Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 July 1889 — Page 4

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General Botnton telegraphs from Washington: "The satisfaction in army circles, as well as among public men of every grade, over the new reorganization of the War Department is universTnE committee on arrangements for labor day have done well to decide in favor of having their parade without the attendance of militia or other outside organizations, and with no spectacular accompaniments. A full turnout of the regular workingmen's associations is sufficiently imposing without aid from other sources. Harper'3 Weekly announces solemnly that the Tammany Society is not a political organization, but remains as it was started, a benevolent association. Just so; and Mr. Cleveland, in making himself solid with the society, is not engaged in a political move, but is merely showing himself a broad-gauge philanthropist. If memory serves, Mr. Depew said he would not take his summer vacation out West because ho should be overrun with invitations and hospitality. If he really went to England to escape that sort of thing he must be sorely disappointed, for dispatches say he has engagements several weeks atvad to dine with dukes and earls. But perhaps ho is not asking sympathy. Governor Medero, of the State of Chihuahua, Mexico, is making a trip through tho United States with his wife and interesting family of eighteen children. Of tho latter eight are girls and ten boys, tho eldest beinga stalwart man of thirty-five years, and tho youngest an infant in arms. Tho Governor himself is only fifty-five years old, and is prepared to take issue with any person who asserts that the Mexican race is dying out. TnE official report showing the enormous amount of stationery disposed of by tho late Legislature should do something to dispel tho general impression that few Democratic legislators oi Indiana are able to read and write. Still, if they couldn't use those thousands of lead pencils, pens arid pads of paper themselves, the things would bo handy for tho rising generation when they come to cipher out their lessons from the new syndicate school books. Harper's Weekly surprises some of its readers by eulogizing Tammany. Such readers are dull-witted. Mr. Cleveland having approved of that organization, nothing was left for his faithful follower and admirer but to do likewise. The spectacle of the "organ of civilization" and Mr. George William Curtis tied to tho tail of tho Cleveland kite after Mr. Cleveland has reverted to his early role of ward politician is not an inspiring one. Ctizens of Indianapolis should cx,tmd hearty support to tho Soldiers' Monument Commissioners in their effort to make a notable event of tho cornerstone ceremonies on tho 22d of August. This monument is tho greatest work of the sort yet undertaken in the country, and the ceremonies of the 22d should be conducted on a scale commensurate with tho part Indiana played in tho great drama that made such a monu ment possible. Reduced railway fares will be secured, and tho probabilities aro that the city will be called upon to entertain a great throng of visitors. TnE encampment of the State militia, to be held hero next week, beginuiug Monday, will probably mark the beginning of a new era in tho history of our militia organization. Hitherto the Stato has had none worthy of the name, be, causo it had no militia law worth anything. Now it has a good law, an efficient head in Adjutant-general Ruckle, and can begin to build up a volunteer. militia which will bo a credit and ltonor to the State. The coming encampment will be- a beginning in that direction. As tho Adjutant-general has secured 1-cent rates on all the railroads for all organized companies attending the encampment, there ought to be a good turn-out. mmmmmmmmmmmmm Mr. Powdehly, the official head of the Knights of Labor, is in favor of a general reduction of the time of daily labor, first to eight hours and gradually to less, tho final limit not being named. What with the Socialists, whodemend an efual division of wealth, . tho work-

ingmen, who insist upon laboring less, and the capitalists and economists, who lament overproduction and suggest various industrial 'reforms, it looks as if a revolution of some sort in the laboring world was inevitable sooner or later. It will be a bloodless revolution and a gradual one when it comes. Those who find themselves "looking backward," like Edward Bellamy, from the year 2000, will hardly be able to tell when tho change came about.

IHB STATEHOOD OP UTAH. J While the Journal agrees with the alost unanimous opinion of the American people that Utah should not bo clothed with the dignity and authority of statehood, while retaining her present social and political rottenness, it does not concede the soundness of the argument by which the conclusion is usually reached. To assume that, once a State, it would be so clothed with sovereignty that it would be impossible to correct, or even hold in check, its monstrous outrages upon civilization and good government, is to assume that our political existence is a rope of sand. It was a similar political heresy that developed and matured the State-rights dogma of a half century ago, until it led to open rebellion and a bloody war. The necessities of self-preservation merely called into activity powers of government already existing, but until then dormant; they did not create those powers. So, again, when tho necessity comes, the power to correct existing and growing evils will be found to exist in our form of government. We may bo slow to assert it too slow, perhaps, but it will bo asserted in the end, or tho end of our national existence will come. There is no doubt now that if ono tithe of tho federal authority displayed in the war had been used firmly a quarter of a century earlier in maintaining tho soverefgnty of the Nation, as against tho doctrine and practice of Stato sovereignty, the shedding of rivers of blood might have been prevented. Let us keep Utah in territorial lead ing-strings a little longer. It is at least more convenient to hold her in check as a Territory than as a State; but she must ultimately, and not very remotely, become a State. Will she thus pass from under the control of tho Nation? Certainly not. State sovereignty j a very limited sovereignty, yet tho phrase is becoming the language of the dangerous demagogue, just as it was in the times which pre pared inchisiderate men for the battle field. Utah never can become a sovereign State. New York is not, Indiana is not, and New York, and Indiana, and Utah must each and all submit to the supreme authority of the Nation. There aro yet many undeveloped points at which national authority may have to touch the individual States. With commendable patience that authority is withheld, in hopes that tho wrongs already developing may be righted without national interference. Thus, for instance, in practice one voter in Georgia has as much voice in the elec tion of a President or in the House of Representatives as seventeen and a half voters in Indiana or New York. He must be a political lunatic who imagines that that condition of affairs can bo perpetual. Or, again, under existing laws a party lacking 15,000 of a majority in Indiana has ten representatives in Congress out of the thirteen to which the State is entitled, with hardly a possibility of its ever becoming otherwise in either case, without tho intervention of the superior power of the Nation, which is bound to see that at least the forms of a republican government are preserved. Let Utah remain a Territory yet a little longer, but the Journal wishes to be on record against that political heresy which is rapidly striding to the front, as it did thirty years ago, and fraught with as many dangers that any State may rcgulato all of its institutions in its own way. While demanding local government to tho very verge of local independence, the Journal maintains both the right and tho duty of the national government to protect the humblest citizen of every Stato in his social and political rights. Tho occasion will develop tho right, and, warned by experience, it is not likely that the conflicting claim to sovereignty by any Stato wilt bo disregarded until it has blossomed into rebellion. " i THE PEESIDESTS VACATION. The people will not begrudge the President tho two or three weeks of absolute rest from official cares which it is announced ho will take during August, having accepted the invitation of Mr. Blaino to spend this tinio at Bar Ilarbor. Ho is fully entitled to at least this much of a vacation, and if his own health does not demand that he take it, the public interests do. Congress will probably meet in special session in October and continue till the regular session in December,' making a continuous session of unusual length. The business before it will bo important, and it will devolve on the President to call many new matters to its attention. The annual reports of tho heads of departments will soon be in his hands, with a mass of tabulated details, and lie will want to give them careful and thorough study. His own annual message, covering tho entire field of government operations, will soon have to bo prepared. There is a great deal of hard work ahead for the President, not to speak of the neverceasing office-seeking pressure, and justice to tho public, as well as to himself, requires that he should go into training and get in condition for it by at least a few weeks of genuino rest ana recreation. The President has been under a continued 6train for moro than a year. Since the day of his nomination the demands upon him have been incessant and exacting. Tho pressing duties of the campaign, tho moro weighty ones of the post-election period, and the still more exacting and inexorable demauds since his inauguration make a long record of uninterrupted hard work. Tho President's friends and the people generally have reason to be thankful that he has been able to meet every demand of public duty without 6lighting any public interest or losing a day from

sickness. They will rejoice that he is preparing to lighten his midsummer work by spending much of his time during tho next month at Deer Park, and later on to take a few weeks of absolute rest at Bar Harbor.

. CIVIL-SERVICE RET0S1L ' Civil-service reform, as rcpresentedby the present law, is undergoing its second severe test and trial. The first was after Cleveland was elected. Then Democrats were attacking the law because it prevented a clean sweep and rapid changes in office, and Republicans were defending it. Now the situation is reVersed. Republicans are attacking the law for the same reason tho Democrats did four years ago, and tho latter are defending it. Tho experience of six years of the law and two changes of administration shows that tho principal opposition to the law comes from tho party in power, and its principal support from the one out of power. This shows, at least, that the system has something to commend it in principle, and, if each party thinks it a good rule to be observed by t-e other,' both may gradually come to think it a good rule for themselves. The principle of civil-service reform is, undoubtedly, correct, and the object aimed at is of vital importance. . This is the removal of tho working force of the civil service from the operation of the spoils system and tho recognition of merit and fitness, instead of partisan services, as the ground of appointments. This rule once established and honestly observed by both parties would bo equally fair to both and of immense benefit to tho service and tho public. It. would result in 6ome changes in our political methods and our manner of conducting campaigns and elections, but only such changes as are desirable and as are sure to como anyhow in tho gradual evolution and improvement of our politics. These changes, once established, would be a part of the benefits of civil-service reform, which would further appear in the improved stability, dignity, efficiency and wtorafe of the service. These are objects in which all persons, all classes and both parties are interested. They involve something much more important than the temporary success of either party, the recognition of any element, or the appointment of any particular person to office. They involve the stability, the perpetuity and the success of tho government. No government on earth cabstand, and no civilized people will, or ought to, stand such a frequent and repeated strain as is involved in a quadrennial change of a hundred thousand officeholders and the unavoidable interruption and demoralization of public business incident thereto. Republicans who attack civil-service reform attack the declared policy of the party, its repeated platform utterances, and the declarations of all its Presidents for many years past. It is not asserted that the party, is thus strongly committed to the present law in its exact form, but to the idea and principlo it represents. To this idea every Republican- Pni dent from Hayes to Harrison is fully committed, as well as every Republican convention in recent years. In his last annual message President Hayes discussed the subject at considerable length, and pressed it on the attention of Congress as one of great and vital importance. Every Republican President since that time has approved the system, and every Republican national convention for nearly twenty years past has made its. indorsement a distinct plank in tho party platform. Under these circumstances Republicans are bound by party, as well as by public, considerations to favor an honest en forcement of the present law. At the same timo it should be remembered that the principle of civil-service reform is moro important than the present law, and if the time comes when tho latter has to bo amended or exchanged for something else, tho principle must bo firmly adhered to and embodied in a better law. .' ' ' TnE Washington correspondent of the Louisville Courier-Journal telegraphs that paper that "Indiana Democrats at the capital say Governor Gray will be a candidate to succeed Senator Voorhees." Indiana Democrats are a long way be hind tho times if they have just found this out. Gray has been a candidate ever since last winter, and is working like a beaver to secure his election. Senator Voorhees has tho hardest fight on his hands to secure his re-election he has ever had. Gray controls the Demo cratic machine, and has. got tho organ ization and tho young Democracy solid. "While ho has been tightening his grip on the party, that of Voorhess has been loosening. Both hope to carry the Leg islature by virtue of the infamous gerry mander, and if they succeed there will bo a great fight for tho senatorship. But there is a large If in the case. The Democratic convention of Mississippi, which has just been held to nomi nate State officers, heartily indorsed the administration of Governor Lowry, and especially commended his efforts to arrest prize-fighters and their abettors, and then nominated another man for Governor. Of course that is not the kind of an indorsement Governor Lowry wanted. Having failed to secure a renomination ho will doubtless end his pursuit of the sluggers. Tnis is the year and tho season of the year which a good many men who think themselves statesmen regard as an "off" time in politics. It is the time, however, which the Coys and others, who think "tho fewer men in this politics the better," spend insetting up things and arranging programmes for a heedless public to carry ont later. There is no off year in politics for the schemers and the tricksters. Mr. Gladstone is said to have refused a liberal ofler from a London publishing house to write a political romance. A novel b3' Mr. Gladstono would probably be a heavy affair, as he no doubt realizes. If ho were to go into the enterprise on tho co-operative plan, though, it might be a success, ho to furnish the politics and Rider Haggard, say, the romance. A "constant reader" of the newspapers expresses a fervent wish that editors and reporters, when writing about Sullivan,

would, for variety, drop the caressing term the big fellow," and find some other pet nan o for the slugger. Drunken loafer, the title applied by his friend 'Muldoon, is tho only appropriate term of endearment that suggests itself;-bat a reader who regularly peruses the accounts of - the Boston .tough's doings might not be pleased with this, either. If he doesn't like "big f ellew," why read about him! TnE question that now confronts us: Are the people of Indiana to become confirmed mineral water guzzlers? With bad smelling fluids bubbling up wherever the drill goes down it looks very much as if the answer would be in the affirmative. At tho present rate of progress, plain water with no special rejuvenating properties and no odor will soon be out of favor. Mr. Benson, better known in London as "Jubilee Juggins," has written a book bearing the title, "How I Lost 250,000 in Two Years." Tho volume is said to be in great demand, but its sale can be nothing in comparison to what it would be if Juggins had told them how to make the same amount in two years. Dr. Brown-Sequard will do well not to put on too many airs about his newly discovered elixir of life. The first thing ho knows Indianians will be pumping something just as effective out of holes in tho ground. . IJttle Peterkln. It was a summer afternoon; -Old Caspar's work was done. And be before hi s cottage door Was sitting in the sun: And near him sported in the cool

Two chUdreu from the publio sohooh One was the little Peterkln; His reader near him lay, And Caspar took the volume up To read te time away; Mean-while the children, little dears, Continued at then play. Old Caspar turned its pages o'er; . The boy stood, silent, by, And then the old man shook his head 1 And heaved a natural sigh. "Alas," he said, "I do not see . A Hue about our victory." a "I see here old Thermopyke, Sanlis and Waterloo, The ancient wars of Greece and Rome, But nothing that comes nearer home; And yet for many a century There has been no such victory. 'No, not a word of Gen'ral Grant, Sherman or Little Phil, Thomas or Logan, neither one I think it very m - For it has always seemed to me It was a famous victory. There's not a word of Honest Abe, Who aet the bondmen free: Of Merrimae and Monitor, That mighty light at sea, Nor of the gallant Sherman host That left Atlanta tor the coast." x "Ob. tell us what Is this you mean," Young Peterkln. he cries; ' And little WilLelmine looks up From making of mud pies, "Oh; tell ua aU about the war." And what they fought each other for." No easy task that old man had Those innocents to t U; Four years of bloody conflictHow peace at last befel Of men and treasure that we gave This glorious legacy to save, t "Well, that beats me." quoth Peterkln. "Me, too," lisped Wilhelmlne. "It's very sad," the veteran said, "You are so precious green. But then you see, my little dearies, You read the Indiana Series." d. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Annie Louise Cary-Raymond has grown very stout since her retirement from the concert stage. The Prince of Wales is reported to have won 15.000 in cards last week during the' Newmarket races. The daughters of Julian Hawthorne are named Hildegarde, Gwendolen, Gladys. Beatrice aim Imogen. Jose de la Rosa, who lives at San Diego, is the oldest printer in California. He will be 100 years of are next January, and printed a paper at Monterey in 1833. A South Carolina man who was tracked by a blood-hound sprinkled two pounds of snuff on his track. It saved his trousers and cured the dog of over-inquisitiveness. A Kansas farmer has. written to the Johnstown Bureau-of Information asking that a wife be chosen for him from anions the flood sufferers, and sent on to his place near the town of Parsons. , It is said that the new consul-general at Berlin, William H. Edwards, has remained single these inanv 'rears' for the love of Nellie Grant Sartoris. Mr. Edwards was raised with the, Grant family. Ix Titusvillo Pa., a young man who had just been married, .but who could not leave town, went on a novel wedding-tour. He purchased $5 worth of tickets for the merry-go-round, and he and his young bride rodo to their hearts' content. Shirley Dare, who gives women col umns of seemingly good hygienic advico through the newspapers, is a tall, wellformed woman, with rich, red hair, prominent features and a look of health that commends her preaching. A Monoxgaiiela City young woman re cently received a letter from her "best fellow" which, for length, surpasses all others. It was closely written on both sides, and when tho sheets were pasted together it was seventeen feet eight inches long. Dr. Joseph Taylor, of Kennett Square, Pa., has just finished the task, begun over seventeen years ago, of reading through Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, something which only one other man had done, and ho a Georgian. Time is cheap among the Georgians, and over among the Quakers. A farmer in Goshen, Pa., had a pet goat which was the pride of the family. Recently the goat was killed, much to the surItrise of his neighbors. It was afterwards earned that it had stolen a roll of bank notts amounting to $341 and two checks for 500 and $250 from its owner's pocket and eaten tnem. The farmer keeps no more goats. Augustine Birrell is now understood to be one of the coming young men of tho Gladstonian party in England. His titles to distinction are various. He has written a book and he has married a wife. The wife he has married was the widow of Lionel Tennysonta lady known and admired in London; the book is "Obiter Dicta." Marshal MacMahon, ex-President of France, now in his eighty-first year, is as fresh as a boy, and has never had yet, from a natural cause, a day's illness in his life. All the experience of illness that he has had arose from wounds. The Marshal, in speaking of his health, said: I owe it to ray Irish blood. The Irish are the hardiest people on the face of tho earth." Rev. Hugh O.Pentecost, who addressed the New York Socialists at an early celebration of the fall of the Bastile, on Saturday, said there ought to be a revolution here every ten years, even if it were a bloody one. He also asserted that there was enough in the country to give every person in it an income of 5,000 a vear, an assertion which statisticians will receive with some skepticism. Ox the evening of the fatal flood in Johnstown, a wealthy young woman, who was rescued from the debris and taken into a club-house at the lake, removed her clothing and attired herself in a pair of trousers belonging to one of the male guests. The man who owned the clothing has demanded $8 in payment, and the young woman forwarded him the amount. The name of this champion mean man is Mcllcnry. An illustration of how much our country is enriched by European immigration is seen from the fact that one steamer recently took twenty-eight Italians back to

Italy, each carrying from $3,000 to $15,000 earned in this country, but taken back to be enjoyed in the old country. Probably each of the twenty-eight had voted, or been voted a dozen times in this country, and so helped to decide our great questions of political economy. 8am Wah Kee, the richest Chinaman in New England, is worth about $100,000. He wants to go to China with' his family for two years, and has been hanging about the Boston custom-house, of late, trying to prove to the authorities that he is not a laborer. He fears that he will not be allowed to land when he returns to this country from China. He is an importer and wholesale dealer in Chinese staples, and has mado his fortune since he came to America. Jonx Kean, jr., of Elizabeth, ft. J., is a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor of Jsew Jersey.. Kean is a young millionaire of ability and culture. He has twice represented theThird district of New Jersey in. Congress. The district is generally Demoatic, but Kean's wealth and social influence enabled him to camr it. He was beaten for Congress last fall, but his political ambition was not crushed bv his defeat Ho is a great friend of William Walter Phelps, and. occupied for four years a seat on the floor of the House next to our present minister to Germany, ITadJl Hassein Ghooly Khan Picked up his grip and away he rhan. . We Khan not see why Hassieu Ghooly ' Should be so very exceedingly mhuley. Perhaps his thoughts of home were harraseln Tho tender heart of Radii Hassein. ; When lied this sensitive Persian man! Why! of course it was after Te he ran. -Kansas City Globe. COMMENT AND OPINION. TnE Mormon should suffer the utmost reasonable penalty of the law if he bo guilty of bigamy or polygamy, but the fact that he is a member of tho Mormon Church should not be held sufficient to deprive him of the right to vote. New York Times. The civil-service law as now administered is a humbug. It cures no evils. It is a kindergarten for political hypocrites. Amend it and put some sense into it or repeal it entirely. It is time to change the .treatment. Political massageism is a failure. Washington Post. There is no longer union or harmony in the Anarchist ranks, but the more they divido and fall upon each other the better it is for 8ocietv and the less danger there will be of public outbreak. It is a hopeful sign that there is anarchy among tho Anarchists themselves. Chicago Tribnne. We must extend the same protection to shipping And the shipping industry as to other industries. We must follow the American flag to the most distant parts, and with the same protection that we accord to the manufacturing industries. Unless this is done there is no hope for American shipping. New York Press. The six States in which tho percentage of votes is lowest, the percentage of illiteracy highest, and the rates of wealth to representation lowest are the States in which fraud and violence prevail at elections. Aflovernment of the people, by and for the people produces better results than a government of the people by a "retined" oligarchy of ignorant colonels and inflated judges and generals. Chicago Inter Ocean. To put a straw in the way of the Sioux commission now is a crime against civilization. It is almost impossible to conceive of a man who pretends to have a particle of patriotism in nis bosom conspiring to keep the Sioux in thethrallsof superstion 'and barbarism and dwarfing a magnificent State for the sake of a senile and false theory that the Indian is alwavs ruined by

contact with white men. New York Herald. The same spirit which has forbidden the comparatively powerless railroad pools .would be far more easily aroused to prevent organizations of more permanence and power, such as are now contemplated. Thus it doe9 not seem probable . that the railroad companies, which fail to agree or to keep a voluntary agreement of a legally admissable nature, will more easily enter into compacts that involve more or less antagonism to law, and a complete ' surrender of the freedom and the rights of stockholders and managers. New lork Inbune. NATURAL. GAS. A Collection of Opinions as to the Probable Duration of the Supply. Compiled by Gen. Hickenlooper, of Cincinnati. Prof. J. P. Leslie, the State Geologist of Pennsylvania, says: 'Prom the time Col. Drake sunk the hrst well on the plains of Titnsvillo I have professionally participated in the history of the oil and gas de velopments, and believe mrself to be familiar wuu wnaiover xias oeeu uone in iuo premises, and there does not remain in my mind the shadow of a doubt respecting its practical extinction in the comparatively near luture "Prof. Orton. State Geologist of Ohio: The exhaustion of natural gas, with the present enormous demand, is necessarily a nuestion of a very short time. The wells .at Findlny are now failing, and the central portion of that held is already drained 'Prof. John F. Carll, Assistant Geologist of Pennsvlvania: JSooner or irtcr the ex haustion is inevitable, ltneld not bo at all surprising if some of the gas pools now starting ont with great promise should have brilliant but short-lived careers, similar to Cherry Grove and Thorn creek.' 'Prof. Franklin Piatt, Assistant Geolo gist of Pennsvlvania: The total supply will be, sooner or later, exhausted, and the fields will cease to yield gas.' 'Prof. Chance says of the Pittsburg fields: 'It is not probable that so vast a drain can be sustained for more than three or fouryears, and will certainly be ex hausted inside of eieht years.7 'Emerson McMilTen: "Three-fourths of the wells in the Findlay field that were promising producers two years ago are now either totally extinct orklelher under greatly diminished pressure.' "Win. U. Dennisten, gas engineer, of Pittsburg: 'It is and has been for some time rapidly diminishing at Pittsburg.' "Mr. Printz. gas enKineen 'It has been demonstrated in the Findlay field that tho life of a gas well is not to exceed three or fonr years. In the Washington. field it is failing so rapidly that those interested are greatly alarmed. Tho manufacturers of Pitt3burg never attempt to conceal the fact that the supply is rapidly failing.' "Governor 1 oster, president of the Toledo Company: 'The process of depletion is going on. and that the field will be ulti mately exhausted is as certain as that you and I will ultimately die.' 'The superintendent of the Pittsburg Natural-gas Company: 'Signs all point to ;i limited supply. The time the supply will last uepenus oniy upon me xapiuity wnn which it is consumed.' "Professor Shaler, geologist of Harvard University: 'The wels in the Pittsburg li elds cannot, at present rate of exhaustion, live to exceed eight years "Tho Secretary of the Northwestern Natural-gas Company, supplying Toledo: 'The supply is limited, and the only safety we have is in a very large fleld, which we control, which enables us to' supply as long as any . r "Mr. Coverdale. Assistant Geologist' of Pennsylvania, advises natural-gas compa nies to provide sinking funds to meet the depreciation of loss of investment dud to exhaustion of supply. "J. D. Weeks, employed by tho United States government to repbttou the naturalgas supply, 6ays: 'It is essentially a temporary phenomenon and must ; soon, come to an end.' "The report of the Society of Engineers of Pennsylvania gives the average life of wells not to exceed Ave years. "Selwin Taylor, long identified with tho natural oil and gas interests, says: 'In my judgnu-nt, a few years will seo the end of natural gas. . l. M. Jenkins, of t'lttsbtirg: 'Uujcers and employes all tell "me that, in their judgment, it is only a question ot time, ana their estimates vary only as between two to live vears.' ' ' "The superintendent of the natural gas Company at Lima: 'Sooner or later we will find that natural gas has an end.' "The president of the Findlay company. owning the onco famous Karg well, which ceased to flow a year ago, admits that they i are 'giving it a rest.' "Prof. S. II. Douglass: 'It is only a onestion of a few mouths or years at most wln-n every one ot the wells will laiL' "The Scientific American savs of the Pittsburg field: A lew years ago it wus thought to be the richest field in the world, yet during this short period it has been entirely exhausted and new fields brought in "The great Philadelphia company, of Pittt8bnrg. are now making contracts for limited periods only. "The Itellaire Natural-gas Company, in defending a unit to enforce specilio supply

testified that in spite of the fact that they had put down eleven new wells they could

no longer Keep np the snppo; where one year ago they could easily give SGO pound, pressure they now had not tol exceed ninety. And eubequcnt information shows they have given out entirely." TOE S1IAH IN EUROPE. - Ills Present Tour Has Political ai.Woll as Pleasure-Seeking Objects. Yonth'a Companion. For the third time Nasr-ed-din, the Shah of Persia, known in the Kast hv h ilonuent title of "the King of Kings," ia making a tour of Europe. His first visit was in 1873; his second was in 1S7S. when ne auenueu mo x aria exposition in great 6iate. On his present tour, the Shah, at the time this is written, has been in St. Petersburg, Berlin and Holland, and ho will ex tend his trip to fans and to England. This Oriental monarch, who rnhs with absolute swav one of the roost aucient and historic of ralms? and sits on a throne crusted with dazzling gems, is no ordinary man. His reign has extended over the lone penou oi lorty-one years, ana nas been iu many respects a wise and able one. Yet h has always maintained and exercised all the despotic powers which have descended 10 mm irom a long line of haughty sovereigns. To this dav the Shah carl order the imme diate execution of any one of his subjects. lie can take from any rich mnu all his possessions, and can at any time make a wealthy noble of a beggar. t Aside from his political authority, experience and talents. Nasr-4d-d in. ronidrinj? that ho is of a semi-barbaric race, is a man of many and refined accomplishments. His visits to Europe reveal his fondness for travel, and travel has dono much to en lighten his intellect and his taste. Hnin, devoted student of geography, ethnology ami tiiu intrs aim uimng ms imvcis ue nas alwaVS kept COPioilS diaries desrriritivaj txf the marvels, ornamental and uscfuL which he has observed in the countries through which he has passed. It is confidently stated that the shah i the most polished and vigorous prose writer in his domiuioiis. His style in Persian is described as "simple, chaste and classical;'' one of his diaries is used in the University of St Petersburg as a class-book in the Persian languaee. Essays of the Shah have also been published by the Royal Geographical Society. mere is no doubt that tne presenttonr of Nasr-ed-din in Europe has political as well as pleasure-seeking ohiects. The Position of his kingdom in western Asia is a pelunar ouo. it is inreaieneu on two siaes by two niiehtv rival power: that of Russia, on the north, and that of Great Britain,, stationed in India, on tho east. Each of these powers craves, if not tho Sossession of Persia, at least a dominant inuence at tho Shah's court. In the event of a war between England and Russia in Asia, the attitude of Persia would be of the greatest importance. Without Persian aid or friendship, Russia, in such a war, would .a l 1 a . .a oe at a great aisaavantage. un the other hand, the control of Persia would make a Russian triumph more likely. Tho Shah desires to bo on cood termn with both of these formidablo neighbors: so he visits St. Petersburg in order to cultivate the good will of the Czar, and then England, that he may keen on eood terms with Queen Victoria, who is also Empress of India. The general impression, both in England and in Russia, is that the Shah is drawn much moro strongly toward the alliance with tho great northern empire than toward political friendship with Great Britain. It is this supposed tendency, perhaps, whicli has led the Queen and the government of England to make a special point of - entertaining the royal visitor. Like less imporiani persons, ne is xerea quite as much because he has power to injure as because ho deserves honor. Whether this is or is not a true explana tion of the reason, the Shah's vanity is flattered, as he is received with much pomp and show at one court after another, and is made a lion of by the greatest monarchs and most brilliant aristocracies of Europe; and the literaturo of Persia will doubtless be enriched by another diary, recounting the experiences of Nasr-ed-din's latest tour of the European continent. Clergymen Conniving at Murder. Milwaukee Sentinel. The clergymen of Charleston have adopt ed resolutions condemning tho acquittal ot ur. MclJow, although tho trial was orderly and legal. Tho conseouenco is that any man who kills Dr. McUow will become a hero m Charleston, lhoso who are animated by hostility to the negroes will find encouragement to shoot Dr. McDow. Tho I teachers of religion have announced in 1 A 1 1 A A - If 1 a . mrmai resolutions mat ur. mcuow should have been condemned to death, and that the murderer of Dr. McDow will have tho consciousness that he is doing a richteous deed. Above all. ho will be certain of acauittal. It will be remarkable indeed if we o liot receive telegrams soon announcing the murder of Dr. McDow. , Wants to See the Encounter. Philadelphia Inquirer. It may be hoped that Senator Sherman's friends are right in saying that the distin guished Uhio trtatesman will take the stump for Foraker in the autumn. Such a. course would settle irrevocably the various rumors alleging nomiiiy uetween these leaders, and prove that whatever may be iL.:. . - i j:t At v . lucir pciouiKu uiitciciiccs ixiey aro Dig enough to sink them for the party good. It may also be hoped that the Ohio papers are right in saying that MrCleveland will take the stump against Foraker. Indeed, we would bo glad to have him meet Mr. Sherman in joint debate. A meeting of that kind would be interesting in tho ex- 1 treme. Not an Admirer of Sullivan. Albany Journal. A New York citv paper cives space to tho letter of a correspondent advocating that the government retire Sullivan on a pension conditioned on his lighting no more. This is the quintessence of slush. An appropriation of about twenty-five cents a dav by mo Slave oi .Mississippi 10 maintain minivan at hard labor within prison walls would be the most appropriate kind of a pension" for the big brute. Caution to the EnglUh Syndicate. Cincinnati Comaiercial Gazette. r. The English syndicate that has been negotiating for tho purchase of the Minne apolis hour-mills has been seen at Milwau-' kee on the same errand. The English sndicate business in spreading . over tho country in spots like the 6inallpox. Oneof these days it may run against tho coaloil combination and get flattened. The Dignity of Pugilism. New York Evening Telegram. Tho dignity of the pugilistic profession has been vindicated. The manly art of eelf-detenso is one to which the Caucasian alone has proprietary rights. Particularly islhe African debarred by race from striving for distinction in the noble bubiness of knocking out. Looking Forward to a Picnic Cleveland Leader. If Mr. Cleveland should take the stump inOheothis fall, what a picnic of a campaign we wonld have! Republican victory would be all the more enjoyable if it put 3Ir. Cleveland in tho 6oup again. How Will It lie. Anyhow? Louisville Courier Journal. When Princess Louise be cornea Mrs. Duff, will she bo Earless of Fifef And when Mr. Duff marries the Princes, will he be a. Princo of Walesf Americana would like to know something of these things. Kternal and Invisible. Illinois State Journal. - Things eternal aro invisible. The alleged "principles" of the Democratic party certainly are invisible, and it must be on this theory they are declared to be eternal. Sir. Kemiuler Ia Not Included. TJtlca HeraliL Buffalo laments its slowness In applying electricity as a motive power. Mr. Kemmleri not included in the term Buffalo, in, this instance. It Wat Parnell'a Turn. Cnlcao Journal. The Panull commission has snubbed Parnell a good many times. Parnell thought it was about time he had a turu, and so ho 6uubbed tho commission. The Way of 1U Philadelphia Inquirer. The truth about that Blaine story isthit' the mugwump sent him his resignation, but Mr. Blaine declined to accept it.