfesso-Darmstadt. but died two years ago. The boy lived with the old gentleman up to mat time, out camo to mis country and joined his father when his grandfather died. He was a great favorite of the old gentleman, and tho onlv comfort in his old age. In his will the old man stipulated that the .$S0,000 be paid the boy when ho arrived at nis majority, the interest to be in the meantime nsecl to educate tho lucky lad. Tho father believes that tho lad was either abducted by one of tho many cattlemen he was in tho habit of associating with, or that ho ran away to live on a ranch and raise cattle. The 6tockmen' knew that tho lad was heir to a fortune, and it is thought that possibly one of them, conceiving the idea that ho could get some of the money, stole tho boy for that purpose. The lad had not been found up tonoon to-da'. Mr. Kruschaurki is a poor man. earning but nominal wages as a car penter. He may, however, decide to ofl'er a reward for the lad's safe return. Young Girl Abducted. Canton, O., March 27. Lizzie Myers, a pretty sixteen-year-old girl, was abducted from her home in Justus, this county, by two of her uncles, Andrew and William Maurcr, and taken to Uhrichsvillc, 0.,whero she now is. This afternoon tho girl's stepfather, Charles Adams, camo here and swore out warrants for tho arrest of tho two Maurers on a charge of abduction, and an ofiicer left at once for Uhrichsville ta secure the men and tho girl. There is con sideracle mystery about the case, Adams, tne step-father, charging that tho object of the abductors is to get hold of a large sum of money which is to be left Miss Myeri upon the death of her grand-father, John Maurer, tho old gentleman having recently executeu a win to mat. enect. SWINDLER ARRESTED. He Operates in the Guise of a Priest, andla Wanted in English and American Cities. Toronto, Ont., March 28. Last evening detective Beburn, acting under instruc tions from Ottawa, arrested a man in St. James Hotel, who, it is believed, is a swind ler "badly wanted in England and in lead Ing cities of the United States. His opera tions were conducted under the guiso of a Catholic priest. Ho was registered as G. Barnett, of Ottawa, and when arrested sis massive gold watches were found in 'his valise, out of which he had swindled an Ottawa jeweler. As soon as ho arrived in Toronto he made for the jewelry store of P. W. Ellis & Co., ordering $1,500 worth of diamonds, to be sent to Sr. Michael's Colleger where he said ho acted in the capacity of a teacher, and mat tha diamonds were wanted as ' a . pres ent to .the Pope by tho priests of Toronto. Mr. Lllis went nn to the college and found his customer there, looking ha like a priest as possible, but the merchant did not bring the diamonds, giving some . A W k excuse tnereiore. Harnett, nowever. handed Mr. Ellis a check for $1,500 on Molson's bank, stipulating at the same time that the diamonds should bo sent to tho college at 0:30 o'clock this morning, that is to say half an hour before tho bank should open. In this way tho prisoner hoped to get away wun nia spoil, jus arrest xasi night spoils that part of tho game. Ha also, yesterday afternoon, swindled another jeweler by the same trick, of valuable jewelry, which also was found among hii other ill-gotten effects. Tho detectivce say that ho is the most notorious Crrindlei; m his own way on recoro. Married in the Senate Chamber. Nashville. Tenn.. March 27. Senator Pryor Carter, of Macon county, and Mrs. Cordelia Jordan, of tins city, were united, in marriage, to-day, in tho State Senate Chamber, in tho presence of both houses or the General Assembly, the two Speakers occupying prominent positions on tho stand. The ceremony was performed by Gov. K. L. Taylor, this being tho first timo that a marriage lias been solemnized in Tennessee bv the Governor. Both branches of the Legislature yesterday passed a bill empowering mo uovernoranu me cpeaKcrs to perform the marriage in question.. There were present a large number of citizens, and tne affair was very interesting, for various reasons. Ihe members of the Sen ate presented a handsome silver service to the happy couple. The Senator stands 6ix r A f a 1. 1 t- 1 A 'A ieei eigut incucs iu ueigui, is sixiy-six years old, and one of the leading members of tho backwoods delegation. Tho bride is considerably younger, and is well " favorably known in this city. A Mind-Header's Sad Plight. MiNNEAroLiP. Minn.. March 27. Mind reader Bishop tb-dav performed his feat of A 1? 1 I 'll 5 - nnuing a neeuie. previously juuucn in souij distant part of the city, but it nearly cost him his life and may yet result seriously. Mr. Bishop was not feeling well, and ought not to have attempted it, but no was determined to keep his promise. The drive was a distance of over a mile, and was through the most crowded streets of the city. Bishop, blindfolded, wentstraight to the hiding place of the needle, out immediately fell in a fit His body became rigid and streams of perspiration poured from him. Tho aoctors said the attack wa something like catalepsy. At a late hour this afternoon, Bishop was in a very bad condition, he coming out of one lit only to fall in another. New York, March 27. Absolute divorce was to-day granted tho wife of mind-reader Bishop. Dead and Unidentified. St. Louis, March 27. Last night a venerable-looking, well-dressed man, apparently fifty years of age. went to tho Hotel Parle, accompanied by a good-looking, neatly-dressed woman, registered asS. M. Waite and wife, of Florida, and the couple were assigned a room. During the night Waite drank a great deal of beer, and had supper served in his room. This morning the woman left the hotel and did not return. Later Waite was found in a dying condition, with a bottle of morphine near him. Soon after being taken to tho City Hospital Waite died. The police are looking for the mysterious woman, and the body of S. M. Waite, of Florida, lies on s slab in the morgue, unidentified. The dead man is well dressed, with iron-gray hair and mustache, live feet eleven inches in height, with soft and slender hands, show ing ho had never done manual lalxr. He claimed to own an orauge yruvo in Florida