Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 September 1889 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1889.

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Fabscrfbe with any ol oar numerous agents, or send saDscTlpUcns to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, IlTDLOAPOLIS, I MX. All communications intended for publication in (hi paper must, in order to receive attention, be or com pan ied by the name and address of the writer, THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: LONDON American Exchange In Europe, 449 Strand. PABI8 American Exchange In Parti, 33 Boulevard des Capucines. NXW YCBX GUsey House and Windsor Hotel. PHILADELPHIA A. P. Kemble, 3735 Lancaster avenue, CHICAGO Palmer noose. CINC1NNATI-J. P. Hawipy & Co., 154 Vine street. LO TJ 1 9 VI LLK C. T. Dcerlng; northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. 8T. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern lloteL WASHINGTON, D. C.-IUggs House and Ebbltt llouae. 'Rah for Bernhaincr and reform. The News, in the language of the late S. S. Cox, is "thoroughly -wounded in every respect." The Department of Justice in Washington seems to bo a fine field for autograph-hunters. No, eon; consistency is not the name of the editor of the Evening News. Dennis is his title just now. Can it be possible that the truly good proprietor of the News intends to utilize Bernhainer for political purposes? If there was a wicked partner the responsibility of signing that petition might be unloaded on him, but, alas, there is none. Tdte files of the Attorney-general's office seem to abound with interesting information, and Journal correspondents are mighty apt to stumble on to it. WnoEVER circulated Bernhamer's petition was just a little smarter than Mr. Cooper, who circulated Coy's. The latter only solicited Democrats and Republicans, but Bernhamer's friend took in the party of reform. ; The Costa Rican delegate to the Pan-American Congress says very flatly in an interview that the United States tariff has nothing to do with our lack of trade with the South American republics. It is safe to say that the mugwump press will let him severely alone hereafter. mmmmmmvmmmmmmmmmmwmmm According to the organs of the gang, it is ridiculous to suppose that a Democratic majority in the Council means the repeal of the saloon-tax ordinance. Do they regard the meetings held in the saloons by the "clean" candidates as proof that these men have no interest in Xree whisky? Because Indianapolis ministers show a disinclination to accede to the request of Herbert Welch, and take civil -service reform as the subject of their Thanksgiving sermons, the New York Post sneers at their Christianity. Has it come to this, that civil-service reform has been made a test of religion, as well as politics, with the awful cranks on this mugwump organ? The hopo expressed by Democratic reformers of "redeeming" the Ninth ward seems to be based on the thorough canvass which is being made among the saloons, of which there are twenty-three In the ward. Vigilant reporters of the Journal have informed the public of the earnest and systematic effort which the Democratic candidate for Council is making to bring tho saloons into line in favor of reform. At last accounts evening.meetings had been held in seventeen out of tho twenty-three saloons, and there was good reason to hopo that tho candidate, who by the way is a clean Democrat, would get the solid unclean vote of tho ward. A call is issued for a reunion of tho surviving members and officers of the Indiana Legislature of 1SC1. Meeting at an important crisis in our history it became identified with many historic events and much important legislation. Twenty-eight years have passed since then, many of tho members have passed away, and thoso who survive are approaching the period of old age. The proposed reunion has no political object in view, and is intended solely as a renewal of personal associations. The call, printed in another column,, names Nov. 6 as the time, and this city as tho place of holding such reunion, provided the call meets with tho approval of those to whom it is addressed. The action of the non-partisan members of the Minnesota W. C. T. U. in forming a separate organization is an example that will doubtless be followed by women throughout the country who are dissatisfied with tho transformation of a once useful and practical temperance society into an appendage to a political party. There is hardly a community where women, once tho most active working members, have not dropped out on this account. Rather than create dissensions they have remained quiet; bntinthe interests of temperance it is desirable that such workers should be in the field, and a movement towards an independent organization will ' bring them again into the service. The notable failure of the Salt Trust, the remarkable recent tumble in Sugar Trust shares, the facts that Cotton Oil Trust and Whisky Trust shares are drugs on'tho financial market, and that tho .Jute Trust is having mighty, hard sledding on a rocky road all give reason to believe that tho trust craze, aided by

popular condemnation and adverse legislation, will in time die out. In fact, the only very remarkable financial success in tho trust line has been achieved by the Standard Oil Trust, and that was duo more to railway discriminations and shrewd financial management than to the soundness of the trust principle from a business point of view. The well-known economic rule that monopoly based simply upon aggregated capital is a constant temptation to competition by idle capital is just as true and forceful to-day as it ever was.

OOCKED OUT AGAIN. . The city campaign, though short, has been fruitful in surprises, and the latest is by no means the least. We refer to the publication in yesterday's Journal of the petition for the remission of Bernhamer's fine, bearing, among many other signatures, that of the proprietor of the Indianapolis News. Those persons who are so unfortunate as not to read the Sunday Journal regularly should hasten to procure a copy of jesterday's issue and satisfy their incredulous eyes by reading- the petition and signatures. Under tho circumstances, we think it will be regarded as a very interesting discovery that the proprietor of the paper which has been charging improper and corrupt motives on others for recommending the remission of Coy's fine is himself one of tho petitioners for tho remission of the fine and costs imposed on Coy's partner in crime and fellowconvict. The News is tho originator, author and persistent circulator of the false and malicious charge that Republicans were instrumental in procuring the remission of Coy's fine. It is a matter of recent record how vindictively this falsehood has been pressed, even to the point of intimating that the President himself acted in collusion with prominent local Republicans in the "pardon" of Coy. This outrageous, falsehood, frequently reiterated by the News, has been taken up by Democratic papers and spread throughout tho country. It was effectually answered by the Journal's publication of the record showing that Coy's petition for remission of his fine was drawn up and circulated by his attorney, a well-known Democrat, and was signed by prominent Democrats as well as Republicans, by tho Democratic attorney who assisted in the prosecution, and by members of the Committee of One Hundred. That publication convinced every fair-minded person that there was not a particle of foundation for the charge of the News, but it continued to repeat the falsehood and to print the names of prominent Republicans as having signed Coy's petition from indecent and corrupt motives. Finally, it occurred to the Journal to make a fuither examination of the records, with a view of ascertaining who signed the petition for the remission of Bernhamer's fine, and that examination resulted in the present discovery. It cannot be said of the proprietor of the News as of Abou Ben Adhem, that "his name led all the rest." but it was there all the same "John II. Holliday, of tho Indianapolis News." The petition does no discredit to the humanity of the signers, among whom are many well-known and good citizens, as there were also on Coy's petition. Ono of the reasons given for the petition is Bernhamer's inability to pay his fine and costs. The same -was alleged in Coy's case, andtheNewa has endeavored to twist it to the disgrace of thoso who signed Coy's paper. Undoubtedly, that reason was stronger in Coy's case than in Bernhamer's. Coy's fine was $100 and costs and Bernhamer's was $1,000 and costs, but when sentence was imposed it was understood that Coy was worth little or nothing, while Bernhamer had considerable property; and when the petition for Coy's fine was circulated it was understood that John E.' Sullivan had swindled him out of the little he had. However this may be, there was as much room for the operation of hu manity in Coy'a case as in that of Bernhamer. They were both convicted of the same crime, at the same time and by tho same jury, and while Bernhamer's fine was heavier than Coy's the latter's term of imprisonment was six months longer. One had as much claim on public sympathy and executive clemency as the other, no more and no less, and if the signers of Coy's petition are culpable, those in the Bernhamer case are equally so. In the light of this revelation, every word of the abuse, denunciation, and imputation of corrupt motives which the News has been heaping on the signers of Coy's petition recoils on the head of its own proprietor. It is a remarkable case of curses coming home to roost, and an additional proof of the false pretenses and blind malice which have characterized the course of the News in this campaign. THE DIVORCE EVIL. County Clerk Wilson's observations on tho subject of divorce, as given in the Journal j esterday, furnish food for thought and contain some good suggestions. His statement that thero wero seventy divorce suits in the four local courts at the September term is rather startling evidence of the increasing prevalence of tho divorce mania. This .is not the only indication of that growing evil, nor are tho courts of this city the only ones whose records abound with such suits. They are quite as numerous, in proportion to population, in other communities of this State and in otfier States as well. The fact is, the increase of divorces is one of the most alarming social evils of tho times, and fully justifies Mr. Wilson's statement that "something ought to bo done." The need of reform in this direction is very apparent. What with the looseness of divorce laws, their lax administration, the increasing namber of hasty marriages' and the progressive demoralization of public opinion on tho subject, wo are drifting towards a dangerous social, condition. It needs no argument to prove that the marriage tie and the family relation are at the basis of civilized society and good government, and it is equally clear that they are being weakened and undermined by the increasing frequency of divorces. Thero

is need of a much higher standard of morality on this subject, and of a more rigid social code. A suggestion of Mr. Wilsons indicates the possibility of reform in another direction. He says: Marriage licenses and divorces are both made too cheap. The costs in nine out of tea divorce cases are never paid. All that is paid is the deposit of S3. $3 of which goes to the clerk for making publication and 51 to the sheriff. Witnesses are taken away from business and brought into court in these divorce cases without ever getting a cent for their misspent time. 'I think. In the tirst place, the marriage fee ought to be large, Ray $25, and have most of it go into the school fund, or be used for some good purpose. As to divorces, -when a suit is brought, the law ought to see to it that all costs be fully secured. That would be a check on that kind of litigation. There is much force in these suggestions, ard, while they do not go to the moral essence of the subject, they are worthy of careful consideration. Neither marriage nor divorce should be made 'so cheap as to encourage recklessness in assuming the obligation or in getting rid of it. The legal restrictions on marriage should be such as, at least, to insure some degree of deliberation, . while those upon divorce should be such as to make it a last and difficult resort. Persons intending to enter the married state should be made to understand by the law, as well as by public opinion, that it is a very serious step, and those desiring to escape from it should understand that it is a difficult and disgraceful way.

DirLOMAcr, as practiced by European statesmen, is a 6trange conglomeration of deceit and intimidation. As is well known, Prince Bismarck has long wanted to have a political conference with the Czar of Russia, and to that end invited him to visit Germany. The Czar consented, but with the distinct understanding that it was to be a purely social meeting. This was not what Bismarck wanted, and he commenced to lay plans to force the Czar to his wishes. Ministerial organs in Germany and Austria were instructed to revive all sorts of war rumors; gome even went so far as to say that Russia was massing troops on tho frontierthat war was really about to commence. Of course, there was no truth in the reports. They were made simply to give tho prince of diplomates an opportunity to demand of tho Czar an explanation, and thereby open the way for the conference Bismarck so much desires. It was an old and bold trick, and it remains to bo seen whether the reigning Romanolf has been entrapped in its meshes. Germany's position on tho political map of Europe is not an enviable one. The ;. recently formed alliance between France i and Russia, and the hostile attitude of Switzerland, coupled with the discontent of tho miners in Westphalia, Silesia, and oiher provinces of the Fatherland, are events that will worry the declining days of the Iron Chancellor. It will not do for the esteemed and truly good editor of the Evening News to put forward the plea that ho signed the petition to remit Bernhamer's fiue because Bernhamer was entitled to the same clemency as Coy. It won't do. The esteemed editor has declared, repeatedly, that remission of C6yVlinc was a sin, and all connected with it sinners, not to say criminals, anilas a good Presbyterian he cannot excuse himself for participating in a similar sin on tho ground that two wrongs make a right. The New York Republicans have put up a strong ticket against the Hillwhisky combine. Even the mugwump Springfield Republican admits as much in this paragraph: The New York Republicans have nominated the best State ticket that has been offered by any party convention in tho State for at least five years. Every man on it is a man of character and ability, and it can hardly bo paralleled by the convention that the Democrats will hold at Syracuse next Tuesday. The Legislature of 1861. To the Surviving Members and Officers of the General Assembly ol 1861: The undersigned, members of Jhat body, after consultation, are of the opinion that a reunion should be held at Indianapolis, and would suggest Tuesday, Nov. 26, 18S9. Tho object in calling the survivors together is to form a permanent organization of the most important Legislature that ever met in tho State of Indiana, and keep it up as a social reunion; also, to take suitable action to preserve the memory of thoso who have died. It was this Legislature that showed its loyalty to tho Union cause by large appropriations of money to arm and equip volunteers, encouraging enlistments, and still more by the large number of its members who themselves volunteered to defend the union of the States. Walter Q. .Gresiiam, Representative from Harrison countv. Josuua H. Mellett, Senator from Henry county. M. L. Bundy, Representative from Henry county. J. D. Coxner, Senator from Wabaah countv. w. JK. iviCi.EA', itepreeentative rroiu Vigo county. J. A. Woodhul, Representative from Steuben county. Matthew L. Brktt, Representative from Daviess county. R. A. Cameron, Representative from Torter county. K. M. Hatwortii, Representative from Union county. Jam esT. JonxsTOx; Door keeper of the House. Eugene Bcndy, one of tho House pages. - Those who approve and can attend, will please advise M. L. Bundy, New Castle, Ind. The New York Sun, commenting on the general appearance of the Episcopal clergy of that .city, as they appeared in the convention of last week, says: In their bearing and their intellectual training and methods they strike tho observer as very different from the clergy of the past generation. They have more the look of men of the world and of affairs, of men of executive force, of practical capacity as organizers, and of minds liberal, alert and well informed as to the currents of modern thought, and hospitable rather than repellent towards tho views and opinions which now are working such great modifications in the ways of looking at and treating questions of religion. They seem able to hold their own in the controversies of this skeptical period, and yet to be more concerned about the practical side of religious work. They have less of the purely clerical Waring as we knew It in the past, when it was sometimes a little pompous and awe Inspiring, and they po at subjects more directiy and more after the fashion of ordinary men. There is less nourish, and the tone and manner of their speech are simpler and more natural. Except for their clerical habiliments, some of them would not be taken for clergymen at all, but as noticeably active, ethcient and Intellectual men, well adapted to make their mark at a period when people think little of show and much of performnnce, and when the character of the Individual, and not his mere profession, secures for him. respectful consideration. This description will stand pretty well for the clergy of other churches than the Episcopalian, and in other cities than New York. It indicates the gradual, but marked, change which has taken place within the last generation or so in the preachers of all denominations. It has been process of evolution and adaptation to changed conditions. The -world thinks less of forms and creeds, of robes and vestments, of somber garbs and boIcuiu faces than it used. to..

and more of earnest practical, aggressive and progressive preachers. . Speaking of State fairs the Iowa State Register has this to say about tho Indiana association: The society has pretty good grounds and buildings, though not enough space in the grounds, and it is badly located for the crowds to ieach it easily. It has no C. R. I. fc P. railroad to handle the fair seekers. Eesides, the society is largely in debt The fair grounds should be exchanged for a larger and better located position, on some efficient railroad, which would handle visitors cheaply end expeditiously. These comments are timy and just, and are in substance what was said by thousands of visitors to Indianapolis last week. If the Indiana State fair is to bo an institution worthy of the name, it must have larger buildings and much more extensive grounds. For several years the departments have been overcrowded and accommodations for proper displays of agricultural products and live stock impossible to obtain. The street-car facilities, ample as they are, wero insufficient to accommodate the crowds of Thursday and Friday.

The only remedy is to obtain a larger tract of land in a more favorable locality on a lino of railroad, and tho sooner this is done the sooner will the fair become what it should be, a display worthy to be called a State exhibition and one in which allcitU zens can take pride. TnE Southern people are a peculiar people. They are unlike their Northern neighbors in many respects, but particularly in the respect that the average Southerner, when he is free to consult his natural Inclination, thinks for himself and acts upon his individual responsibility. He docs not "go with the crowd." unless the crowd goes his way. Majorities do not awe him, nor shake his confidence in the convictions of his own judgment Charleston isews and Courier. There are at least two statements in this paragraph which will be accepted without question. There is no doubt that they are a peculiar people, and their utter disregard of majorities has become somewhat notorious. King Solomon of the present day is evidently not so important a personage as the ruler of old. When the New York police were ordered to stop a performance at a Bowery theater, on Saturday, the King, in all his glory, was found sitting on his throne and was rudely lhustled" from the place like any common mortal. This is one instance where a policeman's club was mightier than a king's scepter. Mr. Pulitzer, of the New York World, understands the science of advertising as well as the next man. When he offered to bo one of twenty-five to give $100,000 each towards a world's fair fund he knew very well that no risks were involved. The other twenty-four men will go on talking about the site until some other city gets it. Tiiey talk about the lifting of the Feather river fifty feet above its normal bed in California as a great engineering feat, but it pales into insignificance when compared with the remarkable tricks played with Indiana rivers by the publishers of the Becktold geography. English authors, whose works have been so unscrupulously pirated on this side of the water, haye reason to feel that there is poetic justice in the fact that competition in this very piracy has wrought ruin among the predatory publishers. It would be interesting to know how the average Ohio citizen puts in the time during the brief periods between political campaigns. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. A handkerchief in the possession of the Empress of Russia is eaid to have cost $2,500. It took seven years to make it. 1 Little King Alexander of Servia is much impressed with a sense of his own dignity. He can scarcely write three lines on any topic without using the expression, "I, the King." Miss Winnie Davis will accompany her .father, Hon.. Jefferson Davis, to theFayetteville, N. C, centennial celebration in November next A grand ball will be given in honor of Miss Davis during the centennial. Commenting upon Mr. Sam Jones's performances at Chautauqua a religious paper says: "The lesson taught by his egotism, vulgarity, and irreyerance was so positive that it will not be lost in arranging future programmes." A Vienna millionaire who died a short time ago had such an antipathy to darkness that he provided by will for an electric light to be kept burning in the vault during an entire year, the interior of his coffin also to be electrically lighted. "I nEAR," says London Truth, "that George Eliot's grave in High gate Cemetery is a melancholy object, being nearly overgrown with grass, and apparently- quite neglected. The great writer had so many friends and admirers in life that surely a few of them (to say nothing of her relations) might make it their business to see that her grave is kept in proper order." Ex-Governor Abbett, the Democratic candidate for Governor of New Jersey, is a -widower. So is General Grnbb, the candi date of the Republican party. General Grubb has a pretty daughter, who is fond of society and well known in Philadelphia. So has ex-Governor Abbett Abbett is short, and stout, and phlegmatic. Grnbb is tall, slender, as dark as a Spaniard, and one 01 the most sanguine of men. Says a writer in the Epoch: " Wilkie Collins's residence in London was replete with every comfort for himself and his guests. His dinners chiefly 'stag parties were sumptuous, ana lie was. all agreed, a most genial host, fluent, witty in conversation, fond of talking, but a good listener. His voice was sonorous and pleasant. That it could be dramatic in quality those who heard his publio readings can well remem ber." The anthorl of "The Old Arm-chair'7 is dead. Many who knew the song were unfamiliar with the name of Eliza Cook. But every school boy and girl who passed through Sander's reader thirty years ago, will remomber her name and fragments of many of her poems, ror thirty-live years she has been in poor health, and for nearly thirty years she has had a pension from the English government of $500 a year. She was born in 1818. John Jacob Astou died worth $40,000,000, after beginning on a salary of $2 a week for beating furs in a dar-'p cellar. The S40.000.000 left by him in 1849 has grown in forty years to $00,000,000. The Astors know the value of money, and never waste or spend it uselessly, lhe habits of the elder Astor were as regular as a Dutch clock.- His only recreation' was a game of checkers; his only beverage was a glass of ale after dinner. The latest development of thedrop-a-nickel-in-tho-6lot principle is puzzling the United States courts in ' Alabama. For several months past, in a thicket at the foot of Sand mountain, a large box has stood, bearing the inscription. "Drop a coin in the slot and draw out whisky at the rate of $2 a gallon." This automatio bar is known as a blind tiger." The man who was arraigned for running this box barroom has escaped conviction, as it is impossible to prove bis ownership. A gossip writes that a new London freak is "The Peace Society.' The members as semble for tea in fashionable studios, languidly look through collections of sketches, and as languidly listen to music, and then, with continued languor, discuss Questions for banishing ideas of war from the youthful mind. One idea is to treat war as merely an incident in text-books of history. . This is the society which, some time ago, began its self-appointed mission by recommending the banishment of drums and tin soldiers from the nursery. Major John F. Edwards, of Atlanta, comes to the front at this late day to de clare false tho often told etcxy' that Jeff,

Davis ran away with tho daughter of Gen. Taylor, and married her against her father's will. Major Edwards says: 'Jeff Davis and Miss Taylor were united under my grandmother's roof, after General Taylor had written his daughter giving his full consent and asking that the ceremony bo performed at her home. My grandmother was a sister of General Tayfor, and the ceremony took place at her home, Beechlawn, in Jefferson county, Kentucky." A pupil in a quit boarding-school in Pennsylvania displayed, some time since, no small degree of industry in collecting autographs of distinguished literati. James Kussell Lowell was one of the number addressed. The request to him was, substantially: "I would be very much obliged for your autograph." The . response contained a lesson that many besides the ambitious pupil have not learned. . . Pray do not say, hereafter. I would' be obliged." If you would he obliged, be obliged and be done with it. Say "I should be obliged and oblige. Yours truly, - J axes Russell Lowell. The German jEmperor is fond of variety, even in such small matters as his daily bread. Thus ho takes for breakfast a 6mall white loaf, the top of which is powdered over with ealt and which, accordingly, goes by the name of salt-bun. Its cost is one penny. After it he consumes a halfpenny bun, known as the "Lucca-eye." For his sandwiches he requires yet another kind of bread, made of the finest ' Vienna flour, and baked till the outside, which is afterward cut off. is quite black. Price, one penny. At dinner, with the soup, socalled "broth-sticks" are served. They are made after an Italian recipe, which is the secret of the court bakers, and their value is a half-penny apiece.

COMMENT AND OPINION. In the hands of private Dalzoll. the pen is flightier than a dog with a tin kettle tied to his tail. St Louis Globe-Democrat The people will insist that silver certificates be issued to take the place of national bank notes, and that the greenback circulation be left undisturbed. Chicago Tribune. A negro named Mollison has been nominated by the Republicans for Mississippi's Lieutenant-governor. It is to be hoped that Mr. Mollison's life is insured. iew York Mail and Express. When jury service is made respectable by the denial of the arbitrary exercise of power to lock up jurors as malefactors selfrespecting men will consent to serve, but not till then. Chicago Times. Cut off the supply of new Mormons. The reduction of the old ones to obedience is but a work of time, and Utah soon will be converted to that condition which immediately precedes statehood. Chicago Inter Ocean. The tar baby in "Uncle Remus's" stories was most dangerous when it was raying nothing. Possibly the same may be true of Mahone, who isn't saying a word in reply to the fierce assaults of the Democratio press. Philadelphia Inquirer. Mormonism is going, and must go altogether. Polygamists have no moral right to any consideration whatever, and in pressing them under the law the only limit should be tho constitutional rights which are vital to the whole country. New York Press. It is not the part of a loyal citizen to endeavor, by preventing organization of the House, or by preventing adoption ot rules which enable a majority to do business, or bv nlibnsterino ncrninst npnrl in cr rn sari rot to defeat the decision of the people last 1 ""a T rri - xau. new ioik lnouna. If the negroes cannot exercise the right to vote, then surely those who prevent them from doing so should not be allowed to reap a valuable political gain from their mere presence in given States. That is a proposition which proves itself. There is no room for discussion where the facts are so clear and so conclusive. St Louis GlobeDemocrat. What Congress should do is to allow the banks to issue to within 10 per cent, or, perhaps, to be more conservative, within 15 per cent, of the market value of their bonds, and, in addition to that, to repeal the tax on national bank circulation. That is a war revenue tax, and the war. is over and the revenue not needed. Louisville Commercial. . - The Southern papers frequently remark that the only sectional feeling in existence is in the North. Yet the Is'ew Orleans Times-Democrat, speaking of the world's fair, says: "The selection of tho site will depend on Congress, and in Congress the South will determine the choice." Can anybody explain why Southern Congressmen should bo united, on this question when no city in that section is an applicant! Milwaukee SentineL A NATUKAL.-GAS PROBLEM. Professor White Says the Field Near Pittsbur I Almost Exhausted. Pittsburg Times. . I. C. White, professor of geology in tho University of West Virginia, anu an acknowledged expert on everything relating to the supply of natural gas, is of the opinion that the cost of gas as a fuel in Pittsburg will soon be greater than coal, unless the cost'of piping gas from fields more distant than those now tapped by Pittsburg companies is reduced. v "It will only be a year or two," 6aid Professor White, in conversation with a representative of the Times, "until the naturalgas fields from which Pittsburg companies now draw their supplies of the fuel are exhausted. The lfellevernon field, upon which everybody is now building up hope, is shallow, and will not stand the drain, even though it is now as promising as any field yet discovered. "I do not mean to say," continued the Professor, "that with the exhaustion of the Helievernon field no gas will be left The exact location of fields as rich as any yet opened is known. The principal of these begins between the Mouongahcla and Cheat river districts, at a point about thirty miles beyond liellevernon. I know it extends at an average width of four miles to a point west of Morgantown. W. Va., and the belt may run from there into Ohio. Enough gas will probably be found in this territory to meet the demands of PHtsburg and its surroundings for years. Hut the gas companies for two years past have been complaining of the greatly increased cost of piping gas. If they are compelled to lay iron mains thirty or forty miles further they will be compelled to adVance rates in proportion, and gas will cost consumers more than coal. "The gas companies appreciate this," con tinued Prof. White, "and arc trying to provide for the future. Experiments have been under way for some time looking to the manufacture of paper pipes that will stand the pressure or gas. I am not fully informed concerning these, but understand they have been encouraging and even fairlv successful. The problem is not to make pipes of paper papercar-wheels have. iiemonstrateu xiiai paper can oe usea lor almost anything but to make them cheap enough to enable tho companies to reach more distant fields without adding too much to the cost of gas to consumers." Pittabnrg Chronicle. , President McBride, of the National Miners' Protective Union,. passed through this city, and he stated that mining in the Ohio valley is getting very brisk again. Most of the glass lactones at lMlaire are operated by coal at present. Two steel plants at Benwood have abandoned the use of natural gas and resumed coaL They have so far been unable to get a sufficient amount of coal to supply their demands. The Crescent mills have gone back to the use of black diamond as their fnel. The lielmont mill uses the same, and so does the lienwood mill. The Riverside iron-works, near Wheeling, had been using coal until their machinery broke down a few days ago. A gentleman who is prominently connected with one of the oldest iron-works in the Ohio valley stated this morning: "The days of the mushroom factories are about over. There is not a factory in Findlay, Bellaire or Wheeling, using gas, which does not have to close for several days during each week on account of scarcity of gas. This fact has made it patent to all manufacturers that gas it rapidly going the downward path. The natural consequence will be that most of them will have to go back to coal altogether. The inevitable result will be that the corporations which started in the glass and iron business simply because they were offered free fuel must -eventually drop out of tho market altogether. Why? Because as soon as they have to pay a good price for coal they cannol undersell tho Pittsburg market any longer if they intend to make any . profit at alL This, of course, will cause them to .drop out of the field of competition. So far they have only been able to do business at all becauxo they were able to offer class or

iron lower than Pittsburg, bnt as soon as they raise their scale tlwir customers will go back again to their old producers. "All the mines in the Ohio vallev ar resuming work on this account, and all the linns are granting the scale-price demanded by the miners." SAX LUIS KEY MISSION. Plctnresque Ruins of a Once Splendid and Imposing Edifice. Ean Luis Bey Letter in Richmond Palladium. I must tell yoa of our visit to the mission. From the Alcade, Don Jacinto, who lives iu the little adobe down among the century stalks, and who is custodian of th church property, wo got the keys; a short walk brought us to the mission, the most striking feature of which, as you approach tho south portal, is the graceful Moorish tower, wherein swings only one of the oripinui eight bells which formed the chimes. With true patriotism, a cactus, having taken root in the iofty walk unfurls its emblem of Mexico. Extending to the left (west) are 6even massive arches, all that remain of tho twenty-six which formed the columns fronting the mission home. Over the arches we catch a glimpse of the mammoth oven, large as a squatter's cabin. To, the right is the old cemetery wall, through whoso archway death has led her many captives. Passing through the vestibule betweeu two holy-water fonts we enter the auditorium, dimly lighted by narrow windows high up in the side walls. Over tho vestibule is a large choral gallery, reached by a stone stairway. At the rear, or south, end of the auditorium is the largo Byzantine altar, rich in gold-leaf, royal purple and red. which time with dusty fingers has toned into a delicious harmony. Two mutilated apostles look down from their respective niches, the other ten having deserted theirs lor the more congenial missions up the coast From the dilapidated skylight which sifts golden sunbeams down on the "holy of holies," we catch enough light to discover the excavation made by the seekers for Spanish silver, who, several years ago, dng beneath this altar in search of buried treasures, with what success is not known. On each side, and at right angles with this altar, are two smaller ones, similar in decoration. The frescos and one or two paintings comprise the other principal Objects of interest. Through a double door on tho west eido

we enter a conrt-yard where two fountains and some fruit trees suggest priestly siestas. Over a tumbled-down wall wo reach tho arena, containing three acres, surrounded with arches of solid masonry, sprung with wonderful grace and accuracy, flanking which were the rooms occupied Cy priests, sojourners and dependents. The roof of this gallery formed a promenade and also was used for seating spectators during "combat del tores." The mission and adjacent buildings are said to hav covered thirteen acres. It was founded about a century ago under the patronage of King Louis, alter whom it was named, ami was the finest of all California missions, havintr the most extension lmil1incr- fur. nished in regal luxury, and whose priests were, in truth, temporal as well as spiritual JUDI who, although passing- the one hundred and thirteenth mile-stono in life, still weaves as though young the intricate designs of her water-tight baskets. She said she remembered well when the friars came, that they thought at first of buildingonthe north side of the river, but at last selected the present site on the south. She helped carry adobos to build it. There were many, many Indians, and all the timbers wero earned on their bac'ns from Pala mountain, twenty-five or thirty miles distant, and were not allowed to touch tho ground after starting, relays of Indians being stationed along the route to shoulder the burden and let the weary ones step out Some of tho timbers were eighteen by eighteen inches, thirty feet long, and required from twenty to thirty Indians each. Fraud Unmasked. Kokomo Gazette-Tribune. Convincing evidence of the knavish deception attempted and practiced upon tho people of Indiana may be obtained at the office of County Superintendent Barnes. He has taken tho pains to unmask a number of the elementary geographies which, this monopoly endeavors to foist upon tho people under process of law. On the titlo page of theso books is this incription: - Indiana Educational Series: -. 1 Elementary UeojO'aphy, 4 Indianapolis, Indiana, Indiana fcchool-look Company, lbSV. It only requires a little moistening with water of the first page of the ontsidu cover to enable any one to tear oil tho paper covering and read this inscription: Merrill's Elementary Geography, Ban ford Kiles, Kditor, tit. Paul, Minn. D. D. Merrill. Publisher, 1885. Superintendent Barnes has applied thif process to several of the books, which may now be seen in his ofiice. These are convincing proofs of the charge that the legalized monopoly is attempting to palm off on the people, as its own modern publications, books which havo been purchased at nonu iual cost in the junk shops and in second hand stores in States where these books have been cast off. as 'worthless. Such a fraud is to-day being perpetrated upon ths, school patrons of Indiana in the name ol economy. Under process of law the excel lent books now tho possession of the school children of Indiana are confiscated and school patrons are forced to purchase tho second-hand, cast-off 6tun of Wisconsin. Michigan, California and other States. The widespread revolt against this legalized outrago is altogether reasonable and justified. A Hoosler Woman's Method. . Washington Post. Mrs. Thomas Wood, of Warsaw, Ind., hat gone back to original methods, and is f ollowing the line of war adopted by the pioneers of temperance reform. She served notice on the proprietor of saloons not to sell Honor to her husband. They disregarded the notices in every case. Armed with a stone, or hammer, or some other available weight, she walks coolly into first one, then another of these "palaces" and smashes mirrors, bottles, bric-a-brac or whatever comes in her way. As publio sentiment is on her side these excursions are triumphal marches. - A Plan for the Monument. Philadelphia Times. New .York may not be a very satisfactory field for the execution of public enterprises, but in getting up "plans0 it is a howling success. The papers of the town now announce a plan for building the monument to Grant It is something to have gut as far as a plan in four j-ears. It is perhap superfluous to add that this plan is ono thuC will "enhance tho value of adjacent property." m remlclous Activity Discouraged. Buffalo Commercial. To a delegation of New York customhouse officials who waited on tho collector to ask permission to attend the Saratoga convention, Colonel Erhardt is reported Ly the Herald as saying: "No; stay her and attend to your dntics." During the Cleveland administration federal officials wera notoriously prominent iu State and local conventions. Out of the Procession. Washington Press. The Indianapolis Journal says: "It takes a great deal of money to keep up with tho procession in Washington." That is true if by "the procession" our contemporary refers to official "bocietv." Jt is a fact, however, that persons of quiet tastes can live in reputable Myle here at abont tho same as in the Hoosier capital. likely to Lose Some Democrats, . Memphis Avalanche. The Louisiana bond robbery is 'a "dirty piece of busines, ond the dirt seems to attach itself to several "leading citizens." If justice is done one or two of them will lead the procession in the penitentiary when the bell rings for meals. i m mm , i: CTects of the West Virginia Steal. ' Pittsburir Chronicle. A town in Cabell county. West Virginia, is in the possession of toughs. .Theso individuals probably think that if the Democratic party can steal tho entire Stat, they have tno right to capture a small town. The Flgurei Are Not Alarming. Atlanta Cotitutlon. Some people have died recently becauso they would tako no other medicine than that provided by the so-calh-d Christian scientists und faith- unsts. '1 ho loss to tho country has not yet becu computed.

is, wuntnonsanusoi obedient subiccts.

I had quite an interesting interview with Victori-I. find rtl1 Inrlinn ' hiitl'it.rAavr