Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1889.

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ownership in land. Every immigrant means to gain a personal title in a tract of land, and the possibility of doing this is the sole explanation of his eagerness. The desire to own real estate in fee simple is so ingrained in the American mind that there is little likelihood of a speedy revolution of opinion in favor of the single-tax or tho rental system. Henry George will not live ' to see his theories adopted into practical use. Congressmen ought not to be too severe upon the residents of their districts who impartially sign every candidate's recommendation to office. Congressmen, in moments of ante-election abstraction, have been known to make more prom ises than there were postoffices, and if busy private citizens, who are supposed to be less familiar with the official supply and demand, are equally careless, they should not bo blamed too greatly. . Besides, the private citizen would often be just as happy with one good man as another for postmaster, and sees no' reason why he should discriminate against ono neighbor and in favor of another, when the Representative de clines to do so. Recent visitors to the President say ho looks tired and as if ho needed rest. No doubt this is the case. He has been under a great strain, without interrup tion, since tho Chicago convention in June last. The strain has been mental, as well as physical, and of the most exhausting character. Tho campaign, tho visiting delegations, the speech-making, the election, the post-election visitors, the worry of Cabinet-making, the in auguration, the launching of his admin istration, tho daily struggle with officeBeekers all this has been enough to break down most men. Now the Senate has adjourned and there is a little breath ing spell in public affairs, tho President 'should get out of Washington for a few days and 6eek a little rest. A lazy cruise down Chesapeake bay and a sniff of salt air is what ho needs, and tho sooner ho gets it the better. The objection of Apostlo Taylor, of Salt Lake, to doctors is novel, but from a polygamist's stand-point is not with out foundation. "We have 6,000 children born annually, at a cost of $20 apiece," says tho apostle, "which is robbery on tho part of tho doctors." As a general thing he favors dependence on the heal ing powers of tho elders, but reluctantly advises calling in a doctor when no faith is left in these saints. Evidently, too, ho regards the application of the faith cure as rather ineffectual and unsafo treatment in tho matter of bringing children into the world. Where tho rais ing of children is a leading industry, as in Mormondon, the reduction of its cost to the lowest limits is, of course, desir able from a simple business point of view, and must naturally engage the at tention of the Lord's anointed. Their final solution of the difficulty and method of circumventing the doctors will bo looked for with some interest, even by gentiles. A question having been raised in Canada as to the purity of the American lard sold in that market, the Department of Inland Revenue caused an inspection and analysis to bo made of sixty samples obtained at random. Of this number only one was pure lard, that one being put up by a Boston firm. Tho remain ing fifty-nine were adulterated, mostly ycith. cotton-6eed oil. In consequence of this discovery the revenue authorities fciavo recommended an increase of the duty on American lard. If the finding of the analysis was correct tho authori ties were right in their action, and it is a good lesson for American lard manu facturers. In fact, it is a good lesson for manufacturers of all kinds that hon -sty is the best policy. Thendulteralion of food articles is one of tho most ricdblo forma of fraud. Cotton-seed

oil in itself is neither unwholesome nor repulsive, but it is not lard, and no honest dealer would sell it as such. If

American manufacturers adulterate their lard they have no right to complain if foreign markets are closed against them, as, indeed, all markets ought to be. TEXAS STATES LIAS 8 HIP. Roger Q. Mills has broken into the North again, and broken out again with his free-trade rant. Mills has sat at the feet of cowboys and learned political economy in the wild broncho school of Texas. When he mounts his free-trade hobby he makes it prance like a Mexican mustang on an open prairie. Mills is a great statesman in Texas. His latest deliverance was at a banquet of a Jefferson Club at Springfield, O., a few nights ago. The club is one of those which try to maintain the pleasant fiction that Jefferson was one of tho founders of tho Democratic party, and that the so-called Democracy of to-day is descended from that of his time. Ono of the necessities of this fiction is to maintain that Jefferson favored free trade, whereas, in truth, he was decid edly in favor of the protection and development of American industries. Making Jefferson's birthday an occasion for preaching free trade is about like making Andrew Jackson's birthday an occasion for preaching civil-service reform. In his speech at Springfield, after offer ing incense to tho memory of Jefferson, Mr. Mills said that, as a people, we had arrived at that stage when the productive capacity of our labor had f ar oustripped the capacity of our people for consump tion. He continued: What are we to do with this surplus pro duction of our labor? For nine months in the year we produce more than our people can consume in twelve. It means three months of idleness for men who cannot af ford to be idle, men upon whose work depends the subsistence of themselves, their wives and children. They must have employment. What is tho solution of this question? This is Monsieur Tonson come again. It is our old friend Bynum in a new guise. Did Mills get from Bynum tho great idea that American workingmen are idle and starving three months out of every twelve, or did Bynum get it from Mills? Perhaps they evolved it between them. They belong to tho school of statesmen who seem to be as much worried by a surplus production as by a surplus revenue. Your true Democrat is never quite happy unless he is causing a deficit of some kind. Mr. Mills asks: "What is the solution of this question?" Of courso his solution is free trade. The Texas idea is that free trade would "open the markets of the world" ' to us and thereby relievo our overproduction. Mr. Mills elaborated this idea very ably, but it evidently never occurred to him that free trade would open our markets to tho rest of the world as well as theirs to us, and that in the end tho cheap labor of Europe would control both. He assumed that wo are suffering from overproduction; how much more, then, are foreign countries suffering from the 6ame cause. He assumed that foreign markets were waiting for us to enter in and possess tbem, whereas, in fact, they are inadequate to their own prod ucts. Foreign markets are worse glutted than ours, and for that reason foreign manufacturers are looking with longing and avaricious eyes to tho American market. If the American market is glutted and suffering from overproduc tion, as Mills, of Texas, represents, it is still, incomparably, the best in tho world, and, therefore, should be jeal ously guarded and preserved for American manufacturers. Ho would improve our market by admitting the products of foreign cheap labor free of duty, and would cure tho evil of overproduction by flooding the country with foreign manufactures. If it were true, as Mills and Bynum say, that American workmen and factories are idle three or four months out of every twelve, how would they be bettered by bringing them into direct competition with tho workmen and factories of Europe? The Mill s-Bynum idea is that if two bodies of water, on different levels, one higher than the other, are connected by an unobstructed way, tho water will rush from the lower into the higher until a level is established. Great idea that! EEflLATMTKQ THE DESERT. When the epitaph of tho Mormons comes to bo written, or their proper place in history defined, they must be accorded the credit of discovering and applying one idea of inestimable value. They are tho originators in this country of artificial irrigation. Although the system is still comparatively in its in fancy, it is already a great factor in the development of some sections of the country, and is destined to bo a much greater one in tho future. No doubt, if tho Mormons had not introduced artificial irrigation somebody else would have done so, but the fact remains that they did. The result has been to con vert the desert of Utah into a region of wonderful fertility, and to pave the way for an extensive system of internal improvement in other sections of the coun try. In tho vast area of country former ly called the Great American Desert, embracing alkali plains hundreds of miles in width, and extending, with occasional interruptions, from the Mexican border on the south to tho British American lino on the north, thero are millions of acres of land which, without artificial irrigation, are utterly barren, but with that can be made immensely productive. Not all of this vast area can bo reached and utilized by irrigation, but a large part can and will be. In Utah COO miles of canals have been constructed, at a cost of more than $2,000,000, and bringing more than 000,000 acres of arid land under tillage. Arizona has about two hundred miles of irrigating ditches which, at a cost of $1,000,000, have reclaimed 200,000 acres of desert land. Western Kansas has over 300 miles of canals, ono of which is fifty feet wide and nearly one hundred miles long, and another forty feet wide and fifty miles long. Tho Eureka canal, 1,500 f cct long and ten feet high, diverts five feet of water through the banks of tho Arkansas river into another canal

eighty miles long and thirty feet wide at the bottom, which by side canals fertilizes a large extent of country. In Colorado more than a million acres of land have been brought under artificial irrigation, and in Arizona and southern California some of the:irrigating.enterprises are of great ' extent. The curious thing about these reclaimed arid lands is that under irrigation they become more productive than tho best of lands watered by natural means. "When the tidal wave of emigration, waiting toy break into and over Oklahoma, has occupied that and other good lands available to settlement, it will probably bo diverted into the irrigated regions.

Tire press and people outside of Indiana are having a good deal to say about "tho Indiana man" in connection with offices and appointments. It is broadly hinted, if not openly asserted, that Indiana is coming to tho front too fast, that the Indiana man is numerous and. aggressive, and that he abounds not only in the State but out of it, and turns up unexpectedly in distant States and Territories. We are rather proud to admit that thero is some foundation for these charges, not in the sense that Indiana is getting or likely to get more political recognition than she deserves, but that she is getting more than ever before, and something near her deserts. The Indiana man need not be humiliated nor discouraged by tho flippant references to his ubiquity, or the envious insinuations that he is getting more than his share of the official plums. Such is the way of the world. The Ohio man stood this sort of thing for many years, but he went right along pushing his way to the front, and commonly ho got there. Now it is Indiana's turn. The center of population and the star of empire have moved westward, and they now rest in and over Indiana, instead of Ohio. Eventually they will move on westward, but not for some time yet. Meanwhile we are free to admit and proud to claim that Indiana is a great State, and there is every reason why the Indiana man should be as numerous and aggressive as ever the Ohio man was. As long as the logic of events assigns tho Indiana man to the front he must maintain his place firmly and kindly, of course, with malice towards none and with charity for all; but let him get there and stay there. The Youngstown, O., man who went to the poor-house and selected from among the inmates a woman who agreed to becomo his wife and the step;mother of his nine children, had probably read the late E. P. Roe's story "He Fell in Love with His Wife." It is hardly probable, however, that the pleasing idyl described by Mr. Roe is the invariable sequence of a marriage of that character. Besides, the nine children, who did not figure in the Roe narrative, are likely to detract somewhat from the romance of the situation. There is reason to fear that the Ohio man, to say nothing of his bride, will fail to realize his blissful anticipations. Cincinnati papers record the death of Mrs. Groesbeck, wife of Hon. W. S. Groes beck. She was a daughter of Hon. Jacob Burnet, one of the pioneers of Cincinnati, and her sister was wifo of JusticoMc Lean, of the United Statos Supreme CourtT The deceased lady possessed rare graces and accomplishments of character, and was noted for her charities. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. The Rev. Edward Everett Hale has entered his sixty-eighth year in capital health. The tower Eiffel in Paris at the exhibition grounds is capable of holding in its different landings ten thousand persons. Rev. J. J. O'Carroll, a Jesuit pnest, who has just died in England, was the master of fourteen languages, and could speak about twenty more. Hiram Williamson, one of the immortal six hundred who rode into tho "valloy of death" at Balaklava in 1S54, has just been made cjaief porter at the Boston postoffice. He is seventy years of age. Miss Ethel Huxley, daughter of the scientist, is engaged to the husband of her deceased sister, but as the law of England will not allow of their marriage, tho wedding is to be in Christiana, Norway, next month. Marcellite Thorn Garner, the daughter of the late William T. Garner, of Poughkeepsie, expends $10,000 a year for dresses alone. When her father was drowned in his yacht Mohawk, a few years ago, he left her a fortune of 810,000,000. Groves Cleveland's new position as commissioner of estimates and assessments of the High Bridge Park will pay him $10 a day for the time ho is actually employed. There were 2,000 candidates for the place, but Mr. Cleveland did not file papers of application. "If I knock three times on the coffin lid during tho church service you must let me out," said James Dailey, of Providence, as he was nearing his end the other day. During the funeral everybody waited for the expected signal, but it was not heard and Dailey was duly buried. Mr. Lowell recently said he was "one of those men who believe in system, and who seek to utilize every moment at their command to advantage. I put aside so many hours, generally in the forenoon, for reading and writing, and try to be uninterrupted. If I am I make it up the first leisure I can secure." Grovf.r Cleveland and Thomas Hendricks are the two twin sons of John Crowley, of Union Springs, Ga. They are so nearly alike that their only distinguishing feature is in the fact that Thomas Hendricks invariably has a bad cold, while G rover Cleveland's luck, of course, exempts him from all such afflictions. TnE Rev. Dr. George E. Reed, who will soon bo President of Dickinson College, says: "A young man who plays oase-ball or pulls a stroke oar can preach as effectively as the man to whom long hair and a grave-yard face gives a sacred look." From which it may be inferred that athletics will have a great boom in Dickinson under the new president. In Nagasaki, China, lives a fire-works-maker who manufactures pyrotechnic birds of great size, that, when exploded, sail lifelike through the air and perform the same movements exactly like living birds. The secret of making these wonderful things has been in possession of the oldest male child of the family of each generation for over four hundred years. A small man, less than medium height, but well made and with the dark hair and eyes of his race, a pointed Van Dyck beard of raven blackness this is Abdul-Hamid, Sultan of Turkey. The man's gaze is something remarkable, at once soft and keen, and while utterly frank and straightforward, yet expresses both doubt and suspicion of what it may find in another's. An inventor in Berlin thinks that he has devised a good elevator for private dwellings. It is on the principle of tho inclined railway, the motive power being furnished by the city water, applied in the cellar. Each flight has a separato chair, so that one person can go from the first to tho second floor while another is on his way from the second to the third or still another coming down from the fourth to tho third. The

chair being only of the width of the human body requires but little space and leaves a free passage for any who wish to walk np or down. After tho chair has been used it slides back to the bottom 6tep, its descent being so managed that the carrying of a passenger is a matter of entire safety. A portrait of Anthony Payne, the Cornish giant, painted for Charles II in 1GS0, which has just been acquired by the Royal Institute at Cornwall, was once the property of Lord Temple, and after many vicissitudes passed into the hands of a farmer, from whom it was purchased by Gilbert, the historian, for $10. At the latters death it was sold to a dealer for $210, and in a few weeks was resold for $1,000. Popular tradition generally has ascribed the invention of the telescope to an accidental discovery, made by a German optician or some of his assistants. An Italian savant has been delving into the past, however, with the result that he now confidently announces that Galileo was the discoverer of both the microscope and the telescope. Documents have been discovered which it is stated bear out this assertion to the fulL The late Aaron White, by whose will each county in Connecticut receives $1,000 for law library purposes, was known widely for his copper-coin mania, which was first revealed when two men were sent to prison for stealing $100 from his hoard, but there was great astonishment after his death when his administrator shipped three tons and eight hundred pounds from the village station. This was only a portion of the whole amount found in his possession. In all, tho remains of 200,000 men who fought for the stars and stripes find guarded graves in our national cemeteries. Two cemeteries are mainly devoted to the brave men who perished in the prisons of the 6ame name Andersonville, Ga., which contains 18,714 graves, and Salisbury, with its 12,130 dead, of whom 12,032 are unknown. Of the vast number who are interred in our national cemeteries, 275,000 sleep beneath the soil of Southern States, and 145,000 rest in graves marked unknown. Ex-Mayor Vaux, of Philadelphia, is a quaint figure. He is an old-fashioned Quaker City lawyer. He wears a swallowtail coat, a broad-brimmed hat, and carries a green baize bag. His hair is long, gray, and luxurant. He never wears an overcoat nor carries an umbrella. In his political life he is as uncompromising as ne is in dress. As the only living American who ever danced with Queen Victoria he is frequently pointed out to strangers, but he is oblivious to tho sensation he often creates. Lady Hornby, wife of the British ad rniral, is a "character." Yfcars ago 6he was struck in the eye by a shot from a catapult in the streets of London, and lost its sight. She is. however, as sharp as a needle, and her one remaining eye amply docs duty for both. She is one of the most courageous women alive, and once saved the life of a favorite cat by herself biting a road dog at the tail. She delights in nothing so much as startling people, and once set a hotel full of dowagers intr fits by telling them the secret of her plentiful supply of exotics was her habit of going round tho cemetery every morning and snatching them from the tombs. Mr. Edison believes that the time will come when transportation through the air will be the general order of things. The idea that the air-ship must go up a mile or more is erroneous. If it were no higher than an ordinary building it would suffice. "When the time comes for it to be put in operation," he said, "there will be ono drawback to it, and that is the ease which it will afford criminals to make their escape from whatever point their crime was committed. Thero will be no danger of their being intercepted by wire, as is tho case now." It may be that the same science which will give us this sort of navigation will provide something elso by which criminals who make their escape through the air will be overtaken.

COMMENT AND OPINION. j i j . . i .-.TIt.is only.the professional writer of sneers Who can find auy discredit in the acceptance by an editor of an unsought office. Now York Graphic. It is the European occupation of Africa which will alone stop the atrocity of Arab t a 1 i a a. l yz2 i siave-irauing, anu it is me cniei giory oi Stanley's career that all his work in the Dark Continent has strongly tended to encourage and hasten the time of that occupa tion. rew York Commercial Advertiser. CmzENsniP. the right to vote and to have his vote counted, has made the white man of America what he is. Give the negro the same chance and there will be no race question, for he will have no excuse for any. Don't prohibit the colored boy from going near the water till he has learned to swim. New York Press. Unless the Mormon Church will take its hands from the American home, the American conscience and the American ballot, it is the very height of foolishness, indeed, it is a crime, to continue to permit them to go on settling and possessing the lands which are soon to make nn States of this Republic. Salt Lake City Tribune. The Senators who voted against Mr. Halstead will have to explain and account for their conduct at the bar of public opinion; but so far as their relations to the President are concerned, it would bo very foolish either for them or for him to let estrangement ensue where there is really no excuse for it. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Before there are fair elections in Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas and South Carolina, the laws and Constitution of tho United States will have to be enforced by federal authority. The State courts and officials deride them in so far at least as they are framed for the endowment of the colored race with the right to vote. Chicago Inter Ocean. We hope the President, without seeking a quarrel with the Senate, will stand by his own constitutional duty and right. To help him in that conrse he would do well to refuse to hear Senators, Representatives or any one else on patronago business, but require all applications for office to be made in writing, with all the recommendations and indorsements, senatorial and other wise. New York Herald. Race slavery had its day and ceased to exist. Mental and political slavery will have its day and cease to exist. Knowlr - acage, experience, ino aspirations oi progress, the hope of gain, the ambitions that success in business and industry breeds must at no distant day shatter the solid South, and break tho rule of depotism maintained through intimidation at the polls and frauds on the ballot-box. Chicago Journal. The curious parallel between the rise and fall of the mugwumps in America and the mugwumps in Ln gland is an amusing re semblance between political organizations and political party movements in the two countries. The Tories and the Democrats rise and fall together, and the Liberal and Kepublican victories coincide in averyconsnicuous wav as the years roll round. The Anglo-Saxon race has its tidal movements in common in the two hemispheres. Ne braska State Journal. There is not a single head of a great banking house, or a great commercial enterprise, or a great industrial establish ment, in this or any other country. who allows his time to be monopolized by applicants for clerkships and other posts of emplovment. lho peculiar ar rangements by which tho President and his advisers are to be relieved from the rush and crush of office-seekers are matters of detail; but the possibility of affording relief is as much beyond doubt as the ne cessity. Boston Advertiser. While it is not expedient for us to draw lines of too restrictive a character in any extradition treaties which we may make. it seems to be only fair that we should ac cord to those who represent the govern ments of other conn tries the same degree of protection that we should expect them to accord to those who represent our govern ment, and that it should not be possible to murder public officials with impunity, while the same offense committed by pri vate individuals would lead to the prompt extradition of the criminal. lioston Herald. Great Britain is tho native soil of trusts and syndicates that is, of vast aggregations of capital workings to a certain and specified end. Any country which has a great deal of money hoarded up, as Great Britain has, will develop syndicates. We are beginning to have them, not on account of any tariff, but because accumulations of money are becoming greater, and because the owners of that money find it more to

their advantage to work in concert than independently of each other, and that is all there is to syndicates and trusts. San

1 rancisco Chronicle. The brand of an American firm should be a guarantee of honest goods abroad as well asjin this country. There is no better way of extending the markets for our surplus productions than to sufficiently guarantee their purity and superiority. The efforts of all foreign countries to exclude impure or imperfect American goods will have the countenance and sympathy of all true Americans. Cleveland Lcader. KINO JOHN, OF ABYSSINIA. A Talk with a New York Journalist Who Knew Illm Personally. New York Sun. Mr. Alvam S. Southworth. at one time secretary of the American Geographical Society, and who was formerly in Abyssinia. and an acquaintance and correspondent of King John, reported 6lain in battle, said, yesterday, to a Sun reporter: "Yes, I knew King John, or, as he was known in his own country, Johanncz, ana if tho report of his death be true, it will prove a great calamity to Abyssinia. My acquaintance began with him in 1872. lie was about thirty-two years old at that x . i j t-: r ir: rime, naving prociaimeu minsen rviu on the suicide of Theodore at Magdala, after the defeat of his forces " by the British nnder Lord Napier. He 6et out to rule with great dodid. coinc to the ancient city of Axum to be crowned before an assemblage of 3.000.000 neonlc. who kept up the festiv ities on Tej wine, brewed from honey, for three days, and tho revelers were wild with fanatical enthusiasm, brought on by this exceedingly seductive beverage, which I have put to the test myself. "When he retired to Adowa. the capital of Amhora, whose language is a classic closely allied to its Hebrew stem, he took with him an English subaltern from NaEier's command named Kirkham. He made im a general, and put him in command of his army, and Kirkham was the" sole foreigner ne would trust. Kirkham was a bravo and venturesome fellow, but very ignorant and unpolished, and, in manner and carriage, coarse and insignificant compared with the Abyssinian chiefs, who are handsome, dignified, silent and serious men. The King, however, stuck by Kirkham, although ho encountered much native hostility. "He began to drill the soldiery in Euro pean fashion, and modern arms and artillerywere purchased in .Europe. Every thing was going on well, and there was every prospect that the country, closed for 1,100 years to the trade of the world, would be opened to commerce by a liberal-minded man like Johannez. But when I happened to reach Massowah late in 1873, l lounu an Egyptian expedition on hand to captnre the province of Bogos. I took prompt measures to send the news to Suez, and it was telegraphed over Europe, and the Western powers took immediate and ef fective measures to prevent the annex ation of Christian soil by a Moslem state." in wnat way are tne Abyssinians Christians!" "WelL thev are not all Christians. Tho country, including the Walla Gallas to the 60uth, has a population of about 12,000.000, and two-thirds of these are Coptic Christians, with their Patriarch at Cairo. The rest are Mohammedans, and often dwell in the same communities with the Copts, with little or no friction. But the Mohammedan element has been in Abyssinia less than aoo years, wnile tne uopts elate oaclc to near the beginning of the Christian era. Bnt this Egyptian foray was followed by others which actually proved menacing enough. The Mohammedan troops, commanded by American officers, and among them the late General Loring, invaded the country, but were put to inglorious night, wit n great iossoi me. 'These attempts to subin crate and annex Abyssinia maddened the king, who had previously held broad views and had wished, to open his country to the trade or the world. In fact, knowing the friendly act I had done to his country in causing the seizure of Bogos to be abandoned, he proposed that I should live at Adowa, the capital, and conduct the relations of Abyssinia with all foreign powers in fact, be his Prime Minister. For this service he offered to pay me $30,000 a year in Austrian dollars, current on the lied sea, a large tract of land to govern internally on which should be situated a mountain and lake, and other considerations equally pleasant. 1 told him that 1 was on my way to London from the Soudan, and would cive the prop osition my earnest thought. Meeting write nis name; -a iew monxns later in London, he brought renewed and even ? A V A 1 1 A raoro liberal propositions, and he also had letters to the various sovereigns of Europo and to President Grant from Johannez, which I undertook to forward to their proper destinations. Shortly after, with the full approval of the King, and in association with several wealthy and influential Englishmen, at the head of whom was Admiral Sherard Osborne, I undertook to organize an Abyssinian company, founded npon the general outlines of the old East India Company and the Hudson Bay Company. In the meantime the wily Kirkham had interested a German trading syndicate which has since tried feebly to carry out part of the idea without enterprise, nerve, s - r ii . if' M or co-operation oi tne xvmg. V hat became of Kirkhaml" "He was shot and killed while trying to cross through the Egyptian lines, and since then the King has had no sincere and intelligent adviser; for Kirkham, however un tutored, had showed common sense, lhe consequence has been the Italian invasions. the Mahdi operating from the direction cl Khartoum, and civil wars with provinces other than his own, have made nim nar row, arrogant and fanatical, exactly as the Sun says. iou mav say' continued Mr. bouthworth. "that I do not credit the assumption that John has been killed in any contest with the actual followers of the Mahdi. This seems to me like a geographical im possibility, because of tne long camel trail between tne Blue Kile and the Abyssinian frontier, and the impossibility of the Atbora at tnis time oi year. xx is more prooaoie that he has been killed in a conflict with some rival state to Amhora. and that he has fallen at the head of his troops. Whatever mav be said of him. one tact cannot be denied, that he was the most obstinate, notaDie ana sncce&siui cmeitam mat nas flourished on the African continent for a generation, and one of the ideal Abyssinian monarchs since the extinction of the old Ethiopian empire." CLAKKSON at work. Manners and Methods of the New Assistant Postmaster-General. Washington Special. Lord High Executioneer Clarkson is a young man. 1 supposed, until I saw him. that he must be a gray-beard. Somehow or other it seemed to me that the editor of a paper called the Iowa State Register ought to be old, just as I always felt sure that the editor of the Burlington Hawkeye must be very young and wide-awake. Then think of the political work he has done, es pecially in the two last campaigns. Yet he does not look to bo over forty, although. I suppose, he must be, for he has a son old enough to be appointed his private secre tary the other day. lie is a handsome man. not tall, but symmetrical and well built. His hair is brown ana thick, and so is his mustache, while his face is fresh and un wrinkled. He has a bright eye and a pleasant voice. He takes his work methodically and easily, even if he did succumb to the weight of it for a day or two. He receives on an average 500 visitors a day at his otlice. He makes from 100 to 200 changes in the fourth-class postofiices. It is hard work "harder ork than running a campaign." he said the other dav. Yet he never nets cross. He is Tory much like his predecessor. General Stevenson , in tne calmness witn wnicn no uoes nis worK. "Swiftly and silently" is his motto as well as the bicvelo clubs.' His office is a small room on the southeast corner of the second story in the Postoffice Department, He sits behind a big desk, with his private secretary opposite him. On either side of his chair is an arm-chair. Around the walls are a sofa and six or seven chairs. Tho office-seekers, professional and personal. Congressmen and constituents can walk right in. There is nothing exclusive about Clarkson, and, besides, he believes that office-seeking is the inalienable right of every American citizen, native and naturalized. They sit or stand until Clark son can get around to them. Kising with the creates! courtesy to his feet. Clarkson will beckon them to him and shake bands with them cordially. If it is an individual Clarkson will ask him to sit down beside him in one of the arm-chairs. Ii it is a del etration he will stand un to it. In either event he takes up his editorial-looking blue pencil and proceeds to not the re quest made of him. Sometimes he settles it then and there: sometimes says: "I'll look into this:" but whatever he does is

done pleasantly. Clarkson seems to have concluded to "stay awhile with us, for ho has rented one of Senator Sherman's houses, next door to Sherman's own residence, on'Franklin sqnare.

The Oldest Bank Notes. London Standard. The oldest bank notes are the "flying: money," or "convenient money," first issued in China 'JGOn B. C. Originally these notes were issued by the lre&oury, but experience dictated a change to the banks under government inspection and control. A writer in a provincial paper savs that the early Chinese "greenbacks" were m all es sentials similar to the modern bank notes, bearing tho name of the bank, date of issue, the number of the note, the signature of the omcial issuing it. indications of its value in figures, in words, and in the pictorial representation in coins or heaps of coins equal in amount to its face value, and a notice of the pains and penalties of counterfeiting. Over and above all was a laconic exhortation to industry and thrift: "Produce all you can; spend with, economy." The notes were printed in bine ink on paper made from the fiber of the mulberry tree. One issued in 13.9 B. C is still carefully preserved in the Asiatio; Museum, at St. Petersburg. r Mr. Closely Was Disgusted. Philadelphia Record. Judge Thaver vesterdav awarded tha child of Job Moselev to tho care of her mother. Moseley thought so little of his baoy girl when 6he was born that he offered her to the nurse in payment forthelatter's services. He was so disappointed because tho child was not a boy that he would not look at her for three weeks after sho had been born. Moselev's disappointment increased with the child's age, and the wife told thejudge a shocking story of crneltyyesterday. She said she had been beaten and kicked until she had been obliged to fleo from her homo with her babv, which is now nineteen months old. She works in a mill, and about two weeks ago her baby was taken from her home by her husband, and she brought suit to recover possession of the little one. Tho husband acknow ledged that he had struck his wife, and once had knocked her teeth out of her mouth. "But that didn't matter." he added: "they were false." The judge looked at the matter.ia another light, and so Mrs. Moseley recovered her child. Sunset Cox's Narrow Escape. Ohio State Journal. "Sunset" Cox is not a very rugged fieri ro now, aud his hair is getting thin and gray. uui nis eyes are as ungnt ana nis Tongue as ready as ever. Nobody is able to look on Cox as anything but a youngster, because his wit, and tho variety and vivacity of his humor never grow old, out he is past threeBcorw now. v mie i young man uo dandled the present Mrs. W. C. Whitnev on his knee. 'I have had a narrow escape from beintr President of the United States," said Sunset, the other dav. stopping on the avenno to talk with a group of his friends. "If my mother hadn't refused tho proffered hand of Gen. William Henry Harrison I 6nould Do in tne White House now. (Jen. Harrison asked my mother to marry him, and though he had won some fame at that time, she gave him the mitten, and stuck to and finally married the printer bov to whom she was engaged. See what a narrow escape I have had from being a great man7 flaying Into Their Enemies Hands. ' Washington Post The Prohibition partv in the West mav now pretty fairly be set down as the antitemperance element of this country. All that political sagacity could devise to defeat their alleged purpose is done with a regularity and precision which has finally made clear their platform. To defeat legislation against whisky by putting the Democrane party in power is a siroKe oi diplomacy. They pose as reformers, and at tho same time have all tho unlicensed saloons they desire. What nigh License Will Do for St. Louis. Omaha Republican. TVm XT? ec-TiT"i ViifrTilioa Tiill tt-Vi Vi Vine Democratic support in the Legislature, a a J r l ri'i . is a pretty rauicai measure, more is, to begin with, a uniform tax of $500 per year, in addition to which saloons in the towns and cities must procure a special license tax, amounting, in St Louis, to 81.500 pet year. It is expected that the enforcing bt tho tax in fet. Liouis will reduce tho number of saloons from 2,000 to 1,000, yielding the ay tftr aT svrv vw . . 1 ? . city 5-.vuu,uw annual income. Should Consult Greely. Cleveland Leader. The tour Indi ana men who propose to en ter Oklahoma by means of a balloon the moment it becomes open for settlement, would do well to get a pledge from Gen. Greclv that south winds shall be predicted ior the Indian Territory region on April 23. If the probabilities aro otiicially stated to bo unfavorable, it will be pretty safe for the aeronauts to count on the fair breeze from tho north, which they must have to make their scheme work. A More Creditable Qualification. . nttsburg Dispatch. - As regards hereditary honors in the dis tribution of foreign missions, it is pertinent to remark that to be descended from an American statesman, is a more creditable qualification than a purchased pedigreo showing a remote connection with tho no bility and aristocracy of Great Britain which was reported to be tho requisite for Sreferment under Secretary Bayard's adlinistration. Simple-Mlnded Democrats. . Boston JonrnaL It is rather a curious commentary upon the character of Rhode Island Democrats that hundreds of votes are reported to havo been lost to the Democrats in the heavj- Democratic wards of Providence be cause the men beiioved the yarns of the Democratic leaders about Kepublican at tempts to "corrupt" tho ballot, ana Btoml 1 ., 1 ;a a . arounaaii ua' waning ior a cuanco to uo corrupted, until it was too late for them to vote. A Little Stilted but Well Meant. Boston Herald (Dem.) President Harrison seems to us to have indicated in all he has done a sincere desire to make the country a good President. Wo think we havo seen in him. further, an in tention to bo something more than tho President of his party. Ho appreciates tho dignity of his olhce, ana realizes the re sponsibility attending it. Do Not Itecogulze the Distinction. Philadelphia Inquirer. - Straws are faithful indicators, of course. but those of our esteemed contemporaries that are figuring out a Democratic majority in the next Congress irom the result of the Hhodo Island election, it seems to us, fail to recognize the distinction between a ci der barrel and a cyclone. lie Discovers Himself. Pittsbarg Dispatch. Every time that Stanley has been discov ered, so far, he has had to discover him self, and it will probably be so to the end. Stanley is generally too much pressed for time to wait for the other fellows to discover him. The Best Plan for 3Iany States. St. Lonls Globe-Democrat. It is probably true, as suggested by Gov. Fletcher, that the best way to beat Mormonism in Utah is to encourage intelligent and moral immicration. That in also the best way to beat Bourbonism in Missouri. Doesn't Mean What He Saja. Washington Tost. The man who goesaboutproclaiminc that there is no office within the President s gift that he could bo induced to accept is probably lying low for a place as assistant door-keeper in tho next Congress. m A Natural Sequence. Philadelphia Inquirer. It is, perhaps, only a coincidence that about tho time tho State Legislatures begin to finish their debates and go home the cyclono season begins to unfold its windy wonders. A Wos Id of Progress. Leavenworth (Kan.) Times. Cleveland made charges of "offensive partisanship" a sufficient cause for dismissal. Harrison accepts charges of 'inrtticiency." There is a world of progress right here. Hut the Mugwumps Itevile Wanamaker. Kansas City Journal (Hep.) The time has not yet come in this country when a man is an object of scorn because ho is a Christian wiL