Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY,- JULY 30, 1839.

THE DAILY JOURNAL TUESDAY, JULY SO, 18S3.

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NEW YORK Gllsey House and Windsor Hotel. PH IULDELPHI A-A pTKemble, 3733 Lancaster avenue, CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI J. P. Hawiey A Co., 154 Vine street LOUISVILLE C. T. Derlng, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ftT. LOUIS Unin News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WFHIT LT. WASHINGTON, D. O. Biggs House and Ebbltt House. Mn. VoonnEEs's speech, as it appeared in the Sentinel, was an expurgated edition. When, Senator Voorhees begins the hanging of capitalists like Carnegie, will he use tho ropes used by sheriffs or will he employ the bell-cord in use on passenger trains! And so tho Greenbackers will have nothing to do with the Prohibitionists. They may be cranks, but are not such colossal cranks as to weigh themselves down with two impracticable scheme at the same time w hen one will sink them deep enough. Chairman Jones is wise in deciding that his party shall go it alone. If Mr.Voorhees's Bloomfield hearers hadn't known better, they might have thought, from his speech, that ho had been a rip-roaring free-trader for thirty years. He neglected to say anything about that eloquent address, in Atlanta, in favor of a protective tariff, that won him so many handsome compliments not longer than three years ago. When the Indiana Bchool-boy gets through with one of the "Elementary Arithmetics'7 furnished by Becktold & Co. the law compels him io buy a "Complete Arithmetic" if he wishes to complete his studies, although the first two hundred pages of it are a duplicate of tho elementary. It is aemarkablo Int of books, that Standard series. EX-COXGRESSMAN JOHNNY LAMB, who is posing in New York as a great statesman, tells a reporter whom ho has procured to interview him. that he has discovered the coming man forhe Democratic presidential nomination in 1892 in McPherson, of Delaware. Mr. Isaac Gray, of Indiana, who has another man for the place, may now be expected to sit down on Johnny at the earliest opportunity. tlimtmmMMMMm Senator Voorhees jvanta to hang "tho Carnegies;" but does this ferocious sentiment apply to the. Scotts, the Paynes, tho Hewitts, tho Whitneys, the Brices, the Burts, and all the ether in- ' numerablo throng of Democrats who, according to Mr. Voorhees, are engaged in the capitalistic occupation of "robbing the people!" He surely doesn't mean to mako flesh of Republican capitalists and fowl of the Democrats. Mr. Jonathan M. Ridenour, whose death occurred yesterday, was for many years prominently identified with active affairs in this city and other parts of the State. He was sagacious and untiring in tho pursuit of business ends, and ever ready to assist in enterprises looking to the public welfare or the prosperity of the city. His demise will be sincerely regretted by tho largo number of those who have enjoyed his acquaintance. Hotf. Daniel Voorhees has many old friends who will be both shocked and grieved to learn that he and Lncr Parsons are preaching the same doctrine. Daniel says: "If I had my way with men like the Carnegies I would hang them." The amiable Lucy puts it thus: "They, the people, must rise and bear out the heads of those devils those capitalists on pikestaffs. Tho revolution comes, the red flag waves," etc., etc, ending in a wild hoop-la. There is a difference in form of expression, a difference in the proposed method of extermination, but none in sentiment. The one utterance was no less anarchist doctrine than tho other. There is a good deal of significance in the prevalent rumor in London that the Prince of Wales is anxious for the Queen to abdicate because he thinks he could secure a more favorable civil list now than he could at any future time. The current discussion on royal grants, while pretty sure to end favorably to the crown, has disclosed a Btrong sentiment of opposition and a growing restlessness under tho expenses of royalty. The Prince of Wales knows enough of human nature and of English nature to know that this fetling is likely to increase rather than diminish, and' that his chance of getting liberal appropriations for a civil list from Parliament would bo better now than a few years hence. In reply to certain questions of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction the Attorney-general holds that the language of the new school-book law is compulsory in the duties it imposes on township trustees. There U no doubt about this, but the question will still arise as to what those duties are, and whether they include tho compulsory introduction of the books in the schools!

Thia will have to be decided oy tho courts. IC the opinion of tho Attorneygeneral is correct that tho new law is compulsory at all points, it will onlj increase the friction, aggravate the damago to tho schools and intensify popular indignation against the monopoly. Tho fact that tho latter is relying on legal compulsion to force inferior books upon the peoplo against their will shows its true animus. As the monopoly has invoked the law against tho people, the latter should do tho same against the monopoly, and fight it as long as there is an inch of ground to stand on. It is a fight for popular rights, for good textbooks and, eventually, for free ones.

SEAL AND PRETENDED SPEECHES. The American people have long since learned that there is a great difference between the real and the pretended speeches of public men -that is, between tho speeches . they make and those they are reported as making. Members of Congress often print speeches which are never delivered at all, or which differ in every material respect from ti)e one delivered. Again, speakers sometimes furnish the press with advance copies of a speech, carefully written out, polished, pruned and expurgated, and then go and deliver something entirely different. Sometimes tho press is a. party to this sort of thing, printing an alleged report of a speech that is to be delivered rather than take the trouble of reporting it. All this is demoralizing. Not to speak of other bad results, it tends to the decay of oratory. Extemporaneous eloquence cannot stand this sort of rewriting, revising, pruning and expurgating. There is such a thing as polishing the life out of a speech, and revising the soul out of. extemporaneous eloquence. If, this sort of thing continues the race of political orators will become extinct. Great speeches should be printed as they are delivered. That is the honest way, and the way to encourage oratory. A notable illustration is the striking difference between the Journal's report of Senator Voorhees's Bloomfield speech anil that printed in the Sentinel. The Journal's report was taken down by a stenographer, just as it fell from the orator's lips, whilo that of the Sentinel wq.s evidently written out in advance. One was the speech as delivered, the other was some written remarks resembling the speech, but entirely devoid of life, color and character. The advance copy may have read better than the real speech, but it lacked the personal appeals, the striking illustrations, the fine figures, the picturesque combinations of statistics and tho magnificent disregard of facts which characterized the real speech. Here are two or three gems from the, speech as delivered: I said the other day at the breakfast table at the Terre Haute House, with some genial Republican friend, that if I had my way with men like the Carnegies, that preyed upon the laud and sucked people's Dlood like leecues. 1 would Hang them. He seemed shocked about it. 1 was not, at all. I don't wish to disturb domestic life down here: I don't want to break no anv fami lies: but what would you think of your husband, if howasa candid man and an honest man, and he should come home in the evening and say to his wife: "I was in town to-day. and bought some lumber to build dit barn, and I oaid about 165 for a hundred dollars' worth of it. The other 65 goes to some great big Republicans up hero iu Michigan." I think 1 know what the wife would say. His good wife would cay: "Have yon lost your senses? What is tho matter with yout What are you trying to give mel" On all your house furniture you pay 35 per cent. An old fellow comes home and .says: VMother, I bought some bedsteads AO-day; the children are growing up, Sarah Lriind Toin, and we needed more, and I inst turned in and bought some; the whole lot was worth about $100. but I paid $135, just because I want to uphold the Republican party, and 1 think it is best to do that. don't yout" Tho old woman would look around for the shovel and tongs, and sav: "You better get out of this neighborhood." She would say: "I can run this ranch bet ter than both of you." These, and many more like them, did not appear in the Sentinel's expurgated report. It shows that the only way to preserve the life of oratory and tho soul of eloquence is to print speeches just as they are delivered. A SENATORIAL TEACHER OP ANARCHY. When half-crazed creatures like Lucy Parsons, or professional agitators like the half-civilized nerr Most undertake to carry out social , reforms by urging one class of citizens to murder another, the intelligent people of the country lis ten to their ravings with disgust, but also with a feeling that the speakers can do little harm, owing to their low stand ing and lack of influence in tho com munity. It' is a very different matter when a Senator of the United States preaches such incendiary doctrine. It is one thing when a semi-lunatic and an ignorant foreigner urge revolution by violence as a means of settling economic and social problems, and quite another when a representative of - tho greatest republican government on earth sug gests the same plan. The disgust felt in the one case bears no compar ison to the contempt entertained by all sensible persons for one who allows his demagogic tendencies to carry him to the point reached by Senator Voor hees in his Bloomfield speech. "If I had my way with such men as the Car negies I would hang them," ho said, on Saturday, to tho crowd assembled to listen to his words. This utterance differs in no way from the rantings of the Chicago Anarchists, but in just the degree that a Senator's influence exceeds that of a Parsons or a Lingg, it is more dangerous. It will not do to say, as in dulgent friends will, that Mr. Voorhees w - w. did not mean ms remarks to apply in a literal sense. It is not advisable to take this Democratic Senator too seriously at all times, but this case is one in which ho must bo held strictly responsible for his words and their significance. His Greene county audience was made up largely of farmers who had not reached that state of mind that would cause any unfriendly reference to wealth to meet with instant approval, and no applause greeted his bloodthirsty suggestion as to capitalists. If that speech had been made before a crowd of Democrats from the slums of New York or Chicago, how differently Would it have been received 1 The Greene county grangers cheered now and then during the course of the address, but perfunctorily and because tho speaker was "their Dan," whom

they had helped to keep in office for so

many years; thorsew lone or Chicago hearers would have rended their throats in approval of the sentiments. They want to kill off wealthy men: so, Mr.

Voorhees says, does he. What better encouragement to go on with their revolutionary plans should they want than this! He would be hailed not only as a sympathizer, but his high position would entitle him to rank as a leader among them. Those Anarchists were not pres ent at the Bloomfield meeting, but the fact that the Indiana Senator is teaching a social doctrhio precisely similar to their own will speedily become known to them and do its dangerous work. It matters little what Mr. Voorhees, as a man and a citizen of Terre Haute, may think; it is when, as a Senator and a representative of a great State, he so far forgets his duty to State and Nation as to publicly advocate and encourage the dangerous, classes, that his words aro important, and he is open to the con demnation of the public. DOCTOR HARRISON'S DEFENSE. Dr. Thomas H. Harrison, of Insane Hospital notoriety, has published a de fense of his management of that institution. He styles it "A few facts about the late management of the Insane Hos pital." The facts he gives are very few compared with those he does not give. At the outset he makes the following statement: The hosoital was not governed by "civil service." It was absolutely a partisan management, as was evidenced by the fact that Way no township, in which the Hos pital is located, was changed irom a KeIiublican majority to nearly four hundred )emocratic within a period of six years. This became alarming to the Republican leaders of Marion county, who could readily see that their majority was quietly slipping from under hem. This is frank, to say the least. We be lieve it has never been charged that the management of the hospital under the Harrison regime was non-partisan, but the foregoing statement is the first official admission that it was run solely as . a political machine. Dr. Harrison evi dently takes great credit to himself for having revolutionized the politics of Wayne township, but the people will see in this fact clear proof of all the charges of political corruption and ring management at the hospital. lie gives the political chapge in Wayne township as the reason for the Republican attacks on his administration and all tho investigations that followed. Referring to the campaign and elec tion of 1888, in which tho hospital management played a prominent part, he says: "The Democrats lost the State, and they went searching for a cause. Some laid it at the door of the hospital, and were ready to denounce tho manage ment because tho party had been de feated, in tho face of the fact that Wayne township had increased her ma jority and. saved the legislative ticket in Marion county." This is delightful. The Doctor cannot see how any person could lay the Domocratio defeat in the State at the door of the hospital when, by means of it, "Wayne township had increased her majority and saved the legislative ticket in Marion county." Was there ever a more extraordinary instance of partisan stupidity 4 - When ho comes to speak of the in vestigation of last winter, Dr. Harrison says: "An investigation was in order by a joint committee, whose purpose seemed to be to investigate the contracts of John E. Sullivan, a produce-dealer, with the hospital. Sullivan had been elected county clerk two years before, but still continued in business, and had received most of the contracts for sup plies in his line. He had defaulted in office, failed inbusiness, nnd was charged with being guilty of criminal acts. Ho became alarmed, took flight and left the country, and Bimply because he had received most of the contracts, that committee reported ad versely to tho management." Was there ever a more prejudiced and unreasonable committee? Observe the tenderness with which Dr. Harrison lets Sullivan down; he was "charged with being guilty of criminal acts, became alarmed, took flight and left tho country." ne uoctor seems to nave an abiding faith that Sullivan was an inno cent and much abused man. The rest of tho defense is an attempt to prove that the management of the hospital was not in any respect as bad as was charged, and that, in addition to making Wayne township largely Demo cratic, it was an excellently managed institution in other respects. The Dem ocratic party should hire Dr. Harrison to keep still. VOORHEES AND MRS. PARSONS. Senator Voorhees's speech at Bloom field, on Saturday, and that of Mrs. Lucy Parsons, at Chicago, on Sunday, show that the statesmanship and oratory of this country are not all confined to one sex. It is interesting, also, to observe the similarity in tho utterances of the two orators. Thus wo have: Senator voorhees at Mr $. Parsons at Ch leago. We have a free government; they have a free government In France; yet we are slaves. There must be another revolution a revolution against the baattles" of labor. Bloomfield, A government which takes from one portion or its citizens in order to enrich another class don t deserve to exist on the face of the earth. and will not long exist unless the people con sent to become slaves. The people must rise. They wiU rise, and they wiU storm and capture those baitiles, and they wUl bear out the heads of those devils tboe capitalists on the tops of pikestaffs. If I had my wav with men lite xue carnegies, that preyed upon the land, and sucked peoie s Diooa line leeches. wouia nang them. They are public enemies; worse tuan the Tones were during the Revo lution. I say there will be a revolution. I say you men are brave enough to rise and nut down the tyrants. There will be slaves in the ba&tue of labor no longer; you will do with tyrants, and put out tho bosses. You must march, arm Why, I think the time will come when you would rather a (rood deal rather take a pitchfork and pitch ReiniDUcan ioiiticlans out or your way than to pitch hay in meadow. your The Declaration of in arm, and shoulder to shoulder, against these American Independence was a mere declaration bastiles" of labor. You must not march in the agaiuta a ineory and a prmcipio or wrong. street, to be mowed rather than against down, but you must getian actual grievance. within the walls, and victory, sweet victory, is yours. iou nave an actual grievance to inflame your anlmoMty and hos tility to the present siaie oi an airs. It would bo hard to say which of the speeches was the more mischievous and incendiaryThe "typographical error" has, from time immemorial, been made the scape-goat for many a blander due to editorial careless ness, but here is the first instance on rec

ord where it is made to shoulder the blame

of a whole half column of mistaken editorial opinion. The Omaha Republican says: By reason of a rxnograDhical error In the Issue of the Republican of yesterday, there was a halfcolumn article In favor of Washlnjrton for the great exposition of 1892. The Republican is emphatically la favor of Chicago, and wishes to be so understood. No long-winded typographical errors in the editorial coJ umns can deflect it from its course In the light of recent events this, from tho Louisville Courier-Journal, is refreshing, to say the least: Under twentv vears of Democratic administra tion Kentucky has steered clear of the extremes which have driven so many other communities to cut loose from the old moorings of moral truth and constitutional law, and to seek, ad ventures upon the oven sea of political debauchery: has preserved her distinction undimmed and her traditions Intact: has maintained her credit with.out either serious loss or scandal, and is to-day In line with the most wholesome progress of the country and the best thought of the time. W hile Uncle Dick Tate was carrying oft everything in the State, treasury but the safe, Kentucky, under a Democratic administration, was "maintaining her credit without either serious loss or scandal" and while the murderous Craig Tolliver gang, the bloody McCov-Hattield vendetta, and killings and Ivnchings too numerous to mention, have been making the State notorious the world over for lawlessness. Kentucky has, under a Democratic admin istration, been keeping "in line with the most wholesome progress of tho country and the best thought of the time." The Memphis Avalanche, with charming frankness, admits a truth which all the rest of the Southern press and tho Southern politicians have been endeavoring to hide for years. It says: The Democrats of the South, that is to sav the whole people, have a large and varied assortment of ideas on the tariiT. as on evcrv other . public question. They do not aU think alike on anyortnem, however except one the negro question, as long as they think as they do on that subject, which will be as long as the negro is a factor in politics, just so long win they be obliged to hold together and vote solid. That is to say, "the whole people" of the South will let all other political questions of importance go in order to oppose the Republican party, so long as that party holds to its doctrine of equal rights. To the Etlltor of the Indianapolis Journal: Is there any provision made by the govern ment for paying the last sickness and burial expenses of deceased pensioners! . Bubscmbek. U REEXCASTLE, ind. No. ' ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. A doctor says that young men who wear belts aro affected somewhat the same as women who lace tightly. A chiropodist will henceforth be at tached to every German regiment. Governor Beaver has received $900, sent by the Sultan of Turkey for the benefit of the Johnstown sufferers. Eddie Gould was not married after alL The Mrs. Gould whose name was on the Eassenger list of the City of Paris next to is own was not an acquaintance, much l&s a wife. Julia Snyder, Winifred Dunlevy and Charles and Caroline Hollander, all of Philadelphia, have been arrested on the charge of being common scolds, and placed under $500 bonds each to hold their tongues, and thus preserve the peace. Father Ryan, of Kalamazoo, is one of the moat expert electricians in the country. In one corner of his room he has a skull so arranged that it chatters its teeth when the priestly scientist slyly touches an elec tric button concealed about ms desk. Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll is accepted by those who know as one of tho best cooks in New York. He is said to be a gourmet of the highest altitude, and his friends say he prepares with his own hands tne biggest part ot toe menu at the private dinners he gives at his home. The late Prof. Alexander JohnBton, of Princeton, left in the hands of his publisher a second "History of the United States," written on a somewhat similar plan to that pursued in his former well-known textbook. The forthcoming history will be short and suited to young students. The Persian Shah's costumes are 'gor geous and stunning beyond description. Among other ornaments he wears a gold belt, fastened with the biggest emerald in the world: a sash of the Order of the Gar ter, with an enormous diamond in the center; breast plates of diamonds, and an aigrette of brilliants in his hat. In 1883 a board of young women of Wash ington who had been engaged in charitable work conceived the idea of furnishing a suburban home for those who otherwise could not get out of the city, and a place near lennauytown was Becureo. ine home is in a nourishing condition, and up ward of one hundred children are taken there every summer. At Lacken, the King of the Belgians tishered the Shah into tho great hall, where stood the Queen and her numerous ladies in-waiting. "Your harem, sire!" inquired the successorof Feridoun the Glorious. The King, astonished and amused, did notre i. -r .i i i : the mature age of the ladies, added in au undertone: "You will 6oon have to renetr. it, won't you!" A French water-color portrait by Armand Dumakesby of. Benjamin Harrison, signer of the Declaration of Independence, has been sent to his great-grandson, now President of the United States. Tho elder Beniamin was not handsome. He had a re ceding chin and forehead, and his nose was not pretty. In tho picture he is attired in full dress, with knee-breeches, low shoes, fall-cut vest witn rumen, coat ot tne con tinental pattern, and powdered wig tied in a queue. Seven years ago Bridget Miller, of Sara toga, obtained a divorce from her husband. She paid a Saratoga lawyer $75 for his services in connection with the case. One day last week she called upon the lawyer at his office with the divorce papers, requesting him to take them back and refund the money which they cost her. bhe even offered to return them at half nrice. as she had no further use for them. When asked for her reason she said her husband, from whom she had been divorced, was dead. The lawyer refused to buy them. - Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain, nee Endicott, is said to be tho most popular woman the United States has yet sent to England. Charming as Lady Randolph Churchill is. and attractive as is Lady Mandeville, neither of these ladies made such an in stantaneous success as did Mrs. Chamber lain. Every one with whom sho has been brought in contact, from her Majesty the Queen down, has been made captive by the , ruritan bride, tier manners aro periect, ana ncr uearing is use mat oi a uucness. Miss Mary Gwendoline Caldwell, who is soon to become the Princess Murat, is noted in Washington for her disregard and apparent contempt for social forms. At a grand ball once given by herself and sister the later comers looked in vain for a hostess to salute on entering, and the early-goers were equally perplexed for one to whom they could make tbeir adieus. One of them, keener-eyed than the rest, discov ered her sitting under the stairway en tete-a-tete with a society man, she having said audaciously in abandoning her post of duty as hostess that she wasn't going to stand there and be bored all tne evening. Aweepinq peach tree is one of the curiosities of Denison, Tex. It is visited by many persons daily. At times a perfect mist of spray surrounds it. A number of superstitious persons think that 'spirits operate upon the tree. A lending spiritualist visited the tree last Sunday and thought that a seance would explain the mystery. The negroes attach considerable significance to the name of the variety ot the peach, which is known as the Robert E. Lee. The most ignorant declare that.the spirit of the dead confederate chieftain is operating upon the tree. After dark thev give the neighborhood a wide berth. James Wallace, a negro who has been afilicted with inflammatory rheumatism for the past

iwo years auu ucu-nuueu most ox wiu uue,

was impressed that the fluid from, the tree would effect a cure. Ho was sponged with tho fluid, and said he felt much relieved.

Ethel Mackenzie, one of the Evening Telegraph's London correspondents, says of Mrs, Garrett-Anderson, now one of the best known physicians in England, that she was the first woman to study medicine in that country. "No school or hospital was then open to her in London, and it was only by immense perseverance and indomitable will, and to paying largely to private physicians for instruction, that she succeeded in obtaining a degree abroad, where the medical faculties are less conservative in their ideas and more willing to share their pleasures and work with the sex." COMMEN'T AND OPINION. idle rich men than from rich men who aro perniciously and pertinaciously active in controlling politics and government for their own sellish interests. New. York World. There has. undoubtedly, been great ethi cal gain in the past hundred years, pessimists to the contrary notwithstanding, and we can feel sure that gain is being made i i ,!i.ir- a i i now in morals, in pontics, iu iuo geucrai development of society. Chicago Inter Ocean. Men and brethren, the first steD toward the millennium of plenty, is to produce more, not less; to do better work, and not less; to "do it heartily, as unto the Lord," arid not grudgingly as if self-satisfaction were reany better tnan nonest ana productive service. New York Tribune. It Rmirwla vamt xet 11 in fnpnrv and lnolcfl very.well in print, and thousands of people are ready to take up with these newfangled ideas that promise so much in ' the way of a universal panacea for all - our ills. The only trouble about the socialistic idea is that there is no telling where the tendency of government ownership will stop if allowed any headway. Chicago Times. It is a notorious fact that parochial schools are inferior, so far as secular edu cation is concerned, to the public schools. and are not gcnerallv preferred, or even liked at all, by Catholic parents and chil dren. It is not a question of freedom to attend those schools or to send children to them, but of freedom to keep out of them, aud to enjoy the benefits of the schools provided by the State. New Y'ork Times. Bad statistics are worse than none at alL They can be used by anybody to prove anything. It is better that the . census gath erers should do a few things, and do them accurately and thoroughly, than to try to do many and make an imperfect job of most. It would be of the greatest interest and value if this Nation could take account of stock in 1890 iind just what it, has and owes, deduct tho latter from the former, and then brag of the result hut how.is it to be done! Chicago Tribune. One argument in favor of a national uni versity is that it would render it unneces sary for young men to go abroad to com pete their studies in any department of earning. In the opinion of the best edu cators this practice should be encouraged. The oldest and richest colleges do encour age it by awarding a small sum of money to a certain number in each graduating cla89 sufficient to enable them to go abroad and continue their studies in different European countries. Chicago Herald. NEW JERSEY POLITICS. Flsk, in Ills Desertion of the Prohibitionist!, Tabes Most of the Third Party, with Him. Trenton (N. J.) SpeciaL 'The political talk of the past week in this Stato has centered around the desertion of the Jersey Prohibitionists by Gen. Clinton B. Fiski It occurred at the Prohibition convention at Asbury Park, last week. The General found that he was not wanted, and that the convention was pretty much of a fizzle anyhow. So he pulled out and went West just before the delegates assembled. 1 isk nas only been half-hearted in tne third-party work here forthe past few months. He was thoroughly disgusted with the repeal of local option by the Dem ocratic Legislature last winter, and an nounced very positively that he thought it was time for rrohibitionists ami Kepublicans to unite and get a Legislature next fall that would re-enact local option. Ihe other third-party leaders did not astree with'Fisk. They insisted m main taining their organization, no matter what became of temperance. They acted as though they were suspicious of their old leader, and the General made up his mind it was time for him to get out. Evidently a large portion of the party deserted with r isk, for scarcely halt the delegates appearediat Asbury Park, and most of those that did iret around'were women, who were more anxious to get a woman suffrage plank in the platform than anything else. Tho convention was an entire failure, and the loss of Fisk takes all strength out of the third-party canvass this year. As near as can be ascertained General Fisk re mains a Prohibitionist in national politics. but la local politics next fall he will work with and lor the Kepublicans. RECOLLECTIONS OF SIRS. HATES. Incidents Suggested by the Memorial Serv ices of Oie W. C, T. U. at the Capital Washington Letter In Philadelphia Press. Many vivid tableaux of Mrs. Hayes in stately scenos flash before my memory; her shiny olack hair, coill'ured with no ornament but a silver comb; her fondness for white or cream, white silk or satin dresses on occasions of state, with black silk as an almost invariable second choice; her avoidance of low-necked evening gowns, though her neck and bust showed charming womanly outlines through their soft enveloping folds of lace or-silk. She also greatly disliked and discountenanced these exposures in other women. Miss Austino Sncad, whose neck and arms were her best physical points and who naturally liked to show them, told me once how Mrs. Hayes beckoned her to her Bide in the Blue Parlor, when thus attired one evening at a reception, and whispered kindly to hex to go up stairs into her own (Mrs. Hayes) dressingroom and get a little lace shawl 6he would iind in a certain bureau drawer 'and cover up that bosom and those arms." Miss Snead never again appeared in Mrs. Hayes presence decollete. I recall pleasant Sunday mornings, when, from my door, nearly facing the Foundry Church, I used to see the President and Mrs. Haves walking dewn from the White House and entering the sacred edifice, he prouder of being at her side than of being rresiaenc oi a great peopie;' sne. rosvchcekedand devoutly comely in the white. bonnets she so loved to wear and a black siik dress, with sealskin wrap or of some lighter fabric. Sometimes I, also, would go in as a worshiper, and it was one of the pleasant incidents of the service, if I chanced to be seated near the presidential pew, to hear Mrs. Hayes's pure, deep voice raised in singing the dear old Methodist hymns. She established, also, the charmin g Sunday evenings or sacred songat the White House, either in the library or the Green Parlor. Not many were admitted to them, but this made them all the more home-like and informal. T rrcrard it, n.s nniWv an evidence of Mdl "Hayes's good taste that she never visited Washington after the close or her husband's term. Sho never came back to be a subordinate figure where onco she had been the first and foremost. There could have been no bitterness at the bottom of this, fdr she left several friends here who would have entertained her with diguitied and appropriate cordiality, notably Senator and Mrs. Sherman and the family of Justice Stanley Matthews, as long as the first Mrs. Matthews lived. It was only that her record here was accomplished, and life held enough for her in other helds. I stroke, in a recent article, of Mrs. Hayes's fondness for flowers, and also of her ordering the notable Haviland set of Limoges china, on which are perpetuated. tho fauna and flora native to, the united States. This china is regarded as a curios ity now, rather than an attraction. A little - of it is generally used at each state dinner to show people wuai iuooks nice, nut there are other sets much more admired. Mrs. Haves was not a notable housewife. In the years of her residence in southern Ohio her housekeeping was regarded as of the happy-go-lucky sort. She, found a dirty and worn-out state of things in the White House, but she made no radical renovation. She was content to cover up the defects with iiowers, always flowers, here, thero and everywhere. Also, she ransacked tho attic for historic bits of old furniture and gave them u now lease of usefulness. She was charmed with the dingy old Whito House, and enjoyed being its mistress for all that it was worth. "No matter what they build, they will never build any moro rooms like thee," she would say as she took her friends over it. audi have no doubt sho thoroughly enjoyed, in after

years, the consciousness that her f nil-length

1 tt a t, mamea iner6 to represent her. , , i"o most non-partisan Wife Ot a I'rri(?nt tt-, i . . known. In fact, through her Kentucky auivv.iuv.iiio, ouc Bc-i'Hiru, ii anytnitig, more lOnd OI l7emOCT.lt thin nf I Kt. . A. rather, so completely ignoring citherns were sometimes hurt tl.it tv.; r.-. .i kiiJH 11 II Klin II fl K wir annnnH.r. d- V " " 14 .wilt A aDkj5rs SPioyc 110 special welcome at It was hamuel J. Randall the warmest encomium ihn . first diplomatic reception on her stand against wines and liquors at the Whit House. As he nnnrn.iriiPfl lior-1 nv-- v:. adieus I heard him say to her, with beamlug eyes, lauam, l jikc your pluck," and it was a white-hairpd Sinnth..Tn, n-t, called her. after attending one of her receptions, "a God beautiful woman." On the whole, I believe that both her own, and Mr. Hayes's administration were providential in their tone and oualitv. Thohealed many asperities of toe reconstruction period; nnd of him it surely may be said, however one belittles him, "Ho gave A. 1 . . , " 0 me country rest." If there was over a man whoso bereavement-mil fnr rmnsthv if. pprtn?nlir km ex-President Hayes in the shadow of his " new-maoe grae. i never 6aw sucii another worshiping husband as he. I do fiot think his worst enemy, if any now are left. Could heln feelint? isnrrv for him in hi utter grief. POSTMARKS NEED IlEFORMINO. Badly Stamped Letters Which Worry tho Eife Out of Business Men. rhlladelrhia Record. "While the Postmaster-frpnfrftl i in n. ru forming mood I wish he would rive a mo ment's attention to the illegible postmarks ou uiue-icnius or me letters that go Uying through the country," said a member of a big wholesale dry goods firm yesterday. "It is an impossibility to decipher th hieroglyphics that spread themselves over a great amount of our correspondence. I suppose that we Philadelphians, who aro accustomed to spell out most complex anagrams and drop-letter puzzles on our street lamps, should be able by this time to fathom the meaning of these postal enigmas, but it is a tough tussle to cuess at a nine-lettered word when only three letters appear. JJon't we have the postomco ad. .dress inside the envelope! "Uh. ves. generally: but its essential nart is often 'omitted; that is, our correspond eats are rarely careful to tell us what fctate they hail from. If a man writes from Cin cinnati he is pretty sure to affix to his address a big round 40,' or if from Chicago, he adds a superfluous 111.' Int if the letter comes from Oriss Cross Corners or fcmithville. the penman assumes that the fame of his native heath is world-wide, and that it would be a waste of ink to mention wheth er it is located in Texas. Arizona or New Jersey. " e anneal to the nostmark for guidance. but its black blur is generally meaningless. A gazetteer will not set us straight, for bmithviile or the Corners will probably be found to be as numerously situated as Homer's birth-place. In time we accumu late quite a hean of letters with nndecinherable postmarks, which have never been answered nor ever can be. because of tho writer's stupidity and the postmaster's carelessness. Either fairly distinct marks should decorate each envelope or ther snouia oe omiueu entirely." Indiana Great Good Lack. Prof. J. W. McOee. 'Where is the greatest cas region of tho United States now located!" "It is included within 2.G00 souare mile in Indiana. There the rocky strata of tho earth forms a great dome, which not only contains gas, but also an accumulation of oil." "Where will we get our oil in the f uture?"' "That is difficult to answer, but the most promising part of the United States. I should say. is found on the western slope of the Appalachain mountains, running through southern Pennsylvania, through West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, eastern Tennessee, into southern Alabama. This is a very broad belt, and I think in the fut ure it will rield enormous quantities of petroleum. 1 here are other isolated areas west of the Missouri river in tho Rockv mountains, which promise very well, though they are much smaller in territory covered." . AU That Was Mortal. Washington Letter. There is a noble old manor house on an estate not far from Washington, recently purchased by a rich Yv ashingtonian. I ho other day he asked a party of friends down to see it, and proudly displayed its attractionsUUl they all exclaimed with delightdelight all the more keen because everything was more or less dilapidated. When he had exhausted the house and the garden he said to his guests: "1 bought an ancestor with this place. Come nnd let mo introduce you to him. fco they alL followed him to a secluded 6Dot in tho grounds where they found a fine old marblo vault built into the hillside. The host opened the rusty iron door, and they alb pased into the cobwebby darkness. Presently they made out on the left-hand shelf a skeleton lying at full length, with a tiny snake's nest in the brcat-bone. "That s Colonel Plantagenet." said tho host, "whd built tho house and this tomb." Modern Human Sacrifice. Charleston News an2 Courier. The shocking 6tory comes from Savannah that a colored child in Liberty county, Georgia, has been sacrificed by its parents to the Dseudo Messiah." who was sent to tho lunatic asylum a few days ago. If the story is true, and there is no reason to doubt that it is. it proves that there is indeed a most deplorable condition of a 11 airs among tho blacks in the region where the murder occurred, but it does not rreccssarilv provo that they are all relapsing into barbarism. Sm lie Was Surprise il. Concord (X. II.) Monitor. ft The agitation of the question of erecting: a 6tatue to Gen. John Stark recalls the following anecdote: A Vermont farmer and his wife, on their first visit to the Capitol at Montpelicr, passed before the statue of Ethan Allen. They gazed long and thnnffhtfnllv. and then the Bilcnee was broken by the husband: "Gosh, mother, I alius thought Ethan Alien was a horse," They're Wier Now. - Boston JonrnaL " That radical free-trade publication, Dclv ford's Magazine, did the Democratic nartv a good deal of hard service in the late cam-

Eaign, and now it is sam io oe suing tbo emocratic natioral committee for its money. The Democratic managers apparently do not think so highly now of redhot free-trade arguments as they did when" they contracted for them. Must Have Been a Kentucky Hen. Aurista Chronicle. Mr. Jackson Lari?cy brought to tho Sylvania Telephone a small egg. about one inch in length and half an inch in diameter, somewhat of a bottle shape, being rounded off at one end, and having a small end running out like a bottle neck, at the other. It was found in a small-sized hen egg by Mr. Lariscy, and occupied the place of tho yolk in the egg. The Aim of Prohibition. Chicago Tribune "The Prohibition Ideal" is the title of a newspaper article going the rounds of tho "patent inside s." Tho real "prohibition ideal" is to steal the votes of enough temperance Kepublicans to elect the candidate of the whisky Democracy and perpetuate Democratic saloon rule. Time Will TelL Philadelphia Iniairer. The story that Mary Anderson is in a foreign insane asylum is both allinned and denied. Only time will tell whether tlm retirement of one of the foremost ornaments of the stage has been brought ou by paresis or by a zealous advertising agenu Small Consolation. Omaha Republican. Now that thero is a wran'gle about tho disbursement of the Johnstown relief funds, perhaps Omaha will console itself for not contributing more.' n' Tonally In CloTer. Iowa State KopUter. The case of a young minister, unmarried, is ope that calls for congratulations and pity in about equal measure. AU Hope ISut Abandoned. Texas EiftlrKS. , , , Puget sound has had some drawbacks, but we expect to seo Puget thero all the taut r f