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The Sunday Journal has double the circulation of any Sunday paper in Indiana. Price lire cents The request of the Virginia Congressmen that the- United States Marino Band should go to Richmond to make music to glorify the "lost cause" -will stand for a Jong time as tho most unique piece of impertinence this country has ever witfciesscd. Is the discussion going on in tho General Assembly at Saratoga there is a great solicitudo expressed lest any departure be made from tho teachings of John Calvin, but no reference ia made to the author of the Sermon on the Mount. It scem3 supremely ridiculous that trade discrimination in favor of tho United States by a few thousand peoplo, Jiving on the Hawaiian Islands should o raised as a serious objection to the proposition to givo Co,000,000 of people jtn this country free sugar. TriE money question' pending in Congress affects tho individual interests of tho average citizen twice as intimately as does tho tariff question, and yet it does iot excite half as much general question. Rut, then, the one is not a strictly party question and the other is. The question will doubtless soon arise &s to whether so much of a merchant's general stock as remains in the original packages can bo taxed by tho State. Tho famous decision is likely to fill all the stores of tho land with unopened goods about the time the assessor is due. Ir tho sentimental adherents of the 5ost cause want to wavo their rag about when doing honor to the memories of their whilom leaders, it i3 not likely that anybody will go into mourning about it; but they should have better tasto than to mix it up with the glorious emblem they fought so hard todishonor. It's a mighty poor Washington correspondent nowadays who doesn't know all about what tho Senate is going to do on the tariff question. Even at this distance it is pretty safe to say that it will pass a tariff bill and that it will bo a protective measure, Democratic "roorbacks" and "fake" interviews to tho rontrary notwithstanding. During tho next week greater display than usual will be made of tho stars and stripes in tho North, because Friday is Memorial day, but in Virginia tho prevailing flag will bo that of tho "lost cause," becanso of the unveiling of tho Lee monument on Thursday, when there will be more real patriotic fervor in favor of the "lost cause" than has been manifested in behalf of the Union and tho government of tho United States. To prevent the passago of an obnoxious bill by tho Now Jersey Assembly, after being pasted by tho Senate, a member named Trier stolo it and left. Ho canuot bo found, and probably will not bo until tho Legislature adjourns. Thousands of dollars wero involved in tho fato of tho bill. This may bo regarded a3 a new and most effective kind of filibustering, and ono for which tho new rules of the IIouso contain no prohibition. The New York Herald admits that the administration beat tho newspapers in regard to information concerning the absurd filibustering excursion into Mexico. It had heard of it so as to issue orders moro than a week ago for tho commandant at San Diego to bo on the lookout and capturo any persons moving toward Mexico with hostile intent, and sent the war-ship Charleston, from San Francisco, to patrol the Mexican coast against expeditions by sea. Here is an opportunity for tho Commercial Club of Indianapolis. Three or four hundred of tho old world's most famous metallurgical scientists, mineowners and steel and iron manufacturers will visit this country in September. According to tho present programme they will inspect the iron, coal and natural gas fields of Pennsylvania, tho mineral ranges or Lake Superior and tho mines of tho South, giving Indiana tho go-by. Why not invito them to spend a couple of days in Hooslcrdomt In Massachusetts the State makes provision for the support of foreign paupers, and it appears from tho reports of the State Roard of Charities that such paupers, have increased in twenty-tivo years from 4,500 to 12,000. During that Ecriod tho population of the Stato has

increased CO per cent., its wealth 80 per cent, and its expenses for foreign-pauper support 2.0 per cent. This the Massachusetts board attributes to unrestricted immigration. The commitments of insane foreign paupers to insane natives is in tho proportion of three to one which goes to disprove the quite current theory that insanity is more frequent among tho natives of tho United States than persons from abroad.

ABSURDITIES ABOUT THE IBHMAEL3. "When a speaker in a national gathering like tho convention of the Associated Charities refers to Indiana as a community "whose conditions of social degradation and human depravity can scarcely be surpassed in pagan lands, or among savage tribes," it is time for the people, who havo looked upon their State as socially and morally equal to any other, to inquire who has been slandering them. Later reports from the same convention indicate that the history of tho notorious Ishraaol tribe has been used to such purpose by a journalistic romancer, in attendance upon the meetings, that the members have gained the impression that Indiana, and particularly Indianapolis, are largely peopled by Ishmaels. This tribe, whose family record wai first kept on the books of tho trustee of the township in which Indianapolis is situated, is a remarkable illustration of the laws of heredity and environment, and has been a curious study to persons brought in contact by local benevolent work with paupers and criminals. The late George C. Harding brought the tribe into publicity somo twelve or fifteen years ago, at which time seventyfive or one hundred members were on the records, and it was supposed that the remotest branch of the family had been traced. Since then sensationmongers havo taken, up this history, have embellished it in various ways and have used it for more than it was ever worth in its first and best estate, until tho public, which is familiar with the truth and aware' of the exaggerations, is heartily tired of the tale in all its forms. Having been worn out as a local topic of discussion, it is now, it appears, doing duty among charitable strangers as an instance of what unheard-of Jibors benevolently disposed Indianians are compelled to undertake. Tho Ishmaels, who, when they were formally introduced to the world a dozen years ago, were known only as beggars, petty thieves, nomads, have increased, according to the journalistic chronicler, until they number 417 families and include all notorious criminals of the State. The preposterous assertions aro made that every crime of con sequence that has ever been committed in Indianapolis can ho traced to some ono in tho family connection, and that the divorce courts are monopolized by its members. When this Ishmael story was kept within reasonable limita it was a useful study in the laws of human life, but in its present' extravagant stago it can only impress the weakly credulous some of whom seem to have been in attendance at the conference. Some years ago an ado was made over the Jukes family of New York, which then numbered four or five hundred persons, mostly criminals, and whose an cestry was traced to a notorious woman who had figured in police annals of the last century. If tho Jukes family has increased at the samo rate as the Ishmaels, it now contains at least seventeen thousand persons, and fully ac counts for all the crimes and pauperism of New York, without taking into consideration the hordes of ignorant foreigners and wicked persons who never knew a Juke. Several noted Indiana criminals can be mentioned off-hand whose pedigree nowhere touches that of the Ishmaels, and there is reason to believe that candidates appear before the divorce courts every week who would decline to acknowledge a relationship. It would be a matter of some convenience if the worthless citizens of Indiana were thus plainly labeled, that all the community might be warned against them; but, as a. matter of fact, thieves, and beggars, and scamps are no moro numerous in Indiana than elsewhere. To be exact, they are less numerous in proportion to population than in some States that might bo named, and, unfortunately, they are not all Ishmaels. The absurd tales about this family should go into retirement. A PATRIOTIC MOVEMENT. The National Leaguo for the Protection of American Institutions, which was incorporated, a few months ago under the laws of New York, has just issued its first circular, which sets forth the purpose and principles of the organization. The objects of the league are to secure constitutional and legislative safeguards for tho protection of the common-school system and other American institutions, to promote public instruction in harmony with such institutions, and to prevent all sectarian and denominational appropriations of public funds. Tho first efforts of tho leaguo will be directed to securing an amendment to tho Constitution of the United States, which has been prepared by tho law committee of tho association, and reads as follows: No State shall rass any law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting tho tree exercise thereof, or use its property or credit, or an' money raised by taxation, or authorize either to be used, for the purpose of founding, maintaining or aiding, by appropriation, payment for services, expenses or otherwise, any church, religious denomination or religious society, or auv institution, society or undertaking which is wholly or in part under sectarian or ecclesiastical control. Tho constitutions of eevcral States contain provisions against tho violation of religious freedom and tho sectarian appropriation of public moneys, bnt the league believes that an amendment to tho Constitution of the United States like tho above is necessary to set the question at rest. In December, 1875, at the suggestion of President Grant, Mr. Blaine presented a similar proposition in the House of Representativeswhich was approved by a voto of 180 yeas to 7 nays, but it failed to receive the necessary two-thirds vote of the Senate tho voto standing 28 yeas to 16 nays. What .objectiou thero can be to such an amendment it is difficult to conceive, unless sensitive State rights statesmen may

seo in it an infringement of the rights of tho Stato or an assumption of authority by tho federal government which! they may hold to be hostile to the general spirit of the Constitution. Another purposo of the leaguo is not only to stimulate the pub lie-school system, but to provide that children shall bo taught the history the principles and tho spirit of the founders of the Republic to establish a publicschool system in accord with American ideas and infused with the spirit of patriotism. The membership of the League already embraces men of national reputation in business, literature and politics. Hon. John Jay is its president, and James M. King, No. 140 Nassau street, New York city, is its secretary. The officers of the league desiro to secure the co-operation of all associations already formed to defend American institutions, and solicit communications from those who may sympathize with its purpose, and any information or suggestions in regard to attempts to pervert the common-school system.

THE OBSERVANCE OF MEMORIAL DAY. Next Friday will be Memorial day. How shall it be observed that it may be, in fact as well as in name, a memorial day? Shall it be left to the surviving veterans and their immediate friends to collect flowers and go to the cemeteries in which the Nation's dead are buried and place them upon their graves, while the mass of people are indifferent and the young turn it into a holiday and devote it to frivolous amusement and boisterous sports! If so, May 30, as the years pass, will be less and less a me morial day, and will cease to be such when the weight of years shall forbid the few lingering veterans to perform its solemn rites. Twenty-fivo years away from the war, 1,246,000 of the 1 702,000 who brought home from bloody fields to the American people the priceless treasure of nationality now survive. Thousands of them are broken by disease and bowed with age. Shall it bo said that these men, who are either past tho vigor of manhood or are already old, are the only ones who so fully ap preciate the great service and noble sacriflco of their comrades, who bought with their lives for this people and their successors for all time the heritage of popular government! Can it be that a generation has come up in these years since the war that is so indifterent to the cause for which these men died and so lightly value the heroism and sacrifice which has caused the name American citizen to be the proudest title in the world, that it has no prompting in its heart to turn aside for an hour to honor that devotion which gave them this high estate? True, the Nation's dead need not our decorations or our praise. They sleep in the " windowless palace of rest." Rut it can do us great good to pay them thankful homage, to recall their service and sacrifice, and to reverently remember what they havo bequeathed us to enjoy and IJCipClUtllA;. Xi Will UU US glCUb gUUUf and may save this Nation from falling into that selfish materialism in which lurks its danger, by filling our hearts with that sentiment of lofty patriotism which moved tho men who cemented this shattered Republic with their blood that patriotism which is the vital health of the Nation, and without which its institutions will fall into decay. Memorial day should bo made the Nation's Sabbath, on which, over the graves of its patriot dead, the gospel of patriotism should be preached, the dangers which beset us as a people should be pointed out, and the duties of citizenship should bo impressed. Therefore, if wo have allowed Memorial day to be turned to other uses than was designed by those who wisely and patriotically instituted it, let all patriotic and thoughtful people unite in an effort this year to make it what it should be a memorial day for all the people, in which our hearts may be stirred with the sentiments of patriotism and our minds impressed with tho responsibilities of citizenship. Let a special effort be made to induce the young to attend the services of the day, to the end that they may inherit the patriotic spirit of 1661. And lest we may not find in our hearts a prompting to this duty, let us be inspired by tho words of that great patriot, Abraham Lincoln, at Gettysburg: . It is for us, the living, rather to be dedi cated here to the unfinished work they who fought here havo thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining beforo us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to mat cause ior wnicn they gavo the last full measure or-aevotion that we ,here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this .Nation, under God. shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people by tho people and for tho people shall not perish from the earth. KS UNGRATEFUL CRITIC. Mr. Charles Dudley Warner is displaying moro animosity toward news papers than is becoming in amanwho owes much of his literary eminence to the wide circulation given his work by tho daily press. Not long ago he printed a magazino article in which he belit tled the newspaper-made person, and in tho current Atlantic Monthly ho dis cusses another phase of the same sub ject. What ho objects to now is the presumption of tho newspaper in at tempting to supply tho public with mis cellaneous literature as well as nows, thus "usurping the place of books, and, to a large extent, of periodicals." Tho effect of this, ho believes, is to produco a class of people who read nothing but newspapers. Consequently they get scraps and bits of information, and, by too great a variety of mental food, acquire a demoralization of mind a sort of literary dyspepsia that gives Mr. Warner, if not the readers thoraselves, great concern. Tho effect of this newspaper reading is bad enough, ho says, when the newspaper selections are good, but it is a very serious matter when they, are vapid, frivolous or bad. Then follow some solemn reflections upon tho amazing folly of ten, or fifty, or a hundred thousand people leaving tho selection of their mental food to some unknown and irresponsible person whose business it is to chooce the mis cellaneous reading matter for a particu lar newspaper. That they will do this instead of going to reading-rooms and

libraries and cultivating their own

tastes is alarming to Mr. Warner. If he were assured that the most of these hundred thousand persons .would notgo to libraries and cultivate their minds under any circumstances, and would consequently lack a great deal of tho useful miscellaneous informa tion they have, he would probably refuse to believe it, but, nevertheless, such is the case. What he believes on this point, however, is neither here nor there. It is his unwarranted assault on the "exchange editors" of the country that deserves somo attention. Recause the person who selects the miscellany for a paper is unknown to tho public he is not necessarily irresponsible. He is, on the contrary, not only answerable to the publishers, but to tho readers of the journal, and a magazine editor or writer of a book has no more responsibility than this. Tho magazine editor may be known to the public by name, but that he is so does not increase his responsi bility nor improve tho character of his selections. Tho "unknown" man in tho newspaper office may" have as correct a literary tasto and bo as highly cultured as the magazine editor or tho author, but, like these, he is not always free to give his own preferences the lead. Ho may have a fancy for classic verse or archaeological lore, but if he understands his business, which is that of furnishing what tho public wants rather than of acting as moral purveyor to the subscrib ers of his journal, ho will hold his taste in abeyance and intersperse information , about base-ball, theaters and other light things of the world with tho choicer lore. It has, perhaps, not oc curred to Mr. Warner that a magazine editor caters to an unrefined public in precisely tho same way, as when, for in stance, it chooses, in addition to his own high-toned essays, an erotic tale by the half -fledged author, of "The Quick and the Dead." Writers of books have even been known to study the nublic appetite beforo producing their vorks. The newspaper habit may be open to objection in some respects, but if the persons addicted to it will read tho selections -made by exchange editors they will get tho cream of tho magazines aiid of tho books as well; and, Mr. Warner to tho contrary notwithstanding, tho cream is none too rich for daily food. . . THE RECENT MUSIC FESTIVAL. It is a matter for general regret that the receipts of the recent music festival failed to equal tho "expenditures, but it is to be hoped that this fact will not lead the managers to postpone the holding of the next ono for two years. Artistically the recent festival was a magnificent success and a decide improvement upon that of last year. This success was partly due to tho ambition of the chorus to excel and the almost constant practice ambition that would lag and practice that would be discontinued for a long period were the intorval two years instead of one. The public, which is just becoming awako to the im portance and merjt of these m affairs, will require to have its interest aroused anew if two years are allowed to elapse. When it is once understood that the festival is a fixed annual institution, and that no pains are spared to make each one excel all preceding, .the patronago will increase accordingly and a liberal attendance be a matter of course. The deficiency in attendance this year was not with Indianapolis people, but with thoso of neighboring, towns, who, for some reason, failed to; appreciate, until too late, tho character of tho treat that was open to them. Next year they will be better posted. , A UNIQUE FUBLI0ATI0N. The Journal extends greeting to tho Indianapolis Ram's Horn. Tho Horn has come to fill a long-felt want in the newspaper field, and indications are that its attempt will bo successful. The want felt was not for a paper that could blow its own horn, the public being tol erably familiar with at least one that has long been highly accomplished in that line. Tho need was for a religious , paper that contains a supply of religionin each and every issue. Tho Journal has dono what a secular paper could to meet tho de mand, but it is necessarily impossi ble to minister to the SDiritual needs of a community and look after its temporal wants at the same time, and it gladly welcomes a coadjutor in tho moral field. Tho Ram's Horn is not denomi national. At tho risk of bringing it into instant condemnation with many good brethren, tho assertion is ventured that any edition can bo read from beginning to end without learning whether its ed itor is Raptist or Methodist, Presby terian or Campbellite. Thero is no in formation as to what this reverend brother or that is doing in the Lord's vineyard, nor any figures showing the accession of "souls" to this or that con-: gregation, but tho blasts at sin and sin ners are directed at members of all sects and no sects, aud aro likely to batter tho walls of the devil's stronghold, even if they do not raze them like thoso of Jericho. "If brains could havo saved the world," say the trumpet notes, "tho work would have been 'finished long ago." "Tho world is not suffering so much for want of more preaching as it is for moro practice;" "it is hard to havo a revival in a church when every-' body wants to bo a brigadier-general and nobody is willing to be a private;" "thero aro no giants in heaven;" "if some churches did not try so hard to be places of entertainment they would bo more apt to become places of spiritual enlightenment," aro airy notes caught at random. "I expect," they say again, "about one of tho hardest things in tho world for some preachers to do is to get to the point where they have such trust in God that they can : preach what they know they ought to without first looking into tho pews to see who is going to dodge." The Horn blows softly and gently, too. Tho cheerful promises aro told again: "As one whom his mother comf ortoth so will I comfort you;" "And it shall come to pass that before they call I will answer, and while they are speaking I will hear;" "Whoso dnnkcth of, the waters that I shall give him" shall never thirst." The advertising colamns aro unique:

"Wanted Money. What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul!" "Wanted Rest. Come unto me all ye that aro weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Thero is not a sensational line, a coarse nor a dull lino in the paper. As tho editor very truly says, "There is no danger of getting too much religion if you mix common sense with it," and the Horn makes tho mixture with eminent success. The purpose in serving it up in this unconventional fashion is thuu indirectly indicated: When Samson went at the Philistines with the jaw-bone of an ass, it was the novelty of tho thing that made it win. Had he made his charge with a sword in his hand, he never would have lived to hp.T his hair cut. His enemies would have outflanked him and downed him. The Journal knows a good thing when it sees it, and takes pleasure in classifying tho Ram's Horn under this head. Patriotic and party feeling runs high out in Oklahoma. Tho Oklahoma women cannot vote, but they can form Republican clubs and turn out in parado when occasion requires. It rained on the day of Governor Steele's arrival in Guthrie, but this did not deter tho women from joining the procession and marching from the station to the Capitol, some of them carrying their babies all the long mile. The further West they get the more active becomes the interest of women in politics.

If, as is stated, there were 14,770 homicides committed in the United States and only 558 of the life-takers were hanged under lawful sentence and 075 wero lynched, what became of the rest of them? more than 12,000. At tho annual meeting of the American Bible Society, in New York, last week, a paragraph in the report of the officers caused quite a sensation. It reads: There are 1,118,755 nnsupplied with Bibles in the country. Tho truth requires the managers to declare that the official statistics leave no doubt that the number left unsupplied br reason of illiteracy alone Is very much larger than these figures seem to imply, and they show that illiteracy Is the chief hindrance to the home work of the society in placing the Bible in every home. Regarding these millions of illiterates in our midst as human beings. In whose enlightenment as citizens the American people have deep Interest, and for whose opportunity to read the Bible this society has assumed the highest responsibility, the managers feel bound frankly to declare the fact to their constituents of all creeds and parties in every 8tate ana Territory, and to call upon the American people and upon the national and 8tate governments carefully to inquire into and consider the existing and increasing illiteracy, and to take such steps as their constitutional powers and educational precedents may warrant, and as may he found in their wisdom fitted to the emergency to enable every child in every State and Territory to read the Bible.- " ' Quito a discussion followed on the question of publishing the above, but it was finally voted that the whole report be I printed, with the above objectionable clause amended by the committee. But why amend? If the officers of the American Bible Society believe that illiteracy is increasing in the United States, the best service it can render the conntry is to announce such belief. Coming from so high an authority it may be heeded. The New Orleans Times-Democrat has this to say of a former Indianapolitan: . Not many American writers have the faculty of putting flo much into so small a snaeo as Francis M. Livingston succeeded in doing in his clover conte, "A Thing Enskyed," in the May Llnnmcott. Ha has much of that dexterous li-htnee8 of touch which marks the literary woriounnsiiip or tne j?rencn. i.ippmcou is one of the few of our magazines which give place to such brief, bright sketches, and it is to be hoped that it wiU continue thus In well-doing. Tho young author here referred to is Mr. Frank Livingston Moodey, who is a nephew of Judge Livingston Howland, and for years held a position in the Meridian National Bank, afterwards being connected with the ' Woodburn-Sarven Wheel Company. Ho left Indianapolis about five years ago, and after a year spent in Europe, settled down in New York. Besides being a successful newspaper correspondent, he has contributed a number of bright' and well-written short stories to 6uch publications as Harper's Weekly, Belford's Magazine, The Epoch, and the Home-Maker. The many friends he has in Indianapolis will watch the future career of "Francis M. Livingston'1 with good deal of interest. TnE fifth annual convention of the West ern Association of Writers will be held at Warsaw, Ind., beginning July 8, and will continue m session four days. An interesting and original programme is promised, one feature of which is a "jubilee of poets," called a "surfeit of rhyme." This is likely to be somewhat alarming to that portion of the public which is accustomed to tako its poetry in homeopathic doses, but, perhaps, such persons in attendance can survive the jubilee after the stimulus of enjoyment de rived from other portions of the entertainment. A lecture on Canadian literature is promised by Hon. John Georgo Bourinot, whose address at the convention last year was so well received. A large attendance is expected this season. The trustees of the Institution for the Blind have done well in getting rid of the cows that have for so many years been an attachment to that establishment. The cow is a picturesque addition to a rural landscape, but in a pen in the middle of the city she loses her attractiveness. 1 , TnE English should not bo vexed because of Stanley's enlarged views of himself. It isn't often a man conquers a continent and a heart both at once. PUN AND PHILOSOPHY. Bits of Verse and Witty Sayings Prepared for the Journal by Well-Known Writers. Lota Among the ClOTer. Over and over the purple clover, Under the greenwood tree, Sweet Bessie came straying, for wild flowers Maying, And sang in her maiden glee: Obey, Oho! There's a laddy I know Who joys my face to see. Fair blossoms, I pray, now what shall I say When Robin comes wooing o' me. Dear heart, 1 When Robin comes wooing o me!" Over and under the boughs asunder, Through the wood canio Robin ere long; In the olden fashion he caroled his passion, And the hawthorn swayed to his song: "O hey, O ho! The way I know She dropped me this flower to tell; But what she will say this blonsomy dayWould that I knew it as well, Dear heart. Would that 1 knew it as well Over and over the fragrant clover The bees went humming tUl late. But wlcro is the laddy, and what luck had ho Awoolng his blithesome matel O hey, O ho! They walk so slow, Brown Robin and blushing Bess; But what did he say in the wood to-day t I think I will leave you to guess, Denr heart, I think I will leave you to guess. ' Samuel Mlnturn Peck. Folk's Jokes. "Doradoville seems rather slow," remarked the visitor to tho native. "Between yon and mo; Doradoville is a dead duck," answered the native. "When I was here, in '67. it looked like a

promising place. Wherea the town disappeared to, anyhowt" "Haven't you heard. Why, Doradovillo has had a boom." ., . "Ah, me!" sighed the transcendental-looking young man from Cambridge, as he withdrew his pleading eyes from the unresponsive fsco of the fair girl at his side and fixed them dreamily and desolately upon tho far horizon. "Ah, me!" he sighed, "have 11 my fondest hones, my tendcrest longings, been for naughtf Ah, me!" he sighed once more. "Yes," answered tho gentle Indianapolis maiden: "yes, that seems to be about the sighs of it," and her pearly teeth closed upon the tolu with a dull thud. ' ' . Folk Swslps. ... A Mother. Gooselet. Thrift, noratio. Thrift.

"r 1 - ' Pos9y cat, pussv cat. where have you been! I've been to London to visit the Queen. 'Piwy cat, russy cat, why do you groan!" I nearly starved to death under the throne. John Kendrlck Banjcs. Humor of the Flour. "It seems to me that clock-makers have the best right to strike." "Why do you think so!" "Because they are always working over time." Erratic Enrique, The Fair Phllosophr. He looked in her eyes with a mute surprise. For he'd stolen a kiss, and she chided not His maiden queen, with the face serene. Illumed by the pallid hue of thought! "I thought he said. She raised her head And looked him out ot his thought, and dumb. 'Know, sir," said she, "my philosophy Tis this: to take things as they conic. ' Paul Pastnor. lie Was Weak, Too. Annt Amy Looky 'ere, Rastus, you better go an' milk aat cow yo'se'f to-day. I bin washin' vo' clo'es all de cbenin', an' I jes weak as a kitten. Uncle Rastus Well, listen to me.'ooman; you go an' milk dat cow yoso'f. I bin cuttin wood all day, an I jes weak as half a dozen kittens. J. A. Slacon. Baking Day. Ever come in Ton? the pasture Cross an' snappy as the pest, Wonderin whut's the use o' plantin', Hoein, reapiu' an' the restAll to git a ornery livln' Clothes, an' feed, an house-room jest! Then 'bout as you crossed the gyarden, llev you ever ketched a whefl", Bort-uh Blow, an' sweet, an sofnin, Sort-uh mild an kind, as ef Aneels was a boverin' o'er ycX An you smelled thar clover breafl Cuz in case you he, you know how Frets an' troubles slips away When your nosterls gits to sniffln, Mongst the sin8 o' new-cut hay, Bomethin sweeter ner the grass is Crusty smells o' bakin day! . 'Pears as ef the Bad Place closes 'Count o business bein' slack. An old Hoof-an-Horns goes 6linkln Off, his tail bchint his back, Bort-uh limp, an mostly draggin' . 'Long his cloven hoofs'a track; An the gates of heaven opens Till you 'low you ketch a sight Of the golden streets, whar bands of Music plays by day an' night, Marchuv up an' down perpetial. Flutes an1 trombones shinin' bright. All these visions comes a waf tin Fom the open kitchen door. Mixed with gentle hints of pie-crust Ontll life looks up onct more, Cheered with thoughts of rolls an' light-bread. An of crullers sugared o'er. Tell yeh! ain't no Sunday sarmon l"ints me out the narrcr way, Shows me how to live contented, L'arns me better how to pray, - Than tho means o' grace I get her Out o' weekly bakin' day. Eva Wilder McGlasson. About Walters. It is true that the proverb says all things come to him who waits, but unless the waiter is tipped the things are very slow in coming. There are various types of ohjeotionable waiters, but the ono who carries a soiled towel with which he administers a dry shampoo to everything within reach, including his own faco, is the worst. He is the one who stabs the soup with his thumb and says, "hashclamchowderbecfroaatcornbeeflambpork." As soon as a customer enters tha waiter takes his measure from tip to tip. so to speak. He waits for revenue only, but believes in a high tariff. The dusky chicken-appropriators from the sunny South make the Dest waiters. The skill with which the colored waiter can run at you with a chair and make you sit down by striking yon on the inside hinge of tho knee is never acquired by the white waiter. The most imposing personages in New York to-day are the head waiters. The head waiter was evidently intended, originally, to nil a throne, and is now only acting as waiter until there is a throne vacant After all, the customer obtains considerable equivalent for the fae. The beaming smile with which the waiter asks if everything has passed off to your satisfaction is cheap at 10 cents.. There is another dime's worth of servility in the way he bows as you take your seat. For a quarter you purchase, for the time being, the entire man which is much cheaper than buying a Congressman or a boodle alderman. Waiter tips cost something, of course, but they are not to be mentioned in the same breath with ostrich tips, to avoid the payment of which is more difficult than dodging tho waiter. - ' Alsx. E. Sfreet. ? A Crime of Spring. v My crime was murder in the first degree; My victim was no robber, rake nor rough: The man I killed last week came up to me And th is began: "Well, is it hot enough V He never spoke again. I slew him there, And now am free once more, no fugitive. The jury's verdict was that none should dare Work off that summer gag in spring and Uve. . ' Carlyle Smith. Pellets from Various Pestles. The late Robert Browning was obscure, even when famous. Thirty tramps slept in ono barn in Pennsylvania the other night and the owner has been going over his hay with a fine-toothed comb ever since. "Circumstances alter cases," and they say A cabinet-maker does th same each working day. Now that the editorial We is subsiding into an innocuous infrequency the editorial I is more vigilant than ever. "That transformation from Jekyll to Hyde is Tronderf ul." "Oh, I don't know. I saw a man six feet high make a spectacle of himself this morning." Men are only women s son3, Ijo they stranpers. cousins, brothers. Yet each "dudo" the tailor duns Thinks his worth excels his mother. BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT. Speaker Reed wears a big hat and a small overcoat. The estate of the Countess of Ayleford tnms out to consist of nothing but a bowlegged bull-dog. Dll Ciiamiskland. Pasteups chief assistant, has discovered that cinnamon is fatal to tho typhoid microbe. Miss Julia-Wheeler, daughter of Gen. Joseph Wheeler, of Alabama, is a pretty girl, and quite a society pet in Washington. II. M. Stanley, in a recent speech in LomLou, described Erain Pasha as "small. fair, spoctacled, fezred, undecided, and dressed in immaculate white." The bay of Salamis is to be investigated and its bottom raked. It is hopod to bring up some of the Persian galleys of Xerxes's fleet, which were sunk there over two thousand years ago. The engagement has been announced from Washington of Miss Butterworth, a daughter of lion. Benjamin Bntt srworth, to Mr. llrfcughwout Howe, a secretary in the otate. Department, Henry Geokge's trip to Australia is said to , have benefited . the Australians, because the hyenas have laughed themselves to death over his theories, and the rabbits havo fled beforo his eloquence. Geougb 'Francis Train, as he tells it, had the .unique' experience of having a birthday wiped out of his calendar during his trip around the world. He would have been sixty one years old March 24; but it so happened that be reached the lS2d meridian on that day, and found it was March 25.

Train says that he is the only man in tho xrorld that has ever succeeded in dodging a birthday. Mr. Richard Vaux seals all his letters in the old way, with wax, impressing it with a seal ring, which he wears on his forefincer for the purpose. He thinks the modem practice of fastening envelopes an unclean one. Mrs. Giocometta PnoDocns, the terror of London cabmen, is dead. Her habit was to drive the fullest possible distance for the money, pay the exact legal fare, and then causo the arrest of the cabman for exyrcssing his feelings. The great window for the hall of Mr. Jefferson's house at Buzzard's bay is now to be seen in Boston. It shows a Southern swamp scene, drawn by Mr. Jefterson himself, and executed in mosaic The window

measures ten feet by seven. The Princess of Battcnberg has managed to bring about a quasi-reconciliation between the Queen and her son Prince Alexander, who fell into the deepect disgrace at the English court when he jilted Princess Victoria of Prussia in order to contract a morganatic marriage. - Rev. Da. Talmage, in an article setting forth tho idea that tho girls should be taught to woTk, quotes Madam De Stael, who said: "It is not of these writings that 1 am proud of, but the fact that 1 have facility in ten occupation, in any one of which I could make a livelihood." Mr. John H. Krause, a retired wholesale grocery merchant of Philadelphia, offers to give 20,000 towards tho pipvidingof a hospital at Pottstown, Ta.. if the Kings Daughters, who now have $4,000 towards it. will succeed in getting contributions amounting to his proposed gift. In addition; hewill give $5,0tx) in trust, the income of which is to furnish a free bed in the hospital as soon as it is completed. We do not take all our fads from En gland. Sometimes we have them first Thus Mario BaskirtchiefTs journal is already an old story in America, bnt the translation has only now been published in England, with the recommendation that "eighty thousand copies have been sold in the United States." and the London papers are discussing the Knsso-Parisian minx as though she were something new. On the other hand, they have got through with Ibsen in London, while some of our wise young people are just catching on. The following will appear in Henry M. Stanley's paper in Scribner for June: "Constrained at the darkest hour to humbly confess that without God's help I washelpless, I vowed a vow in the forest solitndea that I would conicss His aid before men. Silence, as of death, was rbund about me: I was weakened by illness, prostrated by fa- i tigue, and wan with anxiety for my whito ! and black companions, whose fate was a J mystery. In this physical and mental dis- j tress I besonght God to give me back my i people. .Nine hours later we were exulting with a rapturous joy. In full view of all was the crimson flag with the crescent, and beneath its waving folds was the long-lost rear column." Wilhelm II is by no means indifferent to i other forms of beauty besides that of tho , well-built hussar. He is passionately fond of intellectual things, resembling in that regard, and in that regard onlv. his father, whereas in all else he is the direct heir of ; his old grandfather. His taste is not very fine, but his zeal is genuine, his curiosity ' instinctive, and he has always sought to) complete his artistic education. He has visited the exhibitions, read the great poets and adored music, the music of Gluck, Weber and Wagner in particular. When very young, at the closo of a representation of "Parsifal." he declared that, while he was alive, the work of Wagner should not perish. He let slip no occasion for affirming that, if ho became Emperor, the art of his cottntrv could count on him. The Christian Union tells about a thoughtful Xew York business man who has just arranged so that his young women clerks can spend their noon hour pleasantly. Formerly they ate their lunch in the office where their work was done, and took such comfort a? they could. Now, at 12, the girls troop off to a sunny loft four blocks away. Here a generous section has been divided from the rest of the room by a bright portiere, and a skillful instructor in the department of physical cultnre is ready to put them through a ten-minute drill in light gymnastics. Meantime the kettle is cheerily simmering on the gas stove, and in five minutes moro a generous table is spread with such viands as havo been brought. Tho girls sit down to a lunch flavored with pleasant talk, and, at I o'clock, are back at their desks, refreshed and invigorated. The summer's a time when all things become' easy. When nature's benignant, and balmy, and breezy; When the mere act of breathlngcontents a man's soid; When you don't squander money for gas or for coaL "Washington Post. He wears a last year's summer hat. Its form would make you laugh. Bnt perhaps he'll save $2 Or $2.. Washington Post. TnE SCHOOL-BOOK TRUST Finally Perfected by EmtraciEg in Its Foldi Harper Bros., of New York. CmcAGO, May 24. The School-book Trust has trinmped at last, and at considerable cost. When the plan to control the sale of text-books that educate millions of American children was laid before the publishers last winter, the Harper Bros., of New York, came out sturdily against it They refused to enter the combine. The trust then resorted to diplomatic measures. Its promoters were skillful, and in the last few days they have been rewarded. They havo landed the Harper Bros. The school-book department of the famous Franklin-square Publishing-house has gone over bodily to the enemy. The price paid is said to have been between $750,000 and gl.OW.Gvo. Tho transfer was made Tuesday or Wednesday. The deal gives to the trust command of 10 percent, of the school-book sales of the country. Nearly all the text-books used in the Chicago public schools are included. The purchase from tho Harper Brothers was preceded by three deals of less importance than that one. The Standard Publishing Company, of St Louis, and D. D. Merrill & Co., of St. Paul, havo beinfar. nishing books to the Indiana School-book Company, which deals with the State of Indiana. D. D. Merrill Ac Co., had a seventeen year contract to supply school-books to the State of Minnesota, and that contract cut a profitable slico out of the possible trade of the trust. Control of these hoase3 was obtained two weeks ago, and now, with the Harper Brothers in, the trust is practically proof against competition. Tf 1 T " Pronounced the Story False. Bpecial to the IndlaEsrohs JoamaL Crawfokdsville, Ind., May 2t Mrs. Frost Craft, wife of Rev. Frost Craft of Lafayette, was in this city yesterday, attending tho Sunday-school convention. The story published in Democratic newspapers of how President Harrison had snubbed her husband and George B. Chamberlain, when they called upon him to invite him to be present at the Battleground camp-meeting, Mrs. Craft pronounced as absolutely false. She says that President Harrison talked cordially about the invitation at leapt ten minutes, but that he told them that it would not be possible for hiui to accept. They then called upeii Senator I u galls, and he pro timed to attend. . Tried Hard to Die. Fpeclsl to the Indianapolis JournnL Crawtordsville, Iud., May 24. Testerday morning, at New Market, Mrs.. Kincaid. widow of John Kiucaid. made an unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide. She shot herself twice, the ball each time passing entirely throngh her body in the region of the heart. At lirst it was thought that the wounds would be f&tal, but the last reports are that sho is improving. Somo time ago she made an attempt to commit suicide by cutting her throat She spends most of' the time with ono of her children at Ladoga, and was on a visit to her daughter when the second attempt at suicide was made.