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

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1880.

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KEW YORK-kJllsey House and "Windsor Hotel. PHILADELPHIA A. pTKemhie, 3735 Lancaster avenue, CHICAGO Palmer iionse. CIUCINNATI-J. P. Hawley & Co., 154 Vine street LOTTISVILI.E O. T. Deering. northwest corner Third and Jeflerson streets. ST. I.OUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. "WASHINGTON, I. C Riggs House and Xbbitt Honae. TnE snug little sum of $1,125 is what the government has to pay deputy United States marshals appointed in this city to work for Cleveland last fall. The number of Democratic patriots who draw a per diem for this valuable service is '225. The rest of the State is yet to be heard from. The latest emanation from Democratic headquarters is that Mr. William C. Whitney, ex-Secretary of the Navy, has an eye on the next nomination for tho presidency. Mr. Whitney isn't much of a statesman, but ho knows a sure way of retting office in the Democratic party. It is simply that of applying Standard Oil in proper places and proportions. The recipe has been tried in the family once and found to work. The New York World lias information to the effect that Democratic managers have resolved to drop free trade as a party issue and to enter tho next campaign uutrammeled by so heavy a yoke. Tho Sentinel evidently has not received a pointer as to this change of base, and finds nothing better to do than grind away on tho old quinine and tariff chestnut. Perhaps it doesn't know how to let go without assistance. A flood that drowns 0,000 Chinamen is a calamity rivaling 4hat of Johnstown, but it is not easy for the average American to think of it in that light. Asa nation and . as individuals wo pride ourselves on our broad-mindedness and unselfish liberality of feeling and action, but, after all, a disaster to an alien people, to "heathen," in fact, on the other side of the world makes a very different sort of draft on our Christian sympathies and pocket-books than, when tho sufferers are nearer home. An article in the Financier shows that throughout the North, and especially in the manufacturing districts and centers, wage-earners own the bulk of tho bank deposits. Pittsburg banks carry $25,000,000 of deposits by wage-workers in mills and factories; Philadelphia, a great deal more, and all the manufact- . uring cities and towns of New England in proportion. The Financier claims. and practically proves, that the bulk of the bank deposits of the country aro owned by working-men. Yet there are persons and papers who assert that under our industrial system American workiugmcn aro in a condition of hope less slavery. Mit. Russell B. Harrison, who is now in England, recently had occasion to 6end a business cablegram," which he signed "Harrison." Able Democratic papers, who hold that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, have made this "autocratic signature" the occasion of much indignant diatribe against the owner of it, and against the President. The Jaytown editors who are wrestling with it do not know that cablegrams cost so much per word, including signa ture and initials, and that no person who sends one signs anything but his surname. However, it is a great sub ject for them to tackle, and about up to the level of the average Democratic in tellect. TnE v compilation of back numbers about to be unloaded on tho schools of Indiana is well named the Rip Van Win kle Series. How will the people relish having children learn to read out of books which contain not a .word con cerning tho great events of the civil war and not a patriotic selection of any kind! Being twenty-livo years behind tho times, it is no wonder tho" monopoly could buy the obsolete copyrights for asong. Of course they will make money, but it will bo mado at tho expense of the children and tho schools. It will bo made by starving tho minds of the children and undermining the public school system. If tho people care as much for their'children and their schools as wo believe they do,' they will soon unite in a demand for free school-books and no monopolies. The City Council is right in moving elowlyin tho matter of granting franchises for new street-car lines, but its delay should be only for the purpose of deciding upon what is best for the pub lic interests, and should be made as short as possible. What Indianapolis needs now more than any other one. thing is rapid transit to distant quarters of town and to the suburbs. The growth of tho city will bo retarded until this Is secured, the .limit at which horse-cars are found convenient and satisfactory having already been passed in nearly every direction. Whether tho method of transit bo cablo or electric lines does not matter so much to the citizens in tho

outskirts of town as that tho transit bo

rapid. Which of the two systems is the better adapted to conditions here and more desirable, is to bo determined by investigation and experiment, and in granting leave to a motor company to place a car on tho tracks for exhibition. the Council has taken a step in the right direction. It has come to be not a question of whether wo shall have cable or electric lines, but how we shall secure them earliest and to tho greatest advantage of tho city. SOUTHERN ELECTION METHODS. Under tho caption of "A free ballot and a fair count" the Charleston News and Courier comments on a recent editorial in this paper in regard to the indictment of a largo number of persons in Tennessee for election frauds. The frauds were, of course, committed in the interest of the Democratic party, and the Journal's article showed how, flagrant they were. The News and Courier says: Things must bo in a very bad way in West Tennessee, if what our contemporary says be true, and we fear that there was not that caro exercised in the selection of tho managers of election which is so essential to a free ballot and a fair count in some parts of the South. Because of the very complex conditions of citizenship in this section, it is absolutely necessary that only tho best men shall be intrusted with . - a JL i ...-. tho important duty oi counting me voies. In some of the thickly settled colored precincts of South Carolina, for instance, strong arms, stout hearts and clean hands have been needed at every election to protect the sanctity of the ballot and to eeo that the votes were properly counted. It has been chiefly througii tne nonesty ana courage of the election managers that the colored people have been enabled to vote according to the dictates of their own conscience, and have been protected in their right of suffrage. We aro not laminar with the cnarges against tho ballot-box staffers of Tennessee, and are unwilling to accept the statements of the Journal as true, but if they have been caught at the tricks with which they are charged they should be punished, in order that others may be deterred from making tho samo mistakes. The business of mauagjng elections in these troublous times should not be committed to inexperienced hands. With a box for this, and a box for that, and a box for the other candidate boxes upon boxes it requires more th.in nrflinnrv self. possession to keen tho voters straight, so that they shall not throw away their ballots on tne wrong canu mates. Before the war almost anybody could vote right, but it is not by any means so easy a t.isk now. when there are so manv more voters than there us&L to be, and wnen so large a part of their number require the most careful and considerate attention. In spite, however, of all that has been accomplished in the South during recent years to teach the colored people now to vote, tnero are ungenerous folk in Indiana and elsewhere who decry the Southern methods of conducting elections. It does not require any reading botweenlihe lines to see that all this is in a vein of satire. Unless wo entirely mistake its meaning it substantially ad mits that election frauds are systematically practiced in the South, and justifies them as a political necessity. The sly allusions to tho numerous ballot-boxes used in South Carolina and some other Southern States a device to defraud illiterate voters; the satirical reference to the mistakes made by voters; tho danger of committing the management of elections "to inexperienced hands;" tho necessity of having men with strong arms and stout hearts to "protect tho sanctity of the ballot," etc., all amounts to an admission and defense of Southern election frauds. Such articles as this in the News and Courier should arrest attention. The fact that it runs in a light and flippant vein and affects to censure the practices which it really defends, docs not detract from the seriousness of the situation it reveals. It demonstrates that elections, as they have for many years past been conducted in the South, are a stupendous fraud. The question for the American people to consider and decide is, what are they going to do about itt CHANGES Iff EDUCATIONAL METHODS. The system of teaching the English language has changed almost entirely in the last twenty years, as any teacher of long experience in the public schools will testify. The difference begins with the methods of making tho infant mind familiar with tho alphabet, in cludes the substitution of tho word sys tem for that of letters, and extends through the "language books," readers, grammars and rhetorics of tho various grades. There have been also many changes in the accepted pronunciation of words and an alteration in the characters used to indicate tho vocal sounds. All these changes have been for the better. Parents and teachers agree that it is far easier to acquaint a child with the rudi ments of tho language by tho scientific object-lesson method than by tho old fashion of forced memorizing of disconnected and, to the little ones, meaningless symbols. This change of system is not a mere difference in tho skill of tho educators, but is shown in all tho text-books. Publishers of the better class quickly responded to tho wants of the public and issued books to meet tho requirements. To tho average ignoramus who may think of engaging in the- publishing business for speculative purposes, it may look like an easy matter to compile and edit, for instance, a series of school readers. As a matter of fact, such a work, if properly done, involves great care and labor, an accurate acquaintance with advanced methods and "with tho limitations of tho school grades, a high scholarship, and a familiarity with tho best Uterature. This is true as well in preparing a "first" as a "fifth" reader. Indeed, it is more important that tho reading books placed in the hands of first and second year pupils be exactly adapted to their wants and capacities than those for higher grades. This fact has been recognized by instructors and publishers, and some of the first lesson books in more than one scries recently is sued command attention and admiration for tho skillful manner in which they gradually unfold tho mysteries of the languago to tho young student, and for tho artistic and fitting illustrations. Tho latter are essential parts of the object method. All tho . accounts . given of the readers to be furnished under the new law by tho Indiana school-book ring, show that they aro twenty or thirty years behind the times. Books prepared for the crude civilization of Missouri thirty years ago cannot bo revamped to meet the require ments of tho high and progressive educational system long established in Indiana. Tho enforced use of books of an

inferior character, such as these unquestionably are, will bo an immeasurable injury to tho schools and tho educational standing of tho State.

REPUBLICAN CONFERENCE. Tho conference of Republican statesmen to be held soon in New York can, if conducted in tho right spirit, be made very serviceable to the party and tho country. Having no connection with tho machinery of the party organization, and being an informal assemblage, its conclusions will not carry the weight of caucus or convention action, but they may prove very useful in blazing the way for future action on some important questions. Tho gentlemen who will attend the conference will do so not as delegates or representatives of tho party, but in their individual capacity, and will, therefore, be able to discuss some questions of party policy more freely than if they wero under instructions. There will bo somo Sena tors and Representatives present, and these can both contribute to tho discussions and gather tho spirit of the conference, to be re flected later in Congress. That body, it is now generally believed, will assemble in extra session about tho middle or lat ter part of October, several weeks before the regular session, to perfect an organization and dispose of preliminary wrork. The New York conference can be made to contribute still further to that object by bringing about a clear understanding among the party leaders concerning some matters th$J; will engage the atten tion of Congress. The importance of such an understanding is obvious. For tho first time in nearly ten years tho Republicans will be called upon to organize the House of Representatives and will have a majority on tho floor. This majority will bo very small, but enough, probably, toplacoonthem 'tho responsibility for legislation. As there is no presidential election near, Congress will be comparatively free to legislate on questions of national importance, and tho Republic ans should be prepared to adopt on all such questions a line of action that will command tho approval of the country. If they flounder through the session without accomplishing any important work, the administration and the party will 8iiffer thereby. Tho coming conference in New York can vindicate it self, and bo made useful to the party and the country by paving the way for such action in Congress as will strengthen the President and command popular ap proval. The Louisville Commercial is not at all alarmed by tho large investments of British capital being made in this coun try. Why should it be? The plants and properties bought with such capital will still pay taxes here, and remain a part of the wealth of the country. The wages and running expenses will go into American pockets, and only a small part of the net profits will go abroad. The country profits fully as much by the investment of foreign capital as the investors do. The Commercial very truly says: "Tho United States is tho richest country in tho world to-day, and tho greatest manufacturing country in the world, and it has come to be so largely because of the foreign money, skill and muscle that have been induced to com hero by our tariff." The coun try is not likely to be impoverished by the investment of foreign capital. The St. Louis Globe -Democrat says: Col. Gilbert A. Pierce.who seems to be certain of election as one of the Senators from North Dakota, Is more of a literary man than a politician. having prepared an admirable concordance of bhakspeare, and written a novel and some very cxever poetry. It would be more accurate to say that Col. Pierce is quite a literary man as well as successful politician. By the way, was it not a compendium of Dickens instead of a concordance of Shakspearo he prepared? An Allegheny man is doing a profitable business since the Johnstown flood by distilling water and retailing it to customers who doubt the purity of the regular supply. Tho water is simply turned to steam and then condensed, live gallons being required to make one of distilled water. ABOUT riOPLE AM) THINGS; The wealth of Frederick Douglass, United States minister to Hay ti. is estimated at 300,000. William Finnefrock, of Lancaster, Pa., has brought suit against Alice Frecht, his neighbor, because she plagues and taunts him continually. The Maharajah Dhuleep Singh recently appeared at the opera j in Paris wearing jewels valued at $400,000. Two detectives watched his box throughout the evening. The Prince of Wales receives from the British exchequer more than $2S7,000 a year, the Duke of Edinburgh more than S142.000. and the Duke of Connaught $125,000. The Duke of Cambridge gets 93,000. Wordsworth had a way of thanking authors of poems that were . sent him, im mediately, ending with this set phrase: "From the perusal of which, when I am at leasure, 1 promise myself great pleasure." Governor Ross, formerly of Kansas, and ono of tho United States Senators who stood by Andrew Johnson in the impeach ment proceedings, is now employed as a printer in the office of the Santa Fe New Mexican. A hen owned by John Seal; of Swarthmore, Pa., which has supplied his family with spring chickens and eggs for nearly fourteen years, was recently tied to a trestle to prevent her from setting, when she committed suicide by hanging herself. The Woman's Journal announces that the women's rights movement has reached Madagascar. A new law in that island "gives a husband the power to chastise his wife with a regulation whip only, and does away with clubs and dray-stakes entirely." Twelve Buddhist "bonzes" have opened a "pagoda" for religious teachings and serv ices on the Esplanade des Invalides, The gong is being daily rune for the dailv sacri fice, and tho priests in yellow robes aro praving for the conversion of tho luxurious Parisians. Hints and rumors from abroad tend to conlirm the suspicion that Mary Anderson's condition is much more serious than tho public has been permitted to suppose. The belief grows that her illness is traceable to tho horse play in tho peasant dance of the "Winter's Tale." Edmund- Clarence Stedman, who, notwithstanding his dislike to the title, is called the "banker poet," is not a banker. but simply a broker, and a very modest one at that. He transact? a commission busi ness in New York which docs not keep him remarKauiy Dusy. There is a curious museum at St. Peters burg, to which access is not easily obtained. It contains all tbe imperial state and private carriages, but the most interesting among all is tho brougham in which Alexander il was killed, lhe back of it is

all in ruins, and inside it looks quite dread-

luL uneorthe cushions, however, is still good: her and there splashes of mud aro on it. - Lieutenant Robert Crawford, U. S. N., has been selected for the head of the great Williamson School at Philadelphia. He was born about forty-five years ago in Washington's old house at Valley Forge, and was at one time 9 workman in tho en gine shops at Altoona. Kate Field has written a letter to the California Viticnltural Association resign ing her work of introducing American wines in the United States. She complains that the Governor of California has attacked her in order to secure the snnnort of the Prohibition party for his re-election. 1 he Princess Louise, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, will receive a vast number of magnificent weddmir presents. The Rothschilds will crivo her a diamond and ruby necklace worth $20,000. The Shah of Persia will present her with a cift even more valuable. Her father will give her away. When J. Wells Cliainpney painted Prof. Maria Mitchell's portrait, some years ago, she insisted on literal fidelity to her ap pearance. "You cannot make a beauty of me "she said. This recalls Oliver Crom well s uncompromising words to his portrait painter: "Paint me as I am. If vou leaveout the scars and the wrinkles, I will not pay you a penny." The founding of tho old "Log College" at Hartsville, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where began m 1726 the great educational work of the Presbyterian Church in this country, will be fittingly commemorated on Sept. 5. Appropriate exercises will be held, and President Patton and ex-Presi dent McCosh, of Princeton, aro announced to deliver speeches. The latest about Robert Louis Stevenson is this, via San Francisco: "Robert Louis Stevenson chartered the schooner Equator in Honolulu a couple of weeks ago and has sailed for Gilbert islands; thenco he intends going to the Marshall islands and to the Ellis group. His object in undertaking this risky journey is to become more fully acquainted with the habits of the less civilized South Sea islanders. He is accom panied by his wife, J. D. Strong, the artist, and Mr. Osborne. He is in very bad health." The oldest man in the world, in all probability, is Nagy Ferencz, of Barcas, Hungary. He was born in Hedrahelz 121 years ago. Twenty years of his life ho spent as a soldier and he fought, against the first Napoleon in several famous battles. Early in life he was crossed in love and has been a misogynist ever since. He lias used tobacco for 104 years and has in dulged more or less in beer and wine. Ho is in perfect health, has all his faculties and can recall events of his childhood read ily. Ho likes to gossip and his conversaL - . L A lion is very entertaining. CHICAGO. A man dug a bole To make room for his soul, But lo! it caved In and buried the digger, , -: The whale, O tho whalej , Ho swallowed his tail, And fondly imagined he made himself bigger! Lew Dawson. TnE WAIL OP TOE DYLNG. Wo are feeling pretty bad At this time, at this time. We are feeling pretty mad At this time We our jobs expect to lose And a fellow can't enthuse While expecting to he called onto resign, to rceisrn, , While expecting to be called on to resign. e win nave to live on nasn For a time, for a time, And bo very short of cash For a time. But four years will soon slip by And our hands again we'll try And the other fellow call on to resign, to resign, And the other fellow call on to resign. Washington Post. COMMENT AND OPINION. Whether free American workers of cer tain grades of skill are willing to accept certain Wages is a question not to be de cided by importing in their 6tead ignorant and degraded laborers from other lands, who have never known American life or American laws. New York Tribune. The neople have shown, in every possi ble way, that republics are just as grateful as monarchies lor the last and greatest service a citizen can render to his country, and the Democrats must seek further and more intelligently for an issue with which to tickle the popular fancy. Baltimore American. ' When tho tariff ceases to protect Ameri can labor its usefulness is over, and it might as well be abolished. It is only be cause tacts snow that it does protect American labor and does enable American manufacturers to pay higher rates of wages that tho Tress advocates it so strongly. New York Press. It should be understood once for all that the Republicans, so far as they can reach the trusts at the custom-house, will give no quarter. As between free trade and trust oppression the choice will be made quickly. If these bo the only alternatives which aro otlered in any ceinmodity the protectionists will not hesitate to declare for free trade. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The formation of a great railway trust in this same section would be a signal for the multiplication of most unfriendly laws for the railroad companies in all these States. Congress, too, might be expected to take its part as the regulator of inter state commerce, until the last state of these railways would be indelinitely worse than their present condition. Philadelphia press. The trust system may burden this country with a new form of chattel entail. minutely more dangerous than that which our laws have eradicated as to real estate. It is an evil which may demand an amend ment to the Constitution to work its de struction. But it is an evil which, if it be not destroyed, will itself destroy tho spirit and intent of tho Constitution. Chicago inter Ocean. If John Bull thought the American Re public was in any danger he would not 1 . 1 1 'lit 11 place several tnousanu minion aoiiars in our railways, breweries, wheat-mills and ether enterprises. Nothing is more de structive of property values than revolu tions, and because our British neighbors know this to be the most 6table government in the world, they are anxious to in vest their money here. Louisville CourierJournal, PROHIBITION IN KANSAS. Carious History of the Origin of the Law Now PrevalUnc in Tliat State. Topcka Letter In New York Times. How did prohibition become intrenched in Kansas? In the funniest wav imagina ble. In 1879 Senator J. T. Bradley offered in the State Legislature an amendment to the then existing dram-shop law, requiring that the councils of cities of the first and second class should not grant licenses un less each petition presented to them con tained the signatures of two-thirds of the male and female residents of the ward wherein the proposed saloon was to be sit uated. This amendment also related to townships, imposing strict duties upon the commissioners, and made the signing of fictitious names to petitions a penitentiary offense. Senator Bradley made a strong fight in behalf of his measure and it began to attract attention. Une day Mr Detweiler, a noted temperance advocate, went to Bradley, complimented bim upon his work in behalt ot tne cause oi temperance, and then showed him a draft of a joint resolution which Judge r. C. Mc Farland of this city had drawn, proposing a prohibitory amendment to the Constitu tion. This was the identical amendment which has since turned the eyes of the world to Kansas. Detweiler begged the Senator to father tho resolution, but Mr. Bradley declined, not being in accord with its purpose. He, however, introduced Det- : I - . U . f IT M T Cygne, who agreed to and did present the joint, resolution, it was piaceu on ino calendar and lost to sicht for the time being. In the meantime Bradley's dram-shop amendment was made a special order from day to day and gained friends rapidly. Finally its opponents held a caucus and decided that tho only way to kill it was to substitute tire Hamlin prohibitory resolution. Their idea. was that this would either ! killed on final passage or laughed out of sight by the people should it by any means coiue buforothem. So they rallied around it, and when Bradley and his friends saw through the game and realized their inability to pass tho dram-shop amendment, they turned the tables on tho conspirators by changing

bases and making the voto on the joint

resolution unanimous. The House of Representatives was ouick to detect the scheme, and when the resolution came before it gavo it the necessary two-thirds vote. Then the now-famous measure went to Governor St. John and re ceived his signature. St, John, st ran ire to say, had not shown his tine Italian hand in any of the preliminary work. The resolution had botn prepared in haste1 and with no hope of success, and its passage seems to have dazed its friends for the time being. He was certainly apathetic up to the timo it went to the people in 1S80. mere was an awaicening in tne lau or, that year such as tho State had not known since "Free-soil" days. The Radicals took the war-path, and the anti-rrohibitionists, disgusted with tho unlooked-lor turn of afxairs, maue strenuous oui inenectual eixorts to stem the tide, ine Hepnblicans had not previously urged prohibition, but they had sense enough to "catch on." and helped bring about the success which followed in February, 1S31. Year by year the law was strengthened until it assumed its rri : 1 present suape. me idcu) uiaiuiy instrumental in passing the original resolution were bitterly opposed to prohibition. Senator Hamlin, its putative parent, was a pronounced anti-Prohibitionist, and he worked assiduously to unao me result oi his previous thonchtless action. All these men were lau shine-stocks for a lone time after the people came to appreciate tho rich joke which they had played upon themselves. Senator llamnn is now aead. MISTAKEN FOR A XltlZE-FIGITTER. Unexpected Honors ITeaped Upon Census Superintendent Torter. Washington Special to New York Press. Much has alreadv appeared in print as to a little episode that happened at Cumberland. Md., a few days ago, in which Mrs. President Harrison and pugilist Jake Kilrain were alleged to be the prominent tig- . mi . 'A ll ITI..i- II ures. ino iair mistress oi wie ime nuuso and the slucrerer happened to be aboard the same train, tho former on her way to Deer Park for her summer outing, ana tho latter had for his destination the ring in whicH he was to meet I'zof. John Lawrence Sulli van. - The wife of the President occupied a pri vate car attached to the rear of the train, and Mrs. Harrison's sister, Private Secre tary Elijah W. Haiford, Superintendent of the Census Robert P. Porter, the McKee babies and Dr. Scott were her companions. Kilrain and his trainers and backers were on cars ahead. Certain newspapers asserted that during the trip Mrs. Harrison invited Kilrain to visit her in her car, and that when he did 6o she not only assured him of her hope that he would defeat Sullivan but drank a glass of wine to his success. Others insisted that the "Little Commodore" had rapped his baby sister over the head with a cane, and that Kurain's physician. Dr. Dougherty, had been summoned to treat the wound. Theso newspapers, instead of making Mrs. Harrison drink win with Kilrain, reported that she had quailed the sparkling liquid with Dr. Dougherty. Now for the truth. Mrs. Harrison did not invite the pugilist to her car; neither did she meet him. The only beverage the nrst lady or tne land was 111 , i 1 . auieio ooiam uurin ine irip was a mere sip of cold cotl'ee, which a friend, after being hustled about the Cumberland dining saloon by the toughs who followed Kilrain, While the mob was lighting for a bite in tho restaurant, a crowd gathered about Mrs. Harrisons car, and catching sight oi the stalwart superintendent of the census, mistook him for Kilrain. Volleys of cheers greeted him, and cries of "Jake, you're a dandy!'' Ah, come out and show yourself!'7 "Give us your flipper, old man!" "You'll do him!" and the like floated to tho section which Mr. Porter occupied. 1115 UHIUUISUCU ClilCt IXUSUliltkCi uu.u.ny concluded to step out on the platform and convince thoso who were tiring compliments at him that they had mistaken his identity. They wouldn't listen to his ex planation, but yelled "Speech!" "Speech!" X" v xuia. uuuisuu chuio iu uig icstuo. At sight of her, the crowd grew quiet. When that lady, almost convulsed with laughter, said, "Why. gentlemen, that's not Mr. Kilrain;. that's Mr. Forter. of Washin ctou!" the crowd roared. Turning to Mrs. Harrison, the chief of the Census Bureau remarked locnlarlv. "I have frenuently been mistaken for a priest. a statesman and a heavy villian, but this is the hrst time in-ray experience that 1 have been greeted with a reception as a prize-lighter. 1 might add that had Stephen 15. Elkms. for instance, been, your escort. there might have been somo excuse for it," Mrs. Harrison enjoyed the whole perform ance hugely. THE ROYAL MARRIAGE As It Appears to the British Public from a Domestic Point of View. SmalleVs London Letter In Kew York Tribune. "It is purely a marriage of aliection." said the rnnce oi Wales yesterday at the uuildhall, "arid, therefore, one which makes us very happy, and that happiness and satis faction aro ereatlv enhanced bv the man ner in which it has been received by our countrymen, and especially by tho city of London." Those are rather remarkable words. They might be alleged in justification of the 6omewhat extreme frankness with which the marriage and the bridegroom and the bride have here been discussed. If the Vrince himself can refer in public to the state of his daughter's affections it be comes diiocuit to criticise what, in other circumstances, might seem a want oi reserve in other persons. However, everybody is pleased that the l'rince should say so. He might have said it such things have been known in a diplomatic sense had there been occasion. It would be thought a wise and princely betrothal of tho Princess Louise of Wales to the Earl of Fife had no other motive than the inclination of tho girl and her future nusband. JSothing would be moro pleasing to this nation. rri i ineyarein some respects ine most do mestic people in the world, and' the most simple-minded a phrase which I use m its best meaning. What is it what is the ono thing which moro than unv other laid the foundation of the Queen's immense popularity among her subjects? Undoubtedly the beauty of her domestic life. She. too. made a marriage of pure affection. She was in love with Prince Albert and he with her. They were Darby and Joan together. Her fidelity to his memory has profoundly touched thoso who owe allegiance to her. If she has sometimes given odd or almost eccentric proofs of it, they have provoked little criticism except in what ao called the higher circles of society: about which I shall have something to sav in a moment with reference to this present marriage. Prince Albert was not liked by tho Lnglish, and tho English were not liked by Prince Albert: but that made no difference in their affection for his wife. Their loy alty to their Queen never wavered. They liked her for liking tho man they did not like. They did not resent her retirement into seclusion on his death. Now if tho Prince, who has drawn aside one corner of tho curtain which veils his family life, would lift it altogether, again would the English people see a picture of that domestic happiness which they so much delight in. It is known to those who are of his act, and to many beside, that he is a family man. 1 say nothing of earlier days, though even in earlier davs his friends will tell you that a taste for roaming abroad never '"withdrew him from home very long. "He was always in the nursery by 8 in the morning,'' said one of them. As he likes going to bed at 3, or 4, or 5, the hour 6etrcs early, but he w ho said it must have known. He looked after tho training of his boys and girls much more sedulously than the average English father. They were brought up strictly and giraplv few people would believe how simply, ine gins nau ineir moiner witn them; how could thev fail to be well-bred! Moro than that, the Prince is a man of his time, accessible to ideas, well aware of what goes on in the world in spheres verv unlike his own. He may believe in the divine right of his house to a throne on which his ancestors have sat and the Queen still sits by virtue of an act of Parliament. He knows, at any rate, that there are people who do not believe in it; that few peopie in mis country ueueve in it. no has watched the movement of opinion and of events. He knows that monarchy 2.. I at 1 - J 13 iu iuco nil j b ut-uuer a religion nor If ? A . . a superstition, lie is reported to have 1 . 1 - A. ,4.1. . a. 1. a a sa:u iu.il iiiougu no oxpeeis to come to the throne, it is a difierent onesa i . a i . t: ji ... lion wneuier rnnco i.uuie will ever reign oyer this country. His fortune is. for uis position, narrow , nurueneu by many ot the expenses of kingship, which ought strictly to be defrayed out of a kingly or queenly income. If he has not imitated that ruler who required his children to learn a trado, he has brought them up with much more modest viows, and in much more modest habiU, than the children of

many a great English noble. Thoyonnjr.

lady who is to marry Ixml I lie has had tho benefit of all these circumstances. As tho Countess of Fife, or more probably as th Duchess of Fife, or something else, she will live in greater splendor than as Princes Royal of England. It is odd that it should bo so, but it is so. Whether yon ask about these or other matters you hear nothing; but good of the girl and of her sister, ami if society, which knows tho truth pretty well, does not rejoice overmuch in the betrothal. Lord Fife and his bride will neither hear of this indifference nor care for it. The outward demonstrations are) everything that could be wished. Assets of PubUcity. Brooklyn Easle. Next to narrow escapes from fin and losa diamonds, refusals of offers of marriage from tho British nobility aro among tho actress's most valuable assets of publicity. 'IM. l j .1 . : - i . jl uanupuiuv auu cun&cuc American wuo whistled her way into sudden popularity is enabled to announce that she has re jected the matrimonial proposal of a purj?e.1 l : : 4 . ti.: 1 . juuuu iijimuau uuMuuiu. i uis auvertisoment will wring with anguish the soul of the manager who can do nothing but transmit through the mails the ineffectual scraps of eulogy cut from remote provincial papers, if she had actually married tho "wealthy English baronet" tho announce ment would have lost its valued A Nation of Had ire-"Wearers. Rochester (N. Y.) Democrat. "This is beconiini? a nation nf TinilfAwearers." wa th observant citizen yesterday. "Juft stand here on the Four Corners and watch tho men as they pass. Nine-tenths of them wear a badge of some description. They r '"J x'i vavuaiiD nullety badge cos ting 20 or $i"5 down to brass uauuies wuicn you can buy lor a low cents. They generally ar the insignia of borne soCietV. and I think that ulintra tha fan1.nniT .f . kUV IVUU.tll J of the American people in nnrnmvn a i - most everybody belongs to some organiza tion, ana Dy ine numuer or badges that man passing there wears, I should judco . . a a m Jl pome oi inem aro on ine roils ot three ot four." Take a Rest Often. Philadelphia Times (Dem.) President Harrison is sensibly taking arest in the cool mountain breezes of Deer Park, where his family is spending tho ' Duuiiucr. xiieio aro i.irpi-jfrj iriucs wno complain of the President every time hn leaves the capital for a yacht ride or for a visit to his family at Cape May or Deer Park, but everybody of average sense is' glad to see him take a rest whenever he can get it. Don't botherabout clam critics. The President is human; he is steadily over- ; worked: he is bedeviled by office-hunters,, and let him grab a good rest whenever then opportunity oilers. Fooling the Clay County Miners. Chicago Tribune. , Saturday tho executive committee of thai Brazil miners distributed 25G all there was to give among 5,839 dependent persons. Out of twenty-three towns and cities contributing to the relief f and, twenty-one ' were mining towns in the Hocking valle'. The latter can afford to give. While they ' -f- 1 1 . At a are xnus Keeping ine miners irom returning to work, the operators of the Hocking val-! ley are securing large coal contracts which would otherwise have been tilled with coal - from the Brazil mines. This is charity" which pays. Subjects of Tity. Detroit Free Preaa. We pity tbe poor devils who froth at tho mouth and have fits every time the old flag IU OlUU JL VO, Ji C,f J 9 mo VIUKU 1 U CI O isn't patriotism enough in their shriveled . souls to make buoyant the heart of a nis- . mire on the Fourth of July. Patriotism! ' They don't know the meaning of the word. ' rri i l i a. a. ' . jl iiey omy tuiow wuut it is 10 oe loyal to disloyalty. They stand whimpering and: driveling oveithe grave of the lost causer' - i il TZt.a. a. ii i r i wueu iuey ouui iu oe i-j.au-.iiu. mey wero not buried with it. Tlie Legitimate Outcome. Memphis Avalanche. Those of our lady friends who still insist npon being permitted to vote, to ride astraddle, to chew tobacco, to wear breeches, and to do generally as men do. are respectfully referred to his Excellency Legitime. of Hayti. Ho is putting trousers on tho young women of Hayti, placing muskets iu meir nanus, ana sending mem to tno lront. ihis is the legitimate outcome of woman's rights. One Good Thins:. Philadelphia Inquirer. The Western Union Telegraph Comnanr has agreed to build . a $1,500 house for tho widow of a lineman drowned at Johnstown and nay her his former salary of n. month. The company lost six employes at Johnstown, but what it is doing in tho other five cases is not reported. However. this good deed should be recorded as an offBet xo somo ox mo mean inings loia of tho company. Peace in Europe. Washington Post. The beautiful peace which hovers over Europe reminds us of that white-winged PIL a . a variety which we have seen fondly brood ing overtwo unacquainted uuiiuogscnainea in opposite corners of tho carriage room. If a staple should fetch looso wo fear tho air would overflow with tattered bits of this sweet entente cordiale. The Veneer of Civilization. Atlanta Constitution Great, indeed, is blackguardism and. brutality 1 A thnmb nail need not be very long to scratch off the littlo veneering of civilization with which the people of this age cover their innate brutality. It is a quality that belongs to the race, and the race cannot get away from it. Only lilufflng. Philadelphia Press. And now Governor Lowry, of Mississippi, proposes to force tho forfeiture of tho charter of the railway company that transported the big prize-lighters to their battleground. It is only a threat, however. Tho Governor is bluffing on a pair of measly deuces. Inconsistency of Some People, Detroit Trihnne. Somo people are not in favor of restricted immigration. They wouldn't bar out tho Anarchists and criminals who come here to conspire against our laws and institutions. But they would kick hard if the streams of water they drink from were fed by sewers. m More Candid than GaUant. . Pnffalo Commercial Advertiser. Donn Piatt says that the Richmond letters were written by "a syndicate of blackguards," and he was ono of them. 7jis is more candid than gallant, for Gail Hamilton was in the same company. Speak for yourself, Donn. , A -Hopeless KebeL. Detroit Tribune. "The Grand Army of Beggars" is what the red-mouthed rebel editor of the Nashville American calls the veterans of the G. A. R. It is a clear waste of salt and ico trying to preserve such a critter as ho. " Heady for lluslnen. Minneapolis Trifcane. Nineteen young men graduated in journalism at Cornell University the other day. They are now prepared to copy real cstato transfers and building permits in tho highest style of the art journalistic. i Wants Credit In Full. Detroit Trltmiie. Tho editor who works twelve hours or more out of every twenty-four, hopes tho public will give, him crtdit forone and onehalf day's work per day when the eighthour system conies into force. ot Good Sens.. Detroit Tritmn. It isn't good sense, it in't even good nonsense to talk about tho Sugar Trust being the outgrowth of protection when ftl per cent, of all the sugar used in this country is imported. mmm "Where John L. Should Serve. Baltimore American. John L. Sullivan's father says his son ought to bo elected to Congress. Here is where he is mistaken. Tho term that John L. ought to serve should not bo in Congress, but in jaiL Meant the Opposite. Merchant Traveler. "Mfe is heartfnl and artless," s.nid the adorer. But ho was an Englishman and meant exactly the xeY