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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL . MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1889. WASHINGTON OFFICE-313 Fourteenth St. 1. S. Heatu. Correspondent. NEW YORK OFFTCE-204 Temple Court, Corner Be k man and Nisiia street. Telephone Calls. Business Oflce 238 1 Editorial Room 243 TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION. DAILY. One year, wlthont Sunday :...$ 12.00 One Tear, with Sunday 14.00 Hlx months, without Pnnday B.00 fix month, with Knnday 7.00 Three, month, without snnday 3.00 Three months, with Fnnday 3.50 One month, without Sunday 1.00 One month, with frunday 1.0 WEXKLT. Per year. f 1.00 Reduced Rates to CI aba. Pub-cribe with any of our numerous agents, or lend anbscrlpUons to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, INDIJLSAPOLI, IND. All communicationM intended for publication in this paper mutt, in order to receive attention, be accompanied by the name and (vtclrcs of the writer, THE LNIIAAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following placee: LONDON American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARIS American Exchange la Parts, 35 Boalerard den Capuclnes. t 2TEW YORK GUsey House and Windsor Hotel. PHILADELPHIA A. rTKemble, 3735 Lancwtcr avenue. CHICAGO Falmer nouse. CINCINNATI J. P. Hawiey & Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE-C. T. Decrlng. northwest corner Third and Jeflerson streets. RT. IOTJIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern IloteL WASHINGTON. D. C Biggs House and Ebbltt At last our own Bayless Hanna is coming home. The Argentine Republic is to be congratulated. The next Senatorial campaign in Ohio promises to be one of brains vs. boodle. Mr. Halstead has no money tc fight the

raynes wnu. The Sentinel refers to "tho vigorous speech of Senator Voorhees on the tariff question, recently delivered at Bloomfield.7' Does it refer to tho 0110 printed by the Sentinel or the one printed by the Journal? The Cincinnati Baloon-keepers seem, at last, to have reached the conclusion that they are not a privileged class, but are amenable to the laws of the State. This is a great step forward in tho work of civilizing that town. "When the "storming of the Bastile" is ordered and tho hanging of tho Carnegies begin, Mrs. Parsons and Sen ator Voorhees will, of course, be commanders-in-chief, and every Anarchist, Communist and free-trado editor will have a rope. TnE Kentucky election takes place to-day. While it can hardly be expected that the Republicans will carry the State, there is every reason to believe the Democratic majority will bo whittled down to a very line point. Tho people also vote on holding a constitutional convention. TnE religions craze among the Georgia colored people seems to have reached a crisis. King Solomon and Nebuchadnezzar are in jail, and several of their followers are under bonds. As Nebuchadnezzar has been, for somo time, eating grass in all forms, it is probable tho deprivation of this privilege will bring him to terms. Senator Payne hates Mr. Halstead becauso that gentleman chaises him with having obtained his seat through fraud and bribery. Now that Halstead is likely to be a candidate for tho samo place, it is understood that the Democratic Senator has determined to vindicate himself if it takes every dollar he ha to buy up the next Ohio Legislature. Senator Ixgalls, writing to a friend who criticised his article in the Forum, oy prohibition, says: "To tell the truth, I do not think much of it myself; but it is tho best I could do under the circumstances. I have received a satisfactory check from tho editor of tho Forum for the same, who wants mo to write an article on tho race problem for tho September number." Probably the satisfactory check helped to reconcile tho author with 1m article. The medical profession should pray to be delivered from "its friends," if Drs. Brown-Sequard and Hammond can be called such. Tho pretended discovery of a new elixir of life and rejuvenation of old age, to which they have given tho f auction of their names, is tho most preposterous piece of quackery ever promulgated. If it came from a plantation negro it would bo called voodooism. Coming with the quasi indorsement of learned men, it is an insult to the intelligence of tho age and calculated to bring medical science into contempt. Three batteries of artillery and two troops of cavalry from tho regular army have been detailed to attend the camp of tho Pennsylvania militia about to be held. They aro sent by the War Department at tho request of the Governor of Pennsylvania, in order that tho militia may havo tho benefit of their example and instructions in camp life. An ntire regiment of regular infantry will go into camp with the Michigan militia for tho samo purpose. The idea is an excellent one, and will doubtless be generally adopted hereafter. All indications point to a large attendance at tho soldiers' monument corner-stone-laying on tho 22d inst. Tho old soldiers will be hero in great force, and thousands of patriotic Indianians, besides the veterans, will como to show their sympathy with tho occasion. In view of tho certainty of a large attendance, the commission should leave nothing undone toward providing an interesting programme, If tho programme as now arranged is weak at any point, or does not come fully up to the requirements of the occasion, it should be made to do so. Nothing- commonplace will fit tho occasion or meet the expectations of the people. If the Governor of Mississippi cannot prevent the holding of social levees by Mugger Sullivan while on his way to that State in custody of tho officers of the law, he would much better havo left

him in New York. The presumed purpose of the arrest is to punish him for having violated the law and to emphasize the fact that in legal estimation, at least, prize-fighting is a crime. It is as a criminal that Sullivan goes to Mississippi, but when he is allowed to stop along tho way and receive the greetings of crowds of admiring "toughs," not much is accomplished toward making his offense odious in the public estimation. Before ho arrives the Governor should make up his mind whether he wishes to treat tho man as a ruffian and a representative of a ruffianly class or as a conquering hero who has graciously deigned to favor the Stato with his presence. aammmammmmummmmmmm THE DECAY OF POPULAR REPBESEffTATIOff. Among the eloquent and scholarly addresses delivered at tho recent Pilgrims' monument celebration none was more worthy of attention than that of Hon. John Cabot Lodge. Ho did not confine himself wholly to eulogy of the character and worth of the Pilgrims, though that were a theme inspiring enough for any orator. Passing from that, he traced with masterly hand the evolution and growth of the idea of popular representation as perhaps their most important political discovery and legacy, lie called attention to .the striking point of difference between the Anglo-Saxon conquest of America and those of other conquering races. The conquests of the early Eastern empires and of the later empire of Rome represented tho ideas of subjugation and absorption only. The principle of representation was lacking. Therefore, and, as tho speaker argued, merely from this cause, these empires contained the 6ceds of their own dissolution. Thoy had nothing to bind them together. It remained for the English-speaking people, and especially for those who came to this continent, to add to subjugation and incorporation the principle of popular represertation in government. In this the speaker discerned the vital principle of our system and the energizing force on which tho existence of our government depends. Then he went on to say that in our House of Representatives, where this great principle might be expected to have, and ought to have, its fullest development and freest action, it had really become almost inoperative. On this point Mr. Lodge could speak with authority, for he served some time in Congress and declined a re-election because lie found the position and duties distasteful under present political methods. As a student of history and of government ho did not hesitate to say that our House of Representatives has gradually drifted far away from tho truo principle of popular representation; that instead of rising in influence and forco it has relatively declined, and that by voluntarily hampering itself with castiron rules and traditions it has almost completely sacrificed tho great principle on which its usefulness depends. The majority has ceased to rule, says Mr. Lodge, and tho minority is unable to govern. In addition to having tied its own hands with self-made rules and surrendered to the Senate powers which properly be

long to the House, it is crippled by tho mass of special legislation and detail work thrown upon it, and by the corrupting influence of office peddling. Along all these lines Mr. Lodge traces the decline of the House in influence and character, and the gradual but sure decay of tho great principle of popular representation. It is neither gratifying nor encouraging to be reminded, at tho end of tho first century of our national existence, that the branch of the government which was intended to bo tho very flower and essence of popular representation has so largely lost its political virility. A few great men and bold leaders of either party in tho House could do much to restore it to tho position of usefulness and power it was intended to occupy; but where will they come froin? THE TENDENCY TO COMBINE. The multiplication of trusts and tho tendency towards industrial combination is tho most striking fcaturo of tho times. It prevails throughout Christendom, and is, without doubt, the most conspicuous feature in the commercial world. What docs it mean, and where will it end! In the first place, it is neither abnormal nor in itself alarming. Tho tendency of capital to combine is an inevitable outcome of high commercial conditions. It is in accordance with a natural law of tho business world, and not tho result of any particular form of government or economic policy. Tho combination of capital is in itself neither dangerous nor alarming. On tho contrary, it may bo desirable and beneficial. In somo form or degree it appears in every partnership, corporation, co-operative society or legalized business association of any kind. Many of these aro of the most beneficial character. No commercial country could exist without them, and they could not bo abolished without abolishing capital itself. It is as absurd to denounco all combinations of capital as it is ,to denounce all combinations of labor. All labor combinations which aim at worthy ends by legitimate means are commendable and should be encouraged by public opinion, and, if possible, by legislation. Tho 6ame is true of capital. There is as much reason and justico in incorporating labor as there is in incorporating capital, and thcro is quite as much business sense and wisdom in tho combination of labor as there is in tho combination of capital. The character of both depends on their object and methods. If they aim at honest ends by honest means they are all right. Otherwise, not. Capital and labor aro here to stay, and both will continue to combine as long as the world stands. Tho most that can be done, or that should bo attempted, is to prevent combinations of either for dangerous, illegal or oppressive purposes. Tho question resolves itself, at last, into one of discrimination between combinations that are legitimate and beneficial and those which are tho reverse. One thing is certain: Out of all this agitation there will come a .better ad

justment of the relations between capital and labor, and a fairer application of the laws of production and distribution of wealth. This means, probably, shorter hours of labor, steadier employment, better wages, and a general advance of labor interests all alone; the line. It means, probably, a larger development of tho profit-sharing planby which labor will come to havo a proprietary interest in production. It means the growth of tho co-operative idea, and its application on a scale as yet undreamed of. It means the prohibition of all trusts and combines of capital which aim at

the restriction of production, the increase of prices or the reduction of wages, and the friendly protection of all legitimate combinations of capital as well as of labor. THE INDIANA CATHIKE3. It would bo well for Indianians whose memories do not go back to the days of the war to read that part of the life of Lincoln, in the August Century, which relates to the Knights of the Golden Circle. Democratic papers seldom refer to this episode in their party's history, and then only to befog tho truth and convey tho impression to the ignorant that many of tho charges are campaign lies. In this history of Lincoln all the statements aro verified by official records, and naught is set down in malice. But brief space is given to the organization and its doings, but the historical fact is recorded that in the offico of Daniel W. Voorhees, at Terr Haute, largo numbers of the ritual of the order were discovered. Enough is told, too, to show the infamous purpose of the Knights, and that it was only lack of courage that led to the failure of their programme of murder and rapine. Speaking of Lincoln's charitable doubt that 100,000 men in Indiana were traitors to their country, tho historians say: "They were sufficiently disloyal to tako all manner of oaths against the government; to bo ready in their secret councils to declare they were ready to shed tho last drop of their blood to abolish it, and to express their ardent sympathies with its enemies and their detestation of its officers and supporters." The further comment that "these rural Catilines were never quite ready to risk their own skins for their so-called principles," though well put, does not lessen their disloyalty. They wero willing to betray their government into tho hands of tho rebels, but were too cowardly to do so when the critical moment came. It is an unpleasant chapter in the annals of Indiana, but facts are facts. CniEP Mays, of tho Cherokee Nation, tells the United States commission that, personally, he is not in favor of Belling tho outlet, but assures them that tho title to the land is perfect, and expresses a willingness to leave the matter to the national Council. The untutored savage -was always famous for his shrewdness in a horse-trade, and it is apparent that in tho cultured Chero-": Kee this commercial talent has developed until it includes land. Chief Mays knows that the United States will eventually own tho Cherokeo strip, but doesn't want to seem too eager to part with it, and would like to dicker awhile. Possibly, being a cultured Indian, and very much like a white man, ho would prefer to be described as a diplomato. Dr. Tanner, tho Parnellite member ot Parliament who figures so frequently and conspjCuousby in the cable dispatches, is a Protestant and was a Tory. His family is now high Tory. A rich uncle who intended to make him his heir disinherited him on account of his politics. A Tory young lady heiress made up for this loss by bestowing her hand and fortune on the Doctor. Ho. was educated in tho English and German universities, and had a large practice when ho took to politics. Like Mr. Parncll, he is a strict temperanco man. Dr. P. W. Gunsaulus, tho brilliant young Chicago divine whose prayer opened tho proceedings of tho last Republican national convention, has stirred np an awful 'wow and wumpus" among the members of theMichiganChuatanqua association at Bay View, by smoking a cigar on tho grounds. The preacher's cigar seems to have kindled a great blaze of indignation. Mayor Cregier, of Chicago, appointed a dead man on the committee to hustlo for the world's fair. The Mayor is a good Democrat, and he was evidently laboring under an absent-minded delusion that he was makiug out a list of the voters in his ward. An astronomical authority states that a great red spot will travel across the middle of tho planet Jupiter's disk during this week, at times favorable for observation, twice, as follows: Wednesday, at 10:47 r. M and Saturday, at 12:2G a. m. If New York and Chicago don't cease quarreling over which shall bo designated by tho government as the location for the world's fair, Indianapolis will put in a bid for it, and there could be no question about tho result. To the Editor of tho Iuillaua;oll Journal: What, will be the railroad fare to the reunion of Wilder's brigade at Cliattauooga, and where will visitors start Iroinf e. u. c. Bryamsville, Ind. General Wilder will provide free accommodations for all tho old soldiers who come, but it is our impression there is no arrangement for reduced railroad rates. Maj. A Cantwell, of Springfield, 111., has charge of the arrangements, and can tell you all about it. To the Editor ot tho Indianapolis Jonrnal; Who appoints the inspectors and uperviors of the censu:! Over how much territory have an inspector and supervisor authority! What is the average compensation of each! Patkicksbukg, ind. R. n. a. The appointments will be made by Hon. Robert P. Porter, Superintendent of tho Census, Washington, D. C, but they will not be made beforo next spring. For other information on the subject address him. To the Editor of tho Iudianapolia Journal: You sneak of the Louisiana lottery and the Missouri-Indiana $ebooi-look ring as "legalized monopolies." Will you please state how the Louisiana lottery la legalized. b. Bricr.LAKP, Ind. By special act of the Louisiana Legislamm . . ture, giving it the sole ana exclusive right to do a lottery business in that State. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Was the speech m given in the Journal of Senator VoorhtN at Bloonitield correct! in other words, was there anything In the speech at printed in the Journal that Mr. V. did not say I Colli van. Ind. - n. p. l. The speech was taken down by a'ehortband reporter sent expressly for tho purpose, written out from his notes, and'printed as. delivered, the only exception being

that the regular stock anti-tarif! argument was omitted. Every word printed in the Journal's report was uttered by Mr. Voorhees.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND TILINGS. ' Heroic-sized monumental statues of Grant, Sheridan and Farragut are to be put up in Boston. Barot Ilinscn has just paid 150,000 francs for Vasistas, the winner of the uraua rnx of Fans. A sudden distemper is puzzling the doc tors of Montreal. Within the past day or two nine persons have been afflicted with a loss of vision and five of them are completely blind. Major Pollock, a clerk in the Postofike Department at Washington, was for a number of years an Indian insDeetor. The Sioux gave him the name of "The-White-Man-W ho-Never-Lies." Mr. Samuel Joxes, the "revivalist," was recently offered $6,000 a year and a fine church to preach in at Minneanoiis. He replied: "Do you take me for a fooll I'm getting ,wo a year now!7' Professor Boyesen thinks that Tolstoi's 'Anna Karenina" entitles him to be called tho greatest novelist living. Ho says he has read no other book so moral in tone, and so truthful as the one named. Thomas A Edison is to sail for Europe next Saturday for the purpose of getting a viow of tho Paris Exposition, and of the way in which his various inventions are displayed there. He will be accompanied uy ins wiie, wno is tno aaugnter oi anoiner inventor. Chauxcey DErr.w is talked of in New York as a candidate for the United States Senate to succeed Mr. Evarts.- It is under stood that, while Mr. Depaw will openly taKe no active part in obtaining votes, no will consent that his friends shall arrange the details of a canvass in his behalf. 'Ax American syndicate is said to have of fered 8,000,000 francs forthe right of keeping a gambling-house, like that of Monte Carlo, at Toptchider, about fonr miles from Belgrade. Toptchider is highly picturesque. But, although the syndicate offers onethird of the profits to the town, tho authorities hesitate. A small, boy of Lunenburg. Mass., wanted his father to give him some money. "Go into the garden and pick potato bugs off the vines, and I'll give you a cent apiece for them." That night the boy counted out t40 of tho bugs, and received from his surprised parent 0.40. But the contract terminated then and there. A company of three hundred artists have left Madrid for Paris, where they will cooperate in the tableaux at the Spanish festivals. A larjre corps de ballet, the entire orchestra of the Theater Koyal, at Madrid. 150 picked Audalusians in their national costumes, guitarists, mandolinists, students and others are among them. The residence in the Taunus which tho Empress Frederick has purchased, and which was formerly known as the Villa Iteuss, has been renamed Schloss Friedrichshof. It occupies a beautiful site on the wooded slopes of the Alt Koenig. and is surrounded by chestnut and beech forests. Tho park extends over 200 acres. J. B. Watson, the Australian quartz reef king, died r ecently at Sydney at the age of sixty-foun He was a native of Paisley, Scotland, and emigrated with his father's family to Sydney, and afterwards to California and Sandhurst, and finally to tho Bend i go gold mine, where ho made a fortune estimated at forty million sterling, 200,000,000. Julian Hawthornk is nearly six feet tall, and looks liko an athlete. His sister, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, is a very small woman, with a tiny, childish face, surrounded by Huffy auburn hair. Tho two are tho only living children of their father, though thero was another daughter, a very handsome girl, who died in England a number of years ago of a very distressing malady. Anita McCormicx, who is engaged to Emmons Blaine, is described by tho Times as one of the prettiest girls in Chicago society. Of medmni height for a woman, slender and delicately lair, she combines tho transparency of skin and color peculiar to a blondo with the dark hair and olive tints of a decided brunette. Her father's estate will soon be divided, and her share is estimated at $2,000,000. A sturdy-looking man is Prof. William G. Sumner, of Yalo. His features are severe, his step is measured, nis speech is guarded, and in all his expression and movements thero aro evidences of that decision of character which is well known to Yalcnsians. Prof. Sumner, who is not yet fifty years old, has held tho chairof political economy in Yale for the past seventeen years, and is the author of half a dozen books on that subject. The most extravagant instance of literary, relic worship on retord is said to be that of an Englishmau of letters, who wears constantly around his neck a portion of Shelley's charred skull. It is inclosed in a little gold casket. Tho bones of Victor lingo are being turned into money, for among the relics exhibited to sight-seers at his former home is a huge tooth, with this inscription below: Tooth drawn from Victor Hugo, 11th August, 1871. atVianden, at 8 o'clock in the afternoon." The Emperor of China, who is a young and progressive man, is very anxious to make a trip to this country. He is in constant communication with the Chinese minister at Washington on the subject, and shows a good deal of impatience at the latter's advice. The minister has written to tho Emperor that there is to be an ex)osition in Ne w.York in 1892. and that he tad better defer his trip nntil that time. It would be a strange coincidence if the celebration commemorating the advent of Columbus should be mauo memorable by the presence of the Emperor of China. Slowly the great falls of the Niagara river are changing in shape, through the eating away of the shale rock which underlies the hard rock that forms the bed of tho rapids. It is almost a misnomer now to speak of the Canadian portion of the great cataract as the "Horse-shoo falls," and within a week this designation has become more than ever misplaced in consequence of the fall of a large section of the bed rock in the very center of the falls. So much rock fell that an eddy below the falls near the Canadian side of the river has been narrowed more than half, and the little steamer Maid of the Mist has less difficulty than before in running into the curve of tho falls. COMMENT AND OPINION. Enforce the law in the name of thepeople, on behalf of the people, and by all the forces of courts, police and military which the people have placed in the hands of executive officers, uolely that they might be strong enough to enforce the law against all ofienders. Chicago Inter Ocean. The scandalous details of divorce cases may well be kept from the public. But there aro facts which must at least go on the official records, and any secret attempt to suppress them is not to be tolerated. There is no end to the abuses that would llourish under a secret system of granting divorces. New York Herald. If Mr. Black worked the pension racket for all it was worth to the Democratic party the public is entitled to know it. We object to Hinging the mantle of oblivion over a retiring official, as if stepping down andoutcondonedall otl'euscs. Andweobject to the pension racket as a political factor, no matter who works it. Philadelphia North American. The free-traders seek to deceive the people and in the public mind identify trusts with protection in order that the latter may be rendered obnoxious because the former are justly odious. The assumption of any such connection, or sympathy, or relation is false. Tho idea and purpose of protection are directly the opposite of the idea and purpose of monopoly trusts. Philadel. phi a Press. Notwithstanding the enormous difficulties in the way of establishing a government svstem of railroads and the grave doubt whether political influences and the partisan character of the civil service would not prevent tho successful operation of such a system, tho idea is taking a firm. root. iu the public mind and will. bo

greatly strengthened by every movement in the direction of a railroad trust.- Chicago Tribune. All public officers ought tobe adequately paid, aud it would bo a good thing if the wholo legislation of the States and of Congress npon this subject were revised in a liberal spirit. The pay of the federal district judges, for instance, is notoriously insufficient, New York Sun. . . The anti-internal, tax. champions are, therefore, in a favorable position to win their battle, and it is not only possible, but quite probable, that the next Congress will strike off 5130,000,000 of .revenue by tho entire repeal of the internal-tax-system. It would bo a violent whirl from profligacy to econoifry, but it would be a most wholesome departure toward honest government. Philadelphia Times. England will be as glad to rescue the seal fisheries from pirates as the United States, and tho fact that we are now pursuing a more vigorous policy in this matter will be an advantage to this country when the arbitration begins. If wo took no steps and did not assert what we believe to be our rights and the interests of civilization, we should go into the arbitration with our hands tied. New York Press. -

THE EIP VAN WINKLE BOOKS. The False Pretenses of the New School-Book Law Begin to Maka Their Appearance. Hendricks Republican: The people have an inalienable right to choose their own school books through their local representatives, the township trustees. The despotic new law would rob the citizens of that right, and leave tho choice of out text-books to a squad of politicians, themselves environed by a swarm of lobyists. Huntington Herald: The Indiana schoolbook series is bound to attract great attention from the pupils. In one of tho books appears the plan of a "village" which must certainly have been perfected by an Oklahoma boomer. The scale is one inch to the 1 mile, and the measurement shows the proposed "village" to be three miles long and two miles wide. The public buildings aro conspicuously marked, one of them, by tho measurement, being nearly three-quarters of a mile long. The number of stories is not given, but the foundation would indicate anywhere from twelve to seventeen. Elkhart Review: Tho follies and false pretenses of the new school-book law are already beginuingto show themselves. Tho various trustees are receiving blanks instructing them to send in their orders for books and stationery to enable them to keep their accounts accurately. Each trustee is compelled to buy a cash and ratebook costing SC. a book of 100 registcry blanks 1, aud a book of fifty quarterly reports $1, or a total of $S for the stationery at the outset. And this is only the beginning. Expense after expense will thus be heaped on the townships, to be borno by the tax-payers, and tho promised saving already threatens to melt away before tho public has a chance to see it. Tho county is compelled to buy of the company as a part of the schemo of the School-book Company. OFFICIAL, SKI.ECTION. llcform Suggested In the Manner of MaJdng Civil-Service Kxamlnation. . Philadelphia North American. The whole scheme of examinations is more or less farcical. Thero is but one mode of testing men for any particular business, and that relates to their intelligent comprehension of the needs of that business. 2io set of questions can possibly be made that will fit allclerkshipsof the samegrade. As a matter of fact which is significant, tho conduct of the public business is at this time in tho hands of men who never computed for position through examination. They aro generally men who have become expert through actual contact with the duties of their positions. Their subordinates are, to a great extent, persons who have been admitted to service upon examination, but who, at tho same time, owe their admission to the inlluenco of politicians exactly asif they had never competed. When it is known and nobody can deny it that the appointes are of one party or the other, according as either is .in power, the hollowness of tho system as it has been administered must be apparent. There need be no secrecy about tho conduct of its affairs by tho commission. Tho public is entitled to know who is in the lino of appointment. How else can the moral fitness of tho candidate be known? The new rule making public the list of eligibles is a 3tep forward. It now remains for the commission to abolish printed lists of questions, and instead select examiners, for different grades known to be competent. Then it should not bo known beforehand who .is to- conduct the examination at any point. Candidates ought siinpl3to bo notified to present themselves at a certain place on a day fixed, and when they are assembled the examiner 6hould be able to propound the proper test questions, to which written answers should be required. That would bo a real examination, and favoritism would bo almost impossible Of course, every small politician on tho footstool will swear that this t)lan is impracticable, but it is impracticale only becanse it would completely knock out the small politician. This mode answers in all business save politic. Tho printed question business is a stupid fraud, and is the fruit of stupidity. Who does not know that any good business man can determine the status of an applicant for a position after asking a dozen questions? A business mau does not. ask foolish questious. If he wants a book-keeper he tries him in book-keeping. If he wants a sales-, man ho does not ask him how much lie knows about the satellites of Mars. BISHOP NEWMAN'S IDEAS. The Eminen t Churchman's Opinion of Miracles and the ChrUtaln Scientists. Ilonnd Lake (2. V.) Special. Bishop John P. Newman has tho following to say relative to certain articles going the rounds of the press that he has declared himself a supporter of tho doctrines of Christian science: "Some time ago I was at Des Moines, la., and, in a missionary sermon, spoke of tho beneficence of science under Christianity, and the larger results to follow, which results would have been esteemed miraculous a hundred years ago. In speaking against the prevalent materialism of our day, I used the expression, 'Christian science,' when it flashed upon me that the expression might be abused, and I added, 'science touched by the genius of Christianity'. The phrase was reported as used, withont the explanatory qualifica-tion,-&nd the so-called Christian scientists have made the most of tho remark, and declared me aspreachingan 'advanced Christianits'.' We are compelled," the Bishop continued, "to forego the uso of legitimate words because of their illegitimate use by those who pervert the gospel of Christ. I esteem modern Christian science a perversiou of a fact in nature and of a gospel truth. The fact in nature is mind acting on mind, spirit on matter and a powerful nervous organism operating upon one that is weaker, and the pretended effects produced can be explained largely by natural causes. It is also a perversion of the privileges of Christian prayer and faith. The only healer in tho universe is Christ. His rule is to work through means. When these fail. He can work without them, and has reserved to himself the right to work without them whenever He pleases. When I am ill. I send for a learned physician, a trained nurse, and take all remedies prescribed with rational faith and Christian prayer. 1 believe in St. James's three-fold prescription. I have given some attention to the literature of these modern Christian scientists, and am free to eay that words arc therein used that have no definition in any standard authorities. As a whole, tho literature is a literary pemmican of sense and nonsense, and the lectures given by the so-called Christian scientists as they have been reported to me. by those who have heard them, are a series of vagaries which have little of sense, science or salvation. They are a commingling of legend, perverted theology and scriptural history. These Christian pcientists substitute one set of physicians for another, and always with fees as large. Tho absurdity involved is that they invite the surienug to come for treatment, when they assert that there is no suffering, but only an imagination. My advice is, let us advance the beneficent science of medicine to its utmost limit, by which, under the inspiration of Christianity, human ills may be lessened, sickness diminished and life prolonged beyond the dream of the most sanguine- friend of humanity. This is the divine niissiou of Christ to theafilicted ones on earth. My theory is this: The miracles wrought bv Jesus weretlwexpressionof His power over nature, and Ho thereby gave the world the tho promise of what ' scieuce would do under His enlightening and elevating teachings. Finally. 1 have never given this

class of Christian scientists, either byword or reference, permission to use my name in their advertisements."

TILE WORLD'S FAIR IN 189?. It Should TI Held In New York, but New Yorker Should Not Manage It. FltUburg ClironlcIe.TelPfrraph. It is highly appropriate that the people of the Lnited States should celebrate in fitting manner the four-hundredth anniversary of the discovery of the now world by Christopher Columbus, which falls in lb02. No better form could be given to such a celebration than that proposed, a world's fair, at which could be shown the progress made by mankind in all tho peaceful arts since the time of tho discovery of our great continent. In selecting a site for such a commemoration of the historical event none more appropriate could be found, we think, than New ork citj-. It is tho commercial ami financial metropolis, and has greater and better facilities for handling such a display and the crowd of people that will be gathered by it, tnan any other center of population in the country. It is the only city which has anything like tho necessary hotel accommodations for tho entertainment of a great rush of people. The facilities for reaching it by rail and bv water are greater than can be found elsewhere, and it seems to us there ehonld be no question as to locating the celebration there. But if this is done the people of the metropolis should have a few plain and simple facts impressed very firmly upon their minds. First, this is to be a national and not merely a local affair for the glorification of New lork, and its management should and must be lodged in the hands of men of recognized ability and national reputation, selected for these reasons and taken wherever found in the dinerent States and Territories. Of course New York must be recognized in the management, but New York must not be the manager. There is good reason for demanding this. We need go no further back thau the recent celebration of tho Washington centennial, the control of which was practically vested wholly in the hands of Gotham people, and with what result? Bitter personal quarrels and jealousies, ending in shameful scandals, crimination and recrimination among those at the head of it, exhibitions that were a burning disgrace to the American people, and at least a partial failure of what might have been made, under proper auspices, a magnificent success. No. Tho country does not want the prof osed world's fair managed by Tammany fall or Irving Hall, or the Four Hundred, or by any other clique, but by men in whom it has confidence; and, h.viing such men at its head, the people of the united States will support them in their efforts, and help to make tho affair one of which we will all have reason to be proud a truly national celebration The Truth of the Matter Philadelphia Inquirer. The nonsense that is daily written about the hordes of office-seekers found an apt illustration in amugw ump paper last evening. Over an article stating that probably ' a dozen persons, including Cabinet officers. ) had called on the President, it printed a headline which started the impression thatN, the national capital was overrun with, these anxious patriots. Washington land-' lord3 tell a tlfllcrent tale. In their jndg. ment things never were so dull, and their words can be taken at par. Hotel men know better than any otner class when their town is overrun. liaises a Question. Brooklyn Eagle. Last week a minister exhibited in Philadelphiaa Bible, '"the only one," the papers report him as saying, "left in Johnstown by the rlooa." As there were several hundred houses in Johnstown that were not damaged by the flood, and as only one parponage was destroyed, this statement put Johnstown in a kind of a hole. In this lieht it might bo interesting to inquire, "How many Bibles were there in Johns town before the flood?" Might as WelL New York G rapaic It is reported mong sporting men in New York that tu ,e is an a?reement between tho aotb" sof Mississippi and John L. tSullivar Ads that the lightex shall be let ou j, fine. The maximurx penalty of his o. ..so is fine and one year's imprisonment. If the Mississippi authorities have compromised their fconoi and dignity by such an agreement tney might as well have dropped the whole matter. A Remedy Suggested. Troy Times. . Four acres of buildings belonging to an important plate-glass manufactory at Kokomo, Ind., were burned 3esterday, occasioning a loss of 10,000. Incendiarism is the probable cause. If lire-bugs wero roasted alive here, the &amo as they are ia somo parts of China, when caught, there would be far fewer fires than are now. Effect of the Tariff on Trusts. Chicago Journal. Tho English Salt Trust has advanced tho price of salt 100 per cent., and is yet in control of the salt trade. That is in a freetrade country. Tho American Salt Trust has collapsed, and salt is cheaper than ever Thift is a tariff country. Yet the Democratic liars fay that tariff promotes trusts and free trade destroys them. Hard to Tell. Milwaukee Sentinel. The New York Press, after reading Senator Ingalls's paper on "Prohibition and License," finds it hard to tell which of the two propositions, prohibition or iiceus tho Senator really means to indorse. Well, it is two years yet before he comes np for re-election, and how can he tell which side is going to have control of the Legislature? Ahead All Round. New York Graphic. The Boston Herald, by means of elaborate tables, makes out that President Harrison is "far in the lead" of the last administration in the matter of removals and appointments. He is likewise "far in tho lead" in all the afiairs of state intrusted to him as the chief executive of the Nation. Damage to Chicago Crops. Nebraska Stat Journal. The Chicago papers estimate tho damage done that city by the flood on Sunday nighfc at a million dollars. The oats crop must! have been entirely destroyed. However, the suburban corn-fields will probably escape total loss and tho honest farmers of the city will not bo entirely in the soup. Don't Like the Truth. Aagusta (Ga.) Chrouicle. The paper in the Fifth district objects to I W ' .In f" .. 1 1 the Now England banquet Mr. Uradv al luded to Lincoln as tho "typical Amerift n " vu. Deserves Recognition. Hartford Courant. In a recent speech at Bloomfield. Ind.. Senator Voorhees is said to have announced that, if he could have his wav about it. h would "linn gall shell men as Carnegie." Tho loast the Chicago Anarchists can do after that is to elect the Senator to honary.membership. Hire a Cincinnati roUcemanChlrapro Herald. The reward of 50,000 for tho capture of Tascott has been renewed, and, while the real Tascott is probably not much distressed at it. life continues to be not worth living for the man who bears the Miiallest resemblance to that elusive assassin. 1'ractice llmm't Make TerfecU Peoria Transcript. After all these years of practice, and after an experience in that line excelling anything known in the political history of any country, what awkward, blundering liars th Democratic editors are. Trimming with the Party Wind. 8t Louis Globe-Democrat. Psfn Voorhees made a free-trade 'speech, at Bloomtield. Ind., a few days ao It im very well answered bj; a taritt speech made by Dan Voorhees in Atlanta; Ga., a few years ago. Danger of Wntvrn Journallam. liebratka State Journal. The bold, fearless tditor who hews to the, lino and lets the chips faliwhere they may,. needs a pocket artillery aud .plenty ofc armor iu these days of &looxn. ... .

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