Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 June 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1880.

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Deering, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. IT. IDUIB Urlon News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. C.-PJft-gs House and Ehbltt Hona. Johnstown Relief Fund. The following is a complete statement, showing receipts and disbursements to date: Receipts. Received June 3 $470.25 KeceivedJune4 459.80 Received June 5 279.00 Beceived June 0 47.50 Beceived Juno 7 100.00 Beceived June 8 206.75 Beceived June 10 .... 239.81 Beceived J uno 11 250.75 Beceived June 12 104.50 Keceived Juno 14 5.00 Beceived June 15 50.25 Yesterday's Receipts, Vermillion Lodge, No. 594, 1. O. O. F.. Newport, Ind. $10.00 Newport Lodge. 'o. 209, F. & A.M., Newport 10.00 Ladies Aid Society, M.E.Church, Newport. iS.OO Peak bisters, Newport o.OO Sharp Brothers, ewport COO Look-up Lepion. Newport....... l.OO Citizens of Newport 36.35 73.35 Total $2,292.96 Disbursements. June 4 Remitted to Wm. McCreery, chairman relief fund. Pitts ourg, V $800.00 June 5 Remitted as above 300.00 June 8 Remitted a3 above.... 300.00 June 11 Remitted as above... 575.00 June 14 Remitted as above... 194.362,169.36 Balance for next remittance $123.60 Pixkerton detectives are searching for the man who first warned Dr. Cronin of his impending fate. He is said to be a book agent. Has anybody seen a book agent? Governor Hill, of New York, has made a fine record as a reformer. He has vetoed high license, liquor taxation, ballot reform, the Woman's Reformatory, and compulsory education. What kind of support is ho bidding for, anyhow? On Saturday a Louisville judge de tected two police court "shysters" in a disreputable scheme of malpractice, and rtfter reading them a severe lecture sent both of them to jail for fifteen days. A little of that heroic practice is needed In other cities besides Louisville, In Ohio they have no off years in poli tics. Tho pressure is always on. Just now they are getting ready to elect a Governor, and tho number of candidates already announced indicates an abundant growth of gubernatorial timber. Any good Republican ought to bo able to fill the bill. TnE Boston Globo 6ays it does not pignify anything that Jefferson was a free-trader. It says: "Tho Democratic party has changed somewhat since Jefferson's time." We should say so; but what wo want to know now is, is the Democratic party of to-day a free-trad Tarty? Tho New York Sun says it is, and the Louisville Courier-Journal says it is not. It will save tho Journal a world of trouble if they will "get to gether.7' They wish they hadn't said it, tho New York Post and the Times, and such mugwumpian papers do. Tho President removed tho Democratic post master at Yineland, but did not car to assign reason for it out of respect to the man's family, but as those papers want to know, you know, the President says it was because ho was short in his ac:ounts and a Democratic inspector recommended it. That is tho kind of a :ivil-servico reformer the President is. The Democratic party has "got to gether." It met and harmonized on Colonel Brico -as chairman of tho na tional committee a devout Cleveland roan with protective-tariff proclivities. It was the $100,000 that he gave last year to campaign boodle purposes that did it, and now tho wholo party sings all together, "Blest bo tho tio that binds," etc., meaning, of course, Colonel Brice's $100,000. We mean all but tho New York World. It is making shock ing discord about it. Two interesting elections will occur this week, both involving tho ouestion of prohibition. In Pennsylvania, to morrow, tho people will vote on a proposed prohibitory amendment to tho Constitution, and on Thursday those of Rhode Island will vote on tho question of striking it out of the Constitution. Rhode Island has had prohibition three years, and tho question is now on abol ishing it, while Pennsylvania, which has not yet tried it, has to deal with the ex perimental phase of the question. Tho indications are that prohibition will bo defeated in both States. . The Journal is pleased that Colonel Edgiuton, of Memphis, has submitted a plan for the adjustment of the race question. The question has to be adjusted, and it is in order to make propositions. Wo cannot say that we aro thoroughly convinced that his plan is tho best ad justment possible, but it shows that tho question is a live one, and that even Colonel Edginton is thinking about it. Without committing the Journal to it. "wo eive it. as follows: Limit the colored vote of each town, city, county, district and State to one-tenth the white vote,

and let tho colored pcoplo select from

among their number this one-tenth. That has several advantages over tho present method. It contains about tho present relative number of colored voters, but it makes tho disfranchisement of tho other nine-tenths legal. It will not be diflicult to put this plan in operation, onco tho people fall in with it. But will they fall in? SALARIES AMD TAIE3. Tho new law of New York requir ing all employers on State work to pay $2 for eight hours work 2o cents per hour has another side to it. It may bo all well enough for thoso who receive such wages, but who has to pay thein? The popular notion is that tho State Treasury is inex haustible; that it is constituted by con tributions extorted from millionaires by tax levies; that it is solely for the bene fit of "laboring men," and that any de vice by which it may be preyed upon is to bo commended. It is not enough that every wan who is concerned in the handling of these public moneys, from tho assessor to tho highest officer con nected with the government, should bo paid from two to ten times as much as he could earn in tho labor market, but the Stato of New York has now decreed, by law, that tho least skilled of her em ployes shall share in this plunder. But at whoso expense is it? Not one-tenth of tho revenue of any State is gath ered from tho rich, unless wo assume that any man who has any thing to pay taxes on is rich. The truth in this matter cannot bo ascertained by even a careful inspection of tho treasurer's books. The cold figures do not reveal it. Theso may show that A is assessed at $10,000, and B at $1,000, but they do not show that A is probably paying interest on $9,000, and that the taxes, in addition to the interest, are a burden ho can bear with difficulty. Mrs. C is assessed ou real and personal $5,000, but the books do not show that she, too, is paying interest to tho loan asso ciation, and that tho wants of a largo family of helpless children must be supplied, though tho home go to tax salo. Somo valuable lessons might bo learned by studying those who visit the collector's office the six weeks, and especially the six days, immediately preceding the last day for paying taxes, and especially by studying the delinquent list every year. It will be seen that a large ma jority of tax-payers are comparatively poor, and that their contributions to the fund from which men no better than themselves draw more than twice tho amount they themselves can earn for like services are made at tho greatest possible sacrifice. Men who were once "laboring men," but who by diligence and economy have become "bloated capitalists," owning little homes, though yet mortgaged to the loan association, are compelled to pay tho taxes from which tho money is filched to pay these largo salaries and extravagant wages. That is the other side of this question, and it is a side that will yet be heard from. Low taxes and high salaries and high wages do not go together. EOBEET SMALLS. The appointment of Hon. Robert Smalls as collector of customs at Beaufort, S. C, is another recognition by the President of a representative colored man. It also illustrates time's revenges, which are often instructive, as well as interesting. In 1801 Robert Smalls, then twenty-two years old, was work ing as a 6lave in the South Carolina' coasting trade. Born in Beaufort, on the coast, he took to the water and be came a sailor. When the war broke out ho was employed as a pilot on a steamer that plied in Charleston harbor. Ho was in a position to hear the Southern gentlemen of that day discuss politics, and by keeping his eyes and ears open picked up some knowledge of the merits of the great controversy then about to culminate in war. He was probably an eye-witness to many of tho proceedings attending tho firing on Fort Sumter, the subsequent surrender of tho fort, the rejoicing in Charleston, and the outbreak of the military spirit. It is probable that during this period Robert Smalls, like tho traditional owl, did not say much but kept up a great thinking. Ho stood at his wheel while the storm raged around him. "Tho Planter," of which he was pilot, plied in and out of Charleston harbor, and to all appearances Smalls was a faithful adherent of the Southern Confederacy. But appearances are sometimes deceitful. The negro countenance is immobile and hard to read. Smalls was not so harmless as ho looked. In fact, he was full of dynamite and liable to go off at any time. When the time came ho did go off and took his steamer with him. In May, 1802, having a full head of steam on, and not having the fear of Jeff Davis in his heart or before his eyes, Smalls ran his steamer over Charleston bar and delivered her to the commander oi tho United States blockading squadron. This act was a revelation to tho Southern people. It had never occurred to them that a colored man and slave could no anything so heroic. They had regarded them as petty thieves, addicted to tho stealing of chickens and hams, but hero was one who had stolen a steamer. More than that, he had stolen himself and had delivered steamer and himself to the government authorities. There was a dead loss to tho Confed eracy of one steamer and one able-bod-icdjhegro. Smalls was a bold, bad man, and had set a dangerous precedent. If other negroes should imitate his exam ple there was no telling where it might end. But Smalls had dissolved part nership with tho Confederacy, and was not troubling himself about what his late masters thought of him. Ho was employed as a pilot in the United States navy; promoted captain for gallant and meritorious conduct in 16G3, placed in command of his old steamer "The Planter," and served till she was put out of ; commission in 18G0. Returning to Beaufort, he engaged in politics. Circumstances had given him a prejudice against the Democracy, and ho became one of the Republican pioneers in South Carolina. After serving several terms in the State Legisla ture, he was elected to Congress in 1874,

and, with tho exception of ono term, served continuously till 18. Ho would be in Congress now had he not been defeated by flagrant frauds and counted out of his seat. In appointing him collector at Beaufort the President has conferred a deserved honor on ono of tho most remarkable colored men in tho South. There is some difference between Bob Smalls, the slave pilot of 1801, and Hon. Robert Smalls, collector of customs

in 18S9. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal; Yon .iv flirt nnl i rv n f thn nflmirt5frirT should be to allow all persons appointed ana commissioned lor lour years to serve ont their full terms. What, nlinnld h i rnlo in cases of appointment early in May, 1883, taking possession of tho ollice and rei i i . , ceiving me emoluments, out; nor connrmed hv the Senate for almost, a rear afterward? Shall they bo allowed to serve livo years, or only four, as contemplated by the appointment? Justice. LooANsroRT, Ind. As a rule, wo think an incumbent's term should dato from the time of his taking possession of the office. The number of appointments which aro confirmed by the Senate is small compared with the number of those not requiring confirmation. The tendency of tho Sen ate was to enlarge the number in order to increase its control over patronage. Originally all postmasters wcro appointed by the President solely, just as fourthclass postmasters are now. An appointmctt to office really begins when the President names the incumbent, and the four years' term 6hould dato from that time. So long as manufacturers can have tariff laws to enhance the price of their products, it is reckoned as proper, but as soon as a law enhances the price of a laboring man's product to-wit, his day's work, like the two-dollar-a-day law just passed in New York then we aro told that tho foundation of things is being unsettled. Indianapolis News. Come, now, be honest. Do you really believe such a law is wise, and would you favor its enactment in Indiana? Do not dodge the question by saying you are in favor of everything that will tend to improve tho condition of labor and laborers. So is everybody. But we want to know if you really believe tho price of a day's labor can and ought to be fixed by law. If you do not honestly and sincerely believe that, then the paragraph quoted above is simply demagogism. The editor of the Evansville Courier, replying to questions of tho St. Louis Republic relative to its choice for President in 1802, intimates a preference for a Western man, and adds: But we must not forget that while Grover Cleveland's habitat is in New York city, ho is really a citizen of tho Nation. He is as good an Indiana Democrat as the best, and if the national convention should conclude to renominate him in 1S92 he may be jcredited to Indiana if New York docs not have the prido and confidence that the Democracy of every other State in the Union feels in his leadership. It is probably true that Grover Cleveland "is as good an Indiana Democrat as the best," but that is not rating' him very high on the roll of statesmanship. As to crediting him to Indiana, the Republicans would like to be heard on that question. Brazil will not suffer from the advertising recently given her. That ..prosperous city is not responsible for the strike. She promptly asserted hen ability to care for her poor when slanderous lies regarding her chief industry . we,re . first started by free-trade organsBrazil is developing rapidly as an iron manufacturing and railroad center. The Journal published, on May 31, an 'elaliorate paper and map, fully setting ifortU her advantages as the center of Indiana's coal fields, from our regular corresftondlent. A Chicago ready-print house, supplying hundreds of county papers in tho West and Northwest, has reproduced the article verbatim, map and all. a" This is a good advertisement, and itsrfacts are reliable. . . It may not bo amiss to remark,' that this 17th of Juno is the anniversary-of tho battle of Bunker Hill. Wo ;havo had many bigger fights eince, but, that was a very important one in its day. . It gave the Revolutionary patriots a tasto of blood, and showed them they need not be afraid to meet British regulars. Though a technical defeat, in that tho Americans were driven off tho hill' and their position captured, it had all the moral effect of a victory, and the British loss was more than double that of the Americans. Bunker Hill monument is not misplaced. Thk fiddlers of Decatur county, Indiana, havo formed an organization, with a membership of more than two hundred. To be able to fiddle is the only qualification for membership. Any man, woman or child who can turn a simple tune on the violin may become a member, but otherwise neither pedigree, wealth nor political influence can secure admission. It is proposed to have a fiddlers' tournament a sort of 6craping match, as it were at which the programme will include, among other numbers, such time-honored melodies as the "Wild Horse," "Devil's Dream," "Arkansaw Traveler," "Leather Breeches, Full of Stitches." "Jennie, Put the Kittle on. We'll All Take Tea," "Such 'Nother Gittin' Up Stairs You Never Did See," "Washerwoman," "Puncheon," "The Campbells Aro Coming," etc. If there are 200 fiddlers in Decatur county able to play one or all of these tunes, the horrible question arises, how many are there in Indiana? ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. It is said that John Bright's papers will be treated as Lord Beaconsfield's have been, withheld from publication during tho lifetime of the Queen. "Old Tecumseh" Sherman is authority for the statement that every year the girls at West Point get prettier, and that such has been the case for fifty years. Iiia D. Saxkey, the sweet singer, has decided to settle down after his travels. Ho has boueht some thirty acres of beautifully situated land at a point between Scatuck river and Little Seatuck creek. Long Island, where he will build a handsome residence. A FUTURE Scotch earl is at the plow somewhere in Dakota. James Sinclair, clerk of peace of Aberdeenshire, and a very distant cousin of the young Earl of Caithness, who died suddenly a fortnight ago, is found to be the heir to the title, ono of the oldest in Scotland. The new nobleman, now sixteenth earl, is sixty-two years of age, and has four sons. The eldest of these, as heir to tho earldom, becomes Lord Berriedale, and he has been farming for some years in Dakota. . At the close of the banquet recently tendered to him in Paris, at which many appreciative speeches were made. M. Jules fcimon said: "It seems as though I had just been present, like the Emperor with whoso

story you aro acquainted, at my own funeral, and I now know what my friends will say over my grave." An uncommon scene w;;- witnessed recently in tho streets of Tho Rev. Churchill Julius, archdea i that city, onco a famous Oxford atli! ! and a hardworking Liverpool ch?ru. man, caught a rufiian beating his wife, iio soized tho brute, overpowered him after a struggle, and personally marched him oil to the lock-up. The oldest university in the world, the ono at Bologna, Italy, has taken kindly to the newest idea in education a female professor by appointing La Dottoressa Giuseppina Cattani lecturer on pathology. Large audiences listen whenever she speaks. A beautiful face as well as a pretty name is hers, and this may account for somo of her popularity. It was in tho Swedish Rigsdad, when the Socialist law was under consideration, Mr. Gumaliiis. tho Radical leader, tried to defend his Socialist predilections with tho stale cry, "Christ himself was a Socialist." 'Yes," replied Mr. Beskow, tho court chaplain, "but with a difference. He said, 'What is mine is thine,' but you say What is thine is mine.' " The late Dr9. Gago and Burton, of Hartford, were . both genial and fun-loving clergymen. Ono of Dr. Gage's lectures had proved to be less attractive than the others, and on its second repetition it had become a 'chestnut," ana did not "draw." Many persons left. When Dr. Gago was relating to Dr. Burton his experience with a burglar, he said, "Why, Doctor, I had him down ilat on his back; I held him there; ho couldn't move an inch." "What a splendid opportunity." retorted Dr. . Burton, "that was, Gage, to have delivered to him your lecturo on 'Palestine.' " When the Bishop of Edinburg was in this country he visited Bishop Williams, of Connecticut, at Middletown. Habited in the English Episcopal costume of knee breeches and black silk stockings, he alighted from the train, and was at once accosted by Bishop Williams, although the two men had never met each other before. "Tell me," asked Bishop Williams, after the first greetings, "how did you know me?" "Oh, by your face," replied his lordship of Edinburg. "I have one of your photographs, you know. But tell me in return how you knew me." "Oh, by your legs," replied Dr. Williams, glancing with an amused smile at the well-turned calves of his guest. The head master of Clifton College, England, has for some years eot a problem in applied mathematics of some cognate subject for competition among public schoolboys. The last problem set may exercise the ingenuity of readers: "Prove that four colors are sufficient for the coloring of any map on a plane or a sphere, so as to insure that no two conterminous areas shall have the same colors." To give a satisfactory mathematical proof of this fact had puzzled the heads of the best geometricians; but the Bishop of London sent a complete solution to Mr. Wilson, with the following characteristic letter: "I wrote inclosed at an evening meeting of the f while a vehement was saying what' I did not ' caro to hear."

COMMENT AND OPINION. Our public schools are the very essence of democracy in distinction from aristocracy, and must always and in every wav ibe maintained on that basis. It is the , glory and safety of our free institutions if hat the light of intelligence and the facilities for education ate brought within jreach of all. Chicago Inter Ocean. Let the rising generation be taught how to honor tho flag, to love it, to invest it with all the romance and history that it 'suggests, andvto cherish, as one of the lasting utterances of the civil war. General Dix's immortal order: "If any man attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot!" New York Mail and Express. :n We can tolerate almost anything in this 'country, and we have no. objection to tho inere secrecy of organizations. But when any body of men claim for themselves the 'right of murder, and actually proceed to the commission of that crime, the public j'should stop in, sweep the whole concern into the bottomless pit and havo done with ;it. New York Herald. - No sentiment can enter into the Nation's attempt to wipe out barbarism. Ii the In,dian cannot survive civilization he will have to go. No 6uch sickly sentimental policy as has been enforced in the past cen tury will ever make a good citizen out of him. The Indian has rights which should ,be respected, but they are not thoso usually attributed to him. Philadelphia Inquirer. j. It is the prayer of all the friends of right and justice and fairness that she Ireland may bo emancipated irom the bonds which havo so long distressed and humiliated her; but the secret societies which profess to bo I doing so much for her are in reality making enemies ior ner wnere sue mignt otherwise have friends, and thus postponing instead of hastening the time of her triumph. ( St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Tiieuk is ample reason whv Eastern ','xnoney should seek investment in Western f farm lands. The Western farmer is driving ' Al- x r i yi kuo jjUHieru laiuiei uut ui uusiuess. vjrarden truck is the most valuable crop which the fanners of Kow York Stato can raise. The great agricultural districts, the wheat and corn-raising sections, are in the West, and as tho years go by the supremacy of the Western farmer wi 11 be more and more apparent. Kansas City Journal. But better than, any set observance is that feeling of patriotic respet that will honor the stars and stripes at all times and on all occasions. Teach the children to love the flag of their fathers. Exhort all classes to cherish the free institutions over which it waves. And then, ou not one day, but on all days the glorious flag of tho Union will be the living witness of the patriotism and the loyalty of the grandest nation on the globe. Iowa State .Register. The North American Indian is a savage. He has the propensities of a tiger, is more dangerous, and less cleanly. The peoplo hanged an exemplary number of the wretches in 1S63 thirty-two, at Mankato. That lesson ought to have served an aborigine, who draws his living from the larder of his captors. Tho Indian question is now reaching that stage where toilers are asking why they should support an Indian when they may have a just cause for hanging him. Chicago Herald. Be they labor agitators. Southern Democrats, or Irish revolutionists, in this country they must obey the laws or expect no mercy. The Mollie Maguire murders in Pennsylvania ended in executions. It is tho standing disgrace of the country that political murders at tho South have not yet been so punished. But for all offenders of this class, be the pretext or motive what it may, American civilization demands an impartial trial, and, after conviction, no mercy. New York Tribune. THE STATE PRESS. What the Editors of County Papers Are Saying About Topics of Current Interest Monticello Herald: Tho reception and banquet tendered to Sim Coy by his Democratic brethren at Indianapolis was calculated to make Hoosiers blusn for their commonwealth. Rush ville Republican: A New York paper, discussing Mr. Voorhees's political utterances, 6avs "he ignores facts." Ont here Mr. Voorhees's inveracities are characterized much more briefly. " Delphi Journal: The Democratic press announces that Grover Cleveland's recent address in New York deserves to rank among the classics. It has been the experience of a great manj' people that certain classics constitute mighty dry reading. Muucie News: For a nation without "professional diplomates," as Europe is so fond of constantly pointing out to us, we seem to. have done very well indeed at the Berlin conference. We got all we asked, and no "professional diplomate" codld do more. Middletown News: Those who said Harrison tould not be President if elected. but wcpld be as "clay in the potters' hands," are every day being convinced of their mistake. Harrison is President, and to no one is ho permitting himself to be subordinated. Logansport Journal: The law requires that all indictments shall be found on the consent of at least twelyo members of the grand jury, and signed in the presence of the jury; out Bailey appears to nave been a law unto himself, using usurped power and opportunity to wreak personal and political revengca, and manufacture parti

san capital. A moro infamous uso of tho ollice of the public prolocutor of crime has never been made in this or any other country. Hartford City Time: Tho controversy that arose between the Legislature and Governor Hovey will be settled on correct principles if it stays settled. Tho Constitution of the Stato undoubtedly contemplated the tilling of executive appointments by the executive, not by the General Assembly. Winchester Herald: If Indianapolis, with her schools and churches, with her intelligent people, with her church-going community, cannot throttle the liquor power, wo may as well make an assignment of this government to a whisky syndicate and permit them to take charge of and run the machinery of the Republic in their own lawles and ruinous way. Lafayette Courier: The cities of America, as a rule, aro controlled by the criminal classes of society, and tho fault is with the so-called respectable elements that stay away from the primaries and polls through fear of contamination, and leave the selection of candidates and public officials to bummers and ward-heelers, whose only concern in a government of any kind is to "stand in" with the division of plunder.

AT THE PARIS EXPOSITION. Queer People One Meets In Wandering About the Huge Building. Correspondence Boston Journal. Some of the most impressive figures to be met in the Exposition aro the Arab sheiks whom one meets wandering from place to place. There were a couple to-day in this hall of machinery, grandly shaped, with the lino heads and faces of antique statues; towering above the heads of their fellowmen, aud looking taller for the picturesque wrappings of soft white wool which fall like draperies about them. Out of the hood of the great burnous their delicately cut features looked like a mask of deep copper, and their eyes looked on the wonders about them with an impassibility as great as if they had indeed heen cast in metaL The motion and awful strength of. these silent revolving wheels, the still more awful rumble of the hidden cogs and flanges under ground, the mysteries which were being constantly performed before them, moved them no more than the air they breathed or the sun shining above them. Phlegmatic Germans aud Englishmen become almost animated with surprise and pleasure; mercurial Frenchmen and 'Americans fairly babbled with exr citement; but this lonely pair, without a word or even a glance exchanged between them, watched these uncomprehended marvels as if they were sights to which they had been accustomed all their lives. What magic can there be in the wild, free air of the desert to transfigure their faces and figures with the magnificence of passion and action with which Schreyer has made us familiar? Or is it but the poet's soul which has cast its own reflection over the features of his creation, and on the sands of the desert, as in the streets of Paris, is the impassive Arab still a statue of copper? A figure as dazzling as these were impassive passed by at the same time. It was a Turk, clothed as the great Haroun Al Raschid might havo been when he gavo audience to some Persian potentate. A long inner robe of pale blue silk, embroidered in gold until it was like a plate of carved metal, fell to the feet, which were cased in pointed slippers of red leather, also richly decorated. A soft sash of some marvelous gauzy iahrio was wound in voluminous fold about the broad waist; a mantle in alternate fine 6tripes of dull amber and blue satin, shot with fine threads of silver, dropped in straight full folds to the hem of the inner skirt; a short square jacket of black velvet, open in front and edged with golden sequins, made an odd break of color; and a cap, half fez, half turban, of a gorgeously woven stuff, was pushed well back from the lightly bronzod forehead. It was like the Arabian Nights to watch this bit of the East and of tho past in the metropolis of western Europe and tho present. But is not all this belonging to the Arabian Nights, with wonders and glories of which Scheherezado never dreamed gathered from the realms of fancy into those of reality? . Among the 200,000 people who every fine day fill the avenues leading to tho Champ de Mars with the costumes and colors, the faces and voices of every nation on tho face of tho earth, numbers of these picturesque combinations make themselves visible from hour to hour. The city is already 60 cosmopolitan that the most bizarre dress or tho strangest specimens of humanity draw but a passing glance or an expressive shrug, where otherwise they would cause crowds to gather. Justnow tho numberless French colonies of Tonkin, India, Algiers, Batavia and Guinea have sent so many official representatives chosen from native troops and workmen, that the eft'ect is peculiarly brilliant, A building has been erected in the court of the Military School for the reception of these, as well as other foreign soldiers, and those who have been allowed to visit it havo found one of the most interesting portions of the great exhibition. Each little group lives wholly according to the customs of their own conntry. In- the midst of this Camp Ex0110110,' as it is called, are tho twenty-eight soldiers and tho o officers in chargo of the United States exhibit, who the newspapers declare have gained the admiration of their European comrades by their line bearing under arms and their extreme neatness." A CAMPAIGN AGAINST LEARNING. How "tho Scourge of Russia Hampered the People. New York Tribune. The death of Count Demetrius Tolstoi, whom Stepniak long ago named "the Scource of Russia." removes from contem poraneous history its most remarkable acachronism. The simple fact that such a man has lived, and during the last ten years has exercised a dominant influence over tho policy of the government and the destinies of the people, reveals as fully as a volume could the deplorable condition of Russia and the magnitude of the revolution that must some day be brought about. Hero was a ruling statesman who deliberately strovo to dehumanize a nation, to uneducate it, to abolish its literature and abuse its intelligence, to say to a peo?le who wcro like "an infant crying in he night, an infant crying for the light," that they should have no light, but must remain forever in darkness. It was one of the crowning infamies of Africau slavery in America that it denied to its victims the richt to learn to read, lest they should aspire to freedom. This Russian statesman said, in effect, to his millions of countrymen that they should not learn even to read the literature of their own land, lest education should antagonize czarism. Tho war of the Russian government against education began in the reign of Alexander I, and was vigorously pressed bv the reactionary Nicholas, who put every college under military control. Alexander II showed a more liberal spirit, and not only extended the scope of learning, but greatlv increased the number of schools of all kinds throughout the empire. In 1S0C, however, an attempt to take his life was made by a student, and it was discovered that disaffection was widespread and still moro widely spreading throughout tho universities, whereupon the Czar revived the worst repressive measures of the former reigns. Institutions of learning were suppressed and their faculties exiled, and in the schools that remained open tho policeman was substituted for tho teacher and the bayonet for the ferule. Tho fitting agent chosen to execute this system was Count Demetrius Tolstoi, and his hand fell heavily everywhere, from tho primary village school to the highest university. "The less people know," he said, "the more easily are they governed." Accordingly, the study of his tory, save in Greek and Roman classics, was prohibited, and from the classic textbooks all passages relasting to popular rights and freedom were expunged. The studv of geography, save that of Russia itself, was forbidden; "its tendencies aro dangerous," wrote Count Tolstoi; "it suggests conflicting conclusions and gives rise " to useless reasoning." The 6tudy of Russian literature was also interdicted on like grounds, and, indeed, all branches of learning, save Greek and Latin, were cither proscribed or hopelessly discouraged. And the study of Latin ana Greek was confined almost exclusively to the driest possible grammatical exercises. Instead of reading Homer, they read the lexicon; instead of reading Cicero, they committed to memory paces of unrelated words and phrases. The number of schools was correspondingly reduced, until in Moscow, for example, where there were 10,000 children between tho aires of five and thirteen years, there was schoolroom for only 7.ooo. in an empire with over a hundred million inhabitants, the annual appropriations for public instruction and all instruction must bo public are onlv $10,000,000. or 10 cents per capita. This is the old story of screwing down

tho safclv-vnlvo to prevent tbo escape of steam. Tho system was relaxed a trifle in the first years of Alexander IIP reign, but i now an severe as ever. Tho government aims to withhold all education lrom tho people so far ns poMl-, especially everything approximating to lil.tial education. Wherever education must be granted it it confined strictlj to the aristocratic elastics. And when tho privilege of learning something is conceded, care is taken to make tho instruction as barren and as profitless as possible. Everything is done to discourage attendance at high-schools. Heavy taxes are levied upon t lie students; they are constantly Mibjected to annoying surveillance, and they arc in danger ol being arrested at any time, as "suspects." A youth once arrested under suspicion of disloyalty, no matter how clearly his innocence may ho proven, nor how triumphant his acquittal may be, is forever after debarred from becoming a Rtudent at any school in the empito. It is true that the chief exponent and executor of this infamous regime was some years ago nominally retired from the ministry of public instruction, but as Minister of the Interior he continued to be tho Czar's most potent adviser, and the shackles which hw had forged rere not removed from the schools of Jv.nti. Now that heisdead.it remains t n whether tho evil that he did 18 to ' after him. or whether the Czar will c treasuring up wrath against a day of po jiar judgment, and will allow the nation to enter paths of cntclle-ctual enlargement and social freedom. A WOMANLY ELIJAH.

Crowds Flock to near Mrs. Van Cott rreach Methodism in St. Paul. fit Paul Globe. Mrs. Maggie Van Cott (the lady herself uses the diminutive "Maggie'', who has been preaching at the Central Park Methodist Church revival meetings for the past two weeks, is an extraordinary woman. Those who go to tho church expecting to see and hear some embodiment ol religious fanaticism like JemimaWilkinson are agreeably surprised to behold a lady of stately presence, of large, and strong, and robust proportions, of singular grace and movement, with a voice which ranges from a rich deep bass to the upper register without eii'ort and over which she has such control that she radically changes its quality, tone and expression as occasion requires. This woman has tho instincts of an actress. Had she chosen the stage she would have been a success, for she possesses more than histrionic talent; she possesses histrionio Senilis and has tho power of expressing the elicate shades and softer gradations of feeling and with a rich flavoring of tho womanly nature. In fact she possesses a power to sway her audiences which few clergymen display. Mrs. Van Cott's chief power lies in her courage of deep conviction, which is potent, united with a mind at once original and powerful; a sincere heart and a vivid and creative imagination. Her action upon the platform is impressive, and sho requires a large platform for her oratory. Her movements aro quick and impulsive and slow and deliberate by turns. The Methodist ministers stand reverently aside and let this venerable crusader move the masses, which she does effectively by tho preaching of old Biblo doctrines which the progressive Christianity of the day has more than once declared obsolete and to be remanded to the category of the old wives' fables. Tho career of Mrs. Van Cott in this city for the past two weeks seems to furnish a flat contradiction to the theory of neo-theologians. The people crowd the church and flock to the altar weeping, while the commanding figure, attired in black, bends over them in prayer, like an interceding prophetess. Alter her sermon, tho prophetess compels her audience to stand up or hold up their hands by classes to confess their faith. She is exacting something as she points out with her finger a man or woman who remains sitting. She often strides up an aisle among the audience, and, falling upon her knees, pravs with a loud voice for somo individual. Sho doesn't neei much assistance. Dr. Forbes was asked the other day by Dr. Smith to come to the revival meetings. Dr. Forbes said ho would, but ho must not be expected to take part In tho exercises. "Oh," said Dr. Smith, "vou needn't fear anything of that kind. Mrs. Van Cott is conducting these meetings, and there isn't much for us to do." It is a fact. She has the lungs and enduranco of an ox, speaks and prays for hours at a time, and looks as if she could outdo Elijah in physical feats. With all her masculine strength, Mrs. Van Cott is alwaj's the tender-hearted and sympathetic woman. The children love her and flock around her. Sh has, in her two weeks' ministrations, developed no traco of the coarseness which characterizes so many revival preachers, and has succeeded in changing the views of many persons who looked with horror upon female preachers as something bizarre and unnatural. Grant's Gallantry About Ills Wife's Eyes. New York Graphic. It is doubtful whether any chronicle or romance of the days of chivalry contains so touching an instance of matrimonial dovotiou as that lately told of General Grant. When the honors came upon the Grants, like sorrows to the house of Denmark, "not single 6nies, but in battalions," themistrcss of tho White House began to renew tho dream of her girlhood to have her crosseves straightened. Wishing to surprise the President. Mrs. Grant, telling nobody, scut forthemost eminent occulist in America. He willingly promised to undertake tho operation, whicJi ho assured her would bo easy to accomplish, and without danger. The good lady could not contain herself for joy, and, woman-like (am I right, mesdamesl), gave way when she saw her husband and confided to him her secret, the pleasure she had in store for him. He looked wistfully into those dear eyes which had held him with tender gaze through all the trials of a checkered career, and said, in simple way: "J alia, I wish j-ou would not change them, I love them as they are, and theymignt seem strange it altered." jor Launcelot, nor Romeo, nor lover of any clirao or age, ever spoke words of tenderer gallantry than those of 4the hero of Appomattox. No Time for Red Tape. 8t. Loms Post-Dispatch. A Massachusetts appropriation for Johnstown was checked by an opinion from tho Attorney-general that tho Legislature had no authority to pass it. Bntwhen a State's own people are the victims of an awful calamity for which the Stato itself is largely responsible, too much red tape and strict construction would be simply disgraceful. The bankers who offer to advance the money will not only be reimbursed but thanked by tho Legislature. m Asphalt Paving In Buffalo. PhUadelphia Record. Asphalt pavinghas been given a thorough trial iu Buffalo. There are fifty-three miles of streets paved with it. So well satisfied are the people of that city of its durability and other advantages that they are expending 000,000 this year in adding to their asphalt roadways. Weather Possibilities. Chicago Herald. General Greely prefers the term "probabilities" to "indications" as applied toweather predictions. In view of the wild uncertainly of General Greely's predictions, "possibilities." perhaps, would be safer still, The Americanization of the Vatican. Atlanta Constitution. Stranger things have happened than that tho Vatican should ho Americanized, and that the robes of St. Peter should bo worn by an American. This is in tho dU rection of the general sign of the times. A Bad Place to Be Born In. TJtlca Herald. Hereafter no American boy of the proper spirit will be born m New York, if he can help it. The sale and use of fire-crackers is to bo prohibited on Manhattau island after this year. The Change Will Not Be Noticed Memphis ATalanche. The name of the Shreveport Democrat is to be changed to tho Caucasian. The cbango will not bo noticed. Tho meaning is identical in this part of the worldPreliminary Practice Sugesbsd. Philadelphia Inquirer. . . ... As the next national campaign U to he of a rainbow-chasing order, we buggest that the Democratic managers enter a pedestrian contest or two now. The Drift of Democracy. Albany nerald. . - Barnum was a protectionist, Brict li free-trader. The drift of the Ddaocracjr b unmistakably toward freo Usdst