Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 July 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL TUESDAY, JULY 23, 18S0. .

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NEW YORK Glbey House and Windsor HoteL rmiADELPIIIA A. pTKemhle, 3735 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO Palmer House, CINCIXNATT-J. P. Ilawley A Co., 154 Vine street. IX)TJISVIIXE O. T. During, northwest corner Tlurd and Jefferson streets, BT. IiOUIH Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. C Rlggs House ana Ehbltt House. TnEKE is reason to suspect that Mr. Becktold told more than he intended to the St. Louis reporter about his Indiana chool-book scheme. Wno in Indianapolis cares for coast defenses, now that the State militia is on guard? Citizens may rest in peaco this week, fearless of the invasion of any foreign power. Tiie presentation of a ready-mado Constitution to tho Noith Dakota convention by some obliging lawyers seems likely to save that body 6ome time and labor. Why was not somebody kind enough to do the same for the other conventions now in session? And so Mr. Coy is compelled to engage in business outside of town, because hero so many men want to see him 'that he can get no time for anything. This will hardly do. "Prominent7' Democrats, whether capitalists or tramps, who want to see Mr. Coy, will find their way to him. He is too popular iu his party to be allowed to hide himself. The Journal has unutterable contempt for the dirty rascals who charge or intimate that its course on the school-book question is due to corrupt influences or motives. All theso blackguards together could not raise money enough to buy one line in tho editorial or news columns of tho Journal, or to influence its course on any public question. Their conduct shows they are themselves corrupt and purchasable. They represent a very loathsome type of blackguardism. The Cardinal Lavigerie, who is said to be likely to become Pope in the event of the death of Leo XIII, is an Austrian prelate, distinguished for his hostility to the African slave trade. If he should becomo Pope tho world would witness tho interesting spectacle of the whole power and machinery of the Catholic Church brought to bear for the abolition of tho African traffic iu humin beings. Perhaps few persons are aware that, notwithstanding tho abolition of slavery in North and South America, tho traffic still continues with hardly diminished proportions, and rather increased horrors. The slaves go to different parts of Asia and Africa, and as the native tribes diminish in numbers their pursuit becomes more relentless and the policy of the slave-dealers more cruel. A papal crueade against the traflic would probably end it. A sometime resident of Australia now in this city informs a city paper that New South Wales, with free trade, is far more prosperous than Victoria, with protection. It is probable the gentleman knows very little about the relativo prosperity of the two colonies. At all events tho facts do not support his statement. The revenue of Victoria for the year ending June oO, 1889, amounted to $43,o70,000, being an increase, as compared with the previous year, of $5,033,000. The total revenue of New South Wales during the same year was $44,515,000, an increase of $1,200,000 over tho preceding year. Tho increase of revenue in Victoria exceeded that of New South Wales by $4,075,000. Victoria has about tho same number of inhabitants and tho same length of railroads as New South Wales. The railway revenue in Victoria during tho past year showed an increase of $1,815,000, against 1,260,000 iu New South Wales. These figures show that railroad traffic is increafiinginuch faster in Victoria than in New South Wales. Finally, Victoria has a surplus and New South Wales a deficit of nearly $20,000,000. If tho gentleman from Australia or anybody elso can produce any facts or figures in support of the statement that New South Wales, with free trade, is more prosperous than Victoria, with protection, wo should like to see them. The organ of the new school-book monopoly is indignant at the efforts of "the old ling" to sell school-books in Indiana, notwithstanding the law And the vested rights of the monopoly. It says: School officials or others who order hooks from Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co. will not only lend themselves to au imposition upon the people, but will assumo linancial responsibility which will prove embarrassing, and will also expose themselves to tho penalty for violating the law. So the bulldozing has commenced. At first tho law was all in the interest of the people, to save them from being plundered, and to protect them against nn odious ring. But on the first intimation that some locality may choose to use their old books, or buy new ones in open market, they are threatened with the penalty of the law If they refuse to pay tribute to the monopoly. The Journal hopes to see this question tested. We want to see if the local school author

ities of Indiana can be compelled by the Legislature to use any particular set or series of text-books, and if tho entire people of the State can be compelled to buy books of a legalized monopoly. The. worst methods of tho old ring were mild in comparison with this attempt to bulldoze, not only the schools, but the people of the entire State. The more the animus and inwardness of this speculative scheme are exposed the more odious it appears. Tho escape from it lies in a popular demand for free schoolbooks and do monopolies.

STATE LISE3 AND EIGHTS. In a recent article on the admission of Utah, and referring incidentally to States' rights, the Journal said it wished "to be on record against that political heresy which is rapidly striding to tho front, as .it did thirty years ago, and fraught with as many dangers that any State may regulate all of its institutions in its own way." Whereupon the New York Evening Post remarks: What the Journal calls "that political heresy" is the doctrine upon which the Republican party cauie into power in 1S01, Abraham Lincoln having beenelectcd upon a platform which declared That the maintenance Inviolate of the rights of the Htates, and especially the rltcht of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own Judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends. The editor of the Journal ought to "read up" a little on the history of his party. The editor of the Journal has read up a little on the history of his party, and has learned that it occupies a considerably more advanced ground than it did in 18G1. There has been a good deal of history mado since then. The world has moved, and the Republican party has learned something if the Democratic party has not. The Constitution of the United States is a good deal stronger now than it was when Abraham Lincoln was elected. Tho power and authority of the national government are more extensive, and the dangerous dogma of State sovereignty is not nearly so influential or potent for mischief. Tho Republican party of 18C0 partook of the temper of the times. The Democracy had been in control of the government a long time, slavery had dominated the public mind and conscience, and tho doctrine of State sovereignty had been industriously worked to lay a foundation and furnish a pretext for secession. The Republican party was essentially anti-slavery, but it did not dare to demand its abolition. Slavery was encircled and protected by the awful sanctity of Stato sovereignty. And so the Republican party yielded to the temper of the times and the demoralizing influence of Democratio domination so far as to recognize tho right of a Stato to maintain an institution which was opposed to every principle of right and justice, and which contained the seeds of political dissolution and death. It is entirely true that Lincoln was elected on a platform of non-interference with slavery in the States. Neither he nor the Republican party lu5d any idea at that time that the Constitution contained such tremendous undeveloped powers for the preservation of tho Union, and that it would become necessary to exbrcise them even to the extent of disregarding State lines and State sovereignty and wiping out the sacred domestic institutions intrenched behind them. When in the course of tike prosecution of the war for the national life it became necessary to do this, it was done. The platform declaration on which Lincoln had been nominated and elected did not stand in tho way when it was found that tho preservation of national sovereignty was infinitely more important than that of Stato sovereignty, and the life of the government than that of slavery. Tho Republican party of 1889 would not repeat the platform declaration of 1860. It recognizes and respects the constitutional rights of the States, but not to the extent of asserting the doctrine of State sovereignty. The better construction of the Constitution, and the one now practically established, is that a State may regulate its domestic affairs in its own way, provided that way is not in conflict with the national Constitution or the general welfare. The future construction of the Constitution and administration of the government will be more and nioro distinctly on that line. State lines are fainter now than they were thirty years ago, and they will bo ( still fainter thirty years hence. The first century of our national existenco was largely devoted to an exposition of State rights. It is probable tho second century will witness a steady and progressive development of federal power. The predominance of centrifugal force will bo followed by a predominance of centripetal, and while the States will not bo unduly dwarfed tho Nation will more and more take precedence. BECXTOLD ET AL. There is no school-book ring in tho new deal; oh, dear, no. It is only a combination between Becktold Sc Co., a firm of St. Loui3 job printers, the Standard Publishing Company, of St. Louis, and the Indiana School-book Company, to make three profits off the books furnished to Indiana school children under tho new law, which was intended to reduce the cost of such books and do away with speculation in them. Tho ingenuous Mr. Becktold, who, in his role as a great philanthropist anxious to protect the public against grasping Eastern publishers, found it necessary to register in this city under a false name, gives the whole scheme away. Mr. Becktold relates how, as a reformer and job printer, he was moved to wrath by the operations of a school-book syndicate in Indiana and other States, and how, in conjunction with tho Standard Publishing Company, he set about circumventing their nefarious plans, and, by the aid of a new law, transferring the profits to the pockets of his own firm. Diplomacy, not to say trickery, was needed to accomplish this. At the last moment it was found desirable to make the enterprise ostensibly an Indiana one, and five minutes before "our bid," that is to say, the bid of Becktold & Co. and tho Standard company, was opened, the Indiana company was organized. This is the company which the Sentinel would havo the pub

lic believe was formed solely because its members are animated with motives of benevolence toward the school children of Indiana. But still, admits Mr. Becktold, tho Standard will do all tho work, and "our company is practically the one awarded the contract." So great is tho indignation of this St. Louis philanthropist over the enormous profits which he says have been made by the Eastern syndicate in Indiana school-book traffic, that he can hardly find words to' express his feelings. At the very least calculation they have, he declares, cleared not less than $200,000 a year. Then, in a burst of excitement,' this reformer continues: "They say we cannot make anything on our contract at the prices fixed, but I think that we can show them that even at our prices we can make $150,000 net, a very good profit, considering everything.7' This sum certainly is a good profit, considering everything; considering first that the contractors are posing as public benefactors, content with nominal profits; considering that "we," meaning, possibly, both Becktold & Co. and the Standard company, will make the $150,000 net, and that obviously tho share of tho Indiana company, to say nothing of incidental expenses, 6uch as retainers to the Sentinel, tho Stato Librarian's bills for cobbling up the books, etc., aro not included, but when added will amount to something not far from the gains of the wicked syndicate which tho good Mr. Becktold and his friends aro fighting. The great trouble in tho smooth working of this new school-book deal 6eems to bo that the chief manipulator finds the double role of reformer and speculator somewhat trying. Had ho been interviewed on the subject in Indianapolis instead of St: Louis he might havo carried out the pretense of pure benevolence, but at home, where ho was less on guard, ho mixed the two parts badly. As the result of his disclosures, the Indiana public knows from tho best of authority, namely, one of the operators, what kind of a job is being practiced upon it in the name of reform.

Tiie statement is made, on the authority of a navy paymaster, that if ,a paper of tacks is wanted on board a United States ship on a foreign station, it takes sixty-two signatures and couriter-sig-: natures to obtain it. This is cited as an evidence of useless red tape. It would . be just as reasonable to cite the fact that to transport one letter from New -York to San Francisco requires theservices of so many scores of; postal clerks, railroad engineers, conductors, " brakemen, etc. Systems devised for great affairs must necessarily embrace small ones. Suppose that, instead of a paper of tacks, there was needed $50,000 worth of supplies. It would require no more signatures. What is called red tape is generally official routine necessary to tho keeping of accounts and the maintenance of system in large transactions. Governments could not be conducted without it. The bnrning of one hundred horses An a New York stable is a horror only &ocord to that of tho cremation of as many human beings. It is a pity that the ingenuity of man has never devised a method whereby horses can he rescued in haste from a burning bnilding and their terror and unman ageableness, when threatened by fire, overcome in some degree. If no other way is possible, they might be drilled, as fire-department horses are, to leave their stalls at a certain signal, and be set free of hitch-ing-straps by automatic device. This involves trouble, but horses' lives are valuable, and crowded stables are always in danger of lire. The Corydon Republican prints a list of 227 persons in Harrison comity of the age of seventy years or upwards. Most of them aro in the seventies, quite a number are past eighty, a few are ninety, and one has reached the unusual age of 107 years. This remarkable number of aged persons is strong testimony of the healthfullness of Harrison county, and of the tendency of a quiet life to produce longevity. 'Harrison is one of the oldest-settled counties in the State, and its people are perhaps as little subject to the wear and tear of modern life as any that can bo found. t ,'f. The transfer car needs a second story or some other enlargementEvening News. .. Well, why not enlarge itT Build additions east, west, north and south add stones until it is high as tho soldiers' monument and put in elevators. . It is an obstruction and an eyesore now, ' and has no business to be where it is; but by the 6ame authority that gave it place there it can be made bigger. The only alternative is to hire a waiting-room for passengers in one of the buildings near at hand, but nobody seems to think of this. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: How is a spider able to construct his web from tree to tree, a distance of forty feet? Reader. WAKAhii, Ind, It lets loose a thread in the direction of the wind, afterwards passing over and strengthening it when theend has attached itself to a distant object. To the Editor of the Im'JanapoHs Journal: Can a lit of questions used in past civil-service examinations lo obtained! Subscbiber. Zionsville, Ind. No. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Ox the bill of fare of a temperance restaurant in Chicago there appears a list of ID0 temperance drinks. Patrick Egan, minister to Chili, has been elected an honorary member of the Irish-American Republican Club of New York. Thk father of Mrs. Ward, the author of "Robert Elsinere," is Thomas Arnold, son of the great master at Rugby, and brother of Matthew Arnold. Thk late President Arthur's daughter. Miss Ellen Herndon Arthur, has grown into a handsome young woman, with much of her distinguished father's dignity of manner. Shehas just sailed for a six months' visit to Europe. Quidnuncs are worrying over tho lact that Lord Fife has two sisters who were divorced from their first husbands. Tho question is what tho Queen will do about receiving them at court. There probably will be no revolution. M. Dumas fils expresses himself as opposed to tho U90 of tobacco, which he considers a formidable enemy to intelligence, but he thinks that nothing will do away with the abuse, as the majoritj- of its devotees are "imbeciles in whom tobacco finds nothing to destroy." Mu. Downey, the great London photographer, was recently summoned to serve on a juiy, and at the very same time was summoned by the Qneen to go to Buckingham Palace to photograph the Shah. He obeyed the latter call, and his lawyer had hard work to save him from being lined for con

tempt of court. ."A jury summons, n said the judge, "takes precedence of everything else, even the Shah." The son of Millet, the French artist who painted the "Angelus," says his father painted the picture, but he was not able to sell it. An American made an offer for it, which was accepted, but the American wrote the next day, stating that it was not large enough for the price. Charles B. Naxcrede, of Philadelphia, who has just been elected professor of surgery in the Michigan State University, is noted for his text-books on surgery and as a prolific scientific . writer. His grandfather was a French officer in tho American army under Count de Rocbambeau. Mrs. Elizabeth Wells, .who died In Hartford on Wednesday, aged seventy-ono years, was the widow of Dr. Horace Wells, the discoverer of antesthesia. Though this honor was the subject of much bitter controversy, a monument to Dr. Wells in the Boston Public Garden records the fact that he was the discoverer. Male members of the Amish sect of Somerset, Pa., are not permitted to wear suspenders or own a buggy with a folding top, but if the top is stationary it is all right All members wear "hooks and eyes" instead of buttons on their clothes. This is strictly adhered to by both sexes. No female member is allowed to wear a hat or have any mules on. W. E. Haskell and C. M. Palmer, of Minneapolis, have started on a tour of exploration and pleasure through northern Labrador. They will be gone four months, and expect to visit places never before reached by civilized beings. An artitst will accompany the party, and the results and adventures of the excursion may bo mado public when they return. There is no doubt that Queen Victoria is in very bad health. Her rheumatism has defied treatmeut and she has grown very feeble. It is asserted that she wishes to lay her official duties aside. Should sho do eo the Prince of Wales would read and sign all stato documents. In this case be would assume the title of Prince Regent, and would enjoy the use of Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle. Victoria would retire to Osborne and Balmoral. Mrs. Hage, wife of Captain Herbert Hage, is regarded by the eleven survivors of her husband's lost bark Cupico as a heroine and as the preserver of their lives. Her courage, they say, never flagged; and they were on the wreck for twenty days before they were rescued by tho bars Belt. Mrs. Hage kept the courage of the men up by her example, working at the pumps with them to keep the vessel afloat. Beside, she prepared and brought their food to them at the pumps, which they dared not leave. These survivors are now in New Yoik. Regarding the daughter of the French politician of tho name of Clemenceau, who is always making such a stir, an exchange says that her mother is American, but that "the daughter is wholly French." There must be a reasonable doubt relative to this conclusion, tho moro so' that tho young lady's mother was a Wisconsin cirl of the name of, Plummer. Sho met the Frenchman at a young ladies' boarding-school in Connecticut, whero he was teachingFrench. Like some of the Bonaparte family, Clemenceau found his beau ideal of a wife among the ladies of the American Republic.

t COMMENT AND OPINION. If tho negroes are to be used as political counters for tho benefit of tho South, then their right to vote as they please and to have their votes honestly counted must bo recognized and enforced. In no other wav can the matter be satisfactorily settled, becauso that is the only just and decent way. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. There aro no class of men so poorly paid as are the country clergymen of the Protestant denominations of America, and no men are so little at liberty to better themselves by personal efforts outside their profession. It is a reproach to that active Christianity which has assumed to sustain our churches. Boston Herald. A trust is a conspiracy against the formation of new corporations and against the profitable existenco of old ones that will .not ally themselves with it. It is monopoly, pure and simple. And the profit of a monopoly and the price at which it sells can be limited only uy the greed of its mana gers and owners. Chicago inter Ucean. If the gallows is intended to strike awe into the hearts of evil-doers it loses its force by being described as an instrument upon which the bravery of men is tested. The newspaper accounts of executions familiarize the young with a most horrible adjunct ot our criminal jurisprudence, and serve no good purpose whatever. Chicago Times. For commercial 'reasons, a universal language may be serviceable. Such is the power of the English-speaking people that English, with the addition of perhaps two other languages, seems sufficient for diplomatic and social purposes. For tho present, people of many nations take only a curious interest in universal languages and their makers. Boston Journal. For the general government to establish at general expense an institution for the bene lit of a few hundred scholars' would be simple robbery and injustice. We purposely leave out of sight the question. In our opinion to be answered only in one way, whether the government has any right to take charge ia any degree of education, and to run a national university or a national dancing-school. New York Sun. Until "the power of publio opinion" in the South makes itself felt in the matter of elections, it will do no more good for the President to recommend or Congress to pass a national election law than it would tor General Harrison and Mr. Perkins, from Washington and Kansas, to insist that Bou telle shall enforce tho prohibitory law in Bangor nntil the timo comes when public sentiment in the city will sustain tho law. New York Evening Post. Funerals as at present conducted and celebrated are relics of the dark ages; but thero is no good reason why a man should not be regarded as sensibly after he U dead as while he is alive, and why because he is dead his family should encumber themselves with ugly, suffocating costumes, and with a display of mortuary ostentation for the expression of their sorrow and the public advertisement of their private grief, mado at a cost which financially embarrasses them. The rich should set the example by simplifying the luxury of grief. Chicago Tribune. The New Central Committee. Madison Courier. Mr. Michener is one of the ablest men in the State, and is better fitted by experience and knowledge of political affairs to lead 'tho Republican hosts to victoiy than any otber that could be named. Messrs. Irwin and Millikan aro good men and true, in whose selection auniirablo judgment has been shown. This part of tho State has reason to feel complimented in the new vice-chairman, our gifted townsman M. R. Sulzer, whom the Indianapolis Journal well denominates "an earnest young Republican of the best type." Practical Reform. Boston Journal. We do not find that the newspaper critics of the administration have anything to say regarding tho course of Indian Commissioner Morgan in recommissioning teachers, farmers and other subordinates, end. declaring that their tenure i$ secure so long ns they remain competent and efficient, but this one act has done more to take the Indian service out of politics than all that was douo during tho over-lauded Oberly administration of the bureau. Men In tho Departments. Washington Capital. It can be understood how a woman may seek a government clerkship, but scarcely how a well-informed man can do so. It is almost incredible that men of absolute genius take such a course and throw away their lives. Yet, as already said, there are in the departments a number of men who, before they were ho lost, had made almost national reputations in certain fields of effort. We are queer creatures Mrs. Logan and the Prince ChVapo Mail. Mrs. Logan may base her claim to renown upon the fact that the is the only American woman who over went to England, met the Prince of Wales, and when she came back said of him that he was not fascinating, not remarkable in any way only an ordinary, a very ordinary, man. She is the only one of her kind.

MRS. JOIIS A.-LOGAN.

She Talks of Bismarck, Gladstone, the Prince of Wales and Other Fcreign Notables. If ew York Son. Mrs. John A. Logan and Miss Pullman were among the arrivals, yesterday, by the North German Lloyds' steamship Trave, which left Bremen oh 4nlyl0. The two ladies went abroad7 in October. Mr. John A. Logan, jr, his wifo and other relatives were at the wharf to meet Mrs. Logan. The party went to the Fifth-avenue Hotel, and in the evening Mrs. Logan went to Washington, where shetfill spend the summer at home. Mrs. Lcjah. was entertained abroad by the great folks of the various countries she visited, chatted vith Glad-, stone, met Queen Victoria, the Prince and Princess of Wales,, the Shah of Persia, Prince Bismarck, and many other people whom the world talks of. She was received everywhere witn the greatest courtesy and consideration. Mrs. Logan brought a ruddy color from the sea. She wore a close-fitting costume of black. Her hair is snowy white, and was brushed straight up from her forehead and tucked beneath tho white-silk border of a black bonnet. On her bosom she wore the large black locket, exposing the portrait of General Logan, that she always wears. "I was very much disappointed," she said, "with the small showing America made at the Paris exposition. But it is some time since I was there, and perhaps our country has improved its exhibit. But what was there from America was unquestionably better than anything exhibited by any other country. That, of course, was to be expected. Tiffany's showing was superb. It has been the talk of all Europe, and it is something that every European searches for upon visiting the exposition. Then tho American display of electrical inventions and apparatus was remarkably fine. Of course, we led the whole world in that. We did not stay long in Paris. It is very uncomfortable thero now, with the dense crowds and scarcity of accommodations. We spent most of the time in England, and a very delightful time it was." "You saw Gladstone!" " "Yes, and Bismarck. I saw them both several times. I was interested in comparing them. In one way they strike one as having the same general character. Both forcibly suggest strength, firmness and intellect. But in other respects how vastly different they are! Bismarck appears to one as cold, hard, immovable. Gladstone had an expression of gentleness ami sympathy, lie is soft spoken, and suggests kindness and affability. His eyes are as .bright as a boy's. "I had a very excellent opportunity of forming an opinion of Mr. Gladstone," continued Mrs. Logan, "for I had the pleasure of meeting him socially ou two different occasions. One was at Sir Edward Reed's house, when the Cardiff people presented their memorial to Mr. Gladstone. Miss Florence Pullman and I were the only Americans honored with invitations to that most charming affair. Sir Edward Reed's presentation speech was extremely good, and, in reply, Mr. Gladstone made a really grand address. You can imagine how delightful it was to me when he read a paper in which he said he fouud the most touching tribute he had yet received, to find that it was the resolutions drawn up in my own State of Illinois, and signed by the Governor of Illinois, iu praise of Mr. Gladstone's course. 1 really could not contain myself. 1 clapped my hands and exclaimed, 4My own State!' "Later on Miss Pullman and I were invited to tho dinner Mr. Carnegie gave to Mr. Gladstone, and I had the seat upon Mr. Gladstone's left. He is a most charming conversationalist. And so earnest! He told me that he had only one desire in life, and that was to live to see his ideas in .actual operation. It was his great wisand he spoke frequently of it. Y ou wou be surprised to find how conversant he with American affairs. He knows America politics through and through. He astonished me with his familiarity with them. And in other matters the same. He is very familiar with the social problem presented by America. He asked the closest questions about American life, thought and feeling. He was intensely interested in the phases of the labor problem as shown in our country, and this Clan-na-Gael affair afforded subjects formuch interesting talk. The great problem of self-government, as exhibited under American laws and conditions, is evidently a subject of the closest study with him. "I was presented to the Queen, also, and to others of the royal house. I met the Queon at the reception to the Shah of Persia. This was a very ma gniiicent affair, naturally. The Queen is much maligned in picture and print. She is not at all the coarse creature she is painted. She is, of course, very stout, but there is 'nothing unrefined or coarse about her. On tho other hand, she is a quiet, retiring lady, who dresses tastefully in the black she has worn since her husband died. She wore her customary black widow's can. Her manner is extremely courteous ana dignified, and I was much pleased with her. But I was more pleased with the Princess of Wales. She is a most lovely and lovable woman." "Is the Prince of Wales so fascinating as he is painted!" was asked. "The Prince of Wales," said Mrs. Logan, smiling, "is not . fascinating, and there is nothing in the least remarkable about him. He is a very ordinary man, but his wife is more than charming. I liked her much better. But the Shah I must tell you about the Shah. He isnt ugly, and he isn't handsome. He hasa strong face. That it about all 1 can say of him, except that he seemed most remarkably pleased with the attention shown him, and has improved 'very much in his manners since he visited England sixteen years ago. You mav remeni- . ber that on that visit he had a good manv . . a . nuie ways mat were not particularly nice according to English ideas. He hasn't learned English yet, but gets along very well with French. His young son deported himself at the reception with the greatest of propriety, and seemed to take the ceremonies and honors quite as a matter of course. The Shah has gone to Scotland now, but will return to London iu the fall." "Are there many Americans in England now!" . "Why, I felt quite at home among the very many of my countrymen I found there. Americans are very much in voguo in England now." They are quite tho fashion, and are treated iu tho most wholehearted and hospitable way in the world. All over Europe Americans get the most flattering attentions, and the English aro waking up to a knowledge of what Americans are. Of course, thero are any number of vulgar people among thosj who go there from here, and, of conrse, these people endeavor to forco their way everywhere. But really I do not think any more objectionable Americans go to England than objectioniblo English come here. A large number of delightful Americans go to England now, and they are always cordially received and pleasantly entertained. Home life in England is indeed charming. When it comes to the physical luxury of living, though, I find that America is much better off than England. The ordinary conveniences and luxuries enjoyed 1)5 people in very moderate circumstances here -ire not found there except in the homes of the wealthy. "1 have come back home for good now," Mrs. Logan added; "but I really am very sorry I could not have mado my visit longer." Ought to lie. Enough. New York Graphic New England papers in tjhe Eastern college atmosphere have criticised th appointment of Professor T. C. Mendenhall, of Terre Haute, to be superintendent of the coast and geodetic survey, because ho is "least known" of the several gentlemen who were aspirants for the position. He is sufficiently well known to the scientific world to have been mado last year president of the American Association for tho Advancement of Science, and that is enough said. The Halt Trust. Philadelphia American. The situation of the salt business of America is one of those which illustrates the use and need of combinations among producers to check the extravagances ot competition. For years past the Syracuse and the Michigan producers have been carrying on a w ar of prices which has made a living profit as good as impossible. Salt has been bold for less than mud and sand could have been gathered and packed in barrels for transportation, because each set of producers was bent on driving the others out of the field. At last they have reached an agreement to divide tie field between them, and each to refuse orders from the territory

assigned to the others, in the belief thai this will put an end to the ruinous competition. As a. conseqnence of thi it is expected that tho price of salt will bo advanced 30 cents a barrel an advance much too small to fe appreciable to the bnver of the article at retail. Wo are not sure that it would not have been better to ajrree upon a minimum price, rather than divide the field, although it is evident that any breach of the actual agreement will bo more easily detected. But wa see nothing to liud fauit with in tho agreement itself, if only it had been made with the assent of the consumers, or the government as their representative. Pooling regulated by law is tho only remedy for both excessive competition and for the exactions of trusts. TIIE PltOIIIBITORY REPUnUCASS. Thej Will Not Antagonize the Republican) Party in Massachusetts. Boatoa Journal (Rep.) In view of certain statements which have recently appeared in print as to the position and probable action of the friends and supporters of tho amendment in the approaching campaign it may be proier for mo to 6ay, -without presuming to speak for all, or for some who at a later day will epeak for themselves, that, eo far j3 .1 am aware, there is no movement at present contemplating which has for its purposo the nomination of temperance candidates. But there is a movement, now about taking practical shape, by tho friends of tha amendment who havo always acted with tho Republican party, whoso purposo is to organize in the most efficient manner possible, not only that we may hold all that ha.i been secured in our Stato iu the way of effective restriction of the liquor traffic, but also for the purpose of cultivating a stronger publio sentiment in behalf of tho enforcement of our present laws, as well as in behalf of more ellective legislation. And this is iu no sense a personal movement ou the part of a few individuals, as has beeu suggested, but a movement which will bo participated in by leading temperance Republicans all ever the State. I think it is very clearly felt by tho friends anil advocates of tho amendment! that the people of Massachusetts are not ready, at present, to support a distinctively prohibitory polity, and while they accepts the situation and placo the responsibility of its defeat where it properly belongs, and. at the same time as well the responsibility of demonstrating that the higb-licensa system, as its advocates have claimed, is tiie best system which can be devised to meet this great and growing evil, they clearly feel that it will soon be demonstrafed that it is not what many of its friends have claimed, that the good sen and clear judgment of our people will appreciate this conclusion and will be ready to support a more radical step in the treatmeut of this great evil. . . It seems, therefore, very clcarlvto be the duty of every true friend of temperance having at heart the best welfare of the cause to put aside all feelings, of disappointment over the defeat of the amendment, as well as, also, all purely political considerations, and to unite in one com-' mon ell'ort, by concentration, by the best possible organization, by publio aud pri vate appeals and proper literature, to cultivate a stronger sentiment, which will support, when tue tune arives, a prohibitoiy policy as the public policy of our State. For one, who has taken a deep interest , in the great work. I feel under obligations' to the leaders and forces in the Republican party, which in tho past have put themselves in sympathy with the temperanco sentiment of our State, and which havo giveu that sympathy practical expression in the M ay of ellective legislation, which has mado it possible for so large a portion, of our commonwealth to enjoy the benefits of prohibition. And now, when so. much has been accomplished, I trust that tha action of the party may be such, both in the selection of its candidates, and in its, platform, and in its disposition to further restrict this great evil, as to retain tho loyal and hearty support of every temperance man within its ranks.

HE FOUNDED THE G. A. K. How Dr. I. F. Stephenson Perpetuated the.' Ranks of the Soldier. Chicago Trihune. Dr. B. F. Stephenson, tho founder of tho. , order of the Grand Army of tho Republic, was bom in Illinois, Oct. 3. l&SJ. He received the ordinary education of country boys at that time, which ho followed up by reading medicine, and in due time graduated from an Ohio medical college. For a brief period he was one of the faculty of a similar institution in Iowa. Settling in. Petersburg, 111., he pursued his medicap Fractice, in which he was highly success-, ul, being generally recognized as the head of his profession, both as surgeon and physician. With the beginning of .tho, war he became surgeon in the Fourteenth Illinois Infantry, and on coming out of tho; service he located in Springfield, 111.: About the close of the war Dr. Stephenson was wont to talk with his friends as to then preservation of those ties engendered in camp and held in those trying times, and! suggested on one oi inese occasions that the survivors should form some order, league or association to perpetuate tno memory or 1tf on1 aKnvA nil ,n lwisntA . 1 . ...v uu nisviu au iw unuiuo UIOi fountain-head, so to speak, of loyalty and devotion to the country iust saved by their euorw. lne idea being lavorabfv received in the Doctor's circle of f rieuds, ho became active and untiring in putting the proposal into shape, which, with the aid of friends equally zealous, soon took form, and tho first post was organized in Snrinetield. I1L Dr. Stephenson died in lb71, and duriutf his life he claimed to be the originator of the idea, and his claim was not questioned. After his death claims were made by others to that distinction, but at a recent National Encampment the order, by vote, effectually settled the question by declaring SteDhenson to havo been the oricrinaror of the idea and founder of the order. Estill Post, No. 71. G. A. R.. of Petersburg, 111.. bought a circular block in RosehiU Ceraeterv, near that place, to be devoted solely! as tne last resting-place of Dr. Stephenson, and, with tho permission of his widow, proceeded to removo his remains from a country church-yard some miles distant? and consign them to the place thus pro-t vided, which was done Aug. :jo, 1SSJ, ' with appropriate ceremonies of the order. This cemetery is on a high upland east of the Sangamon river and almost in sight of old historic Salem. On each Decoration day tha grave of Dr. Stephenson receivVa atlectionato remembrance at tho hands of the order, Estill Post. No. 71. never failiug to honor their founder, often aided by members of other posts, notably by those of Springfield. The widow of Dr. Stephenson resides in Petersburg with her two daughters. An only son, a physician, lives', in Kilbourn, 111. A local committee is in existence here to procure funds for a inonu-j mcnt to Stephenson's memory; and, in fact, j a fund has been started. Estill Post, of Petersburg, will gladly aid in this work? both by voice aud puree. . A Southern Braj. Hashville American. The latest fad is the business of discover-, ing a shocking dearth of United States ilag in the outb. Enterprising Northern Ife-J publican papers havo opened up a regular flag department and employ a regular corps of Hag editors, reporters and correspondents. These latter roam overall the South, and wherever they lied a barn, or a gati-, post, or a iichtniuR-rod. or a beanpola, which does not fly the stac-spangled ban-; ner they proceed to paint. If a Southern man doesn't cover his table and have his napkins covered with the patriotic hunting; he is a red-handed secessionist and hi heart is full of treason to the Union. Of all the long-eared donkeys that ever brayed i this flag donkey is the loudest and longesteared. m m Better Keep Him Out. Troy Time. Ignatius Dounrllv wants to Fettle in Nev York citj It shouldn't be permitted. Before Ignatius has bn there a mouth ho 11 be undertaking to demonstrate that Manhattan island is merely a thnnk of old Erin, floated over hw by this country's first settlers, and that tho Pilgrim fathers and the expeditions of the Hollanders aro all Miakspeareaii humbugs. Absurdity never flees when lgnatins is in ptirMiit it simply sits down in the soft mud and sighs,' hopeleaslv duriug th brief period preceding capture. He always "gets there." An Answer llcquesUd. Boston Journal. The Philadelphia Kccoru (Uern.l sava it happens tnat there is a large and prosperous salt trust iu free-trade England. And does it not know that the American trust is only a branch or offshoot of tLr English monopoly!