Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 October 1889 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS i -JOURNAL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1889.

THE DAILY JOURNAL TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1880. TVASUlGTO OFFICE C13 Fourteenth St P. S. heath. Correspondent. . Telephone Calls. BualDKM OCce 238 1 Editorial Rooms 242 1F.KMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DAILY, BY MAIL, One year, wlthont Pandar.....'..... .'. f 12.00 One year, ti lth Sunday- 14.00 tilx months, without fennrtay e.OO Fix month, with Sunday 7.00 Three month, withont hnnday 3.00 Three month, with Sunday 3.60 One month, without Sunday - 1.0,) One month, with Monday l.0 Ueuvered by carrier lii city, 25 cent ner week. WEEKLY. Per year. ...f 1.00 Reduced Rates to Clubs. Fubecrine with any ol oar numerous agents, or send nbscrlpuoni to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, IXDIASATOUfl, ISD. All communication intended for publication in OiU paper must, in order to receive attention, bt accompanied by the name and address of Uu xcritcr. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can to found at the following places: LONDON American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARIS A ertcan Exchange In rans, 35 Boulevard des Ca. clnes. NEW YCBK Gilaey House and Windsor IToteL PHILADELPHIA A. P. Kemble. 3735 Lancaster avenue, CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI-J. P. JJawiey A Co., 154 Vine street. lOTJISVTLIX C. T. Peering, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. BT. IX5UIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. VAflniNOTO, D. O. BJgga Zlooaa and Ebfcltt House. , The attempt to cast discredit on the construction of the soldiers' nionume nt has some unworthy motive which will como to light in time. Indications point to a cold wave and freezing weather within a day or two. rtyd wise man foreseeth the evil and layeth in his natural gas. The lie started by a Democratic editor of this city, to the effect that the Democracy carried President Harrison's ward, -with a gain of 248 votes, at the last election, f Rtill rnine thft rounds. Alio

w -5 - - - - n once under way in the Democratic press never dies except from old age. Mr. Raum says, very truly, that it is the business of the Tension Comniiseionef to execute, not to make the laws. Here was where Tanner made his blun der; he forgot that ho was simply and solely an executive officer, with all his rights and duties strictly defined and limited. In the Boston public schools children of the primary grades are supplied dur ing the year with ten different readers, in addition to the regular text-book, these to serve for supplementary read ing:. If Boston were afflicted with the Becktold .series the pupils would have some reliedBisnop Newman is undoubtedly right in saying that the solution of the negro question lies in the education of both whites and blacks; but this is not saying that a little compulsory education in the way of teaching the whites to give the negroes their legal rights will not expe dite the solution. Andrew Carnegie expects to spend $750,000 on his public library at Pitts burg. When Senator Voorhees hears of this fell purpose to educate Democrats and thereby make Republicans of them, he will be filled with a more ferocious desire than ever to take his rope and go out hanging Carnegies. The Pan-American delegates, after -viewing Harvard University, with its army of students; Ann Arbor, with its 2,500 full-lunged young men; the Chicago Kindergarten of 1,500 infanta, and the big public school-houses in every city, must certainly bo of the opinion that education in this country is con ducted on a wholesale plan. . -, . . . --. 1 Of course Mr. Bayard, of Delaware, would like to bo Senator again. Ho would like to be President, too, but his failure as Secretary of State to add a new idea to Grover Cleveland's commonplace administration disenchanted even his - oltf-timo adherents among Democratic leaders, and his position as perpetual "dark horse" is forever gone. , It ought not to be a matter for sur prise or regret that so few veterans of th6 civil war are left among the first lieutenants of the regular array. The fact that any are left after the lapse of so many years simply shows the slow ness of promotions in that organization, and indicates many ambitions disap pointed among men who most undoubt edly hope to reach a higher rank before they die. The opposition organs can hardly ex press the horror they feel over the fact that the new Pension Commissioner is a Republican without any ifs and excep tions; or, as they put it, a dreadful parti san. It can hardly be that they have seen anything in President Harrison's course ' to warrant the expectation that he would appoint a political hermaphrodite, other wise known as a mugwump, to that or any other office. The death of the King of .Portugal hardly causes a ripple in European poli tics, and gives rise to no excitement or fear of political complications' in his own country. The same would be true in case of tho death of almost any of the rulers of Europe. The time has gone by when a change of royal administration iuvolves endless intrigues, and when revolutions and wars arise out of the claims of opposing claimants to a throne. Tho people have mpro iniluence in these matters now, even if it is , indirect, and governments are conse quently more stable. TnE New York Press, whose editor, Mr. Robert P. Porter, is superintendent of the next census, makes an estimate of the probable population of the country by States and Territories. Most estimates have been based roughly on a fixed per centage of increase for all tho States over the census of 1SS0. That is rather a rough basis of calculation, as it is obvions some States will show a very much larger increase than others. The Press estimate takes this into account, and at tempts to give each State its probable

increaso without reference to the others.

Thus, Maine is given no increase at all; Massachusetts, 10 per cent.; New York, 23; Indiana, 20; Kansas, 03; Dakota, 450; Montana, 110; Washington, 200, and so on. The result is an average increase of 29 1-2 per cent., making the total esti mated population of tho country, ac cording to this forecast, 04,452,807. "WHY A DEUOOBAT. President Eliot, of Harvard College, made a speech a few days since at the banquet of Boston's leading Democratic club. It was in some respects a signifi cant speech, and, in one regard, simply infamous. Since 1884, President Eliot has been a mugwump. Ho was counted a mugwump until tho banquet. There he. declared himself . a Democrat, and took occasion to denounce mugwumpism as illogical, since one of the two great parties must control tho desti nies of tho country. Acting upon this theory, 'the President of Harvard fell back into tho arms of the Massachusetts Democracy, whose controlling element is located in Boston, and whoso inost redoubtable leader, two years ago, owned two grog-6hops the Democracy, sixty of whoso members held a meeting, recently, for tho purpose of promoting the congressional aspirations of nou. John L. Sullivan. One of the reasons which President Eliot gave for joining the Democratic party was that tho Republican party is hope lessly committed to tho heresy of pro tection, while ho believes in free trade. This open declaration of his reason for joining the saloon party in Mass . a achusetts is doubtless honest, but it is said to have been received with significant silence by those party leaders who know that .it will not do for the Massachusetts Democracy to make an open avowal of its hostility to tho doctrine which is the foundation of the great prosperity of that State. But President Eliot is a Democrat because he is a free-trader. One ' other reason which President Eliot gave for his affiliation with the saloon party i3 that the Republicans are indiscriminately pensioning everybody who claimed to have been a soldier in tho late war, and that it appeared to him that it "mattered not whether the applicant was wounded in battle, or claimed to be suf fering from catarrh contracted twenty years after he left tho service, he was pensioned." The dignified president of Harvard then proceeded to facetiously remark that if the veterans of the late war were to be pensioned because of age and inability to labor, he was in favor of a law which would put all ex-oflicials, ex-teachers, ex-literary men, and nearly everybody whom ago had incapacitated, upon the national pension list. Tne president of tho most renowned institution of learning in tho country seemed to believe that ho was expressing a witticism, and was relating a huge joke to tho Democracy about him when ho cast this aspersion upon the honor and patriotism of every soldier of the late war, but patriotic people who do not move in the delicately refined circle in which President Eliot walks will stigmatize his sentiment as a slander and an outrage. To-day more than twenty thousand veterans, most of whom served their government faithful ly, are in the poor-houses of the coun try, mainly because they are unable to earn their bread. Thousands more are maintained by private charity. All of these men, sitting in the shadow of neg lect, and feeling keenly tho pinching touch of positive penury, have a Claim upon tho American people which will be allowed unless gratitude has ceased to be a virtue. President Eliot may not ap preciate this fact, and because he does not he becomes a Democrat; but tho great mass of the people do, and they will see to it that their claim is recognized. , Patriotic men all' over tho North will say: "Shanip upon tho president of Harvard College;". but, those who have been watching the drift of the leaders of that institution for the past ten years are not surprised. They import their teachers of political economy; they assail American institutions, encourage snobbery, and are largely responsible for the anglomaniacism which pervades a certain set about Harvard and where Harvard influence is felt. To put it in a Western sentence, "Harvard College has become an English dude factory,' It is a'good place to keep Americanboys out of. FOREIGN CAPITAL IN INDIANA. Indiana has profited more by tho in flux and investment of foreign capital during tho last two years than in any previous ten years of her existence. By foreign capital is meant that from other parts of this country, as well as that from abroad. It needs no argument to prove that such acquisitions arc desira ble. Increased capital means increased commercial activity and enterprise, more avenues of employment for workingmen, a steadier demand for labor, better markets for farm products, bet ter prices for real estate, better im provements and better times. No per son of the slightest business sagacity or sense but will admit that tho acquisi tion and increase of actual capital is al ways dtsirable. The influx of foreign capital into this State during tho last two years has been nearly, if not quite, 5,000,000. Mot of this has been due, directly or indirectly, to the discovery of natural gas. Tho development of this interest has been very rapid, and the benefits ro-v suiting from it are already felt in many avenues of trade. Many large manu facturing establishments have been located in the gas belt, notably at Muncie, Kokomo, Marion, Anderson, Noblesville, and several other cities and towns. Heavy investments in real estate have been made at most of these places. Tho capital already invested or awaiting investment would amount to several millions, while the productive forces employed in tho new factories will be con stantly adding to tho wealth of tho State. In this city somo large invest' ruents of foreign capital have been made, notably in the recent sale of brewery stock by which something like $2,000,000 .English money comes here for permanent investment. The fact is, our material resources, agricultural advant-

ages and commercial facilities are just

beginning to be fairly appreciated, and there is reason to believe that tho next few years will be marked by greai activity and unusual progress in In diana. AN 0VEK-W0EZED WORD. Perhaps there is danger of over-work ing the word "Pan-American." Its classic origin and aesthetic sound seem to indicate a high degree of cult, but it has its drawbacks. In the first place, it is not very good English, and plain En glish-speaking people do not understand it readily. The number of persons who, during the last few weeks, have asked what Pan-American means is only equalediby tho number who have felt like asking, but have retrained. The dictionaries do not throw any light on the subject, for tho only xians they treat of are the generic ones, including dish-' pans, and Pan, the mythologic' god of shepherds, who was - a very nondescript being, and not at all like any inhabitant of North or South America. If the inquisitive parent, de termined to get at tho root of the mat ter, directs his child to ask tho princi pal of the high school what Pan-Amer ican means, he wilt probably be told that pan is Greek for "all," and that Pan-American is classic and cultured English for all-American. Then his first expression will probably bo one of disgust that the newspapers should not say ail-American instead of pan-Ameri can, and his second will probably bo the very obvious criticism that tho word does not fit in either form, since the forthcoming congress is neither pan nor all American. To be this it should in clude British America, which it does not. Further, to make the term strictly appropriate, it should include tho West India islands, which are as much a part of America as are tho United States. So neither pan-American nor all-Ainerican can properly be applied to tho forthcoming congress, much less to the South American delegates now traveling across tho country. But, notwithstanding these objections, the word will probably continue to do duty until the Pan-American Congress is ended. TnE decision of the courts on the new school-book law, whatever it may be, will simply go to tho form and not to the substance of the law. No decision for or against can change the fact that it is radically wrong in conception, vicious in principle, and a source of permanent and deadly injury to the schools.' The fact that it takes away from tho people and from the school boards tho" right to buy such school-books as they please, and on the best terms possible; the fact that it creates and establishes a private monopoly far more odious and' arbitrary than the old one; tho fact that it largely increases tho expenses of county superintendents and township trustees, thereby increasing the taxes of the people under the false pretense of reducing theiri all these aro insighifi-. cant compared with tho fact that it greatly lowers the educational standard in Indiana, demoralizes the school sys-' tern, and teaches every school boy and. girl in the State a daily object lesson hf lying . and fraud by putting into their hands books Which have been discredt , ited and discarded in other States, and whose counterfeit characer is attempted to bo concealed by false covers and fraudulent copyrights. The whole scheme is a disgrace to the State and a flagrant departure from the educational "spirit of tho age. v The evening organ of tho Democracy thinks it would not have been difficult at any time to find a capable man for Commissioner of Pensions, and we infer that Tanner's place would have been filled weeks ago if the News had been consulted. It graciously admits that tho appointment of General Raum is a good one, and even goes so far as to say that tho General may prove to be the proper man for the place. The News, however, has not done its whole duty in this matter. If it had, when Tanner resigned, promptly nominated its capable and proper man, much time and trouble would have been saved. Its failuro to do this can only, be explained on the ground of diffidence and modesty. IxDiANAroLis leads all other cities in the country in percentage of increaso in clearing-house business last week, tho gain being53.9 per cent. The total amount of business transacted through the clearing-house was $4,871,392. Indianapolis is not advertising itself as the only suitable city in the West for the world's fair, but is quietly raking in the shekels ina!way that must be discomfiting5 to its more windy sisters. Now is the time for the'outside manufacturer to secure a foothold in the most lively natural-gas city in the world, whose railroads lead to all points of the compass. Corporal Tanner continues to demonstrate his constitutional unfitness for the office from which he has been removed. A subordinate official who attempts to prove that the head of the department to which he belongs has no right to overrule his decisions or control his official acts is a very impracticable person, to say' the least. The Commissioner of Pensions is a subordinate official of the Interior Department, and when he attempts to prove himself a bigger man than the Secretary he simply demonstrates his unfitness -for public office. Rev. Dr. James McLeod, whose pastoral relations with the Second Presbyterian Church of this city wero formally severed by yesterday's action of tho Presbytery, will bo greatly missed in this community. Daring his residence here he has made many friends in and out of the denomination to which he belongs. Sectarianism, indeed, is not a word that suggests itself in speaking of him. He has manifested a liberality . of thought and spirit, and an active interest in all movements for publio welfare that stamped him as a man'at once progressive and earnest. Of strong character and linn and outspoken convictions, he cannot fail to be a force among tho people with whom ho associates, and his influence here has extended far beyond the limits of his congregation. Clear and vigorous inexpression, his pnlpit utterances left no doubt in the minds of his hearers as to his exact opinions upon tho subjects discussed, and, as expressed by tho Preaby tcry, his work for tho church in

general has deserved and won admiration. He will bo followed to his new field of labor, with the' good wishes of a host of friends who esteem him for the excellent qualities shown in his six years of labor in this city. - Some ladies in Philadelphia have endeavored to solve the servant-girl problem by establishing a school where cooks and housemaids can be thoroughly trained, a diploma being given on graduation. This will be no solution. No ordinary family can .expect to hire a "professor' to go into the kitchen and do general housework for 10 a month, and every one of those graduates will insist upon taking rank as a professor of her especial art.

TnE Iowa man Who refused to purchase Amtell at one time for $150 and tho Washington lawyer who refused to lend an Inr diaa 100, and thereby lost a $22,000 fee, might simplify matters by forming a mutual kicking society to take it out upon each other. .. From the way the Democratic newspapers of the country are criticising Governor Hill's Atlanta speech he seems to have cause to regret that he did not leave his mouth at homo with his encyclopedia. TnE moon is growing smaller and onesided. The architectural editor of the Sentinel, who is trying to undermine the soldiers' monument with his pencil, should make some lunar observations. AB0CT PEOPLE AND TIUNGS. Sir Julian PAUXCKFOTE'sfourdaugkters have blooniingly brilliant complexions and dress in the extremest English manner. Mks. Amelia Rives Ciianler is so passionately fond of the violin that she will arise in the dead of night and play a tune. Sweden has had her Christine Nilsson, and now Norway possesses a singer of absolutely the same name. The new and young Mademoiselle Christine Nilsson has a soprano voice shaded with a timbre similar to Lucca's, and sang with great success at Copenhagen lately. Eahly to bed aud early to rise. Mind your business and tell no lies Don't get drunk and spoil your ercs, l'ay your debts and advertise. Spokes and handles of any 6ize Made to order or otherwise, Is the sign over a little manufacturing conccrn among tho eastern hills of Hampshire. Lilli Leiimann will no longer be debarred ffom the German opera-houses for having broken her contract to accept an engagement in America. She sent a petition for pardon to Emperor Wilhelm, who, being the head of tho Wagner Society, could not but grant it to so eminent an Isolde and Brunnhildo as Lehmann is. President Harrison is not a Mason. Two members of his Cabinet are Masons, but neither of them is a Knight Templar. The only secret organization of which tho President is a member is a college fraternity of the "Greek letter order," the Phi Delta Theta, which he joined in 1S52 while a student at Miami University, Ohio. The Duke of Sparta is said to bo au ideal lover; he does nothing but talk of his bride, ' and can scarcely conceal his impatience for the arrival of the wedding day. He is thirty-one years of age and his bride is nineteen. The wedding presents are of enormous value, and there is every indication that tho marriage will be a happy one, a rare circumstance in the annals of royal alliances. The idea of" the Eiftel tower, according to the Engineering and Building Record, is acknowledged by M.Eiflelto have originated in 'this country at the timeof the Philadelphia centennial, inlbTC. The circular tower then proposed was to have been 1,000 feet high, 150 feet in diameter at the hase, and thirty feet at the top. It was designed by Clark, Reeves & Co.. of Pha nixville. Pa., and was expected to cost -1.000,000. . . -. When an Arab damsel gets married her mother gives her the following advice for securing her future happiness: "You are leaving your nest to live with a man with whoso ways and habits you are unfamiliar. I advise you to be his slave if you wish to become the absolute mistress of your husband, lie satisfied with little, endeavor to feed him well and watch over his sleep, for hunger begets auger and sleeplessness makes a man cross-grained. ' , . Count D'Orsay was a Bohemian of tho grand, princely type. For a quarter of a century he was the glass of fashion of the London world, although he was so deeply in debt and soharrassed by .bailifls that it was on Sunday only he conld stir out of doors for fear of being arrested. But on every Sunday he appeared in Hyde Park, resplendent in person and turn-out, for he ' was the most accomplished whip amongthe fashionable gentlemen of his day. Peter Cartwrigut was an old-fashioned man, who would be sadly out of place in the pulpit in these days. Ho was once blazing away at "pride, vainglory and hypocrisy," the rich man in hell, and so forth, and a brother tapped him on the elbow and Raid: "Hist, Brother Cartwright, Presidont Jackson's coming in.". "Andrew Jackson!" shouted the backwoods preacher; . "who is Andrew Jackson? He'll die and go to hell as quick as any other man, unless he repents." Hans Jaeger, one of the cleverest authors of Norway, has accepted the place of a common sailor on one of the Scandinavian ships. Although his books aro popular and read by all classes, ho has not been successful financially. Long residence in the Norwegian capital and close study of the lower classes of society, which he loves to mte of in bis books, have also undermined his health, forcing him to adopt another profession. It is said, however, that he will devote his few leisure hours to finishing a new novel. South Ameuicax millionaires are cut-, ting a wide swath in London. Colonel North, the nitrate king, has a rival in Mr. Sanford, who, made a vast fortune in Buenos Ayres. Sanford has purchased the old house of the Duke of Leinster. in Carlton House terrace, and is converting it into a palace of the rcnais9anco style. The marble stairs, mantels and walls will cost enormous sums. A firm of upholsterers has been authorized to expend &J00.000. Even a London plumber has been given carte blanche. The butcher who has tho contract to' furnish'meat at Vassar says that he provides 200 pounds everyday for their dinner, and the cook says that the girls prefer it considerably underdone. They drink Co0 quarts of milk in one day dividing it between breakfast and supper and greatly Iirefer it to either tea or eoilee. Forty oaves of brown bread are baked . for theraeveryday.andanotherfavontearticleofdlet is oat-meal biscuit. Oat-meal, stewed fruit, and eggs aro consumed in a quantity that leaves no suspicion of the quality of the students' appetites. Mrs. H. 3. Burnett, widow of Gen. Ward B. Burnett, died at Garfield Hospital, Washington, Saturday morning after a short illness. Mrs. Burnett was a wellknown figure around tho Capitol, where she has long and persistently tried to get a pension through Congress. For several years before her death she was tho victim of & curious hallucination. In her appeals to the press and to otficials she charged that General Black had thrown her down stairs when she addressed him on tho subject of her pension claim. She also imagined at intervals' that her claim had been allowed and paid. Mrs. Burnett was a woman of fine address, and was always arrayed in the costliest of silks and satins. She was known as the "Queen of the House lobby." COMMENT AND OPINION. It is far more desirable that the national bank circulation should be retained at its present volume than that the silver coinago should be increased. Albany Journal. Marriage and divorce regulation belong to the police powerjof the States, and uniformity of legislation obtainable after the plan suggested several years ago by thfl Methodist convention, nanielv, that of having a general convention of State commissioners to draft a well-digested bill which,

would, in a short time, probably be enacted by every legislature in America. New ork Press. . We don't believe the country cares to havo the controversy between Tannfrr and Noble et aL carried on Indefinitely. Pretty soon somebody will advise t ht m to hire a hall, and it will not be out of order to do so. Detroit Tribune. It would be a mark of patriotism, if not of party zeal, for the newspapers of this country to leave to foreign journals the task of detracting from the international congress, and seek to encourage, by every means iti their power, the success of the outcome to which we hope it leads. Boston Journal.'. One year of really earnest and intelligent work toward the education of tho colored race, one year of abstinence from organized violence or organized fraud, will take the negro question out of politics in any State. The position of the negro in politics is strong because it is the position of a man who cries aloud for justice. Chicago Inter Ocean. The Pension Bureau has doubled its outgo in tho past, ten years, and increased the uumber of cases demanding attention in the same proportion without alteration in its methods or improvement in its machinery. Mr. Kaum's experience and ability ought to enable him to prepare and execute a plan for the reorganization of the present system which will do justice to the soldier without despoiling tne Treasury. Philadelphia Press. If society decides that it will only do work enough to raise eight bushels of wheat where it now raises ten, there cannot bo ten bushels divided in wages, or distributed to consumers. JSo' of every other product. When labor decides to work fewer hours, in mos,t employments it decides to produce fewer things. And when it produces fewer things there must necessarily be fewer to divide among the producers in the form of wages. Now 1 oik Tribune.

AWAITING THE LAST TRUMP. The Second Adventtas Predict that the End of All Things Will Soon Be Here. New York World. Forty thousand apparently rational men and women throughout th United States and Canada believe that on or before tho coming25th day of October, A. D. 1SS9, tho world will have come to an end; that tho nations of the earth will have been blended into one people, speaking one tongue, and that over all for a thousand years one spiritual ruler will hold sway. They believe that if it does not happen beforo that day the sun on the morning bf Oct. 130 will remain stationary on tho' horizon and on its upper and visible arc will appear, reaching back into an illimitable vista, an angelic host, and in the midst of this host "a woman, clothed with tho sun and the moon under her feet, and upon' her head a crown of twelve stars." Then the seven trumpets are to be sounded bT tho seven angels, and the "third woe." as predicted in the Book of Revelations, will have begun its fultillment. Contrarv to all precedents, the Second Adventists, both of the United States and England, have not set a specific day for the ' end of time, but they are mutually agreed, with a few isolated exceptions, that tho most careful 'calculations prove beyond tho possibility of error that . tho hour will not go beyond the date named. In 1843 and 1844 William . Miller fixed the day iu each year as. Oct. 10, and when his prediction did not come to pass ho explained that theditference between Jewish and Romau time misled him both as to the month aud the year. Before his death, which took place in 1849, he left directions showing how accurato calculations might be made, and on these were abased tho prophesies of the world's end in 1S57, 1867, 187a and tho present year. They all rest on one foundation, vi., the fulfillment of previous biblical prophesies and tho assumption that this indicated further fulfillments thereafter. It is claimed that inasmuch as the birth of Christ was foretold (Isaiah vii, 14), and that the birth should take place in Bethlehem (Micah v, 2), and the several other prophecies concerning tho Messiah (Isaiah liii, Psalms xvi, 10) all came to pass precisely at the time and in the manner prescribed, and that the fourth prophecy (the sccoud appearance of the Messiah) de manded belief. It was not until William Miller undertook to set the exact period that there had been any previous eftort in that direction. The beginning of tho eleventh century had been looked forward to with awe and dread, it is true but nono of the religious teachersof thosedays ventured positive predictions. It was not until nine centuries had elapsed that a prophet arose who, in an incredibly short space of time, gathered about him thousands of followers who have maintained their faith with a steady persistency in tho. face of failure, opposition and ridicule. Millerism, or, as it is called now, Secondadventism, has its strongest foothold in Now England, where all heterodox isms seem to flourish' best. It has more believers in tho State of Massachusetts than in any other of the Eastern States, aud in the city of Boston there is a weekly publication devoted to the promulgation of the doctrine. Vermont furnishes the next largest quota, and then comes New Hampshire and Connecticut A few aro scattered through Maine and Rhode Island. There is no regular place of worship' in tho city of New York, and the believers, even in a city, of two millions of people, are few and far between. In the city of Philadelphia there are two small congregations, and in 6outh and east New Jersey half a dozen all told. In the upper part ot this State, and on the Pennsylvania border lino there are several thousand believers. The Western States, especially Minnesota, furnish tho next largestnumberof believers. They mav be gronoed in this wise: New. England, 12,000; Middle States, tf.OOO; Western States. 8,000.' Northwest, 2,000; Canada, 5,000. As a body the Second Adventists do not differ materially with tha great leadintr doctrine of the Evangelical Church. They are essentially Casuists, but conform readily to whatever forms of law under which they live. The failure of Miller's prophecy in 1843 first brought the sect into prominence throughout the civilized world. Tho founder was a man of much magnetism, and while not scholarly, possessed a rude lotno that attracted attention even among the learned. His hypothesis was so ingenious and so cleverly dovetailed that the announcement that the end of the world was at hand created a noticeable excitement all over the country. While thousands scoffed at the theor3 tney nevertheless felt slightly uneasy , as the day approached, and there are men living now who remember many who, though loudest in their ridicule, wero the last to go to bed that night. Among tho .believers tho faith was firm. Scores of farmers in Massachusetts, in the vicinity of Pittsfield, abandoned their property to whoever cared to take it for a few hours, and patiently awaited the blowing of Gabriel's horn. .Marriage engagements were broken, written business contracts between believers wro destroyed in the belief that they could never be carried out. Children were permitted to go un cared for, and mothers who had been thrifty housewives for years dropped all their household duties. As the day came nearer the fervor grew greater, and converts Hocked to tho Millerito standard by the thousauds. Ampng the extremists in tho sect active preparations wero made for what they then believed would be an immediate translation. Spotless robes of pure white were made, anu in these dozens of families attired themselves, and repaired to their housetops to await the signal. Just out of Boston the nine-year-old son of a devout Adventist insisted as a proviso before taking to the roof, that his dog should by permitted to accompany him. vUuaccustomcd to such a height, the " wretched beast began to howl.-and the sacrilegious interrupt ion caused the patientlywaiting father to attempt chastisement, whicb eventually resulted "in his falling through the scuttle. A stout young woman near the same village caught the hem of her garment in a nail as she was going upstairs with her mother, and a thread becoming started, her "ascension robe" was ripped open at the principal seam, much to her mortification. x When the night had come and gone, and the earth looked the same as it did the day before, there began a good deal of squabbling over thenronerty that had been given away. An old fanner near Pittsfield compelled the grantee of his property to produce his deed, and it was found stipulated thereon that the instrument should be null and void unless ''too taid Gabriel shall blow a horn or make some equivalent announcement that the cud of the world was

at hand." Several lawsuits reunited, and one of them dragged through the courts for several j-ears beforo adjudication was made. One of the most interesting incidents of the time, and one not generally known to New Yorkers, is the following, which is taken from tho current issue of W. (j. McLaughlin's Metropolis: 'This faith brought to New Yorlc the founder of tho great linn of H. B. Clatlin As. Co. He lived in Connecticut, where ho kept a dry-goods store. When he became a Millerito he threw open his doors and invited the public to come in and help themselves to everything upon his shelves and counters. They accepted tho invitation and cleaned out the Ktore, while Clatlin, in his night-gown, climbed upon a high feuco so as to havo a clear course to theskic. and listened for the last trump. The noxt day he was a poorer and wiser man, and his neighbors made such fun of him that ho pulled up stakes and removed to New York. Whenever this story is told before J. McArthur, he shakes his head doubtfully and tries to raise objections, but it is one of tho truths of history all the same." While Miller wa disappointed, he wai not disheartened, and he immediately 6et about discovering the cause for his error. He fonud it, as ho claimed, tho anachronism, and in a few weeks made his becond announcement for the year lfvll. The faith of a number of believers had weakened by that time, but they were in tho minority, and almost the same scent were re-enacted that year that had caused such a sensation in 1S43. Tho world in general took' less interest id tho movement, and the chroniclers of tho dav devoted themselves principally to broad burlesque. In 1857 there was a still further falling ott. although the financial panic of that period was looked upon as ono of tho principal omens. Ten years later, after the war of the rebellion had closed, there was another prophecy .which was not fulfilled, and then came '73, and vtitii it tho great liuaucialcrash. Again this was looked upon as an. omen, and many of the faithful gave up their property and abandoned their pursuits. Tho anachronism was blamed a fifth time, and the calculators applied themselves diligently to hunting for tho cruises. A great many years were spent in this work, and at the last it was found that 1S9 was tho fateful year, and that the "seventh dav

I of tho tenth month" fell between Oct. 15 ami accoraing io ine present mexnoa or time computation. On this the Adventists take their stand, and ask tho unre?eucrat to take heed and prepare for tho "dies irrc. A Wroug That Merits Correction. Buffalo Commercial. Secretary Window -ranted to recogniza as far as he couid plendid services of three life-saving , who saved twentytwo vessels aud r . v 2U0 lives in the great September storm. All he could do was to raise the pay of tho captains to $$00 a year, the highest compensation allowed by law; the men could only get thanks. , Theso crews did their splendid work at tho risk of their lives, yet even their chiefs aro paid less than an ordinary policeman. Itf is a shame. Harvest, at the Capital. Special in Philadelphia Times. Washington is richer bva million dollars, . hard cash, left by the lemplars. Mouey flowed like, water, and everything was C. O. D. The regalia of the Kuights of tho California commanderies cost 00 apiece. The embroidery was baud-wrought in cold thread, and the gold and silver used in their decorations were solid. A stray Templar who was seen on the street one afternoon this week seemed as out of place as a pea cock in a barnyard of domestic fowls. Are French Novels Responsible? Augusta Chronicle. . The divorce law passed in France iu 1S seems to be operating witli terrible eil'ect. In 18S3 there were ;i,C57 divorces; in 18$. 4,123; in 16SG 4.007; in 18S7. 5.TTJ7. But thu most astonishing statement raiide is that in tho Department of the Seine, i.e. Paris and its neighborhood. there nre no fewer than C2S divorces to every 1,000 marriages, or that considerably more than ono iu twenty marriages, say ono in sixteen, enda in a divorce. One Hundred Miles on a Illcycle. Philadelphia Keconl. Miss Welch, of Germantown. who is a member of tho Wissahickon Wheelmen, is tho best lady rider in that district Sho was the only lady who rodo through from New York to Philadelphia on tho occasion of the great Century run last summer and she felt the effects of the rido so little that, finding the actnal distance covered during went out on the asphalt with her brother and rolled oft the even hundred miles. Society Note. J Washington Special. The Misses Bray, one of whom was housekeeper for Mrs. Cleveland and the other nurse to the children of Mrs. Lament, remained here after their employers went out of power, being comfortably fixed in tho Agricultural Department. They have taken a modest houso on Twelfth street, near G. Mrs. Cleveland gave a watch as a parting token to the ono who had served at tho White House, and Mrs. Folsom gave her a handsome brooch. Foolish, Policy. Nebraska Jonrnal. The Omaha newspapermen aro protesting against the reluctance with wjiich tho news of the Gibson accident was given onto from the railroad offices. "Why railroad othV cials will endeavor to hold back news of this kind, when they know perfectlv well inai ine reporters win get it all, and with, some interest, is one of the things that no fellow can find out. But they havo always done it, and probably always will. Unwelcome Additions. Cleveland Leader. Nearly 150 Mormons arrived in New York from Europe, yesterday. This is a species of importation that seems to demand tho attention of the United States authorities. People of this class should not bo allowed to land in this country. What is the us of trying to remedy the Mormon evil while additions are allowed to comn from foreign landsT Close the gates against them. "Way of the Modern Hern. San FraLCisco Chronicle. Tho way of the slugger is the sam whether he be a champion like Sullivan or merely a low-down boxer for beer in a dive. His way is to squander everything that ho makes in drink and debauchery, and 'then to haug around saloons for tho sako of a freo treat from his admirers. Pandering to the South. Albany Journal. Hill cives in his adhesion to the freo, trade idea and then goes South for Democratic favor. 1 he operation is a reminder of ante-belinm days, when tho Northern dough-face prostrated himself before tho fetich of pro-slaycry and then allied him self with the vassals of King Cotton. Where the Pork Factory II 0 a the Advantage Omaha KopcMlLan.. The Pan-Amencans fbay resolutely shut their eyes to Omaha's manufacturing inter, ests. but they will experience some difficulty, unless they aro atllicttd with catarrh, in closing their olfactory organs to tho fact that there is such a hive of industry as South Omaha. No Fun in the King Ilutinrsa. Chicago Journal. j While the Czar is traveling to Ft Petersburg on a railroad guarded- its wholo length by soldiers. Prime Ferdinand is iu Paris, so fearful of his life as to forbid any one speaking to him except by au assumed name. Verily it is not nuts to wear a crown. Uoaated Too Murtu Philadelphia r.ecrrl. A Lancaster county pensioner drawing $14 a month recently boasted to a stranger that he could set more fence than any mau in the county. When his pension was stopped he learned that tho stranger was a government deteclivo sent to investigate his case. Grandmother' Veil to Order. Philadelphia Record. . The swagger novelty for weddings is fvr the bride to wear "tho veil her giandmr wore." A Chestimt-Htrcct dry goods honso announces that they can "ago their newest patterns on a lew weeks notice." Watteraon' Freak F.xplulned. Milwaukee dentin 1. Mr Vittfr&fiTi (ivt lirt li'iu hi i a as $ for a glass of ice-water. It must hav been "the next morning."