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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 18S0. WASIUXiTOX OFFICE 513 Fourteenth 8t r. S. Heath, Conrapondent. Telephone Calls. JSasInf si Office 233 1 Editorial Itooms 243 TKKMS OF SUIJSCKITTION. DAILY, BT MAIL. Cue year, without Fnntay 51 2. CO One jfr, with J-andajr 14.00 6lx months, without Sunday K.00 fix months, with Sunday . 7.00 Thre months without Hnnlay 3.00 'Xhxfe month, with Sunday 3.&0 One mouth, withont Sun day . . l.OO One month, with Sunday 1.V0 Delivered Lj canier in city, 25 cents per eek. WEEKLY. Jer year.... tl.00 Reduced Kate to Clnbs. Fnbsnihe with any of our numerous agents, or send YnoacrtpUons to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, IXDIAXAPOXJS, 1XD. All communication intended for publication in ' Otis paper must, in order to receive attention, be accompanied by the name andaddre$$ of the icritcr. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOUKNAL Can be found at the following places: ONDON American xchang la Europe, 449 Btrand. PARIS American Exchange la Fans, 33 Boulevard dca Capuclnea, " - KEW YCRX Gilaey House and Windsor Hotel. PHILADELPHIA A. pTlv emtio, 3733 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO Palmer IIoujmj. CINCINNATI-J. P. Hawiey & Co., 154 Vine street LOUI9VILXB-C. T. Deering, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. BT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. C.-IUggs House ana Ebbitt House. "Now that I am back, and am your leader attain, I promise you my best efforts, and If joa will stand by mo as before, I promise you that -when the smoke of battle roll away we hall again be found triumphant." Son Coy to the local Democrftnj, in hiy speech accepting a . renomi nation for Council, The News continues to wriggle, but it an't wriggle oat. The dancing of tho Democratic morning organ to the music furnished by the saloon-keepers is of tho liveliest de- . scription. S3i all wonder that tho whites of Louisiana want to preserve the "Caucasian supremacy" while the State treasury contains such juicy plums for Caucasian thieves. Some people can only bo taught by " aid of a club. The News and Sentinel have learned by personal experience in this campaign that a boomerang is not a safe thing to fool with in politics. The morning free-whisky organ will take precious good care not to call tho grand jury's attention to anymoro lawbreaking saloons. It apologizes humbly for the attack made upon its friends. The double somersault act of the Sentinel on the saloon question 'has proved tobe the great feature of the campaign. As a specimen of political contortion it is probably without a parallel. The Sentinel denies that it is edited by the Democratic campaign committee, . but even a casual reading of yesterday's issue of that amusing paper proves that the committee has a powerful influence over it. ' The spectacle presented by Leon Bailey and Charlie Polster rushing frantically around among the saloonkeepers trying to explain that the Senti- , Bel has made an ass of itself is beautiful to behold. Whether the Democratic city committee edits tho Sentinel or not, the inadvertent disclosures made by that paner corroborate tho Journal's nrevioua

assertion, namely, that tho saloons edit the committee. TnE spectacle of the Democratic city committee and the morning Democratic organ on their marrow bones before tho saloons is the edifying sight upon which the citizens of Indianapolis now have their eyes fixed. Were Leon Bailey and Charlie Polster acting under commissions from the Democratic city committee when they were driving 'about from saloon to saloon Monday, endeavoring to placate the alleged violators of tho liquor law exposed in Monday's Sentinel! When tho Sentinel aimed its celebrated saloon article at men whom it supposed to be Republicans it made a bad break. It ought to have learned long ago that you can't throw a brick at a crowd of saloon-keepers without hitting a Democrat every time. Argument of the News: "Some people signed the petition for tho remission of Sim Coy's fine. That was wrong. The editor of the News signed the petition for tho remission of Bernhamer's fine. That was right. 'The king can do no wrong. Long live the king!' " It is somewhat more difficult for a policeman, for whom a saloon-keeper selling after hours is constantly on the look out, to get into a saloon and catch a violator of the law than it appears to be for a reporter to sneak his way in under false pretenses and publicly call tho at tention of tho grand jury to what he has discovered. - Witti tho editor of the Sentinel writhing and wriggling to save himself from the wrath of the saloon-keepere, and his able colleague, tho editor of tho News, squirming about in a violent effort to get away from the conse quences of his having signed Bern' . kamers petition, this well-mated pair are quite attractive and highly amusing. It is understood that the saloon-kcep-ers advertised by the Sentinel as keep ing open on Sunday decline to pay over their promised contributions to tho Democratic campaign fund, on the ground that the money will be needed to pay costs and fines when they aro haled before the court for violation of law. There is a gloom about head quarters in consequence. The attack on Street Commissioner DeRuiter has failed at every point. Tho fact is, his administration of this depart ment has been remarkable for intelligence, energy and good results. Con- ' sideling the damage done to the streets

by the natural-gas companies, and the

terrible condition they were in when DeRuiter took charge, no fair-minded person will deny that he deserves great credit. JIe has done an immense amount of work at a moderate outlay, and the result is that people all over the city are commenting on tho improved condition of the streets. The attacks on him are of a piece with the rest of the Demo cratic reform campaign nine-tenths falsehood and tho rest hypocrisy. ADVICE TO THE DEMOCRATS. Some years ago, when General Coburn was. about to be renominated for Con gress, the News congratulated tho Re publicans on having learned "the advantage of keeping a good man in office when once they have found him." It spoke in the strongest terras of General Cobtirn's ability, fitness, honesty, fidelity; to duty and knowledge of public affairs. After watching his course and scanning his record very closely, it said ho had never failed to vote against swindles and jobs of all kinds, and was always on hand when needed. In view of these facts the News said: "We presume tho Democrats will put an opponent against General Coburn, but his re-election is so certain that tho best they can do is to turn in and vote for him." The time has come for tho Journal to repeat this excellent advice to the Dem ocrats. The Republicans have learned the advantage of putting good men in office, and given a practical illustration of their wisdom by nominating General Coburn for Mayor. His ability, fitness, integrity, public spirit and knowledge of public affairs are known to the entire community. His character, the solid growth of a lifetime in the town where hewasborn. isabovf reproach. His name is a synonym of honesty and an assurance of opposition to jobs of all kinds. Tho Democrats have put an opponent against him, but the election of General Coburn is so plainly demanded by the best interests of the city that tho best thing the Democrats can do is to turn in and voto for him. This advice is tho more appropriate at present be cause the Democratic reform campaign has completely broken down. Tho at tacks on the present city government and its recent predecessors have utterly failed. The reference to tho record of the Democracy in former years has re sulted in a rout. The assaults on in dividual Republicans have been shown to be grounded in malice and falsehood. The eflbrt to play fast and loose with the saloon-keepers has made them furious and brought tho Democratic managers into contempt. The two organs of Democratic reform are making frantic eflbrts to crawl out from under tho wreck of tho campaign. In tho language of the News on a former occasion, the best thing the Democrats can' do is to turn in and vote for Coburn. THE SMTINEL A5D THE SALOONKEEPERS. The recent course of tho Sentinel on the saloon question is an astonishing revelation of political dishonesty and duplicity. We presume the saloonkeepers . and representatives of Mhe Liquor League know exactly where the Republican party stands and what to expect of it. There is no room for any misunderstanding on tho subject. Re publicans are in favor of high license and local option as a State policy, and of the 8250 saloon tax and a strict enforcement of tho law in the city. If saloon-keepers pay the $250 license and obey the law they need have no trouble with the Republican party; if they try to evade either they will get the hot end of tho poker all the time. That is where the Republicans stand. They make no bid for the saloon vote beyond making open war upon the saloon in politics and dealing honestly with them. The Democracy are their willing al lies, and claim to bo their special friends.. In return for the saloon voto they promise all sorts of privileges, and, whenever they have tho power, enact friendly legislation . In .further pursuance of tb e compact they tax the saloons heavily at election times, and depend on them mainly for campaign funds. In view of tho services and the money they get from this quarter they ought at least to deal honestly with the saloons. On Monday morning the Sentinel pub lished a list of about thirty saloons, which it said were habitually violating the law. Names and places were given and alleged facta cited which, if true, would justify the grr.nd jury in indicting all the persons named. The pretext for tho publication waa tho false allegation that these saloons were standing in with Republican officials and the police, and wcro violating the law by permission. They were therefore termed Republican saloons. Most of the persons named are well known as Democrats, antl nearly all of them had been assessed for the Dem ocratic campaign fund. Tho Sentinel's black-list caused a commotion among them, as well it might. It was an at tack from tho rear and a stab in the back. They protested against being published m the Democratic organ, not only as law-breakers, but as Republic ans. The more they thought about it tho madder they got. Finally they appealed to the Democratic committee and demanded an explanation. If they were to be black-list ed in tho Democratic organ they would not pay their assessments, etc. Tho decent Democrats who constitute the committeo got red in the face, and assured them that the matter should bo set right. Then a sub-committee went to the Sentinel office and read the riot act. Tho able editor was given to understand that when he tackled the saloons ho was treading on dangerous ground. He must not slosh around like a bull in a china shop, as it were. Such conduct was highly reprehensible, and 6o far as the committee was concerned, it washed its hands of tho whole business. The result was an article in the Sentinel yesterday exonerating the committee from all responsibility for tho original publi cation, and assuming tho entire odium itself. "Tho Sentinel," it said, "is not conducting the city campaign, and is not responsible for its manage ment. And the campaign com mittee is not editing the Sentinel, nor is it in any way responsible for its utterances." Probably that means

that the committee is not responsible for the utterances of the Sentinel,

though it might mean that the Sentinel itself is not. And there the matter rests, the organ eating humble pie, and the committeo abjectly crawling back on its bands and knees into the favor of the saloon-keepers. It is a moving spectacle of Democratic reform. MR, CURTIS LSD CIVIL-SERVICE REFORM." Mr. George William Curtis delivered an address yesterday before the Na tional Civil-service Reform League at Philadelphia, which was in his usual polished style and pessimistic tone. It cannot bo said exactly that Mr. Curtis swears fluently in several languages, but he certainly scolds in the choicest English and rails with grammatical pre cision. It would be a pleasure to read what he writes if he could only occasionally fiud something to approve, and would now and then inject a few cheer ful words to relieve the depressing ef-' feet of his continual scolding. The effect of his address was to charge President Harrison with utterly dis regarding his - own and his party's professions in favor of civil-service reform and with practically betraying the cause. This, at the end of tho first six months of a President who has been continually criticised by. his own party friends for not making a clean sweep, and who, in tho short period of his administration already passed has done far more to strengthen the cause of civil-service reform aud secure an honest and vigorous enforcement of tho law than was done during the entire four years of his predecessor. There is indeed no assertion that the President has violated the civil-service law, for even the chief of mugwump critics would hardly dare make such a charge us that. But it is assumed that nearly all the changes made in offices not em braced by tho law have been in contra vention of its spirit, and to that extent a betrayal . of the cause. This is to assumo that all . persons whom President Harrison found in office deserved to bo retained by reason of their fitness, and that the changes made by him have not improved the public service. Neither of these points can safely be assumed. As a matter of fact, very many of the persons who have been removed from office deserved to bo removed, and the public service is no toriously in much better condition to day than it was six months ago. Whatever Mr. Curtis may think of it, this is practical civil-service reform. That is the line the President is working on, and the country can judge much better as to the results of his civil-service policy three years hence than it can now. Mr. Curtis devoted considerable space to commenting' on the fact that there is a de .ded opposition to the civil-service law among Republicans, and that a number of Republican papers have openly criticised or denounced it. That is true; but it is equally true that there is a very strong Republican senti ment in favor of the law, and that a ma jority of the Republican papers of the country are in favor of the principle, Un,d of maintaining the present law until ia better one can be enacted. At all events, there is no justice in holding tho President responsible for Republican opposi tion to the law when ho has declared himself earnestly and unequivocally in favor of it. Mr. Curtis does not seem to be in a pleasant state of mind on this subject, but if he is prepared to listen to any advice regaiding President Harrison's course in civil-service reform, we would advise him to wait. If he lives till 1892, as we trust he may, ho will probably hold very different views re gaining President (Harrison?s attitude toward civil-service reform. THE BARRETT LAW. The Democratic city convention, which did not dare to say a word concerning the &250 saloon tax, boldly demanded "that those of our citizens who desire to make public improvements under the Barrett law, which permits payment to be made in ten annual installments, shall not be denied the opportunity of doing so." This declaration, like everything else in the present Democratic campaign, is a false pretense. From it one might suppose the Barrett law conferred on citizens certain rights and privileges which' they were in danger of being deprived of if the Democracy does not protect them. True, the law gives two-thirds of the property-holders on any street tho right, upon petition, to have it improved, and the cost thereof to become a lien on tho property. But it also gives tho Council power to order and make improvements without any petition whatever, and compel all property-owners to pay their share of tho cost. If the first is a right or privilege which citizens must be protected in, the second is a large and possibly dangerous power. Under this law an extravagant and reckless Council might make contracts for expensive improvements on every street and square in the city, and assess and collect tho cost from the property-owners, the same becoming a lien on the property. The Barrett law is a two-edged sword. While under wise and judicious management it may be made the means of accomplishing needed improvements, it may, in the hands of a reckless and extravagant Council, be used to cover up corrupt jobs and pile up a big debt, which would be a lien on real estate. However, no person has attacked the Barrett law, and the Democratic demand that citizens shall beallowed to exercise their rights under it was a false pretense. It makes a good companion piece to their silence concerning the saloon tax. The Washington Post is making itself ridiculous by its attacks on the civilservice law. It looks upon the measure, its workings and purpose, from the narrow stand-point of tho Washington departments. It is a notorious fact that a man no sooner enters department service or comes within tho influence of government attaches of the minor grades than he begins to lose ability to judgo clearly and correctly of general politics. To his mind tho safety of the government is involved iu tho employment of clerks, book-keepers, stenographers and messengers holding certain specified political beliefs, and he is convinced

that the very safety of the Commonwealth requires that these clerks shall be in harmony with the presidential policy, whatever that may be. It is only at the capital and in the office-holding atmosphere that this view is possible. Outside of tho District tho political beliefs of the persons who do the government book-keeping is a matter of supreme indifference to the majority of citizens. All that they ask is that the books shall be correctly kept, and with an administration of their own choice in power and controlling this matter they are satisfied that this will be done, and have little interest in the details of the work. They are concerned in a general way in the proper conduct of the civil service, but the subject ' is not an absorbing one to them. Other political topics seem of greater importance, but it is safe to say they are satisfied that the law is a move in the right direction, and that any change must be to make it more exacting in order to secure the best service, and not to return to the old system, in which fitness was the last consideration. The Post, will not see the law repealed by a Republican Congress. Congressjian Thomas B. Reed has something to say iii the North American Review concerning tho rules of the House, which the Journal takes the liberty to commend to the attention of Mr. Bynuin. Mr. Reed says: Undoubt edly some effort will be made uext December to change the rules so that business can be done and the scandals of the last Congress avoided. I ought not to have written the words 'to change the rules," for that conveys an entirely incorrect idea. No rules have to be changed, for tho new House will have no rules. What should have been written is that there will be an effort to establish rules which will facilitate the public business rules unlike those of the present House, which only delay and

frustrate action, Whether tue new rules will simply go back to the days before Mr. Randall was'Speaker, or will have changes more or less important than this would be, nobody but the Houso can say; but the people of the country ought with oue voice to help and support any honest effort to do business and to shorten congressional sessions. The House will meet without rules, and must make them. They must be made by the majority of the House, for no one else can by any possibility make them. To suppose that the opposition will refuse to do their legislative duty unless they can dictate the rules is tho wildest dream of parliamentary insurrection that ever presented itself to human visiou. But whether they venture on this action or not, the whole subject needs the sunlight of public opinion. If the A id erican people do not get a Congress such as they wish, and legislation such as they need, it is entirely their own- fault. I do not mean that they might have elected better men, aud aro, therefore, to blame. They are at fault if they do not see that the work is done after the men are elected. Mr. Bynum has declared the intention of himself and his colleagues to hinder the proposed action by filibustering methods. The fact that in so doing the Democracy is also interfering with public interests and wasting public money by delaying needed legislation is a thought which seems not to have occurred to the Indiana Representative. A member of Congress should represent his district, and not the party which elected him, and the member who is wise will consider public interests first. Of course, now that a newspaper has publicly stated that a number of saloonkeepers have violated the law against selling liquor on Sunday, giving names, times and places, and such other particulars as maybe necessary to make the case, Mr. Prosecutor Mitchell will call the attention of tho grand jury to the instances cited when it meets next Monday. Mr. Mitchell was championed by the News, who assured us that he would not wink at violations of the law, and as the Sentinel is professedly conversant with all the facts he may need on which to base indictments, he will, of course, have its hearty co-operation. Colonel Oates, of congressional filibustering fame, is no doubt sincere in his desire to solidify the minority party in the next House, but all the schemes he can concoct from now until doomsday will not unite tho protection wing of the Democratic party with free-traders of the Carlisle stripe. There are certain Democrats whose voices would never have been heard in the halls of Congress had it not been for their pro tection views, and who know political death awaits them when they recant tho promises made to their constituents. No, Mr. Oates, water will mix with oil long before protection and free trade join hands. In an attempt to show that tho North Side has, been favored over the South Side in tho matter of public improvements, the Sentinel says: "Several of the South-side wards are without an electric light, while several of the thorough fares on the North Side are lighted with them from one terminus to the other." Suppose several of the south wards are without electric lights; so, also, are sev eral of tho northern wards. And not one thoroughfare on the North Side is lighted from one terminus to another. False and misleading statements of this sort form the Democratic stock in trade. It is small wonder that the saloon4 keepers of Indianapolis aro angry with Judge Sullivan's morning organ. The Republicans have at least dealt honestly by them, and have given them to under stand .at all times that they had nothing to expect from them, but that they must obey the laws enacted for their government. The' Sentinel waits until the party of which it is the mouthpiece has bled them to the extent of their ability to pay for promised favors, and then exposes to grand-jury action every man from whom one of its reporters could eneak a Sunday drink. If any proof were needed that the Demdcrats depend absolutely upon the saloon men for the election of . Judge Sullivan, it is certainly furnished by tho rapidity with which the Sentinel rushes to tho front with the statement that the committee is not responsible for its three-column article on the violators of the Sunday law. The committeo is fairly on its knees to them. Campaign funds must be raised, and the saloons are, as usual, the sources from which they must bo obtained. There aro not half a dozen saloon keepers in the city of Indianapolis who have not been compelled to . contribute to the Democratic campaign fund. Hav-

ing ascertained the fact that they have paid their money, tho Sentinel sees no further occasion for silence, and details its reporters to sneak into their back doors during proscribed hours and publicly call the attention of the grand jury to their violation of the laws.

WnEN, at a certain stage of the proceedings, Mr. Davis cast a vote which indicated that ho would oppose the passage of the $250 license ordinance, tho Journal said in effect that his opposition to it should defeat him if he again became a candidate. When, however, Mr. Davis voted in favor of the ordinance when it came up for passage, tho Journal's criticism fell to the ground. Will the News, which is opposing Mr. Davis, please ascertain and inform the voters of he Fourteenth ward how Mr. Eyman, the Democratic candidate, stands on tho license question? Will he vote for its repeal if an ordinance to that effect is introduced in Council and he happens to bo a member of it! Br the way, the Sentinel has not mentioned the names of tho "clean" Democratic candidates for whom only it says good citizens should vote. Does it mean Coy, or perchance does it mean the gentleman who holds "cottage prayermeetings" in the Ninth-ward saloons! It doesn't even print the names of its party's candidates, so that tho public may judge for itself. Is it ashamed, or "dassn't"it? WnEN Boss Coy makes up his jewels that is to say, tho list of Democrats whom it is safe to have in "this politics" he will omit the editor of the Sentinel. A man who forgets for a moment that a leading principle of Democratic leadership is never to offend the saloon element is not worthy of a place in that party's councils. The rest of the campaign willbe spent by the Sentinel and the Democratic city committeo in smoothing over matters with the saloon-keepers, and assuring them that there was no intention of "sicking" the grand jury on them. The free-whisky organs, morning and evening, spend no time in trying to pull each other out of holes. The reason is that each one no sooner crawls out than it falls in again and has no time for helping other unfortunates. Professor Josiah Hurty died yester day at the home of his daughter. Mr. C. V. Jaqueth, of Cincinnati, of heart disease, at the age of seventy-five' years. Professor Hurty was one of tho early pioneers in education in Indiana, associated with Dr. R. T. Brown and Barnabas C. Hobbs. He opened the first high-school in Richmond, and also at Liberty, Ind. He taught at Lawrenceburg, Rising Sun and Madison, teaching continuouslv for over fiftvvears. over four-fifths of the time in Indiana. He went to Wesson, Miss., five years ago for his health, and after two years settled at Hansboro, near the gulf, teaching in a Presbyterian seminary up io within a year. His pupils are scattered all over the West, and will regret to hear of his death. He leaves a wife and five children Dr. John N. Hurty, of this city; Mrs. Jaqueth, of Cincinnati; Mrs. Austin, of Hansboro, Miss.; Frank Hurty, of St. Paul, and A. M. Hurty, of Carthage, Mo. The remains will be interred at Paris, 111., where the de ceased was for a long time a resident. m Mr. Steinstrand, the Li verpooL cotton 1 broker who attempted to "corner" the mar ket, attributes his failure to the larco number of "bulls'7 that rode upon his hack. This may be partly true, but the more credible reason is that the crafty Dutchman undersized the " American pile. Fo weeks past new cotton from the United States has been pouring into Europe, attracted there by the increased prices caused by tho "corner" until the chief maninulator became frightened. Like many other Europeans who have studied American re sources at a distance, Mr. Steinstrand was appalled when given visual evidence of their immensity. The Evangelical Alliance for the United States will hold a national meeting in Trexnont Temple, Boston, the 4th, 5th and Cth of December next. An attractive pro gramme has been prepared, including the names of many eminent clergymen and laymen. The alliance conference met at Washington two years ago, and the meet ing attracted much attention and was productive of good results. It is expected this assembly will excite even greater interest than the other. Indianapolis has a lower tax rate than an v other city in the country except one. It is because they have leen fortunate in escaping high taxation that certain people in that neighborhood are still landing in with the Protectionists. Never bavin bad Riiy -hich tax experi ence, they don't kuow exactly what they aro about. St. Louis Republic. It's true the connection between munici pal taxes and the tariff is rather shadowy. but this paragraph contains about as much seuso as any of the Democratic tariff arguments. By the way, are there any newspapers in Europe which are neither "official" nor "semi-official!" If there are, tho able war correspondents on the continent might vary the monotony by quoting them once in a while. Mr. Sam Matt Fripy is tho name of a man who is announced, as a coming inter nal revenue collector in the Pennsylvania district. Notwithstanding his name he is understood to be nobody's man Friday. An editor and sheriff in Louisiana fought an impromptu duel and killed each other with considerable less fuss than Georgia duelists make -in sending challenges and getting out of each other's way. General Chalmers will never be elected Governor of Mississippi while the stock of Winchesters holds out and the Democrats have chargo of the polls. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Gov. Fitzhuoii Lee is growing so stout that he is barely able to mount a horse without assistance. Hkrr Botel, a wonderful tenor, is fascinating the audiences at the Krall Gardens, Berlin. He was a coachman not longago. George Eliot hated "friendly criticism." knowing how insincere it is. and would never let any person except George H. Lewes see one of her books in MS. Bishop F. D. Huntington, of Syracuse N. Y., refuses to occupy the town residence provided for him by bis diocese, preferring an unpretentions house in the country. William Sharp, the London poet and critic, and editor of the "Canterbury Poets," is spending a fortnight in New York on a visit to Edmund Clarence Stedman. A son of Ellen Terry made his debut in Henry Irving's' new play,; on .Saturday

night, and. was cordially received. Hi stage namcris Gordon Craig; and ho is saSd to resemble bis mother in face and maimer. Berxahd QUAKiTcir, tho London book dealer, offers for sale The Book of Golden Gospels." a manuscript on pnrnlo vellum.

formerly in the library of Henry VIII. The volume is believed to have, been compiled, about A. D. 750, and is valued at ;i2ou. Carlyle. for a reputed great writer, did some very mean things. Hero is one of them: He kept three sovereigns in a littlo packet on his mantel-piece, which ho told every person he called "Leigh Hunt's sovereigns," beoxiuso he sometimes lent them to him. The four new States bring in an area about equal to that of all New England. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia. Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana combined. It is au area threo times as great ns tho British isles. Captain Mcrrell, of tho 3Iissouri, rescuer of the ill-fated Danmark's passengers. v has just received another distinction in tl form of a inagniliceut gold medal, awarded to him by the Norwegian government. Captain Murrell now wears upon his breast six gold medals and one silver ono. Mt. St. Elias has always been unhesitatingly claimed by the United States, but Mr. Seton Krr now asserts in England that it is , really in Canada, and that he would have announced this in 1SS6, but ho waswarned in San Francisco that no American newspaper could afford to print the ' facts. The president of tho National Conservatory of Music of America, Mrs. Thurber, who is now abroad, has secured the services of the eminent artist. Monsieur Manoury, as director of the vocal department. He will arrive in this country on the cth of October, and will enter immediately upon his duties. A pretty tale of devotion came to light in Bayouno City recently. Maggie Kane, a pretty brunette seventeen years old. fell in lovo with a yonng painter. Her mother, opposed the match and locked Magcio in her room. She escaped, however, rejoiued her lover, whom she found in tinaucial difficulties, and endeavored to aid him by begging on the street. She was arrested for the offense, but promptly released when she had told her storj-. Rev. Dr. Buckley, of tho Christian Advocate, says that when he was acting as chaplain of a lunatic asylum a patient submitted a discourse on "Heaven," in which was the following passage: "Nor must I forget to mention that Satan, one of the most intellectual and hy odds the 'cutest of the inhabitants of the universe, was at one time a resident of this glorious abode, but on account of outrageously bad conduct was compelled to leave for parts unknown' A little girl of the Italian race is in tho habit of visiting certain houses in Boston quite regularly, receiving food and sometimes other articles, which she stows away snugly in the basket which is her constant companion. In her ronnd of visits one dav she was accompanied by another littlo girl who had no basket. The good lady of tho house, after supplying the little girl as usual, remarked, "Doesnotyour companion want something:, too!" "Oh, no!" was the reply. "She's rich; her father works!" The Queen Regent of Spain is simple in her manners and is slowly relaxing tho rigid etiquette of the Spanish Court. Formerly it was impossible to smoke before the Queen. At a recent court dinner, however, she ordered cigars to be produced. Everybody was astonished aud no one 6eemed inclined to take tho first step. The ollicer of state, next the Queen, held the silver basket containing the cigars, but did not know what to with them. Finally the yueen took ono, lighted it, and said: "Pasa around the cigars, gentlemen." Menelix II, the new King pf Abyssinia, is the son of a beggar woman who took his father's fancy. He is almost coal black, short and dumpy. Unlike his uncle. Ras Darghe, and others among his chief advisers, he is very friendly to Europeans and wants to introduce their arts into his country. He has a remarkable fnndnehs for machinery and implements of all sorts. and his greatest delight is to examine their mechanism. Explorers say he ruined about a dozen watches and alarm clocks, taking them apart and trying to put them together again. He became at last, however, quite a proficient watch-tinker. a disappointing man. When they told this good man that his time was nigh, They dreamed not what trouble he'd give; He lived when the doctor was sure he would die. And died when he was sure ho would lire, The Epoch. COMMENT AND 0riTI0X. What they the peoplel demand is clean, intelligent and honest men in places of trust from tho highest to the lowest and no party can afford to disregard this demand. Chicago Inter Ocean. This crippled condition of the Pension Bureau service is the direct result of Democratic hostility to old soldiers. It is ono of the enects of the domination in Congress of confederato brigadiers, and it should be remedied at the earliest possible moment after Congress meets. New York Press. The way in which the Democrats aro "getting together" on the tariff question is a curious and suggestive study. In Iowa they are for free trade, in Virginia they are for protection, and in Ohio they are on t je fence, thus adlpting their views to conflicting cirenmstances in different localities, regardless alikeof logic andof houest3 St. Louis Globe-Democrat For four years demagogues have been clamoring that the surplus revenue must be instantly reduced or the country would go to the dogs, and 3'et a small fraction of the surplus, invested as England, France and Germany invest many millions yearly in encouraging and sustaining mail steamship lines, would bring returns to the people twenty, fifty or a hundred fold every year. New York Tribune. These ofilcens Ithose who object to traveling with Mr. Douglass ought to be taught a lesson in subordination. If they do not like the service upon which they aro ordered their resignation will assure them immunity, but they have no right as servants of the public to remain in hostility to the government even in a 'matter of this kind aud to set conspicuous example of contempt for the spirit of ono of the Republic's laws. Chicago Times. The question of improving the designs on our coins is likely to come before Congress at the'next session. There is no doubt t hat the coinage could be greatly improved in an artistic sense. It ought to be worthy of the developments which the aris oi sculpttire and design have 'attained, as auggested by successive directors of the mint. It is a matter that might well bo left to the discretion of the executive; and Contrresi 6bonld change tho law to that effect. Philadelphia Press. It would not be safe to admit Utah tc statehood as matters stand. It micht submit a constitution prohibiting polygamy, but there would be nothing to prevent its changing such a constitution after its purpose had been nerved and admission to the Union secured, and once in the Union the polygamous Mormons would defy the federal government. Tho appropriate amendment of the United States Constitution furnishes the solution to tho problem. Philadelphia North American. The Southern Reading r the Declaration, Atlanta Constitution. Dr. Holland's speech will not ndd to his A A 1 not mean all that their words seemed to de clare. At that time we naa maiam ami slaves in this country. It was very eideut that the signers of the declaration did not refer to the red men and the blacks. Nor did they men that all men were physically and intellectually equal. Their idea was that the freemen of a superior race were equal in a political sense and before the law, but not socially or in any other wa. On Flaco When Ho Is Worth Something. Kansui City Jourral. The New York World suggests ( I rover Cleveland to take Sunset Co's place in Congress; but the suegt stion dos not. apparently, find popular approval. Mr. Cleveland is valuable as a figure-head to a law firm because he has been President ot the United States, and having found a placa in which he is valuable ho will doubt lea be allowed to hold it.

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