Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1891 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1891.

THE DAILY JOURNAL FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1S91. WASHINGTON OFFICK-513 Fourteenth sU I 8. Heath. Corrertulnt. Telephone CalL Bnlsnets Office 223 J Editorial Itooms 245

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can It found at the following places; PARIS American Exchange In Paris, 28 Boulevard - ties Capucinea. 21 EW "XOBK Gilsey Ilouse and "Windsor Hotel. PHILADELPHIA A. pT Kemhle, 37U Lancaster sTenne. CHICAGO Palmer Home. CINCINNATI J. P. Hawley A Ca, 1M Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Deering, northwest corner atlid and j eSeraon streets. BT. LOTJI8 Union Kews Company. Union Depot nd Southern 11 oteL WASHINGTON, D. O Rlggs House and Ebtitt House One door-keeper to each door would eeem to be sufficient to protect the incoming Democratic Legislature from intrusion. A BRiGnT rainbow on the 1st of January is a meteorological novelty, uul its occurrence yesterday will bo construed by some as portending an eventful year. Oranges were never so cheap here as now, which is due primarily to the protective policy, which has stimulated orango-growing in Florida and elsewhere in this country. It is mentioned as proof of remarkable patriotism that the Democrats in Congress will probably not side with tho Sionx in the present war. They were opposed to the government in the last one. Following the great free - trade teacher, Thomas G. Shearman, of New York, the Sentinel may prudently indicate that a tax on land will be needed should the free-trada programme be carried out. The fact that the Cleveland managers of the New York Reform Club voted 8 to 7 to invite Governor Hill to its banquet without an invitation to speak has added new bitterness to the ClevelandHill conflict. Will any Democratic statesman who will come hero next week as an alleged legislator bring in his gripsack a bill providing for a modern Bystem of taxation, by which the increase of the State debt, due to Democratic extravagance, may be stopped? Indianapolis has only kind feelings and good words for 1890, but it looks forward to a still more agreeable acquaintance in 1891. The year that fis past brought prosperity and progress in good, liberal measure, but there is every reason to believe that the one just opened will surpass it. TnE Memphis Appeal-Avalanche calls upon the Smooth to respond to the "closure" by "an appeal to arms," but before concluding its article it answers its question "Will the South rise in armed rebellion?" by the words "not -yet." This is comforting; the federal troops are at present engaged in suppressing the rebellious Sioux. ' FiNANCiALLY.speaking, the year 1890 had a better ending than seemed probable sixty days ago. Then there was every indication of a financial panic and commercial convulsion. There has indeed been a season of stringency and some failures, but during the last month the situation underwent a marked improvement, and thattendency continues. - In the same issue that the editor of the Boston Herald attacks the administration for not submitting the Behring sea dispute to arbitration, its well-informed London correspondent's dispatch says that the failure to negotiate is due to the fact that Lord Salisbury desires to have arbitration on a partial issuo and Mr. Blaine upon the whole question. mmmmmmmmmm TnE Washington correspondent of the Chicago Herald, Dem., tells that in the late campaign Senator-elect Brice, Payne ; and ex-Secretary Whitney, all rich, agreed to take care of Ohio if the congressional committee would take care of the rest of the country, and ho goes on to say that he knows that $50,000 was expended to prevent McKinley's election. And yet fighting all this money McKinley reduced a Democratic majority of three thousand to less than three hundred. Money does not always count. Governor Jones, the new executive in Alabama, combats the proposition to follow Mississippi in disfranchising the colored voter by constitutional provision. . In his inaugural Governor Jones declares that such an amendment of the Constitution of the State would be a direct violation of the fourteenth amendment, which secures equal rights to all. He also opposes the division of the ixhool fund between the races in proportion to the amount which each contributes as a discrimination on account of race, and therefore in violation of the federal Constitution. A .Democratic Governor in the South who holds tht the" Constitution of the United State is paramount to the State is an anomaly. He will not be popular. TnE office of United States Treasurer is not one in which there is much opportunity for the incumbent to impress his personality upon the public, but in his long term of service in that capacity the late General Spinner exerted an influence in affairs not equaled by many holding more conspicuous official positions. His judgment was held in high esteem by his associates, and hit opinion

was often sought by Lincoln and others in the critical times of the war when the iinancial problem was one of the chief burdens. He will be held ic grateful remembrance by the army of women in government service because ho first suggested the advisability of employing them and carried the idea into effect by admitting them into the Treasury Department. A FEW W0EDS TO EEPUBUCANB. A majority of the intelligent people in the North believe that the government will be more wisely administered by the Republican party than by its opponents. They may not always be satisfied with all that Republican administrations, congresses and legislatures do, but they have come to believe in the general principles advocated by the Republican party, and to have faith in the men who are now and have been prominent in its councils. To such men, to those who are Republicans because they believe in the Republican party, a word seems neo es8ary at the beginning of the year. The day has passed when any party, no matter how good its record, can go before &n intelligent people without previous organization, two or three months before an election, and win a victory. The very fact that those who vote the Republican ticket or would naturally ally themselves with the Republican party as the progressive and intelligent party of the country are reading and thinking people, renders intelligent organization and education necessary. The Republican party has never been beaten when the people have been fully informed regarding the issues involved in a contest. It is only when they have not had opportunity to be informed regarding the pending issues that Republicans have suffered defeat. If the McKinley tariff act had been passed six months earlier ' and its friends had had the courage of their convictions and gone before the people and explained its provisions, it would have been a source of strength rather than weakness. If Republicans in the States which have been swept from their moorings by iinancial heresies and false theories had met the demagogues proclaiming them face to face and exposed their absurdities, Kansas would not be disgraced with a crack-brained Socialist and a "sockless statesman," and a Nebraska district would not have elected a man to the House because he had never earned more than 8500 a year

and has a fifteen -hundred-dollar moitgage on his farm. The opponents of the Republican party took early advantage of the general ignorance of Republican voters regarding' the tariff and financial legislation, and sprung upon the country such a storm of misrepresentation that it was impossible to counteract it. The result was that Republicans, by tens of thousands, did not vote, because they were in doubt. Hence the Democratic victory. It was too late in October to send out speeches and to overcome the assaults of the lying Democratic managers and free-traders. Now thousands are learning that they were deceived, and already reaction has set in. The issues in 1892 will be much the same as in 1890. The tariff, reciprocity, the federal supervision of congressional elections and, questions growing out of currency and coinage will be the issues. The Republicans have tho right side on these questions; but, because they have policies to defend and champion, they must see that the people are fully informed. Those who believe in the Republican position must see that the mass of voters who naturally belong to the Republican party are fully convinced by fact and history that the policy of protection is essential to the prosperity of the country, that a sound currency is a necessity, and that fair elections are an essential to the welfare of tho country. This work requires organization, and organization that will educate the people. To that end, without delay, clubs should be formed to enroll members and insure the circulation of Republican literature and the discussion of Republican principles. A few prominent Republicans in every village can secure Republican literature, and provide for the presentation of the Republican truth by speakers. There are men in every community who can give instruction upon these topics. In short, without delay, clubs, which shall be Republican schools, should be organized in every community. That done faithfully, a Republican victory in 1892 is assured. THE HYP0CBISY OF THE PROFESSIONAL REFORMER, Never was the hypocrisy of a certain class of self-proclaimed reformers more completely exposed than in their attitude toward the attempt of Congress to insure something like fair elections in congressional districts. They are the pronounced advocates of the Australian ballot system in the States, which they declare to be necessary to provent gross frauds, bribery and intimidation. They have organized to influence Legislatures to adopt such a system. They have advocated it in their exclusive journals, and they have denounced those opposing the system in unmeasured terms, accusing them of a purpose to prevent purity in elections. Because of his opposition to the Republican ballot law in New York they have denounced Governor Hill in unmeasured terms. They know that the present federal elections law has done more to check wholesale ballot-box crimes in New York and other cities than all State enactments. Many of them, before they became the victims of hypnotism of Mr. Cleveland, were wont to applaud the work of Supervisor Davenport in New York. They know that in every district in the South in which the Republican vote is large enough to make the result doubtful, if there were fair elections, that vote is suppressed by fraudulent methods. They know that fact ' because Southern leaders frankly admit that such is their purpose. Do they denounce such a wholesale suppression of suffrage? Years ago they did. No paper has been more unsparing in its denunciations of I that crime than was Harper's Weekly before it became the mugwump follower of Mr. Cleveland. No paper in the country was so conspicuous before 1884 for its exposures of ballot-

box crimes in tho South as was the New York Times. The disfranchisement of 125,000 voters in Mississippi by the most arbitrary methods evokes no protest. The most flagrant and shameless action of State canvassing boards in counting out Republicans like Miller, of South Carolina, is no longer an offense, but, on the contrary, receives the approval of their silence. To-day all of them are opposing the passage of a federal elections law designed to restore the suffrage of the Constitution to congressional districts where it has been overthrown. They do this as reformers, and denounce those: who are contending that there , shall be a uniformity in congressional elections as blind partisans. Meanwhile they prattle about the necessity of tho adoption of the Australian ballot system in Northern States, where elections are usually fairly conducted. They magnify a minor evil and ignore a great national injustice. Was ever hypocrisy more apparent? In fact, mugwumpism and hypocrisy have come to be very nearly synonymous terms.

THE INIAN QUESTION. The Indian question has always been a difficult one for the government to deal with. From the earliest times it has been a live question, asserting itself at intervals in various forms, and always presenting serious difficulties. Every party, every President and every administration has found it a difficult question to deal with. Our Indian policy has undergone many modifications and some radical changes, but has never been free I from , criticism. When all other inter- j ests were well served, humanitarians and philanthropists have claimed that the Indians were unjustly treated, and no matter how they were treated, there has always been more or less discontent among the Indians themselves?, Really, there is no reason why they should be consulted at all in the matter. The only thing to be considered is the interests of civilization. Insofar as Indian rights or claims conflict with these they should give way. If the Indians will not become civilized they must go. If they will not join the march of progress, they must give way before it.' This is the law 'of nature and of evolution. The march of civilization is as inexorable as tho movement of a glacier. It has no more sympathy than an avalanche. Many races and numberless tribes have been absorbed or ground to pieces by it, and why should the Indians be an exception! They ought not to be, and it is absurd to expect it. - i , K Nevertheless the government has always recognized the Indian title to lauds, and has shown as much consideration. in its dealings with them as circumstances would permit. The right of Indian occupancy "has always been recognized, while, at the same time, the right of tile government to extinguish the Indian title has been asserted whenever, it ben came necessary. Almost invariably ths has been done by treaty or purchase. Before the adoption of the Constitution the original thirteen colonies had all made treaties with the Indians, extinguishing their title to lands, while in later years such treaties have .been'niade' by the United States. Fiomi776 to 1871 treaties were made with the Indians in their tribal relations; that Is, they Jwere recognized as independent nations or tribes. In 1871 Congress passed ah act abolishing the tribal relation. .Pur'r ing the period that the tribal rel action was recognized no less than 37& Indian treaties were made and ratified. Only in one instance during this period -did tho government extinguish an In,dian title by conquest, and that was in -the case of the Sioux Indians in Minne-' sota, after the outbreak iu 18C2. Even in this case the Indians were provided.' with another reservation and were sub-: seqently paid the net proceeds 'arising from the sale of the land vacated. At present there are 102 Indian reservations on which - the Indian title to lands is undisputed and permanent. Some of these reservations, as in New York, are comparatively small, while others are very extensive. Iu the case of the Western reservations the Indians have land enough to make them rich if they would cultivate it and adopt civilized ways. Some of the tribes have done fo, while others have made little or no progress in that direction. It is therefore a great mistake to say. that the Indians have been treated with systematic cruelty and oppression. Their rights have been recognized to; quite a remarkable degree; and they have been treated fully as well as they ' deserved, if not better. That they have sometimes 'been overreached in treaties and cheated in trades may be true, but it was a great concession on .the part of the gouernment to treat with them at all. Even now their right to the reservations set apart for them is sacredly observed, and immense sums of money have been spent in feeding and trying to make them comfortable. The present policy of the government is to allot land in severalty to the Indians within their respective reservations 160 acres to the heads of families, eighty acres to single persons over the age of eighteen years, eighty acres to orphan children under eighteen years of age, . and forty acres to each other person under eighteen years of age, and to patent these individual holdings, and to purchase from the respective tribes any or all of the surplus land remaining after the allotments have been made. Several tribes have evinced a willingness to cooperate in this arrangement, and the progress made in this direction is such as to vindicate the wisdom of the policy. If the Indians had any sense or any concern for their posterity they would all co-operate zealously In carrying out the allotment plan, but there are enough war-like bucks and implacables among some of the tribes to prevent its adoption.. Nevertheless it is making progress, and its ultimate success is only a question of time. The sooner tho tribal relations are broken up aud the reservation system done away with, the better it will be for all concerned. Individual ownership of property is the universal custom among civilized people, and a distinctive badge of civilization. -

The Commissioner of Indian Affairs says that, leaving out the five civilized tribes and the Alaska Indians, it would take about 30,000,000 acres of land to give every Indian in the United States man, woman and child 100 acres each. There would still remain, in round numbers, 6G,000,000 acres of Indian land, exclusive of the reservations of tho five civilized tribes, which, at $1 per acre, would yield $00,000,000. The annual interest on this would pay the entire cost of educating all the Indian children in the United States. At the end of a few years the principal sum might be distributed per capita among the rightful owners -to assist them in improving their homes, when they could be left, like- other citizens, to care for themselves. There can bo no doubt that the universal adoption of this land-allotment plan r among the Indians would be an important step toward their civilization and that the cflorts making in this direction are wise and well directed.

A NEW CONVERT TO PB0TE0TI0N. k The Louisville Courier-Journal of yesterday consisted of thirty-four pages, and contained a very complete review of the important manufacturing and business industries of the Falls cities. Among others was the following notice of the DePauw plate-glass-works: A monument to American enterprise, to success where others hadvfailed, and to the. organizing genius and indomitable energy of one of the greatest of American manufacturers is the establishment known to all interested in American industry as DePauw's American plate-glass-works. The manufacture of plate-glass had been monopolized by a few European factories, and a few efforts made in Massachusetts and near St. Louis had failed to naturalize the industry in the country, and had brought disaster to their promoters. The introduction of the industry, at New Albany had been no more successful until, in IS72, the late Washington C. DePauw brought his capital and executive ability to the rescue, taking hold of the enterprise with a characteristic courage which scouted defeat The struggle which ensued against the determined .opposition of European competitors, who were backed by centuries of experience in the manufacture, is one of the most notable chapters in the history of American industry. It cost Mr. DePauw considerably over $500,000 to carry on the contest to a successful issue, but the result justified the expenditure, and one more important branch of production had been permanently and successfully domiciled on American soil, and the American plate-glass-works had been placed upon a successful basis and in a commanding position. Nor was the victory a merely personal one, for the price of a most important commodity had been red iced more than one-half, in addition to the advantage derived from the permanent establishment of an industry employing a lf.rge number of workmen. The success thus attained has been permanently establimed, the business growing with added y jars, and the plant receiving additions to meet the increased demand, and in the aggiegatenow representing an expenditure ol about $2,000,000. We are glad to reprint this, both because it is an appreciative notice of one of 'Indiana's most important manufacturing industries and because it distinctly recognizes the benefits of protection. Politically sneaking and in its editorial columns the Courier-Journal is an extreme freetrade paper, but when it comes to cold business and matter of fact it is honest enough to recognize the benefits of protection in developing American industries. For, of course, nothing else could have enabled Mr. DePauw to establish a manufacture which had previously "been monopolized by a few European factories." It is entirely true, as the Courier-Journal says, that the struggle made by Mr. DePauw against the determined opposition of European competitors "is .one of the most notable chapters in the history of American industry," and, as Mr. DePauw often admitted, it was the protective tariff that enabled him to make the fight. And his ultimate success was not merely personal, for, says the Courier-Journal, "the price of a most important commodity had been reduced more than one-half, in addition to the advantage derived from the permanent establishment of an industry employing a largo number of workmen." Such a statement as this could only find a place in the editorial columns of the Courier-Journal for the purpose of being denounced as an absurd falsehood, for, as everybody knows, the free-trade doctrine is that"the tariff isia tax," and that never, never was the! price of any product reduced by protection. This is the doctrine of the editorial page of the CourierJournal, but when it comes to a statement of fact in another part of the paper the political necessity is removed and the truth comes out. In all these United States there is no better illustration of the benefit of protection than the DePauw plate-glass-works, and we are glad to be able to quote such eminent Democratic authority as the CourierJournal in proof of it. We trust its conversion to protection will be permanent. Postmaster Matthews is the second Republican postmaster who has been killed at Carrollton, Miss. Postmaster Felix A. Doss, appointed by President Grant in 1875, was also murdered. First Assistant Postmaster-general Whitfield says there appears to be a determination on the part of the Democrats at Carrollton that no Republican shall be allowed to hold the office of postmaster there, and this second assassination of a Republican postmaster will make it difficult to fill the vacancy. The office should be abolished until the good citizens of the place, if there are any, furnish a guaranty for the protection of a postmaster.Representative Breckinridge, of Kentucky, will lecture in Boston tomorrow night on "Southern Problems." Of course he will have a good audience and a respectful hearing, which is more than a Northern statesman would have who went South to lecture on political topics. . . - TnE fact that Indianapolis, a city ot so many clubs, has so long been without a press clnb has been a matter of comment in outside newspaper circles. The only explanation is that the matter has not heretofore, been taken actively in hand by persons interested. Now that this has been done there is every reason to believe that the result will be successful, since every element exists here, not only for the formation of such an organization, but for making it an important and influential institution, both in a social and professional way. The willingness to co-operate manifested, by all members of the local press shows that the time is favorable for inaugurating its enterprise and promises well for tho

future of the club. The-admission of women to membership is a just recognition of their standing in the profession, and though tho action was a matter of course, it is worthy of comment from the fact that it marks the freedom from narrow prejudice and the superior liberality of Indianapolis newspaper men as compared with their brethren of other cities, women in Boston. New York. Chicago and elsewhere being barred out from such organizations. We are now able to export a surplusage of breadstnffs and other food cnonsa to supply only 5,000,000 people. All the rest that is raised out of the ground is consumed by our 63,ooo,oo0 or more of Americans. At the present rate of the increase of our population, aud considering the stoppage of the supply of new land, we ourselves shall in six years eat everything that we raise in tbe country. This is so inevitable that there Is going to be an increase of the farming population: it Is eoiug to pay hereafter to be a farmer. When we have no surplus to export, the world still desiring to partake of our crops, tho prices must go higher, and I think that the farmer, after having hsd a few years of low prices, is going to have good rates speedily. The above is the statement of Hon. John W. Bookwalter, once Democratic candidate for Governor in Ohio. He has not been successful in politics, but has the reputation of being a sound and progressive business man, which gives force to his words. Jan. 2 and no ice yet, with a diminishing prospect. This month is commonly the coldest of the year, but it has sometimes, happened that good ice was made here as late as the middle or latter part of February. The ice prospect is limited to about six weeks. . Tin; New York Herald in kind enong remark that President Harrison has m an appointment to the , Supreme Cou , which "has won the applause of the country." "Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed." Electricity is an agent of wonderful potency, but it can't stand the demoralizing influence of such a saturating fog as that which enveloped the land Wednesday night. Indeed, nothing could stand it. Tiik destruction of the Catholio mission property by the Indians and the stabbing of the priest who was striving only to benefit them, shows their innate savagery. Reservation Indians are divided into friendlies and hostile, but scratch a friendly and you find a hostile. To the Editor of tho Indianapolis Journal: . Under the constitutional provision that no Eersou shall be eligible to a county office who as not been a resident of the county for one year, can a person be appointed deputy county prosecutor who has not resided in the county a year? n. r.i. City. The Con stitution says no person shall be elected as a county officer who shall not have been a resident of the county for one year. The law provides that prosecuting attorneys may appoint deputies, and says "such deputies shall take the oath required of their principals, and may perform all the official duties of such principals, being subject to the same regulations and. penalties." It is a close question whether the regulation in regard to previous residence would not apply. Curia vult advisare. . , . To the Editor of the Indianapolis JournalPlease state the amount of internal revenues and the amount of customs collected by the United States for the year 1889; also, the cost of said collection. Reader. Knightsville, Ind. For the fiscal year ending June. SO, 1SS9, the receipts from customs were $223,832,741, and the expense of collecting, was $7,080,487. Receipts from internal revenue $130.881,513, and expense of collecting $3,770,388.

BLB11LES IX THE AIR. Only Fait-. She Are you growing tired of me! . Seems that I have to do all the love-making myself, now. lie I did my half of the courting before we were engaged. Why He Was Caught. White Cap Leader Lay fem on lively, boys! Ninety-eight, ninty-nine, , one hundred! Now, Ilez Beasely, I guess you won't try to steal another mule, eht Victim Not no darned balky one, nohow. Dramatic Possibilities. There Is a golden chance for some playwright who shall construct a "drama around a slaughter-house scene in which real hogs maybe stuck and scalded in full view of the audience. The hero for the un thinking public has not yet been educated up to a heroless drama might be rescued on the verge of the "scalding tank by the necessary and ooncomitant heroine. Or, better still, the hero could be plunged into the steaming fluid (heated to 212 as 'shown by a real thertiiometer), only to appear in the next net covered with bristles and indignation, or bristling with indignation, as the case might be, just in time to prevent the unwilling marriage of the heroine to the villain. Any experienced stage manager has been in hot water often enough and long enough to be perfectly fitted, or trained for the part. Unconsidered Trifles. To obtain a foothold on the rock of prosperity it is first necessary to get a handhold on the rocks. We often read of the serpent being scotched. And by St. Patrick It was Iriahed. The promptness with which those three Chicago bank-raiders were captured emphasizes the difference in efficacy between prayer and pro. fanlty as aids in opening a financial Institution. The disputes concerning the authorship of 'Darkest England" and "Beautiful Snow" seem to demonstrate m black and white that fame is mighty uncertain. The curriculum of a manual training-school need not necessarily include 'the education of farm-hands. AB0DT PEOPLE AND TI1LNGS. Alexander William Kinglake, the well-known historian of the Crimean war, in his eighty-ninth year, is dying of cancer. TnE Qneen of Holland is still young, and is a fair, pleasant-looking' German lady, with a very sweet expression on her comely face. ' Jules Verne is now a handsome man of sixty, with head and beard quite gray, and with eyes which sparkle with all the tire of twenty. Fkancis Wilson, the comedian, has bought a chair owned by Sir Walter Scott It was originally given to the painter, Landseer. Professor Koch takes a horseback ride at 3 o'clock every afternoon. This is his only means of exercise, and by 4 o'clock he is back at his work in the Hy gienic Institute. The class yell of the young ladies of the freshman class of Colby University is stated to be as follows: ''Co-ordination; ha, ha, ha! tessaras kai enenekonta dux femina facta; rah, rah, rah!' Jerry Simpson, the sockless statesman, has taken to wearing glasses because he thinks tbe gold frames make him look distinguished. This recalls tbe old story of the boy who wore gloves, a breastpin, and patches on the knees of his trousers. Sknator Dolfii, of Oregon, is pictured as a true type of the prophet. He is tall, solemn, broak-shouldered, and is nearly always dressed in a dark frock suit. Tho lower part of his face is hidden by along gray beard, and he has a deep, penetrating voice. The English historian Lecky, who has just written, after nineteen years of toil, the concluding chapters of his great historical work, is a graduate of Dublin University. His college career was roost uneventful as regards scholarship. Honors and prizes such as most students covet had no attractions for him, and his clit3 rauk

was not high, but he read assiduously for the mere love of learning, and bis first book, published when he wastwenty-thrco, was a monument of historical research. Profesok Canfield, the Kansas independent, who aspires to succeed Ing&lls in the Senate, has the personal appearance of a rotund and well-fed clergyman. He is forty-three years old, and was born in Ohio, but his education watt secured in Brooklyn and at Williams College. Two women, Mrs. Ellen MitchelL a brilliant member of the famous Chicago Fortnightly Club, and Miss Mary E. Burt, a thoughtful and experienced educator, are members of the Chicago Hoard of Education, and have shown themselves constant untiring and most judicious workers. Fkau Sophie Sylvanius, an able German woman of letters, has issued an appeal to her countrywomen to reform those national modes of education which consider girle simply as futnre wive9 and house keepers. Their present training, she says, leaves German women without individuality, and with pitifully low ideals of lifo. The Countess Edia, whose beautiful singing as a prima donna made her the morganatic wife of the late Prince Ferdinand of Portugal, was once a poor and obscure Boston girl named Ehse Hensler. She has adopted Lisbon as her home, and is adored by the Lisbonese, among whom she spends in charities almost the entire income of her fortune of 20,000,000 francs. Mrs. Stanley says she will never consent to her husband's going to Africa again, and naively adds: "1 am learning from the American wives, who seem t have their own way in almost everything. The American women are the most independent and the brightest in the world. Next to them come the English women. The women of France are the superiors ot any on the continent." The physical condition of James Russell Lowell has become so uncertain that his literary engagements are now always made conditionally. The aged poet was,to havo begun a series of lectures on the "Old English Dramatists' in Philadelphia on Monday last, but when the time came his physicians forbade Im leaving the shelter of his house, and the lectures stand postponed for a week or two at least. Prince Victor, of Hohenlohe, has completed the plaster cast of the life-siio statue of the Princess of Wales, subscribed for by English ladies. When the marble statue is finished it will be placed in the Koyal College of Music. Prince Victor it said to have succeeded in producing a striking presentment of the Princess. She is reproduced in the doctor's cap and gown belonging to her Dublin musical degree. Mr. D. O. Mills, the New York millionaire, denies the report that he is to marry? tho Marquise de Talleyrand. The Marquise is the divorced wife of the Marquis of Talleyrand, now the Duo de Dino, and is said to have ail the characteristics of a genuine New Englander. .She is paying a visit now to this country for the first time iu twenty-two years, bhe has alternated her time between her friends in New York and those in Boston. She is a daughter of Mr. Joseph David Beers-Curtis, of Boston. It is said that yilliam H. Vanderbilt probably had the largest amount of cash subject to sight draft of any individual of his time or since, unless it be John D. Rockefeller. When Mr. Vanderbilt drew his famous check for $(i,000.000 to pay for the West Shore road he looked at it "for a moment after he had signed his name, and then said to a bank president who was nean "I could duplicate that check this moment." Russell Sage, who is regarded as the largest individual loaner of money, makes it a rule never to loan more than $500,000 on any given day. That indicates to some extent what his resources are. A court in the staid old German town of Gotha has been called upon to decide a novel question. A gentleman while playing cards with a party of friends in a beerhall was assaulted by a pretty waiter girl with malice aforethought and with a smacking kiss upon bis manly cheek. The matter was at first treated as a joke, but turned out to be a rather serious aflair for the kissee when bis wife heard about it. His irate spouse would not believe the kiss was an unprovoked affair, so far as her liege lord whs concerned, and in order to vindicate himself he has brought a suit against the girl for damages on the ground that the kiss has injured his reputation for morality.. Four New York women, two of whom are well-known journalists, the. third an author and the fourth an artist, have taken a pretty house in New York for co-operative housekeeping. A visiting manicure: and hairdresser comes and grooms their co-operative beads and polishes their cooperative nails, and they have serious thoughts of getting their gowns fashioned under like conditions. They get along together very well, and oue of them says here is the secret of it: We let each other alone: we do as we please; ask no foolish or impertineut questions; do not attempt to run each other. If one chooser to go immediately to her room after dinner, feeling a bit cross, the rest do not look at each other and say, "Now, I wonder what ails her!' If we wish to read, we read. We do not expoct to be entertained or gushed over. We act like reasonable human beings. What will the new year bring thee! Crowned desires! Hope's unfulnlluient! Griefs Ravening fires! Riches, or lore, or laurels! ' W'hate'er to thy lot be Kent. God grant the new year'U bring the Peace and a hearty content! New York Ledr.

Sixty the Arerage Ace of Seuators. "Topics," in tho January Century. More than half of the constitutional con vention of 17S7 were men who had nol reache'd tbe age of forty-five, while there are only seven men who are not past fortylive among the eighty-eight members of the United States Senate to-day. and four of these come from the younger States of the West, where there are fewer old men than in the East, Maine and Vermont having, according to the census returns of age. more than six times as many males past tho ago of sixty, proportionally, as Colorado and the Dakota. No less than thirty-seven of tbe eightyeight Senators, or nearly half of all, are past sixty, and nine of them beyond seventy, as three others will be within a few months. Mr. Morrill has a colleague from Ohio who. like him, was born iu 1S10; two who were born in lSlOand three inlSlS. Three of these have, like bim, sought and obtained re-elections after they were past seventy. The average age of all the Senators falls only about a year short of sixty. In the Supreme Court tbw change, bns been equally remarkable. Since Pierce's day but one man has been placed upon this bench who had not passed the ape of forty-five, while of the twelve appointees during the pant two decades no less than, four were more than sixty when they took; their seats. Of tbe eight judges left after Mr. Miller's death, one is seventy years old. one is seventy-four and one is seventyseven. Financial Legislation Not Needed. Nebraska Journal. Thn Journal's advices are to the eff ect that the financial crisis is past and that Jay Gould's prediction that money will be very plenty by Jan. 15 is to be verified. In fact other prophets put tbe date as early as Jan 5. The apprehension of a big squeeze having been dissipated the market is righting useii rapiaiy. . Toledo Blade. The next Democratic presidential ticket will be framed in Indianapolis or Chicago. So the Democratic prophets in Washington predict. . Two of Kind. Somernllo Journal. When a woman loves a man she can't see why every other woman doesn't lore bim Just as much and generally he can't either. The Itepublican Idea. Cinufanati Commercial Gazette. The poorold soldiershouldnotbe required to hire a lawyer every time he asks for what his country has agreed to giro him. Providence Overloaded. Atclxlaon Glob. Don't put too much trust in Providence. Providence has her arms full ot fools already.