Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 June 1889 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL TUESDAY. JUNE V, 1889. WASHINGTON OFFICE 313 Fourteenth St. P. 8. Heath. Correspondent. NEW YORK OFFICE 204 Temple Court, Corner Bft-kiuan and Nassau Street.

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IUgga House and Ebbitt House. Tiik Civil-servico Commission "does up" tho Democratic postmaster at Milwaukee in great 6hape. It seems his entire administration has been a continual violation of tho law. Tho commission report that tho expiration of his term deprives them of tho gratification of recommending his dismissal. The question of tho liability of tho South Fork Fishing Club for the Johnstown disaster is to be tested by litigation. A Johnstown firm which is among the heaviest losers has decided to bring unit for $150,000, and over ahuEdred Johnstown merchants have offered to Kharc the expenses. As all the members of the club aro very wealthy, a long arid bitter legal war may bo looked for. The New York Herald effectually punctures the bubble blown by Gov. Hill relating to tho unequal apportionment of tho State for legislative purposes, by showing that the Legis lature of 1883 passed tho proper bill for such a taking of tho census, but tho Governor vetoed it on tho flimsy plea that it provided, also, for tho collection of valuable agricultural and industrial statistics. The New York Sun, speaking of tho forthcoming Democratic candidate for tho presidency, says: "The New York Democrats have tried Cleveland and do not want any more of him. They did not want him iu 1884. The Democracy would now be stronger, more united and more aggressive if that administration had never been. His empty pretensions, hi3 superficial and narrow abilities, his vast ignorance, his perpetual cant, his almost inconceivable self-conceit and selfishness, and his utter lack of any political principle can never recommend him to tho Democrats of New York." The Louisville Courier-Journal audits "Washington correspondent are hard at work trying to impeach Senator Chand ler and prove that Senator Blackburn did pull his ear. Well, suppose he did; what then! It does not prove that Blackburn is a statesman or Chandler a coward. John L. Sullivan could pull almost any man's ear without its being resented. Senator Blackburn is a much larger man physically than Senator Chandler, and even if he did what his homo organ claims, it was no great exploit. He ought not to poso as a hero or exceptionally bravo man as long as he Is resting under the lashing given him by that Kentucky j udge in Utah. If Blackburn really wants to fight, there is an accepted challenge. A dispatch from Atlanta, Ga., says Governor Gordon has just appointed a Mayor and Common Council for tho town of St. Mary's. Thereby hangs a bit of history. All the other cities and towns in Georgia elect their municipal officers. Those of St. Mary's alone aro appointed by tho Governor. That town is on the coast, and is a port of entry of some importance. It has a large majority of colored voters, and for several years after negro suffrage began tho colored men held undisputed sway. The whites protested, but tho negroes outVoted them. The local government was not bad, but it was black. Finally, tho whites hit oil tho bright idea of appealing to the Legislature. The appeal was successful, and tho Legislature passed an act authorizing the Governor to appoint all municipal officers in St. Mary's. Since then the local government has been exclusively white. Strangers who drop into St. Mary's, and who notice tho decided preponderance of colored citizen?, cannot understand how a small minority of whites manage to control the municipal government year after year. It is Democratic homo rule. TnE scenes in the Criminal Court in this city, last week, emphasized tho demand heretofore made more than once by the Journal for a law which will authorize any court to sit with closed doors when, in the opinion of the Judge or magistrate, the welfare of tho community requires it. Tho case on trial was one of the most repulsive and disgusting in its filthy details that ever was tried before any court. It was tho trial of a beastly man for incest with his stepdaughter, a mere child, and for which ho was sent to the penitentiary live years. During tho entire trial tho court-room was crowded with old men, just on tho verge of the grave, middle-aged lechers, and boys of every age just entering a life of shame, and women of not doubtful virtue, the women vying with the men in their constant attendance, even holding out in their shamo to tho last, being present at the argument to listen to a rehearsal of tho filth of the case. Every consideration of humanity nnd decency requires the strong arm of the law to at least protect the young from such contamination. But our

criminal courts are not' the only courts

in which such trials are had. Many civil cases, particularly divorce trials, involve the same class of evidence and pleading, and cases of tho samo class often come before justices of the peace. Tho law ought to permit, if not require, the officer hearing the case to exclude from tho court-room all persons not necessarily connected with it. If a sense of shame and of decent proprieties will not keep away aged men, and lewd men, and lewder women, tho law should compel them to observe the decencies of civilized life for tho sake of tho young. There are associations ostensibly and really for tho protection of tho young that could render no better serv ice than to procure tho enactment of such a law by tho next Legislature. IHPEOVIIMENT IN THE POSTAL 8EBVICE. The efficiency, discipline and morale of the postal service in this city have been greatly improved under Postmaster Wallace. There was great room for improvement. Under tho last administration there was no discipline and no attempt at efficient administration. There was no head to any department and no responsibility among the subordinates. Clerks and carriers did about as they pleased, and as none of their superiors knew any moro about the service than they did, they felt they were responsible to nobody. From dark till daylight there, was practically no attention to business. Many of tho clerks made a regular practice of gam bling, and the work they 6hould have done at night went undone, while they played cards. There was no night super intendent, and what little discipline there was during the day was entirely relaxed at night. Largo bags full of letter mail lay undisturbed for many days at a time. The carrier force was demoralized, and tho list of advertised undelivered letters increased far beyond what it had ever been before. Under tho pres ent administration the list has 1 -a i w a already decreased tuny oo per cent. There is no better test of the efficiency of the local service than the advertised letter list. This is not half as large now as it was at times during thelast administration, and the improve ment is still going on. Many other im provements have been made. Discipline has been introduced where there was none, before, and the happy-go-lucky regime is at an end. Clerks, carriers, employes and laborers aro held to a rigid responsibility, and aro made to understand that the postal service is to bo attended to, not fooled with. Clerks aro re quired to obey orders and ask no questions. The office discipline is as strict at night as in the day time. There is no more neglect of mails or permitting whole bags of it to lie undistributed for days. The present superin tendent of mails knows far more about his duties than his predecessor did after four years, and gives a great deal moro time to them, and has his men under far better discipline. Tho assistant post master is master of all tho details of tho office, and his authority and discipline are felt in every part of it. In all largo postoffices the assistant is the postmas ter's chief of staff and executive officer. If ho does not understand his business there is no discipline and no ad ministrative energy anywhere. It is a notorious fact that under tho last ad ministration the assistant postmaster knew little or nothing about the duties of the ollice, and to this, in a large de gree, was due the general lack of discipline and efficiency. It takes time , to reform such a state of af fairs, but it is being done. Order, discipline, responsibility, industry, promptness and dispatch aro being introduced where there was none before. Tho atmosphere of the office has under gone an entire change, and the efficiency of the service has already been wonder fully improved. NO DANGER FROM TEAT SOURCE. Chimney-corner scientists and cross roads wiseacres are given to predicting terriblo calamities from the perforation of the earth and tho exhaustion of its store of oil and gas. The theory of theso people is that the withdrawal of oil and gas is producing a great vacuum, which abhorrent nature will avenge by some terrible collapse or cataclysm. Thus one of them informed a New York Herald reporter, a few days ago, that tho Johnstown disaster was nothing com pared to what might, and probably would, happen when nature got ready to avenge the boring of gas wells. Ho said eventually a great opening must bo made in tho earth's crust, somewhere west of the Alleghenies, which would bo followed either by a great collapse or a terrific explosion and. upheaval. If this is liable to happen in western Pennsyl vania, it is equally liable to happen in Ohio and Indiana. But it will not hap pen anywhere, and nervous people who have been alarmed by such suggestions can dismiss their fears. There is no reason to suppo30 that the removal of oil or pas from the interior of tho earth pro duces any cavity in the ordinary sense of the term. The sand or rock which,, contains oil and gas is scarcely more porous than ordinary sandstone. Even if all tho oil or gas which they contain could be extracted there would still be no appreciable cavity made, but, as' a matter of fact, only a small part of either ever can bo extracted. Tho greater part will still be held in the rock or sand by capillary attraction, and after the rock has given up all its oil or gas the rock itself will remain. The danger of explosion is no greater than the danger of collapse. As long as the gas wells discharge gas with a pressure exceeding that of the air at tho mouth of the well, about fifteen pounds to tho square inch, air cannot get into he well to form an explosive mixture, much less find its way to the gas reservoir rock several hundred feet below tho surface. It requires from nine to fourteen volumes of air to one volume of natural gas to produce an explosive mixture, and that quantity of air can never find its way into a gas well. If the gas pressure fails tho wells would fill up with water long before they would with air. In

short, the idea of an internal conflagra

tion or explosion of the earth is as pre posterous as that of a collapse. People living in the gas field of Indiana can take tho Journal's word for it there is no danger. COAL AND THE WAGES FOB MINING, The Springfield (Mass.) Republican, vying with straight-out old Bourbon Democratic papers, refers to tho labor trouble at Brazil as a lockout, and, of course, attributes the disagreement between the operators and the miners to tho tariff. What has the tariff to do with the inexhaustible and comparatively inexpensive supply of natural gas which has superseded the use o block coal in its best markets? Whose fault is it that other mines furnish cheaper fuel than can possibly bo produced from' the block-coal miues? With the Hock ing valley mines furnishing a superior coal on tho cars, at 80 cents a ton, how can the operators of the block-coal mines compete with them? Already three of tho leading railways that once used block coal exclusively have shifted to Hocking valley. The miners say they cannot work at less than the fig ures they propose, but how can the op erators pay even what they offer, when their market is cut off by such competition as natural gas and cheaper coal? Whether the miners can afford to work at 60, or 70, or 80 cents is not the most important question now confronting tho whole block-coal region, but whether block coal can be mined at all. Mean while the Springfield Republican and the whole brood of free-trade papers and politicians are quite welcome to all tho political capital they can mako out of the changed circumstances of the block-coal industry. One thing may be counted on: the people who can obtain natural gas or fuel oils at little more than half the cost of block coal will not buy block coal, and railroads that can buy Hocking Valley coal at 80 cents. loaded on tho cars, will not pay more for block coal for tho sake of keeping the mines open. Already the question has passed beyond the immediate condition of the miners to the more absorbing onecan block coal be mined at all in the future? The Pittsburg Dispatch, an independ ent paper with well-formed opinions, says: Under the Cleveland administration the management of the Indianapolis postoftice furnished a most remarkable example of the gap between professions and promises. The best evidence of the scandalons man- ' agement of Postmaster Jones, Mr. Cleveland's appointee, was tho fact tkatit was theorv of enforcing the civil-service Law ' was that it should only he observedito tho . extent of violating it. v. This is in the nature of a contribution to tho truth of history. Mr. Wallack has a man in his service' now who stands on the court records as a! seducer. His name is Hamlin. lie owes. his place to "political influence." Senti nel. The public should understand that tho man Hamlin was appointed during the last administration, though the Sontiuel carefully conceals this fact from , its readers. He is a product of tho civil' service law, and was appointed by Postmaster Jones. : ' ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. , 4, 1 AI t Whittier, it is said, falls asleep ixi his chair when visitors begin to praise Ms poetry. Earthly honors grow less valhabla to him a9 the vears wane. v. iv Col. Augustus Braiiam is deadafter half a century in the British army, llo was the latest surviving sou of the famous cuuinmc4 uuu aim oiuictT, oviiu urauum, i Two of his brothers were eminent i opera; singers, and his sister was Frances, i Countess Waldegrave. . j ,. Jonx W. Bardslky, the man wbo'introi' duccd the English sparrows into Philadel-; UUIU V . i3 A40 l A. A t V4. d JT a J 1A1 U VI 1 A ) ferent rituals of fifteen societies to1 which : he belonged, tho ceremonies consuming six nours. i'iiy mo results 01 jiis tiniortunato mistake in the sparrow liue could not beas ellectually buried. Dr. Davies, of Philadelphia, who has been elected Protestant Episcopal Bishop 'of De-' troit, has a wife and three grown but un married children. His son, Thomas H. Davies, is a student at Pennsylvania UuU versity, and his two daughters are still at home. Mrs. Davies is several years younger . man ner lmsuanti. auu takes a most activo interest in his work. Says Seth Thomas, the clock manufacturer: "The dial of the clocks which wo make for China is marked, inlieuof figures, with characters which, I suppose, mean something to them. They don't to me. There are three circles ot characters, the inner one having eight divisions, tho next one twelve, and the outermost twenty-four. There are two hands, the shortest one making a revolution every two hours, while the long one takes twenty-four hours to get around. But how they compute time by these is a Chinese puzzle." Rev. Dr. Cunxingaiim, who sncceeded Dr. Tulloch as principal of St Andrew's Universitjr, Scotland, is a man of marked individuality, A few years ago, when he wa9 the pastor of a country chnrch, he horrified old-fashioned Presbyterians by advising his congregation to take advantage of a dry Sunday to get in their crops, instead of going to church. And in the General Assembly of the Established Church of Scotland, which wa9 recently held in Edinburgh, he moved that the Apostles' Creed bo dropped from a certain book of devotions. General Sherman "sassed' a reporter who went to see him on Weduesday in New York, and, with the expansive politeness of tho class, said he had just dropped in 'to ask the General if he would not indulge in some chatty ant icipations of his coming trip to Denver." The General said that ho didn't see that it was any of the public's business whether he went to Denver or not, or where he went, for that matter. The public did not contribute anything to the expense. "I don't expect to hunt any." lie said. "The game has all been killed off out there." Miss Kate Field, it now appears from a report of the Viticultural Commission of California, is, in her wine crusade, really acting as tho agent of that State, and receives a salary of 3.000 per annum. Marcus D. Boruck, Governor Waterman's private secretary, says that "one of tho bills which the Governor delayed signing was for S-'JOT.-IO expended by Miss Field for one lecture in Washington, making her total cost to the State for tho month of March $.V2.rj0. Why, she gave a collation there, among other extravagances, which cost S1W. Her bill never should have been audited, but there was no other recourse left." One of the most curious among all tho curions presents which tho Emperor of Germany has recently received as products of his African possessions is a transparent walkiug-strick made of rhinoceros skin. It appears that "Keickscoramissaer llauptniaun Wissmann" sent a large piece of skin over to a friend at Hamburg, who gave it into the hands of a clever turner to be made into walking-sticks. y means of some novel process the turner has rendered the fckin transparent and of a beautiful amber color, which has been done before, but

never without changing color in a very short time, while in the present caae the yellow is steady and unchanging.

COMMENT AND OPINION. WlTEN' we have good and capable national officers, legislatures and judges, let us pay them enough to live oii. This is not a matter in which tho United States can afl'ord to be niggardly. The cheapest policy is rarely the best one. Boston Advertiser. The Kepnblican majority in Congress is morally bound to reduce the duty on refined sugar sufficiently to crush the Trust and allow the natural laws of trade, and not the liat of a few individuals, to lix the price of that commodity. St. Louis GlobeDemocrat. There need be no oath-bound allegiance to any political or semi-political society in thi 8 country where there are no governmental secrets, and all departments of government, all courts and all jails are open to inspection by every citizen who has au honest inquiry. Chicago Inter Ocean. Ix a country like ours, whicli has no state church and has no business to prescribe Sabbaths and holy days, every man ought to be free to rest on the day of rest in the way that he finds most restful to him. It is against interference with this libertv that we ceaselessly protest. New York World. High license, with local option, permitting every locality that is ripe for tho reform to enforce it, meets the demand of the hour, and third-party advocates who fail to see ' it are blind. The sooner they again set about teaching moro temperance and less politics the better. Chicago Inter Ocean. If the opportunity to work is taken from alien settlers they will have to starve, steal, or throw themselves on public charity, and thev earn hardly be expected to become good citizens under such circumstances. It will be said, of course, that the law does not bar them from employment hy private parties, but it is not the probable result of the law that calls for condemnation; it is the principle. Philadelpnia ixortn American. There is no use in trying to hide the fact that the cause of temperance generally is fast becoming identified in the minds of common-sense voters with the leadership of half-crazy impracticables. who will not see that they aro damaging the very thing they profess to love. Can there not be a rescue of the cause from public censure? Will not its sincere and sensible friends unite their ellorts hereafter for measures which can bo carried, and when carried can bo enforced f New York Tribune. Government, both in its domestic and foreign relations, rests ultimately upon force. If a class of the community should assist in making the laws which cannot assist in Upholding them an element Of Weakness and irresponsibility would be introduced into national councils. This is tho key to the whole problem. This fact places the woman-suffragists in opposition to a fundamental law of the race which cannot, bo opposed without disturbing all the existing social conditions. Chicago Times. A PARTY WITHOUT PRINCIPLES. Apolitical Organization ThatAdJnits Itself to the'Whlras of Candidates. Senator J. S. Morrill, in July Foram. The Democratic party in earlier days had some fixed principles, everywhere openly proclaimed; but it has none now save whatever its national conventions elaborate to lit such presidential candidates as Greeley, Hancock or Cleveland, and subject to quadrennial change and mystification. Once States, rights and the resolutions of W were in the forefront of the Democratic creed; but all this has vanished, and no one now pretends to fear national invasion of the rights of any State. Another ringing article of their creed was hard money, Bentonian gold, instead of paper money,' which they denounced as being made only of "rags and lampblack;'7 strange to say there is hardly anything now that can be invented for circulation too cheap or too soft and rickety for the major part of the party. The time has been when the party was wont to denounce all internal improvement as unconstitutional; but now no apprppriatious for such works appear too extravafaut to find elastic support in a Democratic louse of Bepresentatives. The party once claimed as its patent of superiority the equal rights and privileges of all men: but in eleven States such rights and privileges are denied and refused to millions of American citizens, by those who masquerade and aim to dominate under the name of the Democratic party. The party, forgetting that it is itself, as the sole author of the rebellion, the solo, cause of the extraordinary necessity for the great increase of revenue, puts forth tho banner of "revenue reform." under which it covertly battles for free trade, but quivers and recoils from any deep cut of taritt duties on Louisiana sugar, on South Carolina rice, on Pennsylvania iron, ou Tennessee marble, on North Carolina peanuts, or on Florida oranges, being largely products of some Democratic districts, and districts, therefore, dangerous to touch with freetrade reform, and inclined to revolt. Once the Democratic parti was wont to declare and repeat that "the executive power had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished"; but in spite of President .Cleveland's many frantic vetoes; in spite of his depositing sixty millions of public money in pet banks without interest and without law; in spite of his appointments, without tho advice and consent of tho Senate, of ministers (minus the title) to negotiate treaties; in spite of his attempts to govern Congress by giving or withholding executive favors m order to effect the repeal of all duties on wool, and to prevent the repeal of the internal tax on tobacco, the party made no protest against the undue exercise of extraordinary executive power, which seems to have reached a growth not less colossal than that under tho administration of General Jackson, when Calhoun denounced the Democratic party ns bound together "by the cohesive power of public plunder.'' To secure a reelection, besides his reported financial contribution, the President set forth in his annual message his free-trade political sentiments, which, had they been previously known, would undoubtedly have defeated his first election. As a candidate for a third time he may have the support of tho New York Tammany Society, but with no vehement adherents elsewhere. FACTS FOR AGRICULTURISTS. The Foreign Market About Worthies! to Our Farmers. New York Sun. No amount of advertising, no proffers of reciprocal trade, no chance of llscal policy, can force on Europe another peck of wheat per capita, scarcely another quart, for many years to come, unless unexpected disaster shall befaU her crops. ' These aro words of precious truth, and should settle the taritt question with every farmer in the United States. The National ('range, at its annual meeting last year, in Topeka, adopted a resolution requesting the Commissioner of Agriculture to ascertain "if trade relations with European countries could bo established for the disposal of American surplus agricultural products." The very explicit paragraph above quoted is a part of the report of the Commissioner, made incompliance with the Grange's request. The truthfulness of the cutire report will not be questioned when we state that its facts were collected, and its deductions drawn, by Mr. J. II. Dodge, the well-known statistician of the Department of Agriculture. Europe is the only foreign buyer of our surplus wheat. Its population is &"0,000,000. Its average annual production of wheat and Hour is 1200,000. O)0 bushels. It annually purchases from other countries about 144,ouo.ouo bushels. It annually consumes four bushel per head of grain and flour. Of this nearly naif a bushel per head is imported. All of the free-trade lunatics in tho I'nitid States can't devise a way to make Europe buy live bushels of wheat and Hour per head of its population instead of four. That settles the value of the foreign market so far as w heat is concerned. The grain cannot be forced on Europe. Hut tho American market can be expanded indefinitely by increasing in the United States the number of the consumers of food, this by increasing the manufacturing population, this by increasing the number and variety of manufactures, and by the incrcase of immigration to meet the increased demand for mechanical and other labor. Sureb the result of the government's investigation of the value to our farmers of the foreign market should sicken them of tho illusions of the free-traders. Europe takes only one-tenth of the product of our farms, and this almost wholly in live articles cotton, tobacco, meats, breadstutls and cheese. All our other farm products put togethermake but 8 per cent, of our exports. Europe buys of America only to supply a deficiency in her own production. If we abolished our tarilf. she would take no more than she needed. But a market for

only one-tenth of a' surplus! Aud hauling that tenth four, and five, and six thousand miles in order to get to the two-penny market, and paving insurance aud freight on it, and standing the depreciation, shrinkage and waste, and finally encountering the competition of the breadstutfs of India aud Kussia, all produced by pauper labor! All of Europe does not take as much of our Indian corn as Iowa alone produces. France's deficiency of this grain can be supplied bv the single county of McLean in Illinois, arid Germauy's yearly requirement of it is still less. Every year there is a surplus of Indian corn in Kussia and Houmania, and southern Kurope invariably grows enough for her home consumption, what possible bargain with Europe can be made to induce her to take more American corn than she now eats. S,000.000 bushels ayearf PROTECTION AND LABOR.

Reasons Why the Farmer Is the Only Hope for Rettrtng the Lattr' Condition. Itobort Ellis Thompson. Whatever the temporary hardships and drawbacks, tho hope of the workiug classes must lie with the policy of protection, and that for two reasons. Free trade is the policy which resolves national economy into the production of wealth without the smallest regard to the condition of those who produce that wealth. As an English free-trader says: '.'Political economy is strictly in the right when it shows us the straight road to wealth. It is necessarily the shortest road, but it leads through oppression, mourning and woe. The statesman who has tho destinies of a people in his hands is surely not wise if he listens only to the barren logic of the political economist and leaves out of his reckoning tho human factor." Protection is a national declaration of our responsibility for each other, of tho consnmcr for the producer, of the wagepayer for the wage-earner, of community lor the weakest individual who makes an element in it. It thus is a distinct rejection of the national heartlessness of tho English teachiue. which sets un the accum ulation of wealth without any reference to its distribution as the aim and end of national economy. Protection is best for the working classes because it so far isolates the question of tho conditiontof our working classes as to mako it capable of solution. It does not throw them into the laber market of the world to take their chances with the cheap labor of England, the cheaper labor of the continent of Europe, and tho cheapest labor of Bengal and China. It makes their wages and hours of labor and general condition an American question, and to that end it restricts immigration by forbidding the importation of foreign labor. Public opinion in America has set up a high ideal for our laboring classes. It never will be realized unless we make our labor market independent of the rest of the world as re gards its measure of remuneration. INUALLS AND THE EDITOR. The Sleeting Between the Famons Senator nnd a Kansas Journalist. Washington Special to New York Tribune. .ihe lriends of Senator lngalls are greatly amused at an account of the first meeting between the great Kansas statesman and the editor of the Peabody (Kan.) Graphic, which the editor gives in a letter recently received in this city. The letter is written in the editorial tone, not omitting tlie "we." "The tirst time we ever saw Inncalls,"says the editor, "he was doing western Kansas in a buggy, in company with Lew llanback, the Congressman from the Sixth Kansas district, and they stepped into the little print-shop we were running ' out West at that time. He earned an umbrella over his head and wore gold-bowed spectacles that curled around and hehind the back door of his ears. When we looked out through a little clean place in tho window and saw him coming, wo told theoftice devil to spread an' exchange paper over the ink, paste and tohacco staius ou the desk, and carry out tho old ash-pan we were using as a spittoon, and then go out doors after his shoes, while we took down a cop3' of lhe lorunr and busied ourselves in one of the Senator's last articles. It is not every day that a great high muck-a-muck United States Senator with lisle-thread socks and tendollar underclothes goes calling on a little luxia western printing office. It is not every country editor who under such trying circumstances could have retained his usual equilibrium, nnd we would have been somewhat rattled ourselves, if the Senator had not adapted himself to our circumstances instead of forcing us to adapt ourselves to his. Wo were sure he intended to talk tariff to us, and tire great slices of wisdom and knowledge at us about the Samoan question, for instance, or the internal revenue, but ho didn't. He sat himself down as comforta ble as the three-legged chair would permit, put booth feet upon our desk, and producing something he had brought from the buggy, asked us if we heard what the Governor of North Carolina said to the Governor of South Carolina. It is needless to say that our embarrassment disappeared immediately. Mr. lngalls is not verj' pretty, his hair is very gray, and he is exceedingly thin and would make a good clothes prop or living illustration of the Dr. Tanner theory. His legs resemble a pair of breech-loading single-barrel guns thrust into gnu bags. It is a mystery to us how he manages to carry such a big head full of eighteen-earat brains around on such au emaciated set of underpinnings. However, he is one of the brightest stars that radiate iu the galaxy of genius and ability, and, withal, a whole-souled, polished gentleman of tho tirst water, and we repeat that some day ho will be President of these United States." .FINE WORSTED GOODS. The Enormous Doubling Process Necessary to the Making of a Perfect Yarn. Fibre and Fabric. There has been so much said about lino worsted goods during the past political campaign, and the tariff on the same, as compared with the tariff on woolen goods, that perhaps it may be of interest to many readers to know the process of doubling iu the manufacture of worsted goods. The raw material for hoth woolen and worsted goods is wool, and may, indeed, often does, come from the same bale of wool, the longer wool being selected for worsted goods. It is the process that makes the dillerence, the material being always the same, excepting the length of the fibre. In the manufacture of line worsted goods the number of times the stock is doubled seems almost incredible, in fact, those who only partially understandmanufacturing woolen goods would hardly believe tho stock is doubled the number of times it is during the process of making linished worsted yarn, ready to be made into goodN. The Globe Woolen Company, at Utica, N. Y., undoubtedly makes the best worsted goods made in the United States, and it is doubtful if there are any better goodsmado on tho other side of the big pond. The (ilobe goods have a world-wide reputation. Knowing this fact for nianyyears, and also that the management of the Globe Woolen Company has taken a great interest in tho controversy over the taritt on woolen and worsted goods, we have selected this mill as an example and taken the trouble to look iuto the manufacture of these goods at the miJls, especially with reference to the enormous doubling process to make perfect yarn. Incredible as it may seem, we lind that the stock in making the finished varus, ready for the goods, is doubled 5:i7,477,12O.00O times. As this may bo questioned by some of our expert worsted manufacturers, we will give the number of doubles as made, and . the machines on which it is doubled. First the wool is doubled three times on the cards, then five times on the preparing gill box, after the cards; then live times on the back wash; aud nine times on the gill box after the back wash, after whicli it is taken to the combing machinery, on which seventy-two strands are placed. Then twelve strands of this product are placed on the tirst finishing gill box, after combing, after which six strands are placed ou the second finishing gill box. If theselligures are multiplied together, as the doubles take place, it will be found that up to this stage the number of doubles has been 3,4W,200. this brings the stock to what manufacturers call "linished top." Four strands of this are then placed ou the first can gill-box drawing; then live strands are placed ou the second can gill-box drawing; then five strands on the spindle gill-box drawing; then four strands on the tirst four spindle weigh box; then four strands on the second four spindle weigh box; then three strands on tho tirst eight spindle finisher; then two strands on the second twelve spindle finisher; then two strands on the tirst twenty-lour spindle reducer: then two' strands on the second thirty-two spindle reducer; then twostrands the thirty-two spindle ; dandy roving lrauie. All of these multiplied together, as the doubling is done, will give 'X'O.OOo times that it hub been doubled. We have

now got our hue worsted yarn completed, only it is single yarn, ready for making iuto double and twist, and must be once mora doubled to bring it to perfect yarn, ready to be made iuto goods. When we do this, we shall lind wo have doubled it 537,477,120.000 times. JOHNNY STEELE'S OIL-CAN.

An Accident Which Suddenly Gsrs tho Young Spendthrift n Fortune. Philadelphia Press. "The announcement that the mother of John Steele, the once famous 'Coal-oil Johnny,' is dving in an almshouse in tho western part of the State," aid a Philadelphiau who was one of the first to go to Venango county when oil was discovered on. Oil creek, "reminds me that Steele came suddenly into his immense fortune through the tirst fatal accident caused by kindling; a tire by the help of the oil-can of w'hich t hero isn't any record. Steele was the adopted son of the widow McClintock. who owned the cultivated McClintock farm on Oil creek. Sho poured oil in her etove from a can to hasten the burning. An explosion followed, and she was burned to death. The farm was then producing its thousands of barrels of oil a day, and the price was good. The property was inherited by young Nteele. He was not of age, and Capt. J. J. Vandergrift, now one of the Standard Oil Company's pipe-lino millionaires, of Pittsburg, was appointed one orf the trustees or guardians of the property, pending tho boy's majority, which arrived a few week after the death of Mrs. McClintock. Steele's income has been variously stated, some figures placed on it being simply enormous.. The true figure was big enough, goodness knows. Captain Vandergrift told me once just what it was a day, and how ho came to know it exactly. It was just after the close of the war, ami they were moving to erect a soldiers' monument in Venango county, and Steele ottered to contribute one day's income'froiu his wells toward the project. Captain Vandergrift kept strict account of the day's record, and the income was $J,700. Everyone knew how Johnny Steele got along, and ho left a big share of his ill-spent wealth right hero iu this town of Philadelphia. By the way. that monument was tho lirst soldiers monument ever projected in the Union, unless it may have been Dau Bice's magnificent $.'.000 memorial at Girard, Erie count', which was put up in the summer of lSfto, almost as soon as tho last veteran had been discharged from service. It is a startling array, but it is estimated that since the day that this widow McClintock poured her fatal stream of oil on her kitchen tire, not less than 80,000 lives have been lost in this country, and millions of dollars' worth of property destroyed by similar attempts to hurry fires in stoves." Civil-Serrlco Talk. IxratsvUle Commercial. The Hon. Tom Browne, of Indiana, i quoted by an interviewer as in favor of abolishing tho civil-service law, though, if correctly reported, he does not fully understand the law, and is in favor of its object, which is to make tho tenure of subordinate places in tho service depend on good behavior and not on politics. Mr. Urowne, however, proposes to accomplish that object hy proportioning these places among tho States equally and allowing the Senators and Representatives to select the persons to fill them, as they do cadets for West Point and Annapolis. That is a crude idea, and will neither secure a good service nor a non-partisan one. Democrats would have no chance in some States and districts ami Republicans would have no chance in others. The system of appointing cadets by favor has become burdensome to many Congressmen, and they have adopted the plan of competitive examination, substantially the sanie as the civil-service laws provide for, as saving them ai oyance ami unpleasant responsibility. Appointing oilicials is an executive function, and the Constitution now here contem-. plates that it shall be done by members of Congress. Ever winter we hear CougreNsmen putting up a wail about the way their time is taken, up b olhce-seckers. Theso complaints are hypocritical or babyish when they come from men who aro constantly clamoring for the recognition of their right to control appointments. I they lkive the right to worry the President and heads of departments, their constituents have an equal right to take up their time, and ought to do it. A Congressman who devotes himself to that sort of business is not often fit to discharge very usefully the higher duties of his position. Quickest on Record. LeTriston Journal. The quickest divorce ever granted in York county was decreed by Judge Haskell, at Alfred, last week. Sirs. Edward W. KeJly. of Saco. had applied for a divorce, and sho appeared before tho court to plead her reasons. Her husband had spent most of hii timo since their marriage in jail, and had just, been brought up on a charge of stealing hens. "Is that man your husband?'' asked tho judge. Tho woman replied in the attirmativc. "You're divorced," said the court, with a celerity of action equal to that of tho hustling New Hampshire parson who married his patrons in this fashion: "You take this woman for a wife? You take this man for ahusbandf Married. Two dollars." Why lie Vetoed the IlilL Boise City (I. T.) Statesman. A good story is told of Gov. Tom Bennett, who presided over the destinies of Idaho more than a decade ago. A member of the Legislature who had been annoyed by his neighbor's hog, introduced a bill compelling the owner of the proscribed animal to keep him within the limits of a pen. Tho bill passed aud went up to Governor Bennett for his approval. To the surprise of the members and the chagrin of ltssponsor. it was returned witi his veto. When asked for a reason he exclaimed: T don't believe in the bill in the tirst place, nnd if I did I wouldn't sign a bill th.M spelled hog with a big II and Governor with a little g. A Civil-Service Hint to Mr. Rrowne. Philadelphia Press. Congressman Browne, of Indiana, ought io grow up with the couutrj' instead of standing still. Ho thinks that the Civilservice Commission should bo abolished and tho law creating it repealed. He says that the people will soon demand this change. lie will find that what the peoplo demand is the enforcement of the law and not its repeal. The evasions of the act have been the cause of complaint by tho people. The oflice-scekers and tho people are not synonymous terms, aud that is where the genial Representative makes his mistake. . .i m Men Who Know All About the Cronln Cas. 1'liilartelplila Record. Now that there seems to bo a possibility that the identification of the Winnipeg prisoner may lead to a clearing up of tho Cronin murder mystery, it is astonishing to hear of the number of persons who are coming forward to explain what they know about the case. If half of the repressed information with which they are bursting had been given at tho start the Cronin inur-. derers might havobteu caught a month ago. Queer Ways of Sovereigns. New York Cominc rcial Advertiser. A little quarrel and temporary hard feeling is said to lead most thoroughly to increased tenderness in domestic circles. It is on the same principle, piobably, that visits and cousinly embraces among the European sovereigns are invariably preceded by the massing of troops on the frontier. A Willing .Martyr. Chicago Tribune. In justice to the Hon. John M. Palmer, of Illinois, it may he said that whenever thevoico of his party calls him there is no oftico in the country that he is not willing to mako a martyr of himself in trying to gcL Decadence of Cleveland Stock. Philadelphia Press. The valuable Jersey cow that Mrs. Cleveland left in Washington has been sold for SiV), whicli is $150 less than she was worth. This would seem to indicate that Cleveland stock is steadily declining. Unwilling to Make the Acquaintance. Boston Transript. "Know thyself," read Fogg, musingly. "No, thanks. 1 know so mauy people now that I do not care to extend my acuuaiutauce, not in that direction, at least." Noah'a Ship-Bulldlng. Texas Sifting. Noah might have built tho ark of iron had ho not been specially directed to gopher wood. He didn't have far to go for it t'ithcr