Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 July 1890 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, JULY 20, 1890.

THE ; S U N'D AY J 0 URN AL SUNDAY, JULY 20, 1800.. ASUlGTON OFF1CZ-313 Fourteenth at. . X. 8. JltATO, Correspondent.

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All communications intended for publication in thUpcj.tr must, in order to rtetxxt attention, b accompanied by the name and addrett of the writer, THE INDIANAPOLIS JOUIKfAL Can be found at the following place: LONDON American Ex charge in Europe, 441 Strand. Pabis American Exchange In Paris, 35 Boulrrard ties Cap arts es. NEW YORK-GUaey House and Windsor noteL PHILADELPHIA A. P Kemtle, 7 Lan caster renue. CHICAGO Palmer Htmse. CINCINNATI-J. P. HawleyA Co, 1M Vine street. X.OTJi8VXTt.E C. T. Deertss, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ET. LOFlf Union Newa Company, Union Depot ' and southern UoteL . WASHINGTON, D. C. Biggs House and Zbbltt House. - ' TWELVE PAGES. The Sunday Journal has double the circulation of any Sunday paper in Indiana. Price At cent. To praise tho legislative ticket would be to paint the Lilly. It was a remarkably intelligent, earnest and business-like convention. If the Republicans cannot elect that ticket they could not elect any. But they can elect it. Such a ticket as that nominated yesterday increases one's respect for political conventions and one's faith in popular government. The colored people deserve credit for putting forward so intelligent, capable and worthy a representative as Mr. McCoy. Ho was nominated as much on his merits as on his color. TnxiiE is reason to believe that the Senate did a wise thing in putting its foot upon the irrigation scheme, which is of doubtful expediency, and wouldhave cost a mint of money. Thetie is no truth in the report that Spain desires to sell Cuba, but it is a matter of little consequence, since we do not care for Cuba, having all the territory we can look after now. TnE wisdom of placing the legislative nominations in advance of all others is f nUxJemonstratcd by the result of yesteruTay. No such ticket would have been made if these nominations had been left till near the close of a tired convention. During tho past six months British capital to tho amount of 8430,000,000 has been invested in this country, $40,000,000 being in breweries, $130,000,000 in railways, and $09,000,000 for trust and finance companies. Some of tho enterprises are said to be of the most risky character. The trade balance in favor of the United States the past fiscal year is over $80,000,000, against a balance against us of $8lt,rCG tho year previous. This change gives confidence to tho financial situation. Everything is conspiring to help the business of the country except but no mention will be made of the . exceptions to-day; The "respectable citizen" went to the primaries Friday night and to the con-' vention yesterday, and the result is fchown in tho excellent ticket nominated. . This is a great advance on the common custom of leaving the nominations to take their, chances and then "kicking" at the ticket. If tho new departure is followed up by campaign work and votes ' on election day, the respectable citizen can shako hands with himself and be at peace.' -Nowthat the citizens of Kansas City are paying their taxes, each one of the voting age who presents himself is asked if he voted at tholast municipal W 4 Tf ItA AAnrAAAAA Vfc v 1 .1 mm.m attend to that duty $2.50 is added to his tax, as required by the new charter of that city. This is a novel innovation, Tint! mi IUUM3 nuu uui w uivu owcaiu 4 - device to induce the "best citizens" to vote in municipal elections w ill watch ontcome withdeep interest. The . iupsv. one, because voting in 6uch elections is something more than a privilege it is a duty. " , - A few years since a man named Sharp .bribed New York's aldermen, or a porTvrfti?illw enrw Til m'f Via franchise for surface railways on Broadway. The conspiracy was discovered, Sharp was sent to jail, where he died, one or two of tho lesser thieves were convicted and the others escaped to Canada. " All are now in New York, not fearing punishment, and oue of them, .rho was to receive $50,000, got only il0 000, a fellow-boodler, who was the dispenser of the money, withholding the rest Now ho has brought a suit against his pal to recover the rest of the plunder his due. Several of the New York papapers regard it as a good joke. general Hamilton to go to Europe and appoint a competent medical examiner at each of the ports from which erai- ' crants sail to this country, who will act under thoorderaof the consuls and examine every emigrant to ascertain if he or sno is a fit person mentaJiy.pnysicaiiy and morally to become a citizen of tho United States. If they are found unfit for any caiiso they will be notified that tcs will not to cdnitted, and thus prc-

rented from Bailing. Dr. Hamilton is also instructed to carefully examine into the exportation of Italians, Hungarians and others under contract, and also into assisted immigration, with a view, to putting a stop to all such irregularities. The President has this power under existing laws, and it is believed that the measures which he has adopted will stop the exportation of tho larger part of the criminals andpaupers sent to this country.

POPULATION AND EMIGRATION. f The Journal has already commented .on some of the causes of the great disparity in tho growth of country and city populations during the last decade. The fact itself as foreshadowed by partial reports is likely to appear very conspicuously in the new census. It is apparent from these: report that much the largest part of tho general increase in population has been in the cities and towns. While most of these have increased from 30 to CO per cent, or more, the average increase jn the rural districts has probably not been one-fourth as great, - while many sections have scarcely increased at all. Comment and conjecture are rife as to the causes of this disparity. No doubt they are various. The modern tendency in all civilized countries is towards, the rapid growth of cities. Without stopping to inquire whether it is a healthy eign or . not the fact is patent that .cities have strong attractions for the young, the ambitious, the enterprising, 'the' adventurous, the vicious, the criminal, in short for all classes. Everywhere cities are outgrowing the country, adding to their own natural increase a constant accretion from the rural districts. Whether this will prove to be a permanent condition remains to bo seen, but that it exists now and that the causes producing it are activo and potent cannot be doubted In making a final estimate of the comparative growth of city and country populations an important factor will be the s emigration from the old to the new States. During, the last few years this emigration has been mostly from the central . Western States, and probably no -State has furnished a larger share than Indiana. The emigration from this State' during the last fifteen years to the. Western and Northwestern States has been enormous. Wo doubt if there is a city, town or township in any one of the States of Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotas, Montana, Washington or Oregon where a fair proportion of Hoosiers cannot be found. It is not an uncommon thing to read of Indiana clubs and reunions of Indiana people in these States, and the result is always a surprising revelation as to the number. Large numbers of Indiana newspapers go to all these States, showing that the former residents of the State have, not ceased to feel an interest in their old homes. Three of tho United States Senhators from tho new States are natives of Indiana, and of the Republican constituents who sent them no doubt a large proportion are former residents of the State. This large emigration, mainly from the rural districts, has been a heavy draft and is one reason for the small apparent increase of our country population. But it is likely to be less during the next decade than it was during the last, and to diminish as time passes. The good lands of the new States are nearly all taken up, uio Doom penou is auuui over nuu tho rush .'of emigration has subsided. The population of the new States will nofreceive as largo additions from tho older ones hereafter as it has heretofore, and that of the older States will increase more in proportion, especially in the rural districts. There is some satisfaction, however, in knowingtbat our loss is their gain, and that the thousands of farmers whoso emigration has helped to keep down the census in the rural districts of Indiana have all been counted, with' their wives and .families, m tho new States whither they have gone. THE LEISURE CLASS. In an interview in England Mr. Depew is represented as saying: "Wre are proud that we have nothing of what the English call the leisure class. The only leisure class that I know anything about in the United States arc gamblers and bar-room loafers who soak brandies and soda all day and play poker all night." Mr. Depew is a very bright man, and ho evidently has no respect for men who have no useful vocation, take no part in the world's work, and are no better than parasites upon the race, for which it was found to be better, .that it should "cat its bread in the sweat of its face." Mr. Depew is not that sort of a man. His life has been, a busy one, with a purpose,' as is the life of every man who has any real place in tho world. But if the leisure class to which Mr. Depew refers was confined to gamblers and barroom loafers, and was so understood, it would be entitled to little attention and its reputation would keep a large number of young men, and, indeed, men of all ages, from leading aimless lives. But, unfortunately, we have in this country a large "number of men who have been reared without being required to acquire a practical Knowledge of any-nseful occupation. Indeed, it may be 6aid that there is a sentiment quite prevalent in this country that the highest existence to be attained is that of a life of leisure. If we have no leisure class it As because we have no entailed estates; but we do have an idle and a helpless class because boys are permitted to reach the years of manhood without being prepared to earn a livelihood. Every town has its idle and aimless class young men who have no regular vocation and are not ashamed to live upon parents who are compelled to struggle for existence. We have a more favored class who have inherited property, and therefore, assume that they have a right to spend their time in aimless living or in a round of recreations and dissipations, who contemn useful employment and whole only uso to the world is to scat ter fortunes which have been left them. Mr. Depew seems to have forgotten these useless thousands who belong to the leisure class. He 'certainly has no regard forhem, since ho can have no regard' for men who lead aimless and useless lives They do not till farms.

open mines, construct factories, engage in trade, or contribute in any way to the work which the world has to do. They are the camp-followers of the world's industry drones in the human hive, and no less drones because they have inherited wealth since it is the duty of every man to contiibute something to the world's work. Mr. Depew does well to assail tho idea of a leisure class. Perhaps it is well to stigmatize the American leisure class as gamblers, as all men who live by that vocation are leeches upon society, whether the gambling is 6trictly professional or extends to tricks of trade in which one gets another's money. We want no leisure class of any kind in this country that is, men who have no honorable vocation to which they attend in the years of activity and health; and what is more, we need to counteract the sentiment which prevails to 6ome extent, and which is inculcated in many works of fiction, that the ideal life is one of aimless leisure without any useful employment. An aimlcsfely leisure man is no better than a loafer, and a loafer is at war with the divine economy.

WHEN DOES OLD AQE BEGIN? "He died young, sixty-two years," is the remark made by an exchange concerning the late Clinton B. Fisk. It is safe to assume that tho writer of the paragraph is himself verging on the sixties, or he would not classify that period of life as "young." Views change greatly as to tho time when ago begins. To the youth of sixteen twenty-five is on the down-hill road of life; at twenty-five thirty looms up as comparatively juvenile, but forty is ancient. At forty it is the man of fifty who becomes "middle-, aged," and at fifty, sixty is much younger than it once appeared. Even tho octogenarian does not find himself in the state of hopeless antiquity . he once thought to be the situation of all who arrive at four score. This change in the point of view is inevitable, since it is not easy for tho boy or young man to project himself so far into the future as to realize that possibilities open to tho middleaged and elderly that are not offered to youth. It is well that this is so, for sufficient unto the ago are tho joys and capacities thereof; but, aside from this natural inability to appreciate any but the life that has been lived, another change has taken place in this direction within the memory of people who do not yet call themselves old. This is an alteration in the conventional characteristics of age. The realization that arrival at fifty, sixty or even seventy years does not necessarily mean decrepitude of mind or body, a loss of usefulness or an end of pleasure, has caused a gradual change in the manners and standards of the day. The old age that is marked by a retirement from active duties, by a 'folding of tho hands and a lack of inter est in current events is becoming more and more uncommon. Certainly it does not come at fifty, nor yet at sixty. There are no old men and women of those ages, and who at seventy in these days is willing to drop cut of line and become a listless looker-ont In a former generation the woman of thirty-five donned a cap, and henceforth classed herself with "old women." Now, grandmothers array themselves in gowns and bonnets nnt Ipsa env or hernminc than thpir daughter8 and ith cqual regard for their personal appearance continue to extract the juice of life, and withal to perform as many good deeds as If in antique garb. Men who, had they lived early in the century, would have found it necessary to apologize for unseemly juvenility, now prolong their interest in athletic sports, in tho drama and other amusements, with no dream of unfitness. , There is so much to crowd into life in these later days that the time does not come for beiug old in tho sense of being a retired and inactive memberof society. The "lean and slippered, pantaloon" stage and the second childhood following are being improved upon or dispensed with entirely by modern humanity. ' NEWSPAPERS AND THEIB CRITICS. It is the fashion to berate the newspapers for giving publicity to affairs that old-fashioned . people were wont to regard as of strict and even sacred privacy. Newspapers coming mostly under the head of soulless, and therefore imperturbable, corporations, do not often take the trouble to resent these charges, but nevertheless the fault is not with them. It is with tho-age, which is spectacular and iusists upon posing and being photographed in every possible attitude. In spite of tho theory of the newly fledged college graduate, the office of the daily press is not, primarily, that of a great public censor and guardian. It is a chronicler, first, of events of general interest, and, second, of matters concerning which any class of its patrons demand information. In doing this it finds no obstacles in its way. If news of the doings of fashionable society is wanted there is society disporting itself before tho footlights aud in the full glare of electricity, ready, if not anxious, to bo described in print. ' If the "right hand" of the community wishes to be told what the left is doing, the latter member responds with alacrity, and if not asked hastens voluntarily to proffer the facts to the papers. If any interest is taken in the opinions of any man or woman upon any topic, human or di vine, there is no difficulty in obtaining them. It is, indeed, a standing grievance with many men and women that their views, carefully prepared for publication, are not presented to the world by unappreciative and short-sighted edit ors. "All the world's a stage" in a wider sense than Shakspeare knew. The life of the man born in this latter half of the nineteenth century is in evidence from tho cradle to the grave. If ho live a life that ministers to his vanity ho rejoices in the publicity; if he is a rascal the events of his exist ence are out of his power to conceal. The newspaper does not assume to be a critic of this state of affairs. It takes the world as it finds it. If, sometimes, out of the kindness of its heart, and for the good of the community, it exten uatcs, it "sets down naught in malice." If humanity chooses to engage in its

pleasures, its sins and its travail of soul in full view of the world the newspaper has nothing to do but describe the several situations. If no charity can be performed without a preliminary blowing of trumpets and calcium light accompaniment, the newspaper will do the part demanded of it, reflecting the while, perhaps, that "charity

suffereth long." If the youth the country cannot be taught of to be clean minded and pure by other methods than a "ribbon" organization that must first instill a knowledge of tho evils to be avoided, the papers will herald the doings of such society and only regret the abandonment of the old system that kept the young minds ignorant of impurity. But whatever is printed is what the public or some of its many divisions want. ,It is not the newspaper that creates tho want. No respectable, self-respecting newspaper and only these are spoken of here goes out of its way to pry into private affairs. It is always easy to keep out of this class of papers, let the grumblers say what they may to the contrary. As for the publications that do delvo in the slums for scandals, intrude upon resisting privacy and invent vile tales when they cannot find facts, all the denunciations of the harshest of critics are too mild, but fortunately such papers are but few and are growing less numerous every year. It is unjust that they should bring the decent press into disrepute. THE BEHRING8EA DI8PITTE. Secretary Blaine considers it inexpedient, at the present time, to lay before the House of Representatives the correspondence between the governments of the United States and Great .Britain respecting the Behring sea dispute. Lord Salisbury has returned a similar answer to the House of Commons in response to a request to give it and the public the correspondence thus far. The two leaders in the negotiations are of the opinion that it will not promote the object to bo attained to give tho correspondence to the public. They are certainly the best judges' of the course to be pursued. Negotiations are yet going on, and both are anxious to come to a satisfactory conclusion. To make public the correspondence thus far might produce a public excitement which would retard, if not prevent, a conclusion that will bo advantageous to both sides. It seems enough for the public just now to understand that there is no danger of a collision in Behring sea, and that the report that Great Britain had ordered war ships thither to interfere with American cruisers is false. So far from seeking a quarrel about the seal fisheries, both parties are anxious to avoid it, and it maybe confidently assumed that they will come to an amicable settlement. The case of the United States is in able hands, and no claim which can be sustained in international law will be yielded. On the other hand, there is no reason to believe that Great Britain will insist upon conditions which it cannot sustain by such law and precedent. It is one of the smaller matters which do not materially affect the people of two great nations, and, therefore, one for the settlement of which both na-: tions can wait with patience. i The experiment of(high license in Baltimore has given great satisfaction, the increase of the license from $50 to saloons from 2,700 to 1,800, and tho 900 which have been auporessed being the worst in the city. In the meantime the volume of crime has diminished. It is now proposed to increase the license fee to $500. ' If the statements which have been made about the trial of , Mr. Edison's torpedoboat are well founded, he has made a dis covery which will do more to revolutionize coast defenses than his previous inventions in the application of electricity have done and promise to do iu the production of artificial light The device is a mobile electric torpedo which he and an engineer named Sims have invented, and which has recently been exhibited' at the torpedo station at Willett' Point for the benefit of officers of our own and other navies. The torpedo-boat is c opposed of two cylinders, each. about two feet in diameter and thirty feet in lengtb, one of which serves as a float and the other contains a charge of 265 pound of dynamite, the cable etorage compartment ana me steering apparatus. In action, this latter cylinder is totally submerged, and only a few inches is visible of the other. On its trial this death-dealing machine worked perfectly. Steered and operated from the shore, the torpedo shot out to the length of a 5,500-foot cable, turning and twistine here and thero, as if it had been "a light boat steered by human intelligence at its rudder. It then returned to the shore, under the direction of Mr. Sims, within fifty feet from where it started. It cuts the water at the rate of twenty knots an hour, aud is so little exposed that a very skillful marksman would find it quite impossible to hit it from a ship's deck. Such a charge of dynamite as this craft carries would destroy the heaviest armor-clad ship afloat The government is having a larger boat built, which willhave a cable two miles in length and carry a charge of 450 pounds of dynamite. It is as serted that a half dozen of these torpedo boats could defend any of our seaboard cities against the attack of a fleet of the best ships in the world. That New Castle story about the black ghost ought to bo investigated by the So ciety of Psychical Research. If there is no mistake about the color of tho apparition a change of cherished opinion concerning the complexion of the next world's inhabitants mast necessarily come about It has been a favorite asflumntion that in the hereafter all men are white, but if this turns out not to be the case many persons will find it necessary to readjust their .theories of the political and domestic economy of heaven. The possibility of a race war in the New Jerusalem is really too harrowing to con template, . Dr. Verdi, a homeopathic physician of Italian birth, who lives in Washington, assures the House committee on immigration that he has lived for forty years in the United States and has never yet found an Italian laborer who worked under a padrone. He saja the Italians are not foob, aud are not to be gulled so easily into surrendering themselves voluntarily into slavery. Dr. Verdi is probably mistaken. Most of his life in this country has been passed in Washington, where one sees very few Italians except those connected with the legation. Dr. Verdi , might live there a

hundred years and see nothing of the padrone, or contract labor system. But it exists all the same. Large gangs of Italian

laborers have been brought to this country under contract and farmed out, at low wages, in the lanre cities, in mining district and on publie works. They are of the lowest order of unskilled laborers, and disqualified by nature and instincts from ever becoming good American citizens. The probability is that Dr. Verdi's informa tion on the' subject is neither extensive nor valuable. A co-orERATiVK bank was recently started in New York with an "authorized capital of. Sl00.CO0,000.' A bank, with such a capital as that ought to do a large business, and perhaps this one would after it got well started, but it was embarrassed at the outset in a way that makes its future success somewhat doubtful. Before its capital was all paid in a grasping furnituredealer brought suit for the price of a desk which the directors had purchased as the beginning of a plant The fact that they had nailed it to the floor of the co-opera tive banking-house ought to have satisfied the furniture-dealer that they intended to do a permanent business, but he was so nn-, reasonable as to demand his money and the court gave him judgment ior$S5. As the bank had only $40 in its possession the judgment absorbed all its assets and left it deeply in debt However, the directors acted very honorably and, with the aid of the sheriff, closed their, doors. Co-operative banking may be correct in principle, but this particular institution was not a success. J A kecent history of California, by Mr H. H. Bancroft, who is well known as a careful compiler and writer, contains some surprising statements concerning the prevalence of crime and lawlessness in that State, The author says that from 1&49 to 1854. inclusive, "4,200 murders were committed in California. In San Francisco there were 1,200, and only one conviction. In 1855 533 persons died by violence out of a population embracing 110,223 voters." This was in pioneer times; but, as will be seen, age has not brought much improvement, for "the record of San Francisco from 1852 to 18S2 shows that there have been but sixteen legal executions and 139 convictions for different degrees of manslaughterwhich .were punished with imprisonment" These statements seem almost incredible, but the fact that they are made by a California writer of established reputation leaves no room to doubt them. TnE "woman of the future" is a favorite topio just now with essayists and poets. This coming woman is invariably pictured as a vast improvement, mentally, morally and physically, upon the woman of to-day, the contrast being so great as to be practically a slur upon the latter. As a matter of unprejudiced observation, however, it must be said that the woman of the present compares very favorably with the man of the present, and if the man of the future means to equal the coming paragon of the other sex. it stands him in hand to "hustle." Dr. Mendel, a German physician of note, baa been making a systematic investigation as to the results of excessive coffee drinking, and finds them injurious to a marked degree. The general results on the nervous system are compared to those of alcohol, including in their worst stage a form of nerve disease not unlike delirium tremons. Dr. Mendel holds that excessive coffee drinking leads almost inevitably to the use of intoxicating liquors as the only means, finally, of obtaining the requisite stimulant ' " ' A cablegram says the Comte de Paris will visit this country soon. He served on General McClelland staff during the war, and has always . shown a lively -interest in the Union cause. He is the author of an excellent military history of the war. The Texas judge who has just sentenced nine men to death at one sitting has been on the bench only six weeks. When he has served long enough to learn the temper. of Texas people he will not act that way. The population of New York city is officially announced as 1,513,501. Evidently this is exact If tho supervisor had been careless he would have reported only 1,513,000. FUN AND PHILOSOPHY. Bits of Verse and Witty Sayings Prepared for the Journal by Weli-Known Writers. 'About the Size of It. Ob, here anQ there ." And everywhere The cranks are coming and going - No wind from the aea No wind from the lea. But cranks to cranks is blowing. Tvrere vain to try .TocUfcslfy The crank, wbose name is legion; WZia buzzes and bTvarms, FuHs down, reforms In every terrestrial region. - But it's safe to say. In a general way. Of crankary, and every ort of it . That the long-haired he, . And the short-haired nho Are about the long and short of it Polk Swalps. All, All Is Vanity. "Whv do vou call your jokes conceits. Mr. Funniboyl" asked the sweet girl grad uate. "Because thev are a Dart of the vain of humor," returned the humorist; and the voung woman laughed so heartily that Funmbov save her an opportunity to tell him 6be'd be a sister to him, later in the evening. r Carlyle Smith. A Basinets Paradox. How's the outlookr' "Dark." . . 7 . Why!" "Sales are light" Henry ITarksesa. A Face. Just glancing through the pane, as I, All carelessly, was passing by, I saw a face, Caught half a glimpse of Bomething fair, A 6mile, a gloss of golden hair, A girlish grace. , Borne thrUl my sordid soul went through, ; Some worn-out pulse of youth, anew Ecgan to beat. I seemed to hear a eky-lark's song, Spring tilled the aJr, flowers bloomed along The dusty street. Why not turn back affain, I said. To see once more that little head go coyly raisedt To see one more thoe eyes, so blue . Their white lid let the azure through - As out she gazedl Pome spirit In my feet (the thought Is Shelley's) turned me, ardor-fraught, Until agalu I met the winsome smile, the hues Of April pinks, and whites, and blues Upon the pane. Quite near I drew, then backward fell, At one that owns a broken spell Amazed, undone. A paper face it was alas! A email cigar shop's window-glass Fast glued upon. . . Era Wilder McGla&son. The Give-Away. The English, and, in fact all languages. abound in proverbs suggestive ox thedau cer of imparting excessive information about one's private affairs. Tho ease with which men use their tongues and pens to their own personal disadvantage has necessitated the coining of the word "giveaway," which is very expressive and covers the whole case. When a man. either , by talking or by writing, gives himself awayhg is usually

sold, which is not as paradoxical as it may

seem. A whole chapter might be written sdodj tho various types of give-aways, some ol which are rather amusing; as. for instance. wueu cam jouncing, a , rushed into the oliice of a justice pi the iiu i cu ii.) luicaicu fc j asked the justice. . jie uia, sun, ier a iao . 4V -berry nex' niggah he cotched, after aarK, iooiiq - ronn his nen roosts, uai gw inter rill him plum fuller buckshot. Am t uai ireaxnin my niei ' , Another unconscious give-away was that of tho excited lover who wrote: 3lay heaven cherish and keen vou from yours truly. John Smith." ,. c in i Huuiutr is me tasn ui i.o, -- satisfied boarder, who informed his landlady: "Madamo, this stuff ain't lit for a hog to eat and 1 ain't going to eat it." Alex. u. sweet A Carious Eflfwt a nicely decorated room. So "This is warm in n!nr" "Yes. It is surnrisinelv warm, consider ing the depth of tho frieze." w , J. itro. . Explained. lie sat beside the office desk, ' With haircHrd clukand mournful eye. And watched, in silent mood and sad. The wanderimrs of an errant fly. He wrote not. yet Ida flneers held A turn which prst In ink he soaked: Nor took the proflered gay clear. ior eiuucu vrueu viucn ivuuh uim ju.ivu EhrlU cries of copy' rent the ain The Rcissors clicked, the paste-Drusn noppea. The office work went madly on lie, only he, seemed stunned and stopped. I marveled much what sombre task Ills troubled brain was burdened with Obituaries, tariff views! Oh, that s our funny man, said mun. Madeline S. Bridges. " A Born Crawler. "I don't think much of Bennettson. ne made me a ' promise the other day, and crawled out of it the first chance be got." "That's Bennettson all over. Why. nft's as much as told me he crawled before he walked." Ctolmondely Ilircourt An Unpleasant Man. "Is Foster such an unpleasant manf' "I should say he is! In a crowded street car the other day he got up and gave his seat to a lady, and then, oi course, tne other men had to get up so altogether he made us very uncomfortable." A Serenade. He, tcith Banjo Accompaniment: Tis bold in mo to seek thyavor, But love is mine that does not waver. Open the shutter and I shall know That thou, love, dost receive me; Keep the casement closed and I will go, . You care not I will leave thee. She, Inside: The words are fair he dares to utter. I wish I could ec through this shutterIs it Jack or Tomt I cannot tell Who warbles there so sweetly; Whichever it is, I know full well lie's won my heart completely. Opens the Shutter: Why, Bob! navel Bcott Mines. . . In a Prohibition Town. "Going away!" asked the ticket agent "Yes." replied the editor of the Kackback Recorder, with a ' nervous tremor in his voice. . . "Vacationt" "The first in six years." "For your healthf" 'l guess so. It's too hot in this Methodist town for my health just now." "What's the matter with the Methodists!" "I wrote that their parson had taken to his bed. fagged out, and tho paper misprinted it 'jagged' out." , - Poutswaios. ' The Retort Temperate. "Now, don't lose vour temper." "I won't Hut I'd advise you to loco yours. BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT. Alexander Stephens's old home in Ma- . rietta, Ga., is owned by a negro. Joaquin Miller is credited with writing the worst hand in the United States, which serves to veil certain eccentricities of spell ing. , A collector at Bombay has among his curiosities a Chinese god marked "Heathen idol," and next to it a gold piece marked "Christian ldoL" Garibaldi's representatives have sold the Island of Caorera, the General's home, .where he is buried, to the Italian govern ment lor 5G0.U00. i hey reserve the house. garden and tomb from the sale. Mrs. Ira L. Likes, of Hayes City, Neb., has the reputation of being one of tho smartest lawyers in the State. She is only twenty-nine years old. but she has been an enthusiastic law student ever since sho was seventeen years of age. A Cincinnati paper reports that the res ignation of the Rev. . P. Foster, pastor of Storrs Congregational Church, has been asked lor on the ground that "the congre gation did not want the gospel applied to social and labor questions." An eight-wheeled railroad church has been built at Tiflis, for use on the transcaucasian line. It is surmounted by a cross at oue end, and at the other is a handsome belfry with three bells. It can seat seventy Fersons. lhe altar is made of carved oak. t has apartments for the priest The population of Franco is stationary. The reason is in the statistics of families. Out of every ten million households there are over two millions in which there aro no children. 2.500.000 with only one. 2.500.000 wivu iwo ana i.ow.iw wun inree. juate marriages and small families are the expla 2 A l ' A J AA AAA A 1 T . nation ox the decadence of t ranee. John Merriman, of Rhode Island, called himself a humanitarian and bought up a lot of old horses and turned them out to past ure, to end their days in peace. He got about thirty and the papers were eulogiz ing him, when his wile got a divorce on the grounds of extreme cruelty, fche proved mat no almost starved her to death. Sir Frederick Leighton has a magnif. icent mansion in London. In its center is au Arab court, with white marble pillars, and with a plashing fountain cut out of a single block of black marble. Sir Frederick's income is now larger than that of any other painter in Lngland except bir John Millais. who gets $15,000 for the most modest kind ol a portrait Temperance advocates will be shocked to hear the record of a Russian Centenarian. who has just died at Perm at tho respect able age of 105. Since he was eighteen years old he had gone to bed dead drunk every night lie had only been ill once in his life, when ho fell asleep in the street during a lit of intoxication and his nose and ears were frozen. The German doctor Alanus, notorious for his advocacy of vegetarian diet, hasbecome a pervert and has returned. to a mixed diet of fleah and vegetable food. He owns that one fact overturned all his theoretical preaching that after having been a veg etarian for a number of years he suddenly observed that his arteries began to show signs or degeneration. The' Nizam " of Hyderabad , recently bought iu Madras a magnificent diamond for lC.j.000 rupees, which is known as the Gordon-Orr diamond. The stone weighed before cutting O?1 carats, and after cutting 242 carats. It is described as being the best, purest and most brilliant stone known to connoisseurs, and will bo worn by his Highness in his puggaree or crown. George I. Sexey, the New York banker who failed so disastrously in has regained his lost fortune, paid every penny of his debts and is now on. the top wave of prosperity again. At the time of Lis failure ho had a very valuable collection of paintings, which he was obliged to sell. Hut ho has made another collection said to be the finest in any private gallery in New York. Lord Lonsdale, who last year xnado a reputation by trying to reach the North pole by means of dog sleds throngh Canada, is about to start ou an exploring expedition into the Olympian mountains of ashiogton. The party is composed of Lord Lonsdale. Fred Ashburn. It N.. Rally lleyland. L Mrs. Sedna C. Monticello, and. Babastino

Mouticello. Mrs. Monticello is an explorer

of considerable note, having uecn uu u expedition to Yucatan and other places, and will be the first woman to attack tha Olympics. In Urittany a enrious matrimonial custom prevails. On certain fete days the young ladies appear in red petticoat, with white or yellow borders around them. The number ol borders tienoics ino jwruuu mi father in willing to give his daughter. Lacb, TchitA band. reDreseuting silver, denotes 100 francs per annum, and each yellow band denotes gold, ana Detoicens j.iaw iraucs a rear. Thus a voung man who sees a faca that pleases him has only to clance at ttb trimmings of tne petiicoaxs io jeaiu wuui amount accompanies tho wearer. Suttee does not quite die out in India, dospito all efforts, and a case occurred recently at Gya, near Pana. The wldowli relative declared that, though the woman was locked in a room to prevent lierfollow mg the custom, her clothes took tiro miraculously, yet there wan no fiieorlightofany kind near. She then insisted n going to the cremation ground, ascended the funeral pyre and was burned to death, asking only once for water. Eve-witnesses further assert that when both bodies were burned to nshea fountains scran? up ach pide of tho pyre and extinguished the flames. General Don Camillo Tolavieja, tho, now Captain-general of Cuba, is one of tba best known superior oflicers.of the regular army, and well acquainted with Cuban affairs. He served brilliantly during the latest war in the inland, was ixovernor or the districts of Puerto Principe and Santi ago, and also acted as assistant captaingeneral. On his return . to the mother country, he was placed at the head of tho province of Andalusia, and married at that time, having for his 'nuuinna" or hanorary mother Queen Isabella. He has perfect knowledge of the internal and international necessities of Cuba. Miss Harriet Hosmer is making prepar ations to leave Chicago for Rome. Sho said: "I shall be off for Europe on the 20th or 27th of September, and shall be m Rome in October. On the way I shall stop a few days in Loudon to search through tho liritish Museum for ideas of costuming iu the time of Queen Isabella, for I 'shall go to work on the model ox my statue when l get back to my studio. Late in the. winter I shall return to Chicago, bringing with mo a wax copy of my model. This will be careInliy hmshed, that it may give a clear idea of my completed work. Aud will be about two and one-half feet in height" In an address at Chautauqua. Prof. Her bert D. Adams accepted the discovery of America by Lief, tho Norseman, but said it did not amount to anything, and that the real honor of discovery belonged to Christopher Columbus, who worked on scientiho methods and with a. full understanding of what he was after, although he was, doubtless, helped by guid ing suggestions from earlier authorities and maps. Prof. Adams was glad that tho continent was named after Amerigo Ves pucci, who was a scholar, and who came to this country with as real purposes of inves tigation as Darwin had in his voyage ou tho Beagle. Oct of the dust and grime. Far from the city streets. Where the 'skeeter's song sounds all night long And when daylight comes repeats; Where pies are leather-backed. Where the milk is thin and naleT No! the town for me not the wild countree I'd sooner go to jalL Chicago Journal. We can stand the awful plumber, Or the burning heat of summer. The mosquito (busy hummer); lut up with all these w e mar, But there's one thing makes us bellow. Makes our face turn blue and yellow Tis that tantaUzlng fellow. The man who's been away. ILawrf nee American. Christianity in IleUgoland. PaU Mali Gazette, The Christianity of Heligoland is nurelr English in origin. Tho first mention of th island under its present name. "The Holy island," occurs in the life of the Northum brian apostle of the Frisians, st Willibrord, written by the great English scholar. Alwin. of York. It was called "holv" bv tlm pagan sea-robber before its folk received the gospel, and held iu high reverence by all shippers in the north as the only place easy oi access in wnicn mey could procuro a stock of fresh water without risk. In St. Willibrord s time the southern parts of Friesland wero occupied or theFranL-ih kings, but "The Holy islaid" was still in. habited by an independent Frisian fold. It is proDauie tnat the first Christian church in Heligoland was hunt by English hands, or at least nnder English direction, and after an English plan. Willibrord baptized his first three converts in the holy well reverenced by the pirates ana shippers of tne norm. What a lie tain er Is. Labonchere. in London Truth. Although I have enjoyed a large experience of ll titration. I havAnAtrrt nnit. mastered the precise effect of a retainer to a a. t counsel, wceuier general or special. I therefore tender m v Binor tlmnVj n vA - . iuuo l J IUU Attorney-ceneral and the Incorporated .MW w ' .I AW. uvr IUVIU A MJJl lull SUbiect which thev Hata nnw Hrin-n m ia tween them. These are modeled. I perceive. upon tne ruies oi tne Jockey Club with rogain, iu retainers 10 jockeys, uy giving a general retainer I have "the call" of my counsel for any particular event Ho may not take a mount from any other owner ifI want him. If, however. I do not offer him a mounts he is then at liberty to give his services to any otner owner, i or "mount" read "brief." and for "other owner" read piamuiv ana i mink that this describes the situation with great nicetj'. A Hint to Ministers. Christian Advocate. Ministers miirht ipnm mnMt w Tin-Ar.. Jng diligently to the voice of laymen. Those who hear sermons often discover defects to which those who deliver them aro utterly oblivious. Some laymen have good lucas&uuut me management ox religious services which one cannot get in a theological school. They hear and see from a layman's stand-point They know how it arnears to a lavmnn. On a frhncannM i. may be abfe to point out defects in preachiuk wuu greai bkui. iuat minister -who has the confidence of intfllitrtit. lovmn. . as to be able to communicate with them ireeiy concerning the services has a treasure. That nreAtrher irhn L-rM- - . draw out the thoughts of capable laymen. ana receive meir opinions with a deoire to proni oy mem, is a wise man. Why Brussels Lace Is So Costly. Dry Goods Chronicle.' It is the fineness of the throat iri,i. renders the real Brussels ground (vrai reoit du iwoiij, Ait is uticn soia as jlKj francs the kilogramme). From this it is no wonder that so much thread mada by machinery is now generally used, but machinemade thread has never attained tho fineness of that made by hand. While finet spuu machine thread does not exceed bOJ leas, the hand-spun thread of Westphalia and Belgium for costly laces approximates 1.C00 and even 1.200 leas. 1 Why She Smiled. Boston Trsnscript. Mr. Depew says the Queen is a wonderful woman, aud he was much struck with the way her face lights up when she smiles. It would appear from this that Mr.lDepew took occasion when in-her Majesty's presence to get off a few good things, ana with unqualified success. . u An Editor's Outing in Colorado. Esds Journal. The Misses Rudy kindly loaned usahorse and Mr. Carpenter a buggy, and we were enabled to visit at Mr. Luther's and partake of their hospitalities last Sunday to the extent of two square meals. . May nch occasions often occur. Newspaper Men Safe. Washington Tost. Mrs. Frank Leslie announces that in cas she concludes to marry she rvill ved a journalist, Mrs. Leslie evidently has no ad I miration for the workers on the daily ne-riL papers. V8" The President's Dilemma, Minneapolis Journal. President Harrison is said to bo hVvir considerable difticulty in finding $10 SS men who are willing to take $:iV)job

in the report of the French exhibition of iy.9. it is mentioned as hirh as s.rn