Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 August 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1889.

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1SS0. WASHINGTON OFFICB 113 Fourteenth St. P. S. HEATH, Correspondent. NEW TO UK OFFICE 204 Temple Court, Corner Beekman and "aau streets. Telephone Call. Business Offlee- 2M I tutorial Rooms 242 TERMS OF SUItSCIUPTION. DAILY. One year, wlthont Snnday f 12.00 One year, with Humlar. 14.00 fin months, without Sunday H.OO Pli months, with Sunday 7.00 Three month, without tnnday 3.1 H) Three month, with Sunday 8.50 One month, without Sunday 1.00 One month, with Sunday 1.20 WEXKLT. ' Per year. 1 1.00 Reduced Kate to Clubs. FuhscTihe with any ot oar numerous agents, or send subscriptions to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, IXDIAXAPOL1S, IKD. All communications intended for publication in (his paper must, in order to receite attention, be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOUliAA. Can be found at the follow is places: LONDON American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARIS American Exchange In Parts, 35 Boulevard des Capaclnea. NEW YOBK-Gilser House and Windsor Hotel. PHILADELPHIA A. pTKemfcle, 3735 Lancaster venue, CHICAGO ralmer noose. CINCINNATI J. P. Hawiey A Co., 154 Vine street. LOU I SVILLE C. T. Deerlng. northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. BT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern HoteL WASHINGTON, D. C Rlggs House and Ebbitt House. It is a little queer that the telegraph controversy between Wanamaker and Green has not started the advocates of government control of the telegraph. It is a good opportunity for them to air their arguments anew. The burning of the Atlanta postmaster in effigy for having complied with civil-service law will hardly serve as a text for one of those fiery articles in the mugwump press claiming that Grover Cleveland's party is the party of reform. A cablegram from Zanzibar says that "Stanley is coming down to the coast with Emin Pasha, nine thousand men and an enormous quantity of ivory." Stanley's discovery and rescue of Emin Pasha is very thrilling, but the crowning feature of the expedition is the "enor mous quantity of ivory," St. JosEPn, Mo., papers print, with. editorial indorsement, a communication from "President Perky," urging that city as the proper place for holding the world's fair in 1892. When St. Joseph enters the list it is a free-for-all race. Mr. Perky, who is president of a local exposition, is much too perky. Things have come to a pretty pass when a man can't visit his grandmother without causing somebody to predict war. The French and Russians ought to be ashamed of themselves for suspecting that the affectionate reception of Emperor William in England was anything more than an exhibition of pure family love. The meeting on the Board of Trade yesterday resulted in a good beginning toward a proper reception of the President. Suitable committees were ap-' pointed to meet the President at the State line, to rcccivo him at the depot, and to assist in other directions. A can vass will be made for contributions to be used in decorating, and the response should bo prompt and adequate to the occasion. Indianapolis must not bo lacking in proper attention to her dis tinguished citizen whom the people have elevated to the highest office in their gift. Americans are not the only emotional people. The case of Mrs. Maybrick shows that even tho 6tolid English are subject to waves of popular emotion not easily accounted for. The conviction of this woman of the murder of her hus band has created a storm of excitement that is likely to test the firmness of tho authorities very severely. Protests and petitions are circulating, public meetings are called, and all tho machinery for rousing public sentiment is coming into action, simply because the people do not believe tho woman was fairly convicted. At bottom is tho sturdy British eense of justice and fair play, which, after all, is very admirable. If any thing is done in the way of a pardon or commutation of sentence it will have to bo done very soon, for the woman is now under senteno of death, and in England punishment follows very soon after con viction. The law simply requires that three successive Sundays must intervene between tho sentence and the execution. A Washington correspondent under takes to prove that the 6tories of Mr. Cleveland's convivial habits during his presidential term were slanders by telling that after tho late private 6uppers to chosen guests, repasts "light as to food, but with wine unlimited and other drinkables in proportion," the President was accustomed to go to his desk, where ' he often wrote as many as eight veto messages. The idea held by the able correspondent is that tho writing of these messages proves his abstemious ness, although the guests were often "merry with drink." It will occur to most readers that this story proves too much by explaining why tsomo of thoso pension vetoes wero so "funny." After a supper where there was little to eat but plenty to drink the veto writer was natnrally in a framo of mind to appreci ate the humor in accounts of maimed bodies and lost lives. The public used to wonder where tho Democratic Presi dent found his inspiration for thoso vetoes, and now it knows. The corro spondent should try it again. The Louisville Courier-Journal says no other event in the South in recent years has elicited from tho Republican press 60 many prophecies as tho general election just held in Kentucky," and chuckles over tho miscarriage of the predictions of a Republican victory, or, at least, a largo reduction of the Demo cratic majority. Yes, there were some pretty largo expectations of that kiud and they all failed because they wero bsLaed on the panicky editorials in tho

Courier-Journal. Either that paper

knew very little about tho political sit uation in Kentucky or else it grossly misrepresented it for a purpose. For some time previous to tho election it printed daily appeals to the Democracy, warning them that they were in immi nent danger of defeat, etc. Supposing these statements to be well-founded Republicans did indulge in some rather rosy hopes. The result shows they wero groundless and that Kentucky is joined to its Democratic idols. There is nothing in the result of the election to vindi cate the political sagacity of the CourierJournal, and if Republican papers "got left" in their predictions it was because they made tho mistake of accepting its accounts of the situation. AUOTHER CAU8E OF MUGWUMP WOE. That tho truly good mugwump breth ren are getting outraged beyond measure by the administration methods is shown by the latest attack. The Washington correspondent of the New York Post criticises with a great show of indignation the appointment of one Hopkins as notary public in tho District of Columbia. Hopkins, it appears, was tho silly young journalist who, a year or two ago, sent Chief -justice Waite a bogus infernal machine, for the purpose of getting up a newspaper sen sation. The sensation failed, the youth was arrested and fined for his foolish exploit, and is now evidently trying to earn his living outside of journalism. The Post's virtuous correspondent thinks it impossible that tho President should not have known about this, and thinks it very strango and highly reprehensible that a young man with such atemble career should be "aired for" by the administration. Assuming that President Harrison knew all about the candidate for notarial honors, it is barely possible that he thought him sufficiently pun ished for his freak by the payment of his hundred-dollar fine. Or, how does the Post man know that before signing his commission the President did not compel Mr. Hopkins to get down on his knees and solemnly swear never to try to fool a newspaper or a newspaper cor respondent again in the whole course of his life! Possibly, too, the President was not aware that it is tho custom of the Post man taught, probably, by his chief, the godly Godkin to refuso to acknowledge a deed or to make an affidavit before any notary whose moral character and past record are not of the purest? When ho learns that the mug wump standard requires that no man shall administer an oath or affix a no tarial seal who is unable to say the Westminster Catechism backwards, or who was guilty of empirical newspaper methods because he was unable to com pete with his brethren of the New York press in evolving lying dispatches off hand when tho President once grasps this fact ho will exerciso more caro and bestow notarial honors on none but tho immaculate. THE NEW ELECTION LAW. The Journal gave yesterday the main points of the new election law relating to the printing, custody and distribution of tickets, tho manner of preparing and depositing ballots, tho regulations at tho polls, etc. It is evident that a law involving so many new features and wide departures from established meth ods will cause much friction at first, and will require much careful work on tho part of thoso charged with its admin istration to insure its successful operation. In Massachusetts, where a sim ilar law was passed last "winter, an as sociation has been formed called tho Ballot Act League, for tho purpose of instructing the people in regard to the provisions of tho law and solying in ad vance many doubts and perplexities that are sure to arise under it. Tho league embraces several hundred persons prominently connected with both of the two great political parties who are solicitous for the succes3 of tho new system. Its officers have held several interviews with the State authorities who have tho administrative control of the law, and have endeavored to obtain decisions and rulings on many questions. They have also - prepared plans .for polling places, containing designs showing how rooms may be fitted up for balloting in accordance with tho new system and in tho most convenient manner. It i3 worth considering whether a sim ilar organization would not bo useful in this State, where practically tho same law will have to be put in operation over a much larger area, and under cir cumstances of greater difficulty. Tho people of Indiana will not be any quick er to master the details of the new. sjstem, nor to adapt themselves to its many novel fcaturea than those of Massachu setts, and there will be at least as much necessity, hero as thero of instructing the people and preparing tho public mind for tho change. The provisions of the law relative to the estab lishment bf nmv precincts, the preparation ot voting places with booths or compartments, the prepa ration of chutes with rope or wire rail ings fifty feet in length, tho prepara tion of official stamps for every voting precinct in tho State, etc., will need timely attention. Directions in regard to the preparing ot ballots and the man ner of voting should be disseminated as widely as possiblo considerably in ad vance of tho election, and State and county officers who are charged with the administration of the law should make a thorough study of it in advance of its first application. After all is done it is probable the first election under the law will develop a good deal of friction and result in a considerable falling off in the aggregate vote of the State. It will not bo surprising if the first experience with tho law is unsatisfactory. That somewhat similar results are expected in Massachusetts is apparent from an editorial in the Boston Herald, which says: One risks little in saying that, immediately after the election next November, an urgent demand will be rained for the repeal of tho new ballot law and a return to tho old system of voting. This will be dne to a number of reasons: ; First, tho practical experience of what '-is essentially a novel method will disgust a great many persona of ' essentially conservative tendencies. Second, tho new method will be so imperfectly comprehended by a largo number that they will not have the time to vote for all of a aiugle cct of candidates upon tho

ticket: that is, they will check the leading ..a r.t . i l.

canumares, out will iau io uiuuo crosses against tho names of those lower down the ticket. Third, quite a number will vote, or as a - !a. a ! a win, alter tney nave ueposueu tneir oailots, be of the opinion that they voted, for candidates whom they did not intend to support. Fourth, disputes will arise of whether, under the new caucus law, candidates were regularly nominated, and whether the designations pat against their names wew the ones to which they were jnstly entitled. And last, so far as oar list ol reasons goes, though by no means last in presumable complaints, many of thoso who are defeated at the polls next November will maintain that their defeat was due entirely to the' new-fangled method of balloting. Other points of practical difficulty will be the inability of some voters to propare their ballots under the new plan within tho five minutes of solitary con finement in the booth allowed by the law; the unwillingness of some to risk so much delay and formality; the unwillingness of voters who cannot read to expose their ignorance by asking the pollclerks to prepare their ballots. These difficulties may not bo very serious, and will certainly grow less with time and experience, but they will all be devel oped in a greater or less degree in the first election under tho new system. But that will be no reason for an outcry against the law. We have no doubt that here, as in Massachusetts, to quote again from the Boston Herald, "the second election that is held will be very much easier than the first, while after the third or fourth election no trouble will be experienced, and the advantages of the new method will then bo evident to all." All but one member of the State Board of Education say that the books they have contracted for with the Indiana Schoolbook Company aro "standard." We think tho people of the State can rest easy with that indorsement. Terre Haute Express. One member of the State board, President Smart, of Purdue, took no part in the action of the board. Another member, State Superintend ent LaFollette, voted against accept ing tne Indiana company's readers and geographies. The . other members did not decide that the new books came up to the standard of thoso now in use. No member of the board has ever said so, or will say so. What they did decide was that the new books came up to the standard named in the law. That was a low standard, and not such as any member of the board would recommend for adoption. But all they had to decide was whether the new books camo up to that low standard. Advocates of the new system should imitate tho policy of the monopoly in its instructions to agents, to "say nothing about tho merits of tho books, and make no comparisons' with tho old ones, but simply insist on tho compulsory process of tho law." The effect of the compulsory process will be to infiict a heavy loss on the people and great damage on tho schools. Nobody knows this better than members of tho State board who decided that the new books aro up to the low standard fixed by the law. The first families of Atlanta would like to boycott tho postoffice, if they could, but, unfortunately, circumstanced forbid the setting up of a little office of their own and they must submit to re ceiving mail which may have passed through tho contaminating hands of a black man. Tho noble Southron has many terrible humiliations to endure these days. It is stated on good authority that, notwith standing the destruction of human life by the late civil war, the white population or the southern (states has increased in a greater ratio than tho negro race by nearly 4 per cent. There is nothing qucor about this. Fewer negroes than whites Were killed during the war; but more negroes than whites have been "removed" by their old masters since that time, and thus the balauce has been adjusted. Tnn price of fly-paper is likely to go up; not that the wives of the country want it to poison their husbands with perish the thought! but because Mrs. Maybrick said it could be used for a cosmetic The fem inine world is not interested in vulgar mux-; ders, but turns, as ono woman, to a new .beaut iCer. When tho new ships are all finished and tho old ones cobbled up the United States will have quite a respectable navy big enough to prevent foreign nations showing their teeth at us under tho idea that we aro unprotected. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. ( David M. Stonk, the vigorous and ven erable editor of the New York Journal of Commerce, has not taken a day oil" in tweuty-nine years. Henry Geokgk, who has returned from Europe, gives it as his" opinion that the Republican party will remain in power for many years to come. Mr. Cleaver, the English counsel for Mrs. Maybrick, is out of pocket more than $2,000 because of his unsparing ellort to se cure that woman's acquittal. Oliver Wendell Holmes says that in reviewing his life ho finds that he has taken more interest in 6unrerv than in noetrv. but he realizes that his fame will rest upon the cuorts oi nis pen, noi, ox nis Kmie. Over a grocer's shop in James street. Westminster, which Mr. Gladstone passes every time he goes to St. Stephen's, is a big sign, "Pamell's Bacon for the Times." It is a bona hde business annouueement, with no political signiucance. An old chum of Explorer Stanley's, now city comptroller of Omaha, says that when they were both there, twenty years ago, Stanlev was the readiest and most accom plished liar he ever knew. Stanley was then correspondent for several Eastern pa pers. Tiir coming visit of the Emperor of Austria to Berlin will be, at his own request, a very quiet one. Franz Josef is not in very rugged health, and he will not per mit the Emneror of Germany to ruin his digestion as he did that of King Humbert of Italy. The courtiers of the boy King of Servia have been trying, with some success, to set him against his mother. "You are a king now," they said to him, "and don't requiro to be governed by your mamma." To which the lad replied, "Oh. yes; I'm a king, and can take care of myself." Mr. Robert Bonner says that he will put Maud S. in training at once. "The only reason Maud has not been driven faster than three minutes this ssason," the great horseman went on, "was Murphy's illness. If I had placed my mare in some other trainer's hands while Johnny was lying there in his cottage sick unto death, it would have hastened the end." Richard Henry Stoddard now fails to recognize his most intimate friends except by voice. He shutlles along in a mechanical way, trusting to luck to carry him safely through the street, while his emaciated form and husky voice attest the physical wreck that has overtaken the once vigorous frame. Mr. Stoddard's literary labors have been almost completely abandoned. Liquor saloons, iu the opinion of church members of Brooklyn, should not have a monopoly of sporting newB, and thus be cn-

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doors. Accordingly, the young men of lsrooKjyn, in passing by the doors or tne line building of the Young Men's Christian Association, nowadays see displayed upon either side of the doors placards with the worus printea upon them in large letters, oi uase-uau returns inside.7' In an autogmph letter of Charles Dick ens, recently sold in London, occurred this advice, written to a young man ambitious to become aa author: "Think of the vast crowd of young men who can write verse, and of the handful who can writo poetry, and, rely upon it, that the worst you may ever have heard or read of the misery in separable from a mistaken ambition in letters is nothing to the dread reality.'7 Aktist Edward Moran, who sued the estate of the late Joseph W. Drexel for $20,000 for the picture of New York harbor, with Bartboldi's statue as the ealieut figure, has been awarded $3,500 "by the referee. iuuen in tier reeling was developed, and a letter irom air. Drexel was put in evidence, in which he ottered to bring back from Europe a lot of bogus Corots, Millets and Diazes, which he said were iust.as cood as the originals, and were being turned out daily. Mus. Victoria Claflin WooDnuLL Martin is now living at Hyde Park, London. The English newspapers say that it is a strange coincidence that her husband is descended in a straight line from Mrs. Dandridge, tho mother of Martha Washington. One British journal remarks: "Not less strange is the fact that the grasshopper has been the emblem of the Martins for more than three hundred years; and the only place this emblem is seen in America is over Faneuil Hall, in Boston. Mass. the cradle of Liberty in America." Can it bo mat tms is English humorf In the pother which has been made over the sensational sale of Millet's Angelas," the fact has been overlooked that the original study for this picture has been for some years in this country, in the collection of Mr. W. T. Walters, of Baltimoro. This study, which is in black and white, is carefully executed, and the completeness of the expression is remarkable, since Millet was a. master of linear design. This is the only siuuy wuicu was inaue ior mo painting. Among the paintings by Millett in Mr. Walters collection is the "Sheepfold," one of two or three pictures bv Millet, which are considered by amateurs to be liner in quality than tho "Angelus." There came to the beach a poor exile of Erin, 1 he dew on his wet robes hung heavy and chill; Ere the steamer that brought him had got out of nearen' lie was "Aldhennan Molke, intnrojooclii' a bill." Puck. COMMENT AND OPINION. It will be a sorry state of . thin cs when the chief foes of property and life become the boys and children of our cities. The boy burglar, and even the boy murderer, seems already to have become an established institution which society has to contend with. Boston Globe. Senator Voorhees thinks such men as Carnegie ought to be killed. He had the same opinion of Lincoln, Grant, Sherman and all who fought for the Union, but did not offer to assist in the killing. He kept his hide at a safe distance and shot off' his month at "Lincoln's dogs." Minneapolis Tribune. Nothing has been made clearer bv the accidental election of Cleveland than that the Democratic party is tho most selfish, soulless, unpatriotic organization in the country. It urates of nationality. of loyalty, but it offers pinchbeck goods to the country for gold. It is a pretense, a sham, a delusion, an hypocrisy, alwa3's and everywhere. Omaha Republican. "Those who saved the Nation from dis solution should be saved bv the Nation from penury" is tho admirable declaration of the Pennsylvania Kepubllcans on the pension Question. Ail good citizens will heartily indorso this sentiment, regardless of copperhead clamor against Commissioner lanner. ot- .Louis Ulobe-Democrat. The Republican party inaugurated civilservico reform and is pledged to its exten sion. It is as reasonable to expect that the lississippi river couiu oe niaue to run uphill as to imagine that the intelligent voters of the country would countenance a return to the loose, demoralizing find unscientific methods of the spoils system. Now York Tribune. Protection for the benefit of the industries of the entire Nation is a national Iiolicy; but whenever we find a. single ocalily asserting that protection must be adhered to so long as it is for its interest, and abandoned where it is not, the policy is degraded from the. broad national character to an extremely narrow sectional one. Pittsburg Dispatch. If this combination the Sugar Trust) is to be kept within reasonable bounds it must be by taking from it the opportunities for excessive charges which the enstoms tariff now affords. 1 his can be done by imposing a uniform rate of duty of 2 cents per pounu on sugars of all kinds, and this at the present time seems the onlv way iu which this end cau be attained. Boston Herald. The competitive system has yielded excellent results iu giving us a more intcllif;ent and a more stable service, and iu reieving appointing officers of heavy and unnecessary burden. When it has failed it has usually been because it has been evaded or has been executed in a half-hearted way. The true course for the future is not its weakening or abrogation, but its perfecting and extension. Boston Journal. The liqnor interest is great on bluster and threats, but it backs down wbei the law is enforced with a stiti upper lip and when it is made to learn that it must not demoralize tho commuuity by example, by corrupt politics cr by any other method not incident to the subtle inlluence for evil which its very existence exerts, but which must for the present be met by counter influences for good. New York Press. THOSE ALLEGED SCHOOL-BOOKS. More Testimony as to the Cheap and Worthless Publications of the St. Louis Company. Greencastlo Times:. The readers' which have been adopted by the Indiana school board are, in the words of a teacher in the Greencastlo public schools, "abominable." They are the ones rejected by our city teachers last year as not being lit even for supplementary reading. They are not readers at all, but a mixture of language, spelling, writing and poorly selected stories. Prof. R. A. Ogg, superintendent of schools in this city, thought so .little of them at one time that he refused to accept a set of them as a present. Still, fool legislation compels our rising generation to get their kuowledgo from such conglomerations of botchery. If there is anything on earth in which the best is none too good, it is in school-books. Rensstlawr Republican: If the books of the so-called Indiana Educational Series are now forced at once into the public schools of the State we firmly believe that the actual lots to the patrons of the schools through having to throw away their books now on hand or to trade them for less than 10 per cent, of their real value, will more thau equal, in the aggregate, all that can be saved in making the change, during tho entire live years the contract with the Indiana Publishing Company has to run. to say nothing of the great cost to tho people of the State generally, of having to pay townshiptrusteesforhandlingthe tool:s.atidalso to say nothing of the great damage the educational interests of the State will sutler in being compelled to u&o antiquated and inferior text-books. Lagrange County Superintendent: On examination of the new contract text-books we rind them inferior to those now in use. The geographies, to say nothing of their contents, are not worth more than half the price of Harper's, simply to wear out. But to compaie the contents of the two sets, the diflerence is still greater. The print, arrangement, maps, subject-matter, in fact, in every particular Harper's is greatly suCerior. The arithmetic consists of two ooks. The first book, or elementary arithmetic, is to a great extent the same, page for page, as the complete, with the exception of a few pages of primary work. The second book would be just as suitable for primary purposes as the small book. The print iu the arithmetics is extremely bad for the eyes, and will ruin the sight of man a child who is compelle d to use them. The readers have many serious objections, yet they are probably the best of the contract books. ' Peru Republican: The expense of introducing the new school-books has already . begun. Fourteen trustees a day each cost

the tax-payers $28in good money. In Shelby county we notice that each trustee has to supply himself with $$ worth of account books to keep the record of the books received and sold. In this county this will make au additional expenso to tho tax-payers of 144. Then, suppose each trustee . must devote ten days to the school-book business. This will make $280 more. The express charges, postage and other incidentals will run the extra expense of introducing tho new books up to $000 in this county. The people of Indiana will find, . by the time they are through with it, that in addition to losing a million dollars' worth of good books they will pay out a million dollars for a lot of inferior ones that cannot find a market anywhere uudor the laws of legitimate trade, but can only rind a lodgment in the public schools of Indiana by the force of an infamous Legislature. - COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION HARRIS

Something About the Official Who Has Just Been Appointed. Boston Traveler. Dr. W. T. Harris, as United States Commissioner of Education, is the right man iu the right place. No other man occupies the same distinguished position in educational leadership, as no other American takes the same rank as an original thinker along philosophical lines. It is hardly too much to sav that he is the only American educator who has thought himself out into the light upon every educational question, from both the practical and philosphical stand-point. He has read the most widely and critically in pedagogy and psychology of any man in this country. He is fifty-three years of ago, and has spent thirteen years in teaching and thirteen in supervision of schools. He was sixteen when he began teaching, and twenty-two when he took tho principalship of a St. Louis grammar school, and but thirty-two when he became superintendent of schools in that city. ' , He is intimately acquainted with all the ruucauonai ieauers rusi, t;ai uu oumui . No other man has so wide a range of experience, reading and thought upon educational psychology, and he will administer the Department of Education upon a higher plane than has been known in any country, lie made no application for the position and was not presented as a candidate by his friends, but owes his appointment to his eminence as an educator, coupled with the fact that both the President and the Secretary of the Interior knew his work at St. Lonis and desired him to do for the cause of education in the Nation what he did for the schools of that city. Though in no sense a politician,- he is eminently politic; though a philosopher of the philosophers, he is one of the most practical of men; though viewing all educational subjects from the standpoint of psychology, he is a genius in tho application of theory in practict. At one time during the past winter he was giving two courses of lectures in Boston, one to the kindergarten class of Mrs. Quiocy Shaw, on Marlborough street, the other at Boston University to the most distinguished body of educational men that has assembled in this city day after day to listen to the utterances of any leader. When Yale gave him the degree of LL. D. the president remarked that it was done as an honor to the college rather than to the man. It may be said that President Harrison has made this appointment as an honor to his administration rather than as a compliment to the man. Physicians and the '"Elixir." ' f Boston Transcript. Being conservative is one thing, and treating innovations with contempt is another and very, wroug thing. Not one of the greatest discoveries upon w"hich civilization depends to-day was the result of following out then known laws. Steam, electricity and other forces wero made applicable through' accidental" discovery of their power. So in tho case of the alleged discovery of Dr. Brown-Sequardof an elixir which has tho power ot rejuvenation, it is rash to call names and to say that the' Frenchman is in his dotage, and also those who have made similar experiments and indorsohim. The force in steam and electricity existed since the world began, but were not discovered till yesterday. liecause tho span of man's life has hitherto been restricted to a certain number of years, it does not not follow that it will always bo so. There is no supposed knowledge of laws in the world so susceptible to change as doctors' knowledge of tho laws of the human economy. It is to be hoped that Srofessional jealousy will not hinder the evelopment of the idea suggested by Dr. Brown-Sequard. How to "Do the Falls, . Boston Trnascript. ., r ""' Two days will suffice to do', the Niagara Falls. Ono might spend two ' months hero and not grow tired of the ever-varying beauty; but he would get tired of the evermonotonous crowdi For the tourists who mean to see the falls simply, and not attempt to study them, nor to take iu the accompaniments of botanical and mineral wealth, I recommend this programme: First morning Goat island ana Prospect Park, ou foot. Afternoon Ride to Canada side. Duflerin islands, and panoramic view , from the hill back to Clifton House. Second morning Railroad excursion on observation car to Lewiston, giving view of rapids and whirlpool below the falls. Aft-1 eruoon Sail in "Maid of the Mist," giving view of the falls from below. This will not give ono a visit to the Cave of tho. Winds and under the falls, but these you can add on another, day, or even on one of these days if you aro an industrious sightseer. . The Next Drop-a-Mckel Scheme. Washington Press. I have recently read accounts of wonderful advances which have been made with the automatic selling devices, and of one especially for cigars, button-hole bouquets, etc., but tbat there are thoso already in uso for selling liquors and liquids is, 1 believe, not so generally known. A certain firm in Germany has constructed a machine for this purpose, in which electricity is used. The tact that liquids have various specific gravities makes the problem a difficult one to solve. especially"to adjust tho mechanism so that only the exact quantity desired would How out of tho spigot at a time. This has been ingeuionsly dene, and an apparatus, delicate in its construction, though most perfect in its workings, has been produced, and it is now in use in Germany. A well-known firm of patent attorneys in this ci ty has applied for, and, I believe, obtained patent rights in the Uuited States for this new automaton. A Take-Off on Washington Correspondents. Tuck. We have every reason to believe, unless a very respectable authority on whom wo rely has greviouily imposed upon us, that a prominent citizen has consulted one high in the council of tho Nation, as to whether a certain exalted person, no less prominent than the latter, but not so distinguished as the former, 6hall be employed in a certain important transaction, which, at present, is involved in the greatest obscurity. Another well-known citizen, who is more frequently consulted than anyone of those referred to. although not so distinguished as the first or so prominent as the second, has nothing whatever to do with the matter abovo hinted at: nnd it is not more than probablo that he will be in anyway concerned in it. This is why we have cautiously absramca irom giving uis name, ana oniy allude to him in order that there may be no apprehension on this delicate subject. Sullivan and the Southern Ladles. Philadelphia North American. Mississippi must have some queer ladies, according to tho dispatches telling ot bruiser John L. Sullivan's triumphal march into that State, or else the correspondents have got sadly tangled up over the meaning of the word. The ladies who would crowd on a train and shower flowers on a brute whose reputation as a drnukard and a wife-beater is equaled only by his skill as a prize-tighter, must belong to a species known only in Mississippi, and if the term used is really correct m Mississippi, of course they could command their own. salaries in the dime museums of the North. What Green Forgot to Mention. Philadelphia Record. Iii his controversy with the Postmastergeneral. President Green says tho Western IJniou Telegraph Company never received "a stone, a stick of timber nor a foot of land under grant of Congress." The careful president omitted to mention money in his enumeration. Tho Pacific telegraph line, which is one of the Western Union arteries from the Missouri river to the Pacilic ocean, a distauce of 1.800 miles, was built upon a government subsidy of W.OOO a year for ten years. The cost was so small, and the profits so large, that its net cost to the projectors amouuted to com

parativo trifle of $rso.)00. It has beem capitalized in the Western Union bubble at $6,000,000. President Green is happy in knowing what not to say. .Sam Jones's MUtlon. On City Derrick. It may possibly be true, as reported, that Samuel Jones, tho "revivalist." was recently ottered $f.,C00 a year and a fine church to preach in at Minneapolis, and replied: "Do you take me for a foolf I'm getting $25,000 a year now!" It need shockno one. even if it is true. Mr. Jones probably knows as well ns anyone that ho wouldn't be worth $0,000 a year as a settled pastor. His mission in Hfe is apparently to startle people, and such a mission can't bo conducted with any kind of protit in ono congregation or oue community continuously. A Practical Man. Plttahurg Chronicle. Secretary of Agriculture Rusk goas about his duties in a practical way. lie is now engaged in a personal inspection of tha stock-yards about New York city, having in view the purpose of stopping the exportation of 6ick cattle, which, he says, hai been quite prevalent of late. As fever is ravaging the herds of Texas, great care is necessary to prevent the spread of the disease to those of other States, and under Secretary Rusk's direction all possible precautions are being adopted. m m The Changes of Time. Troy Times. A new G. A. R. post will be mustered at Charleston, S. C, next Friday, within tha walls of i crt Sumter. The post is named after General Anderson, who defended the fort against the troops of South Carolina in 1861. And the Union veterans will bo escorted to tho place of muster by ex-confederates who for fouryearsheld Fort Sumter against the federal power. Quito a transformation in the hot-bed of secession

Missouri's Greatest Man. Nebraska State Journal. Missourians still refuse to believe thathpt greatest man, Col. Jesse James, is dead. They still persist in saying that the man shot by ford was a member of theJame gang uamed Sam liili, who resembled Jessa physically, but was not possessed of much sand. Iney believe Jesse is still out in the mountains somewhere waiting for hin chance to come home and run on the Demo cratio ticket for Governor. A Democratic Observation. Philadelphia Record. If the air of Bar Harbor shall have tha same bracing effect upon President Harrison as had that of Deer Park, as shown bv ine long lists oi appointments announced since his return from that mountain resort, few Democrats will Haunt themselves in oflice beyond the dog-days. A little rest only 6eems to nerve the President to greater enorts in nis gTcat act oi putting only Republicans on guard. A Decaying California Industry. San Francisco Chronicle. Two stage-robbers yesterday selected Black Bart's old ground, near Copperopolip. but they did not have his usual foresight in selecting a etage that carried com, for they got nothing from the express box and only j7 from one passenger. "If Bart read the newspapers now ho must lament tho decadence of the art of highway robbery, of which he may now be called a professor? emeritus. s Democratic Campaign Talent. Chicago Journal. Sim Coy, who is but recently out of tho penitentiary, where he was 6enfc for dishon- v est ballot-boxpracticf g.hasagaiii taken tho management of Democratic a flairs in Indiana. Allen O. My ers, who narrowly escaped a similar punishment for similar practices in Ohio, manages the Buckeye Democrats. In both these States the question of honest - 1 A.' 1. A. A. A. A. cicciiuus uugui iu uu very prominent nexn fall. Gotham's Latest Sensation. ' Baltimore News. New York is quite proud of hor mail wagons for the collections from btreet boxes. We have had them in use for several years, and consequently they aro no novelty to us. No more so aro the large mail boxes ior tho reception of newspapers and packages, the use of which will doubtless in a few month' extend to New York, Philadelphia and other provincial places. A Paralyrer of Men. Detroit Tribune It seems very strange that so few trainrobbers get hurt while pursuing thoir pleas ant avocatiou. One would naturally think that somebody would make them trouble before they got through with tho last passenger, but it is the rare exception rat lier than the rule when this happens. Tho train-robber seems to be a paralyzcr of men, A Wrong Suspicion. Philadelphia Press. The recent utterances of Senator Voorhees concerning "the Camegies," whom ho would hang if he had his way with them, excite a suspicion that ho must havi primed himself for that speech very inucli aihedid for his disastrousencountcr with Senator Ingalls a year or so ago. Voorheea should stop it. Hint to-Kentucky Kepubllcans. Philadelphia. Press. The Republican party of Kentucky will never win a victory until it learns the important duty of going to the polls on election tlay. T hat is oue of the first principles of politics, and the result of the contest last Monday shows that the Kentucky Reptiblicans cannot learn it too soon. Not Deterred by Ulgh Kates. Chicago News. General Sherman announces that he wilt" attend the Grand Army encampment at Milwaukee. It will bo remembered tbat tha General and his army could not bo induced to stay away from Atlanta in 1864 because the cost of transportation to that city was highcrthan they liked. Incredulity of tho West. Sacramento Union. The claim, put forward in the name of Dr. Brown-Sequard, aud supplemented by that of Dr. Hammond, that the subcutaneous injection of a decoction made from tha glands of a lamb or a guinea pig, will rejuvenate a man and give him new vitality, is flat absurdity. Uls Name la Kosecrans. Philadelphia Press. The man who slandered Grant during tha hitter's life aud after his death still occupies the oflice of Register of the United States Treasury. We mention this disci editable fact both in sorrow and in anger. i I, Good Advice. Milwaukee Sentinel. The Indiana Democratic papers affirm that Dan Voorhees was "perfectly 6ober" when he delivered that anarchistic speech. Thn iher should efr. liim ilmnlr rlin Iia i goes to speak again. Attractions or Western Life. OU City Derrick. In Kansas it is tho style to riot about tha removal of a county-seat. This doesn't affect the ultimate result, but makes lite iri that section doubly attractive to some of the residents. Tor 1892. Detroit Tribune. Mqriern Military Heroes. Troy Tlmea. Colonel Victoria and Admiral Williaml Worthy grandmother of agallaut grandson! Let us hope their Mvords and guns will never be turned against each other. A A finable Clew. Milwaukee Bent'.nelThe Missouri train-robbers aro supposed to be Parisian duelists in disguise. They fired two shots at the conductor a distance of four feet and missed him. That Same Old European War. Troy Time. There is an undercurrent of uneasy feeling in Kurope, proceeding from vague fears that there is danger of a continental war. In ed of a Friend. Rochester XH-niocrat. The Canadians are now mourning mora than ever because President Cleveland wa not re-clccUd.

For President. Daniel W. Vocrhees, of In

diana: for Vice-president. Lucy Parsons, ot Illinois. Platform: "Rang the Carnegica and carry theirheadsaioundoupikestatls.