Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 May 1889 — Page 12

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be f cmnd at the foDowinfc places: IXjN DON American Exchange in Europe, iO Strand. FAR-IS American Exchange m Paris, 33 Boolenr4 dea Capuciaea. KEW TOFK Gllsey House and "Windsor Hotel. PHILADELPHIA A. P. Kembla, . JT35 Lancaater avenue. CniCAGO-raliner Ilonae. CKf crNXATI J..P. Hawley a Co., 154 Viae street. XOXTISV1IXE C. T. Dwrtof, northweat corner Tnixd and J efferaon streets. 8T. LOUIS Union Newt Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASnEN'QTON, D. C. Rlgs Ilouso and EWtt House. Telephone Calls. ' Business Office 233 Editorial Booms 242 SIXTEEN PAGES, The Sunday Journal has double the circulation of any Sunday paper la Indiana. Price fire cents. ' CONVERSATION CULTURE. There are numerous and Ecrious reasons why the proposed establishment of conversation clubs, among American women should bo received by all thoughtful people with but tepid and dubious enthusiasm. This dilatory indorsement, however, must ' be largely regulated by locality. The fact challenges question that in feminine ranks the Southern woman stands colloquially at the head. Sho it is who can, with the slightest provocation and upon the least .basis, say tb,o most, and say it in the nost graceful and captivating manner. -Conversation culture in her whereabouts, therefore, would be a pronounced absurdity. Antipodal to the Southern woman, on this line, is registered the 'Eastern woman, who is noted for her .very reprehensible fashion of never saying anything without being primarily convinced that she has something to jsay. This principle obtains most largely ; In the New England States, and there exist certified records o: full-grown women of apparently sound mind who have been known to pass months in each other's society well satisfied in the exchange of fortnightly remarks. Whether this field would offer any encourage ment to promulgation of the new doctrine only experiment can decide. The happy medium between these distress ing extremes of Bound and silence is, in the minds of perhaps prejudiced per sons, occupied at date by the "Western woman with perhaps the exception of the Chicago woman, of whom MaxO'Kell eaid unkindly, that he would not be sur prised the next time ho visited that city to find that the talking power of its Avoinen had been utilized as a motor for ,tho sewing-machine by connecting the chin with the wheel. Be this as it may, to the average man person any scheme ipointing to the alteration or possible im provement of -the Western woman's natural fluency must necessarily ap pear criminally superfluous; more especially as mere is no guaranty proffered that these pro jected conversation clubs are not mere diabolic vehicles of attempt to loose upon our wild "and woolly domains the .inane and reprehensible styles of dia logue that pervade the pages of W. D, Ilowells. Another fear affrights the apprehenfive mind. The American woman, in all localities, is quoted as being strides nhcad of the American man in some lines of mental advancement; and if, added to these, there should exist a con versational inequality, American society of tho future may find itself resolved into those dismal islands of separation described by Marco Polo When the new method has evolved a race of intel lectual Frankensteins, too fluent and eloquent for the comfortable companionship of man, both sexes may be found pondering sadly the intricate problem propounded by Narcisse "Doeth aUithithtanth athtluthtT7' - THE MAN WHO CLEANS HOUSE. - It is somewhat odd that, amid all tho wholesale laudation of prominent men, alive and dead, foreign and domestic, w hich is daily offered the reading world, this unpretentious but meritorious citi zen should, up to date, nave laueU to re ceive his nieed of eulogy. Observation of his'mcthods maybe classed with those various other occupations known as 'liberal education." In himself, like all else that is truly beautiful, he must bo pronounced "a compliment to the human race." The methods of tho woman who cleans house are too well known. to justify bcin x dwelt upon. She it must have been to whom Solomon referred when lie 6ignificantly remarked: "Her ways are movable:" and again, Sho increas eth the transgressors among men." The man who cleans house, however, elicits universal annroval. Ho comes early, and doesn't loaf in the kitchen the parJiamcntary half-hour. Ho goes right to work, and dawdles not. No outlundish toirzery bedecks his person; nn VM nnrnn. no baOfcTS tied tin in nrS old rren veil. HO last VCar's linen dusttr garnishes his form. Ho has been known to sDrinc into the arena in a pearl-colored suit, and make ready for the fray only by the removal of his coat and a pair of immaculate cuffs. Ho goes to work with a system that verges on lunacy. He taken out all tho furni ture, deposits the pictures and bric-a brae in safe nlaee. whero thev can neither tumble onto things or beguilo things into tumbling onto them. IIo uproots tho carpets without skinning his

ncc3 with the tack-lifter or sac--z:l::?j crj ct L firer-naib.

He wipes the dust from walls

and ceilings, sweeps, washes wood work, windows, doors and floors without involving the adjacent universe in tho fcloppage of soap-suds, or raising a com motion that provokes investigation from the neighbors. He shakes and beats the carpet, and replaces it with tacks only, and a hammer, not with oaths or other unseemly exclamations. He re-hangs tho pictures, .and neither falls off tho step-ladder nor pulls it over on him. He replaces the furniture after effectivo but unobtrusive brushing thereof; and the bric-a-brac is cleansed and read justed without visible vexation or agita tion. Tho deed is done; the room is clean. Subsequent investigation of the man who cleaned it provokes curiosity. By what right' does he clean house with out collecting all the dislodged dust and dirt upon his still unrulfled person! Where is the smudge that should be on his nose, and the general grime 'that should perineato his countenance! Where are his banged, bruised and blackened ringers, his touzled hair, his rent and soiled garments, and that universal air of demoralization and dishevelment that should pervade himT He is mute in the face of all these queries. He resumes the pearl-colored coat and the spotless cuffs; flips a few flecks of dust from the pearl-colored trousers, pockets his " gracefully-earned wage, and, without mentioning that his back aches, or that he is so tired he is ready to drop, silently steals away. DESERTIONS FROM THE ARMY. An exchange bases the assertion that something is radically wrong with tho army on the recently-published state ment that within sixteen years there have been 40,000 desertions. This is an average of 2,500 a year, which, consider ing the size of the army, is a large pro portion, but the number does not neces sarily indicate anything wrong. Tho trouble arises, no doubt, from many causes, not one of which reflects in any way upon the military authorities or the rules and regulations in force. Tho difficulty is mainly involved in the char acter of 'the enlisted men. A certain number of recruits, but probably not so many as is often represented, belong to tho criminal classes, and enlist for the purpose of es caping from the civil authorities. Another element is composed of young men of adventurous turn of mind and little moral sense, who enlist merely for tho purpose of getting free transporta tion to distant parts of the country, and with the intention of deserting at the first opportunity. The greater number, however, are uudoubtedly young men who have seen nothing of army life, know nothing of its hardships and re strictions, who are caught by the dazzle of shoulder straps and tho roll of tho drum, and moved by certainty of change and the vague hope of distinction to don the blue uniform in good faith and agree to serve their country for five years. Military discipline comes hard to such. .They may have been accustomed to hard work and regularity of duties, but they have been in a sense their own masters, and it is the very essence of army existence that official authority shall be Miprciuc. . When the recruits come to understand this, and when they have endured for months the terrible monotony of life at a frontier post their discontent is easily accounted for. If there were a prospect of actual service, of actual fighting, with a chance of distinguishing themselves or sharing in tho glory of a victory over their country's enemies, these men would probably be as loyal and as anxious to remain with their comrades as were tho soldiers of twenty-five years ago. But there is no such hope, no inspiration, and they become despondent, weary and reckless, and finally resolve to sever their bonds without cerqniony, scarcely realizing the 'gravity of their offense. It is this very fact, that the army has little or nothing to do but re main on guard year in and year out, that makes such constant recruiting necessary. If it were a time of war and not of peace, the difficulties would be less. But because it is a time of peace, and because of the circumstances men tioned, the government can afford to relax its severity and extend a pardon to the offenders, as, it is 6aid, the President means to do. LAW-DEFYING LIQUOR-SELLERS. A news item appeared in yesterday's Journal which is more alarming than any other political event that has been recorded since tho close of the war. Of itself alone this might not be true, but taken in connection with a series of lato events, all indicating tho same animus, there is . just cause of .alarm. It is contained in a few lines of a telegram from Cincinnati to tho purport that tho liquor-sellers of that city have entered into a combination to keep open to-day in defiance of the law, the combination being so strong that any member of the league who does not join in this premeditated violation of law shall be fined $10. Tho Journal has nothing to say of tho merits of tho law these men propose to defy. Its having been a law for a hundred years does not prove that it is a wise law, but' that it is a law, and has been for many years, is sufficient to requho obedienco to it. If one class of citizens may defy a distasteful law, every citizen is at equal liberty to set up his opinion and convenience, and defy odious laws. That this is no spasmodic purpose is seen in the fact that this law-defying organization lately applied to tho Secretary of State for incorporation under the laws of the State. ' Tho Secretary declined to grant the charter, informing the applicants, most of whom aro foreigners, and therefore strangers to tho genius of our government, that the State of Ohio did not grant corporate powers to an organization whose ostensible purpose was to defy the law. There is additional significance in this news item when connected with an item referred to , yesterday. Secretary Wanamakcr- and Senator Quay have, with thousands of others, concluded to vote next month for the proposed constitutional amendment in Pennsylvania. Docs any ono doubt their right to do sot Yet this personal ,act ' of these men is ccized upon fey these law-defiors as a

sufficient excuse to denounco the Republican party, as is also the dignified manner of President Harrison's refusal to drink the wine that was tendered him in the procession on tho centeunial occasion. The men interested in this traffic must obey , the laws made for its restraint and regulation; if they do not, and organize for the purpose of defying existing law, the people will ultimately surround tho business with restrictions that will tend to its obliteration. .

THE MUSICAL FESTIVAL. Tho coming musical festival .in Indianapolis is an event which may well attract the attention not only of all music-lovers, but of all citizens of tho State who aro interested in educational and artistic progress. Three years ago it was demonstrated that the people of Indiana need not go to Cincinnati or other so-called musical centers to enjoy good music, when they could hear the finest soloists, carefully-trained choruses and a skilled orchestra in this city. That first festival gave an encouragement and confidence to local artists and students that has made preparation for this evemt a work of comparative ease, since there were no doubts of final success to overcome. Tho magnitude of the undertaking is great, nevertheless, and the labor and responsibilities of the managers hardly to be estimated by outsiders. They have proceeded from tho beginning, however, with the assurance of final success, and the result, as indicated by the programme, shows that their promises to the public are to bo more than fulfilled. So largo a number of distinguished soloists as will appear at the festival next week have never been in this city at ono time before. It is a matter of just pride that several of these special performers are themselves Indianians.' The chorus of six hundred voices has been in training for months under the leadership of Professor Barus, whoso ability in this line was satisfactorily proved three years ago. Many, if not tho most, of these singers were in that chorus, and have had much practice since, 60 that, with their recent drill, they are fitted to meet the highest expectations. A magnificent orchestra is not tho least of tho attractive features. Altogether, the occasion will be a notable one, and reports from all parts of tho Stato indicate that it is so recognized and that the attendance will be such as to encourage future efforts in the same direction. ; . THE PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL ASSEMBLIES. The telegraphic reports of the doings of tho two General Assemblies now in session indicate that each will have as many questions to discuss as the time will well allow. Unavoidably tho ccclesiastic.il often touches the secular, and tho discussions of these bodies will not be an exception. In addition to that which is purely ecclesiastical, it is already foreshadowed that Sunday mails, and Sunday papers, and Sunday saloons will receive attention, while the liquor traffic will receive its accustomed broadside. Already a majority and minority report on "organic unity" have been presented in the New York Assembly; the majority, assuming that organic unity. ,is not now feasible, recommends concurrent and harmonious action at least on t questions connected with the freedmen, while the minority insists on organic unity as the only satisfactory solution of tho many questions involved. The question that will elicit the most discussion and demand tho wisest deliberation in the Northern Assembly is the proposed modification of the following paragraphs in tho Confession of Faith: Third By the decree of God, for tho manifestation of Hisglor3r, some men and angels are predestinated unto everlasting life, and others foreordained to everlasting death. Fourth These angels and men, thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed; and their number is so certain and definite that it cannot be either increased or diminished. Sixth As God hath appointed the elect unto glory, so hath He, by the eternal and most free purpose of His will, foreordained all tho means thereunto. Wherefore they who are elected, being fallen in Adam, are redeemed by Christ, are effectually called unto faith in Christ by His Spirit working in due season; aTe justified, adopted, sanctified and kept by his power, through faith, unto salvation. Neither are any other redeemed by Christ, effectually called, justified, adopted, sanctified and saved, but the elect only. Seventh Tho rest of mankind, God was pleased, according to the unsearchable counsel of Ills own will, wherebv He extendeth or withholdeth mercy as tie pleaseth, for the glory of His sovereign power over His creatures, to pass by, and to ordain them to dishonor and wrath for their sin, to the praise of His glorious justice. The difficulty in this case is that, while every member ot the General Assembly, both clerical and lay, believes in the doctrine taught in these paragraphs, not one would express his faith in these words, if called to formulate it in modern language. The whole is tinctured with notions of sovereign and subject long ago abandoned. The difficulty, therefore, will not be in tho abandonment of this form of speech, but in harmonizing upon a better modern form. In the Chattanooga Assembly the fly of bad odor will be Dr. Woodrow and his evolutionary notions. How to tolerate him or how to get rid of him will be a grave question. With no pretensions to the spirit of prophecy, we predict that in the deliberations of tho respective bodies tho greater elasticity will be found in the New York Assembly. That is a Northern characteristic. The South clings to shadows if it can find no substance to cling to. TnE new law relating to the human treatment of animals is comprehensive in character, penalties being provided for the perpetrators of every possible cruelty or neglect. Under its provisions no man can safely overload, overwork, torture, cruelly kill, starve, beat or mutilate any animal. The keeper of any animal for the purpose of lighting, baiting, or as a target, any person who shall be present at such fighting, baiting or shooting, and the person who shall knowingly rent a room or premises for such purpose are subject to punishment. Tho carrying of living animals having feet or legs tied together, or in any other cruel way, and the abandonment of sick or disabled animals to die in any public place is prohibited. Special penalties are provided for railroad companies ana their agents who fail to take proper care of stock in transportation. It is made incumbent upon magistrates, when complaint is made on oath, to issue warrants, authorizing sheriff, constable or .other public officer to search any building or place where it is thought

the law is being violated or to arrest any person engaged in its violation. It is also

made tne unty of all snerins. deputy sher iffs, constables, policemen and public officers to arrest all persons of whose vio lation of the provisions of this act they may have knowledge or be credibly in formed, and for each neglect of such duty the officer so offending shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and shall be sub ject to line. The penalty inflicted upon any person convicted of any cruel act shall be a fine in a sum not exceeding $200, to which may bo added imprisonment not ex ceeding sixty days. It will thus bo seen that with this law in forco there is no longer an excuse for further toleration of'. the cruelties to horses, dogs, cattle and poultry that so frequently harrow the sensibilities. It is within the power of any person observing such act to secure the punishment of the perpetrator, or at least to prevent a repetition of the offense, and it is hardly necessary to say that any one of humane feeling will do so. ' Traffic in water will be a business en terprise in Philadelphia this summer. Ow ing to the closing of three-fourths of tho saloons, and to the fact that Schuvlkill water is too thick for a beverage, a demand has arisen for a cheap and palatable drink, and a recently incorporated tirm has arranged to supply the want. In all the piblio squares huge tanks will be placed, filled with water shipped from springs in Minnesota. The tanks will be suppled with registering dials, and all the thirsty citizen has to do is to drop a penny in the slot and a big glass of ice-cold spring-water is filled for him. No attend ants are required, and the dial indicates when tho water supply is exhausted. The same company will send wagons through the streets, from which water will bo sold at a cent a glass. For a town without" fountains and where the regular watersupply is of doubtful quality, the idea is a good one. Many a man enters a saloon and calls for a glass of beer or whisky, who would remain outside if water with which to quench his thirst were convenient. Such a system might find support in In dianapolis among people not- partial to canal water and who regard wells with misgivings. Gen. Clinton B. Fisk says: "Ministers and maltsters, bishops and brewers, deacon and distillers cannot work together." That depends. All these worked together in entire harmony in putting down the re bellion, and nobody thought of drawing a line that would exclude either. If a church was on fire, or a brewery, they could all work together in extinguishing tho fire, though probably they would not, as there is some little nreiudice on both sides in such a matter, but let a fire break out where there is no organized fire department, and all these both could and would work together, and the women would work too: but working together at a fire need not imply that the maltsters, and brewers, and distillers would help at the next revival, nor that the the ministers, and bishops, and deacons should patronize the others, ne is a very narrow man who requires every man that he works with to agree with him on matters not germane to the work. Hence General Fisk, a protectionist, might well vote with a protectionist brewer on the protection question, though he might not vote with him on the beer question. Mr. Richard Henry Stoddard, literary critiQ of the New York Mail and Express, in noticing a book written by Eugeno Field has this to say: 'ilr. Eugene Field, of the Chicago Daily News, enjoys the felicitious distinctionhvhich Halleck conferred upon his young friend Drake in the touching little monody in which ho commemorated his passing away "None know him but to love him, Or name him but to praise." Mr. Stoddard has evidently no acquaintance with the Western Association of Writers. ' At the meeting of the Young Men's Christian Association, in Philadelphia, the secretary of the California delegation stated, evidently iu denial of a charge made, that he had never organized an association in any town to help a real estate boom. The gentleman was doubtless houest and truthful, but the fact that " such a denial was considered necessary is a curious commentary on methods iu vogue in California real estate circles. New York papers are talking of a world's fair, to be held in that city in 1S92, in celebration of Columbus's discovery of America. Tho idea of such a fair is good, but unless New York will agree to pay a fair share of the expenses, the propriety of holding it in that city is doubtful. If it is left entirely to New York to carry the enterprise through, the fair will beheld about tho time of the completion of the Grant monument. L. W. Habercorn, who has received tho appointment of Fifth Auditor of the Treasury, has long been the Washington correspondent of the Milwaukee Herald, ono of the leading German papers of the country. The eflorts of this influential journal had much to do with the strong support given by the Germans of Wisconsin to the Kopublican ticket in the lato campaign. If tho lawyers of the country are not a unit in favor of high license they will be when they learn that the lawyers of Philadelphia have received fees amounting to $750,000 from tho applicants for retail and wholesale liquor licenses. $750,000! As George Washington might remark it is the fashion to quote George now gee whiz! TnERE is likely to be complaint from many persons who, for various reasons, can only attend the matinee concerts of th musical festival, because neither Miss Reid nor Miss Pierso is upon either afternoon programme. Tho desire is general to hear these Indiana singers. BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT. Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett will visit Venice for a few weeks, and then settle in London for the summer. Coningsby Disraeli, nephew of Lord Beaccnstield, made his first public speech at Bath, England, on Wednesday. Ho denounced home rule, and made a good impression as an orator. Tun daughters of the late Lucius F. Robinson, of Hartford, have given $.0,000 for the benefit of Yale law school in memory of their gTeat uncle, William L. fctorrs, Yale, 1814, who was formerly a professor in tho school. Governor Hill is taking riding lessons. He goes frequently to a quiet riding school in Hoboken, where he has already become quite an expert in the saddle. He has not, of course, mixed in with the ordinary pupils, but has taken his lessons privately. Andrew Carnegie will neither receive nor open any letters sent to him while on his travels in Europe this summer. During his coaching tour with Mr. Blaine he was simply deluged with correspondence, a large proportion of which was begciug let ters from strangers. A newspapeh syndicate recently offered William E. Gladstone the sum of $25,000 for a series of twenty-five articles on subjects of current interest. The following reply to this proposition has just been received:

"At my age the stock of brain power does not WflT. out wanen And thtu Ttnlilin mils

upon my time leave me only a fluctuating residue to dispose of. All idea of a series of eflorts is. therefore, I have finally decided, wholly beyond my power to emorace." One of the most valuable lots in the town of Huntingdon, Pa., will always remain un improved. By the will of the party who formerly owed it the buildintr which was then standing upon it was to be let rot away, and then a paling fence was to be uui, uiuunu ii, uuu no ouier uunuing was 10 be erected. Miss Theresa STOUGnTON, fiance of Senator Allison, is the daughter of the late A. B. Stoughton, of Washington, D. C. Her sister is the wife of Paymaster Bacon, and it was their former residence on I street which Secretary Tracy recently purchased. Senator Allison has been paying attentions to Miss Stoughton for sometime. Senator Allison is now in California with the Senate committee on trade relations with Canada, and Miss Stoughton is with the party under the chaperonage of Mrs. Eugene llale. Ex-Sen ator Maiione, of Virginia, grows more picturesque every year. His hair grows longer and whiter, his body thinner and his face more weazened. But there is no suspicion of age in his eyes. They are as bright and piercing as ever, and, like most brown eyes, have a youthful appearance in strange contrast to the aged face in which they are set Mahone's mail since he has been in Washington has been enormous, lie says he thinks he has had at least ono letter, pleading or threatening. from each Republican in Virginia. Says the Philadelphia Inquirer: "Every body knows' of George W. Childs's numerous and bountiful gifts, but few know tho extent to which he is run down and an noyed by mail and in person. Anybody. everybody and nobody ask lor money on all sorts of pretexts to start a school, get insured, learn music, lift a mortgage, bury a son or daughter, mother, father, aunt or anybody, to get married, to travej, and, in fact, for everything which the imagination can conceive. He even receives letters from various parts of Europe asking him to aid in all sorts oi schemes, both personal and public." Both James and John are good names for a boy, yet James appears to be a better sur name than any other for a candidate for President of the United States. We have had as many as five Jameses in the Presi dential chair withm this century James Madison. James Monroe, James K. Polk, James Buchanan and James A. Garfield. Moreover, the father of President James Madison was named James Madison, and the father of President James Buchanan was named James Buchanan. But in the case of James G. Blaine there has been a failure up to this time. After the J ameses. the Johns have panned out next best John Adams, John Q. Adams and John Tyler. "From where did all the flies cornel" tho question is of ten asked, and seldom receives as satisfactory an answer as has been given by a contemporary: The common fly lays more than a hundred eggs, and the time from egg-laying to maturity is only about two weeks. Most of us have studied geo metrical progression. Here we see it illustrated. Suppose one fly commenced "to multiply and replenish the earth" about June 1. Juno 15, if all lived, would give 150. Suppose seventy-five of these are fe males, July 1 would give us, supposing no cruel wasp, or other untoward circumstances to interfere, 11,250 flies. Suppose 5,625 of these are females, we might have, July 15, &43,730 flies. The wedding of Miss Jeannette Matthews and Justice Gray will take place at the Matthews residence. After a wedding trip that will include a visit to Boston a trip to England will be made. A little story is told of how the engagement became a matter of history. The bride-elect one day last winter was at her dress-maker's, and a friend who dropped in suggested that the gown she was ordering would be extremely chio if a little pale rose silk was introduced. Miss Matthews thought the idea a good one, and a few weeks later her friend received a note from her announcing her engagement and a lino saying: "l think the gray gown with a dash of pink in it had something to do with it." Miss Jane Adams, a wealthy young lady of Chicago, has her own ideas of philanthropy, and is of the opinion that the truo way to be philanthropic is to assist in rais ing the social status of the poorer classes. In order to carry out her idea she has rent ed the handsome residence of the late millionaire, J. C. Hull, and proposes to en tertain largely, ishe will not only invite her swell friends of Chicago's good society, but she will have the Poles. Bohemians. Germans and other nationalities who reside in the neighborhood. Miss Adams doesn't propose to play the part of the Lady Boun tiful, but means to do what she can to ward the elevation socially of the people among whom she is shortly to take up her residence. Her friends are awaiting the outcome of her experiment with interest. but confidently predict she will soon weary oi ncr new menus. TOE FRENCH CENTENNIAL. The Coming Century Belongs to Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. New York Independent. Scarce have the shouts of our centennial ceased to vex tho air than France begins, at Paris, tho celebration of tho centennial of the republic. This does not mean that the republic has lasted a hundred years, but that it was first proclaimed a century ago. Since the National Assembly, in 1789, issued its immortal Declaration of the Rights of Man, France has seen its revolution of blood, and glory, and shame replaced by the empire of Napoleon, tho Bourbon kingdom of Louis A.VII1 and Charles X, the succession of Louis Philippe of Orleans, the second republic of lb48, the second empire of Napoleon III, the commune and the present third republic, which has now earned some claim for permanence, as it has endured for almost nineteen years. In 17S9 France was not ready to cultivato the virtues, as it had not acquired the exnerience which warranted the assumption of popular self-government. Within four years after the words of the Declaration of liights had been uttered, asserting that men are born free and equal, that society is an association of men to preserve the nat ural rights of men, and that liberty must not injure another, the reign of terror had slaughtered its hundreds oi JtTench citl zens, and the guillotine had avenged its abuse on the very men who had glutted it with blood. It took eighty years of proud and bitter experience to preparo t ranee to make possible the dream of 1780. To-day France is a fairly well-assured republic. There are yet Royal parties and an Imperial party, anxious to overthrow the republic, but the republic is so strong that, it does not heed to attaint with treason the pretenders who know that it is of no use to make war acainst the actual covernment. President Carnot has the right, distracted as France yet is, and smarting un der the terrible defeats which destroyed the second empire and made a republic of peace posssible. to look forward nopeiuiiy. and to invoke the patriotic Bntiments of the people. In the palace of monarchs, at Versailles, with "ardent hope for the fut ure," he greeted the representatives of a nation in full possession of herself," and "in the full splendor and strength of liberty." In eloquent words he bade them crown the century with "the unity of all Frenchmen in the mutual love oi tuo com monwealth of libertv." The American century owes a debt it can never p35f to France. The French century owes much to America. The two great re publics, with Great Britain, which is a republic in all but name, look forward with the certainty that the coining century beloncs to libertv. equality and fiatemity. and that the institutions and forms of des potism are doomed. A Governor Peach Orchard. Philadelphia Inquirer. Governor Biggs, of Delawhre, has 80,000 peach trees, and when seen at liroad-street station yesterday was very enthusiastic over the prospects of an enormous crop. The Governors eyes glistened as he told of the profits he expected to derive from the fruit. "My orchards in Caroline and Kent counties, Maryland," cam the Governor, "were never in better condition, and ii one half of the buds on them turn into peaches there will be too many on the trees.' Con tinuing, he said: "There is not going to be as many peaches in Delaware and on the Peninsula - this year as last, and, consequently, thoe woo have peaches will obtain better prices, though Utt year was a very prouta ble eeasoxu'f -

A CASE OF OFFENSIVE EGOTISM.

How a Member of the Welrn Automation of Writers Regards Eugene Fleld'i Criticism. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal; As a humble but interested member of tho Western Association of Writers, I was sur prised to see in last Sunday's Journal an extract from the Chicago News credited to Mr. Eugene Field, a gentleman who has some reputation in Chicago as a humorous writer for the daily newspapers. It is so self-sufficient and exuberant in conscious superiority that it might be easily forgiven tothe overwhelming self-esteem of which it was evidently bom, were it not for the gross injustice it does to a number of as worthy gentlemen and ladies as the country contains. If the criticism were written, in a spirit of sincerity. it would, I think, be easy to correct the . wronff imnressions to which it cives voice. The Western Association of Writers does not contemplate the upbuilding ormanulacture of literary reputations, its motto has been from the first, "Less publication and better work." There is something cool and refreshing in the modest assertion that the average literary person is a bore, and the conventional literary man or woman to be shunned. Whether the latter phrase means all writers who attend conven tions, or was merely intended to re flect upon those persons who are eternally airing their "achievements, their standing and their woes, is somewhat difficult to determine. As the latter class has provoked the ill favor of the Western Writers' Association, and, to use a slang but expressive phrase, "been sat down on" by it as hard as decent regard for tho amenities would permit, tho author of the assault is perhaps the only person who can Kut"5 wny it was aimeu at me association. f i r . i i : i : i - jfktxuy lueinuera oi iuo association, une iuo writer of this, are uot professional literary people. Ihey have never made au erlort to live by their wits or by their pens, in the literary 6ense. Ihey write occasionally; some from impulse, some from the forco of genius that will not be wholly stifled, and others from an ardent desire to attract others to fields of thouchtful research in which they are interested. These people enjoy coming together once a year and comparing notes and listening to tho best that any one has 'to otter, or, still better, hearing a few professional literary people talk ana read. Thev do not sit round and talk of each others' great ness, or give voice to imaginary sorrows. Thus far the greatest hindrance to the complete success of the association has been the fact that many of its most earnest members have been too busy to eive sufficient time to its interests. As to the emptying of magazine ana newspaper reiuse into sucn conventions, the suggestions could not have emanated from anyone who had attended tho meetings heretofore held, if it refers to tho bulk, the aggregate, of what has been said and done. It is certainly true that some contributions have been read that Possessed no great merit. I think have read that kind myself. But while this has been unavoidable, tho majority of the papers have been of great value, and many of them have since appeared in the best magazines and newspa pers, l remember as specially valuable, papers on the ideal and realistic in literature by Maurice Thompson, technical papers by Tot. John Jlark uidpath, one, especially, "The Best Methods of Preserving History:'7 "lheLawand History of UopvrighVlby Capt. DeWitt Wallace;" "The xiiswiry uuu iriace oi uiaieciriu literature, by Dr. H. W. Taylor; "The Fool in Literature," by Miss Nellie Stackhouse; "A Study of Natural Processes in Tree and ' Plant Life from a Literary Stand-point," by Frof. coulter, of Wabash College. Similar and most entertaining papers from President Jordan, of Indiana University, Hon. W. D. Fonlke. Jurge Cyrus McNntt, Hon. Will Cumback, Mrs. Aldrich, Mrs. Andrews and Judge and Mrs. 13 ant a, outside of the contributions of an ex clusively literary character. In this line we have had sketches, essays and shor poems from Mrs. Catherwood.Miss Judpon. the venerable poets, William D. GallarUe ex-Governor Harding and Mrs. Sarah Bolton; Mr. Riley, Mr. Harris, Dr.Mathev Miss Baden, Miss Stein, Mrs. Jordan, Mi. Bates, Will Hayne, Professor Venable, and many others of like character, who cannot surely be charged with dumping into these conventions such things as newspapers refuse, because newspapers don't refuse such things as they are willing to ofl'er. Upon the little of inferior quality that has been offered there has been far too much cheap criticism. And again, some of the things most criticised have been the best; but that always occurs, and in every line of endeavor. We have in these latter days a number of people mostly funny men who know all about literary success, what it is, and what it takes to win it, and from their lofty niches look down and scatter advice much as farmers sow plaster of Paris on thin lands. The Western Association of Writers has done something in the way of extending and deepening the interest of Western people in the worthy eflorts of their own writers and thinkers. Why should Mr, Field, or any other newspaper man, complain ' of it and assault it? Its eflort has been to serve them each and all, and Mr. Field's drive at the association is like a man striking the friend who is trying to assist him because he is not ?uite so wise, or so witty as he, (the man) ancies himself to be. If literary people are bores they ought to grind against one another, and "rub each other's angles down." The confirmed literary bore will never attend more than one, or at most two, meetings of the association, and when a fellow knows it all, and has within his soul all the attributes of greatness, he doesn't need to associate with common mortals. The insult offered to the association in tho insinuation that it is composed of confessed liter ary failures is about as wide of the truth as anything in Mr. Field's whole tirade. Tho history of the world of letters proves that those whose apparent successes have been greatest have often been soonest forgotten. It is not wise nor even witty to provoke that sort of comparisons. If Mr. Field feels no interest in others than himself; if, as he says, the association of men and women who are activo with mind and pen is repugnant to him, then there is no occasion for him to interest himself about tho association of writers in any way. He can go on ladling out wit to people who enjoy humor that bears his brand, and nobody will say him nav. It would be a sight to see Eugene Field running away and dodging round corners to avoid meeting the men and women who compose tho Western Association of Writers. One of the best writers in the association remarked, upon reading Mr. Field's funniness, that it would not be necessary for him to go two miles to avoid meeting her, as he would willingly go the other mile in the opposite direction from his starting point. t I once knew a little, ill-tempered, crossroads politician, who, when well filled with spintus distillata, took great pleasure in pompously declaring that if he should meet Schuyler Colfax in the road he would turn his head aside and avoid speaking to or recognizing him. It has piobably never occurred to Mr. Field that the homely old adage. "Never bite olf more than you can chew," applies as well to great humorists as to common, every-day people, who find both pleasure and profit in the society of one another. The w-riter who wantonly assaults a community, an organization, or a class of people, who have been guilty of no oil'ense, commits the most stupid of blunders. It is as legitimate and proper for the people of the pen, be they authors, contributors, editors, or merely amateurs, to meet and form associations for the disenssion of themes that interest them as it is for farmers, or mechanics, doctors, teachers, lawyers or poultry-dealers to do the Fame thing. Doubtless . the association offers much for just criticism, but for wholesale abuso and ill-tempered denunciation, positively nothing. Lastly, if there were an3'thiug in the nature or character of the association to justify the gush about genuine liternr people not having to wear placards, etc.. there might bo some excuse for the cheap stuff" it seems to have provoked. If it is possible that Mr. Field does not know that the attempt to fasten that ort of odium npou tho association and its members is tho f grossest injustice, then he knows practicaly nothing of that of which he is writing. Nothing in so distasteful to tho membors of the association taken en masse as any attempt to use it or its name to prop up a literary reputation or to win recognition for a writer that he would not attain without it. They know, also, that any organization that should attempt to placard its members in that way would soon be frowned oat of existence, and henco the association attempts nothing of the kind and avoids as far at possible even the appcaranco of such a .thing. It is called an association of

writers simply because it is composed of writers. It was first proposed to call it an association of Authors, but there were few, if any, of tho originators who felt that ther we've entitle to be called authors; but all were writers, and so it could bo given no other name. The 'distasteful, repugnant, abhorrent'' features of the Western Association of Writers aro creatures of the imagination, suggestive of nightmare born of lim burger cheese and Milwaukee beer. The fact of the whole business is that some writers are like some merchants and some professional men in other lines, they scent danger to their business in every new movement or new competitor. They never seem to learn that that which benefits tho whole rarel injures the individual. Thero is more placarding done, more manufacturing of reputations attempted by any one of the literary clubs in Chicago, or Indianapolis, or Cincinnati, or Boston than tho Western Association of Writers ever attempted or is ever likely to attempt, be its career lon or short; and this is not casting any reflection upon the clubs. To a certain extent it is proper for them. Rut it is wholly foreign to the purposes and character of tho writers' association. If the object of the association had been to advance individual interests as charged it goes without saying that it never would havo held but one meeting. It has certainly lived down that misapprehension; and when one of its critics sets up that straw devil (as Bill Nye would put it) and then belabors it with high-sounding adjectives, he has only set tho combative half of his egotism to waging deadly warfare on tho imaginative half. One Who Has Reen There. A Bit of Comment from an Outsider. To tli Editor of the Iudlanapolii Journal: The Western Association of Writers, au organization of which Indianapolis is tho birth-place, and-for which Indiana peoplo .stood sponsor, recently extended to Eugeno Field, the misguided humorist of tho Chicago News, an invitation to attend the next meeting to be held in July, at Warsaw. Ind. What the gentleman's private action was in regard to this evidently misplaced invitation is not known, but his public recognition of it was to make it the text for some very facetions and quasi or quassiahumorous remarks on literary conventions and literary people. It is to bo hoped that the W. A. W. will not take Mr. Field s 8tricturc8 seriously to heart, or be driven, into profound meloncholv or permanent disorganization thereby. There are various Teasons why he should not ra fb.lv be accepted as the literary Want McAllister of the West. Ho .lives in Chicago, which alone is a serious disqualification; his name has never appeared in many of tho Eastern magazines, to which some Indiana members of tho W. A. W. know the open door, and he is tho. author of a book which disgraces itself and him by bearing a circle of sausage-links on, its title-page. All these things should, of course, affect the value of his literary judgment. Especially should the women of tho W. A. W. refrain from indulging resentful feelings towards Mr. Field for his avowed opinion that ho would ''cheerfully go two miles out his way to avoid meeting the conventional literary woman." He certainly was not himself when he penned this embittered sentiment; something had frozen the genial current of his soul; no had probably just read Maud Howe's estimate of him that he was "a cultured gentleman, but looked like a convict," Take it all around, the unhappy man is entitled to tho pity and sympathy, not the rancor, of tho. W. A. W. Emma Carletox.

JACKSONIAN VUL-OAKTITT. A Story James Buchanan Ued to Tell, and Which It Slay Please Mujrwnmpi to Read. Tlarrisburff Letter in New York San. The mugwump reference to what they are pleased to call the vulgarity of General Jackson, said an old-time Democratic politician, "reminds mo of a story James Buchanan used to tell about Jackson, which would seem to prove that that sturdy, oli soldi el-statesman was possessed of a per-' sonal courtliness and elegance of manner vhich would not have been likely to tolerate an atmosphere of vulgarity in his surroundings, either official or private. Tho incident referred to occurred sixtv yearn ago, while Buchanan was in the United States Senate. "A famous Baltimore lady, ono of tho leaders in society of that day, and related to an English family of title, had spent a long time in England during Jackson's administration, her family connections admitting her tothe inner circles of aristocratic and royal society. George the IV was then King, and a short timo before sho left England to return to America she wa presented to him. Ho gave her a message to Jackson, which ho requested her to deliver in person to tho President. The reputation his political enemies had made for Jackson was such that tha lady was most unfavorably impressed, never having met him. Sim was very much disinclined to a personal interview, but having undertaken to carry out the wishes of King George, she determined to undergo the trial, prepared to bo frently shocked at what she might see and iear. Sho was wellacquainted with James Buchanan, and she sent for him and solicited him to accompany her on her mission and introduco her to the President. "'I went with her,' Buchanan used to say in telling the story, 'and, leaving her in the) reception-room, went to the President's room to arrange for tho interview. I found him alone. His faco was covered with a bristling beard of several days' gTowth. He had on a dressing-gown wh ich was very much soiled, and much the worso for wear. He was smoking an old pipe. It was a disheartening moment for me, for to present tho refined and elegant lady to the President of the United States in such attire and personal unconthness seemed to mo but little better than a national disgrace. I told the General about; the distinguished woman who had come to seek an introduction to him, and madobold to sav: " 'But, General, you ought not to 6cc her without making an appropriate toilet." "'The grim old soldier took his pipe out of his mouth, stretched himself to his full height, shot a fiery look at me from beneath his shaggy eyebrows, and exclaimed: "'"Buchanan, I knewa man once who succeeded admirably in getting along, simply by minding his own business!' '"He tola mo to go h ick and wait with the lady, and he would see her in a moment. I returned to the reception-room, and awaited the President's coming in a torture of suspend. In a bhort time Jackson entered the room. He was neatlr ehaven, and in plain, but correct attire. X more dignified and courtly pretence could not well be imagined. A heavy load was lifted from me. I introduced tlie ladv and retired to await the termination of the interview. From what die had said to me C could see that she was anxious to make it as short as possible, and I was therefore surprised when an hour had passed and sho was still talking w ith the man she had been led to believe was but little better than a wildcat. She finally appeared, escorted to tho door by tho President. She was radiant. I handed her into her carriage, and asked her what ebo thought of the grim and much-abused Jackson. " "I am captinated," hft replied. "I never so enjoyed an hour. I have been in all the courts of Europe, and 1 can trulj say that at none of them havo 1 ever wen ; man who, in elegance of manners, could compare with General Jckson. While intensely dimiificd, he was so kind that my dread disappeared in an instant, and before I knew it I was captivated. It will never do for anyone to charge General Jackson with vulgarity in my presenceavain. "Buchanan always told the story with great relish, and I w ish all the Mugwumps could have heard him." How the Sage Looked. "Emerson In Concord by Dr. Kiuernon. Mr. Emerson was tall six feet in hit shoea erect until his latter days, neither very thin nor stout in frame, with rather narrow and unusually Moping shoulders, and long neck, but very well poi.sed head, and a dignity of carriage. His eves were very blue, his hair dark brown, his com. idexion clear and always with good color, lis features wc-re pronounced, but refined, ami his faco very much modeled, as a bculptor would say. Walking was his exercise, and he was an admirable walker, light, erect, aud strong of limb. He almost alway refused otters to ride in a carriage, and seldom on journeys availed himself of omnibuses or cabs. lie would walk across the citv to his train, carrying, usually, hi rather lieavy leathern traveling-bag in his hand, at such a speed that a companion must-run to keep up with him. and this without any apparent effort or any noticeable eftect of overheat or shortness of breath: "When you have worn out your fchoes." he said, "the strenpthof tho sale leather has gone into the fibre of joax body."