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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1889-TWELVE PAGES.

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YVASUXNGTON OrnCTci3 Fourteenth St T. S. ntATM. Crrre.onrtcnt. Telephone Call. ray'-sfM OSce -233 j Editorial Boom ..34 J 7 IOUIS OF SUIWCUIPTION. ' EXTLY, BT MAIL. C2 e year. lt?tS?T ..........1 12.00 Ore y tr. with Bandar.. . 14.00 Pix mcntr.JL wHtat ticntUy ti.OO fix months. wtUife-amlay ............... 7.00 Tfcree mentis, wunout haniay ............ 3.00 Tr.re roonB with fnndr..4 . . 3.CO (Jnexaota.w "laY.. .............. 1.00 Cne roexUu with Sunday L20 Delivered by earner in city, a cenu per week. jtr year f 1X0 Rednced Hates to CI aba. Fcbrtb wltL , any ot oux nuzneroui scents, or tend tabKTlpuona to Uio ( . JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, l.VDLeCJLPou 1 COM paper mutt, in order to reeeite attention, be aecom panted ly the name and addrest of the tenter. TILE tSDJAIiAl'OLIS JOURNAL Cm te found at the following places. fc02ttXN Americaa xcliaage la Europe, 449 Strand. , PARIS-American Exchanre in Tart, 35 Boulevard ea Cajmcinea. NETT YCrtfc-GGxcy House and Windsor Hotel. pniULDELPIIlA A. rTKemMe, 3733 Lancaster arenas, ( CHICAGO Palmer Xlonae CINCINNATI J . P. nawley A Co., 154 Vine street. LOTJISVILLE-a T. Deertn. northwest corner Tblra uid J efferson streets. ri. LOUIH Union News Company, "Union Depot tad Southern lioteL : WASHINGTON. D. cZzilffgs House and Ebbltt iicmse. ' TWELVE PAGES. v The Sunday Journal has doable the clrcnltion of any Sunday paper In Indiana Price five cent. A CAPTIOUS PEOPLE. - Every now and then somo modern izer feels it incumbent upon himself to repeat the tritb remark that Americans take their amusements sadly. When ho does this he is not only tiresome, hut is incorrent. The peculiarity of tho American in pursuit cf pleasure is not that ho is too sad to enjoy what offers itself in that line, hut ho is too critical. He does not accept festivities and diversions1 for what they aro worth, but criticises them because they are not more pleasing. He does not expect to enjoy anything without qualification, and vt hen no flaw is at first visible in an entertainment that presents itself, ho looks about for one. It is needless to Bay that ono can invariably bo found. It would be wise to ' let it 'alone, but the "amusement'1 hunter drags it out, hugs it to his heart, talks about it, and allows it to overshadow whatever meritorious features there may be. The play is not what it ho aid be; the actors aro not all Booths bud Modjcskas; it Is too tragic or too trivial; the conga of the soubrette aro not sung aa well as Patti could eing them; the jokes of the comedians are old. Tho racial gathering might have been pleasant if certain persons had been wittier, or other persons had not been present. Tho dance was not well managed; the picnio would hare been beUeron anotherday. There is,, in 61101 v-v uj uox vl ointment. The tyiicarrm&n and woman are never quite pleased end unreservedly happy. They aro persistently critical, and, therefore, constantly bored. Their attitudo b that of one whose oyster, tho world, has been opened and found wanting. Fortunate, indeed, are the f ow who have escaped the blighting contagion of this disease, who take tho world as it comes, and make the best of it, ignoring the deficiencies and seeing only the brightness. Tho world : offers a great deal to such, for when one really sets about it it is as easy to discover the clear sky as the cloud, the sun as the Bhadow, easier, to bo exact, for, figuratively as practically, there are more clear days than dark. One with a disposition to enjoy what comes finds, continually, good reason for smiles. The play is never utterly atrocious; it has redeeming features; the dinnerparty or other festivity to which he goes is never entirely a failure because one thing goes wrong; the society of his fellow-creatures is not tiresome to him. even if they aro not of hia intellectual level. Any one of them can tell him something that he docs not know, and ho . 13 glad to be told. This happy individual can go to a church fair or a State fair and not come homo feeling that tho earth is a cave of gloom. Ho takes life simply; if he does not get what he asks, he accepts cheerfully what comes, and finds it good. He it is more commonly she is a constant though unconscious rebuke to tho blase brother, but, alas, in these degenerate and captious days, tho . blase ono is in the majority. THE COiniOBPLlCE HAS. In response to that singular prompting by which timid individuals are frequently led to tako the whole world into their confidence and pour all their woca into tho variable bosom of tho public press, a correspondent writes to tho New York Sun in pathetio solicitation of solacing -interpretation of his own affairs. He is forty years old, he states, is married to a 'sensible woman, Las a healthy, brainy boy, has accumulated the tidy little sum of $40,000, and ttill b not happy. The burden of his plaint is that he has neither social, political nor churchly prominence. He has teen friends and acquaintances rise to various kinds of eminence without apparent effort, and Is so impressed and depressed by hi3 own chronic condition as a commonplaco man that he borrows the public ear to ask pathetically, "What is success!' Waiving tho analysis of success, which, after all, is a movable feast, with unavoidably ehifting standards, towards which tho writer of tho lamentation, teems to have xnado undeniable and laudabh progress, the benefits accruing to tlic commonplaco man are worth consideration.' The happiest naIons and tho happiest women are said bo thoso withiut history, and with .milar logic the l?ippiest man should bo bo man of no eminence. Blessings on . j' xupmpou, if lo doesn't yet sit np t, ho h spared citerry of having

world IcMiin at him. So- ! oh tha c-ljjrce being in tho " f I" j coa co homo o'

nighja with a prospect of EtayiDg there, slippered and happy in tho bosom of his commonplace family. Door-bell rings have no serious terrors for him, and the thought of tho tiresome round of social exactions affrights him not. He goes to bed when ho feels like it, and has time and' to spare to cultivate the society of his healthy, brainy, commonplaco boy. Politically of no particular importance, he is yet more fortunately situated. His vote weighs, as heavily in the Nation's coffers as that of the mightiest statesman on the scroll, and he eats, drinks, Bleeps and takes his walks ahroad without having his buttons and buttonholes dislocated by importunate candidates and reporters. Local party bubble and trouble is to him as the sounding brass and tho tinkling cymbal, and tho rise and fall of administrations, from a personal stand-point, are as the faint, dying whisper of tho wind in the tops of far-off mulberry trees. Of no churchly prominence, ho is spared much of tho hurrying to and fro which speeds the American to an early grave. Ho doubtless Walks to 10 kirk on the Sabbath, pays his dues with a free and conscientious hand, :and sets jewels of frequent good deeds in tho inconspicuous

crown of his rejoicing without a ripple of public comment. As a commonplaco man, he doubtless has leisure to be a good husband, a loyal friend and a praiseworthy neighbor. Ho may stand to the social, thepolitical, the religious structure as the dull red brick in the foundation to tho sky-blue tile in the belfry; but to its completeness, solidity and strength, a more important factor. Estimating himself a cipher, no doubt, ho neglects to measure his value in helping the mint to its raillionship. .Blessings again, then, on the dull wits of tho commonplace man! He does not get his namb in the papers, perhaps, and imagines that it is not writ in the story of nations, here and hereafter, but by just so much as the finite degree makes apart of the infinite he is woven in whatever is good, and great, and durable in the plan of human existence. . KICmO A DEAD LIOJT. American journalists may tear a man's reputation to Matters while he is alive, but, as a rule, they aro decent enough to let him alone when he is dead. Tho rule seems to be reversed in England. The public, at least on this side of the water, never heard anything derogatory to the character of , Wilkie Coilins when he was living, but ho sooner is ho under the sod than the English press begins to tell his faults and failings. One well-known newspaper man, who describes himself as an intimate friend of the deceased novelist, tells the world that he was a slave to opium, and another gives details of his private life which refiect sadly upon his morality. These writers aro apparently unconscious ot any impropriety in making disclosures which they never t dared make when tho victim of their pens was alivo to defend himself. The English pres3 is fond of lecturing American newspapers, and uttering platitudes on the ethics of journalism, but it has never had anything to criticise fo indecent as this treatment of Collin. A UpOJ ON THAT, DID NOT UtflTfX , It is painful to note the ahsonceof harmony in the proceedings of the Indiana woman suffragists at Rushville; the more so that this meeting was called for tho express purpose of effecting a union of associations and promoting harmony. As tho situation is understood by those outside of the acrcd circles, the two societies whose union was to be brought about advocate suffrage for women as a matter of principle, and on the ground that it is an abstract right, of which they aro now wrongfully, not to say feloniously, deprived by base man not first or second base, but . man in general. The points of diflerence between them were mero technicalities; their main objects were the same, and there seemed no reason why they should not join their forces and charge on tho common enemy, the statute-making male tyrant, with redoubled strength and fury. The completion of tho union, indeed, seemed a mere form to tho excellent but guileless political ladies who had hitherto heen the leaders of their respective clans. But they reckoned without that element which is always giving so much troublo to politicians by coming in when itisn't wanted, and holding ' tho balance of power. Such power as these suffragists had hitherto possessed they had been .able to hold in their own hands, no one, so far as known, ever having shown a'disposition to snatch it. They had elected themselves to the offices of he associations, had laid out plans of campaign and had inveighed against their wicked oppressors year after year witlfout interference. If dissensions had arisen, they were not based on questions of policy, but upon those little personal disagreements from whichfemale statesmen are not more exempt than their brothers. With one accord they had refrained from specifying in detail the reforms they expected to accomplish, or, at least, the methods hy which they expected to accomplish them. What they wanted was a chance to "purify politics," but they discreetly dccliued to say just how this was to be done. They moved, like G corge William Curtis and his brethren, in a region of high intellectuality far above tho seething pool of practical politics. This was a mistake, for if they had mixed in that pool, or even stood on the edge and taken notes, they might not have been so badly left at Rushville, as George William Curtis himself could tell them. The thirdparty women knew a trick worth two of that. They, too, want suffrage, but they want it for the one and only purpose of downing the "demon rum," and aro free to say so. Some of them, a goodly number of the convention, it appears, had become members of the "nonpartisan" suffrage associations, and were on hand to assist in tho "j'iniir." They assisted with such success that they elected otlicers for the new society from their own number; practically, thongh not formally, declared prohibition principles, and snubbed, sat upon, and took in and did for the advocate of suffrage for suffrage's sake in a way that mnst command the admiration of the pcoplo on

the fence, whatever their sympathies. Tho routed faction further displayed their lack of political' shrewdness and acumen by proceeding to "kick" if the expression be not indelicate in this connectionwhen they ought to know that the first principle of politics, as successfully practiced, is to submit, ostensibly at least, to the will of the majority in convention, and reserve their kicks until they will do more good. As it looks now the representatives of the lofty, abstract-right-to-voto idea have but one leg, and that a lame one, to stand on, instead of the two symmetrical and united limbs that were to 'Carry them out cf Rushville. Whether they will withdraw and set up for themselves afresh or wait until they can beat their captors at their own game, is a thing no fellow can find out just now. In tho meantime, while awaiting developments in female political education, the rest of tho world will get in its crops and keep tho covernment going to the best of its feeble ability. Referring to Mr. Maurice Thompson's recent statement in the Journal relative to his early blood-and-thnnder novel, for which he received $100, and how mortified he was at its recent publication, the Critic says: No donbt Mr. Thompson would gladly repay tbe $100, with compound Interest to date, to suppress the sulphurous border story of his nonntrc; but tbe recoUection of his overwhelming dellzht at recfivin? the cheque these many years ago tempers the chagrin the belated publication of tbe tale now causes him. Why would It not be a pood idea to apply a statute of llmitaUons to the publication, when an author has "arrived." of the rot-boiling puerilities of the time when he ut his foot on the first rung of the ladder of amei It would ho hard to enforco that kind of a statute of limitations. . By the way, this suggests a new field for speculation, by buying the productions of talented young authors when they are poor and unknown, and holding them until the authors become popular and famous. There was a time when one of Tennyson's poems conld have been bought for a very small snm. but in recent years he has received as high as 1,000 for a few verses. So with many other poets as well as prose writers. The trouble is to pick out the winning aspirant for fame. The world is full of poor and unknown authors, who aro quite sire they deserve popularity and fame, but the world does not always agree -with them. It would take an expert judge to select tho winning horse. It is customary nowadays for editors of magazines to accept and pay for articles which have merit and lay' thorn away, to he published when co nvenient. These accepted articles accumulate, and, no doubt, are sometimes forgotten or overlooked. Many years hence some new editor, overhauling the files, may find contributions by writers now unknown to fame and struggling for recognition, who will then.be popular, fashionable and famous. Tun Knoxville Sentinel, just to hand, has an editorial on the resources of East Tennessee, in which it says: There is not a cereal, a bulb or' a fruit but is either indJircnoua or particularly adapted to our soil and climate. We grow the delicious peach and the pcachblow potato of theNorth; the watermelon and sweet potato of the South; the thoroughbred horses of the blue-grass , country: the Hue wool sheep of the Ohio Mocks; ibp yellow corn of Illinois and the plump white wheat of Michigan; the Jersey cow of tho Eastern herds and the tineat strains of porkers from the West; we have the blooming cotton of the Pouth and the flora of the Korth; here the magnolia and pome?ruuate blossom along with the poplar and pear; the tall pine of Maine and the cucumber tree of Alabama nourish alike in our forests. In phort. we have everything that can be produced In a semi-tropical latitude with a eeml-niouotalu-ous altitude m our favor. . We have always regarded East Tennessee as an interesting portion of the country, and should have heen disposed to accept the foregoing as a fair and impartial statement of its attractions, had not the article conoluded as follows: This reminds us to say that the editor of the! Sentinel has been complimented by Mr. B. C AuUck, who Uvea south of the river, with a basketful of the finest sweet potatoes we have ever looked upon. They areof the round yellow variety and weigh on an average anywhere from two

to six pounds apiece. This personal and concrete statement coming immediately after tho eulogy of East Tennessee raises an' unpleasant suspicion that tho latter was paid for at regular rates in sweet potatoes. Tnc great city of London does without any sort of Sunday postal service or .letter delivery. No letters are posted after 10 o'clock Saturday night nor delivered be fore 3 o'clock Monday morning. Thus for twenty-nine hours there is a complete suspension of postal service in the city. The enforcement of this rule in any large American city would be denounced as oldfogyish. stupid, etc., but there is much sense and wisdom in the rule, not to speak of moral considerations. Tho idea that a Sunday postal service and mail delivery is a necessary fcaturo of modern society is very strained, to say the least.. If such service is a necessity it is an artificial necessity, and far more imaginary than real. The world would move on just the same, and men would bo much tho better in every respect if they rested ono day from secular business. This is an abstralt and moral view of the question. Practically, however, the demand for Sunday postal service will doubtless continue, as will tho sen-ice itself. The American idea does not recognizo either the duty or the valno of rest, and begrudges even the forced observance of Sunday. A series pf curious coincidences occurs in the lives of the Eight Rev. Ethelbert Talbot. Bishop of Wyoming, and the Eight Rev. Abiel Leonard, Bishop of Utah, both of whom have been in attendance at the Episcopal convention in New York. Both lived as boys in the little town of Lafayette, Mo.; they were born on the same day of the month, within a year of each other, and were confirmed on tbe same day by the same bishop. They entered the same preparatory school on the same day, and afterward, when they went to college they went together, and entered tho same class at Dartmouth on tho same day. During the four years of the undergraduate course they were room-mates, and they were graduated together. Both having selected the ministry as their calhngin life they were ordained to the deconato and-to the ministry on the same day. Then there was a slight break in this constant advancement together. .The Rev. Mr. Talbot was made a bishop three years ago, and his friend and companion was made bishop about a year later. A recent announcement that laborers in Philadelphia had unearthed $20,000 in bank notes, while digging down a street, probably made many persons feel like hiring out to the street commissioner. But a later announcement that tbe Philadelphia find was worthless will make them glad they did not act hastily. ' The exhumed notes proved to bo counterfeit, the manufacture of some notorious crooks who operated in that vicinity many years ago. Tho araonnt of good monev buried in the earth does not jnatifs' promiscuous digging. The prescut Mayor of Grand Rapids, Mich., who is an ex-newspaper man, and was onco a lumberman, says the first sawmill in the Northwest was built by Jeff Davis. The Mayor says he came across the

information in an old pamphlet. Davis was a lieutenant in the United States army, serving under old Zach Taylof, whose daughter he afterward ran away with and, married. Taylor was in command of Fort Crawford, now Prairie du Chien. It becamo necessary to build other forts in the Northwest. The government sent a sawmill to Taylor to prepare the lumber. Davis was sent up the Chippewa river to locate the mill and operate it. That was the first saw-mill in what is now one of the greatest lumber sections in the country. With that kind of an experience Davis ought to have known better than to fool with a buzz-saw, as he did many years later. TnE recent death of Wilkie Collins recalls some interesting personal reminiscences which ho printed in a letter moro than a year ago. Among other incidents

which he relates was an irate Frenchman's demand for satisfaction for having been mado, as ho thought, to sit for the portrait of the villainous Count Fosco, of The Woman in White." The author went to see him, but he was not to bo found. lie told, also, of a lady who failed to catch his name at a dinner party, and put her foot in it by remarking: "I'm sure you don't read Wilkie Collins. The lady "put her foot in it in a double sense, for if she regarded Wilkie Collins's novels as improper, how could she have known it except by reading themT Allopathic physicians in New York are making a foolish exhibition of their hatred of homeopathists by endeavoring to make a license instead of a diploma the basis of medical standing and necessary for admission to legitimate practice. Their scheme is based on tho theory that tho examining board will always contain a maiority of allopaths', in which case tho littlo-pill men will have no show. The latter are too numerous, and, with their followers, too influential to permit such a' plan to go into successful operation, and it only serves as an unseemly display of professional jealousy. If the allopathic system cannot stand on its own merits, nor withstand competition without the aid of the law, it is time for a course of iron and quinine. Now comes the terrible literary detective and announces that the leading ideas of Mr. Henry George's "Progress and Poverty," and especially his opposition to private ownership of land, were all set forth in a book published nearly forty years ago by a Scotchman named Patrick Edward Dore. The book was entitled "The Theory of Human Progression and was published in London in The author's remedy for most of the ills of human society is the abolition of private ownership in land, and his ideas and arguments . are said to he strikingly eimilar to those advanced by Mr. Georg'e. The latter has the floor. It is thought worth while by certain papers to publish, as a matter of importance, the fact that Thomas A. Edison is a theosophist; It is really a matter of no more importance as going to prove the soundness of theosophic doctrines than to say that John Smith or William Jones, or the most . . obscure man of one's acquaintance is a believer in them. Edison is an authority on electricity, but he has, as yet, thrown no light on the divine plan that gives him the right to decide religions problems for others than himself. His opinion on these matters is as good as the "next man's," and no better. That friend of prohibition, the New York Christian Advocate, has recently been moved to speak of the political paper called tho Voiee as an Ishmael. This week it apologizes-to Ishmael for the injustice done him. and in the nyemly phrase proper to a pious organ,. classifies 'the Voice as an atrocious liar. A ef cular newspaper could not have told a plainer truth. A Pennsylvania paper records that fifty-three barrels of beer sold at the Nazareth fair for $1,100. There seems to be a little incongruity between the name of the town and its industries, the exact nature of which yon can figure out for yonrself. BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT. Stepniak is presently coming to America. "Hans von Bulow will give twenty concerts in this country next season. Quekn Victoria's pet dog is a Yorkshire' terrier that weighs two and three-quarters pounds and cost $75. Wilkie CollinS's library and art treasures, of which he had a choice colliction, will be put up for sale at public auction. When Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote her first story, she bought the stamps to 6end it oil with money earned by picking blackberries. Miss Proctor, of Lima. 0., has patented a process by which, it is claimed, 10,000 cubic feot of illuminating gas can bo extracted from one barrel of Lima oil. Kumors are increasingly prevalent that Dr. Bartlett will next year retire from the presidency of Dartmouth College and be succeeded by that accomplished mathematician and charming novelist. Prof. A. S. Hardy. A Califorxian who carried a horned toad to England and sold it for $j0, has sent home for 500 toads, and says that he proposes to remain in England until he has supplied every family with one of these doliglitfui pets. If you have gathered and pressed during your summer rambles a quantity of ferns, select tho most graceful and place them in your prettiest bowl of china, having first tilled, it with white sand. You will find in this simple arrangement a charming bit. of decoration that will do wonders in lighting up the most matter-of-fact dining table. Eugene N. Romxsox. wealthy Nevada mining man, died recently in New York, and left a property worth several hundred thousand dollars. InJ his will was a provision leaving his divorced wife the sum of one penny as a token of esteem greatly in excess of tho consideration which she deserves." She has not yet applied for her legacy. Sir Edwin Arnold, with his daughter, has reached San Francisco, which they leave by tha next steamer for Japan, and tells tho Califoinians that they are to be the Trine-growers of tho world. He also gives the Ncvadans courape by telling them that their land is exactly like that of India and Arabia, made wonderfully fruitful by irrigation. Legacies to the amount of $0,000, left by Benjamin Franklin and John Scott, to bo expended npon public improvements, have amounted by investment lor'ucarly a century to about $110,000. Of this. $100,000 will be devoted to the erection of a largo public bath in Philadelphia, while the remaining $10,000 will be laid aside for another hundred years. ' A Washington gentleman jhows to his friends a piece of silverware of English make, and tolls this funny story about it: Wishing the piece to bear his initials, he wroto to that effect, giving his name and adding "C. O. P." The initials being unknown to English trade routine, to his dismay the piece arrived with his initials and C. O. D. cut on it. It is recalled, in connection with the admission of tho new States, that Daniel Webster onco said in a speech against the organization of a territorial government for Oregon that the region was "so far off that it could never be governed by the United States," and a delegate to Congress could not reach Washington until a year after tho expiration of his term." Colonel Dan Lamont, while living at tho Iloffman House,, New York, during the summer, caused considerable remark from

his habit of dining alone. He could be seen any evening about 0 in one of the cafe windows overlooking Broadway taking his meal in 6olitude. A vear ago he would have been surrounded by fawning seekers after favors. Such is greatness in a republic. Tn precious gems in which Mrs. Mackay decks herself are about as well known in Paris and London as she is. Among them is a flawless sapphire nearly half an inch in diameter, which is said to have -cost $185,000: the finest emerald known to exist, for which a fabulous price was paid; an almost priceless set of rose-pink coral jewelry, and a pair of diamond solitaires value! at $400,000. A novel method has been hit npon hy the trustees of tho State Hospital for the Insane, in Norristown, to pre vent brutalities on the part of attendants toward violent and refractory patients. It is a system of complex mirrors and shafts leading to the attic or top story, by which an inspector stationed there is enabled to observe minutely every act and motion of the patients and attendants in the wards of the first and second floors. In the steeple of tho Congregational Church at Bingham, Somerset county, Maine, there hangs an ancient bell that has been swinging in various belfries 100 years or more. On its outer surface is stamped "EevereBoston," and it is supposed to have been made by Paul Revere, who, after the peace of 1TS3, established a foundry in Boston; where ho cast the first cannon and bells manufactured in Massachusetts. The old bell has a good tone, and seems likely to last another century. , TnE Patria, of Beunos Ayres, affirms that there is now in Bolivia a surgeon, Luca Silva by name, whose age is not less than one hundred and twenty-nine years. He was horn in Cochamba in 17C0, and dovoted himself, after graduating in medicine to the practice of surgery. Lately he was taken to the bouse of Senor Jose Ramalio, president of the Dramatic College, at La Paz, and gave a lurid account of the revolution, in 1809, which resulted in the emancipation of his country from tho Spanish yoke. Tiie Ostasiatische Lloyd says that the Empress and members of the aristocracy of Japan have given np the idea of adopting tho Western styles of dress for women. Tho Parisian models did not please the people in general, and the historic costumes will again be worn exclusively. The great "Lady-tailoring Establishment" in Tokio, which has been nnder the charge of a Parisian, has closed its doors for Jack of work to do. Tho Lloyd greets the failure of the pretended reform, declaring that a more corapleto caricature was never seen than a Japanese woman in a bonnet and dress of tho boulevards. The late Andrew J. Geiger,' of Philadelphia, left an estate valued at $250,000. His will provides for tho erection of an obelisk over his grave. The panel on the east side is to contain his namcfage and date of death. The north side will Tjear this inscription: "Traveled 0,000 miles in America. Europe, Asia and Africa." The south panel is to read: "Young man, stop and think. See what has been the reward for honesty, industry and economy. In 1840 I worked on Robert Martin's farm, near Jersey shore, for 23 cents a day. No fortune leit tome." The west panel will say: "Lived and died in the faith of tho immutable and unchangeable, and nature's God. Believed in the gospel of peace, right and justice." William Black, like many of the present English novelists, attributes all the villainous.slang which garnishes his books to Americans. They seem to think that they have fully accounted for and. apologized for a vulgar phrase when they attribute it to "tho Americans.' Mr. Black, for instance, has this: "To -use an American phrase, 'nine distinct sorts of a born fool; ' and this: Xu the words of the American poet, he is a commodious ass.' " Perhaps it would bo rash to assert that any American Joet ever sang of a "commodious ass," but Ir. Black's acquaintance with the poet and the other persons who nse or have used these cxpre8sious must be much larger than the mass of respectable Americans, if he really knows of the existence of such a personage.

STUDEBAKER'S PLUCK. His Damaged Residence Will Be Put in Ortier for tha Pun-Amprlpiiin. South Bend Tribune. South Benders aro not to be disappointed in the matter of tho members of the International American Congress visiting South Bend on account of the destruction of Mr. Studebaker's residence' in which they were to bo entertained. Mr. Studebakcr was met between here and Toledo bv his brother, P. E., who informed him of the exact condition of the burned residence. As soon as he reached homo and passed greetings with his children ho hurried up-stairs in the Skerritt residenco to the'room where his wife lay, her face completely hidden from sight by bandages. The greeting was a most affectionate one, and Mr. Studebakcr was completely overcome by his wife's condition. She assured him that her condition was not so bad as appearances indicated, and that she would be all right in a short time. She urged him to continue in his congressional duties the sanieasif there had been no lire. After further consultation with his wife Mr. Studebaker telegraphed his brother members of the PanAmerican congress to come to South Bend by all means, and that he would entertain them in the ruins of Tippecanoe Place just as he had intended to do. Of course the members will miss the gratification of seeing one of the most magnificent residences in the country, with all of its elegant appointments and art treasures, but, nevertheless, it will be a unique experience to sit down to a collation in the ruins. A temporary roof will be thrown over the ruins iust above the second story. This will be done immediately, to protect the lower, main and second floors, many of the rooms of which are in fair condition. This roof will answer for the workmen's protection, also, until a permanent roof can be erected, which will take, perhaps, ninety days. The dining-room, breakfast-room and adjoining hall are but little injured, while the cusine departments in the rear' are in as good shape as ever. On the floor above, the reception-room and parlor are in good shape, and the main hall, though in bad condition now. can, except the grand staircase, be made a good assembly-room by the 19th inst. Men Who Look in the Glass. Minneapolis Tribune. The idea that women are the only mortals that gazo at themselves .in a mi nor may be quite generally accepted, bnt it is erroneous. The average man is unable to resist tho desire to take a squint at himself. He may. and often does, do it on the sly; but he does it jnst tbe same. If any ono doubts tho troth of this statement let him catch the men as they step into an elevator in any one of tho business blocks. The first thing a man does after entering is to place bimself squarely before the reflector and view his counterpart on the other side of the glass. If caught at it. he usually turns quickly away with a hang-dog expression of countenance; or if a friend happens to enter, he at once engages him in conversation about the weather, business or some kind of topic. But when a fellow has the elevator all to himself ho will stand and admiro himself as long as any one of gentler' sex Progressive Womankind. Troy Times. Indiana has only one woman doinz ministerial work. She is Miss Milla F. Tnpper, a graduate of Cornell University and pastor of the Unitarian Church at La Porte. The time will come when such a sight as women acting as pastors of churches will excite no more general comment than that members of tbe sex sit in journalistic chairs or appear in the lecture field. If St. Paul were to come back to earth in these progressive times, he would have to drop some of his notions or straggle among the campfollowers of the great march. American News Abroad. Charleston News and Cotirier. Soon after the news of the Louisiana defalcation reached Liverpool, the Post of that city came out with this startling announcement. A. married woman named Hamilton has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment for fraudulent issue of Louisiana State bonds to the amount of several millions of dollars." Perhaps this explains why Major Burke returned to Liverpool so suddenly. He would naturally be unwilling to leave such a record behind him.

P0BTS3I0UTII NAYY-YARi

An Historic Place That Will Be Used" ii Reconstructing the American Xavyr Its Transformation from a Naval Station in) Colonial Times to Its Present Importance , A Model Ship-Bnilding Plant. SUff Correspondence of the Indianapolis Jonra-i. Washington, Oct, 11. No subject before the country ismore absorbingly interesting just at this time than that of rebuilding the. navy. A proportionate interest attaches to the reconstruction of the navy -y arils, by; which the government is to be enabled to construct her new ships and equip them for; warfare. In order to rebuild and repair! new vessels, it has been necessary to improvothe plants at the more important navy-yards. Of these, next in importance to that in Brooklyn is the navy-vard at Norfolk, Va. Accounts have recently ap. peared in the newspapers of the opening the large wooden dry-docks at this yar-, and of the successful docking in it iof tb war-ship Yantic, attended with appropriatj ceremonies. Tho tattle-ship Texas, aboxt which considerable controversy has arise; is now building there, and the Secretary, c! the Navy has just ordered that the cor struction of one of the new 3,000-ton cruiser shall be undertaken at this yard. A short account of this government establishment and the work going on there may therefore not be without interest Theestablishmenf of tho yard at Gosport, as the lower end of the present city of Portsmouth was then called, dates from colonial times. The British government. just before the Revolution, selected tho site on the report of ono of ,lts agents as the most eligible situation for a naval station in its American colonies, fccarcely had tue work begun, however, when tho devolution broke out, and tho placo was taken possession of by Virginia. Tho yard was recaptured by the British in 1779, and set on tire. In lbOl the yard was bought from the State of Virginia by the United States, which had used it for a number of years previouslv in building vessels. The yard comprised at that time an area of about sixteen acres. In 1827 a large amount . of property surrounding tbe yard was purchased and the yard increased to nearly its present size. ' In the same year the construction of a stone dry-dock was begun on a part of the newly-acquired land. This dock was completed in 1633. On Juno 17 of that year the dock was opened, and the line-of-battle ship Delaware docked in it with imposing ceremonies. The total co6t of this dock was S974.S"iC.C5. J This dock has since .been in continuous service, and many fine ships have been docked in it. The chamber of the dock is S53 feet long and 85i feet wide at the coping. The extreme length of the dock which can be made available by placing the floating gate outside tho entrance, is 330 feet. Up to the beginning of the civil war vari ous improvements were maue, consisting ot filling in the grounds, erection of shops, storehouses, cisterns, wharves, and the building of a timber dock or pond for tho preservation of timber under water. At the outbreak of the civil war the yard was abandoned by the United States authorities. The ship-houses and other buildings were set on tire, the vessels lying at tho wharves burned and sunk, among them the famous Merrimac, and an unsuccessful attempt was mado to blow up the stone drydock. The yard was t aken possession of by the confederates and the sunken Merrimac raised and rebuilt under tho name of the Virginia. Her subsequent history is well known. Tho City of Norfolk was surrendered to the United States forces on May 10, 1862. Early the following morning the Merrimac was blown up by tho confederates, who also set tire to tho 3Tard, and abandoned it. after another attempt to blow up the dry-dock, which was only partially successful. At this time the yard had been almost entirely destroyed; but few buildings left standing. The work of reconstruction was, however, taken up energetically by the United States at the conclusion of the war. New buildings were erecfted and old ones repaired, the stone dry-dock put in aserviceablo condition, and the hulks sunk at the wharves raised or removed. Since thd year 1870 comparatively little had been done to improve the yard or to tit it for doing work of a character consonant with the rapid strides in the art of ship-building until tho past three years. Our old wooden vessels required comparatively little machinery to build them, the most, important being a saw-mill, a blacksmith's shop and a small machine-shop for making tho many fittings used even in a wooden vessel of the old type. The in terest aroused in tho country in the improvement of the navy enabled the Navy Department to arouse Congress to the importance of an adequate plant of machinery at the important navy-yards for building and repairing iron and steel vessels. The first appropriation for this purpose was made by Congress in August, lbbG, in an act appropriating S2.500.000 for the increase of the navy, in which it was provided that not exceeding 150,000 might be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy in improving tho plant of such of the navyyards as he might select. Tho sum was entirely inadequate to tho general building of the navy-yards, and the Secretary of the Naw determined that the amount should be used to equip only two yards with new tools, and decided upon those of Brooklyn and at Portsmouth (generally called the New York and Norfolk navy-yards), as being most suitable. At the same time it was decided to build the two armored vessels authorized by the- same act. at these vards. The sum of 75.000 allotted to the Norfolk yard was insufficient for tho establishment of a first-class plant, and a building to cover it, and in the appropriation bill passed in September, 188S, there was an item of 875,000 for a building to contain tho new tools. A further sum of 50,000 was appropriated last spring for additional tools, for which tho proposals have just beeu opened. The work of designing and building up the new plant for the Portsmouth navyyard has been carried on entirely by Naval Constructor Francis T. Bowles, under tho superintendence of Commodore George Brown, commandant of the yard. During the fall of 1887 and the spring of 18S8. a large and commodious shed was designed and built for the accommodation of the new tools, and a schedule of these having been prepared,' advertisements were made for proposals in March of last year. In April the contracts were awarded, and the last of these tools have only lately been delivered. The result is a model ship-building plant, parts of which have been adopted as models bv. some of the private ship-building firms. The area inclosed in tho navy-yard proper is eighty-two and a half acres, and of the ground - on tbe opposite side of the river used for storing guns and ammunition, fortv acres, the whole being valued at 745.000. On this ground there are nearly forty buildings of largo and small sizes. Many of these buildings are storehouses, in which large amounts of materials of all sorts are kept on hand. Others are large "workshops, and some nre otlicers' quarters. The total valuation of tho real estate, buildings, etc.. in the yard, is $4,000.or. The work of the yard is subdivided among, different departments. The construction department has charge of the building and repairs to the bulls of vessels, the department of steam engineering has tho building and repairs of stani engines of all sons, the department of yards and docks, the erection and care of buildings, grounds, wharves, docks, etc.: the ordnance department, the guns and ammunition, etc. The navy-yard at the present time presents quite a busy aspect. The ribs of the iron-clad battle-ship Texas aro beginning to rise in the ship, and present quite a complicated frame work. Ner-the Texas a large pair of shears towers over a hundred feet into the air. .These shears were bought abont a year ago. and erected on an enormous gTanite foundation, which rises partly above. These shears are tbe most powerful hoisting apparatus in the United States, and are capable of lifting a weight of 150 tons and putting it on board a vessel lying at tho wharf. On the other side of theo shears workmen are actively engaged in preparing the slip for cruiser No. h, which is not as yet named. In front of the Texas is the large new shed tilled with heavy tools, aud alive" with moving belts and pulleys. In the upper end of the shed' are two largo furnaces, whose interiors are at a white heat, in which large plates and long

bars are heated. Alongside of them if an enormous construction worked by hy dranlic power at a pressure of 1,500 pounds to the squaro inch, which is capable of bending into U shape, at one operation, a plate of iron twenty feet long and two inches thick. Close by are largi bending rolls for bending plates with rollers twentysix inches in diameter.moved by two steam engines belonging especially to the rolls. Besides these there are punches, shears, planers and cranes, all arranged in niost orderly manner, but presenting a bewildering appearance to- on unaccustomed to such sights. Among' tbe tools is a machine called a cold saw, which is like an immense circular saw sixty inches in diameter. When in operation tbissaw makes 1,S00 revolutions per minnt. and seems to cut through largo bars of iron or steel as if they were made of cheese. All this machinery is kept in motion by a powerful compound engine of 125 horso-power. which, in its engine-room, kept bright and clean as a new pin by its engineer, is a beautiful sight. Behind this shed is another large building, full of lathes and other machinery used by the construction department for making tittingsforthehulls of ships. Close by are blacksmith and other shops possessing less interest to tbe general visitor. All this machinery in the different shops belonging to the construction department is valued at about $:i5.000. At the lower end of the yard are similar building, containing tbe machinery of all sorts for building the largest marine engines. The. machinery contained in therms valued at' nearly 173,000. Near by, and lying pM allel to each other, are the old stone dry-;

dock and the new wooden one. 1 bey present a striking contrast The old stono dock has been described above,. It is still doing excellent service. Tho new dock is built entirely of wood, on a foundation of piles and cement. . Its principal dimensions are: Length over all on coping, 530 feet; length over all inside of caisson, 500 feet; width on ton amidships, ISO feet; width on floor amidships. 50 feet: width on floor at entrance, 53 feet; width on top of entrance, 85 feet; " depth of' gate sill below coping. 0feet; depth ot water over sill at high water, Cir feet. The machinery for operating tho dock con-, sists of two centrifugal pnmps. each 42 in-' dies in diameter, driven by two vertical! engines 2$ inches in diameter, and 4 inches stroke. Steam power is furnished by three steam boilers 13 feet in diameter and 11 feet long. The pnniO have a capacity of 80.000 gallons a minute, and the dock can he emptied of water iu about an hour and a balf. The contract price for this dock was 500,000, and the money was appropriated by Congress in March, 1SS7. At tho same timo $p0,0u0 was appropriated for a railroad within tho yard, xhis road ha been laid to standard gauge, and is of great convenience in moving heavyweights. It connects outside the gates with all tho lines of railroad, so that cars of materials can be distributed to all parts - of the yard without unloading Au .appropriation has been made fur lighting the yard and buildings by electricity, and the work will doubtless be begun during the year. The wisdom of tho British in selecting the site for a navy-yard has been well proven. The country possesses, a mild, equable climate, in which outside work can. be carried on at all seasons of the year. Tho Elizabeth river, together with Hampton roads, gives excellent Sheltor lor the largest neets , ana a natural base of operations ; and supplies in tho lower Chesapeake and its iriuuiancs. Aiiuougn it is av present uo6 possessed of any modern defenses, yet itV :ould soon be strongly fortified, and its. harbor undermined with torpedoes. The' yard has a largo forco cf skilled workmen, to draw from, who, although they have been hitherto engaged almost entirely in , wooden ship-building, are rapidly learning its cognate branch, iron and steel shipbuilding. Tho yard is not inconvenienced by rapid tides, and is readily accessible to vessels of great draught. 4 What is now needed rnoit urgently to make the yard a more eflectivo base of supplies for naval vessels is a modern system for rapidly coaling nnd victualing ships. This will no doubt be accomplished in time, and then Uncle Sam will have aa establish ment of which he may well be proud. N Perky S. Heath. SUFFERING IX DAKOTA.' A County in Which tbe Crops Have FMled for Three Years Plea for Food. v- W . St. Paul. Minn., Oct. 12.-Owingrtt6 tho extreme drought there was a failure of crops in Ramsey county. Dakota, and in con'sequence over ono hundred families 'are reported to be without any means of subsistence during tho coming winter. Two lady delegates, Mrs. 1L N. Kellncr, president, and Mrs. C. N. Pickering, secretary, of the Kamsey county relief committee, have arrived in St. Paul to 'personally urge th cause of tho sufferers. The ladies brought with them a letter signed by about sixty of the business firms of Grand Forks and vicinity. In an interview Mrs. Kellner saya the half has not been told of the sufferings of tho farmers living in the drought belt of Kamsey county. There have been three sueccssive failures of 'tho crops, and moro' than a hundred families are not only on the I ycrgo of 6tarYatior but without sufficient clothing to protect them from theweather even at this season. Dozens of men, women and children are without shoes or stockings, and many of the littlo ones have no other covering than an ordinary gunny sack with holes cut for .the head and arms. For ivecks these people have been subsistin y nn Tonts or herbs until now their sunEliest are wholly exhausted. Some flour 1 as ueen sent to them from the-outside. but not enough to give each of the families a supply for even one batch of bread. Unless relief is received very soon many must die of hunger. - The matter of affording relief to the snf- ; f erers has been referred by the Mayor of St. I Paul to tho Chamber of Commerce; and ' that body nlaced it in tho bands of a spec ii.1 j committee. W. C. Daniels and A. M. Tat- ) thogen, of Lakeota, N. 1) have donatea' ten car-loads of coal to tho sulTerins, farmers. ' t decretive llenevolenee. Buffalo Courier. ( . Two very pretty girls in this town rccon tly attended service in a church whero they were 6trangers. When the time cirao for taking up the collection they fount- o their dismay, that they bad but one t between them. And there, coming up their ' side of the aisle wiihtheplate, was a lovely young man with whom they were slightly acquainted. They simply couldn't put that solitary cent in the plate, and to put in nothing wa3 not to le thought of. Then one of the girls bethought her that she had a small envelope in her pocket. She pulled it out, dropped the coin in it, sealed ft, and when the lovely young man came along she dropped the envelope in with an air that mado tho collector think it contained at tho very least a $5 note. L , At the Author Club. Life. Brown Who is that seedy-looking indi-f vidnal with long hair! Jones That is Starvling, the renowned1 poet. His great masterpiece was published in the last number of Scribbler's Magazine. Brown And . who is that well-drcwed gentleman who just snubbed him so unmercifully! Jones Ho is also a poet. Ho writes the', advertisements for Plum's soap. Slight Have Shipped It Ahead by Freight. Albany JonmaL 1 Phra Somdcth Chnlalonkorn. King of' Siam, has reached Pari a little late. H would have arrived earlier, but it was hard . work aud delayed matters to get his long, and crooked name through the Suez canaL ' Took It for m Bird. Harper's Eaiax. "They have a dado there that is six feet high." 4iIn their dining-room! Yes." 'Well, of course, it is caged!" , Or Those of Marlon County. Albany Journal. Floods at Bellows Fall Vt removed the old river bridge toll-gae. yesterday, but something besides Hoods will be necessary to remove the Albany county toll-gates. Don't "Want to Let lllm Go, AucuiU (Ga.) Chronkis. Our cotton, sugar, rice, tobacco and other .crops are practical evidences of the vain of tho negro as a laborxs.

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