Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 July 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1889

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PARIS American Exchange In Paris, 35 Boulevard dei C&pucines. JTBW YORK Gllsey House and Windsor Hotel. PHILADELPHIA A. pT Keaola, 8785 Lancaster venae, CHICAQO Palzner Honse, CINCINNATI J. P. Hawiey Co., 154 Vine street. LOTTISVI IXE O. T. Deerlng. northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUIS-TJnlon News Company, Union Depot and Southern HoteL WASHINGTON, D. O.-Khrgl House and Ebbltt House. Geim-visaged war can now smooth its wrinkled front, and the Mississippi militia can bo demobilized. The Shelbyville Democrat thinks Hill and Gray would sweep the country in 1S93. Quite likely, with two good Republicans wielding the boom. There is nothing to prevent tho "big fellow" from getting on a roaring big drunk now, but he will bo deprived of the. pleasure of beating his divorced wife. Ex-Senator Henderson, of Missouri, now on his way home from Europe, confirms the report of America's bad show at the Paris Exposition. He says our display is miserable considering the liberal appropriation made by Congress. The commissioners seem to have wasted tho money and failed in their duty. The Boston Evening Transcript describes the President's Fourth of July speech at Woodstock as "of that calm, contemplative, subdued and felicitously conceived character, utterly devoid of partisanship, which is admirably adapted to produce among rellecting Americans increased regard for their government and its institutions." The London Daily News says that communications between the English and American governments have resulted in an understanding which will avert any collision in Bearing sea during tho seal-fishing season. Another triumph for the peaceful diplomacy of President Harrison's administration. The danger of immediate collision or trouble being averted, the principle and property rights involved can be settled at leisure. Hiram T. Hoover, a white man and Knight of Labor organizer among Southern negroes, has been arrested and confined in jail at Greenfield, S. C, on the charge of vagrancy. Ho says if that is tho only charge he can provo in five minutes that ho never was a vagrant. Ho attributes his arrest solely to tho fact that ho has been organizing colored laborers and this is probably the case. The soiid South will not tolerate organization of the negroes for any purpose. The Journal is sorely grieved bocaugo the administration has grieved the Charleston News and Courier in the appointment of Fred Douglass minister to Hayti. Tho appointment, tho N. and C. says, is not good enough for so distinguished an American citizen. This is sad, but it so happens that the condition of affairs at Hayti requires a man of great experience and marked ability, and Mr. Douglass is just the man for the place. No greater honor could bo conferred upon him than to bo thus chosen at this crisis. The New York Star and other Democratic papers aro denouncing Rev. Dr. MacArthur for advising all tho postoffico clerks to bo Republicans on the occasion of his presenting them with their colors. What is a preacher for, anyhow, if it is "not to urge people to mend their wayst The sordid view the Star takes of this exhortation is a disgrace to the profession. The good man could have had no possible allusion to their retaining their places in tho public service. It was simply in the line of his profession to point out to them tho better way, and to induce them to walk therein. The sovereign States of Louisiana and Mississippi, and their puissant Governors, have niado a great exhibition of preserving the peace and enforcing the law during the last few days. It has been a great opportunity . for dressparade virtue. The New York World remarks of Governor Nicholls that "whenever real rioting has occurred in one of his parishes, he has usually turned up a day or two late, and hassubfequently been heard to remark that the sheriffs ought to know their business all which shows that even a Governor may have an eager eye to.lree advertising, whenever an eligiblo opportunity offers." It must bo generations yet before tho annexation of Canada can bo seriously thought of. There maybe commercial interests that would be promoted by it, but until there is more homogeneity in the Dominion itself wo cannot afford to bring in such an element as the French Canadian. They are not American and never can be until they cease to be Frenchmen. Less than one-fourth of the French Canadians who have crossed the border to seek money on American soil ever becomo naturalized citizens. In this they are but little better than tho Chinese. They job Around at this or that until, with their frugal habits, they tavo a fortune, then return to their na

tive land. Tho English-speaking Canadian is better. Many of the customs and views of these French-Canadians are repugnant to the average American idea, but wo could trust to the superiority of our own to overcome that were it not that they come for amero mercenary purpose and leave as soon as they have accomplished their purpose. We want no French Canada.

PRIZE-FIOHTINQ ATSV THE PUBLIC. The Journal gives considerable space to news concerning tho prize-fight which occurred yesterday in Mississippi. No doubt many of our readers will peruse the "disgusting details" with interest, and then censure the Journal for printing 'them. Tho Journal feels like censuring itself for printing them, and only does so because a depraved public taste, or, if you please, a depraved standard of journalism, requires it. A newspaper cannot afford to be, or pretend to be, very much better than the common run of people, and is apt to print about what the common run of people wish to read. Why there should be such universal interest in an event of this kind is past comprehension. All attempts to put a prize-fight on the respectable footing of athletic games, and to invest it with the interest that pertains to manly out-door sports, are simply dishonest cant. It has no element of such games and sports, and no redeeming element of any kind. Tho physical training which precedes a fight and which puts two ruffians into the highest possible condition of strength and endurance is admirable in itself, but becomes almost repulsive in view of tho use it is put to. Tho advantages of physical culture furnish no apology for prizefighting. A man can take care of hishealth and develop his physical powers to tho utmost limit without prostituting them to a use that shames the brutes. A big bull-dog or English mastiff would whip either of these men in fair fight and not be conscious that he had done anything worthy of admiration, nor would ho go off afterwards and get drunk or pose as a hero among other dogs. If any person can discover or 'analyze the feeling which has caused such a general interest in this brutal and degrading exhibition, we should like to have it explained. All cant and hypocrisy aside, we are inclined to believe it is because there is in human nature a large element of the unspeakable and irreclaimable brute. Aside from the announcement that full-fledged bacteria inhabit the very best water-filters, the discovery ota new brand of ophthalmia, particularly destined for the use of those eyes subjected to electric lights, and the invention of that noiseless lpconiotivo by which a man may bo sliced asunder and never discover it, it is somewhat depressing to read that Richard Henry Stoddard is of the opinion, deduced from observation of homo fiction, that the American brain is softening. Just what school of fiction this melancholyinspiring critic has been considering it would bo interesting to know. W. D. Howells has not recently done anything worse than usual. Amelie Rives's latest story was a decided improvement on tlie "Quick or tho Dead." Ella Wheeler Wilcox has noticeably mitigated her fervent order of composition under tho influence of the Meriden Cutlery Company. Edgar Fawcett and Henry Jame3 have not been violently publicational of late, tho war articles in tho Century havo unexpectedly desisted, and but for Mr. Stoddard's low-spirited verdict, tho literary outlook would be hopeful. On tho other hand, a long list of native writers of fiction could undergo cerebral examination without distressing revelation. If this uncomplimentary inference had been mado after investigation of the average American magazine poem, now, it would, doubtless, receive hearty and enthusiastic corroboration from a large class of readers who havo long been painfully competent in this department of fatal prophecy. The grand jury of tho Western dis trict of Tennessee has been unearthing some Democratic methods which, though not new, are startling. One hundred and fifty persons have been indicted for violation of the election law, and the jury's labors aro barely begun. It is said that though fho jury had nine Democrats among its membership, tho out rages wero so flagrant that in nearly every case tho veto on the finding was unanimous. Ballot-boxes wero stolen and false ones substituted, poll-lists wero written out from old directories, two or three ballots wero folded togeth er and prisoners were carted around and voted several times. Somo of theso wrongs will bo investigated by the committee on privileges and elections of tho next Congress, and they may affect tho title of tho member holding tho certifi cate of election, but tho best moral re sult will follow tho conviction of the officers, as in recent cases in this county. Gen. Francis A. Walker, replying to somo criticisms on his recent address at Brown University, says he is decidedly in favorof increasing our naval arma ment and coast defenses, but rather as a means of peace and defense than of ag gression. Ho thinks the United States can always secure by fair discussion and wholly peaceful demands all that is clearly its due. "By the close of this century," says General Walker, "we shall be 80,000,000, stronger in all the elements of industrial, financial and military power than any two, if not three, nations of tho old world. It is absurd to suppose that any European government would deliberately seek to insult or injure such a people. The one great danger is that wo may ourselves bo tempted to abuse our power, to use a giant's strength tyrannously." . General Sherman once said, "Flesh and blood can not long stand the 6train which we subject our President and Cabinet to every four years." Then most of our Presidents and Cabinets are rnaile of better than flesh and blood material. They seem to stand it right well, and always toward the close of their tribulations remind one of the burdenbearer who threw down his burden and called for death. In a twinkling Death came and asked the tired man what he

wanted, whereupon the tired man

jumped to his feet and said, "Put this burden on my shoulder again, please." Thirty-seven wives filed complaints on the 5th in Philadelphia, against their husbands for getting drunk and beating them on the Fourth. Queer wives they must bo not to allow their husbands to declare) their independence, in their own way, on the Fourth. Tho small . boy is. by common consent, allowed to shoot fire-crackers on that day, though forbidden on common days. Where is the spirit of '76 if a man must he restrained of his liberty on the glorious Fourth? The Journal telephone was kept busy yesterday, and tho entire editorial force in a state of perspiration answering inquiries as to the result of the fight. This is a great country, and highly civilized. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Will a bain, the top of which Is the same size as the bottom, ontch more water when the rain Is falling straight, than It will wheu It Is falling at an angle of 45l If so, how do you measure the rain-fall! Keadeb. Newport, Ind. If tho rain-fall were uniform it would make no difference in the quantity that would enter the vessel, whether it fell perpendicularly or at an angle of 45. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. In his study Mr. John Morley is one of the most orderly of men. Mr. Wanamaker, as Postmaster-general, occupies smaller and plainer offices than any other member of the Cabinet. There is only four months difference in the ages of Sullivan and Kilrain, Sullivan. being thirty years, eight months old, and Kilrain thirty years, four mouths. PEorLE with theories about hands, eyes or noses can deduce their own conclusions from the fact that General Boulauger's ears stand out at an angle of forty -five degrees. Edwik UooTn is a prominent figure 'at Narrangansett Pier this season. He is stopping for the summer at his daughter's cottage and spends a great deal of his time in long walks. Loud Balfour, of Burleigh, is a direct descendant of Robert Bruce, and has in his family archives a deed signed by that monarch conferring upon one of his ancestors the title to a small estate at Clackmannan, which has ever since remained in the possession of the family. Joun A. Maoixxis, who was killed by a stroke of lightning at New Orleans on July 4, was tho husband of 'Boss' Tweed's daughter. lie married herMn the zenith of Tweed's power and tho description of the ceremonies and wedding presents was one of the sensations of the day. An observer of human nature has discovered thatwhen a Chinaman is pleased ho takes off his shoes and opens his month. At a matinee given at the Chinese Theatro in New York on the Fourth, a now comedy (written about a thousand years ago) was p esented, and bare feet and open mouths were tho rule. A law school for women is to be established iu New York next fall by Mrs. Emily Kempin, LL. D. The system of teaching will be that of European universities, all the instruction being given in tho form of lectures. Mrs. Kempin is a graduate of the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and is a lawyer of note. Tun city editor of the Muncie, Ind., E ening Herald is a woman Miss Minnie McKillip. She is anenergetic newsgathcrer, meeting trains, cetting interviews at the hotels, and furnishing tho printers with more "cony" than anyone else on the paper. Miss McKillip is eighteen years old, petite in figure, and is said to be quite pretty, i Senator.Faui.kner, of West Virginia, was presented with a "war" diploma' from the Virginia Military Institute on the Fourth, after delivering an address beforo the alumni association. He was a Member, of tho corps of cadets which would havo been graduated in 107, but they took part in th battle of Newmarket, May 15, 1801 and shortly afterward dispersed. Allen G. Thukman is again suffering considerable from inflammatory rheumatism. When asked tho qther day how ho felt, ho replied: "I am suffering about as much as 1 can. I thought the warm weather would help me, but as yet I havo obtained no relief from it." Mrs. Thurman says she will taKo the ex-Senator to the West Virginia hot springs beforo long. ; One of the wealthy railroad men of the West is John B. Carson, of Chicago, vicepresident of tho Louisville, New Albany &, . Chicago road. Besides owning the Columbia Theater ho has other heavy investments in Chicago real estate, ana is worth more than a million. He began life as a wator-carrier for tho thirsty workmen in a Cleveland ship-yard forty years ago. Edwin Booth has not given up smoking, as has been reported. Ho was observed recently at a small railway station on the Connecticut shore of Long Island sound dressed in gray and puffing a black, strong cigar with the air of an enthusiast. His face was pale, his eyes hacrg.ird and ho walked liko an m old man. One shoulder was at least two inches above the other. Those who saw him were astonished at his feeble appearauce. v . Emehson A. Stearns, an eminent botanist, writes to the Boston Transcript to say that the golden rod would make the best national tiower. "Its period of flowering," he says, "is unusually long three months at least (July-September;. In form and color it is graceful aud superb, its rich goldeu hue typifying perfectly the precious metal which Americans so uuceasingly pursue." He also recommends that tho'naine of the flower be changed to golden plume. The recent report of the illness of tho Queen Regent of Spain Mad its origin in that tactful lady's desiro to avoid being mixed up in a social feud. Places had been given for tho same tribune in the Cortes to Senora Martos, wife of the Speaker, and Senora Cavalejas, wife of the Minister of Justice. The latter cam firstl Senora Martos, on finding her and two other ladies in possession of the best places, asked her, through an usher, to yield her seat. A refusal was given, as "no mouey had been paid for the place, tho Cortes not being an opera-house or circus." Feelings were vented in high words on both sides. Senor Martos went to Senor Sagasta about it. But tho men were uuablo to settle the matter among themselves, so they appealed to the Queen Regent She heard them through, and then, without giving any decision, retired to her apartments and went to bed, pretendiug to be ill. A day or so later she was taken into the country. 'for her health." How the ladies settled the trouble is not recorded. THE PICNIC ANTS. Oh, the red-hot naughty ants. How they clamber up your pants " At the pienlo In tho cool and shady glen How they seem to take delight In The obnoxious sport of biting Giddy girls and modest genUemen." It's delightful when one's cooing To the damsel he is wooing To feel the playful creature in his pants. And upon the ambient air He throbs a soulful swear At the foolish, dreadful monkeying of those ants. Oh, it set the brain a-throbiiig To feel those insects bobbing TJp and down upon one's system in their merry rlee. There's but one way you can right 'em. And that is to flee and tizht 'era 'Neath tho shadow of some distant friendly tree. Canon City Record. . COMMENT AND OPINION. The trust nuisance has become intolerable, it has infected gas companies, sugar companies, oil companies, flour companies and coal compauies. For almost everything that a man buys there is an actual or prospective trust. Chicago Inter Ocean. Thousands who usually obey a law whether the3 believe in its policv or not make an exception in the case of prohibitory enactments, and treat such statutes as tyrannical invasions of personal libertv and entitled to no resnecLj M,en who. would not

think of evading or defying an ordinary statute will obstruct and nullify a prohibitory law without the slightest hesitation or scruple. Chicago Tribune. The chief aim of all good citizens in this matter the liquor problem should bo to make drunkenness constantly more and more odious, and thus less and less common; and this must always and everywhere be the work of education and training in far greater measure than that of law. New York Evening Post. Plain senso teaches, and Yankee gumption has embodied the teaching into a new gospel, that a well-educated, well-fed, wellpaid body of workmen is the only sure and enduring basis of commercial prosperity. It is a gospel which the South needs to learn and which the North should never forget. Chicago Inter Ocean. It is not an easy task to find just the right men for the many important places in a government so powerful as that of tho United States, and that he the President should have taken time in selections which will add so much to the success or failure of his administration is natural, and he cannot be criticised for it New York Press. The political conditions of Europe may change, and the military powers may unite upon the idea of satisfying their desires for extension of territory and power upon this continent. In that view, tho United States should certainly prepare itself with a navy and ordnance such as will make it a very uncomfortable power to attack. Pittsburg Dispatch. If there is in this country any tendency whatever to a disproportionate concentration of wealth in the hands of a few, that tendency is not as great as in other countries, and the best evidence of later davs leads strongly to the belief that, in this country at least, the accumulation of wealth is far more widely distributed than most persons havo hitherto supposed. New York Tribune. On this whole trust question only one position can be consistently or honestly taken. Like offenses should receive like punishment If the iron, steel, lead, woolen or cotton manufacturers should ever become as insolent, autocratic and oppressive as the sugar magnates have boen and are, tho Globe-Democrat will demand that the dnty on their products, too, be reduced to the revenue point. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

TALKS ON THE TARIFF. Why an Anglo-Swiss Company Established a Factory in IUinols. New York Tress. The Anglo-Swiss Milk Company, of Cham. Switzerland, was lately asked, in a letter from Arkansas, whether the duty of 20 per cent, on condensed milk caused it to establish a factory in thn country. Its entire reply is an excellent tariff talK: "ou forward us a letter from Carl & Tobey. Little Rock, Ark., which states that 'the tariff mania has struck Arkansas,' and asks the question whether if the 20 per cent. duty should be removed from condensed milk onr price for American milk would bo reduced by tho amount of the duty. Our answer is: Not ono cent. The oufy effect that the removal of the duty of 20 per cent. would have would bo that we should then be inclined to produce more in England, at the same time manufacturing less in America, buying less milk from the American farmer and employing less American labor.', "The duty of 20 per cent, on English milk sent to America has been paid by ourselves, and not by tho American consumer. Where an article like condensed milk is easily manufactured in tho States, and is manufactured there. . the foreigner, if ho will send goods to the United States, must conform to the prices fixed by American manufacturers, and regulated through competition between American manufacturers themselves. For the foreigner to conform to these American prices he must necessarily pay tho dut3r. Ho cannot add the duty to the price of his good so that tho American consumer will pay it, unless he cau show that his goods are superior in quality to tho American goods.1 In tho caso of condensed milk ho cannot show this. 'Tho 20 per cent, duty ou condensed milk is protective, and not too much so; it is just enough to make us prefer to make goods for American consumption iu the States. "On au article which cannot be or is not produced in the States, of course the American consumer pays tho duty. American users of American canned goods pay the duty on tin-plates employed, though the duty on this material enhances the cost of canned goodsscarcely enough to be noticed by tho consumer. "Now why does not the present duty on tin-plates encourago the making of tinplates in the States! Simply because the preseut duty is not high enough to bo protective. The present duty is no more than a revenue dnty and the consumer pays it. Put a duty on tin-plates fully protective, say double what the duty is. now, audit would encourage the importation of raw tin, or tho mining of tin at home, putting it with the raw irou or steel plates tho Americans already make, and build up an industry in tho united States equal to the eize of the city of Pittsburg. Forth moment, during the youth of such industry, the consumer might pay a little more for his tin-plates, but it would not bo burdensome. Subsequently home competition among home manufacturers would regulate the prices to as cheap a basis as would be consistent with reasonable profits for all concerned tho producer and tho workiugman. Looking at the matter iu this light, the present duty on tin-plates should come oil" entirely or be doubled. "Please send a copy of this little tariff speech to our friends in Arkansas." A REMINISCENCE OF 1861. How the Rebel Flags Captured at Rich Mountain Were Received by Lincoln. Major-General Schuyler Hamilton, In New York Tribune. On July 11, 1861, the battle of Rich Mountain, W. Va., was fought. General McClellan being in command of the Union troops. It resulted in the defeat of the confederates and the capture of a large number of their standards. This battle, although in itself one of minorsigniticance. became far-reaching in its consequences, for its effect was to make George B. MeClellan the commander of the Army of the Potouiao, and subsequently the commander-in-chief of the armies of the United States. Ten days thereafter the first Bull Run took place, magnifying McClelland's recent success beyond its rightful proportions and resulting in a popular demand for his services to head the troops hurrying to tho defense of the beleagued capital. After the battle General MeClellan selected his father-in-law. Colonel Randolph B. Marcy, inspector-general, to deliver the captured Rich Mountain battleflags to President Lincoln, but for some reason the ceremony was delayed for several weeks. To be selected for such a service is usually an exceptional honor. There might be a suggestion of "nepotism" in McClelland choice were it not for the brilliant career of Colonel, afterward General, Marcy. He entered West Point iu 1828; was graduated in 1832; was distinguished in Indian warfare; in the war with Mexico, and during the rebellion. His "Prairie Traveler" (1859), and "Thirty Years of Army Life on the Border" (1866), are of singular interest. Ho died several years ago. When Colonel Marcy reported at General Scott's headquarters and told the General his mission, he asked how he was to proceed. General Scott replied: "My dear Colonel, if I were capable of locomotion I would accompany you myself ou such an interesting and honorable mission, but being unable to do so I will send Colonel Hamilton in my stead." I was obliged to confess my own want of experience in such matters. "General." I said, "the only flag I ever presented to any one was the one my command captured at Mira Flores, Mexico, in 1S46, which I presented to you. If you remember, it bore a skull and cross-bones and was inscribed in Spanish, "No Doy Quartel" (I give no quarter) aud it is now at West Point. Before going on this errand I would like minute instructions from you." Although Colonel Marcy was quite deaf and could only hear when addressed in extremely loud tones, General Scott requested him to retire for a few minutes, and then the General said to me: "When captured standards or banners are presented to any potentate it is the usage for the officer appointed to this service to be treated with very marked distinction. For example, he may be permitted a few days to visit his family, and is informed that ou his return the President will hand him an autograph letter thanking the general who commanded the troops in the action for their brilliant services." Four non-commissioned officers carried the standards and each of them had a heavy load. Colonel Marcy and I followed proudly after the bearers of the flags. The President had been advised of our coming, and when we reached the White House we were conducted to the large room, on the

second floor known as the "President's room." The flags were spread upon the floor and nearly carpeted it. One was a very large confederate flag. Many were of exquisite needlework, tastefully embroidered with gold and silver and in varied and brilliant colors, in which green, blue and red predominated. There were representations of thistles wrought upon the delicate folds with the motto, 'Nemo Me Impune Lacessit." Others bore the arms of Virginia with the motto, "Perseverando," but the words "Liberty and Union" wero carefully omitted. A favorite inscription was "Sic Semper Tyrannis" familiar words both to President Lincoln and General Scott, for they were constantly sent to them with anonymous threats of assassination and were, indeed, tho words pronounced by Booth on the stage of Ford's Theatre the night he murdered tho President. Mr. Lincoln examined each flag with boylike interest. "How sad it is to think," he said, "that our Southern fellow-citizens, so highlv educated, aud their women, so accomplished, as this beautiful embroideryshows, should be so misguided. It is the baneful fruit of their institutions and slavery." Then he had somethiag to say in a kind way to the sergeants in charge of the flags. "1 reckon, boys," he. observed, "that it did not take you nearly so long to win these flags as it did the ladies to make them." While the President was moving along the rows of these captured trophies, followed by Colonel Marcy, the sergeants and myself, and talking familiarly about them, Secretary Seward entered the room. The chief of the Cabinet was evidently out of sorts about something, and plainly showed his annoyance. I think the news received from across the sea was threatening, indicating tho possibility of a recognition of the Confederacy by England and France. At any rate, tho Secretary was in anything but a pleasant frame of mind. "What flags are these, Colonel?" he brusquely asked me. "They were captured at Rich Mountain, Mr. Secretary." I answered. He gave the big confederate flag which happened to be nearest to him a contemptnous kick. "We want newer flags than these," he said significantly. Colonel Marcy was too deaf to hear this remark, and his back being turned did not see Mr. Seward's exhibition of irritation. Without even looking toward the Colonel, the Secretary of State walked over the prostrate banners to where Mr. Lincoln was, and told him that he must see him at once on the most urgent business. They withdrew to an adjoining apartment, and while

the president was out ot the room l explained to Mr. Nicolay, his private secretary, the nature of my private instructions from General Scott. Joining us again, after a brief absence, Mr. Lincoln finished his inspection of the battle-flags, and then said to General McClellan's representative: "Colonel Marcy, I am delighted to shake hands with you. After passing through the perils of battle, it would be natural if you should desire to spend a few days with your family, who, I understand from Colonel Hamilton, are at Orange, N. J. Stay with them, Colonel, so long as your sense of duty will permit. Then return to me and be my guest here at the White House. Your visit finished, you will receive from me an autograph letter, thanking General MeClellan and his victorious army for the great service they have rendered the cause of the Union." The scene and all its attending circumstances were eminently characteristic of Lincoln, and Colonel Marcy was delighted. In the war of 1812 General Brown sent an officer to Washington with captured flags from the Northern frontier. He delayed by the way so long that it was proposed in Congress to vote him a pair of spurs. Colonel Marcy was not "built that way." Ever prompt in the discharge of his duty, he soon returned and rejoined his command. These incidents, with others already published, are advanced sheets, as it were, of what I may style my "unwritten history." THE FOUR NEW STATES. When Their Representatives In Congress Are to Be Elected - Provisions of the Law. F. A. Carle, in Washington Post. Writing on the elections to Congress in the new StaUs, without a copy of the law before it, tho Post falls into a natural error.. There is no need of a special election for members of Congress alter tho President shall have proclaimed the Territories admitted as States. The law provides (Section 9) that the Representatives to the Fif-ty-tirst Congress, together with tho Governors and other otlicers provided for in said Constitutions, may be elected on tho same day (Oct 1) of the election for tho ratification or rejection of the Constitutions. Candidates for Congress, as well as for State offices, will bo nominated in all tho Territories in conventions to bo held about Sept. 1. They will be voted for at the general elections provided for in the act on tho first Tuesday in October. The returns of this election are to be canvassed by the territorial Governor and two Supremo Justices. Upon their return being mado to the President, he shall issue his proclamation, declaring tho Territories States, provided that tho votes upon the Constitution are affirmative. Section 24 of tho act deelares "that tho constitutional conventions may, by ordinance, nrovido for the election of officers for full State governments, including members of tho Legislatures and Representatives in the Fifty-first Congress, but said State governments shall remain in abeyauee until the States shall be admitted into tho Union respectively, as provided in this act In case the Constitution of any of said proposed States shall bo ratified by tho people, but not otherwise, the Legislature thereof may assemble, organize and elect two Senators of the States; and the Governor and Secretary of Stat of such proposed State shall certify the election of the Senators and Representatives in the manner required by law; and when such State is admitted into the Union, the Senators and Representatives shall be entitled to bo admitted to seats in Congress, and to all the rights and privileges of Senators and Representatives of other States in tho Congress of the United States; and the officers of the Stato government formed in pursuance of said constitutions, as provided by tho constitutional conventions, shall proceed to exercise all the functions of such State officers; and all laws in force mado by such Territories, at the time of their admission into tho Union, shall be in force in said States, except as modified or changed by this act or by Constitutions of thoStates, respectively." 'lhat is to say, the Stato governments go into operation, and the rights of the Representatives in Congress to seats aro completed as 6oon as the President shall have issued his proclamation. This may easily be done within two weeks after election, or by the 15th of October. The Governors aud Secretaries of Stato may issue certificates of election to the members of Congress-elect upon returns turned over to them hy the territorial government and Supreme Justices as soon as they themselves aro inducted into ofiee. Upon the presentation of these certificates to the Clerk of the last House it is clearly his duty to place tho names of the members-elect from the new States upon his roll, together with all other members-elect of the Fifty-first Congress, whose seats are not contested. Should an extra session bo called any time after Oct 15, themembers of Congress-elect from the new States will have the 6amo prima facie right to seats and votes as other members-elect against whom notice of contest is not filed. To deny them a place on the roll, after the conditions of the act above described are fulfilled, would be a flagrant breach of dnty on the part of the Clerk of the last House. Deficient In American History. Philadelphia Times. The Rev. Charles Spurgeon, son of tho great English preacher, who is now lecturing in New York, had better look up his American history a little. In a sermou last Sunday evening, while urging his hearers to have the courage of their convictions, he cited iu illustration the caseof Henry Clay, who was asked to rnn for President "Nobly," said the preacher, "did Clay reply: 'Gentlemen. I cannot run on such a platform. I would rather be right than be President.' His friends changed the platform. Clay then accepted, ran for President, and was elected, and to-day his name is revered, for he had the courago of his convictions." The Hottest Weather known. Ixmlsville Tost. "What is tho hottest weather ever known in the United States!" The question is answered in the May bulletin of the Kentucky Statistical Weather Service. The highest temperature recorded by tho United States Signal Service was at Pba nix and Fort McDowell, A. T., in June, 1883. The thermometer marked 119 degrees. However, unofficial observers report temperatures as high as 128 and 122 decrees at Mammoth Tank aud Humboldt, Cal. The

coldest weather recorded by the service was CO degrees below zero, at Poplar River, M. T. But this is a warm place compared with Wirchojausk, Siberia; tho coldest inhabited spot on the globe. The thermometer there lias been as low as W degrees below zero. In view of these figures, let us not complain of a paltry W degrees above zero. OFF FOR AFRICA.

A Young Indiana 31 an Goes Rack to the Dark Continent to Trade and Explore. New York Sun. A few years ago Carl Stcckelmann. a young man in Indiana, was seized with a desire to go to Africa and gather his own impressions of tho Dark Coutinent The fact that he had little money was not permitted to deter him. He went to England and secured a placo in the service of an, African trading company. In the course of his three years' sojourn on the west coast, a little north of tho Congo, ho mado a trip several hundreds of miles inland to Stanley Pool by a route north of the Congo, which was almost unknown; and when lie came back homo last year he brought with him a largo ethnological collection, which is now in a Cincinnati museum. On last Wednesday Mr. Stcckelmann sailed again for Africa on the City of Berlin. "Africa has a fascination tor me," he said in the Sun office a while before ho sailed, "and I expect to spend ray life there. Tho money I make in trade and from tho sale of my collections, if I can dispose of them, I intend to spend in explorations. It is my desire on my next trip to strike northeast in the French Congo possessions, through the forest region of tho Ogowe basin aud on to the Soudan. It will bo a long journev, but if I succeed 1 shall have traversed good deal of new ground. "White men can live in tho Congo country if they are prudent, but foolish persons who commit all sorts of excesses are likely to succumb. Many reports from the Congo about its commercial prospects are, in my opinion, entirely too glowing. The country is well worth developing, but it will take years to put trado up tho river on a profitable basis. "Tho ivory trade is failing. Tho French Conco, for instance, has been cleaned of its dead ivory, and coast traders aro getting tusks only from newly-killed animals. Tho trade cannot last. Ihero are boundless possibilities for cotton, India rubber, palm oil and other products, but not under tho present system. "The natives will not voluntarily cultivate these products and bring them to market They havo few needs and will not work unless under compulsion. It will bo necessary, after the Congo road is built, to establish plantations under white supervision. Then the 83'stera which the Dutch have made so successfnl in Java and the Germans havo attempted in east Africa must be adopted. Some chiefs must be compelled to furnish laborers for theso Jilantations, the workmen, of course, to be ' airly paid. Other chiefs must bo required. to bring to niarket a certain amount of Iroducts. This 6ort of compulsion may lave a flavor of slavery about it, but the Congo cannot be developed without labor, and labor cannot be procured in any other way. "Foreign laborers cannot live on tho Congo. . Even the Chinese cannot thrive ou the west coast, for the experiment has been tried and ic failed. Those who know tho Congo valley best believe it has great commercial possibilities, but it will take much capital and years of patient labor to develop its resources." Private Dal z ell's Idea of Politics. Letter In Yew York Son. Our State convention is over. We have a splendid ticket even if my name is not' there. I got 169 votes, thirty-three from this congressional district, and tho solid vote of Noble county. The soldiers voted for me from tho "A" counties down to Washington, but there were not quite enough to "make mo Lieutenant-governor. Other candidates had headquarters, groceries, and things. It cost somo of them, poor devils, big money. What with badges, cigars, and circulars, and cards, and tickets, it cost them a good deal. I had no headquarters, no cigars, no circulars, no cards, nor any other thing ex-' cept myself. Yet I got more votes than any of the dozen or so of other defeated candidates. Here's what it cost me: Postage $o.rrt Railroad fare 2.75 Three days at cheap hotel 3.00 . Total ....$6.25 I That's what it costs to run for Lieutenant-governor in Ohio at least, that's what it cost mo and I sold six dollars7 worth of my autobiographies; and so am out on this campaign precisely 25 cents, and camo, mighty near getting there at that That's j my idea of politics. No Inspiration In Deer, Saj Mr. Roosevelt. Milwaukee Sentinel. Theodore Roosevelt, tho young member of the Civil-service Commission, was in Milwaukee, and has gone again. When tho commission went to Schlitz's Park, Mr. Roosevelt declined to go into tho theater, saying that he would give more for live minutes under tress than a whols evening; 1 of grand opera. So they sat down and talked of literature while drinking lager. "Do you know," said Mr. Roosevelt, holding up nis glass and looking through tho amber-hued liquid, "that there is not a thought in a hogshead of beer; that thero is not an idea in a whole breweryf I mean," continued tho New York politician, "that nothing of merit was overwritten under the inspiration of lager beer. It stupefies without invigorating, and its effect upon the brain is to stagnate thought Do not imagine that I am a temperance orator. I am simply comparing stimulants. Some of tho brightest of literary efforts have been made while under the influence of spiritous liquor, taken by tho poor, overworked author to avoid a complete physical and mental collapse. I shall wait to see if any man can write ant ig who has a drop of beer in his system." Trusts .rusts. St Louis Olobo-Deraoci The Indianapolis iew8 appears to bo sur-, prised because tho Globe-Democrat has said that "trusts in products on which du- . ties are charged can bo attacked at the custom-house," and observes that this language is a "complete give-away" of the protectionist argumeut. Tho News is mis-' informed as to tho situation. If it wero not, it would see that tho actual foes of the trusts are the protectionists, and not'tho free-traders. Some trusts are aided by tho tarifi. This tho protectionists have never denied. The only trubt of this class, however, which is really oppressive and iniquitous is the Sugar Trust Tho head of that combine framed tho sugar schedule of the Mills bill. That measure would secure to the trust all the advantages which it has under existing law. The bill drawn by the Republican Senate struck a blow at the trust All tho foregoing is history, which tho News would know if it knew anything about the subject Pnttitig the Best Foot Foremost. Kansas Citr Journal. . It is said that Governor Buckncr, of Kentucky, was ashamed to place a copy of the State Constitution in the Kentucky exhibit at Paris, because it would mislead the uninformed to the belief that slavery still existed in that State. But Governor Buckner and all good Kentucklans took great pride in sending to the exposition an educational display of fine old Kentucky whiskies. They Won't Do It, However. Boston Journal. Those Democratic papers which are advertising for sows of strikes, failures, etc., which they can parade us evidence that the election of President Harrison was:, a good thing for the countrv. should tako notice of tho remark of tho Springtied Republican that these strikes "aro no more., the result of Republican success than tho strikes of ISsC were of Democrati" luccess." St. l'anl Would Snicker. Jirw Yrrk Tribune. The pride of Minneapolis has always been her Hour mills. Now doesn't it seem likely to unprejudiced outsiders that St. Paul would snicker audibly if those British capitalists should actually buy and own, and put their monograms, so to speak, on the proudest distinction ot her dearest foet Makes tho Drinker a Leaulug Tower. Philadelphia rreaa. The new Boston cocktail is called the "Eitiel." Taken copiously it makes a leaning tower of tho drinker. High License. Boston Transcript. There is a restaurant in the Eiffel tower where wines, liquors and cigars can 1m bought