Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1889 — Page 4

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C.-IUgg3 IIouso and Ebbltt House, Telephone Calls. Rusiness Office. 238 I EUbtorial Rooms 242 Speaking of "crime waves," tho bank cashier variety seems to be continuous, and like Tennyson's brook, to go on forever. This wave breaks with great regularity upon the Canadian shore. Sim Cot's intluenco in the Democratic party holds out well. The man who, as foreman of the grand jury, onco prevented his indictment, was rewarded ,for that sen-ice by being appointed postmaster at Rushville, and is now rewarded again, Democratic Senators refusing to consent to his removal. Coy still lives. TnE organization of tho Knights of Labor in New York seems to be defective in respect of keeping secrets. If blowing up breweries with dynamite is to become a recognized feature of the "labor movement," it will bo necessary to adopt more stringent measures to prevent discovery. The success of such methods depends mainly on secrecy. FnoM present indications there is likely to be a wild rush to Oklahoma, followed by disappointment, loss and, perhaps, suffering on the part of many. Oklahoma is not an El Dorado, and, for tho present, at least, offers no induce; mcnts to any person not inured to frontier life and prepared to rough it. It is no place for "tendcrfeet" or men with soft hands. The New York Tribune's indorsement of Postmaster Pearson's retention by Cleveland, four years ago, is quoted as a reason why ho should have been retained by President Harrison. This is absurd. The fact that Pearson was a much better postmaster than any Democrat likely to be put in his place docs not prove that another Republican could not be found who would be an improvement on Pearson. In Massachusetts tho carpenters are striking for nine hours' work and ten hours' pay, and in St. Louis they arc demanding a' full day's wages for eight hours' work. If this tendency to lessen the hours of labor increases in this ratio as one approaches tho setting sun, it mav presently happen that the Calif oruian who wants a house built this summer will find it necessary to begin vear before last. The Journal remarked some time ago that tho defective indictments in the election cases gave Mr. Leon Bailey, the person who drew them, tho choice of beinjr considered a fool or a rascal. ' This interesting individualhas no such choice in regard to his course in tho Davis matter, described in yesterday's Journal. The nature of his attempts to secure an indictment against tho foreman of tho Coy jury show him to be both asinine and knavish. If the school-book law contains an emergency clause it went into effect on its passage, and the State Bpard of Edu cation should have taken preliminary steps some time ago for putting it in operation. So few of the acts of the late Legislature aro constitutional that if there is one valid it should be enforced. Tliis law is full of crudities aud defects, but that is no reason for its non-enrorce-nient, and the sooner it is enforced the sooner they will bo developed. Tho majority in tho last Legislature were not capable of framing or passing a good law. Hon. James N. Huston,. tho ncwlychosen Treasurer of tho United States, yesterday filed his bond, and will soon enter upon his duties. Tho appointment of Mr. Huston to this honorable and responsible office is an admirable selection. He is a gentleman of sterling integrity, and by business habits and training is thoroughly fitted and qualified to discharge the duties of the position. Tho President has honored tho Stato in the nomination, and Mr. Huston will reflect honor upon tho office by tho faithful discharge of its responsible' and laborious duties. Tho Republicans of Indiana and tho Journal compliment both tho President and Mr. Huston upon tho appoint ment. Along iu February last wo heard a good deal concerning tho heroic inten tion of Democratic officeholders to re sign on the 4th day of March, or as soon thereafter as possible. Thero has been no remarkable display of haste in this direction. Now not a few of them aro concluding that they would be willing to hold ollico even under a Republican administration. When Colonel Switzler, of Missouri, appointed by Mr. Cleve land chief of the Bureau of Statistics, took charge of tho office he summoned the clerks before him and informed them that if ho had his way he would dis charge every ono of them and till their places with Democrats, but under the civil-service law he supposed ho could 9U - Now, Colonel Switzler and hid

friends arc trying to have him retained Lecaus6 the office is non-political. Another high oflicial, Judgo Durham, of

Kentucky, First Comptroller of the Treasury, is anxious to retain his posi tion, and is having papers circulated for signatures attesting his efficiency. All this is neither unnatural nor dishonorable, but it shows that when Democratic officials boasted so loudly of their pur pose to resign they did not understand themselves. LABOR DISTURBANCES AND PROTECTION. Democratic papers are chuckling over tho fact that labor disturbances have not ceased since President Harrison's election, that wages have been reduced in some industries and localities, while in others tho force has been cut down. If all that tho free-trade organs are'asserting were true, and much more, it would not prove that a protective tariff is not the best and wisest policy for tho United States. Tho advocates of protection have never claimed that it would usher in tho millennium, nor that it would do away with labor disturbances, periods of industrial depression, occasional re duction of wages, or closing of factories. Such things occur in all commercial countries and under all conditions. They will continue to occur as long as the world lasts or human society endures. We are quite suro protection will not entirely prevent them, and we do not think free trade would. The latter never has done so in Great Britain, and the nearest approach wo have had to it in this coun try under Democratic tariffs for revenue only has failed signally. Wo say, tho advocates of a protective tariff policy have never claimed that it would put an end to labor disturbances or occasional periods of industrial depression. What they have claimed, and do claim, is, that as a permanent economic policy, to bo judged by its adaptability to tho conditions existing in this country and among this people, and by tho aggregate results of lonp; terms of years, protection is incom parably better for the United States than free trade. No ljuman policy is perfect. Republican form of government is not perfect, but no doubt it is better than any other, and infinitely the best for tho American people. Perhaps a constitutional monarchy is best for Great Britain, absolutism for Germany, and despotism, tempered by assassin ation, for Russia. The American people are suited to a republican form of govern ment, and for them, at least, it is the best. So of protection. It suits the genius of this people, and tho physical, economic, 6oaai ana industrial con ditions of the country. Therefore, it is best for us. A governmental or economic policy is not to bo judged .by the results of a few months. Two or three decades aro not too long to confirm a conclusion or even demonstrate a tendency. Wo know what tho condition of this country was in 1860, after a long period of low tariff, and we know what it is now, after twenty-five years of protection. During tho last quarter of a century there have been many labor disturbances, many periods of industrial depression and commercial disaster, but tho general course of tho country has been steadily onward and upward. Tho steamer that crosses the Atlantic may bo in the trough of tho sea half of the time, but if she forges steadily ahead and makes her port it is pretty good proof that she has progressed, even though she did not ride all the time on tho crest of the wave. A comparison of twenty years of protection with a liko period of tariff-for-revenue only will show when and where the progress of the country has been made. he benefits of protection would continue to be felt with diminish ing force for a considerable time, even alter a cnange 01 poncy, ana it might take twenty years to fully develop tho disastrous results of freo trade. It has taken a good many years of protection to make this country what it is, and it might take as many of freo trade to undo the work. The latter might not bo years of uninterrupted disaster more than tho former have been years or uninterrupted prosperity, out the aggregate result m one case would be national disaster and exhaustion as inevitably as they have been, in tho other, national prosperity and enrich ment. Wo do not expect the administration of President Harrison to bo freo from labor disturbances and tho Ordinary in cidents of the business world; but wo are very sure tho country will hold steadily to that policy which has brought it the only-real prosperity and independence it has ever enjoyed. the moonsniners in tne mountain re gion of Kentucky have recently shown a degree of organized strength and .defi ance of law that challenges attention. A lew days ago tney routed a revenue agent's posso and killed a deputy United States marshal under circumstances of great aggravation. As these aro crimes against tho general government tho per petrators should be brought to justice at any cost. The Louisville Commercial says: ''The participants in this black crime aro all known. They can be captured if tho proper effort is made, and neither the State of Kentucky nor tho tmtinml onrnnniinnf Pin nflnnl in r national government can auord to permit 6uch a crime to go unpunished." Some of tho naval officers stationed at Washington censure Admiral Kimberly for tho recent Samoan disaster, and think there should bo a court of inquiiy

ordered to fix the responsibility. They It is saiti that Miss Kato Drexel, of Philsav this was the season of tho vear for adelphia, knows more of Indian affairs than

hurricanes in that auarter. aud that Ad- . t tii i mirai JYiiuiMTiy snouiu iuue uecn proDared for them. It is possible if theso naval officers in their snug berths at Washington had been in Admiral Kimbcrly's place the result would not havo been different. That tho American vessels wero in tho dangerous harbor of Apia instead of the safe one at Pago-, Pago is no cause for censure, because Apia was the poiut of controversy, andl exactly where the ships should havo been. If Admiral Kimberly, or the; officers under him, had had notice of the approach of the hurricane no doubt they would have gotten up steam and run out into open sea, but hurricanes do not always announce their approach. Tho '

fact that the German vessels were in

volved in the same disaster argues against tho theory of carelessness or in efficiency on the part of the Americans. The best thing to do with the able naval critics at Washington is to order them to sea, and let them take their chances with hurricanes. A St. Louis Sunday paper publishes interviews on politics with 000 Missouri women. Of this number only a few aro Prohibitionists, and less than twenty favor full woman suffrage. This is regarded as conclusive evidence that tho majority of women do not want the bal lot, and it certainly does support tho ar gument of the anti-suffragists that women in general are opposed to tho move ment. It will not do, however, to give too much weight to this test, and baso conclusions in regard to the future success of "the cause" upon it. Women are curious, and what they think next year may bo diametrically opposed to what they think, or think they think, now. it is even possible the susrjrestion is made with hesitation, and a willingness to withdraw it at any moment that if each of the 500 women had known that all tho others were going to say boldly that they wanted to vote, sho would have said so too. Kissing may go by favor, but suffrage opinions go largely by fashion and custom, and un til it is understood to bo good form ' to want to vote the majority of women will politely deny that they have any leanings that way. To say that they are liko sheep, and when one jumps through a particular hole in tho fence tho rest follow, is not intended as an invidious comparison. It is a human trait, and tho voting sex is by no means exempt from it. TnE April term of tho United States Court, which began at Littlo Rock yes terday, is likely to prove interesting by tho trial of five persons who were ar-' rested in November last and bound over to answer tho charge of interfering with tho Congressional election at Plummerville. Two of the defendants were election judges, one is Mayor of Plummerville, and the others acted as deputy sheriffs on election day. Tho trial of these cases is expected to lead to im portant developments in regard to tho Clayton assassination. Here is a bit of J ohn B right's eloquence which Americans will love to read. It was delivered in Birmingham in 18G2. when Bright's hostility to slavery and his stead fast sympathy with tho North in our civil war had angered tho populace against him: I have another and a far brighter vision before my gaze. It may bo but a vision,. but I will. cncrifeh lr. I see one vast confederation stretching from the frozen North in unbroken line to the glowing South, and froindhe wild billows of the Atlantic westward to the calmer waters of the racitio main, and I see one ieonle. and ono language, and one law, and one faith, and over au that wide continent the home of freedom and a refuge for the oppressed of every race and of every clime. . Talk about cow-boys, and Indians and the wild West! It isn't from that direction that the stories of reckless adventure, "bold, bad men and bloody fights come. Kentucky and Virginia furnish more thrilling and barbarous dramas than all the rest of tho country put together. Tho far Western frontier is civilized in comparison with the region that produces desperadoes of the Bill Moran, and Hatfield, and McCoy type. Dime-novel readers need go no further West than Editor Watterson bailiwick to find the most blood-curdling plots. - A few years ago Mrs. Rogers, the "cattle queen" of Texas, married as her second husband a Methodist minister, a widower with seven children. The statement is now made that he has left tho ministry and is a member of the Texas Legislature. This is a sad fall, and should, bo a warning to clerical gentlemen who think of marrying wealth. It is possible, of course, that this caso is not altogether .hopeless, as tho Texas Legislature is not the Indiana Legislature, hut general sympathy will be with the "queen." A "Y. M. C. A. military company," as proposed at Crawfordsville, is something a little out of the common, but why not? Is there.any good reason why the armies of the Lord should not be organized and well drilled? If tho Salvation Army, for instance, were drilled according to Upton's tactics it would not be half so ridiculous and might be moro effective. ; The Chicago dry goods clerks who have arranged to join tho Oklahoma boomers may be able to draw consolation in a month or two from the fact that the walking is good, and that they can get back to their old haunts in time for the fall trade. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. A sister of Stephen A. Douglas, almost eighty years old, is postmistress at Clifton Springs, N. Y. Mrs. Wilmerdixg, born Tracy, daughter to the Secretary of the Navy, will christen the cruiser Philadelphia when sho is ready for salt water. Rev. Richard Harlan, eldest son of Justice Harlan, of the United States Supreme Court, is engaged to Mrs. Swift, a! rich New York widow, Mrs. L. P. Morton, wife of the Vice-president, will alternate during the summer between her country houses on tho Hudson and at Saratoga Springs. 1 Mrs. Geo. B. McClellan, wife of tho General, is understood to havo decided upon an indefinite residence in Europe, where she has been a year. Mrs. Halford expects to make her Florida home, "Breezy Point," a horticultural paradise.where over-worked di plomates and legislators may resort for winter holidays. 1 It is recalled that President Lincoln onco 1 extended executive clemency to a young Englishman found guilty of piracy and blockade running, because, as ho expressed if MTnlm iriilt nf rin(i lina 11Q I to pardon him." A church in southern Illinois is about to have a fair in which ono of the features will be tho pigs in clover with real pigs. A large fac-similo of the toy will bo built in the hall, and a prizo will bo given to tho man who pens the porkers. an' ma.n in tho United States, and that she I proves ner sympatuy witn tne dwindling race by spending nearly 100,000 out of her pocket eacn year lor tiieir beneht. Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, who was tho Prohibitory candidate for tho presidency, remarks: "Both General Sherman and myself feel happier all day long and sleep moro soundly every night because onr old Oorinth comrade. Ben Harrison, sleeps tonight in the White House." Sin Qiarles RussELl, who figured so prominently in tho proceedings before the Parnell commission, is a fino-looking man, with dark eyes anil beard; And a manner which strikes terror to a'perjurer's 6oul. He can talk twetvo bonis out of twentyfour and not become exhausted. Prof. David Swixrt said tho other day that ho understood thatPresident Harrison intended to make a journey to New York in George Washington's carriage, "and Pvo

been wondering," continued the Professor, "whether this vehicle was the back which George took at the famous cherry tree." Probably not ono in a thousand realizes the fact that, next to England, little Holland, whose King is at present at death's door, is the greatest colonial power in tho world. The Dutch colonies have an area of nearly 800,000 square miles, which include some of the linest colonial possessions in tho world. Several letters and' documents addressed by the Emperors of Germany between the years 1275 and 149S to the town of Frankfort-on-tke-Main have .recently been discovered. It is announced that fragments of a number of other historical documents w ere brought to light at the same time. Madame Pierre Henry de Lucy FosSarien, wife of the French vice-consul to China, is an American, formerly Miss Wait, and an artist whose works have been exhibited at tho Paris Salon. . She was an art pupil in Franco of her husband's father, and there was much pleasant romance connected with the marriage. Charles Fendrich, who died recently in the San Francisco almshouse, was onco tho companion of princes and statesmen. Ho was born in Switzerland, became an artist, and. after coming to this country, made portraitsof many famousmen. During his later years ho lived on next to nothing, and picked up what he could by retouching photographs. , ' . The trustees of tho Kilmarnock Museum have decided to print a verbatim copy of the holograph manuscripts of Burnsfs first poems, wbich were acquired by them last year. Tho alterations made by tho poet will thus be shown, as well as many other peculiarities of his work. It was in Kilmarnock that tho first edition of Burns was issued, copies of which aro among the rarest things that aro offered for sale. The authorities in Austria havo seized two novels that havo already been inspired by the death of the Crown Prince Rudolf. Tho first of these was a book that appeared in Dresden bearing the title "Tho Favorite of Austria and of tho Women," written by Baron Cichiusky. The other had been begun in installments in Dresden and was written by a certain Frankenbnrg and was called "The Castle of the Hunter of Meyerling." Edward P. Allis, the great iron manufacturer who died in Milwaukee the other day, carried $500,000 insurance on his life. He employed ono thousand men and paid out nearly $1,000,000 a year in wages. Mr. Allis, although a man of great wealth and universally respected, was a Greenbacker iu politics. He was tho candidate of that party for Governor of Wisconsin in 1877, and polled 20,000 votes. Ho left i wife and eleven children. , . Bishop Potter and Cornelius Vanderbilt are said to bear a striking resemblance to each oj;her. Both aro. fine-looking men, and tho compliment can 6afely bo divided between them. It is said that the Bishop is frequently askod for "tips" in financial movements by persons who mistake him for the railroad magnate, and to whom he canonlv givo tins to heaven; while Mr. Vanderbilt is called on to show tho route to heaven to persons to whom he can only point out the New York Central as tho best route within his range of knowledge. Mrs. "Stonewall" Jackson, to whom President Harrison is reported to have offered tho postoffico at Richmond, Va., is a modest, black-eyed and dark-haired littlo matron, rather inclined jto portliness and decidedly averse to notoriety. Mrs. Jackson is something over liftv years of ago no tp. She was "Stonewall's second wife, and their only child, Julia Jackson, was for several years a belle at tho fashionable watering places. One of "Stonewall" Jackson's most touching poems, or "hymns," as his Southern friends and admirers would often call them, was "To My Wife and Child." It is not generally known that Mrs. Russell Harrison is an own cousin of Mrs. Robert Lincoln.. It was at the home of tho then Secretary of War Lincoln that Mrs. Harrison stayed as a guest during the early days of her engagement to Mr. Russell Haririson, and only returned to her Western uouiein time to mako arrangements for her wedding. 'In connection with this fact quite a coincidence occurs in relation to tho marriage of Mrs. Harrison's parents.

Lx-Senator and Mrs. Saunders, who hrst met each other and wero wedded during a visit of Mrs. Saunders at the homo of Mrs. Robert Lincoln's father. Judge Harlan, then on tho Supreme Bench. . W. J. Ark ell met Ward McAllister at Chauncey M. Depew's house, the other afternoon, and availed himself of this very favorable opportunity to assure the leader of tho Four Hundred that if he gave him his own picture and tho pictures of his, fashionable army for publication that bethat is to say, Mr. Arkellwould be able to make his eternal fortune. Mr. McAllister responded that if he attempted to point out the Four Hundred it would create greater excitement than had been aroused over tho selection of ladies with ancestors for the opening quadrillo at the centennial ball. In fact, he said ho did not know who tho Four Hundred wero. As for furnishing his picture for publication, Mr. McAllister 6aid that he had never done anything of tho kind and didn't care to begin now. As Mr. Arkeli's journalistic idea was dissolving all together. Mr. Depew came to the rescue and assured him that he would secure Mr. McAllister's picture and furnish it for publication himself. And he probably wiiL COMMENT AND OPINION. If tho rascals penitentiary convicts aro to be maintained in idleness, in other words, tho honest men will havo to do extra work to provide for them; and thus New York will present tho singular spectacle of a State with an aristocracy of criminals, served and supported by a commonalty of upright citizens. Now York Tribune. Experience has shown that thefreetrado theory, plausible as it is made to appear to unthinking and ill-informed persons, invariably fails when it is brought to the test of practice. Thero aro indications that the free-trade heresy has passed its prime. From now on its decline promises to bo steady and swift. Albany Journal. WnRN the latest teachings of medical scienco become known to the people, and thev learn that a bundle of dirty banknotes carries with it the germs of may be lif ty loathsome and deadly diseases, they will turn to clean and healthy coin in preference, and the era of hard and honest money will be permanetly established. Louisville Commercial. It may bo true, as reported, that President Harrison proposes to "recognize tho protection element of the South" in tho distribution of the patronage; but it does not follow that he intends to give ottices to Democrats under any circumstances. He can do all that is necessary for the elemeut in question without going beyond the lines of his own party. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Some Democratic papers aio falsely declaring that the Republicans promised a business boom if protection won in November. What they did predict was business ruin if free trade won. However, business has about recovered from tho injury done it by the frce-trado campaign, and the prospects for tho next three years are satisfactory. Brooklyn StandardUnion. The Monroe doctrine is thoroughly incorporated in every treaty .made by tho United States with other American nations; not only so, but it is incorporated by other American nations in their treaties with each other. It is, therefore, a principle of international law so far as the nations of tho new world aro concerned. As a matter fact, repeated recognition of it by foreign nations has given it validity all over the w grid. Boston Advertiser. The mugwumps of 1S1 aro the only mugwumps wo know anything about, and they are about as important a tactor in politics just now as an extinct tribo of Ted men. The Republican party has wisely left them to chas their own rainbows andenioy their own follies, if thero is any fun in them. If they taste no Teal until they aro invitt?rt to will have to go without veal for a longtime to come. Detroit Tribune. If tho next Congress displays a modicum of common sense and , puts the duty on tinned iron up eeveral notches tho manu factnre will soon become developed on an enormous scalo in this country, with the usual result of greatly reducing the cost tf tho article to tho consumer, hot only will

an enormous manufacturing industry bo created, but new mines willbe discovered and worked, for there is abundant evidence that tin exists in largo quantities in several arts of the United States San Francisco hronicle. The civil-servico law should bo made to cover everything but the highest and most responsible positions. Heads of departments should be held entirely responsible for their subordinates, and changes should only be made when tho efficiency of tho service demands it. Let President Harrison make a great name for himself in tho history of the county by taking advanced ground upon this subject and maintaining it to the end. Philadelphia Telegraph. Tiik Southern method of preserving control in the hands of the minority is frand, intimidation and violence. This is admitted bv candid Southerners, some of whom, like the lato editor of the Charleston News and Courier, openly deplore the eflect which such practices must have upon the consciences of young men who grow up in this condition of things. The remedy is a very simple one, and it lies in the hands of the Southern people themselves. Boston Journal. The last election was fought on the issue of protection or free trade, and tho South, as usual, was relied upon to go solidly for free trade. But there was an ominous weakening in the line, and here and there a breach difficult to repair. And now, if tho proposed programme is carried out and thirty-live congressional districts send protection Representatives, regardless of party lines, to Congress, the 6olid South will bo' broken sure enough, the ground will be cut from beneath the feet of tho Democratio party and it will be forced to find some new, issue if it can. Kansas City Journal. If the good of the public service in the South should anywhere require the appointment of conservative Democrats to important federal offices, no Republican of common sense and patriotism will demur. But if loyalty to Kepublicanism (where such loyalty often means social and business ostracism) wero to bo made a disqualification for federal office, and loyalty to tho Democracy a recommendation then there would bo heard a Republican protest throughout this broad land calculated to mako the President's "each particular hair to stand on end." Milwaukee Wisconsin.

SHAKING IIAIllUSON'3 HAND. A Noonday Reception at the White House Described In DcUdL Special in Philadelphia Times. I stood by the President and watched him and the people during tho hand-shaking process, which lasted nearly fifteen minutes. The President, who is quit short, below tho average height, put out his hand and with a kindly smile bowed to a pretty girl, whoso cheeks turned crimson as sho awkwardly put her hand out. Tho President has a small fat hand, which is very white. He held his left hand in front of him against his chest, while the crowd shook his right arm as though it was the handle of the town pump. Harrison looked all in tho eyes as they came up to him, aud hurried them along if tney stopped to talk. In shaking bauds, the President was not particular now tho women grasped his hand, because thev were not so enthusiastic as the men. With the men, the handshaking business was catch-as-catch-can. Whenever a big, powerful man camo along, the President made a divo for him, and generally managed to get first grip. Several times, though, a big man, very much excited at the thought of shaking hands with the President, got hold of the little, fat, white hand, and squeezed it till the President winced. Some men shook his arm so violently in giving way to their feelings of admiration that tho President was tired when ho got through. Tho President had a pleasant word for everybody. To some he said: "Hlad to see you, sir.'7 lo otners no said: now do you do, sir. and when anv complimentary remark was "1 hank you. gentlemen." made, he said: Most of the women wero so flurried tnat they stuttered and stammered and forgot the speech they had been rehearsing while waiting for the President to materialize. : One woman, about sixty, wno was verv tall, and who has attended three public receptions, shook the President's hand to day for the third time. As she passed him duo saiu: "God bless you, your Honor!" Another woman, who cot very red in the face, managed to get out: ' "Long may tno name of Harrison live:77 An old man said to the President exultingly: i was named alter your father. "A tall, lank young man, with his trousers tucked in his boots, said in a stentorian voice, as ho shook tho President's hand violently: "No'th Uaroleena, sir, sends her greeting, sir." A young man. from New York, who had an awfully pretty young woman with him wiiii uig uiamonus in ner ears, saiu in a low tone to tho PresVlent as he presented her: This is my wife. " We've just been mar ried a day?' Tho President nut on an extra smile tor tho blushing bride and said to ner: "Good luck to vou all through life." A man who looked like tho lato Emperor WTilliam of Germany said to tho President as he represented three ladies. "We've como tnree tnousand miles to 6hake your hand." The President smiled and thanked them with a low bow. I was the last man to shako hands with him, and together with Captain Densmore accompanied him through tho lobby to tho dining-room, where he left us and went to luucheon. where ho was joined by Secretary of War Proctor. Just j.i i- i i us iuo iTcsiuent uisappeareu a uig man with a red mustache hurried up to Captain Den&niore and begged mm to let mm see the President, "Just so ho could go back to Wisconsin and let his friends know that ho had shaken hands with General Harrison." The man from Wisconsin explained that he had to leave for home to-night. Captain Densmore said ho was sorry, but that it was too late. Tho man left tne White House looking as though ho was going to his fa ther's funeral. $ Making Meal of Money. Albany (Ga.) SpeclaL Over in Leo county tho other day, at Sam Hawkins's mill, tho .machinery suddenly stopped. Something had fallen into ihe hopper and shut down the whole con cern. arren Baxter, a negro who was at tending to the corn grinding, put his hand down beneath tho upper stone, which he removed for tho purpose, and to his as tonishment found a lot of silver coin, wnichhad been the cause or the trouble. Thero were somo five or six pieces ranging from a dime to a naif dollar. He was very much surprised to discover it. And could not imagine where it could have come from. When he went to depart ho placed his hand in his own pocket and discovered it was his own money. While shoveling tho corn in the sacks 1.75 had fallen into it, and been ground into unrecognizable shape bv the great stones. He brought the mutilated pieces to town, and an enterprising jeweler secured it for CO cents. Will Give the President One More Chance. Springfield Republican (Mugwump.) When tho Republican President read his inaugural address to the country we were unable to find in it the evidenco of a disposition to rise even to the level of his party's best membership, or to lift his view to any thing higher and broader than party interest. The postmastership of New lork of fered him tho first opportunity to reassure tho people on this point, and this is tho way in which he has met it. He has yet another opportunity, to wit, in tho appointments of two members of tho ' civil-service commission. He may in part redeem him self by his choice in this matter. Should he name as the Republican member Wm. D. Foulke, and as the Democratic member a man eoualiy pronounced in his principles. the case could not bo whollv closed aeainst him. But it must bo owned that there is email ground for any hopo of such a result. Marie Rich by Molasses. Onancock (Va.) SpeclaL Maria Bivins, a well-known colored woman residing near this town, is dead. She was lif ty-six years , old, and for more than thirty years she has been engaged in mnkinir and selling molasses cakes, from which she accumulated a comfortablo little fortune. Both sho and her husband wero born in slavery, vt were several of their children. Mie had accumulated enough money before the war to purchase the lib erty of herself and husband, and during the war she made enough money out of tho federal soldiers quartered here to purchase her children. After tho war sho boncht A farm near this town, on which she employed Iter husband, paying him k.75 cents a day during the spring aud summer months, and 50 cents during tho winter. Sho ued two barrels of Hour every month in the manufacture of cakes, always making. VKK) cakes out of each harroL During the long period

she was engaged in thi business, it was estimated she -had made nearlv 4.000.000 nf

cakes. She was an honest, industrious woman, and enjoyed the respect of all who jkuew ucr. An Incident of Life in Gforrla. Innnton (Qa.) ArpeaL Two gentlemen had a rlar ftoleeied for TtOtatoes. nnrl. t li o lioinrr tin tinor wnrn out, they thought it useless to undertake making a crop without manuring tho land. To save buying guano (and may bo thought it better, too,) last season, when they commenced to prepare the land for planting. mej weni, xo an oiu nouse somewhere near by and commenced shoveling up and hauling the dry dirt from tinder the lloor.'and placed it on their Patches in hills the proper distance apart, bedding on it, and left it standing until planting time. Later on, when the time camo to set out the plants, they fixed everything in readiness and commenced the work. It's a custom in Settini? Ollt Vnimp nlmta n. cm ill hole is usually made, either with the hand or a pointed stio:. in this case the hand was used, and to the RnmriKn of Vntli tlm men, when the first hole was made, almost an endless nnmberof lleas, all sizes, from, ine iargesi to the smallest, commenced to make their way out at the .hole, darkening the whole element, for i.-nr1a nmiiTiil litTv. ally covering tho gentlemen and terrifying them 60 profusely with their sharp-toot lied uics wiai . mey were compelled to mako their exit, leavinir tliA flpopr enf iTitv lested, satisfied with the experience, fully uciie iug mat xne prospect ior an enormous flea crop exceeded by far anything liko a cvu ia uio jiuutio yi eitu , A Girl Hall-riajer. Arbany Journal. Hundreds of nennlA 1i?iva Vaat nmnanJ during the week at a somewhat unusual spectacle presented on tho market site in the afternoons. The boys congregate there bcuuoi iiours ana mauigo in oase-ualL One Of tho nines ia mndA nn ,f ftifrlit- ctur.lrf young fellows, of ten to fourteen years of age, and one girl, about fourteen years old. xue maiuen is petty and saucy looking, trimlv attired, and kTia Aviilinlir i rtttia in the sport for the lovo of it. Sho can pitch aud catch with the skill of hand, and run tho bases like a deer. In fact, about the only point in which eho is weak is in throwing to bases. Sho is also clever in watching chances and stealing bases. As a rule tho boys treat her conrteonalr. and refrain from lmH Unimi in her presence, but when one forgets himsen, as is sometimes . tne case, and says something profane, a smart slap in the faco from her fair hand reralla him t . uncA tho proprieties. The square is lined with peopie every aitemoon, watcping tne games and admiring tho play of tho girL Justice to School-Teachers. Boston IleralA. The adoption bv the Boston School Hoard of tho rule that teachers shall hold their Positions without venrlv TA-eleetinn rtlnsoa tho members of this profession upon a better basis, more Relf-resnertini? nnd cafiu factory than they have heretofore occu pied, it takes awav from the dissatisfied parent tho right to black-ball them beforo the committee, and it gives them tho assurance that their work will not bo interrupted wtkout adequate cause. It is an act of tardy justice toward a company of men and women who aro more nearly tho benefactors of the community at feast. who do more self-6acrihcing and nnpaid-for work than almost any other body of citizens, but it comes, thonirli latA. in crrwl time, and is the first of many improvements wnicn tne present uoston fcchool Hoard havo in hand with reference to our educational system. A Patent Hand-Shaker Wanted. Washington Post. Tho court statistician has been figuring on the number of times the President has shaken hands since inauguration. Ho figures on about 33,500 office-seekers and 14,703 friendly calls. We do business by teleraph, manage society by telephone and iss by phouogragh. Vhy can't somebody now invent an instantaneously adjustable, indestructible, self-acting, 6teel-rivetcd extension hand and arm for the uso of Presidents! What glory is there in being PresifAOOO.OOO people, that tho only recreation it gets from their foolish, selfish clutching is m signing confirmations, and writing autoraphs lor school girlsr A patent hand, if acked up by a winning smile, would answer very nicely, and would be adopted by spell-binders, ministers, editors and other popular servants. The Snake Liar Wakes Up Albany (Ga.) Special. Two young men drovo out to a pond upon the farm of Maj. W. P. Burks, near Albany, the other day. They had gone on a fishinir' frolic. To their astonishment they found the pond alive with moccasins. They wero a : ; ii . j r . epuruug iu iuo water anu running in ana out upon the banks. In tho spring their fancy had doubtless turned to thoughts of love, lor they were apparently matimr. They all were in pairs. Thoso that they sup posed to do ot tno masculine gender wero small, saucy-looking black fellows. By tho side of each of theso slender snakes was a great serpent as largo as a man's arm and nearly three feet long. Theso were spotted or striped with black similar to tho mark ings upon a rattlesnake. Evidence that He Is Doing Ills Duty, ; Washington Post. Tho host evidenco in the world that Mr. Clarkson is making a good officer is found in the fact that tho mugwump organs and the political street-walkers are rinding fault with him. Mr. Clarkson is doing his duty. Ho is an able, conscientious Republican, and he is tilling all vacancies with members of his own party. Of course this does not suit tho "mngworms," but Mr. Clarkson has never devoted much of his timo to pleasing such political gentry. . Quay on Prohibition. Philadelphia BeconL While going through Pittsburg on Fridar night, on his way to lieaver, Senator Quay was asked what no thought of tho prohibi-. tion campaign in this State. Ho replied tnat ne naa not given tne matter much attention, but thought that tho Republican peop It Is Never "For Rent." Washington post. A great deal is being said about tho shabby condition of the White House, but we notice the "For Rent" sign don't have to stay upon it very long at a time; and in our dealings with landlords we havo never witnessed anything like an anxious' desiro on their part to fix up a place that could bo readily let as it was. t An Unwitting Acknowledgement. Boa ton Journal. Tho Alabama bourbons are. theoretically, fierce free-traders, but they are just now making desperate efforts to iuduco the gov eminent to locate one of the new newyards at Mount Vernon, near Mobile. This is rather an unexpected acknowledgement of the value of home industry. An Example to Other Fishermen. Boston Herald. It will bo observed that ex-President Cleveland doesn't tell how many fish ho caught down in Florida. This is an ex ample which shonld be followed by all tho disciples of tho immortal Izaak. It con duces to veracit3'. Halstead's Inning. . Pittsburg Dispatch. It is Mr. Halstead's innings from now on. Tho Senators finished at their single play with the rejection bat. Tho rejected editor, without a doubt, will givo them frequent opportunities for extraordinary fielding. How Offlee-Seekers Can lie Defied.' Boston Journal. President Harrison has earned the right to a littlo recreation, and by taking a pleasure trip on an armed vessel of the government he will have a body-guard which can del the boldest ollice-scekers. i Cause for Suicide. Baltimore American. A Philadelphia man recently committed suicide because his wife's bicad was heavy. What a thinly populated world this would be if every man with tho same gricvauco went and did likewise! The Troublesome Iudy Mosquito. New York Tlruea. The male mosquito dies after having fulfilled his oftice; it is the female that Uvea on. AU the biting is douo by female ek quitocs. .

party; as a pari3 snouiu inuorso prohibition. "It is not a party measure," ho said, "and people of all parties will divide outhe

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