Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 July 1889 — Page 4

THE , INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, JULY 15, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL MONDAY, JULY 15, 1889.

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NEW YORK Gllsey Houss And Windsor Hotel. PHILADELPHIA-A. pTKemhle, 3735 Lancaster avenue, CHICAGO Palmer Ilouse. CINCINNATI-J. P. Hawiey A Co., 154 Vine street LOUISVILLE C. T. Deering, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. 6T. LOUIS Union News Company, .Union Depot and Southern HoteL WASHINGTON, D. C Rlggs Ilouse and Ebbltt House. Physical culture does not appear to good advantage when running away from sheriffs and policemen. John L. Sullivan says he does not understand Governor Lowry's tactics. John would be a very deep man if he did, and John is only big, not deep. Cardinal Gibbons, in an article on the labor question, says "whoever tries to sow discord between capitalist and labor is an enemy of social order." This is profoundly true; but there are a great many such enemies of social order, and they are very busy. Let's see; it was ex-Postmaster Jones, wasn't it, who said he could get no editorial mention of postoftico affairs in his party organ, the Sentinel, without paying cash for it? The Sentinel is a nice paper to bo assuming the virtuous role and charging another with corrupt conduct. . A special election for sheriff will take place in St. Francis county, Arkansas, to-day, and. in anticipation of trouble, the Governor has issued a special order disbanding all military companies organized in the county during the last four months. The Democrats will hardly know how to hold an election without military companies. The indications are that ex-Senator Mahone will be nominated by the Republicans of Virginia for Governor. The convention will meet on Aug. 20, and, unless the present drift changes, Mahono will bo the nominee. He is a fighting Republican and a great organizer, and if he consents to make the race he will make it hot for the Virginia Democracy. Mahono is in full accord with the President's idea of forming a Southern protective tariff party, and if he is nominated the fight will bo on that line. Tiie moral character, or rather the lack of moral character, of the Sentinel is to bo taken into account in considering its attacks tipon reputable contemporaries. It being naturally impossible for' that interesting paper to formulate an opinion upon any public question without first fixing a price on it in dollars and cents, it is perhaps not to be wondered at that it is unable to ascribe other than corrupt and mercenary motives to any paper expressing decided views. The Sentinel is not altogether to blame because it has no moral sense and no sense of decency. It was born and brought up so. The warm, rainy weather of the past few weeks has caused a rank growth of vegetation, and trees, bushes and undergrowth are more dense than usual. The indications point to continued wet weather and to increasing denseness and rankness of vegetable growth. These conditions are apt to produce disease. The prevention of surface ventilation is a well-established cause of malaria, am. one not un frequently due to the unwillingness of property-owners to cut and trim their trees. It is important to maintain a sufficient degree of surface drainage and ventilation to prevent the formation of disease germs, and in a damp season like the present there is special need of watchfulness on this point. A most significant scene was witnessed at Atlanta last Thursday. It was Dr. Hoggs, the chancellor of the Georgia University, pleading with the Georgia Legislature to miako provision for the white j-oung men of Georgia, at least equal to the provision that Northern philanthropy is making for the colored children. The Atlanta Constitution says: 'Tho applause was loudest when he said that tho whites proposed to forever rule this country, but hardly less when ho compared tho Northern philanthropists spending millions on negro education to the old woman who kissed the cow, saying it was all a matter of taste; but it behooves us to see that tlio white boys and girls have at least as good a chance for an education as tho children of the colored race." The good Chancellor is right. After all, brains will win, and educated brains are always foremost in the fight. Give the white boys and girls a fair chance. Tho Journal believes in white equality, hence in tho education of white children. . A bill has been introduced into the Georgia Legislature which is to authorize county and State jailers to refuse to admit prisoners from tho United States courts. The immediate occasion of this is the decision of Judge Spear, of the United States Court, that in their treatment of prisoners sent by the federal cfurts tho keepers become United States officers, and are punishable in the fed-

eral courts for cruelties practiced upon the prisoners. Some time ago the keeper of the Macon prison chained a negro by the neck to the' top of his cell, so that he could remain only in an erect position for two or three hours. He was properly punished by the court for this inhumanity, and now the Georgia Legislature proposes that, if a Georgia jailer has to bo responsible to a federal court for such pastimes, they will take no more federal prisoners. What the United States will do about it remains to be 6een. As the United States pays well for tho care of its prisoners, we tender the use of Indiana jails for their accommodation.

THE SENTINEL'S LIES. The following is from an editorial in tho Indianapolis Sentinel: Let everybody understand that the school-book articles in the Journal aropaid for at so much per lino by tho infamous ring which has been plundering tho people of Indiana for many years past This refers to the editorial as well as the local articles. .Unscrupulous and mendacious as the Journal is, it would not devote its columns to attacks upon leading citizens of Indiana of its own political household unless it were well paid for it. Boodle tells tho "whole story of the Journal's crusade against cheap text-books. Boodle always dictates the course of the Journal. The Journal is pre-eminently a boodle organ. Its columns aro notoriously for sale to the highest bidder. Its support can be obtained for any ring, however rascally; for any Job. however brazen; for any scheme of public plunder, however flagrant; either c. o. L or for a share of the booty. It is always found on the boodle side of everv question. It has as keen a scent for boodle as. the crow for carrion. The Journal doe3 not often notice the attacks of. opponents, but the unusual mendacity and malignance of tho foregoing seem to challenge attention. So false and foul a charge could only emanate from a corrupt source. Its author and publisher is a common liar and falsifier. If the Sentinel could be sold at public auction to the highest bidder it would not bring enough to purchase one line of the editorial or news columns of this paper. Neither tho old school-book ring nor the new school-book monopoly could raise money enough to do that. It is not to be supposed that the Sentinel can appreciate that kind of journalistic independence and commercial integrity, but we have every reason to believe that the public appreciate it. If the Sentinel ever succeeds in getting rid of its past reputation for venality and corruption it will take it a long time to establish one for honesty that will justify it in attacking any other paper. In all its disgraceful career it never printe d a bigger lie than that above quoted. The Journal is not to be frightened, nor will the people be deceived by the Sentinel's attempt to bolster up a vicious scheme by the honored names of prominent Republicans. The Journal has made no attack on those gentlemen, personally or politically. It has attacked, and will continue to attack, the vicious outcome of a blundering law. Without regard to personal or partisan considerations, it has exposed, and will continue to expose, the false pretenses of a scheme which is sure to inflict serious and lasting injury on the schools of Indiana, acd which has already created a; monopoly whoso evil influence will be felt in legislation for years to come. It is in the interest of the schools and the people that the Journal favors free school-books and no monopoly. DI8H0NEST MUGWUMP CRITICISM. The New York Times's indiscriminate abuse of the administration leads it into some glaring absurdities. Starting out with the view that the best appointment possible to be made by President Harrison is worse than the worst that was made by Mr. Cleveland, it sometimes finds difficulty in making its theory agree with the facts, but in such case the Times evidently thinks so much the worse for the facts. The appointment of Professor Mendenhall as Superintendent of the Coast Survey is a case in point. On this the Times has the following editorial comment: The change in the head of the Coast Survey, though not so scandalous as that in the Indian Bureau, is made from precisely the eanie bad motives. Professor Mendenhall seems to be a man of fair attainments and training in scientific pursuits kindred to those with which ho will have to deal. He is not distinguished, however, in this direction to a degree to command the unquestioning contidenco of those who ought to be the best judges of what is needed. Obviously and necessarily he lacks the experience that the retiring bead of the survey has acquired, and his fitness has not been demonstrated in tho complete and convincing manner that tho fitness of the latter has been. The one reason for the change, and the only effective one, recognized by the administration is that the new man is a Republican and his predecessor is not. Now, there is no partisan politics in science. A man is no better head lor a great scientific work because he is a protectionist or because he is a free-trader, because he voted for Harrison or for Cleveland, or wonld have voted for Blaine, or did. not vote at all. If he be lit or unfit for other reasons his vote has nothing to do with the office, and ought not to be considered. Now, what aro the facts! When Mr. Cleveland came into office the position of Superintendent of tho Coast Survey was filled by Prof. J. E. Hilgard, a scientist of world-wide reputation and extensive service. He had been connected iu various capacities with the Smithsonian Institution, with numerous scientific commissions, and was known throughout the scientific world as one of its leading authorities. He hau spent two-thirds of his life in the service of tho government. Early in the Cleveland administration he was removed, and was succeeded by Mr. Frank Manly. Thorn, of New York. Tho Times did not censure the removal of Professor Hilgard, although it was deprecated by scientists in this and other countries. From tho fact that it approved the appointment of Mr. Thorn, it would naturally be inferred that he was a scientist of at least equal attainments with Professor Hilgard, who was removed. Here is a brief biographical sketch of Mr. Thorn, as published in a recent work: Frank Manly Thorn, Superintendent of the Coast Survey, born in Collins, N. Y., Dec 7, 1S3H. He was educated at common schools in Erie county and at the Fredonia Academy. After studying law, he held the oflice of "clerk of tho Surrogate's Court in Erie county, New York, in 1857-CO. Subsequently he was occupied with professional work and as a journalist until 1571. when he was chosen a member of the County Board of Supervisors, continuing as such until IbiO. In July, 1885, he was appointed chief clerk in the Bureau of Internal Revenue in Washington, and a few weeks later wua made Superintendent of the United States Coast nd Geodetio Survey, which office he still fills. From this bketch of Mr. Thorn it ap pears that he never had any, technical or ocicntilic education whatever, nor any

experience in. any branch of scientific work; that ho was a sort of half lawyer and half journalist in Buflalo, where Mr. Cleveland lived; that he was an active politician, and served many years as county supervisor; that soon after Mr. Cleveland's inauguration he was appointed chief clerk ofLthe Internal Revenue Bureau (a business hknew nothing about), and a few weeks later was made Superintendent of the Coast Survey a business about which he knew still less succeeding one of the foremost scientists in the world. If there ever was a scandalously unfit appointment, this was one. Did the New York Times criticise it! Not a bit of it no more than it did other appointments by Cleveland, equally scandalous and unfit. On the face of ,

Mr. Thorn's biographical record it is apparent that he did not possess the slightest educational equipment, nor a single qualification of any kind, for tho position to which he was assigned. Yet, in criticising the appointment of Prof. Mendenhall, the Times has the audacity to talk about the demonstrated fitness of "the retiring head of tho survey," as if four years in a position for which he had no qualification could make a scientist out of a local politician. Tho Times farther insinuates that Professor Mendenhall was appointed purely for political reasons, nnd says "there is no partisan politics in sci ence." We reply there is precious little science in partisan politics. Thorn was appointed because he was a Democratic partisan, not because a scientist. . Ho was removed, not because he is a Democrat, but because, he is not, and never was a scientist. Mr. Thorn has been holding an important office four years under false pretenses. He should be summarily removed from the service. The New York Times dares not print his record and claim that he has or ever had any qualifications for Superintendent of the Coast Survey. As for Professor Mcndenhall's qualifications, it is doubtful if any other man in the country possesses superior. He is a scientist by education, training and experience. He was known in scientific circles of Europe when Mr. Thorn was practicing ward politics in Buffalo arid establishing his claims on the gratitude of Grover Cleveland. Everywhere in scientific circles Professor Mcndenhall's appointment is conceded to be an excellent one. Yet a mugwump paper, which in 1885 approved of the appointment to the same position of a small-potato Democratic politician of Buflalo, who was absolutely devoid of scientific education, criticises the appointment of Professor Mendenhall! Such are the motives and animus of all the Tiracs's criticisms. . As there is considerable discussion just now concerning the extradition law between tho States, Section 5278 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, covering the subject, is of interest. It is as follows: AVhencver the executive authority of any State or Territory demands any person as a fugitive from justice, of tho executive authority of any State or Territory to which such person has fled, and produce a copy, of an indictment found or an affidavit made beforo a magistrate of any State tft Territory, charging the person demanded with having committed treason, felony or other crime, certified as authentic by the Governor or chief magistrate of the State or Terri tory f rora whence the person so charged has fled, it shall bo the duty of the executive authority of the State or Territory to which such person has fled to cause him to be arrested and secured, and to cause notice of tho arrest to be given to the executive authority making 'such demand, or to the agent of such authority appointed to receive the fugitive, and to cause the fugitive to be delivered to such agent when he shall appear. If no such agent appears within six months from the tune of the arrest the prisoner may be discharged. It is plain that tinder this law a legal requisition for the arrest of a fugitive cannot be sent by telegraph. Some very interesting addresses bearing on different phases of Christian work were made before the national convention of the Christian Endeavor societies at Philadelphia last week, addresses that must carry influence wherever the 6,500 delegates present may engage in their efforts at moral reform. The exact character of these societies is not well understood by the world at large, inasmuch us the membership is made up from the church people, and it might be supposed that a church association or any religious body was in itself a christian endeavor society that would make other formal organization by the same persons superfluous. It seems, however, that they have found no lack of work to do, and as the churches are certainly in need of an enlivening, no fault can justly be found if the means employed com from within their own cjrcles and are in fact their own tools taken into young and earnest hands. The main thing is that the enlivennicnt shall be accomplished. New York officials and scientists have not yet settled the question as to how much electrical power is required to kill a man, and whether the killing is painful to the victim. They want to settle the matter before the day set for the execution of a criminal soon to come under the operation of tho new law, but the great difficulty is that neither scientist nor official can be found willing to give himself up fully and freely to nnlimited experiment. They argue, not unreasonably, that while the exact strength of the electric current necessary for killing may be determined by such experiment, the probability is that the person operated upon would be estopped from returning to describe his sensations. It looks very much as if the question, "Does it hurt to be struck by lightningl" will go into the unanswered list along with that relating to the sufferings of the hanged. Mr. Gladstone is said to have increased his allowance of wine for dinner, drinking now a pint instead of half a pint of port, as formerly, and saying that the larger quantity affects him less than the smaller measure did twenty-five years ago. This is tho way wine-drinkers on whom the habit is growing always talk. If Mr. Gladstone isut careful . he may fall into bad habits. If the British W. C. T. U. is half as enterprising as tho American society, it will rally around the noble statesman and save him. A Philadelphia man hanged himself, one day last week, became he had been dunned for his house-rent. Real estate agents and landlords will unanimously aereo that this man was the most phenomenal human sensitive plant on record. The 6,500 Christian Endeavor delegates in Philadelphia last week could not all find hotel accommodations, and a paper of that city figures out that all the hotels, including first-class and third-rate, will afford comfortable quarters to not niuxo thau 2,500

strangers. This in a remarkable condition of affairs in so large a city, and the knowledge will serve as a "pointer" when Philadelphia makes a bid for political conventions and other large gatherings in the ., future. . . A heathen is not necessarily a gentleman, even though he be a representative of his government, but may bo as clownish and rude as any ill-bred scion of civilization. Mr. Hadji Hassein Ghooly Khan is proba-. bly not a representative of Persian polish. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: To settle a neighborhood dispute will you Inform us: 1. Will it be necessary for each of us living la Center township, outside the city, to go to Indianapolis and climb those narrow stairs to ; the trusteed ottice whenever we want a copybook or first reader! 2. Suppose when we get . there with our old llrst reader the trustee says it Is not worth one cent, wiJl we have to pay the full ten cents and take the old book home with us I 3. If, at our pchool meeting, we should vote not to change our text-books, will we have tot CestekTowjcsihp Outside. These questions relate to the construction of the law, and those interested are respectfully referred to the State Superintendent.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. . Miss Mary Wanamaker, eldest daughter of the Postmaster-general, will "next fall make her first appearance in society at Washington. Pkince Eugene, of Sweden, and the Princess Kalakaui. of the Sandwich Islands, are said to be engaged. Tho Prince lives at Paris, where he studies painting. . A publishing house in London has offered William E. Gladstone a large sum if he will write a political romance. He has again proved that ho is a grand old man by refusing. Oliver Optic sailed for Europe last week. This makes his twenty-fifth " trip. Although well advanced in years, the popular author is still young in heart, and his books have a steady sale. 1 Mr. Thomas Hardy writes his novels in the old-fashioned way. He has now and then dictated, but not to a stenographer. Some years ago he thought of learning short-hand, - but did .not. He has never tried a type-writer. The clothing worn by the Prince of Wales is copied so minutely by his English admirers that Mr. Labouchere asserts that if the Prince were to appear in petticoats the streets of London would soon be tilled with men, in the same garments. Herr Von Hortig Kruger, the Berlin editor, who obtained and published the . diary of Emperor Frederick, and, in consequence, had to floe the country, after the confiscation of his property, has settled in New Haven, Conn., with his family. He is now an editor of tho Connecticut Republikaner. Dr. Von Bulow was recently asked to conduct tho performance of an operetta .which he considered worthless.' He declined, .but went to the show and occupied a conspicuous seat. What rendered him more conspicuous was the fact that he was attired in deepest mourning. 'That stuff,? ho said, meaning the operetta, "is being buried, and I am attending its funeral. Prince Mint at, whom Miss Gwendoline Caldwell is to marry in the iiutumu, is a well-preserved man of fifty-five. He is rich, and is also connected by marriage with some of the best and oldest families of France. In 1654 he married Princess Malcy do Wagram. He also distinguished himself by brilliantly conducting the famous Rezonville cavalry charge during the Franco-German war. Mr. David Kimrall Pearsons, of Chicago, has given $100,000 to Beloit College, $100,000 to Lake Forest University, $50,000 to Knox, $50,000 to Chicago Theological Seminary, $50,000 to the Presbyterian Sera--inary, $(10,000 to the Presbyterian hospital, $30,000 to the Young Men's Christian Association, and $20,000 to the Women's Board of Foreign Missions, besides $250,000 in various other ways and in smaller sums. Says a Philadelphia newspaper: "Daniel Dougherty, the silver-tongued, made a flying visit from New York to this city yesterday (Wednesday). He met some old friends and was entertained by one of them, A. J. Drexel, at lunch, He looks as handsome and jaunty as ever, notwithstanding the rush and wear of Gotham. He says that there is no truth iu the story published in some quarters that ho intends to abandon the practice of law in New York and return to his native city." Coningham Graham, tho leader of the new labor movement in Great Britain, is a wealthy Scotchman's son, and has a slender income and an ancient lineage. He has been in America, and led the life on the Texan plaius for a time. He says that oue of his ancestors married an Arab, and ho himself looks Dot unlike an Arab chief. He often rides m the Row in London with Parnell, and astonishes that somewhat sedate gentleman by appearing on an odd little mustang fiery as pepper. The birthplace of Elizabeth liarrett Browning- has been at length, says the American, placed beyond further controversy, Canon Barrett, rector of Kelloe, a small village situated about half way between Westr Hartlepool and Durham, has discovered in the parish registers of the place an entry recording the baptism of the Soetess. It appears that sho was born at felloe on March 6. 180(5, and privately baptized; sho was, however, ''received into the church on Feb. 10, 1S03, when her brother, Edward B. Moulton Barret, was baptized." Prof. Hubert Herkomer is a sort of Admirable Crichton. He is a painter in oils and in water-colors; an engraver in etchings, in dry paint and mezzotint; a draughtsman on wood and on paper; a wood-carver and an iron-mitb; a university fine art lecturer, and the founder and director of a great art school; a civil engineer, an architect and a director aud furnisher; a magazine contributor, a playwriter, a musical composer and performer, a singer, an actor, a scene-painter and a stage manager. And in all these capacities he has won great success. Mr. Tenniel claims little credit for the ideas of his "Punch" cartoons. At the weekly dinner of tho staff on Wednesday the subject for tho coming week is discussed, and if there is one man who abstains more than another from offerinr sugfestions it is Mr. Tenniel himself. Vhat do," says the artist. is to seo that a subject is not repeated, and that a scene is not chosen to which I do not think I could do justice." On Thursday Mr. Tenniel thinks over the composition of the picture and makes one or two sketches of the figures; and on Friday he goes into his "den." Throughout that day he is "not at homet" and by the evening the drawing on wood is finished and packed off to the engraver. in arms. Not alone in tropical countries , Are dangerous women found; But they haunt the pathway of culture And poach on civilized ground. , They go armed in the crowded city Almost to the teeth, as it were. And fancy tLe sidewalk or street-car No place where steps should demur. They shun neither lipbt nor surroundings, And trippingly make their attack; Their murderous weapoa may strike one In eye, or ear, or the back. For they shoulder nor pike nor halberd, As emote the valoroun Gaul. But a far more treacherous allj The elongated parasoL Boston Transcript. . COMMENT AND OPINION. If Mr. Wanamaker will make the telegraph people promise not to raise rates, in miv war Tn MiKtnmr rtbfr than cmxrernment, we think he can aflord to fill out it - ii i. if ine government, uians at a nigner price than one mill a word. Chicago InterOcean. It is proposed to beat down Tanner and then go for the next conspicuous parapet in the outworks of the administration, but we do not believe that the President will be the instrument if the Democratic con spirators, and their scheme will, we hope. meet the fato it deserves.--Boaton Adver tiser. . . In discouraging it or taking action that may be construed into discrimination against the soldiers, the railroad .managers nave mauo an lncxcusauio Dimmer, out i

the members of the Grand Army permit this blunder of the railroad managers to injure in any perceptible degree the encampment at Milwaukee they will make a mistake themselves. Chicago Inter Ocean.

Tttp fflnnrA nf nnwpr of Tin ffiftn etr At of therefore, as tho Democrats pretend, Reft 1 . A publican policy would do oonoxious to tno people, tho Democrats can, by offering no factious obstruction to this policy, gain a onick nnd re.idtr restoration to office. SL Louis Globe-Democrat. Opposition to the use of machinery is. in fact, opposition to the advance of civilization. It is impossible to accomplish anything effectual in it without civilization is i , i 1 1 A. IM 1 set, oacx. ana n mis auogemer umiseiy end should be brought about, the men who would suffer most from it would be the men who do the manual work of the world. Boston Herald. ' When Concress assembles Mr. Randall will be the one Democratic fighting leader and chief, and if the Democratic party cannot rally around him it cannot rally at at all. It would not be at all surprising to see more than half the Democratic mem bers supporting him in a direct issue acainst Mr. Carlisle or Mr. Mills. If noth ing succeeds like success, it is equally true that nothing fails like failure. New York Tribune. Wte do not want free raw material, but wemnst continue the present policy or protection. Let the West and South di versify their interests. The "tasseled beauty and. the golden grain" should not be cultivated to the neglect of other industries. Kine Cotton will be never 60 much a king as when his fleecy staple is woven into fabrics at home. Corn is never so valuable as when transformed into meat and stock on the farms of tho West and South. Au gusta (Ga.) Chronicle. The best thine for Governor Lowrr to do i9 to interest himself in purifying Mississippi election customs, so that American citizens may be able to vote without being ehot down. Some good might come of it if i a i" z i J. 1 J! ne euouia turn nis energies iniuwmrection. No good can come of advertising the two prize brutes of tho country by frantically telegraphing to the Governors of the several States through which the pugilists are oassinz to nerfonn an act which any lawyer of . reputation knows to be illegal. New York Press. THE SCHOOL-BOOK QUESTION. Views of the County Press on, the Law, the Award, and the Character of the Books. Warsaw Times: The last Legislature has opened a scheme that will lead to more school-book swindling than the people of Indiana have ever known before, or we shall miss our guess. Xenia Journal: In crushing one monopoly a greater and more disreputable monoyoly has, been created. The Republicans of Indiana may well afford to go into tho next campaigu with the cry'Jbree text-books and no monopoly. Anderson Herald: The award of contracts for books which are obsolete, and have proven unsatisfactory in another State, seems a plain violation of the law, and, to say the least, is injudicious if it does not smack of jobbery. Richmond Telegram:1 There is an unpleasant atmosphere encircling the business, quite apart from the quality of tho books adopted. And when this latter ele ment is taken into consideration, the un pleasantness is greatly thickened. ; Elkhart Review: . Tho State of Indiana is to have a mongrel set of school books. As further bids cannot be advertised for until tho next Legislature meets, these books will be adopted on a sort of go-as-you-please plan bjr the various schools. South Bend Tribune: If the books are to be made from the old stereotype .plates, bought or rented by ex-Marshal Hawkins and his confreres, the children of Indiana will bo supplied with the poorest textbooks Indiana has had in forty years. Peru Republican: The books turn out to be an old series called the "Standard," that have not been able to gain a foothold in the market on their merits. They will not do for tho schools of this State, which are tho best, and want nothing but thebest. Hartford City Times: The Indianapolis Journal should be supported in its vigorous defense of the common-school system of the State against a lot of scheming politicians, who are trying to make big money by a plan detrimental to the educational interests of the State. . ... . . - South Bend Tribune: The State is now in the hands of the school-book trust arid at its mercy. The evidence is that the boys and girls of Indiana are to have a poor grade of text-books for years to come, and that very little money will be -saved to their parents by the change.' Plymouth Republican: The books ' are said to bo inferior to many others, but it was the best tho board could do with the bad law enacted by the last Legislature. If tho books are not equal to the hotter books in our schools they will prove far more costly than good books at a higher price. . Porter County Vidette: . The Indiana school-book law is likely to create a monstrous monopoly in the sale of books unless great care is taken. Already a combination has been formed, a lot of books purchased that have been thrown out of market, and old covers taken off and new ones put on, and an efl'ort is being made to dispose of them in this State. Wiuaraac Republican: Tho excellent school system of Indiana is in imminent danger. The real intent of the 6chool-book law passed by the late Legislature is becoming apparent It was framed to exclude standard text-books, and to'admit worthless trash, for the benefit of a State ring, which is now fully organized and backed by ample capital. New Castle Courier: The text-book commission on Wednesday inflicted a genuine and painful surprise on the true friends of our public schools by accepting the proposition of the Indiana School-book Company on the readers, geographies and arithmetics offered, rejecting ail other books. The books are not standard, but of an old, rejected series published by a St. Louis house, and have never been satisfactory wherever tried. Steuben Republican: Things are, and aro likely to be for some time, in a very pretty muddle in Indiana on account of the crude, hastv and most ill-advised "schoolbook law" passed by tho majority of the last State Assembly. In this, as in almost evervthine they touched, they blundered egregiously, showing themselves about as unht for the work they were chosen to perform as so many ten-year-old school-bo3's would have been. . Richmond Telegram: The basis of exchange under the "new deal" is anything but liberal. Ou exchange the readers will cost 9. 13. 22. 26 and So cents, respectively. or only 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 cents less, respectively, than they will cost where there is no exchange. On the two grades of arithmetics the differences between the straightout and exchange prices are but 3 and 5 cents, and on the two grades of geographies they are but 3 and l cent. Elkhart Review: Hon. O. Z. nnbbell. of this county, in a wpeech against the present scnooi-uooic law, in me oenaie, last winter, charged that a certain newspaper concern (meaning the Indianapolis Sentinel), which was strenuously urging its passage, had a lot of old school-books, purchased at 5 cents on the dollar for composition, which it was desirous of unloading on the people of the State. Recent developments indicate very plainly that our townsman knew whereof he affirmed, and that the book scheme which was worked through the last General Assembly was a speculation of tho most questionable character. The School-Book Terror. PhlladelDhla Record (Dem.) The public schools in Indiana are threatened with a new terror. Under the pretext of furnishing the pupils in the schools with free text-books, the business of supplying the books will probably fall into the hands of a "school-book ring." a combination formed to cheat the State out of its money ,i i. : i .1 ... . r . l v a . . unrestricted choice of elementary know! edge. The school-book experiment in In dmriA will turn out likn.thA AnlriioiV nr phans' schools experiment in Pennsylvania. There will be money in it for the schooldook syndicate, loss lor the btate and scan dalous mismanagement in the schools. I rneririlinir paternalism in Attnim that a best managed by home and local authority promises to do permanent injury to our free Mtikli. Alrla A Democratic Defender of Judge TTooda. Attica Ledrtr. . " -. After all the unjust crticisms that have been made against Judge Wood. Jason Brown defends him, and says that th Judge's chargo' in the Dudley case states

Nobody will question Jason nornrv. hi rmrt iMinshin. or 1 1 rntr i " a TA.n A.vr " A. o 4 v ALII 11 . . nis Knowledge there aro too many demagogues furnishing, these criticisms men who, never, read a line of'law, and have no interest in the matter except a political one. At to Mugwump Ethics. ' New Tlaven Palladium (Rep.) The Isew York Eveninc Tost came to the front recently with a powerful sight oi sniveling wnen l'resident Harrison saw fit to remove the Democratic postmaster at Vineland, N. J., giving the place to a Republican. The immaculate organ of mugwumpery rounaiy denounced the President for making a wanton and uniustitiable re moval upon mere partisan grounds, alleging xnai even xuo jsepuuncan newspaper at Vineland rebuked tho President forthislnexcusablo change of ofiicials. It now comes out that Chief Inspector Edgarton, who is a Democrat, hnd made an examination of the Vineland oflice, and had discovered tho Democratic postmaster to bo short in his accouuts, and that the oflice had been sadly mismanaged. Numerous complaints came to tho department of money stolen from letters to or from Vineland. Both public and private interests of the town demanded a change. The local paper which criticised tho removal turns out to bo of the samo political stripe as the delinquent official. Since these developments tho Evening Post has drawn its head within its shell, leaving its Democratic friends at Vineland to extricate themselves from tho mire the best way they can. Hut, of course, it has no apolopy to make to President Harrison for its nasty attack upon him. ProL T. C. Mendenhall. Terrs Haute Mall. The appointment of President T. C. Mendenhall to be Superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survev will prove disastrous not only to the Rose Polytechnic Institute, but to the city. For the institute. ' it will amount to robbery. In the brief time that Dr. Mendenhall has had the management of the school, advancement has beenknown in every depaatment, and it seems a shame that the government should now insist on taking him away. As an instructor in all thojdetails of polytechnic work. Dr. Mendenhall has few equals, and no superiors, and as a president he has displayed executive ability of the highest type. Under his guidance the came of the school has gone into every State, and faith in bis ability has brought students from every direction. With the impetus he has imparted it is possible that the school will continua in its prosperity until a competent successor is found, but nevertheless, the iustitutei is unfortunate in losing him. In his selection for the geodetic and coast survey, it must be acknowledged that President Harrison and his advisers have dieplayed great wisdom, for he is pre-eminently tit ted for tho work. The Way It Is Working Out. Anderson Herald. And now it is reported that the cry o$ starvation as to the miners at ' Brazil, started first by politicians iu au attempt to make capital for tho Democratic party, is being kept up largely by operators and miners that are competing with Indian block coal in the principal markets. A circular has been issued to the Hocking valley miners asking them to contribute to the rc lief of Indiana miners to the end that the Hocking valley coal may not be driven out of the market. A largo contract for Hocking valley coal Avas let in Chicago a few days ago that forj-ears has been given Indiana coal. Other contracts are pending. If the Indiana miners can be kept on i strike a few week3 longer these compf ti tiors will have captured their trade. Tho miners have already lost enough by nine oi? ten weeks of idleness, and should at once go to work at the best possible terms they can get, before their trade is diverted into, other channels and their places taken by machinery, and they left without work fo at least a year, and may be longer. A Story to Catch Summer Tourists. Boston Transcript. From Helena, M. T comes the report of a discovery of the relics of a pre-historio man, unless they were only the property of an aboriginal dime museum. A gold hunter, the story runs, struck on a cave where lay a human skeleton measuring nine feet sis inches "long. The skull was a fe? inches awajr from the trunk and between tho severed portions were twenty-seven nuggets of gold, from one to ten ounces in weight and strung on a gold wire. Other strings of nuggets of varying shapes and weight were around the thigh, arm and shin boiles. Besides this interesting liml there was revealed a great room, cut from the solid granite and containingtnany wonderful things. In view of tho diUicnlty which would attend the shipment of a seaserpent to Montana, this story is a very clever conceit to attract the attention o summer tourists. The Exact Truth. South Bend Times (Dcm.) The editor who deliberately proclaim that 'day by day the condition of the work! ing world grows more and more hard' simply advertises himself an ignorant demagogue who neither knows anything: about the history of the past nor of what is going on in tho living present. Tho exact truth as to this country, is that for the industrious, frugal, thinking and calculating world the chances of getting along wem never better than they are now. lie Deserves Rest. Lafayette Courier. President Haraison purposes taking two months vacation in tho mountains at Deer?'' Park, going to Washington occasionally tV transact necessary business. It has rarely, fallen to thelot of man to he subjected to' such a constant and terrihlo strain as General Hatrison has for twelve months 'past, and it is not easy to conceive how any ono can be mean enough to begrudge him a season of rest from tho arduous duties oi his office. The Good (3 Id Days. Worthington Times. In 1810 it took just one bushel of corn tc buy ono pound of nails; now one bushel of corn will buy ten pounds of nails. Then it required sixty-four bushels of barley to buy one yard of broadcloth: now the sama' amount of barley will pay for twenty yards of broadcloth. It then required the price) of one bushel of wheat to pay for one yard of calico; now one bushel of wheat will buy twenty yards of calico. The Heal Nerd. Indiana rocket. Some of the coal miners of the country haven't as much work as they could do, and none of them have as much pa as they ought to get. It is not easy to under--, stand, however, how the abolition of thej duty on bituminous coal would help mat ters. The country doesn't need an addi1 tional supply of foreign coal so much as itkT does additional uses lor domestic coal. Should Giro His Time to Other Matters. Chicago Journal Governor Lo wry is an active Kilrain (bow) chaser, though not a very successful one. If a little of the activity ho has displayed in pursuing the men who ran out of the) State with all the gate money could be directed against bulldozers, ballot-box-stuff-crs and 6layers of innocent men, Mississippi would in some measure redeem her reputa tion. Where I the Burden? Loulsrill- Commercial. The duty on lilt s is $2..'J0 per dozen, but they sell iu our market for from 2 to 2.13 per dozen. Where does the robbery of th tarill come in here! Before the manufacture of files was begun in this country they sold at $7 a dozen. Where is the bur den put on the people by the tariff iu this case? The New States Understand it. Detroit Tribune. Senator Kustis. of Louisiana, gives th4 Democratic party credit for the admission of the Dakotas, Washington and Montana into the Union of States. After holding thej door against their admission uutil further resistance wasuscless. the Democratic party swung it wide open and feigned a heart J welcome. The new States understand it. TVJfrgtns as a Flannel-Shirt Agent. Illinois State Journal. According to Wiggins, who was once a weather prophet, the lajt two weeks of July and the first two weeks of August will be the hottest aud driest tinio this country ha ever M?en. Mr. Wiggins inusfc be an agent for a llaunel-shlrt factory. Kllraln's Had Training. Lawrence Mall. Kilrein. fdnee the dog-fight in which SnK livan whipped him, says he was improperly trained, aud 60 ho was-wheu young.

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