Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 June 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, JUNE 2, 1889-TWELVE PAGES.

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THE SUNDAY JOURNAL. SUNDAY. JUNE 2, 1SS9. TVASlUTO:,r OFFICE 513 Fourteenth St. p. 8. Heath, Correspondent. yCW YORK OFFICE 204 Temple Court, Corner EMkman and Nassau Streets. TEimS OF SUUSCIUPTION. DAILY. Oieywr. wltbeut Pnnday flZ.no Cue yesr.with PtraflfT... uoo Hix month . wl thout Sunday eoo Fix month. Tth Sonrty 7.00 Ttxne raontTi. without ban lay a. 00 Three TwntliMf wita Sundty 3.50 One rnontM. -without Sunday.. .............. 1.00 One nioiitlx. wiUi Sunday. 1.20 WXXKLT. reryear. .t..Jl.oo Reduced Rates to Clubs. . snbtcflb with any of our numerous agents, cr nd subscrirona to THK JOUKNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, IMJIAKAPOU3, IXD. THE INDIAN APO LIS JOUKNaE Tan ? found at the ioDowln g places: 1.0NDON Auwjrican Exchange ia Europe, 4tt btrand. , PARIS American Exchange in Parts, 35 Boulevard ies Capucines. YORK Gllsey House and Windsor HoteL PHILADELPHIA A. p7 Xemble, 2725 Lancaster arenue. CHICAGO ralmcr Ilousa. CINCINNATI J. p. Ilawley A Co, 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Deerlng. northwest corner TMrrt and. fefferson street. a w ST. LOUIS Union Nsws Company, Vzlon Depot and Southern IIoteL WASHINGTON, I. C-Rlggs House and Ebbltt House. Telephone Calls. Easiness Offlce.......23S Editorial Rooms 242 TWELVE PAGES! The Sunday Journal lias doable the clrcnHtlon of any Sunday paper in Indiana. Price five cents. THE JOHNSTOWH CALAMITY. Tho magnitude of tho Johnstown disnster increases as the details become known... The difficulty of obtaining and transmitting news from the submerged region makes it probable that the full extent of tho catastrophe may not be known for several days yet. Certainly 110 similar disaster of equal destructiveiiess has over occurred in this country. Therowill, of course, bo the usual ex post facto moralizing and attempt to hold somebody responsible. This is idle and absurd. Tho fact is, it was an unforeseen and inevitable accident, resulting from causes beyond human control. Such accidents can never bo completely guarded against as long as the laws and elements of naturo are above the control of man. In this case tho reservoir and dam were, to all human nppesrances, absolutely safe. Competent engineers had said that nothing short of a convulsion of naturo could cause a Jbreak or overflow. Tho recent accident tSras as much the result of exceptional causes as if it had been due to an earthquake. It could not have been prevented by human foresight or human skill. It is one of iboso terrible calamities which we can only accept and deplore.

STREET 2JA1LE3AJTD FUMBEES, Supplementary to suggestions made a fehort time ago regarding a systematic re-naifling the streets, the Journal wishes to call attention to a present felt want "of no small magnitude. What was said ns to the systematic naming of the streets refers more to tho convenience of the future than the present, while this is of ! T)re8sinfr and immediate necessity. There is, we believe, an ordinance requiring sonic party to put up and maintain at every street crossincr, tho name of each street, but it is never done. Once, as a modification of I this ordinance, tho names were to be put on the street lamps' and along our principal streets that least need them. This was done, but most of these have long since disappeared or they appear bo changed through the carelessness and maliciousness of' the' lamp-lighter that they give the wrong street. It is not extravagant to say that not one crossing in twenty is now properly marked. This is not only an embarrassment to strangers, but to our citizens as well. The expense need not be great, and tho experiment with the street lamps, shows that they are not satisfactory at best. There should be a neat name on the corner house at every crossing, and "it should be put up with -' the least possiblo delay. With this should go another improvement. The ordinance relating to tho numbering of houses is not observed. Manv houses havo no sem bianco or a number, many others are wrongly num bered, so that tho same number ia du plicated a square or moro apart, whilo still more are so numbered as to be un intelligible, either by being in figures too small to be read from the street or . l)y being concealed by a veranda. Priinarilvthismay.be said to be tho busi ness only of tho family . living in the ! .... house, but it is noL liackmen witn be lated nassengers often disturb families for a half square, in search of a number - that is not, or that is invisible. It should be somebody's business to look sifter these things. CITY PABJCS. ' The time has passed when it is neces sary to dwell on tho value of parks to this or any other growing city. Their uses are universally understood and ' recognized, and their value, in a moral as well as material sense, is rated highest by those who are best informed as to their benefits. - Every city owes it to the present as well as the future to make wise And liberal provisions in this re gard. Such provision should always be made' in due season. A lost opportunity to obtain park lands on favorable terms is not easily ; recovered Many cities lave had reason to regret the failure to embrace such opportunities, and have liad to pay dearly for it in the end. , Indianapolis ia not as closely built as fecmo other cities, and thereforo not as - much in need of parks, yet she needs them more and more, and will contmuo to do so as trmo passes. As the city grows tho country will become more re mote, the city air closer, and tho need of breathing-placea greater. We havo none too many now, and not enough for -tho future; Our present park facilities ; , nrpesr paltry and insignificant in the "v-Ir !Ircrc!b of thirty or forty years

hence. The parks of New York and

Brooklyn together aggregate over l.GOO acres. Fairmount Park, in Philadelphia, has 2,740 acres, and Druid Hill Park, in Baltimore, COO acres. .The Chicago park system contains 2,000 acres, in six or seven different parks. St. Louis has 2,100 acres, San Francisco 1,100 acres, and other cities in proportion. Every year that passes without Indianapolis providing for a liberal system of parks makes it more doubtful if it will ever do so. Land for the purpose can never be purchased chaper than it can bo now. A. pending offer to the city of about five acres of land in the northeastern suburbs at a veiy reasonable'price seems to present a favorable opportunity for making a small addition to its park facilities. The land is suitably located for the purpose, has natural timber and water, and could be beautified without much expense. It is offered to the city by the trustees of tho Fletcher &Sharpo estate at tho appraised valuation, which is quite low. As a speculation or invest ment it is worth more than the price asked, and for park purposes it is a bargain. Ten years hence the land will easily be worth double what is now asked for it. The city should buy it. ' INDIFFERENCE TO CREEDS. Tho conventions, synods, conclaves, and other religious organizations have met in annual session and have dis persed. Days and weeks were spent in the discussion of ecclesiastical questions, discussions in which the members were wrought up to a condition of great ex citement and earnestness. Some matters in dispute in church policy and doc trine were settled, but more were not. The public, the general public which includes all classes, religious and irreligi ous, read accounts of the proceedings with a languid interest, and even the re turn of the delegates, still fired with some of the enthusiasm of debate, will fail to arouse in it any noticeable con cern. The result of these gatherings will be shown in immediate church circles, and eventually, of course, in church work, but the fact remains, de plorable though it be, that the people are not interested in doctrine the fine points of theology and the differences between the various denominational creeds. This is true to a great extent among church members themselves. A large proportion of them could not de fine their distinctive creeds 6avo in a vague and general way if asked to do so. They are Presbyterians, or Methodists, or Baptists, or Episcopalians, because of their environment. They have joined the church of their parents, or that of their friends, or have entered it through a force of circumstances other than that involved in particular beliefs. They are none the less godly for this if they hold to that chief and central doctrine of allfaith in the One whom they profess to worship. As for that great multitude outside of the church, they are even less interested. They find other matters of concern than the apostolic succession, baptism by immersion or sprinkling, in fant baptism, predestination, the ob servance of the seventh day or tho first day as Sunday, the organ in tho church, and the innumerable other questions that engage the attention of the official guardians of denominational dogmas. . Perhaps it is not to the dis credit of these outsiders that they fail to understand the importance of these things, nor a proof of their indif ference to things sacred. There must be churches, and the varying human judg ment and interpretation of truth makes it inevitable that the creeds shall differ. But they do not differ, after all, on es sential points; and it is the discovery of this that has gone far to make the sol emn wrangling and profound arguments over minor questions matters of mild amusement or complete unconcern to tho majority. They have learned that when the crises of life come, the times of un speakable anguish, when disaster im pends, .when death draws near, all these things are forgotten even by the rev erend defenders of the faith. In tho supreme moments it matters not whether in Adam all. sinned or whether the Son of man was divine or wholly human. Tho orthodox brothers, the Robert Elsmeres, even the scoffers come alike to their knees, caring only for help that man cannot give", acknowledging in their hearts tho Power who rules over all, and sure that He is able to help and save to the uttermost even those who have known no theology. CONCERNING NATURAL GAS. The president of tho Broad Ripple company is in a pretty good position to know something about tho natural-gas business, and his opinions are entitled to respect. They are based on experi ence, purchased at ordinance rates. Ho says: The price of gas here is undoubtedly too low. aim i no nuvaniaffe is an on me siue oi tho consumer. According to the ordinance, .consumers may ask for meters if they de sire. It ought to be that the companies should, when they desire, require custom ers to uso meters. e found last winter that some persons would take one stove where thev would havo three or four rooms to heat, and would bore oat the mixers themselves and thus heat a whole house. There's no city ordinance makiug that an oti'enso. Others turned on gas full head and then left their doors and windows open. Sonio way should be devised to make them pay for what they use and save this great waste. I don't think any Of the com panies desire to mako further expenditures under the present ordinance rates neither the Trust, nor tho Indianapolis, nor the Broad Hippie. I believe the llroad Hippie companv to-day can make a better tinancial Bhowinc than the Consumers' Trust. I don't think all three companies are able to sunnlv Indianapolis with one-half the gas eho requires, and I don't think she will ever get any more than slie now nas at, xne pres ent ordinance prices. Mr. WestcottTs views receive some con firmation from the fact that his com pany, after operating about a year, is in the hands of a receiver. It is an open secret that neither of the other companies has made any money, and it is doubtful if any company can under present conditions. Tho plants are expensive, and between tho original out lay and running . expenses : the gas pined and delivered probably costs them as much as they get for it. The fact that neither ot the companies is extend ing its lines or preparing to take on any moro consumers shows there" is no bo nanza in it at present rates. The door is closed against further investments. It is no doubt true, as Mr. Westcott intimates, that all the companies

have been cheated out of a good deal c

gas, or the price of it, by parties "who have used a great deal more than they were entitled to or paid for. The ordinance rate is very low, but the companies do not get pay even at that rate for nearly all the gas used. Even churches in cold weather have kept their furnaces going all the week in order to have it warm Sunday morning. This is not fair to tho companies, and is not honest. Mr.Westcott says the present ordinance is too one-sided. It was passed in a time of popular excitement, in a spirit of hostility to private capital and without much information on tho subject. It would be surprising if it had proved to be tho culmination of human wisdom. When the time comes for amending it, as it certainly will come, an effort should be made to do justice to all parties, and frame an ordinance which will insure a general supply of gas throughout the city at reasonable rates to consumers and living ones to the companies. THE LITERARY LOVE LETTER. That the ordinary love-letter is suf ficiently dangerous, all human experience attests, but that the indulgence of epistolary ser.timent between literary beings is rashness of the most extraordinary order, is given poignant significance almost daily. If the shades of departed litterateurs could revisit these glimpses, each one would doubtless drift across the startled human vision bearing a diaphanous banner inscribed: "Whatever you write, write not love-letters." In the event that, by reason of some un conquerable weakness, this Bage advice cannot be strictly followed, the self-respecting literary man should avoid possible humiliating results by embracing for himself the duty and privilege of living and dying like the wise Mr. Peggotty, "a bacheldore." That Carlyle's literary remains may ultimately succeed in living down the stern and repelling portrait constructed by Mr. Froudo is made faintly probable by the recently published "Early Letters," in which, de spite other contrary evidence, tho con solatory disclosure is made that the great man really did regard his wife with "sympathy, admiration and esteem;7' that ho considered her his "pearl of great price the richest treas ure of his sublunary life," and that he could be only truly well and blessed when he could have her forever besido him. But beside this welcome reas surance stands a gaunt fear that yet "Earlier Letters" may be unearthed, containing horrible proofs that Carlylo beat his wife three times a day for mere pastime, besides frequently forcing her to murder the neighbors' infants, lest their wailing disturb his noctural slum bers. The author of "Sartor," however, gleams forth as a domestic angel of light compared with tho gentlemanly Bulwer, as portrayed also in "Lctters"but recently published in this country, in - vindication of tho memory of Lady Lytton. The imbecile maunderings which Bulwer wrote to Miss Wheeler, however, and which were ap parently acceptable to her, in the name of the little pink god on wings, furnish a convincing instance of a vindication that fails to vindicate. Her complicity in a correspondence conducted between "Puppy" and "Poodle" makes her a cen surable accessory to such crime, and liable, in the justice of events, to being subsequently chased by him with a carving knife, and subjected to tho inconvenience of having an accasional bite taken out of her cheek. "True lovers," it is alleged, "run into strange capers," but the literary lover takes inusual risks, and for tho very fact of his intel lectual claims, entitles himself to moro liberal share of the scoffs and frowns of a world which must be amused. Amer ica has not, as yet, had her escutcheon seriously smirched in this regard, and, logically, all these unhappy marital records arouse national anxiety and pride in the matter. It is surely as im perative as international copyright that all living American writers who dwell in disturbed matrimonial atmospheres should be coaxed or coerced into such crematory measures as shall obviate all possible harrowing and discreditable post-mortem revelations. THE SWEET-GIRL GRADUATE. Much harmless amateur and profes sional humor has been showered upon this perennial product of educational systems, but, with tho admirable persistency of weeds and taxes, she annual ly reappears, to be as regularly met by the greetings, raillery and blessings of a large and appreciative constituency. These admirers honestly rejoice with her that her school-books are closed, and that the damp sponge has erased the final problem from the slate of her academical endeavors. The conquering essay has been constructed and rehearsed; the fleecy robe of triumph, ac companied by tho sash,t the fan, tho slippers and the flowers of the same, havobeen gathered together and donned. Tho footlights' flicker sympathizingly, the teachers sit in critical circle, and a respectful hush pervades the expectant audience, as, with palpitating heart, tho sweet-girl graduate casts at their feet her flowers of fancy mingled with herbs of wisdom. As an essayist, the girl of today diflers from the girl of other days. The pressure of the times jhas condensed the topics of her discourse. Tho other girl inquired pathetically, "My Bark is Launched, but Where is tho Shored the girl of to-day talks knowing ly of "Ilitching-posts." The other girl discussed "The Vanity of Human Wishes," but the modern girl takes up with deft touch, "Dropped Stitches." The other girl aspired in poetic phrase, "Beyond the Alps Lieth Mine Italy," while the girl that is, gambols graceful ly on "Ladders." The ordeal over, the applause garnered, the bouquets planted in the parlor window, the sweet-girl graduate tarries for a season before making the quoted plunge into real life. It is universally conceded, and she knows herself, that sho is, in most cases, something of a delusion; that she doesn't intend to rush madly into responsibilities; that 'tis her nature to covet a season of recreation, wherein sho may frolic, and dance, and ride, and play lawn:tennis, before toiling across the Alps to seek fabled Italy. It is well,

and let no man say her nay. She is a part of the visionary side of life, and

lends it half its flavor. Rumor chronicles that near the learned city of Boston there abides a school in which the.end of tho year is signalized only by the students packing their books and departing homeward. Out upon such innovation; it is not to be countenanced nor tolerated. At such an iron-hearted institution it must have been that Becky Sharp slung the dictionary of her contemptuous disapproval. Though for a season the sweet-girl graduate neither toil nor spin; she is her own excuse for being, and, like the strawberry and the June rose, her presence sweetens the work-a-day world and helps it on its time-worn round. - We aro gradually getting acquainted with the mineral resources of Indiana. Our block coal, building stone and kaolins have been famous for many years. Our natural gas is now widely known. The recent discovery of oil at Terre Haute is likely to bo followed by important developments in that direction. And, finally, our mineral waters are rapidly coming into notice. An agency recently established here for the sale of these waters is probably the first notice to many persons that Indiana has some of the finest mineral waters in the country. Those of French Lick and West Baden are perhaps best known, but some others are equally as good. Professor Collett says tho water of the Lodi springs, in Fountain county, is equal to any in tho world. The Martins ville water, recently discovered, has excellent specific- qualities, and is fast becoming popular. All these waters can now be had here, and, being pure distillations of nat ure, are infinitely preferable to artificial preparations. They are to distinctively In diana products that the Journal takes pleasure in recommending all of them to persons who desire to become better acquainted with the natural resources of the State. Some time all of these waters will become widely known, and the springs that produce them will be famous health resorts. Tnn following characteristic letter from Horace Greeley, never before published, was written to the, secretary of a literary society in the Ohio University, who had notified Mr. Greeley of his election as an honorary member. Mr. Greeley wrote the following reply which is now in tho files of the society: KEW YORK, Feb. 7, 1850. Dear Sir Yours of tha Sdth. ult announcing my election ns a memhef ot the PhUomatheau Hociety has duly reacbel nfe. I tear If-halldo little honor to the choice. As to scholarship I make no pretension, haviujr never learned anything but what I really needed to know, and having omitted or fonrotten a part even of that The only classical oratory witn wnicn I am decidedly familiar is that of tho stump, and by no means the be tter speciinens'of that. 1 have a notion, however, thatTomCorwiuonawager.haranguine livo thousand Buckeyes in a grove, is quite equal to anything Demosthenes ever did, and that Old Hal., m the Capitol, can and does out-tauy Cicero's best efforts and give him odds. (Don't teU me of tho unequaled elecance and finish of Cice ro's published speeches I can write out a pood speecn myseir, out tnat s-n .ifooa way snort or oratory.) And again I am? a little dubious on the point of elegant composition. If calling a barefaced, rascally liar, a liar, is elegant, I go in lor elegance; II not, not. Jul composition, my lirst idea is truth; second. ssrspicuity; third. brevity; fourth, elegance oribeauty. If that is your order we aro agreed. It is late; and I am weary -of writing letters, articles and scraps of all kinds, since I sat down. Beside, the clock strikes 10. and I must be in the stage lor my home, four miles away. I thank you for the honor conferred on me and the kindness of your note announcing it. Yours in fraternity. HORACE UlttELKY. A writer in the New York Sun urges the adoption of the word "cetera" into the English language. He suggests thisas a means of doing away with the use of the contraction &c, which is really a ridiculous thing and a nuisance every way. The so-called short & is an old way of abbreviating tho Latin et, equivalent to our and. while the o stands for tho Latin word cetera, the two words being ordinarily translated into the phrase 'and so forth." The Sun writer sug gests that we do away with the short & and also with &c, and write "and cetera," This would be a worse monstrosity than &c. What necessity is there for using or adopting tho Latin word cetera, when we have good English! An easy synonym for &c is "and so forth," or "atd other things." We want no cetera. Something of a sensation has been caused in church circles in New York by the resig nation of the Rev. John E. Cookman, pas tor of a prominent Methodist church, for , the purpose of joining the Episcopalians. Mr. Cookman has been a Methodist minister for a quarter of a century, and was one of the best known members of the New York Conference. His step does not necessarily argue any change of religious belief. The doctrines of tho Episcopalian and Methodist churches are practically identi cal, the main difference being in church government and form of worship. Indignation exists in certain feminine circles because the members of the State Pharmaceutical Association, which meets in the city this week, have decided not to invite ladies to their banquet. Some women, however, who might have expected invitations under other circumstances, are philosophical, and aver that they are perfectly willing to stay away, because the fare at the association banquets always tasted as if llavored with drugs. The women are euro to have the last word about it, even if they can't attend. Wars decimated tho peoples of earlier times, but the perils of a peacefnl and civ ilized life are not few. Steamship ard rail road disasters are responsible for much loss of life, buildings fall and crush the in mates, cyclones find towns in tho way where once were forests, and floods from artificial lakes cause wof ul destruction. Human life has much to make it delightful in this age of luxury and refinement, but all the appliances of science have not yet surrounded it with safety. That was an impressive spectacle when. as described by the Chicago papers, boodler McGarigle. after going through a legal form of release in court, retired to tho judge's private room and held a reception. Old friends, lawyers, newspaper men and court attaches crowded around and greeted him pleasantly, oven the judge joking with him about his escape through the bath room. As a matter of disgrace, boodlerism can have few terrors for a Chicago man. The murder of Cronin seems to have been done with astonishing recklessness in the way of guarding against detection. So many people have come to light who re member to have noticed some movement or speech of the suspected parties that the wonder is that 60 much doubt remains as to the identity of the perpetrators. The United States Samoan commissioners at Berlin seem to be cutting a pretty wide svrath. They are doing themselves and the country proud, both in a social and diplomatic way. To tlio Editor of the Inllnaiolls Journal; rieasc pubUah the late tobacco law with refer ence to selling rumors tobacco ana cigars, and the penalty therefor, and oblige many dealers and consumers. A. w. ijoyce. BOTLtSTON, Ind. The act provides "that it shall be unlaw ful for any person or persons to give, barter

or sell, either directly or indirectly, to any child or children under the age of sixteen years, any tobacco, cigars or cigarets, to be chewed or smoked by said child or children; or to give, barter or sell the same to any person whomsoever with knowledge that the same is to be chewed or . smoked by any child under the age aforesaid; or to persuade, advise, counsel or compel any child under said age to chew or smoke tobacco. Any . person who violates tho provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined m any sum not less than Si nor more than $10." BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT. Alexander Graham Bell, in Science, calculates that a mother in talking to her infant speaks 26,000 words a dav equal to about four hours' continuous talking. Sir Julian Pauncefote, thenewEnglish minister, is a fine technical musician, and is his younger days tfted to compose and play the piano with considerable skill. M. de Lesseps, says a Paris letter, is rarely seen in society nowadays, and his name is seldom quoted in the papers. Not many months ago Do Lesseps was a name to conjure with.

Dr. Agnew advised his patrons never to scold their wives, for "so long as a woman can weep she will never do anything desperate, and will have much more patience than a dry-eyed woman." Six indictments for gambling have been returned against a minister of the Kana wha valley, W. Va. It is presumed that he presided over some of the games of chance to oe lonna occasionally at church fairs. Nathan Corwith, who retired from busi ness three vears ago with a million and a half, and was last July induced by his son io try ms luck in a corner of the lead market, is dead, and his fortune is scattered over two continents. "Almost all women will give a sympa thetic hearing to men who are. in love," says Thackeray. "Be they ever so old, they grow young again in that conversation, and renew their own early time. Men A. a mm are noi quite so generous." . "I begret," says the Persian minister, to his new friends in Washington, "that the Shah cannot come to the United States,, as ho would doubtless, like to do. But the trouble is that there is no one here with rank enough to receive him." It is stated that Pigott had his life in sured for the sum of 1,000 in the English and Scottish Law Life Insurance offices, and paid the premiums regularly up to the last. No claim has yet been maclo-upon the company, pjgott's suicide, it is said, cannot anecc tne policy, as it has been over five years in existence. Miss Kate Field flatly denies the wide ly-circulated story that she is the agent for a California wine company. She says, however, that she knows of a California company that makes pure wines, and she has no objection to putting people on the right track, but as to having a pecuniary inter est m a vineyara, n is pure nction. The Rev. Dr. W. C. Roberts, moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly, it is said, never showed any signs of weariness except when some of the delegates from corresponding churches became very impressive and brotherly, and leaned on his shoulderwhile they made their speeches. Auub Dccmo uj nave maue xne assembly tired, too. William Roane Ruffin, who died at Valley Farm, Chesterfield county, Virginia, a few days ago, was a great-grandson of Thomas Jefferson. He was educated at tho Virginia Military Institute, and left that school to serve in the confederate army, lie was for many years rector of the uuamui V18UU13UI me university ot Virginia, of which institution his crreat-irr.ind-iather was the founder. A cotemporary states that Dr. Eisenmann, of Berlin, has invented a piano. which, by the aid of electro-magnetism, can sustain, increase and diminish sound. This has been attempted by other experts, notably Uoehm, the inventor of the metal flute. Another novelty will be that by moving the electro-magnets the timbre of .me ione is cnangea; lor example, Ironi that of a violoncello to a piccolo. The late Allen Thorndike Ric was as handsome as one would expect a man to be who had 6uch a romantic career as his a romance beginning at the cradle and ending at the grave. His eyes were large and dark, and his complexion was a rich olive. A pointed beard and flowing mustache added to the picturesqueness of his face. It will be a great nitv if no nainter has nut. his neau upon canvas, lor a photograpn vwuiuuwiuujiwiao IV U19 lillO UUlUllllg. bPAiN is excited over the news that Bizco del Borge, the famous brigand, has been killed in the Cordova mountains. He was a young man of noble birth, who some years ago got into a love difficulty in Madrid and killed his rival. He was obliged to nee ana took to the mountains. Organizing a band of outlaws, he became the most successful brigand of modern times so tar as Spain is concerned. He was tho typical brigand of romance handsome; cultured, courteous and cruel. His death is a public benefit to Cordovans. The Misses Chattaway, for many years the gentle custodians of Shakspeare's birthplace and the collection of relics at Strat-ford-on-Avon, are soon to resign their post. The number of visitors to Stratford has grown steadily, until last year it reached 17,000. and the sisters do not feel strong enough to continue their duties. They are the daughters of a local banker, and, being ien in siraiienea circumstances Dy the failure of their father, were appointed to their present place by tho Town Council eighteen years ago. Mr. Allen B. Hayward, a clerk in the Pension Office at Washington, being or dered by his physician to live an out-door life as much as possible, built him a house in a tree. There, up among the big limbs and little branches, he has as cozy a homo as any bachelor need want. There are sev eral rooms of sood size, some of which are built so that t&e limbs of the trees jut in through the walls. Mr. Hayward keeps chickens and nogs, as well as a visitor's book, which is well-hlled with the names of the interested and curious. Dr. William Bunsen, the famous pro fee sor of chemistry at the University of Heidelberg, has withdrawn from active life, after moro than thirty-five years of teaching. He is still a familiar figure on the streets of the ancient city, and in an nearance is the tvnical German scholar. On his tall, slender and stooped form hang clothes long out of style, glasses rest on his nose, and a dark beard sprinkled with gray covers his face. Dr. liunsen has been long known for his absent-mindedness, and as he takes his daily walks he rarel3r sees or acknowledges the respectful greetings given mm. How long must a husband or wife be missing without tidings of his orher where abouts before a second marriage can be le gally contracted? How conflicting are the laws of the several States npon this point is shown in a chapter in 'The Geography of Marriage," by W. L. Snyder, treating of "Enoch Ard en marriages." In a majority of the States, if the absence lasts more than live years, there can be no prosecution for hi cram v. In some States the absence must extend over a period of seven vears. In two states, l londa and Itew Hampshire, three years are enough to shield the parties. and in Pennsylvania two years will suffice if there is afterward a rumor that the absentee is dead. Absence is computed from the date when news of the absent one was last received. It follows that a second marriage might be criminal in one part of the country and not in another. too previous. 'These waffles, Maria, he said, As with coldly critical eye He eyed them, but then shook his head, "With chunks of hot rubber would vie. And, bah! what a horrible taMe It's the taste of nearly raw dough: These must have been made in great haste. I should die if I eat one, I know." Eaid his wife, with a withering look; "Your maw happened in here, you nee. And made them ain't she a good cook?" Pass the waffles, my darling,' said he. New York Tribune.

HUNGARIAN MINERS.

Lived in Squalor and Dirt, Worked for $30 a Month, Saved Money, and Are Going Home. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. New York, June 1. During one of his campaign speeches at Indianapolis, last summer, Benjamin Harrison said, Tbe gates of Castle Garden swing inward; they never swing outward." That was practically true. Yet one of the cunous sights of to-day around this city is the crowd of Hungarians constantly embarking for their old home. The tide of emigration is ebbing aud tho tide of immigration is flooding with Hungarians. It was the observation of several hundreds of these foreign ers huddled together at one of onr railroad wharfs, awaiting transfer to the steerage of an outgoing steamer, the other day, that caused your correspondent to investigate the matter. There is just one man to consult about a problem of this sort. That is Hugh Kilgore, tho leading "emigrant runner," as they aro called in this country. He is a middle-aged man, who for six years has handled thousands of emigrants of all nationalities. He does this for one of the railroad companies that makes a point of shipping newly-arrived foreigners to the West and South. His attention was called to the crowd above mentioned. He said they were really going home, having got out of the United States all they wanted. They never expected to return. They had saved enough within a few years to enable them to purchase or lease a little property in their native land, on which they could live comiortauiy the remainder of their lives. Asked to go more into details, Mr. Kilgoro said: "This ia the third hatch of foreigners I have shipped home this season, rhese people are Hungarians who came to this country two and three years ago, though a few may have been here about nve ears. lbe maiontv belonor to batches that I steered from CiaRtle Garden to different places in Pennsylvania witum inree years, fcince then they have been employed in the coal mines, and in some mysterious manner have been enabled to save enough money, not only to take them home, but also a little capital to work upon when they got there. During the coal-mine wtrikes a few vears ago agents ot tne coal companies visited Castle Garden and engaged hundreds upon hundreds of Hungarians to take the places of the English, Irish and Welsh miners who were on strike. The emigrants were paid one-third less wages than were paid the more intelligent miners. As far as I could learn, tho Hungarians averaged about &30 a month in wages. Many of them got less than that, and a few who were luckier or more intelligent than their fellow-countrv-men got a little more. The point of the ruing is inai ineso people, most ot whom had families, were able to save from 200 to $500. There is not a man in that crowd who has not at least $200 over and above his passage money to his native country. 'How they managed to save that amount is a mystery to everybody except those who are familiar with the manner in which they lived. There are men in that crowd whose wages for the past two years has not been more than $S50 a year, or $700 in all, and yet they are taking home with them $500. That seems incredible, yet it is so. iucbd iicupio iiv cu auiiu etjuaiur ami uin, and subsisted on food stuff that would be rejected by any American tramp. They lived in huts and hovels provided by tho coai companies, ior wnicn uiey paiu less than $30 a year rent. A frame house, such as would be used . by an intelligent miner, whose rent would be $8 or $10 a month, would be occupied by two, three and oftentimes four Hungarian families, who would divide up tho rent among them. The unmarried men . and those without families were boarded for 2 and $3 a week. Many of them had bunks down in the mines, and did not come up to the surf ace excepting once a week, and then it was to lay in a stock of black and rye bread, on which they would subsist for days without no more nourishment other than water. This may sound like exaggeration, but any aT Mi !iL. V r At w-r oho laminar wun me in ine Hungarian colonies in the coal mines will tell you that it is but a mild picture." Mr. Kilgore called attention to the fact that while these Hungarians had been in this country for two years, and 6ome of them longer, not one of them wore any clothing of American make. From their slender-heeled boots to the rough caps on their heads, their clothing was the same that they wore when they arrived in the country, in a iew instances ine ooots naa succumbed to the wear of time, but otherwise xiit'ir cioimng was oiu, airry ana greasy Hungarian material. None of them could speak English intelligently beyond a few profane expressions. Manv of the men could understand English amazinelv well. yet they could not reply in that language. .mi. Aiisuiu is very empnuiic in 1118 UP lief that such people, ought to be prohibited from coming to this countrv. He said thev never assimilated with other foreigners. ana aia noi appreciate ine advantages ot a free country. They could not be Americanized, and were a greater brawbaek to intelligent workingmen than even the Chinese, because they were very powerful and muscular, and could do anv of tho manual labor that the Americans. Germans or Irish did, and lived on so little that workmen of tho latter nationalities could not successfully compete against them. A HOOSIER IN MEXICO. Valuable Concessions Granted Gen. Hermann Sturm by the Mexican Government. Special Correspondence Indianapol's Journal. City of Mexico, May 23. During my stay in thi3 city I have met quite a nnmber of Americans. To-day I met Gen Hermann Stnrm, an old resident of Indianapolis, whom I have known for the past thirty years. Many of the readers of the Journal are aware that General Sturm was employed by General Carajaval, in 1S64 and 1865, to purchase arms and military sup plies for the Mexican government for use against the French forces brought over dnring the invasion hy Maximilian. For his services as such agont, and for money expended by himself and others at that time, General Sturm has a large claim against the Mexican republic, which ho has been patiently prosecuting for more than twenty years. He now informs me that a satisfactory adjustment of this claim has been agreed upon, and that the Mexican Congress has authorized the President to make the settlement without further delay. In the leading papersof the United States there has been much said recently concerning a great concession of lands, etc., mado to General Sturm by the Mexican government, and many erroneous and absurd statements have been made concerning tho same. I thereforo determined to make an examination of the terms of the concession, and having done so, concluded to send the result to the Journal, so that the many friends of General Sturm, and all others interested, may know the exact truth concerning the situation at this time. It is not claimed that the grant or concession is yet so far perfected as to be an existing contract but that it has been revised and agreed upon by the President and Cabinet, and is ready for final approval in due course of time. The franchise which tho government grantn to General Sturm, if backed by sufficient capital, and controlled by men of experience in large business atiairs. can be made of immense value. From the documents in possession of General Sturm, I took the following abstract, which presents tho principal features of the grant: He is authorized to establish plantations in any part of the republic, for the purpose of planting and raising all kinds of forest and other useful trees; for the cultivation of hops, grapes, cottee, rice, barley and other useful products, and for this purpose the government has agreed to furnish him as much as 210, 000 hectares of land (equivalent to about 535,0(0 acres), at a price that is merely nominal. These lands maybe selected in either or all of tho States of Chihuahua, Durango and Coahuila, and the ouly condition stipulated by the government to secure this privilego'is that at

least 200 colonists, who may be Mexican, shall be established on the lands within two years from date of publication of tho concession. In addition, he is authorized to form companies to establish in one or moie States ot the Mexican republic, or in the Federal district (City of Mexico), as many as four indnstrial establishments, for any one or all the following purposes: Tho manufacture of barrels, kegs and all articles coming under the head of cooperage. The manufacture of beer, vinegar, whisky and, in general, all .kinds of alcoholio liquors, 'essences,' perfumery, ctc.t Tho manufacture of ice acd the preservation of meats, fruits, vegetables, cereals and edible plants of all kinds, giving at the same time the privilege of establishing places forthe sale of tho products of the factories as may be judged convenient. This privilego includes wholesale depots, summer gardens and saloons. The government grants to Sturm, or his companies, the right to import, free of duties for fifteen y cars, a. long list of articles, comprising almost everything necessary in establishing and operating the colonies and factories, including complete houses of iron or wood, and also grants the privilege of introducing free of duty any other article not mentioned in the contract,' to the amount of 10 per cent, on the capital invested in any of the aforesaid enterprises. It is, however, stipulated that tho capital for the tirst establishment shall not be less than $400,000, and for agricultural colonies S5O.O00 each. Tho government also grants full exemption from State and Federal taxation for fifteen years, and a reduction of rates to all laborers and employes of the companies over all subsidized railway and steamship lines, and the tools and personal elfects of such employes and laborers shall be admitted duty fre. Tho limitation in this contract is that the first factory must be established within two years from the date it is put in force by publication. : It has been, and possibly still is, the prevailing opinion that this concefsion is in Kettlement of General Sturm's claim against the Mexican government. ' This, tho General assures me, is not the case, but that an independent agreement has beeu made concerning that claim which has no connection whatever with the concession. In regard to his old claim against Mexico, General Sturm informed 'me that he found President Diaz a willing' and sympathetic listener to the frtory of his ellorts during the past twenty-fouryears to secure that which was his rightful due. This personal recital of his efl'orts in behalf of Mexico in the tiite of her extreme peril. strengthened aa it was by the statements of several prominent officers of the Mexican array, who were cognizant of the facts, neemed to convince President Diaz that General Sturm had suffered great injustice, and he took immediate and active steps to rectify the great wrong. The national Congress, the General says, has passed a bill authorizing tho President to make an equitable adjustment of tho claim, and he hopes to conclude tho entire business within 6ixty da3'8. It was not until after Congress had passed the bill for the settlement of the old claim that anything was said about the concessions of lands, etc., and the concession was agreed to by the authorities, nofc on account of any claim held by the General, but purel- as a personal favor to one whose patient waiting, through long years of injustice, had won their sympathy and good will. D. w. O.

The Field of Merit. So Field, who was late a sour critic Declares we mistook his Intent. He was only a bit analytic. And meaut but the half that he meant: Though plad that he never could mean it. His soul is both proud and content To muse on the nohle achievement ' Of not meaning things that he meant. "O! none know Eugene but to love him! The old Gotham slasher declares, 1 So 'Gene' shuns the wiles of blue stockings. Runs off from their rhyme-bidden snares. And swears at their whims Indiscreetly, Then plumes himself up to his lent, . And ovpt his shoulder cries sweetly "I doii't mean at aU what I meant! f 4 There's nought in this world that derides us, And scorns each ambitious Intent, And tears us, and rends and divide? us. Like meaning the things that we meant. But Field has won laurels immortal, . That ever and aye shaU bo green. By teaching us how to build meanings That mean something else than they mean. . Then honor him. crown him, and lore him. O, weavers of fiction and song; For eurvly the world must approve him. Who is right every time h is wrong. Though tempted to mutter and grumble, And burl back our scornful dissent, We'll all eat of rie that is humble l.ach time he don t mean what he meant. And if by tho lakes bo will meet us. We'll give him the keys of our hearts; And, though be prove strong to defeat us In all the detectable art And laugb at our puny creation. When each has appeared at his b est. As poet and genius we'll bless him And blindly forgive aU the rest. An (Un) Literary Bor H031E, KWEKT HOMtt, A Story of the Immortal Song Told for the First Time. Washington Star. Some things there are which by a common instinct mankind hold sacred. Among these are the scenes of heroic deeds, the precincts of patriot graves, and the birthplace of sublime thought, in proof of which heed onlv bo mentioned such names as Lexington, Mount Vernon and Independenco Hall. And within the District of Columbia there is a spot which the American people, if familiar with its associations, would not deem unworthy of mention in connection with those named. Half a century ago George W. Talbnrtt, then young and unmarried, was the owner? by inheritance of a plantation of 231 acres, lying just across tho cast branch of the Potomac from Washington, his fee simple domain touching the river at a point opposite the navy-yard. Here he lived in elegant leisure, having alout one hundred slaves, and, to digress for a moment, the visitor mav still see near his home a row of grave from which are pointed out the particular resting places of some more distinguished than their companions for humble virtues. One is remembered as the "colored mammy" of a person since raised to eminence, while another is revered for an intimacy with several family generations. . Thi young man, possessed of ease and aniuence. was a boon companion of John Howard Payne, -whose dusts has sinco become o sacred. The old home still stands, as it stood then, in aiv Kden bower on the bank of the river, and hero, under a venerable chcntunt tree, sitting on a rustic wat that encircled its trunk, Payne and Talbnrtt used to drink their mint julep, sing their merry 6ongs, and talk of the lives they were to lead. Talburtt had promised Payne that whenever he wanted a home.it should be built for hiin on the plantation, and they would spend their bachelor lives together. Much of the old plantation is now within tb modern suburban village of Anacosta. and on an elevation that commands a view of the National Capitol and its surroundinc! which quite ravishes tho eye with itf beauty, stands the bouse, now owned and occupied by Mr. H. A. Grisyold. built in iultillment of this promise . The Kite was selected by Payne himself before departing on hibVoreign mission, but he never returned to eu.ioy the home oi which he sang; aud thus absolved from hit vow of celibacy. Mr. Talburtt Afterward married and himself occupied the new house, in which children were born tc him, one of whom, still a resident of the village, is the mother of J. Harry Shannon, widely known as the juvenile orator. Hut the chief point of interest is yet to be told, fot notwithstanding the claim that Home Sweet Home," was written in Tunis or in a Iondon garret, the original manuscript, in the handwriting of the illustrious anthorhimseif, and bearing hisown interlineation, is still in tlm iosseBMon f tlm family Mr. Talburtt having died in 1NV and it was on the . rustio Mat, under tho chestnut tree, on the bank of tho cast branch of the Potomac, so near the mouth as to be practically on the main river, and a little more than a mile east of south from the Capitol building, that John Howard Payne, with his own inspired genius and an aid-de-cainp of mint julep, driif ted this immortal composition. The rustic seat, held as a precious heir-loom, is preserved in tho attic of the old home; and the chestnut-tree, now partly tlead, with its top cut away and much of its bark chipped off as mementoes, still marks the birth-place ot this song, that will live while the Kuglish tougue is spoken, or a thatched roof covers the head of an humble inhabitant of earth. The Difference. ritufcurr Chronicle. The diftereuce between missions and home church work ia this: At homo ministers livo off their congregations, but in mise.iot fields the congregations live off th iui feiouarict.