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All communication intended for publication in thit payer mti. in crdrr to receive attention, be oo-eomj-anied by the name and addrtMt of the leriter. Till: INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. Csa be f curd at tie following placet: 5?aItI&-America Exchange la Pari, SSBonlrriiid dea Capucujea. 2?EW lO&XGilsey Eons and WlndsoTTIoUL yniLADELraiW , P. Xemfcle, an Lancaster arenas. ClUU AC?0 Palmer Hoqm. CEf CIK2TATI J. P. Ilawley A Co.. IM Vine street. LOUIBTIIXE a T. Deertaf; northwest corner TMxd and j affertoa atraeta. CT. LOTJIsuriJtcn tfiirs Ccnjtay, TJfclca Depot and Southern HoteL "WASHINGTON, P. OL Blfffs House and Ibbltt Iiocie TWELVE PAGES. The San da j Journal has double the circu-. latlon of any Sunday paper la Indiana. Price fire cents. LaT3 -which would have no "force" in them ould be immensely popular with those vho are called the criminal classes. At times it is quite . the thing to ridi cule and belittle the regular army, but when any portion of it is called to show its courage and discipline, as is now the case, all applaud it. From New York cornea the word: "Money ia easy, stocks are Bcarce and there ia a large amount of money seeking investment." In other words, con fidence is coming to life again. The usual numberof homicides, shootiiigs and cuttings took place at New Year's festivities throughout the coun try, but in no caso is it recorded that Mther offender or victim wore Francis &IaiTphy's blue ribbon. TriE Democratic Superintendent-elect of Public Education, in Wisconsin, is opposed to tho teaching of American history in public schools, nevertheless a large number of American citizens will insist that the rudiments of the history of a common heritage should be taught those who gTow up in this country as American citizens. One gets some idea of the extent of the commerce of the lakes from the fact that if alltho grain and flour shipped aver tire m v ere loaded into cars, six hutMred buskels to a car, there would ho an unbroken string of cars from New iVork city to a point five hundred miles -west of Chicago. Such is the computa tion of tho Buffalo Express. ExrLOKER Stanley thinks we do not manage the Indians right. He said we fihouid imitate the German policy with the savage tribes in Africa, especially in depriving the Indians of fire-arms and ammunition. lie adds: "All the In dians should be corralled and disarmed, and furnished with neat cottages and given a start so that they might become useful citizens." There is a good deal of sound senso in this, but the policy could only bo carried out by placing the Indians under tho control of the War .Department. The biennial report of the Secretary of State for the two years ending Oct. Slt 1600, contains a variety of valuable v-; statistics, including some never before published. It shows that the total num ber of manufacturing, mining, building. ins a ran co and other associations organ ized under the general Jaw during the two years named was 1,050. These or ganizations represent a great variety of Jndus tries. The political statistics and flection returns contained in the report are very complete, making it a valuable book of reference. Among other things, there is a complete list of all the county o&cers in the State, the justices of the peace, notaries pubb'c, circuit judges, prosecuting attorneys, terms of court, ale. The Northwestern Christian Advocate (Chicago) is Inclined to approve tho etend of a certain Methodist pastor who declined to grant the use of his church on Sunday evening to the W. C. T. U. on tho ground that "he did not propose to siarender his pulpit to politics." The Advocate says: "If tho local union teaches tho third-party obligation the pastor would seem justified in refusing tho use cf the church to such union. Prohibition does not necessarily imply . third-party politics. . Prohibition is one thing, and tho means of obtaining pro hibition is quite another thing. If a tmion claims that prohibition implies a third party, as opposed to either of the plder parties, a church ought not to be surrendered to that union sooner than it would be surrendered to the Republican or Democratic party on Sunday even ing." Tho Northwestern Advocate it ems to have a very level head. The announcement is made that the Buckeye Pipe-line Company, of Cleve land, O., has increased its stock from ICO, 000 to $0,000,000. This enormous txnansion of stock represents an enor mous accumulation of wealth. This Buckeye Pipe-line Company is composed of Standard Oil men, and is one of tho offshoots of that immense trust. It wr.s organized shortly after tho onenf::i:pof the Ohio oil fields, its object " 'in.to pipe Ohio crude oil to various ; for refining, or for use as fuel. '.,Tr.3 in a email way, with only .... cr:::tal stock. As the Ohio field : i: z businesa rapidly increased, nnd i Nprcf-t-j cho. To-day it owns . l..S0 r..: cf i "73 line, and its tankage e-tlru-t N 1 1-7 '.-"'Maicraed oil men

at not lcps.tl.an ss.COO.OOO. All told, its property i worth fcg.OOO.OOO. or more, and its stMni-.mnual dividend n'o be-twt-f 11 fluff and lour times tho capital it taited with not tfii roar ip(. AYiththe capita! which the SUudnid Oil Company now controls, and with its praspinp methods, there is hardly any limit to tho wealth it may accumulate. It is now making1 Inrjre investments in some of the northern counties of this State, notably Lagrange anl Elkhart, and proparing to make extensive explorations for natural ga and oil. TEE QSOWTHOF CITIE3. The lat census shows that SO per cent, of tho sixty-three millions of peo ple in this country live m cities and towns of eight thousand population and over. In 1840, or filty years ago, only 8 percent, of the population was in cities and towns having eight thousand inhab itants or more. Then there were 'ortly ' forty-four cities in this classification; in 18D0 the number was 440.. Then New York was only a city of half a million population; now we have three cities of over a million population, and seven with a population exceeding 230,000. Then are those who deplore this tendency to urban lifr, but those who think of tho matter a moment will see that it is a necessity of the growth of the United States. If the millions did not find homes and employments in the cities . they would not be in the country at all, and our population would be reduced to the number that could find employment and scanty living on agriculture. It would be scanty, because there would be a limited market, and the few manufactured articles essential would be produced by hand in homes, as was the case fifty or seventy years ago. The remark? able growth of urban population has been brought about by the development of manufactures and the increased opportunities of employment incident thereto. Since 1840 the United States has changed from an almost purely agricultural country to the greatest indus trial nation in the world from a people producing only food and raw materials to one which manufactures nearly everything needed by a civilized people. It has been assumed by some that the growth of cities has been made at the expense of the rural districts. It is mere assumption. For the most part, in the older States, rural districts have held their own in population in spite of the . great decrease in the number of men necessary to till the soil resulting from the introduction of labor-saving machinery. But if this were the - case, the increase of consumers in the towns, if decreasing the rural population, would be to the advantage of the agriculturist. In this State, SO per cent, of the population is in towns of eight thousand and over. Would those living on the farms deem it to their advantage to have all but the 3 or 4 per cent, of 1840 distributed over the agricultural portions of Indiana and other States! To-day the industrial population of the United States, in the cities and villages, is not far from twenty millions of people that is, the popula tion dependent, directly and indirectly, upon manufacturing, mining, transportation and other indnstries than agriculture, for their existence. What limit would there be to the disaster which would follow any legislation which would transfer the employment of any considerable portion of these millions to foreign countries! . IDEAL AHD EEAL HIST0EY. The criticism which maybe made upon most works of history is that tho writers have confined themselves to political and religious movements, the development of government, but have given no insight into the life and living of the people. A few leaders are presented, but only in their public careers and characters. When these men are made he subject of. biography, those who undertake the work too often so magnify their virtues and dwarf their defects that they are not to posterity the men they were in life. George Washington, for instance, stands forth a grand, but, nevertheless, a gloomy and uncomfortable character, because a clergyman named Weems wrote an alleged biography of that really great man, full of adulation and romance. He fixed upon the "Father of his Country," the ridiculous story of the cherry-tree and hatchet, which has been handed down and expanded with the growth of the country by multitudes of Weemses. To assume that the youthful Washington would deliberately select for destruction a tree which bears a fruit so delicious to the taste of the average boy as cherries, when Virginia was covered with forests, is to attribute to him an idiocy that does not belong to the averago boy. Nevertheless, the Weemses visiting the public schools will doubtless repeat this absurd story with pathetic accompaniments to the end of time. Tho truth is, George Washington was a human being, and the more one reads of his real personality the more like other men they will find him, and, it may be added, the better he will be liked.. During tho week in December which is supposed to contain the anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers it has long been the custom of New England societies to meet to extol the character and purpose of the settlers of Nev England." They are entitled to much, praise. They wero the best men of their age. The impress of their characteristics is found iu the best features of our institutions. But their special historians and their panegyrists in sermons on Forefathers' day and at the banquets of New England societies accord to them and their times a moral eminence which makes them quite godlike, and their - civilization tho most advanced and their standard of public and private morals the highest that the world ever knew. Often the unselfishness and purity of the people of New England to the date of the revolution are contrasted with tho selfishness, the unscrupulonsness and general degeneracy of the present age. If this were true, if the standard of public and private conduct and opinion were lower to-day than before the formation of tho L federal government, there would bo

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cause for discouragement, but such is j not tho case. The regulation historian and orator present the public- lives of the great characters and the polity as set forth in laws ami institutions, but fail to give any insight into the social and commercial life of these early times. They deal with records which are made to show the best side of affairs, but they do not peer into musty diaries, private journals and the day-books of merchants. Fortunately, both for the cause of truth and for us, several men in these Liter years have deemed it worth their whilo to investigate the private records of tliese times to the end that the lives of the people of that time, their daily action and methods, may bo disclosed. In his "Economic and Social History of New England, 1020-1780, Mr. Weeden has given us the real history of the peo ple of that section during that period. Ho has hunted family papers, diaries, journals and the boohs of old countingrooms. Tiiese have taken him to the people in their homes and in their social and business relations, and, as the result, he presents early New England as it really was. It is by no means the ideal that has posed in a few historical charncters, but,' on the whole, a more human . and real one. There was more severity in law, more public sanctity, but a good deal of it was of the kind which Whittier has described as being applied to life and conduct by the possessors for the same reason that salt was applied to the year's supply of meat. But back of it all there was much of human nature. Trade was not characterized by greater fairness than now. The integrity of the old merchant, as a class, is not eustained by extracts from his day -bootc. The lottery was called in to aid in filling the public treasury; revenue oflCcers connived with smugglers; many large fortunes were acquired by merchants who, if they were not the owners of piratical vessels, received the goods which ocean freebooters sold very cheap; the slave trade was a traffic not condemned; parents haggled over the marriage portions of son and daughter as they would over the price of a horse. In short, when tho people of those days are presented in their every-day life, there would not be much to commend in them except that they were, by far, the most advanced and conscientious peoplo of the age in which they lived, and that to their progress under the new conditions we owe much of our present superiority in all that goes to makeup Christian civilization. QUE BEQIBTEBED-MAIL BYSTEM. The registered-mail system of the United States is probably the safest method in the world of transmitting valuable mail matter. By it tho chances of loss are reduced to a minimum, and if a loss does occur it can bo traced with almost absolute certainty. The government is not, as many erroneously suppose, pecuniarily responsible for the contents of registered letters lost in transmission, but, in such cases, every effort is used to trace and recover the property. The government is no more responsible for the safe transmission of a registered letter than it is for an ordinary letter, but, in the case of the former, the chance of loss is less and the chance of recovery greater. During the last year 13,723,637 pieces of registered matter were carried in the mails; and 1.931 pieces were reported rifled or lost. The aggregate amount of the incisures of the 1,951 pieces was reported at 825,116.57, an average value per piece of $12.36. Computing the 13,723,637 pieces at this average rate gives S 169,624.153 as the probable total value of the pieces safely delivered. In addition to this registered matter for the public, here were also carried 1,223,444 pieces for the Postoffico and Treasury Departments, containing mclosures to the amount of $1,114,491,446. This, added to the amount carried for the public, makes a total of $1,284,115,599. Of tho total losses, $24,116.57, there was recovered $9,704.71, making the total net loss on the entire amount $14,411.86, or eleven-ten-thousandths of 1 per cent. It 'doubtful if ary record in the history, of the world shows as large an amount of property handled by numerous persons with as small a percentage of loss. THE EVAKSTON EXPERIMENT. Whether co-operation is to be the final solution of the servant-girl problem or not cannot yet be determined, but all experiments in that direction are to be regarded with interest as showing a disposition to improve on present domestic methods. The Evanston, 111., venture seems to have started with conditions favorable to a thorough trial, the failure at the beginning, dne to the selection of an incompetent superintendent, being no indication of impracticability in the scheme itself. In spite, however, of the widespread dissatisfaction and discomfort growing out of the difficulty of securing proper household service, co-operation will be adopted slowly, even if the Evanston and other similar experiments prove successful. Women are conservative and 'slow to adopt new methods, let them grumble as they may over the objectionable features of the system in vogue. A feeling exists, too, not stronger among women than with men, in favor of "home cookery," which, in spite of the many atrocities perpetrated by the average cook, is regarded as being better, on the whole, than the food to be obtained elsewhere. This is merely a prejudice, which in time, and in due course of proof to the contrary, will disappear. Tho strongest opposition to the plan of having the family cooking done out of the house comes from the fear that, in some way, the unity and exclusiveness of the domestic circle will bo broken up. The idea of a public dining-room, even on the Bellamy plan, where the entire ward comes out in evening dress, does not commend itself to most men and women, who prefer the privacy and intimacy of their own table. The Evanston scheme, however, contemplates no intrusion on this privacy, the community of action consisting entirely in the actual preparation of the meals which are conveyed to the separate residences and served there. But whether such enterprise is followed immediately by others or not, it will have an influence in show

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ing that it is not absolutely necessary that a woman shall be a slavo to her household duties' because of the impossibility of obtaining competent servants. If the revolution and reform in household management is to be in the direction of co-operation it may be expected to come about slowly. Even if the cooking continues to bo done in individual kitchens, there is a class of household labor that will eventually be performed elsewhere. The doiug of laundry-work in every house, for ex'ample, will 6ome time come to be looked upon as a barbarism. Whatever may have been once, the propriety and necessity of burdening the household with this weekly task it is now, in the crowded condition of modern living, a process that for the sake of comfort and hygiene should be performed outside of the dwelling. Bread-making is another art that must be so improved upon that the public bakeries will supply an article equal to tho best "home-made," The roasting of meats in public ovens, as proposed by somo genius, the roasts to be sent in by the owners and prospective diners, as thebeanpotsarein 5oston, will be another lightening of labor. If women will 6et themselves about an intelligent and systematic improvment in their domestic conditions, instead of helplessly bewailing the evils now oppressing them, the "hired girl" will speedily become unknown as a social topic and everybody be happier. An English physician, Dr. St. Clair Thompson, who has sufficient reputation to secure a hearing in the columns of the Westminster Review, points out at length not only the opportunities for crime which hypnotism aftbrds, but maintains that it should only be resorted to when other means have failed. This statement is made after careful and extended investigation. He declares that the persons who can be hypnotized are usually "neurotics," that is, persons with an unstable equilibrium and a frail nervous organization. These persons are mostly the subjects of the experiments. He relates cases to show that when once the subject has been hypnotized he or she is so sensitive to the influence that not even the presence of the hypnotizing agent is necessary. One of these is that of a physician whose wife is a subject, and who is so susceptible that she will fall into hypnotic sleep when she knows that he is hypnotizing a patient in the adjoining room. When tho celebrated M. Bernheim appears in the hospital ward at Nancy where his patients ar whom he has treated under the method, it is not uncommon for them to put uside their work, and without word or look from him, to go off into hypnotic sleep. It would be very strange if such experiments did not leave after effects upon the nervous system. He urges that the public exhibitions of hypnotism should be prohibited by law because they are degrad ing and that they do no good to any one except the showman, who might as well be alowed to chloroform people in public in order to amuse a mixed audience with the phenomena. Mr. W. M. Glen the Chicago Tribune reporter who was .sent ; to Carrollton, Miss., to write up the Matthews murder, has returned to . Chicago. He had a rough experience in. Mississippi, spending one day in jail on a false charge, and, as he now thinks, narrowly escaping with his life. His sole offense was sending off a truthful dispatch about the murder. After his dispatch was sent the operator showed it around the town, and raised a regular hue and cry against the young man. After being bullied by the officers, bulldozed in the Mayor's court, followed by a gang of rowdies and spending several hours in a loathsome jail he finally secured his release on bail, and, acting on the advice of friends, took the first train for the North. Home rule in Mississippi is a tarred thing, and its preservation is highly de sirable. "Prices were never more eloquent than to-day," says an advertisement in an Eastern paper giving the "marked down" prices on a variety of dry goods. Tho remark is expressive and truthful. The prices are eloquent, indeed, in declaring the falsity of the ante-election assertions that the cost of such goods would be raised by the McKinley bill. Those lies are going home to roost at a rato that must be painfully unexpected to the party that put them afloat. Bradstreet's, the well-known commercial paper, gives the prices of twenty-one articles in December, 1889 and 1890. Of these twenty-one articles the price of seven were higher last December than a year ago, but not one of the s!ven is an article of manufacture, but all are products of the farm. Tnr. owners of property along the shores of the beautiful Lake Miunetonka, in Min nesota. are excited by the statement of a prominent civil engineer that the level of the water in the lake was exactly five .feet eight inches lower Nov. 12, 18W, than in 1882. Where formerly there was clear water and steamers could run without danger thero are now unsighty reefs or ex tensive patches of weeds and reeds. Many a beautiful shore line and beach has now no connection with the waters of the lake. In front of them are shallows covered with masses of slimv weeds. In short, the lake seems to be drying np. and unless some thing can be done to arrest the process there is danger that it will cease to be an attractive placet The matter will bo brought before the Minnesota Legislature during its coming seesion, and that body will be asked to authorize the preservation of the lake by a system of dams or reser voirs.' ' - ' " -The town, of Fairhaven, Vt, has been holding an eistedfodd. As the name might indicate, an eistedfodd is a Welsh institu tion, for nowhere else are consonants used with sucn reckless prodigality. In Wales the national' eistedfodd is the greatest event of the year. It is held on Christmas and generally occupies the greater part of the day and night. .Poets compete and the successful one is crowned with ivy and seated in a great oak chair. Mammoth choirs enter the competition for the prizes for chorus singing, and the contests are spirited indeed. The magnificence of the eistedfodd has been dimmed by its transportation across the ocean. but Welshmen aro very patriotic

and there are enough of them in southern Vermout to get up quite a celebration. The Fairhaven eistedfodd lasted all day Christmas and far into the night. Among the literary features was a spelling match. An English spelling match is sometimes called a tournament, but a Welsh one is a massacre. There were only two competitors, and when they stood up to battld with the consonants, they were applauded like matadors at a Spanish bull-fight. The first man spelled one word, but it took thirty seconds, and nearly all the alphabet, and left him exhausted. The second one tried to spell the Welsh word for kite, but fell at the fifteenth letter. On the second round the first man got through with the word for kite, and the second man spelled two words correctly. This ended the match, and both contestant were with difficulty rescued from the alphabetical, wreck. Eistedfodds may be a healthy amusement in Wales, bnt they are too exciting for the American climate. . The Chicago Tribune has sent out a postal card soliciting answers to the Ques tion, "To what do you ascribe your failure in life!" This opens up a wide field of in quiry. If everybody who has failed in life should answer Chicago would not contain the responses. Wnat a list of misfortunes they would inclnde as being born too soon, being unappreciated by the world, constitutional aversion to work, chronic fatigue, kleptomania, dipsomania, moral astigmatism, too much mother-in-law, a lazy wife a slippery door-step, an aggressive banana peel, a runaway horse, an unaccommodating banker, insufficient volume of currency, tyrannical laws, etc. A man who cannot assign various causes for his failure in life has very little inventive talent It seems that a German namedvKunz is as badly off as Edward Everett Hale's "Man Without a Country." lie came to this country some years since, bat simply existed until a year ago. when his friends sent him money with which to pay his expenses home to see his dying mother. He was given money to return and spend here, but he got rid of it before he left Europe and arrived in New York, where he will not be received because he is a pauper and had not taken out his first papers during the twenty years he was here. He has lost his residential rights in Germany, and may he sent back to this country, and thus he may spend the rest of his days in traveling back and forth. TnE need of "woman in journalism" is distressingly manifest in the accounts of the White House New Year's festivities iriven by some of the Journal's exchanges. One of them describes the gown worn by one distinguished lady as being of pink brocade draped with piak "cretonne," while another is said to have worn a "creation" of sicilienne and "cretonne." The unhappy young man who struggled with the telegraph reports on that paper had evidently heard of cretonne, but was not educated to the point of knowing it as furniture covering. Newspapers that undertake to meet the public demand for fashionable intelligence should hire a female editor. A Louisville paper records the finding of a young man on New Year's evening near a railroad depot in that city badly wounded and in a dying condition. It adds: "He. was an entire stranger and had nothing on his person that could lead to his identity. He was well dressed, and had $3, a ticket to Toledo and a manuscript poem, entitled. 'The Maples in Spring in bis pockets." It is a harrowing thought, but could it have been the journalist's companion and everybody's friend, the spring poet? Park-strekt Church. Boston, which considers itself of considerable importance and is accustomed to have its "calls" heard with favor, invited Dr. Virgin, of Now York city, to be its pastor and that gentleman has declined. The astonished Parkstreet people are unanimously of the opinion that he is a foolish Virgin. Indianapolis and vicinity appears to be the one place in the country to which those should hasten who desire an even and mild climate in winter. In . the last week the East and the West in the same latitude experienced blizzard-like snow-storms. Dr. James Croll, the first to explain the movement of the gulf stream, has died, at the age of sixty-eight, a distinguished fellow of the Koyal Society. Wych lm iWrai." Indiana poets are doing 110 small amount of singing, nowadays, and their songs are o attuned to nature that weary worldworkers, as they catch the earnest, simple melodies, like the English field laborer, who hears the matin of the skylark rising to the sun, get rest and recreation from the strains. "Wych Elm Poems," by Belle Bremer (M. Swatford, of Terre Haute), is a modest volume of one hundred pages, just from the press of Charles Wells Monlton, of Buffalo, with many gems, a number of which have been published in literary periodicals, some of them in the Sunday Journal. The collection is one that will add to the honors achieved by Indiana writers. "Homesick" is the title of one of the poems, which is beautiful in its pathos. The last two stanzas will give an idea of its quality: Xlght trailed her robes across the skies, through sunset's golden sard. And caught from Day's fast-fading fires a rrand to light her stars. Through all the vaulted dome she spread, swift as an eaxle files. And kindled all her stars to light that lourney to the Rkics. Alontf her border-land they burned down to the mountain crest. Like battle-fires along a field where sleeping armies rest. Ehe slept; the moonlight drifted In; like some fair saint of old She lay, her bair about her face, an aureole of jrold. The south wind wooed her, as he passed, in soft, ecstatic bliss. And sighed to find so fair a cheek blashi-d not beneath his kisfl; A restless white rose gently sUrred and tapped upon the pane; - , The holly-berries from the trees dripped like a crimson rain. Then, through that still, moon-flooded room, the great White Mystery paaed, Thele hands fluttered once again, and ehe was home at last. "The Old Story" is a simple rural ballad: And yonder Is onr Katy With Tom, by the orchard bars; And tTvo beads are c Ioe together In sight ot the blinking stars. TIs only the same old story. But the aweetetst of all wo know. First told in the apple orchard Of Eden so long ago. "WhenMybhip Comes In" , will find an echo in every heart: " r ' . We stand to-day By the smiling bayWherever that bay may be , And never fail To look for the sail Of the hojied-for Argosy. . . Bnt wrecks that lie Where the sea-biris cry Outnumber the khlp that land Their precious freight At the feet that weight Forever beside the strand. Hut they who win When their ship comes in Think never of winds that rave; . And little they reck Of the wave-washed derk Far down in its dark sea grave. The poems are all short There are sine ty-ciht in the book and in literary finish

are admirable. There is, in a majority of them, a touch of sadness, a quality that does not come amiss to most lovers of poetry. BUBBLES IN THE AIR. Thinking of Ilom. Brlggs Yotfre carrying about a forty-dollar Jag to-day, aren't you, Lushf orthl . Jaggs Lushforth-Forty nothuV. rkneomperroiae this'n wither for a six-dollar rlr shoes. A rrofestlonal View. Mrs. Bhea L'Entate-Ob, Theodore, yon missed it by not hearing Mr. Wilgus's sermon on the New Jerusalem. IIU description of the golden streets and all that was lust simply superb: Mr. L'Estate-Thuik he's likely to start much of a boonit A A Wise Yonng Man. Young Mr. FitU Egbert, dear. I I hare a confession to make. Yon wou't be very angry at your litUo wilts wiU you! ( Mr. Fitta Certainly not. I couldn't get angry with you If I tried tt, and, beside. It can't amount to much, or you wouldn't confess. ' Unconsidered Triflea. A no-table affair -The tramp's dinner. There are differences in optimism. The man who continually hope 3 for the best stands no show alongside the man that grabs for it. Stirring up a quarrel will precipitate a fight. Take love and taxes out of life, and not much la left. - King Kalakaua is said to be a student of theology. Is the doctrine of chances included among theological schemes! When a man become too old for interest In anything he has uttaiucd contentment ..... BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT. GkxeraIa Butler owns the Craig ranch. below Pueblo, consisting of 100,000 acres. He is also the owner of three-fourths of a C00.000 acre ranch in New Mexico. The oldest clergyman in the Church of England, the Rev. John Elliott, vicar . of Kandwick, began his hundredth year on Dec. W. Ho has served in Kandwick for more than seventy years. Kate Chase Spkaoue is still a fine-look ing woman, appearing much younger than she really is. She is writing a life of her father, and her work, it is said, will contain much unwritten history. Francis Pa firman, the historian, has taken to gardening and is as successful at it as was Evelyn. He is particularly fond of roses. He is writing again, having in a great measure- recovered his health. Schmkmann was thirty-four years old before he knew a word of Greek, and it was not until he was forty-one thad he began the study of archaeology, in which he was destined to achieve so much distinction. President Diaz ' began his political career while an officer in the army by heading an insurrection. He kept on in that line until he reached the presidency, bnt is now the most conservative politician in Mexico. General Spinner, who died with the old year, had not resided in t house for several years. To obtain relief from asthma he lived in a tent on the coast of Florida, a few miles from St Augustine, attended by only one negro man servant Now that the project for a statue of Bod Jacket in Buffalo is well under way, the people of that city talk of similarly honoring Dewitt Clinton, proprietor of the Erie canal, and La Salle, the discoverer, who explored the lake region so bravely. Jeanne Hugo is to be married to Alphonse Baudot's son at Passay (Paris), Jan. 15. M. Jules Simon will make a speech on the occasion of the union of the granddaughter Of France's noblest old poet to the son of the charming Provencal novelist . Mr. Parnell is the author of a play known as "Shamrock Green," which for five years has enjoyed great favor in Australia, and which has netted its proprietor nearly $5,000. The hand-bills announce that "Mr. Parnell wrote this play when a young man at college." . ... . Gov Francis T. Nichols, of Louisiana, who made such a gallant fight against the lottery in his State, is dismembered to a remarkable extent He has lost a leg and an arm and an eye. He lost his leg at ChancellorsTille and his arm was carried away by a cannon-ball at Winchester.. The writer who has been dear to children's hearts foryears under the pseudonyme of A.L. O. E. (A Lady of England), and whose real name is Miss Tucker, is a busy worker among the zenanas of northern India. She is said to be a charming old lady, and to be devoted to her mission work. Dr. Schliemann's widow is thirty years younger than her distinguished husband was. She is hardly more than a girl in years, bnt she is a beautiful woman and has been most carefully educated. She knows several .languages besides Greek, and is 6aid to know nearly all of the Iliad by heart. The Poet Swinburne has a liking for outdoor exercise in all weathers. Even when the roads are rivers of mnd he goes out for a walk and a visit to his favorite candy shop. On such occasions he presents a rather novel appearance, wearing, as he does, a short gray coat, short trousers and thin, elastic gaiters. Frau Sophie Salvanius, an able German woman of letters, has issued an appeal to her countrywomen to reform those national modes of education which consider girls simply as future wives and housekeepers. Their present training, she says, leaves German women without individuality and with pitifully low ideals of life. Grant Allex, a Canadian by birtb. has won the prize of 1.000 for the best novel, in the competition recently announced by a member of Parliament, George Newnes. Several hundred novels were in competition. Mr. Allen's "What's Bred in the Bone" won. It is doubtless only a coincidence that its title suggests Mr. James Payn's famous novel of twenty years ago. In all probability, the mostenviable community in the world is that in the village of Klingenberg, on the Main, in Germany. Klingenberg enjoys the reputation of producing one of the best wines in Germany. But this is by no means its chief cause for glory. Instead of paying taxes as ordinary mortals,, the citizens of Klingenberg received each S50 marks from the income of several factories owned by the town. The division was made after the expenses of administration had been paid by money from the same source. TnE death of the Pone is expected to precipitate a great effort to elect one of the French cardinals, of whoni there are ten, more than are in any other country except Italy. Those regarded as "papable" are Mgr. Lavisrerie. Mgr. Zialiara nd Mgr. Monaco della Valette. The Jesuits are thought to prefer the Piedmouteso Cardinal Oreglia. whom the Italians are strongly against The Dominicans are for Mgr. Zagliara, a Corsican, and the youngest member of the Sacred College. The Spanish cardinals are expected to aid the French against the expected opposition of the Italians, Germans and Austrians. Rev. Father Francis M. J. Craft, who was wounded at the battle with the hostile It.dians, was born in New York thirJ,1 ett aPp. His father. Dr. Fran, cis Craft, was a leading physician and a descendant of one of the chiefs of the Senecas. lather Craft was elected chief of the Senecas, and in full couucil the silver bridge of the tribe was given to him. This badge is supposed to be over three hundred years old and is the emblem of chieftainship. Father Craft always wore this bade. and it was on bun when he was killed. On the death ot Spotted lail he was chosen as chief of the lirnle Sioux. The old chief before his death appointed him, and the two signed the document which transferred the chieftaiuship with blood drawn from their own veins. His influence and power for good among the Indians were unequaled. One of the most popular men inJIRnssia, fast outstripping Count Tolstoi for the Premier place, and on the high road to canonization, is Father Ivan, of Cronstadt During the last three weeks, at least three diifcrent booklets have been pbluihed

. .nff -n ftrcount of his life and doings, giving an .ai. for his deeds have

a?lf toth?W&tofSt o'ccult powers. He sell oiav iv j government of IftJK?! & the far north, and wassjtAld in Crinitadtthirty-ttve years ago. His lle -VonbnX therefore been a thing of Eiwth hi it i. only during the last 5loWI?r. that those outside of his own fow- VhSr .heard I of his pood deeds, but parish have jearo o i u aaa OH. 1891. hurrah! We're glad that you are here. But how Is thUl iiome one's afcilsa: You are no child, we near. We pictured you a little babe. f . wm TimA' rounircat son. Yet by suange means You're in your teens. You're eighteen, '!!. y 1.-1 Lt sr' a u - - Ltfa. DLMAND free coinage. Representatives of the Silver Interest tViil Test the Act of 1S73 In the Federal Courts. Philadelphia, Jan. flL-To-day Judge Harley M. Morse and Geo. C. Merrick, of Denver, Col, called at the- United States Mint in this city with a brick of eilve r weighing 5U.8. ounces fine, and presented it to the 'weighing clerk And demanded that it be coined into money for them. Upon their demand being refused they waited upon Colonel Bosbyshell. superintendent of the mint, and made the same demand verbally to biro. Colonel Bosbyshell refused to accept the brick for private coinage and Messrs. Morse aud Merrick then presented him with the following formal demand in writing: Philadelphia, Jsn. 3, 1801. Co!. O. C. BosbTsbeU. Sarrmtenrtent of the United PUtes Mint at Philadelphia: Dear Mr-We. George C. Merrick 2fV BatcbHdor, Harler Morse and liobert J. Coleman, citizens of the State of Colorado. United States of America, tender to you and to the proper officer in charge of the United States aint at Philadelphia, a bar or iDgot of silver bullion marked and Identified as follows: "From Boton and Colorado 8. M.Co. ftne rinevrelghtng 514.8 ounces, troy, tine " and demand as of right under the ConsUtution and laws of the Uuhd states that the aaid silver bullion be received and coined Into silver dollars of the weight of grains troy, standard ilver, for the use and benetltot the depositors, aud without unnecessary delay. oeorgeo. Mekrick. j Ha rlf. r D. Mouse. After presenting the above demand. Mr. Merrick askedv Colonel Bosbyshell to give them a certificate or letter certifying that he aud Judge Morse had oll'ered their aiiver for coinage, and that it had been refused by him, ao that they would be saved the trouble of proving that fact in court where they proposed to test the right of the government to refuse the bullion. In compliance with the request. Colonel Bosbyshell gave the following letten Me. Oeorge O. Merrick and Harlej IV Morset Gentlemen I have tho honor to acknowledge the receipt of yonr ofler of this date of a bar or inot or Mlver 1 ullion. described in atd offer, to be received and Coined Into silver dollars of the weight of HZ grains troy, standard silver, for the use and bentit of yourselves as depositors, and beg to decline such oner on the ground that ltlsln violation of the laws and regulation of the mint service to deposit silver for private account Very respectfully youro.vedient servant, O. C liOSBTMIELL. After receiving Colonel " BosbysheU's written refusal to rpceive their bullion the two gentlemen wrapped up their brick in a piece of paper and departed. The ground on which Messrs. Merrick aud Morse based their dumand is, they claim, a constitutional one and denies the right of the government to make what is known as "seigniorage." At present the market value of silver bullion is $1.032 per ounce fine of 371 J4 grains, while the actual value ot an ounce when coined into silver dollar is $L2U.VJ9. When the government boya bullion it pays the market bullion price and makes the difference), which is the "seigniorage," between that price and the legal-tender value. It is this seigniorage which the gentlemen who presented their silver brick at the mint to-day think they have as much right.to as the government PATIENTS BENEFITED. Good Results from the1 Lymph TreatmentCases in Which the Core is Most Marked. New York, Jan. 3. Some interesting results of the effect of Dr. Koch's lymph on patients far advanced in consumption were made known to-day by physicians in the Montefiore Home. It is declared by the physicians that all the patients mentioned had phthisis so far advanced that cavities hud formed in the lungs, and that their improvement is marked since inoculations were begun. A patient who had phthisis, resulting from pnoumonia, for nearly eleven and a half years, was received on Nov. IjJ, and nntll Dec lb. under hydro-therapeutio treatment, gained four pounds when the lymph was first injected In the last seven days the patient has gained three pounds, and Dr. Prudden says the congh has become less, the expectoration is rausoid, and the bacilli in the sputa have decreased in nnmber. and are very imperfectly outlined on the microscopic tifclj. Another case is that of a patient who was believed to be in the last stages. On Tuesday he had gained in weight and strength, and was walking around the ward. In auother cane the patient gained one and onorhalf pounds in seven days. A physician, who has been using tho lymph, said to-day that a leper in town hah been treated for more than a week. The patient is a young man and the son of wealthy parents, lie has upcnt a good many y ars in travel, and after one of his trips he returned to New York with leprosy. .He has been kept in the closest conlinement, going out of tho house only at night for air and exercise lt was, of conrao, impossible to get permission to put him in a hospital, and he is treated in his own apartments. The disease eeems to yield siightly to the lymph treatment "It is not known," added the fthysician, "that there are many cases of eprosyin New York city. There are'ovcr one hundred lepers on this is'and, receiving treatment privately. If the disease should yield to the Koch lymph treatment all the lepers in turn will be inoculated. There is a form of leprosy, or a disease similar to leprosy, that is increasing in New York city. It is termedt beri-beri' by the residents of tropical countries where it is found. It causes more acute sutl'ering than leprosy." Dr. Paul Gibier, at the Pasteur Institute, said to-day that Alice Sweet, the little Providence eirl, daughter of Bray ton I. Sweet, who was bitten by a pet dog that was mad. would receive three inoculations a day, according to the Pasteur method, for three days, and afterward one inoculation a day lor twelve days. She was inoculated to-day. , .. ,- One Merit of Dr. Harper's Sebemtk. Phlhvdelrhla Vtchb. Vacation has grown in our schools and colleges until it takes one-fourth of the year which is one reason why professors and teachers get three-quarters pay or thereabouts. Dr. Harper's new plan for the proposed Chicago University is likely to attract attention among practical men, largely because it is to keep rnnniug ti e year around. It is certainlv odd that a boy or young man who can only work thirtyeight weeks a year in college puts in tifty f.s soon as he gets out. aud it is all rot to think that getting a degree in college is a tougher job than earning a living. It is generally easier. Drawing Consolation, fit Louis Fosv-biepatch. Indianapolis is in darkness because her City Council advertised for bids for electrio lighting four days after the old contract expired. There is a mean consolation in the discovery that St Louis does not have the worst City Council in the country. Hint to Senator Yoorhee. St. Louis Globe-Democrat The resolution pending in the Senate for an investigation of the killing of Sitting Bull should be so amended as to include the butchery' of the soldiers on Wounded Knee creek. A Great Scheme Atchison Glsbe Ask any woman what is a woman's mt interesting aze, and she will come very ucax telling you how old eho is.

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