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JiEW YCBK Ollsey House and Windsor Hotel. rniXADELPIllA-A. pTKemble, 3735 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO Palmer House. ' CINCINNATI J. P. Hawiey A Co., 154 Vine street. LOT I8VILLE C. T. Peering; northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. BT. IOUI8 Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. C. Rlggs House and Ebbltt House. Boss Cot, it may bo casually remarked, is "beholden" to no political , power but himself, and it will presently bo found that what ho says "goes77 with.the newly-elected "reformers." The Knight Templar delegates from the four new States had a particularly joyful and hilarious time in Washington. They expected to receive congratulations, and wcro not disappointed. Democrats, particularly Indiana Democrats, and more especially the In dianapolis brand, have littlo to recom mend them, but. for ono thing they de serve praise: As a rule, they vote. When you want to elect a reformer, the only way to insure his engaging in reforms is to educate him in advance. This information is tendered gratis to the missionaries now occupied in urging the new "reform" Council to do its duty. IF tho evening -democratic organ should interview Mr. Coy it might learn Eomething about the intentions of the newly elected city government; and then again, it might not. Still there is reason to believe that Coy possesses informa tion of this character. The evening organ of Democracy pulla out the stopper of its jug of polit ical wisdom and tells its adherents how to manago the city government. Thb cause of this is not apparent. Is not Sullivan elected, and were we not told by the News that his election would bo a "certificate of reform? ' M The News gives solemn advice to the Democracy how to utilize their victory, and says "the guidance of the wise and disinterested must bo sought." The wise and disinterested statesman who -will furnish the guidance is . Sim Coy. "AH history proves that when the De mocracy have control it is the worst cle ment that rules." Personal magnetism as a political element has been in disnso for some lit tlo time, but has come to the front again. General Grubb, the Republican candi date for Governor of New Jersey, is said to have it in inexhaustible quantities and to bo making such good use of tho gift that he is walking right into the affections of tho Jerseymen, Democrats . and all, and stands a good chance of be A number of interviows with"leading Democrats" are 'published in the evening Democratic organ of "reform" to show the direction that tho party must take in the management of tho city's affairs. It is to bo noted that not ono of theso so-called leaders has any control of tho gang. If tho reformers want to know what the" new city gov ernment will do, an interview with Boss, Coy might disclose some valuable in formation. The New York Post is booming its cjty for the world's fair by saying that it has only two decent wharves and one well-kept street. This organ of for eign ideas i3 disturbed at the thought of a fair which will show that the United States is prosperous in spite of its asser.i xl a -r . m , iions io mo contrary, ic is tno same spirit that leads it to point out to tho delegates to the Pan-American Congress the impropriety and danger ot having J anything to do with this Nation. Tite official vote in the Eighteenth -ward snows that Coburn received 190 votes and Shufelton 173. Sullivan re ceived S13 v.otes and Coy 849. Theso figures give tho lio to tho statement that. many Republicans in that ward voted for the ex-convict. In the Fifth ward Coburn received 464 votes, Pearson 478, Sullivan 319 and Robins 295. These fig ures show that Pearson received a number of Democratic votes, and give the lie to the statement that Coburn was traded in his favor. One of the most encouraging signs of the change silently in progress throughout Alabama, Georgia and the Carol in as is the fact that their newspapers devoto considerably less attention to political and social matters and more to railroad building, iron and cotton-mills, and other industrial enterprises. Tho Watte: son following, which continues to croak about "tho money devil" and "mercenary civilization' is rapidly grovfing smaller and beautifully less. During the past year Georgia surpassed every State in the Union in railroad construction, and is justly proud of the fact. From this time forth until 1S92 tho public is to be afflicted with odes to Columbus, biographies of Columbus, articles patriotic and historical, on the dis-, covery of America, panegyrics on Isabella, and "lines" to everybody and everything in tho remotest way connected"

with the great navigation scheme of four

hundred years atro, that made the PanAmerican Congress possible to-day. Theso literary efforts have already begun, and may be expected to increase in number and intensity of patriotic sen timent until the world's fair opens. It is a gloomy prospect that opens up before the readers of periodical literature, and it is no reflection upon public patri otism if the multitude addresses the writers with one tremendous appeal to don't. - ' CLEVELAND'S NATIONAL BANK POLICY. Tho favoritism of tho Cleveland ad ministration towards the national banks was a matter of public notoriety during the last campaign, and its object was well understood, but no statement on the subject was as conclusive as the figures given by the Journal, yesterday, show ing the amount of government deposits mado in the banks during tho last year of Cleveland's administration, and. the balance in tho banks at tho end of the fiscal year. Theso figures were not ac cessible to tho public during tho last presidential campaign. They become public now, through the official report of the United States Treasurer, and they disclose the truth becauso it could not be concealed or doctored. They show, first, that the government deposits in national banks during the last year of Cleveland's administration amounted to $80,083,442, whereas from 1870 to 1885 they . never onco reached $10,000,000. Second, they show that the deposits during tho year 1888 were six times as largo as they were in any year of Republican rule from 18C4 to 1884. Third, they show that tho entire government1 deposits in the banks during the fifteen Republican years, from 1870 to 1884, did not equal the deposits during the year ' 1888. Fourth, they show that the government balance in the national banks on the 1st of July, 1888, was $M,933j992, besides $3,778,518 to the credit of disbursing offi cers. The first sum stood to the credit of tno Treasurer of tho United States. Fifth, they show that this balance was never equaled but once before in the history of the government, and was nearly five times as large as the balance in any one of the years preceding Cleve land's election. To be exact, thebalance of government deposits in the national banks on the 1st day of July, from 1874 to 1888, was as follows: Year. Balance. 1874 $7.71)0.292 1875.............. 11,914,004 1876 7,870,920 1877 7,555,776 1878 0,937,910 1W7U. 7,183,403 18SO.. 7,1W,953 1881... 8,933,550 1882 ........ 1883........ 1884....... 1885......;....,:.. 1SS(J 1887...:.;... 18S9 9,010.432 10,030,U98 10.710M44 10,95,141 14,030,632 19,190,076 54,913,489 Theso figures speak for themselves. They Ehbw that Cleveland's policy was to pile t?e government money up in na tional banks instead of using it to purcnase Doncs anu stop interest, no was nursing the surplus to make an argu ment in favor of free trade. Another statement in the Treasurer's report is significant. It is a statement showing the number of national banks used as government depositories in each year from 1803 to 1888. From 1870 to I860 the number of depositories aver aged less than 150. In 1884, when Mr. Cleveland cam into office, it was 185, and in 18S8 it was 200. In other words, his Secretary of tho Treasury increased the number of government depositories and "national-bank accounts from 185 to 290. As the government deposits increased during the same period from $10,716,144 to $54,913,489, it was necessary to increase tho number of depositories, and here was a fine field for Democratic favoritism. Tho statistics all go to show that the Cleveland administration pursued a "wide-open" pol icy of favoritism toward the national banks, while shamefully neglecting its duty in other directions. RESULTS OF PB0TE0TI0N. Tho following extract from Senator John Sherman's opening speech in Ohio shows the true object and operation of a protective tariff very clearly. He said: The primary object of a protective tariff is to invite the fullest competition bv in. dividualsand corporations in domestic production. If such individuals or corporations combine to advance the price of tho domestic product, and to prevent the free result of open and fair competition. I would, -without a moment's hesitation, redace the duties on foreign goods competing with them, in order to break down the combination. The effector open competition in domestic production has always been, and always will be, to reduce the prices, I could give you statistics by tho hoar, toshow that in every department of domestic industry that is protected by our tarift laws, the uniform effect of competition is to reduce the price to the consumer to the mere cost of production. Whenever this free competition is evaded or avoided by combinations of individuals or corporalions, tno amy anouia ue reaucea ana ioreign competition promptly invited. Fortunately, in moat cases -where production is open to competition, combinations and trusts are short-lived, and end in bank ruptcy. What the Republican party seeks xo accompnsn now is sucn protection as will induce domestic competition in every article mat can oo manuxacturea or pro duced in this country with reasonable facility, such diversity of production as will make us independent of all nationsfor the necessaries of life. That this has been the practical result of protection in this country is abun dantly proved by experience, facts and statistics. In the entire list of protected industries there is not ono product that is not much cheaper, to-day, than it was before tho era of protection. Instead of increasing prices, protection has en-, couraged competition, and thereby reduced prices. Protection is the father of competition, and competition is tho life of trade. AN ABSURD CLAIM. Nothing could be more absurd than the efforts of tho Democracy to construe the result of tho city election as an administration defeat. There never was a municipal election conducted more exclusively on local, issues than the one of last Tuesday. We speak advisedly when wo say that in the entire history of tho city no municipal campaign was ever begun, carried on and completed with such" a' complete ignoring and exclusion of national issues as the one just concluded. Neither party made any reference to national issues in its platform, and they were not discussed by tho press nor brought forward during the campaign in any way. To an ex-

ceptional degree it was a local election,

on local issues. If the Republicans had carried the city it could not, under the circumstances, have been claimed as an administration victory, and no more can the Democratic victory bo claimed as an administration defeat. The operation of local issues can bo clearly discerned in the returns, and there is no trace of the operation of any other than local issues. That the Democracy should attempt to fortify themselves in tho possession of the city and use their victory for all it is worth in State politics is natural, but it remains to be seen how much they will profit by it. Tho record is yet to be made, and there is no reason to believe it will be one that will contribute, to future victories. In tho language of the News, all history shows that when the Democracy have control it is their worst element which rules. .Meanwhile, we repeat that tho campaign was conducted on purely local issues and the Democratic victory is in no sense an administration defeat. MUGWUMP HYPOOaiSY. Mr. George William Curtis's Harper's Weekly says of the Massachusetts Democratic convention that its spirit was one of honest conviction and progress, and that its face was turned toward tho morning. Heading a little lurtner, to discover in what respect this progress was indicated, it was found that "tho platform declares strongly and at length for tariff revision." Further, it is re marked, incidentally, that tho Repub-j licans are condemned for their broken pledges of reform, but the platform con tains' no declaration of its own on the subject. Now, Mr. Curtis knows that denunciation of other parties and their methods means nothing unless it is accompanied by a declara tion ot a purposo to pursue - a course more in the lino of re form. He knows that all this con demnation of Republicans is mere clap trap, and that the absence of any prom ises on their own part means that the Democracy is not concerned with re form. Mr. Curtis, as one of the self - constituted guardians of the civil serv ice, and the loud advocate of reform in that direction, passes by as of no con sequence the marked omission of Massa chusetts Democrats to support his theories, and because they declare for free trade, therefore, their faces are set to the morning. Mugwump hypocrisy has been betrayed nowhere more clearly than in these comments. He and his brethren preach civil-service reform as the one thing needful to the Nation, but with free trade in their platform's they are content with nothing more. . ' - GfiOOiTY TIMES POSFEEE-TBADEIIS. 4 Free-trade papers are extracting very littlo comfort from the visit of the South American delegates. The raoro surprise the delegates express at tho vast and varied manufacturing indus tries of the United States the glummer; tho free-trade organs appear. Consistency requires them to be so. They cannot find any satisfaction in tho ex istence of thousands of factories, em ploying an army of workingmen at gooil wages, and turning out products which challenge the unbounded admiration of foreigners, by their superiority and cheapness. The very existence of theso factories is the strongest possi ble proof of . the . benefits , of the policy under which they have grown up, and every ex pression of surprise from the foreigners goes in favor'of protection. They do not see any obstacle to trade in our tariff law. They uo see that we are manufacturing a great many things which their people want; they are amazed at their excellence and cheap ness, and they grow more and more out spoken every day. in favor of turning South American trade from Europe to the United States. All this makes tho free-trade organs ' unhappy. It goes dead against their theory and their teachings. If the country had had twenty-five years of free trade or tariff for revenue only, instead of twenty-fivo years of protection, wo should have precious little to show the foreigners. In stead of expressing astonishment at the number, variety and extent of our man-: ufacturing industries, they would bo expressing surprise that a country of such immense natural resources should be so little developed, and that a people naturally so enterprising and independent should bo supporting foreign indus tries instead of their own. If the fate of Mr. Cleveland's admin istration had depended on tho vote of the city of Buffalo after he was elected President it would have been wiped out of existence. When he was a candidate Buffalo gave him 17,477 votes, against 18,530 for Blaine. In the election for Governor in 18S5 it gave Davenport, Republican, 17,933 votes, and Hill, Dem ocrat, 15,973. This was a big falling . oft from Cleveland's vote, and in every sense much more of an administration defeat than the recent local election in this city. In 18SC Buffalo cast 17,877 Republican votes and 13,501 Democratic. This shows a loss of about 4,000 Democratic votes in two years in tho Presi dent's own city. In 1888 Buffalo gave Harrison 23,330 votes against 21,813 for Cleveland. Tho figures show that while between 1884 and 1888 the Democratic vote in Cleveland's city shrunk 4,000 votes he was able, in a presidential year, to poll 4,500 more votes in 18S8 than he did in 1881, but r.s Harrison received 4,800 votes more than Blaine did in 18S4 he carried Cleveland's own city by over 1,500 majority. If the Demo crats in 1893 can nominate a candidate for President as much more popular than Harrison as Harrison was than Cleveland, they may possibly carry this city, but they must not build any hopes on the falling off in the Republican vote in a local election one year after tho presidential. The Journal is deeply interested in the welfare, prosperity and good gov ernment of Indianapolis, and if tho Democracy fulfill their pledges of re form in city government it will not withhold due credit. Tho word "reform" is used as a part of tho political cant of tho day without admitting that there aro

any serious abuses in the city govern

ment to be reformed. It is quite likely that some mistakes have been made, and that not all things have been done as wisely or well as they might have been. But, in the main, city affairs have been honestly administered, and the retiring city government will be able to' present a clean balance-sheet and a record which their successors will find it hard to equal, much less surpass. If they do surpass it they will be entitled to the credit, and nothing can prevent them from receiving it. If they fail, as we have no doubt they will, nothing can prevent them from receiving the drub bing they will deserve, and the Journal will take at least as much pleasure in administering that as it would in according them credit. . . The Louisville Courier-Journal, in an article on negro colonization, says. There is a countv in Indiana which sent many men to join the federal army in the civu war, ana tney iougni uraveiy, ioo. Yet the citizens of that county will not al low a colored man to live in it. If one should happen to wander there, he is given tweuty-four hours' warning to leave, and should he not accept the hint, tno shotgun is the remedy. These same people boast how they fought to free the negro. We do not believe this statement is true of any c6unty in Indiana. A recent enumeration of the population of the State showed that the only counties not containing a single colored inhabitant aro Adams, Fountain, Marshall, Scott, Starke, Washington and Welis. it tho Courier-Journal's statement is true of any county, it is, presumably, ono of those named. Will it kindly state which county is meant or where it obtains its information! Tho Journal i3 in pretty close communication with all parts of the State, and has never heard of tho fact stated by tho C. J. The Democrats interviewed in. yes terday's News have the effrontery to talk about carrying out pledges of reform and promises of better govern ment. Is there in the city a dunce so dull that he ever for one moment re garded one of these pledges or promises as sincere, much less binding? Is thero a man who over conceived that they. were anything else .than the empty mouthings of demagogues? Reform is to them a word from the lips out; it has no sense and no use for them, except in a campaign and before an election. What promise have Democratic leaders ever made that was not broken! What obligations of virtue, or patriotism, or manhood is sacred in their eyes! His tory is blackened by the broken faith and the . shameless treacheries of that party. . " Boston is having a cattle show, and an aesthetic editor of that city complains because the animals are too sleek and rounded to be picturesque. "Perhaps there is something very beautiful to a cattle fancier," he says, "in the shape of a monstrous prize bull with his sky-line, so to speak, as straight as a ramrod from his horns to tho root of his tail, but no artist would be at tracted by such an animal." It never oc curs to this remarkable critic that the fault is with the'artists' ideas, and not with the cattle. Painters have, as is well known, a fancy for putting cows into their landscapes whose visible framework is an affliction to the agricultural eye. No cow not sway-tacked, or with cavities. in front of hershaiphip bones big enough to hold a bushel of corn, are admitted to the canvas of any well-regulated artist. Nevertheless, such cattle do not Teally adorn a landscapo in real life, and are. seldom seen in any thrifty community. And to the taste not vitiated by contemplation of bones on canvas a herd of fat, sleek cattle is a pretty sight, and not necessarily suggestive of steak and roast. To be truly picturesque they must bo on a rich meadow, it is true, and aro not in keeping on a bleak New Eng land hill which is, perhaps, whero the trouble comes in. The Northwestern Christian Advocate having discovered that Dr. John has not been elected president of DePauw University, neatly apologizes ' for the prema ture puff it gave him, but takes nothing back, and now threatens to even up with him by saying less about him when he is elected, as it predicts he will be, and thinks he ought to be. Simply because the young man in Buffa lo, who cut his throat, died with a "deadly cigarette" in his mouth, the opponents of that much-maligned and persecuted smallboy's delight aro trying to prove it was the cigarette that killed him. This is going a little too far. Even the cigarette should be accorded fair play. i . Strono is the irony of fate. The wife of John P. St. John, jr., son of the prohibi tion apostle, has just sued for divorce at Santa Fe, on the ground of her husband's habitual drunkenness. Somebody should hire the Kansas ex-Governor at $50 per night to talk prohibition to his son. Much to his disgust, General Boulanger was extremely sea-sick on his way to . Jersey. It?s mighty hard to be heroic when one's stomach is in commotion. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Emperor Viliam of Germany thinks of nothing but war. He conforms his habits to those of Frederick the Great, and his court at Berlin has become a camp. A Russian paper, giving statistics of prices paid to Russian authors by publish ersi says that TourgneneiFsold the copyright of his works, shortly before his death, toM. Glasunott'tor 9,000; Gogol's works were sold for 0.000; Pushkin's for 1,750, and "KrilotTs Fables' for 700. A FEW friends of the Johns Hopkins University, hearing of its temporary financial embarrassment, have each contributed S-5,000 to help it out. The uifts obtained this year amount to$li7,0U0; which will keep the university running for the next three years, during which time it is hoped tbat its securities will increase in value enough to cover its annual support. Bret Harte became a novelist by accident It happened in this way: He was the editor of the Overland Magazine, and, failing to secure a story of California life, he wrote one himself. It was "The Luck of Roaring Camp," which was received with a storm of abuse on the Pacific coast. In the East, however, it had an immense success, and was the commencement of his literary fortune. Professor Topd, of Amherst, who has charge of the expedition to Saint Paul de Loanda, on the west coast of Africa, to view the eclipse, has planned a system of pneumatic valves, to be operated by electricity, b3' which the photographic apparatus may be operated automatically during the period of total eclipse. The expedition h'as been delaved until Saturday that this apparatus may be completed. The death of the dowager Lady Holla ndf it is feared, will bring into the market Holland House, now almost in the heart of London, for nearly a hundred years the seat of elegant hospitality and the resort of wits and men ot letters. A sueUon has

been made that it be converted iato an his-,

torical museum. It is reported, however, that Lord Uchester, to whom this famous mansion with its spacious grounds, covering nearly eighty acres, now belongs, has no intention of selling.- s The Bishop of North Dakota is having a car built in which to make Jiis episcopal visitations. Spare beds and accommodations for strangers are so scarce in his district that he finds it rjecessary thus to imitate tho actors, and find himself in bed and shelter. The Bishop's traveling car is to be a chapel on wheels as well as an itinerant house, and he expects not only to hold services in it, but to have it the social meeting place of the more scattered members of his liock. . . Mr. W. H. Smith, the leader of the British House of Commons, has recently built a new church at Portsea at a cost of more than $110,000. He has no interest in the place whatever; but happening to visit it for a day on government business, he no-" ticed that it greatly needed a new church. Forthwith he sent for the vicar and set the work in progress, and until a few davs ago no one but the vicar knew where all the money came from. That's the kind of man "Old Morality" is. Gottschalk, the most gifted American v pianist, was born in New Orleans in 1829. His father was an Englishman, his mother a Creole of noble decent. Ho played on the piano when three years old. at seven he played the organ, gave concerts at thirteen, studied in Paris at fourteen, where he made a successful debut at sixteen. From that time his career was one of unalloyed brilliancy. He spoke all the modern languages, composed beautiful music, played with a grace and dash rarely equaled, and was, withal, a polished gentleman, and not a musical madman. Mrs. Mackay, wife of the millionaire, is very much interested in children, and her charities are of ten directed to their interests. Another pleasant phase of Mrs. Mackay's character is her willingness to assist any young woman who is struggling for fame or fortune, and many are the youugirls to whom 6he has given not only financial aid, but good, womanly advice, as well, taking an interest in them, and not making them feel her charily a humiliating burden. With all her peculiarities of temperament, Mrs. Mackay has some traits of character which endear her greatly to those who know her well. She is a stanch friend, and very sincere in both her likes and dislikes. Signor Crispi relates the following anecdote: "During my first interview with Prince Bismarck, at Friedrichsruh, the Chancellor caused two enormous glasses of beer to be brought, and invited me to drink the one placed before me. I protested that 1 drank only water, whereat the Prince seemed astonished beyond measure, but said nothing. But when he had emptied his own glass, ho slowly drank the one which had been intended for me. Shortly afterward, two large pipes filled with tobacco were brought. The Prince lit his own, and - handed the other to me.. "Your Highness 1 observed, "many thanks; but I do not smoke.' Vhat!' exclaimed Bis marck, rather impatiently. "You don't drink, and you don't smoke! What sort of a man are you, then' " Miss Jeanette Gilder, the editor of the Critic, leads, as it were, a dual life. At' home and in society she is entirely feminine, and just what any other clever, sweet-tempered woman would' be. She' is passionately fond of children, and is devotedto the pretty infants of her brother. But in her ofilce herwholo manner changes. She is a thorough woman of business, and during ollice hours works very hard. She suits her attire to her work, and, as the feminine dress cramps the neck, throat and arms, she has adopted a costume almost entirely masculine. ' On the street in winter she wears a long, dark ulster, with a white handkerchief folded under the edges. In her. oflice she wears dark skirts, kilted plainly 'to the waist, with no overdress; the waist "is a half-fitted sack coat, with the cut at the throat the same as that of a man, and with the same pockets. Under it is a closefitting waistcoat, in which are watch and chain; a plain staudiug collar and cravat are entirely masculine in tone. ' Sbe even wears wide cutis with heavy link buttons and a seal ring. Her brother, Richard Wateon Gilder, is the editor of the Century. ' COMMENT AND OPINION. It begins to look as though the North would have to free the Southern negro again. From commercial slavery to political bondage is not what was meant by the results of the late war. Pnt a pin there, you Southern bull-dozer. Detroit Tribune. AVE are very much in favor of civil-service reform, but we have been disposed to consider it purely a matter of practical business, to bo substituted for an inferior method just as we have substituted a perfecting press for the old flat-bed press. Milwaukee Sentinel. It was hardly necessary tor Governor Lowry to have worried so much over Sullivan and Kilrain. They were giving Mississi ppians a chance to see a fair fight, with no favor to either side. That might have been a useful and suggestive sight for Mis-' eissippians. Louisville Commercial. The authorities of New Orleans are trying to suppress gambling in that city. The wickedest aud most colossal gambling concern in America, the Louisiana lottery, has its headquarters in New Orleans, but it is not at all likely that the present reform movement will ever reach it. Philadelphia Press. Practical legislation for the promotion of temperance can be defeated only by a virtual union of those who want prohibition with those who want unrestricted' liquor traffic. It rests with the advocates of prohibition, therefore, to decide whother the traffic shall be wholly unchecked because more than two-thirds of the people refuse to check it in thoir way. New York Tribune. If the railroad system is "ever made an uncontrolled and uncontrollable monopoly the people will demand that it be transferred to the government, and be managed like the postal system, for public benefit, not private gain. Every movement in the direction of a railroad trust will strengthen the position of the advocates of government ownership aud operation of transportation linns. Chicago Tribune. President Harrison can do no better than to recommend to Congress the establishment of well-paid mail lines as a first step towards stimulating our Southern trade, and by sending American fleets and first-class representatives of the government thither establish the good feeling between the republics of thiseontinent which has heretofore existed largely as a matter of sentiment, and without the moral and physical aid which this country, for Its own sake, is hound to give. Boston Advertiser. - - - " ' ARNOLD ON AMERICA; . First Impressions of the Author of Tlie Light of Asia. ' "It is wonderful for a British islander to discover what a mere step upon yonr broad States a thousand miles make' says Sir Edwin Arnold in Frank Leslie's illuMtratcd Newspaper, "and to conclude from what he sees what must be the life, the enterprise, the opulence, the energy, the natural and industrial resources, tho boundless future possibilities of the territory ho Iras not seen. A feeling of gladness and confidence about tho earthly part of man's development beyond all expression has possessed me in perceiving how strong and sound your national vitality is, how little you are really -spoiled in courtesy of manners, in civic kindliness, in social grace and in reverence for law by your large liberties. "An Englishman no doubt notices hero an absence of deference and formal attention, but he also notices the presence of a nearly unnorsal and most -manly and frank comradeship, the blossom,' perhaps, of a wider and healthier air. I am far from saying this to flatter America. The impertinence of such, an intention would be rebuked by its absurdity. Your nation of sixty millions standi well beyond the reach of compliments. History rather waits to see if you will deserve the gifts and opportunities which destiny -has brought you in both her hands.' "I should not be au Englishman, however, if I did not grumble, and you. must allow me to denounce and execrate the cobblestones of your New York streets, that rob the Briton of sleep by night and rack his bones by day; the snake-ieitc. which waste alike land and lumber, and torture the ejro of an, .artist; tho lack of official luggage-porters at your railway -stations, and those monstrous, ugly, uupaintcd tele

graph poles, with wiich yonmar tho Tistas

.'mi. lini.af clrAAta 11:1 1 vnnf rtnllllA ISA 1111 k3 . .m . " " " J buildings often astonish and enchant me; your colleges, .libraries, museums and ob servatories leave positively no excuse 10 Anirrinsn ronth. Thev mnst henceforth create and not import ports, authors, artists. sculptors, sciemuic geuiuscs nuu bihiuuoraers. You really owe us, with all yonr glorious chances, a galaxy of great names." A NOVEL CAMPAIGN. Forestalling Possible Campaign Stories by Telling AU About IUmsel Boaton SpeclaL Henry .Cook, one of Leominster's wealthy citizens, wants to be a member of the Legislature . this winter, and he isn't afraid to sav so. He is A eeifmade man, a leading citizen, and a member of the Board ox Assessors., For two weeks flaring posters and big advertisements in the local papers have proclaimed that Henry Cook had hired the Town Hall for last nifcht; that he proposed to tell tho peoplo why he wanted to go to tho. Legislature, and that he should ask for tho support of his townspeople at tho polls. At 8 o'clock the hall was crowded, when tho sclf-nomiuated candidate walked upou the platform amid the tumultuous applauso of tho persona assembled. Thero was no one on tin platform with him, and he at once got down to business by informing the voters before him that ho wanted to go to the Legislature and that he was going as sure as he should live to seethe first ot January. He said that thero were now some eight or ten candidates in the Republican party all ready to go before the convention, and that he intended to forestall them aud spike all their guns of campaign material by telling every mean thing ho had ever done and some of his good deeds, and thus prevent his opponents from getting in their work later on, as he would fully cover the groynd. He began with his birth, said he would go through his life and hoped when he got through with his story that he would go homo to his wife with a good record. ' lie said that his father at one time kept tho poor-farm at Hudson. that he knew a good deal about poverty then and had ever since. 11a showed that he had been a hostler, a peddler, a tramp, a grocer, a stableman, a chair-maker, a comb-maker, a carpenter, a blacksmith, a manufacturer, a gambler, a thief, a large real estate dealer, a lawyer, a detective and that now he was a candidate for the Legislature. .T admit that I have been a thief,1' said he. "and I will tell 3'ou about it, and the other candidates cau make the worst of ir.i I was a hostlor in a 6table at Gardner, and was discharged because business was dull. I tramped home twenty miles through tho snow to save what little money I had. . On the way 1 met a big dog with a boiled ham in his mouth. I shouted at him and he dropped the ham and ran. I picked it up and carried it home, and a welcome supper it was to thb old folks, and that," said the novel 6tump-speaker. "was my first and only theft, and I never asked who owned that ham. either. It was hard times; it came in just right, and; under the circumstances, 1 couldn't really afford to mako too many inquiries about it," In this way Mr. Cook went on, and by the time he had finished the novelty and hu:orof his campaign had so struck his audience that nearly the whole of them announced that they would vote for Cook. His candidacy is the talk of the surrounding towns to-day, and, from present indications, he will be elected with a whoop. Some Notable Iloosler Products. Milwaukee SentlneL Indiana has contributed her full share of able lawyers and publicists enough to show that the conditions of life in that interesting State aro not unfavorable to tho development of men of force. Thomas A. Hendricks, Oliver P. Morton, Schuyler Colfax. Jesse 1). Bright (treasonable but able), John W. Davis (an early Sneaker of the House), William S. Holman (the Sun's ideal). George W. Julian, Michael C. Kerr, Joseph E. McDonald. Calb B. Smith, Kichard W. Thompson (the Pope-smasher), Daniel W.Voorhees, and President Harrison himself, have all been products of Indiana. That State has produced the author of "Ben-Hur," James WhitcombKiUr, and oAier persons known in the literaturo of the day. -M--H-H----S-MMM V A Word for In trails. Philadelphia North American. An attempt has been made by various ambitious, eelf-seeking politicians of Kan sas to promote an organized opposition to the return of John J. lngalls to the Senate. Such a movement does not deserve to succeed. Senator Ingalls has done more to mako Kansas prominent than any publio man who has evcr lived in tho State. His ability is unquestioned; and the fact that his colleagues have chosen him to preside over their deliberations shows the respect in which he is held. He can better afford to leave the Senate than Kansas can afford to have him leave. Natalie Is There to Stay. Chicago Journal. "Try it, if you dare!" the yonng Queen Natalie replies to tho Servian legislature which talks of expelling her from Servia and the presence of her son. It is true that Austria is at the legislature's back, but at Natalie's elbow stands the grim figure of the Czar. May the charming, plucky, royal mother hold her ground. President Mttckey's Original Idea. Kansas City J ournal President D. J. lackey, of the Mackey system of railroads, is traveling on what h'as been humorously termed by the tramping fraternity, a "tie pass." In other words he is making a tour of inspection on foot, and expects to cover 400 miles in that way. This is a new departure for a railroad president. . They Had Good Training. Minneapolis Tribune. James G. Blaine and Melville W. Fuller were both reporters at Augusta, Me., at tho same time. When, their country called them, however, they did not hesitate to abandon that lucrative and pleasant calling for the thorny .paths of politics and the law. : Liko good reporters, both got to tho top. s - - Partners In Crime. New York Independent. The liquor-dealors of this State last vear pave .jOo.OOO V help elect Governor llilL This year they are to give tho same kind of assistance to Governor Hill's ticket. Why do the temperance people of the third party insist on helping them practically to secure their objectl Cox's Bead WasLcveh St. Ixrals Republic iDena). The late Sunset Cox was of the opinion that the population of the new' State of Washington is the "pick of the country," but the election returns failed to bear him out. The Republican majority of 8.000 was a flagrant exhibition of political indecency. ' The Cook Lady Would Object. , LoulsvUIe Courier-Journal. Mr. Atkinson's assertion that slow cooking is best will never do. With slow cooking how would our ladv helps'ever get tho stove burned out! And what would become of tho enormous business of furnish lngi&ew stovo pieces! A Curious Fact, Boston Transcript. . It is a curious fact, brought out by the New York Commissioner of Labor Statistics, that prison estimates of the amount of food needel to sustain life aro more liberal than estimates for persons dependent on public charities. . Well Equipped with Winchesters. Memphis Avalanche. ' The Mississippi Democracy is gctting'into such excellant shape that there really does not seem to be any good reason why the opposition has the least reason in the world for remaining in tho field any longer. Their Pry to Smile. Phlladslplna Inquirer. Whichever way one looks there is tha smiling face of some former son of Indiana on top or about to get there. If we were Indiana men- we should smile at some length, too. " , A Fluanclal Success. . Kansas City Journal. In comparison with similar organizations in other citiea. the KaP"& City Exposition Company has had a m. successful season. No exposition was hold nad uo money lo?t. ;'. .. o, xir:. Philadelphia Inquirer. , The country now , , six months in which, to discuss next ntr.y & t sua-ball c-