Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 June 1889 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1889.

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The Journal is of the opinion that appointments in the census oflice should not bo placed under tho civil-servico law. No good reasons can bo cited why f it should be done, and there are obvious x- ones why it should not be done. The census work will be of comparatively short duration, most of tho persons employed in it will have to possess expert and technical knowledge, and the application of civil-servico rules would almost certainly prove a hindrance to tho successful organization of the oflice, and prompt execution of the law. There is no reason why tho commissioners should . ask that tho Census Bureau be brought underthe law. It is another instance of attempting to extend jurisdiction instead of improving the administration of tho law. It is to be hoped the President will not grant the request.

TnE attention of Prosecutor Mitchell lias been called to a plain violation of the law by tho present sheriff and Board of Commissioners of Marion county. The law makes it a penal offense, punishable by fine and imprisonment, for any person to present a false and fraudulent claim to the County Commissioners and receive payment thereof. It also makes it a penal offense, punishable by fine, imprisonment and removal from oflice, for the County Commissioners to allow and pay an illegal claim to any sheriff. The records show the following claim, allowed on March 11, 1SS9: "No.

10748, Isaac King, advertising, posting notices of sale of lands and lots mortgaged to State, etc., $20." This i3 a fraudulent claim. Tho service on which it is based pertains to the office of county auditor. If tho sheriff performed it his action was unauthorized and illegal. Tho presentation of this claim was a violation of law, and so was its payment. The transaction involves the commissioners as well as tho sheriff, and makes them as well as him liable to punishment. The records show other transactions of the same kind. What is Prosecutor Mitchell going to do about it!

THE CLAY COUNTY SITUATION. The position of the Journal relative to the situation in Clay county has been persistently misrepresented, and its utterances maliciously garbled in order to sustain certain theories and promote certain interests. The alleged destitution among the minors was first brought to public attention by the unsolicited contribution of Senator Voorhees, accompanied by a political letter sent to a political manager in Clay county. This was followed by a call for a public meeting in this city, at which none but well-known free-traders were announced to speak. This introduction of the subject and all the information then at hand led tho Journal to believe that tho movement had its origin in politics. Since then tho line of action has shifted somewhat and philanthropy has been substituted for politics, but there is abundant evidence of the political origin and animus of tho movement. The Journal has not believed and does not now believe that there is any general destitution or even a remote approach to starvation among tho striking miners, though there is undoubtedly considerable poverty and some actual want. The Journal has attempted to 6tem the torrent of exaggeration and misstatement in regard to this phase of the situation and has aimed to present the truth. It said at tho beginning that the operators had placed themselves in the wrong by refusing tho miners' offer to arbitrate matters, and it is still of that opinion. It must be added that they aro responsible for a misleading and erroneous statement of miners' wages, furnished by our correspondent at Brazil and printed in the Journal, which upon its face made the earnings of individual miners appear considerably greater than they really were. This statement was printed in good faith and believing it to be true. We are now satisfied it was misleading. The J ournal has constantly recognized that there were two sides to the controversy between the miners and operators, and while disbelieving the reports of general starvation on one side, has censured the operators for refusing to submit the case to arbitration. There is reason to hopo this result may soon bo reached. Members of tho Board of State Charities will go to Clay county to-morrow to offer their services as arbitrators. They do not go in an official capacity, . and the. Governor, who is chairman of tho board, does not accompany them. Tho members who will go on this mission aro as capable of arbitrating such a matter as any committee of disinterested citizens likely to be raised. There is good reason to hopo their effort may be successful. There has been no authoritative statement of destitution in Clay county. The BO-called appeal of the County Commissioners was evasive, disingenuous and non-committal. Neither the township trustees, the County Commissioners, nor the citizens of Brazil have done anything or made any statement to justify a belief that general destitution or real suffering does exist, though there are many families badly on? and ready and willing to accept charity. By the socalled appeal of the County Commissioners the .outside public was called upon before the townships or the county had been appealed to, or had recognized any necessity for action. In the matter of contributing to the relief of actual suffering, the Journal is willing to stand on its record. No other paper in Indiana has paid as many dollars to honest labor, or given as many to honest suffering. And now, if the Commissioners of Clay county will state explicitly and officially that there is real destitution there, and need of outside help, tho Journal will immediately send its check for an amount equal to the individual contributions thus far of all the papers in Indianapolis combined. THE CTYTL-8EBVICE LAW AND RULES. There is danger that the course of civil-servico reform may be injured and tho law itself made more nnpopular than it is by injudicious acts of the Civil-service Commission. Ever 6ince the enactment of tho law the commission has been grasping after more power and wider jurisdiction. This is a trait of human nature, and common in all commissions and tribunals whero authority is not clearly limited. But it is not apt to popularize a system that needs pormlarizing more than it does extending. Tho commissioners had better try to amend the defects and improve tho working of the law in its present sphere than to be constantly reaching out after new jurisdiction. The object and aim of the law are all right, and the law itself is founded on correct principles, but the rules and regulations aro cumbersome, and the administration of the law seems to bo developing more and more friction. Tho law itself is brief and easy of comprehension, but the rules and regulations . for carrying it into effect aro numerous and complicated. It is these that need amending more than tho law itself. Experience has shown that tho present system of examination for admission to the service is very defective. The merit system is right and some kind of competitive examination is necessary, but it should bo made a means of securing practical qualifications, not mere proficiency in book knowledge. The examinations should aim at improving the efficiency of tho eervice, and for this purpose the door should be opened as wide as possible. The same is true of all the rules and of the entire administra

tion of the law. It was enacted to improve the civil service, not to hamper it. The recent investigation of the city postofBce illustrated the tendency of the commissioners to extend their jurisdiction and exercise doubtful authority. In assuming to decide that the postmaster had no authority to employ a substitute in place of a clerk disabled by sickness, they exercised a power nowhere conferred on them by the law and rendered a decision which is plainly detrimental to the service. Moreover, it was rendered in such a way as apparently to impugn the official acts and motives of the postmaster. This was uncalled for and unjust; and taken in connection with the doubtful legality of the decision is not calculated to increase tho popularity of the "law. The Civil-service Commission is composed of able and honest men, but they are no more able and honest than Postmaster Wr.llace. Their decision reversing an official act of his in a matter not embraced in tho law, and concerning which it gives them no authority, evinces a greater desire to extend the authority of the commission than to popularize the law under which they are acting. The President cannot change the law, but he makes the rules for its construction and enforcement, and supervises the action of tho commissioners. Tho Journal believes that he can advance the interests of civil-service reform by reminding the commissioners that there is greater need of improving the administration of the law than of extending their jurisdiction.

Gen. John D. Imboden, a prominent ex-confederate officer, is outspoken in favor of protection and of reforming party lines in the South on the tariff question. He deprecates a "solid South," among other reasons, because it almost compels a solid North, and the latter will win every time. Ho says the South is ready to break on the tariff question just as soon as sectional politics are sent to tho rear. Speaking for himself, he says: I, for one, am frank to say, and can afford to say, being no politician in any sense of the term, that if President Harrison foreshadows tho fnture and permanent policy of his party to let the white people of the Southern .States manage their local a flairs unmenaced by the federal power, and administers the government on the broad national grounds lie seems to occupy, that all the States are equal and have equal rights under the Constitution, there will soon bo a marked change in the c ongressional representation from many Southern districts, and fossil doctrinaires of free-trade proclivities will not bo found so far to the front in our national politics as they have recently been. If theio was anything mean in the character of the Northern people, they would stoutly resist the Republican tariff policy. While it has some advantages for them, no one knows better than they that it is building up a rival in the South which may ultimately cripple, if not en' tirely destroy, several classes of North? era industry. President Harrison made this point several times during tho lato canvass, but he appealed to the magnanimity of Northern men not to therefore oppose a measure which, must be so productive of good to the whole people, but to protect American industry, not merely Northern interests, and their votes were cast intelligently. We were, however, hardly expecting a corroboration of this theory so early, but "being confronted by a situation, not by ,a theory," the Charleston News and Courier, ono of the bitterest of Democratic papers, 6ays: The Southern farmers aro raising their own "bread and meat," and their cotton is being manufactured in sight of the fields where it is grown. Under a reasonably low tariff it is probable that "the South" would have remained dependent upon "the North for generations to come." They are beginning to make the things they were formerly content to buy, and every new door of enterprise which they open closes one to the Northern producer and manufacturer. Tho Journal might add that the farmers of the North have felt seriously the loss of Southern- markets, since tho South has taken 6o largely to the raising of its own bread and meat, but they do not murmur, but rejoice, rather, in the general prosperity of our common country. Meanwhile, we thank our Democratic contemporary for thus indorsing Republican "theories" by the actual "situation," though it may not contribute thereby to the getting together of the Democratic party. ABOUT P0PLE AND THINGS. Last year tho number of yisitors to Shakspeare's birthplace was 16,800, Americans constituting one-fourth of the number. The height of snobbishness is reached at English bazars, where money is taken as the price of an introduction to this and that beauty or titled lady presiding over tables. Princess Militza of Montenegro, who is to wed the Grand Duke Peter Nicolaievitch of Russia, is said to bo remarkably beautiful. She has lived chiefly at St. Petersburg. Lew Wallace tells a Washington reporter that there is more happiness for him in a day's literary work than in a generation of politics. Ho says ho was not a candidate for a Cabinet office or for any other place. Georgb Burden, seventy-three years old, arrived at Chatham, Me., on Thursday, from Albion, Mich. He has walked all the way, with a wheelbarrow and his trnnk, weighing 150 pounds. He has been eight weeks on the road. Lieut. Jos. Loisinger, brother-in-law of Prince Alexander of Battenberg, is about to marry Louise Kopek, daughter of the head game-keeper of the Dagnaiska forest in Hungary. By this means the English royal family will be allied to a game-keeper. The Rev. Dr. Theodore D wight Woolsey, ex-president of Yale College, is eightyseven years of ,age. and is still strong enough to walk out without assistance. His form is bent, and ho is evidently very feeble, but his mental powers are as vigorous as ever. Jay Gould's objective point in Europe is the Paris exposition, with its famous Eiffel tower. Ho has watched the erection of that structure with the most intense interest, and has kept a scrap-book of items bearing on its progress. Mrs. George Gould, who will accompany him, confesses to an almost equal degree of curiosity on tho subject. Mr. Julia Ward Howe, the advocate of women's rights, is well known to be a lady of prodigious learning. Once upon a time, when a reporter attempted to interview her, in this city, sho promptly asked him "if he was familiar with the phenomenology of Schopeuhauerismr' Tho reporter was seized with a tit of coughing, and soon tied from her presence, A DisPATcn from London says that the solicitors of bonanza John W. Mackay and wife have been authorized to begin suits against seven London newspapers, which make a practice of periodically attacking

them. Sirs. -Mackay, by reason" of her social prominence, is singled out frequently by malignant writers, who have no other aim than to irratify personal spites, engendered in the social contests which her wealth invites. Senator Evarts looks thinner than ever this summer, and all his efforts to raiso fat are as melancholy failures as they have been in other years. Bu t he walks up Broadway with a lively stride, his genial 6mile is always ready to sutluso his distinguished features, his pate is notlyet bald, and he retains the convivial spirits of old times. Mr. Evarts is seventy-two years old, but many a man of half his years' has not a tithe of his energy. Banker J. Rhlnelaxder Dillon, of New York, wears on the little finger of his right hand a ring with a history. Years ago General Grant, while fishing in Greenwood l.ke, caught an eel. Now, an eel is about as hard a thing to take otr a hook as swims, and while the General was freeing his hook of the wriggler, the wriggler drew a beautiful horseshoe ring from the General's linger. The ring fell overboard and was found in a pickerel caught by Mr. Dillon. The finder offered to restore the ring, but was told to keep it. Speaking of the late Laura Bridgman, a writer in the Epoch says: "She was fond of reading the Bible, and also the dictionary. The latter she would peruse by the hour and herein she showed her wisdom, since the exact meaning of words and the correct use of synonyms certainly present very great difficulties to a person in her condition. With orthography she had no difficulty, and would correct any one who misspelled a word. Fairy stories she did not care for she said that they were not true. She was fond of fun, and never outgrew her love of innocent frolic." Although John L. Sullivan wears a large shoe, he has not a largo foot for so heavy a man. It is a very manly, natural, uniform foot. His fighting shoe is a No. 10. The high instep measures 934; low instep, DLj, and the ball. 92. The seam measures 14, and the ankle, t). On the shoes the spikes are placed one on the heel, one on the outside of the ball, and ono a little back of the big toe. The shoes which he will wear in bis fight with Kilrain are made of tine French calfskin. The heel is flat and low, and the whole shoe is as near the exact shape of the natural foot as possible.

COMMENT AND OPINION. The liquor trarffic can best be fought through the education of public sentiment and most effectively regulated by towns and cities, where, through local option, tho majority of a community will be pledged to support the law. Springfield Republican. The abominable heresy of anarchy, with its related vices and its imitative tendencies toward disloyalty, cannot be too promptly or too vigorously resisted; and in bo far as the Patriotic Sous of America shall contribute to that end they will be entitled to popular favor and gratitude. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. We no longer smile patronizingly upon "sweet girl graduates." The young women now are driving the young men a close race, and some of them are graduating at the head of classes in which the long-time imperial sex have crammed in vain for preferment. They will be more in proportion anon. Chicago Inter Ocean. This isn't an appropriate time for a revival of Know-nothingism, which, despite the fact that some of its aims were not unworthy, made a disgraceful failure for the all-suflicieut reason that the good sense and real patriotism of the Nation; revolted at the idea of having any secret society attempting to dictate its politics. Philadelphia Telegram. TnE,number of people who sincerely desire to do all that they can to promote temperance, without sacrificing all other national. State and local interests, is very largo. But the number who will sacrifice everything else to a hopelesr and useless attempt to prohibit the 1 quor traffic, where prohibition doesnot in xxct prohibit, is not very large. The more sharply the Prohibitionists antagonize high license, the fewer votes they will get. New York Tribune. If these Patriotic Sons of America understand the objects of their order ft is evident that the proper way to make them effective in this free country is by free speech, a free press and the legitimate means put in the hand of every citizen to do his share in influencing public affairs. Secret societies for political purposes are a menace to good order. There is no U6e for them. It is the glory of this country that things proper to be done may be done openly and aboveboard. Philadelphia Record. WEIGHED AND FOUND WANTING.

States That Have Tried and Repudiated Prohibition They Have Enough of It. Chicago Tribune. Illinois enacted prohibition in 1855. but repudiated it at the polls in the same year. N'ew York passed the law in 1S54. tried it for two years, and gave it up as a bad job. Massachusetts tried prohibition for fifteen years, and repealed it as vain and injurious. An effort to restore prohibition in Massachusetts was voted down by an overwhelming majority April 23, 1889. Atlanta tried the law for one year and repudiated it by an overwhelming majority in November. 18S7. The injury to the city was incalculable. Connecticut enacted the law in 1S54, tried in vain to enforce it for eighteen years, and then finally repealed it forever in 1S7SJ. Ohio enacted prohibition in 1855, and after a few months of bitter experience repealed it. Maryland passed a prohibitory law in 1SS5. Tho results were so disastrous, both to material and moral welfare, that, after a few mouths' trial, it was repealed, and the lesson was so severe that the question has never been raised again in that State. New Hampshire tried prohibition for thirty-four years. April 113, 1889, an effort was made to incorporate it into her Constitution. This was voted down by an enormous majority, only two counties in the State giving a majority in favor of prohibition. Dolaware tried it in 1855, and, after two years, found that it so affected the welfare of the State that it was repealed in 1S57. The Independent Anti-prohibition Republicans and Democrats of Iowa are united for the purpose of overthrowing prohibition. The law was twice passed in Wisconsin, and twice vetoed by the Governor, with the unanimous support of the people. Since then the State has been untroubled by fanaticism. Rhode Island enacted prohibition in 1853, and after ten years trial repudiated the law in 1863. She again enacted it last year, and is now trying to get rid of it, after one iear of financial and moral disaster. The jegislaturo has by almost unanimous vote decided to resubmit the matter to the people. Michigan passed the law in 1853 and kept it for twenty-two years, when, rinding tho futility of attempting to enforce prohibitory measures, sho abandoned it in 1S75. Tho fanatics tried to saddle the law upon her again this year, but her people would not have it, and overwhelmed it at the polls. , Indiana and Nebraska in 1S55 passed prohibitory measures, but neither of them kept prohibition upon their statute books for any length of time. Indiana voted on the question again in 1882, and the amendment was defeated by the biggest majority cast in that State for twenty years. Texas cast 93,000 majority against tho effort to force a prohibitory amendment into her Constitution. An effort was made to force the law on Tenuessee in 1887. The people, after a thorough discussion, resolved not to put it into their Constitution. Orecon submitted tho amendment in 1887. Tho amendment was buried under an avalanche of votes. In November, 188, West Virginia voted on prohibition. The question was thoroughly discussed, investigations Jinto tho working of tho law in other States were made, and the amendment was defeated by a vote of three to one. Canada has tried prohibition. The law was passed, and on a reconsideration of the question, April 3, 18S9, the voters slaughtered prohibition from Lake , Erie to the Bay of Fundv. Every city and town in Canada which voted that day repealed prohibition. In Iowa in 1880 there were 8.034 government licenses issued for the sale of liquor. In 18S, under prohibition, the number had increased to 4,033 an increase of 999. It is not within the limits of reason that any man would pay for a license unless ho meant to use it. For the year ending April GO, 1881, before prohibition, 1.8S4 government licenses to 1 1. .

sell liquor were issued in Kansas. In the year ending April SO, 1887, alter five years of prohibition. 2,997 licenses were issued; in other words, there were fS per cent, more places selling liquor in the year ending April CO, 1887, under prohibition, than in the year ending April 30, 18S1, before tho enactment of tho law. There had simply been a change of name from "saloon'' to "drugstore. Maine has more liquor-sellers in proportion to population than many license States. Rhode Island has one liquor-seller to every 243 men. (See Internal Rovenuo Reports), " VICE-PRESIDENT KING'S GRIT.

lie Risked Ten Locomotive, bat Ho Saved the Bridge. Clear grit goes in railroading, as in a good many other branches of business, and the possession of it by Vice-president King, of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, saved that company in the recent Hoods from tho loss of its bridge at Harper's Ferry, and from the complete paralysis that would have ensued. 1 he circumstances of this remarkable feat in railroading, as described in the New York Sun, are as follows: Tho Potomac was oven with the bottom of the bridge and loaded with trees and heavy drift of all sorts when Mr. King got his grit to work. It is the most important bridge on the' whole line of the road, aud if it had gone down business would have had to bo entirely suspended for at least a week or ten days, and probably for much longer, for the building of a temporary bridge would havo been a difficult job. bo Mr. King coolly ordered to the spot all consolidated engines that he could get hold of by verbal orders or by telegraph. As fast as they arrived he sent them out upon the trembling bridge. There were ten of them there at last, all that tho bridge would hold, and when the last one ran on, the water had risen so high over the floor of the bridge that it put out the fires in the engines. Consolidated engines are the costliest sort of rolling stock that a railroad has nowadays. They are used in hauling the heaviest trains, and weigh twice as much as what were considered a few years ago the heaviest practicable locomotives. If that bridge had gone down with those ten engines on it there would have been a loss of 500,000 over and above tho value of the bridge. Nobody who saw the bridge what there was of it left above water and the ten huge locomotives with their fires out and helpless as mere lumps of iron would havo given a nickel for tha chance of their ever being of further use to the Baltimore fc Ohio railroad. Even gritty Mr. King bit the end of his cigar off as he reflected upon the excellent chance he had of being compelled to think up some explanations for the satisfaction ot his board of directors. Grit won, however, and the hundreds of tons of dead weight that those engines placed upon the bridgo held it down upon its piers until the water receded and it could safely bo left to stand alone. It was racked and strained, but it was all there and in condition for use without immediate repairs, so that the Baltimore & Ohio had its through business going as soon as the flood subsided. Speaking of it afterward, Mr. King said: "I thought if we were going to have a loss wo might as well have a big one; besides that, we shouldn't have bad much use for the engines if the bridge had-gone." LADY CHURCHILL IX RUSSIA. Impressions of an American Woman The Women of the Czar's Dominion. The first number of the New Review contains an interesting article by Lady Randolph Churchill entitled A Month in Russia. " Lady Randolph found driving in St. Petersburg delightful. "Comfortably seated in a sledge, behind a good fat coachman to keep the wind oil", ono never wearies of driving about." She was especially impressed with Russian horses, which "are so beautifully broken that a word will stop them. The whole time that I was in Russia 1 never saw a horso ill used. No need for a 'Society for the Protection of Animals' there! The Isvoshnik,' who owns his cab horse, looks upon him as his friend, aud very often shares the animal's stall at night." Entertainments in Russia are extremely well done, and their houses are comfortable if inartistic. "Although," says Lady Randolph, "they are very smartly furnished with all that money can buy and modern art suggest, there is a lack of real refinement aud true artistic taste, such as is seen in Paris, But then the French are born connoisseurs, and think of little else than artistic comfort; and certainly the average Russian drawing-room is superior to the ordinary English one. If there is a lack of imagination there is an absence of tawdrinesw." Here is Lady Randolph Churchill's de scription of Gatchina tho"Windsor of Rus sia: "It is a curious mixture of spleudor and unpretentiousness. The approach from the station, through a series of small parks, must be lovely in summer. I was surprised to 6eo so few sentries about, and, indeed, to all appearances, the Emperor is not more guarded than the Queen at Windsor. The entrance to Gatchina, on the public road, had but one sentry. Without architectural merits, its 700 rooms and endless corridors are tilled with priceless Oriental china (cleverly arranged on the walls), tapestries and art treasures. Couriurs in black and orange liveries, their caps adorned with tossing black, white and orange feathers, give a slightly barbaric appearance to the scene, which is added to by tho mass of bowing attendants, and by the two Nubians dressed in white, with turbans and scimitars, standing outside tho Empress's audience-room. While waiting to be received one is shown into an apartment fitted up in the style of forty years ago, with paintings of mediocre value. Further on there is a large hall worthy of an old English country house, full ot comfortable armchairs and writing tables, games and toys I even spied a swing. In this hall their Majesties often dine, even when they have guests, and after dinner the table is removed, and they pass the remainder of the evening there, i'his seems strange when one thinks of the 700 rooms in the enormous building. But the Emperor and Empress elect to live with the greatest simplicity in the tiniest of rooms, which are rather at variance with the . Emperor's towering frame and majestic bearing. His Majesty 'a manners are as simple as are his tastes, and, if rather shy, impress one with a conviction of his honesty and earnestness. There aro some curious customs at the Russian court which do not harmonize with the idea of a despotic and autocratic sovereign. To see tho Czar standing while supper is going on, talking, perhaps, to a young officer, who remains seated all the time, is startling. But tradition is everything in this country, and as it was a habit of Peter the Great, who disliked ceremony of any kind, it'is religiously kept. The etiquette of tho Russian court is much less rigid in some respects than it is in England or in Germany. It is not the custom there to treat the members of the imperial family with so much deference as in other European courts; no, lady would think of curtseying to a young Grand Duke, and would only rise when the Empress did, or when the Emperor first entered a room." Speaking of the women of Russia, Lady Randolph notes that "most Russian ladies 6iuoke cigarettes, in ono of tho drawingrooms generally set apart for thatjmrpose, causing a continual movement, which takes off the stillness of a formal dinner party, and enables people to circulate more freely." "Speaking many languages (continues the writer), having read profusely, light m hand, Russian ladies form the most charming society possible, and act as a tonic on a sluggish mind accustomed to the moral and physical fogs of Loudon. They dress well, but affect tho heavy richness of welldressed Germans (if such canbe found) rather than tho graceful and airy nothings which make up a Frenchwoman s dress. Black is held in abhorrence at tho court, being considercdugly and unlucky, and any one venturing to wear It in the royal presence is not only, looked upon with disfavor, but is likely to hear of it. How strange that Russian women, so eminently fitted by nature and education to influence and help those struggling in the higher vocations of life, should have, seemingly, but one ambition to ellace themselves, to attract no attention, to arouse no jealousies. Yet I doubt not that their influence is felt, but it is not open and fearless as in America or England." Of the Russian people generally, Lady Randolph says: "5lany people who have not como into contact with Russians imagine that they aro rude and brusque. I may have been particularly fortunate in those whom 1 root, but 1 was struck with their polished and, at the same time; simple manner. The very moujick. who replenishes your tire, walks in on tiptoe, fearful of disturbing j'ou, and shuts tho door so gently that your heart is softened and you forgive him his many shortcomings." ' And in conclusion: ."Many erroneous 1mJrcssions prevail in England about the Russian upper classes. It Is because we

know so little of them. For my part I found them hospitable, courteons, highly educated, and. to all outward appcaranee. refined and kindly. If thy havo any of the faults attributed to them by their enemies, l can only say that I did rot discover them." ARTILLERY IX RATTLE.

Degree of Effectiveness to Which the German Field Batteries Have Umu Brought. New York 6nn. The idea prevailing beforo the FrancoPrussian war that tho eflect of artillery fire on tho ranks ot the enemy was moral rather than actual is conclusively wiped out by the account of two actions found in the recent work by the crent authority on this arm. Prince Kraft Hohenlohe. Although Prussia gavo the Austrians a tremendous licking in 1806, fcsbo recognized the fact that tho Austrian batteries were far superior to hers and immediately set to work to improve them, with the following result in 1870, as-described bv Prince Kraft: "I could never havo believed that the instruction given in tiiuo of peace would have borne such excellut fruit in spite of the excitement of action. Standing behind the captain of a battery, I heard him quietly give tho order. 'Against infantry in front, 1.100 races, from the Tight flank, ready! Fire, one gun!' Thenho waited, holding his field glass to his eye, until the enemv approached the point on which the guns were laid, and gave the order, 'Rapid firing from tho right flank!' Then there was a hellish sight lor the advancing enemy disappeared from view in tho clouds of smoko which the shells threw up as they burst and tore their way through the ranks. After one or two minutes the attacking enemy camo out on one side of tho smoke. It had passed the point on which the guns were laid, and, in spite of terrible loss. approached with undeniablo bravery. Then the captain gave the command: "Cease firing! l,(XK) paces ono gun cease firing!' And when the guns were now laid, he cried: 'At 1,)00 paces, from tho right flank, rapid firingf The eflect was brilliant, horrible, overwhelming. No attack could have resisted it" Again, wo have the eflect of the German guns at St. Privat: "When the head of the French column became visible over. the hill our trial shots reached it at a range of 1,900 paces, and my thirty guns opened a rapid tire. Tho enemy's infantry was enveloped in the thick smoke which the shells made as they burst. But after a very short time we saw the red trousers of the masses which were approaching us appear through the cloud. I stopped the fire. A trial sho was fired at 1,700 paces range; this was to show us the point up to which we should let them advance before reopening the rapid fire. We did the same for the ranges of l,.rjCO, l.oOO 1,100 and 900 paces. In spite of the horrible devastation which the shells caused in their ranks, these brave troops continued to advance; but at nine hundred paces the effect of our lire was too deadly for them; they turned round and fled; we hurled shells after them as long as we could see them. Here was an infantry attack which was repulsed purely and simply by the fire of artillery." 'The proposition is also laid down that a line of artillery cannot bo of artillery is absolutely annihilating. President Caruot's Popularity. London Globe. President Carnot, when ho took oflice at the Elysee, appeared likely to become unpopular, but the tide has turned in his favor. The people have learned to appreciate his quiet manners, and to acknowledge his sterling qualities. Perhaps he will never arouse what is called public enthusiasm, forhe is too unostentatious for that and the French aro fond of show. But, on the other hand, ho is suro of their respect and consideration, and his desire to do his duty honestly gives the greatest satisfaction. From the moment he was first mado chief of the state he has spared no pain or trouble to fill the post worthily, lie has worked hard and conscientiously. The exhibition has brought him forward prominently. Every day ho is out and about somewhere, and his dinners and balls havo thrown life and gay ety into society. He is now on the eve of resuming those provincial tours which havo douo him infinite good. His visits to Calais. Boulogne and other neighboring ton n are looked forward to with the liveliest interest. Siucehislast excursion the Boulanger prosecution has happened, and his presence in the north will, no doubt, give some inkling as to what the country people think of it. Education of Rich Men's Sons. Philadelphia Inquirer. The sons of wealthy parents should be educated thoroughly, ot course. But at no time should they bo allowed to entertain the notion that they must not depend upon themselves. If an allowance is given them, as one certainly should be. they should bo forced to live within it If they do not do this and run into debt, their debts should be paid once. After that, if they evince the tendency to continue vrong, there should be no interference with the officers of the law. The father who hesitates hero generally insures his own unhappiness, and he is lucky if ho does not also insure the ruination of tho child. The President's Good Sense. Boston Advertiser. The action of the President in declining to wear a society's budge at a recent gathering in Washington is a mark of his good sense. Tho chief magistrate of tho United States should not identify himself withany political or social clique. The action is in striking contrast to that of a predecessor, who, in a contest between two Democratic factions in New York city, threw the whole weight of his influence in the scale, even having written a personal letter to benefit his favorite candidate. We think President Harrison's attitude the more commendable, and one which is really imposed by the oflice which he holds. They Saved Their Honah, Sah, Philadelphia Press. Those three hot-blooded Southern compositors in the Public Printing Oflice at Washington who resigned their cases the other day rather than work with an intelligent and gentlemanly colored type-setter, who had been placed alongside of them, have vindicated their honah. eah, and rendered a friendly turn to the public service. They will doubtless find the walking good on roads leading to the South, and it is also reasonably certain that the places they have so cruelly abandoned can be filled hi time to prevent any serious interruption ot operations in the Public Printing Office. An Indianlau's Luck. Bloom lngton Telephone. It is not generally known that Gen. Mortou C. Hunter has been unusually fortunate in his Western investments. Shortly beforo he entered Congress, 3rears ago, ho bought over ono hundred acres of land near Seattle, W. T., then a small town. Later he sold all the laud except thirty-six acres. Nov Seattle is the largest city in the Territory, the thirty-six acres is surrounded by buildings and'the city is trying topurchaso the ground for a park, having offered him $),0U0 for it quite recently. He holds the price at 8100,000. Affixing Unearned Radges. Nebraska b fate Journal. Secret societies that visit the President by a delegation are respectfully requested not to attempt to pin their badges on Gen. Harrison's collar. He will not permit it. The only way is for one delegato to engago tho chief magistrate in conversation whilo another quietly hooks the gaud to his coattail. A man, naturally, does not desire to wear a badge that he isn't entitled to by a regular initiation, including the traditional ride on the goat. Mr. Phelps's Bang. Philadelphia Tress. Democratic organs hero and there are again making luu of William Walter Phelps's bang. Obviously they forget that Mr. Phelps wears that bang merely to conceal the big scar lelt on his head by a terrific sabre cut which he received at tha hands of a good Democratic confederate during the war for the Union. Brlre's Political Thoughts. If ew York World. ; Calvin S. llrice thinks that Ohio will "elect a Democratic Governor, llrice thought Cleveland would defeat Harrison. As a political thinker Mr. Brice is not a success. m. m The Natural Course. Philadelphia Times. Things are resuming their natural course at Johustown. They have a strike out , there now. . -

uroKen by a irontai auacK byiniantry. The eflect of sharpuel reaches out to 3,800 'yards, and from 1,100 to l,J00yards the eflect