Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 April 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1889.

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Business Office 238 Editorial Rooms 242 If New Yorkers keep their eyes and cars open to-day, they will discover that there are a great many people in this conntry ontside of that city. Now, wiiat sort of a forgery will the Democrats try to work off next! Times are a little dull for Democratic organs, and something has to be done to get up a sensation: The "firing" of an important governmentxfficial from his Washington boarding-house because too many officeholders risit him, suggests that President Harrison is in luck to occupy a house over which he has entire control. Get ready to close your places of business to-morrow, and to take Active part in the centennial celebration. We can all afford to take a day off once in a hundred years to show how glad we are that Columbus discovered America, and that . the United States is. After the experience they have had the Democratic organ and its correspondents ought to be able to do a less bungling job of forgery than the last one at which the were caught. Perhaps they will try it again, in the hope of having better luck. The suggestion from tho feather-bed naval officers at Washington for a court of inquiry into the Safnoan disaster fell very flat. Secretary Tracy's official commendation of the action of officers and men is as comprehensive and generous as it was well deserved. This centennial business has exposed the contemptible snobbishness and narrowness of the New York society leaders who have been trying to run it. Fortunately, it outgrew their capacity and got into other hands, but not until they had incurred popular ridicule and contempt by their airs. It should be a lasting lesson to the sacred 400. The naval pageant at New York today, in honor of President Harrison's arrival by steamer from Elizabethport, promises to bo a very brilliant spectacle. There will bo nine' ships of war, six revenue cutters, six yacht clubs, and a great number of merchant marine sailing vessels and steamers. The preparations indicate a great display on land and water. Nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand among Washington residents aro past, present or prospective office-holders, and tho refusal of a hotel-keeper to board an official because office-holders visited him is one of the humorous developments of a change of administration. It is safe to say that for some reason not disconnected with politics that hotel-keeper can't abide office-seekers. The Boston Advertiser thinks the overwhelming majority by which tho prohibitory amendment was recently rejected in Massachusetts will do much to keep it out of Stato politics for some time to come. "Had the vote been close,? said tho Advertiser, "tho fall elections would doubtless have been affected; but being so one-sided, the amendment question is not likely to reappear in politics for some years to come." Men who know Mr. Porter, superintendent of the eleventh census, among them a number of editors of Democratic journals, reject the idea that he will give a party turn to any of the figures of the enumeration, although acknowledg ing that he is a strong partisan and pro tectionist. The writers who are so swift to charge him with improper purposes betray, by their unwarranted suspicions, tho course they would pursuo raJiis po sition. The statement made by the editor of the Kansas City Times concerning the peaceful and satisfactory condition of affairs in Oklahoma effectually disposes of some of the sensational stories concocted by irresponsible correspondents. When a cool, hard-headed editor, thor oughly familiar with tho region, goes over tho ground in person and under takes to tell the facts, his account is apt to conflict with the reports manufactured by long-range correspondents from ru mors and their own imaginations. TriE Louisville Commercial notices tho attacks of free-trade organs on Mr. Porter, Superintendent of the Census, remarking that "ho is one of the most competent statisticians, and made a rep utation years ago by statistical articles in the Galaxy Magazine, which attracted general attention, and led to his employ ment on tho census of 18S0, where he did conspicuously good work." This is true, and ho has done a great deal of valuable statistical work in other lines. The simple fact is the free-traders hate Porter because he knows more about the tariff question than any of thein,

and they never could answer the facts and arguments he advanced in favor of protection. But there is no reason to suppose he will allow his protection ideas to interfere with his duties as superintendent of the census.

THE CEHTEOTflAL CELEBRATION. Our centennial anniversary period, which began in 1870, will fitly end with the great celebration to-day and tomorrow in New York. The historic events thus commemorated began with the Declaration of Independence and extended through the revolutionary war, tho short life of the Confederation, and the formation and adoption of the Constitution. The entire period was filled with great events, culminating in the inauguration of Washington as first President, which took place in New York one hundred years ago to-morrow. Not until that ceremony was completed was the adoption of the Constitution actually ratified and tho new government fairly launched. The peoplo do well to celebrate an event so grandly consummated and so pregnant with future great results. Tho inauguration of Washington as President was the first real assurance of success in the political experiment which began with the separation of tho American colonies from the mother country. Prior to that time everything had been more or less dark, discouraging and doubtful. As long as the war lasted a common danger and a common cause held the colonies together and infused the people with something like a national spirit. The result of the conflict itself was so uncertain, and the odds so great against their success, that they had no time to think of anything but present defense and safety. The only politics was tho question of independence and self -preservation. At the end of the war they found themselves without a government. The removal of the common danger opened the way for a host of domestic perils. They had gotten rid of one government, and the question was how to establish another and what kind of a government it should be. Considering the novelty of the question, tho nature of the environments and the diverse interests to be consulted, no more difficult problem in government was ever presented. The first attempt at solution was a disastrous failure. The form of government known as the Confederation was the darkest period in American historymuch worse than' anything in colonial times, and more discouraging than the darkest period during the war. But the utter failure of the articles of Confederation paved tho way for the Constitution. The wisdom learned in the school of adversity was applied to framing a form of government in which the mistakes and failures of the past were to become the victories and successes of the future. From the close of the war till the adoption of the Constitution the American people were practically without any general government. . They were simply groping their way towards one, blindfolded and over a very rough road. They reached it. through much tribulation. From 1783 to 1789 the country simply floundeied. The idea of a new Constitution was a good while forming. Alexander Hamilton, the greatest political genius of tho revolutionary period, was the first to set forth the complete failure of the Confederation and tho necessity of forming a new government. This was in 1780, when Hamilton was only twenty-three years old. Gradually tho idea took root, but it was not till May, 1787, that the convention met. At first only seven States were represented. Five moro sent delegates a little later, and ono State, Rhode Island, was not represented in the convention at all. The convention 6at nearly four months. When tho Constitution was finally completed sixteen of tho fifty-five delegates refused to sign it. Of those who did sign it, Georgo Washington, "President and Deputy, from Virginia," headed the list. The convention adjourned Sept. 17, after having requested the Congress of the Confederacy to submit the Constitution to the States for ratification, and to provide for putting it in opera tion when ratified. After its submission to the States, the Constitution had to run a dangerous gauntlet. It was opposed by some pow erful interests and some popular statesmen. It was strongest in the commercial States, and weakest in the agricultural. Its friends were most numerous near the coast and in tho- seaport towns, while in the interior and tho rural districts a ma jority opposed it. When the constitutional convention adjourned tho Conti nental Congress was sitting, in New York, and it at once submitted the Con stitution to tho States. A great contest followed, and the ratifications came slowly. Tho first State to ratify it was Delaware, Dec. 7, 1787. Other States followed in straggling order, and it was not till June, 1788, that nine States had ratified, thus giving life to the Constitu tion. New York did not ratify till July, 1788, and North Carolina followed in August. Rhode Island did not ratify at all, and tho Constitution was rejected on a popular vote in that State by a larg6 majority. Of the conventions that did ratify only three were unanimous, while some of tho others showed small major ities in favor of ratification. In tho Virginia convention the vote was 89 to 79; in New York, 31 to 277 and so on. So it wili be seen the Constitution was not adopted without a struggle, and several of the States that did adopt it insisted on amendments. The adoption of the Constitution was the turning point. After that it was comparatively plain sailing. Washington, to whose influence alone tho adop tion of the Constitution was due, was unanimously elected the first President. The new government was to take effect March 4, 1789, and the President should havo been inaugurated on that day, but owing to unavoidable delays ho was not inaugurated until April 30. The cere mony took place in New York, where Congress was then in session. Wash ingtoa's journey from Virginia to New York, byway of Philadelphia, Prince ton, Trenton, etc., was a continued ova tion, and his inauguration was tho occa

sion of great national rejoicing. Today President Harrison will go to New York as nearly as possible by the same route that Washington traveled, and

to-morrow the inauguration itself will be duly celebrated. The Montgomery Advertiser, endeavoring to justify its opposition to negro suffrage, 6ays it is a notorious fact that the fifteenth amendment was never ratified in tho manner prescribed by the Constitution. This sounds like a plank from an Indiana Democratic platform of a few years back, or tho action of a Democratic Legislature, which, as late as 1872, solemnly declared the amendment "null and void, and of no binding force or effect whatever," and formally withdrew Indiana's assent to the amendment. We regret to 6ee such evidences of lingering Indiana Bourbonism in the South as the Montgomery Advertiser's attack on tho fifteenth amendment. Speaking of the appointment of Robert P. Porter as superintendent of the eleventh census, the American Economist says: "The Republican party being a party of ideas, and ideas making themselves known largely through the press, it is natural that the advent of the Republic an party to power should be signalized by tho appointment of more editors than would havo been appointed in tho event of the success of their opponents." This is a view of the matter that seems not to havo occurred to tho discontented Democratic press. A dispatch from Shepherdsville, Ky., says: v There has been more and better fishing in Palt river at this point this spring than has , ever been known. It is a daily occurrence to see from tivo to a dozen fine strings of bacholors and bass pass through the streets. We 8 re glad to hear our Democratic friends who went up the river last fall are enjoying themselves so welL By the way, young ladies of a political turn of mind will be interested in hearing that bachelors are caught in Salt river. Our consul at Sydney, New South Wales, in a report to tho Stato Department, says that the recent introduction of American appliances for the manufacture of butter and cheese has given an impetus to dairy farming in New 'South Wales. We trust this does not inclndo the sale of oleomargarine for creamery butter and the use of coloring matter, as practiced by "honest farmers," to give their winter butter a rich, golden hue. It is a mistake to suppose that free trade publications are the only tariff literaturo in circulation. More ado is made about tho scattering of these documents, but protective tariff tracts in great numbers wing their way quietly. to the points where they will do most good. Tho American Econo mist, a weekly journal issued by the American Protective Tariff League, is one of the best of these and has a large circulation. No literary magazine is now complete without something to say about the eccen-' trie author of "Anna Karenina," but just as the readers have become thoroughly acquainted with him as Count "Tolstoi" it is unpleasant to bo called on to 6pell it "Tolstoy." Mr. Eugene Schuyler, who wiites of him in Scribner from the stand-point of intimate personal friendship, 6pells it that way. u To the Eutor of tho Indianapolis Journal: At our town election, one year ago, we elected two councilmeu for the term of one year. Thj : one receiving the largest number of votea ?xtst was to hold over, but both received the:iamd number, which one, If either, is entitled to hold overt One had one majority more than the other. Knigutsville, Ind. J. r.s, . If your local lawyers cannot decide the question with all the facts before them, we cannot on so vaguo a statement as that above. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal; Can you give us a synopsis of the Btate militia law! What financial help is given State mllitial Brazil, Ind. Militia. The law is too long to print and cannot well be condensed. It appropriates $37,000 a year for the support of the militia, and provides for uniforms, armory rent, etc To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: For the information 6f several persons please state whether there was a law passed at tho last e?aion of our Legislature, limiting all ceunty offices to one term of four years and making the township trustee's office the fame. AIIeader. No such law was passed. , k ABOUT TIOI'LE AND THINGS. Horses havA a peculiar horror of death and especially dread death among their own kin. A horse that is ab&olutely fearless of inanimate things will be frightened beyond measure at the sight of a dead horse lying by the roadside In an obscure street on tho extreme west aide of Hew York city, there is a dealer in shoes who bears the proud name of McAllister. By a strange coincidence, the number- of his house Is 400. McAllister's 100" Is the sign above the doorway. Mrs. J. Reddixg. the editress of the Art Journal, is an exrert bicycle rider, and is said to know all roads around New Nork for twenty-five miles. Mrs. Cassett, Mrs. I A. Newcorae and Mrs. Stewart Smith are also among the New York ladies who have found the bicycle a source of recreation and improved health. An anecdote illustrates the ruling passion of men like Russell Sage. It Is said he sold a window for $1,200 to a gentleman who wanted to seethe centennial parade, and made arrangements to go to Jay Gould's mansion in order to get a chance to see it himself. Mr. 8age, of course, Indignantly denies the truth of the story. Babaii Bermiakt has got rid of her lion j whelrs. Their terrible tnauvalse odeur was the main reason why they were sent away. To keep down their probable appetites for llv human flesh they were stuffed every day with raw meat. It being Impossible to take them out for walks, they became gloomv in confinement, losing their kittenish graces ana playfulness. A kew use has been discovered for the poppy. It forms a network of roots that cannot be exterminated without great difficulty, and it is, therefore, admirable for keeping embankments in place. Within the last two or three years eminent French engineers have undertaken the sowing of railway embankments with poppies, with a view to prevent their being destroyed by heavy rains. Tfiere will be exhibited at the Texas Spring Palace, which is to be built at Fort Worth, a gigantic map of the Lone Star fitate. The women of Texas are making the map on canvas, and the name of each of the 2G4 counties will be worked "with some beautiful product made in the county." Ono county, Tom Green, is larger than tne States of Massachusetts aud Connecticut combined. The officers and crew of the United State steamer Brooklyn, which arrived in New York on Wednesday from China, via Cape FJorn.badn't heard how tho election came out last November, and their first queries were about that interesting bit of ancient history, as many bets were pending on the result. The Brooklyn came under sail the whole distance, and was about six months making the trip. A yo c'0 man in Raleigh, N. C, eloped with the wife of one of his neighbors a few days ago, and the husband of the woman had the maa arrested for stealing his wife. The Justice of the peace before whom the case came up dismissed it on the gro.ind that wife-stealing was not larceny, lecause a woman, even though a wife, is not personal property, and therefore could not be the sabject of larceny. Jcles Simon, the French statesman and orator, is now in his seventy-fifth year, though he looks younger. Bays a correspondent: MAs an orator M. Jules Simon has few rivals. Ordinarily calm and persuasive, he can, when the occasion requires, be as impetuous as his former rival, Garabetta. Coqueltn never misses a sitting of the Chamber when he knows that Jules Bimon is to speak. When be is in the tribune he places both hands upon the desk In front of him, lean slightly forward and begin in a low vcice.

As he proceeds with his subject his voice becomes clearer and. although it is never powerful, is so skillfully handled that its sounds reach the furthest corners of the room. "Washing is charged by the piece," says an American lady, writing from Berlin, "and is very well done. We found it cheaper than at home. Perhaps yon know the trick of washing your own handerchiefs and drying them on a pane of glass, smoothing out every crease. You will be surprised to find how well they look, and how easy it is to do this. Yesterday I glanced across tho street, nnd counted thirteen handkerchiefs on three different windows belonging to friends of ours." Mrs Margaret Arnold, the oldest person in Ohio, was born near Richmond, Va., on July 4, 1777. Her father was Robert Riser, four of whose twelve children are still living. Mrs. Arnold spends all of her time now in bed, and is totally blind. She has a remarkable appetite and weighs 110 pounds. Her height is five feet two inches. Since the year 1819 she has been addicted to the tobacco habit, and even now lightsher pipe now and then. Bhe does not say much, but is by no means an imbecile. Gail Hamilton, whose real name is Miss Mary A. Dodge, prepares her manuscript for the press on odd scraps of paper, with a stub pen. One of her recent articlos, which I saw before it went to the printer, was entirely written on the inside blank pages of old envelopes which she had cut open and saved. Friends who send her letters of which one sheet is left clean furnish her with a large amount of her writing material. Miss Dodge's hand-writing is a bold, round, masculine type, and no one would suspect that it was produced by a woman. Red Cloud, the 81oux chief, uttered a rather striking bon mot the other day, relates the Washington Fost. He was met by a Dakotan familiar with the Sioux dialect, who asked him if he thought the Bioux commissioners would succeed in making terms with the Indians for their lands. "Oh, yes, I think we shall sell the lands," grunted the Chief. "But where wiU the Sioux go then!" asked his questioner. "Well," replied the old Indian, "the circus season is on, there are about enough Sioux left to go round, and I think we will go into that business." Bam T. Clover, tho Dakota poet and humorist, who is to be the American consul at Sheffield, England, has literally "tramped" around the world. Some years ago he set out from Chicago with no money and no companions save two other tramps, who rode in the same box car with him. In this precarious manner he went through to San Francisco, suffering on the road all the ills of the tramp's condition and associating exclusively with the ilk to which he at the time belonged. In this manner he made a complete tour of the world, now working his passage, now shipping as a stowaway, always without money, but seldom without the company of a tramp or two. Lord Brassey has Just fitted up and furnished a most interesting addition to his house in the shape of a collection of valuable curiosities gathered by him and Lady Brassey during their voyages round the world in the Sunbeam. The decorations and panelings of the room aro made of sandal wood and teak. The room is deliriously fragrant, while the subbued colors of the walls and aisles form a beautiful background. The collection of shells and seaweed and treasures of the deep is perhaps the most interesting of aU, and the electric light is arranged so as to. shine behind large piece's of coral, delicate shells and transparent seaweed, giving them a peculiarly beautiful and fairy-like appearance. The wonderful feather cloak given to Lady Brassey in the Sandwich Isles is also exhibited, the onlyother one in existence being the one given to Captain Cook, and now in the British Museum. The museum is intended to be a memorial of Lady Brassey, who collected most of the things, which she always hoped some day to have pathered together in London, where they would be an interest and amusement to the many pcorlo rich and poor to whom sho was so good a friend. , , FICKLE FAME. , . ,1 turned the leaves of memory back And read the naees o'er.

Alas, and, I may add, alack, I'm sadder than before. Why should we sit up nights to writa For literary famel Ilath not the world forgotten quite E'en Lydia Pinkham's name! Washington Post. One hundred years have come and gone Since Georgio took the chair; And Just a little over four Since G rover first sat there. But Grover now is in the soup; And Georgie, where is hel Fresh in tho mind of every man In this land-of the free. ; Pittsburg Dispatch. A genial old man in Virginia Called out to a neighbor, "Come in heah; , Can't let 3'ou go by Till you try this old rye. And, besides, I'm Just dying to chin ye. ' ' - The Glob. COMMENT AND OPINION. TnE fool-killer missed the greatest opportunity of his 11 fo by not going to Oklahoma. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. , Mr. Harrison may continue to go slow without incurring the displeasure of any consider able part or tne is atlon. Pittsburg Dispatch. What is needed in legislation concerning the adulteration or sophistication of food products is not so much prohibition of the practice as regulations which will compel honesty in their sale. Chicago News. ' What is there irregular or wrong, anyhow, "in the distinct understanding that this is a Republican administration!" That was the understanding during the campaign, which resulted in the election of the Republican candidate. Any other rolicy would be folly. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. " Let the Democratic party recognize and respect the voting rights of the negroes and the colored vote .will certainly be divided and rBe race issue ended. All that is needed Is for the Southern Democracy to yield obedience to the laws and Constitution of the country. Chicago Tribune. The objection that strict partisans are not In sympathy with civil-service reform is not valid. They are bound to obey the laws on that subject, ; nd experience seems to show that the most ardent party men are the most careful in their observance of the legal restrictions Imposed upon them. Boston Globe. The negro race, like every other, is subject to the duty of working out its own salvation. It has had. and yet has, exceptional difficulties to contend with, but the law holds good, nevertheless, that only by its own courage, endurance and self-reliance can it hope to make its way in the world. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Sci'ERnciALLY, Americans are the least patriotic people in the world; at hert they are the most intense patriots. But it requires an extraordinary moral, social or political agitation to bring their patriotism superbly to the surface. Thus may the noblest heritage of man prove in some measure an evil. Chicago Inter Ocean. What we most want is individual independence in American life, and the concession to our friends that they shall have the same freedom which we demand for ourselves, livery set of people, religious, political, social, needs to recognize this individual freedom among its members before we can make effective the social reforms that are to elevate the whole community. Boston Herald. The mills of the gods grind slowly, and the American boodlers, resident in Canada, may well believe that the machinery has stopped altogether. The Weldon extradition act w as drawn for their especial benefit, but, at the last moment, the sting was drawn by striking out its retroactive feature. However, the foundation is laid for breaking up a very disreptable traffic. Springfield Republican. Eagerness to obtain a public office is, of course, nothing discreditable. It is in itself an honorable ambition, and the present meh is probably no greater than those which have preceded it. But the feverish anxiety with which the army of office-seekers now at the capital pursues the men in authority and ciamors for a foothold in the public service is not a pleasant object for good citizens of any party to contemplate. Boston Journaf. , Let embezzlement and all kindred forms of commercial and public dishonesty be added to the list of extraditable offenses and a powerful deterrent influence would be exerted in favor of honest dealing and living. If Canada can be closed against American embezzlers by the Weldon act, and their privileges of asylum in Mexico withdrawn by a revision of the extradition treaty with that country, a most wholesome deterrent effect would be produced. New York Tribune. A sovereign and inveterate respect for cider, "sweet" or "hard." won the day in Massachusetts. When the Prohibitlonlats raised their sacrilegious voices against that ancient and venerable tipple of the farmers of the old Bay Commonwealth, they committed the proverbial blunder that is worse than a crime. Lver since the posterity of the crew of the Mayflower set un the first cider-press, the Puritan has held fast to the faith that the man who drinks enough apple-Juice to get drunk on it suffers so bitter a enaity tnat ne is pretty cerium not to incur it wlce. Brooklyn Lagle. The State Press. Sunday liquor-selling is the source of Sunday broils. Washl ngton Uazette. The Indian is a relic of barbarism and should civilize or go. Gibson County Leader. The administration is being hampered, fettered and broken down by 'the importunities of o llice-seeker s. Those who aspire to office should be more considerate in pusnlng their claims. Madison Courier. It is desirable, of conrse, that the Republican party in the South shall be one of "principle and respectability; but it should not be made so exceedingly good as to drive a large proportion of its members Into the Democratic ranks. Muncle News. The settlement of Oklahoma has been marked by a. most disgraceful scramble, and the experteace should be suiHclent causa for tho govern

ment to adopt other and better methods for opening up publio lands to settlers. Lafayette Courier. There is one evil in American politics, and one from which the Republican party should steer clear, and that is the evil of bossism. The masses of the party are too intelligent and too independent to be ruled by bosses. Craw fordavllle Journal. The "rack and ruin of the financial condition of this State is the product of a few years of Democratic supremacy under the infamous gerrymander. The people of Indiana have no reason to expect prosperity and good government while they uphold such an iniquity. Logans port Journal. There is no great necessity why a great many positions should be tilled before the President has had time to inquire into the merits of the candidates. Tho applicants for office ought to be patient, and they ought to realize the difficulties under which the President labors. Columbus Republican. Leon O. Bailey's f rlends"owe it to him to produce the testimony given to the grand Jury, on which his indictments were founded. If it was the same as has been given to the trial Jury, both Bailey and his grand Jury are dono for. If it was not the same, it would be interesting to learn why it differs. Fort Wayne Gazette. Many men will spend more money and endure more hardships to 6ecurea quarter section in Oklahoma than it would take to buy the same amount of good land in Indiana. But the idea that they can get something for nothing prevails and they will risk their Uvea for a paltry patch of little or no value. Muncie Times. It seems from the late decision of the Supreme Court that Governor Hovcyisa better lawyer than ex-Governor Gray. The former said the Supreme Court commission was unconstitutional, anAthe latter said it was not. Governor Hovey has been sustained by the Judges of the highest court of the State, and Oray has shown himself to be a true type of au Indiana Democratic politician. Rushville Graphic.

ROBERT P. PORTER AND THE CENSUS. His PecullaFltness for Superintendency of the Work In the Line of Promotion. American Economist. In appointing Robert P. Porter to be superintendent of the eleventh census. President Harrison has made a selection which is in a threefold sense appropriate. In the civilservice sense, Mr. Porter stood first in the line for regular promotion, 6incehewas General Walker's chief and most efficient adjutant in compiling the census of 1&S0. Mr. Porter's share in that census (found in Vol. VII) involved facts the most complex, difficult of analysis? assortment and clear presentation, probably, of any in the entire census. It involved a history of the public indebtedness of the United fctates from the formation of tho government to 1880, including the history of each of t he loans, a survey of the public debts of the world's principal nations, a survey and history of the State, county, city, town and school district indebtedness of all the political constituencies grouped within the United States, an exhibit of the ownership of the national debt, illustrated amply by maps, plates aud charts. Notwithstanding the extreme complexity of this work. Mr. Porter's volume was the first to be finished. It may be fairly designated as a model of statistical clearness and method, such as has never been excelled iu census .work. Entering upon his duties on Feb. 27, 1880, he had completed and published his eutire report on the public indebtedness of the United States, aud had put into type the statistics of the assessed valuations of real property throughout the United States, and had gathered a great part of the data for a comparison of assessed with true valuations," when, on June 22, 1882, he was appointed a member of the tariff commission, chiefly through the earnest influence of Gen. Francis A. Walker himself. The amount of work accomplished by the tariff commission was very great, we regard it as unfortunate that the clamor of the free-traders induced that commission to assent to certain reductions in duties whoso outcome has not proved beneficial, and to concede the fundamental assumption of the revenue reformers that a reduction in the degree of protection afforded to one set of American industries can be a mode of permanent or genuine relief to another. Upon this point the commission was mainly influenced by Mr. Hayes and other of its most experienced members. Mr. Porter's official experience is, therefore, on the whole, rather more ample than that of either of his two chief competitors, Messrs. Carroll D. Wright or Joseph D. Weeks. m A RAILWAY SUPERINTENDENTS DUTIES. Ills Occupation Varied and of an Exacting and Responsible Character. Theodore Voorhees, in May Scribner. The superintendent of a railway In this . country who has, let us say. three hundred miles of road in his charge, has perhaps as great a variety of occupation, and as many different Questions of importance depending upon his decision, as any other business or professional man in the community. Fully one-half of his time wili be spent out of doors looking after tho physical condition of his track, masonry, bridges, stations, buildings of all kinds. Concerning the repair or renewal of each he will have to pass judgment. He must know intimately every loot of his track, and in cases of emergency or accident know just what resources ho can depend npon and how to make them most immediately useful. He will visit the shops and roundhouses frequently, and will Vnow the construction and daily condition of every locomotive, every passenger and baggage car. He will consult with his master mechanic, and often will decide which car or engine shall and which shall not be taken in for repair, etc. He has to plan and organize the work of every yard, every station. He must know the duties of each employe on his pay-rolls and instruct all new men or see that it is properly done. Ho must keep incessant and vigilant watch on the movement of ,all trains, noting the slightest variation from the schedules which he has prepared, and looking carefully into the causes therefor, so as to avoid its recurrence. The first thing in the morning he is greeted with aTeport giving the situation of business on the road, tho events of the night, movement of trains, and location and volume of freight to be handled. The last thing at nielit he gets a final report of the location and movement of important trains; and he never closes his eyes without thinking that perhaps tho telephone will ring and call him before dawn. During the day in his office he has reports to make out, requisitions to approve, a varied correspondence, not always agreeable, to answer. Fair Trentmect for a Political Opponent. Smnnah News (Dem.) The effort to make Postmaster-general Wanamaker responsible for the circular sent to postmasters throughont the country by Wanamaker &. Brown, of Philadelphia, asking them to devote a part of their time to selling clothing for Vauama,ker & Brown, isnardly just. It is explained that the Postmaster-general is interested in the firm only to the extent of a few thousand dollars of the firm's stock and has no part whatever iu its management. It secuie that he did not even know that the circular in question was to be sent to postmasters. Tho tirst knowledge ho had of the matter he received through the public prints. -If Postmaster-general Wanamaker gives the country a good postal service, he. will not bohela responsible for tho acts of Wanamaker & Brown. The scandals he has to fear are those which may grow out of his management of the Postoffice Department, and not those which are based on efforts of others to trade on his name. Nothing New In Oklahoma Scenes. Chicago Tribune. The recent scenes in Oklahoma are almost an exact repetition of what took place in Iowa over fifty years ago, when settlers first rushed in. In Iowa the tirst settlers had no law or government provided for them, and, in a strict legal sense, they were trespassers on land not open to the occupancy of white men, but they nevertheless soon established the governing authority needed to preserve order, secure justice and. afford protection from land-sharks. . Industrial Progress. Chicago Inter Ocean. A Southern paper tells the story of a mouse which fell into a pan of milk in a Texas dairy, and kept up such a .lively swimming that he churned it into butter, and was enabled to leap out and regain his freedom. Another evidence of industrial progress in the South. Harrison's Large Hand. New York Graphic. Mrs. Harrison wears a size smaller glove thau Mrs. Cleveland and consequently has a smaller hand,. Her husband had a larger hand than Mr. Cleveland last fall. More Probably In the Spittoon Baltimore American. A tobacco trust has been started, but such a project is sure to end in smoke.

WASHINGTON'S FEATURES

And Personal Appearance as Described by David Ackerson in 1811. Albany Express. Washington had a large thick nose, and it was very red that day, giving me the impression that he was not so moderate in tho use of liquors as he was supposed to be. I found nttcrward that this was a peculiarity. His nose was apt to turn scarlet iu a cold wind. He was standing near a small camp-tire, evidently lost iu thought and making no effort to Keep warm. He seemed six feet nnd a half iu height, was as erect as an Indian, nnd did not lor a moment relax from a military attitude Washington's exact height was six feet two inches in his boots. He was then a little lame from striking his knee against a tree. His eye was so gray that it looked almost white, and be had a troubled look on his colorless face. He had a piece of woolen tied around his throat and ho was ?Uito hoarse. Perhaps tho throat trouble, rom which he finally died, had its origin, about then. Washington's boots were enormous. They weie No, 13. His ordinary walking shoes were No. 11.- His hands were largo in proportion, and he could not buv a glove to lit him and he had to have his gloves mndo to order. His mouth was his strong feature, the lips being always tightly compressed. That day they were compressed so tightly as to be painful to look at. At that time. ho weighed two hundred, pounds, and there was no surplus llesh about him. Ho was tremendously muscled, and the fame of his Rroat strength was everywhere. His large tent, when wrapped up with the poles, was so havy that it required two men to place it in the camp wagon. Washington would lift it with ouo haud and throw it in the wagon aseasilv as if it were a pair of saddle-bags. He could hold a musket with ono hand and fchoot with precision as easily as other ineu did with a horse pistol, llis lungs were his weak. point, ana his voice was never strong. He was at that time iu tho prime ot lite, nis hair was a chestnut brown, his cheeks were prominent, and his head was not largu in contrast to every other part of his body, which seemed largo aud bony at oil points. His iinger-joints and wrists were so large as to be genuine curiosities. As to habits at that period, I found out much that might bo interesting. He was an enormous eater, but was content with bread and meat if ho had plenty of it. But hunger seemed to put him in a rage. It was his custom to take a drink of rum or whisky on. awakening in, the morning. Of course, all this was changed when ho grew old. I saw him, at Alexandria, a year before he died. His hair was very gray, and his form was slightly bent. His chest was very thin. Ho had false teeth, which did not fit, and pushed his under lip outward. why he orrosEs prohibition. The Views of President Conaty, of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union. Philadelphia Record. Following close upon the announcement by Archbishop Kyan that he does not favor the constitutional prohibitory amendment comes a statement by Kev. Thomas Conaty, president of the Catholio Total Abstinence Union of America, which is much more aggressive in its opposition to Mich a measure. Rev. Mr. Conaty lives in Massachusetts, and his letter has reference to that State, but it applies equally well to Pennsylvania. In his argument a gainst prohibition he says: f We cannot make men moral by law, al thou pl by law we may prevent men from beinjc unnecessarily exposed to temptation by which morality is endangered. Morality belongs to the spiritual Ufe, and is fostered, preserved and extended by the gospel, by church influence, by society organization, and by home training. If church and home fail, constitutional enactment will never take their place. Our laws now ere valm able aids to Christian, manly work, while pro hibition, based on a false principle of fctato socialism, retards rather than agists the work. Prohibition, In my judgment, breeds hypocrisy, deceit and contempt for law; it leads tho? wlui will sell from perjury to ierjury, because, forsooth, they believe that such a law violate natural rights. On the pica of morality I am opposed to placing prohibition in our Constitution." Foclal customs, national habits and natural Inclinations all lead to the use of drink, aud you may prohibit by law as much as you please, yoii cannot prohibit in practice. Asa consequence, law is disregarded and condemned. Wbyela drinking, in itself, with murder, and arson, ami crime! Drinking in itself is not a crime, and those who honestly and conscientiously brltevo thus cannot be persuaded that prohibition 1 good politics, and nence the Impracticability of enforcement. Why will men, who believe in prohibition, call vile names to those who think their principles are not best for temperance! I, for one, will yield to no man in my love for total abstinence, theoretically nnd practically. I am willing to make as much of a sacrifice as any man to destroy the evils of intemperance, but lam a believer in the prohibition that keeps a man from frequenting the saloon. I believe in preaching tho gospel by which a man who abuses drink should shun it as a viper; by which a man who does not abuse it denies himself even the uc fr tho sake of his weaker brethren; by which all men are encouraged to league together against a system that leads so many to degradation and ruin, encouraging them to do so, not by law, but by the precept of charity. I havo seen th prohibition principle in our loeal laws, and my experience of increased haunts of vice and increased difficulties for temperance work has me to despise the farce of attempting morality bylaw. Not the Kind of Reform Wanted. West Chester Village Record. The Delaware House of Representatives has defeated the Australian ballot bill, over which so much fuss has been made by houio people an beiug a great measure of reform. Under its provisions tho illiterate colored voters would be used to help pile up the. Democratic majority in the State, as their tickets would have to bo fixed by the election officers, nobody being allowed near th polls to see action of the officers. ThoKe-. publican majority in the Delaware Houmj were too smart to be deceived by any such bill, even if labeled "Keforni" in big letters. Corporal Punishment in Schools. Boston Herald. As an ultimate power to be always held in reserve, and with the full understanding that it is to be employed in extreme case, we would keep corporal punishment still as a means to aid in tho control of our schools. But we would hold no teacher to be a successful teacher who is compelled to resort to its daily application, and wo would put it out of the power of teacher to apply it for those comparatively trivial offenses which go to make up the astounding aggregate. Man's Desire for Forbidden Fruit. Washington Post. " The rush for Oklahoma confirms us in the opinion that if the government should fence in a territory as arid a tho desert of Sahara and as dry as a lime-kiln and put a iile of soldiers around it to keep eople from wandering iu and starving to death there would bo two huudred thousand American citizens rearing up, denouncing tho administration, pestering Congress to throw it open, .and camping around tlm ?i rA.i a i outskirts waicuing au opportunity to sueaic in and squat. The Trouble with Indiana Politics. Chicago News. ? The ingenious Democratic politicians of Indianapolis who took a crowd of lunatics from tho county insane asylum, last November, and voted them for Cleveland, ara beginning to have awkward questions asked them in court. Votiug lunatics in blocks of five is somewhat ahead of Colonel Dudley's famous recipe for carrving a doubtful State, ""no trouble with politico in Indiana is that it has to associate with an awful lot of mean men. Flopped Hack. Philadelphia Press. General Fisk, of New Jersey, the Prohibition candidate for President last fall, has grown weary of serving as an :usitd.mfc Democrat and has accordingly returned to the Kepublicau folo. He is welcomo homo again. All is forgiven, and the veal pi will be brought out without delay. A Little Too Free. Philadelphia Press. The Democratic forgers are making tolerably free with the name of CoL W. W. Dudlev nowadays. In addition to forging his name tbej' are probably also forgiug a line lot of prison bolts for themselves. A Good Place to Kun Them To. New York San. The dialect poets r '3 running thethint; intoihe ground. It was bad enough with the men bf genius like Harris, kusscll. Field and Kiley. But the imitators, oh. Lord The Old Bay Hum State. Chicago Herald. Massachusetts is now likely to be knowq as the old bay rum btato.