Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1889,

THE DAILY JOURNAL FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1889.

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PHILADELPHIA-A. pTKembl, 3735 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI-J. P. Hawiey & Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Peering, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. 8T. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern lloteL WASHINGTON, D. O.-Rbjgs House and Ebbltt House. The engine which hauled the, President's train from Boston to Bar Harbor was appropriately named "Tippecanoe." Boston behaved very well to President Harrison. Could hardly have treated him better, in fact, if he had rorae over in the Mayflower. Pennsylvania, she's all right. The Republican State platform leaves uo doubt on that point. Come to think of it, no such doubt existed, anyway. Attorney-general Miller says the President will bo hero on the 22d inst. unless something unforeseen occurs to prevent. He should have a Hoosier welcome. Up to noon yesterday the snug sura of .27,000 had been realized by the city from the new saloon license. Tax-payers can say, for this relief much thanks; but the license ought to bo $500. A meeting is called in tho Board of Trade rooms, at 12 o'clock to-day, to take action relative to the reception of the President on tho 22d. It should bo a largo and representative meeting. A communication from Professor Stoekbridge, of Purdue University, explains the connection of the university with tho farmers' institutes law, and corrects somo erroneous impressions. The Journal has other information that the suspicion of political manipulation in the matter is unfounded. Purduo University is doing good work, and the farmers' institutes, rightly handled, can bo made a useful feature. The Sioux reservation is not open to settlers until after Congress has ratified the action of tho commission. Warned by experience in tho Oklahoma case, it is probable that the government will make different rules to" govern the ad mission of settlers into this region. It will bo more difficult to keep settlers out of this new territory than Oklahoma, and it will be a problem how to control the matter so that every honest wouldbe purchaser of a homestead may have a fair chance for securing what ho wants. Me. Kockwood, the law partner of tho Minneapolis forger, Collom, is quoted as saying ho would have trusted Collom with all he had or hoped to have, and gives as one of the reasons for his faith that the man never drank nor used tobacco in any form. This is ono of the most affecting cases of misplaced confi dence on record. If Kockwood had ever caught Collom smoking a cigar he would have known him instantly for the villain that he is. "At least, this is the inference that might be drawn from the Jionest partner's remark. Allen, tho president of the New York street railway, who got away with $125,000 of the company's money, and Col lom, of Minneapolis, who has committed forgeries to tho amount of $250,000, were both men of good reputation in business circles and of high social standing. Of course they were. It is only rascals who have never been suspected that get a chance to commit such crimes. Banks and capitalists and people with some thing worth stealing are on their guard against men of dubious character; This is where the sanctimonious scamps have the advantage. The Pennsylvania Republicans made a strong and truthful statement of the results of protection when they said that "in protecting the American laborer nnd manufacturer it etrencrthens and builds up all interests, resulting in the promotion or a great diversity of business enterprises and a home market. It thereby nurtures not only the interests primarily and directly protected, but all interests, particularly agriculture, which finds in tho country and higher prices of a home market its great advantage." That is tho way it works in this country, and as long as it continues to work that way it is the truo American policy. Ix exposing some of the vicious feat ures and, tendencies of the new school took law, Mr. Conner, of the city school ooard, has sustained his reputation as a flear-headed man, with the courage of his convictions, and ahard hitter. There has been no more forcible presentation of the wrong principles and mischievous results of tho law than that made by Mr. Conner. His remarks received additional point from those of Mr. Freuzel, who eulogized the Prussian system, and praised tho new law because it was a step in that direction. "Tho system of text-books in Prussia,? ho said, "is left with tho local boards of control, so far that all text-books introduced must bo approved by tho Minister of Public Iu-

struction, and he says whether they shall bo used or not." Perhaps if the speaker had known that tho idea of cen

tralization and the system of literary censorship is carried even further in Kussia than in Prussia, ho would have advocated tho Russian system. Ho was right in regarding tho new law, which abolishes local control of the schools, as along step towards European methods, but was unwise in using it as an argument in its favor. Tho American idea is better for America. THE PRESIDENT AND HIS CABINET. President Harrison is to be congratu lated on his Cabinet. If the first five months of his administration arc a cri terion for judging as to the future, his official relations with his Cabinet are likely to prove exceptionally pleasant, and the Cabinet itself remarkably harmonious and loyal to duty. It has been but a few months since the question of tho Cabinet was the allabsorbing one throughout the country. Press and people were given up to spec ulations on the subject, and every day brought forth some new combination. Everybody was excited except the Pres ident-elect. Special correspondents were under a tremendous strain to make cab inets fast enough to meet the public demand, and the public itself reached a feverish state of anxiety on the subject. When the Cabinet was announced the country saw it was the President7 Cabinet. While it was evident ho had recognized the suggestions of others in a reasonable degree, it was equally evi dent that he had depended at last mainly on his own judgment and decided on his own responsibility. Tho result thus far has been a vindication of his judgment. Every member of tho Cabinet has proved fully equal to tho duties of his position, and has shown in their discharge a ready aptitudo for af fairs. Tho different departments of tho government were never administered with more intelligence or energy. Under the controlling influenco of the Presi dent, the Cabinet has already developed into a harmonious and homogeneous working body. Its members are attentive to public duty, discreet and loyal to their chief. There is not a weak man nor a mischief-maker among them. There is not a "blabber" among them. They know how to keep Cabinet secrets. To use a homely figure, they know how to "saw wood and say nothing." They do not compromise themselves nor the President by talking, nor by giving out tips. Tho President's quiet dignity, self-control and indifference to public criticism or clamor, seems to have dif fused itself among the members of his oflicial family. All are doing their duty by the government and tho country, and are making a record for themselves and the administration by which they will be willing to be judged. Tho President is to bo congratulated on his Cabinet. THE NEW ELECTION LAW. The next general election in this Stato will be held under the new law, embodying what is known as the Australian bal lot system. As It will introduce many new features, some of them wide de partures from our present election methods, it behooves the people to begin to familiarize themselves with its provis ions. Some of them may be stated. The new law will reduce the size and increase the number of voting precincts. At present no precinct may contain more than 350 voters; tho new law makes tho limit 250. This will increase the number of precincts and election officers by about one-third. At every general election there sball be two ballot-boxes, ono painted red, for Stato tickets, and one painted white, for county tickets. All tickets are to bo printed and furnished at publio expense, State tickets by a State board of election commissioners, consisting of the Governor and two other members to be appointed by him, ono Republican and one Democrat. County tickets will be furnished by the county board of election commissioners, consisting of tho county clerk and one Republican and ono Dem ocrat to bo appointed by him. State tickets will b6 printed on red-tinted pa per and rounty tickets on white paper. The law provides the methods of their distribution and tells what kind of dis tinguishing marks or devices they may have. Every tieket printed is carefully guarded and receipted for by tho officials into whoso hands they go. They are distributed in 6ealcd packages and each precinct gets ten tickets for every five voters. All State tickets will be printed and distributed from Indianapolis, and county tickets in the respective counties. Each State ticket will contain the names of all candidates of both parties for State offices and each county ticket the names of all candidates for county offices. The names of Re publican and Democratic candidates will be printed in separate rows. No ticket can bo voted unless it has tho initials of the poll clerk written in ink on the lower left-hand corner of the back. Each voting precinct must have a suitable room in which to hold tho election, embracing three separate booths or compartments, containing a counter or writing-shelf, and in which a person may be screened from observation. These booths must communicate directly with tho room where the election board sits, and only one voter may enter a booth at one time. At every voting precinct there shall be a chute, or passage, with a railing, rope or wire on each side, commencing fifty feet away from, and leading to, the polling place. Ono challenger and one poll - book - holder for each party may stand by the chute near tho challenge window, but no other person within fifty feet. No tickets are allowed to go outside of the electionroom. When a voter enters the room through tho chute, he first announces his name to tho poll-clerks, who record it. He then receives one State and one county ticket, together with an official stamp, and goes alone into one of the booths, where ho prepares his ballot. If ho wishes to vote a straight Republican or straight Democratic ticket, he will place tho stamp at tho head of the list of either party's candidates. If he wishes to vote a mixed ticket, he will stamp ' the names of the

individual candidates for whom he

wishes to vote. Before leaving tho booth or compartment, the voter must fold his State and county ballots separately, so that no part of the face of either shall bo exposed, and bo that the initials of the poll clerk in the lower left-hand corner of the back shall be visible. Ho must not show his ballot to any person after stamping it, nor leave the room with it. Only one person shall be in a booth at the same time, and, in no event, longer than five minutes. Not more than three persons besides the election officers shall be allowed in the election-room at any ono time, and no conversation shall be permitted. Any person who is unable to prepare his ticket by reason of physical disability or inability to read may have it prepared for him by the poll clerk on stating how he wishes to vote. Any person who shows his ballot to another after it has been marked forfeits his vote. If a person, by accident or mistake, defaces or spoils a ticket while preparing it, ho may, on returning it to tho poll clerk, receive another. The provisions for the protection, custody and final accounting for tho tickets, thoso not voted as well as thoso voted, are very strict. These are tho main provisions of tho new law, though many of its details will require careful study by officials as well as by the public to insure intelligent compli ance. LEABNINQ UNDER DIFFICULTIES. The tempest over the appointment of a negro clerk in the postoffice still rages fn tho Atlanta teapot. The postmaster explains to the enraged Democratic populace that when he drew two men, ono white and one black, in the civil-service lottery, he endeavored to satisfy local prejudice by putting the latter in the registry department, where ho would not come in direct contact with the public, and placed the white man at the money-order desk. This simple statement seems to add fuel to the flame. The Atlanta Constitution, whose editor's eulogy of tho "new South" and its acceptance of new and advanced conditions but lately sounded through the country, solemnly declares that the appointment is "a wrong which tho postmaster had no right to put upon the people; and the keenness of which only the people can appreciate." The great point of the objection is that tho young black man was brought into direct association with a young white woman, although the postmaster expressly states that tho proper places of tho two were on opposite sides of a brick wall. Even if this were not tho caso, however, it oes not appear that it was the intention of the postmaster to retain tho young woman in the service, and neither is it shown that she would have felt insulted and degraded by the familiar presence of tho negro in her home as servant or coachman. It does not seem to have dawned on the persons who compose the new South that social conditions cannot bo carried into business life, even where the most estimable and worthy white ladies from our best families are concerned. It would be agreeable, no doubt, to all women engaged in earning their living if they were com pelled to meet only the choicest representatives of the male sex, but, unfortunately, such is not the case, even where all are white. It is hardly probable that tho citizens of Atlanta would have risen in wrath over the danger to that young white woman had the new clerk been a white man of low or licentious character, yet tho necessity for intimate companionship could be avoided in the ono case as well as in the other. The time will come, even in Atlanta, when tho intimation that a girl in such position cannot retain her dignity and self-respect, whoever her business associates chance to be, will bo tho insult, and not tho chance association itself. In tho meantimo tho Con stitution must bo allowed to voice tho ancient Southern prejudice and make itself and the citizens ridiculous by declaring that nothing could bo more exasperating to "our people" than this appointment, and by printing furious communications which compare the postmaster to "a venomous snake, which steals its tread through the grass, flings out its fangs and seeks to deposit its poison and take the life of those, when its life they never sought." "Our people" have yet a great many things to learn, and are choosing to learn them by shutting their eyes and knocking their heads against a wall. Tiie magnificent welcome given to the President at Boston and other points in New England is characteristic of that people. They aro never lacking in due regard for oflicial proprieties or in demonstrations of respect for the President of the United States, regardless of political affiliations. The reception of President Harrison was exceedingly cordial, but no doubt the same welcome and distinguished attention would have been shown a Democratic President. When President Cleveland came West Repub licans everywhere joined with Democrats in extending him a cordial reception. No doubt New England Democrats united with Republicans in tho enthusiastic welcome of President Harrison. This is as it should be. Americans should learn to divest the office of chief magistrate from all ideas of partisan politics, and to honor the incumbent of the office as the chosen head of the government. It was a strong point made by School Commissioner Conner at the late board meeting, that tho Legislature itself had assumed, in the first section of tho law, the prerogative of fixing the standard of books that eventhe State Board of Education could not be trusted to carry out its designs. Why name a class of books as the standard which the Indianapolis school authorities, and many others in the State, had declared unfit to go into the schools? Why not leave tho Stato Board of Education to determine the fctandai d and quality of tho books bid on under tho law! Are they not more competent to judge of this matter than a promiscuous number of politicians acting in a political caucus to which only one party was invited? Mr. Conner truly said that tho State Board of Education

were bound hand and foot, and were not to be censured for accepting a bid on inferior books, though equal to thoso long ago discarded as unfit for tho schools, for the law laid its hands on them arid compelled them to act contrary to their own judgment,- It is mockery to say that the State board indorses the books. It was the Legislature that did this, and at their peril commanded the State board to pronounce in favor of the books. And so " they are not indorsed by the Board of Education. They are simply pronounced equal to a standard adopted by the Legislature, but denounced by school boards as unfit to be put into the schools. It was tho Legislature, by its Democratic caucus action, that has dragged the free-school system into party politics, and tho Evening News is its apologist. It assumes to lecture members of the 6chool , board for denouncing this assumption of power over the schools, and the halting botch it makes of it is acknowledgment enough of its lack of heart in the dirty work it assumes. Tiie Journal trusts that neither the G. A. R. nor any other organization will feel hurt because of the voluntary ofler of the rail

roads to carry the Indiana Republican ed itors to Warsaw free of charge, on the occasion of their annual convention. This action, though it is no reflection upon the estitnablo qualities of the members of other associations, is, it cannot be denied, due to the winning ways of editors. It would never occur to these modest gentlemen to ask that they, their cousins, their sisters and their aunts be transported to Warsaw at even a one-cent rate. They want to go, but before they have had time to thinkhow they will get there, or to consider the ob stacles oflered by the interstate-com merce law to editorial travel, trans portation is politely tendered them. The truth is and why conceal the truth? railroads like to have Indiana editors ride over them, and while they will not exactly go out of their way to enjoy this pleasure, they lose no opportunity of securing the privilege, as this Warsaw invitation shows. They do not love the G. A. R. or the Knights of Pythias less, but the newspaper, fraternity more. Editors are not proud, and do not hold themselves above their fellows on account of this discrimination in their favor. They are glad to have their merits recognized in this way, the more so that they know goodness is not always duly rewarded in this world. Calm in a sense of conscious rectitude, the Republican editors will show their appreciation of railway courtesy by going to Warsaw with their families and having a good time. The moro of them to go the better the railroads will like it; they nave said so, and it would be unkind to disappoint them with a slim attendance. Every man who can get somebody to run his paper while he is absent will go, and thus do his part to make the railroads happy. Rev. Dr. Dorchester, superintendent of Indian schools, speaking of the appointment of his wife as his private secretary, says: There have been some criticisms upon the appointment of my wife as a special agent In the Indian service to look after the Indian girls. It was done without any solicitation of mine. I said to myself as soon as I was appointed: "I wiU take my wifo with rue, she is so much Interested In education, having been at the head of a seminary in New England. I will take her on my own hook to help me." I was mentioning it in the presence of Mr. Oberly and others, and they tbrww up their hats at once, but they said she ought to fro at the expense of the government. Secretary Noble approved the idee, and appointed her. She has been very warmly welcomed, and has been enabled u do much that no ono but a woman could do. She has had long talks with many of the girls, has visited their dormitories and learned much about their manner of Uvlng. She Is preparing a report upon what she saw, which will be submitted to the Commissioner. When you hear a man, with a broad grin on his face, say, "Wo done them up again," you ask no questions. You know, if you are an Indianapolis man, that "we" means our base-ball club, and that the other fellows have been "done up." Ah, ha! ' ABOUT PEOPLE AM) THINGS. Sarau Bernhardt will be in the United States late in November. The Order of the King's Daughters now numbers 97,000 active members. The prediction is made that, by 1605, the Nicaragua canal will be open for business. Of the nearly 200 women who were recently examined in Now York for appointment as customs inspectors only fifty-three passed. General Sherman, who now takes life as easy as any man in this country, has gone to tho Catskills for a few days with his daughters. The attempt to raise funds for a monument to John Bright does not prosper. Only $40,000 was wanted, but only $15,000 has been secured. The Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale says that when he was a college student he and his chum took the first daguerrotype picture ever made in Boston. Terre alra is used for adulterating candy, and recently 6,000 tons of it was imported into the United States. The manufacturers are getting ready for the Christmas treats. A PiTTsnuRO miss, now in London, is said to have written to the Princess Louise, Duchess of Fife, offering to buy one of tho numerous sets of bracelets presented to her on her recent marriage. Lord Lonsdale is now living the most domestic of lives with his wife, who has, apparently, forgiven and forgotten the Sast. Assisted by the Countess, Lord Lonsale is preparing a book on his adventure in the arctic regions. New York druggists have had their city directories put up in brass frames, which are locked. On one side is a slot, above which is the sign, 'One cent," and the man who wants to use the volume unlocks the frame by dropping in a cent. Banker Thompson, of Pittsburg, has re fused to accept $184 contributed by a museum proprietor in that city, who threw open Lis doors on the Sunday following the flood for the benefit of the sufferers, and cave a free exhibition of a copy of "Christ Before Pilate." No fee was charged, but the 184 was the result of voluntary contributions given at the time. A Boston watch-maker recently had a rare task. It was tho putting in order of two watches, each of which had cost $2,5tX). The case of each of these watches is of pure gold, and its works number fully 400 pieces. On the larger dial there are four smaller dials; one showing by a diagram of the sky the changes of tho moon, a second dial each month, a third dial the day of the month, and a fourth dial the day of the week. Prince Alexander, of Battenberg, is living, with his wife, at Gratz, in Styria, where he has purchased a beautiful villa. Prince Alexander is reported to be engaged in writing his reminiscences, from the time of his nomination to the crown of Bulgaria (April 1S7V) until his morganatic marriage last month. lie is very bitter against the royal family of England, and does not appear to entertain friendly feelings toward the Empress Frederick. While the wolves at the London Zoological Gardens were being fed, one afternoon, recently, ono of them leaped over the head of the keeper and escaped into the gardens. There were several children n?ar at hand, and, but for the bravery of the keeper, they could scarcely have escaped injur)-. This

man instantly seized the animal, and, though his hands were terribly bitten oue hand, indeed, being pierced through with the wolfs fangs he succeeded in mastering tho beast aud returning it to its cage. . John Fright's comparison of his oratory with Mr. Gladstone's is said to havo been expressed to the late Allen Thorndiko Rice: "Joseph Chamberlain was flattering John Bright on his style, and the latter deprecated the praise. T have no style said Mr. Bright, 'but Mr. Gladstone has. I sail along from headland to headland; but Mr. Gladstone carefullv follows the coast line, and wherever he finds a navigable inlet bo invariably follows it to its source, returning again to resume his exploration of tho coast and to strike the headlands that I -have raced for.' " The country home of Mr. Charles A. Dana is an island, called Dosoris, off tho north shore of Long island. The island consists of forty-five acres, under a high state of cultivation, being ono immense garden. The pasture and forage lands are on the mainland. A sea wall, over which haug festoons of vines, runs around the entire island. Tho house is an old one, but it is large and comfortable, and surrounded by vine-covered piazzas. A perfect lawn in front runs down to the sound, glimpses of which are to be caught between tho trees. Henry Plummer Cheatham, the only negro in the Fifty-first Cougress, was born a slave near Henderson, N. C, in December, 1857, on the plantation of his master, I sham Cheathanu The young slave's duties were very light, his main business being to shoot partridges in season for his master's table. This pleasant exercise in an almost primeval forest gave hiui the sound physical strength which enabled him to bear the mental strain he put upon himself later in life. The boon of freedom camo to him when he was too young to appreciato its value. When the doors of the public schools were first opened to negroes at the South, young Cheatham was fourteen years old. His mother entered him at once, and at eighteen he had finished the conrse and established a local reputation as being an unusually bright lad. old dismal. A most determined sort of chap Is the desponding pessimist; Who, In tho absenc e of mishap,, On coming sorrow will insist. . lie's mad when sunny people pause To hold his theories in doubt; But mostly he is blue, because

There 8 nothing to be blue about. Philadelphia Press. COMMENT AND OPINION. It is one of the puzzling facts of modern trade that the retailer can buy cheaper of a man who is hired to visit him and sell goods to him than by going to headquarters. Of course, the drummer is ultimately paid by the customer, and yet the customer gets his goods cheaper by reason of the drummer. Hartford Courant. We do not want the Black Diamond, but we do want that craft, and all others engaged in like piratical practices, to keep off from our preserves. In spite of some, not unnatural, bluster in British Columbia and at Ottawa, there is reason to believe that the lesson will prove effectual, at least for a time. Boston Advertiser. Below a certain point underselling can only como about by adulteration, and tho adulteration, the deterioration in quality, is so very general as to be one of the great evils of the day a peril to life aliko in destroying the soundness of our food and in undermining the strength of materials on which we depend. Hartford Courant. Hanging appears to be a necessity, at least all civilization insists npon the death penalty in capital cases, and the gallows is tho best form of death Anglo-Saxon civilization seems able to devise. If the crime has been heinous men steel themselves to the spectacle of men dangling in expiation of it But the sight of a woman at tho end of the hangman's rope compels a shudder and suggests reform. Chicago Times. Every leading protectionist Washington and Hamilton of the early period of the country's history. Clay and Webster of a later time, and Morrill and SLerman of our own day were, and the latter still are, opEosed to monopoly. By striking at the ome competition, which the tariff has established, -and was designed to establish, the trusts have attacked ihe very citadel of protection. St. Louis Globe-Democrat Cronin was slain by order of one or more persons w ho hated and feared him. and the object of the investigation under duo form of law is to expose the plans of the conspirators, to determine the guilt or innocence of tho men under indictment, and to secure the punishment of those who are guilt)'. This is the plain English of the situation, and no clan or league can afford to go on record as opposing 6uch programme. Chicago Inter Ocean. If the members of the Grand Army of the Republic should take up that question railway regulation solely for the public welfare, they would be carrying out their reputation for patriotism and disinterestedness, but if they propose to antagonize the railroads merely because they have not enjoyed the special favors to which they considered themselves entitled, they will put themselves in the position of trying to squeeze the railroads for private revenge. Pittsburg Dispatch. If Mormonisin gets another foothold it will not be within the limits of the Union. It may flourish for a time in Mexico or Hawaii, but in the United States its power is departing. Like its twin relic ot barbarism, human slavery, as the elders who have advocated its doctrines pass away their places will be taken by the younger generation, who have more interest in American citizenship and business prosperity than they have in the Mormon Church and the practices of its priesthood. Chicago Trib une. UOSTON AND INDIANAPOLIS. A Comparison In Which the President's ITome City Receives Handsome Compliments. Boston Transcript. No doubt President Harrison, in visiting Boston to-morrow, will wish that he came as a private citizen, in order that he might sec in a more intimate and less perfunctory way a city which is always very interesting to people whoso homes are in the West. No amount of surpassing growth or of intensifying local pride can ever prevent Boston from occupying a position in tho minds of Americans, at least of the North and West, not unlike that which Mecca occupies in the thoughts and imagination of the Mussulman. Not that the Western man would freely admit any such relation in his own mind. He likes to make fun of Boston, but it is a gentle and rather affectionate fun that he makes after all. The city's history has interwoven itself with his childish imagination; in his mind's eye the Common, tho old State-house, State street and Bun iter Hill occupy a place scarcely inferior to the scenes of his own childhood. The literature he has read all his life, even down to the latest novel, has been pretty full of Boston; and if he is a practical man, interested in the development of his own section, his admiration for Boston can hardly have failed to be excited by the part which Boston enterprise and capital have played in the building up of t ne great West. For even the man who has no romance in his soul, and whom neither the story of the beginnings of tho revolution nor the poems of Holmes and the novels of Howells could touch with sentimental interest in the capital of Nw England, could not help being profoundly impressed by tho building of a railroad from his town to the Pacific ocean with Boston millions. The interest of a Western man in Boston is by no means diminished if. as is the caso with the President, he is himself a citizen of no mean city. General Harrison has grown with the growth of the city which is his home, and may well be pardoned if ho compares Boston with Indianapolis, and finds our city in certain respects distinctly iufcrior to tho capital of Indiana. In the matter of plan, for instance. Indianapolis is as regular and as expressive of design as Boston is random and fortuitous. Across its rectangular general plan run broad diagonal avenues which radiate from a central circle; aud if the growth of the city has not followedthedesigu.buthasestablished. with obstinate perversity, the real business center a little to one side of this central circle, it is not the fanlt of tho men who laid out the town, mere are in Indianapolis broad avenues which make our thoroughfares appear insignificant, and Eublic buildings in whoso shadow ourStateouse would almost disappear. Indianapolis at last accounts had more than a hundred thousand people; its railway connections surpass our own m multiplicity and extension; its schools and public institutions are remarkable for their number and efliciency; its broad streets are well built and, for the u.ost part, well .paved, and

what is quite an important sign of cultivationits newspapers aro more handsomely printed, better edited and much more modestly headlined than tho majority of the daily journals of Boston. Tho residences along Meridian street are not somassivo and so closely built as thooo along Commonwealth avenue and Beacon street, but they aro the homes of cultivation and refinement Indianapolis is a capital city in more than name. In its situation and surroundings, however, the President and his secretary can hardly fail to find our city greatly superior to their own. And hero comes in one of the chief elements of difference between a New England city and a Western one. People from abroad never tire of admiring the beauty of the surroundings here. Wo even mention thenr to ourselves once in a while. But if tho President really had time to take a quiet look about hira iu Boston, he must, unless long residence has rendered everything about his home delightful to him. lament that fato had placed his own city on an uninteresting plain by the side of somewhat anguish river, which is White only in name. Our woods aro hut feebly suggested by the tall and lean black walnuts and sycamores, the straggling relics of dead and gone forests, that stand here and there in tho lonesome environs of Indianap

olis; and the horse larms ol Marion and Hendricks counties hardly approach in ictnresonencss tho orchards and fields or Vest Uoxburv or Dedham. or in fcrtilitv the gardens of Arlington. Bat the distinguished visitor may at least console himself with the knowledge th&t with all our New England prido in'our animal products, we are how going to those same Indiana farms for a considerable proportion of tho horses which draw our carriages and wagons. But perhaps, after all. the things which will most impress the President in 'NewEngland, since he is known to be a keen and thoughtful observer, is the likeness of all parts of our common country to one another. Any given section of a crowd that he might meet on our Washington street would not look away from home on Washington street in Indianapolis unless, indeed, the breadth of tho latter throughfare, or the mules on the street cars, caused them to open their mouths unduly in wonder. General Harrison could not fail to bo impressed anew with the fact that the biggest country in the world is also the most homogeneous. And our citizens, for their part, may be assured that they will find in tho President a man no less fitted than tho prevalent type of our Boston manhood to bear the "grand old name of gentleman." President Harrison an Equal Suffragist. Boston Transcript. President Harrison, it appears, is a worn an suti'ra gist, like Lord Salisbury and Mr. Gladstone. Of woman suffrage in the new States and its prospects in the country in the near future, Senator Hoar recently wrote to Washington Territory, where tho question of putting it into the Constitution, of the new fctato was under discussion: Worcester, Maes., July 21. 18S9. I hope there win be established in the State constitutions tre principle of Impartial suffrage, without regard to sex. Where this cannot be secured it is very desirable that the Legislature may bo empowered to make such provision hereafter at their cl?cretiou. There need not be the least fear that the admission 01 the Htate by Con press wiU be in the least delayed or imperiled thereby. Nearly a majority or the Unite! States Senate favor woman suffrage. Of thoja opposed to it. many have committed tbeintelvcs to the doctrine that the control of tho matter should be left to the State. President Harrison, as is well known, voted, when in the Senate, to submit a woman suffrage amendment to tho Btates, or paired on that side. Faithfully yours, George F. Hoar. m m Mrs. Harrison's Ilome-Made Bread. Deer Park Special. General Tyner has felt quite exhausted since coming up from Washington, but it is hoped by to-morrow he will ieel the benefit, of the change. Mrs. Harrison accidentally heard that the sick man craved what good housewives proudly call "home-made" bread. She at once went to her kitcheu, "set" yeast, and General Tyner made his supper from a loaf made by the hands of the President's wife. Toorheea aud 31rs Parsons. Detroit Tribune. There was quite as much blood aud thunder in Voorhee3's speech at Bloomrield the other day as there was in Lucy Parson s'a speech to the Chicago Anarchists the other Sunday. We hope Mr. Voorhces is nrond of his company, rut a red ilag in his haud and touch off his mouth and ho would pass for an Anarchist anywhere. i The Kind of a Man He Is. Philadelphia Press. Senator Voorhees, of Indiana, sticks to iO that if he had his way with the Carnegies he would kill them but all tho same he would do nothing of the sort. Voorhees isn't that kind of man. He has never killed anything in tho whole course of his lifo except his own reputation as a man of sense and decency. A Way to Test the Matter. Philadelphia Inquirer. Perhaps a good way to determine th whole controversy is to ask the telegraph company whether it will surrender all tim franchises and protection received from the government if permitted to charge th highest rates for the government telegraphing. Suppose Mr. Wr.namaker put that conundrum? m sa What Whitney Is Driving At. Iowa State Register. Mr. Whitney's letter declaringtbat he is not a candidate for President is said to have more meaning between the lines than appears on the surface. While not a candidate for immediate promotion his friends think that a journey to the White Houso by the way of Albany would be very satisfactory, . An Irreverent Criticism. Brooklyn Times. Judging by some of the newspaper cuts, tho national monument, dedicated at Plymouth. Mass., yesterday, looks as if the irate Pilgrim mother at its summit, grasping a stone and just on the point of flinging; it, wero shouting out: "Hi! You yountf rascal, get out of that strawberry patch." It Doesn't Fit Their Purpose. Troy Tiroes. Tho Bethlehem (Pa.) Iron Company hai given its employes a handsome increase of wages. Democratic ami mugwump newspapers have been laying every business failure and wage disagreement to the tarirV. Will they credit the Bethlehem increase to the same cansof If not, why not, A Safe Ilule. Philadelphia Press. One who is anxions to succeed aksi What is always a safe rule to go by!" That's a tough question. However, wo rise to tho emergency. If you come to a saloon on your way to success it is always a safo rule to go by. Itayliss Ilanna's Hating. Washington Post. Now that Bayliss W. Hanna is to be relieved by a new minister to tbo Argentina Kepublic. and is presumably coming home, we should like to know whether he will have to pay duty on himself, aud if so. whether ho is to be rated as a work of art or an article de virtu. Evidently Means Business. Freeman's Journal. Our motto: "Call on a man of business during the hours of business, and tnnsact your business, then go about your business that he may have time to attend to his business. Business is business. Interesting Item. Philadelphia Inquirer. Only seventeen deaths from typhoid fever last wcek. The Schuylkill was so largely adnltered with rain-water as to lo awav below its normal strength. . m - Advice from a Friend. Atlanta Cocatltntioa. The Democratic party of Ohio ought either to show its claws or keep its mouth shut. . Which Is Not Saying Much. Ilochestf r Chronicle. Our title to the Behringsea is better than tho title of Great Britian to India. Still at It, Philadelphia Record. Grover Cleveland is fishing in Vineyard sound. - ' m i i Pretty Hard, Usually. Albany Journal. How docs John Lockedup Sullivan strike yout