Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 June 1889 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS: JOURNAL, MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1889

THE DAILY JOURNAL MONDAY. JUNE 10, 1S8S. WASHINGTON OFFICE-513 fourteenth St P. 8. Heath. Correspondent. mrW YORK OFFICE-201 Temple Court, Corner Beekmsn and Xssaau Street. Telephone Calls. Easiness Oflce 233 Editorial Rooms.. ...... 242

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Trie Journal's Johnstown Fond Contributions for the relief of the Johnstown sufferers continue from all parts of the country. The magnitude of the disaster and the amount of aid demanded instead of paralyzing seems to stimulate the charity of the people. Those of Indianapolis are doing their part. The organization at the scene of suffering is such that the lands are applied in the most efficient manner, and those who contribute can have the satisfaction of knowing that their contributions go -where they will do the most good. The Journal fund, Saturday, reached $1,563, and a third remittance was made of 300, making $1,400 to date. We will continue to receive and forward such sums as may be 6ent in. Following is a statement to date. deceived June 3 $470.25 T(PM1rpi1 Jnnn 4 459.80 Received June 5 2 0.00 deceived June 6 47.50 llM-ftived June 7 100.00 Satnrdait ItueipU, II O. Crawford, rianghvUle... $1.00 Mrs. E. K. Jameson.Indlan'olla 2.00 8. Jameson, Indianapolis 3.00 Cash. Indianapolia 15.00 .Additional "Vandalia' local freight offlce.yardandshops, Indianapolis 30.00 Jlobert Zener. Indianapolis. ... 5.00 Clerks Indianapolis Poatoflice. 45.00 C. W. Fairbanks. Indirnapolis. 50.00 Employes Indianapolis VeneerWorks 20.00 Employes Acme Milling Co., Indianapolis- 10.75 A rl r m A' Williamson. Lndlananolis 23.00 206.75 Total $1,563.30 June 4 Remitted to Wm. McCrary, chairman relief fund, Plttsburjr, Pa $800.00 June 5 Remitted a above... 300.00 June 8 Remitted above... 300.001,400.00 Balance for next remittance $103.30 lie Is a Swindler. A fellow giving his name as Charles H. S tewart has been representing himself as an agent of the Jonrnal in the eastern part of tho State, and in some instances has collected money due this office. The public is warned that Stewart is a fraud. lie was last heard from at Liberty, where he collected a few dollars from the Journal's lo cal agent and left an unpaid hotel bill. We are inclined to think there are too many professional Irishmen in Chicago, The only thing that remains for tho City Council is to pass tho $250 saloon ordinance as Boon aa possible. The scope of its operation can be determined afterwards. Tire New York Sun publishes figures to show that the internal revenue is now working faster there than the cus toms tariff to swell the annual surplus. That shows where the principal reduction of revenue should be made, if any. The subject of desertions from the army, their cause and cure, has elicited expressions from several officers. Now comes a private soldier who says they are largely duo to the domineering man ners of young officers and tho habitual drunkenness and consequent injustice and cruelty of older ones. He says many of the young officers are petty tyrants, while tho habitually drunken ones are cruelly unjust to private soldiers. There are a great many secrets and military skeletons in the army that tho publio knows nothing about. The fact that, after all the rain of the last few weeks, tho average rain-fall in this section has not yet been made up. shows how great the shortage was. It has, in fact, been accumulating for some time. Tho streams in central Indiana havo'not been bankful, nor tho wells and springs fully replenished for an un usually long period. The recent rains wero much needed, though they havo come so rapidly as to seem superabundant. These things aro not always or dered to suit everybody's convenience, but they generally work out right in tho long run. Chief Aktuur's declaration that un der no circumstances will he ever favor another strike of engineers is causing considerable comment in the Brother hood. Tho indications aro that he will be sustained by the older and more con servative members and opposed by tho young hot-heads. An Eastern engineer, who stands high up in tho order, says Arthur's position is that of conservative men in tho East, and that, on the general principle of his declaration, he will be supported by a majority of the engineers in tho Eastern, Middle and some of the Southern States. Tho hot-heads will doubtless try to elect a chief next Octo ber, at Denver, who is more in accord with their ideas. Whatever else may bo said of Gov. Hill, of New York, everybody must ad mire his frankness at times. The late Legislature amended the temperance law of that State in a few unimportant particulars, but it was slightly, and only slightly, more restrictive than tho old law. In his veto message the Governor says: "Tho State election last fall was a repudiation and rejection of the illib eral and unreasonable excise measures ought to be foisted upon tho State, and tho fact should be recognized." The

point is that, while the State went Republican, between tho extreme prohibi

tionists on one hand and the saloons on the other, ho was elected over a highlicenso candidate. Perhaps, some time in tho future, tho acti-saloon people of New York will, in the expressive lan guage of Congressman Randall, get together at least enough together to prevent the elcction'of such a man as Hill. COPS SUPPORTERS IK CRBLB. The Journal has noticed in its news department and editorially the enthusiastic reception accorded Hon. Sim Coy by his supporters in crime, on his return from the penitentiary, differing from that accorded his fellow-criminal, Bernhainer, only in its magnitude and elab orateness, as was appropriate on account of his higher standing among them. No less demonstration would take place on the return of Hon. John E. Sullivan, ex cept that he pursued his work to its log ical consequences, and, defying the maxim that there is honor among thieves, robbed his associates. It would be only because these have suffered pecuniarily from him .that they would refuse to take a part in the honors he is entitled to as a fellow-criminal with Coy, and a leader of the party whose interests ho has so long and faithfully served. He was very little less conspicuous in the crime for which Coy and Bcrnhamer were convicted, and quite as guilty as either of them, but the men who indorsed him, knowing his relation to the crime, by going on his official bond, and by lending him money, and by contributing toward his defense, as well as by their many other acts of approval, are not now in a humor to vote him a triumph on his return, otherwise just the same honors would await him from . those who have made this crime their own by so many unmistakable acts of approval. In behalf of the great body of the Democratic party of Marion county, and of the State as well for tho approval of this crime is not bounded by county linesthe Journal wishes to say that the extent of this indorsement is not to be measured by tho few hundreds that actively participated in it. There are a great many preachers, and deacons, and class-leaders who would suffer martyrdom rather than to go into Coy's saloon their consciences and religious principles would not allow them to do that; but for years they have followed wherever he has led in politics, and he has led them in the interest of tho saloon no less than in the interest of the tallveheet mutilations; and they stand pledged to follow him whitherso ever no coetn. lne contin gent that composed tho Democratic half of the Committee of One Hundred, which prosecuted Coy and Company, nearly if not quite exhausted tho anti-Coy-Bernhamer-Sullivan force in tho Democratic party of Marion county. So far as the Journal knows there has not been one manly protest by any known Democrat against this rejoicing over tho re-installment of Coy to his accustomed leadership. On the contrary, there i3 a buoyancy in tho Democratic atmosphere that those who breathe it had not real ized since the departure of their chief, eighteen months ago. It was seen in tho Council, in which he at once resumed his position as leader of the Democratic minority. Tho bouquets in their button holes were less conspicuous than the smiles on their countenances, which bespoke , the Joy of their hearts. This was not merely a personal exhibition of delight, it was an official indorsement, and unanimous; and the whole has been in entire harmony with the earliest movements of the party to shield those who had done so much in their interest, from tho penalties tho law inflcts. The history of this crime from beginning to end is consistent; it makes tho crime a crimo of the Democratic party, and stamps it a party that will resort to fraud whenever necessary, and that will defend its criminals in tho courts, and honor them as martyrs when returning from the cruelties tho law inflicts for offenses against honest elections. Such is the Democratic party in Indiana to-day. By every possible test it has become a party to tho crime for which Coy and Bernhamer were imprisoned. A CHRISTIAN SCIENCE DIVORCE. The doctrine of Christian science or, if tho thing so called is too vague and nebulous to be styled a doctrine, we will say the practice of Christian sciencewill not be elevated in the estimation of right-thinking people by the recent course of two of its leading practitioners. The persons referred to aro Mr. John G. Plunkett and his wife, Mary H. Plunkett, lato publishers of the "International Magazine of Christian Science," and practical teachers of tho art in New York. For some time past they have been regarded as standing very near tho fountain-head of inspiration, and havo been looked up to by a considerable body of followers as the ablest exponents of the new science. But it seems their Christian science has not prevented them from doing a very unseemly thing. They have divorced themselves. They had been married quite a number of years, and aro both near middle lifeold enough to have outgrown tho follie3 of youth and to "have attained something of tho wisdom of age. But Christian science has not saved them from doing what most married people, ignorant of its teachings, would hesitate to attempt, viz., divorcing themselves without the aid of tho law. The other man in the case besides Mr. Plunkett is a Mr.Worthington, who, from being a pupil of the two practitioners, became so fond of Mrs. Plunkett, and she of him, that a quiet and dignified dissolution of the Plunkett relation was deemed advisable. By mutual consent, therefore, Mr. and Mrs. Plunkett signed the following paper: We, the undersigned, havingdedicatcd our lives to tho service of The Good, and determined to speak, act, and live in accordance with it, do declare, both to you who fat thfnlly serve and to you who earnestly seek the truth as follows: For many years we have recognized that thoaftection between us was purely fraternal, and we have lived and worked together as friends. Having feared the results of its publication and tho possibility of our example proving dangerous to others, we have hitherto concealed this fact. We have now gained riper wisdom; wo know with deep and glad certainty that truth always and everywhere proves a blessing,

not a curse; we know that our action, far from being a stumbling block, will only aid tho many who p.ro striving to solve the same problem. We, therefore, from the most profound conviction of duty, do jointly declare our marriage contract null and void in so far as it lies in our power to render it so. In thus candidly taking this stand before humanity, whom we love and strive to serve, we experience that "peace which passeth understanding" which the world and the opinion of the world cannot give or disturb. The truth has made us free! Shortly after this Christian scientific separation, without tho aid of the law, Mr. Worthington and Mrs. Plunkett entered into a Christian scientific marriage without the aid of a minister. Having invited a number of friends and followers to witness the ceremony, and having explained that it was part of the unalterable plan of the universe that they should come together, they each repeated a formula prepared for the occasion and pronounced themselves husband and wife. Mr. Plunkett has not yet married again, and ho said to a reporter, "I think Mrs. Worthington (referring to his late wife by her new name) has hurt herself as a leader and a teacher of tho spiritual. Wo who are teachers ought to hold ourselves free from everything wrong." He will 9 go abroad to practice Christian science, and Mrs. Plunkett-Worthington will continue to practice it in this country.

THE PEOPLE'S GENEROSITY. The Conemaugh disaster furnishes a new illustration of American generosity. There havo been other historic instances of it, notably the great Chicago fire, the yellow fever in the South, the Charleston earthquake, the Ohio river floods, and many less important ones. In every instance tho people have responded promptly, generously and nobly. They are doing so now. Their sympathy is quick to respond, and their charity is equal to every demand upon it. It is not an evidence of extravagance or reck lessness in giving, but of genuine good feeling and a deep-lying sentiment of brotherhood, creditable to humanity and ennobling to its possessors. Perhaps this generosity of tho people is partly due to their self-reliance and habit of depending on individual action in great emergencies. In other coun tries tho people, in cases of great calam ities, depend for assistance and relief on tho government. Hero they depend on themselves. In Europe governments can and do act more promptly than tho people. Hero tho case is reversed. In the great race of benevolence that has been going on during the last week, this city has done as well, in proportion, as any other. In money and supplies, it has contributed, through various agencies and channels, about $10,000, and will do something more yet. Indi anapolis is not a wealthy city, and this amount is fully equal in proportion to that of larger and wealthier cities. Her peoplo have done well. They always do. The enumeration of voters in Center township shows 20,533 of American birth, against a total of 10,6o3 of all foreign nationalities. A majority of two to one in favor of native-born voters shows that the American element still: predominates. Of foreign voters the, Germans outnumber tho Irish nearly three to one, and both havo decreased in numbers sinco tho last enumeration, fn. 1883, the Germans from 5,244 to 5,159, and the Irish from 2,043 to 1,877. This may be duo in part to the fact that the immigration from Germany and Ireland was less last year than it was in 1883 and 1883,' and partly to the fact that tho bulk of tho foreign immigration now goes further West and Northwest. . The immigration from Germany in 1882 was 250,C30;in 1883 it was 194,780, while in 1888 it fell off to 100,717. Immigration from Ireland was 76,433 in 1883, against 81,480 in 1883, and 73,513 in 1888. It is probable that each successive enumera tion hereafter in this city and State will show a relative increase of native-born over foreign-born voters. Foreign immigration is not likely to increase in the future, and as tho sons of those who have immigrated in past years come to manhood they will help swell the list of native voters. There are indications of approaching trouble for American boodlers and refugees from justice in Canada. Under tho Canadian Constitution . any act of the provincial Parliament may bo vetoed by the imperial government within two years after its passaged jln order to as certain the attitude, pf the homo gov ernment towards the Weldon extradition act, passed at tho last session of the Canadian Parliament, it has been sent to London for concurrence or otherwise. If approved, as it is almost 6urc to be, it will be carried into effect immediately, and will make nearly all tho American boodlers now in Canada subject to sur render. Tho Canadian authorities, in citing reasons why the. act was passed and should be enforced, say: "Tho enor mous increase of commerce in the United States has brought with it a correspond ing increase of commercial crime, and in the principal Canadian cities and towns are now to be found fugitives from United States law whose presence exerts a vicious influence upon Canadian citizens with whom they associate." It is not very gratifying to American prido to have the contaminating presence of our rascals in Canada cited as a reason for purgative legislation. . Among the funniest things in Governor Hill's funny veto of tlel Crosby-Curtis excise oiii is tnat it ountro coniain several provisions that it clos ;not. Ordinary Governors veto measures because of what they say, not because of what they leave unsaid. The books of tho New York Liquor League show that that association appropriated $300,000 toward the election of Governor Hill. Figures presented at tho. late meeting K ... of the Brewers' Association; at Niagara Falls, seem to indicate that a large part of the American people are industri ously engaged in swelling the consump tion of beer. Statistics of internal rev enue receipts from this 6ource show that from a little over $1,500,000 in 18G3, they exceeded $5,000,000 in 1860, reached $10,000,000 and moro by 1879, passed tho fifteen-million-dollar point in 1882, and mounted to nearly $23,000,000 for the year 1887-6. The quantity represented increased from 2,006,635 barrels, or 62,-

205,375 gallons, in 1863, to more than 10,000,000 barrels in 1878 and 24,680,219 in

1888. In view of these figures it is not surprising that British capitalists should want to own American breweries. A corner on the American appetite for beer would be the biggest bonanza on record. TriE energy displayed by the mana gers of the Cambria Iron Company is characteristic of American enterprise, and in all respects admirable. Notwithstanding their tremendous losses and the destruction of their entire plant the officers say tho works will be in full blast before the 4th of July, and tho way they are working shows they mean it. This will do much to encourage others, and gives assurance of employment and wages to several thousand men within a month. This company has always dealt kindly and liberally with its workmen, providing comforta ble buildings, a free library, readingrooms, night schools and contributing to their welfare in many ways. It is en titled to the best wishes of the public. Will the Louisville Courier-Journal and the New York Sun accept the kindly offices of tho Journal as a mediator? Something must bo done, and that very 6oon, or the ardent desires of Congress man Randall will never be realized they will never get together, much less dwell together in unity, as the Scriptures say is pleasant. Thus, the CourierJournal says: "We do not know what Democrats were so extreme as to advo cate free trade." Whereupon the Sun enlightens the C.-J. as follows: "Every Democrat voted for free trade who supported Grover Cleveland in 1888." The Sun goes on to name some of them Henry Watterson, Samuel J. Randall, and so on. This looks like a poor beginning towards getting together. Tho Journal could make some valuable sug gestions, but it will not until assured that its suggestions would be received in the spirit of brotherly kindness in which they would be offered. It has no notion of meeting with the fate of tho foolish man who cast pearls before a certain animal and got badly treated for his attempted kindness. Leonakd Swett, who died in Chicago on Saturday, was one of the most widely known men in the country. He was born near Turner, .Me., Aug. 11, 1825; was edu cated at North Yarmouth Academy and at Watcrvillo (now Colby) University, but was not graduated. He read law at Port land, enlisted as a soldier in the Mexican war, and at its close, in 184S, settled in Bloomington, 111. He traveled the circuit in fourteen counties, and was an intimate friend of Abraham Lincoln and David Davis. In 18C5 he removed to Chi cago. In 1852-61 ho took an active part in politics, canvassiug the State several times, and in 1S58, at the special re quest of Mr. Lincoln, was a candidate for the Legislature on the Republican ticket, and was elected by a large majority. This was the only official place he ever held. At the Chicago convention of I860. Mr. Swett made the nominating speech for Abraham Lincoln for President. After Mr. Lincoln's election, Mr. Swett was emplo3'cd on the trial of government cases, one of the most noted of which was that for the acquisition of the California quicksilver mines in 1SG3. In tho course of his practice, Mr. Swett defended twenty men indicted for murder, securing tho acquittal of nineteen and a light punishment for tho other one. Ho was retained in criminal causes in nearly every part of the country, though his professional work was mainly devoted to civil suits. His remarkable success was due to his careful personal attention to de tails and to his eloquence as an advocate. Ho rendered much gratuitous service to workingmen, servants and other poor cli ents. He delivered the oration at the un veiling of the statue of Abraham , Lincoln in Chicago, Oct. 22, 18S7, and at the Chicago Republican convention, in June, 1S8S, in an eloquent speech, ho nominated Judge Wal ter Q. Gresham as a candidate for the presi dency. A few years ago Mr. Swett caused quite a sensation in Chicago society by marrying a young lady who had been for some time engaged as clerk and stenogra pher in his law office. This lady survives him. TriE suggestion relative to a relocation of the postoffice building is worthy of consid eration if not too late. Looking to tho futuro growth of the city, the present loca tion is not as central or convenient as two squares further north on Pennsylvania street would be. The present building is entirely devoid of architectural beauty. and is antiquated and inconvenient in its arrangements. No amount of patching or repairing can make it either in appearance or reality such a building as the govern ment ought to have here. A line, modern structure on the southwest corner of Penn sylvania and New York streets, looking north on University square, would be a great addition to the city, and would expedite tho movement of business in that direction. The future growth of the city will be mainlynorthward, and the move ment of business will be in tho same direc tion. Twenty-live or thirty years hence the center of population will be at least as far north as University square, and busi ness will have taken a long step in the same direction. Long before that time the pres ent government building, with all its patching and repairing, will have become anti quated, and a new one will have become a necessity. It would be wise policy and good economy for the government to anticipate that condition now. We do not believe President Harrison would veto a bill providing for the erection of a new government building here. Is consumption hereditary? Most physicians cf tho old school and a large major ity of laymen would answer unhesitating ly, yes. From time out of mind that has been the common and accepted theory, and whole families can be cited to prove it. But modern science says no. Tho micros copists and bacteriologists claim to have discovered that tuberculosis, or consumption, is infectious, but not hereditary, and that it is acquired by the direct transmis sion of the tubercle-bacillus, or disease germ, from the sick to the healthy. The disease, they say, may be communicated from a parent to his or her children, and from one member of a family to another by close contact and association, but not by heredity. The pathologists of the New York Board of Health have adopted this theory, and it seems likely to become an accepted view of medical science. Senator Edmunds has an article in the June number of the Forum, in which he suggests ten rules or reforms which the country needs, if it is to escape the perils which are threatening it Briefly stated, they are as follows: 1 . Imrroved registration laws: 2. nure elections and secret ballot; 3 and 4, an honest count and full publication of election expenses; 5, legal ad-

indication of election disputes; 6, punishment of llegal voiiiic, bribery or attempts to bribe; 7,

more smnvent quauncation ior jurors; 8. oaths irom an voters tnat tuey nave not been bribed or attempted to bribe others; 9, a large limitation oi me innux or rorelcmer and of naturalization; and 10. the thorough education of children in their future political duties, each child to be especially taught that "his own onlnion the best effort of his mind and heart is the sole true guiae for mm; ana tnat, in spite of corrupt temptations, or the blare of trumpets, or the flame of torches, or the excitement of contents or victory of one party over another, hia mission is to follow the liffht that his knowledge and conscience perceive, and not that of any other man." Senator Edmunds has the courage of his convictions on all public questions, and these suggestions are the fruit of wisdom and experience. Orders have been received at the Brook lyn navy-yard for the immediate comple tion of tho steel cruiser Atlanta, and for the cleaning and equipment of the Boston for immediate service. Naval officers think it means a cruise to Hayti. It is said the authorities at Washington fear rioting as a result of Legitime's downfall, and believe that American interests will be great ly jeopardized. The Ossipee is the only American vessel in Haytian waters, and should riot and bloodshed run rife in the island nothing short of a powerful force could save the lives of the foreigners. This, however, is mere conjecture. The cruisers may be ordered to Behring's sea. The New York Herald announces the presence in that city of "justice Horace Gray, of the Supreme Court of the. United States, and his bride, nee Miss Jeannette Matthews." So; was she born with her Christian name attached? ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Ciiauncey Depew takes no stock in the new-fangled theory that marriage is a failure. To a newly-wedded friend he writes: 'To be engaged to the woman vou love is happiness; to marry her is heaven." For some reason or other references to Saul of Tarsus are very popular in the Massachusetts Legislature, and the Boston Herald tells how John Qnincv Adams onco referred to the great aspostle as "tho gen tleman from Tarsus." Mr. Roe, an English member of Parlia ment, met with a singular accident when entering the House a few days ago. He was opening the door with his left hand, and carrying a letter in lus right, when the other half of the door swung against him and forced the corner of the envelope into his eye. Rev. Carrie J. Bartlett, pastor of All Souls' Church at Sioux Falls, South Da kota, has accepted a call to a strong church at Kalamazoo. Miss Bartlett graduated with highest honors at the College of Carthage, 111,, in 1879. She has been a reporter of tho Minneapolis Tribune and city editor of tho Oshkosh Daily Times. Admiral Porter manages to keep two secretaries and his son busy attending to his correspondence, which is very largo, and helping him in his literary work. His workshop is a large, airy room, the walls of which are hung with innumerable pictures and relics, while the wainscoting of the room is a series of low shelves filled with books. Here ho passes the best part of every day, busily at wrork. At Mr. Clifford's lecture at Prince's Hall, London, on "Father Damien and the Leper Settlement at Molokai," Mr. Clifford amused tho audience very much by a description of a Hawaiian chief who came to meet some American missionaries with his nine wives, all being in a state of complete nudity, and who on being remonstrated with on this want of clotning, came tho next day alone wearing a 6traw-hat and a pair of gloves. . Mr. David Laurie, of Glasgow, has refused $10,000 for the famous "Alard" Stradduarius violin, but $12,500 has now been offered on behalf of an American, and tho matter is under consideration. The "Alard" formerly belonged to J. B. Vnillaume, the expert, who gave it to his son-in-law, M. Delphin Alard, violin professor nttbe Paris Conservatoire, who sold it to Mr. Laurie. It is dated 1715, and the only alteration since made is a slight lengthening of the neck. Levi C. McKiNNEYand Miss Mary Black, of Louisville, Ky., were engaged to be married nearly fifty years ago. Soon after their engagement McKinney went to the war with Mexico. When he returned he had not money to begin housekeeping. As the young lady had a good home, they waited. He enlisted in the federal army at tho outbreak of the civil war. but after the war was over was still unable to support a wife. Recently he got back pension of $1,700. He at once hunted up his old love, who was still waiting for hira, and the pair wero married on Wednesday. Dr. John Hall is now sixty years of ago, but looks scarcely fifty. He stands six feet three inches in his stockings, and is built in proportion. By birth, the Doctor is Irish, having come into this world on July 31, 1829. in Couuty Armagh, Ireland. His E areata, however, wero Scotch. He has ad charge of tho Fifth-avenue Presbyterian Church, New York, since 18C7, and looks after the spiritual welfare of tho 2,400 people who go to makeup his congregation. Among them are men famous in American history as lawyers, statesmen and men of affairs. Ex-Senator Jones, formerly of Florida, now of Detroit, writes to the Now York World to say: T desire especially to remind tho conspirators who did all they could to destroy me that I am still in Detroit. In the language of that great Irishman, John Philpot Cnrran. thev may assassinate but they 'cannot intimidate mo.' At the proper time I 6ball speak to my beloved constituency and tell them why I left their service before the expiration of my second term of ofhee in the Senate. The sufferings and persecution that I have borne here, none but God and a few devoted friends have any knowlege of." Signor Verdi has declined a jubilee. Tho Mayor of Milan, alive to the advantages which a crowd brings to a town sadly in need of the money tourists leave after them, had discovered that just fifty years ago Verdi, then in his twenty-fourth year, had produced his first opera at Milan. So there was to be a jubilee and a great Verdi fete. But the composer objected. Ha, had had quite enough of glory. He does not care for these dramatic ovations. His hairs are gray and his ambition satisfied. The good folk of Milan were horribly pnt out at the news. And then they decided that tho Verdi jubilee could go on just as well, whether Verdi liked it or not. It was a fact that "Oberto" was produced in Milan in tho year 1839. The great master's dissent conld not upset that date or prevent his fellowtownsmen especially the tradesmen and hotel-keepers from celebrating the event. But the jubilee, after all, is not to come oft. Boito withdrew from it. The great publishing-house of Ricordi would neither lend its music nor its name. The composer is to be allowed to pass the year peacefully, and the public will sympathize with his victory. '.Standing with reluctant feet. Where tho brook and river meet," Are the pretty graduates Kwect; In their kous of silk and satin. Getting bhcepskins done in Latlji! What a dainty beauty show! And hakes alive! how much they know! Washington Critic. COMMENT AND OPINION. Any measure tending to purify the ballot and head off bribery at the noils would inevitably work in the interest of the Republican party and against the Democracy. Chicago Inter Ocean. The beer trust is a scheme not to oppress American beer-drinkers, but to delude English investors. If it was carried on by American speculators it would be discreditable to this country. As it is to be operated entirely by English schemers, the discredit and the loss both will fall upon the Englishmau. Pittsburg Dispatch. The trust is really another form of the boycott, which has been deservedly forced out of existence by an outraged popular sentiment. As not less objectionable than that in any respect, and mora ho in some of its aspects, tho trust is such a menace to

the welfare of society that it is almost sure to meet tho fate of the boycott at no distant day. Chicago Tribune. "Personal liberty" is a fine phrase, and brewers, distillers, and liquor-sellers generally are "working it" as peculiarly expressive of tho "cause" in which thev are enBaged in resisting restrictive legislation, ut personal liberty cannot be absolute in any civilized community. It is subject to many restrictions in thie interest of the common safety and well-being. New York Times. The rednction of letter postage to 1 cent wonld apply to tho farmers and inhabitants of small towns and villages inst as much as to the inhabitants of free iielivery citie. It is therefore tho most commendable and practicable improvement of the postal service possible to devise. It is the only improvement that can appty to all alike, and it shonld be the first of an important nature to be adopted. Cleveland Leader. The movement of civil-service reform is bound to be always onward, and its march will be irresistible. Mr. Cleveland's defeat was a magnificently impressive lesson of the fate the party leader must expect to experience who. having onco pledged himself to the reform, turns traitor to it. When Senator Blair taks up the Democratic cry and calls for a repeal or a weakening of the civil-service law, he gives his part y advice which it would bo suicide to follow. Boston Journal. The idea behind an intelligent refusal to strike is simply this, that workers have far more power to defend their own interest if t hoy act as individuals than they have if they act as a body, the best and the worst together. That is a revolutionary idea, but it IS true. Its truth is nroved bV tha f art,

that wages have advanced more in occupations in which no strike or organization to promote strikes has existed than inoccupations where the strike has been the chief weapon and defense of workers. New York Tribune. Northern Democrats must comprehend that American citizens trforoughly believe in free and honest elections, anA will not tolerate a party which deliberately undertakes to rob tho people of their right to govern themselves. Because the Democratic party is incapable of understanding these things, and is governed instead by its passions and prejudices, the leaders "who propose a senseless fight are tolerably sure to have their own way. And so the party will go backward and downward, as usual. New York Tribune. THE STATE PEESS. What Its Editors Are Saying About Politics and Other Current News Topics. Lebanon Patriot: It is a burning 6hame that the Indianapolis City Council has not increased the saloon license. Delphi Journal: Let the surplus be poured out to tho soldier. He made that surplus possible. But for him wo would have neither surplus nor country. New Albany Tribune: To get drunk should be universally held and made a dis grace. Nothing would more surely check the drink habit in young men. Owen County Journal: Governor Hovev has been under Democratic fire long enouga to rather enjoy the shots of the enemy which fall harmlessly about him. Hendricks County Republican: Sim Coy is, in reality, the political vicar of the loca'l Democracy of Indianapolis. He suffered for tho crimes of his party. Poor Coy! poor party! Rushville Republican: People who formed an idea that Ben Butlers mildest dissipation was the us of vitriol as a beverage, will be obliged to modify it. Ho chews gum! Liberty Herald: An iron-clad, graduated income-tax law would be popular with the masses, and would have a tendency to abridgo the grasping avarice of wealthy individuals and corporate monopolies. Porter County Vidette: Thero is one trutfc growing up in this country which the Democratic free-trade journal have nothing to say about; it is tho great English syndicate which is buying up all tho brewery establishments. Vincennes Commercial: The Southern Democrats are not very particular as to tho name of the man who is to dictate the machine politics of tho party as chairman of tho national committe. All they insist on is that ho shall be a colonel. Blullton Chronicle: President Harrison has now filled the chair of the chief executive of this Nation a littleover three months. His acts havo been those of an honest, conscientious Christian, approvod by his party and by all fair-minded men. Nothing more could be asked. Green castle Banner: Sim Coy was released from theMichigau City penitentiary, last Saturday, and is now in Indianapolis. Marion county Democrats are delighted. When Sullivan gets back from Canada, they ought to give a banquet in honor of these distinguished criminals. Peru Republican: The May Festival Association of Indianapolis deserves unstinted praise for its enterprise in placing these grand interpretations of the masters beforo the peoplo. The good work, so well begun, should go on. Another festival next year will receivo larger support than this. Warsaw Times: A moro infamous proceeding than the retention of Sim Coy in his place in tho City Council of Indianapolis, has surely never been known in partisan politics. Tho man while serving a term in the penitentiary for forging and altering election returns, actually drew his pay as a member of the City Council of the capital of bis State, and yet the party doing this makes a loud cry for the purity of tho ballot-box. Winchester Herald: Simeon Coy has served eighteen months in the penitentiary and is now at home once more. He has retained his seat as a meraher of the Indianapolis Council all the time, the Democrats refusing to vote him out. He was received fiym the open door of a felon's cell with open arms oy his Democratic brethren, and tney gave a banquet in his honor. He has been in the penitentiary just long enough to make a Democratic hero. Vanity and Sacred Things. Philadelphia Inquirer. ! Great complaint is made by clergymon about the dresses worn by candidates fof confirmation. Protesisare being made on every side. Both in France and England similar remarks are heard, and several bishops have joined the objectors. Tho dresses are so elaborate that young girls present themselves, as hasbeqn said, "rather in the guise of a brido than in tho simple toilet that befits applicants for reception into the church." One minister speaks of the wearing of false pearls by tho poor and satin shoes by the rich. Another describes a dress as "coquettish." A French bishop declares that nothing would distress him more than to have to send a candidate back for wearing showy apparel, but, if necessary, he would doit for tho sake of the example. Some Men Are Honest. Boston Jonrnal. All men aro not dishonest, but some men are, and regulations designed to check and runish their evil propensities are needed, 'olitical committees and candidates who expend campaign funds only for legitimate purposes will not shrink from rendering fair and complete returns of them, and it is nonsenso to nay that they will bo made objects of suspicion, or suiter injustice in any way, by the existence of a law requiring them to render such returns. Four Generations Photographed. Baltimore Sun. Quite a remarkable group was photographed in tho Bed Parlor of the Whits House on Wednesdav. It embraced four generations of tho Harrison familj' the Ilev. Dr. Scott, Mrs. Harrison's father; Mrs. President Harrison, Mrs. McKee, Mrs. Harrison's daughter, and Benjamin Harrison McKee. Several attempts have been made to get a good picture ot tho group, and not until Wednesday was thephotographer successful. Doesn't Surprise Anybody Here. Boston HeraM. It isn't at all surprising to hear that Private Secretary Elijah llalford is proving a worthy and capable successor of CoL Dan . Lamont in tho office of private secretary to the President of the United States. He has all tho Jacksonian qualifications for an otlice-holder. and, besides, he isn't stuck up. Our renewed assurance to Elijah! Comfort for JLUsourl Democrats, fit. Louis Globe-Democrat It will comfort the Bourbon patriots ot Missouri to know that a negro was sold at auction in Pike county, last Tuesday. They have not had so much to encourage them for many a day.