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It is, of course, impossible that an ex-slave should weep over the shoulder of a Northern master, sinqe the masters wero all of the South: but in tho North ex-slaves may hold themselves like men and be treated as men and of negroes, Belf-respecting and reepected, many of them industripus, thrifty, and in good circumstances, and as a body law-abiding, peaceful citizens, with all the rights enjoyed by white men. They have a voice in the local as well as the national govj eminent; they vote as they choose, and unmolested; their wages are equal to those of white men in tho same callings, and are not paid, as in the South, in store orders. Their children have the best of school privileges, and altogether they aro bo situated as to be unaware of any lack of "sympathy." No tears are shed over them, it is true, but they appear not to miss the briny downpour. On the whole, it is probable that the colored citizens of Indianapolis would be unwilling to change places with tjieir Georgia brethren, notwithstanding I the Constitution1 assertion that "the negro is not appreciated outside of the South, and can only be appreciated by the Southern people." The "appreciation" of the Southern variety is what no negro wants after he has enjoyed the independence and freedom of the North. AST EDUCATION. Love for and the appreciation of art as represented by painter and sculptor, are not necessary accompaniments of Ihigh intellectual culture. The veriest savago smears bright-colored clays on 'stones and bits of bark in rude likeness of birds and beasts; ho carves images, hideous tothe civilked taste, but to him a delight. As races progress in refinement artistic productions becomo of fcigher quality, but development in this lirection by no means keeps pdeo with .the diffusion of general knowledge. The sense of form, of color, of beauty seems to be! slow of cultivatidn and to bear kittle relation to high mental endowments of other character. The men who carved the Greek statues were of the face then most highly civilized, but they Trere not the scholars of the race. Tho history of tho early Italian painters, tho old masters, shows them as men of ordinary abilities savo in tho one particular. In European countries now it Is in the artisan classes where tho "feeling" for art is strongest and the producing talent most frequently found. This comes, probably, from tho fact that the education tf the eye is in no wiso dependent upon tho literary attainments of the individual. The humblest Italian laborer is more familiar with the famous pictures, the statues, the architecture of his country than tho tourist who gazes on them tor curiosity sake. Born to an acquaintance with these perfect forms, he is unconsciously educated, and is able to Judgo of tho defects or merits of other work. It is this familiarity with tho tcst that is necessary for true art education, and tho difficulty of gaining it in this country is the causo of the general lack of appreciation of tho finest work. The student may be thoroughly acquainted with the principles of art, ho may bo well read in art literature, and without opportunity to train tho eyo may, as a matter of taste, admire a lurid chromo more than a study by Moran, or Chase, or than the daintiest water-color. It was to give opportunity for this education, and to afford pleasure to true art lovers, that tho Indianapolis Art Association was formed. It is no reflection tipon, tho culture of the peoplo to Bay that a difficult task was undertaken. Art, in its highest forms, is not a development of a new country, and it Is no disparagement of Americans to say that up to this time they have, as a people, been absorbed in other things. The lack of interest in Indianapolis, of which the association has been inclined to complain, is

not peculiar to tho place. Even in largo cities, where artists congregate and where art exhibitions are cvery-day affairs, the residents are slow to take adVantage of their privileges. An art atmosphere, like a musical atmosphere, must bo created, and is a work of time. Tho first musical society in this city doubtless had an up-hill time, though love for music comes rather more naturally to the American than a fondness for painted canvas. and sculptured marble; but already the Art Association has done much. Its yearly exhibitions are looked forward to with interest, and have afforded many students needed "opportunities . of observation. Tho present display ia composed of work of perhaps uniformly finer quality than any preceding, and is of sufficient variety and extent to afford a clear idea of what is being donoby American artists. Tho society has rendered a great service to the public in cringing these pictures, together, and will, no doubt, have substantial proof that its labors arc appreciated.

CAPITAL SUGGESTIONS, The lives of dead men aro constantly reminding living ones of "what shadows we arc, and what shadows we pursue." L. U. Reavis, who died in St. Louis a few days ago, spent many years in ardently advocating the removal of the national capital from Washington to St. Louis. It was certainly a very shadowy scheme, but Reavis treated it as a great reality, very desirable and altogether feasible. Ho wrote newspaper articles, published pamphlets, delivered addresses, and spent time and money in getting his scheme before the public, and urging its merits. He even went so. far as to suggest plans for the disposal of the public buildings at Washington, and make estimates of the cost of new ones at St. Louis, with the probable cost of transferring the government property, archives and records. Ho succeeded in gaining considerable notoriety as "the capital mover," enlisted considerable support for his scheme in some quarters, and got a few members of Congress, who thought some votes could be made out of j it, to give it their approval. Its mention in Congress alarmed the tradesmen and boarding-house keepers of that city considerably. They had an idea that the great West was preparing to make a descent on the capital and carry it off bodily to the western bank of the Mississippi, and they began to wonder what they should do for a livelihood when the places that then knew the office-holders and clerk's should know them no more f orever. But the kheme came to naught. The capital was not removed. The dome of the Capitol still rises in stately and majestic proportions on the banks of the Potomac, and the magnificent buildings that represent the wealth and stability of the government in all parts of the city of Washington have not yet been sold at less than cost or torn down to be removed to St. Louis. The shadow soon vanished, and now the man who pursued the shadow has followed it. Will the capital ever be removed! That is a hard question to answer. Never is a long time, and he would be a bold prophet who should undertake to predict where the capital of the United States will be five hundred years hence. Will there be a government of the United States five hundred years hence, or will there be several such governments? Will the several hundred millions of people who will occupy this continent five hundred years hence live under one government or under several? If one only, will it be a federal republic, a union of States, such as wo now have, or will there be a consolidation of States and an obliteration of State lines? Will there be a republic at all, or will our present government havo passed through the various stages of decline, only to fail at last and be succeeded by a monarchy? Will the Goddess of Liberty still smile on a free and united people from the dome of the Capitol at Washington, or will the stately dome itself have fallen a prey to some civil convulsion? Will the lofty monument that now symbolizes the greatness of him whose name it bears, still pierce the clouds and catch on its summit the first rays of the morning's snn as it rises upon the greatest of nations and the freest of governments, or will the towering obelisk have been pulled down by warring States and hostile factions until, like Macaulay's traveler from New Zealand, some native artist from Samoa shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on the broken corner-stone of the monument to sketch the ruins of the White House? These are gloomy thoughts, and there is nothing in tho present situation to suggest them; but who knows what may happen in five hunnred years? TriE national capital was not located at Washington until after a long struggle and much bitter sectional and partisan feeling. It was finally done as the result of a compromise, very much like that we now call log-rolling. For there were log-rollers in those days. During tho revolutionary war and the period of the confederacy, Congress met at different times at Philadelphia, Baltimore, Princeton, Annapolis, Trenton and New York. From 178o until the final adoption of the Constitution it met at New York. Tho subject of a permanent national capital was discussed at different times, and in 17S3 Congress resolved that a building for its use should be erected near the falls of tho Delaware. This was afterwards modified, in deference to sectional feeling, to include the erection of another building, near the falls of tho Potomac, the meetings of Congress to be held alternately in the two places. But Congress had no money, and tho buildings were not erected. When the Constitution was adopted tho question of a permanent capital came up again. Tho country members objected to New York because it was a commercial city. The Southern members objected to Philadelphia on account of the growing anti-slavery feeling there among the Quakers. Finally, when Congress decided to locate the new capital "on the banks of tho Susquehanna" tho Southern delegates made a great outcry and protested against locating the capital in the North. A bitter controversy followed. Madison declared if it had

been foreseen that the national capital was to bo located in the North his State (Virginia) might never havo entered the Union. At this time, Hamilton's plan for the assumption of the State debts by the general government was under discussion. It also was a subject of bitter controversy. Taking advantage of this state of things, Hamilton and Jefferson put their heads together and evolved a plan for pooling the two questions and working them through together. It was finally arranged that two Anti-federalists should vote for Hamilion's plan, in return for which the Federalists agreed that the capital, after remaining five years at Philadelphia, should be permanently located on the Potomac. To accomplish this compromise required somo of the sharpest log-rolling on record. When Congress met after the burning of tho Capitol and public buildings by the British, in 1814, a proposition to remove the capital was agitated and liberal offers for the location were made hy Philadelphia and Lancaster, Pa. The latter city had been formerly the capital of Pennsylvania, and Congress held a short session there during the revolutionary war. There was a strong feeling in the House in favor of removal, but it was finally defeated by the Southern members and was never seriously revived again. The location of the capital at Washington proved a fortunate thing during the war of the rebellion. Its location on the Potomac enabled the government to control that important river, separate Maryland from the South and threaten Virginia, and gave tho government a base of 'operations almost in the Confederacy. The possession of the national capital was also a powerful incentive to vigorous action by the government and Northern people, which would havo been lacking if the capital had been located in the North.

A well-authenticated and very painful case of insanity from over-study in the public schools came to the knowledge of the writer a few days ago. The victim is a roung lady, whose parents reside in a neighboring city. As a girl she was bright and healthy and had an active mind. In school she studied hard and went through the usual cramming processes, examinations, etc. When about eighteen years old she broke down, and has now been insane five years. She is, however, improving, and her friends hope for her complete recovery. Cases of this kind are not very numerous, bat they are sufficiently so to pat parents on their guard. The dangerous age is about sixteen or seventeen years, and the first symptom of failing health at that time should he accepted as a sign that a young person should quit study. The subject of overpressure in schools has recently been treated by Prof. Charcot, of Paris. According to the Lancet, he asserts that intellectual or cerebral overwork does not exist in children under sixteen years of age. A child, he says, can make only the amount of intellectual effort of which hs is capable. If he has programmes too overcharged to fulfill, he simply does not fulfill them; if one insists on cramming his memory with crude facts, no result whatever is obtained; but this does not iu any way affect the brain of the child, the passiveness of whioh is complete, and the indifference absolute. On the other hand, according to the Professor, "over-pressure" manifests itself only in youths above sixteen or eightteen years. It is characterized by a number of nervous troubles, principally by a pain in the back part of the head, which extends down to the back of the neck, and goes up again in front of the ears. No doubt many young people, especially girls, are injured by over-study aod school pressure who do not reach the point of breaking down. Flogging in public schools must bo much more common in Boston than it is in this city or any other Western citv. A recent report of the superintendent of the Boston schools discusses the subject at considerable length. The superintendent says corporal punishment is resorted to in the public schools to an excessive, unreasonable and injurious extent. It seems the subject was agitated several years ago, aud at that time the feeling against flogging in the schools was so strong as to cause a partial abandonment of the practice. During the school year 1851-2 the number of cases where corporal punishment was used in the grammar schools of Boston fell off from 10,973 to 7,844, a reduction of nearly one-third. But even this improvement was temporary. The following year the number considerably increased, and it continued to increase steadily and rapidly until tho close of 1885-6, when the records showed that curing that year the rattan had been used upon grammar school boys in 11,530 instances. Last year was tho worst of all in respect to the whipping of grammar-school pupils. Including those in the primary schools, the number of cases of corporal punishment reached a total of 18.CG6! This is an astonishing statement, and shows that corporal punishment in the Boston schools is far more common than in those of the West. Does it argue worse children, stricter discipline or simply different methods of government? We believe it argues poor government and poor discipline. Even parental flogging of children is of doubtful utility, while school whipping should only be resorted to in extreme cases, if ever. In the public schools of many cities it is only permitted under strict limitations. Boston seems to be behind the times in this regard. Fkek gas for manufacturers is what Indianapolis wants and must have if it is to profit as it should by the new fuel. There was a time when Indianapolis business men made the excuse that they could not afford to be public-spirited when to be so involved the outlay of money; but that argument, weak at the best, has no foundation in fact now. The business men of this place are as prosperous as those of other cities as prosperous, at least, as they can hope to be while pursuing a policy that retards the growth and improvement of the town. If they expect business to increase they must show some measure of the enterprise displayed by the citizens of other places; they must invite business here and offer it inducements to come. Indianapolis has many advantages which have cost tho citizens nothing. Its geographical location is admirable, its shipping facilities unsurpassed; its educational and social features of the best. These things, however, are not sufficient of themselves to offset the privileges of free fuel offered to manufacturers by the wideawake residents of neighboring towns. Manufacturers will go to these places, who, other things being equal, would gladly come here. It is strings that the merchants and other business men here will not see that the outlay they are asked to make is an investment sure to repay them tenfold. If they allow the opportunity to build up the town and their own business

to go by through their old-time conserva-. tism, inertia and lack of push they will wait in vain for a return of such chance and for the improvement to come of itself. The matter is in their own hands. E. G. Dunxell, a well-known Washington correspondent of mugwumpian proclivities, but withal very fair minded, contributes to the Epoch a character sketch of President Harrison, from which the following is an extract: Before he had left his Indiana home the President had won a reputation for extraordinary listening capacity. He maintains it in the White House. His patience ia listening is likely to become as proverbial as his reticence about his policy. While he invites opinion by inquiry, his listener can only infer what the President's opln ions may be from the nature of his questions. lie makes no promises more definite than those of consideration. Hi mind and method are Inalclal, and he prefers to let his opinions of men and policies to become known by actions rather than by general expressions In advance. This Is as true in his intercourse with his Cabinet officers as It is -with the throng of office-seekers. It Is not his habit of inlnd to be confidential, even with those with whom he is most Intimate. lie has no "smaU talk." No one who converses with tho President would get the Impression that he was at all o-lk-itous about creatine a frond impression. President Harrison Is not a man of Impulse. Bo he Is not Impatient or irritable. According to tho testimony ot those who have known him long and intimately, he is "the soul of patience." blow to reach conclusions, he Is tenacious of a decision once made. His conviction that the Republican party is right and the Democratic party wrong is so strong that he rarely finds anythin? in the opposition to draw his approval. He Is a partisan, and he is as frankly a partisan now as he was in the Senate four vears ago. His friends prefer to call him a 'decided' rather than a positive" man. regarding the former word as descriptive of the man of resolution that he is, while the latter is applicable to an obstinate man, which they say he is not. Ex-Go vers or Warmotii, a Northern man by birth, a strong Republican and the largest sugar planter in Louisiana, is now in Washington to find out what the government intends to do with a sugar plant erected on his plantation below New Orleans. He says: It has been an experimental station for trying the effusion process of extracting sugar from the cane. The Agricultural Department wul leave the plant there this summer and resume work this fall. The diffusion process is a success. I have sold my mills and shall use it hereafter. Under the old way from 30 to 35 per cent, of the Juice was left in the cane. Now we get it all. practically, bv steeping the nnelychoppedcane in water. There Is an Improvement of 15 per cent., making due allowance for the increased expense. Governor Warmoth says the next experiments will be made with sorghum and beets, and he predicts that in the near future between cane, sorghum and beets we will produce all the sugar we use. TnE advocates of whipping as a means of family discipline are accustomed to quote Solomon as saying "Spare the rod and spoil the child." What Solomon said was "He that spareth the rod hateth his son." Bnt the word "od', in that connection does not necessarily refer to corporal punishment. It simply means parental authority and guidance. The same Hebrew word is used in the Twenty-third Psalm, where David says "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. His rod and His staff they comfort me." The rod was the symbol of authority and power, not a raw-hide nor a hickory withe. Atlanta is getting ready to celebrate what she calls the quarter centennial of the burning of the city tho silver-wedding anniversary of Sherman's march to the sea. General Sherman and Gen. Joe Johnston are expected to be present, and there will be a fine display of what Atlanta has done and is doing in the way of material progress. We hope it is not violating the proprieties of life to say there are no flies on Atlanta. Indianapolis was not even a dream of the future one hundred years ago, but it is goi'ng to celebrate Washington's inauguration centennial jmi tho same as if tho President of 1TS9 had been a native Hoosier. General Harrison's fellowitizens understand their duty in the matter. Secretary Griffin had to make haste to get the legislative reports out. If he had waited until the SuDreme Court got through pronouncing the acts unconstitutional he would have had nothing left to print. BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.

Two new streets iu Berlin are to be named after Bach and Wagner. The Emperor of Austria has paid the late Crown Prince's debts, which amounted to $2,500,000. Six thousand girls are ready to enter the Normal College in New York city. Only 800 can bo admitted. TnE statue of Benjamin Franklin in New York is being cleaned up for the centennial. It has been black in the face with dirt for years. The wife of a British clergyman Is seeking a separation on the ground that her husband whips the children ia "an unjustifiable and exorbitant manner." Mr. William L. Bright is thinking of retiring from Parliament to devoto himself to business, In which he Is enormously successful. He Is the only one of John Bright' s sons who inherits his father's rare sense of humor. Everybody who is now admitted to an audience by the Pope must have previously signed a document by which the applicant pledges him self neither to ask anything of his Holiness nor to publish or repeat anything which his Holiness may say. The Kcv. Fred D. Hale, pastor of a Baptist Church in Louisville, has inaugurated a new fashion in collections. He announces before the sermon the amount he desires gathered m, and if the collection falls short, he summarily dismisses the congregation without sermon or benediction. Mrs. J. M. Fisubcrk, treasurer of the W. F. M. 8. of the Presbyterian Church, in her report shows that the cost of administration is a trifle over 1 per cent, of the receipts. So the old gag about giving one dollar to the heathen and another to pay for getting It to them doesn't go any longer. Anthont Comstock, has always been desirous of Joining U. 8. Grant Post, 327, New York's crack G. A. B. organization, and two weeks ago his name was submitted. When a vote was taken on his ad mission on Wednesday night he was snowed under by a showes. of nearly one hundred black balls. 3 The German Emperor gave to Prince Bismarck, on the latter's birthday anniversary, a riiie, old, engraved portrait of his ancestor, the Provost George Frederick von Bhimarck, born in 1007. It is framed in oak, ornamented by the rrince's coat-of-arms, and bears a dedication written by the Emperor. PnoFESson Tysdall, the scientist, is an Irishman, but an intense anti Home-ruler. Professor TyndaU's family was originally of an English stockindeed, the Professor traces his descent to the great Tyndall, the translator of tho Bible. His parents were by no means rich, and young John may be said to have educated himself. Tub New York Legislature has requested Governor Hill to confer the rank of brevet brig-adicr-gcneral on CoL Emmons Clark, retiring from the command of the Seventh Regiment. He has been over thirty-two years with the regiment, and twenty-five years its colonel. He has heretofore declined tho honor when elected to the omce. Bancroft, the historian, is nearingnlnety, and is losing his memory, especially for names and faces, as Ralph Waldo Emerson did In his later years, and who, after gazing awhile at the face of Longfellow as the latter lay In hi cofliu, turned to a friend and obperved: "He was a sweet and beautiful soul, but I have entirely forgotten his name." Ex-President Cleveland lately wrote this on a elip of paper and sent it to an inquiring New York reporter "I am constantly bothered with quesUons in regard to country places already secured or to be secured by myself or Mrs. Cleveland. We have no country place except Oak View; we want none and are not ou the lookout for one, and we would not take one as a gift," A Cuamrerbckg (Va.) man expects to get rich if tho prohibition amendment Is adopted, lie says: "I'll start my wife in business as a barkeeper with a stock ot five gallons of whisky. Every time I want a drink I will pay her 10 cents, it being understood, ot course, that I can only drink what she gives me, and that she fnr lushes me alone with the whisky. When the first live gallon are exhausted she will buy the sec

ond, third, etc., with the receipts of her bar. You see the advantage of this. AU the rrotlts of my drinking will remain in my family, and I expect to become rich." The Rev. Heber Newton said In his sermon last Sunday: "The church has never spoken a word authoritatively on the life beyond. The Bible has been equally reticent 8uch silence is suggestive." Then Brother Newton proceeded to give his more or less authoritative opinion, as foUows: "The next world is to be the evolution of society into higher, nobler, more perfect forms than any earth has realized." . Tom Reed, ot Maine, has been telling how he wa9 admitted to the bar. He was examined ia California by Judge WaUace. Reed aays: "The first question Judge Wallace asked me was.'Is the leal tender act constltutionalf I didn't hesitate a moment. I said simply. 'It is eonntitaUonaL" You can pass,' said Judge WaUace. We always pass a man who can settle great conStituti onal questions off hand.' " On the evening of May 20, 1766, the citizens of Boaton celebrated the repeal of the stamp act by hanging one hundred and eight lanterns in the Old Liberty tree on Essex street One of the lanterns, which, according to its inscription, was hung on "the west bough, opposite Frog lane," bus been in the Uunnemau family ever since, and has Just been presented to the Bostonlan Society by the widow and children of the late Joseph H. nunnenian, of Boxbury, CAPTAIN Mcr&ell. of the Missouri, was born in Colchester, near London, and his father, a well-to-do retired merchant; now lives at Swansea. He has a brother also in the marine service and a sister who is quite attractive. Captain Murrell is twenty-seven years of age and unmarried. He had served as first and second mate and received his master's certificate before he was twenty-one years old. In recent years Captain MurreU has visited Philadelphia frequently. Becrerart Blaine's present attack of lumbago is the first he has had to endure since he left Europe. Before he left this country he suffered a great deal from rheumatism in the back, but he has been free from that aclictlon for a great many months. There is only one mode of treatment which gives him relief. He goes to bed, perspires freely, drinks hot gin and sleeps as much as possible. It generally takes him about two days to fully recover when the attack has been a sharp one. There is a big fortune in those cash railroads we see in aU the ladies' shopping stores. One company has gobbled up all the best devices of the sort, and is reaping a great harvest, because no enterprising storekeeper pretends to get along without them. The owners will not sell tbe apparatus. They put It in a store under a lease at $18 a year for a station, a station being each one of those stopping places over the clerks heads, whence the baskets are sent to the cash desk. Some New York stores have as many as 250 stations, and consequently pay $4,500 or more a year for the use of the device. Old Trinity has put on her centennial dress,' The entrance on Broadway and the side porches were covered with flags and bunting satisfactorily arranged. Out in the church-yard the Lawrence and Hamilton monuments and the monument of the prison martyrs were draped in the national colors, and, above all, from a brand new forty-foot pole at the base of the spire floated the ftars and stripes. It is the same old silken flag that waved there every day during the war of the rebellion, and that is preserved among old Trinity's most precious possessions. It will float from the big statf daily until the centennial celebration is over. The most impressive march that has been seen In Paris within recent years, was that of 1885, at the funeral of Victor Hugo, who was taken to the grave in a pauper's hearse, by his own request The number of spectators along the line was estimated by La Justice at two millions, and some idea of the enormous length of the procession may be gathered from the fact that the list of the various organized bodies at tife funeral filled seven closely-printed pages of a Paris newspaper. There was a wonderful display of symbols of mourning in the streets and In the rants, and with these were inter woven a multitude of the flags of aU nations. The Aro de Triomphe was hidden by a veU of crape. Twenty-two ambulances, attended by surgeons, had been provided by the municipality and were stationed at convenient points of the city, ready for service. Fabulous prices were paid by spectators for the nse of balconies or windows on the day of the funeral, and in one case a householder refused to accept $1,200 for the use of his balcony in the Boulevard St. Germain.

MONEY IN A SECRET DRAWER. An Eccentric Couple Hides Away $7,000 Which Is Afterwards Found by a Son. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Peru, Ind., April 27. The death of Isaao Newman and wif e.early settlers and pioneers of this county, on Saturday and Sunday respectivelv. and at almost the same hours is recalled by the strange find yesterday of $7,000 in gold, silver and paper money. Two years ago Mr. Newman suffered a serious illness from Which he never fully recovered, and during the time made mention to his son Benjamin that should he die he would find in an old and unique family bureau a small sum of money, naming the amount at about $100, and which he said was there for contingent expenses. Mr. Newman recovered, and the son moved to Minnesota, and the subject was entirely forgotten, until after the burial of the couple it reverted to him. Diligent search throughout the bureau failed to reveal any money, and the conclusion was reached that it contained no money. The search was again renewed upou suggestion of possible false drawers or bottoms, and a more thorough and systematic search disclosed a false bottom, in which, neatly sewed up in various articles of apparel, was the sura of $7,000. The existence of this money was never even dreamed of by other members of the family. Mr. Newman deposited the money in the bank in this city to-day. Another feature in connection with their deaths was that although happily mated, and living together two score years almost, it was their dying wish to be buried apart, Mr. Newman with his first wife and Mrs. Newman with her first husband, which was complied wi CATHOLIC PATRIOTISM. Bishop Heal j, cf Maine, Thinks Puritans and Quakers nave Been Given Too Much Credit. 2 Portland, Me., April 27. Bishop Healy, of Portland, has issued an address to the Catholics of Maine, on the occasion of the centennial of Washington's inauguration. He calls attention to the progress of the country since then, and to the wise counsels andf are well address of Washington. He speaks of Washington's warning against two'errors, which are now prevalent in this country; first, the error against the sanctity of an oath, and, second, the error of thinking morality possible without religion. Bishop Healy says it is a fable to attribute the establishment of freedom of conscience to the Puritans, the Cavaliers of Virginia, or the Quakers. In Maryland, as long as the Catholics had control of tho government, that was the sole colony where freedom of conscience and liberty of religion existed. It is time Catholics should know their just claims in the matter. The ceremony, which took place a hundred years ago, was important to the Catholics. The constitution then launched proclaimed religious liberty from which, until then, Catholics had been debarred. Catholics in those days were most devoted iu patriotism, but were scarcely allowed to command. Let us not be discouraged by the abuse of prejudiced men. We have nothing to conceal. We have no conspiracy. Wo cannot be members of oath-bound secret societies. While respecting therights, duties, opinions and even reasonable prejudices of our brethren in citizenship, we claim the same consideration for ourselves, avowing without shame or concealment that our freedom of conscience, our attachment to God, and our religion is our first privilege and highest duty. We recognize it as a light which shows us how to render unto God and our country what is due them. The Bishop asks Catholics to include the Commonwealth in their prayers on April 0. - Ifones of av Mastodon Found. Special to the Indianapolis Journal, Tirrov, Ind., April 27. The bones of a mastodon were unearthed on the farm of C.C Trimble, near Windfall, yesterday. One of the teeth was seven inches long and six Inches wide. A tusk, measuring eight feet was taken out. and several other large portions of the animal were also secured, but they crumbled to dust upon being exposed to the air. Of late years several bones of an unknewn species of animal have been onearthed in that locality.

THE FATHER OF HISCOUXTBY

Hitherto Unpublished and Interesting Reminiscences of the Great Patriot His Liberality in Entertaining at Mount Yernon He Sometimes Bought Lottery Tickets, and Was No Slouch in a Horse Trade. Written for the Sunday Journal. Pittsburg, April 35. Few peoplo in this world ever live to recall the memories of ninety years, but the recollection of CoL James D. MinrolL the oldest inhabitant of this Iron City, who has recently celebrated his ninety-sixth birthday, dates hack to 1707, when he was four years of age. Though horn in the rural districts of Virginia, within a few miles of that Mecca of American freemen, Mount Vernon, the greater part of . his life has been spent in Washington City, where ho has been intimately acquainted with almost every distinguished man who has been prominent in the various phases of life at our national capital during the past seventy years. Many happy hours of his childhood were passed on the estate of the immortal Father of his Country, and as the Colonel is as vigorous mentally and physically as any man of sixty, his personal recollections of that great patriot as well as of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Aaronliurr, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin VanBuren, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster. William Henry Harrison, J ohn Tyler, James K. Polk, and many others of our public men of bygone days are replete with tho charm of interest and novelty, the Colonel having heretofore refused to givo them to the public, though several publishers have offered him liberal inducements to write a book of his reminiscences. When, in view of the fact that next Tuesday, April SO, will be the one hundredth anniversary of Washington's inauguration as President of the United States, I asked the Colonel to-day for some personal reminiscences of that great patriot, he talked freely. "While I think of myself only as a boy." said the Colonel, "I must confess to what the clergy call 'a realizing sense' that I am out of my teens, when I remember that I am more than thirty years older than the railroad, fifty years older than the telegraph, and nearly one hundred years older than the telephone and phonograph. I had hurrahed and voted for my favorite presidential candidates several times before I licked my first postage stamp, and it was not until several years after I had arrived at man's estate that some inventive genius produced a metal plow. "Long after I was a married man great big 'gals' in 'Old Virginny where I was born with long waist ribbons and tbe sleeves of their dresses purled out like balloons, used to carry their shoes under their arms till they came closa to the meetinghouse, where they would stop to put them on. and they'd 'holler for General Jackson' if it killed rem. In those days if a hoy got a pair of ' home-made low shoes, a air of linsey-woolsey pants and a wool at once a year he thought he was playing in gTeat luck, as your young fellows say now. It was in such an outfit for boys arrived at the dignity of bifurcated apparel at a much younger age in those days than they do now that early in March, 1TV7, I first remember visiting Mount Vernon, being then a youngster of four years. It was on the occasion of Washington's return to home and domestic life at the termination of his second presidential term. Among a vast concourse of neighbors and friends assembled to welcome him was my father, who had taken me with him. The occasion was made one of gensral rejoicing. People came Hocking in from all parts of the vast estate. "Those who are familiar with the Mount Vernon of to-day with its 200 acres can scarcely realize that in Washington's time It numbered several thousand. It was originally known as the Hunting Creek estate, but when Lawrence Washington, George's half-brother, inherited it from their father, he rechristened it Mount Vernon, in honor of the British admiral under whom he had served in the disastrous campaign against Carthagena in South America. At his death it descended to his daughter Jenny, and when she died, soon afterward, it became the property of George Washington. It was a great domain, extending for miles down the Potomac below Alexandria. "When the beautiful young relict of Col. Daniel Parke Curtis a colonial belle at fifteen, a bride at seventeen, and a widow with two children at twenty-four became Mrs. Washington, she brought her new lord a dower of 15,000 acres of land, 800 negroes, and $30,000 invested in the best securities of those days, and the large domain thus added to Mount Vernon made Washington one of the largest and wealthiest land-owners of his day. "No man was ever more liberal in the entertainment of his friends and neighbors than George Washington. Those were the days when every well-regulated plantation or farm had its still house in which the golden grain, garnered with a sickle for the originator of that great invention, the grain-cradle, with its live fingers, the torerunner of the reaper and the mowing machine, was then alike, to fortune and to fame, unknown was transformed into whiskyt which did not make men crazy, and which sold for from $3 to $5 per barrel. It was one of the staple productions of Mount Vernon, and every man on the estate that day drank 'Welcome home, and long life to General George Washington in a bumper of it that would excite the horror of modern advocates of constitutional prohibitory amendments. "I have looked upon many mighty men. I have seen the great Napoleon in the full llush of his pride and triumph. I have seen George VI the 'First Gentleman of Europe.' Ihave personally known Lord Byron. Sir Walter Scctt Daniel O'ConuelL Daniel Webster and many others of the men most famous in affairs of government, arms, literature, statesmanship aud oratory, but never have I seen any other man who impressed me, child though I was, as possessing such massive grandeur and dignity of presence as did General George Washington when he stood upon the veranda at Mount Vernon, and in a few simple, wellchosen words thanked ns for our demonstration of welcome. The impression that he then made upon my childish mind can never be ellaced, and of all the great meu whom I havo seen since none has been able to depose the Father of his Country from the pedestal of superiority over other men upon which I placed him in my heart that day. ''Down in the negro quarters numerous pot-pies were cooking in ten-gallon kettles and many jucy 'possums were roasting before brightly-blazing wood fires. We had no coal iu those days, and the winter wood-pile of a prosperous planter would make a householder of the present day think that there had been a freshet in the neighborhood, f "Then, in the grand old banquet hall of Mount fernon, Washington and his country neighbors sat down to one of the old-fashioned rural Virginia suppers of that period. When it had been dispatched, the tables were quickly cleared away, and the big boys and 'gals' went swinging around in a circle, singing: " 'We are marching, marching to Quebec, While the drums aro loudly beaUng. "Oh, those were halcyon days, indeed, in 'Ole Virginny,' when neighbors met together rich and poor alike at log-rollings, barn raisings, harvestings and buskin gs, to frolic merrily when the work was done. "I have spoken of the banquet hall at Mount Vernon. Together with the library and the piazza overlooking tho Potomac, it was one of the chief features of two new wings that were added to the old mansion in 178T. Two years previously, on Dec. 23, 17S3, Washington had performed tbe crowning act of his heroic career by giving into the hands of Congress his commission as commander-in-chief of the armies of a great country, which owed its individual national life so largely to him. "On the following nicht Christmas eve, 1783 as plain Mr. and Mrs. Washington, he and his wife were welcomed to Mount Vernon with just such another neighborly demonstration as I have attempted to describe above, and of which I have often heard my father telL The fane of Washington and of tbe rapidly growing nation which he was regarded as having begotten.

drew so many visitors to Mount Vernon that the enlargement of the house was necessary for their fitting entertainment "There crowd upon me to-day with, strange vividness the memories of my subsequent visits to Mount Vernon, and of tho many times I saw its master in the nearly three remaining years before death closed his earthly career, on Dec. 14, 17JJ. "No man ever bad a more intensely human side than Washington. It was common talk amorethe peopleof our neighbor hood that he had a strange weakness for.' purchasing lottery tickets. Thrro wero also rumors that h? had what old Tony Weller would call a am'able weakness' for falling in love Platonically or otherwise with pretty young women, and was greatly annoyed when the af ore-aid youug women refused to fall in lovo with him. Many of our neighbors even went so far as to say that he always traded, horses to his own advantage, and 'Never swap horses with Washington finally became a sort of pro-' verbial saying in that section of the Old Dominion. "Though ho was unquestionably the richest and most prominent American of his day, ho was an uncoa scionably bad speller, as everybody knows.. I have often hoard my father say tbaC Washington had creat passious, but held them in magnificent control, and that, though remarkably talkative to confidential friends, he was singularly taciturn when there was any likelihood of what ha said being repeated or made public. Ileal ways asked a blessing at table, where he had his glass of wine or mug of beer at every meal, and was a healtuy, cheerful, active man, who enjoyed lifo as if it wero worth living. ".Noraan was ever more thoroughly f amil- ' iar with every detail of his aflairs, or evef gave to his e .state a closer personal supervision. His natural dignity was so great that he could well afford to do, and did do, : many things that were very unusual for a planter of his condition and time Thos were tho days wheu the women pulled tb llax, while the men broke, 'swingled' andhackled it. and then twisted it into littla cues for the women to spin and weave. I havo seen the immortal George stoop down, and pull llax to show home green hand among the negro women how It should bej done. "This flax-raising was oneof the chief indnstries of ML Vernon, and even now, F f:inev. I can see tht-re. bleachimz in the stin.l

j t ho long strips white as snow from whichp j fheets. pillow-Rlips, table-cloths, towels, v shirts ana rants were made. In my mind a eye I see again tho female slaves carding wool with hand-cards into rolls ready to spin on their big wheels. In imagination I hear them singing tbe quaintold plantation hymns and folk songs of the South ss those wheels go round, while xuoviug ubiquitously over every part of the estate 1 sej once more the tall, erect figure of the master. "Then there comes to me tho memory of how the whole country was stirtled hy the sudden announcement of his death, ou Dec. 14, 1TW, after a very brief illness, and of how the whole population was plunged into mourning for the loss of a great patriot and a good man." Geoffrey Williston Christine. CcpjrighU 18S9.J AN EXPERT FORGER. ; Daring Six Years He Issues $500,000 in Fraud ulcnt Notes, tut Finally Comes to Grief, j New Britain, Conn., April 27. Charles E. Woodruff formerly secretary of tha Young Men's Republican Club, and city clerk, has confessed that he has uttered forged paper to the extent of $40,000. Th banks here are out about $10,000. Woodruff has practiced forgery for nearly six years, according to his own confession, daring -which time he has forged notes to the ex 1 tent of 000,000. Of thisamount he has managed, without being discovered, to . make good all hut the sum above mentioned. The other day Woodruff forged the indorsement of F. Woodruff, of Berlin, to a note for $500. The bank questioned itW genuineness, on the ground that Mr. F. ' Woodruff was ' in California, and had! been there all winter. Woodruff promised) to make good the amount to tho bank, but failed to do so. He was then confront' ed with the other forgeries, and under great' pressure was made to confess his guilt. Among the names the forger has used aro' those of leading business men of this and) neighboring cities. Woodruff was arrested and brought into the police court to-day,: and was held under $12,000 bail, for trial. ' He went to jail. When Woodruff 6t art ed the Herald, six! years ago he had no capital, and depended I upon uis inenas 10 nejp mm aiong. Aiicr a while he became tired of tho dependenro and sought some way by which he could escape lrom his obligations to them. It was then that he turned his attention to speculating in real estate. He bought a valuable lot on Church street for $3,000, upon which he paid a lew nunurea uouars, ana gave uis noio for the remainder. He then secured a loan of $0,000 upon this tame property, which he forthwith expended in laying the foundation for a large block, which he subsequently erected. The difficulty which he experienced in securing money to complete tho work induced him to take his first false step. He issued notes, indorsed, apparently, by leading business men. lie kept a careful account, and as fast as they came .-I Via vtn wl 4nam with fTrtAr Vt1Yt A HUO AA V? JjaiVa t AA i AA4 n AAW AS V J Wl AiiViA W had procured through the issue of other! notes to other persons- He had an intimate friend in the person c f J. Eloper, cashier of the First National Bank, and because of this acquaintance he was able to secure' letters of introduction to banks in Mcriden, -Middletown and Hartford, fromj VI UiU M DWUJI U SVM1IICH jii - vv tober, lbS7, when he sold tho Herald to the present owners, Messrs. Blanchard dc Vance, the latter a member of Congress from this district. Woodruff had out over $100,000 in forged notes, upon which ho was paying $100 a week interest. From that date until the present week ho has uttered, according to his own admis. hion, nearly $400,000 of bogus notes and 1 checks. It is said that there is not a man in tho city of New Britain, who is known as a money-lender, who has not held some of bis forged papers. Such -was the skill with which he imitated the signatures of bank officials and others upou . his paper that the most experienced eye could not distinguish the genuine from the false. A RESTRICTIVE LICENSE LAW. Over 1,500 Drinking Tlaces in Boston Compelled to Go Out of Business This Week. Boston', April 27. This year begins thej enforcement of the new license law, which . limits the number of licenced places in thiscity to 780, and as there were over 2,000. applicants, there are nearly 1,500 drinking, places that must close by May 1. The list of rejected applications includes some of ihf in nut nrnmi ntint rtenlera within the fit V limits. There is not a single eporting-honso ) in town, except Councilman Billy) Mahoney's pl&ce, that has been granted a ) liccnes. Among the noted sporting resorts1, that will have to close are thoso of ex-' oarsman Thomas Butler and sculler George Hosmer. Michael Gleasou, James Kenan. Ned McAvoy, and a number of other smaller resorts of sjorts. There were three notable rejections, among them John Miller, who is reported to be tlm wealthiest Irish-American in the city; Col. Lawrence J. Louan. ono of the leading Democratic politicians of the city, and Michael Doherty, who in life had a reputation of being a leading dealer in liquors, and owned Hiree stores. A number of smaller hotels are restricted to 3-per-cent. beverages. The oldest ale-hoiiM) in the city, the "Hell in Hand." must close its doors. This ancient hostelry has been established nearly a century, and has an interesting; history, having been the re-ort of many notable men of past generations. A fair estimate of the los to those who have been refused a license, in iixtures and income, places the sum at not less than &,0U0,00U. About 3.500 barkeepers will be thrown out of employment, causing them a total lota daily in income of at least 7,000. Golug Abroad. New York. April 27. Among the pausngers who sailed for Europe to-day on the Ktruria for JjTerpoolwere cx-Kecretary of War Endlcott and wife, and ex-Secretary of the Ksvr Whitney and wife. -Iluffalo Kill" and his Wild West show will sail for rarls to-day on the Tertian Moaartiv