Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 August 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1889.

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PARIS American Exchange In Faris, 35 Boulevard des Capucinea. NXW YORK Gilaey House and Windsor Hotel. PHILADELPHIA A. pTKemhle, 3735 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO rainier House. CINCINNATI J. P. Hawiey A Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Deerlng, northwest corner Third and JeZerson streets. 6T. LOUIS-Union Neva Company, "Union Depot and Southern HoteL WASHINGTON, D. a-Riggi House and Ehhitt House. Harmony is not tho pasa-word in tho local Democratic camp. If Mr. James E. Campbell, of Ohio, enjoys standing up to bo knocked down by-Governor Foraker no one else has a right to object. Campbell is as good as another for the purpose. Of course it howled; it had to. It is wound up to roar at stated intervals, and yesterday was its day. The howl would have been just as long bad tho circumstances been any other than they were. We refer, friends and brethren, to the Evening News. It is now in order for tho free-trade organs to explain that the strikes in London are the result of a protective tariff in the United States. Of course, they cannot be expected to admit that British free-trade has anything to do with throwing 150,000 Englishmen out of work. ' General Chalmers, who intends to contest the congressional election in tho Second district of Mississippi, says that in seven counties of the district which have a Republican majority of 2,500, the returns showed 0,400 Democratic majority. In one county, ho Bays, the Democrats had to scratch off the registry books tho names of 400 colored Republicans to prevent their votes being cast at all. In one precinct, in another county, twenty-four whites and 285 negroes voted. The returns counted 28o votes' for the Democratic candidate and twenty-four for Chalmers. Tho simplicity of this process extorts admiration. There are lively times ahead in the sugar market, with a prospect that the trust will get a black eye. Mr. Clans Spreckels, the "sugar king," who has just returned from Europe, and is now ' in Philadelphia, says his sugar refinery in that city will commence operations in October and produce l,000tonsof refined sugar every working day. It will bo the Largest refinery in the world, and Spreckels puts its output at 300,000 tons a year. He says he proposes to fight the trust from tho start, no matter what the consequences may be. He expects, with the aid of one or two other large refineries not in the trust, to break that combination down. His preseut intention is to make sugar cheaper in this country than it has ever been before. To a question whether we can ever compete with Germany in the markets of the world in the sale of refined beet sugar, Mr. Spreckels replied: "We can while the duty remains, but not if it is removed, unless, indeed, we can employ machinery to so great an extent as to offset the lower cost of labor in Germany. Tho German industry is entirely dependent upon tho bounty allowed it by tho government." . To-dat is Oliver Wendell Holmes's eightieth' birthday, and the event is to bo celebrated in an appropriate way by the Boston newspapers. Tho Advertiser will contain letters from all his surviving class-mates, and an article about him by his friend Frank B. Sanborn. It is proper that ho should bo thus honored with much attention, for to him, perhaps, more than to any man now living, Boston owes its reputation as a literary center. He is tho last of that circle of intellectual men of which Emerson and Longfellow were chief, and whoso fame, great as it is, has not yet reached its height. Tho curious feature of this literary supremacy in Holmes's case is the fact that he was a physician before ho was a writer, practicing his profession for forty years and making his literary pursuits subordinate to his other occupations. In a recent interview he made tho statement that his medical work had been first with him during his life, not only as a matter of duty, but of taste a statement difficult to understandby the world outside of Boston, which knows him only as an author. But however Boston may display its regard, it does not monopolize the affection in which tho genial "Autocrat" is held. Wherever the choicest American literature is read and appreciated tho wish is cherished that the man who has added so much to tho world's enjoyment should remain longin tho world, not as "a melancholy "last leaf," but as a late autumnal blossom, admired by all. The ex-confederate soldiers of Missouri have just held a reunion at which Senator Vest and Gen. Joe Shelby were tho principal speakers. Both were lavish in their praise of the braveiy of confederate soldiers, and both agreed 'hat they fought for a righteous cause. Senator Vest said, "Wo have no apologies to make, and we don't intend to make any," while General Shelby de

clared that they "knew their cause was right when they fought for it, and no mistako about it; they knew it still, no matter what any one might say to tho contrary." Then ex-Congressman Crisp delivered a speech, in the course of which ho referred rather slightingly to Jell Davis. This led to a sharp passage between him and Shelby. After Crisp concluded, Shelby came forward again and said that "while ho recognized in Crisp one of the bravest soldiers in tho army, ho must rebuke him for his uncalled-for aspersions on his gallant chief. Jeff Davis had nothing to be ashamed of and nothing to take bad" This statement was received with immense cheering, and "the incident terminated," says the report, "without further unpleasantness." Jeff Davis's soul seems to bo marching ou in Missouri, and the Democratic camp-fires are burning brightly.

THE SCH00L-B00X LAW IN COURT. Ivison, Blakeman & Taylor, schoolbook publishers, of the city of New York, have filed a complaint in the United States Circuit Court against tho City School Board to enjoin the latter from discarding the geographies now used in the city schools and introducing those of the new school-book ring. It was hardly to be expected that a law showing such utter disregard of private rights and public interests as the new school-book law could be put in operation without protest from some quarter. Public interests are often sacrificed with impunity, but private individuals who think they have legal rights are very apt to assert them. It seems there is a written contract between the School Board and Ivison, Blakeman & Taylor, made in May, 18S8, by which the board adopted the plaintiffs' geographies and agreed to use them in the city schools for six years from date of contract. In defense of their alleged rights under the contract they now ask the federal court to en join the board from throwing out their geographies and introducing those of the Missouri-Indiana syndicate, as it is alleged they are about to do under the new law. The suit attacks the new law on sev eral grounds, and will test its validity and constitutionality at every point. Among other grounds, it is averred that the new law attempts to impair the ob ligation of contracts, and is, therefore, void under tho Constitution of the United States; that it is in contraven tion of good government and against public policy in that it attempts to establish a legal monopoly in school books; that it violates tho Constitution in requiring school trustees to handle, keep and sell tho books without providing any compensation for tho service; that such compulsory service being rendered to a private syndicate and not to tho State, its exaction is a violation ot personal rights; that tho contract with the syndicate is void m that it embraces only a few of tho books named by tho law and is therefore only a partial award, instead of an entire contract, as tho law, if valid, contemplated; and, finally, that "said act is void because the people of tho State of Indiana have never delegated to tho Legislature of said State the absolute power to select and deter mine for them what books shall be used for their common schools, or what persons shall have tho education and con trol of their children in such schools." Some of these points have been made heretofore in the Journal, while others are new. They raise fundamental ques tions, involving the rights of the people, the powers of tho Legislature and underlying principles of government. Their discussion in the federal court can hardly fail to expose tho constitutional invalidity of the new law. Its mischievous results as a practical measure and its damaging infiuence on tho schools aro being demonstrated every day. K0 COLOR LINE. Tho colored population of Indianapolis numbers .several thousand. There aro about 2,500 colored voters, most of whom aro Republicans. Among this number aro many honest, intelligent, respectable men and good citizens. For obvious reasons tho number of educated colored men is not great, but it is in creasing from year to year, as is tho number of property-owners. Very many of them who aro neither educated nor property-owners are, nevertheless, good citizens honest, industrious and lawabiding. Of course, there aro also bad men among them, as there aro among any equal number of whites taken at random. But this fact should not sub ject one race to indiscriminate condem nation moro than the other. Men must be judged by their characters and per sonal qualities, not by tho color of their skins. Tho proportion of colored men who are qualified to hold public ofiieo is not as great as the proportion of white ml 1 men. inero aro ouvious reasons why this should bo so. They have not had the same opportunities for becoming qualified, and their training has not been in that direction. Nevertheless, there are quite a number of colored men in tho city who would fill public office creditably, and for whom, if nominated in the usual way, Republicans would cheerfully vote. Colored men themselves are interested in putting forward tho best men of their race, tho most intelligent, honest, capable and representative men for ofiice. There is no excuse for their put ting forward any other. If they do, they have no right to draw tho color line, and demand Republican support for an unworthy or unsuitable candidate simply on account of his color. On tho other hand, white Republicans have no right to draw the color line against a colored candidate whose character and qualifications are unassailable, and there is no reason to think they would. But colored men, as well as white men, must stand on their merits. There are many white men calling themselves Republicans who could not command anything like tho party vote for office. Power ought to make men conservative and careful. Wherever tho colored vot ers have it in their power to make nonii nations they should take pride in putting forward men who can command

support by their merits, and not by their color. If they make nominations that do not meet this requirement, they court defeat for their party and mortification

for themselves. But we do not want any color line in city politics. Men should not bo nominated or elected because they aro cither white or black, but because they deserve to be nominat ed or elected. THE CITY HEEDS HUT. The loss of Mr. Isaac Thalman's serv ices in the city government would be a public calamity. The oldest member of the Council by many years in noint of service, thoroughly familiar with city affairs, skilled in the management of city finances, and universally esteemed for his private character and public record, he is just the sort of a man whose serv ices are needed in public ofiice. His de feat for renomination to the Council was one of the surprises of politics. Consid ering the way it was done it is no reflection on him or his record. It is no dis paragement of Mr. Martindale, who is an enterprising pid energetic young man, and possessed of good points; to say that if he had made an open canvass Mr. Thalman's friends would have turned out and renominated him by a largo majority, as au emphatic approval of his public record. But this is a free country; politics is a free-for-all race, and in planning and carrying out so complete a surprise in the matter of the nomination, Mr. Martindalo has shown that ho possesses qualities which, rightly fertilized and cultivated, may make him a bright and shining light in politics. If he continues in tho business it is probable his forte will prove to bo still-hunting. To such men as Mr. Thalman a posi tion in the City Council is an ofiice to be neither sought nor declined. For many years past it has had no attractions for him, and he has only continued to servo from a sense of public duty. With his large private business the holding of any public office is a personal sacrifice, and it is therefore all the more to his credit that he has consented to Berve, year after year, in a position where the more a man strives to do'-- his duty the more kicks and curses he receives in some quarters. This long service has made Mr. Thalman a valuable man in tho city government, anil his services should be retained if possible. j There is a way in which they can bo retained, viz., by nominating and electing him to tho Board of Aldermen from the Third district. This can be done , very easily, and, under existing circum stances, it ought to be done. The dis- ' trict is composed of tho Fifth, Ninth,Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth wards.' These wards can furnish plenty of good Republican timber for the Board of Al dermen, but none better than Mr. Thaiman, and we think that, under the circumstances, all will agree that he is tho proper man to nominate. His name will give strength to the ticket, and his services in tho board will be as useful as they have been in tho Council. Of course, tho position has no aUiacVv tious for Mp. Thalman, aiuV he would not make any contest for the nomination; but if it is tendered him by tho spontaneous action of the wards no doubt he will accept. A nomination coming in that way could not well be declined, and it is fair to presume that Mr. Thalman would regard it as a public indorsement of his record and character. It is pre-eminently the proper thing to do. The city needs Mr. Thalman, and the people should draft him into the service. ; j .? SELF-INTEREST VS. FREE TRADE. Until Mr. Cleveland made his fatal; free-trade break, the Atlanta Const itus tion was an outspoken advocato of ri1 protective tariil. Since then it has deed-' pied the anomalous position of support ing a party in whoso policy it does noli believo. This brings it into cohflict, every now and then, with other Demo-.', cratic papers. Tho thick-and-thin freer trade organs have lately been ascribing the decay of the iron industry in Now' England to the tariil, and have tried to make much capital out of the matter. The Constitution is not interested in tho welfaro of New England, but it is concerned in the development of the South, and is not 6lowto 6eo tho dilemma! in which it would bo put by accepting this particular free-trade argument. For, of course, if tho tariff has killed the New England iron trade,' it must inevitably have tho same disastrous effect on the Alabama iron trade. Tho Constitution knows tho iron business down there is nourishing and that capital is being attracted to tho region by reason of that fact. Naturally, it does not wish capitalists to be alarmed or investments to bo withheld by any misleading statements, and, driven by the exigencies of tho situation to speak tho truth, it casts party principle to tho winds and declares that the decay of the iron business in New England is duo eutirely to natural causes, tho chief of which is tho distance of that region from the coal fields. It adds: The discovery of natural gas in the middle and middle Western States has had a great deal more to do with bringing about the destruction of New England's iron industry than the tariil". Moreover, forevery iron-mill that has been compelled to suspend business in that section, two or more mills have been established in the South, and New England'scapitalhas had no little to do witlrthis new movement and development. Thus are the arguments of tho freetraders knocked out by their friends when they interfere with financial interests. Political sophistries cannot stand in the face of commercial facts that give them practical denial. When the Constitution is its own true self it is a valuable aid iu inculcating Republican principles. The San Francisco Chronicle issues a special edition to show the benefits that would accrue to the country from government irrigation of the Western deserts. An immense amount of money would be required in this work, but it would probably be better spent than in sinking it in Pacific coast harbors, where so much has already gone. The approach of Oliver Wendell Holmes's liirthdav has raised the Question in the ! Massachusetts press as to who should have

the title, of the best known Bostonian. Some are inclined to the belief that Robert C. Winthrop is the man, while others think Holmes is entitled to the distinction. The Globe jeers at all these claimants, and declares that John L. Sullivan is the man. The worst of it is the Globe is right Everybody who has ever heard of Holmes and Winthrop has also heard of Sullivan, while a great many thousands who know nothing about the two first named are thoroughly acquainted with the slugger's career. The sporting columns of th newspapers enter where "The One Hoss Shay" never goes. Mrs. Henry E. Perrine goes about the country this summer and attracts no disagreeable attention, everybody seeming to forget that she is Mrs. Folsom of the last administration in the disguise of a new name. Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland, other members of the same administration, were unable to escape notoriety by marrying oat of it, and every now and then somebody asks them for their autographs. If it were not for the autograph fiends and tariff picnics out in Missouri, they too, could enjoy obscurity. ' The Washington Post prints a fao simile of Civil-service Commissioner Roosevelt's hand-writing, and asks the public if it thinks he could get into government service through competitive examination. The Journal doesn't know about that, but it does know he would stand a slim chance of getting a contribution into this paper unless ho came along to translate it, and this is not saying every contributor to the Journal writes a copper-plate hand, either. Roosevelt should hire a type-writer. ; That usually sedate paper, the Milwaukee Sentinel, suddenly transforms itself into an illustrated sheet and flaunts fullpage pictures, all of a warlike character, into tho faces of its readers. The presence of tho Grand Army of the Republic accounts for and excuses this display of f riskiness, bat unless the Sentinel wishes to lose its reputation for typographical comeliness it must not do such things often. Some of the Illinois Second Adventists

have figured out that the end of the world is to come on the 6th of October next. Chicagoans refuse to accept the prediction as correct. They intend to hold this world's fair before going to the next, and the date fixed would make this impossible. ABOUT .PEOPLE AND THINGS. Historian Bancroft is one of the few living Americans who knew Goethe and Byron. . King Alfonso, the baby potentate of Spain, has just enjoyed his first sea bath. He must get used to breakers. There are a good many ahead of him. Close observers say that Buflalo Bill would not have met with success in Europe if he had not worn long hair. His locks were, so to speak,, the key to victory. A grant of 100 from the royal bounty fund has been awarded to Mrs. Linnrcus Banks, the English novelist. Mrs. Banks. who is nerly seventy years of age, has been for some time in very mdinerent health. It is said that one New York magazine "selects for publication each year about seventeen manuscript stories and rejects annually between htteen and sixteen thousand." It is suppssed the best are selected. The death of John Sanger, at the age of seventy, takes from England the British Barnum. the Nestor of the circus business. who for many years had been the embodi ment of the sawdust ring to the English mind. A iilack polished granite memorial tablet has just been placed over tho door of the house iu Bayreuth where Franz Liszt, the greai uerumn cuiiipuser, uieu. a uo inscription on it in gold letters is: Franz Liszt, died 18S6. John H. Sukratt has just hadhislifo insured at Baltimore. In the application blank he wrote opposite the question as to tho cause of the death of his mother: 'Sho was murdered by the United States gov ernment". The Pope is taking a summer holiday. He left tho Vatican to stay in a small pavillion at the end of the gardens, called the "Casino of Pius IV," and thoroughly enjoys the change after being restricted to tho same appartments for over eleven years. No person living will again date a docu ment without using a 0." It now stands on the extreme right 18S9. Next year it will take second place 1890, where it will remain ten years. It will then moye into third place 1900, and there will rest a century. Mr. Presley Saunders, uncle of Mrs. Russell Harrison, recently died at Mount Pleasant, la. He has lived cn the same quarter-section since 1834. and one of hi a children was born in Michigan Territory, another in Wisconsin Territory, a third in Iowa lemtory, and a fourth in the State of Iowa. George W. Curtis concludes his reminiscenes in Lippincottfs for next month in this way: "If asked what, as the result of my experince, is the greatest pleasure of my life, l should say doing good to others. aot a strikingly original remark, nerhans. bat seeminicfv the most diftlcut thine? in tho world is to be prosperous and generous at the same time.7' When ex-President Cleveland visited one of the shoe shops up in Marlboro, the other day, the superintendent took the measure of the ex-nresidential foot with his eve. and before he loft the building, after a hasty tour through it. the distinguished visitor was handed a handsome pair of shoes which had been only plain leather when ho arrived. General Albert Pike, the head of all Masonic orders and rites in the South, is in his eightieth year. He was born in Boston, and was graduated at Harvard, went West in 1W1, served in the Mexican war, and was a confederate brigadier in command of the Cherokoo Indians. He is an old newspaper man, out has been practicing law in Washington for man3r years. Professor E. Stone Wiggins, tho weather prophet, of Ottawa, Ont., expects nothing less than to be knighted by the Quecn.who, he says, owes him personal grat itude for his warning Princess Louise not to embark for England until ouo of the great storms he had predicted should have passed over. He is now worried as to whether ho shall call himself Sir Ezekiel S. or Sir Stono Wiggins. It is said Miss Caldwell, whose engage ment to Prince Murat was recently an nounced, has been obliged to postpone the marriage because she cannot find the death certificates of her grandmother on her father's side, aud of both papers ou her mother's side, these papers being required bv the French law. Some day she may thank her ancestors for leaving no written proof of their departure. Leo XIII is a very small old man, so low of stature that a man of ordinary height kneeling at his feet is aware of the Pontic's bent head not very far above his own. Mean whilo the fatherly hands, so slender that the rings which many monarchs sent him for the jubilee will not hold on his fingers except over mittens, are rcoting on the strangers head or patting his cheek with an impulsive atlectionateneis. Sir Morell Mackenzie has decided to set apart a portion of his autumn holiday for the prenaration of a work to be entitled "Six Months Residence at the Court of the Crown Prince and the German Emperor." The work will be complete, as Sir Morell took notes of every conversation in which he took part, or at which he was present. but it will not be published during the life time of the hmpress rrederlck. Seventy-three years ago Mrs. Sally B. Weeks Bucknam, then a blushing bride, went to housekeeping in a snug farm-house on the west elope of Mount Prospect. N. H. The other day in this same house, where

she has lived ever since, she celebrated her

one huudreth birthday, and was strong enough to receive not only her children. grandchildren and great-grandchildren. but also a large number of her friends and acquaintances. Nervelessness is mentioned by the North China Herald as the distinguishing quality of tho yellow race. A Chinaman can go through the most tedious and monotonous work from hour to hour and from day to day without any appreciable sense of weariness or irritation; and a school-boy can do the same with his lessons without even a longing to be at play. The Chinese can also sleep under conditions which would make a European very uncomfortable and restless. This quality is one of the things that make the Chinese such unwelcome competitors in the labor markets. Professor Tykdall upon one occasion was to deliver a lecture in a certain town, and on the day in question visited the lect ure hall during the afternoon, as lecturers usually do. to make various arrangements. The place, of course, was empty; no one wai present save the caretaker, who was busy over his dusting at the iar end ox tne hall. Happening to Took up from his work, however, tne caretaker was surprised to see the learned professor assiduously vaulting backward and forward over his table, for some seeming incomprehensible reason. The explanation of this little performance was quire simple, ana wasiorincominguurlng the course of the lecture in the evening, when, chancing by accident, ol courseto knock over some of his paraphernalia, the agile professor, amid appreciative aprdause, lightly leaped over the table and as ightly bounded back again. There's nothing like being prepared for these little accidents. As Sydney Smith 6aid, some of his best impromptus took him years to pre pare. trji COMMENT AND OPINION. Trust nuestions aside, the whisky com bination i altogether too strong in politics ior tne good ot our puunc anairs. it is a free-trade element operating within tho Democracy, and, next to Grover Cleveland, it has been the most disastrous. New York Sun (Dem.) Now that the war is ended, it is the man ifest duty of our government to exert its diplomatic influence in a perfectly friendly ana unobtrusive way in the interests of a lasting peace and law and order. Unquestionably the United States has a certain responsibility toward Hayti. Boston Jour nal. It is economic education that the Sonth needs. When that is acquired the negro question will be dissolved into thin air. Meantime, it is the dutv of Congress to see that the colored citizen is piotected in the exercise of every right with which he is endowed by the Constitution. Chicago Inter Ocean. Iv their platform the North Dafcato Re publicans, in State convention,-declared themselves to be "uncompromisingly in favor of the American system of protec tion." ine iree-traue sentiment whicn some people profess to believe exists in the Northwest is very chary in manifesting itSelf. Louisville Commercial Political ruffianism still prevails in Lou isiana. Every man who so far violates the principles of citizenship as to become a shotgun bulldozer ought to fall a . . a a a a . a. victim to his own policy if he cannot in some other way be persuaded from inter fering with the constitutional rights of his .fellow-citizens. Norwich Bulletin. The reports of parliamentary commis sions, composed of free-traders for the most part, have for two years past practically demonstrated that free-trade, as a magician insuring industrial and commercial pros perity, has lost its magic, or is losing it. "ho time is not far distant when those who hold up free-trade England as a bright example for the United States to follow, will not havo a leg to stand upon. New York Press. So long as the geographical line exists in partisanship, the party of the Souththat Is to say, tho Democratic party must 1 i a. 1 1 l! 1 ' A. I A : A 1 iusc in uauouui ejections, rium iucbuicuv partisan point oi view it is ine nomocracy, and not the Republican party, which is in jured by sectionalism. If, therefore, the Democrats should decide to keen the South solid, the Republicans, as partisans, need not mourn about the matter. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The nation which does not find some mode of advertising its capabilities and powers, though It may be of all others tho most ingenious and skillful, will find little exterior demand for its products. Tho world does not move forward, in a word, without advertising at every stage its victories over nature, its contributions to hu man welfare, its discoveries of new re sources and appliances for the enrichment of human lives. rew York lribune. TWO SPECIMENS OF REFORM. A Comparison of the Positions of Harrison and Cleveland in Relation to Civil Service. Philadelphia Press. The effort of the free-trade Democratic Sress to create the impression that Presieut Harrison is no more sincere in enforc ing the civil-servire law than President Cleveland was, will not evidently receive any assistance from the Board of Cml BCl iliC VUIUlUlOBIUUCia. All U IClTUli luin t, tvt lM a s rt f ma a a V A . - view, Mr. lheodore Roosevelt, the chairman, said: No greater proof of the fidelity of President Harrirton to liis pledges to the people could be given than his support of the commission in their action at Indianapolis, his own home. where we compelled the postmaster to dismiss three KepuDiican clerks who had been luegauy appointed, mat leit no option to toe postmaster but to amvolnt three Democrats who were on the eligible list. Contrast his action with that of President Cleveland, who sustained Aaullla Jones in his partisan use of the Indianapolis twatofllco. In Trov. alfto. we compelled the re examination or some Republican clerics who had not fairly passed the elvii-servlee examination. in suiwausee. aio. we rearessea a violation or the law. The President has supported us heartllr, and I am confident that the country is at his buck In thus faithfully enforcing the civU-eervice reform law. Everv one who remembers the scandals of the Indianapolis postofhee during Mr. Cleveland's administration will readily seo the justice of Mr. Roosevelt's comparison. The people have not forgotten that travesty oi reiorni, nowever anxious me iree-trado press maybe that they should. Tho disgraceful record Mr. Aquilla Jones made whilo in the otlice was pithily summed up by Dudley B. Foulke, president of the Indiana Civil-service Refoim Association. The following aro some of the points he made: Mr. Cleveland appointed Mr. Aaullla Jonra. who says of the civil-service law."l despite it." jje proceeds to en tore it ny iniineaiateJy turn ing out everybody, sewing women aud all. from the unclassified service: by removing the car riers one after another for the avowed reason that they are Republicans, and by publicly announcmg mat none nut uemocrais w ould be appointed. Felons and criminal of different kinds irave varietrto tho remarkable patchworkknown as the classified service of IndianaioHs. One of the appointees hart been guilty oi iorgery, others had committed other crimes; one. put in tho place of a Union soldier who had faithfully perlornied his duty, was in a short time caught in the act of stealing letters. The examinations de generated into mere rarces. Democratic appll cants, who wero unable to read the directions upon envelopes, passed them without difficulty. All these doingsof Postmaster Jones wero known to President Cleveland through exhaustive report supported by a series of atlidavits. Vas Mr. Jones rebuked or or dered to mend his course? Not at all. Cleveland's Civil-service Commission visited tho Indianapolis postoflice, made a white-wash ing report and Mr. Jones was left undisturbed in ollice while the Indianapolis Sentinel, the leading Democratic paper in Indiana, cried out in agony over tho selection ana appointment of thieves, highway men, bribers, dead-oeats aud the like." Here are two methods of enforcing a re form law. the Harrison and the Cleveland method, illustrated in dealing with one and the same othce. Nobody will have any dilhcultv in distinguishing which is tho more sincere. The free-traders' plan of campaign is to create a distrust of Preei. dent Harrison's sincerity among intelligent voters, and so try to detach enough of them to mvo the Democrats a maioritv in the doubtful States. But they will have to discover more proof than they have yet before they accompnsn tneir object. Truth. About New England Iron Industries. Boston Advertiser. And at the outset, it is to be insisted, in behalf of fair discussion of the subject, that business embarrassments and curtailed production in our iron-working industries shall not be considered prima facie evidence that tne protective laritt is operating ruin ously against tneso industries. Tanners and curriers who have free raw material are experiencing troubles as sovexe as their fellow-manufacturers. The East is constantly seeing some of its leather and shoemanuiaciunug unsinesa taken by the west,

but the tariff has little or nothing to do

with this change. (Jiass-manufacturmg was once a leading industry in Boston, but the last plant was removed to natural-gas regions a year ago. and there was notiiini: to be said against protection as the cause of it. Therefore, wo Ray that the experiences wmcxi rue iron xraae has had, and is having, are not necessarily to be laid at the door oi protection. RUSSIA'S NEW EXPORT. She Is Becoming Ambitious to Supply th World with Salt fork. FsUMaU Gazette. Kn3ia is making an attempt to ret hoM of the trade in salt pork, which is a new ex port for that country. Papers on theenrintr of pork, ham and bacon are being read at dinerent towns by experts who have been, sent abroad to study the subject, Theoretically," says our consul at Taganrog, "this new industry seems easy to introduce, but its establishment on a practical basis in South Russia is doubtful. I he economio conditions of the inhabitants must first be raised considerably before any care will be bestowed by farmers on cattle, which at present are sadly neglected and, miserably fed, as is fehown by the meat selling in the market. Reports 6bow that the trial shipments of salt pork, twentv-threo railway wagon-loads, niado from Eletz were successful, but later ex ports from other places left a margin of profit, which will alone deter Kussian traders from seriously taking up . this branch. The government, however, is fostering this industry. The imperial banks are empowered to make advances of , from 50 to U) per cent, on the value. and VO.000 roubles have been assigned for the construction of a slaughter-house, etc. at Unazl." At present there is a very general want of the knowledge and skill necessary for establishing a successful trade, and altnougn in xno southeastern provinces thero are large numbers of pigs suitable for certain qualities of export, we are assured that there is not much prospect of England receiving in the near future cheap prime salt pork, hams or bacon irom Russia. - A STORY OF BROWX-SEQUARD. He Stuck Pins In. a Patient's Hack and Sha laiiea uim a roou .. . . Boston Courier. . Now that tho newspapers are all talking of Dr. Brown-!?equard and his wonderful elixir, stories of his experiences in this vicinity are in oruer, and some oi those which are told are droll enough. It may bo remembered that one of his ideas was that the nervous condition of a person could b judged by tho susceptibility of the skin. anu tuie no lesieu ny ine uisiance apart at which two pin-pricks merged themselves into one to tho sensation of tho patient. This method he used with considerable success, being not infrequently called in as a specialist in complex cases of nervous disorder. On one occasion, it is said, he was called. upon to go to the suburbs of Boston to spa a young lady who was suffering from some nervous trouble, ana was left alone with the patient to make his examination. After a time, which seemed to the family rather long, he came down-stairs with a very senons faco. and informed the family that he was extremely sorry to report that tho vitality of the girl seemed so low that thero seemed no possibility of her rallying. They were tnunaerstrucK, as the case, though obstinate, had by no means been regarded as a serious one. The family physician, who had been unable to be present, was sent for in all haste. He assured tho frightened relatives that there was somo mistake, and proceeded to go up to tho chamber of the invalid to hear her account of the examination. "That man you sent here." she announced almost boforo he could ask her. was a fool." "Ho is nothing of the sort," was the an swer: "he is a very able specialist." "Well." she sail, "I know he acted like ai fool. All he did was to stick pins into uir back, and asked me if it hurt. Of course t said no." Tho physician was toomuch amused to bo angry, but the conclusion of Dr. BrownSequard was at once explained, to the grcatt relief of tho family. A Senator of the Early Days. Chicago Journal. Oliver Hampton Smith was elected Senator from Indiana in 1&0. When the election was over. Smith, who was a good lawyer, and had been in Coizriss eicht or ten years before, took a drove of hogs down to Cincinnati, going on foot all tne way. un tuo way ne arrived at a tavern, covered witn mud. unwashed and unshaven for many days. The crowd surrounded him, eager for news of the election. "Who's elected Senator? Hendricks? ' "No." "Noblel" "No." "Who, then?" "I am!" Thero was a dead silence for a moment, and then some one asked, Y ho are j-oui" A stump sneech, with nil tho mud still clinging to his clothes, was necessary to convince them, of his right to the title of Senator in they Congress of the United States." Anna Dickinson Philadelphia Press. Miss Anna Dickinson gives an emnhatio and welcome deuial to the report that sho was painfully and hopelessly ill, and accompanies it with the statement that sho will soon appear again before the public, probably on the platform and certainly on the theatrical stage. Miss Dickinson is an ambitious, brave and accomplished woman, and her restoration to health is a matter of lively gratification to a countless host of admirers. They will not be pleased, however, to learn of her determination to return to the stage. Her abilities lie in other directions, and it is to be regretted that her inclinations do not follow them. New Uses of Electricity. 8c. Louis O lobe-Democrat. New uses for electricity are being dis covered alraor t every day. From Pari comes the new that a process of engraving on glass and crystal by tho aid of a power ful battery has been perfected. The work is described as exceptionally fine, and tho, cost is quite nominal, after the first outlay on plant. The invention bids fair to revo--luijonize tne giass-cn graving trade. Democracy and Water. KAnft&s City Journal. "Postmaster -general Wanamaker ha been bathing in the surf at Newport," says nn anti-administrationorgan. "fheeneminateness of these ICastem Cabinet ofticera is beyond belief." The elleminaey of bathing has always been recognized by the Dc mocracy. senator Reagan, oi lexas, oneo nearly ruined his political luture by takv ing a bath in Washington. The Trouble with Tree-Traders. New York Tress. remember with accuracy to obtain the information tb.it. ninr in rvcrv tti r f lm aitia . - - v mm m - - - m mm vv .jf m, m m . . W charged to protection aro more likely to bo 1. .1 11.. e uic niiisui luusiuu uiiin mo Kins .i commission. The trouble with the free-traders is that in innminc at rnnrliitinnu thov innm on facts, and the facts won't have it. What lie Made or Himself; Philadelphia Pre. Dear, innocent Don M. Dickinson, oft Michigan, explains in tho most serious way that Grover Cleveland made himself a martyr to the causo of free trade; Imt Dickin son is all wrong. What Mr. . Cleveland made of himself in tho free-trade fight ii more generally spelled with an f, two vowels and an 1. Contradicting a Tombstone. Philadelphia Record. On Roscoe Conkling's monument at Utica this inscription was cut: P.oooe Conkling, born Oct 30. 120; died -April 1C, Ibss. As a matter of fact, Mr. Conkling died oa April 18. lsss. ;Kd Sent. Kansas Cltr Journal. In response to the interviewer's inquiry. President HarriRou says that he is giving no attention to the question of the location of the world's fair. Therein Mr. Harrison gives another evidence of that great good sense which attracted so mauy votes to hiia last fall. Democratic Tollcy, Washington PreM. It is given out in Democratic organs thst every Democrat in tho national Uouso will vote against unseating any of the brethren, "no matter what facts may be proven. This is genuine Democracy, asexpmimUd by the Hon. Simeon Coy and Colonel Mackiu. m m - About Two Peet South of You. 8t. Ixmla Itnublc The fool-killer is badly needed to tho south of us. He is neglecting his work.