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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, , WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1SS0.

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NEW YORK Gilsey Ilouse and Windsor HoteL PniLADELPHIA-A. pTKemble, 3733 Lancaster avenue. - CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI J. P. Ilawley A Co., 154 Vine street, LOUISVILLE C. T. Deerlng, northwest corner : - Third and Jeilereon streets, BT. LOUIB-Unlnn News Company, Union Depot - ' and Southern UoteL JWASIIINOTON, . House. D. C Biggs House ana Ibbltt The city should be decorated for the monument celebration as it never was before. The Board of Trade should lead off in a public reception to the President on the C2d inst. - . Score another victory for President Harrison's administration. The opening of the Sioux reservation is nn event of great importance and universal interest. Soum Dakotaxs will have new cause for gratitude to President Harrison in the opening of the great Indian reservation which has so long deflected the tide of emigration from its course. The effort of St. Louis to secure the grand international exhibition for 1893 is the joke of tho season. Think of holding a world's fair in Missouri! where Bccktold-Williams's schoolbooks originate. The lavimr of tho niouument corner stone is to be tho event of tho summer in Indianapolis, and, it may bo added,, in Indiana. It i3 a matter that concerns the people of tho State not less than thoso of the city. Because the London Times says there is no justification for the seizure of the British sealer Black Diamond by an American vessel is no leason for supposing that such is tho case. Since tho Piggott affair tho Timcs'a statements need corroboration by unimpeachable outside authority beforo they can be accepted. The mysterious reticence of certain minor officials at Washington concerning the Black Diamond affair is highly amusing. They aro evidently afraid their words will echo round tho world. Happily, tho newspapers aro not so reticent, and the people are likely to know tho facts and tho law of the case long before the official Bunsbys at Washington do. TnE American people go on tho even tenor of their way, leaving tho Canadians and tho British to "walk tho floor," if they like, in their excitement over the seizure of tho Black Diamond. Americans know that, with all tho Canadian bluster and display of teeth, there will be no fighting, and that tho question in dispute will finally bo settled amicably and with justice to all concerned. TnE city and citizens ought to take prompt action in regard to participating in the soldiers' monument celebration on the 22d inst. There will be a great crowd of people present. The President of tho United States will be here, barring accidents, and tho peoplo should unite in doing him honor. The monument commission is arranging its own programme and plan of proceeding, but that will embrace only the official exercises. Tho people should tako hold and givo an ovation to the President and the old soldiers. - TnE other day tho Emperor of Germany conferred upon the Queen of England tho command of tho First Dragoon' Guards of Berlin, and Victoria gave her grandson the right to wear tho uniform of a British admiral. On the strength of this a frivolous American newspaper refers to theso illustrious peoplo as "Colonel Victoria" and "Admiral W. . Hohenzollern." If tho British minister - were as sensitive to the comments upon his sovereign and her family as was Ghooly Khan over familiarities with the Shah he would go right away home without saying good-byo after reading . such paragraphs. Democratic papersare chuckling over the fact that the new school-book law is held to bo compulsory. Fine Democracy, that, and fine Republicanism, too, which creates a legal monopoly in schoolbooks, attempts to establish uniformity throughout the State, and compels the people to buy and use inferior books, whether they want to or -'not. Tho law from beginning to end Is a gross violation of local self-government and a deadly attack on the school system. It is only a question of time when the peoplo will smash it, and -not very long time, either. Of all tho blundering, vicious laws enacted by the last Legislature that one is the worst. The saloon-keepers of Cincinnati have very generally taken tho advice of the Southwest and abandoned their defiance of law. They discovered that their course was breeding troops of Prohibitionists and making scores of Republicans. Last Sunday is reported by tho Cincinnati press as a day of quiet and order. Very few saloons were ojeu, and not more than a dozen arrests were made, Meanwhile the saloon-keeper, who had

banded together to stand by each other in their defiance of law, aro having a singular quarrel among themselves, because, when tho day came, so many backed down, and the treasurer of the combine lias failed to account for from SoOO to $1,000 belonging to the band. They have not only followed the advice of the Southwest as to closing their saloons according to law, but they have joined hands with the Prohibition party to defeat tho Republican party. Both prefer free whisky to the present order of things; henco each labors to elect a Democratic Legislature and Governor.

O0VXE5MEST TELEGRAPH BATES. We apprehend no person will find fault with Postmaster-general Wanamaker'slast letter to tho- president of the Western Union Telegraph Company except tho officers and stockholders in that company. Democratic and mugwump papers have been unceasing in their criticism of tho Postmaster-general's acts and rulings, asserting that they showed small caliber, tho methods K of the tradesman, etc. They will make no such criticism on the letter referred to. It shows that the Postmaster-general possesses tho ability to appreciate a large business proposition, and the pluck to grapple with a big corporation as none of his predecessors have dono. An act of Congress, passed in 18GC, makes it tho duty of the Postmastergeneral annually to revise and fix government telegraph rates. This right is claimed by the government by virtue of certain privileges granted to telegraph companies in tho act referred to, and the duty of fixing tho rates was vested in the Postmaster-general because, as a matter of the transmission of information, it seemed to pertain to that department more than to any other. Under tho law of 18G0 each successive Postmaster-general has annually fixed tho rates for government telegraphing, with little or no change. For several years past no reduction has been made, the old rate being continued by successive orders from year to year. Postmastergeneral Wanamaker reduced the rate by the stroke of a peu to one mill per word. Those who criticised this action as arbitrary and unjust probably never looked at tho law. Certainly they failed to notice that it conferred important and valuable privileges on tho Western Union company so important and valuable that the government might very reasonably demand, as an equivalent, that all its telegraphing be done for nothing. Thus the law of I860 says: Any telegraph company now organized, or which may hereafter be organized, nnder tho laws of any State, shall have tho right to construct, maintain and operate lines of telegraph through and over any portion of the public domain of the United States, over and along any of the military and post-roads of tho United States, which have or may hereafter bo declared such by law, and over, under or across the navigable streams or waters of the United States; and shall havo the right to take and use from the public lands through which its lines of telegraph may pass, the necessary stone, timber and other materials for its posts, piers, stations and other needful uses in the construction, maintenance and operation of its lines of telegraph, and may preempt and use such portion of the unoccupied public lands subject to pre-emption through which their lines of telegraph may be located as may be necessary for their stations, not exceeding forty acres for each station. Probably few persons were aware of the scope and value of the grants thus made to telegraph companies by the act of 1SCG. They pertein to all companies; bat as tho Western Union owns most of the telegraph line3 in the United States it has reaped the greatest benefit from the law. The only return or equivalent the government has demanded for thoso valuable grants has been the right to lix tho rates of its own telegraphing. As stated before, it might well have demanded that all government telegraphing bo dono free. When Postmaster-general Wanamaker fixed tho government rate at onetenth of a cent per word he was severely criticised in some quarters for doing an arbitrary and unjust thing. His order was called official stealing, downright robbery, etc. But read the law again and see what privileges the Western Union company has been enjoying since 18CG and still enjoys tho right of way along every military and post-road in the United States and over every navigable stream; tho right to cut poles and tako stone and other material from government lands, etc. If anybody thinks the Western Union company has not profited by theso grants and privileges he little understands the naturo and habits of corjporations. Postmaster-general Wanamaker's order was not unjust nor unreasonable. The Western Union company could afford to do government telegraphing for nothing for the next twenty-five years and then bo ahead on the contract. The president of the company wrote a letter to the Postmaster-general arguing that the new order was unjust and the reduction of rates a great hardship on the company. Tho Postmaster-general's reply shows that ho has investigated the subject and knows what he is talking about. It is a business letter from a business man. He points out some of the benefits and franchises which the Western Union has been enjoying eiuco 1SC6, and still enjoys. He makes the astonishing statement that the company has not only used thousands of miles of public highways on the ground of their being . post-roads, but has occupied and used streets in cities and towns ; on tho same ground, and, most surprising of all, "even the elevated railroads in New York city havo been claimed as post-roads, and tho claim sustained." The State of New York has been unable to prevent the Western Union from exercising this right under the act of Congress of lSGd. Yet tho president of the company says tho benefits of that act are "purely imaginary," and denounces the reduction of government rates as a great injustice. The Postmaster-general is right. He deserves the thanks of the people for his order and for the vigor of his last letter asserting tho rights of the government. The express agent and the railway mail clerk on the Fort Worth & Denver train showed better judgment than such officials usually display in the presence of train-robbers. It was wiser to hide tho valuable packages and then open the doors at command than to risk their. own lives in a struggle with the rascals.

and probably lose all the money and valuables in the end. Resistance may

seem more praiseworthy in such cases to belligerent persons a thousand . miles away, but discretion is sometimes the better part of valor. BETTER THAN OKLAHOMA. The Sioux reservation is to be opened. After several weeks of parleying and negotiating the requisite number of In dians havo signed the agreement and nothing now remains but to complete the formal steps under tho law. Tho negotiation has been the most interesting of the kind on record and tho result is important. It will open to settlement about 11,000,000 acres of land, most of which is fit for agricultural or grazing purposes, and will give a great impulse to the growth of South Dakota. The territory to bo opened is more extensive and more valuable than that of Oklahoma, and the rush of emigration will probably be as great, though the government will doubtless profit by the experience of Oklahoma and make better regulations in regard to the manner of opening. It is in all respects a better country than Oklahoma, though not so well advertised. The Indians get a fair price for the magnificent domain which they cede and will still havo left a large reservation to be divided among them in severalty. Great credit is due the commission for the skill they have shown in the negotiation and for their patience in bringing it to a successful conclusion. No doubt a largo share of the credit is duo to tho veteran Indian fighter and negotiator, Gen. Crook, whom President Harrison wisely appointed on the commission, but tho entire commission has shown its fitness for the work. As the opening of the reservation will be almost simultaneous with tho admission of Dakota as a State it is likely to prove an interesting feature of that event. THE PENNSYLVANIA PROHIBITORY LEAGUE. Dr. A. J. Kynett, founder and president of the Union Prohibitory League of Pennsylvania, reports more than '30,000 members, and every mail brings new accessions. The league 6eeks pro hibition, but, as that is evidently not at tainable at present in Pennsylvania, it proposes to amend tho Brooks law or enact some more stringent law. The late decision of the Supreme Court has greatly intensified the feeling of the anti-saloon men of that State. A con vention has been called for Sept. 20, which promises to bo largely attended. Tho movement meets with no opposition, except from the saloon and the would-be leaders of the Prohibition party. The saloons see in it an organization which threatens their early overthrow, and the latter see the blasting of their hopes that the decision of the Supreme Court would drive a great many into their fold, and, being more intent on defeating the Re publican party than securing better laws, they oppose it. The principal feature of tho league is that where all. candidates are opposed to the saloon, and will do the best thing possible to restrain or to prohibit it, then every mem ber will stick to his party; if any one candidate is better than his opponent, then all the members of tho league will vote for him, regardless of party; but where no candidate is favorable, the league will nominate one that is and vote for him, but in no case seek to build up any party. In almost every particular this leaguo is identical in pur pose with the order of the Knights of the Home in Indiana, a promising young organization, of which Mr. E. G. Cornel ius, of this city, is president, and which can become as formidable as the Penn sylvania organization. Tue controversy which has sprung up as to tho relative merits of the Murphy movement and prohibition seems un fortunate and uncalled for. It is like the sectarian controversies which sometimes cause so-called Christians to lose sight of the common enemy in lighting one another. There is room for all sects who are honestly fighting the devil, and for all forms of action against the rum power. If Mr. Murphy's methods are superficial, as some charge, they 'cer tainly aro not injurious, and, if even 5 percent, of his converts remain true to their pledge, his efforts are justified and his work vindicated. It is unwise and illiberal for him and the Prohibitionists to criticiso each other's methods. They are operating against a common enemy on parallel lines, and there is abundant room and work for both. The announcement that only those pupils in the Indianapolis schools who would, in any case, need new;books will be required to buy the Becktold, alias Williams, books, in September, and that others may use the old ones, is caus ing much comment among teachers. Just how they aro to manage their classes and grades with so motley a variety of books is a mystery not yet explained to them by tho 6chool board. As the Beck.told books are relics of a by-gone day, it may be tho intention to celebrate their adoption by reviving the early custom of permitting each pupil to . use what book he pleases. This rulo can remain in force until the St. Louis company finds it convenient to furnish a full sup ply. Ts There seems to be a good deal of "bounce" in the talk of Canadian papers concerning tho Black Diamond affair. They can make faces and talk big be cause Canada ha3 no responsibility. That rests with tho imperial government. Canadians are like a little boy who swells and blusters, but depends on his big brother to do the fighting. In this case the big brother will not be in a hurry to fight. A credulous public is willing to accept, without comment, somo pretty tall atories about the various productions of Kansas, but respectfully begs to draw the line at the prehistoric skeleton with bones staffed with diamonds big as lima beans. There are limits beyond which a newspaper Mun chausen should not go, even in dog days. The petition now. before the Council for the establishment of a public market in the southeastern part of the city is clearly just. and should bo granted. A largo and grow ing section of tho city in that direction is very remote from the central market, and

transit is farther interrupted by railway tracks. It is claimed that 'J0.000 people are thus practically cut off from market facilities. This may be too high, an estimate.

but that is not material. There are certainly enough people in that part of the city without market facilities to justify estab lishing one. A curious comment on the expense and usefulness of the "drummer" system of doing business is shown by the action of a Philadelphia mercantile house in inviting 100 Western merchants to visit them at their expense, instead of sending out salesmen with samples. If the experiment shows a pecuniary saving it will be repeated, for whatever traveling salesmen may say to the plan there can be no donbt that buyers will be pleased with the idea of a free trip to a metropolis. If it is true, as an evening naner oracnw - -v larly declares, that Dr. Brown -Sequard's elixir is disgustingly out of harmony with the laws of nature, that settles it Nature can't be fooled with. But is the evening paper thoroughly familiar with all the laws of nature! Some scientists hold that certain mysteries yet enfold them. A man may spell his own name as he pleases, and if Judge Grof, of Omaha, likes his better with one " no one has a right to complain. If he takes liberties with dictionary words in the same way, however, the public will "scof at him, even though he be Interstate-commerce Commissioner. Indianapolis as a summer resort has many charms this season. In the matter of weather, nothing more could be asked. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. A pious old lady of Toronto devotes the profits accruing from the sale of all the eggs laid by her hens on Sunday to tho missionary cause. Richard E. Burton, whose poems in Harper's and the Centnrv have attracted so much attention, is a young man on the euuonai stall or tne Lhnrcnman. It is not generally known that Mr. Glad stone has only three fingers on his left hand. The index linger was shot off. forty-seven years ago, by an accident in the huntingneia. An English clergyman is reported to have remarked to a daughter of Bishop Hunting ton: "Has your father many Mormons in his dioccsef Utah, I think, is in New Yorki" . Mr. WniTELAW Reid, American minister to France, now speaks French fluently. When he went abroad he could read the language, and had sufficient knowledge of its structure to acquire it with marvelous rapidity. - Emperor William, of Germany is a very hearty eater and drinker. He consumes an enormous amount of meat, beer and wine every day. and is never troubled with indigestion. He prefers a pipe to a cigar, and shows an element of greatness by detesting cigarettes. v v Miss Alice Dayton, of Ellsworth, Wis., invited her lover to her home. He wa& young minister of St. PauL Ahce'smother favored another suitor of hor daughter, and expressed her disapproval by emptying a pail of sour buttermilk over the young uominie in nis new uress-suit. 1 " . A Youn'GSTOWN (O.) man recently started for Europe. He reached Buffalo, N. Y., when he remembered that he had forgotten to lock his safe. He hurried home and there found a letter offering him a largo contract in Cincinnati, which he at once accepted and abandoned his trip. "We are sorry to hear," says the London Athenaeum, "that grave fears aro entertained for the safety of Mr. Malcolm Macniillan, 'son of Mr. Alexander Macmillan, the weli-kno'wn publisher. Mr. Macmillan, who has been traveling in the East, under took the ascent of Mount Olympus, and has Deen lost on the mountain. Jonx Boyle O'Reilly, the poet, is build ing a new house at Hull, Mass., on the site of the one formerly occupied by him. That was said to be nearly 200 years old, and Mr. O'Reilly, who has a love of the old-fash ioned, clung to it until it nearly crumbled away beneath his feet. The new house is built of Qnincy granite, with a picturesque tower on the water side. An old cannon. the relic of a wreck off Hull, is one of the features of tho grounds. Somebody tells of early San Francisco days: "At one time a woman could hardly walk through the streets of San Francisco without having every one pause to gazo on her, and a child was so rare that once in a theater, in the same city, whero a woman had taken her infant. When it began to cry, just as the orchestra began to play, a man in the pit cried out: 'Stop those fiddles and let the baby cry. I haven't heard such a sound ior ten years.' ine anuxence appiauaeu tuis sentiment, the orchestra stop ped, and the baby continued its performance amid unbounded enthusiasm.'' Mr. Lewis Millfr, president of the Lake Chautauqua Society, says that when the society was first formed its ground was worth about $200 an acre, and the cottages. together with all buildings belonging to the association, did not amount to more than $4,000 or $5,000. The value of tho Chautauqna grounds at present is about $500,000. and there are yet unsold about $50,000 worth of lots, valued at from 8350 to $500 each. The management intends to erect permanent buildings in tne tnture. The first graduating class numbered but 700, the next year 1,000, aud this year it if 3,000. Mr. A B. Richmond, of Meadville, Pa., testifies, "I have practiced law forty years. have been engaged in over 4,000 criminal cases, and on mature reflection I am convinced that more than 3,000 of them origi nated in drunkenness aione, and that a great portion of the remainder could be traced either directly or indirectly to this 1 J - , source, iu seventy-six cases oi nomiciae in which I either prosecuted or defended. fifty-nine were the direct and immediate re sults of the maddening influence of mtoxi catiug drink, while in a number of the re mainder the primordial cause was this pro line source of misdemeanor and murder." , Writing from Turin about her brother. General Louis Kossuth, who is now eightyeight years old, Mme. Rutkay says: "He is enjoying not only good health for one of his age, but preserves all the faculties of his mind. We live here, close to Turin, in a pleasant villa, surrounded by a handsome garueu, waicn ne pinmea mmsoii anu cul tivated with the greatest care. Natural science is one ot his favorite studies. Botany occupied a great deal of his time as long as be was able to climb the Alps. Now he has given it up, but has a fine collection of plants driedabout 4.000 specimens which he arranged with the greatest care. His sons are well situated and have ample opportunity to exercise . A A 1 ineir nne taienis, improvea uy a generous education. Francis is director of the Sul phur Mines of Cesena, in Tuscany. Louis is chief engineer of the Alta Italia railroad line. Neither is married: their father does not desire it, perhaps because they have no opportun ity to marry Hungarian women." COMMENT AND OPINION. Free trade and protection are both big things, and so is a trust Yet there still seems room in the world for all. without nrtd with the other. Fflrhana when our friends, the tariff smashers, come to realize this fact they will be happier. rew loric Sun. It is beginning to dawn on the British understanding that the rtepuDiicis going to lout Wrt uViall hara mnrA Uri t i h mnnuir The effect will undoubtedly be to reduce the interest rate in the United Mates. Americans, too. have money to invest. Competition will produce the usual result. Chicago Tribune. Tin universal hoatilitv to trusts in thft result of a clear perception that their exNo trust Iiks caused a nound. or a gallon. .or a yard of any thing that it deals in, or tne price oi iriuu u regulates, w oc con

sumed in excess of the demand created by the competitive svstem. Chicago Inter

Ocean. The strong and rich can afford to bo generous, and tho greater the nation tho more honorable its every act should bo. Of course, the Sioux reservation, like the Cherokee strin. will have to be opened for settlement sooner or later, but tho country can afford to wait for the sake of avoiding the appearance of tyranny or unfairness. Cleveland Leader. ' It is easv to see the value of an interstate insolvent law to business men. By it the successful will be able to obtain all that their unfortunate debtors are able . to nav. The unsuccessful, on the other hand, will not be dependent upon the mercy of their creditors, but, after paying all they can, will be able to start anew in the world,with fresh hopes and the benefits "of ;past experience. New York Press. . . The pension svstem is expensive: but it must be remembered that this is due to the magnitude of the struggle "in which the veterans were engaged, and that tho results which they brought to pass can never be paid for in an adequate manner. Nobody favors extra vagaucein that direction, but'the people are perfectly willing. that just and fair pensions shall be granted, and ine itepublican party is inorouguiy committed to that method of dealing with the subject. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Some criticism is made of President Har rison because he is said to have insisted upon a jurisdiction that cannot be main tained. Behnng sea, it is contended, is not a closed sea because its waters are not so land-locked that the entrance can be defended from the land. But the question of fact was not one to be determined by the President. He had no course but to execute the law as he found it. and he has done so. The statute is his full authority. If complications arise tho attempt must be made honorably to settle them. Chicago limes. RUSSELL, HARRISON IX EUROPE. Contradiction of the Misrepresentations Printed In Democratic Paper. Mcrat Halstead, In ClnctnnsU Commercial-Gazette, I notice in some of - the journals efforts to cast ridicule upon the President's son, who is traveling in Europe, and as it happens to be within my knowledge that that wnicu is said in his disparagement is untrue, I desire to correct misapprehensions resulting from apparently artistic and persistent misrepresentation. The elaborate story in the M'Arl t tUni Ufa Dnaaiill ITnrtnaAn WO a n vim buai Jiia aw tiDooi. uotiiDuu v called from Paris by a telegram summoning him to dine with the Queen at Windsor, and was troubled about his clothing, is entirely discredited by the . fact that Mr. Harrison dined with the Queen before he went to Paris. It is mentioned in the American newspapers, and not. I think in thoso of Endand, that tho Queen's health is precarious that she has recently become a great sutTerer from sciatica and lumbago, afflicting her especially in the hours wheu she has been accustomed to steep; and that the result is insomnia and serious loss of strength. Notwithstanding her enfeebled condition she invited, or, as they say, summonea, tne American minister ana nis wue, and the son of President Harrison to dine with her at Windsor and stay all night at the ensile; and those who knew of her illness regarded tiie extension of this civility with some surprise. She is, however, well known to entertain a kindly feeling toward the American people, and to have a respectful recollection oi President Lincoln and sym pathy with his family; and it is a fact that the son of President Lincoln has been received with the greatest consideration by all classes of people in England, and it is understood that tho Queen, in inviting President Harrison's son to dine with her, was really extending a civility to the President himself, aud thereby showing her good feeling for tbe( American people. Nothing of an extraordinary character occurred during the visit of Minister and Mrs. Lincoln and Mr. Kussell Harrison to the Queen at Windsor. They wore, of course. dres suits, as they would if they were invited to a state dinner at me w nne nouse, aim an inai is said auoui Mr. Harrison's solicitude about proper apFarel is purely gratuitous and silly gossip, t was the purpose of Mr. Harrison in go ing to London to give attention to some business affairs that concern him. but the unexpected civilities shown him by the Queen and Premier as the President's son. l : a i- 1 t. i. : I. : ,i him from presenting himself in Loudon as a business man; and he has been intelligent aud careful in observing the proprieties. Certainly there js nothiug iu this to excite the derisive dispositions of those who chooso to nickname tho young gentleman and pursue him with fabrications that are fanciful and absurd. NONSENSICAL LEGISLATION. The Natural-Gas and Antl - Dressed - Beef Laws Cited as Instances. Chicago Journal. The absurdities of legislation based on the sentiment, prejudice or greed of a narrow provincialism are without limit. The states which havo passed acts prohibiting the sale of meat not inspected on the hoof in the county whero tho animal is killed are seeing such legislation come to naught. An Indiana Judge declared the anti-dreesed-beef act of that State unconstitutional. A caso under the Colorado anti-dressed meat act was formally decided in favor of the law. but for the purpose only of procuring tho decision of the Supreme Court of that State on its validity. Where a defendant is ac quitted there can be no appeal, and nothing is settled except as to the local court in which the trial is held; but if he is convict ed he can take one to a higher tribunal. For that reason the Colorado offender was found guilty in the lower court, that he might take the case up. In Minnesota a case was tried under the anti-dressed meat act of that State, and the defendant was acquitted. There is no doubt but that similar decisions will follow in all such cases. The proposed enterprise of pumping natural gas from Indiana to Chicago is to be baffled, it is said, by absurd restrictive legislation. It seems that the Hoosier statutebook contains an act prohibiting the exportation of the "natural products'' of that State, it being so worded as to apply to natural gas. Of course this statute is void, its invalidity resting on the same ground as that of the anti-dressed meat acts. Such legislation interferes with commence between the States, the regulation of which is within tho exclusive jurisdiction of Congress. It is difficult to see what basis there is in reason for a policy which would prohibit the people of a State from improving all their sources of wealth by selling anything that they did not want to keep. It is possible that the statesmanship of Indiana feared the supply of natural gas was limited and would oo exhausted within a brief period if any portion of it should be exported. But this does not givo validity to legislation for tho purpose of saving the product, which is an interference with tho exclusive power of the United States. m m Mr. Gladstone's Nose. London Letter. 1 never saw a really great nose until I met Mr. Gladstone. I was traveling from Dublin to London one day in midwinter, when I was laid up at Chester. It was not far from Gladstone's country-seat. Hawarden. and I learned that the great Liberal leader was to take the London mail. I was sitting in the chilly coffee-room of the hotel, waiting for the train to come in, when Mr. Gladstone walked-in and stretched out a pair of wrinkled bands to the tire. Almost nothing could be seen of his face except a mighty nose. His tall and weatherbeaten hat rested on his .ears, and a huge worsted scarf concealed his neck and the lower part of his face. The nose projected, and hung majestically over the scarf, like the beak of an eagle, except that it was more massive than any eagle's beak I have ever seen. Awav back from the bridge of his nose twinkled a pair of eyes as bright and sharp as thoe of a larky ten-year-old boy. He nodded and blinked his eyes and wagged his nose at every one who came into the room, and when he stepped aboard the train he was cheered to the echo. A Southern Editor's Pride in TTImif. Colnmbia (S. C.) Register. . The editor of the Register, alluded toby the New York World ashaving been brought up to the "musical swish of the negro drivers whip," owns to have been brought up in the planting circle, a class which could no more be appreciated by the New York quilldriver than could an intrinnic blackguard bo expected to comprehend the motives of a gentleman. It was this same class that gave us Washington and .lellerson; Madison aud Piuckney. and. in a later day, Calhoun and Clay, Crawford and Troup, Lee and Jackson. They, too, as this reviling scribe would express it. were "brought up to the swish of the negro driver's whip. The editor alluded to was a slaveholder, as were all these men. and as many other good men whose lives were more conspicu

ous than the humble writer's. If it be ft crimotohave been a slaveholder, or to havo been reared "to tho swish of a negTo drivers whip," every Southern Senator who sits in his scat may be thus taunted by an impudent puppy who bappt-ns to have been reared otherwise, or to have hod no rearing at all. and, therefore, is ouo who feels privileged to belie and abuse decent people. Work or the Indiana Kxperliucnt Station. From Preface to Latest Bulletin. The Indiana Experiment Station will endeavor to neglect none of the demands of the community in whose interest it is laboring. But, nevertheless, our chief euergies must be devoted to a eiuglo end. We must have ono special object. We nope to add to the knowledge of the farmers of our State concerning tho soils they till, and increase thereby their control over this chief factor in thtir daily occupation. Among the crops grown on this soil none possesses greater importance to them than wheat, since it forms their largest source of direct revenue. Wheatis the one crop with which the station has been chiefly concerned sinco experimental work first began at Purdue, but the scope of the work undertaken has been largely increased, so that it now includes not only tho growing of the crop, varieties and methods of treatment, but the chief enemies, animal and vegetable, which infest tho plant, will be embraced in our investigations relating to the crop. Somo of the insect enemies of the crop have already received attention In station bulletins. Wo now present tho results of our study of doubtless the chief pest of the wheat plant tho universally known and dreaded "rust." - This work has occupied the greater part of the time of the assistant botanist of tho station for nearly one year. Yet wo consider the work as really but just begun. 1 he results thus far obtained, however, are believed to be of suflicient importance to warrant making them known lo tho farmers of tho State, and wo offer them with the sincere hope that the v may be found of practical value, but with tho assurance that the work will continue until we are either able to ofTer the hope of immunity from this bauo of the wheat-grower, or else assure him that no hope can bo found. All bulletins of this station are regularly mailed free to citizens of the State requesting the same. Will Cumback at Chautauqua.' Chautauqua Assembly Herald. ; t The Hon. Will Cumback, of Indiana, is a practical business man, a keen observer, and an original thinker. All this was evident yesterday as he stood upon the platform in the presence of a large audience, and delivered his lecture on "The Common Man." And more than this, it was evident that he is an orator both by nature and culture. He had made a study of the common man, his character, his evironment, his needs: and he had thought out difficulties and their remedies. With the courage of his convictious he presented plain truths, and with a style of delivery and a felicity of rhetoric which held his hearers to tho close. Dangers of the New Discovery. Washington Post The imagination cannot readily grasp the transformation bound to eusue. Victory over death settles theology and medicine. It closes the church, bankrupts undertakers, marble-cutters and druggists, nm turns a vast army of preachers and doctor! afloat, who must either engage in politics or work. Robert Ingersol land Robert Ells mere would have no constituency, and thero would soon bea scarcity of patent medicino millionheiresses, who could give themselves away to foreign princes. Tho nppaliiug increase of population, with the stationary measurement on the ground floor, is no more a problem than the pension business. An Inquiry Answered. Washington Post. Editor Po3t How do people know "there are as good fish in the sea as ever were caughtl" Washington, D. C, Aug. 2. . Tosto. They have seen them. They have felt them grab their bait and thev havo hauled them in almost to the shore. From the number of tishernien who havo almost landed the biggest lish they ever saw, wo jndgs that the old proverb might truly go so fut as to say there are better lish iu tho sea than ever were caught.

The I?nterpr!lnc; TVest. Chicago 2IaiL The spirit of rivalry that exists between Western towns is something wild and terri ble. A short time ago Seattle got up a great tire, and the news of the conilagra tion was telegraphed all over the country, resulting in relief subscriptions and nil sorts of glory. Now conies Spokaun Fallt with a lire that promises to leave the town only a bed of ashes. Even in matters o calamity the live Western town will not ba outdone. Age-Limit of Letter-Carriers. Buffalo Commercial Advertiser. Postmaster-general Wanamaker extendi the age-limit of those who can be appointed as letter-cairiers to forty years. Tnis is a sensible move. It is absurd to regard aj man as disqualified for such service because he happens to havo reached thirty live. Some men do not learn to be of auy good to themselves or to the public until they have become at least that old. Eighteen Rattlers at One Shot. Sierra City Tribune. Mike Pay ton declares that ho is the bosi snako killer. He killed six rattle-snakes a week ago in going from tho Marguerite mine to the Northern Belle. Ono oi thera measured four feet and ten inches. He says that Keystone ravine is chock full of them. Charles Castagna did a little better than that, lie killed eighteen not long sinco with one shot. What Voorhees Iteally Means. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Hon. Daniel W. Voorhees beseeches tha Indiana Democrats to "take the satanid spirit of plutocracy by the threat and strangle it to death." Of course, they understand very well that they -ran't take a spirit by the throat or even by the1 breeches, and that what Mr. Voorhees really wants them to do is to re-elect him to tho Senate. Will Give III m a Rett. Boston Herald. President Harrison's visit to New England will afford him relief from the 'persistent! importunities of the oflice-seekers who aro taking up so much of his valuable time. Any person who says pap to the President during his sojourn in this town" willb promptly eiected from the procession and ducked in the frog pond. . , . Advice to Jones. Washington Tost. It is asserted that "Sam" Jones, the re vivalist, ou being offered $6,000. a year to preach in a fine church in Minneapolis, replied: Do you take me for afoolj" I'm getting S25.000 a year now." It is to be hoped that Mr. Jones will not, in his exertions to prove that he is not a tool, go so far as ts prove that he is a knave. They ver Fit Him. Washington Post. Mr. Cleveland's ofiice chair was stolen the e ther day. It was somewhat strained, the ex-President being a man of weight, and be gave it to a fellow claiming to be a) professional repairer, who proved instead to be a thief, fcomehow Mr. Cleveland has hard luck in keeping his chairs. Anxieties of Connubial Life. TJUca Herald. The first call of every circumspect.hu aband and wife, now, as they wake, is for the morning paper, to ascertain whether they have been divorced while they slept. The New York lawyers and judges can giyo their Chicago brethren points m tho divorce business. Approves of the Change, Washington Post. It is gratifying to learn that Postmaster general Wanamaker has extended tho Ago limit of appointment of letter-carriers. Ex periencetwth messenger boys has taught us that the further away from boyhood a person is, tlu quicker he is likely to get around. mtrAnimus of the Mugwumps. Hartford Coo rant. The mugwump attacks on Corporal Tanner are made, not because of any knowledge of misdeeds on his p?.rL but solely because ho is Corporal Tanner and a K'pul lican. So long as it was Physical Wreck Ulack, and a Leuiocrat, it was all right. s Theories Versus Pacta. 6an FTtnclsco chronicle. Henry George is strong on theories, bui bis facts are generally a little ott.