Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 September 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER. 15, 1889 TWELVE PAGES.

I THE SUNDAL.JOURNAL. 1 SUynAYSgTEMBEB 15, 1689. "T7ASniGTONOFTlCK-13 Fourteenth 8t V. s. HfAta. Correspondent

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' . t TWELVE PAGES, The Sunday Journal ha double the circulation of any Sunday paper In Indiana. Price five cent. EJDIA5A AHEAD AGAIS7 To such Indiana people as have not rapturously regarded certain recent political consummations, it mar, perchance, be some slender consolation to ,learn that aggrandizement of a more universally satisfying character is about to be proclaimed of this State. In Steuffyen county the , most northeasterly ; county of the State, and therefor geoj phically nearest that tradUtional"east" i from which all progress and culture is iappcsed to flow an eccentric recluse , died last spring, leaving an estate esti- - mated at $15,000, and by the terms of I the will this entire property is to be evenly divided among the "old maids" of the county. That the gentlemanly testator should have been regarded by Vhe community in which he lived as eccentric, is, no doubt, in the natural order' of verdicts from uninformed majorities. That his mental equipment, as set forth in the deed recorded, was be yond question profoundly sensible, all equally Bane people must con tend. Woman, in a spinster condi tion, has ever labored tinder most appalling odds. When, from observational wisdom, she has decided not to enter the wedded condition, she has been forever Dursned by the match making tendencies of her friends, the jovial attacks of amateur humorists, or the distressing suspicion of shortages in . matrimonial opportunity. Furthermorewhen Fortune has passed her with ' averted face, sho has been dragged into the work-a-day skurry for bread and butter, or has eaten bread buttered by Ihe distasteful and bitter sense of doE )endence. On the other hand, when she las decidedly preferred to be estab lished as sole keeper of some reasoLably agreeable man's heart, hearth and home, ah absurd but firmly-rooted custom has sealed her lips; and she has not dared to risk exposing herself to the contempt that might befall her should she ask him to the partnership which he has neglected to mention to her. Surely for these unreasonable, hampering and humiliating conditions, woman is entitled to some tangible compensation. Every man who has cheated her out of her 0 right to that "sweet, safe corner by the household fire" by not proffering it, is, in Email or in bulk, a defrauder, and should make such . reparation as his noblest impulse might suggest to him. These were no doubt the views of the 6age of Btcuben county, and Indiana is proud to Jiave furnished citizenship to so just and conscientious a man. Let his name be embalmed in his country's history, that ipinsters throughout the Nation, and all women safely housed in the abiding regard of good husbands, may do it honor. Tie had not chosen to marry, but was too frond a man to cheat even that frac tional impossible She, whom he might have wedded, out of her just proportion of his worldly belongings. Though with the ring he did not wed, yet with the worldly goods ho neglected not to endow. Unsentimental heirs of the old gentleman are at present making vigorous attempts to set aside this most reasonable, though unusual, will, and, naturally, considerable excitement and speculation attends the case. For the glory of Indi ana, as pioneer in so commendable a movement, and for the credit of general manhood in tardy reparation for past offenses, it is fervently hoped that the decision of the court will hold the will immovable. OH CUT PASES. If Indianapolis is ever to have beautiful parks it is time to begin to make them. Parka grow, but parks are also made; that is, the growing must be di rected by Intelligence. It seems but yesterday that our beautiful University Park was a cluster of rag-weed, crossed diagonally by two paths unimproved. A 7ise forethought planned a park, with tasteful walks and an abundance of chade. Conuaon flense dictated that the ehade, at least, could never be obtained bp leaving the tquare a common, to be trodden over promiscuously by man and beast, and an ordinance was passed to inclose it with atiht fence, making it a trespass for any one to go within the in cisure but tho custodian of the park .and tho city forester. At first there were bitter denunciations from those who had been long accustomed to take the "short cut" r,crc:a the square, but they acquiesced, because they had to. Tht fence remdrcd tome ten vears. and Co cth cf tho trees was watched

With commendable pride by all, those even whoso "short cut" had been spoiled coming to approve tho wisdom of the Council. The result is that we have as pretty a, park as any city has. Simultaneously "with this, improvement was begun on Military Park, but it was to be left open for drives and walks. Mark the result. It is but little more ornamental to-day than it was twenty years ago, though more than twice as much money has been spent upon it as has been spent on University :

Park. The lesson is too manifest to need elaboration. No park can be culti vated while it is an open field, liable to the ten thousand accidents which are unavoidable in an open field. What is the practical suggestion? Military Park should be inclosed at once by a strong wire fence, and the public shut out of it for ten years, or even more, if necessary. Then a competent superin tendent should take charge of it, and lay it off in walks and drives, plant trees and caro for them, and cultivate flowers, and make it as beautiful as art can make so beautiful a plat of ground. Every step should be taken with an eye to the certainty of its being connected, in tho near future, with the Capitol park, by buying the intervening blocks and removing the present buildings. We have lost twenty years by not treat ing this park as we did University Park, but let us begin early to do what we have so long left undone. , But especial attention is called to tho botch methods adopted as to the park connected with the Institution for the Blind. It is not important to know who is responsible for the waste of time and money on that available plat of ground. Two diagonal paths cross it, one terminating at the southwest corner on a bluff bank, from which tho pavement is reached only by sliding down, some what after the fashion of ending down an abrupt bank of a creek. If the. city has any control of that plat of ground it should at once take possession of it and treat it as University Park was treated twenty years ago. If the latest style of ornamental park-making requires a jump-off. to get to the 'pavement then retain the present terminus of that diagonal; but otherwise let the park embrace the two squares. Ultimately remove all the fences and open the whole grounds to the public, remove those stables, and; if the State must keep cows, let it keep them in the country as private citizens do. THE H0O AtfD THE PRODUCT THEREOF. Whether the carnivorous tastes of modern civilization made a place for the American hog, or whether the American hog came, and, by force of merit, acquired a place in the popular affections, are questions for some delving philoso pher with nothing better to do to decide. However it may be, there , is no doubt that porcine products have estab lished a place in the domestic economy, from which there is little possibility of dislodging them. So firmly is their position fixed among the necessities of life that they may even be said to form a part of the social and political fabric of the country. The hog has enemies; no doubt of that. One class of citizens is opposed to him because of traditional religious scruples. Others have preju dices growing out of reports damaging to the healthfulness . of the flesh. These persons, ' with an air of conscious virtue and superiority, ostentatiously decline the proffered dish of roast pork or tenderloin as food unfit for human beings. These same persons may be seen at other times eating the ham when it is red, or the toothsome sausage, with gusto. And all, except, perhaps, those under the churchly in junction, consume quantities of lard. Lard is a feature of the modern culinary department 60 universal that the. meal at public or private house in which it has no part as lubricant or "shortening77 is rare and remarkable. It enters into the pastry, the cake, and very largely into that thoroughly American dish, hot bread. The servant girl rovels in lard, and is apt to be of tho . opinion that if a little is good more is better, and that biscuits cannot have too much of it in their composition. Lard is indispensable for the frying-pan, and vh4 t American bill of fare is complete without something fried! Housewives" sometimes protest against the sway of lard, but, as a rule, accept it as i one of the indispensable things of life; and whether they have scruples concerning its use or not, they are firmly united upon having it pure if they have it at all. Since it has become the custom of manufacturers to adulterate it with cotton-seed oil, . they look upon their lard buckets with distrust, and meet all arguments as to the superior purity of a vegetable oil with a sniff. They are not "educated up" to oil as a desirable culinary element, and insist, in housewifely but inelegant vernacular, that it is "nasty." Naturally, they are interested in the passage of the food adulteration bill to be brought before Congress for the purpose of preventing the sale of the cotton-seed mixture. If, as is said to be the case, the irritated manufacturers will, by way of revenge, procure the passage of equally 6triu gent regulations against other forms of adulteration sometimes practiced, innocently, of course, by the guileless farmer who is so outraged by the cottonseed deception, then will the situation be so much the better for the consumer. For if lard must be eaten, there is a moderate satisfaction in knowing that it is lard and not a conglomerate grease that goes into our long-suffering stomachs. THE HEW Y0R HEALTH BOARD ON CONSUMPTION. In the Sunday Journal of July 28 we stated the views of foreign- sanitarians as to the contagiousness of consumption and the precautions taken to prevent its spread by tie Germah,Jiealth boards. The health department of New York city has recently formulated a set of rules to be observed for the prevention of the spread of the disease, or, at least, to reduce the danger of contagion to a minimum. They direct that the expectoration of suspected patients be caught in earthen or glassware dishes, containing a solution of ono grain of corrosive sublimate to a pint of water, and then

be thrown into the' sewer or burned. They also advise not to sleep in a room occupied by a consumptive patient. Such rooms should have simple, plain furniture and no hangings, the use of carpets and rugs being avoided. All eating utensils are to be washed with boiling water. The soiled clothing is not to be mixed with that of healthy persons, and is to' be at once well boiled. The excreta are also to be disinfected with corrosive sublimate solution. Consumptive mothers are not to nurse their offspring. As household pets, both mammals and birds, are subject to consumption, all such suspected animals are to be destroyed,, .as they may carry the disease to : the healthy. Finally, the - floors, , - walls and ceilings of ' the dining and sleeping-rooms of persons suffering with consumption are to be thoroughly cleansed once in two

weeks, avoiding all dust by using wet1L . 1 " " - ' 1 ' metnous or cleansing, never sweeping; the floors when 'dry, or in any way stirring up dust which may contain the dried germs from consumptive patients. The above regulations have been widely disseminated by the New York Board of Health, and also the report of the Board of Pathologists, Drs. Gibbs, Prudden and Loomis. These gentlemen are well-known biologists and sanita: rians, and are not, in any sense, extrem-" ists or alarmists. In their paper of advice to the health board, they emphasize the facts that while one-fourth of all deaths in adult life are caused by consumption, and nearly one-half of the entire population at some time acquire it, chat tuberculosis is not, as has been long held, an inherited disease, but . is acquired by direct transmission of the tubercle bacillus, and is therefore a distinctly preventible disease. The frequent occurrence of several cases of pulmonary tuberculosis in a family is explained, not on tho old supposition of inheritance, but that it is produced after birth by direct transmission from some affected individual. When the parents are affected with consumption, the children, from the earliest moments of life, are exposed to the disease under the most favorable conditions for its transmission, for not only is the dust of the house likely to contain the bacilli, but the relation between parents and children, especially between mother and child, are of that close and intimate nature especially favorable for the transmission by direct contact. . 1 The pathologists also advise the health board that consumption is not, as has been supposed by most, always fatal, but is curable, and hence the patient himself should avoid the danger of constantly reinoculatiug. himself by destruction of sputum and habits of venti lation and cleanliness. In places of public assembly, especially theaters, the safety depends largely upon dilution and removal by adequate ventilation. The views of the New York board are being widely disseminated, and are re ceiving the consideration of sanitarians throughout tho country. COHTORT ros A DISTRESSED pkopessob. Prof. Austin Phelps, of Andover, is deeply distressed because of the failure of evangelical ministers "of the present day to preach tho doctrine of eternal punishment. He says the "change which has come upon the usage in our pulpits is revolutionary; forty years ago the doc trine of endless punishment was preached without compromise or restriction." When the subject of eternal damnation is touched upon he delares that "it is seldom proved as a fundamental ele ment of evangelical faith; that often its proofs are so weighted by its difficulties that the impression as a whole is that of a negative; that, to a very considerable extent, it is evaded in the instructions of our Sunday-schools and Bible classes; and that the more amiable features of the divine government are obtruded in such disproportion that the biblical equipoise of truth is hopelessly broken. The retributive sentiment is, to a great extent, dropped out of the popular con ception of the character of God. In short, many of bur pulpits are practicing the perilous experiment of preaching law without its underground of pen alty, and love without its underground of fear." Professor Phelps has moused over the grini teachings of the early church fa thers until he is saturated with the doc trines of a by-gone day, and has not realized that a revolution in theology, as well as in science, has taken place, and that the world has passed him by. If the preachers thor oughly and earnestly believed in the theory of endless punishment they would preach it, awful as it is, and not slur it over, or ignore it utterly, as tho multitude of them now do. If tho people believed it, they would have ministers who preached it; but as it is, they will not listen to the few who force the .subject upon them. Professor Phelps should come out of his theological shell and try to get in lino with the world's progress. Ho might learn something from the lay brethren. "Ruling Elder" Harrison, for instance, in his Log Collego speech, last week, made a statement that might profit him to reflect upon. 'If some have supposed," 6aid the Pres byterian President, "that our church was not progressive, that its creed was hard, let us not forget that there are times in the development of affairs', both secular and spiritual, when tho rock must be opposed to the sword of error. Let us not forget that we have been progressive toward'the truth, and not in that modern 6ense that recognizes no progress unless it is free from the land marks of revealed truth. The great period of polemical and acrimon ious ecclesiastical discussion had its day and its uses. If we are now come into a day when essentials have been magnified, and non-essentials have been set in their proper subordinate place, let us re joice for an occasion of reunited effort of those who would lift up mankind, and while still living in the church, the ban ner that designates the regiment to which yte belong, let us rejoice for the light that has been shed." Let Professor Phelps and his kind rejoice over the light that may have been shed by his favorite doctrine, but let him not hope that it will come .to the

front again. It has been set in its proper rilace as a non-essential by common con

sent. No incident of recent times has furnished a more striking illustration of the brutality of absolute government as practiced in Eu rope than Prince Bismarck's demand for the expulsion of Louis Kossuth from Italy. The fact that the demand has not been com plied with, the Italian government being deterred from doing so by the popular protests from all quarters, does not lessen the brutality, nor make it any tho less an illustration of Bismarck's arbitrary methods. Kossuth is now in his eighty-eighth year, a harmless old man. It has been more than forty years since, full of the fire of patriot ism, he led a forlorn hope in the noble effort for the liberation of Hungary. It was forty years on the 11th of August since, the at tempted revolution having failed, Kossuth fled from Hungary and-sought refuge in Turkey. Later he visited the United States, and thrilled tie English-speaking world by his eloquent addresses, speaking with the same ease in English as he had previously" done in German, French and Italian. Of his subsequent movements it is unnecessary to speak. In 1S62 he settled in Turin, Italy, where he has since resided. an inactive though interested observer of events. In 1866 he issued an address to the Hungarians, trying to rouse them to action, but it failed to do so. He has buried his wife and daughter at Turin. . No doubt he still entertains a love of liberty, and would be a revolutionist if he were young again But no man is dangerous at eighty-seven, even to the timid and trembling governments of Europe. The demand for the ex pulsion of Kossuth was as foolish and shortsighted as it was brutal.- To have conceded it would have elicited a burst of indignation from the civilized world. The fact that it was made shows that Bismarck grows more arbitrary, despotic and unreasonable as he grows older. . , In view of the difficulty of getting a jury of sufficiently ignorant and uninformed men in the Cronin case, the Chicago Herald thinks some provision should be made for producing, a regular crop of jurymen who I will not form nor express any opinion on current events. It says: The onlv wav to have competent jurors, such as are wanted bv the defense in the Cronin trial. will be to bave a small number of male children selected in infancy to serve at the trial of crim inal cases. A preference should be piven to such as display but a small demeof natural intelligence, and givo little promise of ever being nb3e to study a profession, learn a trade or to become efficient day laborers. They should be kept isolated from all bright boys, and should not be al lowed to listen to the conversation or superior persons. They should be kept most of the time In a state of seclusion, as persons are after they have been selected to serve on a Jury. Their mental education must be entirely neglected, as this would incapacitate them. They should have a severe physical training, however, m order to develop their powers of endurance. It might be weU to teach them to play poker, as they wlU have occasion to take a hand in this game as often as they are called upon to perform duty. Perhaps if these suggestions were fol lowed we might develop a class of qualified jurors who would be entirely acceptable to criminals ana criminal lawyers. In June last Cardinal Gibbons, the head of the Catholic" Church in this country. made the following public announcement: I am in favor of a severe police Sunday law prohibiting thejsalept. liquors on Sundays, and would have? that lawritddly enforced. The indifference shown the Sunday laws and the neglect to enforce them brin those laws into contempt. Kither enforce Sunday laws or take the liquor license away. No good Catholic can oppose the enforce ment of laws against Sunday liquor-selling any more than a good Protestant can. The idea which seems to prevail in some quarters that the Catholic Church discipline is loose on this subject is erroneous. No man can violate Sunday clqsjng laws or wink at their violation and be a good Catholic. t m One W. H. Cross, of Maroa, 111., issues the following challenge: I'll challenge any man in the world to sleep with me 142 hoars lor cash. I can sleep more hours Id 142 than any man in the world. I am the original Rip Van Vinkle, and will sleep with DeBois or Mackin any time they wish to sleeD. I wlU put up $l,5O0, and wiU sleep In Chicago or Columbus, O., lor the amount and gate money. Now let us hear from other sleepers. Per haps if we can have a series of public con tests and ipf&e; tournaments among the great sleepers they may evolve something of immense value to people who cannot sleep at all; We itJiink, however, that Mr. Cross's rates ate much too high. A good many people would be willing to sleep for nothing. The fifty American working men and women who went to Europe last July to investigate the condition of European wortmen have returned. Mr. Thompson, man ager of the party, says: "The workmen on the other side are not to be compared with ours. Almost every trade was represented in ourparty, and they examined carefully the products and machinery of the old country. It' was observed that the machinery was cumbersome and lacked the completeness that is seen in our country.' Every where they found wages from 83 to 50 per cent, lower than in this country. The announcement . is made thatthe Johns Hopkins University, at Baltimore, has not been crippled financially by the embarrassments of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, and that Its endowment has re cently been largely increased. This is gratifying information. No institution in the United States has been doing better work in recent years than the Johns Hopkins University, and its suspension or crippling in any way would be a great loss to the cause of higher education. This country has not so many such institutions that it can afford to lose any. A New York genius has submitted to the world's fair committee a sort of Eiffel-tower-elevated-road plan fora fair buildine which shall be raised one hundred feet above the street level. Now, if some other genius will contrive a way to coax the money to erect a building, either on stilts or off, out of tho millionaires' pockets New York will be fixed. As yet, plans are more plentiful than cash. - t . m A dispatch from Meridian, Miss., reports the negToes as "organizing politically," . and the whites as investing largely in Winchester rifles. So it goes. The political or ganization of the colored men is construed as threatening a race war. Col. J. A. Watrous, who has been ap pointed collector of customs at Milwaukee, is the person who gave Major Sherman such a scorching for his abuse of Phil Sheridan Post in the General Sherman incident. BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT. t P. T. Barnum wiU address the Universalist convention, at Stamford, Conn., this week. A Western paper speaks of "the Boston of John L. Sullivan and Oliver Wendell Holmes." Douglas Gladen. the poet laureate of Australia, has been summering at Windsor, Nova Scotia. "It is laughing, not worriment, that causes wrinkles," said a doctor who is well up on the subject. Mrs. Hknry S. Kimball, of West Philadelphia, is receivingthe credit of originating Memorial day. Herbert Spencer has beeu engaged on an autobiography daring his sojourn in

Wiltshire. Now that his health is improved

he will return to Ixmdon and resume woric on his synthetic phiMophy. Skcretart Tract has sold his house in Brooklyn for $30,000 to a tailor, who will have his shop on the first floor. Col. Geo. W. Williams, the well-known historian of the negro race in America, is about to visit the Congo trree State. AMONQ the latest recruits to current jour nalism is Miss Helen Gladstone. Tier articles wm deal with subjects of special inter est to women. On a recent holiday 500 men in the Bir mingham, England, work-house were al lowed to go out for the day. Only fifty returned sober. Ex-Congressman Amos J. Cummings is to lecture in Cincinnati, Indianapolis and St Louis for the benefit of the Greeley 6tatue fund. , . 1 Mr. Edwards, United States Consul at Berlin, is a queer fellow. He is actually charged bv the nermann with beinc too closely devoted to his duties. . The daintiest baby trousseau is being prepared for Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain, nee Endicott. "Many of the garments are uiuiuicu wim genuine xrisn lace. The Osage Indians are believed to be the wealthiest commnnity in existence. The average wealth of the 1,501 members of the tribe is over $15,000. . Lo, the rich Indian. Bull-fighting pays. Frascuelo, tho Spanish toreador, has retired with a fort une of $600,000. A great many shaggy Catalonian bulls had to retire before him. Processor Lowig has resigned his ap pointment as director of the chemical lab oratory at the Universitv at Breslau. He had seen nearly sixty years of academical service. - On his fifty-eighth birthday anniversary, the other day, Mr. Goschen, the English Chancellor of the Exchequer, received many gifts; among them a large cartwheel, with the inscription, "Don't tax me." Joaquin Miller, who gave to tho incip ient State of Idaho its name, says that it is written and snelled imDronerlv. 'The cor rect form is Idahho. with the accent on the mi d d le syllable. The name means the light on the mountains. It is stated in the Russian papers that new professorships in the Japanese, Corean and Hindustani languages have been founded at the University of St. Petersburg, and that the course of studies in these subjects will begin next session. Abraham B. Tappen, who succeeds Sher iff Flack as grand sa- a of the New York Tammany Society, l.u been an Assemblyman, a State prison inspector, a member of the constitutional convention of 1867 and a justice of the Supreme Court. Among other things foreign to be found in New Jersey is the sacred lotus, which has become established there. According to the New York Sun it has proved itself hardy, and sleeps under the ice in winter, to awake in the spring with the native flora of New Jersey. Ezekiel, at Rome, has finished a recum bent statue of Mrs. White, wife to the former minister at Berlin, for the chapel at wuiiiiouji a kuata, a. x. Alio figure is clad in long flowing robes and holds a rose in her hands, which are clasued over her bosom. Mrs. Belva Lockwood has returned to Washington from her trip to Paris, where she went as a delegate to tho International Peace Congress. She gave a London tea at her residence on Wednesday, which would seem to indicate that she is no longer a candidate for the presidency. I)r. Martin Wilckens, a professor in the Hochschule fur Bodenkultur at Vienna, the highest school of agriculture in Austria, and well known in America as the author of standard text-books, is making a tour of inspection of the agricultural institutions of this country as agent of the Austrian government He is especially pleased with our agricultural colleges. Under the title of "Lepers at the Capo; Wanted, a Father Damien," the September number of Blackwood contains a remarkable and painful article upon Robbin island. the leper settlement of Cape Colony. "But for the unquestionable reliability of the writer of this article, we could not have believed that so inhuman and disgraceful a state of things could have been permitted to exist in any British colony," says the editor. Cardinal Manning says: "There are 4,000,000 of living and dying and dead souls in London. And if every church or chapel or place of worship of every sort and kind were filled three times to the full on every Lord's day, they could not contain more than about 1,500,000. There must be, therefore, 2,500,000 who never can physically set their feet in any place of divine worship, or any place where the name and existence of God are recognized." Although Commander-in-chief Arch duke Albrecht is the wealthiest man in Austria- Hungary, he objects to exorbitant hotel bills. The other day, while on a tour of inspection in Hungary, he spent fortyeight hours in a 8malf provincial town. The bill presented to him amounted to nearly $800. It was paid without a murmur, but the next day the officers of the garrison received strict orders not to set foot in the hotel in question, and for the next twelve months no military band will be allowed to play in the town. A wonderfully ambitious bantam hen is owned by the register of deeds of lona county at his home, in Sebewa, Mich. The hen has adopted a litter of kittens and cares for them with tho most unremitting fiolioitade. Let a prowling dog approach and try to worry her brood and he is most thoroughly henpecked; a grown cat is handled with the same devoted courage, while in times of peace the litt le hen covers the kittens with her wings and keeps them as warm and comfortable as ever she could a brood of her own hatching. The late Prince of Monaco was a quiet, cultivated old gentleman, with a kind heart and a taste for science. He had a big income (for the size of his principality),- derived from'the rental of the world-famous ambling-hall, spent a large part of it juiciously in charities, and went in for deepsea arcagmgana mat itinaot thing as a Eersonal recreation. The new prmce. Alert Honore, is nearly forty-one years old, has beeu a captain in the Spanish navy, was divorced from his wife about nine years ago; and has a son, now a big lad of nineteen. Colonel Norto, the "Nitrate King," is building what will be one of the most splendid homes in England. One of its features will be a picture-gallery a hundred feet long by fifty broad. At one end is a lofty vestibule to be filled with sculpture, and at the other a marble musicians' gallery, supported by columns of Mexican onyx. The walls are nearly forty feet high. The dining-hall (outside which runs a vaulted veranda fifty feet long) will be panneled with finely-carved Spanish mahogany; a broad eorridor, paved with Pompeiian mosaic, runs through the house; and the billiard-room is to ba decorated from floor to ceiling with slabs of "Numidian yellow," "pink pavonazo" and verde antique. A garden court, which lights the library, is lined with old-gold colored faience, and the best looms in France are busily engaged in producing the thousands of yards of crimson silk velvet required for the adornment of the ball-room. A winter garden, exactly one hundred feet square, leads to a fernery almost half as large; three lofty towers are now almost finished, and the entrance porch is built of Portland stone, relieved by panels of carved and gauged brick-work. Whom Were th Horses Pitying? Buffalo Times. The importance of more effective power in street-car service is being demonstrated during the present fair. The overburdened horses, struggling up Main street with cars crowded by a hundred passengers each, make a pitying sight. Good Roads. rnUadelpnia Record. ' The common highway is the most important of all our ways. An understanding of this fundamental truth was the secret of Roman power. When the Romans conquered a province they made a road to it, and through it and keyt the road in re-

pair. It is a vast pity that so few men are found in any community willing to give money to make good roads, to see that the money is properly expended and to do the work 60 that it shall stand. .

SECRETARY RUSK'S P..A.N. Experiments with Sorghum Sugar by'CTnich the Sugar Trade WIU Xte Revolutionized. Milwaukee Sentinel. Uncle1 Jerry Rusk was in the city yesterday, on his wayo Madison, where he will spend a few days before returning to his duties as Secretary of Agriculture. In about a week Secretary Rusk will leave for Missouri and Kansas, his trip to the latter State being in connection with the extensivo experiments in sorghum cane that are being conducted by the Agricultural Department. Some 25,000 acres of land have been planted in sorghum cane, and the entire chemical corps of the department, twentv-six expert chemists, have been turnel loose on the product to make tests. A few days ago Secretary Rusk received advices from them that the cane had yielded splendid results, some of it showing 16 per cent, of saccharine matter, whereas 12 per cent, is sufficient to enable the profitable production of sugar. Secretary Rusk was highly elated yesterday over the news be had received, and believes thatthe Agricultural Department's experiments will revolutionize the sugar trade of the country if the results, keep up as they have begun. "If the sorghum cane produces 12 per cent, of aaccharind matter," said he, tne cost of the sugar can be brought down to 3 cents a pound. Were it not for the fuel problem in Kansas it would be shaved down to 2 cents. There is no profit in operating a small mill for instance, a twenty or rifty-toL mill but there is in a two-hundred-anu-fifty-ton mill. Take a manufacturing season of sir ty days, and a two-mile tiold would supply the cane nicely for such a mill. Now plant a two-hundred-and-fif ty-ton mill every two miles in Kansas, and look at the enormous production of sorghum sugar that there would be in that State alone." How much sugar does a 250-ton mill produce daily!" i "You can figure that out yourself on the basis of 12 per cent, saccharine matter in the cane. Every day there would bo 230 tons of cane crushed, yielding some S0.0Q0 pounds of sugar. In a sixty-day season that would amount to 1,800,000 pounds from a single milL" x VDon't you think other States could do as well as Kansas!" "Undoubtedly, if located south of the north line of Kansas. 1 don't believe that the sorghum industry could be successfully carried on in Iowa, Illinois or Wisconsin. You see, to make it profitable, there must be a manufacturing season of sixty days. Now you can raise sorghum cane in isconsin and other States in this latitude, but you haven't time to reduce it to sugar bofore it is nipped by frosts. The cane must be cut as it is used in the mill, for it sours forty-eight hours after it is cut, and the cane would not mature in this climate early enough to give a manufacturing season." "How would an extensive manufacture of sorghum sugar affect the Southern sugarcane plantations!" "It would pay them to give up sugar-cane raising and go into the cultivation of tho 6orghum cane. In Louisiana, for instance, they could gather two crops of sorghum cane, and look at the difl'ereuce in cost. To plant an acre in sugar-cane costs the plantation owner $20; to do so in sorghum the cost is 10 cents. The difference is due to tho fact that a field of sugar-cane is planted from slips, while a field of sorghum is raised from tho seed. We have been gathering large quantities of the seed this season, taking only from the stalks that our chemical tests show to contain 12 per cent, or more of the saccharine substance." "But the sorghum sugar is not as good as that made from sugar-cane!" "A roasting process has been invented that sends the sorghum cane through a trench and burns away all the leaves and green outside. By this means the sorghum sugar is made just as good in every way as the other. The question now is whether this roasting process can be used without too great an expense. The leaves and green outside of the cane are what give the sorghum its peculiar flavor, and when consumed by this process the sugar is produced without having that disagreeable flavor." Another thing, said Secretary Rusk, that added to the desirability of cultivating the sorghum cane was that it had been discovered that the refuse syrup, of which there were large quantities, could be used to feed cattle with, and proved as fattening an article of food as could be obtained. "Are you experimenting with the sugar beet, also!" Secretary Husk was asked. "Not much. Somebody else is doing that who can undertake the work better than the government can Clans Spreckels, the big sugar king of California, He has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in prosecuting that work. There is'this advantage that the beet has over the cane it doesn't spoil so readily. You can dig it up and keep it in root cellars, while the cane commences to sour within a day or two after being gathered in." It is the intention of Secretary Rusk to visit the national agricultural fair arranged by the peonle of St Jo, Mo., to begin on the 18th of this month, and, after his trip to Kansas, he will return to Washington previous to a trip among the Southern fairs. He will attend the sugar convention in Louisiana, and has about concluded to visit the State fairs of Virginia and Alabama, but has not concluded whether he will attend the other numerous Southern fairs to which he has received invitations. m NORTH AMERICAN CANNIBALS. Horrible Practice of Certain British Columbia Indians Barbaric Rites. Victoria (B. C.) Letter In New York Herald. , The British Columbia Indians have been suspected of eating human flesh, but they have hitherto concealed their practices so carefully that no reliable white man is able to give personal testimony of the fact Mr. H. K. A. Pocockhas been spending a great deal of time among them, and although he i i. .VI. A m is uoii ttuie iu giYc personal testimony or their cannibalistic rites, yet he has collected a great deal of evidence from natives of the prevalence of practice. The Kwagutls, a tribe dwelling in the central part of the province, have a belief that if a man meets a certain spirit on tho mountains he has a right thereafter during ing the winter dances, lasting two months of the yeart to bite whoever displeases him. The spirit is called Ha-mad-tsi. and the cannibals who earn their horrible distinction by seeing him are known as Ha-mad-tsis. They belong to what may be called an exclusive and aristocratic caste. Only members of certain families may becomo Ha-mad-tsis, and these when they come to the years of discretion go up into the mountains, where they may meet the spirit. Having uncountered this unlovely sprite they come back to the villages snapping and biting at. everybody and making themselves generally very undesirable neighbors. Their sole purposo is to show tho tribe that they are dillerent from ordinary men, and do not care what they eat, or what they suffer. In old times a captive or a slave wm killed and presented to the initiated, who ate tho corpse in the presence of a general assemblage of the people. More recently, although slavery is not wholly extinct, the Indians havo become afraid to kill, so they are reduced to the stealing of corpses. "Usually these have been drying for a long time, being "buried" among the branches of a tree, ana are quite flavorless, the brains alone being considered a luxury. Up to the time ot eating a corpse in public, the acolyte, whenever he appears from the woods, bites indiscriminately, women being, however, generally exempt, whether' from native gallantry or not does not appear. Formerly the faces were bitten, noses and ears especially, but now the cannibal merely lifts the flesh of a man's arm with his teeth, which is sliced oil' with a knifo by a bystander while the half-insane savage retains his grip of it and finally swatlows it. The father of the biter pays every body who has suffered from his progeny's enthusiasm from two to ten blankets. There aro few men in the Kwagutl tribes who do not bear the scars of this extraordinary mania. The Ha-mad-tsi, during the progress of the winter dances, is stark naked, a heavy-plaited rope of cedar bark adorned with tassels being carried, however, on the shoulders. There are from three to twenty Ha-mad-tsis, and each of them will perhaps eat of four or live corpses' in a lifetime. Mr. Pocock, however, had one old gentleman pointed out to him who had partaken of twenty. At the same time the corpse is very frequently a sham one made up for the purpose. Deer or goat flesh is often tied to the human bones and devoured in tho dusk, so that the on-lookers are all deceived. Still there are, no doubt well authenticated cases of. this species of emotional, ceremonial cannibalism constantly taking place among these degraded savages In the

interior. Mr.Pocock bks not actnallv wit.

nessed the ceremony, but ho collected a consiaerabie amount of testimony from what he considers reliable native witnesses. ne says: "Mv mfarnre.ter ntd ili&t vrhn Vm & lad he remembers his mother saving two slaves from being killed and eaten. The winter or Ha-mad-tsi dance was performed at Alert bay eighteen raonths ago, gcile' flesh being eaten from human bones at midnight and the tribe deceived. Apparently two bodies were devoured at Klawatis that Bame season. Threo and t half years ago a white man was taken by bis I ndian woman to the winter dance and turned out of doors, because, as the woman told him, a CO rose was to be eaten. Hanr a. wftmn'i body takeu into the house by three naked men, and went round to tho hack, where. xnrougn a note, ne saw in Ha-mad-tsis holding the body m their arms and bitiug tunica uui. x iuui iuo i"UK' uiacK nair, tanging from what seemed to be the head, he supposed this to be the body of a woman. If this was not human fleuhbeth he and the whole audience were deceived. A i ort Rupert half-breed woman of excellent character told me she was fully convinced that in many cases no deception was practiced. No half-breeds or Indians except my interpreter expressed any doubt A Kanaka, a man of very gooi report in deed, told me that at the heau of Knight inlet he was admitted to a whiter dance and saw three Ha-mad-tsis eat a corpse in presence of the tribe. This eridence ap pears to me to be very strong ot acconnt of the witness's character and ths clearness and reasonable manner of his statements. He told me his story briefly, and as one surprised at the existence ot doubt but tired of the subject His wife, amember of a Ha mad-tsi family, furnithei the evidence that convinced my interpreter that" tne iia-maa-tsi is not a snam. ' "After describing the oricin of the rite in her family, she said that some yers ago, on Knight inlet, at the winter feaitt, she was ; invited to a feast of berries ioi women. They were interrupted by the Ha mad-tsis , bringing a human corpse into tbs houre. i They were six in number and all naked. ' ana ner Drotner was one ox men. Attendants cut off strips of flesh from he corpse, which were devoured bv the Ha-mad-tsia. This witness, although given to tHtlaching, another heathen and forbidden semirehgious orgy, bore otherwise a good character. I was told a number of mist horrible stories of solf-torture practicid out of bravado during these ceremonies.' Mr. Pocock's revelations have pnduoed a powerful feeling among Christiai people' throughout Canada, and the government is being called upon to take efficient neans oi suppressing these unspeakably disrnstinrf practices. THE NEXT APPORTIONMENT A Census of the Opinions of Leading Hen of All Tartlet. New York Press (Rep.) A galaxy of brilliant and well -In own statesmen discuss in the Press the virions: propositions in relation to tho new apportionment to be mid on the population returns of 1890. In the letters we find a great variety of opinion. For example, a Texas statesman thinks the House of Representatives should be cut down to 150, white his colleague from Kansas would gladly tee it increased to 4iJ0. Some think Con grew too ; unwieldy now, while others think by abolishing the desks an increased number of Kepresentatives could easily be provided for. There is much that is instructive and in-' teresting in these letters. The tabls presented below also has a value. The runlmnm estimate of population is based on the returns of the several State censuses upon the vote of last fall, and the general knowledge of the drift or migration of population from one State or one p&rtol the country to tho other. It is probably as near correct as any estimate. Some statisticians believe the population of the United States will be 67.000,000 in 1890. The estimate of the Census Office, on which the cost of the forthcoming census is based, is 05,000.000. The Press estimate does not quite reach this estimate. The general idea as obtained from tho published letters is to increase the population per Congressional district and to lessen, rather than increaso tho number of Congressmen. For example. Senator Hawley thinks a population of 110,000 to a Congressional district about right, which, if carried out would not increase representation, but leave it where Hob. Willam M. Springer, of Illinois, thinks it should bo left at S30. We have, therefore, figured it out on the present basis of representation, say 340 members, giving a population of 192,99 to each district, and also on the basis of 215,000, 220,000, 225,000. and 230,000, respectively. The results may be summarized as follows in the electoral college: 12 3-4 5 Republican States..... 199 184 180 170 173 Democratic States 161 153 145 141 140 Doubtful Mate 51 49 43 4S 49 1. 192,909 to one district 2. 215,000. 3. 220,000. 4. 225,001). 5. 240,000. Here we have an electoral college, aggregating, respectively, 414, SS6, 373, itf5 and 59. It is not necessary for us to present the various combination, but one thing seems certain namely, that the pleasing fiction that the Republicans can elect the next President without the doubtful States is likely to do a good deal of harm in tho Republican ranks unless counteracted byl the cold facts and figures. In futcre contests the Republicans will undoubtedly, stand tho best chance, but our plan of cam paign must contemplate not only every doubtful State, but two or three wavering States. A Chance for Surgeons. Philadelphia Beoord. i The first competition for the Samuel P. Gross prize of $1,000 for the best essay on j surgical pathology or practice may now oe competed for by persons of American citizenship. The essay must be forwarded to the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery before June 1, 1893, and the terms and conditions of the comnetitiop are in charge of. that institution. This prize is worth striving for. both for the the honor and the. money that will go with it The time spentr my ine competing cssayisis, warmer mcy snail gain the prize or not will not be lost time. They cannot but add thereby to the sum of their knowledge, and accurate knowledge iu snrgery is not only private but a public gain. The "Angelus on Its Travels. London Globe. The "Angelas" left Paris in a blaze ot f, lorv. It was lined with red satin and aid in a beautiful black box. bound with iron, which in turn was inclosed in another etronger, but not less beautiful. In deep silence the picture was then handed over to the representative of the Art Association of the United States, by whom it will be unpacked and exhibited as conveyances permit, to tho wondering eyes of the inhabitants of European capitals. That being accomplished, tho representatives of the Art Association of the United States will escort it to the city of New York. The Lat Step. . " Philadelphia Pre. Prohibitionist St John, the most generally despised man in Kansas, according to good testimony from that State, has finally come out bquarely against the taritf. It needed only this to entitle St John 10 membership in good standing in the free-trade Democracy. Eggs-ecrable raranomafla, Minneapolis Tribune. , A Georgia man has a hen which has contributed m.fterially to his wealth by laying an egg a day ever since Jan. 1. and a short timo ago she presented him with seventeen in three days. "Eggs sell, sir is her motto. An Unkind Comparison. Philadelphia Record. Some of the Western railroad companies resemble the careful card-layer to the right of the dealer, who cuts, and afterwards passes. They cut rates, and then pass into the hands of receivers. Roston's Awful A miction. Springfield BepublleaiL Housekeepers have thought the carpetbugs bad enor.gh, but now several cities, and among them aristocratic Boston, report a yet direr plaguefleas! Accounted For. Chicago News. . The great storm on the Atlantio coast may have been merely a revolt of nature against the bathing costumes worn at the watering places. A Convealent LTablU Philadelphia rtecord, .' "I like to encourage the children to keep savings banks," said Papa Everthort "They are so handy when you want a littU chases."